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Item: A much publicized book by openly gay authors urges
our community to eject drag queens and the very effeminate fromgay pride parades because they give straights the wrong impression about us.
Item: The last violent police raid on a New York gay bar,Blue's in Times Square, occurred not two decades ago but just a
couple of years ago, and is rarely spoken about and nevermemorialized by the community. The patrons were primarily
people of color, many of them drag queens.
Item: Just last week, several gay male bars in Indianapolis
attempted to ban drag queens and transsexuals from their premises, igniting a civil-liberties uproar.
These are just a few examples of what has long been a disturbing trend in lesbian and gay life; the mistreatment of sexual
minorities within our own community. It is a sad irony that at thiscrucial point in history, when the results of sexual bigotry are so
tragically evident all around us, there are gays who would spurnothers because of perceived sexual heresies or extremisms within
the homosexual world.
The way that we treat those most extremely marginalized bystraight society, like lesbians who may be just "too butch" or gay
men who "emulate women,· is a litmus test for the society wewould build if we were in charge. Freedom, respect for privacy,
compassion-in
short, the treatment we demand for ourselves--isthe treatment we should demand of ourselves if we are truly worthy of the goals of our movement.
The repeated calls, like those by the authors of After theBall, to downplay the sexual side of lesbian and gay life, tosweep our sexual differences and sexual minorities into the closet, are mistaken. These are the very differences, and people, thatmake us what we are, and we should be proud of them. As a letter to the editor in this week's edition points out, the attempt tomove the discourse of liberation away from sex is a victory forthe right wing, and an inherent defeat for our movement. It goes
without saying that we should be wary of the constant attempts
by moral majority types to impose sex-negative values on us. But
we should be righteously horrified when these values areespoused by gays and lesbians ourselves.
The recent sorry spectacle in Provincetown is a case in point.
The violent rejection of a few exuberant activist placards by gays
(who tolerate racism and violence on t-shirts in a local shop window) shows a pathetic lack of self-esteem. Why indeed should
straights be so magnanimous as to accept us if we can't evenaccept ourselves, wigs, weirdness, warts and all?
The huge damage done to lesbian and gay sexual self-confidence by the AIDS disaster is bad enough. Internalized right-wing
reactions only make it that much worse. We should all strive to
guard against them, and to accept and celebrate our brothers andsisters of every sexual stripe.
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THE

EDITORAHEAD OF THEliMES
Advocacy
journalism
has an importantrole ininformed
public debate.
Congratulations to OutWeek
for such a strong start,
As pleased as I was tosee New York Newsday
praised in your August 1
issue, I was dismayed to bemisquoted
twice. When I
called the author, Chris Bull,he said he may have mademistakes
in attribution
because he did not clearlydelineate different interviewsin his notebook.
When asked if New York
Newsday's AIDS coverage isdictated by a marketing strate'iJ{ I said it reflects the personal interestsof several reporters
and an editorial commitment
to covering city issues.I.neversad, nor do I believe: -If anything it probably would work
the other way. You can sellpapers by sensationalizing
AIDS or by bashing the gay
cornrn.nity. "I also never said: -But
because of the Timesbiases,
they didn't find the voice ofactivists credible." The label
biased is Bull's, not mine, andone that he used several
times during the interview.
I'm proud of New YorkNewsday's coverage of AIDS; ourcompetition doesn't have to
be trashed for us to compare favorably. I can only

by Daniel Sotomayer

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August 28, 1989

Says: Legalize Clit Licking"and -Legalize Butt Fucking in
all fifty states' -which Walter
Armstrong carried in the Ptown Pride March, D'Autenil
writes: -Much of the rhetoricof today's movement seeks
to shift emphasis away from
CMs Bull Responds:
The first quote in quessexual behavior and toward
human rights. That sign didtion
was inadvertently
more to move the emphasis
attributed
to Woodard,back than any mob of funwhen actually it belongs todamentalists could do, •her colleague, Laurie GarWell, I hope Mr. D'Auterett. According to my notes,
nil is right. I hope Armstrong's
Woodard did speak of thesigns did help bring the focus
Times' biases in reporting onof lesbian and gay public
activist responses to AIDS. I
discourse back to the sexual
apologize for any resulting
and on our own terms, asconfusion.
Armstrong intended.
The lesbian and gay
businesspeopleof P-town
SEXPOSIllVE
In the Provincetown
seem to have recognizedBusinessGuild's -Open Letter that fundamentalists
andto ACT UP" (July 14, 1989),
right-wingers have seized
Philippe D'Autenil makes ancontrol of the issue, the disinadvertently
revealingcourse, the language of sexstatement. Objecting to theuality. Thisseizure took place
signs- "The Queer Nation. more than ten years ago
wish that Buli's portrayal of
the Times had been moreaccurate. New York Newsdaywould still look good.
Catherine Woodard
New YorkNewsdayamid rantings over the "perversions'practicedby"homosexuals' and cries of"Save Our Children.' Insteadof contesting this seizure ofsexual language, many lesbian and gay activists didiexactly what the P-townbusinesspeople recommend:
they desexualized the public
life of lesbians and gay men.
Thistactic doesn't work.
If we avoid references tosexuality(except
foreuphemistic or scientificallydistancing phrases like "bodily fluids' instead of "cum,blood, piss: etc.), if we strive
to appear "respectable:
if
we assure straight people
that we're just like them
except for what we do inbed (and then conveniently
fail to specify just what wedo do in bed), then we'veconceded
victory to theright-wing.
For fear of offendingstraight people, both liberaland conservative, we conform to their rules of behavior, we police ourselves andoutlaw members of our own
communities: drag queens
and bull dykes "reinforce
stereotypes;'
leathermen,
leatherwomenand sadomasochists are "trashy: or"frightening: or even "sick;'people involved in intergenerational sex are "molesters
and monsters' or "exploited
victims;' hookers and hustlers, prisoners and IV drugusers are just "criminals;'lesbians and gay men ofcolor are "too ethnic'orthey "cloud our issues' by
talking about racism; thoseof us who aren't monogamous are "immature: "selfdestructive:and even"dangerous. 'We can't, and shouldn't
want to, afford to "shift theemphasiS away from sexual
behavior and toward humanrights: If we do, we move
perilously close to the Christians who claim that "Goddoesn't hate homosexuals,
only homosexual acts.' Socalled tolerance or acceptance of people who look
and act like you is no tolerance or acceptance at all.
Liberation for all of us is mygoal. not "acceptance'forstraight-acting assimilationists.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
once said: "We who engage
in nonviolent direct action
are not the creators of ten-sion. We merely bring to thesurface the hidden tensionthat is already alive. We
bring it out in the open
where it can be seen anddealt with.' Walter Armstrong deserves our thanks
for exposing the true state ofaffairs in supposedly "tolerant' Provincetown.
Oavid Robinson
Hoboken, NJ

LAST RESORT?
I read with interest. inyour August 14th issue of
your fine magazine, about Ptown's recent Gay and lesbian Pride March. This isbecause I did a segment of
my radio program
from
Cape Cod that weekend.
Paul de Renzis of ACT UPjPtown was among my guests.
He leads the newly awakened movement and I hope

he can per5ist despite thedeath threat reported in
OutWeek.
Phil O·Auteuil. presidentof the Provincetown Business
Guild, is unbelievable. As a
PWA. he continues to kissass
with the reactionary community leaders. In fact, he isquoted in the local paper(The Advocate,
July 27,1989) as saying, "it's unfortunate that out-of-towners
have
come
here
and
dumped it in our laps again:
He's right. of course. New
Yorkers and Bostonians"dump'
dollars on thoseBusiness Guild merchants.
I'm going to suggest a gaycott of the Guild until Mr.
O'Auteuil apologizes for his
slap on our faces.
Bet1ysteele, a Provincetown Selectman, refused to
speak at the Rally. She wrote
to the local paper (TheThis week's nightmare is... (gasp!) ... (sob!) ... the OutWeek editorial
staff itself. It seems that we printed the dread words MAIDS virus" last
week, and didn't even notic. it till an alert reader wrote a letter to theeditor. What next, you might well ask, AIDS "VICTIM!?!"
For this sloppy semantic crime you are all hereby invited to slap ourfaces whenever you see us slouching around in public, which probably
will be rarely if we keep printing gaffes like this.

August 28, 1989

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Advocate. July 27. 1989)that
she expected "a quiet procession to Town Hall" andwrote"(Provincetown)
moved beyond such placards." referring to several
demanding sexual rights ingraphic terms. What she
missed is the justified anger. of a community facing AIDS.
P-town police
chiefJames J. Meads is quoted (inThe Cape Codder. July 28.
1989) as asking. "Why protest
in a place where people
have been living and coexisting for years?" Perhaps
the reasons for this newfounded activism isthat people are now dying too. Ragecan only be understood by
the compassionate.
The P-town March was
named
"20
Years
of
Stonewall." Ironic it is thatthe anger and joy of being
outrageous
took
two
decades
to wake up amajor gay resort for thenortheast.
Hopefully the
local townfolk will never be
the same again.
Larry Gutenburg
Executive Producer
The Gay Show/WBAI FM
New York

BOO WHO?
My reaction
to the'Peek-a-Boo" in your August
1 issue ranged from "yawn.
so what else is new: to "howinteresting.
I would nothave thought" to 'What! I
refuse to believe until I see
him (or her) making passes
at someone in a bar (like thebars listed in the back of theissue)." In the first category is
the great Boitano. Did you
know USA Today printed thename of his lover on thefront page after he (Boitano)won his gold medal at Calgary? That is one newspaperthat is never going to bezapped. Fran Tarkenton falls
in the second category. No
dumb jock he. He has done
quite well for himself in a second career as the head of acomputer software compa-

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ny. The industryof myemploy. computers. is very
gay indeed. Pioneer Alan
Turing was no aberration. In
the last category I challenge
your assertion about Eddie
Murphy. You are talking
about the star of Raw. aren·t
you? Can he really hate himself (or part of himself) thatmuch? By the way. wasPrince an omission or. God
forbid. could he actually bestraight?
Marianne G.C. Seggerman
Stamford. CT
P.S.You have a couple
in your list and I'm not referring to Gitte and Sly. Menotti
and Barber set up house in
Mt. Kisco in the fifties andLenny was so jealous.
(What are you talking
about? Editor.)

FREEAZT!
When it was reported
last week that early intervention with AlT in mildly symptomatic people can delay
the onset of frank AIDS, thechallenges
to the AIDS
activist community took a
new turn. We must provide
free AlT for those who wish
to choose that treatment
alternative. The right of people to choose their own careshould not be abridged by
the default of activists who
equivocate about AZl. We
can expect all levels of government to do nothing toprovide the costly AlT to ourasymptomatic brothers andsisterswho will be helpless tohelp themselves to a treatment that may extend theirlives.
The AIDS Drug Assistance Program (ADAP) is afederally-funded
but stateadministered program which
now provides free AlT. Pentamadine and Alpha Interferon. Under this program it is
the individual state that sets
the criteria for eligibility. The
program is not limited to FDA
labeling restrictions and theAugust 28, 1989

choice over who is eligible ismostly a state decision. By
gaining a favorable decisionfrom ADAP we can open up
treatment options for those
who are now hostage toeconomics.
Of course this will provoke controversy,
evenamongst ourselves. but thequestion isn·t what one
thinks about AlT, the question is making possible. practical free choice.
Marty Robinson
New York

KOCHCROC
Those of us who are lesbian and gay activists in city
unions are not falling for
Mayor Koch's political play"granting" us bereavement
leave for domestic partners(July 24, 1989).
We welcome this significant benefit. but Koch did
not initiate it. Our union, District Council 37, American
Federation of State, County
and Municipal Employees.
placed bereavement leaveand health benefits
fordomestic partners on thebargaining table over two
years ago. Koch chose toignore our proposals-until
now. Now that D.C. 37,'otherlabor unions and much of
the lesbian end gay community have backed rival David
Dinkins. Koch is trying to woo
our votes back with his
proclamations.
It should also be pointed out that a Mayoral Executive order is a temporary'act. while winning domestic
partner benefits through collective bargaining is binding
on future mayors. If Kochwas truly interested in ourrights.
he would
have
instructed his negotiators toinclude bereavement leavein our current contract.
It is true that some city
unions place greater importance on domestic partner
benefits than others. andthese issues are bargainedon a city-widebasis. We

believe that our union (representing
135.000
city
employees) is behind us andthe many heterosexual
members who stand to benefit. But it is up to us to bringthe issues to our members
and the members of othercity unions (If you are a gay
or lesbian member of D.C.
37. you can get involved
with the newly-formed Lesbian and Gay Issues Committee by contacting Galeat (718) 836-2511).
An update: Economic
agreements have alreadybeen settled for the current
contract. and the Municipal
Labor
Committee
has
assigned domestic partner
health benefits to its Subcommittee on Health. There
will be a major offensive forthese benefits during thenext round of bargaining.
Join us!
julie Schwartberg
Lesbian and Gay Issues
Committee
D.C. 37. AFSCMENew York

A LESBIAN
BY ANY OTHERN NAME ...
OutWeek has demonstrated in its first few weeks
that it has a major naming
problem when it comes tolesbians. Some examples:• The consistent use inheadlines of the strange
abbreviation"Ies: as in"Les/Gay Advocates Strike
Back at Military" or "NY
Les/Gay
Love"Family. '"Boys. the only times we'veNew Yorkever been called "Ies" were on gradesch.ool playgrounds (and at the time,
we fully believed the correct spellingwas "Lez: as in "Lellie"). Thisis equivalent to using the reviled epithet "homo"
to describe the male of the variety (andmisspelling it "hommo'"). "Space restrictions" are an invalid excuse for this policy: we have yet to see one example
where the entire word would not fit.
o The letter published a few weeks
ago from the guy-with-no~ense-of-history who thought the word "lesbian" wasredundant
and used as a favor towomen.
o Perhaps the most disturbing, thetwo-part series by a dyke, LizTracey, firston the new species of "gesbian"(huh???) and then a primer on the various names other than lesbian that one
could use to describe one's friends.
What is the deal here? Lesbians
have to deal with enforced invisibility
enough as it is. When the only "politically correct" gay rag in town starts out by
fundamentallyquestioning even thename of our favorite minority, it does
not bode well for the future of a lesbianpresence in your publication.
Othershove already pointed out the tendency
towards an upper-middle-class-whiteboy bias in your mag; we just wanted toindicate how deeply your ambivalence
towards "the rest of us" runs (evensemantics?? C'mon guys...).
Face it: the audience you havebeen targeting is the "general population" of the gay communities; for OutWeek's purposes, lesbians, queers ofcolor, and working class queers havebeen simply marginal, and your coverage of us tokenism.
As of this writing, you've only produced eight issues. There's still time tochange. We still retain a shaky faith thatyour heart is in the right place, and thatyou do want to be representative of as
many of the gay communities as possible. Please don't disappoint us.
Diane Curtis
Julie Clark
New York

GOOD RAG

Each week for the past two months
I hove looked forward to getting the latest issueof OutWeek at my newsstand. It
is so refreshing to finally have a New
York journal with a well-written and militant perspective that goes beyond support for tolerant Democrats, trendy

consumerism, and lesbian invisibility,
instead highlighting important concerns
such as the Coors boycott, the New
York Times editorial agenda and the Ptown backlash. Your articles on alternative approaches to AIDS are intelligent
and informative. As a woman, I especially appreciate the inclusion of lesbian
perspectives in many of the columns
and news articles, and look forward to
growing female editorial input. While I
do not enjoy the phone sex ads, I understand the financial necessity, and am
delighted that there is a sponsor willingto back a publication such as OutWeek.
Mickie Zacuto
New York

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GMHC to Promote

HIVTesting
New Stance Enrages AIDS Workers
by Andrew Miller
NEW YORK - The Gay Men's Health
Crisis announced last week a campaign to encourage
HIV -testing
among those people at risk for developing AIDS, setting off a wave ofcontroversy in the gay and AIDS communities. Citing "compelling reasons
to get tested and to know your antibody status,· the organization abandoned its long-standing ambivalenceon the subject of HIV testing for people who are asymptomatic.
In his announcement, made at an
August 15 press conferenceat

OVERDONE
GMHC's Richard Dunne
GMHC's headquarters
in Chelsea,
GMHC Executive Director Richard
Dunne said that the campaign will
include $10 thousand worth of print
ads in seven New York-based newspapers. The ads read, in part, "If you
haven't taken the antibody test for the
AIDS virus, think about it, because if
you test positive, now there arechoices."Among the choices GMHC presents are other immune system tests,
and prophylactic drugs like Azr and

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August 28, 1989

aerosolized pentamidine. It is the lackof access to and availability of theseand other AIDS drugs, as well as the
disputed effectiveness of AZT, that is
at the heart of negative community
reactions to the announcement.
New Drugs, New Laws
For many years, groups like
GMHC felt that the risk of discrimination and the stress and ambiguities
associated with the knowledge of
one's HIV status, together with a lackof treatment options, made HIV testing an unwise decision.
But Dunne said that New YorkState's law protecting the confidentiality of test records, and the existenceof new drugs that both treat and prevent AIDS-related condition prompted
GMHC's turnaround. "In other states
we wouldn't be able to run theseads," Dunne said.
Dunne acknowledged that "theexistence of drugs is meaningless without access to them, Including primary
medical care." But others are inSistingthat without being able to proVidesuch care and access, encouraging HIV
testing is unethical and wrong.
Damian Martin, the executive
director of the Hetrick-Martin Institute, a social service organization forgay and lesbian adolescents, called
the decision "unfortunate."
UNo Services·"A medical test only helps if it
improves the medical services for thepeople being tested," Martin told OutWeek. Speaking about the homelessadolescents who comprise the majority of his agency's clients, he said, "We
can't even get them in for treatment
for syphilis or drug addiction. There's
absolutely no way that we can getthem in for the prophylactic treatments for HIY. The test is not wrong
in itself, But why push testing when
there are no services to follow it?"Martin added, "It is wrong tospend $10 thousand to adverstise
about a test, rather than spend themoney to advertise the lack of accessto health care because the New York
City public health system is in a stateof collapse. GMHC should put themoney into advocacy for the problem,
not for what the governmentisalready pushing."
Rona Affoumado, founder andexecutive director of the Community
Health Project, which operates out of
the Gay and Lesbian Community Center on West 13th Street, agrees. "I'm
opposed to the whole notion of
encouraging
people to get tested
when the health care services
involved don't exist. Given what's
happening in NYC in terms of services, its going to be hard for people
to find AZT and AP and T-cell monitoring, especially in low-income communities where people don't haveaccess to basic health care.·Affoumado, whose own clinic iscurrently so overwhelmed that it has
closed to new patients, added, "I'm not
opposed to testing but people have tounderstand that they may not be able
to get services the next day after theirresults. GMHC can't give out AZf."
Limited Support
But GMHC's move has some support as well, most notably among representatives of the Black and Latino
communities. "Everybody may be seeing this info [on AIDS], but everybody
is not ingesting it," said Debra FraserHowze, executive director of theblack Leadership Commission on
AIDS. "There is a belief among [Black
women] that if you're not sleepingwith an IV-drug user who is noddingon the corner of 125th Street, you're
not at risk," she told Out Week. "We
need to push past the cute slogans
and talk about treatment and services- hardcore information.·
Fraser-Howze, along with RoberSae GMHC on page 68

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cases are governed by internationallaw set forth in the United Nations'Charter of Rights, but the Puerto
Rican plebiscite is not.
Other demands of the independentistas,or pro-independence
activists, include the withdrawal of all
Federal troops and armed forces from
Puerto Rico, where the United States
has key military bases. A flyer handed
out at the rally also stated, "[he UnitedStates [must) meet its responsibility for
91 years of colonial exploitation of ournation by carrying out the economic
reparations necessary to the transition
from colonialism to independence."

OUT FOR INDEPENDENCE

Photo: Ben Thornberry

Rally supporting Puerto Rican Independence

Puerto Rican Les/Gay
Independentistas
March on U.N.
by Mark Chesnut
NEW YORK-About 30 lesbians andgay men joined hundreds of otherindependentistas in a march and rally
in support of Puerto Rican Independence on Saturday,
August 12.
Demonstrators braved a heavy thunderstorm to march from 14th Street
and Avenue C to a rally near the United Nations Plaza. The event, endorsed
by several progressive groups, including the Free Puerto Rico Committee,
was sponsoredby the Comite deReafirmaci6n
Nacional
Puertorriqueiio, a national pro-independence
organization. The rally included aspeech by Francisco Dominguez, amember of Hispanos Unidos Gays yLesbianas, who addressed the needfor lesbian and gay rights to be integral in the fight for Puerto Rican selfdetermination.
The demonstration
took place
four days before the United Nations

Decolonization Committee convenedon August 16. Marchers demandedthat the United Nations supervise theplebiscite on Puerto Rico's status
scheduled for 1991, which will determine whether
Puerto Rico will
become an independent republic, the51st state of the United States, or
retain its present status as a US. commonwealth.
The referendum is supposed togive Puerto Rico's 3.5 million residents the right to determine their own
political future, but many in the independence movement challenge President George Bush's assertion that thereferendum is "an exercise in selfdetermination. ""It's not a process of Puerto
Rican's voting for self-determination,"
claims Jose Satini, an organizer of thelesbian and gay contingent in themarch, "it's a process of the UnitedStates deciding what they want for

Lesbians, Gays, Independence
Although struggling for acceptance in the larger independence
movement, "the gay community has
always been present in the independence movement," according to Pedro
Perez, a member of the lesbian andgay contingent. "A lot of the people,
especially people that are involved in
the movement in the United States,
support the gay movement," he said.
The Puerto Rican National Liberation Movement, known by its Spanish
initials MLN, was the first Latin American liberation organization to take a
pro-gay stance when, in 1987, the·organization adopted a progressive platformon gay rights, AIDS, sexism, reproductive freedom and racism in Puerto Rico.
Puerto Rico has the third-highest incidence of AIDS in Latin America.
While there has been progress in
integrating lesbian and gay issues into
the political agenda for independence, there were times when groups
on the left were not as accepting. Jose
E. Lopez, the First Secretary of theMLN, gave a eulogy dedicated to Bartolo Hernandez de Jesus, a gay member of MLN's central committee whodied of AIDS last month. "For many
years our struggle rejected him eventhough he wanted to be part of iL.his
sexual preference was not acceptedby the movement," said Lopez in theeulogy, which was reprinted in MLN's
official publication, La Patria Radical.
see PUERTO RICO on page 68

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News

Greitzer Joins Domestic
Partner Struggle
Also Lobbies to Save Gay Man's Homeby David Kirby"This bill was drafted in June, but
we're only now getting around to
doing press on it," Greitzer stated.
She said she introduced the bill
because recent court decisions--suchas the one in the Braschi case-onlyprotect successor rights for domestic
partners living in rent-controlledbuildings (Miguel Braschi recently
won the right toremain in an apartment leased to hislover, who had diedof AIDS).
"While recent
court rulings andregulatory proposals
tend to cover rentcontrolled or stabilized housing, tenants in apartments
acquired by the city
for tax delinquency
or by any othermeans have no protections at all: Greitzer said.
"Even a wife
whose husband diesor who gets divorced is without
guarantees
to remain as a legal tenant in these cityMFINALLY SEEN THE UGHT
Photo: Ben Thornberry
controlled
Carol Greitzer announcing domestic partnership billapartments,"
she
added.
who is facing a primary challenge by
Legal Status
openly-gay candidate Tom Duane, also
The bill, if approvedby theannounced during a brief news conference on the steps of City Hall that her Council and Signed by the Mayor,
would provide legal status "to any
office had successfully lobbied to keep
person who has shared a [city-owned]
the roommates of a gay man who diedapartment for over one year and guarof AIDS from losing their apartment,
antee that a lease be written in his or
which is not city-owned.

NEW YORK-City Council member
Carol Greitzer announced last week
the introduction of new legislation in
the Council which would guarantee
succession rights for domestic partners to leases in city-owned or citymanaged housing
The Greenwich Village Democrat,

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her name,· according to a press
release issued by Greitzer's office.
There are approximately 102,000
city-owned units in New York which
do not fall under the jurisdiction ofrent control or rent stabilization rules.
Greitzer's opponent, Tom Duane,
applauded
the Council member's
action, but lamented the fact that it
took so long for this legislation to
become reality.
"I'm very happy that Carol has
finally seen the light on this issue,·Duane Told OutWeek. "lnose of us in
the tenant, senior, lesbian and gay, andAIDS activist communities have beenworking on this issue since 1985."
He continued, "If we had had an
openly lesbian or gay member of theCouncil back in '85, this legislation
would already have been introduced
and passed."--<
Tough FiQbt.EQected
The bill potentially' faces strident
opposition in the current Council.
Once introduced, it will most likely
be sent to the Housing and Buildings
Committee,
which is chaired byArchie Spigner, who has historically
opposed bills that would benefit thegay and lesbian community, including
the lesbian and gay rights bill, which
took over 12 years to become law.
"It will be a tough fight, but there
is a chance to pass this bill,· Greitzer
aide Rick Schwartz told OutWeek. "Thehard part will be getting the bill scheduled in the housing committee, because
there is already a full agenda there."
A spokesman for Spigner said theCouncilmember had not yet seen the bill,
and would not comment on how Spigner might handle the legislation. Hearings
Se. GREITZER on page 68

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Bay Ridge Councilman
Gay-Baited
Anti-Choice, Anti-Gay Effort Knocks Albanese Off Ballot

UPRIVIL£GEW

RIDGE?

Councilman Sal AlbaneseThis is the first in a series of articles on New York City's municipal
elections,by Phil Zwickler and Andrew Miller
BROOKLYN- New York City Council member Sal Albanese, a two-term
encumbent Democrat from the Bay
Ridge sectionof Brooklyn,
isembroiled in a battle for his politicallife that has taken on an anti-gay
tone. The controversy, meant to keep
Albanese off the November ballot
through election-law technicalities,
was started by little-known Republican Council
candidate
StephenMaresca, with the help of the Brooklyn Republican Party.
Albanese, a liberal Democrat in astaunchly conservative district, wasknocked off the ballot in early Augustwhen Maresca launched a successful

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attack against the signatures that the Democratic
Party collected in supportof Albanese's candidacy.
And
now
that
Albanese is trying to get
his name back on the ballot, unsigned campaign literature is appearing in the
district which states that
Albanese "voted for special privileges for homosexuals." In fact, Albanese
was a key supporter ofIntro 2, the legislation that
insured basic civil rights
for New York City'S gay
men and lesbians, which
passed the City Council in1986 after nearly 15 yearsof debate.

Brooklyn Conservative Party, confirmed Maresca's hunch. "It's nosecret. We published it. It's unsigned,
but anyone who asks, we tell them,·
Kassar told OutWeek. "It's just a flyer
we hand out on the corner. It's not
required to be signed."
Accordingto Albanese,theeleventh-hour attack on the credibility of the signatures
was "totally
unexpected. "Invalid Signatures"Since there was no threat of a
Democratic primary, I let the Brooklyn Democratic Clubs collect the necessary signatures,"
Albanese told
Out Week. Of the nearly 2,000 signatures that the clubs collected, almost
1,000 were declared invalid by the
Board of Elections. 1,500 valid signatures are neede9- to Secure a place on
UNo Secretthe ballot for councilmanic elections.
Maresca, a financial consultant
According to the Staten Is/andwith First Investors Corporation who
Advance, the Board of Elections said
has lived in the Brooklyn district ofthat the Albanese signatures wereSingle-family homes along tree-lined
invalid because the signers "were notstreets for 24 years, said that his camregistered Democrats, nor were theypaign is not responsible for the flyer,
registered with any political parties,
but that he has little disagreement
or they did not live in the district."with its contents.
'"We believed"It's my under~at these petitions
did not' meet thestanding that thatminimum reqUireflyer emanatedments for getting on the ballot, and wefrom the Conservative Party in Kings
were vindicated in that judgment,·
County, and I only saw it after it was
Maresca said, admitting that Albanese's
distributed," Maresca told Out Week.
He continued, "There's nothing in
absence from the ballot would bethere that's not true. I didn't do anyhelpful to his own campaign.
thing to encourgage them, but I'm not
Albanese, for his part, admits thatgoing to do anything to stop them,
he is partly to blame for the situation
either," and added that "negative camhe is now in. "I didn't monitor the situation,· he said. "I never expected it.
paigning is part of politiCS."
Jerry Kassar, chairperson of the
1 thought there would be no problem
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CAMPAIGN SPOTLIGHT

with the signatures. But I've learned
my lesson. I've got to get my own
petitions and volunteers. I can't relyon the Democratic clubs.·«II: i i'i n n 0

Back on the Ballot
Albanese went to court to havehis name included in a Democratic
primary on September
12. State
Supreme Court Judge Joseph Dowd
ruled that a write-in Democratic primary, known as an Opportunity to
Ballot, must be held. Albanese hopes
to run in that primary, but Republicans are challenging the court ruling.
The Court of Appeals, the highest
court in the state, will hear the caseon AUgust 22.
But Albanese has another option
as well. He wants to run as an Independent and is well on his way tosecuring that line on the ballot.
"Our volunteers are now in the pr0cess of collecting signatures. We alreadyhave 5,000, though we need only 3,000,·
he said "We want 8,000 as a cushion.·He believes that the Republicans willagain cha1Iengethe signatures.
Special Privileges
And that's where the unsigned
flyers circulating in the Bay Ridge district come in. They are clearly meant
to stir up anti-gay and anti-abortion
sentiment.
The literature was handed out infront of churches and in shopping
centers. It reads, in part, "Stop. Before
you sign any petition
for SalAlbanese, you should know: Albanese
voted for special privileges for homosexualsj Albanese voted to use yourtax dollars to pay for abortionsj· italso alleges illegalities in the Councilman's campaign funding.
According to Albanese, campaign
workers are "checking whether it isillegal- to hand out unsigned campaign literature.
Albanese took a poll of the district after Intro 2 became law which
revealed that 80 percent of his constituents were against "gay rights.· But
Albanese maintains that he is still
proud of his vote, calling it "a basic
issue of human rights.·"[The issue of gay rights] is probably the most talked about negative.

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Killer Convicted in Brutal
Murder of Gay Man
II

Homosexual Panic Defense UnsuccessfulIImurder by a very disturbed
young man.

FIGHTTHE -GAY PANIC- DEFENSE

Asst District Attorney Elizabeth Lsderer

by David Kirby
NEW YORK-A 27-year-old hotel
worker, who used a small knife to nearly decapitate a gay man who he said
tried to seduce him, was convicted in
New York State Supreme Court AUgust
10 for the grislyJune, 1988 murder.
The II-woman,one-man jury
deliberated a full day before finding
Jose Robles guilty of second degree
murder, second degree attempted
murder and first degree assault.
The macabre case, like something out of a gothic novel, became
even more twisted when Robles
insisted that acute homophobia
sparked his bloody rage that left twoother men hospitalized.
Many questions remain about thatsummer night a year ago. But testimony
during the two and a half week trial
spun a horrifying tale of cold-blooded

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Gays and Straights
Robles and his victim,
MartinGuzman,both
worked at the Hilton Hotel,
although Robles insists he
did not know Guzman until
the night of the murder.
Robles is married and saysthat he is straight. Guzman
was gay.
On the night in question, Robles, Guzman andfour other men left the
Town and Country Bar on
9th Avenue where they had
gathered, and went to Guzman's apartment on West
45th Street. After drinking
several beers and smoking
some joints, two of themen-MelvinJacksonand Tom
Ordeo-left the apartment. Remaining
were Robles, Guzman, Luis Santiago,
who is straight, and Kenneth Kleve,
who is gay.
According to trial testimony, Guzman had asked Robles into his bedroom around 5:15 a.m. to "discuss
something" in private. Santiago said
he remembered hearing a thud in thenext room and then, 15 minutes later,
Robles came to the door and said
Guzman had something to tell them.
What Santiago saw was shocking:Guzman lay in a pool of blood on his
bed. His head had been almost entirely severed.
Santiago tried to escape, but was
overpowered by the stronger Robles,
who allegedly slashed and stabbed
him while screaming "die! die!" When
Kleve, brandishing a broken bottle,

came to help Santiago, Robles began
to attack him as well, according totestimony. He was arrested at work
the following day.
Santiago was hospitalized with aslashed throat and face, and numerous stab wounds to the body. He
needed 115 stitches to close his face
and throat Kleve was treated for stabwounds to the throat and chest.
A Fragile Defense
The defense team, headed byattorney Frank Lopez, tried to portraythe accused as a patriotic, religious,
moral young man. They said Robles--who had been stationed by the
Army in West Germany-had converted from Catholicism to the Mormon
faith two years before the slaying.
"I was taught that smoking anddrinking and doing drugs was a sin,·
Robles testified, adding that "hanging
out with homosexuals" was also amortal offense against God.
But the night of June 27, 1988,
Robles was hanging out with beerdrinking, pot-smoking gay men.
"Well, if you felt so uncomfortable, why didn't you just leave?"asked Assistant District Attorney Elizabeth Lederer, who tried the case.
"Because I was a guest of Guzman's," Robles replied. "In order forme to leave politely, he would have
had to show me tothe door."
This remark sent a wave of nervous chuckling through the jury box.
The laughter caused Robles to breakinto tears-the only time he ever displayed any emotions at all.
"He showed no remorse for what
he had done. He sat there for over
two weeks, just staring,· said Ermanno Stingo, a court monitor for the Gay

and Lesbian Anti-Violence Project.
Stingo, who sat through theentire jury selection and trial, spoke
highly of presiding Supreme Court
Justice Allen Alpert, and of ADA Lederer, who is scheduled to prosecute
those arrested in the rape and beatingof the Central Park Jogger.
Sex Panic Alleged
According to Robles, Guzman
and Kleve had made sexual gesturesand remarks during the evening, making Robles nervous.
Robles testified: "At one point,
Kleve followed me into the bathroom
and asked to see my penis." Kleve
denied this in court. Robles said Guzman had also commented to Kleve:"Isn't he [Robles) beautiful?"
Robles said Guzman asked him
into his bedroom, then pulled down
his own pants.
Guzmanthenunzipped Robles' pants and grabbed
his testicles, according to Robles. Robles said he panicked, grabbed a small
knife from Guzman's drafting table,
and began to stab his victim.
[Police testified that Guzman's
pants had not been lowered, andthere was no indication
he wasengaging in sex, or attempting toengage in sex.)
Even so, Robles and his lawyers
stuck to their homosexual
panic
defense, maintaining he attacked thetwo other men out of pure self-defense.
But the jury did not believe him.
The New York County District
Attorney's Office said Robles will besentenced on September 21 by Justice
Alpert. He faces a maximum sentenceof 25 years to life for second degree
murder, up to 25 years for second
degree attempted murder, and 15
years for first degree assault.
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San Fran Musician
Still Missing
OutWeek Article Spurs Search in Thailand
by Keith Clark
confirmed that George had enteredOAKLAND-While fellow musicians .Thailand on May 8, but that his passand friends of missing violist David
port had not been used to leave theGeorge were playing at the Calvin Sim- country and that the U.S. Consulate ofmons Theater here in early August to Songkhla, south of Ko Samui, had conraise money to hire private investiga- tacted local authorities without luck intors in the continuing search for him, attempting to find George.
Representative Nancy Pelosi (D-SF) andAmbassador O'Donohue also told
her staff were playing at the keys of Pelosi the embassy would take out ads
the federal telex system to get theu.s. ambassador in Bangkok tosing about what the Embassy there
was doing to help locate theprominent Bay Area musician.
George, who was principal
violist with the newly-formed Oakland East Bay Symphony andplayed with the San Francisco
Opera and the San Francisco String
Quartet, was last heard from by hislover Bill Bombria in mid-May. At
the time, George was visiting theThai resort town of Ko Samui on
the Malay peninsula. When hefailed to return on a scheduled
return flight from his around-theworld tour, Bombria reported him
missing to local police andcontacted the State Department inWashington, D.C.
ONE NIGHT IN BANGKOK
Pelosi on the Case
Rep. Nancy Pelosi
When Pelosi's office heard
through OutWeek magazine that Bomin papers in Bangkok and Songkhla
bria had been given the "cold shoulwith photographs of the missing mander" at the State Department, she andin the hope that someone would recall
her staff wired directly to U.S. Ambas- seeing him. In addition, the ambassador Daniel A. O'Donohue throughsador said embassy and consular offithe federal telex system, inquiringcials would also distribute fliers with
about what the embassy was doing to George's photo and description toassist in locating the missing man.
local tourist police. To date, however,In early August Pelosi's staff
the ambassador said no leads to thereported the return wire they had
missing man had been developed.
received from Ambassador O'Donohue

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Family Responds
While it wasn't the most encouraging news David George's family
and friends could have hoped to hear,at least it was an improvement overthe initial response both Bombria,
George's lover of 11 years, and family
members said they received from theState Department. In an interview inJuly, Bombria said he was "hurt andangered" at the State Department's
treatment of his request for help in
locating his missing lover. "I don't
want to deal with a bunch of clerks
who are just going to file things," hesaid at the time.
Partly because of Rep. Pelosi's
interest in the case and the ambassador's reply, Bombria now feels thatsomeone is taking a serious interest in
locating his lover. "Other than the firstproblem with the State Department," Bombria said, "everyone
has been helpful. The Oakland
police have been wonderfulthroughout
this. But I reallywouldn't have known what to do if
Rep. Pelosi hadn't heard aboutDavid through
OutWeek andhelpedwith the embassyin
Bangkok."Fund EstablishedBombria also said a fund has
been set up through the local American Federation of Musicians in San
Francisco to help raise money to
pay for the private investigation firmin Thailand that will also be searching for his missing lover.
"It was a small group of people [attending the concerts]," said
violinist Carol Schwamberger of
the San Francisco Quartet, "butthey were very enthusiastic."
According to Schwamberger, a$S,OOOreward for information about
George has already been offered. In
addition, the money their concerts
have raised will go to hire Don
Grove, a private detective with offices
in Hong Kong and Bangkok. Grove
was one of a dozen or so private
investigators hired in the family's private search for kidnapped
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-Out Takes
ACT UP/NY

nixes Dledia
ban
NEW YORK - At its regularMonday night meeting on August 14,
ACT UP!New York narrowly defeateda proposal that would have allowed
the membership to vote to ban thepress from meetings.
The proposal, in the form of anamendment
to ACT UP's working
document, which functions as thegroup's constitution, included a special provision for "members of thepress who are also members of ACT
UP," who would have been allowed
to attend such meetings, but not toreport on them.
The proposal was a direct reaction to monitoring of Coordinating
Committee meetings by New York
Native reporters, according to ACT UP
Treasurer Dan Baker, who presented
the idea to the floor. Many at themeeting saw the proposal as a way toshake off the attentions of the Native,
whose editor, John Hammond, hasrecently begun attending, voting at,
and writing about ACT UP meetings.
The Native has subjected ACT
UP's finances and financial decisions
to unusually close scrutiny in recent
weeks. Some ACT UP members maintain that the Native's interest in thegroup's finances date from ACT UP's
call for a boycott of the ten-year-old
gay newspaper. Others have accused
the paper of making veiled allegationsof financial wrong-doing and embezzlement in the guise of expressing
concern for the group.
In the past, general meetings
have voted to allow or disallow camera crews and photographers to tapeor take pictures on a case by casebasis. Sources report that committee
meetings have in the past asked print
reporters to leave the room, including
journalists from The Village Voice andNewsweek. It remains unclear whether
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press.
Baker was disappointed with thefloor's decision. "It doesn't change
anything. We're back in the vague
area we were before." He added, "It
could potentially inhibit free conversation in the Coordinating Committee." Citing recent Native coverage, hesaid, "Our democracy and our openness have been used against us."Among those who spoke against
the proposal were several Out Week
reporters who regularly attend meetings, but do not usually write about
ACT UP for the magaZine because of
their involvement with the group.
-

Andrew Miller

JEFFREY GOULD
Photo: Patsy Lynch.

He ain't hm.vy,
be's Dly (big)brother
WASHINGTON - Jeffrey Gould
won the first round in his sexual orientation discrimination case against
Big Brothers of the National Capitol
Area, a Washington, D.C.-based agency that matches adult volunteers withboys in need of role models. On
August 7, the D.C. Office of Human
Rights ruled that Big Brothers is notexempt from the local Human Rights
Act, which bars discrimination on anumber of grounds, including sexual
orientation.
Big Brothers was charged withdiscrimination after it refused to allow
Gould, a 28-year-old health educator
for the American College Health AssoCiation, to become a "big brother"solely because he is gay. The counsel
for Big Brothers' assertion that, as a
non-profit volunteer organization it
was not bound by the human rights
law, was rejected by the Office of
Human Rights.
The publicity surrounding thecase led two D.C.-area

women

to

contact Gould independently and ask
him to be their sons' "big brother."

Gould, who holds a brown belt inkarate and is currently training for the
Gay Games, said that he and one of
the women are discussing working
together with her six-year-old sonoutside of the Big Brother program.
"Big Brothers does not haveenough volunteers.
There's a six
month waiting list for boys who need
big brothers. Yet they're rejecting volunteers out of hand, unjustifiably. My
wanting to be a big brother has nothing to do with my being gay," Gould
said.
In an exclusive interview with
Out Week, the woman who contacted
Gould, who wanted only to be identified as Liz, said that she read about
Gould's case in the Washington Post
the day after she herself was rejectedby Big Brothers because her son was
not yet old enough to qualify for the
program. According to Liz, she had
been similarly put off the year before,
only to have Big Brothers raise theage limit again the follOWing year.
"He got shafted by Big Brothers andwe got shafted by Big Brothers, so I
thought maybe we could work something out," she said.
Liz, a Washington secretary, said
that Gould's being gay was not an
issue for her. "My son's father, who isa heterosexual, doesn't give a shit
about him," she said. "My son needs a
man in his life that can give him sup-

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port, and Jeff really cares about children. I think gay men are nicer thanheterosexual men in a lot of ways,
and I think they make good rolemodels," she added.
Currently, attorneys with Lambda
Legal Defense and Education Fund,
who are representing
Gould, arepreparing for the "fact-finding" stageof the case, in which Gould must
prove discrimination based on sexual
orientation.
- Andrew Miller

AIDS =

handicap?
VENTURA, CALIFORNIA- Overfour years aft~r John Chadbourne
died from AIDS-related complications,the 2nd District Court of Appeals in
California ruled unanimouslythat
Chadbourne, and other people with
AIDS, are protected under state lawsthat prohibit employment discrimination against the handicapped.
In the August 7 ruling, Associate
Justice Richard Abbe wrote that it is"unlawful for an employer to bar ordischarge a person from employment
or discriminate against a person interms, conditions or privileges of
employment because of a person's
physical handicap or medical condition. "The case, Raytheon us. Fair
Employment and Housing Commission, began in 1983, when Chadbourne was diagnosed, after which
his employer, Raytheon Electromagnetic Systems Division, a defense contractor and computer and electronics
company, placed him on medical
leave. The company then barred himfrom returning to work, despite his
doctor's statement that he was physically able and that he posed no healthrisk to others.
Chadbourne
filed a complaint
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On February 10, 1987, the FEHC ruled
unanimously in favor of Chadbourne,
and ordered the company to pay
back wages plus interest to his estate.
Raytheon appealed the ruling to
the Santa Barbara, California Superior
Court and lost. It then took the appeal
to the Court of Appeal, which also
ruled in Chadbourne's
favor. It is
unknown if Raytheon plans to appeal
this ruling to the State Supreme Court.
The decision comes at a time
when the Senate is considering federal anti-discrimination
legislation,sponsored by Sen. Edward Kennedy
CD-Mass.), that would protect people
with disabilities, including people
with AIDS.
- Sandy Dwyer

B'KLYN D.A. EUZABETH HOLTZMAN
As a Congresswomanfrom New York,
she was one of the original sponsorsof federal anti-discrimination legislation for lesbians and gay men. As
Brooklyn D.A., she has been a vocal
supporter of the state anti-bias legislation which was introduced unsuccessfully last spring. - Andrew MiUer

Liz wins
les/gayclubs
NEW YORK - Brooklyn District
Attorney
Elizabeth
Holtzmanannounced on August 9th that her
campaign for City Comptroller had
been endorsed by all three of New
York City's lesbian and gay Democratic clubs. Holtzman is the only candidate for city-wide office to receive theendorsements of the three organizations, whose combined membership
totals over 1,000.
The clubs, Gay and Lesbian Independent
Democrats
andThe
Stonewall Democratic Club, both ofManhattan, and Lambda Independent
Democrats of Brooklyn, don't often
come to consensus on the politicallysensitive subject of endorsements. For
example, Lambda and GUD haveendorsed Manhattan Borough President David Dinkins for Mayor, while
Stonewall is backing Koch. The city's
fourth club, Bronx Gay and Lesbian
Independent
Democrats, is largely
inactive.
Holtzman is a long-time supporter of the lesbian and gay community.

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August 28, 1989

Hetero oral
sex lockup
challenged
ATLANTA - Georgia attorneys
are challenging the conviction andimprisonment of James Moseley, anAtlanta-area man convicted of having
private, consensual oral sex with hiswife. Under the state's sodomy laws,
which were upheld by the UnitedStates Supreme Court in 1986 in thecelebrated Bowers us. Hardwick case,anything other than sex in the "missionary position," even between consenting heterosexual adults in private,
is considered sodomy. A petition to
overturn the man's five-year conviction was filed in DeKalb County
Superior Court on July 28.
The petition argues that the conviction under the 156-year-old law
violates Mosely's right to privacy, andthat the law is vague and ovcrly
broad. A similar argument was unsuccessful in persuading a majority ofHigh Court Justices to ovcrturn theconviction of Michael Hardwick, who
was convicted under the same law for
having sex with another man in his
own home. But Georgia Attorncy
General Michael Bowers, who successfully argued to upholdthesodomy law, has conceded that "thelaw would have serious constitutional
problems were it applied to a married
couple."According to the National Lesbian and Gay Task Force, which has
ta'ken an interest in the new case,
Moseley was accused by his wife ofrape and aggravated oral and anal
sodomy during their divorce trial. On
May 12, 1988, a jury found him innocent on all counts of coerced sex, butconvicted him of sodomy, based on
his testimony that he had engaged inconsensual oral sex with his wife.
Clayton County Superior Court
Judge William Ison sentenced Moseley to five years in jail. Moseley, who
is eligible for parole after two years,
has served 17 months.
Georgia gay and lesbian activists
are using the opportunity to developa legislative repeal strategy that would
strike the law from the books.
According to Kathy Woolard, president of the Lesbian and Gay Rights
Chapter of the Georgia American Civil
Liberties Union, the time is opportune
because the Chapter received a $15
thousand bequest last year specificallyearmarked for efforts to repeal theGeorgia sodomy law, and because
publicity from the Moseley case has
actually generated a great deal of conservative opposition to the statute.
"For the conservative community,
the issue is the sanctity of the marriage. They're outraged that the state
would interfere with that," Woolard
told Out Week. "They don't extend thatsame outrage to same-sex couples,but that won't matter in terms of getting the law repealed."- Andrew MiUerOut Takes

PublicseK?
No conunent.
CHICAGO - Several leaders in
the lesbian and gay community here
are refusing to comment publicly on a
July 12 police raid at the Manhandler,a gay bar on Halstead Street. Twelve
people were arrested in the raid on
the bar's back patio for "public indecency."
Accordingto
Manhandler
employees and city officials, the raid
was staged after a disgruntled former
employee told police that men were
haVing sex on the patio. Police officials maintain they ordinarily only
conduct such raids when complaints
are received.

IGLTF's 11M DRAKE
The unwillingness of gay leaders
to talk about the incident came tolight as reporters solicited comments
for their articles. Several community
spokespersons expressed irritation at
being asked for their reaction to theraid. Others insisted that it was "not anews story."
When invited to speak anonymously, however, the same people
acknowledged their fear that defending public sex acts would be bad
pUblic relations for the local movement.
One public figure who brokeranks and spoke on the record was
gay Republican activist and Illinois

Gay & Lesbian Task Force Legislative
Director Tim Drake, who called theincident a "victimless crime," andadded, "We should be enraged, andthe failure of our leaders to be
enraged is even more enraging."
Community leaders saw it otherwise, however, with most insistingthat the raid was not an expression ofpolice homophobia. Several speculated that if police received a complaint
about public sex at a heterosexual
bar, that it would be raided also. •- Rex Wodener

CondoDlS
yes, Dlint
no
MARTINEZ, CALIFORNIA
Health officials have been forced toreturn a $68 box of mint-flavoredcondoms in this Contra Costa County
town thirty miles northeast of San
Francisco, after a county supervisor
objected that their distribution
atcounty clinics gave the impressionthat the local government
was
encouraging oral sex.
County Director of Communicable Diseases Francie Wise originallyordered the minty condoms hopingthat the uncommon flavor "would getmore people using them, thereby cutting down people's exposure to sexually transmitted disease," she said. "I
think it's a valid idea."
But County Supervisor Robert
Schroder disagreed, stating that it is"entirely inappropriate
for county
health clinics to II' distribute . materials
that put the county in a position of
appearing to encourage oral sex."
Even Supervisor Tom Powers,
who supports the health department's
mint condom give-away, concededthat the program was badly timed.
"Since rei igious fundamentalists arecampaigning hard to defeat the county's anti-AIDS laws," Powers said, "thisprobably wasn't the best time in theworld to begin a health project that's
even slightly controversial."
An AIDS anti-discrimination law
recently passed in the Contra Costa
County city of Concord is currently
the object of a repeal move by fundamentalists, and will come before city
voters in the November election.
Other towns in the county have similarly had AIDS anti-bias laws derailed
or killed following conservative opposition.
In the meantime,
Supervisor
Schroder has called for an official
review policy for any "controversial"purchase of materials for county
agencies.
- Keith Clark

Why,ohwhy,
ohwhyoh ...
COLUMBUS - For the twelfth
consecutive year, gay and lesbianactivists from Columbus,
Ohio'sStonewall Union staffed an information booth at the Ohio State Fair,
which ran for 20 days in August. The
booth, located in the Fair's main
exhibit hall, featured a large fist
superimposed over a pink triangle,
and a state map with colored pins
marking the hometowns of gay men
and lesbians who visited the exhibit.
As in the past, the booth attracted miminal opposition, and prOVided
contact with an openly gay or lesbianperson for scores of isolated rural lesbians and gay men, according to Fair
officials and Stonewall activists.
"To my knowledge, we've neveractually had an official complaint to
the Fair office," said Jennifer Long, aspokesperson for the State Fair.
Stonewall organizer Russ Stalksaid activists are approached "about
twice a day" by fundamentalist Christians "who want to talk about the
Bible." But only once, said Stonewall
office manager Mike Dittmer, has a

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group of preachers arrived to "save"booth staffers. Fair security escorted
the ministers away "without our evenhaving to ask," Dittmer said.
- Rex Wockner

Stick 'em. up,
get 'em. up,
lock 'em. up
LOS ANGELES - Prompted bywhat ACT UP!LA activists characterizedas "months of ongoing and continuingharassment" of the group and its members by the Los Angeles County Sheriff's
Department, attorneys for the American
Civil Liberties Union accused theDepartment of harassment, surveillance,
intimidation and in one instance conducting a search without consent or awarrant
According to Jon Davidson, an
ACLU attorney working on the case,
ACT UP!LA demonstrations and press
conferences have been surreptitiously
monitored and photographed, a member's parked car searched without permission or a search warrant, and in one
case an ACT UP!LA member was "followed by eight undercover [police)cars."
Sheriff Sherman Block was notavailable for comment on the ACLU
accusations, but a spokesperson for thesheriffs office said the Department had
recently completed an investigation of
three ACT UP!LA members who havebeen charged with misdemeanors
resulting from the graffiti spraying ofcounty buildings, including the April 21
splattering of red paint on the steps of
the County Health Department headquarters, just prior to an ACT UP
demonstration there.
Davidson called the charges
groundless and "further evidence of an
attempt by the county to suppress
speech critical of its inaction in the faceof the AIDS crisis." In a seven-page letter to Block, Davidson wrote, "Regard-

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less of whether or not a few individuals
who happen to be members of ACT
UP!LA participated in painting graffiti
on county buildings, there was andcontinues to be no ground to investigate other ACT UP!LA members, or toharass the organization."
The ACLU has not yet received
any response from the sheriffs office,according to a spokesperson for theorganization.
- Keith Oark

An AIDS

Commission
at lastWASHINGTON - Nearly eightmonths after its members were supposed to have met, the National Commission on AIDS held its first meeting
here August 3, pledging to provide a"leadership consensus" on AIDS.
ptq~

BEUNDA MASON
Photo: Patsy Lynch
The creation of the 15-member
panel, made up of appointees from the
Senate, House of Representatives andthe White House, was mandated by theFederal AIDS Omnibus Bill, passed by
Congress in October of 1989. The
objective of the panel is to implement
the 500-page report of the Presidential
Commission on the HIV Epidemic,

which was commissioned, and then leftlargely unaddressed, by the Reagan
administration.
At the meeting, panelists chose Dr.
June Osborn, dean of the School of
Public Health at the University of Michigan, and Dr. David Rogers, a professor
at Cornell Medical College in New York
City, as the committee's chair and vicechair.
Also on the commission is Larry
Kessler, founder of the Boston AIDS
Action Committee and the panel's only
openly gay member, and Belinda
Mason, president of the National association of People With AIDS, who said
that her role on the commission would
be to address the needs of people
affected by the disease.
'''There is kind of a spirit of compassion on the commission that isgoing to' be real potent if we can justmobilize it. And I think it'll work,"
Mason told OutWrek-

04[fO'NeiJl...Andjustice for all...
WASHINGTON - The Senate
Labor and Human Resources Committee granted approval August 2 to alandmark bill banning discrimination on
the basis of disabilities, including AIDS
and HIV infection, and sent it on to the
Senate floor by a unanimous 16-0 vote.
Backers are predicting passage into law
by this winter.
The Americans With Disabilities
Act would extend the anti-discrimination protections of the Civil Rights Act
of 1964 in areas such as employment,. public accommodation, travel and communications to people with disabilities.
Currently, such discrimination is
only prohibited in areas of housing andfederal employment, and elsewhere
under a handful of state and local laws.
"We are taking an enormous step
forward in the nation's battle to conSe. OUT TAKES on page 61

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The Minority AIDS Battle
by Cliff O'Neill
WASHINGTON-The problem is theever-expanding epidemic of AIDS and
how it is increasingly a disease of thepoor and socially disenfranchised.
The solutions are not readily apparent. But more than 1,000 health care
workers, policy makers, educators
and AIDS activists recently gatheredin Washington to try to find them.
Attending the U.S. Public HealthService's Minority AIDS Conference
August 14 through 18, a broad crosssection of people from across thecountry examined a host of policy,
advocacy, prevention and health careissues to address the effects of AIDS
on the nation's Black, Hispanic, Filipino, Asian, Pacific Islander andNative American populations.
•Although Blacks and Hispanics

make up only 19 percent of the u.s.
population,"stated Dr. James O.
Mason, Assistant Secretary for Healthand Acting Surgeon General in a prepared statement, -they constitute 41
percent of the reported, cumulative
AIDS cases and 75 percent of children
with AIDS.... We must recognize therole that ignorance, fear and prejudiceplay in increasing the suffering of thosewith the disease. We must encourage
all Americans to become more knowledgeable about AIDS, join the crusadeagainst the spread of the disease, andhelp people living with AIDS.•

Situations and Solution,
To overcome
the seemingly
insurmountable barriers in addressing
the disease as it continues to disproportionately exact its deadly toll on

racial and ethnic minorities, conference goers agreed that networks
already put in place by the largely
white, gay and middle-class popula-

NEWS FOCUS
tions first hit by AIDS need to beretargeted to meet the needs of thedise3.se's new targets.
How to do that, however, wasanother question, with various factions only agreeing that different situations require different solutions.
How to do that, however, wasanother question, with various factions only agreeing that different situations require different solutions.
Monica Guevarra of the Districtof Columbia Office of Latino Affairs '.--The Women's Caucus of ACTUP/NY and other women', group' took over the podium at the Minority Conference on AIDS'
August 16 session, protesting what they called the inadequate Ittention paid to women', issue, It the conference. The
demonstrators were booed by ,orne of the other conference-goers,-Andr.w Mill.r .nd P.tt;y Lynch
Photo:.Patsy Lynch
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August 28, 1989

COLA)told a conference workshop of
the moderate success of her agency's
efforts to meet the needs of the area's
Hispanic population.
By bringing together existing Hispanic groups--which, she said, havenot dealt thoroughlywith AIDS
issues-andexisting AIDS service
groups, aLA has sought to identify
target groups for education, create a
supportnetworkfor Hispanics,
review AIDS education materials to
see that they are culturally sensitiveand implement changes in the existing system.
Those efforts have not always
been successful, however. Of an initial 15 groups attending joint meetings, only
eight
continue
toparticipate, with leadership turnoverin the participating organizations further hampering networking attempts.

Trust Elusive
The key in expanding
these
existing networks to meet the challenge of AIDS in minorities is trust, allagreed. And with most minorities
looking upbn existing AIDS service
organizations as white, middle class
gay structures, trust is a commodity
not easily come by.
Homophobia among the minority
populations, a general distrust of government among disenfranchised populations, and what Guevarra called
the "ownership syndromes· among
existing community-based organizations further erode that trust andmake the job of meeting the challenge that much harder.
Gay Men of Color"After a while, many communitybased organizations begin to thinkthey know it all," stated Guevarra.
"That sentiment needs to be overcome."
To help garner trust, D.C.'s Whitman Walker Clinic, an organization
addressing the, health care needs ofthe area's lesbian and gay population
since 1973, has expanded its ownbase to treat
D.C.'s
Hispanic
population by adding several bilingual staff members and volunteers tospecifically target the needs of area
Hispanics.
And since in D.C., as in manyother urban areas, the overwhelming
number of AIDS cases among racialand ethnic minorities occur in ga}
and bisexual men of color, much of
Whitman Walker's Hispanic outreachis to reach minority men who havesex with other men, as their cultural,background differs widely from thatof the white middle class gay men initially targeted by AIDS education
efforts.
The denial of the fact that there
are gay and bisexual minority men
and that minorities can get the disease
compounds the problem, according to
Jim Graham, Whitman Walker administrator. "There is a very strong senseof denial,· said Graham. "For a community that is dealing ·with so muchoppression, adding this problem tothat list is very difficult.
Alejandro Arias, Whitman Walker's Latino affairs coordinator, statedthat for a Hispanic gay male, problems
in getting adequate education andhealth care are compounded, as these
men are often met with homophobia
from Hispanic groups and institutional
racism and cultural naivete from gay
AIDS groups. Factor in the general
fear of institutions on the part ofrecent immigrants from Third World
nations, the fact that many Hispanics
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A Shifting Focus
To help solve the many problems, Arias stated that in coming
years, existing originations may findthemselves haVing to change theirfocus entirely. "Eventually the [community-based AIDS organizations] willbe less and less for the community
they started dealing with," Arias stated.
In other places, however, what isoften necessary is the creation ofcompletely new and separate groups
targeting specific populations. And inorder to receive funding for suchgroups, innovative measures may
often be necessary.
Noting that AIDS Atlanta, thecity's main AIDS service organization,
was not meeting the needs of thestate's large Black population and was
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YOU'VE COME A LONG WAY, BABY
Openly gay city council candidate TomDuane with a little constituant
NEW YORK - "In 1990, I'm gonna be your new City Council
Member!" gay candidate Tom Duane told a group of supporters
during an open house Tuesday at his Chelsea campaign headquarters on Seventh Avenue. With just four weeks to go in thegreuling primary race against 20-year incumbent and Koch-ally
Carol Greitzer, some 300 people dropped by the office to wish
Tom well- and to hear his call to arms.
"This is a party to rally the troops, to pep them up," campaign manager Lisa Parrish told au/Week, adding that 300 Duanefoot soldiers will take to the streets on Primary Day, blanketingthe district which includes Chelsea, Greenwich Village and Murray Hill.
Duane said he would begin his first mailing this week, andadded that 70 to 80 percent of the large buildings in his district
will be "stuffed" with literature on Septmeber 11, the night before
the primary. He also announced that he received a second,$1,000 check from FAIRPAC,New York State's lesbian and gay
political action committee.
Neither camp has released polling data to the press, but
most obeservers believe Duane faces a tough, but certainly not
impossible fight.
- David Kirby
To volunteer with the Duane campaign, call (212) 727-8150.
And don't forget Dave Taylor, gay Council candidate on theUpperWestSide. To help, call (212) 721-0064.
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Photos this page: Gerri Wells

Sandor Katz

Commentary

Balancing the Budget With BloodT

he gulf is widening between
Governor Mario Cuomo's
sweet rhetoric on AIDS andNew York State's deadly policies andbackwards budget priorities.
The
state is revising medicaid regulations
to limit care outside of hospital stays, including accessto physicians and clinics,
laboratory procedures, andprescriptions.
This action
threatens to cut off people
living with AIDS and HIV-infected individuals from thecare which can help themsurvive. It goes against the
medical consensus that earlyintervention is the most effective treatment for HIV disease.
Specifically, the regulations limit medicaid coverage to 14 outpatient visits
per year to physicians
and/or clinics. "The limits are ridiculous, especially in terms of AIDS or
any other chronic illness," observes
Anne Milano-Tedeschi, a benefits andentitlements
advocate
at theCommunity Health Project CCHP).
Gay Men's Health Crisis CGMHC)estimates that "a minimum of twelve visits per year to a physician is necessary to monitor the progression of
HIV illness." Twice that number are
involved for anyone receiving aerosol
pentamidine Ca preventative therapy
for treatment against pneumocystis
pneumonia, the number-one killer ofpeople with AIDS), and many more
to see speCialists for other opportunistic infections which occur.
The medicaid revision also curtails
laboratory procedures to a maximumof 18, and prescriptions to a maximumof 60. "Do they know how muchblood work it takes to monitor someone with AIDS?" Milano asks. "Do
they know people leave here with as
many as seven prescriptions at a time?"
The unfortunate reality is that AIDS is
a complex condition, and people withAIDS CPWAs)frequently face a multitude of opportunistic infections simultaneously. In order to have a fighting
cQance, they must be able to see doctors, monitor their blood, and try drugs
which might help.
ACT UP's Treatment and Data
Committee is opposing the revisions.
In a recent statement, it wrote, "Thenew rule's message - that people
with AIDS don't need to see a doctor
or nurse more than once every three
weeks - ignores the facts of AIDS
and will have disasterous effects."
GMHC's Robert Peterson prediCts
that the action will force PWAs on
medicaid to use hospital emergency
rooms, which is crisis-oriented care
.under crisis conditions.
"It directly
contradicts.
[State Health Commissioner David] Axelrod's stress onearly intervention. These thresholds

will act as a barrier to treatment."
The state regulations contain provisions for applying for exemption
from the limits. But ACT UP's David
Z. Kirschenbaum sees this as anotherbureaucratic nightmare: "If the exemptions are granted on acase-by-case basis, insteadof across-the-board,people are going to be lost to
the system." The Community Health Project'sMilano-Tedeschi, who advocates for medicaid recipients on a daily basis,
agrees. "Forget it. It's a bureaucratic mess. Things
can sit there for months
and months."
These new restrictions are not the first medicaid impediments to healthcare. There is already a restriction that medicaid will
not cover two separate visits in thesame day. This is an insurmountableproblem for intravenous drug users(IVDUs) in methadone treatment,
who get methadone treatment every
day and still cannot get medical treatment on the same day. According to
Kirschenbaum, "they are completely
cut off from medical treatment," despite the fact that 60-80 percent of
IVDUs are HIV-infected."
People live or die on the basis ofthese obscure regulatory details.
The state bureaucrats argue thatthey have budgetary constraints andmust establish limits. What they always
leave out of the equation is that nottreating people with early interventions
as outpatients is not only inhumane,but will also ultimately lead to their
hospitalization at $800-$900 per day.
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Political Scienceby Mark Harrington"Just give me people who willfight for my life, and fight for drug
treatments, to give me a drug tohelp me live longer. I'll take careof the rest of the support.'-Terry Sutton
San Francisco-On
January 31,
during the morning rush hour here,
Saabs and Volvos clogged the Golden
Gate Bridge amidst the morning fog.
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reatment ReadingFor readers seeking more indepth information on alternative and holistic AIDS treatments than this column can offer, I
want to recommend some of the best
publications. Most are available at
Oscar
Wilde
Book
Shop
(15
Christopher Street, New York, NY
10014) and A Different Light C548
Hudson Street, New York, NY 1(014).
Read in good health! I welcome yourcomments/criticisms on these books.
Tom O'Connor
and Ahmed
Gonzales-Nunez, Living with AIDS:
Reaching Ou~ Corwin Publishers, San
Francisco, 1987, $19.95. Detailed,practical guide by two gay men, onewith ARC, on how to understand yourimmune system and how to choose
both specific treatments and generallife changes. Covers diet/nutrition, alternative medical systems, stress, substance abuse and much more.

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Raymond Keith Brown, M.D.,
AIDS, Cancer and the Medical
Establishment, Robert Speller CpubIisher), New York City, 1986, $16.95.
Lively survey of alternative AIDS treatments, including acupuncture, vitamins, nutrition and several other approaches.
Presents
analysesof
co-factors to HIV and the suppressionof alternative treatments by the medical establishment and Food and Drug
Administration. Most of the treatment
information is still relevant.
Lark Lands, Positively Well: AIDS
as a Chronic, Manageable,
NONFATAL Disease [(717) 794-5275 forprice on updated edition], 1989.
Subtitled "a practical gUide to nutrition, supplementation,
alternative
drugs, energy therapies, psychoimmunity and hope." Written by a nutritionist-psychologist treating PWAs, this isa treasure trove of up-to-the-minute
reports on a wide range of drug andnondrug treatments. An eclectic approach, with optimism well-based on
both her own and others' clinical ex-perience.
Harris L. Coulter, AIDS and
Syphilis: The Hidden Link, North
Atlantic Books, Berkeley, 1987, $8.95.
This medical historian explains why
AIDS may be produced by the body's
overall immune-suppressedstatecaused by other factors than HIV
alone. He carefully lays out the evidence through historical statistics,
AIDS studies, and symptom parallels
that much of AIDS may be masked
late-stage
syphil is, worsenedbyoverused antibiotics. Preliminary results of AIDS treatment with aqueous
penicillin are described. There is also
analysis of the medical establishment's vested interests in reSisting acknowledgmentof an AIDS-syphilis
connection.
HEAL CHealth Education AIDS
Liaison), An AIDS Information Packet
on Alternative & Holistic Therapies,
1989, $7.50 suggested donation Cpostpaid), from HEAL, Box 1103, New
York, NY 10113, (212) 674-HOPE. A
100-page packet of photocopied arti-

c1es on alternative theories of AIDS
causes and practical treatments, including a resource list of New York
practitioners and support groups.
The Alternativeand Holistic
Subcommitteeof ACT UP CAIDS .
Coalition to Unleash Power) in New
York, of which I am co-chair, is now
compiling a practical handbook to alternative treatments for people with
AIDS, ARC and HIV. We welcome volunteer help and specific information:
Call (212) 989-1114.
...

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office hours by appointment

KATZcontinued 'rom page Z9

No money will be saved by cutting
people off from outpatient services.
Unless, of course, people justdie. Policy like this reflects the cynical attitude that people with AIDS will
die sooner or later, so why not escaperesponsibility to whatever degree possible in order to save money. This isbalancing the budget with blood.
I close with some of Mario
Cuomo's soothing words: "The battle
against this virus and this disease will
require that we rely on our best instincts as a people and on our best talent. If we do that, then some day when AIDS is finally a tragic chapter inthe medical history books, when this.virus has been controlled and this disease conquered, when its terrible aftermath has subsided - we will be able
to look back without feeling shame at
how we acted, without regret at nothaving acted more forcefully."
I'm sure those words will be ofgreat comfort to the thousands of
New Yorkers with AIDS who will bedenied medical care because of thestate's new medicaid limits.
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closest friends. Like Robert Mapplethrope's Cand more deliberately),
Terry's fighting spirit has energized an
ongoing struggle. If the Parallel Trackprogram ever becomes reality, some of
the credit will be due to Terry. ...

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Nine years Into the Epidemic and Safer Sex
Still Doesn't Cut It On Many Sets in the Porn Industry
So there you are: It's a weeknight, you don't have a date, and you justhappen to be standing in the same-sex section of your local video store.
You're feeling experimental, or maybe you've read about one of the selections
on the "new releases" board. You pick up a couple, go home, and settle down
for a nice evening of fantasy.
But then you notice something different. The new film you rented - theone with the 1989 copyright date - has a new word on the soundtrack: condom. And the guy who's so energetically fucking away up there is actuallywearing one. And just before the first actual sex scene, he and his partner
pause just long enough to dab a little lube on the tip of his cock and roll it on.
In a sexy but educational way, of course.
Is this a fantasy, too? Almost certainly, yes. Nine years into the AIDSepidemic, safer sex has arrived in some gay male porn. Sort of. But despite thedeaths of noted porn stars Casey Donovan, J.R. King, and Eric Stryker,among
others, there's not a condom in sight in most of today's videos. Still, producers
and directors insist they are protecting the health and safety of their actors.
It all depends, you see, on how you define "safer sex." Is the use of alubricant which contains nonoxynol-9 Caspermicide which is also believed tokill HIV) enough to protect against HIV transmission during anal sex, if used in
sufficient concentrations, without using a condom! Bill Clayton, president of
Falcon Studios in San Francisco, thinks so.
"Our policy is based on information from the Mariposa Foundation,· hesays, "which told us that if you use nonoxynol-9 in concentrations of 5.3 percent or above, it has the same success rat~90 per cent-at preventing transmission of the virus as condoms."
But almost every safer sex guideline emphasizes above all else the use of
condoms, in combination with spermicidal lubrication. So where are the condoms in gay porn?
"A lot of people give it a lot of lip service,· claims producer Scott Masters,
who works for Catalina and other houses. "And lots of them started out withgood intentions. But it adds a few thousand dollars in extra time and effort tothe cost of making a movie, it reduces the erotic impact of the ftlm, and theactors don't get into it as much."
So, although Masters says he now insists on condoms in all the films hemakes, many producers and directors leave it up to the actors. This is the"consenting adult" theory: I'll make condoms available, but I can't regulate
whether two actors decide not to use them if they both agree not to.
Numerous interviews with actors Cor"models," as many of them prefer tobe called), directors, producers, and agents, plus selective viewing of recent
releases, indicate that virtually every major producer now at least provides condoms - the extra strength variety - on the set, along with spermicide, lubricant with nonoxynol-9, and baby oil Cforvisual effect only, not for safer sex
practices). One producer says he budgets $50 a ftlm for these items (out of a
total budget of about $10 thousand).
So condoms may be on the set. But whether using them is required,encouraged, or discouraged seems to depend on the producer and director
involved. No producer practices the full spectrum of safer sex guidelines.
Some encourage that condoms be used for anal sex, but others don't, and inmany cases, actors feel they can't insist: They think condoms may reduce theimpact of the scene, or that they, themselves, may be viewed as uncooperativeand not used again.

II/ wouldn't wantpeople to thinkthat the industry isdisregarding safe
sex. There are two
choices: leave it
up to the actors, orforce them. We
haven't taken that
second route. "-Matt Sterling,
Huge Video

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But, a few of the established production houses do now
require actors to wear condoms as well as using nonoxynol-9
spermicide lubricants when fucking. The best-known is probably
Catalina; Vivid Video was also mentioned by several sources.
Cum shots, of course, are done without rubbers, outside thebody. That's what the viewer pays for, after all.
Oral sex is more problematic. It's in every film, but condoms aren't used, as is recommended in most guidelines. This isa tricky question these days: many articles have been written,
and many heated discussions held, on whether condoms arereally needed during oral sex. The general consensus seems tobe that the danger of HIV transmission is much greater during
anal sex than oral sex. But the jury's still out.
In the porn industry, though, no one errs on the side of caution. Several producers said they had talked to doctors who told
them oral sex wasn't really dangerous. One claims, "from what
I've heard, pre-cum doesn't carry the virus.' Of all the producers
interviewed, only San Francisco's legendary AI Parker makes any
attempt to regulate it. "Wealways filin it at the start,• he states. "If
I see an actor start to lube up [pre-cum], then I end it·
The actors themselves don't seem to believe oral sex is aproblem, although many say they don't allow anyone to cum intheir mouths - which, during filming of a video, never happens
anyway. (In the end, the entire cast and crew is there to get aselection of shots that must include cum scenes, or "wet shots,'"There was one scene where a guy pulled out of one guy andwent to go into another. and I asked if they weren't going tochange the rubber. And the producer said, 'Why?' so I had to
explain that there might be a little blood or something on theoutside. That was very recently:-Kevin Glover,modelas they're known.)
Unprotected rimming also occurs frequently, depending on
which company produces the film. "It's not something we dovery often,' offers Catalina producer Masters. He sounded slightly indignant: "It may have happened once or twice in the last
five years, but it's not something where we would use Saran
Wrap or a latex barrier.' Yet in other companies' films it's far
more common. Some argue that rimming isn't a candidate forsafer sex practices, because transmission of HIV Cthe virus
believed to cause AIDS) via rimming is considered Unlikely.
Rather, most medical experts agree, the practice is dangerous forother health reasons: it can transmit other diseases and viruses
which can depress the immune system.
It wasn't until a couple of years ago that safer sex entered
gay porn in any form at all. In late 1986, AI Parker's Surge Studios made Turbo Charged, the very first safer sex gay male
video. But Parker, who lost a lover to AIDS, has lightened up alittle on the practices in his films since then. "In that one,· hesays, "we did everything safe. We used condoms for oral sex,
anything at all we could do."The rest of the industry was slower to catch on, and they
did so in stages. Scott Masters recalls that by 1987, companies
and producers had started to think about what they should bedoing to protect the health of their models. "For the first few
films,' he remembers, "we just used Concepterol, a spermicide--no condoms. Then, when we got further information, weused the lube before and after, and condoms throughout. And
we've stuck with that pretty rigidly."
Others aren't so conscientious. Matt Sterling of Huge Video
has just finished his fIrStfeature in almost two years, Heat In theNight. "Any company today shares the same concerns,· he states.
"But it's a matter of personal choice. We leave it up to the individual people. We're pleased when those who can use rubbers,

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and are willing and able to perform with one, use one. But
actors are free to do what they want to do.·Pressed further, Sterling admitted that of the 12 actors in
Heal, only two used condoms. "I don't know why,· he ponders,"but the condoms are always breaking. Maybe it's working under
the lights. Of course, we do always insist on using nonoxynol-9."
By and large, models who work for the established studios
say they support the use of condoms. Take, for instance, actor
Butch Taylor. He started making gay porn in April 1988, and by

the time this article is published, he will have made his 30th feature. Of those, he says, he used condoms in all but three.
"In movies now,· he explains, "everyone wants to practicesafer sex. I've had three friends who've died of AIDS this year.
I've probably at least been exposed [to HIV]; most of us probably have. But I just never exchange fluids--either on film or in
my private life. Even in oral sex, I don't swallow. It's too bad,because I think it's hot when it can be done. But it can't, you
Saa FRIGHT on page 80

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•Safer Sex
Porn for
Girls and Boys
Comes of Age
by Jean Carlomusto and Gregg Bordowitz

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The scene is a kitchen. Middleof the night. A guy gets up to get asnack. As he probes the refrigerator, he is joined by his lover who
gives him a rim job through adental dam. One of the guys thenlicks whipped cream off the other'sballs. Finally, one rolls a condom
onto the other's cock, squirts
honey all over it and sucks thehard, candied dick.
In a living room, a uonum is lying
on the couch uxuching television andmasturbating with a vibrator: She Iroks
up to see another UXJman standing
over her holding a towel which she
unfolds fXJ rewa! dental dams, gloves,sex lube and a dildo. One girl goes
down on the other, using a dental
dam. tbe other dons a glove and ~ceeds fXJ jinger-juck herpartner.
This is our job. As the audio/visual department of the Gay Men's Health
Crisis CGMHC),we're charged with thetask of producing safer sex video educational materials for the purpose ofgetting the message out that you canhave hot sex without placing yourself at
risk for AIDS. These videos are to be
instructional. They have to demonstrate
how specific acts, such as anal, vaginal
and oral sex, can be made safer. The
material has to be culturally relevantrendered in ways meaningful to specificaudiences. Lastly, the material has toexist in a form that makes it easy to distribute as Widely as possible. And, withall this to consider, we still have to
make the girls wet and the guys hard.
Not the easiest task. But we're driven.
To start, we had to come to a clear"safer sex" definition.
Safer sex of course is a means ofdisease prevention. But too often discussions of safer sex are reduced todebates soley about various modes of
HIV transmission-debates
which overlook the fact that there are many othersexually-transmitted diseases and virus-

es that may compromise
one's immune system.
Safer sex then is a set ofindividual decisions one
makes about one's sexual
life in view of one's
health concerns.
Andsince pleasure-the ultimate goal-also
contributes
toone's
well-being, the message
has to make clear thatany sexual act can bemade safer; that we cansafely get laid, get it on,
get off and do it!
The safer sex videos
we produce are a series of"shorts," approximately
five minutes each. The
shorts are like music
videos-extremelyslick
images rapidly edited in avariety of ways, on different formats, to resemble
some of the most current
trends in video production. The shorts are nonnarrative in structure, anddialogue is kept to a minimum, as every explicit
scene is guaranteed hot
and explosive.
Each
video
is
designed by a task groupwhich chooses the scene,
the situation and the acts
to be performed.
Eachgroup produces a shortwith a specific community
or audiencein mind.
There is a Black men'stask group, a Latino task
group and a lesbian task
group. In addition, there
are scenarios developed
to represent the many
ways we all get turned
on: anonymous
sexu~
encounters Ctwoboys meet

HONEY BARE
Peter Staley goes down on Blane Mosley in Midnight Snack

Photo: Ellen B. Neipris

I'LL BE DAMMED

Photo: Ellen B. Neipris

Joy Brown does Annie Sprinkle in Current Flow
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Photo: Ellen B. Neipris· CHAIN REACTION

Keith Ardent and Joe Simmons in Law & Orderand fuck safely in a public bathroom);bisexuality Ctwo guys and two girls get
it on safely sharing sex toys as theywork out an infinite number of possibilites);sadomasochism
Cheavybondage and discipline between two
BIG MEN) and drag Ca drag queen
fucks her hairdresser before the big
show. Safely, of course).
The purpose of the shorts is tofunction as advertisements for safer
sex. They can be used in bars. They
can be distributed
to supplement
other porn tapes as trailers. They canbe compiled onto one tape and edited with supplemental information ina video safer sex workshop. Lastly,
they can be presented at safer sex
teach-ins
as the instructors
findappropriate.

*****
A guy in cop drag is showing
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his nightstick to a construction
worker-type. The construction
worker rolls a condom down theshaft of the night stick, sqUirts
lube on it and bends over. The
cop sticks it up the worker's ass.
Then the roles switch. The worker uses leather straps to put the
cop in bondage. He puts a condom on his erect cock and ass
fucks the cop. When finished, heputs on a glove and fist fucks thecop. End.
Although we will all admit to having fantasies, few of us ever disclose
what it is exactly that is running
through our heads as we make love or
masturbate. We are very protective of
our fantasies for obvious reasons: Ourpartner may feel threatened if the fantasies don't involve him or her, or wefear that bringing these dark fantasies

out into the open will somehow lessen
their clandestine allure. We internalize
our own brand of homophobia thatshies away from images of sex because
they seem inappropriate. Instead, theseimages are locked in our minds where
they stay supressed except during
moments when we want to fan thecoals. As safer sex educational video
makers, we must employ fantasy toteach about safer sex.

*****
The recognition of lesbian sexuality, as well as the Center For Disease
Control's persistent refusal to include
data on woman-to-woman transmissionof HIV, were the primary motivations
in creating the lesbian safer sex video,"Current Flow." Lesbian-identified sexpositive imagery is scarce. While there
are hundreds of porn tapes for gay
men, there are few created for lesbians.

TURNING ON
Annie Sprinkle trys out a vibrator in Current Flow

Although many videotapes depicting
lesbian sex created for straight men areavailable on the shelves of even themost mundane video rental stores, only
a few tapes trickle in from the West
Coast made for, by and about women.
And even fewer of these deal withsafer sex for lesbians.
This is both oppressive and dangerous because in order to educate
lesbians about safer sex we have toestablish what it is. Saying "use a dental dam" is not the same as saying"use a condom" since many women
don't even know what a dental dam
is. And how could they possibly
know? It is a latex square manufactured for dentists performing
oral
surgery! CPeople such as Denise Ribble and the women of ACT UP's
Women's Caucus are getting the wordout that this little square of latex can
prevent transmission of HIV and otherPhoto: Ellen B. Neipris

sexually-trasmitted diseases and viruses in vaginal/cervicalflUids, or in
menstrual blood. This task is enormous.) Our goal was to show someways lesbians could have safer sex
acts.

*****
In a short for black men who
have sex with other men, directedby Charles Brack, a businessman
gets into a cab. The driver flirts
with him. He reciprocates. Whenthey arrive at the destination, theman in the suit can't find his
wallet. Searching his pockets formoney he finds some condoms.
The driver accepts this currency
and fucks his fare on the backseat. Taxi!
Undoubtely, the AIDS crisis neces-sitated revolutionary action by the lesbian and gay community. Countering
the repressive forces behind the statesponsored "just say no" campaigns, thecommunity produced its own discourse
about sexuality. Now, with this experience in mind, safer sex education must
be developed to address ever-widening
circles of people among the communities hardest hit by AIDS. Resources must
be made available for communities todevelop their own forms of education.
Safer sex educational video is aform of direct action. We recognize thatsexuality cuts across socially-constructed boundaries between races, classes
and genders. We make representations
that legitimate specific acts--anal, vaginal, oral sex-and we create an atmosphereconducivetosexualexperimentation. In the face of increasing censorhip amidst a morally conservative climate, we militantly advocate
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Nora Saillar, one of the managers of the Carlton Arms Hotel, lISt year graced the pages ofdozens of slick magazines which had written about
how she and others transformed the decaying
building into -the artbreak hotel. - With two
recent openings and one more to go, almost all of
the East 25th Street building's 52 guest rooms-as
well as the lobby, the stairwells and the hallways-are now exploding with environmental art.
And artists and visitors are now living in every sortof atmosphere from submarine interiors to Arabian

harems to Rennassiance Venitian villas (still for as
low IS S33 per night). So now Salazar wants tohead back to ber native Costa Rica and do thesame thing to decrepit inner-city buildings there.
But she'll certainly miss the immense notoriety andfame she experienced here in the States. When
PeDple magazine photographed her, the camera
lense distorted her foot, making it seem quite elongated. -Now, for months, a man with a foot fetish
has been calling me incessantly, - she reports.
-He's obsessed!- Peter Ricci

Photography by: Ben Thornberry

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Giving I veritable -smelr in the flce- to big- storm.d the placid st.ps of the M.tropolitan
otry Ind right-wing hysteril, ART+ gets caught
Mus.umofArt
with its pants down to protest homophobia, AIDSMosdy artists, ART+ devotees espouse miliphobia and censorship in the arts. The one-month- tant eroticism as they splaUer genetic signatures
old activist group is here creating a public image up and down the streets of New York.The group'sof Jesse Helms glaring out through I yellowish
particularly immediate bonding experience - apatina of cum. Yes - cuml -We add our cum to bucket of water being mixed with fresh cum durwheat paste to signify our committment - to give ing the sexual wheat-pasting ritual- was -a waythat little one percent of ourselves - and to sym- of adding levity to a serious subject-Initially thisbolically give back to Jesse what he's trying to event involved only a few men of the now 3O-plus
take from us, the freedom to express our sexuality men and women of Art+, but the group is planningin the visual arts, - says Dennis Davidson (right). similar dialogues-with-the-public-via-cum-pastThe posters pictured here advertised a demo ed-posters in the future Ind welcomes women towhich took place on August 1 when 1000 people -mix in their special juic.s.--Catherine

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o
BY

Dear Brad:

Last week I met this incredibly
wealthy network television executive
from New York City who was in town
on vacation. From what he told me I
gather he's pretty well-known there.so I won't use his name or anything
except to say that he's related to the
Kennedys somehow or other Cthe
music in the bar was quite loud when
he explained the connection so I
didn't quite catch it). Anyway we got
along perfectly and he told me tolook him up if I ever came to New
York City which is exactly what I plan
to do next month. One thing, though,I didn't understand: at about midnight
there was this weird beeping noise

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UT

OF

MY

HANDS

BRADLEY

BALL

and 'he suddenly left the room and it
stopped. He wasn't wearing a wristwatch a,t the time and I didn't hear
him use the phone or anything. Thenhe came back a few -moments later
like nothing had happened. Since henever mentioned it I never brought it
up but the very same thing' 'occurred
about six hours later. Is this sometrendy new thing that we don't know
about here, like faxes? I thoughtmaybe since your column is based in
New York City maybe you'd know
and could tell me so I don't act likean ignorant hayseed when he takes
me to dinner on Park Avenue with
Jane Fonda and embarrass everybody.
-Bewildered in Wyoming

Dear Bewildered:

You were right to come to mewith this. I'm sorry to have to be theone to tell you but that man was no
network television executive.
He
was, in fact, a Communist Russian
spy who was sent out to your partof the country as part of a diabolicalplot to lure young people like yourself away from rural communities
and thus adversely affect the UnitedStates of America's agricultural production. The beeping noise youheard came from his two-way radio
connection
with his superiorsinMoscow
who
reqUireregularprogress reports every six hours.
Why, I wouldn't be surprised if heran the faucet so you couldn't hear
him talking in Communist Russian!
This scheme has been going on
for quite some time but we don't hearmuch about it since, as you may wellknow, the Communists control andregulate the media in this country. You
must not, I repeat, not come to New
York City looking for this man. That's
just exactly what the Communists wantand, sad to say, they've been all too
successful. Every day this city receives
more and more hapless young people
who have spent all their money tocome here only to discover that they
have been duped by the Evil Empire.
Broke and broken they stay on to
become sidewalk leaflet distributors.
Meanwhile, our food prices have gone
sky high and we're importing staples,such as cheese, from places likeFrance Cwhich is a Communist country
masquerading as a Republic). You juststay right where you are and help
make America Cand, thus, democracy)strong again. I know this may be difficult for you to accept Cwho of us
wants to admit that we have beenpotentially treasonous to our country?)
but I absolutely guarantee you that abetter man will come along in due
time.
...

the people who engaged in that burger pitch and catch are the very sameones who donate their time andmoney at events that benefit suchcauses as AIDS, the environment andthe homeless Csee page 97). Also
noteworthy
are the facts that
McDonald's window's don't open, andits products are not necessarily considered food."
Is he for real? Sadly, kiddies, I'm
by Michelangelo

SignorileS

ometimes we wonder just
who it was that had Details
magazine gossip columnist
Stephen Saban embalmed? And how
did editor Annie Flanders allow it?
Oh, we're not referring to thedeader than dead piece of drek hecalls a column. Or, the way he creeps
around parties, drink in hand, always
sniffling.
Or, how he constantly
makes a show of grabbing Debbie
Harry, while sneaking off into corners
with young men.
We are, rather, speaking about his
reply to a recent letter sent to Details
and printed in the August issue. The
letter, written by Brian Clarke of
Oakland,CA, was an outraged
response to' Saban's previous column
which had described a party for club
promoter Frank Roccio at McDonald's
at Times Square. While numerous
homeless people lay outside, thepartiers had a food fight, with guests
throwing dozens of burgers and fries
across the room at one another. The
letter states:"I just wanted to write and say
the next time Stephen Saban feels theurge to report on massive food squandering .. .I hope his editors will have a
bit more heart and soul and not print
it. Being an ex-homeless and joblessperson, it kind of hurts to read about
party-crazed
rich people, literally
walking over those less fortunate touncaringly
waste meals for somany ... all in the name of fun!
Wouldn't there have been more of asense of enjoyment tossing that box ofburgers and fries out of the window?"
Stephen Saban replies:"You
have a point of course, Baby Love.
But What you might not realize is thatf
SABAN: Choking on b~rg.rs?

afraid so. Saban actually believes that
there could quite possibly be people
so exceptional,
so saint-like,sorevered, that they should be allowed
to throw food around while people
waste away outside. But we don't
even have to come near haVing adebate about what privileges angelic
do-gooders should enjoy, since thepeople Saban's talking about don't
even come close to that. We're talking about vile club leeches, most ofwhom have been floating around foryears Cas well as others who've justbegun their long drifO; people who
coast through all sorts of events and
NEVER pay to get into anything,including benefits and such. Most
appalling is Saban's contention thatthese are the people who "donate
their time and money at events that
benefit such causes as AIDS, the environment and the homeless."
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-Social Terrorism

Photos by Erich Conrad

I'M NOT MAD AT YOU. I'M MAD AT THE DIRT
Ra·-chal at R""

un.

FIELD OF SCENES
Patricia Fi.ld at Mall

46

BAR TENDING'S A DRAG
RDbbi. at Mars

THE HUNG AND BREASTLESS
JohMDa at

D.an

R""un.

~PLAYPERSON?
Playmate at MarsBOSOM BUDDIES
CynthiaNaimel and lri. Lo. at ".d Zone

DONT LOOK NOW, BUT THERE'S THIS ...THIS ...
Manoio and '1 at MarsANGIE. I AI NT FRED
Angie Extravaganza at Red ZOlJlJ

GENDER IS THE FRIGHT
Gilflllame", at Red ZOlJlJ

SECURE THIS!
Security guard at Mars
DYE HARD?
Joseph at Mars

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Given that we had some of the most basic
girl things cleared up for the boys by Liz
Tracey and her "Boys Guide to Girls" (OutWeek No.6), OutWeek has decided to get
tough and ask the boys just what are thethings they've always wanted to know about
the girls. Following are the pressing questions that fags asked about dykes.

'rby Catherine Saalfield
1 Do gay men who constantly talk about their sex offend dykes?
Some dykes. But then again, some sex-period-offends
somedykes. For the rest of us, ~'s annoying only because it takes up time we
could be talking aboot sex.

2 How do you know what bra size to wear? Uke. what does the number measure?
This is a crucial question if one is ordering from the Victoria's Secret
Catalogue. Shopping through the mail saves us from what can be an
excruciating and humiliating experience in the bra store, espedally if you'reboyish (store manager: ·Hello sir, are you looking to buy something lacy
and provacative for your wife? Oh, for you ...I'm sorry .. .! mean ...well ...wehave the less frilly, practical kind over here. They only come in khaki. Oh,
yes, and jog bras for athletics are over here, next to the training bras andundershirts. I'm sure you can figure all of this out. Next.1. However; Victoria's Secret has a less practical, more indulgent quality to it as well. Not
only do some of the models in VS actually have breasts, but theirs tend tobillow out over the usually transparent and very sexy lingerie. These girls
are (for the most part) cute, very cute. All right, so it's soft-core porn, but atleast the producers have caught on to their market (certainly not all lesbians, but women who enjoy looking at women in next to nothing, or
women who want to look like them). Over the last year and a half, most of
the mal~ models, who used to hang around staring off into space in theirstriped boxers, have disappeared, and we have been left with pages of girls
to peruse in "the privacy of our own homes."
Brass tacks boys, regarding sizes, the first number is the measurement around your rib cage (can be big if you work out your pees). The letter (aa-e) is the cup size, and can be measured by hands or mouths.
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~-:;"",'t:~:\:\r;;;:.:b~.Do you know of any Republican lesbians? If so, who dothey fall In love with?
Not as common as the Republican Fag. She falls in lovewith other Republicans (found in the Hamptons or the Pines).
More notably, she goes for radical dykes who need either a job
in her company or a plane ticket to Puerto Rico to write thatnext article. Also good for a fuck in the middle of the day when
everyone else is working.

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'-, ~J.~)t); 4. How do lesbians with kids explain the Adam and Eve
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story?
Having no children of my own, and not having a lot of relationships which lasted as long as nine months, I had to ask
around for an answer. My favorite was, "They don't unlessthey're assholes." Besides, a recent National Geographic (a. subscription to which is, incidently, the most popular wedding.' present in this country) expounded that we are all (that's every,one alive on earth today) related to one woman, who has been'. nipknamed EXe for all too obvious reasons. That's 10,000 gen'<erations ago and there is no known male counterpart. Maybe,:'i1fthe~~~tionthat ".eeds to be reformulated.

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S,;fJi fWrue that .... y'womancan.k'tar~;~~:~'femme

any other woman for afuerapist.

studies, for that matter.) That we're all tough (Gerri says, "Onlya privileged few of us are really tough'). That we all believe the"goddess" will see us through. That we never cruise at Monday
night meetings. That we're all truckdrivers or artists. That we all
like Sandra as much as much as Madonna.

9. What drugs do lesbians use with sex?
Just the smell of her soft, lovely, innocent skin. Really
now, drugs?

10. Who were your childhood Idols?
(Do you ask because we know all of yours?)
Patty Duke, bought the headband. Rebecca in the book
Sunnybrook Farm. Patsy Cline. My brother'S girlfriends. My
best friend's boyfriend. Lisa Lyon (under the covers with theMapplethorpe book). Felix the Cat with his bag of tricks.
Samantha Stevens. Kathy Boudin. Patti Smith. Jo in Little
Women. Sojourner Truth (wrote a song about her at camp).
Susan Dey (not·in Looker, actually only in the Partidge Family).
Anne Frank. Marie Curie. Harriet Tubman. 99. Julie Lipton.
Diana Rigg. Joan of Arc. Angela Davis. Everyone in RoxyMusic. My science teacher. Harriet the Spy, kept a list. Janis
Joplin. Morticia Adams. The girls volleyball team. Billie JeanKing (pre-palimony suit). The Dave Clark Five. Bonnie Badelia.
Jane Fonda (only in Barbarella). Marsha, Jan and Cindy, but
especially Jan. Tatum O'Neal in Paper Moon.

....¥~.~~nw~s~~::"
y:n:~~'"i,,51t"lq~stl~Oi;tnayseem
a bit odd, but alas, it did,C!.9Ve(again. This is one I can't make event~ eralization about. It seems to be mostly about
I~~ori.
or some, it appears, the guy would have to besomeone she slept with before she came out. A few old flames
never die.

IN!t:~'

7, How come dykes stay friends with all their ex-lovers?
. We don't. Some old flames die hard. But true to the query,
I saw a book in San Francisco last summer about the bestuses for an "ex." Things like carpools, thoughtful birthday presents, co-moms, lesbian affinity groups and the like. They werecompletely serious. I really can't remember the title but you get
the picture. It could have been: "Put her to work even after you
put her out," "I can stand you anywhere, but in my bed," "We
don't have to sleep together anymore to drive each othercrazy," or 'Uved with her? Now live with it."

8. What are our biggest misconceptions about lesbians?
That we all wanna be men. That we all wear flannel shirts
and eat tofu and brown rice. That we started eco-feminism at alesbian retreat in upstate New York. That we all use dental
dams. That we read all the time and have a feminist canon.
That all lesbian relationships are based on a friendship which
will last forever. That we all use Foreplay instead of Astroglide.
;. That we all came out in college during those interminable
women's stUdies lectures. (That we all majored in women's

11. If women use dlldoes, Isn't It logical that they would
use a real cock?
SHIT NO! Some girls really get off from "sucking cock" (adildo, get it?) and then being sucked with a strap-on. We use
condoms on the dildoes too. So there. Anyway, I've heard you
guys use them. What's the deal?

12. Do dykes consider It "sex" If they do stuff that doesn't
Involve penetration or mutual masturbation or oral sex?
If this is just a question about the definition of the word
"sex," who needs it? But I assume you just want to know whatelse we do "in bed" other than what you mentioned. It seems tome that things at both the inner and outer limits of Gayle
Rubin's sex hierarchy, from way vanilla and monogamous toslm and with objects, involve "sex things" that you haven't classified. For example, on the one hand, whips, electro-conductors and tit clamps. That's not mutual masturbation, right? One
thing you forgot that's specifically lesbo (or so it says in thepink book) is "rubbing around." Definitely "sex." Other names
for that are "frotage," "humping" and "tribadism." The latter term
rivals "lesbianism" for most ridiculous and least sexy work in
the English language. Oh, and there's always voyeurism, especially satisfying if you have a video camera.
13. Do you dish as much as guys?
More.
14. Can you really pee standing up?
Sure
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Film

Emtpy Voices, Absent Livesby Peter BowenTerence Davies' Distant Voices,
Still Lives is not a pretty picture. That's not to say thefilm is ugly, but rather that the frag-men ted memories which recollect an
English working-class family-caught
in a vicious cycle of domestic violenceand emotional repreSSion-arenotparticularly easy scenes to witness.
Distant Voices, in fact, is a terribly
beautiful film. But this stylistic beauty, rendered all the more terrible by its
subject matter, makes one at times
almost forget the Simultaneously banaland violent lives which the film
remembers. Indeed, it is a paradoxical combination: ugliness and beauty,
remembrance and forgetfulness, gritty
poverty and stylish. cinematography.
It is as if the film, like the charactersin it, is unwilling to recall the past andyet unable to forget it. However,another paradox, oddly forgotten by

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most reviewers, seems the most memorable: This deeply autobiographicalfilm omits the very life of its
writer/director, Terence Davies, a gay
man who grew up in the Liverpool
family very much like the one he represents.
It is perhaps an all-too-painfulcliche to remember how the lives of
lesbians and gays are continually forgotten by traditional histories; how,for example,
accountsof theHolocaust, which, in their valiant
attempts to "never forget," continuallyforget the lesbians and gays who died.
And at "home," the lives of lesbians
and gays are routinely censored fromfamily histories, dropped from dinnertable conversations, c1assifed as for-

TI
bidden discussions in family circles. It
is interesting then to note the conflation of these two amnesias in Mike
McGrady's Newsday review (8/14/89)
which claims, "as we thumb throughthe pages of English director Terence
Davies' family album, we come toknow him well.What we mightknow from Davies' earlier work, The
Terence Davies Trilogy (1983), which
traces in three films the unfortunately
tormented experience of growing up
both gay and Catholic in workingclass Liverpool, are the autobiographical details of his life. The "family
album" of Distant Voices, however, is
one in which the photos of the gay
son have been disreetly removed.

ber and to repress is most poignantly
articulated in an early scene when
MaiSie, posed with the others for afamily photo, exclaims, "I wish Dad
was here," and Eileen responds in amonotone voice, "he was a bastard
and I bleeding hated him: What follows is a brutal flashback where
Eileen, on her knees scrubbing thebasement floor, is Violently beaten by
her father for wanting to go to adance. This strange, yet perhaps too
familiar and too familial logic bywhich the film links prettified sentiments with horrific memories, illustrates the difficult process of memory.
In another part, for eXample, a tender
Christmas image
the father stuffing

orstockings inexplicably cuts forward to
the father destroying the Christmas
meal in a fit of irrational rage. In
scene after scene, memories rush forward with no place to rest.
And while the images remember
one story, the music narrates another.
Reminiscent of another British filmmaker, Dennis Potter C7beSinging Detective,
Pennies From Heaven), who uses '30s
standards
to transformnarrative
moments into ironic and surreal commentaries, Davies employs the same
standards almost as phychic defense
mechanisms against the unending violence of the images. At one point, while
we watch the mother being nearly beat- .
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Ostensibly the film narrates the
lives of a Liverpool family
whose abusive father CPete
Postlethwaite)tyrannizes his wife
CFreda Dowie), his son Tony CDean
Williams) and two daughters, Eileen
CAngela Walsh) and Maisie CLorraine
Ashbourne).
But the film is by nomeans
a traditional
narrative.
Conceived as a diptych, Distant
Voices, Still Lives is actually two separate films. The first one, Distant
Voices, moves abruptly backwards andforewards in time to recount various,
often violent, family episodes.
The
second half, Still Lives, which was
actually filmed two years later, continues the family's story after the father
has died and the children have married and begun families of their own.
Employing a special film processing
technique which suppresses primarycolors in favor of darker and grainier
browns and greens, Davies avoids the
documentary past of black and whitein order to evoke the eerie sensationof living inside a faded photograph.
This stylistic suppression of "naturalcolor serves dramatically to illustrate
the psychic repression of individual
characters. It is this repression which
we - with a slow horror - come toacknowledge as the violence the children experienced in the first half ofthe film. And it begins to creep into
the children's newly formed families
in the second half.
This odd tension created by thefilm's dual impulse at once to remem-

FORGOmNFAG(I to rJLorraine Ashboume, Freda Dowie, D.an Williams, Ang./a Walsh
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BooksSpittle On a Hot Iron
thing, expected nothing, and watchedher own life like a terrible fable froma Sunday morning sermon."Yet Trash's women, like cornered rattlesnakes,
strike back attheir venomous lives. Rage, like spittle on a hot iron, dances throughout
each piece Conly Yankees are safe
from direct mean-spirited railings as
they're not worth shit anyway).
Some, like Dorothy in River ofNames, are struck with a blasphemous gift of tongues and periodicallybreak into trance-like fits of cussing,

Grow 'em 'cause it makes people
mad ... keeps people away, makes':'Plr:epiina Books, $8.95. .
sure no one touches what's mine."-·\iMj};w~~.~-·In Mama, Allison's mother reveals thematriarchal rallying cry: "...if people
are going to kick you, don't just lie
by Wickie Stamps
there. Shout back at them."Throughout Trash Allison flOdsdis"Lord, I've run out of words to say, alltraction Cat times redemption) in food,I can do now is moan."
women, whiskey and feminist politics.
Anything "just to be in motion ... toAnswer Me Dear Jesus, gospel songchange something in the world I wanted desperately to make over ..." Eachdiversion temporarily sops up the burnDorothyn~Ilison's earlier
ing grief and rage in her belly.
collection of poetry, The
Like any self-respecting
Women Who Hate Me, shesouthern writer Allison iswrites about the silence after aobsessed with the macabre
shotgun blast. In Trash, her
and attracted
to humannewest collection 'of short stoeccentricities.
In Gospelries, she fills that void with aSong, a piece on Allison'srare book which, in June '89,
childhood,she befriends
won the first annual Lambda
Shannon Pearl, a hateful albiLiteraryAwardfor Best
no whose appearance
is aLesbian Fiction and Lesbian"shock to the digestion."
Small Press. The creation ofAllison's motivations for their
this slim collection, which tatsfriendship are truly morbid:
truth to fiction,
was in"my fascination with her felt
Allison's eyes an act of sheer
more like the restlessness
surVival, her "own shoutthat made me worry theagainst death."scabs
on my ankles .. .I
Allison's vivid prose rolls
couldn't put away the needthrough the red clay of theto scratch my ankles, or hangdeep South where poverty
around what Granny called
tore at her family like a rabidthat 'strange and ugly child:"dog.
She asserts she was
Shannon's
propensity
for"born of a pause of babies"
telling 'dead baby' jokes wasand dropped into a drove ofa morose trait Allison would"razorback desperate" relalater emulate.
In River oftives. All of Trash's central
Names Allison is determinedcharacters, tight-lipped women FOOD"WOMEN, WHISKEY AND FEMINIST POUTICS
to cause a shudder in her
with set mouths, "had ankles Dorothy Allison
privileged lover's "fairy tale
Photo: Myra Fourwinds
thickened with too many years
life" by telling her "terribleof flour and babies ..." and "...worked
spitting and hissing.
Others, likestories."themselves ugly."
Aunt Alma, are blessed with the evil
Trash strikes a rare and engaging
The entire lot, waitresses, honkyeye. Locked in her glare "grownchord in lesbian fiction. Much like thetonk managers and child mill workers,
men break down and cry...little ones
gospel songs Allison worshiped as adaily withstood a rotgut violence that repent and swear to change theirchild, her short stories will send chills"if you fight back they kill you."ways." In Lupus, Cousin Temple has down your spine and "... make you
Each, like Aunt Alma in Don't Tell Me her own unique retaliation: "I got
want t'o scream low against all the
You Don't Know, "understood everymustard grass, and yellow nettles.
darkness in the world."...

'T:i'q~J:}. by Dorothy

Allison.

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BooksThe Reluctant Activist
by Eva Yaa Asantewaa

Leonard Matlovich, who, in
1975, courageously stood up to
the homophobia of the U.S. Air
Force, was the least likely,
most contradictoryof gay activist
heroes. A military brat and superpatriot Republican, he followed in thefootsteps of his emotionally cool, conservative father C"Politically, my father
made Genghis ~han look like Jesse
Jackson. H). He served three tours of
duty in Vietnam-partly to prove himself a man and partly out of a deathwish-andrailedagainstU.S.
politicians for not fighting the war to
victory. Painfully closeted and confused for most of his young life, heleft the Catholic Church to join the
Mormons.
The post-Vatican
II
Catholics--with their English-language
massesandnuns
in moderndress-hadbecome uncomfortably
liberal, he felt. And yet, apparently,
not liberal enough. In an extraordinary mutual misunderstanding,aMormon led Matlovich to think that
the Church of Latter Day Saints
accepts homosexuality.
Religionwhich he would come to distrustcould break Matlovich's needy heart
just as easily as men could-and
repeatedly did.
Vietnam placed him in close contact with unfamiliar people and cultures, and this chipped away at his
racism Cso much so, in fact, that hesoon became an innovative race relations instructor for the Air Force). Like
all his wrongheaded ideas, his racism
did not seem to be born of dee~rooted malice. Leonard Matlovich-who

MIUTARY BRAT
Matlovich gilts sworn in to thll Air ForclI

fled from the closet into nationwide
prominence-was,as depicted bybiographer Mike Hippler, w~de open
to, capable of, and destined forchange. Hippler's sad and sensitive
account of this good soldier's struggles will make you wonder who
Matlovich might yet have grown to be
had AIDS not claimed him.
Hippler, a columnist for the Bay
Area Reporter, presents Matlovich inall his messy, human complexity,
including
his sincerity.
His gay
activism could have ended with his
fight for reinstatement after the Air
Force discharged him for his intention
to remain openly and actively gay.
Instead, Matlovich turned his instantcelebrity and his nonthreatening
appeal into an opportunity to standup to straight America, speak out, andeven be arrested in the cause of justice. He accepted numerous speaking

engagements and threw himself into
almost every highly visible anti-homophobia effort-including
the fight
against Anita Bryant's "Save Our
Children" campaign, the demonstration against the 1987 visit of PopeJohn Paul II to San Francisco, theprotest against Northwest Orient
Airlines for denying tickets to People
with AIDS and a rally in front of theWhite House to denounce Reagan's
neglect of the AIDS crisis. In the highdrama of that rally, as he was handcuffed by a cop in yellow gloves andriot gear, Matlovich wore an Air Forcejacket and his medals and carried an
American flag.
Many gay leaders distrusted
Matlovich or thought he was too
unsophisticated, too embarrassing in
his basic political conservatism, to represent our radically angry community.
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MusicThe Politics of Dancing
by Patrick Rogers

L

ike most records, rapper Eazy-E's "Eazy-Duz-It" hastwo sides--not the usual "A" and "B," but "Street,·which is too raunchy for broadcast, and "Radio,·which is slightly toned down.
More stats from the best-selling album: 10 men-including a faggot-get blown away, eight whores and bitches getfucked, a cross-dresser gets raped, and gunshots--17
inall-are scattered through the record like so many electric
handclaps. Among the glorious moments of L.A. gang life that
Eazy recounts are a bank robbery, a drive-by shooting and aburglary. And, finally, a sample of the dizzying nuggets ofsmut that make Eazy's record one long protracted insult:
It's about fucking this bitch, and that bitch
But not the bitch with the seven day itch;
She's bad, nobody is badder,
But she got more crabs than a seafood platter

San Francisco in the 60's," boasts Jerry Heller, Eazy's
manager and a record industry veteran from the days
when news of Janis Joplin and Jefferson Airplane filtered through to a starving nation by way of an underground grapevine.
Eazy's appeal is not that hard to understand. He is,after all, a genuine product of the street and credible
beyond challenge. In his own words, ";t nigger withserious attitude, 100 per cent street." Though perfectly
willing to turn a profit, Eazy is at the same time uncompromised by any but his own moral code. When "EazyDuz-It" is played side-by-side with, say, Jazzy Jeffs Hot
100 single, "Parents Just Don't Understand," it's clear thatcrossover simply isn't an issue. "If you're a black kidfrom the streets and somebody is rapping about parents
not understanding, you'd laugh," Eazy says. "You might
not have parents or you'd have parents who were intocrack or prostitution."
Eazy is by no means the sole purveyor
of gangland rap. Ice-T, who headlined the"Colors" soundtrack, shares the same preoccupations as Eazy, but presents his lyrics
as painfully accurate descriptions of street
Iife-a scene in which, he points out, life
is cheap and getting killed is bad.
And in New York, where
gangs are active in all fiveboroughs and native rappers could
neverbeaccused of squeamishness, glorificationofgang life has actually
come up against organized resistance.
Last
year Stop the Violence
Movement, a consortiumof rap acts marshalled
togetherby
KRS-OneCwhosepartnerScott
LaMotta was murdered in theSouth Bronx in 1987) recorded"Self-Destruction,"a songdecrying black-on-black
violence.
Of course, the glamour ofviolence isn't Eazy's only selling
point. "Easy-Duz-It" CPriority
Records) is a high-concept rap
album on which all of rap's best

Who is this man and why has his record sold over a
million copies?
Eazy-or Eazy Motherfucking E, as the youngsters on
my block call him-is 24-year-old Eric Wright. He
comes from Compton, CA, a patch of L.A. sprawl
so frequently featured on the local
TV news that its
name is synonymous with gang violence, where he claims
he was a fabled gangster, amaster of drug dealing, car stealing and burglary. In 1986 he turned to music,
first the production end of the business and thenas recording artist, to invest his ready supply ofstolen cash. "It was getting too dangerous,· Eazy
told the L.A. Times. "I decided to look for somethinghonest to do with the money I made."Eazy's transition to the legal sector has been a financial bonanza. Despite X-rated lyrics so objectionable as
to near totally preclude radio airplay CL.A.'s KDAY, thenation's preeminent rap station, is the exception), "Eazy
Duz It" has gone platinum, selling in the neighborhoodof 1.5 million copies. On top of that, Eazy produces theequally foul N.W.A.; CNiggers With Attitude), whose
sales have also reached 1.5 million, and the female duo
J.J. Fad, whose 1987 speed-rap "Supersonic" went gold.
BLOWING AWAY FAGGOTS
And all of this by word-of-mouth alone. "It's like
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Performance

Test Tube Troupe

CUTTING THE UMBILICAL CORD
The Gotham City Improv Company

by Jonn WasserIist hard to imagine Pee Wee
Herman and Kevin Costner actually have something in common,but they do. Both actors have participated in "The Groundl ings," a Los
Angeles based improvisational troupe
whose. other alumni include many
"Saturday Night Live" regulars. Four
years ago, The Groundlings established an east coast base toiling in relative obscurity throughout Manhattan.
Recently, this funny group cut theumbilical cord, renamed themselves
the Gotham City Improv Co. andunleashed their original brand of comedy on an unsuspecting public. Theircurrent effort, "You Die at Recess," isa fast and furious evening.
Accompanied by only an upright
piano, the group takes to the stage
and welcomes us with well-blended
harmonies. We are instantly transported to a fun-filled era where "goofy" isthe operative adjective and responsibilities are temporarily set aside. The
ninety-minute performance includes
nearly twenty improvisations
andsketches, many calling for audience
participation.
There's the slightly stereotypicallesbian gym teacher, wonderfully
enacted by Pat Barker, a brazen
actress who could well fill Shelly
Winters shoes. Nancy Johnston's saccharine-coatedcasting director islethally funny and not tobe missed. Johnston's
casting director is theshe-devil masquerading
as Joan Lunden as she
gracefully
coaxes her
actress/pupil
through acommercial audition.
By all appearances,thesixteenmembertroupe resembles
anygroup of New York actors
roaming
the audition
halls. Apart from a smattering of thespian talkwhich instantly
gives
them away, one would
never suspect they had
braved a grueling curriculum before joining thecompany. Once accepted,
their work does notdiminish. "In fact," comments Hilaury Stern, thegroup's diminutive Artistic
Director, "it intensifies."
Stern is a sweet andpolite woman, but she
takes nothing for granted.
A sometimes screenwriter, she rules
over her brood with an eagle eye.
Stern determines whether or not a
performer gains admission. "I look fororiginality and writing that has a definite point of view."
Tom Chalmers recently passed
the Stern test. Slight and doe-eyedbehind horn-rimmed glasses, he's anintense listener with an original
rhythm to his movements. Observing
him on stage and in a private class,
I'm struck by his lack of self-consciousness and his wide emotional
range. His work seems effortless, yet
is the result of intense preparation. "Istudied for several years at Second
City," he remarks. "When I auditioned
for Gotham City, I was very lucky
since they let me skip the first class.·
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OulWeek Box 1009

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GWM, 52, attractive,
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173, NYC 10023.

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10150

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OutWeek Box 1013

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1014

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OulWeek Box 1045

MIRA
Very hot, 43 year-old.
6'1", 170, BIIBI, studying Spanish seeks
Puerto Rican man toteach him some newwords.
Photo andphone please. P.O.
Box 1256, NYC, NY
10159.

LOOKS It BRAINSGWM, 30, 6'1", HO.
Good-looking and intelligent.
Baseball,politics, arts, books,
pubs,
safe
sex.
Interested? P.O. Box
1521 Cooper Station,
NYC, NY 10276

WHITE MALE
COUPLE
seeks to expand social
horizons and meetother male couples.
We are 31 and 46,
enjoy movies, theatre,
museums, bridge, andfriendship.
Pleasewrite to us at P.O. Box
541 New York, NY
10034.

HIV POSITIVE
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CIGARS!
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Ash P.O. Box 20147
LondonTerrace
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Boyish and charming,
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Box 783 Church Street
Station, New York, NY
10008. Prefer 25-55.

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for alliance wI paraplegic single parent of
5 year-old. DWM, 30,
computorgraphics
artist with a touch ofoffbeatmadnessseeks Bilfemale compliment to live rentfree
inCarroll'Gardens,Bklyn
exchange for helping
hand. Replies: K.D.
King,
370
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15,
Carroll Gardens, Bklyn
11231. Send photoand phone#.

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wanted by steamy,
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with current photo andphone # to loT.S.
20053 New York, NY
10011.

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Ibs., stocky,
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explore NY, hopefullyromance. Write P.O.
Box 523, New York,NY 10040.

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212-978-3415, leavemessage.

FRIENDLY BUTCH
GWM, 28, Br/Gr, 5'8",
155, cleancut, muscular, very smart, HIV
positive but healthy,
seeks like·minded guy
with a good attitude. I
bicyde, work out, playjazz
piano,
likemovies, history, politics, cuddling. If you're
smart, in shape andlooking for someone
special write Jim withphoto/phone.
OulWeek Box 1 066.

GWM, 28, 145,
5'10", swimmer"s body,
Capricorn, mystical
Jewish artist! activist
Sometimes all I want
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I want more, I wantTlove, I wait for you
and your magic. I've
got no "type", butplease be young andsexy. I'll reciprocate~afely. Photo and letter
gets
mine.
Boxholder, P.O. Box
401157, Brooklyn. NY
11240.

ALL AMERICAN
wanted by me. I am
Hispanic, 30 years old,
160 Ibs., 5'7". hand·
some
and
hot.
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STUDENT NEEDS
HELP!
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gay activist, writer,
really nice gUynmay
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tuition. Ideas, patrons.
suggestions ... write
soon to: AMR, 76
Undercliff. Millburn, NJ
07041.

DADDY ENEMAS!!
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and fun times. If you
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P.O.
Box 1040, Bloomfield.
NJ 07003. Photo andphone please.
Nogames and noone
over 30

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Very good-looking
GWM, 6',168, friendly,
easy to be with, seeks
GWM, 18·30, slim andfriendly who is also
lonely and needs afriend. I'm very attractive, so write for myphoto. Box 8316,
Saddlebrook, NJ
07662.

MUSCLEMANIA

Horny WM BB, 34,
57", 155#, 44c., 33w.,
16a.,hndsm, hlthy &built like a brick seeks
BB buddies for safesex, titplay and bodyworship. Phone/photo
to Box 1165, Chelsea
Station, 10011.

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reply. Outweek Box
1089

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Good-looking,
nice
guy looking ID makefriends. Uve on LI.,
work on Wall SI. Want
to meet other niceguys who are interested in a sincere, discreet
and caring
friendship, lunches,
dinners,
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together. Would like ID
hear from all-any age,race. Married, bi, o.k.
too. Write with photoand phone
you'vegot nothing to lose-(penpals o.k.) P.O.
Box 483 Wall St.
Station, New York, NY
10268.
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GBM, 27, editor/Ph.D.
student/actor, GWM,
28, adminldeanllandscaper together
3
years w/dog sk a couple for friendship. We
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TEST TUBE TROUPE continued from page 55

His financial settlement with the Air
Force also come under heavy criticism,
since he had won his case on technicalgrounds which left Air Force policy
unchanged. Unooubted1y, Matlovich will
gain more sympathy in death than hedid in life now that his weaknesses andmotivations--and his genUine accom. pIishments--canbe reexamined.
Hippler makes the small details of his
disappointments and progress fascinating and touching.
Hippler ends his book with a photosection-opening
with Matlovich as ayoungster with a' Howdy Doody faceand closing with him standing behind
the gay veteran's memorial he created
and where he is now buried. The stonereads, "Ibey gave me a medal for killing
two men and a discharge for lovingone." It was a line he'd used manytimes, and he still looked as if he could
say, "I can't believe my America could
do this to me." A man of contradictions,
Matlovich took his outrage at society's
contradictions and won a very important
victory-a life of principle.
...

Mostly everyone who auditions
for the entry level class is accepted.
No previous acting experienceisrequired. But acute listening skills anda bent toward the positive is. "Either
you get it or you move on," says Pam
Woodruff, matter-of-factly. Woodruff
has been a Gotham City member
since arriving from Los Angeles overthree years ago. She is also Stern's
assistant offering advice during thepick-and-choose process.
'''In the second level, we concentrate on character and encourage students to work against the type," shesays. Thus, the nerd attempts a sumo
wrestler character and a Chelsea Gym
fanatic enacts a shy, demure gentleman. "We monitor people's progress
and after six weeks, some are accepted into the Lab which is intensive
monologue writing."
For anyone with stars in theireyes, keep in mind the weeding out
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Hannah and Playboy bunny Barbi

Benton each received their walking
papers after the Lab, never advancing
to the fourth class. Even acceptanceinto this workshop does not guarantee admittance into the company.
Churning out excellent material inclass and for a bona fide show is noteasy, but onstage the results speak forthemselves. Of course, a performer's
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from page 11

Lopez called on the entire movement
to construct "a new society where we
judge human beings not by the colorof their skin, not by their sexual preferences, not by their gender, but by
the content of their character.·
But Santini argues that much of
the homophobia attributed to Puerto
GMHC continued 'rom page 10
OUTTAKES continued from page 24
Rico can be traced back to the Unitedquer the epidemic of AIDS," stated
to Soto of ¥te Hispanic AIDS Forum
States. ''There is a myth that we Lati- and Rory Buchanan, an education
Sen. Edward Kennedy CD-MA), one
nos are more homophobic,
and I specialist with the Minority Task Forceof the bill's sponsors.
think it's one of the qualities that . on AIDS, attended the press briefing
AIDS activists lauded the bill's
imperialism has given us in order toapproval, and praised Bush adminisand spoke in support of GMHC'slower our self-esteem and divide us
plan.
tration support for the proposal. "The
more," Santini said. ''The myth of the
President appears to be making good
The ads have already run in The
Latino macho man is something
Native, Newsday, The Daily News, andon his commitment to ending disinvented here in the United States.·
The New York Times, according tocrimination aginst those in our sociPerez emphasized that lesbians
GMHC spokesperson Carisa Cunningety who deserve respect, dignity andand gay men won't have true repreham, who said it was also scheduled
compassion,"
said Human Rights
sentation in the movement unless
to run in The Village Voice, The AmsCampaign Fund Executive Director
they get involved now. "Gay people
terdam News, and OutWeek...
Tim McFeely.
- aiffOWeill
should really get themselves involved I
I
Iin the struggles of this community
GREITZER continued ~rom page 12
two gay men from theirand bring the issues up front," heWest Village, apartment
said. And Santini added that he could
after a roommate who
not determine whether lesbians andhad the lease died ofgays would have guaranteed civil
AIDS. Although the cityrights in an independent Puerto Rico.
does not own or manage"We have to deal with our national
the West Village Houses,
identity, which is the base of everyit does have some regu.thing. And once we have that settled,
latory authority
overI think we're definitely going to bebuilding
operation,
more open to accept different types
through the auspices ofof lifestyles," he said.
...
the Department of Housing, Preservation
andDevelopment (HPD).
One of the men, 40year-old
Mitchell
StJohn,
who also has
AIDS, appeared
withGreitzer at the City Hall
announcement.
CELEBRAllNG ALONE
Photo: Ben Thornberry"I am pleased to
Mitch,1I SL John
report that the manageare expected sometime in the fall.
ment has agreed to allow Mitchell andAccording to Greitzer, Mayor
his roommate to remain as permanent
Koch also has not been informed of tenants in their apartment with fullthe new bill. ''There's been no com- occupancy rights, including succession
ment from the Mayor yet, n said Grei- rights," Greitzer said. "This was mosttzer, a longtime Koch ally, "but we importaf41: because of Mitchell's illwill send this to him soon. As Mayor, ness."he could make this a law administraSt. John said he was "happy withtively,· through an executive order.
the victory" and thanked Greitzer forher efforts. ''I'm just sad that all my
208 West 13th Street
Permanent Tenants
support system is no longer here, that
New York, N.Y. 10011
In a related development, Gre- they aren't here to help celebrate with
212/675.3559
itzer also announced that her office me. I'll have to do that alone," hehad worked to prevent the eviction of said.
"[1]1'
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BAY RIDGE continued from pagl15

This is an issue that gets some people
very upset. But I think most people in
my district are fair. I've explained myposition, and I think I've won a lot of
people over. I talk about it as ahuman rights issue. That no one
should be discriminated against. But
there are still hardliners. We havesome real conservative rednecks that
fuel the flames of bigotry."
Based on Conscience
Activist Andy Humm, a primary
lobbyist for the passage of the bill,called Albanese "a profile in courage.
If anybody really risked something
because of their district it was him,"
he said.
"Albanese is a liberal council. member in a conservative district,"
says Alan Fleishman, president of theLambda Independent Democrats ofBrooklyn. "He gets away with it
because he is so strong on serving his
constituents.
He is very popular. because he gets things done." In fact,
in a recent Daily News poll, Albanese
was voted fourth most effective city
council member. Ruth Messinger from~anhattan's
Upper West Side, andcurrently a candidate for Manhattan
Borough President, was first.
But most state-level elected officials from the area are conservatives.
Albanese called the tactic ofhanding out unsigned campaign Iiterature "outrageous,· and said that itwas "meant to appeal to people's
basest emotions." Striking out at his
opponent, he added, "I expect no lessfrom the people involved in this. The
issues they are using are not surprising. They've been using them against
me for a long time. My position on
gay rights is based on conscience. I'm
not-changing my opinion."
Fleishmanis helping
tocoordinate a volunteer effort to help
Albanese. "The campaign will need tohave volunteers to hand out information at all the polling places on primary day on September 12. For every
polling place we will need to havefour or five people to explain the very
complicated write-in procedure.·
Meanwhile, Maresca says that if
elected, he will not rule out anattempt to overturn Intro 2, maintain-

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OUT'YWEEKing that it extends special privileges to
the gay and lesbian community.
"Where do you draw the line withgroups you protect and groups thatyou don't protect?" he asks. "I'm notgoing to run against [Albanese] solely
on the gay rights bill. The gay rights
bill and abortion rights are not thereason that I'm running, and should
not be the principal issues -inthe campaign. In light of the other issues,
they're not that important."...

AIDS continuld form pa",27

not receiving state funds for any AIDS
education programs Sandra McDonald
of Atlanta's Outreach, Inc. set out tocreate her own ad hoc Black A.IDS
education group.
McDonald told of how she and a
Black gay man with AIDS-armed with
only her car, an urge to educate Georgia's Black community and their own
charisma-coordinatedfunding fortheir efforts. In a state with a strict
sodomy law and a conservative legislature unwilling to fund AIDS education
efforts that so much as mention sex
acts, McDonald worked with the State
Health Department to use Atlanta's
Moorehouse School of Medicine (thenunder the leadership of now-Secretaryof Health and Human Services Dr.
Louis W. Sullivan) as a conduit for
funds to state community-based AIDS
grou ps.
Oppression and Homophobia
By working within the system
ana looking for funding mechanisms which would be "comfortable" for the legislature, McDonald
says she found ways around seemingly impossible joint problems of
institutionalized racism and societal
homophobia.
"There is cultural oppression andthere is homophobia
to be dealt
with," added Native American AIDS
worker John Byrd of the BlackfootNation of Montana. "The historicaltraumas are still there. And although
they may just be a memory, they stillaffect us today. When we start talking[aboutl racism and sexism we need tounderstand where we got these attitudes. And we need to start dealing
with that"...

August 28, 1989

RLM continued from pagl 51

en to death by the father, we hear themother's voice-over explain that she
married him because "he was gooddancer.· And while the beating continues, we hear Ella Fitzgerald sweetly
singing, "Taking a Chance on Love" amidst the mothers cries. While thismay seem ironic, we soon understandthat the characters in pubs, at home,and even in bomb shelters raise their
voices together as if somehow todrown out - with sappy music andsentimental lyrics - the otherwise
incomprehensible noise of their memories.
In the second half, Still Lives, thechildren attempt to start over by forgetting their pasts. They marry, havechildren, occasionally meet at a local
pub to drink, argue, ana sing songs,
and then disappear into the blacknight streets on their way back home.
But it is all too clear that the stillnessof their lives will not quiet the violence of their pasts. In a film whichis as much about the aesthetics ofrepression as it is about the impulse
to remember, it almost makes sensethat a gay man might remember his
own story of repression by erasing his
own life out of this filmic "family
album." ...

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NEW YORK CITY GAYMEN'S CHORUS Auditions,in preparation for its. 10th
anniversary seasonj openings in tenor, baritone andbass sections; 7-10 pm; 69J7590
EAGLE~AR Movie Night:
The Aa;idental Tourist;
142 11th Ave (at 21 St)j 11
pmj 691-8451

INTEGRITY/NEW YORK

EpJscopal SU'Vice andprogram,with

Baro.aStulley, Program Goor'4Inator of the NYC Off.tt of
Gay and Lesbian Health~cems,
talking about
women's health issuesj at
St. Luke in the Fields, 497

FRONT RUNNERSbenefit
for I.ambda Legal Defense
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861-1135
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day or overnight;- swimming pool, kiddie pool,
sprinkler, picnic & barbecue
fields, softball, volleyball,lake with geese, childcare
building with toys, playground; sleeping facilities
for those who wish to staythrough Sunday; call
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PEOPLE WITH AIDSCOALITIONSingles' Tea,for PWAs, PWArcs, HIV+s;
222 W 11 ST, 3-5:30 pm;
532-0568
ACf UP Benefit Performance and Dance, for the
AIDS Treatment Registry;
with Everett Quinton, Reno,
Of.hersi Ethnic Folk Arts
Center, 179 Varick (below
Houston), 9 pm; $5; 2684186

CENTERSPORTSgoes~
Yankees vs. Oakland Athletics; 7:30 pm; $16 & $21j
620-7310 for membership

NEW YORK CITY GAYMEN'S CHORUSAuditions,in preparation for its 10th
anniversary season; openings in tenor, baritone andbass sections; 7-10 pm; 6917590
EAGLEBARMovie Night:
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11th Ave (at 21 St)j 11 pm;
691-8451

INTEGRITY/NEW YORK
Episcopal service andprogram, with Officer
Vanessa Ferro, NYC Police
Department Liaison to the
Lesbian and Gay Community, talking about her work;at St. Luke in the Fields, 497
Hudson St (btwn Christopher and Grove); 7:30 pm;

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till midnight)°Mars Westside

Highway

at 13 St.

212/691-6262(mixedcrowd,

Monday nights began this summer)

MONDAYTUESDAY

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Broadwayat 17 S1.

212/254-4005(atnight)TUESDAY

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The Monster(Deb Parker's women's

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80 Grove St. at Sheridan Sq. 212/924-3557

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Queens7181261-8484

WEDNESDAY
Club Lafayette 428 Lafayette St. 645-6479 (Scott Currie & R Couri Hay)
Private Eyes 12 W 21 St 206-7770 (Dallas and Sanker'S CLUB BAD)
Spectrom 802 64 St. Brooklyn 718/238-8213 (free admission all night)

WEDNESDAY

THURSDAYTHURSDAY

Onoybar 151/2 St Marks PI 212/674-7959 (has a new wave drag show)°Copacabana 10 E 60 St 212/755-0610(last Thu. of the month has

Susanne Bartsch party)

Bedrock 121 Woodfield Road, West Hempstead,
Bedrox 316 W 49 S1. 212/410-5887

U 516/486-9516

Bedrock 121 Woodfield Road, West Hempstead, U 516/486-9516
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Girls")°Mars Westside Highway at 13 St. 212/691-6262 (mixed gay/straight;

FRIDAY

Thursdays gayer than Fri & Sat)

Spectrom 802 64 St Brooklyn

7181238-8213(free admission

all night)

FRIDAY°Boybar 15 1/2 St Marks PI. 212/674-7959
Columbia Dances Earl Hall, 116 St & B'way (lst Friday of every

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Tracks 531 W 19 St. 212/627-2333 (last Friday of month)
Cheeks 2000 Long Beach Rd. Island Park, U 516-431-5700
Octagon

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month)SATURDAY°Mars Westside Highway at 13 st. 212/691-6262 (mixed gay/straight)
Private Eyes 12 W 21 st. 212/206-7770 (preppies and young profes-

Bedrock 121 Woodfield Rd., West Hempstead

Sionals)

The Center 208 W 13 St 212/620-7310

Spectrom 802 64 St Brooklyn 7181238-8213(male and female strip-

pers)516-486-9516(2nd and 4th Saturdays,&

special events)

Club Lafayette 428 Lafayette

St. 212/645-6479(Shescape

event,·Summer Saturdays")

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Starz

175 Cherry Lane, Floral Pk, U 516-354-9641 ( a.k.a(836 Grand Blvd., Deer Park, 1.1. 516/242-3857)

west 610

610 W 56 S1. 212/410-5887

Spectrom 802 64 St Brooklyn 718/238-8213 (guest performer night)

SUNDAYSUNDAY

Bedrock (West Hempstead,°Mars Westside Highway at 13 St. 212/691-6262 (Chip Duckett's "Mars

MHers a: Hers" at Downtown

Needs Men" night)

1500 (every other Sunday only)°Pyramld 101 Ave A 212/420-1590(liapiPhace'andDrag + Variety

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666 Broadway at Bond St 212/979-

Lads 130 West Pond Rd. (Rt 22) White Plains 914-683-5353
Paradise

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Sports

Big Apple Softball League
pitcher. His combined regular andpost season record is 6-3. The otherstarting pitcher, Nick Giammearsa, tallied the exceptional record of 6-0.
BASL is planning to send one
competetive and one recreationalteam to the Gay Gamesin
Vancouvernext
August.
Commissioner Andy Young emphasized that, "Just because you happen not to be a member of the selected teams doesn't preclude youfrom participating in the games.
This highlights the non-com petetive nature of the Gay Games,
which were founded partly to getaway from the hyper-competitiveness of the regular OlympiCS.
Some upcoming events on the
BASL calendar are the Annual
Liberty Bell Classic in Pennsylvania
this Labor Day weekend and an annual awards
banquetat theUkranian Restaurant in the East
Village. This year's banquet is slated to give out awards inthe follOWingcategories: Team MVP, batting average, RBI
and Homerun leaders and Sportsperson of the Year.
Anyone interested in participating in the Big Apple
Softball League can contact Andy Young at 201/442-7353
for further information.
OJ

by Brian HamlinThe Big Apple Softball League (BASL) was founded 11 years ago as part of the National American
Gay Amateur Athletic Alliance CNAGAAA).At thattime the NAGAAAconsisted of a mere five member cities,
but that has now grown to 23. Both organizations werestarted with the help of Chuck Dimer, who was the firstcommissioner of BASL. Chuck feels that the strong support of the community has contributed to the success of
BASL,which now claims a me·mbership of 200.
Each spring the league begins with the goal of making it to the National Gay WorBd Series, which is held in adifferent city each year. This -year the series will be heldin Atlanta from August 22 to 27. A total of 60 teams, 19 ofthem women's teams, will par1icipate. The playoffs began
this year in July and Charlie's Niners, a team sponsoredby Charlie's West Disco/Bar of New Jersey and the Ninth
Circle of Manhattan, won in the competetive division,qualifying them to go to Atlanta.
In his rookie year as manager, Jay Periera guided Cllarlie's
Niners to their first champions-nip, doubling as the team's

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The final Standings in the BASL regular season playwere as follows:
Competetive Division
Badlands Outlaws
Charlie's Niners
Clyde's Stingers
Two Potatos Pythons
Recreational Division
Tys/Chelsea Transfer
Break Falcons
Weehawken Buddies
Breadstix Bandits
Bar Barbarians
Eagle Slammers

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In general, most bottoms want to be fucked with a rubber,claims West "I can only recall one case where a guy absolutely
know?"For all its professions of safe behavior, some members of refused. He was a really wonderful bottom, very hot, and he said
the industry share a certain element of wishful thinking with the it felt terrible. It does irritate the tissues, you know."
Masters too knew of a single case where a model refused:less-educated public. Taylor, among others, noted that he only
"After a IS-minute talk, he just wouldn't do it," he says. "We had
works with companies that pick "quality models who are healthy
to finish the scene, so I went ahead, with some hesitation. Thatand clean, not guys that hang out at bookstores and in bathrooms." Later in the conversation, he adds, "Although, you'd be was the single exception." Would he use that model again? "Iamazed who's died"
don't believe we have. I'd be uncomfortable using him."
In an obviously discriminatory policy, no company knowingly hires actors who are HIV-positive. "I just don't think that's
kosher," states producer Sam Jones. "We don't ask for proof, but
Most videos now have an oddly-worded disclaimer telling
we assume most people we use are HIV-negative." And many·
viewers that what they're seeing is "a visual fantasy," and thatcompanies proceed to figure out who is HIV positive and who
there may be "precautions taken by the producers" that have
isn't in a most unscientific and misguided manner.
been edited out. Some of these messages recommend that view"Sometimes they're honest," says producer and former agent
ers follow "guidelines" before sexual contact But usually there'sDavid Rey. "Or it comes up in conversation, or they show symptoms, or the rumors spread. But we don't require testing; it no word about what those guidelines are.
Other studios strongly maintain they're making an effort.
hasn't come to that yet." Other actors conftrmed that they've
Recent Falcon releases carry guidelines, of a sort, written by Falnever been asked for an HIV test before being cast.
What about integrating safer sex practices into the plot? This con's Clayton and Catalina's Higgins, at the very end of the feaone is up to the director, and in general, new ftIms ignore the ture. Read the follOWing and see what )Qu think:- "Don't engage in sexual contact with other persons withfact that condoms are actually being used-"to preserve the fanout consulting your physician in advance."tasy," said Masters.
- "Safer Sex is for everyone. "Others are even firmer. "I'm not making how-to-fuck-yourboyfriend movies," says Falcon's Clayton. "People buy our- "Judgement is the key to safer sex."- "Don't impair your judgement with drugs or alcohol."
videos to take home alone and jerk off to. I cannot, nor do I
Pretty irrelevant, eh? Nothing about, say, using water-based
want to, be responsible for people's individual sex lives. I'm notin the business of education."
spermicidal lubricants along with your latex CONDOM.
What makes these guidelines even more insulting is that in a
But Clayton and others maintain that safer sex Cor rather,
their deflOition of safer sex) is always used, even if you don't see recent Falcon release - Pledge Master: The Rites of Manhood,it. Because viewers want to see the wet shots, "we've always fol- (also known by its number, Falcon 62) - the one time condoms
lowed the 'on me, not in me' guideline," says Clayton. "And we are used, they're on DILOOS! In this glossy fraternity fantasy, one
use gallons of nonoxynol-9. There's always someone who has to ; young pledge carefully lubes up the tip of a dildo (so it will retain
greater sensitivity, no doubt) and unrolls a condom over it. Then
wipe it up between shots."
he follows with a second dildo. Enter another pledge, who quickA few directors are willing to integrate condoms into theplot. "I don't know when I changed," recalls director Jim West. ly finds himself being fucked with one while sucking the other.
Questioned on this, Falcon's Clayton says that the model in"But for any anal sex play, we use a rubber, and I'll include it in
the foreplay, opening it and putting it on, so the audience sees question "was very into condoms; he found them erotic," so theyit. I'd like to 'gramrnarize' the process of wearing one, to show it were included in the scene. He also says Falcon has included
scenes in earlier releases that showed both condoms being put
as something that's not a nuisance."
on, and the use of Concepterol spermicide.
But is it a nuisance? "Of course it is!" exclaims West. "TheAnd after a lengthy discussion of why he didn't feel it was
actors hate it; they don't stay hard, it makes it harder to shoot,they lose sensitivity, they keep having to change them. Sure it's appropriate to list explicit safe sex guidelines at the end of his
an added nuisance." The actors agree: making porn is always a releases, Clayton explains that he doesn't want Falcon to be held
responsible for its client's behavior. Among other factors he cites ischallenge, and condoms only add to the difficulty.
Yet the added difficulty "is only a matter of degree," West the threat of lawsuits - not unreasonable in California, home ofpoints out. "Making one of these ftIms is hard ANYWAY."Every some of the craziest litigation ever ronceived. Then he relents a bit"If the government, or some private organization that has adirector agrees vehemently. "Remember, movies are imagination,straight line to the latest research, wants to give me a five-minutepretend, make-believe," says producer Sam Jones. "A lot of theseshots are 90 per cent faked Sometimes the models get into it, trailer that explains what the research shows, and what you
and they're really hot and horny and sweaty. That makes my job should do, or how to do it," he states, "I'll put it at the end of all
my videos. There's usually space, and I can give up one of oureasier; we don't have to do so much editing then." But moretrailers if I have to."often than not, he states, safer sex adds some extra time, andSo there you have it, folks. Think of it as a classified ad hence some expense.
In the one case where a condom wasn't used in his last WANTED: one short, hot, sexy, politically correct video on how...
movie CDream Man: Dirty Dialogue, from Video Ten), Rey says, it to have save sex. Any takers?
was due to that most desirable of problems for models: size. Actor
Research assistance for this article was provided by Peter
Mitchell Cook was just too large to be comfortable wearing a rub&wen and Spencer Cox.
ber, so Rey provided the bottoms with spermicidal enemas instead
FRIGHT collti ..... d fro. ,..

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Thursdays

Pride & Progress

August 24

10:30 pm

• Gay Week in Review• Act-Up• GCN Close-Up• Sports• Lavender HealthRichard Dunne's Farwell Party
The AIDS Establishment Speaks Out

11:00 pm

The Right Stuff• Naming Names• All About Women• Media Watch• Staying Out• Around the Country

Sundays

Men & Films

August 27

11:30 pm

Reviews of male erotica along withinterviews behind the scenes with film stars

Men In Film.
Tony Davis on The Roof of New York.

Mondays

Be My Guest

August 28

10:00 pm

Sybil Bruncheon hosts a panel gameshow with surprise guests.
Frankie Loves Johnny An original gay
soap opera.

Sybil Bruncheon meets Kermit (the Frog)
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