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The threat by many groups to boycott the Sixth International
Conference on AIDS in San Francisco once again focuses attention on the U.S. government's absurd policy of not freely admitting HIV positive people to this country.
International AIDS groups have long been incensed that the
Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) has blocked theadmission of people with AIDS and HIV disease to the U.S. Last
year a Dutch health educator, Hans Paul Verhoef, was imprisoned when he tried to attend an AIDS conference in San
Fran~isco. Despite the uproar that ensued, a similar incident took
place months later when a Danish health worker was briefly
halted at Logan Airport in Boston, and several more cases havebeen reported recently.
Now: with the world's largest annual AIDS conference set for
next June 'in San Francisco, national and international AIDS groups
are furious that participants may be halted as they enter this country.
The INS has responded by setting up a "waiver" system
which allows HIV positives to enter the country for 30 days ifthey apply for and receive an INS waiver. But, as AIDS groups
around the world point out, such a system is Kafkaesque in its
absurdity. Applying for such a waiver breaches the confidentiality which is at the base of good AIDS policy. While allowing aperson brief entry to this country, it could subject the applicant
to discrimination or quarantine upon returning horne and lead tothe cancellation of the applicant's passport.
But beyond the immediate consequences to partiCipants,such asystem is inherently nonsensical. The U.S. has the world's largest
AIDScaseload, and our gov~rnment is doing Virtuallynothing to stop
the spread of HIV within our borders. Indeed, repressive foreign governments could manufacture more logical excuses for exclurling
Americans on the grounds of our high rate of HIV infection than we
could ever dig up for excluding their nationals from the U.S. And it's
obvious that if it's safe to allow people with HIV into the country for
30 days, it's totally illogicalto exclude them generally.
At any rate, AIDS experts universally reject restrictions on
the free travel of HIV positives. And indeed they should. The
world has little to gain, and much to lose, by any unnecessary
bar to the free movement of peoples.
According to INS officials, their waiver system is the furthest
they can go without
new legislationfrom Congress.
Congressional sources tell us that with the implacable opposition. of Jesse Helms, any new legislation is Virtually impossible. And
international AIDS leaders tell us that without changes, a major. boycott will occur next summer, hobbling the conference and, greatly diminishing its usefulness.
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LETTERSTim Sweeney
Pro and Con'Your editorial and news
analysis of January 28 distort
Tim Sweeney's role In theselection process for a commissioner of health In New
York City, You fall to present
the basic fact that TIm, and
GMHC, came out against Dr,
Woodrow Myers' nomination,
You Ignore TIm'syears of passionate commitment to gay
and lesbian rights and his
current struggle to preserve
the coalition that Is the cornerstone of the flght against
AIDSIn New York City.
Tim, along with the 17
women and men on the
mayor's search committee,
volunteered
his time andexpertise to evaluate candidates for commissioner ofhealth,The moment Tim
learned there were serious. additional questions about
Dr. Myers' record on AIDS; headvised me of the Issues
Involved and I sent a letterthat day, January 8, .to themayor asking him to delay
any appOintment until afteran Independent review was
conducted.
We also asked
the mayor to Issue a policy
statement recognizing that
the New York City HealthC;ommlssloner must oppose
mandatory
reportingofnames and contact tracingof HlV Infected IndiViduals,
Tim ,realized the controversy over Dr. Myers could
destroy the coalition he andothers had worked years tocreate, We asked leaders of
AIDSorganizations In the gay
community and communities of color to meet at
GMHC on January 10. Overthe next eight days, Timstruggled tirelessly behindthe scenes to remain abridge between all thesegroyps. But on Janudry 18,
when Dr, Myers made Irresponsible statements to thepossible candidate for com-'missioner.
Had Sweeney actually
blown ffle whistle on Myers"the moment he learned
there were serlous...questlons
about
Myers record on
AIDS," as Braff asserts, Myers
would not now be healthcommissioner.

press on the use of quarantine In New York City, Tim
Sweeney withdrew his support of Dr. Myers as healthcommissioner. He joined me
In Issuing a statement that
GMHC could not support Dr,
Bravo to you all for calling
Myers' candidacy,on Tim Sweeney of the
Mayor Dinkins has made
GMHC to resign, At the ACT
his deCision on the health
UP meeting where YOl.X.edltocommissioner and I believe
rial was dlscl,lSSed,someonethat we must move on
criticized you for "CO'lniballztogether. The gay and leslng" our leadeis, That's a serlous charge and I've heard It
bian community must cooperate with all communities
before, It Is too bad whenaffected by AIDS, We needgay groups get so obsessed
to develop trust not dMslvewith Inflghtlng and personalIness, Tim has done nothing to ty clashes that the overall
betray o.urtrust. He took on acause gets obscured and we
difficult assignment as a gay , should all guard against that
man and an AIDS advocate
happening, But It's unfair toand carried It out to the bestaccuse Outweek of that mlsof hisconsiderable abilltles.
take-In that case.
The focus of our attention
The fact Is that while wemustremainon
Dr.
Myers-:-hehas not yet
earned our trust. Dr, Myers Is
srONEWAtt RIOrSthe man we must educate
and vigilantly
watch tomake sure all people withAIDS In New York City areprotected from discrimination and given access to thehealth care and other services they desperately need.
Jeffrey Braff,
Executive Director,
Gay Men's Health Crisis
Manhattan(Editor's note: Mr, Braff's
assert/on that Sweeney
Informed him about problems wlffl Myers' record "Themoment SWeeney learned
fflere were serious additionalquest/ons,"
on Jan. 8, Is
Incorrect. When OutWeek
presented Sweeney with along list of allegatfons about
Myers on Jan. 6, Sweeney
responded that, with the
exception of the Clover Leaf
Nursing Home Issue, he had
known about all the otherallegations for quite sometime, Despite ffl/S,he strongly
defended Myers as the best

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have to guard against camIballzlng our leaders, we also
have to hold them accountable. Every group or causethat has ever succeeded has
had some mechanism forholding Its leaders accountable. At present we, as gays
In the age of AIDS, have nosuch mechanism, The people running GMHC, whopractically have the power oflife and death In their hands,
are electedby nobody,answerable to nobody andcan be recalled or held
occolSltabie by nobody. So
when someone like Sweeney
gets called upon to represent
us all on a search corrmHtee,and allows Myers to go
through, and then says, "Iunderstandwhy publichealth people want to quaantlne:'what
are we supposed to do? Sao;, oh flne Mr.
Sweeney, keep It up Mr.
Sweeney, we don't want tobe accused of "cannlballz-

BY ANDREANATALIE

LES9/ANS

February 4, 1990

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tng- you Mr. &Heeney so we'U
just keep OU' mouths shut?

I don't thInk so. We
should alwoyS give our 1eaders some room for error, weshould always reserve judgement when mistakes are
made. But when somebody
tucks up this bad, they justhave to go.
.
Ithank God 0Utweek Isn't
afrdd to point that out, I'm a
PVYAand I God bless you all,Marvin Myershon
Manhattan
Few persons In New York,or..lndeed the nation, haveworked for as many years,
with as'much dedIcationand effectlveness, to protect
the rights of lesbians andgay men and people wIth
HlV disease as has Tim
SWeeney. Calling for his resignation or firing Is an unwarranted reaction
to the. events surrounding
theappointment of Dr. Myers os·

FundIng (CAF), which Is aconsOrtium of over 30 of the
major communIty-based
AIDS organizations
that
annuaHy presents an alternative budget to the city for
fu'ldlng AIDSservices.
It woud seem faIrly clearthat such contributions will
be far more crttlcal In meetIng the challenges ahead,
As someone who has than satisfying any Immediworked with TImSWeeney for ate urge for symboHc bloodseveral years on the growing
lettfng.
problem of homelessness .
Peter P.SmIth, President
anorg people M'Q wtth ADS
Partnership for the Homea-d related conditions, I perless,lnc.
sonally belleve It Is unfair andIn a cMlIzed society, whencxx.nter~1ocIemc:rd
tis resIgIaIIon ftom GMHC.
someone causes lrrepaable,
Sweeney has done as disastrous harm to one's
much as any other single
cause, one resigns, valll'ltartIndIvidual to move the city
ly. It matters not a whit how
bu'eaucracy towards facing
long one has labored In theup to the ravages of thepast or h~w many good
AIDS epidemic. One examdeeds one can take credit
ple should suftlce: SWeeney for. What matters Is responslwas Instrumental In founding
bIIty, and settfng a tone, a-d
the Committee
for AIDS a sense of personal honor.
heal1h commissioner. .
We value TIm's role In our
comrm.nlty enormously, andwe hope that he will contfnue to work with us and for us
and for many years to come.
Nan Hunter
BIll RubensteInACLU Lesbian and Gay
RIghtsProject

EYER'( SUMbAYt'DRNlN',"E MAKES us WEAl
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February4, 1990

In England, In public life,
anyone responsible for half
the damage Mr. Sweeney
has done wood have taken
full responslb81y and depart- .
ed, voluntarily,
the day
Woodrow
Myers
wasappointed,
The tact that Mr. 9Neeney
Is Clinging to office Is an
emba'assment. The tact thata newspaper had to call tor
his ouster Is a scandal. The
tact that his contfnued presence Is splitting New York's
gay c:ornmJnIty Is a tragedy.
I look forward to the day
when our 'gay leaders- riseto the moral level of British
politicians.
FraserGDI
Manhattan
I agree that Woodrow
Myers as heal1h commissioner Is a risky proposition,although I think Mayor DinkIns Is correct In asserting thatthe past record does notnecessarily predict how theBefrayed- and your Inaccuguy will do In New York. It
ratedepictionof Timseems to be In the nature ofSWeeney,
public health professionals to
In addition to being one
want to keep lists, contactof the founders of the New
peopleandIntervene
York AIDSCoalition, an orgaaggressively.
nization working with more
What I don't agree with Is than 200 community based
the stridency of the -Parservices
andprograms
adise Betrayed- editorial.
statewide, Tim SWeeney has
While the honeymoon with
been a leader, an advocate
Dlnklns Is over, a declaration
and a committed organizerof war Is premature.
for over a decade.
My Q"lOIysls Is that the gay
Colng for Tim'sresignation
folks on the transition teambecasue his actlon -disqualImade a bad coli on this one, fies him from any further
and by the time the facts
Involvement- Is deplorable.
blew up In everyone's face,Your editorial blindly Ignores
Dlnldnshad to go ctlead withthe work Tim has done In theMyers unless Myers voluntarlly
legislative halls of New Yorkpulled himself out of consld- . CIty, Albany and Washington.
eratlon, which he obviously
You fall to menllon how many
did not do.
1ImesTim has reached out toI agree with Tim SWeeney bJd bridges acrossthe watersthat there are some lastof a tubUent corrmunIIy,
resort circumstances where
I hope Tim Sweeney
Individuals with HIV Infection
remains a strong leader who
who lack the appropriate
continues to fight theleglslasense of responsibility
totlve battles for funding, civil
restrain themselvesmayliberties and access to qualihave to be restrained byty health care, We couldn't
society. I think the most reawin wlfhout him.
sonable way to go about
SusanStamler,
the -quarantine- Issue Is to
C-oordlnator
talk about appropriate proNew YorkAIDSCoalition
cedures and safeguards toManhattan
ensure that this draconian
Intervention Is only used as a
In all the brouhaha about
last resort atter proPer counTim Sweeney making a misseling and monitoring havetake, one fact doesn't seem
failed, which has been theto be geffing across. People
approach In New York
keep saying that Tim's misAs a Lambda
boardtake was that he didn't domember, I worked with Tim his homework, that he didn't
Sweeney for several years
find out about Woody Myers'
when he was executive
record of lies and homophodirector. I think your combia until It was too late. Somements about him were tooeven say Tim should be forextreme. Tim has undoubtedgiven because everybody
ly leaned some lessonsfrom
makes mistakes like that, andthis experience, and I'm sure you don't shoot down someTom Stodclad and Male Wilbody's
wholecareerson have also learned from It. because Of.one little mistake.
OufWeek should be critical
But all of this Is based on
and outspoken, but criticism
a wrong premise, The fact ofshould be temperedwiththe matter Is that Sweeney
pragmatism
and human
DID do his homework. He DID
know about Myers' record
understaldlng.
Arthur S. Leonard' .
.all along. He admits It,
The fact of the matter Is
Manhattan
that
he recommended
Myers DESPITEthe fact that
I an writing to respond to
your editorial-Paradise
he knew about Myers' sup-port for contact tracing andquarantine and all the rest.
ThisI find absolutely unbelIeveable. The person who
was responsible for looking
out for gay Interests KNEWall
this stuff and said Myers was
OK anyway? It's a disgrace.
So the fact Is, It wasn't a
mistake, He did It on purpose, And If he. doesn't
resign or get fired, he can do
It again,
I don't care how great
Tim Sweeney Is supposed tobe, I think he's a menace, I
hope he leaves quletiy,Marc Rosenthal
Manhattan

Frankly, we are sick andtired of It. We are tired ofbeing characterized as theenemy, the big bad giantwith no feelings. We are
tired of the "gay presstrumpeting our failings andshortcomings
and nevermentioning 'the good andvaluable work that we doevery day, sl:lch as deliverIng over 600 free meals
each week In our recreation program, or creating
the first educational
programs to reinforce safer sex
behavior, or hiring a permanent, full-time lobbyist to
represent the entire HIVcommunity In Washington.
We have been silent long
We are tired of fanatics whoenough.
feel that they have to misIt seems that each new
represent the faefs andIssue of OutWeek contains yet hoard credit for accomanother condemnationofplishments that are the
Gay Men's Health. Crisis, . result of careful coalltlonwhether It be In a columnbuilding and cooperation,
wrltten by an embittered forWe are tired of the self-rlghmer colleague or a letter fromteousness and Institutionalone of the self-styled -badIzed hysteria that foster
guys: the acfMsts who are so shoot -from-the-hlp criticism
ultta-chlc at the moment,
and lightning-quick
judgUsually, the staff here atments.
GMHC just roll their eyes, try to
GMHC Is certainly far
laugh off the otten vicious
from perfect,
No one Is
and unfounded attacks withmore aware of that factout getting too enraged orthan GMHC staff. But GMHC
feeling too hurt, and get
Is only one part of a veryback to work In our dally botlarge picture. To suggest
tie against HN Illness,that one man, and by a graBut when those attacks
tuitous extension, the agencome from the editor ofcy he works for, Is responsible
what purports to be -New
for the lack of leadership
York's Lesbian and Gay
and cooperation In managNews Magazine- then we
Ing the city's HIV crisis Is sofeel compelled to respond,
SimplistiC as to be criminal.
And although the edltorlal of
You have failed to serve theJanuary 28 calls for the resig- communHy you claim to repnation (or, more correctly,
resent, For this reason, wecall upon you, (Rotello) tohumiliation) of Tim Sweeney,
resign Immediately,
If youIt Is obvious who the real tarrefuse to do so, we call upon
get Is: once again, GMHC.
the publisher of O~kto
It Isa matter of public record
fire you.
that GMHC never endorsed
Many of us held out highWoody Myers and, In fact,
hopes for this magazine. But,cameout against
hislike the tcblold you sought toappointment
on January
succeed,
OutWeek
has
18th,
Nevertheress, you
become arrogant. divisivefound It self-serving to use
ard InslJa', At least 'It took the
Tim Sweeney as an excuse
to ,lndl.)lge In the currently
Nat/v~ ~veral years to slide
down
that
far; yqu've.
fashionable sport of GMHC
accomplished It Ina matter ofbashing.

February 4, 1990

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mon1hs. Tal<about befra(d, ..
Stephen de Francesco
Michael DeMayo
Craig G. Harrfs\t1lerle Hosklns
Am Hughes-Hlnnen\tIIU Kanuha

DavId Klotz
Gay Men's Health Crisis
My lover works at GMHC,
so please don't print myname If you publish this letter,
I just WCl"lted you to knowwhat was going on overthere, They are hopping,ranting, pIssIng, shlttlng madat OutWeek for saying Tim
Sweeney should resign. I
mean totally out of theirminds. And you know why?
Because your editorial Is justanother In an Increasingly
long listof ocClSate, rlght-ontarget accusations
about
their out of touch attitude.
lhese people are not used tobeing questioned. For years-nobodycoUdevenquestlon
them, their methods, theirdecsIons, their priorities, how
they chose their leaders,
They got real used to that.
Along came ACT UP,
which stole a little of theirthunder,but not really,
because ACT UP couldn't
really publicize their differences.
But then came
OutWeek, dragging all of
GMHC's shit out Into the'lIght of day where' gay
New York could read allabout It. Christ, are they
pissed. The holy AIDS martyrs, who are actually thewhite bread wimps of theepidemic.
Know what they're doing
now? Calling up 35 headsof the 35 biggest groups,
asking them to write to support SWeeney. Pathetic, eh?
My lover may not want
OufWeek In -the apartment

after fhIs. Irrot have to choose
between him and OutWeek.
Geeze, taug, choice,

By the waf, you were rightabout Sweenay, even though
he Is a hal of a nIc:e g'J(. Hegave U5 Wf:xx1.{, sIrQ&hcrded.

We're gorg to need QJMgek

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even more In the SWeeney!
Myers yeas to come.
. Name Withheld
Manhattan
What nervel Demanding
TIm SWeeney's resignation, ..
who died and named you
the new Max Frankel?
Iswear, If It wasn't for AIDS
you queens would be backdlshln' attitude from behinda sales counter at Bloomles.
Get over yourself(
Gerard Flynn
GMHC
I do not think I've met a
prominent
gay person I
respected more than TIm
SWeeney. He has dedicatedhimself for many, many years
to the fight for jusHce for lesbians and gay men. Duringthat fight, one of his special
strengths has been his understanding that we are not
only lesbians or gay, but
members of other cOll'Ynunlties: racial minorities, thepoor and the disadvantaged,
thedisabled,
women, people with AIDS.
As Executive Director of
lambdalegal
Defense,where I work, and now at
GMHC, he has always kept
his energies channeled Into
hard work and substantive
achievement
avoiding the
backbiting, egoism and selfpromotion that consume too
many of us.
OutWeek's call for TIm's resignation should be rejected,
even by those who disagreewith the Judgments he made.
TIm Is too good, his record Is
too good, to demand hishead over one decision.
Evan Wolfson,
Staff Atorneylambda legal Defense
and Education Fund, Inc,
I hope I speak for both
the gay!lesblan community
and the AIDS community
when I thank you for theInvestigative work which led
to the uncovering of the real
Dr. Myers, work which shouldhave been done by 0\1 sup-February 4, 1990

posed leaders, all of whoma classic example of disenfailed us miserably. And I franchised people getting acommend and support yoursense of power from cannibalizing their own,
call for the removal of Tim
CorIsa Cunningham
SWeeney from his position at
Commlf)lcatIons
GMHC. I'm sure this was anagonizing decision for you,
AssocIate, GMHC
and your courage In taking
such a stand Is all the more
I am writing In response toremarkable for Its rarity In a
your editorial of January 28,
time when compromise and1990-·Paradlse Befrayed:
acquiescence seem to preh rrt( opHon 'PS ca1l.P01'l
vail, To those who defend
TIm Sweeney to resign was
Sweeney by pointing to his . unwarranted and ultimately
post record, I say that In this coJd be dcrlgerousIy ctJI9ve.
escalating AIDS crisis, the
TImSWeeney has been at
only relevant question Is, the forefront of the AIDS epiWhat have you done for us
demic for many years, suclately? Sweeney must go,
cessfully navigating a veryand If he does not, then we
difficult course.
must all ask ourselves why
In your editorial you use
we should continue to supthe word compromise with aport an agency which Is so
negative
connotatlon·compromlse·
means toready to sell us out.
It scares me to thinkknow where to best expend
where we might hove been
one's resources CI"Id to know
headed were It not for yourwhich battles are winnable
and which are not;boldness and strength In
picking up the ball o.thers soEvery day leaders In therecklessly dropped.
You
AIDS community must bear
hove put us on guard. Thank the 'slings and arrows· fromyou, OutWeek,
our enemies; It Is truly unforRIck MOlf)t
tunate when we begin to
Manhattan
attack each other In thismanner. We do not always
last week It was 'let's nothave to argee with every
scapegoat
the one gay
action of our colleagues, but
man on the search commitIf we call for an Individual's
tee,' ThIsweek It's 'off with
resignation every time wehis headl·
What will next
have a disagreement thereweek bring?
will .not be anyone lett to
As a GMHC staff member
fight our battles,
who has worked closely withIt Is my benef that the loss
TIm Sweeney for years, I of TIm SWeeney from the war
want to tell you that your coli on AIDS would be a disasterfor his resignation Is ridicufor this community.
I
lous. He Is an Incredibly
respecffully request that you
effective advocate, as well
retract your call for Tim
as one of the brightest, most SWeeney's resignation.
committed, progressive andGory A. Maffei,
well-loved people I have
Executive Director
met In this or any movement,
AIDSCnfr!Queens Cnty.
I find It hard to believethat you truly doubt his value
As an older member ofto the AIDSand gay and les- our community,
who hasbian communities.
I find It watched many movements
hard to understand why you
and leaders come and go, I
Ignore his many, many
have some observations on.accomplishments on behalf
your sad but necessary callof those communities,nofor the resignation of Mr. Tim
matter what your disagreeSWeeney of the Gay Men's
ments with him on any parHealth Crisis for his unfortut1cuar Issue. Your editorial Is
nate, and untyplcal,butfatal lapse In the Myers affair.
It has always seemed tome that the established gay
leaders have lagged behindthe sentiments of the people
they supposedly lead. From
the days of the Mattachlne
Society, which I remember
well, and then throughout
the 60s, 70s and 80s, ourmovement
has hadastrooge weakness, CIs leaders have always, with a few
glorious exceptions, become
enamored with power andprlvelege. They have otten
seemed willing to consign thetrue sentiments of the community of aware gays to thetrashbln of 'radcallsm" while
appropriating for themselves
the respectable titles andperogatIves of assimilation.
This drama has been
played out over and overagain, I would wish, In thewasteland of AIDS, that It
would stop, and that gay
leaders would truly get In
touch with those they supposedly
lead.
But Mr.
Sweeney'scomments
In
Outweek, and tonight on the
90s TV shoW, demonstrate
once again what a gulf
exists between those who
supposedly lead, and those
who simply suffer.
I'm too old to Judge. I'll
leave that to the brash
young people who put out
Outweek Magazine, whl~hby the way, could benefit
from the Input of people myage. But I must agree that
their critique Is In line with theanalysis
I haveoften
observed, If you want to bea leader, then lead. In thecase of a minority stlll terribly
oppressed, It's hard to be too
radical, too angry, It's easy
to crave respectability, andto betray your people In auseless and counterproductive attempt at compromise.
I apologize
toMr.
Sweeney, who I hear Is amarvelous
person," If myremarks offend.
But I dothink he should accept
responslbllty and step aside,at least temporarlly. Some-times the best are called
upon to make the greatest
sacrifice. Hasn't It always
been so?
George Galey
Manhattan
It was with great dismaythat I read your editorial
which called for the resignation of TImSweeney.
In the heat of this controversy, It Is Important that wenot lose sightof Mr,
Sweeney's long standing
commitment and leadership
In promoting fair and effective AIDS policies which safeguard the Interestsand rights
of all those affected by thisepidemic, He has served as
an effective adVocate at the
local, state and federal levels
and has lobbied successfullyfor AIDSfl..ndng. In addltton,
he wa. Instrumental In the formulation of New York State's
landmark confldentlallty law
In 1988. Mr.SWeeney has also
worked ardently to build
coalitions of organizations
representing
the diverse
communities affected
by
AlD$ In order to build bridges
and create a united lobby.
We hope that he will continue In his leadership role andremain as Deputy Executive
Director of GMHC;
As you stated, Mr. Dinkins
made his final decision toappoint Dr. Myers as healthcommissioner, Ultimately, wemust look to the mayor toensu'e that the AIDS policies
and philosophies he promoted during his campaign are
upheld and supported by his
appointee.
The greatest
challenge we now face Is torebuild, trust and strengthen
alliances In order to move
forward In our common
struggle to 'Overcome AIDS,
Mlguellna Maldonado
Executive Director
Hispanic AIDSForum
To be a gay man In New
York City In 1990 Is to see,wtth palnfli clarity, that there
Is no longer and such thing
as 'the gay community,"

TIM SWEENEY

Photo: lee Snider/Photo Images

The most glaring case In
point Is your recent editorial
calling for the resignation of
GMHC's Deputy Executive
Director, Tim SWeeney,
To call for Mr. SWeeney's
resignation seems-ultlmateIy- the more unforgivable
act; It Is.also the worst sort ofof sensationalist editorializIng, The decision has been
made and we are best
served by working together
to ensure that Mr, Myers lis"tens to us and to our concerns, and that he acts withthose concerns In mind, We
are not at all served by dMslonlsm-on which, like The
New York Native, OufWeek
seems to thrive.
David Craig Austin
Ass't, Dlr.of Education
GMHC

they'revery concerned
about what the community

If It's really flue 1tlat GMHC
asked other groups tq write letters In ~pport of 11m SWeeney,
they should go to heH:
I'm a client of GMHC. Theynever ask me-what I think;
They don't care, But when It
comes to this guy who let
Myers In, all of a sudden

thinks.
1hey should have thoughtof that a long time ago.
The heads of GMHC
make huge Incomes. They
should eam It.
.
SWeeney Is a traitor who I
saw on Out In The 90's. I
can't believe that he Is supposed to represent us. He
should go work for theRepublicans.
They needhim more than we do.
I'm.not an Insider. I justlive here,
Name Withheld
Brooklyn
As an employee of the
Gay Men's Health CrIsIs who
has worked
with :Tlm
Sweeney for a year and ahalf, I feel I must respond to
the editorial published In ~your magazlne yesterday.
Who are you really after
here? I think you should beafter the truth In your own
reporting.
Perhaps you
should also look at the entire
city's population
with Its
myrlad health problems andFebruary 4, 1990

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you might see that concllatlon, coalition-building
and··compromlse· are necessary
In order to create a better
heaHh care system, of which
HIV Is a major, but not theonly, Issue facing all of us,
gay and straight.
.
Have you just arrived In
New York City? There are
COU"rltess batItes that we have
won In the fight against thisepidemic that might havebeen lost were It not due to(TIm's) abilities, Undoubtedly
1here will be countless more In
the fuIu'e and he wIU be needed to fight them. You ae qlite
Ignorant If you think anyone
here at· GMHC will take yourcol for his resIgnaflon seriously,David Hodgson
GMHC
I am opposedto theunfortunate appointment of
Dr. Woodrow Myers, Jr, as
Health Commissioner of theCity of New York, I strongly
feel that he Is a most Inappropriate choice.
I haveknown
TimSWeeney since 1985. Immediately It became apparent
1hat Tim was an IndMduol of
unusual Integrity, brilliance,awareness and strength,
Human rights, Including gay
rights, especiallyas they
related to the AIDSepidemic
were of paramount Importance to Tim personally andprofessionally.
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People such as
Tim do not comealong very often
and we need to let It
be known that we
support him as aleader even If there
Is disagreement withsome of his positions,
I'm certain thatTim SWeeney will notstand silent for one
momentIf
Dr.
Woodrow Myers, Jr,
attempts to do anything that wO.uld In
any way Jeopardize
the HIV/AIDS and/or
gay community of
New York City,
Robert M.T,Dlarlo,
President
Positive Action ofN.Y,
Manhattan
Congratulations for yourbrilliant coverageof theWoody Myers case. In being
recognized as a force In thecompetitive world of big city
journalism by the likes of The
New York Times, Newsday
and the VII/age Voice, youhave elevated gay and lesbian Journalism In our ctty toa height It had never before
attained. This gives a new
dignity not only to gay newspapers, but to gays and lesbians In general.
But your most singularachievement In this matter Is.your .extaror,dlnary call forthe resignation of the deputy
director of~GMH<1' By thisact you have Intfoduced
Into our community a concept that until now It had
entirely lacked, by which I
mean accountability.
Every group has to havea means of holding Its leaders accountable. ThisIs evenmore Important when, as In
our case, we never have the
Slightest Input Into who will
become our .Ieaders In thefirst place.
Those who accept theglory, responsibility, powerand, In the case of GMHC,
the big salaries, must take the

February 4, 1990

bad with the good, You havebroken as much new ground
In pointing this out as you
have In bringing real professionalism to gay Journalism,
Again, my congratulations,
P.Caswell
Brooklyn
Used to be that theNative cornered the market
on vicious personal attacks
and distorted commentary
In our community. But you
assumed their position, andtheir stature, when you
squatted on Tim SWeeney In
last week's editorial.
Why are you ready toserve as judge, jury and executioner of Tim's reputation
before you've printed all the
relevant facts?
Like Chuck Ortleb or
Leonard Goldstein, you're sofull of anger and hate thatyou'd rather .call for a public
shunning or burning thanpresent your readers with all
the facts.
There are many heroes
In our community, but theone I admire most Is Tim
Sweeney, It's my perception that, under Tim's leaderShip, GMHC has become
our most effective force In
state and city budget
negotiations for AIDS fundIng. Under Tim's direction,
GMHC has killed dozens ofbad bills that WOUld've
stripped PWA's and HIVpositive people of their
few legal protections andtheir basic human rights,
Our community deserves
a paper we can trust. You
can be that paper-but only
If you hold yourselves to ahigher standard than you
did last week, You could findno better way to demonstrate your commitment tothat higher standard than byapologizing to Tim SWeeney.
David Relscher
GMHC
It was with sadness that I
read OufWeek's editorial
calling for the resignation of
Tim Sweeney from Gay

Men's Health Crisis. If wevaporize every one of ourleaders who makes a mistake there will be none left.
While I am critical ofsome of Dr. Myers' former
policies as commissioner ofhealth In Indiana, I also know
that
Dr, Myers showed
Integrity when he resigned
from Reagan's atrocious
commission on AIDS. In
short, Myers Is a mixed bag.
But who Is better than Tim
Sweeney to see that Dr.
Myers gets whatever additional education and prodding he needs to be aneffective and just commissioner of heaHh In New York.
James Harrison, PhD
Manhattqn
Just In case you hadn't
noticed, THERATSARE WINNING, BIG TIMEI Thank you
for, at least, having the guts
to call the exterminators.
Rodger Pettyjohn,

RN,PWAI work for a not for profit
organization that deals with
AIDS. Rumors spread aroundhere yesterday 1hat our drector had received a call from
GMHC asking (telling?) us towrite a letter to OutWeek In
support of Tim Sweeney,
whose resignation you called
for In your latest editorial. I
didn't believe that GMHC,
which funds our group, would
stoop to make such a call.
Now, however, I hear th6tat last night's ACT UP meetIng Jeffery Braff, the GMHC
director, confirmed that they
did Indeed make such calls.
I don't realy know what our
ctecIa' v.I do, Ido know, howfMX, what 11m ctx>utGMOC for~thef"rB.les by rnc:kng
such a reqJeSt.
It really says It all about
the siege mentality at GMHC
that they couldn't simply let
the chips fall where theymay, and let people express
their own opinions about
what Sweeney did vis 'a vis
Myers, It's obvious that they
have no confidencethatWe support Outweek In
Iu the "notorious· health betrayal, However, I am cot')commissioner, Dr. Myers, so vInced that It Is most IlTf>Ortcnt calling for the resignation of
to channel Oll' ~er In such a Tim Sweeney as a deputy
aptty noted, It Is not he whoshould be the "enemy". The way as to cflatl1e public poll- director of GMHC and In
Col, rather then pu-eIy as ego- calling GMHC's board to flreenemy Is the HlV virus andhim If he does not resign. .
gratifying "venting· (eventhe pain, anguish and devRichard S, Haymes,
though that can be healthy
astatton It Is causing.
Christopher Hennelly, Elliot
from ttme to ttme).
Nor should there be a call
If he doesn't redeem him- Gilbert, Jim DavIs, Brad Lamm,
for a sacrtftdallanb to sootheMichelle Vanvoorhles,K.
self, we can focus on "getthe Ire and frusIratton of thoseGreen, Stephen N, Rosenbush,ting· Dinkins for this In 1993,
who woUd have preferred a
Robin Haueter, Jamie Leo,
health commissioner
less when he Isup for reelectton,
Michael Perelman, Walter
C, Parisi
tainted but the sometimes
Armstrong, TrishMaslk, Marlo
Manhattan
absurd and damaging realldelaTorrlente,
Bill Cullen,
ttes of the politics of AIDS In
Adam Brooks,Anthony Noble,
the heath care sectOr.
I have just flnlshed reading
Scott Wold, Deborah Gavtto,
Was the support for the
yOlX edltortal on the appolntMarvin Shulman, Jeffrey
recommendationof Dr. ment of Dr, Woodrow Myers
Aronoff, Jeffrey Engel, John
Myers Ill-placed? Possibly.. as New York City's MalthPossIbly. Must we be vigilant
commissioner and your Inter- Crates, Sandor Katz, Joe B.
Franco, F.P.Bulanouchas, R,D,
You should be ashamed
In our oversight of the actions . view with Tim Sweeney titledof yourselvesl The twisted
and directives of the new"The Gay Man Who First Goldsworthy, VIctor Mendola,
Patrice 1. Nolan, Cynthia C.
editorial of January 28, "Par- corrmlssloner? Of course.
Backed Myers,·
Acosta, James Wagner, SlMo
adlse Betrayed,·
which
Should Tim Swe~ney
I was very disappointed
demands the reslgnatton of
resign? No. ShoUd the boardthat you made this Issue. Lanaro, Jon David Nalley,
Craig PaUll,Chris Relds, Ndy
TIm Sweeney because of his of GMHC demand his reslgInto a very unwarranted
Hlckes,Kevin O'Connor, Henry
role In the Myers affair, hasnation? I shoUd hope not.
personal
qttackon TimYeager, Robert W. Ge1so, Barry
relegated your magazine to
For If we l~ TIm's ability
Sweeney .. I did not expect
Schwartz, Carl Sigmon, Kathy
the sane jOU'nOlIst\clitter box and expertise, we will truly this type of reporting fromoccupied by the New York have hurt our afforts to stem. OutWeek; as I do expect It Otter, RussellE, PrItchard, laurie Weeks, Rand Snyder, John
NatIve. Welcome, ladles O"ld the awfIj ttde oftHs epidemic.
from anotherso-called
Reynolds, Bob Camyre, Jefgenttemen, to the arena of
Ed Butler
community paper. .
frey Grlglak, Jere Starnes,
divisiveness, scapegoatlng
AssistantAdministrator
After reading your Interand conspirattonal theor1zIngl
AIDSPrograms
view I find It hard to believe . John Arakel, Robert Olmo,
I am employed·at GMHC
The VIllage Nursing Home
that It Is a full unedited version Rick Mount, Mart< F. Sundre,
Vincent Boucher, Michael
and wort< with Mr. Sweeney.
of what actually was said.
dally, He Isthe most selfless, '.
My "moderate·
recomCalling for his reslgnatton . Eisenhower,Steven N~roth,
Tom Gladwell, Evan Cohen,
level-headed and Informed
mendatlons?
Focus ouror that he should be "dlsqualRonald F, Vlgglanl, G'dall
person I have ever had theefforts on replacing
Tim
lfIed from any further InvolveBraverman, Jean Elizabeth
good f()rtune to associate
Sweeney at GMHC and as ment·
Is Inappropriate,
Glass, Richard Granger, Jefwith. Throughout the Myers
one of our representatives to
Mayor Dinkins Is the person
fery Wise, Wayne Shideler,
episode, Mr. Sweeney kept
the administration, Keep up
who should be held accountDavid Lopez, Timothy C,
the ~st lnteresfs of the AIDS the pressure on Dinkins andable for this appointment.
community as a whole-oMyers to ensure that Dinkins'
While your attack on Mr, Prairie, Steven Gradman,
James A. Baggett, David M,
communityof coalitions
campaign promises on the
Sweeney may "make rlvetGross, John Stumpf.Sharon
among gay m~n and lesIssuesof testing, tracing andIng reading· I'm sure It also
McCluskey, Gilbert Marttnez,
blans, African Americans,quarantine
are honored.
sellspapers.
RIchard Jackman, Barbara F.
Latinos, drug users and even
Most Importantly, engage
James A. Fielding
Hughes,heterosexuals-foremost,with Myers and Dinkins so
Manhattan
When
OutWeek
wasthat Myers will deal proaclaunched I had high hopes
tlvely and forcefully withthat New Yort<'slesbian andconstructive solutiOns to thegay commll'llty would at last AlDS/HIV health care crisis In
have a reasoned voice,
NewYort<Clty.
Unfortunately, your unbalI feel personally betrayed
anced editorial has marredby Dinkins, I am appalled bythose hopes. By attacking
Tim Sweeney. And I've been
Tlm.Sweeney you wound theInched forward to the pOint
community you are sworn towhere I'm ready to become
serve. Even more appalling,
more acffvely involved Instead
you seem to enjoy It,
of sItttng on the sldeflnes comGreg Lugllanl
plalnlng, I won't soon forget
GMHC
these feelings of hurt and .
anyone would come to
Sweeney's defense on theirown. Instead, GMHC has touse their Immense power
and flnanclallnfluence to fry
to Inttmldate others Into supporting their resident idiots.
OutWeek, you didn't go
far enough In asking for
Uncle Tim's resignation. You
shoUd have asked for Jeffrey
Braff to step down as well.
By the way, I loved the
Kevin Kite Interview.
Thatwhole Issue was brilliant.
Keep It up. We've been waitIng for you a long,long ttme.
Mike Lochevsky
Manhattan

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Anti-Gay Bias Charged inStaten Island Murder~.-,.•.•...

.~.•..

THE -GAY HOWARD BEACH-?-Munl"susp,ct Micha,' TaylDI

by Gabrial Rotallo

the motive for the murder was thebelief that the victim was gay. Taylor"basically said that because Zappalorti
was homosexual,
he got what hedeserved," a police source told the Post.
Gay leaders and politicans werequick to react. A demonstration has
tentatively been planned by a diverse
group of gay organizations for next
week on Staten Island.
The publicity generated by themurder, which has received major
play in the city's dailies, is drawing
attention to the epideffiic of anti-gay
violence sweeping the country in thewake of AIDS.
The murder has also refocused
attention on the anti-bias legislation
currently under considerationin

NEW YORK-Politicians and gay
and lesbian community
leaders
expressed outrage last week over amurder in Staten Island that police arecalling an anti-gay bias crime,
James Zappalorti, 44, a disabled
Vietnam veteran and life-long residentof the Charleston section of Staten
Island, was brutally stabbed to death'
Monday night on a beach he frequented near the Arthur Kill. Police
have arrested Michael Taylor, 20, ofStaten Island, and charged him withsecond degree murder in the case.
Another suspect, Philip Sarlo, 26, isstill being sought.
According the oNew Yom Post, Taylor has indicated in a confession that

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Albany. That legislation
would
enhance penalties against those convicted of bias crimes, and includes
sexual orientation in its protections.
Both Mayor David Dinkins andGovernor Mario Cuomo issued statements on the killing. Dinkins' statement said, in part, "We all become
victims when one of us is killed
because of the color of their skin, religious beliefs, ethnic origin, disabilityor sexual orientation. I again urge theState Legislature to pass" the bias
crimes bill.
Cuomo said, "The tragic death ofJames Zappalorti is another r:eminderof New York's need to speak out
against bias-related crimes. It is inex~
plicable that New York State lacks
even basic criminal sanctions for violations of human rights."
Statements condemning the violence were also issued by Comptroller
Elizabeth Holtzman, Manhattan Borough President Ruth Messinger, Staten
Island Borough President Guy Molinari, Bronx Borough President Fernando Ferrer, City Council President
Andrew Stein and Cardinal John
O'Connor, who said that people "whoperpetuate
violence in any form'
against homosexual
persons ... aredoing violence against Christ himself."
The cardinal continued, "Anyone who does such a thing thinking
it is justified by church thinking
about homosexual beh~vior is grossly ignorant of what the church actually teaches,"
Neither Ferrer's nor Molinari's
statements referred directly to thegay-related bias motive purported
by police.
Victim Taunted
Aq:ording to police, the incictent
began on Monday night as Zappalorti,
a quiet man who lived with his elderSH MURDER on pel'

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Gay Man Appointed NYC

Mental Health Chief
by David Kirby
NEW YORK-During the uproar
and controversy that surrounded theJan, 19 appointment of Dr. Woodrow
A. Myers, Jr, as the city's new healthcommissioner,
another important
event was nearly buried in the political fallout: Mayor David Dinkins thatsame day appointed a gay Black man
to be commissioner of mental health.
As AIDS activists cried foul over
Myers' record in Indiana and Dinkins
scrambled to defend his appointee,
Dr. Billy E, Jones was introduced tothe press as the new Commissioner ofMental Health, Mental Retardation andAlcoholism Services,
Jones is the first openly gay person to be appointed to a commissioner-level job in New York City history,
The Jones announcement was madeon a Friday afternoon
rife witp
rumors that Dinkins was about toappoint Myers. By the time the mayor
introduced Myers to the press--laterthat evening-theworld had all but
forgotten Dr, Jones.
It wasn't until the next day, in a
New York Times article, that the publiclearned of Dr. Jones' sexual orientation. No other news source reported
that Jones is gay, nor was this information included in the city hall press
release on his appointment.
News that the city now had a gay
commissioner trickled slowly into thelesbian and gay community. Many
people were pleased, and somewhat
reassured by Dinkins' action, but others were far more skeptical about the
mayor's motive,
Trying to Deflect Criticism?
Several AIDS activists thought
Dinkins had scheduled'
the two
appointments to coincide in the hopethat a gay appointment would deflect
some of the anger in the community
over the selection of Myers,"If that was
his plan, it won't
work, We do not
see this as fixing
the problem created by the Myers
appointment," ACf
UP spokesman
Alan Beck told
Out Week, "Thiswill in no way stop·
us from pressuring
Dinkins and Myers
to institute rationaland sane AIDS
policies,"
But Beck said
he felt "cautious
optimism" from the MAKING HISTORY-Dr.

qilly E. Jones

Photo: David Kirby

appointment noting that "it's a step'
director before taking office on Feb. 1.
back in the right direction after the"Dr, Myers and I were both chomayor trampled allover us with Myers."
sen independently, and ou.r appointCity hall aides interviewed byments were announced separately,"
autWeek denied any attempt to gloss
Jones said, "there was no connection."over the Myers controversy
byJones said he was aware ofappointing a gay man the same day.
"many' questions" surrounding Dr.
"Both men had to be cleared byMyers, but added that people "havethe city's Conflict of Interest Board, so
little choice but to give him a chance.
they could each take on a second
After all, he is the health. commissionsource of income," explained one
er. He and I will have to work togethDinkins staffer. "The review process
er as a team,"for both of them was completed at thesame time, As soon as they were
Goals for the Next Four Years
cleared, we Ipade the announcement."
Turning toward his goals as
Aides said Dr. Jones' homosexucommissioner,
Jones said he wasality was not publicized as a matter oflooking forward to promoting mental
policy. "We don't announce if somehealth in the lesbian and gay commuone is straight or Jewish or Asian, It
nity, and to sensitizing city mental
doesn't matter as long as they arehealth workers toward the special
good," commented one,needs of the community.
Dr. Jones is not oblivious to the"I want to help people u.rstandspeculations on his appointment.. that being gay is not a mental healthand its timing-but
doesn;t feel he.
problem, although there are gays whowas "used" by the mayor to placate'suffer from mental illness," Jones said,
angry AIDS activists.
"I want to help people :understandThe lively, energetic Jones, 51,
that, if they are against gays and leswas interviewed in his office at thebians, then they have a problem."Bronx's Lincoln Medical Center, where
Jones said he will improve curhe will continue to work as medical
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NJ Mandates Name Lists
for HIV Positives

RESIST THE Ust-ACT

UP gOBS to Trenton

byR. Sugden
TRENTON, New Jersey-A state
senate bill that started out protecting
the confidentiality of HIV antibody
blood test results was turned into legislation requiring the reporting ofnames of people who test positive.
The bill was signed into law by outgoing Governor Tom Keane.
A small demonstration Jan. 22 by
ACf UP/NJ, which protested the newmeasure at a joint session of the legislature where newly-installed Governor James Florio was speaking
resulted in one arrest.
The bill was passed by the New
Jersey State Senate in late December,and signed into law as one of Governor Keane's last official acts.
State Senator Wynona Lipman(D-Essex County) originally introduced the bill to insure penalties for
improper disclosure of the confidential lists kept by state health authorities of people
with AIDS or
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Photo: T.L.Litt

But amendments to the bill in thestate assembly weakened the punitive
measures for breach of confidentiality,
and inserted language that made it
mandatory for all persons to report"the name, address and Social Securi-ty number ...of a person who has or issuspected of having AIDS or HIV
infection" to the New Jersey Public
Health Council. According to the New
Jersey Department of Health, there
are 50,000 to 70,000 people infectedwith the virus in that state.
On learning of the amendments, agroup of AIDS activists met privately
with Senator Lipman, who assured
them that she would withdraw her
name as sponsor, essentially killing themeasure. But a few weeks later the bill
was passed with her support. Lipman
could not be reached for comment But
on Jan, 12 she told the Star Ledger, a
New Jersey daily newspaper, "This bill
will allow the department of health toreceive relevant information on the
horrible virus while maintaining theprivacy of the patient."
Diane Palladino, coordinator of
the New Jersey Women and AIDS
Network, has reservations about constitutional rights and the new law.
"When [the lawl says 'suspected,'
what are we talking about? A gay man
or woman who goes to a doctor for a
SII NJ USTS on palll 52

AlabamaHIV
Prison Quarantine
by Rex Wockner
MONTGOMERY, Alabama-Inanational test case, a federal judge here
ruled Jan. 9 that the state's quarantine of
HIV-antibody positive prisoners does not
violate their 'constitutional rights.
U.S. District Senior Judge Robert
E. Varner justified his ruling by arguingthat "homosexual activities and personal violences as yet appear to be aninescapable part of life in the volatile

prison setting," an apparent reference
to either male rape or the possibility of
HIV transmission via blood-to-blood
contact during fights.
Judy Greenspan, AIDS information
coordinator for the American Civil Uberties Union National Prison Project,charged that Varner displayed an obvious bias against both prisoner andthroughout the trial, and "just didn't
hear any of the evidence we presented.

gays

,
"The whole trial was just one
unlikely scenario after another," shesaid. "They discredited prisoners byasking them if they had been
involved in homosexual relationships,
It was abusive to have to sit in thatcourtroom.
I felt so badly for theprisoners, "Alabama quarantines its 130 male
HN-positive prisoners at Limestone
Correctional Facility near the town ofCapshaw. A much smaller number ofwomen are quarantinedat Julia
Tutwiler Prison near Montgomery,
Department of Corrections officials say the prevalence of gay sex and
LV. drug use in the state's prisons
makes the quarantine necessary for theprotection of uninfected inmates.
The ACLU has fought on behalfof the HIV-positive prisoners forseveralyears and received
animportant boost this week when
U.S. News and World Report pu blished a major investigativenews
feature blasting Limestone's "Thunderdorm" quarantine
building as"The House Of the Dead [where] themen with their dreams have alreadybeen buried-alive."month, They told her she had two
years to live.""At first we had to wear yellow
masks, gloves and plastic on ourlegs," said a third woman.
"After
we'd make a call, they'd wipe thephone with alcohol."
The ten women prisoners said
they were denied access to all prison
programs, including those that would
qualify them for early release, They
were not allowed to go to church services, could not participate in prison
recreation and were given one hour
per week in the library,
The women's biggest complaint,
however, was a requirement
that
they tell potential employers theyare HIV-positive.
"As it stands, we can only getout of here on parole," explained one
woman. "And in order to makeparole, you have to have a job lin~dup in the real world. But in trying to
get a job, you have to tell them.
you're positive, The the job just never'comes through.""It's a catch-22,"
acknowledged a prison official who sat inon the meeting,
One day later, the Freedom
Inside the HIV Units
Ride visited Limestone's male quarIn the summer of 1988, thisantine unit and heard the same storeporter visited Alabama's HN quaranries. The men also had no access totine units while traveling with ACT AZT, pentamidine and T4 tests. And
UP/New York's Lesbian and Gay Free- they did not, and still do not, havedom Ride.
access to condoms.
At that time, HN-positive prison"Everybody in here has a 'husers had no access to AZT of pentamiband' or 'wife,'" explained one prisondine, and doctors were 'not checking
er. "A guy fucks his 'wife' at night andtheir T4 cell counts to determine thethen probably has sex with five other.stage of their infection. These probmen during the day."lems were finally resolved in the
Other inmates estimated that 95
Spring of 1989 through the work of percent of the HIV prisoners havethe ACLU,·
unprotected anal intercourse on a reg"The only way I get any AIDS ular basis-risking the dangers of mulinformation is to call my brother-intiple exposure to differing strains oflaw," one of the female prisoners
HIV and to numerous co-factors
explained during the 1988 interview.
involved in the progression from HN"At first I was writing to the govern- . infection to AIDS.
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The Freedom Riders complainedcame and jumped down my throat."to the prison's head nurse before.
"The first one of us was put on leaving Limestone and were told that .
any discussions of con domes "would'
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have to be taken up with the Departmonths," recalled another female prisment of Corrections."
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The ACLU is appealing the Jan.
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COpS Nab School Teachersin Gay Sex Stingby He" Wackner
HOLLAND, Michigan-Ottawa
County sheriff's deputies-in
a complicated sting operation utilizing a gay
informant, shirtless police officers, ateenaged decoy and a list of local
homosexuals-havearrested four
school employees and two other men
near the city of Holland, charging fiveof them under the state's "gross indecency" statute,
According to sources, the operation began several months ago when.a gay man, Tim VanDenbelt, plea-bargained a sex-offense case in exchange
for a promise to help police find gay
men who might be' having sex withminors.
Among many other activites, VanDenbelt reportedly provided policewith a list of local gays and helped
arrange a Jan. 10 party at the horne ofGarry Miller and Stanley Van Kolken.
Miller works for the, Ottawa Area
Community Education Consortium
and Van Kolken is a reading teacher
in the Grand Haven Public Schools.
According to Jeff Swanson, Executive Director of the Michigan Organization for Human Rights [MOHR],
VanDen belt, undercoversheriffs
deputiesand a 17-year-oldboyattended the party and "orchestrated"the evening in such a way that Miller,
Van Kolken and two other men were
eventually charged, variously, with
"attempting to procure an act of grossindecency, soliciting to commit an actof gross indecency, exhibiting a sexually explicit' performance and furnishing alcohol to a minor."
Two additional men who were
not at the party have also been arrested as part of the undercover operation, Ottawa County Sheriff's Lt. Lee
Posma said a teacher at West Ottawa
High School was taken into custodyat the school two days earlier andcharged under the gross indecency

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statute. The next day, an assistantmanager at Signature Rentals was
charged with distributing a sexually
explicit videotape to a minor.
Representativesof MOHR and
the American Civil Liberties Union
have denounced the sheriffs department operation as "gay-bashing,""entrapment" and "a witch hunt."
Swanson has further charged thatpolice who ·attended the party set up
the arrests by taking off some of theirclothes and misrepresenting the 17year-old youth as an 18-year-old.
Ironically, the age of consent inMichigan is 16, and Swanson says he
has "no idea" why authorities have
flied charges relating to "a minor."
James Catchick, a lawyer representing one of the arrested men, hasalso charged that police are sensationalizing the events surrounding thearrests.
"What it ended
up with,"Catchick told The Grand Raptds Press,"is two couples invited to a party, oneof which talked dirty and anotherwho distributed a commercially produced tape that [police] considereddirty."
MOHR's Swanson said that "tothe best of my knowledge no sexual
activity ever took place at the party.""The sheriff's are trying to cause
people to believe that there is some
big situation involving gay school
teachers and minors," Swanson continued. "[VanDenbelt] tried to orchestrate the maximum
amountofviolations-getting
people to do
things with cameras and recorders,making numerous phone calls to
make sure the evening would come
off the way the sheriffs wanted it to.
"It's reprehensible that police findthemselves doing sting operations inpeople's private bedrooms where nosex even happened," Swanson said,
Ken Snapp, general manager ofSignature Rentals, agreed that "thewhole thing was a setup .. The police
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Lambda Targets
NJ Rest Stopby Hex Wackner
New York's Lambda
Legal
Defense and Education Fund is fed
up with a New Jersey State Police
operation that has entrapped 540 men
in a toilet on the New Jersey Turnpike, and on Jan, 24 the law firm
declared war on the "racket."
In an unusually lengthy press
release, Lambda detailed the police"abuses" at the rest stop toilet andannounced
that it had filed a"friend-of-the-court" brief in supportof two of the victims.

According to Lambda, at least 5-W
men were arrested for "lewdness" atthe Vince Lombardi
Rest Stop
between Feb. 1988 and Oct. 1989,
and the operation-56
officers
strong--continuestoday,"The overwhelming majority ofthese arrests followed a disturbing
pattern," Lambda said. "Plainclothes.
state troopers, usually working inpairs, spent hours standing at l;Irinals,
approaching men and engaging inflirtatious behavior,"The troopers routinely pretend-

ed to masturbate, soliciting physicaland sexual contact with men at theurinals and in stalls through winks,
leers, stares and smiles, At the leastindication of reciprocal interest, thetroopers made an arrest, flouting
standard New Jersey requirements ofprocedural
fairness. One trooperalone scored nearly 100 arrests,"
Lambda charged.
David Morris, spokesman for the
New Jersey Lesbian and Gay Coalition
has further charged that the police"use young, plainclothes police officers in tight jeans ...who often expose
themselves hard,""They use hunks-what
I calledin my [legal] brief 'young and ostenSibly handsome troopers,'" Wolfson
said. "It doesn't often get to thepoint of the officers displaying erections, but when it does, I imagine
there's a certain titillation and possible sexual gratification that some[straight cops) get 'Out of the domination and pursuit this operation isbased on. You don't have to be gay
to have a boot-licking fantasy."
State Police Superintendent Col.
Clinton Pagano has said that theassignment to patrol the rest area isvery unpopular among troopers, but
at a Jan. 11 pubiic meeting, 'Sgt,
Joseph Brennan said many troopers
choose to work the rest stop to rackup overtime.
Wolfson tagged the operation "alucrative racket for the locality and agame for the troopers." He said 532 of
the 540 men have been found guilty
and fmed $805 each, "raking in" morethan $200,000 for the local township.
Criticism of police tactics in theoperation comes on the heels of
charges that New Jersey troopers haveharassed Black motorists by randomly
pulling over and frisking those driving
expensive cars.
. Lambda also charged that the rest
stop blitz follows similar "abusive
raids" in cruisy public parks andporno bookstores.
Lambda's friend-of-the-court brief
was co-filed by the American Civil
Liberties Union of New Jersey, theAnti-Violence Project of the New Jersey Lesbian and Gay Coalition and
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Myers: A
week in•review
NEW YORK - Mayor David
Dinkins' appointment
of Indiana
Health Commissioner Dr, Woodrow
Myers to the top post at this city
health department sparked protests
last Friday at city hall and again in
Times Square on Saturday night,
where ten people were arrested,
Just hours prior to that demonstration, Louis Van Slyke, one oftwo people threatened with quarantine in Indiana by the Myers admin-

ACT UP in Times SquBIB18

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istration, spoke at a press conference at the Gay and Lesbian Community Center. Van Slyke,. who wasflown into town by AeT UP, carneclose to tears as he described his
experience
after someone anonymously "denounced"'
him to thehealth department as a "recalcitrant
carrier" of HN.
Indiana policy does not permit
those reported to learn the name of
their accuser,"My concern is for the people of
New York of any sexual orientation orgroup, because Dr. Myers may violate
their civil rights: He violated mine,"
Van' Slyke stated, adding, "Do awaywith Gestapo tactics."
Monday, on the floor of ACf UP
and at the offices of gay and AIDS
orga~zations throughout the city, the. debate over Myers' appointment
raged on, fueled in part by an OutWeek editorial published that day
which called for the resignation of
Tim Sweeney, Deputy Executive
Director of the Gay Men's Health Crisis, whose support for Myers was crucial to the reconunendation made by
the mayoral search team on which
Sweeney sat.
On Tuesday,
when
Myers
appeared at a conference on the politics of AIDS at Montefiore Medical
Center in East Harlem, he was greetedby a small group of pickets outside thebuilding. and a league of AIDS activists
inside asking for his ideas on AIDSrelated issues.
In an attempt to calm the squall
which erupted after revelations weremade by this magazine about Myers'

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support of quarantine, name reporting, contact tracing and about his
contentious relationship with Indiana's gay and lesbian community,
Myers told the audience, "I am concerned that we can all remain clear
on who the enemies have to be inthis epidemic."
He added, "The enemy is HIV,not the people who are trying to
defeat the virus."
But Myers also got his first one-<>none dose of New York-style AIDS
activism, when he dodged giving a specific answer to a policy question asked
by ACf UP member Steve Quester, saying only that he would need time toproperly develop his agenda.
"How much time, Dr, Myers?"
Quester shouted. "People are dying
now."
Later that day at city hall, Deputy
Mayor Bill Lynch met with the headsof all of the city's AIDS service organizations in a closed-door session,
And on Wednesday, an article in
the New York Post printed mayoralpress secretary Albert Scardino's confirmation that Dinkins has, in fact,
threatened to fire Myers if he attempts
to implement an HN-related quarantine program here like the one hemanaged in Indiana ..
Meanwhile, the February edition of Indiana's gay newspaper,
New Works News, went to bed earlyin the week with the headline,"Myers should have been fired.
Homophobic state health commissioner going to NYC,"
The paper also printed a box
entitled "12 reasons Hoosier gays
don't want Myers back," whichaccused the embattled
doctor of"mealy-mou~ed hypocrisy."
Myers is scheduled to return. to
New York to take charge of the healthdepartment in early April.
. While some in the gay and
AIDS communities
are digging intheir heels, most who opposed theappointment of Myers have begun
to speak of healing the huge riftthat has erupted among the many
communities affected by.AIDS, andto look towards setting a unified
AIDS agenda for the health department prior to Myers'arrival.

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St. Patrick's
III go tocourt
Friend tothe endhandle the cases more harshly than iscustomary in civil disobedience arrests.
- Robert V.Wolf

NEW YORK-The defendants in
the ACf UP demonstration that disrupted church services at St. Patrick's
Cathedral on Dec. 10 are in the early_.stages of preparing their defense, anattorney for the group said last week.
Forty-one people arrested on misdemeanors have so far been arraigned
on charges ranging from resistingarrest to criminal trespass, but have
not yet decided whether they willattempt to plea bargain a settlement orproceed to a trial, according to Jill
Harris, an ACf UP attorney.
Most of those arraigned werearrested inside the cathedral.
Harris said that the District Attorney's Office had hinted that someform of community service might berequired in a negotiated settlement ·tothe cases, The maximum possible
penalty for a misdemeanor conviction
is six months in jail and a $500 fme.
Harris also said about half of the
defendants
planned to represent
themselves in court. March 1 is thenext .court date for those fadng misdemeanor charges. About 70 more
people charged with violations, a lesser charge, are scheduled to appear incourt for arraignment on Feb. 7.
Last Monday, some of the 41
defendants held a private discussion
during an ACf UP meeting, but were"unable to reach' a conclusion as to
how to' proceed," according to Ann
Northrop, one of those arrested.
A spokeswoman for the DA's officesaid on Jan. 19 that a prosecutor had
been assigned 'to the cases only recently, and that no substantive progress had
been made toward their resOlution.
But some observers believe that
because the demonstration garneredso much publicity, most of it negative,
and was denounced by public figuresfrom the city council [see next storyl to
the Vice President of the United States,
the DA's office will be pressured to

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NEW YORK-Membersof theNew York City Council were so outraged by ACf UP's demonstration at
St. Patrick's Cathedral Dec. 10 that thelegislative body best known for its
legislative torpor speeded through an
unqualified condemnation of the disruption of the church service Dec, 19.
"The zealousness
with whichsome demonstrators carried out theirfreedom of speech mterfered with therights of others practicing their religion," said the bill's sponsor, Council
Majority' Leader, Peter Vallone CDQueens), in a prepared statement. .
He added that he was "pleased~at the Manhattan District Attorney's
office plans to prosecute those arrested in the cathedral to the fullest
extent possible for disrupting religious
services', which would be a Class A
misdemeanor punishable by up to
one year in jail."
The cases have not yet come totrial. At the time of his statement,
which was backed up by Councilmembers June Eisland CD-Bronx),
Jerome O'Donovan CD-Staten Island),
Noach Dear CD-Brooklyn), Walter
McCaffrey CD-Queens) and Wendell
Foster CD-Bronx), the defendants had
not yet been arraigned.
The council's resolution was touted as unanimous. And that led Manhattan Borough President Ruth Messinger,
who at the time of the vote still sat on
the council, to issue a statement dis~tan<:ingherself from the council's position, which she termed "ill-considered.".
"I was not present in the chamber
for the vote, but if I had been there, I
would have objected to this bill."
Calling the resolution inappropriate for attempting to influence cases
which are still pending in the courts,
Messinger continued, "The council

resolution did not explicity take noteof the life and death motivations of
the protesters. While the council has
the right to question tactics, w.e must
always recognize and respect motivesof integrity,and must also observe thedelicate separation
between the
courts and legislative bodies.·
Because the bill was passed by avoice vote, there is no record of who
else was present at the time.
-Andrew Miller

Gay journal-

ists, straightnewspapers
NEW YORK-The
nationwide
American Society of Newspaper Editors has instigated a major survey oflesbian and gay journalists employedin daily newspapers,.
At the behest of the society's
president, the survey contacted 210
people who agreed to answer questions concerning issues affecting lesbians and gay men who are full-time
professions in the field.
Leroy Aarons, Senior Vice President of News at the Oakland Tribune
and one of the few openly gay editors
at the daily, was assigned the job ofoverseeing the project. "I feel verystrongly that [being lesbian or gayl is
an important factor in the newsroom,·says Aarons, "It's a silent minority that
doesn't fmd expression in our newspapers and offices.·
Recruiting gays who are professionals in the survey questionnaire
field, Aarons compiled 100 questions
that asks about newsroom attitudes
towards lesbians and gay men, healthinsurance and AIDS, degree of being"out" to other workers and editorsand coverage of issues relating to lesbians and gay men,
The report for the survey will bepresented at the annual convention ofthe' society in Washington, D.C. in
April,-R. Sugden

AlbanyAIDS

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ALBANY-A Presbyterian minister with AIDS, after accusing his landlord of discrimination in a complaint
filed with the state, was served with a
notice of eviction last week.
The Rev. Daniel Ritchie of theUnited Church of Christ on Jan. 20
was given three days to vacate hisapartment in papers served by the
Albany city marshall. Early last week,
Ritchie's attorney was scrambling toobtain a stay of the eviction order.
An Albany City Court judge stayed
the eviction order last Tuesday, and ahearing to discuss the merits of eviction
was scheduled for the following day,
The minister, who supervises
church programs for people withAIDS and the homeless, complained
to the Albany Human Rights Divisionand the state's AIDS Discrimination
Unit last year that his building's manager had his car towed and destroyed
his garden in two separate acts ofharassment. According to Ritchie, themanager had singled him out forharassment because he is gay and has
AIDS, The manager could not bereached for comment.
.
The landlord's attorney, Richard
J. Herman, described the case as a"simple landlord-tenant dispute," Theeviction centers on Ritchie's refusal to
pay $86.50, withheld from his rent inresponse to the towing and damage
to the garden. The small sum, Ritchiesaid, underscored the fact his landlord
is motivated by discrimination.
Ritchie's attorney, Guido Loyola,said that he planned to argue in Albany
County Court that the eviction should
be stayed pending a determination on
Ritchie's disaimination complaint.
The dispute has been covered in
Albany newspapers and was the topic
of a local television show, Ritchie said.
Friends had been camped out at
Ritchie's apartment for more than aweek, keeping an eye out for the city
marshall. "I'm wiped out and feelingexhausted and nauseous and rotten,".Ritchie, who was diagnosed in January, said. "I could jUst curl up anddie right now, but I'm not going to."Even before his landlord trou-

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bles, Ritchie said he was outspoken
on the issue of AIDS discrimination.
"I decided to be vocal about it so stuff
like this doesn't continue," he said.
-Robert V. Wolf

Holtzm.an
nam.eslesbian totop post
NEW YORK - Elizabeth Holtzman, the newly-elected city comptroller, has appointed Pamela Elam to"I'm delighted to be working
with Elizabeth Holtzman," Elam told
autWeek "I want our office to reflect
and respect the diversity of our city."
Beforejoining
Holtzman's
staff, Elam was legislative aide toCouncil member Miriam Friedlander, where she drafted legislationand establishedthe council committee on women, Elam also served
as deputy campaign manager andfield
directorfor Holtzman's
comptroller campaign.
Elam, a 1988 recipient of theSusan B, Anthony Award for grassroo.ts leadership from the New York
chapter of the National Organization
for Women, has also served as thechair of NOWs Lesbian Rights Com/J
PBm EIBm (left) with ElizBbeth HoltzmBnserve as director of her office of community relations, a senior post in thecomptroller's office.
"I'm proud that Pam is joining
my staff," Holtzman said in a press
statement.
"She has long been
active in issues of concern to thelesbain, gay and women's communities, and to all the people of New
York City,"
Elam will be responsibleforensuring community access to thecomptroller, and for communicatingwith the various
communities
throughout the city.

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February 4, 1990

mittee from 1986 to 1987.
She sat on the board of Gay andLesbian Independent Democrats from1987 to 1989.
- Mark Chesnut

Toys aren't
us
TIJPELO, Mississippi-The president and vice-chairman of the TOYS
R US retail chain said Jan. 23 that thecorporation meant no offense to gays

and lesbians when it apparently
responded to pressure from fundamentalist Christians by pulling its
commercials from the ABC television
program thirtysomething.
In November, an episode of the. program showed two gay men in
bed together who had apparently
just had sex.
The American Family Association,
based here, complained about TOYS
R US' sponsorship of the episode and
AFA members subsequently received
form letters from company vice president of advertising and marketing
Ernest Speranza. The letters read:"Needless to say, we were very
disappointed with the content of theepis0de in question. We have cancelled our remaining commercials on
the program thirtysomething and arein the process of reviewing all our
1V sponsorships to determine if they
are in keeping with our strict guidelines and standards."
On Jan. 23, TOYS R US President
Robert Nakasone said that TOYSR US
has "nothing against gay and lesbian
people,To the contrary,"heexplained, "we are against adult situational progranuning for our commercials, We have done similar pulling ofcommercials on other programs thatare heterosexual or gay. We've pulledcommercials off the Fox network forcontent that we thought bordered onpoor taste,"
Nakasone denied that the decision to stop advertising on thirtysomething was connected to the letterfrom AFA members,
saying theepisode in question violated the corporation's own standards.
"It would be a total overstatement and an over-dramatization
tosay that [the AFAl made us change
this," he said.
Steve Miller, media committee
chair at New York's Gay and Lesbian
Alliance Against Defamation, called
Nakasone's comments "mish-mash
double-speak jibberish.
"TOYS R. US advertised onthirtysomething before, but this adult situation was the adult situation thatcaused them to pull their ads," Miller~
said. "What the gay couple did on
the show was absolutely tame compared to what straight couples do.
The gay couple did not even kisswhereas straights have been shown inestatic lovemaking.
"It is obviously a homophobic
pul1ing of ads," Miller charged, "and
we intend to pressure all such advertisers to adopt guidelines that do notdiscriminate against gay content orcharacters. "GLAAD assistant director Karin
Schwartz added that "whatever
TOYS R US' motivation for pullingthe ads, it had the effect of playing
into the AFA's campaign against the
program, The company's failure todisassociate itself from the homophobic views of the AFA,"she said,"has enabled the group to claim that
corporate America will not support
positive depiction of gays and lesbians on television,"
In a letter, GLAAD has asked
TOYS R US to formally state that it
does not avoid gay-themed 1V shows
and urged the corporation to givemoney to one of the social service
agencies assisting gay youth.

Rights, RFSL.
Meanwhile,otherSwedishactivists are working to bring gays andlesbians from the nearby Soviet republic of Estonia to ILGA's 12th World
Conference July 1-7 in Stockholm.
According to Dodo Parikas, ajournalist at the Swedish gay newspaper Reporter, his Estonian gay and le~bian acquaintances want to come to
the gathering but, due to the political
upheavalin the Soviet' Balticr<:publics, have no way to acquire thenecessary hard currency.
Swedish and American gay jour-naUsts have informally discussed apossible campaign to funnel hard currency to the Estonians.
The emergence of a gay group in
the USSR follows the evolution of formal'gay organizations in the past two
years in the East bloc nations ofCzechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland and Yugoslavia.
.' All five nations sent representatives to last year's ILGA conferencein Vienna, leaving. only Albania,
Bulgaria and Romania lacking contact with the international gay/lesbian movement.
-Rex Wockner-Rex Wockiler

First gay•group In
USSR
Moscow-The Soviet Union's firstgay group has come into existence.
"Friends in Moscow" has sent a letterto the International Lesbian & Gay
Association informing ILGA that they
now have 20' members and are meeting on a regular basis.
According to ILGA information
secretariat David Murphy, "they asked
for irif'ormation on ILGA and what we II"
were doing and that sort of thing.
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III was shaking so badly I couldn't signa check to get more booze. "Lesbians, Alcoholism
and Recovery
drinking and little eating-Helen
finally
took a look at the frightening physicalshape she was in and that led her to a
hospital and ultimately to AA. After someof the bumps and detours not uncommon
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over alcohol-that our lives had become"After about three weeks, I was shakunmanageable.
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the Twelve Steps of Alcomore booze," she said. "I knew that no
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ror me." With the"In the hospital, the psychiatrist
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took her In for a
years. 'No,' I said, '1 just come from aweek, Helen regained her sobriety, andfamily of heavy drinkers.' He recomshe's been sober in AA since April 1974.
mended that I go to AlcoholiC$ Anony"It's not that 1 gave up anything," shemous. I finally realized I had no placesays. "I got rid of a lot of misery andelse to go, no one else to call, nothing
replaced it with something positive."
else to do. I was drinking a quart of"I used to think, 'I'm not gettingbooze a day and taking Valium to stop
drunk today, I haven't lost a job, so I'm
the shakes, to be able to function. That
not an alcoholic,'" says Barbara C. With
became an addiction, too.". two years of hard-won recovery in the
At 36, hailing from a middle-class
Adult Children of Alcoholics (ACOA) proAfrican-American
family in Chicago,
gram, now she has enthUSiastically comHelen had at first looked to all the world
mitted to AA as welL
like a model of success. In truth, she was"When my twin sister went into AA
crumbling apart inSide, her drinking jeopnine-and-a-half years ago, I got very selfardizing her supervisory nursing job asconscious aboµt my own drinking. After all,she missed more and more days of work.
I'd been the more dominant and successful
It destroyed her friendships, too, as she
one while she was always in trouble. I
withdrew from· people, lashing out atlooked at how very sick my mother had
those who voiced concern about her.
gotten from drinking: She's a tight-assed,
After a few weeks home, convaleScing
controlled drinker with a lot of denial. So, I
from an accident-timealone with much
started to taper off.
"rd go to AA meetings and enjoy• Author's Note: upholding the AA tradi- them. I understood these people. Theirtion of anonymity, members of this and humor was my type of humor. Eventually,other TwelveStep programs do not Identi- I stopped drinking, drugging, smoking
fy themselves by their full names either altogether, found a good therapist andwithin program meetings or when speak- joined ACOA."
Recently, Barbara C. attended an. Ing to the media.

ACOA~related five-and-a-half day intensive in-patient rehab for c<Hiependence(the unhealthy, compulsive patterns of aperson who, typically, is in a relationshipwith someone who is addicted or compulsive). Graduates of this rehab say it
fosters rigorous honesty about oneself
and one's life. She agrees:"This was the best thing I did formyself. I'd had a lot of resistance to identifying myself as an alcoholic, but thismade me ready to take AA seriously."
At thetime of thisinterview,
BarbaraC.
had completed 37 days, one day at a time, with AA
sobriety. She sounded joyous and strong in
her declaration that AA was her new family, where she wanted to stay. "fhe Twelve
Steps are a life and death matter: I cannot
live without them. "FIGHTING INVISIBILITY

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When Helen first joined AA, she wasshocked to learn that, no, she wasn't the'only lesbian in the meetings she attended(though she was one of only a few Black
women and, for a long time, felt separate
from them because of class differences).
"AA was loaded with lesbians! During myfirst week, I was taken to a lesbian meeting, and it was packed. On a crowdednight, there might be 30 of us." And, as
AA rapidly grows (along with other selfhelp recovery programs adapted from theoriginal AA model), she's seeing many
younger lesbians join. "I was in trouble
with alcohol .in my mid-20s," she says,"but I didn't know it was alcoholism."
Today's young lesbians have moreinfonnation about addiction and compulsive
behaviors, more lesbian role models withlong-term recovery in the programs. They arearo motiv.lted by theovernll national trend
towards
self-help,
self-improvement andhealth consciousness.
Cocaine and crack
have more quickly
JXOPeIled young peopie towards that "bottom "-the state recovering addicts saythey had to hit before
arrogance and denial
gave way to willingness to surrender andchange. In the wakeof AIDS, more lesbians and gay men
pay attention to warnings that alcohol anddrugs suppress theimmune system andthat their disinhibiting
effects can lead tocarelessness in thesexuaI arena A significant segment of ourcommunity says it isfighting ror its life andrights in a different,
powerful,
if moreinternalized, way.
The numbers,
the extent of the
problem, have always been fuzzy. In
this society, muchalcoholism is hidden.
So is most homosexuality. Most authorities in the addictionfi~ say there can be
no thoroughly reliable study of the lesbian and gay alcoholic .. Nev'ertheless, the conclusions of Lillene Fifield's 1975
study are the most often cited; An estimated
one-third of our community is chemicallydependent, compared to one-tenth of the
U.S. population. Another rare study, also
from the 70s, concluded that lesbians are
chemically dependent in greater numbers
than gay men or heterosexuals. Nothing
about our sexual identity per se makes us
more prone to dysfunction than other·Americans. But consider the additionalpressures of homophobia, of lives lived inshame, secrecy and estrangement from ourfumilies and from society at large.

1I11ustration by Kris Kovick
As women, lesbians already face dis-but, the truth is, chemicals isolate us
empowering sexism. As lesbians, we areeven more. The real person inside, who
often an invisible, forgotten minority. Alccwants to be recognized and touched,hoi and drugs feed off heterosexism andbecomes rigidly shielded behind booze
internalized homophobia. They compoundand drugs.
the effects of society's hatred
Chemical dependency is fueled by
For many lesbians, as for many gay '. damaged self-esteem. "Most of the alecmen, the bars offer places to meet others .' holics I've dealt with have been sexually
like ourselves for friendship, for sexual
abused as children," says psychotherapist
play, or perhaps to scout out a potential
Deborah Feller who specializes in treating
steady partner. Alcohol can· ease nervousincest and addictive .illness in her private
ness and lower defenses. It creates thepractice. (She is also program director at
illusion that we are connecting
with
the Paul J. Cooper Alcoholism Treatment
other people. Very seductive, indeed,
Center in Brooklyn.) Feller expanded her

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a program
for lengthy
periods, returning if andwhen a crisis forces themto reconsider
how little
control they have overtheir lives.
"In order to recover,you must surrender, must
accept that you have aproblem that is unmanageable,
and turn thatproblem over to something larger than yourself,"
Feller explains.
In the Twelve Step
programs,
that "something" is usually called"Higher Power," loosely
understood as "God" andwidelyinterpretedbyeach. recovering individual. Some women prefer tothink and say "Goddess."
Some people think of thegroup itself as a force forgreater
wisdomandunconditional
love. For-IN ORDER TO RECOVER YOU MUST SURRENDERothers,
LtlsbiBnpsychOthllnlpistDllborahFellllrPhoto:
Bill Bytsura ("HP")practice to serve incest survivors when she
realized the close relationship between thetwo problems. As a lesbian, she is particularIy dedicated to working with lesbian andgay clients.
"A lot of lesbians have internalized
homophobia and are uncomfortable with
their identity," Feller says. "'They drink tofeel better. Some repress their feelings
entirely, even get married So, later in life,
when they get sober, a lot of these lesbians come out Suddenly, there are thosefeelings, and they have to deal with them."
Feller regularly directs her clients to
the Twelve Step programs. "I've worked
in the field of addiction for over 13 years,
and I could not have had the success I've
had without the .Twelve Step programs.
They work 24 hours a day, sev.en days aweek, helping a person look at herself.
They provide a fellowship of other peopIe who have the same 'goals of living
alcohol- and drug-free. They replace
dependency on the bars for socializing,
and they replace the rejecting family. Of
course, some people are not ready to getwell, but, for those who are motivated,
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HigherPower
is something
abstract, or perhaps, harks
back directly to the traditional conceptsof the religion of their background,
There's no one required Twelve Step
concept of Higher Power and each member's relationshipto Higher Power isindividually worked out and directed.
Members who at first balked at the spiritual nature of the programs often say thatonce they realized that no one was goingto tell them what to believe, they went
on to find a Higher Power in their own
way.
The backbone of the gathering ishonesty-withoneself, with one's Higher
Power, with other people. In meetings,
members openly share with others, wholisten without passing judgment, theirmost troubling, shattering experiences,
their well-hidden weaknesses and theirfears. They also celebrate their daily victories and express gratitude.
"The Steps support my work with
my clients because they encourage selfexamination,"
Feller says. "Fixing themessed up relationships
in your life,
maintaining that continual examination of
yourself and your behavior, then gettingout of yourself to help other people. That
can mean becoming an example to oth-"Iers, dragging others into detox, if necessary,' or perhaps joining a protest movement."
Feller's last point is significant inlight of criticisms that the Twelve Step
programs have depoliticized many lesbians and gay men at a crucial time
when our political movement
needs
more active support. An article in OUtlook, the national lesbian and gay quarterly ("Getting to Serenity," Summer
1988) suggests that the programs attract
lesbians and gay men who will take on
the term "addict" because they are desperate for the warm embrace of acceptance. The writer, Ellen Hennan, argues
that the programs distract these lesbians
and gays from society's faults, and theSteps aggravate their tendency to selfblame, all in the context of an anti-pleasure society caught up in the New
Puritanism of "Just Say No.". Hennan, anonmember who sat in on meetings forher research, writes that "the programs
sometimes have the look and feel ofmodem day cults."
Herman continues, "They describe
themselvesin universal terms, pride
themselves on excluding no one, suggest
their 'fellowships' are supportive without
being critical, and claim to offer a philosophy of spiritual enlightenment without
religious trappings." StilI, Hennan wraps
up her mostly negative analysis by concluding that progressive movements may
not have taken enough care to offer safety and personal liberation to their workers, and they may need to learn from thesuccess of the Twelve Step programs.
She writes, "Changing the structure ofpolitical power is not as possible, certainly not as meaningful, when changing
ourselves is absent from the agenda."
When confronted with the Hennan
article or similar criticisms, Twelve Step
program members in general-andpolitically aware lesbians and gay men in particular-haveoften responded that the
programs give them more self-respect
and confidence,
greater clarity aboutsociety'S dysfunction, and motivation to
do what they can, starting of course with
their own lives, to create a more honest,just, nonabusive world. Many who havesuffered (or inflicted) abuse in their own
lives become sensitized to the sufferingsof others and committed to do something
about it. Nonpolitical people become
politicized when they begin to see con-

nections between the myth of the happy,
safe American family and the myth of thefamily that is American society with Big
Daddy at the head of the White Housedinner table. Some Twelve Step members
say the meeting rooms are great places
to get in touch with your personal andpolitical anger, often for the first time.
This may n9t be what Bill W. and Dr.
Bob wished for when they launched AA;
the point was Simply to help drunks get
and stay sober. And this may not be what
Lois W. had in mind when she created
AI-Anon; the point was to keep wives
from interfering with their alcoholic husbands' recovery and help them to focus
on their own problems, But today's new
Twelve Step program members, particularly in a political hotspot like New York
City, are more likely to have a profoundunderstandingof how "the personal ispolitical."Other members
emphasize
thatanger at the world can be a handy distraction from the suffering, messed-up
self. The programs' suggestion to focus
on the self, they say, is not about passive
self-blame. but about accountability andtaking responsibility to change the things
about oneself that one can.
"It's hard to have compassion forothers when I don't have compassion formyself," says Barbara C. M], a 'Iesbian
who has been in AA for three-and-ahalf-years, agrees: "We have to look into
ourselves and see our assets as well as
our liabilities. Until we get to be happier,healthier individuals, we cannot give ourbest to our community." The best intentioned political and I'piritual efforts canbecome contaminated by our personalhang-ups and dysfunctions. M] cites AA's
Fourth Step; "'Made a searching andfearless moral inventory of ourselves.'
This help~ you to take a look at the good
as well as the bad stuff in whatever
you're doing so you come from a placeof goodness, love, honesty and willingness."
Critics point to the amount of time.
some program members spend attending
meetings, and they conclude that the
programs themselves are addictive. "Certainly people can become addicted to a
program at the expense of involvementin the rest of their lives," Deborah Fellerreasons. "That's a continuation of theirreluctance to deal with the real world,
but that's not the message of the program. One shouldn't base criticisms of

the programs on the isolated behaviors
of individuals."
For a while, an individual recovering
alcoholic may find it crucial to saturate herself with two or three meetings per day so
as not to pick up that glass. That strict, seIfimposed regimen may soften with time.
She. may also eventually open up time forpursuits that she neglected in her active
days or try out new projects or ways toplay. These become aspects and tools of.
recovery as valid and essential as attendance at any meeting.
It is not unusual for a committed
member of one program to attend an arrayof other programs. ~veryin one part oflife often kicks up crises and questioning inother parts. Some members may become
angry or frustrated with their experiencesin one progrnm and find a haven in another. All of these possibilities
suggestthat-{lnlike the days when AA was considered the only hope-newer
members
enjoy a variety of supplements and support
for their healing-not only other programs,
but also a deluge of recovery literature andpsycholOgical and phySical therapies. Now,
more than ever, the process of recovery is
worked out in personal, custom-tailoredways.
Lesbians vary in their experience ofsafety in being out in the program meetings. Some feel acceptancein mixed
meetings. Others prefer to go to one of
the numerous meetings around town(see sidebar) that are exclusively or predommantly lesbian or lesbian/gay. That
doesn't always mean that they haveexperienced homophobia or invisibility
in mixed meetings or that they are afraid
to be out among straight program people. "A lesbian meeting just feels like
home,"
remarks
one memberofOvereaters Anonymous (OA), the Twelve
Step program for food addictions andeating disorders. Members of special lesbian/gay ACOA meetings comment thatthese meetings
are simply the mostsearching, nourishing and supportive
ones they have found. Communications
within recovery fellowships, members
say, is rich and deep. It can be stronger
still when people share the experience ofbeing lesbian and gay.
Do people of color fare as well in the
progrnms? Helen feels that, in the- case of
the African-American community, it's a matter of misperception and self-limitation.
"Cities with large Black populations
will have Black AA groups," she says.

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Community Centsr Deputy Director
Robelt Woodworth
Photo: Bill Bytsura"Otherwise, there's a feeling that AA is awhite, middle-class organization. Blacks
aren't going to search for an AA meetingoutside their own communities. Mostly,Black people look to their churches as
the answer to problems. On the whole,Black professionals
are not as knowledgeable as they should be about alcoholism as an illness or aware that. .there's
a solution tq it. My own family changes
the subject when I tIy to talk about AA.
There's a reluctance to go forward andget that heIp.' Helen sees the problem
within the African-American middle- andupper-class as being critical because it isdenied, hidden and untreated.
Peter Bell is executive director of
the Institute on Black Chemical Abuse,
based in Minneapolis,
and founding
member and first president of the Black
Alcoholism
Council. In his ke'ynote
address to the 1989 Conference of the
New York Federationof Alcoholism
Counselors, Bell remarked, "It is criticallyimportant that we lower the tolerance
level that exists in the Black community
for alcohol and drug abuse and the related accompanying dyfunctionaI behavior.
I believe strongly that we il) the Black
community have a higher tolerance ofemotional pain that both helps and hurts
us. It is a two-edged sword that helps us
survive in somewhat of a brutaliZing,
oppressive world, but it also causes us toaccept too much inappropriate and dysfunctional behavior from one another.'Since the programs
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scrupulous honesty about one's frailties
and the dysfunction in one's family background, people of color may find disturbing the idea of disclosing
theseprivate matters to a room full of white
people. Letting one's guard down, evenin the cause of inner healing, is nevereasy, For a person of color, it can beespecially threatening.
"We've been told, 'You don't air yourdirty linen in public," Helen says, "'You
try to solve your problems within thefamily unit.'" That is, the same family thatis in trouble and in denial about it.
Across the board, the Twelve Steps
programs follow the original AA modelof attracting rather than recruiting members. They do not proselytize. Meetings
are created and attended by individuals
who want to heal their own lives. There's
no central, governing body that sets up
meetings around special issues or tries topull in particular segments of the population. Within the programs' non-promotional tradition, it may still be possible to
make information
about Twelve Step
recovery more accessible to communitiesof people of color. However, a person
must want that recovery enough to go
after it, even if, given the nature of her
community, that means going into a predominantly white meeting In a predominantly white neighborhood or institution.
Eye evidence suggests that, among
the numerous Twelve Step meetings at
Manhattan's Lesbian and Gay Community
Services Center, Narcotics Anonymous(NA) draws the most lesbians and gays ofcolor. In microcosm, this reflects thedemographics (and the urgency) of thenation's epidemiC of chemical abuse. It
has been observed that, in most otherprograms at the Center, people of color
are few and often transient. While it iscertainly possibly for interested parties tostart up new meetings specifically for lesbians and gays of color, the Center's
Deputy Director Robert Woodworth cautions that he already faces a backlog of 20
to 30 requests for meeting space from avariety of community organizations. "Weprovide space for 60 Twelve Step meetings at present," Woodworth says. (That
figure represents 11 separate Twelve Step
programs-everything'from AA and AlAnon to Survivors of Transexuality Anonymous.) "Our renovations have opened up
more usable space, but it's still a tightsqueeze. We need a building twice thissize to serve the community's needs."

Twelve Step groups began meetin;"1
at 208 West 13th Street even before theCenter's organizers took title to the building In 1984. Woodworth acknowledges
that program's role in the growth of theCenter and the diversity of the people It
serves. "People just getting into the programs are willing to go wherever they
can to get a meeting. Maybe they never·had a reason to come here before, but
they'd come and be exposed to otheractivities happening in the community,
They'd pick up our newsletter and starttalking to other people. "The Center,
Itself, serves as a healthy alternative tothe bars. "I hear this all the time frompeople who come here for the first time,"
Woodworth says. "Crossing that threshhold is entering another place where you
can feel more free than anywhere else to
be who you are."
In addition to providing a home forgay and lesbian self-help group5, the Centerhas established Project Connect, offering
short-term alcohol aixlse counseling, assessment and early recovery support services.
Woodworth hopes that this program, founded on a Demonstration Project grant fromthe New York State Division of Alcoholism
and Alcohol Abuse, will be refunded The
Center's goals for the expansion of Project
Connect include services around lflV, otheraddictions and compulsive behaviors.
Project Connect, directed by psycholOgist Barbara Warren,' represents thefirst time New York State has allocatedalcohol treatment and prevention funds"MICE rrll.YOU MAKE rr PIlJIo: Bill f¥suJa
Project eom.cr. Ba.. w.r.nspecifically for the lesbian and gay community. Direct services connect people totreatment options and offer ten- or 11week early recovery support groups. (Anew series of groups will open in late
January 1990.) A new educational video
co-written by and featuring people inrecovery is scheduled to be completed
this month and shown throughout thecommunity.
Project Connect has also sponsored"Acting As If' workshops led by Emerald
O'leary who shows how to use movement
and theater techniques to deal with recovery
issues. "Acting As. If" is a program expression meaning behaving the way you would
like to become until it becomes second"1used to have panic attacks," Barbara
C. remembers. "Horrible, sharp intense.
They'd come several times a day. I don't
h<1vethem anymore. They just went away.
"I feel like I'm just beginning to see'the light, what a relationship to my Higher
Power is about-Q feeling of heartbreak,my heart opening up, letting go of the illusion of control. I oy a lot when I pray."
Helen also takes stock of her recovery with gratitude.
"I know I'm responsible for my own
life. I've learned how to be a friend, and I
can allow my lover to have the freedom tobe herself, not what I think she should be.
I'm not so hard' on myself. Before, my selfesteem depended on who I was, where I
bought my clothes, who I hung out with.
That was warped Now, I have a measureof true self-esteem.
"I've become less rigid, more flexible, more openminded,
tolerant, caring
about people. Before, 1 cared about you
only if you could do something for me.
Now it's just for the sheer joy of it."For
the Twelve Steps offer, "a brilliant way to live your life. They structure it a
day at a time--which makes nothing too difficult to do. Or, if necessary, an hour, aminute at a time." ...

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Woody or Wouldn't He?
Toward a New Dialogue on the Health Commissioner
by Ray NavarroPrivacy is not the first concern of a Black welfare
mother, even ohe who may
have HN infection or AIDS,
An unemployed or low-income welfare mother is used to reporting every six
months to the welfare office, where she
has a "fac~o-face" interview with a s0cial worker, and is required to share themost intimate details about her personal
life. Hundreds of thousands of poor pe0ple of color, and whites, have this kind of
relationship with the government
Within this framework, privacy,

sion on AIDS, and was a major player inthe search committee which made the
now-controversial
selection of Dr.
Woodrow Myers, state health commissioner in Indiana, to serve in New York, .
In a recent meeting, she confirmed myfeeling that the Black community has
been forced to look at a very broad picture with respect to the appointment of a
new city health commissioner. But thatbroad' picture did include a good deal ofcommon ground, for Dr. Stephen Jooeph,
health commissioner under Mayor Edward Koch, was certainly no friend of theBlack Leadership Commission on AIDS,
Fraser-Howze said that she has
confidence in Mayor David Dinkins,
feels that the search process was fair,~"~.... -~-..•~,. ..---j ...,.,...,----~,---~'.

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even with respect to mandatory namereporting and contact tracing for people
with AIDS and HiV-related illness, haslittle meaning. The fear of job disaimination, losing one's apartment or having
one's insurance company discover one's
HIV antibody status are largely middleclass anxieties, even within communities
of color themselves. Poor people, andmany Blacks and Latinos, have no privacy already, Possibly they never have.
Debra Fraser-Howze is the executive
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UP ZBps Myers Sf City Hsil

Photo: Gem Wells

and that Myers defended himself wellagainst critics of his record, FraserHowze, who is not gay, but who often
work$ closely with the gay and lesbiancommunity, also said that the interestsof lesbians ·and gays, both white andBlack, 'were more than adequately
taken into account during the process.
Woody Myers will have to be responsible for providing a whole range ofhealth services to a diverse cross-sectionof the citizens of New York. The majorityof people' seeking publicly-funded rnedi-

cal and social services, in areas like family planning, immunization, dental careand AIDS, are from poor communities,
and that means people of color.
Health advocates within the Blackand Latino communities told me they will
never. sit idly by while the rights of theirpeoples are further infringed upon, andthat they intend to be particularly vigilant
about AIDS policies, They ahc;oluteiy intend to hold Mayor Dinkins accountableshould oppressive policies ever be implemented, or agendas set that are in any
way oppa;ed to Dinkins' expressed opinions on AIDSand other health issues.
At the very least they recQgnize thedisastrous effects that a quarantine pr0gram would have on the already dilapidated foster care and hospital systems, aswell as hospices and homeless shelters.
In fact, a recent attempt by
Stephen Joseph to implement contact
tracing was blocked by the Black Leadership Commission on AIDS. The Office of the Medical Examiner is currently testing for HN corpses whose causeof death is deemed to be "questionable," including many intravenous. drug-related deaths and the bodies ofhomeless people. One out of every
four of these deaths are AIDS or HN
connected. And the zip codes identify~
ing the last known residences or locations of these dead bodies are among
the poorest areas of the city.
Stephen Joseph had proposed.
sending out postcards 'to the family
members of these dead people whenever possible, informing them that the
medical examiner's office held "vital
health information" for the family concerning the death of this person.
The .Black Leadership Commission
promptly reminded the coroner's officeof one problem that had, typically,
been overlooked: In the neighborhoods in question, personal mail boxes
are largely dysfunctional, vandalized tothe point of uselessness, And a postcard, if left on top of the mailbox, canbe read by anyone. Many people inHarlem have to pick up their mail atthe post office. The Department of
Welfare has even stopped sending
checks under these circumstances, preferring to electronicallytransmit
monies to local check cashing places.
(No, it's not always the Lotto that all
those people are waiting in line for.)
Such attention underscores theBlack Leadership
Commission
on
AIDS' absolute commitment to protecting the civil liberties of PWAs, people
with HIV infection and their families,
Miguelina Maldonado, the Executive
Director of the Hispanic AIDS Forum,
also supports Dinkins' appointment ofMyers, and said she is confident that theneeds of I.atinos wi~ AIDS will be addressed by his administration, But her organization was less than pleased with theway in which he carne to office.
'The appointment process [wasl unfortunately based on infonnation in press
reports and coming from the ACLU,"sheexplained. "We [I.atinosl were certainly
not represented adequately in the process. To my knowledge, there was not asingle Latino on the transition team," Maldonado continued.
It seems especially ironic that ~hile
ACf UP, OutWeek, and others are btlsy
whipping their lesbian and gay representatives on the various mayoral transition teams, Latinos are frustrated fromhaving to advocate outside the door.
Nevertheless, the Hispanic AIDS
Forum is working hard to assure that theneeds of Latinos with AIDS'or HIV infection will be met. During the recent visit
to New York of Eunice Diaz, the only
Latina on the President's Commission on
AIDS, Diaz, who is straight, met with ahost of cornrilunity-based AIDS organizations that serve Latinos and Latinas.
While not the first of such meetings,
many feel that her visit ushered in a newera of political dialogue between Latino
lesbian and gay groups, AIDS service
agencies and the federal government.
Many people are up in arms over
the Woody Myers controversy. They are
suspicious of the role of the press, and. seem nervous about the future relationship between ACf UP, people of color
and the lesbian/gay community at large.
Aurelio Font, a member of the Boricua
Lesbian and Gay Forum and Hispanos

Unidos Gays Y I£sbianas, did not support
Myers, but accepts the appointment as a
"fait accompli."Though these groups have not yet
drafted official positions on the controversy, Font said, based on his involvement in these groups, that lesbians andgay q1en of color are extremely angry
over Myers' appointment.
"The fact that quarantine is even a
consideration here is illogical. It's asimple matter of logic that it would
spread panic in the communities ofcolor. I hate the idea of it being reduced to an issue of Blacks and Latinosor lesbians and gays. But I can certainly
understand the outrage,"' he said,
And that opinion reflects the feelings of most lesbians and gays of color
whom I know, But not all.
Soliciting the assistance of lesbian
and gay gr9ups of color could clearlyplace ACf UP and other Myers opponents in a more informed position .withrespect to how the various '1eaderships·
in communities of color actually function.
And many lesbians and gay men are also
influential members of the Black Leadership Commission on AIDS, the Hispanic
AIDS Forum and other "straight" AIDS
groups in communities of color.
During the Dinkins election I witnessed an unprecedented joining of forcesamong oppressed peoples, and an inspiring unification of forces within the politically diverse Black community, That c0alition allowed all of its individual members
to overcome the political disenfranchisement each suffered when standing alone.
But unless the communication lines
are reopened on both sides of thispainful opposition, attacks on Myers andDinkins may in fact be perceived as an
attack upon that unity. And that would
throw a wrench into the gay and AIDS
communities' capacity to form the coalitions with c~mmunities of color that are
so vital for all.
Vitriolic attacks upon the representatives of these communities will only
encourage more antagonism, and such·tactics show a lack of awareness for the
19n9-terrneffects these rantings will haveon the AIDS community's relationshipwith both Woody Myers and David
Dinkins.
Let's hope that the possibility
towork together "next time" still exists, T

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Political Science

Credibility Gap
Post-Mortem on the Myers Fiasco
by Mark Harrington
Among all the humiliations
towhich the members of Mayor Dinkins' search committee.subjected
themselves, none was more tellingthan the revelation that only the New
York Post carried enough credibility
with these luminaries
to actuallychange their minds about the qualifications of Dr, Myers.
More than a week before Joe
Nicholson's interview with Myers revealed Myers' readinessto try "isolation
techniques" here in the epicenter of the AIDS, pan- ..
demic, Outweek, the New
York Observer and the
Daily News had alreadyunearthedenoughtodamn him. Yet the searchcommittee,
abettedinthis instanceby. Tom
Stoddard, Executive Director of Lambda Legal
Defense, whose ostensible role is thedefense of the civil liberties of gay
men, lesbians and people with AIDS'or HIV, issued a ringing endorsement of Dr. Myers' suitability for thepost of New York City Health Commissioner.
Only one thing kept Mayor Dinkins from following their endorsementwith an announcement of Dr. Myers'
appointment: the pending meeting of acity ethical conflict of interest board,slated for Thursday, January 18, Thisaugust body had to decide whether it
would be appropriate for Dr. Myers to
supplement his $110,000 city salarywith a $22,000 associate professorshipfrom Cornell Medical School.
Dinkins said the only reason forthe delay was that the new commis. sioner had to get ethics clearance tohold an outside teaching job... "Whattook time was resolving any conflicts
following out of his teaching." (Newsday, 1.22.90).
The academic post was added
to sweeten the offer to Myers by
Dr, David E. Rogers, who sits on
the National AIDS Commission, theState AIDS Advisory Council andthe Mayor's AIDS Task Force, Dr,
Rogers has done remarkably little inany of these positions to benefit
people with NOS or HIV. He wasan ardent proponent of Dr, Myers,

the way was cleared for his appointment. Inconveniently, it was also the
day the Post story appeared. This was
too much even for Stoddard, brave defender of civil liberties, who called
Kri'm and secured
yet anotherturnaround from her, so he wouldn't
be exposed as the only turncoat. This
led to an orgy of "endorsement interruptus," as they were joined in changing sides by Jeffrey Braff and Tim
Sweeney of Gay Men's Health Crisisand by Ron Johnson of the Minority
Task Force on AIDS.
None of this deterred
Mayor Dinkins, After all,the search committee had
showed itself to be sospineless and vacillatingthat it was hard to feelthat their changing sides
was of much consequence. The deck was
cleared for an announcement Friday afternoon,
after the search committee
met at Gracie Mansion yet
again to meet Myers.
The final delay was due to thebodies of 300 ACT UP members in
City Hall Plaza, who first marched andpicketed, then held an extended exercise in democratic indecision. A newscaster said that "it would have been
embarrassing for so newly elected amayor to enter city hall from the rear.»
Dinkins waited until the police
pushed the demonstrators
off theplaza. Limousines swept the remaining Myers supporters--Debra
FrazierHowze of the Black Leadership Commission on AIDS and Dr. June Jackson
Christmas-tocity hall, and theyjoined Dinkins and Myers in the BllJe
Room, where Dinkins announced thefundamental accord on AIDS issues
felt between him and Myers.
Sunday, the Times ran an admiring

Let us proceed-to examine
exactly who praised themayor's conduct. Dr. Krim,
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securing, the day after the Post ran
its "LOCK UP SOME AIDS CARRIERS" story, a sycophantic editorial
in the New York Times, "The Casefor Dr, Myers." Apparently dictatedover the phone by Dr. Rogers to theTimes' Nicholas Wade, this editorial
repeated the transition committee
party line' about Myers-"Indianaisdifferent, wait til you see how great
he'll be here in New York." Wade isthe editorialist responsible for last
year's "Why Make AIDS Worse Than
It Is?" (subtext: "It's spreading into
disempowered
c:ommunities
ofcolor, so let's not get over excited.") and an admiring tour throughCuba's "Club Med for HIV Positives", a gay gulag for the 1990s.
Thursday the ethics board approved Dr. Myers' academic post, andstory, "Conflict Over Aide Wms Dinkins Respect:"
From the moment he first interviewed Dr. Myers ...three weeks ago,
Mr. Dinkins' aides said, the mayor
instinctively wanted to hire him.
But when concerns were raised by
AIDS advocates ...about Dr. Myers's
record, Mr. Dinkins sought a discussion, not a dismissal.
Note the contradiction with theNewsday story, in which the mayor
himself said only the pending ethics
review delayed the appointment.
Let us proceed to examine exactly
who praised the mayor's conduct. Dr.
Krim, for starters. She said "The mayor
was absolutely terrific in this ... themayor never rushed us or· pushed us
or disregarded our objections." It is
hard to conceive of which meeting she
could be referring to. We know that
one week before, she endorsed Myers.
By the time they got to air their objections to the mayor on Thursday, January 18, he had already made up his
mind, Needless to say, ACf UP, which
would have stuck to its guns more ardently than the deeply compromised
search committee, never got to present
its objections to the mayor.
.
Another person who cites her "respect" for Dinkins' process was Dr,
Christmas--but she was chair of thesearch committee and an ardent proponent of Myers all along,
The only other person cited in
the article was Stoddard, who was
not so sanguine: "This is in no sense
over for the mayor or the city." In the
final analysis, the "respect" won by
Dinkins in .this episode must be felt,
if it is felt at all, on the part of theTimes editor who wrote the headline-which
is not surprising, considering its editorial of two days before.
Which just underlines the inabilityof the city's power structure, whether
in the Times, in city hall or in the AIDS
organizations whose leaders woke up
too late, to recognize the validity of any
truths inconveniently unearthed outsideof the daily papers which reach millions of New Yorkers each day. If it's in
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Living with AIDS

Sailing, Sailing
Kong, My nurses are called, variously, Fatima, Miss Li, Rosita, Pat, Ms. Johnson,
And the passengers! An endlessly fascinating group,
usually unchanging for several weeks at a time. We peer atllness, busy illness! Such a hectic schedule, so much each other, playing "Guess My Illness." Towards which imfurtive activity! Here, at Co-Operative Care, the luxuri- movable iceberg are you headed, the one marked "AIDS,"
ous, non-acute care facility on the top of N.Y.U, Medi- "cancer," "Parkinsons?"
My favorite patient this trip is Miss Tanner, avery small, very obese elderly woman with long,thick white hair falling down her shoulders and,emerging from a permanent pink nightie andplaid bathrobe, an enormous pot belly. She is asstrong as an ox and entirely oblivious to the otherpassengers. Yesterday at breakfast I sat next toher, She ate: two bowls of Kelloggs with bananas,a bowl of prunes, a plate of scrambled eggs andtoast, a cranberry muffin, two juices and threelarge cups of black coffee. As usual, she detoured
by the exit to ft.U the pockets of the omnipresent
plaid robe with teabags, oranges, packets ofhoney, plastic-wrapped pound cake, sanka packets, half-n-halfs and assorted plastic utensils andstirring sticks, I adore her: this is ·the secret me.
She knows the tricks of survival; she has no timeor interest in defeat. She f1Ils her hospital timewith tasks to ward off the ghosts-"no time to die,no time to die," I imagine she mutters as she rushes the white rabbit hole of the elevator to her 13th
floor room.
After 12 days here, I mutter to myself, too,
not, I think, from encroaching HIV "dementia,"
but because after many hospitalizations you break
the back of chronic illness and ride the waves as
they corne. Staying "busy" here is as effective away I know of preserving sanity. So Miss Tanner
spends her days stockpiling Room 1376: I see
towering rows of teabags, pyramids of oranges,
milk cartons swaying in the air-conditioned
breeze. Long after midnight, Miss Tanner works'
by one lone light, tabulating into a giant ledger:"January 4th, 45 plastic spoons, 390 sugar packets"-but then she rises to pace back and forth:
Ph t . TL L'tt was it 290 sugar packets? She chews the end ofo o. .. I her pen, sighing: so much to do and already 2 am!
cal Center, I can never escape the conviction that we are all All to keep the mind engaged, keep the end forever aroundon an ocean liner, surrounded here on First Avenue as we the next task-filled comer.
are by water and sky, A glamorous, ghastly ship, and all ofI have a lot to leam from Miss Tanner, The muted, awful
us sailing serenely toward our personal oblivions. It's very atmosphere of a place where everyone is facing a possibly termuch the international crowd: the lady with the book cart minal illness can drive you to insanity. Not an especially magic
smiles and speaks Italian. The kindly kitchen staff serves in mountain, but more of a sinister, "what's-wrong-with-this-picSpanish. Another patient tells me about hotels in HOng ture?" country club, In the dining room, after a few days, youby Charles Barber

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memorize who throws up at meals, andfind tables far away. It's a world turned
inside out: the most deteriorated patients
get the biggest smiles, cheerfulness vies
with appalling fear, at the same time
you're losing dire amounts of weight, thefood is inedible. What might be called
shipboard romances are forged between
thegrey-fuced and the frightened, not, asi~ "outside," where love is generally
claimed by the "healthy." And that warm
doctor you love and trust so muchwell! She or he can always send you
across the plaza to University Hospital.(acute care) if you don't stay wellenough for Co-op. "And no one evercomes back," <;acklethe venetian blinds
on the windows of the acute wing,
opening and closing all day like eerie
warning signals from a nearby hill-top.
I wish I could report that luxury
staves off misery, and it may in manyother places, but not for us, the Undead, Even here, the emergency roomhalls are crowded with beds-many ofthem there for a week or more. And
the nurses can be like all nurses, bothkind and cruel ("God, I'm sick andtired of the same old faces," said one
nurse to another as they worked on
my supine body, "When are we goingto get some new patients?") We suffer;they complain to us about their Visabills, Carpet is nice, but pretty uselesswhen it's you that's throwing up on it
in the hallway, At Co-op,. the nurses
stay on one floor, and you go to them,rather than them corning to you. An efficient idea--except when you're too
exhausted and/or ill to 'walk to the
1~th floor, a not uncommon problem.
Then it's wheelchairs or a strange feeling of mandatory gym class ("Barber,
report to your nurse for blood!" a voice
barks at me on my phone at 5 am),
But it's fun to go to "Happy Half-Hour"(strictly coffee and tea) and bump I.V.
poles with the boys,
The perverse irony of all this isthat it costs about half as much as anacute-care bed to keep a patient here.
Why aren't there Co-ops in every hospital? People with AIDS don't need
acute-care beds very often, despite the. endless photos of us, sunken-eyed andtied to respirators, The ship may sailon, but it's too small for all those making the voyage out. •Or. Charles Franchino
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GLAADTIDINGSyou know the Star,
the supermarket
tabloid which isusually concerned with Elvis
and aliens from space, Thoseof you who are alert in the
check out line might have noticed that the cover story last
week was, as their headline
put it, "CHER SHATI'ERED ASDAUGHTERCHASTITY
TEllS HER: I'M GAY."
Now, the news is notthat Cher has a gay' daughter;the ten percent rule applies toany family,' famous or not,Nor is the fact that Cher took i
the news badly much of asurprise (says the Star. "WhenChas told her, Cher screamed
in disbelief and turned herhead away"), Many parents
react with some combinationof anger, grief and disbelief.
What IS interesting andencouraging is how the restof the family reacted, and also how
the Star handled the story. When we
first read in the Star that Cher isgoing with Chas to a therapist, we
figured the worst-that
they're goingto mess with Chastity's mind and try
to change her. But the therapy is for
Cher, it turns out, to help her adjust
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mother stated that she approves of
Chastity's girlfriend,and that her
granddaughter's
happiness is something that neither her mother nor anyone else can dictate.
To help guide their readers,should they find out their own children are gay or lesbian, the Star
published a sidebar offering helpful
information on the subject. It began"Every year thousandsof parents
learn that their child is gay. It's essential to create an atmosphere oftolerance
and understandingthat
people are different." What follows
is a series of questions ("Should aparent tell other family members?
Should I invite my child's gay lover
to family occasions?," etc,) answeredwith common sense and compassion by P-FLAG president, Paulette

Schwarzenegger's 91b baby :.\\'~oGoodman.
Homosexuality
is not a new
subject for the supermarket tabloids;
however, it is usually covered as
something freakish and unnatural. It
is a refreshing surprise to see one ofthese papers explore the topic froma sympathetic viewpoint. Incidentally, the Star is owned by Rupert
Murdoch,the. Austral ian media

mogul whose newspapers are notorious on three continents for homophobic sensationalism.
This is all
the more reason to praise the editors at the Star for their sensible advice to parents with gay or lesbianchildren. Write to them at: Star, 660
White Plains Road, Tarrytown, New
York, 10591. Or call them at (914)332-5000.

* * * * *Neil Harrington,
the mayor of
SaIem,. Massachusetts found himself at
the center of controversy recently
when he implied that funding for people with AIDS was a waste because
they were "going to die anyway."
As reported' in Bay Windows, the
New England gay and lesbian
newspaper, Harrington questioned th.e advisabilityofspending money to treat people for a disease known to befatal while the city is short on
funds. The Salem Evening
News headlined
the story"Harrington: AIDS victims' assistance a waste of money"
when they covered the remark.
Larry Kessler, executive
director of the AIDS Action
Committee of Boston and amember of the National Commission on AIDS, commented
that "such callous conmlents
undermine the hope of people infected with HN."
To his credit, Harrington
has since apologized for thestatement.
"I'm disturbedthat my arguments against
funding an additional clerical
positionat the board ofhealth was misinterpreted as
an argument against spending money
for the care of people who have
AIDS," Harrington
told the local
paper.
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know how you feel on the subject,
write to The Honorable Neil Harrington,
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Ity Karl S.eh·nleiii

Making films is tough.
Making films with little or no money is even tougher.
And making gay films in Margaret Thatcher's England, with limited access to funds,
while you're openly gay and openly HIV positive, is virtually impossible.
But Derek Jarman does it.
The 48-year-old British filmmaker has spent the last 15 years assembling a body ofwork as rich and diverse as any artist working today. Yet, he still struggles to ,get his
films mad~fact that says as much about the experimental nature of his films as it
does about the resistance of the film world to letting gay visions be seen,
On the phone from London, Jarman reflects on a decade of battling to get his films
made. "It's been much more difficult to get gay material funded, if you're a gay film
director. Oddly enough, if you're a straight filmmaker, like Stephen Frears [director of
My.Beautiful Laundrette and Prick up Your Ea13.l it's been a different situation. In asense, the gay films were given to straight directors because they were seen as
safer...more commercial." Jarman's own experiences seeking funding for his films painta frustrating picture, even in the context of England's liberal funding structures,
The creation of Britain's independent station, Channel 4, in 1983 was meant tochange things for those making alternative work, but for Jarman it only focused thestruggle, The channel was set to fund his film Caravaggio-a specifically gay look at
the life of the Italian painter-but when the station overspent its budget Jarman's work
was among the first to be put on hold. "The 1V men were here to sell advertising andmy films didn't complement the ads," he writes in his book 1be Last of England. Aboutthe same time, his first film, Sebasttime--a homoerotic take on St. Sebastian-set off acontroversy. One of the daily tabloids discovered it was bought by Channel 4 forbroadcast. Jarman woke one day to see his film featured on the front page of 1be Star
with the headline, "lliE FILMSWHICH SlIOULD' NEVERBE SHOWN TO YOUR KIDS."
Shortly after, Channel 4 issued a public statement saying that Sebastiane had beenbought as part of a package and that they had no plan to actually show it. ('The film
was finally shown, under the auspices of an outside programmer, but as Jarman
explains, "They showed every Single independent ftImmaker who'd made even one
film before they carne around to mine.")
The uproar' is a rerna.rkable parallel to the kinds of obstacles gay artists in thiscountry have faced in the past few years, Accused among other thiogs of making
pornography, Jarman has been at the center of British media debates about art much inthe same way Robert Mapplethorpe had been in the U.S. One homophobic legislator
even showed clips of Jarman's work to the Houses of Parliament as examples of whatshould not have been shown on television-a g'ood four years before Jesse Helms
flashed Mapplethorpe's photos on the floor of the Senate.
Despite his battles with controversy and censorship, Jarman has never retreated tothe closet in the hopes of furthering his career. His decision not to hide his sexual
identity was a natural one, as he explains it. "When I made Sebasttane, it wasn't aquestion of corning out-I mean I really already was. It was just I was suddenly out inpublic as opposed to just in my own circle." If anything,his homosexualitY may haveactually boosted his early career in the late 70s, when being gay was practically fashionable,
When the social climate took a rightward swing in the early 80s, Jarman's funding
woes began. Rather than stopping him cold, it forced him to explore other less costly
creative outlets, including music video (his work for The Smiths is among the best of
its kind), and Super 8 film. In this medium he made some of his most daring work,
including Imagining October, a meditation on revolution, and 1be Angelic Conversation, an erotic vision of "two young men who find and lose each other."
Last week Jarman's most recent film, War Requiem, opened in New York. The film
may be his most accessible to date. "Not more conventional," he assures, "but perhaps
appealing to a more conventional audience." Originally shown on the BBC to mark theeighth anniversary of World War I, it is based on the Benjamin Britten opera of thesame name. Britten's work, in tum, was inspired by the poetry of Wilfred Owen, a 25year-old soldier killed just a few,days before the war's end,
War Requiem is both a condemnation of the senseless~ess of war and an emotional expression of grief. Its WWI setting has strong connections to today; the situation of
one generation's wartime losses parallels the contemporary horror of AIDS. "Of course
AIDS was in the background of everyone who was making the film," Jarman confirms.

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TILDA SWINTON AND SIR LAURENCE OUVIER IN WAR REQUIEM"There are analogies between AIDS and being on the front.
Even this last year alone, the amount of friends that I've lost isvery similar, I suspect, to someone who's actually in a war situation," Not surprisingly, the strongest responses he's received
to the film have been to the general notion of loss rather than
to the specifics of World War I.
The film features touching scenes of male camaraderie
and love between soldiers in the trenches, though it's Qot "agay film" by any stretch. Jarman has received some criticism
on this point, especially in lieu of the fact that Wilfred Owen
was probably gay, but hefeels that he actually pulled
all the gay subtext out of
Owen's poetry that hecould have, "A certain
amount of intuition comes
into a film like this," heexplains. "It's very difficult.
It's my decision, but I hopepeople will fa(e with it."
Stylistically, the film isa departure from his previous feature, The Last of England, A highly poetic panorama of
Thatcher's crumbling nation, that film was, in Jarman's own
words, "obscure for many people." Screened at the New York
Film Festival in 1988, its meaning was largely. lost on mainstream film critics, The New York Times dismissed it as anextended music video. However, the film's visionary sweep

found a strong following during a brief engagement at theFilm Forum, The excitement of that run prompted, local curator
Jeffrey Lunger to put together a retrospective at the New Festival, an event which "reated a new audience of Derek Jarmanfans within the gay add lesbian community.
Despite this recent track record to bring in audiences, it
was still difficult to get War Requtem distributed in the u.s.
Finding a distributor or a market in the States has become continually more difficult for foreign films which don't feature .wellknown actors or historical period drama "like Brldesbead orsomething,"
Jarmanexplains. He actually considers it remarkable thatthe mm is being distributed here at all.
'With these difficulties
in mind, Jarman specificallymadeWarRequtem one of his lessexperimental
films, "I.
deliberately
madeitaccessible. It's very difficult to follow Last of Eng/and with another film along thoselines, I'm in a realistic situation. For people who want a moreexperimental mm there may be a disappointment, but I think
things have to be balanced off." Jannan is currently in the editing stages of The Garden,'a film which will be more like Last
of Eng/and in its form and which he hopes to get premiered at··1 feel immensely betrayed by people I know
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the N.Y. Film Festival this year. It will
return the director to specifically gay
subject matter, promising a gay lovestory as one of its components.
Such undertakings are not so easythese days. The fight to make gay art in
England recently got tougher, The passage of Section 28-legislationwhichbans public funds from promoting
homosexuality-has
legitimized homophobia on a national level. Of course
homophobia has always been partiallyinstitutionalized in Great Britainj after
all, this is a nation where the gay age ofconsent is 21 and the straight age is 16!
"What Section 28 did was give carteblanche to repress gay work," according
to Jarman. Examples of this can befound daily. Just two weeks ago, theKent Council, a local governing body,
stopped teenagers from seeing a program of Benjamin Britten's opera Death
In Venice, calling its story of homosexual desire "perverse,""That attitude,'which has always existed here, is now
very out in the foreground," Jarmansays.
The positive side of the legislation,
as Jarman sees it, has been that "enormous numbers of people are brought
onto the streets demonstrating." However, far-reaching change is still a ways off.
"You have to create a climate where
there's no fear. It's very difficult to legislate against people's phobias. Homophobia seems to be deeply embedded in
British political and cultural life-fromthe left to the right. There is so much to
be done."Part of Jannan's personal agenda forchange is to identify publicly as HIVantibody positive. He announced thistwo years ago,. making him one of the
few public figures in England to speakout about their HN status. Reaction has
been mostly. supportive, with the exception of some hounding from the tabloid
press. "There's the odd photographer
from the Sun sort of staking out myhouse," he relates. He tells an amusing
story about one of his neighbors; an oldcolonel who approached him one afternoon much to his surprise. "I thought,
this is going to be the first one to corne
over and hit me on the head with hiswalking stick," Jarman says,. "but he said.'Great, keep talking,' and he was actually very affrrmative,"
Jarman sees "going public" about
his antibody status as a logical progression in the corning out process. "I don't

PAUL REYNOLDS AND PHIUP WILUAMSON IN THEANGEUC CONVERSATION
think there was any option. It was either a question of it becoming a rumor, or me
starting the rumor, or me starting the rumor and making it open," Though he's talked
about it on television, he doesn't see it as a crusade but rather as just the state of his
life, And he is careful not to turn his course of actions into a blueprint for what others should do, preferring to say that "everyone's decision should be their own
depending on their circumstances.".
As a public figure, however, he sees an added responsibility: "I must say I feel
immensely betrayed by people I know who are well-known who have stayed in thecloset, because so' many of them could have done so much for people, much morethan they were doing by following their careers or protecting their interests. In fact,
if they had corne out they probably. would have found that it wouldn't have altered •their careers at all. Certainly people in the arts and the music business, anyway." Hecites Ian McKellan, Marc AImonEl,Boy George and the Pet Shop Boys as other public figures who have been out during the repressive 80s. "I really feel that in the circumstances we've been living through that people do have a responsibility to corne
out in the open." Corning from someone who's endured so much public scrutiny
about his life and his work, Derek Jarman's words resound with a simple truth, ...

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How

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Get
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Madison Ave. Still
Has No Place forQueersThe Duke andDuchess
Of Downtown
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by Michael Musto
A given on the jaded strip known as Madison Avenue isthat you'll never go broke underestimating the American public, Another one is that gays and lesbians cannot advertiseproducts. Correction: open gays and lesbians cannot advertiseproducts, Those who skank around in fear and self-loathing,living closeted lives of anxiety-filled deprivation, are perfectly
acceptable marketing devices. These society-induced scaredycats show up all. over the place, hawking their merch with
enforced smiles that enable them to make money, gain exposure and be embraced by the hoi polloi all at once. In thecourse of 30 seconds, they can convince millions of attentive,
vulnerable viewers of two unabashed lies: 1) I love this product; and 2) I'm straight. Truly, I am.
But those who won't play the game haven't got a prayer
on that boulevard of broken dreams known as Madison, I
don't mean to be nasty; it's just that I personally found out
how difficult it is for such outcasts to get a deal when I was
dropped like a turd from the Amaretto di Saronno ad campaign. My rude dismissal came after I'd been handpicked by

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both Click modeling agency and the Geer-Dubois advertising
firm for these huge, ego-building, color photos in major magazines, I had even signed a release,
Apparently, I had all the qualifications the ad agency
wanted in terms of age, talent and recognition (not toc! much,
not too little), But as sure as I'd seen every single Joan Crawford movie except Harriet Craig, my chances were shot down
the drain like a roach, because in an article in GQ, I had worna sort of hoop dress/cloWn suit. I was-eeeeek-Q
semi-quasisorta drag queen! By advertising standards, I was-<:rash-thudboorn-unacceptable.
Of course that hoop thang was by no means the only hintof my disinterest in conforming to bourgeois dress, or behavioral, codes, I had also dolled myself up as Madonna in the
Daily News, camped as that Statue of Liberty in the. Village
Voice, donned buttons and bows in Interview, hussied it up in
drag month after month in Details, told newspapers I wanted
to be both Diana Ross and Vanna White, and been breathlessly
uncloseted week after week in my "La Dolce" column in theVoice. But 1 guess the swifties running this alcohol-hazey company didn't catch any of that. All they saw was that horrifying
hoop dress, a swirling nightmare that brilliantly tipped themoff: This guy is flaky, different, maybe even gay!
Naively, I didn't think this latest of my many outrages
would matter. Until then 1 had only been praised for being a
kook, never even hearing so much as a homophobic remark
as 1 flounced my crinolines around in search of cabs and publicity {and, by the way, my wardrobe also includes buttondown shirts and other medium-scary things 1 was nervously
tOying with wearing in the ad). Even beyond the insular worldof the clubs, where no one even flinched when 1 wore thehoop thang, the media seemed to be enjoying everyone's rulebreaking attempts to provoke. It was 1988, All eyes werefocused on this "alternative" scene---downtown-theexcitement around which is exactly what prompted this campaign(and the Rose's Lime Juice one before it) in the fIrst place,
Amaretto di Saronno, I'd been led to believe, was goingto celebrate this sort of festive excess in the nocturnal "cuttingedge," as the Amaretto ad reps called it. With panting anticipation, 1 imagined the ads would be brave samplings of downtowney personalities of the type later assembled for the film
Mondo New York. Alas, when put through the Middle America
wringer that made it safe for mankind, much of rhe lineup
ended up as bland as urine on a water diet (Mondo Madison
Avenue was more like it). After the weeding process, they
ended up with, among others, a few middle-brow 1V stars; aformer cross dresser-turned-tuxedoed-crooner(nothing wins
Madison Avenue's hearts like a crossover-not cross-dresser);and choreographer Karole Armitage, who recently placed an
ad for dance auditions specifying that she didn't want
"wimps." They also included people like Vanity, fab singer andformer Playboy nude, a credit that gave this super-cautious. corporation dramatic pause. Luckily for 'her, they overcame all

AMARmoDI HOMOPHOBIA -can as we speak. But, ha-ha-ha, they unwittingly also ended
up with at least ONE (and 1 think at least two) gays and/or
lesbians, ha-ha-ha. Of course this person/people didn't advertise themselves
as such-theyknow how to play thegame-but he/she/they are in there just the same, apd it willprobably drive those McCarthyish booze salesmen cf3:ZYtrying
to figure out how the hell that happened.
I, meanwhile, should have realized that as someone who
doesn't know how to play the game, 1 was hopeless. 1 mean,
mere whispers of .sexual discrepancy are enough to terminate
contracts. Billie Jean King lost her endorsement deals the second her ex-lover sued for galimony. There was controversy
about Greg Louganis--who never gives definite answers about
his sexuality-not being used on the Wheaties box, just possibly because he didn't represent what they considered wholesome American values. And in what was no doubt agay-related· decision, Elizabeth Taylor lost a' soft drink campaign as a direct result of her AIDS work (imagine punishing astar for stepping to the forefront of an international crisis andtrying to educate people, raise funds and save lives!), Also, 1
sure haven't seen "Absolut Haring" since that artist announced
that he has AIDS. The disease has given. advertisers a rationale
for their prejudice, a shaky platform on which to s.com gays
when there used to be just their shaky imaginations. With
thinking on the order of, "We don't want anyone in our ads todie on us because. it would look bad," they consider thelPselves hard-pressed to squeeze out both what they consider"at risk" groups and the people who help them. This is logic
from hell. Why don't they weed out smokers who might succumb to lung cancer, and shred contracts with. those who
don't eat broccoli, since they might develop colon cancer?
Liz was too gracious to spill the beans on which soft drink it
was that dropped her, but I'm none so delicate a.f1et.tr. Amarettodi Saronno will pay fot the rest of my born days ev~ry time 1 can

The watered down Amaretto di Sar8nno magazine advertisements

doubts on that and used her anyway; after all, it was a hetero
scandal.
Within time, they also made sure to include tokens ofevery ethnic group-they used ONE Black, ONE Hispanic and
ONE Asian, and are no doubt looking for ONE Native Ameri-wield my miniscule power, whether for bitter personal reasonsor grander, more humanistic ones, As ·1 watch the careers ofsome of those who were in the camPaign reap the rewards ofthe massive publicity they got, 1 can only feel rage that I've beendenied these opportunities-andmoney-because
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(though it's reassuring to note, nyuck-nyuck, how many fabulous
nobodies the campaign has spawned, their careers made andunmade all at once thanks to all that gratuitous overexposure).
As an advertising reject, strange, insecure thoughts start weaving
through the mills of my mind. For example, on the night of aparty I had last year, invitee Sandra Bernhard instead ended up
at dinner with Karol Armitage (who's now choreographing both
Sandra's movie and Madonna's tour). If I was the kind of person
who demanded "no wimps," would I be featured in all thosemagazines and therefore be fabulous enough to rate Ms. Bernhard's company and employment?
But beyond the personal sense of loss and petty jealousies, the reason I'm maddest at the ad world is that they'repretending to celebrate--i.e., capitalize on-the offbeat, but

SODA COMPANY FIZZLED OUT
E/izebeth rey/or'Photo: Gary Bernsteinthey haven't the guts to really do so.
There's no reason why gays and lesbians shouldn't bepart of any kind of campaign. Don't they use all the productsthat are advertised? Aren't they a lucrative market? And
besides, does someone's sexuality mean he or she can only
appeal to other ~ople of the same sexuality ("I'm sorry Sandy
Duncan, you can't advertise our Wheat Thins anymore. It's
corne to our attention that there are some gay people who eat
these things and, after all, you are straight ...")?
But of course, the ad firms rationalize, gays might upset
the unwashed masses, the hordes who demand that thosehawking products be as faux-healthy in their glucose-coated,preservative-saturated way as the products themselves. Gays
would not only be advertising the products, they'd be advertising their way of life, one that would undoubtedly conupt little
children and pollute the water supply! They are unusable,
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people who might do good work (especially with hair). Only
straights-or at the very least gays who put up the illusion of
being straight (if they manage to slip by our flOgers)-can beheld up as innovative, admirable, trustworthy, acceptable. No
matter that most of the people in the creative arts happen to
be gay, We'll merely assign ourselves the task of finding
dancers, designers, artists, singers, etc. that aren 1, It's difficult,but heck, we love a good challenge. That's why we're inadvertising-to attempt the impossible, day after day.
Well, we say back to you hypocrisy-mongers: Ha! And the
hypocrisy-mongers say right back to us: Double hal Their
tricky little games keep on coming, The latest offender in the"let's present unusual people who aren't that unusual" campaign sweepstakes is the Gap, whose magazine ads' and bus

COMMERCIAL GENDER BENDING
Send,. Sernherd
stop displays portray individuals with style, which-filtereddown-translates
as individuals with heterosexuality. Loving
straight couples are seen smooching in closeup as a perenn,ial
reminder that you're not just to buy Gap pocket tees, you're toalso buy the myth that even for the "cutting edge," man-pluswoman is the only possible pairing. Blacks, Asians, young,old~ll types are representedand though we must credit
them for using M, Butterfly'S B.D, Wong (albeit in dowdy maleclothes), there's not a soul who's outspokenly gay or evendevotedly involved in AIDS. It's hard to believe Harvey Fier.stein, Quentin Crisp, Virginia Apuzzo, Andy Bell, Larry Kramer,
Funny Gay Males, Phranc, Everett Quinton, Susie Bright orothers of their ilk are not fit to promote individual style. It's
unfathomable that a Mathilde Kiim, Randy Shilts or Ron
English, to name three examples of people on the AIDS front,
wouldn't make it as laudable people who try to make a difference in this world and succeed. Instead, the Gap uses Nell

Campbell, and bills her as "queen of the night"-this at least
two years since her club was hard to get into (Now they're
sweeping people in off the sidewalks)! And even then, what
Nell's represented was a stultifying, Victorian self-importancethat ruled out drag queens and other fun, creative types while
glorifying the homophobic upper crusties. But maybe I'm justbitter-the Gap rejected me too.
Dom Ruinart champagne, one of very few companies,
had the nerve to showcase real downtown people in theiradvertorial campaign, a series of fake gossip columns their ad
ftrm printed about parties they devised to celebrate their product. For example, they ran pictures of French Twist-a largely
drag rock group of guys and gals all named Monique-in one
such column. The campaign only pays its subjects a lousy

ads like the most fabulous dyke on earth. '!bat's a breakthrough. But would those Madison Avenue guys ftnd equallyamusing/sexy the sight of beauteous me in a dress? I don't
think so. That kind of thing doesn't tend to make insecure
male advertisers either giggly or aroused, though on the basisof a few past exploits with "straights," I have to wonder about
the latter (up until the guilt explosion upon orgasms, they canhandle it just fme),
Don't count on open gays to make it into American
Express ads e!ther. Ditto for wine cooler spots, Dewar's profiles and especially National Review commercials (though
there is a certain guy ...No, never mind), And why? That's justthe way it is," seems to be'the complacent view of the adindustry, some gay ad reps included. But who said so, and

GAPS IN THE AD CAMPAIGN

Photo: Michael Wakefi'eld. Th, Gap Ads
buck and the end result is kind of cheesy, but at least, in their who said it can't change? Nowhere is it written in stone,
exploitation of avant-garde culture, this is one alcoholic prodexcept in the freeze-dried minds of unadventurous people so
uct that's had the courage to go all the way.
terrifted of offending anyone that they keep serving up the
In another mini-breakthrough, L.A. Eyeworks-a
moresame limited palette of macho guys, floozyish girls and crelimited-exposure campaign-used John Sex and, more recentative people with an edge about as jagged as polished glass.
ly,. Marilyn Monroe impressionist Jimmy James (though it's
Try as they might to keep gays and lesbians down, what will
hard to hold James up as a gay icon; he won't go on theultimately tumble Madison Avenue's preconceptions about marrecord as being a sister). And Ms, Bernhard-who'dbeen
keting is that they can't do it. They can tuck them under, shove
wildly making
hints of sapphic
interchange
withthem away and push them aside, but this vast audience will
Madonna-vamped
her way into Revlon's 1V campaign and bounce back twice as hard and with twice as many demands,
Barney's New York's print ads without an obstacle,
Gays and lesbians
are everywhere-evenin their
Sandra-who's
since made other, more personal revelacampaign.s--ill1d these "communications brokers" are powerlesstions--now says the Madonna innuendos were a joke, Well, . to suppr~ss them, even with their would-be magic wands ofadvertisers clearly took it as such, and not as one that offendexclusion. Ultimately, someone extremely brave and clever ised them either. Not only does a mere hint of lesbianism not . going to realize how much sense it will make to have these pe0put off the male-dominated ad world, it clearly turns them on. ple on their side, Some years from now, ad fums are going to be
sure to include at least ONE gay or lesbian in their campaigns, T
Intensely butch in male drag, Sandra looks in those Barney's
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LOOKOUTIn Its sixth Issue, FCIMninc Is our latat pick and must-have for the trendy crossdresHr. Filled with lotsof dras patterns, plastic' surgery tips, advice colllllns and photos of drag queens looking for low, the newspaper Is also quite political. An editorial warns that "the current controversy being carried on between the
National BoIrd of the Renaissance Education Association, Inc. and Its Greater Phlldclphla Chapter threatens
to bring down what was once the fastat-growing
group of Its type In the crossdresslng community," andpoints out that all "the back-stabblng and bitching doan't go over well with the membership." Meanwhile, a.
front page story tells how the "FDABara Makeup Menace, If and reports that "five percent of ihared cosmetIcs samples are contaminated with mold and bacteria most likely to be found In shared eye products, such aseye shadow end liquid mascara and eyeliner." Should we start giving out free clean mascara wands?
--M.S.

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What do the makers of Lysol actually think men and boys do In the bathroom all day?

-M.s.

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BY

Dear Brad:
Like so many people I neverthought I'd be writing to you but I figured you'd probably know what's
been going on. '1 sure as hell don't.
You see, I had to go to Kansas forabout a month to take care of somefamily business and since I didn't hear
any real news while I was there I
think I missed something big, Now
when I l~ft town we were still mad at
the Catholics but when I got back theother day there was a confusing message on my machine that said wewere supposed to shut down times
Square because of something to do.with Indiana, What happened to the
Church thing? Did the Pope meet our
demands? And what's Times Square

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UT

OF

M'V
HANDS
BRADLEYBALL
got to do with Indiana? I mean,
wouldn't it be more effective' if weorganized a boycott of Late Night withDavid Letterman or something likethat? Even better, I know this guy
who's a vice president at NBC andmaybe he could sneak a bunch of us
into the studio audience where we
could unfurl a banner with our ten
best reasons for hating Indiana, whatever th.ey are, If you could just tell me
where the committee is meeting todiscuss all this I can take it from there.
-Eager but Unsure
Dear Eager:.
You were, of course, right tocome to me with this, It just so happens that a very dear friend of mine
(who is, by the way, one of the finest

legal minds in the business) took mealong to the very party where all of
this, and little else, was discussed ingreat detail by every person present.
The committee to which you referhas, unfortunately, disbanded already·after an apparently bitter dispute overrepresentation
and an inability toreach consensus over the time andlocation of the next meeting (theputative chair having a prior obligation to attend a fundraiser auction). I
was, however, informed by a young
man standing near the bowl of M&M'sof the formation of a new affinity
group which proposes to dispatch acadre to the Louisville side of 1-65
where they will distribute fact sheets
to all Indiana-bound motorists andpossibly handcuff themselves to thestate sign, All of this, quite naturally,
depends
on obtaining
funding
approval from the central committee
who will, no doubt,
insist on
researching the availability of a reasonablediscount
farefromAmericanAirlines,
Should thatapproval fail to materialize, the hat
can always be passed at the next
meeting but the fellow who was
handing out the Rolling Rock whispered that this particular issue wasquickly losing its attractiveness andmight not muster the necessary support in which case a strategy meeting will have to be called,
At any rate, by the time I.wasleaving the rumor was already in circulation that a new target, somewhat
closer to horne and perhaps evenintramural, would be emerging at any
minute though the specifics were not,as usual, known just yet. My readingon this is that, with another policy
fluctuation so imminent, you are bestadvised to sit tight for the time being
until somebody phones you. with new
instructions which, by my calculations, ought to be around 3:30 thiscorning Tuesday, Welcome back! T

By Michelangelo Signorlle
Something astounding has happened.
Ingrid Sischy, one-time editor of
Art Forum, who came out not toolong ago in her column in The New
Yorker, is now at the helm ofInterotew. For the ftrst time in the history of publishing, the editor-in-chiefof a popular national magazine is an
open lesbian, In fact, this may well be
the first time that the head of any
mainstream communications companyof any sort has declared his or her
homosexuality (though many of them
are closeted queers).
And everyone is talking about
it, including Sischy herself.
"I felt I owed ~tto my readers[to come out]," she said in aneight page spread on her in .!few
York magazine last week. "It wasnecessary to tell them where I wascoming from, I ftnd honesty about
sexuality an utter necessity for myemotional survival." (Take note
Sharon Delano, Richard Buckley,
Annie Leibovitz, Wayne Lawson andDavid Kuhn [all from Vanity Faiti, Liz
Smith [Daily N~,
Barry Diller [20thCentury Foxi, David Geffen [Geffen
Recordsi, Hal Rubinstein [Egg] and therest of the gang.)
But Sischy's candor is not only atriumph for our community (which sodesperately needs successful, vtsible.. role models), it marks a turning pointin the entire world of publishing.
Unafraid to publicly discuss her sexUality, Sischy is therefore unafraid to let
it naturally be portrayed in her work.
While most of the fags and dykes at,say, Vanity Fair, offer repressedhomosexuality throughout the magazine because they're trying to coverfor themselves and/or because they'reunder strict orders from homophobe-

in-chief, TiOa Brown, above not to let
anything blatantly queer seep through,Sischy is able to Simply let herself go.
The result is a natural, sexy, honest and gorgeous product. The new
Interotew (a magazine which I haven't
read in years but which I predict will
now fast become the hottest rag on
the newsstand) is visually beautiful,and includes some sharp, crisp, real
writing. But it's the images themselves,
and what they comprise, that are
ground-breaking,
There are boys
touching boys, boys touching boys
who are dressed as girls, girls touching
girls and girls touching girls who are
dressed as boys, There's Taboo!,
Trade, Miss Connie and all the rest of
the zanies who unabashedlyrunaround downtown and pose for My
Comrade, ftercely being themselves on
Interotew's pages, The magazine overflows with a queer sensibility, and,more importantly, it sets up no borders
on sexuality. I remember Drugstore
Cowboy's openly gay director, Gus VanSant, once telling me that a major victory for our movement and all of soci-

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sons you all know, has been writing
much more about AIDS thesedays-andwriting much less about
Pat Buckley and other hypocrites,
And, just after the monstrous Woody
Myers was named health commiSsioner, Norwich had the guts to creatively
jump into the fray in his column: "Inother weighty matters, isn't it absurdthat the city's new guru of health, theobese Dr, Woody Myers, 35, is himself
a candidate for heart disease andother fat-related ills? Fat is ftne withme. It suits many professionals, and iseven expected among lawyers and talent agents. I just think having Dr,
Myers serve as health commissioner isabout as inspiring as hiring a treasury
secretary who has landed in bankruptcy court. His appointment, in light ofthis problem and his controversial
AIDS policies, seems mind-boggling,"
While it must be pointed out that
attacking someone for having an eating disorder is equivalent to slapping
someone down for having a drug
problem or for being an alcoholic,
Norwich has to be commended fortrying, within the realm of his society column, to corne to thedefense of his community. And I
think he should be held up as an
example to all of the self-loathing
gay and lesbian columnists whom
I've
spotlightedin
thiscolumn-andwill continue to if
they keep up their slippery ways.

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ety will come when ftlms, publications,etc., are no longer "gay" or ·straight,"
but rather present the full spectrum of
sexuality to an audience made up ofthat spectrum, Without a doubt, the
new Interview has achieved that. It is
red hot and revolutionary amidst aslew of tired, faux-fterce publications.
It's hit on something that not even
Details, with all its cutting edge posturing, has. And why? Because at the new
Interview there is a vibrant, smart,honest, sexually-liberated woman-anout dyke !-running the.show.

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Credit must go where -credit isdue. Society columnist
William
Norwich (Daily News), whom I'dspent So much time criticizing for rea-

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The absolute best television ofthis century will take place on
Wednesday of this week (January 31)
when GLAAO's Karin Schwartz faces
off on Geraldo with-you
guessedit-Zsa Zsa! According to Schwartz, La
Gabor makes a fool of herself andcontradicts herself throughout theshow, ftrst saying her "best friends"
are lesbians and then saying, "It is afree country. I can dislike lesbians if I
want." She then asks the audience,"Who are you going to believe, amother or a lesbian?" while her husband offers Schwartz some advice:"You should go out and ftnd yourself
a: husband:• • • •

Expect' a major bomb to drop
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Oul on Ihe Town 'Wilh Liz and Sydney

Uz and Sydney: Before we get into things, we'd like to offer
Five Actions That Will Keep Health Commissioner Woodrow Myers
From Entering City Limits:
1) Have simultaneous sit-ins on the runways of laGuardia, JFK
and Newark airports, (Trains and buses are never on time anyway.) .
2) M.ake sure he gets the smallest seat in the cab on the WcJof
to the Indiana airport, (Remember he was stuck in a chair in the
Governor's office and knocked over his lamp in Indiana,)
3) Test market his quarantine theory by isolating him in a grainsilo in rural Indiana. '4) In a Kamikaze mission, have two people walk through adoorway with him at the same time,5) Steal his glasses and hide his wife.
Sydney: Now for nightlife; a mixed crowd 9f pretty but chatty people, several lesbians and quite a few Mars employees
marked the debut of Cities at the neN club Morrissey. All we cantell you about Morrissey is that it is named after some man, supposedly the owner/manager, Mr. Morrissey, Imagine if Boy Bar
were called M.acGregor or Red Zone, LeNis (after Paul MacGregor
and Steven Lewis, the respective owners). Morrissey's designer
has been struck by gold fever, Everything you touch and a feN
places you cannot reach have tumed to gold: the walls, the ceilingand the door girl's hat. Finishing out the King Midas effect is a giantgold leaf dragon hanging eerily·over the dance floor. Chauncey(door person from M.ars), Kate Harwood, DJs John Sullga andMark Kamins host the weekly tour through the world's most treasured cities, Bangkok was the lucky site of this Wednesday's
stop---a six-foot gold leaf Buddha, a giant pagoda and go go girls
in FarEastern garb completed this Thai Delight.
Uz: On to M.adrid, INhere Pedro Almodovar's neN (old, it
DOOR PRIZES
was made in 1982) film, Labyrinth
Passion is set. The premiere
Chauncey and 'amela Sneed
party at Mars was notable for its presences (Brooke Shields,
Photo: Liz and Sidney
product of an alternative family unit, asked her mother for fashion
advice, murmured something about a meaningless society, andadmired the posters arranged artfully enough to camouflage the are the runners-up? Sweeping streets? We also discovered aheavy metal parody to end all heavy metal parodies: The Connie
graffiti) as well as its absences, Sydney Biddie Barrows, originallyGirl and Chlclet lip-synched
the Guns and Roses song, .
invited, was then dis-invited by host Chip Duckett after her eti"Welcome to the Jungle". Wearing Metalllca and Skid Row t-shirts
quette book was found to have such helpful hints as waming yourdinner guests that a Person With AIDS [Sydney: I believe Ms, Bar- with the added label ·piece of meat" sta'mped across the back,rows' term was "carrier',] will be attending. Duckett, as quoted in the duo defiantly trashed the heavy metal/biker/slutlgroupie
stereotype fed by the sexistlracist/homophobic heavy metal guys.
New York M.agazine, asked Ms, M.ayflower, "Were you planning tohave unsafe seX over dessert?" Knowing M.adam Barrows, this is Never letting the audience forget this was a 1V show, Connie andChiclet mocked genderbending pretty boys Ax! Rose and Sebasnot as far from the truth as one might think.
tian Bach, two of the genre's leading offenders.
The party also marked the premiere of Pamela Sneed after
MeanlNhile, on another night we bieN into Dean Johnson's
dark. Working tHe door for the Labryinth Party, Pamela is a lesbianRock and Roll Fag Bar at Pyramid and as usual marveled at all of theactivist, poet and performer. Word has it she will be the neN
set:'( and sex-hungry boys heading down to the Testosteroom fordoorperson for Quickl's gay Thursdays.
some back room action. As Dean approached us, the always
Sydney: On a recent trip to Boy Barwe made the horrifying
discovery that the neNly crowned Miss Boy Bar, ....Ickle ....Icole, is inquisitive Liz had a question:
Liz: Hi Dean. Uh...Where's the Estrogen Room?
. working as a cocktail waitress at the same establlshmentlNhich
Dean: .Excuse me?
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Draa nlccly.
Wc suggest cotton or twecd. Bleckleather often Iceds susceptlblc, sheltered parents to picture their childbeing fucked over I pool tablc by
someone Ilrge Ind nasty. 1IIIs Impedes
clclr, thoughtful discussion of the civil,rights Issues Involved.

Forget to be political.
Many peopIc wlilinstinctivcly

recoilfrom the prospect of nasty, difficult,pcnonal matters--llkc sodomy, feilitio
Ind cunnilingus, NY. So they may fccl .
more at cue dlsc'usslng your commitment to fighting for gay civil rights, lesbian visibility Ind public awareness.
Then, If you feci It's IppropriatC, you
can segue Into the hypocrisy Qf majorreligious lceders who takc OUR tax
dollars whllc refusing to teech (unspecIfied) Sifc.sex prectJccs. (1II1smay be
Just as difficult for them, but It may
makc them less visibly naUHOUs.)

Introducc them to your frlcnds IS fut
uposslblc.
RoIc models Ire everything. My cntirc
family heel the ldel I WIS the SOLE gay
person In AmerIca who wlsn't (I) Imminently sulddll; (b) relcntiessly trying
to seduce thc paperboy; (c) c:IyIngto
visit the nelrest truck stop; or (d) planning to have every lut sexual orgln
plcrccd. Your friends can help to dispel thesc myths, slo,.,ty. It's the old
sec-ft'rc-Just-likc-rcguiar-folks
routine. (lhIt's bullshlt, of course, but
IIVC that for Lesson 1Wo.)

Come out the .. me dey I flmlly frlcnd
Is hospitalized with I fltlllllncss.
It lutomatically puts your clrefully. constructcd comlng-out specch Intothe Just Another Cross I Havc to Bear
At 1IIIs Vcry, Vcry Difficult nme
category. nmlng Is everything.

Be rclcntlessly checrful and upbeat.
Sure, you may not feci It. But It'll makeIt a IIttic hardcr for thcm to view you
as the sad, rejccted, pathetic outcast
that society wants you to be If you tcll

The Do's

andDon't's ofComingOut

Lots of rcpetltlon. Lots of rcpetltlon.
Lots of rcpetltlon.

Leavc out your quecr unclc or that"bohemian" great-aunt.
.
PoInt out the appalling way your· family
has always treatcd Unclc frink or Aunt
Franca, which rcfIccts their h0mophobia, and put·'ern on notlcc you WON'T
PUT UP WI1H ANY OF 1HAT SHIT. Smllc
when you NY that, though, so theyknow you love them Inyway.

by John Voelcker
Is it just me, or did everyone
you know just come out over theholidays? To their parents, their inlaws, their bosses, their bestfriends, their therapists?
Here, then, are a few helpful
hints, collected from the various
experiences of everyone I know
who took a deep breath and said
IT. We suggest coming out early,
coming out often and coming out
proudly. The Queer Nation
demands nothing less.
thern what great new GAYfrlcnds
you'Vc made and how many really fun
LESBIANSyou know with useful connections and how sad your poor
STRAIGHTfrlcnds arc without .ny
advantages.

Be prepared to cope with some completely Irrational shit right aftcr you
tcll them. (Christmas Day, my parents
told me they heel set up an "Informal
fund for your future medical
nccds-forobYfous reasons.")
Smllc, breathc decply and plln I
nlcc, calm discussion for a couplc ofdeys latcr, In which you will gcntly: cxplaln why thclr action was not only
wrong-headed but Irrltlonal Ind
offenslvc. In six months, you'll beglad you did, I think.

Fccl you have to usc "gay" In every singlc sentencc.
It's completely understandablc thatyou want to stop cdltlng Yo.. life. But
It also doesn't hurt to remind them
now and then that you do stili havestraight friends (poor things), and stili
do all the .. me stuff you did two claY'ag~
you ftre QUEER.

Skimp on thc food and decor.
1IIc fabulousness of your "new" life
and/or lover may aft them cnough tokeep 'ern In line. Pin spots and fresh
flowers, I'm told, are particularly helpful.

Be patlcnt whllc you'rc being finn.
Rcmcmbcr, thcy havc iO ycars or soof confusion and misinformation towork through. Bc willing to cXplaln
thrcc or four times that sleepingwith pcoplc of thc samc scx doesn't
automatically mcan you will dlc
young and alonc and mlscrablc
bccausc you'rc a hldcous doom cd
outcast. Soclcty tclls 'cm this shit,
and untclllng It rcqulrcs rcpetltlon.

Have a buddy on the outside you cancall for sympathy end to kcep you In

touch with reality.
Rclnforcement "'111y helps especlilly
after that first draining M-hour period.
Hcor she will remind yo~ that you haveanothcr, far more supPortlvc family
back In NYC(or wherever), even though
you'rc stuck In thc frozen wutclanck-'"of LocII,Grand Forks, Cleveland, Ithaca
or wherever.

Give In Inch.
It's thc (Icsblan and) gay 90s, and It's
about fucking time. 'Y

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GOSSIP WATCH from page 49
very soon on the despicable Andy
Rooney of 60 Minutes on CBS.
If you've ~n following Page Six
at The Post and/or Entertainment
Tonight (and really, who doesn't?)
then you know about Rooney's
remarks on the air about queers C"Ifeel the same way about homosexuals
as I do about cigarette smokers. I
wouldn't want to spend too muchtime in a roo~ with one, but they
don't bother me otherwise," and,
"1here was some recognition in 1989of the fact that many of the ills thatkill are self-induced, such as to<I muchalcohol, too much food, drugs, homosexual unions, cigarettes.") GLAAD
has been on the Rooney case, and has
been having meetings with a verysiow-to-resix>nd CBS. Both USA Todayand 7V Guide have come out with stories on Rooney's homophobic tirade.
But the bomb I mentioned earlier may
just come next week when the newissue of The Advocate hits the stands.
From what I'm told, Rooney not only
makes more homophobic statements,
but makes some racist remarks which
will no doubt fry him. Meanwhile, you
can call Rooney directly at (212) 9752065 and tell him what a bigoted shithead he is. Then you can call his
boss, CBS News President DavidBurke, at (212) 975-8462, and tell him
what an asshole he is for not firing
Rooney immediately. ~TEACHERS from plge ,16
staged it for the media," he said,"These people are not the type tosolicit sex from young men. The
decoys and the 17-year-old were very
forceful and demanding and persistent over a long period of time toarrange this. n
The sheriff's department's Posrna
has countered that the arrests were
"just part of the whole scope of theinvestigation here regarding homosexual activity among individuals andminors." He said police had received
tips and have a duty to protect children
from "solicitations for sexual activity,"
The "gross indecency" statute,under which five of the men havebeen charged, is a vague law that canmean whatever
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"In San Francisco, you might haveto fuck on the steps of city hall tocommit a 'grossly indecent' act,"
Swanson said. "But in Holland, Michigan a jury might decide that two men
holding hands in public qualifies,"
According to MOHR, Ottawa
County is heavily influenced by a fundamentalist
version of the Dutch
Reformed religion, Ironically the popular gay resort town of Saugatuck,often called "the Fire Island of theMidwest," is located only a few miles
south in neighboring Allegan County·-filed from Chicago T
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foot fungus can be suspected to. be
HIV positive because they are gay? Or
if you tell your doctor your lover has
AIDS, are you then a suspected HIV
positive person?" she asked.
Critics of the new legislation say it
is poorly written, "It's a terrible bill,"says Gary Stein from the New Yorkbased Citizen's Committee on AIDS. "Itis unclear as to what is 'identifying
information,' and in what manner it will
be reported. The whole part on reporting of the names of HIV infected pe0ple needs to be repealed," says Stein.
Stein also showed concern thatthe current law will be used to reduceor eliminate anonymous testing sites
in the state, The new law states thatthe department of health "may selectup to six counseling and testing sites
throughout the state to offer anonymous testing." Currently, New Jersey
has 16 testing Sites, all of which offer
the option of anonymous testing.
"Saying they 'may select up to six'
sites will be a reduction in anonymous test sites and leaves open thepossibility of offering no anonymous
tests," says Stein,
At an unrelated hearing of the
Public Health Commission on New Jersey public health regulations for allcommunicable diseases, eleven ACf
UP/NJ members held up signs that said
"No reporting of names" and "No HIV
lists" as people spoke in favor of theregulations that would enable thereporting of positive HIV antibody tests
to the state, From there, they went to a
joint session of the legislature where
Governor Florio addressed what hecalled the number one priority of New

Jersey, the car insurance system.
As Governor Florio told theassembled lawmakers that the New
Jersey state's system of car inS\lrance
was "totaled," Gary Kleinman shouted, "Our healthcare
systemistotalled,"
He was immediately
removed by the security, Later, during
applause for the governor's speech,
ACT UP member Jim Provenzano
began shouting to the governor about
homeless PWAs, confidentiality andthe new law, asking him to revoke
the law. Provenzano's concerns weredrowned out by applause and cheers
for the governor. A third protester,
D'avid Robinson, was escorted fromthe room as he shouted questions to
the legislature about repeal of thelaw. Provenzano
was the only
protester arrested, He was charged
with disrupting a public meeting, T
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rent mental health programs to better
serve lesbians and gay men, and will
work to create special programs tomeet the community's unique needs.
"I want to look at programs suchas the Harvey Milk School, SAGE [agroup for older lesbians and gay men],the Hetrick Martin Institute and even
Covenant House to fmd out what mental health services are needed to meettheir special needs," he said.
Jones also believes that mental
health services for gays should be
provided at all treatment and counseling centers.
"I don't think there has beenenough understanding among [mental
health workers] toward the dynamics
and issues in gay lives and relations.
There may be sensitivity in clinics inthe Village, but I doubt there has
been in the far reaches of Queens or
Brooklyn, where gays and lesbians
also live," Jones said.
The new commissioner, whose
16-page resume outlines nearly two
decades of work in medicine and psychiatry, also plans to beef up city
mental health services for people withAIDS and HIV infection.
He said he wants to integrate city
mental health and social workers withAIDS service. providers, such as the
Gay Men's Health Crisis. "I want to tie
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service network that already exists.""We need to help the infected
deal with depression and denial. We
need to move them toward accepting
it, and then getting the appropriate
treatment," Jones said.
Other issues high on Jones' agenda' include mo~e services for thehomeless, children and young people
and the drug addicted.
Not ExBctlytfte First
Dr. Jones is not the first openly
gay commissioner to serve in New
York City history, but his ts the first to
be appointed, Two other commissioners were gay, but they came out
while in office: Health Services
Administrator Howard Brown in 1973,
and Cultural Affairs Commissioner
Henry Geldzahler in 1979.
Jones is admittedly not a gay
activist, which has caused grumbling
among some gays and lesbians, He
doesn't belong to any gay/lesbian
groups and spends much of his private time with his partner of 22 years.
"I never felt the need to get up andannounce my homosexuality, but I nevertried to hide it either," he said. "But ifanyone didn't know; they do now."
While many lesbians and gays
were up in arms over the· Myers
appointment, some Latinos were upset
by Dinkins naming Jones over theirpreferred candidate: Dr. Luis Marcos ofthe Health and Hospitals Corporation.
"Dr. Marcos is a friend and col- I
league' of mine, and other Hispanic
leaders have said they will work withme. I don't anticipate a problem,"Jones said, vowing to reach out toLatinos. "My record at this hospital,
which has mostly Hispanic patients,
shows my concern and sensitivity
towards the Hispanic community." ...

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instance, Taylor and Sarlo followed
the victim to the hut, taunting him as
they went. Sometime within the nexthour, they slashed Zappalorti's throatand stabbed him repeatedly in thechest with -a five inch knife, according
to police.
Following the murder, police say
the two took Zappalorti's
keys,
entered his horne and ransacked his .
room, stealing a rosary, They fledwhen confronted
by the victim's
invalid mother.
MichaelZappalorti,
James'
younger brother, began searching forhis brother the Qext day and discovered the body at 2:15 pm on Tuesday,
Taylor was arrested at a Staten Island
nightclub early Wednesday morning.
Sarlo is still at large.
The two accused men have arecord of bias-related crime ~gainst
gays, In 1986 they were arrested andconvicted, along with two others, ofkidnapping a gay Staten Island man,beating him with a tire iron, locking
him in the trunk of his car and threatening. to blow the car up, In that case,bias against homosexuals was also
said to be the motive, Both men
served time in state prison for thatconviction.
Since their release, Taylor andSarlo are said to have been unable tohold steady jobs, and are called troublemakers by people in the neighborhood, They are said to have fre-~quently started fights with others.
Newspapers
differed on how
they handled the issue of Zappalorti's
sexuality. The Daily News quo,ted
Zappalorti's father as saying, "Theykilled Jimmy because he was gay, but
he was a good gay, not a pervert."
The New York Ttmes, however, interpreted the elder Zappalorti's statement that his son was not a pervert tomean tJult his son wasn't gay.
. "The elder Zappaiorti held a picture of his son playing the piano andangrily denied that his son was gay.
"'He wasn't a pervert, he wasclean,'" the Ttmes quoted the father assaying.
Perhaps most surprising was the
New York Post, whose prominent
coverage was considered uncharacteristically sensitive and extensive.
Major DemOnstration Planned. At week's
end, the murder'appeared to be turning into 'a focal
point for widespread gay anger at
the city's rising tide of anti-gay violence,~umerous
gay leadersplanned to attend Zappalorti's funeral on Saturday in Staten Island. As
Out Week went to press, plans for amajor demonstration.
were taking
shape. Activists were contacting abroad range of community groups,
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ly parents and spent much of his timein a small hut he had constructednear the Arthur Kill, left a store called
Deli Delight, two blocks from hishorne. A witness reported that Taylor
and Sarlo began harassing Zappalorti,
calling him "faggot" and "queer,"
Other neighbors have reported thatsuch harassment
was a frequent
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MusicRead My Lips
by WiUiam F. ChafinJlimmy Somerville has always
been political. As the leadsinger of the Bronski Beat,and then The Communards, he wasgay and he was Out. He sang lovesongs .to other men. He seized gay
disco from the divas and reinterpreted
it, making songs like "Never Can Say
Goodbye" into authentic gay music
sung with real conviction. Now, on his
first solo album released on London
Records in the u.K. he's more outspoken than ever, adamantly encouraging
gay political activism. The title, READ
MY llPS, is derived from the ACI' UP
slogan used with images of same-sex
couples kissing, In fact, the liner notes
advise "ACI' UP, fight back, fight AIDS"
and include ACI' UP/London's address,
But don't get the idea that this album
is all strident politics; there are also
love songs and disco anthems aplentyon this auspicious solo debut.
The first single from READ MY
UPS, a duet with drummer and exmusical director of The Communards
June Miles-Kingston, is "(Comment Te
Dire) Adieu" originally a hit for 60s
French artist Francois Hardy, Explaining this unusual choice of material
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DanceAll the Right Moves
choreographers
who don't have access to establishedvenues--the grass roots guys," At present, the Field's programof showcases and workshops presents 35 perfonnances a year
involving work by as many as 200 choreographers. Gross was.also recently made curator of the dance program at theby Otis Stuart
Kitchen, which means that he will be instrumental in programming the work of even more of his peers through the dance
end of the Kitchen's multidisciplinary activities.
rue to the swell of the times, dancer/choreographer Steve Gross makes dances that know nothGross' work as a choreographer is his strongest suit.
ing of passivity, sexual or otherwise. Even at their Movement, steps, are only one of its priorities. "I'm not reallyquietest-Gross just sitting on a floor in one work, flicking a interested in movement in tenns of how many times a bodylamp off and on, summoning up images of isolation and can tum or how fur a leg can extend," Gross says, "Physicality
instability that give Glenn Close a run for her fatally attrac- can also create a unique state of mind, a kind of rooting fromtive money-his work can be an emotional Rorshach test, which you develop another kind of language, There's som~just you and right-there emotion. Gross' upcoming concert at thing absohitely fundamental and honest about your physical
P.S. 122, his sixth evening of work since coming to New self, and that's.what I'm after-the honesty of performance."
Inevitably, that kind of truth has its confrontational aspects,
York in 1984, promises to keep up the tradition, The threescheduled works include a new solo, masturbation, lies and and Gross' work doesn't' shy away from the big situations, An
cassette tapes, dealing with a topical and, by nature, touchy early solo dealt With a mothers suicide and had Gross moving
subject-phone sex, taped personal descriptions and all,across the stage accompanied by a monotone account of the
Emotional engagement has ....
..
I• event, sheated-1ums
includbeen central to Gross' work
ed-insidea black-beaded
from the start. A psychology
evening dress, a modem day
major, he was introduced toVenus de Milo with a real probdance at 18 by his lover at the .
lem. "Everything is a response
time, a dancer, Teny Beck, whoto a situation, I don't reallyis collaborating on a new duet
think about the surprise of it,"with Gross for the P.S. 122 perGross says. "That person, forformances. "I was raised toexample, was trapped. The idea
work with my mind," Gross& is to take different lines of comsays of the discovery. "Youmunicating-in
this case, thetrained your mind, That's where
dress, the text, moving acrossthe work was. I started taking
the stag~rid
see what hapdance classes and discovered~. pens when they're j~posed."
my body, working with myl'.Gross' work is also
, marked by another trait thatbody. It was like something outof Star Trek-uncharted territohas been forged out of thery, going where no one had
sweatshop of the 80s, Thebeen before, It was somethingemotional honesty Gross cites
to conquer."
as a goal mak.es him a maleSince taking on New York,
choreographer working from a
Gross has become something
centrally gay perspective, (Itof a prototype for the city's
may sound simple but it ain't.)
developing breed of choreograK In Gross' work, heterosexuality
phers. The interests and intent,
is no longer the given, not infor example, reach out andthe coupling of the dances or
beyond. In addition to his work
the choice of costume or the, world view. The choice has
as a dancer, teacher and chorepotential risks:' Gross has justographer, Gross became direcrecei:ved funds from the NEA
tor of the Field in 1987,
for the second time. The potenestablishing it as a service orga- VENUS DE MILO WITH A REAL PROBLEM
Photo: B. Franklin Smith
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Theater--1'

WHOSE FAMILY ALBUM IS IT, ANYWAY?
Jay (Stephen Miller) and Casey (David Baird)

Photo: Joanne GigantiWinds of War
by Michael PaUer

Anger, one might think, is justthe thing called for in gay theater now, For many, anger
has become the elixir of life, a morepotent fuel than love or compassion. If atheater which reflects the experiences ofour community is to be vital, thenmustn't it engage the leading passions
and circumstances that confront us at
this moment? The answer, from a political point of view, would be yes. Politics
and aesthetics don't always mix well,
however, and a choice which may bepolitically correct doesn't necessarily
make the best theater,
Such is the case with The Wind
Beneath My Wing.s; which contains considerable anger and deals with a controversial issue which hasn't been dealt
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playwright, Sydney Moms, is either confused as to which is more importantthe anger or the issue-or uncertain as
to their proper theatrical proportions.
Jay (Stephen Miller), an AIDS
activist in his 20s, is visiting Casey(David Baird), a cabaret performer in
his 30s and a member of the first postStonewall generation, Jay, who is also
an artist, is to complete a panel for
the AIDS Quilt in memory ofAdam-Casey's
lover and Jay's closefriend. Try as Casey might, he can'treach across the chasm of age andexperience to make a friend of Jay.
The younger man is perpetuallyangry and insensitive; every story
Casey tells him is simply "before mytime." When Casey nostalgically recalls
the nights in the "Stone Age before
Stonewall" spent with midnight cowboys and sailors, afternoons with aspiring actors. and deaf mutes, Jay
responds, "Were any of. you faithful in
the Stone Age?" The gap between themis measured forever when Jay, dismissive of Casey's passions for Ann
Sheridan, Betty Hutton and Sal Mineo,

sneers, "How corne old queens likeyou get hung up on such insignificant
people? Thank God we have betterrole models now-like Lany Kramer."
And so it goes, an enc<?unter
between two gay men speaking different languages, separated by a screenof animosity which makes a translation impossible. But this is not conflictin a theatrical sense. As opposed tomere anger, which can be dramaticallystagnant, conflict leads to action-clUSing change in the principal characters.
The disagreements between Jay and
Casey, disconnected to any theatricalaction, prcduce no change other thanon the clock, The point that there is agreat distance between their generations is made a dozen times, and at
9:15, Jay and Casey are no different
than they were at 8:00,
At about 9:16, we fmally discover
the reason for Jay's anger, Not surprisingly, it is much more interesting than theanger itself.While G!sey's generation celebrated, even invented, sexual freedom,
Jay's world is a poisonous alphabet soupof HIV, PO> and AZl', It's a world dominated by medical insurance, where
Consumer Reports evaluates condoms.
In Jay's eyes, the fault for thisdeadly universe rests squarely with
Casey and his "generation of pigs" whoindiscriminantly fucked and sucked,
Speaking for the swine to whose company he has been consigned, Casey
reminds Jay that it was those pigs who
gave Jay the bedrock of a culture. At
last goaded into retaliation, he tells Jay
that when the epidemic is over, Jay's
generation will know what his learned
long ago: How it feels to crawl into thelight after living one's entire life beneathrocks, At this moment, the issue is finally engaged, the real conflict emerges
and the audience would be electrified-had it n.ot been so worn down by
75 minutes of what Morris doubtlessconsidered the necessary "preparation."
It is an honest mistake, but one
which places an enormous burden on
the actors and the director, John Wall.
They must provide the variety of emotion and physical action for which Wallhas left precious little room in his
essentially static script. While Miller and
Baird work well within the limited
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122 Turns 10

Mr. Russell, as jmpr~
sario of the benefit, finds
great personal satisfactionin
how many perfonners who
got their start at P.S. 122
return not only for theannual benefit, but forshows throughout the year.
"It was a total surprise to
me to see them come back,I thought that whe'1 ourperformers graduated to
B.A.M., they'd be writing
me back postcards, But
instead, they're here helping to inspire younger
artists,"
Since being foundedover ten years ago as a performance laboratory, P.S,
122 has remained a mecca
for emerging talent. Last
year there were 150 perfor.rnances, and this year there
are plans for substantiallymore. The dynamic environment is fostered by astaff, most of whom arevolunteers, who often work
long hours six to sevendays a week. Mr. Russell*.,=~(~~~~;:~~~:~~"
oe,~ .
I 4' With.

(host~Ii Tr.
, ~~ta~,}{m~..Ma1tin) ..a~p ~t11' CHO$t~1~8et,~ric J3S~.iah. Mi,mi",:pfp@ite\With'J~'K~
e6';1~.at8;,(h3s~,lisaBl~e&01\ with Tom:pal~pray).

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byJohn Wing

Even by Performance Space 122's never subdued standards, their Tenth Anniversary Benefit promises to bean epic event worthy of Cecil B, DeMille. This year,
more than 60 perfonners, dancers, comedians, fUmrnakersandmusicians will converge on 150 First Avenue to take part in theevent, which runs for four days, beginning Thursday night,
February 1. The proceeds for the benefit, called "Dress Up,"are to be used for a very humane purpose--redoing the badly
decomposing perfonners' dressing rooms, P.S. 122 hopes toraise $20,000 for this endeavor, Previous benefits have allowed
new heating and lighting systems to be installed, and the refurbishment of a downstairs performing area that had been
likened to a dungeon. It makeS one wonder what was goingon at this fonner public school before it became a horne for
perfonners in 1979.
.
The benefit will bring together some of the most talented artists around, including Eric Bogosian, Penny
Arcade, Ishmael Houston-Jones, Spalding Gray and Ann
Carlson. This East Village jamboree will also have the hosting expertise of Hapi Phace, Reno, Carmelita Tropicana,
DANCENOISE, Cee Brown and Lisa Kron with Torn Judson.
They will each host one of the six performances which willcomprise the benefit.
As always, there will be numerous surprise guests,
One year Whoopi Goldberg came disguised as a bag lady
and, unrecognized by both audience and staff, grabbed thestage microphone and commenced a monologue.
As part of the opening night bash, the entire building will
be made over with laser beam designs synchronized to musicby SCienceFaction. When not transfIXed by the facade, on theiriside, guests will be able to eat, drink and party before thefirst performance of the evening, which starts at 8:00. All told,
the benefit is a crash course in experimental entertainment.
"It's our Mardi Gras...our Oscars...our Macy's Thanksgiving
Day Parade," said an ebulliant Mark Russell, the executive
director of P,S, 122, "Our benefit has become so big and popular, I couldn't stop it if I tried. It's got a life of its own now."
One of the chief delights of the benefit, according to Mr.
Russell, is the number of new talents who are being showcasedin New York for the first time, "It's a great way for the public tocheck out what's happening in all the performing arts."

has high hopes ~orthe ~ext ·LASERS...LAME...A HEAP '0'
ten. years and IS looktng TALENT· Ph . 0
An McAda
forward to the next generaoto. onna nmstion of perfonners who will develop their craft at P,S,122.
"A new generation is coming into their own right now.
They are performers and artistswho have grown up under cornpletely different times thafl fomIer generations," said Mr. Russell,
speaking about the influence of AIDSon the artistic community,"AIDSis shaping us, but artists are Stillin a sort cf state of shockover .it."P,S, 122 has been extremely active in AIDS censorshipissues, and has perfonned a number of benefits to support
groups such as VISUalAIDSand God's Love We Deliver.
"At P.S. 122, we are always trying to challenge ourselves with our programming~mostto scare ourselves,"
said Mr, Russell, with eagerness, "We don't have any specificpaths to take here, we just follow our artists."
After the ordeal of organizing this year's benefit, the staffof P,S. 122 will not be taking any time off, but will be busy
with February's full schedule of perfonnances. While Mr.
Russell fmds the experience of the benefit invigorating, he isquick to add with a laugh: "But don't go calling us up too early
the Monday after it!"
Admission to "Dress Up" will be. $20 per show, $35 forthe opening night bash and performance, or $80 for a"Dress Up" pass which grants admission to opening night
and all shows plus a lame scarf. T

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BooksNaked, Nude, Nudist
by Michael SchwarzMargaret R. Miles' Carnal

Knowing: Female Nakedness and Religious MeanIng In the Christianis a book inwest

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never convincingly answers the question of why naked female bodies havebeen associated with sensuality anddesire while naked male bodies havesymbolized power, athletic prowess andknowledge, Instead of a discussion of
nakedness per se we are presented with
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which have to do with nakedness.
Carnal Knowing introduces us toa variety of loosely related subjects
including fourth century baptismal
practices, medieval female asceticism,
the story of Adam and Eve and theconcept of the grotesque. Miles' conclusions are nothing if not clearly stated. "Patriarchal cultures," she writes,"in spite of their many dissimilarities,
share a cornmon need to preserve male
control that is thought of simply as'order'. A central component of maintaining and reproducing social order isthe management of women, and apowerful strategy for controlling
women is their public representation."
Her point is that "because women havenot enjoyed the conditions necessary
for formulating self-representations that
could have informed collective maleviews of women, men have usuallycreated representations of women outof their fears and fantasies,"
These impressive, and most likely
correct, conclusions are not, however,supported by very much in the way ofargumentation, One could easily formulate an argument for why fourth century
baptismal practices are important in thehistory of gender asymmetry in theWest. The fourth and fifth century baptismal practices were a turning point in
the history of sexuality, as a number ofhistorians have recently argued, andnaked bap~ism is potentially a vivid
source of information of early Christian
attitudes toward women, But Miles
never bothers to place her subject inhistorical perspective.
In discussing the story of Adamand Eve, for example, she initiallyclaims that "interpretationsof theGenesis account (of creation) represent not ~ 'unified set of sharednotions,' but a 'seri~s of arguments
among people' about the significanceof sex difference and the social construction of gender," So far so good.
But, instead of attempting a survey ofliterary and artistic treatments of theCreation. and Fall across the centuries,

Miles decides to "explore in somedetail versions of the story by several
notable authors-Saint
Ambrose,
Augustine, Saint Hildegard of Bingen,Martiri Luther and S0ren Kierkegaard."
Why these five?
No answer isoffered. One can only assume that
she believes these authors to be especially representative. But representative of what?
Or whom?
She
concludes, ironically, that "the literary
and pictorial presentation of the figure 'woman,' ... carried remarkable
continuity across medieval societies
and appears to have relied very little
on what actual women were doing."
Fortunately, despite all of its deficiencies, Carnal Knowing makes anumber of very interesting and evenprovocative points. Miles articulates
the special afflliation the female bodyhas with the grotesque.
"Somewomen," she writes, "were seen as
personifications of the grotesque (during the Middle Ages): prostitutes, forexample, epitomized the penetrable
body that produces juices and smells,
The prostitute's body was describedas the opposite of the closed, selfcontained, controlled male body andthe opposite of that of some virtuous
women, especially virgins, who werecalled 'gardens. enclosed.'" This affin~
ity is founded "on the assumption thatthe male body is the perfectly formed,
complete and therefore normativebody. By contrast women's bodies
incorporate parts Oike breasts, uterus,
and vagina) and processes Oike menstruationand pregnancy)
that
appeared grotesque to the authors
and artists who represented women."
The battle between the sacred andprofane, in other words, is played out
in the language of the body. The point
is not original, but Miles effectively
shows how gender influences ideas
about bodily integrity and pollution in
a way that Ma;.y Douglas would no
doubt approve of, FollOwing the workof Peter Stallybrass, she also argues that
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he Beat Generation caught
the imagination of the American arts in the 50s, Kerouac,
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Allen Ginsberg was a part of it
from the beginning. As soon as he left
his home in Passaic, New Jersey, toattend Columbia University, Ginsberg,I helped establish the seemingly exciting and sexually alluring crowd thatwould become the Beats.
Columbia was a heady start to alife which would lead Ginsberg in asearch for passion and enlightenment.
He studied under gurus in India andin this country, shot up speed with .
poets in Paris, picked up boys withfriends in Morocco. And almost all of
it was covered by a fascinated press
which was feeding an even more
enthralled public.
'
The Beats became the figures ofrebellion
and expression
in arepressed American society, These
were the symbols of the wild spiritthat so many wanted to emulate.
Ginsberg was an especially important figure for the gay world whichbegan to evolve after the Stonewall
riots, long after he, himself, hadcome out publicly, (In fact, Ginsberg
was there for the second day of
Stonewall,
drawn by the sudden
eruption of gay power.)Those of us who had grown up
with Ginsberg and the Beats wereastonishedwhen
he suddenly
seemed to give it all up a few years
ago and become a coat-and-tie wearing professor at Brooklyn College
and, soon after, the president of themainstream PEN organization, Thenhe left behind hiS years-long relationship with City Lights publishers andsigned on with Andrew Wylie, themost odious and least respected ofthe mammoth literary agents who arebecoming so powerful in New York.
'I CIt's no mistake that this biography
was commissioned
by Wylie, who
represented
it, soon. after. A now
high-priced item, Ginsberg needed
press to justify the huge amounts thatthe agent would,
successfully,
demand from mainstream publishwhich laid the groundwork for the ers.)
Woodstock decade. The happenings
What happened? No one shouldof the 60s and the most vivid experi- fault Ginsberg for finally looking for amental art of the post-World War II living wage and decent royalties, but
era all have their roots in the ram- there seemed to be so much morebling, exotic bands of poets and writ- behind the story, The biographer
ers' and painters who seemed to come doesn't want to really admit it, but the
together magically,
real stuff soon becomes apparent as

February 4, 1990••......

Ginsberg's story unfolds,
Yes, there were those adventures
and there were literary blockbusters
such as Howl, the only poem forwhich Ginsberg
will always beremembered. There were also untold
years lost to drugs; the very theme ofHowl was the destruction of a generation. And there was unending urthappiness. And there was a lot of hype.
Ginsberg presented himself andhis "lover" Peter Orlovsky as the perfect gay couple, a model of monogamous fidelity for the evolving gay
world to emulate. In fact, Peter wasbasically heterosexual, almost always
on drugs and often psychotic, They
were a mess.
The characters who made up
the Beat Generation.
had their
moments of glory and inspiration.
But no one could sustain the drugfueled high that started them on
their way, They all had to crash
eventually, Many did it by dying,others by going crazy; Ginsberg did
it by becoming a professor, a tired
man entering old age without everhaving found the answers he so constantly sought. The. biographyisworkman"like enough, nothing special, but nothing astonishing eit.her.
In the end, while the beginning isstar-studded and enthusiastic,uthis isa sad and depressing story.

* * * * *When Harold Norse was a student at Brooklyn College he firmly.held the beliefs of many radical
homosexuals of the time: "...that wewould all be reborn in communism, afaith that promised an end to social
injustice, war, racism and inequality ofthe sexes. Without that ideal we facedboredom and masturbation. With it
we masturbated to fantasies of the
Noble Worker."
Sexually precocious and intellectually gifted, Norse moved through abohemian, leftist world with companions like Baldwin and Ginsberg. As
they grew older, some C?fthem grew
famous, some became criminals andothers simply went on with their lives.
Norse, as involved with drugs
as any of the rest, doesn't seem tohave ever caught the train, While he

Photo: Nina Glasser

Harold Norse
eventually published many volumesof poetry, he never a'ccumulated therecognition that fell to many of his
peers. He even lost his lover to
Auden, which actually has been oneof his claims to fame. More recently,
however, he seems to have discovered that younger people are interested in his life, and that publishers
who had once been so diffic.ult
were now willing to pay him for his
reminiscences.
The result. is an
uneven but usually fascinating autobiography,
There's no doubt that Norse feels
slighted by the ravages of fortune-

he documents Isherwood's slights ofhim, the prizes he didn't win, thepublishers who did him wrong-but
there's also enough fascinating stuff
here to justify any reader's time,
especially now when so many seem
intrigued with the development of
the Beat Movement in literature andare debating its real effects on our
culture, Norse is actually best andmost poetic when he's describing themost memorable tricks of his life-he
was the soul. of a pornographer inthe most artistic sense of theterm-although
the rest of his story is
also of note. T
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must learn to represent themselves inanthems, "Lips" demands money, digtial value is even greater, "I don't think
more direct and honest ways," is lessnity .and a cure for AIDS and includesof my work as political," Gross says. "I the repeatedly chanted refrain, "Thesanguine, What would an "honest"mean, I signed up GMHC right after I power within we can use it to win."and "direct" portrayal of male sexuality
got to New York, but that doesn't seem"And You Never" calls for protest
be like? How, moreover, does one repto me political-it's just obvious, neces- against the government in support ofresent the full personality and charactersary. But my work comes out of ~ho I our rights, proclaiming, "I believe theof a human being in a picture? And
am and what I am living, so if there is a basic thing in life should be free/health
how can an image rob the dignity ofpolitical aspect it's in a 'product of my and education have priority/and they'rethe person portrayed or the group oftimes way' rather than as an objective. I
selling to us what we already own".
people it represents?
don't understand why-or how--choreWhile these songs generate
These are difficult questions whichographers force a heterosexual perspecstrength and conviction, the best surreaders will righdy associate with thetive·on their work. I do what I am." Tprise of this album is "Control".
recent debate about pornography.
Somerville uses his lower register
One need not dredge up that whole"regular" voice which turns out to bedebate, however, to acknowledge that
SOMERVlLlf from pell. 54
very sexy, very sensual. He sings,
the relationship between the represenSomerville says, "I thought it would be"Feel your strength, just let it flow/thetation and behavior is complex and that
good to start my solo project withmore you supress, the weaker you
simple solutions to the problem of gensomething completely off the wall, andgrow/build
yourself a fortress ofder asynunetry will not be forthCOming.
I don't think you could have anything
pride/take control of your life body
Still, one can sympathize withmore off the wall than a Scottish singer
and soul". It's a fantasticly gay (orMiles' passionate summary: "Men's
singing French over a House track."'any other way of being, for that matfear of women comes from the socially
It does have a House-influenced . ter!) inspirational song for the 90s.
constructed but intimately felt need tobeat, however" Adieu" often succumbs
The album ends with "Rain," a beauticontrol a puzzling similar-but-different
to typical disco flourishes when somefully jazzy techno-pop song about the
being, And women are felt to beacidic twists would be more approprienvironmental
emergency of acidunknown, mysterious, because they doate. It's entertaining,
but not therain. The only lyrics are "Here comes
not represent themselves in the public
strongest cut on the album by a long
the rain/it's burning, it's burning/who
sphere and thus do not revc;al andshot. Much better is the other cover:would believe that the rain it could
articulate a collective female subjectivithe gay gospelesque disco classic "You kill?", But they are enough ..
ty that would both limit the projection
Make Me Feel (Mighty ReaO". In thisWith READ MY LIPS, Jimmyof male fears and longings and, ultitribute to the late great Sylvester (theSomervtlle has stepped oµt as a clear
mately, reassure men that, in Calypso's
original male disco diva) Somervillevoice for the global gay community,
words, 'The heart within me is not of
captures all the excitement and 'fun of
He has created dance music with airon, but yearning, like yours.'" T1978 without sounding dated. As
sOcial conscious and a gay heart. Let's
WIND from pell. 56
Jimmy's falsetto soars like Sylvester's, . hope it's released in America soon. T
you realize what a solidly great disco I
I range the writing allows, their efforts,
song this will always be.
almost predictably, fall short. Wall is
NAKED from pell. 58
The best original high energy songunable to help them discover theis "Pettect Day". Written by Somerville,. men grew increasingly insecure about
details of characterization and physicalit's a romantic love story set by the searelations between the sexes during theaction which might at least paper overside: "Give me your hand and we'lllate medieval period, and that this insesome of the author's more obvious
walk by the shore/skim stones' on the
curity influenced some political as wellmanipulations as he unneccessarily
water, the waves crash and roar/as sexual arrangements.
puts off revealing the core of Jay's fury.
Pretending you're Neptune/write names
This emphasis on the sexual poliMiller's job is especially difficult, as hein the sandllips brushed with salt I telltics of representation in the Renaissancemust try to locate something attractive'
you I love you/you smile". Next,
leads MileS to discuss the possibility ofin Jay, who grows fIJ,orepetulant and"Heaven is Here on Earth (With Your
reappropriating the image of the female
dislikeable as the evening goes on. .
Lovet continues the romantic mood.
body as a symbol of self respect and
The Wind Beneath My Wings
It's a -divine pop song full of religious
knowledge in the contemporary world.
(which is how Jay, perhaps unfortuimagery: "Stay, I'm praying he'll stay, aMiles complains that "the female bodynately, characterizes Adam) is not alittle prayer/l've found heaven on earth,has been... so thoroughly 'mastered' in
bad play. It's a shame, however, thata dream come true with your love".
representation that viewers' most immeits real subject-theblaming ofOn side two of READ MY LIPS,
diate reaction is to 'se!! female nakedCasey's generation for AIDS-is releSomerville calls for participatory politiness as an object of male desire," True
gated to the last 15 minutes, and then,cal activism, "Read My Lips (Enough isenough. Miles' suggestion, however,in a. few d1ssolving tears and a' hug,
Enough)"and "And You Neverthat "men must relinquish the figure ofresolved. It's an important subject,
Thought This Could Happen To You" the naked female as a format for theand one which other writers could
are both high energy disco protest
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black drag queen, a 35-year-old
expimp and rehabilitated addict, and a 25year-old Hispanic who loves the goodlife of sex, disco and drugs, and who
puts the other two through changes; atthe producer's Club, 358 W 44 St (btwn
8th/9th Aves); today, FRI and SAT, FEB
1,3, at 8 pm; $10 advance/$12
door;
reservations and info 893-9852
COMMUNITYRESEARCH INITIATIVE
New York premiere 01 Touchstone Pictures' Stellll, a benefit for CRI; at Cinem a I Theatre, 3rd Ave at 60 St; 8 pm; $50
suggested
donation;
rsvp Marvin
Palmer, 481·1050
THE GLINES presents

Sidney Morris's

The Wind Beneath My Wing., see JAN
31
WOW CAFE Film and Video Night,
curated by Mary Paterno and Harriet
Hirshorn; 59 E 4 St; 460,8067 (also FEB
2,3)
THE NATURAL HISTORY GROUP pre,sents English Gardens, "a colorful slide
show presenting
the lush beauty ofsome of England's finest horticulturalachievements"; at the Center, 208 W 13
St; 8 pm; $2; 620,7310

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THEATER PLACE BISTRO presents
renown entertainer Dakota Station.
Music charge Sl0,-minimum $8. Shows
at 10 pm and midnight 765 8th Avenue,
956,5100GAYAND LESBIAN SWITCHBOARD/NY
Volunteer Interviews, for those whowish to work at least two 3·hour shifts
per month; those chosen will be
required to attend an initial training thefollowing day, 1/6; 6:30 pm; 777-1800
IDENTITY HOUSE Rap Group: Coming
Out lit Work; 544 6th Ave (btwn 14/15
Sts); 6:30-8:30pm; 243·8181.
THEANSWER IS LOVING Women Talking Women's Talk: Close Encounter ofthe Loving Intimate Kind; "How kind?
What kind?"; led by Ruth Berman andConnie Kurtz; Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn; 7:45-10 pm; $8; 718/998-2305
GAY MEN OF AFRICAN DESCENT Discussion: GllY lind Grey, focu'sing on
age discrimination, age relationshiptaboos, and on how older Black/Latino
gay men relate to the broader commu·
nity; at the Center, 208 W 13 St; 8 pm;
620-7310
KAREN SMITH directs Eric Booth',Mlltamorpho,i,: II ,liclI of black gllYlit., see FEB 1
THEGLINESpresents Sidney Manis', The
WindBenellthMy Wings,see JAN 31
3,DOLLAR BILL THEATER' COMPANY
Workshop Reading of Re,cuing MllnIyn, "set in NYC during the 2nd presidential term of Dan Quayle"; inanticipation of a late,spring opening; atthe Apple Corps Theatre, 336 W 20 St; 8
pm; free, no rsvp necessary; info 989,
3750(also tomorrow, same time)
WOW CAFE Film and Video Night, see
FEB 1
BODY POSITIVE Friday Night Socials,
for HIV Positives and friends; every 1st& 3rd Friday; Rutgers Church, 236 W 73
St (off Bway); 9 pm • midnight; free; info
721,1346(Note: the next social, FEB 16,
will be a special Valentine's Day Dance)
COLUMBI.A LESBIAN, BISEXUAL, GAY
COALITION First Friday Dance, in Earl
Hall, Columbia U., 116 St & Bway (11/19
train); 10 pm - 2 am; photo ID tq drink;
854,3574,854·1488

THEATER PLACE BISTRO presents
renown entertainer Dakota Station.
Music charge S10, minimum $8. Shows
at 10 pm and midnight 765 8th Avenue,
956·5100TERRY WEISSER and L.K. AUBREY
Two·day Hands-on Seminar for Erotic
Men, "exploring intimacy and how weexperience sex with other men";. HIV+/PWA welcome; today and tomor'row; 10 am - 6 pm; S15O;Terry 463,9152,
Aubrey 475-1496
FEATUREFinal day to see Peter Huttinger, Gut" and Kevin Wolff, New
Pllintings; 484 Broome St; Tues.·Sat.,noon - 6 pm; 94~-7077
SAGE Brunch at Boxer's Restaurant,
190 W 4 St (at Barrow); noon or 2 pm
seating; SII.50; mail check to SAGE,
208W 13 St. NYC 10011
CONGREGATION BETH SIMCHATTORAH Winter Film Festival: Mire/e
Efro" at 57 Bethune St (near West St).
8 pm, $4 (includes free popcorn &soda). 929-9498
KAREN SMITH directs Eric 'Booth's
Metllmorpho,i,: II ,lice of blllck gay
lit., see FEB 1

pm; $3.50/$2.50 artists,seniors; 219-1355

students,

CONNECTICUTNOW and NARAL, et al.
A Connecticut March for Women'sUves, to the Connecticut State Capitol
grounds in Hartford, to show support
for choice before the Connecticut General Assembly opens on Feb. 7; 1 pm;
CT NARAL 203/246,0767, CT NOW
203/524-5978

DIGNITY/HUDSONCOUNTYLiturgy andSocial, St Matthew's Lutheran Church,
Wayne St (btwn Barrow St & JerseyAve), Jersey City, NJ; 5 pm; 201/4343548 (Editor's note: this event innaugurates a new Dignity chapter)
GAY PERFORMANCES COMPANY
Staged Reading of a play; at the Center,
208 W 13St; 7 pm; 595·1445

3-DOLLAR BILL THEATER COMPANY
Workshop Reading of Re,cuing MllnIyn, see FEB2

THE GLINES presents the final performance of Sidney Morris's The Wind
Bene.th My Wing', see JAN 31

WOMEN AND FRIENDS and THE LES,
BIAN NATIONAL CONFERENCEDance at
the Center, this and every first Sa1Urday
through May; tonight's DJ, Carolyn Ford; .
208W 13St; 9 pm ,lam; $81$6 members,seniors and s1Udents;620'7310
WOMEN AND COMEDYpresents Emmy
Gay in Liberty on the RockS; Castillo
Cultural Center, Suite 201, 500 Greenwich Street(btwn Spring/Clinal); 10 pm;~10; reservations 941,5800
MAMA DOESN'T KNOWI PRODUCTIONS House Party for women and men,a benefit for MDKIP's Let the Pride Live
Onllli event in June; 135W 14 St 10 pm- 4 am; $10 (includes one drink); 71PJ8320774 (Editor's note: MDKIP is a mutli·
racial, multi·culturalorganization
serving the lesbian and gay people ofcolor community since 1987.)

3,DOLLAR BILL THEATERFree Readingof Rebecca Ranson's Secretl,'in aseries of readings of Plays by Women,at the Apple Corps Theatre, 336 W 20
St; 8 pm; 989-3750

SAGE Sunday Drop-in, for men andwomen; at the Center, 208 W 13 St.
SAGERoom; 1:30,4:30pm; 741-2247

THEGLINESpresents Sidney Manis's The
WindBeneathMy Wings.see JAN 31

WOW CAFE Film and Video Night, see
FEB 1

TJ

Leiphart. clinical psychologist; at St
Joseph's School, 111 Washington
Place (two blocks south of 8 St, off 6thAve); 7:30 pm; $3 donation; 727,7768

BERTHA CAPEN REYNOLDS SOCIETY
and LESBIAN/GAY ALLIANCE AT
HUNTER Community Org.nizing in the'9Os, discussion and video presentation
on ACT up·s organizing strategies anddirect action tactics, with speakers Maxine Wolfe and Gregg Bordowitz; at theCenter,208W 13St 7 pm;$3; 988-1112
CONGREGATION BETH SIMCHATTORAH Jewish Education Cours .. ;tonight: Contemporary Jewish Issues:
Jewish Geneology at 7 pm; at 57
Bethune St; info 929-9498~

CENTER SPORTS sees NY Range,. v..
Edmonton Oilers, hockey match; at
Madison Square Garden, 33rd St & 7th
Ave; 7:30 pm; members $25/non-mem·bers $35; 620·7310

NYC GAY AND LE'SBIAN ANTI,VIOLENCEPROJECTSupport Group, Fanning for Men: Male Survivo" of SexuIII
Assault and Women: Le,billn Survivo"of Bllttering, two groups to begin in
March, 12 weekly 90-minute evening
sessions ending in June; facilitated byc$rtified therapists; free; 807,0197

PATH: POSITIVEAPPROACHESTOWARD HEALING Seminar: Choosing
if Pllth, led by Peter Hendrickson,
Ph.D., for anyone concerned about HIV
infection; Integral Yoga Institute, 227 W
13 St; 7:30·9 pm; $5; 929-0586-

SAGE Workshop for Women: Idantify
B."i."
to Ch,nge .nd Overcome
Flllrs; this and next Monday, led by
Lynne Stevens, CSW; focusing on taking risks, building options in your life,
le~rning good risk·taking skills, refraining fallura; at the Center, 208 W 13 St.
SAGE Room; 7:30·9 pm; 741-2247

THE CLOSET CASE SHOW The First
Week of the HIPPY '90s, with New
Year's Eve go'go boys at Cuando, New
Year's Day strippers at Private Eyes,
and Chip Duckett's Jan. 7 1st Anniver,
SPECTRUM presents Pajama Party,
singing YoNo Se and Over and Over,sary at Mars Needs Men, in which"complimentarydrink for anybody
naked Jake and Frankie are covered
with marshmallow fluff; Manhattan
wearing their pajamas, nightgown andslippers"; 802 64th Street. Brooklyn (N . Cable Channel C/16;midnight
Train to 8th Ave stop, Bay Ridge);
718/238,8213

NEW YORK THEATRE GROUP Staged
Reading: ThII Le/llon Trill, poetic
drama about love and AIDS, set slmul
taneously in Sicily, the American Southand on the set of a film-In-progress; et
the Canter, 208 W 13 St; 8 pm; $5;7181624-4680
3,DOLLAR BILL THEATERFree Readina
of Robert Chesley's Dog PI.YI, "threedark, erotic meditations on time, desire
and death from the author of Jerke"';at Apple Corps Theatre, 336 W 20 St; 8
pm; 989·3750
EAGLE BAR Movie Night: Nightm.reon Elm Street 5: The Dream Child; 142
11th Ave (at 2.1St); 11 pm; 691·8451
GAY MALE S/M ACTIVISTS Dungeon
Demo 11,727·9878

D.T:s FATCAT presents Male Stri~pina,!G;~h~a~,:.Y.lm"':sr~Wednesdays, through yalentine's Day;
NEW MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY
ART Final Day of Erika Rothenberg's
Have You Attllcked Americ. Today?,the infamous window installation thatwas broken into and robbed, featuring a flag,burning kit and other patri,otic items; also Fleming/Lapointe's
installation, Eat Me/Drink Me/Love
Me; Annette Lemeux·s The Appearance of Sound; Satellite Cultures,videotapes from Australia; 583 Bway
(btwn Houston/Prin~e); WED, THU,
SUN, noon ~ 6 pm; FRI, SAT, noon, 8

GAY MEN'S HEALTH CRISIS Benefit at
City Center at the opening night of lesBallets Trockadero de Monte Carlo; 55
St (btwn 6th/7th Aves); show at 7:30 pm;
post'show celebration at Red Zone;$10-$125; Deborah. Edison 337-3519(t/lereafter, performances daily, except
MON, through FEB 18, TUES,SAT at 8,
SAT at 2 and SUN at 3; $15,$35; tix 246,
0102)
POSITIVE ACTION OF NEW YORK Public Forum: Survival, Stlell end HIY,therole of the mind in the progression of
HIV infection; with Dr. Jeffrey M.

January

281 W 12 St (btwn Hudson/West 4thl:
midnight; 243-9041~~!Ri.U!A'lW
WOW CAFE Video/lnstallation/performance: Our Love LivIII, Ou".lves,
conceived by C..F. Giordano; 59 E 4 St;
460-8067 (also FEB9,101
CHIP DUCKETT opens Thursdays II .
Quick!, 6 Hubert St (157 Hudson, #1/#9
to Canal or Franklin St); club 925·2442

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OUTWEEK BEST BETS
(for finding other gays and lesbians to dance with)MondayPrivet. Eyes (Kool Komrads; male strippers) 12 W 21 St.,info 2425646, club 206-7772

Tuesday
Better Days 316 W 49 St (8/9 Aves) 245-8925*love Machine at Underground, 860 Bway, near 17th St; 254-4005

Wednesday
Better Days 316W 49 St (8/9 Aves) 245-8925
Privete Eyes (Jeffrey Sanker & Dallas's Club Bad) 12 W 21 St, btwn
5th/6th Aves, 206-7772·Pyramid (Dean Johnson's Rock & Roll Fag Bar) 101 Avenue A, btwn
6th/7th Streets, 420-1590
Silver Uning (2-4-1 drink) 175 Cherry La., Floral Pk, L1, 516/354-9641
Spectrum (free admission) 80264th St@ 8th Ave, Bay Ridge, Bklyn,
718/238-8213
Stutz (2-4-1 drinks) 202 Westchester Ave, Wh. Pins., 914/761-3100
Twenty/Twenty (Kool Komrads, gay men after 10 pm) 20 W 20 St, info242-5646, club 727-8841

Thursday·Boybar (has a new wave drag show) 151/2 St Marks Place, btwn
2nd/3rd Aves, 674-7959·Copacabana (last Thu. of the month has Susan Bartsch party) 10 E
60 St, at Fifth Ave, 755-6010·Pyramid 101 Avenue A, btwn 6th/7th Streets, 420-1590·Quickl (Chip Duckett Thursdays start Feb. 8) 6 Hubert St, 925-2442
Spectrum (free admission all night, 2-4-1 drinks) 802 64th St@ 8th
Ave, Bay Ridge, Bklyn, 718/238-8213.

Friday·Boybar 151/2 St Marks Pl., btwn 2nd/3rd Aves, 674-7959·Carmelita's (Chip Duckett's Boy+Boy & Girl+Girll 150 E 14 St
Columbia Dances (1st Friday of every month) 116th St & Bway, 8543574 days
Privete Eyes (preppies and young professionals) 12 W 21 St, btwn
5th/6th Aves, 206-7772
Spectrum (male and temale strippers) 802 64th St @ 8th Ave, Bay
Ridge, Bklyn, 718/238-8213

Saturday.

Barefoot Boogie (smoke & alcohol free) 434 6th Ave (btwn 9/10 Sts);
832-6759·Boybar 151/2 St Marks Place, btwn 2nd/3rd Aves, 674-7959
The Center Dances (2nd and 4th Saturdays) 208 W 13 St.,btwn
7th/8th Aves, 620-7310
Pep Boys et Columbia (3rd Saturdays, except Jan. 27) 116 & B'way,
10 pm - 3 am; info 629-1989
Privete Eyes (Jeffrey Sanker & Dallas's Club Bad) 12 W 21 St, btwn
5th/6th Aves, 206-7772
Saint At Large (alternate Saturdays, from 1/27) 105 2nd Ave (at 6 St)
674-8541.
Sound Fectory (Acid House, no alcohol, doors open midnight) 530 W
27 St (btwn 10th/11th Aves), 643-0728
Spectrum (guest performer night) 802 64th St, Bklyn., 718/238-8213

Hot Rod (Kool Komrads' Sinful Sundays, open 8 pm) 2B St at 11th
Ave, info 242-564&
Sp.ctrum (show; free admission 9-10 pm) 80264th St@ 8th Ave, Bay
Ridge, Bklyn, 718/238-8213

Everv Night (or almost)Grand Centril (Rockville Centre, L1, closed Mon & Tues) 210 Merrick
Road, Rockville Centre, L1, 516/536-4800
Monlt.r (West Village) 80 Grove St at Sheridan Sq., 924-3557*Morriss.y (TVs, club kids, straight/gay crowd; closed Sun-Tues)
11th Ave at 26 St, 633-0701

BEST BETS for Women's Dancing
NOTE: Party events are subject to change. Always call to confinn.

Tuesday
Hatfield's f26-10 Queens Blvd., Kew Gardens, 718/261-8484

Wednesday

Bedrock 121Woodfield Rd, W. Hempstead, L1; 516/486-9516
Spectrum 80264th St@8th Ave, Bay Ridge, Bklyn, 718/238-8213
Twenty/Twenty (Shescape After Work, 5-10 pm) 20 W 20 St (btwn
5th/6th Aves), info 645-6479, club 727-8841

ThursdayBedrock 12fWoodfieid Rd, W. Hempstead, L1; 516/486-9516
Spectrum 802 64th St@ 8th Ave, Bay Ridge, Bklyn, 718/23.8-8213

FridayBedrocl( 121Woodfield Rd, W. Hempstead, L1; 516/486-9516
Cheeks 2000 Long Beach Road, Island Park, L1, 516/431-5700
Roxy (Shescape) 515 W 18 St, btwn 10th/11th Aves; info 645-6479,
club 645-5156
Spectrum 80264th St@8th Ave, Bay Ridge, Bklyn, 718/238-8213
Visions 56-01 Queens Blvd, Woodside, info 718/846-7131 , club
718/899-9031

SaturdayBedrock 12 Woodfield Rd, W. Hempstead, L1; 516/486-9516
The Center (Women & Friends 1st Saturdays, Feb. thru May) 208 W
13 St.,620-7310. Silver Lining 175 Cherry Lane, Floral Park, L1, 516/354-9641
Spectrum 802 64th St@ 8th Ave, Bay Ridge, Bklyn,718/238-8213 .
Starz 836 Grand Boulevard, Deer Park, L1, 516/242-3857
Twenty/Twenty (Shescape) 20 West 20 Street (btwn 5th/6th Aves),
info 645-6479, club 727-8841

SundayBedrock f21 Woodfield Rd, W. Hempstead, L1; 516/486-9516 .
Cave Canem (Sandwich Sister Sundays) 24 1st Ave at 1st St, 5299665•
Spectrum 802 64th St@ 8th Ave, Bay Ridge, Bklyn,718/238-8213

Everv Night

Cubby 1Iole .f38 Hudson St@ Morton St, 243-9079
Duchess IISheridan Sq. & 7th Ave South, 242-1408

SundayBetter Days 316 W 49 St (8/9 Aves); 245-8925·Mars (Chip Duckett's 'Mars Needs Men' night) Westside Highway
and 13th St, 691-6262·Pyramid (Hapi Phace and Drag + Variety Show) 101Avenue A, btwn
6{1 Streets, 420-1590

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OUTWEEK BAR GUIDEWESTSIDE
Bike Stop West 230 W. 75th St.,874-9014, Neighborhood bar, occasional entertainment.

The Works, 428 Columbus Ave(at 81st), 799-7365, Cruisy westside crowd.

EAST SIDE

Candle Bar, 309 Amsterdam Ave.,
874-9155 , Friendly leather/westernbar.

,
Brandy's Piano Bar, 235 E. 84th St.,
650-1944, Sing-along piano bar.

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

G.H. Club, 353 E. 53rd St., 223-9752,
Piano bar, mature crowd.

Don't Tell Mama, 343 W. 46th St.,
757-0788, Sing-along piano bar andcabaret.

Johnny's Pub, 123 E. 47th St., 3558714, Neighborhood restaurant andbar:

Jason's, 2(1OSED.

Regent East, 204 E. 58th St., 3559465

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

The Bar, 68 2nd Ave. (at 4th St.),674-9714, East Villagers and ACT
UPers.
Boy Bar, 15 St. Mark's Pl., 674-7959,
Dancing / Drag shows.
The P~amid, 101 Avenue A, 4201590, Dancing / Drag shows.
.
. Tunnel Bar, 1161stAve (7th St.),
777-9232 W. Village crowd in the E.
Village.

WEST VILLAGE

Rounds, 303 E. 53rd St., 593-0807,
Friendly guys, checkbook romance.

The Annex jto Cellblock 28),673
Hudson St. bet. 13th & 14tli), 6271140, ·J/O Cub. .

South Dakota, 405 3rd Ave., 6848376

Badlands, Christopher & West St. ,741-9236, Cruisy waterfront bar.

Star Sapphire, 400 E. 59th St., 6884710

Boots & Saddle, 76 Christopher St.,929-9684, Funky dive and juke joint.

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Cellblock 28, 28 9th Ave, 733-3144,
J/O club.

Town & Country, 9th Ave at 46th St.,
307-1503
Trix~246 W. 48 St. (bet. Bdwy & 8thAve), 664-8331, Cash and carry.

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new,1 pm on GllS'The Cubbyhole, 438 Hudson (Morton
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D.T.'s Fat Cat, 281 W. 12th St., 2439041 , Piano bar. Mixed MlF..

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Duchess II, 70 Grove St (7th Ave.),242-1408, Women.
J's, 675 Hudson St., 242-9292, J/O
club.
'
Julius, 159 W. 10th St., 929-9672,
Serving Coors, Coors Lite, & Coors
Draft.
Keller's, 384 West St. (at Christopher),243-1907, Friendly neighborhood crowd.
Kelly's Village West, 46 Bedford St., .
929-9322, Piano bar.
The Locker Room, 400 W. 14th St.
(9th Ave), 459-4299, J/O club.

Marie's Crisis, 59 Grove St. (7thAve), 243-9323, Sing-along pianobar.

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

Rawhide 212 8th Ave., (21st St.),
Leather 7 Levi's.
.

The Monster, 80 Grove St. (7thAve.), 924-3558, Piano bar &disco/dancing.

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Spike, 120 11th Ave., 243-9688,
Leather & Uniforms.

Barba~ Coast, 64 7th Ave. (14th St.),
675-0385, Friendly, neighborhoodbar.

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Ninth Circle, 139 W. 10th St., 2439204, Younger crowd.
Ramrod, 185 Christopher St.
Sneakers, 392 West St., 242-9830.
Two Potato, 145 Christopher St.,242-9340.
Ty's, 114 Christopher St., 741-9641,
Cruisy neighborhood bar.

The Break, 232 8th Ave. (22nd St.),
627-0072.
Chelsea Transfer, 131 8th Ave. (bet.
16th & 17th), 929-7183, NeighbOrhood English pub.
.
Eagle's Nest,14211th Ave (21st St.),69f -8451, Leather / Levi's.
Private Eye~ 12 W. 21st St (bet. 5th& 6th), 206-tnO, Dancing; Video 'au~.

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COllllllunity Directory
A.C.Q.c,
AIDS CENTER OF QUEENS COUNTYSOCIAL SERVICES· EDUCATION. BUDDIESCOUNSElING • SUPPORT GROUPS
Volunteer Opportunities(718) 119&-25OO(voice) (718) I19&-2985(TDD)ACT UP (AIDS C.-lilion 110Unl ... h Po_r1
486A Hudson Straet, Suite G4 NYC 10014(212)989-1114
A diverse, non-partisan group of individuals united inanger and committed to direct action to end 1IIe AIDS
crisia. Gen, meetings Mon. nights 7:30,
at 1IIe Community Center 208 W.131h.

ALDEClAPLN-NY(Asian Laabians of 111a Eaat CoalV
Asian Pacific Laabian Netwom-NIW Yom)
Weare a political, .ocial and supportive netwom of
Asian Pacific lesbians. Planning maetings on 1IIe 1st
Sunday and .ocialeventson 1IIeiast Friday of eachmon1ll. Call (212) 517-5598 for more infonnation.
ARCS (AiDS-Ralatad
Community Same .. )for DutcheS8, Orange, Putnam, Rockland, Sullivan,
Ulster and W88tchaater counties. AIDS education,client servicaa, crieis intinvention, support groups,
ca~ management, buddy and hospital visitor program.
214Can11a1f!w. 'Mita PIaiw, rtf llD(91411BH1101
838 Broact.vay ,Newburgh, rtf 12250 (914)582-!miAlDSlina (114) IIS-GI07
BAR ASSOCIAnON FOR HUMAN RIGHTS.
La)YV8rs Referral
Service for 1IIe Laabian and Gay Community
Full Ringe of Legal Sarvices (212) 459-4873

GlAAD
Gay. La,bian Allianca Apinat Daf_lion
80 Varick Street, rtfC 10013 (2121988-1700
GLAAD combata homophobia in 1IIe media and alsewhere by promoting visibility of1llelesbian and gay
community Ind organizing graS8roobl raaponsa toanti-gay bigotry.

CIRC!.f OF MORE UGHT
Spiritual support and sharing in I gay !lesbian affirmative group,West-Pam Prasbyterian Church
185 West 88th Straet
Wed: worahip sarvice 8:30 pm, program 7:30.
Maraha (2121304-4373
Charlie (2121891-7118.

GAY. WBIAN HWTH CONCERNS
An office of 1IIe NYC Dept of H8I11II, provides linkage8 betwn NYC Health & Human Svcs, and 1IIe lesbian & Gay community, focusing in All hellthconcerns; resource infonnation for hellth services
consumers and providers. 125 Worth Street, Box 87,
New York, NY 10013. For info call (2121588-4995.

COMMUNITY HWTH PROJECT
208 West 13111Street, NYC, New Yom 10011
For Appointments and I!lfonnltion(2121875-3559 (TTYNoicel
PROVIDING CARING, SENSITIVE AND LOW COSTHEALTH CARE SERVICES TO THE LESBIAN AND GAYCOMMUNITYCOMMUNITY RESEARCH INITIATIVE
PWAs, PWARC. & 1IIeir physicians taking 1IIe initiative to seek promising intervention against AIDS in I
raap. manner. For more info orto volunteer pielSe
call (2121481-1050.
CONGREGAnON BETH SIMCHATTORAH
NY's Gay and Lesbian Synagogue Services
Friday It 8:30pm
fiT Be1llune Street
For info. cell: (2121929-9498.

BAR ASSOClAnON FOR HUMAN RIGHTSFree Walk-in Legal Clinic. Tuesday &-8 pm
Laabian & Gay Community Centr, Ground RoorDIGNITYIBIG APPLE
A community of Laabian snd Gay Catholics. Activities
include Liturgies and socials every Sat, 8:00 pm, at
the Center, 208 W. 13 Street, rtfC.
Call (212) 818-1309.

BIDS (BISEXUAL DOMINANCE.
SUBMISSION GROUPI
Shire SIM experiencaa and fantasies wi1ll 01llers ina positive, non-judgemental
atmosphere. First Sunday of 1IIe mon1ll, 4:45pm at 1IIe Community Center
208 W. 13 Street, NYC. This group is partof1lle New
Yom Area Bisexual Netwom.

DIGNITY NM YORK
lasbian and gay Call10lics and friends
AIDS Ministry, Spiritual Development
The Call1edral Project
Worahip Services & Social-Sun. Eves. 7:30pm-St
John's Episcopal Church 218 WeSt 11th Street C
Waverly-875-2179

BIWAYS NEW YORK
Mon1llly social events for 1IIe Bisexual community
Ind friends. CaU NYABN for details of upcoming
events. (7181853-8245

EDGE
Education in a Di.. blMl Gay Enviro ..... nt
For1lla physically disabled Lesbian and Gay
Community.
(212) 989-1921
P.O. Box 305 Village Station, New York, NY 10014

BIPAC (BISEXUAL POUTICALACTJON'COMMITTEE)
Political action on isaues of importance to 1IIe1!isexulV!.esbilrVGay community. Mon1llly meetinwpotluck
held 8:00pm on fourth Thursday of1lle'mon1ll at members homes. CaU NYABN for1llis mon1ll'slocation,(7181853-8245
BISEXUAL YOurH
Infonnal social & support group for Bisaxual
kids/you1ll. Mon1ll1y maatinwpotluck
lunch held
1:00pm on fourth Sunday of1lla mon1ll at members
homaa. Call NY ASN for 111is mon1ll'slocation. This
grqup is part of1lle New Yom Area Bisaxual Network.
BLUS-BRONX WBIANS
UNITED IN SISTEIIHOOD
Social, politiclland support natwor1ting group for
women and 1IIeir friends. Regular aocial events andmeatings on 1IIe fim and 1IIird Fridays of every mon1ll,
At Tha Community Canter, 208 W. 13 Street, from 8:3G8pm. For more info call Lisa at (212) 82&-8817.

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BODY POSITIVE
If you or your lover hal taated HIV+, we offer support
groups, seminara, public forums, refarencelibrery,rafarrlll,lociallctivitiel
and up-to-date national
mon1llly, "THE BODY POSITIVF ($l!Vyaarl.
(2121833-1782.
2095 Broadway, Suita 308, NYC, NY 10023

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February 4, 1990 .

FEMME SUPPORT GROUP
For laabians who self identify as Femme. For info andmeeting timaa call Lisa at (2121929-9817. No men pleise.
FRONT RUNNERS
A running club for lesbian and gay athletesof aUabmties. Fun Runs of 1-8 miles held every Sat at
lOam and Weds. at 7pm in Central Parkand every Tues, It 7pm in Prospect Park.
For infonnation: call (2121724-9700.
THE FUND FOR HUMAN DIGNITY
Nltional Gay and Lesbian Crisis Line.
'AIDS 8OO·--1-800.S08-GAYS
Educational Resource Center; Positive Images
Media Canter; NY State Arts Program
688 B'wlly' Suite 410 rtfC,NY ~0012 (212) 529-1600
THE GAY AFRICAN AMERICANSOF WESTCHESTER(Tha G.A.A.I
is a community based support group fonned in
Westchaater County. Various activities are planned
for the coming mon1lls.
Ple88e call 914-37&-0727 for more info.

GAY.

WBIAN PSYCHOTHERAPY
Sliding scale feas
Insurance accepted.
Institute for Human Identity.
(2121799-9432

GAY MALE SJM ACTMm
Dedicatad to safe and responsible 81M since 1981.
Open meetingsw/programson SIM techniquaa,
lifestyle issues, political and social concerns. Also
specialeventa,
8p8lkera bureau, workshops, demos,
affinity groups, newsletter, more. GMSMA -Dept 0,
486A Hudson Street, Suite D23 ,NYC 10014.
(2121727-8878.
GMAD(GAY MEN OF AFRICAN DESCENTI
80 Varick Street, NYC 10013 a support group of Gay
Men of African Descent dedicated to consciousnessraising and 1IIe development of 1IIe Lesbian and Gay
Community, GMAD is inclusive of African, AfricanAmerican, Caribbean and Hispanic/l.atino men ofcolor. Meetings a re held, weekly, on Fridays. For
more infonnation, call 71&-802-0182.
GAY MEN'S HWTH CRISIS HOTUNEFOR INFORMATION ON SAFER SEX AND HIV-RELATED HEALTH SERVICES, AND FOR INFORMAnON ON
ONE-TIME, WALK-IN AIDS COUNSEUNG SERVICES
212-107'212~7470
TDD (For the Haaring Impaired 1
Mon.-Fri. 10:30 a.m. to 9 p.m. Sat 12:00 to 3:00
HW (Health Education AIDS liailon)
Weekly info. and 8Upport group for treatments for
AIDS which do not comp.romise1lle immune systemfurther, including alternative and holistic approachaa.
Wed 8pm. 208 W. 13111St (2121874-HOPE,
HETRICIC-MARnN INSTlTUTE
for lesbian and gay you1ll. Counseling, drop-in center (M-F, 3-8pml, rap groups, Harvey Milk HighSchool, AIDS and safer sex infonnation,referrals, professional education.
(2121 833-892O(voicel(2121833-8928 TTY for deaf
HISPANIC UNITED GAYS & WBIANS
Educationalservicaa,
political action, counse&ng andsocial activities in Spanish and English by and for1lle
Letino Lesbian and Gay Community.
General meetings 8:00 pm 4111Thursday of every .
month at 208 West 13th Street
Call (2121891-4181
or write H.U.G.L, P.O. Box 228 Canal Street Station,
New York, NY 10019.
LAMBDA !.fOAL DEFENSEANO EDUCAnON RIND
Precedent-setting
litigation nationwide forlesbians, gay men and people wi1ll AIDS. Membership ($35 and upl inc. newsletter and irtl/itations to
special events. Volunteer night on Thursdays. Intake
calls: 2-4pm Mon thru Fri (2121995-8585

lAVA (LESBIANS ABOUT VISUAL ART)CIII for slides for Lubisn Artiltl' Exhibition, Gay lit
Lesbisn Community Center, NYC. For more informstion, lind SASE to :Mirilm Fougere
118 Fort Greene Pllce
Brooklyn, NY 11217.
THE lESBIAN AND GAY BIG APPLE CORPS
Get your instrument out of the clOlet and come playwith us. Symphonic, Marching, Jazz, Dixieland, Rock,Rute Enlembles snd Woodwinds,
123 Wilt 44th St Suitel2l
New Yo~ NY 10038(212) 889-2922.
LESBIAN lit GAY
COMMUNITY SERVICES CENTER
208 Wilt 13th Street NewYo~ NY 10011(212)82~7310
9am-l1pm everyday,
A place for community organizing and networking,
IOcialservicu,
cultural programs, and social events
sponsored by the Center and more than 150 community organizations.
lESBIAN AND GAY LABOR NETWORKAn orglnization of Lesbilns and Giys who are activein their labor unions working on domestic parlnerahip
benefit. and AIDS issu ... For more information call(212)923-8890.
lESBIAN AND GAY RIGHTS PROJECT
of the American Civil Uberti •• Union
ICNOWYOUR IIIGllTSiW~RE EXPAMlING 11fEM(212) 944-9800, ext. 545
LESBIANS AND GAYS OF RATBUSH
Brooklyn's social organization for both gay men andlubians.
P.O. Box 108, Midwood Station
Brooklyn, NY 11230" (718) 859-9437
LONG ISLAND ACT-UP
P.O. Box 291, New Hyde Pa~ NY 11040'
Support us for change on Long Island.
(518)338-4882(518)997-5238
Nasssu. (518) 928-5530 Suffolk
MEN OF ALl COLORS TOGETHER NY
A multi-racial group of gay men against racism. Meetings every Friday night at 7:45 at the Lasbian and Gay
Community Services Center, 208 W, 13th Street For
more info. call: (212) 245-~or (212) 222-9794.
METROPOUTAN TENNIS GROUP(MYG)
Our 200 member I.. bian Ind gay tennis club includ88
playera from beginning to tournament leval. Monthly
tennis parties. Winter indoor league. Come play with usl
For information: MTG, POB 2135, NeW Yo~ NY 10025.
(212) 882-0895.
MOCA
M.n of Color AIDS Pr.vention Program.
Providuufer
sex and AIDS education information
to gay Ind bisexual Men of Color; coordinates a net- •. work of peer-support groups for gay and bisexual
Men of Color in all5 borougha of New York City.
303 Ninth Ave, New Yo~ Ny 10001
or cIIi (212) 239-1798,
NAnONAL GAY AND lESBIAN TASK FORCE
is the national grllsroot.
political organization for
Illbiinsand
gay men. Membership is $3IVY8lr.
Illue-oriented
project. addrell violence, sodomy
lawa, AIDS, gay right. ordinanc88, families, media,
etc. through lobbying, education, organizing and. direct action.
NGLTF 1517 U Street NW, Washington, DC 20009.
(202)332-8483.

YORK ADVERTISINGAND COMMUNI CAnONS NETWORKNYACN is the community's largest gay and lesbian
profellional group, welcoming all incommunications-andtheir friends. Monthly meetings, 3rd Wed 8:30pm at the Community Center, Members' ~ewslettar, job hotline, annual directory, Phone(212) 517-0380 for more info. Mention OutWeek for
one free newsletter.
NINTH STREET CENTER
Since 1973, a community dedicated to demonstrating
thst a homo88xuallifesty!e
is a rational, desirable
choice for individual. dissati.fied with the rewards ofconventional living. P.yqhologically - focussed rap
groups, Tues., Sat, 8 to 10 pm, peer counselling available. 319 E, 9 Street, New Yo~ NY 10003, for info call(212) 228-5153,
NORTH AMERICAN MAN/BOY
LOVE ASSOCIATION (NAMBLA)
Dedicated to sexual freedom and especially intereted
in gay intergenerational
relationships. Monthly Bulletin and regular chapter meetings on the firstSaturday of each month. Yearly membership is $20; write
NAMBlA. PO Box 174, Midtown Station, New York,NY 10018 or call (212) 807-8578 for information.
NOR11fERN UGHTS ALTERNATIVES
Improving Quality of Life for People with AIDS/iflV.
THE AIDS MASTERY WORKSHOP: Exploring the possibilities of a powerful and creative life in the face of. AIDS. Call Jack Godby (212) 337-8747
NYC GAY lit LESBIANANTI-VIOLENCE PROJECT
Counseling, advocacy, and information for survivorsof anti-gay and anti-lesbian violence, sexual assault,
domestic violence, and other types of victimization.
All services free and confidential.
24 hour hotline (212) 807-Q197
PEOPLE WITH AIDS COAUTJON(212) 532-0290 I Hotline (212) 532-0568
Moridaythru Friday 10am-8pm
Meal programs, support groups, educational andreferral 88rvices for PWA's and PWArc's.
PEOPLE WITH AIDS HEALTH GROUP
Underground buyer's club importing not-yet-approved
medications and nutritional supplements. 31 West 28th
It 4th Roor. (212) 532-0280

PRIDE FOCUS GROUP
Topical discussions on issuas of interasttothe
comm~nity in a congenial atmosphere, followed by an inforroal
dinner at a friendly local restaurant Every Sunday, 3:00
- 4:30pm at tha Community Center 208 W. 13 Street,
NYC. Part of the New York Area BiIBxual Network.
SAGE: (Senior Actjon in I Gay Envirol1lJl8nt/
Social Service Agency. providing care, activiti88,1It.' educational services for gay lit lasbian senior citizens.
Also serv88 ovar 180 homebound IBnions lit older r¥lA' ••208 West 13th It NYC 10011, (212) 741-2247
SETHIAN GAYS, LESBIANS AND BISEXUALSFor all of us interested in reaching out to each otherwith exuberance to spontaneously
explora andexpand upon the Seth/Jane Roberts ·phiIOlophy" a.
it relates to our lives, person illy, sexually and politically. Call AI (212) 979-5104.
11fE OUTREACH
USING COMMUNAL HEAUNG (TOUCH)
Corrmunityvolunteera providing a W8ek1y buffatsupper
for the Brooklyn AIDS community. TOUCH m881s Monday
BYes. 5pm to 1t'3Opm- at dClYllltown Brooklyn Friends
Meeting House (110 Schermerhorn St near B08rum
Place~ LiITi1Bdtrensportstion may be arranged. Info: (718)622-2756. TOUCH welcomes contributions offunds, foodand volunteers.
.
ULSTER COUNTY GAY AND LESBIAN AWANCE
Meets firat and third Monday of each monthat 7:30 p.m. at the Unitarian Church on Sawkill Road
in Kingston.
For information, call (914) 828-3203.
WHAMI (Waman', He.1tIt Action Mobililation
A non-partisan coalition committed to demanding,.
securing iI~d defending absolute reproductive fre8dom and quality health care for all women, We maet
every Wed. at 8:30 pm at the Village Independent
Democrats, 224 West Fourth Street (off Sheridan Sq.).
We are not affiliated with VlD, (212).713--5988.
WOMEN'S ALTERNATIVECOMMUNITY CENTER (WACC),
A non-profit, Lesbian community center serving
Queens, Nassau and Suffolk counties. Thura night
weekly discussion grps. 8:30pm, for other activities
please contact us at (516) 483-2050.

We don't mean to stress you out, but

SUMMERTIME
IS APPROACHING FAST.
NOW IS THE TIME TO ADVERTISEFOR
SUMMER SHARES,
REAL' ESTATE,FITNESS,TANNING,TRAVEL.....
February 4, 1990

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ACCOUNTINGTAX TIME IS. BUDGETWISEBOOKKEEPING TIME
Limited Appointments Available
Please call early (7185726-3847
10% discount with ad

ANNOUNCEMENTS

APARTMENT SHAREBODY POSIT1VE .. fRIENDS INVJTf YOV TO
A VALENTINE'S DAY DANCE'OWN ROOM IN TRIBECA
apartment female only. $400 p/m +util. Ref.
req .• safe. convenient quiet Non-smoker
only. Until April. maybe longer.
(212) 925-3686.

If yoq'~ HIV+ 101'1,
meet Inta"ettIna and
IlIradIw people~~16Ih9pm-1pm
RuI ..... Churcb
U6 Wat 7Jrd St.

BUDDY DIKMAN. CPA
BARBARA U. CPA
Tldcett: $10.00

YEAR-ROUND TAX PLANNING AND
PREPARATIONPERSONAL ANANCIAL PLANNING

ISuqated DoniIIIon)
Includes re1rahrnenIs
For Info., CaD 11111711-13U or 11111711-1446

586-3000

AIDS MINISTRYIN THE SPIRIT OF
FRANCIS OF ASSISI...serving
our brothers and sisters affected byAIDS
Sl Francis AIDS Ministry
135 W. 31st Street Manhattan 10001
695-1500

APARTMENT CLEANINGCASTLE CARE, INC.
Apartment & Office Cleaning.
Gay Owned. Reliable.
We are available 7 days.
CAll (212) 475-2955

APARTMENT SHARE
APT. SHARE AVAILABLE IMMED,
Large apartment across from Park in Park
Slope. 2 blocks from "F" train. Your own
large. sunny bedroom-share sunny Ivrm.
dnrm and kit Affordable. HIV+ or PWA o.k.
Call David Cantrell (718) 788·4022.
Leave a message.
Copyri&ht C 1989 Holy Name Province

ANSWERING SERVICES
NYC'S FINEST
CALL FORWARDANSWERING SERVICEIS
GAY-OWNEDPROTOCOL(212).645-3535

ANNOUNCEMENTS
CALLING ALL·POETS. OLD AND NEWI
The end of history? Enter Castillo Cultural
Center's "Last Poem" Contest Winning'
entries will be made into multi-media
videos. Call 212·941-58QOfordetails.

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MIDTOWN WESTSIDE-WALK TO WORK
Sunny 1 bedroom apartment in newbuilding. wId. p/w. attr. GWM to share withsame. Available immediately. $450/month +share utilities.
(212) 581-2313
NICE APT. TO SHARE
on Upper East Side with GWM. 30's. Yourown bedroom and privacy in 2 bedroom
apartment. Please be non-smoker.
employed and serious. $625 + utiVsec.
Quiet nice person pref.
(212) 794·3759.7-10 pm.
SUNNY BROOKLYN APT.
GM, 26, seeks artist types. S28!Vmonth,$400 deposit 20 minutes on D train. Call
Cliff. (718) 258-1288.Activist preferred.
UPPER EAST SIDE
Share with GWM. 25. smoker. Own large
room in 4 room apartment $43!Vmo. +share utilities. Call Allan M-F. 9-5 (212) 5985319.

OutWeek staff person seeks sublet or
share. Prefer downtown. Need
immediate. Call Raul days (212) 685-8671
Eves (212) 932-1496.

ART BUY/SELL"ART SOURCE UNLIMITED"We buy. sell. trade and locate artworks.
ARTISTS AVAILABLE: Keith Haring.
Robert l!ongo. Ross Bleckner. James
Rizzi. Andy Warhol. Martine. and many
more ... For information.
call Dan at 255-6680.

ASTROLOGY
DONNA
E,S.P, Psychic·Professor of Spiritualism.
Reader and Advisor-Palm and Card
Readings
A,. you confus.d. unhBppy.d.p,. ... d.
undBrsr.nd yours.1f .nd rho••• round you?

I CAN AND WILL HELP YOU,
Reunite the Separated·Restore Lost
Nature·Unfold the Mystery of the Past.
Present and Future.
(212) 686-1992
Se Habla Espanol

ATTORNEYSMICHAEL ALAN DVM, ESa.
Attorney At Law
Artists' Rights Issues.
Landlord/Tenant Disputes.
Real Estate Closings.
Business Partnerships &Incorporations.
Wills & Estates.
212,932..2034
1250 Broadway
New York City

CLUBSCOUNSELINGGAY MARRIAGEEROTIC BONDAGE AT NYBC
New - 1st Sat Eves @ 8pm - monthly
starting Feb 3 - also 2nd & 4th Tues.
swap experiences and fantasies.
Watch or take part in demonstrations.
Talk to experts/novices. Write for info toJohn Strong,
PO Box 457, Midtown Station
New York, NY 10018.
Get details on Meetings and Roster.

WOMEN'S COMING OUT SUPPORT
GROUP
8 week group for lesbians.
Starting Saturday, Feb. 10from 12-1:30pm.
At Institute for Human Identity.
Fee is $120.00payable at first session.
To register, call (212)799-9432.

CONVENIENT GAY MARRIAGE •British lesbian seeks American gay
husband to allow her and her American
girlfriend to live happily ever after. Dual
immigration benefits, confetti, If
interested write OutWeek Box 1998.

FORESKIN LOVERSThe New York City chapter of theUncircumcised Society of America(NYC-USA) seeks new male members(with or without foreskin) to join its
swelling ranks. Call for more clubinformation or to make reservations forthe new members party. (212) 777-4208.

GROUPSDENTISTSQUALITY PERSONAL DENTISTRY
William De Bonis DDS.
Suite 704,
200 West 57 Street,
New York, NY 10019,
Office hours by appointment only call
212-333-2650.

EDITING SERVICESCHIROPRACTOR

Professional Editing and Word Processing
Services available on business documents,
theses and dissertations by Ph. D.
Negotiable Rates
Call (718)633-8304

DR. CHARLES FRANCHINO
30 Fifth Avenue,
New York, NY 10011,
call for info (212) 673-4331.

ELECTROLYSISCOMPUTERSAFFORDABLE ELECTROLYSISCOMPUTER SHOPPING?
Look no further!
Lowest prices/No gimmicks
Software/Hardware
Sales/Training/Service
Call (201)659-7216
24 Hours a Day/7 Days a Week
Advanced Computer Services
Gay Owned/Operated

Pennanent Hair Removal New Airflow
Technique with I.B. ProbeCOMPLIMENTARY CONSULTATIONPROFESSIONALLY OPERATEDGREENWICH VILLAGEQUIET, PRIVATE OFFICE
Kenneth Hay
226 West 4th Street
New York, NY 10014
Lower Level, By Appointment Only.
(212) 727-1850
Certified Electrologist
Member I.G.P.E.

THE MALE STOP
A computer BBS.
Use your modem.

A. LAMBDA ElECTROLYSIS A.
Permanent Hair Removal
Men/Women· TV/TS's' All Methods
Computer Aided' Sterile Conditions
By Physicians' Aid
14 Years Experience' Sliding Scale Fee. Licensed and Board Certified(718)937-3389(212) 721-4180 FREE!

CONTRACTORSFINANCIALACE Contractor & Cr.w
Alf joh .mlll or 1",,"f • Electric.' • Sh•• trock •ea"_",,""""'".11 Loll. Sto,..
00(l12)ll1,7Ul

74' OUT~VVEEK

February 4, 1990........

...NPERSON WITH AIDS?
Tenninally ill? Need cash?
BGR (Beatthe Grim Reaper)international pays up to 80% cash ofyour life insurance policy's face value
now!
Personal, Confidential Service
Call: (718) 854-0362/24 hour tape.

BIG
National non-profit network for big tools,
bodybuilders and vacuum pumpers. For
free info., send a SASEto BIG, P.O.Box
410990,1601.San Francisco, CA 94141.
A GAY MEN'S GROUP:SEARCHING FOR A WAY OF BEING
Small group to discuss being gay insociety, family, friendships. Ctr.for
Psychological Services, Teacher'sCollege, Columbia University.
(212)678-3262.
FRIENDSHIP: an 8 week group for gay
men. Exploring whatwe want/needfrom friends, confusing friends andlovers, stalting friendships. Professional
leader. (212)866-2705,

GROUP MASSAGE
MEN'S MASSAGE GROUP
Gettogetherwith
a group of men to
give and receive massages. Taught by
Terry Weisser, Liscensed Masseur andteacher atthe Swedish Institute.
Sundays, 7-10pm, $15.00,
call (212) 463-9152.

HEALTH
EATING AWARENESS TRAINING:
The answerto the puzzle about eating.
Eliminate your weight/eating problem
foreve r. (212) 929-0661.

HELP WANTEDGENERAL MANAGER.

Telephone party line seeks a generalmanager to oversee'a large staff ofmonitors
and flyer
distributors.
Responsibilities
includestaffing,
training, marketing and new productdevelopment.
Excellent salary withmedical, dental and life insurance plansand profit-sharing.
Must live inManhattan and be accessible to upper
east side within 15 minutes, Send
resumes to: Dial Information Services
Corporation, -Attn. Mr. Lyons, 159·W.
25th Street, 7th floor, New York, NewYork 10001. Absolutely no telephone
calls or walk-ins accepted.

HELP WANTEDHELP WANTEDHELP WANTEDCASE MANAGER/EDUCATOR
Advocate and assist HIV infected youth toobtain appropriate
health care in new
program working in the Hetrick-Martin
Institute serving lesbian and gay youth.
Assist in provision of trainings to healthcare providers around issues of gay youth,street youth and adolescentswith HIV.
Experience with high risk populations
and/or youth necessary.
B.A. required.
Salarymid-20's.
EEOC Minorities
encouraged
to apply. Resumes to HMI,
401 West Street. NY,NY 10014.

OUTWEEK'S MUSIC EDITOR
is looking for an intelligent, creative andexperienced writer to cover the "dancemusic scene"
periodicallyfor themagazine.
Pleasesend 2 writing
samplesand coverletterto theattentionof Victoria Starr, OutWeek
Magazine, 77 Lexington Avenue Suite
200, New York, NY 10010.
No phone calls will be accepted!
Women and people of color are
encouraged to apply.

PUBLIC EDUCATION
COORDINATOR

ADVERTISINGBOOKKEEPER SUPERVISOR/
RNANCIAL OFRCER
for social service agency serving gay andlesbian youth. Hands on experience
necessary.
Experience
with non-profit
agency helpful. $30-35 K depending on
experience. EOE, send resume to Deputy
Director, HMI, 401 West Street. NY, NY
10014.

STORE HELP
$225/wk. start. $275/wk. after 2 months,
32 1/2 hrs, Blue Cross, 1 week paidvacation, 18 years age min., references
required'. Gay Treasures,
546 Hudson
Street, (212) 255-5756, ask for Don.
PARALEGAL
Unique Oppurtunity
AIDS Center of Queens County seeks
Paralegal for Part-time employment-lI'I!ith
potential
to. expand to full-time-toorganize, implement and coordinateaLegal Services program for ACQC. Wideranges of duties.
BA and certified
paralegal
degree or equivalent;
goodcommunication and organizational skills;
abilitytoassumesubstantial
administrative
responsibilities;
andknowledgeof basic legal researchrequired. Send cover letter, resume andsalary requirements to:
ACQC-Legal
97-45 Queens Blvd
Suite 1220
Rego Park, NY 11374
ACQC IS AN EOE

SALES

OutWeek, New York's #1 Lesbian and
Gay weekly,seeks
an energetic,
motivated, articulate
individual to join
our display advertisingsales team.
Previous ad sales experience
helpful.
Salary & commission & benefits. Please
sendresume& cover
letterto:
OutWeek,
Attn: Mr. Kit Winter,77
Lexington Avenue, New York, NY 10010.
OutWeek
is an equal
Opportunity
employer, People of Color and womenare encouraged to apply.

CO-DIRECTORSAG E: Senior Action in a Gay Environment, Inc. a non·profit organization, isseeking an individual who will have fulltime 'financial responsibility for this social
service agencY'caring for gay and lesbian
seniors in the NY metropolitan area. This
person must have three years or morework
experiencein fund-raisingstrategies, public relations activities andpreparationof grant proposals
forfoundations and governmental agencies.
This person
must
have
previous
experience in financial management andbudget preparation for business and/or
non-profit organizations. SAGE, Inc. is anequal opportunity employer.

Lambda Legal Defense and Education
Fund is looking for a staff person to
oversee educational
publications
andevents.
Must be excellent
writer,creative, and have some experience
working for lesbian
and gay rights;
computerskills very helpful;' legal
background helpful. but not necessary.
Send resume, two writing samples, andreferences
by Jan. 25, 1990 to: Paula L
Ettelbrick, Legal Director, LLDEF, Inc.,
666 Broadway, New York, NY 10012.
Women and people of color
encouraged to apply.

BRAVE NEW COMPUTERCONSULTANT
This job requires heavy programming of
database applications
mostly in dBase
III, Foxbase
and Clipper.
Generalknowledge of PCs essential,
the moreexperience, the better. Also helpful aregood c omm u ni cati on/i nte rpe rso n a I
skills and good writing skills. You will be
integral to the growth of a company
committed to radical success.
Pleasecall (212) 614-9567.

INSURANCE
INSURANCE ...
of every kind
Bernard Granville(212) 580-9724

UGINSED MASSAGE
HOLISTIC MASSAGE
All styles using imagery and.
visualization at a price anyone canafford. Chelsea 13727.
BRIAN (212)727-2842.

Please direct all inquiries and resumes to:
Chair, Search Co'mmittee, SAGE, Inc., 208West 13th Street, New York, NY 10011.
Confidentiality respected.

CLASSIFIED SALES REP.
OutWeek, New York's #1 Lesbian and
Gay weekly, seeks a Classified Sales
Rep to join our growing dept. Must be
responsible,
articulate, and motivated.
Previous sales experience
helpful but
not required. SI8K. Send resume andcover letter to: OutWeek,
Attn: Mr.
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or role types. Write
OulWeek Box 188.0
A QUIET FLING
LF, 28, in a committed
relationshipwants
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sex. Interests include
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events. and loosing
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write Outweek Box
1881
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one, who love music
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1818

THE OLDER AND
YOUNG
GJM, late SO's, European background, Romantic and kind person, opera and classical music lover. Nonsmoker-dislikes heavy
drinking. Looking for
relationship with GM,
20's into 40's. Write In
all confidence, withphoto if possible, to:P.O. Box 624, New
York, NY 10268.

HIV+PIWARC
GWM 26 6'2" 200 Ibs.
bllbl hot horny hungvery IIttractlve intelligent
professionalseeks safe sex buddy
for great uncomplicated sex. Muscular orstocky men needed forafternoon sex sessions. No fats, fems or
hustlers. Reply to:
P.O, Box 63, 496A
Hudson Street, NY,
NY 10014.

DATING, ANYONE?
Handsome,
hairy
GWM, br/hazel, 39,
6'2", 185 Ibs., JewIsh, seeks to dategood-looking,healthy, eligible men
25-40. Send photoand Dhone to PO Box

IWANNAFUCKACOP
Spread those copcheeks
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GWM 32, 6', 165,
blklbr. beard, readv to7828, NY, NY 101167828,
NEW YEAR, NEW
HOME:
Now this GWM seeks
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5'10", 150 Ibs. If
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write POB 255, Fanwood, NJ 07023.
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(212) 873-2307
Expert blow jobs formen with unusually fat
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hair, hairy Mediterranenan, very warm,
passionate,honestseeks GWM, 18-35,
clean-shaven, smoothbody, honest and serious. U R GR/P and
FRIAP for relationship.
Phone/photo a must
POB 1536, NYC,
10276.
SHY OUTSIDE/PASSIONATE INSIDE
Decent looking (somesay handsome), 40,
135
Ibs.,.
5'5",
brlbr/stache. I'm passionate about Joan
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keeping fit, linguistics.
Non drinker/smoker.
Lonely, warm, looking
for a man to feel passion and love for. Outweek Box 2045
LET IT LASTFOREVERIGWM, 34, 5'11", 165,
HIV-N, creative, professional, intelligent,
humorous, looking for
uncut man who Is

ready to setUe down In
loving, monogamous
relationship based onhonesty, respect andpassion. Interested In
art, photography, bicycling, reading, movies,
music, pets, home,and more. All we needIs love, POB 6260
Grand Central Station,
NY, NY 10163.
TINY ORIENTAL
GUYS
or other "miniature"
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blond man hung verylarge who likes his'baJls-almost as large
as eggs~lven
special attention. Send
photo
and
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there'smore thanblack leather
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on. Outweek Box 2049
UNCLE SAM
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This 6'1" GWM. 31,with a slim solid build
sks a similar type (3238) for poss mongamoos friendship. Interests Include film, outd~.
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cuddling,
nudism.
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bars, trends, crowds
or Bon Jovl. Seekscool, drug..free guy forfriendship, any race orage. Photo Box 697
Mldwood, NY 11230.
LONG ISLAND
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relationship.
Blonde,BI eyesaplus, but not necessary. No drugs. Serious replies only, Photoplease. Write P.O. Box
58, King's Park, NY
11754.
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diversetastes. Photo/ phone/letter to Outweek Box

2002
I WANT YOUR USED
weightliftingor motorcycle belts. Will pay
cash or replace new.
This Is for real. Outweek Box 2003
WHITE MALE IN
LATE 30'S
seeks older GWM withportly or suomo buildwith nice nipples andtits not hairy. Send
photo and descriptionof self to : Box 123,
Exec Suite,
330 W
42nd
St.,
NY, NY
10036. GWM over 45,
chubbys need apply.
BE MY VALENllNE
Let's
get
serious.
GWM, 41, 5'7" 195successful
securesweet guy looking fora special man to starta relationship.
Photo/
phone number.
P.O.
Box
31 .Jackson
Heights, NY, 11372.
CZECH IT 'OUT
Lookingfornewfriends'toshare goodtimes. GWM, 42, 170,
5'9", stache, work-<lutbody, balding, friendly,
handsome,
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kissing, jockstraps,
hot looks,
duosortrios. Ph/ph If possible.
Outweek Box 2009

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seriousandeasy-going
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whoenjoyslaughing
hard, twostepping and cute menwith tight butts. GWM,
32, 6', 165, blklbr,
non-smoker,
HIV+'looking for a hot, happy, sane and soberman 25-40 (bottom a-to) to go on a date or
to a movie. Send photo and a note about
yourself
to PO Box7354, NY 10116.
SUPER FAT
450 LBSII
SWM,
5'11",
30's,
seeks
submissive

malestokneel
betweenmy legs andworship
yournewmaster. Must be disaeet, AIDS free. Photo/phone
to Box 629
40-19 164th Street,
Queens,
NY 11358.
Your fantasy fulfilledl
GWM, 29, 5'8",
145, CUTE!
Waspy,Classicallytrained musician, NYU
Grad Student. I enjoy
books, cooking,running, lifting, skiing, thebeach, sincere and relaxed men. Looking fortrim healthy(HIV-)
mate who lovesaman's touch, capableof monogamous
relationship, ages 18-40.
Outweek Box 2020
RELATIONSHIPWANTEDBM 32 5'11", versatile,
many Interests.
I like
WM's mostly to 50 yrs.
Red hair a +. If you
are In NY, Boston or
Canada, Contact me
so we can meel. Pix
and # Alan 14603 Killion SI. Van Nuys, CA
91411.
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todominant
males and couples.
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Gd. Ikng GWM, 25,tali, bllbr Into astrology, working out, NYC
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HANDSOME NYU
STUDENT
Jock, 25, Italian, slim,
athletic,
clean-cut,
gentle yet strong, fun,seeks &ttractive, submissive, femme-TV-TS
to service me off.
Campus after wprkouts/classes PO Box
20015, NYC, 10028.
YUPPIES WANTED:
Do you go to worls in apin striped suit?Do
you like to listen to
Mozart with your Sunday brunch? Do you
like to spend Saturdays in a gallery andshopping in D,F. Saunders? If you said yes
to these questions andyou're between 27-35
and if you think opposites attract, then let's
get together. I am a G
W M 29 185 5'10"
artistic and very creative, wann, funny, attractive
and veryhealthy. I love longwalks and holding
hands, cuddling. I am
looking for someone toshare good timesanda meaningful reiationship, Send letter withphoto. Outweek Box
2059
GLORY HOLESERVICEHot, no nonsense
cocksucker, 34, reallygets down for major
dudes hung bigger
than me (10",) Looks,
age, race unimportant,cock size is. Just be
hot and ready for arootmllkln you won't
soon forget. DT assured. Serious calls·only. No J/O no fats.
Duke (212) 691-3601.
QUIET BUT
PASSIONATE
We haven't. yet met
because we both dislike bars arid would
more likely find ourselves at a concert, bicycling, or maybe athome wJth a goodbook. If you, like me
are affectionate, goodnatured, secure inyour professional andemotional life, drop thebook and write. I am a !I
GWM, 37, 5'8", 145,
attractive
andinshape. P.O. Box 540,
NYC 10163.
ALTAR BOUND
GWM, 37, 210lbs,
seeks GM for dating,movies, Broadway,quiet dinners, safesex, possible relationship. All letters answered, received withcurrent photo, letter,tel #, to: AB L.T.S.
20276, NYC, 10011.
MIND OVER
MATTERI
Can I believe that you'll
be true? I'll give It a try
with someone new.
This
considerably
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5'9", is looking forsome fun and action
from you who might be
the right guy, If you're a
GBM, age 18-28, send
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LOOKING FOR LOVEIN ALL THE WRONG
PLACES
Wanted: Young man
single and free? Me
too. They say· you
can't hurry love, but It

seems to need a bit ofhelp. GWM, 30'ish,cute, sexy and handsome is looking forsame. My life is acombination of highprofile activities aswell as quiet times athome, I am Romantic,
love to cuddie andwake up next to a guy
who is as special as I
am. So stop in thename of love and write
If you aro interested inperforming a duet.
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place with stable loving man. Professionally successful but tire ofneedless stress andpointless competition.
Long for simpler, lesscomplicated life that issomehow richer andmore grounded. Am
attractive
34, 6'3",
170, of able mind andopen heart. Wouldtake great comfort
sharing life and lovewith kindred man. Outweek Box 1904

LOST HORIZONSHave reached a majorcrossroads in my life.
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Answer with explicit
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10011. I'm GWM,
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CLASS ACTREQUIRED
GWM, 39-5'10"-145brn. hndm seeks
GWM who is worldly,
tasteful and has grip
on reality. lired of selfimpressed queens;
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1818
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GWM 26 8'2" 200 lbe.
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gent
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P.O. Box 63. 496A
Hud.on Street, NY,
NY 10014.
I WANNAFUCKA COP
Spread those copche.k.
and b.gl
GWM 32, 8', 165,
blkIbr, beard, ready toplow trim young officer's butt. Photo re·qulred, no drug •. Sand
ph/ph/pct to P.O. Box7354, NYC, 10116.
Fireman accepted too.
THE OLDER AND
YOUNG
GJM, late SO's, European background, Romantic and kind per·son, opera and d.. eI·
cal mu.lc lover. Non·smoker-dlellke. heavy
drinking. Looking for
relatlon.hlp with GM,
20'. Into 4O·s.Write In
all confidence, withphoto I! possible, to:P.O. Box 524, New
York, NY 10288.

ATTRACTIVE MAN
GWM, 35, 5'10", 1SO.
brown hair and stash,
DATING, ANYONE?
gymbody, big balls ska
Handsome,hairy
another Intelligent,
GWM, br/hazel, 39,
spiritual, handsome,8'2", 185 Ibs., JewGWM w/stash for trav·
Ish, seeks to dateel, safe sex, theatre
good·looklng,
and film. Well-built,
healthy, eligible men
well·hung and roman·
25-40. Send phototic guy ready for rela·and phone to PO Box
tlonshlp with the right7826. NY, NY 10116person. Tell me about
7826.
yoursel! wllong letter,hot photo and homephone, Box 597, NY, . NEW YEAR, NEW
HOME:
NY 10185.
Now this GWM .eeks
new roMANce. I'm a
SECOND COMING
bright,. attr, fit. aetlve,
Handsome muscular
easygoing guy, 38,
WM, 34, 5'10", 175,
5'10", 150 Ibs. If
has lover but seeks
you've got .mart.,
very muscular M or BB
looks, wit, spar. cudfor regular explosivedles an<Vorth.. tre tlx,
wkday ·actlon. Chest
write POB 255, Fan·
hair a must, your pic
wood, NJ 07023.
gets mine. Send toBox 306, Brooklyn, NY
11217•.
SPIT NEEDS BIG
young dude (Ilk. Spit)with all hi. original
HEALTHY HORNY
parts (like Spit) for
Handsome,hung,sweaty se .. lon. In
HIV+, looklng for sa,eWashington, DC. Spitknows how to makehis buddy happy. Outweek Box 2042
(212) 873-2307
Expert blow jobs formen with unusually fat
cocks-know how bigaround it Is when you
call. I'm hot and handsome, blond,German,
34, .in West 60's. Call
Horst (212) 873-2307.
GWM, 33, 5'10",
165, DARK
hair, hairy Medlterranenan, very warm,
passionate,honestseeks GWM, 18-35,
clean-shaven, smoothbody, honest and serious. U R GR/P and
FRIAP for relationship.
Phone/photo a must
POB 1536, NYC,
10276.
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SHY OUTSIDE/PASSIONATE INSIDE
Decent looking (somesay handsome), 40,
135 . Ibs.,
5'5",
brlbr/stache. I'm passionate about Joan
Baez (her music, politics), film, books,
keeping fit, linguistics.
Non drinker/smoker.
Lonely, warm, looking
for a man to feel passion and love for. Outweek Box 2045
LET IT LASTFOREVERIGWM, 34, 5'11", 165,
HIV-N, creative, profeSSional, intelligent,
humorous, looking for
uncut man who isready-to settle down In
loving, monogamous
relationship based onhonesty, respect andpassion. Interested In
art, photQgraphy, bicycling, reading, movies,
music, pets, home,and more. All we needIs love. POB 6260
Grand Central Station,
NY, NY 10163.
TINY ORIENTAL
GUYS
or other "miniature"
types wanted to service six foot German
blond man hung very
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as eggs-glven
sp'eclal attention. Send
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ACT UP CLONE?
Fine with me. I know
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Boy Bar til 4 a,m.
w/reading Oscar Wildeon Sunday over croissants and juice? Havea nice body and not
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for me and I'm for you.
Person of not-so-muchcolor w/dancer's bodyand steel blue eyes,
decidedly unchlc brn.hair, 5'9", seeks a lightfuck buddy relationship, with options formanic obsession later
on. Outweek Box 2049
UNCLE SAM
WANTS YOU
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