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EDITOR IN CHIEFGABRIEL ROTELLOIIIIII II)

The Year in Review
1990 may well be remembered as the moment when thefamiliar ground of lesbian and gay life suddenly shifted beneathour feet~ Depending on one's perspective, the brave new worldthat resulted from this year's upheavals was either more affirminRor more fri~tening than the one it replaced, 1990 saw the rise toprominence of a new generation of writers, thinkers, artists andactivists who reject many of the assumptions which guided thelesbian and gay struggle since Stonewall. It's oddly fitting thatsuch a coming of age should occur in our movement's 21st year,
As certitudes of the past were called into question, a gulf
, seemed to open between those who adhere to, and those· who
reject, the moderate tactics of the late '70s and '80s. 1990's militantmood was made manifest by new groups like Queer Nation and
the Pink Panthers, who struck a confrontational pose which frightened many conservative lesbians and gay men but inspired ayoung army of activists, The year's major media phenomenon, theouting controversy, illustrated the yawning gulf which now exists
between conflicting conceptions of privacy, community and liberation. The widespread use of the term "queer" and tracts like the"I Hate Straights" essay were public declarations of difference thatalienated some even as they empowered others. And events like
Larry Kramer's call for a riot at the San Francisco AIDS conference,and the calls for gays to self-arm in response to the epidemic ofbashings, injected an unprecedented note of violence into what
has always been a uniquely nonviolent movement.
Much of the reinvigorated radicalism of 1990 was fomented
by a newly aggressive lesbian and gay press. Papers like Au
Courant in Philadelphia, GCN in Boston and this publication
served as vital conduits of ideas and information and played central roles in many of the year's pivotal controversies.
But even for those who found 1990 encouraging, there weremajor disappointments as well. No discernible progress was madetoward ending the AIDS epidemic, and the ever-present complacency within government and the press about AIDS seemed to growdiscernibly larger, ACf UP, which until now has deftly directed thecommunity's collective rage about AIDS, turned some of that rage
inward and showed troubling signs of self-destruction. No promising lesbian or gay leadersemerged.,. to unify and direct the enormous pent-up energies that exploded in the streets of gay America,even as we lost irreplaceable visionaries like Vito Russo to the vora-' dous epidemic, And many once-vital community organizations
either disintegrated or became enfeebled by inept boards of directors, lack of openness and democracy, or spiteful internal disputes.
. Still, despite the AIDS-inspired gloom that engulfs many inour community, the past year was a progressive and pivotal time.
Much of what will happen in the future, for good or ill, will be
traced back to events, ideas and groups that took shape in 1990.
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GAY AND AA
Thanksfor
Duncan•Osborne's good article on gays
and AA ["Facing our Addictions," no. 77, Dec, 19]. But I
think ifs important to discuss
further the disturbing problem
he raises in his final paragraph,that AA may lead gay and lesbian members to abandon
political action and to acquiesce in straight world oppression. He quotes a gay alcoholic
who says, "First, I am an alcoholic, and second, I am gay,"
And Mr. Osborne concludes his
article by asking, "Might it not
be that these spiritual principles, which are saving some"lives, are betraying others?"
For any alcoholic whoworks seriously at recovery,
alcoholism is a fundamental
identity, but it is a spiritual
identity, not a political one. It
underlies all distinctions ofgender, race and age. Yet thisin no way restricts anyone
from identifying her- or himself as lesbian or gay, nor does
it limit their ability to engage inpolitical action, In my own
experience, it has been the
opposite: AA frees up many
people to act politically for the
first time in their lives. And it
also offers them an example ofharmonious
group action
directed toward a single goal.
The clearest way to see thepositive political power of sobriety is to look at some of thestatements made in the column"Diary of a Mad Queen" in thesame issue of OutWeek. The
author identifies himself as"neither a responsible journalist
nor a serious commentator on
gay society. I'm just a pill-poppin', booze-swillin', dick-hungry
cross-dresser on my way to hellin a handbasket." This may bestraight people in AA don't
geous, physically addicted
queen was seen as a political . seem fazed (I have been to
stance, meant to offend straight meetings in the deep Southsensibilities, but that era has where people talk about Jesus
as their higher power), and if
passed. Our age requires
focused, direct group action. they don't like sitting next to a
And for this, AA is a model with homo then fuck 'em. This
Mary is not going to move, Ia 55-year record of success.
was put on this planet toAnonymous
Manhattan assert my queerness. I am an
AA who considers himself
queer first, an alcoholic secBY ANDREA NATALIE
srONEWlltt RIOrS
ond, I know that many of us
feel that way, Many of us are
S()l$TICE T!lEE ..
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activists and can be seen at
010 SHE JI/<;T
ACT UP, etc.-we just don't(AUITA
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have "alcoholic" tattooed on~_
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our foreheads, I personally
prefer to let people know that
I'm a drunk, but with somepeople it just doesn't come up
in polite conversation,
I had some problems with
Duncan Osborne's article. 111AA,I
we talk about the serenity to'"accept the things we cannotchange (i.e., the weather, ourpasts, lovers) and the courage
to change the things we can..
(homophobia, lesbian and gay
invisibility, the government's
ineptitude in dealing with the~Ir~>
AIDS crisis), Acceptance is not:~~about taking something lying
down if it's going to end up~
hurting you. I am a lot more-- .. -~-.-active now as a queer than I.
was when I was drinking andMAfl.TflA
EVEN TIIIIL LV
CONn rao
SHE '0doing drugs, Sorry, honey, you
BEEN
L£T7ltv&LESB/A/o'S:IN
THE HOUSE.
missed the boat on that one, I
As a member of gay AA know a lot of people who came
it. Political action today
requires clear thinking, strength of New York, I must say that I out as a result of getting sober.lmyself recognized my own
and a sense of self-worth.
have a lot of problems withinternalized homophobia in theSobriety provides all these; the certain aspects of the fellowprocess and have been chipping
Mad Queen's Diary does not. ship, The literature is awful
For gay alcoholics, AA offers and outdated; many of us in away at it since, I just think thatsomething beyond hell in a the fellowship feel that way. it's a shame that you didn't
include any radical, atheist AA's
handbasket. It offers a way to People at Big Book meetings
howl at the outdated material. in your expose. We're just abecome responsible, serious
Whenever I travel to a new mirror of what's out theremembers of gay society.
There may have been a meeting, I always let everyone bourgeois queens and lesbians,
time when the life of an outra- know that I am queer. Most dykes and fags, drag queens,
intended as a fantasy, but for
too many gay men it is ordinary
reality. The picture of gay malebehavior in that column---antisocial, drug-addicted, indulging in unsafe sex, depressed,
suicidaHs tragic, but any gay
man now in recovery in AA canidentify with it. He's been there.
And by turning to AA he rejects~~'.r..---_:>_".nuary ." ........ ou,

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Osborne's misunderstanding or working to effect change asactivists and as members of
the AA member's self-justification. Either way, it's bullshit.
mote conservative organizations.
Appearing in public as a "repreR,garding the delegate
sentative" of AA is more chal- who spoke in a New York highlenging to ANs principles than school and was asked not todisclosure of gayness. Period:'.
rev~1 his 'homosexuality: This
In my not-so-hu'mble
must have'been a onlHlf-a-kind
opinion, acceptance does not case. I have spoken to huninfer passivity or turn a.gaY dreds of high school· students
man into a closeted doormat. . and have never been told what
In an AA sense, acceptance is to ~y or not to say by anyone.
Of all the outrageous
the digestion of truth. 'My AA In the course of. my talk, I haveinaccuracies in your gay AA experience has guided me revealed that I am gay, and notoward acceptance Of the one ever critiCized me. In fact,
article the worst was this:"The fellowship requires con- cold, hard facts, i.e:, the one teacher thanked me forformity from its membereffects of my alcoholism on being so honest. The principle
ship ...." I don't know what gay my life. This concept relates of acceptance is a key stone of
AA meetings you've been to, to the first of manyeAA para- AA thought, but it is part of atrilogy which includes: aware~
but the ones I go to are a lot doxes: admission of powerless conformist than those of, lessnesS over alcohOl leading ness, acceptance and action.
AAis a "bridge' back to life." Itsay, ACT UP.
to personal empowenneflt.
And the notion that we'1 would also. like to sug- encourages its members toare somehow closeted when gest that it .is easy to get caught become fully grounded in theoutside the rOQms is ridicuup in criticizing ANS. "p,erio~" principies of physical, emotionlous. I have spoken to high literature, etc._(I cali; AA an "art al and spiritual sobriety anddeco" prograjn). I~deed, AA is then become full participants inschool students about alcoholism, and in no way have I very easy fO critici~. Mis also the wor1d around them.
concealed my homosexuality.
Also, Mr. Osborne stateseasy t(fm~k" fun.of and'laughInaccuracy in reporting is at; I do it all the timel (JlJst the that AA rejects anger. This is
not uncommon, but when so kind of QjlI'I am,.1 s'poser But not ~o.
AA encourages its
many lives depend on the please,.in our 'critic;:ism~ let us members to feel all of their. not trivialize addiction and tile feelings. However, what AA
healing power of Alcoholics
tragic, fatal progression of does ask people to do is to
Anonymous, your personal
active alcoholism. And please count to ten before they act
biases become particularly
dangerous, AA is perhaps the let us riot-be too hard on the out on their anger. It is better
only group in the world that organized anarchy of M or its to channel. this anger in a concan truly say that it's been hundreds' of thousands of structive fashion (like a demo)saving the lives· of gay men recovering members: I know rather than turning it inward
and lesbians for over 50 years. we do the best that we can for and perhaps drinking over it.
,.
Dean V. each other; every day. In ending, I would also
Whoever you are, there is like to point out that the comManhattan
a place for you in AA. We're mon' wisdom .in AA today
As a sober lesbian mem- here, if you ever need us.
(after many years of debate) is
Bree B. that a truly sober person is
ber of AA for six years, as well
Manhattan "clean and dry." That is, they
as someone who has worked
in alcohol and drug treatment
refrain from the use of all
Thank you for your terrificfacilities, I appreciated Duncan
other drugs as well as alcohol.
Osborne's recent article, "Fac- article about gays in Alcoholics
If indeed, as statistics seem to
ing Our Addictions." However, Anonymous. Printing this article suggest, gay men and lesis a great service to our commuI found it flawed on several
bians are, at a minimum, twice•
points and would like to nity. The more sober gays and as likely to experience problesbiansthere'are,the more~ lems ·with al.~hol, then no one
address one or two.
Osborne's last paragraph clear-headedand productive pOO-' should feel threatened by ansuggests that one AA guest lec- pie [there] are for the struggle in argani~ation which returns
turer's decision not to disclose the fight against h()mophobia. As once-hopeless drunks back to
his gayness to students result- a sober person who is also
a community 3$' whole anded from his acquiescence to activist, I can tell You tliat'there
healthy people~
AA's spiritual principle of are many members of the Gay'
A.M.
acceptance. Wow, This is either AA community who are also
Manhattan
leathermen, leather dykes,
transsexuals and on and on...
I have no qualms about
breaking my own anonymity,(you can do that, you know!).
Duncan Elliott
Manhattan
P.S, Isn't it just lovely that
Malcolm Forbes' friend James
St. James has a column inyour mag now?

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MORE CLONE DRONE
After reading the article
on the Clones, old and new,in issue no. 74 ["Clone
Wars," Nov, 28], I must seriously question where yourauthor did his research.
"For the first time, homosexual men had actually created a uniform which would
help them identify themselves." If anything, the clone
look of the '70s was a reaction
to the then-standing uniformof cashmere sweater and corduroy pants, which was every
bit as much a uniform as the
button-fly and plaid flannel.
This should also give yourauthor a little more insight
into the genesis of the uniform: For years, gay men had
been portrayed as wispy
queens-appropriatingthestraight look was our way ofsaying that we were (and continue to be) just as masculine
as the straight guys. This was
not "internalized homophobia," as you r author suggests,
but a reaction to a straight
community that wasn't willingto concede that two men
could be both gay and butch.
Insofar as the Clone look
was a very white, middle-classone, again, one must look at
the historic context. Most gay
Blacks were more concernedwith racial rights than sexual
ones, and a lot of the energy ofthe movement in those days
was diverted into support for
racial civil rights; as always,
we thought of ourselves last.
The Clones, however, refusedto think of others first; like thedrag queens, we made surepeople knew we were gay
men, first and foremost.
The infamous han key
code that the author derides
as "big children playing theirown games" was, for the mostpart, mindless fun as well as
sexual communication. Maybe
Mr. Signorile sees sex as apolitical act, but for the
Clones, sex was fun so why
not make a game out of it?

Those who felt excluded
from the Clone movement...well, sorry, no sympathy. No one held a gun to theirheads to say they had to adopt
the Clone look, and a lot of gay
men and women I know saw it
as just another costume, much
like leatherman or radical dyke
or drag queen; and when you
cut through it, that's all it was,just as the Clone of today
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those days, it was your politically correct "queer intelligentsia," who spent more timetrying to "justify" the gay community to the straight one, likea mother trying to explain adifficult child to his or her
teacher. The Clones simply
were; we showed the straight
community that it was possible to be gay, to be a "realman" (whatever the hell thatwas), to have fun and to notgive a goddamn about whatanyone thought of it.
Finally, to correct some of
the more superficial errors in
the article:, 1. A Clone's hair was not"heavily barbered"; it was cut
about three quarters of aninch short, which made it easy
to maintain. You trick, youtake a shower afterwards, you
towel-dry your hair, and you're
ready, No Clone worth his salt
went near a blow-drier.

2, AI Pacino's Cruisin'was
about the New York leather
community, not the Clones.
3. "The Old Clone doesn't
use the word 'Clone' at all." To
the contrary, one of thefastest-selling T-shirts on Castro Street in that era was awhite one with the word silkscreened on it. We knew who
we were, and we revelled in it.
Sean Martin. Montreal
WHERE'S THE
REFRESHMENTS?
I thought Mike Signorile's
article on the "New Clone"["Clone Wars," no. 74, Nov. 28]
was excellent-the best thing
he's written to date. The article
was incomplete, however. One
aspect of clonism that was conspicuously absent in the article
was the preferred substance ofabuse. For the old clone, it's
poppers; for the new, exstasy.

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WHY NOT FAMILY?
I am seriously worried
about the attitudes that seemto be more and more prevalentin our community. I see a lotof hostility and a sense of-!?> jv~t;

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that the well-documented caseof Francis Cardinal Spellman, apredecessor of the devil incarnate, John Cardinal O'Connor,
has not been exploited in yourmagazine. Cardinal Spellman
must be outed and re-outed forever until Cardinal O'Connor
publicly acknowledges the truththat his predecessor was gay.
Then there's the case of
the hero of the straight world,
Mike Tyson, We all know abouthim. Come on, Gabriel, get yourinvestigative reporters out there
to learn and document the truth
and report it. The political windfall could be tremendous.
Malcolm Dooley
Manhattan

WHERE'S THE OUT?
You all at OutWeek magazine made a real big deal in the
beginning of the year about
this "outing" business. Well, I
haven't seen a whole lot ofouting in your magazine lately.
As a political tool, your outing campaign has been negligent, especially since recent
events which have occupied agreat deal of the energy of thelesbian and gay community
have afforded such great opportunity. Let's take, for example,
the cause against the Roman
Catholic church. I can't believe=.r yts~ to be, ~d.t o.;yJ,l4'"e ~ho.\/IM~~~

Perhaps a futu re OutWeek article could focus on
drug use in the gay community and why drug use continues
to flourish in an otherwise
well-educatedandhealth-con,,
SCIOUS community.
Eric Tsuchida
Manhattan

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What the hell is this? Are wetrying to build a community or
are we playing Queen/Lesbianof the Hill?
I've made contact withquite a few prominent gay organizations recently and I reallyfeel disgusted with some of
their attitudes. I won't namenames because that doesn't
serve the purpose of this letter,
It only builds resentment. I
think we're getting very cliquish,
How sad if we should
frighten future out-in-the-open
queers from ever leaving thecloset. We should em braceour diversity-not spit on it.
I think as lesbians andgay men our creative power
per head outweighsthestraight community by a landslide, Let's use it. Why not befamily instead of competitors?
Peter Barking
Manhattan

THE GIFT OF GLAAD .

This fall, GLAAD turns 5
years old. Having justresigned as its most-tenured
board member (and longtime
volunteer), I'd like to take thisopportunity for reflection.
Although GLAAD rose in
response to media AIDS hysteria, the organization kept afocus on gay-specific issues.
Many members later helped
form ACT UP in direct response to the health crisis.
Recently, Queer Nation has intum sprung from ACT UP as alesbian and gay direct-actiongroup. Despite initial fears ofeach community organization,
probably predating GAA, we
do have enough resources tosupport more groups. If newvoices are allowed to beheard, the vacuum that is left
will be filled,
While achieving media
response and creating media

events for our community,
GLAAD has grown to over adozen chapters throughout thecountry. Rather than holding
power closely, it lets others
duplicatethe successful formulaof organizinggrass-roots action.
Thus, GLAAD became one of
our largest civil rights groups
for lesbiansand gay males.
Now, with notoriety
comes community expectations. When a homophobic lV
sitcom is aired, people consider GLAAD responsible foraction. Rightfully so. GLAAD
continues to spread the word
and react to most incidents
pointed out.
But if you call that complaint or even write that checkto a monolithic activist group,
don't consider yourself off thehook, Organizations
like
GLAAD are unique because
they-don't rely on a staff oflawyers or lobbyists. They rely

Dykes to Watch Out Forp

on grass-root volunteers likeyou. Today, our community is
counting on you to get others
involved in demonstrating,writing letters or making
phone calls.
'
This holiday season,
give thanks for our community's growth by getting yourfriends involved with a groupfighting for our rights. Givethem a membership or subscription
to goad them
onward. It'll be a gift foreveryone.
Chuck Edwards
Manhattan
WHERE'S GLAAD?

What gives? The last threeissues have had no "GLAAD
Tidings" column, I miss writing
my weekly letter to "Fight
Homophobia." Please explain
the disappearance.
Victor Ranston
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TWIN-PIQUED. Regarding your article on
David Lynch and his inherent
misogyny and homophobia["Violence Begins at Home, n
no. 76, Dec. 12]. I agree Wholly with the author, having written several pieces of this sort,
on Mr. Lynch myself. But I
was appalled by the caption
under the photo accompanying the piece. The photoshows Lynch with Laura Oernon the set of Wild at Heart(although the article speaks
about Twin Peaks). "Director
David an~ his woman," is thecaption. Perhaps I am being
overly pc here, but this seems
to buy right into the antiwoman bias of Lynch's filmmaking. Dern's name isn't
even noted, the fact that
Isabella Rosellini is Lynch's
girlfriend, not Dem, makes thecaption confusing if it's supposed to be a reference to real
life, and even if Dem were hisparamour, shouldn't s~e rate
her own billing? What does
this photo arid caption have to
do with the article by Ms.
Rubenstein? If the piece hadtalked even a little bit about
what it means (personal-ispolitical) that Lynch's real-life
girlfriend, Rosellini, is consistently degraded and maderepellant in Lynch's films, thenperhaps the photo would have
had some relevance. But as is,. it looks like OutWeek subscribes to the theory thatwomen need not be named
other than in their relationshipto the man in question. And it
would seem that the very factof Rubenstein's article refutes
that. Please explain the contradiction. Some of us rely on
OutWeek to be a (consistent)
voice against sexism and heterosexism and don't want to
see you falling down on the·job,
Victoria A. Brownworth

Philadelphia
Arts Editor Sarah Pettit
responds: I am fully aware of

the many compelling points
you have made. The caption
was, in fact, written to illustrate those very biases andperceptions, and commentson the leveling effect Lynch's
films manage to work on allthese women. Unfortunately inthis world, as Rubenstein suggests also, Rosellini is Oem isEverywoman.

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orrectionsat In issue no. 78 the name of the cover photographer
was misspelled, His name is: Steven Stines. Out Week,
regrets the error.

obstructive tactics of the City
Council legal department,
controlled by the Council
leadership (read: Peter ValPUSHINGlone), included not only an
PARTNERSHIP
attempt to rewrite (and gut)
As Nina Reyes reported in the proposed legislation but
OutWeek [no. 76, Dec. 12], also the circulationof adomestic partnership legisla- memo advising
Counciltion was introduced in the New members not to support theYork City Council on Nov, 20, bill .because of its fiscal
the culmination of months of impact, which they exaggerpreparatory work by the Fami- ated, and because of their
Iy Diversity Coalition and our patently ridiculous claim that
Council allies. However, I think it is unconstitutional underthat content of the legislation New York state law. Both ofand the significance of its pas- these claims were thoroughsage for our community were Iy and brilliantly refuted in a
obscured in the article.
counter-memo prepared byYour article was inaccu- New York Law School prorate in describing the bill as a fessor, gay legal activist andArt"compromise" between what OutWeek columnist
the community advoCated and Leonard. (Hats off to Art!)
what the Council leadership
But the Council leadership's
proposed; the bill as introstalling tactics are, I fear,
duced is exactly what a diverse just a taste of what is tocoalition of organizations and come. All the more reason
incUvidualswanted introduced why we have to out-organize'at this time. Your article also our opponents.
failed to point out that the. Without wanting to takethree mechanisms for estab- the work of my Manhattan
lishing a legal domestic part- colleagues for granted (all ofnership in the proposed legis- the Manhattan delegation islation (registering with the co-sponsoring the bill), thecounty clerk, signing a nota- ... fate of the legislation will be
rized affidavit or, in the event of decided, as the fate of Introthe death of one of the part- 2, the lesbian and gay rights
ners, proving emotional and bill of 1986, was decided, byfinancial commitment and the vastly larger number ofinterdependence in a manner votes of the so-called outer
based on that defined by the borough Council members.
State Court of Appeals in the We in Lambda Independent
Braschi case) go a long way Democrats of Brooklyn havetoward ensuring full access for already lined up two Brooklyn
all people in such partnerships Council co-sponsors of theto the protection against dis- bill, Steve Oi Brienza (of Park
crimination provided in the bill. Slope, Sunset Park and CarI believe the significanceroll Gardens) and Abe Gergesof this legislation underlies(of Brooklyn Heights, Fort
the strength of the opposiGreene, Williamsburg
andtion it will arouse and has Greenpoint), Council member
already
aroused,The Di Brienza, in particular, hasplayed a leadership role on
this issue and offered to do
whatever it takes to get thebill passed. We hope to add athird Brooklyn sponsor shortly. A number of other Council
members from Brooklyn haveexpressed interest in continuing a dialog on the legislation; we are confident that in
the long run we can build thekind of support from Brooklyn that will help ensure thepassage of the legislation.
One way to do that is to makethis legislation an issue inevery City Council election
until it is passed, precisely
what we are doing in the special election that will occur
this February to replace
Council member Gerges (whois resigning on Jan.1 in order
to become a state Supreme
Court judge).
We need to organize similar efforts in Queens and theBronx. OutWeek readers in
Brooklyn who are interested inworking on the legislation
should kindly contact LID (seethe "Community Directory"
under Brooklyn).
Othersshould contact the Family
Diversity Coalition c/o theCommunity Center,Paul Horowitz
Lambda Independent
Democrats
Manhattan
All letters to the editor must includea
name, address
anddaytime phone,although names may
be withheld
at theauthor's request. Outthe
Week reserves
right to edit letters.for clarity and spaceconsiderations.

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Are we missing the chance to prevent another disaster?
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by Nina Reyes
NEW YORK-Lesbians
suckpussy, butt-fuck, shoot drugs, receive
blood transfusions and (quietly) havesex with men who do all these things.
But in the first decade of AIDS, everyone from scientists to government
surveillance experts to communitybased AIDS-service activists to our personal physicians has said that lesbians
are virtually immune to AIDS.
Consequently, there are now lesbians with AIDS, There aren't, as far as
we know, a lot of lesbians with AIDS,
but in a community that is as wedded
to serial monogamy within a fairly
small circle of women as lesbians havecome to be, the probability that thevirus will move among us cannot be
forestalled forever.
Reasonably,
then, we should
know just how great the risk of HIV
transmission
throughwoman-towoman sex is, But we don't
In that case, then, we should beinundated with culturally specific safersex information. But that literature
hasn't yet been written.
So as we move into the second
decade of AIDS, lesbians, who havebeen at the front line of the fightagainst AIDS since the beginning,. remain arguably the only group left out
when the educational chuck-wagon
comes around to fortify the troops. against further devastation.
Being lesbian ladies, we have notprotested much because we secretly
12 OUTWEEK.... nuary 9.1991

believe what they have told us allalong: Our sexual orientation is a terrific inoculation against HIV.
But what if it's a lie, it's a sham, andit won't work? If woman-to-woman trans-

As we move into the second decade of AIDS, lesbians, who have been at
the front line of the fightagainst AIDS since thebeginning, remainarguably the only group
left, out when the educational chuck-wagon
comes around tofortify
the troops against further
devastation.
mission does occur-and several documented cases, anecdotal evidence and adose of common sense suggest thatindeed it can-then we deserve to know.
Some of the more crude naysayers
have chalked this up to lesbian PWA

wannabeism, But AIDS activists andshocked epidemiologists have learned
that it is quite clearly a matter of lifeand death,•••
The scientific establishment has
shown a decided lack of concern
about lesbian transmission of HN, andonly a handful of articles, mostly in thefonn of letters, have been published in
the half-dozen prestigious journals thatmake physicians and medical researchers sit up and woof.
For instance, a letter in the New
England Journal of Medicine that documented female-to-male transmissionof HIV through cunnilingus has obvious implications for lesbians, but, withthe exception of a brief flurry of excitement in the nonscientific press, there
was no follow-up research to determine the risk of transmission throughcunnilingus,
Dr. Susan Chu, a researcher at thefederal Centers for Disease Control
who recently published an article on
the epidemiology of AIDS among lesbians whose cases were reported to
the CDC, remarked, "I think part of thereason that there is not very muchinformation is that there aren't very
many lesbian cases."
Chu's report, which included allcases reported through Sept. 30,
1989, identified only 79 lesbians altogether, and Chu wrote that of those,
95 percent had had histories of IVdrug use, and the remaining 5 per-••cent had been transfused with bloodor blood products,
However, Chu also added warningly, "Although female-to-femaletransmission of HIV appears to be an
extremely rare event, the occurrence of
AIDS among lesbian and bisexual
women indicates that women who
engage in sex with other women canbe exposed to HIV."Lesbian AIDS activists have disputed the CDC numbers, pointing outthat the federal surveillance agency's
data leave out a large chunk of women
who could not, based on their
responses to CDC questions on sexual
history, be categorized as lesbian,bisexual or straight. As AIDS activists
Rebecca Cole and Sally Cooper note ina paper to be published next month,
the CDC identifies lesbians as women
who have had sex exclusively withwomen since 1977. Therefore, a lesbian who had no other exposure to
IDY, but who had been raped, would
be classified with non-IVDU bisexual
women who have not received blood
products in the category of heterosexual transmission.
But lesbians, somehow, are nothearing a cautionary message, Since
the myth persists that lesbians are
miraculously invulnerable to AIDS,
even when we routinely engage inrough sex, the Lesbian Nation is notpracticing safer sex.
Furthermore, there is deep-seatedresistance within lesbian society topracticing safer sex, reminiscent of gay
male denial circa 1982.
"I'm not an evangelist for dental
dams," explained OutWeek columnist
Risa Denenberg, a health care provider
who volunteers at the Community
Health Project's new women's healthprogram.- "But the point is that womenshould know there is some risk associated with most of the acts that women
do [with women],"
In part, perhaps, to drive homethe discordancy between what lesbians
do sexually and what they believe puts
them at risk, Denenberg is conducting
an attitudinal study among lesbians at
CHP, "I don't even think safer sex isthe biggest issue," Denenberg com-

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JEOPARDY-Protesters at the 1989 Fifth International Conference
on AIDS in Montreal
mented, pointing out that the mythology of invulnerability_ is so pervasive
among dykes that she finds that someof her lesbian clients do not act to limit
their exposure even when they arehaving sex with men or shooting drugs
intravenously.
A large part of the problem,
Denenberg concluded, echoing athought expressed by other womeninterviewed on the subject, is that lesbians have not cared enough about
themselves to avoid serious healthrisks. As women, it is also a measureof economic poverty relative to men,
Women are less likely to be able toafford health insurance premiums andconsequently are less likely to seek
preventative health care.
Specifically in terms of AIDS,
another aspect that probably complicates the identification of lesbians withAIDS is that, as women, lesbians areless likely to develop classic AIDS-indicator infections. Consequently, lesbians
remain outside the official AIDS bodycount. As long as the CDC refuses towiden the definition of AIDS to

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scoffed at lesbians who have called forinclude the HIV-re1ated diseases thata thorough investigation into the matter,kill women, the public will never really
Even more appalling, activists say,know the extent to which lesbiancommunity-based organizations have
immunity to HIV is a myth,failed to develop and distribute literaIn addition, because lesbians areture within the community of lesbians
obviously vulnerable to the samethat contributes meaningful and submodes of transmission that have been
stantive suggestions about what constiexhaustively documented in gay men,tutes safer sex, discusses when safer
and straight women and men, epidemisex would be appropriate or evenologists have seized on the previously
acknowledges
the possibility ofidentified risk factors as the probablevil1ains of infection
when they are facedwith a symptomatic
HIV-positive lesbian,
So if a lesbian
discloses a history ofIV-drug use, admits
that she has had sex
with a man evenonce since 1977 or
reveals that she has
had a blood transfusion, she is lumped
into the corollary risk
category without further
investigation
upon diagnosis, She
becomes statistically•invisible as a lesbianwith AIDS.
HnEsTCAME IW,\<.
ITDOESKT~"A lesbian is at
I t\AVE AIDS.
PO\ITI~f...
risk of HIV infection,
WO~EN
DONT
IT
MEANS
IVE
MEN
as is any woman,
E:t.roSrD TO
GET
only to the extent of
her risky behavior,"
wrote P. Clay Stephens, a coordinator of
woman-to-woman transmission, Once
the AIDS program at the Massachusetts
the maxim that safer sex is for everyDepartment of Public Health, in Tbe
one was coined, it was promptly forAIDS Epidemtc. "Her identity is neither
gotten when it came to lesbians, As aprotective nor condemning,"
result, the information that eating yourgirlfriend's pussy during her period is•••Enter here the community-based
probably high-risk has been passed
organizations that lesbians have lovonly anecdotally, from lesbian AIDS
ingly helped build from the ground up
activists out through the concentric cirin an effort to fight the ravages AIDS cles of lesbian society.
The point is not, as activists note,
has inflicted upon. gay men. Not onlythat there is a high risk that you will
have they been of little assistance inhelping dykes determine the reality ofseroconvert because you had unpro,
woman-to-woman transmission of HIV,
tected sex with another dyke: The
but most have also-right in step withpoint is that no one has determined
their governmental
antagonistsjust what the risk might be, and lesbian

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119911AIDS.

sex, particularly the kind that involvescontact with blood-until definitively
shown to be otherwise-shouldbeconsidered just as suspect as oral sex
between two men, Although the probability of transmission may not be very
high, the possibility does exist,
Recently, the Community Research
Initiative initiated a study of women
who have sex with women to determine behavioral patterns and theprobable risk of
HIV transmission
among this groupof women. "We've
ingested the mythof our being a riskfree group, which
has been fed to us
by the powers thatbe-themedia,
male physicians
and the government," remarked
Alice Spears, coordinator of outreachat CRI, explainingthat her organization's interest in
the subject has
been prodded by
the women's committee of ACT UP
and will probably
be funded by theAmerican Foundation for AIDSResearch,"There's no informationon
women, and there certainly isn't any
information on women who have sex
with women because we don't exist,"
she added sarcastically. "We need tohave information, and it needs to bedisseminated among women who havesex with women,"
The dearth of studies about lesbians and AIDS, and the lethargic
response of community-based agencies
to this subject, has infuriated lesbian
AIDS activists, Recently, in a letter
addressed to Gay Men's Health Oisis, agroup of lesbians angrily chastised the,,

AIDS service organization for failing to
respond to the issue.
"Just as there is no one addressing
the needs of gay men and AIDS other .
than gay men," they wrqte, "no one isaddressing the needs of lesbians and
AIDS except a handful of lesbians, "Charging the agency with failing toprovide lesbians with AIDS with a lesbian-exclusive support group, with regular workshops on safer sex for lesbians and· with a litany of otherinstances where GMHC had overlooked
lesbians, the letter concluded, "Howdare you abandon us now ...no matter
how small our numbers may be today,"
Tim Sweeney, director of GMHC,
called evidence
presented
by thewomen to his agency ·compelling,""I heard, and I felt, SO much of theirstatement of isolation and their statementof invisibility that as a gay man, I felt likeit was 1982, and I was a gay man saying
this to the non-gay world," Sweeney told
OutWeek after meeting with the group of
lesbians who had penned their disappointment with his organization, "It'simperative for GMHC to serve lesbian
women or women who have sex withwomen," he continued, noting that 10
percent of GMI:IC's female clients,
already, are lesbians. "We all have somuch to •lose if we don't look at this as
an issue of survival.·
Tracy Morgan, a health educatorwith the Community Family PlanningCounciland a volunteer
at theCommunity Health Project, disclosedthat she has already seen the results ofthe community's failure to remind lesbians that the "risk groups· method ofdetermining peril provides a potentiallyfatal false security,
In the last seven months, Morgansaid, she's seen about a half-dozen.
lesbians who have come into the two
clinics where she works, complaining ofswollen glands and persistent, long-termnight sweats. The girlfriends of these
women, Morgan continued, also havenight sweats, but when Morgan queries
them about their knowledge of AIDS
and the mechanics of illY transmission,
they inevitably remark that they believe
lesbians are immune to HIV. "Deepdown inside, we like to believe that weare the chosen
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by Maer Roshan
ALBANY-New York's highest
court has revoked a state regulation thatwould have banned insurance companies from screening applicants for rnv
and rejecting those who test positive.
As a result of a Dec. 19 ruling of
the New York Court of Appeals, insur-

ers may continue to require individual
applicants to submit to rnv tests andmay deny health insurance coverage
to applicants who test antibody-positive for the virus.
The court agreed unanimouslywith a lower court ruling that former

Insurance Superintendent James P.
Corcoran had exceeded his authority
when he barred insurance companies
from rnv testing in 1987.
Last week's decision ends a
three-year legal battle over the issue,
which pitted the governor's office andRxer with HIV wins lawsuit•

NEW YORK~ln an important ruling on behalf ofhealth care workers with AIDS, the New York state
Division of Human Rights has charged a major hospital upstate with discrimination for refusing to hire a
pharmacist infected with HIV.
The Dec. 12 decision comes in the midst of arenewed national de~ate over the right of HIV-positive health care workers to continue performing
their jobs.
Rejecting the hospital's argument that even a"theoretical" risk of transmission justified severe
limits on the pharmacist's duties, Human Rights
Commissioner Margarita Rosa ruled that discrimination based on HIV status violates New York's
human rights law, which prohibits discrimination
based on disability.
Citing evidence and guidelines from medical
authorities, including the federal Centers for Disease
Control, Rosa charged that the hospital had ignored
overwhelming evidence that the [pharmacist's] unrestricted employment posed a negligible risk of infection to patients."
The case arose in 1986 when the pharmacist
was hired by the Westchester County Medical
Center and came in for a routine pre-employment physical.
According·to the pharmaCiSt's lawyers at theLambda Legal Defense Fund, a nurse from anothersection of the hospital informed the hiring doctor

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that the pharmacist had tested HIV-positive as apatient more than a year earlier. The hospitalrefused to give the man his job, which was scheduled to start a few days later. The pharmacist,
whose name was withheld, filed state and local challenges shortly afterward.
The state decision follows by several months asimilar ruling by the federal Office of Civil Rights.
Both federal and state agencies have ordered thehospital to reinstate the pharmacist without restrictions or penalty and with full back pay and seniority,
The pharmacist was also awarded $30,000 for mental anguish and humiliation, reportedly one of thelargest such awards in an AIDS-related case.
According to Evan Wolfson, the pharmacist's
main counsel at Lambda, the ruling is especially
important in light of the controversy generated by arecent case in Florida, where a female patient
allegedly became infected with HIV after she wastreated by a dentist with AIDS.
In the aftermath of that incident, hundreds ofpractitioners and medical organizations petitioned
the Centers for Disease Control to reject calls for
mandatory HIV-testing of medical workers. In issuing
her ruling, Rosa said that the hospital was "comparing apples and oranges" and attempting to "misuse[a] tragic incident" as a basis for discriminating
against the pharmacist.

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health advocacy groups against a consortium of insurance companies andtrade associations.
Because of the lawsuit, the testing ban had never gone into effect,
The regulation only applied to individual and small group policies
which account for 10 percent to 15
percent .of health insurance policies
written in the state. Other regulations
still bar insurers from using any evidence of HIV infection against persons covered by large group policies
of 300 or more,
Health organizations and the governor's office both voiced dismay at
the ruling. "The private insurance sector has been all too successful at
avoiding its share of the cost of AIDS
care," said David Hansell, deputy
executive director for policy at Gay
Men's Health Crisis, "You're effectively
screening out a whole group, making
therp totally uninsurable.". According to Terry Lynam, aspokesperson for Gov. Mario Cuomo,
who original1yissued the order, the governor was disappointed with the decision but "is still committed to fmding a
way to make health insurance available
to people who are HIV-positive." But
Lynam admitted, "We aren't ~ct1y sure
how we are going to proceed."
Some groups said that they.would
refocustheir attention
on theLegislature, which decisively rejectedsimilar legislation proposed by Cuomoin 1986.
But according to most politicalobservers, there is litde chance that atesting ban would survive both housesof the New York Legislature.
Among the influential opponents·of such a bill is Sen. Guy J. Velella,
the Republican chair of the Senate
Insurance
Committee,
who haswarned that a test ban on insurers"would impose the tremendous healthcare costs associated with AIDS and
HIV illness on a disproportionately
small percentage of the policy holdersof this state."
Insurance companies have estimated that rates for individual andsmall-group policy holders would soar
from 132 percent to 500 percent if atesting ban is allowed to go into effect.
Hansell, of GMHC, admitted that
options on this issue are limited. "Itlooks like insurance companies will goon testing for HN," he said. "What we
can do now is make sure that people
who are on private insurance now cankeep their insurance for as long as
possible and push to make Medicaid
pay for the insurance premiums ofpeople who can't afford it."A bill currently being considered in
the Legislature would extend Medicaid
benefits to a greater portion of the population than is currently protected.
Another measure would require
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GMHC and other organizations
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has no restrictions on applicants but
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and also fought against proposed cutsin Medicaid proposed in Cuomo's budget earlier this year.
"We're fighting hard on a lot offronts," Hansell said. "People who aresick must be assured that they will get
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NEW YORK~rowing
shortfalls in
the municipal budget are threatening
th,e city agency charged with fighting
discrimination against gay men and lesbians, people with AIDS and other targets of bias,
The city's Human Rights Commission has been tagged as one of manyagencies that may be eliminated or
reduced in size as part of an effort toclose a budget gap estimated at close to$2.5 billion,"1 don't believe it,» said Dennis De
Leon, the city's human rights commissioner. "1don't believe the mayor would
eviscerate the agency he stood forthrougqout his campaign.»
The agency, with a staff of 240 andan annual budget of $11 million, is
responsible for representing plaintiffs indiscrimination cases, mediating intergroup disputes and education geared
toward preventing discrimination, The•
Ivecommission also seeks to eliminate"systemic" discrimination, and De Leoncites the commission's recent revelations that city abortion clinics are routinely denying abortions to HIV-positive
women as an example.
"1 didn't come here to presideover the demise of this commission,»
added De Leon, the openly gay man
who has headed the agency since Marchof this year,"The likelihood it will be taken off
the table is far, far greater than the like- ,lihood it will be eliminated altogether,»a City Hall source told Outweek.
According to that source, all of thecity's nearly 60 independent agencies
are in play to either be eliminated orhave their redundant functions com-'bined, but the Human Rights Commission is "not high on the list.»
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inflamed anti-violence activists, whohave been demanding that classification
Jor months,.
"This leads' me to be grossly insuited," said Matt Foreman, executive
director of the New York City Gay andLesbian Anti-Violence Project. "[TheI
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Police Department'sl reasoning is inexplicable, They had this information formonths, and refused to apply their own
standards. "Rivera's murder was given the bias
tag on Dec. 17 by the New York Police
Department's five-member bias review
panel, which reclassifies aimes as either
bias- or non-bias-motivated.
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the aime at a press conference.
Previously, cops have said theJackson Heights murder last July 2 was a
drug-relatedrobbery,
Rivera wasstabbed and beaten in the head with theclaw end of a hammer near a schoolyard in an alley popular with gay men
looking for sex.
Three Queens men, Daniel Doyle,
Eric Brown, both 20, and Esat Bici, whoturned .19 in jail, have been indicted on•charges of second-degree murder andcriminal possession of a deadly weapon
in Rivera's killing. All three are being
held without bail on Rikers Island.
Meanwhile, AVP's Foreman has
charged that the extended time between
the murder and the bias finding is due tohomophobia, "The police demonstrated
an extraordinary reluctance to brand thisa bias crime because of their own prejudice," said Foreman,
But according to Capt. Charles
Senzel of the NYPD's bias investigating
unit, the bias tag had to take second
place to a thorough investigation. The
cops have believed since late August thatRivera's alleged assailants were at a party
together on July 2.
In November, a fourth man now
being held on Rikers Island on charges
unrelated to the Rivera killing reportedly
told cops that the three suspects had
stated their intention to commit a gaybashing prior to the murder, But a fifth
man identified in the statement did notcorroborate the fourth man's tale, casting
doubt on the original statement. Only
after the fourth man named bias as thealleged killers' motivation under oathbefore two grand juries were investigators fully confident.
Police declined to identify eitherman, and the grand jury testimony has
not yet been unsealed. Because there isno comprehensive bias crimes law in
New York state, the declaration of bias
canies no added penalties,
Early investigative efforts were complicated by a lack of eyewitnesses,
requiring cops to go door-to-door inJackson Heights. Detectives at the 115th
Precinct who headed the investigation
will not say why' they focused on theparty attended by the suspects, but thefamily of Brown began hearing fromdetectives in late August.
It appears that the cops knew theidentities of Rivera's alleged killers for twoor three months prior to their arrests andspent time gathering evidence to build astrong case. More than one detective iJaS
referred to the case as having been solved
by "old-fashioned police work."
In the months since the killing,
activists have mounted two demonstrations and heckled Mayor David Dinkins,pressing their demands for the bias label
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As the talk-show host grew louder
guests "but it's no one's business if"Where are the gay guests, Arsenio?" A
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less Christmas-identified,hence thebears," said Robert Woodworth, theCenter's deputy director, explaining
the tree, which "gives people a way tomemorialize friends who have diedfrom AIDS,"
Some of the furry creatures, whichwere on display in the lobby of the Center
until Dec. 28, are now on their way tochildren's AIDS wards around the city
-Andrew Millererupted several times during the show,
but the portions were cut from thebroadcast.
A spokesperson for the show said
only that the program was "aired in its
entirety" and refused to~omment oneither the heckling or the activist's
complaints, adding, "The show speaks
for itself."
In a press release issued the nextday, however, another gay group took
the bachelor talk-show host to task foroffensive statements he has made bothon and off his show and said that "heshouldn't be surprised" to flIld himself
the object of protest,
According to the Gay and Lesbian
Alliance Against Defamation's LA office,during a 1989 show Arsenio compared
an upcoming gay parade to the "LionCountry Safari," commenting that "gaypeople should be allowed to celebrate
whatever the hell it is they celebrate."
Hall reportedly then went on to mimic a
stereotypically limp-wristed, mincing
homosexual, throwing himself in frontof an imaginary car driven by a heterosexual family and shouting in a highpitched voice: "Open your window! See
the homosexual lion safari!"
On another show, on Nov, 7 ofthis year, Arsenio encouraged guest
Will Smith as he "flipped his wrists"
while describing an alleged band ofgay devil worshippers, GLAAD said, .• ,.
And in a recent' interview with People
magazine, Hall describes Madonna's
dancers as "light in their Capezios" andsays that you have to "worry~ about
people like that.
•"Hall would no doubt be offended
by similar stereotyped-based portrayalsof African Americans," the GLAAD
statement concludes,-Maer RosbanlNew Yom•

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' •And the New York City AIDS Fund will receive nearly :$5 million in proceeds from Seventh on Sale, a high-end •boutique of designer originals donated by Calvin Klein, •Marc Jacobs, Isaac Mizrahi, Donna Karan and others. The·:
event was organized by Vogue magazine's Anna Wintour.
and the Council of American Fashion Designers,•••
IS FOR LOVERS: In •MASSACHUSETTS. this hotbed of homosexual activity, things continue at a wild •and woolly pace. William Weld, the new Republican gover- :nor-elect, who was voted in with backing from much of the •gay community, told the Boston Globe on Dec, 13, :"Homophobia is going to be extinct in Massachusetts by •the time we finish our four-year term."•
His comments were made at an awards ceremony in :Boston sponsored by the Coalition for Gay and Lesbian Civil •Rights, where he reaffirmed his support for lesbian and gay·foster parenting, (By the by, OutWeek sugar daddy Larry :Basile was also invited to accept an award for best new •publication,).
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reporting bill has passed both state houses and was await- •ing Govemor Michael Dukakis' signature on Dec, 28.
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has begun an aggressive search for
additional backers in order to shore up
its finances and fund an editorial•
expansion planned for the flfSthalf ofnext year, according to its new publisher, Steven Polakoff.
. "The outlook for autWeek
couldn't'be better," Morrison said. "I'mexcited about going on to otherthings, and aut Week needs a publisher who can devote a major portion

information, call (512) 462-2369, or write Box 402063,
Austin, TX 78704.
FLIP YOUR WIG: The Wigstock gay-bashing casewill drag on for at least another few months. Just before
Christmas, Family Court Judge Martin Rettinger put off thesentencing of Jose Suarez until March 20, in order to better"examine his background." Suarez was convicted ofattempted assault in the second degree in the lacrosse-stick
attack on two gay men at the Tompkins Square Park music
festival on Labor Day in 1989. The judge also accepted theverdict of one juror who later reportedly claimed to havebeen coerced.
IS THAT A CONDOM IN YO'lR POCKET,OR ARE YOU JUSTHAPPY TO BECATHOLIC?: New York City is not the only battlegroundfor the condoms-vs.-Catholics approach to AIDS prevention. In Western Massachusetts, activists with ACT UP
thoughtfully sent more than 200 Christmas cards to the
local bishop in Springfield, urging him to rethink his opposition to a state campaign promoting the "prompt, open
discussion of condom use to help stem the spread of HIV."•

WHEN DOES THE WOMAN SLEEP?: Not tobe outdone by her own performance during Gay andLesbian Pride Month, when she was the most oft-sighted
politician at community events, Ruth Messinger, the ubiquitous Manhattan borough president, put in an appearance at
Gay Men's Chorus' holiday concert at Camegie Hall on Dec.
19. Messinger called the concert, which received raves inthe tabloid press and its own teaser on WABC-TV, "one of
the great holdiay season traditions."•

MS. O'LEARY'S COW: Out in LA, staffers are
slowly rebuilding the finances at National Gay Rights
Advocates after scandal rocked the agency in 1989, creating a trail of resignations and a fund-raiser's nightmare.
Enter an optimistic Julia London, who has been promoted
to development director, She replaces Jim McDaniel, wholeft the position last fall, and reports that the gay rights law
firm, with a new full-time staff of six and another affice in
San Francisco, is very much back in the swing of things,
bringing five cases to resolution in·the past year.

of his time to OutWeek."Morrison, who is planning an"innovative expansion" of his sizable
phone-sex business as well as the
op~ning of a, new gay club in
Manhattan, said that Polakoff's appointment was temporary, pending
the hiring of a full-time publisher.
Polakoff, a business partner of Morrison's, was formerly the company's
executive vice president.
"There will be no change in the

mission of aut Week, " promised
Polakoff in a phone interview from hisreal estate office in Miami Beach. "But
now there is the opportunity
toexpand autWeefts advertising baseand readership by putting a new perspective into place,"
Changes readers can expect
include the return of phone sex advertising in the back of the magazine, andspecial new sections on travel, healthand fitness and other issues geared•

toward sriaring new advertisers.
"Those expansions will require
some additional funding, and we'll beseeking that from our investors andfrom new investors.
I hope to take into account the
input that we've had from our current
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the magazine last fall as part of aneffort to attract lucrative national
accounts. Many of those ads now
appear in Huntj·a Spin-off publiCation,with personal ads'.that is distributed
in gay bars aC1'OS&thecountry. Huntwill also continue to publish, adding
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OutWeek's national advertisers havebeen receptive to the planned reintr0duction of sex ads and will remain in
the magazine.
Despite persistentrumors ofimpending (inancial' disaster at themagazine, OutWeek's backers unanimously expressed confidence in the
publication's
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OU. WEEK 23•The other young man arrested inconnection with the anti-gay assault,
Leonardo Sime, of 42 Rivington St. on
Manhattan's Lower East Side, reportedly
is an active member of the armed
forces who was on a ten-day pass. A
spokesperson for the service refusedcomment on the matter and declined toconfirm that the arrested youth was amember of the force.
Sime has been charged withassault in the second degree but has
not yet been indicted, said Colleen
Roche, a spokesperson for the Manhattan district attorney.
The incident began on East 4thStreet, at about 11:30 on the evening of
Dec. 15, According to Jaime Martinez,
one of the two gay men who was
attacked, the youths initiated theassault after screaming, "Yo, homeboy
faggot! Get out of the neighborhood!""First we were attacked by two
people," Martinez recalled, but then, as
he and his friend, Steven Cuba, tried toescape from the assault, a half-dozen
young men came after them and,· after
cornering them in a doorway, severely
beat them.

will reqµire extra capital during New
York City's current recessionary cycle,
Receivables are going a little longer than
we'd like," he said.
Out Week is currently owned byMorrison; Polakoff; Michael Carver, an
attorney and Polakoffs lover; Bostonbased entrepeneur !.any Basile; and editor-in-chief Gabriel RoteIlo.
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nearly $20,000 to the gay Catholic group
Dignity for violating members' civilrights by kicking the organiz2tion out of
its meeting space at the University of
Minnesota Catholic Newman Center,
The Minneapolis Commission on
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they attacked US," recalled Cuba. "Theywent back down the street 150 feet andjust hung out some more,
The friend that Martinez and Cuba
were on their way to see, however, witnessed the attack from his apartment
window, and he called the police to thescene, When the cops arrived justminutes later, the youths were still
hanging out.
Two arrests were made, and Cuba
said that the incident was immediately
classified as bias-related.
~Cuba also noted that when he andMartinez were at the precinct housefilling out paperwork, several othergroups of people came in to reportthat they, too, had been attacked. Oneof the two youths arrested in conne.ction with the attack on Martinez andCuba was also identified by the othercomplainants,. One group of complainants also
alleged that they had been attacked
with weapons, The juvenile in the case,15-year-old Daniel Gonzalez, a runaway from Massachusetts, was convicted in family court on Dec, 21, andwill reportedly remain in detention at
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The local Dignity chapter was
evicted following a 1987 Vatican directive that required all groups utilizing
Catholic edifices to affirm their allegiance to Catholic teaching, Most otherDignity groups in the US and Canada
were similarly given the boot.
The church says that homosexuals
are "objectively disorderled)" and havea "tendency ordered toward an intrinsic moral evil." According to the
Vatican, God intended for human sex
acts to be open to the possibility ofprocreation, thus the church's bans on
masturbation, birth control and oral
sex, as well as gay sex.
Dignity members say that sexually active gays can be psychologically healthy and that gay sex acts are
not sinful.
The Vatican requirement .that its
renters support church teaching has
been applied almost solely to gay organizations. In Minneapolis, for example,
the Newman Center continues to rent
space to the Central American Solidarity
Committee and Weight Watchers, neither of which supports Rome's statements on gays,
The archdiocese plans to appeal
the commission's ruling alleging that its
First Amendment right to freedom of
religion has been infringed,
Minneapolis City Council member
Walter Dziedzic is also upset with theruling and plans to call for a review of
the city's anti-discrimination ordinance,
The $20,000 the church must pay
Dignity includes $8,500 in punitive damages, $100 in actual damages and$10,850,38 in legal expenses.

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Loitering at the door were three
gay men who looked vaguely familiar tome from the two years I've spent covering ACf UP meetings and Queer Nation
demonstrations and going to parties at
Maria's house in the East Vtllage.
Duncan and I were deep in conversation when my eyes drifted over tothe cute red-haired boy wearing aleather jacket, No uncommon occurrences so far.
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players had been. But it was the backof his jacket I was staring at. In fine
AIDS-activist radical/mod fashion, he
had affixed a huge sticker to theleather, right between the shoulder
blades, But far beyond the standard
pink-and-black silence/violence fare,this manifesto was unlike anything I
had ever read before.
. The sticker, printed with its first
three words enlarged and overlayed on
the smaller black-and-whitetext,
began, "Male/Positive/29.""The last one dumped me for a
pretty negative," the text continued.
"Although he was accepting of my status, he said there wasn't enough passion in mlr relationship. I agreed: It's
hard to feel passion when your partner's afraid to kiss. This guy was smart:
He knew his facts, but still, in hisheart, kissing me meant death. OK,
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brother, follow your heart, and get thefuck away from me. Happy as I was tocurse him, I began to worry about myfuture and my chances of feeling passion again. Was the last one truly thelast? For two weeks I fantasized aboutsuicide and celibacy. Then I met thenext one, and we didn't talk of status
or acceptance: We talked about art.
And in bed we shared so many kisses,
so much passion, unhesitating. I felt

"One of the social
issues of the year isthe distinction
between the HIVpositive and the
HIV-negative. "alive and was alive, and I forgot about
the last one, the smart one, the passionless one."That sticker could have been the
catalyst for dozens of converstations I
have had in the past year, at dinnerparties in Brooklyn living rooms, on
the beach at the Pines, in the locker
room at the Y and on the telephonelate at night from my apartment on theLower East Side.
I have discussed the implicationsof positive-negative romance with afriend whose lover died a year ago last
spring, after he found out that the boy
he was dating had 350 T-cells. I haveanalyzed it theoretically with anotherfriend who has been single, and HIVnegative, for years,
I have counseled my friend Marc,
who recently broke up with hisboyfriend and now feels that being 37
and HIV-positive takes him out of thecategory of potential-boyfriend-material. I have steadfastly avoided talking
about the issue with two men I've slept.with in the past year, privately railingagainst my dissatisfaction with the
choices the age of AIDS has served up.
And when I had my second HIV
test this past summer after a bout withshingles, I understood just how radically those test results would alter my perspective on all proceeding discussions.
As it turns out, the owner of thejacket was also the author of the sticker, one Rick Jacobsen, an adminstrator
at the University of California/San
Francisco, who works with a new
AIDS/gay activist art collective that
calls itself Q Think.
Rick told me that the collective isplanning to put out five stickers amonth from now until June, when its
members plan to assemble a bookwith all of their work. The stickers arereportedly becoming a part of the Castro landscape rather quickly.
Other texts produced by the Bay
Area artists include a monologue by aBlack lesbian whose brother is a drug
addict with AIDS,and a gay man describing a dream in which all of his deadfriends urge him to become an activist.
"As an HIV-positive person, it's
distressing to think that I'm unsuitable not for sex, because I can havesex in an anonymous setting, but for
the trappings of love," Rick explained
to me the next day on the phone.

Rick sees a community losing faith
in the idea of "safe sex," And he sees
some pretty ugly divisions cropping up
along antibody-status lines,"The announcements around oral
sex this summer have shaken people's
belief in safe sex," he commented.
New studies have led some to believethat oral sex without condoms is not as
safe as many would like to believe,"And there is a new generation ofgay people who grew up in the age ofAIDS, but the people who are mostafflicted are the people of an older generation, There is some feeling that there
should be a barrier
between the two,"
Jacobsen understands that the growing division is basedon more than justfear. "If I had a lover
die,
and
went
through that painfulprocess, I would be
wary
of
going
through that again,"headmitted.
"Perhaps."
And my friend, '"E Marc sees some.g irony in this tacit,
7i incipient division. ,growmg 10 a com'cI
munity so obsessed,with civil rights and
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laws,
.~ anti-bias
While choiceofsexual partners is
discrimination on the most personalterms, as Marc put it, "those are theterms that hurt the most. I may be ffiVpositive, but I still need to be kissed.
But it's my responsibility to find somebody for whom it's not an issue. It's not
my responsibility to convert someone."
And it sometimes
works bothways. At another point in his ffiV saga,
just after his diagnosis with ARC, Marc
was reluctant to get involved with anybody, but especially someone who had
tested negative. Other friends have had
similar experiences.
"It defmitely has an effect on people," Marc told me last week. "It's thecentral sexual issue."
Just scan the personal ads in any bar
rag or skin mag to discover the topic's
growing popularity. Ads for "healthy guy
seeking same" or, more bluntly, "ffiV~(I)

negative only" appear more and more.
And in a community of men whose
common bond is forged initially throughsexual relations, any potential division
along those lines is serious business.
Rick is angty over what he sees asa trend away from "safe sex" andtoward "safe people." "If a person is notready emotionally, I'm not a sadist, If he
can't deal with the fear associated with
AIDS, he shouldn't have a boyfriend
who is ffiV positive. But the idea of safe
sex is that safe sex is for everyone, Safe
sex means ffiV prevention. "Now, I know many happily married

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After all, the personal is political, andsafer sex is for everyone. Others treat
HIV status as a component like anyother in the choices they make about
boyfriends and sexual partners, But for
a community that dares to shout the,name of love, most people's positions
seem to have evolved underground.
In an address book that I haveowned for about five years are thenames of ten men who are dead. Another 20 are HIV positive, and about adozen of them have AIDS, or are sickenough for HIV to have an impact on.the way they live from day to day, An
old boyfriend ofmine moved backto his parents'
house in the Midwest last winter,
after beoming too
sick to stay in
New York any
longer.
In my own
life, I am beyond
the point where I
can pretend that
AIDS
hasn'tbecome a part ofeverything I do.
My HIV test thispast summer OJred
me of that fantasy,
I
Although it wasInegative, it remind/I
ed me that thisidivision betweenipositive and negative is imprecise at best, because for pe0ple who are negative, the possibility ofslipping across the line always exists.
And as ffiV has become part of allof our lives, whether it's in our own
blood or in a friend's, it has by necessity
become part of our relationships, too.
I've tried to stop pretending otherwise,
and to start talking about how I want toincorporate it into my decisions about
love, and why.
.
~One of the social issues of the year
is the distinction between the positive
and the negative," Rick Jacobsen noted
wisely, "It's ugly in some respects. And
it's going to get uglier if we don't talkabout it openly." ...

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couples in which only one of the men is
positive or has AIDS. I know some men
who have gotten involved with people
with AIDS willingly and who would
never change their minds, despite theemotional toll caring for a PWAcan take.
I never knew anyone who ran
out on his lover because he wassick. And myoid roommate moved
out of our apartment and into a tiny
one-bedroom
flat in Morningside
Heights to take care of his bestfriend until he died.
But I don't know anyone who
hasn't thought about how his own
antibody status, and that of his love
object, would impact on the course ofthat relationship.
Some men absolutely refuse toallow the issue to become a factor in
the decisions they make about love.

Andrew Miller is the news editor at
OutWeek magazine .

.January 9. 1_1

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NEW YORK-Bootleg versions ofan antiviral agent available only
through clinical trials are being sold on
the AIDS drug underground throughout the country.
The drug, ddC, is officially being
tested in clinical trials conducted by its
manufacturer, Hoffmann-LaRoche, andthe National Institutes of Health. A person with AIDS can only get the Rochedrug by qualifying for entry into a trial
or through parallel track, a programthat allows those who do not meet the
study's criteria to get the drug throughtheir physicians.
AIDS activists have accused Rocheof blocking access to the parallel-track
ann of the studies. Physicians must fillout lengthy forms, and Institutional
Review Boards, which safeguard thewelfare patients enrolled in drug studies, are not in place, activists say. They
add that Roche would not want to supply free drugs to tens of thousands ofpeople with AIDS. In contrast, BristolMyers Squibb, the pharmaceutical company testing a related agent, ddI, haspassed out its experimental agent gratis
to about 12,500 people with AIDS,
About 1,000 people have received ddC
since June through Roche's paralleltrack program, The difficulty in getting
into ddC parallel track has created theunderground demand.
Over the past two months, buyer'S
clubs, groups that both import drugs
not approved in the US and sell socalled bathtub' versions of unavailable
agents, have been offering homemade
ddC. "It's been very clear that Roche
could be doing a lot more for people
who want ddC," said David Gold of
ACf UP/NY's treatment and data committee. "The huge demand for ddC [onthe underground] is a result of that.
Roche has nothing to gain."A buyer's club in San Francisco,
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Healing Alternatives, promoted theknock-off ddC before they had it andquickly sold out when the stock
arrived. The Dallas Buyer's Club started getting calls from San Francisco andpicked up the slack, the club's director,
Jim Campbell, told OutWeek. Prices
vary, depending on the club, but range
from $55 to $75 for 400 .25 mg tablets.
Buyer's club directors are reluctant
to discuss their sources for obtaining
the knock-off drug. One director told
OutWeek that his supplier is the sameone Roche uses. According to the cur-

BOOTLEG DOC
rent issue of the newsletter put out by
the PWA Health Group, a Manhattanbased buyer'S club, the chemicals are
obtained in bulk from an industrial
supplier and then divided into individual doses. This process must takeplace in an argon-gas atmospherebecause the chemicals are sensitive tomoisture in the air. For this reason,
sealed airtight capsules are preferable
to tablets; the newsietter says,
Nevertheless, the PWA HealthGroup remains undecided whether tosell bootleg ddC. Its board has been
discussing the pros and cons, and adecision is expected sometime in January, according to the group's director,

Derek Hodel.
Buyers' clubs recommend thatpeople with AIDS wanting ddC should
first try the official route. The dosing
will be correct; clinical improvements
and side effects (neuropathy is themain one) can be monitored; and thedrug costs nothing. The buyers' clubs
also say that the bootleg drug should
not be taken witllOut physician'supervision,"I'd just assume not carrying
ddC and have people get it anotherway," said Lewin Usilton, secretary of
the board of San Francisco's Healing
Alternatives, "I would prefer the data
be gathered" to make approval easier.
In a few months, demand forbootleg ddC may plummet if the real
stuff, along with ddI, gets early Foodand Drug Administration approval. Last
summer, Martin Delaney of San Francisco-based Project Infonn called forthe release of both ddI and ddC by the :2
CD
end of 1990, Delaney's call has been 'g
endorsed by AIDS service organiza- ~tions, activist 'groups and 25 members li
of Congress. According to Delaney in 1.1
the Dec. 7 issue of AIDS Treatment ~sNews, FDA approval could come as €.
early as March 1991.
Does selling a bootleg version of adrug restricted to use in clinical trials
present legal problems? Probably,according to club directors, but they're
not worried about it. "The fact is, it'san unapproved drug in testing stages,"
Usilton said. "That's the only concern
we have--the FDA choosing to makean issue of it." He added: "Our relationship with the FDA in San Francisco
is pretty good, They've taken an attitude not to bother with buyer'S clubs,"
And it's not as if officials don't
know what the clubs are doing. "If theFeds are not already getting my newsletter," Hodel said, "I'd be surprised."-p.Ke

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RIDGEFIELD,
Conn ,-When
Boehringer Ingelheim Phannaceuticals
announced its first AIDS drug on Dec. 6,
the press got giddy. A headline in 1be
New York Times read, "Compound IsFound to Bar Spread of AIDS,» The WaD
Street Journal said that Boehringer IngeIheim opened "a new front in the war
against AIDS by discovering a novel drugthat may prove less toxic than AZf."
The company is more cautious,
a spokesperson said.
The drug, BI-RG-587, is considered novel because it disengages
replication of the human immunodeficiency virus through a route fundamentally different from AZf, the only
drug approved for treatment of thevirus, or the other experimental AZflike drugs, ddI and ddC.
But no one really knows whether
it' will work. The compound has yet toleave the laboratory. No human has
ever ingested it. And the company
must file an investigational new-drug
application with the Food and Drug
Administration before clinical trials canbegin, a company spokesperson, Patricia Morrow, said. The trials, which thecompany expects to begin in about ayear, will be conductedboth byBoehringer IngeJheim and the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious
Diseases AIDS Oinical Trials Group,
Morrow said,
The development of BI-RG-587
was made public in the Dec. 7 issue of
Science. According to the article, the
new agent targets an HIV-l enzyme,
reverse.
. While halting replication of HIV, it does not hanD healthy
cells. It does not work against HIV-2, astrain of the virus prevalent primarilyin Africa.
Researchers say that the drug isbelieved to work by interrupting an
early stage of viral replication during
which RNA transcribes
itself into
DNA. The drug inhibits the process,preventing the host cell from accepting the altered genetic material.
The Science article continues that
because BI-RG-587 does not intenupt
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viewed by American culture onlyin the context ofaging and loss ofreproductive capacity. The scriptfor dealing with itis a whispered one, and its text isbanal. The message is clear: It's over,
it's downhill, it's time to bow out
gracefully from youthful living.
Look at the youth-reveling, maledefmed, misogynist myths of womenat middle age: shrew; merry widow;
old bitch with shriveled skin andovaries and a dried-out pussy. The
feminist-informed view of the older
female is much more positive: oldcrone, wise woman, witch of Wicca,
sage, goddess mother. Of course many
cultures exhibit more positive attitudes
toward aging than the dominant culture here in the United States.
On the medical floor at Barnes
and Noble, there are 12 shelves containing books under the subject
headingof "Women's
Health."Among the dozens of books on
pregnancy and childbirth, scores onchild-rearing, exercise and diet, there
were four titles on menopause. They
have, euphe-misticnames like
Change of Life. All address straightwomen with topics like a woman'schanging role in the family, pain withintercourse
and male impotence.
Menopause is neatly hidden at thebookstore and in our lives. And as
lesbians, we clearly don't have adequate reflections of our experience.
What are the differences in ourlives that change our experience of
menopause? Lesbians generally havefewer pregnancies in a lifetime, and
OUTWEEK.January 9, "991thus we have more years of unrelenting menstruation. We get less gynecological health care, but more aggressive medical interventions when we
see gynecologists (after all, we don't
need our uteri). We make fewer visits
for contraceptives and abortions. At
menopause, we may be more readythan straight women to give up theexperience of menstruation and less
apt to buy into the myth that fertility is
the symbol of womanhood.
We certainly have different issues
related to sexuality, family, relationships and lifestyle.
As an uttered word, menopause
ranks with masturbation for having an
unpleasant,almost embarrassing,sound to it. It's something that all
women do, but we do it alone, don't
like to talk about it-and,
well,whether it's a joy or a bane is our own
personal secret
The joy of menopause? Is thewriter nuts? Perhaps for the youngsters
out there reading, bleeding every
month is a vital sign at 22, but believeme, it gets old as the years tick by.
Imagine not having to plan sex dates
around "that time of the month." And
the money saved in unpurchased
menstrual products can be spent on
new sex toys! But old myths die hard.
Menopause is simply the end of
periods. It happens naturally inwomen between 45 and 55, and it's
not really unusual at 39 or 40. It also
occurs in women who have lnst theiruterus to surgery due to cancer,
fibroids or endometriosis. In those
women who have also lost theirovaries, the symptoms of lowered
estrogen levels will also occur. In thenatural event of menopause, it's thediminishing estrogen levels that cause
cessation of periods.
Many hormones play a role in

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breast-feeding and sexual response.
But the key hormone in menopause is
estrogen. When a woman's store of
eggs is no longer available or viable,
estrogen ceases to be produced by theovaries. The result is lack of ovulationand menstruation, and also a generalized set of body changes related to
estrogen depletion. The body has
relied on estrogen for many complex
activities not related to periods. But
when the ovaries stop making estrogen, the body is still able to create
some from building blocks in theadrenal glands and in stored ixxJy fat
In fact, heavier women sometimes
have fewer problems with bothersome
symptoms such as hot flashes.

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What are the symptomsofmenopause? Of course, it varies foreach of us. Some women stop bleeding without any other noticeablechanges. Other women have complex
medical emotional problems aroundthe time of menopause.
The common problems that many
women encounter are irregular bleeding patterns, hot flashes, changes related to osteoporosis, insorrmia, fatif,'1le,mood swings, vaginitis, decreased vaginal lubrication, loss of skin elasticity
and tone, urinary tract infections andurinaty incontinence, constipation andcardiovascular problems. Not all ofthese problems are related to decreased
estrogen. There is however, a clear connection between estrogen and irregular
bleeding, hot flashes, changes in thevagina and osteoporosis. The body's
natural estrogen is needed for regularcycles, bone fonnation and vaginal wall
health and lubrication.
Irregular bleeding and hot flashes
are usually temporary responses tofluctuating levels of estrogen prior tothe cessation of periods. Irregular
bleeding may also be caused by more
serious conditions such as uterine cancer and should therefore be moniteredo Heavy bleeding, even whensporadic, may result in anemia. G<xxI
medical care is essential to minimize
complications.
Hot flashes often begin before,
and end after, the menopause. They
may last for months or years. The flash
is a very unpleasant, hot, drenching,dizzying sensation lasting for a few
minutes and recurring as often as
dozens of times in the day or night
They are disabling to some women
due to the inability to sleep well or
conduct nonnal activities. They eventually subside on their own.
Osteoporosis is the loss of mineralcontent of the bones, especially calcium. It occurs at a slow rate in all
adults over 35. Without normal
amounts of estrogen, women experience very accelerated mineral losses
and become prone to spontaneousbone fractures, especially in the hips
and back bone. Thin Caucasian
women with small bones are at greatest risk.
Additionally, with increasing age
women are more likely to have higher

cholesterol and more high blood pressure, heart attacks, strokes, irregularheart rhythms and hardening of thearteries. Estrogen may play a protective role in some, but not all of thesechanges. Women need regular medical
screening to fmd early signs of cardiac
or circulatory problems.
In the current Western medical
model, many women are offeredestrogen (called "estrogen replacement therapy") to relieve the symp-

toms of flashes and vaginal dryness
and to prevent osteoporosis. Whileestrogen can be beneficial in these situations, evidence is mixed as towhether or not estrogen improves orcompromises cardiovascular health.
And estrogen does increase risk of'uterine cancer and probably breast
cancer as well. Women on estrogentherapy are more likely to have gall
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henitromes
to HIV research, the AIDS
Clinical
TrialsGroup is at a cr0ssroads, It is muchharderto tell,
however, whether
those responsible
recognize this or
are up to the challenge.
More than a year ago, the ACTG
completed its ftrst major trials, all of
AZT. Two studies (ACTG 002 and 010)
demonstrated· that lower doses of AZT(600 mg or 300 mg per day, rather thanthe original 1200 mg) were safer andjust as effective. Two others (ACfG 016
and 019) demonstrated (with a tiny
number of AIDS cases in a huge sample size) that AZT, taken early, lowered
the risk of progressing to AIDS.
The ACTG rushed headlong after
the next nucleosideanalog, ddl,
which was emerging from phase-one
trials ready for large efficacy studies.
These giant trials-whichsought2,600 people, whereas the original
AZT trial used just 240 (the inefficiency of sacrifiCing a placebo!)--opened
last fall, just as the ACTG entered a
deep-freeze because its data-analysis
facilities were being moved from
North Carolina to Harvard. Luckily forthe ddl trials, sponsor Bristol-Myers
was managing the data itself.
But unluckily for the delI trials, they
became ensnared in the principal investigators', or PIs', dogged campaign
against the expanded-access program
which ACT UP had won from BristolMyers, the FDA and the NIH. Whilehundreds of patients enrolled in the trials, thousands (most of whom couldn't
enroll in the studies) enrolled in
expanded access. The PIs declared war
on parallel track, feeding Gina Kolata of
1be New York Times inaccurate, exaggerated figures on the dangers of delI. KoIa32 OUTWEEK "anuary 9,1991

ta's hatchet pieces in November 1989
and March 1990 nearly stopped all delI
research dead in its tracks. Enrollment
fell in both the expanded-access program and in the trials. 1he researchers
had shot themselves in the foot.
Now, after Bristol-Myers agreed
to expand entry criteria (now anyone
with fewer than 200 T4 cells, regardless of symptoms, can enter ACTG
116, and people with fewer than 300
can enter if they have symptoms) andsimplify the studies, enrollment isproceeding rapidly once more.
The three ddI trials are about 80
percent enrolled. Answers will be inwithin a year. FDA approval is a foregone conclusion; the real question
now is when: When the trials fmish?
Or sooner?
With the AZT trials done and the
ddl trials ftlling up, the ACTG must
start planning a new, innovative
research agenda. Their Primary Infection Committee, which soaks up thelion's share of ACfG resources, is in astate of transition, but its agenda is still
too narrow. They're switching chairsfrom Thomas Merigan of Stanford to
Douglas Ridunan of UC/San Diego.
Richman learned virology under
Merigan and is co-principal investigator on many of Merigan's studies.
He's made more discoveries in thefield of AIDS than his mentor, however--for example, he discovered how
rapidly HIV becomes resistant to AZT.
For these PIs, changing priorities
means switching from AZT to "new"analogs such as ddl and ddC. (It'stime to move on, guys!)
It means switching from nucleoside monotherapy to combinations of
nucleosides. The new buzz is about
how "promising" Margaret Fischl's
study of combination
AZT/ddC isgoing. (If you liked AZT alone, you'regoing to love it in combination.1)
Scores of new compounds which

do not resemble AZT are emerging
from test tubes around the world,(Who is going to test them?)
The ACTG has, it is true, tested
other potential antivirals. It opened
over six trials of soluble CD4, forexample. This recombinant wonder
drug of two years ago failed to meetits promise, however. Later studies
showed that the drug works better on
lab isolates of mv than on real people's viral strains. There are many
possibilities for this: Some believe thatpeople's own antibodies beat CD4 tothe infected cells, others that viruses
are already coated with the body's
own soluble CD4,
In any case, no clinical benefits
were noted from CD4. The big gunsof Primary Infection seem ready, atlast, to abandon this first product of"rational" drug design. Maybe it's timeto go back to random screening,
Of course, the ACTG did test
dextran sulfate (three times), ribavirin(twice) and Ampligen (twice). (Theampligen people are back in force,
now talking about a newly discovered"synergy" with AZT and how theirdrug prevents AZT resistance and stabilizes T cell counts for two years),
The ACTG is even talking about testing mid-'80s drugs, like Imuthiol, it
never got around to the first time.
And maybe by 1995 they'll be talking
about protease inhibitors.
While Meri~ is stepping down as
PI core chair, he is being nominated to
the Executive Committee, or EC, by
another fanner student, EC Chair !.any
Corey. And his successor, Richman, isseeing to it that other ACTG resource
committees (e,g., Immunology, Virology and Neurology) stick closely to theorthodox research agenda. There is a
new subcommittee devoted to viralresistance. Resistance has only been
demonstrated with AZT, and it has yet
to be proved clinically significant While•

ddI and dde have not been shown to
provoke resistance, they are similar to
AZT in that they are not cures. So, while
resistance is an interesting intellectual
problem in virology, there is no evidence that it is a major public research
problem, to be tackled with federal
funds, The Primary Infection PIs must
learn that their own discoveries are notnecessarily the nation's research priorities. The apparent changes at the ACfG
amount to little more than a reshufflingof the current movers and shakers.
The Primary Infection Conunittee
brooks no dissent. At the full committee meeting in November, no questions were entertained. Even Martin
Delaney, the community constituency
representative
to the committee,
raised his hand repeatedly
in vainafter Merigan's sales pitch.
Where is the Natioru;zlInstitute ofAllergies and Infectious Diseases in all
this? It's hard to telL If NIAll) were
doing its job, it would be leaning hardon the ACfG to force aside all obstacles to the study of new antiviral therapies. Protease inhibitors, TIBO derivatives, tat inhibitors, synthestic hypericinhave all been enthusiastically discussed
for more than a year.
Where are the trials? After interminable delays, the phase-one studyof hypericin is only now about toopen at NYU.
Where are the immune-based therapies? In early 1989, the Biological
Response Modifiers Conunittee of the
ACfG was disbanded-"forlack of a
mission." In November
1989, theImmunology Committee
which isn't
funded to conduct trials, even though
AIDS is an immunologic di.sease--f;et up
its own Immune-Based Therapies Working Group. One year later, its first three
trials are opening: two studies of therecombinant gpl60 vaccine (MicroGeneSys VaxSyn-l)
and Interleukin2/polyethylene
glycol (IL-2/PEG).
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hard to dismiss the impression that thePrimary Wection honchos refuse toallow anyone but themselves to study
potential "winners." Last sununer, we
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ouncil mem-

C ber Ronnie

Eldridge was there.
Council member.
···i'Carolyn Maloney•- was there. Coun'"£
cil member Miri...
.am Friedlander
f5 was there. Coun.t::"cil member Stan I"'" •Michels was there. Council member
Robert Dryfoos was there. Comptroller
Elizabeth Holtzman was there. Manhattan Borough President Ruth Messinger
was there. Assemblymember:'electDeborah Glick was there. State Senator
Franz Leichter was there. Human
Rights Commissioner Dennis DeLeon
was there. Everyone but the languorous Council member Carol Greitzer was at the press conference on
Nov. 20 announcing the introductionof the domestic partnership bill.
But Greitzer's absence didn't stop
her from issuing a news release, dated
Nov. 21, 1990. "Seeking to end New York
City's harmful discrimination against nontraditional families," the release reads.
Council member Carol Greitzer joinedwith dozens of elected officials, membersof the Dinkins Administration, labor leaders and community leaders to announce
the introduction of long-awaited legislation on domestic partnerships.
Now, the only place Greitzer could
have joined with all the folks her news
release listed was at the press conference. But she wasn't there. There mayvery well be a good reason for her
absence (we have heard that Greitzer
was on her honeymoon, celebrating her. recent "traditional-family" union), butthere is no excuse for her deceptive
news release. As chair of the Consumer. Affairs Committee, .Greitzer should know
something about truth in advertising.
Greitzer's news release goes on torefer to her as a "co-prime sponsor of
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the bill." Just what is a co-prime sponsor? No one really knows. The bill hasa prime sponsor, Carolyn Maloney, andmany co-sponsors, of which Greitzer isone. But a "co-prime sponsor"! Giveus a break. The release continues,"Councilwoman
Greitzer said she
hoped for an early hearing date, which
could lead to a speedy passage of thebill." Even if the bill received an early
hearing date, there is no chance of "aGreitzer's old friend,
Ed Koch, has been up tohis old homophobic
tricks again.
speedy passage."
Greitzer's
constituents know that. The news releaseconcludes, "Council member Greitzer
also extended
her appreciationtomembers of the advocacy community
and members of the Family Diversity
Coalition for their assistance and cooperation in the completion of this bill."
Greitzer's suggestion that our community gave her its assistance and cooperation is patronizing and gratuitous.
It was, after all, our idea. It is nowonder that she was rated as the Council
member with the worst personality in the1987 Daily News survey that asked aselect group of respondents-from bothwithin and outside govemment-to ratethe 35 City Council members and Council
President Andrew Stein in 25 areas ranging from dedication to intelligence. The
respondents were chosen because theirpositions placed them in direct wolking
contact with the CounciL One respondent
was quoted as saying that Greitzer is "avery difficult person, often jealous andvindictive." That sounds about right. Ourcommunity deserves better.
• Carol Greitzer's old friend, Ed
Koch, has been up to his old homophobic tricks again. In his Dec. 11 New
York Post commentary, he condemned
ACf UP and declared his solidarity with
Cardinal O'Connor and the Catholic
church, Koch says that he went to St.
Patrick's on Dec, 9 to stand up for the
church and to show Catholics that he isa friend who is always there for them.
And just in case the average Post reader
thought that Koch was one of thosehomosexuals, Koch cleverly reminds usthat he's heterosexual throughout thepiece: "I arrived at the cardinal's residence at 9:50 and was met by Eileen
White, the cardinal's personal lawyer.
She is a beautiful, brilliant young
woman about 30 years of age," Kochwrote. lbree paragraphs later, he continued: "The cardinal's attractive andcharming niece came into the room. We
greeted one another, having met before,
and as we went into the cathedral, I
said to her jocularly, 'I'll protect you,and you'll protect me.'''I think that it is terribly sexist of
Mr. Koch that in two instancesawoman's physical appearance is noted
before any of her other attributes.
Koch does not describe the physicalbeauty, or lack thereof, of any of themen he speaks of in the commentary,such as Cardinal O'Connor, Cardinal
Bernadin or the monsignor.
. Our fonner mayor goes on to say:"As I sat there and mulled it over, I
thought to myself: If I didn't think it
would be grossly misunderstood or perceived as grandstanding, I would put ona cross and do what the King of Denmark is said to have done to show his
solidarity with Denmark's Jews during
the Nazi occupation. Legend has it thatwhen the Nazis ordered the Jews to sew
yellow Stars of David onto their gar-ments, the king sewed one on to his
and wore it to identify with his Jewish
subjects." In other words, Koch identifies with the church. He seems to forgetthat gays were forced to wear the pink
triangle in Nazi Germany at the sametime that Jews were forced to wear theyellow Star of David. He forgets that thepope was silent when all seven million
Jews and gays were killed by the Nazis.
And Koch makes no mention in
his article of the hundreds of thousands of people around the world who
have died of AIDS and how the church•
is responsible for so many of thosedeaths through its intolerance andresistance to safer-sex education. (Hedid work in a comparison between last
year's demo and Kristallnacht.)
The church has blood on its hands
for its role during the AIDS crisis, andso does former-Mayor
Ed Koch. I
applaud ACI' UP for being the foot soldiers in the fight against AIDS and condemn Ed Koch for his sympathy withthe cardinal. Koch denies that he isgay. He says that it ain't so-and I'm
glad. It saves us the embarrassment.
• The vote is in, and an endorsement has been made. At its December
meeting, the Lambda Independent
Democrats of Brooklyn endorsed Joan
Millman for the City Council seat being
vacated by Abe Gerges. The 29th
Council District runs roughly from
northern Park Slope through Boerum
Hill and Brooklyn Heights to Fort
Green, Williamsburg and Greenpoint.
The vote on the endorsement went asfollows: Millman, 33; Irene Van Slyke,
21; Ken Fisher, 4; Loni Cicchione, 3;
Julio Martinez, 1; and Ted Glick, 1.
• On Dec. 12, Manhattan's Gay
and Lesbian Independent Democrats
held nominations for their board. John
Magisano was nominated for re-election as president, and Rodrick Dial and
Laura Morrison were nominated for the
male and female vice president slots.
Dial and Morrison are young, progressive, committed activists who bodewell for GLID's future. Among theother positions, the wise Phil Ryan,
who serves as chair of the New York
City Alcohol Beverage Control Board,
was nominated for media chair. The
actual election takes place on Jan. 9 at
GUD's next general membership meeting, look for GUD to be a major player
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Robert Chesley
On Dec, 5, 1990, at Ml Zion Hospital in-

San Francisco, gay playwright Robert(Carey) Chesley succumbed to AIDS after abattle of almost three years, Kaposi's sarcoma lesions, which Chesley had proudly
and publicly borne over this period, hadreached his lungs and were complicated by
Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia
Robert Chesley was born on March 22,
1943, in Jersey City, NJ, and raised in
Pasadena, Calif. From childhood, he wasrecognized as musically gifted. His family
were activist Unitarians, but he felt no callingin this direction, After receiving his BA inmusic from Reed College in Portland, Ore"~e married the former Jean Rusch and,according to his story, "wasted ten years
teaching rich kids in private schools [inupstate NY]."In 1975, Chesley had his first gay experience and, within a year, came out as a gay
teacher, separated from his wife and moved
to New York City, where he threw himself witha passion into the gay liberation movement.
During the next several years, his journalism
and theater criticism appeared in Gay
Community News, the Advocate, Gaysweek,
the San Francisco Review of Books, the Bay
Guardian and the New Yolk Native.
Robert Chesley began writing plays forgay theater in 1980, when his first play, a
one-act titled Hell, I Love You, was producedby San Francisco's Theatre Rhinoceros.
Chesley's best-known wor!<s are:Stray Dog Story (An Adventure in Ten
Scenes). a bittersweet fable of a devoted dog
magically turned into a gay man in the jungleof Manhattan. The play was first presented
as a staged reading at the Shandol Theatre
in New York City on May 17, 1982.
Night Sweat (A Romantic Comedy in
Two Acts), a ghoulish nightmare of a poshresort where gay men with AIDS act out theirfantasy death scenes. The play was first presented by Meridian Gay Theatre at the
Shandol Theatre, New Yor!<City, on May 24,
1984, It has the dubious distinction of being
the first full-length play dealing with the AIDS
crisis to be produ~(1.
Jerker,' or the Helping Hand (APornographic Elegy with Redeeming Social
Value and a Hymn to the Queer Men of San
Francisco in Twenty Telephone Calls, Many
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into an anonymous yet meaningful relationby
Ship. Jerker was first presented
Celebration Theatre, Los Angeles, on July 18,
1985. An on-the-air reading of scenes by
KPFX-radio in Los Angeles set in motion theinfamous Pacifica Censorship Case, launching the current phase of governmental repression of the arts, The subsequent New York
City production ran for seven-and-a-halfmonths at the Sanford Meisner Theatre, in an
independent commercial production. Jerker
was first published in a major anthology from
Grove Press, Out Front, edited by Don
Shewey, and scenes from the New York production were includedin Rosa vonPraunheim's documentary Positive,
Chesley's plays have been produced bytheater companies across the country andoverseas. In October of this year, an anthology of Chesley's plays, titled Hard Plays/Stiff
Parls was published by Alamo Square Press,
San Francisco. Plays included are Night
Sweat, Jerker and Dog Plays, Dog Plays,
completed in 1989, is a trilOgy of one·acts
documenting Chesley's personal journey into
acceptance of his AIDS diagnosis. It wasgiven a public staged reading by 3-Dollar Bill
Theater at the Apple Corps Theater in New
York City on Feb, 7, 1990, The JH Press 00tion of Stray Dog Story is currenHy out of print
but may still be found in gay/lesbian anddrama bookstores.
According to Mark Thompson of the
Advocate, "without question, Robert Chesley
is the most incisive gay playwright at wor!< inAmerica today." Tlsh Dace of the New Yorlc
Native wrote, "Without a lot of preaching, hedramatizes what the health crisis may havemade us forget: We don't need to apologize
for who we are," According to Chesley, "My
seif-esteem comes from my dedication to
the gay community and to erotic liberation a more basic issue. I don't believe increeds. I'm a humanist, a renegade, What Is
important to me is figuring things out formyself; acting properly, ethically; offering
good to the world."
In the early '80s, Chesley moved to San
Francisco, where he resided for most of theremainder of his life. A familiar face in thecity's Castro disbict, Chesley was known forthe pink triangle pin that rarely left his shirt orjacket. His quiet manner and low profile
offered few clues to the passion of his sexually charged works, Robert Chesley was amember of the Dramatist's Guild and theSociety of Gay CorT1X>sers.
Chesley is survived by his life-mate,
Gene Weber, of San Francisco; his mother,Mrs. Betty Rottger, of Redondo Beach, Calif,;
his father, D. Leon Chesley, of Long Island,
NY; and his sister, Ms. Joan Apodaca, ofRedondo Beach. Respecting his wishes,
there will be no memorial service; however, apublic reading from his work is scheduled in
San Francisco, and a celebration of his life
and work is planned for New York City.
Manner of disposition of his ashes has not yet
been determined, Contributions
may bemade in his name to Project Open Hand,
2720 17th St, San Francisco, CA 94110.
-Bert
Herrman and Nlcho/as

DeutschFrancis Timothy
DlugosThe daybetore Tim died, I asked him if
there was anything i could do for him. He
nodded and took off his oxygen mask. ·Can
you lessen this torpor?" he asked, with no litHe difficulty. This was so 11m: to use, even in
extrerris, a word so elegant and precise.
I met Tim in 1976 or 1977 soon after hemoved to New York from WaShington, DC,
where he had been the first editor of Ralph
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ening of migraine headaches andincreased blood sugar and blood pressure. The decision whether or not totake estrogen must be made by theindividual woman who is affected.
Her age, severity of symptoms, risk forosteoporosis, family and medical history must be carefully examined toreach a well-informed decision.
A Natural View of Menopause

In a holistic model, wheremenopause is simply one in a series of
life's unfolding developments,
thecornerstone of resilience and health isa healthy lifestyle. Of course, thiswould include medical evaluation andscreening for heart disease, diabetes,
cancer and nutritional problems. But
good health and good spirits arealways based in day-to-day activities.
Nutritional needs change, and older
women need fewer calories, but 50
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women who choose to eat little or no
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we get older, but it is essential to prevent osteoporosis. Weight-bearing
exercise such as walking, jogging,sports or cycling are important inmaintaining bone mass.
Sex is good for us. It keeps thevagina healthy. Most women say thatsex gets better with age. Sexual stimulation by oneself, partner or toys
increases blood supply to the vaginal
area and maintains healthier tissues.
The creative use of water-based lubricants becomes a new joy.
Vitamins and supplements areoften very helpful in the process ofmenopause and prevention of osteoporosis. There are hormone-containing
herbs such as licorice root, sarsaparilla,lady's slipper and black cohosh thatcan be used for symptoms such as hot
flashes and vaginal dryness. Herbs arelike medicine, however, and should be
used in consultation with a naturopathor herbalist
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Not ro worry. Wequeers were copingwiili our own gruesomegrist for ilie g~ip mills-enou juicy morse~ ro keepyou~: .. noshing for days. SrmtdaIr Takeyour pick. Celebri~l More ilian you oould han~e. Ni tmaMl Toilie max. &iprisffil At. every wrewhed cotner. But it w~n't all bad eiilier. Everydark cloud h~ a lavender •• • Youjust have ro cut iliroughilie bullshiL And so, ~ proceed, wiili a look back at 1990, from A ro Z.
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right wing's personal
aesthetic became a dubious
national standard, and thestench of censorship wafted
through the land. Pathetically,
the NEA's Frohnmayer slipped
into bed with the blue-nosers.
And one year after his deathfrom AIDS, Robert
Mapplethorpe was still
shocking museum-goers andprompted a victorious First
Amendment trial in
Cincinnati.

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thrives on controversy, not massadulation. Taking a stand on ignorance
and injustice this year, Sinead
O'Connor embraced ACT UP andproclaimed "Silence = Death" at theend of her Red Hot and Blue segment.
Neneh Cherry warned brothers andsisters, "Don't Share the Needle,"
turning wise AIDS advice into hotvideo. And Queen Latifah's own brandof feminism rapped against oppression,
providing an alternative to the likes of
Audio Two's homo-hating ways.

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Some morons just didn't get it. Chalk it up to thickheaded pr agents and stars who let their mouths
run when the tape recorders should have stopped. Whoopi Goldberg complained that she's been
trying to shake the dyke image since The Color Purple. Sandra Bernhard told People that she's sickto death of being called a lesbian. And oJ:Jvlously unbalanced Pete Hamill keened and bellowed,
trying to convince us in a flatulent Esquire essay that he regretted his own homophobia.
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The titles tell the story: My
Comrade/Sister!, Fertile LaToyah
Jackson Magazine, Teen Punks In
Heat and Diseased Pariah News.
They sling more dirt and namemore names than would ever get
past OutWeell's battery of libel
lawyers. Each issue Is a wise-ass
melange of pointed queer
commentary, fashion andunadulterated filth-Highlight •magazine for a new fag 'n' dyke
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As gay·bashlng. soared, today's qu...... n·the-know began carrying Mac. and a whlstl •• Th.n somebody
m.ntloned ftreanna as the ultlmat. accessory. Paclftsts decried It, .xtremlsts celebrated It, and the
media salivated wh.n Larry Kram.r call.d for targ.t practlc •• Whll. the peac.lovlng and unanned
Pink Panth.rs began roaming the streets, a hoped·for gun.totlng vigilant. group has y.t to surface, but
rh.torlc alon. may forc. cops and bash.rs to think twlc. before m.sslng with the homos.

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That's what they called
Madonna's Justify My Love,
which depicted-motherof
Mary!-imagesof"bisexuality,""voyeurism"and "sadomasochism."
The
clip featured our Ms. M insome heavy tongue action
with another woman, proved
even too sizzling for MTV andwas banned from the
airwaves and destined for thevideo·store shelves
where itgrossed a fortune. Madonna
stood her ground on.Nightline
and once again snagged thespot as queer patron saint.

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Hail the 'phobes in black robes.
We had a gaggle of them thisyear, most often oppressing us
in the name of Lady Justice.
Maybe David Souter wouldn't
talk about his ''reclusive'' life,
but the golden gavel award
goes to Jo Ann Fercinand, who
deep-sixed the St. Patrick's Six
for trespassing and protestingin the cathedral. Before that,
she let off a gay-slasher scot·
free. Thanks also to fonnerSupreme Court Justice Lewis F.
Powell, who said by virtue of
hindSight that he flubbed the
Hardwick sodomy decision
when he sided with the majority
to keep homosex criminal.
Then there's Judge Marci
Kahan; just when you fiOd adyke judge to preside over an
ACT UP case, she begs off,
claiming ''conflict of interest.",•

These days, mainstream organizations are straining to portray
AIDS as something that doesn't merely happen to ''thosepeople." (Thanks, AmFAR!) But it took this film by Craig
Lucas the first in·your-mall movie about the disease toremind us that a decade ago a group of privileged, middle·
class, gay, white men got their shit together to confront thisdevastation. Attacked by the constipated politically correct
for not being everything to everybody, Longtime Companion
remains a flawed but overwelmingly important story •

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when the Empire State Building lighted
up lavender on Gay and Lesbian PrideDay. Thanks to GLAAD and Heritage of
Pride for a neat bit of politicalmaneuvering and for providing a skyline
scene to make us all squeal with delight.

Gays and lesbians in unprecedented numbers stumped
across the country this past November. Everywhere we
looked, queers were glad.handing, kissing babies andincluding gay rights in their platform. Big winners
included Massachusetts incumbents Gerry Studds and .
Barney Frank and first·timers Deborah Glick of New York
City, Roberta Achtenberg of San Francisco and Dale
McCormick of Maine. With such a respectable showing,
expect more queer statespersons to throw theirchapeaux into the ring •

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mortem outing of Malcolm Forbes enticed
America, and straights and gays alikedebated the ethics of exposing our mostinfamous closet cases. Battle lines weredrawn between conservative and rebellious
queers, and the media lapped it up. And
somewhere amidst the carnival atmosphere,
the real issues were discussed: homophobia,
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what? ThIs was the year that
it was olMo-unfashionabie tobe heterosexual. After all,when you're represented byslowofllincled whiners like
Andy Roonel\ can there be
any salvation for you? For the
first time in a long while,
queers bashed back, in print
anyhow. 111e zenith ofstraight-bashing came with
the infamous Pride Day

broadside, " Hate Straights,"a cri du coe..- about surviving
without apology in a straightwortd. H caught on. Next
thing you knew, hets werebeing scratched from guest
lists allover town.
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They're here. And theonl, thing left to do is getused to it-but fast. In
1990,queersfounded
their own organization,
took to the streets
against violence, rainedon Cuomo's victory party
and put Arsenio Hall on
the defensive. Rocker
Pete Townsend came out
as one. Christian Slater
said that his dream role
would be to play one. Andof course Her Holinessput some In her newest
video. Not since the early'70s had the movement
seen such energy-nor
such trendy cachet. The
true yardstick of the newactivism: Within twomonths of forming, Queer
Nation/New York had four
official T-shirt designs.

What if they gave a war and nobody came? 111e fiery l.any Kramer
called for a riot in the sbeets of San Francisco during the Sixth
t tamer
Intemational AIDS Conference. 111e result wasthan that, and a study in contrasts. Outside, ACT UP chaptersscutned with cops on the banicacles, While inside, activist andmedia darling Peter Staley delivered the opening address.

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Bush at a press
conference on AIDS
and forces the well·
behaved 'good gays'
to deal with it, thewortd seems a more
hopeful place.
Urvashi Vaid is part..
.s of a welcome new£ breed: Powerbrokers withmilitant muscle.

Just when we thought thatthe last lesbian hotspot had
dried up, this year turned
the tide with a steadystream of lezzie fun. The
birth of New York City's Clit
Club (east and west) andCrazy Nanny's and therevival. of countless otherGirl Bars, Girl Gates and
Her Planets had thesisterhood spinning. Clit
Club Icon, Trash, and Her
Planet's sex kitten, YoYo,elevated bare·breast
dancing to a new art form
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In a year of victories, we
suffered a setback that knockedt~e wind from us. Vito Russo,
film historian and freedom
fighter, embodied two
generations of activism. He
provided a blueprint for courage,
conviction and camp to every
group formed since Stonewall.
His death from AIDS at the ageof 44 merely accelerates his
deserved canonization as aleader in the lesbian and gay
and AIDS movements. In his
memory, we march on.

How did an overweight
health czar from Indiana,
with a horrendous record on
AIDS, roll into New York Cityand become
health.
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commisSiOner? The Woody
Myers imbroglio piHed queer
against queer, Black against
white. And when the anger
had dissipated, there were ahundred unanswered .
questions and a newnightmare in the chairvacated by fascist Stephen
Joseph. (Actually, the portly
Myers ordered a new chair,forcing the city to shell out
several thousand bucks
during a budget crunch andcreating yet another media
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voted to boycoH the San
Francisco AIDS Conference, inprotest of laws that barred
HIV-positive folk and all queersfrom entering the country.
(Thank Helms for the anti·PWA
provision; the queer clausedates back to the McCarthyera.) The Immigration andNaturalization Services bent
the niles for the duration of theconference, but activists were
not amused. Finally, after
heavy pressure, on Nov. 29,
Bush Signed into law animmigration refonn bill, lifting
the Nazi border ban.

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As in journalism. The
tabloids discovered thatqueers still provide thebest copy, riding theOuting Express to the endof the line and raking in
big cash. Whilemainstream media
mavens discussed thepolitical ramifications ofcloset smashing, theNational Enquirer, etc.,
were gleefully fingering
Kristy McNichol, Richard
Chamberlain, Merv Griffin, .,.
John Travolta and a slewof others keeping "gay" adirty little secret.

In an age of oppression andbullshit, we are cheered by
the new wave of activism
approaching from the horizon.
When Queer Nationalists
booed New York Mayor David
Dinkins at a black·tie affair
for his inaction on the Julio
Rivera murder, they werejoined, unexpectedly, by theirconservative counterparts.
We wish for the radicalizationof scores of complacentlesbians and gays. We've
shed too many tears during
the past ten years. And we
hunger for a new energy. Let
us herald the 1990s as ourgloriously Out Decade•... nu.rV 9, ..99" OUTWEEK

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Located in
the window of a lumber
company, this glory-holeguillotine [LEFT] perhaps serves as a shocking reminder of what
can happen to men who
don't come out.
Meanwhile, the Oh Boy!
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was a
1110 truly
grand andhideously fun year in
the sexual revelations
department,
So whatbetter time than now, looking back at the wonder of it all,to institute our first annual Outing Awards?
(After writing this, I realized one thing: We cansometimes be quite zany and truly twisted, sisters, But it's
fabulous! And I wouldn't want to be doing anything else.)
Best Orchestrated
Outing:
ACT UP/Portlandchanged an entire downtown campaign billboard to revealthat Republican Sen, Mark Hatfield is a closet-case fag.
Traffic was at a standstill that day.

Panic SeH-Outing:
In a state of paranoia,
Michelle Shocked outed
herself because she wasafraid of being outed by
ACf UP/Chicago, who, it turns out, didn't really have plans ofouting her anyway, Or did they?
First "Ining" to Follow the Outing Craze: Sandra
Bernhard claimed that she is "not a lesbian"-several
months after talking about her "dildo" and her "girlfriend"in the same sentence,
Oops!: Taylor Dayne, though a self-professed
heterosexual, was inadvertently outed by the Weekly World
News, who'd claimed that OutWeelts Liz and Sydney outed
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her, even though that delectable duo later clarified that what
they'd originally said was not meant to imply that Dayne wasa dyke, (And this was Dayne's second tangle with OUtWeek
Earlier in the year, she'd written a letter of apology to arts
editor Sarah Pettit, who'd dragged her out on the carpet forsome lesbophobic comments she'd been quoted saying to
Details.) Meanwhile, the Voice's Michael Musto accidentally
called the straight Brad Davis a queer-but Brad, it tums out,
didn't mind anyway.
Most Horrifying
Statement Made in the Outing
Debacle: Some lamebrain columnist at a queer paper in
San Francisco compared me to the New York Native'sCharles Ortleb,
If You Out Someone in the Forest and No One's There
to Hear It: Michael Petrelis gets the award for most-attended
but underreported outing when he named scores of names on
the steps of the Capitol-in the presence of a zillion membersof the press-and hardly anyone printed or broadcast a word
about itDumbest Quote Award: "Outing is shouting!" (What?/)
Jon Henri Damski, Windy City Times
Biggest Outing Payoff: Paul Baresi reportedly made$100,000 from the National Enquirer telling all about his
homo affairs with John Travolta (and later said that he wassorry-though only after cashing the check first),
Second Prize for Dumbest Quote: Furious about
Richard Chamberlain's outing, former Congressman Robert
Bauman (who was himself outed by the Carter
administration) appeared on Larry King Live and claimed that
Chamberlain shouldn't have been outed because he reallywasn't, in fact, biding his sexuality all these years: "I'm not sosure that his publicists were trying to [make him appear
straight.] He played prie~nd
explorers in foreign lands,"
Queen of Outing: Liz "What do they want me to be, the••great lesbian of the Western

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middle of the outing debate, LA Law happened to have an
episode about a police officer who was brought out of thecloset by gay activists who wanted to show "role models" tothe community, He sued-and lost.
The Ladies Doth Protest Too Much: Whitney Houston
denied being a lesbian 34 times and counting, while her
also-unmarried aunt, Dionne Warwick, likened Whitney's
several outings to rumors (which no one had ever heard
before) that she, Ms, Warwick, was once a heroin addict
until she began wearing short dresses, (Don't ask,)
Blessed Outings: Madonna alleged that Arsenio Halland Eddie Murphy were lovers while he claimed that she
and Sandra were also doing each other,
Bleep-Bleep: 1be New York Times refused to print that
Malcolm Forbes was gay even in their outing stories,
Geraldo bleeped Kristy McNichol's name from a show on
outing in which her former lover was even one of theguests, The LA Times wrote all about a "famous actress's
daughter" (Chastity Bono), "a designer" (Calvin Klein) and "agossip columnist" (take a guess).
Simply Everyone's Talking About It: ,By June, even
Barbara Bush, speaking at Wellesley College, was giving her
opinions on outing. She .didn'tlike it.
.
What If You Out Yourself and Nobody Cares? Screw
magazine publisher AI Goldstein outed himself and thensent out press releases, Still, no one wrote about it.
Journalistic
Ethics Award: Us magazine runs awaywith this prize for doing a piece on the outing phenomenonand quoting Liz Smith at great length as an objective, outside
source without revealing that she's a dyke, that she's been
outed herself and that she's my biggest enemy,
Out With the In: Designer MarcJacobs claimed that he
was out-but
refused to say it publicly, He added that
there's "no homophobia" in the fashion industry but laterchanged that to "I meant at Peny Ellis" (a company whichstill refuses to admit that its namesake died of AIDS),
Pot Calling the Kettle Black: Fran' Lebowitz, who
hasn't written a book in almost a decade but has spent thepast 10 years social climbing her way into parties andgetting her name in boldface, accused me of using outingfor "self-promotion,"
Outing Hypocrites: 1be Daily News, after chucking its
exclusive about OutWeek's
outing because it was- Forbes.
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Mary, Get Your Shogun,

341imes And Counting"sensationalized," ran instead with: "Marla Hid in Trump Tower" and "Garbo: Booze, Butts and Hazy Nights for
Reclusive Film Star," After being vehemently anti-outing,Stars Janet Charlton outed Madonna's boyfriend, Tony
Ward, as bisexual. Deborah Norville viciously attacked
OutWeek editor-in-chief Gabriel Rotello on 1be Today Show
for invading people'S "private" lives but eight months later
championed Nancy Collins as a great gossip reporter forasking Jack Kemp if he was gay (go figure!), Joan Rivers,
who attacked outers throughout the Forbes revelations, now
tells Richard Chamberlain queer jokes, The Advocate, whichcame down against outing, didn't reveal that it had, in thepast, outed such luminaries as Greg Louganis, Lily Tomlin
and k.d, lang,
Outing's Rock 'n' Roll Hall of Fame: MickJagger andDavid Bowie did some dancing in the sheets, according toAngela Bowie, David's ex, who said that she caught them in
bed and decided to "eat breakfast" rather than break it up,_ Biggest Flip-Flop: Cher began the year by denying her
daughter's queer side only later-months later and after
numerous attacks-to
defend whatever "choice" dear
Chastity makes about her sexuality.
Outings That Went Nowhere (or Outings That Just
Didn't Sell): Susan Sontag, Annie Leibovitz, Mary Martin,
Glenn Plaskin, Billy Norwich and Kaye Ballard.
Most Faaabbbuuulous Outing: When David Geffen,
Bany Diller and Sandy Gallin, Hollywood's own gay mafia,
attended an AIDS benefit in LA they were greeted by a very
festive Queer Nation/LA, protesting outside with signs
reading: "La Diller, Miss Geffen, Mary Gallin, you se1floathing shitheads!" T"anuary _, 1_1

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Gay Men's Healtb Crisis' AIDS
Dance-a-tbon brougbt 6,200 people
to tbe Javits Convention Center, raising $1.2 million. A portion of tbe proceeds went to Senior Action in a Gay
Environment's AIDS and elderlyprogram. The girls made it tbere after
Queen Latifab was on, but before
SaIt-N-Pepa told everyone to "pusb
it real good. "•No. AmFARis afraid to work with her
now because of the way she's been
mouthing off about the lesbian andgay corrnnunity. They may have evencanceled events with her.
Sydney: Way to go. She's like areally evil girlfriend you 've broken
up with. and she won't go awayyou just want someone to drive her
to the edge of the end of the worldand knock her over it.
Liz: Sounds like fun, I havesome free time over the holidays ...

SYDN EY:

Oh, myGod. there are too many people
here ...! feel nauseous, Everywhere
I turn .. ,more people.
It·s likeMacy's at Christmas. although the
shopping's a little different ....Don·t
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Limelight hosted a Chanukab party
tbrown by tbat most notorious
cburcb secretary, Jessica Habn ...4
Sydney: Look at all these photographers-you
would think thiswas a tired topic by now.
Liz: She just lit all the candles
on the Menorah. and it's only the

You're being selfish-thisis great,
GMHC ismaking a ton of money.
Sydney:OK. Let's grab
some of the food spread out in Those dancing feet -Getting down at the marathon
the lobby.
first day of Chanukah.
Liz: That's for the dancers. not cheap press trash like you.
Sydney: Yeah. well, no one ever accused her of being
Syndey: .I just want an apple ..
areligious
zealot. A religious floozy. maybe ...
."Liz: Come on-the performance is starting-I don't wantLiz: I want to ask her if it's true that Jim Bakker had
to miss Salt-N-Pepa too.
a thing for boys,
Sydney: I wouldn't do that. She's only talking to her
Sydney: Spinderd1a1 is so beautifuL I love her dress.
handler. This could be a great ventriloquist act, and we'dLiz: That's just because you're wearing the same one. I
never know.
wish I had flygirls2, Although. you know. their flyboys are
prettier than they are.
Dinner is sewed ...
Sydney: You know what's so great about this? It's not
Sydney: This is leftover Thanksgiving dinner. Is turkey
about the celebrities that are here, It's about the people dancand stuffmg traditional Chanukah food?
ing-that's who's important. Everyone is a star tonight.
Liz: Being an Episcopalian/Catholic. I can only say ,Liz: Oh. please. Go raid the food tables.
that the gravy isn't kosher.
Sydney: Look .. John-John Martinez5 justSome more notes on tbat girl named
took one of the toy phones6• walked up to JesSandy [seecover story}...
sica and said: "It's for you ... .It·s Tammy.". Sydney: I prefer not to mention her •..
Liz: What'd she say?
name. especially after she called OutWeek
Sydney: Absolutely nothing. She obviously"the scum of the earth." when she spoke atlost her sense of humor about the whole thing.
New York University recently. Several lesLiz: That's harsh. although I hear extensive
bians in the audience challenged her aboutplastic surgery can do that to people.
her going back into the closet. And she
Sydney: Yup, Right after her body job, shebecame clearly rattled. It's obvious that we've
ended
up in a Sam Kinison7
video.
caused her great and deserved distress.
Liz:
Exactly how extensive was that
Liz: Well. you know what I heard?
surgery? T
Sydney: What. is she pregnant? I have
NOTFS:
one thing to say. Miss B: It didn't work for
1. The deejay who spins for Ms. Salt and Ms.
Kirstie Alley3. and it won't work for you,
See LIZ & SYDNEY on page BB
Liz: Ooh. we're a little bitter. aren't we?
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hat was how it started: On Tuesday, I'dforget the Christmas party this afternoon,"
1 paused outside my editor's officenately, my assistant, Yves, was on hand to help
before going in. I could hear him inside,
me out of the building, into a taxicab and backshrieking into the telephone.
to my apartment-where
1 woke up 72 dream"YOU SEIF-WA1HING, SH."T-EATING
less hourS later. My mouth was dry, my vision
FUCKWAD!!!I SWEAR, BY TInS TIME NEXTwas blurred, my head was pounding, and my
WEEK, 1HERE WON'T BE A PERSON AIlVE
arms and legs felt as though they were tethered
WHO DOESN'T KNOW YOU USED TO
to lead weights, but 1 bravely managed to get to
WORK mE SLING SHIFT AT mE MINEthe OutWeek building to resume my projects.
SHAm!! OH, YEAH? WELL, YOU MAKE ME
When 1 walked into my office I surprised
PUKE!!! Satisfied that he was in a good
Yves in the act. of hanging a clump of mistletoemood, I knocked and entered. He slammed
over my desk.
down the phone and stared at me, "SO,"Mr. Ball," he exclaimed. "Are you all right?
YOU FINAllY CAME DOWN FROM YOUR
We were quite concerned,"
BENDER!!!"I had an uneasy feeling of being. "Thank you, Yves, 1 feel like a million doltrapped in A Prayer for Owen Meany.
lars ...Canadian." Those dollars devalued COnsiderably when 1_ "Mike," I said, clearing a stack of Vanz'O!Faits off a chairbeheld the hideous transfonnation of my office, Holly boughs
and sitting down, "I'm afraid 1don't-"
and silver garlands and twinkling white lights were festooned"IN CASE YOU DIDN'T KNOW, TIllS IS A MAGAZINE,
on the walls, A tiny Christmas tree decorated with candy canes
NOT A FUN FAIR, AND AT MAGAZINES WE HAVE SOMEand gingerbread persons was standing on the ming cabinet. A lHING CALLED DEADLINF.5!!!I ASKED FOR YOUR CHRISTrecording of Julie Andrews singing "Joy to the World" wasMAS ARTIaE FOUR DAYS-"
blasting out of the speakers and the reproduction of David's"1Uree days:'
The Death of Marat (of which I'd lately grown quite fond) had"-THREE DAYS AGO, AND I STILL HAVEN'T SEEN
been replaced with a cardboard cutout of Frosty the Snowman.
WORD ONE!!!""What in Christ's name is going on here?" Yves plucked a"Mike, if you'll just-"
strand of tinsel out of his lustrous blond hair and hopped"IF POOR YVES HADN'T WRITTEN SOMETI-IING ON mE
down the stepladder.
SPOT-WHIm,
BY mE WAY, WAS lHE FINEST PIECE OF"Now, Mr. Ball," he said soothingly, "I know your personal
JOURNALISM I'VE EVER a.APPED EYES ON-WE'D BE RUNfeeling about the holidays ever since that unspeakably terrible
NING A BIG, EMPTY SPACE ON YOUR PAGE, AND TIlE ONLY
thing happened to you in 1980, but since everybody else around
TIlING TIlAT ABHORS A VACUUM MORE 1HAN NA1URE IS
here is decorating their offices, 1 thought this might be the politic
GABRIEL ROTELLO!!! BRADLEY, I'VE BEEN COVERING FOR
thing to do,"YOU RIGlIT FROM TIlE STAR11!!WHEN YOU WROTE TIlAT"And if everybody else was setting themselves on fire and
ADVICE COLUMN TIlAT NEVER GAVE ANY ADVICE, WHEN
leaping from the Brooklyn Bridge, would you think that was the
YOU WROTE TIlAT FOOD COLUMN TIlAT NEVER TALKED
politic thing to do?"ABOlIT FOoD, I STUCK UP FOR YOUl!! I EVEN DEFENDED"Yes, if everybody had agreed by majority vote and decided
YOU DURING YOUR EXPRESSIONIST PERIOD WHEN EVERYit would send an effective message to our oppressors," We
ONE ELSEWANfED YOUR DISMISSAL!!!BlIT EVEN I HAVE MY
locked gazes for a moment. "Oh, and speaking of oppression,
UMITS, AND WHEN I DISCOVER TIlAT YOU'VE BEEN DRIVMr. Signorile wants to see you immediately. If I were you, I ING TIlAT POOR YVES MERqLFSSLY WHILE YOU'VE BEEN
wouldn't bother taking off my coat. He sounded upset."
OlIT DRINKING UP TIlE TOWN- TIlATS TIlE IlMI11!!""Nonsense. He probably just wants to know about that''What is it your saying?"
Christmas baking article," I said, starting for the door. "If he"I'M AFRAID YOU'VE LEFT ME WTIH NO mOlCE!!! TIlE
wanted to get rid of me he'd have to assassinate me. Oh, Yves,EDITORIAL BOARD HAS DEQDED 1D 1URN YOUR COLUMN
while I'm gone, would you call Alvin and EarP Explain why I OVER TO POOR YVES!!!"
didn't make dinner the other night, and ask if they'll reschedule.
"But Mike, it's Christmas."
I'm sure they'll understand God knows, they've ..
"WELL, YOU CAN STAY FOR THE CHRISTMAS PARTY,"That won't be necessary, Mr. BalL When you got sick on
BUT TIlEN I WANT YOU TO CLEAN OUT YOUR OFFICE!!!"
Tuesday, 1 went in your place:'
I stood up unsteadily. "All right," I said. "All right. I'll go for"Did they show up?"now, if that's what you want. But I think you'll fmd I have the''Yes, indeed. Mr. Signorile has my notes. By the way, don't

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An Incomplete Guide to 1990
by Sarah Pettit
Censorship. Controversy,
The Cutting Edge. 1990 roiled and boiled
from January until Derember as <ieOOtes in
the art world, and quite often beyond it,
spawned showdown after showdown.
Attacking right-wingers in the form of"moral" Southern senators , "concerned"
interests-vied with bungling administrators at museums, at endowments forattention in concentrating the national
spotlight on their pinheadedness. Meanwhile, gay and lesbian artists, stillseeking to create in this environment,
were made to confront an array ofcomplicated questions forced by thedebacle, The struggle over the National Endowment
for the Arts' futurewould become a broad metaphor forthe troubling and ever-erupting subjectof free expression,
But if the NEA flap dictated thetenor and drew parameters for the gay
and lesbian creative communities's concerns, 1990 was also a year full of newcomers and fubulousness, as well as losses and ugliness-ayear of incredible
range, seemingly a decade in 12 months,
where a lot changed and more stayed
the same. Our community started--ffibeit
slowly-to
excavate some of its own
internal mythologies and blind spots, andthe straight world got more than it could
have bargained for, having little bits of
our lives and spirits hurIed at them at
every turn. But many of our monoliths
remained firmly intact-issues of race,
sex and access on all levels shifted
almost imperceptibly-and thus the very
matter of who caught the limelight is.;:;:<:;::>~,,'i>":':-" :':'".
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inherently problematic, Here, in rather
idiosyncratic arrangement, are some of
the issues, creations and characters thatcolored our queer world,
The year opened with Robert
Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman's Common
Threads: Stories From the Quilt sweep of
the Best Documentary Oscar. FtIms suchas Longtime Companton, Last Extt to

Brooklyn, Pump up the Volume, MtIIer's
Crossing, The Krays and Henry and june
also brought a variation of gay and lesbian portraitures into the mainstream.
Some were made by and for our community; others contained glancing gesturesat our world that were, in varying
degrees, disturbing if not homophobic.
Arguably the most controversial film of
the year, Craig Lucas's Longttme Companion set off a long and heated war ofwords: Whose community was it a:way? How should it be represent
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1990 saw WOW Theater simultaneously
hit its tenth anniversary mark and win an
Obie, Upon receiving their award, thesefabulous thespians wowed the audienceby staging a girl kiss-in, Works such as

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Materials, Voyage to Lesbos, The Sum ofls, Falsettoland, My Pet Homo, Modern

An, Gone Bad, Quiet End and The Menof Manhattan provide just a minute sam-i(§'f

SOUP TO NUTS-Jeanette

Winterson's Oranges Are Not the Only Fruita point-of-view fiCtion that then came tospeak for others? And, why were we notforgetting all of these queries in order tounitedly support that rarity-a Hollywood film.-.-about us?
Film- and video-makers outside ofthecontinued to work industriously, where such questions transmogrified themselves ,into different varietiesof complications.
Parts 1s Burning,lirness"; Wojnarowicz seeming still to suffer the backlash of 1989's Artists' Spaceshow, while Hughes and Miller whirledpling of the range of gay and lesbian theater and performance that went up in
1990. And for every piece that managed alonger run in a bigger venue, there werecountless one-night stands showcasing
new queer talent.
In a year when Mark Morris and Bill
T. Jones whammed BAM, and Frida
Kahlo and Francis Bacon got hung up in

Tongues Untied, Fun Down There,•
Oranges Are Not the Only Fntil, Stlence =, Death, Macho Dancer and Nocturne are••just a few of the better-known titles fromthe seemingly endless and extremely
eclectic flow of creativity that 1990 witnessed, Th~ eriormous outpoUring fed
the already-established gay and lesbian
film and video festivals of New York, Los
Angeles and San Francisco and would
contribute to the growth of new venues
such as New York's Lookout Gay andLesbian Video Festival, All of this heightened visibility made the Washington
busybodies antsy, and it came as little
sutprise when San Francisco's festival c0ordinators, Frameline, revealed that they
were being probed by the grant givers,
Collectives became the order ofthe day for artists seeking common
ground, shared visions and united politics, New York collectives Diva TV,
GANG, Gran Fury, House of Color andTesting the Limits made splashes, withvideo work fast proving to be the preferred mode of communication, When
Gran Fury took their antics to Venicefor the Biennale and stirred up trouble
abroad, the momentum of these groups
became irresistible.
Back at home, gay and lesbianartists Holly Hughes, Tim Miller andDavid Wojnarowicz found their names
wrapped up in a peculiar kind of "pub-

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York City's House of Colorin the midst of the NEA drama, Eachartist's work came under an unusual
amount of scrutiny-scrutiny
clearly
made relevant by the tenns of their sexuality, Whatever the fallout, 1990 initiatedan odd form of attention on a few of ourcommunity's creative artists. It was afocus some in the community thought
we should exploit, while for others it wasa queasy kind of publicity best avoided,
If Miller and Hughes' work attracted
a lot of heat but little light from theogling straight world, many gay and lesbian artists persisted and created undergalleries, the straight press found new
and ingenious ways to avert and convo~
lute issues of sexuality in their reviews,
1990 was, however, not all equivocation.
Names such as Donald Moffett, Martha
Fleming, Lyne lapointe, Adam Rolston,Nan Goldin, Nayland Blake, Hugh Steers,
Nancy Brooks Brody, Cary Leibowitz,
Lola Flash, Ester Hernandez, Hunter
Reynolds,
Zoe
Leonard,David
Wojnarowicz and Robert Gober werelinked to the creation of a range of aesthetics, while events such as theCenter's cartoon Show, Simon Watson's•..January 9, 1991

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•PUBUSHING NOTES-Audre Lorde received the Bill Whitehead Award.

mounting of work from the AIDSdemo-

graphics book, Lee Schy's ubiquitous
poster campaign and the glam-event ACf
UP auction showed the diverse foci ofour communities. The national day ofcommemoration, Day Without Art, washeld for a second year running andproved an even greater success for its
organizers, VISualAIDS.
The publishing world celebrated anhistorical first in 1990 with Outlook quarterly's initiation of the OutWrite conference. Everyone from Ann Bannon toEssex Hemphill to Judy Grahn was onlDSSES-Artist Keith Haring•ihand at an event rivaled only by the
1990 ABA convention,
held in Las
Vegas, where Jewelle Gomez accepted
the Bill Whitehead award on behalf of
Audre Lorde. Lorde asked that her prize
money be retained by the award's sponsors, the Publishing Triangle, and that it
be applied toward supporting the workof people of color. 1990 also witnessed
the publication of new works by Sarah
Schulman, Paul Monette, Bo Huston,Vickie Sears, MichaelNava, Jeanette ~U1.terson, Susie Bright,
Marilyn Hacker and
Larry
Mitchell,amongcountlessothers, It brought usvital nonfiction titles,. books such as Com-

ing Out Under Fire,

The Women, AIDS &Activism handbook
and 100 Years of

Homosexualityaswell as the stories
of Federico Garcia
Lorca, of Harry Hay
and of Holly Near.
Washington,
DC's
Lambda Book Report
was revamped andupgraded, and the

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Connec-newsletter
came into being.
Only a year such as
this could have poet
Minnie Bruce Prattunder the NEA ax just nanoseconds
after having garnered one of poetry's
highest accolades, the Lamont Prize.
But 1990, this year of gains, also suffered an intolerable amount of loss as the
AIDS crisis raged on unabated. Keith
Haring, Ethyl Eichelberger and Vito
Russo are but three names from a list solong that it seems meaningless to "pick,"As this issue went to press, word arrived
that poet Tim Dlugos had died, and so
the nightmare goes on.
ff 1990 did anything consistently, it
was to·complicate what we might meanby "gay art" or "lesbian art" or "queer.
art." These categories showed themselves
to be evermore amorphous, indistinct
and problematic. Was "gay art" that workby a closeted Broadway playwright? Was"lesbian art" a feminist novel that alluded
to us but refused to do so honestly? Was"queer art" the work of five male paintersand one female token? What is thatmuch-alluded-to "gay aesthetic"? Was it"outing" if we included a reluctant sister's
efforts in our canon? Read on for Jim
Fouratt's year-end take on the musicworld. Perhaps he can provide someanswers.
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issue. His champiThe best of 1990 must first
oning of sexual vioacknowledge
just how bad it got
lence into the panbefore it got good. ("Oh, baby, justify
theonof highmy love.")culture proved to
Homophobia became an acceptbe only a device toable marketing tool for major labels inincrease corporate
199O-even those owned by powerfulprofit. Little did he
white queers. Ax! Rose lined up conseem to care about
fused adolescent boys and proceeded
the rise in gayto pick their pockets cleaner than abashing and theshrink in heat, fielding the pandemic
increase of publicly
masculinity crisis. Rap went top 40 byaccepted misogyny.
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whitewashing its inherent political danBut it only tookger, becoming acceptable only whenthree minutes in a
girls, gold and sexual violence took
live
Grammy_control of its verbal imagery. And
Awards TV perforTurbo (of Snap) freaked out in amance by 2 Live
Boston gay bar, committing a homoCrew for the Ameriphobic assault on the bar owner ("justican public to cut
fy my love," indeed), Only the quick
through the hyperesponse of the San Francisco-based
and see the ridicuDance DJ Association along with thelous spectacle ofBoston and New York gay communities
grown men acting
to pull Snap from their play lists until alike
1'3-year-old
public apology was given brought
kids bragging about
Turbo to his knees, so to speak.
the very thing that
Then there's the absurd image ofscaresthem tothe president of Atlantic Records granddeath: women and gay sexuality. Othstanding on the freedom-of-speechers belong in this hall of shame, like
READ MY UPS-Singer/Activist Jimmy Somervillethe unrepenetent Audio 2 or
the sttjpid dick talk andwomen-fearing nonsense of
CBS artist No Face (What are
you afraid of?).
The good news is thatwomen continue to do it forthemselves. The Indigo Girls,
Melissa Etheridge, Monie Love,
Queen Latifah, Michele Malone,the Heartthrobs, Nenah Cherry,and others prove that womencan stand on a stage, open theirmouths and be much morethan some boy
or girltoy. And
as more andmoreartiststoday
areaddressing theissues of free-

dom of choice and control over one's
body, queers everywhere are banding
together to make a loud musical noise.
The following music wrap-up is areflection of what I believe are theessential pop records of 1990. Reviewers have to beg, borrow and sometimes
scream to get ahold of much of thismusic, but it's worth it. This list-50
recorded works out of the more than
10,000 yearly releases-also
reflects
many hours of weeding through moreboring music.
It's not just a list of all the politically correct artists, or the trendy few. My
criteria was: Do I play it again andagain during the year?
Do I try to make sure
my friends know about
it? Is it on the tape to
my boyfriend?

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1990 Top-Ten Records•

Abed Azrie, Aromates (Nonesuch)
Absolutely haunting Arabic devotional songs tocounteract propaganda spewed by DC war-mongers
about Arab people, Beautifully soothing to the being
and balancing to the libido.

so many drag queens been thanked so openly on a
top-pop charter.
Die Vision, Torture (Vulture, Import)
Despite having been officially banned by thegovernment for singing "decadent" songs in English,
this is the first release by the most popular East German band. Post-Joy Division at its best, with one
member who happens to be gay.

Billy & the American Suns, Thunder in theValley (Atlantic)
Proof perfect that the Springsteen man can feeltender. This South Jersey sings of love in stark contrast to the violence or fake sentimentality that bleeds
all over the video channels. Definitely a boys' record
for the women in all of us.

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Ferron, Phantom Center (Chameleon)
Ferron was the only uncloseted artist who evermade it out of "women's music" ghetto otherwise
defined and dismissed by the straight music-critics.
Five years later, Ferron is back with a wondrous
album that charts her journey into paths of self-discovery and recovery of self.

The Blue Nile Hats, (A&M)
More tender love songs from feeling men. The
biggest adult cult band of the '80s took six years tomake this record. Scottish lads with big...hats,

Robin Holcomb, Robin Holcomb (ElectraMusician)A perfect record. Beautiful Appalachian spirituals
refocused with the best Laurie Anderson-like modern
technology become Quaker anthems about all thethings that matter in life.

Dead Can Dance AION (4AD, import)
Celtic Renaissance music filtered through 20thcentury electronics, If Anne Rice got the spirit andstarted talking in tongues, this would be her record.

Michele Malone,
Relentless (Arista)
Finally a young
woman who grabs holdof rock 'n' roll andshakes it to its foundation.
PictureJanis
Joplin, Bonnie Raitt and
Laura. Nyro passing theturkey baster full ofKeith Richard's,uh,lusty guitar drippings.
Malone hangs out with
the Indigo Girls and the
REM lads, but it's theStones and Patti Smith
that haunt her music.

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Deee-Lite, World Clique (Electra)
The Lady Miss Kier, Super DJ Dimitry and Jungle DJ Towa Towa are the kids on our block. Pushingthe inclusive, rather than exclusive, party ethic, they
really shake their booty with B-52 zest. Never have•

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I Do Not Want What I
Haven~t Got (Ensign)
Quite simply themost emotionally accessible and danceable. record of the year. Never shy about her
indebtedness to both her Roman Catholic morality.
and the lessons taught both lyrically, and rhythmicallyfrom the B-Boys of the world, she looks to Blackmusic to learn and honor, not to loot. And she certainly is not shy in front of a camera .

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Rosanne Cash, Interiors(Columbia)
The real deal: Only women
bleed, But she's co-dependent
no more,Mary-Chapin
Carpenter,
The More Things Change(Columbia)
Smart bluesy songs from DC
fOlky-gone-country.
She clearly
cares about the things she sings.
Exene Cervenka, Running
Sacred (Rhino)
Now a mom herself, the LA
punk is back in touch with herworking-class dreams and fears.
A major American artist.
Galaxie 500, This Is Our
Music (Rough Trade). The sound of 10,000 college
students dreaming, this is the second album from Boston- and Harvard-based mixed-gender group.
Harmony,
Let There Be
Harmony (Virgin)
Women in rap are strong
because their issues are morevaried and their hearts more
opened. From the family thatbrought you KRS-1 and Ms.
Melody, the spirit is the driving
force in this rap Ms.'s world.

John Hiatt, Stolen Moments(A&M)
The master songwriter hits ahome run. His world has lightened up just a little with fun actually jumping out of the songs,
Into Paradise,
Into Paradise, (Ensign)
Shades of Echo, Teardrop
Explodes and the Velvets, This very
serious band from Ireland excites.
Monie Love, Down to Earth(Reprise)This 20-year-old London Rap
artist moved to Brooklyn to findthe groove at the Queen's feet.
She' raps of her life, a women'slife. And ...you can dance,
Pet Shop BOYS, .introspective (EMI)
These piss-elegant Brit-attitude style queens make dancemusic. Who cares if the cute one
really does nothing but look pretty and be Neil's boyfriend?
World
Party,
GoodbyeJumbo (Ensign)This album sounds nicely
familiar but never imitative-justa one-man band at work, Craft
and techniquemeshed withgenius results in a World Party.

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The "Must Have" Queer Pop List:
Mark Almond, Enchanged (Capitol)Blackberry, Songs From Soul (Out)Michael Callen, Lowlife (Significant
Other)
Alix Dobkin, Yahoo Australia (Womens Wax Work)
Flirtations, Captured (Significant
Other)
Girls in the Nose, Labia Madness(DildO Delight)
J.D.'s Homo Core, Hit Parade (independent release)
Kitchens of Distinction, Love Is Hell(One Little Indian)
John Outlaw Living Well Is the Best
Revenge (advanced cassette)
Anna Palm, Arriving and Caught Up(One Little Indian)Ranch Romance, Western Dream(Ranch Hand)
Jimmy Somerville,Read My Ups (MeA)
Sylvester, The Big One (Megatone)
Two Nice Girls, Like a Version(Rough Trade)
Various Artists, Red Hot and Blue
(Chrysalis)

The Other 30
Alice in Chains, Face Lift
(Columbia)
Angel Corpus Christi, The 'SOs
(A&R/ENT)
Joan Armatrading, Hearts andFlowers (A&M)
Aster Awake, Aster (Columbia)
David Baerwald, Bedtime Stories(A& M)The Call, Red Moon (MCA)
Cheap Trick, Busted (Epic)
The Colorblind James, Why
Should I Stand Up (Gold Castle)
Lucky Dubray Lucky Dubray(Schaniche)
Ecotour, Weekend Guru
(Chameleon)
Bill Frisell, Is That You(Electra/Musician)Grady Harrell, Romance Me (RCA)The Heart Throbs, Cleopatra Grip
(Elektra)Joe Henry, Shuffletown (A & M)
LL Cool J., Mama Said Knock
You Out (Def Jam/Columbia)
Samba Mapangala, Virunga Volcano (Earthworks)
Van Morrison, Enlightenment(Mercury)
Movie Stars, Head on a Platter(Whirlaway)
Morrissey, Bona Drag (Sire)
Bob MOld,Black Sheets of Rain
(Virgin) .
Poi Dog Pondering, Wishing Like a
Mountain (Columbia)
Primal Scream, Come Together(Sire)
Sonny Southon, Falling Thru a
Cloud (Charisma)
Soul Asylum, Horse They Rode in
On (A&M)
Dusty Springfield, Reputation
Parlophone (Imp.)
Sundays, Reading, Writing andArithmetic (DGC)
Teenage Fanclub, A Catholic
Education (Matador)
Kelly Willis, Well-Traveled Love(MCA)
Bob Wiseman, Sings Wrench
Tuttle (Atlantic)
9 Ways to Sunday, Come Tell Me
Now (Giant)....nu..ry 9, '199'1 OUTWEEK

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THE GODFATHER, PART III. Directed by Francis Ford Coppola.
Written by Mario Puzo and Coppola. Produced by Coppola.
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by Bruce C. Steele••

What could be more aboveboard
than a $600-million deal with the
Catholic church? Heh, heh, heh.
For almost 35 years, Don Michael
Corleone (AI Pacino) has been trying tomove his Mafia-made family fortune into"legitimate" enterprise. In Tbe Godfather,
Part II~set about 20 years after the endof Part I~he chooses the church to do
the final laundering of his business andhis soul, and he learns one of the primary lessons or the Christian era: Nevertrust the Vatican.
The first Godfather film was about
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as-abomination, and the parallel storylines of Part II simultaneously traced therise and the dissolution of the Cor/eoneclan. Both movies viciously deconstruct"family values" by equating familial
honor with a homicidal code of acquisition and retribution-which eventuallyconsumes the last of Michael's humanity. Part III expands that equation toworld-scale.
Inspired by the Vatican
Bank scandals of the late'70s, the movie implicatesthe church and the international financial community's
poisonous
use of great

power for profit and self-perpetuation.
The message is not new, of course, particularly in the foul wake of the Reagan
era and in the lair of New York's Cardinal O'Connor, But the vehicle for themessage is, in this case, a terrific piece of
Hollywood moviemaking.
Stunningly photographed by Gordon Willis, Part III once again proves
Francis Coppola to be a master of visualexpression and a skilled "actor's director." He has Pacino back at the peak of
his craft and elicits an extraordinary performance from Andy Garcia as Vincent
Mancini, a hood who evolves from errant
nephew into heir-apparent.
Rushedfrom pre-production
through post-production, Part m is notwithout mistakes: The casting of Coppola's daughter Sofia to replace Winona
Rider as Michael's daughter; the selectionof George Hamilton (in a new role) toreplace Robert Duvall, who wanted moremoney than Paramount would pay; some
painfully obvious bits of dialog; the silly
60-second epilogue. And some naive
viewers and belligerent critics will no
doubt pooh-pooh that climactic Vaticanplot twist. (Believe it, kids it probably
happened that way),
Nevertheless, the movie confirms
my long-held belief that Mario Puzo is
the real genius behind the first two Godfather masterpieces,
Since Part II in 1974,•
Coppola has repeatedly proven himself
incapable of constructing a coherent narrative or thematic arc without Puzo's
input. What was he saying in Apocalypse
Now? In any of his S,E, Hinton adaptations? Who could tell? But they looked
good. The Godfather, Part III, on theother hand, is immediately and consistently gripping, and its agenda-however
obvious is intricately developed,
The plot machinery is a pleasure towatch, a blast from the heady days of
70s conspiracy films, Like Parts I and n,
Part 1lI introduces all its threads of narrative and character in a brilliantly choreographed opening party scene and, twoand one-half hours later, ties
up or snips off all the loose
ends in a riveting series of"hits." In between, countless
set-pieces, both intimate andexplosively violent, build

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SHELF LlFE ... The Publishing Triangle andthe Community Center are putting their heads
together in an effort to build a libraty of gay
and lesbian literature. Plans for the librarywere ftnalized in October when the Triangle's•
proposal was formally accepted by the Center, with operations anticipated to begin in
March 1991. Stan Leventhal, who has been
putting the pieces together for the Triangle,
an activist networking group for gay and lesbian writers, editors and people othelWise involved with publishing, commented, "The libraty will start off modestly and will have theopportunity to grow if it prove,s successful. n Though thisbookworm's delight will be housed in the 13th Street building, it remains to be seen exactly where and by what means,
Obviously many monies are key, and a few helping hands
wouldn't hurt. Send the former to Trent Duffy, Treasurer, 83
E. 7th St. #3B, New York, NY 10003; volunteer the latter bycontacting Stan Leventhal at 462 Broadway, Suite 4000, New
York, NY 10013, or by calling (212) 966-8400,

JUST IN AND OUT ... With the volume of gay and lesbian
books being published at an ever-quickening pace, we're
scurrying to catch 'em alL Look for this occasional roundup,

intoxicating tension. We know going inthat no one except Garcia is likely toreturn for a Part Iv, so everyone's a target.

The movie's fmaIe drives home theGodfather ftlms' ringing condemnation of
those who murder, manipulate andolor•

and get the bare bones (really): Shockproof
Sydney Skate by Marijane Meaker (Plume):
A reissue of this 1972 bestseller about amother and son's pursuit of the same
woman. Don't Be Afraid Anymore by Rev-.
erend Troy D. Perry with Thomas Swicegood (St. Martin's): Metropolitan Community Church's founder and moderator Troy
Perry tells all. Proust: A Biography by
Ronald Hayman (Harper Collins): The flap copy calls him a"mama's boy"-let's hope there's more to it. Side by Side byIsabel Miller.(Naiad): The author of Patience and Sarah gives
it another whirL Southbound by Sheila Ortiz Taylor (Naiad):
Lezzie fave Faultltne has a sequeL So Little Time by Mike
Hippler (Celestial Arts): longtime Bay Area Reportercontributor Hippler's weekly column. Words-to the Wise: A Writer~
Guide to Feminist and Lesbian Periodicals & Publishers by.Andrea Fleck Clardy and Making It: A Woman ~ Guide to Sex
in the Age of AIDS by Cindy Patton and Janis Kelly (FirebrandSparks Pamphlets): numbers 1 and 2 in Firebrand's line ofthin necessities, Lesbian Bedtime Stories 2 "gathered" by Terry
Woodrow (Tough Dove): 30 hot-off-the-press gal stories.
Now buy one ....
-compiledby Sarah Pettit

exploit in the name of family or c~urch.
Yet, in the end, the poison and destruction have passed to a new generation, ...

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•POSITIVE ACTIONS: THE VISUAL AIDS COMPETITION. The Clock Tower Gallery, 108 Leonard St.;DC 37, 125 Barclay St.; Longwood Gallery, 965 Longwood Ave., the Bronx. Through Jan. 20.
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by John Wing
"The impulse for [this] exhibition
was to get people thinking about what
art can do about AIDS," observed Robert
Atkins, an organizer of Positive Actions:
7be Visual AIDS Competition, along withTom Finkelpearl and Selwyn Garraway.
'We are the conscience industry, and weknow that art can do a lot to get theword out about this crisis."
And the three exhibitions that comprise Positive Actions provide a rareopportunity to see artwork that challenges and inspires, displaying the transmutation of private grief and anger
about AIDS into the realm of public art.
Held in conjunction with Day Without·Art, the competitions generated 220 proposals from which three finalists will beselected to develop projects. One ofthese ftnalists will then be awarded a$5,000 grant from the Public Art Fund to"create a public work of art in responseto the AIDS crisis" for display in a public
dty location.
A good half of the competitions'
proposals are on display at the Clocktower Gallery; the rest can be found at
the union headquarters of District COuncil 37 in Lower Manhattan and the Longwood Gallery in PS 39 in the Bronx, sites
chosen to bring this exhibition to audiences traditionally bypassed by the Manhattan art circuit.
"It's important to the community to
see this artwork:' said Fred Wtison, thedirector of the Longwood Gallery, whowill bring public school students to viewthe exhibit. "The South Bronx is
so hard hit by the AIDS epidemic. The kids here have seen
everything, and they're dying
for an opportunity to learn more
about art and about AIDS. In

the South Bronx, every day is a day
without art."
Entrees were received from the US,
Europe and the Soviet Union, andinclude works in every imaginable medium: a billboard attacking the idea of
quarantining PWAs, abstract and ftgurative sculpture, a painted mural of a 15foot-to-20-foot-tall candle for a building
lobby, photographs of AIDS activists infront of St. Patrick's, a reconstruction of
the American flag to include a patternfound 'in illV and 15 drawings submitted
by a sixth-grade class from Queens
about the dangers of N-drug use,
Some of the proposals are simple
and straightfolWard, such as abillboardby Mary Blackey
showing dice imprinted with theword "AIDS." The billboard is
captioned: "Taking a Chance?
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if not downright unfeasible, After thecontroversy over Richard Serra's TIlted
Arc, is it likely that Tim Morrow's fountain, in the guise of an 8-foot-by-40-footCombat roach trap, would be allowed to
be installed in Federal Plaza, as the artist
proposes? And while Leona Helmsley
has allowed her Empire State Building tosport a lavender crown this year, is there
any chance that short of a psychotic.
episode she would allow Ed Eisenbert
to unroll "a giant condom" over her 102story plaything?
One has to applaud J.R Harley, anarchitect in Denver, who would cover, the walls of the Lincoln Tunnel with"brightly colored latex" as "an expressionof the biological-sexual issues surrounding AIDS."And in the radio silence of thetunnel, Harley would broadcast "AIDSrelated information and AIDS-related
audio art" over all FM frequencies,
When asked whether his latex tunnel, which simulates the experience oftraveling through a condom, might discourage motorists, Harley replied,"Maybe we should provide some lubricant for anyone entering,"
In the sculpture Fountain of Tears,
by Scott Clifford Siken, tears flow fromthe eyes of a gaunt PWA as a Blackchild and an old woman look on inagony, like a modem-day Piela, "AIDSis a complex issue," explained Siken,"[It] needs to be addressed by all thedifferent races and ages." At the sculpture's base are the names and dates ofplagues of the past; the endpoint of thecurrent epidemic has, of course, yet to
be fIlled in, "There has to be a certain
optimism in a public work, It has topoint to a resolution," insists Siken, who
would like to see the sculpture near theUN, "because AIDS is a world issue andneeds to be dealt with by an integrated
conununity. "Educating the public about AIDS
inspired many entrants, including Meryl
Meisler, an art teacher in Brooklyn who
proposes to tum the waiting room outside the nurse's office in her school intoan AIDS information area. Meisler's students submitted questions they had
about the disease; questions which,should she win the competition, will bemounted along with their answers in

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Some, however, may require lengthy
explication: "What color is AIDS?"and "If
you're married, can you still catch AIDS
from your husband?""These students
are entering
puberty, and they're really scared,"
remarked Meisler. "They're discovering
their sexuality, and they're seeing theirAzr. I~\iTl~~
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neighbors die."Like Meisler's students, Positive
Actions asks us questions for which
the answers are not readily
apparent.
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An Interview With Barbara Wilson
by Victoria A. Brownworth
School bored her. She didn't learn
to read until age seven. Dropping outof college while majoring in philosophy, she went off to see the world. She
studied for a year in Spain, traveled to
Morocco, Portugal and Scandinavia,
where she ended up selling souvenirs
in a hotel in Norway. Somewhere along
the line, she bought a few dictionaries.
Finally returning to the States, shelearned how to print in a friend's mother's garage,
Now Barbara Wilson is a publisher,
author and translator and the reigningqueen of the lesbian
mystery novel. In addi-

tion to co-founding, co-editing and copublishing one of the premiere lesbianfeminist publishers, Seattle's Seal Press,
she has written six novels (including
her latest, Gaudi Afternoon) and abook of short stories, translated fourother works by lesbian-feminist authors
and is currently at work on three otherbooks. On a recent cold and rainy Seattle-like day in Philadelphia,
Wilsontalked about success, Seal, writing andthe publication of her latest book.
BarbaraWilsonhas been writing since
it became a central
focus of her life at age
eight. "I really didn'tlike school unless I

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could create my own projects," sheremembered.
"I had a teacher in sixth grade who
had us do reports on different countries.
I made mine in the form of a woman
traveling and sending letters back. I had
drawings of clothes and all this information, The teacher loved it. She was very
supportive of my imagination." As a
Christian Scientist,Wilson was exemptedfrom all science classes. Instead she
spent hours in the library where thelibrarians devised projects with her "likeshadow boxes of The Diad."
The resourcefulness that she cultivated at this early age continued inlater efforts. She taught herself Span- .
ish, German and Norwegian ("All you
need is a dictionary," she said, blitheIy).· While in Norway, she decided totranslate the works of a feminist writer unpublishedin the US, With
Rachel deSilva, co-founder of Seal,
she began setting press and publishing chapbooks for Seattle womenpoets, And the novels "grew out of
my experiences,"
And how did she become thequeen of lesbian mystery? "Well, I
wouldn't call myself the queen," shesaid, noting almost apologetically that
other lesbian writers have produced
more mysteries than she, But critics
acclaim Wilson's mysteries for theirpolitical message and their inherent wit
and satire.
"I set out to subvert the genre,"
she says, and it sounds as deceptively
simple as teaching oneself a languagewith a dictionary. And subvert it she
has-with
her Pam Nilsen series,
which put leftist politics in the realm of
the surreal and which, in her novel
The Dog Collar Murders, pokes subtle
fun at the pornography debate that
continues to rage through the lesbianfeminist community.
"Even the espresso bar-laundromat was a metaphor in that book," shesaid, "I wanted to make the point that
this debate was always steaming,
always churning." As always, the bookwas well researched. "I read all of the
pro and con literature, and the novel
reflects those debates."
Wilson thinks that the mysterygenre is perfect for "combining politics
and writing, I wanted something thatwould be entertaining but would get
people to think. So I wrote the nrst

Pam Nilsen, and then people started
asking me, 'Who's your favorite mystery writer?'---illld I didn't have one, I
didn't really read mysteries. So I started
reading everything and followed theseplot ideas, In some of these books,
you'll have the male PI [private investigator] looking for a teenage hooker, So
in Sisters of the Road I subvert that-it'sPam, the young lesbian, who is looking for the teenage hooker,
In the just-released Gaud; Afternoon, Wilson does similar "damage" tothe stolidity of the genre, "I wanted to
do a caper, a thriller, a really fastpaced book, In these books, there isalways a heist, and then the thieves
keep stealing the jewel back and forth.
In this book, the jewel is Delilah [achild]. She's a projection of everyone's
desire. She's an object to them." Gaudt
Afternoon, like Wilson's other mysteries, has a political undercurrent. "It'sabout gender, custody, motherhoodand parenthood," she said.
Wilson has chosen to write in the
mystery genre for so many of her
books because "you have an incredible amount of freedom. You can /:subvert the structure. The
down side is that theseibooks are not taken
seriously as novels,
People can't see
how complicatedthey really are."Wilson's
mysteries havebeenhugelysuccessful; reprinted all over
the world in different languages.
Sistersof the Road
has also been
optioned for a ftlm.
But Wtlson wants toreturn to "serious" fiction, like her short sto:ries "Miss Venezuela"
and the painful andchilling "Cows and Horses." Although she has
another Cassandra Reilly
novel in the works, she isfocusing on "a longer novel,with no elements of mysteryin it at all."
The attention
that
Wilson.'I"

pays to writing makes her career in 'publishing seem like an afterthought, asideline venture, but Wtlson puts just as
much energy into it as she puts intowriting. But, does she sleep? "I've been
lucky that I've been able to get the Veedom at. Seal to work there and do mywriting, For a long time, I worked in
Seattle hospitals, and I'd do that-workat Seal and do the writing, That was astruggle, Now it's easier."This year has been a particularly
good one for Seal. The publication ofBlack Woman's Health Book-whichsold out its first printing in threemonths-is bringing in money to thepress. It's also been a good couple ofyears for her writing, "You give up theidea of the big windfall advance early
on," said Wilson, "I've never gotten outof the habit of writing-I write everyday---and you can earn a living at writingif you publish a lot of books."
Wtlson is also committed to publishing a lot of other women's books. "I
get tired of hearing all the time that lesbian writing is bad. There's a lot ofgood writing out there, And
1 think we're
publishing a
lot of it."
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is getting more
women of color into print as well as
publishing more works of nonfiction by
women, They remain supportive of thewomen-in-translation series, now a separate entity managed by Wilson. "It'slike having a separate publishing house,
but we needed the nonprofit status to
go on publishing the translationS. They
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York Times, but they don't make a lot ofmoney. And Seal is for profit. So now
we have the new imprint.". But the work involved in setting
up the women-in-translation
project
has set Wilson's writing back a bit.
Next year will be the first without a
Barbara Wilson publication. "I haveseveral books going, but none will be
published by next year."
Her advice for the lesbian writer, oreven the young lesbian? "Be open, beout, look for positive models for yourself.
There is a lot of good writing out therethat speaks to our experience. It canhelp. It can empower you. Seal has
always had a commitment to women's
empowerment, and I have that samecommitment in my writing. I don't like to
see women as victims. I think theyshould speak for themselves, for theirown experience." T•
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DANCING ON TISHA B' AV by Lev Raphael. St. Martin's Press. $16.95 cI. 232 pp.

by Andrew Miller
My father, like many of the men
a'nd women in Lev Raphael's book ofstories, was haunted by a war that hecould rarely bring himself to talk about.
For my mother, whose family tree
had been planted in Brooklyn generations before, the war years were a timeof hardship, but also of unprecedented
freedom, when Jewish teenage girls
could become air-raid wardens, spending entire nights on dark Williamsburg
rooftops searching the skies for enemy
planes, And her stories, romanticizedover the years, are there for the asking.
It was different for my father, theonly member of his family born in thiscountry, whose first language was Yiddish and whose sisters still sent lettersaddressed in Russian to relatives
near•
Odessa, His revelations about the war
he saw from underneath his US annyissue cap--like the bloody, corpse-fIlledwaters at the Normandy beachhead
where he was nearly killed-wereinvoluntary rather than forthright, blurted out in bedtime stories intended to .
comfort, but which left a far more
unsettling impression instead.
Raphael's beautiful stories are filledwith similar contradictions. Fathers andsons, hu'sbands and wives, men andtheir lovers are drawn to each other bywhat separates them, And people aresimilarly betrayed by their intentions:~olocaust survivors who try to blot out
their Jewishness,or
whose painful experiences translate
into-cruel acts perpetrated
upon their children;
closet cases who keep
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their homosexuality
at bay throughelaborate sexual rituals that resemble
religious rites,
But just as the act of desecration towhich the title story refers functions
instead as a liberation of sorts, nothing inRaphael's world can be taken at facevalue, That this CT'W dejJfe, precipitated by
the homophobic behavior of Nat's fellow
congregants who drive him from sbu4
occurs on TISha B'Av, the Fast Day commemorating the destruction of the temple
in Jerusalem, is one of this deliciously richvolume's many satisfying para11els.
Unlike collectionsof similarly
themed works that tell the same story
over and over, the tales that Raphaelgives us are impressively diverse andseem purposefully structured. Indeed,Nat, Brenda and Mark, characters in thefirst story, reappear in stories in the
middle and at the end of the volume,
giving the work a novelistic sense of
the passage of time.
Like many gay male authors,
Raphael writes about families, but his
world is one that no Lavender Quill
writer would ever have known-families of Jews whose relatives were left
behind in the ovens and mass graves ofTreblinka and Bergen-Belsen. Raphael,himself the child of death camp survivors, is at his best when describing
the intensity of either religious or sexual
experience-in
fact, the one is often
described in terms of
the other. And that isthe book's most magical quality. For it goes
far beyond both an
obvious my-oppression-

Like ITlanygay
ITlale authors,
Raphael vvrites
about faITlilies,
but his vvorld is
one that noLavender Quill
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ever have
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left behind inthe. ovens andlllass graves ofTreblinka andBergen-Belsen.

is-just-like-your-oppression analysis ofidentity, and the hackneyed sexualdesire-vs,-<:ulturaI-taboodichotomy.
Instead, each individual's own
struggle-with Holocaust nightmares,
with sex, with religious identity-plays
off other characters' in a way thatallows us to discover the nature of the
struggle, rather than leading us toanswers about it. Often, the results are
jarring, A father commenting about theStonewall Rebellion he has read about
in '/be New Yorll Times to the son hedoes not know is gay compares not
the police, but the rioters, to the Nazis
he saw firsthand in Europe. In the fmal .
story, it is the striking similarities
between the ravages of anti-Semitism
and of homophobia, that allow Nat'ssister Brenda to overcome her book-long aversion to her brother's genderpreference. But for many of the book's
gay men, the simple confluence of sexual and religious ecstasy, and not negative reactions to it, become a sourceof strength,
But this book, far from being
relentless, parades a dazzling array ofnarrative voices, from goyisber gay boys
to a straight woman academic on an
isolated Midwestern campus. Some ofthe descriptions of sex are positively
arousing, and the book's sprinkIing of
sexy college jocks and teenage-boy
first-time stories are enough to satisfy
any audience looking for a "gay" read,
In "Remind Me to Smile,"a grad student
invites an old boyfriend for a homecooked meal prepared by his lover, andthe ensuing dinner party, complete with,

12-<:oursemenu, is as hilarious as any
Victor Bumbalo play.
The 19 stories, nearly all of whichhave been published previously (in acomically diverse bunch of magazines
including Redbook and Cbristopber.
Street) are not without flaws, The
metaphor-rich language, while clear andprecise, is in sections so personal that
only the author could follow the connection between certain paragraphs.
And the titles of some of the stories areannoyingly didactic ("Betrayed by David
Bowie" is a welcome excepti~),
But these ticks never interfere withthe overall effect: It is possible to disappear into these stories, as if another
door shuts behind the reader with every
turn of the page, until their isolating
reality is positively spooky,T,

A HOME AT THE END OF THE WORLD by Michael Cunningham. Farrar Straus Giroux.
$13.95 cI. 343pp.

by David B. Feinberg
I admit it: I'm as bad as the rest,
maybe worse. Gossip drives me. In myfoulest moods, there is nothing morecheering than a bitchy pan. I've
camped out at the 24-hour tobacco
shop across the street on Saturdaynight for the 8:30 am dropoff of the
Sunday Times; I've breathlessly
thumbed through the paper, dumping
the Macy's circular and Toys 'R' Us ads
in a heap at my feet, snatching up thebook review section to read that John
Simonesque put-down, that bitter "inshort" dismissal of a clunker,
Well,cynics: Turn the page. The following rave is not what you're waiting
for, Michael Cunningham's A Home at theEnd of tbe World is a stunning achievement, perhaps the best book of the year.
His prose is numbingly beautiful.
A Home at the End of the World
charts the paths of Jonathan Glover andBobby Morrow who have been friends
since childhood. Four characters narrate
the story: Jonathan, a gay man who istroubled by the absence of connection
in his life; his mother, Alice, trapped ina marriage to an insubstantial husband;
Jonathan's New York roommate, dare,a sharp jewelry-designer who wants tohave a child before her biological clock
runs out; and his best friend, Bobby,
troubled by family tragedy, who spends
his life trying to reconstruct the warm
home he never had,
I .felt echoes of Stephen MacCauley in A Home at tbe End of tbe
World: Indeed, with its awkward
menage and child, the book is a crossbetween Jules and Jim and '/be Objectof My Affection in the age of AIDS.
Cunningham shows extraordinary sensitivity and personal insight. When
Alice catches Jonathan and Bobby having sex in the garage, her pained reaction is right on target: "I wanted to go
and comfort him, tell him it was allright. I wanted to go and pull his hair
hard enough to draw blood."
The novel is divided into threeparts, In the first, brilliantly evocative
section, Bobby and Jonathan grow up
in dysfunctional families in Cleveland,
picking up enough childhood traumas
to fill the requisites of
any number of 12-step
programs, The second
section takes place in
New York City, where
Bobby, Jonathan and

Clare form an unstable family of three,In the final section, they and their baby
set up housekeeping near Woodstock,"at the end of the world."
Warmth and humor suffuse Cunningham's observations, Jonathan
describes the furniture in his lover's
apartment: "The monstrous imitation
leather sofa on which we sat had beena gift from his parents. Now the sofa
sat wall-to-wall in his apartment, like acabin cruiser berthed in a swimming
pool." When Clare and Bobby makelove for the first time, "we took the restof our clothes off quickly, as if the realtenants might get home at any momentand fmd us using their apartment."
The writing throughout is breathtaking, verging on the poetic, A Home
at tbe End of tbe World is filled with
dazzling lyrical scenes: Bobby as achild, spying on Jonathan's home latein the night; Jonathan walking withhis dying father in the desert; Alice's
breakdown after her
husband's death; andthe heartbreaking scene
at the end, where Jonathan's ex-lover, Erich,dying of AIDS, takes his"anuary 9.1991

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•last swim, Two portions of the novel
appeared' in the New Yorker; "WhiteAngel" was chosen for inclusion in
Best American Stories, 1989.
When I heard that AIDS wasperipheral to the story, I worried that the
publisher might be trying to soft-pedal it.
The paperback of Alice Hoffman's At
Risk has pages and pages of review
quotes, conspicuously omitting any mention of AIDS.I was relieved to fmd this afair description: AIDS is integral to Cun-ningham's novel, although not central.
Some of the characters' actions
did, however, bother me. Jonathan
worries constantly about AIDS after
finding out that Erich is ill, Why
doesn't he take the HIV-antibody test?
Clare abandons Jonathan and Bobby,
taking her child with her, because shedoesn't want to bring up her daughterwith death, again on the premise that
Jonathan may become ill. While their"family" was inherently unstable,ran
by Tim Dlugos (1950-1990)

When I try to imagine
what heaven will be like,I think of Puccini's Pekinese
court, ruled by a big Joan Sutherland
type wearing an enormous headdress,
where riddling has metastasizedfrom a show of wit into a burning
passion, consuming all the timethat passes in the progress
toward an end that never comes,
and everyone, not only the sympathetic
slightly ridicul'ous Ping, Pang and Pong,
has long since been sated by the marvelsof the capital, and just wants to go home.

Tim Dlugos' books include Entre Nous, A Fast Life and theunpublished manuscripts Powerless and Strong Place. His work has
appeared in such publications as the Paris Review, BOMB and theanthology Poets for Life, He died of AIDS on Dec. 3, 1990. (See Tim
Dlugos' obituary on page 36 of this magazine.)•

72 OUTWEEK".nuary 9, ~_~bound to eventually collapse, Cunningham could have dissolved it in a lessheartless manner,
1990 has given us many excellent
books by gay men: Michael Nava's
Howtown, Allan Barnett's The Body andIts Dangers, Lev Raphael's Dancing on
Tisha B:Av, Bernard Cooper's Maps toAnywhere and Edward Swift's Mother of
Pearl. A Home at the End of the World issurely one of the best novels, gay or
straight, of the year, Read it. T

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MARTIAL ARTS presents SellDelense lor Lesbians and Gay Men. against homosexuals and indifference music and lyrics for this new musicalThe five-week course includes basic to pOlitical awareness within the gay were written by Michael Hansen incommunity by focusing on a gay the last six months of his life, before
techniques for physical protection,
strategies for defense against verbal male couple who allow their apart- he died of AIDS. Sidney Morris, aharassment and other kinds of ment to be used by gay vigilantes, playwright, was given the tape a year
assault frequently encountered by and then regrard the ensuing violence later and, collaborating with musicallesbians and gay men. Lesbian as more a nuisance than a moral cri- director, Sean Hartley, completed the
instructors. Enrollment limited to 25. sis. $10, or $5 with TDF voucher. Per- musical. John Wall directs; Ron
Sliding scale fee. The Center. 208 W. formances on Dec. 20-22, Dec. GoIdlng and Chris Fields are the co13th St. First course: Sun., Jan. 6, 27-29, Jan. 2~ and Jan. 9-13. 164 stars. Morris will donate his royalties
to the People With AIDS Coalition. All
2:30-4:30 pm. You must call to regis- Eleventh Ave. 8 pm. (212) 206-1764.
seats $15. New Wi ngs Theatre. 154
ter: (718) 788-1775.
THE NATIONAL ORGANIZATION FOR Christopher St. at Washington Street.
bYOUTH ENRICHMENT SERVICES WOMEN presents Women Photogra- Thursdays and Fridays at 8:30 pm.
presents a YES Music Workshop for phers NOW, featuring work by Saturdays at 7 and 10 pm. Sundays
young lesbians and gay men in thier Berenice, Abbott, Barbara Brodnick, at 7 pm. Reservations: (212) 627teens and early 20s. All levels of Annie Leibovitz and others. Opening 2961.
experience accepted. Auditions for reception and auction on Dec. 17
two six-week workshops on music from 7-10 pm. Regular gallery hours: 55 GROVE STREET presents Camand performance in preparation for a M-F. Hi pm. New York Open Center Brainard and Bob Koherr's Br/cldBce
performance in late winter will be Art Gallery. 83 Spring St. (212) 219- .I Stucco, performers who both
appeared in Parting Glances, their
held Jan. 3-5. The Center. 208 W, ,2527. Dec. 9 through Jan. 13.
original comedy material includes two
13th St. Call for audition times: (212)bJOSEPH PAPP presents A Brl,ht
jocks who learn they can vogue,
620-7310.
Room Called Day, written by Tony retired Solid Gold Dancers, AmishbCITY COLLEGE presents The Lite Kushner and directed by Michael rappers who put t~e "men back in
Grief. A play about Germany in the
Sf: ad aODOlJfI(X\iDents A listings 10:

01 Chrlll as Seen Through the Negro
Spiritual by African-American artist
Jimmy James Greene. The Grand
Lobby of Aaron Davis Hall. City College. Convent Avenue at 135th Street.
Tuesday through Friday, 12-5 pm.
Info: (212) 650-6900. Through Jan.

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Mennonite," an early Simon & Garfunkel, and the Rocky Mountain ButtBoys who open at a gay rodeo inWest Hollywood; videos serve astransitions between live routines; at
55 Grove St (west of 7th AVe South);$8 + 2-drink minimum; FRI at 8 pm;

366-5438
AMERICAN PLACE THEATER presents I Stand Before You Naked by
Joyce Carol Oates, about ten womendealing with life in today's America;
with Elizabeth Alley, Penny Templeton,
Nancy
Barrell,
Annie
McGreevey. MarguerHe Kuhn, Bronwen Booth; 111 W 46 St; $20; WEDSAT at 8 pm, also WED &. SAT at 2
pm, SUN at 3 pm; 840-3074
CHARLES LUDLAM THEATRE presents Ludlam's Camille, starring anddirected by Everett Quinton, with
Cheryl Reeves, Ken Scullin, Georg
Ollennan, Eureka. Bobb Reed, Jim
Lamb, Carl Claybourne,
H.M.
Kououkas, Jean-Claude Valleux.
Steven Pell, 1 Sheridan Square; $25;
TUE-FRI at 8 pm, SAT &SUN at 7 pm;
691-2271
CHERRY LANE THEATRE presents
David Stevens' The Sum 01 U" by
the writer of Breaker Morant, starring
Tony Goldwyn and Richard Venture,
directed by· Kevin Dowling, about afather who tries to help with his son's
gay relationships while he looks for a
new wife; 38 Commerce St; $27.50$32.50; TUE-FRI at 8 pm, SAT at at 7
& 10 pm, SUN at 3 & 7:30 pm; 9892020
LUCILLE LORTEL THEATERpresents
Falllnoland, the William Rnn/James
Lapine musical. The third in Finn's
Marvin TrlloIY, Falsettoland examines the impact of AIDS on a gay
male couple, a lesbian couple,' a heterosexual couple and a child. 121
Christopher St $27.50-$35. Tu-F at
8 pm. Sa at 7 and 10 pm. Su at 3 pm.
(212) 924-8782.
RAPP THEATRE COMPANY revives
Thomas M. Disch's The CardInal
DetoxBS, "a chilling look Inside thehierarchy of the modern CathOliC
Church exploring such Issues as
AIDS, abortion, ties to organizedcrime and homosexuality"; directed..... u.ry 9.1990•

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crime and homosexuality"; directed and you know Deee-Ute from their benefit the Project, featuring over 100 the Center, 208 W 13 St; 7 pm; Cen•by R. JeHrey Cohen, starring George appearances at Wigstock and in Out- avant-garde
poets, musicians,
ter 620-7310; member Info, 979McGrath as the Gardinal; 220 E 4 St; Week, Here's a chance to get to know dancers and artists performing and 7541, 288-3236.
$10 (TDK ok); FRI&SAT at 10 them better. $45 in advance/$55 at reading short original work. A partial&11:30 pm, SUN at 2 pm (RT= 35 the door. Palladium. 126 E. 14th St. list of participants includes: Penny
SLOPE ACTIVITIES FOR LESBIANSmin.); 529-6160.
Doors open at 9 pm. Box office: (212) Arcade, Allen Ginsberg, Reno, OIa- presents SAL 3D-plus: Potluck and473-7171.
manda Galas, John Glorno and Game Night. Fun for lesbians 30 and
MONDAY,DEC.31
David Wolnarowlcz.
$12 mem- over In Park SlOpe. Bring games andCENTERNew Year's Eve Dance with bers/$15 nonmembers.
Second things to drink and eat (preferably
Mew Yelir's Eve
OJ Jeny Annstrong, cash bar, juice Avenue at Tenth Street. 6:30 pm. Info: homeinade). 7 pm. Call for location
bar; 208 W 13 St; 9 pm to 1 am; $8 (212) 674-0910.
and to confirm: (718) 965-7578.
AFRICAN-AMERICAN WIMMIN UNIT- general/$6 members, students,
ED FOR SOCIETAL CHANGEpresents seniors, flier-holders; 620-7310.
SHESCAPE presents a Hangover
NEW YORK CITY GAY MEN'S CHOa Kwanzaa celebration. Call for comParty for Women at Private Eyes, RUS presents Uptown Express andplete details. (718) 462-2594.
THE SAINT AT LARGE presents New .Music, dancing and videos to cele- Terri WhRe, performing Hot Ginger
Year's Eve at the Roxy. Dress: Cre- brate Shescape's first party of 1991. and DynamltB, Uptown Express is the
MEN OF ALL COLORS TOGETHER ative black tie. Music: Chuck Parsons Doors are open from 5 pm until 10
12-member pops ensemble of thepresents a Kwanzaa cele.bration.Call and Mark Thomas. Lights: Richard pm, but wOfllen can stay as late as Gay Men's Chorus; Terri White is the
MACT for complete detailS. (212) Sabala. Live entertainment. Breakfast they like, $5. Shescape info: (212)
performer who replaced Nell Garter in
222-9794.
served at 7 am, $45 in advancel$55 645-6479. Private Eyes: (212) 206- Ain't Misbehavin'. The performanceat door. The Roxy. 515 W. 18th St. 7772.
will include a tribute to the MillsGAYACTIVIST ALLIANCE IN MORRIS Doors open at 10 pm. Info: (212)Brothers, songs from Ain't MlsbeCOUNTY, NJ will hold no meeting 674-8541.
WEDNESDAY,JAN. 2
havln' and others. $10. Greenwich
tonight; 201/285-1595
House. 27 Barrow St. at Seventh
BAD NEIGHBORS presents the sec- SLOPE ACTIVITIES FOR LESBIANS Avenue, 7:30 and 10 pm. TIckets:,
WOW CAFE presents A New Year's ond annual Mi. Make"".elleve Con- presents POIl.1Night. Featuring free(212) 564-8038. [See Jan. 5]
Eve Celebraton. Call for details. $8. test. Host: Kimberly Aynn. Judges pool,plng pong, billiards, air hockey
59 E. 4th St. (212) 460-8067.
include: Everett auintion, artistic
and shooting hoops at Brownstone THE ANSWER IS LOVING Women
director of the Ridiculous Theatrical Billiard. Seventh Ave. at Aatbush. 8 Talking Women's Talle No, "A posiJUDITH'S ROOM presents Meena Co., and Ellie Callan, proprietor of pm. AfterWards, socializing at The
tive response. No as an option. When
Alexander, Cheryl Clarke, Melinda Dixon Place. Contestents: Deb Mar- Roost. Seventh Ave. at 8th St. 8:00
I say No to you it is taking care ofGoodman, Paula Martlnac, Robyn golin (MS. Split Britches), Jim Lam pm. Call to confimi: (718) 965-7578.
myself, When you say No to me I feel
Selman, Sarah Schulman, Mariana and H.M. Katoukas (Mr. and Mrs.
rejected. How come?"; 1964 E 35 St,
Romo-cannona, Pauline luglno and Ridiculous Theatrical Co.), Jasmine EAGLE BAR Movie Night: Total
Bklyn; 7:45-10 pm; $10; Ruth
others reading from the last Issue of (MS. Dixon Place), Claire Moed (Ms. Recall, with Arnold Schwarzenegger;
Berman & Connie Kurtz, (718) 998Conditions as a magazine. Seating is WOW Cafe), Toby HUll (Mr. Bad 14211th Ave (at 21 St); 11 pm; 691- 2305.
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limited. 681 Washington St. 7 pm.
Neighbors), Baron Von Blumenzack 8451
(Mr. Protean Forms), Stuart Cameron
MEN OF ALL COLORS TOGETHERACT UP/NY Weekly Meellng. Cooper Vance (Mr. Washboard Jungle) and THURSDAY,JAN. 3
presents a Consciousness-Raising
Union. East 7th Street at Third Marie Shell (MS. Ethel Merman
Session: -Renecllns and AsplraAvenue. 7:30 pm. Info: (212) 564- Memorial Choir). Proceeds to benefit GAY WOMEN'S ALTERNATIVE prelions for MACT/NY. "For Black, His2437.
Bad Neighbors 1991 season. $10. sents Karla Jay, author, The Amazon panic, ASian, Native American andSoha Space. 500 Greenwich St. 11 and the Page: Natalie Clifford Barney other men of color, and their
BROOKLYN WOMEN'S MARTIAL pm, with dancing until dawn. Info: and Renee Vivien (1988), giving an
friends-which means white men are
ARTS presents a New Year's' Eve (212) 260-6241.
encore presentation of A Lesbian
invited as guests of men of color."
Women's Dance and Party. Live deeFeminist Tout of Paris 1900-1988,
The Center. 208 W. 13th St. 7:45 pm.
jay, champagne, sparkling cider. $15 EAGLE BAR New Year's Eve Money- for women only; at the Universalist Info: (212) 222-9794.
in advancel$20 at door. Option buffet Laden Balloon Drop, Champagne Church, Central Park West and 76 St;
dinner: $5. Camp Friendship. 339 8th toast at midnight, snack all night; 142 8 pm (doors open 7:45); $5 (includes GAY MEN OFAFRICAN DESCENTpreSt. 9 pm. Call to confirm: (718) 965- 11th Ave (at 21 St); 10 pm - 11; no refreshments);
595-8410 (GWA sents New Beginnings, "In prepara7578.
door charge; 691-8451
meets the first Thursday of every tion for the new year, GMAD will bemonth, Oct. - June)
introducing a few of the new brothers
SHESCAPE presents an All Night TUESDAY,JAN. 1
who will preserve, enhance and pass
New Year's Eve Celebrallon for
SLOPE ACTIVITIES FOR LESBIANS on the spirit and mission of the orgaWomen at Private Eyes. Admission
New Year's Day
presents Dining Out: The Upper West nization's founding fathers." The Ceninlcudes complimentary champagne
Side. 6 pm. Call for restaurant and ter. 208 W. 13th St. 8 pm. Info: (212)
toast at midnight and party favors. AFRICAN-AMERICANWIMMIN UNIT- other details. (718) 965-7578.
620-7310.
Special music video presentation slat- ED FORSOCIETAL'CHANGEpresents. ed, including Madonna's "Justify My a Kwanzaa celebration, Call for com- FRIDAY,JAN. 4
THE NATIONAL GAY AND LESBIAN
Love." Special guest OJ. Gay men plete details. (718) 462-2594.
TASK FORCE and COLUMBIA
welcome. $15 with invitation/$20
DEBORAH GLICK Swearing-In Cere- DANCESpresent a First friday dance
without. 12 W. 21st St., between Fifth MEN OF ALL COLORS TOGETHER mony, featuring Harvey Fierstein and to benefit NGLTF.Earl Hall. Columbia.. and Sixth avenues. 9 pm until mom- presents a Kwanzaa celebration. Call other speakers. Come see New York Unviersity. Broadway at 116th Street.
ing. Shescape info: (212) 645-6479. MACT for complete details. (212) City's first openly lesbian candidate 10 pm to 2 am. (212) 854-3574
Private Eyes: (212) 206-7772.
222-9794.
make history. Cooper Union. 7th (days)
Street at Third Avenue. 5:30 pm. Info:, PALLADIUM presents Grace Jones THE POETRY PROJECT presents its (212) 799-3686.
SATURDAY,JAN. 5
and Deee-L1le, live in concert. You 17th Annual New Year's Day Readknow Grace from her ACT UP benefit Ing and Performance Marathon to GAY FATHERSMonthly Meellng; at I THE CENTERpresents Center Shows-•

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Sampler. featuring work by Vee
MaItanIa. of Men on ths H881s. ... Diane
HamlRon of Dykes and Lemes andOther Orrlnary P8op/8, Rainbow Rape ....
ItJIy TIl..... with seleclions fromSbdyNine and Gay Performances Camplny.
Thellll also be a cash bar, and aI pr0ceeds wi benefit the CeJDr. $1 O.200 W.
13111
St. Show tlma and other Info: (212)620-7310.
'CONGREGATION B'NAI JESHURUN
presents a Shabbat SplrHual Gath• rlng for Persons With AIDS andtheir loved ones. Featurlnga festive
luncheon. music and dialogue. 257,
W. 88th St. 2 pm, Reservations:(212) 787-7600.

MEN OF ALL COLORS TOGETHER tures Diamanda Galas. Holly Hughes,
presents Jacka 01 Color Party lor . Robbie McCauley and Rachel RosenMen 01 Color and TIIelr friends. 135 thal. and also includes dozens of
W. 14th St.. 2nd floor. $10 inother women performance artists.
advance/$15 at door. 10 pm. to 3 am. $6. PS 122. 150 First Ave,. at 9thCall Udell for for info: (212) 222-9794
Street. 7 and 9 pm. SWS: (212) 2602431. PS 122: (212) 477-5288.
SUNDAY.JAN. 8
LESBIANS AND GAY MEN OF NEWSLOPE ACTIVITIES FOR LESBIANS BRUNSWICK presents People
presents Sheepshead Bay Day.
Against Domellic Violence. Friends
Bowling. dining. clubbing, etc. Call Meeting House. 109 Nichol Ave. New
for list of activities, times and more
BrunswiCk, NJ. 8 pm. (908) 247infQ. (718) 965-7578.
0515.
MEN OF ALL COLORS TOGETHER
presents Rhythm Nallon '91, a
dance and fund-raiser for MACT. $5
in advance/$7 at door. 135 W. 14th
St, 2nd floor. 2-5 pm. fa: (212) 2069259.

PWA COALITON presents Black Day
Singles Tea."featuring Jullin Charbonneau,Mr. Leatl!erman/NY, PWAC
sponsors these teas on the first Salurdayof each month to glvaPWAs.
MOSAIC BOOKS presents Amethyst
PWArCsan HIV:pOSltive l,ndlvlduals a ,Press writers Patrick Moore, Stanchance to meet and mrngle Ina safe unnthal and Mark Ameen readingt" atmosphete of, fun. 222 W.l1th St.
prose. Mosaic Books. 167 Avenue B, ',' weSt.Of' Seventh AVenu~~:3Opm; at 10th Street. 4 pm. Into: (212) 475{,';,:-1'~..:r:2'1' 2)"88""'2334"-""".
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SLOPE ACTIYltlES FOR LESBIANS
pre~ents Dlnl,na OuJ: The U,pp.r,
WiIUldi,~,pm,
Can for r8staura.nt;"andother deialls"Aft8rwards: Movie ''-, "lghl.Your pick 'oFfilms playing at
the Plaza Clnep/ex: 8 pm. Call to coilfirm:"(718) 965-757(1;"LESBIAN FEMINIST L1BERATONpresents Tranlfonnlng Oumlves: New, Lives, New Careers. featuring Connie Kurtz and Ruth Berman. $4 donation Includes refreshments. The
Center. 208 W. 13th st. 3 pm, Info:(212) 627-1298.

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A DIFFERENT LIGHT presents Eric
Garber. llIadlng from his book Uranlan Worlds. 548 Hudson St. 8 pm.
Book slgnng from 4-4:30 pm. Info:(212) 989-4850.

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A DIFFERENT LIGHT presents
Michael Carion, reading from his
book Brothers in Arms. 548 Hudson
st. 8 pm. Info: (212) 989-4850.

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NEW.YORK CITY . GAY MEN'S. CHORUS
presents Uptown"
Exprilil .and
. .',
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Terri WhHe. p&rformlng Bot Ginger
and Dynamite. Uptown Express isthe 12-membtu pops ensemble of
the Gay Men's Chorus; Terri White is
the performer who replaced Nell
Carter In Ain't Mlsbehavin'. The performance Will include a tribute to theMills Brothers. songs from Aln't Misbehavin' and others. $10. GllIenwich
House. 27 Barrow St. at Seventh
Avenue. 7:30 and 10 pm, Tickets:(212) 564-8038. [See Jan. 4]-,

BROADWAYCARES and SWEET,WATERS present Mary-Jo Guidry in"'."J., A One-Woman R&B R.vl'lII.
Proceeds will benefit Broadway
Cares, an AIDS resource organizationof the New Yor1<theatrical community. which funds organizations thatprovide care and service to People
With AIDS. Amsterdam and West
68th streets. Tickets, reservations
and info: (212) 873-4100.

SLOPE ACTIVITIES FOR LESBIANS
presents Dining Out: The Upper
West Side. 6 pm. Call for restaurant
and other details. (718) 965-7578.

AIDS AND ADOLESCENTS NETWORK OF NEW YORK presents
Child Sexual Abuse and HIV Prevenllon. YWCA of New York. 610
LexingtOn Ave at 53rd St. 3 pm to 5
pm. (212) 925-6675.
MEN OF ALL COLORS TOGETHER
presents Lesbian and Gay People 01
Color Steering Commmea Meellng.
Last year's meeting brought together
dozens of organizations of gay men
and lesbians of color to plan theircontribution to the Lesbian and Gay
Pride Parade. Join now to help plan
this year's, Dr. Marjorie Hill's office.
52 Chambers St., room 209, 6-10
pm. Call Bert for info: (212) 5050506.

GAY MALE S/M ACTIVISTS Meellng
and Discussion: Ga,s and Butt
WOMEN ENTREPRENEURSIN BUSIPlu,s; at the Center, 208 W 13 St,
NESS Discussion
Circle: The 3rd Aoor; socializing at 8 pm; proEntrepreneurial Personality, withgram at 8:30 pm; $4 members/$6
networ1<ingand "the Business Clin- "- nonmembers; 727-9878
ic"; at the Center, 208 W 13 St; 6:3!r
8 pm; $5; info 718/499-6984
SLOPE ACTIVITIES FOR LESBIANS(Editor'S note: WEB meets tonight
presents Pool Night. Featuring freeand every first Tuesday.)pool,ping pong, billiards, air hockey
and shooting hoops at BrownstoneGAY MEN OF THE BRONX General
Billiard, Seventh Ave. at Aatbush. 8
Meeting. 1 Fordham Plaza, 8th floor.
pm. Afterwards, socializing at The
6-8 pm. Info: Chris (212) 0806
Roost Seventh Ave. at 8th St. 8:00
(English) or Robert (212) 882-3404,
pm. Call to confirm: (718) 965-7578.,
Meetings are 2nd and 4th Tuesdays;
next is Jan. 22.
EAGLE BAR Movie Night: Frankenhooker, 142 11th Ave (at 21 St); 11
MEN OF ALL COLORS TOGETHER pm; 691-8451.
presents
MACT/NY" Pollllcal
Acllon/Medla Outreach Committee
FRIDAY.JAN. 11
Meellng. The Center 208 W. 13th St.
6:30 pm. Info: (212) 222-9794.
SLOPE ACTIVITIES FOR LESBIANS
presents Game Night: Trivial
PERFORMANCESPACE122 presents
PursoH. Fun and facts in Par1<SlOpe.
Maria Beatty's SphlnxlS Without
7:30 pm. Call for location !lnd to
S.eflts:
Women Perlormant:8
confirm: (718) 965-7578.
Artists Sp.ak Out. The video fea-

MEN OF ALL COLORS TOGETHER
presents Educational Forum andPanel Disculllon: • Providing Care,
Emotional and Otherwise, 10 an
HIV-Inlected or AIDS-Diagnosed
Person." The Center. 208 W. 13th St.
,
7:45 pm. Info: (212) 222-9794.
GAY MEN OF THE BRONX presents
Dinner at Pine Reslaurant. 1913
Bronxdale Ave. RSVP by Jan. 9. Call
Ron for info: (212) 579-8746 .
GAY MEN OF AFRICAN DESCENT
presents My Man Done !Jane Me
Wrongl or maybe (lull maybe) I did
my man wrong. Addressing thequestion: Why Is it so difficult tohold on to a man? Featuring briefskits and real life experiences. The
Center. 208 W. 13th St. 8 pm. Info:
62!r7310.
SATURDAY.JAN. 12
ADVANCED HEALTH SOLUTIONS
HeaHh Seminar for the HIV-Poslilve
and the Worried Well, "learn selfhypnosis. mental imaging and how
to visualize recovery to promote a
healthier immune system and support greater health and well-being";
853 B'way, Suite 1511; 10 am noon; $60 (Insurance reimbursable.
advance registration gets a discount); 677-8734, 877-8017.
YOUNG MEN OF ALL COLORSTOGETHER presents Y-MACT 30and-Under Caucus Restruclurlng
Meellng. 169 Manhattan Ave., #4B
at West 108th Street. 6 pm. Call
David for info: (212) 932-3138.
MEN OF COLOR AIDS PREVENTION
presents Hot. Horny and HealthPlayshop. Kelter's Bar. 384 West St.
at Christopher Street. Call Eric for
info: (212) 566-4995.
SLOPE ACTIVITIES FOR LESBIANS
presents Brunch In Park Slope.
1:30 pm. Call for restaurant andother details. That evening, it's Arts
and Cralls Night. Bring your artsand crafts supplies to the clubhouse. Nonartists welcome-this issimply for fun. 267 9th St., #4L
7:30 pm. Call to confirm: (718) 9657578.
SUNDAY,JAN. 13
AMERICAN GAY AND LESBIANATHEISTSpresent their flrst-Sundayof-each-month monthly meeting.
AGLA is "dedicated to upholding the
Rrst Amendment principle of separation between church and state. n $2.
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W. 13th St. 1-3 pm, AGLA also
operates a 24-hour Dial~A-GayAtheIst commentary line. (718) 8991739.
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Tuning In: A TV/Radio Guide for tJuWVeek Readers

LESBIANFEMINIST LIBERATIONprese!1lSSua:ealul AGIna for LnIIlans:
Planning lor Your Future. Featuring
Chits Almvlg. co-fouOOer of SAGE. $4.
The CenlBr. 200 W. 1311i St. 3 pm. Info:(212)627-1398,

ME (Arts &. Em, 555 fifth Ave, lDih A, NYC 10017; 661-41D1).

Information must be received by Monday to be included in the following
week's issue. Send items to OutWeek listings, 159 W. 25 St, NY,NY 10001.

CC1Y(Rick)(, Box700, NYC.l0l(11).
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GIS (Gay Broadcasting System, Butch Peaston, 178 7th Ave,
Sta. A-3, NYC 10011; 243-1570)
GCN (Gay Cable Network. lou Maletta, 32 Union Square East,
Suite 1217; 4n-4220)
PRINCETON GAY AND LESBIAN I i GMHC
(Gay Men's Health Crisis, Jean Car1omusto, 129 W 2D
ALUMNI presents Slipper on .theSf, NYC 10011;807-7517)
Bayou. an evening of jambalaya.
RB PROD (Robin Byrd Prod., Box3lli, NYC 10021; 988-2973)
red-bean casserole. Louisiana salW~C-TV mW63 Sf, NYC 10023; 456-7717)
WBAI-fM (!Di 8th Ave, 19th A, NYC 10018; ZJ9.0707)
ads. ambrosia prepared by caterer
WCBS-TV (51 W 52 St Sf, NYC 10019; 975-4321)
Steven Connell. Open bar. For all
WMtC- JY (30 Rockefeller Plaza, NYC 10112; 664-4444)
gay and lesbian Ivy League andMEr-TV (356 W!iII Sf, NYC 10019; 5IiO-mI)
Seven Sisters graduates, Ticket
wNYw-TV(Fox. 1211 AV/AM, NYC l0036;!i!i6-2400)
prices start at $20 for students. $45
WPIX-TV (220 E42ST, NYC 10017; 949-1100)

for alumni. 482 Broome St.. at
Wooster. 5-8 pm. Info/Reservations: (212) 427-3575.
MONDAY, JAN. 14

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1:30 PM WUSB 90.1 FM The Word Is Out Marc Gunninghosts ..a weekly lesbian, gay and bisexual variety showfeaturing music, news, editOrials, comedy and guest intitr·•

gay/lesbian news magazine; 99.5 FM (~)'1:30 PM WBAI-FM An AftBmoon Outing: local news andinformation about the gay and lesbian community withlany~
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5:30 PM HBO Batman Learn the 1rUe meaning of camp from
this, the 1966 original Batman movie, featuring Adam Westand Burt Ward's (egs. Everyone's here, including the
Joker; the Penguin and, of course, Catwoman, Sounds
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UO PM The Gay Dating Gaf1lflShowwith T-r
SaeIi andI..aIICIIne Vall ZAIndI; Manhattan Cable, Cif C/16 (:31)
aGO PM GCN Be Our Guest entertainment for and about thelesbial1fgaycommunity; Ma.nhattan Cable, CH 0/17 (:30)
10:30 PM GMHC Living With AIDS: health and politics;
Manhattan Cable, CH V/35 (~)
11:QO PM GCN Gay U.S.A,: news and entertainment froinaround thli country; Manhattan Cable, CH V/35 (1:00)
Midnight GCN Men in RIms: male erotica, interviews withadultfilmstars;
Manhattan Cable, CH V/35 (:30)
12:30 AM· RB. PROD Men For Men: lIoIIinBynl presents gay'male porno stars; Manhattan Cable, CH V/35 (:30)

FRIDAY, dANUARY 4

VI8WS,ACT UP/NY Weekly Meeting. Cooper
Union, .East 7IhStr8et. .., at TIiId Avenue.
.
7'2JJpm. Info:(212)564:24.37."',AIDS AND ADOLESCENTS NETWORK OF NEW YORK presents
Substance Abule CommlHee. 121
Sixth Ave. 6th floor. (1 or A train to
Canal Street) 3 pm to 5 pm. Info:
Michele Fontaine, (212) 691-2900.
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TUESDAY, JAN. 15•

NY PUBLIC LIBRARY Fall Reading
Series: Thomal,M. Disch. Thecar-

dinal Detoxes. The Genocides.
Camp Concentration, NY Public•

Library, 42nd Street entrance.
Celeste Bartos Forum. 6 pm. Tlx:
(212) 93()-0571.
BRONX AIDS TASK FORCEMonthly
Meeting, Bronx AIDS CSP.One Fordham Plaza, suite 800. Bronx. Info:
Thelma Crawford. (212) 295-5605.
WEDNESDAY, JAN 16
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mba 8); $i rn:m~1DJT8l1as~di1dee~517{XB)63)QI) IJII (~A DIFFERENTLIGHT presents Bruce
NUllbaum. reading from his book
,Good Intent/ns. 548 Hudson St. 8
pm. Info: (212) 989-4850.

'zm PM WUSB 90.1 FM uvsnder

Wunn.n News, songs and. music produced by women forwornen.
. 2:30 PM:WUSB 90.1 FM This Way.OutMore queer news.
9:GO PM GBS Out iii die hYJ's: community news, discussion,interviews. 80 Cab!e,CH 56 (1:00)
PM WNET-1VAn American FanilyThis documentary is
the story of the louds, Pat, Bill and their flV8 chik!ren, oneof whom, Lance, is gay (or; as TV Guidewill tall you, he's
engaged in a "counterculture) lifestyle"). PBS is broadcasting all 12 hour-long segments consecutively. The
series begins in 1971, so expect hairstyles and attitudes tobe a rrllle dated. CH 13
11:30 PM Tomol711W/fonightLivel:entertainmem; Manhattan
and Pa ragon. Cable, CH Om U:tXI), .
.Midulght CCTV The Ckis"r Case Show. Klosilt KJips; Manhat- 'tan /Paragon Cable, CH C/16 (:301.
.

1_. TUESDAY, dANUARY

1_

WEDNESDAY, dANUARY 2
4:30 PM HBO The Truth About AlexThe truth is, Alex isgay, butthe movie focuses more on his friend's (ScottBaio) reaction. Expect an After School Special mentali·
ty here: It's OK to be gay,butdon't expect to see twoboys kiss.
8:00 PM WCBS:1V 48 Hours Inc(uded: The story of a F)orida woman who "may have contracted AIDS from her
dentist,' health care worke", who "may be at risk' and anurse in Newark who says that PWAs "deserve to be'taken care of just like any other human being:CH 2
Midnight RB PROD The Robin BprI Show. male andfemale strippers, live call-in shOW; Manhattan Cable,
CH V/35

THURSDAY, dANUARY 3
1:00 PM WBAI-FM

78 OUTWEEK .. anuary 9'1_0

1

AM WNET-1V AnAmsrican
FalTily,. Revisited: The Louds
TenYea", Later. If you've. mada itthrough the fast 12 hours,
you might as well catch this 1983 update. CH13
11:111AM WNET·1V AnAlTierican Fanilyln case you justniiSsed it,they're broadcasting all 12 parts, again. See
Monday at 10 pm for detailS. CH 13
UO PM A&.E Auntie Maf1lfl When I first moved to New York," a kindly lesbian took me under her wing and said she wasgoing to be my Auntie Mame.1 didn't understand until I
sawthe movie.lt·s queer 101, folks. Starring Rosalind
Russell and Forrest Tucker. Repeated at midnight
PM RB PROD The Robin ByrrI Show. male and female
strippers; Manhattan Cable, CH V/35 (1:00)
11:00 PM GBS Out in the 90's: news, information andinterviews; Manhattan/Paragon
Cable, CH C/16 (1:00)
1~,This Way Out; the international

2:30 PM WBAI-FM ROmPiendo el Silencio: todos losviernes, Gonzelo Milito con tamesy noticles para lacomunidad latina gayy lesblana; 99.5 FM (:15)
7. PM WBAI'FM AIDS In Focus, MIcIIa8IAlcel."
producer. politicS/culture of the AIDS pandemic; 99.5 FM (:15)
8:00 PM Casual SsxThis week's must to avoid: "Disease·
conscious friends" (Viuctoria Jackson, tea Thompson)vacation at a health spa in hopes of meeting "safe partners: Starring, as Vinny. Andrew Dice Clay, and as Bian·ca, Sandra Bernhard. CH 11
9:00 PM WCBS-1V Dallas According to 1V Guide, "Michelle
isn't impressed with James' new ')ifestyle,' nor is Vanessa, who's affected by his 'troubling announcement' ather engagement pliny: What couk! this mean, queer
girls and boyS? Would someone watch thi$ and give me a .
call? Atany rate, Barbara Edert guest stars; opposite
Lany.Hagman, the I01l1am of Jeannie jokes should beflying. CH 2
11:30 PMWWOR-1V Arsenio Hall Guests include RoseanneBarr and Whitney Houston, Will she ask hinfi Will he ask
hBl1ls Roseanne over herfaggy dilemma? CH 9
1. AM RB PROD The Robin BprI Show. male and female
strippers; Manhattan Cable, CH V/35 (1:00)

SATURDAY, dANUARY 5'1:30 AM WBAI-FM Any Saturday with David
Rotllenllerg; live call-in; 99,5 FM (2:00)
7:00 PM GCN Gay U.SA: news and entertainment fromaround the country; BO, Unity, ACV Cable, CH 56 (1:00)(For Manhattan Cable, see THURSDAy)
11:110 PM Gay W. male porn; Manhattan Cable, CH V/35
1:00 AM HB PROD The Robin BprI Show. male &. female
strippers; Paragon Cable, CH C/16 (1:00)
1:30 AM RB PROD The Robin BprI Show. male &. female
strippers; Manhattan Cable, CH V/35 (1:00)

SUNDAY, dANUARY 6
lCIIPM VllNE:r-1V AnAmsricanFaITilyRlWisilBd: ThBLouds Ttm
Hra",l8t9rSee Tuesday at 10emfor detaiis. CH 13
9PM WBAI.fM OutLooks; with hostAunllioIlolllll with four
lesbian entrepreneurs discussing howto be the boss in yourown business; allamates with The GayShow, 99.5 FM (11)>)PM WNET-lV MastsrpiBce ThfJ8llfr.A RoomofOIlfl's Own
Eileen Atkins stars in a one-woman show based on Virginia
WooIfs historic leclures given atGirton College in 19211.CH 13
10:30 PM HB PROD Men For MBfT.Rollin BynI presents gay
male porno stars; Manhattan Cable, CH V/35 (:31)
11:110 PM GDS WayOutf. entertainment for and about the les·bian/gay community; Rich Volo, producer, 254-7685; Manhattan Cable, CH C/16 (:31)

am,Monday.

Private Eyes (~arc Berkley's Kool Komrads; strippers; downtown
crowd, students, professionals; $7) 12 W 21 St, club 206-7772
Temple (BillieKlub's new party, A differenttheme every week,) 101
Avenue A

Tuesday+Clit Club (Jocelyn and Julie add a second night of hot lesbian action in
the East Village, $5.1101 Avenue A+*Club Edelweiss ("TVs, TSs, gays, bi's, singles, couples"; TUES especially for lesbians; but open to all TUE-SUN night) 167 W 29; 868-6989+ Grand Central (women's night is TUES, also open Wed-Sun) 210 Merrick Road, Rockville Centre, LI; 516/536-4800
Kilimanjara (According to none other than La Dolce Musto, Tracks Tuesdays here are "tres gay.") 531 W, 19th St. 627-2333.
.Roxy (Men on Wheels, gay roller skating; starts 8 pm) 515 W 18 St; 645-5156

Wednesday,,'*Bett8r Days (primarilY gay men of color) 316 W.49 St (8/9 Aves); 245-8925*Channel69 (Unda Simpson's back, with Dany JOhnson and live lesbian
and gay shows, East Village crowd, $5,)101 Avenue A,.The Building (Dallas' The Boys' Room, House music, downtown crowd,
go-go boys and a 6O-foot ceiling; $10/$7 with invite) 51 W 26 St; 576-1890+ Excalibur (Ladies Night, $1 drinks) corner 10th/Jefferson behind football stadium, Hoboken, NJ; 201-795-1161*Umeliglrt(Disco
2LWwith Michael Alig and Larry Tee;10 pm, $10; .
Coors no longer served!) 6th Ave at 20 St; club 807-7850+ Private Eyes (Shescape Afterwork Party, 5-10 pm; $5 before 7 PnV$7
after; 2-4-1 drinks before 7) 12 W 21 St; info 645-6479, club 206-7772
Private Eyes (YMVA Night; students, prof'ls, women; performers; $7;
door often benefits a gay/lesbian organization) 12 W 21 St; 206-7772
Silver Uning (2-4-1 drinks, also open Tues-Sun, women SAT) 175 Cherry
Lane, Floral Pk, LI; 516/354-9641
S1utz (2-4-1 drinks, also open daily) 202 Westchester Ave, White Plains;914(161-3100

ThursdayCheap (It's a new party, promising "cheap drinks and cheap queers." No
cover,) 101 Avenue A. *Copacabana (last Thu, of the month Susanne Bartsch party, next isNovember 29; iffy door) 10 E 60 St, 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
Hatfield'lI (2-4-1 drinks, female impersonators; also open nightly, women
on TUE & FRII 126-10 Queens Blvd, Kew Gardens, Queens; 7181261-8484*Roxy (Disco Interruptus, DJs Patrick Butts & Sister Dimension andperformance artists in entertainment breaks; $10) 515 W 18; 645-5156.6Stingray's (Brand new club, brand new sound system, everything else
is a surprise. No cover tonight.) 641 W. 51st St. (212) 664-8668

Friday,IABC (Chip'buckett's ABC Fridays, OJ Merritt; ballroom, balcony, billiards,
boogying; $101$7 w. invite; opened Nov, 16117 Irving Place at 15 St
Better Days (Michael Patterson's Fridays, catering to multi-racial crowd,
serious House/Club dancing, OJ-Robert Owens) 316 W 49; 246-8976+Clit Club (Jocelyn & Julie, Every Friday Party; go-go girls, lesbo videos;
opens 8 pm, billiards & $1 drinks between 8 and 9 pm; $5) 432 W 14 St;
406-1114
Columbia Dances (1st Friday of every month, Earl Hall, 10 pm - 2 am; next
is January 4) 116th St & Bway; 854-3574 days
+ Hatfield's (women's nights are TUE & FRI) 126-10 Queens Blvd" Kew
Gardens, Queens; 7181261-8484
I Meat on Friday (The West Side sensation adds a second, East Village
night .. OJ Nobody's Pussy. $5,) 101 Avenue A*Mike Todd Room (Sister Dimension'S Panty Girdles) 123 E 13 St; 473-7171(Ladies' Night) 1770 NY Ave (Rte 110), Huntington, LI;+ Millennium
516/351-1402
Private Eyes (YMVA Night; students, professionals, men) 12 W 21 St,

btwn 5th/6th Aves; 200-7772.6Stingray's (Brand new club, brand new sound systeln, everything else.
is a surprise. Free, 7-10 pm, $7 after.) 641 W, 51st St, (212) 664-8668 ,+ Visions (women's party) 56-01 Queenl!, Blvd, Woodside, Queens; info
7181846-7131, club 7181899-9031

Saiurday

Barefoot Boogie f2nd &4111SAT;adult!lkids, smoke & alcohol free; 8::11pm 12::11am, $4; next is Dec 8) 434 6th Ave (btwn 9110 SIs), 4111Roor; 832-6759
Cenl8r(2nd & 4th SAT, 9pm -1 am, $8; next is Dec 8) 208W 13 St; 620-7310+ Center (WDmen & Friends, 1st SAT; 9 pm - 1 am, $8; next is December 1) 208 W 13 St; 620-7210
I Club West End (Michael Fesco's Saturdays; midnight - 9 am) 547 W 21 St
Columbia Dances (SamE BuT DifferenT, 3rd SAT, next is Jan, 19; OJ
Karin Ward, 10 pm- 3 am; $5) Earl Hall, 116 Sf/B'way; 629-1~
Controversy (Hosted by Patrick Butts and the people who bring you
Disco Interruptus, $2,99) 101 Avenue A
419419 N: Highway, Southampton,LI; 516/283-5001"",
Wl!'JZonti (dancing & performers) 70.Be~ch sf; Staten Island; 7181442-5692 j "I Meat (OJ Aldo Hernandez, every Saturday; go-go boys, videos; opens
10 pm; $5) 432 W 14 St; 353-3866':;,+Private Eyes (Shescape Saturday Night Parties fOr Women, opens 9pm; $8 before 101$10 afterl12 Wll St; info 645-6479, club 200-7772 ' ,,*Roxy (Locomotion; gay boys, guys, Inen; non-gay women,someles'~ians;.~ix depends o.npartY) 515 VI/ 18 St (btwn 10111 Ave!!); 645-5156,~, •+SII,",! Liillng (women's Sat) 175 ChlirryLane, RoralPark, LI; 516/354-9641. .~Sound Factory (mostly gay; serious House/Club danCing, no alcohol,
opens 11 pm) 530 W 27 St (10th/11th Aves); 643-0728
Stingray's (Brand new club, brand new sound system, everything else isa surprise, $8.) 641 W, 51st St. (212) 664-8668.6Trtty City (Featuring cheap drinks, cheap women and cheap thrills, $5)
90 2nd St'•,'~=~a~rmostly
gay men of color, OJ John Hall) 316 W 49 St; 245-8925 :'.
IThe Building (Dallas' The Men's Room, students; professionals, men;go-go boys & 50-ft. teilingl51 W 26 St; 576-1890*Cafe Society (Society Sundays Tea Dance, Hi NRG DJs, Society
Dancers; 5 pm-??; $10) B'way at 21 St; 529-8282
FUCKI (DJs Craig and Victor, "caged go-go animals" and "ruff music forruff dykes and fags." $2,99) 101 Avenue A*.Mars (Lahoma's Home for Runaway Boys. OJ LanyTee, emcee Ru-Paul.1Vs
and women welcome. $1 W$5 vviIh invite,) 131hSt atthe West Side Highway
Monster (Sunday Tea Dance at 4 pm; dancing also on other nights from
10 pm) 80 Grove St at Sheridan Sq,; 924-3557
2OflO (Michael Fesco's Tea Dance, opens 4 pm; $6; free Mimosas & BMs
from 4-6, buffet at 7:30) 20W 20 St; 727-8841

Every Night lor almost)+ Bedrock (lesbian club, Closed MON & TUE) 121 Woodfield Rd, W,
Hempstead, LI; 516/486-9516*Club Edelweiss ("TVs, TSs, gays, bi's, singles, couples all welcome";
TUE for lesbians, but open to all TUE-SUN night) 167 W 29; 868-6989+ Duchess II(small dance floor) Sl\eridan S.quare.& 7th Ave; 242-1408
419 (nightly Gay House Party, opens 6 pm) 419 N. Highway (Rte 27),
Southampton, LI; 516/283-5001
Grand Central (closed Mon, 2-4-1 drinks Thursday) 210 Merrick Road,
Rockville Centre, LI; 516/536-4800
Magic Touch (ethnic mix: Ang la/Latini Asia n) 73-13 37th Rd, J ac kson
Heights, Queens; 7181429-8605.
Monster (West Village) 80 Grove St at Sheridan Sq,; 924-3557
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A.C.Q.C.
AIDS CENlER OF QUEENSCOUNlY SOCIAl SERVICESEDUCATION06UDDIESoCOUNSBJNG-SUPPORT GRoups
VOlu..... r Oppol1lmitie8(718) 896-25OO(voice) (718)8962985(TDD)BAR ASSOCIATION FOR
HUMAN RIGHTS
Lawyers RefelT8l Service for \heLesbian and Gay Community Full
Range of Legal SeNicas (212) 4!B4873 Free Walk·in Legal Clinic.
Tuesday 6-8 pmlesbian 8.Gay
CommunityCentr. Ground RoorACT UP (AIDS Coalition to
Unleash Power)
498A Hudson Straet. SliIB G4 NYC
10014(212)584-2437
A diverse, non-partisan group ofindividuals uni1Bdin anger and c0mmitted to direct a clion to end the
AIDS crisis. Gen. meetings Mon.
nighIB7:31, in The Great Hal~Cooper
Union, on Cooper Square betwuen
Astor and St Marks Place's.

BIDS (BISEXUAL DOMINANCE& SUBMISSION GROUP)
Share SIM experiences and fantasies with others in a poai1iv8. nonjudgemental atmosphere. First
Sunday of the month, 4;45pm. et the
Corrmll1ity Can1Br201 W. 13 Straet.
NYC • This group is psrt of the New
York Area Bisexual Nelll'lork.

AIDS RESOURCE CENTER(ARC)
Supportive housing for homeless
PWAs (Bailey House and apartments), Non-judgementsl pastoralcara for r¥lAs end ICM!d ones. Volunteer opportunities. (212) 481-1270,
24 Wastm St, NYC10001

DIGNITY
BIG APPLE
A community of lesbian and
Gay Catholics, Ac1ivities include
Liturgies and socials avery Sat,
8:00 pm, at the Center, 2(11 W. 13
Street,. NYC.Call(212) 816-1309.

BROOIllYN'S LESBIAN AND
GAY POunCAL CLUBLAMBDA INDEPENDENTDEMOCRATS
UD. endoraos IIld v.orks for cancidaIas i11oca1. 8llllll1Ild nri:noI akoctions, lobbies for legislation, andccnb:Is COII1IU'iyCidrllachfmVl
atnaranllldmeeivsCl1spacia1~
ics. Join us. 338 NinIh St, Slit9 1:1i
~NVI1215 (718) 985-8482

l.aaIia1l1ld gsyCafdcs and friands
AIDS t.tistry. SpimJalIhMIIopment.
The Cef1ednol Prqec:t 'MnIip Ser-DIGNITY NEW YORK

CIRClE OF MORE UGHT
Spiritual support and sharing in agay/leabian affinnative group.
\Nest·Park Preebyborian Illun:h 1115
iMMt 88Ih Street Wed: worship SOl"vice fI:3) II". program 7:n Meniha
I212lD-mlCharia (212)1111-711&

BISEXUAL PRIDEDISCUSSION GROUP
Topical discussions on issues ofintereattothe comnunityin a congenial a1mosp/1ere, foUCIW8d by aninfonnal dinner at a friendly local
restaurant Every Sunday, 3:1104:30pm at the Co!l1l1lunity Center
201 W. 13 Street, NYC, Part of the
Bisexual NetwOrE
New Yolk Area•

COMING ourTOPARENTS7
Let us help \QJ and '/011' faniy deal
with this upheaval PAItMS ANDFRIENDS OF LESBIANS AND GAYS••_ ilDllHvCl111ia 4to ~3ID
pm, in Duane Church, 201 W. 131h
SInIet Wo cal JBar I 18, (212)4IJ3.«I2ll

ARCS (AIDS-Related
BIWAYS NEW YORK
Community Service.)
Monthly social events for thefor Dutchess, Orange, Putnam,
Bisexual community and friends.
Rockland, Sullivan, Ulster and . Call NYABN for deta~s of upcomWestchester
counties.
AIDS
ing even1B. (212) 4!B-4784
education, client services, crisis intervention, support groups,
BIPAC (BISEXUAL pounCAL
case mana~ement,
buddy andACTION COMMmEE)
hospital visitor program.
Political action CXl issues of impor214 Central flw, Whits Plains, NY tance to the BisoxuaVLeslierVGay
10806(914)~
camuity. Monthly ITIII81ing'poduck
838 Broadway, Newburgh, NY
held 8:00pm on fourth Thursday of12250 (914) 562-!'OO5
the I11OII1h at members homes. Call
AlDSlin. (914)993-11607
NYABNfor1hismonlh\s loca1ion.
((212)469-4784
ASIANS & FRIENDS- NEW YORK
A not·for·profit
organization
BISEXUAL YOUTH
which promotes friendships with
Infonnal social & support group
Asian/PacificIslander, Asian·for Bisexua) kids/youth. Monthly
American, and non-Asian gay
meeting/potluck
lunch held
men through social, cultural, edu1:00pm on fourth Sunday of thecational, and service activities
month at members homes. Calland programs. Call our Hotline:
NYABN for this month's location.
212-674-5064, or write to: P.O. Box
This group is part of the New
6628, NY,NY 10163-6023.
York Area Bisexual Network.

201 West 13Ih Street, NYC, NewYork 10011 For Appointments andInformation(212) 875-3559(TTYNoice)PROVlDING CARING,SENSITIVE AND lOW COST
HEAlTH CARE S8MCES TO THE
lESBIAN AND GAY COMWNI1YALOEC/APLN-NY(Asian Le.biansof the East
CoasVAsian Pacific Lesbian Network-New York) We ara a political, social and supportive networkof Asian Pacific lesbians, Planningmeatings on the 1st Sunday andsocial events on the last Friday ofeach month. Call (212)517-!i598 formore infonna1ion.

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BISEXUALIrfillMATION &COIINSBI\IG SERVICE, INC.
A profassionaly 8IIIffed, non-profit
organization for bisexuals, theirfammes and psmers, facing pr0blems of a psychological or medicalkind. We also work with those in
doubt about their selClJa)ity. C0nfidentiality is prolBC1Bd by law. For
infonna1ion phone: (212)498-1&lII

BODY POSIT1VE
If you or your lover has tested
HIV+, we offer support groups,
88II1inars, public forums, ref8l1111Celibrary, retalT8ls, social activities
and up-»-date national monthly,"THE BODY POSITI\IF (SWyaar~(212) 721-1346.
2015 Broadway, Slit9:a. NY, 10023

ATR (AIDS TREATMENTRESOURCES, INC,)
Publishes a bi-monthly Directory ofclinical trials of experimental
AlDSlHN treatments in NY/NJ, andhas educational materials/semi·nars for trial participants. ATR also
advocates for improvements in thetrial system. P.O. Box 30234, NY. NY
101Hll02. (212) 26&-4196. Publications freeldonation requested.

BWS-BRONX LESBIANS
UNITED IN SISTERHOOD
Social, political and support networking group forwoonOl. and theirfriends. Regular social iMlnIB andmee1ings on the first and third fridays of iMlry month. At The C0mmunity Can1Br. 201 W. 13 Straat, from
6:»8pm. For more info call Lisa at(212)82lHlI17.

80 OUTWEEK .... nu ..ry 9, 1_1.',.COMMliNnY HEALTH. ..... PROJECt

COMMUNITYRESEARCH INrTlATIVE
CAl tests experimental drugs andtreatments for AIDS and HN rala1Bd
mneSS8s. Monthly treatment andI1Il8ard! group for HIV+incividuals.
Tma1ment and reBSlrd! newsl_
forums and public seminars. Call
Alice Spears or Ken Fometaro at(212)481·1IB1fori1fo and maiilg bt.
CONGREGAnON BETHSIMCHAT
TORAH
NY's Gay and Lesbian SVnagogue
Services Friday at 8:30pm 57
Bethune Streat For info. can: (212)929-9498.
CONGREGATIONB'NAJ

JESHURUN
Monthly Spritual Gatherings andfree catered festive luncheons for
sll People Woth AlDS,their lavers
and families. Program includes
music and discussion led by our
Rabbis. Call (212)787-7800

vicll8.~Evas.~
John's Episcopal Church 218 West
l11hSlrastO~2179
EDGE Education in a Dillilllad
Gay Envihhl ... nt
For the p/lyIically disabled Leslien
and GayCo""trit¥
P.O, Box 3J5 Vilege S1a1iCXl, New
Yolk, NY 111114

FRONT RUNNERS
A ruming dub for lesbian and gay&tN_ of aIIabiities. lUI Rtn of 1·e niles held IN8I'f Set at lOam andWads. at 7pm i1 Central Park and_ry TLa. at 7pm in Prospect Park.
For i1forma1ion: cal (212) 7l~

member d GUB. No experiencenaedad.!iIi Ei!I11h Iwnue, NY, NY
10018 Attn: oUd.oob or call (212)245-G&askforGUB,
GAY & LESBIAN HEALTH
CONCERNS
An office of the NYC Dept of
Health, provideslinkeges
betwn
NYC Health & Human Svcs, andthe lesbian & Gay community,
focusing in All health concems; resource infonnation for
health services consumenl andproviders. 125 Worth Street,Box 87, New York. NY 10013. For
info call (212) 586-4995.
GAY MAll S/M ACTMSTS
Dedicated to sata and responsible SlM since 1981. Opsn meetings w/programson S/M
techniques,
lifestyle issues,
political and social concerns,
Also special evenls, speakenl
bureau, workshops,
demos,
affinity groups, newsletter,more, GMSMA -Dept, 0, 498A
Hudson Street,. Suite 023 ,NYC
10014,(212)7l7-f1/I18.

GMAD (GAYMEN OFARIICM
THE GAYAFRICAN AMERICANSOF WESTCHESTER(The G.A.A.)
is a community based support
group foo •• oeJ i1 WastchestBr Coml¥ Various ac1ivi1iasare p1amed forthe .C;Oll.og monIhs. PIaise can 914:J1&(f1'I1 for morti i1fo.
GAY FATHER'S FORUM
A support organization for gay
father's, their (avers, and others in
ch~d-nUrllJring situations. Month·
Iy meatinga include a poduck supper, support groups on varied
spsciafized topics, speakers, andsocializing.Meetings:
1st Friday'
each month, 7pm, at The Center,
201 W, 13th St, Wast of 7th Ale.
Contribution: $8. Bring a maincourse for 4 people (or pay a $5
food charge,) For infonna1ion can:
212-97S-7541 or 212·211S-3236

IIESCENI)
80 Varick Street, NYC 10013 a support group of Gay Men of African

Descent dedicated to conaciouai188&'raising and the dewlopmentof the Lesbian and Gay CocllllU'lit\tGMAD is inclusive of African,. African-American, Cenbbean and
Hispanic/Latino
men of color .
Meetings are held, ~CXl fridays. For more informa1iCl1,
can 718-802-41162.
GAY MEN'S HEALTH CRISISHOTUNERIA I~N
ON SAFBI SEXAND HN-RElATED HEAlTH SERVICES,AND RIA IMURMATlON ON
ON&-TI~ WALK-IN AIDS COUNS8JNGSBMIE
212-8117.a155212-4145-7470 TOO(For the HRring hpaiNd)
Mon ..fri. 10:30 a,m. to 9 p.m.
12:00 10 3:00

GlAAB
Gay & Lesbian AlIi_.IIItDefamaoion
80 Varick Street, NYC 111113 (212)966-1700 GIAAD combets homophobia in the mecia and elslMot1ereby p.III.101ingvisibclity of the lasbian
and gay cor'l'nll1ity and cxganizing
grassro01B response to anti·gay
bigotry. Do VOUhave 30 minutes a.nonIh to fi!#homophobia?Joi1the
GIAAD PhoneTreelCail (212f-9661700forinforma1illll.

GUB
Gay and lesbian Independent
Broadcasters invites vou to tune
into OUTLOOKS CXl WBAl-NY, 99.5
FM every other Sunday, 7:308:30pm and join ua iMlry Tuesday
at 7:00pm to 9:00pm 10 become a

Glmt& Mlmt
CWB OF NEW YORK
Social club for heavy, chubby
gay men & their admirers.
Monthly socials at the 'Center', weekly bar nights Thursdays at the 'Chelsea Transfer',monthly Fat Apple Review, bi·monthly F.A.R, pen pals,
For more information
call
Ernie at 914-899-TI35 or write:
G&M/NY, Dept 0, P.O. Box 10,
Pelham, NY 10803.

HEAL(Health Education AIJS UailOn)
Weekly info. and support groupfor 1reatmen1B for AIDS which do
not compromise the immune ayatem further, including alternative-and holistic approaches.
Wed 8pm,
208 W, 13th St(212)674-HOPE.
HERITAGE OF PRIDE. INC.
Organizel8 of New York's Lesbianand Gay Pride _nts: tho March,
the Rally and the Dance on the
Pior. Call (212)891-1774 for meating schodule or mora infonnstion.
2111West 13th Street, NY; NY 10011.
HETRICK-MARTIN
1NS'11TtJ1t
for lesbian and gay youth. Coun·
seling, drop-in center (M-F, 36pm), rap groups, Harvey Milk
High School, AIDS and safer sex
infonnation, referrals, professional education,(212)833-8920(voice) (212)633-8926 TTY for deaf
HISPANIC UNITEDGAYS lit LESBIANS
Educational services, politicalaction, counseling and social
ac1ivi1iesin Spanish and English by
and for the Latino Lesbian and Gay
Corn fiunity. General meetings 8:00
pm 41h Thursday of _ry month at
2111West 13th Street
Call 201-&7824 orwriIB H.U.Gl..,
P.O, Box 228 Canal Street Station,
New York, NY 10019.

ieland, Rock, Flute Ensembles
and Woodwinds, 123 West 44th
St. S/uite 12L New York, NY
10038 (212) 869-2922.

INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN
IDENTITY
Sliding scale fees. Insurance
ac.ceptediGay&
Lesbian Psychotherapy (212) 799-9432
INTEGRITY/NY
Lesbian and Gay Episcopalians
and friends. Eucharist and program every Thursday, 7:30pm.
St Luke's Church, Hudson andChristopher SIs. INFO: P.O. Box5202, NY NY 10185(718) 72~3054
LAMBDALEGALDEFENSEAND EDUCAnON FUND
Precedent-setting litigstion nationwide for lesbians, gay men andpeople with AIDS. Membership($40 and up) inc, newsletter andinvitations to spacial ewrrts. Volunteer night on Thur1days.
Intake calls: 2-4pm Mon thru Fri(212) 9!!HI!iB5.
LAVA(LESBIANS ABOUT
VISUAL ART)
Call for slides for Lesbian Artists'
Exhibition, Gay & Lesbian Com·munity Center, NYC. For moreinfonnation, send SASE to : Miriam Fougere, 118 Fort Greene
Place, Brooklyn, NY 11217.
THE LESBIANAND GAYBIG APPLE CORPS
Get your instrument out of thecloset and come play with us.
Symphonic, Marching, Jazz, Dix·

MASTERY WORKSHOP: Exploring the posaibiitias of a powerfuland creative life in the face of
AIDS. Call (212) 25&-8!i54

NY 10025. (718) 852·8582.

LESBIAN lit GAY
COMMUNITYSERVICES CENTER
208 West 13th Street New York,NY 10011 (212)62~7310 9am11pm 8V8ryday. A place for community
organizing
andnetworlcing, social services, cultural programs, and social 8V8/1ts
sponsored by the Center andmore than l!iO conmunity organizations.
LESBIAN AND GAY LABORNETWORKAn organization of Lesbians andGays who are active in their labor.. ioo IS worIci1g moo I i8S1ic pei1nerslip benefits and AIDS issues. For
morei1foona1ior1 cal(21~LESBIAN AND GAY RIGHTSPROJECTof the American Civil Liberti ..
Union KNOW YOUR RIGKTS/
WE'RE EXPANDING TIEM (212) "944-9800, ext 545
LESBIANS AND GAYS OFRATBUSH
IDENTITY HOUSE
Now in our 20th ygar, we provide
peer counseling, thera py refer·rals and groups for the lesbian,gay and bisexual community.
Call us at (212) 243-8181. Visit us
at 544 8th Ave., between 14th15th Streets, Manhattan,

Monthly tennis parties. Winterindoor league. Come play withusl For infonnatiiln: MfG, Suite
K83,498-A Hudson St., New York,Brooklyn's social organization forboth gay men and lesbians. P.O.
Box 100, Midwood Station
Brooklyn, NY 11230. (718) 8!i&9437

MOCA (Man err Color AIDS
P_ntion'""'111'11111.)
Provides safer sex and AIDS
educstion information to gay andbisexual Men of Color; coordinates a netwolk of pear-support
groupa for gay and bisexua( Menof Color in all 5 boroughs of New
Yolk Cit>,003Ninth Ave, New Yolk,
NY l000lor can (212) 239-1798.
NAnONAL GAY ~D LESBIANTASKFORCE
is the nalional grassroots politicalorganization for lesbians and gay
men. Membership is $3OIyear,
Issue·orientad projects address
violence, sodomy laws, AIDS, gay
rights ordinances, fammes, media,
etc. through lobbying, education,organizing and direct action.
NGLTF 1517 U Street tIN, Washington, DC 20009. (202)332~

NYC GAY lit LESBIANANTI-VIOLENCE PROJECT
Counsaling, advocacy, and information for survivora of anti-gay
and anti-lesbian violence, sexua)
assault, domestic violence, andother types of victimization. All
services frea and confidantial.24
hour hottine (212) 80NI197
PEOPLE WITH AIDS
COALmON(212) 532~HIOO·828-328l'Hot6ne (212) 532-4Bl8Monday 1hru Friday 10am-Opm Mea) programs,
support groups, educstional andreferral services for PWA's and
PWArc'&PEOPLE WITH AIDSHEALTH GROUP
Underground buya(a club inpor1ing.
not-yat·appnMld medications andnutritional supplemen1B. 31 Wast
2M1St 41hRoor (212)~

NEWYORKAIJVBIT1SI4GAMt

NEIWOIIKNYACN is the COII.llunity'slargest
gay and lesbian profassiooal group,
welcoming af) in communicati0n&-8nd their friends. Monthly
meatings, 3rd Wed 8:30pm at 1I1e
Community Center. Members'
newsletter, job hotline, annual
directory. Phone (2121517-«Ja1 formore info. Mention OutWeek for
one fraa naw&fllllll&

PINK PANTHER PATROL
Conmrily SInIet petJtJ( in East andWast Wage dedicated II) deUIrringviolent crime agam ga.,. and fait.
bian& West Village weeldy m...
ings at T,.. everings at Comnu1ity
Center. CaD for lime and Info; 21247S4383. For East "'!age petJtJ( info,
cal 212·241H1iB8.

door ac1ivi1ies for every sea.on
including hiking, biking, skiing,water activities and other outdoor activities for the Gay/l ....
bian community. For informationor complimenta ry New.letter
call (212)!i98-4728.
THE OUTREACHUSING
COMMUNAL HEALING(TOUCH)

Ccmnunity voIl11tBel8 pnMding aweekly buffet supper for the
BI'CXlIc¥lAIDS connmunily, TOUCH
meets Monday eyes. 5pm to
8'.30pm- at downtll'iYJl Brooklyn
Friends Meeting House' (110
Schennerhorri St near B08rum
P1ace~.UmitBd tnJnsportlltion may
be arranged. Info: (718)822-27!ilI.
TOUCH walCOI1I8S contributiOns offII1ds. food andvolll1tBel1LULSTER COUNTY GAY ANDWBIAN AWANCE
Meets first and third Monday ofeach month at 7:30 pm et the Unitarian Church on Sawkill Road in
Kingston, For Infonnation, call
914-t1Z6-3203
WHAMI
Woman" H.. 1th Action And
Mobilization.
A direct action group commited to demanding, securing anddefending absolute reproduolive freedom and quality healthcare for ill women, We meat
every Wed. at 8:30pm at 1115, E
22nd Street, 4th floor. 212-7135988Mailing addrea: WHAMI,PO Box 733, NYC 10009

LESBIAN HERSTORYPROFESSIONAlS IN
ARCHIVESRlMJVIDEO
P.O. Box 1258 New York,New Yolk
N.Y. FEMMES
338 Ca nal Street, 8th Roor, NYC
10118212/874-7232Sinc8 1974, theSupport and discussion group forl0013212~
Archives has inspired, shaped andlesbians who self identify as.
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WOMENS ALTERNATIVE .
reflected Lel!bian lives every:
Fen.,. and arB primanly a1IrI1ctad . ...
QUEER NAnO!'4' '.COMMUNn)'CENrER
IWACCJ ..
where. Can iii aiTimge i visit or 111 . to butch women. tor membership ..'The L,!sbiana".d
Gay direct.
' A non-profit, Le.bien cori1mun~ .
information call lisa (212)829-11111- action'group dedicated to fightvdun1BerforThun;dayworl!ni~..
ty center serving Queena, NaaLONG ISLAND ACT-UP
Meets Tuesdays at 8pm at 181 Post
Ave. in Westbury, NY. Support us forchange on Long Island. Mailingaddress: PO Box 514, Westbul'(. NY
11511l516-338-4882.

LSM

N.Y.WOr.erS SOFIBAI1GUID
For experienced, serious Softball
Playgrs, Coaclies and Managera.
We play mod/fast pitch weekends in Manhattan and Queens.
Try-outs begin Feb. 11thru Aprilor until filled. (212) 255-1379 Janetis a support ani iionnrior1 ~forlesbians and I.....
iii walal ~edin~~Irdaga,c»ciJb, SM iHshas. &ianni gInIor

NMH S1IIEEFCENIBI
Since 1973, a connmunity dedicated to ckmonstJalingJhat a homosexual lifestyle is a rational,
desirable choice for individuals
dissatisfied with the rewards ofcooventionallNilg. Pavc:holo9ca1ly- focussed rap groups, Tues., Set, 8
to 10 pm. peer counselling available. 319 E. 9 S1reet, New Yodl, NY
111m, for info cal (212)22&-!ilS3.

MEN
OF All COLORSTOGETHER NY
A multi-racial group of gay men
against racism. Meetings every
Friday ni~ at 7:45 at the Lesbianand Gay Corllilunity Services Canter,208 W. 13th Street For more
info. call: (212) 245-8366 or (212)222·9794.

NORTH AMERICAN MAN/BOY
LOVEASSOCIAnON (HAMBtA)
Dedicatad to S8XUalfraedonn andespecially inmrated in gay intergenerational relalionslips. Monthly Bulletin and regular chapter
meetings on the first Saturday ofesch month, Yesrly membership is$20; write NAMBlA PO Box 174,
MidtooMJ Station, New Yolk, NY
10018 or call (212) 807·8578 forinfonnalion.

inden1i1ies, costumes and so forth.
Membership is available only towomen 18 yaers and older. Actual
axperiance is net I1IqIied IUgeni1e
imrastandan opan mal&. Form·
mai:r1 J:Iaasa wM: PJJ. b!lB, MrrayHi SIaIiIl,New'1txk, NYlom

METROPOLITAN TENNIS
GRDUp(MTG)
Our 200 member lesbian and gay
tennis club includes playera frombeginning to tournament level.

NORTHERN UGKTSALTERNATIVES
Improving Quality of life for People with AIDS/HIV. THE AIDS

ing homophobia and Gay andLesbian invisibility. Anyone cansuggest an action and shouldcome to meetings prepared toorganize and implement it QN,
Box 1524, Cooper Station, New
York, NY 10003. Call 212·4837208 for meeting info.

SAGE:(Senior Action in a Gay
Enviranment)

Social Service Agency, providing
care, activities, & educational
services for gay & lesbiin seniorcitizens. Also serves over 180
homebound
seniors & older
PWA's .208 West 13th St NYC
10011, (212) 741·2247
SEl1IAN GAYs.
LESBIAN$ AND BISEXUALSFor all of us interestedinreaching out to each other in
exuberance
to spontaneously explore and expand upon
the Seth/Jane
Roberts ·Philosophy· as it realtes to ourlivas, personally,sexually
and politically. Call AI (212)979·5104
SUNDANCE
OUTDOOR ADVENTURE
SOCIETY
A non-profit club offering Out-sau and Suffolk Counti8l.
Thura, night weekly discussion
groups. 8:30 pm, for otheractivities please contact us at
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Dugout, 185 Christopher St., 242-9113 (formerly
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Don't Tell Mama, 343 W. 46th St., 757-0788

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

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

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Crazy Nanny's, 21 7th Avenue South, 366-6312(Women)Candle Bar, 309 Amsterdam Ave., 874-9155

D,T.'s Fat Cat, 281 W: 1,2th St., 243-9041

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Keller's, 384 West St. (at Christopher), 243-1907
Kelly's Village West, 46 8edford St., 929-9322

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Gents, 360 W 42 St. (9th Ave), 967-0659

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

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The Pyramid, 101 Avenue A. 420-1590
Tunnel Bar, 116 1st Ave (7th St.), 777-9232

BROOKLYN (718)After Five Plus, 5 Front St, 852-0139
Spectrum, 802 64th St. (at 8th Ave), 745-9611
Sweet Sensations, 6322 20th St., 435-2580

QUEENS (718)Breadstix, 113-24 Queens Blvd., Forest Hills,,236-0300
Friend's Tavern, 78-11 Roosevelt Ave., Jackson
Hgts, 397-7256
Hatfield's, 126-10 Queens Blvd., Kew Garden.s,
261-8484 .
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loyalty of my readers. n"DO YOU, BRADLEY BALL?YOUSHOULD HAVE THOUGHT ABOUT
THAT WHEN YOU RAN ENTIRE
COLUMNS IN GERMAN!!!"
When I returned to my office, Yves
had already gone down to the Christmas
party. Bless his little heart, he'd put mypersonal possessions in a brown paper
bag and placed them outside the door,
which was a good thing, since the entrycode had already been changed and mypass key was invalid, As I rode the elevator down to the lobby, I could hear thestrains of the Peter Duchin Orchestra
playing "Have Yourself a Merty, Little
Christmas." As I passed Lily at the security
desk, she wished me a happy holiday,"Yes, Lily," I replied. "God bless us
evety one." Tsoon start an intramural study of nacetylcysteine (NAQ. Where's that study?
Where Is Tony Fauci in all this?
Does he think. that the clinical trials
are an interesting way to fill the time
until he (or his rivals) discover thecure in the test· tube? Where are theworld-class immunologists
we needto solve tQis disease?
There are two ways of going
about solving this problem: 1) takeover the centers of power; 2) create
alternative centers of JX>wer. We havecommunity-based
resear'ch,
don't
we(?!). We have Martin Delaney on thePrimary Infection Core Committee, We
have secret meetings, Douglas Richman making viral resi.Stance everyone's
priority, subcommittees for Paul Volherding and Margaret Fischl and Martin Hifsch; we have Thomas Merigan
moving to the Executive Committee,
refusing to answer questions in publicand hitching a ride on what few
immune-modulating trials are allowed .
We have NIAID's new DAIDS Initiatives, another new program spun off
to distract us for a year or more until it
becomes reality, vague promises to thecommurµty and concrete threats to thehegemony of the AcrG investigators.
Does anyone have a plan?

In the meantime, we can shout
ourselves hoarse demanding that the
FDA approve ddI and ddC surely aworthy goal, and an inevitable one .
But once they're approved, and weand our friends keep on dying, who
has another,better card up theirsleeve? And if you did, would you
risk submitting it to this ACTG?
In any case, the cure will never 'come from the ACTG. If they are
lucky, it may come through their system. We must begin devising ways ofapplying the same energy to pre.clinical science and the drug companies that we have focused for solong on the ACTG. Even a perfect,
utopian
ACTG would not be theanswer to our dilemma-it
can test
drugs but his yet to discover one .
Focusing all our energy on them in. isolation
may bring diminishingreturns. It is time for us to go backinto the labs!
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adventures. He always seemed. to .know thehandsomest and wittiest men, the hippest
parties ar;ld bars, the dirtiest jokes.' He poss~ss~d an eno~mous amount of energy.
~Uri!1gthe winter of 1977-78,'~ lived In Key
West; his roomlllate'from that time, Chuckme .that Tim would
sometimes
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excess :energy., ',,'.". " Of course, he had another side or'sides. For one thll)g; he wrote, with great
grace and wit, poems of apparent simplicity
and hldden.complexitt(heloved puns andIntertor rhymes) about friendS, lovers, his chll(J. .
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tron'lO his IIfestyle.~heil he was young, he
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Broth.ers,cG~sli:>!lallY; he .would talk withregretabOutth;it lost life: Fpr a IQngtime, I
took ti)ls'. no ,.more seriously than I did hiS perverse'foJldn~ss fqr a kind of old~fashloned;,obless~
oblige 'Republlcanlsm
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manifested itself more noticeably via a
deplorable'taste
in, restaurants lind clothIng..;,b!.!ltOn-down shirts and preppy blazers
even In the clone '70s 'than In'the election
bOOttl.' (In his final public~appearance; on a
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death he worked either full-time QI' freelance
for Sandy Perlowi;, Associates, soliciting
money for such 'causes he believed in as
the Fresh Air Fund, the American Friends
Service Committee, Food for Survival andRecording for the Blind. Some letters hewrote, such as the UNICEF Christmas
appeal,were so effective they remained in•use for almosta decade.
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to dinner), his adviQe, his time. He servedon theb~ard of directors,. of the St. Marks".
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services at St. Paul's Episcopal Church on•

Carron Street In !3rookIyn, which at that time
had a congregation of less than ten active
menilers. 11mwas Influential in the revlvaJof
the church, helping renovate Its premises
and often serving prolK!ly as acolyte to Its
priest. The personal element, I'm sure, was
as Influential In his decision to convert to
Anglicanism as were the reactionary politics
and policies of the Catholic church.
By the Rid-'80s, he seriously began toconsider attendng cIvInity school. No doubt
the spirItuaIty of ·hls sobriety was a significant
factor In this decision. Tim finished his
degree requirements for his 'BA by taking
night courses at Hunter College, and In the
faD, of 1988, a postulant for holy orders In the
Episcopal c!lurch, he entered Yale Divinity
School~ (He prompUybought a set of golf
clubs, which I)e never, used.)
Tim loved his courses at Yale, especially thos.eabout the Old Testament; weused to joke how he'd end up a Jew. Last
summer, despite often debilitating fatigue, and fevers, he worked as chaplain, counselIng seriously ill patients and their families atJersey City Meclical Center. He derived hugesatisfaction from his work and thought that
he had found the form of his vocation; someof these people, he told me, had never had
anybody listen to them In their entire lives.
He would have ~in June .
11m ded on Dec, 3, at the age of 40, In
G9, the AIDS ward of Roosevelt/St Luke's
Hospital Center. He Is survived by his lover
Qf four years, Christopher Wiss; his brother,
Johri; and ilterally hundreds of friends. He ' ,seeined never to lose touch with anyone hehad cared about-fromold classmates toformer lovers to the date he took to his high~ooIpiom. ',Before Tim's sickness he was a good
poet, but it may have been AIDS that madehim a great one. In "00" 11mtalks about peo-

pie crossing lists from the IMng to the dead.
In one sense Tim crossed that list, but In
another he never win. I'm not the only one of
his friends whO thinks of calling him at least
several times a day; in the nidst of poflllOUs
or boring gatherings I'U hear him crack abitchy joke. 0dcIy, although the Idea of havIng to visit him at the hospltJl was terribly
depressing, being with hlm--even In his lastdays was not. It was peaceful and rather
spacey, Dke a medtaIion, like the last words
cA his greatest poem:'
I hope that death wi'llft meby the hair like an angel
In Hebrew myth, snatch me withthe strength at sleep's enDraceand gently set me down
where I'm supposed to be,
Injust the rlghtplaoe.
11m Dlugos' books Include High There(Some of Us Press, 1973), Je Suls Eln
Americano (Uttle Caesar Press, 1979), A
Fast ute (Sherwood Press, 1982) and Entre
Nous (Uttle Caesar press, 1982). There will
be a Memorial SeIVIce for him at St. Mark's
Church In the Bowery on Feb. 3 at 4 pm.

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nopdu fr. oeM"". You: under '10 y.o"c..... _ . ..,.,g,., if it'. bil _..
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CWM, 34, 150 LBS, Sf''', handJomc.,
tqJ, has pc.rfOftDIIMl'l. JmJbIcms,
ICCbCU1c., )TIl., bolt~18-3Cf.l' .0'J~tli
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GWM, 32, 6', ISS LBS h!nfbrn.
gondlookina, &oOdshape, _ iicndowod,
Jtaua,\ prof., always bornv,· ICeD
similar for safe horny ... ! Ext. 1272

SICILIAN BO'lTOM, hot, DDt !O!!>&,_bclem. beer beUy " .. " 210 lbi,~
animal to 18" Que of, cmly topt
and OYer 30 y.o.ll Ext. 129

GOODLOOKING
GWM 35, 5'8"
160 lbo, brfbl, Ie ....,)'boy, H1V+,_b
HIV + GWM, CDl.oynature aDd theouldooro and li,e. Ext. l244i"SEEKING rRIENDfLOVER! GWM,
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51 y.o" 5'7', ... ~ sip hait, brn
aJIU81w 19P. You: l$6-5S. _1'....0;
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V)!RY
AITRACTIVE,
MASC.,_lim. 2S y.o., aood. ICDIhC ol humor,
in&cU., cnj~ conversation.. ~ walb,
GWM, 25 y.6 •• 5'9- , 160 Ibs, from aDd more i:bvcrx. inlcrc.sll. looking for a
bloo:l, blue C)a, attractive, cari!l&, !'oncst..:~_""
GBM,30."170LBS IICICbverymasc{ ~,intcU~. IIltiooal
di..ctiooinnis life. If
f:.em"f'GBMfBi, {S-35y.o., H1V •• .th1cti!" ~ki!1&for YOU1l& &ondIookini Bi/GBM, who
you .'" able to laugh .t life • giw it.
~ U;DIce 1011& bitt.
BhoI.Musclco .... a pI... buI DOt
mSPANIC,U,S'7"',ISOb,cducatcd,
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WANTED:
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CI\imovioo, daDcino: SLAVEICICb mase.
baadacmCmalc. Call .inccrcty, tnJet, }ullTlbleattituclc., mas
Mel Ext. 1271~
be&ino.. tnlinod, limits THREE FOUR OR MORE! Tworci-.d and ~.
Mo.t do what GWM'. seeking thtcc, lout or I"IIO!C&oodlooB';;;-gUY' for bot times. ·Yau:
COUPLE INTO 3 AND 4 SOMI!S! told!! Ext. 1276
CCan~jb's-40'•• goodbod'I.Givc1JS
GWM'I, mid 30'" bmlKd, .Ilm,
in Hohok. Ca!!., a caUl!
attractive, 1ClC~1¥W bodys (orsaf ...hoI. J. VARGAS! We _ExL 1275.
lcawyourlllllllbot this time!!! Ext.12IB
1CIIt. Ext,1274

MADONA '" MARAL YN DOt for me •giw me Frank" EO.. GWM, boyisha:\c...~'8::'.n ... lcnclor,brfbr\prof., ... b
GWM. "">!!•• fi~good ookina, DO~dNp;,;::;:-!,..:Ext..:=.:uo;:,;;2~.,.,.
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fems, a.irhc.ads, attitude. Ext. 1247

inter.:<;SM, CurE, HOT, TOP, 21, 5'1-,
IlJXlCrc,ltr.a~sliin,8CCD~whitebottom. 1S-29, for bot ... or talk.
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AITRACfIVEORlENTAL,
GM,24,
5'8",I50lbo,_b...,.,bottop_tom.
8* +, 18-30 y.o. for safc bur roUcbtq:. I
am a bot smOoth bar. 1245
YOUNG STUDS SOUGIITI You: 18·
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Ibs, wOrko<JUl bodYt clean shavw;n, very
bardsomc., 8- +, UDCUl, utnY haircut.
let'sF.t ~thir and have fuD. Latinos
and liibl. m><>d Blacb .... _Iwue
MavbC you \WDl to~ te>gc?thet with me.
am one. or two of my lricDJs, Ext. 1139

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BIWM,24,5'10-,IMLBS,darkblond,hlue -..
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I KNOW U ARE our THERE· but
wbe",? Gondloo~
GBM, 28, 5'10',

discreet. I 1m new to New York City,
attractive, - AlI-AmcriCID.- , Mid'NC810m. EXI, 1284

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G!lM,3~,5'10",
150lbo.lom.~tie,
WlU~, k:iilky, safelhcaltl;ly~ poliu?l.
age, fun. loyal, mlCl'C8hng.
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EXOTICALLY HANDSOME EURO\\(M, 24, &tD--.I~darkbair,
6'1:,slim, teX)', anCctianatc
romantIC,GOODLOOKlNG.BOYlSH,
TRIM,~teri0U8,
IOphi.stic., loo\;n-;; for lhO
26 1'.0., 13611», S'IS-, mlIbloid, ICICb rij,ht man to lpent
time with-:-EXt. 1214
JO..4IO y.q., atJractivc, prof., for fµn,,'M'+DO!'!, _IU.&cnloonvenaumandbot
GWM· A MEMBER or HCM, """b.... Ext, I2A!3"
othc.r GWM'I woo arc also HeM
mcmbc .. for (ricnda. Ext. 1212
WM,37,5'1",l65LBS,~,brnbait, blUD ~,muCuliuc, Hlv +. GPRM 34, S'U", avcra&C. blk eyes,u~omatic M.D.. ~oy motor- llachc., 1IlCard, loves beach.. -walks, talb,
cyclilj&, &aIIIcninI., movioo, cookina. No ft:laticuship Oriented 8ClCb S8.IDe, no
ODC--m&hfen. Exf. 1262
bc.avy drugs/lmokcrl. Ext. USl

G.WM,BEARDED,Ui,allr.
HIV-,hotoeMoe. for .11 oklor tncn, 4S + t.::thhof'IYd,eb to fill my hole/throat.
kd
ummportant. Ext., 1292
BLKfPR WITH H NG Y ._~'.h'....
bus WM 6l!,Y R B,,! "
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yourslimlindhung,tli&t'sA+!Ext.128O
MASTER WANTS SLAVES! GWM
36,S'IO", 160 lbo, into BDshaYin&,d~lJ'aming,lpmkingctc.al1aafe!
Ext. 1180

J?onWii<:ai>. aF 18·25, M... t be oar. and 1CCkina. a fricndnovcr

NICE JEWISH DOCTOR, 37, ~o"-R intcUiJlC!ll,loodloo •phyai~
OWM.20-30 lIN· wtthafoodbody.
am 5'lb', _II built: Ext. 261
SEXY LATINO TOP SOUGIIT by..... 0ricn1al bott_
25, 5'8' 130 lbi,
lor hot, ftm. Ibn......You: 20-3d y.o., nococmutmenl nccclaary, but diacnoet.
EXI.I260
GBM,3!J 140 LBSf::.\;SEEKS
hus~wMlforromant;:e,andltalianlPl\,_iblc",I.timship.
y bot buDs nc<dfor the ri&hl bunil)' pc"""'.
EXI.I259m

GWM, YOUNG 55, 6'2', 195 lbo,
attra~ivc, ICX)'. ilHhipc, P!Of.". warm,
ICDSIUVC\ caf1D&, can·be the lowr or• pccial friend for men aU ages. Ext. 1258

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BOlTOM,3S, bllbl. 6',200 Ibs,_kiN.&resai~ Clarkhair, racial bair, t!'PI lor!!iu&hisloppy_butt/oral oeM"". hi andOut. Ext. n57

LOOKING. FOR YOUNG, DIIIIC.,
Itraitbtlbi men for early momin& or
midaay gct-to~rsM,
East
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x..~_,~~BOYS WANTED (18+)1 busi?oYs
doli",1)' ~CIIIItvill.1!" h9Ys "'1~F)
school whO lOve to foroeit dCnWdaddYI
throat. rlftt timerlstnli&l\tl welwme!
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GBM, 27, 6',
165 Iba. 1D good sbal'C:. mustaChe, SOOQ
health, non-smokcr/drinkcr, amblU0U8
coring, OCD8i~w,inlolli~&ood....... ot"""ttt~~~o/9"~'2"'e~;hl'o.,~shape,wrs.tilc,hcalti,y.
Ext.I'mil?~KTOP! 30 )'Carl old,
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bottom, artlst. You: Masc .• MAT,
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WARM YOUR WINTER WITH a I
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OWM, 46, 6'1', 180 lbo\ ...,kinIt
g<>odlookini, elcqi shaycn, • Un WM';
GOOD LOOKING,
29 Y.O., SUB
23-29 Y.o" &ood""'lr:.hape. ~into I
BOlTOM
with SlI,"" butt desireodandfun ana m&Jijs
I dominanJ.,for safc fim. Faroe.
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hot safc !leX.
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Ext. IllSExL 1251
LOVER MATERIAL!
GWM, 26, I
I Gwr, "38,WOMENS"
5'11-, attractive, aceD ~~PROF.,_LOOKING for!YIY
who _my cookinlt, .... rm alTC<tion
friclKlflovcr. Hoping tofma
and bot>coty.Ext.l12f
I NAMEDAY PHONE
EVE PHONEI All American~bois playful, .C!' young at
bc.art,at,sensitive. "No dNgS/stnOkcr. Ext. J..l4W19
Y.O.
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STATE
ZIP
I AITRACfIVE( INTELLIG. GWr,
STUDEl'ff, looking for GWM,18.30
for fun.1iI1«1 .... "", t!irCII&h the VIllage.t J
body,.. I 21, with spi,ritua dcs.ircs
I NYC AREA DIALOGUERESERVES THERIGHT TO EDIT OR REJECT ANY AD PAID AINERT/SEMENT
don'tfit the -qujctAaian- type. Ext.128S
sensitive, creative G or BI womac:n..
to hugshare feelings with. Ext. 1133---------------------- seeD
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DADDY WANTS BOY' GWM 50 YO! 2 BM'S, 30/31, MASC.,muoc.,.Um.
6' ISOIbl. .tacb; hairy rcd1 scekin2 3rd for ,Losd t1m I. Ready to get.nw.rt, ~f.•ICCKI budd)CS lor friCndsb1p

Ext.l25J•
IIOT GYM BODY! 30, 5'8', 160 lbo,
I\r •.actg, wo: hoc. bc:dy, acrious about~
88 I, .ihletcs great masaagc ~cx~.
Prefer mndcllllojshaved body•
Ero1ic yoa • _ nol .Ext. 2Sl--.. --_ ..IDS,
GWM, 43, S'l1", 18S Ibs lookin2 for DADDY IS HERE:.-.
I IUS 0-.-, ~handsome,. P"'ppy, 44 y.o ....
by~!.
tram guyto .ba~
hot acx. funlovcinallthew!<l'I&pl.a:s.!>;;youmaw
rig,hl. place? Yau: 30-50 yrs. race
unimportant. Ext.1118l'~

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GWM,3S, 6'1, 180LBS, inNJ, lookiN,
for lopI/bolt<ms, masters/slaves fordaytime FHogcthe ... Ext. 12011

GWM· 30'S, 6'3", IICCb muscular
GW;;,j'GBM,45-6Oy.o.forCVODin&fun.
"""r 6' "",feiod! Ext. 1287._
HUNG TOP, S2, 5 6 135 lbo, warm,
COUPLE INTO 3S0MES
mixtures "i"".,funbot,_rous'laSC!'by?""&Cr,trim,
30 S'IO"'I«#LGc_y
tomfor","ooship.Ext.1153
be'~GWM,~"!
1nd.... ,20 •• da~k;J"',
1~1, .... king GWM STUDENT IN NJ, !!'...!iO lbo,
IU. actm& lop. ~y.o. .r..&L.12J'
br/er,~,
wants to~~ a WM, JO..4.J
BEErYBOY
26.
yoaroold orbotromanue_' .... l!xI.IISS
GWr>f,6'1",I60LII!',35Y.O.,
111'{+, Itauau,"--5'9·" , l~cI,mU8CI"'~~LabjshGWM SDDKS=IDNDfLOVER'22,
AITRACTIVE MAN! lam 19,sndon!,looP:n&for ,GBM, into lafc cuddh~,
UJ bI, OO~'6lor
tlDO".Ilo.llo
Il'n. c.
•, :loo~
for attractive Italians who arc rubbing, hairy A +. dcacn:el.Ext. 127' musc., hotsC-bunc men. Ext. 1234
6 ,,165.lba, brlbl. IUV., C!1joye biking,caring, __Iovino life .. I do. I am thatI~
IDOVlCI
travel and more.
scmconc. whO caJar Ext. 1213
JERSEY BOY, 32, 5'10", ... b fellow CV!'E YOUNG BODY wi,,! old soul, Lkn&forGWM,25':15,&dlnkg, Ext.1211.ports f.... s~,
1iC movies
Sptntual, fun, DO dNplsmokina, ~RAREnND INNYC!GWM, 29,6'1",.Is the"'_ldooowbocan ..... '" HANDSOMEJINTELL •Ext.lISS'~I
165 lbo, bllbl. I am I fi~ masc., .mart cfmcrsandqwekgetawayo.
n~o. Are yourcady to GWM, 24, 6'1 ,195SEXY,. amlha,cnjoye tbc:atrc,
hrudsomc., p'crsonablc man WOO's lots 0t GB¥ .. 48,S'6",I40lbswishin2.tomcet
IDCClmeyct?
Ext.l23J
singing, movies,
I am romantic"
fun. I am looking for a laving relationship GWMIBM.Li~towok,lis....
romusic.,
incxpc;rionocd
lookina
for
lover
25-3,
with another man, race unimportant.
Nodrug,slsmokiN· How mudt I Want to GWM,4O 5,159 LBS, blueeyoa, ... b ~Yt.'l100'_'..lEllxt~.,,I~2il9i!!!.
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EXI, 1135
live in NYC .. Ioverl together. No ~c~men, 21-35 y.o" cxceUcnt nighten,notimctoplaygamca.Ext.lUS
shap;c, ~gre88ivc. aDd nODest for GOODLOOKING LATINO, 19, 5'8"
GWM-GBM ATfR
bet 41 ma&C
relauonsp,ip. Me: S!DQCre, trustworthy 160 Jha muc., very affcclionate 8ClCb
muse., GWM, 6', 165lbo bIg 'wants
IryOU ARE A GBM this t.lcntod top and"'~'}"& ~C8;8I",,!,1. If you
masc. GBfLatinoforoeriaus",l.tio..hip.
lmeety~r,lrim, dark.~bottom GWM S'IO- ISO
lha ~Vcurly hair wiD oo~'!.!...ora
ESlluahonf:hat UlCl....::s !E~xi!.t."I~29~I-,
for movies, romantiC times. Ext. 122'
,iveyoU hiJ 8t~. tlUcklove. Istlci:jU;tthc.
the. ar;JVVt;;,Call.
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way you lilre it. 'ReI. pos.ible. Exl.lI02
GW COUPLE 2012" bot!
I LOVE UNCur MEN any .ge, GWM,
GWM 40,6',220
LBS, HN., prof.
,-". top, masc.,
2S gdllmg. Can't gel CDOUgh! Ext.1.286i
italian or Latin &\'¥, 25 40. fo; GOODLOOKINGEUROPEAN,
hung,UIlCIIt.WI)'f,oodlookina ..... bhot,_b'Mre, mono,.reialionsrup. Ext. 1227 ~,GWM,
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ex-jock, 6' 4-, 205 tha, aceD lair guys,
AITRACfIVE
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BOlTOM GM 45+ healthv. lean 20"10 y.o., for .",.tiw,
intense,. bandaF, tio or Ft tied flllt hczin& .. femuse., 351_b
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action, possible relatio:.hip. Ext. il82

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GWM, 32., VERy Ml!SCUL~R,
mouslacbe,thcr
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, 110 groupa.
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ANDROGYNOUS, GWF, 27
HeaHhy body &psyche, fascinatedby "Ishmaerfrom"fanny &Alexander, seeking
similar w/similar
fascinations forromantic friendshiprelationship. Mustbe honest, able tooommunicate,&slightly academic.
Send letter,
OutweekBox
3776, Photo helpful.
ARTSY BUTNOTFLAKEY, YUPPIEBUT NOTSQUARE ... BUT
DEFINITELYARTISTIC·LOOKING, SO
NOT REALLYYUPPIE, BUT
COULD PASS
AT THE COUN·TRY CLUB AND
JUST LOVESMONEY!AMBITIOUSI BUTSPIRITUAL...VEGETARIAN ... KIN
D,SWEET, SEN·SITIVE,YOUNGISH,
PRETTY, LONG·
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ICONOCLASTIC
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SMART (BOTH
IN THE WAY
YOU'D
DESCRIBE A
HANDBAG AND
A SCHOLAR).
ALL YOU HAVETO BE ISWILDLYCLEVER,AS

TOMBOY AS
THEY COME,
OVER 30 AND
NOT TOO TERMINALLY CYNICAL OR
CHICKEN TO
FOR HEAVEN'S
SAKE WRITE
INSTEAD OFGUESSING.
OUTWEEK BOX
3659
CHINA PATTERN AT
BLOOMIE'S
GF, 35, 5'6",135,
BVgr, aIcohoVdrug
free

SFnative/Manhatta
n dweller seeks to
end years of serial
monogamy.
Softball, Diane
Kurys films,ferron,
gardening, politics
and cruising thepages of Elle andMirabella. Sweep
me off my feet andinto a domestic
partnership.
PhotolPhone gets
mine, Outweek
Box 3771
D.K.· WE
WORKED
TOGETHER ALL
TOO BRIEFLY
at that ridiculous
excuse for a publishing oompany, I
had a major crush
on you, but oouldn't quite figure youout. H was always
fun talking to you write back, will st
du? E.L.Outweek
Box 3315
GBF 31 LIGHT
SKIN
Seeks unattachedlight skin GBF or
gay Hispanic
aggressive female
oounterpart 28-38
for shari~, caring
relationship.
HELP! I'M
STARTING TOLOOK AT MEN.
33, 5'3", br hairseeks sporty-fem
women for relationship, Into humor
honesty romanceand treating you
right. Enjoy oozy
evenings by a fireplace. Take achance on someone nice, Your
photo will get mine,
No drugs nonsmoker preferred,Outweek
Box 3707
HOT DYKESEEKS SAME
Baby I'm aninferno--willyou be
my fuel? Ican bum
even the mostinflammables.5' 6"23yr.o. GWF shortbrownhair-eyeglasses make myvision pierce yoursoul to depths you
neVer knew it had.
A photo/phone #will get you thesame-if you havethe oourage to see
in your self what I
can show
you.Outweek Box
3719
MY PUSSY ISASHRINE
Followers of mynew religious order
practice unspeakably delectable rituals. Devotional
worship and.human sacrifice, I
love all God's children. Outweek
Box 3769
OKSOISMOKE &
DRINK
lhese are not myworst habits. (I also
bite my nails, but
lesbians should
not have long nails
anyway) this-26
GWF is looking forsomeone to playwith on Tue & Wed(the worst days off
possible) or after.
midni~ht(how did I
get thISjob?) If you
still eat meat
&COOKwithbutter
drop me a line we'll
see a movie or 111
cook you dinner,
we'll do snow
bongs on theroof,Outweek Box
3722

Sex
maniac,Outweek
Box 3718
TIRED OFQUEENS
The borough, thatis. I've left all mygir1friends in Long
Island City. Just
moved to Park
Slope, looking forfun and fantasy
between Fourth
Avenue andProspect ParkWest. Outweek
Box 3770
WARM, SENSI-IONEDATEATA
TIME
GWF,29,Attractive, sincere,
funny, insightful,stable, attentive,
somewhat spiritualand politicallyaware seeks thesequalities in an "out"woman who isemotionally articulate, sensually spiritual, dynamic yet.
grounded, willingto listen and leam
and allow for a
possible relationship, Old enoughto knOw better;
young enough totake risks? Send
photo and letter to:
Outweek Box 3804

TIVE, HONEST,
androgynous, 5'5",30, blonde, blue
eyed, virgo wants
to get to know you,
I like to sit in a cafe
and sip cappuccinos, go to the .
movies or just stayhome and cuddle
by candleli~ht,
Let's keep it simple
and slow, Tell me
about yourself.
Honesty,nonsmoker, sober anddrug free a must.
Send photo andletter.Outweek Box
3662

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andRENAISSANCE
Woman seekssame in SSF Bay
Area.41 , les not
bi.Classics
iIIustr.Comics,
Atlantic mo, Zenoriented
Christian.Oh yes-.,January .,1991

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GOM, 42, 155,
hair and hazel
BROOKLYN
5'6",eyes, You mascuBOX 18TEEN, /ine M, non
avg looks, secure,
Seeking for otherwith sense of
smoker. /talIlat
gay boy ml,lst be
humor, in shape
inlstache a defiantage 18 to 21 noseeks similar guys+. Tom, POB 65ntaller than 5'8" and35-50, for fdshp &NYC 10163-6022
must be clean cut- . safe sex. Ukes
and smooth body. music, reading, &ASPIRING
long relationshipgym exes, quiet
ACTOR
I'm 18 and 5'8"112
eves at home. No
Hisp Male, 22, 5'8"
white and 112hisdrugs, smokers, 1
135, BL. BR seekpanic must send innite. HairY a +,ing to meet WM inphoto and phone
Lars talkOutweek
the movie industry#. To L. S.
'. Box 3699
bOth in New York
2014-69th Street
and Los Angeles
Brooklyn, NY
18 YEAR OLD
Oulweek Box 3729
11204
GWM, 6'2", 170#
dark blond hair,BALLSCAN YOU TOP
blue eyes, someBUSTED
THIS?
what hairy. Seeks.Nuts cracked
Habitual top seeks
18+ lover. Very
Scrt>tums
stronger, taller man
submissive andsqueezed Get theto put me in myeager to please .
idea?lf you'd likeplace, Me: 5'11 P,
you in any wayme (6'4" 40yr 220
160, Br/Gr, stache,possible, Into anyhot looking) to
gym bod, 26, You:
thing you like. 'work over your25-45, built, toughWrite to S,U" Boxballs write Bob PO
yet mustaChe a1729" Kingsland,Box 10 NYC
plus. Not tender,
GA31548. _10014
Leather a must.
Photo/phone to•
A PLACE IN.
BIG MEN? - BIG
Outweek Box 3696
ITHE COUNTRY
FUN!!!
A place to caress,
Hot duo - BM 301
CATCH SEEKS
cuddle, snuggle,
6'1"/300#WM
A HERO
pinch, bite, tie gag,
27/57"/Brl blue
GWM good lookdominate and dohairy sks M cpJs4
ing smooth 155
whatever yourfun. Chub
5'11" dark hair
good-natured but
b'LATMs & hairy
green eyes Ivy Ed.
nasty mind can
WBearsa+.
seeks manly fellow
dream of.
.
, Ltrlphlph# toardent and true toSubmissive GWM
POBox 8676 JAF
be my hero enjoy
6'4"; 185#, br, b1;
Sta. NYC 10116
full range of urban
37 caters to your 'activities love dogs
fantasies and
BRIGHT, HONbooks being a stalneeds, Travel TriEST, GDLKING
wart stand up guy.State Region, P,O. GWM365'9"
and taking a proBox 610, '1451bs.wants totective male.• Souttiampton, NY
meet other healthy,
stance and can
11968-0610, funny, responsible
adore a smart
GWM, Activists(aleck) funny guy
ALL AMERIC4N
and gardeners
who will lean on
•
,
BOY
SKS
.
encouraged. Write
your shoulder and/"Daddy for possme at pO Box 353
treat you like a
relationship I,m 32,
NY, NY 10159king I'm HIVneg a
HIV+ quiet non0353.
photo lettersmker with blond
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3618
COCK
ENLARGEMENTGWM, 38, 5'11",
245# 6 inches,interested in meeti~ with a GM into
thiS, YOlJrexperience;p6sitive or
negative, methods,
Your equipment or
mine. Respondwith photo (before& after) letter tel #too: C.E. 20276
LTS NYC 100119993
D.C.NASUBURBS
Gdlk Ex-Marine,Blue eyes salt/pepper beard, 51, 57"
130# tight smoothbody, hairy legs
and ass, healthy
HIV+,I wanta
hairy strong top
man to ride me in a
pennanent man to
man relationship,must be HIV+ andhungry for a totallyerotic and caring
life style.
Obviously a photois necessary, Rick,
P.O. Box 6044
Arlington, Virginia
22206
DAYTIME FUN
MIDTOWN
Need quicky B41after work? somemiddayloving?dentured
w/m roves kissing,nippl play torim,deep throat. U
name it flexible, butprefer big men
beefy, hairy,
machoEsp, Greek, Italian,any guy with a big
sexual appetite,
Never have aheadache. Makehouse calls. Uke
3-somesigroups,allmale partys, Bob,
Bx6344, NYC
10163

DOUBLE YOUR
FUNI
Hot, cute, GWM's,
33 & 35, seeks
similar sinQles,
couples, trios, or
any combination
for mutual fyn,friendship, and fan, tasy - fulfillment.
Send revealing letter, photo, phone
to Box 540 NYC
10159-0540
EL
DESPEGHUEI
I'm looking for adate with a cuteguy, 21-35,who's
flown Ecuatoriana
or Dominicana deaviacion.l'm North
American, 26, 5'8"
142. Let's
exchange in flightstories. letter,
photo, phone to
Box4~X 496La
Guardia Place
NYC 10012
ERMAN,23
YEARS, FROMBERLIN 'Nice, Sporti"Q,
goodlooking, IS
seeking a goodlooking, unspoilt
American friend,
not older than me,
for correspondence and possibly mutual visit.
Please write with aphoto. Send
to:Kennwort
Amerika Post
Lager NO, 1000
61, Gennany
FAT MANGWM, 38, 5'11",
265# hairy chest &back. Looking tomeet a GMwho'sinterested in me!'JOi just fo~ my big
bOdy, My Interests:
mOvies,theater,
televiSion, sex, dining in or out,travel.
Reply with photo
letter, tel # gets thesame. To: F.M,
20053 LTS NYC
10011-9993
FELLOW SELFSUCKERS!
Let's meet. I havevideos & stills ,Let's share our hot
gift, Special note to
Dean: Met you atthe Hideout in
Sept. I missed you
on Columbus Day.
Contact me,
Outweek Box 3663
FIGHT FANTASY
Strip down to jock,pull on gloves, getbeat up good by
5'10" 39165
bearded hot manthen give hima
dick bath, I wanna
watch you go
down man, Unless
you're a willing
punchi"lil bag
whose dick got
hard reading this,
don't reply, Boxholder Box 124,
151 Rrst Ave NYC
10003,GAM STUDENT,HANDSOME,
5'10", 150#, intoaHemative/industrial 'ORE music.
I'm well dressed,
friendly & outgoing.
YOU:a handsome
considerate, idealistic dreamer not
afraid of a possible
relationship, Brown
hair/deepset blueeyes & long sidebums a + No fatsor facial hair, Foto
if possible. CPO
3571 POB
700New
Brunswick, NJ
08903.
GAY BLONDSEEKS FUN
GWM25-35toenjoy life, hot safesex & monogamous relationship.

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NO fats, ferns,
fakes. Send

photoIphone/letter. & fantasy.
Outweek Box 3808
GAY BOYWANTSLESBIAN LIAISON
Overdosed on
one-nighters andphone sex. Just
wanna do it withthe same man
twice in a
week.After he tells
me his last name.
Carole King,herbal 'tea. long walk in
ProspeCt Park.

Your ex-lover's exlover is my exlover's ex-roommate.You
know.Outweek'
Box3685
GBM, 36', 6' 190
Attractive, masculine, calm, creative,
l...front into thehl(jhest spiritual
pnnciple. ~a. man Of oolor 30+,
Of similar oo~'. tion and disposition
for something real,
PO Box 3015 NYC•

GWMCOLLEGESTUDENT
22 YO Athletic 001lege Jock seeks
black men to c0rrespond .wilh/m.
Me: 5'11w 175#
QOQd buildlbocly.
Yousamehot
GWM, 39, 5'10",
175, BUBL
Enjoys arts, opera,
outdoors, walking,swimming, biking;sks same in NE .
QNS &lor LI for
fun, frdship, &lor
possible relationship. Serious only.
Call eve. 718-4542354.
HEALTHY MASCULINE,
attractive, black
male, 32, 5'9w, 165
I~"goodcaramelbudd, sexy, budding writer readyfora hot monogamous love life
seeks a beefy salt

and pepper hunk,
Sam Elliot type,
healthy, hairy,masculine, thirty something who loves
cream and berries
in bed, lusty
romance, cabins, 'weekends,cinerna,books, big dogs, 'hot showers andmonogamy.Writel
Michael P.O. Box
350, Richmond,
VA 23202
HOPELESSROMANTIC?
Love to cuddle,
make love by candlelight, take longwalks in the park?
I'm 22, 5'6", 150#,
Italian, attractive
and REAL Try me
on, I might be thelover that fits.
Ptv'Ph.Outweek
Box 3688
HOT ANDHORNY IN CT.
Interested in meeting hot men who
are versatile andcreative who can
get into mostscenes, top or bottom in a safe saneway, who knows
what he wants andis not afraid toshow it. I enjoy
being top or bot~tom as long as it is
hot Enjoy oral sex
the most. Give or
take, some kink.
BesideshOrny, looking forsome honest, loving sincere,adventurous, hot I;l8xual
MEN. Write BOB
P.O. Box 6140
Whitneyville, CT
06517. I'm 45,6',
hot Italian. All letters answered,I HAVE GREATTASTE ...
and so do you,That'swhy we'l
get along. Our firstdate, you'l say
hOw much you'd
like to kissme ..,and Of
oourse, we'l kiss,
etc. I'm a 23y.o.
queer, just back in
NY, great tightbody,fine face,
mind, humor. Senda picture and 3
reasons why I.should
respond.Outweek
Box 3493
IWANTW/HM,
PASSIONATE,
smooth, dark,
h8ir/eyes, chest I
can lay my headon, stro~anns toho,ld me tight. .
A1temate topslbottoms; SS only. I'm
5'4w,32, brlbl,
beard, 110 Ibs.
Photolphone.Outw
eekBox3682
I'M A PRISONER IN
FLORIDA
26 year old bodybuilder looking fora long lastil)9 relationshiP, or friendship with female or
male. Age doesn't
matter, just be sincere peopIe.A
lonely guy like meneeds someone
like you.Pleasewrite: Freddie
Heron, 072103, 0128,5000 range
Ave Circle, Belle
Glades, FL 33430

like' to meet a-musiC lover who
likes ctBssicaI fromout,
out towho like literatureand theater,

farther"-"

Nonsmoker, -please, Write Box
1161405AveZ,
Brooklyn, NY
11235

LATIN STRIPPER
25 Bodybuilder
Hung Big Nuts
Seek Men 50 upH
you get off on
Strippers Get off
Stripping Thisshow 4u Send Ietter&#WhatU
want tosee.Outweek Box
3797 Outweek Box
3797
MARRIAGE-'
MINDED
Are there anyother hOnest, .',unattached GWM
out there Iooki tobuild a loving ~a?
I'm 36, 6~167,
handsome'
w/downtown look (Ishave myhead)seeki~tomeet attractive
GWM, late 2O'searlyO's for dating,friendship, hope- fully more. I'm prof
turneddesigner/model,
prefer fun loving
people watchers,
arts enihus, beach~QQ8rsto intellectuals & sports maniacs. 2170 Bway ,Ste 137NY 10023.

,.
GWM, S6, 5'f1w,175 has Christmas
wish to behaJf Of'a
~I . ~antic'
intell, rom,sIn.cere, attract, GWM 1 ,to share music,
films,books, cuddling, hugs, kisses,
love, life. Afuny
cheSt to snuggle
apainst would be_.--GWM, -28 5'6"145lbs brownImustache seeks masculine sane ~GM 25-35 to 00star in life
photO/phone andfavOrite film to .
POB 2522 WNY,
NJ 07093 No
smo~drugsorfakes.

OIce. Hhonesty,

MUSCLE MAN
Colt-type 200 very
handsome big
hard definedaggressive smart
mustached hung8" 33, looking fora
man who loves big
muscles + loves tosuck +worship andpraise wwho IS inshape, goodlookingmustached 2640. Photo &detailed 'letter to
PO Box480507,
IJ\, CA 90048
NEEDAGENTLEPUSH
GWM 25 Icioking
for a man to help
me get my lifein
order. 1m not aloser in search Of a
dacJdy. Ijust wantto meet someone
who has the power,tohelp me end myperpetual strugles.
Even if onlyadvise 'and moral support,
1m kind, int gd
Ikng,sincere. Justneed push in rt ,direction.Outweek
Box 3737

IMPOSSIBLE?
I won't accept theimpossibility Of
findi~adecentsensitive man who
is wann and funnywith a fully functional brain. Am
looking for a
NEW FRIENDS
secure indepenWM, 35, 6'1w, 185,
dent oompanion tohandsome, massh.are life's pain
culine, worksout,and wonder, willing
MARRIEDand sincere.
to work toward perBUT(T) ...
Career-oriented
manence when the 31,6', 155 cleanbusinessprofespotential is real.
shaven seeks
sional, but hot &Am 35, profesweekday momcreative; humorsional, tall,slim,
ing/afternoon byst.~ with endowed
ous,probing, andand attractive.
Enjoy world travel,
Topmen in NYC.
supPOrtive. Seeks
similar very taliguy
nature,people
UNCUT and/or ~watching, film,_
hairy a real tum on. for explosive_...IIA_ 'nt
PhottVphone'to 'beautiful music""-UVlI, I ansa
and creating good
Steve70A
frienclship,atld/or
kanna. Are you a
Greenwich Ave
caring, Iong-tenn
kindred
#467, NYC 10011
relationship. Callor call 212-978~ Art,btwn 8pmspirit?Outweek
Box36063692
12mid, at (212)675-7352.
MOVIES - FILM
JAZZ FIEND-CINEMA
GWM33would
NJSINGLE~"_nu• ."

caring, monogamy
are in your vocabulary,send desaip-

tive
ltr/ptv'ph,Qutweek
Box 3736
OVER 55?
Masc W/M 0, tall,
trim, dark
hair/eyes,.
_hairy,clean-,shaven, non-smkr,
light drinker,heaIthconscious (HIV-),•
non-promlscuous,.se~ Ofhumor,seekswann,unattached andself-respectinggent
55-80 for goodtimes and sincere
friendshiphopefully
leading to pennanent 1 to 1 rei.
Amromantic, sensitive, passionate,sensual andneedto share mylife With a great guy
like you. A1lsafe
sex scenes c0nsidered, but affection&companionshiprome first. Would
oonsiderrelocatingreforthe·ht~~r8tters
w/photo (full-lenglh
preferred)answere
d. PI. write: Jack,Box 591, 208 East
51stSt., New York,NY 10022
RICK RUDE
Has Roddy Piperup against theropes. KidL.eopard
gets a boot to themidsection from
8rianBaxter. Am
Anderson works
over keny vonErich,You and I are
next. Athletes oraflicianados.
Me:5'W, 155,25.
You light and90119911

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ready. No•
jokers. Box 3768
RU BIG TEDDY
BEAR
GWM 32 5'9" 230
looking for GWM
6'5" and over 280
Ib with a beard andmustache for permanent relationSh~ please write to
JJ POB30342
New York NY
10011
S.I. GBM
WANTED
St, George WM,
39, looks 39, inshape (but not
body beautiful)wantsBMfor
friendly, regularsexual meetings•I (friends not lovers).
Not looking for any
special "type" orage. Send
letter,Outweek Box
3680
SAFE SEXGWM 40 wants tomeet men for hot
times on cold winter nights. Let's
talk, touch, feel,show off, massage,J/O.
Photo/phone toBox 29370A
Greenwich Ave,
NY 10014,
SCIENCE, SCIFI
GYM, film, big~uestions.Bright,
own-to-eaarth,midwestem GWM,
31,5'8",145, bVbr,seeks attractive
unpretentious guy
ofsimilar build andage, into some of
the above forfriendship, datingand ...? Send to
Outweek
Box379OOutweek
Box 3790
SEEKINGASIANS/LATINSGWM, 30, 5'8",. • Long dirty
blonde/blue eyes,
155#, & 7" cut. I'mvery honest, sin. • cere/caring. I'm •looking to meetguys 18-35 for

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I furVtriendship.

ph/ph GRW POB
83 Hackensack,
NJ 07602

SEX ONLY
GWM-25, bohr,
butch,hung,and
hot. MY photoappears in a current•
pom matazlne.
Looking rwhite,smooth bodied.
guys under 30, for
not times.lf you are
not willing to meet
me in abackroonvbathousesetting then don't
botherwriting.
Photo ensures
reply, R.w. P.O.
Box7390, FDR
Station, New York,NY 10150-1911
STRAIGHT BUT
BENT
Good-looking,masCUline, healthy
GWM, 39, 6',185,
brown hair, mous-·
tache, conservative butkinky, Iooking for otherattractive guys, 2444,into fantasies,
bonda~, teasing,blindfo s, headtrips ( safe sexonly). Give up or
take control.Lers
explore, Send letter, photo, phone,to P.O.Box 20386,
Columbus Circle
Station, NY NY
10023.
STUDENTS
Busy, financiallysecure handsome
27 y/o is looking for
drug free, honest,
cute boy (18-25) .
·for travel and regular J/O seesions in
Queens. I want tobe a friend andmore, Photo helps
and gets mine.
Box 1365 Jackson
Heights 11372•

TALL MUSCULAR A1TRACTIVE COLLEGIATE
Looking for, 35
black, broad shoulders big annsllegs
seeking. That per-.January _, 1991

feet bottom I ESP
BB latin black &dark Italians write
P.O. Box 2583
Plainfield, NJ
07060
THIS IS MY
FIRST TIME,
running an ad, So
please be gentle GWM 26 grad student 5'6" bohr 140
kind of mase notneurotic seekssame 24-29 ph/ph
not explicit, I'dratherexpioreOutweek
Box 3660
TWO CUDDLYBEARS IN
ORLANDO39,5'11-1/2",
uncut, bearded.
Seek others withhairy bodies for
cuddling massage,
safe encounters,
phone JO. Photoexchange, pen
pals, visits,
Geo~and Lee.
P,O. x 533154,
Or1anclo FL 32853.
VERY TALLMEN
Who require reallyexciting serviceTop or bottom-by a
hotWM,34,
friendly, attract,
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