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he drums of the Big Apple cbrps echoed across theGreat Lawn in Central Park last weekend as the 20th
Annual Lesbian and Gay Pride Rally began. Soon
theirrhythms
began to clash with a different beat,,,faint at first and then louder, the sound of hundredsof AIDS activists chanting as they entered the meadow with signs, flags and the paraphernalia of protest. The two 'conflicting rhythms coexisted uneasily for a few moments. Thenthe band stopped playing and the activists briefly took the field.
But after a few more moments the chanting subsided, the rally
absorbed its new memrn:rs, the band began playing again, andthe afternoon continued as before.
Thus it was all over the city last week, as the proponents ofcelebration collided with the proponents of protest, only to findthat there was room in the weekend's events for both ideas andboth visions to coexist.
The main event of the weekend, staged with professionalism,
skill and joy by Heritage of Pride, was an extraordinary reminder,to lesbians and gays, our friends, and indeed our enemies, ofwhat a vast and established movement we have become. From
the once undreamt of renaming of Stonewall Place, to the U.S.
'Postal Service's gay stamp cancellation, to the tumultuous andmoving marches up Sixth Avenue on Saturday and down Fifth
Avenue on Sunday, to the exploding fireworks over the Hudson
River, we showed New York and ourselves that we are indeed
proud and out and never going back.
Several years ago, when the dimensions of the AIDS epidemic
became apparent, many predicted the death of our movement.
They said that AIDS would put us all back in the closet, that, a
new generation would mature equating gay with death, neverknOWingthe freedom and openness of the 70s.
Instead, our movemtnt has triumphed in u'nexpected ways.
Major new organizations like ACf UP and GLAADhave given
new dimensions to empowerment and activism. Groups like
GMHC and the People with AIDS Coalition have demonstrated
our 1<;)Ving
and caring ways. Thousands of smaller, local groups
proclaim by their presence that we're out for good, and we're
never going back, no matter what.
None of this mitigates the need for protest. Our movement
began with a riot, and the criminal neglect and ineptitude of soci, ety's response to our issues warrants, indeed demands, that we
continue on a course of defiance. Such a course must include
politicians like Mayor Koch, who has alternately neglected ourcommunity and used it as a sol!rce of political opportunism. Hispresence in Sunday's parade was Heritage of Pride's only unwelcome addition to the weekend.
, But along with defiance, celebration, too, is fundamental, abalm to the spirit, a ritual that heals and helps create., Those at
HOP who organized the succes::;esof Pride week, and who were
often maligned, deserve our praise instead. Their movement, in its
own way, is as important and empowering as any in our proud
and tumultuous community.

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To the Editor:
At last, a zephyr of fresh air blowing through the bleak lands~pe ofgay journalism! Welcome to New
York, OutWeek! Your feisty spirit is asvibrant as a Tomkins Square riot.
Especially, I dig your hip attitude
that transcends the drudgery of "political correctness," As a budding activist
and bar denizen, I find you chronicle
Poth,of my worlds wonderfully,
A bit of constructive criticism:
Wield the editor's pen a bit more
, harshly on some of those rambling
politiCO columnists ~nd you'll mitigate
the occasional density, Otherwise,
march proudly into the 90s,
Geoff S, Paul
Manhattan

To the Editor:
We should riot again soon. But
this time let's scrutinize our motives
before picking gay targets,•

For instance, I wonder why wechose to lavish so much time andanger on the patrons of Ty's, aChristopher Street gay bar, when there
were so many bigger and scarier ,fish 'to fry, It was hardly transgressive~
we've always had the privilege ofyelling among ourselves. Worse, theconfrontation seemed infused with .
homophobia. Think of what we wereshouting: "shame",:a word. constantly
deployed against us, We are always
encouraged to feel shame and thereby
take part in our own persecution, We
should be incredibly cautious about
turning it against ourselves,
As for gay apathy: it's a problem"
but straight apathy is immeasurably'
worse. Hopefully next time we'll havethe courage to take the riot out of ourown neighborhood. And if we'regoing to trash a bar, let's make it theHard Rock Cafe.
Neil Goldberg
Manhattan,

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with this problem: a step-by-ste guide
written by a gay recovering alco olic,addressing the specific needs of lesbians andgay men.
('Wisdom that can help each of us!) .
. Don Clark, author ofAs We Are(1 hope this booB healing glories will reachmillions!).
. Ned Rorem•

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by Andrew Miller
NEW YORK - What began as a reenactment of the Stonewall Rebellion
on its twentieth anniversary erupted
into an actual riot.on Saturday, June
24, which sent four persons to thehospital, and left at least a half
dozen others injured and one carnearly destroyed. In at least two separate incidents, motorists purposeful-,
Iy drove their cars into crowds ofdemonstrators, knocking down some'and causing others to chase thedrivers through the streets -of theVillage, according to eyewitnessreports,
Scores of uniformed and undercover police, including a riot squad,
were called in to assist officers at the
Sixth Prednct, who were at times
overwhelmed by the sheer size ofthe crowd, which at its heightswelled to over 1,000,,
One 'gay demonstrator
wasarrested, and some of the occupantsof the two _cars involved in the hitand-run incidents were taken into
custo<l.y,The evening's events, which
had began shortly after 8 p,m" continued on well into the early hoursof the morning, and received live
,television
coverage,newspaper
reports by the New York Post and the
New York Times, and a visit frommayoral candidate David Dinkins,
The evening began peacefully,
even joy~)Usly, at a gathering calledby the Radical Faeries, a collective ofgay men given to spiritual individualism and drag, The Faeries gatheredoutside of the Stonewall, which is
now a. men's clothing store, armed
with yellow foam-rubber bricks, The
re-enactment was arranged
with the,bleSSings of the store's owner, Statish
Malik, who had closed his store forthe occasion,and allowed the
Faeries to set rip a "Stonewall
Shrine" ,in the basement of the store,
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(yellow for the Yellow Brick Road,
explained one Faerie), while others
dressed as police officers playfully
pushed and shoved journalists anddemonstrators and hit them with fakenightsticks, which were actually long,
party-colored balloons. After about ahalf-hour of mock rioting, several
people in the crowd reportedly shouted out, "Let's take Seventh Avenue,"and the group, now numbering in thehundreds,
moved north up theVillage's main thoroughfare, blocking
traffic as it worked its way towards
Greenwich Avenue.
"It was kind of up and fun andbubbly at that point," said Gerri Wells,
an Out Week photographer who participated in the re-enactment. "A lot of
people in the cars were getting into it.
It was more like Mardi Gras than ariot,· she continued,
Chanting "No more homophobia"
and similar slogans, the crowd, led by

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Hit and run victim on Grove Street.

a line of people car'rying a blue
police barricade above their heads,
picked up steam and participants.
But as it moved down Greenwich
AVenue and then west on 10th Street,the mood somehow changed,"There were people there hoping for some sort of affirmation ofgay
power,"
c1a'imedDavid,
Hamburger, who was visiting New
York from Boston and was present
for the entire happening. "Everyone
had their own idea of why they were
doing it. Suddenly someone yelled
about the two murders and how thepolice weren't doing anything about[them]," he added, referring to two
Black men who were kHled on the
Morton Street pier early on Friday
morning (see sidebar, p, 72), Thepier is a popular cruising area andgathering place for gay men, especially gay men of color,That, according to Hamburger,

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Revellers and hit-and-run vehicle on Christopher Street.
providedthe impetus
for themarchers to proceed to the Sixth
Precinct on West 10th Street. But others in the growing demonstration did
not hear the announcement, and did
not know the exact reason for goingto the precinct.
As more and more marchers
arrived at the police station, police
officers inside quickly came out andformed a line in front of the entrance,
The crowd cheered as several among
them set fire to American flags. Police
reported that windows at the police
station were smashed by rocks. "Thepotential for a riot was there, The
emotions were high, people wereangry, it was hot," Wells said,
After
about
ten
minutes,Commanding Officer Julia Thompson
emerged from the precinct building
and tried to address the crowd, now
well over 1,000, in an attempt to diffuse the tense situation, But her assurances that "the Sixth Preci nct issensitive to the needs and expectations. of the gay community," and that"many of the police officers are gay,"were met with chants of "Arrest us,,
just try it, remember Stonewall was ariot," from the crowd,
She told the crowd that thenomocides did not appear to be bias
related, and that they were underinvestigation. Many of those gathered
responded by chanting "Bullshit," "No
more lies," and by pelting her withcondoms.
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Neil Broome, a member of 'ACT
UP, who knows Thompson from his
work as a counselor at the Gay andLesbian Anti-Violence Project, joined
Wells in attempting to ease communication between Thompson and thecrowd. He later told Out Week that "itwas starting to get out of hand" atthat point. "There was a lot of anger
and I think [Thompson] was frig.htened. It looked like a bunch of crazy,
angry people with no specific purpose,"
Wells, who has previously acted
as an unofficial liaison between police
and angry demonstratQrs at several
lesbian/gay and AIDS protests, thentook the megaphone and persuaded

the group to leave the area.
Once away from the precinct
building, the marchers picked up the
air of revelry again, But the mob continued its march around the Village,
southon
HudsonStreetto
Christopher Street, and then west to
the pier, then east again on
Christopher. "It's spontaneous,
it'sreal. Nobody created this. It's an outpouring of angst and anger, We'd better get respect from this city, civilrights, all the things we're entitled to,
but that hasn't happened yet,· said
Paul Stone, one of the demonstrators,"I think we should do this every
Saturday night." Michael Nesline,
another of the marchers, characterized
the evening as "a completely spontaneous, mob-led action," Indeed, manyof the participants seemed surprised
themselves at the size and emotional
scope of the evening's events,"
The police, for their part, seemed
unwilling to arrest anyone, and reluctant to become more involved. In a
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greetedthe Gay- andLesbian Youth of New York, whochanted raucously "2-4-6-8, how do
you now your kids are straight?"
The first ever lesbian-sponsored
float glided across Central Park South,
carrying a resplendent
band ofsinging lesbians, One of the largest
groups in the march was the People.
With AIDS Coalition and the AIDSrelated health care agencies, including the Gay Men's Health Crisis,
Members of the Healing Circle frequently st9Pped to join hands, form acircle, and awe the crowd with their

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by Keith Miller
NEW YORK - There's been a mar. velousparty!
f\ highly emotional
party. A love-in on the
grandest and,gayest scale, Nearly 200,000 women,
men and children, strong of prideand loud of lung, stormed Fifth

News Focus
Avenue on Sunday, June 25th to celebrate the anniversary of Stonewallin the Heritage of Pride 20th Annual
Lesbian and Gay Pride March, Inevidence at this largest-evyr party,
were the largest-ever contingents ofpeople with AIDS and people ofcolor in the parade's history, smallergroups including Armenian lesbians,
farm dykes, pagans, radical faeries,
grandmas for gays and The Rob
Lowe Defense Fund, and one admittedly-heterosexual
mayoral candidate, kicked off from Columbus
Circle promptly at 12:30, led with acacophonous roar by those dykes onbikes, the New York Sirens, One
Canadian rider, Nor~, wearing a
black leather hat, vest and little elsesave a maple leaf, a· Marlboro and asmile, .confided, "Man, this is thelargest group of women motorcyclists
I've ever seen, We're gonna makesome noise down Fifth Avenue," Andyes, they did,In the I spirit of Stonewall, theHeritage of Pride float displayed adrag queen's ruby slipper smashing
through a pane of glass, alongside,
headlines describing the outbreak ofviolence that night in June of 1969,
when gays and lesbians came out of
the closet for good, As the float glidedalong, accompanied by a representative of each of the 125 groups
in the march, European tourists,looked on with faces suggesting they
had just had their visas revoked,
When approached for a commenton the day's activities, one gentleman
replied, in perfect English, "I don't
speak English,"
Swinging, strutting and SWishing
onto Fifth Avenue, the energy level'increased, Sybil Bruncheon, noted
talk-show
hostess, was warmly
received by the crowd for her rendition of the Statue of Liberty, which
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NEW YORK - It has never reallyrained on the Lesbian and Gay Pride
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When the Sirens
Motorcycle Club, accompaniedbyother dykes on bikes, revved up theirengines and drove off from Columbus
Circle at exactly 12:30 pm, parade
organizer Michael Meyerson estimateda crowd of 200,000 people, Thatwould make it the largest gay pridemarch in New York's history,
As usual, there was a small bandof gay-haters opposite Saint Patri,ck's
Cathedral waiting for the parade topass by. Approximately 45 people
stood under heavy police protection
at 50th Street screamingat themarchers and holding aloft signs
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SALSA SOUL SISTERS SASHAY SOUTH
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Mourners at the Sheridan Squa;e AIDS vigil
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TAKING TH~FIFTH
Marchers in front of Rockefeller Center
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NEW YORK - In an attempt ,by ACf
UP to "repolitidze" lesbian and gay
pride, an "estimated
1,0'00 people
marchc::d without police permits from
Sheridan Square to the rally organized by the Heritage of Pride inCentral Park on Saturday, June 24,
The march included
a kiss-in at 34th,
Street.
The march spread across Sixth
Avenue and was ope city block in length.
Groups of demonstrators directed, traffic•
on the side streets by linking arms, ''\Xe
don't trust the cops to do this for us," said
, one marcher who was blocking 14th!'
Strea:,"Out of'theghetto, into thestreets,"
was the call from, the'demonstrators,
w'ho feel the annual~Iesbian and gay pride parade should
begin in the Village and finish
uptown to symbolize that the lesbian
and gay community. cannot be confined to one neighbOrhood, The firstgay pride parade in 1970 began in. Sheridan Square and travelled up Fifth
Avenue to Central Park.
ACT UP also placed importanceon conducting their march without apolice, permit. No direct communication had taken place between ACf UP ,and the police department,
prior tothe march,accordingto Maxine
Wolfe, on of the event's organizers.
"We have to' be out at all places andall times ,without p0lice permission.
That's the kind of world we want tomake," she said. Neil Broome also
expressed the need to fight against
heavy city regulation of demonstrations, commenting, "the expression ofdissent has become so fucking controlled in this country it's a joke."
The demonstrators did encounterattempted police intervention at 14th
Street, however, as seven police veHides and about 20 officers tried tomaneuver the marchers into half ofthe ,width of Sixth Avenue, in order
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allow traffic to pass. Commented
Wolfe, "The cops are very happy toleave you in your own ghetto, and14th Street is the symbolic dividing
line between
the Village and theupper part of the city , , , . [But] wesaid we're just going to stay here('until you let us go," Aft.er about ten
fairly tense
minutes,the cops
allowed ttl'e marchers
to proceed
unobstructed.
ACT UP participants
felt this, march carried a stronger politicalmessage than Sunday's parade, forwhich ACT UP also turned om, inforce,"The people
we· walked
through were not our friends .. ' andwe g~ve out 5,000 flyers about why
we marched to people who were notthere to cheer us on," said Wolfe,
Ron Goldberg, referred to themarch as an opportunity to bring lesbian and g'ay issues to the entire
populationof thecity,"It's·
Stonewall," he said. "We're celebrating a political event. Our issues arepolitical. "There are no defit;1ite plans for asimilar march next year, according to
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NEW YORK - Celebration 20!, New
York's 20th Annual Lesbian & Gay
Pride Ra·lly, hosted by Heritage of
Pride, was held on Saturday, June 24,
1989 in Central Park. Under an alternately cloudy and sunny sky, 2,000
participants were welcomed to theGreat Lawn by co-emcees
Kate
Clinton" a celebrated stand-up comedian, and Everett Quinton, Artistic
Director of the , Ridiculous Theatrical
Company,"Mother Theresa has
been spotted in the crowd wearing a'Silence = Death' T-shirt," noted Ms,
Clinton, in one of her many "reports
from rumor central." "However," shecontinued" "she is wearing it on herhead,"
A potpourri of viewpoints andattitudes provided irreverence mixed
with anger, reminiscence and joy
well into the afternoon, At 2:30, as
the Lesbian & Gay Big Apple Corps
played "I Am What I Am," the AIDS
Coalition to Unleash Power entered
the Great Lawn, capping off theirmarch from Sheridan Square with astan9ing ovation from the audiencealready in attendance,
The group
was large and loud, and theirentrance swelled the crowd to nearly
twice its size,
Tim Powers, an ACf UP member, person with AIDS and one of thearchitectsofthe"Montreal
Manifesto," a document assertipg therights of PWAs, challenged the policies of Governor Cuomo and Mayor
Koch in one of the afternoon's
strongest speeches,'Classic disco of the 1970s performed by The Trammps, Sharon
Redd and Jackie Moore brought theaudience to its feet, and Canadiansinger Heather Bishop seduced theaudience with her unique style ofcountry folk, There were also performancesby humorists
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Kasten's BoyBar Beauties, a martial
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noted that racism should be "attacked
root and branch"; Harry Hay, founderof the Mattachine Society, America's
most successful pre-Stonewall homosexual organization; and Joan Nestle;
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53rd Street were packed with revellers
and spectators,
Many of New York's prominent
politicians participated in the march.
Coucilwoman Ruth Messinger, a longtime friend of the lesbian and gay
community, walked down the Avenue
with Manhattan Borough President
David Dinkins, Messinger, who is running for the post Dinkins currently
holds, came to "celebrate a generationof pride," Later, she dropped back in
the parade to walk down to theVillage with a contingent of people
with AIDS (PWAs),
Dinkins, a candidate for mayor,
said, "the parade is tremendously significant , , , the time is. right to r~flect
on how much things have changed,
But it is not enough, we have a long
way to go, especially because of antigay violence, The time has come to see[that] all people are treated the same,"[Dinkins also appearedin theVillage at about 1:30 a,m, on the night
before the parade, at the scene of ariot which flared up after a re-enactment pf the Stonewall Rebellion (seestory, p, 8),]Mayor Edward Koch joined theparade at 39th Street this year, but
receiveda chilly reception
fromparade marchersandspectators,
and,left the parade a few blocks later, No
other mayoral candidates were present.
Also marching together were
Coucilwomen Miriam Friedlander andCarolyn Maloney of Manhattan, andBrooklyn District Attorney Elizabeth
Holtzman, who is a candidate for City
Comptroller, Maloney told Out Week,"I'm marching for human dignity andthe rights of all people, including
partnershiprights," Maloney convened a special meeting on domestic
partnership issues in her office thefollowing day,David Taylor, openly gay candidate for Ruth Messinger's Upper WestSide city council district, marchedamong supporters,
as did Tom
Duane, another openly gay candidate
for the council district encompassing
the Village and Chelsea, Duanemarched alongside campaign workers
carrying huge pictures of the candi-

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date, "This feels great," Duane said,
obviously enjoying himself.
At 2:30, the parade was halted
and fell silent for three minutes, tohonor" those who have diedof AIDS,,
Heritage of Pride cancelled the sched:uled ballobn release this year, afterorganizers
received reports that the,balloons, which float out to sea andthen settle in the water, are injurious
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read "WeRemember" was unfurled in front of
the library, Somewhere in New York
City, not visible from the parade
route, five airplanes wrote the samemessage in the sky, according toorganizers.
The parade. resumed and proceeded south to Greenwich Village,
where the throngs of spectators grewlarger and more animated,Somewatchedfrom tree limbs, others
shouted to their friends from fireescaPes, An older woman stood at the
top of a stoop on Washington Square.North and held up a sign that read,"Love,
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Denounce Les/Gay Postmark
Helms: 'Bosh and nausea'; Dornan threatens legislation
by Cliff O'Neill

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WASHINGTON-Both on.the floor of
the u.s, Senate and in the pages of
the conservative Washington Timesanti-gay members of Congress lashed
out at the decision by the U,S, Postal
Service to offer a commemorative
Gay and Lesbian Pride postmark at a
postal station in Greenwich Village,
To commemorate
the 20th
anniversaryof the Stonewall
Rebellion, widely viewed as the birthof the gay and lesbian civil rights
movement, the commemorative postmark was issued at the corner ofWest 4th and Christopher Streets on
June 24, Lesbian and Gay Pride Day,'
The postmark,which read,"Stonewall Station, 20 years, 19691989, Lesbian and Gay Pride," wasoffered in response to a request fromthe Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against
Defamation (GLAAD), speaking for
Heritage of Pride, the group·which
stages New York City's annual Gay
and Lesbian Pride celebration,
Voicing outrage at the Postal
Service's decision to offer the postmark, Rep, Robert Dornan (R-Calif,),
one of the loudest and most vocal
anti-gay member of the U.S, House,penned an op-ed piece in the June
23 Washington Times charging thatthe postmark violated the departII ment's own policy not to issue postmarks
with-among
other
things "political" or "anti-religious"
themes,Dornan railed at the commemoration of what started as "street riots"
and at the Postmaster General's
defense that the postmark reflected
the "interests and attitudes of thosein the area,""This criterion would ,make forother interesting pictorial cancellations," Dornan wrote, "including perhaps one for drug infested areas
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"Interests and attitudes?" he continued, "In this case the interest issodomy and the attitude is thatsodomy is ok. I hope that the Postal
Service realizes that sodomy is still
illegal in most states, Indeed, theSupreme Court has ruled that statelaws against sodomy are perfectly
constitutional. "In expressing his disapproval,
Dornan directly threatened ~o introduce legislation. into the U.S, House
to ban future gay and lesbian commemorations by the Postal Service,
Dornan also incorrectly identified
the Keith Haring Gay and LesbianPride logo as the logo of the Gay &Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation,in arguing that the symbol represents
the "ideals" of what he called a "public-interest or special-interest" group,
The logo is actually that of Heritageof Pride, whose sole purpose is to put
on the city's annual Pride celebrations,"We don't even have a logo,"said. Craig Davidson, GLAAD executive director.
Taking the floor of the Senate in
mid-afternoon, during a recess in thede bate on the Act for Better Child
Care, Sen, Jesse Helms (R-N,C) stated,"I am appalled at the judgment of theU.S, Postal Service, I find this highly
objectionable, ".., ••

Helms also charged that the post
office ignored its own regulations inallOWing the postmark "in order topander to the whims of the militanthomosexual lobby" and also tookumbrage with the commemoration ofwhat started as "rioting,""Bosh and nausea,"Helms
exclaimed, "and a pox on whoeverin the Postal Service made this irrational decision,"
Helms also denounced
therecent decision by the San Francisco
Board of Supervisors to legally recognize gay and lesbian relationships as
the "final step towards recognizing
homosexual marriages,""In the meantime,"
Helms
added, "thousands more continue to
die from AIDS while the homosexuals continue to proclaim the virtuesof their perverse practices," ,"I think the nastiness of Helms'
response suggests or reveals thedesperation of a man who knowsthat he is losing his battle to deny toAmericans the truth that gay people
are decent, loving and proud,"responded Davidson, "It is particularly ironic that he should mention
AIDS, since Senator Helms has
worked diligently to prevent the sortof education that would stem the
spread of this unfortunate disease,"By Senator Helms' own admission," he added, "the post office, inthe normal course of business, uses
special stamp cancellations to celebrate the cultural
diversityofAmerica, and lesbians and gay peopIe are part of that diversity," T
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By Gabriel Rotella
NEY YORK-:-A simmering dispute
between ACT UP and the NY Native
continued to grow this week as theNative published an editorial implying
mismanagement of ACT UP's fun.ds.
The editorial followed a column inlast week's Native in which thetabloid raised questions about ACT
UP money being held in "brown
paper bags" and "personal checking
accounts. "A source at the Native told
OutWeek that the campaign of innuendo against ACT UP !S in response
to ACT UP's boycott of the Native.
Peter Staley, head of ACT UP's
fundraisingcommittee
and theNatives apparent target, was the organizer of the boycott.
At the June 26 ACf UP meeting,treasurer Dan Baker spoke of the
Native's articles and expressed concern that they may plant doubt insome members' minds about the
integrity of ACT UP's finances. He
offered to distribute weekly financial
reports to the entire membership but
his offer was declined by the room.
The Native innuendos were greetedby laughter and jeers from the crowded meeting,"
When activist Larry Kramer pointed out Native editor John Hammond,
who was present, a movement began
to have the editor ejected from theroom, This was squelched when amoderator reminded the membersthat ACT UP meetings are open toanyone wishing to attend, and thateven police agents have traditionallybeen allowed to remain during meetings,'
The controversy underscores thegrowing antagonism between the
Native and ACT UP.
.ACT UP fundraisers expressed
particular outrage that no one from,Dis
the Native has ever asked for financial
statementsor reports, which thefundraisers said are available at any
time, "I expected a counterattack fromthe Native, and this is it," said
fundraising chairman Peter Staley,"They're going the low road, They'veneither asked for nor produced evidence of any kind, and they should
either put up or shut up."
Others in ACT UP informed
Out Week that Stilley has frequently
loaned money of his own to the organization, as have several other volunteer members of the fundraisingcommittee, ACT UP has no paid staff
members,.
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By Jon David Aloisi-Nalley
SAN FRANCISCO - The reported
death last week of a man with AIDS "~nrolled in an' undergrou.nd study of
the antiviral GLQ223 has raised questions among government officials
about that study, which is being
overseen by Project Inform director,
Martin Delaney, 'Scrutiny of thestudy has led to an investigation of
the advocacy group head by the U.S.
Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
to determine
if his study described in some press reports as"clandestine" , "covert" and "secret"-!~illegal.
'.;-" " 'More: commonly
known asCompound Q, GLQ223 is a highly" purified preparation of Trichosanthin,·an agent extracted from the root , of a
Chinese cucumber plant and longused in China as an abortion' inducant. In the test tube, ti:le drug has
proven to be enormously effective indestroying HIV, the vifUs gelieved tocause AIDS, in T4 cells, as well as
killing infected macrophages (whiteblood cells which harbor HIV),
Important to the agent's effectivenessin treating, the full spectrum of HIV
illnesS is what scientists believe to bea striking ability to cross the
blood/brain barrier,
FDA spokesperson Brad Stone
told Out Week that the agency wi\l'conduct, a preliminary investigationof Delaney'S study, which commenced in mid-April, to examinequestions of distribution, scale, exact
nature of the agent used, andwhectler monitoring of toxicity andadverseeffects is being done, FDA,
is withholding any further comment
regarding 'actions it may take until
the investigaiion is completed.
A stU?y approved by the FDA in
which G1Q223 is being tested isunderwayat the University
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California at San Francisco (UCSF) by
Dr. Paul volberding of that university,and Genelabs, Inc" the company
which holds the use patent for
GLQ223 in the U,S, Testing the safetyof the agent, the five patients in the
UCSF study were initially given
dosages of 1/20 of those in Delaney's
study, although the former study hasraised its dosages to half that of thelatter,
FDA's Stone said the agency wasparticulatly concerned ab0ut severe
allergic reactions to GLQ223 whichhave caused death previously, according to isolated reports regarding people with AIDS who had obtained thedrug. Although there is a discrepancy
as to the form, dosage and/or purification level of the drug taken in thesecases, and although there is no hard
data supporting severe side effects,
Stone told Out Week that this factor
could prqve significant in people withcompromised immune systems.
Delaney asserted that GLQ223 is
not necessarily the cause of th~enrollee's death, He also charged thatthe current research system is overprotective regarding the testing ofdrugs for life-threatening
diseases,
The UCSF studies of GLQ223 havebeen criticized by Delaney and otheradvocatesfor p'eople with AIDS
because the doses initially used arecomparatively small, testing for toxicity. According to traditional scientifictesting recognized by FDA, studies for
effectiveness, which would require
higher doses of the drug, would
begin only after extensive, lengthy
toxicity studies are completed and areshown to be positive. Critics would
like to see initial testing of GLQ223
done at higher, theoretically-therapeutic doses, so that effectiveness, as well,as toxicity, could be monitored, thereby cutting the time to achieve results

considerably .
"People would have taken thisdrug with us or without us," Delaney
told OutWeek. "We wanted solidanswers and the official systemwasn't going to answer the questions
we needed answered as a community,"
Delaney said his study, made upof those who have failed other therapies, is being done in four cities,
with approximately 15 patients ineach city,
Activists and advocates for people with AIDS were split in theiropinions of Delaney'S trial. Many
reserved comment.
Michael Flanagan, president oftheSan'Francisco-based, Documentation of AIDS Issues andResearch Foundation (DAIR) was, supportive of the trial. He also
expressed concern about how muchof the media had focused on thereported death, Referring to therecent approval by the FDA of two
drugs to treat people with AIDS, ganciclovir and erythropoietin (see story,p, 21), Flanagan stated, "The researchestablishment talks about release of
these drugs at the same time thatthey discuss a resultant death [ofsomeone in an underground tfial] tomake themselves look compassionate
and [as if they are] 'doing all theycan, and [to portray] those outside
the arthritic research system as
unethical
andirresponsible."
Flanagan also feared that federal regulatory agencies would use thisunfortunate scenario to discourage
and impede people with AIDS who
are trying to expedite drug trials,
But Michael Callen, a founder ofCommunity Research Initiative, a
New York community-based organization which conducts clinical trialsof drugs to treat people with AIDS
and which was largely responsible
for the recent approval of aerosol
pentamidine,wascriticalofDelaney'S trials,"It seems to me that people
have charged ahead irresponsibly,"
he told the New York Times, "Somepeople are paying the price for that;
They have gone into comas anddied." ....
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approval of a drug without what is
by Cliff O'Neillcalled "pure scientific evidence,"
WASHINGTON-The Food and Druginvolving a broad range of data on its
Administration (FDA) granted final
effectiveness from double blind placeapproval status to gancicJovir, a drug
bo studies,used to treat AIDS-related blindness,
In these studies some patientson June 26, bringing to four the numreceive the drug and some receive an
ber of FDA-approved AIDS treatment
inert substance, or placebo, In doudrugs, The drug's release marks theble blind studies neither the subjects
first time in nearly 25 years that thenor the doctors involved know who is.
FDA has granted commercial approval
receiving placebos, and who .is receivto a drug without what is called "pureing the drug, The design of thesescientific evidence" from a full-scalestudies has long been criticized bycJinicaltrial.
AIDS activists as being unethical,
Ganciclovir;
also known as
because some people receive no
DHPG, is a highly toxic herpes treattreatment.
ment which has been proven effective"To answer [the] questions [of ain treating cytomegalovirus (CMV)
retinitis, an AIDS-related illness that . lack of long term effects]," stated FDA
commissioner
Frank Young, "thecauses blindness, The drug has also
approval of ganciclovir will be accomshown promise in treating ,CMVcolipanied by extensive post-marketing
tis, a diarrheal condition commonly
studies to explore more fully the
known as "wasting," The drug had
drug's benefits and limitations, espepreviously been available through the
FDA's treatment IND (investigational . cially its role in use with AIDS therapies such as zidovudine or AZf,"
new drug) distribution
protocol,The drug will now be marketed
although AIDS activists have criticizedby Syntex Corp, of Palo Alto,the specific guidelines restricting
California under the trade nameganciclovir distribution,
Cytovene. The drug is administered
The drug now joins the highly
intravenously
through a Hickman
toxic anti-viral AZT, the cancer drug
catheter, which must be surgicallyalpha interferon and the pneumonia
implanted. FDA gUidelines released
preventative aerosolized pentamidinewith the announcement state that theas the only FDA-a»proved AIDS treatdrug is to be administered twice a day
ment drugs,
for 14 days, after which treatinents are
At a press conference announcto be taken once daily for the rest of
ing the re\!':ase of the drug, Healththe patient's life,and Human Services (HHS) Secretary
The approval of ganciclovir has
Dr, Louis W. Sullivan stated, "This andother recent developments in AIDS largely been credited to the work of
the New York AIDS Coalition totreatment demonstrate a commitment
UnleashPower (ACT UP/NY),
by HHS and its component FDA toThrough a series of carefully crafted
speed the availability of AIDS-related
actions and negotiations, it enlisted
drugs."
the support of the community 'andThe release of the drug marks
extracted the approval of the drug
the first time since the early 60s thatfrom a controversial study in which it
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finally approved,"I would say this is our biggest
victory to date, hands down,· statedPeter Staley of ACf UP, "Instead of'pure scientific data' [before approval),[the FDA) had 100 percent agreement
on anecdotal data, basically from clinicians on compassionate use, We've
been arguing all along that that says
something; that common sense dictates that if every patient-andthere

stymied approval status of the drug,
After the meeting, three ACT UP.'
members met with National Instituteon Allergies and Infectious Diseases
Director Dr, Anthony Fauci to enlist
his support on the approval of thedrug, while other activists conducteda demonstration at the NIAID offices.in Bethesda,
After his meeting with ACT UP,
Fauci discussed the drug with Young,and scheduled another vote on theapproval of the drug for May 2, ACT

was bogged down,
An FDA panel set to recommend
approval of the drug in late 1987
shocked the AIDS and medical communities when, over the objectionsof the two ophthalmologists on theboard, the panel voted against
approval.
'. Earlier this year, after extensive
research and meetings with physi. cians, ACT UP commandeered an
FDA oversight panel and grilled FDA
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•,are over 3,000 patients that have usedthe drug-and every doctor that has
used the drug, to a tee, says it
works and nobody says it doesn't
work--then we have a drug ready forrelease, ACf UP waS pushing that from•the beginning,"
AIDS activists are also •concernedwith the pricing of the drug, which
will cost patients $29 a treatment. If
administered in accordance to FDA
guidelines,
the drug could c:ost
patients up to $10,585 a year, wellover the high price of the costly antiviral AZf,
"It's quite an expensive little tr~atment," added Staley, "This is not an
expensive drug to make, This is not
an AZT,"
Staley added that ACf UP will beworking with ACT UP chapters' in
California to mount pressure on
Syntex for cost data and lower prices
for the drug,"
Also as part of the g3,ncicJovir
announcement,
the FDA stated it,would be grantmg Treatment IND sta-

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tus to erythropoietin, an experimental
protein product used to treat anemia
which usually accompanies use of
AZT and other toxic AIDS drugs, The
FDA on June 1 granted final approval
status to another form of the drug,
although not for use in AIDS patients,
The release <;>fthe new form under
Treatment IND status allows physicians prescribing the drug to receive
the product from the drug company
at no cost. However, because thedrug's status remains technicallyexperimental, the associated costs ofadministering the drug may not becovered by private or state insurance
plans,
It is the fourth drug to be granted
the special, experimental
status,which was created in response topressure from AIDS advocates tospeed up 'patients' access to newtreatments. The other three drugs areaerosolized pentamidine and gancicJovir, which have since been fully
approved, and trimetrexate, a pneumonia drug, 'Y•

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CHICAGO-Lesbian and Gay history
was made June 25 when Mayor
Richard Daley lead off the Gay andLesbian Pride Parade, riding in a light
blue 1958 Thunderbird convertible,
Daley told reporters he came
because he is "the mayor of all thepeople of the city of Chicago,"
No other Chicago mayor has ridden in the parade while in office, Thelate Mayor Harold Washington spokeat the post-parade rally in 1986 and1987, Former Mayor Jane Byrne rodein the parade after Washington defeated her.
/
Daley wore a button reading,"The issue is human rights: Parents
FLAG," which stands for Paren~s andFriends of Lesbians and Cays, During_a campaign appearance last February,
Daley hinted that a member of his
immediate family is gay, 'YI

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Reunion, 'Revolution Recalled,' at Center•,by Jon David Aloisi-Nalley
NEW YORK-"People· who do notpreserve their history will shortly havesomeone else'S," said Marty Robinson,
quoting Lesbian Herstory Archives'founder Joan Nestle, With that statement, memories of times over 20
years ago came alive at "Revolution
Recalled" at the Lesbian and Gay
Community Center on Thursday, June
22, where veterans of the early gay
and lesbian liberation struggle shared
their experiences with both contemporaries
and young
activists,
Moderated by Robinson, who participated in the founding of such groups
as the Gay Liberation Front (GLF), theGay Activists Alliance (GAA), theLavender Hill Mob and, ACT UP, theforum also included a photo exhibit
on an early 70s zap of The Daily
News,

Martha Shelley, author and a cofounder of GLF and Radicalesbians
told the group of 25,0that recounted
experience is the best history, For
Shelley, that history began with thelandmark lesbian group Daughters of
BiJitis andthe picketingofIndependence Hall in Philadelphia,"pleading for equal rights," an important step, she said, toward "splitting
open the 50s grey flannel suit mentality." She acknowledged the many oth, ers involved in the early lesbian andgay movement, for whom the firststeps were the civil rights, anti-war,
feminist and anti-imperialist struggles,
With the Lindsay reelection campaign raid of the Stonewall in June
'69, those influences converged withthe full moon, "and this time thequeers fought back '" street queens
with nothing to lose," She spoke ofthe early organizing
efforts in
Stonewall's
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meeting at Alternate U, where GLF
was born. Eschewed by much of theleft, GLF also was avoided, by many
lesbians and gay men still stinging
from the anti-homosexual witch huntof the McCarthy period,\
Crediting, GLF for saving her life,
Shelley waxed nostalgic about thatgroup's dances at Al~ernate U. (where
beer was 50 cents as opposed to $2
dollars in mafia-run bars), the role of its
newspaper Come Out, and its many
coalition attempts including fundraising
for the Black Panthers and helping theYoung Lords in building occupation,
Shelley also spoke of GLF's dissolution,as various factions left for various reasons: people of color forming theirown groups in response to issues ofracism, "serious socialists" becoming
the Red Butterfly cell, women leaVing
in response to needs around sexism. In
reflection, Shelley called upon thecommunity to remember "those people
who didn't make it," whether by AIDS,
murder, suicide, or "therapists,"
At the time of early liberationist
foment, Barbara Love was a CBS
executive and , a reluctant radical in amilieu where the bars and the radicalgroups were the "only game in town,"
Co-author of S'appho Was a Right on
Woman and co-founder of Identity
House"and the National Gay Task
Forct;!(now National Lesbian and Gay
Task Force), 'she was introduced tolesbianliberation
throughthe
National Organization for Women(NOW) where· "that issue" was whispered about uhtil Rita M~e Brown
came in with her mini-skirt' and Phi
Beta Kappa pin and "actually mentioned the world 'lesbian' out loud,"Love. spoke of the efforts she andSappho co-author Sidney Abbott madein getting NOW's 400,000 members towork on lesbian issues, The fight in
NOW was "devastating," she said,
describing the "lavender menace"purge of lesbians from leadership inthat organization,
Such struggles
continued in efforts to gain gender
parity at NGTF, ,'A former vice preSident of GAA,
co-founder of NGTF and now at the
New York City Commission on the
Status of Women, Ginny Vida told ofher experience with the Women's
Subcommittee of GAA (which later
became Lesbian Feminist Liberation)
where there was tension with thegay men, "but also wonderful
moments of working together." Oneof that subcommittee's first efforts
was an International Lesbian Film
Festival, in which Vida credited Vito
Russo with helping obtain many of
the films, Vida also recounted the
major victory for the early movement
when, in December
1973, theAmerican Psychiatric Association
removed homosexuality from its listof disorders,
The police raid of an afterhours
bar called the Snake Pit in the early70s was remembered by Jim Owles,
a co-founder of the GAA and thefirst president of that organization,
An Argentinian gay man arrested in
the raid, fearing deportation basedon his homosexuality, jumped out awindow of the 6th precinct and was
impaled on the fence below, Leaflets
mimeographed at Marty Robinson's
apartment which called for a demonstration said: "that person could havebeen anyone of us," The demonstrators went first to St. Vincent's where
the man was hospitalized, proceeding to the 6th precinct "to give themhell," Owles told those gathered,
Illustrating the political advancesof the lesbian and gay community,
Owles asserted, was the fact that the
governor, mayor and other politicians
now attend community functions, as
opposed to 1970, when Bella Abzug
was the only politician willing to be
seen meeting with lesbian and gay
voters,Also contributing
to theevening's discussion were former
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TEL AVIV-Although they cancelled.
plans to hold a parade, Israel's gay
and lesbian community has scheduled
the country's first ever gay pride week
in late June and early July,
Speaking by telephone from Tel
Aviv, Adi Boudenbrook of the gaygroup OtzmaQ, which is the politicalwing of Israel's main gay rights organ ization- The Society
for theProtection of Personal Rights (SPPR)-said a wide range of activites will
target both gays and non-gays,"We are going to all towns in
Israel and putting up signs on trees
and poles saying, 'Here we are, lesbians and homos~xuals,' with details
about pride week,· he said. "We are, I giving interviews
in -the papers andwill be on a television show,,,"For our own community,"
Boudenbrook continued, "we are giv-ing some parties of dancing, movies
about lesbian and gay political culture, a Fassbinder film, and, finally amusical evening on the be;lch by thesea,·
Otzmah had planned to hold agayJIesbian pride parade through thestreets of Tel Aviv, but at;>andoned theidea after realizing not enough people
could risk marching,~'People here are not freeenough," Boudenbrook' said, "This is
the first time for a pride week to exist
at all. There just aren't enough peorle who can go proudly in the streets
and be really out of the closet. So,
we had to do something that will be
influential somehow and that thecommunity will like,"
Otzmah is less than one year old. but burst into the media spotlight inMarch after a rowdy argument with'severalmembersof the Israeli-

Parliament, the Knesset.
"It was an artistic evening for
pride and civil rights at a famous , theater," 1l30udenbrook said.
"MPs(Members of Parliament) from all parties were invited to discuss gay andlesbian rights and we got them tocome by also inviting the media, The'left' parties came, of course, because
they care for the subject and the'right' because they care for the publicity, Since it was the first time in
Israel an event like this happened,
there was a lot of media coverage,"
According to Boudenbrook, theevening went down in history whenOtzmah members h~ckled the'MP's,
who said they did not understandwhy gays and lesbians don't justinvolve themselves in more generalequal rights battles,"We' told them we need to bementioned specifically 'with sexual
preference,"
Boudenbrooksaid .
"Anti-discrimination ha; to be written
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by Rex Wockner
NEW YORK-The July issue of the
popular gay male soft-core porn
magazine Honcho arrived on newsstands this month ,With black dots
obScuring a portion of one model'spent,S,Th"e cover-up occurred in aphoto spreadcalled I "Piercing,
Session,·which, accordingto
Honcho editor Stan U;vanth;i.I, fea.tured a man with a ring through isurethra,The ce~sor!ihip' of the photos
took place internally :it Modernismo
Publications,which
produces
Honcho and seven other well-known
gay porn magazines. Levanthal said
the deCision was made at the managerial level after he had completed
his work as editor.
"It's what distributors think they
can get away with," he said, "andthere are higher"upS in this company
who determine what might not get
011 the stands, I'm constantly monitored - no insertion shots, no wet
shots. But I had no idea they would
object to pierced penises,"
Self-censorship .at Modernismo
is nothing new,Levanthal
said,·since we are .living in one oJ them'ost media-censored nations in theworld, I've sent out , calls for help,"'he said, '!but our readers don~t seem
'interested, It's a crime against art,
but no one 'wants to' hear about that.
TheY're only interested in the free-,
dom-of~~peech angle,»'Modern ismo
also has 'strict,
guidelines for "fiction, Authors may
not alludJ to bondage or violence inconnection
with any sex .act. The.
guidelines differ from those of lesswidely circulated magazin~, such as
the leather~orjented
I;>ruinmer,
because, Leyanthal said, "we a'reavailable in tiny towns acrossAmerica.""It's the only way we can get

the magazines in there wher~ they ar~
the only connection to gay life somepeople have," he said, "People'become aware of a community they
never. knew existed when they stumble acroSs our magazines, ri
The degree of self-imposed censorship at Modernismo has increasedin the last three years, Levanthal said,
following then Attorney Genera)
Edwin Meese's highly publicizec;ireport on pornography,
Although Meese did not !iucceed
legally in ~ensoring publications ~hatprint sexually explicit material,"

Levanthal says he created a climate
where anti-porn forces have moreclout.
"We hav~ to judge whether
somebOdy is goipg to contact the
local repressive fas~ists,· Levanthal
said. "Meese really brought the antiporn people out of the closet.·,Censorship , is much greater" in
Canada,' Levanthal said, where
Modernismo magazines arrive withparagraphs of the fiction blacked out.
In England, U.S, porn magazines
are not available because of a ban on
shoWing erect penises.
"It's very frustrating-I was hired
to get men hard, keep them hard andmake th€m want to come,· ,Levanthal
said. "Porn is safe sex. We shouldbe abl<: to publish anything thatkeeps ,people from ,getting skk, 'Y
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Green Light For
M'ass~Rights,,

by Rex Wackner, BOSTON-7-Massachusetts
activists
say that before the end of the year
their state will become the second in
the ,V,S, to pass a state gay/lesbianrights bill,
The measure has cleared theState HO\lse of Representatives andhas three more suppo'rters than it-needs to pass in the Senate, according to lobbyists, Having the votes,
though, is only part of the. game,. activists say, The corks on the champagne bottles will not pop until atleast late Fall because of the cum~rsomeness of parliamentary politics,
The bill will likely come up for a, .
first,vote in the Senate in mid-July,
Under Massachusetts' system, if thebill passes on that vote it will thencome up for a second vote called"engrossment." If it is engrossed, it
will proceed to a third vote called'''enactment.". . This 'pro<;:edure will likely bedelayed, hewever, by amendmentsthat anti-gay senators will attach, tothe 'bill, 'If that happens, the bill will
be sent to a House-Senate confer.. ence 'committee·
between·theengrossment and enactment votes,
After a compromise
is hammered out, the bill will return to bothHouses for enactment.
---~. Tt~e .bill is supportedbyMassachusetts ·Governor Michael
puJtakis,was Vigorously criti,
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year's Presidential race.
Detractors charge that Dukakis
supports an anti-gay foster care policy and has supported the bill inword but not in deed,
But Arline Isaacson, a lobbyist
for the bill, called Dukakis' support"very public and very helpful."
Only Wisconsin has a state-wide
law protecting lesbians and gay men
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Archicves, at the Celebration 20! pri~erally in Cehtral Park on June 24th,

never stand up and say, 'No, don't hit
I want to talk aboutcourage this'•me, I'm not gay, I'm not gay.' I
afternoon-;-as we gather here .today·
to commemorate that special courage
wouldn't do that."that has come' to be known as theThis'is not the voice of a soStoriewall Rebellion, But before thatcalled famous lesbian woman, it is thevoice of our everyday courage before
explosive night in Greenwich Village
Stonewall. It is a 'voice preserved
20 years ago, gay people were not. just a silent ,people, were not just abecause of the gay and lesbian history
movement in this country, in this casesubmissive people, I know this fromthe work of Liz Kennedy and'my own" ga y life, which started 'in the
Madeline Davis of Buffalo, New York.
late 50s, and from the voices that I,The Lesbian Herstory Archives is alive'
live with in the Lesbian Herstory
with stories of daily resistan,ce from
Archives.
the 50s and before: the butch woman
Being a lesbian in this city in thewho sewed lace on her socks so she
50s challenged
all my fears an:dwouldnot' be arrested for impersonatshaped" alL.tQy
Iiberation
pol
it
ics.
,
ing a man, the fem who took her
Whether" it was taking my a~lotted
lovers arm in the street marking themamountof toilet paper in the bath,r()(jm line at the Sea Colony, or walk. " both as homos, the mascUline looking;ing c.past the Women's
House of. ", woman Who would not change her•.
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appearance
even though, no one
Detention on a hot'summer night
would ride with her in the elevator of
and, hearing the desperate ~ries ofher early 60s New
Jersey housing' proincarcerated lesbian lovers, or hold,
ject, the gay lovers who rode the subing on to my butch's arm in the backway to Riis Park and faced the taunts
room of a bar so she would not be
and fists of outraged spectators as
goaded by the police taunts into a'they played in the sun, the earlybattle that would leave her bloody, I
members of the homophile ,organi?awas deeply educated in the power oftions that took 'on the McCarthy
the state to control and dehumanize
witchbunts, the early bar goers , who
our lives, But in the face of this concarved out public territory for theirstant police surveillance and social
own kind, and so many more small
bigotry went a thousand acts of lesstories of a huge bravery,biilO courage,
But you know these stories.' Lislen to this pre-Stonewall lesbecause every step of coming out thatbian voice: "Things back then were
each of you has taken in yourhorrible, arid I think that because I
lives-thesear~ all Stonewalls, allfought like a man to survive I mademomentS of courageous resistance toit somehow easier for the kids comhomophobic tyranny.
ing Qut today, I did all their fighting
We are not a people of one great
for them. I'm not a rich person; I
moment of history, we are a people
don't even have a lot of money; I
whose courage bas been tested
don't even have a Iittle money. I
through the generations, Stonewall, iswould have nothing to leave nobody
a marker for a movement, a publicin this world, but I have that, that I
political stance, and as such it heraldcan leave the kids who are coming
ed all the braveries of the 70s andout now, who will come out in tbe
now. But. gay courage was not bofn
future, trat I left them a better placethat day, and its form was not, fixed
to come out into, And that's all
I,
that day; our history of courage is ahave to offer, to leave them, ,But I
complex thing, as complex as ourwouldn't deny it; even thougb I waslives and the condition under which
getting my brains beaten up I would",'

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we will, be called upon to find ourcourage lime and time again, not jus~
the courage of our public spokespeople, or ACf UP members, or our
culturlll workers, but every one of us
who pursues the dignity and pleasure of our same sex. touch,An understanding of this richand varied heritage of resistance will
create bonds between us that theirfists and laws ca'nnot subdue; it will
strengthen our alliances between
ourselves as we work in different
ways for sustained political and cultural change; it will guide us as webuild our own institutions,Our
courage, both individual and communal, is not the legacy of just one
day nor of one decade; it has no single voice or face, no one membership card and because of this, we all
can be creators of our history of liberation.
The one demand that is madeon us is to be seen and heard forwhat we are-women
who makelove with women and men who
make love with men. As we gather ingreater and greater numbers so do
those who hate us, those who would
watch us die rather than touch ourbodies, those who call our art a
moral pollutant and want it pulledfrom their museums, those who want
us to be sexually controlled anddomesticated and yet declare ourrelationships illegal. Our most courageous answer to this barrage of
exclusion is to go on living our lives
without betrayal of our diversity, of
our knowledge of our people's history and our way of lOVing, You are
the spirit of Stonewall; you, yourfaces, words, touches are the living
legacy of our 'people's history. "But I
wouldn't deny it; even though I was
getting my brains beaten up I would
never stand up and say, 'No, don't
hit me, I'm not gay, I'm not gay.' I
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Beyond: Irs About'Time,or the last two years, the federal
government, under the auspicesof the Center for Disease Control(CDC), has organized the National
Minority
Conference
on AIDS,
Designed to address AIDS issues thatspecifically affect minority, racial andethnic groups nationwide, the conference has grown into a major gatheringof public
healthcare officials,
researchers, community service agencies and health care providers: Thatis, the AIDS (Service)
Industry,
Officially, the conference is hilled as"The National Conference on HIV
Infection and AIDS Among Racial andEthnic Populations," revealing somepolitically correct roots,
The last two conferI
ences were criticized bypeople Iiving with A.IDS(PLWAs), AIDS activists andcommunity-basedorganiza,tions (CB0s) for its ins istenceon
directingall,attention on, preventing the
spreadof HIV, thereby
ignoring the complex treatment issues faced by PLWAs and theactual social and economic
dimen,,,
sions of the crisis, One participant inlast year's conference described "people in ·suits going out to lunch all thetime," Community activists raised aruckus last year, while CBOs worked
behind the scenes to negotiate for better representationof gays, service
providers and PLWAs in the planning
aspects of the '89 conference, which isset for August 13-17 in Washington,
The title of this year's conference,indicating the overall direction it willtake: Prevention and Beyond,Critics of past conferencescharged that a lack of vision was built
into its very foundations,
The CDCclaims to have no authority to discuss
treatment issues, insisting that it isforced by its particular mission topreach a sermon of prevention, complete with a focus on spreading sexual
abstinence, monogamy and (by exclusion) heterosexuality amid the "general population."
As a result of these and other criticisms, this year the CDC has moved
the conference into the backyard of
the Office of Minority Health (OMH),
As part of a larger network of Public
Health Service (PHS) agencies, theOMH promises to transform this year's
conference into a more visionary gathering,
Conference
Chair Valerie
Setlow, at a recent meetinginMontreal at the Fifth International
Conference on AIDS, stated that "thisyear's conference is the third in aseries but at the same time it is thefirst of its kind,"
Under OMH the organizers will
have the authority to discuss a wider
range of issues related to the social
aspects of AIDS, including lesbians
and gay men, insurance, tre;ltment

incorporate the needs of the communities aJfected, ~ We recognize that, as
a federal agency, we can't be all{things to all people, but we've worked
hard to incorporate all of the ideas,"
Don Mercer Edwards, executive
director of the National Minority AIDS
Council (a national advocacy network), agrees with Court's appraisal of
the planning so far, He is a memberof the executive committee, and confirms that they have met at least threetimes with community advocates andis confident that the structure of theevent itself will reflect their concerns.
"I think it will really be something thatpeople on the front lines will be satisfied with" The form of ·the workshops
themselves is more interactive, andwill deal with a lot more skills. There
will be program development-oriented
sessions and much smaller workshops
than in the past. This is the firstopportunity to place the whole spectrum of AJDS issues before the minority communities."
So, with all this good
news, what's the problem?
A major federal agency has
finally responded in a comprehensive
way to the•needs of groups neglected
In
in
the
past,
right?
Treatment
and researchissues are finally being
addressed, lesbian and gay'
issues are being covered, so what do
and research, as well as pediatricwe want? The problem: Community
AIDS, Representatives of the Foodactivists must monitor these proceedand Drug Administration will be on
ings carefully to assure that its quality
hand, as well as officials of theand content are satisfactory to all peoNational Institutes of Health, theple of color who are affected by AIDS,
Human
Resources
ServiceWill the issue of educating lesbian and
Administration,
the Health Carebe adeFinancing Administration, and, signifi- gay youth about safer sex,
cantly, the Office of Civil Rights,
quately worked toward? Will the larger issues related to the lack ofCommunity advocates of many
addiction treatment be a major focus?
racial and ethnic persuasions, gays,
Above all, we must safeguard against
lesbians and AIDS activists have been
consulted by the conference's fifty-or- the tendency of local, opportunistic,
political "leadership,"to paint an
so-strong executive planning commitimpressive picture of power at nationtee. Apparently these groups haveal and international gatherings, They
played a major role in influencing thecannot and will not be allowed todirection of the three days of workname-drop and brag about their ambishops and plenary sessions,
Sheilations which fail to translate into serCourt, co-chair of this year's confervices for the PLWAconstituency, Afterence, states that "it represents
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effort by the federal government toP'artn ersh ip-b u iIdin gvvith the federal
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Mayor of New York City aries, Why, I used to get up every group, It's called Womyn Without
Menofannounced, "I am a het- morning and ask myself, "What would Girlfriends . Against'erosexual," It was the kind of bizarre the poor people want me to do Indeterminate Sexuality Coming Out
As Straight 'Just to Preserve Theirrevelation that would have seemed ,today?"Well, no more, I refuse to be Careers or Reputations, You want 'amore at home on the cover of theflier? ,'Weekly World News, topping such
The way we figure it, they've got
headlines as "Bigfoot Stole My Wife"a goddam conspiracy working, We've
and"FamedPsychic's
Headseen 'em buying up land, moving 'into. Explodes," Instead, it was picked up
our neighborhoods, They got a plan,by ,the mainstream news media,
see? Their ultimate goal is to take all
Shortly thereafter, more media zeroed.of our women, These dudes persuade
in on an, obscure sailor named Kendall
these cute, well-groomed, sexually
Truitt, whose declaration, "I am not a
responsive women to marry them, just'homosexual and have never been aso's the,y"can 1000knormal at awards
homosexual,"along with his wife's,:ceremonies and press conferences.
assertionthat he was a good lover,,That's all women are' good for, toseem~d to confirm the public'S faith,them, ' I meah, we need three morethat'straight people are incapable ofmale hets in this world like I need acausing battleship explosions in order
year's supply of contraceptive foam,
to get insurance money, 'Finally, a
You wanta be on our mailing list?
few weeks later, the media showed up, ,('again to cover Tom Foley, the newlyMiranda;
elected Speaker of the House, as he•High-powered public interest attorney"refused the Republican National
I think the issue has broadened' my
Committee's invitation to "Comeout,,I legal scope enormously, I mean, it'sof the liberal closet.'"I am, ofobvious that we've got a class action
course,' Foley avowed, "nota homosuit here, difficult as that may be forsexual.' The-media also made tactful
the lay mind to comprehend,
mention of Foley's wife of 20 years,
My interest group, CRRSCD -'What is it about these stories that
I the Center for the Rights of Recent
so attracts the attention of our news
Supreme Court Decisions - clearlyindustries? To answer this question
sees the government as being out toand, in the' interest of getting all the
pOints of view, I went to a source few ""'"''-".L ... .&.' £ "'-'..&...I deprive these men - and straightbother to consider:
the womyn's. Commenta b Susieria
white. m~n in general - of their.rry .~ .
Y
ConstItutIOnal guarantee of equalc~mmunity. 'I asked
severallesbians,
how they thought these public dis- harassed because , of my. ,lifestyle, I access under the law to prestigious
refuse to accept the <Second-class sta- electoral posts 'and, lucrative incomes,
daimers of private homosexuality. have affected their own lives, Here tus that society accords me as a les- simply because these men, as straightwhite men, are suspected of beingar~some of their responses:.. bian, These brave men have given,
Brings ame the courage to go back into the gay, It's unconscionable,
Dee Dee;closet. From now on, I'm taking care whole new legal dimension to theconcept of sexual harassment. It also
fo'riner activist and co-dependentof me.
I think I'm a better person for it, I,
I am going to get a good job in puts me on the cutting edge of social
really do, All those men' in responsi- marketing research,. a couple of three- change~
ble governmental and military posi- piece suits, a box of dress shields; andtions proclaiming their societally ; 'something nice to' wear at the beach, Moon Rivet; psychic channel
I'm getting an image .., it's a TV .
enforced heterosexuality was a real Maybe eventually, I could even attract
screen ... it's - yes - it's a TV quizhealing experience for me, I mean a token hubby. Gosh, On a deep,"
that. I feel a lot better as a person
personal level, I've never felt so much show, I'm seeing three contestants on
this TV quiz show, There is ,a mayor
than I did a few months ago, when I' like a woman,\.. yes ..' a congressman, and a sailor,'was
hanging out at the peace camps;,
The quizmaster .., I'm getting a name
Maude; squeeze-deprived radical
getting hemorrhoids at those boring
sit-ins at the South African embassy; As a single lesbian, I think it's disgust- here - Bill? Yes, the guides say it's ~I
ing. And I'm not the only one who Bill. Bill is wearing a sequined jacket
stifling my appetite just because
Caesar Chavez didn't want me to buy thinks so, either, A bunch of us single and a toupee. He is hearty, yet men•c:Il:,~,·

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hosts, , "~iIlis trumpeting" pWelcome to
I'Vf!~t Your,Secret,,'the show. where
you define .other people's sexuality forthem!" The audience cheers, The
conJestants seem affaple but,tens~,
They try not to giggle.
Now, Bill booms to, the contestants:, "For ..$25,000, tell the folks, athome - who you are,;~ The mayor
speaks first: ·[,Me? ,Uh .,...,..
I'm a stud,Bill.".' Next, the .congresst'nan: "I'm a
stud, Bill," Now it's .the sailor's turn:"No, Bill, it's me, I'm the stud.",· The
audience goes w,ild: The 'c0ntesta:nts
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v'e seen the future andit will be
I've seen the future andit works
Ifthere's life after, we will see ..."
Prince,"The Future," Batman.

First slowly, and then withincreasing speed, medical orthodoxies
that prevailed at the start of the AIDS
epidemic are breaking up like massive ice sheets cracking and melting
after the last ice age. Dazed and ilIadapted to the new environment, likedinosaurs competing with 'new warmblo04ed animals for their ,ecologicalniche, federal bureaucrats and phar,maceutical businessmen are struggling.to survive in the new epoch:

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to do.
Researchers should set their own. ,.
pnontles,,All of these axioms have been
repudiated.

Patients know what's best.
Many people with AIDS hear about
new treatments long before their doctors do. And they are more willing to
try new treatments than their doctors
are to let them, Some researchers are
more concerned with conducting

studies that benefit "posterity" those people who have yet to contract a given disease, People withAIDS are concerned with treatments•that might work now. Their own
survival is the best' gift they can leave
to posterity,
New drugs aren't as dangerou~ as new diseases left untreated. The FDA loves to keep tightcontrol on new drugs, citing fears of
toxicity, Nothing is more toxic than
AIDS if it's left untreated. It's taken
the FDA years to give even lip ser. vice to this concept. Every time a, new, promising t~eatment appears,
AIDS advocates must fight tooth andnail for it to be te'sted qUickly and, if
found promising, distributed widely,.Placebo-controlled trials are
inhumane in life-threatening diseases. Placebos are inert fake drugs,
Half the people in the trial take thenew drug, the other half takes placebo, which has no medical effect, In
theory, this makes it easier to, see if
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orthodoxy included: .

• Doctors know what's best.
Patients should do whatever
they're told.
• New drugs are dangerous •. The
Food and Drug Administration(FDA) shouldn't approve new
drugs until exhaustive evidence isin after years of trials - even if
some people will die for lack ofaccess to experimental treatments,• Placebo controlled trials arerequked to prove new• drugs
work.
Even iL people taking
placebo must die, it's for thegreater good of the gre.ater number,• People living with diseases are
They should haveignorant.
nothing to do with designing or
implementing· research ifil theirdisease,• The government ShOlildJ1'ttell

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obvious: If the drug works, thosetaking the drug live, while those on.placebo die, This is wh;n happened" in the first AZT trial. 19 people onplacebo died within the fj'rst 24
weeks, while only two on AZT died,
Yet AZT trials in children continue.
In one ongoing .trial, 12 kids onplacebo died, versus only two kids on
AZT, How many more children must
die to prove AZT may be effective inchildren as it is (with frequent toxicity) in adults?
In any case, even tl)e FDA has
now acknowledgedthat it is nolonger necessary to compare newanti-AIDS drugs to placebo, If the
drug is designed to block HIV, it
can be compared with AZT, If
people can't take AZT because of .
its toxicity, they can .be in a trialthat compares differ~nt doses of
the new treatment.
This is theplan for the trials of ddI (dideoxyinosine), a promising a'nti-HIV,
drug less toxic than AZT andfound active against HIV in preliminary human studi~s,
People' living with diseases areentitled
to participate
in thedesign and execution of researchon such diseases.
When New
York's Community Research Initiative(CRI) was founded ,two years ago, it
was the first time in history that people living with a disease set up an
institution to conduct research- to
defeat that disease, People with AIDS
are involved at every level of decision-making at CRI, from chOOSingwhich drugs are priorities to actuallyrunning the trials.
CRI's research has already helped
gather data for the . marketing
approval of aerosolized pentamidine,an effective prevention for pneumocystis carinii pneumonia, the leading
killer of people with AIDS,
People with AIDS should pressure the government
to tell
researchers what to do. It's 1989,
People with' AIDS and their advocatesmust be allowed to set priorities forfederal AIDS research, The government doesn't have a plan. Records
from the federal AIDS' Program's
October;':1988 meeting show that, atthat time, just 0,25 percent -.,. one
quarter of one percent - of people

with AIDS in the government's drug
trials Were testing drugs designed totreat or prevent AIDS-related opportunistic infections. Most of those infederal trials ;were taking AZT, which
was already' approved.
Yet people
with AIDS continue to suffer from
infections which could be treated or
prevented, if'research was designed
to that end,
The US government has spent
half billion dollars researching drugs
for AIDS, Yet, in the last three years,
not one single drug has been.
approved as a result of federal trials,
When confronted with the failure ofhis program to yield new treatments,a

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Director of the,for AIDS-related
Anthony Fau~i,sent multiple copies to all the committees she knew of that had anything
to do with AIDS trials, But she'dnever been told she had to sent it to'one committee, the AIDS Clinical
Drug
Development
Committee(ACDDC), that meets only three times
a year, but which must give all new
drugs '!high priority" status if they are
to be tested, Since Dicliizuril wasn't
reviewed by the ACDDC, it ,never got
high priority status. Since it didn't gethigh priority status, the government
couldn't test it.
If it weren't for such bureaucratic
bungling, both trials could be finished
now and the chances of having anapproved, effective treatment for'cryptosporidiosis
would begood, Instead, a pharmaceuticalcompany is going to have to
conduct the Diclazuril trial itself.
This illustrates how much still, ml,lst be changed,
Following are' som~ of thelandmarks of the' new drug test'\ng order:i'

September
1986: Spurred by,striking differences
in mortal ity
between the, placebo group (19Nati(i)nal Institu'te of Allergy anddeaths) and the AZT group (twoInfectious'Dlseases (NIAID) claimed it
deaths), Burroughs-Wellcome stops its
was all the researchers' fault - thePhase II trial of AZT and distributes
government couldn't force re;;earchers
the drug wi<;ielyunder the first "treat-'to do anything,
We are asked toment IND (investigational new drug)nbel,ieve th~t infectious disease experts
program"..
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all around .the country are- - all
March 1987: FDA approvesobsessed with HIV and don't give a
AZT in record time,
damn about the bacterial, fungal andMay 1987: FDA publishes new
viral infections that' actually kill peoguidelin<;s codifying the treatment
ple with AIDS, This is untrue, It is
IND, program, Under treatment IND,
the bureaucracy of the government's'
drugs may be distributed
widelyAIDS Program itself that stifles
before _.final approval,
if FDA
research into opportunistic infections,. approves,
This must end,'\
Octo~er 1987: FDA advisory
Last fall, Dr, ~osemary Soave, acommittee refuses to recommend
New York researcher,: proposed atrial
approval for DHPG (ganciclovir), aof'spiramycin,
a 'oew antibiotic, todrug ,that prevents blindness in peotreat cryptosporidiosis. an AiDS-relatple with AIDS, even though there is
ed gastrointestinal infection for which
no satisfactory treatment exists, The . no alternative treatment. The reason?
No placebo-controlled clinical trials
trial could have been finished by now
were conducted,- it would take less than two months•
July 1988: Vice~President Bushto complete, But it became mired inmeets with FDA Commissioner Frank;
the bureaucracy of the'AIDS Program,
Young, MD, and requests
FDA
and was never funded,.. '/~forms .to speed up testing andthis.' spring, Soa,ve submitted'~widen availability of new drugs for
protocolfor anotheranti ..cryp"
cancer and AIDS, This is the ir:npetus
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prevent 'anem'ia in"PWAs and'thereby
avoid frequent 'transfusions 'has been
evaluated in two studies (intravenousand subcutaneous, routes of adminis~
tration), The studies are now closed.
Results will Soon be' publ ished,,

The Community Research Initiative (CRl) is a New York-based group formed to
expedite the approval of AIDS drugs by directly invblving the community in the testing proce'ss, Formed two years ago as a branch of the People With AIDS Coalition,,
CHI is now an independent corporation, It is involved in studying treatments asdiverse I\S traditional drugs, herbal derivatives and practices su<;h as spiritualitY, The
recent FDA approval of aerosolized pentamidine for prevention ot' pneumocvstis,
pneumonia was a direct result of community-based studies conducted at CRI.
These trials are open to all people with AIDS, ARC or HIV-related illness, It is . BOVINE .MILK'IMMUNEGLOBUUN'•
widely believed that people enrolled in CRI trials receive 'superior health care, As aciu
is assessing, the effectiveness ofservice to our readers, OutWeek will publish lists of those trials ope:n to the public,
bovine milk immune globulin in theThose wish'ing to enroll in these trials or seeking more informati,on about themtreatmentof chroniC; Jntestinal cryp'., ;. ;should contact CRI at 212/481-1050.
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Open to enrollment. CRI scientists
have reported dramatic declines in
DHEA levels in PWAs. (DHEAdehydroepiandrosterone- is atestosterone precursor.)
CRI's 24person clinical trial ~i11evaluate theeffects of orally administered DHEA,
in PWAs with T4's less than 200.
The'trial is funded by People Taking
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properties. It will be studied by CRI
to assess its effects in PWARCs andin those who are asymptomatic
seropositive with T4s between 200
and 500, The clinical trial will
involve 50 participants,
Ask yourphysician to call CRI at 481-1050.

,c'open to all CRI participating physi-'
cians for enrollment of their patients,on a case-by-case basis. Participants
must 'have already - shown'" noresponseon Amphotericin
B,
Immediate enrollment with minimal
paperwork can be effected by physiCians through CRI's expedited review
process, Physicians should call the
CRI Research Department at 481-1050,,,,

AEROSOLIZED PENTAMIDINE
CRI's study involving 232 people isfully enrolled and nearing completion,
CRI data were pivotal to the FDA's
full approval of the prophylactfc useof this medication, This drug is thefirst to receive full FDA approval
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The effects of lipids on PW:As arebeing assessed in a six-month study
now completed, Multiple parametersof immune function are being evaluated. Results soon to be published,·MEGACEOpen to enrollment. A 1oo-person
study of Megace
is currently
enrolling participants,
This sub-'stance is believed to have appetitestimulating properties, which may be
useful as a treatment against weightloss. Ask your physician to call CRI
at 481-1050,,

FWCONAZOLE '•Open to enrollment. CRI is studying
the effects of Fluconazole on Iifethre~iening fungal ,infeCtIons. The
studY', implementing tile new FDA
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ANTABUSE
The effects of Antabuse (on T4 cells,
especi~lly) have been assessed in astudy involving 53 individuals. (Theresults of this study were presented. to
the Fourth International 'Confer:ence
on AIi?S at Sto<kholm in June of lastyear), The monitoring project :hasbeen expanded and now includes,
several hundred individuals,
Ask
your physician to contact Mr. Jack
Devine at ,.CRIIfor information about
participa~iJlg:ln the stu~y.' . Recent
results soon to, be p:ublished,.
,tosporidiosis,' The 'study 'is
temporarily on hold pending imminent release of a recently'
developed,,
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physical well~being among PWAs andspirituality" This study· involves useof questionnaires developed .in association with CRI staff.', Contact
Stephen Holzemer, RN; atCRI, 4811050, .',DATABANK- •. ., ..

CRI has initiated a pilot ~Databank·project involving 100 participants,
PWAs, PWARCs,.and those who'areasymptomatic seropositive provide
CRI with thejr .l~~oratory and cli~italdata as well as listings of air treat-··r
mentS-with which ·they' are eurfentiy
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In what was certainly one of the mostswreal moments in cabaret, Hopkins
would do a headstand on a barstool
and execute up-ended Folliesquechoreography as he sang "Dancing on
the Ceiling," Since then, he's taken to
standing the rest of us on our heads
with his thought-provoking, touching
and
very
funny
new
show,
"Conversations at Our Lady of the
Harbor Bar and Grill."
Hopkins is a charmer, a lanky,
soft-spoken son of the Quaker State,with an easy smile and an impish glint
to the eye that puts one in mind of afavorite cousin• or an understanding
English teacher, Imagine the reaction,
then, when he would,open his act ina bathrobe and horn-rims with theline, "Good evening.
I'm Bruce
Hopkins and I'm as queer as the day
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AN AUNTIE MAME IN LEATHER

Photo: Hashimototoward gentle persuasion than sensationalism, He accomplishes the nearimpossible
task of guiding
anaudience into difficult waters without
ever putting them off, And he doesn't
attempt to score cheap theatricalpoints by indulging
in theschlock shock that plagues somuch of performance art, "The•whole purpose of performing, tome, is to make people· think.... about what's going on and what's
happening (and) I believe that if":'
you're going to talk about thesethings, you have to talk about all
aspects of it." Though there are.
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there are many others, fortunately in the majority, who relish theof the Harbor Bar and Grill." The~experience, finding in it empathy,
first to emerge were Harold" acatharsis and laughter, For in all
revenge queen, and Edmund athis talk of deep and difficult
quick-witted casualty of the relawaters, the point must never betionshipracket. They were soon,
lost that Hopkins has us laughing
to be followed by Mom, a widow
even when we're up to our neck
who finds her new lease on life in..........
. in them - no small commendaa gay bar; Chip, an "expiring actor,"•tion in times like these,
who lapses into existentialism
GONZO-EXISTENTIAL POEMS Photo: Hashimoto"I really believe there are only
between roles; Moose, a leather,
about eight different types of people
exploring feelings he might otherwise
number who finds more sadomasochism in popular TV than in have ignored. "I think I'm making my in the world," making this show theeasiest way to take in three-fourths ofleather bars; and George - Grace to points much stronger than I did
what the world has to offer, Despite
before,I
wasn'tascourageousashis friends - Our Lady's bartender,and resident poet. The transition from myself to say a lot of those things as if ' their differences - from Harold's coy
bitchiness ("I like that guy's hair. I
they were my own opinions." The
the earlier format to an all-character,
my bedroom
thatapproach offers. a similar freedom to .'once painted
show was an easy one for Hopkins
and represented both a natural evolu- the audience: It seems more willing color. ") to Mom's resigned wisdom ("Ithink it's a good idea to spend at least
tion and a return to his roots. "I came to take in difficult or controversial
part of your day with people who
to New York to' be an actor .., and I material when it's offered as a characaren't sure they're bored, n) - allfelt I hadn't done any acting I could ter's viewpoint' rather than the perseem to, share a search for meaning in
dig my teeth into for a long time, So, former's,
their lives, and it is Hopkins' unique
There's no shortage of difficult
I thought since no one was offering
material in the show, whether it's talent to be able to find humor both inme a script, I would write my own."
the search and in the Iives themselves,
Moose's theory on AIDS, Harold's
Though he misses the spontaneity
Wittily skeptical of , just about anyof the stand-u p format - the give- neediness, or just about any.one's
loneliness. Hopkins is committed to school of thought, as leary of pastand-take between an audience andlives as of heavenly reward, he isa
performer that fourth-wall pieces natu- portraying all aspects of the people
rally preclude - he also sees certain he's created, even those aspects we confirmed devotee of living for the
may not beK:omfortable with. Yet, it's moment, an Auntie Mame in leather
advantages
to expressing
himself
through characters apparently at some to his credit both as a writer and an who claims he did some of his best
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distance from his own point of view. actor that the approach leans moresonators and male 1iingers showcasing
unconvincing
pronouns,
The
response to Hopkins' openly gay act
was startled, electric and immediate:
They adored it. A breath of honesty
and openness had finally swept onto
the circuit, and Hopkins foundhimself the harbinger of gay glasnost in cabaret.
"I thought,'Somebody's got to break throughthis barrier, so I might as well be
the one to do it.' I·had this imageof myself as the Bill Cosby of gay
performance,"''

In fact, one of the most intriguingparadoxes of HopKins' performance isthat instead of hiding behind a characterization, using it as a smoke screen
against our getting to know him, heuses it as a means of ex,posing and','-C;,"!$:"

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,~lf a lu.kewarm beer in my belly,
I hopped the 7th Avenue bus.
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her'lower back,and wine-soaked pot
roaSt
in the. oven. I had not enter,tained such 'possibilities;
reeling
thought to. thought in the April cre.
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puscu]e, I smelled leather straps, furlined wrist restraints, a gag for my big
mouth~.:And th.en, like a strong, clear,
ether, plY- re~erie.'evaporated, .I had)work •.' to-do,
damnit.
. The
kitchen was juicing
with roast and my· .
:subject, thede~i~"clad'Southern trav.eJing comp~nion
informed me, was~et to talk, Here'on this last leg of ashoe~tring
book
tour, Pat Califia. ,spok~ ,thehardtruth on qeing out
and about as adyke in the bite li:F?
80s"
Pat
Califia:
My goodness, your09tes look like you're set for a longhaul.
Sarah Pettit: Absolutely not. I'm
not going to do anything beastly to
you,So,ypu've moved back to San
Francisco, . Are you finding it moreproductive to write out there?
PC: I had lived in San Francisco
for 10 years before. I moved to New
York and, to be completely honestwith you, ' I really Joathed and detested living in New York. As soon as I
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haven't found a way yet to live entirely <?nmy income as a writer, I thinkthat is really, really hard to do,
Essentially, the system is not very
interested in hearing dissident voices
and they make you pay if you try to
be one of those voices - the price is
you'll be poor.
SP: Yet even within the gay andlesbian Gommunity it is not necessarily
an ,easy enterprise to be a certain kindof dyke, to write books
like your Macho Sluts,
Magazines such as On
Our Backs have terrible
troubles, yet all theyseek to do is provide aforum for lesbians tobe sexual, to be sexy,
pc: I think it's agreat thing that On
Our Backs keeps publishing erotica,
I'm
gl~d that they exist, butthey don't .pay theirwriters , either. That's
part of .the reason why
my writing
doesn't
appearthere
more
often, That's part of
Photo: MyraFOUlwinds why the quality of writing in that magazine is
And I can't do that because all of my sometimes kind of bland - it's amateur work, It's stuff that they haven't
work is too biZarre and too outrahad a lot of time to polish or revise.
geous,
SP: How do you, how does any- One of the things that impoverishes
one, survive and make it writing the lesbian literature is that if ,you are alesbian writer, the assumption is thatkind of stuff you write?
you write for free, The thing that
PC: The reason that I've been
keeps the lesbian press going such as'able to ,survive is that I've been,
employed by The Advocate for a long it is, is the donated labor of the writtime to write a regular column, I also ers. Even magazines that sell advertising assume'that we should donate ourdo some freelancing for magazines
like, Variations and Penthouse and I work. If it weren't for the gay malestill do typing, word processing .. I ,press, I would starve to death, Even

Francisco; it's a beautiful city. It is
certainly true that in New York there
is a larger publishing industry, but I
found that -that industry wasn't open
to me anyway because I'm too out asa pervert and a queer, What happens
if you're gay in New York, and you
want a professional' career, is thatessentially you must be closeted, You
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not a women's press in this country
that will publish my work, Except
Lace Publications, and they too are avery small business that is always
struggl ing to stay afloat. They can't
afford to pay their writers either.
SP: On the tack of the gay/lesbian split. It is all too apparent that
there are very different levels of status
and realms of privilege for gay andlesbian writers.
You only have to'look at the volume of gay m,ale literature, the reception of it, the David
Leavitts , of this world, to see that split.
And I think there is in many people'S.minds, therefore, an assumption that a
qualitative difference exists in the sortof work produced by gay men andlesbians,,
pc: The fact is that economic
realities do have an impact on thekind of work that people produce, I, . FEEDJNG FANTASIES
don't think there is a difference inLesbian author Pato Calilia.
innate ability, but I think the fact that',lesbian writers are operating (it such a"SP: A nIce, cosy isn '\ ,going toturn too 'many "heads' or upset people
lower level of economic privilege
means we have less time to do ourwith its politics, is it?
work, we get less feedback about it,
PC: There is more going on thanespecially if we write works that are just that. I'm a fan of detective novcontroversial to other lesbians because
els, What I think is interesting in, it"becomes very difficult to pass your those film noir detective novels is thatwork around for comment if it's goingthe detective is almost a metaphor forto get you branded as som~ sort of a sex pervert. The getective is an outoutlaw or second class citizen in your "cast, a solitary person who has·asense of honor, who can look at facts
littl~ sexual ghetto, So, while [ think
it's a mistake to say that lesbians don't
no one else can see clearly because
write as well as gay men, we also
they are too invested in maintaining astatus quo that the truth will shatter." [have to recognize that we are strugdon't think it's just a search forgling against greater disadvantages
and that does have an impact on our
respectability
that makes lesbians
work. I know it does on mine,want to write detective, stories, I think
SP: I've noticed a proliferation of it's like us writing vampire stories,
lesbian detective novels,
When vou want to write about the
PC: That's funny, isn't it?
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iookiog in on society from the out:~side, you search for the forms, for tHe"
genres that will let you do that. The
cietective format is certainly' one' thatyou can pack a lot of so'cial commentary into, I've been disappointed that
more of those detective stories didn't
have that kind of nasty qualit)" thatyou got in the better 50s detective
writing. Some' of those novels reallytranscend their genre, they are notpulp novels at all. I think precisely
because we are homosexual, that if
we keep oureyes open and if we use,
our intelligence, we have the potential
to understand not only our deviance, "but also what is "normal" for mostpeople in a way that tl1ey will never .'be able to understand themselves. I
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was and yet he is already earning a"salary that, expressed .in thousands of,,' I dollars,
is four times half my current
age while I am only earning two times
what my age was when he was half
his current age, This disparity in our
incomes is becoming a problem, Yousee, Kevin thinks that if I invested 100
percenlof
my salary'we could both
LIve quite comfortably on his while'.building a substan.tial nest egg for the
fu,ture, I think .tbat if 'Kevin invests
oply. 40 percent of his gross wages, then 'we would each be contributing.'•
an eqµal.amounr
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DEAR BOBBY:
invest what amount of money will be,
1 th ink it is a grave indiscretion
if not moot, then of little mutual conto discuss personal financial matters ina public fqrum and graver still to dis- cern, While you're in Toronto, by theway, check out that exhibit of 181hcuss them with your lover (who, let's
century Venetian drawings at the Art
face it, doesn't need your paycheque
Gallery of Ontario.
one way or the other), You mark mywords, no good will come' of this.
DEAR READERS:
Since,' however, you have already
Here's a helpful hint I heard frombreached good form, allow me to
Ruth 13, in Tulsa that I just had tooffer an equitable solution:
If youshare with you, The next time you
take a train to Toronto, travell ing at anlose a contact lens.. rather than huntaverage speed of 70" miles per hour,ing painstakingly 0[1' your hands andand Kevin takes an' airplanetoknees, just put an old nylon over the
London, travelling at an average speed
vacuum cleaner hose and then run theof 550 miles per hOUf, your salaries,
hose across the floo(. The suction will
expressed in Canadian dollars andpick up the lens but the nylon will
British pounds respectjvely, wOlild\Jemore or less equal: Bir;thdays sp<;nt in prevent it from being sucked into thevacuum cleaner. Thanks, Ruth!
a country other thai1 the 'one, in which
you were born are nullified; therefore
you ages would stabilize '", eventually, . CONFIDENTIAL TOJOSEPH K:
Nob'ody has been tell ing lies
As a consequence, with a little timeabout you, Now get all of this fooland distance between ypurselves, youishness out of your head and go backand Kevin , will corrie to real ize that•to work!
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And sheTh is is a true story.
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looked nothing like that honey-haired
It was close to. noon, My Joad
photo at tlie top of her column,-a
was lighter; I'd already filled the bellyof a hungry heifer, a WOman who lays tabloid version of Dorian Gray.
(I had never seen her before.
claim to ,celebrities like a cowpoke
She'dalways just been a disembodied
r<l-nch,'branding cattle on aLone Star,
growl through a mail slot.)She., had smacked h,er lips over a tasty',"DO
YOU KNOW WHAT TIME IT
item about Cybil<and Brucy spatting
on the set.''"..
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IS!" she thundered.
I was petrified,,(not unlike her body,)
I felt like
(It led her column the liext day.)Frances GurD'm j'n a gingham dress,
But now' 1 faced' the 'most -fero.
frantically hoping that Toto would pullcious bea,'!t in the zoo; the selfappointed queen of society gossip and . the curtain back on the great andpowerfuLa woman who knows how to pass
But, there was no curtain .
poison gas, ,I entered the ornate
She repeated the challenge: "DOvestibule of her Fifth Avenue lair, coming face to face with the m;lssive Iron YOU KNOW WHATmME IT IS?"
1 found a tiny voice: "Five toandglass doors.
Tentatively, I pressed,,
twelve," ,the brass buzzer. Silence. I pressed
f-kr painted upper lip CUrled into
again, more insistently> 'j glanced ata vietorious sneer. "AND YOU KNOW
. my watch in horror; it was five minWHAT THE RULE IS: NO COPY
utes bef~)fe noon! Suddenly the doors
DELlVEHEDBEFORE NOON!"
swung open. There she was, her face
"I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry,"I
contorted in anger, shriveled Iike a,whimpered,beached jellyfish sporting Maybelline,'"I CAN MAKE SURE YOU NEVER
HC';fego filled the huge rotunda of thelobby, scraping the ceil ing's details of WORK IN THIS TOWN AGAIN!" shevowed,
the Renaissance, an era which, I now
Nota bene, bitch: I'm still workin' it!
realized, preceded her by just a couple
years at best. . My jaw had dropped;
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where dirt is maoufactured by press
agents and then bought and sold"openly on the sleaze market. And I. was a dish delivery boy, Or, to be;.1 more p<;>lite,a junior publicist. . The
job was a thankless one, traversing this... stinking. city to satiate the voracious.appetites of hype harpies.
It was feeding time again,,
My boss had just given me the
day's
supplyofmolderingtidbits--non-nutrilious
items about
pseudo-scandals,
would-be comebacks,
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he female lead of sex, lies, andvideotapeis Ann (Andie
MCDowell), a sexually and professionally' frustrated
wife of an
obnOXious, yuppie lawyer, John (Peter
Gallagher), Ann is neurotic (the film·
starts with her tortured monologue toher psychiatrist
about the world
garbage problem), And her husband,
John, is sleeping with her sister,
Cynthia(LauraSan Giacomo),
Meanwhile, John's old friend, a drifter
named Graham Qames Spader), hasbreezedback into town (Baton,
Rouge) after a long time away, He
tells John his philosophyof life:, rather than have a set of keys, he'dlike only to have one key a car key,
"To leave someplace in a hurry?" asks
John, "No~",replies Graham. "To gosomeplace in' a hµrry,",'
These are not happy people. But
immediately I recognized their impatience and urban malaise,In'the beginning of the film,. Graham and Ann are sitting in a coffee shop, Ann confesses that she
thinks sex is overrated, Graham tries
to explain to her why she is boredwith sex: "Men love the person
they're attracted to, while womenlearn to be attracted to the person
they love.".
Just when I began thinking I had
a lot in common with these two characters, they come up with silly, reductive, heterosexual cliches, I was soon
ready to dismiss the film, to say, "hereis yet another young male director
who is good but would better serve
his films by ridding himself of all

female characters and sticking tothings he understands like male-bonding and FX and well-composed
images,"But Steven Soderbergh, the 26year-old director of sex, lies, andvideotape, and winner of the Best Film
Prize at the Cannes Film Festival, is ayoung director of another order, Thisfilm is a small-town romantic thrillerthat undermines every cliche it threatens to rehash, Soderbergh uncovers

the couple's home. Graham is a selfrighteous drifter, and he can practically smell the infidelity in the borne,"Liars are the second lowest form oflife on the planet," Graham asserts,"What's the first?" asks John, setting
himself up. "Lawyers!" exclaims
Graham, Ann, who at this early pointin the filrp can only barely defend herself, add,S cheerfully, "That's you,honey."
I pitied Grabam because he was,

WHO'S SLEEPING IN MY BED?
Andie McDowell in sex,lies; and videotape.
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the lies in these characters' lives, someof the lies in our society-and in the.
process sbows us his considerable andpromising talent. Soderbergh's film
plays a game, and that game is agame of expectations.
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At the heart of this game is thequestion central to the movie: Who isa liar? Here is a director unafraid to
ask that question of both his, characters and of himself, His answer to"who is a liar?" is the answer that's
given by any good romantic suspense
film: Not necessarily who you tbink.
Soderbergh's dialogue is qUickand funny and to the point. . Wben
Graham first arrives, he has dinner at

impotent, but I also liked him lesswhen I learned that he made videotapes of women talking about their
sex lives, These videotapes are fairly
embarrassing pieces of home-madeword-porn, I wondered: How is the
film
going
to'
get
this
charactef-whom
I likedsomuch out of this one?
By the end, Soderbergh
isn't,
afraid to let Ann turn the camera on'
Graham, asking him why he likes tomake these videotapes,
Using
the
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videocamera as he has used it manytimes before, Ann asks a terrified
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more :~hanthe latest piece of bat paraphernali;l to hit the streets (not much
more than, oh~ about $40 million, thatis), It's a ~at :buy, and, at $7 (theT-shirts go for about $6,99), probably
a Bat bargain, But it's not Batman,
Advance ,word (early p,r,) warned
us all that ri~ Burton's version of the
Caped .Crusader and his exploits,
would' not resemble
the camp 60s TV,
show' we loved,
I was over thatlamen~blefact going in, .So instead I,,
nestled in for dark,. swooping~ neoGothic
dazzlement
andJack
NichqlsOn, ' I got a magnificent preapocalyptic set, a nifty nightmare of a
CorVette, (the Batmobile), ;l dilly of acape-:-and Jack Nicholson, But notquite inovie, "Almost everything about thisBoeing of'a Batman even the Prince
songs,' damn ,it - fails to ,really soar,
The script supplies most of the dragweight, unfortunately, Except for ,theJoker's,maniacally urbane Zingers, thedialogu,e is a string of ear-jarring cliches and Calif0rnia
mushballs,
Michael,..
,Keatqn might hav.e bee'n fine, if he

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the question of whether,
or not it's any good, seems almost
irrelevant.' Here's the only thing thatreally matters:,Will the alreadyunbearable proliferation of Batshit(butt09s, T-shirts; hair carving, etc" adnauseum) kill off smileyJace~? And is
it worth it? Forget the thing about if atree falls in the wood;> and no one isthere-:try the philosophical dilemmaof ~hoosing between those two,
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but he's not. His millionaire (billionaire, now?) bachelor Bruce Wayne Batman's true identity - is dry andknowing, but barely around, certainly
not unmasked, It's a part not without
emotional
potential,
considering
Batman's character is shaped by thefact that he saw his parents murderedwhen he was a young boy, We getthat scene in flash-back toward theend of the film, but we never get toknow Wayne during the film, so itmeans little.
Stunning (looking) Kim Basinger,
I'm sad to say, gets to spew the worstof the dreck as photo journalist Vicki
Vale, who wants to get to the bottomof this Bat business after hearing
rumors that Gotham City has a large
one lurking, She, too, is wasted, asmuch a prop as the Batmobile, andnot nearly as versatile.
A capable
comic actress, she's given virtually no
funny
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,Nicholson, Seems that every time
he makes a film, someone describes
him as over the top. This time he hastaken the top and hurled it off of the
Empire State Building, In an unbearable purple jacket, with his c1ownwhite face pulled tight by a blood-red
frozen smile that seelil1Sto, exterid all
the way into his criminalgreen hair, he is the maddest
hatter imaginable,
Fittingly,
he counters the costume witha jaded air. Nicholson has
always had the inside line on
Evil - .he knows what it looks
like after a hard day at theoffice, all bitchiness and boredom, There's no point in giving away lines (ever), but
suffice it to say Jack's Joker
can make charming small talkwith a gargoyle,
And the museum scene! I
love it that this is actually pissing people off-a scene where
Joker and his cronies pop intoa MOMA-Iike museum andvandalize much of the recognizable Western art, What fun!
He is a giddy child, and all
you can do is envy the hellout of him, Unless you'rebusy being pissed off,
Oh, alright I concede it,
you could almost justify thewhole movie by this scene
alone,
This might have been agreat film if someone had
bothered to hire a writer capable of creating fresh, intelligent dialogue,
The Batmanstories are, after all, psychologically compelling, visuallyrich and brooding and dark ina way that approximates, well,life, Even their lunacy rings
true, as Nicholson proves, A
heady mix of comedy anddoom could have been theticket, and seems to be what
the extremely talented Burton(who directed Beetlejuice and
Pee Wee's Big Adventure) had
in mind, The dialogue justdoesn't come through,"•)~,:t:,¥.i#,jfc:!1}tc.:::because what is Gotham if not New
York?, Small gripe: Basinger and
Keaton sleep together much too soon,
Sometimes fine in life, usually bad inromantic cinema, There's no build
up, and once they do it there's no
promise of more to come, Huge
gripe: There's not enough made ofBasinger finding out that Wayne is
Batman. It just happens, as undramatically as possible, and we never knowwhat it means to Wayne to have hiscover blown, I can't help thinking thescene's on the cutting room floor,
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to mix gender-bending, children's lit, stick, even a little Italian RenaiSsanceerature and pornography in a perfor- staging and yet it never comes off,
The strength of the performance
mance using an Alcott characterin a collage piece is essential. The,(director Lois Weaver) as a voice.
three actors of Spl it Britches are
Unfortunately,
gender-bending
by Veneita Porter
unevenly matched. Lois Weaver, as
preachers such as the one portrayedby Peggy Shaw are yesterday's news, Alcott, is clearly the best of the trio
Shaw is the rational/maleside of with a bright, articulate quality which
is lost in the chagrin of Little· Women.
Little Women: The Tragedy. A Alcott's inner self who is in, constant
Peggy Shaw is serene and strident in
opposition to her more elemental
play-by Deborah Margolin, additional
the role of the fundamentalist preachside, a begartereddance hallmaieriql by Louisa May Alcott ander who represents the reserved, judg'girl/"strumpet"(Deborah
Margolin),A
Peggy Shaw, directed by Lois Weaver,large part of the play is vaudevillian ,in mental side of Alcott. Shaw never lets
presented by Split Britches Co lnterartgo, She berates and condemns theeffect, with splashes of the absurd.
7beater, 549 West 52nd Street,,injustice of being stuck in heaven with
The actors wander in, taking seats
among the audience and begin chat- a harlot shortly before she succumbs
ting it up. Vaudeville being fun large- to the passion wiles of the "strumpet.·plit Britches' newest production
ly depends on timing and rhythm, two Margolin is the weakest of the trio,
is aptly named Little Women:.making her character non-erotic andthis production
sorelyThe Tragedy. The play is loosely elements
It was as if there was an powerless. All visions of heaven andbased on L9uiSa May Alcott's novel as lacked,
are lost if a character such as
inside joke and someone forgot to passion
well as a colorful dialogue with the,
Margolin's doesn't pass the wet test.
author herself, which takes place in include the audience, Little Women
Given a loaded subject, Split Britches
heaven, While Split's productivity is never quite makes up its fuind where
to be admired, their production is the punch line is; all the elements are missed its mark with Little Women. T
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Onstage

DONT STEP ON MY DRESS

by George Heymont
ne of the most fascinating things
about the theater is that, as alive medium, things can and frequently do go wrong. Anna Russell
mischievously recalls the perforrnancewhen, as Santuzza, she leaned against
the village church and it collapsed.
Folks at City Opera still wince at th~memory of the horse who unloaded apile of shit, center stage, just moments
prior to the Maypole Dance in Boito's

Earl ier
thisseason,the
Washington Opera revived its double
bill of Mozart's The Impresario andWeber's Abu Hassan, In this version. (devised by Hugh Wheeler with additions by Randolph'MauldinandRoman Terleckyj), The Impresario
depicts an impossible backstage situation in which two rival prima donnas
feud over who gets top billing and thelargest salary for singing the lead rolein Weber's Abu Hassan. When eachdiva threatens to cancel, the impresario struggles to coerce them backinto the theater by stroking their enormous egos. Both womeC) attempt to

Me/islo/ele(you can rest
assured therewassomepretty dainty
footwork
fromthedancers dur,ing that performance).
I'll never forget watching
Patrice
Munsel belt
OUt Stephen
Sondheim's
"I'm
Still
Here" duringa preview ofFollies(atHouston's
TheaterUnder
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umph on ,the.
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noe,
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and then gasp in horror as her wig fell capture the lead role and, when aoff! That's life in the theater.
compromise is finally reached and theWhenever performers confront
second act curtain rises on Abu
severe r'isks of failure or success
Hassan, the two prima donnas haul
onstage, the atmospherebecomesout every bit of theatrical ,ammunition
charged with electricity. One produc- _" available in- order to steal the showtion recently placed the risk factor
from each other. Some moments are'under;t curious microscope for purely
pure fun, Others get down and dirty.
theatrical purposes, and the results
The curtain calls were a riot.
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direction, the 'cast went about theirwork with venal delight. Evelyn de la
Rosa's overly feminine portrayal of. Renata Renati (the Italian diva whoends up singing the role of Zemrud in
Abu Hassan) was a perfect comic follto Sally Wolf's outrageously-accented
portrayal of 'Paivi-Tuula Paasikiv (theFinnish diva who becomes Masruh,
the Cliph's attendant,
in Weber's
opera), Sheryl Woods underwent a
delicious transformation from Joanna
Brinkman (the near-sighted rehearsal
pianist) to Abu Hassan's Wife, Fatima,
and tenor David Kuebler made a rare
American appearanceas Horatio
Tucker (the company tenor) and Abu
Hassan, Veteran performer William
Wildermann
garneredplentyoflaughsas
the bassobuffo,
Emmanuel
Schrimpen(and later
on,
as
Omar
the
M o·n e y Len d e r)
while dra,
maqc sup,po,rt camefrom
Ted
McAdams
as a frustrated
playwright and
EdwardFowleras
the ownerof the theater. Actor
Photo: Joan Marcus Larry L, erer.
doubled as
Maximilian the Irripresario and theCaliph of Baghdad.
These performancesof TheImpresario and Abu Hassa,{ weJeamong the last to' be conducted byRandolph
Mauldin(Washington
Opera's talented music administrator
who died of a kidney-related illness in
April). Y,'

Bookspoints out, "the events there were
front porch in Selma, Alabama, dcinkOn A Queer
some of 'the most visible manifestaing Dr. Pepper. and greeting passersby
tions of a whole new way of thinking:with "jill: the author'S pseudonymous
OayVou Can {that minority groups could take thehost and gUide: "A spirited.? lesbian
their own
woman in her early forties, with a fight for freedom,See... M Issourl. warm, down-to-earth quality and a hands ...an approach into
to social change

by Gary Glickman

In Search of Gay America: Womenand Men in a TirrJ13 of Change
by Neil Miller
Atlantic Press: New York309 pp,eality ]01. just for practice,imagine this: one of those toughcity cops giving you theeye is· open Iy gay; a West
Virginia miner wipes [he coal
,dust from her facesurprise!it's a lesbian; over in Minnesota,
the prize for best bull (the animal) at the State Fair goes
to, ..Al and john, dairy farmers(of course) but also openly
lovers. How about an openly
gay fundamentalist
preacher?
(Naw.) How about an openly
lesbian u.s. judge? (Come onO
By now we can sOrt of believe
there are congressional representatives who cancome out.
and still get re-elected; but how
about the mayor of Buncie,
Missouri (pop, 408)?
Imagine,thatis, that
despite every American icon you grewup with, from The Marlboro Man totheUltra brite
kissers
to TheHoneymooners, that there are lesbians
and gay men out there as well; everywhere, riding the range, brushing Iheir
teeth for a date in Hometown, USA,
bickering in a cramped, black andwhite tenement in Brooklyn ("One ofthese days, Alice ..."), Of course, thisimagining, as recorded in In Search of
Gay America, is just what 'the author,
Neil Miller did, documenting his hunchby visiting uncelebrated, hithertofore
un imagined (homosexually speaking), places all around the country,.
Part One, entitled, "Farmers, CoaT
Miners, and Small Towns," opens on aIJ

By novv vve can sortof believe th,ere are·congressional
representatives
vvho can corne. out
and still get
re-elected; but hovv
about the mayor of
Buncie,Missouri(pop_ 408)7c,•that led, within a few years, to theStonewall riots,"
The st rength of th is first section
reli~ on the very shock of unexpected
recognition and the credibility andevenmundanityin
Newton,Massachusetts or Morgantown, West
Virginia, It also relies on these mostly
small-town portraits: these people arejust like - not you and me, necessarily, but sor1 of like -- the Marlboro
Man, or Halph and Alice Cramden, or
the sorority girls in the commercial, brushing up for the big
date,
The subsequent
sections
are also made up of portra its
which skip around the country,,,.
the towns, the cities, the coasts,
the heartland', and are organizedaccording. to some large, loose
A Time of Change;
themes:Race and Culture; Heligion; Law,
Politics, Action. In this way lesbian parenting, for example, canbe seen in the context of changing economic
freedoms
for•women, and· the· social andpolitical climate in different
parts of the country,
So it·
seems pertinent
rather thancoinCidental. that the lesbian'couple outside Boston--Dukakis
didn't know any gay Black people, henotwithstanding-is
raising an artifinotes: and most of her social life
cially conceived child,revolved,aroundBirmingham,
two
Because such a large portrait-in-.
hours away. "So my view of Selma,collage has been attempted - theand my introduction to gay small-town
America, became what I saw from one' whole country, after all, urban as well
as ex-urban - some of the portraits
woman's front porch,"
fail to reveal much except that idea
.It was a wonderful idea to begin
that they're pretty much I ike folks,
his tour on a front porch, and in
those homos,
Still, the portraits are
Selma, no less, a town immediately
mostly well-chosen, always gcneroussymbolic, resonant with all the social
upheaval and reorganization of the last spirited, patient and curious, focusing
in on a gay America always distorted,
generation, where Martin Luther King
discriminatedagainst, and ha~efully
spearheaded his voting rights march,denied.
As one more increment ofand where Anita Bryant retreated after
truth against distortion, this book is, ofher gaybashing in Florida. Oill takes
course, a welcome contribution, ?
the author to the boutique Bryant•
opened, and still owns.) As Mr, Miller

turn-of-phrase
so folksy you'd think
she must stay awake nighL') practicing
Southern colloqUialisms," We are told
she would not allow her'name or job
to be published, that she knows only a
few other gay people in town, but weare then also told that, "like the othergay people she knew in Selma, Jill wasin the closet."
In fact, no one else in Selma was
willing to meet with Miller, despite,
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affe Cohen, nee Mark Jaffe
Cohen, is a short, thirty-something, "nice Jewish boy" whospeaks in· fast forward and would love
to do my horoscope chart. Or yourchart, for that matter. We sit in his
cramped West Village walkup alongwith
Bob· Smith
and
Danny
McWilliams, his two cohorts in the
comedy troupe, Funny Gay Men,munching pizza (they munch, I write)and discussing the group's origins andcomedic style. For now, lunar risings,
cusps and, heaven help me, divulging
my true birthdate, must wait patiently
in the wings,.
'.It's a drizzly Friday evening. The
three have just wowed a near sell-out· crowd at the Duplex, their home turf,· Spirits soar as,Jaffe ("My mother's· maiden name; rhymes with daffy")
Cohen, the trio's unofficial ringleader,recounts the show's highlights and, recalls the appreciative audience.· It
takes several minutes for tranquility to,'

ter while temping,",
finally permeate the room.
Smith, 20, who follows Mc. "Funny Gay Men is not about
being gay, per se," offers Cohen. "It's Williams on stage, grew up in Buffalo
and moved to the Big Apple in 1984.
about finding universal themes in who
A deadpan, but much more daring
we are."humorist in the Steve Wright tradition,
Offstage, the three rarely breakinto comedic shtick. McWilliams, 33, he sees himself as a writer, His play,
the campiest of the three,, sits quietly. Snap Judtfment was recently performed at the Courtyard Theater, andobserving and absorbing the atmosphere, A comedian for the past ten he's pondering writing .another, But
years, he performed regularly at The performing has always been foremoston his mind;
Village Gate and was once a member"I auditioned at 'Catch' (Catch aof a group called "Premises Premises."
McWilliams, who grew up in a Rising Star, the upper East Side comedy club) with openly gay material," heCatholic household, is a word proces"It
sor when he's not on stage. He fuses says, deadpan tone in place,that world into his act. Opening the wasn't an inside joke, The material
was accessible to everyone. I reallyshow (the three perform separately),
McWilliams reveals that when forced
enjoyed the, process.",I" . "
From hCatch a Rising Star, Smith
to choose a saint at Catholic school,
he chose Eva Marie. Indeed, it's his ventured to other local clubs perfect- ,.
ing his act and style, Along ~he way,
well-defined
female personalities
he struck up a friendshipwithwhich characterize his act: Bette
Davis as Dorothy in The Wizard of . McWilliams, but it took cqmedian Sara
Cytron to bring all three together,Oz, the New Yawk-accented secre"We're gay men talking about thetary/receptionist and the demanding
real world," Cohen explains.
"~elady' b;uking orders at the supermarconsider ourselves stand-up comics, "ket counter ("Make it lean!"),not an improvisational troupe,""My humor is true to life andSmith chimes in,· "We have differbased upon personal observations,"
he states, "I met the secretary charac- ent attitudes and backgrounds which. make us unique," Hepauses for a moment.
.
"All gay men ar~ notalike, "Cohen concurs.
A writer, educator and'part-time 'actor (Cohen
has a small role in the
newly released independent' feature,
Religion Inc.), Cohen
immerses his audiencein the world where
growiogup
Jewish.
,and gay was, not
exaCtly a 'mitzvah',
The show's closing
act, his, patter, some- ,times touches on thepolitical and he speeds :1
along- at a breathless "pace, Multiple subjects are covered in amatter of minutes.
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Gers h·Win to MPh)onty yt on , punctu.
ated and given a through-line by theall, it is their political represenr:ation at,
character Grace's gonzo-existential
conferences such as these that ISkey. ','.
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answer ,IS yes, ut even executive'"htoo bIg for Its bntches, moving from'ttbdcomml ee mem ers procee
Wltl~
minute cabaret stages to small thecaution,
aters, and now to the more upscale,"Partnership-building
with themainstream Ballroom, The next logifederal government hasn't been praccal step (in a business devoid ofticed a lot in the last eight years," sayS'
logic) would seem ~o be an offEd'rards, "There's a,.core of people atBroadway run, placing the show oncevery high levels of the PHS who ,areand for all in its proper theatrical'
encouraged by the participation of'context, and offering a wider audicommunities in shaping their own
ence a show that, despite its context,
health, M! ma~n conc~rn is that thispartnershIp
WIll conttnue beyond
t ranscen ds easy d e f'Inl't'Ion as gay th e,. i',
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dropped from the federal agenda."
theater,.
There are two kinds of "beyond"
For Hopkins has much to offer
at work here,
There is the typegay and straight audiences alike. He
expressed by Don Edwards, which'gives the gay community something
responsibly takes into account the hisconcrete to apply to the often nebutorical context of u.s, government
lous dialogue about w,hat it means toneglect of communities of color, Andbe gay, couched in noble intangibles
there is the "beyond" of the title of thelike pride, integrity and courage, Inc?nference itself ',~he not qU,~teS~ci"d es 0f h'ImseIf flable, abstract
beyond,whIch,
d·aflng ta s h ow us SIXSl, I d'h"b
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leather, the romanltc In the CYntC,theof people living with AIDS is not the
woman inside the man - he gives afirst priority of a conference such as
BLOODY MARY continued from page 39
three-dimensional portrait of a man
this, Nevertheless, this year's eventI
writing i,nthe Mineshaft, But the surcoming to terms with himself, withseems promising. As for the potential
face flipness merely gives an edge tothe courage to ask some difficult
for a more broad-based,
unif'ied
questions, the integrity to tell us there "resp'onse from. 'the institutionally~
what is' clearly an intelligent,
entrenched "minority" politicos, an,dengaged sensibility, His. characters' , are no easy answers, and the generosity to, give us all something to bebureaucrats goes, I can only echo thehilarious stabs at explaining theproud or, And for the world-at-Iarge? voices of ;LWAS, f~r whom every day,meaning of it all' reflect a commony'.
cmmts: Its about tIme, ",.
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on AIDS will be held August 13-11</(:1.(. outfit."'\"Conversations at Our Lady of
the Sheraton washington Hotel in D.C.
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With "Our Lady of the Harbor"
the Harbor Bar and Grill" will run
Registration is fr,ee,' but limited,t~Hopkins has put together a very chic ' through July at The Ballroom (;153 w.
3,000. Deadline for registratio-tt:isensemble indeed. The evening has a
28th St.), Tuesdays through Thursdays .July 24. For more information '~allfollowing La Gran Scena .opera ' 1~00-729-AIDS. T.
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Company, in which Hopkins: al~o " (to his savvy as a performer but to his
appears as the evening's
hostess, T/
skill as a director as well (he has,,served as director to many of the top,
acts in the city). In the two yearsr'_,, _;!' _\;•that he's been developing the show,
his uncanny sense of self-directionwith, he's the first to admit, a little,,
help from his friends--has molded
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and songs (fromed performing, I was 'out'," he states,"but then I fudged the issue," A turning point came in early 1988, A new
wave of homophobia had swept thecountry and a close friend had diedfrom AIDS, "He gave me a ring which
I consider 'Good Luck', Shortly thereafter, Funny Gay Men became a reality, It was a politically and morally
correct step,"
The three meet at least once a\ I week to' hone their material. "We'reegoists who work separately but wefeed off each other," volunteers Smith,'~Wegive one another lines and sup. port our individual efforts."
At present, the group's bookings
come mainly from New York clubs,
local colleges
and gay events,~ohen's latest screenwriting effort is'already
making -the roundsof. , Hollywood moguls and even his love
life has shown definite signs ofimprovement. "Who knows?" he concludes half-jokingly, "I could become
the center square on Hollywood
Squares. The gay square,"Funny Gay Men are performing
indefinitely at the Duplex (55 Grove)
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behind the so-called "Bush Initiative"(see October 1-988) and the Lasagna'
Committee (see 1989).
, AugUst 1988: Trimetrexate, ananti-PCP drug, is the first to get treatment IND status. FDA interprets it
narrowly and only 89 people get thedrug.
Lambda Legal Defense&
Education Fund threatens a lawsuit.
FDA relents and allows wider distribution,
October 1988:
October 11:
1,500 AIDS activists from around thecountry
besiegethe
FDA in,Rockville, MD, It's the first time a. federal agency has ever been shut
down by the group the agency exists
to protect. October 21: The socalled "Bust Initiative" is released.
Guidelines provide for skipping
the third phase of drug tests if thesecondphase
is promising,
Guidelines won't save lives, only
drugs will. Hoffman-LaRoche isrumored to be planning on using
the riew gUidelines in its trials of
antiviral ddC (dideoxycytidine),
December 1988: FDA gives. ganciclovir (DHPG) Treatment IND
stat\JS.· .To qualify, patients must be
ineligible for a controlled study in, which 'they would have a 50 percent
chance of getting no treatment at all. '. Universal outcry from AIDS activists,, January 1989: First hearings of
the Lasagna Committee (so namedafter
its chairman,
Dr. Louis
Lasagna), in Bethesda MD, a federal
panel to recommend
reforms tostreamline AIDS and. cancer drug trials, National Cancer Institute director Dr. Sam Broder. (discoverer ofanti-HIV activity of AZT, ddC, ddI, and other new drugs) publicly lambasts the FDA for rigid microman~gement and delays,
February 1989: Activists boo
FDA Anti-Viral Drug Director Dr.
Ellen Cooper at second hearing of
Lasagna Committee, Cooper tries tojustity the ag~ncy's
refusaltoapprove DHPG, ACT UP representatives meet with Dr, Anthony Fauci,
who oversees federal AIDS trials,
Fauci agrees to publicly call for
DHPG's'release,,
March 1989: FDA reverses
policy and allows resumed access to

DHPG for p~ople who don't qualify
for clinical trials,
May 1989: ACT UP testifies atthe Lasagna Committee. The bureaucrats begin to listen,. June 1989: Because the government lacks a comprehensive
AIDS
research strategy, the AIDS community must come up with one,June 6: After taking over the
opening .ceremoniesof the Fifth
International Conference on AIDS in
Montreal,
ACT UP presents
its
National AIDS Treatment Research
Agenda,June 15:
FDA approves
aerosolized pentamidine for prophylaxis (prevention) of PCP, It's the first

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time a drug has been approved basedon community-based research,
June 21: ACT UP meets with
NIAID's
Dr, Anthony,Fauciin
Bethesda,
He endorses a new program allowing new anti-AIDS drugs to
be released on a "parallel track" trial
if the patient is unable to enter thecontrolled trial (e.g,; someone who
couldn't take AZT andhence couldn't,
enter a trial comparing AZf with ddI
could get into a parallel trial of ddI).
June 22: ACT UP meets with
FDA's Dr. Ellen Cooper, She supports
the idea of parallel trials, . But sheshows herself unwilling to support
wider distribution of Foscarnet, anantiviral drug needed to prevent
cytomegalovirus(CMV) retinitis inpeople whose CMV has developed
resistance to DHPG, She says (inanother context but with a chilling
doublemeaning)that "there areadvantages to blinding,"
June 24: ACT UP meets with
Bristol-Myers in New York, manufacturers of ddI. 'It's the first time a pharmaceutical company ever met withmembers of an affected community
before conducting broad clinical trials.

Bristol~Myers is nervous and won't
commit itself to distributing ddI on aparallel track.
June 24: In San' Francisco Dr.
Fauci publicly endorses the idea of"parallel track" distribution of new
AIDS drugs at an HIV conference
sponsored by Project Inform,
June 26: FDA approves DHPG
for treatment of CMV retinitis. It's thefirst time a drug has been approved
without undergoing controlled clinical trials. Also, FDA grants Treatment
IND status to erythropoietin(EPO)
for treatment of AZT~related anemia,(As many as half those on AZT get
anemia, depleted red blood cells, andrequire frequent transfusions,
EPO
raises their red blood count andreduces the frequency of transfu••
Slons, 'People with AIDS, HIV andtheir advocates have fought tirelessly for these victories, The government,
as embodiedin FDAbureaucrats
and NIH scientists,
has begun to respond,
Yet pharmaceutical companies are reluctant to distributenew drugs
Widely enough, the insurance companies are refuSing to pay for them, By
the end of 1989, AIDS advocatesmust force the pharmaceuticalandinsurance companies to fall in linewith the new epoch of humane drug
testing for life-threatening diseases,
June 26:
The Centers
for'
Disease Control (CDC) in Atlanta
reports that, by May 31, 97,193
Americans have been reported ashaving AIDS, 56,468 have died, The
US Public Health Service (PHS) estimates between 945,000 and 1,400,000
Americans are HIV-infected.
By
1992, according to the PHS, 365,000
Americans will have been reported tohave AIDS, and 263,000 will havedied,
. The government anticipates that
206,532 people now alive will die
from AIDS by 1992, Those deaths arepreventable, Treatments which can
Theyprevent many of them exist.

must be distributed to people whoneed them, Tre~tments for conditions
now regarded as untreatable must be
developed, No one should rest until
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this and, every Monday;, informalsociali:>illiards league, four
women to a table; at -Society
Billiards, 10 E 21 St; 7 pm; $5 for
two hours; calI for reservation
529-8600; info 874-2104, 201/662,
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CONFERENCENYC Area
Planning Group; "we needlesbian grass roots input; last
local meeting prior to theorganizing meeting in Portland,
Oregon, July 21-23;" suggested
topics to be addressed atconference include lesbian legal
rights, custody, job'security, unity
on definitions, visibility, womenand AIDS, youth and aging, daycare, fair housing, coming out,
racism, violence, money issues,establishing a 'national lesbianorganization; planning groupmeets at the Center, 208 W 13 St;
6 pm; to confirm date and timecall 491-5965, 655-8205, 201/4280834, 718/439-1850, or 914/9493203
COALITIONFORLESBIAN& GAY
RIGHTS Meeting, moved from theusual First Tuesday date Quly 4),
is tonight at the Center, 208 W 13
St; 8 pm; 627-1398•

WOMEN ABOUT,BROOKLYNLESBIANSTOGETHERand
BROOKLYNWOMEN'S MARTIAL
ARTS Boat ride and Dance;celebrating the 15th
anniversary,, of Brooklyn Women's Martial
Arts; live .oj music; leaves Pier 83(btwn 42 & 43, St); boarding 6:30
pm, returning 10 pm, $20 (op~nto men, women, gay, straight);
718/.J88-1775
CAREERSSUPPORT GROUP firstmeeting of a new group for. lesbians and gay men seeking
to defme the work they want intheir lives, that they will findmost fulfilling, and the work
environment in which ,they want
to place themselves; at theCenter, 208 W 13 St (will meet
every 2nd and 4th Wednesday ofthe month thru Oct); reservations
216-8593,,
CELLBLOCK
28 Hot Ash Party, forcigar-smoking men and theiradmirers; 28 9th Ave (btwn 13th
& 14th St); 10 pm; $10; 733-3144

July 10, 1989

EAGLEBAR Movie Nite: Parents,
1/2 price, drinks from 10;11 pm;
free popcorn; movie at 11 pm;
142 11th Ave at 21st St; 691-8451

WOMEN ABOUT Camping on
Fire Island, through July 17; 3530073, 201/481-0440,,

WOMEN'S CAUCUSOFACT UP
presents a Forum: "AIDS: A
Lesbian Issue?" discussing safer
sex, why and what lesbians can
do about AIDS, and "offering
guidelines for protecting
ourselves and our partners;" atthe Center, 208 W 13 St; 7:30 pm;
modest donation; 533-8888

JOHN GLINESpresents the
opening of Jane Chamber's"The Quintessential Image,"
about "how being a lesbian may
upset your mother but make you
famous;" following curtain-raiser,"In Her Own Words," a biographyof Jane Chambers by John , Glines;
open-ended run, at Courtyard
Playhouse, 39 Grove St (south ofBleecker, near Sheridan Square);Wed to Fri at 8:30 pm; Sat at 6 &9 pm; Sun at 4 & 7:30 pm; $15;
tix 869-3530, info 354-8899

PEQPLEWITH AIDS COALITION
Singles'Tea, for PWAs, PWArcs,
HIV+s; 222 W 11 St, 3-5:30 pm;
532-05.68..
SPECTRUMDISCO presents the. Jungle Party, with the Jungle
Brothers singing "Girl, I'll House
You"; 802 64th St, Brooklyn (Ntrain to 8th Ave stop in Bay
Ridge); 718/238-8213

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Gambling and Beaching Trip;353-0073,
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11THINTERNATIONALLESBIANANO GAYASSOCIATIONANNUAL
CONFERENCEin Vienna, Austria,
through July 22; write Demetrio .
Boniche, c/o WAY, Ved Ballahoj
4, 2700 Bronshoj, Copenhagen,Denmark
LAVENDERHEIGHTSPotluck andBBQ; the upper Manhattan, neighborhood group asks YOll to"bring something to share"; atCornerstone Center, 178 Benne!!
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WOMEN ABOUTHike to Pine
Meadow Lake in Harriman
Park, NY; 353-0073, 201/4810440
BROOKLYNLESBIANSTOGETHER
Prospect Park Picnic; meet by
Picnic House at 3rd St entrance;
BBQ grills provided; bring food,beverages, blankets, etc.;
718/439-7173
WOMEN ABOUT see Twelfth Night,
at Shakespeare in the (Central)
Park; 353-0073, 201/481-0440

CENTERSTAGESgoes to Largely
New York, at the St. James
Theater, 8 pm, $45; 620-7310(pay CENTER STAGE TICKETS,
208 W 13, St, NY, NY 10011)

EAGLEBAR Movie Nite: Alien
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" one's ever asked him: "Like why do you videotape
women talking about sex?" This was a question I'd been
asking for most of the movie, I'm not sure Soderbergh's
Graham answers that question effectively, but at least , Ann
does, In its final 15 minutes, the movie brilliantly intercuts
film and videotape, I've seen this done many times, butnever as well as it's done here.
, S,ome lies are prettier than others, Graham hides
behind his video eqUipment, while Ann's lies are contained in her "nice girl" image, Ann calls her siste~ "loud,"when it's obvious she thinks of her sister as an overbearing ",:,hore, Ann's lie, that sex is overrated, is a passive lie,a SOCiallyacceptable lie: she's convinced herself she hates~x, It's a dysfunctional response to her sexually voracious sister,. As an audience we're never allowed to come to simple or self-righteous conclusions about who these people
are or about who we are in relation to these characters,
No one is easily let off of Soderbergh~s directorial
hook-nothis characters, not the audience, not thisreviewer, I wish 'almost every female character I've seen
in recent movies was allowed by the script to grab, thecamera, literally or metaphorically,
and, ask someman-again, either the director of the firm or another character in the film-"Like why do you film women talking
about sex, or anything at all for that matter?" ,This' new
director's realism-and his feminism-are refreshing andsurprising,
For a director whose first word of his first feature is"sex," Soderbergh's style is streamlined, direct and unpre-.
tentious, He and Deborah Aquila's flawless casting createa kind of realism that thankfully doesn't scream realism,
The movie bristles with an awkwardness that only the best
actors could make you believe, The actors" experience
feels improvised, When Ann and Graham found eachother at the end of the film, I didn'l feel I was in a movie
theater .s<;:eingthe two romantic leads finally joined; I feltthat I had seen two real people struggle for some hesitantstart at communication, The film 'earns its emotional effectiveness,
Like most gays and lesbians, ,the two sisters,in the film
have not taken any vows, Cynthia, Ann's sister, justifies
her affair with her sister'S husband by saying, "I didn't takea vow in front of God and everyone to be faithful to Ann,"
Without the sanction of anything as concrete as a wedding
vow, our ties and our truths h~e to be all the more protected-by us, Society sets'up a number of lies we choose
to believe: Men do the .filming and the looking; women
don't love sex,. they love love; we're not married, so it
doesn't matter how we treat each other. Sex, lies, andvideotape tells us to. take emotional resporisibility forwhomever we choose to love, whether we do or whether
we don't promiseJidelity in front of "God and everyone."
In the world of this film, where men and women use
sex as vengeance, and where men collect women's sexual
histories like so many compact discs, it's no wonder that
our heroine and hero start out frigid and impotent. The
point of the ,film is that while there may be safer sex, there
Can never be safer lies. T
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think one of the reasons ~hat straightpublishers don't wan~ to publish gay
writing i~ because they don't want tokno"{ how they look from the outside.
SP: I think you made that observation in the introduction to, Macho
Sluts, I'm interested in what you aredoing in the book, because it is awork of fiction where e"ery one of
the s,tories is strongly imbued with apolitical force, a question, a jab,
pc: Well, that's good to know,
It was certainly my intention when I
wrote the book to get people to jackoff, it's obviously pornography, but I., wanted to do that >yithoiJt insulting
their intelligence, My hope was thatthe best stories would disturb people
as much as they q;lrned them on,
SP:
Particularly,"The
Surprise Party."
PC: It was really a stfl1ggle
for me to decide whether or not
to publish that story, And I amaware that that story and "TheFinishing School" are' probably
the two most disturbing in thebook.
One of the reasoris I
decided to put "The Surprise
Party" in was becau::;e over the years
I have had dozens of partners who
were dykes who had h~terdsexual
fantasies' or who had rape fantasies,
If you want to feed those fantasies,
which I think
women are entitled to,because we don't have enough pleasure in our lives and if that's the. way
we deal with the outside world or ifthat is just what comes up for us
when we want to get off, then I
think that's our business, the places
you wind up going to feed them arevery demeaning to you as a lesbian,They are insulting and can make you
feel ,very
ambivalent about yourself,,
It w'as my agenda to write somestraight porn' for dykes that would
rattle some cages but still be veryclearly from a loving place and aplace that was respectful of our'being, It's almost like lesbian pornthat's written for straight men, it was
intended to be straight porn for lesbians, I don't think a lot of people
will see that, or even think that's a
viable category, but that's what it
was trying to do.

SP: A recent article
in the,Lambda Book Report spoke about the"safe sex", requirements
AlysonPublications had you follow for the
depiction of sex acts in Macho Sluts,
It raised the interesting point thatwhile they were clear about not wanting any penetration by penises with- .
out condoms, there is in fact unsafe
lesbian sex in the book. The. real
problem there, obviously, is the complete oversight. You know, dykes godown on each other, they snack
pussy, but that's not really sex, How
can they be so oblivious?
pc: Writers often 'wind up making really bad bargains with their
publishers, I hate the Alyson policythat they censor what 'they define as
unsafe sex, I have had numerous

Pornograpy does
not cause AIDS'
any more than it
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arguments about this with Sash a
Alysen. It. happens to be his particular feeling that AIDS is not a threat tolesbians, I think that's baloney andthat's why I insisted on including anote in the book that's about safer sex
for lesbians. And I also have verystrong feelings about the fact that
pornography does not cause AIDS,
anymore than it causes rape, I think
it's a real shame if we have to give up
writing about things in addition to
doing them, When I have sex, I put
on rubber gloves, I do all the stuff
that you are supposed to do, but I
will not stop writing about it. Thesestories are for fantasy stimulation,
they are for fantasy gratification, and I
am really clear that I am going tokeep on pushing that limit as far as
my publisher will let me,
SP: Do you think there is something more behind such prohibitions?
Something more than, "We are teaching safe sex"? Is there not somethingof the need to appear as good boys
and girls? A little as if literature has at
this point be_comea form of testament

to one's adherence, or lack thereof,
to social proscription?
. PC: There has always been thistrend in the gay community thatbeing gay or lesbian is not aboutsex,
We can't emphasize
sex
because straight people, think that
we are obsessed with it. I think thatgay literature is,in real danger ofbeing castrated by AIDS and so are
gay politics, The people are willingto give up their genitals in somesuperstitious hope that' it will delay .
or keep away death. It's really sadto me because gay men were somuch a part of my support systemfor coming out into S/M or for daring
to explore group sex, public sex, to
explore how I felt about open reiationships.
And I found so muc.h
comfort in their joy as a community in just going out seeing how
much they could get away with,
I do think that people feel guilty,
I -think there would have probably been a backlash against what
was going on in the late 70s,
even if a disease had not comealong, because we are raised in apuritanical culture,
But when
you get that backlash and it's
combined with a fatal disease, it's areal mother fucker. It's brought people to their knees. We now have a
new generation of gay men coming
out who don't remember what that, sexually free culture was like andthey are not hearing from the'people
who are still alive, the survivors of
AIDS, enough about what made it
valuable or about why people did it.
It has been demonized.
It's being
talked about as if it were a time
. when nothing positive happened, If
that were true, all of those bathhouses wouldn't have been so crowded.
Lei's be honest here, people were
having a really good time,
SP: On the front of the lesbian
sex revolution that's going on ...
PC: That I'm still waiting for!
SP: Well, it's not going'on at my
casa. What do you think, though?
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bookstore and buy a lesbian sex
manual, there wouldn't have been
New Age, holistic techniques,\
any such animal. In terrI)s of there
The babes from the Cubbyhole
being some written resources, things
carried placards featuring portraits ofhave improved, Let's just hope that
Sandra Bernhard and Madonna, with
we can keep the stuff ,in print. I
the logo "Bad Girls Rule." And yes,want to point out, though, that thethey do,".
A distinguished panel of parade
majority of women's bookstores arestill censoring nonfiction and fiction
judges held court in front of thematerial written by lesbians about
Public Library, bravelyc holding forthsex, Our self-appointed leaders arein the face of sunstroke,sequinstill taking it upon themsel ves to try
blindness and an over-amplified
to keep this information away fromparade announcer. Several hundred
the rest of us, But, I th ink there has . spectators packed a grandstand in
been some change, I think lesbians
the immediate area and thrilled toare more comfortable talking about
the. sight of Dignity's multi-colored
sex, It's not as acceptable as it usedSpirit of Liberation (a winged if1!age
to be, to be in a relationship whereof peace and love); cheered the
you're not "getting any," People recRadical Faeries (their wings sparkling
ognize it as more valid now if you
in the afternoon sunshine); and nearwant to leave a relationship wherely leapt upbn a pickup-truck load of
you're not getting 'What yeu wantle;J,thermen,
includingMr.
physically, And there is a little moreInternational Leather, Gary B'aldwin
tolerance for your fantasies, but I {no wings no matter),think one of the sad things is theAt 39th Street, Mayor Koch, inpolarization between S/M dykes andthe briefest of parade appearances,,other lesbians,
It would be really
met the press and felt the heat from
nice if some of the ex!'>licitness andmarchers who gathered around him
some of the negotiation that I haveto chant, "Dump KOCh.Dump KC)Ch,"
found in the leather community
As several drag queens approached,
could spread,
We have a lot of
the Mayor's security men became
women who come to S!M support
tense, the veins poppingin their,groups who , aren't intq S/M, but they"., necks, "Please," they hissed at a large,
are looking for some place' where
young man in a small. black dress,
they can talk about sex, I think we"please.
Stay back,
Give us ahave to remember tpat traditionally
break," Give us 'all a break,
women are supposed to be the ones
candidateDavid, Mayora'lcontrolling sexuality and that doesn't
Dinkins,
resplendent
in
a,
white
safari.
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necessarilychange because you
jacket and purple shirt, was greeted
come .out as a lesbian. There are difmQre warmly by the crowd, Perhaps
ferent reasons for wanting to be
for the reason he marched from thequeer.
Some women are lesbians
beginning. Perhaps for many morebecause they are sexual and theyreasons than, that.
have to follow that desire even if it's>
Entering Chelsea, the line offor something as socially unacceptmarchers
w~s:dgreetedby moreable
receptive crowds, and cheers from, as getting naked w ilh other
women, ' And, I firmly believe, there
parties on terraces and rooftops,
are women wbo become lesbians
Rainbow flags flew from streetlights
because they have no desire, or little
all along Fifth Avenue and pink triandesire, to get naked, Often they are
gle-shaped confetti floated down in
extremely conservative and, uncomthe bright sunlight on the massive
fortable, partly because we threaten
party that now, at 2:30, jammed Fifth
their right to be in this safe haven
Avenue from Washington Square tofrom the sexual tempest they fear. •the Plaza HoteL ·then, the parade
halted and the salsa music stopped.
Everyone stood still, raising their fists
and clasped hands into the aJr .
Nearly two hundred
thousand,, breathed as one, in rememberance of
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those who have died from AIDS;
there was no sound. The air was as
empty as the Honorary
Grand
Marshall's convertible, left vacant by
the death of Edward Francis Murphy,
known as the "Original Stonewaller,"
who passed, away on February 28,
1989. Slowly one balloon drifted skyward, Then the crowd cheered as
thousands
more balloons
werereleased. "We Remember" read thebanner stretched between the pillars'of the Public Library. And we do .
Entering the. heart of, Greenwich
Village, across Christopher Street andinto Stonewall Place, the marchers
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were received as conquering heros bycrowds jamming the narrow streets,
Perhaps the loudest ovations werereserved for Rollerena, New York's
own •fairy godmother, the Team New
York Gay Games Athletes and theappearance of the New York City Gay
Men's Chorus, Eager correspondents
lined up at th<;!U.S, Postal Service
mobile van in Sheridan Square tohave their stamps cancelled. Designed
by Keith Haring, this marks the firstever cancellation to openly refer tothe lesbian and gay community,
something which bas driven somemembers of Congress wild (see story,
p. 18), The march spilled out onto
West Street and onto the pier where
Dance IIi, presented by Heritage of,Pride and the Lesbian and Gay
Community, Services Center, explodedin energy: lights anQ. sound, The day
ended with a stunning display of fireworks over the Hudson, And if you've
never seen fireworks with a mob ofgay people-who
all oohed andaahed in unison-you've
never seen
fireworks.
Walking home on a vacantsidestreet, my lover and I passed
below a terrace from which floatedbig' band music, We,gleefully ballroom-danced, feeling the full spirit of
Gay Pride and freedom breathing in
us, Joan Nestle's voice, from her rally
speech the previous day (see p, 28),
floated around in my head, Then avoice from above shouted "Dip!"
Then again, "Dip!" "Are you. ready?"
Basil asked me, mischief twinkling in
his eyes. /1 was. "Dip him!" theyyelled. And yes, he did, ••"c_ c_ •

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Monday, an anonymous ranking officer said, "We were told to avoid, any
confron,tation
and arrests," Julia
Thompson denied issuing such anorder in the same article, "I asked myofficers to show restraint, and only tomake arrests if they observed property damage or personal injuries," thePost reported her saying, Thompson
did not return any of Out Week's
phone caJls,
While on West Street the band
blocked traffic for about ten minutes,
Although police quickly interceded, and restored traffic flow, they did not
attempt to either protect the demonstrators from oncoming traffic, arrest
them, or move them out of the way,
Several narrowly escaped injury when'a tour bus forced its way through the
impromptu roadblock that had been
set up. And some motorists wereangered by the delays they encountered. "These are a bunch of fucking
sick bastards. This is how they
demonstrate? What about my right togo where I'm going?" shouted one
driver from New Jersey who refused
to give his name,,It was apparently other angry
motoriststhat precipitated / theevening's most serious violence, In
two separate incidents, cars allegedly
sped through lines of demonstrators,
The first injuries occurred on West
10th Street near Julius, a gay bar, after
the mob had returned from West
Stre~t. "He tried to run us over," saida tearful Ralph del VaHe, who said he
had been hit and sprained his ankle,"Then he backed up and tried to run
us over again.", An angry mob chased the car
through the streets of the Village, as it
sped around other cars and up onto
sidewalks, ignoring orders from thepolice to puJl over, The crowd caught
up to the car, a red Chevy Cavalier,license XXF 461, from New York, on
Christopher Street in front of theLucille Lortel Theater. As police
removed the driver and four passengers and shoved them through a side
door at the theater to protect them,from the crowd, people in the mob
surrounded the car and began smashing the wind<;>wsand lights, using a
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Others pulled off the hood andkicked in the sides, before the police
could move them away from the car,
"They all had their middle fingers
up, They thought they could get awayfrom us, but they don't know our territory," said Sean Ortiz, an 18-year-old
high school student from Forest Hills,
Police later removed the fivefrom the theater, and shoved theminto a waiting police van, along withdel Vall~ and Balo Williams, who said
he also had been hit. Del Valle andWilliams were later taken to Saint
Vincent's Hospital, treated, andreleased, according to a police department spokesperson, who said that
another injured demonstrator, Mark
Sobol, had also been hospitalized anddischarged"
On Grove Street near the
Monster, a gay bar and disco acrossfrom Christopher Park, another car
drove into a group of demonstrators
which had broken off from the larger
crowd" i9juring at least three, One
man was taken to Saint Vincent's
Hospital in an ambulance, According
to Catherine Saalfield, a passenger
had previously gotten out of the car
and shouted homophobic remarks,
and was involved in several confrontations, Her story was confirmedby several other witnesses,'''Get the gun, get the gun,'"Saalfield said he shouted to his passengers, "He 'was just going crazy,"added Jill Harris, a legal aid attorneypresent at the scene. "He was picking
fights with whatever gay person hecould find, and being restrained byhis friends."
The man was forced back into
his car by plainclothes police officers,
The police and demonstrators thenmade a path, for cars to turn from
Grove Street left on to West 4th,
according to Saalfield and others,
Three other cars did so, But the car
whose passenger was involved in theconfrontation aJlegedly drove into thedemonstrators instead, "People hit thehood of the car as it drove by, One
flew into the hood of a parked car[and] fell onto the ground, [He] washolding his head. There was blood allover the place," Saalfield said.
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sped away down West 4th Street, butwere more circumspect. Gerri Wells
was eventually overtaken by police
said she was concerned about theand demonstrators, The driver, Peterpossibility' of outside agitation, particZocco of Brooklyn, was arrested,ularly by governmental agents, She
charged with leaving the scene of an
cited as an example that at a supposaCCident, given a desk appearance
edly spontaneous
outpouringofticket, and released, according toanger, there were several American
Sergeant Joseph Gallagher, a police
flags on hand, ready to be burned,
department spokesperson, A deskA group of anarchist skin heads
appearance ticket (DAT) is,normally
who had joined the Radical Faeries
issued for misdemeanors.
from Tompkins Square Park in the
Katie Doran, the Manhattan
East Village, were a major presence inDistrict Attorney's Office's liaison to
the evening's events. ¥any in th,ethe lesbian and gay community said,group of self-identified anarchists purposefully tried to provoke the police,"We're looking into wJ:Iat happened,
and interviewing victims, police officers
and witnesses,
I've
heard so many stories
at this point that I'm
not sure how manyarrests were made, or
what the charges
were," Doran said,
adding that she could
not comment further
because of the ongoing in~estigation,
Some time later,
the police blocked off
Seventh ,Avenuebelow 14th Street,and some people sat
in the intersection
near Christopher Park
until after 2 a,m. By
mi<!night the mood of
the crowd had once,
again become mellow DURNIN' THE USA
Great balls of fire outside the 6th Precinct.
andcelebratory,•
althoughthe glassfrom the smashed car's windows still'and even some of the gay men andglittered along Christopher Street,lesbians in the 'area, ''This isn't even
our issue, man," one woman shouted
Much of the crowd seemed unwillat a group of gay bystanders,ing to end the night, and the Radical
Faeries led cheers of "sodomize"The only change that was
brought about was that people got
tonight." At 'one point, everyone inhurt., It just didn't feel right," Wells
the intersection jOined hands above
said, '
their heads and sang, "Somewhere, But Michael Nesline said, "TheOver the Rainbow," as they swayed
anger ,tha~ people were expressing
gently back and forth, and thenbegan dancing to "Ding Dong thewas very real. We can expect to see
Witch is Dead."more expressions of that outrage."David Wertheimer, executive
David Dinkins arrived after middirector of the Gay and Lesbian Antinight to demonstrate his concern
Violenceover the situation.
, Project, told Out Week, "TheWhile some expressed exhiliraimplications of SaturdayUs riot] contion or pride about the evening's
cern me enormously, and could be asetback for gay community-police
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relations, When you target the pol ice
for a demo, you need a reason, andI'm not clear that the police were an
appropriate ~arget," Werthe imer said,"I think the police showed remarkable restraint, given the circumstances," he added,
But Neil Broome complained
about the response of the police, both'in failing to protect the gay and lesbian demonstrators, and in dealing
with the many tense situations, ':Julia
Thompson needs to learn how toarticulate issues and respond to situations better," Broome said, "Whenpeople talked about
discrimination by thepolice, she claimed
that there is not discrimination,You
don't make blanket
statements like that.
It only angered people more when she
got on the megaphone and said that,"
he continued,
And Jill Harris
said she was outraged at the charges
pressedagainstZocco, "What I witnessed was a serious
vehicular
assault,
which is a serious
felony, The prosecutor could have atleast charged him
Photo: IL. Litt with a misdemeanor
assault," she charged,
Accordingto
Doran in the DA's office, the DAT isreturnable on July.14th, at which time
"we will have reached a decision
about whether to bring further
charges,"
Well after midnight, and after thepolice had blocked off the Village totraffic, a police captain at 14th Street
and 7th Avenue' was asked by a
motorist why' he could not drive
through.
"You've got. to avoid
Christopher Street, Sheridan Square)that whole .area," the captain replied,"A bunch of homosexuals blocked off... oh, don't ask." ...
Mark Chesnut and Phil Zwickkr
also contributed to this story.

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