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in name only, are countless. nasty phone calls. power
loathing of thOse in power at
About a week ago, I Also incalculable, of course, is plays, name callings and law - tll'e Fundfor Human Dignity.
heard that Robert Brading,the loss of heart of about 100 suits. S~aff and volunteers
Maybe something can beover whom many professional or so gay and lesbian people.
wound up divided and con- . learned from so much viogay and lesbian people lost . Several times, staff and quered and feuding, for lack of lence. Maybe by taking a good,their tempers, jobs and faith, volunteers tried to reclaim and other interested parties from hard look at ourselves as indireSigned his own position . reclean the Fund by telling the the board or community,
viduals and organizations, weafter five months as the exec- truth, by calling on the com- among ourselves. My guess is can learn to go forward more
utive director of the Fund for munityfor support, by seeki'1g that it's too late to rely on carefully. Maybe then, if we
Human Dignity. Two days outside professional facilitahuman responsibility, which take another long look (or twolater, I heard from a former tion, by asking for the board's has come to seelTl-$ recent-· or three more), we can fig~recolleague that the Fund was resignation by negotiating in Iy as the day the Fund closed out how to avoid duplicatingclosing down forever--<toors
good faith. However, all our down without explanation or the self-same oppression In
locked, gone fishing, no sever,.
our own ,backyard as we areance pay-dead.
,fighting so hard to destroy in. An astounding pile of
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not just be honest and say thatof months on the job. Two
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remaining staff when the no avail. Even community
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about .the term "mostI was pleased to see therespected" arB as off as they commentary, written by Markare about my IntBntlons In Harrington, entitled "Lifegeneral. (Perhaps, my "our" Among the Ruins" in issue no.
and your "our" are.different.) 66 [Oct. 3], ob the current
To my mind, the most state of the AIDS movement
respected of the gay and les- and the need for accountability
bian world of/etters have of these organizations andnever been of one set, clique their leaders.
or inclination-even
if theMr. Harrington is right inwhite-boy publishing indus- his call for AIDS services
try has Interpreted them as organizations,along with
such-but are rather those AIDS activist organizations,
who through sheer brilliance being held accountable forand spirit capture our atten- their actio.ns in the battle
tions. Neither David nor I against AIDS.
have established any preBut one area that Mr. Harrequisites in publication his- rington doesn't cover and that
tory, celebrity or curried
is of equal, if not greaterfavor. Might I add that to a importance, is making ourcommunity that barely sup- pOlitica:! leaders and parties
ports Its writers at a/l even accountable for their actions
thoSB lucky enough to be and inactions, while our com. published-theterm "weI/- munltlas bear the full weight
known poets" (not, Inciden- of tbis'dlsease. While focusing
tally, my words) Is, sadly, , in on Jessie Helms, who hasan oxymoron.
sought to wipe out homoerot-•,

ic art and the community thatcreated it, we have been
Instructed to forgive or ignore
Elizabeth Holtzman who would
wipe out gay cable TV. We are
told to blame Reagan andBush for the spread' of AIDS
but Ignore the fact that theConstitutional responsibility topass funding for AIDS is thatof the Congress, which is andhas been controlled by the
Democratic party. Did they
pass huge appropriations that.
Bush or his predecessor Reagan vetoed? No, in fact, they
just voted to cut AIDS fundi(1gl Then there's New York
City, which is arguably the epicenter of this worldwide epidemic and totally controlled by'
the Democratic party. You'll
get no argument from me
when you say that the Repub':llean party Is the enemy of thelesbian and gay community
and those communities livingwith AIDS, but you will get afight if you try to convince methat the Democratic party is
our friend: Dr. Martin LutherKing, Jr" said something In
one of his speeches that I
have carried with me formany years, and It goessomething like this: "History
will not judge this time by theviciousness of our enemies
so much as it will by thesilence of our friends."
The two-party system
and its stranglehold on theelectoral process is greatly toblame for the spread of AIDS
by silencing our community's
strongest voices an~ stifling
the public debate that needs tohappen in the face of this historic double whammy of AIDS
and anti-gay violence.
The New Alliance party,
America's fourth largest, isBlack-Ied, multlraclal, pro-gay,pro-soclallst, an independent'
working-class electoral party.
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who-In typlc.I, I.dy-doth-protest-tooIt took me a little while toan openly lesbian lawyer andcontinues
to deny I relax and try to begin to enjoy
the founder of the International 1 much. f.shlon
People8 Law Institute, who Is"pphlc urges. Two y•• rs .go, Ms~"I'm ~ the reSt of the film that I'd just. running for Congres8, and I So amotion. I" told .n Inquiring TIm. I spe~t $7.50 for. And although It
John Patterson, a longtime gay
m.g •• lne ,reporter, "I know I'm notwa& the only token let's-makeactivist and actor, who Is run- Ig.y." Now she sings the •• me tune In I fun-of-the~fagjoke In the film, It
this month's Fame mllg.zlne,In,.
' was totally unnecessary andnlng for state Assembly, would
send two,st:rong voices to take I cover story entitled "The Secret Life of I ,didn't really need to be in It,
Whitney Houston." Ves, It seems that,unless the Deml Moore charae- '.
the gay agenda to Washington
and Albany, respectively. .
lin spite of wh.t everyone In the music I ter was supposed to be. a
biz has known 'for years about thehomophobic, yuppie scumbag.
Elena Borsteln, a longtime
art actiVist and founding mem- I sweet songbird and her nonstop 1 I don't think that's what the ,companion and "executlv~ assistant"screenwriter had in mind..HQwber of the Castillo Cultural Cen,ter, a $3.2 million pro-gay 1 Robyn Crawford (who even wear cute I ..ever, I liked the rest of the film·
matching outfits to parties ...awww!),and was even able to stomach
community-funded art factOry,
is running for state Assembly I Whitney Is...well, "hurt" and shocked. I the other homophobe-promot,against clubhouse favorite,'
Her question to Fame: "How coulcl you
ing Whoopi Goldberg.
Why the hell doesn't HolDeborah Glick. Independent, '1 say this about me?" Our answer: It's I'e•• y, oh, .elf-Io.thlng, greedy one. "Iywood just give ita goddamn
pro-gay Borstein Is in a.'
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.J' break? Fag jokes are Linnecesstronger position to take out L
our communities' "Silence.
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sary, unfunny; hatred-provokDeath" and "No Justice, No' nlty will be guaranteed a spot out and Informative"magazine. ing and totally inappropriate I
Peace" polltlcs, because, unlike on the ballot to act up at the Congratulationsto :yol1-8l1d to The film would've. been twice•
Glick, Borsteln'slndependence polls every November.
me for Joslng my letter-writing as enJoyablefor me and anyone else who was offended;allows her. to represent ~he. ' Steve R()SB virginity to OutWeek
New Alliance party
This past weekend,
I was ,without the stupid fag joke. It
community, not the clubhouse.
,
And of course, last but
VlllBge Chapter able to .satisfy my ever- Isn't acceptable, and I'm sicknot lelSt, Lenora Fulanl,
Manhattan eXPQndlngcuriosity and, along and tl,red of paying money to
NAP's dynamic chairpersonwith "my date for the evenlng, 'be continually Insulted for what
and candidate for governor, Is
LOSING IT OR
took In the summer's big box- I choose to bel Hollywood, it's
GIVING IT UR?
office hit, Ghost, with former 199O-;,row up. Gee, that fBlt
running to kick Marlo (money
for O'Connor) Cuomo's butt
Ifs hard to believe over a ballet dancer Patrick Swayze.· good. I can really get used toand also win permanent ballot year has past, and I'm finally
We were not more than this letter-writing stuffl
status for the pro-gay New writing my first letter to your five minutes into the fHm whenBrian Neill, Alliance patty, so our commu- much-appreciated,well-thought- a Bcene occurred in which"Manhattan
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human. Is that true? I don't
The' Gay and Lesbian about sex and homosexuality know, but it's true enough.
Alliance Against Defamation , is appalling. ,Tofu Dyke
recently articulated a defense
It's incredible that GLAAD.
Santa Cruz, Calif.
of the First Amendment so nar- doesn't hear in its position the P.S. OutWeek, you're sexist.
row and reactionarythat it calls echo of conservatives and (Duh,)into question the group's ability fundamentalists who oppose
as a media watChdog ["GLAAD sex and.
.•AIDS education in
Tidings," no. 61, Aug. 29].
schools with the argument
The Alliance was reacting' that parents,should be responto a New York City' restriction sible for teaching those subon the sexual advertising that jects to their children. Does
funds many gay programs on GLAADreally believethat chil- .
Manhattan's cable system.
dren are entitled only to hear
GLAADcorrectly identified the the ideasand information theirrule as "part of a pattern of parentsapprove of?
attack on constitutionally proThere's no rationale fortected free speech by refer- GLAAD's pOSition, only cowence to protecting minors."
ardice. Unfortunately, it's part
Bufinstead of defending the of a consistent strategy ofFirst Amendment rights of all, bartering for the rights ofincluding young people,
mainstr.eam gay and lesbians
GLAAD insisted that "parents by abandoning more unpopushould be responsible for pro- lar or vulnerable elements oftecting their children.".
the community.
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That pOSition is. dishonBill Andrietteest. If one really believed that
NAMBLA
some types of speech, like
Manhattan
sexually explicit televisionwere harmful to children, leav- '.
TOFU THIS
ing protection solely to parents' What I think about SIM
would be irresponsible. Imag- women being at' Michigan
ine this argument: Teenagers ["Into the Woods,"no. 64, Sept.
shouldn't be admitted tl) drug 19]. It's important-for
diatreatment programs because logue. It's totally awful in someparents are responsible for ways-totally horrible.But talkprotecting their children from .. ing about it makespeoplethinksmoking crack.
and feel, and that's good. It's
GLAAD takes this ridicu- totally awful but better thanlous stance because the orga-- puritanism? Worse than purinization is unwillingto tanism? People are so mixed
address the broader issue of up. It's not the major thing I
whether young people have want to put energy into fightthe right otaccess to informa- ing. Fightingfriends?
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tion. With that limited vision
I do I'Iot feel strong. My
GLAAP's role ignores the par- strength is feminine. Still.
ticular importance of hearing
They call it play. Not·
A case in point is yourabout others in the lives of funny. Not funny to sexual- . recent coverage of Gay
gay and lesbian te,enagers.
abuse survivors-nor
any Games III in Vancouver. Jim. The right to listen is as kind of survivor. Not funny. Marks wrote two excellent
important to- the free flow of Pain is notfunny.
articles about the Games.
ideas as the right to speak.
And I am in pain. Alone. .However, the stories were
GLMD sells out the rights of Scared. Weak. Don't laugh general in focus and pretty
children to hear free speech.
at me.
much lacking in any New
With the horrifying num.That's abuse. Power over. York slant. This is ha~dly. be~sof suicides amonQ gay Don't laugh at me. I will fight Jim's fault; he lives in DC.and. youth and the disturbing rate you even if you are a woman. doesn't know or have accessof HIV infection among Amer- I am a nerd. My power is to many of the New York athiean teenagers, the refusal.of deep, goes down into the letes who attended. But it
the group to defend access earth. My weakness is only d'oesn't much explain your
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winter and sp,rlng by not
It seems to me thatassigning a\lo~al writer to Michaelexpressedgenuinetenvisit 89me of the New VOri<- demessand admiratiorr-qualiarea sports gr~ups to find out ties inclusive of h.omosexual
how they'd been training and attraction, and yet far more
what they hoped to achieve at inclusive of his friend's life.
the Games. It's not as if you' , I ttJink love is really,What
weren't aware months ago we're really about-and thatwhen the event was happening. means takmg the time to know
, I love the whole tone of someone and the patience tothe magazine, and I have no endure the qualities you mightproblems ,with effl;)rts per se to not like in them; along withachieve national recognition ~"and distribution, but there aremany local heroes you've yet to
expose to the' wo~d, and New,Yorkers still'have nowhere batter In print to find them. I would"hope there's room in yourfuture editorial decision-making
to broaden ~e scope of OutWsek's community coverage.
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time and gaVethat attention to and gay programing, we have,each other.,llieir achievement from Lambda, the Mayor's
is very real-and a 'great gift Office on Gay and Lesbian
to everyone else who sees it.
Affairs, the Office of Telecom- •.' Stephen Morgen munications and even a representative from Time/Wa:rn~.', Manhatta~"
er. Jhere was discussion of
WHERE'S CHANNEJ. .I? Manhattan and Parago,nRecently, I attended a Cable's loss of gay and lesforum on "Gay Access to bian programing ,on Channel
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man,lndecency 'clause andlence for examples), gay andthese concerns. Together.,
more.
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lesbian groups and people
One particularly inforof color have failed to rally
M8nhattan 'mative bit of information
together behind 'issues ofcame from Mr. Bob Jacobs
common concern, choosing"
SAFE SEA
representing Time/Warner.
Instead to fight 'as isolated
I read 'with. interest
He spoke .about the cablevoices. Well, those 'lesbians
Sarah Chinn's thought-procompany's n,eedand desire
and gays whose voices arevoklng'review of my book,to be responsive to its viewThs S8fs SS8 of Womsn:
raised In SpanishJose twice.
ership. this Is .a tremenIt Is all too clear that when
Lssbl8n Fiction 1969-1989,
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one of us loses, we all lose.
in the Sept. 19' [no. 64]
regard to viewers in Paragon
Anyone stili remember "unitissue o,f OutWssk. I'd Ii~e toCable countrY, since someed we·stand-?.
clarify one s~tement In theof the leased access on
Let's .all ' challenge
review. since It makes me
Manhattan Cable will be , Tlme/Warner's attempts to ' , sound' a bit foolish. Chinnplaced on other chanoels.
. Isolate and silence ,ttle richly. c.lalms that I Identify Ann
Paragon ,has fewer avail·diverse vole.. of our com- . AUenShockley a8 a Black
able channels.
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work my job as Ii tour guide.
and I could let you all go
For this reason, our [Green \ . immediately.
However,• Because of a production error in issue no. 67, Art'party] newspaper, Yesil Bariz,
because of types like thisLeonard's "OutlLaw" column ran with a photo of Dr.
couid not be published.
[Eren], I'm going to hold up
Charles Silverstein, who authors OutWeelts "The
Fifteen days after I wasyour release. It's people like •Doctor Is In." Our apologies to both.
acquitted, another of myhim who submit your sons toproperties, Huzur Baryo (aprostitution and ruin families• Due to a proofreading error, last week's lead news
bathhouse), was invaded by 'and children." Afterward hearticle on the New York City districting cQmmission
Karakaplan and other police.
,closed the door. Fortunately,
omitted a paragraph explaining how gay and lesbian
About 20 clients and the . nothing happened because
demographic information is being gathered.
employees were taken to thetwo of these people recogThat paragraph, which should have followed
central police station. The
nized me.
the last one on page 13, read: "To that end, Candida
clients were relea,sed after
Five days later, I was
Scott Piel, the director of FAIRPAC, is gathering ,being punched and warned
placed in the "special secmailing lists from numerous gay and lesbian
nottQ return to establishtion," the worst place. Two,organizations in search of the zip codes that showments owned by me. Th'e
prisoners came to get me
up most often. Such tangible
proof (of athree employees were inter(prompted by the guards),
neighborhood's gay and lesbian presence would
rogated for 50 hours andaski~g. "Who is the guy here
dovetail nicely with the commissiori's mandate totaken to Falaka (a place of
because of the ,bathhouse?"'keep intact neighborhoods and communities with
torture) in order to get themTwo days later,these two andestablished ties of common interest and assocaition:
to sign false confessions.
four others closed the door of ..
according to Pie!.
Th~y were released· by the
my cell and beat me severely.
"'The Commission seems to be ready, willingprosecutor pecause nothing
I was left bloodied in the corand able to put in any- data that ~ny community , illegal happened in the bath,ridor. The guards refused tosays is relevant;" she added.".
and we went to the hospitaltake me to the doctor because\.
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to document the torture.
it was Saturday. Four days
• While the Geto Boys' new album has been picked
The next day, Karakalater, I was released.
up by new distributor WarnerlElectrai Atlantic, otherplan sent his men to the. Yesterday evening there
Def American arti~ still have no new distributor,
bath. The clients were
was the trial and the caseaccording to Heidi Ellen Rob,inson, a spokesperson
kicked out and the employwas'delayed
for threefor Def American. OutWeek incorrectly reported inees jirrested again. This'
months. The bath will remain
issue no. 67 that all of the Def American artists
time, they were held for five'closed for three months,,
dropped by Geffen Records had been shifted todays and were in bad shapecosting me five million TurkWEA. Geffen will continue to distribute Andrew
by the time of their release. I
ish lire a month. I can't work
Dice Oay and other Def American artists through thed,enounced'
Karakaplan
be~auseof a broken hip. .
end of the year.'myself this time. I spoke.
Ibrahim Erenwith the minister of justice(translated from the Italiancontinue to deteriorate.
asked that people unite toand documented the torture.
by Bob Miller)
A policeman in Istanend this.
I also proved how they werebul, DQgan Karakaplan,
Seven months ago, amaking it seem I was
Amnesty .International enwould like to end the homo17 -year-old, transvestite
involved in prostitution 'of . courages that contributions
scandal and, in particular,
threw himself from the fifth
women and gays. That
for Eren's defense be sent intransvestism. Since Turkish
floor of a building in order
evening I was arrested again.
the form of an international 'law does not condemn sex
not to fall into the hands of
The commissioner insulted
money order directly to his
between men, this policeKarakaplan, who had torme, saying, "Here's thebank account: Turk Ticaret
man uses torture and tertured him earlier. His friends
head of the faggots." He
Bankasi, Talabasi Subesi, ,ror. In particularwithheld a press conference \at
had me punched saying,
Hesap [Account] no. 111/
tr,ansvestites, Karakaplan
Yeni Bizans, the cultural cen"Hit him hard in the ears
,7947-5, Ibrahim Eren. .'punches them, shaves theirter
I own. I denounced
so that for the next two
I,~ai,r, makes them pray
Karakaplan, and then wasmonths, he'll hear noise as 'All letters to the editor
while he beats them andarrested and imprisoned fora reminder." Now I hear litshould include a name,lays them on the floor andhaving an unauthorized
tle,jrom my left ear as theaddress and daytime
walks on them-breaking
meeting. The center was
drum WaS rup~ured.
phone, although names
their fake breasts. This is
closed. I was released two
Three days later, before
may be withheld at 'theagainst the law, but since
m'onths later. Four months
they sent me to court,
author's request. Outno one protests, he canafter that,
I was acquitted
Karakaplantried to get othertheWeek res,erves,,
do what he wants. Karakaand the cent«;rwas reopened.
prisoners to lynch me. He
right to edit letters forplan is after me because I
During this period, I spent a
put me in a room with 20
clarity and space conhave denounced him andlot of money for lawyers, rent
other prisoners and told
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by DuncanOsbome

NEW YORK-A West Village gay
bar was the focus of a drug bust last
week that landed 14 ~ople in jail for
the weeKend.
But while the cops took steps to allay fears ,iri a community with a long, if
distant, history of homophobic bar raids
by antagonistic police, some gay advoCates are critical of how the sting operation was handled ..
, And those, arrested have retained'the $arne attomeywho used to bail·gay
men out of jail after the bar raids of the'50s and ~60s.
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caine on 19 separate occasions, ac~\ cording to the undercover officer whoorganized the raid .
In an attempt to avoid charges ofharassment, Sam Ciccone, a retired p0lice officer and the executive directorof the Gay Officers Action League, wasinformed of the raid by police.
Ciccc;>ne, who was also present thenight of the raid, called numerous
community leaders the following day,in an effort to spread the news, througha community source.
"It was unprecedented on the partof the police to inform the community,"
said Marjorie Hill, Mayor David Dinkins
liaison to the community, who learnedof the raid from Ciccone. "It showssome sensitivity on the part of the police department."~squad similar to the city's special
Tactical Narcotics Team, raided the, Ninth Circle, one of New York's oldest
gay bars, just before Upm on Oct. 5.
The cops were acting .on ~.warrant issued three oays earl,ier by Special .
Narcotics Court.
Police seized 2.5 ounces of powder
cocaine. Six employees were charged
with criminal possession .of a controlled, sustance with intent to sell, and eightbar patrons were charged with possession. Both of the charges are felonies.
All of the arrested employees have been
fired, according to the bar's manager.
. The bar, located at 139 W. 10th St.,
had been the subject of a two-month•..

Drug Bust or PR Stunt?
But a positive view of the cops' efforts at spin control is far from unanimous. "GOAL has to be careful about
being used by the police department,"
saJ.dMatt. Foreman,
the executive direc,
tor of the Gay and Lesbian AntiViolence Project. "Notification can beviewed as complicity.".
Foreman also objected to the
NYPD's prior notificationof the, main.
stream media. According to witnesses,
no fewer than two local 1V news vans
were on the scene. A local news radio
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"This was a police o~ration, not a
public relations operation. It was inappropriate to call the press," Foreman
added. Department spokespeople
called the practice of notifying the media "standard." No gay publications
were .told of the raid in'advance.
During the raid, a crowd of over
100 people gathered outside the pub,and GOAL's Ciccone described its
mood positively. "Apparently, th~ community was aware of the kind of problems going on at the Ninth Circle."
His observation was echoetl byneighborhood resident Brigitte Wei!, alesbian who lives next door to thebar. "It was an anti-drug, anti-crack atmosphere. It was not an anti-gay
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by Nina Reyes"When you put someone in a uniclimate that discourages discrimination
NEW YORK':"'-Agroup of four lesform with a nightstick and a radio,,and harassment"
and onebians and gay men was attacked,•.of the four was severely beaten, near the
Columbia University campus two week'::'ends ago. AIld aguard employed, by nearby Barnard ~Ilegei whom they,~, I::'-.: .
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Now, arguing that Columbia has not... ,done enough to safeguani the IaIge num,l .
,,ber of lesbians and gay men who come,,from around the city for the gay and lesbian stodent organization's monthlyt"'.
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dances at Earl Hall, campus activists are
considering starting up a pink Panther patrol for the university grounds.
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are exploring the possibility of ftling a. civil suit against Columbia based on••
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SECURITY RISK"':"'Columbia law students Frederick Madsen and Usa Martinez listenthe part of the uniVersity.
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The confrontation began just, off
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when four men in a car began verballyharassing Kramer and his three companions, Lisa Martinez, Janine Wllliams
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poured out of the car in pursuit ofKramer and company. Kramer, Martinez and MadSen are all third-year stu- ,dents at Golumbia Law School. .
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the scene, reportedly summoned by theguard after the bashers left Kramer
lying on the sidewalk to return to their car.
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and a $2,000 penalty.
The museum was charged with"We're thrilled~» said Bill Wilson,"pandering obscenity" for five photos~erof Gay/LesQian March Activists,that depicted gay sexuality,
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Cincinnati and the Bill of Rights,"• "This is not art. Those five pictures
The jury's four men and four'are not art. Those are graphic depicwomen needed less than two .hours to,tions of sexual activitY;"city prosecUtor
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innocence.
J;1rank Prouty, Jr., said earlier.
They left the tiny courtroom without
The photos in question included thecomment after a two-week
trial, thephotographer's celebrated self-portrait,, first in American history in which a
depicting him with a bull whip inserted .
, museum and its curator faced prosecu,
tion fot obscenity charges.
"There was no ,C;lse, there never
MAPPLETHORPE,, was' ~ case,", said def~nse attO!lley Matc
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dation for AIDS
R~ has been gjv-'!
Added law partner Louis Sirk~p.:en a three-year pledge of support from
"It's a signal to everybody that before
the Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation,
they start shutting down museums
which may 8/1lOlIItto $3 milion.
and telling people what they can say
The Mapplethorpe Foundation
and what\ they can see, they betterhas promised to donate 20 percent
realize there's·a protection, out there. 'of its gross annual income to Am~
It's the greatest document ever writFAR. The money, which will primarilyten. Yes, we have,~, Bill of Rights, but
be raised by sales of the late gay
we must fight for [it]:. photographer's prints, will be used '"A major battle Was fought here
for general public policy and AID~
for the arts, for creativity," said J3ame,
researoh programs, such a8 Amm
who called the verdict ~a great day fQr ,FAR's communityabaaed clinical trio
America. We did something very
als network.
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important in this city. We stood up for ., A spokesperson f,rir AmFAR
the First Amendment. Those eight
described the gift as "the largesf
jurors lmew what freedom is all about,single pledge iii AmFAR's history.
exercised their rights as individuals
Robert Mapplethorp~ lives throughand Americans and stood up for that
his art and now also through his
freedom."legacy to those who will put an
The Mapplethorpe shov.: consistedend to the scourge of AIDS." ,•of 175 photographs, seven of which-Avril 'McDonald
were deemed in violation of con~,rary community obscenity standardS, by"""

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lost their battle tos~ewer ,this city'sContemporary
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Center as a bastion of smut when aneight-person jury of working<lass residentS acquitted the CA;Cand its director on obscenity and .child pornography charges on Oct. 5.
Arts jl,dvocates and o{ganizers in
the Queen City's gay and lesbian community hailed the verdict I calling it a
new day for human rights bere.
And they promised more' bat~•,'tIes-both inside and outside courtrooms~if the city presses charges
against protesters cited for civil dIsobe~<lience on the trial's opening day.
11)e CAG and Dennis Bame stood.trial in m\JOicipal court on two misde-'" meanors ejlch for showing Robert.: Mappletborpe- The Perfect
Moment, a, ,. r¢trospective of 175 photographs by
the late gay photographerthat has, .'toured throughout the 'country. The
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see, our views," said Michael
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one of 35 people cited for "disorderly
conduct" at the impromptu march
downtown that disrupted traffic lastmonth. "If they want court cases, they
can have them," he said. 'All the defendants plan to plead not guilty at an ,upcoming>court appearance, according to Blankenship . .,Bertram W'orkum and Rex .Wockner contributed to,this report.
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CINCINNATI-''lhis was a major battle for art and for creativity, for the continuance of creativity in this country,"Contemporary Arts Center Director Dennis Barrie
reporteldy said upon emerging trom the courthouse after being acquitted on Oct. 5.
"Mapplethorpe was an important artist. It was a beautiful show. It should never
have been in court."
Many in the gay community would probably agree with Barrie, who neverresorted to deprecating the photos while upholding the principles involved, as atleast one of the defense lawyers did .
But while First Amendment lawyers, members of the national arts community, and the gay and lesbian rank and file were delighted with the outcome in the case,the same people had good reason to be pessimistic.
Advocates and lawyers had originally been troubled by the record of thejudge in the case, F. David J. Albanese, an outspoken conservative and longtime
friend of Hamilton County Sheriff Simon Leis, who oversaw the effort to indict
and prosecute the CAC and Barrie.
Albanese, who was assigned to the case by lottery, ruled most often in favor of
the prosecution' during pretrial hearings.
And while the case was eventually decided in favor of the def~nse, interviews
with the jurors afterward revealed that they wished the prosecution had given themmore to go on, according to The New York Times.
To meet the definition for obscenity established by the Supreme Co.urt inMiller v. California in 1973, a jury must decide that a work meets three criteria:"whether 1he average person, applying contemporary community standards' wouldfind that the wort<, taken as a whole, appeals to prurient intere.~; whether the wort<
depicts or describes, in a patently offensive way; sexual conduct specifically definedby the applicable state law; and whether the work, taken as a whole, lacks serious
literary, artistic, political or scientific value.""We thought the pictures were lewd, grotesque, disgusting," one juror,
Anthonl~ Eckstein, told the Times. "But like the defense said, art doesn't have to be
beautiful or pretty."_
Indeed, it seems that the 'jury's verdict was based solely on the testimony of
the flock of museum curators called in by the defense, who persuaded the jurors
that, if nothing else, the photographs were indeed art. All reportedly felt that thephotos appealed to prurient interests and depicted sexual conduct offensively.
"If the' prosecution could have come up with just one credible witness-asociologist, a psychologist, somebody, anybody-maybe we would have voted differently," Eckstein told the Times.
The prosecution's sole witnesses were three police officers and Dr.Judith Reisman.
. Reisman, whose PhD is in communications, works closely with arch-homophobe Rev.
Lou Sheldon, who purports to "cure" homosexuals through "reparative therapy."-Andrew MillerJNew Yorkin his rectum. Another showed one
leather man urinating into the mouthof another.
And county
prosecutor
Arthur.
,Ney, Jr., who impaneled the grand jurythat crashed the exhibit's April opening, said after the trial that he had
acted because "the only alternative
was_to let those without an interest in
the controversy make the final decision. Whether you agree with the verdict or not, the final analysis is that thesystem works.""It's great relief from a six-month

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a 10-percent-inaeaseother health and education
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ed in committee.' .
("We're basically at
The $49 million allocated ina hold-the-line budget,stead
be 1I0iely used to fund a
except for research,·part of the bill ",hich channels moncommented Rene Duey to 16 high-AIDS-incidence,., cities,
razzo, director of pubincluding New York,lic policy for the San
AIDS and gay groups working on
Franci$COAIDS Pounthe bill wasted no time in reacting
dation. "In 1991, thesharply to the committee's action.
priority has to be in in"The committee Is throwing pen~creasing health care for, nies at a problem that requlre$_dol~
people with HlV, andlars,· commented Gregory King, com~thi~ year the Senate
munlcations director for the Human .
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whatsoever. n.
they will have to die,and that's that."
The Labor HHS bill, voted on in
The CARE packthe full Sengte on Oct. 12, now goes toage, signed by Presie
conference with the House where it
dent ~h1ast August, would have authowill be reconciled with the lower
rized the spending of $4;4 billion in emer- . bOOts version of the measure.
gency funds over the next five yeam for
And if the Senate committee's $49
AIt>S care and ~t
in ·areas dispromillion does anything, lobbyists sus.
portionately aff«ted by the epidemic. For
gest, it will give them·~ Htoe in the •the 1991 fISCal year, it would have aldoor" to push f'Or more funds· in thatlowed for $881.5 million in emergency
conference.
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funds to be funnelled to hard·bit urban
AIDS lobbyists will be looking
and I'U1'a1 areas.
to conferees to up the Senate's earI
AIDS activists, however, weremark by tapping a $2.9 billion re.
stunned when a Senate subcommittee
serve fund the House included In
dealing with the Labor HHS bill opted . their money bill to fund the CARE
to zero~fund the measure, putting off
package and .other meaSures which,implementation until fIScal year 1992.
at the time of the House's action on
Seeking to reflOance the measure,the money bill, had not been given
Sens. Brock Adams (D-Wash.), Fr.ank
final congreSSional approval.
Lautenberg (D-N]) and Alphonse"I don't think anybody knows
D'Amato (R-NY) had hoped to pass anwhat the House is going to be coming
amendment in the full committee
in with," commented Jeff Levi, a lobby~
which would have granted $338 million
ist with the AIDS Action Council. "Theyfor the CAREpackage this year.
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hoped for more money to implement·the package.
Voting on the 1991 Labor, Healthand Human Setvices appropriations l?i1l,. the full Senate Appropriations Committee
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"The people who stay at home havemore to do with who gets elected thanthe people who tum out."
As director" Baca m.ust address the
citywide decline in voter participation,
particularly in populations underrepresented among registered Voters. He will
also monitor voting' patterns, track complaints and devise strategies to inCrease
voting and voter registration.
"Gays ,and'lesb~
are one of theprotected groups as far as the commission is concerned," B~ca noted. •"'. For the past two years, the 38-yearold Baca bas.l>een a ,consUltantto CBS
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Rico and held a consluting contract
with the National Puerto Rican/
Hispanic Voter participation Project,based in New York.
Baca" who is currently on theboard of the city's, Gay and Lesbian
Anti-Violence Project, also served as
the New York State Hispanic coordinator for the presidential campaign ofMassachusetts .Governor Midiael
Dukakis and worked in the administration of former San Francisco Mayor~'
Dianne Feinstein.
"I urge all lesbians and gays tovote," Baca said. "A large number ofpeople are chOOSingnot to vote, at,ld
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has tapped an openly gay man longactive iIi the Latino and gay communities to be its director.
Edward Baca,a former vice presi.
dent of Gay and Lesbian Independent
Democrats, the city's largest gay political club, was nominated by Mayor
David Dinkins, and the choice wasunanimously approved by the 16member Voter Assistance Commission.
the commission was established~y the city's new charter, which alsoabolished the Board of Estimate and.
"will eventually carve the city into 51
council d~icts, 16 more than the current number.'•.
"I find our mandate challenging. It.
is threatening, the decline in voting andvoter registration," Baca told OUtWeek. .

by Andrew Miller

RON BOGARDNEW YORK-The
new chief.
attorney 'at the city's health department
is a gay' man with a long record ofcommunity advoca~y. Ronald E.
Bogard, a former board me,mber ofLambda Legal Defense and Education
Fund, will begin working for his new
boss, Health Commissioner Woodrow
Myers"on Oct. 22.
, "Ron's varied background in com_plex 'litigation, occupational health atld
safety, public-interest law and humanrights advocacy will well serve thepublic health of New Yorkers," Myers
said in a press st;ltement issued on
Oct. 5. "To have his fine legal mind at .
the service of those most in need isjust what any'doctor could dreier."
As general counsel; Bogard will,

be involved in both policy and liti-,gation and represent
the healthdepartment before judicial and legislative bodies.
Bogard has-worked
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and the Federal Trade Commission in
Washington. More recently he practiced at the New york law firm ofTunstead, Schechter & Torre, where he'litigated cases involving asbestos andoccupational health.
He was also the lead trial lawyer
in a case involving Georgetown
University, a school affiliated with the
Catholic church, which eventually led
to a decision compelling the univ~ty'
to extend equal benefits to two gay
and lesbian campus groups. While in,private practice in Washington, he.helped to start an organization thateventually became that city's gay bar
association. He served on the board of. Lambda from 1983 until 1989.
"The issues that the health department deals With impact a great deal on
the .gay and lesbian community, and I
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With the appointment of Dr. Myers last
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were displeased with the doctor'srecord on AIDS and gay issues at hisformer job as the state health \commis. 'sioner in Indiana.
"I'm obviously there to be alawyer and to do the things thatlawyers do, but I'm also there as a gay
man, and I1l bring to the job the sensitivites of a gay man," Bogard added.
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The indictment of Caribs Alicia,
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credit for the alleged arson.
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that he had set the frre even before
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Lemos said that Ms. Bush had justfinished meeting with the Prindess. ofWales and explained that she in$tructedDiana-who was soon to visit a t5ewatric
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had seen it in 1989.
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GAY'MEN FACE
TJFEIN PRISONFOR SEXBOISE',Idaho Two male couples
arrested for "the infamous crime
against nature" here could be sentenced to life in prison. The minimum
sentence is five years.
The arrests occurred on Aug. 18
outside the Emerald dub, a gay bar.
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have sex in a car; and Alfred Johnsonof Eastsound, Wash., and A\fredo Usunaof Vale, Ore., do so in a dalkened parking lot.
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or anal sex, gay or straight. The law
dates to 1864 in whatry,Wasthen the
Idaho Territory.
"There's only one other time inrecent memory that anyone was charged'
under it, but the charges were laterchanged to indecent exposure," said
John Hummel, preSident of the gay community-based Idaho AIDS Foundation.
Hummel said that' Idaho gay
activists have made no attempts torepea1 the law, "but maybe these arrests
will tie the beginning of a consciousness that -there's a problem here."
Boise activists believe that police
have stepped up harassment of gays
since the state's first Gay Pride Paradeon)une 23.
"That's our perception," Hummel
said. "They pay more attention to us,
Stopping people in their cars as theyleave the gay bar, etc."
National Gay and Lesbian Task
Force spokesperson Robert Bray said 'such harassment after increased. gay visibility is "something we see all around, the country.""They can expect increased violent "attacks and hate crimes ,too," Bra¥/said"It's the price you pay for gay visibility
in this society.") A spokesperson for the Ada County prosecutor said that preliminary hearings on the four cases are scheduled
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This odd and offensive approach to homosexuality was "admitted that they would drop a friend If they found out that heraised at the opening of a recen~ Marsha Warfield SHow. In case ·.or she was gay., At one point, Warfield asked Robinson, ~he .
you've never heard of this program, it's a TV talk show that airs actress from 21 Jump Stf88~ if she ever felt that It was her fault
nationally on weekday mornings, with MarshaWarfield as the that a male acquaintance "went" gay. And so on.
host. Warfield, as you may know, has played an extremely popThe show gave credibility to the most ignorant and stereoular, and extremely butch" character on Night Court.
typed notions of gays and lesbians. Given the absence of anyThe show's purpose was to explore how straight people one-with any real knowledge, there was no possibility of refut'feel about gay people. Not~, single openly gay or lesbian person ,ing, or even questioning, the, dangerous,anti-gay misinformation
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To protest this misuse of a national TV forum for antI-gay pro.she has gay friends, and Peter Noone, who used to be Herman ' paganda purposes, call, or write to, Marsha Warfield today. Demandin the rock group Hennan's Hennits.
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During the p.rogram/ Warfield alternated between giving. openly gay and lesbian audience me.mbeis and panelists.
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Write to: -Richard S. Kline, Executive Producer, Marsha .
homosexuality 'a mental disorder?" and "Are there any'monogaWarfield Show, c/o CBS Studios, 7800 Beverly Blvd., Suite
mOU8 gays?" One audience member suggested that boys who 3355, Los Angeles, CA 90036. Or call: (213) 852-4451.,

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investigation "troubled" hikn. In thesame article, Gallo's attorney, Joseph
Onek, was quoted as saying: "There is,no inve~tig"ation as to whether Bob
Gallo intentionally misappropriated theFrench virus. It is the opposite. It's to
explore the possibility that there wasn't
even accidental misappropriation."John S. James covers ~reatment
issues, including politics and social
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events from six years ago, was ill"tlnled and unnecessary. "We would be·_.w..""'~.:'~. ! Xi...
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AIDS activists say.
DR. ROBERT, "The sad thing is that it will holdlet them do science."
GALLO
The inquiry and investigation were'"up his work on KS," 'said Lany Kramer,tofueled after Chicago Tribune reporter
the statethe playwright known for his fierce
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leagues used to develop the blood test .. the Pasteur Institute. The inquiry was
Observers know little about Gallo's
conducted after Democratic Rep. Johnfor human immunodeficiency virus. "current work 'with a Kaposi's sarcoma
Dingell of Michigan expressed concern
Also 'at issue are "several aspects"
drug, and the researcher, a notoriousof reports Gallo and a colleague, Dr. ' about the 1Hbune piece.
publicity hound, is not talking about it.
Mikulas :popovic, published in 1984.
"There's an obsession on Crewdson's
Kaposi's sarcoma are cancerous tumors
Gallo is chief of the NIH's laboratory ofpart," fumed Martin Delaney of Project
Inform, a San F.'
group thatthat appear as red or purple blotches ontumor cell biology. Before his alleged
the skin of some people with' AIDS.
provides information on AIDS drugs anddiscovery of the AIDS v~s, his promiSome researchers say that it isn't a' cannence was based on seminal - work into
sponsors clinical drug trials. "He's trying
cer but a blood vessel disorder. Curto trade Gallo's chance for a Nobel withretroviruses, of which HIV is included.
In 1987, Gallo and the Pasteur ' his chance for a Pulitzer." He added,
rentiy, KS is treated with interferon.
Radiation therapy can rid visible lesions"Gallo's research is critical to the epidemInstitute's Dr. Luc Montagnier settled afor cosmetic purposes.' ,lawsuit that allowed them to share credit ,ic, and I wish to fuck they'd let him do it".: The NIH announced the formal infor discovering the virus (at the time,
In fact,, both Delaney and James
Gallo was calling it Hf.w, and Montagniersuggested that the major metropolitan
vestigation in a written statement dated
dailies, despite their commitment towas calling it LAY) as well as royalties, Oct. 5. The inv:estigation follows a less,objective journalism, showed bias infrom licencing an antibody test for theforma) inquiry by the NIH's Office ofnews reports about ,the Gallo investigaScientific Integrity, according to thevirus. Popovic is also being investigated.
tion. The Washington Post, Delaney
Attempts to ,reach Gallo werestatement by the NIH acting director,
unsuccessful. The Oct. 8 Wall Street 'said, was overly supportive. 7biJ New
Dr. William F.,Raub. While some issues
York Times gave a middle-of-the-roadwere resolved during the inquiry, theJournal quoted him as saying that theformal investigation will test
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NEW YORK-An investigation at
the National Institutes of Health into
p.ossible scientific misconduct by Dr.
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BERKELEY, Calif.-Oral sex without either a condom or studies," said Michael Samuel, one of the study's researchers. He
withdrawing before ejaculation puts one at greater risk for hu- said that the 17 percent figure may be high, as participantS could
have lied about not engaging in anal intercourse or sharing needles. ~man immunodeficiency virus infection than medical experts
previously believed, according to epidemiologists
at the A colleague, Warren Winkelstein, presented their findings at a recent
meeting of the American Public Health Association in New York City.
University of California.
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The researchers say that their findings mark the first time therisk has been proved. Their study contradicts a belief among some males reported that they did not accept ejaculate into their mouth.
gay men that oral sex is a low-risk activity, especially if one with- ''The main difference seems to be whether they engaged in oral,
dra~s before ejaculation. Of 82 HIV-infected men in thestudy, 17 ' sex and did not ejaculate," Samuel said. "Preliminary results show
• percent said that they restricted their sexual activities to oral sex any kind of ejaculation is risky." Confirmed statistics will be released soon, Samuel said.
and did not engage in any other risk factors for HIV infection.
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highly criticaL "This whole thing is awaste <:>f time for people with AIDS;
who don't give a shit about what happened in 1984," Delaney said, "butthey are concerned about what happens now."_ Indeed, what happened in 1984
has shaped AIDS research policies
ever since. After Gallo announced his
discovery of the AIDS virus, most of
the research and drug testing in thiscountry has been based on thepremise that HIV is the sole factor in
AIDS. Despite many critics of the sin.gle-factor theory including Dr. Peter
H. Duesberg, a virologist at the
University of California , at Berkeley
whose views have appeared in therock magazine Spin, and Dr.Joseph•
Sonnabend, a New York clinjcian andresearcher, the notion that HIV is themain, and possibly the only, factor hastaken precedence over research into,
for example, opportunistic infections,which kill people with AIDS. 'But none of this,is pertinent to theinvestigation. "If the French had gotten
credit for HIV, we'd still be in the sameboat," James said.
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Sonnabend, unaware of the details of
the investigation, nevertheless told
autWeek that the activists' concern for
Gallo's KS research is misdirected. "Hisreliability needs to be proved,"
Sonnabend said. "Why doesn't he tellother people in the world and let otherpeople do it? If there is something thatworks, it should be tested on the
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But information about the drug is so sketchy that even confirmed reports should
be considered hearsay.
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from a company in Japan that wipe out the Kaposi's sarcoma in a way I have neverseen before. That is, no toxicity, and the tumor's gone and never reappears." Au
Courant, a gay newspaper covering the Delaware Valley region; reported in its Oct. 8
issue that before his presentation, Gallo told members of ACT UP/Philadelphia thefollowing: The Japanese company is named Daichi. He has a confidentiality agreement with them that forbids him to talk about the research. No human studies havebeen done, but he.is completing animal experiments.
Those with Kaposi's sarcoma should not expect to see the drug, named pantosan
polysulfate, in the buyers' clubs anytime soon. Martin Delaney of Project Inform'recently',',
returned from Japan, where he met with executives at the Japanese company.
He told OutWeekthat the drug is available in such minu!e quantities that it, almost doesn't exist, except for the small amounts Gallo is receivi~g. "The stuff never .
existed in quantities more than a thimbleful," Dela[ley said. "The Japanese are send,ing 200 milligrams this month to Gallo. That's like two AIr tablets:"
Last month, Garey Lambert of the Baltimore Alternative reported that pantosan
polysulfate, in a form requiring intravenous administration, is sold without a prescription in Germany for $2 an ampule. However, this formulation apparently is not part ofGallo's research.
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At the Sixth International AIDS Conference in San Francisco, only one poster
presentation mentioned pantosan polysulfate, and that for its HIV"blocking properties, not Kaposi's sarcoma.
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human studies showed t!1at it doesn't get into the bloodstream when taken orally, and,many people with HIV infection have stopped taking it.
"• Jeffrey Grabelle of AIDS Action Baltimore told OutWeek that he received a callfrom Gallo on the organization's answering machine after the Alternative piece waspublished. The article gave Grabelle's name as a contact. "Qr. Gallo was concerned'
about the article," Grabelle said. He added that Gallo stressed his experiments so far
were in vitro and that the drug exists only in limited quantities.
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Now, I'm not talking about the lack, a fervor once reserved for exchanging
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and homophobia, manygays I've addressed thisissue with are unawareof any problem. Or ·they
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verybody knows that gay. whitemale publications like this one
have thousands of dollars arrogantly
lying around in banks that support us
military intereSts. So last week. I picked
little ~velpped marked "for deposit"
off the neWs editor's desk and flew to' an
undisclosed location in the Persian Gulf.
1'I;lere.I found quite a lot of US soldiers.
'many of whom were women. Fearing
reprisal from the news editor (a man) .jf I
did not return with a "story," I asked
these womenin unuorm.
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Gulf bealuse I like to keep, 'up with the news. Whenever my life as it woman getsme down. I just think about
top 1V newscasters, report- .
ing on current evenls. and. 'then my own problems
seem so small. ,Like when'
I'm walking home from ,worlc, and I get whiStled at .
and grabbed'by all these .
jerk-face machos? 'Oooh':,~ baby-look-a' -those-melons~ let-me-take-'em-home-with-,~ me!' I don't get mad I. justthink c:i TOJD BrokaW. talkiI,tg, without a hint of eniOtion.
about the. $!H. aisis ori;;;;&.
I - masSacres in SO\~th Africa,,and I walk on by. I figure if Tom can
toµgh it out, so can, I.
'.', . "I also don't get mad when I go
. home. and my boyfriend hils me for forgetting, to pick up his laundry. Instead, I
there·s DanRatlier- turn on ,the.tube,
calmly telling me about another woman
gone to prison for shooting the guy
who'd beaten her up for years. So.I relax 'and think about how lucky i am not to
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there's these 1V news bulletins about
Iraq iJlvading Kuwait. Tom and Dan are
getting mad. I find myself getting mad,too. Real qlad. It's sort of like\this jerkface macho country goes over to thissays,
cute little downtrodden country'Hey. baby,' then hits it and grabs it melons. Boy. I am really steamitlg. ,.
"So I haul' my melons ove!' to the
Army Recruitment Center, where I sign
up. l feel better now. I'm learning new

Lou in my arms. Ain't she cute? Somesensitiv~. religious type at Newsweek,
called this photo 'Madonna of the Cockpit' My ex-husband, On the other hand,says I lopk like one of them Ninja Turtles~ ~him. You can't be soft andnurturiog all ~e time. In fact, if,the US of
A is gong to, spend $45 million per clay
just to keep us here, then I say screW'soft and nurturing,' 109.
"I'm not over here for the likes of
my ex~husband, anyhow. I'm over here
for Emmie Lou, sO that
she can grow up freeand democratic andhive all the advantages. 'Not like these. kids
here. Did you knowthat 40.000 kids ,dieevery day of pre-,.
ventable diseases incountries like these?
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depraved can you
gefl I mean, ~pe0ple just put ~ wtx>le different value pp.' ~lifethan
we do. Plus. they use
chemical weapons.
"Some day, I want
to be able to hand mylittle Emmie her firstFual
on the joys 6f
puberty. I want to sew
her prom dress and see
her grow up pretty and. go toa real good school
and meet all the rightemployment skills. "'1.have free medi~ ,folks. But she can't do that in a world
care-.-and I get to 'kill all the men I
that if Our ~like we got here. I
want. As long as they'~ Arabs. But that'stary keeps spending $45 million a clay•
OK, bealuse. as anybody who keeps up
and if 40.000 kids a clay k~p dying,
with the news will, tell you. Arabs reallypretty soon these people are going to
oppress their women. ~ ~have to accept the fact that Saddam'H~
sein'is a madman. Then we' can all
Major Betty"'There I am, see? I'm in my combat
afford to be soft and nurturing."
gear, popping out of my F-15 bqmber
Private Debbie
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F'mally, one day, ~ I was reading on
article on Jeane Kirkpatrick in thenmes, I realized this pivotal thing: The
countries with the most aggressive foreign policies and the deadliest weapons
tend to produce the. ,most liberated
women. Wow. I experienced what MS.
MagaZtnecalls a "click!" So'I joined thearmy and started this political movement-Feminist Imperialism. My social
life has never been better.
"I am over here to make the wor.ld
safe for ~men's lib. You want one of
our 'Nuke the Patriarchy!' T-shirts? A
button? We Feminist Imperialists feelthat our liberated examples can reallymake a difference
to third-world
women. When our Saudi sisters see us
all suited up with our flame throwers
and rocket launchers, spitting and peeing into the sand and ordering men
around, they will begin to rethink what
it means to be ~ woman. Eventually, we
believe, they will throw down theirveils and stand with us in solidarity tofight male oppression. Margaret Thatch, er! Live like , her!, Right now; there ate
160,000 US troops in the Persian Gulf.
,Ten 'percent of tl;1esetroops are women.
Our group meets every Tuesday nightat 7 in my tent If we work this movement right, I may never be'lonely again."

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month. against this' countiys arrogant', ,Gene Fedorko," a member of theconlmunities; a SePt. 16,silent vi8il at the 'i,mci9ical'mopopoly. ~ the .first national. ,ACT UP/NY Alternative ,and H,olistic , hospital employing conference 0IglUlizer" AIDSactioo eve(~atound,~~, ..O'Treatmenq::omn1itt~:whjch:originated"Jo~ Renner,-MD,foll9-wedby a"p~et at , ;".
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Sept. '17 downtown march, rally" picker'· 'me,mbers'of
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cities converged eiiIGirisas City; Mo~;"~prt)tectots"to prevenqleople
ahd,civi1disobedience action at the hotd.
from Sept. 15 to 18 to protest aDd disrupt
with; HIV and AIDS from exercising. On this climactic day, ducks were.the,·c<>nferenceof the National 'Council' in(ormecl choice of any treatment
the theme du jour. Some pjcketers wore ,DUck SUits. dOe placard: read,.'.,'O"~ileaIt#,rril\ld.':oViI~bedi~'-" a~ble;.rloma:ttef;rriri
What'sYsteri{of 'OOhald"John Renri'er is a qUack.n Outside theactions both inside and outside the event'led to the arrest of 23 activists with"heavily policed building, one affinity
rubber-gloved SWAT-team police using•group ran into the driveway, released
what oumerous 9bservers called- ex.,A/our-dayaction
moµntains of feathers and did a die-in"'cessivel~~;,;}";:,'"',:,;",.<.~:,,;,,".,'; <".
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itlsurance ind,ustries' 1:0 'SuPP'ress com~Y , 'I, ,peting·Syst~,ofinedicineinaeasingly,
healing.~,H~added~ ~oUr ~ctionswereother waves of chanting protesters,chOSen by PWAs.Th~ attaCks come in, ' tremendouSly successful. We discreditedcaused'further disruptions. To the horror,•
thet:wake of UniVersity of Chic~gothe obj~ctivity of -the quack-busters,',of conference participants, police used
I' ,study fiild~g that 36 percent of PWAs '., disruPted their propagancla,C:baracJe and'Chok~J.1oJds and dragged some.a<tivisls 'I ,',"
sw:y;eyea ~yeused" a.!=ilpunctµre,'mega- ',', eduCated ,the pub!ic !lnd many con- . ,by a painful under-:the-dlin gnp; Several.,,;vi~mms, uo.appr.o,;:ed drugs;,ofJ;)ther ~, fere,n5e. delegat~boutfhe
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the mayor's, sp~fisoted by the Ame~kail Medical.-" extensive'and largely favOOible.A rep\?rt- 'action atO'CityHall ~AsspCiation ~ild:. ijealtll ,Insurance'
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oppoSition to AIDSbudget increases and,an .~, the CityCounci1~s·re.fusaito pasS a gay-'· ",~~s>£i~~ion:o{ Ame.rica,'wit,~ strong:inter,View~~:~gUP;:~em~s;s!orII{ .support :.from the, Food: and Drug' . upcoming: article-the f~st time·,the" and HIV-po~Itive-rights b,ill. Two'
I' ,", Admiti~tiqn: ~Thepro84m :~l\~t tQ' ..,., ,questlanofPWAS"'iig&t: to chOice
protestets,~ere'arrested after hariging, the'il leach uisuran~e, h,ealth 'and consUmer' penetrate thishouse organ of
m-ayor in effigy and tbrowing fake" ~ officials techniques to discredit an,d, the medical monopoly. ' ,-,~oney around the building. All 25, sUppresS' non-AMA,:non-FDA approv~..
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On Sept. ,18, ACf UP/lIlY spokes"quackery" label), denying insurance
zap which, according to harried conperson Jon Gr~g,aniiIv-positive
reiffibursemenrs, prosecuting doctors andference officials, prciduced 350 calls of
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vitamins, rejected an invitation toparticipate in an AIDS quackery panel
with three National Council leaders.
Greenberg's written statement, read tothe conference by ACT UP/Chicago
member 1m Miller, said, in part, "Underno circumstances, will I legitimize Youraqions by appearing in. this heavily
weighted and one-sided panel designedwith malicious intent to unfairly represent
me and the types of treatments that I
have chosen to keep me alive."Greenberg also denounced efforts
by conference organizers to divide thecoalition of AIDS and cancer activists. which h~lped plan the protests. The ,previousda.y, National Council board'
member ViCtor Herbert, a New York
physician at Mt. Sinai hospital, publicly
charged that alternative cancer treatment
advocacy groups had paid airfares fqr "35
misguided gay activists" to come' fromNew York to attend the protest. (In fact,
only 16 New Yorkers were present, theirfares paid either individually or by
subsidies froi:n ACT UP/NY.) The allega- 'lionparroted in pl'e$S interviews byconference organizer Renner. Greenberg
denied the charge and added, "How €ananyone expect a 'body which listens toblatant lies and accepts them as truths tomake fair judgments about anything I
might have to present?" Added Gene
Fedorko: "Thisc.charge
insults our,intelligence and integrity. We are proudof our ,alliance with the alternative cancer
treatment movement and appreciate theirsolidarity with our efforts toward theconunon goal of freedom of Choice."

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The four-day action threw thequack-busters into disarray and bickering. Renner, of the National Council,
can't predict the date of the next
conference, but he's sure that it will
never again be held in Kansas City.
Shock waves will travel to Washington,
where the FDA is mastermindingayearlong series of "Regional AIDS Fraud
Conferences"
designed to set up'
mini-National
Councils to suppress
alternatives, only this time with AIDS
community support. Since the Kansas
City action, ACT UP chapters in Atlanta
and Baltimore have challenged thebias of conference
speakersespecially the ubiquitous Grace Powers
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GARY S. GRUBER
after she forced another art guide to change
Born July 20, 1949, in Jersey City, NJ,
the color of her eye shadow!), and with me Gary died from AIDS-related complications
Michael Jay Levin, 46, was a writer,
standing there, Michael said to her, "Then on September 13, 1990, in NewYork City.
historian" teacher, artist, astrologer, winyou COUldn't work 'with me-! am Jamie,
Gary made things grow, and .the gift
dow gardener, baseball fan and Jeopardytoo." How many of us defend the ones we came naturally to him. Landscape gardening
whiz, but I wish to first commemorate thelove with such eloquence. \was his profeSSion, but the flowers, trees
BSer who made people laugh, taking trivial
Michael grew up in Chicago, made a and shrubs he lovingly planted and nurtured _, everyday occurrences and whipping themcommitted choice to leavefor Canada during on the New .York City terraces he designed
into ornate fantasies. We'd often watch TV the Vietnam tragedy, lived for two years in'
documentaries for hours-him
at hisSpain; and like many gay men, ~e had ahome, ,me at mine talking on the phone,
happy, long-term, intimate relationship withsometimes watching different, or several, 'a woman, Arlene Levin, an artist whochannels, frequently howling with laughter
remained in Toronto. Michael studied at
the whole way (also true of even his
many places, among them Amherst as wellanswering machine messages). Sadly, I as Pratt and Parso,,!s,where he also taught•
only once jotted down verbatim an answerand had large student followings.
ing machine message he'd left me. My
His immediate family refused to menfriend Jay had told me that ACT UP was the tion AIDS in the mainstream obituaries andtopic on one of the afternoon TV talkalso, due to "religious reasons," refused hisshows, so I had asked.Michael if he'd listen doctors' requests ofa medical autopsy.
and watch it for me on his elderly,set. Here's
I hope that you'll read or reread Gay
his message:
Love Signs; Michael is all over his book and"So, here's me lfs 4 minutes-it's 5 is in fine form. He still has much to teach us.
4: The television set's,minotesafter
I must personally fhank Justin Ferate
wrapped in tin'foil, and I have a chain of and David Erlich, who were dazzling in theircoat hangers that leads out the window and bottomless affection and generosity with, is wrapped around the fire escape....Ah, theMichael during these last lIrotesque
picture looks like it's being projected onmonths, and Sister Pasqual-that's right,
HarriS 'tweed, and its teenage atheists talkme thanking a nun!-but Sister Pasqual
responded to his touch like grateful children.
ing to, tim, ah, sanctimonious
oldmust be thanked for giving Michael energy It, must have been partly in these gardens'
meringue~head what's-his-name~ and, urn, and hope those long horrible hours as that he learned to cultivate such a deep
Oprah's doin' somethin' about hairdos, and things got really awful' and for reminding us respect and love for life in all of its forms.
. '. Geraldo'stalking to someone who spent last that "caring" isa ve~ringis something
When GarY became too ill to work outweek withElvisl So, I don't know where Jim, we do.
side, he continued to be a gardener of a difor James-oh, Jay-got his information,
Finally, deepest gratitude must be ferent sort-indoors. His courage, generosbut I think it was. a bum steer as we say in expressed to .the dedication of the staff of ity, simpliCity and goodness planted seeds
the butcher business. So, urn, anyway, I'll
AIDS Treatment Resources and the Her- everywhere and in everyone fortunate totalk to 'you later .... I'm gonna have dinner
culean volunteer efforts of the Treatment and , know him~ visit with Gary always meant
latish 'with David early (Erlich) tonight-I
Data Committee of ACT UP who repeatedly leaving with a heart full of flowers: the ~ind
had forgotten we had an arrangement, but
provided us with the up-to-the-second infor- that never die or fade. His art also grew andI'll be at least until 6 tonight. Ok."mation that permitted Michael to be included flourished, on those delicately drawn, caring ~Michael felt that astrology was notin a Foscarnet experimental trial that, as cards sent to friends to celebrate special
hocus-pocuS' butmoreli~e one of so many some of you know, saved his rapidly failing occasions in their lives, as well as on theunder-researchedsciences, and mosteyes from blindness. When confirming
lovable annual Christmas cards he createdimportantly,.3 tool for interpersonal comATR's address for this, an ATR staff person for God's Love We Deliver. There was a• municatiQn. In a natural extension to his . told me that ATR is currently in critical finan- music to Gary's life, too, and when at last helove of. communication, Michael became' cial shape. Your contributions and even let- went off to work in God's landscape, it was, orie of the leading verbal historians of New ters to ATR would make a tremendous
with "the clear melody of a singing bird on•
York City. His walking· tours of the Village
memorial to Michael and so many others: the point of launching from the twig." His.were famous around the world. But he was AIDS'Treatment Resources, 259 W. 30th St, ' spirit will be treasured forever. A memorial
not beneath serving .up limousine tours to 9th Roor; New York,NY 10001.
service will be held on Oct. 29, at 5 pm, at
the corporate elite or busing the sweet "MaI will miss Michael dearly-and
Judson Memorial Church, 55 Washington, , and Pa Kettles." Once, a client phoned
angrily.
Square South.
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-Jamie Leo-PeterB.
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You can never insurethat you won't become acrime victim. No crime
victim 'Is to blame for thecrime committed against
them. . Nevertheless,these few safety tips mybe helpful:

Dr. Charles Franchino
30 Fifth Avenue
New 'York, New York 10011
212.673.4331
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office hours by appointllJent• Identify local "danger zones" inthe places you frequent. Avoid, these areas, especiidly when you. are alone. Keep on top of the, news, 'especially the lesbian andgay press, to learn if a particula~neighborhood has become a tar, get for gay bashing.
• Plot our "safe" routes from subway stations and bus stops to yourhome and other places you frequent often. Note well-lit streetsand stores open late at night.
I• If you feel threatened or unsafe,
trust your instincts and remove
yourself from the situations quickly
as possible. Run. Bang, garbagecans. Make noise. Yell "Pire". Call
9f1 for police assistance as soon
as possible.
• Letting someone you don't know
into your home makes you vulnerable to robbery and assault. If you
leave a bar with someone you've justmet, introduce her/him to a mend or
the bartender. Let other, people
know you are leaving together.
, Exchange names and phone num, hers before you get home.

\•• Women should beware of men in"mixed" bars who claim to be gay
and invite women to their homes.
• Be wary of taxis that wait outside of gay and lesbian bars andclubs. Try to leave bars, community centers, and other gay/lesbian _identifies facilities with people you
know. Assailants sometimes wait,
for potential victims outside places
where lesbians and gay men meet.

• , Carry a whistle. consider taking, a self-defense class.
• Most importantly, be alert andremain aware of your surroundings.
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drcles- for several months. (lndeed,Bur,kett mentions the book near the end of'her article.) Gay,publications suth as the'j
Advocate and the Nattve immediatelyu;;
seized on the Hemid story when it was
printed. In typical, fashion, Nat1ve publisher Charles Ortleb even threw it on
the cover of his neMpaper a few weeks
ago and tJten sredite!i his publication
with having,flrst'run a series that ana..
lyzed flaws 'In.'fIschl's research.
With SuCh co.mm.otion even before 'the book's p.I~edr<;l~" (sCheduledjfor Oct. ~), -it appears'~t:-'Nussbaum'siGood Intent10ns may well, shake things
up a bit, If not become a literary barbinger <;>fsocial change, the kind of..
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manner with which's scientlficcommunity--:"which
is properlysk~ pn its pages-bas reacted ohalready seeing those galleys that havebeen circulating. Some sources, even
SpecUlate that 'NIH scientists were soangered by NuSsbaum's account of their
response to the AIDS aisis that they put
presSure on tbe New Yorle ntrU!S and nad ,the newspaper of record do a little prespin. (Soon after the first uncof!ected
proofs were circulated, a 7Jmes' Washington reporter wrote a glowing portrait
of Dr. Anthony S. Fauci, the head of
AIDS drog testing and one of those who, gets trampled in the book.)•. Already, Nussbaum has been asked
to appear on tbeJoan Rfuers $boo{ ABCs
. Prime 7Jme Live and several other talk Il:-.........
shows to tell a shoCking and- appallingstory that many outside the AIDS activist
community haven't yet heard.
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time, th~ nation's 1argest drug companiest
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cane... In.tltute's Dr~ Robert aallo;
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marketplace. Since 1962, when Congress '.
~tedthat a drug company prove its 'drug is effective as well as safe before it
can be approved, the FDA. has set up
stringent rul~ for product submissions
and approvals. This move br<;>ughtbig·
business and' big government closer
together. Why, after all, should a drug
company spend millions on research,
only to find itS completed application
denied because of Someinconsistendes,,
in protocol? Why should the FDA review
thousalxls of pages of a new drug application, only to reject it? And there's
mote: 'The federal government has an·agency, the National Institutes of Health,S that invents and tests drugs and then;j signs licensing agreements with drug
, companies to research, test and sell
! ~em-:-:-a cushy arrangement indeed.
j! one thai· certainly seemed to work
AiDs came along. .
~~~.s··~'Jf. When AI[)S activists wondered''''[1, .y:?O .drugs were available for their"in ' ng. friends and lovers; they asked~,found.flaws,
made recommen~ti~·for change and, in th~ process~Ide ~".("
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AIDS ai$is, from both a business ,and an
activist: . The premise that big. government and big business aGt inc::al:¥>ots is not new (and is rertainly One~,manyin the AIDs activist conununity~$"echarged for years), .but Nvssbaum,tes in detail haw and why the rela. wOrks (or doesn't work). He anateams of public record transaipts,
fu scientists and activists and pre"r,Sentsa shaIp ciitique of the pitfulJs of the
drug-testing and. -approval process. He
follows the development of two pr0mising antiviral a~ts, AZf and AL 721, andshows why one, made it to mar.ket andwhy the other never stood a chance.
Nussbaum's approach is not SUtprising,as
he is a senior.' writei:' at BUstness Week.
'YJlat,is surprising is his ability, with soPyissues at hand, to keep the subject
matter tightly focused. His concern is big
I busiIle$s, biS government and the AIDSt activist movement, nothing more.
: . Unlike Randy Shllts' And the Band
! Played On, which relates,~one
al~ys wanted to know about the AIDS
~ 'crisis froin its beginning up until the~ mid-'8Os-people, places and events;.i ' NU{lSbaumgives 'portrai!S of people in~ ,~(:,en:..-unti1....~'
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Activist. "1m EIIIO,lUrk Hanington,
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their professional, and activist roles. We
know nothing". .of National Institute ofAllergy and Infectious Diseases boss, Dr.
Fauci, after he gets into his Toyota Celica
and drives home. But he is portrayed as •an immunologist-turned-administrator",ho, at least in the beginning, was truly
incompetent when, trying to set up an
AIDS drug-testing netw:ork from scratch.
(He delegated the complicated task to an
already overworked colleague. Also, thetrials may have been better run if he had
let the trial-experienced National Cancer
Institute do them instead.) Above all others, Fauci; entrusted with $300 million,, was responsible 'for delaying AIDS drug
testing in the US for a number of years. 'And when the AIDS Clinical Trials
Group did get underway, about 80 percent of all trials focused on testing one
prO<iuct-AZf. (But Lany Kramer, who
once called Fauci a "murderer," nowsings his praises in the book because ofFauci's eventual acceptance of activists
and their ideas into the testing process).
In fact, the AZf story portrayed in
Good Intentions is at once compellingand horrifying, bearing out much ofwhat many in the gay community havesaJd for years about the politics surrounding
the drug's development.
According to Nussbaum, Dr. Sam Broder,
after confirming AZf's antiviral properties in 'his lab at the National Cancer
Institute, sold the 1S-year rights to Burroughs Wellcome because, he reasoned,
only a company with gobs of money'could test , and market the drug correctly.
He's called "Mr. AZT," and somewhere
down the line, Wellcome wrestled thecredit from him. Wellcome's Dr. David
Barry continually boasted that it was
Wellcome's drug. After ali, he says, hiscompany spent $80 million on it, a figure that justified an outrageous $10,000per-year price tag. (AZf was actually afailed anti-cancer drug invented in the'60s by a Dr. Jerome Horwitz. He neverapplied for a patent.). Nussbaum credits a handful ofactivists Dr. Iris Long, Jim Eigo andMark Harrington of ACf UP/NY; Martin,

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James of AIDS Treatment News withradically improving, the direction of )AIDS drug research and testing. In fact,
the ACf UP threesoij1e can virtually do ,!,no wrong. Long, a scientist with years' of ,1
experiencedeveloping'anti-cancer,
drugs, was familiar with the drug devel-j
opment process. Working closely with
Eigo and Harrington, ,the three investigated how drugs were approved andmade a series of recommendations at
federal hearings. Nussbaum shows themin action at seminal hearings, and how
they playoff one 'another. Long, a PhD,
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appeases the bureaucrats by using their§l:~'own bureaucratese. Harrington drives
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m~[of their demands. Most importantly, ithey@d,·.,·
were heard. ACf UP members now sit
on many committees and have a strong
voice in designing drug-testing protocols, over the objections' of principal
investigators at academic in~ti~tions
who have been'conducting trialS for, years
on their own terms, without aCfivist orI"government interference.
Nussbaum seems to have great
respect for Dr: Joseph Sonnabend, apeculiar
New York clinician
andresearcher who, along with Mathilde
Kriin and Michael Callen, invented thecommunity-bas~dtrials concept. He
praises New York's Community Research
Initiative for testing drugs like aerosolized pentamidine. But conversely, hemakes no mention that pentamidine'S•
manufacturer, Lyphomed, tripled the 'price, one 300 mg vial, a month's supply, costs about $120 teta1l. !t'S also notmade clear where Callen stands vis-a-vis
THE ~ONEERS:, .
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ACf UP. A founder of the People With
.Joseph Sonnabend, who helped
AIDS Coalition, he takes a more' personinstit",e the coinmuniiy ..... ecIal, Zen-like approach than ACf UP's outdrug trial•• y.tem
wardly directed anger. Callen', one of thefirst New Yorkers identjfied as having
shouldbe available. Nussbaum , does l;,
AIDS, promotes livingfwithAIDS
on ' mention Callen's run-in with Delaney, in .u
whiCh he claimed that Delaney's clan- .
one's own terms. He Has, never taken
destine trials of Compound Q' were \\'~.'\
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United States. The story is familiar to.10- town. .
activists, but Nussbaum's point is thata study conduct~d by NIH researcher
While activists are the focus in theDr. ,'Margaret Fischl at the University of .
those with the bucks-big drug compabook's second half, Nussbaum also
, Miami. She was young and· inexperi- : nies get the glory, aQdthe fact ,thatcharts the questionable approval of AZr,
enced, ·arid yet her study, which wasagents could save lives is immate.these.
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AIDS were living at 16 weeks com, VlSUally, Good IntentIOns looks as if
provide meaningful data and the initial
pared with those on a placebO, got AZr
it would be a good beach read. Short,triUmph -of community~based trials that:approved. Nussbaum allegel? that she,para~phs
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duced 'videos. She has receive(! and still . puncQ line: The, book readS aln:!ost likecartnit pneumonia, which had been, thereceives grants to test other, drugs for , ' a breezy novel. The story iine_ r~tely'
major killer of people with AIDS.
Wellcome. 1s this impartial researeh?'moves 'o,ut-of
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"~W3$hihgton, DG, an~ ~esearchTriangle 'pie have been talkihg about the' strange ,He also follows AL'721, :which, sevPark,_NC, Wt:llcome's US headquarters.
'goiOgs-on surrounding AZf's approval. ' eral y~ago,
It's clearly a book about the East Coast.
Israel's highly ~, Nussbaum read the transcript of (and ' Weizman Institute showed could leachWest Coast activism was Randy Shilts'
interviewed those who attended) a one~holesterol from cell walls, hampering
focus. Thus, Good Intentions continues
day meeting at the FDA when AZr was
HN, replication. The NIH researchers . ~ bOth geegraphically and ctuOOoi~gicallya·pproved. He shows how the data
were, interested only
from where And the Band Played On left
, in what was inside, abdu,t AZT'.s s~ft~y~nd'efhcacy justthe cell, aJ)d so an entrepreneurial comoff. Together, they make up a tWo-part
didn't make: sense, how most in thepany tr'y~g to g~t the government toreference of the many sins of commis~
apparently knew 'it and indemnilook at, the drug went bust. Despite . sion and omissioIl--QS 'well as the few
amazing anecdotal reports of AL 721's
victories--of the first ten years of thefi~' ,themselves ~d'!na.. process ~tJleemed JO be scr~pted, approved theeffectiveness, no Serious long-term ~dAIDS crisis in the United States.Y , ,
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'design-:-not exactly th'e,kjnd of person you'd expect to ge!.iinpas-· . ,sione'CIov~r-a Jewstan~ard-C1perating-pn;)cedure Improprieties'
betWeen government and business. He's straight.-:..not the:;tdnd of .
persQnyou'deXp~Ct to ,be,enamo~d with the AIDS a¢ivist selfempowerinent·movementBUt theii again, he serVed in the;P(lace '~orps during the JohnsOn and Nixon years and, as a'graduate student at ,.-.the University o,f Michigan, joined antiTViet .Nant War'protests. He has 'very strong 'convictions about what's rnor~lIy, right, and, he hopes that 'Good lritqntions will publicize the in.ade.quaciesof the drug approval process, not just for AIDS but for
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A}'i;' ~9,OgJ!t.iJli,!~id,a QI"e$(job:'lnthat ~ense,:it.was !heE8stc'~stp!aY-;,;,: ··tii,~ls:.Community40ctort,used ,An,aflow. doses, almoStfr,omt~e,"-')~:r,..~r:swho ha~:nQt.reatly·been;deScobe9.1;~~dtQ ~o,that: AI~;io~J:.JerY.
pegiOQiqg:Wi~h'lt1e,absericeof other antivirals"it'sp'iitical,:fo.'.',;''.~';., have thewh9Ie's~H41mpowerrilentmOvementFof Whateverreason,'~':'" ,haVe' sonie~inglikethat.p,e6ple with IiIv infection should listen:",~';,Andihe'8aridPlayed On,really:<Jid~'t
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ments for alldiseases. We don't have that now.The taxpayers,theonly way to learn' is by makirig mistakes. 'It's no.t the mostpeople, deserve this. In fact, they reallybelieve that's what they're", }o~rible ,thinQi~,t~e ~orld!Wha~:~ ,horriblei~Vihe?pe~ple~on~t:,g,e~hg.
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Good Intentions: How Big Business andthe Medical Establishment Are Corrupting the Fight Against AIDS.
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Brian Mulroney, the Canadianprime minister,' was scheduled to open'
the conference the evening of June 4.
He had to wait. Just before the opening
speech, 300 ACf UP protesters swept
into the building, bringing with them
pemaps, another 500 or 600 conferen~eparticipants already on their way in tohear the opening remarks. It appearedas though a thousand people were· stonning the main hall chanting, "Thewhole world is watching," carrying placards reading SILENCE -= DEA1H in both
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there to protect the prime minister, andseized,'the dais. One prote.ster'with abullhorn announced that "this confer•ence is going to be different. It's going tobe led by people with AIDS." Then heproceeded to welcome the audience to
the AIDS comerence. Cheers rose fromthe ACf UP members, who by now had
commandeered chairs from conference
organizers. PWAs were oPening the conference: notscjentists or politicianS but
people With the AIDS; not passive vic- 'tims or patients but self-empowered·individuals demanding a role in theirown treatment. This was a rowdy way ofmaking the point, but 1V made sure it
was effective.
·;,'. It was all "very ACf UPish: very highdrama, with all the elements of an ACf•,
UP demo: lightning-fast action, colorful•mediaprops and a confrontation
with the,.
auth()rities as cameras rolled, cameras~ flashed, and tape recorders recorded.
,...J Beneath the theatrics, however, was, as~ always, a serious' ACf UP message. This~ time it was more than a simple demand.
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finally~,~,:,.?-O,.Wllich ~ Long, JIµl,~EigO, pWce; safe but unproven drugs available appeared, people, had been forced to\ ~,:·Haniilgtoriand.other members of'to peOple with life-threat~~.
wait. two hours.,'
Treatment andThe offidal ACf UP:~gJsh6~'at
It didn't end there, either. The 60" "'Acr:UP/New~;~ntecta;,Critique:of theMontreal ended With,the read,ing of the
ACf UP people heckled the s~ers, .rffiI 'and;liDA'sin~ ~d'c:' incqm~,·12 prirJ.ciples.)he document, howeV,er, throughout the evel)ing,' !>9oing and, '~~ffortS,.a~mst:·AIDS.
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AIDS was devastating the Caribbean.She~e.
ACf UP
specific, detailed and logical. The n~, spoke movingly and emotionally of thecl~ei~"
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agenda discussed new models 'peopleQeing destroyed by the disease,,r, '.',' . ~at,Montreal, differenttilem,for Clinical trials that would speed upof a woman left to raise 12 grandchil-,:~ d{,the',;, ," ,'(¢ok turns read- , ,drug ~estingand development, iricluding' dren
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graveyard. She had the graves dug.b,f'ihe N~o.rW:-Cariq:r ~futeat the ,,' from Lo,uis Lasagna, th~head of thebehind her own house .
·be'8b.ihing~bCl~:'Inj
iritrqciUcirtgthe.', ~gna'~mmittee."The;time; is ripe to ,Barrow ended her speech with ,a~~,~n$lid that:/,\:here,is aproclaim and implement a new niission , plea for the "victims of this disease.» All,.,:~).Ji;I;1.~!·tl:ie-;;~!i>~the'lus~: for the FDA-to speed the public's
hell broke loose. The small contirigent of,";::;}~~~:I;;~JJ;;&:,~~':':~t;~YUS;ik~r~~..
{l>'tr?~cce~s~t()~;imp'
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_6~'iT!"1~.,.,.;;;.~.:,,~;;theoPP6ittini~cdhf~6'qsthat~3fflict"thange"Jn
the law is needed to doher, hissing and booing. B~rrow had
people.'With,'i\IDs;:whi9t,iS foc:uslng tOO
this simply acceptance of the fact thatsinned byusjng the word "Victim,· a for-,, much effort, 90 '~eJ!:pe~ive and often
past approaches-havenot served the'bidden piece of language on ACI' UP's,
QIlt9¢i:iticize,public well enoµgh." By iOcluding thisshit list of politically unacceptable terms. ,, toJtic an~.~'li:e
T~~y~Faud fQr 'Uirlg:t9'p;O,vid~''><"'" newpassage, .t\<;:T UP joined, a ,strange coali- The word police were ,at .it again. Ms. '
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and the. edltonal page of t~e 'extreme behaVior of an uresporlSlblefew'.'...
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important AIDS ,rese~rch document. ,.~pipeliii~'iS' fµ!r,····h~:'said. ~It,qqgged;~t9¢.'~~ ,$ ~t/:
The AIDS epi~emic was making ,forAttention was focused on them, not on·of;peOpl~·~',{ed~;~S'trial$~"Oil,strange ,",bedfellows. But
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Washington, DC, that PWAs could under9nigtrialS; ,establishing a'master strategy·
thaf .Vfoulg>e~ut:e';that, all proniismg
When the original contirigent marched ' stand the scientific world in its own'im~-AIPS~<h:ygs,~r.;e: qUic.klytesteQ.aI14,·, into the ball, m6tethan h,alfofthept:atenns. The scientists beganto take Jim~~,;/(b~t.ribm'¢di)ef<$.c':1~i~g,:~eidliic~s ;hn:;.;"ple;:siUU1g"ir:Itheir'seatS had iisen with' Eigo, Mark Harrington, Martin DelltOey~".{""pPP.offll~e(ilif~¢iQ~':~"'Y'aPPlalise,.at,later,' , 'and others,},ti'Ll''''''<Cl'·,.;", .'"- .,"-. ,_....~,~~ ..
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t!:temare,' '-saYs that thi$' iiIV viru.s is the vitUs' that's , FauCi, Hoth and Broder, know thatkilling us. And naw his very own are dis, everything I am saying here'is true. But, working elseWhere. TIler.eat brilinsand""biggest guns in scientifiC ~irt,virol~
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wanttQ work at, NlIhvhenyoil can . ',1 Know Utat'it's ,blasphemous to talk like ' ". living our lives,and:medlcatin8our bodies' ," In:ikeijt~chmore in'the-private·sectot?·,"'this.. But I.belfeve that:'we're doing otir- " '" 'based on informlltion}>i:oVided io,-µs~bY .., " -We're~,9U(~ an~:~
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shoveled into us, t1<?,t'to'.; apPears to be a prophet (arid henafilome- ,,' was loW,risk Now ~esvery dan- ..I complain a~ut how 'We~rebeing' mur, , one no one lis~ to), , :µld perhaps a feW ,', Francisco that oral
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you've been fighting AIDS. You.have'UP's Treatment and Data Committee,
now.
power, and you don't use it. You may just
CRI's. board fired ,Bibari. Bernie took the
EVeryperson we've put our trust in isas well not be there. Your media rnarupuIa-, , .'fall for all of them. But behind thesilent about the awfulness. Ihstea9,·they tell'tor, David Corkery, has made you into a,sCenes; .a deal was cut allowing Bihari tothe media how wonderful everything is,creation that's all image, no substance.
remain as paid principal investigator on
and that there are new treatments just
any trial ~tituted under his reign. Does ', I want everyone to remember all' thismoments away that can destroy the virus in
the next time they ~of writing a cheek'
that make any sense? Fire a man for
13 places, and ...and ...and ....But when we
to' AmFAR". ,incompetence and then k~p him on toinvestigate, we discover that these new
unpOlunt business?
Mathilde,' please open up your mOut4, -run gply ~emost
treatments are ten and 20 years away. Theyand say what I,know is in your heart And 'Tell tl).at. to. your friends wnen they'retell us no, no, they're only one year away
follow, through with the power that }'Ou, .writing checlG to,CRI.
or two years away at 'most---just be patient.
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",Why is it so hard for agendes to'find
We're starting triaIs next week, next month,. 'decent .people to fun them? Why, is it'so ',next fall. But when next week, next moiith,
hard to find people to work on a board of
next fall comes, nothing's been started.
directors as ably, diligently and honestfy
They are still years away. ,Dr. Baltimore's
as the average ACI' UP cotnmitt~,memquestions haven't been answered.
berworks~ without pay,, each. and every ,And by the year 2000, in ten years'
week? It's not necessary to spend overtime, 20 million people will ,be infected:$100,000 to 'buy a medicaI degree to f.ront
I'm often amazed, ,at how naive wea pia,ce. It's simply no big deal to run anare, in our attempts' to. be heroes. We
office efficiently. f.
,write checks, we become volunteers, weBerriie' Bihaii and the board of,CRI
start wonderful-soundingorganizations
have almost killed off one' of oUr mostwith lofty goals.
precious and promising' tesburces. I am
But we end up fighting for the
furious with them for fuCking this,oneup.
wrong things. THERE IS ONLY ONE WAY
And I'm furious with .Mathilde ,Krirn; ani,
THIs PLAGUE IS GOING TO GO AWAY: •originaJ, founding member, as she stood
WHEN A CURE
IS FOUND FOR AIDS.
,
by 3,IJd. did so. little tp save its life;' I
Why isn't every single AIDS and gay
iinplore the 20 members of CRI's board toorganization and every gay and lesbian c0meither resign or 'roll up their sleeves to do
mitted totally to this fight? Most of our AIDS
the necessary ,dJrty ,work of salvaging
are as second-rate as
and gay ~tions
something that many, .inelud.ing veteran
the scientists who are researching AIDS.
AIDS llctivist Jay 'Lipner, whose, opinion I
I'm going to say the unthinkable: Dr.
respect,thirtk is unsaIvageable.
Mathllde Krim is out of touch with the feaIAt last, some hope for GMHC!Maybe
world, and her staff is second-rate. And
Tim'Sweeney can actually save "the,place. ' 'ir0nically, AmFAR has enough money to
OvelWheimed by too'many clients, IQW'... ...
hire the best
to put her in touch with it.
,
staff IporaIe and a dumb board of direc- ~I've never understood what AmFAR
tors,' which,year
after year, like, clock~does,. They claim to have given $30 mil~work, does eVerything in its ~,to:ruin ' ,lion away to research. What research?
everything, 'GMHC has 1JlaIµt8,,~',~o exist
What has' it tUined up? Surely somethingin spite of it all. Most GMHC board me~
must have borne fruit. (Evidently not-or.
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bers act .like they're running the Junior ".
th~'d have told us.) Even NIH ~ a betyo~ wealth; your I;lµsband;your organizaLeague or some Southern newspaper ", ter spending record ..
tion command. If you really don't know." where all the family stockilolders hate
Bu't more to my: point, why aren'teach other. After JeffrCiy Braff ,waS' fired
how to do it, calI me up, apd I1I teach you.
they researching,or fighting to get
If AmFAR is our 'I>igg~t disappoint(after Richard Dunne was fired), DeputY~ched,
any of those unanswered quesDirector Tim was about the only one
ment, 'conununity Research Initiative, once
tions Mark Harrington has listed? Joe
who'd come near this job. And he had theour,biggest hope, is now our biggest mess,
Sonnabend is Mathilde's old friend, and,Thenotion that drugs and treatments.
guts to mak~adealvmerein;
for the fustshe knows the items on this list. Joe's been
can be tested more swiftly in our own
time in GMHC's history" the' executive'
screaming about mOSt of them for years.
community is an eminently sensible on~.,director is actually in charge. It's'the gutsi~
They are the main reason that he started
est thing I've ever heard Tim ao. May'he
But under the lea,dership of itS medical
the AIDS Medical Foundation (AmFAR's. ,director, Dr. ~dBihari, and its board; now gO from s!fength to strength!'predecessor) with Mathllde, before she saw
chair;
Ron ""English, CRI has tripped,
stum.
.
-MyonIy fear is ,that he won't think
him kicked out. Mathilde Krirn knows
bled, blustered and lied to all of us, col-- 'big enough. He's been, a .detail: marl.
what isn't ,being researched and what.
lectitlgmoney by pretendi,ng,that
they're" who basn't shown great vision or'that '.
,. should be researched, and AniFAR has
doing,:what they're not <;loing.Th~ir protohe can delegate authority to any but
millions of dollars to fund this research.
•cols are either nonexistent, shams or'50
assistant (i.e., subservient) typeS. Would.
Why does everybody
think ,,'of
badly desigQed that they can't gel' off thehe have the cQurage to hire, a few" ,Mathllde Krim as this courageous crusad~
ground.'We've given them a lot of money
pushy" confrontational
types? Qr must
battling down walls? She's not. She's afor this incompetence. The Nlli was righteveryone be quiet, straight; white, rpale·conformist and ,a chickenshit, she kisses
to deny CRI a grant,when they funded~and Waspy? He has' had'the'very' gdOdI
the same asses and is as frightened of makjust about every other major comrilUnity-' ,,'sense to bring in David Barr from Lam!>ing waves as everyone €ise. It's a sin to
based research group in the country.
da' (and Lambda 'was very stupid to let
waste power,' Mat~ilde. But that's what
In response to incontrovertible evi- . him go). David's brilliant-his
problem
you've been doing for all the years that
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. them anyway, believing that financial sup, I do quarrel violently with Tim's
It's the biggest and best support sysport was what they needed. Now I've
appointmentof Nathalie
Weeks astem I know. For anyone with AIDS or
come to ~that SENDING MONEY TO
who's mY-positive or who's concerned
deputy director of programs: She's a
SECOND-RATE PLACES ONLY FURlHER.
spineless, wimpy bureauqat,
the last,
about his or her health or someone else's,
ENCOURAGES MEDIOCRITY. Stop giving,
thing GMHC needs another of. I can picACI' UP is the best place I know to go forthem money. Let them put ·their houses iIi
no way in which she .could ,possibly
lifeSaving transfusions of energy and hope.
order. Sometimes I think that it may be for
inspire ,a staff and. a COt:JUIlunity.and,.a.Some have said that we're' now,thl! best, if all tPe' AIDS organizations closed
citY 'iIl' 'this vit21 area. And in:spiration is.going through a rough, patch-that
our:doWn'shop tomorrow. We're doing just
. what she must provide.
famous energy and anger is flagging.
enough so our goverrunents don't have to, ' Tim's promised me that fighting for
We're Jj,roke; Our ,office was almost
do anything, but not enough to save oura cure is, at lask,GMHC's top priority.
'selves. With AIDS organizations closed,
burned down. Too many' people visit us,(Wonders never cease.) The next best
and then never come back. We lack orgathing would,~ ., if Joy . Tomchinis defeatnization. If we could only put ourselves,.
ed'for 'bo~rd, presidency '(one fuck-up
together nationally, we'd have a true
after 'an,oth~rhas!fanspi~ed
under herarmy. Well, we haven't been able to do a-.
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tenuoe),,\arid'
someonestrOQgand connumber of things yet. Much like AIDS
0,
- ........ r''frontationaf.iS: elec:ted. Then, at last, weitself, our spirits are willing, but our' bodmay hare' tWo .fighting' AiDS organizaies can occasionally grow weak.
tions, ,GMHC;aridACT",'
I don't think that ~'re going through..
, ,. UP. : .
',"AlpS'!rreatment
Registry, ,.a"noble,'
a rough patch. I think that. what's happen...
ing is evolutionary: The anger and passion
valiant a~empt dut's failed, sh9ul(l c1<;>se.
that fueled the street actions exclusively is; up 's~op. I: k~C!w that ,thiS ,WQul4"be a ~~" • I:
hearl:break,irlg ,'a~mission of, defeat;' but
now 'also being channeled by many. memthey simply have been unable t6 excite..
bers into deep, thoughtful and thorough•public , support,
and their~.. ·prodUCi:t,"'work on the many and various commit'..
.
while, exceptional,
is riot su'fficieht, to>"'.
tees. I believe that ACT UP is our onlybase a whple .prganizationori~
stupidbodies
would
pile
up
so
high
in
doorways,hope for progress and the future.
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Therefore, I close by making a perand thoughtIess-yes,thoughtless'to',emergeney'rooms,
in. doctor's offices, .it
continue,squ~!ezihg' money out:' of a 'wouid be So grotesquely, visibly awful thatsonal appeal to every person who has
commun!ty Jha~ could go elsewhere.
ever come to an ACI' UP meeting. Please°~ush "W'<?uld
be forced to do sOmeI'enew your commitment. Bring back your
GMHCshou,lli ~urI'le respoQSibil~ty for¢ing.Indeed, 'sOmetimes I wonder if we're
not prolonging AIDS by continuing our
ATR's i one' (!xceptlonal service,tqe,pu~
energy to join with our energy. We have ,c1ini~feeble,
exhauSted efforts to fight this fightIication' of' its valuable directory
our greatest strength when we have our 'cal trials (th'e inspirationof Dr, Irison our own. We're so outnumbered by thegreatest numbers. 1hings are very bad outLong). In fact, GMHC's medical informa- . enemy that I often feel Iik~ a dinosaur
there in the world of AIDS. We need you•tion department
desperately
needs
being sucked into the tar pits. ,fighting with us more than ever. The worst, something worthwhile to justify its ,exis,.
The best way I know to get out ofis still ahead of us. So please cometerice. With its exceptionallyboring'this s~lf-defeating frame of mind is toback-and bring a friend. Or come for the"Treatment Issues~ and its exceptionally
go to an ACT UP meeting.
very fIrst time.
._silent, passive ,and low-profile medical
The minute I walk: in, I feel better. I
Really, do we have any choice· but to, director, Dr. Gabriel Tory-es, they could
begin to feel useful and empowered.
mak~ACT UP as strong ,as we can? With a
use ATR's directory to give them some
When I leave, I feel that I've done somepresident who, in the face of 20 million
much-needed reason for being.
thing-and
that we can make a differ-,
deaths from AIDS, can say, "I wish s0meWe are, as usual, in dreadful trouble
ence. This difference may be small, but it
body could convince me that if you couldin Washington. (With' one exceptionalso can be significant! There are a dozen
only spend a quarter of a billion' dollaIS
Urvashi Vaidat Na,tional Gay and Lesbiantreatments that wouldn't be out there if it
more, we could have the answer ...," .With a
Task Force, the only gay leader down
weren't for ACT,UP. Women, children andsecretary of Health and Human ,Services
there with any guts or vision.) Tim Mcfeepeople of color are now included in drug
like Dr., Louis Sullivan, who opposes theley at Human Rights Campaign Fund is athat wouldn't have happened WithAIDS Research Bill! With .incompetent Dr.
disaster. HR.CF,which has taken millions
out fi.CT UP. Health insurance issues,
Wooqrow Myers fucking- up daily at ·theof our dollars; has failed so miserably, at " wOQl.(en~sissues, latina/o issues ACT UP
New York City Department of Health. Withis -evei}ry.rhere. Needle exchange. Miller, lobbying Congress on gay and AIDS issues
a governor and two senators in NeW York
that it's now, sending out leµeIS claiming,,&er and Marlborp bc>ycotts. Alternative
who still don't know how to say the word
"AIDS: With a mayor who just lost huncredit'-for accomplishing deeds achieved
and. holistic treatll)eri~. Housing. The
dreds of millions from the Ryan White.
by otheIS, mosdy ACT UP. With high over-_ ' homeless. We translate all our important
CARE bill....
head, low results and wimpy, invisible
information
into Spanish. We're now,
yes, we're completely surrounded by
McFeeiey, why should anyone give them a "fielding"somany expens to various gov, dilne? .0 certainly won't be goiO.g to the", ernment committees and pharmaceutical.,' idiots. And they're doing their best to ,getrid of us.
.
. ; HRCF dinner at the Waldorf this year.) The.. gJanufacturers that our guerrilla image is, National AIDS Network went bankrupt,
actually. tarnished.
(We'll, shortly be. No, we haven't much to hope for. Our. . and AIDS Action Council has just hired
doing s!>mething to' ~ge
it back!) We
futures ate very bleak indeed. , You' Can~ctto this in one of.two ways. You can,direct-mail' expert to be our chief AIDS
can claim the best graphics and"politicalkill yourself. Or you can come to ACT UP- l~bb0st. Oh, we're' in great shape irl.oc.
art of any group in the world.
and fight.
,, My complaints against a nuffiber" ofIn three and a half years, ACT UP has
Fighting is the only way I know tothese 'oQW1izations aren't new. But I used
done more than all the AIDS and gay olganstay alive. 'f''
to encoUrage everyone
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part of one single night, without stars, without"What do you know about thisa moon,' without a foreseeable end.
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which .I've been instructed to remain alert has not material- you are meeting.",,,ized, and I can only try, without clues, to imagine the pass"I'm supposed to meet someone named Julian, but I
ing country that exists-out there in the, darkness. In the end,
don't know-"
however ....there is only this locomotion and this train itself"You should," he cautioned,"be very careful. Julian may,
whose very dimensions resist knowing. I know. I've tried to ' ,be worl~ing for the community, or he may only be working
ascertain its length, but after walking through car after countfor himself. Irs difficult to tell these days--so many impos,
leSs car and not once seeing anoth,er passenger, a railroad
tors abound. Until his motives are more clearly known, you
employee or a caboose, I came back to my compartment to' might avoid having yout name too closely associated withlight more cigat-ettes; to take more medication, to consider
his. Are you planning to eat those carrots?",
the implications, if any.
. I pushed the plate' toward Ernst and told him to help
, I only know what I've, been told: that the train is headed
himself, which he did like-a man who's not had a meal in awest,that I am bound to meet some person named Julian,long time. I was about to, order something more for him, but'who says he is an old 'school friend, who says he has to see
he put his disguise back on and stood up, saying, "One moreme at once on a matter of some great but unstated importhing: Though you must make your Own decisions,'2ijf theytance to the' community. That, is the extent of what Johann
give you any candy, think long and hard before accepting."
told me in Manhattin, and it. does not lend itself very easily"That's• all?" I inquired .
to interpretation. I had, for example, no' school friends--<>nly"Aber etwas jehlt," he whispered. Then he tan out of the 'dealers 'and detractors (such as that homophobic Languagecar. I attempted to follow, but he had leapt from the train.
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fling). There is, furthermore, or at least as far as I can tell, nocommunity only community centers.
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fact that' she or he is fooling aroUnd wtthsomeone'will find." There was, I detected, something familiar about hiselse (as in "load of shit").,.
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But flfSt, for the uninia~ed, some backtracking: In thevitriol hurled at her from this column a few weeks ago, I
reminded readers that
who last year was spewing
forth her lesbianism for all the world to witness, but this year
has adopted a more ambiguous tone indeed has a female
lover and that her supposed "boyfriend" of last year was a
fake if not because of her orientation, than certainly Pecauseof his, since I'd, slept with him myself. (I don't deny that thetwo were close friends. He had even told me that at first it
was strictly a "bearding" relationship, in which
Sandra had asked him to make believe that he
was her lover for press purposes so as to .
cause, controversy. They met when he, anaspiring .actor, worked as a stagehand on her
off-Broadwayshow). While on tour in. Europe, the relationship did actually become
physical, he claimed. But that, as we all know,- does not a cQuple of heterosexuals make. Andeven if it is true, neither of these two could
pOSSibly say that the majority of their
shtupping doesn't happen with people of•their own respective sexes. Trust me ori
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ticket. Tbat's what tbe ' ,publiC comes to ber for.
Every time you've printed
ber name in response tothat comment, you've
become a group of mindless marionettes. She's tbe smartest
one out ,tbere. Sbe bas, the press in tbe palm of ber band. Hi
Sandy! Anot.ber bit of publicity for you. You're the Queen of
the Stardust Newsroom.
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John Malatesta
Manhattan,

Dear John:
1) Honey, you' couldn't help telling me plentY about
Sandra-your "bearding" of her is one of your biggest claims
to fame, so sadly damaged is your own sense of self. 8<? don't
even try _denying it now just to preserve
whatever flimsy relationship you may still•
have with her.
2) I don't buy the old "don't label me". routine that so many closet cases have,rationalized
using
espeCially since therationalizations don't come until after they geta few measly morsels of fame. But if someone
does insist on sudi' ridiculous ambiguity, thenshe should be VERY a.EJ\R and say, literally,"Look, I sleep with w6men, and there's
nothing
wrong with it, an9 I think it's great,,bµt I don't want to be labeled as anything forthis or that reason."I 3) If you think that she is being "smart" by defaming anentire co~unity
just because it will cause controvefsy and"get her some press mentions" then you too are a dangerous, .
insensitive asshole. It is appalling ,that Bernhard would
endanger my, your, her and every other queer's life by Saying
things like "I'm not a lesb~, and I'm sick of being called
one," thereby reinforcing homophobia
all to get media
attention! Quite frankly, though, I don't think that she maciethat statement to cause controversy but rather to quell it andkill the real tJu~t
she is a dyke-once
and for all, sothat she can pursue a career in repressive Hollywood. She
was, in essense, trying to "in" herself.
4) Please give Ms. B. a message from me: Sandy, darling,
if You continue in this cuei, selfish, reckless manner, then I
will be 'forced to. engage in equally unscrupulous behavior(~thing
I do very well), be~gwith the exposition oflots ,1:!lOt:e tidbits and eScalating to other, more extreme, buteffective tactics. DON'T FUCKING MESS WITH US! We've
taken. on bigger monsters than you-Pat
Buckley, David
Geffen, Barry D.iller, ~k
Kostabi, Andrew Dice Clay, toname a few-JdIld won hands down, le.aving them all with 'protestors embalT1~,'lingthem at social events and/or tied-up
phone lines, overflowing mailboxes and spewing fax ma- 'chines and/or gobs ~f butter smashed into their faces at••dinner parties and/or overall

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Regarding Michelangelo Signorlle's recent column inwbich be screamed out with pain over my ex-wbatever Sandra
Bernhard (whicb really didn't botber me; not even the fact
tbat people now know tbat I slept with bim): What did botberme was your quote, ''And he's explained everytbing about{Sandra] to us." Funny. You work for a magazine based on
trutb. Why didn't you print wbat it Is I told you? You didn't
because you'd have p blank fucking page. I never talked to
you about Sandra Bernard. But I will now. The trutb to tbe
matter Is that, beneath it a/~ she's not a lesbian. Ub-ub, sbe's
not. She's not a comic, sbe's not an actress, she's not a writer,
sbe's not bIsexua~she's not heterosexua~ she's not a valley girl.
How the fuck can you label Sandra Bernbard!?! You don't
know ber personally. How de you know what shefucking doesin bed? You hear about ber gir{friends, whicb you love, butwhen there's even mention of a boyfriend you scoffat·ber. I'm
SO glad tbat you can say tbree times- in your column that sbe Is
a lesbian, Micbael. Her mother does-n't even say that. But I
guess you know her better. Not that I can't understand tbe
frenzy over tbe People quote, whicb leads to another pfJint.
Youpeople are so STUPID. You sit therp in fury screaming overber, printing ber name in every imaginable column. Can't
you see tbe bottom line? Sbe has•
always been in the midst ofcontroversy
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Sydney about this line-cutting thing, sheof England or something. Other than acting• MYBedyerreplied, "It's so people like you don't starelike afake-platinum-haired floozy (something
DIy BOL'y CHIat her for a half-hour, drooling on the
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sidewalk." Oh please. anyone would drool
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Sea of Love: "I believe
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attraction"? Before you ,could say "prima,"
TV goddess, which would le~d one toaOOVMYCHO'~
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believe that she has a 1V show; however, no
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lesbians showed up for the same film, inon the air. Not that I am in the habit of "YEAH, BUT WHO DID YOU CHOOSE?" groups of two and four. One of thesetakingGililUp ,Polls about night-life,-Creative Body at the 'TimeBall
women, Jenny of Girl Bar, came over topersonalities: The few people with opinions 'say. "Thank you for the, mention, but you.
about Really D describe her as haimless. Oh,' real{y-Denise?
spelled iny name wrong." I'll make sure to remember not to.
Since when is lesbophobia considered innocuous? I have one
mention anyone until I can spell them write.
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friend who was a goest on the alleged Really Denise Show.
, The film? It was quite pleasant, actually ....lmagine you andDuring. the taping, he called her a "gay boy." a statement thatUma 1'hunnan are walking down a deep, dark tunnel. It drips
made her laugh. But "'{hen he jokingly clarified that shewith moisture; there is some resistance as you enter.; ..Then it
couldn't be a gay Pay if she was a girl. and that a gay girl is a
, widens, and you plunge faste"r,running with her. sliding against
lesbian, Really Denise str~nuously.overexerted
herself
the damp walls, until you emerge with AnaTs Nin on the otherobjecting ..last tinie we saw her, she ran around Roxy like she
side. This may account for the remark someone made ~ thewas the' Sue Simmons of the heterosexual set, interviewing
show before us exited: "That's so weird .... Nobody·s· talking
every warm body she could find as long as it Wasn't lesbian. I
about, the film:",' That's
becausethey werespent.
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honey--exhausted.
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owner in town to care.
' 'Field Time Ball, ROXYpersonnel did. This was the first ball that
HEARD IT THROUGH THE BATHROOM: One young
was ever 95-percent white and 5-percent Black. Many of thewoman-.,.-representing the regions sorely unacquainted with
Legendary Houses were abSent from the evening'scompetition:, female illusionists and drag queens proper...,.was so offended
Could it be because, they were being selectively carded at theby their presence in the ladies room at Disco 2000 (where dragdoor? Without' their fierce presence., the week-old House of Doors
meets its female counterpart, the poStadolescent Real Boroughtook two trophies; some may say that they are~bullies, since theGirl) that she called security and orderedhouse motto is: "If we don't win, you don't
them to remove' everyone with a penis from
get in" (it is comprised of past and present
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doorpeople. Sydney and I among them). Bu(
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that mean you want me to leave, too?" This \•, Creative Body (overlooking the fact that it is
was met with silence. I assume that thenatural), how can you lose? In the drama
woman with the boy's toy then left. Liz justthat a Grand Prize battle always is, Kevin,figured that they went home together.
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imate~ alternative 'cinema venues, may be,,..' It's Ii good thing the New Yolk Film
Festival Only happens once a year: There's
just too much for an underpaid film critic::
to '·see.· I only managed ~o catch onequarter ,of the 27 programS, but who's•
compIainirig?"Where else do you get suCh'big,<X>IrifYChairS (not to mention leg room
for two) as AliCe Thlly HalI?,Or the unpredicta1;>le'.
press conferences,,,where fllirimakers are forced' to explain
theif :work to hyperanaIyticaI theorists, un• derCriticalpop:"joumalists'and fawning'fans alike? And of course, the festival tsthe

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ever gets to being a, "Cultural Event",Such prestige :;erves each film differently. ~l?ax: office hits like the Coen
Brothers" MtlIer's Crossing and Abel Ferrara's King of~
Yorll get the aitical ~chetof sharing the bill With luminaries like
Godard and Roluner. For foreign-madefiJ.ms....morethan 20 this year-the festival
provides a ready-made ,uS audience and anear guarantee for a ron at an art housesome tittie in the next year. For the handful
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the only way their out-<>f4he-:wOrk will be noticed by culture brokers
like The New Yorll TImes (whiCh doesn't"
guarantee much, especially for films whiCh
are out of the sexual mainstream as
wel1-'-the paper of record is notorious for
its bewildered reviews of suCh queer wotk
as Derek Jannan's Last of England andIsaac Julien's Looktngfor Langston).
But generalizing about the festival as
a complete "event" is a somewhat mootdiscussicm. After all, who but the press
and a few of lincoln Center's moneyed•benefactors actually get to see
their intentions,whichwhite) woman's youth, when a Puerto Rimore than two or three offermatched my own interpretacan neighbor attempted to rape' her lesings anyway? Seats start at $9.
tion, but next time they mightbian friend. Rainer avoids, pat ..concluand go as high as $20 (foralso allow one or two of the sions, intercutting in,terviews with'
opening and closing nights),
homos to make it tb,the erid
menopausal women, readings from his, and films tend to sell out in '.
of the Iast reeL) Ultimately,
torical and contemporary figures (includone day. When all is said and done, theBernie, like the rest of MtI/er's CrossIngs
ing lesbian archivistjoan
Nestle) and'festival's heat boils down to a couple ofmobsters, drifters and molls is engaging
statistics on rape and hysterectomies into,'
nights out for the average movie-lover, if
because he's motivated less by hunger forher story line to provide us with, the'not slightly posher ones than usual,and
power than by emotional inSanity.
chance to make our own connc:ctions.
without the popcorn, and Cokes.
More fuane than insane, Raul Ruiz's
Also worth
is ~Enough said on to the films,
7be Golden Boat is completely confounddirector Pavel Lounguine'sTaxi Blues, 'a'which, if'this small sampling is any indiing to the core. Its flimsy urbaO-nightmare
sort d anti-"buddy film" set in post-perecation, were impressive. My biggest thrill
namltive continually collapses on itself,
stroIka Moscow. It's stark and gritty with .
was the restored print of Jean V18O's maslike an art film gone amok, which is, apbits d soul and sensua1ity intruding. Ididn't
terwork L~nte(1~34),
a gently poetic~tly,
the point. Th~ are channing
get to see Jane Campion's An Angel at My
story ,of a, newlywed couple on a river
moments and some stunning visual com- . Table, Michael \erhoeven's tbe Nasty GIrlbµ-ge in France. Vigo,one of the earliest
pooiti6ns,'but with a cast that seems to inor Olarles Burnett's 7b Sleep With Anger, allcinema artistes (not to mention my perclude everyone in downtown Manhattanof which have been praised by trusty
sonal film-school hero), died soon after(from sex, worker Annie Sprinkle to Outsources (and~bably
eotning'soon to. a
the film was made, leaving it to be
Week film aitic Peter Bowen), the film d- . theater near
. One final note: Two dbutchered by his more commerciallyten-seems like a string of inside jokes thatthe oft-overlooked shorts which precede
minded producers. It's finally been
everyone but you is getting.
each feature deserve spedal:mention here: •pieced l:Y.lck together as close as possible
A more satisfying New York story is , Tracy -Moffat's Nfgb( ~at} explQ$ive, torto VlgO's original lyrical vision. L~nte
Yvonne Rainer's PrivUege, possibly themented meditatiori On a ~white. WOIJ)o •is less anarchistic than Vigo's short works,
first film ever to use menopause ~ aan and her ~adOpted daQghter,
Zero for Conduct and A Propos de NIce,
point of departure for complicated disand Zoe BelofPs , " '".'
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which
but a pointed reminder of how very few
cussions of race, class and gender. The
drops a grown-uP. Al~in~ the' ~ookinsfilmmakers experiment at all anymore.
central action takes place wilhirl: a-hot
glass world d ~~ yak"City. Eaql, ¢th*
Of course those who do are usually
flashbacK," a memory from one (straight,
films is a little avaI)t-garde vision in itSelf. ~.~:.
"ymarginalized. The festival's "Avant-Garde•.. ..
VISions" program includes juSt three filmS,,•
the best of the bunch being Su Freidrich's
Sink or Swim, an autobiographical tale of,"a lifelong father-daughter relationship. 'Though less visually arresting than her,, earlier Gently Down the Stream (and without the lesbian content of Damned (You
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",Don'f), the film is ,powerfully emotional,•
SPRING FEVER by tbe PussywiUows (~P, Telstat). "';~'o'nfolding Inthematic "chapters" as the girl
HOT-CHQCOLATE MASSAGE byTiliy Ligbts (LP, Absolute 'A GoGo).
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grows to understand her father and, in the.'''If''',;A,',
ONLY A DREAM/3 AM by the Shams (71t, SOL).
process, herself. Scour the downtown
WALKIN' TALKIN'/SPIDER'S WEB by Angel Dean (71t, SOL).',.".
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screens, over the next few months for thenextscreening
of
this
gem.
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by Madam X'artists who are P4rt of a, "scene" that reAlready in theatrical release is Miller's
When out-of-towners look for New
ceives little attention,
thqugh their 'Crosstng, a dark, lush and enetgetic gangYork music, they want dissonance andbands play around town regularly.
ster film. Amid many strong perfornoise. !n the '80s, the loud, chaotic
One quiet band that has gotten some, mances, the show is stolen by John 1Ur- bands like John Zorn and Sonic Youthpress is Yo La Tengo,i band that lives onturro, as Bernie, a gay, JeWish weaselcame to symbolize the Big AJ>Ple,which
the other side of the Hudson, in Hoboken,\'\Thosemoral bankruptcy propels the film.
seemed to capture the hostility of New
NJ., They are an Qasis of quiet in IItown in.It's neither as homophobic nor as antiYork's streets. All-boy blm,ds like Cop
which thelevel of hipness is measured In
semitic as it sounds; Bernie's involv;ement
Shoot: Cop or the Dnsane eOtertaln otherdecibels. On. their new album, RakebooIe.
in a slightly clouded (though not closeted)boys, while the cartoonish all-female ,they do acolJ$jc covers of songs by themale love triangle serves as an importantband Lunachicks thrived on bad taSte as
likes of John Cale and Daniel Johnston,mirror for the heterosexual involvements
a way of life. Few of"with drummer Geot•at the center of the film. (Asked, by mot, atthese groups actually cut,gia
Hubley's vocals
the press conference, why they wrote
fitting perfectly with
it-aggres&ion for its own
Bernie gay, the Goens spoke of the needsake proved to be a deadthe clumsy but heartto make each character unique, with a disend. But there is a kinder,
felt tradition. She andtinct contribution to the plot. I applaud
gentler New York, withhubby, Ira Kaplan, also
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vocalist Donna Ooughn sweated on her",, " The, Pi.Jssywillaws.are Eipor, Li$a\aiid, '. Another Hoboken band, TIDyLights,
violin. Of cou~, the swea~ may have" "lisa, tbtee women Who put out a minkIl- ,has established itself as 'one, of the ina.t , ,been beca~ she was wearing a yclIow'bUn,;t two .y~ago just because it'd be, '~citing liVe bands :u;ound TIDYLights' plastic outfit,but that's TIDyLightsfor you.
yQuKnc:>W,}Un lbeydon'tpIaYanyinslrusound !san original combination offolk
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Gogan and Tim'SoOlllle(S. Bat:baril used'\ Dtiimond, classic punk -band the BuzzfaShionable. The rtisult is a wicke~idance . to be in the PasSions;the band Iesponsi- ''\ cockS or origiila!spenne<fby their'backiflg . machine: li-emember foOdly an ~g
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as a hobby became a lifelong fascination,(under the nom deand this year, ~plume Michael Jay) released the seCond ,GAY ,LOVE SIGNS by Michael Jay. PlumelNAL.-$12.95
pb. 446 pp.
edition of Gay {bve Signs, the definitive.
astrology guidebook to queer personality ;md romance as proclaimed by thestars. But reading your fortune in the, stars involves, more.~--than... -- -....blind faith .
"There's al~~an element of human in... :sight," ,be exptaiiiS-softly. "It takes sO~
one ipterested fri~peOple. ae<:ausewhen
people Come for astrological advice, theyusually have a prob1em they want scmrlfinances, career, relocation, love. Relationships more'than anything else. "Gay ~ S~examInes everypossi- :,ble combination of love Ilnks between the
12 signs, with a particular emphasis on
If you're agay male relationships.
schizophrenic Gemini and wonder how
you'll fare with-a fellow Twin, the answer
is here, while headstrong Taureans andthe rest of the zodiac get equal time in thisexha~ yet wholly readable guide.
Not only is Gay Love Signs writtenwith a flair for /a vtegale, it is executedwith a deep respect'for lasting gay relationships. When the I?ook was first published ten years ~gO,this was a concept
out of tune withthe times. POI'ular gay,
culture, especially in metropolitan ,cities,
was doi:ninated by the baths, the bars, theback rooms. Multiple partners seemed tobe the accepted credo, a watermark of',our, Hbera:tion. So, why did he write abook extolling the virtues of m~nogamOus ,relationshiPs? "There needed to be.a balance," Levin remarks. "At the time in
the ailture, I wanted something for gay
that waS.uplifti,n& [[did not want to]
make th~ feel,bad ~use-iheywere
inserial_.~lationshipS. InStea:d, they could
study andflDd out what they col!ld gain
from-serial relationships~ So, ifdt fell
apart, you could say, 'I'm ready for a•
I
Capricorn now.'", . Asa scholar and,historian, Levin took
an academic approach to his work. '''I wasinterested in it as a study of archetypes.
interested in Greek ~and theater,
byJiy Blotch.r '.
and' this is tied' into, astrology,' because aMi~e1 paged through 'a paperback on
It felt like a stomach ache, justastrology until he reached the profile of
lot 'of its traditiOn comes from the ancientworse. Only after seeing the doctor, did
his sign. "Cancer the crab," it said, "gov- , Greeks, and the ancient Middle East 'in
16-year-old Michael Jay Levin discovererns the stomaCh. "Holding his aching
generaL ,These ~ere myths, and myths,
tummy.. Michaelthat his high-pressure SUffi- ,had validity." Bµt research also had its.gritty edge.
mer job in a downtown
decided that there
mighf be some-'
Padding, about in a tow~, meeting
Chicago department store
other faces in the twilight of the St. Marks
thing to this astrolohad earned him an ulcer. On
gy thing, after all. 'Baths, he'd chat about astrolOgy and take'his way home, the boy ,mentalnotes. Most clenizen$ of the baths,
passed a newspaper kiosk.
What began
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he learned, were lookA woman had offrom some internal source. In a sense, I
ing for lasting relationfered to
don't feel I'm completely responsible for, write a companships. He wellt backion book but appaiently
t9is ~ork. Somehow, I was guided to dooften bur resisted his 'lost intefest; it was neverit, and this comes in part from my experieditor's suggestion ,to•completed. Nonetheless,ence with a psychic."
request a receipt for
Levin has received letters
Ten years before LeviO sat down totax purpOses. On Valentine's Day 1980,
from women couples who see a valid apbegin his volume, he went to a psychic.
Gay Lope Signs was published and quickpraisal of their relationships in the pages.
She told him that a decade hence, aly be.came a bestseller, a favorite read at
Levin decided that'it was wholly possible.
book would be published under his flfSt
parties and, for legions bf gay men, 'the"I think that's because I was dealing with , 'two names-Michael Jay. MoreOver, shebible to relationships.
things on an archetypal level, not trying toenvisioned a cover of blue ap.d gola. The
Levin's inspiration for the book grew
trim them completely to gar male culture. , original Ballantine edition, designed inout of the late 70s. The' Age-of Aquarius
Straight people have, told me the samedependently by an art director, had a
had gone from being a groovy" mind-e::thing."
blue and gold cover.
<panding Concept to a slick marketing gimGay Love Signs provides consistent.'"When the book came out; I was bymick for everything from scented candles
readingS that are varied, col~rful andthe pool at a Key Wes: goes: house. An oldto bath towels. Drawing on the science ofdeeply perceptive. Levin himself often
er man was reading the section on Scorpio.
his craft, Levin offered extensive chart
wonders about the source of his insight.
When he finished, he had tears in his eyes.
readIngs., Syndicated astrologer Linda"After I'd fmished the book and was
He said, 'I've always been afraid of who I
Goodman had pUblished Love Signs, an ' proofing the galleys,"herecalled,"there'am. Now I understand the reasons why,
enonnous hardcover bestseller, "but it waswere sections· I would i'ead, and it was
my relationships are the way they are;"filled with chatty drivel," recalls Levin"hard to remember having written them. It
the author recalls. Fan letters from people"Unlike Goodman" I tried to put less of mywas as if they had been dictated to me
See LOVE SlaNS on p_g_ 87
personality into it but still make the, ~kconversational,"
Levin observes, hands,
gesticulating enthusiastica1ly. "Even conspiratorial.
That's why chapters are divid,.
. ed up, first talking to the person under the
MAPS TO ANYWHERE by Bernard Cooper. The University of Georgia
sign, then everyone else involved withPress. $19.95 d. 139 pp.
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thinking of l~g
a person of that sign.
by david B. Feinberg
stars in the heavens, superimposed on"Also, I wanted a serious guide to
Television ruined me. After ten
a map of Bel Air. Sunset Boulevard is
gay 'relationships. I wanted to' answer
years of continuous, narcotization durprominently displayed, On the pack,rQe questions, 'Out of the relationship,
ing those ill-fated Wondet{br~d) years,
the handsome I mustachioed Mr. Coopwhat do I. teach, what do' I learn?' In
my attention span was ,shot to hell. I
er sits in a suitably pensive pose, fineach of ,the sign combinations, there's awent cold turkey in college. Somehow,\ ger at temple, clutching a pair pfglasscertain .kind of energy released." LevinI was al?le to avoid electronic br.dn
es and gazing off into space, about tois reluCtant
to selec;t the ideal pairing ofblitzlciieg for the next decade. But alas,transfonn an aphorism, a simple idea,,
signs. lnstead of spouting value judgelike most homos, I didn't have the willa memory into art .
•ments, he records characteristics thatpower to reSist the'lure of Madonna on
Cooper's pieces remind me ofcreate !he' synergy: People, he' PQints
MIV. Fast-cut dissOnant blue-jean comRoland Barthes', essays in Mythologiesout, diplomatically, have varying ideas
mercials ftnished me off. Put a volume
and his widely'sought "pleasures of theas to the perfect refationship, One'of James in front of me,and I'll immetext." Many of these qliiet gems have
man's heaven is, another. man's hell. "Itdiately fast-forward
to the Cl;issic
appearedin .literary journals anddepends on what you want. For some,Comics Illustrated version.
reviews. "Beacons Burning Down," onethe ideal coupl~ stays at home, cooks
Bernard Cooper's debut volume,"of the longer pieces, was selected forand has hobbies. For others, the' ideal
Maps to Anywhere, is an exquisite col- _inclusion in The Best American Essays
couple works most of the day, going
lection of autobiographical essays, sto, of 1988. A thoughtful introduction by
their separate Ways, and in the evening
ries and meditations. Lucky for me,
Richard Howard begins this volume.
they go out to be with people. Each,many of these pieces are no longer
Cooper moves, from an Italian class•pairing has a different ideal. There's notthan three pages. This I can handle.
to an imaginary seduction at the Piazza
one'ideal couple."
Maps to AnyWbere is the perf~ct book
San, Marco, explaining, "All I had was
Lesbians may be miffed that they are 'for the IRT, when you're hopelessly
the glass of language to blow into a.not included, But Levin was wary of pre••stuck on the express track as local
souvenir." An unraveling telephone wire
" sumption. "I only knew about men, and I
trains by the dozen pass you.
inspir~s- a vision of a crowd of adults/ wanted it to' be from my own experiThe'book's cover was art-designed
and children transfixed, "everyone quiet,,ence. Fora gutde to women, it should
to within an inch of its life. A '50s car
everyone amazed, everyone certain, come from' a woman who understands
with tail fins the size of Montana (athey'd heard their name," He expands a,the dynamics. I assumed they were difPlymouth?) drives on a pink shaft ofsimplelike "pearls before swine"
ferQlt, in tenns of power and creativity,"
light toward the moon, with golden
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points of view-the, pigs and the oysters. In the title selection, he writes ofvisiting a shop of maps and globes,
meditating on topography, the earth's
rotation and lost possessions. Eachthought seamlessly leads to. another.
Cooper starts with an idea, inverts it,
distends itt plays it out as far as it will go
and concludes with a final, tranquil twist
on the original thought.
The longer autobiographicalpieces deal with his Jewish heritage'and his family, especially his problematic relationship with his father, aprominent LA lawyer with ,a pencharit,
for taking unorthodox cases like "thebaking newlywed" and "the miracle
chicken." He writes mOVingly of his
brother Gary, who succumbed toleukemia when Bernard was 12. In an
extended piece that traces the last few
months of Gary's life; he meditates on"The House of the Future," a Monsantoexhibit at Disneyland's Tomorrowland.
Being gay is one of the pelVasive
subtexts, although rarely explicit. In a
piece on dinosaurs and extinction, he, , describes the men at his gym, "whoser;;'issimus dorsi, having spread 'like
thunderheads,
cause them to inch
through an ordinary door." (I first'
came across Cooper, in fact, in the gay
fiction anthology MenQn Men 3, soon
to be published by NAL.) The writing
throughout JAaps to Anywhere is similarly lyrical and' sensuous I can't resist
cl~sing with the second half of ia piece
about a ventriloquist named Lester andbis friend Cora:"Cora finds him fascinating, astout, enchanted man, When he cooks,
pork chops plead for mercy. Whe~ he ,walks, flowers ask to be plu~ed fromtheir pots. So he consents and presents'them to her, bowing low and slyly
smiling; The fact that she's cross-eyed" doesn't disturb him. He says she justsees two sides to a story.
.-,"At sunset, a diamond ring pro, poses. Since Cora sees two rings, herhappiness is doubled, innumerable
facets catching the light. The newlyweds barrel through the night. Trees
along the road sing popular songs.
Best wishes issue from windows. The
world has a voice and with it woos
Cora. She's never known anythingquite like that. Lester concentrates,
coughs, breathes. He speaks 'to themoon, and the moons speak back." T

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THE SHAPE OF LOVE: THE STORY OF "DANCING ON MY GRAVE"CONTINUES. by Gelsey Kirkland. Dolibleday. $19.95 d. 237
pp.
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by Otis Stuart
Burned-out ballerina GeIsey Kirkland
made the tablOids, 60 Minutes and a small
fortune with her scandal-dropping meIIloir, Danctng on My Grave. Kirkland, of•,course, has been a headliner for sometfme. New York City Ballet founding
choreographer, George Balanchine, revived ballets of legend for her as ateenage prodigy, and at 18, she was the•,Gotoller -.

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pensate for what, in pursuit of poetry In
motion, was done to the written word:
Sooner or later, you got Kirkland's specific dissatisfaction' with Baryshnikov as alover or bits of Freudian,<'siippage like ber
shock at seeing Balancbine walk into amen's room and realizing that be ,had athing: You may have wanted to wash,
your hands afterward, but you were stillleft with the tingle of an insider's perspective on privileged company.
No such luck with the new one.
Kirkland is the one and only star. Eventhe eponymous
heroine of her firstchapter, "Trial by Fire and Fonteyn,"makes nary an appearance. Instead, we
get a meticulous Inventory of ber every
move during the Royal swan song, andKirkland's exchanges with cabbies andwaiters are given the, same full~measured ,attention and exhausting detail·as
her efforts onstage and In rehearsal,
which are protracted In the extreme. AB
a sequel, !be Sbape of Love is m~dIS':appointing as a showcase for the inSights Kirkland gleaned from het timein hell. Her ticket to the underworld,
she insisted in Dancing on My Gra~,
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Koyanisqaatsi, how spiritually devoid theWorld is. It's really true, the world " very
fucked right now, at least for us, for me
and my mends, for horoosexual art4--Iet's'be dear-«XUal bcings. For women, for
our hysterically (sic) public bodies, it's sobad we can barely admit it: We certainly
haven't been able to get very aI}8IY.
I say this because I've come to diI- 'agree with the dominant culture's,idealthat associates survival with balance. Avoid ..
bum~tRetreat from the ~.
Drop
the ball, as it were. My answer to thosevoices is to say that laudable as this ideal
may be, it's hard in a ~01Andeven if it was easy, or easier, I'in not surethat it's right. I've begun to feel that discomfort is 'a perfectly appropriate responseto the attacks on body and soUl. That if
there's anything I should abandon, it's theinherited notion that if I or we did s0mething differently, we would feel better andachieVe this Prthagorean harroony of personal spheres. Maybe balance is a bourgeo~(i~usion for a lesbian or gay man living iIi;'~~York today. Maybe a form of~
is Seeking perrett health when thebody-politic is under comtaht attack.,

Call it a sign 0' the times. Give it
lead In a collaboration by Balanchlne,
whatever name you want: AIDS, HeIms,, Stravinsky and Olagall. At the peak of her ' the cowardly NEA, queer-hashers, substiprotnlse,.. KirkIaixi tumed her back on Baltute Moammar Khadafy--insert Saddam
anchine and joined Americaµ Ballet TheHussein ....It's not just 59 percent of New.. atre~ where she and the most famous
Yorkers who want to leave town,. It's war.
dancer In the world, Mikhail Baryshnikov,
No? "Raw" spelled backwards. The
became one of ballet'sChetished
way everybody is feeling--like, Is it justpartnerships. 'Dancing on J{y Grave wasme who's having trouble handling it? Like
Kirkland's acoount d her tumultuous as-the attack is so big and relentless andsodations, professional and otherwise,
highly personal Oike my body, for examwith Balanchine, Baryshnikov and manyple), the only thought is escape. So, if ev(many) others, her descent into cocaine
ery mend I talk to says, What about Seataddiction and her'.
recovery. It
tle? and it's mentioned in 1be New Yorkwas the ballet scandal of the decade.
("It's gotta be true now") Times, then you 'WlIh the simplicity that is the gaudiest
know that it's serious.
flower dpteterision, Kirkland has titled the
I'll put it another way: who we lovesecond installment of ller saga tbe Shapeand what we love and bOw. Our commu- 'ifLooe. It begins as she 'and her co-authornity and our culture. We have no time tohusband, .Greg Lawrence, are finishing , moum, barely time to make love or evenDa'nctngOnMy~and'ywonder what that g>ncept's twning into. 'nervOus about the reverb &om its publicaLittle time to think, to strategize, to exam-'tion, Kirldand has acc:qxed an invitation toine, to define the tenns. We are continual, perforIn 'with London's Roy.U Ballet Wely having to respond, write another letter,follow Kirkland through preparations forraise SQme funds, inform some misin, Romeo and Juliet, her first forays into
fbrmed (read "bigoted") congressman•· coaching and inStiuction and her furewell(hardly any women, 'course).
in 7beSleeping Beauty.
I can hear your thoughts, saying,
IDEOLOGY
as Dancing on My Grave was
Yeah, yeah, and so? So, I disagree with the
There have been ~ many losses, and, torrid-no.diugs, no sex-7be Shape ofcwrent out there that wants us to believe
one I'm barely starting to mourn: the.
·;' Uve ~to be alm.Qst as di$iIsteful. Itthat we shoulq be able to handle it. We're
French anti-ideologue Michel Foucault,, tails ~only b.ecause, since the focus ofliving in a state, of (:Xtremity, andpart two is Kirkland's dance theciries rather
it's no big secret why so many
• ' than the ~World itself, the ~es aredykes and gay boys are flocking
nowhere as serious. There was a reason toto the rooms of 12-51:ep meetingsplo,,", through the first book's ~ng
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F~u~ult's theory holds that Jesseknow that we will fight as hard as we canforward ~a larger agenda. But after aHelms' ~~on our sexuality and art ac- ' , and take ~ of ourselves and each otherneardecade of a~ourcommunity isand, more politically savvy, anelway
as,best-we mow. That is survival. The real ' ~,t\!ally provides a,culturall,y a~l>le•for a llµger segment of " .,' ' soqet}r , mOurning will probably be done by tha;ewe have leained to work more eff~y,and in broader coalitions.
' 'to think, talk jlQoUt, def!ne and refine their
who' come later, who have the time.
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Yet even as the loss from AIDS is ~, sexuality'andart with sexual content Of , ready too mum, to bear, it has also lifted
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of'distinguishirig: moral from obscene, le~t, we as a society have needed to coo- \ thought Into personal action. What we dogal from illicit, art from pOrnography. And
in OUf'l2-step meetings we're applfing tofront. We ~vebarely scratched the swface
it ~'t distract from the ,very real"effort ... With racism, or the invisibility c:J women's
our liveS outside as well. Foucault would,
HdIm !it ai,'
t9 ailntnalize oµr
health issues, the sodaI justice strings left
call it coming out of psychoanalysis andliveS. 'The Hehm amendment, the Frohn- , dangling from tPe civil' rights
the secrecy of the couch into a communal
dialogue, even if it approaches
the tradi·, 'mayer-app.:oved anti-9bscenity plegges, . of the '50s and '6&, the feminism of the..,',-"..
of these are, 70s, our laCk of a national health care polthe funding cutoffs ~lltional fonn of confession. All of this I see
icy, the unacceptability of our private, • as palt of our movement-of our seXualof sIate~on.
'Ih~arenarefoims.
profit~ented capitalist system,~our need, not back, even if, in
Yet iIiSPite9f,
fOr public funding and Social selvi.ces.
this embattled period we call ourlivt:Sand.. " or historically parallel
and a mirror, to, such aude attemptS to
For US,for the gay and lesbian C9~
our Specific communiti~ and culture, it, legislate our sexuality,. the debate is a pubmunity, AIDS has engendered a tremenfeels just the opposite. Y
lic one, and we as artists and gay people
dous and broad unity, in many ar,eas. The',are not inviSible, although the media is ~ radicalism and the sense of power weAnne-chrlstlne d'Adesky, is a ,New
sponsible for distorting what we have tohave gained in uniting and 'fighting
York-based writer and member of Get
say with ,their '}~OQlOphobicbiases. 1want
Smart' (an ad hoc artists group),(GMHC - ACf UP -. WHAM!, - Queer Na, to suggest that we take this parallel trackon the issue of censorship and visibility,
and that we subvert Jesse Helms by re. .
•defining the arts war. What we have before us is an oppo!;tUnity to examine whatby Eil8In Myles
we really thirik and want to say about
I don't think'"
our ,5eX\,lality, about our role as artists' and bur relationship to' our varied otherI can afford the time to not sit right down &commtinid~, to thiS moment in history.
write a poem about the heavy-lidded
the " white rose I hold in InY handWe" ate being challenged toad~•
long-avQided issues .this debate has
I think of sno.(..r,,cauSed to sUrface (raciSm; class priVilege,
a winter night in Boston, drunken waitressto mention the ~stumble on a bus that careens through, male power, etc.),,~ed aesthetic questions. In doing so, I
Somerville the end of the line,
where I was born, an old man
bc!lieve, that we can .tum Jesse HeIms'',idreanl of annihilating 'us into 'his night- shaking me. He could~ve been my dad"
and'become what he mOst fears: a You need a ride? Wait, he said.
powerful, diverse, creative, community
This flower is' so heavy in my hand. ,that liilks the right to produce homoerotlie drove me home in his.old blue
Qodge, a thermos n~ to me,
ic art with' an, ()v~ ,politlaI agenda: of"~ialjustice, in':Affieri~:'cisarette packs on the dash ','So
quiet like Bo~on is quiet
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Boston in the snow. It's New York.'" , AIDS Is, so OYerWheliningthat it's no ,pJates are clattering on St. Marks, , longer a ~tterof breaking It down into
Place. Should I call you?
Can I go home now,
manageable bites so you can digest any of, 'it Again, the illusion of personal ~ce& work with this undelivered••.; is' ~ in con~message in my fingertips'
to something huge like
, AIDS and leaves usw6ndenng how ,to It's SumIner.
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•cope. What I would argue is that survival I love you.
I'm surrounded by snow.
- ' ~ybe all ~shouldbe ~ding ofOUrselves,,,and ¢at joy, a welcome and\mµch-rieeded energy, is something we
Eileen Myles' new book of poems, Not Me, will
shoUld celebrate but ,not ~frOm ourbe out from Semiotext(e) this December. She's.
position on· the front lines. I Qave seen
currently wor/rdng on a collectJon of stories.
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revelation, under the thfeat of destruction.
Pluto and Scotpio iI:t Indian astrology are
Shiva the destroyer, who destroys to create. There's also that innate hope that outof this will come something worthwhile.", In the age of AIDS, scores haveturned to holistic treatments, to seIf-empowerment as a meat)S of self-healing.
Watching Levin grapple with the ~,the thought occurs: In this state of em0tional and physical crisis, is a person more
open to spiritual revelation?
Levin smiles, and his eyes dance at
the irony. "We don't always get to choose
to be more open or dosed to revelation.
They come when they come. And sometimes it's really inconvenient. You don't
want to pick up the telephone, but you
don't have any choice." •,Queen because her point shoes are off,
oblivious to the fact that the. bill for said
shoes cQIPeS out of the royal purse. Compatibility in the studio is measured by attendance to her demands"and the roughhouse of rehearsals-"Push, me!"-:--picks
up just the slightest edge of S/M. Not
even that flourish, however, can mitigate
the pervasive sourness. Nothing and noone are. ever up to Kirkland's self-anointed level, and the discrepancy is always
someone else's fault, usually willfully. Her
repqrtage approach fu)ally turns on her:That much complaining kicks right ,into~g.
The saddest danger is the possibility that the latter-dar. ,authoress, suchthat she is, may upstage the glory thatwas Kirkland the dancer .•all ov.er the country demanded t01know if
Levin knew them; the descriptions, he,claimed, were eerily on-target.
For the writer's own relationships,
the positions of the stars were often intransigent. The master astrologer did notheed his own ~elations. A relationshipwith a Sagittarius, the stars said, could be
fraught with problems. "In the end," said
Levin, "it was a complete disaster." He andhis Archer lover wound up credit junkies,
traveling as long as the plastic held out
and ending up, after a yearlong affair, financially and emotionally bankrupt.
Levin winces at the memory and,. grins bravely, his graying moustache
twitching ,at the comers. "I thought that•
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because I had written it, I could avoid it.
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One of the things I learned is that you
Michael Jay Levin died on Sept. 30,•
can have all the road maps in the world
severa1 weeks after the completion of thisconstantly by screaming p~ople withand still get lost."
interview. An obituary appears in thisangry, distorted faces who don't takeweek's issue ofOutWeek.
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When Gay Love Signs went out of"no" for an answer and have mastered,print, Levin began receiving fevered comthe art of harangUing to the max. IS
TIIAT CLEAR, G?','
plaints from fans. In the intervening years,
SHAPE
he had written a column called "Cocktail
Co not I nou _ c:I • r 0"" p a g _ 645) Perhaps this shquld be a lessori.for every
Astrology" for the New Yom Native andworld, most regularly manifest in her ih. closet case wh9. is making
anti-gay statements .as: a ploy to' provegained recognition as an urban historian
ability to find a- working environment in
his or her faux heterosexuaIity or evenand walkfug-tour guide. He sat down toconcert with, her views.
just to cause controversy, a lesson thatcreate a new
The most tangible advice Kirkland, edition, as a man ten years
should teach you that you cannot live
older and a veteran of relationships.
offers in tbe Shape of Love, at every possi-.
such hypocrisy any longer arid that life
Changes needed to be made. "I wanted toble opportunity,isanoxymoron.
She
ex,record not only my experience but the extends a central tenet of ballet-turn out,
out of the close,t would not only I;>eperien~ of the community in the past ten
the circle of the Iimbs,away from the, cenpositive and empowering but would, be
years. I wanted to talk about the specter of
ter of the body-into"tum out the heart."
so much, well ... EASIER. By staying.the illness, responses to the political opSteps, she suggests, get in the way, andcloseted, you will always put yourselvesin precarious situations. You see, at
position to gay culture, in a way more virthe emotionally generalized approach
Some point, your old lovers, flings, fuckKirkland proposes reads like Isadora'~
ulent than it was ten years ago."buddies, one-nighters or even former
This is the reality of these times:
School for Life dragged, kick;ing andclose friends will either call me directly ,Throughout this intervieW, Michael Jay
screaming" to the ActOr'sStudio. However
because their own consciences
will
idealistic, the reSults are, at best, impractiLevin has been sitting in hospital bed
eventually rumble with guilt (as hascal (if corps dancers' had access to the reat St. Clare's Hospital in midtown Manalready occurred qutte a bit) or, if
hattan. Levin has AIDS. As he speaks, ahearsaI time Kirkland demands for herself,
they're boys, may even be my futuremachine next to his bed squeezes out 'there would be-no ballet) and, worse,
tricks, such as the case above.,
Foscarnet, a drug effective in preserving,anachronistic (Skeping Beauty ain'trea!In fact, dear famous closet-casethe sight of IllY-infected people. An IV
iSm-Aurora doesn't go to the ~throom).', tube snak;es across the bedcover andliterally self-centered, Kirldand's callfags, one night you may be out on themake, your beautiful muscles bulging
disappears into his pajamas. ~. for,a new dance aesthetic is only slightly
with desire" your cock ready tc?explode.
Sidestepping self-pity, ~vin traces
less unhappy than the inadvertant seIfYour hunky, horny self will move in on
the astrolOgical signs that presaged theportrait. Elegant phrasing, sa}'!>she, is thethe stranger in the corner; the one
inversion of subject and verb, ~d theepidemic. "Pluto entered Scorpio in theveiled in darkness. Oh, I'll say my nameearly '80s. Plutq, the furthest planet, is in
haughtiness of tone is only underfuled by,, is Mike or Pete or Joe or Bob or somethe solemnity c>ferootionaI communion,anyone sign for about 14 years, the timething. You'll offer your wares. We'll go
it takes for it to travel once around theall short sentences. Despite the florid
home and fuck , our brains out, and I'llsun. Pluto usually forecasts disease,phrasing, she never misses a chance tohave a devilishly
divine story to,plague. Scorpio is the sign of transfonnaswipe an old enemy, and even new
eventually tell, won't I?
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presented, defects first. Guest'
tion: of mysterious disease.'friends
Actually, don't think this hasn't"I've talked with other astrologers,of the Royal Ballet, Kirkland kicks up a
already happened. T
fuss over a conunand perfonnance for thewho point out it is a 'slow, long process of
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MOSAIC BOOKS hllllNding
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HIoI_, reading poat.
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Ave B at 10 St; 7 pm; 47!>-8823
THE ANSWER IS LOVINGW_n
Tmlring
Woman'. T.lle Im.air. c.,., "Do we. give ou .... lve. penni .. ion to a8k for help
when we are.in crisis? The calming effectof options •.There are problems and there
are solution."; 1984 E 35 St, ,Bklyn; 7:45-10
pm; $10; Ruth 'Berman & Connie Kurtz,
718(998-2306,

DIXON PLACE plll88nts Claire Olivi.
Mead reading from I!tiwn l'aniflll,". Orw", Low.; 37 E 1st St (btwn
llt/2ndAV88~ 8 pm (come early~or \TDF, $3 studenlll & seniors, PWAs free; norsvp, info 873-8752

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GAV FATHERS H.II .... n D.nca Partr,"come ,a8 you ara, or 811 you've always, dreamt you could b."; 'beverag".,Inacks, OJ daricing, large mirror.d ItUdio; at RobeltVahn'. Dance Studio, 135 W,
14 St, 2nd Aoor Oust east of 7th Avet IHl
pm; S8 advance/IS door'; member info
from 979-7541, 2118-3238, !\tEN OF ALi. COLoRs TOGETHER Exprau
y.ur •• ,f/Or... ·U'
with aroundtable discu .. ion on how we draas
to say what we want a bout ourselves,then members. will demonstrate how tofashion outfits that "aay" things; finally, achest of .ccessorie8 will be.avd,able forplaying "dr.ls-up"
to experiment with
.elf-expression; at the Center, 208 W 13
(eV8.)
Si; 8 pm; 2Ge388(daya); 222·9794, ,Ni,,,,,,WOMEN'S ALTERNATIVES COMMUNITYCENTER Di_Di.n.nd Soci.1 Group forOld.r ..... i.... wjth win •• nd che •••tating; 875 Woodfield Rd, West Hemp·.tead, U; 8:30' pm; $3 more if/less if;
518(483-2050
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10 am; rsvp 245-1l3II8(daya), 222·9794 (eve.),SLOPE ACTMTIES FOR LESB'IANS R.. ",Picnic, play, watch, sun, socialize, "bringclellll, and e.lII; 8eanor's Hill, Proapect
Park. Bklyn, noon; Manh~nR.ld Trip
for women 351-, noR-smoking, dinner andmovie, 7 pm'-ish; k.d. lang Nillht. 7:30 pm;
SAL info/rsvp 718(985-7578 - 'HUMAN RIGHTS CAMPAIGN
Aqn .. 1Dinner st the W.ldorf;"
Nealon, 582-8714

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ASIANS AND FRIENDS/NV Third Sa... ,.
d.y Soci.1 at the Center, tonight is aBall, with prizes~ games,
fun; food; 208 W,13 St, 3rd Roor; 8 pm;
AFNY B74-5084(AfNY Exec Board ncimi.
nations also take place this evening.)M••,u.,.I.

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WOMEN'S ALTERNATIVESCOMMUNITY
CENn:R Annual Road R.lly .nd Itali.1i, Dinner; 875 Woodfield Rd, West Hempstead, LI; noon; info 5:18(483-2050
SAGE Milk a,,1H."., Soci.l, "livemusic, dancing, food, refreshments, goodfriends and great comany·; at the Gay
SynagOgue,57 Bethune St,(at West St) in
the Westbeth Complex; 1-5 pm; members:
S8 advance/$II door, non-members: $II
advance/$10 door; 741·2247
SAGE w.m.n". Sunday Ii,.,..., "refreSh·menlll, relaxation and good company._allwelcome"; at the I;enter, in the SAGE,
Room, 2118 W 13 St; 2·5 pm,-741·2247

GIRTH AND MIRTH H.llow .. n eo.......
a.I.; with beer, wine, soda, munchies,
live OJ; at the Center, 208 W 13 St; 8:30
pm; S8 members/$10 gueslll (G&M, Box
10, Pelham, NY l1J111G.OO10)

BIS':XUAL PRIDE Discu •• iDn Group:\
Switr:bami -ri",..-, at the 'Center,2118 W 13 St; 3-4:30 pm; 459-4784

COLUMBIA PEP BOVS PRODUCTION
Sam. B""Oi",,.nr D.nn, tonight andevery third Saturday, for gay men and lasbianl and their friends; DJ Karin Ward;
Earl Hall, 118 St & B'way (#1/#9 train); 10
pm - 3 am; $5; 829-19B9(N~1l1tis NOVJUDITH'S ROOM BOOKSTOREplll88nlll,, Backy Bullar(editor), Ca. lin_lea of tile
HNIt: Ccle6rati", Lallillli 1JIIiona; withother speake'ra; 881 Washington St (atChariest 3 'pm; free &we acc_ible,but
seating is liil,lited;727-7330

LOVEZONE;SatunI.y Night D.ncing withentertainment by Dancasation Strippers;
70 Beach St, SlIIten Island; 10 pm • hm;
718(442·5892

ee_ny, by Invitation, at the Center, 208

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DANCE
PATROLopens Out""" at hR __,to a gay ,and non~g.y
crowd, with go·go boys and girll; OJ
John Hail; Ollila at the door; ilh9W at 2 am
, with GInn Gunthrie;,128 E 14St; 11 pm. 8
am; ~O ,with invite (look on Christopher St/; 473-7171' 'liam, cateringpr.lent8"'ura Wllzler in' eoncert. singing Jesse, Helms H.s M.d •• Radic.1 Out of Mil andother ~gs; 53 Prospect Park Wast. Park
Slope; BkIyn; 9 pm; $5; 71enlllJ:.2972,,

THE CUT CLUB is now open Evary Friday
Night. tonight with the ... nililll '" The
Grditi W.II, .Iso lin wid.. ,intani_a••nd/.r .n.ctme ..... f Jl!ur I.test
f.ti.h; go·go girls, lelbo videos, pool
playing from IHO pm, ~ drinks from 9-10
pm; 432 W 14 St; $5 ,theatre the subject of homosexuality";,union members appear courtesy of Equity, AfTRA and SAG; at the Comella Street,Cafe, 29 Cornelia St in the Village btwn
BleeckerJWest4; 8 pm; $II
SOUtHERNERS C.rolin. Potluck: A·H
brings de .. erts; 'I·P brings salalls, veg-.
gies, breads, sO,ups or appetizers; Q-Zbrings entrees; in the Center's garden, 208
W 13 St; 8 pm; $5 donation; David Gilbert,~4-8073
MARC BERKLEY'S KOOI: KOMRADS pr~"sent TIre BatrI. 01tile BuI,., week eig~tof a nine·wael contest at Private Eyas,
ending OCT 22; with Man of Dancaaations
vs. Mlln of Good·N·Planty;
MC Razor
Sh.rp with special guests; 12 W 21 St;
doors open 10 pm, contest at midnight; ~gllilerall$5 with invite; 2118-7772,"itti,.
,HERITAGEOF PRIDE 7th Ann .. 1 Aw.rd.

TUESDAY. OCT. 23
SAGE Will .nd B.qu.'"Forum; at theCenter, 2118W 13 St, 1st Aoor (WC .ccassible); 8-8 pm; 741·2247,

PROFESSIONALS IN FILM AND VIDEO'
Fonan: A Th~c:alP"",lICer, IniI.pan·dant Pr:o!dlicar, and "'wyardiscusl
their, ,. .
work in film and Video; It the Center, 208 'W 13 St; 8:30--9:30 pm; $5 members/~~80
non·mem~ers;.Jon.than

W 13 St;4 pm reception, 5'pm awards cer·emonY,8 pm,dancing; piess info, 891-1774

GAV MEN'~ HEALTH.cIUSIS HIV He.lth
S.min.r: Medic.~ Tr•• bnenta, tonightand 8ve,y4th Tueaday; 129 W 20 St, 3rd
TWENTYSOMETHING Danca at the Cen· , Aoor; 7 pm;fr8e; 807_,
TOO 845-7470''"',
ter, DJ P.tar Arden. beer .nd ,soda sold
-SLOPE ACTIVITIES FOR LESBIANS(lD to drink); m.turelate teens and yoUlhfuf early thirties ~Iy;
'2118 W 13 St,,4-9 pm; ,.",dry !!light, to, ma kll:that dreac!ed task
IS; 242-48J11.'.. ':,"",,> ; ,',mjlra, b,•• "'blil, 1737th'Ave/lstSt;
Park ,; ",.I"; Slona~~,Bklyn,-7:30, pm''.Dirii.... ".nwiliding
MOMENnJM AIDS PROJECT ·GaI.Opera''.t Two 'Boote ,512
2nd . St(off 7th Ave,',
Mu.ic.l.
Benefit. opera followed 'by aaround the cornerfromthalaundromat),9
reception; at Aorence, Gould H.II, 55 E.59
pm; SAl; info/rsvp 718(985-7578
st 1:30 pm; $200; rsvp with Deborah Skln,ner, 288-2810•
LES'BIANS AN'D GAV MEN OF NEWBRUNSWICK Mini Gay/Lanian Rim FaaSLOPE ACTIVIT.IE,S~R LESBIANS'foot.
tival, with hlrd·to·find films from Aus·•• 11 P.rtr, at a member's home land
tralia, Britain and the US; at Friends
every Sunday thil month); Park Slope"Meeting House, 109 Nichol Ave, New
Bklyn, 7 pm; Dating Geni., 7:30 pm; SAL,Brunswick,
NJ; 8 pail;' 201/247-0515
info/rsvp 718(985-7578(LGMNB meets alternate TU8l!days.)

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SLOPE ACTIVITIES FOR LESBIANS Fun
Run and p... Romp in P.... pact Park. with ' against homophobia and lesbian/gay
invisibility; at The Loft (Westchestar's
or without your mutt; in the ,Long MeadLesbian and Gay CommunitY Services
ow, Bklyn, ., pm; SAL info/rsvp, 718(985Center), 255 Grove St, White 'Plains, NY; 8
7578,,
pm; 914/948-4922 'MONDAY. OCT. 22•,

SATURDAY. OCT. 20
SAGE doaa Autumn on the North Shota,
Long la/and's North Fork. from Greenpoint
to Orient Point, see fall foliage and fishingvillage. along the shore of the Long la/andSound, Pind.r Vineyards .nd taste cellar,
Claudio's ~estaurant on the Peconic Bay;bus departs from the Center, 208 W 13 St;
8 .m; retum .t3:30 pm; $35; rsvp 741·2247

WOMEN ABOUT and SLOPE ACTIVITIESFOR LESBIANS Upstate Hik., Sloalllburg(Pine Me.dow Lake), 8 rocky miles, 9 am·
ish, $5 plus expenses; SAL inf~1JVP
718(985-7578

MEN OF All COLORS TOGETHER Ann .. 1
Membership Retra.t at Arrow P.rk Inn,
Tuxedo, N¥. mestatthe Center,208W13St;,EAST 50s ASSOCIATION 3nI Ann .. 1MidtDwn hstinl, on 3nI Ave from 4&-58 Sts;
11 am· 8pm; vendors call 593-3247 (Editor's note: Check the Ba r Guide for all thegay stops near this strip.)•

SLOPE ACTIVITIES FOR LESBIANS
Breakfast at Conn.cticut Muffin, P.ark
Slope, Bklyn, 11 am; SAL info/rsvp
718/985-7578

ACT UP/NV Wa.kly Mond.y M•• tinll 'NINTH STREET CENTER R.p Group:
tonight at Cooper Uliion.E 7 St/ 3rdAviJ,"Queer Questions, Queer Answers";
7:30 pm; ACT UP 584-2437 (naw phonatonight's topic is Are All Ga, Ptobl.,.
numbatl.~.
ea,...1 By srr.;,""'7; facilitllted by Rich
rr.nancik; 319 E 9 St, basement; 8-10 pm;
JOHN R. 'CHISM presents a Banefit R.....
228-5153
with a"ing ., his n_ pla~
door proceeds going to the NYC G.y •Lnlaian Anti·Vicil_.
P'1Iiact; "tha story WOMEN'S ALTERNATIVESCOMMUNITYCENTER Di.cu •• ion .nd Support Groupis about a crisis in the I.rIy reign of King
for .... bi.n Mothers; 875 Woodfield Rd,
Laiua; the play ... explores themes ofWest Hempstead, LI; 8:30 Jim; $3 moremachismo obsellion, political powerifjIe.. if; 518(483-2050'
playa ind human sll!W.lity .... nd the work
finally brings into the arena of classical
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Hlri II one hot humpy stripper·; with Niria
Nil .. , Marilyn, Electrifyinll Grace; 80
lrove ~ at Sheridan Square; 9:30pm; 'nocover; ~4-3558•

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Information must be received by Monday to be included in the folloWing
week's issue. Send items to Rick X. Tuning In, Box 790, NY, NY 10108. ',THE CHELSEA TRANSFER Body Poaiti ..
Night for HIV+a and their friends; 131 8th
Ave (18/17 Sta); all night; bar 929-7183.
Body Poeitive 721-1348 (Editor'a nota: Body
Positive WIllmeet It The Chelela'Tran"ertonight and eVlry TUllday.),AlE (Arts & Ent, 555 Afth Ave, 10th 1'=1, NYC 10017; 661-4500)
CCIV(RIckX.Box790,NYC101~)
GIS(Gay Broadcastl:1g System, Butch Peaston, 178 7th Ave, ,$te. A-3, NYC 10011; 243-1570)
GCN (Gay C8b1e NetWOI1c, 'lou Maletta, 32 Union Square East,.
Suite 1217; 4n-4220)fmm
IMile (Gay Men's H8aJth Crisis, Jean C8rIomusto, 129 W 20 St,
NYC 1<1011;807-7517)'
Prod., Box 305, NYC 10021; 988-2973)
RBPROD (Robin ~rd
WABG-1V fT7 W 63 Sf, NYC 10023; 456-7777)'
WBAI-FM (50581h Ave, 19th A, NYC l0018;2'l9-a1C1l)'
Wa.1V(51 W 52 StSt, NYC 10019; 97&-4321)'
WNlC-1V (30 Rockafeller PIa2a, NYC 10112; 664-4444)
WHET·1V (356 W 58 St, NYC lP019; ~)WNYW.1V (Fox, 1211 AVlAM, NYC 10036; 556-24OQ)~

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performance excerpts from the band Karen Blick, clips
the unfinished Trilogy of Tem (starring Annl.
Sprlnld. and NIck Z'dd); Manhattan cable, CH CI16,
1:80 PM ESPN Women~ Bodybuilding: NPC Junior U.S.
WEDNESDAY, OCT. 24, Championships, from Aprlfln New Brunswick, NJ (1:00), f•
1:80 PM WBAI-FM This Way Out; the International gay liesCITIZENS COMMlmE FOR NEW YORK
I blan news magazine;
99.5 FM (:30)
CITY Anti·Bi ... Conf .. renco: Bllillli",
1:30 PM WBAI-FM An AnM700n OutIng: local news and In1or- ,c.-iti..n..",h Dirmhy,expected
rnatiQn about the gayllesbian community; 99.5 FM (~speakers include Mayar D.vid N. Djltkina,
4:00 PM WABC-1V TBStIngD~ this Aft8tSc/tool Special
Borough Prasident Ruth 1M0.. ingor,, deals with mandatolY drug testing In,a high school, with one•
Arthur B.rn .. 'of the New York Urban
Notes
senior turning up false positive; CH 7 (1:00) ,Editor's
Coalition; NYU's Vanderbnt Hall, 40 Waah.
'. commercial Channe/V/35 or
6:00HInson
PM WPIX-1V.Jo/Innr DiIpp and
PaIar
bNew Infonnatlon for shows on
are trying21toJump'mustStJwt
out military-school
cad81swho 'ington Square South; 8:30 am • 8 pm; ISpublic access Channel C/l6, following the discontinuation
are beating up gay men" CH 11 (1:00)-IWlivable for low
incoml);884-8787•. of leased public access channel JI23 on Manhattan andb 7:30 PM Th8 Gay DatJnU Gamewlth 1'IInIny Saall andParagon Cable. As of p~me,
Paragon shows that were' lahoma YanZandl; Manhallan Cable CH 0117 (:30) (Thl$'IDENTITY HOOSE'opina ita
Cen\.on JI23, are all discontlnued,uptown.
is a tape. N6Xl ~the lWe format rBsufflBS, ThursiJay, butt.roncl: Womon Lorin" Womln. three'.
at 8PM and On Channel C/16, wfIBrB the show wIH rrIITIlIIn.)
WIIake of 34 worbho)llaxploring"xullily,
MONDAY. OCTOBER 15
8:00PM WNVW-1V(Fox) TheSimpsons: Homer grows hairidentity, realtionships and, co'ming out;
4:00 PM WCS8-1V GBraldo: women bodybuilders; CH 2 (1:00)
with a miracle treatment, gels promoted, and Is assigned atonight Boml.co Dambowic, Con.idoring
1M' The Court-Matt/aI of Ja.ckiB RObinson:. before he'
new secrelary named Karl (Hanay Flerlbtln); CH 5 (:30)
8:00
PM
Moth.rhood, concurrent with Ni.. ,Ptick,integrated baseball in 1947, lieutenant Robinson r8fused to ,·10:80 PM WABC-1V PrimBtimB Liw.1CaIhIrIna Hapbarn IaIks ,WOI'IcIhop lor Pllf118lS of fnclit SUrvivalS
sit In the back of the bus In the segregated anny (2:00)- about women In society, and her movie roJes; CH 7 (1:00)(who are mit thom.""'., known 'UrvivOIS(rapaalS at 10 PM, midnight, 2 AM; then Tuesday at lOAM
10:00 PM WNBC-1V LA. Law. the season IHp8nS tonight withof inc.Btf. 544 8th Ave (btwn 14/1,5Stls); 8:30
& 4 PM; the" Thursday at 11:30 PM)
a racial bias cr1me as backdrop to Intra-oIIIce tension, whenpm; $15 por WOI1tihop. 3 for $40, 4 for $49.
,,8:011 PM WNET-1V The AmBrican EJqieriBne« 'NixO~ from his
Rosalind Shayssues the firm for forcing her out; CH 4 (1 :(0) ,'$Beach thereafter; 10 for $80; 243-8181
boyhood to his 18Slgl)atlon; CH 13 (3:00)
10:30 PM GMHC Uving With AIDS: health and politics;(repeats Sunday, Oct 21, 1 pm)
Manhattan Cable, CH VI35 (:3.0),
ASIANS AND FRIENDSINY Mombore .... t
9:00 PM Gas Out in the 90~ community news, discussion,
10:35 PM TBS The GrBBtEscape (1963): Simi McQu.en In
Mombor. at .Empire S,chuan Villagl
interviews; (tape of IastTuesday's MC1VIParagon Show)
probably the most riveting POW film ever made (3:3.0)•
Raltlurant 173 7th Ave South (243-8048.
BOCabIe, CH 56.(1:00)"
1,1:00 PM GCN Gay U.S.A.: news aridentertalnmentfl:om'near Per~), wi,th a private'room upataif8,10:05 PM ~ AbortIon DenI6d::Sf!attering Younp l.N8s: Ted :arpund the country; Manhattan Cable, CH VI35 (1 :00), ,.' Turn,er's network takes ~ very pro-choice posijlon, whllethemldnlghlGCN
Men.in Fllmlt. male erotica, Interview~ \YIth. :with I view ot the ,Village, ,8 pm cocktana"'othernlltwoi-ks Ci1n,gelh faal:of bc7jcotJs and bad P.R, l:30) ',.', , 8dult f1lmStarS; Manhattan Cb8Ie, CH VI35 (:3().,;,
7:30 pm:optibnai ,dinn,r, $20; Ai=We74-5!l84
1.1:30 PM, !Ol1l9troWdoilJghtL.Wl:eme$innient;
Manhattan
12:30PMRBRROD MeQFOrf/.1en:. R~blil'Byn/llr8sent,;gay
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IIJIdParagon cable, CH 0117 (1:00).,'
male porno stars; Manhattan cable, CH VI35 (:30)
SLOPE ACTlVmeS FOR LESBIANS Dini ..
mIdnight CCTV The CIostJt CaSB Show. visit to a safe.S8J/ party, FRIDAv OCTO BER 19'
at O•• i., Middle Ealtlm/American. 133
Robin Byrd protests at TIme Warner; Manhattan & Paragon. ,, ,,
7th Ave (btWn Carroll/Glrfieldl. Park
Cable, CH C/16 (:30)
2:30PM WBAI-FM Romp/endo el Silencio: todos los •Slope. Bldyn, 8:30 pm; Pao/ Night at
vlernes, Gonzalo Aburlo con temas y noticlas para la
1:00 AM RB PROD Men ror Men:. RobIn Byrd presents gay
Brownstone Billiards. 7t/VAatbush Avel;8male porno stars; Manhattan Cable, CH V/35 (:30) "colTlunidad latina gay y lesblana; 99.5 FM (:15)
pm; SAL info/rsvp 718/985-7578.
8;00 PM WCB8-1V World Series Game a; CH 2 (3:00+)
1:30AM WNBC-1V I.atBr WithBob CoStas: an interview with
8:00 PM M1V VIdeo Music Awan1s, the Sept. 6 event, In
Malhl/da KrIm of AmFAR; CH 4 (:30)•,
A DIFFERENTUGHT'BOO"STORE preeents.
case you missed Sinead's multiple triumphs (3:OO~
FaI11.lIoadi .. Sorin: A1lon B~
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 16'!tOOPM WNET-1V GrBBtPerformanc/lS:'Mefistofele from
7h ." ami It. 0.",,,,., IIIfII other.,.
4;00 PM WeBS-IV SchoolbtUk Spec/at 'The Fourth Man' is a
the San Francisco Opera, with Samual; RImey making theIi....548 Hudson St(btWn CharlerlPerrybad bargain; simulcast o,n WNCN-FM, 104.3; CH 13 (3:00)
steroldS-In·the-high-school caut/orwy lale, completeW/th·~I;
8 pm; fraelbut limited seating. arrive
ex-jOck Dad; CH -2 (1:00)
1:00 AM RB PROD The Robin Byrd Show: male and female
aarlyl); 889-4850
strippers; Manhattan cable, CH VI35 (1:00)
8:00 PM WCS8-1V World SBries Game 1; CH 2 (3:001-)
8:00 PM WWDR-1V They Game From Outer Spacs:'AIie and'
Bo befriend a law student who worl<sa's a$lripperwlth the
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 20 _.
GAY MALE SIM ACTIVISTS Frriilll8R ~ ,stage name Legai Eagle'; CH 9 (1:00)'.
6:00 PM WNET.TV Cricking a Crlving: the sciencenr, Nlw c.",oflh/p, I. pinel of artistsof cocaine addiction and treatments;
CH 13 (:30)
10:00 PM RB PROD The RDIIIn.". Show: male and female
and activists talk about the struggle to
strjppers;
ManhaltanCable,
CH
V/35(1:00)
7:80 PM GCN Gay U.SA: news and e~ertalnment from .
pre .. IYII freedom of exprassion; open to'
11:00
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.GBS
Out
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90's
news,lnformation
andInteraroundthecountry;
BQ,
Unity,
ACV
Cable,
CH
56 (1:00)
man and woman; with Richord E1ovich.
views for the lesbian anil. gay commun~; tonight a live
(For Manhattan cable, see THURSDAy)gay 1010 parformance artist and NEA.
11:80 PM Gay W. male Pom; Manhattan Cable, CH V~
roundtable discussion with vlt!wer call-In;,
grantlll; luo Hyito, director of The Privacy, ManhattanlParagon Cable; CH C/16 (1:00),
mIdnIght NakrJd EX!' CillBl71IT.Manhattan Cable, CH 0117
(Sodomy Law Repoal.) Project; John W... ' 12:30 AM WNET-1V The (JOs: 20 independent videos, world1:30 AM' RB PROD The Robin IIyrI Show: male & female
181, oo·diraotor of the W.... I.O·Connor,
strippers; Manhattan Cable, CH VI35 (1:00)
wide, some more daring than others; CH 13 (1:00),
Ltd. gallery; at,the ClI11iIr. 208 W 13 Sf, 3rd
WEDNESDAY,OCTO~ER 17,
SUNDAY, OCTOBER 21
Aoor; socializing at 8 pm; progf8m at 8:30
pm; $4 m!lmben1$8 nonmemberS; 727.9878
7:80 AM WABC-1V Gf!Od Momlng Americll.the segments
1:80 PM WNET-1V The American Experlenctr. 'Nixon,' from..
,' , Include one called I\IDS~ Part 2'; CH.2 (2.00) . .
his boyhood to his resignation; CH 13 (:3:00),
9:30 AlIt, WBAI·FM Ghosts tn the Machtntr. women In pop,
7:30 PM WBlU-FM 0uILJJ0ks. news and lrifoforlhe lesbian and
EAGLE BAR Movio Night Nun. on theWith VlCIOrta Slarr; 99.5 FM (2:30).
'gay community; aIemaIes wilt "'" Gay SItow:99.5 FM (1:00)/bin. wi\h Eric Idlo; 142 llth'AvlI (at 21 81);""'6attv7GbE~sl8sbiltfiilnd'
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TUesday,,• Gl'llnd Central (women's night is TUES, also open Wed-Sun) 210 Merrick Road, Rockville Centre, LI; 5161536-4800*lDve Machine (Larry Tee & Lahoma Van Zandt, young & exotic crowd)
860 Bway, at 17 St; 254-4005*Private Eyes (MarSha" Simon's Dragin' Bar, $7)12 W 21 St, btwn ,,5th/6th Aves; 206-m4
Roxy (Men on Wheels, gay roller skating; starts 8 pm) 515W 18St; 645-51!i6b 1heWorld (Chauncey's Crash, OJ John Suligll)254 E 2 St (btwn Aves BIC,
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DJs, $8)160 Bleecker St (corner ofThompson); 475-5120 ".Vislolll(wolI!en's party) 56-01 Queens Blvd, Woodside, Queens; info
718/846-7131, club 718/899-9031,

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Barefoot Boogie l2nd & 4th SAT;adulbrlkids, smoke & alcohol free; 8:31pm 12:3'1am, $4; next:is Oct 27) 434 11th Ava (btwn £Vl0 SIs), 4th Floor; 1m.a759
Cenl8r(2nd & 4th SAT,9 pm -1 am, $8;, Oct 27 next) 208 W 13 St; 620-7310• Center (WDIJIB'hi illend., 1st SAT; 9 pm· 1 am, $8; next is November 3)208W 13 St; 620-7210'
Columbia Dances (SBmE BuT DifferenT, 3rd SAT, next is Oct 20; OJ
Karin Ward, 10 pm· 3 am; $5) Earl Hall, 116 St/B'way; 629-1989
419419 N. Highway, Southampton, 1I; 516/283-5001, Love Zone (dancing & performers) 70 Beach Sf, Staten Island; 718/442-5692
Wednesday"*BetIer Days (primarilV gay men of color) 316 W 41! St (8{9 Aves); 245-8925 b Meat (Aldo Hernandez, every Saturday; OJ, go-go boys, videos;
opens 10 pm; $5)432 W 14 St; ,353-3866
1he Building (Da"as' The Boys' Room, House music, downtown crowd, gogo boys and a 6O-foot ceiling; $1W$7, with invite) 51 W 26 St; 576-1890
Octagon (Jason's monthly Saturday Dances, OJ Michael Flennal!; next'areNov 10, Dec 8;$15) 555 W 33 St; 947-0400, '• Excalibur (Ladifls Night, $1 drinks) corner 1000Jefferson behind footPalladium (Dance Patrol 's Out Lat8 at PalladIum, gay/non-gay; 11 pm - 6
ba" stadium, Hoboken, NJ; 201-795-1161
am, 2 am shOW; $2Q1$10 w.lnvlte) 126 E 14 St; 473-7171*Umelight (Michael Alig &. Larry Jee's DIsco 2000, 10 pm, $10; Coors
selVed), 6th Ave at 20 St;; club·807·7850.Private Eyes (Shescape Saturday Night Parties for Women, opens 9pm; $8 before,11l1$10 after) 12 W 21 St; Info 645·6479, club 206-m2• Private Eyes (Shescape Afterwork Party, 5-10 pm; $5 before 7 PnV$7,
11-Roxy(gay boys, guys, men; non-gay women, some lesbians; mix
after; 2-4-1 drinks before 7) 12 W 21 St; info 645-647~, club 206-7n2
depends on party) 515 W 18 St (btwn 10111 Aves);'645·5156
Private Eyes (Dance Patrol's Evening of Retro DiscO; students,profes,, sionals, women; $7)12 W 21 St, btwn 5ttV6th Aves; 206-m2,• Silver Uning.(womeri's Sat) 175 Cherry Lane, Roral Park, 1I; 518/354-9641*Pyramld (Unda's Channel 69 party, OJ & live lesbian/gay shQws; East
.8 Bond (E"e/She International PBTties for Women, OJ dancing, 2nd &Vi"age crowd; $5) 101,Avenue A, btwn 6{1 Streets; 420-1590.
4th Sat, $10, opened Oct 13)6 Bond St (B'way/Lafayette); 459-4165
Silver Uning (2-4-1 drinks, also open Tues-Sun, women SAT) 175 CherrY ' ~undFactory (mostly gay; serious House/Club dancing, no alcohol,La., Aoral Pic,LI; 516/354-9641
opens 11 pm)530'W 27 St (10th/11th Aves); 643-:0728,
Stutz (2-4-1 drinks, also open daily) 202 Westchester Ave, White Plains;, 914/761-3100~=~::'~rimarily
gay men of Co;Or)3~6,w.49 St (8{9Aves); 245-8925
Thursday". The Building (Dallas' The Men's Room, students, profeSSionals, men;
*Copacabana (last Thu. ofthe month Susanne Bartsch party, next is, go-go boys & 6O-ft. ceiling) 51 W 26 St; 576·1890,
October 25; iffy door) 10 E 60 St, at Fifth Ave; 755-6010,*Cate Society (Electra St. Jill's Society Sundays Tea Dance, Hi 'NRG OJ
EKealibur ($1 drinks, also open Tues·Sun, women WED) corner IOtWJef, Chuck Davis, Society Dancers; 5 pm- 11; $10) B'wayat 21 St; 529-8282. ferson behind football stadium, Hoboken, NJ; 201-795-1161,,l.Club Edelweiss (Sunday Tea .Dance, TVs & 'tSs with their non-gay, bi,
Hatfield's (2-4-1 drinks, female impersonators; also open nightly, women on
and gay admir\ers; al,so open TUE-SAT night) 187 W 29; 868-6989
TUE & FRI) 126-10 Queens Blvd, Kew Gardens, Queens; 71B{261~8484
Mon,ster'(Sunday Tea Dance at 4' pm; dancing also on otherriights fromb +Handle Bar (Nancy and Treva's Her Planet, $8)232 E9 St; 255-7875
10 pm) 80 Grove'St at Sheridan Sq.; 924-3557'• Pyramid (Jill Reiter's Booby Trap, dancing,for women; go-go girls;• Pulse (Shescape Tea Dances for Women, 7 pm .. midnight, $5 before 8
opens ~ pm; $5)101 Ave A (btWn 6{1 Sts); 421J.1590 '
pm1$7 after) 226 E 54 St (2nd/3rd Aves); info 645-6479,*Roxy (Disco Interruptus, DJs Patrick Butts & Sister Dimension and per- *Pyramid (Scream, DJs Patrick and Aaron, host Loretta; $5)101 Avenue
formance artists in entertainment breaks; $101515 W 18; 645-5156
A, btwn 6{1 Streets; 420-1590'
11-6 Bond (Out of Controll, DJs Perfidia & David Azarc, Robi on bar; $12/$7 .Re. (Jenny's Girl Bar, OJ dancing, 6 pm - midnight; $5) 5796th Ave
w. invite) 6 Bond St (B'way/lafayette); 979-6565'(18/17 Sts); 741-0080
Roxy (A Groovy Kind of Lo.ve) 515 W 18 St; 645-5156- 16 Tbe World (Dean Johnson's Rock & Roll Fag Ba" 254 E 2 St (btwn
Aves B/C, Ftrain to 2nd Ave); 6n-5200.
2Q/2O (Michael,Fesco's Tea Dance, opens 5 pm; $6; free Mimosas & BMs
from 5-7, buffet at 7:30; 1'10 longer .. III Mille" 20 W 20 St; 727-8841
Friday'.
Beller Days (Michael Paterson's Fridays, catering to multi·racial crowd,
Every Night (or almost),.
serious House/Club dancing, OJ Freddy Bastone) 316 W 49; 246-8976• Bednick (lesbian club, closed MON & TUE) 121 Woodfield Rd, W.'
16 .Clit Club (Jocelyn & Julie, Every Friday Party"go'go girls, lesbo
Hempsteed, LI;518/486-9516
videos; opens 8 pm; $51432 W 14 St; 406-1114• DUchess II (imall dance floor) Sheriden Square & 7th Ave; 242~1408
Columbia Dances (1st Friday of every month, Earl Ha", 10 pm - 2 am; next ' 419 (nightly G.y House Party, opens 6 pm) 419 N. Highway (Rte 27),
is November 21 116th St & Bway; 854-3574 days'
. Southampton, 1I; 5161283-5001.Hllfield's(women's nights are TUE & FRI) 126-10 Queens Blvd., Kew
Gl'llnd Central (closed Mon, 2·4-1 drinks ThursdaV) 210 Merrick Road,
Gardens, Queens; 718/261-8484<, Rockville Centre, 1I; 5161536-4800*Mike Todd Room at Palladiuni (Panty Girdles with Sister Dimension)
Magic Jouch (ethQic miX: Anglo/latln/Asian) 73-13 37th Rd, Jackson
123 E 13 St; 473·7171,
Heights, Quee"s; 718/429-8605'• Millennium (Ladies' Night) lno NY Ave (Rte 110), Huntington, LI;
Monster (West Village) 80 Grove St at Sheridan Sq.; 924-35,57
516/351-1402
Spectrum (good mix of gay !!len & lesbiens; closed Mon-Tue, WED free,
OctagOn (Patrick's Friday Night Jam Session, primarily gay men of color;
THU free & 2·4-1 drinks, FRI mal8/female strippers, SAT recording
free muchies; opens 11 pm) 555 W 33 St; 947-0400
stars, SUN variety show & free- admission
9-10 pm; Coors selVfld)-Private Eyes (YMVA Night, students, professionals, men) 12 W 21 St,
btwn5th/6th Aves; 206-m2
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Duchess II, 70 GroveSt (7th Ave.), 242·1408(Women)

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

Dugout, 185 Christopher St., 242·9113 (formerly
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Gents, 360 W 42 St.,(9th Ave), 967~659•

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

Eighty Eights, 228 W lOSt., 924-0088..,

Chelsea Transfer, 131 8th Ave. (bet. 16th & 17th),•
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The Hangout (J's), 675 Hudson St., 242..9292

Eagle's Nest, "42 11th Ave (21st St.), 691·8451

Julius, 159 W. 10th St, 929-9672

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

Keller's, 384 West St. (at Christopher), 243-1907
Kelly's Village West, 46 BedfordSt., 929-9322

Rawhide, 212 8th Ave., (21st St.), unlisted.

Marie's Crisis, 59 Grove St (7th Avef, 243-9323

Spike, 120 11th Ave., 243·9688

The Monster, 80 Grove St.
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Bogart's, 320 E. 59th St., 688-8534

New Jimmy's, 53 Christopher, 463-0950

Brandy's Piano Bar, 235 E. 84th St., 6so:.1944

Town & Country, 9th Ave at 46th St., 307-1503
Trix, 246 W. 48 Sf (8'way/Bth Ave), 664-8331
The Works, 428 Cofumbus
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Nin~h Circle, 139 W.l Oth St., 243-9204
Badlands, Christopher & West St., 741·9236•:Boots & Saddle, 76 Christopher St., 929-9684
Cellblock 28,28 9th, Ave, 733·3144 (j.o. club,
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The Cubbyhole,
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Crazy Nanny's, 21 7th Avenue South,366.6312(Women)P.t's Fat Cat, 281 W. 12th St., 243-9041,

G.H.
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Sneakers, 392 West St., 242-9830.

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

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

NY Confidential. 306 E49 St., 308-:8390

Ty's, 114 Christopher,741.9641.
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Uncle Charlie's, 56 Greenwich Ave., 255-8787

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

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Candle Bar, 309 Amsterdam Ave., 874-9155•

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

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

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Friend's Tavern, 78-:11 Roosevelt Ave., Jackson
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Denver, N.ew Orleans,:, ment:;ltion, throughout the eight years, ofHouston
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Stutz. 202 Westchester Ave, While Plains. 761-3100 to come. FDA, beware.
event featured speakers from ~eAnti, I believe:; ~t the ba~e. of Kansas
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City marked a turning P9int in the
as'well as campus activists, and a repre"
national AIDS movement From now on,
sentative of the Dinkins ~tion.
Bedrock,121 Woodfield Rd" West Hempstead,access to alt~mative and. holistiC treat- ,. " Noting ~thirony th3:t' die ariti-vi, 486-9516'(Women),mentS will hold a much more prominent ' olence rally, feU on N~tional Coming, position ,on our political agenda. Con- "Out Day, .Barnard student, ,and Pink
Blanche, 47·2 Boundary Ave.; Fanningdale, 'c694-6906
ventional Qledicine has failed to fi,nd a'P,anther. member Samantha Palaz6lacure, ;uid people with immune system
told-the crowd of nearly 300 'gay nien
Grand Central, 210 Merrick Rd. Rockville Centre,
disordersareincreasingly
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acuandlesbians: "We canno~ let them531).4,800
puncture, herl:>s, vitamins, diet changes, 'make us' invisible,., We are 'going to
PalJJeA 2457 .JeruBmAla..,f'bth
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arid mentaV sPiritual therapies helpful. ," fight back for our ljves.",,', FII,Cing.the medical establishmenrs. Calling for quick passage in next
Sit.-erUrirl/. 175 CIEny Lare, NENv /t,'de,Park. 354-9641
fierce resist~nce to anything threat- .' yeats l~tive
session of the state-wide~tion House Pub, 3547 Merrick.Rd, ~eaford,
ening their monopoly, we'll have to ' hate qirite$ bill, Kramer POinted,but that
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the , one reason \he senate has failed to pass,Victories AIDS :ktivists win for freedom
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sexualitY. "I don1t care if thew think I'm,<";'" '.4,9,419 North HighwaV (Rt. 27),&;uthampton,
thiscountry.
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COLUMBIA
Bunkhouse, 192 N. Main St. Sayville', 567-2865'to legislative linact!,90 that is gOing to acCon tin u - d • rom p - g, 5celetate the rate1:hat I get therel,~
Cheny's, Bayview Walk, Cheny Grove, Fire'/Sland.
problem,·
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alluding
totheIn the laSt several years', Columbia
597-6820' , ', very grave, problems, tha,t the university , has had severaI'highiXbfile security P~. Club SWamp DiSco/Annex Restaurant, Montauk, ~ had with ,its Securlty~ in the past. , " lems,inclu~g
incident -,1;1styear 10
Hwy,Wainscott, ~7~3332', "Theinciderit was not the first anti- ',,' 'which a studei:1t:was' rape,d, allegedly by agay encounter' Kramer and his
member of the Columbia security fon::e. T, .Ice Palace, Cheriy Grove,Beach Club, Fire Island,, ions had that eVening,' nor ~it
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Columbia's security force fail to respond,Continued.rom pag_ ',3adequately to the threat of ~ted viClub 608, 608 Sunrise Hwy., W. Baby/on., 661-9580
1. ,,olencei Just as the four left the first-Friday- . dfess ~d asked aRJago~c questions.
Millennium, 1nONY Ave, Huntington, 351-1402
of-the-month. dance for lesbians and gay
According.to Charles Campisi, the,inen,organIzed
by the camptisgay andcommanding'
officer at the,6th Precinct•
Stall, 836 Grand Boulevard, Deer Park, 242-3857,
lesbian group, they met a group of three
in'tlje West Village, there ~ve been few
Thunders,
894" W. Jericho Tpke., Sm~1410
teenage boys hanging near the entrance tocomplaints about the Ninth Circle. He,
the dance who were loudly making antitold Out Week that he believed ,comgay and anti-lesbian remarks. ,,"NEW JERSEY '(201)___ ~...;..
plain~; about drug dealing :at the bar,
Th(l four approacli~ a Columbia
had gone directly to, the narcotics urut's,
Charlie's West, 536 Main St" E. Orange, 678-5002
security officer and asked him to check , special ~c:khotline,'out
the situation, but as they watched,"These, raidS are done throughQut
Feather's, 77 Kinderka"1ack Rd., River Edge, .
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Friendly's Bar, 11310.Pert Ave.; West New York.
without explQring their c()IDpiaint. '"'nle fai:;tthat it h,appet,led a~ a gay bat is
1J54:.9895\"If the university is not pi'ovidingad; , ,just iilcidental.·equate heightened ~ty[during wideThe '14 arrestees were held overExcalibur; 10tti & Jefferson, Hoboken, NJ, 795-1023
ly publicized lesbiab. aria gay' events], it
the weekend and released on ,their:own
Nite Lite~ 509 ~~d St., Union City, 863-9515 " 'would make sense to 8et it Pink Panther ,. recognizance. Their next trial date', is set
platoon ,!Oing, probably recruited fromfor Oct. 17:'
Vibrations, 165 Ceda(Lane, Teaneck, 836-5518.
,'I- students," remarked Kramer. "I think theJbe last gay bar believed to have .
Yacht Club; 366 Berkshire Valley Rd., Jefferson,
students here would welcome it" "been raided by police was Blues, a pub
697-9780'
To highlight the grim' reality of anti--: in Midtown popular with Black gay
gay and anti-lesbian violence on campus,
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Come join our new semeSter.Dily &,'Eve clesses avail. N.Y. School ofAmerican Sign Language (212) 679, SIGNFRENCH All. LEVELS. PRIVATELESSONS$2O/hr. Experienced Native Teacher.
Also .conversation groupl Your place
or ,mine (W.23rdSt) 212-255-1587,

HOT mlPPERS•

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DIAl-N-ACT PRODUCTIONS, INC.
Singing telegrams, female imper•.
sonators,
psychics" celebrity look-a-likes.
212-861-2438, 718-279-4215, 516-4870826-

S-T-R-I-P-P-E-R-S
The BeSt For Lessl
Free Gift (718) 338-2438

ABSOLUTELY THE TOP ACTS IN NYC
GOLDEN LAND CONNECTIONS; INC.
Bands, DJ's, Magic, all affairs
traditional to bizarre 683-7816

APARTlflT
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ONE OF NrS RARnY
Very hardworking lovely European
Lady will clean your apt, press yourclothes, do lite cooking. ·Oh, yes, I do
windows as well" Special attention
paid to organizing wardrobes. Pleasecall 212-406-2191 ~CLEANCUT APT. CLEANER
By attractive young men' •718-522-5820
212:866~0820
Nude or dressed available _' ", APARTMENT CLEANING

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SERVICES'I,I"-, domestic chores. 212-886-1857.
Leave message. Refs. avail.

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ANSWERING/BEEPINGNOICE MAIL
as low as $12.50/monthCall Business Office(212)874-9687$15,IMO NO EXTRA FEES
10 DAY FREETRIAL UNLTD MESSAGES
24 Hour answering/mail service
AMEX by phone
212-460-5396

CASTLE CARE
By Village C.C. Inc.
,Gay owned, reliable.
. Office open Monday through Friday
Cleaners available 7 days.
212-475-2955,$8 PER MONTH $8
ANSWERINFIPM!L $8-, 900, 970, 540 'S, FAXOUTSIDE NY 1-81JO.348-O!iOO
SUITE 401 545 8TH AVE. 868-1121 'APARTlflT
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Thorol!9h apartment cleaningfrom top to bottom
reliable and efficient
weekly/bi-monthly service available
seven days 9-6 (212)645-9197•

W4O'S BetWEEN 10 1& 11
Spacious sunny loft in prewar
doorman bldg. Fplc, parquet floors, 11-1/2 ceilings. Gourmet kitchen. 0 K tolive or work. $1700 per mo. Available
11~15-90. Call 967-0934* 212-246-0835 * .
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Wood bookcases & cabinet/drywall~all Gilson (212) 472-9394,

ARI BIY/SEII,LARGEST SELECTION Buy-SellTrade-Locate
Warhol, Wesselman,lichtenstein, Crash, Hockney,
Kostabi and others Daniel Acosta
ARTSOORCE, Inc. 212:255:6680 FAX
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REAL ESTATE; COOP/CONDO
CLOSINGS BANKRUPTCY;INCORPORATIONS; WILLS
37 E.28TH STREET'SUITE '700 NYC(212)-447-0636, I, J ,:.,""

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Widest selection of current titles,, intluding British and foreign lan, guages. Monthly lists of new titles.
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Philadephia, PA 19107
Outside PA call (800) 222·6996
In,PA call (215) 923-2960•,

CHIROPRACTOR
Preventive and rehabilitative care
853 Broadway, Suite 1717
New York, NY 10003
212-4,73-2273

COMPllfRS

EXCLUSIVELY FOR THE GAY MALE
Hot, Exciting and Suggestive.
Two-Disk Sampler just '$19.95.
For your IBM-CompUter.
For free information call:
1-800-726-8919
Or write:
The Ma~er's Workshop
Post Office Box 1602 ..
New Albany, Indiana 47151-7602\,

FREE ESTIMATt--"

in a unique Big Business Opportunity
Then Phone (415) 873-7366

A computer BBS.
Use your m.odem.
(212)121-41. FREEl-

CARPENTRY} SHEa ROCKPAINTING / PLASTERING.
REASONABLE RATES.
CAU. stEVE: 212-228-3183\

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LICENSED ELECTRICAL•CONTRACTOR
Repairs and New Installations.
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Courteous, Professional Service.
Available Eves. and Weekends.
(718) 782-4735

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Danny 779-0188.:.!i: ,;., ,¥~ ?:iii:·:,:·f. *,141 ?':,::? ,,!:#i. :i)i:!: i"I

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tobacco. Frail soft drinks/snacks. All
kinds of music. Rocky's Casbah 320, West 15th St (bet8/9)
212-727-8326.

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Andrew Weiser (212) 721-4480
The Corcoran Group

NY's premiere private party space.
Dancing w/state of art, sound/video.
,Up to 125 Soho 212-353-07,07

EXPUCrr ADULTS-ONLY SOFTWARE
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Our Community
Buy and Sell Real Estate
Since 1980

Cabinets, closets, drywall, ceramic
tile. Refs. Call Mike at 212-807-6737"

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CO-OPS/CONDOSCARPENTER - PERFECTIONISTKEITH HARINGSPECIALIST,,,

W. 16th St bet 6thflth Ave. 130K.
Designer,eat-in kitchen, hardwood
firs. Track lighting. Many extras.
Elevator building.
LOW MAINTENANCECALL 212-239,.()919

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Published, experienced professional.
-Ten years in field'seeks freelance- projects. Call for appointment. 212627-0415

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AWARENESSTRAINING.

Permanent Hair Removal
Airflow Technique /I.B. ProbeCOMPLIMENTARY CONSULTATIONPROFESSIONALLY OPERATEDPRIVATE GR. VILL OFFICE(226 West 4th St., NY NY 10014 lower
level
Kenueth Hay/ Certified/Electrolysis
Member I.G.P.E.
By AppOintment Only.
(212) 721-'1850

counseling212'''',6006,

SURVIVORS OF TOXIC PARENTS
Are they still under your skin? Cillar, yourself thru group therapy.lnsurance accepted. Village area. (212)473-5962

ANALYST (CEmF.)

25 YRS EXP 'Also hypnoanalysis, emotional
release options. Caring. Low-mod. I.
fee.
FREE CONSULTATION (212) 794-9619

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QUALITY DENTISTRY AT AFFORDAJLE FEESWE CATER TQ COWARDS
SelVing the gay cjlmmunity
for over 10 years.
211 First Avenue, Suite 407 (212)4739002

DISC JOCKEYS'
LETS PARTYI.
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with Scerri Quality Wood Floors+.
. Specializing in. in~ajation &refinishing. We will design, install,stain & finish your WOOdwork to yourtaste. Custom baseboards, moldings,
saddles, chair rail.s,
doors, built-ins, et,c. No middleman ..•THE RIGHT CHOICE. ' ,designer quality/affordable rates.
Showroom ...by appt(212) 472-067'1 ",I

FUTON BED
$300 COMPLETE$150 FRAME
721-4870I

GET INTO SHAPE"•GAY SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTISTSSDA Kinship, a support group of selfaffirming Lesbians, Gays andbisQXuals with an Adventist background, pro)fides fellowship,
understanding and love.
P.O. Box 3840
Los Angeles, CA 90078~3840(213) 876-2076(213) 662-8656,(509) 525-~ll2 TOD--- ,-----MORMONS'

Support group for l!lsbian/Gay
AFFIRMATIONPO Box 46022
Lps Angeles, ,CA.90046(213)255-7251

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$12 + $2 Shipping & Handling
Send to: GALAlKC
POB 3406 KC, KS. 66103-1)506, BLACK GAY VIDEOS

Have your own private trainer guide
you through a program of exercise
designed specifically for you in a
private fully equipped Nautilus gym. _, , Call Michael Wright(212) 633-9706 (Certified)Fm. Med.
W. Orange, NJ(201) 731-1535,'.

14 new videos (full-length, boxed,cream of the crop), 6 mags (mintcond)$130 John:(212) 982-0318 ,(j ,,PERSONAL TRAINER

NUTRmONAL MEDICINESTEVE BELT, M.D.

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ment, employee be~eflte, Income tax.
eeta~e and pereoncare planning, pre.
death.llfe./lI8II18nee eattlemen\8? We're "experienced In HIV diae.ae oOUneeling./:
CaUor free; conau/tatlon & fee estimate. I
MidtownNYC.
'(2'12)697-2580 !

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Lesbian and Gay CenterWe seek ambitious go-getter to workin busy fundraising offic~. BA andw.p. skills required. This is a I!upport
staff position with+oom to grow.
Salary in low $2O's + good benefits.
Resumes to: Personnel
Lesbian' & Gay Community Services
Center
208 West 13th Street
New York, NY 10011'

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319 East Ninth Street
NYC 10003

212/228-5153-

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NEED INTELUGENT MALE
with computer and office skills PLUs
household supervisory tllients to r
, assist inundated physician. Requirereferences flexibility ,& committment'
Offer growth opportunity. Send work
& skill res'ume + background info to:
Mr. Leo Ruggles, Box 23K 496A
Hudson Street, NY, NY 10014
MEDICAL STUDENT WANTED
for chart review, library research.
Contact Arnie (212)517-2850

HIIISJIC HfAIIH '•NATIONALLY KNOWN PSYCHICCOUNSELOR
just relocated to NYC. If you need to ,better understand any aspect or your' I"
life, and want to tum your goals into
realities. Experience this unique levelof insight and support. 'CALL DAVID(212) 535-0256
TRANSFORMATIONCONSCIOUSNESS
Exploring dance technique on the
body thru inner and outer energy
flow using fabrics/textures, healing
tools and relaxing music. Event tailordesigned for individual preferences.
Consultation prior to appointment,(NO SEX!)Joy Abounds
San Francisco, CA.(415)
863-5824
In NYC/CT thru 8/31

HOUSE KEEPER WANTED.
Rockland County Hudson View 30 Min.
North of GW Bridge small apt. w/
utilities & separate entrance included
plu,s $100/wk. 20 hours indoor/outdoor
work/wk Call 914-358-7862 Must !lavecar.

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IUTIIII has several free- .'CHANGE WITH HYPNOSIS
Wide range of problems helped byI,ance positions for talented,exp'd multi-skilled certif. caring
NYC-based writers with a .' therapist Low-mod fee. R. Hamilton,
M.A. 212-794--9619
nose for news. 'Journalism,i
experience and queer politicalsavvy a plus. Interested
INSURANCE. .. ,reporters should send a...of BVllry kind
resume and Clipsto:',,r

RECEPTIONIST WANTED 'Typing, phonework, and bookkeeping
experienced a must. M-F4:30pm9:00pm and 10:00-5:00 on Sat
Psychotherapy office serving lesbian
and gay community, familiarity w/
lesbian & gay community required.
C,ontact Marlene or Henry 212-7999432,-

GAY AND LESBIAN BOOKSTORE, ' Now hiring, book experience
preferred. Women & people of color
especially welcome. Please phone
212-989-4850. Monday through ~'thursday from 1 pm to 6 pm and ask
for Dan.

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Brooklyn Women'sMartialArts• 5-Week Self-Defense Course for Women~I• Karate and rai Chi Chuan Classes for Women• Self- Defense Workshops for lesbianS and Gay Men• Children's Self Defense Classes• Workshops in, the Community and the WorkplaceI,

HIIISIIC HfAIIH

Sliding fees'

Free childcare

Call for more info and to register (718) 788-1775
421 5th Avenue, Park Slope, Brooklyn 11215(LOVE SPELLS)
Renowned Reverend George
specializes in reuniting & uniting
lovers in air problems - Lover!Jnfaithful? All else fails? Try me. Free
counseling. 212-536-0377,,

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EOE.Women and' people of color, encouraged to apply.

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RECEPTIONIST/CLERI•CAL ASSISTANT
NYC Gay & Lesbian Anti-Violence
Project seeks organized andenthusiastic person to provide officesupport,including telephOne
answering, word processing, filing,data entry. Must type 45wpm; prioroffice experience, gay/lesbiancommunity experience, andfamiliarity with computers (WP 5.1)
~elpful. Hours 12 noon- 8pm. Salary
to $18,000. Full benefits. Women andpaopleof color encouniged to apply .
Send resume & letter to: AVP, 208
Wast 13th Street, NY, NY 10011.

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Exp'd w/professional Dancers& serious .Athletes
BRIAN (212) 868-2797
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Mall ord.r' c.talogu. of fin. art
c.l.brating the male 10rm -:: photol,
all, Iculptur., pen Ii ink, ,acrylic•• 85 p.r copy. Ganym.d. Gallery
Pru Box IJ8.W, Bolton, MA 02199.
Mult be 21'. Tel. ~11.437.9588.
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Profess/onal and Reliable.
Slrvlng the Gay Community 1ay.a .... Senllt!V., fun p.opl. who iat
the Job .don. right with no bull.hit
Llc:.nl.d Dar 10188. In.urad.
"Re •• onabl. atorlga, rat... ,,PI.no'·Art~Antlgu •• , ,PackIng. MO\'lng SUppll••• 428

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Prompt and Professional
storage. Available
Last Minute Jqb.
(201) 434·5308

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deslgn.d bldg. ~ecur. ? ; hr .cc ....
INTERNATrONAL:Chril'tla'n SCI.n, Receptionlft, conf ml, xerox, tax,
tlsta .upportlng Lasb'ana end. Gay , ,~luepr.'"til)g.~From $780/mo. No f•••men. For subscrl~lon. and Informa" ",1ST MO FREE..Call Michell. '212.242. _, tlon write:' "'223$.
P.O. Box 581
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W. GuY' PHOTOG~PHY ,Headshots/BodVshots/PQrtfolio
212-58N402(212)'447-5555(718) 251-5151 ',' ,, 0111288-1811

PHOTOGRAPHY LESSONS,,

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amat.u'r to artistically stagnant profl.
From $2~/hr. (2121,238-1081 ,,NO Extra for TraVel TifT16
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Painting, Plestering, Sh.atrocking,Spackling, ~arpentry. Prof! work "STATEN ISLAND • ~AMILTON PARK,
Better rates. Free ~st.(212) 254-0~ , Historic St. Circa '1880's -Rambling
Excel. refs. Call us and then 'decide.
, Victorian,'-DRAMATIC IMPACT. ,YOU nESERVE THE BEST ,, Winding Staircase,' Stained Gla88,
Painting, Sheetrock, Paperhanging,
fireplaces, library, pock.t doors, 5Carpentry. AffOrdable, Satisfaction .. ,bedrooms, 3 baths, wrap arounda88ured. Call Greg ,(718) 723-4008
varenda, lerg. prop.rtyl
Asking $220,000
WE ARE CHEAPER, FAmR AND." . , Pearl Foreman R.alty • 718-273.5482
better looking than all these otherpaintars. C.II Josh 212-/IG8-8357\
OUT OF YOUR CLOSn, and Into your, fabulQUS 750 SF ~SD/ ''70'. 1BR/1,Bw/full p.rk/Riv VUI. New
PIITI81IP,IY
renov, 10 mt. No bOlrd approval. Atks
, only S190K n.g. Call G.orge Byars,
EROTIC B/W PORTRArrt,
Kauber R.alty, your Upp.r West Sid.
Give yoursalfa special gift,
Broker.
or to soma one you love(Question,aboutbuying w/yoursens\lal portraits for men
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212-588-4401 '
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Residential, (j()mmerCilll,Sales, ,Rentals & Roommates - 407-774-S961.

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incredible 900SF private decked roof.
High cllilings/dtamlltic. A must seet
Asking $420K'.
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45 minutes to S.F. ,For Personal Real Estate, Service
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Re!lidential, Commercial or 1nVIIS,tment properties? 1031 Exchanges?
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Syracuse, NY 13220'

RECOVERINGALCOHOLIC GAYMEN•THERAPY GROUPS NOW FORMING•.
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Gay Affirmative Therapy• individuals I Couples• Alcoholi.m and Sub.tance AbulO'• , ACOA and CODA I.IUII,• Care.r.nd Prof... lonal Blocks• S.wal Compuilion
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King Henry Arms (305) 561-«1039
543 Breakers Avenue 33304

COMPASSIONATE,CARING THERAPIST
Supportive individual & couple
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Sliding Scale Fees,

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For discreet gay business traveler.
Gay owned/operated, catering tomixed clientele. 101 5th St NE
Washington, DC 20002 (202) 547-1050

KEY WESTS NEWEST
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Private marble baths; decks,
kitchens, spa.
414 Simonton Street
Key West, FL 33040(800) 648-3780

HOTEL SHELBYToror:rto'S Inn-expensive
Bed &. Breakfast Hotel,.
Rel80nable rates include: '*Continental Breakfast,*AlC Color T.V., Phone*Daily maid 8ervice. *Summer Courtyard*Purple Cactus Bar &. Grill .
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For reservations cIIi (418) 921-3142 'Toll free (800),387-4788
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Hollywood, FL 33019(305) 923-2100
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The Atherton Hotel. San Francisco's
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Charming rooms. Just $59 single or
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1708 16th Street NW(202) 332-5550(800) 673-9042

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Comfortable * Relaxing * Romantic...very conveniently located...reasonably priced.
2504 "A" Street ..San Diego, CA 92102.
(619) 239-4738

HOTEL RIVERVIEWIN GREENWICH VILlAGE
Neer cafes, clubs &. discos. Ample
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113 Jane corner West St 929-0060'.

INWOOD MANOR

Historic Country Inn.
Serene wooded setting.,
Vermont/New Hampshire boarder, RD " Box 127
Barnet, VT 05821(802) 633-4047

NEW YORK CrTY
Deluxe bed and breakfast. 'A great getaway forlover ••No smoking.
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BED AND BREAKFAST_
Restored 1906 Victorian Inn On the ,River
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,Ten Bedrooms, Master Suite with,sunken tub.
Pool, TV Room, Gym.
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The warmth &. comfort of a European
Country Inn with breakfast in bed.
Telephones. Moderate rDte•• 1st,
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Hospitality"
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Rates for two include: .
Full breakfast;
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Convenient to: Castro, Haight'
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800-SF-NOLAN
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