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What's going on here?
On the one hand, we are presented with imperfect but
growing evidence that new treatments exist to prevent the onset
of full-blown
AIDS in HIV infected people. AZT, DOl,aerosolized pentamidine and bactrim are touted as being breakthrough drugs, and that's great. But on the other hand, these·
treatments are unavailable to the vast majority of those in need.
Clinics that can monitor people's T-cell counts and begin timely preventative care are full and accepting no more patients.
Aerosolized pentamidine programs are not set up in local hospitals
and may not be for a year or more. AZf isn't paid for by Medicaid
until a person's immune system (and bank account) is so depleted
that the full preventative benefits can no longer be realized. T-cell
testing is prohibitively expensive for most.
It seems an almost deliberately cruel hoax that the govern,ment feels free to dangle the prize of health to the HIV-infected
and then withhold that prize to most. It's especially bizarre considering that the cost of prophylactic
care, even given
Burroughs-Wellcome's criminal price gouging for AZT, is still far
less than the government's inevitable financial burden when it
ends up caring for those who fall to the full onslaught of AIDS.
So what's the deal? How can our "leaders" be so stupid?
The answers are the same as they have been since the beginning of the epidemic: inertia, homophobia, racism, stupidity,
cheapness, cowardice, passive genocide. The same responses
that groups like ACT-UP have mounted against these horrors in
the past must be escalated to new heights, because now witheffective treatments in existence but unavailable, the battle ismore than ever one of life and death.
We stand at the verge of a huge potential disaster or awell-deserved salvation. While 100,000 have already been diagnosed with AIDS, many, many times that number are fast
approaching that bleak condition. Although the new therapies
aren't perfect, although scientists show their contempt for us byruling through press releases instead of published studies,
although legitimate questions are unanswered and drug companies continue their gouging, nevertheless a clear concensus isemerging: Pre-AIDS is becoming treatable and full-blown AIDS
often preventable.
To take advantage of this situation people must strive totake control of their lives and their health by getting tested ormonitoring their T-cell counts. But testing and monitoring areuseless, and can be psychological disastrous, without subsequent access to treatment. If it takes a revolution to achieve
such access for all, never was a revolution more justified.
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LETTERS
Gulf In Tomchln'.
Resolution?
I riwa-tS read letters andarticles by Larry Kramer
because I coo alwa-tS counton their anger, criticism andpassion(as wei as ther wordnessmd abrasJveness)-sentiments I hope I shae with him.
n you 4 September Issueyou
print his newest attack on
GMHC followed by GMHC
Boad PresidentJ~ Tomc:hln's
response(Xeroxed,Sept.4).
Idon't know if aUof Larry's
criticisms are valid, but I do
know that Ms. Tomchln
responded with hot dr. Herletter Is nothing but endless,bland and meaninglessrhetoric,filed with se\f-congratuatlons ood gloatk"lg,and sklrtng aI of LaIY's pohts. It'shad-

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Iy the stuff of leadership. How

U"lattractive.How frightening.
Larry, right or wrong, atleast brings up serious,timely,
relevant Issues. If Tomchln's
responseto him Is representative of the GMHC board's attltude, that's all the morereason to give Larry'saitlcisms
careful consideration.
One of the rare times
Tomchln makes a concrete
point n her letter Is something
I can personally respond to.
She says, " ...we often survey
the people we serve to findout how we can do more.'
Oh, really? I've been a.
GMHC client for four and ahalf years and haven't once
been sllVeyed.
Craig Rowland
Manhattm

September 11, 1989

.1he Real Deal
The Gay Men's Health
Crisis' decision to change
their policy on HIV antibody
testing has serious Implications In regards to access tohealth care services forminorities, women, the uninsured, gay/bisexualmen
and adolescents.
In principle, there Is noquestion that the HIV antibody test Is a reliable anduseful first step towards
assessinga person's need to
begin early treatments for
HIV disease. However, todate there Is an extreme
shortage of primary care,crucial for medical management and monitoring of HIVInfected'
people,andseverely limited access tohealth care services for the
majority of populations at risk
for HIV/AIDS.
The advertisements andpublic service announce-

ments placed by GMHC suggested that people "think
about..:
getting the HIV
antibody test "because if
you test positive, now there
are choices.' Drugs such as
All and prophylaxis such as
aerosolized pentamidine to"prevent some AIDS-relatedIllnesses' as well as monitorIng your immune systemusing diagnostic testing,specifically T-cell subsets,
were given as the compelling reasons to seriously
consider taking the HIV antibody test. Although thesethree areas are important,they are expensive, notreadily available and represent only one component of
the total medical management of people who are HIV
seropositive. People with HIV
Infection require comprehensive medical services
deliveredby providers
expert In determining thesubtle changes In health status due to HIV disease. There
are a variety of symptomatic
treatments
availableformany of the medical problems associatedwith HIV
which often occur in theearly stages of infection. For
example, many HIV seropositive people have dermatological conditions, fungal
infections, gastro-intestinal
complications,other viral
syndromes such as herpes
and cytomegalovirus
andare susceptible to reactivation of syphilis and tuberculosis. All of these conditions aswell as managing All andprophylaxis against pneumocystic carinii pneumonia ..
(PCP) require ongoing medical
monitoring
which
includes timely follow-ups
and diagnostic testing.
At the same time that
GMHC announced its campaign to encourage people
to take the HIV antibody
test, Dr. Louis Sullivan, theSecretaryof Health andHuman Services, stated at aconference in Washington
on HIV Infection CTld Minorities that the federal government would promote andfund expanded
HIV antibody testing but would notprovide funds for the support
services necessitatedbysuch massive testing. Dr.
Anthony Fauci, the Directorof NIAID admitted,
at thesame conference, that adolescents, even homelessyouth who could be considered independent
minors,could not get access to prophylactic
treatment
programs under their control.
Two weeks
before
GMHC held their press conference, they met with representatives of other AIDS
service organizations.
The
majority of these organizations raised strong objections
to GMHC's policy c;hange
because of their firsthandknowledge of the lack of low
cost, accessible health carefor their service populations.
In response GMHC told thegroup that at the press conference to announce thepolicy Change,
GMHC'sencouragement of HIV antibody testing would be coupled with a statement
demanding
that
Mayor
Koch keep his promise to
make health care services
available to every New Yorker who needs them. GMHC is
not an expert in the planningand implementationofhealth care delivery systems.
Even when funding is available to enhance or expand
health care for HIV infected
people,
the
time
lag
between the allocation offunding and implementationof these services is a minimum of 12 months, andproblems due to site locationand critical shortages ofhealth care providers sometimes cause indefinite delays
in beginning operation.

It is unfortunate
that
GMHC is perceived by the
media as the spokesperson
for the AIDS service community, especially in light of theextraordinary
response
mounted by the lesbian andgay community at large inregards to AIDS. If GMHC
had strongly emphasized thelack of access to healthcare services that people
need if they test HIV seropositive then at least they would
have complete information
to use in their decision-making process. By not doing
this, GMHC has chosen tominimize the real issue in the
HIV/AIDS epidemic ...the lackof accessible, appropriate
and affordable health care.
Rona Affoumado
Executive Director
Community Health Proj.
A. Damien Martin, PhD
Executive Director

Hetrick-Martin InstituteRodger MacFarland
Vice Chairman, Bd. of Dir.
AIDS Resource Center

Getting Over Get Over It
I thought that OufWeek
was a magazine for all of
New York's lesbian and gay
communities. Yet your editorial "Get Over It" (OutSpoken, August
21 issues)
seemed to be written as if
only the most privileged
among us were reading it.
"Get over it. Get tested:
you wrote. And then what?
Wait months for a free T-cell
test, if you can get one atall? Then quit your job, andempty your bank accounts,
so you can qualify for Medicaid? And then wait moremonths to receive "care" ata city hospital or clinic, if you
can get it all? Or wait until
you're sick enough to be

CLOSE SHAVE FOR GOETZ
Macho man jailbird Bernie (Shoot First. Ask Questions Later) Goetz
has once again managed to shoot off something (in this case, his mouth)
before getting all the facts. Seems Bernie's slightlV uptight about being
forced to shave with used razors, thinking they can give him AIDS. So
nervous has he become that he's refusing to return his own razors tocorrection authorities, prompting them to sentence him to an additional
two weeks in the slammer. We say let him keep the razors, just throw
away the key.
Photo: Bill Biggart/lmpact Visuals

September 11, 1989

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taken to an emergency
room, where you can sit fora few days before being
seen by doctors who may or
may not have heard ofaerosolized pentamidine,
who won't do the paperwork for trimetrexate, andwho don't have access toearly-intervention All?
Even for those few lucky
enoughto have either
health insurance or a large
fortuneavailable
to besquandered on the medical
and pharmaceuticalindustries, the imperious tone ofyour editorial was uncalled
for. As was the ridicule ofthose who doubt All, or the
HIV theory,or are concerned about the psychological consequences of apositive test. Serious andtragic medical and economic issues require morethan oversimplified rhetoric.
I expected more from

OufWeek.
Steve Quester
Manhattan
Getting Over Optimistic
When you wrote an editorial about preventing "theonset of AIDS indefinitely" byusing All in conjunction withpentamidine(OutSpoken,
Aug. 21) presumably youwere referring to the CDC
definition of AIDS that looks
narrowly at PCP pneumonia
and one or two other opportunistic infections.
While it is true that PCP
is largely preventable,
it iscurrently untrue to say that
AIDS is largely preventable.
As for now the only sure way
to avoid AIDS is through safesex (and not sharing works).
OutWeek has a responsibility to its readers to balance
optimism
withaccuracy.
After all. when
AIDS is preventable, safe sex
will no longer be necessary.
Barry Canter
Manhattan
Quit Calling It"Quilt Calls it Quits"
The Quilt calls it quits

8

OUTTWEEK(OutWeek Sept 4)? Never.
The NAMES Project is committed to assembling anddisplaying the Qqilt until thelast person has died of AIDS.
The display in Washington willbe the last time the Quilt isseen in its entirety
only
because it will be too large

Treatment
Digest,andteach-ins to be the mostbeneficial.
When I heard that T&D's
Mark Harrington would be
writing the Political Sciencecolumn in OutWeek, I wasvery pleased. ~ it turns out, I
think that Political Science isfor any known space. The
appoximately 11,CXXJ
panelscoming to Washington are a
tragic representation of oneof every five people whohave died of AIDS, and the
Quilt will continue to tour insmaller sections to bring thereality of AIDS to communities in the United States andindeed the world. On display
in Washington will be panelsfrom all 50 states, from Australia, Canada,
Uganda,Braziland Europe. The Quilt isa remarkable memorial, one
which remembers the deadin overwhelmingly
humanterms, but which also educates the living in thetragedies of AIDS. Our commitment to the future honors
the past.
Nancy Blanford
Regional Representative
The NAMESProject

one of OutWeek's bestcolumns. It is well-written,
informative, and concise;
however, I was a bit put off by
Mark's attack on Randy Shilts
in the August 28th issuewhere
he unfairly compares Shiltsto
the Native's Charles Ortleb.
Mark says that in thebook, And the Band Played
On, Shilts "would have us
believe" Patient Zero "singlehandedly and knowingly
spread HIV from coast to
coast." Yes! Shilts did reportthat Gaetan Dugas (PatientZero) purposely had unsafe
sex after he had been diagnosed with AIDS without
informing his sexual partnersof his diagnosis. But Shilts
never implied that Dugas"single-handedly"spreadthis disease. A good readingof this book will reveal quite
the opposite.
Patient Zero was there
alright, but so was government complacency and the
Reagan Administration ($)
neglect. And Koch's. So was
the apathetic gay community, which so many of us werepart of. So were the bathhouse owners, the bloodbanks, and (hisss) Dr. Robert
Gallo. And more than that.
there were the early heroesof this epidemic like Larry
Kramer and Selma Dritz who
were screaming their heads

Zero Credibility
A year ago, I beganattending ACT UP meetings
at the Gay and LesbianCommunity Center on 13th
St. These meetings have provided me with an invaluable
source of information on the
HIV agenda; and, as a PWA
who's primarily concernedwith treatment
access toexperimental drugs, I find theTreatment and Data Committee's
weekly reports,

September 11, 1989

off when nobody else was.
And Mark Conant and Matt
Krieger and Bill Kraus andMatilde Krim and I don't
know how many different
faces of AIDS.Yet. I do knowthat it is probably one of thewarmest. compassionate,well-written books on thissubject that we'll ever read.
Although it's not without
fault. it's a gre.at piece ofjournalism as it chronicles
the sad history of this disease.
As far as AIDS activists
losing some sympathy at ourdemonstrations-Shiltsisright. We do! However (andI'm sure Mark would agree)
we get a lot more accomplished now upsetting people than we ever did frombeing silent. Yet we should
be fair in our reporting andmore accepting of others'
criticisms.
David Lopez
Manhattan
Majority Reaction
Thisletter refers to yourarticle, "Barriers, Solutions,
Creating Trust: The Minority
AIDS Battle" (August 28)
regarding the Washington
D.C. conference on AIDS in
racial and ethnic communities. Although the article didcover the agenda of AIDS
service workers, it neglected
the very issues the conference grappled with during
the week of August 13
through 17.
Let us begin with a few
particulars. Firstly, the conference was attended by atleast 4,500 representativesof communities of color, not1000 as you erroneously
reported. For five days these
4,500 participants engaged
in plenary ·sessions, workshops, face-to-face sessions
and caucuses. Disturbingly,
there was no mention of thecritical issues discussed inthese sessions. These issues
included health care as aright/nationalized
healthcare, the crisis of homelessness among PWAs,the inac-

cesslbility to drug trials forpeople of color, making
AIDS education
culturally
sensitive, the continuum ofcare, and numerous othertopics of vital importance topeople of color.
As members of ACT
UP's Majority Actions Committee and participants inthe conference,
we wereshocked at OufWeek's omissions and disappointed
atyour insensitivity and yourlack of journalistic
thoroughness. In the future, we
hope that when writing on
issues concerning our communities, you consult with afull spectrum of community
representatives.
We would also like tobring to your attention thatthe sole photographandcaptionaccompanying
your article did not accurately reflect the events atthe conference.
What iswrong with this picture?
Take a good look and you
will see that the photo aptly
depicts the effacement ofpeople of color in the fightagainst AIDS.
Selwyn Garraway
Carl Strange
Ron Medley
Michael Wiggins
Wahn Voon
Dan Williams
Lei Chou
Sharon Tramutola
Keith Cylar
Manhattan

Yipes, More Gripes
We have a few gripes
we would like to share with
OutWeek readers and thecommunity. First of all, we
are sick and tired of what is
termed "gay-baiting:
as If
being gay or lesbian is bad.
It seems that we have let
the conservative
heteroworld get away with using
what we are as an effective
slur. A fine example is thatduring the controversy withHouse Speaker Foley, inwhich it was implied that he
wa. gay, Bush said that thewhole episode was "disgust-ing.· Most of the emphasis
wa. placed on the fact that
this "family' man could notbehomosexual,
thandefending the integrity of
the lesbian and gay community. As usual being gay
seems to be on the samelevel as being a murderer.
Now about your magazine: 1) There is no reason foranyone to state that they
are gay or lesbian in the Personals. It is fairly obvious
what the sexuality of thereadership is. This is almost
as annoying as the use ofthetermstraight
acting/looking(sic). 2) The
Social Terrorism feature isfun, but why are the photos
taken at only two or threeclubs? 3) In the 8/28 Nightmare of the Week, you really fucked up. Not only did
you waste time by putting
yourselves in that spacewhen there are so manyassholes to go after, but theCoors logo appears faintly
but prominently in the background. What gives?!
Over all thanks for agood magazine. And keep
up the good work.
ErikSmith
Dan Hunter
Manhattan

Coors Confusion
In your August 28th
"Nightmare of the Week: inwhich the OutWeek editorial
staff is chastised for printing
the words "AIDS virus: I
noticed what appears to bea case of Coors beer in the
background.
I hope you
guys aren't drinking the
stuff!
Thomas F. Hickey
Manhattan
Nightmaresof theWeek of Aug. 28th Respond:
Perish the thought! In
fact. the object in question
is a postcard, sent to us mischeviously
by columnist
Bradley Bal/, which we Use
as target practice when werun out of Jesse Helms orDannemeyer pin-ups.

XEROXEDlevi Fan
Ms.Joy Tomchin,President
Mr.TimSweeney, Acting CEO
GMHC
Dear Joy and Tim:I am writing to congratulate you on your choice ofJeff Levi as liaison between
GMHC and the "parallel
track" clinical trials of NIHand
FDA. Jeff has always shown
Intelligence and strength andalways looksand sounds like asane gay person. He Is one of
the most knowledgeable persons I know about the Insand
outs of gays and AIDSpolitics.
Because of Dr. Anthony
FaucI's sclentlflc background,
It was not possibleto get alternative testing techniques In
place until the NIAIDwas convinced that people would not
be killed by non-traditional
clinical trials.Jeff knew this. He
did not believe the delay Indicated an anti-gay conspiracy. There Is no question In mymind that Levi was instrumental In the formation of the"parallel track" program (aswere Mathilde Krlm, Larry
Kramer and ACT UP). With
Levi'sconnections and experience It would be hard to
imagine a more effective liaison person to NIAIDand FDA.
You are to be congratulated
for you choice.
Bestwishes,
Herbert I. Cohen, M.D.
Manhattan
Risky Behavior
GMHC Board of Directors
Dear Joy Tomchin:
During the onset of the
AIDScrisisGMHC has been amajor force In disseminating
information and providing services to the Goy Communi1y.
The record of achievement
during the years of Its existence however has been
blemished by Incidents ofracism. In what would appear
to be an effort to address apeople of color perspective

on issuesconcerning GMHC,
Black and Latino advisory
panels had been formed. The
manner In which GMHC
chose to proceed In theplacement of ods concerning
HIV testlng- "Think AboutIt" -may Indicate that GMHC
has little Interest with Blackand Latino advisory Input. The
decisions made as to the content of some of the ads reflecta bias based upon racism.
Late Wednesday afternoon, August 9th, I had
received a foxed copy of theads which were destined toappear In Newsday, the VI/lage VOice, the New YorkTimes,fI Olario and the Amsterdam News. The faxed
copies also Included a message requiring a response by
Thursdayafternoon (next day)because of a Friday morning
deadline to place the ads.
Although my response Included several comments, the firstand most significant was concerning the ods' dissimilarities.
The responseread as follows:"The ad for fI O/arlo and
the Amsterdam News are different from the ad to beplacedIn theTimes,
Newsday. Voice etc .... If thegeneral feeling Is that statements should be made In thead about those who are at
risk,(HIV drug users,men who
have sex with men, sexual
partners of either group) thenwhy exclude this Informationfrom Newsday, the Voice,Times, OutWeek etc.? Why
should we assume that thereaders of THESEpapers aredifferently
Informed thanthose of EI OJaIo or the Amsterdam NewS?If it's necessary
Information to Include In one
ad, then It should be Important to Include In all of them. "Obviously non-minority
groups ALSO AT RISKneed
this Information. Is It GMHC's
SEE XEROXED on page 70

September 11, 1989

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News

Barney Frank's
Home Used for
Paid Sex Service
Male Prostitute Planning TV Movie

FRANK DISCLOSURES

Photo: Jim Marks

Rsp. Barns, Frankby Cliff O'Neill
WASHINGTON-Revelations
that agay prostitute used the Washington,
D.C. home of openly-gay Rep. Barney
Frank (D-MA) as the headquarters forgay and bisexual escort services havespurred a host of mixed reactions
from other Washington politicians,
Frank's Massachusetts constituents,
and the lesbian and gay community.
Republican congressmen lined up
to denounce the sharp-tongued liberal
Representative, and the Massachusetts
Republican party called for his resig-

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September 11, 1989

nation. But fellow Democrats went onrecord in support of Frank. Speaker ofthe House Thomas Foley (D-WA) said,"There is no more able, articulate andeffective member of the House ofRepresentatives than Barney Frank,"
according to the New York Times.
In his home district, which reelected him by a landslide margin in
1987 after he publicly disclosed that
he is gay, opinions ran from strong
support to unqualified condemnation,according to an August 30 article in
the Times.

Heading off demands for aninvestigation
by his opponents,aHouse ethics inquiry into Frank's conduct will soon begin at Frank's own
behest (see Sidebar). Such inquiries
may be launched on the grounds thatany member of the House has done
anything that could reflect poorly on
the House.
[Earlier this year, Frank co-signed
a letter requesting an ethics inquiry
into the actions of Rep. Gus Savage(D-IL). Savage has been charged withmaking unwanted advances towards afemale Peace Corps volunteer whileon a mission to the African nation ofZaire.]
As part of its summer-long seriesof front-page stories about male prostitutes and prominent Washingtonians(see Sidebar), the Washington Times
reported Aug. 25 that Steven Gabie, a33-year-old male prostitute and pimp,
ran prostitution services out of Frank's
Capitol Hill basement apartment for
two years after Frank paid him for sex.
"I regret it,· Frank told OutWeek.
"I have damaged the community's
standing and I have to make it clear
to people that my personal weaknesses do not reflect on anybody else.·
Secret Sex Service
Frank stated that in AUgust 1987,
after his landlord complained for thesecond time about unusual activity inFrank's home, Frank discovered thatGabie was running the service out of
the apartment, and then kicked him out.
Gobie, however, maintains thatFrank knew all along what was goingon and was living Vicariously throughhim, telling the Washington Post, "If[Frank] had been 20 years younger, hemight be doing the same thing.·"The notion that I knew what
was going on isFrank retorted. "It was the perfect set. up. I hired
him because I did feel sorry for him.·
Frank explained how Gobie could
have kept his illicit dealings secret.
"He knew a greaLdeal. He was theone who drove me to the airport. He
picked me up. He knew when I wasgoing. He knew when I was coming
back. And he was also in charge ofcrazy:

housekeeping at my place."
The Times reported that in 1985,
Frank, then not public about his
homosexuality,
answered Gobie's
escort ad in the Washington Blade, alocal gay and lesbian weekly newspaper. The ad read: "Exceptionally
good-looking, personable, muscularathlete is available. Hot bottom plus
large endowment
equals a greattime."
Frank has acknowledged that on
April I, 1985 he paid Gobie $80 cash
for sex. Afterwards, he said, a professional relationship between the twomen developed.
Although the Times reported
that the men were "lovers" throughout their relationship,
both menstate that the sexual relationshiptapered off after several months,
after which Frank hired Gobie withpersonal funds to be his chauffeurand housekeeper. Afterwards, Frankwrote several letters to Gobie's
parole officer on personal stationary, with congressional
letterhead,on Gobie's behalf.
Gobie, who has felony convictions for possession of cocaine, oral
sodomy and production of obscene
items involving a minor, has statedthat he was never formally employed
by Frank and that the job was just a"cover" for his parole officer.
In the two years he worked forFrank, Gobie also attended then-President Ronald Reagan's signing of an

Out of the Closet and into the FireWASHINGTON-National gay and lesbian political activists across Washington are supporting embattled Rep.
Barney Frank (D-MA) tftrough his
recent sex scandal involving his hiringof a male prostitute as a personal aide.
The consensus from activists isthat Frank will most likely survive thecontroversy, although not necessarily
without damage to his credibility,
based on the Massachusetts Democrat's personality and his immense
popularity in the House and in his
congressional district.
"If anyone can survive thisordeal, it's congressman
BarneyFrank," stated Robert Bray, communications director for the Human Rights
Campaign Fund.
Frank scored high marks withgay and lesbian leaders in the"forthright" manner in which Frank

has addressed the issue.
"I can't think of anything morehe could be doing to bring this issue
out into the open and [have itl disposed of," stated National Gay andLesbian Task Force Anti-Violence
Project Director Kevin Berrill.
But Bray added, -Barney Prankis a perfect example that when youlive in the closet and you carry a big
secret, you are susceptible to making
decisions that are against your better
judgment. ".
"Being in the closet~speciallywhen one is an important public figure-is enormously stressful and isolating," Berrill added.
"I don't think this would have
happened after his haVing come out,·
he added. "And it's unfortunate thatit's haunting him now."-<lfUO'Neill

immigration bill which was sponsored
by Frank, and played on Frank's congressional softball team.

that has irritated Gobie.
"This is not a case of a poor waif
who is being sheltered," Gobie told
the Post. "This is the first time he felt
good in a relationship. Here was a
guy who didn't have a social life until
he was 45."
In an Aug. 25 press conference
held in Newton, Mass., Prank told the
media that his evicting Goble led tohis decision to publicly acknowledge

Henry Higgins
Explaining his actions to thepress, Frank has likened himself toHenry Higgins, the characterinGeorge Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion
who took a street urchin under his
wing to reform her, a characterization

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his being gay. Prank added that he is
now in a long-term relationship.
Support from Democrats
Almost immediately after learningof the charges, Massachusetts Republicans called for Prank's resignation.
Massachusetts Democratic Party chairperson, Rep. Chester Atkins said,"[Prank's) personal life has nothing to
do with the way he performs his public duties.
Privately, Democrats and gay andlesbian activists have stated that if anyone could survive such a controversy,
Prank could. Similar reactions havecome from polls held in Prank's district, where he is immensely popular.
Gobie, meanwhile, has been regularly speaking to the media, explaining that his motives in coming
forward with his story were financial.
Gobie told the Post that he got
the idea to tell his tale while watching
the television movie The Mayflower
Madam, the true-life story of a highH

See BARNEY FRANK on page 58

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Primary Election Guide
NEW YORK-It took more than adecade of organizing, lobbying andcivil disobedienceto get the New
York City Council to pass legislation
protecting the rights of lesbians andgay men. The Council, though not themost highly-respected legislative bodyin the world, has considerable powerover our lives. And it will have evenmore, particularly in relation to thecity's $27 billion budget, under the
new City Charter.
Here are just a few of the things
which the City Counc.U could do in
the coming years, which would
impact directly on our lives:• Dismantle or strengthen existing
legal protection for gays and lesbians.
• Extend or veto full spousal benefits
to the domestic partners of city
employees.
• Shift the city's budget priorities tofund AIDS services.
There are primary contests inonly one-third of the council districts.
Two of the races-in
Manhattan's
third and fourth council districtsinclude openly gay candidates. Threeof the races include pro-gay candidates challenging council members
who opposed the gay rights bill when
it passed in 1986.
A number of council members
and candidates do not fully comprehend the idea of domestic partnership, are not sure how they feel aboutit, or support it only in its most limited application for bereavement leave.
These individuals are marked by "rin the domestic partnership column.
One candidate-Ray Cline, running in
Manhattan'S fourth district-merited a"?" for insisting that he supports
domestic partnership benefits, but
opposes "gay marriage.· Questions
about AIDS funding were posed to
candidates in a general way.
Candidates are inclined to say
what. they think they must in order towin. Nothing can drive these issues
home to these candidates and council

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members like being harassed. Callthem, write them, ask questions atforums. One council member (and acommunity ally at that) told OutWeekthat she had already answered "yourorganization's questionnaire," which
had been sent by FAIRPAC.She seemedto think that "gay" was a single organized entity. Another, also a community
supporter, referred to "AIDS victims·
and the "Gay Men's Health Club."The more visible the lesbian andgay community is to politicians, themore likely they will go beyond justvoting, and actively advocate for ourcommunity.
If you don't know what council
district you are in, FAIRPAChas provided the Gay and Lesbian Switchboard with directories and guides tothe candidates' stands on important
issues. Call the switchboard at (212)m-1800 for more information.
-sandor Katz

,~·The Book of Ruth

by Sandor Katz
NEW YORK-Although
Manhattan
has seven council members, ask Manhattan residents who represents themin the council, and chances are they'll
say Ruth Messinger. Or rather, Ruth,
since half the city seems to be on afirst-name basis with this ubiquitous
Upper West Side figure.
Messinger is the Council member
who-appropriately-had
thehonor of casting
the deciding votewhen the gay rights bill passed in 1986.
She backed the bill from her earliest
days in the Council and worked closelywith lesbian and gay activists to get it
passed.
She is universally acknowledged tobe the Councilmember who best under-

stands the City's complex budget
process, and has used her insider
position as a tireless advocate forincreased funding for AIDS services
and other city social service programs. In June, during a break in the
final hours of budget negotiations,she took a few minutes to marchwith ACT UP, which was demonstrating outside City Hall, demanding
increased funding for AIDS
services. Suddenly,
shelooked at her watch and excusedherself, for fear of what programsmight be cut in her absence.
With her tiny staff and a small
army of volunteers, Messinger has
been the most conSistently visible
progressive opposition to the Kochadministration.
Her council colleagues are in awe of her: Yearafter year when the Daily News
surveyscouncilmembers,
Messinger is rated "most intelligent" and "most effective." This
year she's trading in her Council
seat for the more visible platform
and bigger staff of the Manhattan
Borough Presidency. The seat she
is vacating is the most hotly-contested council race of the year,with eight contenders (including
openly-gay Dave Taylor). MesSinger's only opposition in her Borough President race is the New
Alliance Party's Barbara Taylor.
Beyond supporting the lesbian
and gay community for purely
political reasons, as is the casewith many elected
offiCials,
Messinger actually works and interacts with gay men and lesbians ona daily basis, Her campaign manager, David Fleischer, is gay, as areseveral other campaign staffers.
In contrast with the defensive
posture of the Koch administration
with regard to AIDS services,
Messinger has already set up a task
force comprised of communitybased AIDS service organizations
to help devise sound city AIDS
programs, to set the agenda rather
than react to it.
Messinger proVides a rolemodel which other elected officials
would do well to emulate.
T

CAMPAIGN SPOTLIGHT

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Herbert Be.rm.an
PriscHIa Wooten
Susan~lter
Chris OWensJames P. Sullivan
Enoch Williams
No
Victor Robles
Yes
Ada I. Vasquez (New Alliance Party)
Mary Pinkett.,
Yes
Abraham Gerges
Yes
Jim Ryan
Stephen DiBrienza
Yes
Sal Albanese
Yes
NoachOear
No
David Eichenrhal
Robe.rt Evans
Samuel Horwitz
Yes
Adele Cohen
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News

IRS Monkey Wrench for

Domestic Partner Laws
New Tax Regulations May Derail Health Benefits
by Keith Clark
SEATTLE-Whenthe Seattle city
council recently enacted a limited
domestic partner ordinancethatwould extend emergency leave benefits to city employees for illness ordeath of a partner or in a partner'sfamily, a more sweeping set of benefits-health care privileges that would
cover not only city workers but also

NEWS FOCUS
employees in the private sector-was
temporarily put on hold over a federal income tax issue that may threaten
the future of similar legislation fromSan Francisco to New York.
Before the city council here
began hearings in late June on bill
107342 which would give unmarriedsame-sex and opposite-sex couples
the same sick- and funeral-leaverights as married city employees, theSeattle human rights department inApril ruled that the existing Seattle
fair-employment
law prohibits discrimination against gay or straight
unwed cohabitants and that all city
employers
would be required toextend medical, dental or other benefits packages equally.
The ruling stunned even this rather
liberal city and sent shock-waves throughthe business oommunity which saw it inbottom-line terms of tens of thousands ofdollars in added payroll expenses. It
would have been the fll'St time that any
municipality required private sector businesses to extend health insurance benefItS
to employees' domestic partners.
But before the city council could
determine whether to uphold the ruling or not, a bigger monkey wrench
was thrown into the entire domestic
partner works nationwide by theInternal Revenue Service.
The unexpected twist came frompart of the 1986 congressional overhaul of the federal tax code that isscheduled to go into effect on October 1. One section of
the revised IRS code
requires that employer health and benefit
plans apply equally
to workers at all levels, and was intended
to prevent companies
from giving special,
non-taxable benefits
that are not available
to other workers to
executives.

PLEADING FOR PARTNERSHIP

Openly gay Washington State Rep Cal Anderson
Photo: Seattle Gay News

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September 11, 1989

IRS & Doomsday
But part of thisrevised code also
requires that employers-including
municipal,
countyand state governments-prove
theirbenefits packages extend only toworkers' spouses and legal dependents. Failure to meet this new IRS
requirement brings not only a penalty
federal tax on the benefits of the individual worker, but also on theemployer'S entire tax-exempt program. A so-called "doomsday clause"in the new tax code would requirethat health insurance benefits apply toindividuals who qualify by IRS definitions of spouse or dependent. If benefits are extended to others, likedomestic partners, the employer's
entire benefits
packagefor all
employees could be taxed.
An IRS official in washingtop,
D.C., said, "I don't think anyone
thought about domestic partners
when Congress passed the law. It
means hundreds of thousands, perhaps millions, of dollars in taxable
income that IRS wouid collect from
employees. No one knows how much
fleXibility we might have on domestic
partners benefits."·
Businesses---and now cities withdomestic partners laws either in effector in the works-havejoined inprotesting
the complexities
andexpense of complying with the proofof relationship requirement in the
new code.
San Francisco
IRS
spokesman Larry Wright said, "It'sgoing to be an enforcement problem.
The IRS will have to police every
employee to make sure every dependent is a legal dependent."
Seattle city benefits manager Sally
Fox was even more blunt. "It's all a
big mess," she said. "It's an entirely
impossible part of the [newl tax regulations." West Hollywood personnel
analyst Kevin Fridlington agrees.
"We've got our fingers crossed that

There's no substitute forthe real thingElect a Gay Activist to City Hall.
As President of San Francisco's
Board of Supervisors, I've come tosee first-hand the importance of
having Lesbians and Gays in officerepresenting our community.
No matter how committed others
are to Lesbian and Gay rights,-there's no substitute for thereal thing. I urge all of you tovote for Dave Taylor for City
Council in the Democratic Primary
Tuesday, September 12. ff
II

HARRY BRITT
Openly Gay President of
San Franciscds
Board of Supervisors

DAVE TAYLOR FOR CITY COUNCIL
Dave Taylor is an openly gay candidate in the 4th Council District,which includes Clinton and the Upper West Side of Manhattan.
For more information or to get involved, drop by our office,2095 Broadway (72nd), #505, NYC 10023,
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lesbian and gay partners-has accelerated, so too haveunmarried gay andnon-gay
workers
looked at the shortend of the benefits
stick that they see
themselves holding.
Even so, many
employers
havebeen rather reluctant
to undertake suchextendedbenefits
programs. Concerns
about the costs aswell as reluctanceamong
insurancecompanies,
which
maintain that thereTANGUNG WITH THE TAX MAN
Photo: Rink
isn't enough actuariRobert. Achtenberg of the S.n F"ncisco M.yor's Office al data available towe just won't have to deal with it." evaluate the insurance risks that
West Hollywood is one of a dozen or
determinepremiums, have madeso U.S. cities that either already have
employers squeamish. "It's the bigor are considering various forms of
unknowns that make insurance comdomestic partner laws.
panies uneasy,· said a spokesperson
for the Health Insurance Association
Private Sector Interestof America. Lesbian/gay-rights advoAside from legislation, an increascates claim insurance industry relucing number of businesses have also
tance comes more from its own
begun showing interest in adding
biases against homosexuals
who
health insurance benefits for unmarmight enroll, and out of cost concerns
ried employees during the past few
surrounding AIDS.
years. Hewitt Associates of linAs a result, municipal governcolnshire, Illinois, recently reported
ment, more responsive to politicalthat 10 to 20 percent of the somerealities than to profit motives, have
2,500 firms it advises on employee
been in the forefront of the domestic
benefits and compensation packages
partners push. But with an estimatedare currently considering various part2.5 million employees in the U.S. on
ner benefits programs. Five years ago
city government payrolls, the threat
almost none were.
posed by the new IRS code requireBut the reason for such recent
ments could severely limit domestic
interest in the private sector isn't necpartners legislation in many budgetessarily a liberalizing trend in corpoconscious cities around the country.
rate America. According to Hewitt
Associates, about 40 percent of theCity Partners Plans
average employee's total compensaWest Hollywood, which has thetion currently comes in the form of
most extensive domestic partner legisnon-payroll benefits while 15 years
lation on the books at this point, had
ago that figure was only about 35 perto resort to self-insurance for its partcent. And for the last 20 years or so,
ners health benefits beginning January
American employers have increasing1 of this year. All 16 insurance comly looked to non-payroll
benefits
panies it approachedrefused to
packages as a major way of attracting
underwrite the city's benefits package,and keeping good workers. And asclaiming they had no way of deterthe general trend toward live-in,mining costs for the program.
unmarried relationshipS-including
Ironically, West Hollywood city

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September 11, 1989

planner David Amorena estimates thatthe self-insurance plan has not only
enabled the city to proVide more flexible coverage including domestic partners, but has also saved WestHolIY'Y0od an estimated $65,000 ininsurance premiums during its first six
months of operation.
The recently enacted San Francisco domestic partner law has been
forced onto the November ballot following a repeal move by fundamentalists and does not, in itself, extend
health insurance benefits to partners.
But a set of companion resolutions passed unanimously by the city's
board of supervisors establishes a task
force to make recommendations
about extending such health benefits
to city workers, and another to examine corporate benefits in the private
sector. Already faced with stiff political opposition from religious fundamentalists, some lesbian/gay rights
activists fear the ambiguities in the
new IRS tax code may sharply shift
the balance of support for the newlaw in November.
Roberta Achtenberg, who heads
the San Francisco mayoral task force
studying health benefits for fomestic
partners, however, believes the city'splans may not come under the new
IRS code's domain because city workers, rather than the city itself, would
pay for the added coverage.
"They [the IRS] don't know what
they're talking about. They will haveto deal with what all these issues
mean within the new tax code. What
we need to do is be there to influence
how all these new regulations areinterpreted by IRS,"she told autWeek
But IRS officials disagree, and say
the new regulations apply regardlessof who pays for the benefits.
And in Seattle, no one is evenwilling to guess what it all means
either to the recently-establisheddomestic partner benefits, or to thecity's human rights department's ruling. If the current reading of the new
IRS code is accurate, some politicalobservers believe it likely that the city
council may also back-pedal and at
least partly disembowel
the fairemployment law as well.
See IRS on page 58

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BROOKLYN- Among the many demonstrators marching
through the streets of Bensonhurst on Sunday, August 27, werea large contingent of lesbians and gay men, including a groupfrom ACTUP.The marchers came to Bensonhurst to protest theslaying of Yusuf Hawkins, a young Black man gunned down
earlier in the week by a group of whites on 20th Avenue, and"to affirm the rights of all Blacks to free passage everywherein New York," according to one ofthe protest organizers.
Crowds of local residents (above) poured out of theirhomes to meet the marchers with racial taunts. Shouts of "Thisis not Howard Beach," and "Free the boys from Bensonhurst, "echoed through the streets. "If a white guy kills a Black guy,
it's called racism. But if Black guy kills a white guy it's called
drugs," said Paul Cassidy, a young white man who said helived nearby.
"They got streets named after Black people: One way,"
shouted another.
The residents, who had to be restrained with police barricades, also discovered the gay men and lesbians in their
midst. "Come over and give me a kiss, you fucking faggots,"
one shouted.

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"Go home" and "Our streets" were chanted over and overby residents who stood on the sidewalks and leaned out of thewindows of the two-story houses that line the street"I'm with them," said one man as he walked on the sidewalk, alongside the demonstration, referring to the civil rights
marchers in the street. "I think the ones from Bensonhurst
should get out," he said through a distinct Italian accent.
"What difference does it make what nationality you are? It's
the same thing in the gay life. What you do behind closed
doors is your own business," he told OutWeek. The man, who
is gay and a resident of nearby Kensington, did not want to be
identified.
Other Bensonhurst residents who said they supported thedemonstration also refused to give their names.
Police felt the potential for a riot to be so great that they
positioned sharpshooters on the rooftops along 20th Avenue
and demonstrators, including several prominent Black
ministers from across the city, (above right) were escorted
back to the nearby subway station by over 50 motorcycle cops,
where they were met by a legion of transit police.
- Andrew Miller

ENDORSED BY AU THREELESBIAN AND GAY DEMOCRATIC CLUBS

Gay and Lesbian Independent Democrats
Lambda Independent Democrats
StonewaU Democratic ClubIn the Democratic Primaryon Sept. 12thLIZ
HOLTZMAN For COMPTROLLER':As Comptroller I will fight to safeguard the civil rights of lesbians and gays~ Aschief fiscal officer for New York,I will fight to see that every tax dollar appropriatedfor AIDS education, research and treatment reaches those in need, and that thecity's anti-discrimination programs are effectively implemented. "il Comptroller Lesbians and Gays Can Count On• sponsored the first federal lesbian and gay civilrights bill.
• testified and lobbied for New York City's first gay
rights legislation.
• was the only District Attorney in the country to urge
the U.S. Supreme Court to uphold Roe v. Wade in
the Webster case.
• opposes all mandatory HIV antibody testing.
• will fight for housing for people with AIDS.

• instituted bereavement leave for lesbians and gays in
the District Attorney's office and hired openly gay
staff.
• supports domestic partnership rights.
• supports parental rights for lesbians and gays inadoption and foster care.
• developed a training program for Assistant District
Attorneys on anti-gay and anti-lesbian violence.
• sponsored laws in Congress which extended theratification deadline of the Equal Rights Amendment
and protected the privacy of rape victims.

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TiDIes for
TODl
NEW YORK - The New YorkTimes endorsed Tom Duane in his
race against incumbent City Councilwoman Carol Greitzer in a Friday,
September 1 editorial. It was the firsttime in history that the Times
endorsed an openly gay candidate,according to Duane campaign manager Lisa Parrish.

Tom Duane

Photo: Jerry Casciano"Carol Greitzer has made many
contributionsin 20 years on theCouncil, but lately her effectivenesshas been limited. Tom Duane could
bring the district more energetic leadership, and we support him," said theeditorial, which described Duane as"a stockbroker and a leader in the gay
community. "Duane is running for city council
in Manhattan's Third District, which
includes the Village and Chelsea, as
well as Gramercy Park and other East
Side neighborhoods.
"I'm thrilled to be the first opely
gay candidate to be endorsed by The
New York Times," Duane told OutWeek. Duane said that he was quite
surprised. "Everyone's reaction has
been,'Congratualations.
I'mshocked,'" he said.
Parrish used the opportunity to
optimistically announce Duane's vic-·

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tory party, which will be on Election
Day, Tuesday, September 12, after thepolls colse at 9 pm. It will be held at
Francisco's, a restaurant on West 23rd
St. between 6th and 7th Streets. All
are welcome.
-Andrew MiUer

Deja vu?
WASHINGTON-In a speech prepared for the Conference on AIDS in
Puerto Rico and Among the Puerto
Rican Population on the Mainland on
August 28, New York City HealthCommissioner Stephen Joseph once
again set forth his personal preferences for eliminating anonymous HIV
testing in New York City, and requiring the names of people who are HIV
positive to be reported to the municipal government.
Earlier this summer, a similar
announcement by Joseph at the Fifth
International Conference on AIDS in
Montreal brought instant denouncements from nearly every AIDS organization in New York City, and forced
Mayor Edward Koch to convene a
special meeting of AIDS advocates at
Gracie Mansion, at which Josephbacked down from his plan.
En route to the recent conferencein Washington, Joseph was detainedby an office emergency, and theDr. Stephen Joseph

Photo: IL. littspeech was delivered
by Gloria
Rodriguez, an AIDS project director
for the New Jersey state healthdepartment.
Moving from his experiences indealing with AIDS as New York City's
health commissioner to the availabilityof new treatment options, the text ofJoseph's
remarks called for an
increase in funding for health careservices, including treatments.
It continued, "Medically confidential pre- and post-test counselingand testing should continue as thecornerstoneof AIDS policy, butshould become routine in high prevalence areas in every clinical setting sothat HIV-infected people can be identified and their treatment begun as
early as possible. Anonymous counseling and testing should be preserved as an option for those whowill not accept testing any other way.
"Within a confidential
publichealth framework,
I personallybelieve we should also see mandatory
reporting of people who are infectedwith HIV. Doctors should be reqUired
to report the names of their HIVinfected patients to their local publichealth authority, as is required withtuberculosis."-Andrew Miller"A cure forAIDS"
BROOKLYN - Residents of the
Midwood section of Brooklyn haveencountered homophobia in a newform this summer. Leaflets entitled "ACure for AIDS" have been placed
under the windshield wipers of carsalong Ocean Avenue near Avenues M
and N, and elsewhere in the neighborhood.
The leaflets state that "AIDS iscaused by gays and gays alone. By
encouraging or protecting the gays
we are committing suicide. Gay rights
and gay parades will cause the death
toll to rise. There is no cure otherthan to stop the gays. Homosexuality

I must be outlawed, or else death will
spread like wildfire. Take action now.
It is already too late."
The unsigned leaflets come complete with an exortation to copy anddistribute them elsewhere.
The area is represented In the City
Council by the notoriously homophobic Noach Dear, whose virulent opposition to the city's lesbian and gay
rights bill is still talked about by gay
and lesbian residents of his district.
Some area residents say they suspect that one of the local Hasidicorganizations is behind the leafleting
effort.
Jerry Milstein, a Dear campaignaide, told OutWeek that it would not
be appropriate for such literature tocome out of anyone's political office,and that the flyer had no connection
with Dear's campaign. "It has nothing
to do with us, and there is no needfor us to comment on it," he said.
-Andrew Miller

True orfalse
SAN FRANCISCO-The
district
attorney's office here has decided not
to pursue charges against former
Metropolitan Community Church minister Lynn Griffis for filing a false
police report in connection with analleged assault against her in July,essentially bringing to an official closethe confuSing and contradictory story.
"Although there is probably
cause to believe that the complainant[Griffis)did in fact mislead the police,·
Jerry Benson of the district attorney's
office wrote in a letter to the police
department,"it is not believed
that. ..the evidence compellingly establishes her guilt beyond a reasonable
doubt."
Griffis, who had been with
MCC/SF for about a year before being
appointed to head the church's AIDS
ministry in June of this year, claimed
she had been briefly abducted July 27
by two men she described as "skinheads." Griffis said the two beat her
and cut a cross into her chest becauseof her work with people with AIDS.

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Amsterdam.
To Schotigen, the INS' northern
region district director, said Bonsma
was detained because she entered thecountry as an "intended immigrant."
According to Schotigen, INS officials
discovered documents in Bosnma's
possession which indicated that she
was seeking employment in the U.S.
Bonsma was traveling on a visitor'svisa, which prohibits employmentrelated activity.
The search which revealed theallegedly incriminating documents
was initiated because Bonsma's return
ticket date was open-ended, and not
because of her destination, according
Rev. lynn Griffisto
INS officials. Both Bonsma andPhoto: Barbara J. Maggiani
APLN spokesperson
Julie Portraz
Two weeks before the alleged assault, declined to make any statement.
"Flying between Amsterdam andGriffis had reported an earlier assault
Minneapolis for gay people is probain her home.
bly not a good idea," said one Capitol
When police and community
leaders confronted Griffis with "incon- Hill insider conversant with immigrasistencies" in her account of the sec- tion policy.
But Ann DeGroot, director of the
ond assault, she changed her story
Minneapolis-based Gay and Lesbianand claimed she had also been raped
Community Action Council said she
during the abduction. Police, howevwas deeply disturbed by the INS'er, found her revised account also
detention of Bonsma, who is theinconsistent with the evidence, andfourth gay Dutch national in six
said the medical examiner's report
indicated the cuts to her chest may months to be detained by the Minneapolis INS.
have been self-inflicted.
INS's "intended immigrant" proviGriffis abruptly resigned from MCC
and left town to retum to her parents' sion is the most common reason travelhome in Nebraska. Later she contacted ers are not permitted to enter the U.S.
- DavidAnger
police and asked that her complaint be
withdrawn.
-Keith Clark

INS: Get out Pat Parker
and stay out remembered
MINNEAPOLIS - Yong Sook
Bonsma, a Korean lesbian from theNetherlands,
was detained by the
Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) here on Monday, August
28. Bonsma was en route to the Asian
Pacific Lesbian Network's (APLN) firstnational retreat at the University ofCalifornia at Santa Cruz. Rather thanface an INS hearing, she returned to24

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WASHINGTON-To
honor thelife and work of Black lesbian poet
Pat Parker, Black Women Together
will sponsor a memorial poetry reading on September 10th at 4 p.m. at
Howard University's Blackburn Center, 6th St. and Howard Place NW,
Washington DC.
Parker, author of numerous booksof poetry, including Jonestown andOther Madness, was also the former

Pat Parker

Photo: Marilyn Humphries

director of the Oakland Women's Feminist Health Center, one of the country's first women's abortion clinics.
The reading will include area
poets, friends and literary peers reading and giving a chronology of herlife. Featured speakers will include
Nancy Bereano, Elizabeth D'Alessio,
Essex Hemphill and Ivy Young.
Parker died of cancer June 17thin Oakland, California. She was 45.
-Andrew MiUer

Shit
happens
NEW YORK - The U.S. Secret
Service paid a visit to ACT UP's
workspace at 2:15 Wednesday, August
30, looking for the person or persons
repsonsible
for mailing a box ofhuman excrement to.the White House.
Special Agent Greg A. Dickey
along with a partner, told Lei Chouand Garance Franke-Ruta, two ACT
UP members
who were at theworkspace at the time, that a package
had been sent to President George
Bush by a man named Steven Hsu
from "AIDS of America Ltd." Theagent was looking for the organization at 349 West 15th St., an addressthat does not exist, but that would be

IT'S TIME.

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It's time to turn the tide
on indifference andneglect.
It's time to elect a new
Mayor who will fight ourcommunity.
It's time for David Dinkins
to be in City Hall-acaring, compassionate
leader who will work with
us to end discrimination,
injustice and undue suffering for people with AIDS.

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Out Takes
on the same block as the workspace,which is located at 76 9th Avenue, atthe corner of West 15th St. Dickey
would not say what was in the package, but Ruta said that a form Dickey
was carrying said "a box of humanexcrement. "According to Ruta, Dickey asked"Don't you think that it's a coincidence that there are two AIDS organizations on the same block?" Hereportedly questioned Ruta for lessthan ten minutes before leaving. Neither Ruta nor Chou have ever heardof Steven Hsu or AIDS of America
Ltd. "It sounds like something the FBI
would do to try to incriminate ACT
UP," Ruta said.
Reached at the New York City
office of the U.S. Secret Service, Dickey told Out Week that his interest in
ACT UP was only a spontaneous
coincidence. "There's no investigation
into ACT UP whatsoever. I wouldn't
have known that the organizationeven existed if I hadn't gone upstairs.
We're not out hassle them. We'relooking for one particular indvidual."
While he would not confirm thecontents of the box, he described.
them as "not very pleasant." Theinvestigation is still open and ongoing, according to Dickey.
-Andrew Miller

AIDSbehind bars
LOS ANGELES - Alleging discrimination
against women with
AIDS, the American Civil Liberties
Union of Southern California filed suitin U.S. District Court August 29
against the California Department ofCorrections (CDC) and the California
Institution for Women (CIW).
The lawsuit was brought on behalfof six women inmates at OW who are
HIV positive. They are being segregated in an AIDS Isolation Unit which ismaintained exclusively for inmates who
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The complaint charges that the
women j;liled if) t.hese facilities sufferfrom inadequate medical and psychiatric care, inhuman conditions of confinement,
discrimination,andunlawful exclusion from programs
and services within the prison.
Rebecca Jurado, an ACLU attorney, said the lawsuit would "set ahuman and constitutional standard forthe treatment of people with HIV
infection throughout society."
The AIDS Isolation Unit has 16
beds in four double-celled rooms and adormitory with four double bunk beds.
The women have access to one toilet,
one shower and one tub. There is nodining area, and the women are forced
to eat their meals while sitting on theirbeds. In the summer, temperatures in
the unit regularly reach 100 degrees.
At least one inmate said that she
was unable to obtain a refill for prescription medicine for ten days after
she ran out.
-Sandy Dwyer

Give it up
LOS ANGELES- At the request of
Jon Davidson, staff attorney for theAmerican CivilLiberties Union of Southern California, the Los Angeles CountyCounsel's office has agreed to makeavailable certain record of the Sheriffs
Department relating to ACT'UP/LA andindividuals known to be members or
supporters of the organization.
The documents being released
include: five video tapes, 135 black
and white photographs,
302 color
photographs, a 168 page file with atwo page index and other documents.
The records had been formallyrequested by the ACLU on July 26
under the California Public Records
Act. the request was the result of allegations made by ACT UP membersthat the Sheriff's Department was
harassing them and the organizationin an attempt to intimidate andsilence them. ACT UP has recently
been critical of the Board of Supervisors' response to the AIDS crisis.

The Sheriff's Department said
that their surveillance of ACT UP
members was part of its investigation
into the AIDS graffiti vandalism on
county property last Spring.
In July, three men, all membersof ACT UP, were charged with spraypainting slogans on county buildings,
including the health department head~quarters. All three entered not guilty
pleas; their cases are still pending.
The ACLUs Davidson said that the .
sheer volume of the records released
indicated that the Sheriff's Department"put a lot of time and energy into this."
The documents will be scrutinized todetermine whether there are legal
grounds for a suit against the Sheriff's
Office.
- Sandy Dwyer

Burb Up)WESTBURY, New York - Artsy
movies regularly open in New York
City's suburbs six months after theyplay in Manhattan, and it takes awhile for the latest East Village hairdos and don'ts to filter out to points
further east than Avenue C.
So when Long Island ACT UP
was born five weeks ago in a basement apartment in Nassau County, it
was not only a welcome addition to
the world of AIDS activism, but amore or less timely one as well.
The twenty-member
group,
which is meeting in a Westbury storefront while it looks for more permanent digs, is off and running, spraypainting now-familiar logos at theintersection of Glen Cove Road andJericho Turnpike, and planning its
first demo, at an abandoned hospitalin Freeport, to alert officials that"there is a place for people with
AIDS, if Nassau County would get off
its ass," according to Ted Oneto, thegroup's spokesperson.
The protest, planned for 1 pm on
September 16 at Lydia Hall on West
Merrick Road, will attempt to dramatize the unnecessary lack of non-acutecare facilities in Nassau for Long

Island's over 1,000 people with AIDS,
according to Long Island ACT UP.
For more information, Oneto canbe contacted at 516-338-4662, or write
P.O. Box 514, Westbury, NY 11590.
- Andrew Miller

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CHICAGO - A Saturday nightanti-racism demonstration on Halsted
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whatsoever to the allegations of quotas and that sort of thing,· Pohn said.
"We are here for the whole community. We even get straight people."
Across the street, however, at
Rick's Retreat, Black men observing
the protest said they, too, had beencarded at Christopher Street.
Their protest ended peacefully,
and there were no reported arrests.

- Rex Wockner

Silence=Mort
PARIS-When the French Parliament begins its new session October
4, members of parliament will experience yet another bizarre American
importation into French culture.
Weirder than Pac Man. Stranger

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than Madonna. More foreign than the
Big Mac.
The Parliament will be zapped by
the brand-new ACT UP/Paris.
"All the TV crews and newspapers will be there," promised ACT
UP/Paris founder Didier Lestrade.
"We'll do civil disobedience in frontof Parliament. That has never been
done before. Gay people and the leftwing community in general here just
don't go into the streets."
The French government's fundamental sin, according to Lestrade, is a
failure to provide education on preventing HIV transmission.
"We have the highest percentage
of AIDS cases and HIV-positives in
Europe, but the lowest-key education
programs," Lestrade said. "It comesfrom a government that is more concerned with preventing discrimination
against gays. It believes that if AIDS

becomes a major issues, discrimination will increase.·
France's four television AIDS
education campaigns, including one
targeting gay men, have been criticized as ineffectual.
Condom sales increasedforabout two months following each TV
blitz but then returned to pre-campaign levels, according to Lestrade. "Itshows that people aren't having safe
sex all the time," Lestrade said.
ACT UP members also intend ·tofight for AIDS education in France'S
African and Arab communities. "We
need campaigns in their languages;
but nobody has even talked about
this," Lestrade said. "Soon, like in
America, AIDS is going to become a
racial problem."
ACT UP's first action was a brief
die-in during the June 24 gay pride
parade.
-Rex Wockner

Oh no you
don't

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SAN FRANCISCO - Superior
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without comment August 18 a petition
filed by lesbian couple Cindy Bologna
and Sydney Erskine that sought tolegally halt a repeal vote aimed at thecity's recently passed domestic partners law.
The Brown rejection of the petition did not surprise legal experts,
who generally agree that California
courts prefer to place such contested
legislation before the voters, rather
than embroil the courts in lengthy
legal fights over question of what canor cannot be on the ballot.
The petition grew out of a repeal
move led by the Reverend Charles
McIlhenny, pastor of the First Orthodox Presbyterian Church here. McIl. henny and others aimed at nUllifying
the city's domestic partners ordinance,
which was passed unanimously by
the Board of Supervisors in May. The
ordiance would permit unmarried heterosexual and homosexual couples toregister their relationships with thecounty clerk for a $35 fee, similar to amarriage registration. Erskine andBologna alleged wrongdoing
anddeceptive tactics on the part of therepeal activists.
The domestic partners repeal
measure, now labeled PropoSition S,
will go before voters in November, if
there are no further court challenges.
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NEW YORK- Openly gay City Council candidate Dave Taylor has been pounding thepavement of his West Side district for the past few months. lending a personal touch to
the tough. eight-way primary race he faces next Tuesday.
"1 think rm the first and only candidate in the district to go door-to-door with mycampaign and its message: Taylor told jskdjkj. adding that he had knocked on some
2,000 doors in the area.
"1 don't just do subway stops and supermarkets. I want to meet the people in this
district and discuss the issues with them personally. The reaction has been fabulous."
he said, noting that he had not "encountered even one incidence of homophobia"
while on the trail.
Taylor's formula for victory includes attempting to unite the large lesbian and gay
presence on the Upper West Side and in Clinton and Heirs Kitchen with the equallylarge number of Black and Latino voters. "I speak to the issues of both lesbians andgays, and Blacks and Hispanics: AIDS. drug abuse. housing, and discrimination:
Taylor said.
He will have "a couple of hundred volunteers" on the street on Primary Day.
September 12, but said that he faces a hard fight and would welcome more help. To
volunteer, call the Dave Taylor Headquarters at (212) 721-0064. Taylor is running Manhattan's fourth council district for the seat being vacated by Councilwoman Ruth
Messinger. The district runs from West 100th Street to West 29th Street, from the Hudson River east to Central Park West and Eighth Avenue.
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Political Science

Human Sacrificeby Mark Harrington"/ believe the great fantasy is
the idea of a social body consti- .
tuted by the universalityofwills. The phenomenon of thesocial body is the effect not of aconsensus but of the materiality of power operating on thevery bodies of individuals. ,.
-Michel Foucault,"Body/Power," 1975S

ome of America's
most
renowned university hospitals are bastions of humansacrifice. Each day, your tax dollars
fund Principal Investigators (PIs)
who function as priests
in a medical orthodoxy
that sanctions the killingof hundreds of humans
every year in an arcane,anachronistic
ritualknown as the "placebocontrolled clinical trial."
Before FDA highpriests of this cruel religion can sanctify a newtreatment as "effective,"
they must be placatedwith a ritual offering-a pile of bodies cremated into a mass of data. The
bodies are those of placebo receivers
who died in clinical trials because
they didn't get a drug which could
have saved their lives.
Dogma holds that a few must
die now to prove a drug works,saving many more in the future.
Thousands are sacrificed for thesake of that vague, collective entity
called "posterity." People who havea disease now are worth less thanthose who don't, This mad logic
continues to disfigure American
AIDS research.
Placebos-inert
substances

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identical in appearance and modeof administration to the drug being
tested-aren't
always bad. If you
wanted to test a new headachedrug, "Z," it might be easier to compare "Z" to a placebo than to aspirin. If "Z" were active against
headaches, it would be easier tomeasure its difference versus placebo than to measure its equivalence
to aspirin. No one would die if they
were on the placebo arm and got aheadache.
With life-threatening diseases,
it's a different story. Treatments do
not reachPhase
II efficacy
trials-whenplacebo1i. are firstused-without
showing substan~ial
safety and strong indications of ac-

tivity. The new drug has alreadybeen tested in the lab, in animals,
and in Phase I trials in humans. If
there is no approved treatment forthe condition in question, it is more
ethical to give people with the disease an experimental
treatment
rather than no treatment.
The medical establishment has
a mania for testing the same drugon different populations, even after
it's known to be effective in one
group. For example, the FDA recently approved DHPG to treat cytomegalovirus (CMV) retinitis-aviral infection in the eyes. Yet, in
AIDS, CMV can be disseminated allover the body. One of the most serious infections, CMV colitis, occurs
in the intestine, causing wasting anddiarrhea. DHPG is administered intravenously, so it goes all over the
body. But if you have CMV colitis,
you can only get the drug paid forby insurance or Medicaid if you
have it in your eye. A separate,
placebo-controlled trial will be conducted in people with CMVcolitis.
Dr. Margaret Fischl of the
University of Miami is the doyenneof placebo-controlled
studies in
AIDS. She co-authored the Phase II
study of AZT in which 19 placebotakers died, vs. only one on AZT.
Some physicians feel this was because doctors knew which patientswere getting AZT andgave them better treatment.
More recently, Dr.
Fischl published a studyof Bactrim for PCP prophylaxis.
Bactrim(trime tho prim -s u 1famethoxazole,
TMP/SMX or Septra) is
an approved antibiotic. It
is an inexpensive
pill,easy to take. Since it issulfa-based, about half of PWAs develop allergic rashes and stop taking it. Papers from as long ago as
1977 document Bactrim's ability toprevent PCP in immunosuppressedchildren. The index study was conducted by pediatrician Walter T.
Hughes at St. jude's Hospital in
Memphis. He gave Bactrim to children with leukemia who were immu nosu ppressed
becauseofchemotherapy.
Bactrim was 100
percent effective in preventing PCP
in these children.
Many AIDS doctors refused toheed these results. The drug had
See HUMAN SACRIFICE, page 70

Sandor Katz

Commentary

GMHC: Undermining Its Own Credibility

G

ay
Men's
HealthCrisisget tested, what then? Since GMHC's(GMHC) recently announced
announcement, the number of calls
an ad campaign to encourage . to the bepartment of Health hotline,
HIV antibody testing, and many AIDS which makes appointments for theservice providers and activists are upset
city's HIV testing sites, has skyrockabout it. The controversy ultimately has
eted. The day it hit the news, only
very little to do with the pros and cons
three staffers were on the phones. I
of HIV testing. The real issue is prioriknow it took me many days to getties, and how an organization likethrough when I tried to schedule an
GMHC is using its credibility.
appointment
several months ago.
The stated rationale
for theThis is the first barrier of many.
GMHC pro-testing ad campaign, acThe bigger question, of course, iscording to the press release, is towhat happens after people test posi"bring people at risk of HIV infection
tive? From what I hear GMHC itself is
into the health care system."backlogged in its client services. And
But so far as I can tell, thattreatment? There is already such a"health care system" is in such bad
shortage of primary medical care thatshape that it can't handle existing demands,
never mind a delugeof newly-identified
HIV-infected individuals seeking care. The"health care crisis" in
New York is not arhetorical excess on
the part of AIDS activists. The crisis is that
despite the fact that
AIDS is becoming an
increasingly treatablecondition, treatment islargely inaccessible.
Two health care professionals I
the city says it is setting up T-cell testknow did an informal study lasting and pentamidine centers to hanweek. They called the GMHC hotline
dle the most universal HIV monitorfor testing advice. They said they
ing and treatment needs. "But whatwanted treatment information before
are they going to say when someone
they made the decision to get tested.
walks in with chronic diarrhea?" asks
A number of different counselors
Rona Affoumado,
who runs thetold them not to worry about treatCommunity Health Project. Anyone
ment until after they were tested.
who tests HIV antibody positive
One man identified himself as someneeds to have regular access to medione with no Insurance but a job, andcal care and not just to stopgap treathence not eligible for Medicaid. He
ment for the most common problems.
was told, "Maybe you're one of those
GMHC recognizes this. In a June
peoplewho falls throughthe20, 1989 letter, GMHC pointed out tocracks," and was advised to get testMayor Koch: "1oe New York City AIDS
ed anyway.
Task Force says 900,000 HIV-related
If many more people decide tophysician visits are needed this year, but-

the two HIV primary care centers can't
handle more than 4,000 such visits."
These numbers are staggering.
How can GMHC recognize so clearly
the vast gulf between the existing
demand for treatment and what isavailable, and still use its resources
to put out a call for testing to feed
peopleinto treatment
services,
which it knows aren't there? GMHC's
ads only perpetuate the myth thatthe health care system is functional,
and reinforce the government's onesided AIDS agenda.
The same week as the GMHC
HIV testing press conference, the U.S.
Secretary of Health and Human
Services, Louis Sullivan,
announced that the federal government would
be funding widespread
HlV antibody testing,but not treatment programs. And of course
the coverage of GMHC's
testing position gavecity
HealthCommissioner
StephenJoseph an opportunity
to advance his dangerous agenda of contacttracing.
Is GMHC's job really to echo the ass-backwards
approach to AIDS which the government has taken? To use its credibility
to promote HIV antibody testing insuch a public way and then limit its
attacks on the lack of treatment access to behind-the-scenes lobbying isirresponsible.
This is not an anti-testing diatribe. Of course any HIV-infected individual is better-equipped to makehealth care decisions knowing his or
her HIV status. We can only hopethat as more people test HIV antibody positive, they loudly demand
access to health care. And perhaps
See GMHC on page 70

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Koch's
Fall
from
Grace
The Erosion of A Mayor's Lesbian and Gay Support
by Sandor Katz
These days, whenever Ed Kochappears at public events with predominantly lesbian and gay spectators, hegets booed and heckled. His planned
speech was drowned out-and he wasdriven from the stage-at
last june's
ceremony dedicating Stonewall Place.
He was jeered as he marched in thisyear's Gay Pride Parade. At a candidates' forum at the Lesbian and Gay
Community Center, a woman rose andtold him he should be ashamed ofhimself; she was backed by raucous
applause. Koch didn't even bothershowing up for the Gay Men's Health
Crisis candidates' forum on AIDS issues
a few weeks later.
Of course the current climate was
not always the case. Koch enjoyed thestrong support of our community when
he was first elected mayor in 1977. And
he made headlines on his first day inoffice by banning anti-gay discrimination by city agencies. But his populari-

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ty among lesbians and gays has erodedsince those early, hopeful days of his
administration. Today, a large segmentof our community considers Koch an
enemy.
Koch is now running for an
unprecedented fourth term as mayor.
Most visible lesbian and gay activists
are oposing Koch in favor of David
Dinkins. As the election approaches,the question arises: Why have so manyof us turned against him?
"For many of the same reasonsthat his popularity has decreased ingeneral," says openly gay City Council
candidate Tom Duane, echoing thesentiments of many of those interviewed. But our community's disillusionment with the mayor has been
vastly intensified by the AIDS crisis.
Our fair city is the center of the epidemic, with more than 25,000 cases
diagnosed to date, and an HIV infection rate estimatedat 200,000 to

500,000. "People have been reallystunned at the lack of response fromthe city," observes David Fleisher, agay political organizer who is running
Ruth Messinger's campaign for Borough President. The history of Ed
Koch's relationship with the lesbian
and gay community, inseparable at thispoint from his handling of the AIDS
crisis, proVides a prism for examining
our evolving political culture and therelationship of our community to electoral politics.

*****

In 1977 there was no legal recognition of lesbians and gays in New York
City. Harvey Milk was campaigning for
San Francisco Supervisor. Anita Bryant
was crusading against us. And the New
York Times was still calling us "avowedhomosexuals." But we were gaining
recognition as a political force here, andour votes were being actively courted.

In that year's Democratic primary
for mayor, incumbent
Abe Beame
faced six challengers. Bella Abzug was
the top vote getter in the neighborhoods which have the greatest visible
concentrations of lesbians and gays.
However, Koch received the mostvotes city-wide, with Mario Cuomo
trailing close behind. A Koch-Cuomo
runoff ensued.
The Gay Activist Alliance (GAA)
accused Cuomo of gay-baiting Koch
(who during the campaign paradedabout town with Bess Myerson on hisarm, and hinted of post-election matrimony). It was said that Cuomo campaign sound trucks were driving
around certain neighborhoods blaring
chants like "Vote for Cuomo, not thehomo," and that Cuomo's television
advertising stressed the now-familiar"family" theme to accentuate the contrast between him and the "bachelor"candidate. Cuomo responded angrily,
reporting to the New York Times that
"he and his staff had 'rejected any
effort to get us involved in digging up

information' purporting to portray Mr.
Koch as a homosexual. 'Aside fromeverything else, I knew it could backfire and wind up hurting me. It looks
as though that's what's happened.'''In the run-off between Koch andCuomo, Koch won by the greatest margins in the same gay neighborhoods
where Abzug had. Gays and lesbians
are widely credited with having helped
to elect Ed Koch.
Koch reciprocatedwith anannouncementon his first day inoffice that he would issue an executive order prohibiting city agencies
from discriminating on the basis ofsexual orientation. We were off to apromising start.
Cut to 1989. Koch has issued
another groundbreaking
executiveorder, this one providing bereavement
leave to the non-spousal domestic partners of city employees. "He could havedone that 12 years ago," says Duane.
Many activists believe Koch did more
for gay civil rights in the first day of his
administration than he has done in allof the years since. And as AIDS entered
all of our lives, the toll of his neglect
grew more and more tragic. Regarding
the erosion of Koch's support in ourcommunity, openly gay City Council
candidate Dave Taylor remarks, "It'ssurprising that it took so long."
There is virtual consensus amonglesbian and gay political activists that
Ed Koch has lost the support of thevast majority of our community. He
retains some vestigial support, ofcourse. The New York Native continues
to rave about him, and the Stonewall
Democratic Club (affectionately known
as "The Koch Club") has endorsed him.
Jan Carl Park, the assistant director of
Koch's Office for the Lesbian and Gay
Community, inSists, "There is still lotsof support for the mayor."
But most visible politically active
lesbians and gays disagree. David
Rothenberg,
a former City Human
Rights Commissioner
appointed by
Koch who has since broken with themayor, says, "I want to find a gay person who's supporting Koch who's not

TOMBSTONE-WALL PLACE
ACTUP at last Junes ceremony naming Stonewall Place

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on the payroll." Virginia Apuzzo, a we are systematically oppressed anda meeting of the commissioners of all
longtime lesbian activist with strong ties must pursue a broad progressive agenthe city agencies, led by then Deputy
to Governor CUomo, believes that sup- da in coalition with other oppressed
Mayor Robert Wagner, Jr. (who is now
port for the mayor in our community is groups.
President of the Board of Education). It
limited to those with "a single issue
Koch alienated progressives from was just months into the new adminisperspective totally focused on lesbian the earliest days of his administration.
tration, spring 1978, and the commisand gay civil rights issues in the strictest Rothenberg declined to support Koch's sioners were preparing budgets in thesense. n They are people like Jason
reelection in 1981 not because of any midst of the fiscal crisis. Wagner
Worth, a Koch supporter employed by issues specific to the lesbian and gay described a deliberate strategy for fiscal
Civil Court Judge Richard S. Lowe, who community, but because the mayor"recovery": cutback on needed services
recalls, "Under his tenure we got the "was insensitive to people who had thein poor areas-like health care, police,
gay community
center," and withgreatest needs in this city." Koch's tax fire and sanitation-to the point whereregard to AIDS laments, "there is always giveaways to corporations and devel"people would go back to the South
more that could be done. n Or the Koch opers and his anti-union stands madeand to Puerto Rico." By the 1981 camappointee a friend of mine recently
him a hero in the city's recovery from paign, most labor unions and progresmet, who boasted that "the mayor has near fiscal collapse, but his policies
sive organiZations,
including many
done more for gay people than any were devastating to the city's poor.
lesbian and gay groups, supported
other individual since 5,000 B.C."
A former Koch-appointed commisKoch's opponent, Brooklyn AssemblyPark describes "a whole dimension
sioner of a city social service agency,
man Frank Barbaro.
of people who remember that thewho prefers not to be identified, recalls
There was also growing frustration
mayor was the firstover Koch's seeming stagmayor to march in anation on gay civil rights
gay pride march," thatissues. "Gay rights were
he issued the executive
not number one or in theorders, supported gay
top five or ten issues out
rights legislation andof a list of 100," says
appointed open gays.
David Fleischer. "They
But it is only throughwere more like number
such an appeal to nos99. n Prom the start Kochtalgia, to the pre-AIDS
had supported
a procontext, that Park evenposed City Council gay
tries to defend his boss.
human rights bill. As a
"Many view his workcandidate, he had told
on AIDS as not being
lesbian and gay groups
enough. I think that'sthat any mayor who
understandable. "made it a priority could
Appuzzo's
referpass such a bill within six
ence to the "single
months.
issue
perspective"
The majority leader
dredges .up a longof the council, Tom Cuite,
standing tension in lesopposed the bill and year
bian and gay politics.
after year used his influSome view us as anence to kill it. Yet when"interest group" with a. the 1981 elections rolled
limited legislative politaround,
Koch backed
ical agenda, somethingCUite's re-election. Not
on a par with theuntil 1986, Just two
National Rifle Associamonths
after Cu ite'stion, whose needs canretirement, did gay rights
be met by supporting. legislation reach the floor
choice pieces of legisof the City Council andlation. In other words,
pass. The threat of Koch
Koch deserves our supcampaigning against him
port if he supports X, Y
and other council homoand Z, regardlessofphobes might well havewhatever else he does
defanged Cuite and guaror doesn't do. Others
anteed our rights years
have taken a broader
earlier. Instead, recalls"Iiberationist"
SETTING THINGS STRAIGHT
Photo: lL. Litt Democratic Party district
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Reed, "He IKochl passed up every
opportunity to make a substantive contribution to our community, and in fact
he was playing politics as usual."
While Ed Koch and Prank Barbaro
were battling it out, AIDS made its
debut. At that time it was impossible toforesee the degree to which it wouldchange all of our lives. But as more
and more gay men were struck and as
our community was forced into action,
Koch ignored our crisis. Larry Kramer
recalls a telling story about his first andlast encounter with the mayor. It wasin 1982 at a farewell party for departing Cultural Affairs Commissioner
Henry Geldzahler, held at the restaurant Odeon. Kramer asked to be introduced to the mayor, which he was.
"I began my spiel-I
was muchcalmer tl1en--and as soon as I uttered
the word-I don't even remember if it
was called AIDS yet-his
lackeysescorted me away and told me themayor did not wish to discuss that."
Many a leveler head than Kramer hascome to his conclusionthat themayor's head is stuck in the sand.
From the earliest days, Koch refusedto even meet with the Gay Men's Health
Crisis. When he finally did, he agreed toonly the non-fJSCalAIDS requests. To thisday Koch has refused tocommit the kinds of dollars
which his own advisors say it
will take to provide basic services to the growing population fighting for their lives.
Jan Carl Park protests
that "if you look at the figures, it's a good picture."
But the Committee on AIDS
Funding,comprisedof
AIDS Service Organizations,put forth a budget requestof $41 million-a
paltrysum out of the city's $27
billion annual budget. They
arrived at their request notby creating a "wish list,"
but by conservatively pricing the services outlined in
the city's own strategic planfor AIDS. Less than half of
their request was funded.
In addition, most of thecity's touted AIDS fundincrease this year actuallyconsists of funds whichwere budgeted last year

and weren't spent. The money is simply being carried over in a classic
smoke and mirrors act.
GMHC's diplomatic Robert Peterson says, "It's like trying to put out araging fire with a water pistol." ACT UP
is more direct when it chants, "murderer" in confrontations with the mayor.
Park believes lesbian and gay voters will "keep AIDS in perspective."
But for most of us, AIDS has superceded other issues and creates the perspective from which the rest of theKoch record, whether in the area of
human rights or jn the area of social
services, is viewed. In 1985, Carol Bellamy challenged Koch in the mayoral
race, and lost big. The single groupwith whom she did better than Koch,according to a Daily News exit poll,
was lesbian and gay voters. The erosion of Koch's support in our community was evident then, and has only
continued.
Lesbian activist Vivian
Shapiro, a former board member of the
Human Rights Campaign Fund, voted
for Koch even in 1985. "I will not support him now," she says. "There's apart of him that would like our community to disappear."
Likewise, Eric Sawyer not only
voted for Koch in 1985, but contributed

funds to his campaign. Sawyer is a realestate investor, and saw Koch primarily
as a friend to real estate and a soundpolitical investment. His lover's deathfrom AIDS in 1986 woke Sawyer up to
the political realities of AIDS in New
York City and "the lack of leadershipon the mayor's part." Sawyer now
spends his time investigating the lackof city AIDS services.
His story is not uncommon. One
effect which AIDS has had on us, as agroup, politically, is to demonstrate
without a doubt what many of us-at
least what many of us gay, white
men-hadpreviously failed to comprehend: we are an expendable population, as much so as those that
Robert Wagner, Jr. had suggested
might have to be driven out. And theresult of this rude awakening is that
our community is increasingly taking
a liberationist approach to politics.
Dave Taylor credits ACT UP with alarge part of this transformation, andnotes, "Progressives are dominating
the political scene now."
The Dinkins campaign sees gay andlesbian votes as potentially pivotal.
According to Dinkins field organizer
Leslie Cagan, a lesbian, "We think thatthe lesbian and gay vote can make a significant difference." Philip
Reed makes the more generalobservation that "no minority
mayor of a major city has won
without the support of the lesbian and gay community."
But the story of Ed Kochover the past 12 years leaves
us with an important lesson.
Many in our community
stayed loyal to Koch until
1981, until 1985, and someeven until now, because hesays he supports us. Let's callthis the Koch Rule: As lesbians and gays, our loyalty
to candidates and elected
officials must be completely
secondary to our imperative
to survive and gain visibility
and empowerment. Finally, it
seems that our group perception of Ed Koch hascaught up with the bleak
reality of his record. Koch's
once-solid base of support
among us has dwindled toalmost nothing.
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by Larry Kramer
In 1981 I helped to start Gay Men's Health Crisis. In
1981, I made my first telephone call for help to the mayorof the city my many friends were dying in. In 1981, I mademy second and third and fourth and fiftieth phone calls forhelp to the mayor of the city my many friends were dyingin. For you see, I never-not in 1981 or 1982 or 1983--got
1 the mayor and I n'ever got the mayor's Liaison to the. Gay
Community, Mr. Herb Rickman, and I never got the mayor's
Commissioner of Health, Dr. David Sencer, and I never got
anyone.
And I started to become the furiously angry man I am
now known to be. I hate and loathe Ed Koch with every
fiber of my being and every ounce of energy I have.
And so should every single gay man and lesbian in
New York City. And so should every person touched by
AIDS in New York City-gay, straight, white, black, hispanic, man, woman, child.
When the man I loved died in 1984 (and GMHC still
had not received support from the mayor of the city ourmany friends are dying in) I vowed on his death bed that I
would do everything in my power to discredit Ed Koch-to
shout at every possible minute what a monster Ed Koch is,what a lethal hypocrite Ed Koch is, what a murderer of mymany dying friends Ed Koch is.
I don't know why people think I am exaggeratingwhen I say that Ed Koch is the one person in America most
responsible for letting the AIDS epidemic get out of control.
I don't know why people don't believe Dr. Mathilde
Krim when she says that AIDS is an epidemic that could
have been contained. And that everything that happened
was predictable from the very first moment.
When someone in a family gets sick, doesn't the parent
try to make him better? This parent certainly doesn't let thesick kid get worse and worse. But that's what Ed Koch did.
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city streets like a plague, doesn't the highest elected officialof that city have an obligation to educate his citizens to get
out of the way? This highest elected official certainly
doesn't see to it that all attempts at education are forbidden
completely. But that's what Ed Koch did.
When an epidemic gets so bad that tens of thousandsof people are dying and there are no hospital beds andinsufficient amounts of medicine and bodies are piling up
in doorways, shouldn't the mayor of the city-finally-try
and save his citizens? This mayor certainly shouldn't lie tohis people and tell them there is $40 million coming tothem at last when in fact there is already a $2 billion deficit
and there is about as much chance as a poor Black kid
becoming president that any of this $40 million is going to
see the light of truth. But that's what Ed Koch did.
It is astounding what a flagrant liar he is and what an
inept official he is and what a crooked politician he is (189of his staff have been indicted) and how everyone knows all
this and still he has not been turned out of office and indeed
stands a good chance to win again. It is almost as if people
in New York really believe you have to be crooked and ruthless to succeed in New York. That's probably why people are
not going to vote for David Dinkins, who, by all rights,
should be Mayor, and everyone knows should be Mayor.
How much worse must everything be before we give
someone new a chance? Each year has been worse than theyear before. More lies and more corruption and more government by press conferences and more smarmy acts ofcontrition and more announced programs that never materialize and more deaths from AIDS.
More lies and more deaths and fewer friends in thiscity my many friends are dying in.
How can every rational, sane, compassionate humanbeing not hate and loathe Ed Koch with every fiber of yourbeing and every ounce of energy you have?
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WhyisDavid
Dinkins
Our

Candidate?
poorer, sicker, more addicted to drugs
and far more dangerous.
Yes, we are angry. We are disgustIt's no secret: Living in New York ed at the way the poor are largely left tois becoming more difficult every year .. fend for themselves. We are frightened
Our city is caught in a nightmarish web to walk down drug-infested streets. Weof interrelated crises-their crude reali- are sick and tired of being sad, ofty slaps us in the face daily, as if we watching our friends and lovers waste
needed further reminding that City Hall away with disease-often without prophas failed us miserably.
er health care, housing, nutrition.
You can try to ignore the probBut this year, 1989, we can end
lems, but they will catch up with you. the dark days of neglect and indifferOpen a paper, turn on the news, walk ence. We can begin speaking of hope,down the street: Crisis and catastropherenewal, healing. We can vote for
await you. We have the homeless crisis David Dinkins and get this city back on
and its parent, the housing crisis. The track. As lesbians and gay men-and ascrisis in education has aggravated the New Yorkers-we have an obligation
drug crisis, which in turn is fanning the to make certain that Dinkins is our next
fires of the AIDS crisis. In the meanMayor. We owe it to ourselves, and totime, people are being beaten or mur- the poor, the sick, the drug-addicted,
dered in the streets because someone
the young, the disabled, and everyone
else didn't like their skin color, or their else who needs someone fight forsex, or their sexual orientation.
them-andnot against them-at
theCall it the hate crisis.
pinnacle of municipal power.
Sound alarmist? Perhaps, but think
David Dinkins' long ascent to
how the city will look four years from empowerment in many ways mirrors
now, if we don't throw out the folks that of our own community. In the late
who allowed this situation to simmer
60s and early 70s, he was on the streets
and fester over the last 12 years. While very much like our own. David Dinkins
Ed Koch partied and his underlings pil- knows what it's like to suffer discrimifered, our city-our
city-became
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they joys and pains of a community
struggling to earn the respect andpower it rightly deserves. David Dinkins has always spoken out-from theheart-against
gigotry and hatred,
raci1;m, seXism, anti-Semitism
andhomophobia.
"I am so proud of you," he often
says with a warm smile after addressing lesbian and gay groups. "The lesbian and gay community is a vital partof my efforts to unite this city."
He means it. Dinkins has traditionally hired large numbers of lesbians andgay men to fill key poSitions at the Manhattan Borough President's Office and,before that, at the Office of the City
Clerk. He has endorsed and worked
with gay candidates, and appointed
openly gay and lesbian members to
Manhattan's 12 community boards.
"When it comes to lesbian and gay
issues, David Dinkins is light years
ahead of the other candidates," says
Alan Fleischman of the Gay and Lesbian
Independent Democrats (GLID). "David
has been the leader in the fight for ourcommunity. But he never had to bepressured to do it, he knew it was right."
And in a few days a bilingual, tabloidsized piece of literature will be mailed tohundreds of thousands ofunderstand that discrimiVito Russo:
voters. Its second page isnation is an unnecessary
devoted to "David Dinkins'
evil. Dinkins supports··1certainly
trust
him
more
than
Agenda for Change"-anthe anti-bias bill in theeight point list of the mostanyone else. He
himself instate legislature, whichpressing issues in the city:
would set stiff penalties
touch with the PWA community:·"Crime, drugs, education,
for those convicted ofhousing, economic develophate crimes-including
ment, environment, reproductive rights ins said at the AIDS forum. "What r lesbian and gay bashing. "I will makeand lesbian and gay rights."
want is to get people off drugs, period.
my pOSition clear to the leaders inDinkins has taken time to educate
We should spend our time on things
Albany: Homophobia maims and kills.
himself about AIDS, and as Boroughlike treatment-on-demand, which is so Stop the violence. Pass the bill," hePresident, has fought for more city limited in New York."said recently.
funding of AIDS-related programs.
Still, support for Dinkins is strong
He also supports including gay andOver the last three years, Dinkins and among AIDS activists and PWAs. "r cer- lesbian history and culture in public
his competent staff negotiated overtainly trust him more than anybody
school courses. "We don't have to love
$1.7 million into the city budget for else in the field," says Vito Russo, a each other, but we ought to learn to
AIDS education and services and his writer, AIDS activist and PWA. "He understand each other," Dinkins likes to
office provided the seed money for the occasionally drops by the PWA Coali- say. "We can help young people tranfirst city-wide mass media AIDS education to visit. But it's never a planned
scend the fear and ignorance that leadtion campaign.
event, there's no one from the media,
to homophobia, racism and sexism.""Public AIDS education must be as if he Were campaigning. I appreciate
On the issue of domestic partnerexplicit, and it must be culturally andit because he puts himself in touch
ship, few leaders have gone as far as
linguistically appropriate to the com- with the PWA community more than
Dinkins. He was the first city offiCial tomunities at risk," Dinkins said at a July anyone, and thus he understands therecognize domestic partnership amongmayoral AIDS forum sponsored by theissue more than anyone."his staff, and supports the right of
Gay Men's Health Crisis.
Dinkins has spoken out as much
unmarried partners to inherit leases in
Dinkins' work on AIDS concerns
on women's issues as he has on lesbian rent-controlled, rent-stabilized and citygoes way beyond education. He sup- and gay issues. He supports full reproowned buildings. Dinkins also believes
ports scatter-site housing for homelessductive rights, equal pay for equal workthat domestic partners of city employees
persons with AIDS (PWAs) and has
and the ERA. He has helped fund pro- should be entitled to spousal benefits.
promised to reserve two units of every grams for prenatal care, day care andOf course there are issues onrenovated City-owned building forbattered women and children. He sup- which Dinkins has had disagreements
housing PWAs. He has also sought
ports community-based women's health with some in the lesbian and gay commore funds to provide services for projects. As such, Dinkins has beenmunity. In addition to the aforemenHIV-affected, including health andendorsed by NOW-New York and thetioned controversial needle exchangemental health services, outpatient treat- New York Women's Political Caucus.
programs, Dinkins has disappointed
ment centers and other support ser"Dinkins is sensitive to women'ssome gay and lesbian leaders on thevices. He pledges
to seek moreissuesj he has come a long way," says issue of legalized gay marriages.
funding for groups such as GMHC, the Joyce Hunter, a lesbian activist. "I still Though he supports our right to adopt
AIDS Resource Center, People withthink he could do better on women'schildren or give them foster care, DinkAIDS Coalition, God's Love, We Deliver issues, but he's far above the others."
ins does not back formal, legal marand the Community Resource Initiative
He has appointed women to many riage for lesbians and gays. Dozens- which was formed to rapidly test key positions, including his current
have met with him on this issue, yet heexperimental
drugs inside the HIV chief of staff and community services
remains steadfast. "I'm simply notcommunity. Dinkins has also expressed
director, and his former deputy borready to change- my mind on gay marconcern on numerous occasions aboutough preSident and press secretary.
riages, but I am open to keep talking
AIDS among women and children. He
Nobody had to tell Dinkins that the about it," he recently told a small
recognizes that most cases in New
lesbian and gay rights bill (which the group during a meeting.
York are now among I.V. drug users
City Council finally passed in 1986) was
But in general, most lesbian andand their sexual partners.
a critical piece of legislation. Year after gay activists believe Dinkins is the mostBut IV drug use and AIDS has cost year, Dinkins would trudge down to representative of our issues of all the
Dinkins some support among certain
City Hall with the rest of us for the
candidates-that
he will fight for ouractivists. He does not endorse needle
annual ritual of haVing the bill rejected.
civil rights. Says Vito Russo: "I'd like toexchange programs, and even opposes
But Dinkins, like us, refused to give up. turn the tide in this city, to transform it
the distribution of bleach kits for drug By coincidence, the bill was passed just from a barracuda pit to a place whereusers to clean their works.
three months after Dinkins took office.
people listen to each other. David, who"To me, free needles is the same
Now, he has turned his energy to is intelligent and articulate, can do that.
as free drugs. I can't accept that we legislation in Albany and Washington,
I can't think of any reason not to voteshould surrender on this issue,· Dink- vowing to fight until lawmakers there
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We're so happy to see that The
Cubby Hole, the most populardyke bar in town, has a "sandwich-of-the-month"
namedafter it at the Store 24 at Greenwich and Sixth Ave. We figure
Bonnie must be a sister.

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BY

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HANDS

BRADLEY

Dear Brad:
I thought I liked him but I wasnever sure how he felt about me andso I just waited for something to happen. But nothing ever did and when
finally I said something he said he'dnever really given it any thought one
way or the other and would have toget back to me. Somehow I know thatwhen and if he does I'm not going tocome out so well. I used to have reliable instincts about these things but
now I'm no longer sure. Frankly, I
don't know if I could stand to go
through all of this again with one
more person. What noW?
...square One

BALL1988 and that's just the way it is.
Dear Brad:
It's about 3:00 am on a particularly evil and terrifying night and everybody I know hung up on me when I
tried to call them and I honestly don't
know where else to turn or what it isI think I want somebody to tell methat I haven't already said to myself in
one way or another. Maybe all I want
is some kind of comfort, quick or
cold ·or otherwise, which Is not thesort of thing one can simply demandor even purchase at this or any timeof night and, of course, there Is noeasy comfort. There Is only endurance
but right now at this unendurable
moment I cannot even believe in, letalone hope for that and ... oh, but
what's the use? What on earth could

Dear Square:
To be quite honest, all of the goodthings came to an abrupt end early in"Peek-A-Boo" IT
Mary Martin
Claudette Colbert
Steven Jobs
Deli Arnez Jr.
Prince ~Ibert of Monaco
Richard Chamberlain
Maryland Senator Barbara Milkulski
Maryland Congressman Ron Dyson
Maryland Gov:WiUiam Schaeffer
Fran Leibowitz ..
Johnny Mathis. Julie Andrews
Blake Edwards
Diane Sawyer
Mike Nichols
Suzanne Pleshette

Sir John Gielgud
Oregon Senator Mark, Hattfleld
UlyTomlin
Jane Wagner
Dolly Parton
Sandy Gallen
Walt Disney head Michael Ellner
20th Century fox head Barry Diller
Geffe.nRecords hea~ David Geffen
Republican N.af!; Committee
Chair Lee Atwater
Alexis Smith
David Cassidy
Marlene Dietrich
Kristie McNichol
Fannie Aagg

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you possibly say to me, given the limitations of this forum, that would
make a difference, assuming you'deven bother to print my letter andeven if you did that's quite a while towalt and whatever Ineffable comfort I
think it is I need, I need right thisvery minute. Besides, what if what
they say is true and all these letters
are made up? If that's the case then sois this letter which makes this dread
completely imaginary or else it meansthat I'm you or you're me and if I
can't help myself then you can't help
me or yourself or whoever either oneof us may be.

-lost In tbe Stars
Dear Lost:
I felt exactly the same way onenight in Montreal. at the Chateau
Champlain when room service wasclosed and the pay-per-vlew channel
was shOWing Frantic for the hundredth time and I'd pretty wellcleaned out the mini-bar In the room(a course of action I was later toregret when presented with my room
charges). Fortunately I always travelwith a copy of Jean Anouilh's Meti4e
close at hand and turned to this familiar passage: "Beasts of this night! I
utter with you your obscure scream. I
accept like you, without wanting tounderstand any more, the black command ...I put out the little light. I givethe shameful signal. I take uponmyself, I assume, I claim. All that is
hunting and killing tonight is Medea'"
Who can help but feel strangely
uplifted by these words? I found themomentary solace that I need but, ofcourse, that work is now out of print
so you'll just have to come up withyour own solution.
Confidential to Sally P.:
You should wear. green. You
wore green the last time, the time youwere happy.
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fret over. The economy is in its seventh year of growth. There aren't significant foreign troubles to speak of.
But just let the economy slip into mild
recession, and the national worry overdrugs will vanish." Nothing better tofret over? MY COMMUNITYIS BEING
MURDERED!!! A MILLION PEOPLE
ARE INFECTED WITH A VIRUSTHATHAS KILLED 100,000, YOU ASSHOLES!!!

things in her twisted attempt to analyze culture: "AIDS effectively put thequietous onto the fun of camp. But
somehow Busch has managed to rise
above the times." Sorry, Liz, but if
you woke up and actually got out ofthat ivory tower you'd know that"camp" (your word for fags in drag) is
at an all-time high - probably directly due to the oppression and homophobia surrounding AIDS. Lypsinka,
Jeffrey Essman, Everett Quinton, Ethyl
Eichelberger,
Bruce
Hopkins,

Signorlle• • • •

About the butter mentioned inparagraph one. On Page Six (NewYork Post), Richard Johnson reports onan event in which yours truly attended
a party and "shoved a plateful of butter on [artist Mark Kostabi'sl face."
Not true! It was a big tub of half-melted butter and it wasn't shoved but
rather "squished." And I'm not surewhat we should do to Johnson forwriting, "Signorile is an editor at
Out Week, a magaZine that caters tohomosexuals." Maybe we should allcater his next party? (When I spoke
to him afterwards he chuckled that hethought I said "a lesbian and gay
nude magaZine, rather than news
magaZine. Ha. Ha. Ha.)
Kostabi deserved much mor,ehumiliation than that for ihe violenceand death he has courted and perpetuated since he made those horrible,
homophobic, AlDSphobic remarks in
Vanity Fair a few months ago. On
Page Six he says of me: "A man who
resorts to violence is a man who has
run out of ideas." Without getting into a
debate about what is "violent" and what
isn't (and whether or not dairy products
fall into this category), I would like topoint out that this man who says I've
run out of ideas is the very same artist
who hires people .to think for him.
But back to the action. Everyone
should begin coming up with strategies for "Hotel Bar Zaps." They'reimmensely effective. You attend social
events where these monsters will be.
Tell all of the paparaZZi and the gossip
columnists what you plan to do. And
then, presto! The embarrassed idiot
sits there with goop on his or her
face, while flashbulbs are popping
and reporters are jotting down notes.
You quickly exit. The next morning
you fax all of the media your statements and demands.
TI'd like to meet this maniac Donal
Henehan who wrote the Music
View column in last Sunday's
New York Times so that I could smear
his face with some sweet, creamery
butter (I'll explain this tactic later). In
an obsessive column in which he discusses an article titled Franz Schubert
and the Peacocks of Benvenuto Cellini(written by Maynard Solomon andappearing in the spring issue of 19th
Century Music), Henahan's homophobia rages out of control. The article, ofcourse, speaks of Schubert as a gay
man. But before even reading about
it we immediately see the hatred of
the Times' headline writers who cameup with these ditties: The Dark Sideof Schubert and (on the jump page)
Some Disturbing
Things About
Schubert. Then we get to the column
and learn that Henehan, who seems
to think that visibility is unimportant,doesn't feel the public should be toldthat any great artists were gays or lesbians. But he does acknowledge thatpeople are being brought out of thecloset anyway and that it might be"reasonable
in this case since thecomposer was "an enthusiastic homosexual [whosel sexuality could have
had something to do with his feverishly prolific output, his drastic swings ofmood and his tragic death by syphilis
at age 31." Eat shit!

Wigstock have all recently garneredhuge doses of "mainstream press,"much of it within your own newspaper. Do you read Liz? Or is it perhaps that "AIDS has put a quietous"
not on the the occurrence of "camp,"
but rather on your reporting of it?
After all, there are more important
things to write about like how wonderful Gayfryd Steinberg and her million dollar birthday parties are, right?

• • • •
Perhaps more insidious, though,are some remarks from The New
RepubliC'S Fred Barnes which Liz
Smith includes in the same column.
In a highly irresponsible manner, shequotes Barnes' dangerous rantings that
drug abuse is not a major problem in
America today without making any
critical comment other than that theseare "unusual ideas." And though shesits on the fence, it's obvious that Liz
agrees with Barnes but is afraid to say
so. According to Barnes, as quoted by
Liz.Smith, all the hype about drug use
is "the result of a relentless media
emphaSiS ...Politicians have followed
the press in talking nonstop about
drugs. It's also the result of something else - GOOD TIMES.
"Peopleworry about drugs
because there isn't something better to• • • •
After two months, Liz Smith(Daily News) has finally discovered
Charles Busch and The Lady in
Question (or rather his publicist has
finally gotten Liz to nibble on anitem). But, once again Liz says somestupid, incorrect and embarrassing
!

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Social Terrorism

Photos by Erich Conrad

WHATDYA MEAN YOU CAN'T READ MY SHIRT?
ChemeatMK

NOntlNG UP MY SLEEVEDavid La Chappelle

SWEET SMEll OF SUCCESS
Pop ralts Fenton, Charlie and Randy at the Cat Club

WHArs

GOING ON DOWN THERE?
Charles Atlas at the My Comrade party

Filmmaker

000001 WHAT A LOVELYBREEZE
Poet Barbara Patterson Lloyd at Mars

DON'T EVEN TRY IT
Reno Dakota at the My Comrade party

GEE.ntAT FEAntER TICKLESDoris of FA.D. Magazine at Cat ClubWOULD YOU UKE TO SEE MY ETCHINGS?

TommySaeli
BLOW IN MY REAR AND I'll

FOllOW

YOU ANYWHERE

Barbara Streisand at Love Machine

WISHFUL THINKING?

Scott Lifschits at the My Comrade party

FATAL DISC-TRACTIONOJ Oany at the My Comrade party

NO NATASHA, ACT FRIENDLY!

THE NECKLACE IS GONE

Finnbar and Simon at MK

Pheobe and Mark at MK

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by David Kirby and Gabriel Rotella
We hear through the gay grapevine that many new groups are following in the activist footsteps,
or march-steps, of that pioneering organization, ACT-UP. Maybe you haven't heard of them yet, but
they're out there, getting ready to piss-off your straight friends by "going too far," and possibly disturbing the peace in your very own neighborhOod. Just to keep you from getting too confused at this proliferation of pissed-off pansies and livid lesbians, here's a handy guide to the new groups.

Drag queens are kissing off the opposition in: Drag Reigns In Every Social Situation, or DRESS-UP.
Psychophants in the fashion industry are snubbing old friends at meetings for:Someone Unimportant Calvin Knows, or SUCK-UP.
Nonpolitical, anti-ACf-UP fags are throwing beach parties in Provincetown for:
Stop Homos from Upsetting Teadances, or SHUf-UP.
Faaaabulous models are learning to vogue for their rights in: Posing Is Nirvana, or

PIN-UP.
Radical anti-breeders are asking that pertinent question: Why Are Kids Everywhere?,or WAKE-UP.
Sex workers and their 'paying companions' have finally organized: Prostitution And
You, or PAY-UP.
Compulsively clean roommates who've had it up to here are fighting back with:
PeQple Into Clean Kitchens, or PICK-UP.
Busy queer yuppies who just don't have a minute for anybody else's problems are
finally getting together: Time Is Everything, Dear, or TIED-UP.
Gay and lesbian overeaters have formed: Food Equals Death, or FED-UP.
Stingy decorators are self-empowering

in: Furniture Is Extra, or FIX-UP.

Inexperienced lesbian mothers with uncooperative turkey-baster babies are fighting
back with: Single Parents In Trouble, or SPIT-UP.
And finally, everybody with some kind of neurotic problem - which is almost
everybody we know - seems to be joining: Let Overwhelming Obsessions Suddenly End Now, or LOOSEN-UP.
OutWeek wishes the best of luck to all the above organizations, and invites them to list in ourcommunity directory .

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Ten Reasons Why
I Can't Date You
by Mona Feigenbaum
My friends tell me that I'm way too picky, that I should
lower my standards and I'd be getting some all the time. But
it's not really a question of standards, or that I'm such a gift
(well, you could do worse ...), but there ~re certain physicalthings, call them uh-uh-elementsof style if you will thatturn me off at face value. Nothing to do with looks persay.-believe me, this girl Mona could always use some selfimprovement-rather
it's tone and intention that often makeme run the other way. I guess you could say they are little
things that say a lot. And while beauty is only skin deep(yeah, yeah, yeah), clothes often do make the (wo)man. In
other words, here are ten highly superficial reasons why I
can't date you

1.

Leather pants-especiallyPeople shouldn't.

when you shouldn't, and most2.

Boots over your pants, particularly over your leather
pants. Further penalty points if those boots (or thatleather) is of some unnatural color, such as red.

3.
4.
5.

Acid-washed jeans-wear
you.

them and I won't even talk to

An outfit too conspicuously "Gap."

Attitude for no apparent reason-unlessof course,
you're still in high school, and in that case you canhave lots of attitude and wear red leather boots overacid-washed jeans ...you've got me.

6.

It is way too obvious that you're a power lifter.

7.

"But I'm mature for 23" is a phrase in your vocabulary.

8.

You tell me you're "nutty."

9.
10 .

You're 5' 8", and 5' 2" without your hair.

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TheaterPrivates' Lives
Privates on Parade. A play withmusic by Peter Nichols. Music byDenis King. I:?irect~.? by Larry
Carpenter.
Presented
at theRoundabout Theater fompany, 100
E.17th Street.!ii

by Michael Paller

the British effort to hold theCommunists at bay in the Pacific. He's
attached to an entertainment unit led
by Acting Captain Terri Dennis Qim
Dale), who is a raving queen andproud of it. The unit has been touring
Singapore, but on the orders of its
commanding officer, the dense Major
Giles Flack (Simon Jones) it is about

to become bait to lure the guerrillas
from the jungle.
As Flowers, Jim Fyfe is wonderfully befuddled, whether face to facewith a stripped-down Dennis as they
discuss the birds and bees, or at the
naked mercy of Sylvia Morgan, thetroop's Welsh-Indian song and dance
See PRIVATES' on page 74

T

he vision of British playwrightPeter Nichols is bitter andbleak, but there is joy and akind of wholeness in it, too. By combining conventional, even melodramatic, stories with musical hall jokes
and songs,
andpastichesof
Hollywood
production
numbers,
Nichols produces deep and resonant
emotional experiences. They take us
directly to the heart of the dramatic
matter-a heart Which almost always
alternates with breath-taking speed
betweenunbearable
loss andunbreakable hilarity.
Nichols doesn't use pronouncements to make his opinions clear. He
is both too humble and realistic to feelsuperior, and God forbid he takerefuge in the last resort of hypocrites
and fools, the moral high ground.
Rather, he unleashes his characters in
extravagant situations, and lets them
behave, sing and dance as they will.
The New York premiereof
Nichols' 1977 Privates on Parade (atitle which can be taken in anyone ofseveral ways) admirably reflects theplay's humanity. Larry Carpenter, thedirector, sees to it that each characteris a human being, not a cartoon. For
all its music hall humor, there isn't acheap moment:
every laugh isearned-and so, too, is the anger.
The story is a rite of passage: intime of war, a soldier grows from callow youth to man. British Private
Stephen Flowers Qim Fyfe) arrives in
the Malayan Peninsula in 1948, during

Photo: Martha Swope

PRIDE PARADE
Simon Jones and Jim Dale
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Film

The Cookie Crumbles
Cookie,Seidelman.
Bros.

directedby SusanDistributed by Warnerby Maria MaggentiI

wast only a few years ago when
Susan Seidelman managed to
breakinto the
Hollywood mainstream
with films that portrayed
women as sassy, sexy,centered and sometimes
even a bit subversive.
Sh~ seemed so full ofpromise; a young female
director with an Irreverent point of view and an
original visual style.
However, the my-dlckIs-blgge r-than-yours
school of filmmaking
seems to have sent
Seidelman careening off
course In her latest venture, the ill-conceived
and often sloppy new
release Cookie.
The plot Is simple
and not particularly
engaging-Mafia
dad(Peter Falk) Is let outof the slammer and has
to deal with his feisty
illegitimate
daughter
Cookie (Emily Lloyd),his still passionate andlong-suffering mistress(DianneWiest), his
brassy wife (Brenda
Vaccaro) and a plethora of Mafia mobsters,
as he struggles to get
out of the underworldand "go straight." Seeing as how Italian-

imagination on fire recently, this plotline isn't surprising. What could Italians be doing in New York anyway
except eating pasta, yelling at eachother and oiling the wheels of thatmacho Mafia machine day in and day
out? Perhaps co-writer Nora Ephrondeveloped the script while taking thetrain out to Easthampton one weekend in between her many Hollywood
writing gigs and promptly forgot

Am~ricans seem to be COTTON CANDY CRIER
setting
Hollywood's
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about it until the next mortgage payment was due on her fabulous house.
Thus, in place of true humor, tired
ethnic stereotypes are trotted out totry and bolster an obViously unfunny
and often confusing script. This is
one of those movies where the sheer
sound of an Italian name is supposed
to make a person guffaw.
Peter Falk plays an aging Italian
gangster with all the finesse and polish of a true ensemble
actor. However, his senseof comic timing and his
feeling for understatement are continually challenged by the crowded
voices of Vacarro, Wiestand Lloyd whoarereducedto a trio of
squawking, bitchy, gumchomping wenches. Thisis a particular disappointment In the case of Emily
Lloyd, the young British
actress whose film debut
two years ago in Wish
You Were Here displayeda kind 'of irrepressible
originality, wit and defiance rarely seen by
women in film. Instead ofsettingherloose,
Seidelman lassoes Lloyd's
naturalbuoyancybymaking the character
Cookie into an ersatz version of Madonnna
in
Desperately
Seeking
Susan. What is it withoversized, overdecorated
black leather jackets anyway that are supposed tomake us understanda
girl's character? Unfortunately, aside from someloud chomping of chewing gum and a few barely
audiblesentencesby
Lloyd in a tough Queens
accent, we get nary a

ERZAlZ MADONNA
fmilyUoyd
glimpse of exactly who this grumpy,
suggestive young woman is supposed
to be in relation to the wobbly plot. Is
it something about being a girl, something about being the daughter of aformer Mafia bigwig, something about
not fitting in with the rest of the gals
in the neighborhood, something aboutwearing a black leather jacket every
day of your life?
While Cookie attempts to "gostraight" by working as her dad's
chauffeur, her dad is navigating themurky waters of friendship and rivalry
created during his years in the slammer. Enter the driven, ambitious district attorney, loosely modeled after
Rudy Giuliani, who is also trying tocapture Falk in a web of deceit.
However, it seems that Falk is readyto throw all that crazy stuff away andstart over with the love of his life
Dianne Weist (his mistress, Cookie'smom), a cotton candy blonde whocries constantly and yet is really the
only sympathetic
character in thewhole film. She is also the only one
who can elicit laughter without compromising one's sense of compassion.
But who can help old Papa out of themess he's in? Certainly not his rebellious ne'er-do-well daughter Cookie.
But what a surprise! A couple of carchases and costume changes later, it
looks .like the little Cookie is reallyjust a chip off the old block. Cookie,
with her fifth grade vocabulary andJayne Mansfield figure, is the only one
who can save her dad's life. And saveit she does in a series of film
sequences that are so sloppy andpoorly shot that it made me wonder if
Seidelman had ever considered usingthat high technology cinema technique called storyboarding. Despite
the feeble attempt at comic scenarios
and the omnipresent "Italian" musicthat greases the action, there is no

development of the characters or theplot nor is there a climax. Every scene
just sails along clumsily bumping into
the next. Before you know it, Dad is
free and Cookie has shorn her blackleather jacket for black stockings, aboyfriend and who knows? Maybe alife of love and crime.
Thus, it seems that the point of
the picture is to have dad anddaughter somehow build a bridgeover their troubled waters and learn
to love and respect each other(though Dad hasn't helped out oncein Cookie's whole life and Cookie ismostly an immature reprobate who
likes Saturday morning cartoons anddriving the limo onto the sidewalk).
But what are such small details in afilm about those passionate, crazyfolk we call Italians? Nothing exceptthat once again Hollywood creates anabyss where before there was nothing
but teeming reality.
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MusicProspecting the Park
I may have short hair, but I ain't no dyke
by Victoria Starr
Women, music. Women in music.
Women's music. No matter how these
two words are associated, the images
that come to mind seem to have a sortof knee-jerk narrowness to them. Let'ssee, there's the woman with the guitar
who sings touchy-feely, earthy songs.
There's the sexy disco diva, and theskimpily clad rock bitch. There's theback up singers, and the sixties style"girl group" (or eighties style if it's the
Roches). And that just about sums it
up. Which is why it is with great
curiOSitythat I watch the various ways
in which people in the music industry
deal with the concept of women mak. ing music. Last weekend was no
exception.
The scene is Prospect Park, homeof the greatly appreciated Celebrate
Brooklyn performing arts series, whichboasts as being "the longest running
outdoor performing arts festival in
New York City." A series of free performances that draw from the wide
variety of cultural backgrounds, thisseries is, overall, a fine opportunity.to
see a range of performers who may
not fit so easily into the larger, morecommercial mUSic/dance/performanceart scene. The method is to have eachweekend represent a different style ofperformance art, with themes ranging
from a "Pop Music" weekend to
Shakespeare, from" African-Caribbean"
to classical. This year's series included
Native American VISions,and a vaguely titled Women's Festival. Starting to
get the picture?
Notice the weekend was notcalled Women's Music, as I had originally misread it to say. Not that it mattered, since I attended the show withthe security of knowing that with atitle like Women's Festival, nearly halfof the Park Slope dyke population
would
show
up anyway.
But"women's music" or not (some of theweekend's acts could fall into that category, while many of the others absolutely could not), the weekend wasjust one more example of the inherent
contradictions in trying to define awoman's space in musical performance.
The first thing I noticed was how
surprisingly segregated the weekend
seemed to be. While I can surely
appreciate that some musical styles. naturally compliment each other, it wasglaring that Friday night featured allwhite performers, while Saturday nightfeatured all black performers. (I amneither familiar with the bands who
performed Sunday, nor did I attend theshow). This type of concert production·STOP COMBING YOUR HAIR!Hattie Gossett

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does little for inter-neighborhood relations, a criticism which holds true forthe entire series, despite the producers'attempt to cover all the bases. And
while no law says that the series mustembroil itself in the local politicalscene, a whole dialog could be drawn.around the concept of publicly funded
cultural activities, not to mention thequestions around how to best use ourlimited public green spaces.
Enough said about the production of Celebrate Brooklyn, which is,above all, exciting. Less exciting,however, were Friday night's acts, as
the evening's artistS helped to drive
lesbian visibility back a· good decadeor two. Again, this was not "women's
music (which has it's.own very limiting focus at times), so there was no
reason to expect to find anything lesbian about the show. There is; never-Photo: Ana De Orbegoso

the less, the simple fact that Park
Slope has largest lesbian community
on the East coast, a fact which madethese woefully heterosexual(or
extremely closeted) women very nervous. So much so, in fact, that theusually charming and ever-so-witty
Christine Lavin felt compelled toreaffirm her involvement with men
no less than three times during her
set, and that's not even counting the
lyrics to her songs. The second act, acomedy act inappropriately
named

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women who have been upperclass housewives for too long. In
keeping with the music/comedy
vein, I would have much preferred
the sexually ambiguous trio Betty,or the hysterically feminist duo
Cathy and Moe. But hey, I didn't
producethe show. Besides, I
knew that Sister Carol and Hattie
Gossett, with her special guests
Edwina Lee Tyler and JacqueDupree, would more than makeup for it on Saturday.
T

Bad Attitudes, simply chose to ignore
us, singing a parody about thesodomy laws as if they only affected
gay men. On the other hand, theband should have been named Bad
Taste, since nearly all of their humor
was just that. Which means that bybeing ignored, we faired better thanthe ethnic groups they chose to portray. Add to this their macabre urge
to tell violent children's stories, andit becomes frighteningly apparent
what can happen to the minds ofPricked up Ears and Dancin' Feetby Andetrie Smith
Usually when black folks perform it means moving,
dancing bodies. Racism has denied that it also means
herstory/history: ourstory. As East German playwrightHeiner Mueller said years ago that the reason he always
read Black American literature was because it was the
only American literature with a sense of history. The second night of Celebrate Brooklyn's "Women's Festival"(8/26/89) was herstory and irrations, with poet Hattie
Gossett performing works from her newly-published
Presenting Sister No Blues, and Reggae DJ Sister Carol,
skanking the audience into ceremonial oneness.
Before Ms. Gossett performed, she elaborated on
the herstory of dreadlocks, explaining that they were aninternational phenomenon worn variously by the indigenous peoples of the Amazon rain forest, of the West
Indies, of New Zealand, as well as the Rastas. She thenlaunched
Dreadlock Office Temp/Labor Relations #5
with its roots woman heroine who puts the ignorant,
more bourgeois blacks, like those in the play The
Colored Museum, to shame. "Just stop combing your hair
she tell them." Echoing the character ten or eleven times
loudly, we suspect that most of Hattie's spokeswimmin
are herself. In the second poem, Bruddah
theDreadlocks Don't Belong to You, she quickly slides fromhair freedom to wimmin freedom: "No, da wimmins
don't belong to you." I remember hearing a Rasta brother sing: "First come woman then come man. Some people know their herstory.
Gossett's chanting was inauspiciously backed up bymusical greats: renowned African percussionist Edwina
Lee Tyler, Jacqui Dupree of the womanist duo Casselberry
Dupree, drummer David Pleasant, and Craig Rivers on sax.
With Lee on the balofone, Dupree sang synchopatedechoes to Gossett's lead. The set, which was produced by
J Casselberry, was tight and polished, showing in Gossett's
work both technical virtuosity and a command of black
oral presentation. And we were even treated to Gossett's
highly renowned rendition of the late Pat Parker's
Movement in BlackH

See PROSPECT on page 78

ROCKIN' BROOKLYN
Reggae OJ Sister Carol

Photo: Ana De Orbegoso

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BooksGetting Off
by Jacquie Bishop"When tbey pick up one of tbe.lavender dlldoes and ask me wbat
size tbey sbould get, 1turn totbem look tbem directly In tbe eye
and ask tbem 'well, bow many fingers do you like Inside of you"'''-former manager of Eve's GardenG

oodlesbianeroticaisalmost non-existent whencompared to the amount of
bad lesbian erotica published on aregular basis.
Good lesbian erotica is like acrush on a woman: it makes you
squirm, it makes you wet, distracts you
throughout the day while giving you
fantasies to masturbate over at night.
Sheba Feminist Publisher's newbook, Serious pleasure: lesbian erotic
stories and poetry, provides womenwith some of the best vanilla "jack-off
material" since the first three copies
of On Our Backs appeared in New
York in 1986. The Sheba Collective
gives its readers a roller-coaster ride
offast and furious fingers in our cunts(sorry girls no one makes a fist), "iremember how she'd fucklme like a
train/inexorably on & on/like the cannonball run ..." [Storme Webber: Likea Train} and slow brazen seduction: avisiting college lecturer by a twentyish
year old student: ''I'll seduce first then
you can seduce next, just to keep it
egalitarian" Uewelle Gomez: Water
With the Wine/.
We have freeze frame imagesof fingers, tongues, legs, hair andbreasts intertwined. We do not have

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bondage, SIM, boys or roles so we the poetry is traditional (yes there is asettle (although a little rough play- feeling of women running throughing in Jewelle's White Flower does the lavender fields nude), while there
whet the appetite). The Collective
is an instructional piece on how to
gives us the opportunity
to read seduce your lover into using a
European lesbian writers unfamiliar
cucumber when you've forgotten
to this reader. I've learned that
See GETTING OFF on page 74
wanking is bopping(as per Cyndy Lauper),andthat
anonymous
sex isgreat whether
it'shappeningin theDuchess
2 or in a
rainstorm
in anunfinished garden in
the middle of a London Dormitory Complex. I was relieved
to read that no matter where you livenot everyone is getting some and weare all taking drastic
measures.
In Bernadette
Halprin's
Box S217, the protagonist does what
manyof us areforced to do· aftermonthsofnot"dOing it": check out
the personals, reject
the personals,
readthem again, realize
there is no one thatyou're interested in
but there might besomeone interested
in you so you send a
personal.
The characters
are Black, white, tall,short, just a little
plump and quite athletic;
some
have
accents, others haves.traight hair, nappy
hair, green, blue and STEAM LOCOMOTIVE
Photo: n. Littbrown eyes. Some of 510rme Webber

BooksSchoolboy Dreams... "Fuckr
A great word needs to beyelled.

by Gabriel RoteUoAta recent demo in Provincetown, a marcher carrieda sign that read: "Legalize Butt Fucking." This
prompted a stinging backlash from local lesbians
and gays, during which a leader of the gay business guild
told the press that what enraged him most about the sign
was the fact that it spoke of legalizing anal intercourse
without also mentioning condoms.
That exchange bespoke much about the state of theerotic these days, where even the most basic political affirmation of sexuality is often couched in hesitancy or fear orboth; where desire becomes a political act, and we areasked to calculate the natural impulses that define us as
gay men.
It's therefore even more than usually refreshing to open
Idols, Dennis Cooper's raucous, real, joyously raunchy andunapologetic paean to ageless teenage queerlust. Cooper
speaks as directly to erotic gay sensibilities as Cavafy, but
his references are less Byzantine and more David Bowie.
Read these poems and be reminded of hot high schoolnights and that straight classmate you pined for at theprom:

But sexual freedom is less his point than sexual conflict, particularly the conflict between his objectivization ofyoung men's bodies versus his unrestrained romanticism, aromanticism that's as capable of hopeless crushes as ateenage girl's. He's ambiguous about the sexual excess ofthe 70s, saying of boys at the baths:... Westink
to the lowest heavens, talk like dime-novels,
and we eat from each other like cannibals,
piss snob cannibals who'll only eat caviar.
Yet he celebrates sex like a punk bacchante, and asense of humor infects even his most self-absorbed mUSings.
Idols is a lyrical, musical, provocative book of verse. In
an Author'S Preface, Cooper writes that he penned these
poems between the ages of 16 and 25, and that he's now"far away" from the feelings they express. Let's hope that if
that's true, there are other young poets who will be
inspired by his poems to respond with honest, unrestrained voices of their own. We need them.
T

MY TYPE

Cocks didn't matter then.
It was ass we dreamed of, smooth as our ideas.
Cooper is clear about his tastes as they existed whenthese poems were written, sometime between childhoodand the age of AIDS. He transforms his personal assortment of teenage idols, hustlers and high school heros into
the essences of a suburban erotic elite, and brings us willingly into his fantasies. Liking a certain direct style in hismen:...heiio spoken straight
to a kiss, handshakes right to thebody.

'for Mike Robarts
Looking through somephotos tonight, over
five years of partners,
H'seea long string
Mikes, ruddy and sane.

headed guys each time.
And when I haven't
seen a resemblance
I've held loveat arm's length,~'i!ih~ylookHke his'

my skin tattooed therewith a cold warning,its mind-as set as
Danger's, says, Dennis
plus Mike forever.

of

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en M.~e mofed ~wayfle"rgil to London, .
Ifo116wedhim

he disdains restraint, saying of a sexually picky comrade:
Dennis Coo,..My friend can wait if
he wants to. I'm hungry and I'Jieat.
Cooper's voice would have none of Provincetown's
decorum. At one point he virtually interrupts a poem to
exclaim:
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class madam, with several women heemployed as bisexual prostitutes.
"The girls turned to me and said,'You're just like her,'" Gobie told thePost. "That's when I realized I was in
the middle of a developing story that
could be worth something someday. I
told them, 'Don't be surprised if you
see me on TV.'"
Both of Washington's
major
dailies have reported that Gobie first
approached the Times with the story
and then went to the Post and WUSATV with the story, seeking to start "abidding war" for "a better offer." Both

Ultimately the federal tax codeissue, and with it perhaps the fate ofdomestic partner legislation in thiscountry, must be decided in Washington DC. The House Ways and Means
Committee is now examining several
proposals to change or delete portions of the new tax code that have a
profound impact on how domestic
partner legislation and private sector
benefits may fare. But no one is speculating about what the outcome in thecommittee is likely to be.
An aide to Rep. Dan Ros-

Gobie and the Times deny any moneychanged hands.
Gobie has now returned to his
apar:tment in the predominantly gay
Dupont Circle neighborhood and is I
reportedly writing his story.
"I think I'll just slap a book
together," he told the Post. "[Mayflower Madam] Sydney Biddle Barrows
made in excess of a million. I thought
CaPitol Offenses would be a nice title."
Gobie is still advertising his "massage" services in the latest edition of'
the CityPaper,
a local alternative
weekly.
The ad reads: "TOTALPLEASURE- full body massage will make you
feel it. Young, handsome masseuravail. by appt. Greg." But the phone
number listed is no longer in service,and the new number is unlisted. T

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tenkowski (D-IL), who chairs thecommittee, said, "It's very controversial and unsettled. Anyone trying topredict what's going to happen with
the new tax code is just making awild guess at this point. There arelots of political pressures on bothsides ofthe issue."In the meantime, the new October 1 tax code regulations may haveproVided fundamentalist and conservative opponents of domestic partner
laws with their most potent fiscal argument yet against such legislation. T

September 11, 1989

11th International Conference of Gay
and Lesbian Jews. Many conference
participants belong to congregations
affiliated with the World Congress of
Gay and Lesbian Jewish Organizations.
Acceptance of homosexual ity
varies widely within the various
branches of Judaism, organizers said.
Orthodox Jews are currently considered "unapproachable" on the issue,
while conservative, reform and reconstructionist
congregations
exhibitvarying degrees of acceptance of gay
and lesbian people.
The reconstructionist and reformmovements have ordained openly gay
rabbis, according to conference cochair Norman Sandfield of Chicago's
Congregation Or Chadash.
"There are so many rabbis thatare coming out on our side," Sandfield said, "that like in the gay
movement in general, there is very
positive change." .

Sandfield said gay Jews experience significant emotional overlap
between their being lesbian or gay
and being Jewish. "Beatings, hatred,
misunderstanding, the Holocaust, discrimination-aliof those issues you
could substitute the word 'gay' or 'lesbian' without changing any of the restof the language," he said.
Although religion plays a significant role in the lives of many who
attend the annual conference, organizers acknowledged that for many
gay/lesbian Jews, the primary identification with their Jewishness is on asocio-cultural level.
Among those providing entertainment during the conference was Jewish
leather-<iyke, comic-singer Lynn Lavner.
"I think that if there was ever anaudience that is cut out for me," Lavner said, "this is the one. We have somuch in common that it's like a homecoming for me when I play for gay
and lesbian Jews." -Rex WocknerI~Obituaries

Nathan Ko!odner,
Past President GMHC
Nathan K. Kolodner, a volunteer,
Board member and past President of
the Board of Directors of the Gay
Men's Health Crisis, died of AIDSrelated causes at his home on Monday, August 28, 1989. He was 38
years-old.
Starting as a volunteer at GMHC
in 1983, Mr. Kolodner became a tireless advocate for people with AIDS.
He used his experience as a leading
art dealer and Director of the Andre
Emmerich Gallery to organize an art
auction at Sotheby's, an event thatwas the world's first million dollar
AIDS fundraiser.
In 1986, Mr. Kolodner became
President of GMHC's Board, andhelped to oversee the growth anddiversification of the agency's programs. He focused political efforts onbuilding a coalition of AIDS organizations. "We must stand strongly united
as one force so that public officials canunderstand the strength of the whole
AIDScommunity," he once said.
Mr. Kolodner also presided overan expansion plan that culminated in
the agency's purchase, renovation andmove into its present six-story headquarters. "We've had to accept what
we could not accept early on-that
AIDS is here for a while. The building

Eric Bemisderfer,
is a hard pill toswallow. But we've
made a commitment to be there forpeople with AIDS
and I'm proud that
GMHC will be here
for anyone
whoneeds it, now andin the future," hesaid upon its opening.
"Nathan epitomized the very best
qualitiesthathumankindca·noffer," said GMHC's
Board President,
Joy Tomchin. "His dedication, selflessness and understanding were inspirational to all who worked with him.
We needed a hero and he was ours."[Mr. Kolodner's career of volunteerism and good works began earlyin his life. As a student at the Baltimore Friends School he was awarded
the Forbrush Award for Humanitarianism. He went on to graduate magnacum -laude form Brandeis in 1972 withdepartmental honors in sociology, anddid graduate work at New York University in 1974 in sociology and finearts.] He began work at the Andre
Emmerich Gallery 15 years ago andfor the past 10 years has served as thegallery'S director, representing such
artists as David Hockney, AI Held andHelen Frankenthaler, among others.
Mr. Kolodner was also a memberof the Board of PS 1 (The Institute of
Art and Urban Design). He received
numerous awards, among them the
National AIDS Network "Americans
Who Care" award in 1987, presented
at the French Embassy in Washington,
D.C.; and the Samuel and May Rudin
Community Service Award in New
York City in June 1989.
He is survived by his lover, Rene
Amrein, his mother, Ferne, his brothers, Kirk and Kenneth, and his grandmother, Rose Kandel.
Memorial contributions can bemade to the Gay Men's Health Crisis.
A memorial service will be held next
month in New York.
T

ArtistEric Bemisderfer, an artist who
worked as preparator on numerous
museum exhibitions, died June 26 in
his apartment in Brooklyn of AIDSrelated complications. He was 29.
Bemisderfer
had been an art
preparator at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. In 1983 he wasappointed
assistant registrar andproparator at the New Museum ofContemporary Art, and installed theAmerican Pavilion for the 1984 Venice
Biennale. He had also installed the
Jasper Johns exhibition at the last
Venice Beiennale.
During the past decade he had
shown his work at the Now Gallery,
Public Image Gallery, the Wall
Gallery, the Emerging Collector and,most recently, at the E.M. Donohue
Gallery. The Fusion Arts folio, towhich he contributed, was acquiredby the Museum of Modern Art, theSolomon R. Guggenheim Museum,and the Whitney Museum of American Art. He is survived by his parents
Robert and Alice Bemisderfer, brothers Tim and Kurt and sisters Evelyn
and Jennifer.
A memorial service called "A Celebration of Life" will be held Thursday, Sept 14, 7 p.m. at Friends
Meeting House in Manhattan, 219 E.
15th St. and Rutherford Place. Videotapes of the artist will be shown, andrefreshments will be served.
Contributions in his name may
be made to HEAL,P.O. Box 1103, Old
Chelsea Station, N.Y, NY 10113,
T

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the city. Seek similar
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20489, NYC 10025
24 YEAR OLD GRADSTUDENT
into Shakespeare,music, and politicsseeks friend for weekend bike trips. Send
letter and phone # to
OutWeek Box 1133.

MUSCLEMANIA
Horny WM BB, 34,
5'7", 155#, 44c.,33w.,
16a.,hndsm, hlthy &built like a brick seeks
BB buddies for sis, titplay and body worship. Ph/ph to Box1165, Chelsea Station,
10011.
BODYBUILDER
5'10",
195,42,
49c.,33w.,17a., seeks
other muscle studs
built like me or betterfor hot muscle action.
Photo appreciated.
Rick, 496A Hudson#H24, NYC 10014.
GWM, ITALIAN, 25
Good-looking,
nice
guy looking to makefriends. Live on L.I.,
work on Wall St. Want
to meet other niceguys who are interested in a sincere, discreet
and caring
friendship, lunches,
dinners,
movies,walks, hanging out, orjust doing nothing
together. Would like tohear from all-any age,race. Married, bi o.k.
too. Write with photoand phone- you've got
nothing to lose-peripals o.k. P.O. Box 483
Wall St. Station, New
York, NY 10268.
TWO HOT GUYSIGood-looking white
top, 33, big cut tool &bottom, 29, smoothwild ass. LOOkingfor 2\or more guys for hot
sex in various comblnatfons.
Short onwords, long on action.
State your preference
and lets get It on.
Photo, phone a must.
Tom, Box 950, NY, NY
10021.
CULTURED TRADE
I love to be tied up
withoperasandwhippedintoaBroadway play, oreven lashed into a
good movie. I must beforcedtodrink
Margaritas and submit
to fine cuisine. I needsomeone to diSCipline
me with love andfriendship and bringout the best in me. I
will willingly reciprocate. I'm a goodlooking GWM, 38,6', 190
Ibs., brownl brown,
moustache, seeking asimilar GWM. Sendme your photo, phone
number and a letter
telling me about yourself-and outlining yourmaster plan to makeme really sing I Reply
to JNP, P.O. Box 39,
Planetarium Station,
NY, NY 10024.
ARE YOU JUICY?
Seek creative, joyous,
spunky, intelligent manof any race. I am 35,
5'10 1/2", long brown
hair. I like perf. arts,
ideas, talking, books,
gym. Write with ph/ph
to David, POB 291,
NYC, 10011.
BRIGHT, BLUE-EYED
Healthy, affectionate
GM, 47, 5'10 1/2",
160, anxious to meetother trim GM interested In committed relationship. Enjoy music,
books,
performing
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Send lener, phone andphoto (if possible).
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EVERY INCH A MAN
with extra inches
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hunky, hairy chest,
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185 Ibs., very young
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guy 20-38 to share
life, laughs, hugs,
NYC fantasies plus
waterfront
dreamhouse. Go 4 it wlboth
letter & picture: POB
1164 NYC, 10159.
(OK--so I'm choosy,but SO ARE YOUI)GWM, 26, 5'10",

180
Fairlyhandsome,brown hair, greeneyes, buzz-cut, moustache, very thin beard,
slender build. I'm interested in computers,
tennis, work-outs, thearts, travel, politics. A
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ONEDATEATATIME
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and look 30 years old,
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free-except
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or
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1105
UGHT IN AUGUST
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who reads in bed andsings In the shower.
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Outweek Box 1107
GAY BLACK MALE
35,5'11" seeks GM for
possible relationship.
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serious replies. Write
to OutWeek Box 1111
TOP QUALITY
Handsome, healthy,safe, secure, successful, fun-lol'm9, generous, bi-coastal GWM,
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EXHIBITIONISTSGWM, photographer
seeking men who liketo show off and posefor nude photos. Fees
paid. Send nude snapshots and don't beshy. NATIONWIDE.
rm well-hung and gorgeous.
Box 294,
Franklin
Park, NJ
08823.
FEMME OF CENTER
GWF, 47: GuinevereseeksLesbianLancelot to bring me
dragons to play with.
Are you butch of center non-smoker/drugs?
Love animals? I willanswer all responses.
OulWeek Boxll14

COMPANIONSHIPGWM, 34, 5'11", 180,
brown hair, eyes,
moust., good Ikg. I'm
sincere and passionate, seeking same.
Enjoy movies, museums, shows, prof.
sports, music, nature,
massage, sex. No
time for egotistical
people. Don't care if
you're muscular or inshape. Prefer moust.,
30-60, but not nec.
Reply Itr/photo. Please
don't respond if notsending photo. P.O.
Box
269,
70-A
Greenwich Ave. New
York, NY 10011.

FRIENDS WANTED
We are two German
boyfriends in the late20's, with many interests, handsome, smart
and uncomplicated.
We are looking for
new friends in the age
between 25-35 years.
New York area preferred. We live in thesouthern part of West
Germany. Please reply
with photo to: Peter K.
Siebold,
P.O. Box1503,
0-7012
Fellbach,West
Germany.
METAPHYSICS?
eth material? GWM,
6'2", 165, cute, brlbl,
29, seeks fair-haired
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together,
w/music.
Ph/ph, please. Bruce-ali
answered.
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MANHATTANITE,
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similar guys (mainly
white/Oriental)
from
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not so male-ish. Nonsmoker/non-addict
helps. A letter andphoto from you could
spark a good friendship for starters.

OCTOGENARIAN
In excellent physicalcondition, seeks company of GWM (18 to30).
Reasonably
secure financially andpsychologically, political activist who isinterested in sincere,lovingrelationship(platonic or otherwise)with GWM well-versedin the arts, world traveller who has been an
active participant in
the joys and sorrows
of most of the 20th
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HIV.BOTTOM
Attractive GWM, 33,
Br/Br, slim, glasses.
Seeks:
Dominant,
handsome GWM, 2840, who can satisfy the
fantasies I have alone
at night. Must be
smart,
financiallysecure and not uptightabout his or my antibody
status.
Companionship andmore desired. Let's
exploretogether.
OulWeek Box 1131
ORANGE COUNTY,NY
GWM, 31 yr., 5'7",
chunky, brown/green,
Italian/German bottom,
tired of all B/S, bars,
games, etc....likes outdoors, quiet nights andgood conversationseeks intelligent, affectionate, goodlooking
man between 25 & 35
yrs. with same interests for friendship &possible relationship.
Serious please only
replyCallJohn(914)986-1523.
Su nday- Thursday.
After 6p.m. only.
WORK MY BOTTOMOVER WITH ME
in long slow sessions.
He's hot Italian BB,
30's. I'm 30's, lanky
and hung. II you're
attractive, hung, verbal
andready,
send
photo/phone to P.O.
Box
150,
PrinceStation, NYC 10012.
NIPPLESANDPECS
GWM, 40, 5'8", 200
Ibs., extremely oral
loves to suck on nips,
pecs, and tits. I worship the male chesl.
Send
photo
and
phone: Box 20446
LondonTerrace
Station, New York, NY
10011. My hot, wetmouth is waiting foryou.

GWM, WASP, 26
180 Ibs., 5'11", BIIBI,
healthy, masculine,
well-built, looking foryoung, muscular (1828) guys for hot safesex (condoms). I liketo be both dominantand submissive. Facefucking, role-playing,butt-fucking, lers get it
onl Also into threesomes, light bondage,
trying new things. No
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note about yourself:
photo appreciated. Inshape and young necessary.. OutWeek Box
1135
SERIOUSMOONLIGHT
GM, 36, 6', 145, inshape, attractive, creative, monog. radical
seeks non-smoker for
wild romance. Let's
howl. P.O. Box 1251,
Canal Street Station,
New York, NY 10013.

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to OutWeek Box 1134.

hotel suite. Send noteand SASE: P.O. Box6653 FOR, NY, NY
10150
SUBMISSIVE,HEALTHY
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men. Age and looks
unimportant. P.O. Box
1075 Cooper Station,
NYC 10276.
QUIRKY LESBIAN
GWF, 27, would like tomeet very bright, funny
woman who possesses natural femininity.
Older women, please
don't be shy. Please
sendphoto,
notbecause I'm picky but
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messages and dialing
international
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Harry
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Sa/ly ..... Write
toautWeek Box 1151

NEED A SPANKING?
Attractive guy, 43, 6',
160 Ibs., will put you
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NYC 10150. Seek trim
guys only.

TOPGUNBoy wanted 18-25 by
GWM-170 Ibs., 5'11",
Br/Br, clean-shaven,smooth, Italian. I havemost everythingI
could want except you.
Enjoy
NYC, travel,gym, dining out andfun times. If you are
young
and
hot,
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P.O.
Box 1040, Bloomfield,
NJ 07003. Photo andphone please.
Nogames and no one
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No
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Outweek Box 1020
GWF,28,BARBARIAN
Romantic
Rocker,Pagan, Slim, 5'3 1/2",
with wild sense ofhumor and deep blueeyes seeks feminine
GWF, slim 18-25, intelligent & sensitive,
under 5'2" who likes
rock,
NYC,
Bugs
Bunny and Metaphysics. I like to leadbut I don't like to push.
Foto
optional.
OutWeek Box 1013
DEFINITION
Progressive hunk (34,6', 175) with postmodern affectations
seeks supple articulations of body andthoughtnor at least former--withbrawnyfriend(s). len
joydancing, activism, safe
hot sex, cycling, sun,beauty, grace & all theusual stuff.
Send
photo and the rest to
P.O. Box 1366, NY, NY
10025.
Photo
returned, if requested.
MILDLY KINKY
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5'10",145, versatile,seeks hot sex, fun,relationship, friends,
enjoys politics, activism, conversation,
walks, travel, movies,
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HELPI
Ivy League student,
gay activist, writer,
really nice guy--may
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tuition. Ideas, patrons,
suggestions ... write
soon to: AMR, 76
Underdiff, Millburn, NJ
07041.
GWM, ITALIAN, 25
Good-looking, niceguy looking to makefriends. Live on 1.1.
work on Wall St. Want
to meet other niceguys
who are interested in asincere, discreet andcaringfriendship,lunches,dinners,
movies, walks, hanging out, or just doing
nothing
together.
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Married, bi, O.k. too.
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Wall St. Station, New
York, NY 10268.
DADDY
ENEMAS!!
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P.O. Box 45 Caldwell,
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NEW TO NYC AREA
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GMHC continued from paga 13

HUMAN SACRIRCE continued from page 34

GMHC- "First in the fight against
AIDS," as they boast - will join the
clamor as well.
GMHC has the facts. It has respect. It has been persistent in its
lobbying efforts. But polite lobbying-as-usual
isn't getting
theneeded bucks into AIDS services.
The New York City AIDS Task
Force projects that New York City
needs to spend $7.2 billion on
AIDS over the next five years.
GMHC's annual budget is $12 million. No doubt it's worth GMHC's
risking a few government grants
to VOCALLYdraw attention to thehealth care failures at every levelof government-city,
state andfederal. GMHC must use its respected and powerful voice to demand the missing health care services which people
with HIVdisease need, just for what has
become the prtvt/ege of fighting
for their lives.
Tnot been tested in people with
AIDS. Other doctors, like Joseph
Sonnabendof New York, used
Bactrim as early as 1982 in PWAs.
This may be one reason for the"mystery" of long-term survival insome of Sonnabend's patients, including activist, writer and singer
Michael Callen.
Yet Dr. Fischl felt a placebocontrolled trial was necessary inpeople with AIDS. She randomly asSigned 60 patients with Kaposi's sarcoma but no history of opportunistic infection to receive either two
Bactrim pills a day or no treatment.
During 36 weeks of follow-up,
none of the patients on Bactrim developed PCP. According to a summary of Fischl's findings in AIDS
Clinical Care 1:4, August 1989,"TMP/SMX had a pronounced impact on survival: while 28 of 30
control group patients died duringfollow-up, only 18 of 30 patents re-

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assumption that non-minority readers are
better Informed or non-users of IV drugs?
Does the GMHC assume that PEOPLEOF
COLOR DO NOT READ NEWSDAY, THE
TIMES. THEVOICE OR OUTWEEK?
I strongly object to the "token" use of
the Black and Latino advisory panel. Our
express purpose Is to provide a people ofcolor perspective and not only were suggestions not given proper consideration,but only a tiny percentage of the panel
were actually consulted because thesewere people who worked In offices with fox
machines. The movement to contact thepanel at the last minute Is a painful example of how the GMHC views Its minority
panel. Why bother to have a panel? Isthe

panel simply an affirmative action smokescreen for GMHC racism?
What has been done Is done. My
concern Is: a.) what will the GMHC do
to prevent this from ever happening
again? b.) What will the GMHC do torepair the damage their lack of ethics
has done?
The GMHC had and continues tohave opportunities to really Improve theirorganization. Dealing with racism will ultimately help the GMHC better 11selfas an
Institution and remove some of the limitations In Its outreach to ALL people ...nonminority Included.
I await your reply,
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ceiving treatment died." Thus, it appeared that Bactrim may havehelped prevent other opportunistic
infections--such as toxoplasmosis,
salmonella and shigella-as well.
Was this study ethical? Were
those 28 deaths in the placebo arm
necessary to prove Bactrim worked?
Bactrim was already proven effectivein treating PCP. The Hughes study
had already proven its ability to prevent PCP in immunosuppressed children! Why did 28 additional people
have to die of a preventable disease
simply to "prove" Bactrim worked inpeople with HN and PCP as well as
in people with other immunosu ppressed conditions?
They didn't. The study wascruel and inhumane. Yet it got by
the scientific reviewers, the ethicalreviewers, and the editors of the
medical journals without a whisperof dissent. Something is very wrong
when doctors, whose first loyalty
under the Hippocratic Oath is totheir patients, under the vow "Do
no harm," sanction such outrages.
Yet they continue, day afterday. Children with HN have no approved treatments. The trials available for children are testing AZTwith donatedantibodies(immunoglobulins). These trials are allplacebo-controlled. And, because astudy of Bactrim has not been conducted in children with AIDS, many
doctors refuse to treat children withAIDS with Bactrim prophylaxis.
The persistence of inhumane
trials such as those of Dr. Fischl andof the shoddy
treatment
andmediocre trials for children withAIDS is a scandal we should move
rapidly to expose and end.
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TRACKS DISCO September
Schedule
starts today, with theclub staying open on Tuesdays
and Fridays only. normal Tuesday throughSunday schedule
resumes in October; 531 W 19 St;
627-2333

WNET-TV/13
Innovation:"AIDS: Fighting
for the Children,·
12:30 pm; see Tuesday,
9/5
NEW JERSEY BUDDIES Volunteer Training, St. Mary's Roman
Catholic Church,
17 Pompton
Ave, Pompton Lakes, N]; 7 pm;
201/837-8125
GAY AND LESBIAN ALLIANCE
AGAINST DEFAMATION Monthly Meeting; today and every first
Wednesday; at the Center. 208 W
13 St; 8 pm; 966-1700

A DIFFERENT LIGHT BOOKSTORE presents Ken Mandelbaum and his video tribute to
the work of Michael Bennett,
coinciding with the publicationof his A Chorus Line and theMusicals of Michael Bennett; 548
Hudson St (btwn Charles andPerry); 8 pm; free (limited seating!); 989-4850
EAGLE BAR Movie Night: Lasl
TemplaliOJl of Christ; 142 11th
Ave (at 21 St); 11 pm; 691-8451

FOUNDATION FOR TIlE SELFHEALING AIDS-RELATED EXPERIMENT (SHARE) Free IntroductolY Evening. in anticipationof the Sept. 20-24 Who Heals
programfor discovering
the"healer within"; with Niro, founding directorof SHARE whoreversedher HIV status frompositive to negative, and Amitabh(Robert Birnbaum, PH.D. in clinical psychology
UC, Berkeley),transformational
therapistandhealer; at 441 Lafayette St; 7:309:30 pm; 460-8074 (also Wednesday, 9/13)
INTEGRITY/NEW YORK Episcopal service
and Labor Day
Reception;
at St. Luke in the
Fields, 497 Hudson
St (btwn
Christopher
and Grove); 7:30
pm; 718/720-3054
PYRAMID aUB presents Thursdays at the Queer-Amid,withhost Ru-Paul,rock and funkmusic by OJ Rick Sugden, special
acts Low Meato and TangeUa
Rocksl; 101 Avenue A (btwn 6 &7 Sts); dancing from 10 pm - 4
am, shows at midnight and 1 am;$5; 420-1590

GAY AND LESBIAN INDEPENDENf DEMOCRATS Pre-Vlct01Y
Celebration
with openly-gay
City Council
candidates
Tom

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LESBIAN/GAY ACTION COMMITI'EE FOR DINKINS David
Dinkins for Mayor Rally, with
Ruth Messinger
and others;
Stonewall Place/Sheridan Square;
6:30 pm; m-8989
YALE GAY AND LESBIAN ALUMNl/AE Weekend In Easthampton,
at a member's
home;member info 724-9113
THE ANSWER
IS LOVING
Women TalkJng Women's Talk:
Scapegoatlng,
focusing on faulting, blaming, excuses, explanations; led by Ruth Berman andConnie Kurtz; Sheepshead
Bay,
Brooklyn;
7:45-10pm;$8;7181998-2305
MEN OF All COLORS TOGElHER c.R. Session: "Cock Size andPenis Power: How I Feel About
My Own and Others'";
at theCenter, 208 W 13 St; 7:45 pm;
222-9794GAY
MENOF
AFRICANDESCENT AIDS IN BLACKFACE,
a discussion of Yale law professor Harlon Dalton's Daedalus
magaZine
article on the perceived failure of the Black community to properly address the
AIDS crisis; Dalton, an AfricanAmerican member of the National Commission on AIDS, will bepresent to facilitate; at the Center,
208 W 13 St; 8 pm; 7181802-0162
A DIFFERENT LIGHT BOOKSTORE presents Mike Hippler,
discussing
the subjectof hisbook, Matlovicb; 548 Hudson St(btwn Charles and Perry); 8 pm;
free (limited seating!); 989-4850
SHES CAPEPARTIESFORWOMEN Voguelng
Contestat
Octagon this and four more fridays, with the final on Oct. 6;"contestants wear their most outrageous outfits and pose likemodels while dancing
to thehottesthits," with a special
vogueing exhibition before thecontest; at Octagon, 555 W 33 St;
doors open 10 pm, contest at

11 pm/$7

CREATIVE FAIRES, LTD. New
York RenaissanceFestival,
open Saturdays
and Sundays
through Sept. 17; featuring All's
WeU That Ends WeU on the Globe
Stage, Tales of the Decameron on
the Harlequin Stage, and Tales ofRohin Hood and The Queen's
Folly which "unfold around you·;(736-4700), Iv NYC 10:15 am, Iv
Sterling
Forest 6:15 pm; $12
adults/$10 seniors/$5 kids age 612; info 914/351-5171(Edito,.'s
note: gays and lesbians havebeen welcomed by the Festival'spress office even though homosexuality was a capital offense
throughout this period)
PEOPLE WIlli AIDS COALITION
Singles' Tea, for PWAs, PWArcs,
lflV+s; 222 W 11 ST, 3-5:30 pm;
532-0568
WOMEN
ABOUT
SquareDance;
201/481-0440

Women's
353/0073,

CENTERSHOWS
presents
Daugherty
a: Field, cabaret
entertainers"known for theirweaving of witty repartee withelegant
singing,"
performing
From Bach to Roele, "taking theaudience on a madcap whirlwind
tour of the history of music-making"; at the Center, 208 W 13 St;
8 pm; $10; 620-7310
SPECI'RUM DISCO presents cynthia, singing "Change on Me"
and "Endless Night"; 802 64th St,
Bay Ridge, Brooklyn (N train to
8th Ave stop); 718123S-8213
PEOPLE WIlli AIDS COAllTION
Musical Revue Benefit: Rosea"d Frle"ds al Ibe Palace,starring Rose Levine; at the Ice
Palace, Cherry Grove, Fire Island;Ii pm; $20; 212/683-0919

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York RenaissanceFestival, see
Saturday, Sept. 9
THIRD AVENUE MERCHANT'SASSOCIATION FAIR from 14th to34th Streets, lots of home furnishings and antiques; 11 am todusk; 684-4077
WNET-TV/13
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for the Children,"
11:30 am; see Tuesday,

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SALSA SOUL SISTERS, OTIlER
COUNTRIES, MINORITY TASKFORCE ON AIDS, MEN OF ALL
COLORS TOGETIlER and GAY
MEN OF AFRICAN DESCENT
March In Harlem's
AfrlcanAmerican Parade; meet at northend of Central
Park, W 110
Stl Adam Clayton Powell Blvd;
noon;
Bert
505-0506,Jean
718/387-2119
INTEGRAL YOGA INSTITUTE
Full Day Workshop
for People
Concerned
about HIV Infection,
withdiscussions
andinstruction
regardingemotions
and health, diet and nutrition,
Hatha Yoga, meditation and visualization, with vegetarian lunch;
227 W 13 St; 10 am - 5 pm; $30;
929-0586
CENTER SPORTS goes to Mets
vs. Pittsburg
Pirates; 1:35 pm;
620-7310

GAY ACTIVIST ALLIANCE IN
MORRIS
COUNTY
presents
Brian McNaught,
author,011
Betllg Gay, with thoughtsonfamily, faith and love; at the Unitarian Fellowship, 21 Normandy
Heights Rd, Morristown, Nl; 8:30
pm; 201/285-1595§'E.J!

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DFMOCRA17C AND REPUBLICANPRIMARIES TODAYIYALE GAY AND LESBIAN ALUMNIIAE presents Jim Seymour,expert on TIbet and China, discussing Amnesty Internationaland Chinese politics concerning
Tibet and student activism (theBeijing massacre was 100 days
ago today); at Columbia University's Earl Hall; 7:30 pm; member
info 724-9113
WNET-TV/13 "Other
Faces of
AIDS," examining
the· background and impact of AIDS in
America's minority communities;
8-9 pm (also broadcast in Spanish, Saturday, 9/16)

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Productions,safe-sex
party; 28 Ninth Ave(below 14th St); 8 pm - 3 am;$10; 733-3144

LESBIANS AND GAYS OF FLATBUSH Farewell-to-Summer
Barbecue; 2-5 pm; 718/859-9437
HARLEM WEEK OF PRAYER ONAIDS Vigil of Remembrance,
Unity and Concern,
at Harlem
Hospital, 6 pm

HARLEM WEEK OF PRAYER ONAIDS Individual
AIDS Awareness Workshops
In Harlem
Churches;
info 862-5970

AIDS CENTER OF QUEENSCOUN1Y Sunset Cruise on the
Circle Line; 42 St & 12th Ave;
6:30-9:30 pm; $20 (to ACQC);
718/8%-2500

FOUNDATION FOR TIlE SELFHEALING
AIDS-RELATEDEXPERIMENT(SHARE) Free
Introductory
Evening, in anticipation of the Sept. 20-24 Who
Heals program for discoveringthe "healer within"; with Niro,founding director of SHARE whoreversedher HIV status frompositive to negative, and Amitabh(Robert Birnbaum, PH.D. in clinical psychology
UC, Berkeley),transformational
therapistandhealer; at 441 Lafayette St; 7:309:30 pm; 460-8074

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12 W 21 St; 10 pm; $10; 727-8150

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pieties while sacrificing untrained "soldiers" on the· altar of England. But
lady (Donna Murphy), who obliges
even in this version (where the heteros
him with several lecture demonstrations. But then, every performance is behave more badly than in the original), treating gay people with respect
strong and honest, including Johnis not what Privates on Parade isCurry's tender Corporal Bishop wholoves working-class Corporal Bonny about. Rather, its meaning resides in(Ross Bickell) who loves him back . Flowers' recognition that "it is bewil(never mind that he has a wife and dering to discover how many diff~rent
sorts of people there are and how
children at home); Edward Hibbert's
insecure Aircraftman Young-Love;· and many different ways they have." For all
its sadness and bitterness, Nichols'
Jones' Flack, a great flapping ostrich.
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Then there is Jim Dale. He graces heart is a human heart.
Dennis with his own limber humanity. Absent is any condescension orwink to the audience ("I'm not reallygay"). In addition, we get deadly
impersonationsof Dietrich, Greer
Garson, Noel Coward and Carmen
Miranda. Asking for more would be
too much.
The men who sleep with men
treat their lovers better than do themen who sleep with women. The heteros representing the Empire, such as
the homophobic Sergeant-Major Reg
Drummond (Donald Burton), pimp
for young male prostitutes and beat
women, or, like Flack, spout the old

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TUESDAY'Love Machine Broadway at 17 St. 254-4005 (at the Underground)
Tracks 531 W 19 St 627-2333

WEDNESDAY
Club Lafayette 428 Lafayette St. (Scott Currie & R. Couri Hay)
Private Eyes 12 W 21 St 206-mo (Dallas and Sanker's CLUBBAD)
Spectrom 802 64 St. Brooklyn 718/238-8213 (free admission all night)

THURSDAY'Boybar 15112 St Marks PI 674-7959 (has a new wave drag show)'COpacabana 10 E 60 St 755-0610 OastThu. of the month has Susanne
Bartsch party)'Pyramid 101 Ave A 420-1590(Queer-Amid)
Spectrom 802 64 St Brooklyn 718/238-8213 (free admission all night)

FRIDAY'Boybar 151/2 St Marks PI. 674-7959
COlumbia Dances Earl Hall, 116 St & B'way 854-3574 (1st Friday of
every month)Funk, Inc. 428 Lafayette St.
Private Eyes 12 W 21 st. 206- mo (preppies and young professionals)
Spectrom 802 64 St Brooklyn 7181238-8213 (m/f strippers)
Tracks 531 W 19 St. 627-2333

SATURDAYTUESDAY
Hatfield's 126-10 Queens Blvd., Kew Gardens, Queens
718/261-8484

WEDNESDAY
Bedrock

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THURSDAY. Bedrock 121 Woodfield Road, West Hempstead, U 516/486-9516

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Bedrock (West Hempstead, U)
Cheeks 2000 Long Beach Rd. Island Park, U 516-431-5700
Octagon 555 W 33 St 947-0400 (Shescape, 645-6479)
Tracks 531 W 19 St. 627-2333 Oast Friday of month)
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Bedrock 121 Woodfield Rd., West Hempstead 516-486-9516
Silver Unlng 175 Cherry Lane, Floral Pk, U 516/354-9641 (a.k.a"The Lining")
Stan 836 Grand Blvd., Deer Park, L.I. 516/242-3857

SUNDAY'Boybar 151/2 St Marks PI. 674-7959
The Center 208 W 13 St. 620-7310 (2nd and 4th Saturdays) resuming
9/23
Private Eyes 12W 21 St. 206-mo (Club Chicago for Men, preppies)
Sound Factory 530 W. 27 St. 643-0728(non-alcohol, House music)
Spectrom 802 64 St Brooklyn 718/238-8213 (guest performer night)

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'Mars Westside Highway at 13 St. 691-6262 (Chip Duckett's "Mars
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If the blues has been a music ofoppression, Reggae is thought to be amusic of liberation. And so following
dreadlockled
African mother H.
Gossett came Sister Carol, also in longdreads, with a red, green and gold
outfit, highlighting her black, green
and gold liberation sneakers. The Folk:
black, pink, brown, yellow- Asians (Isaw them)Africans, Europeans,
wimmin, men, children, gay people,
straight people (but not too straight).
Some of us were straining to understand the patois of this great toaster,
but knowing that her words have significance our bodies gyrate. I & I getup from our seats, I & I skank in theaisles under the night sky.
Brooklyn is rockin' cause Sister
Carol is one of our own, like so manytransplanted West Indies folk, proudof her roots.
She's our Black
Cinderella, and children run up on thestage to touch her. But it's not worship, you understand. It's communication with how she know dem and is
one with demo I see men holding theirdaughters in a new way. They, likemy father, want their daughters andsons to survive the death that the system has cut out for dem, but the difference is that they are hearin' about
how they, too, have contributed tothis down pression. I see the men'seyes, they look at the wimmin in a
new way.
And Sister Carol says drugs
destroy your rhythms, you no reachyour vital consciousness with cocaine.
"No cocaine, no LSD, no speed, noslackness please." Sister Carol is asinger-educator.
She sings of South
Africa, having us chanting, call andresponse. Moreover, she does old-stylereggae covers, which she updates andchanges, subtle differences making for
new interpretations.
I don't always
agree with her, but I know truth is notin the individual but in the dialogue,
in the listen in' betwix and amongst
wimmin, that shall create us.
One of the most important things
about Rasta-Reggae for lesbian/gay
people is its emphasis on history,
which when taken back always
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Bob Marley. I think this time they
have to look out for a woman."
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OZA, jewelry designer andpolitical activist, was fresh from the-Day of Outrage- demo when I spoke
to her. "I see a civil war situation in
urban areas here and across thenation,- she told me, saying she nolonger believes in legislation toeffect social change. A supporter ofthe "Guerrilla Art Project,- Oza
wants to use her art to make people
realize the sickness in society, andto help find a cure.

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OUTTWEEK

September 11, 1989

Pboto by Lizzerd Souffle

Aside from her politicalactivities, Oza spends her time asa production
manager for the
Pickny Players, a children's theater, and professes total, deepand lasting devotion to her girlfriend Ana. ''I'm madly in lovewith Ana,- she said, "We're totally jealous and possessive and it
works.Who ever said love was soft as
an easy chair?

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