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A CHURCH DIVIDED
Now that the smoke has cleared after The Rev. Robert Williams gave his steamy advice to Mttber Teresa,
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Gays and Redistricting
During the next year, a subtle but momentous change wUltake place in New York' City politics. The city counell, Its powers
expanded by the city's new charter, will grow from 36 to Sl seats.
This expansion will require substantial redistricting, and will resultin much smaller, more Socially cohesive districts. The committee In
charge of redistricting Is obligated to respect racial, religious, ethnic and other realities in drawing new district lines.
It Is not required to respect gay and lesbian geographic realities aa well, but we should Insist that It does. One of the embarassIng shortfalls of New York's gay and lesbian community has been
our inability to eleCt openly gay candidates, which Is not really ourfault given New York's mammoth council districts. With the comingof smaller districts, this could be remedied, and some of the new,smaller council districts can be designed to be 'gay-winnable'.
A gay-winnable district is not necessarily one in which wefonn a majority, Such a concentration of gays probably doesn't
exist in New York. Instead, we can win council seats in districts
where straight progressives unite to fonn solid majorities with gays
and lesbians; where contiguous areas of gay, lesbian and liberal
voters are not divided by district lines; and where such populations are not burdened with large pockets of conservative voters.
Such neighborhoods include the west Village, the East Village,
Soho, Tribeca, Chelsea, Ointoil, the Upper West Side of Manhattan,
Park Slope in Brooklyn and Jackson Heights in Queens,
For gays to expect gay-winnable districts to be carved out of
New York's complex mosaic, we must have open gays on thecommittee which will redraw the lines, Eight people have alreadybeen appointed to the 15-member redistricting committee, none ofthem gay or lesbian. The mayor has the power to appoint theremaining seven, and we should insist that at least two of them be
gay or lesbian. It's only through such representation that our interests will be accounted for.
Once the committee is constituted, our goal should be atleast four gay-winnable districts in New York City. Gays and lesbians fonn a huge. minority with clear policy goals, We have theright to expect that with a 51-seat councll at least. four districts
should have a fighting chance to elect open gays and lesbians.
Remember, a gay-winnable district will not necessarily elect gays.
If four districts are designed to be gay-winnable, it's still probable that only one or two gays would be elected to the new council, a modest goal for such a lar8e minority, Anything less would
be a shame, and a sham,.
Mayor Dinkins continues to insist that he's the best friend ourcommunity ever had. Now, here's an ideal chance for 'him to .
demonstrate that friendship. He should use his appointive power
to name at least two open gays to the redistricting committee, withthe goal of carving vut at least four gay-winnable seats in the newcity council. If he does that ..the benefit to our community will be
deep and lasting, and Mr. Dinkins' recent problems with gays willseem temporary and trivial by comparison. T__ .1:0

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The column might call
Mou Moulng The Ad CatcherYour'Gays and Madison for letter-writing campaigns
Avenue" editorial (no. 40, and boycotts, If necessary,place
companies
onApr. 4) Is right on target,
Examining the relationship notice' for discriminatoryand demand
between media, advertis- policies
Ing, politics and the public, Improvement, Such tactics
are now employed by reliBill Moyers asserts that
gious bigots and others
Americans (I[ke It or not)who Increasingly control
are currently empowered
not as citizens, but as con- and eliminate media representation of gays. Retaliasumers, Activists conclude
guise for the fact that mostLetter Shockthat non-gays and organi- tory sanctions may be the.
Signorlle'scover story on homosexualsprefer to leave
only
means
of
undoingthezations don't Include andMalcolm Forbes (no. 38, Mar, ftle 'dirty work" of educating
examine gays unlessthere's chili wrought by these fear18) neither appalled nor and demonstrating to othmongers, All the gay consomething In It for them.
ers-thus most of society's
Invigoratedme;theFlexing our collective gay sumer needs to prevail Is amental picture of a homowell-exposed and trustwor- respondingletterswere a lot
economic muscle would
sexualIs stilia halrdersseror a
moreshockingand
It
Is
from
thy source to empower her
reversethisapathy,drag queen, These people.readlngthesethat Iwrite,
or him via organization,
Remember the effective'pass for straight" when It
Frankly,the'It's-a-peraccessibility and direction.
Coors boycott?
suitsthem,as 'coming out"
How about a 'Gay Con- OutWeek certainly meets son's-own-rlght-to-come-out- might otherwise hinder their
not-to-be-fo
rced-out"
this requirement.
sumer" column In Outpersonal goals,career,etc.
David Perry argument has always been,
Week? Provide readers with
'Coming out" to me hasInmyopinion,athinlyveiled
Manhattan
weekly guidelines andwarnings on pro-and-antlgay companies, their prodBY ANDREANATALIE
S,OI/EIVA/./. RIOIS
ucts, services, Investments,
charity contributions, employment and advertising
policies, Encourage readers
to submit personal experiences
andproblems
regarding them and reveal
the brands they buy In specific product categories.
Publicize trends, Publish all
this Info In booklet form,
once a year, to be bought
as a home reference, Companies will become awarethat gays are scrutinizing
their Intent and actions
while deciding how (andhow not) to spend ample
Incomes. Madison Avenue
will recognize the gay mar- .
ket and court gay demographics and clout throughthe media, This In turnapplies pressure feir commensurate representationand cov.erage of gays In
news and entertainment.
which depend on reachingtargeted ad groups. All
Involved will be forced todeal with us.

April 18, 1990

OUT'nVEEK

5

someone you are a homosexual has nothing to do withtelling people with whom
you have slept or what you
do In bed, That. and only

that,ls your own business,always meant understandIng and accepting yourself
as a gay person, To tell yourfamily, friends or anyone
who matters to you has
always seemed to me theludicrously obvious next and
Immediate step, But for any
person to know full well thatthey are gay and to choose
not to tell others, because
you are capable of or preferto deceive them, Is Irrespon-

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slbHlIy-fuO stop; and It Is the
Ignorance resulting from thiscompounded Irresponsibility
that contributes heavily tothe very deep shit we are In
now with the AIDS crisis. The
other lame stab at Justification I hear repeatedly Is that"my-sex-llfe-ls-my-own-buslness," If you think being gay
only effects your sex life, I
would urge you to "wake up
and smell your life: Telling

April 18, 1990

Of course,
everyoneshould have a right to privacy and confidentiality.
But
the fruth Isthat If we are rfch,
famous or both, and wearen't wlUlngto live like JackIe 0, we simply don't. It was
only wrftten that he was In
fact a homosexual. Would
we be reacting so strongly n:
It were revealed that hewere actually Jewish? Or
really Into Buddhism? We'retalking about a way of life,
not a fetIsh, These people
write as 'If the scandal
you've Instigated Is on parwith him fradlng "knickers for
snickers" with a kindergartner, Perhaps mainstream
Americawouldn't
think
there's much of a difference. But these societal

shortcomings
are due, In
part, to generations
andgenerattons of homosexua~that hove refused to comeout because of personal reasons. This perpetuates the
misconception all across theglobe that gays are far
fewer In number than they
actuaRy are.
As a recording artist In
the Increasingly homophobic music Industry, also as aconsUtant for a very conservattve low firm, as weD as aperson who can easily "passfor straIght" and who genuinely wants a successfulcareer, Ichoose to be "out.·
And my life can be a lot
rougher for It, But I see allother alternatives as being
deceptive and harmful, bothto myself Individually andnow, more Importantly, tomy peOple as a whole,
In short, I lose no sleep for
Malcolm (may she rest In
peace),
and althoughIhoped people might learn
true, you have claimed forfrom his mistake how muchthe "gay nation" a deadbetter It Is to tell people on
doset case, Thanksa lot.
YOll own terms than to have
Lastly-the timing of thisthe story told behind yourexpose Is singularly spineless,back or after your death, I Raise the Issue while the perwas Instead greeted with ason Is living. AI Weisel's firstwell of self-centered,ultihand accountat least
mately self-hatlng minds who . relates a direct confrontaprobably can't walt to maketion; no matter what thethe same mIstake themresult, Weisel can respect
selves.
himself for having sold what
Loren Lombard
he had to say, Signorlle's
Manhattan
sources were too busy taking
Three Problems In
Search of an Out
I have three problems
with what OufWeek (:lId with
Malcolm Forbes: how, why
and when,Arst, I found It a screamIng Irony that In a story
whose stated purpose It wasto blast Forbes out of thecloset, the "sources" (withone exception)
were allanonymous, The story reads
like a GOSSIP column-amilieu In which the author Is
dearly comfortable, Readers
must wonder whether OutWeek researched Chastity
Bono too heavily In the Starand accidentally adopted
that publication's style, Slgnorlle quotes a "Rlchard-nothis-real-name"as always
having wanted to tell Forbes
to come out so that he(Fo~bes) wouldn't
be so"pathetiC and secretive:
From what outpost
did"Rlchard-not-hls-real-name"phone In this sentiment?
Seems like a case of the pot
calling the kettle names;"Rlcha~d-n-h-r-n" waited until
Forbes was-dead to be sobrazen as to anonymously
tell tales on him to a reporter,
Secondly, why Forbes, or
why the rich and famous?
You give too much Importance to the rich (who support any cause they want, orno cause If that's what theywant), and none to the local
hero, Real people, like those
In ACT UP,GLMD and otherorganizatiOns are doing truly
great things now, In Forbes, If
what you say ab~ut him Is

P,S, Having waitedaweek and a half to get thistyped ana-mailed,I haveJust read Revson's comment
In today's Newsday and 51gnorlle's Voice piece, I havemore understanding for 51gnorlle now, but, the source
Issue Is crucial ..It Is possible If
the foundation was SOlid,therest of the press would run
the story.

$loo's from Forbes while he
was alive to make demands,
These tactiCS are ultimately self-destructive; theyplay havoc with Issues likeright to privacy and freedomof choice. I hope OutWeek
will use Its conslderqble.
resources responsibly In the
future, and not try to ventInjured feelings and anger In
a way that Is probably
unethical
and definitely
won't worl<.

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Whose Privacy?
Belated congratulations
on the terrific
Maicolm
Forbes story, This Is what theworld needs a lot more of. I
am at a complete loss as towhere
the conceptofrespecting
person's privacy comes from. The UnIted
States Supreme Court ruled
In 1986 that gay people
have no constitutional rightto privacy,
and can beripped out of their homes
and Imprtsoned for consensual Intimate relations performed In the "privacy" of
their homes. Since' privacy
doesn't constitutionally exist
for gay people In the pernicious opinion of five of thenine chief "justices," privacy
provides no protection forgay people,
The only thing keeping
gays and lesbians from losing
their homes, jobs and liberty
Is the flimsy flg leaf of public
opinion (which like all leaves
changes every year), There-

fore, the more Influential andpowerful people who are
known to the public as gay
people, the safer all gay
people will be until sanity
returns to the AmerIcan rulIng elite, just as some sanity
eventually returned to theGermans after their holocaust experiment.
People who oppose "outIng" simply don't understandwhat Is at stake. Keep up
your lifesaving worldaCamp/on Read
Watch that Tone
I enjoy your magazJne; It'sso great to have a local
news magazinethat Isnational and Intematlonal In
scope as well,
I do have a problem withwhat I would call Its tone,
specificallyas related towhat has been called "outIng: I have no problem withsuggesttng or declaring thatanyone Is a homosexual orgay. To me It Is a privilege. If

we share the premise that It anger, In fact It resonates for
Is okay or even wonderful tome loud and clear; but
be gay, then why would wewatch out for that bitchy,
seem to "accuse· people of . vldous accusative tone thatsuch? It should just be casuwe have stereo typicallyally understated In the casehoned to perfection, We'reof our friends like Uz and Malbetter off wHhout It,colm (I know some people
Timothy WrIght
do not consider them friends
Manhattan
but I personally don't see
any reason to vilify them
Out Damned Uedead or alive), In the case of
The thrust of the debate
our antagonists like Father
on outing has so far cenBruce, It Is his hypocrisy
tered around the very real
which Is SO appalling, not his Issuesof privacy. These conhomosexuality,
I hope wecerns have distracted
us
can make those dlsttnctlons
from grasping the underlying
clear and never appear to
problem that I believe Is thebe "accusing· someone oftrue starting point for this disanything as wonderful as acussion. Dupllcfty and Its perhomosexual lifestyle. In thevasive effect on each one ofearly round of letters to theus must be understood andeditor, I was rather upset byacknowfedged, When a perthe comparison between ason knowfngly misrepresents
celebrity's homosexuality
a sftuatlon, either dlrec1fy or
and other celebrities' child
Indirectly, are we obligatedabuse, substance abuse,to honor that lie with theetc. There Is no comparison,same respect one owes to
Keep on the cutting
the truth? While we canedge. I don't mind theappreCiate
the difficulty,

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and perhaps even the rea- . unique situation calls for It,~use
he's straight Is guilty
sons behInd choosing a dosAnd If you frequently see aof precisely
what
gay
eted life, this fact remains: If ~rtaln "straight· celebrity at
activists all over the world
the way In which we repreyour local gay bar, that Is are flghtlng--namely discrimsent ourselves Is not true,
entirely different than hearInation and persecution
then It Is a lie, Whether we
Ing of the same thing frombased on sexual orientation.
are confronted with a beard
friends (or the friend of a
For the Informatlon of theat a soclal'functlon,
a cofriend, etc.),
Irrational and Insubordinate
worker out at the gay bars
It takes two to maintain astaff at the Fund, the firston Saturday night and with adoset and I for one am tlred
executive director of B'nal
different story on Monday, orof 1he job, Each of us should
Brlth was a Protestant minisan outright misstatement offeel free from ImpunIty toter. For their further edificafact, It Is all at Its heart nothspeak the truth and to chartion he did a splendid
Ing lessthan a lie, There Is noacterize a situation as we
job,
need to reward a lie withknow It to be, More ImporDevelopmental
your complicity, The weighttantly, we should never feel
Director Paula Presleyof maintaining that lie should
we have to partldpate In theshould be Immediatebe borne solely by the perduplicity of those around us. ly expunged from theson who Initiates It, not by
The next time you are conorganization
for herthe unfortunate
person at
fronted by this, I ask you tooutrageously prejudiwhom the lie Is directed.
consider the Intrusionthat has cial qualificationofAt what other time do webeen made on your Integrity
the appointment" of afeel honor-bound to take on
ood to make careful note ofwhite heterosexual
the responsibility of propping
what It feels like to be used.
male" clearly Inferring
up someone else's lie? Doing
Jeffrey Lee Brooks a heterosexual female
so leaves us feeling Intruded
Oakland,CAor person of color may
upon, compromised
andhave been OK or at
finally diminished, Why should
Fund Feudleast not as offensive,
we show allegiance to a seIfI deplore the pseudoLesbian anger at, andcentered deceptlon so hurtIndIgnation at the Fund forcontempt for, "white
ful to oll' own well-beIng? It Is
Human Dignity's decision tomen· Is widespread In
tlme to take a long overdue
hire a straight man as Its our community and alook Inside ourselves andexecutive director (see "Hethuge Impediment toconsider the price we pay to ero Hire P.romptsOutcry: no, the progress of gay
help these people perpetu40, Apr. 4), Competence,rights,ate their Big Ue.
compassion
and loyalty
The gay community must
A cautionary
word Is should be the criteria thatrealize It Is only when politiappropriate,
Nothing here
deCision Is based on-not
Cians and business leaderssuggests a license for maliwhich way he swings,
and church groups and theciousness,
DiscretionIsAnyoneopposedtopublic at large recognize
always admired
when aRobertBrading's
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April 18, 1990

ties not the differences
between gay people ana
straIght
peoplewill weachieve true and lasting
equality In society,Anthony C, Salerno
Manhattan

NAMBLA v. LAMBDA
Duncan Osbome's reporton the arrest of NAMBLA Bulletin editor Chris Farrell (no.

NAMBlA's Chris Fanll
39, Mar, 28) relayed to us ~opinIons of David Barr,a staff
attomey with Lambda Legal
Defense and Education
Fund, It Is safe to assume
that Barr was unfamiliar withthe case, but that didn't prevent him from expressing theline of the state about thealleged Inability of a minor
male to consent to sexualpleasure
with a person
above the age of consent.
One can only wonder how In
touch with the realities ofmale homosexuality Barr Is,
One reason youths enjoy
sex with men Is preCisely
because th~y do not fear
the ostracism, harassment orpersecution that can result
from sex with their "peers.·(Actually, I don't see why agay man should not be considered the peer of a gay
youth, since age Is usually. Irrelevant,) Youths do In fact
consent to sex with men all
the tlme, and have through-out human history.
Brownworth(no.37,Mar. 11). InNew York.
The advantage of known
Barrneverthelessassumes
The article'sSlbhead thatthat -more often than not It says, -You're going to a donors over the eternalanonymity of most convenIs coercive, and with an stranger, for somethingexchange of money It Is deeply personal" Isa state- tional spermbanksIs that theInheren1lycoercive." Bullshlt. ment that assumes an child can have access to
The reality Is Justthe oppo- unknown donor wtll be cho- the Identity of his or her
father If that knowledge
site: Sex between men and sen. But there are other
beCOmesImportantat someboys Is almost never coer- . choices. Lesbians canclve; and If money Is· choose a donor known to point In time. And It does
exchanged (It often Is not, them, or to a mlddle1J8rson, become Important: Someby the wr:t-l), thot would aug- to be the biological father of children start to ask quesgest to me consent, not their child. In California, this tions at age three, six oreight, as well as during thecoercion:can be done legally andAge-of-consent laws are safely-the donor will have normalldenttty crisis of adoa fraud. They punish' only no custody rlghll CIS long CIS lescence. I have heard stoac1s that are conseNUOl,by a medical doctor Is Involved ries of local 01 childrenunder
maintaining the fiction that In the Insemination,The doc- ten-years-oldwhose lesbian
anyone under the magical tor may, of COllS8, be a les- mothers helped them conage Is Incapable of giving blan and she need not nect with their donor/fMhels
consent. In New York, the actually perform the Inseml- In responseto the children's
age Is 17. Does Barr really nation, but she must be the perSistent questioning. Thisbelieve that a 16-year-old Intermediary.A San Francis- can only be possible If either
the mothersor a third person
cannot consent, but a 17- co doctor works with alesyear-old can? If he does, It blan lawyer, who keeps know the donor; spermbanks usually promise
doesn't speak well of his records of the donors'
lawyering abilities, A more names In her files. Ask your anonymity to their donors
and some may not keep
appropriate response might lawyer for details and
be to can for abolition of the whether there are gudednes records of their names, In-vice" squad-why should
taxpayers' money be wasted on poHcepoking around
In private relationships andenforcing an outdated
morality?
Has gr:t-lllberationSU"lk so
low that Instead of seeing
OutWeeks firstthe age-of-consent laws as
Dreamboat is NGLTF
one more way by which thestate victimizes youths andexecutive director, radtheir older lovers,Its lawyers
activist and ex punk rocknow see their Job as ~Id.......
Ing unjust laws rather thaner Urvashi Vaid, who
opposing them? Barr has arocked the national AIDS
right to hisopinion, however
establishment when she
unoriginal and sheepllke It
may be. But If he was speakjust
said no to Bush's bull
Ing for Lambda, that would
speech on AIDS. Not consuggest acquiescence In
oppression by an organizatent to sit back and listen,tion that used to be In theshe got up, got counted ...
forefront of legal battles
against It,
and got a Secret Service
Getreallescort out of the building.
DQvfd Thorstad

Dreamboatof the Week

addition to the desireto see
whCLone lookslike, knowtng
the donor's updated medical historymay alsobe helpful for the diagnosis of the
Dl-concelved person'smedical conditionsthroughout hisor her life,
ThereIs one spermbank I
know of, the Sperm Bankof
California In Oakland, thatoffersthe optton of releasing
the donor's name to hisoffspring when he or she
becomes a legal adult atage 18.Sinceyour article did
not mention these options(either pro or con), I wonder
If Ms. Brownworthand otherlesbians In New York areaware of them and of The
Sperm Bank of California,
which ships frozen semen
throughout the country ane:!
assuredme that -everyone"knows about them. When I
phoned the sperm bank to
ask about their -Identltyrelease" donors, however,

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Donor OptIons
A New Yorksubscriberto, my adoption reform newsletter sent me your article -ArtIficial Insemination: behind
the Scenes· by Victoria A.

It was one small step fora lesbian, one giant leap
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the woman who answered. As an adoptee
whoused to wrap her
the phone was quIck tofound my blrthparents after
entire body In thewarn me that the sperm
years of relentless curiosIty
latestIssue ofbank could not guarantee
Screw while makcreated by the unnecessarythat the donor would still be
legal 1IcfIon of sealed ad0p- Ing the transItIon
at the same address I~ 18 tion records, I have recently
from
male
to
years, leadIng me to wonder
female,WhIchcreated a forum for peoIf they take the.1ssue serious- ple-especIallymeans her untIme(but notly. If they dId, perhaps they'only) lesbIans and gay
ly passIng has put
would ask the donor to keepa substantial dent
men-who are Involved wfth
them apprised of his whereadoption or donor InsemIna- In our subSCriptIon
abouts,sales, And that'stion either personaRy or proNaturally I know that les- fessIonally. That forum Is why we're making
bians are worried about theIr
Chain of Life, A Feminist
thIs appeal to herlegal rights, partIcularly the
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Stephen Brown
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Common Threads
to pose to your readership
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and Oll community:
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the man In
USA-NAMES.The cost will belower than In video stores . drag to enter with one
friend only, saying that theand sales will benefit theother two would have to
NAMESProject,walt and be admitted later,
Nancy BlanfordOnce the first half of our
Regional Representative
The NAMES Project group was Inside, she rudely Ignored the two whowere lett, and atter standLeftOuf
Ing In the rain for an hour,
We think RIck X's DalcIng
they went home, For us, thisOut guide lOOUd be amendmarks a new low In New
ed to show which clubs do
York Clubland,
not have a flrst-come, flrstIt doesn't
make any
served door poliCY, As It Is,
sense for lesbians and gay
many gay people are wastmen to patronize the Copa
Ing their time and taxi fareor any other club which
traveling to a night club
treats people with disrewhich doesn't let them In.
spect, OutWeek shouldn'tCase In point: last night
delude us Into believing
four of us showed up atthese places are "best bets"
Suzanne BOrtsch's monthly
for dancing, Gay people areparty at the Copacabana,treated poorly enough by
One of us was In drag andsociety during the €lay. Why
we were' all readytoshould we fall vlctlm to condance, Doorperson Kenny
tempt when we want to
Kenny and his assistants
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13

News

"You need some cash? I've got a checkbook."

PWAs .Can Sell Their Life

Insurance to New Firms

Photos: IL Littby R.Sugdan
NEW YORK-For the financiallystrapped man or woman with AIDS
who owns a life insurance policy, there
is a controversial new option for raising
fast cash. But some in the community
are calling the practice ill-advised andexploitative. Several new companies
Will now purchase the rights to collecton such policies for a few thousand
dollars less than the value of theinsurance, a practice which is kicking·up debate
as it becomesmorewidespread in the AIDS community.
At a recent colloquium sponsoredby Body Positive, a support group for
people with HIV infection, some hailed
the purchase of life insuranc~ frompeople with AIDS as a breakthrough inthe business co~unity's
response to
AIDS, while others criticizedthepracticef.)r capitalizing
Qn thedesperate situation many people withAIDS fmd themselves in,
I Sometimes
calleda "living.behefits" program, after the New
Mexico-based company that bought
the first policy in 1988, it usuallytarries the grim requirement that a

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April 18, 1990

PWA be certified by a panel of doctorsthat deciding to sell one's life insurance
as having less than 18 months to live.
is often the firSt step in admitting defeat
The company, which then buys thein the face of a chronic illness. "Hope'is
policy of up to 80 percent of face
important, To give up is dangerous,"
value, becomes the sole beneficiary
said Katoff, "As a PWA, I can tell ybu,
and continues the premium payments,
there are days when I feel like giving
and collects the full death benefit
up, People are going to choose thiswhen the insured dies.
only when they are depressed,""This is the first time that the"It's a weird concept, to say thebusiness community has said to theleast," commented Wayne Kawadler of
PWA, 'You need some cash? I've got a
ACf UP's Insurance and Access comcheck book,'" moderator David Petermittee. "PWAs are in a vulnerable p0sen told about 40 people
sition. It's not a goodgathered for the meetingstate [in which! .toat the Lesbian and Gay
make a decision," heCommunity Center March
added. "On the other
28. Petersen, a retired financial planner
hand, it is their life insurance and if
who has AIDS, and a strong supporter
they want that money before they die,of the practice,orchestratedthethen that's final. What's despicable isoriginal transaction
with Livingthat health care in this country is so
Benefits himself. He said he sees it as
bad that they'd have to use it for theiran opportunity
for PWAs. to havemedical bills."enough money to enjoy what may
the first person to sell his life
realistically be their last days on earth,insurance policy to a company was a"As of yet, AIDS is still a terminal
thriving family physician. He and his
illness," he said .
lover, who was also mv positive, had
But Lou Katoff, a psychologist who . 'some land and a "dream house" in theis the director of client services at thecountry~ Symptomaticin 1983, he
Gay Men's Health Crisis, told OutWeek
continued to work long hours.

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.But by the summer of 1988, he wasin deep trouble, and was increasingly
unable to work, he told OutWeek He
was paying $5,000 a month for medicine
for himself and his lover, owed over
$40,000 in credit and was behind in his
mortgage payments. He had some. medical insurance and life insurance,
but no disability. He couldn't afford tostop working. "I was killing myself tostay alive finanCially,"he recalled.
He consulted
Petersen,whohelped the physician negotiate the saleof his $121,000 life insurance policy.
His doctors said he had 16 months tolive; their doctors Said 22 months. He
was offered $72,000, approximately 62
percent of the policy's value. Desperateand seeing the money as his only
solution, the physician who spoke for
Out Week on condition of anonymity,
agreed. But his relief was short-lived.
After having paid off his credit
debt, some of the mortgage and a large
financial planning bill (which included
a fee for Petersen), he is currently
broke and is being forced to forecloseon his house. He said he feels that theresale of life insurance is not carefully
monitored by any outside agents and it
leaves the seller vulnerable. "It left mewith dignity for a short while, but now
I'm destitute," he confided to OutWeek.
Rick Wendroff, executive director of
24 Hours for Life, a pediatric AIDS
gmup, is currently waiting for thecompletionof his own insurance
transaction. With a disability policy andfull medical coverage, he said heconsiders selling his life insurance
empowering. "It's like looking at a glassof water and saying it's half full or half
empty. Mine's half empty and i am goingto use this money to live a better life
before I die," Wendroff told OutWeek
The resale insurance purchasers
say they are merely treading where
insurance companies themselves havetraditionally
balked,offeringa"betteringof life" option to theterminally ill.
"When it comes to medical ordeath benefits, insurance companies
can be vultures. They don't want topayout money," said Peggy Wallace,president of Affirmative Lifestyles, Inc.,a San Antonio, Texas-based company
that purchases life insurance policies.
And these transactions have also
turned the tables on the relationshipbetween the insured and the insurer,
forcing' the industry to respond.
CU'rrently, Prudential Insurance ofAmericaoffersan "accelerated
benefits" plan in ten states. If a person
has six months or less to live,
Prudential will pay up to 90 percent of
the policy's value to the insured, withthe balance paid to the beneficiaries
upon his or her death. It is expectedby both the third party companies andinsurance industry spokespeople' thatas soon as this practice becomeswidespread,"livingbenefits"
companies will be obsolete.
While there is no direct regulationof this nascent enterprise; the state's
Department of Insurance and ~ard ofConsumer Affairs is keeping an eye onthem.
And in March, New York's
Governor Mario Cuomo introduced a"living benefits" bill before the Senate in
the fonn of an amendment to the state's
insurance and social services law.
The bill would establish "rules foradvertising, disclosure, benefit levels,
benefit eligibility, nooforfeiture, reserves
and premium rates for accelerated
payment of death benefits or for
payment of long term care benefits
provided under a life insurance policy."
According to Virginia Apuzzo of
the New York State Consumer
Protection Agency, such a law wouldin essence, approve the insurance
industry's accelerated benefits-type
program.
But a newly-regulated
program· would mean that ill people
wouldn't need to be "vulnerable tosome of the weasels out there paying
measly sums for the policies," she said
in a phone interview from Albany.
Apuzzo said that as yet there havebeen no official complaints about
insurance resalers to her office.
In 1989, the. brand-new industry
purchased $5 million worth of policies.
This year the figure is expected to reach$30 million and top $75 million in 1991,
accordingto Petersen,
who hascompiled extensive data on the, subject
and is currently at work on a bookabout AIDS and the insurance industry.
Although an attorney for New
York State was quoted recently in The
New York Times as saying that selling
one's life insurance to a_stranger isillegal in New York, John Calagna, a.

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Ne,vsCrisis Escalates at Fund for
Human Dignity
Staff Resign While Board Backs Hetero Chief
reconsider its decision and invited "all gay
board that his previously
men and lesbians to rise up in a chorus ofnegotiatedseverance
protest"package, which included
six monthsof healthinsurance, was dissolved.
A Chorus of Disapproval
The board members thenThat call has broug!;lt a number of
instructed Henderson toletters to the board from prominent lesbians
clean out his desk in 15
and gay. µlen. Barbara Smith, a writer andminutes, as the directors
founder of-Kitchen TablelWomen of Colorlookedon. . Several
Press, who was slated to give the keynote
locksmiths
arrivedtoaddress at the Fund's gay and lesbianchange the locks on thewriters' conference this summer, wrote a
office doors a few minutes
letter of protest.
later.
;It is absurd that one of the major"Therewasanlesbian and gay organizationsin thiselement of violence to it,
country
would
appointa white-ANNMrElNlHEIR UI11fINSANEASYuar
and it was very frightheterosexual
man as its leader,· stated
Mary BfIIh Casch6tla, former Crisis liIe dir9clDr froio: kOf:N.Il..idlIBlsIei1 ening,· recalled HenderSmith. "I am as shocked by this decision asson. "They were screaming
I would have been if I had learned that one
byMl .... G......
at me .... There was no human interaction.·of the major Black Civil-rights organizations
NEW YORK-Even after losing three
Ann Wtlson, a co-chair of the Furid's
had named a white person' as its visible
employees, one member of the board and , board and its sole spokesperson, refused torepresentative and head."several volunteers, the Fund for Humananswer Out Week's questions regarding
Smith's letter was joined by a Jc!tter
Dignity appears no closer to a resolution of . Henderson's termination, saying only thatfrom Martin
Duberman,.
the otherits most recent crisis. Despite pressure from"the executive director is hired by thedistinguished gay author who had beenboth inside and outside the organization,board and serves at the pleasure of theasked to give the keynote address. "If wemembers of the Fund's board of directors
board." Several other board members
lived in an ideal world, such categories as
have not reconsidered their decision to hirerefused to comment at all for this article,
male and white and heterosexual woulda heterosexual man to lead the gay andwhile still others did not return repeated
not matter and would probably
belesbian educational foundation.
.
phone calls.
offensive," Duberman acknowledged, but
Instead, the board fired the acting
While the board never disclosed its
explained that in reality "gays and lesbians
executive director, Gary. Henderson, who
reasons for firing Henderson, most staff
have very few things we can call our
had previously been asked to remain withmenibers and volunteers assumed that theown ...which makes it very important for us
the Fund for six weeks, until the new
acting executive director was dismissed in
to lead our own organizations."
executive director took over.
retaliation for the staff and volunteers'
And whether Brading is otherwise
The board's hiring decision seems topublic objections to the board's choice of . qualified to do the job, continued Smith, ishave brought to a boll long-sihunering
Robert Brading as the Organization's new
immaterial. "It's not a matter of, 'Can hetensions with volunteers and staff, raising
executive director.
answer telephones,
write reports, raise
allegationsof abusive
behavior
and
On March 20, the staff, including
money?'" she said, stressing that "it's not
virtually shutting down operations at theHenderson, along with many of the Fund's
appropriate" for a heterosexual person togroup formec;1when the National Gay andvolunteers,
issued'apublic statement
act as a spokesperson for a lesbian and gay
Lesbian Task Force moved its headquarters
decrying the board's decision to offer theorganization.
to Washington several years ago.
job to a heterosexual white man. According
But other lesbian and gay leaders
On March 23, Henderson was abruptly
to Mary Beth Caschetta, fonner coordinator
were not as quick to condemn the Fund'sordered to vacate his office. According toof the Fund's crisis line, Henderson's
decision.
Urvashl Vaid, the executive
another staffer in the room at the time,
dismissal was the board's first response todirector of the National Gay and lesbianHenderson was told by six members of thethe sta~ement, which urged the board to
Task Force, cautioned that "as people who

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April 18, 1990

fight all the time against dlscriml.pation, we
can't say that a straight person can't lead a
gay and lesbian organization per se.""I'm not advocating discrimination,"
responded VIrginia Apuzzo, who selVed as
executive director of the National Gay andLesbian Task Force when the Fund for
Human Dignity was still a part of thatorganization, "but I advocate affirmative
outreach to the community."
But Can He Raise Money?
Although their original objections to
Brading, who currently works for the
National Association of Christians and Jews,
were based on his heterosexuality, current
and fonner staff members and volunteers
have raised further Issues as they learned
more about Brading's background. "I am
not disturbed per se over a heterosexual
male
being
chosento leadtheorganization," maintained David Stickel,
who directs the Fund's telemarketing
program. "If it had been Heidi Jones [theheterosexual fonner president of the New
Jersey Coalition for Lesbian and Gay Civil
Rightsl, I would be standing alongside theboard saying, 'I think this Is a terrificchoice.' ...She has earned her stripes."
Unlike Jones and other heterosexual
activists for gay and lesbian rights, Brading
has never participated In the lesbian andgay rights movement, or contributed tolesbian and gay organizations, according to
the Fund staff. Brading himself did not
return repeated phone calls from OutWeek.
The staff and volunteers' additional
objection to Brading's candidacy is basedon what appears to be his complete lack offund-raising experience. While fund-raisingexpertise is generally considered Importantfor executive
directorsof non-profit
organizations,
it may carry a special
importanceat the Fund, 'whose last
executive director was asked to resign inpart because 'of the organization's financial
problems, according to Ann Wlison.
"We remain mystified
over whatmakes this person so qualified, so head andshoulders over the other 30-odd gay andlesbian applicants," stated Stickel.

The Troubl •• with the Bo.rd
The IS-year-old
Fund for Human
Dignity. has offered three programs: anational crisis line, the distributionofeducational
pamphlets and a ·positive
Images" print advertising drive. In the past
it has employed 16 people, nine of them In
so!lle fundraislng function.

While
staff
members,
volunteers and other interested
parties continue to demand that theboard rescind its job offer to
Brading, many are suggesting thatthe ,best
Interestsoftheorganization would be selVed by
the resignation of the entire board.
"My personal feeling is that it
would be really helpful if the board
would resign, and if there were a
new board that was more In touchwith the current gay and lesbian
movement, " revealed
Paula
Pressley, who reSigned last week
after ten months as the Fund's
director of development.
Henderson, whq selVed as the
Photo:AndrewUciltensteinsecretary of the board until. he -rr WOULD BE REAU.Y HB.PfUL IF ntE BOARD WOULD
became the acting executive director
j.
RESIGN.- -Paula Pressley,fonner dlfectDr of development.
in December, agreed that the board.
.
should resign, and that "more progressive
regarding Brading and the board as "thepeople" should take the reins of thesame kind of bashing that we're constantly
organization. By saying that they could not
subjected to as lesbians and gay men."find a qualified gay or leSbian person to head
The Rest of the Iceberg.
the Fund, Henderson asserted, "they're
"The
story
of
the
Fund
is
capitulating to the Jesse Helms mentality ....
dysfunctionality," asserted Ira Berkowitz,
And they don't even have the awareness that
who worked for the Fund as a volunteer
they are doing this."and a consultant for six years. "The core of
Abby Tahner, the former coordinator of
the Fund's National Gay and Lesbian Resource . the problem' is incompetence.""The organization had great problems
Center, took the indictment of the board's
for a very, very long time. It was really apolitics one step further, declaring that "one ofdysfunctional organization," echoed Julien
the key problems with the Fund is that there
Maurice, who clirected the Fund's National
are some self-hating homophobes on the
Gay and Lesbian Crisis line for a year and aboard. When I see gay people being
half, until he resigned In January. Maurice
apologetic for who they are and beingargued that long before the Fund's troubles
uncomfortable with gay relationships, that
became the object of public attention, thekind of perspectiveof internalizedorganization's programs and personnel had
homophobia influences all levels of policy."
been grievously mismanaged.
As examples of the board members'
Maurice cited his own experience at theattitudes
towardgay andlesbianFund as evidence. As part-time director of therelationships, Talmer pointed to the fact that
Crisis tine, the Fund's best-known program,"the board expressed discomfort with staff
Maurice was able to extract an agreement thatmembers or volunteers dating each other."the position required a full-time employee
Talmer, who was laid' off in December,
only after carrying out his ultimatum torecalled that "members of the staff were told
resign. The board offered him the full:-tiInethat their relationships, while consensual andjob the day after he quit In protest of thelegal, were not the kind of thing that the
inattention of the executive director Sherrie
Fund wished to be associated with.»
Cohen and the entire board of directors, he"There is no sex In homosexualitY forreported. And other former program directors
them," was how Joanna Asperger,aat the Fund tell nearly Identical stories.
telemarketing employee, put it. "We. are
Nearly everyone OUtWeek intelViewed
speaking a different language .... And the~spoke about some kind of financial
is the language of the closet."
Instability at .the Fund for Human DIgnity u
The board's Ann Wilson did not returna contributing factor to the tension an4
phone calls offering her an oppoitllnity togeneral sense of chaos there,
respond to the critics of the board. In an
Recent fulancia1 audits indicate that theearlier IntelView, however, she described
the

staff

and

volunteers'statements

S.. CRISIS on ,.Idl

April 18, 1990

OUTTWEEK

17

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BLAIR COUNTY,
Penna.-A
lesbian prisoner at the Blair County jailcan now receive visits from her lover,thanks to a federal judge's ruling thatthe prison's antigay visitation policy is
unconstitutional.
Previously,
theinmate's request that her lover beallowed to visit had been denied by awarden who said that when he madethe decision, he believed homosexual
conduct was illegal in the state. The
federalcourt ruling means that
Pennsylvania prisons will no longer beallowed to discriminate against lesbian
and gay inmates
who ask that
visitation privileges be extended totheir lovers,"I love her and she loves me and I
sure would like to see someone I
love, n the inmate wrote last summer inthe request from which the case arQse.
In response, the warden said that theprison"can'tcondonesuch
relationships, n and denied the inmate's
request. Although an executive orderthat bans discrimination
againstlesbians and gay men in state agencies
has been in place here since 1975, thejail, as a county facility, was not boundby the state policy. Pennsylvania isalso one of 25 states in the union thathas decriminalized sodomy,
The American
Civil Liberties
Union filed suit against Blair County
jail on behalf of Jane Doe, as theinmate was indentified in court papers,
successfully challenging the. prison's
policy as a violation of the equal
protection clause of the Fourteenth
Amendment.
"The logical connection between
the Blair County visitation policy as it
is interpreted and the asserted goals ofmaintaining internal security and safety
for inmates is so remote as to bearbitrary, n asserted the federal court
judge last month in his ruling, which

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April 18, 1990

found
the
prison's
policyunconstitutionaland enjoined thecounty from denying the plaintiff
visitation with her lover.
"This decision means an end to apolicy under which lesbian and gay
prisoners were second-class persons
within the prison,n remarked Nan
Hunter, director of the ACLU's Lesbianand Gay Rights Project. "It represents
another court's recognition that theConstitution's protection of equality
rights· must prevail over irrational
prejudice. n-Nina Reyes

who worked on the brief for'the Gay
and Lesbian Parenting Group, said,"It's a wonderfuldecisionforeverybody's
rights.
It treatedhomosexuality as an irrelevancy. n
The seven justices of the Ohio
Supreme Court unanimously disagreed
with arguments by a lower court andby the Licking County Department of
Human Services, which had originallyplaced Charles as a foster child in B.'s
home. The lower court had ruled that·gay people cannot adopt children
because it is never in the interest of achild to be in a home which is not"normal, n and that a child would be
negatively affected by placement in agay home. -Arthur
S. Leonard

Ohio
approves
adoption by Youthagency getsgay mannew chief

COLUMBUS, Ohio-Repudiating
what may have been the most anti-gay
appellate decision of recent years, theOhio Supreme Court approved theadoption of an eight-year-old boy by agay psychologist on March 28. The sixto-one vote decisively rejected a 1988
lower court ruling that "the goals ofannounced homosexuality are hostile
to the goals of the adoption statuten
and that, as a matter of law, it was notin the best interest of the then-sevenyear old child to be "placed for
adoption into the home of a pair ofadult male homosexual lovers. n
Attorney
C, William Rickrich
represented
the child involved,
identified only as Charles, and attorney
Robin Lyn Green represented the gay
psychologist, referred to in the opinion
as "Mr. B.n Amicus briefs were also
filed on Mr, B.'s behalf by Lambda
Legal Defense and Education Fund, the
ACLU, the Institute for Child Advocacy .
and the Gay and Lesbian Parenting
Group of Central Ohio.
Paula Ettelbrick, Legal Director of
Lambda, hailed the decision as "a truly
tremendous victory on the issue of
lesbian and gay adoption. n Rhonda
Rivera, an Ohio State law professor

NEW YORK - The board of
directo~ of the Hetrick-Martin Institute,a social services agency serving lesbian
and gay youth, has named Frances
Kunreuther as the organization's aew
executive director.
'
Kunreuther, 37;' will assume her
new $70,000 per year position on April

FRANCES KUNREUTHER,lIold.L Lilt

30. She is currently the division directorof homeless and immigrant programsfor the New York City Victims Services
Agency, where she has directed services
for runaway and homeless youths,
battered women and their children, andsurvivors of sexual assault.
. She also serves as co-chair of thesteering committee for the AIDS andAdolescent Network of New York. Dr.
A. Damien Martin, a founder of theorganization,
retired as executive
director last year. Judi Verdino has been
the group's interim chief executive.
Kunreuther and her lover of fourand a half years, Gerry Pearl berg; awriter, live across the street from one
another in Brooklyn,.
The
Hetrick-Martin
Instituteoperates a variety of programs for
lesbian and gay youth, including theHarvey Milk High School; an afterschool drop-in center and counselingprogram; Project First Step, a street
outreach program for homeless youth;
and a health services program, in
conjunction with the Community Health
Project, that assists lflV-positive clientsin obtaining health care.
-Duncan Osborne

Storefront·for hOlllelessyouth opens
NEW YORK-At
the official
opening of the new offices 'of ProjectFirst Step on Tuesday, March 27,
Francine Shifrin, the project director,
dedicated the space to Allan W!lliams,
an outreach worker who died of AIDS
last December at the age of 36.
Project First Step, located at 338
West 4th Street, is a two-and-a-halfyear-old outreach program created by
the Hetrick-Martin Institut~ to address
the needs of lesbian and gay homelessyouth. The project's outreach workers
go out at night qn foot to the meat
market area, the piers, 14th and 53rd
Streets and Port AuthOrity, and provide
AIDS education and give out condoms
and dental dams. Homeless youths arethen invited to visit the storefront
offices, formerly located at 13th andHudson Streets in Greenwich Village.

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Bernice Williams,A11an's mother,held one end of the purple ribbon andDr, Damien Martin, the recently retired
Executive Director of the HetrickMartin Institute, held the other end as
Andrew Stein, 'City Council.President,
cut the ribbon.
"It's my honor to cut this ribbon
today because there is such a need forthe services Hetrick-Martin provides forthe homeless youth," Stein said. "Theyneed help and need it badly."At the storefront, the homelessyouths can get meals, clothing andshowers. In addition, a psychiatrist
counsels
theyouthsand,incooperation
with the Community
Health Project, a doctor and his
assistant offer free medical services
out of a van in the outreach areas
and at the storefront.
All theservices are free.
-Lazaro Hernandez

focusing Western Union's actions when
HRCF selects a new vendor and by
urgingotherlesbianand gayorganizations
to reexamine
theirrelations with the telecommunications
giant.
"I think that Western Union isabout to have a public relations
nightmare and they don't even know
they are asleep," said King.
WesternUnion
corporate
spokesman WaITen Bechtel refused tocomment on the action. But Bechtel
did say the company's actions in Ertag
v. Western Unton were strictly a legal
strategy and that the company does
not condone discrimination. on thebasis of sexual orientation. Western
Union has no anti-discrimination policyof its own protecting gays.
"Western Union is committed tomaintaining a work environment that is
free of any form of discrimination,"stated Bechtel. -Duncan
OsborneSorry, wrong ACT UP
nwnber
·
1ower
,WinS
he alth carecosts .I.or
WASHINGTON-The

Human

Rights Campaign Fund, a gay politicalaction committee,announced
last
week it will no longer use WesternUnion
to deliver"SpeakOut"
constituent messages to Capitol Hill,and anticipates that its action will costWestern Union $350,000 this year.
Western Union Corp. is thedefendant
in a sexual orientation
discrimination suit brought by Armand
Ertag, a former
San Francisco
employee of the company. Western
Union has sought to have the casedismissed, claiming San Francisco's gay
rights ordinance is unconstitutional.
"We want to send a clear message
to Western Union/ said Tim McFeeley,
HRCF's executive director, "Lesbian
and gay Americans do not intend to
spend
their
money
with
an
organization that is fighting to deny
our
right
to livefree
fromdiscrimination. "Gregory King, Communications
Director at HRCF, said HRCF intends toincrease pressure on Western Union by

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April 18, 1990

deductible.
Blue Cross paid theremaining 80 percent.
Under the new regulations, after thesame deductible, the insurer pays 80
percent of the first $10,000 of expenses,
and 100 percent of all expenses
thereafter, per calendar year.
"Without a stop-loss provision, thisplan was not affordable to the people it
was aimed at, people who don't or can't
get insurance," said Barry Lapidus of
ACT UP's Insuranceand AccessCommittee. "Twenty percent of theyearly medical bills for a person withAIDS could amount to well over
$10,000."

Speaking for Blue Cross, David
Willis, Division Vice President of New
York markets,
called ACT UP's
contribution
to the policy decision"positive and productive."
The AIDS activist group pressured
Blue Cross through demonstations,phone and mail zaps, and also throughmeetings. ACf UP also testified against
Blue CrosS's former policy at hearings of
the New York State Department of
Insurance.
The average
cost of open
enrollment health insurance throughBlue Cross is $376.80 per qualter,according to Willis.-Duncan Osborne

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NEW YORK - Empire Blue Cross
and Blue Shield, the state's largest.
provider of health insurance, announced
recently it would place a ceiling on the
yearly out-of-pocket expenses for its
clients insured under the company's
open enroliment plan. The plan can bepurchased during special periods when
the company guarantees, by previous
arrangement with the state, that no one
will be turned down for coverage, and ispopular among people with AIDS andother chronic illnesses,
The move was hailed as a victoryby AIDS activists, who had lobbied thecompany for the change. Prior to thispolicy change, Blue Cross policy
holders paid 20 percent of their medical
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0
0
0
0
0
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YES
YES
YES
YES
YES
YES
YES
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Rochester area
Syracuse/Central
NY
Poughkeepsie/SE
NY
Albany/Schenectady/E.NY
Boston/E. Mass/RI
ConnecticutNJ.
Mass
VermontlNH/Maine

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o.K
o.K
o.K
o.K
o.K
o.K
o.K

NO.
NO.
NO.
NO.
NO.
NO.
NO.
NO.

Signature

0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0

NO.
NO.
NO.
NO.
NO.
NO.
NO.
NO.

lover (monogamous)
lover (nonmonogamous)
Buddy (sexual)
Buddy (platonic)
o.ne night standRomantic fling
AffairPen-palAge Range
0 YES
0 YES
0 YES
0 YES
0 YES
DYES
0 YES

General Appearance
NO.
0 YES
o.K
0 YES
o.K
NO.
0 YES
o.K
NO.
0 YES
o.K
NO.
0 YES
o.K
NO.
0 YES
o.K
NO.
0 YES
o.K
NO.
0 YES
NO.
o.K
0 YES
o.K
NO.

Very good looking
Attractive
Average
Below average
Yuppie preppie
Young executive
Mature 'executive
TrendyCollegiate jock

NO.
NO.
NO.
NO.
NO.
NO.
NO.

18-21
21-25
25-30
30-35
35-40
40-50
50+

Dress
0 YES
0 YES
0 YES
0 YES
0 YES

Casual (t-shirt, jeans)
Sometimes sloppy
High fashion
Sem i-formal
Drag

o.K
o.K
o.K
o.K
o.K
o.K
o.K

Build

0
0
0
0
0
0
0

YES
YES
YES
YES
YES
YES
YES

o.K
o.K
o.K
o.K
o.K
o.K
o.K

NO.
NO.
NO.
NO.
NO.
NO.
NO.

Bodybuilder
Muscular
AverageSlim
StockyHeavy
Very Heavy

Height
YES
YES
YES
YES
YES

o.K
o.K
o.K
o.K
o.K

NO.
NO.
NO.
NO.
NO.

5'6" or less5'6"-5'9"
5'9"-6"6'-6'3"
6'3" or taller

o.K
o.K
o.K
o.K
o.K
o.K
o.K
o.K
o.K

NO.
NO.
NO.
NO.
NO.
NO.
NO.
NO.
NO.

Black
Dark Brown
light Brown
AuburnRed
Strawberry Blond
BlondWhite gray
Bald

0
0
0
0
0

Hair

0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0

80

YES
YES
YES
YES
YES
YES
YES
YES
YES
es
YES
YES
YES
YES
YES
YES

o.K
o.K
o.K
o.K
o.K
o.K

NO.
NO.
NO.
NO.
NO.
NO.

Blue
Green
Gray
Hazel
Brown
Black

0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0

FaciallBody
YES
YES
YES
YES
YES
YES
YES
YES

Hair
o.K
o.K
o.K
o.K
o.K
o.K
o.K
o.K

NO.
NO.
NO.
NO.
NO.
NO.
NO.
NO.

SmoothClean Shaven
MustacheBeard
No body hair
Smooth chest
Hairy chest
Very Hairy

Race
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0 yES
0 YES
0 YES
0 YES'

o.K'
o.K
o.K
o.K
o.K

NO.
NO.

Caucasian
Asian oriental
Black
latin
East Indian

0
0
0
0

New

York City

o.K
o.K
o.K
o.K
o.K
o.K
o.K
o.K

NO.
NO.
NO.
NO.
NO.
NO.
NO.
NO.

Manhattan
Brooklyn
QueensBronx
Staten Island
Long Island
Westchester/FairfieldCity
N. New Jersey 'burbs

YES
YES
YES
YES
YES
YES
YES
YES
YES
YES
YES
YES
YES
YES
DYES

o.K
o.K
o.K
o.K
o.K
o.K
o.K
o.K
.o.K
o.K
o.K
o.K
o.K
o.K
o.K

.No.
NO.
NO.
NO.
NO.
NO.
NO.
NO.
NO.
NO.
NO.
NO.
NO.
NO.
NO.

Arts events
Dining out
Parties
Bars dancing
Cooking
TravelCamping hiking
Sailing surfing
SkiingTennis racquetball
Swimming
CyclingMusic
Photographer
Painting art

Beliefs
YES
YES
YES
YES
YES
YES
YES
YES
YES
YES
YES

o.K
o.K
o.K
o.K
o.K
o.K
o.K
o.K
o.K
o.K
o.K

NO.
NO.
NO.
NO.
NO.
NO.
NO.
NO.
NO.
NO.
NO.

Catholic
ProtestantJewishNew age
MCC
Very religious
Son1ewhat religious
Not relinious
Political y liberal
Conservative
Social democrat

Sexual Preferences
0 YES
o.K
0 YES
o.K
0 YES
o.K
0 YES
o.K
0 YES
o.K
0 YES
o.K
0 YES
o.K
0 YES
o.K
o.K
0 YES
0 YES
o.K
0 YES
o.K
o.K
0 YES
0 YES
o.K
o.K
0 YES
0 YES
o.K
0 YES
o.K
0 YES
o.K
0 YES
o.K
0 YES
o.K
o.K
0 YES
0 YES
o.K

NO.
NO.
NO.
NO.
NO.
NO.
NO.
NO.
NO.
NO.
NO.
NO.
NO.
NO.
NO.
NO.
NO.
NO.
NO.
NO.
NO.

D
0
0
0

NO.
NO.
NO.
NO.

Kissing
Cuddling)0.
French active
French passive
Greek active
Greek passive
SAFE SEX
Toys
Leather
SMtop
SM bottom
Heavy SM
Experimental
Three--waysGroup sex
Very experienced
Average experience
Inexperienced
Virginal
Small to average
endowment
Average to la~eVery large en owment
Cut
Uncut

YES
YES
YES
YES
YES
YES
YES
YES

TRAITSType of Relationship
0 YES
o.K
DYES
O.K·
0 YES
o.K
0 YES
o.K
0 YES
o.K
'YES
o.K
0 YES
o.K
0 YES
o.K

o

Date

NO.
NO.
NO.

o.K
o.K
o.K
o.K
o.K

NO.
NO.
NO.
NO.
NO.

Occupation
0 YES
0 YES
0 YES
0 YES
0 YES
0 YES
0 YES
0 YES
0 YES
0 YES
0 YES
0 YES
0 YES
0 YES
0 YES

o.K
o.K
o.K
o.K
o.K
o.K
o.K
o.K
o.K
o.K
o.K
o.K
o.K
o.K
o.K

NO.
NO.
NO.
NO.
NO.
NO.
NO.
NO.
NO.
NO.
NO.
NO.
NO.
NO.
NO.

Financially independent
Self-surrporting.Nonse f·supporting
UnemployedStudent
Office clerical
Service hospitality
Sales
Construction
Technical
Self-emplored
entrepreneur
Manageria
Professional
Health CareEntertainment arts

Substance
0 YES
0 YES
0 YES
0 YES
0 YES
0 YES
0 YES

Use
o.K
o.K
o.t<
o.K
o.K
o.K
o.K

NO.
NO.
NO.
NO.
NO.
NO.
NO.

SmokerNon-smoker

Personality
YES
YES
YES
YES
YES
YES
YES
YES
YES
YES
YES
YES
YES

o.K
o.K
o.K
o.K
o.K
o.K
o.K
o.K
o.K
o.K
o.K
o.K
o.K

0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0

Social Activities
o.K
0 YES
o.K
0 YES
o.K
0 YES
o.K
0 YES
o.K
0 YES
o.K
0 YES

NO.
NO.
NO.
NO.
NO.
NO.

NO.
NO.
NO.

NO.
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estate
has
moved
to
have
pseudonyms used in the court records
and to have the identity of the decedent
permanently concealed, claiming thiswas necessary to protect the interests ofthe decedent's family_
Justice Cohen ruled· that New
York's HIV confidentiality law, which'went into effect a year ago, doeS not
extend to this situation, noting that the
purpose for the law was to encourage
people to undergo confidential testingby guaranteeingthat their privacy
would be respected. "This' purpose,"
she ruled, "is not as compelling when
the party who had AIDS is deceased,
particularly when balanced against thestrongly revered, and protected public
policy of open court proceedings,"
Justice Cohen went even farther,opining that even a living defendantwith AIDS would not be privileged tomaintainanonymityin an HIVtransmission lawsuit of this type_ The
presumption in favor of open trials"applieds especially to information aboutI,

the AIDSplague. Except when necessary
to protect the privacy of AIDS patients,
infonnation about all manifestations of
the problem
shouldbe widelydisseminated so as to increase publicawareness," she wrote.
. Justice Cohen stayed the effect ofher ruling to give the estate of Flynn's
lover the opportunity to appeal.
-Arthur S. Leonard

NewHIV'

test sites in
NYC
NEW YORK-The city has openeda new anonymous HIV testing site, andthe state has moved the location of
one of its sites from Harlem to theSouth Bronx, bringing' the total numberof free anonymous testjng sites in' thecity to 12, top city and state healthofficials announced
last month. A
spokesperson for the state Department
of Health said that a search is currently
underwayfor locating
at twoadditional anonymous testing sites in
the city this year.
"We've cut the wait down to only
several days, depending on where you
call," remarked
Bob O'Connor,
technical coordinator of the state's
Anonymous
HIV CounselingandTesting Program, noting that the stateanonymous testing project has also
recently increased its staff. According
to O'Connor, the state's HIV test~~~I.· ~g}tprogram, which identifies clients only';':;,
by a nUinber, selVed more than 15,000·
throughout the state last year. That
figure does not include people who
were tested through the confidential
program which records the HIV status .
of the client in medical records.
The wait for an HIV test at cityrun test sites varies from few days at
locations in Queens, the Bronx andStaten Island to up to four weeks ataApril 18, 1990

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()ut Takes
some locations in Manhattan,"We are committed to assure that
all New Yorkers haye access to free
HIV tests, the risk reduction counselingthat goes with them, and referral tonecessary primary care and otherservices," said state Commissioner of
Health David Axelrod and city healthcommissioner Dr. Woodrow Myers in astatement
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anonymous testing sites,
The new state-run site-which
replaces a state testing site located inwest Harlem-is located in the SouthBronx, and the new city-administered
testing facility is in central Harlem. Nineof the sites in New York City areoperated by the city, and the remaining
three are run by the state. Confidential
counseling and testing are currently

available at sexually transmitted disease
clinics, family planning and pre-natal
clinics, hospital outpatient facilities anddrug treatment programs throughout
the city.
For more Information
about
anonymous HIV testing, call the city's
AIDS hotline at (718) 485-8111, or thestate's hotline at 8OO-s72-2m,-Nina Reyes

Forced testing in assault
cases upheld

interest of the assailant."
Both attorneys. were quoted in the
March 21 issue of The Datly Journal, awest coast legal newpaper.
-Arthur S. Leonard

OutWeek

SACRAMENTO,
Calif.-An
appeal's court here has I,Ipheld theconstitutionality of a controversial law
which requires HIV testing of anybody
who "assaults or transfers bodily fluid"
to a law enforcement
officer,firefighter,emergency
medicaltechnician, employee of a custodial
NEW YORK-New
York Lawfacility of victims of sex crimes.
School professor
and Out Week
California voters approved the law,columnist Arthu'r S. Leonard was
Proposition 96, by a wide margin lasthonored this past week at the 17th
year, while defeating
the latest
anniversary party of Congregation Bethquarantine proposals sponsored by
Simchat Torah, the city's lesbian andgroupsconnected
toLyndongay Jewish congregation.
LaRouche.
A graduate of Harvard University's
Johnetta Johnson, charged with
School of Law, Leonard has been
biting a deputy sheriff during a child
depndency hearing, challenged theconstitutionalityof a blood test
demanded by the sheriffs department,
claiming it was an unreasonable searchand seizure in violation of the Fourth
Amendment of the Bill of Rights.
The unahimous appellate panel
held that the testing requirement was
reasonable under the circumstances,even though there is slim medical
evidence that HIV can be transmitted
by biting. At the same time, the court
cast doubt on the wisdom of thetestingrequirement.
"While themedical opinions of eminent experts
support such testing... those experts
themselves opine that the only reallyeffective means of determining HIV
infection is for the concerned public
safety employees to undergo their own
tests," wrote Justice Zerne Haning forthe court.
Grace Suarez, a deputy publicdefender who represented Johnson,
ART LEONARD
Photo: IL littsaid, "It seems to be just anotherdecisionwatering
down Fourth
involved in the congregation .for 15
Amendment rights and not paying
much attention to qalifornia right of .. years. He also chairs the New York. City Bar Association's Committee on
privacy.
Sex and Law. In addition to writing the
Burk
Delventhal,
attorneymonthly
Out/Law
columnfor
representing the sheriff's department,
autWeek, he writes for the newsletter
claimed that the decision was "aof the Bar Association for Humancorrect assessment of the competing
Rights for Greater New York.
interests of the state in gaining relevant"A friend of mine said I was too
information for a peace officer injured
young to have a testimonial," Leonard_ on duty balancedby the privacy

colulIlnist
honoredtold autWeek. "But it's gratifying to behonored by this group."
Leonard, who recently completed
a tenn as Beth_Simchat Torah's board
preSident, was c.elebrated for his
ongoing
contributions
to thecongregation.
~
SugdenCourt OKs
dentist's
refusal totreat PWA
NEW YORK-In
a setback forhealth ceare access rights for people
with AIDS, a New York State judge has
ruled that a Manhattan dentist may
exclude PWAs from his practice, Rulingin a lawsuit by Dr. Robert Sattler
against the City Commissionon
Human Rights, Justice Pet~ R Rosato
of Supreme Court, Westchester County,
declared that a "private" dental office is
not a public accommodation
under
New York CitY's human rights law. The
decision was published in the New
YOm lAw Journal on March 26.
Stephen' McCouey had been aregular dental patient of Sattler's
midtown Manhattan office for several
years when Sattler spotted lesions in
McCouey's mouth during an office visit.
Sattler referred Mc.coury to an oral
pathologist
fordiagnosis
andtreatment.
When McCoury called
Sattler after completionof thetreatment.
to schedule
a newappointment, Sattler said he would feel
"uncomfortable" treating a person with
AIDS, and tried to persuade McCoury
to go to an AIDS dental clinic at St.
Clare's Hospital or a dentist who"specializes"
in AIDS patients.
Although Sattler told McCoury that he"would still be his dentist," McCourysought a referral. to another dentist
from his oral pathologist .
McCoury was referred to John
Wolf, a dentist who had himself been
the victim of disCrimination as a resultof providing dental services to people
with AIDS. Wolf, who won his own
case at the Human Rights Commission,
encouraged
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Sattler filed a lawsuit against thecommission
to have its decision
reversed. Because
Sattler lives in
Westchester County, a .little-known
provision of the human rights law
allowed him to file the suit there.
The judge decided that because
Sattler limited his dental practice toreferrals, did not accept new patientsover the phone or off the street, anddid not accept new patients over thephone or off the street, and did noadvertising other than a Yellowpages
listing, his practice was "distinctly
private" and could not be considered apublic accommodation
under thehuman rights law, Rosato also statedthat the evidence did not support afinding of discrimination, since Sattler
concluded
his conversation
with
McCoury by stating that he would stillbe· McCoury's dentist and did notrefuse to schedule an appointment.
Although professional associationsin the health care field have urged
their members to provide service topeople with AIDS after concluding thatI•

simple precautions will prevent HNtransmission,
dentists have been
particularly
reluctantto provide
services, and are continuing source ofcomplaints to the City Human Rights
Commission, According to Brian S.
Sokoloff, a lawyer for the city who
represented the COmmission, an appeal
is contemplated.
-Arthur S. Leonard

Milk, whose life was the subject of
the 1985 Oscar-winning documentary
The Ttmes of Harvey Milk was
assassinated by fellow supervisor Dan
White. White, also the murderer ofMayor George Moscone, then went on
to be acquitted on the infamous"Twinkie defense," blaming junk foodfor his muderous behavior and sparkingthe "White Night" riots that left the cityhT e Mayorof
H0 IIywOO.dBoulevarddevastated.

HOLLYWOOD,
Calif.-Oliver
Stone, Craig Zaden and Neil Meron are
set to team produce a movie about San
Francisco's gay supervisor l:Iatvey Milk.
The film will adapt San Francisco
Chronicle reporter Randy Shilfs firstbook, The Mayor of Castro Street.
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Stone, an Oscar winner this year for
hiS direction of Born on tbe Fourth ofJuly, is as yet uncertain as to who willplay the celebrated
gay leader.
According to Stone, final decisions on
casting have been put off until a script isready, Shilts, who is best lmown for his
top-selling And the Band Played On, lists
himself among the screenwriters being
considered_ This would be his first suchproject were he selected. He has also
indicated that he would most like to see
actor Robin Williams in the Milk role.
The Stone, Zaden, Meron coalitioncame about after Stone took interest in
the project,
Zaden and Meron
optioned The Mayor of Castro Street
tWo years ago and were to make it into"m...
, a low-budget
movie forCineplex Odeod, when
Cineplex· went out ofbusiness, leaving the duo
to shop the projectaround.
After running
into
significant
dif-'ficulties, Oliver Stone's
office expressed interestin the project and had
Warner's buy the option
from Zaden and Meron.
Shilts told the San
Francisco Chronicle, "It's
not a lot of money up
front. But I'm happy themovie will be made. This
could be the first major
movie that deals directlywith gay politics_" The
HBO movie rights for
And the Band Played On
w,ere into "six figures,"which is apparently not
the case this go round.
- Sarah Pettit

SOviets OK
first gayconference
The Minister of Social Affairs in
the Soviet Republic of Estonia has
agreed to open the Soviet Union's ~conference·onhomosexuality,
scheduledfor May 28-30 at the
Academy of Sciences in the Estonian
capital of Tallinn.
Accordingto conference
coorganizer Teet Veispak,. Raul Karu
"agreed gladly" to officially address thegathering, which is entitled "Sexual
Minorities and Society: Changing
Attitudes Toward Homosexuality in20th Century Europe."
Karu also recently appeared ona radio talk program about AIDS
and announced
that "homosexuals
have always existed and they stilldo." While not big news to readersof thispublication,
it wasnoteworthy statement in the Soviet
Union.
Veispakis organizingtheconference with the historian Lilian
Kotter. They hope to attract researchers
and journalists from around the globe,
both to address
the issues andparticipate in the novelty of the USSR's
ftrst official gay anythtng,
Confirmed presenters
includesociologists, ethnologists, historians,
philosophers and other academiciansfrom Denmark,East Germany,
England, Finland, the Netherlands,
Sweden and the Soviet Union,
Gay sex is illegal in the USSR
and can lead to five 'years forcedlabor in Siberia, although there havebeen persistent reports in the past
year that the sodomy law has been
deleted from the latest draft of theSoviet
Penal
code,
which
is
undergoing revision.
At the same time, however, aDanish exchangegroup that met
clandestinely with gay men ("blues")
in Moscow last fall reported that gays
are still frequently arrested by KGB
agents and held in "abominablecircumstances"
until they identify
other homosexuals,
Some of the arrestees are sent topsychiatiric hospitals and given drugs
to decrease their sex drive, according
to gay activist Jens J0rgen Madsen of
the Danish National Association for
Gays and Lesbians.
But in yet another twist, the ftrst
gay organization in the Soviet Union
formedin mid-February,The
Moscow Lesbian and Gay Union,
also known as Moscow Friends, is incontactwith the International
Lesbianand
Gay Association
information secretariat in Stockholm
and has also granted interviews toWestern news reporters,

According to the Baltimore Sun,the group is even producing a small
newspaper called 7beme. There was aprint run of 527 for the ftrst issue, theSun said.
The activists hope to push forthe decriminalization of gay. sex andtheavailabilityof condoms.
According to the Danes, Moscow
pharmacies last stocked rubbers in
the Spring of 1989.
There are offiCially 11 AIDS
cases and 312 HIV-positives -in the
USSR,-Rex Wockner

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An Androgyny of Spirit
by J.lnn. C6n1ovl
7bere's sometbin' bappenin' bere."
What it is, ain't exactly clear...
Buffalo Springfield, 1966
I crooned the words of Steven
Stills' old classic to
the San Joaquingrape fields as I
left San Francisco,
L.A. bound, For
the first time inyears, I was on asoul-high with gay
pride.
I wasenveloped in themagic of the first national gay andlesbian writers conference. Sponsoredby Outlook, a national lesbian and gay
quarterly magazine
based in San
Francisco, the conference drew anastonishing 1,200 writers,
publishers
and famous
litterati of our communityfrom around the country.
But this gathering of thetribe was more than theusual confab of gay ego,
pretension or even righteous
activism. Meditating throughthe soft hills of central .
California, I remembered I'd felt the same
resurgent blush of hope driving home
two months ago from the Los Angdes
Gay and Lesbian Leadership Retreat hdd
in laguna Beach last January.
I had packed for both weekends
somewhat pessimistically, "I 'just hope I
learn something new," the veteranconference-goer in me muttered as I
threw boredom-buffers like Newsweek
and The spiritual Heritage of India into
my suitcase. My last decade of gay
conferences seemed like one non-stop

two-day argument trying to rewrite thegay manifesto. The purity of Stonewall
had long since been replaced by the
posturing of style and the positioningof ego, At my last major lesbianpolitical conference,I sat at lunch withfriends from around the country I
hadn't seen in years,. knowing thisbreak-time intimacy-not
our plenary
decisions-was
the highlight of theweekend. It's depressing to conclude apolitical weekend realizing you'd havelearned more about gay love if you'dstayed home and planted a garden
with your lover,
So I was not prepared for the
tornado of energy that swept me into theInternational Ballroom of the Cathedml
Hotel in San Francisco this writerly
weekend. The energy in the room wasstrikingly different from the womenidentified chaos of lesbian festivals andCaught in a swirl of yin and yangharmony, I felt like I'd accidentally been
propelled into an androgynous, feminist
future where the genders had melted.
The weekend careened with more
surprises.
. African-American
poet Essex
Hemphill delivered a masterful oratory,
from his upcoming anthology Brotber
to Brotber, in which he graphicallyparalleled gay men's obsession withBlack men's genitalia
with theobjectification of women's bodies bymen. Hemphill walked offstage with athunderous
ovation from 600 men,
And 600 women.
Male speakers read passionatelyfrom their writings about the politics
and spirituality of male sexuality, andwoman after woman laid bare our painfrom incest and misogyny. Throughthe hours, no one whispered, You
could have heard a page ofmanuscript
drop on the
hardwood stage.
,
As a lesbian, I'd neverheard so much about cock andba1ls in all my life! But I wasforced to hear and understandintimately that men experience
both the animal and the divine
in themselves through theirbodies in an inextricable
process
unknown to the psyche of most women.
And I came away asking, Who am I tojudge how a soul rilakes its way to Itself?
Neither did I witness any maleexodus as lesbian writers grieved about
global pollution as a result of patriarchal
abuse, or extolled the nobility andempowerment of lesbian separatism.
Through it all, I sat in my chairtransfIXed. Had the feminist revolution
actually occurred while I was awaywriting a book these last two years? Was
this a singular weekend somehow
possible only in' San Francisco, where
the men know that the word sexism isn't
a synonym for sexy and people of color
are recognized as the heart and soul, notthe gadflies, of gay liberation? Had AIDS

As 'a lesbian, I'd nev'er
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certainly antithetical to the left-brain
parliamentary ambience of gay politicalllieetings in Los Angeles. My experienceof oro-seXUal"conferences was that themen always outnumbered the women.
Even when the statistics were morebalanced, men spoke more and argued'
louder. Lesbian energy was rendered toits usual place on the agenda: invisibility.
Yet, somehow in San Francisco, in
this otherwise ordinary' ballroom, anandrogyny of spirit that I'd never felt
before was synergized, The energy ofsome 600 women and almost the same
number of men was blended into acomplementary whole. It was as though
in the last five years, AIDS had dissolved
the armor off men, and maturity had
brought out the voices of women,humanized men? Had women stopped
processing long enough to stand up andtake their power? Had we all somehow
listened to our own rhetoric andtransformed into liberated adults?
But wait! I'd glimpsed this same
post-victim maturity two months ago atanotherconference.
The Laguna
Leadership Retreat felt like the ftrst timesince the dawn of gay liberation that
the Los Angeles lesbian and. ga)'leadership
sat in the same room
together and emerged as more, insteadof less. For me, the spirit of laguna wasa gay second coming. It was the ftrst
time I'd intimately experiencedmybrothers and sisters in leadership as awhole, rather than dysfunctional, family,
The brilliance of Laguna was thedecision to call a political conference
and not talk about politics. The result
was political unity synthesized by love.
The pre-set agenda (which. no one
overthrew!) was personal, No one felt
compelled to assert, "My organization's
better than yours" or accuse, "We'dhave won that battle if John/Jane fromAIDS NO MORE hadn't loused it up."With a non-political agenda, some

may have well.' asked, "How many gay
and lesbian leaders does it take to screw
in a light bulb? What did you all find totalk about?" As someone who neverwent out without a <;lIecard pf pressing
political agenda to d~wIth anyone I
might need for a current project, at first I
was stumped in Laguna, We leaders
were tricked into becoming a part ofour worst nightmare: Who am I without
my credentials?
But we were also seduced as ournightmare became our fantasy. Sitting
there in folding chairs hour after hour,.we were forced to contemplate anagenda of the heart: "What do you love
about being a gay leader? What do you
hate about it the most? Who in thisroom do you want to say 'thank you' to? .
Who do you want to say 'I'm sony' to?"Silently I looked around the room at
the new faces of the younger generationof leaders I didn't mow. Were they fullof anger and love· like I once was?
Would I ever mow them like my peers?
Would I like the way.they laughed or
thought? Would they like me? I studied
the faces of my peers whom I'd come tolove or dread over the last two decadesof harangues. Was I still not speaking toMargaret because she slept with my ex
in 1976?Was John Jones still a hopelesssexist pig? Probably not, on bothaccounts, I thought. Yet I hadn't asked
them lately, "Who are you today?" I
hadn't told them, "I'm grateful you're
spending your life for our people, forme too. Hey ...thanks."
Judy Grahn; poet laureate oflesbian feminism, told us in San
Francisco, "There is no money inanything holy." At the time she spoke tothe impoverished homes and hearts ofgay and lesbian writers struggling to
make a living. But I think she alsomeant those words for the L.A gay andlesbian leaders gathered in laguna.
There is no money in mentoring
the legacy of the 60s to the newleadership of the 90s who will carry thebanner of our freedom into the 21st
century. There is no money in men andwomen becoming sisters and brothers, .
not because we're trying, but simply
because men are coming into their yin
and women are stepping out to ouryang. There is no money in adopting$. ANDROGYNY on pal' 32

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ANDROGYNY from page 29

reselltng life insurance in New York,the politics of trust. There is no money
contact the office of Virginia Apuzzo
in rejoicing in one another's culturalat the Consumer Protection Board:
separateness. There is no money in(518) 474-2257. T
giving up our oppression mentality.
There is no money in' recognizing thatCRISIS from pege 17
outside our gay ghetto, straight people
are human too. There is no money inorganization was only slightly in the red. As
the gay and lesbian nation becoming a
the organization currently lacks a chiefkinder, gentler nation_ But we are. And
executive and a director of fundraising,
this is holy.
other staffers could not provide annual
There
are no accidents
inreports or other public financial records
evolution. San Francisco and Laguna
which would document the financial healthwere not flukes.
of the individual programs at the Fund.
Twenty-one years ago, gay andlesbian liberation was birthed in an
Prison and the Big Housecleaning
explosion of political rage. After we
Maurice, Berkowitz and others blamed
found our political voices in the latethe Fund's lack of focus and alleged financia1
70s, many of us turned to establishingproblems on Sherrie Cohen, who led theourselves in careers and in business.
organization for three and a half· years.
But as we came into the 80s we foundAccording to Berkowitz, however, the board
something was still missing. We began
ignored the situation until it reached crisis
searching for new frontiers to complete
proportions last December, when a legal
our lives. Many of us came to thescandal involving two workers at the Fundconclusion that gays do not live by
may have served as a catalyst for the massive
bread or revolution alone. That without
turnover in personnel that occurred A worker
the consummation of a relationshipat the Fund was jailed for eight days andwith our selves and the holy within us,
charged with lewd and lascivious conduct inlife is not full.
connection with his relationship with a 14Born for many of us in 12 Step . year-old employee of the Fund. The boy, aprograms, in therapy, in the tragedy ofrunaway, had apparently lied about his age
AIDS and in the travails of trying to sortwhen he was hired, but his parents had a
out a workable dyna~c for personalprivate detective follow him to the Fund andrelationships, we turned in our dark
the man's house. The accused man wasnight of the soul-to the intimate, to theultimately acquitted of all charges against him.
prima1love between self and Spirit
Despite the acquittal, and despite theThis is why I believe our comfact that the man and the boy had met
munity is now engaged in the lastoutside the Fund before the boy started
frontier of gay liberation: a spiritual
working there, both the man and the director
revolution. This new politic of revolutionof the telemarketing department, who had
re-awakens memories in me of why I
hired the boy, were not only dismissed, but
made a lifetime commitment to thisbarred from the Fund's offices.
movement 20 years ago. I had almost
At the same time, an administrativecompletely forgotten. If the peI:SOnaiis employee and Abby Talmer were laid off,
indeed political, the intimate must beostensibly because of a 'fiscal crunch.' As thethe transformational. T
most senlor employee at the time, however,
INSURANCE from pege15

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Currently, BGR, or Beat the Grim
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York-based company making thesetransactions. It is being reviewed by the
insurance department, according toCalagna.

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Talmer suspected that her shaky relationshipwith Sherrie Cohen and the disagreements
concerning the direction of the Resource
Center contributed to her tennlnatlon.
Ann Wilson did not respondtorequests to discuss employee's allegations.
In an earlier ·interview; however, she
implied that the employees the Fund lost in
December had left of their own volition, in
protest over Sherrie' Cohen's resignation.
Wilson also stated that she did not know
exactly how many people left in December.
"It's a total lie on Ann Wtlson's part thatshe did not know how many," exclaimed

Berkowitz, "because the board voted to fire
the staff."'"The Board Needed a ScapegoatDepending on their relationship with
Cohen, Fund associates have different
interpretationsoftheDecemberhousecleaning. Some, like Julien Maurice,
believed that Cohen fired and laid people
off with the board's approval, but on her
own initiative. Others, like Caschetta, saw
Cohen doing the board's "dirty work." But
whatever their opinion of Cohen and theirperceptionof the terminations,allobservers seem to have been shaken by thecircumstances of Cohen's own departure.
like Henderson, Cohen received lessthan a day's notice, and had to besupervised
while she collectedherbelongings. While Cohen refused to discuss
the specific circumstances preceding her
departure, explaining that she did not wish
to disclose information that would reflect
negatively
on the Fund, she said she
believed that she was "really mistreated by
the board" She added, "I think the board's
decision regarding me was totally unfair,
not just the way they treated me.... The
board went past its mandate and authority.'"The manner in which [Sherrie Cohen]
was let go is just a further example of theabusive behavior of this group of people,'remarked Henderson. "They treat other gay
people abusively."On the subject of Cohen's departure,
Wilson said only that Cohen was ~ked toleave because of a "mismatch in terms ofmanagement and interpersonal skllls.·'"Their UttIe Insane AsylumWhile before Cohen's departure
different individuals saw different reasonsfor the Fund's problems, now all critics
point the finger at the board of directors_"Let me blame the board as a body,"
stated Julien. Maurice, himself a critic of
Cohen, "b~cause it is the board that is
responsible
for appointing
the chief
executive ... The board has not learned
from the problems of the Sherrie Cohen
administration .•Cohen, her SlJpporters and her critics.agree that the board has not had sufficient
contact with the staff and volunteers, andhas consistently acted in ways that widened
the gap between the two groups. While theboard has met with members of the staff
and volunteers twice since Henderson's
dismissal, each meeting has resulted in
See CRISIS on pege 72

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o.

Clu-onic Fatigue Syndrome is characterized by a fatigue which is disabling,
and a host of other variable symptoms. It
has variously been called chronic fatigue
and immunedysfunction
syndrome(CFIDS), chronic
Epstein-Barrvirus(CEBV), myalgic encephalomyelitis(ME)
and mononucleosis syndrome. It primarily affects women under 45, but is also
found in men and children. It usually has
an abrupt onset, like the flu, which
lingers. It can involve continuous years of
illness or intennittent weJ.l and sick periods. It is undoubtedly
exacerbatedbystress and other illnesses. A generalcourse of CFS is for the symptoms to be
most severe in the first three years, thento gradually subside over two to ten
years, Complete remissions do occur.
It is generally agreed that a viral
agent is involved, but probably not a single agent. In CFS, co-factors existingalong with a viral trigger is the current
medical theory of causation, Some viruses that have been implicated as either

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April 11, 1990

triggers or co-factors include Epstein-Barr
AIDS, restricted medical diagnoses often(EB) , cytomegalovirus(CMV), Herpes
result in cutting a sick person off from
simplex CHSV-l, HSV-2) and human herneeded medical, disability or social benepes viru~(HHV-6), Some researchersfits.
have also looked at non-viral pathogens
The hallmark symptom, of course, is
as playing a role including chlamydia;
fatigue, a persistent exhaustion that is disprotozoan
infections and mycoplasma.
abling. Other symptoms with high freOne model for describing the illness is.quency include changes in mental funcchronic stress leading to lifestyle changes
tions (memory losses, attention deficits,
and decreased self<are activities such as
spacial disorientation), psychological difproper nutrition and adequate rest. Theseficulties (depression,anxiety), nervous
then become co-factors in the disease. system problems(headaches,
vision______________
changes), Many people with CFS
have

chronic

sore

throatsandswollen lymph nodes.
Doctors frequently treat painful,
Other symptoms include hyperalcomplaints (congestion,or refer for a psychiatric letgic-typesinus problems, watery eyes, rashmuscle and joint pains, gastricdiagnosis, or simply tell es),
complaints (stomach pain, diarthe client to shape up or· rhea) and heart palpitations, Over70 percent of women with CFS
complain of worsened or newlyget some exercise.
appearingdrome,

pre-menstrualsyn-process.
Research

has also lookedat otherdiseases as co-factors or triggers: food allergies, systemic yeast infections, environmental allergies and hypoglycemia.
Tocomplicate matters further, CFS has symptoms that may be similar to. other diseases, including thyroid disorders, collagen-vasculardiseases such as systemic
lupus, multiple sclerosis (MS), Lyme disease, illY illness, hepatitis and inflanunatory bowel disease.

Whafs it like?
The Centers for Disease Control(me) now lists symptom criteria for diagnosing CFS, much like it does with
AIDS,. People with CFS often are misdiagnosed, und~rdiagnosed,
ignored andblamed for their symptoms. DoctOIS fre-'quently treat or refer for a psychiatric diagnosis, or simply tell the client to shapeup or get some exercise, Having <DC-defined criteria does legitimize the existenceof CFS' It also sets limits on doctors' useof the diagnosis of a syndrome that has
been inadequately studied. As seen with

Seeking Health Cant
Finding the best source of healthcare is always complicated. The personwith CFS often has extensive doubts andconcerns about what the symptoms may
mean. For anyone seeking a medical
provider, there are support groups andinformation which should be consulted.
Even a sympathetic
provider will nothave all the answers, so consultation withhealers of diverse backgrounds is indicated: nutritionists, acupuncturists,
homeopaths, Chiropractors and others.
A diagnostic workup must include
the medical exclusion of ~ible
alternative diseases, with appropriate lab tests,
but without undue ftnancial burden to
the client. The most interesting findingsin CFS are the immunologic abnormalities found. T4 (CD4) cells are often normal in number, but T8 (CDB) cells areoften depleted, showing an increase in
the T4/f8 ratio. This is the reverse of thepattern of a decrease in this ratio characteristic of illY disease.
Additionally, there is often an in-crease in immune system chemicals suchas alpha-interferon, interleukin-l and interleukin-2, along with a decrease in
number and function of natural killer(NI() cells. Antibody titres to common
viral agents (EB, CMY, measles) are often.highly elevated,
The body's im. munoglobulins (which produce antibodies) are often abnonnal, with a frequent
increase in the type of immunoglobulin
OgE) that acts during allergic responses.
Much of the rest of a .persOn with, CPS's
lab tests will be normal, and physicalexams are usually not diagnostic. 'The diagnosis is made on CDC criterion, along with use of lab values for immunological markers, The key is maldng
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Treating a medical syndrome is always challenging, but the attitude that
nothing can be done is unacceptable.
Treatment programs must be built onaUTent medical knowledge, experimental
modes and stress-theory. It should becentered on the individual and her sym~
toms, needs and desires. The following
survey is neither comprehensive nor
meant as advice,. Sound decisions inchronic illness are made with much soulsearching, good support, extensive personal research, and in concert with ahealth care professional.
Anti-virals:
Acyclovir has notdemonstrated usefulness beyond its use
in suppression of chronic herpes infections. Alpha-interferon sometimes is ~ful, in persons with established decreased
serum levels. Peptide-T is also being investigated.
lmmunostimulators: These include
germanium, alpha-interferon, ampligen
and gamma-globulin (IVIG) which all
have proponents,~
Antidepressants:(Including
sinequan, buspar, MAO inhibiters, xanax
and prozac.) These are often prescribed,
and are sometimes the only' drugs offered In smaller than usual doses, they
are used to treat slee!? disturbances, depression or anxiety.
GI drugs: For those with ulcer-like
symptoms, ·zantac or tagamet can be useful.
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Political Scienceby Mark Harrington

Interferon was discovered toosoon for its own good ...regarded
as a ",ere curlostty or as a figureof the imagination,diffiCUlt to
produce and impossible to purify.
-Mathilde Krim, Ph.D.lInterferon is one of the most confusing substances
involved in thepathogenesis and treatment of AIDS. In
its naturally-occurringform, it is a marker for idisease progression, In
its recombinant, geneti~a~ly-engineered form,
It IS a treatment for Kaposi's sarcoma (KS) andisbeingproposedasanlg
anti-mY treatment.

verse biological activity. Alpha andbeta interferons are released by cellsof the immune system, and are capable of degrading double-stranded
RNA and proteins inside of cells. Interferon gamma, by contrast (whichsome say is not a true interferon), is a
growth factor.
Usually, interferon is released
and used by cells in the body without being detectable. Yet in somediseases of the immune system, including lupus and AIDS, unusuallyhigh levels of interferon build up in
the blood. These high levels of inter1,.

Even though PWAs haveh- h Ieve Ifrf
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the' blood -Itseems to fa I-I t' 0
Inhi b It H IV.

Interferon was discovered in 1957, when,.
Alick Isaacs and Jean___
Lindemann found thatvirus-infected cells re• ~.'leased a factor which
protected other cells,:
from viral infection.
Since the factor interrupted viral activiferon were noted in people withty, they dubbed it "interferon." (The . AIDS, and those at risk, by Josephname itself may have been responsible
Sonnabend and others as long ago as
for some of the ensuing confusion,)
1981. At first, these results were wellTheir discovery set off extensive reknown and published widely. Later,
search in England, the U.S., Czechosloafter the discovery of HlV, they revakia and Finland.
ceded in prominence, and were inYet science did not, at .the time,deed virtuaOy abandonedby thehave many bf the tools which would
mainstream of AIDS researchers forbe necessary to exploit this discovery.
severaL years. Now it is becoming
Neither virologists nor immunologists
clear once again that the nature of
yet possessed the tools, both technothe interferon defect in. AIDS is an
logical and conceptual, which could
important clue to unresolved quesenable them to unlock the mysteries oftions about its pathogenesis,
this new agent, "difficult to produce
On March 31, Joseph Sonnabendand impoSsible to purify."
held a conference sponsored by ComIn the 1960s, it became clear thatmunity Research Initiative (CRI/New·
interferon was not a single substance,York) devoted to bringing together rebut a class of biomolecules with disearchers working on interferon as apart· of the HN disease process and as36

a potential treatment. Sometimes thetwo groups seemed like they werespeaking a different language, but atleast they were in the same room.
Interferon acts locally and in tiny
amounts when in its natural form. As atreatment for KS, it is administered into
the blood (in massive doses) and acts
allover the body.
. In its natural form, interferon
works best before viral infection, In
AIDS.,it occurs late in disease--too late
to prevent serious symptoms-andmay not work properly at all. By contrast, those people with KS who respond best to interferon
have higher T-cell levels
and fewer symptoms.
Even though people

April 18, 1990

with AI?S have hi~h levels of Interferon 10 the
blood, that interferon
seems to fail in its effort
to inhibit H;IV. Why?

Bryan Williams from the
Hospital for Sick Childrenin Toronto present~ evidence that people withAIDS have one-fifth thenormal number of receptors for interferon. Perhaps the body, flooded
with interferon in the blood, shuts
down the receptors in an attempt tomaintain homeostasis.
Williams also presented evidence
that interferonincreases levels oftumor necrosis factor (TNF) in people
with AIDS. Increased levels of TNF
have been noted in PWAs, and havebeen linked with anemia and the wasting syndrome, Interferon itself, since itinterferes with RNA.and protein activity, can cause blood deficiences on its
own. Neutropenia (white blood cell
deficiency) is a major side effect of recombinant interferon.
Interferon also stimulates the product ion of two of the most commonlyused "surrogate markers" for AIDS progression, beta-2-microglobulin
andneopterin_ Beta-2 levels are doubled inPWAs, and neopterin levels rise fivefold as disease progresses,2,Just because interferonlevelsare elevated in people with AIDS
does not necessarily imply that theselevels are bad-although
the possibiJity that interferon stimulates TNF
is ominous-interferon
may be trying(unsuccessfully) to exert an antiviraleffect. If the defects in the interferonsystem can be corrected,
perhapsthese elevated levels can be rendered antiviral, or can be lowered bytreatment.
Elena Buimovici-Klein from St.
Luke's/Roosevelt
Hospital in New
York presented evidence that interferon levels do decline with AZT therapy. She studied p24-antigen-positive
people with AIDS enrolled in a studyof chronic AZT vs. intermittent AZT,At the start of AZT therapy, their p24
levels dropped sharply, in parallelwith interferon levels, which dropped
from 128 international units to four
units within a single week, Natural

alpba interferon levels are a surrogate
marker for antiviral tberapy, WhenAZT was stopped every other week
(in the intermittent AZf arm), p24 andinterferon levels bounced back. They
went up and down together, in a parallel fashion.
For the people on chronic AZTtherapy, both p24 and interferon levels stayed down for nine weeks, Theninterferon levels began to rise by theninth week. After 33 weeks, so did
the p24-antigen levels. Interferon pre-TIRED from pille 35

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plasma viremia assay),. BuimoviciKlein and co-workers,
inclUding
Sonnabend, tested interferon and AZf
in a test tube (in uninfected cells) toensure that AZT does not directly inhibit interferon. It doesn't. Thus, thedecline in interferon levels after AZT. treatment seems directly linked to
AZTs antiviral effects.
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A Call' to' Riot
The state of AIDS research is in terrible condition.
A scandal as horrific and wastefulas anything at Savings & Loan or HUD
is going on right under everybody's
noses, and nobody is reporting it.
The rise in cases is not being publicized, Doctors across the country nolonger report cases, And yet the Centers
for Disease Control manufactures numhers and statistics to suit any and all arguments,
Since my last article, seven moremen I know have died. Half a dozen
more have advanced to official AIDS.
The T cells of three others have dedined below 500.
You don't read about any of this in
The New York TImes,. An incompetent, vindictive, New York Times reporter,
Gina Kolata, (christened by " ."ACT UP "the worst AIDS reporter in America"), has become so obsessed with her
0vendetta against ACT UP that'
she manufactures
false arguments(about ddO to destroy the expanded access to promising lifesaving treatments,
preferring to punish us with her selftshness rather than helping us to survive by
writing the truth.
The TImes' editorial writer, Nicholas
Wade, has jOined Kolata, displaying
suburban naivete and an equally murderous insensitivity to the issues~andOt has been thrilling to watch thecourageous action of Marilyn Chase,one of the best AIDS reporters in America, who got her paper, The Wall Street
Journa~ to immediately retract tlle misinformation Kolata and the Times soblithely cranked out to the world. That
must be a fU'St-one major newspaper's
AIDS reporter correcting another-in
print!)
Why isn't the Times-and
every
other newspaper and magazine and network-goingafter the real culprits inthis murder story?

W

Part 2

I want to try and make you understand something that is complicated.
The biggest scandal going on rightnow (and yes, I know it changes fromyear to year) involves Principal Investigators. You've probably never evenheard of them, All of these Principal Investigators are not only AIDS researchers but they are also teachers at
America's major universities and medical
centers. These academic facilities makeup what is called the ACTG program(AIDS Clinical Trials Group: one ormore hospital or medical school in eachmajor city belongs to this network andeach of them receives millions of taxpayer dollars--each year!-for so belonging) and this program is the (cold).

world of overwhelming death, are running the ACTG like some sort of MotherChurch that is holier than thou andabove and beyond criticism.
These Pls---wld the equally as outof touch scientists at the Nlli (which selects the PIs and controls them like pUIr
pets by the giving and withholding ofthese million-do11argrants to their voracious institutions)-are
getting awaywith murder.
As millions of people become infected, as tens of thousands die, thisACTG system proceeds along its hatefulway, sabotagtng anything these Pis
don't agree with, God forbid theyshould test anything but their beloved
AZT, ddl, ddC and CD4, God forbid
they should run small studies on
any of the 50 to 100 drugs backed
on their shelves. God forbid
they should run tests on combinations of therapies. God forbid theyshould test treatments for the opportunistic infections most AIDS
patients die from. God forbid theyshould acknowledge
any trtatment
available abroad, God forbid theyshould test drugs not manufactured by
one of the companies that have them on
their payrolls as "consultants," (Talk
about "Conflict of Interest"! Almost every
major PI receives latge fees from one ormore pharmaceutical manufacturer,)Thus we are hardly further alongon the road to health than we were four
years ago,
The ACTG system has come to agrinding lialt. Without a leader among
them, with nothing but puppets andcopycats, the Pis have formed themselves into so many committees andsubcommittees and committees-withincommittees and "peer" review panels. that nobody ever has to make any decision at all. If any decision is required,
yet another committee must be formed,
No wonder so few people are able toqualify for entry into their controlled
clinical trials (the ones they've got $1

e have been able to revolu-up
h FDA N'tlonlze t e. OW we mustd the same t h"Ing to t he 'NIH .

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April 18, 1990

heart and (vicious) soul of NIAID-the
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, at the National Institutesof Health.
This program is given one btllton
dollars by Congress to test AIDS drugs
and treatments.
But the Principal Investigators,
called Pis, are not testing AIDS drugs
treatments, (Their current "excuse"is that their computer data bank has
broken down.) And when they do test,
they select badly and test even worse,
In fact, as Mark Harrington has written
brilliantly in a recent Village Voice article, the ACTG is drowning in waste,fraud, corruption and mismanagement.
They are, in fact, pissing one billion
dollars down the toilet.
Like Cardinal O'Connor, these Pis,
obsessed with secrecy, with that headin-the-c1ouds attitude of all academics
out of touch with the real world andcertainly out of touch with our realbillion' for and nobody signs up for);there have been so many committees
deciding on entry criteria that by now
these trials are so restrictive that only thehealthy are healthy enough to qualify.
Supervising this mess is a truly incompetent boob, Dr. Daniel Hoth.
Welcome to the world of government-sponsoredand conducted research-the research that is supposed tosave our lives and look after our health,
Forget it. We'll all be dead while
they're still at a committee meeting.
God forbid the ACI'G should listen
to other doctors, doctors who aren't apart of their Secret Society-5Uch as thebiostatisticiarts who have proved that'
controlled clinical trials can be just as effective if they are not restrictive-inother words, open to anyone or every-

one no matter what stage of AIDS they
are at or what other treatments they aretaking or what other trials they may beon at the same Ume, In other words: trials Simple enough and broad enoughthat anyone with AIDS or HIV-positive
can enter them.
If this muaculous p~ that the biostatisticians are suggesting were put into
immediate operation, hundreds of thousands of people would be eligible forthe most promising treatments.
But then, how could the ACI'G sys.tem, which has collapsed trying to set
up multi-center trials of a few hundred
patJents each, ever in a million years beable to effectively conduct multi-center
trials with tens of thousands?
ObviOusly and tragically it can't.
And that is why we are going tocontinue to die until George Bushputs someone in charge of AIDS andsomeone in charge of ACTG who is
not an incompetent boob and until
something like the Manhattan Project(which made the atom bomb) is put
into plac;:e,run by a leader and not by
the nightmare of a thousand cOnlln:ittees,
This is America today: all bureaucracy, no brains.
This is America today: 212 new
AIDS cases a day, One new AIDS death
every 12 minutes. ONE NEW mv INFECTION EVERY MINCJI'E,
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TIDINGSTA

cording to best-selling author Tom Clancy, GAY
EQUALS AIDS.
Writer Tom Clancy has
produced two best-selling novels in
the past few years, The Hunt for Red
October, the movie version of whichjust came out, and Clear and Present
Danger.
Clancy's
books are politicalthrillers with a strong right-wing bent.
For him, only two things are worse
than a communist-an
American who
is anything less than a love-it-or-leaveit patriot, and any gay man or lesbian.
Gay people appear in his novels, but
always as malicious stereotypes and always as "the enemy."'
Now Clancy is getting into homophobic political commentary as well.
During a recent symposium on global
affairs, he asked:"What can you say about a country that tolerates homosexuals and notsmokers?"
And then he added: "I never gaveanyone AIDS,"
In making these comments, Clancy
was acting just like the bad guys in his
novels, twisting truth, in this case about
AIDS, to perpetuate the official oppression of people he doesn't understandor like-lesbians and gay men. He purports to be a defender of freedom, but
is in fact interested in freedom only forpeople who are just like him.
. Remembering that Clancy reaches-and miseducates millions-of pe0ple, we urge you to write to condemn
his bigotry and remind him that fundamental to the freedom he extols is tolerance-respect
for the freedom ofothers.
Write to: Tom Clancy, c/o Putnam

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uneasy around girls, finds a girlfriend.
What is most upsetting is that
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bigotry, and, in one episode, a mentallyretarded boy who faced ignorance andfear from his family and co-workers.
Needless to say, the show has
never had a story about~the scorn anddiscrimination gays and I<!sbians face.
Instead, we're given the worst negative
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In a previous column, we reported
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misreporting the sexual orientation of
victims of violent deaths. In particular,'we highlighted an incident from lastmonth in which the paper misidentified
the female lover of a woman killed bya stray bullet as her boyfriend.
At the time that column was written, The New York Times was refusing
to run a correction. We are happy toreport that, after receiving many callsfrom gays and lesbians intent on seeing
the truth told, the Times fmally did theright thing. The correction, which ran
in the March 20 issue, read: "Becauseof an editing error, an article last Thursday about a Brooklyn woman, Loretta
Rivera, who was killed by a stray bulletreferred incorrectly to a photographshe carried. It was of her companion,
Liz Melendez, not of a man.»
It is a small ..victory, but a victory
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That IDA demonstration (in October 1988) was successful beyond ourwildest dreams, Our anger and ournumbers were able to translate themselves over this past year and a half into
historic changes in the drug approval
process.
We have been able to revolutionize
the IDA. We have shaved and saved
years from the red tape that the IDA
was strangling in and that was straglingus. We made history.
Now we must do the same thing to
the NIH. We must force them to extricate themselves from the morass ofcommittees, PIs, delays, red tape, stupidities, all the dumb things that haveground the drug selection and testing. process to a standstill.
(In other words, the IDA approves
treatments and the NIH selects and tests
treatments and the NIH is now in suchawful shape that they are not presenting
the FDA with any treatments to approve.)
And we are dying for it. We're thedisposable bodies they can toss down
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III1"Dear friends in Christ, you know the importance of this ministry, and the weight of responsibility in presenting [the candidate] for ordination
to the sacred priesthood, Therefore if any of you
know any impediment or crime because of which
we should not proceed, come forward now, andmake it known."
Ifno objection Is made, the Bishop continues ..,-from the Book of Common Prayer
Objections were voiced by protesters both
inside and outside All Saints Church in Hoboken,
New Jersey, on Sunday, December 16, 1989, butthey didn't deter Bishop Jack Spong of the Episcopal Diocese of Newark from laying hands on
Robert J, Williams and consecrating him a .priest.
In the eyes of some traditionally-minded Episcopalians, Williams possessed "impediment or
crime" enough to forbid his ever being ordained aprofessional person of God within the Anglican
communion.
~
Williams, whose name is by now familiar to.....
both gay and straight Americans of both churched.and unchurched persuasions, is, of course, theunapologetically "100 percent sex-positive" gayman who caused such a stir back in Januaryabout a month after his ordinatio1t-when
heannounced to a gathering in Detroit that celibacy
is probably bad for you, 'that sexual monogamy
isn't the same thing as "faithfulness" and that acertain Nobel Prize-winning saint-in-the-making
who plucks the dying from the gutters of Calcutta
would be better off if she got laid.
Williams' remarks, first reported in the
Detroit News and immediately picked up by thewire services and broadcast internationally,
earned him immediate induction into the ranksof traitors (at least as far as some Episcopalians
wer~ concerned) and talk-show guests, He wasabandoned by his bishop, compelled to resignfrom the Hoboken-based Oasis Ministry to lesbians and gays .that he had helped to found, told
to keep his mouth shut and threatened with anecclesiastical trial.
The media furor has dissolved by now, but
the questions concerning the place of out, noncelibate---gnd nonmonogamous-Iesbians and gay
men within the Episcopal church and otherProtestant denominations aren't likely to disappear
so quickly. Gay and lesbian Christians, who have

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struggled for two decades for total acceptancewithin the churches, continue to confront the
ambiguous prospects determined by, on the one
hand, militantly antigay Bible-thumpers and, on
the other, that ever-increasing share of mainline
Protestants yffiling to acknowledge that homosexuals, too, must be accorded places at every leVelin the kingdom (or perhaps the representative
democracy) of God_
The interview with ·Williams and his lover, Jim
Skelley, that appears here was conducted at theirhome in New Jersey in mid-February byOUtWeek
reporter Keith Miller, In a follow-up' telephone
conversation last week, Williams told OUtWeekthat his life has become somewhat quieter in theintervening weeks. He's receiving a few less invitations to speak, has begun work on an autobiography (working title: Propbet wttbout Honor), forwhich he has signed a contract with a literarY
agent, and is looking forward to enrolling later
this year in a doctoral program in human sexuality
at New York University. A collection of Williams'
sennons is also being readied for publication.
He hasn't been defrocked yet, and, in fact,against his bishop's orders he contUlUes to speak
publicly and to exercise his 'priestly duties to alimited extent, offiCiating at a number of same-sex
unions and blessing the' houses of friends. He
doubts that he'll ever be subjected to a church.trial. "They'll only discover that I've been saying
the same things for ten years," he declares, and hethinks church authorities won't dare the expenseof money, spirit or bad publicity such an inquisition would entail.
But, unsurprisingly, he finds himself wonder-:ing about his future commitment to Episcopalianism. He finds the denomination less liberal than itonce was, and is depressed, for example, by arecent document released by Edmond Browning,
the primate of the Episcopal Church in America,and his Council of Advisers in which those bishops offiCially dissociate themselves from Williams'
ordination_
But he says he has turned down entreaties tobecome a minister in the gay. and . lesbian
MetropOlitan Community Church, whose worshipstyle is too evangelical for his taste. On Sundays
these days, Williams attends services at a parish of
the Liberal Catholic church in Manhattan,.
-James Waller
April 18, 1990

OUTTWEEK43

Faith, Hope and Chastity?
ThaRav. Roba,. Williams may have Ilrad the Ilrsl shot 01 a
selual revolution wllllin ilia Episcopal Church. Ormaybe heJusl p~ lasblans and ga,s In lIIal church back a hundrad yaars.
b, Jamu Waller"Father Williamswas being baited."That's how Kate DeSmet, theDetroit News reporter who' broke theWilliamsstory, explained it to me. On a
Friday evening in January, she was covering an Episcopal church-sponsored
Photo Above: The Rev, Robert Williams (left)
stands alongside Bishop Spong during theordination at All Saints Church in Hoboken.
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April 18. 1990

colloquium on same-sex marriages forher regular Saturday religion column.
Not the sort of get-together that usuallydraws national headlines.
But one of the' speakers thatevening was the Rev. Robert J.
Williams, whose ordination to thepriesthood as a noncelibate gay man
had drawn national media attention
bardy a month before. Williams was
saying some pretty radical things (forinstance, that sexual monogamy is nota prerequisite for a good relationship,
straight or gay) but the event would
probably have passed more-or-Iessunnoticed if he hadn't let one of his listeners get his ire up.
DeSmet says that Williamswas taking questions from the audience whensomeone--« man who heads an Episcopal
monastic
order
inMichigan-pressed
Williams on his

anti-celibacy stand and wouldn't let up.
Exasperated when the questioner asked
if Williams thought Mother Teresa
would be more fulftlled if she had asexual relationship, Williams answered,"If she got laid? Yeah."
1 asked DeSmet how the audience
reacted. ''There was an audible gasp,"
she said.
And that collective intake of breathhas proven contagious. Since Williams'
dismissal, many lesbian and gay priests
and others working for gay rights within the Episcopal church feel their ministries-andthe larger goal of thechurch's full recognition of its lesbian
and gay members-havebeen put on
hold or actually pushed backward
because of the heated controversy.
A measure of the chilling effect of
the Williams debacle
can be takenfrom the Episcopal Diocese of Michigan, whose convention decided-justafew weeks after Williams made hisremarks at the symposium on same-sex
marriages that was sponsored by that
diocese-to
prohibit priests from blessing homosexual unions.
Williams' ordination as a gay priest
was supposed to signal the beginningof a new era of openness about homosexuality within American Anglicanism;
sadly, just the reverse seems to haveoccurred. Several gay and lesbian Episcopalians interviewed for this article
refused to allow themselves to be identified by name. Others balked at being
described, even anonymously, in waysthat might pinpoint their identities too
closely; still others were quite willing totalk only as long as most of what they
had to say was kept strictly "off therecord.""The voices of everyone have beensilenced,"says one source, a gay
layperson in the Diocese of Newark
who has worked closely with lesbian,gay and straight people in the diocese,"I can't speak to you as [myself] after
Robert's choice."
Others direct their anger at· Bishop
Spong for what they see as his mishandling of Williams' ordination and theevents that have followed. Spong's firstsin, according to many, was to turn theordination into a media event. Williams'
transformation into a national celebrity
was largely Spong's doing.
Heavy criticism has fallen on thebishop's office for the news releases it
iss_ued prior to Williams' ordination,falsely advertising it as the first time an accounts, as a hotbed of liberalism
when it comes to acceptance of lesopenly gay, noncelibate person would
bians and gays, the denomination inbe elevated to the Episcopal priestfact lags far behind several others,
hood-aclaim that much of the press
notably the United Church of Christ
simply regurgitated. (OutWeek, unfortu(UCC) , the Unitarian-Universalist Assonately, was no exception.)
ciation and the Society of Friends
But at least a dozen lesbians andgay men have been openly ordained as (Quakers).
The UCC ordained its ftrst openly
Episcopal
priests during the pastgay
minister, the Rev. Bill Johnson, in
decade-though
without the tam-.
1972. Johnson, wh.o now serves as thebourines and trumpets that attended
program secretary of the UCC's Board
Williams' ordination. Many other priestsof Homeland Ministries, sympathiZes
who were closeted when ordained
have come out in recent years. In fact, with Williams when he remembers theoften uncomfortable media attention he
one-theRev. Zalman Sherwood, whoreceived back then, "I was often misnow works in the Diocese ·of Michiquoted' and it didn't take very long to
gan-has even published a book aboutsee
how distortions made their way
his struggle to become an openly gay
into print," he reflects.
priest.
But Johnson is not very forgiving"The publicitY was a put-down or .
ofwhat-hesees as Williams' recklessinsult to others who had gone throughness: "I would hope he would givethe process,"says the Rev. Paulsome thought to how destructive his
Woodrum, a gay priest who functions
milking of dubious celebrity can be toin the Diocese of New York.
He and others echo Williams' criti- hundreds of lesbians and gay men who
Johnsoncisms of the Bishop· of Newark: "When are called to ministry."
the priest asked Spong for advice, he believes that the Williams affair has
didn't get much."
Woodrum adds that
it was ironic that Spongbecame so upset abput
Williams' statements on
monogamy,
since thequestions Williams has
raised about human sexuality are not so different
fromquestionsasked by Spong in his
published reflections on
the subject.
"[Williams) wasn't
saying anything new,"Woodrum says.
Indeed, the media
attention surrounding
Williams has tended to
obscure the fact" that
intense discussions on
the topics of human sexuality and the place oflesbians and gay men
within the church havebeen going on within
Anglicanism and othermainline
Protestantdenominations
for thepast 20 years.

Though the Episcopal
church has been portrayed,in many news

NO GAME PLAYING....:... The Rev. Jim Mitulski of theMetropolitan Community Church of San Franci~coApril 18, 1990

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·SAME KINDS OF QUESnONS·
Photo: Michael Wakefield
New Oasis Ministry honcho Kathy Ragsd~/ealready forced many lesbian and gay clergy inside and outside the Anglican community to retreat into their closets.
Other Protestants involved in forwarding the cause of
lesbian and gay acceptance within their denominations are
more sanguine when assessing the damage the Williams
affair has caused. The Rev. Scott Alexander, who heads up
the Office of Lesbian and Gay Concerns of the Unitarian Universalist Association, said that the Williams controversy
would have "no fallout, as far as I can see" that might impair
the progress of lesbian and gay rights within Unitarianism.
The 1,()()(k:ongregation association has more than 60 openly
lesbian or gay ministers.
But Alexander adds his voice to the many who havequestioned Williams' judgement: "My personal opinion is thatthe guy is real stupid," he offers. 'With hundreds of closeted
Episcopal clergy who are just d}ring to have their bishops
accept them, he' owed it to his colleagues to be circumspect."More willing to take Williams' part was James Ande{SOn,the communications secretary of Presbyterians for Lesbianand Gay Concerns. Anderson's denomination, the Presbyterian Church (USA), continues to deny ordination to practicing
lesbians and gay men.
"I think the reaction [by Episcopal church officials] hasbeen somewhat pharisaical," Anderson opines. "They have a. very physical defmition of monogamy, which they equate
with touching someone else in a sexual manner."

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News reports-in
the gay press as well as the national
media-havealso ignored the phenomenal growth and maturation during recent years of the MetropOlitan Community
Church, an international lesbian and gay denomination thathas often taken the theolOgical lead in mainline Protestants'
debates about human sexuality. (In fact, in his remarks at the
Detroit symposium, Williams relied on a book by MCC theologian Larry Uhrig in making the distinction between"monogamy" and "faithfulness.")
The Rev. Jim Mitulski, pastor of MCC of San Francisco,
defends Williams. "He challenged their official stance on
celibacy and monogamy and he embarrassed the bishop,"says Mitulski, who sees the last of these "sins" as the onethat hurt Williams most.
"Personally I think he said what a lot of gay people feel.
At MCC we don't have to play that game-it's
the reason
we're in separatist churches. "Crediting WilliamS with "speaking what people in fact
live," Mitulski strongly feels that the official Episcopal
church line on monogamy is "very similar to the Catholic
Church saying its members don't practice birth control."He points out that Williams'
claim to speak aboutmonogamy from the "experience of urban gay males during this part of the 20th century" seems quite legitimate on
the basis of sociological evidence compiled by researchers
David McWhirter and Andrew Mattison and published intheir book, The Ma/e Coup/e, in 1984, McWhirter and Mattison studied 156 male couples and found no couple with.in their sample remained sexually monogamous after five
years together.
~itulski also draws a parallel between Bishop Spong's
enjoining Williams to desist from public speaking and the
Vatican's wholesale silenCing, in recent years, of maverick
priests and renegade Catholic theologians. .
Compared with many Protestant denominations,theEpiscopal church has a fairly rigid, hierarchical J>O'Verstructure. Policy is set by bishops. Priests are required to be obedient to those bishops. The issues of Episcopal authority andbetrayal of priestly trust raised by the Williams case may
appear arcane to some outside observers, including Protestant Christians from other, less hierarchical traditions, butthey are central to the controversy Williams' words haveengendered.
Kathy Ragsdale, who has directed the Oasis Ministry at
All Saints Church in Hoboken since Williams was asked toresign in late January, admits that Williams' remarks oncelibacy and monogamy were not, in themselves, all that
remarkable, "It's clear that they are the same kinds ofquestions that are being asked by reputable theologians,"
she says.
"But," she is quick to add, "they are clearly not the position of the bishop of this diocese.".
For Ragsdale, Williams' dismissal from the Oasis Ministry
hiriged on his unwillingness to gracefully acknowledge his
mistake and to submit to Spong's rule, "I think the [Oasis]board would have gone to the wall to protect Robert if hewere in danger of losing his job because of making those
remarks. But he wasn't willing to work with us," she says,
Her sentiments are reiterated by Dr. Louie Crew, thefounder of Integrity, the nationwide association of lesbian
and gay Episcopalians. "It's a very Episcopalian matter," says

Crew, who serves on the board of Oasis and who was oneof those who voted to request Williams' resignation, "You
can't expect [a bishop] to oversee you when he's on yourside but not when he's not. I think Robert was much lesssensitive to Jack than vice versa."
Crew thinks that the painful aftereffects of the Williams
debacle will be unevenly distributed, and that Spong stands
to lose much more than Williams: "Many people have called
for Bishop Spong's resignation," he says, "That they're asking
for Jack to resign for going public about this-I think that's adreadful message to send to the world."
Some non-EpiscopaUan Protestants are tempted to see elements of psychopathology
in the mutual accusations ofbetrayal that were thrown back and forth between Williams
and Spong during the days following Williams' resignation,
UCC's Johnson put it this way: "In 'a real sense, RobertWilliams and Bishop Spo~g are acting out their personal psycho-social-sexual dramas in the public sphere rather than in
the privacy of a therapeutic setting.""I think there was some dysfunctional behavior in [theDiocese of Newark's] presentation of Robert Williams as their
ftrst gay priest," says MCC's Mitulski. "Bishop Spong presented this as a prophetic act, but a more prophetic thing would
have been to acknowledge that the Episcopal Church has
always ordained gay people. People within and without the
Episcopal Church know that there's a large percentage of gay
clergy in the church,"
The attack on institutional hypocrisy that is implicit in
the things Williams has said is certainly an under-reported
aspect of his message, One is almost tempted to see theaffair as a symptom of what might be termed an "institutional
neurosis." That neurosis grows out of the repression of theundeniable fact that gay men and lesbian women constitutea pretty hefty proportion of both clergy and laity in many
mainline denominations.
Several sources corroborate Williams' claim that theboard of directors of the Oasis Ministry is stacked with members who are closeted gays and lesbians, lending credence toWilliams' claim that homophobia on the part of homosexuals
constitutes one of the reasons for his ouster.
And a "neurotic" denial mechanism might also be detected in Spong's call for a thorough re~ationof the process by which Williams was approved for ordination. For by
all accounts, Williams was Spong's "golden boy" whose candidacy for the ordained ministry was not only championed,
but sh~pherded by the bishop.
Both, of the diocesan
committees
that evaluatedWilliams' candidacy have reportedly rejected Spong's suggested "audit" of their screening procedures. Curiously,
Williams, who was contact~ by phone last week, said that
he had heard nothing of this decision,
Sadly, two important elements seem to be missing fromthe public debate that has raged around the Williams"tragedy."
The ftrst is any acknowledgmentthat the Episcopal
church has, in dismissing Williams from the Oasis post, lost
not only a prophetic voice but also a quietly effective priest.
Just before his dismissal, Williams performed a "blessing" ofthe marriage of a Hoboken gay couple, Randy Wicker andDavid CombS. Wicker had heard of Williams. because of the

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Photo: Michael Wakefield
The Rev. Bill Johnson of the United Church of Christ
publicity surrounding the ordination, and he sought out thepriest when Combs, who was dying of AIDS, expressed hiswish to be married to his life-partner.
Wicker says that Williams gave him and Combs no signof the ecclesiastical trouble he was ·in. during that Sunday
evening in late January when the ceremony was performed.
"He called just before he was supposed to arrive to say that
he would be a few minutes late," Wicker said, "but he didn't
say why." Wicker and Combs were aghast when they learned
from the following day's New York Times that Williams had
just been forced to resign from Oasis.
Also missing from the debate is even the least shred of asense of humor. However unmistakable a gaffe Williams'
comment about Mother Teresa may have been, it is also
funny, albeit in a lowbrow kind of way,
-And his wit was in evidence again when he appearedon Don.abue a few weeks ago. When a woman in the audi~
ence told him that, as a homosexual, he was destined forhell, he responded by sliding his voice into a high-pitched
Bible-Belt revivalist's drawl: "Yeah," he said, "I remember
when they used to tell us, 'You gonna fry like sausages!'"
It's a shame that Williams' humor-or"flippancy" 3§ them~ia terms it--seems to work only to his detriment. For too
many in the church, sex is never, ever a laughing matter ....
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The Missionary's Position
Preaching a Truly Unique Sort of Scrip·
ture, the Reverend Robert Williams has. become the Prophet of Good Sex
When Rev. Robert Williams was dismissed from the directorshipof theOasis Ministry in January, it was the shot
heard 'round the world, The mainstream
media, ever-interested
in chronicling
what they perceived as the demise of an
openly-gay priest, swooped down on
the Hoboken man.
All of the reports focused on one
aspect of the story: Williams' statement
about Mother Teresa and how it was so"vulgar" that it caused his immediate
ouster.
But no one spoke of Williams' radical sexual politics in the context of moder:n gay America,
Some time after the smoke cleared,
OutWeek's KEITH MILLER visited with
Williams and his lover, James Skelley, attheir railroad-flat apartment in Hoboken.
Speaking with Wtlliams extensively,
Miller reveals a devout man who wants
more than anything to preach the wordof God and the wondersof gaysex-both at the same time.
Keith Miller: Why did you decide
to become a priest?
Robert Williams: That's a. difficult
question. First of all, I've always been areligious person. I started out as aSouthern Baptist. And, as a ·Baptist, I
was deeply involved in my church, very
involved in my youth group in highschooL I had considered becoming a
Baptist minister of some sort but, youknow, I even went to a Southern Baptist
college with that intention. I was goingto go to the Baptist Seminary and then it
all sort of--Qctually it was before I cameout, it was more like an iritellectual collision.
KM: That's what I mean. Earlier inyour life. What's your earliest recollection of wanting to be a priest?
RW: I do remember as a kid playing Baptism.
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. RW: I did, yeah! And you know
KM: When you look at him you justBaptism in the Baptist Church is submersee Robert? You don't really see Tbegence, so to baptize someone was to Reverend J Robert Wtlltam&
dunk them under the water.
JS: Yeah,
And it's one of the few elements of
KM: Robert, where did you get'liturgy that the Baptist Church has, so, your personal concept of monogamy
you know, I was always fascinated with and celibacy?
officiating at church, but it wasn't the .
RW: First of all, it's not my personal
preaching so much or any of the otherconcept. At a conference, and in a writthings that Baptists hold up as the litur- ten statement, I was quoting from Larry
gical part, which was kind of sparse.
Urig-be's an MCC minister in WashingKM: And you liked the robes too.
ton--Qnd he had done a book on blessRW: Yeah. But they didn't haveing of same-sex relationships. I used thatthem! The minister would just wear a book for a lot of different things on thecoat and tie. I can't explain it any otherwhole topic of covenant of the same-sex
way than using vocation in the classical relationships and it seemed to me a pretsense of the word. It really is almost an ty good statementof what I had
obsession, if you will. It ;llways has
beiieved, and what I think a lot of gay
been. A number of my past relationships
men believe. What is important is thator potential relationships ended because
the couple make an intentional agreemy boyfriends just couldn't deal with the ment and kept it. Whatever the agreeintensity of my religious experience and ment is. It's not unique or originaL It's
it's just sort of something that's always just sort of one very popl4lar position
been there.
that you'd hear.
KM: How do you deal with it now,
KM: And this is something that hit
James?
home with you? You found yourself sayJames Skelley: His religious inten- ing, "Yes, that's what I believe?"sity or his intensity for his cause?
RW: Yeah. Except what's important
RW: I don't see them as being dif- is that I-you know, this whole thing
ferent.
about both celibacy and monogamy is
KM: Yes. Aren't they the samethat I have strong opinions on them as I
thing?
.
do on just about everything, but they're
JS: .I've had this feeling lately that I probably numbers 95 and 103 on my list
don't know if I can even understand it. I of what's important to me. They're notreally don't. And the intensity of the
major issues. They only became issues
whole religious thing for Robert is somebecause the press picked it up and they
thing that has never been there for me. found it to be so volatile and fascinating.
He's gotten me back into the church. I'm The monogamy thing especially-it
basically a recovering Roman Catholic
never really occurred to me that it was
and I like it ,and like the sense of the going to be an issue. It's something I've
community and that's' a lot of what it is said before in other public forums. It'sfor me. I don't really understand. It's just something I've written before. It's justnot something that I can conceptualize, I not a big deal. Jim and I did a workshop
guess.
for same sex couples which was essenKM: It's not something you choose
tially a gay marriage
encounter,to understand?
.'uh-how many years ago?
JS: I've tried. It's just that I can't get
JS: About three now.
it.
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demographic
survey-I
KM: The very fact thatjust wanted to know who
the church would teach awe were dealing withperson to be true to themwhat sorts of couples,
selves and then .when. youwhat ages, how long
do they try to quash you,they've been together· and
RW: I'm a self-proall of that. Well, we asked
claimed gay man and aon this anonymous little
self-proclaimed sexual radsurvey "do you have an
ical. And I've used thatagreement
for sexual
word to describe myself
exclusivity?" and almost
for years. So it seems toexactly 50 percent of themme that if you ordained asaid yes and 50 percent
sexual radical, then you
said no. And the ones
expect some radically difwho said no intended toferent viewpoints in whatbe the older couples. Not
ever discussions are beingthat they were necessarily typical-it
chocolate ice cream. Before I was in a .held about it.
was a very small sample, but it said to monogamous relationship, when I was
KM: These viewpoints aren't someme it's almost evenly divided in the
single, I had multiple sexual partners and thing that suddenly came out of you,community among those who choose
loved it. Zero regrets about that period in then, You've held these views for a long,monogamy and those who don't.
my life. One of my concerns about whatlong time.
KM: What about the two of you?
we're doing her~what
the institutional
RW: Right. And especiaIly-l mean,[Pauselchurch is doing here-is
that, as wethe Episcopal Church-the Anglican tra}S: Yes, we uh ...monogamy is whatmove closer to the acceptance of gay dition has always been heavy, heavy
we personally prefer. But...I'm .. .I'm
and lesbian couples, we're further
emphasis on the individual as the moral
reluctant to answer that question for marginalizing gay and lesbian single peoagent. Afld so Bishop Spong's action inanybody because that's not what this is ple. So it's OK to be gay if you're in a wanting to essentially silence me is so
all about. If we're asked that in the, monogamous relationship but it's still not uncharacteristic of the Anglican tradition
future I will say just that's my own per- OK to be gay in any other way. Andin general. Very uncharacteristic of thesonal business.
that's why I'm really trying to avoid get- persona he had built for himself as
RW: One of the things that, in fact, ting-becoming a part of it. :being a liberal bishop. It's crazy, It's not
has pissed us off is that the bishop has
KM: You're trying to cast.a positiveat all consistent.
made a tremendous leap from my opin- light on sex in general?
I'm not feeling good about theions about sexual opinions to my perRW: I really try to operate from a Episocpal Church anymore. I mean, I fellsonal behavior. He's made implications
philosophical base that is 100 percent
like, well, this is subject to change, but,about my personal behavior without any sex-positive. It starts with an affirmation
at this moment what I'm feeltng is that I
knowledge.
that sex is a good thing. Period. It really did believe the Episocpal Church}S: A couple of people have written
doesn't have to stand for anything, it was the best place--..the best among theto him saying-letters to the bishop per- doesn't have to be used for anything,mainstream denominations as far as antinent to Robert saying-that [he's madeeither procreation or love. It's just good
acceptable place for lesbian and gay
assumptions about mel so, we're not the in and of itself, And so, that's the lens people, I really did believe that the Dioonly people thinking that. And the otherthrough which I see any kind of deci- cese of Newark was the best diocesething is that I understand that most het- sion about sexual ethics that I make. As among all of them. And now, it's like I
erosexual
peoplegoing
through
opposed to starting with a philosophy
don't see the Diocese of Newark or thethis-theordination process"-aren'tthat says sex is very dangerous and must Episcopal Church· as being viable places
asked these questions. And one of thebe narrowly channeled and controlled.
for self-affirming lesbian and gay pe0people who wrote to Spong said, you
KM: That's why you said, ."celibacy ple. It's 1!Jte-there's a certain amount ofknow, what right do you have to ask is an inherently negative phenomenon"?
tolerance which has increased in the lastRobert, and who asked what you were
RW: Yes. And I believe that very
few years, but it's still at a very-the
doing between the time your wife diedstrongly, I've struggled with celibacy.
level of tolerance of society in general.
and the time y<;>uremarried, and no one Not personally, I mean-struggledwith I'm
at the
point
where
I'm
did, and who has the right to, and whotrying to respect celibacy for years. I thinking-naaaaa.
A couple of months
cares? Who should care? It's his own pri- used to have a spiritual director who's . ago I would not encourage anyone tovate business,the superior of a religiOUS order who
remain in the Roman Catholic Church. If
RW: The only thing I have said
was presumably celibate, although I a person came to me and said I haven't
before in public is that I happen to be in never asked. I tried to understand. How
been to church in 15 years, I was raised
a monogamous relationship at this point
can I possibly understand this as being a Roman Catholic and I'm thinking of
in my life. I see that as nothing moregood thing-and
I just can~t! It Just going back, I would have said don't.
than a choice, not even a moral choice, comes down that there is no way it can Don't go back there. Come to the Episyou know, it's Simply a matter of prefer- be justified apart from a sex-negative
copal Church. Now, I'm not sure I canence. It's like choosing vanilla overphilosophy.
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that I bought into that ma
fact, not have been correct
just increasingly thinking
there
is no
mainstrchurch-no
mainstream
gious group that is truly af
ing of lesbian and gay pe
who are truly self-afftrming
KM: Then why notyour own church?
RW: Well, that's a ~question. A very good que:;I think the MCC [Metropc
Community Church] is impc
ble as far as that goes.
know, an excellent choicesome people. The only r~n
I'm not in the MCC is the worshipstyle-it's
not my style. The Catholic
worship style is really my preference.
KM: Well, you have your own
strong beliefs, you have your own wayof running a service and all you need isa space to worship in. Why do you haveto be attached to some other group?
RW: Well, I agree and those aregood questions and I see that as anopen option, Frankly, it's just sort of-it
just seems like it would take more timeand energy than I may have right now.
KM: What do you want to put yourenergy into?
RW: I don't know. What I've always
wanted to do primarily, is be a theologian and primarily a prophet, much
more than a pastor. I'm really profoundly uncomfortable with one-on-one counseling. I do it and I do it relatively
successfully, but, it just doesn't feelright. It doesn't feel like who I am. But
I've always seen myself as seeing andwriting in a radical vein. And I thinkthat's what I really want to concentrateon now-getting
into a way of doing
that.
What's come of it is that I haveacquired a literary agent who is very
interested in my writing the biographicalstory. The story of not only all thisrecent stuff, but of my whole, sort of,spiritual and sexual quest. And, so I'mdoing that and trying to do it very quickly because I think it~ very hot right now
and if I can get that book out it reallypaves the way-and she's convinced it's
going to be a tremendous seller-tben it
might really pave the way for me to do
the books of gay theology and the kindsof things I w~ted to do all along. So,
essentially it may amount to the "bigbreak" as far as making that happen.

KM: You said you saw yourself as aprophet. Isn't that a dangerous thing tosay?
.
RW: I see it very clearly. The week
before the ordination, The New YorkTimes, in the New Jersey section, ran along interview and that was one of thethings we talked about in there, that I
see myself as more of a prophet than apriest, and [the reported said, "What doyou mean 'by prophet?" and I s<lid,well,a prophet stands gn the edge of theinstitution and critiques the institution. I
mean, that's exactly what I've been
doing all along. But, I've also conie tobelieve--come to realiz~a matter ofstrategy that I thought people knew
what I meant when I said prophetic andin fact, they didn't. So now I've taken tousing the word radical because there's
less chance of misunderstanding. But tome, radical and prophetic mean essentially the same thing.
KM: You could influence a lot of
people. Doesn't that scare you?
RW: Today it makes me weary. I'msort of gun-shy right now about people's
projections onto me, which is maybe thebottom line of· what all this drama is
about.
)S: I've been referring to myself
lately as a shoulder pad. That's how I've
been feeling.
KM: Robert, you said .you weremore concerned with "faithfulness" thanwith monogamy, but then isn't the very
definition of not being monogamous
being unfaithful?
RW: Well, in my use of those words
what I'm saying is that what's importantis that a couple make an intentional
agreement and then they be faithful tothat agreement. I don't care if that agreement is, you know, we have other-we

invite other people
into our bed orwhether that agreement is that on Friday
night we go our separate ways- whatever the agre.ement
is-it's being faithful
to that agreement thatmatters, Faithfulness
is making and keeping agreements, notsexual exclusivity,
KM: Is sexualexclusivity importantin the age of AIDS?
RW: I don't think
so. I'm very concerned that AIDS not beallowed to de-eroticize our society andone of my favorite lines is, "A condom ismuch more likely to prevent the spreadof AIDS than a marriage license."' If you
have safe sex with 50 people, or unsafe
sex with one, you know, the unsafe sex
with one is more likely to give you
AIDS. So, no, I really don't see there
being a connectionbdween
thoseissues. Just that everybody in the world
needs to be informed about safer sexual
practices-butthat doesn't mean you
should stop being sexual,
KM: So the two of you are happy
now with the way thiflgs are going?
RW: What? Life in general? Let meshow you .the button I bought recently-I could answer that question for ten
minutes and give you three different
answers-I was wearing this while I wasin Dallas recently.
(!be yellow and black button reads:"My life is shit, but thank you for asking. ")KM: You're real tired of all thisaren't you?
RW:No ...
)S: Yes. I'm very tired of it. I wish it
had not happened.
RW: You know-this is from my
Pastoral Theology class in seminary-tbe
word "crisis" is the same root as ucross,~but it means not only a tragic situation
but also a crossroads-asa crisis isalways a point of decision where you
can go one way or the other. If you
asked me a week ago I would have saidyeah, I'm tired, I'm disappointed,- I'mafraid and' all that. But right now I'm
feeling pretty up because it loo~s likemy moving from this crossroads may
ultimately bring me close to what myoriginal goals were ,anyWay....

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that, so how could I print it?). I've said
Voice story which I wrote aoout how the
she's a lesbian, but I don't think thatmedia responded (or rather, didn't
constitutes an invasion of privacy, When
respond) to the revelations in OutWeek
of Forbes' homosexuality. He fmds some someone tells you he or she is stmigbt,
of my statements about how we should do you consider that they've just told
TRUfHFUUY report on people's homo- you something private? By saying it issexuality as "truly frightening and offen- private we are telling people that homosive," I find this all so utterly strange and sexuality is only about sex, And, ofcourse, it's not. It's the way you look atin direct contradiction to what they
the entire world, the way you read ataught me in good old journalism
school. You see, homosexuality seems book, or paint a picture, It's the way you
to be the only area in which journalism think. As queers .we· have our own culin New York is mandated to pursue lies ture, and we're looked at by society in a
By Michelangelo Signorlle
and cover-ups rather than the truth. If certain way. Being gay or lesbian, likeyou write about a closeted gay man's being Black or being a woman, is an
I guess it's not surprising to find woman friend as his "lover," that is entire existence. And like those groups,
closet cases defending their fortresses of applauded. If you print the truth you are we know flfSthand how it is to be victimsof irrational hatred and violence.
hiding. But' it's still quite sad.
deemed "frightening and offensive."
One of James Revson's (Newsday)
This LYING is apparentl¥ rational- Surely this is all not private,
Of course I understand that thecolumns a couple of weeks ago was ized by applying the term "right to pritruly pathetic. I feel so sony for a man vacy." So, when straight people's sex government should not be invading ourhomes or keeping lists of queers. And, I
who clings to something from thelives are written about,' it's considereddinosaur era, standing up for such a "news" in eve!)' publication from People certairily demand that the government
rapidly diminishing position, and then to 71JeNew York Times. But if gay peo- uphold our-and all people's-right todesperately trying to shove this tired ple's sex lives are written about, it's "an privacy. But that's the government. In
media-wegarbage down everyone's throat.
infringement of privacy." Well, I call it the public forum-the
You see, an editor whom I respect at homophobia-both from straight people should drop this neanderthal notion
a major daily recendy tried to explain to and gay people alike. When we say that because we're not going to get anyme why liz Smith (Daily News) feels the our sex lives are "private," we immedi- where with it any longer. As gays andway she does aoout queer things. He said ately are opining that homosex is dis- lesbians, we must advocate that our
sex-and everyone else's sex for tl\atthat liz had lived through times which-ingusting, vulgar and distasteful.
many ways-were much worse than now;
I saw Lambda Legal Defense's Tom matter-be made AS PUBLICAS POSSIBLE. How elSe are we supposed to killwhen homosex was NEVER d&ussed and Stoddard, another .relatively "young" perwhen any hint of it might ruin one's entire son, on the Today show babbling abqut the premise that sex is something dirty,
life, For her, chatting frankly about sexuali- that almightly "right to privacy" last gross, sinful and excessive and thatty seems unthinkable (though. like eve!),- week. And regarding my prodding of Liz homosex is an abomination? We must
one, she certainly could change if she Smith, Joe Dolce (Paper), a usually pro- sensitize society, NOW.
tried). It was this editor's opinion that gressive writer who adheres to archaic
Revson proclaims: "Outing only creates fear, and fear createschange will occur in the future
more repression."Oh,because younger columnists
please. I would ~suchare much more open.
reactionary drek-,-in which
But, though that may be
the basic premise is that wetrue in some cases, it's cershould continue LYING for
tainly not the case among
another
700 years or
those ·younger columnists"
so--from a man such as him.
from families with names to
For Revson and all ofprotect. No, it's certainly not
his namby-pamby, snobby
true among THE .KIND
friends who climb in the
WHO FEED DESPERATELY
hierarchy of the social elite,
OFF OF mE CLOSET LIKEthe construct of the closet
VULTIJRES TO THEIRPREY.
validates their very: exisRevson wrote about
tences. Revson is' a priviwhat Time magazine a while
ago dubbed 'outing,' whieh they had principles on this topic, wrote: "[The leged white man from a family with a lot
choice to come outl is a question of pri- of money. YOU JUST DON'T TALK
described as the practice of bringing
vacy, a concept that lesbian and gay ABOUT THINGS LIKE MEN FUCKING
prominent figures out of the cl9set(we've decided we· like better the term people have always held near and dear. EACH OTHER'S ASSES OR WOMEN'inning,' as in bringing people out of the Having weatl\ered the witch hunts of the EATING EACH OlliER'S PUSSIES.It iscloset and "into" the community). And McCarthy era, we have as much right as the closet that keeps your East 34th
the story, of course, that caused all of any citizen does to protect what we do Street penthouse; the closet that getsin bed." Well, I never said what LizSmith you that house on the island; the closet
the controversy was our recent piecedoes in bed (I honestly don't know what that keeps that bank account full; .theabout Malcolm Forbes' secret gay life.
Revson referred to a recent Village position she likes best or anything like
See GOSSIP WATCH on pege 57

For Revson and his
friends, the closet
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W'ilh Liz and Sydney

Oul on Ihe·Town
Sydney: Just when I thought I
was over my Madonna fixation,
Vanity Fair runs Helmut Newton's
revealing photos of her. Then the
new video, Vogue, premieres. Whocares if the video is just a blackand-white, Dick Tracy-influenced
version of Express Yourse!p Who
cares if our new favorite game is"Name Five Songs sampled into
Vogue"?(liz: if you can name three,
you win a mystery prize. Write inwith your answers.) It has notdeterredme-I
still have a
Madonna shrine on my wall. And it
has not deterred the hundreds ofMadonna-crazed
peoplewhorushed the stage at Quick, all vying
for Like A Prayer posters and copiesof the Soul n Soul ripoff remix of
Keep it Together. Who cares if her
fame exponentially exceeds her talent? We still spent four hours on thephone to get tickets to the New
York stop on the Blonde Ambition
tour. To this minute, I would kill to
eat a salad with Madonna at Odeon;

with my fmgers, of course.
liz: It turns out that Carmelita's,
the site of Boy + Boy/Girl + Girl
Fridays is not only owned by thesame landlords as the Happy Land
Social Club (Alex Dilorenzo, Jay .
Weiss, et al.), but it seems to have alarge number of violations. So many
that the April 5th deadline for bringing the building up to code will
most likely come and go without
the estimated $20,000 in renovations. With this in mind, (andremembering that summer is near,and Cannelita's is without air conditioning), Boy + Boy/Girl + Girl has
been moved to the Mike Todd
Room at the Palladium (samenight), To avoid lambada-crazed
hetero couples sweating and cruising, the 13th Street entrance isbeing used. For those of you young
and/or new, the Mike Todd Room is'
hip and historical (it's named after
liz Taylor's ex-husband).
Sydney: In clubland, offering
food has become a new means of~,.r'YJ~;f!;' IT!J,AI

WOULD YOU INVITE THESE PEOPLE TO YOUR TALK SHOW? Photo:liz and Sydney
MlchBBI Musto Bnd JBmBs St, JBmBs fGeraldo Blumnl) Bt thB MBdonnB Vogue
p"mlBffl Bt Quick.
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social climbing. One girl is often
seen carrying around a basket of
chocolates; another boy offers kisses (Hershey's, that is) and drag dj
Dinah (nee Cancer) offers Cheez
Whiz. While an occasional snack to
combat late-night munchies is nice,Cheez Whiz is evil. Incorrectly marketed as "the fun snack," this product has become the canister of sin.
As of late, certain prominent clubgoers have been tempted to spraythe offending substance on theirprey, then lick it off. Now, allwould be well if it came off;
instead, the next morning, left as areminderof the past night's
encounter with an errant Nabisco
product, is a white filmy residue
permanently
adhered to yourfavorite garment. So until Cheez
Whiz has been eliminated, (Scotch)
guard your clothes.
liz: Here is something to placein the back of your mi~d: WhichTop Gun has caught that SaturdayNight Fever alier divorcing his wife,and making the cover of People
with an Australian nymphet, who's
incorrectly gendered for cruising
purposes???
Sydney:Our venture into
investigative journalism this weekleft us exhausted. The road was
fraught with turmoil and misunderstanding, yet we prevailed amidst afield of chaos.
GOAL: To get a publicity
photo.
Phone call #1: Housemate
calls editor of Project X
RESULT: "I threw thosephotos out."
Phone call #2: Polygram'Records, publicity department.
PR person: "I'm sorry, hehasn't been on our label
for years."when my editor-assuming you were·out"wrote that you are gay, I. closet that keeps you doing your society
rememberwhen
The Advocate
column and getting you invited to lots
approached you for an interview, Youof parties; the closet that puts you in
said you'd do it, until they stipulated
good favor with all of the other closeted
that you'd nave to say you were gay
columnists; the closet that ultimately(after all, it's a .gay magazine and that, gets you what you want-a few measly
was their interest in you), then you
crumbs and fastidious approval from thedeclined. And you've never acknowlrich and famous.
edged your queerness in your column
Yes, the Revsons are far, far away(in fact, why don't you take this as a
in a different world; so out of touchchallenge. If you're so ·out," go ahead
with reality that they have no concern
and write it),for the Black lesbian in the Bronx who
Oh, yeah, once in a while you dogets raped and beaten to a pulp
an "AIDSitem" or talk about a benefit.
because she appears "butch." Nor do
And you did get arrested with ACf UP
they know of the Latino drag queen
at ~ity hall last year. You even wrote a
who is terrorized every day of his life incolumn about it (which didn't address
the neighborhood where he grew up.
the issues but did recount the songs
No, Revson and his friends have no
people sang in jail). But Jim, getting
inkling of the fact that most gay people
arrested with ACf UP does not an "out"
don't have the luxury of the closet. For
gay man make. In fact, getting arrested
the closet, you see, is really somethingwith ACf UP in front of lots of cameras
owned and operated by white men withand while wearing a suit can be a verymoney. The Black lesbian and the
OUTREEK?""chic" thing for a ·straight liberal"
Latino drag queen can't afford to leave
Me: "Out-Week."
columnist to do, especially if he wants
the neighborhoodin which they'resome press. I've never seen you back at
Voice: "I'll call you back."
attacked daily, and they don't have the
ACT UP since that arrest over a year
RESULT: He never called
opportunities, the skills or the educationago. AQd you have never, before orback,
to build a closet.
since the arrest, implored the governPhone call #4: Dance Tracks,
So,
Revsonandhisfriends'
goonment to do anything about AIDS, You
record store.
and just wony about TIIEMSELVES.It
don't ever discuss the many problems
Voice: "Yes I have photos.
doesn't matter to.them that their coming
facing this community. Instead, you
They are on my walls and I
out of the closet might help otherhave defended Pat Buckley and dubbed
won't take them down."
queers. THEY HAVE TO PROTECT . William F. Buckley as merely "misguidMe:"Oh,...
you
won't?
THEIR OWN FRAGILEUTILE, PRIVIed." But, somehow, you do fmd spaceThanks."
LEGED WORLD. And what I'm doing
to talk about one particular gay issue:
RESULT: The pictures are stilldeftnttely must seem "truly frightening
OutWeek magazine and those horrible
on his walls.
and offensive."
people who work there. I believe this isPhone call #5: Bingo. The
But guess what, Jim? I think what
your fourth or fifth time, isn't it, Jim?
photo is ours.
you do is "trulyfrighteningand offensive."
It seems you even get a kick out of
You spend most of your time goingbashing us. It gets you a little press, gets
UZ: While trying to follow up
to boring parties filled with monstrous
you a bit noticed again. And it adds
an alleged statement (one' of about
people. Then you tell us all about it insome sparkle and excitement to yourthe form of drivel. (You don't even get
40,000) made during the Gera/do!
otherwise dreary life. You probably
invited to the "A" list parties. There's
taping last Wednesday (you know,even calculate my striking back, andeven get off on that. Honestly, suchthe show on NY nightlife .. , The only one thing worse than drivel andthat's drivel about "0" list parties.)
masochism wouldn't surprise me,
Agony and the Exstacy ...). I chased
EVERYONEtal~ about how absolutely
You're so obviously unhappy
down his production
company
narcolepsy-inducing
yourcolumnis;
doingthat column (and everyone else isthrough the courtesy of NYNEX
how it's by far the worst one around.
so unhappy reading it).
(ha!); here's a brief summary:
They talk about how you once were on
WAKE UP JIM!
Called Tribune Entertainment;
top-whenyou
werefierceandstrong
You're wasting precious time. WHY
secretary gave me number, "A directback when you attacked Suzy (New YorkDON'T
YOU JUST DO SOMETHING
line to Geraldo," she said in a deadPost) for her slippery ways-but how
REALLYGOOD WITH THAT SPACE.
ly serious tone. Called Geraldo's
you've now become a p;uody of Suzy
Stop listening to those social-climbing
offices, a gentIe~an answers, I state
herself. Except, you're a third-rate Suzy.
idiots all around you, those blood suckmy name and affiliation; he sets
What a waste.
ing creeps, those closeted cocktail
down the phone and says "Oh fuck,
Meanwhile, you rarely write about
queens, those up-again~down-agaio
it's autWeek magazine:' It all turned
gay issues. Yet, you somehow think
writers who swirl around but goout to be a misunderstanding,but
you're "out." You've even. said this to
nowhere. Take control. Scream and yell.
why they're afraid of autWeek,
people-t!1at you're "out." That's funny.
Talk about what has to be done. Do it
we've yet to learn. T
I remember when you scolded me
now, Jim. FIGlIT FORYOUR IlFE. T
Me: "I have the record right
here,
and
it
says
'Copyright, 1989.'"
PR person: "Oh, wait .. .is he'Black?"
Me: "Yes (What does this haveto do with ...)
PR person: "Then 1 need totransfer you to that department..."New
Voice: .
"UrbanDepartment.",
RESULT: "Well, 1 think weused to have a color slideof him."Phone
call #3: Def Mix'
Records.
Voice: "Does he know you arewriting this article?"
Me: "No."
Voice: "Hold on. What's thename of the magazine,

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Film

Hot House Flowers
by Karl Soehnlein

I'MidnighteMovie is making a comeback and gay
audiences are benefiting. At a couple of downtown's more adventurous theaters-theBleeckerand the Angelika for example-films like Apartment Zero,
Looking for Langston and Mala Nocbe have been given
extended longevity at the midnight hour. The latest gay
male work to get such a revival is the underground classic
Pink Narcissus,
Made in 1971 by a filmmaker only calling himself"Anonymous," Pink Narcissus flirts with genres as diverse
as pornography, formal experimental mm and the steamy,
art-house flicks of the late 60s. The result is a breathtaking·work that manages to be equal parts cinematic vision andsexual titillation.
Following one young man/boy through a series of fantasy tableaux, the film lushly depicts a specific gay male desu-e
in its many manifestations. For those whose taste runs toward
the smooth-chested, pouty-lipped, long-lashed boyish type,
Pink Narcissus will be a pulse-quickening experience. The.filmmaker's eye focuses heavily on the erotic detail--« bladeof grass traced across a naked torso, droplets of champagne
fulling into an open mouth, the brush of silk across an innocent face. As with all fantasy, much of it is a tease; there is aminimum of on-screen interaction and even thisis rarely sexual. Though the!ie boys look likeany number of pretty young porn stars, they
never behave like them. The pose isparamount.
Sensuality comes in two flavors here:
back-to-nature or exotic opulence. Boys either
lie in, the grass with a butterfly tickling theircrotches or on a satin bed surrounded by gold
and jewels. At times this verges on the laughable: in one sequence simulating India, a boy
in a turban emerges cobra-like from a gilt box
to perform for a couple of princes. Covered in
one veil and seven strands of pearls, thisyoung thing swings his basket with seemingly
endless
vigor. The filmmaker,
clearly
entranced himself, uses every trick of double
eXposure and soft focus to prolong the dance,
creating an almost camp effect-like Salomeon hallucinogens.
Despite. a lack of irony in scenes like this(and the nearly 20 years since the mm was made), Pink
Narcissus holds up remarkably well, not just as an erotic
tour de force but as thrilling cinema,. too. One early scenebuilds to a sharp sexual crescendo: the boy stares into awall of mirrors, imagining himself a matador; suddenly he'sin front of a wall of urinals, and the bull is a guy on a
motorcycle. The lyrical layering of faptasies brings to mind
the work of Anger, Genet and Cocteau. The delicacy of theimages, never crude or crass despite the mm's low-budget,super-8. production values, indicates the skilled hands of atruly imaginative mmmaker.
As the film progresses, the erotic fantasies become
increasingly intertwined wi~h visions of another sort: an allmale \lrban nightmare, complete with lecherous old men
in trenchcoats, sailors and cowboys jerking off in alleYs,
and street vendors hawking vibrators from their pushcarts,
Our hero, dressed all in white from his denim jacket to his
go-go boots, wanders amidst this Sodom and Gomorrah
like a sheep among wolves. The soundtrack, previously a
combination of classical, gothic and faux-foreign niusic,
now includes bits of radio news broadcasts.
"Reality" has intruded in the form of post-liberation
ghetto life, and threatens to bring the film's beautiful fantasy world crashing down. In the last shot; the boy istransformed into the dirty old man in the bowler hat andovercoat who followed him through the city streets. It'san ambiguous final note: is this the end of a particularfantasy, or the end of Fantasy altogether? The answer islargely unimportant. Though it may be a grander statement on the gay world, Pink Narcissus is best viewed asa lush encounter of the erotic kind. T .

HOT CROSS BUNS

Actor Bobby Kendilll
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Film

Before...
by Phil ZwkklerRobert Epstein ·and Jeff,.yFriedman, then Academy
Award nominees for Best
Documentary for the mm Common
Threads: Stories from tbe Qutlt, spokewith independent
filmmaker Phil
Zwickler while at the Berlin Film
Festival in February. Jim Provenzanocaught up with two happy Oscar winners shortly after the big day.
Phil Zwickler: Talk a little about
the motivation
for making a film
about the Quilt.
. Robert Epstein:It. emanatedfrom seeing the Quilt for the. flJ'St timein Washington D.C. at the march in
1987. It was awesome, horrifying andbeautiful. So we started talking about

doing a film about it, trying to figureout a way to do it without focusing
specifically on the Names Project perse, (The Names Project is the San
Francisco-based organization that initiated the idea for the Quilt). We
wanted to do it more metaphorically,
JeffreyFriedman:
We alsodidn't want to do a mm about grieving, We wanted to find a way to use
the Quilt, which is a powerful visual
metaphor and make something thatwould give sustenance to people· living with the virus.
Phil Zwickler:
Rob, you also
worked on another AIDS mm, The
AIDS Sbow: Artists Involved witb Deatb
andSuTVtval based on· the Theater
Rhinoceros piece called Unfinisbed'
Bustness. It was aired on PBS in 1986.
How was this mm, Common Threads,
going to be different?

I ONLY HAVE AUGEN FOR YOU
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Robert Epstein: I think that fUm[The AIDS Show 1 was really more forus, for gay people. It was much earlier in the crisis and it was a collectiveof artists struggling to make sense,
through their work, of what was happening and trying to raise consciousness through community theater. But
Common Threads, we saw as being
for a much wider audience. We wanted it to get out to the "mainstream."
Phil Zwickler: How was the mm
funded? An article about the mm in
The New York Times said that HBO
put up more than $600,000.
Robert Epstein: Basically, thepeople at HBO are well intentioned.
Their heart. and their politics are in
the right place.
JeffreyFriedman:
And they
have been affected by AIDS; people
in their organizatiori have died.

Photo: Johannes Aevermann

Robert Epstein: We shopped
the idea around for a while. We went
to PBS and they offered us popcorn
to do it. They offered us developmentmoney, without a guarantee that wewould get any further than that, andthat they would be buying the mm forvery little money. We were turned
down by the Corporation for Public
Broadcasting. And then· we heard that
HBO was interested in doing another
AIDS mm on the scale of their VietNam mm Dear America: Letters Home
from vtet-Nam.· So Bill Couturie, theproducer of that show, called us. We
had already been working on theidea, and we went to HBO together
and pitched the idea. And once theycame on board, it took certain people
a while to really get what we were
trying to do, but once they did, they
were really supportive.
Phil Zwickler: How did you
choose the on-camera subjectS?
Robert Epstein: The mandate
from HBO was that this was not to bea mm about gay men exclusively. We
understood the reasons for that. And
that is also true about the Quilt,
which is so important to all communities affected by AIDS, not just gay
men. We tried to do as much outreach as we could and we wanted
that reflected in the mm as well. But
we were also careful not to compromise our gay sensibility as well. And
we feel we were able to do that.
Jeffrey Friedman: In choosing. the people for the mm, we went to
the Names Project and read throughperhaps 3,000 of the letters that camewith the qu.ilts as they were sent in.
Of those, 200 or 300 were contacted
by telephone. Of those, maybe 75
were interviewed on videotape, andthen we narrowed it down to the five
we interviewed for the final mm.
Phil Zwickler: Talk a little about
your decision to shoot V!to Russo,
who is a good friend of yours. Was
that difficult?
Robert Epste~: I couldn't interview him because he is such a goodfriend, I didn't feel that it would
work. So Jeffrey did that Interview
and It was great. There was something, for me, that helped bring thething full circle because so many of
the stories VI!o told I was Involved In

and we had to edit out his references
to me,
Phil Zwickler: Talk about the~
feeling of being nominated for an
Academy Award. Rob, you've won
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Film

MyLifeasaBoyMuchhas been made of the fact that none of theboys in this new movie version 6f Lord of theFltes had any previous acting experience.
Director Hany Hook, himself only 29-years-old during the filming, indicated that professional boy actors simply weren't goodenough, "real" enough, that they had somehow been tainted.
Well, yes, acting is not like life. That's why it is inmany circles considered an art, The appearance of real
feeling on cue, on camera, is quite a challenge, particularly
when the pretense set forth is far removed from common. experience, and even more especially when allegoricalmeaning is intended to resonate from your every word and .
action. Wtlliam Golding's Lord of the Flies is nothing if not
TOOLMAKiNG-Jack (Chris Furrh) and Pete, (Brian JacDbs)
allegorical, and so Hook's entirely literal version--complete with "untainted" boy actors-is, in the end, nothing.
Yet the amateur cast is unable to get.beneath the surThe boys are not stilted or clumsy, They're generally
quite natural. That's just it: naturally, they're just boys, face of their situation and characters; Hook seems not toWhen they're acting .like you would expect boys to have explained that it's more than just the story of alriact-calling each other names, picking petty fights, mop- umphan~ bully. Dialogue and actions that resona~ in the
ing-they seem completely authentic. They bandy about novel and in the Peter Brook fUm version' here fall lifelessboyishly salty language and references to modern pop cul- onto the sandy beach. These boys don't stand for anythingture and, in one short and ill-conceived scene, even won- except themselves, and at crucial moments they just stand,
der whether it's better to be free from girls or whether· it genuinely helpless and lost when faced with images ofdeath and deStruction, Nothing means, it just happens,would be nice to have girls around in case they want to
The modem, Americanized adaptation and the big"get some." (Otherwise, the presumed asexuality of thebudgetproduction values don't help matters any. There's
prepubescent male, which is so important to Golding's
virtually no social context. Gone is the world Wcµ' raging
novel-sincethe
ensuing violence must emerge from anature deeper than mere carnality-is one of the few con- just beyond the horizon, gone are the centuries of traditional British decorum. (The substitution of an American
sistencies between this fUm version and the book. There's
military academy is both insufficient and, except in passing
a lot of near nudity but not a trace of even potential sensureferences to cadet rank, unutilized,) Gone is the haunting
ality and certainly no awareness of the latent homoerotidead paratrooper dangling on the edge of a cliff. He's
cism of the premise. Even pederasts might be bored.)
been clumsily replaced by a delirious injured naval officer,
This. Lord of the Flies does make crystal clear, on the
who is ftrst in the boys' care, then hiding in a cave, wheremost basic level, why most of the boys prefer the sadistic
he serves only to highlight the boys' stupidity and cowhunter-chief Jack to the reasonable, sensitive Ralph. Jack is. ardice. The spiritual dimension is nonexistent; elements ofsiffiply more boisterous, more charismatic, more Jun, and his
superstition and worship are underplayed and seem justinstinctive re-creation of hierarchy and ritual offers a comfort"
another part of Jack's childish game of let's pretend, This is
ing sense of security and structure to a bunch of scared little
no microcosm-it'sjust an island. The lush Technicolor
boys stranded on an uninhabited tropical island. Ralph is aphotograpllY, vivid ftres and sleek-skinned boys are all juststick in the mud, demanding chores and discipline, constanttoo handsome and prosaic to signify anything beyond theirly reminding the boys of their peril by insisting they act senface value. T
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TheaterLush Lesbian Love Jungle
goddess, or a lonesome lezzie visits
a fortune teller in her search for the"secret of love," The fortune teller is,of course, also a. lesbian and sees
the' world just as the Iczzie does,
imparting to her the secrets of lesbian love,
The best stories are the ones
where the humor is subtle and thelanguage clean-Lucinda
Rhea Zoe's
Negotiating tbe Boundaries slides
through the thornier issues of lesbian
intin}acy by having the two characterswalk themselves around the simple
question "do you· kiss other girls?" toencapsulate many of the funny peculiarities of dyke discussionsonmonogamy
and non-monogamy.
Sweeter7ban (An ExcerpV, written by
Lexa Rosean, is a languorous Sweaty
seduction in which a woman makes
love to another
woman
while
describing· the torrid experience ofdriving her daddy's car "all alone, late
at night and real fast." .
This production has a very "heykids! let's put on a show!" quality to it,making it less a fonnal theatrical experience than an enthusiastic and intiiiiiiiiiiiii_iiiiiiii
iiiiiii. mate evening of shared true
i stories, It's almost like being in alittle lesbian club where the material produced springs directly from"the pulse of the lesbians involved,
so that even if you disagree withthe take an author might have onan experience, you can't reallyargue with its veracity.
WOW Cafe is a wonderfulplace not only because it is simply
tbere and treats lesbianism as theworld, but also because it is fearless, funny and always a bit offkilter. Love's Frantic Yearnings
does a good job of making thoseordinary moments of lesbian. intimacy swell into the strange symphonies
thatsometimes
accompany the madness of love'and romance. The warmth andPhoto: Donna Binder wackiness of it all make it aevening. out with the girls....

production then moves rambunctiously from one "chapter" to the next witheach vignene portraying those issues
peculiar to lesbian relationships:
monogamy vs, non-monogamy, balancing a new lover and an old friend,being alone, should we move inby Maria Maggenti
together? and running into an ex-lover
who is now dating your new lover's
ex-lover. What keeps the stories
don't know what 'it is about dykes buoyant is not only the liveliness ofthe ensemble cast but the fact thatin love. Maybe it's oppression,
maybe its homophobia, maybe it's there is an intimacy and a familiarity
the goddess, but lesbians in love to each story that makes it seem true,
seem to have a propensity for drama yet gently self-mocking.
Some of the stories feel likethat makes even the most ordinary of
personal interactions
material for Alison Bechdel's Dykes toWatcb Out
grand opera, Love'sFrantic Yearnings, For come to· life, although they
directed by Nancy Swartz and now at indulge a wishful surrealism that
WOW Cafe, is a humorous and wacky only theater can ·get away with-for
romp through this lush jungle of les- instance,' a lesbian diner waitressbian love as seen from the perspec- (resembling Alice from the Brady
Bunch) who is part mom, part vixen,
tive of seven different writers,
part crone pou'rs coffee along with
Appropriately, the show openswith a reading from a steamy lesbian her dyke-focused Ann Landers patter
pulp novel. It not only helps set the and treats a couple to beers because
goofball tone for the evening, but also she "loves new love," Or two lovers
reconcile their differences following
pokes fun at the so-called "underworld" of lesbian love and sex. The divine intervention by a blue-winged

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Theater

Caton a Cold Bedby Michael PallerW

hat possesses an audience· to greet the cast of

Cat on a Hot Tin Roofwith a standing ovation after the
performance arrives at its anticlimactic end with neither a drop ofsweat on its brow nor passion in its
eyes? Is the audience giving its
unthinking approval to a theatricalsystem that allows well-known
movie and television
actors toappear in difficult roles for which
they are thoroughly unprepared? Are
our audiences so easily satisfied that
all it takes is a famous face or attractive body to distract them from thefact that the play, with a few exceptions, didn't happen? If a society
gets the kind of theater it deserves,then the current Broadway revivalof Tennessee Williams' 1955 playsuggests that we don't deservemuch.
Cat is one of Williams! mostpotent and problematic plays. tn
Howard Davies' curiously underdirected produCtion, the hot-housepotency is mostly absent, while theproblems
are present
with avengeance.
Whatever her ac.ting talents
might, Kathleen Turner is a fascinating presel)ce on film. Her eyessmoulder with fire; everything about
her suggests she's cor:p.busting withthe most alarming self-control. She
sets herself on fire and then enjoys
slowly burning up before our eyes.
She projects none of this heat on
the stage of the Eugene O'Neill
Theater, Her voice, which need not
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doesn't carry beyond the first few
rows without strain. It will be gonein a few weeks; apparently no one
has taught her how to use it. The
intensity of her personality, easily
caught on film, also evaporates in
the large theater on 49th Street.
Screen acting, as so many film stars
have unwittingly
demonstrated,
requires less equipment than acting
on a stage.

Williams was a master 'of physical and emotional atmosphere. Cafs
humid, uncomfortable,
unstable
locale is a vital element of theplay, and a clue to its emotional
climate, but for all the cast's attention to physical details, the action
could as easily occur in a meat
locker. The emotional climate iseven cooler. "We occupy the same
cage," Maggie says bitterly of her

THE POWERFUL AND OBNOXIOUS ODOR OF MENDACllY
Kith/lin rurn" II Mlggl,

marriage to Brick, But the production contains no sense of any closeness, meteorological or otherwise:not between
Maggie and Brick(they are rarely even physicallyclose), nor Brick and Big Daddy. In
his stage directions, Williams calls
for a ghost of the closeness of thehome's former occupants,
Jack
Straw and Peter Ochello, the gay
men who formerly occupied the
bed of Brick and Maggie, It nevermaterializes,
Brick is a hole at the center ofthe play. So frightened .by the possibility that he might be gay, he's
become an emotionally paralyzed
alcoholic. Doing very little in thecourse of three hours, Brick provesthat evasion is not a very viable

dramatic strategy, Williams didn't
solve the problem of how to portray a vacuum from which all life
and will are being sucked; Daniel
Hugh Kelly, unfortunately, brings
no solutions of his own. He is ahandsome actor unequipped at dis~playing the crippled inner life of
the former football hero. The play
revolves around the need to tell thetruth-about
love, sexuality, thepast-andso it is sad that Kelly isunable to convey some. authentic
sense of himself in the role andneeds to resort to a characterizationthat is largely vocal.
The task 6f prying any humani-.
ty into the production
falls, bydefault, onto the large person ofCharles Durning who, unlike Turnerand Kelly, can act as well on a stage
as in television or film. Of the large
cast, only Durning, as Big Daddy,
catches the vitality, richness, coarseness, humanity and cruelty thatdrips off every line of the play, Big
Daddy is one of the meatier maleroles Williams created, and Durning
tears into it not only with great joy
but with a considerable amount ofskill. Davies uses Williams' original
third act, however, rather than the
one written at the behest of the1955 director, Elia Kazan, and so Big
Daddy isn't seen again after his
lengthy Act n confrontation
with
Brick,
Davies is one of England's best
directors, but the imagination that·
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MusicHousing the House
after hours scene is fostering the emergenceof adifferent type of house which is raw, energetic and contains vocals with a political message. Frankie Knuckles'
most recent success is a garage-inspired mix called Tears(garage is a type of house music reminiscent of thesound that was being produced by DJs at the now
defunct Paradise Garage, heralded by some as the birthplace of the gay house scene), while Junior has produced Just like a Queen, I WtJI Survive and other songs
under the name Ellis D, Through their role as record
producers, Junior Vasquez and Frankie Knuckles are successfully merchandising underground music and providing a .venue for newer artists.
Late night (meaning "after hours," or after legitimateclub hours) dance halls are as much a tradition in gay
culture as piano bars. Since the Paradise Garage closed
in 1988, the underground house scene in New York has
been taken over by two clubs: The Choice and Sound
Factory. Walking into The Choice, no one doubts thatthey have found the "underground." Housed in a converted movie theater, the walls are painted black; acrud~ dance floor has been laid down to level the slopeof the ol'i$inal floor. The club is dark and the decoration
sparse, b1Jt the atmosphere is not what draws people to
The Choice. What brings people here are the DJs andthe sound system. The Choice, owned by DJ Richard
Vasquez, has a rotation of seven DJs including s'ich legends as· Larry Levan, Frankie Knuckl~s and Robert

by Sydney Pokorny

House music 'has made it big. In clubs,
and on the radio; house can be heard'in different varieties; hip house (ahybrid of hip hop and house, rap over a housebeat), acid house (a 'sample-crazed, beat heavy,
psychedelic/electronic
British import) andtecho-house (Le. Inner City's Big Fun). What
separates house music from other types ofmusic is the importance of DJs who work as
producers. These DJ/producers are the stars,
not the musicians or vocalists. Legends likeFrankie Knuckles and Junior Vasquez also work
as record producers. In addition, the "diva Dr AN AEROBIC KIND OF RJN-Moving

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to the sounds of the Sound FactoryOwens. The schedule is available at the door, and a not a firechalk board contains up-to-the-minutechanges andtrap. Unadditions. All the DJs are veterans of the earlier garage
fortunately,scene and have a devoted following. Special events like the club
the occasional "sharing of the decks" by two DJs invoke
andits
a certain amount of fervor,
employees
The style of the music and the crowd varies, andhave redepends heavily on the DJ who is spinning. Friday andcentlySaturday nights usually draw more gay people thanbeen vicThursday. It is best to check the schedule, but Richardtims
ofVasquez currently spins on alternate Saturdays. He plays
police hawhat a friend nicknamed "environmental house"-therassment.
arrangements almost approach a kind of new age sound
The Conwith a beat. Some of the more popular "environmental
sumer Mhouse" cuts·are Electribe 101's Wake Me When the Fever fairs ComEnds or Sueiio Latino's Suefio Latino. Since most of themissionmusic played is not basS or beat heavy and the club is (by Execrelatively dark, The Choice creates a unique environutive Orment. Tiny green and magenta floating stars spin off thedinance)mirror ball while lyrical keyboard riffs fill the room,
limits theresulting in a feeling something akin to a peaceful stu- hours ofoperation I I
por. An uneasy calm is fed by the clarity of the soundsystem which produces a tingling kind of aural stimulaof non-altion. Ultimately, The Choice is hypnotizing, but notcoholic
wholly unpleasant.
. clubs bySound Factory, by contrast, is conceived of by its r.equiring ,Iowners as an aerobic dance club. The bass is heavy; the that theyIN THE MIX
beat is fierce and the two command 'You to dance. One
close be.
tween
theJuntorVasquez
at Sound Factory
DJ, Junior Vasquez (no relation to Richard), works thecrowd, bringing you to unbelievably frantic highs and .hours of 4 and 8 am. Sound Factory's primary appeal was ancorrespondingly tranquil lows on both nights that the
all-night aerobic-type dance club. However, citing the Conclub is open. Sound Factory is one of the most mindsumer Affair's restriction, which is not technically a law, theblowing, foot-stomping clubs around. Imagine that it is police have raided the dub, falselyarresting employees, to dose it
4:30 on a Saturday night/Sunday morning and you haveat 4 am The owners are fightinga court battle claiming that thejust plunked down the $15 cover charge and are walkconstitutional rights of assembly cannot· be restricted by hours.
ing down a ramp lined with sweaty bare-chested boys And as a representative put it, "What are we doing wronw"
and Similarly sweaty girls in lycra sports bras. The' The answer: nothing but dancing and auising,pumping bass and flashing lights pull you toward theJunior Vasquez plays "commercial" house music
dance floor, You enter, and are bathed in magenta andalong with the less mainstream "garage" house. On asilver light from the largest min-or ball in New York. As given night, he might play Lisa Stansfield's Around thethe beats are imposed over the sample, the floor reacts
World or a remix of the Covergirls' My Heart Skips a Beatby stomping and shouting, The DJ suddenly lets go, a and I Called Uby Lil Louis and the World. He is also credsiren sounds, and the whole place reverberates to theited with breaking new artists. Many times you will hearbeat. Everywhere you fook-on the stage, on the speaksomething at Sound Factory weeks before you hear it anyers, in the comers, on the bleachers-people
are overwhere else. Sweat by Jay Williams and Motherland bycome, Everything moves to the same beat; this is magic! Tribal House are two cuts that broke first there. Sweat has
The crowd, predominantly gay and lesbian, and mixed
made it onto radio rotation and has a special meaning inalong racial and ethnic lines, is here to dance. The club
the Sound Factory context. The song is about Nelson
is integrated in a way that. other places are not, with
Mandela, but it also refers to a form of political protest in
everyone from drag queens, club kids, house children,
South Mrica' organized around dance and chants. In aguys in The Pines t-shirts, a butch/fem dyke couple, all club filled with racially and ethnically mixed gay people,
here for the music, .
you cannot help but think about the parallels between theSound Factory is a high-tech, flagship after hours club. political struggles and understand that in this setting you
Proving that after hours clubs don't have to be dumps, it is a are acting out part of that struggle. If Sound Factory andmodel in al1nost every way. SeMng no alcohol and donating other safe after hours clubs are allowed to be eliminated,part of its proceeds to Daytop Village, a drug treatment pro- there will- be fewer raci~lIy and ethnically mixed, as wellgram, it is responsive to the needs of the community it seryes. as gay crowds, and underground house music may die for
Unlike the small, storefront social clubs, Sound Factory is li- lack of a venue.
censed by the dty, and with one whole wall of fire exits, is
Christina Visca contributed to this arttcle .•April 18, 1990

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BooksPennyBrown
Nipples fromHellbYJohn WingS

XUalambiguity in the hinterlands became chic withMichael Chabon's Mysteriesof Pittsburgh; the latest entrant in this
rapidly metastasizing genre is The Salt
Point by Paul Russell, which presents
us with the sexual escapades anddreary existential angst of the hippest
clique in Poughkeepsie,
What will
next year bring, perversity in PaSsaic?
The would-be
bohemiansof
Russell's first novel dream longingly
about the great metropolis two hours
down river and feel marooned in thebucolic squalor of Poughkeepsie. On
Punk Night at Bertie's discotheque, thegang-who
are only· in their
2Os-kvetch about how old and full of
ennui they are. The one veriftably gay
character named Anatole is-whate1se?-a hairstylist at the town's trendiest salon, Reflexion. And so the reader
is treated to endless descriptions aboutthe "raptures and heartbreak of human
hair," The Salt Point is far from great
writingr but, if nothing else, one canglean some valuable tips on what to
do with one's coiffure.
Anatole's best friend Lydia, a native
Poughkeepsian, spouts New Age jargon
by the gobs ("to know the secret life ofanything is to lift you out of yourself')
and generally acts morose or bitter,remembering the good old days as adrop-out on the Lower East Side, when
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Lydia are in love with Chris,
who dabbled in bisexuality incollege, but now prefers to becelibate.
Every couple ofmonths, however, he treks
down to New York and pays towatch two boys have sex infront of him at a hotel on
Lexington Avenue. He gets a
thrill out of choreographing
their activities: "Go on, makeout," he tells the lads, or "Goon, suck it." But Chris nev~ feels anything at these jamborees, not even the
inkling of an erection, "It's just a spectacle-these cocks plunging 'and withdrawing from avid mouths." He heads
back to Poughkeepsie, flaccid and poorer.
This triumvirate is threatened by
the appearance in town of 18-year-old
Leigh, christened "Our Boy of the Mall"
when he is sighted by Anatole in frontof Reflexion. Anatole is smitten, but his
friends are nonplussed by this latest
crush. "But this one is different," Anatole
gushes, "The light around hiin was different." Well, if there is light around
Leigh-who tums out to be a petty hustler-it sure ain't from a halo. The
inevitable encounter between A{latoleand Leigh takes place at Bertie's, and.the two begin cohabitating. Lydia feels
miffed that Anatole is spending all histime with the new heartthrob, but isconsoled when Leigh begins having anaffair with her, too. Chris, meanwhile, ishalf annoyed at being usurped as
Anatole's and Lydia's love object, andhalf attracted to Leigh's enigmatic airs
and "nipples brown as perinies."
Since the story takes place in the
mid-1980s, when AIDS is somethingthat people only get in the big bad city,
safe sex is just a distant killjoy on thehorizon, There are no condoms in thisclique. In a typical scene, we find that
Leigh has "spilled himself milky andpungent
into [Lydia's] mouth."(Russell's sexual descriptio~s tend tosound like bad take~ut Chinese food.)
When Ana'tole takes Leigh andLydia to the city for the day, he isdepressed
when he realizes how
unfashionable
his clothes
andhairstyle are compared to the city
slickers, What's worse, he sniffles:"He's got Poughkeepsie written allover him." He is further annoyed
when he gets bumped into by awoman with a "loud, belligerent
voice." (Who is this woman? She isforever bumping into sensitive soulsfrom the burbs in these clichedscenes.) The gang makes a pilgrimage
to the Astor .Place Barbershop and toa wine bar, where they are aghast at
having to pay four dollars for a drink.
At a nearby table, some stylish club
kids are discussing that irresistible
New York topic-fist fucking. "I'm notsure my guts can take much more. I
was bleeding this morning." The gang
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BooksSurvivors
weak, needy or otherwiseflawed-hebrought the abuse on himself.
Toe audience for this book is
probably not large. It is intended tohelp men who were themselves sexually abused as children, and therefore
much of it is written in the second person ("you"), which sometimes made me.uncomfortable, The text is broken up
by written statements made by some of
the authors patients, and many of thesestatements are very powerful. I actually
had to stop reading one of them, andI'm going to use some of the space
here to reproduce part of another.

by Christopher Da,!isI

was certainly less than enthusiastic
when asked to review a book aboutmale survivors of incest, particularly
one whose back cover suggests that it be
categorized as "Self-Help/P~chology,"
Then shortly after I received the book I
saw a young man in a laundromat intently reading a very well-used copy. I wanted to ask him what he thought of it, but I
wasn't sure how to start the conversation,
since he was obviously more than acasual reader, so I left:without speaking.
(Somehow, "Excuse
but were you
sexually abused as a child?" does notseem like the best way to start a conversation with a stranger.) Instead, I went
home and spent the' next several hours
reading the book and working on thisme,review.
Victtms No Longer is not addressedprimarily to a gay audience. Indeed, theauthor makes the point that most men
who' abuse children are straight, not gay(would someone please inform Jesse70

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Helms of this fact?), and men who wereabused as children are no nj>re likely to
become gay than anyone in the general
population, However, gay men who
were sexually abused as children dohave a more difficult time recoveringfrom the abuse than their straight counterparts, for not only do gay SuMvors ofincest (the author argues convincinglythat "victims" is not an approprfate
word) have to cope with their own feelings of lack of self-worth, but they also
have to deal with the homophobia thatis so much a part of our society, The
book includes a chapter entitled"Sexuality, Homophobia, and Shame" inwhich the author states:
Gay men .. .internalize our culture's homophobia, Raised in a society that teaches them that It Is
shameful to be gay, they must work
extremely hard to overcome negative
messages and butld self-esteem .... At
its worst, internalized homophobia'
can cause gay men to wrongly
blame themselves (or their gayness)for their having been abused. Thisultimate form of blaming the victim(the victim blaming hlmselfJ saysthat just by being who he is-gay,

I cannot remember, but I havebeen told that when I was four years
old I drank ammonia, I know now
that was my.first attempt at suicide ....
I was acttng out sexually, being
promiscuous with older men from thetime I was a junior in high school. I
wanted a lover but was too needy
and sexually wfJd. Then, at age twenty-five I met the perfect mate. He wasa very successful older man who wasin complete control at all ~mes. He
was also always a11gryand homophobic....
,This ideal relatiortsbip-lfelt 1ik2
dirt and he treated me 1ik2 di~lasted twenty-one unhappy years.

This statement is typical of mostof them, and the message is clear:
Sexual abuse of children can anddoes destroy lives.
I found, Victims No Longer bothmoving and informative, and I finished the book with tremendous
respect for the work the author isdoing. Finally, I think that this bookshould be required reading for anyone
interested in an intergenerational relationship with a youth. According to
the author, the same psychologicaldamage that results from incest tesultsfrom any sexual exploitation by an
adult who is loved and trusted, and.the damage can come from sexual
abuse in teenage years as well as fromsexual abuse in earlier childhood ....

QUILT frOm peg. &1

before for The Times of Harvey Milk.
Jeffrey Friedinan:
I think theaward will be a nod from Holl~ood
to the AIDS epidemic, I think in someways it's Hollywood responding tothis virus which is devastating its own
people, Because it is such a "dream
factory," because it doesn't want todeal in ugly reality, and because it issuch an extremely gay and closeted
town, it hasn't dealt with this issue
yet. I would like to think that
Hollywood is responding to the quality of the f1immaking, but I also recognize that they probably saw this as anopportunity
to make a statement
about AIDS.
Robert Epstein:It's the rightissue at the right time. And I hope itmeans that it's a symbol for more to
be done rather than Hollywood saying, "OK, we'll give this film its due"and then everyone can feel good andlay the issue to rest,
Phill Zwickler: What is next foryou guys? What kinds of projects doyou want to do?
Robert Epstein:[Laughter] I
don't know. I mean I never know.
We want to see this project throughdistribution, and then we'd make aseparation once we felt it was sufficiently out there in the world, which
is what we are doing now.
Phil Zwiclder: How is it going?
Jeffrey Friedman: The nomination has really helped, It came at a
crucial point, here at the Berlin Film
Festival where there is so much marketing
going
on. We're being
approached by people, we don't haveto chase buyers around as much. And
before the award nomination, people
were telling us that there are so many
AIDS films around.
Robert Epstein: And that's justbullshit. •CAT from peg. &5

put

so

vitality
into Lesseems almost
as paralyzed as poor Brick whenconfronted with Williams' intensely
personal.lyricism.
He seems unable
to 'help his actors dig beneath therich skin of Williams' language toreveal the cries of pain buried
beneath. But. then, two of his stars
Liaisons

much

DangereusesI. have come from Hollywood without
the tools required for digging.
This is not the kind of production Williams deserves, but more
and more it is the sort our theater-commercial
and institutional-presents
us, at increasingly
higher prices, The last thing our theater, our playwrights, need is actors
whose only qualification is fame inother media. It is too easy to blame
greedy, shortsighted producers. The
fact is, if we wanted a theater better
than this, we'd make it. •

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CRISIS from pagl 32

PENNY from paga 68

departures of stillmore staffand volunteers.
Barry O'Neal, who worked on the
Crisis Line as a volunteer for nearly three
years, came to the Fund's offices on

flees
back
to the safetyofPoughkeepsie
where drinks arecheaper and nobody fist fucks.
Chris is the 'only one who resists
Leigh's penny-brown nipples. At theend of the novel' they have an
exchange which is surprisingly subtle,
and shows that Russell is not completely devoid of talent. It is sad, however,that the reader has seen so little of. Chris, while the story was maundering
around with Anatole and Lydia. Leighinevitably splits from Poughkeepsie, on
to bigger and richer prey, and leaves
the triumvirate in shreds.
The Salt Point is interesting in one
respect: it shows quite clearly the MIVication of American fiction. This styleof writing is always in, the present"MAD PAnt- -Barbara Smith PI'oto: Jim Markstense, which suits characters whose
lives are a nebulous "Now," with dim March 23 to find an impromptu meeting
pasts and bleak futures. Music seems to
between the staff, volunteers and thebe blaring in the background of every board members who had been there toscene, while MIV is prominently fea- fire Henderson, Members of the board,
tured, in all of its vacuous glory;
according to O'Neal, were "abusing the"Sprawled on the sofa with a beer,staff and displaying complete contempt
Leigh watches MIV," or "In the living for all of us," leading him not only toroom, [Anatole) finds Craig and Leigh leave the meeting, but to write an open
sprawled on the sofas watching
letter urging "all gay people to withdraw
MIV...... Sometimes Russell is so inco- support from the Fund for Human
herent about music, it's almost funny, Dignity."
as when he writes of "the post-heroih
Caschetta recalled that she was sosadness of David Bowie's voice as. it upset by the board members' behavior thatwafts leisurely over the hollow rhythm she demanded that a professionalfacilitatorof drums and marimba." Most of the be hired to supervise the next meetingtime the music chit-chat is just banal. between the staff and .volunteers and the"Sometimes a song will trigger a single board. lhat meeting was scheduled for the
memory, elusive as the scent of a flow- followingweek-a week during which staff
er-the more you try to catch· it the members were not given keys to the newmore it recedes."locks, but were let in and out of the office
With the exception of Chris, the by board members, "It's like being an
characters in this novel are an unsym- "inmate in their little insane asylum,"
pathetic lot. And Leigh, though he is remarked Caschetta.
the catalyst of disaster in three lives,
Several members of the board met
is a superficial, uninteresting critter, with several volunteers and staff members
his skills in the sack excepted. As on March 29. While no significantdecisions
Chris astutely says of Leigh~s voice were made at the meeting, Wilson(and sums up the problems with the . appeared satisfiedwith it "I wouldn't call it
novel in a nutshell): it is "flippant,successful,"she stated. "It was a fruitfuland
ironic, transparent-you
can see right meaningfulmeeting,"
through it to a sort of nothingness.
"I certainly don't think it was
The equivalent of a shrug, it throws
meaningful or fruitfui," countered Lucile
everything
away," This nothingDubennan, a fonner volunteer. "The board
ness-Russell's
hip nihilism-perjust wouldn't answer." Dubennan, who isvades much of The Salt Point. Which Martin Dubennan's sister, and '\Vhorioted
makes i~ hard for the reader to keep that she is straight but does not believe
from shrugging off the characters and that a heterosexual person should head thefrom throwing the book away ....
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board the day before the meeting. But after
the meeting, she said, "I don't think I need
to formally resign."
Both Mary Beth Caschetta and Paula
Pressleyresigned after the meeting. "It is lessthe appointment of Mr. Brading," Pressley
wrote in. her resignation letter, "than it isyour complete lack of respect for', and abuseof, talented gay and lesbian individualsthat
leads me to this resignation."
Critical Condition

Wilson had only one comment on the
resignations: "People make their own
decisions."
Meanwhile, only one of the few
remitining staff members is reported to bein support of the board. That employee,
Gregory Klnallen, declined several requests
fotcomment.
The functioning of the organization's
main program, the Crisis Line, appears
impaired by the departures of volunteers
and staff.Accordingto staff memberJoanna
Asperger,on several nights the line was not
staffed.
The Fund's future plans may belmperlled, as well. The coordinator of theirfirst national gay and lesbian writers'
conference, which was planned for June,
expressed serious doubts that the eventI.

"VERY FEW ntlNGS WE CAN CAll OUR OI/VNMartin Dubennan
Photo: Michael Wakefieldwould occur. Neither Martin Dubennan nor
BaIbaraSmithwas certainabout the plans togive the keynote address. "It would kind of
be like crossingpicketlines, if they persiston
the mad path they'reon," predictedSmith,"Fromwhat 1 hear, if they do carry off
the conference, it may be the last thing
they do," added Dubennan....
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Vld,o Festllf.' W, for
October 9-11 showing; "by queers of forqueers or about queers or all of theabove·; all video-mastered modes OK,
no film to video; no entry fee, small hon·oraria; 941-1298 (entries accepted thru
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MONDAY! APR. 9
PalSOftr Rnt Seder
NYU WOMYN'S
CENTER,NYU
WOMEN'SSTUDIES DEPT., THE
HUMANITIES COUNCIL present Mary
Daly: R.ctlll., "" tI.,.""/,-rs
of WOII'II; Ms. Daly, author of
Gyn/Eco/ogy, Beyond God the F,ther,
Pure Lust, is ·a Revolting Hag who
holds doctorates in theology and phi·
10sophY ... this Spinster
spins andweaves cosmic tapestries in her own
time/space"; refreshments served; Eisner Lubin Auditorium, Loeb Student
Center, 566 laGuardia Place; 7:30 pm

CENTER SPORTS MeIs G.....
ticketsmust be ordered now for spring andsummer games: Astros !it6, Pirates &18,
Reds 6/28, Cardinals 7/28, Cubs 8/11,
Giants 8130, Cubs 9/28; $14 for Center
members/$19 for non-members; 620·
7310 (APRIL 14 deadline)
WESSB. O'CONNOR GALLERY Brace of
Los Angeles: TIl, ",.1, R,UffI, featurGAY & LESBIAN ALUANCE AGAINST
ing physique photographyof body·
DEFAMATION April 29 FIr.t A •• aal
HERITAGE OF PRIDE G_ral_~...
builders, athletes, posers, and ·youthful
GlAAD Media Award., ·recognizing
males goofing off"; 580 B'way (below
ship .1811.. , at the Center, 21M! W 13 Sf,
the best and worst in print and broadHouston),8th Floor; TUES·SAT, 10 am - 6 8 pm, 691-1n4 (also MAY 14, JUNE II)
cast·; cocktails, dinner, speakers; at pm; 219-9524 (thru AP~IL28)
the Tower Suite, Time & Life Bldg; 6:30
pm; $125-$500; 966-1700 (reservations
BROADWAY CARES sees Ph."""" ofdue by APRIL 16)th,a benefit for the AiDSl. resource network for PWAs; $155 for
TOWER PRESS I'rtd, Guld, Ildeadline
prime seats ($100 goes to BC), ali per·was Marc .. Z3 for organization listings, formances from APRIL 20 to APRIL 28;
and is April 20 for calendar of June
info/tix 974·7500
CONGREGATIONBETH SIMCHAT
events listings; 966-7722 (these basic
TORAH C••
I.1ty Seder by advancelistings ara provided free)
THE GLINES presents How
registration only; 929-9498
TOIIIOIJ8WS, a gay romantic comedy by
CYCLE FOR UFE B-Day Ride fro .. Ann
David Mauriello, about a young street
OPEN CIRCLE Gatheri.,o. tile Fali
Ar~or to NYC takes off May I, a hustler and a straight-laced banker; at M_ to CelHrate tile GocI/desI; at trie
fundraiser for NYC's PWA Coalition and the Courtyard Playhouse, 39 Grove St Center, 208 W 13.St; exactly 7-7:30 pm
other groups; to ride or sponsor riders,(at Bleecker St); $15; 869·3530; WED(come early to be on time); $2 donationcali Gary 31~994-4285
FRI at 8 pm, SAT at 6 & 9 pm; SUN at 7 (info from OC, Box 4538, Sunnyside, NY
pm (thru MAY 13)
11104)GAY MEN'S HEALTH CRISIS May 20
AIDS W.'k New York. a 10·kilometer
RIDICULOUS THEATRICAL COMPANYGAY MEN'S HEALTH CRISIS HIV Healtll
fund raising walkathon, starting and revives Charles Ludla.·s0" Rill, SelDinar: IR.urance IlfonaadOll; 129 W
ending at Uncoln Center, B'way & 65 St; Go« F.""on/at:. m.sterwork. which
20 St, 3rd Fioor; 7 pm; free; 807-6655,
sign-in 9 am, opening ceremony 9:30 won an Obie in 1977. a ·magnum opus TOD 645-7470 (this and every 2nd TUES)
am, walk begins 10 am; sponsors and in the spirit of Wagner's Ring Cycle,
walkers call 807-6310
but in far less time"; directedby CENTER 2IId Tundays: Ed Slkoy, jour·
Everett Quinton with a new score by nalist, writer, author of Screwb,1I
SAGE announces Augalt's 8-Day Trip i.
Mark Bennet and costumes by Susan
Comedy, preseriting L,ughing HysteritH Pacific Northwest ($1328, deposit Young; 1 Sheridan Square; $25; tix 691· Clllly: Sex, Repression ,nd American
due May 1) and Octo ... r·s 15-Day
2271, theater 564-8038, info 989·6524
Film Comedy, illustrated with videoMediterra.ea.
Cruise ($2298, deposit(previews till APR 12 opening; TUE·FRI taped film clips; 208 W 13 St; 8 pm; $3;
due July I); 741·2247
at 8, SAT-SUN at 7, thru MAY 20)
620·7310

LIVELY ARTSTUESDAY APR. 10

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OUT~EEK

April 18, 1990

1990 DOCUMENTARY FESTIVAL OF NY
presents Sna •• Ala. 1IayIIoH'1/.
",.d.,ss, about three families withadult schizophrenic children; and U..
..... a•• Claedla 1Ioover' ........
,1IosIs: "". IIIfO
an intimate
and painful portrait of 39-year-old Gary,on his 4-year journey toward a full sexchange operation and new female
identity·; Public Theater, 425 Lafayette
St (off Astor Place); 9 pm; $6; 741-5357(repeats THU, 4/12 at 9:30 pm; SAT, oV14 .
at4 pm)w..

WEDNESDAY, APR 11
HISPANIC AIDS FORUM Roa.dtII~I.:

LtllIIO Ado,,",_ 1M",I.de Are til
AIDS, a discussion of prevention stratagies; at Assn. of Puerto Rican Exec.
Directors, 140W 22 Sf, 3rd Aoor; 9 am 1:30 pm; Ssa 966-6336
SHESCAPE Ha.,y Hoar B •• eflt foru.~daLa,al Defe.s •• EliacadOlhid, which will receive door proceeds
collected
between
5-7 pm at
Shescape's Wednesday After Work
Party for Women at Twenty!Twenty (510 pm); 20 W 20 St (Editor: a different
charity benefrts every week)
ASIANS & FRIENDS ~ ..
Mrs Meet..
... at the Manila Bar!Restaurant,
31 W 21 St (5th/6th Aves); 6-8 pm;
George. 924·1287
1990 DOCUMENTARY FESTIVAL OF NY
presents David Wo/.arowlcz• PililZwickle(sFe" of Ol.c/••• ", about
desire in the age of AIDS; and R.. 1I0Il
Pra ..... I.
•
P.. II Zwlcklar·.
SlIt.t:taDNtII, ·a scalding look at the
response of artists to the tragecly of the
AIDS epidemic and society's failure todeal with it"; Mr. Zwickllr will be preseitt at the screening; Public Theater,
425 Lafayette St (off Astor Place); 7 pm;$6; 741-5357 (repeats SAT,4/14 at 2 pm)
CHURCH OF THE HOLYAPOSTLES T_n., in loving mlmory of those who havedied from AIDS, the offering will benefit
Holy Apostles AIDS Ministry - Bethany
House; at the Chapel of the Good Shepherd, Generai Theological Seminary, 175 .
9th Ave (2W21SIs); 8 pm; 1KI7-t799
A DIFFERENT LIGHT Raadi.,

Serl .. :"'' ' IHI.

Sa....
Locka Elliott,a ta IIof growing up gay in Sidney, Australia;
548 Hudson (btwn Charlls/Perry); 8 pm;
free but limited seating; 989-4850
GAY MALE S/M ACTIVISTS Meetl.,and Foru.. : S/IrI i. Foc ... a slide pro-gram inclliding photos of interest to S/mmen, -from the teasing fetishism of
fashion photography to the cream of
explicit erotica to the challenging compositions of the avant-garde-;
at theCenter. 3rd Roor. 20B W 13 St; 8:30 pm(doors open at 8); $5; 727·9878
EAGLE BAR Movie NI •• t: Frld., tile
I'm 11111: JaM Tit.. ",."" .. ",142 11th Ave (at 21 St); 11 pm; 691-8451.,.

THURSDAY, APR. 12
Cllaltn Udl .. ·s Birthday
ASIANS & FRIENDS NY attend NY
O,el Ilt'l e.e .. Toerl_elt·
in thePenta Hotel. 7th Av, at 33 St; noon or 7
pm; Xenon, 511ir'33B:-4B34
GREENWICH HOUSE ALCOHOL TREATMENT PROGRAM O,e. Hoe ... to meetthe staff and become acquainted withthe program. refreshments served; 151
W 19 St; 1-4 pm; rsvp 463-8244
SAGE in BrooIdyn, at the Brooklyn Public Ubrary, Kings Highway Branch. 2115
Ocean Ave at Kings Hwy; 1-4 pm; 741·
2247
ASIANS & FRIENDS NY attends a TUINew Ye.r eele.r.dol
at Dusit Thai
Restaurant. 256 Bleecker St (6th/7thAves); food and entertainment
at $20per person; 6 pm; rsvp with George.
924-1287
THE CENTER NATIONAL MUSEUM OFLESBIAN & GAY HISTORY O,eell,
Reception for ... Cer100ll Silow. show·
casing the work of 40 cartoonists whodeal with the lesbian and gay experience; with work by Jennifer Camper,
Howard Cruse. Mark Johnson. Burton
Clarke. Jerry Mills. OutWssKs Bechdel;
208 W 13 Sf, Sandy Moss Room; 6-8 pm;$2 suggested; 620-7310 (afterwards
exhi~its daily. 4-6 pm. thru MAY 25)
JUDITIl'S ROOM BOOKSTORE presents-Beyottd tile P.Ie: 0_
WrIters. with los D
Ass/stlllce III
Viee; Patricia Ealdns. TIle HIm,,, GirlS;
and JUIHer BI_dryer,
W1Ie",~ III,
Wlfel, 681 Washington St (at Chanes
St); 7 pm; free. but limited seating; n7·7330 (wheelchair accessible)

w-..

SEGUE
FOUNDATION
presents
poet/novelists RHert GlIck (J,ck ths
ModBrnist. Rs,dsnand
Fann, Howe
(OBBp North); 303 E 8 St (at Ave B); 8
pm; $5; info 7111(852-2306
RIDICULOUS THEATRICAL COMPANY
Beleflt
O,enie.
Perfor.anceofe .. rtes Ledla.·s Oer Rin, GOIt F.ft/Off/fIt: I .utllrworlc. which won an
Obie in 1977. a -magnum opus in the

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MONDAY, APRIL 9.. dl/g"
RB PROD ThB Robin Byrd Show: mile Ind femal •strippers; Manhattan and Paragon Cable. CH Jf13 (1:00)
2:l1li AM WPIX-TV Sidn,y Shorr. Tony Randall as the middle-aged homosexual with a young actress for a roommate, the pilot for the TYserias. LOVfI. Sidney(I981-83);
CH 11 (2:00)

THURSDAY, APRIL 12
1:311PM WBAI-FM This W,y Out Internatlonalgay/lesblan
weekly radio magazine; 99.5 FM (:30)
2:tIO PM WBAI-FM BfB,kin, th, Sil,nce: news magazln.
for the gay/lesbian community in New York; 99,5 FM(:30)

9:30 PM GMHC Living With AIDS: health and politics; Mlnhatta n Cable. CH Jf13 (:30)
10:311PM GCN PridB , Progrsss: news. health, sports;
Manhattan Cable. CH Jf13 (:30)
11:00 PM GCN ThB Right Stuff. media. entertainment.
advice; Manhattan Cable. CH Jf13 (:30)

10:80 AM WABC- TV S,IIy J,uy 1I8ph'Bt how transsexualism and transvestitism may affect one's career; CH 7
(1:00) (11:30 PM RB PROD Msn For MBn: Robin Byrd presents gay
male porno stars; Manhattan Cabl •• CH Jf13 (:30)

4.

PM WABC- TV Oprah Winfrey. incorrect
terminal illness; CH 7 (1:00)

11:38 PM GMHC Uving With AIDS: health and politics;
Paragon Cable. CH Jf13 (:30)••

PM WNET-TV PfIIsid,ncy. ThB PrBss. & ThB P,opl,iten former White House Press SeCretaries. who worked
for Kennedy through Reagan. share anecdotes. comments and wisdom; CH 13 (2:00)

diagnoses of

10:80 PM GCN B, My Gu,st Sybil Bruncheon hosts a panel
with surprise guests; David Gadberry's S,crflt P,ssion~
Manhattan Cable. CH Jf13 (:30),,:30 PM Tomorrow's TV Tonight entertainment;
and Paragon Cable, CH D/17 (1:00)

Manhattan

11:30 PM WNET-TV Uncommon Wom,n ,nd OthBrs: fIVewomen recall their senior year in college in Wendy
Wasserstein's play. with Swoosie Kurtz. Meryl Streep,
Alma Cuervo. Jill Eikenberry; CH 13 (1:30)

cm

Mid.lgld
ThB Closflt C", Show. Glenwood Weber. and other boys of LWB M,chinB. Russell Maynor's photos and (Roxy's) David Leigh's pants. Scott Heron as thenearly-nude dancing Salome; CH C/16 (:30)
1.

AM G,y Tv. gay male porno clips; Paragon Cable. CH
Jf13(:30)

TUESDAY,APRIL 10".

PM GBS Out in ths 90'S: tonight, special coverage of
ACT UP in Albany; Manhattan and Paragon Cable. CH
C/16 (1:00),Mldligld
WABC·TV Ths Hs/istrom Chronicle: Why worry
about AIDS when insects are about to take over theearth?; CH 7 (1:25)

WEDNESDAY, APRIL f1
9:30 AM WBAI·FM Ghosts in ths M,chine: women in pop.
with Victoria Starr; 99.5 FM (2:30)
7:30 PM WABC- TV Entflrt8inm,nt
no; CH 7 (:30)

Tonight Rudolph Valenti.

FRIDAY, APRIL 13
9:30 AM WPIX- TV BBst T,lk on Loe,t/on: raising money for. AIDS; CH 11 (:30)
10:80 AM WABC- TV S.liy J,ssy 1I8ph,st loneliness; CH 7
(1:00) (Editor: April is suicide month; let your friends tell
you how depressed they are, and don't try to cheer
them up with goony aphorisms.)

2:30 PM WBAI-FM

Rompisndo sl Sil,ncio: todos losviernes. Gonzalo Aburto con temas y noticias para lacomunidad latina gay y lesbiana; 99.5 FM (:15)

7:311PM Ths G,y O,ting G,mB ShoW. Manhattan Cable. CH
Jf13(:30).
..

PM WNYW- TV E,stsr P8f,de: Irving Ber/in Is alive andwell with Judy Gar/and. Ann Miller. Peter LaWforil; CH 5
(2:00)".

PM G,y Tv. male porno clips; Manhattan
Jf13 (:30)

1.

AM RB PROD Robin Byrd Show. male and female strippers; Manhattan and Paragon Cable. CH Jf13 (1:00)

Cable. CH

SATURDAY, APRIL 14
11. PM RB PROD Th, Elfly Byrd: Robin Byrd presents
male/female strippers; Manhattan Cable. CH Jf13 (1:00)
4.

AM A&E 0,1Ith in Vsnicfl. VISCOnti'Sversion of Mann's
novella, with Dirk Bogarde dying to Mahler's music
while lusting after beach boy Bjorn Andresen (2:30)

SUNDAY, APRIL 15
7:311PM WBAI-FMThs
G,y Show. Larry Gutenburg andBob (Takin' the Town By) Storm; 99.5 FM (1:00) (On every
other Sunday. aitarnatiJlg with OutLoo/csl

11:30 PM GCN MBn .I Films: male erotica;

Manhattan

Cable. CH Jf13 (:30)

April 18. 1990

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·plrlt of Wagn.", Ring Cycl •• but In far_
11m."; directed by Ev.rett Quintonwith a new .core by Mark B.nnet andcoltUmll
by Su.an Young; 1 Sh.rldan
Square; 7 pm; $47 (Includll champagn.
rec.ptlonl; tix 891-2271, Info 989-6524!thru MAY 6; TlJ-FR at S. SAT-SUN at 71

P,. •••• I.
•
P.II
Zwlckle(.
",..."".""""a scalding look at the
response of artists to the tragedy of the
AIDS epidemic andlOCiIlY. failurt to deal
willi it"; dOllbie-bii at 2 ~ alllo.
AI .. RII,...d·.
, .. MIlabout
three fammes with adult schlzophr.nlc
children; and LIN ........
CI•• I.

1990 DOCUMENTARY FESTIVAL OF NY
Ala • ...,.......
""".. I••", about thrtt famlllll
withadult .chlzophr.nlc
childr.n; and U..

Hoov.(. M.... ,,_II:

prtIenta ......

w..... C

Hoonr'._or-~""" _.
"an intlmata
and painful portrait of 39-year-old Gary,on his 4-y.a.r journ.y toward a fun s.xchang. op.rationand n.w female
identity"; Public Theater, 425 Lafayette
St (off Altor Placel; 9:30 pm; $6; 7415351 (repeats SAT, 4(14. 4 pml

FRIDAYI APR. 13
IDENTITY HOUSE _'.

.......

THE CENTER invites you to .....
tile
c.tooaI .... a reception with the artistsof the C.rtoo.
S.ow; 208 W 13 St,
Sanely Moss Room; 7-9 pm; ~ 820-7310(see APRIL 12for more InfolMETROPOLITAN COMMUNITY CHURCH
EutIr VIgil will Rev. T.., Perry; 135 W
4St;7 pm

DI

,,wo.

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,. forltablan and bl-sexual women; 544 Sixth
Ave (14/15 Stsl; 6:30-8:30 pm; $7; 2438181 (Editor: meets every week with adiffertnttoplcl
METROPOLITAN COMMUNITY CHURCHGood Frld.y urYlc.
wit. Rey. Troy
Perry, featuring LaWIIdtr U.1It G.,..
CIIoIr; ~t the Center. 206 W 13 St; 7 pm
THE ANSWER IS LOVING _T.lkPUlCMr
sugar-free,smoke-free ev.ning with women fromall backgroundsmWe
will share ourhoplI and we will pay tribute to ourforemother •• We will read from a
Hagadah for women about women.";with dinner and music, hosted by Ruth
Berman and Connie Kurtz; Sheepshead
Bay, Brooklyn; 7 pm sharp; $12; limited
seating. rsvp ASAp, 718J998-23mi

DIGNITY/BIG APPLE Lit.,.,for T ..
Gralt VIgIl of EaatIr; at the Center, 208
W 13 St; 8 pm; 818-1309 (all invited I
CENTER 2.d S.t.rd.yD•• c., DJ
Amaja. cish bar. juice bar, free drink
before 10 pm; 208 W 13 St. 9 pm - 1 am,$8 generalJ$6 m.mber., .eniors, students; 620-7310

SUNDAYI APR. 15

I.. w..•.•
Talle _'.
..... r; "a substance-free.

SAGE W- ••·s 50+ R.,

GI'OII,: MIII-

m. IeJaMIJIy. at the Center, 208 W 13
St; 7:30 pm; membership Info. 741-2247
SOUTHERN LESBIANS AND GAY MEN
IN EXILE IN NY New .• ro., fontl ••to.I •• t, "to work here to make theSouth; Am.rlca·s molt viciously homophobic region, a more tolerable place
for gay people to live"; at the Center.
208 W 13 St; 7:30 pm; David Gilbert, 6748073 (Next meeting APR 'l1 at 7:30 pml

SATURDAY, APR. 14
SAGE s.,.-,nII,

EutIr "Idly
DlFPRENT SPOKES S....
ride; 7111(859-1079

bIGNITY/QUEENS EaW SIIIIIIay U1arIr. info 7111(565-2171
METROPOLITAN COMMUNITY CHURCH
Ellt.rS.. day wid! Rey. Troy P.rry;
two .ervicII.
morning .nd evening: at
the Center. 206 W 13 St. 10 .m; at the
church. 135W 4 St. 7 pm
. 1990 DOCUMENTARY FESTIVAL OF NY
preser1ta Ro.. YO. P,. •••• I••
P.II
Zwlckl.f.
I'oIItIre. poitra ita of AIDS
.ctivlsts Larry Kram.r. Michael Callen.nd Mr. Zwlckler, who will be preslnt at
the .creening;
Public Theater. 425
Laf.yette St (off Altor Placel; 2 pm;
741-5357
SAGE _.... SIIIIIIay Drop-I., tod.yand each 3rd Sunday. with "coffee,
wine. I.ughter, fun. refreshments andgood comp.ny"; In the SAGE Room. at
the CeI1l8r, 208 W 13 St; 2-5 pm; 741-2247

for people' wIIoaa

MONDAYIAPR.16

1990 DOCUMENTARY FESTIVAL OF NY
pr.s.nts
D.yld Wol •• rowlcz • P.II
Zwlckl.(.
of DI,c/o .. , •• about
desire In the ag. of AIDS; and Rosa !lOll

THE PYRAMID pre,ents H.,I P"c.·,FII. Flit:
T./t t. So: WI"t.ck
E/II--, ",.,.,., 101 Avenu. A. btwn
617Streata; 420-1!i90

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EAGLE BAR Movl.

TUESDAYIAPR.17"rI.,

THE NETWORK
RI., COcktail...... at T..... 011 die G ..... Central
Park; 6:30-9:30 pm;'$50 advance/S60
door (space permittingl; 517-0380
GAY MEN'S HEALTH CRISIS HIV Heahll
S•• I •• r: ••• eflts Ilfont.tlo.
andNlltrltlOIIIII ..... ; 129 W 20 St; 3rd &.
6th Floor,; 7 pm; free; 807-6655, TDD
845-7470 !this and IVerY 3rd TlJESIASIANS &. FRIENDS NY goes to the Clrcas, proceeds go to the'new AFNY
AIDS Fund; at Madi.on Square Garden,
32 St .t 7th Ave; 7:30 pm; $13.50;
reserve with Jerry. 711V497-5'l17; member info. 67~5064
CELlBLOCK 28 1I•• d. O. P.rty: H.rrI
U,; 28 Ninth Ave (14/13 Stsl; 9 pm - 2
am; $10 (Editor: this Is a safe-sex party
held once a monthl

our IN THE '!lOa presents T.IId., MIt,..,."",
interview by Amy Ashworth lafounding member of Parents &. Friendsof Lasbian. and Gays); M •. Ashworth
will app.ar on Out in til, '9& tonightand every third Tuesday; Manhattan
and Paragon Cable. Channel e/16. 11
pm to mlc[nlght; 243-1570

1.. 1Id .10,.,...,.
... III. begins today and con1Inull each Saturday; at the Center. 208
W 13 St; 11 am - 12:30 pm; Arlene 7412247 .

Fe.,

1230 am

ISLANDERS' CLUB sees CIt o•• Hot
TI.
with Kathleen Turner; $50
membe~nonmembe~;~~Nlgbt:

T.rre.ce

MeNaIl,.. TN ,,_ 142 11th Ave (at 21
StI; 11 pm; 691-8451

M•• I.to__"an intimata and painful portraitof 39-yaar-01clGary, on his 4-year journeY
toward a fun .tx-change operation andnew female Identity"; double-blll at 4 ,.
(separate admission, $61; Public Theatar,
42!i lmyeiIII St(off Astor Placet 741-!i.'fj7

Goodfllday...

CCIY Th, C/OSMClSI Show. hot boys
81 Roxy. Klo•• Klipa; CH el16, mldnight-

WEDNESDAY, APR. 18
SHESCAPE H.,,,
HOlllr ••• eflt for
GLAAD ({jay &. Lesbian Alliance
Against Defamatlonl, which will receive
door proceeds collected betweln 5-7
pm at ShescapI's Wednesday After
Work
Party
for
Women
at
TWlnty/Twenty (5-10 pml; 20 W 20 St(Editor: a different charity benefits
every week!
SAGE preltnts Dr. C.. rI.. Silveratel.
(The Joy of G.y S,x. Man to M.n:
G.y COUp/II in Amerie., A F.mily
M.tfflr: A P.f,nts Guide to Homosexu./ityI, speaking on the re-emerging
theory of. homosexuality
as iIIneS$.
including -endocrine abnQrmalities";
at the Center. 208 W 13 St; 7 pm; $3;
741-2247
A DIFFERENT LIGHT R•• dl •• S.rI.s:
KHIIJ frill, TN Hili/II, Ntlfetoob.
new book of poetry from the author of'Night After Night; 548' Hudson (btWnCharlea/Perryl; 8 pm; free but limited
seating;9II9-48!iO
CENTER STAGE 8eea TIN RI'It 71_. a
mu.lcalby Da.n Clancy about ten
patrons (gay and straightl in a planobar. remembering theirs; at the Village
Theatr •• 224 Waverly Place; 8 pm; $15;
820-7310

THURSDAY, APR. 19
SAGE Le"I •• IWotIIera For •• , a newgroup for mothers, co-parents
andlovers of lesbian mothers; led by Bernice Dambowic; at the Center, 208 W 13
St; SAGE Room; 6-8 pm; membershipinfo. 741-2247
ASIANS &. FRIENDS NY Moat.ly DIsc ... lo. Gro.,. on topics relevant tomembers' lifestyles. cultures. relation·
ships; meets in the Village. 7:30-9 pm; .
reserve with George, 924-1287
JUDITH'S ROOM BOOKSTORE presents
E..... I•• T.I •• t eo.,etltlo.
S.rlllwith Molly P•• cock and S.z ••••
P.ol.; 681 Washington St (at Charles
Stl; 7:30 pm; frel. but limited seating;
7'l1-7330 (wheelchair accessiblel
CENTER STAGE sees TIle Acc..,pl/CII.
Rupert Holms' comedy-thriller;
at theRichard Rodgers Theatre; 8 pm; $47;
820-7310
DIXON PlACE presents Victor ......
I.
a performance piece inwhich the "author goes oral- is there life
without a significant other?"; also .. ..,......... 1. ut.
an "ongoingseries of hallucinations
directed by
Maryrose Wood"; 37 E 1st St (btwn
1SV2nd Aves~ 8 pm; $Il or TDF; 673-675Z"'re ''''''''~

W1fb.-...

THE PlAGUE (NYlTS HUMOR MAGAZINE)
and BEYOND..VAUDEVILlE CABLE SHOW
present
till A.... , S.yo,,11........
SIIow. hosted by 0aeaIIn
Crisp. with "a dozen unusual acts" itcluding "Little" Mike Anderson ("the disco
dwarf"l. Dee Nack (-the female E1vis"l.
Danny the Wonderpony. and Jim Grosso(expert nose·whlstler!; proceeds beneflt
the Coalition for the Homeless; at NYU's
Loeb Student Center, !i66 laGuardia Place{at Wash. Sq. SOUIht 8 pm; $3n.

C.t ... ·rl •• Tron.r·s

A,,,,, d, C.,tro.
WOW presentswith an all-female
cast from the HampshireCollege
Women's Theater Collective. originallyproduced in London in 1696 dun~g ~elesbian reign of Queen Anne; about two
women in 17th century Portug!ll who
strive to remain lovers; 59 E 4 St; 8 pm;$7; rsvp 460-8067 (also APR1~2i1. 21)

FRIDA~APR. 20 'IDENTITY HOUSE Wo ••• •• DI.cusslol Gro.,: Le,bl." S,x. for lesbianand bi-.exual women; 544 'Sixth Ave(14/15 Stsl; 6:30-8:30 pm; $7; 243·8181 '(Editor: meets every week with a differenttopicl

Monday'.

Private Eyes (Marc Berkley's Kool Komrads; male strippers) 12 W 21 Sf,club 200-7n2.
·Pyramid (Hapi Phace's Film Fest)·101 AvenueA. btwn 6Ih/71h 811'ee1S;
420-1590

Tuesday,·Love Mac6ine at Underground, 860 Bway, near 17th St; 254-4005

Wednesday.
Better Days 316"" 49 St (819 Aves); 245-8925
Private Eyes (Jeffrey Sanker & Dallas's Club Bad) 12 W 21 Sf, btwn
Sttv'6th Aves; 200-n72·Pyramid (Tennesse's House Nation) 101 AvenueA. btwn 6tW1th Streets; 420-1590
Silver Uning (2-4-1 drinks, also open Tues-Sun, women SAT) 175 CherryLa., Roral Pk. LI; 5161354-9641.
Stutz (2,4-1 drinks, also open daily) 202 Westchester Ave, White Plains;
914/761-3100

Every Night (or almost)'·Boybar (has a new wave drag show) 151/2 St Marks Place, btwn
2nd!3rd Aves; 674-7959·Copacabana (last Thu. ofthe month Susanne Bartsch party) 10 E 60 Sf,
at Fifth Ave; 755-6010.
Excalibur ($1 drinks, also open Tues-Sun, women WED) corner 10th/Jefferson behind football stadium, Hoboken, NJ; 201-795-1161
Grand Central (2-4-1 drinks, also open Wed-Sun) 210 Merrick Road,
Rockville Centre, LI; 5161536-4800
Hatfield's (2-4-1 drinks, female impersonators; also open nightly, women
on TUE & FRI) 126-10 Queens Blvd, Kew Gardens, Queens; 71812618484'*Mars (mixed straight/gay; Patrick & Chauncey party, 3rd Roor) Westside Highway and 13th St; 691-6262*Quickl (Chip Duckett Thursdays) 6 Hubert St (on Hudson, 5 blocks
below Canal); 925-2442

Friday·Boybar 151/2 St Marks PI., btwn 2nd!3rd Aves; 674-7959
Colwnbia Dances (1st Friday of every month) 116thSt & Bway; 854-3574days*Mike Todd Room (Chip Duckett's Boy+Boy) 123 E 13 St; club (Palladium)473-7171.Private Eyes (preppies and young professionals) 12 W 21 St, btwn Sth/6th
Aves; 200-n72.
·Ouickl (mixed straight/gay; Scott Currie + Panty Girdlesl6 Hubert St (onHudson, 5 blocks below Canal); 925-2442
TAG at The Space (party for men, alternate Fridays, begins 4/13) 132 W
20 St; 7181129-2464.

Barefoot Boogie (smoke & alcohol free) 4346th Ave (btwn 9/10 SU); 832-6759.
·Boybar 151/2 St Marks Place, btwn 2ndj3rd Aves; 674-7959
The Center Dances (2nd and 4th Saturdays) 208 W 13 St, btwn7tWBth
Aves; 620-7310
Girth and Mirth Club at the Center (3rd Saturdays, heavy men & their,admirers) 208 W 13 St; 620-7310
Colwnbia Dances (3rd Saturdays,'Same But Different Dance, throughJune 16) 116 & B'way, 10 pm - 3 am; info 629-1989
Private Eyes (Jeffrey Sanker & Dallas's Club Bad) 12 W 21 St, btwn
Sttv'6th Aves; 200-n72*Roxy (mixed gay/straigltt/TVs/clubkids) 515 W 18 St (btwn 10/11 Aves);
645-5156
Saint At Large (ad hoc parties at different locations); 674-8541
Sound Factory (mixed gay/straight, Acid House, no alcohol) 530 W 27 St(btwn 1Ottv'I1th Aves); 643-0728

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Monster (West Village) 80 Grove St at Sheridan Sq.; 924-3557
Spectrum (closed Mon & Tue, WED free, THU free & 2-4-1 drinks, FRI. m/f strippers, SAT guest star show, SUN live show & free 9-10 pm)
802 64th St@8th Ave, Bay Ridge, Bklyn; 7181238-8213

DANCING OUT for Women
Tuesday.

H8tfleld's 1~6-10 Queens Blvd.; Kew Gardens; 7181261-8484. Wednesday

Thursdayh~~~··Pyramid (Hapi Phace's Backdoor Cabaret) 101 Avenue A, btwn 6{7Streets; 420-1590
Twenty/fwenty (T-Dance, 4 pm - 2 am) 20 W 20 St (516Aves); 727-8841
Woody's (Dean Johnson's original Rock & Roll Fag Bar, alternate Sundays, call first) 4th St at 2nd Ave; 982-3686.'.

Bedrock 121 Woodfield Rd, W, Hempstead, LI; 5161486-9516
Excalibur (Ladies Night, $1 drinks) corner IOttv'Jefferson behind footballstadium, Hoboken, NJ; 201-795-1161
Twenty/fwenty (Shescape After Work. 5-10 pm) 20 W 20 St (btwn
Sttv'6th Aves); info 645'6479, club 727-8841

ThursdayBedrock 121Woodfield Rd, W, Hempstead, LI; 5161486-9516
Big Hunt Club (Her Planet, 8 pm - 2 am; began 3/29) 804 Washington Sf,
4 blocks below 14 St; info 727-7616

Friday.

Bedrock 121 Woodfield Rd, W. Hempstead, LI; 5161486-9516
Cheeks 2000 Long Beach Road,lsland Park. LI; 5161431-5700·Mike Todd Room (Chip Duckett's Girl+Gir~ 123 E 13 St; club (Palladium)473-7171
Hatfield's 126-10 Queens Blvd., Kew Gardens; 7181261-8484
Roxy (Shescape party) 515 W 18 St,btwn 10th/11th Aves; info 645-6479,
club 645-5156
Visions 56-01 Queens Blvd, Woodside; info 7181846-7131 , club 7181899-9031

Saturday.

Bedrock 121"Woodfield Rd, W. Hempstead, U; 5161486-9516
The Center (Women & Friends 1st Saturdays, Feb. thru May) 208 W 13
St; 620-7310'.
Mars (last Saturdays, Her Planet; 4/28 this month) 13 St & West Side
Hwy, 691-6262.'
Silver Uning 175 Cherry Lane, Floral Park. LI; 5161354-9641
Starz 836 Grand Boulevard, Deer Park, LI; 5161242-3857
1\Nenty/l'wenty (Shescape party) 20 West 20 Street (btwn Sttv'6th Aves);
info 645-6479, club 727-8841

SundayBedrock 1}1 Woodfield Rd, W, Hempstead, LI; 5161486-9516 Ceve Canem (Sandwich Sister Sundays) 24 1st Ave at 1st St; 529-9665

Every Night (or almost)

Cubby rio.. (tiny dance floor) 438 Hudson St C Morton St; 243-9079
Duchess II Sheridan Sq, & 7th Ave South; 242-1408
Spectrum (closed Mon & Tues; good gay!lesbian mix, see Every Night,
above~ for details) 802 64th St, Bklyn,; 7181238-8213 ,SundayBetter Days 316 W 49 St (819 Aves); 245-8925*Mars (Chip Duckett'sMars Needs Men) Westside Highwayand 13thSt 691-6262
Morrissey (OJ Keoki started April 8) 11th Ave at 26 St; 633-0701

April 18, 1990

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A.c.o.c.
AIDS CENTER OF QUEENS COUNTYSOCIAL SERVICES - EOUCATION - BUDDIESCOUNSaJNG - SUPPORT GROUPS
Volunteer Opportunitiel(718)89&-25OO(voicel • (718)89&-2985(IDD)ACT UP {AIDS Culitien III Unl_h
Powwrl498A Hudlon Street, Suite G4 NYC 1001".
(212)988-1114
A diverae, non-par1iaan group of individu.11 united inanger and commitl8d to direct Iction to end lIIe AIDS
criail. Gen. meetingl Mon. nights 7:30,
at lIIe Community Center 2011W.131h.

BISEXUAL YOUI'll
InfonnlllOcial
Iiaupport group for Bisexual
kidrlYou1h. Monthly m8etinwpotluck lunch held
1:00pm on fourih SundlY of lIIe month at membera
hom ... Call NY ABN for lIIis month'lloc.tion.
Thisgroup is part of lIIe New York Are. Biaaxual Network.
IIWS-BRONX WBIANS
UNRm IN SISTUHOOD
Soci.I, politic. I .nd IUpport networking group for
women arid lIIeir frienda. Regular IOcialavente andmll8tingl on lIIe fim.nd lIIird Fridaya of avery monlll.
At The Community Canter, 208 W. 13 Stint, from 8:3G8pm. For mora info c.11 Li... t (212)829-8817,

ALOEClAPLN-NY(Asian lesbi.nl of lIIe Ellt COI.v
Asi.n Pacific lelbi.n Network-New York)We are. politic.I, 10ci.l.nd
lupportive network of
Asian P.cific lelbi.ns. Planning meetingl on lIIelll
Sund.y Ind locial eventa on lIIelall Friday of each. monlll. Call (212) 517-5588 for more infonnation.
ARCS (AlDl-Relmd
Community Senic:_)
for Dutche .. , Orange, Putnam, Rockl.nd, Sulliv.n,
Ulster .nd Wellchaater countiaa, AIDS educ.tion,client .eMcel, crilll intervention, IUpport groUpl,
clle management, buddy and hOlpital viaitor program.
214Cen1ralIw. 'Mila PIIilI. NY ll1D1{9141 flIB.OID
838 Broact.vay ,Newburgh, NY 122!il (914)!i82~
AlDSli ... (114)1IJ.GIG7
ATR (AIDS TREATMENT REGISTRY. INC.)
Publishel I bi-monlllly Directory of clinical triala ofexperimental AIDSIHIV tre.tmenta in NY/NJ, and ha.
educational m.terialr/.eminara
for tri.1 p.r1icipanll.
AlR also advocates for improve menta in lIIe tri.l..,...
tem. P.O. Box 30234, NY, NY 1011-0102. (212) 288-4198.
Public.tions frer/don.tion
requaated.
BAR ASSOCIATION FOR HUMAN RIGHI'S
l.wyera Raferral
SeMce forlllelesbi.n
and Gay Community
Full Range of Lag.1 SeMcel(212)459-4873
BAR ASSOCIATION FOR IRlMAN RIGHI'S
Free Walk·in leg.l Clinic, Tuelday &-8 pm
lesbi.n IiGay Community Centro Ground Roor
BIDS (BISEXUAL DO.NANCE.
SUBMISSION GROUp)
Sh.re SIM experiencel and f.ntaliaa willi othera ina politive. non-judgementalatmOlphere.
Fim Sund.y of lIIe month, 4:45pm at lIIe Community Centar
208 W. 13 Street, NYC . This group il part of lIIe New
York Area Bilexual Network.
BISEXUAL PRIlE DISCUSSION GROUP
Topical dilcu .. ionl on i.. uaa of interut to lIIe community in I congenillltmOlphera,
followed by In informal
dinner at I friendly local restaurant Every Sunday, 3:00
- 4:30pm at lIIe Community Canter 208 W. 13 Street,
NYC, Partofllle NewYorkAra. Bilexual Network.
BlWAYS NEW YORK
Monlllly aoci.leventa
for lIIe Bisexu.1 communityand friends. Call NYABN for details of upcoming
evanta, (718)353-8245
BIPAC IBISEXUAL POUTICAL
AmON COMMmEa
Political action on i.. uaa of importance to lIIe Bilex·
u.Ul. .. biarVGay community. Monlllly meetinwpoduck
held 8:00pm on fourth Thuraday of lIIe monlll .t membera hom ... C.II NYABN forlllis monlll'lloc.tion.
(718) 353-8245

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April 18, 1990

BOOYPOSITIVE
If you or your lover has taatad HIV+, we offer IUpport
groupl, lemin.ra, public fol'Ufl1l, reference library,referrala, loci.lactivitiel
Ind Up-to-dlte n.tion.1
monlllly, ,.HE BODY POSITIVF IS2!i{ya.r).
(212)n1-1348,
208 W. 13111St, NYC, NY 10011
C/RCU: OF MORE UGIfI'
Spiritu.llupportand sh.ring in. glyllelbiln Iffirm.tive group. Well-Park Prelbytariln Church
185 Waat 88th Straet
Wed: worahip leMce 8:30 pm, program 7:30.
Maraha (212)304-4373
Charlie (212) 891-7118.
COMMUNITY HEALTH PROJECT
208 Weat 13111Street, NYC, New York 10011
For Appointmenta and Infonn.tion(212)875-3559 (TTY/Voice)
PROVIDING CARING, SENSITIVE AND lOW COST
HEAlTH CARE SERVICES TO THE LESBIAN AND GAYCOMMUNI1Y
COMMUNITY RESEARCIIINITIATIVE
PWAs, PWARCI IilIIeir phyaici.ns taking 1118initiltive to leek promising intervention ag.inll AIDS in areap. manner. For more info or to volunteer pleue
call (212) 481-1050.
CONGREGATION BETH IIMCHAT TORAH
NY'I G.y and laabi.n Synagogu. SeMcaa
Friday.t 8:30pm
S1 Belllune Street
For info. call: (212)829-9488.

RIONT RUNNERS
A running club for I.. biln Ind glY alllietea'
of aU abiliti ... Fun Run. of 1-8 rmle. held avery Sat at101m Ind Wed .. It 7pm in Cantnl Plrkand. avery Tu.... t 7pm in Proapect Park.
For infonnation: call (212)724-9700,
tHE RIND FOR HUMAN DIGNITY
Nation.1 Gay Ind lesbiln Criail line
'AlDS 800"-l·800-SOS-GAYS
Educ.tion.1 RalGurc. Canter; Poaitive Imlg ..
M.dil Canter; NY State Arts Program
88IIB'wIy Slita41ONYC,NY10012 (212)52&-1....

TIE GAY ARlICAN AMERICANSOFWESTCHESTEII{11Ie 8.A.A.)
is I community b.. ed IUPPOrt group formed in
Waatcheatar County. V.riou •• ctivitie. Ira pllnned
for lIIe coming montha.
Pleue cI1l914-37&-0727 for more info.
GI.AAII
GIY. Lellllin Alli_
Apllllt ...,..tIon
80 V.rick Street, NYC 10013 (212) 88&-1700
GlAAD combl. homophobia in 111.media Ind ellewhere by promoting visibility oflllel .. bi.n Ind gay
community Ind org.nizing gra .. rooII r8lpol1l8 toanti-glY bigotry.
Do you have 30 minutea • month
to fight homophobil?
Join lIIe GLAAD PhoneTrlill
Call (212)-88&-1700 for infonn.tion.
GUB
Gay and La.biln Independent Broldclatarainvita.
you to tum into OunOOKS on WBAl-NY, 99.5 FM
av.ry olll.r Sunday, 7:3G-8:3Opm. Join uaevery olllir
Tuesday It 7:30pm to become. member of GUB. No
experience needed,
15015 Eighlll Avenue, 18th floor. (212)748-0401i.
GAY. WBIAN HEALTH CONCER~
An office ofllle NYC Dept of H.slIII, providellinkIU" betwn NYC Hellth IiHuman'SvcI, Ind tha La ..
biln a G.y community, f\lcusing in All haalthconcems; r8lOurce infonnation for h .. 1th aaMcel
consumera and providera, 125 Worth Strae .. Box 87,
New York. NY 10013. For info cIIi (212) &eIH996.

DIGNIJYJlIG APPLE
A community of l .. bian .nd GlY Call1olica. Activiti ..
include Liturgies and socials every Sat, 8.'00 pm, atlIIe Center, 208 W. 13 Stre.t, NYC.
Call (212) 818-1309.

GAY. WBIAN mCIIOTHERAPY
Sliding Icale f... -Insurlnce
acceptad.
Inatitute for Human Identity.
(212) 798-9432

DIGNITY NM YORK
lesbien and gay Call1olic. and friend.
AIDS Miniatry, Spiritual Development
The Call1edral Project
Worahip SeMcel IiSocial-Sun. Evel. 7:3Opm-St
John'. Epilcopal Church 218 Well 11111Street 0
W.verly-875-2179

GAY MALE 11M Acrmm
Dedicated to llfa Ind reaponlible SIM .ince 19111.
Open meetinga w/progrlma on SIM teohniquaa,
lifeltyle illUII, political and IOcial concernl, AlIG
apacialevente,,'peaklra
burllu, workshopa, demOl,
Iffinity groupl, nlWllettar, more. GMSMA -Dept 0,
498A Hud.on Street, Suite D23 ,NYC 10014.
(212) 727·8878.

EDGE
Education in I Di .. bllIII GeyEnYi_nc
For 111. phyaically diaabled laabi.n .nd Gay
Community.
(212)88&-1921
P.O. Box 305 Village Station, New York. NY 1001"
FEMME SUPPORT GROUP
For laabiar1l who .eIf identify as Femme. For info andmelling tin .. c.1I U... t (212)829-8817. No men pie ....

GIlAD(GAY MEN OF ARlICAN DESCENT)
80 Variek Straet, NYC 10013 I support group of Gay
Min of African D.. clnt dedicated to con.ciou,"_. railing Ind lIIe development of lIIe l .. bian and G.yCommunity. GMAD is inclusive of Afric.n, Afric.n-,Americ.n, C.ribb .. n and Hi'panic/l.atino men ofcolor. Meeting. are held, weakly, on Fridaya. For
more infonn.tion, call 71&-802-0182,

GAYMEWS HEALTHCRISIS HOTUNElESBIANS AND UYS OF RATIUSH

FOR INFORMATION ON SAFER SEX AND HIV-RELATED HEALTH SERVICES, AND FOR INFORMATION ON
ONE-TIME, WALK-IN AIDS COUNSEliNG SERVICES
212-aJ7 ....
212 ..... 7470 lOD (For the "-i ...
Mon.-Fri. 10'.30 a.m. to 9 pm. S.t 12:00 to 3:00

Brooklyn'. aocial organiz.tion for both gay man andlesbi.08. P,O. Box 108, Midwood Station
BrOoklyn, NY 11230. (718) 858-9437

Im,.....)GlIITH & MIRTH CWB OF NEW YORl(
Soci.1 club for heavy, chubby gay men a their .dmir·ens. Monthly locial. at the 'Center', weeldy b.rnights Thunsd.ya at the 'Chelse. Tr.nafer', monthly
F.t Apple Review, bi·monthly FAR penp.ls. For moreinfonn.tion c.1I Ernie at 914-8!&-7735 or writa:
GaM/NY, Dept 0, P.O. Box 10, Pelham, NY 10803.
HEAL (.... Ith Education AIDS Uai_)
Weekly info. and aupport group fortreatnnenta for- ,AIDS which do not compromise the immune eywtem
further, including .lternative .nd holiltic .pproaches.
Wed 8pm. 208 W. 13th St (212)674-HOPE.
HErRlCK-MNinN
INSTIfUTE
for le.bian and gay youth. Counseling, drop-in center (M-F, Upm), rap groupe, HaIVey M~k HighSchool, AIDS and aafer .. x infonnation,referrala, profeAion.ledul:.tion,(212) 833-892OIvoice)(212) 833-8928 TTY for de.f

HISPANIC UNITED GAYS & LESBIANS
Educationalaervices,
poIi1ical action, counl8~ng andaoci.l.ctivitiea
in Spanish .nd Englilh by and for theLatino IMbian and G.y Community.
General meetinga 8:00 pm 4th Thurad.y of every
month at 208 Welt 13th Street
Call (212) 891-4181
or write H.U.G.L, P.O. Box 228 C.nal Street Station,
New York, NY 10019.
lAMBDA LEGAL DEFENSEAND EDUCATION RIND
Precedent-.etting
litigation n.tionwide forleabia08, gay men .nd people with AIDS. Member·ship ($35 and up) inc. newsletter and invitations to
Ipeci.leventa.
Volunteer night on Thunsdaya.lntake
c.lla: 2·4pm Mon thru Fri (212) 885-8585
LAVA (LESBIANS ABOUT VISUAL AlIT)
Call for slides for lesbian Artists' Exhibition, Gay a
Laabian Community Center, NYC. For more infonn.tion, aend SASE to :Miri.m Fougere
118 Fort Greene PlaceBrooklyn, NY 11217.

THE WBIAN AND GAYBIG APPLE CORPS
Get your inatrument out of the CI088t .nd come pl.ywith us. Symphonic, Marching, Jazz. Dixial.nd, Rock,Rute Ensembles .nd Woodwind ••123 West 44th St Suite 12l New York, NY 10030(212) 88&-2922.
WBIAN & GAY
COMMUNnY SERVICES CENTER
208 West 13th Street New York, NY 10011(212) IVlIH310
Bam-11pm everyday.
A place for community organizing and networking.
aocial .. rvices, cultural programa, and aocialeventa'I.ponaoredby the ~nter a~d ~Onl th.n 1&0 community org.nlz.tlon ..

WBIAN AND GAYLABOR NETWORKAn org~iiization of lesbiana and Gay. who are activein their'lab.or union. working on domeltic partnershipbenefita and AIDS i.. u... For more infonnation 'call(212)923-8e90,

WBIAN AND GAYRIGHTS PROJECT
Civil Libel1iH Union
EXPANDftG 11l1li(212) 944-9800, ext. 545. of the American

IINOWYOURRlGHlS/WFfE.

lESBIAN IIERsToIIY ARCHIVES. P.O, Box 1258
New York, New Yortt 10110
217/874-7232
Since 1874, the Archivea h •• i08pired, aha pad .nd
reflpcted IMbian live. everywhere. Call to arrange avilit or to volunteer for Thunsday woricnights.

LONG ISLAND ACT...
P.O, Box 291, New Hyde P.rk, NY 11040
Support u. for ch.nge on long Island,(518)338.4882 (518)987-5238 N.... u(518) 82!-553O Suffolk

MEN OF All COLORSTOGETHERNY
A multi·r.cial group of gay men against raciam. Meet·
ing. 8V8ry Frid.y night at 7:45 at theIMbian and G.yCommunity Services Center, 208 W, 13t11Street For
more info. call: (212) 24H388 or (212) 222-8794.

METROPOliTAN TENNIS GROUPiIITG)
Our 200 member I.. bi.n andgaytannis
club inoluiJ ..
pI• .,.ns from beginning to tournament level. Monthly
tennis parties. Wmlllr indoor leagu8. Come playwith 1181
For information: MTG, Suite K83,48&-A Huclton St, New
York, NY 10025. (718) 852-8582.
MOCA (..... err CeI... AIDS PrwnntIon ProgIllllL)
Provid .. saflr.ex snd AIDS eduoation infonn.tion
to g.y .nd bi18xu.1 Men of Color; coordinate •• net·
wollt of peer-.upport groupl for gay.nd biaexual
Men of Color in en 5 bOll!ugha of New Yortt City.
303 Ninth Ave, New York, Ny 10001
or c.1I (212) 238-1788,
NATIONAL GAY AND WBIAN TASK FORCE .
is the national gra .. roota political orgenization for
IlIbian. end g.y men. Membenship is myear.
la,u8-oriantad projecta ad~re .. violence, aodomy
laws, AIDS, gay rights orciinanclI, fammes, medi.,
eto. through lobbying, eduoation, orgsnizing .nd
direct action.
NGlTF 1517 U Street NW, Waahington, DC 20008.
(202)332-8483.

NEW YORK ADVEII11SING
AND COMMUNICAnoNS NEIWORKNYACN is the community'. largest gay .nd lesbi.n
protaAional group, welcoming .11 incommunidtione-and
their friends. Monthly meeting., 3rd Wed 8:30pm at the Community Center. Membens' newslettar, job hotline, annusl dinlctory. Phone(212) 517-G380 for more info. Mention OutWeek for
one frae newsletter.

N.Y. woMEN's SORlAll

GURD

For experienced, .. rioua Softban PI• .,.ns, Coaches
and Managens, We play mod/flst pitch weekends in
Manhattan and 008808. Try-outs begin Feb. 11 thru
April- or until filled. (212) 255-1379 Janet
NINJII mEET CENTER
Since 1973, a community dedicatad to demonatratingthat a homolOXuallifoatylo i. a rltionsl, delirable
choice for individual. di... tiafied with the reward. of
oOllVentionalliving. Paychologically - focUllld rap
group., Tue." Sat, 8 to 10 pm. poer oounl8l1ing .vailable, 319 E. 9 Street, New York, NY 10003, for info,call(212) 228-5153.

NORlllERN UGHTS ALTERNATIVES
Improving Qu.lity of Ufe for People with AIDS/HIV.
THE AIDS MASTERY WORKSHOP: Exploring the pOIaibili1ies of. powarfuland creative life in the f.ce of
AIDS. C.II (212)255-8554
NYC GAY & LESBIANANTI-VlOLBICE PROJECT
Counaeling, advoc8G¥,. and infonnation for aurvivonsof .nti·g.y and .nti-Ieabi.n violence,'aexual a.. ault,
domeatic violenc., and other types of victimization.
Allaervices free and confidential.
24 hour hodine (212) 807-0197 .
PEOPLE WITH AIDS COA1ll10N(212) 532-o291Vl-800-828-328CVHodine (212) 532-0588
Monday thru Friday 10am·8pm
Meal progr.ms, aupport groupa, educational andreferralaervices
for PWA's and PWArc'a.
PEOPLE WITH AIDS HEALTH GROUP
Underground buyer's club importing not-yet·approved
medicationa .nd nutritional.upplementa.
31 West 28th
St 4th Roor (212) 532.0280
SAGE: (Sonior Action in a Gay Environmont)
Social Service Agency. providing canB, activitiea, aeduc.tion.lservices
for g.y a lesbian I8nior ci1izeR8.
Nao servea CMlr 180 homebound aaniora a. older F"NA'a.
208 West 13th St NYC 10011, (212)741-2247

SETHIAN GAYS, LESBIANS AND BISEXUALSFor aU of UI interested in noaching out to each otherwith exuberance to apontaneously explore andexpsnd upon the Setl\lJane Rober1B "philoaophy" as
it relate. to our livll, penson.lly,l8xuallyand politic.lly. Call AI (212)879-5104.
THE OUTREACH
USING COMMUNAL HEAUNG (TOUCH)
Comnunity voJunteens providing a waeklv buffet supper
for the Brooklyn AIDS community, TOUCH 1118811 Monday
8V8I. 5pm to 8:30pm- atdowntown Brooklyn Friends
Meeting Houae (110 Schennerhom St near Boerum
Place~ Unillld tr.08portation may be arranged. Info: (718)822-2756. TOUCIf welcornea contributiona offunds, food.
and voJunteens.

ULSTER COUNTY UY AND WBIAN AllIANCE
Meeta first and third Monday of each monthat 7:30 p.m. at the Unitarian Church on Sawkill Road
in Kingston. For infonnation, call (914) 828-3203.
WHAMI (Women'.lfoalth
Action MobilirAltion)
A non-p.rtisan coalition committed to demanding,aecuring and defending absolute noproduotive free·dam .nd quality health care for ill women. We meet
every Wed .• t 8:30 pm at the Village Independent
Democrata, 224 West Fourth Street (off Sheridan Sq.).
W. are not affiliated with VID. (212) 713-5988, Mailingaddre .. : WHAMI, P.O. Box 733, NYC 10009 .

WOMEN'S ALTERNATIVECOMMUNnY CENTER (WACC),
A non-profit, lesbi.n community center lllVing
Queena, N.... u and Suffolk counties. Thull night
w88kly diacullion grp •• 8:30pm, for other activiti ••pl.... contact 118.t (518)483-2050.

NORTH AMERICAN MAN/BOY
lDYE ASSOCIATION (HAMBLA)
Dedicated to sexual fl1l8dom andllpeciallyintariatedin glY int&rgenerational rllationahipe, Monthly Bul- .
latin and regul.r chapter meetinge on the. first Saturday of each month, Yearly membenship is $20; write
NAMBLA. PO Box 174, Midtown Station, New York,NY 10018 or call (212) 807-8578 for infonnation,

April 18, 1990

OUT~EEK79

OUTWEEK BAR GUIDECHELSEA
Barbary Coast, 64 7th Ave. (14th St.), 675-0385
The Break, 232 8th Ave. (22nd St.), 627-0072.
Chelsea Transfer, 131 8th Ave. (bet. 16th & 17th),
929-7183 .

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

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

The Monster, 80 Grove St. 17th Ave.), 924-3558

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

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

Twenty-Nine

Ramrod, 185 Christopher St, unlisted.

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

Private Eyes, 12 W. 21 st St. (bet, 5th & 6th),

Ty's, 114 Christopher,741-9641.

Spike, 120 11th Ave., 243-9688

The Annex (to Cellblock 28), 673 Hudson St. (bet.
13th & 14th), 627-1140
Badlands, Christopher & West St., 741-9236

438 Hudson(Morton

BROOKLYN (718)

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

After Five Plus, 5 Front St., 852-0139

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

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

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

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

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

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

Candle Bar, 309 Amsterdam Ave., 874-9155

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

Boots & Saddle, 76 Christopher St., 929-9684

Stl.

The Pyramid, 101 Avenue A, 420-1590
Tunnel Bar, 1161st Ave (7th St.), m-9232

WESTSIDE

WEST VILLAGE·

The Bar, 68 2nd Ave. (at 4th St.), 674-9714
Boy Bar, 15 St. Mark's PI., 674-7959

Uncle Charlie's, 56 Greenwich Ave" 255-8787

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

EAST VILLAGE

Sneakers, 392 West St., 242-9830.

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

206-n70

Palms, 129 Lexinton Ave., 686-8299

The Works,799-7365

428 Columbus

Ave (at 81 stl.

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

EASTSIDE

Duchess II, 70 Grove St (7th Ave,!. 242-1408

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

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

G.H, Club, 353 E, 53rd St., 223-9752

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

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

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

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

Kelly's Village West, 46 Bedford St., 929-9322

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

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

South Dakota, 405 3rd Ave., 684-8376

QUEENS (718)Breadstix, 113-24 Queens Blvd., Forest Hills,
236-0300
Hatfield's, 126-10 Queens Blvd" Kew Gardens,
261-8484
Hideaway, 87-36 Parsons Blvd" Jamaica, 657-4585
iove Boat, n-02 Broadway, Elmhurst, 429-8670
Magic Touch, 73-13 37th Rd, Jackson Hgts,
429-8605,

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

WESTCHESTER (914)Playroom, 590 Nepperhan Ave., Yonkers,
965-6900

The Cubbyhole
438 Hudson Street

Stutz, 202 Westchester Ave, White Plains,761-3100LONGISLAND-NASSAU

at Morton(212) 243-9079(516)

A neighborhood

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

bar forboth gay men & women

Blanche, 47-2 Boundary Ave., Fanningdale,694-6906
Cheeks, 2000 Long Beach Rd, Island Park,431-5700
Grand Central, 210 Merrick Rd, Rockville Centre,
536-4800~!

Pal Joey's, 2457 Jerusalem Ave., North Bellmore,785-5031
Silver Lining, 175 Cherry Lane, New Hyde Park.
354-9641

LONG ISLAND-SUFFOLK (516)
Bunkhouse, 192 N. Main St. Sayville, 567-9834~TheaterDinner

DiMerICock1aiIs
Intemational Cuisine
Uve Entertaivnent '765 athAvenUe
New York, N.Y.10006(212) 9566100::llIlfn 111(1111111(!1!) !!1-1!1Club Swamp, Sizes, 8 E. Main St., Bay Shore,665-5175
Kiss, 161 Fannardie Dr., Lake Ronkonkoma,
467-9273
Mr.'s, 608 Sunrise Hwy., W. Babylon., 661-9580
Starz, 836 Grand Boulevard, Deer Park, 242-3857
Thunders, 894 W. Jericho Tpke., Smithtown,
864-1410

NEW JERSEY (201)Charlie's West, 536 Main St., E. Orange,
678-5002
The Den. 12-16 Hiram St, New Brunswick,545-7329,

Feathe(s, n Kinderkamack Rd., River Edge,
342-6410,Friendly's Bar, 6310 Park Ave., West New York," 854-9895
Le Mannequin, 67 Orchard St., Elizabeth,353-9694

WHERE'STHE
PARTY!?.

540-0UTT
688
8Call us for the
hoHest partlesl
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guide toManhaHan's gaynightlife.

The Station, 308 Watchung Ave., Plainfield,
755-4000 .

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Excalibur, 10th & Jefferson, Hoboken, NJ,
795-1023

UPDATED DAilY

April 18, 1990

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(212) 337-1232
Eves (2121932-1496.

ART BUY/~SEL=--L_-ART SOURCE UNUMITEDWe buy, sell, trade and locate artworb.
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more ... For informatio",call Dan at ~55-6680.

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REAL ESTATE; COOP/CONDO CLOSINGSBANKRUPTCY; INCORPORATIONS;
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Paddles, 540 W.21 (212)799-8275

FORESKIN LOVERSThe New York City chapter of the Uncircumcised Society of America (NYCUSA) seeks new male members (with orwithout foreskin) to join its swellingranks, Call for more club information or
to make reservations for the new members party. (212) m-4208,

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Dr. Steven Swaya
166 East 35th St (near 3rd Ave,)
212-683-4550

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Suite 704,
200 West 57 Street,
New York, NY 10019,
Office hours by appointment only call
212-333-2650,

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New York, NY 10014
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FINANCIAL PLANNINGi

HELP WANTEDGROUPS
MEN'S GROUP
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self-esteem and male intimacy
Ucensed psychotherapist
Call for consultation.
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Gat together with a group of men to
give and receive massages. Taught.by
Terry Weisser, Ucensed Masseur andteacher at the Sw8dish Institute. Sundays, 7-10pm, $20,00,
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government
funded non-profit organization, Skills
required:1) accounts
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Qualifications:
Bachelors degree inbusiness or administration;
relevant
experience, To apply: Send resume and.•salary requirements to: ACQC, 97-45
llueens Blvd" Suite 1220, Rego Park, NY
11374, ACQC is an equal oppurtunity
employer,

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SAGE: Senior Action in a Gay Environment, Inc, a non-profit organization,is seeking an individual who will havefull-time financial responsibility for thissocial service agency caring for gay
DEVElOPMENT ASSOCIATE
and lesbian
seniors
in the NY(PART.,TlME)
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fund-raising program for a borough-wide,
relations activities and preparation ofcommunity-based organization. Skills grant proposals for foundations
andrequired: Strong grant writing experience governmental agencies, This person
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Send cover letter, resume and salary
Please direct all inquiries and resumes
requirements
to: Howard Goldberg,
to: Chair, Search Committee, SAGE,
Deputy Director, ACQC, 97-45 Queens Inc., 208 West 13th Street, New York,
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with phone# to
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10009.
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52,5'10"., '165, for
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4 SKIN LOVERQUEENSGWM 6' 1751bs
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11378 or call 718424-1064. No JO
calls,
B.D. G.A.
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want is someone
to share things
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wann honest caring Intelligent & real with sense ofhumor 26-40 pref.
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Write with pho. no.
P.O. Box 2099, NY
NY 10185.
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to married men
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10017.
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complexion.
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Photo optional.
PO Box 8557, JAF
STANY, NY
10116.
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are looking forother couples forfriendship (butNOT sex), We areboth well-educated professionals .
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out in NYC, Ourrelationship is solid, but feel thatfriendship withother couples canhelp keep itstrong.lnterested?
Then reply to POB
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37. Level
41. A Boy Named __43. Frigid
45. Tightwad
47. Killer whale
48. Dennis Quaid remake
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44. Absolute
45. Treaty

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46. Mine find

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13, Forbidden
14. Green or lima
15, Bread spread
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18. Small brook
19. Norton and Sullivan
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55, H.H. Munro

56, Norse poem
60. Prefix for thought
62. Live' coal
63. Aquatic bird

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37, Aliments

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58. Calendar abbr.
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