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Oral Considerations
Is male-to-male oral sex unsafe?
The unpleasant answer Is that unprotected oral sex Is a sometimes-risky practice which can and does -lead to HIV infection,even when no ejaculation occurs, There Is ample anecdotal evidence supporting this conclusion: The known facts about HIV
transmission support It, safer-sex gUidelines everywhere proclaim
It, and most AIDS professionals believe It to be true,
Yet It seems that many-possibly
most-gay men do notbelieve that oral sex Is risky enough to require condom use, Theybase their opinions on numerous assumptions: that no one hasever demonstrated oral HIV transmission; that saliva kUls HIV; that
the Canad,ian government has pronounced oral sex safe; that all
those who claim that they became infected through oral sex are
lying; etc, All of these assumptions are false, and it's a testament
to the human capacity for denial that they remain widespread in
the gay male community. But the biggest barrier to a clear
appraisal of the relative hazards of oral sex is the lack of a major
CDC study precisely delineating the risks of the practice.
Gay men have become remarkably educated about AIDS.
They do not accept unsubstantiated recommendations about sex,
especially from the straight, largely homophobic, sex-phobic medical establishment. And in the case of oral sex, they do not seemwilling to accept anecdotal reports or inferential conclusions, nomatter how credible. They want to make up their minds based onsolid clinical data. And in the case of oral sex, those data seem tobe Virtually impossible to obtain.
The failure of the Centers for Disease Control, ten years into
the epidemic, to conduct studies that would provide such data is aremarkable-indeed
shocking-omission.
The CDC's primary
responsibility is to determine how diseases are spread. The factthat in this case they haven't done so in a clear, believable way
illustrates once again how little they value our lives.
Sbme would claim that a credible study of the relative risksof oral sex is impossible, even unethical. That's nonsense. A simple cohort study which for several years followed a thousand
male volunteers who claim oral sex as their only risk factor
would have long ago yielded usable results, Even allOWing forlying, for delayed seroconversion and for other factors, epfdemiologists and statisticians could have clearly and precisely-determined the relative dangers of unprotected ejaculatory andnon ejaculatory oral sex.
And relative danger is the key concept. A seroconversion rateof 1 percent over five years is a very different matter from a rateof 15 percent or 30 percent. Although oral sex is often hazardous,
the question people really want to know is how hazardous. With- that information, they can make up their own minds about which. risks they choose to take,
A recent study in San FranciSCO,still unpublished, may yieldsuch data soon. Its preliminary results indicate a higher serocon... version rate than many have believed for unprotected nonejaculatory oral sex, Butwe're still waiting for the data.
We've been waiting for ten years. And while we wait, we die.
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It's time,·to let our silent mayorcars, ruin their homes, wreck
their family lives, destroy their
see the wrath that the ~rmed
careers. It's time to get fuoklesbian and gay community is
ing serious!
capable of creating. Our'brothI
Go to One Police Plazaers and sisters continue to be I
beaten, maimed, stabbed,
and get a pistol permit applislashed andmurdered as thecation, fill it out, get armed.
Dinkins administration silently
and then get activeI
looks on, as the New York
Brian Gibson
media silently look on, as theAddress Withheld
police department silently looks. I'
oll-iUld so on, and so on.
The Oct. 17 articles on
Sam Ciccone's comments
arming the gay community are
regarding the arming of gays
disturbing. As one who was hit
and lesbians is So spineover the head with a quart botless-':'it's sad. Here's a man
tle of beer in a 1986 fag-bashWho represents our brothers
ing, I agree that fag-bashingmust stop. When I was struck,and Sisters in uniform, and. he's afraid to say what he realI was able to get up and use aly thinks. Let's face it: If Cicwrestling body-slam to knock
cone advocated lesbians andmy attacker to the ground; I
then turned and outran' him.
gays arming themselves, he'dbe called into the police com- ,I also ,have had the misfortune of being robbed' at
missioner's office so fast it!
would make his head spin.
, gun-point on the LL in 1980
As far as the argument
Whoopl to the West Side Spirft: "Iand at knife-point iQ Grandthat anning "will giVe the cops
was actually concerned that there 1
Central in 1989.
the excuse they've been waiting
would be, smooching with Demi Moore
If we look at recent histofor to train their own cro~s[in Gllost]. 1 had Just managed to live
ry in Eastern Europe, somehairs on US"-buIlShitl1hedown the lesbianismof Tile Colorinteresting questions emerge:
Constitution guarantees ev,eryPurple." Whoopi to Miami's Weekly
Did guns overthrow the govone the tight to bear anns
I News: "I can never Jive down the gay 1 ernment of the Romanian diceven a bunch of dykes an~ tagangle In TIle Color PuIPle....Eddie Murtator? Or was it the fact that
gots. The City of New York canphy and 1 would make marvelous
millions of his people refused
not deny a pistol permit/unless
screen time." Whoopi to Slarloll: "I
to work and took to the street
to demand his removal.
you have been convicted o~ arecently became a grandmother, but it
felony, suffer from a l1]ental 111has been a pretty short role. When the
Look at the civil rights
movement. Some claim that it
ness, hav~ a proven ,addiction
baby's wet, 1 hand her back to mywas the violence of Black terto narcotics .or suffer from adaughter. One lip lock with a woman,rorists groups that won thephysical defect or/Sickness
and you end up having to explain it for
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-rta.!So-'~_civil rights battle. I'll concedethat the burning of Newark,handling of a firearm. That isson for me to do a love scene with
Watts and parts of Harlem
played a roleJn turning theIt's time to send a clear
Patrick [Swayze] plays much better.
'I.,ULGIIUQI yaytide. But the role these events
played was to elevate the'~asher that ente~our city. It's
was very nervous when they saw myissue to a state of urgency
time to u~ the .:antel I c;all on
hand creep in there." Whoopi to Fronthat
motivated "the people" ofevery.lesblan .nd gay ma~ totiers: "These outing lists are not always
arm themselves, not only Witha. ,'.
our typically uninvolved socicorrec!;n.1 m on the list. This cracked
weapo,nbut Wit~ the expertiseety to raise their voices andon how to use ItI It's time to
me up. .
force the government to be. really take b~ck the streetsl
OutWeekto Ms. Goldberg: Please'accountable for its actions' Every ,time a lesbian or~hut your ~emente~ and dangerous~rap,and to end blatant indefensigay man fis assaulted, we
cause you re sou!'dlng an awful lo~hk~ a
ble racist behavior.
should hunt down theperpefrustrated a':,1dfr~g~tened,ever-climbing"Should Queers Shoot.. t~atorsbf'
these 'heinousand ~ver-ratlonallzlng, closet-case dyke
Back?"romanticizesboth assascrimes lind instill a fear in
who s severe~y sold ~ut to the great,sins and martyrs. To talk ofthem the iik f which thestraight,
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girls dress like that.. .." Honey, that these internal problems
hope that after·he commits
his bloody deed that he be it's too bad there's no brains haveto be addressed.
Dan Hunterkept in captivity with David under that bouffant, for as you
Serva/an Erik[sic] Goetz and that they probably don't know, the bash-.
Manhattan
ers that attended last year's
come up with more brilliant
solutions to New York's crime Wigstock have practically gotproblem and ideas for start- ten off scot-free of all charges. FAT BUCK? WHAT?!?
, Well, dear,we won't endearyou
On Monday, OutWeek
ing a race war.
Karl Johnsonwith a swipe from our fuck-me comes out with a superb editopump heels, but we wonder rial regarding do-nothing DinkManhattan
what the Judy queens from the ins and his disgusting behavior
Hurray for Out Week's '69 Stonewall revolution would toward the queer nation. On
Thursday, OutWeef(s editor in"Taking Aim at Bashers" covert think about you. .
A gun-finallya distinction- Comptroller Liz Holtzman. She chief appears all kissy-ass on
between you and the Advocate. got Time-Warner to drop explic- the same forum with the hypoBut while we're at it, let's take it programing from channel critical Ma~orie Hill. And when
the time to point our gun at a J/23 because she deemed it 'I confronted her on this subfew targets not usually recog- "offensive" and "a threat to the ject, the man delivered a lecture
nized as enemies of the queer welfare of children," something on political etiquette. Fuck you,community. Well, maybe we we've heard too many times Rotello, there is no "proper"
don't want to kill them, so we'll from homo-hater&. But from an time or place.feople are being
just clobber them with our in-the~loset lesbian?
attacked even as you had your
.Joan Crawford ankle-strapped - Tim Sweeny of GMHC. As far little moment on the stage at
fuck-me pumpsl'' as we're concerned, you're
the Community Center. The- Starting with gay Republi- nothing more than an AIDS main reason I rose to challengecans a contradiction if there profiteer. As head of GMHC, a Hill's bullshit as usual is that it
ever was one. This group of multimillion-dollar corporation was apparent to me that you
shitheads actually had to debate [siC). you rake in. over were not going to.
Looks like your success
whether or not they would sup- $100,000 a year. Imagine
has gone to your ego. You canport Jesse Helms...slaml
someone making a six-figure-Dr. Ma~orte Hili, Dinkin's sup- salary as head of an AIDS ser- play politics as usual if you
posed liaison to our communi- vice organization while people want, but I refuse. These ass. ty. Our initial hopes for this les- struggle for their lives. And holes have to be confronted
bian of color have been shot to your part in the Woody Myers wherever and whenever possihell recently, as she's been at affair will never be forgotten.
ble. In your own magazine, it isseveral different queer forums, - The gay men ~e've heard said that Hill will not discuss theacting like a fucking politician too many times [who] think issue. Or did you decide that awith her shit-eating grin. This children are the "innocent vic- risky and confrontational posipuppet, when asked about the tims" of the AIDS epidemic, tion might cut into your finansurge in bashings, could only due to the sexual excess of cial success? Or, are you only
say that the issue was too the past, Those are the same an activist at the office? Or, arecomplex to go into. Duck, sad people [who] think that you not an activist at all, but ahoney, the honeymoon is overl Ryan White is some great cynical guppie out for the fast
hero. He is no more a hero buck? There is no improper- People in our community[who] frown upon and try to than all of the lesbian and gay time or placefor activism. If you
squelch the visibility of drag superheros [who] have been won't do it, then get the hell out•
queens and leather people fighting since the beginn,ing of of the way so we can.
because they're too stereotyp- this epidemic.
I have lost a great deal of- Gay milO [who] refuse to tie in respect for you. Being an apolical. These two wonderfulforms of expression are a part women's issues during the ogist and kissing up to ourof o'ur culture and are not AIDS crisis. We wonder, if this killers is no service to our
disease primarily affected les- community, and you should.going awayl People [who]•hate us hate us all, whether bians, would these men stop for be ashamed of yourself .
. [we),re effeminate, butch, a a moment to help their sisters?
Lon Lowry
We in no way think that. drag queen or "just like them."
Manhattan,- Drag queer:ts[who] think that going after these people is more
, they deserve to be beaten up . important than going after real
SOBER
because of their outrageous- enemies such as bashers,
EMPOWERMENT
ness. As one Wigstock organiz- who[m] we'd love to point guns
I appreCiate the fact thater once said, "Well, when you at and shootl But we also fetil you are acknowledging an.'women with AIDS is almost.
nonexistent, because ourmostly straight, white, malelegislators are more concernedabout
an unborn
fetus than they are about aliving, breathing woman?
Surely this more likely
accounts for women's anger
than does jea,lousy over"glamour" pu~licity.
And Mr. Gonsalves,
you're wrong about anotherthing: We gay, white males
do indeed "need" lesbiansjust as we need those turnstile-hoppingBlacks you
suggest ~hould find their, own gay magazine. OutWeek
belongs to all of us-not justyour type. What we don't
need is the kind of divisive,hate-filledgarbage you
spew. We've got to fight for
all of us, for the "degradingand humiliating!' drag types,
for the turnstile-hopping,

seem to feelthey havethe rightto tell someone else he or she
is not ''the right kind of queer."
I begin to wonder whether I am
walking out of one repressive
societyand into another just as
bad. "I'm sick of the straightworld telling me how todress, how to cut my hair,whom to love, how to love
them, what to think," cries the
refugee."That's all right, dear.
Come to us, and we will tell
you how to cut your hair, how
to dress, whom to love...."The letter in the Oct. 17
issue [no. 68] by James
Gonsalves, I think, reallycrystallized the problem forme. Mr. Gonsalves-and allof you who muttered agreement while reading-turnback in your memory to
1981. Remember the firsttime you heard of AIDS.
Now, let's try a little revisionist history. Instead, you areBlacks, for the AIDS-envying
lesbians and, yes, even foryou, Mr. Gonsalves.
Rick Mount
Manhattan
WELCOME TO THE
TRIBE
As a lesbian just beginning after 20 wretched years
to stick my toes,oQ,e by one,out of the clos.eJ,I find OutWeek very helpful. Reading it
gives me a sense of connection and of where the community is going; it makes itthat much easier to keep
goin' down that long road.
The people who have beenout for a long time, or were
never in, forget how hard it
still is for some of us.
The letters column,
though, discourages me immensely.So much internecine
hostility out there! It neverfails
to amazeme how many people•

reading about a mysterious
disease that only apparently
attacks lesbians. Be honest.
How many of you would
have simply shrugged andtossed the newspaper aside
and caught the next boat toFire Island? If one positive'
thing comes out of this godawful hqlocaust, I hope it is
the realization that we're allin this together; and if theprice that's been paid was
the only way to get thisknowledge, we'd have been
better off without it.
I agree that I can dowithout the attitudes of a lotof my fellow lesbians. Mr.
Gonsalve and his ilk are correct, I think, in criticizing theones who try to place AIDS
and yeast infections on a parin some weird spirit of equality. We have our problems
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by Victoria A. Brownworth
WASHINGTON-When the House
overwhelmingly agreed to an amendment to the Comprehensive
Crime
Control Act this month, it was assumed
nationwide that it had just done agood thing for rape survivors acrossthe country.

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The amendment, proposed by
Illinois Republican Rep. Lynn Martin,would require states to hav~lawsordering mandatory HIV testing ofconvicted rapists and the release ofsuch test results to the victim, should
she request them.
On the surface, the legislation
seems just: If a woman is traumatizedby the brutal act of a rape, she
deserves to know the rapist's HlY status, in order to attempt to protect herself and, her potential partners fromo? ~TAr2GE'TW

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WASHINGTON-Currently, 16 states allow the release of
The Martin amendment was supported by the National Netrapists' HIV-test results to victims. Those are Arizona, Arkansas, work of Victims of Sexual Assault, a Virginia-based public policy
California, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, group with over 1,000 members nationwide.
Kansas, M,ichlgan, Nevada, Ohio, Oregon, South Carolina and '"We feel that the legislation will do much to standardize theTexas, according to the State AIDS Policy Center of the Inter- way states respond to requests from victims about rapists''governmentai'Hea"h Policy Project.
health, and we also feel that it broadens and strengthens the leState laws In Arizona, CalWornia,Florida, Kansas, Oregon and gal rights of victims of sexual assault," commented Mary Ann
Texas also allow victims to request that their rapists be tested Largen, the group's executive director.
for the virus.
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by Allen WhiteSAN FRANCISCO-The people ofeverybody's favorite city are bracing
for a holy war on Halloween that potentially pits television evangelist Larry
Lea against the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence,<,and a somewhat sanctified,version of, Queer Nation.
La~t month, Lea announced that
his ·prayer army· is coming to San
Francisco's 7,OOO-seat, Civic Auditorium
to do battle with the city's evil spirits on
HalloW'een. The battle lines may be
more than spiritual, and although everyone has promised to be on his or
her best lx<h.avior;'some' in the city areconcerned that violence may break out.
At tqe"other end of town, the Sisters, a group .of gay men given towearing nuns' habits and lots of makeup, ha:v~joined with the San FranCisco
PoliceDepa~~ent
In a rather uniqueunholy alliance, Tagether, 'they will bebarricading a ten-square-block area
whlchlnc1udes the Castro, the heart ofgay Sa,nFranclSC(),.
The cops and the, Sisters Joined. forces .because last year, according topolice estimates, over 250,000 people,
most of them straight, descended on
the Castro to celebrate Halloween; The
human wall of people was so Intensethat any Incident could have sparked
a tragedy,
Last year, the' SLstersraised almost$3,000 at the corner of Castro and Mar.ket streets for earthquake relief, They
figured that If they could raise that, much on one corner, they could bring
In a lot more If they barricaded theentire area, ' . .
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.' With the. precept that str~ights
should have to pay to see queers on
Halloween, the idea took form. Plans
call for a four-hour drag show at one
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going to be asked to shell out one
buck to enter,
Proceeds will benefit a bevy ofgroups, Including the Gay Men of Color AIDS Consortium, Queer Nation,
the AIDS Emergency Fund and several
agencies serving women of color, For
the police, the expansion of the barricaded area means a less dense crowd,
which they are completely in favor of,
Never In their wildest dreams
did the organizers think a televisionevangelist would plan to descend on
the city the same night to "save"them, But he has, and he plans tobring with him thousands of "prayer
warriors· from New York City andother cities across the country,
He has been promoting his spiritual journey to the Golden Gate forover two months on 40 independent
television stations across the nation.
He claims 280,000 prayer warriors andpromises that the numbers will top
300,000 by Halloween. American Airlines is the official airline, and the San

Francisco Hilton is the official hotel.
Both have offered special discounts to
his prayer warriors,
Lea's primary opponent Is an offshoot of Queer Nation, Called
GHOST-Grand Homosexual Outrage
at Sickening Televangelists-they
expect thousands to be In force when Lea
opens his first meeting Halloween night
In the San Francisco CivicAuditorium,
A statement from GHOST says,"We feel [Lea's) group poses a genuine
danger to the citizens of San Francisco,
not just through its collective political. influence, but by bringing to the city
multitudes of ignorant, hate-fUied rightwingers who typify the fag-bashing
personality, ..
Enter the Roman Catholic Church
into this crusade, with concerns from
Bob Nelson, an administrator for the
Catholic Charities' AIDS/ARC program .
He sent a memo to Archbishop John
Quinn, the West Coast version of New
York City's Cardinal John O'Connor,
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Republican group has donated $500 tothe. re-election campaign of the US, senator who was the target of thecountry's most aggressive outing campaign to date.
The Log Cabin Club political action committee said that Oregon Republican Sen. Mark Hatfield's "progressive stands on AIDS-related legislationand on civil rights protections for men
and women in the gay community
have justified this support, as has. his
positive record as the ranking Republican on thi~powerful Senate Appropriations Committee."
But in a prepared statement,. the.group acknowledged that it was primarily motivated by the recent outing
campaign against Hatfield.
"It has been the recent action of
hurling unfounded and unwarranted
attacks against the senator's personal
life by some factions of the gay community that has impressed the' Log
Cabin PAC board with an urgency toshow support for Sen. Hatfield," thegroup wrote.
Hatfield has be(!n targeted for outing by members of ACT UPIPortland
and others for more than two years.
He and his aides have repeatedly denied that the conservative Republican
senator is gay.
The most dramatic action in theongoing campaign came this past April,?/hen activists carefully altered a Matfield billboard on one of Portland's
main thoroughfares so that the sign
read: "Ha.tfield. Closeted Gay. Living a
Lie-Voting , to Oppress." The action.received extensive coverage on local
TV newscasts.
In a prepared statement, ACT UP
explained: "Hatfield was on notice that

ACT UP would act if he continued to
gay-bash with his votes in the senate.
He didn't listen.".
In an accompanying statement,
Portland attorney and ACf UP member
Wayne Harris promised, "Any doubt of
the truth about Hatfield'~ sexual orientation can be resolved in a court oflaw, if necessary."

Contrary to Log Cabin's Club's assertions, Hatfield's congressional
record includes eight votes in the past
two and one-half years opposing theinterestsof the gay and AIDS
communities.
In 1988, for example, Hatfield voted to prohibit the use of federal funds
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GAY GROUP'S MONEYWASHINGTON- The nation's largest
gay and lesbian political action committee issued a sharp rejection to a request
for funds from one of the country's
most anti-gay legislatores .
Staffers at the Human Rights
Campaign Fund were surprised on Oct.
1 to receive a solicitation for funds from
Republican Rep. Robert K. Dornan ofCalifornia, one of the most vehement
opponents of gay and lesbian civil rights
in the US House.
"Please let me hear from you today
regarding [a] general election contribution from [the] Human Rights
Campaign Fund," the letter concluded.
"Thank you."Staffers at the gay and lesbianpolitical group, however, were not soinclined and fired off a quick rejection of
the solicitation.
"Thank you so much for writing and'requesting a financial contribution fromthe Human Rights Campaign Fund forCongressman Bob Dornan," responded
Tim McFeeley, the Fund's executive
director. "I always wondered why
Congressman Dornan was so interested
in lesbian and gay people. Now I understand-he wants our money."
Dornan, a leading spokesperson forIii'

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County, Calif., colleague, Republican
Rep. William Dannemeyer, in leading
the charge to block a bill which
included a federal ban on AIDS-related
discrimination
and another which
mandated the collection of statistics
on hate-motivated crimes, including
anti-gay crimes .
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Wigstock '89
queer-bashing case came to a bitter
close last week, with one defendant ac.qUitted of all charges and the other,,who attempted to use a "homosexual
panic· 'defense, convicted of one felonycharge of attempted assault.
The decision shocked anti-violenceadvocates and infuriated lesbian andgay activists who charge that the ac:quittal of a gay-basher sends a message tovictims that the legal system will notprotect them from vicious assaults.
The acquittal also underscored theneed for a statewide hate-crimes law,
without which the malicious motivation.. of anti-gay perpetrators cannot be
brought before a New York court.
"Their intention is what gets lost in 'the system," remarked Karl Soehniein;
whose accused attacker was acquittedof all charges. "Their int!!ntion was toget queers. And they got them,"
Matt Foreman, director of the city's
Gay and Lesbian Anti-Yiolence Project,called the verdicts "extremely disappointing" and harshly criticized theinvestigation that the police and the District Attorney's office conducted"From the get-go there should have. been a call for witnesses to come forward," Foreman commented, pointing
out th~t the police failed to identify witnesses at the site of the attack, which occurred on Labor Day at the Wigstock festival in Tompkins Square Park in 1989.
Accounts published just after the. , Dashing reported that four gay men
were attacked by lacrosse-stick-wielding
youths who yelled anti-gay epithets as- ~ey swung at th~ir victims. Both Soehnlein and one 'other witness for the pros,
ecution, parren Britton, were injured
during the assault, and Britton required
treatment in the hospital for a fracturedl,

THE ACCUSED-Suarez (left) and Hasam, lacrosse sticks in hand, at the crime
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Two alleged perpetrators arrested
at the scene, Jose Suarez, of 361 E. 10th
St., and Kenny Hasam, of 368 E. 10th
St., were defendants in the trial. But
while Suarez, who repeatedly struck
Britton on the back with a lacrosse stick,
was found guilty of attempted seconddegree assault, the 12-member jury
ruled that Hasam was not guilty of two
counts of second-degree assault.
"I've baSically been told that no
crime was committed against me," remarked Soehnlein. Because he did not
suffer the legal reqUirement of substantial pain or permanent impairment,
his accused attacker got off the hookaltogether.
"I'm not sure I would encourage other people to go through the system thisway. I'm not convinced that the system as
it is serves people well," he commented.
Convicted assailant Suarez attempt-

ed to convince the jury that the fracas
ensued when he acted in his own defense after gay men present at Wigstock,a daylong musical celebration of drag,made sexual advances toward him.
In the course of the trial, witnesses
were asked if they had attempted tofondle Suarez's genitals, if they had
asked Suarez to give them blow-jobs,
and if the drag they wore on the day of
the assault had been specially purchased for Wigstock, or if those items ofclothing were standard elements of theirwardrobe.
Britton recalled that the defense attorneys asked him if he had had sex 'in
the park with anyone during the courseof the day, and if it was true that he hadfound the defendants sexually desirable.
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alter the job status of over 20 million
women In the US,
Johnson Controls Inc, 1/, Untied Auto
Wcrim' focuses on the rights of employers to bar women of childbearing years
from jobs that pose risks to a fetus,
regardless of whether the woman ispregnant or ever Intends to bear ,children, The case threatens to overturn thecivil rights gained by women In theworkplace through the Civil Rights Act
and the Pregnancy Discrimination Act,according to UAW attorney Marsha S.
Berzon. She believes that If the policy atJohnson is allowed to stand, it could
mean that women will be barred fromalmost all meaningful or well-paying
employment and will promote "segregation of the workplace" and return
women to the status of childbearers.
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about the implications for lesbians In theAmerican workplace.
According to Johnson's lawyer, Stanley Jaspan, the central Issue pits anti-discrimination laws against the rights of an
employer to keep women from "know,Ingly exposing fetuses to substances
known to cause harm." In his argument
before the Court, Jaspan noted that previous livoluntary" policies with women at
the 17 Johnson plants had done no
good; ,eight women became pregnant. while chOOSingto remain In jobs where, high levels of lead were' present. One
fetus was said to have suffered somebrain damage as a result.
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augured by courts and Legislatures
around the nation. The decision in theJohnson case would be the most comprehensive, however, because it would

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have broad legal ramifications and could
be applied to a host of different jobs,
Past cases Include the prosecution of a
Sacramento woman whose child wasstillborn after she took drugs during her
pregnancy against the advice of her
physician. The high rate of crack-addicted and other drug- and a1cohol-addictedbabies has made the Issue of prosecutionof women for fetal endangerment more
and more volatile,
But the Johnson case, because it
affects all women of childbearing age agood 35 years of the average woman's
Iife--oould compromise the jobs of millions of women,"Whether a woman is a lesbian or
straight she is still going to face thesame discrimination from this kind ofpolicymaking,· said Ivy Young, thedirector of the Families Project at the
National Gay and Lesbian Task Force.
"Lesbians are still women and are going
to bear the discriminatory effects oflegislation against women regardlessof their sexual orientation,"
Added Maria Gilde Lamadrid, a staff
attorney at the Lesbian Rights Project in
San Francisco: "Just because we're
lesbians doesn't mean we don't get pregnant on purpose, This kind of policy isan all-out attack on women as a group
who are viewed by these lawmakers asbaby breeding-grounds and baby makers, The fact that this kind of policy isn't
applied to men who can be as affectedby chemical alteration of DNA as womenindicates quite clearly [that) as a class of
women, we're being mistreated.·
The policy at Johnson is not the
only such policy nationwide. The American Civil Liberties Union, which filed abrief in the case, states that nearly 20
major US corporations employing huge
numbers of women have such policies,
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to forcing the government to alleviate
the ravages of AlPS, a group oflawyers-has filed a class-action suit, on
behalf of women, drug users, poor
people and children disabled by HIVrelated diseases, against the highest
public health official in the nation.

Although it is tailored to challenge
a specific gap in the government's response to AIDS and HIV-related illness,lawyers said that the suit could haveramifications for all people with HIV
infection, as people live longer withHIV and manifest different symptoms.
This effort is being spearheadedby lesbian attorneys schooled in healthcare and AIDS activism and is receiving street-level back-up from AIDS activists who have long endured criticism
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Com ing Out Day, on Oct. 11, in theirtrademark in-your-face way. Members held small, informal kiss-ins atmajor transportation hubs, includingGrand Central Station and, pictured
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Mayoral Liaison Margorie Hill and
OutWeek editor Gabriel Rotello hosted
an open-house evening of coming-out
stories at the Lesbian and Gay Community Center that evening.
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white men with AIDS.
At issue in the, suit is a 1987 federal definition of AIDS which does notinclude the myriad HIV-related presentations in women and people of color.
Advocates say that the definition keeps
an entire class of people represented
in the suit from receiving presumptive
disability benefits from the Social Security Administration.
"I've gotten calls from all over thecountry from service providers who
have been witnessing their clients dying before they can get them benefits,'
commented Theresa McGovern, the attorney with MFY Legal Services who ischief counsel for the plaintiffs.
On Nov. 16, the federal judge
hearing the case will entertain theclaim for benefits on behalf of thenamed plaintiffs in the suit, who include two Latinas, an African-American
woman, a homeless African-American
man and a 2-year-old Latino child. All
the plaintiffs are identified only by
their initials, as they fear that publicknowledge of their HIV status will expose them to further harassment anddiscrimination.
McGovern said that to her knowledg~, only one other class-action suit, on
behalf of people who applied for Medicaid reimbursement for off-label use of
AZT, has been filed to prod a government agency to fulftllits mandate.
In that case, the judge sided withthe plaintiffs, agreeing that Medicaid
should make reimbursement determinations independent of the Food andDrug Administration's safety and efficacy guidelines.

- Nina Reyes

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PHILADELPHIA-Over 20 members of ACT UP/Philadelphia occupied
a nursing home in West Mount Airy for,,

ACT UP had been warned that
their Involvement in the Betak Issue
w~ "~nwelcome", but decided on theoccupation one week after the announcement,
Spreading' a banner
across the front porch of the homewhich read "OCCUPIED-for
ourlives," the members vowed to stay until the matter was settled in favor of
opening the hospice,. On Oct. 12, the board of directorsof Betak met wi~ city and state Department of Welfare officials to decide what
to do, A tentative settlement has beenreached which would open Betak by
the end of March "if all goes well," according to one official. But with thePhiladelphia budget crisis pushing thecity toward bankruptcy within weeks, it
is unlikely tlJat monies will be forthcom,ing from the city. And the gubernatorial
election is only three weeks away,
which could dramatically shift state attention to AIDS.
This is the first known building occupation by an ACT UP group in the
country. According to inside sources at
Betak, some members of the board deliberately left the home unlocked so that
ACT UP could occupy the building.
When POW committed to finalization of funding, the board requested
that ACT UP cease the occupation by 3
pm on Oct. 14. ACT UP complied but
stressed that the group would continue
to monitor the Betak situation carefully.
ACI:'UP is "almost wholly responsible"for .forcing the hospice to be opened,
said one city aide.
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SILENCENEW YORK-The
city government,'Via City Council President An,
drew Stein, issued its first public condemnationof the rising rate of, anti-lesbian and anti-gay violence last
week, in conjunction with the release'. of the Anti-Violence Project's September bias statistics.
Stein reiterated the community's
persistent calls on the media, city officials, the police and religiOUSorganizations to publicize and speak out
against the prejudice and violent as-

City Council President Andrew Stein. flanked by Garri Wells. Ian Kramer andKarl Soehnleinsaults that are making our neighborhoods unsafe. The occasion marked
the first time a city official has gath.
ered the media specifically to address
anti-gay violence.
According to Matt Foreman, director of AVP, in each of the last 25
weeks, there has been a gang assault
against a lesbian or a gay man.
Stein also defended Mayor David
Dinkins' response to the outrageous increase in viole9ce against lesbians andgay men. "The'mayor's
doing the best,that he can,· Stein stated. "I think he's
sensitive . to the problem,and I . think
he's doing the best he can."As anti-gay,violence has escalated,
activists in the I~sbian and gay community have heightened criticism of themayor for wha(ithey Call failure to address the epidemic of violence. Additionally, several openly gay speakers
took issue with the mayor's failure topush for implementation of a multicultural school curriculum, which, education experts agree, could assault the
prejudice that leads y'ouths to queerbashing by teaching about sexual orientation in all of its varieties.
Noting that September's violence
statistics showed a 70-percent increaseover the same period last year, Steinsaid: "'These horrifying figures, however,mask the full extent of the problem. It
is estimated that between 75 percent
and 80 percent of gay men and lesbians
never report crimes against them."

Two gay men who have experienced hate-motivated anti-gay assaults,
Karl Soehnlein and Ian Kramer, joined
Stein to call on the state Legislature forpassage of the statewide bias bill,which would increase penalties for
those convicted of bias-related assaults.
Openly lesbian state Assembly
candidate Deborah Glick, Frances Kunreuther, director of the Hetrick-Martin
Institute, and Gerri Wells, a member of
the Pink Panther patrol, also spoke out
against anti-gay violence at the event,
held on Oct. 18 at City Hall.
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SENATE DEFEATS,SOME AIDSBUDGET CUTS,,

WASHINGTON-Dealing Sen.Jesse
Helms a one-two'punch, the US Senate
on Oct. '12 on back-to-back votes
knocked down two amendments fromthe North Carolina Republican which
would have cut the amount of federal
AIDS spending.
During debate on the 1991 Labor,
Health and Human Services appropriations bill, which contains the bulk of thegovernment's AIDS spending, Helms
twice offered amendments
cutting funds,
for AIDS programs which, he argued,
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leged that, the ,assistant DA on their case, allowed the defense attorney to portray
him and Soehnlein as sex-crazed predators. "The defense attorneys were allowed to paint this AI Pacino Cruising
scenario, and it was never countered by
the DA,· charged Britton.
The 9th Precinct police drew extensive critidsm folloWing the bashing fortheir handling of the arrests. When one
bystander attempted to point out thebashers to the police, officers chased
down and arrested the witness for ·obstructing governmental administration.·
Assistant District Attorney DanielParker, who prosecuted the assailants,
was unable to comment on the decision,
but Colleen Roche, a spokesperson for
the Manhattan DA said, "We believed
we had a viable case against both defendants, and the jury obViouslydisagreed.·
Sentencing in the case is set for
Nov, 20, and anti-violence advocates arelaunching a letter-writing campaign tothe judge asking that the basher who
was found guilty of attempted assault inthe second degree be given a stiff sentence. The ~Ftempted assault charge carries a penalty of one and one-half tofour years in prison, but jail time. is notmandatory.
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And the outcome has led Foreman. to call for a select corps of senior ADAs
to handle bias-related cases. Pools of
special attorneys for other crimes that
require skilled and seasoned prosecutors to ensure convictions, such as sexual assaults, already exist.
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assist a woman in either making an
informed health choice about treatment

or would somehow alleviate her anxiety.or trauma related to possible HIV-infection, then it would be a more difficult
problem. But that's not the case.·. Indeed, the CDC's protocol for
health care workers exposed to thevirus through hospital accidents, which
entails massive doses of AZf administered within 24 hours and continued
for several weeks, is not available to .
rape victims.
"It's not even possible to test aperpetrator and have the results within
24 hours,· Stoddard added. "And there's
a legal increment here the perpetrator
is supposed to be innocent until provenguilty. You just can't test people against
their will because you want to.·Scott Burris, executive director of
the ACLU in Philadelphia,
echoedStoddard and went a step further.
"There's no remedy here at all. And
since we're talking about convicted
rapists it simply makes no sense-it'syears after the act. It's beside the point.·
Burris noted that results from the
CDC and NIH studies on AZT and
health care workers are not clear, andthe possibility of seroconversion despite
the drug still exists. "This sort of thing
has no benefit other than feeding into
the frenzy of AIDS hysteria. It makes
more sense to treat the victim here," hecontinued, "The benefit of negating confidentiality is not compelling enough,even in these circumstances, to makethat choice anything but irresponsible.·
And according to Robert Bray, aspokesperson for the National Gay andLesbian Task Force: "Mandatory testingof prisoners"would have no effect on
the public health. The focus in rapecases should.be on caring for and support of the victim." "He also called the legislation "a calculated political move," adding: "This isan election year. The writing of theamendment is such that one must ask,
'Who could oppose it?' from a politicalstandpOint. But it· is really a move togarner political support by making it
look like attention is being paid toAIDS, when in actuality the realities ofthe epidemic are being ignored·
Rep. Martin, the legislation's sponsor, is running for governor against
incumbent Illinois Democrat Paul Simon,
The inflammatory nature of theissue is brought home by cases in point.
A recent rape trial in New York City saw

an accused rapist plea-bargain out ofconviction by offering a distraught survivor his HN status.
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Stoddard said that the case "sets aloathsome precedent-crimin~1
sentences
shouldnot
be traded.",Pl)i1adelphia's Hacker agreed. ''The bartering of HIV status for reduced sentencing is reprehensible and once again
trades on AIDS hysteria at the expenseof the survivor of a sexual assault,· she
told OutWeek
Stoddard and Burris agree that theemotional charge to the issue is likely tointensify. But the issues raised by theMartin amendment have to do with theconviction rate in rape cases. Nationally,
only 40 percent of all rapists arecharged; of those, only 20 percent go totriaf, and of those, only about 10 percent
are ever convicted. A woman who israped, therefore, has very little chanceof seeing her rapist convicted, making
the amendment almost useless evenfrom a legal standpoint.
And civil libertarians fear that theprecedent of such legislation will affectpeople with HIV as much as, or morethan, it will the actual prisoners tested.
Said Stoddard: "If we can test pnegroup,
we can test others. There's no end to it
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fro .... page.1e,for AIDS materials that "promote or
encourage,
directly or indirectly,
homosexual sexual activities· or "usewords stating that homosexuality isnormal, natural or healthy.'
And the billboard incident was
precipitated by Hatfield's vote in favorof a measure to change the District ofColumbia Human Rights Ordinance toallow the local Big Brothers organization to bar gay men from parti~ipating
in any program that "educates"coaches
or trains any minor· or "holds out [agay man] as a role model, ment~r orcompanion to any minor."
Human Rights Campaign Fund
spokesperson Greg King labeled themeasure "a legislative hate crirpe" against
the gay and lesbian community. And
ACT UP labeled Hatfield a hypocrite.
But in the same two-and-a-halfyear period, Hatfield has sided withgay and AIDS activists on 14 votes, giving him an overall pro-gay, pro-AIDS•,edited by Paul RykoJJ Coleman•'zesL'On

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appears that the longest-term survivors
are people who've used AZT for alimited amount of time or not at all."The drug's manufacturer, Burroughs
Wellcome Co., and NIAlD say otherwise.

NEW YORK-AZf: It works best at
low doses. It's toxic at any dose. It'll
prolong your life. It'll kill you. No matter
what people say about it,:r-".. ------------------------..".,,""',,'
AZf is still the only drug
approved" for treating thehuman immunodeficiency virus,
Two studies published recently show thatAZf taken in doses much
lower than the original
standard dose 900 mg
less per day-are just as
effective
with fewer
adverse effects. These are
not the first studies tosuggest low-dosing with
AZT, and AIDS physicians, especially those inurban areas, have bee!1
prescribing low doses forsome time.
Nevertheless, thosewith qualms about the
drug say that theY're
concerned about adverse
effects that appear overtime. Even so, bothsupporters and critics arelooking toward combination therapy, in which AZT: LESS IS MORE? NONE IS BETTER?
two 'or three drugs taken
together at low doses will attack HIV
Kathy Bartlett, a Wellcome spokesperson,'synergistically. Those critics charge that
estimated that "tens of thousands' of
better therapies will be available only if
people with HIV infection were taking
lhe National Institute of Allergy and
AZf and were surviving longer because. Infectious Diseases stops its obsessionof it. And at NWD, an official said thatwith testing AZf virtually exclUSivelyand
she was perplexed why the articles, by. , moves on to otherDr. Margaret Fischl at the University of. agents.
..AZf is a political issue,' said Steve
Miami and Dr. Ann C. Collier at the
Machon, president of the board of AIDS
University of Washington, received
Treatment Registry, an educational
attention in the mainstream press. "We
advocacy organization dealing with
were a little surprised when tnere wereclinical trials for people with AIDS. "Itstories about them," said Deborah Katz,•,

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special assistant to Dan Hoth, who heads
the AIDS division at NIAlD. '1bey're oldnews. It was just information that fmallyappeared in the medical literature."
Not according to Collier: "Dr. Fischl's.
study has had a major
impact and should not
be underestimated justbecause it has alreadyhappened,' she said.
Indeed,Fischl's
study was used by
Wellcome to get the US
Food and Drug Administration last January to
officially lower the dosefrom 1500 mg per day to
600 mg per day forpeoplewith
AIDS.
Collier's study comparedeffectiveness of threedaily doses, 300 mg, 600
mg and 1500 mg, in
those with AIDS-related ~complex, a stage of HIV ~infection in which symp- ~toms appear but the HIV ~infection has not progres- £;sed to AIDS as defined 8,<tJ
by the US Centers for ~u
Disease Control. Both B
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600mg?
Fischl, working with a number of
researchers across the country and the
NIAID's AIDS Clinical Trials Group,
concluded that 600 mg per day was aseffective as, and iess toxic than, 500 mg.
Those in her study had to have hada previous bout of Pneumocystis carinii
pneumonia. The study was randomized,
meaning that none of the 524 subjects
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public' relations, staff., morale or (least. importantly inthe,"..'" corporate model) doing good by the ,worl~gurein but, run a distant second.
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empowerment techniques, run clinical
trials and provide access to experiinentaI
treatments. We can write your will. We
Can fight with your landl~ We can ragethat you're dying. We can sue themotherfuckers. We can 'hold your hand
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our bloodyorganizations alive with flVe-digitchecks.
Make no mistake we could not survive
without them. But to get the checks you
don't wann!l be too gay {not to be
confused with too happy, which you
don't want to be, either), too angry, too
sexual or just too gauche. Insofar as wehave a bottom line, this is it-if the spigot
turns off, all the political correctness inthe world won't save your ass. Oh, andkeep everybOdy smiling, too. .
We were also talking about PRo
There'senough rage in this community•"to light up the Bronx, and our organ- :Iizations, are like lightning rods-after all, 3:
we ac~ept ,responsibili~y for doing ~somethmg. In the' AIDS bIZ, the bottom :5.line· is a bottomless pit, and an execu- ~tive's performance is gauged by her or
his ability to work miracleS.
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Larry
Kramer's fault.
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While the ACf UP-inspired off-withtheir-heads mentality'
focuses community.
attention pre~ty qUickly, it doesn't do
muCh in the way of creating supportive
Solutions. What we need is leadership,
and what we get is organizational.
terrorism. One minute, •AIDS herow...theneJ(t, "Nightmare of the Week." Butthibgsare rarely so black and white. And
part of leadership is, inevitably, making
unpopUlar decisiOns.Many of our leaders
never survive their firSt.
. Ate we really second-rate? 'Some of.us undoubtedly are. Is providing services
to those among us who are sick anddying (yes, I said it) a worthless cause?
Give "me a break. No, we don't have acure, and no, Larry, the real problem is
not that we're not working hard enough.
Our organizations perform a million
other clinical services?
In the meantime: we do what work
we are equipped to do, with our infected
selves; our sick lovers, ourfamUies livingwith AIDS. The Sad truth is that dying is anasty
business and a whole lot of work,,and people -who are in the middle 'of itneed-deserve-whatevergoddamnsupport they want.
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sensing a slide in the polls, will want tojump in :;uld fIXthings. But barring grossmiscoriduct, most bOards wouldn't havea clue how to evaluate an executive.
Why would they? The last thing a lot' of
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The vacuous Reaganite optimism that
prompted Secretary of Health and Human
Services Margaret Heckler to predict an
AIDS vaccine within two years, 'the day
she stood by Robert Gallo in April 1984
and touted his "discovery" of HIV, hasgiven subsequent vaccine research a bad
name. In the peSSimistic e~rly years, asHIV'sevasiveness,complexity and muta".,.
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bility became kn~wn, many scientists
thought that anyone working on a vaccine
retrovirus must be either
for this refractQry.
a heretic or a fool.
Vindication, of sorts, arrived for thevaccinologists in 1989 and 1990 in theform of reports that several species ofmonkeys and apes could be immunizedagainst HIV or its close cousin, simian
immunodeficiency virus. Thus, the third
annual meeting of the NIH-sponsored
National Cooperative Vaccine Discovery
Groups, held in Clearwater Beach, Fla.,
from Oct. 1-5,1990, gave rise to considerable cautious optimism.
This was the first National Institutefor Allergy and Infectious Disease-sponsored conference I had seen where people felt free to present preliminary data
(while their corporate rivals were presentI), where there was open disagreement>,,

about methods and hypotheses or where
immunologists carried equal weight withthe usually dOminant virologists. Advances
in molecular biology 'and recombinant
DNA have yielded a plethora of potential
approaches to vaccine development.
Pieces of HIV, or the entire viralgenome, are being spliced into viral orbacterial vectors, including vaccinia (cowpox-the first vaccine, dating back to the1790s), adenoviruS, rhinovirus (the common cold), baculovirus (an insect Virus).
Recombinant viral proteins (gpl60, g120,
p17, p24) and their subunits (e.g., theHGP-30 p17 subunit vaccine devised byAllan Goldstein of Georgetown University) are being administered to animals andhumans using, adjuv;tnts,
substances.
which boost the immune reaction to
injection w'itp. a vaccine. The FDA has
approved only one vaccine (alum) for
human use, but many of the strongest
immune responses recorded were tonewer adjuvants such as MOP and MTP(muramyl di- and tri-peptide), the latter ofwhich is being tested on its own as a cancer drug and an immunomodulator.
Other approaches include inactivated envelope-depleted HIV (being developed by Jonas Salk of polio faIµe), attenuated live virus (the approach taken by
Salk's rival in the 1950s, Albert Sabin),"pseudovirions· which are noninfectious
forms of HlV-lacking RNA but otherwise
compiete, and genetic therapy using
retroviral vectors to insert genes which
render target cells immune to HIV.
While it will take years, if not
decades and millions of seronegative subjects to prove a vaccine can prevent infection with HlV,
there is more imminent,
good news for people who are alreadyinfected Vaccines may stabilize or improvetheir• immune functions. For example, therabies and polio vaccines can prevent disease even when one is already infected,
since they can prevent the organisms fromreaching the nervous system, where theycause paralysis or death.
Similarly, HIV vaccines can stimulate
the body's immune system to better
defend itself against HIV. People withHIV (mostly with higher T-cell levels)
have already participated in preliminary
clinical trials of the Salk vaccine, theGoldstein HGP-30 subunit and recombinant gpl60. In each case, new antibodies
to HIV proteins appeared, and some people developed stronger cell-mediatedimmunity to HN. The latter appears crucial to remaining asymptomatic-thepresence of cytoxic (cell-killing) T8, T4
and natural killer cells which specificallyattack HlV-infected targets, while sparing
uninfected cells.
In studies at Walter Reed Army Hospital and Montreai General Hospital,
Robert Redfield and Chris Tsoukas, respectively, have shown that subsets of people
given recombinant gpl60 (MicroGeneSys
VaxSyn-HIV-1) produce neutralizing antibodies (which block HIV) and experience
T4-cell rises lasting up to two years, without toxicity. If these results are confirmedin larger comparative clinical trials, and inbroader popuiations (including people
with depleted immune systems), HIV-specific immunotherapy may be available tosupplement antiviral chemotherapy within
the next few years. Later this fall, the AIDS
Clinical Trials Group will open a trial of
gp160 at NYU and Stanford for people
with over 400 T4 cells.
Clinical trials of HIV vaccines in HlV-

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Bleeding' heavily or spotting
between periods is usually not normal.
But some women do bleed a little eachmonth or at least OCcaSionally, at the
middle of the cycle. This may occur due
to hormonal changes as the egg isreleased from the ovary and is often
accompanied by a sharp, crampy painin the side above the ovary. Sometimes
called mfttlesmertz,'such symptoms are
petfectIy normal.
Other episodes of bleeding between
periods may occur with strenuous exerci..--e or during or follOwing sexual activity, especially penetration. This type of
bleeding may be due to an infection in,
the reproductive tract, such as a pelvic
infection (PIO) or cervicitis. It may also
be caused by other abnormalities in the
genital tract,
like fibroid tumors, ovarian. ,cysts or cervical or uterihe cancer. It is agood idea to fmd out why the bleedingis happeriing as quickly as possible.

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I've gone back to .'=....J
bleeding onto pads, although a friend
reqltnds me ~hat in my hippy days I
used to like just bleeding right onto theearth, floor or bed. My tribe of womenfolk,both, aricient and in ,the present,
ha.ve tramtio~ybathed in the mtkvab
with 'other women at the end of ourperiods. To me, that represents the conscious decision of women to create ourown private space. Taboos against fuck~ing, or tasting, menstrual blood seem.~ intrigliing,knowing what we'now know";:; about;5afer sex.";~
The perioo, the cycle, the·hormonal,§ circle of predictable changes are familiar
g to 'women who menst'ruate. ,Variations~ are wide: There is, in fact, no "normal"
cycle, yet each' woman certainly !mows
whaUs normal for 'her: two or sevendays; heavy or scant; 21 or 42 days
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,..Bleedlng•,Bleeding patterns With the periods
may ,be 'affededby heredity, diet,weight, hormonal variations, generalstate of health', exercise, activity and,stress. A sudden change involving very
heavy bleeding may signal' a serious· problem, anQ the bleeding itself may· le~d to anemia. Even women who are,used to bl~eding heavily each month· may develop iron-deficiency anemia
due to blood losses.
Heavy bleeding can accompany

pregnancy,. ~ndor;t)etriosis (a very
painful condition in which the uterine
lining, called the endometrium, grows
outside of the ,uterus, causing pa:in andheavy bleeding), ~ ruptured ovariancyst, pelvic infections and other medical
problems, A checkup is in, order, and ablood test called a CBC (complete bloodcount) should be done to check for anemia. To replace healthy red blood cells,
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can also be wonisome. Menstrual bleeding usually changes between ages 45-55,
with a gradual trend toward less frequent periods, ftnally stopping altogether at menopause. This, ,of course, is normal, although the pattern may vary, andbothersome
symptoms can. occur .
Women also cease bleeding during
pregnancy and the early months ofbreast-feeding,Sometimes periods get lighter than
expected. Usually this is due to somechange in routine, such as more exercise or a change in diet. There are somemedications that can affect the period inthis way, especia1ly hormones which aresometimes given to women to treat conditions such ~ PMS, fibrocystic disease,of the breasts and endometriosis.
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women. Most gay men, on the other hand,were too bus),' enjoying their newfound sexual and political freedom to care muchabout raising chil.;iren. But even during
those years;' sOme .couples, particularly
les,bians, tried to give birth to children within alesbian reb.tionship.
For Iinstance,
in 1973, the 'Institute for'
Human Itlentity (New York City's nonprofit
gay coupseling ,center) operated a .uniquegroup about parenthood. We advertised theteaching, of natural childbirth to pregnant lesbians ;mel their lovers. The group was led by
an RN trained in natural childbirth. We.only
had ~ne coupl~ join the group (and hundredsof p!1one ca1Js asking if'we were serious). We

al families. While homophobes claimed thathomosexuality was immoral and against fami:ly' values, these same bigots did everything
have been, (together for'they 'could tQ prevent us from forming stable•six' years. I" think we're, famiJ.y relationship;, including raising children .
pr:etty ~om:pa,tib~e. We
Now, however, you're behind the times.
have;.. ':-/an ;'~ittactive,
rve met a number of men who provided. weUrfur,nished. home,insern~for lesbian friends who want to par.
New'Jeisey, aqd ~m
ent childreri. These men mayor may not parof us h.aveg90d jobs
ticipate in the upbringing of the child, I
sufffCic;nt-income. We pal
with:, moreknow of a number of women and men who
aro.urid.a lo.t, with 'a few other couples,
have been licensed as foster parents in II
ihcludipg, a:le~b~n' couple. We get alol).g
number of states. I recenµy met a women in,,quite fWen~ .' '. , ,Minnesota who has raised about 16 foster"Atoupleat'y.reeks,ago,we,gavea,dinchildren. Even adoptions are possible ..,~.'j"~"~".
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net: party for: 0Uf friends. As we were chatting
away' over dinner, Roger, my lover, shocked
adopted a foreign child. It was expensive,'
but she did it.
the hell out ofme by sayirig that he wanted toqiSe a baby. At, first I thought he was kidding,I know of no reason why you andbecause we've' joked about having cl).ildren
Roger' can't love a child as much as any
before. But he wasn't' kidding. He said he's
other couple. Being gay has nothing to do
misSed haVing a' child around the house. Ourwith it. I reme'mber reading a goverpment
guests ,jurrlpeq on .the idea., Everyone volunstatistic recently that, said that, 2,000 children~edtobaby-sitforus"and
the
other
male
are murdered each year by their biological,'couple said they'd help c;hangethe diapers.
parents. Can you imagine that'Two thousand
I don't know how to respond,to Roger,
successfully killed; one can only wonder how
who insists 'that' he's s.erious. I don't' know ifmany more are "merely' maimed and scarredt'% ~y men should raise a child. I don't
psychologically. Eacli year, thousands of chileven,.know if gay people can adopt chil. dren run away from their heterosexualImen, 9f whe~er it's morally right for us. tohomes. Some of these children have been
were even able to arrange for the pregnant
do it., I think I'm stu,ck i.p. a heterosexual
raped by parents, and relatives, many havewoman'slovertoattendthebirthihg.
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code about 'babies, needing ino,thers ·and,been beaten, and th01,lsands run away
From time to time, one reads in the gay
fatliers. And since lknow nothing about.
because they fear that no one at home loves
press about gay or lesbian couples being
child-rearing, I'm scared shitless that I'll end
them bt to-escapethe violence of .alcoholicI".
awarded foster children. Sometimes gay, up a bad father. C,an gay men really getparents. The Hetrick-Martin Institute alone
people are even allowed to adopt a child. , babies to adopt, and should we?
serves hundreds of gay and lesbian runaways.
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Unfortunately, right-wing newspapers and
Are you' teliing me that you and Roger, ScareciPotendal'Filther politicians attempt to prohibit the placing of•
can't do better? I think you should join the,foster children with' gays, claiming (against".'~
Scared ~.ential Father,. . franks of gay and lesbian COli pIes who
all evidence and. reason) that the children"
A decade llgo, you,r lover's' desirechoose to be biological parents, to adopt
will
becomegay(presumablybyosmosis)or,out of the ,ques~ion. The", w~>uldhave
children or to become foster parents. I real.
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will be. molested. There are a number of; only gay people raising childrc;n,were thoseize -my comments have been more editorial
accoUnts of foster children being removed'.'who had them by heterosexUal ,marriages.
than psychological, but I hope that ourfrom loving homes because the foster par- '.' Lesbians ,often brought up children from theircommunity takes a greater interest in shar-'ents were gay or lesbian:ing its love with children.
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Gay menhad been
I admire your lover's desire ,to' parent a.heterosexually married often,found custody
I don't know what the rules and regulachild., For many years, the straight community
wives, while: of their children, given totions are for getting foster children or adoptaway from adult gays and,• they ~isited on we~e'nds a.qd summers. ,. has kept children
ing them, but I'li publish any information
lesbians. We were frightened that we would"'IntheearlYp~ of tb'e '70s, 'some lesreaders can send me about the subject. If
beaccusedofsexualabuse,
eventhoughweb~ ideology fr9wned ob. raising children.
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Bringing up children ~' considered part of . know such abuse ,is mainly within heterosexuplease send it to me at OutWeek ....
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Daniellsak Krumholz
Born on May 17, 1956, in Buffalo, NY,
Dan passed away on Friday, Oct. 5, 1990, at
NYU's Tisch Hospital, after a final struggle
with PCP, Raised in Shaker Heights, Ohio,
Dan graduated from Shaker Heights HighSchool in 1974. He went on to Kenyon College, where he graduatedmagna cum laude,
in 1978, He moved to New York City the.same year and had aspirations of being aplaywright and writer, He worked for NYC's
Human Resources Administration from1979 to October 1987, when he was Initiallydiagnosed with AIDS. His subsequent positions were held In the public relations
department of Arts & Entertainment Cable
Network and as director of public information at the Brooklyn Historical Society,
Dan Is survived by his lover, Jim
Burke; his loving parents, Norman and Virginia Krumholz; his devoted brother and__ --'!"I""'!"_"'!"and compose symphonies based on W.H.
Auden or'the Kaddish, He could give lecturesand ' books, discuss Kantian metaphysics

friends and acquaintances.
could t row cocktail parties for the Black PanA memorial service in celebration ofthers/, He had everything: a brilliant career,
Dan's I~e will be held on Sunday, Oct. 28,
fam~\ money, a beautWulwife and three chil1990,at 5 pm, at the Church of St. Luke In thedren, He was a Renaissance Man. And that's
Relds, at 487 Hudson St. (one block south of "Ih~I wanted to be, 'Christopher Street), In lieu of flowers, please. I I had a crll~h on Lenny. I was 11 years
send contributions to St. Luke's Church
olit(please note on check "Saturdaynight dinner
Three years later, I was a. high school
in memory of Daniel Krumholz) and/or the ~udent on Manhattan's Upper East Side, my
PWA Coalition.
,'spectacular operatic career behind me (I sang
Quoting from W.H. Auden(Dan's'solo roles in Carmen and The Magic Rute atfavorite poet): "Every' young man feels he I the New York City Opera), aggressively pursuis not worth 10ving.lBIess you, darling, I, ing the Bernstein Renaissance plan. I played
have found myself in you."clarinet, saxophone and guitar and in my-Jim Burk~spare time, between homework and trying to/complete the works of Thomas Mann, I comLeonard Bernstein"
posed music and improvised wildly on theHalf the people are stoned, and Ithepiano. I devoured as much music as wasother half are waiting for the next election!
humanly possible, borrowing and even steal, Half the people are drowned, ,a0d theing records from the Performing Arts Libraryother haN are swimming in the wrongidirecat Lincoln Center.I had to know everything. .
,tion.,-from Mass
In my sophomore year, a friend told/
me that there was a rumor going around
Leonard Bernstein was my first role
the Bernstein was a "faggot." That night, I•
went home and contemplated a record
model. He could do anything. He C9uld sightread a Mahler symphony on the/piano withjacket of Lenny's face, I studied his smile
formidable ease. He could cordp',ct a Haydn and the look in ,his eyes very closely and, oratorio, a Stravinsky ballet, a Berlioz overture
said to myself, Yeah, he looks kind of
and a Verdi opera all on t~e kme day. He gay-he's got that look in his eyes. I was
could . speak German, Yiddish,French andsecretly thrilled, The man whom I had choI
Hebrew fluently. He could write Broadway
sen as my role model shared somethingshows based on Shakes~fare and Voltairewith me: my secret, my discomfort, some,
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something I was terrWied to think about
I kept going over and over in my head:He can~ be gay. He's married. He's perfect. At
the same time, I was proud that he could begay, but in a ~ I could not define. I fett, forthe first time in my 1We,secure in what I took
to be "unnatural" feelings. I was not alone,Bernstein was not only a role model. He
was a gay role model,
But why was it a big, dark secret? Was it
because he fek bad about his homosexuality
too? Why could he not be as proud and openwith his gayness as he was with his Jewishness?
'1was still confused-yet ecstatic,
I met Leonard Bernstein the following
year. I had been going steadily to the New
York Philharmonic all through high school,
One night, Bernstein conducted Charles Ives'masterpiece The UnansWered Ouestion andthe premiere of John Corigliano's Clarinet
Concerto. After the spectaculat performance-whlch seemed mote like a;~lo lxillet .
for Bernstein'senergeticleapsand spins on the,podium-I went backstage with the album
Bernstein's Theater Music, hoping to· get anautograph. But I was also hoping to look forsigns, to get a few answers.
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When I went to,the Green Room, I
noticed that Lenny was surrounded Py men.
One of the men was the head of the Mannes
School of Music who had, just three weeks
earlier, accepted me to the pre-college program. He struck me as slightly queer during
my audition--evenattractedto ine-but now
I knew for certain. Su~rounding him was acoterie of young male musician-types, withpale skin, slender fingers and sensitive eyes.
Lenny was seated like a grand Pooh-Bah,smoking a cigarette and receiving his malevisitors. He had his arms around the neck of ahandsome man with a neatly trimmed beard,
kissing him lightly on the mouth.
"Do you still do those cute things you
used to do out in San Francisco?" I heard
Lenny say to the man. They kissed again andparted. Was this just musical camaraderie?
I was next. Slightly trembling, I extended my hand to Lenny and said: "I am so ilJ'lpressed with Corigliano's piece. I'm a clarinetist.""Would you like to see the score?"
Lenny offered.
''Certainly.''"It's on the piano. You're free to peruse."
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dads gather for a typical evening of networking and solidarity. In the
courtyard garden, however, a differe:ll group has gathered underneath afull moon etched in the autumn sky.
A young woman with mischievous eyes, standing five feet tall andmeasuring nearly as Wide, introduces herself as Singing Cow. She passes
sticks of incense over her body to purify her aura. Others do the same.
As high priestess, she welcomes everyone to the open-circle, full-moon
ritual. This is Cathexis, a coven of lesbian and gay witches.
The circle is a jarring portrait in contrasts. One young man wears dreadlocks and traditional
rasta colors; others appear to be heavy-metal fans. Some women resemble mousy librarians; others,,•

rating both male and female spirits in their bodies. This accordedthem great status in pagan ceremonies. And that cachet followed them during Celtic times in organized witchcraft
But Christian bigotry destroyed the respectability ofpagans and witches, leaving us the image of an evil crone
who joyrides on· a broomstick. Why the chara<;.terassassioa"tion? Once again, politics masqueraded as religion. When
Christianity began its scourge during the Middle Ages, outsiders were eliminated The word "heathen," a person who
lived on a heath, came to mean a non-Christian. Paganism, areligion consecrated to. the Goddess, or earth mother, gave
way to a stifling patriarchy.
The church fathers behind the InquiSition slaughtered
most undesirables. Colonial witch hunts finished off infidels
in the S<H:aIledNew World. Queers fell to persecution, fear
and Christian tyranny. In fact, "herite," the French word forheretic, was once synonymous with "homosexual." Anotherdubious legacy: The pejorative "faggot" refers to the practiceof executing homosexuals by throwing them into fires. (Atthe time, the English term used to describe a pile of kindling•twigs was "faggot.")
Mark Thompson, in the comprehensive book Gay spirit:
Myth and Meaning, explains, "In the Americas, as in the preChristian and indigenous cultures of Europe, an uninhibited
expression of homosexuality was <?ftenapplied to sacred ritual,an understanding about sex and spirit thathas long since been obliterated through cen.
turies of genOCide and cruel repression ofpagan sensibilities."
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was integral. Ancient Scandinavians regard-

ed passive homosexuals as sorcerers. In this hemisphere, arich history unfolds of cross-dressing Native Americans, called"berdaches," who served as shamans, otherwise known as
medicine men or healers. The Cheyenne called the homosexual male "hemaneh. n This man was selected to lead the tribe
into battle, unarmed. As a decoy, he would distract theenemy; his magic would protect him from their weapons.
The Navajo, Illinois and Sioux nations acknowledged
their transvestites as healers and mediators of spiritual life.
(Conversely, however, this sacred man also was accorded
servile and degrading duties. One of the few cinematic recreations of the queer shaman occurs in Little Big Man, starring
Dustin Hoffman.)he Radical Faeries are perhaps the modern
counterpart of the shamans. An improVisational pagan movement,
the Faeries were
spawned by Harry Hay, founder of the legendary Mattachine Society. In 1979, Hay called
for a gathering of self-pr.oclaimed Faeries in the Arizonadesert, in order to tap a collective gay consciousness he had•
examined for many years. More than 200 men heeded themystical call and came to cavort in the mud, driven to azenith of bonding by a force unseen and irresistible.
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serves as high priest of themale coven.
"In a traditional coven," JonWinkleman says, "there's a lot ofpolarity in terms of male andfemale. But on the spiritual sideof Wicca, we don't consider
things literally. If you're truly
integrated, you can find themasculine and feminine withinyourself, and the physical gender doesn't make a difference.
"One of the tenets of Wicca
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We're all here in different lifetimes and different incarnations,to learn all we need to learn. If
someone's here in a gay or lesbian incarnation then we need tobe here. It's not for [people] topass judgment. The golden ruleof Wicca is: Do what thou will,
and ye harm not.'A now-deceased male witch
named Laughing Otter tackled
the subject in Gender Polarity
and Wiccan Homophobia, writing, "Lesbians and gay men needto spend more energy developing
our own magic instead of insisting that heterosexuals change
their rites to accomodate us.' (Nodifferent, it seems, from• the battle
between queers and the RomanDISCARDING CATHOLICISM, FUNDAMENTAL CHRISTIANITY AND
Catholic Church.)
SANTERIA FOR'WICCA: SINGING COW
Margot Adler, author of the,had no place in traditional Wicca.
celebrated book, Drawing Doom the Moon, served for six years]
Carol Bulzone· is owner of Enchantments, an East Village
as high priestess of the Gardnerian coven Iarga10n (Welsh for£.. witchcraft store. She studied Wicca in Salem, Mass., before"the land across the sea"). Her high priest was a gay man .
coming to Manhattan. "As the only lesbian in my coven,' she
Adler acknowledges vestiges of homophobia in Wicca, "Whatrecalls, "I felt out of place." In circles, she was forced to pair
[witches] believe is going to be affected by who they are as
up with a man to maintain the energy of gender polarity. She
Americans. I assume people are pansexualj it's silly to thinkbegan to question Gardnerian practices. In 1975, she met
people are only heterosexual or homosexual. The whole basic
Edmund Buczynski, an archaeologist who had been studying
thrust of the neopagan movement says diversity is good,"
Wicca since 1963. "Eddie was the messenger of the gods," BulA long-practicing witch, John Yohalem's spiritual activizope says. He was also gay and disagreed with the secondties hearken back to the age of nine where he began a "Gods'
class status of queers in Wicca, When Bulzone was initiated as
Club" in his New Rochelle neighborhood and appointed hima high priestess. She and Buczynski began delving into Wicca
self Zeus. Paganism, he says, "got me through the anguish oflegends to discover the origin of the prevailing homophobia, 'a totally isolated adolescence."
Their research led them back to ancient Crete and Troy,
Active in a Seattle coven with Laughing Otter, Yohalem, between 3,500 and 5,000 years ago. There, pagan fertility wornow lives and edits an irreverent witchly quarterly Enchante (aship was gender-separate and focused on ritual intercourse withrecent issue examined swimsuit fashions for pagans). Wicca, aMother Earth, instead of literal sexual intercourse. The cirCles,
nondogmatic, nonhierarchical religion, has always outpaced
known as the ~inoan tradition, also were fiercely homosexua1.
mainstream society in terms of tolerance, he said. His first
These were the roots of Wicca, long before Celtic times.
coming-out experience was during a ritual involVing mostly
The pair established their own male and female Minoan
straight witches, where he announced his homosexuality.
covens, drawing from the Gardnerian tradition, and named"No one batted an eyelash," he recalls. "There was comthem Knossos. Membership is usually restricted to 13, correplete acceptance and encouragement to a perfectly extrasponding to the 13 new moons.
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the church-tumed-disco. Limelight, with profits going to PeoFor the 20th anniversary of Stonewall, the Faeries voted to , pie for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, Greenpeace andother environmental groups. Says Bulzone: "Our primary job
work their magic in the urban jungle. They held a Fairy Action
is [to show that] we're all the same. SeXual preference is very
Gathering (FAG), a week of street theater and political activity,'.
The highlight was a ,2Oth~anniversary funeral for gay
unimportant. The survival of the planet and living things ismost important. n
icon/goddess Judy Garland (whose passing, some say,pushed despondent queers to finally fight the cops ~atlate
he AIDS crisis has, of course, touched the spiiiJune evening in 1969 at the Stonewall Inn).
tual queer community. In the face of devastaThe Faeries bore a coffin down Christopher Street andtion, witches and Faeries have struggled toheld funeral services at Sheridan Square.
comprehend Age-old healing spells have been
. "The Judy thing was amazing because we've been crying
so much and mourning so many deaths, n David Birman says.
exhumed, and ancient manuals consulted for"It was a chance to laugh about death and to vent. That's
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The next evening, the Faeries unWittingly provided theimeptus for an .all-out queer riot. Worked up by their re-cre~a,tion of the original Stonewall Riot, participants spun theenergy into a' march to protest anti-gay violence.
Some witches are even 'involved in political fund-raising.
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said as much, she smiled and deflectedtrain has not stopped. It races inexorably west
the remark with a question.
at a' fixed and constant speed, perpetually well
"Where are you headed?" she asked ..
ahead of-any possible sunrise that may of"~y" "West," I said. "The ~eas you."not he behind us.. I've stopped
looking back"Oh,
not going west," she.
ward for any such light. Under these seemingly
replie9. "What on earth gave you that
immutable circumstances, I've abandoned ceridea?"tain oth,er pursui~' as well. -I've stopped, for"I naturally assumed that since you
example, ,anticipating ~ iµunin~t arrival at,were on the same train..;....", the border" whicbwould, at' any rate, serve as"Don't," she interrupted, "be fooleda feeble landmark in this never-ending night.
into thiriking tllat people who ride a sinI've stopped wanderin~ ,through the unocc.ugle train share a common destination.
pied cars and have confined myself to either
They might, in fact, be going in totally•
illy cOmpartment or, the adjacet).t dub cat, ,since,··opposite
directions, and merely occupy,
there is,rio food left·,tQ be· served in the dining
ing the same track fqr a little while." She· <;ar-not even theitiipe .. Ohe club car, on·thetook one of my eigarettes and swayedother hand, ~ an, apparendy ,~~tlesssupply, .
.',dreamily to the music. Then she turnedof uWaschino Chenies·.and hdney-.roasied Peanuts.) I mow
to me again and asked, "Are you meeting somebody in thethere is an West?" I told her what they had said-what Johann hadthat theY told"~ris, Johann toldme-thateventual point of disembarkation, and somebody who may sai~atsomeboQynamed Julian was supposedly waitingor may not be my friend will meet me there; but these assur- for me. "Julian," she repeated pensively. "Of course, Julian.
ances seem more. and more like articles of faith upon which
He is always waiting."
It is best not to rely too gieatly, Iri other words,' all contem"Pardon?".plation of the past" ail Inquiries into the preSent, all speeula"Oh, don't mind me," she said nonchalantly while plac· tions about the future have ,~,for the time being (whateving some bills on the bar.
·er ~tmay J>e), suspended. I canooly accept the limi~tions'"Please," I said, alarmed at the need in my vQke,and tlJ.ealnblguou~'real~ Qf the ~;<",..
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two. times ,now' and ..realiZing; fat ,too late for the
I"Julian? Well, depending on, how broadly you deftne
knowledgeto'do'me.~ygood;' th3t this w:as not the right friendship, Julian is everybody's friend. But keep this inbook .to bring ;lIong
thi$ Particular trip, I went back to the "mind: Though Julian's intentions are, no doubt, completely
adjacent,club Car, where the bartender is pointedly unwillinghonorable, he claims to be working for the community, andto ,engage •.in' e;v~n,·tHe,slighteSt, c;on:yersation, That may beclaims ,of that nature should always be subject to intense
lust as 'Yell. HoW'does one discusS, the weather, for example, scrutiny. Nine times out of ten, 'community' is just another
Iri· a climate<ontrolledenvironmerit? How. does one remark
word for 'club,' and a very sinall club at that. A very small.
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on theeccentrici~es of felloy.rpassengerS when there are 'noclub. Now.
if you'll excuse me, I'm getting off at the next sta,.'.fellow ~gers? How much can l?e Said'abOut maraschinotion and must return to my car.".
cherTjes and honey~roastedPeanuts? On'answ-er to the last
"Before you go," I asked, "what about the other Edelquestion, lcan'teU you, having triedf not, much.) I'm reduced
w,eiss Lindens, the personnel Iiaisolls at OutWeek?What can•
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MOVIE JUst Desserts! (Suspense-comedy, 1991) Syndicated•ordered a slOe gin fizi. Starved .for conversation, I offered hercolumnist Patrick Buchanan is found dead, nailed to apack of nuts and introduced myself. She thought long andcross
inside the Roxy, a gay disco in Manhattan, by radical,
hard about this and fiqally told me that her name was Edelhpmosexual, liberal, shit~ing, Satan-wOrshipping artists.
weiss Linden. Though it can't be a common name on these
W-lckygoings on ensue when Jesse Helms sends in a teamshores, she bore no resemblance, to any of the three ,otherof experts to determine if it's art worth funding. Patrick
women I had known by that name in Manhattan. When I
Buchanan: Olarlton Heston. Jesse Helms: Jack Nicholson.
Holly Hughes: Melanie Mayron. Liz and Sydney: Sharon
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is hazy. After an evening where dancing
in the disco heat has transported you tolevels of heightened awareness, youfeel invigorated and restless as you
ponder the state of after-hours nightlife Save the Robots, Sound Factory orsex clubs. While all three offer varied
entertainment possibilities, there is also
one
large
drawback--':youare,guaranteed to run into at least one
friend-or
the dreaded friend of afriend or worse yet, Rick X may be
there taping for his Closet Case Show,and your lower torso will end up allover Channel V. Rather than losefriends and because of my nee9- toanswer nature's call to sleep-I chose toregularly avoid such dives. However, on
those occasional times when I have an
overwhelming need to see the sun riseor am just not ready for rest, my new
favorite after-hours activity is shopping.
That's right, come 4 am, Liz and I pile ina taxi and go to the A&P Food Bazaar
at 14th Street where the only thing thatwill talk later are the Rice Krispies that I
just purchased
LIZ: One of the multitudeofreasons I am in the minority of New
Yorkers who do not want to run
screaming from this city is that I knowthat if necessary, I am assured of being
able to buy scalloped potatoes, a mop
and low-grade reading material at 3 am
. without having to go to more than one
store (that, and the fact that you canrun around these stores, shooting
pictures of the meat department andstaring into customer's carts, and noone says a word to you),
It seems that many queerfolk dotheir grocery shopping at Odd hours.
, We may have jobs that give us leisuretime at unreasonable
hours. Or we
may just have insomnia. So small delis
or even large chain stores begin to': acquire the reputationof being a"queer shopping center. W Rumors begin
to fly, and soon "picking up something
on the way home" takes on a whole. new realm of ,posSibility. Nonetheless,on this fact-finding mission, Sydney
and I took different approaches,

Are you bummed out by Sandy?
Think Ms. Bernhard has, sold us out?
Tired of her dyke-bashlng'from the,; celebrity closet?

Here's what we suggest: Give It all
back! Send all your Sandra
Bernhard albums, cassettes, CDs,
copies of Confessions of a Pretty
Ladyand that stupid "I'm one of theInitiated" pin they gave out at her
film, back to her. Let her know that
we don't think she's funny anymore.
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the A&P is jarring. The lights are far
too bright, metal glimmers, and day-glo
food-packaging shimmers in a yellow
fluorescent bath. House music blares
over the intercom system as the night
shift restocks the shelves for all thoseindustrious
people who do theirmarketing at respectable hours. The
vulgar richnessof our consumer
culture confronts me. I feel inadequate
as I stand before seemingly endlessrows of merchandise because whatever
I choose, I know that I left too many
options unexplored. Stopping in frontof the dairy case, it takes me 20. minutes to pick out one block ofcheese. AmaZingly, there are at least 30
types, and each one is a different
shade of fluorescent yellow-orange.
In my indecision, I notice that themusic is interrupted by several public
serviceannouncements.
Placedbetween today's specials, each bit ofpublic information is always in theform of a question: •Are you interested
in a rewarding career in the foodindustry?" •Are you thinning yourblood with aspirin?" and "Have 'you
wondered about your cravings?" Thelast tidbit included a warning aboutchronic thirst and diabetes like I am
really going to run out to my doctor at
4 am for a blood test. No, instead I'mgoing to become paranoid, lose sleep,
drink too many glasses of water andworry that maybe I should be thinningmy blood. As my nerves become more
rattled, I get angry-what kind of pop
medicine(mis)informationis thisanyway? I have whipped myself into a
postindustrial consumptive frenzy and,as I ,careen toward the check-out, I. almost hit a trio of ultra-vivid orangeand-magenta-c1ad straight people withmy cart.
LIZ: While Sydney was haVing aquasi-spiritual experience in the cereal
aisle, I instead ran around, spying inthe shopping carts of the queer nation.
Here's what I found:
1. Two gay men,
mid-30s:
Tortellini, bacon., heavy cream and two
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man creates a 1930s Paris consciously
mediated by the present, so that the bynow-conventional romanticized representations, of a_bohemian Paris overflowing with a{t and life-4he streetscrowded with every type of artist imagInable, the' visits to exotic whorehouses,.
the µnage of Miller In his bug-Infested
garret typing out tbe Tropic of Cancer-in
a single, inspired sittlng-are presented
with enough irony that they simultane~
ously escape the' sentimentality thatwould be. deadly In a fUm like this andallow you to Indulge in the possibility ofthat very sentimentality,'.
The story of the often-obnoxious,very American Henry Miller (Fred
Ward), the subdued, very French Anais
Nin (Maria de Medeiros) and theirshared obsessions (for ~, writing, each,other and for Henry's wife, June), thisfUm is pure fantasy from its opening to
its closing shot. A bit fed up with her
sincere, well-meaning but caddish hus, band, Hugo (Richard E. Grant), Nin nosooner audibly longs for someone new
in her life, "perhaps an older man," thanMiller appears. Someone who "writes
about fucking," Miller's complete lack ofpretension (itself insufferably pretentious)
physically disrupts the caIrn, "civilized"
world of Nin and Hugo. Miller is what
Nin has been waiting for.
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intrude on Nin's world;
where she used to speak,
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If you' go to see Philip Kaufman's
new film, Hentyand June, with the
expectation of seeing the "true" story ofHenry Miller, Ana'is Nin and their spouses, June and Hugo, you will probably
be bored, frustrated, even dispclieving.
The fUm may be about "the coming ofage and sexual opening up of a woman,"as Kaufman claims, but it is also about
the impossibility of making an innocent
film today with such a theme. Kaufman
seems aware of this: "Innocente," hesays, "is [also] a major theme of the film"(each time NIO sleepS with someone new .
she says, "I feel innocent").)f there are••

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problems with the film, then they occur
when it occaSionally forgets this andtakes itself too seriously.
Based on Nin's book of the same
title (published in 1986, after the four
protagonists had all died), Kaufman's
film imitates the fragmented nature of
Nin's diary entriesj much of it consists ofshort,episodic
scenes in which Nin's
gaze is the privileged one. The result ismore often than not a successful blurring of the line between ..
"fact" and "fiction," or "reality" and ~d.ream." Rather thantry to accurately recreate
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mainstream film producers
had a,sked Valenti for wassome differentiation' between
pornography and "art." Whatthey got was a new label forany movie that the ratingsboard feels is pornographic~oo violent, too vulgar, too sexually
explicit, too queer.
The childr!!nmust be protected~hat's
always been the motto
Valenti has championed for his ratingssystem, and it covers for the real motto:"The studios must be protected" -fromthe 4vrath of the right wing, in the forinof local review boards and lawsuits. The
MPAAhas now officially ruled that children even lesbian and gay teenagers,
and even if accompanied by their parents must not be exposed to openly
gay or lesbian sexuality, which makes
explicit what has always been implicit in
the past: The board's mission is to. impose a certain conservative morality
on the rest of the country, because parents can't be trusted to indoctrinate children properly on their own.
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It's generally agreed that Henry andJune
gQt an:x, and later an NC-17, only,
because it frankly portrays two women
making love. The fact is, if the current
ratings board got ahold of Desert lfearts
or even the tepid Maurice, the ratings of. those ftIms would also probably jumpfrom R to NC-17. It's the growing conservatism of the MPAA's raters in the Reagan-Bush era that necessitatedt~echange of in the frrst place: Most' of thefilms recently stung with X ratings (andreleased as unrated) would have been
easy Rs ten years ago. From now on,.however, we can assume that any lesbian or gay male sexuality
beyond the,cold hugs of TV's Rock Hudson (call it
PG), the shock-value
kiss in Sunday,
Bloody Sunday (say, PG-13) or the, chummyasex'ual couplings of Longtime
Companion (definitely ap. R) will rate an
NC-n• The MPAA'smessage to uncloset1
ed gay and lesbian fllmmakers reminds•
me of the title of actor Charles Grodin's
recent autobiography: "It would be so '. nice if you weren't. here." ,. It's doubtful that the new rating will•allow Significantly' wider distribution or
increased production of lesbian and gay
rums that might J:1avegotten Xs in thepast. Major Studios will continue todemand R ratings in ftImmakers' contracts,
exhibitors in the hinterlands will,continue to prohibit mostscatology than the ctJrrent stuffy ratings"adults-only" movies fromboard will allow under the R banner. A
few of those films will reach a few
their ~,
and a lot of little•
more people than they might have withnewspaperS will no doubt continue to refuse advertising for
Xs or with no ratings at all. On theanything rated "worse" than an . other hand, the NC-17 will also act,as. a."
R I spent eight years going tosafety valve for the increasing prudiShness of the Reaganite raters it will bemovies in the Deep South--trust me when
I say, that conselVative commuhities willeasier for the MPAA to get away withlabeling films NO-17 than it used to be
not stand for Henry and June at their local
Cineplex Odious. A few NC-17s may play
to brand them with an X Lesbian andPeoria, but exhibitors worried about
gay ftlmmakers will no doubt find that
localobseenity ordinances, church boya brand is brand is a brand. The ghetto
cotts and popcorn sales will still, say,has a new name, I;mt the boundaries"No, thank you" to most "adults-Only"
haven't changed. T
movies-particularly those with candid
Ads for Henry and June haVe been
gay or lesbian sexuality. 'refused by several newspapers since thts
The NC-17 rating represents a parpiece was written, while the film has
tial victory for a few foreign or indespawned protests at theaters in califorpendent
filmmakers
whose work
nia. The Binningham News has, apparincludes a bit more skin or violence orently, concluded, "Smut ts smut. II
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The Turner Broadcasting Systemd~s the world a nice tum tonight at 8·pm with the premiere of an hour-longprofile, Vivien Leigh: Scarlett and
Beyond. The program is narrated by asmoldering Jessica Lange and is built
around interviews with Leigh's contemporaries an<;lcolleagues, excerpts from,her mms and homemade footage of herlife off-screen. The portrait, does its S\,lb-'
ject the service of sound research, a
restrained tone and tons of screen time.
Not'least of the pleasures is Leigh as atidal wave of a toddler in her native
India and a "muffin-faced~ (John Gielgud's' phrase) adolescent, an ecstatic
medley of Scarlett O'Hara's greatest hits
and an even better one--all closeupsof Leigh's star-crossed Myra in Waterloo
Bridge (which immediately follows on,TN1). For anyone who has ever been
KO'd by that face even once, it's justthis side of nirvana.
Obviously, the story is as grandscale as they get. The hyperbole begins
with an order of physical beauty out offable: The doctor attending Leigh's birth
announced to her father first that hehad a daughter and, second, that she
was the most beautiful child he'd ever.

seen. From there, it's'virtually all high.'
notes; the biggest being the debilitating
dichotomies of 'the manlc-depression that
finally exhausted her
at age 53.
Throughout,thesetting
is never,less than epic, starting with the face, its
porcelain-perfectproportions saved•
from simpdon by a mane of jet trumpeting the heat beneath the delicacy. Its
effectiveness is clearest in the amountof screen time Leigh accumulated in,closeup. Tailor-made for black-andwhite photography one of the last of
the great necks-Leigh made only threecolor films. One of them, of course, wasthe color film, Gone With the Wind, andfor all its length and activity, the central
image is Leigh'in tight closeup.
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As Lady Olivier off-screen, Leighwas half of thetheater's have-it-a1l cou,pie par excellence. The Oliviers.....
were theLunts with a sexual subtext. Drop-<ieadglamour was only half of it: As Viv:ien
Leigh shows us in the home shots (Lany,oh!), they were hot. They also lived in acountry showplace of legend, Notley
Abbey, that had once belonged to Olivier's greatest scrtlen hero, Henry V. (Avisitor to Notley remembers dinner with
Margot Fonteyri, Orson Welles and Judy
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Sherman. Leigh's ftlms, we see, neveragain stroked the glow side of sex, buteach stop on the trajectory throughher fallen women looked deeper into
the conflicts inherent in sexual contact, the full-forward abandon of 7bat
Hamilton Wqman, the fevered passionof Anna Karenina. Sexual completion
always bucks the odds.
Her women manage, of course, some
unhappy positions, and perhaps theunlikeliest accomplishment of Leigh's
career is the fact that this essential lady
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from hell, takes possibly the widest
closeups of Leigh's career, making her- ,self up as a hooker: "Is that what men
really like?" She puckers her megalips
and growls: "Baby." The camera nevergot closer, or deeper, than Leigh's
Blanche. From her first, I-must-have-him
glance at Stanley, she is all exposed
nerve, as always, with the camera rightin her face. We look straight down, into
each pit of Blanche's ascent over the
top. In her encounter with the deliveryboy-"Young, young, young man, ...you
make my mouth water"-the scrutiny
turns merciless: Harshly overlit, thefally-tale beauty has become the witch.
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. HELLO, BOB by Robert Patrick. La Mama ETC. 74A E. 4th St. (212)254.
6468. Through Oct. 28.
the realizations
they make or
don't-are reflections of his experience,
Inevitably, the true subject of any
thoughts and feelings..
play is its author. The characters he
Paradoxically, what renders an
selects, the situations he places them in,author's presence palpable. is precisely
the degree to which he modestly keeps.
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through his characters, making thestrings as invisible as possible, he allows
us to believe that the figures on-stage
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In his play, Robert Patrick lacks
the patience to let his characters reveal
him. Instead, he reveals himself,-::~;
directly and repeatedly.
The 21 monologues comprising
Hello, Bob--delivered by characters
called, in the press release, "imaginary,",
but this seems ingenuous are meant
to chart the changes in American mores
and values from 1975 through 1981.
This doesn't seem like a wide enough•sampling of history to chart social
fluctuations, and sure enough, our mores
and values tum out tobe a mere occasion
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for the playwright (to whoD?- eachmonologue is addressed) .to tum the
spotlight' on himself.
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In one monologue, a New YorkTimes reporter (Jeffrey J. AlbrighO .tells
Patrick that he's been instructed to do a"kill job" on the playwright, to makehim look like a fool in a Sundayinterview feature---«nd can't understand
why the imperturbable author is soamused. In another, an ex-lover(Stephen Engle) regrets treating Patrick
callously, telling him (and us) hbw
wonderfully generous and sensitive theplaywright is. A cabbie, driving Patrickfrom the Broadway theater where aplay of his has opened, proposltjonshim, while yet another lover, in theprocess of becoming "ex_," tells Bob
that he's great in .bed.
One assumes that the Broadway
production often referred to throughout
the evening is Patrick's Kennedy'sChildren, which opened in 1975. One
speaker, named Peggy (carol Nelson),accosts Patrick in the theater lobby andchews him out for appropriating her lifeand putting it on-stage for tumiOg her
into a character. "The people who set
police dogs on me are complimenting
you now for capturing my essence," shecomplains. "If I were to write the story of
my own life, they'd be calling me aplagiarist!" This moment-whenafictional character and her <?riginal
collide-is interesting. The playwrightallows the original a Httie'(eYenge-whichher,
he then tums back on her by~gonce again, a character in a play.
Soon enough, however, Patric,kturns our attention back on himself.
Tennessee Williams calls to share ~little trick he pulled on TV to promote
Patrick's Broadway play, outwitting the"jackals of the press" to whom Patrickis anathema. Patrick has captured
Williams' vocabulary and cadencesvery well, and Williams is skillfully
played by Edmond Ramage. But wecan't help noticing that the implicit
hero of the moment is not the late
playwright from Missouri.
Patrick has devoteda largeportion of his career to, touring thecountry teaching. and speaking
athigh schools, trying
to staveoff ageneration's
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attraction to her mother through surreal, possibly fictional, scenes. One
finds the mother putting a hand up
herself while telling her daughter,"The answer is inside yourself." As
Hughes later tells a roommate, "I saw
Jesus .between my mother's legs." The,mother is presented as a model ofwhat a person outside the stricturesof traditional sex can achieve andwhat they are forced to suffer for
their freedom.
That the evening falls short is notdue to a lack of ideas but an unwillingness tl:)explore them fully, To simply toss out the· names of Jennifer'Levin and, Lisa Steinberg as symbols
of society's misogyny trivializes thereal horror of their deaths. Hughes
begins to· set at the point when she
responds to arch-bigot Pete Hammill's
assertion that Hedda Nussbaum was
culpable because she never left her
husband by asking, "Where are
women supposed to go?" Unfortunately, she quickly moves on to achecklist of "hot" topics, including
racism, reproductive
rights andabstract art, as if a recitation actually
addresses the issues.
Hughes burns to play the bad
girl but pales next to· the real thing
when one compares her to Dancenoise or Finley. She constantly
turns away from the pain before it
can touch 'her and resorts to pseudo-surreal comicstories rather than,
the wild humor which
can result•
from close proximity to disaster.
When she finally drops the overbearing vocal patterns during thefinal quiet moments or when speaking intently into a· microphone in
the dark, her well-written prose
becomes oddly affecting.
Because of Hughes' roles in the
recent'
NEA controversy, her perfor,
mances will inev!tably draw somethrill-seekers from· beyond the usual,downtown community (for example, the idiot critic sitting .in front of. me who bragged to the woman he
was trying to chat up, "AliI know is. that she's a lesbian p~rformance. artist"). With 'a little deeper digging,
Hughes could shove her queerness
so far down his throat that he'dnever forget it.T
60 OUTWIEEKOoto_r 311, 119.0•
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PULNOC. PS 122. 150 First Ave. Oct. 29 at 8 pm. $10.
by Anne Rubenstein
Ten years ago, a friend turned me
on to Plastic People of the Universe.
"Here," he said, "you like Captain Beefheart? Listen to this." And it did soundlike Captain Beetheart, only less likeblues and more like the Velvet Underground, with words that were incomprehensible because they were in
Czech. Plastic People were Iron Curtain
hippies, in jail for thought crimes andunauthorized performance. They wereformed, in Prague, by Evon Jirous in1969. The record my friend played forme Egon Bundy's Happy Hearts Club
Ban1Uld-was recorded
clandestinely
a few
years later. The tapes,
smuggled out of thecountry, were finallyreleased around 19791n

the West, while most of the band werestill locked up. Eventually, Plastic Peopie recorded four albums, most withlyrics which didn't seem all that politicalto me. One, 1 remember, went in its
entirety: "We live in Prague/And that iswhere/The city itself/Will someday
appear." Poetic, sure, but seemingly
harmless. It must have lost somethingin translation.
About a year and a half ago, thePlastic:;People sort of turned up in New
York. They had all gotten out of jail,and even-in the first stirrings of glasnost and after a certain amount of pressure from abroad-beeninvited to join the statesponsored musicians'
union so that they could
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literature (including D,H. Lawrence) to . Howl, liberated celebrated
works
stud~nts in China by Bill Holm titled "In
including books 'by Henry Miller, Jean
China, Loving Lady Chatterly" (NewGenet, D.H. Lawrence, William BurYom Times Book Review, Feb. 18, 1990, roughs and other classic writings.
pp. 1, 30-31), we read: "Orwell'sMuch of my poetry is specificallydescription of Big Brother's attempts to , aimed to rouse the -sense of liberty ofdestroy and pervert ,sexual vice is exactthought,
and political and social
ly and literally true. Change the names,
expression of that thought, in young
and it describes China. Change themadolescents. This is the very age groupagain, and it describes any institution
which the Heritage Foundation
and.
like China, name your own preferred
Sen. Helms' legislation and previous
church or government." Fundamentalist
mass-media hucksters, Sen. Jesse Helms
and the Heritage Foundationareattempting to enforce in the USA thisOrwellian doublethink in destroying
and perverting representation of sexual
by Tom Careylife in our art and literature.
What is their motive? Professor
These ultramarine pools
Holm 'states it precisely: "My Chinese
are connected to the ocean
students existed in a state of sexual susthrough a series of salt caves.
pended animation, and yet underneathI can pick you a sea anemone
this mad repression, I sensed that many
the shape and color of a hibiscus,
Chinese are hopeless romantics, doors
or we can go into the empty garage,
waiting to be opened. Real sexual enerlay on an old mattressgy is a genuine threat to J>oliticaland look out the side door
authOrity. The moral Stalinists are not
at a jade tree
wrong." .
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the color of Dick's hat band.
I remember the insistent languageof Moscow writers' union bureaucrat Mr.
Those pills
Sagatelian at a Soviet-American literaryin front of you
conference in November 1985 in Vunus
are crushed marigolds,
just before announcement of glasnost. I
and are not pills.
complained. of political and erotic cenWe take them iIi remembrance
sorship; he replied, "Henry Miller willof every real pill
never be published in the Soviet Union."that ever swallowed a flower.
Broadcast censorship of my poetry
and the work of my P.,eefS is a direct vioAt night a herdlation of our freedom of expression. I
of aggressive antelope sleeps here,
am a citizep.. I pay my taxes, and I wantby the phonograph.
the opinions, the. political and social
He still loves you
ideas and emotions of my art to be free
who couldn't leavefrom government censorship. I petition
you on that lake that Memorial Day
for my right to exercise liberty of speechof 1958. It is this Memorial Day;guaranteed me by the Constitution.
it is also mid-July on the West SideI reject the insolence of selfand you still love that Italianrighteous moralistic fund-raising politifrom Brooklyn whose teeth
cians or politically ambitious priests inare like small sails
using my poetry as a political football
and whose-chest is a river.
for their quasi-religious agendas. I havemy own agenda for emotional, intellecThe man
tual and political liberty in the USA andmisting the bonsai
behind the Iron Curtain. This is
was a friend, expressed in my poetry. The poemsof a friend
named above were part of a large-scaleof Forster's policeman.
domestic, cultural and political liberalBubi and Heinz
ization that began V{ith ending print
are here too,and broadcast censorship ,of literary
and Denham Fouts is buried in theworks from 1957 to 1962. A series, ofcornerlegal trials, beginning with my poem,by the vitamins.
-,,

FCC regulations have atteQlpted to pr0hibit me from reaching with vbcal communication of my texts over the air. It isin the body, speech and mind of theseyoung people that the state of ournation rests, and I believe that I am
conducting spiritual war for liberationof their souls from the mass homogenizatio'n of greedy materialistic commerce and emotional desensitization.
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For D.C.
We celebrate funerals and birthdays,
the days go by and we remember;we sing "Bright Morning Star,""I Can't Get Started" and recite
the names of the deadfrom our address books.
Can I offer you a' glass of something?
Something white, the colorof your eyeball?
Shall we tum off the lights?
Can I offer you a rerun?
Those two happy brothers
and their dolphin, the lapis lagoon
and the civil servant father?
This glasS case contains
mystical texts
compiled and copied .
centuries ago by devout fairies .
who knew what it is to put your ear
to Jesus' breastand listen to the divine heart beat.
If your god can't contain you get
another.
Drink your drink.
The lights will stay on.

Tom Carey is a FranCiscan brother
who lives and works in Brooklyn. His
poems have appeared in Brooklyn
Review, Broadway
2 and New
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CENTER ind SAGE 11111 .nd B'qUlltl
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Dlvld Lang.r, Bill JohnlOn, Connl. Cohrt,
CLU;&nlly Ronnthal, CPA; It the Center,
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tonight Ind IVlry Tu.. dly.)

and activists talk ab.out the struggle topreserve freedom of expression; open tomen and women; with Richard Elovich,gay solo performance artist and NEAgrantee; SUI HyiI', director of The Privlcy(Sodomy Law Repeal.) Project; John Ww.. I, co-director of the Weasel-O'Connor
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pm; t4 memberr/$8 nonmembers; 727-8878
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FRIDAY. OCT. 26

SCHOOL OF AL~IED HEALTH PROFESSIONS, SUNY STONY BROOK and PRESBYTER OF LONG ISLAND COUNCIL ON
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Spiritu",ity, Empowarl", Our S.XUIIIify.

tonight and from 8·5 tomorrow; withtonight's keynote Th. R,v. Dr. Goo". nnk,r (Osige-Cherokee),st 8 pm; tomorPYRAMIDpreaanta Undo SI,...an'1 Chonrow's Ipeaker. includ. School of Allied
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Health Professions Associate Dlln Dr.
drsml/oomldywith ShoIlyMirland Koty
Robert H.wki"" Jr., author & leoturer Dr,
CrocodII., with go-go IIIrs Ind di800 danc·
WINESDAY. OCT. 24 ing; 101Avenul A (m StIlt 1 am;S5; 420-1590 Virglni. R.m.y Monankott, and oollege
CITIZENS COMMITTE~ FOR NEW YORK
counselor Prof. Blo .. om SlIb.nnan; tenPROFESSIONALS IN FILM AND VIDEO CITY Antl-BI .. Conf.r.nc.:
BulldlnitHURSDAY.
OCT.
25
tative workshops: mala & female sexulliForum: A The.trlcal Produc.r, Ind.p.nC-1tI.. ."".",h DINroIty;Ixploted
NATIONAL MUSEUM ~F LESBIAN AND ty, gaYI & the Bible, Eastern religionl,d.nt'Produc.r,.nd Lawyer diloull th.ir
Ipelk,rs include Mlyor D.wid N. Dinkins,
work in film Dnd vid.o; It the C.nter, 208 Borough Pr.. id,nt Ruth M.. llng.r, Ind GAYHISTORYOp.ning Reception: M_ Tlntra YOlll, religion and .homophobia,
Arl fireat the Center, 208 W 13 St; sexuelity in the western tradition, the old
W 13 St; 8:30-8:30 pm; 16 memberv/$7 non- Arthur B.rn .. of the Naw York Urban
8008pm; thereafter daily from 4-8 pm, thru raligion of godd8l88s; at Staller Cent.r
members;
Jonathin925-0280
Coalition;
NYU'.
Vand.rbilt
HIli,
40
Wash.
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NOV30; 820-7310, .. ellVELY ARTS for info for the Arts and tha Student Union, Stony•
ington Squire South; 8:30 am • II pm; 16
Brook campus on Nicolls Rd; $22.50 genGAY MEN'S HEALTH CRISIS HIV H.. lth (waivable for low income); 884-8787
IDENTITY
HOUSE
Woman'lConf.r.nc,:
eraV'15 studenta with ID; info from Joyce
Semln.r: MtcIlcII T.... tmento, tonight andWomen LOrin, Woman, tonight: N.oml
every 4th TuesdlY; 128 W 20 St. 3rd Roor; TEACHERS COLLEGESympolium
on Goodhard, Seeing Yourself/Mflflting Oth- Routi at 518/444-2252; checks to Pr .. byt,r of Longlll.nd, Stony Brook Confer7 pm; free; 807'6855, TOO 845-7470
HIV/AiDS Educlltion, with three alumni, Dr. ers, concurrent
with Conni. Cohrt,
ence, 50 Hauppaugue Rd, Commack, NY
Robert Fullilo .. , on fighting the spread of Financial Planning an OVflrview; 7-8:30
11727 (register by OCT 18)
PINIlPANTHERS,., •• ting, at the cen!e.r'.,I,H;IV;~~Jh.:mi'l9~comm~nity;
Dr, Erlin.
pm, 88e OCT24
208 W 13 St,7 pm, 475-4383....
. P.lllins MCGriff, on edUClting health care
HARVARD UNIVERSITY 4th Annual LoIwork.ro; Dr. Jonath.n G. Silin, on how
SLOPE ACTIVITIES FOR LESBIANS Laun- AIDS should be discuIs.d in the Ichool; at JUDITH'S ROOM BOOKSTOREpresents A. bi.n. Bi.axual .. Goy Studi .. Conto ... _M.
Homol,
Safety of Objat:ta; 881 WIshI'/aa.u,.;polilic., panels on minority gay
dry Night, to make that draaded task m.ora TC's Milbank Chapel, W 120 St btwn
bearable, 173 7th Ave/1lt St, Park Slope, B'way/Amsterdlm Ave; 4 pm; free; rsvp ington St (at Charles); 7 pm; free &WC & lesbian issues, pornography, bisexuality,
accessible,
but
88atingislimited;727-7330
culture, AIDS and activism, art hiltory, phiBklyn, 7:30 pm; DinlngJUnwinding lit 1)No necessary at 878-3nl
losophy, aesthetics, educetion, g/Vb ItudBeota, 512 2nd St (off 7th Ave, around the
IN
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OWN
WRITE
presentsMarkDDty,
ies in higher ed; Science Center Lobby,
corner from the laundromat), 8 pm; SAL IDENTITYHOUSE opens ita Womon'l Conpoet and two-time winner of the Pushcart
Harvard U,;4:30 pm; 617/547-2187(thruOCT28)
info/rsvp 718/885-7578
Woma" Lori", Woman, threef,r.nc.:Prize; Andre. Fr.ud Loew,nltein, fiction
weeks of 34 workshops exploring sexuality, writer and professor at Sarah Lawrence;
GMHC LatinD Volunt .. r R.ccgnition for
DON'T TELL MAMA I presantsJo.1
identity, relationships and coming out;
Maillno performing his cabaret act; 343 tonight: B.rnic. DamboWic, Considering and Abb. EI,th .. with T,ITY Nowm.n & Latino programs of GMHC Education Dept;p.triek
Llhln.p;attheCenter,208
W
13
music, food, entertainment; all welcome; at
W 46 St (8tlV8th Aves); 8 pm; $8 + 2.drink Motherhood, concurrent with Nino PICk,
St, 3rd Floor; 7:30 pm; $3; 620-7310
the Center, 208 W 13 St; 80011pm; 807-6655
minimum; 757-0788""11;

WOlfclhop for Pannflrs of Incflst SUMvors(who are not themsetv" known IUlVivors
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LESBIANS AND GAY MEN OF NEWBRUNSWICK Mini G.y/lolbi.n RI", Filtinl, with hard-to-find films from Aultralia,
Britain and the US; at. Friends Meeting
House, 108 Nichol Ave, New Bru~swick,
NJ; 8 pm; 201/247-0515 (LGMNB meats
alternste TUlldays.),

8:30 pm; $15 per workshop, 3 for 140, 4 for$49,19 elch thereafter; 10 for S8O; 243-8181
ASIANS AND FRIENDS/NYMemb,rs MeetM,mberl at Empire Sechuan Village
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near Perry), with a private room upstairs
with a view of the Village, 6 pm cocktails,
7:30 pm optional dinner,l2O; AFNY674-5084

THE LOFT preaents a Forum with QU'.r
N.tion, with memberl of the new direct
Iction group dedicated to the fight Igainst
homophobia and lesbian/gay invisibility; at
Th. Loft (Westchester's Lesbian and Gay
Community Services Cent.r), 255 Grov. St,
White Plains, NY;8 pm; 914/948-4922

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NEW SCHOOLAmorie.n MUII.. I Thlltro'1Uwd.p with C.... rs of MUliell1 with
Andr.w V.I.z, tonight's guest: Ch.rl.1
Stroul., composer of Annie, Bye Bye
Birdie, -Applause, Nick and Nora; 88 W 12
St; 8-9:30 pm; $15; 741-5690

CENTERSTAGEse81 Michl" Fei..-in It
the Golden Th.atre, 45 St welt of B'way; 8
pm; S5O; 820-7310•

A DIFFERENTLIGHTBOOKSTOREpresents
F.n1110 R.. dinll S.ri .. : AII.n Bar-NINTH STlIEET CENTERR.p Group: ·Queer
Questions, Queer An8W8rs~; tonight's topic
is A" All G"y hobl"me C"ulld By
8ti'!ti,hta7; facilitated ~y Rich Komoneik;
318 E8 St, balement; 8-10 pm; 228-5153

Charles & Perry Sts); 8 pm; free (butlimited .eating, arrive early!); 889·4850

WOMEN'S ALTERNATIVES COMMUNITYCENTER Dllcu .. lon .nd Support GroupGAYMALESIM ACTIVISTS ForbiddenAte:
Tha Naw Can.o"hlp, a panel of artists

n.tt, Tha Bod,,,nd Ita D.",a", ""dolha, .tori,,;; 548 Hudaon St (btwn

88 OUTW•• K Ootober 31, 18_

KNITTINGFACTORYprasents Hurrl Won/:• rooding •• ri.. , tonight featuring I.tters
to Ourwaek, selected controversial andprovocative lettars, read by Editor-In-Chief
Gabri'l Rot,lIo; 47 E Houston St, in the
Knot Room; 7:30 pm; $3; 21903055
SLOPE ACTIVITIES FOR LESBIAN.S Fia/d
Trip to Manh"n"tr. Dining .t Modr ..
WODdllnd, vegetariln Hindi & kosher,romantic setting, 308'E 48 St, 7:30 pm;
Phr.nc .t Lon. St.r Ro.dhoulI,the"Jewish dyke folksinger" at 240 W 52 St,
8:30 pm; SAL info/rsvp 718/885-7578
CENTERSTAGEsees E..... tt Quinton in
Charln Ludlom'l CtImIlla,at the Charles
Ludlam Theatre; 8 pm; 827; 620-7310•

SLOPE ACTIVITIES FOR LESBIANS Final
Friday Pizza Night, at Smiling Pizza, 9
St/7th Ave, Park Slope, Bklyn, 6:30 pm;
N.w Age Night, a "Halloween warm-up·
with astrologv, magic, tarot readings, 8Ball, Oui;i boards, palm reading, 7:30 pm;
SAL info/rsvp 718/965-7578
IDENTITY HOUSE Woman', Conf.r,nc,:
Women Lovin, Women, tonight: Lynn.
St.van., M,king Things Happfln: Identi.
fying Barriflrs to Change, concurrent
with Bov.rl.y Goff, F,t Is a Lubi,nIssue; 7-8:30 pm, S88 OCT24GAY MEN OF AFRICAN DESCENT DiICIIIlion: Holida, BI_, a workshop with olinical psyohologists to help find strategies forovercoming them; at the Centsr, 208 W 13
St, West Wing, 2nd Roor; 6 pm; 820-7310

DIXONPLACEpraaents R,no: Out ""aroWitllout a 1'...,."I work in progress; 37 E .
lilt St (btwn lit/2nd Aves); 8 pm (comeMEN OF ALL COLORSTOGETHERGener.1
early); $8 or TDF,$3 studenta & seniors,
Mamberlhip
M"ting,to discu88 thePWAs free; no rsvp, info 673-6752
MACT Polition Paper and to elect the 1890
WOMEN'S ALTERNATIVES COMMUNITY Board of Directors; at the Center, 208 W 13
CENTER Wllkly Dilcullion and Soei.1
St; 8-11 pm; 245-8388 (days), 222·8784 (eve)Group for Lalbilnl, tonight'a topic: Witch..• ,,11Thi",. TIre, GoBump In the Ni,ht; THE CLiT CLUB presents the Sir.n ••675 Woodfield Rd, Weat Hempstead, L1; Fri,ndl, a. benefit for Sirfln photographer
8:30 pm; $3 more if/le88 if; 518/483-2050
T,rry RozD, guast DJ Oany Johnlon; erotic lesbo videos featuring the Sirens in
DISCO INTERRUPTUS presents L.dy
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Patient Worklhop: Un". Wlfil HN Int.ction:Ean, Initiation Antiwl'IIlTherapy.
moderated by Ronald J. Grollllla ... MD;with Alexander McM .. king, MD and Jeff
SilV1lralai ... PA, plus a panelist with HIV
infection; topics include HIV as a chronic
manageable disease, how the virus works,
testing issues, medical intervention,livingwith HIV, medical monitoring, new diractions in research; at the Penta Hotel, Penntop Ballroom, 7th Ave at 33 St; 6:30-9:30
pm; info 800{521-1177 (call 9-5 only)

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SLOPE ACTIVITIES FORLESBIANS R.ld
TrIp to I.e,bian Orientation lUbe Cantor(below); SAL info/rsvp 718/965-7578
CENTER Letblan Ori.ntation, an introduo·
tion to New York's lasbian community, featturing Dr. MlrjDrie Hill, Director, Mayor'a
Office for the Leabian & Gay Community;aocializing, entertainment, literature frommany groups; 208 W 13 St (WC acc.eeible,
ASL interpreted); 7 pm; $3; 62~7310
A DIFFERENT LlG~T BOOKSTDRE prelents
F'1I118O Readlng'S.rI.r. Jack Andaraon,
R.ld Tripon ",. Rapid Tra"'i~548 Hudaon
St (btwn Charlea/Perry Sts); 8 pm; free (butlimited leating, arrive earlyll; 989-4850
INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN IDENTITY pre·lente a Worklhop for Mental H.llth Clinicians: The S.xually Abu .. d Woman:rran,,,,.ncl/Cou""""'n"',..nc.
Implication, In T,.atm.nt; led by Lynn.
Steven" CSW; at the Center, 208 W 13 St;
8-10 pm; $15; rlvp 799-9432
NINTH STREET CENTER Rap Group:"Queer Questions, Queer An8wers" withthe focua on defining homosexuality for
the '9Q.; tonight's facilitator
i. Nick
Clrlbill; 319 E 9 St, buement; 8·10 pm;
228·5153,

THE CHELSEA TRANSFER Body PoaitiYa
Night for HIV+s and their friends; 131 8th
Ave (16/17 Sts); all night; bar 929·~183,
Body Positive 721·1,346 (Editor's note: Body
Positive will meet at The Chelsea Transfer
tonight and every Tuesday.)

HALLOWEENPARTIESSLOPE ACTIVITIES FOR LESBIANS H,I·
low .. n Coetuma Plrty, 718/965007578
THE FULL MOON prlllents Th. Offiol,11180 Witch" and PIgin Hallow.,n C,I ...
bratlon, Wetland. Pre8erva, 161 Hudson (3block. below Canall; 9 pm; $13; 9811-4225,

DISCO 2000 Hillowlin
Sp.clal: An,s/a
Bowl... Wlddl"", lee DANCING OUTROXY Gila 'Hallowa,n Party, 'with innumerable 8urpriees"; See DANCING OUT,,: EAGLE BAR Hillow •• n COltum. Party
mssculinB only, 14211th Ave; 691-8451
PALLADIUM presents Suannt• Hallow.en Party, 473-,7171 'a,rtach'lmore listings (and more
Halloween details)
next week!
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Tuning In: A TV/Radio Guide for DutWeek Readers, Information must be received by Monday to be included in the following
week's issue. Send items to Rick X, Tuning In, Box 790, NY, NY 10108.
AlE (~&
Ent, 555 Rfth Ave, 10th FI, NYC 10017; 661-45(0)cm (Rick X, Box 790, NYC 10108).
GBS (Gay Broadcasting System, Butch Peaston, 178 7th Ave,
Ste.A-3,NYC10011;243-1570)
GCN (Gay cable Network, Lou Maletta, 32 Union Square East,
Suite 1217;477-4220)
GMHC (Gay Men's Health Crisis, Jean Carlomusto, 129 W 20 St,
NYC 10011; 807-7517)
RB PROD (Robin Byrd Prod., Box 305, NYC 10021; 988-2973)
WADCoTV (77 W 63 St. NYC 10023;'456-7777)'
WBAI-FM (505 8th Ave, 19th FI, NYC 10018; 279-{1l07)
WCB8-TV (51 W 52 St St, NYC 10019; 97s.4321)
WHBCoTV (30 Rockefeller Plaza, NYC 10112; 664'004444)
WHET-TV (356 W 58 St, NYC 10019; 56().3()()()
WHYW-TV (Fox, 1211 AVlAM, NYC 10036; 556-24(0)Ed'tI or 's N" at es

bNew Information for shows on commercial use Channel V!35
or public access Channel Cf16,_followlng the discontinuetlon of leased public access channel JJ23 on Manhattan andParagon Cable. No prasstlme, Paragon shows that were on
J/23 remain discontinued uptown,., .

MONDAY. OCTOBER 22

9:00 PM WNdc- TV ExtremB C/os~Uf1. after his mother (Blair- Brown) dies, a sensitive 16-yll8r-old boy reviews home
videos that chart her emotional disintegration; CH 4 (2:00)
9:00 PM GBS Out In thB 90's: community news, discussion,• Interviews; (tape of last Tuesday's MCTv/Paragon show)
BQ Cable, cli 56 (1 :(0)11:30 PM Tomorrowffon/ght Live!: entertainment; Manhattan
and Paragon Cable, CH 0117 (1 :(0)midnight CCTV ThB Clos6f Case Show. Kloset Kllps, homoerot·
Ic TV/movie scenes, from Baywatch, DonahuB, commercials; Manhattan /Paragon cable, CH CI16 (:30)
1:00 AM RB PROD MIIn for MIIn: Robin Byrd presents gay
male porno stars; Manhattan Cable, CH V135 (:30)

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 23

8:00 PM WPIX- TV 21 Jump Street: Hanson (Johnny Depp)
wants to be a Big Brother; a high school gymnast kills hlmselfwlth steroids (see OCT 25, 5 pm); CH 11 (1 :(0)7:00 PM WCBS- TV Hard Copy: celebrity divorces part 2, featuMimi Rogll1; CH 2 (:30)
Ing TUm Crulll
8:110PM WCBS- TV World SBrl6$ GamB 16 (If necessary), CH 2
8:00 PM WNET- TV NoV6. 'Poisoned Winds of War" tells thehistory of deadtt mustard and nerve gas and how Iraqi
used such wll8pons against the Kurds; CH 13 (1 :(0)9:00 PM A&E I Psglfacct. Placido Domingo Is the crying
clown and Teresa Strata, the posslbtt unfaithful wife In
Leoncavallo's tragic opera (1 :30)
10:110PM RB PROD ThB RobIn BrrtI Show. male and female
strippers; Manhattan cable, CH V!35 (1 :00)
11:00 PM GBS Out In the 90'8. news,lnformation and Inter· ,views; tonight: Amy Ashcroft & a member of Parents FLAGwith live call-In; ManhattanlParagon Cable, CH C!16 (1 :00)
11:30 PM WNET-TV SBasons ofL"" Part 1 of a 5-part series
onhuman lifespan; 'Infancy and Early Childhood' observes
Justin's growth from Infancy to 22 months, where a complex Interplay among biological, social and psychologicalfactors shape him during his first two ears; CH 13 (1 :(0)2:00 AM WPIX- TV Chariots of Fill (1981 : Oscar-wlnner forbest picture, this time with bathroom reaks; CH 11 (2:00)

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WEDNESDAY. OCTOBER 24·

9:30 AM WBAI-FM Ghosts In the Machin"., women In pop,with Victoria Starr, 99.5 FM (2:30)
10:00 AM TNT AthBna (1954): hot male and female bodies
abound In this fifties musical about a famltt that owns ahealth and fitness farm, with Debby Reynold, and Jane
Powell In the title role (2:00),
1:110PM CNN Sonya Uv"., fraternity hazing (1 :(0).
4:00 PM WCBS- TV GBraldo: female bikers; CH 2 (1:00)
8:00 PM WBCS- TV World SBrles GamB (If necessary); CH 2
8:00 PM WCBS- TV 48 Hours: 'Who Killed Allen Griffen?' about
an 11-year-old boy who died due to alleged mistreatment &neglect by his parents; wtth court h~rlnqs; CH 2 (1 :00)
8:00 PM WNBC- TV Unsolved MyStSflSS: Includes reports

n

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on a series of child-molestation cases; CH 4 (1 :00) .
midnight RB PROD ThfJ Robin Byrd Show: male and female
strippers, live call-in show; Manhattan Cable, CH VI35

THU"H,SDAvI, OCTOBER 25

8:30 AM NakfJd Eye Cinema: Phllly - The Goddess Speaks:
I, A Godd6SS Pt 1, The EscapB and ~ A Godd6SS Pt 2,
ThfJ GoldBn BIrd. Manhattan Cable, IiH C/16
1:00 PM ESN Bodybuilding: Men's Junior NPC U.S. Champlonshlps, from April In New Brunswick, NJ (1 :00)
1:00 PM WBAI-FM This Way Out; the International gay/lesblan news magazine; 99,5 FM (:30)
1:30 PM WBAI-FM An Afternoon Outing: local news and Information about the gay"esblan community with Lany Gullnburg; today: Dell Richards, L6$blan Lists; 99.5 FM (:30)
2:00 PM WBAI-FM AIDS: Paths to SBif-Empowsrm6f1t, treatment and health Issues with Bob Lederer; 99.5 FM (:1:00)
IJ:GO PM WNY'W-TV (Fox) DlffBr8nt Stroke8. reporter Arnold discovers steroid use among his Jock classmates; CH 5 (:30)
b 8:00 PM ThB Gay DBtIng GamB Showwtth TUmmy sallland Lahoma van Zlndt Manhattan cable CH C!16 (:30)
10:30 PM GMHC Uvlng With AIDS: health and politics;
Manhattan Cable, CH VI35 (:30)
11:00 PM GCN Gay U.S.A.: news and enter:talnment fromaround the country; Manhattan Cable, CH V135 (1 :(0)midnight GCN Men In Films: male erotica, Interviews withadult fllmstars; Manhattan Cbale, CH V135 (:30)
12:30 PM RB PROD MBn For Men: Robin Byrd presents gay
male porno stars; Manhattan Cable, CH V/35 (:30)
krlsty1:00 PM WABC-TV BllndedbythBUght(19SO):
McNichol rescues her movie and real-life brother,
Jaml. Vlnclnt McNichol, from a self-sufficient cultcommune led by the charismatic 'Father'; CH 7 (1 :50)

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 26

2:30 PM WBAI-FM Romplendo BI SI/enclo: todos losvlernes, Gonzalo Aburto con temas y notlclas para lacomunidad latina gay y lesblana; 99.5 FM (:15)
4:00 PM WCBS- TV Geraldo: male vanity (repeat); CH 2 (1 :(0)8:00 PM WPIX-TV 21 Jump Street Hanson (Johnny Dlpp)
protects a teenager with AIDS from attacks by parents
and students; CH 11 (1 :00)
7:00 PM WBAI-FM AIDS In Focus, Michael A1calay, prodcuer; politicS/culture of the AIDS pandemic; 99.5 FM (:15)
9:00 PM WNET- TV Great PBrfonnancBS: NYC Ballet does Ballanchlnl', Serenade & Western Symphony; CH 13 (1 :(0)10:00 PM WABC- TV 20/20; the Challenger Foundation, a private behavior modification school that uses strong, andcontroversial, discipline on problem kids; CH 7 (1 :00)
12:30 AM WNBC- TV David LBttBrman: Malt Groenlg, creatorof Life In HBII (Akbar & Jeff) & The Slmpson8, CH 4 (1 :00)
1:00 AM RB PROD ThB RobIn Byrd Show. male and female
strippers; Manhattan Cable, CH V/35 (1 :00)

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 27

8:30 AM WBAI·FM Any Seturd,ywlthDavid Roth,nberg; live cell·ln; 99.5 FM (2:00)
7:00 PM GCN Gay U.S.A.: news and entertainment fromaround the country; BQ, Unity, ACV Cable, CH 56 (1 :00)
(For Manhattan Cable, see THURSDAy)
11:011PM Gay ~ male porn; Manhattan Cable, CH V/35
midnight NakBd Ey~ ClnBma: Peter Cremlr: Corrective MII8sur6S, Haiku SBrl6S, Black and White Study; Manhattan
cable, CH 0/17
1:30 AM RB PROD ThB RobIn Byrd Show. male & female
strippers; Manhattan Cable, CH Vl35 (1 :00)

SUNDAY, OCTOBER 28

7:30 PM WBAI-FM ThBGay Show. news and Info for the lesbian
and gay community; tonight Gay V0t8 '90 Sp8c1al with Lany
GubllibUrg, Bob Storm, Marll Back8r, Allen ROIl; commentary by Kurt Wolfe; allBmates with Outl..ooks 99.5 FM (1 :00)
10:30 PM RB PROD MBn For MfJn: Robin Byrd presents gay
male pomo stars; Manhattan Cable, CH V135 (:30)
1UIO PM GBS Way Outl; entei'1alnment with Marte Chesnut andMichelle vanVoorhles; Rich Volo, producer, 254-7685;
Manhattan Cable, CH CI16 (:30)

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AIDS CEN1ER OF QUEENSCOUNTY SOCIAl. SBMCESEDUCATIONoBUDDIESoCOUNSBJNGoSUPPORT GROUPS
ValunlMr Opportuniti ..
(718) 888-25OO(voica) (718) 8882985(TDD)ACT UP (AIDS eoalition to
Uilla .. h Powar)
498A Hudson SIraat, Slita G4 NYC
10014(212)989-1114
A d'lVer88, non-partisan group ofindividualslli1Bd in angar and CO,I'
mitted to direct action to end tha
AIDS crisis. Gen. meatings Mon.
nights 7:.'11. in The Great Hall, Coopertnon. on CooPer Square betwaen
AtIrJr and St. Malks Placa's.
, AIDS RESOURCE CENTER(ARC)
Supportiva housing for homeless
PWAs (Bailey House and apartman1B). Non-judgemlli11lll pastoralcare for PWAs and Iovad 0i188. VolII'1Iaar CippClItII1i6aa. (212) 481-1270,
24 w.t3Jth St., NYC ll1X11
ALOEr/APLN-NYof the E.,t(A,ian La,bian,eanfAlian I'IIcIIic a-bi... ,...
-'!-New Yark) We are a political, IOcialand supportive networl<of Asian Pacific lesbians. Plaming
meetings on the 1st Sunday andsociallMlnIB on the last Friday ofeach month. CaD(212) 517-!iiIl8 formore infonnation.
ARCS (AlDS-R.lated
Community Servic .. )for Dutche88, Orange, Putnam,
Rockland, SulliVan, Ulster andWestchester
counties.
AIDS
education, client services, crisis intelVention,suppOrt
groupa,case management,
buildy and'hospital visitor program.
214 Central f!tte. W!iIa Plains, NY,

llD(9141111BGD1,838 Brosdway, Newburgh,
12250(914) !i\I2-!miAlDSIine,'NY(tI4)~ASIANS. AlENDS- NEw YORK
A not-for-profit
organization
which PromolB8 friendahipa with
A.ian/PacificI.'ander, Asian, .
American. and non-Asian gsy
men through IOcial, cultural, educational, and .elVice activi.ties
and programs. Call our Hotline:
21H74-5084, or write to: P.O. Box8828, NY,NY 10183-8023.
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BAR ASSOCIAnGN FOR
HUMAN RIGHTS
Lawyers RatalT8l Service for the
Lesbian and Gay Community Ful
Range of Legal SeMces (212) 4!i94873 Free Walk-in legal Clinic.
Tuasday 8-8 pmlesbian & Gay
CommunityCentr. Ground Roor,
Bms (BISEXUAL DOMINANCE.
• SUBMISSION GROUP)
Share !1r'M experiences and fanIa8ias lMth others in a posiIiw, nonjudgemental atmosphere. First
Sunday of fie month, Uipm st theCornmu!ity Can1Br2Ql W. 13 S1reat,
NYC •This giOUp is part cI the New
YorkAraa Bisexual Natwoik.
BISEXUAL INFOIIMImON "COIMElftG SERVICE. INC.
A profasaionaly atBffed, non-profit
organization for bisexuals, theirfamilies and partners, facing problams of a psycholOgical or medicalkind. We al80 work with th088 indoubt about their S8XUality. C0nfidentiality is -pro1llC1lid by law. For
information phone: (212) 4!i9-4784
BISEXUAL PRmE
DISCUSSION GROUP
Topical discuSlions on iSlua8 of
in18rast to the cOI'""wityin a congenial atmosphere, followed by an
informal dinner at a friendly local
reslllurant Every Sunday, 3:004:3Opin at the Community Center
2Ql W. 13 Street, NYC. Part of the
Naw York Area Bisexual Network.
BIWAYS NOV YORKMonthly social events for the,Bi88Xual community and friends.
Call NYABN for datBas of upcoming evanIB. (212) 4!i9-4784
BIPAC (BISEXUAL pounCAL
ACTION COMMITTEE)
Polilical action on issuas d imparlance to the BiS8X\18VLasliaiV'Gay
COiTIIUiiIy. ManHvl1'l8llliVpCllluck
held 8:00pm on fourth Thursday ofthe month at ma"bani hOl'188. Can

NYABNfurdisrTiOlilh~ Iocaticn((212)&4784

BISEXUAL YOunt
Informal aocial & aupport groupfor Bisexual kidtlyouth. Monthly
meeting/potluck
lunch held
1:00pm on fourth Sunday of the'month at members homes. Call
NY ABN for this month's location.
This group is part of the New
Yolk Area Bi88xual Network.

ATR (AIDS TREATMENT
BWS-BRONX LESBIANSRESOURCES, INC.)
UNrTED IN SISTERHOOD
Pubhhea a bi-mon1hIy DirilC1DrycI
Social, political and support netclinical trials of experimental
worki1g group forWllll18l1and 1hair• AlIl&'HIV treaImantB in NY/NJ, andfriends. Regular 8OciallMln1s andhaa educational mata'rialB/semimaatings on the lim and third Frinail for trial participanlll. AIR also
advocatBs fur impl'Dll8lll8l1tB in thedays cllMlry month. At. The Comtrial ayst8m. P.O. Box30234, NY, NY
mlllityCanlatDw.13S1raat,from
101Hl1112. (212) 2IJ&.4198.Publica- ... ~For mora info can lisa atlions frwIdonation requestad.
(212)829-9817.

BODY POSITIVE
If you or your lover hal tested
HIV+, we offer support groups,
88Iilinars, public forums; refarence
library, refelT8ls, social activities
and up-~dalll national monthly,
iRE BODY POSITIVE" ($2!Vyaar).
(212)721-1348.
2IJI5 BroectNay, Slita:m, NY, llX1l3

DIGNITY
BIG APPLE
A community of Lesbian and
Gay Catholics. Activities include
liturgies arid socials every Sat,
8:00 pm, at the Cenlllr, 208 W. 13
Street, NYC.Call(212) 818-1309.

DIGNITY NOV YORKBROOKLYN'S LESBIAN AND
l.ssIB! II1d gay Catdcs and friaids
GAY POUTICAL CLUBAIDS ~
Spima IlevaIopnent
LAMBDA INDEPENDENTThe Cafledliil Prqad. WcnIip SerDEMOCRATS
vices & SociaJ..Stn EYes. ~un. endorses II1d \Wiks fur canci- John's Episcopal Church 218 WestdaIas in local, alBllllI1d nafonaI e1ec- -11th Siuat CWiMlftt8l5-2179
tions, lobbies for legislation, andcxnb:ta comuiycUreac:hfwtx.Vl
EDGE Education in a Disabled
SIraatfais II1d II'IIIliigs CI1
special ~ics. Join us. 338 Ninth St.. Slita l:1i

~NYI1215(718)985-8482

Gay EmriRilI"lnt
For the physically dissbllld Lesbianand GayCa'""1IliI¥P.O. Box 3I!i Villaga Slation, New
York. NY 10014

CIRCLE OF MORE UGIfI'
Spirilual support and sharing in a
FRONT RUNNERS
gay!lesbian affirmativa group.
Wast-Park I'nisby1llrian Clurch If!5 . A ruming club for lesbian and gay
athI81118 of allabillies. Foo RlnS cllWast 88Ih SIreat Wad; VIOIlIhip ser8 mles held 8\/8ry Sat st lOam andvice 1131 pn, plOgi1im 7:n Man
Wads. at 7pm in Central Park and(212)3J4.4mDlaIia (212)1191-7118.
8\/8ry TU88.st 7pm in Pi'08p8ct Park.
For intonna1ion: cal/2121124-9lOO.
COMING OUTTO PARENTS?
THE FUND FOR HUMAN
Let lIS help 'jIIU and )'\XI' fIriy dealOIGNITY
lMth 1Iis upheaval PAI9lTS AND
National
Gay and lesbian Crisis
RIIENDS OF LESBIANS AND GAYS
Une "AIDS 800'-I-aoo.SOS-GAYS
n iS8IB ~CI1
the 4f1 SulcIa¥3IIl
Educational Resource Center;pm, in Duane Church, 201 W. 13th
Positive Images Madia Canter, NY
SIreet WI! caI.Iaime, (212)4IBaI:I9
Slalll Alta Program 8III1rway SiiIa
410N'/C,NY111l12 (212)529-1l1li
COMMUNITY HEALTH
PROJECTTHE GAY ARlICAN AMERICANS
DWast 13th Street, NYC, New
OF WESTCIIESTER(Tha G.A.A.I
York 10011 For Appointm8l1ls and,is a community basei! support
Information(212) 875-3559
groupin WastchesIsr CoinfllYNoice)PROVIDING CARING,l¥ Various activi1ias ara planned fur
SENSITIVE AND lOW COST
the COiling months. Please can 914HEALTH CARE SERVICES TO THE$1IH11Z1 fur mora info.
LESBIAN AND GAY COMMJNI1Y

fOI,,'"COMMUNITYRESEARCH INITIATIVECRI tastB experimental drugs andnamenta fur AIDS and HIVi81a1Bd
iIIneS888. Monthly treatment and
18S8arcll group fur HIV+irxividuals.
Treamant and research nlllMllaU8r;
forums and public seminars. CaR
Alice Spears or Ken FomatBro at(212)4I1-1I6lfurinfo and maiing ist.
CONGREGAnON BETHSIMCHATTORAH
NYs Gay and Lesbian Synagogue
Services Friday at 8:30pm 57
Bethune Street For info, caR: (212)GAY FATHER'S FORUM
A support organization for gay
fathe"" their lovars, and others in
ch~d-nurturing situations. Monthly meatings include a po1luck supper, support groups on varied
spacia6zed topica, speakers, andsocializing. Meetings: 1st Friday
each month, 7pm, at The Cenlllr,
2Ql W. 13th St., Wast of 7th kle.
Contribution: $8, Bring a maincourse for 4 people (or pay a $5
food charge.) For information can:212·979-7541 or 212-288-3238
GlAAD
Gay" L.bian Alli_
AgliilltDlflmltGn
III Varick Street, NYC 10013 (212)1129-9498.

CONGREGATIONrNA!

JESHURUN
Monthly Sprilual Gatherings andfree call1red fastiveluncheOll8 forsl/ PBOrJe With AIDS, their lovers
and fainilies, Program includes
music and discussion led by ourRa bbis. Can (212) ""'-7eoo

988-1700 GlAAD combala homophobia in the macia and elsewhera
by pl'OlllOtingvisilrlity cI the lesbian
and gay Conl"lni!y and organizing
grassroots response to anti-gay
bigotry. Do )'IIU have 30 miniillls amonth 111 fi!trthomophobia?Joi1 theGlAAD PhoneTreelCall (212~9881700for information

GUB
Gay and lesbian Independent
8roadcaatBrs invites )'IIU to tune
in1D OUTLOOKS on WBAHrf, 89.5
FM every other Sunday, 7:30~
and join us every Tuesday
at 7:00pm to 9:00pm to become amember of GUB. No axpari~nce
naaclad. lUi Eiltith Awnue, NY. NY
10018 Attn: OU1looks or call (212)245-8386- askforGUB.
GAY" LESBIAN HEALTH
CONCERNS
An office of the NYC Dept of
Health, provides linkages betwn
NYC Health & Human Svcs, andthe Lesbian & Gay community,
focusing in All health concerns; resource information for
health services consumers andprovidars. 125 Worth Street,Box 87, New Yorl<, NY 10013. For
info call (212)588-4995.
GAY MALE SIM ACTMSTS
Dedicated to sata and responsible SlM since 1981. Opan meetings w/program.·on S/M
techniques,
lifestyle issues,
political and social concerns.
Also special avents, speakers
bureau, workshops,"
demos,
affinity group.,
newsletter,mora. GMSMA -Dept. 0, 498A
Hudson Street, Suilll D23 ,NYC
10014,(212) 727-"8.

GMAD (GAYMEN IIFAFRICANIJESCENI).

III Variek Street, NYC 10013 a support group d Gay Men of African
Descent dedicallld to consciousn888 rsising and the devalOJm,nt
dtheLesbian and Gay Com"Wiity.
GMAD is inclusive of African,
African-Amarican, Canbbean and
Hispanic'Latino
men of color.
Meetings ara held, WII8Id-,I on fridays. For more infonnation,
call 71HO:HI182.

GAY MEN'S HEALTH CRISISHOTUNERlR IMURMRJON ON SAfBI SEXAND HIV-RELATEDHEALTH SERVICES,AND RlR NOI\\1A1I()N ON
ONE-TIM;. WAlJ(-IN AIDS COUNSEUNGSEJMIB
212-807.-s5212...s-747D TDD(For .... lIIaring
Mon ..fri. 10:30a.m. to 9 p.m.
12:00 to 3.1lO"NIl)

GIRTH" MIRTHCWB OF NOV YORK
Social club for heavy, chubby
gay men & their admirer ••Monthly socials at the ·Center", weekly bar nights Thursdaya at tha -Chelsea Transfer",monthly Fat Apple Review, bim.onthly F.A.R. pen pals.
For more information
call
Ernie at 914-89&-n35 or write:
G&M/NY, Dept 0, P.O. Box 10,
Pelham, NY 10803,

•,'CHELSEA

Duchess 11,70 Grove St (7th Ave.), 242-1408 (Women)

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

Barbary Coast, 64 7th Ave. (14th St.), 675-0385

Dugout, 185 Christopher St., 242-9113 (formerly, the Ramrod)

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

The Break, 232 8th Ave. (22nd St.), 627-0072.

The Hangout (J's), 675 Hudson St., 242-9292

Eagle's Nest, 142 11th Ave (21st St.), 691-8451

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

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

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

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

WEST VILLAGE
Badlands, Christopher & West St., 741-9236
Boots & Saddle, 76 Christopher St., 929-9684•

Cellblock 28, 28 9th Ave, 733-3144 (j.o. club,
open on a limited basis, call for info)
The Cubbyhole,
243-9079

438 Hudson(Morton

Kelly's Village West, 46 Bedford St, 929-9322
Marie's CriSis, 59 Grove St (7th Ave), 243-9323

Spike, 120 11th Ave., 243-9688•

Eighty Eights, 228 W lOSt., 924-0088

Chelsea Transfer, 131 8th Ave. (bet. 16th & 17th),
929-7183

St),,

Sally's Hideaway, 264 W. 43 St., 221-9152
Town & Country, 9th Ave at 46th St., 307-1503
Trix, 246 W. 48 St. (B'way/8th Ave), 664-8331
The Works, 428 Columbus
799-7365

Ave (at 815

EASTSIDE

The Monster; 80 Grove St. (7th Ave.), 924-3558

Bogart's, 320 E. 59th St., 688-8534

New Jimmy's, 53 Christopher, 463-0950

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

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

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

Sneakers, 392 West St., 242-9830 .

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

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

NY Confidential, 306 E 49 St, 308-8390

Ty's, 114 Christopher,741-9641.

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

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

South Dakota, 405 3rd Ave (at 29 St)., 6~8376,..-, WESTSIDEStar Sapphire, 400 E. 59th St., 688-471 O.

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

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

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

The Townhouse, 236 E. 58th St., 754-4649
Twenty-Nine Palms, 129 Lexington Ave., 686-829!

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EAST VILLAGE
The Bar, 68 2nd Ave. (at 4th St.), 674-9714
The Pyramid, 101 Avenue A, 420-1590
Tunnel Bar, 116 1st Ave (7th St.), m-9232

BROOKLYN (718),After FIVe Plus, 5 Front St., 852-0139
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NEWS EDITORARTS EDITORFEATURES EDITORSTAFF REPORTERDESIGN

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MAR..JORIE HILLCONTRIBUTING EDITORS

The appointment of Dr. Marjorie Hill as the mayor's liaison to
the lesbian and gay community was an historic milestone. As a
Black lesbian, Hill personifies some long-overdue changes at City
Hall. It's troublesome that she is now the target of a rising chorusof complaints that may weaken her position and threaten the fragile bonds that tie our community together.
, Hill inherited an office which was Simultaneously disempowered and downgraded by Mayor Dinkins. Distancing all of thecommunity liaisons from the mayor's office was a serious mistakeon Dinkins' part. It has already led to a nasty confrontation
betWeen the mayor and the Latino community, culminating in the
resignation of the Latino liaison.
Lesbians and gays don't need a similar fiasco. We need a powerfuladvocate to lobby for the long list of problems facing us. To becomethat advocate" Hill requires our understanding and support. If themayor perceives that she has our backing, her power and effectivenessautomatically increase, and we all benefit. If, on the other hand, she iscontinually undercut, her position is badly eroded, and we all lose.
There will inevitably be areas of legitimate complaint about
Hill's performance, and people will undoubtedly exercise suchcomplaints from time to time. Some activists, for example, say that
she could be more forceful on issues like gay-bashing. Others
maintain that she could work harder building bridges with Mayor
Dinkins' longtime lesbian and gay supporters. Both points are welltaken. But let's be realistic: At this point she, like the other liaisons,cannot even walk in to see the mayor whenever she wants.
Empowering the lesbian and gay community is a creative,
cooperative enterpriSe, ~d no one person,' least of all the over•worked inheritor of a downgraded municipal office, can do italone. Empowerment takes numbers, vision, unity, fairness andcompromise. It also takes time, which is something that Hill hasn't
had much of in the mere four months she's been in office.
We urge our readers to understand the difficulties that face
Marjorie Hill and to strengthen ourselves by helping to strengthen
her and the office she holds.
To paraphrase John Lennon: The power we take is equal tothe power we make.
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the rigorous and consistenteffort we are making to analyze, with CRI as well. And so do
criticize and Improve the pre- many other very talented andsent clinical trials system. ATA dedicated individuals who
regular1ytestifies before feder- have neither the time nor theal, state and, local committees; , desire to make arrogant proadvocating for better trial
nouncements about other's
design and for greater access efforts to contribute to thisto treatment for women, chil- struggle. In addition, to sugdren, the poor, IVDUs, prison- gest that GMHC and ACT UP
ers, people with hemophilia and are the only two organizapeople of color who continue to tions that should not close
face institutional biases and shop overlooks a sinble
other obstacles to adequate number of organizations providing essential services tohealth care.
As we stress in our publi- women and people of color.
cations, anyone entering a trial Let us not forget that 63 permust be fully informed before cent of those with an AIDS
they do. May we suggest that diagnosis are people of color
Mr. Kramer be fully informed in NYC and that women makeup 14 percent. Does GMHC or
before putting us on trial?
When he says, "Fighting is the ACT UP serve these people?
only way to stay alive," we No, they do not. Organiza-hope Larry means fighting side tions in Black, Latino, Nativeby side, not amongst ourselves. American and Asian commuBoard and siBff nities are doing very hard,
dedicated work with little or
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Should they close shop?
Larry Kramer's article on GMHC and ACT UP are cer"second-rate" AIDS organiza- tainly not responding to theirtions [no. 69, Oct. 24] was a cries for help; Let us make it
clear that we are not attacking
destructive attack on thousands of individuals who con- GMHC or ACT UP. Many of us
tinue to struggle to put an end belong to these organizato the AIDS crisis. No, there tions .. However, the services'
are no easy answers. There is offered by these twoorganinot a cure for AIDS, nor is zations do not currently
there a manual to read which address the needs of thewill tell us exactly how to go majority of HIV-infected perabout finding one. Many of us sons. CRI is committed towork toward that goal on a addressing these issues.
It is easy to criticize. It
daily basis. As members of the,,<&staff of a cO'mmunlty-based
takes an enormous amount of
AIDS organization, we deal strength and energy to try andwith the day-to-day problems make things work better. We
of conducting research and accept help and support wherprovlding'informationand ever' it comes from. It Is a very
counseling to thousands of humbling and frustrating expepeople with HIV Infection who rience to watch people die,have access to far fewer
despite trying to save them.
. resources th~n Larry Kramer.
CAl is in a difficult transiWe get little recognition and tion period. Yet our work consupport for what we do~ We tinues, and we are optimistic.
don't sell books, nor do we We know just how difficult theappear on TV.
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process is. It does not get
Mark Harrington, who easier but continues
toLarry praises so highly, is an demand more of us. We, ouractive member of CRI. So is friends and families are dying
Dr. Sonnabend. Fortunately,
too. It seems to be popular insome circles to criticize executive dlrectoi'S and boards of
AIDS organizations. Sometimes outside criticism isaccurate and helpful. Often,
however, the staff who runs
these organizations take thebrunt of the criticisms.
We, and many other hundreds of thousands of people,
do not consider failure apossible option. We are open towhatever Larry Kramer or anyone else has to offer CAL
Destructive criticism just hurts
us all.
The staff of CRI
Manhattan
La"¥ Kramer, in his recent
OutWeek article [no. 69, Oct.
24], "Second-Aated to Death,"
has done a serious disservice
to CAl, community-based AIDS
trials and to the community of
PWAs by distorting the realityof CAl's history and ignoring
the realities of AIDS research~
He says that "CAl [under myleadership] has tripped, stumbled, blustered and lied to all ofus," he refers to my "ineptitude" and "incompetence" andsays that the CAl board and I"have almost killed off one ofour most precious and promiSing resources."
He also suggests that
ACT UP's Treatment and Data
Committee was responsiblefor indUCing the CAl board to
ask for my resignation.
Since Larry gives no
details to support theseclaims, I assume they're basedon a number of recently articulated T&D complaints. I would
like to list some of the key
complaints and present information to OutWeBKs readers
to assist in your evaluation ofthese very damaging claims.
One overall T&D complaint is that CAl was in muchbetter shape a year ago and has
seriously deteriorated since.
In fact, CRI near1y foldedin the fall of 1989 when staff
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been asked by three large
companies (Burroughs-Wellcome, Pfizer and Mereiux) to
do major trials and, in thecase of the latter two, to serve
the lead site and multicenter
trial principal investigator. We
have also been asked to serveas the identified lead site for
FDA-IND applications for five
trials (MEK, WOB enzyme,
Curdlan Sulfate, etiocholanalone
and an AZT/ddl dimer study).
We are the only site for the
MEK trial and will be the onlysite for the Curdlan Sulfate,etiochQlanalone and AZT/ddl
dimer phase-one trials. The
point is not whether all ofthese trials come to fruition(our experience has shownthat only two-thirds which are
in negotiation do so), butrather that CRI has become aresearch center that has developed a reputation for reliability, integrity, rapid accrual andhigh standards of good clinicalpractice and for having a goodworking relationship with the
FDA, such that many sponsors
are now seeking us out.
Our relationship to the
FDA has changed from one
involving a mutually wary distance to one that is close andmutually respectful. In negotiations for the MEK trial, forexample, the FDA specificallyasked TNI, the sponsor, toinclude my signature on theircorrespondence with the FDA
in order to allow the FDA tocall me directly so that I could
serve to facilitate communications between the company
and the FDA. This is quite
unusual. The FDA has done
the same informally for the
CRI lentinan trial at times
when the dialogue between
the sponsoring company andthe FDA has been contentious.
Finally, in a third instance, asponsor (Mereiux) has asked
us to serve in such a facilitating role to attempt to·improvetheir difficult relationship with
the FDA. The FDA has also
contacted me to let me knowthat they "are very interested
in working with CRI" andwould like to encourage us tofile INDs for our nonsponsored trials.
Five studies are expected
to begin in the next five to six
months (MEK on Oct. 24,
VaxSyn in December, 566C80PCP prophylaxis in February,
fluconazole prophylaxis forfungal Ols in February or
March and Imuthiol in Marchor April). Unlike the case with
MEK last spring, when I madethe error of accepting theword of the small new sponsoring company that there
would be no major FDA problems, the SynVax and 566C80
trials already have FDA

approval, and the Pfizer fluconazole trial should have little
difficulty given the fact thatthe drug is already licensed.
In light of these significant
accomplishments in the lastnine months, I was appalled at
the gross inaccuracy of many of
the T&D charges. I will give
three or four examples for readers not familiar with thesecharges. The claim was made,for example, that two AmFAR
reviewers, including Dr. David
Byar of the National Cancer
Institute, offered to help me withthe doxycycline protocol before
its ArnFAR grant review in July.
This was particularly outrageous. It impugns Dr. Byar's
reputation by suggesting that hewould do something so unethical as to give CRt a competitive
advantageby secretly helping us
before a grant review processthat he was part of. If he haddone so, both he and I would
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to continually improve ourto a statement made in "Second-Rated to Death" [no. 69,
own organizations.
It isOct. 24].
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much easier to call for closing them down than it is to
Larry calls upon us in
hi.s article to stop relying
wort<on improving them. But
on incompetent and uncarwithout them, the HIV epiing government doctors to
demic would be worse, andsave our lives but later
not more visible.
suggests that readers stop
Ml!rk Aurigemma
donating to HIV/AIDS orBrooklyn
ganizations,concluding.
that if these organizations
An open letter to Larry
Kramer: 'closed, ~bodies would pile
up so high in doorways,
What's with you? How
emergency rooms, in docdare you say we're mediocre?
tor's offices, it would be
I'm not talking about the usual
so ... visible that Geo-rge
media stars; I'm talkil1gabout
Bush would be forc,ed to
middle-management, nurses,
do something."
educators,clerical staff, volunYou should know, Larry,teers -and other unnamedthat what the government
activists..You know, Lany-us
would do would much more"little people" in AIDS.
Why' is it, anyway,
closely resemble concentra- tion camps than health care. . , white guys working in AIDS
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receive your public (thoughbackhanded) compliments?
Why is it the people you
bad-mouth most and want
fired from AIDS organizations are women and lesbians? Could it really bethat a whole decade ofactivism hasn't taught youthat all oppressions exist
side' by side? cDon't you
know being a White-guy
supremacist isn't cool anymore not since AIDS, notsince you came down fromtbat big-shot white-guy
place in society? .
You still have a lot of
power. The community listens to you, and you s'till
are a white guy. But you're
down here with us now. So,
how about you stop kicking
and elbowing the rest ofus? We're all stretched andtired ;md pissed like you. If
truth· really matters to you,then look around and takein some other peoples'
truths. There are other people, Larry..
You and' your friends•
seem pretty new at thi,soppression thing, so takeadvice from someone who's
been down as long as whiteguys been up: Don't step on
the other poor slobs in line.
You won't get any farther
ahead because here at thebottom.we've made a humanchain so long and so~ancientthat no one even remembers
where the front is anymore.
Down here, Larry, we all
move together, one nanometer at a time.
Those people you want
to seefired, along with all theothers, you don't even know
about, are my role models.
They give me hope, and they
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O'Conno"s cathedral). The trial begins on
IWednesday, Oct. 31, and will continue I
through the remainderof the week.
I Needed are hundreds of supporters each I
day to pack the courtroom, located at
100 Centre St., Room BT·6 on the 5th I
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I(Deadline for listing of activities is the I
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• Call Darla at (212) 337.1200.)~__ .J
called me (in contrast to
and Jeff Levy. The only lesCRI's Ron English, who hasbian I believe I go after here
not retumed any of my ha/f- - is Joy Tomchin, an inadedozen phone calls over thequate human being. I go out
past months). Steve believesof my way to single out forthere's enough energy topraise a lesbian, Urvashi
keep ATR going. So I'll backVaid. No, I think I've been
off. I WOrty, however, aboutquite equitable in my housethe long list of ATR's probcleaning. I do get so tired oflems which John Birmingletters and arlicles like these.
ham brought to ACT UP's
WE ARE All FUCKING
attention and also about this
OPPRESSED.Nobody owns
duplication of efforts: Boththe patent or the copyright.
ATR and AmFAR put out
I'd like to clarify my critquite extensive treatment
icism of GMHC's Treatment
directories. Why must so
Issues and its medical direcmuch time, efforl and money
tor, Dr. Gabriel Torres, which
be spent on putting out two
has been misunderstood_ Dr.
directories? It's madness.
Torres is a fine, committed,
To Mark Aurigemma: I
compassionate doctor. Howwas merely musing what
ever, he was hired to replace
might happenif there wereno
the late Dr. Barry Gingell,organizations fighting AIDS; I
both at GMHC and as anthen wrote "the best way I
advocate at the NIH, whereknow to get out of this se/fhe held a valuable seat on a
defeating frame of mind...."
committee. Barry was a warTo reply to Lesbian X'srior, a great hero, a crusader
paranoia (how sick I am of
who wouldn't shut up. He. people who don't have theused his voice everywhere, guts to sign their real names
and was consf1lntlyfront andwhen they rip into you): I failcenter in the media. I've yet
to find in my article any
to hear Dr. Torres' voice
undue. concentration onraised so anyone can hear it.
decapitafi(lg women and lesHe is not only inaudible, he isbians. There are plenty ofiii visible_ (Perhaps it's
white men I kick in the ass_
because he is HIV-negative_
And have kicked. You obviIt's becoming increasingly
ously weren't around when I
clear that there's much lesswent after Richard Dunneurgency among the HIV-neg-

ative leaders of our organizations.) Similarly, Barry edited
and wrote Treatment Issues
as a political tool, a hot sheet
mailed to tens of thousandswith not only medical information but anger, fingerpointing, indignation, blameand concrete suggestions foractions its readers could f1lke.
It made readers think. And
urged them to action. No
more. A valuable means ofreachinga huge audiencehas
literally been thrown away. I
understand this is mostly thefault of one Maggie Reinfeld(sorry Lesbian X), the director of education, who sees toit that nothing GMHC publishes has any guts to it.
Reinfeld is going to be
Nathalie Weeks' right hand.
Nathalie Weeksis the dreadful new deputy executive
director of program management (Is that the mostmouthful of a title you ever
heard? Talkabout bureaucratization and job-descriptioned to death!) whom 11m
Sweeneymade the fatal mistake of hiring. Maggie andNathalie are going to makeone torrid team of losers_
lim Sweeney,I have wamed
you, with all OutWeek's readers as witnesses.
Finally, I'd like torespond to two points in
DerekHodel'sattack on me inlast week's issue. (I understand Rodger McFarlane is
responding in greater lengthand depth.) First, ACT UP
does not achieve its resultswith an "off-with-their-heads"
mentality. ACT Up, always
and at every juncture, at
every action, with every criticism, against every enemy,presents a complete list ofsuggestions on how to rightthe wrong being protested,
Derek then asks, "Since
when did Larry Kramer last
run an office effiCiently?"Well, Derek, becauseyou area wet-behind-the-ears kindof fella, 1'1/ tell you. The lasttime I ran an office efficiently was the last time GMHC
was run efficiently. I ran it,with Paul Popham, for the
first two years of its life. We
built it from scratch into amighty weapon. We gave it,with our treasurer, Joe
Paschek, fiscal responsibility. We drew to it hundredsof volunteers. at a time when
no gay organization ever had
hundreds of volunteers_ We
sent out the message to theland, and the land responded. The feeling of love, commitment, devotion was
everywhere and intoxicating
and susf1lined.And we madethat fucking place run andwork and be inspirational ina way it never has been
since. And don't you or anybody else ever fucking forget it. The creation of GMHC
was historic, and I don't
need any pipsqueak parvenu
arriviste telling me that I
don't know how to run anorganization when Paul andI created the best goddamned gay organization
this community had everseen up to that time, perhaps has ever had. •And before that, you little ungrateful twerp, I was
assisf1lnt to the president of
two major public corporations. Not one, but two. Rrst
Columbia Pictures Corporation. Then United Artists
Corporation, You do not get
to be assisf1lnt to the president of public corporations(at age 26) without someknowledge of finance, personnel, public relations, how
to manage staff, hqw tosolve problems, smarts. I
oversaw the work of entire
deparlments. I was responsible for the spending of millions of dollars. I hired andfired. At the time I worked
for them, these two film
,companies wereat the top of
the field, I then went out on
my own as a film producer.
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NEW YORK-Still stinging from thedefeat of gay-inclusive anti-bias legislation in the Republican-controlled-state
Senate, and sensing a threat to reproductive rights from that same body, lesbian
and gay lobbyists are making good on athreat to help the Democratic party unseat the state Senate's Republican majority.
"It is clear that to get gay and lesbian
legislation passed in the state Senate thisyear, weneed to elect Democrats," said
Lisa Parrish; the acting executive director·ofEmpir~ State Pride Agenda, the
new statewide political··action committee
fomied in a recent merger by New York
City's FAIRPACand the New York State
Lesbian and Gay Lobby in Albany. The
bias bill, sponsored by Governor Mario
Cuomo, has passed twice in the overwhelmingly Democratic state AsSembly.
The bill, defeated 25-29 in the
Senate last year, would stiffen penalties
for people convicted of bias-related.crimes, including anti-gay and anti-lesbian attacks. Roy Goodman, the bill's
Republican sponsor who represents the,Upper East Side bf Manhattan, was the
only member of his party voting in favor of the bill.' All Democrats but one. v<;>tedaffirmativelYj three Republicans. did not vote.
According to Parrish, her organization is set to distribute in excess of$20,000 to m~)fe than two dozen stateraces. In addition to 14 Senate races,
Pride will donate to Assembly and judicial contests as well. The group has targeted Democratic candidates whom theythe

STRAIGHT SlATE-Pro-Gay Candidates (clockwise from upper left) Sherrye Henry,Maxine Postal, Steven Levy and Harriett Cornell
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promote visibility and civil rights issues.
~didates are seeking local, state,and national office in Nov~Another gay and lesbian organization, the Human Rights
ber's general' elections, provi<iipg an elec"'.
Campaign Fund, has grown astronomicallytoral dividend to the years of activism inin both political influence and financial
vC!$tedin queer politics of ~cial change.
might' in the last few years, lending assisBot while electoral action remains a top pri.tance to the candidacies of some openly gay
Qrity,,and the number of openly lesbian and gay officials contin- ,;. people that has made the difference between their success andues to climb, our community still haS elected appallingly fewga,y'\' fu.ilure.This year alone, HRCFcontributed lIlQre than $400,000to
men and lesbians. ,,f,• Y, pro-gay candidates, ensuring that at least if we cannot represent"Ten years ago, there were-practically no lesbian and gay
ourselves, the people whoni we elect are sympathetic.
, candidates rurining for office," noted Howard Annistead, execu-·
In addition to the, candidates listed below and to the candi. live director of the Gay and Lesbian Association Political ,Action
dates who would have been included in this listing if we had
Committee,
explaining that he attributes
this new spurt of e1ecbeen able to locate them, at least a do~ gay men arid lesbians.
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tora! activism to the tremendous politiCal enthusiasm that cameare attempting to obtain less prominent offices, and observers'
Ol,lto£'the 1979 and 1987 queer marches on Washington. "It's'estimate that dozens' were knocked off' the ballot during Demo.just the::next phase coming out of the Stonewall revolutiOn.",
cratic and Republican primari~.,''Armistead's organization, GALAPAC,a year-old funding
And, of
there arethe other high-level candidates, source sj>'t,n'ou~ of t1ie annual openly gay and lesbian elected·
whose statewide and national campaigns are .quite viable--mtdofficials confet:ence, is d~cated exclusively to the promotion of
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agenda, recently winning a gay-friendly
amendment to current laws in' theHouse. The widely reported ~ scandal
involving reputed hustler Steven Gobie,
which earned him a reprimand from hiscolleagues, is not expected to hurt his
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representattve for the 4th Congressional
DistrIct of Massachusetts (Newton)

Howard Russell ,Democratic candtdate for Verlnont
state Senate (Gbtttenden)
Russell's progressi:ve taxing, prochoice and children's-advocate platfonn
has won him accolades from a broad
range of the state's politicians. If elected,
Russell would be the first openly gay
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SenateSusan Farnsworth
Democrattc one-term incumbent
rejJreSent1ng the 91$1 LegtslaNve Dfstrictin Maine (Central Maine)

youthful conservative Republican opponent. However, keeping his platform,
which advocates enhancing the state's
commitment to inner cities and urban
areas, on track, Grabarz expects toreturn to Hartford for a second term.

Allan Spear'. Ron Squires
candidate for representaNve.from the 5th Windham Dfstrict ofthe vennont Legislature (Bmttleboro)

Deborah GlickMike Duffy,

Republican candidate for state representatlve.from the 9th SUffolk Dfstrict.InMassachusetts (Boskm)
Duffy, a 27-year-old maverick Republican, is challenging a progressive incumbent in a campaign based largely on
Issues traditionally considered liberal.
"Withhis strongly pro-choice stance andhist 10 AIDS-funding advocacy, Duffy hopes to woo lesbian and gay
voters who have never before voted Republican, "The concept of an openly gay
Republican is a new one for lots of peoplet Duffy remarked, adding that his candidacy Is forcing activists to realize "that.the old assumptions no longer apply, •Joe Grabarz•

Incumbent one-term Democrattc
Connecltcut state representatiVe from the
128tb DIstrict (Bridgeport)
After triumphing in a difficult primary, Grabarz has been slammed withheavy negative campaigning from his•triet's Whitman-Walker Oinic, is vying tobecome the city's first gay council-member, and one of a handful of Black gay
elected officials in the country. Somehave criticized him for declining to mention his sexual orientation in his campaigning. The seven-way race includes
former Mayor Marion Bany.

Democratic candidate for the 61$1
Assembly Pistrictof New York (Lower,
Manhattan) ."When longtime progressive activist
Glick won the Democratic primary in
September, virtually ensuririg her election to the Assembly in Albany, lesbians and gay men celebrated a breakthrough in New York politics: New
Yorkers had anointed the fIrSt statewide
openly gay official.

DFl/Labor five-term Incumbent
Minnesota state senator from the 59th
DIstrict (Minneapolis)
Spear, an 18-year senator who has
held office as an openly gay man
longer than any other legislator in the
country, chairs a powerful senate committee that has allowed him to shape amore progressive state government. Asan advocate for the elderly, battered
women, lesbians and gay men, and thedisabled, Spear has developed a repu':
tation among both his colleagues andthe people of the state as a fair andopen legislator.
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Democratic two-term Incumbent
representative from Washington'S 43rd
DIstrict (Seattle)
In addition to winning passage
through the House of the statewide gay
and lesbian civil rights bill---Qfirst for thelegislation, which was introduced in
1977-Anderson Is seeking support fromhis urban constituents on an anti-gun,pro-education platform.

Jim Harvey
Candidate for City Council in
Washington, DC
Knocked off the ballot on a technicality and then reinstated by a judge,
Harvey, the deputy director of the Dis-_ ..

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state representative from District 60A(Minneapolis)
Representing an inner-city enclavethat is one of the poorest districts in thestate, Clark has distinguished herself nationally among openly lesbian and gay
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PrITSBURGH-Actions taken in the. last year to boost public awareneSs ofgay-related bias attacks have included
the passage of a gay-inclusive federal
hattXrimes bill. But even when anti-gay
murderers are identified and prosecuted,
lax investigation on the part of the oiminal justice system and convictions on reduced charges, followed by lenient sentences are still de rlgueur.
In a closely watched case bere, forinstance, just two weeks ago, a july, after
deliberating for less. than five hours, returned a verdict of involuntary manslaughter against a young man who, withan accomplice who received six to ten
yearS for his part in the murder, ruthlessly beat a gay man to death.
According to Cry Out!, a local organization of gay activists, just a few hours
after the decision came down and wasreported on the nightly news, fiveyoung men viciously attacked a gay
man and his brOther several blockS fromthe courthouse.
•"The verdict in the case is completely
void of any deterrent for future attacks on
lesbians and gays. In fact, the verdict
actively promotes the epidemic of violence against gays and lesbians," remarked Bill Hileman, a member c:l Qy Out!
The case arose out of an incident
that occurred in September of last year,
when the two convicted assailants, Mark
Glusic and John Smouse, lured David
Piergalski into their van, which wasparked in a gay cruising area. The two, men then attacked and severely beat
PiergaIski, inflicting multiple wounds to
his anns, breaking his nose and one of
his cheek bones and strangling him. According to the investigation~ Pierga!ski
bled so profusely from the wounds thata pool of blood three feet in diameter
stained the scene of the c;dme.
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claimed that Piergalski had been alive andtalking when they left the scene, and thatthe force they used on him was sufficient
only to get Piergalski out of their vehicle.
Glusic, who will be sentenced in
December, is currently free on bond, andobservers say that although the single
charge on which he was convicted-involuntary mansiaughter-carries a maximum penalty of five years in jail, since hehas no prior convictions, he will probably receive six months to a year of prisontime. Smouse received his sentence of six
to ten years, ,which will be served in aminimum security prison, in August.
Elected officials, too, have beenslow to react to the rising rates of gaybashing, leading activists to charge thatpublic institutions, such as the police
department and the executive offices,'are complicitin the commission of antigay assaults.
In New York, Mayor David Dinkins
only last week posted a reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the person or persons responsible
for last summer's murder of a gay man,
Julio Rivera, in Queens. Calling Rivera's
murder "a despicable act, n Mayor David
Dinkins, who has endured scorching aiticism from anti-violence activists over his
perceived failure to act swiftly in response
to Rivera's murder and other anti-gay
attacks, announced the $10,000 bounty.
.Dinkins' critics quickly pointed out,
however, that the announcement came
just two days before a citywide anti-violence demonstration was scheduled totake place. And sources in the mayor's
office said that such a reward was usually
an indication that the police had reached
an impasse in their investigation.
-ft1ed.from New YorlI,NEW YORK-A gay porn star
who allegedly murdered his agent in. the ,East Village last August has been.booked and charged with seconddegree murder and robbery.
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he was guilty of the murder,
The victim, Michael Frank, wasfound dead in his East Village apart·
ment on Aug. 23, However, reported
the Advocate, a national lesbian andgay magazine, a defense attorney forthe accused murderer, Michael Kelly,.disputes that the prosecutors' evidence
Is Incriminating. According to the
Advocate, Kelly's professional nameis Ted Cox.
"They know they have a de~dbody with multiple stab wounds, but I
don't believe they even have the knife,"
defense attorney Murray Singer told
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Taking just over
one day to deliberate, a Boise jury convicted three white supremacists of conspiring this past May to blow up a gay
disco in Seattle.
The eight-woman, four-man jury
took less than 15 hours to reject the"boys-just-having-some-fun" arguments
which defense attorneys used. _Instead" the jury sided with theprosecution, fmding that Stephen Edwin
Nelson and Robert John Winslow hadplanned to blow up Neighbours Discoin Seattle, and had knowingly made abomb, earned ftreanns and crossed statelines with plans to commit that aime.
Although the third defendant,
Procter James Baker, didn't actually gowith the others to Seattle, he was convicted of conspiracy and possession of abomb, parts of which 'Yere found in his
Idaho residence.
With homespun talk that played
down the implications of the defendants'
actions, the defense attorneys tried hard
to convince the jury that the trio weremerely overgrown adolescent males
playing at "comic-book stuff.""Is this conspiracy planning or isthis merely violent, locker-room, macho
fantasy talk?" asked Gar Hackney, attorney for Nelson.
, But the "good-ole-boy" references
and football analogies fell on deaf ears
with a jury made up mostly of women.
The attorney for Baker attempted to. convince the jurors that they, too, could
be charged with conspiracy if the catalogs in their houses, contents of their
garages or conversations were moni" tored by FBI agents.
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likely to be about cooking utensils anddecorating ideas than hunting and survivalist gear.
Douglas VanderBoegh, attorney for
Wmslow, tried to cast doubt on the FBI
informant, pushing his overzealous and"By these standards, mycigarette lighter is an
incendiary device."-Defense

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Everett Hofmeister
untrustworthy behavior.
But the jury apparently felt that for
all of the encouragement the infonnant
gave the defendants, ex-wrestler Rico
Valentino had acted within the vague
limits defined by undercover work.
With the defendants found guilty on
all counts, VanderBoegh's strategy also
backftred. His closing statement tried to
get the defendants off the hook by showing that even more elaborate plans
weren't implemented.
"When things were supposed tostart happening, where were the 15
Aryan warriors with Uzis?" VanderBoegh asked.
Defense attorneys also argued that
the FBI stepped in too soon. Had the FBI
waited, the defendants would have gonehome like the good little boys they were.
But with one practice explosion in
the woods, a chalk talk to work out

details and the makings of a partiallyassembled bomb found in the Seattle
motel room where the supremacists
were staying, the jury didn't buy thefan~theory.
For them, the prosecution's rapidfire delineation of the events which culminated in the May 12 arrest worked.
US Attorney Ronald Howen successfully argued that you didn't actually
have to explode a bomb to have a conspiracy. All you need is an agreement
between two or more people, membership in the group and an overt act.
"In a conspiracy, you don't have tocommit the actual aime. The only thingthat matters is that you intended to commit the crime," said Howen.
Howen also carefully set the scene
for the conflagration that would havefollowed had the FBI not stepped inwhen it did.
"What would have happened ifthey'd gone through with it? Premeditated, ftrst-degree murder!" Howen thundered. "Would you have been arguingthat it was only talk then? Murder andmaiming is not fantasy talk."
Although the defense objected,
Howen thrust his point home to thelargely female jury when he argued:"What is your life worth? What is yourchild's life worth? At what stage would
you have stopped this case?"
The defendants could get 15 to
25 years. Sentencing is scheduled for
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NEW YORK-For decades, thousands and thousands of poor and working-class Puerto Ricans have immigrated
to New York neighborhoods
like theSouth Bronx and EI Barrio, driven by
their hopes and dreams of building a
new life in "the land of opportunity."
1:he massive imµligration has forgeddeep cultural' links between two places
where travel is restricted not by politics
but by economics.
Today, many native Puerto Ricans
are still fleeing their island, a US posses-

sion without federal representation, in
search of that same untapped promise.
But fur Puerto Ricans.
afflicted with AIDS
and other related illnesses, the journey
to New York can bea desperate and someti~es final a~tempt, not at starting a new life but atsurviving the old one.
According to the lateSt HN/ AIDS
surveillance report issued tliis month by
the Centers for Disease Control, Puerto
Rico has the second-highest per capita

AIDS rate in the country. The CDC statistics show that 51.4 of every 100,000 Puerto Rican residents
had been diagnosed
with the disease between October 1989
and September 1990.
Only in the District of Columbia, where
the rate is 110.2 per 100,000, is the situation worse. In New York state, the rate is45.3 per 100,000.
Additionally, CDC figures indicatethat the island's capital, San Juan, has the
fourth-highest annual new diagnosis rate

••Ricans with AIDS is the lack of funds
made available to them. 'The budget assignment for AIDS is very, very limited,"
Rivera said.
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The total AIDS budget in Puerto Rico, which has a population of 2.5 million, is a mere $6 million. San Juan, a cityof 500,000 people, sees $3.2 million ofthat figure. Rivera estimates that there are
8,000 to 9,000 reported AIDS cases on
the island. Not including people with
ARC or asymptomatic HIV infection, thatworks out to spending a little over $650
per person with AIDS annually.
Complicating matters further is that
San Juan is the only city on the island
where PWAs can realistica11ygo for treatment. "Most patients do not have real access to the services" that do exist Rivera
added. Although two weeks ago newclinics focusing on AIDS recently began
forming elsewhere on the island, Rivera
said, "My main worry is that 1 don't believe it's enough. According to him,these places still need to be staffed andorganized in order for people to obtaineffective treatment.
Finally, a poorly planned Medicaid
budget makes it nearly impossible formost PWAs to access any of the island's· $63 million in federal .Medicaid funds,
Rivera asserts: "Those monies are reallycommitted in, and allocated for, othertypes of services. We need to reevaluate our priorities here in Puerto Rico.
Obviously, you have to define yourpublic policy of how you are using
your resources. Money should be takenout of other services and allocated to
AIDS programs."
Dr. Johnny Rullan, a CDC-fundedepidemiologist who directs the Central
Office for AIDS at the health department in Puerto Rico and also oversees
all of the department's dealings withother communicable diseases, was not
immediately available for comment.
One health department official who
deals with AIDS, speaking privately,
said: "I cannot deny that AIDS is a very,
very serious situ,ation. Our problem isthat we do not have enough funds, notonly for AIDS but for everything. And· AIDS is such an expensive disease. But·the state is not providing. It is, not that
we are spending too much on something else. Here in Puerto Rico, weneed money for everything.
Nevertheless, a specific office for
AIDS did not even. exist until April of thisyear. And while millions of federal AIDS,,

here, a group of local activists, with theencouragement and support of ACT UP
members from the States, organized
themselves into ACT UP/Puerto Rico thispast year and staged demonstrations
throughout the island during the monthof August. Touching the rawest nerve on
this largely Catholic island was a protest
mass outside the San Juan Cathedral, thedistribution of condoms inside the cathe-drat and the posting of fliers that called
Cardinal Martinez an AIDS criminal.
In many of these demos, gay Puerto
Ricans and New Yorkers were joined bydollars are funnelled to the island, including funds that pay for about 200 people'sAZf, little of it goes to the health department to be spent directly on health care.
A $2 million federal grant for housing
people with AIDS was recently approved
but has not yet been received, according
to a health department spokesperson.
Dr. Gaspar Encarnacion, a physician
in San Juan who has treated PWAs fornearly a decade, now treats an averageof 30 to 35 AIDS patients a day, both at
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think it would be able to take care ofthese patients," he told autWeek. What
he finds particularly disturbing is the attitudes of dentists and surgeons who.
refuse to treat PWAs,.
Compounding the problem of AIDSin Puerto Rico are the doctrinaire attitudes of the Catholic church, which opposes the distribution of any infonnation
on safer sex that does not fall within its
own strict moral code. Puerto Rico's Cardinal Luis Aponte Martinez is well knownin activist circles for his theory that it ismore sinful to wear a condom than tohave AIDS.
Provoked by the horrendous conditions surrounding the AIDS epidemicstraight family members and friends. Activists also went to shooting galleries to
instruct drug users on how to clean needles with bleach as an AIDS prevention.
Indeed, according to front-liners, most of
Puerto Rico's AIDS cases are among IVdrug users. And Dr. Rivera Duefio said
that he is seeing an increase in the number of babies born with AIDS. Activists
even distributed condoms and safer-sex
infonnation at a local university.
The month-long actions marked thelongest runniilg series of demonstrationsin the history of ACT UP and made Puerto Rico the first latin American country tohave an ACT UP chapter.
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-Avril McDonald

RIGHTS FOR THE
HIV.;.POSI?
NEW YORK-Many city hospitals
and clinics are refusing to perfonn abortions on HN-positive women, in violation of city, state and federal antidiscrimination laws, according to flle City
Commission on Human Rights.
A study publishedlast week
showed that 42 percent of hospitals,
abortion clinics and private doctors surveyed by the Commission last Marchrefused to provide abortion services to
HIV-positive women or, in one case,grossly overcharged for the service.
Their rationale was that their facilities were not equipped to carry out
the necessary sterilization procedures,that they were unfami,Iiar with unifonn
infection-control procedures and that
their employees were unwilling towork with such patients.
Presenting the report, the city's
human rights commissioner, Dennis
deLeon, said that universal infectioncontrol precautions should be routinely followed whenever blood or body
fluids may be present, which suggeststhat many health care providers either
do not understand the need for themor choose not to follow them.
DeLeon recommended that a comprehensive campaign be undertaken to cd. ucate health care providers on the nature, of ffiV infection, its modes of transmission
and the need to utilize universal precautions when treating all patients. Reproductive care providers must also be made tounderstand ,theirlegal requirements to pr0vide ~cesto ffiV-poWve women.
As a last resort, such providers will
be prosecuted by the Commission's Law
Enforcement Bureau to the full extent

SAN FRANCISCO-Followingapublic viewing of a General Motors
video that included an anti-gay remark,the Board of Supervisors is considering
severing the city's fmanciaI relationshipwith the car giant, and promoting a boycott of all GM products.

The action, which reportedly has
widespread support here, was begun after a GM customer, in an internal promotional video for the Chevrolet Heartbeat, shown in Detroit, referred to thevehicle of one of GM's Japanese competitors as "that little faggot truck."
The controversy over the video
sparked national news coverage, leading
the Board of Supervisors, spearheaded
by Supervisor Richard Hongisto, to examine the city's financial relationshipwith GM in light of a city anti-disaimination ordinance that includes protections

No Rave for Dave.

NEW YORK~When Mayor David
Dinkins came to speakat the Human Rights
Campaign Fund's annual Big Apple
fund raiser, he was greeted by leaflettersfrom Queer Nation and a steady stream of
tuxedoed dinner"guest hecklers. Many inthe community are unhappy with the mayor's response to the spiralling gay-bashingepidemiChere.
"I'm sorry that the mayor wasn't better prepared to handle their concems, andI felt bad that it went on so long," HRCF
chief Tim McFeeley said of the protest.
"Sometimes we just can't avoid larger issues in the community at our parties. It
made people uncomfortable, but it didbring up some important issues."
Dinkins, pictured here, departed
shortly after his speech. Despite the disruption, the fete grossed nearly $175,000,
slightly less than organizers antiCipated.
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Millersuit are the Reproductive Rights Network and the
Coalition for Lesbian and Gay Civil Rights.

FACADE: The Lesbian and Gay Community Services Center is getting a muchneeded
face lift.
Constructed in 1844
as Public School 16,
the landmarked structure of now-friable
pressed brick andsandstone will be restored with the help of a $100,000
grant from New York state, matched dollar for dollar by the
Rita and Stanley H. Kaplan Foundation. Although it will be
obscured for scaffolding for about three months, staffers
said that the building is open for business as usual. And
they're still taking contributions ....

DISNEYLAND: Men danced with men and womenwith women at the California home of Mickey and Min~
nie Mouse on Sept. 15. Celebrating the tenth anniversary of his ejection from the theme park's Tomorrowland Terrace for dancing with his boyfriend, Andrew
Exler gathered 27 of his friends to celebrate his successful 1984 lawsuit which reversed Disneyland's policy barring same-sex dancing.
SHACKING UP: Stanford University will extend to gay
and straight unmarried couples the same benefits it
currently affords married students.
SHAPING UP: Fed up ~th allowing ROTC to discriminate against lesbians and gay men on its nondlscrlmlnating campus, MIT's faculty has begun a five-year
campaign to change the Defense Department's mind
about gays. And in a unanimous resolution, the professors voted to recommend tossing the military off
campus if they don't shape up.

CARDINAL
KNOWLEDGE:
The St. Patrick's Six
won't be seeing Cardinal John O'Connor on the witness stand. The presiding-judge quashed a subpoena
that would have dragged his eminence into court as a
hostile witness, mass media in tow. While the judge
ruled that O'Connor's testimony wouldn't be relevantin the trial of AIDS and abortion rights activists accused of disrupting a Cathedral mass last December,insiders opined that his honor was trying to avoid turning his courtroom into a media circus.

ROCKY MOUNTAIN HIGH: Denver's city council voted 8-4 for a gay-inclusive civil rights law. Since themayor has promised to sign it, advocates have turned
their attention to the governor, hoping for a stateWide
executive order banning job discrimination.
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KOCHAJ, NIE ZABIJAJ: For the uninitiated, that's
Polish for YDo Love, Don't Kill," currently number eightand climbing on Poland's pop music charts. Recorded
by Balkan Electrique, a popular rock band led by
openly gay singer Slawek Starosta, the ditty is a gay
love song with a melodious safer-sex message, according to Outlines News Service.

CHURCH CHAT: Smarting from a lockout at the University of Massachusetts, ACT UP/Boston, wifh thehelp of the ACLU; is taking the school to court. When
officials got wind of the group's plans fora demo
against the anti-gay, anti-abortion Cardinal Bernard•
Law, they locked the doors to the classroom the group
had reserved. Also involved in the First Amendment•,

for lesbians and gay men.
In a letter dated Oct. 15, the Supervisors warned GM that "as part ofGM'sfinancial relationship with the,city, your corporation agrees not toengage in discriminatory practices
against lesbians and gay men. Natu. rally, we are outraged that GM's
. Chevrolet division has chosen to violate its agreement with San Francisco
and to, subfect lesbian and gay people to the hqrrors of prejudice andinjustice:" A spokesperson
fromChevrolet did not return a reporter's
phone call. On Oct. 16, a spokesperson told the San Francisco Examimer,"We sincerely apologize to anyone
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who was offended and will take every
precaution to ensure that nothing likethis ever happens again.""This video didn't just happen,"remarked TJ Anthony, an openly gay
aide to Supervisor Hongisto, pointing
out that the interView was culled from
more than 500 hours of tape, reviewed
by the promotional division of Chevrolet, and released as part of a coordinated effort to 'up sales. "That means
there was a consensus of bigotry
among the GM promotional people,"
Anthony concluded.
Currently, according to Anthony,the city is awaiting a response fromGM to a letter signed by all of the city

supervisors, and a report on GM fromthe Human Rights Commission. Anthony said that part of his negotiations
with GM include a request that the international corporation donate a sum
equal to the amount of money spenton the video to a gay and lesbian community-based organization that fights
violence and discrimination.
An editorial in the San Francisco
Examiner urged citizens to go even farther in their actions against the company: "Boycott [GM's]big, macho trucks.
Japanese trucks work better anyway,
and you don't have to wipe the slime off
the door handles," the piece suggested.

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.important contribution to the advancement of queer politics will be throughhis daily contact with his fellow workers,
as there is little scope for advocacy in his
professional capacity. He will be mainly
adjudicating on landlord-tenant issues.
. His background in housing law,
coupled with his experience within thecivil court system as assistant to the judiciary, were probably factors in his
appointment by Milton Williams, chief
administrative judge of the Civil Court.
After graduating from Brandeis University in Boston, he attended New YorkLaw School, from which he received his
law . degree. During his law school years,
he did an internship in the White Houseduring the Carter administration.
Admitted to the bar in 1982, hepractieed as a housing court attorney
for two years before being appointed to. serve as an assistant to civil court judges.

-Avril McDonald

AFRICA'S FIRSTGAY PRIDEPE
JOHANNESBURG-The
Africancontinent saw its first gay pride parade
on Oct. 13 when about 800 gays andlesbians marched through the Hillbrow
and Braamsontein neighborhoods ofJohannesburg, South Africa.
The ground-breaking
event wasorganized by the Gay and Lesbian Organizationof Witwatersrand,
theSoweto-based group founded by key
anti-apartheid and gay activist Tseko,

Simon Nkoli.
Seventy percent of the marchers
were white and 30 percent were people of color, Nkoli said.
""It was' quite a nice mix. We' werepleased with the response from whiteorganizations. Only the Gay ChristianCommunity didn't want to participate,"
Nkoli said in a telephone interview.
The festivities began with a rally
at the Institute for Race Relations,where Nkoli and activist Donne Rundle read a gay and lesbian manifesto
and messages of support from 45
overseas gay organizations.
A picnie followed in Peter Roors
Park, where activists planted a city-donated tree in memory of those who
have' died of AIDS.
South Africans plan to do it again
next year, on Oct. 12.

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violence, nearly 200 lesbians and gay men rallied outside City
Hall, the cou'rts and Police Department headquarters in downtown Manhattan on Oct. 25, in an effort to call attention to therising rates of gay-related bias crimes.
The violence has become so terrorizing that even openly gay Human Rights Commissioner Dennis deLeon recounted that the fear of
attack has forced him to stay inside at night. Recently, he told the

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crowd, he and his lover realized that they were afraid to go outside
their home becausea gang of kids was hanging out on the comer.
"I've been bashed twice," another speaker told the demonstrators. "When will [Mayor David Dinkins] realize it's his job tofight for a state bias bill, not someone else's?"
Other speakers included Manhattan Borough President Ruth
Messinger, and Ma~orie Hill, the mayor's gay community liaison.
-Nina Reyes

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NEW YORK-Needle-exchange
programs are an inappropriate way to
reduce human immunodeficiency virus
infection among IV-drug users, according
to Dr. Woodrow A. Myers, New York City's
health commissioner.
"I am not convinced that these programs are effective," he said during a lecture
on Oct. 17. "I don't believe ,that the researchis conclusive or that we are in an era where
it can be translated into practical use."
The first objective of the city's healthdepartment is to emphasize that drugs areunhealthy, he said, adding that if one "can't
or won't listen
to advice, then we will broach.
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the issue of safe needle use."
Myers strayed from his scheduled talkon care and treatment of people with AIDS
and instead addressed urgent public healthissues in New York City. His talk, sponsoredby the Public Health Research Institute,••

focused on recent trends in HIV infection in
New York. Myers noted that more IV-drugusers are developing HIV infection than gay
men, with African Americans and Latinos
most hard hit. With the increasing incidence of AIDS in newborns, the healthdepartment is launching a $2 million program to reduce HIV infection in pregnant
IV-drug users, he said.
One reason for this increase is the IVdrug-using community's failure to reproduce the preventive model developed by thegay community, Myers said. During a follow-up question and answer session, audience members pointed out that despite
Myers' own refusal to implement needle
exchange in New York, such programs inother US cities and overseas not only stem
HIV infection in IV-drug users but also act
as a bridge to drug treatment.
-Avril McDonald

by Duncan Osborne
NEW YORK-People
with AIDS
who no longer respond to conventional
antiviral treatment are having trouble
gettfng an experimental
drug themanufacturer says is available to them,
AIDS activists charge.
,
The drug, ddC, is currently being
tested in clinical trials. Its manufacturer,
Hoffman-J.a Roche, recently announced
that it was offering the agent to people
with AIDS who no longer respond to, or
could not tolerate, AZf, under guidelines for expanded access. With thisprogram, those who do not qualify forentry into a clinical trial may take thedrug under the supervision of their
physician, who is supposed to provide
clinical data to the drug company.
"Hoffman-La Roche still has not, made it easy for physiciansandpatients to obtain ddC," said DavidGold of ACT UP/NY.
The problem lies in getting theapproval of Institutional Review Boards,
committees composed of physicians, religious leaders and local communitymem,
bers who safeguard the welfare ofpatients, enrolled in a drug protocol by
en-suring ·that the protocol is medicallyand ethically sound, Typically, IRBs areaffiliated with a hospital, Activists say that
Roche should obtain a blanket IRB froma government branch, such as the FDAor National Institutes of Health, to avoid
having each physician ftll out cumbersome paperwork for a local IRB approval
for each patient seeking the drug.
Activists
want Roche. to sign opto
the same expanded-accesS protocol thatallowed Bristol-Myers Squibb, the firstcompany to offer expanded access, todispense a rdated drug,ddI, to. over .''12,400 people with AIDS inthe past year. .'"'
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Ethridge. Last year, itIi was the Indigo~ Girls. The year
cS before, it was Tracy~ Chapman.
Every-l year, It.,s Ma donna .
t-'.9 For a decade, it was~. Lily Tomlin. For
three decades, it was Katharine (Kate toher devotees) Hepburn. And for long,
long after her death, it will be Garbo.
No, we're not talking Blackglama
ads here-we'retalking lesbian sex
symbols. Who decides the lust objectof 15, million lesbians in the US?In part
it's style, in part it's looks, in part it'sthat the symbol is rarely actually lesbian-and
if she is, she certainly
would never tell anyone.

T Melissa

quick review of Sweet Dreams could
enlighten many) as she appears on Johnny Carson in total butch drag-not evenan earring to femme it up. If it weren't
for the voice, we'd think it was the reincarnation of Johnny Ray, not Patsy dine.
Then there's Ms. Chapman, who isrunning neck-in-neck for the Whitney"Did-somebody-use-that-word-again?"
Houston award. Tracy Chapman, who

who still lived together after theypassed the age of 40 were known tobe i,n what is tenned a "Boston marriage." That means that even in Boston,
two women can be lesbians together athome if they deny it in public. Apparently, it still works well for the Misses
Tomlin and Wagner.
And there was that movie Desert
Hearts. That sparked quite a few flints

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It's true. The most sought-after lesbian sex symbols in America are either
straight as an arrow or suffering severe
bruises to the head from hitting the coathooks back in the closet. And yet these
are the women who make lesbians
nationwide dampen their Calvins andtwist their toes inside their Doc Marten's.
Why?
Why did lesbians stop stomping forMichelle Shocked when she came out
last year? Why do they continue toswoon over k.d. lang, the butchest item
this side of Charles Bronson, who has
yet to even hint at an alternative sexuality? But let's look at these girls. Shocked
said the "L" word, got hell for not saying
it sooner, said some not-so-srruµt things
about outing, and now, when she
appears on David Letterman, and heasks about the men in her life, she talks
about her father, the roadie.
Meanwhile, la lang moa"s about
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the T-shirt, Levi's and boots that are her·current "femme" attire, also made hername at such festivals as Sisterfire,
where there are about two nonlesbianperfonners---QIld both are fonner loversof Holly Near. .
And what about Madonna? Did shereally believe that straight women goof
on the public by playing queer with
their girlfriends? Even Garbo never triedthat line on for size.
Then there's Lily Tomlin and her"writing partner," Jane Wagner. Just
before the turn of the century, womenwith Patrice Charboneau, who did agood femmed-up k.d. lang for the big
screen, But after she became a lesbian
sex symbol, she began to whine that she
had been pregnant when ftIming andhadn't gotten a decent role since. Meanwhile, fellow leading lesbo in the film,
Helen Shaver, who never denied that it
was the best love scene she ever played,
now has her Qwn network 1V series.
Then there's Desert Hearts director,
Donna Deitch, who declines to divulge
her sexuality under any circumstances
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us' later when they've"made it" on our loyalty and money.
Why is there such a dearth ofreal, live declared lesbians for oursex symbols?' Why are lesbians
unwilling
to pay money to hear
openly lesbian singers or to readbooks by openly lesbian writers but
can't wait to queue up for an autographed book- by Lily Tomlin or Fran
Lebowitz (or Liz Smith, if she everputs all her innuendo into a book) or
for tickets to the latest closet case indyke drag?
This is a mutual partnership ins.elf-loathing,
and we should bequestioning
our as-yet-unquestioned participation.
As long as lesbians accept the pin-up version of
fake dykes (everyone
is stealing
those Gap ads with k.d. lang), thenthat is what they are going to
get-withthe pronouns
clippedfrom the final copy.
Why is there this need to-attachourselves to the closeted or the straight?
Why can straight women acknowl-•

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women while actual lesbians are falling
all over themselves with press releases
saying that it isn't true? (When heterosexual Theresa Russell appeared on
Johnny Carson after the release ofBlack Widow, Jay Leno asked her what
was most mem-orable about working
with Debra Wmger. Her answer: "She'sa great kisser.")
Twenty-plus
years
after
Stonewall, we should be demandingthat these women declare themselves
or stop taking our money. What weshouldn't be doing is denying ourown reality and letting these women
deny thi$ reality publicly in ournames. In doing so, we tell the worldthat we are only as real as a hairstyleand a particular cut of jeans. And
Brooke Shields has shown us thismonth, dressed as a man on the
cover of Paper, that there's more tothat than meets the eye ....
Victoria A. Brownworth covers
PhtJadel,phta and Washingtonfor OutWeek.

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Postal, a pro-choice candidate, supported Local Law 5, Suffolk County's
lesbian and gay civil rights ordinance.
Postal also introduced a resolution in
the county le~lature which called on
Albany to pass Cuomo's bias bill. Johnson, an abortion opponent,
went
thumbs down on the bias bill, though
he is viewed as strong on environmental issues. FAIRPACgave Postal $1,000
in September, prior to her Democratic
primary bid.
Steven Levy, currently serving histhird term in the Suffolk County legislature, is seeking the Senate seat of 18year incumbent Caesar Trunzo. Levy, apro.choice, Local Law 5 supporter, hasreceived funds from FAIRPACin previous races. Trunzo, an anti-choice candidate who voted against the bias bill, is
one of two Republican
senators
deemed vulnerable by gay lobbyists. A
Trunzo spokesperson
disputed thatcharacterization but described Levy's
bid in the 3rd Senatorial District as a"strong challenge."
Sherrye Henry, a former WOR radio talk-show host, is looking to retire
Kenneth LaVelle, who has served 14
years in the state Senate. The pro-choice
Henry is also an unabashed supporterof the bias bill and a gay rights proponent. Henry received $1,000 from FAIRPAC to aid her bid in the 1st Senatorial
District prior to September's Democratic
primary race.
The fourth Senate race targeted by
Pride is for the Rockland County Senate seat left vacant by the death of Republican Eugene Levy. Pride will contribute to the pro-choice Harriett Cornell, a seven-year Rockland County
legislator and bias-bill supporter. Cornell, who has extensive experience inRockland County politics, is squaring
off against the Rockland County state
assemblyman, Joseph Holland, in the
38th Senatorial District. Unlike his Republican colleagues in the Senate, Hoiland has deep roots in Rockland County politiCS and has twice voted in support of the bias bill during his single
term in the state Assembly.
These Senate races will be decided
when voters go to the polls on Tuesday,
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regarding justabout everything
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a new book,•a video show•---,and,ocourse, lots
more to say.

••t seems that Susie Bright has always been summed up!>y US"words some of them not very nice. She ismostly associated with one: SEX.SIM sex, to be specific. She is co-founder and editor of On Our Backs, thepremiere lesbian sex magazine in the country, andshe's authored several books on lesbian erotica, including thejust-published Sex World, Of course, there are several otherUS" words that elucidate who Susie Bright is, as separate fromhef alter-ego, Susie Sexpert (the name she goes by in her column in OOl!), She is smart, savvy, strong, sometimes sweet,
seductive a,nd salacious, She is also surprisingly serious a, word rarel,y:,assoclated with the sort of nonstop rendering of, sexual mytfios that Bright is a leading proponent of, Yet her
reputatlons--the bad one she has with anti-porn feminists
and the good one she has with lesbians who view her work
as expanslve-rest solely on that one US" word.
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leftist politics to John Lennon to strip shows to the state of
the union-whether that union is the US, the gay and lesbiancommunity or two bodies in bed.
There are only a handful of lesbians in America who
continually spark controversyj Bright is one of them. But her
ideas aren't so much new as they are iconoclastic, and hermeans of telling the tale outrageous, There is no denyingthat the woman has broken ground for lesbian sexuality,
making the world a safer place for purveyors such as Joann
Loulan to carry the messages into mass-market appeal .
In many ways, Bright remains' an enigma, Even withreams of interviews to peruse, one is still left wondering who
Susie Bright is, and how she got to be Susie Sexpert, Did shejust wake up one mOrning and decide she wanted to becomea lesbian sex goddess and spread the gospel of sex toys,
strange positions and dental clams?
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It began, as so many of ~ese things do, in Callfor-!

nia, where she grew up, Bright was only eight, she says, iE
when she discovered masturbation, but i
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the height of gay liberation, feminism and the Vietnam War,"she says that social activism flltered down from the activities
at UCLA into her high school, and events such as Wounded
Knee and the farm-workers boycott politicized her.
"I wanted to be a revolutionary," she says of those
years. She brought a lesbian discussion panel to the school
as a countermeasure to a school-sponsored "girl's week" that
focused on the limitations of being a "girl": "We had
women's week where we discussed sexuality, birth control
and lesbianism." The school tried to ban the lesbians and theunderground newspaper that Bright worked on; the paper
was seized, but the panel did appear, and Bright developed
a crush on one of the out lesbians at her school, whom shetermed a "most courageous dreamboat."
After high school, she moved to Detroit to "be in the heartof industrial America." Her time there, she says, was a "hugestep backward in terms of sexual consciousness," and eventuallyshe, moved back to California to attend college. "That's where I
fell into the lesbian movement," she recalls. "I was at Cal State,Long Branch and UC/Santa Cruz. There was a really radical les, biaI1women's studies department, and it really set me thinking."
The period that followed was one of conflicts between.
feminism and sexuality, lesbian consciousness and desire .
Bright had begun to discover the anti-porn, anti-sex nature of
the academic setting but was also drawn to the women's andlesbian communities because "they had so much to offer. I
remained ambivalent but seduced by it. I was frightened bybar life it was fighting the Briggs Initiative that got me out of
the college madhouse and into the gay community. I moved to
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It was this experimentation that led to Bright's fascination with the sexual mavericks within the lesbian community
in San Francisco: "I saw that ideas I had in my head could bein my body, too." She became involved with Samois, a lesbian S/M group in San Francisco, "which at one time was thelargest lesbian organization in America." They gave "her anhonorary lavender tit-clamp. The rest, as they say, is history.

Did your involvement. witb Samots lead to tbe fOUndingof On Our Backs?
Susie Bright: It's not that simple, 'but yes. Actually, it was
being single that really was a catalyst for me and for sexual
experimentation. Lesbians had come to vieW the whole leather
scene as a niale disease-Samois had a very different perspective. It was exciting and different. It was about sexual minorities.
At first, I worned, "Am I sticking up for something that's reallyternble, or what?" because of this rift, this split in the lesbiancommunity over 'leather. It was devastating to see that split. And
I'd been preaching all this stuff, and I hadn't actually tried it.

But tben you did?
Then I did. And after that I got a job at Good Vibrations[a sex shop in SF] and discussed sex history with customers.
Then I found that orgasms were the main issue forwomen coming at all was a big deal for women. It wasaround then that I discovered sex toys and started masturbating with them. I've always learned by reading, by being abookworm, and there was no women's erotica beyond Ana'isNin. Samois' Coming to Power was a first. And it was just as
bad for straight women as for gay. I was writing a lot of
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have be(fn incredibly
accepting. They knowthat we're gay, andthey're happy that we're doing ourbusiness here," says Larry Brassell,
who, with his lover Stewart Gerber,owns and runs Auntie Em's Fanns, alesbian and gay bed and breakfast
nestled smack in the middle of a
blueberry
forestand an apple: orchard, located in an isolated landcalled Shandelee.
Two years ago, Brassell (a fonner
clothing
designerand restaurant
manager)and Gerber (who still
maintains his dentistry practice inManhattan)bought the
20.,room,renovated boardinghouse and one-time
farmhouse in the heart of New York's
Catskill Mountains, refurbished it, filled
it with antiques and "junk-tiques" fromaroundthe area and createdacomfortable, safe space for queers to
unwind and enjoy the country.
Here, the city-ravaged, the protestweary, the overworked and the anxietyridden play with the goats (Willie, Billie
and Ira Levine), frolic about nearby
Shandelee Lake, hike amid the peaks
and creeks of Catskill State Park, crosscountry ski or, just a drive away, partakeof hot-air ballooning, ·white-water rafting,snowmobiling and downhill skiing.
An 'astounding cook, Brassell fixes
a hearty, fresh, country breakfast forguests each morning (which is includedin the $75.00-per-couple-per-nightroom rate). As for other dining, visitors
are aware that this is real seclusion: The
nearest town where groceries areavailable is Livingston Manor, a drive
away. Lanza's, an excellent Italian placedown the road, is the only restaurant,within walking distance. But seclusion,. after all, is what Auntie Em's is all. about. "I used to think that gays weregoing backwards if they segregated, themselves," says Brassell. "But now I
realize it's nice to have a place to go
where you can hold hands with yourlover over breakfast while wearing
your pajamas,"
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moving. There were no streetlights orthing and thiS one thing only: panic. From
traffic lights or porch lights, just thewhere I sit or sat-I'd have said as much forsame enveloping darkness to which I'dthe train, only it did ftnally stop running, withby now become accustomed.
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out any perceptible abatement in the panic. (I"In the future," Johann said at last,wonder if she and I might have experience dif"please try to follow instructions more
ferent trains, which is more than'likely, butclosely. There are not that many, but the..
lately I think not.) I'm not sure when or
few there are are most important."
if-we crossed the border, but the train arrived"Sorry all to hell," I muttered underat some station sometime in the night, I supmy breath while I looked in vain for any
pose. It was, after all, just as dark when I carsign of·life in the city. A curtain flutteredried my suitcase, my hatbox, my all-too-wellat one of the houses we passed, and inread copy of Johnny Panic onto the emptythat moment, I caught a quick glimpse
platform as it had been when I commencedof some elegantly dressed people sittingI
this peculiar odyssey. (And when was that? A
down at a long Queen Anne table to afew hours ago? Last night? Last month? You
fine meal of standing rib roast with wax ,.
probably see by now that for me, it has all become one sin- beans and small, braised onions.
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gle unbroken stretch of blackness, one vast absence of light.)"We'll be arriving at the hot~1 shortly," Johann informed
Almost as sOon as I stepped off, the train hastily pulled me. "A reservation has been made for you under a nameout of the station without taking on any new passengers--and,other than your own."of course, no passengers had been waiting to board~dI"And which name is that?" I asked.
stood quite alone and watched the lighted windows streak"The specific name does not signify. Far too muchpast, and for one crazy moment, I thought th~t. I spotted .importance is attached to names. Besides, they will be.somebody waving from the, djning car. That mayor may not expecting you."have been a trick of the light, the speed, the paniC, but at
At that moment, the cab pulled into the driveway of anany rate, the train was off to its next western destination.
enormous luxury hotel which was blindingly illuminated by
I suppose.
scores of floodlights. A valet promptly opened the car door
Having no idea wh~re I'd been deposited, I looked for a and extracted my belongings. As I got out, I noticed that
porter or somebody or anybody from whom to get direc- Johann was holding back.
tions, but up lµld down the dimly lit platform, there was not"Aren't you staying here as well?" I asked.
another living soul to. be seen except for a beckoning figure"No, I must catch the next train back east. You'll be wellin the shadows at the far end. As I approached, I wonderedtaken care of from here on out."
if perhaps this might in fact be the mysterious Julian who'd"AndJulian? When will I be seeing him?
summoned me in the first place, but when I got close I saw
Bdore he could answer, the taxi sped off into thethat it was, instead, my friend Johann, who had delivered
gloom. I looked around, and the valet had already carried
Julian's request, who had provided me with the hatbox; whomy things into the building. The desk clerk addressed me as..had seen me off in Manhattan with some cryptic instructions. "Mr. Julian's friend" and instructed the bellhop to take me to
The disappearance and reappearance and transformation of the Bitter suite.
friends and acquaintances was becoming rather common"I guess you really were expecting me," I remarked, butplace 'at this point, and physical laws were apparently being she said nothing more.
honored more in the breach than in the observance. So
OQce I was installed, '1 decided to phone home andJohann, who'd been there at the ,outset, was, of course, wait- check my messages, but the operator informed me that, ing at the terminus to take me to the solitary cab that idled at no outgoing calls were permitted until morning. Room
the taxi stand.
service was closed for the night, and the pay-per-view
No instructions were given to the driver, who could not channel was showing Marne. Rather than flip throughbe seen beyond the partition, and nothing much was said Johnny Panic one more time, I looked for a Gideon
as we hellded off into the night. Johann asked where the Bible in the night-table drawer and, to my delight,
candy box was. t confessed that I'd eaten the fudge almost found a copy of L'Etranger instead. So I curled up with
before I'd left Grand Central Station and had left the box on M. Camus (something I've always dream'ed of doing)
the train. Johann sighed. We continued to ride in silence
and waited for daylight. It was, of course, to be a very
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doesn't vote.
SYDNEY:Well, that's stupid, nobody will vote now ...

Rock and Roll Fag Bar reopened at the "new" World lastweek. The World was closed less than a week later due tobuilding violations.
SYDNEY:There was no air. "Hi! This is a coffm, and it's
airtight." So everyone was dazed, and that god-awful music, was on. What was that? Aerosmith?
LIZ: ACIDC.
SYDNEY: So I wanted to look out from the balcony,
and you said, "I'm not going up there."
LIZ:Well, I was scared. That thing has never been sturdy.
SYDNEY:There were million,s of people up there. Twomore isn't going to make a big difference. If it was going tofall, it would have fallen before.
LIZ: That's not true. That gap I fell into [between thefloor and the wall] last year is still there, and it's grown ...
SYDNEY:So you were measuring the gap, and then weleft. No, wait. Chi Chi Valenti! walked by, and you weregoing, "Hey, Chi Chi..,"
LIZ: Was not.
SYDNEY:You were too.
LIZ: Dean (Johnson] read Chi Chi's poem while wewere leaving.
SYDNEY:Well, seeing it was ...
LIZ: ...the third time we heard it that week, I think wewere allowed to leave.
,
SYDNEY: It's getting a lot of exposure, making therounds of downtown and all. It's as fresh as Fag Bar. Take
Back the Night by Chi Chi Valenti, now at a club near you!
LIZ: Special performance by Johnny Dynell and the
Dynells no, wait, they're the Dynellettes.2
SYDNEY: "Take back the night fromgay-baShers and gay supremacists alike ..."
LIZ: I was a bit offended by that bit.
SYDNEY: That's
all we canremember, but there's more: "Take back. the night from corporate America ...from
yuppies and theives ....". LIZ: It's an epic poem being passed, .' down from generation to generation to, generation. It's the epic of night life...
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SYDNEY: .About the trials and.tribulations of night• life in this city.
•" LIZ: "Take back the night, you little
ones ..."
SYDNEY: "Children, take back thenight." The words of the "wise."

Out of Control was a party at 6 Bond St. that hadplanned to happen weekly.
SYDNEY:Out of Control was ...
LIZ: Out of control.
SYDNEY: You have to admit the funniest part waswhen the promoter3 said, "OK, I want everybody to leave",and Michael [Musto] said, "Oh, my God, I just got drink
tickets," and Doris Klostner4, who came out of nowhere,
goes, "I'll take one!" and runs to the bar. If the world weregoing to end, and she knew the atom bomb was coming inten minutes, she would say, "Wait, I'm going to get a drink."
LIZ: I liked the fact that everyone then just stoodaround to see if the promoter was going to be bounced
down the stairs by the. owner. 'SYDNEY: And couldn't
figure out what to dowith themselves.
LIZ: Some of these people forget they have homes to
go to. You have to force them there and make them lie
down without strobe lights or house music and just say,
"Stop being fabulous: Get some sleep."

Palladium has made a stab at attracting a gay crowdby holding a British house music party on Fridays, andDance Patrol ("It'sfun to be our late") on Saturdays. •LIZ: Here's a club that's trying to get a gay audienceand ends up inviting SNAP! to perform? You might as wellhave a Guns 'n' 'Roses festival. That "E is for Everybody"5caused me a great deal of psychic pain. It did nothing to
improve my relations with the heterosexual world, either.
This was one of the few clubs in New York where people
who do go out a lot felt threatened.
SYDNEY:'The smell coming from those girls...What isthat? Love's Baby Soft?And the hair... .
LIZ: Well, you can say the samething about those "guys," too. It's a very
heavily cologned crowd.
SYDNEY: ...even Heather Locklear,even Farrah Fawcett don't have big hairanymore.
LIZ:It's a different world out there.
SYDNEY: Thank you for thatenlightening remark .... Saturday? We
were there long enough for France Joli to
go on, and we left.
LIZ: The club was packed on their"gay night," and there were no gay
people there. No, that's a lie I saw two.

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PHANTOM CENTER by Ferron (Chameleon Records). Tour Dates: Los
Angeles, Nov. 1, Roxy. Boston, Nov. 3, Opera House. New York, Nov. 4, Bottom Line~Philadelphia, Dec. 1, University Museum Hall.

By Noella Hanrahan
Ferron is a visionary and amodern-day prophet, a folk musician
whose lyrics take the intensity ofarchetypal blues and move it into the'90s. Phantom Center is another chapter
deep into the story of a woman's searchfor strength and solace, where personal
revelations
reclaim deeply buried
truths. Ferron's music is the antidote to
1V, that hypnotic power which saps
the strengthof a generation's
resistance. Hers is a fight with thesuffocating weight of submission, andwith the narcotic power of popular
culture's wishful thinking. OutWeek had
the opportunity to interview Ferron at
the Red Inn in her hometown,
Provincetown,Mass.
Born in Toronto and raised in theworking-class, semirural suburb of Richmond, in Vancouver, BC, Ferron was theoldest of seven children. Hard times
offered her a life with little respite,
Picking up her mother's guitar and.purchasing her own at the age of 14were acts of healing, Hundreds of songs
later, ~I in the process of finding a reason to live, Ferron, at 15, left school and,went to work, A steady stream of jobs
demanding capitulation followed,. "I kept on trying to choose to be, nOrmal,· Ferron explains, "I never chose[to be an artist], but then finally someone else helped
me choose it, by say,. . lng, 'You do this well--you don't do theother [things)' so well.' [Next] there iscommitting with a vengeance, with afierce love and passion, and I would say

HWhen I don't
kno'W [hoW'to
go on], I
pretend that,

I put a gun to
my head andthat I havepulled thetrigger. Then I
live the W'ayI'Would if I W'ere
already dead."that Is when my life started to make myheart pound. I have this fiiend-6he justdied in a car accident, this year-but
years ago she said to me, 'When I don't
know [how to go on], I pretend that I~ut a gun to my head
and that I have pulled
the trigger. Then I live
the way I would if I
were already dead.' I
have had that sentence

in my head since I was about 21."
In 1977, Ferron released a self-titled
two-track album, followed in 1978 byanother two-track album called Perron
Backed Up. Both were homespun
recordings. When Gayle Scott appearedin the picture, becoming both manager
and guardian angel, Ferron raised thelevel that she was reaching for, and released the critically acclaimed Testimony
in 1980 (Redwood Records). Shadows on
a Dime (1984), which earned four stars
from Roiling Stone and landed in many
critics' top-ten album lists of the year,
finaIly cemented her follOwing.
Ferron's' voice and vocal cadence
are tough and vulnerable, while at thesame time holding the sweetness andintimacy of a whisper. She commentson her unique vocal style: "It must be
body therapy. There must be a way that I
was exploring or healing through the
body. 'Misty Mountain,' for instance,
and the way that song came out ...! wasso barren and so pleading. It was like,
Give me a sign, or I am out of here.·
After the release of Shadows on a
Dime, Ferron was confronted with acrippling writers' block. Tours became
more infrequent as her confidence faltered. In order to sustain herself, sheplayed occasional, uneven shows. But
walking on-stage for expansive audiences became increaSingly difficult.
What happened when she bottomed out
is a matter of speculation. She does notrefer directly to the desolation of thatexperience, but Phantom Center, her
first major-label release, is clearly a statement of reemergence, proving her ability to come through the fire.
"It took five years to have that
range of emotions,· Ferron says. "Thealbum Phantom Center was the exploration of what I could remember, what I
could not forget, what I want and what[I] can't have. We are looking for a way
to act right in a wrong world. What I am
working with Is those of uS who arereally trapped by our mindset, trappedby fears and thoughts that other people
gave to us, I have been working with
my own [fears] for years, I want to reachyoung women and young men toencourage
them torealize their dreams, toreach my peer groupand say, we are still, here. We are still working, even though theIN DEEPCharlotte Rae gets buried'~"-.
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HAPPY DAYS by Samuel Beckett. esc Theatre.
136 E. 13th St. Through Nov. 11.
by Michael Paller,,,

don't trust fiction. They like their fiction to appear as much like "life" aspossible. Foreigners such as Samuel'Beckett, not sharing this prejudice,have thought nothing of writing playsthat make great departures from theappearances of life. Americans consider
these plays "difficult" and hard tounderstand. To makematters worse, academics, intoning
solemnly, proclaim
these plays "great"and that about fin-

The problem with the way wethink about symbols and "stylization"in the theater is that we almost always
get it backward. Critics and academics
have divided styles of theater into two
categories: "realism" and everythingelse, which we refer to, in shorthand,'as "stylization" or "nonrealism." "Real.Ism" is dependable; what YOll see iswhat you get. "Nonrealism" is tricky,,elitist and, at heart, deceitful, full of#pidden meanings. Americans don't care
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ishes any chance that a Beckett playhas of finding a large audience. .
But wait. The purpose of a theatrical symbol is not to make something "deep," "difficult" or hard tounderstand, but to render it immediate
and concrete: in fact, to make it ("it"may be an idea, an emotion, a situation) more "real" to us than "realism"
can. Symbols and conventions (suchas the agreement that one minute on
the stage can stand for one year orten) cut through the surface of life to
get at its underlying truths.
Samuel Beckett is deep and serious.
However, when people are persuaded
to see their first Beckett play, they areusually swprised to discover that he is,amazingly enough, very funny, that hemoves them and that they can actua11y
understand what he has to say.
Happy Days, now playing at esc,
is very funny and very moving
indeed-and happens to contain one
of Beckett's most famous symbols.
Winnie, a woman about 50, is firstseen buried up to her waist in amound of earth. Later, all but her neckand hatted head have disappeared .
She prattles to herself while her husband, Willie (not buried, but capable
only of crawling), attends assiduously
to meaningless details: brushing teeth
and hair, applying lipstick, reminiscing, ..
reciting rote prayers, reading bottle
labels. The mound is all the quotidiantrivialities that comprise her life. She isbeing buried in them, knows that she
is being buried and occasionallyprotests against it. She wants to live
but does not know how. It's difficult toimagine a symbol more earthbound, ora play more firmly rooted in reality.
Charlotte Rae, who has played
everything from Mammy Yokum toMrs. Peachum to television Sitcom,
brings an earthiness to Winnie that is
as appropriate as it is at first surprising. Bearing an uncanny resemblance
to Bert Lahr, she goes about her business with a relish out of all proportion
to the tasks she isperfonning. The joythat spreads acrossher face when she
discovers that thebristleson herr 7... BBO

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but is, somehow, devoid of any threat.
The hardware gleams (some store prices
are still visible). The restraints havenever been used. The spotless pieces aresafe to admire as beautiful objects.
At first blush, Blake's wOlk seems to
be entering Mapplethorpe territory.
However, where Mapplethorpe offered
his underworld to the viewer, Blake's
devices remain aloof, threatening, his
signals coded. Instinctively, the viewer
retreats. Yet as fetish objects, the work iscompelling, and in pieces like "Puppet"-two-headed, the second head thatof a swan-it's perverse and beautiful.
Some pieces seem a little too easy,
as with "Hysterical ffiTangements #1-4,"
which consist of gothic steel pedestal
tables supporting g1ass-domed tableauxof birds, plastic flowers and fabric.
At the Whitney, the debt to Beuys
is unmistakable. Blake uses rolled fabric, rotting objects in vitrines. "Infect"
exhibits a bundle of white candles tied
together with black ribbon inside a vitrine. "Device for Passion" consists of asea sponge soaking inside a glass jar
of v'inegar, a wooden-handled
ladle,alongSide. A soiled rag hangs off themetal stand.
Blake's work revolves around the. body, lik~ hospital support systems, but,the body is .absent. His sterilized ifistru. ments, similar to the gynecologkal tools
created in the rom Dead Ringers, wait invelvet beds. It's up to our imaginations
to begin the operation-or not.
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BICOASTAL LIVING...
If you're a glamour lezzie and share time
between coasts, be sure to visit "All but
the Obvious," the LACE (Los Angeles
Contemporary Exhibitions) show, while
out west. Tons of performanceandvideo work have been scheduledin
conjunction with the exhibition. Keep an
eye peeled for phabulous Phranc, trashy
Dorothy
Allison, Judy Grahn (onkeyboards-no
kidding), lawbreaker
Holly
Hughes,sinners
Divianna
Ingravallo and Shelly Mars. Make it anytime between
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you by. Don't worry, you haven't missed your last chance
to join Get Smart, the ad hoc artists group, on their wild
pranks. They meet every Wednesday at 7 pm at 64 E. 4th
St. Or call their hotline at (212) 732-1201--after 7 pm.

Ashley Bickerton is also in the
Whitney show, and in some ways thetwo artists cover the same aesthetic
ground. The sculptures Bickerton constructs, sort of yuppie sports-<:ar attachments, come inscribed with his girlfriend's name, Susie. You ~uId almost
say that Blake's work is the homo
rebuke to Bickerton, except queers don't
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THE KITCHEN. 512 W. 19th St.
(212) 255·5793. All events are
at 8:30 pm.
by Patrick Mool8
The Kitchen, the experimental art
venue on. the far west side of Chelsea,
has kicked off its 1990-91 season with aseries of readings curated by literary agent
Ira Silverberg. While the primary focus of
the series is to examine a number ofsmall presses that embrace experimental
material, a welcome side effect is theamount of erotic, especially homoerotic,
literature which is presented. The Kitchen
has been at the center of the NEA crisis
and is widely being considered a test case as toinstitutional commitment
to extreme material in theface of possible funding
cuts. From the look ofthese readings, at least,--<compiled by Sarah Pettit
there will continue to be a tradition ofsex and danger both on the streets andin the performance spaces between
Tenth and Eleventh avenues.
The series opened on Oct 18 withan evening of readings by authors ass0ciated with Between C and D, therespected literary journal for a generation of authors who sharpened their
pencils on the streets of the East Village. Such notables as Catherine Texierand David Wojnarowicz were featured.
On Nov. 5, Barney Rosset and Jay
Parini will introduce their new poetry
series, tbe North Star Line. The following week, Nov. 12, will focus on Four
Wall Eight Windows authors such as
Oswald Rivera, Michael Brodsky and
Tom Grimes.
Completing the faU series is themost interesting evening planned, highlighting the publication of Farm Boys,a journal of homoerotic writing including work from Dennis Cooper, David
Sedaris, Richard House, Ken Siman,
Hudson and Richard Hawkins.
Curator Ira Silverberg says thataside from the series presenting newwork, "it's also about the Kitchen being
an important institution which has thecredibility to present the challenge ofsmall presses. Smallpresses are the futureof publishing because
no one else will takethe risk on thiS kind ofwriting."T..
•of gender and sexuality are the liberating source of much ofhis humor.
From the beginning, Tex Avery's
creation operated against the backdropof his intimate i'elationship with Elmer
Fudd. It is in the early classic A Wild
Hare that Elmer rust affectiorultely con- 'fuses Bugs with "Heddy Lemarr andOwivia De Haviwin," only to have Bugs
responci--Qs he so often does with afull, wet kiss on the mouth. }{is next
feature ends with a kiss, but to an Indian brave, a man so smitten that he paddles upstream for the pleasure. Bugs
doesn't stop there. In later films, hekisses a store manager, a cowboy, acountry boy and, needles t9 say, Elmer,
again and again. Like the ever-present
carrot, the kiss was an early trademarkof Bugs Bunny. However, unlike thecarrot or his recurrent query, "What'sup, Doc?" the kiss fades in the '50s. A. kiss is, after all, so unambiguous.
There is a danger in equating
screen roles with those who portraythem. Does Bugs cross-dress for his
own pleasure? What is his sexual inclination? Bugs has infrequently expressed interest in female rabbits on-screen,
and these instances are rare or compli. ,catedby. thefact that, in two such,-~.,,-.' -....
k·tcf,~:cases'!,fthe.femaIesare;actuanyrobots.
',.:,-;..,i,.
. " .,:' ,'~ ~- ~'~,_;, . ,(What 'Could be infclre;d from sUch por'~yals
is perhaps best left unsaid.) It
Diust, however, be recognized that kissing can be banned from public view, as,happened in Chicago with the Gran
Fury poster "Kissing Doesq't Kill: Greedand Indiffererice Do,". and that positivehomoerotic imagery, even with animals,
must be seen as the daring action it is.
Bugs has' done what few males dare to
do. The homophobic environment of
the past and the present politicize thisSimple act of affection.
More startling proof of Bugs'
predilections for male relations lies in
his love-hate relationshipwith the,scripts he inhabi~ides
are where
the trµlyacerbic Bugs manifests himself.
In Wbat:s Cookin~Doc?, his cry for peer
approval is direct and from the heart,, Bugs hijacks the Oscar ceremony to catalogue his filmic achievements. Nonplussed, the audience rejects the appeal.
.
Like any true' diva-tbinkof ~ugsas
Brunhilda in What's opera, Doc?-heturns a sour situation around. 'Bugs
takes the brunt of public scorn,' in thiscase thrown vegetables, and creates a~.-'.

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0+'",~-"'.':,-~, ,new, daring role for himself, that of Car.men Miranda. After receiving a Bunny
Oscar, he promises to take the statue "tobed with me every night," to which the
Bunny Oscar replies, hands on hips, "Do
you'mean'it?~.And, of course, he does.
In 1be Big Snooze, Elmer Fudd
finds himself in drag and the attractionof Hollywood wolves--all at the direc-

Bugs doesn'tstop there.
In later filInS,
he kisses a
store Inanager,a co-w-boy,•a country boy
and, needlessto say, Ellner,,"'

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tion of Bugs. This is not the conventional romance of Mickey and Minnie
Mouse, but I!lther portrays a different
lifestyle. After Bugs marries Elmer in ibe
Rabbit of SevtJle, his aside to the audience belies his true feelings aboutromance. "Next," says Bugs. By his second marriage attempt, this time to
Yosemite Sam in 1953, a more philosophical rabbit is revealed when his tailcomes between him and his groom.
Cries Bugs: "Boe-hoo, always a bridesmaid." Indeed, never a bride.
"You start making a family 1ll3Il outof him, he's not Bugs Bunny anymore,"says Frits Freling, a co-creator. Undoubtedly, the number of male acquaintances
would be hard to.catalogue. What is clear
is Bugs' predilection for men, often
revealed in the end In Little Red RidIng
Rabbit, the innocent girl of the Red Riding
Hood legend is put in place of the Big
Bad Wolf. This switch is the result of a
new friendship, signaled by Bugs ann-in-

arm with the wolf in Granny's nightgown.
And more than 'onCe, Bugs goes tothe board for these male friends. Who
can forget Bugs in Bunny Hugged,
where he served as a mascot fortbat,
attractive, if ineffectual, wrestler, Ravishing Rick? After the litter arrives bearing
Rick, a serving dish is uncovered toreveal Hollywood's most promiscuous
bunny. Under his' breath, a resigned
Bugs sighs, "It's a living." When Bugs'"bread and butter" melts in the face of
the Crusher, Bugs springs to his defence
and defeats him in a display of verbal
virtuosity and outright violence, despitea body weak in virile capabilities.
Such a wealmess, as Dr. Ruth also
noticed, extends to a lack of genitalia or,
perhaps more correctly, their invisibility.
(Rabbit fanciers know the difficulty indiscerning the sex of a bunny.) Only
adding to Bugs' current fame, now as arole model for safer sex and its requisite
downplay of genital fixation, this natural
obscurity also permits Bugs to· kisswhom he will, dress as he pleases andengage in blatant violence in fron~ ofchildren everywhere.
Unlike Robert
Mapplethorpe, no one questions Bugs'
abuses of Elmer when he kicks his
behind. No one fears the homoeroticism
of two kissing males so long as one fustasks, "What's up, Doc?" And the. recent,
NEA restrictions against funds for homoerotic, sadomasochistic or obscene work
concerning. children is somehow notapplicable to Bugs Bunny. He certainly
doesn't need a grant. As long as Ted
Turner keeps broadcasting, Bugs Bupny
and friends are sure to reach millions , ofkids without controversy.
Sadly, this may be the way Bugs willserve as a role model for the '90s. Wtth
explicit sexuality under attack by. fundamentalists and US senators, veiled references may be the only outlet for suchpassions. It would be unfair to blame
Bugs for this sad tum of events. Think ofBugs as that daring wit who pirouettes inpublic, does drag impressions of thefamous and the mundane but, mostimportantly, favors men with his kisses
freely. And we all know that's safe ....

Bugs Bunny recently celebrated his
50th birthday on Broadway, where afull orchestra was brought in as accompaniment. Gabriel Gomez lives a quieter
life In Chicago, doing research on his
PhD concerning Images of sexuality andminorities in film and video.

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Talking about sexuality is obviously important toBright. She has published one previous book, Herotica, and themost recent, with which she is touring nationally, is Sex World.
Herotica n is due out next year. Sex World is a compendium ofcolumns taken from the last six years of OOB. The, subjects
range from safer sex to a Las Vegas pom convention to lesbianerotic writing to explanations of sex toys. Even though thecolumns focus on sex, they all have an edge of humor and anedge of.the "personal as political."
It is an attitude that Bright takes in her role as editor of OOB andin the OIher work she does, which includes touring with the book,previewing her smash hit, lesbian video/slide shows that played to
se1lout audiences at the SF Lesbian and Gay Ftlm Festival, perfotming
cameos in film and video (as Susie Sexpert in Monika Treut's Vitgin
Machine and as John Lennon in a video, Gmpefruft, by a woman
filmmaker iQ California) and being a new mother of a baby girl,,Aretha. The personaI as political gets raised again and again with
Bright, both in her San Francisco neighborl100d and on the road
"People ask me amazing questions,· Bright says. "Everyone
wants to know how I had IllYbaby, for example. One woman cameup to me and said, 'Did you inseminate, or did you party?' I thoughtthat was they best way of asking, the most interesting."
How she became pregnant is only one aspect of anotherissue that Bright gets asked about constantly: the way lesbians havesex, Not surprisingly, Bright has a great deal to say on the subjectof lesbians and sex and who lesbian sex partners are.
"I got pregnant the usual way,· Bright says, "by having sex
with a man. But that is so shocking to so many women. First,
there's this perception that you're following a heterosexual
paradigm in having a baby. I got pregnant because I wanted tohave a baby very much. What bothers me about these questio
the one about lesbians having sex with men--isthat I don't get asked questions about having sex with lesbians,
When I slept exclUSively with lesbians, no one asked me about mysex life. There's this idea that sleeping with men makes you lesslesbian, less able to be woman-identified. No one asks gay men if
they sleep with women. lt's assumed that gay men are gay, andsleeping with women wouldn't make a difference. But there's this. idea that if lesbians sleep with men, they'll be converted or something, stop being lesbians. I identify as a lesbian, I identify as abisexual. My first sexual experience was with a man and awornan-l just went from not even kissing to everything. I thinkbisexuality is a really queer movement now because of groups like
Queer Nation-being bisexual is as queer as a three-dollar bill. I'm
frustrated by these stereotypes of women. My definition of 'lesbian'is a woman who wants to get inside of women's bodies. It's a privilege. I have this huge sense of pride about it. It's what womenknow that men will never know. It's intimacy and enexgy. I can't
lose• that feeling from fucking men-who would want to?"

There are the nonnal feelings you have first-in thinking about achild, I was terrified. I thought I might die [in childbirth], that it
would hurt. I was worried about my mothering capabilities,
There's a natural fear of parenting, that you won't be good at it.
Then you start to feel bad about yourself, I had this brief period offeeling shiny because everything felt different. You are into pro:.
tecting your body, you're not into feeling desirable. I had begun
to shut down sexually. Then I knew I had to rally. I reached for
my Magic Wand. I couldn't let feelings of irritability get to me.

Was' it the physical cbanger-getttng big--tbat bothered;.ou, or
was it !iOmeIbingelse?In one of ;.our columns in OOB, ;.ou are pictured naked, exceptfor a cowgirl bat and boots, seriously pregnantOn the freeway.
On the freeway. The outtake from the column is: "Don't
fear the big belly. " Was the big belly the problem?

People are resistant to sexual change, but the changes [inpregnancy] are so~.
Everytllµ1g moves, gets bigger, more tender, different. It took me a while to understand how to haveorgasms again. How to be touched. How to move. I was surprised about how much I had to say [in the columns] about sex. I
was unconunonly hungry for sex. The sexual power [of pregnancy and nursing) and hunger is there-it's just a question of having
the knowledge and confidence to pursue it.
So was childbirth horrible? Was it Gone With the Wmd?
Well, it's not like a playful romp in bed. What's amazing is thestamina you have. It's very sexual, but different At eight months, youfeel like you're always going to be like that Then you are in clilldbirthitself, and there's pain, but there's the satisfaction of what youll get

You wrote about all the things women can do ro decrease
the pain of childbirth. Are you going to write similar columns
about nursing and the eroticization of that?
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Well, there are all these women who say that nursing is very
erotic with their babies. And there is this special bond you havethat is wonderful when you nurse your baby. But I think it's different from erotic feeling. It actually is a bond that means you don't
need the erotic, it keeps you from feeling that.
So what is erotic about it, or is that just the Ameri,:an preoccupation with bre.asts?

What breast milk does to your breasts is well, you canshoot it everywhere. I feel such female virility when my breasts
are filled with milk. It's the fountain of youth. It gives my baby
everything. Milk leaks during arousal-it's this overt presentationof your feelings, Ask someOne what it's like to have their mouth
filled with milk. Or I think about what it's like to come with mymilk on my lover's body. There are so many Amazon properties tomother's milk. I'm threatening to make a video-lactating lezzies inaction. I'm infatuated with the sexual feelings that it gives me. So I,
would say that nursing is not anything like as erotic as playing with. What about having a child? Does that alter your sexual life or . my milk with an adult, with a partn~, I know I sound like a manidoes it make, it better? We get the message in this society that there ac from the u Leche League.

. an?,sexual women and then there are mothers, but your columns
inOOB during Your pregnancy certainly put the lie ro that idea.
I've gotten so much response to those columns. I talked toeverybody about being pregnant and having sex. There's just nothing written about it. All these women shared their stories with me.

What about sex? Is there sex after mC?therbood?You certainly imply that there is.
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off-the-wallplanetarybirthdaycelebraPanthers 60s Love Fest at Private(S,
CountrylBeaverdam
Rds),
thereafter;
645-6479(This
istion"; Including a haunted house In' the Brookhaven, LI; 8 pm; 5161751-2901
Eyes, with go-go boys & girls and stripSHESCAPE's Wednesday Afterwork
upstairs
lounge,many
performance
pers; prize for the attire most repre(meets 1st & 3rd Thursdays)
Party.)
artists; $500 prize for best futuristic cossentativeof the 60s; 12 W 21 St;•
tume' (no real W88pons please); 515 W GAY WOMEN'S ALTERNATIVE
doors open 10 pm, $7 general/$5 with A DIFFERENT LIGHT BOOKSTORE
pre18 St (at 10th Ave); opens 9 pm; $15 sents Clare Coss, CSW psychotheraInvite; 206-7772 (Pink Pantherl\, thepresents a Bookslgnlng
with David
generall$10 with invite; 645-5156
gay and lesbian patrol, get half thepist and playwright,
on Love andSkal, Hollywood Gothic; 548 Hudsonnight's door.)
Lesbian Relationships: Bringing Out
St (btwn Charles & Perry Sts); 5-6
EAGLE BAR Halloween
Party (nothe Best In Each Other, for womenpm; 989-4850
movie tonight), $100 first prize for
only; at the Universalist Church, Cen.
best costume, 2nd prize 5th of cham- tral Park West and 76 St; 8 pm (doors
VILLAGE HALLOWEEN PARADE lines
pagne, masculine costumes only,
Patient Workshop: Living With HIV
open 7:45); $5 (Includes refreshments);
up along 6th Ave below Houston St, 6
please; 142 11th Ave (at 21 St); judging
Infection: Early Initiation of Antiviral595-8410 (GWA meets the first Thurspm; goes up 6th Ave to 14 St, tums right at 12:30 am; 691-8451. Therapy; moderated by Ronald J.
dayof every month, Oct. - June)at 14 St and goes to Union Square West,
Grossman,
MD; with Alexander'
turns left on USW to disassemble at 15, PALLADIUM
presents
Suzanne
McMeeklng, MD and Jeff Silverstein,
NATURALHISTORY
GROUP
16, 17 Sts; press info, 529-0520
Bartsch's Halloween Party, details
PA, plus a panelist with HIVinfection;
Sildel Audio Presentation:italianunavailable at presstlme; 126 E 14 St;
topics include HIV as a chronic manageImmigrant ReligIous Feasts; at theGirls' Night Out, -rvrrGlTS, others wel- 473-7171
able disease, how the virus works, testCenter, 208 W 13 St; 8 pm; $2; 620-7310
come"; at the Center, 208 W 13 St; 6-10
in'g issues, medical intervention, living
pm; SASE to Box 369, Brooklyn, NY PYRAMID presents Linda Simpson'swith HIV, medical monitoring, new dlreo- 11235
WOMEN'S ALTERNATIVES COMMUNI,
Channel 69: Halloween Special, with TV CENTER Weekly Discussion
tions in research; at the Penta Hotel,
andEndive and Michael T, plus a cosPenntop Ballroom, 7th .Ave at 33 St;
SocialGroup
for
Lesbians,
tonight's
JULIA RESTAURANT Halloween Mastumecontestforthesexiastcostume,6:30-9:30 pm; info from the NY Worktopic: Coming Out Letters; 675 Woodquerade Party with open bar and buf- the scariest queen, more; disco dancshop Coordinator, 800/521-,1177 (call 9field Rd, West Hempstead, LI; 8:30 pm;
fet, prize for the best costume; 226 W
5)ing and go-go stars; 101 Avenue A $3 more iflless if; 5161483-2050
79 St; 7-11 pm; $30; rsvp 787-1511(btwn 617 Sis); show at 1 am; $5; 4201590
SLOPE ACTIVITIES FOR LESBIANS
IDENTITY HOUSE Women's Confer.Fleld'Trlp to Lesbian Orientation at the.ence: Women Loving Women, the seo'Center (below); SAL Infolrsvp 7181965AIDS CENTER QUEENS COUNTY and
ond of three weeks of 34 workshops
7578
exploring sexuality, Identity, rela1lonshlps NYC DISTRICTING COMMISSION holds NYS DEPT. OF HEALTH HIV Strategy
Session; with breakfast, introduction by'andcomingout;
tonight:Lina Public Hearing on how to draw new Gary Maffei, Exec. Dlr. of ACOC; welCENTER Lesbian Orientation, an intreHyman/Beth London, Coming Out as a lines for 51 City Council districts by June
• ductlon to New York's.lesbilm community,
Continuing Process, concurrent with B.J. 3, 1991; at Intermediate School 131, 46 come by Queens Boroug!) Pres. Clalra
featuring Dr. Marjorie Hili, Director,
Shulman; statements by NYC Councfl
Whiting, Clothing: Identity or Disguise;
Forsythe St, Manhattan; 5:30 sign-In,
Mayor's Office for the Lesbian & Gay
Pres. Andrew Stein and Dr. Nicholas
544 6th Ave (btwn 14/15 Sts); 7-8:30 pm; hearing from 6-10 pm (NYCDC, 11 Park
Community; socializing, entertainment,
Rango,
Director, NYSDOH AIDS Instl$15 per workshop, 3 for $40, 4 for $49, Place, #1616, NYC 10007)
1~9raturefrom many groups; 208 W 13 St!ute;
speal<eraInclude Dr. J. Emilio car$9 each thereafter; 10 for $80; 243-8181(WC accessible, ASL interpreted); 7 pm;
rillo, NYC Health & Hospitals Corp.;
IDENTITY HOUSE Women's Confer.
Jeffrey
Carplas,NYC
Human

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TUESDAY, OCT. 30

FRIDAY, NOV. 2

THURSDAY, NOV. 1

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25$05438 (also next Wed., NOV 14).

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GAY & LESBIAN ALLIANCE AGAINSTDEFAMATION Monthly Meeting and
Forum: International
OpprellSlon of
Gay. & Lesblanll', at the Center, 208 W,13 St; 8 pm; 966-1700,

JUDSON MEMORIAL CHURCH Centennial Forums: CenllOrshlp and the Art.:
The Shifting Sand. Qf Public Policy

with'lra Glasser, Executive Director,
ACLU; 55 Washington Square South; 8
pm; free; 477-0351 (Mr. Glasser replaces
Tom Wicker, originally soheduled,)
SOUTHERNERS
Game Night: Scrabble, Bridge, Hearts, Monopoly, bring your'favorite board and card games; in theCenter's Women's Coffee House, 208 W
13 St; 8 pm; $2; David Gilbert, 674-8073
EAGLE BAR Movie Night:

Cry Baby,.\VIth Johnny Depp; 142 11th Ave (at 2181); 11 pm; 691-8451•

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Information must be received by Monday to be included in the following,week's issue. Send' items to Rick X, Tuning In, Box 790, NY, NY 10108.
AIrE (Am &. Ern, 555 Frfth Ave, 10th R, NYC 10017;661--45001
CCTY (Rick X. Box 79(1, NYC 101081.
GSS (Gay Broadcasting Systam. Butch Peaaton, 178 7th Ave,
Ste. A-3, NYC 10011;243-15701'
GCN (Gay Cable Netwot1c, Lou Maletta, 32 Union Square East,
Suite 1217;477-42201
GMHC (Gay Men's Health Crisis, Jean Car1omusto, 129W20 St,
NYC 10011; 807-7517)
RB PROD (Robin Byrd Prod~ Box:Di, NYC 10021;\1118-29731
WABC-TVmW63St,
NYC 10023;4$-7777)
WBAl-FM (!i15 8th Ave, 19th R, NYC 10018; 279-07071
WCSS-TV (51 W 52 St St, NYC 10019;975-43211
WNBC-TV 130 Rockefeller PiaU!, NYC 10112;664-44441
WNET-TV (356 W 58 St, NYC 10019;~I
WNYW-TV,(Fox, 1211AV/AM, NYC 10036;556-24001

M 0 N DAY OCTO BER 29

male porno stars;Manhattan

9:IIOPM GBS butintneWs: community news, discussion,interviews; (tape of last TueSday's MC1V/Paragon shawl
BO Cable, CH 56 (1:0111
11:31 PM TomOm1W/Tonight Livel: entertainment; Manhattan
and Paragon Cable, CH 0/17 (1:0111
11:31 PM WNET-TV GraatPetfofllllncu;"Balllnchl_ln
America· offers "Serenade·.and Western Symphony";
introduced by Pacar Maldns; CH 13 (1:0111
midnight CC1V The C/osat Case Show. Davey GaIfaft, of Gaffon Records, gives Tom Smith an ·audition·for a newmusic video; Manhattan /Paragon Cable, CH Cl16 (:301-, 1:00 AM RB PROD Men for MetT. Rollin BynI presents gay
male porno stars; Manhattan Cable, CH V~ (:30130
TUESD '"'AVJ, OCTO'BER'.

8:00 PM WNYW-TV (Foxl Town M,eting: ·Save Our City"
invites viewers to call in and talk to Mayor David
Dinkins and Police Chief Lee Brown about violent
crime; CH 5 (2:001
10:00 PM RB PROD The Robin BrnI Show. male and famale
strippers; Manhattan Cable,l:H V/35 (1:001
11:00 PM GBS Out in the 90's: news,information andinterviews; with live call-in; Manhattan/Paragon
Cable, CH CII6 (1:001 .
11:31 PM WNET-TV Seasons of Life: ·Childhood and Adolescence· examines the 'challenges facing youngsters ages
6to 20, including school, friends, sexuality'; CH 13 (1:0111

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 31,

7:00 AM WABC-lV Good Moming Amarictr. an AIDS series,
with Mic""el Callen; The Rilflllion, pelfonn; CH 7 (2:001
9:30 AM WBAI-FM Ghosts in tne Machinll. women in pop,with Victoria Stan; 99.5 FM (2:301
8:110 PM WCBS-lV 48 Hours: "Panic, Fears &. Phobias· tells
about agoraphobia, a dread of pubfic places; pecufiar
obsessions like constant hand-washing; common fears
like the dread of blood; CH 2 (1:001
8:110 PM WNET-lV Don Giovannt Mozart's "blend of satire, 'falltBsy and tragedy" in laIIirelli', production about Don
Juan, an obsessed heterosexulIl; simulcast on WOXR-FM.
(96.31;CH 13 (3:101(repeats NOV 2, 11:30AM, UHF211
8:110 PM WNYW-lV (Fox) Rosemary's Baby(1968I: can you
think of a better movie for tonight?; CH 5 (2:001
midnight RB PROD The Robin Byrd Show. male and female
strippers, live call-in shoW; Manhattan Cable, CH V/35
12:05 AM TBS Carri, (19761: Brian De Palma matches ayoung John Travolta and Sissy Spacek, with gym
teacher Bettj Buckley, and fanatical Pip ... Laurie as
the religious mama, in thisthenno/telekinetic
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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 1
8:30 AM Naked Eye Cinemtr. Peter Cramer: Betw,en tne
Lin,s: Corrective Measures, Haiku Series, Black andWhite Study. Manhattan Cable, CH Cl16
1:110PM WBAI-FM This Way Out; the international gay"esbian news magazine; 99.5 FM (:301
1:31 PM WBAI:FM An Aftemoon Outing: local news andinformation about the gay/leSbian community with LanyGUl8nburg; 99.5 FM (:301
2:00 PM WBAI-FMAIDS: Paths to Self-Empowerment, traatment and health issues with Bali Lederer, 995 FM (:1:0111

PM Showtima Enemy Among Us. a teenager and~milyface community hysteria aftar he learns he contracted
AIDS from a blood transfusion (1:0111.. PM WCB8-lV Gerak/a. crime in New York C'rty. taped on,the NYC subway; CH 2 (1:0111
7SI PM WCBS-lV EntsltBinmant Tonight CII8I; CH 2 (:301.. PM The Gay Dating Game Showwith TCIBIIIIJ Sealianda.IIaIu va ZUdI; Manhattan Cable, CH ('J16 (:301
10:30 PM GMHC Living With AIDS: health and politics;
Manhattan Cable, CH V/35 (:301
11:110 PM GCN Gay U.S.A: news and entertainment from.around the country; Manhattan Cable, CH V/35 (1:0111.. idnigllt GCN Men in FiII'M. male erotica, interviews with. adult filmstars; Manhattan Cbale, CH V/35 (:301
12:30 PM RB PROD Men For Men: Robia BynI presents gay. ..

Cable, CH V/35 (:301

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 2
10:lI0 PM Sally Jessy Raphael a competition for female
impersonators' CH 7 (1:001
2:31 PM WBAI-FM Rompiendo el Silencio: todos losviernes, 6oazalo MII10 con temas y noticlss para lacomunidad latina gayy lesbiana; 99.5 FM (:151
7:110 PM WBAI-FM AIDS In Focul, .......
AIcaIay, prodcuero politicl/culture of the AIDS pandemic; 99.5 FM (:151
I:l1O PM ME Tunnel Undartne Walt footage form 1982shows efforta by West Ber1ln students to build a tunnel
under the Berlin Wall, an effort which led to freedom forsoma Intrepid escapees (2:001.. PM WNBC-TV auantum Leap: Sam (Scoa B...... I isMiss Sugar Belle in a beauty pageant; C~ 4 f1:OO! •9:110 PM WNET-lV Hamlet K8VialOl_ conslderssulclde,
IIlJrder, incest and many other nasty things; CH 13 (3:001
10:00PM WCBS-lV Dallas: the 14th season openerfindsJ.R.
still imprisoned in a sanatarium cell; CH 2 (1:0111
BaINt Waw1I interviews WonaId
10:00 PM WABC-lV ~Weagan, former Pwesident of the gw8at U.S.; CH 7 (1:0111
1:00 AM RB PROD The Robin Byrd Show. male and famale
strippers; Manhattan Cable, CH Vl35 (1:0111
2:11OAM WPIX-lV Rabbit Test(I978I: Joan Rlvel'$wrote
this vehicle for a pregnant Billy Crystal; CH " (2;001

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 3,•

8:38 AM WBAI-FM

Any Saturday with David Rotbeabarg; live call-in; 99.5 FM (2:001
6:. PM WNET- TV What Makes Us Tick? a study ofAmerican and Japanese babies that suggests a
stronger genetic influence in determining
personality than was previously thought; CH 13 (:301
7:110 PM GCN Gay U.S.A: news and entertainment fromaround the country; Ba. Unity, ACV Cable, CH 5& (1:001(For Manhattan Cable, see THURSDAY)
11:00 PM Gay 1Y.male pom; Manhattan Cable, CH V/35
midnight Naked Eye Cinema: Jack Waters aad leslie Lowe:
Wie Alles Anfang (how it an began): Noctumes and Family JBWfI/s; Manhattan Cable, CH 0/17
1:31 AM RB PROD The Robin Byrd Show. male &. female
strippers; Manhattan Cable, CH V/35 (1:0111 .
2l4O AM WNET-TV Don Glovanni(see OCT 31, 8 PMI (3:101

SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 4
1O::1IAM MyCraftShowwithMalkHesldn:alTlJSicvideostarring a rme-up of Barbie Dolls; tips on dressing in drag; Manhatla~aragon

Cable, CH 0/17 (::III

7:!1 PM WBAI-FM 0uIL001at Usa \'IIinas asks Susie Bright(ed., On Our Bac,", all about lesbian sex; also, the femma lesbian idemity; ah8matas with The Gay Show. 99.5 FM (1:001- PM A&.E In Search oftha Dream 1.iberty'; Mavar David N.
DIn.... andSpib I.e give insights into the ·dangerous staI8
of race rellllions: in NYC (1:001(repeats at 1AMI
10:30 PM RB PROD Men For MelT. Rollin BynI presents gay
maie porno stars; Manhattan Cable, CH V/35 (:301
NOV 2,9 PMI (3:001 .
11:00 PM GBS Way Outf. entertainment with Mart CbeInutand Michelle VanVoodlles; Rich Volo, producer, 254-7685;
Manhattan Cable, CH Cl16 (;301
1:00 AM ME In Search oftne Draam 1.iberty' Sll 9 PM (1:0111

mXl PM WNET-lV Ham',r(sII

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AlDS CENTER OFOUEENSCOUNTYSOCIAl. SERVICESEDUCATIONeBUDDIESoCOUN- 'S8JNGoSUPPORT GROUPS
VollIIIIHr Oppo,biniti ..
(718) 88&'25OO(voice) (718) 8882985(TDD) ,ACT UP (AIDS Coalition til
Unlaash Powe,lSIJaet. SIi1B G4 NYC

48lIA Hu...,10014/2121989-1114
A divelll8, non-partisan group of
ildMdll8ls II'iIad i1 anger and CQlr
millBd to direct action to end lIIe
AIDS crias. Gen. meetings Mon.
rights~,i1 The Great Hall. Cooper
Ulion, on Cooper Sql!8re betwaen
Astor and St Maries Place'a.
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AIDS RESOURCE CENTER(ARC) ,
Supportive housing for homelessF'WAil (Bdey House and apartments). Non-judgam8nta1 pastoralcare for PWAil and kMId ones. VollI1III8r opporIIriIiaa./2121481-127O, ,24 Wast:nh St, NYC llD11

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ASIANS &RlENDS- N~YORK
A not-for-profit
organization.
which ,Pl'O/l101llsfriendshipa with
Asian'PacificIslander, Asian, American, and non-Asian gay
men IIIrou,gh soc[al, culturel, educational, and service activities
and programs. Call our Hotline:
212-874-5084, or write to: p.o; Box, : 88211, NY, NY 10183-8023.
", ATR (AIDS TREATMENTRESOURCES, INC.I
PubiahaS a ti IIlDiiII1Iy Direc1nry 01, 'clinical trials ,of experill11lntal
AlDSIlfIV Ir'INWn8n1B in NY/NJ, andhas educational matenallt/semiI18rs for trial pa~cipants. AlR also
adwcatas for improwmen1Bin lIIe
trial sys1IIm. P.O~Box 311Z34, NY, NY
101Hll02. (21212fl8.4196. Publications freeldonation requ~.

BODY POSITIVE
If you or your lover has tested
HIV+, we offer support groups,
semil18rs, public forums, rafal'8l1ca
library, referrals, social activities
and up-to-dalll national rnontI)ly,
1lIE BODY POSIllVE" (S2&'yaar~(212)721-1346.
21115Broa'ctNay. SIi1B:DI, NY, llX123

BIDS (BISEXUAL DOMINANCE& SUBMISSION GROUP),BROOIllYN'S LESBIAN AND
Share 111M .experiences ~nd fan- .
GAY POUJICAL CLUBtaaias 'IIi1h oIhers in a positivu, nonUUWBDAINDEPENDENT
judgemental atmosphere. FirstDEMOCRATS
Sunday of !he month, 4:45pm st 1heun. andoraas II1d v.aIas for canciCommII1ity Cen1IIr2Ol W. 13S1ra8I,
dIIIas i11oca1,8taIB II1d nricnI_
NYC •This group is pelt Ii1he New
tions, lobbies for legislation, andYorkAraa Bisexlial N81iNork.
ccnb:Is camuiycUl'8achlfmVl
BlSEXUALlMURrMIION&COIIUBIVG SERVICE. INC.
A professionaly 8IBffed. non-profit
organization for bisexuals, Iheir
families and parlners, facing problems of a psychological or medicalkind. We also work with those in
doubt about 1heir selWality. C0nfidentiality is pllllllctad by law. For
infonnation phOll8: (212) 4!i9-4784
BISEXUAL PRIDEDISCUSSION GROUP
Topical discussions on issues ofin1Brast 10 1he CO""IIUrity in a congenial atmosphere, followed by aninfonnal dinner at a friendly local
resteurant Every Sunday, 3:00-,
4:30pm at lIIe Community Cen1Br
2IiI W. 13' Straet, NYC. Palt of the
Naw YorkAraa Bisexual Na1work.

(Asian L.. bian. '" the Ea.t
Cou1A1ien Pacific ............
MIk-New York) We are a poI'ltical, social lind supportive networkof Asian Pacific lesbians. Plaming
meatings on lIIe 1st Sunday andsocial avai1lB on lIIe last Friday ofesch month. CaR (212) 517-!i!i98for
more information.
ARCS (AlDs.:Related,Curl,nullity Services)for Dutche88, Orange, Putnam,
Rocklan'd, Sullivan, Ulster andWestch'ester
clluntias.
AIDS
education, client services, cri8IS Interventlon,support
groups,case management,
buddy andhospital visitor program.
214 Central /Iw., Wlita Plails, NY
1181l(9141~.
838 Broadway, Newburgh, NY
12250(914)ii62-lbIi
AlDSlill8 (814) Il3-O&07

BAR ASSOCIATION FOR
HUMAN RIGHTS!.Swyers Referral Servic.e for Ihe
Lesbian and Gay i::ommll1ity fuR
Range ot'l..dgsl SeMces (212) &4873 Free Walk-in Legal Clinic.
Tuesday 8-8 pmLesbian & Gay
Commll1ityCentr. Groll1d Roor

BIWAYS NEW YORKMonthly social evants for the
Bisexual community and frienda.
Call NYABN for deta~s of upcoming events. (212) 4!i9-4784•

BIPAC (BISEXUAL POUTICALACIlON COMMmEE)
Political aClion on issues of importance 10 !he BisexllaVlelltiarVGay
cormui!y, MdlyIl1ll8li1g'poll
held 81JOpm on fourth Thursday of
1he month st mallbars homaa. Can
NYABNfor1lismcri1h~1ocaticn.
((2121&4784
BISEXUAL YOImI
Infonnal social & support groupfor Bisexual kidlt/youth. Monlhly
meeting/potluck
lunch held
1:00pm on fourth Sunday of Ihemonlh at members homes. Call
NYABN for Ihis month's location.
This group is part of Ihe, NewYork Area Bisexual Networlt.

8Iraatfais II1d II1IlIIi"gs CIlspecialtlpica. Jcir1 us. 3311 N'mth St, SLi1II1:!i~NVI1215(718)98S-8482

ClRCU: OF MORE UGHI'
Spiritual support and sharing in a
gaYllesbian affinnative group.
Wast-Park Presbylilrian Church 116
Wast881h Street Wed: \WIlihip servica 831 pm. program 7:3l Mensha(21.2) 3I4-CJ73 Chalie (212)1191-7118.
COMING OUTTO PARENTS?
l.at us help 'tW and VDII' famiy deal
'IIi1h 1Iis upheaval PAmITS ANDAIIENDS OF lESBIANS AND GAYS
nl88lll1D'1llt(CIltha ., ~3111

pm, in Duane Church, 201 W. 13th
SInIII. We cal Jell, II,(212)4IBQI29

COMMUNITY HEALTH
PROJECT
DlWest 131h Straet , NYC, New.
York 10011 For Appointments andInformation(212) 675-3559(TTYNoiceIPROVlDlNG CARING,SENSITIVE AND LOW COSTHEALTH CARE SERVICES TO THE
lESBIAN AND GAY COMPwlJNI1YCOMMUNITYRESEARCH INIT1ATIVECRI tests experimental drugs and1reamantB for AIDS and HIVreliIIBd
illn88S8a. Monthly treatment andresearch gl1lUpfor HIV+ir6.Iiduals.
Traamant and research news/_
forums, and public seminars. Call
Alice Spears or Ken Fomataro at(212)481-1(6)forilfo and maii1g ist.
CONGREGATION B~
SIMCHAT
TORAH
NY's Gay and Lesbian Synagogue
Services Friday at 8:30pm 57
B81hune Strast For info. call: (2121
929--9496.

BWS""RONX LESBIANS'
UNItED IN SISTERHOOD
Social, political and support netWOIIcilg gl1lUpfor ....ou lIan and thair
frianda. Ragular social avan1S andmeetings on the first and third Fridaytl of ewry month. At. The ComII1IIity CanIa~201 W. 13 SIreet, from
B::»8pm. For Il1OI'8 info call lisa at(212)82Sfj817.

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CONGREGATIONB'NAI
JESHURUN
Monlhly Spritual Galherings andfree call1rad festive luncheons for
a/l People With AIDS, Iheir lovers
and families. Program includes
music and discussion led by our
RabbiS. Call (212) 787-7600

DIGNITY
BIG APPLE
A community of Lesbian and
Gay Calholics. Activities include
Liturgies and socials every Sat,
8:00 pm, at Ihe Center, 201 W. 13
Street, NYC.Call(212) 818-1309.
DIGNITY NEW YORKLesI:im II1d IF( Calhcics and friends
AIDS MiisIry. SpiIiualIllMilopna1t
The Caf1edrel Prqact WonIIip Services & Social-Stn ElIas. ~John's Episcopal Church 218 Wast
11111Sraet OIlYawJlof6'l5-2I79
EDGE Educ:aliDII in a Dinbled
Gay Emironnrairt
For the physically OlS8b1ed !.astianandGayCalwn~
P.O. Box:m Vilage StatiCll, New
York,NY 10014
FRONT RUNNERS
A rumi1g club for lesbian and gay
athIatas of all aliitias. FIll RII18 d 16 mles held I!N8lV Sat st lOam andWads. at 7pm i1 Cantral Park and_ry Tues. st 7pm in Pl1I8p8ct Park.
For iIformatiOlt cal (212)724-9100.
THE FUND FOR HUMANDIGNITY
National Gay and Lesbian Crisis
Line 'AlDS 800'-l-8(JO.SOS-GAYS
Educational Resource Center;
Positive Imagl!S Media Can1Br. NY
StaIll Al1s Prog'ram 8116B'w8y SIita
410M'C,NY10012 (212)529-111D
THE GAY AFRICAN AMERICANSOFWESTCHESTER(The G.A.A.)
is a community .based support
group fonnad i1 Wastchestar CoLn¥ Various actM1ias are plamed for1he cOlili I!I months. Plasse call 914:rJ&.Um for Il1OI'8 i1fo.

GAY FAmER'S FORUM
A support organization for gay
fallle(s, Iheir lovers, and others in
ch~d.flurturing situations. Monthly meetings include a potluck supper, support groups on varied
specialized topics, speskars, andsocializing,Meetings:
1st Friday
each month, 7pm, at The Center,
208 W. 13111St, Wast of 7th Ave.
Contribution: $8. Bring a main
COUIll8for 4 people (or pay a $5
food charge.) For infonna1ion can:
212-979--7541 or 212-28$-3238
GlAAD
Gay" t.bian Alli811C8
ApinltDanllion
80 Varick Straet, NYC 10013(212)968-1700 GLAAD combats homophobia in 1he lllIKia and elsewhereby promoting visibility Ii1he lesbian
and gay Clllwnll1ity and organizing
grassroots response to anti-gay
bigotry. Do you have 30 minutas amonth 111 fi!# homophobia?Join the
GLAAD Phone TreelCall (212HI681700for infonnatilll.

GUB
Gay and Lesbian Independent
Broadcasters invites you to tune
into OunOOKS on WlW-NY, 995
FM every other Sunday, 7:30'~
and join us wary T4esday
at 7:00pm to 9:00pm to become amamber of GUB. No experienceneeded.5I!i Ei!tdh Avenue, NY, NY
10018 Attn: OU1l.ooks or call (212)245-6366- ask for GUB.
,GAY .. LESBIAN HEALm
CONCERNS
An office of the NYC Dept of
Health, provides linkages betwn
NYC Health & Human Svcs, and
Ihe Lesbian & Gay community,
focusing in ALL health concerns; resource information for
health services consumers andproviders. 125 Worth Street,Box 67, New York, NY 10013. For
info call (212) 586-4995.
GAY MALE 81M ACTMSTS
Dedicated to safe and responsible S/M since 1981, Open meetings w/programson S/M
techniques,
lifestyle issues,
political and social concerns.
Also special events, speakers
bureau, workshops,
demOS,
affinity groups, newsletter,more. GMSMA -Dept 0, 496A
Hudson Street, Suilll D23 ,NYC
10014.(212) 727-9ff18,

GMAD (GAYMEN OFAFRICANIIESCIM)80 Varick Straet, NYC 10013 a stip-

port group of Gay Men of African
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of!he!.asbian and GayConwnIl1ity.
GMAD is inclusive of African,
African-American, Canbbasn and
Hispanic/Latino
men of color.
Meetings are held, weekly, on fridays. For more infonnatiCll,
can 718-812-0162.

GAY MEN'S HEALm CRISISHOTUNE'FOR IMURMA1lON ON SAR:R SEX
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ONE-TItvE, WAU<-IN AIDS COUNSEUNGSBMCB

212-80Hi655212~7470

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Mon ..fri. 10:30 a.m. 1119 pm.
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GIRm& MIRmCWB OF NEW YORK
Social club for heavy, chubby
gay men & their admirers.
Monthly socials at the 'Center", weekly bar nights Thursdays at Ihe "Chelsea Transfer",monlhly Fat Apple Review, bimonlhly F.A.R. panpals,
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Don't Tell Mama, 343 W. 46th St., 757~0788

Barbary Coast, 64 7th Ave. (14ili St.), 675-0385

Dugout, 185 Christopher St., 242-9113 (formerly, ilieRamrod),

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

The Break, 232 8th Ave. (22nd St.), 627-0072.

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

Eighty Eights, 228 W lOSt., 924-0088

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

Chelsea Transter, 131 8th Ave. (bet. 16th & 17th),. 929-7183,

The Hangout (J's), 675 Hudson St., 242-9292

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

Julius, 159 W. 10th St., 92g.9672

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

Keller's, 384 West St. (at Christopher), 243-1907 'Trix, 246 W. 48 St. (B'way/8th Ave), 664-8331
The Works,206-roO

Kelly's Village West, 46 Bedford,St., 92g.9322

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

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

Spike, 120 11th Ave., 243-9688

The Monster, 80 Grove St. (7th Ave.), 924-3558

Bogart's, 320 E. 59th St., 688-8534

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New Jimmy's, 53 Christopher, 463-0950

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

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

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

Sneakers, 392 West St., 242-9830.

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

Badlands, Christopher & West St., 741-9236
Boots & Saddle, 76 Christopher St., 929-9684

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

NY Confidential, 306 E 49 St., 308-8390

Cellblock 28, 28 ~th Ave, 733-3144 (j.o. club,
open on a limited basis, call for info) .

Ty's, 114 Christopher,741-9641.

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

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

South Dakota, 405 3rd Ave (at 29 St)., 684-8376

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

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Crazy Nanny's, 21 7th Avenue South, 366-6312(Women).

Candle Bar, 309 Amsterdam Ave., 874-9155

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

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

The Townhouse, 236 E. 58thSt., 754-4649
Twenty-Nine Palms, 129 lexington Ave., 686-8299

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eyes, drk bind hr,
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have a similar build
photo to Outweek
GWM 41, 5'T, 195
Canada VGR 4G8'
FEAST Ior better one. Rick, . Box 3415
Ibs, successful,
Me: Puckered
496A Hudson St
secure, sweet guy
SAN DIEGO ORGY
rosebud; honeyed
IH-24, NYC, NY
looking for a special
FF
BOTTOMS
You're 3O-Sometongue, healthy
10014
Big, bearded,
man to start athing & remember. Frenchman, 49,
bearish, bi, HIV-, FFrelationship. Send
greet group sex. Or
5'11", 195#, brlbl,
SEND ME SELF
top about to lose his photo, phone
you've fantasized &G/P, RFAIP, ADDRESSED'
Marine-reservist
number to PO Box
want to actl
. (Asian, smooth
STAMPED
31, Jacksonbottom to active
VERY SPECIAL
Condoms req'd.
a+) Ur. ph I (ifenvelope I will send
duty in Arabia.
Outgoing, HIV-,
Heights, NYC 11372.
Describe yourseW&
poss.) to A.D.,
you free gift Rev '
Seeks young, trim
handsome,
fantasies. J.K. P.O.
POB 442, NYC
RomoloGirardiD-.D.
HIV- bottoms, butch
intelligent law
CHUBBY, BABYBox 3502 San Diego, student in prestig10156-0442
P,O. Box 716 SI, NY
to fem, for sensual
FACED GWM
CA 92163
10306 USA
wknds in theious law school
38, 5'5", 200, brlbr,
GBM SEEKS
Hamptons. No
despite being in a .'cln. shv, hairy chest
SAFE 3-WAY
GWM SOULMATE
FOOT SERVICE
S&M. Novices ok.
wheelchair. Invites& gut, u/c, seeks
ACTIONGBM, 43 (looks
WANTED
Outweek Box 3413
masculine, wellspir1tual, athletic,
Two 'clean-cut guys,30), Ivy-educ,Slow-strip this U/Cbuilt chaser any
sensitive, monoga20's & 30's, seek hot mous guy with highprof, HIV+ (butItalianrace (GOM a +) 4
HOT SUBMISSIVE
bottom for safe fun,very healthy), 5'9"
guy, 44, 5-6, 150, BR
BOTTOMsafe, sweaty,
self-esteem and big
In NYC twicw a(165 swimmer's
hr/eyes/stache.
41, 5'10", 150, needs
imaginative fun.
heart to share love
week. Your tell &body), total
I love getting mytake charge daddy
and happiness. If
Midtown- day/nite.
photo get ours. P.O. .your life is together,bottom, sks
faet sucked as I do
for dominance w/o
Photo/description'
Box 172, White
masc., dominant,a slow J/O and cun
pain, bid, etc. Take
to TJ, Box 112,
let's meet Pic & phPlains, NY 10605.
HlV+ (or -)inall over my chest
this bitch. PIP Box
preferred. Thanks.
Executive Suite, 330
shape GWM 30Safe, hot sCl!ne for
Holder, P.O. Box
PO Box 4607,
West 42nd St NY,
NOW
AUDITIONING
50. You are a total ,2 masc, guys. Write
Berkeley CA 94704
5091, Hazlet, NJ
NY 10036. Fantas
for co-star in longtop, monogam, &w/phone I. P.O. Box 07730.
y Wrestlers a +.
running relationlike quiet eves at1705 NYC 10010. Do
NYC - QUEENS
ship. Seek blondhome, esp,
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LONELY IN NEW
GWM 6'2",46
THE IMPOSSIBLE
athletic type, early
cuddling & beingDREAM
170, Ibs sks Latino,
JERSEY
30's, w/sense of
together. I am
SADISTIC SIClUAN
Very goodlooking
Skinny yet cute
Asian, E. Euro U/Chumor. Some nudity
NOTfem & NOTMASTER
GWM, 6', 165 Ibs.,
a+ 18-35 No S&M
queer boy seeks
required. Please .
into bars & one39, 5'9", 190, beer
healthy, friendly,
amazingly handNo J/O calls Callsend photo andnighters. Am very
belly, seeks chunky718-424-1064 orvery inexperienced,
some Colt type stud
resume to POB 3182 write P.O. Box 647
rltnshp-oriented.
dog, pig, into heavy& lonely, seeks slim
to ravage andRidgewood, NY
I'm real if you art
sm torture cbt 'GWM 18-30. Write ' worship.
Into
Maspeth, NY 11378,
11386
too & willing towhippings, pain,
for my photo. Don,statuesque study
work at th~ rightk,nk, raunch ws sct
and in depth
P.O. Box 8316,
THE REAL THINGREAR ASSETS
rltnshp, pis take atotal humiliation
Saddlebrook, NJ,
tongue inspection
Very handsome
Handsome, yng
chance & RSVP
degradation for..of impressive
07662.
Black weightlifter
GWM, 5'9", 150, has
w/phone &' Itr to:piece of shit thatmusculatur!l. Let
215lbs. 18 inch arms
best
assetstothe
DRW,Box 8385,
wants to be treatedme paint the '32
waist great abs
rear. I need a
Red Bank, NJ
like shit Photolandscape of your
WARM, FUN,
seeks same 6'1"
rugged stud topman
117701phone to POB 1141,
body. Photo.
INTERESTING
hung banker Write. any race who wants
Jck Hgts Ons, NY
Superhung & masc.
Outweek Box 3377
MCJ 14 Crystal
to make love to a
FEELS SO GOODI
11372.
GRK-ITAL Man,
Gade, St Thomas,. hot maIe bitch. I will
Old fashioned,
young 42, 6', 155#,
VirginIslands
00830
MDaddy enema" ., pleasure a blue 'MUSCUlAR
swimmer's build,
assplay & more. I , collar man/officer/
Hdsm prof Asian,whose interests
JUST MOVED TO
mafioso/ex-con,cater to shy guys
20s, 5'6", 140, sks
include muSic,
NYC•
even if you play
& beginners. I'm
hdsm hlthy Wm/
tenms,
nature,
GWM, 30 yrs. old.
rough.
Fantasies
forgentle & love toLatino 22-45 for safe politics, architeclooking for newmen. No yuppies.
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15. Council site
16. Standing
17. Leisure
18. Playwright's orgy?
.21. Abet's partner
22. Literary initials
23. Wee, 26. Ascend
28. Computer abbr;
31. Chum. 3~, Meadows, 34. Greek mountain
36. San Francisc;:ofountain treat?
·39. Peruvian. ~ 40. Words of µnderstanding
41. Palindromic preposition.
42. Curve
43. Competent
45. List components
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20. Courtroom motions
23. Reaches
24. Chagall, and others
25. Part of TAE
26. Poker ploy
27. Man or Wight
28. Amulet29.]abs
30. Employ
33. Actor ]annings
35. Friend's pronoun
36. Hurry
37. Make into law
38. Rolling Stone Richards
44. Frontier
46. Instructed
47. Inert gas
48. Similar (to)49. Corset part
50. Possess
51. Aphrodite'S son
52. Dobbin's dinner
53. Congeal
54. ein, zwei, __,55. Fire- or tag- follower
56. Redolence
57. Profits

48. Onetime
49. Actor's building material?
58. Poi source
59. Spanish surrealist
60. Slope
61. The Bard's river
62. Harrow's rival
63. Slave
64. Affirmative response
65. Q-U connection
66. Stadium features

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2. Autos
3. A Waugh
4. Russian river
5. Stellar
6. Certain exam
7. Peel
8. Sandy ridges
9. Grizzly, e.g.
10. Bridge position
11. Playing card
13. Parched
14. Oolong and herbal
19. Salesman Loman

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