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The High Cost of Charity
In a recent column, gossipist James Revson of Newsday,
who is gay, attacked writers in OUtWeek and the Village
Voice for criticizing Mrs. William F. Buckley, Jr.
Mrs.
Bl!ckley is the wife of one of the nation's chief homophobes, a man who has publicly called for the tatooing andinqu-ceration of PWAs and who rants and rails in the press
a~ut AIDS being a "self-inflicted" disease. Mrs. Buckleyrdhses to disagree with her husband's position, responding
with a regal "no comment" to questions abouttatooing peopl~ with AIDS. In a bre~thtaking display of hypocrisy, sheth~n lends her efforts and her famous Republican name to
AIJl:>scharity events.
t~Revson argued that this is all right, that AIDS charitiesnethe money, and that in such a situation a wife is not
re· nsible for distancing herself from her husband's deadly,~ ositions. We disagree.
~ The supreme enemies of gays and lesbians are those
riglttwing forces who enforce homophobia in our culture.
Always a depressing reality, they became a deadly nightrn\te when AIDS struck, and there is no price tag on themi$ery they have caused.
~~It may be hard to remember, but there was a time in the
recent past when the majority of us were not infected, whentimely education could have prevented most of the AIDS
nightmare. Instead, the Buckleys of the world avidly
enforced a media blackout of AIDS. Then, after that had succetlded, they began floating proposals like concentration
camps and tatooing.
These people are venal. They are to our community as
the Nazis were to the Jews. The idea that we're so desperate for money that we should accept it from anyone, even
our executioners, is ghoulish indeed.
" Revson's comment that Mrs. Buckley somehow can't
publicly disagree with her husband is' nonsense. If she really wished to do something about AIDS she most certainly
would disagree with him, often and loudly. In so doing she
could take a lesson from her friend Barbara Bush, whopublicly disagrees with ber husband the president on gun
control. Wives are autonomous and have a right to disagreewith thei(.spouses, even Republican wives, and they often
do. The fact that Mrs. Buckley imperiously refuses indicatesthat she probably agrees with her husband's ugly views.
Such complicity in extreme homophobia disqualifies herfrom using AIDS charity work to boost her social standing.
It's extremely sad when AIDS or gay organizations feelthey must accept money from our avowed enemies, be they
Coors Beer, the Roman Catholic Church or Pat Buckley. We
should not allow homophobes who are killing us to confuse the issue by buying us off. We have enough genuine
friends that we don't need to cringe for blood money. T

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5LETTERSFAIRPAC Bit.. BackI wish to make clear tothe community FAIRPAC's
official position regarding
the New York City mayoral
race. We heartily support
David Dinkins. who has consistently shown great sensitMto and understanding of
lesbian and gay concerns.
His Republican opponent ispbvlously uncomfortablewith the concept of expandIng the definition of family.
and has shown no interest in
pursuing domestic partnership Issues; nor has he everdemonstrated any real commitment to the other needsof our community. FAIRPAC
gelleves that the choice inthis race Is unusually clear.

The Board therefore overwhelmingly voted to give
$2.000 to the Dinkins campaign.

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one PAIRPACBoard member
notwithstanding. FAIRPAC's

November 12. 1989

support of David Dinkins Is
clear and unequivocal.
Candida Scott Pie!
Executive Director
FAIRPAC

Who-lian!?
This letter Is In reply tothe letter from the board
chair of FAIRPAC. Anthony
Salerno. endorsing Rudolph
Giuliani for Mayor (OutWeek.
October 29. 1989).
The letter asserts only
one concrete reason to support Giuliani-his
promise.
allegedly personally to theletter's author. to ~persuade
the homophobes
In theRepublican~controlled state
Senate" to pass the bias
crimes bill. I urge anyone
who considers voting for Giuliani based on that promise
to consider the following.
1) Candidates should
be judged by their actions.

not by promises. Did Giuliani.
while chief federal
lawenforcement
officer (theUnited States Attorney) for
the Southern District of New
York. even speak out in favor
or work for passage of thebill? Did his office have any
openly-gay
or lesbian
lawyers on Its staff? Did herecruit or have out-reachprograms to our community?
Not to my knowledge.
(Compare these failures tothe positive
recordofactions by DavId Dinkins-his
assistance In the purchase of
the Community Center. his
staff liaison to gays and lesbians. his funding of AIDS
education and treatment
programs. his outspoken support of the gay rlgh1sbill. thebias crimes bill. bereavement leave. etc. and his
appearances at fundraisers
for our organizations-such

as the Gay and lesbian AntiViolence Project and the
Human Rights CampaignFund).
2) How many "homophobes In the Republican
controlled state Senate" will
be persuaded by Giuliani?
As the FAIRPACboard chair
should know, the state's top
Republicans
actively
opposed Mr. Giuliani in the
primary. Neither Senator
D' Amato nor Comptroller
Ned Regan is campaigning
for Giuliani, who has been
forced to rely on the Reagan/Meese/Bush organization in Washington. Giuliani
has never before run for
office in New York (or else-

where) and to suggest he
will have influence on the
Albany Republicans is ludicrously naive.
3) Even assuming thebias-crimes
bill were ourcommunity's sole concern,
the most elementary politicalanalysis reveals the need tosupport David Dinkins. The
reason no bias-crimes bill has
been enacted is that theRepublican
homophobes
refuse to vote for a bill thatpunishes crimes based upon
the actual or perceived"sexual orientation" of thevictim. As Governor Cuomo
has often stated, the Republicans offered to pass the bill
if "sexual orientation" weredeleted, but the AfricanAmerican, Puerto Rican andotherlatinolegislators
refused to permit the bill tobeweakened.
(Othergroups, including the dis-abled, have also refused tosupport any legislation thatfails to include "sexual orientation. ")David Dinkinswas instrumental in securing the support of various groups for theretentionof"sex!Jalorientation" protections in
the bill. As a minority group
we must rely on positive
coalition building. To urge us
now to stab in the back oneof the leading political figures of that coalition, as Mr.
Salerno does in rejecting Mr.
Dinkins,is not only short-sighted, it is political suicide.
(Again, recall that Giuliani
has done nothing to promote the legislationandsurely does not have thepolitical influence to help
secure the bill's passage).
Perhaps the clearest
reason to vote for David
Dinkins may be found(between the lines) in theone other motive asserted
by Mr. Salerno for endorsing
Giuliani-"He is also educable and open-minded in the
demands we have." The
new mayor takes office in
1990, more than 20 years
after stonewall and nearly adecade into the AIDS crisis.
We do not have time for a
candidate who is allegedly"educable"-especiallywhen the other candidate,
David Dinkins, has an established record of clear andunequivocal actiori, understanding and support for ourcommunity.
I agree with the majorityof the FAIRPAC board, andits executive director, andurge voters to support a truefriend of our community,
David Dinkins, on Tuesday
November 7.
Michael C.P. Ryan
Manhattan

Geography is Destiny?
Regarding "Vote No to
the City Charter Revision"(OutSpoken Oct. 29th) you
state, "Gays and lesbians do
tend to live in certain neighborhoods." Those neighbor-hoods, as you quoted to us
overthephone,
are:Chelsea, West Village, East
Village, Park Slope. At bestthese four neighborhoods
only represent the gay whitemale gentrification process.
There is no present
neighborhood or future district in N.Y.C. that represents
our diverse community in fair
proportions to what we are.
We transcendneighborhoods, race, economies, cultures. Now let us transcend
the idea that white gay
males represent the Rainbow
community.
We must vote no to thecharter revision.
And no to a geographical gay district.
lhe charter must offer
us another means of representation other than geographics. We are of every
district, every economic status, every race, every culture.
We are everywhere.
Ammiel Sincon
John Shaw
Harry Schulz
Brooklyn

Jilt the Quilt
Notwithstanding
thefact that it helps people
mourn, I hate the fucking
quilt! The one and only positive point about it having
reached such incredible
dimensions is that it can nolonger be put on public display! Let's mothball foreverthis shameful, "ragpicker's
wildest dream come true."
Forthe quilt is dreadfully sad,monumental evidence thatwhile we die, vast numbers in
the homosexual community
choose to sew and weave.
Instead of directing theirgrief. rage and energy
against the government
which did nothing to stop
this plague, they knit away
like immobilized inmates ofsanitaria.
If
As if to underscore theself-contemptous,
efrategenesis of this vast cult-cumtraveling fair of pity dhd
masochism, the leadar oJ
these quilters begs the U.S.
President in the tone of a religious supplicant. "Please sir,meet with us, you will seethat we are kind. Please sir,
you will see that we are
gentle." In other words, feel
free to walk all over this giant
doormatwhich
we've
placedin front of yourhome. Thanks to you andyour kind it is all that remainsof these tens of thousands. I
hate the fucking quilt: it isboth a shroud and a baby
blanket for the demoralized
and politically neutralized tohide under.
Randy Barker
Manhattan
Gay White Males of the City?
As a sometime admirerof Armistead Maupin's work,
it saddens and angers me to
now read, in the interview byAdam Block last week, what
seems to be ultimate proof
that Maupin is a racist. I had
suspected that this was true
but had hoped it was not.
Like Maupin I am a white

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gay male from CI'l upper-midCile class family. I will admit~ven to strangers that myrpother's fanly are Mormons,some of v.tlom were originally~ave-owners from the South.
~, I cannot say that Ishared~aupln's view that. whenp,onslderlng whether to see~Ike lee's Do the Right

Thing, questioned whether
the movie was "really going
to be Interesting to me If It's
just ghetto blacks?"
Hisoffhand semi-apology. that followed-statingthat the feeling he had justdescribed was "preposterous" -does
not change
what he stated, now what Is
visible In hisfiction.
If you do not believethat the statement alone
was· a slur, separate andapart form the apparent
sentiments behind It, simply
substitute some other compound-adjectival
stereotyped description for "ghetto
blacks": "rich Jews." Or how
about "flaming gays?"lest I be accused, by
those stili unconvinced, oftaking words out of context, I
did read the assertion thatpreceded the offending
statement, that our culture
puts us Into "special-Interest
groups." And I agree withthat. However, I feel In some
way that I have transcended
my "group" (at least to theextent that I have a Black
lover who has met my fanlly
as SUCh), while Maupin,though no longer a Helms
Republican, stili seems tolook at races and classes
other than his own throughthe eyes of an antebellum
southern belle, transplanted
from Tarato Son Francisco.
His fiction, entertaining
as It Is, demonstrates my point
as well. All of the major characters are white and middleor upper-class, as other commentators have pointed out(see the recent Village Voicereview of Sure of You). That Is.i
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fine, I suppose, If hislife experiences do not permit him to
write about anyone outsidehisown ethnic and economIcstrata.
But he did not stop
there, and put In his earlyworks both a character who
took pills to be Black,D'orothea, and a crudestereotype,Emma, the"Aunt Jemima" Black maid
who worked for the Halcyon
family. The part-Aborigine
boy In Babycakes Is treatedsympathetically, but this Is
the exception, and makes
the restno lessunforgivable.
As the Gay Activists
Allidnce and the National
Gay Task Force stated In
their 1973 guidelines to theentertainment
Industry,"(s)terotypical people doexist.But if such a minority of
any group receives exclusive media exposure, that's
bigotry: Maupin's crusade
about coming out, laudable
as It may be, is hypocriticalbecause he has yet tocome out about his own
racism. Bigotry is bigotry,
whether practiced in the
open by Senators Bilbo andHelms or in the closet bypatronizing white liberals.
I may share some common heritage with Armistead Maupin, but he does
not speak for me.
Robert N.H.Christmas
Manhattan

XEROXED
Val. Gal.
Open letter to President
Benno Schmidt, Jr.
Yale University
AJ the keynote speaker
for the third annual conference sponsored by the lesbian and Gay Studies
Center at Yale last weekend, I am writing you toexpress my outrage at thehomophobic
violence
unleashed against us on Friday evening, violence Initiated by the Yale police andescalatedby the New
Haven police. In addition, I
write to protest the Yaleadministration's wholly inadequate response to this violence. When we gathered
for that response on Saturday morning, we were treated to a series of insults: First.
that you did not consider
homophobic
violence
against us as requiring yourpresence; second, that the ..'very people who suffered orwitnessed this violence weretold that -the facts were notyet know;" and finally, thatthe violence itself could noteven be named. We weretold merely that Yale University supports freedom of
expression-avague andeasy claim-andthat animpartial investigation would 'take place.
Gay men and lesbians
have very little reason tohave faith in -impartiality" inthese matters, especiallyafter having experienced
the atmosphereat Yale.
Throughout the weekend,
conference members were
subjected to homophobic
remarks wherever we went.
My own speech Saturdaynight was deliberately disrupted by students squealing their car tires outside theWhitney Humanities Center.
Since apparently no one in
an official capacity at Yaleattended my speech, I want

to reconstruct for you someof my opening remarks.
Participants In the lesbian and Gay studies Conference this PQst weekend
Included some of the mostdistinguished and committed gay and lesbian scholars and activists working
today. Among them weremembers of the International communityof people
fighting against the AIDS
epidemic, Including people
IMng with AIDS. It is my opinIon that until all of us are satIsfied with Yale University's
support of our work, includIng substantial
financialcommitments to the Center
for lesbian and Gay studies,
we should no longer lend

credibility to Yale's pretens~of upholding free expression
by our presence at Yale. The
university's claim to respect
free speech will remain hollow until you, as president,
Issue 00 unambiguous public statement condemning
all forms of homophoblanamed as such. This condemnation must also extend
to labeling representationsof
oursexualities
asobscene.
Moreover, we
expect a statement of positive support for all forms ofexpression by gay men andlesbloos of our sexualities.
I was deeply Impressed
and moved by the Yale students and faculty who organized and participatedIn
the lesbian ahd Gay studies
Conference. They deserve
all the credit for the successof the conference-successin the face of the university'svariously expressed contempt for us. In the past you
have belittled the strong
presence at Yale of a gay
and lesbian community bycatering
to, rather thancountering,homophobic
charges and fears. In light ofthat Injury, and of theadded Insults of this weekend, it is now Imperativethat your gay and lesbianscholars be given not only.
protection
In a clearly
homophobic environment,
but every encouragement
to carry on with their courageous work. Thisis not to beaccomplishedby your
occasional chats with an
openly gay professor, butrather by meeting directlywith the full gay constituency at Yale to hear theirgrievances and to follow
their guidance, and by taking a strong public position.

L'",.,..

This week's nightmare is Connecticut queer-baiter Bill Buckley, whorecently blamed "sex-driven gays" for bringing AIDS on themselves. This follows his famous 'tattoo-you' comments of a few years ago.
Bill,darling, we've tried to understand your problem, but our patience is wearing a teensy bit thin. It's a well known psychological fact that people who entertain
secret cocky-sucky fantasies often indulge in a little fag-bashing on the side. So if
you really want to prove how macho you are, start by relaxing that incredibly
repressed body-language. And sweetums, ditch that bizarrely affected accent No
one from Connecticut really talks like that, Mary. Not even Kate Hepburn.

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9The international community of lesbian and gay
scholas and activists will not
let this matter rest until thedemands issued at the conference
and appended
here are met to the letter.
Douglas Crimp(The writer is editor of
October)

The Society Rages
James A. Revson
New YorkNewsday
Dear Mr. Revson,
I agree with you that Pat
Buckley is not "the slimiest
woman walking the face ofthe earth: but she is following the sticky trail left by thefront runners. I'm quite surethat with her stamina andperseverance she will overtake them within the year.
What happened
toyour integrity? You still had it
when you joined us in singing
Broadway showtunes in jaillast spring. Perhaps it wasthat fabulous summer you

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spent out in theHamptons giving us
blow by blow reports
on
all
those
pa rti es/busi nesswriteoffs.
"Important
Men" must have"Socially Concerned
Wives" to set up
business contacts
and/orbufferunpopular responseto their professional
dealings. The charity
events their wives
promote do, indeed,
provideessential
money to important causes.
They also support a huge
entertainment
industry
geared to service these
events (and give people like
you a job). These husband
and wife teams (Hillie andDavid Mahoney, Nan andTommy Kempner, Mica and
Ahmet Ertegun to name afew others) set the groundrules for what and who gets

November 12, 1989

supported.
Don't you find it odd
that Pat Buckley has thrown
her support to damage control rather than prevention?
Even Mrs. Buckley doesn'tlike to step over people
dying the streets as she getsout of her limo. If people likeher husband did not havethe power they do perhaps
IV drug users would have

known not to share needles,
maybe the sexually active
gay man would
have
known about safe sex. But
now those who find themselves infected can takecomfort in the fact that Pat
Buckley will help ease thepain and suffering in theirlast days. I wouldn't be surprised to see a picture ofher in the future wearing anurse's uniform.
There are going to haveto be radical changes in theway our society treats sexual
preference, drug use andnational health care. William
Buckley is standing in theway while his wife stands infront, waving oncoming traffic off the road and over a
cliff.
Robbin Murphy
Manhattan
Unfair-Pac
Mr. Anthony C. Salerno
c/o FAIRPAC
Dear Tony:

With people from PresIdent Bush'sstaff working for
Giuliani's election and with
Roger Alles managing his
campaign, and without ooy
public references to gays
and lesbians, one has no
reason to expect support for
AIDS or gay rights or for
abortion rights from Mr. Giuliani, no matter what hepromised you privately. It Is
naive to think that he -willgo to Albany and get thatbUI passed:
It Is shocking that you,as a gay compassionate
person and as FAIRPAC
chairperson, would support
a RepUblican mayoral candidate who has the enthusiastic support of President
Bush and his ultra-conservative party. Thisweek, thepresident
vetoedthemildest of pro-choice bills.
Thisweek, he and congressappropriately and promptly allocated almost threeand one half billion dollars
for the middle class homeleSsearthquake victims, butthey have done almost,. nothing for poor homelesspeople. The Republicans
have grudgingly and slowly
given money to AIDS careand research but nothingcommensurate
to thehavoc AIDShas wrought on
our health care system.
(Hopefully
this money
won't be snatched backfor -quake·
relief). The
Republicans have given little but words to the problems of narcotics control,
housing, education, environmental protection, etc.
They certainly are not interested in improving
themedical system. Gay rights
is a verboten subject for
the Bush gang-Giuliani's
supporters. They are interested in wars and earthquakes.
I do not question yourright to your opinions. However, I object to your publishing a letter supporting a
policy contrary to the majority FAIRPAC opinion and

Identifying yourself as FAIRPAC chair. PACs are pressure groups, not democratic
Institutions.The only way you
could express your minority
opinion publicly would beby resigning from the board.
Because the board strongly
supports David Dinkins,yourletter Is Inappropriate andweakens the authority of theboad and ItsImpact on thecomm.mity.
Herbert I Cohen, M.D.
Manhattan
Undue Credit
GMHC
Dea Mr.SWeeney:
I've just received your-Treatment
Access·fundralsing letter. Unfortunately, I won't be sending
you a contribution as I havea strong objection to theaccuracy therein. In yourrequest, I believe you misled
your donors as to GMHC'srole In both Implementing
Parallel Track trials and in
Burroughs Wellcome's 20
percent reduction for the
drug AZT. You seem to be
taking full credit for both ofthese events.
Where isthe mention of
the one group that hasdone more to get experimental drugs released thanany other AIDS organization? I'm referring to ACT UP.
It's because of ACT UP's
relentless pressuring on government officials, including
a demonstrationof over
3,000 people at the F.D.A.
last year, that Parallel Trackever took off the ground.
These -officials· can't evengo out of their front doors
without having to deal withus. We spend hours on thephone haassing them. Theirfax machines are on overload. There was even a suggestion at a recent ACT UP
meeting to douse Anthony
Fauci with piss for dragging
his heels on Peptide T. Ask
stephen Joseph, New York's
Health Commissioner, how It
feels to come home todozens of AIDS activists sit-tlng on his doorstep calling
him a murderer; or ask
Eleanor Cooper of the F.D.A.
why she now has to see a
psychiatrist to deal with the
AIDS activists in her life. It's
because of ACT UP!
Parallel Trackis sorrethhg
that we've been p.JSIing for. hfact, I believe PT Is aredesigned version of CorrpassionateUse IND(redesignedby
ACT UP'sTrealment CJ'ld Data
CorrTrittee).
Also you allude to Jeff
Levias being the pivotal person surrounding the PTnegotiations. Not only was Jeffagainst PTat Its conception,and not only did he comeInto the negotiations at thevery end, but he apparently
had very little to say at thesemeetings, and certainly
nothing new to offer.
As far as the 20 percent
reduction In the price of
AZT-WHAT DID GMHC
DO??? The cuts in price by
the sleaze bag company(Burroughs Wellcome) is
entirely due to the combined efforts of ACT UP's
London, New York and San
Francisco chapters. We did
all the work. We put our lives
and freedoms on the line,
which we're sure to doagain. So don't think that
we're going to sit by withsweat dripping off of ourasses while you pat yourselveson the back.
Don't get me wrong! I
think that GMHC provides
Invaluable services to the
PNA community. Butyou reputation is to ease people's
suffering,helping them to die.
ACT UP is the organization
that's fighting for people's
lives. We're both very muchneeded. But taking credit for
our work is tantamount to
ACT UP holding the AIDS
Walk.It wou1dn'tbe right!
Being that I am a clientfor GMHC, I'm withholding
my name; however, I would
appreciate it if you would
make a public statement on
how much money you
expect to bring in from this.

fundralslng effort and givean outline as to how it willbe spent.
GMHC client
Manhattan
Where', the Gays
Mr. Richard Hutton
Executive Producer
Metro Week in Review
WNET/Channel13
Dear Mr. Hutton:
As a regular viewer ofMetro Week in Review, I've
noticed that you have been
inviting editors from various
minority newspapers (Black,
Hispanic, Jewish, Irish, etc.)
as guest panelists to discuss
their respective community's vote in the upcoming
election.
In the event that you
have not already arranged
to have journalists representIng the gay and lesbiancommunity on the program,
I hope you will consider
doing so.
Thenf1Wmayor and city
council will be confronting
important issuesaffecting the
gay and lesbian community,
including new AIDSinitiatives,
strategiesto cormat anti-gay
violence and domestic partnerslegislation.'M1~eyou havedemonstrated sensitivity tothese issues,there was something dsquieting in hearing.on
last weekend's show, twostraight journalists discussing
why the gay community
opposes(for the mC6tpart) Dr.
Joseph'sproposalsfor mandatory AIDScontoct trocing.
As I suspe.ct you'll
agree, for the purposes ofMetro Week, members of
the gay pressare best suited
to present and analyze theopinions of New York's gay
and lesbian community.
Please don't hesitate to
can our office ~ we CCJ') be ofooy help in puttingyou in touchv.nth appropriate gay and lasboo editorsood report9lS.
stephen H. Miller,Chair,Media Committee
Gay and
LesbianAlliance Against Defamation,lnc.

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Victory in State Houses After 17 Year Battleby Masha Gessen

ing, employment, credit, insurance
BOSTON-With the signatures of and public accommodations.
the leaders of the two houses of the"At the Kennedy School of GovMassachusetts legislature finally in ernment ...when they teach a course
place, the state gay and lesbian civil on how to get a law through, one ofrights bill was put on the governor's
the chapters will be the gay civil rights
desk Tuesday. And spokespersons
law,' conceded David Locke, the
said
that
Governor
Michaelminority leader of the Senate, who
Dukakis--who was a state representaopposed the legislation. In recent
tive when his then-colleague Barneymonths numerous commentatorsFrank first introduced the measure 17 from expert lobbyiSts to editors of theyears ago-was eager to sign the leg- Boston Globe-have remarked on theislation into law.
amazing accomplishment of the back"When we started, we neverers of the lesbian and gay civil rights
thought we'd get a bill,' remembered
bill.
Steven Tierney, cochair of the MasNo bill in the history of Massachusetts Gay and Lesbian Politicalsachusetts
has taken as long to
Caucus, an organizationthat wasbecome law as did this one. And
formed 17 years ago to get the mea- while poll after poll showed that thesure passed. Tierney, who first lob- civil rights bill enjoyed the support ofbied for the bill in 1975, recalled that nearly 70 percent of Massachusettsin those days gay and lesbian rights
residents, the legislation faced what
activists' highest ambition was "toeducate some people.'
Last week, as during most of
this year, the legislative opponentsof the civil rights bill were theones who felt their task was futile.
As victorious
gay and lesbianactivists
looked on from thecrowded Senate gallery, the bill's
detractors rose one after anothernot to try to persuade fellow legislators to vote against the bill, but
to acknowledge bitter defeat.
"I hope that somehow thisdebate can go on forever,' confessed Ed Kirby, a Republican senator who has led the lonely
cru~de against the bill this year. "Ihope that somehow we can stop
this, because this is an attack onwhat we have come to call Western Civilization,· said Kirby of thebill, which will prohibit anti-gay
discrimination in the areas of hous- BRINGING ANGER TO THE STATEHOUSEDavid laFontaine

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November 12, 1989

most consider an insurmountableobstacle: the opposition of the Senate
leadership.
The bill's Senate foes showed
their power in 1987, when they killed
the measure in committee,eventhough the bill had majority support
in both houses of the legislature. On
the last day of the 1987 legislative session-the day when the bill officiallydied-overa thousandpeoplestormed the statehouse.
Fourteen
activists were arrested that night after
they handcuffed themselves to seatsin the Senate gallery.
David laFontaine, a lobbyist for
the Coalition for Lesbian and Gay
Civil Rights, pointed to the demonstration as the "turning point" in the
struggle to pass the bill. "Prior to that,
there really wasn't much respect for
us in the statehouse,"
explained
LaFontaine. "We were bringing
that anger that we usually keepaway from the statehouse right tothe statehouse."
While lobbyists and legislators decried the demonstration
and accused the organizers ofhurting the gay rights cause, no
one denied that the event attracted unprecedented attention andenergy to the fight for the legislation.
An election year complicatedby the governor's run for the presidency and a brewing budget crisis,
1988 held little hope for the gay
and lesbian civil rights bill. Yet
Arline Isaacson, a seasoned lobbyist and cochair of the Massachusetts
Gay and Lesbian Political Caucus,
and Barbara Boring, the Caucus'
newly hired staff lobbyist, continued working to increase legislative
support for the bill.

Photo: Nina Reyes

The summer of 1988 signaled aturning point in the lobbying
efforts, when supporters for the firsttime engaged in what Isaacson
termed "hardball politics.· In thedays before the Democratic National Convention,
when the Massachusetts Senate was working day
and night to spare the presidential
nominee the embarrassment of an
unbalanced
budget in his own
state, sponsors of the gay and lesbian civil rights bill on several occasions threatened to jeopardize thebudget process if the bill was not
given a fair hearing.
Other gay and lesbian activists,furious at the legislators for killingthe bill in 1987, used the summer
and fall of 1988 to send an electoral
message to the senators and representatives. The Greater Boston Lesbian and Gay Political Alliance andother gay and lesbian organizations SECURING RIGHTS FOR GAY MEN AND LESBIANS
took a more active part in the elec- Barbara Horing and Arline Isaacson
Photo: Masha Gessen
tions than ever before. Of the fivemately 2,000 people to the statecommittees.
On weekends before
candidates backed by the Greaterhouse.
Boston A.lliance, three emerged victori- key votes, half a dozen phone banks
Sustained pressure from bothwere activated, and liberal congregaous. Several more legislators madeconstituents and lobbyists convinced
tions across the state were alerted tocampaign promises to take specificsupporters to take aggressive stands
steps to ensure the passage of the gay the need for letters and post cards,
during floor debates in both houses.
which would often be hand delivered
and lesbian civil rights bill.
Instead of waiting for the hostile leadon Monday morning.
By the time the 1989 legislativeership to commit injustices, Senate
To make the constituent message
session began, all eyes were on thesponsors of the bill attempted-often
even louder, the Coalition for Lesbian
bill, which both the gay and straight
successfully-to
preempt opponents'
and Gay Civil Rights organized ralliespress predicted would finally pass.
dilatory moves.
and lobby days at the statehouse. One"We planned every step of the proThe gay and lesbian press in theof the lobby days featured members
cess ahead of time, so that grass-roots
state publishedalmost weeklypressure was applied every step of of the clergy and representatives of
updates on the status of the bill. As a
Parents and Friends of Lesbians andthe process,· explained LaFontaine.
result, pointed out LaFontaine, "gayGays, many of whom were accompa·So we had people writing letters notand lesbian people in this state know
nied by their children. The Coalition's
just to influence the general vote, butmore about the legislativ~ process
most recent rally brought approxialso to speed the bill through variousnNovember 12, 1989

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than the average legislator.""This will be remembered as themost significant gain the gay rights
movement made in 1989," asserted
LaFontaine. "I think 1989 will be
remembered
as the year the Massachusetts gay rights bill passed.
"There are many, many statesthat the example of the gay rights bill
will urge onward," added laFontaine.
Tierney concurred, predicting that
Connecticut would become the next
state to pass such a law-andthatperhaps the rest of New Engla'nd
would follow. Currently, Wisconsin is
the only state with anti-discrimination
laws in place protecting gay men andlesbians. 'Y

New Alliance Party
Backs Anti-Gay
Candidateby Andrew Miller
NEW YORK - The "Black-led
multi-racial pro-gay· New AllianceParty's candidate for City Council in
Manhattan's 8th Council District was the
only candidate from Manhattan to comeout against gay rights and domestic partnership benefits in a primary election
week OutWeeksurvey.
Adam dayton Powell IV told OutWeek in September that he was against
legislation specifically protecting thecivil rights of gay men and lesbians, andpermitting gay partners to receive thesame economic and non-economic benefits afforded to heterosexual rouples.
Ba Powell has since moved out ofthe district, and the Board d Electionshas
removed his name from the ballots.
Attempts to reach Powell himself
were unsuccessful. His camplign office
is closed
and
his telephone
disconnected "We're having trouble getting in touch with him ourselves," said[)avid Belmont, ballot access coordinator
for the New Alliance Party.
Openly gay New Alliance Party
candidate for Comptroller, Stephen
Rose, had endorsed Powell in his cam-

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paign literature. In "An open letter tothe lesbian and gay rommunity" carrying the endorsement, Rose recently
decried the lesbian and gay press' inattention to his campaign.
On the back of the flyer is an open
letter from party chairperson Lenora
Fulani, accusing Democratic mayoral
candidate David Dinkins of selling out
to inappropriate
city interests by"court[ingl the middle class Jewish voteby repudiating minister Louis Farrakhan," and "rejecting 25,000 signaturesthat the New Alliance Party gathered forhim because the Anti-Defamation
League of the B'nai B'rith told him to."Party spokesperson Annie Roboff
called Powell's position "profoundly miseducated," adding that Stephen Rose,"being the ftrst openly gay candidate forcity-wide o/fr::e, makes a very loud statement on how the New Alliance is in theforefrontd ...gay rights."
Democratic Councilwoman Carolyn
Maloney, who currently represents the
district, is still being challenged by Right
To Life Party candidate Marjorie Barrett
Garvey, and by New Alliance Party
replacement candidate Mary Rivera. 'Y

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Racism at Chicago Concert-, AM NOT A RACISTDianna Davidson

by Jorjet Harper
CHICAGO-The
air was thickwith tension October 28 at Mountain
Moving Coffeehouse in Chicago, asBlack lesbian poet Vernita Gray took
the microphone to address the sparse
Saturday night audience.
Vocalist Dianne Davidson, whorecently became the center of a racism
controversy in the lesbian community
after remarks she made in the feminist
press and at previous concerts, wasthe evening's featured performer, andGray had asked to be allowed to

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speak before Davidson's set began.
Davidson, a 36-year-old nativeof Tennessee who now lives in the
Washington D.C. area, has sung professionally with Tammy Wynette,
Tracy Nelson, B.B. King, Dan Fogelberg and Linda Ronstadt, among
others.
She plugged
into thewomen's music circuit with her rockand blues album Breaking All theRules released by Olivia Recordswhich specializes in lesbian artistsin August 1988.
The controversy began last Aprilin an interview
with Davidson
bywomensmusic
criticNoelle Hanrahan,which
appeared in the
Boston-based
feminist newspaper Sojourner.
Davidson mentioned
HattieRuth Simon, the
Black
woman
who raised her
as a child. "Itwill make mesound crazy, but
1 do believe inreincarnation,and that I was
not white in aprevious
lifetime, and that inorder to makethe transition 1
was
given
somebody who
could help."
Da vidson
drew criticism
for that remark
Photo: Jorjet Harper from
JoannaKadi, a womanof color from
Cambridge, who wrote: A cursory
knowledge of slavery in the UnitedStates tells us Black women wereforced to care for white children
and leave their own unattended, ·apractice still alive and well .... It is
obvious, but let me say it anyway:
Black women are not objects to begiven to white children.'Davidson responded to Kadi'sletter by saying, "I have a right tokeep my history and feelings private, if 1 so choose,· and suggested
that Kadi was assuming
thatUbecause Davidson was white, she
was bigoted, and therefore
Kadi
herself was "guilty of not only projection but the most primitive formof bigotry."
This provoked a flurry of lettersabout Davidson's "condescending"tone, the racist foundation of the"Mammy" system and Davidson'srefusal to see her relationshiptoSimon, as one writer said, =in its larger, historical, political and public
context."
Chargesof racism
againstDavidson escalated dramatically at
the Michigan Women's Music Festival. The woman-onlymusic andcultural festival held for five days
each August in a secluded wooded
area typically draws approximately
7,000 women, mostly lesbians. During her Friday night Michigan Mainstage set, Davidson introducedasong she wrote about her relationship with Simon called "Heroes," bysaying: "Every white family in theSouth with a little bit of money
would hire a Black woman to raise
their children. It was the smartest

MOO NOT ROMANTICIZE MY PAIN-

Photo: Jorjet Harper

Vernita Graything my parents ever did."
After several ensuing meetings-including
one between Davidson and a number of women who
had been offended by the remark-agroup statement
was issued byMichigan Festival Workers: "Saying it
is smart to hire a 'mammy,' is sayingthat it is smart to be racist. White
women must accept the responsibiIi-

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ty to recognize and interrupt such
racism in our home communities
and at our community gatherings.·
Davidson, said the statement,·was given the opportunity
torespond to our concerns." Her official
response was "No comment."
The Michigan Festival Workers'
Statement was read at the festival
itself, and has been widely distributed.
It was available
at theMountain Moving Concert, alongwith other literature tracing the history of the controversy. Both Davidson and Olivia Records president
Judy Dlugacz claimed that they
have not yet seen it.
.
At the Chicago concert last week,
the unusually small coffeehouse crowd
was the result of a boycott of Davidson's show that had been called by
CLEAR, Chicago Lesbians Emerging
Against Racism, a group of white antiracist activists who had also arranged
with the coffeehouse to sponsor ananti-racist workshop to take place
directly after Davidson's concert.
"I think that when we ignore
other people's pain, it's very hurtful,·
said Gray, her voice quavering withemotion. "Tonight's performance is areal slap in the face to many Black
women. 1 feel that it was and it is inpoor taste for the coffee house to present [Davidson] in concert tonight·We alack women demand to berespected in this community and in
this community space. Inflammatory
racist statements should certainly be areason for cancelling a performer,
particularly since she made no apology for them."
Gray, who was a founding editor of Lavender Woman, Chicago's
first lesbian newspaper, is well-repsected in the Chicago lesbian community and has a longstanding
connection
with the coffeehousestretching all the way back to its
openingnight 15 years ago, at
which she read poetry. After asking
for an official apology from the Coffeehouse and asking Davidson to"perform somewhere
else,· Grayread a new poem, written in reaction to Davidson's remarks, called"Do Not Romanticize My Pain."
After Gray spoke, Maria Lugonesof llENA, Latina Lesbians in Nuestra
Ambiante, took the podium and seconded Gray's feelings about Davidson's appearance,
calling for an
apology from the coffeehouse andfrom Olivia RecOrds.
After Lugones finished her statement, about 20 women left the hall en
masse in protest of the concert.
Davidson, who had been waiting
to be introduced, stood behind a side
door during the statements. When she
emerged her face was flushed. The
small remaining audience of about SO
women gave her an enthusiastic welcome.
Mountain Moving Coffeehouse,
which is collectively run by volunteers, has produced its women-only
concerts in the same North Sideneighborhood
location-arentedchurch hall-for many years.
The coffeehouse
had booked
Davidson for the October date long
before her performance at Michigan.
After the incidents at Michigan, however, there was discussion among collective members about whether
Davidson's performance should becancelled. The coffeehouse has notbroken a contract in its entire history,
and it was decided to honor Davidson's. Currently there are no Black
women on the cOllective.
CLEAR, a group which had only
formed after the issue erupted atMichigan,then threatenedanunprecedented picket of the coffeehouse for Davidson'sshow, butswitched to a boycott after talks
with the coffeehouse itself, which
has a shaky relation with the church
and the neighborhood,and in thepast has had some disruptions byhomophobes .
During a post-concert
antiracism workshop,
convenedbymembers of CLEAR, Jill Burgin, amember of CLEAR, said of theevening's boycott, ·This is not a
public trashing of Dianne Davidson. We've tried to make that clear
from the beginning. This is antiracism work." ..

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Yale

After Police Raid
Nine Arrested in IIObscenity" Inicident[Yale'sl scope of review."
University police officials refused
to comment on the incident, whichbegan on Friday evening, October 27,
at the opening session of the conference, when Yale University police
enteredLindsly-Chittenden
Hall
where author Vito Russo was delivering a presentation.
At 9:15 pm, Dobbs was detainedby the officers for matching the profile
of a "suspicious character" observedby Jon Nalley

NEW HAVEN - A conference
organized by the Lesbian and Gay
Studies Center at Yale University
became the scene of a violent confronation between conference participants' and officers from the Yale and
New Haven police forces, when a New
York attomey was detained by the officers for allegedly putting up "obscene"posters in the Yale Law School.
The attorney,Bill
Dobbs, who often represents members of ACT
UP/New York, was subsequently arrested, as wereeight others who protested
the police action. Hundreds more marched amile and a half to the New
Haven police station on
Union Avenue demanding
their release.
University officials
immediatelybegan aninvestigation of the incident, which comes on theheels of two years of con- THROW UP
troversy involving the uni- Unsignfld postfl' at Ya/flversity's gay and lesbiancommunity. In 1987, after a Wall Street
taping "obscene" posters to the walls
Journal article quoted a Yale student in the Law School building. When
who identified the university as a "gay Dobbs refused to go with them to theschool,» university president Benno
Yale police station, he was arrested.
Schmidt penned a letter to Yale alumni
When word of his arrest reachedrefuting the description,bringing
participants inside the lecture hall,denouncementsfrom and sparking
many of them emerged, surrounding
protests by campus gay organizations,the arresting officer, taking phowhich accused Schmidt of trivializing tographs and asking for badge numand denying their existence.
bers and specific charges. Other
But because most of the arrests
arrests followed,
on charges ofwere made by the New Haven police"breach of peace" and "interfering
department, which was summoned by with a police officer."
university
police,a university
Yale professors attending the
spokeswoman admitted that a majori- conference, which attracted nearlyty Qf the incident was "not within
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around the country, attempted tointervene, to no avail. At least three
eyewitnesses
reportedly
accusedpolice of excessive use of force.
The posters, with text reading"just sex· and "sex is," depicted awoman masturbating and homoerotic
images of men and women, and were
designed by Boy With Arms Akimbo,
a San Francisco-based group devoted
to fighting homophobia, censorshipand misrepresentation of people withAIDS in the arts, according to conference goers.
While in custody thearrested men reported
verbal abuse by rubber
glovedand surgicalmasked police and theConnecticut Departmentof Correction staff callingthem"faggot"
and"queer" and making AIDS
jokes. Dobbs told OutWeek that one officer told
him, "If I ever see you on
the street, ''I'll kill you"after Dobbs demandedthat another officer stopusing the word "faggot."
He also demanded that
his backpack-which
the police were
keeping--be inventoried. One officer,
he claims, told the officer doing theinventory to wear two pairs of rubber
gloves. "He might have AIDS,· was
the reason he gave the other officer,
Dobbs said.
During the two hour period ofcustody, 200 conference participants
marched a half mile to the New Haven
police station on Union Avenue. Chanting "let them go· and "go to Yale, go to
jail," they held vigil until the last of thedetained, Dobbs, was released. He
called the police "a bunch of idiots
who went out of control."At 9:00 am the following day,
Sheila W. Wellington, Secretary of
Yale University and the university officer responsible for campus security,
addressed an emergency conference
plenary session at Battell Chapel. She
noted the university's concern overthe incident and informed them of aninvestigation -already begun" by Yalepolice chief Louis Cappiello.
. Some In Yale's lesbian and gay
community are taking a wait-and-see
attitude. "We feel that actions of the
Yale and New Haven police were
extremely unfortunate," Steven Pierce
of Yale's Lesbian and Gay Studies
Center (LGSCy) told OutWeek. Characterizing those departments' actions
as disappointing and "obvious violations of the rights of conference participants," Pierce looked forward to
the university's investigation.
Meanwhile, conference participants and members of LGSCYand the
Yale LGBCsprang into action-meeting
to organize a march and rally which
occurred at the 5 pm completion of theconference's final plenary session on
October 20. Chanting "Push me, beatme, call me names! Yale police musttake the blame," 200 marched to the
Yale police headquarters.
The demands called upon theundertaking of initiatives by Yale andthe city of New Haven in order toprotect the rights of expression andphysical security for "lesbian, gay andbisexual people." They included "significant representation" for' that community on the Yale panel reviewing
police actions, mandatory programsfor police to receive AIDS educationand sensitivity training on "lesbian,gay and bisexual issues," the firing of
officers found to have committed verbal and physical abuse, dropping of
charges against the arrested conference participants and that university
president Benno Schmidt condemn
his aforementioned
remarks during
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Police Violenceat Trump Tower
6 Arrests at ACT UP Homeless Demoby Ben Currie
NEW YORK-Weathering a persistent rain and assorted incidents ofpolice brutality, about 100 ACT UP
demonstrators
assembled outside
Trump Tower determined to "breakthe silence" in this fall's mayoral campaign about the burgeoning crisis ofhomeless people with AIDS.
The day began with cheers as ahuge banner reading "10,000 Homeless with AIDS" was unfurled on thebuilding across the street from Trump
Tower and ended with an violent,ugly scene inside the expansively
gaudy atrium of the building.

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OU~WEEKACT UP reported that six demonstrators were arrested during the scuffle in the atrium. The six-Walter
Armstrong, Matt Ebert, Steve Helmke,
David Falcone, Scott Wald and Jim
Serafini-weretaken to the 7th
precinct house and charged variouslywith illegal trespass, disorderly conduct and resisting arrest.
After the six demonstrators arrested inside were taken away by police,
another violent incident erupted
when ACf UPers overflowed into thestreet from behind the police barricades. Abruptly, a group of about
seven officers violently pushed theout,id, Trump Tow"
November 12, 1989

demonstrators back up onto the curb.
Any decorum which had otherwise
prevailed was lost and the crowd,
angered because no warning had
been given, shouted and pushed backat the police line. Calm was restored
several minutes and there were no
additional arrests as the ACT UPerscalmly resumed their picketing.
Before the incident inside thebuilding erupted, a weird game of cat
and mouse was acted out between
Trump security officials and about 30
ACf UPers who nonchalantly meandered up and down the huge escalators that border the large open-spaced
atrium. The tension grew palpably as
the stone-faced security guards edgily
trailed the ACT UPers and spoke
breathlessly
into their ubiquitous
walkie-talkies.
It was also evident that numerous
plainclothed security guards and NYC
cops were carefully eyeing those they
believed were demonstrators. For wellover an hour the guards kept watch
and the ACT UPers demurred; but
finally a shower of leaflets poured
down through the ten story atrium

Photo: T.L. Litt

and the guards and police, in massconfusion,
arbitrarily
corneredwhomever they could nab all am'idst
loud reverberating shouts of "No Violence, No Violence.·
No serious injuries were reported
as a result of the altercations.
Donald Trump was targeted by
ACf UP to dramatize the disparity
between government policy whichallowed Trump to pick up a whopping 6.2 million dollar tax abatement
for the building, and the contrasting
governmental inaction which allows
an almost limitless supply of city
owned property to remain vacant andunrenovated while the population ofhomeless people with AIDS continues I.
to grow, demonstrators said.
"The inside of this place epitomizes the rampant consumerism of
the 80s,· said ACf UP's Jim Serafini,explaining why Trump in particular
had been singled out by the group.
ACf UP believes that the 6.2 million "could have rehabilitated approximately 1,200 city owned apartments.·
Apartments, they argue, that could
house at least some of the 10,000
PWAswho they estimate are homeless.
Earlier inside the building, analmost absurdist tableau was created
when Ronny Viggiani,
dressedsuperbly as Dorothy from the Wizardof Oz, was caught alone on one ofthe dramatically long escalators in thenearly emptied hollows of the atrium.
The down escalator connecting thelobby with the atrium's firs~ floor had
been shut off by security guards toprevent ACf UPers from beating a
hasty retreat.
According to Viggiani, a guardyelled at him to walk down the escalator, but all he could do was yellback "you've got to turn it on [theescalator] because I can't walk [down)in these heels.·
For a brief moment the scenefroze as Dorothy stood defiantly half
way down the staircase while theguard struggled desperately to turnthe key to start the escalator.
Finally,
the switch
turned,Dorothy moved effortlessly down themechanicalstaircase!!voking a
strangely grand scene worthy of a
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ACT UP Charges Giuliani
Aide With Assault
D.A. Launches Probe
by Ben Currie
NEW YORK-As the hopes of"fusion- mayoral candidate Rudolph
Giuliani seemed finally dashed thisweek by Democrat David Dinkins
resurgence in the polls, the legal fateof Giuliani's media advisor, right-wingattack-ad guru Roger Ailes, was not soclearly cast.
Last week, Ailes was charged byseveral ACf UP members with third
degree assualt and harrassment stemming from the violent ejection of ACf
Up protesters from a Liberal Party dinner on October 23 honoring Giuliani.
The incident-virtually unreported in the mainstream dailies-did
however elicit condemnation
fromseveral gay rights organizations andthree prominent New York Democrats.
Short of calling for Ailes' resignation from Giuliani's campaign, Dinkins and Manhattan Borough President
C~ndidate Ruth Messinger and City
Council President Andrew Stein all
called upon Giuliani to launch a thorough internal investigation of Ailes'
involvement in the matter.
Along with New York City Gay
and Lesbian Anti-Violence Project and
the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against
Defamation,
the three politiciansroundly condemned the verbal andphysical abuse of gays and lesbians
which is alleged to have occured at
the Liberal Party's event.
GLAAD went so far as to call for
Ailes' "immediate suspension" fromthe campaign pending the completionof the Manhattan District Attorney's
on-going investigation of the charges.
Laurie Cohen, an ACf UP attorney
who represents Kevin Ottersten, the victim of the alledged assault by Ailes, isoonfideot that the D.A's otftce will move
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"The Manhattan District Attorney
has not only acted in what I consider
to be an appropriate manner, [but]they have cooperated with us in a
way that makes me feel that justicewill come out," she said about D.A.
Ann Hyman's investigation of ACf
UPers' charges.
The men and women involved in
the protest had been worried by d:rtain questions asked of them by anassistant district attorney during theirinitial meeting with the office. Coheninsisted that the questions regarding
the ACf UPers' private lives and theirdrug habits were completely appropriate and not unusual for this type ofinvestigation.
She said that D.A. Hyman had
nearly completed her interviews with
the ACf UP witnesses and was simply"waiting for the medical records,"

ALL CHOKED UP
Kllvin tJltBrstBnfrom St. Vincents Hospital detailingthe injuries to Ottersten. Last week
Ottersten said that he was diagnosed
with "post concussive syndrome" andtrauma to his neck muscles.
Coben said the next logical stepfor the D.A. would be to interview
Ailes and others from the Liberal Party
who witnessed the altercation.
A spokesperson from Ailes Communications, Ailes' media firm, spokewith OutWeek this Thursday anddenied that ACf UPers' accounts ofthe scene were accurate. However,unlike Carl Grillo, the Executive
Director of the Liberal Party, he did
not go so far as to deny an accountwhich appeared in the Daily News
which stated "an angry, red-faced
Ailes
put
his
hand
on
[a
demonstator's] neck."
Ken LaCourte of Ailes Communication went on to say that Ailes had
not been contacted by the D.A. 's
office as of Thursday and as far as his
office understood no formal charges
had been filed.
Cohen said that charges had
been filed with the police, but it was
up to the D.A.'s office ·to move thematter forward.
LaCourt said the incident "neveroccurred the way they [ACf UP]
describe it." He would not be more specific, however, "until after the election."
He called the whole matter ~"publicity stunt" perpetrated by ACf
Up "for their own purposes."
In last week's Vdlage Voice reporter
Donna Minkowitzdetailed several violent
incidents in which Ailes has been
involved in the past The Voice quotes
the Washington Post as reporting that
Ailes broke a man's wrist and threw
another into a fountain during a brawl
See AILES on page 81

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ST. VINCENTS = HOMOPHOBIA
Photo: T.L.litt
ACT UP's G,m W,lls address,s th, room, as St Vinc,nts' Marie Ackermann looks on.

St Vincents Confronts
Anti-Gay Bias Charges
by Jon Nalley
NEW YORK-In
front of themore than 200 peol?le packed into
the Lesbian and Gay Community Center last Wednesday, gay rights activist
Tom Duane challenged the membersof St. Vincents Hospital administration
to utter the words "lesbian" and "gay,"
to demonstrate they had no discomfort with the terms or the community.
Duane,' whose recent Democratic
Primary bid for city council was
unsuccessful, moderated the ACf UPsponsored town meeting with St. V:ncents' higher-ups. The meeting was
the result of repeated demonstrations
at the hospital, in response to reportsof physical and verbal attacks on gay
and lesbian patients at the Greenwich
Village hospital.
Duane also called on the hospitalto provide, at its own cost, an on-site
anti-bias worker. "Stop reacting tocomplaints. We need to see something proactive," he bellowed.
Others gave personal testimony
and asked ·questions of the panel,
which also included ACf UP member
Gerri Wells, who has previously mediated between the community andhospital officials.
Speaker after speaker, including
two rape survivors and several survivors of anti-gay violence, rose torecount personal stories of anti-gay
harassment by St. Vincents security
guards, doctors, nurses and other
employees.
Others reported incidents of mistreatment or refusal oftreatment after being identified as
gay or lesbian.
Citing St. Vincents' work with thehomebound elderly, the homeless,the poor and people with AIDS as
examples of that hospital's community commitment, Mark Ackermann,vice presdent of external affairs,
asserted that its "primary purpose[was] to deliver excellent health carein such a way as to maximize the dignity and self-respect of each patient
as well as all involved in the aire~ofeach patient.·".
He relayed the concern of thehospital administration about- biased
treatment of some patients-which hecharacterizedas "isolatedinci,dents"-andapologized
for suchactions on behalf of the hospital.
After giving assurances that St.
Vincents would thoroughly investigate
any allegations of discrimination, Ackermann promised "appropriate discipline" upon "due process· for thosefound to have committed such acts.
But
St. Vincents'
Human
Resources Vice President Andrew
Portelli spoke of "realities,· adding,"We receive grievances every day .....
We can't fire someone on every allegation of something being said.·
Robert Cohen, medical directorof St. Vincents AIDS Center, told those
assembled that he and hundreds ofother hospital doctors, nurses andsocial workers had signed a petition
demandingthat the hospital takestronger action on the accusations ofhomophobic incidents.
"I have not heard anythi'Qg
tonight that couldn't have happen~d.
Thousands of people at the hospitalare upset by this ...this man'y people
wouldn't show up if it were not a rea,lissue to deal with," Cohen said.
Area resident Aldyn McKean,with the obvious support of the room,
told St. Vincents that the hospitalmust take concrete steps to "rectify
this appalling situation." He saidfpe
hospital must reveal the results of ,its
own investigations, institute a comprehensive anti-bias program, set'ilp ,<and publicize disciplinary proceduresand punishments, establsh a policy bn
visiting rights for patients' companions, including lovers, and notify all
patients of these policies.
He demanded that the hospital
inform the lesbian and gay community of its specificplans byDecember.I.
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The Goal: Clinical Trials
for Everyone Who Wants"'Them

ATR's Ambitious Agenda
by John Voelcker
NEW YORK-It's not just anotherin the sea of AIDS-related initials. Less
than two years old, ATR, the AIDS
Treatment Registry, has embarked ona ground-breaking outreach effort toeducate the entire AIDS community•i

NOT JUST FOR WHITE MEN ONLY.
Mich.,,1 Cowing Photo: Ellen B. Neipris
about experimental drug trials, andrevise those trials to reflect participants' needs and concerns.
Formed in February 1988 as aspinoff of the AIDS activist group ACf

UP, ATR has grown explosively. It
rented offices of its own this past
June, and its budget this year is$200,000, almost a tenfold increaseover last year's.
With the growth comes an equally ambitious goal. ATR wants to eliminate all the various drawbacks
associated with clinical trials of experimental AIDS drugs that prevent many
people with HIV infection from participating in, or even conSidering,such drug trials as a part of their treatment.
For instance, a poorly designed
protocol may effectively exclude all
but affluent white men with private
physicians, according to ATR. A simple lack of information about therange of available trials can hinder
recruiting in the first place. And
unclear or incomplete informed-consent agreements prevent participantsfrom understanding their end of thebargain.
ATR's first step in improving
access to trials was simply to find out/

WOMAr~ OF THE YEAR
Iris Long
Photo: Ellen B. Neipris
what was actually available around
New York City-something no othergroup had been able to do regularlyor reliably. It took time, but ATR now
has "solid working relationships· withthe principal investigators for thesetrials and their associated hospitals,
said executive director Michael Cowing.
The result was their widely
acclaimed Registry, issued bi-monthly,of every AIDS drug trial in New Yorkand New Jersey. The demand has
been overwhelming.
"We printed 1,000 copies of theAugust Registry, Cowing said. "Wequickly found we needed 2,000 more,
but we just couldn't afford them. For
the October edition, we printed 2,500.
But we got them October 7th, andalready we only have about 700 leftto last us until the end of November."
The group's other publication,
Deciding to Enter an AIDS/ HIV Drug
Trla~ has been equally well received.
Cowing said a Spanish translation isU

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Out Takes

ApuzzoappealALBANY-Virginia Apuzzo, former liaison to the lesbian and gay
communityfor Governor
Mario
CUomo, was recently trashed by thestate's commissioner of prisons forher idea about condoms and AIDS in
New York jails.
"Dismayed, but not terribly surprised," Thomas Coughlin, Commissioner for the New York State
Department of Correctional Services,
and a member of the State AIDS Advisory Council, fired off a letter attacking remarks made by Apuzzo on
September 21 to Council Chair David
Rogers, M.D.
Apuzzo, who is now deputy
executive director of the State Consumer Protection Board and also theVice Chair of the Council, had called
for distribution of condoms in State
Prison facilities in order to halt the
spread of HIV within that system.
Calling Apuzzo's demand a "redherring type issue," Coughlin accusedher of upstaging the work of thepanel's work "in order to grab ...newspaper headlines.' Further, the corrections commissioner saw her request
as a disservice to the people of New
York who suffer from AIDS because it"reduce[d] the magnitude and complexity of the issue into a piece ofsynthetic material.' Coughlin denied
that "sex is rampant in the prisons"and claimed there were no documented cases of inmates who "contracted
AIDS in prison.'
Rather, the corrections commissioner said prison AIDS cases are theresult of IV drug use. Coughlin took
pains to inform the AIDS Advisory
Council Chair that "prisons are nothotels-sex is not aright," but rathera privilege reserved for those inmateseligible for conjugal visits. "All other
sex,' he reminded Rogers, "is prohibited by policy.'
Because Rogers also supports theneed of prison condom distribution,
Coughlin called on him to provide

VIRGINIA APUZZO

Photo: T. L. littdocumentation "for [his] conclusions
that sex is rampant in prison as wellas the scientific basis from condom
distribution.
Amy Kolodny of Department ofCorrections Public Information did
not return repeated calls for comment
from Out Week
Apuzzo told OutWeek that she"would have been derelict in [her]community responsibility
if [she]didn't bring u.p this critical issue,"adding that the disaster of an AIDS
explosion in the corrections system
was immjnent.
Ernie Ray of westside State Senator
Manfred Ohrnstein's office (who commented that the bottom line of the issue
was that lives were at stake) and BethIsrael Medical Center President Dr.
Robert Newman also raised the issue ofcondom distribution with Coughlin. Dr.
Newman declined comment.
Condoms are distributed, on alimited basis, at Rikers Island in New
York City.
-Jon Nalley

What's next?·
BOSTON-After nearly two yearsof publishing through precarious
financial straits, Next, 3: lesbian andgay weekly news magazine based in

Boston, has folded due to financial
reasons. But the suddenness of theannouncement
has left some staff
members bitter.
Started in December, 1987 as aself-proclaimed"bar rag" featuring
entertainment and paragraph-long stories, Next quickly grew into a popular
weekly magazine with local news
coverage and a fairly substantial features section. "The biggest problem
was cash flow,' publisher
Gary
Chefetz told OutWeek. "We simply
ran out of money.'
The magazine's demise came as asurprise to several of its staffers, noneof whom seemed prepared for thesudden shut down.
"It's meaningless that the publication did not do well," editor Masha
Gessen told OutWeek. "I've neverworked on a publication that did
well. [Chefetz] should have known
further in advance, and he shouldhave told us."
"I'm really upset about the wholething,' said staff writer Nina Reyes. "Iworked for Next for nine months as afull-time writer receiving half-timepay. I'm still waiting for a paycheckfrom the first week and the last day I
worked. I invested so much into this,and all I got back was a kick in theteeth."
staff members also cite rumors of$100,000 in uncollected funds stm
owed Next, funds that could have
kept the magazine afloat.
"Boston-based area businesses
just don't pay their bills,' said Chefetz.
"I could have given [the staff] two
weeks' notice, but why have themwork when I didn't have the money
to pay them?""We got fucked,'counteredReyes. "It's like ...the dark agesj it's
bad business."
Originally,
OutWeek was tobecome a sister publication of Next
until negotiations between Chefetz
and Out Week publisher Kendall Morrison failed.
Gessen and Reyes, who havesince joined the freelance staff of
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they consider starting a news magazine of their own "in approximately
six months." Chefetz said he has no
immediate plans to return to publishing a magazine in Boston, focusing
instead on collecting his unpaid bills
and prorating refunds to advertisers
as he continues work on his otherpublication, Provincetown Magazine.
"Masha and Nina are both great
writers, incredibly brilliant," added
Chefetz, "but it came down to a personal decision by me. (Next) was
dosed down with dignity."o-Keith Miller

It canhapp~nanywhere II
NEW YORK-Two alleged gaybashers were arrested by New York
City police after they reportedlyattacked a pair of men walking
through Washington Square Park on
October 29.
Police Sgt; Carl Zittell of the Bias
Crimes Unit said that Peter Eatroff, 22,
and Jeff Barkoff, 21, both of Brooklyn,
were wal&ing through the park
around 7:30 pm in the evening whena woman approached them and began
making ·antigay remarks. A group often people then surrourided the twomen, knocking d0wn Eatroff repeatedly ·and· stealing his bag, which contained records, and other goods.
, Eatroff and Barkoff fled to a
nearby new York University ddr.mitory, then' to' the NYU Security Office,wher.e they were treated for abrasions; They'left before' ihe NYC police,arrived; only to meet thCir attackers
again at the comer of Waverly Place:and-University
Place. Just as the'group of ten' began to harass ·the two.
,men again, police arrived and arrest.ed two of the group.
Ronald 'Gonzalez, 20 of 509 W.
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bery, aggravatedharassment andresisting arrest. Dalwood King, 18, of
20 Lenox Ave., was charged with second-degree assault, second-degreerobbery and aggravated harassment,
police said.
David Weitheimer, of the New
YQrk City Lesbian and Gay Anti-Violence Project, said the Washington
Square Park area has been the sceneof several antigay bias incidents in thelast year. "It's a space in which a lotof very disparate groups of people
congregate,· he said, "including gay
people and people who have it in forgay people.·
At a recent rally supporting theright to burn flags, a group of skinheads harassed both protesters andonlookers, chanting "Burn a Fag, Not
the Flag."
OutWeek was unable to reach
Eatroff and Barkoff at press time.
-John Voelcker

DeDlocrats
go gayWASHINGTON-Jean
O'Leary,
Executive Director of National Gay
Rights Advocates, has been appointed
to the Resolutions Committee of the
Democratic
National Committee(ON C), the governing body of the
Democratic Party by National Democratic Party chair Ron Brown. O'learyis the first open lesbian to receive
such an appointment.
"I have a good understanding of
the needs of the lesbian and gay community," O'leary said. "I also have agood·. understandingof how the
Democratic Party operates. 1 hope tocombine my knowledge to make,som<:=concrete headway."AS'a 20-year championforhuman ·rights, with an emphasis on
the civil rights of the gay and lesbiancommunity, O'leary has served as coexecutive director of the National Gay
and Lesbian Task Force,' board member of the Gay Rights National Lobby,
co-founder and past president of theJEAN O'LEARY
National Association of BusinessCouncils, board member of the Fairness Fund, co-founder and current
co-chair of National Coming Out Day
and board member of Project Inform.
She was also responsible for organizing the first meetings of gay leadersheld in the White House and with key
federal agencies, elevating issues ofgay and lesbian civil rights to national
attention.
''The White House meetings wereduring the Carter Administration,"
O'leary continued, in a phone interview with Out Week. "We brought·
together 12 national lesbian and gay
leaders who prepared White Papers.
These were then presented to Carter'ssenior staff."
O'leary also has a longstanding
commitment to the Democratic Party.
She was the first open lesbian dei'egate to the Democratic National Convention 'in 1976, a Kennedy delegate
at,the 1980 Convention, a Dukakis ,whip in 19'88 and served on the.
Board of Gay and Lesbian Democratsof America.
"Jean O'leary's involvement as amember of the Resolutions Committt!e 'is well-timed,· said Steve Smith, thefirSt openly gay man to serve on the
DNC. "Her understanding of the concerns of lesbians and gay men will

ensure that our community is prominent and visible as the Resolutions
Committee charts the course of theParty.·-Keith Miller

Just say no
WASHINGTON-The
U.S.
Supreme Court announced On October 30 that it will not take up theissue of mandatory HIV testing of
public employees this term, effectively upholding a lower court ban onsuch tests. The Court voted not toreview a decision by the 8th Circuit
Court of Appeals in Glover v. Eastern
Nebraska Community Office of Retardation. In that case, the lower court
ruled that such testing by a state-operated mental health facility violated the
Fourth Amendment of the Constitution's Bill of Rights. Glover is the firstcase to deal with the constitutionalityof mandatory testing by state, as
opposed to federal, agencies.
Under the Fourth Amendment, asapplied to state governments throughthe Due Process Clause of the 14th
Amendment, states may not conduct
searches or seizures of individuals in
criminal investigations without probable cause to believe that contrabandor evidence of crime will be found.
Non-criminal searches, such as HIV
antibody testing, are judged by a lessdemanding standard of whether theinvasion of individual privacy is reasonable in light of legitimate governmental interests.
Over the past few years, theSupreme Court and lower federal
courts have ruled on drug testing programs by state agencies in several
cases, weighing the importance ofdrug testing in a particular job category against the reasonable expectationsof privacy of public employees.
In Glover, District Court judge
Lyle E. Strom ruled in 1988 that therisk of HIV transmission
from aninfected employee to a client of themental health agency was so slightthat the government's
interest in
detecting infected employees wasclearly outweighed by the privacy
rights of the employees under the
Fourth Amendment. judge Strom's
conclusion. wasunanimously
approved by the Court of Appeals.
By contrast, several federal courts
have rejected challenges to HIV testing programs by branches of the
Defense Department and by the State
Department,
ruling that national
defense and foreign policy interests
outweighed the privacy rights of military and foreign service members.
Lambda Legal Defense Fund's challenge to the mandatory testing program of the U.S. Labor Department's
job Corps is still pending before afederal district court in the District ofColumbia.
The Glover decision by the lower
courts had been hailed by AIDS advocacy and civil rights groups as a major
landmark in the battle against irrational HIV testing programsbyemployers. Although the decisionstrictly applies only to public employers, the reasoning may be very persuasive in deciding whether private
sector testing programs violate federal
and state laws on ,private sector disability discrimination.
-Arthur S. Leonard

Poll pals
NEW YORK-Voters from nineelection districts in Greenwich Village
will be casting their ballots on Tuesday, November 7 at the Lesbian and
Gay Community Services Center.
"Becoming a polling place affirms that
the Center is an integral part of thecity,· said City Councilmember Ruth
Messinger, the Democratic nominee
for Manhattan Borough President,"not only for lesbians and gay men,but for all New Yorkers.·"Many of our Village neighbors
who are not familiar with the' Center
will now be brought into our home,
and the heart of the gay community,·
Richard Burns, executive director of
the Centef, told OutW~k.
"Hopefully
it will encourage
more gay folks to vote,· added

administrative
assistant Stephanie
Grant.
On Democratic
Primary Day,
September 12, the Center hosted aturnout that was 25 percent higher
than the turnout for last April's Democratic Presidential Primary at the oldpoll site on 14th Street.
The Lesbian and Gay Community
Center is housed in what was once
the Food and Maritime Trades HighSchool which was used as the pollsite until it closed in 1979, when thearea polling place was moved to achurch on 14th Street. The site waschanged back this year when the cityordered all polling places to be accessible to the handicapped.
On Election Day, November 7,
1989, the polls at the Lesbian and Gay
Community Center, 208 W. 13th Street,
will be open from 6 am to 9 pm.
-Keith Miller

ACT UPseeks stuff
NEW YORK-The AIDS activist
group ACT UP is seeking items to sellat its flfst major benefit auction. Objects
already received include art works byAndy Warhol, David Hockney, Robert
Rauschenberg, Francesco Scavullo andAnnie Leibovitz, as well as antiques,designer clothing, furniture, vacations
and celebrity mementos.
Proceeds from the event, entitled"Auction for Action,· will go directly
to benefit ACT UP. The aqivist organi- ..
zation, now in its third· year, hasscored 'numerous successes in. its
drive to fight government inaction
and speed the release of drugs to.
people with AIDS. This will be thefirst time ACT UP has raised money
by holding an auction.
Exhibition of items will takeplace Sunday, December 3, from12:00 noon until 3:00 pm at 890.
Broadway. The evening will begin at

6 pm with a reception followed byboth a siient and public auction at. 7
pm .. Admission is $5. Those wishing

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to donate items should call Sean
Strube at (914) 591-5900. For further
information about the auction, call(212) 989-1114. -Gabriel Rotello

Lavender inOrangeCountyIRVINE, CA-Voters in this university town 40 miles south of Los
Angeles will determine Tuesday if'atough human rights ordinance willretain a clause prohibiting discrimination based on sexual orientation-a
decision both sides believe could
have national repercussions.
Irvine is located in conservative
Orange County, home to militantly
anti-gay Congressmen William Dannemeyer and Robert K. Dornan.
The region has been a hotbed ofanti-gay agitation in recent months,
much of it spearheaded by the Rev.
Louis Sheldon, a right-wing lobbyist
who heads the Traditional Values
Coalition.
The Irvine City Council adopted
the original measure, with the sexual
orientation clause, by a 4-0 vote lastyear. But right-wing
Christia·ns
opposed to the clause succeeded ingathering enough petition signatures
to force a vote on the issue.
Supporters of the sexual orientation clause formed Irvine Citizens
United, and launched a campaign toretain the ordinance as it currently
stands. The measure also bars discrimination
based on race, color,
sex, religion, national origin, age,marital status or physical handicap.
A "yes· vote on Measure N
would remove the sexual orientation
clause and prohibit the Irvine, City
Council from enacting any similar
legal protection in the future without
first obtaining approval of the electorate by a two-thirds majority.
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orientation clause intact.
Measure N supporters claim thesexual orientation clause grants "special rights" to "homosexuals."
But Citizens United advisory board
member Jim Boone maintains the current ordinance provides only for equal
rights. Indeed, the measure defines"sexual orientation" as "heterosexuality,
homosexuality or bisexuality.·
The sexual orientation clause isimportant because there is no private
sector job protection for gays and lesbians under Californ ia state law,according to Boone.
The courts have specifically ruledthat sexual orientation is not coveredby the Fair Employment and Housing
Act (FEHA), California's major antidiscrimination law, Boone said.
He estimates that some 3,000
Irvine residents have publicly comeout against the Irvine Values Coalitibn
by endorsing the No on Measure N
campaign. Some 300 Irvine residents
are actively involved in the fightagainst the ordinance, he said.
The Irvine Values Coalition hasreceived a $500 contribution from
Dannemeyer.
-Andrew Krastlns

Whose
revolution is
et ,anyway ?
1..
BUDAPEST-Evenas Hungary
officially declared itself independentof Soviet Union and no longer asocialist nation in late October, members of the Eastern Bloc's only legal
gay organization, HOMEROS Lambda, reported increased and more violent
harassment
here
in theHungarian capital.
Accordingto
HOMEROSspokesman Sandor Borsos, the group'snightclub (and Hungary's only gay
bar, Lokal, is under constant attackfrom other tenants of its building,authorities and nearby businesses.
"Neighbors say they are scandalized by obscene scenes in the staircas-. TI

es and have begun dropping bricks
and eggs on patrons standing in frontof the entrance," Borsos said In early
October, the neighbors petitioned
authorities close the club down.
Police, meanwhile, have continued regular raids on the bar, "sometimes taking away patrons, but stillrefusing to do anything about hooligan attacks on the establishment,"
according to Borsos.
And in the latest Lokal-related
disaster, a group of influential taxi
companies has called a boycott of thebar, telling the media that it is a"queers" hangout."
Lokal's problems were debatedOct. 4 during a six-minute broadcast on Hungary's first independent
TV channel (NAP TV). "The report
showed one of our drag shows andasked people to be tolerantofgays,· 13orsos said. "It was positive
overall even though the police
maintained that their actions stemfrom demands by nearby residents'that order be observed. ,. Police
have denied any discrimination
against gays.
Despite all the bad news, Borsos
says the TV report is only one ofnumerous signs that Hungary's defection to the West promises a vastly better life for its gay and lesbian citizens.
"For the first time since WorldWar II,· he said, "a gOSSip magazine- KACSA-has started publishing homosexual partnership ads. In
addition, books about homosexuality
are being published one-after-another, including a brand-new
bookabout lesbians.·, Later. this year, Budapest'S first"sex shop· is scheduled to open "with
dildoes and other sexual devices on
display,· Borsos said.
Meanwhile, in a rel,ated matter-and.contrarytoearlierreport£-Borsos indicated that "a, significant number of the East Germans
who fled to the West via Hungary in
September were gay. I personallyknew half-a-dozen gay refugees,· he.said, "and sources in East Berlin saythat was just the tip of the iceberg.·-Rex Wockner

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Obituaries;'

JiJhn;Bohne/Ii/Photo: T. l. LittI

graduated with a BFA In Painting from
Bennington College. After working as
a laborer in Vermont and in the oilfields of Montana, he moved to New
York in 1980.
In NYC, john worked first as ataxi driver and limousjne driver andhe enrolled in Union TheologicalSeminary. At Union he was active in
the Gay and lesbian Caucus serving
as convenor in 1983. He wrote histheses on pastoral care and AIDS
Issues within hospitals. He received
his M. Div. in 1984.
He Is' survived by his friends andfellow activists; his sister Nancy Rube,
his brotq~r Philip Bohne and his parents Edrfiund Mildred Bobpe. His lover
Bill dle(l of AIDS In 1988. A memorialserviCj'was held on October 29.

at its inception in 1974. She don~~ed
her personal library of lesbian ~sand artifacts to the collection 'Qut
more, her invincible spirit symbolJiid
the political and social vision that if at'
the core of the Archives.
I' .
Hampton was an annual parilf;ipant in.w York City's Gay and ~bian Pride March and was ho~or~4:.,.~sits Grand Marshall in 1985. She ~ilS
the recipient of several awar& fiQm
national Black, gay and lesbian
nizations acknowledging her pion~ering efforts
on behalfof tpemovements for Black, feminist andgay civil rights.
When asked· wh1en she had

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Nfabel Hampton

john Bohne died of unspecified
pneurI10nia in Lenox Hill Hospital on
Msy 2, 1902-t)ctobl1r 26, 1989
October 15. He was 35 and lived in Manha~d Valley. It had been almost four If
Mabel Hampton,
an AfricanY'~since
his inkial AIDSdiagnosis.
I'
I .
. .. ohn was a founding member of 'American Lesbian c()~munity activist
who played a founding role in the
ACJ!UP, and represented the group,atian Herstory Archiyes and was an
many conferences,including thelinspiration to many in the battle forretent meeting of the National,1HV
Civil rights and gay liberation, died ofCOmmission, the negotiations t~t Ifd
pneumonia at St. Luke's Roosevelt
tp the development of ·paralle,I' track"
Hospital in New York City on Octoberguidelines for increasing a¢ce~s to26th at the age of 87. In the 1980s,
experimental drugs.
•
Hampton was featured in several film
'john had volunteered with Gay
Menls Health Crisis, and the AIDS and television programs, documenting
her involvementin the Harlem
Resource Center early in botb organization's existence. Before his AIDS Renaissance and in gay life before thediagnosis, ,he was employed by the19705.
Born in Winston-Salem, North
American Red Cross.-arranging home
Carolina, Hampton came to Greenhealth care for PWAs.
wich Village when she was sevenj in
A memberof Morningside
her teens, she became a member ofMonthly Meeting
the Religious
an all women's dance troupe that perSociety of Friends (Quakers), john
formed in Coney Island. Later, during
held several positions within thethe 30s and 40s, she appeared in sevMeeting .. He and his lover William
eral productions at the Lafayette 'theMcCann were married under the careater and was a dancer at the Gardenof Morningside.Meeting in 1987. Theirof joy in Harlem, New York.
marriage was the first same-sex cereIn 1937, Hampton met LiIlianmony to be calle? a "marriage" by the
Foster who was her life partrier untilsponsoring Meeting within the Society
Foster's death in 1978 .. Hamptonof Friends. john also served on theassociated with the Lesbian
AIDS Advisory Caucus of the AmeriHerstory Archives, the largest colleccan Friends Service Committee.
tion of lesbian material in t,he world,.john was born in Summit, Nj and

of

be.

"come out,· Hampton would firmly
reply, with a characterrstic twinkle inher eye, "What do you mean, comeout! I was never IN." Hampton is survived by hundreds and hundreds ofloving friends.
A celebration of her life will beheld at the Lesbian and Gay Community Services Center, 208 W. 13thStreet in Manhattan on November 16,
at 7:30 pm.
Donations in her memory can besent to the Lesbian Herstory Educational Foundation,Inc., P.O. Box
1258, New York, NY 10116 and to
Senior Action in a Gay Environment,
208 W. 13th St., New York, NY 10011.
For more information,pleasecontact: .joan Nestle or Deb Edel at(212) 874-7232 ...

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A.IDS Treatment NewsDOC~

rhe Low-Cost Antiviral
by John S.James

DC is an antiviral closelyrdated to 001, which is
widely considered to be
ne of the most promising new AIDS
tfeatments. DOC may be as effective
as 001, and is currently undergoinglarge-scale clinical trials sponsored by
Hoffman-LaRoche. And DOC costs
hundreds of times less than 001 to
manufacture,
meaningthat its potential cost,
pennies a day, is withinreach of every person in ;the United States, and of
every government in theworld.
About two years
ago, DOC was found tocause serious peripheral
neuropathy in some patients, and therefore
many people gave up
on the drug. But now it
appears that DOC may
be effective in doses
much lower than werepreviously
used, andthat at these low doses,
the toxicity may be rare,and easily manageable
when it does occur. We
may not have an ultimate answer until thecurrent large-scale trials
are completed; these trials are expected to take two years. But at least 300
people have so far taken DOC in clinical studies--andothers have used
"underground" DOG-and there appears to be enough information available now to make practical decisions.
Since most of the world's people withHIV have no access to treatment because of economic obstacles, a drug

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ditional healers which are already inplace in most cultures.
In the United States, the government has claimed exclusive worldwide rights to DOC as an AIDS treatment, and licensed these rights to
Hoffman-LaRoche. We checked with apatent attorney, and learned thatpatent rights are in fact highly geographical, and that it would probably
be entirely legal to manufacture DOC
for medical use in many countries. In
addition, DOC can only be coveredby a "use patent" (the weakest of allpatents),
since thechemicalhas beencommercially available
and has been know forover 20 years. A use
patent for a drug is violated only at the timeof ingestion.
In theUnitedStates, DOC was available as an "underground" drug over a
year ago, but few people used it because offear of its toxicity. The
most serious side effect is peripheral neuropathy, often noticed
first as pain in the feet.
However,the new
clinical trial is using avery low dose, .01 milligram per kilogram ofbody weightthree
times a day. This dose
consists largely in not exceeding theis less than a quarter of what the U.S.
proper dose, and stopping the drug
"underground" has been using even
immediately if neuropathy does derecently, which itself is much lessvelop (treatment may be resumed
than the doses which caused serious
later at lower doses). The manageside effects in the first clinical trials,
ment of toxicity, therefore, has little
before it was known how little of theor no economic cost. And this drug
chemical was effective. This .01
does not require the expensive infr<l;!>- dose-which
has enough preliminary
tructure of Western medicine; instead,eVidence for efficacy that a major
it might be delivered through the tracorporatiop
is will ing to test it inwhich eliminates these obstacles deserves careful attention.
The true cost of a drug must include not only the cost of manufacture, but also any other costs of appropriate use, including detection andmanagement of side effects. For example, the cost of using AZf must include the cost of blood tests forhematological toxicity, of transfusions
when needed, and of the Western
medical infrastructure which makes
this technology available. But with
DOC, the management of toxicity

hundreds of people-is
so low thatfor persons of average weight, a single gram of DDC will last for wellover a year.
In the U.S., both DDC and DDI
have sold for about the same price,
about $30,000 per kilogram. For DDI,
this price translates to hundreds ofdollars a month. But DDC is used insuch small doses that it usually costs. under 10, cents a day. (Note: theDDC which has been on peoples'shelves for the last year or more may
have deteriorated, and must be tested before ·use.)
The official trials of DOG. will
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economic barriers t~ its use. But it isalso dangerous, and successful waysof using it will not happen automatically; they must be systematically developeq. In different countries, for example" the drug would need to be
integrated differently into existing
health systems.
We published this article to pointout the,se possibilities. We call on development experts, AIDS organizations and others to examine new systems fpr providing state-of-the-art
treatment now, without waiting forbureaucracies to move, for corporations tp find profit, for the time re- .
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Learning ,Homophobia.Commie Pinko Fags and the Radical Right
by Andrew Krastins

iIIiam Allen, chairman of the U.S.
Commission on Civil
Rights, spoke recently at a virulently
anti-gay "symposium" on homosexu,ality to which members of the gay
press had been specifically uninvited
Gay and lesbian journalists
throughout California reported thatthey were grilled about their sexual
practices, religious conviction and political beliefs when they unsuccessfully tried to register for the Oct. 6-7
conference, sponsored by the Rev.
Lou Sheldon and his California Coalition 'for Traditional Values.
.I also was told I would be denied
entry, but decided I would go anyway.
So, appropriately polyestered andladen with a stack of musty religious
tracts', I.'went forth into the belly of
the fundamentalist beast, the ballroomof the Pan Pacific Hotel adjacent toDisneyland In Anaheim.
Despite heaVYsecurity because ofscheduled appearances by Allen andRep. William Dannemeyer (R-CA), I
was able to get In simply by arriving
an hour early, taking a seat and lookIng pious. Soon true believers were attracted by my stack of books and I
was able to question them candidly.
And the weekend afforded many
scenarios, some deeply disturbing,others simply ridiculous.
The disturbing ones first: A lanky
old doctor with a bilious face went
about muttering, "Homophoblal Homophoblal There Isn't a damn thing wrong
with It.You ought to be afraid of 'em."
When I asked him what hethought should be done about "thehomosexuals," he was quick to reply.
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there was the man who plans to sell
don't want to have to pay for 'em."
One speaker solemnly warned his seminars and videos on the occult toaudience that America is "on the veJge <?f law enforcement agencies. There's alegitimizingsodomy and coprophagy."
huge demand, he told me.
Now, coprophagy-eatibg shitAnother woman whispered of awas what the weekend's "symposium""lady involved in witchcraft who had
was all about. And the Rev. Sheldona child born with claws and scales."provided his assembly of pious dung
A look :ll the "occult" or "secular
beetles with a two-day all-you-canhumanism" section of any born again
swallow buffet.
Christian bookstore will. quickly
Hoping for a glimpse of notions . demonstrate that trafficking in paranoid
my fundamentalist hosts tend to disfantasy must have a substantial market.
Flying saucers, backward masking, witchcraft, the wondrous efficacy
of selling Amway and Herbalife forachieving true happiness in life-yoQ
name it, they'll swallow it, especially
if dished up by a stern authority figure or charistmatic spiritual/politicalsalesman skilled in manipulating guilt,
fear, resentment and greed.
But let's look at some of the presentations themselves. One Brian T.
Kennedy, vice president of the Claremont Institute for the Study of Statesmanship and Pofitica\'Philosophy, gave
a talk in which he likened the battle
for lesbian and gay rights to 19th century arguments in far;or of slav~ry.
LUNATIC FRINGE
With all the learned quotations,R,v. LDUSh,/dDnfalse erudition and non-sequiturs typicuss only among themselves· andcal of Far Right Idealogues, Kennedy lsstrive to keep from public view, I sued an emotional plea to ban homobegan to ask earnest questions about
sexuals from all teaching positions andevery lunatic-fringe consplrocy theory
to save this great nation from the "disI could think of.
mal sewers of sodomy and lesbianism."
Their eyes lit up at meeting Ii"Those W?o choose sodomy arepresumed kindred spirit. One elderly
deliberately
choosing
slavery,"
woman took me aside and told me
Kennedy explained.
the Mormons are part of a Satanic InA more chilling piece of propaternational conspiracy of Preemasons
ganda was a video produced ~y Pink
and have secret Masonic Inslgn,la on
Triangle Liberation ProdUctions,
their underwear. Well, I thought; time
which tied together nearly every
to try something more potent.
Imaginable anti-gay theme under the·"What about flying saucers?" I
main topic of AIDS.
,
asked gravely.
The lesbian and gay rights move"There's a lot that Isn't allowed toment is portrayed as an Immensely
be told," was_ the reply. And t,hen
wealthy and powerful cadre of evil-

doers (a la -Jew bankers" of old); classic ·anti-Semitism slightly altered. And
the "liberal press" is blamed for the
closure of a Christian AIDS hospice byLong Beach, CA health officials.
Sad violin music is played when
Christian AIDS patients are shown. Old
science fiction movie music is playedwhen any sort of gay activism is depicted. And the whole video is a succession of blatantly manipulative images
and juxtapositions, a lengthy piece ofvulgar, hate-mongering propaganda.
What kind of minds can produce
this kind of thing? Political homophobia Sheldon-style can be summarized
as follows:"Militant homosexuals, though
their numbers are tiny, control vast
amounts of money and secretly dictate the decisions of many important
politicians. They have a sinister hidden agenda to destroy ~eligion andsubvert the, United States government.
"We real Americans and upholders of traditional values have been
pushed out of power and made second class citizens by a cadre of evil
government insiders, the liberal press,
international financial wheeler-dealers, secular humani~, who control all
the public schools, and homosexuals.
We want to get even."
Characteristic of right-wing agitators and their followers is a compulsion to don the trappings of an intellectual and social respectability which
down deep they feel really is nottheirs, and of which they are profoundly envious.
Hence a "West Coast Symposiumon Homosexuality and Public Policy
Implications," as if it were an Ivy
League meeting of minds. Hence also
the orgy of pseudo-academic prose,laden' as it was, with allusions to
Edmund Burke, John Randolph,
Thomas Jefferson and other "greatmen"-words yanked from their contexts like so many stolen hubcaps.
Unwilling or unable to address thereal causes of their social anXiety,they look for demons.
In and of themselves, their preposterous claims and grand flights ofillogic are just plain funny and there
is nothing wrong with laughing at theridiculous. But slapstick in real life isno laughing matter, least of all in therealm of politics where millions of
lives can be directly affected.
The reason that political homophobia is raging with such intensity
these days is two-fold. AIDS comes tomind immediately. But I ·think AIDS ismore a pretext than a root cause.
For the last 40 years, the main
vehicle for extreme right-wing agitation was virulent anti-communism.
But massive political climate changes
between the West and Eastern Europe
has destroyed
the usefulnessofdemons upon which many Americans
had grown dependent. No more communists under the bed. A void needs
to be filled.
So political homophobia promises to be the commie-hunting and the
Jew-baiting of the 90s. And the most
likely result will be an increasing flurry of mean-spiritedness and outrightdemagoguery focused at local andcounty levels throughout the nation.
Under the guise of affirming traditional values, right-wingers will attempt to publicly show their powerby enforcing conformity, mirroring intheir intent the various "English only"
measures .adopted throughout the nation as a vent for resentment against
recent immigrants.
In some less than coherent remarks Sheldon made on Oct. 7, he told
his Orange County audience to keep
up its anti-gay battle because "this is
our turf." A revealing phrase indeed.
Right-wing politicians are not simply obsessed with homosexuality, they
are rapidly growing dependent on it.
just as in the 50s right-wing political
opportunists with little real interest or
skill in the day-to-<iay job of governing
become dependent on the communist
menace for publicity and votes.
Without the homosexual menace,
the Sheldons, Schlaflys, Helmses, Dannemeyers and Dornans would' be at aloss for words. And simply shutting up
would be fatal to their careers.
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!Food for Thought
by Harry Wieder

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it back. Relax. Drink yourcoffee. Eat you, Ixeakfa~.
iWork will overwhelm you
soon enough.
Right now, though, I just wantyou, the thousands of OutWeek readers nationwide, to get to know me.
For a reason.
I am' a para paretic dwarf who
ambulates with the noisiest pair of crutches in
New York. Fine. I am alsoa playwright and, I believe, a damn good one.
Never have I been verbally abused, thank God,never have I been physically attacked. I have always felt protected.
Indeed, once upon atime, when I was ateenager, bullies in myneighborhood
decidedthat they were going tobefriend me, help me
cope, live, become independent. They were notgoing to allow any outsider to harass me. Outside meant anyone: neighbor, stranger,
relative,
friend; harass meant: anything: invite me to amovie, play, talk, whatever. They
threatened to punch out anyone whocame near me. They were going to be
my guardian angels. Just what I needed, right? So I said to them, "Bye-bye,I don't want you'"
About ten years later, on April 6,
1977, a New York Times Op-Ed pieceby Georgia McMurray entitled "A Minority Inside a Minority" detailed how
children who were Black and disabled were not getting their proper
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especially those serving the disabledwere not addressing the needs of particular constituencies within them.
They were too busy looking at thebigger pictures-not
pretty sights inthemselves.
Still, one cannot talkabout disablism without talking about
racism, sexism, etcetera-and
viceversa. One cannot advocate for thedisabled unless one includes all who
are disabled. The frustrations of multiple minority members in Ms. McMurray's article had a profound affect on

my view of civil rights, yet somehow,
to me, these minority members were"others," not I. I was not Black and I
felt removed. Until three years ago.
Three years ago, at the ripe old
age of 33, I came out of the closet.
Sexually. I am gay. Actually I, a dwarf
using crutches, am sexual-a revelation in and of itself. I get erections. I
happen to love men. My life as a gay
man has merged with my life as a disabled man so that I have become awhole new product-vibrant, very political, determined. My two selves are

no longer severable, not even with ablow torch. Psychologists with brains
would say that that merging is healthy,
particularly since it is done in a climate which makes bigotry towards
gays and lesbians chic. Read about thepunks who attacked two men in
Tompkins Square Park with lacrosse
sticks. Observe the roasting of Barney
Frank. Talk to Jim Courter, who is running for governor in New Jersey.
Which leads me squarely to mention at length the bullies in our legislatures who in the cloak
of. goodness and protectiveness are torturing andostracizing some of thebest people America has
to offer.
Here are three notorious examples:
1) The New YorkState Senate with its Republican majority had
been contemplatingthepassageof the Hate
Crimes Bill making physical assaults against certainclasses of individuals on
the basis of their identities
a felony, rather than amisdemeanor.
These
classes include race, religion, gender, disability
and sexual orientation. In. other words, if you punch
Photo: n. Lltt a Black man because hemoved into your all-white neighborhood, that is a felony. The fine andjail term are more severe than if you
punched your best friend, even if hewere of a different race, for callingyou stupid.
The measure never passed.
Republicans in the Senate indicated that it would have passed had sexual orientation been taken out, eventhough sexual orientation accounts
for the highest proportion of bias
crimes in New York State.
2) In Congress, an amendment to.~,an appropriations bill spearheaded by
Queen Bully himself, Senator Jesse
Helms of North Carolina, mandates
that the National Endowment of theArts be prohibited from funding exhibits which display any form ofsadomasochism-nevermind the factthat the crucifix is an instrument of
torture-homoeroticism
or denigration of objects or beliefs of adherentsof a particular religion or non-religion(i.e. Communists?) or that which "denigrates, debases or reviles a person,group or class of citizens on the basisof race, creed, sex, handicap or national origin.·
Let us forget that I, a disabledplaywright, for whatever reason, may
one day want to write a lacerating examination of certain types of persons
with disabilities, yet may be restrainedby the bill from doing so, the fact is,
Jesse Helms has never been a champion of civil rights. Exactly the opposite. Check for yourself. For him suddenly to use civil rights language as ashield for tyranny and bigotry gives
cynicism a while new definition.
3) The Americans with Disabilities Act, a long-awaited bill expanding
civil rights for the disabled, including
those who test positive for the HIV
virus, to include the concept of accessand non-discrimination virtually everywhere in the private sector, excludes from the definition of disability
homosexuality and bisexuality as wellas pedophilia, pyromania, kleptomania and others. Not that gayness is adisability. Or bisexuality. They aren't.
In the early 70s, the psychoanalytic
community wisely but belatedly eliminated 'homosexuality as a mental disorder. But to put into words the exclusion of homosexuality
in anotherwise superb piece of legislationand to lump it together in print withbehavioral conditions which are clearly anti-social are so heinous as to induce catatonia.
The above three are examples
where legislatorsin their sadomasochistic zeal to shackle the gay
community are really holding the disabled community and others hostage
to their bigotry. Must the disabled beg
for what is obviously right? No! Would

need of accessible, affordable housing
and transportation, let alone non-discrimination in employment and elsewhere. The gay community recognizes that. So does the disabledcommunity.
We in the disabled community·
will eventually get all that is right.
You can count on that. But none of
us will win unless all of us will win.
Yes, we can wait. (Sigh!)
But don't expect us to be quiet.
You can go to work now. ...

such behavior be moral? No! No! No!
If these legislators are trying to place
a wedge between persons with disabilities and gay men and lesbians,
they will not succeed Omagine such awedge between the disabled andBlacks or women and Jews). Indeed
we share some issues together-the
Sharon Kowalski tragedy, domestic
partnership needs, Medicaid cutbacks,
to name just a few. Persons with
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If you have lots of social consciousness but almost no money,
chances are good that you are a lesbian. Having no money is not ourfault, of course; it's the System. Capitalism hates us. It won't rest until weeach live in a modern, dependable
ranch-style home with a hubby who
drinks, five kids-three of whom are
bedwetters-and a broken down Maytag. Straight white liberals who dowell in the System know this and feelguilty. This is where we as lesbians
move in to hasten Capitalism's demise.
I have here a modest example:
Dear Tom,
Just thought I'd drop you a line
to let you know how deeply affected
I, as a lesbian, am by your toothpaste.
We lesbians are pretty much invisible
to the world, as you must know.
That's why it was such a comfort forme, as I sat in my bathroom the otherday, to come across your bold yet
caring note on the back of Tom's
Toothpaste. I felt as if I'd found an
old friend.
I, too, am committed .to "natural,sensible products.» I, too, seek toavoid "artificial preservatives.» But,t~even if you hadn't told me, Tom, thedelicate herbs and spices that so poetically adorn your little tube would
have said it all. Somehow, they reminded me of what it is like to beperceived as an artificial additive to,rather than a natural product of, Western Civilization. (I was there a longtime, Tom. I had to think of something). Then I started to muse on thecruel irony embedded in a culturethat allows its toothpastes made withnatural ingredients to be priced twoto three times higher than those withthe enthotryocephalinchloride-6
andcolors that could only be the result ofa nuclear accident. I couldn't help
thinking, what with Gay Pride and all,that-as a natura~ gotta-be-me les~bian in my own right-I, too, ought
to be worth just a little more.
So I was wondering, Tom. Since
you seem to be a real sensitive, highlyevolved, liberal type of guy; and since
I'm oppressed; and since you maketwo to three dollars extra on every
tube of your toothpaste, why don't
you send me, say, 20 to 30 percent of
your net profits before taxes, on a regular, quarterly basis? That's little
enough to help the world recover it's
pH balance, isn't it?My best to Kate.
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SeductionofMonikaAs Seduction: The Cruel

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~Yo"lf'lIknow who I am when you come into the cafe
because I wear all black,·, she said. That in itself might not havehel~d since we were me<;:ting on the Lower East Side, but
t / . ¥&nika Treut was rather unmistakable. Straight blond hair/'/pulled tightly back across her head. A cigarette in her hand (theF ,. w90le time). Black nail polish on every nail.
:;,.1 This is a woman who wrote· her PhD on the Marquis deI;;' ..Sage
and Leopold von Sacher-Masoch.
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i,:/..;" dyke who moves as easily between New York and her,.h·omebase Hamburg as she does between speaking English and" / German.
. A self-defined "movie maniac.".',' This is the 'woman who brought us Virgin Machine. And,
five year~...earlier, she wrote, produced and directed Seduction:
The·Cruel Woman (with Elfi Mikescl)). Here to scope o,ut loca-·
tions find actors for her new feature film, which will be 'shot"h~rlin April and May of next year, her visit coincides W!th the.' rirrelease of Seduction which opene~ last week at .the ~Ieecket.. )s.~eet .Cinema.
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When it debuted in Germany at the Berlin Film Festival in
1985, Seduction caused a .pndal because of its unapologetic
and complicated masochi~ic content; a deep blue fantasy inwhich the dominatrix bor~s of her male slaves and engages intaboo activities with herl female lovers. West Germany's rightwing Minister of the Interior vetoed its funding after the supposedly independent lpanel granted production funds.' Headamantly opposed tqe sequence Treut dubbs the -r want tobe your toilet" scene.!
She quivers at ;the memory of the controversy. -It premiered in the festival and that opening was like a riot,· shesays. ·It's still a r;1ightmare to me, which makes it hard torecall. It was pac~ed, sold-out three days beforehand because
in Germany the/scandal was known about the Minister. The
first screening '/Nas in this big Theater Delphi in Berlin. We
didn't know 1hat was going to happen. Elf! and I had justcome with the. first print from the lab. In Berlin they havepanel di~ionsafter the films and the audience got so mad.
They attack¢d us. Only people who hated the falm talked. That
was only ¢en. They just went crazy: 'This is one of the worst
movies I l'l~ve e,ver seen in my life, blah blah blah: I hate it
when a/diences act like this so I got pretty cruel myself.
From the stage I was lecturing about masochism and saying,'You 4691i pave any idea what you'~ talking about.' The festival qfr<ftor said, 'Ms. Treut calm down ...' Elfi was in major
shoqk:'/she couldn't say a ~ing. The actors were frozen. The
audiepce went crazy. So it was a big riot scene.·
ftreut has located two problems that German audiences
hav,e with the film. Because some audiences claim that it's
fascistic, she explains, "Peqple in Germany still don't reallyknow what fascism was sq they have this fixed, oppressed,
subconscious feeling and think it was about violence. So they
are scared. I think th~ film's
exac1ty the contrary of fascism.1•
beca\1SC;in it you. canwhat is a real violent thing, what is agame, what are the pOssibilities for people to escape from an
slm game. I have a very deep sympathy for slm people, especially undergrou~ s/ro people, because they have the highest
consciousness ~?( violence since for them it's all consensual. They are Playing very safe with submission and dominance.it",
ThZ cond reason she provides mayor may not affectaudien s here because our expectations for juicy genital contact 'nd lots of abuse, aren't heightened by the Berlin controv,rsy. ·They told us that the film's not at all erotic,' she recalls.
,JfThey expected that in a scandalous movie about 'sadomasochism they would see real intercourse. They expected tosee a (lorn film, which Seduction is not at all because it deals
with masochistic fantasies. Actually, it's motives are based on
Venus in Furs by Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, the Austrian
a1,!thdt.That's the term masochism ...there's just an 'ism' behind
his n,me."treut's staunch feminism emerges in the way that the film
diverges from that book's narrative. She doesn't want a lot ofcredi\ going to men for teaching women how to do "it.- "We
tried to keep one structure from that novel which is the classic
masochistic relationship between a man and a woman, Wanda
and. Gregor, their names from the novel,· she explains. ·But
dillnged it all completely. In the novel, the man is the~ired~r of the whole story, so he is the masochist who tries to
educite the woman to become a dominatrix. In the film, we
had the dominatrix just there. That's completely against' the,ew,everyday opiniQn on masochism. Normall~ you think, 'okay
the masochist is the weak part, the sadist is the strong part:"
One wonders, where did we really ~et the idea that ·s"
and -m- go together, and that they mean 'Certain things? Having written that PhD, Treut knows that "de Sade and SacherMasoch have nothing to do with each <iller. Nobody knows
this. The terms are derived from the authors' names which is
buJlshit because de Sade wrote about ,philosophy, he didn't
write about sex. Sex was a possibility to express his philosophy, but it's not at all like pornography'. Kraft-Ebbing invented
the German science of sexuality in -1870. They created theterms about those 'sicknesses'. They/said, 'well, we have one
healthy sexual behavior which is thelhet~ro~alfamily manto-wife behavior and now lets coin ~II sicknesses,' so they had
lesQianism, homosexuality, masoctjlsm, sadism, and they justderived these from the literature.' I
What Treut attempted with ~duction was to get back to
the roots of Sacher-Masoch. 'JIhe film is not about sadomasofhism, but about masocqism-just"a dominatrix, herlovers and the people who ar~ attracted to her." In the infamous "I want to be your topet" fantasy, a male journalist
comes onto the scene from oytside to elucidate on this strange
gallery for other outsiders, but he gets completely caught up
in his own secret wishes. Tlle viewer is brought in to see thatthe "sickness' of masochiso\ isn't that far from anybody's reality and fantasies.
"We invented that c a.ra~ter as a modern perception. He
is dealing witp his ow~n antasies,' Treut reflects. "It's easier toshow what something
al:tout when you show it from an outsjde perspective. ~ No bly, Wanda's slaves are all men. She has
a vanilla relationspip> With Caren (a shoe fettishist) and a jealousy ·thing-includi 'g role switching-with Justine (played by
New Yor~ filmma, er Sheila McLaughlin) .
"'f~en ~ou ~r a dominatrix, you are sometimes very
lonely, ~ery sad I . Wanda's on top of it and when you areon top, \you as . po is here with me. There's nobody there.
Caren is!from, Qother, different world. She lives there in her
shoe. st~re an 1he's bourgeois, and she tells Wanda to lead a
norrqa.1 ife,; qich Wanda can't do. Bourgeois 'people are perfect wi harin'g fetishes af)d fantasies and ~v~rything, but they
consider theq\selves to be quite normal. The moment somebody k19~ld/ShOW up in leather they would say, 'Ooh!' But at
home t:;Y !~ve all kinds of fetishes around."
T~t ;s fascinated and obsessed with different lifestyles inGerm{and the U.S. In Virgin Machine, a character fromGerm~nYRends up hanging out with Susie J3right in th~ Castro,
jUst~I' e. reut did. "Different people ad9ress themselves tospecia Sf bjects like sex and love with different perspectives.
Euro
1$ very traditional and people neep more time to open
up. w~at I like in America is that the superficial way ~f behavior is ind of relaxing, faster, more open. People are more
open t, you on the streets, like Susie Sexpert [Susie Brightl. In
Virgin, she talks to you. No way to find a person Ii~e ~is, inEuro~. She's very American for me, Susie, in a very good

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lesbian rule" that Treut teases out in the film: "I made fun of phone to her tit while she's talking to show how much she
American structures in a way because you have this motherloves "tit torture").
Both Demech and Sprinkle will be in Treut's new film.
image in the first part to get her over to San Francisco. She's
overwhelmed by her experiences there. Susie Sexpert says to "The working title is Success because it deals with anotherher, 'Why are you looking for your mother, you're a grown up sickness of human beings, that is to say, to make it in thegirl, you don't need to look for your mother, just look after world, to make it in society, and in the arts. The lead character
yourself.' In Germany she's reading books, doing very tradi- is a German actress and she came to New York to make it intional reasearch and she doesn't get anywhere with that So the ~o~ie industry here, and she is a big failure. The film
here she does lively, real research with real people. The tradi- starts when her father arrives from a small town in Bavaria to
see her because he's worried about what's going on with histional way to do things like mummy's told you doesn't workand all of a sudden she feels I don't need the traditional way, I only daughter. He gets mixed messages from her and he sees
don't need mommy. So this is a kind of freeing of the self to that she's changing her address constantly. He is worried that
she has married a man, so he doesn't know what's going on."do something new, to experience something new for herself."
Shellie Mars has this great scene in Virgin, doing male She gestures a lot to represent what an idiot he is.
"What actually happens is that she married a gay man,impersonation and a strip tease. !-tow Treut finds characters
because of immigration, to get a green card. Along the way,
like this is a funny story. It's actually the gen~sis for that entire
film. Treut beams when shesays, "The first time I was in
San Franslsco was"for the Lesbian and Gay Film Festival in
1985, and believe it or not thefirst night there I met nearly
everybody who is in Vi~in. I
was supposed to stay only fora couple of days but because
I met all those people, like
Dominique and her sister,Susie Sexpert, and all thewomen from On Our Backs at
the opening party, I decided
to stay for three weeks living
at the magazine's office."This is a smart pattern
for low-budget filmmakers.
You find people on the street
and make connections. And
Treut loves working withwhat she calls, ·original people," or "naturals." In her new
film she will only use "naturals," adding," American naturals are for me the best. In In. Blum .nd Susie Bright in Virgin Machine
this city [New York) especially there are just natural actors allover the place." In fact she you see her auditioning for some independent film produchas made two short films each .of which focuses on a "natu- tions in New York and you see the father slightly opening up.
ral": Bondage, with slm dyke Carol Demech, and Annie, with He's more like the conservative guy, he's a teacher in Latin,
porn star Annie Sprinkle. Both played in the New York Les- and history. He's a very Germanic person."
The presence of Demech and Sprinkle in Success, points
bian and Gay Experimental Film Festival in September.
It was, in fact, not long after Treut arrived in the. U.S. further to the kind of collaboration process which Treut chamthat she met Demesh and Sprinkle and began working on the pions. Not only in her use of spontaneity and "originality," butfilms. She came in the early 80s with a small grant to make a also in her production process, Treut represents the need andpossibility for women independents to share the burden of
documentaryon "women's culture" in New York. She
production and protect each other along the way. Reflecting
remembers, "I was kind of lost. My English wasn't very good.
on her collaborative work with Elfi Mikesch (they have a joint
I had my PhD [called The Cruel Woman} on de Sade andSacher-Masoch and I was living at that time in an slm rela- production company called Hyena Films), she says, "I rely on
close co-working with Elfi. You don't find this very often, andtionship with a woman from Holland. So I tried to contact
it's special because we've worked together for five years now.
the LSM [Lesbian Sex Mafia) group in New York." The meetShe's doing the cinematography for the next film, like she didings were so interesting and different for her than lesbianin the. others. This is a very different way for women to protectgroups in Germany that she asked Demech, a member of thethemselves in this hard and harsh and cruel world of the filmgroup, to be her subject for Bondage. (My personal favorite
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"We're a football choir, not a golf
choir," Chas. Bennett Brack told theaudience
at St. Clement's
Church,encouraging us to join in and clap or
stomp whenever we like, rather thansaving polite applause for an appropriate moment. And with that, the choir
kicked off with a rousing rendition of
the inspirational
piece, "Revive Us
Again," opening last week's benefit performance by Lavender Light: The Blackand People of All Colors Lesbian and
Gay Gospel Choir.
And in no time, the audience wasenthusiastically keeping time to the stirring sounds of a unique gospel choirthat not only seeks to keep alive the tradition of gospel music in an environment supportive of lesbians and gays,
but also to provide information about
AIDS to people of color.
Lavender Light did not begin withsuch a booming voice or such big plans.
The idea for the choir grew out of Chas.
Bennett Brack's and Lidell Jackson's
involvement with the advocacy group
Men of All Colors Together (MACT).
"Every big event that MACf had, all theBlacks would get together, and somehow, we always ended up singing spirituals or gospels," Brack says.
Brack and Jackson both grew up inchurches, but according to Brack, they"left the church because of the discrimination against lesbian and gay people.
It's one of the only places where you
can be that flamboyant and gregarious,
but you have to be in the closet. You
can be the biggest sissy that ever hit theface of the earth, as long as you don't
say 'I'm gay.'"
Their dream of creating a choir for
lesbians and gays was cemented further
when, in 1984, Brack ran into music
director Tony Teal at laGuardia Airport.
Teal had worked with several church
choirs and had been the organist at
Brack's church on Chicago's south side
years earlier. Teal was enthusiastic about
the idea as well, and by the spring of
1985, Lavender Light was making music.
As AIDS continued to take its toll on
the African-American and Latino communities in the following years, members of
Lavender Light saw an additional purpose
for their music: education and information. «AIDS organizations are predominantly gay white male," Brack points out.
"But upwards of 50 percent of people
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there was a definite need for education."
To answer this need, Lavender Lightdeveloped a program called "Please
Touch Somebody ...Right Now." The project aims to bring information about
AIDS to New York City's Black and Hispanic communities throughout the fiveboroughs, during programs that feature
inspirational music and brief presentations by representatives of color fromthe Department of Health's AIDS Education Unit. The program is helped by a$42,000 grant from the U.S. Conferenceof Mayors.
This is a classic example of animportant function of gospel music: its
organizing ability. "That goes back towhen gOspel music was used during
slavery time and during the civil rights
movement,"
points out Sojourner
McCauley, a facilitator for the group. "It'salways been a thing that's brought people to meetings." AIDS education has
since become an integral part of Laven-·
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Lavender Light has received countless enthusiastic welcomes from audiences in New York, as well as
Washington 6.c. One recent performance that is often mentioned, however,
was at Project Return, a rehabilitation
program for drug addicts in the Bronx.
The group had been somewhat apprehensive about performing for the primarily heterosexual audience, according
to Brack. He said it was like going to theApollo Theater. But their fears wereallayed as soon as they began singing.
"The audience absolutely went off," says
McCauley, "They were so excited, theygave standing ovations to every song!""People didn't want us to leave,"adds Frank Rosario. "They actually
blocked the aisles!"While they are generally pleased
with the reception they get when performing, Brack maintains thai they are
not looking for, or expecting, acceptancefrom the mainstream Black churches.
"We're not attached to a church because

that's where most of the members ran
from in the beginning,"
agrees
McCauley, "only because they had to, choose between their blackness andtheir gayness, and whether or not they
believe in hellfire and brimstone."The group is concerned, however,with preserving the authenticity of themusic and its African-American roots.
But being true to one's roots can betricky, especially given that LavenderLight's membership includes AfricanAmericans, Latinos and whites from several religious backgrounds.
Many ofthese people were not raised in a gospel
church, and singing gospel doesn't comeautomatically.
Because gospel is not a subject
widely taught, Teal is frequently on his
own in developing effective instruction,and he receives much credit from thegroup for cultivating the sound of lavender Light. "I think the hardest part is getting people to sing it and to sing itright," comments Brack. "And that wasdifficult for some of our members, when
Tony would say 'you're singing it too
white-I don't want a European sound,
this isn't European music. Sing it like
'Black people. '"Another byproduct of the diversityof Lavender Light is conflict derived
form issues of racism, sexism, ageism
and internalized homophobia. To deal
with this, Sojourner McCauley, who is asocial worker, carries the title of Resident Facilitator. "Lavender Light is a
microcosm of the gay and lesbian community," she says. "And by nature ofthat, all those 'isms' that exist in the outside world are blown up into greater
proportion.
Do we struggle with it
everyday? Yes.""It sometimes makes it difficult,"Brackagrees. "But with Sojourner's 'help andeveryone's commitment, people stay'in."
The commitment is evident in the
powerful and inspired voices that fill therafters of Saint Clement's Church. As theaudience appreciatively sways, claps andstomps their feet, it's also evident how
this music can reach out to people. And
with AIDS education now a priority for
Lavender Light, reaching out has neverbeen more important. ~Lavender LJgbfs- major fall concert
will be Saturday, Nov. 18, at 7pm at the
Friends Me(!ting House, 221, E 15th St.
Admission'is $10. For information call
(71lJ) 624-1196 or (212) 222-9794.

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We've known for a long time that rich dykes come out of the closet In a much different way than
the rest of the lesbian nation.
And now the Hew YOlk Times has confirmed It. Lesbians above 57th Street come out In "style.
The process seems to Involve typical upper class rItualistic patterns: The young dyke realizes her sexual preference and tells her mother In one of those "woman-to-woman" discussions. They giggle, hug,even shed a few tears of Joy. Mom breaks the news to Dad, who couldn't be happier (no big wedding
to pay for, you sec).
Then Mom and daughter head for Saks Fifth Avenue, where they buy the "coming out" dress.
Soon after, the real work begins-thephoto session, the Invites, the reception hall, the caterers.
(And of course someone's got to get a head shot and short blo to the Hew YOlk Times to run on thepage each Sunday where they feature rich lesbians who've come out of the closet).
Life truly Is about these special moments.
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Thc dismal truth Is that Skid Row, thc band pictured herc In Metal Edge magazine, Is now at number 10 onthc Billboard charts with Its dcbut album. And as you can sec, lead slngcr Scbastlan Bach has a problcm
which compcls him to wcar a T-shirt that reads -AIDS Kills Fags Dead- (and Metal Edge magazlnc has a problcm
which cOfl1)cls thcm to rcproducc such garbagc In thclr publication). Anothcr Intcrestlng tldbltt Skid Row
was slgncd by Atlantic Rccords' Ahmct Ertcgun, a largc contributor to AIDS organizations. (Shades of thc
Bucklcys?) And GLAADILA has gladly given us thc addrcss and tclcphonc numbcr of Ertcgun whom they'd IIkc
you to volcc your opinion tOt Mr. Ahmct Ertcgun, Chairman, Atlantic Rccords, 15 Rockefcllcr Plaza, Ncw York,Ncw York 10019.

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DearBrad:I used to think your column wasa fake. I mean, that's what my friend
Ron told me when we were laughingat the letter from that guy who thought
his dog was acting suspiciously. But
then something bizarre happened tome and you're about the only personin the world who might possibly beable to help. You see, I came back totown after a three week vacation,slightly annoyed that Clark wasn't at
the airport to meet me like he'd said
he would. Once I finally gOt homeand paid a hefty cab fare I phoned
Clark to find out what happened but
there was no answer. I took my luggage into the bedroom, thinking it wasstrange that the whole house stank of
tobacco since I don't smoke, andnoticed that the bed had been sloppily
made. When I went to my next door
neighbor'S to pick up my mail I wasgoing to ask, her if she had seen anybody in my house while I was gone
but the minute she opened her door
she slammed it again in my face andtold me to get off her property or else
she'd call the police again.
All night I never did get ananswer from Clark so I called a coupleof my friends but they all hung up thephone as soon as they heard my voice.
The next day I went to work and discovered that the 'nameplate had been
removed from my office door and mydesk had been cleaned out. My boss
walked· by and saw me in my officeand said she was calling security if I
wasn't off the premises in 30 seconds. I
started to ask her what was going on
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started dialing and the' next thing I'knew I was being 'brusquely escortedout of the building.
From there on things
got
stranger. I was about to pull into mydriveway when I saw two uniformed
police officers and a plainclothes
detective standing on my front porch
so I kept driving. From a payphone
outside a 7-11 I called Clark at hisjob. He asked me where I was andwhen I told him he said he'd be rightover to meet me. I waited in my car
and then I saw Clark's car pulling into
the parking lot-followedby twopatrol cars:"Despite a great deal of tire
screeching and gunfire I managed tolose them and now I'm writing you·from a motel room in a small town
way off the Interstate. I've had a lot oftime to think about this and I suddenly remembered something my motherhad said on her deathbed about myhaving a twin. At the time we supposed the medication had made herdelirious but noW I realize she must .
have experienced one last moment oflucidity. Somewhere out there I havea twin brother who obviously knowsof my existence and, crazed by aneed for revenge, he has plotted todestroy my life, quite successfully. Of
course, who on earth is going tobelieve some evil-twin-story? I needto find this person and somehow
force him to make a full confession
but I don't even know where to begin
looking. You strike me as a popularkind of person so I'm enclosing aphotograph of myself (I'm the one on
the left wearing the sweater and that's
Clark on the right) in the hope thatmaybe you know somebody who
resembles me. Do you?
-Fugitive
Dear Fugitive:

God, you're so lucky! I always
wanted to have a twin (I always wanted to have a lover too, but fate apparently holds a different plan for me). I
thought we could have such fun pretending to be each other and foolingeverybody at school and getting myparents back together ...well, that lastpart wouldn't have been too much fun
but you get the point. It would havebeen especially helpful if he could
have taken Phys. Ed for me. Oh, to be
fair, I'd have gone to, say, his Frenchclass in exchange or something likethat but as it was I had to devise myown clever way out of that particularordeal. I had this long talk with the
Phys. Ed. instructor and explained tohim that my life had been threatenedin the gym too many times and I didn't
think the school's already shaky reputation could withstand a ghastly murder. He seemed to understand in his
own athletic kind of way and, frankly,
I think he was just as glad to have meout of there. We worked out thisarrangement whereby I would write aweekly essay about different kinds ofsports and though he didn't quite
expect the papers I submitted on jai
alai and synchronized swimming hestill gave me full credit for the course.
I guess what I'm trying to say is thatpeople can get themselves out of difficult situations by using a little ingenuity and not expecting somebody elseto come along and help them. I bet if
you'd try thinking for yourself you'll
come out of this pickle with a stronger
sense of self-reliance.
Confidential
to You Know Who
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tion, over the heady rise of this paper's
society pillar, William Norwich."
I am delirious that Billy is getting
a little press (but, of course, not asmuch press.as I get).

By Michelangelo Signorile"Surviving minor knocks and thebiting of a few gnats, I see Billyprominently featured in Gael Greene's
recent New York piece on the popularity of 150 Wooster St., appearing
among the grandees in Morocco in
Vanity Fair, and chatting it up with
Claudia Cohen in the pages of
Harper's Bazaar."
Sure, Billy's been totally exposedby "biting gnat" Signorile as a spineless, self-hating homophobe, but atleast his postage-stamp size photo is'fables of Content' fund-raiser."And I'm now asking you r:eaders
to pay good money to dine with him at
the home of my boss, whose ass I also
must lick in order to keep this tired
column goin~.
"Way to go, young Billy!"
Billy, I told you over a year ago
when I ripped you apart in my column
and embarrassed
you back into
place-after you had gotten up somespunk for a few fleeting moments andactually tried to expose my good friend
Calvin Klein in your column-thatifyou just played by the rules, wonderfulthings would happen for you! And
now I'm giving you a pat on the backto keep you in line and to reward you
for not buckling under whenthat "gnat" Signorile attacked
you. I will always protect you,young Billy! (This could be you
too, dear "gnat," if you'd justplay by the rules.)Well, it's seems to have become afull-scale war of words. For the uninitiated,
last week James
Revson(Newsday) came to the aid of Pat andBill Buckley, defending thehomophobic
hypocrites-as
well as fellow Buckley ass kisser
William
Norwich(DailyNews)-fromattacks Michael
Musto (Village Voice) and I had
launched on them. That skir"The most important andmish brought the fighting out
interesting of charity happeninto the mainstreampress,
ings has to be Pat Buckley andwhere the Buckleys-with
Peggy Fleming's 'Skating for
Revson coming to their aid orLife' AIDS happening on Nov.
, not-would certainly rather not
6, a week from tomorrow."
see it.
The most hypocricital event
Now, on the followingof the decade has to be the AIDS
Sunday (Oct. 29), self-hating
party organized by the fascist'S
Liz Smith(DailyNews)
better half, Pat Buckley, and thelaunched what will go down as
famed skating star of the 70s,
"The Battle of the Gnats."
Peggy Fleming. This transpar(And for those of you who
ent do is a benefit-for William
have said "enough is enough"A COUPLE OF GOOD SKATES, PE'gg( Fleming (I.) and Pat Bu"kl~y. lead AIDS !)erleflt.
F. Buckley's image.
about Liz, I'm sorry. She shouldhave stayed out of this one.)
Of next to Dianne Brill's and 35 other"Every name supporting
thiscourse, Liz wrote her column entirely party idiots' in New York Magazine
effort is a winner, and the cocktail
in return for a thousand mentions
in codes. Though she's obviously
reception with skating performance
which he gave to some nauseating
immensely frustrated and seems towith formal dinner-dance after in therestaurant and at least he's pictured
desperately want to come out fullArmory at Lexington Ave and 26th St.
speed ahead and rip me to shreds, Liz in Vanity Fair at the closet case's party
where they dragged sick people off the ISalmost sold out."
is trying feebly to get her points
Most of the' names supporting
streets for the night and put them inacross without publicly and openly
homoaddressing the issues (which, for her, jail so that the rich would not have to this event. are hypocrites,
closet cases
view them, and at least he can be phobes, nightmares,
are much too personal) and without
mentioning my name. It's quite per- seen in Harper's Bazaar kissing up to and/or murderers and the skating
rink is costing a fortune to installverse, but, nonetheless,true. And,a tacky woman because she's also a
inside the Armory just for this event,actually, hilarious! So, what follows is wormy goSsip columnist and is marwhich is located in the middle of aa "translation" of some of Liz Smith's ried to the richest man in New York.
crack hotel neigborhood on seedy
October 29 column. (All of Smith's
words are in quotes, while the translalower Lexington Ave. where we can"And people are being asked totions are below them in italics.)
pay good money to dine with him in gawk at starving children and walkover the homeless (since, unlike
the home of his publisher, Jim Hoge, on"I am musing, with some satisfac- Dec. 5 for the New York Public library'S
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,Social Terrorislll

Photos by Erich Conrad

T:

PIG MEETS WIG
Lord,. Hog .nd The LAdy Bunny at Broadcast Arts Halloween party

FtJCK ME, AMADEUS
Hlldel Hlcho/e .nd Matthew Kasten at Mars
A DIFFERENT PAIR OF BAllS
Sistei' Dlmcntlon at th'c Roxy
SPEAKING IN TONGUESOutWeek publisher Kendall Morrison and friend YannWE ARE FAMILY
Sc.ry people .t Mars

LIZ SMITH LOOKALIKES/{amp .t the Roxy

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THE GIRL MOST LIKELY TO SUCKCEED

Lo/•• t the Roxy'CHEESECAKE, ANYONE. Mr. Butler.t the Cop.

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FROG O· MY HEART

B.rt.t BrOllda.t Art. H.lloween p.rty

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In thc 1970s, ncwly IIbcratcd
gays wcrc stylishly vlslblc. Just as
somc of them (not always Iconoclastically) doncd straight stcrcotypes,
fashlonablc hctcroscxuals rcadlly
adoptcd gaily tapcrcd shirts, tightdcslgncr Jcans and bikini briefs tothclr own sartorial agcndas. Sevcnties stylc was a reiatlvcly casy Intcraction bctwccn straight and gay
scnslblllty, proving If nothing clscthat bad (or for that mattcr good)
tastc Is not ncccssarily related tosexual proclivity.
In the 1980s, as AIDS unjustly
altered public perception of gays (aswell as gay perception), gay visibility
got, proverbially and morc and more
often literally, a black cye. What
started as, at best, a celebration ofIndividuality, became, at worst (andIn too many cases)a cautious closingof closet doors. With gay bashing risIng at an astronomical ratc, and little
bclng donc to protect us, gay vlslbUIty Is no longer simply a matter of

Photo: Scott Morgan

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f.
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paganda agarnst II Congressional
study that concluded sulddc amonggays was prompted primarily by outside pressures; Including the gulltInducing teachings of Institutions
like t", Baptist and Catholic church.
McClcod went, on and on In a compassionately whiny voice about how
being homosexual was a slckn"ssthat' could' be' reversed by coming) ':back to Jesus Christ; how he 'IOv~s,. ,hOmosex~als but hates the sin thJt ,';makes than sick, dc_ Darling G.mn:·
went o";to claim !that his HollYwoOd
homosexual friends were renouncing
thelr'lIfestyies In droves.
'.' / '.,.
Wetat's Incredibly Interesting
Is the one-time Captain Stublng'sn~~ I~ok. McCleod, dressed In a
white suit and:~14e, pink polysatin ··tle,
has developedaporcinefigure and white hair: .
around his balding p.te~·Ii; fact,:
he resembles ·the latt,~J~mented'
Divine, ,0ut,of:drClg. Vlsl~le dlf(er~ences, Indeed! ~. '_ , ","',

Art

The Excessive Eighties
SM-by Jon Nalley

Bcolor and form speak volumes about
the dislocation of this decade and aspirations for a better future.
Sharded edges of glass, unambiguous colors and a jarring image
give power to Rick Prol's 1988 untitied work. His signature medium-awood window frame with glass-in
this case could easily have been mybathroom window when I lived on E.
12th between 1st and Avenue A.
Economic viol<tnce and social disso-, ringing together 18 emerging artists, this' inventoryof various
works in the 80s is
telling.
Indeed,through this effort toexamine painting at
the end of this decade, Painters can beseen in the context of
an aesthetic barometer of the 90s. The
myriad of influences
and
media
seen
here-productsof ac•
celerated pluralism
during the 60s, 70s
and 80s-lookas ifthey will thankfully
follow us to the new) .'decade.
",',;(
Adrian Kellard's
1989 Blue Flowers
incorporates
references to the folk art
tradition and to Van
Gogh, a painter who
has influenced him. In .
his usual medium of ..
heavy carved wood,
panels, shutters andobjects-painted
with
vivid
color-thispainting is in colors
not of the
80s.
Recently praised by\
New York Times critic
Michael Brenson for
his work in A Density
if Passions at the New ,., .,~,'~'-~,.
• . ".
Jersey State Museum, RICK PROL
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nance of post-modern
Reagan-era
capitalism are captured under theharsh light of a bare lightbulb.
Stabbed five times, the represented
figure can be seen in terms of an individual living in today's America-asociety bereft of couth or compassionthat is literally ready to violate thenspit out its own. In this painting exuding the spirit of Threepenny Opera,
Prol gives expression to feelings of.rage at the disintegration of our soci1 ety on many levels.
The retro in•fluence and escape'. into the figurative; and non-existent<
comforting gentleness of the past are:1 seen in the works' of both Caroline
Ivester and Maddy
Rosenberg. While
Ivester craftfully
I infuses harmonious. interiors
with arichness of colorand form recallingthe work of Matisse, Rosenberg
inc 0 r p 0 rat e s
Italianate
motifssuffused with golden light and richI
color into her stilllife.
Bill Schiffer's
work
must
be
viewed in terms ofcommon threads
with Malevitch's
constructionist trar
dition. His 1989
painting in relief,<.
utilizing shaped,
cut-out and painted
constructions, car(ries a keen senseof line and form.
of particular conPhoto: n. Litt sequence is its capture of innocenceI"~lost within shapes, '<impatiently.
This
angles and col-"while the geometricors-resulting
abstractionsoffrom interplay ofpainter and art critic
dark and light--"'·'·'''-"_
Robert Storr-in cirareas and subtle~.} •....
.
des, arcs, squares
use of shaded.. ,'and amorphous areas
color.
.
of color-loudly
asIn
1989's;sert the convergence
Steel Frame Conof influences foundstructionwithin the art world as
SkeletonCrew,
we approach 1990.
Roger
Brown
Notable for its
compiles various
texture and movegenres into a per-;ment, Benjamin Liespective on the
pelt's Honeymooners
alienation of evconsists of precisely
eryday people apainted black andmid the turmoil of
whitegeometric
a SOCietyin search.
abstractions, generof transition. His.
.
Photo: T.l. Lltt
ated alternately aswork gives voice (I.-r)GORDO~ GREEN, Untitled, 011 en Canvas; ALEXANDER KOS~LAPOV, Gorby. the swastika,
theto a national com- sllkscreen 011 on canvas; BENJAMIN UEPm Honeymooners, 011 on canvas
NativeAmericanmunity which can only watch, not and Hirah, both acrylics on panel from Four Winds symbol and the ancientact. The figures passively lookiflg out
1989 are abstract works which can besymbol of the Buddhist religion. Peterwindows in various states of reaction
read either as landscapes, faces or nei- Drake's 1988 work Stave-an oil on
are truly an American image andther. Kahn's works explore what lurks board-isvery rich in qualities ofbespeak the contradictionsof ourbeneath the veneer of civilization's
energy and strength. Whether in its
society which vacillates between
trappings as a new milennium awaits
depictionof primeval forests ormass indignant mobilizationhomoerotic
representation,and the complicit license of
Drake combines these images
1964's Kitty Genovese murder.
into an isolated and immobiOn a good scale for her•
Iized landscape.
work, Judy Glantzman's 1989
How could such an exhiuntitled 24" X 48" oil on wood
bition not include Gorbachev?
,swirls powerfully and emotion>
Gorby, a 1989 silkscreen andally in vibrant color. Meanoil on canvas by Alexander
while, Lori Taschler's
The
Kosolapov-a conceptual artist
Be~a1989 oil on linen andjfrom the Soviet Union now livwood further brings to bearing in New York-draws fromthe alienationof the 80s,
the icon spirit of Warhol's Mao
explored by the other artists in~ and Marilyn. Further, the ruby
Painters. In chartreuse, grey
. red lips, exaggerated
pink
and ivory, Taschler exposes
flesh, and bright aqua eyeshadthe emptiness, loneliness andI
ow found in this representation
search for meaning by postof the Soviet leader is reminisindustrial Americans--despercent of last year's irreverent
ate to get beyond the brief
portraitof Mayor Harold
Chinese-food satisfaction of!
Washington at the gallery of
fered by material gain.
the Art School of the Chicago
In tabula rasa quality,.
Institute of Art-and
which
Russel Sharon's group of land- I
turned that city upside down.
scapes in abstracted forms with
Painters punctuates the
muted colors which utilize paintculmination of today's convermixed with sawdust, stand out
gence of influence and styles
sharply in their serenity amidst
and lets the viewer question
the inherent turmoil of the other ~,"~y.-hich direction, if any, we will
artists' works. On the other ROGER BROWN
Photo: T.l. Litt travel in the last decade of thehand, Toby Kahn's Kli-Eva"
Steel Frame ConstnJction WithSkeleton Crew, oil on canvas twentieth century. 'Y,11

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Theater

Kill!, Dig!, Bury!
play given no more depth than a things could only get better. If they
got any worse than this, they would
piece of matzoh. Set in contemporary
England, which means that this 'com- have to turn the whole thing into apany of Chicago-based actresses must performance piece about pain.
Dig, Volley, Spikti is one of those
speak in British accents for the full 90
plays that, because it says it's about
minutes of the play, Dig, Volley, Spikti
is a simplistic little tale of a group of women and because it's being perwomen from disparate backgrounds , formed by a women's theater company, brings out a lot of hopeful
coming together against great odds
(mostly the men in their lives) and . dykes. Then it turns around and prewho are
final1y succeeding at something. They sents female charactersby Marla Maggenti
mostly straight, mostly concerned
start out as underdogs and rise above
about their male partners in life andtheir station in life to become windon't know what it is about
sports. Playing them is one thingners. Sort of. Because the vol1eybal~ mostly still incapable of mentioning
without tittering in
but writing a play about thegame is the source and structure for menstruation
embarrassment.
The press packet
everything that happens (and doesn't
experience as though it were an easysays that the Footsteps
metaphor for the human
Theater Company is dedicondition is another. But
cated to producing plays
what about women andwhich present women in
sports? What about a playstrong roles. But accordingthat uses sports as a way totoplaywright
Penny
explore the female experiO'Connor, female bonding
ence? Wouldn't the sports
and ·strength" still centersangle be great? Oh yes andaround periods, tampons,
let's make it a game you
body hair and unspoken
can simulate playing on
col1ective female anxiety
stage-howabout vol1eyabout success. There aren't
ball? Great! And then we
any real1y strong women in
can use the whole sweaty
this play because there isn't
team thing as a way to
any real strong dialogue;
develop the idea of womennor is there anything about
together-loving,laughing,
the story that is particularly
losing and laughing again.
challenging,dramatic or
And we can have one lesmeaningful.
Women arebian, one repressed lespresented mostly as girls
bian, one beleaguered
with al1 the worst attributes
housewife, one bad girl,of coerced femininity-coyone pious spinster andness, lack of confidence, athey'll all get together andpreoccupation
with one's
through the game of vollooks, a preoccupation
leyball; they'll learn so nTTEillNG IN EMBARRASSMENT
with one's reproductive
much about life and love LYnn,Mllgnllllit, lind Vitll D,nni.
and womanhood and ...
happen) in the play, we are led to system and ambivalent feelings about
being competitive.
Their alleged
Such is the trite plot Hne of Dig,believe that somehow what has hapfriendships with each other are based
pened to each individual throughVolley, spilem, a superficial and inane
being on the team is somehow or on nothing but constant, chatty, small
new play at the Rapp Arts Center.
talk and meaningless, vapid pseudoUsing the -team experience" as ananother going to help get her on
insightful observations
about thethrough life. Indeed, these characters
attempt to build a story about female
have such dismal lives already and so world and volleyball. If only it werefriendship and autonomy, Dig, Volley,
funnyl If only they'd decided to playSptl,el Instead reads as the worst
little capacity to develop anything
this one so straight (as it were) that it
except superficial nosiness about each
Hollywood distillation of the female
experience with every character in theother's business that it seems likes.. KILLI DIGI BURYI on plge 61

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Theater

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LEFT STRANDED

Photo: Johnathan Siaff

Harris Serlinsky and Christopher Oden

by Michael PaUer

T

hree cylinders drive theengine of a play: 1) the
director's ability to give it
the three-dimensional life it lacks on
paperj 2) the actors' techniquej 3)
images. A skein of images should
unwind like a film in an actor's mind
as he goes' through his rolej they

make the words he speaks believable-or unbelievable. An actor's successoften
dependsontheappropriateness of. the images stirring
his imaginationj
the person most
responsible for feeding him the rightones is the director.
The production of Travesties now
playing at the Jean Cocteau Repertory
suffers from engine trouble. To thedegree that the director Robert Hupp
has found a style for Tom Stoppard's
frenetic meditation on art and artists,
it's the wrong one. The images he hashelped most of his actors discoverusually convey neither the play's
meaning nor the characters' innerlives and intentions. Add to this thefact that much of the cast-seems technically unable to handle Stoppard's
words, and one is left with a play thatoccasionally idles, and often sputtersto a stop.
A coincidence of history had itthat James Joyce, V.l. Lenin andTristan TZara, the founder of theDadaist movemenL
all lived in
Zurich in 1917. In 1918, Joyce, wasbusiness manager for an amateur
productionof The ImportanceofBeing Earnest, which featured an
English consular official, Henry Carr,as Algernon.
From these facts,
Stoppard has fashioned a highly stylized artifice about style, artifice andart. A cold electricity shoots throughTravesties. The characters debate
what is art, who is an artist, what art
will last, what is the function ofform. What the piece lacks inwarmth it makes up for with brilliant
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Theater

The Cult of Callas
staged versions of La Traviata to appredate McNally's savage barbs. Mendy
terms Joan Sutherland "the beast from
Down Under" and when he says to
Stephen, "You're too butch to know somuch about opera," Stephen irnmediately retorts, "I'm not butch. Rise Stevens isbutch." The ~o enact a subtle S & M
game (Stephen and Mendy?) with
Stephen holding the trump card-the
pirated recording.
Mendy is a bearded, overweight
and love hungry opera buff
n those halcyon days
(the word "queen" is neverwhen Maria Callas'mentioned; I suspect a dra1956 Metropolitan
matic choice), who wraps
Opera debut was page-one
himself in a self-imposedmaterial, opera buffs could
cocoon. Callas and otherfeel secure knowing theiropera recordings provide
secret passion was deemed
his fragile ego its main
important enough to besolace. He even throws ashared by millions. Today,
bash on Callas' birthday. As
opera,and particularly
he off-handedly mentions
Callas, have acquired cultto Stephen, "Opera doesn't
status, setting the stage forreject me. The real world
Terrence McNally's acerbic
does." Mendy, the hopelessand incisive play, The
romantic,
has resigned
Lisbon Traviata.
himself to his bleak situaSusan Sontag oncetion. It is interesting thatwrote, ·Consumption is th~
his only long-term relationdisease of the creative, theship was with his ex-wife
poetic and the aesthetic." Inwith whom he has prothe Verdi opera, La Traduced a 13-year-old son;viata, the heroine Violetta
Stephensaunters
is similarly afflicted, "burnthrough Act One like theing up" with passion.
·prelude to Lohengrin, a
McNally, too, addresses thevolcano about to erupt.
passion'S potentially tragic'
He's an editor at Knopf,
consequences
during his
one step removed from thetwo and one-half hour play.
creative process, rendering
When we first enhim an instant judge ofcounter Stephen (Anthonyother people'S character
Heald), he is visiting his
and work. But in Act Two
friendMendy(Nathanhe finds himself immersedLane) hoping to relax andin a love triangle, playing
listen to their favorite operthe unfortunaterole ofatic recordings. Devoted tocuckolded lover. Stephen
the late soprano
Maria A 'QUEEN' BY ANY OTHER NAME...
Photo: Gerry Goodstein
no longer holds the ace.
Callas, Stephen blithely Nathan Lan. (I) and Anthony Keald in The Usbon Traviata
Unlike Mendy, he mustannounces he has recently procured ahave to be a lifetime opera News subface reality, a world where Callas ispiratedcopy of Callas' Lisbon
scriber or know the subtle differencesdead and his opera-hating lover ofTraviata, a recording which Mendy
between the Visconti and Zefferelli
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will do anything, short of committing
an opera-likesuicide,to hear.
However, the recording is neatly
tucked away in Stephen's apartment
where Mike, his lover, is having anaffair with Paul, a Columbia
University graduate student.
Act One bristles with savage humor
and witty banter as the two friends, who
perhaps could, or should have beenlovers, exchange their individual views
I on the operatic scene. One does not

November 12, 1989

BooksCatfight at the ,OK Corral
by David Feinberg

Faffair with Brag, a cold-hearted young
commodities
trader who is moreinterested in his silk ties than Polly.
Polly babbles to Brag on their firstdate; Eddie babbles to Merrit on theirfirst date. The parallels are almost too
schematic; I felt like I was watchingan Alan Ayckborn farce with a splitset, where identical actions were taking place simultaneously.
What else? There's a really icky
safe sex scene between Polly andBrag (is our author pandering to theWell, call me self-deluded, but I
personally believe you are more likely
to die cros~ing the street than get
AIDS from oral sex, unless you arerecovering from a root canal and yourpartner is l1aving his-or-her period.
Later on, when Eddie's imaginary pig
alter ego dies, he attributes it toAfrican Swine Flu Virus, when, as
every loyal reader of the Native
knows, the imaginary cause of theimaginary construct «AIDS· is really
African Swine Fever Virus.
Eddie Socket starts out as
another insufferable East Village
type, ,constantly tossing out aphorismsi and then asking for their
attribUtion:asten your seatbelts: This isgoing to be a bumpy review.
I had already written
my acceptance speech to the
Academy for the Sarah Siddons
Memorial Award for best NYC
black comedy on AIDS by a ,first novelist under 35. I had
even picked out a glamorous!. He laughed, and stopped
outfit for the ceremony. Well, it
in, the doorway
with his
looks like I jumped the gun.
Cigarette. He stretched his armr
The Irreversible
Decline ofo~t and hung his head, andEddie Socket is yet anothersaid, 1 thirst. Who am 1 quot'entry into that overcrowded
ing?" But he was disgusted withgenre of NYC black comedies
himrelf. It was another photoonAIDS by first novelists undergraph. He was tired of posing·35. You know those cartoons
for photographs.
with six or ten fish in a row,arranged large to small, where
Unfortunately,
the bookeach one is being devoured by ,doesn't come with a score card
the fish to its left? Well, reverse.
..nd study guide answer sheet andthe order so small ones are eat. t didn't get a single reference.
ing the larger ones and label/What am I reading, Ed Hirsh's
them authors. (I'm sure thatf Cultural Literacy? Chapter titles
somewhere at this very minute
I are wryly drawn from movies anda fetus is telepathically dictating! books, for Eddie practically lives
her memoirs).
Writers getin the movies. I only wish Weir
younger and younger and betI 'h~d resisted the temptation' to be
ter and better.
/. the .9,472nd person to use "TeaJohn Weir's Tbt /rrfWrStbl8
DlC#M of Edd~ Socltot Is sim.and, Sympathy."
.
.JOHN
WEIR
. . But unlike your typical blankply the best gay novel I haveI
generation
protagonist,
Eddie
read this year.
.
hets?) which really seemectra'the'r'Now,. nobody believes In an: develops self-knowledge.
unqualified rave. So I suppose I musthomo to me. Eddie discourses briefly
on AlDS and oral sex:',.
come up with some minor qUlbblea.
H' bad always tbougbt of
bims'lf as being in toucb, but now
Okay. Eddie Socket, our nihilisticb, saw tbat b, bad bUrWd all bis
Why bad b, not bHn warned to
28-year-old protagonist, lives withfillings undsrn,atb a glosS,)lsbllt
Polly Plugg in the East VUlage. Eddie
talt, tbat dicit, which'Vlr dicit it
has a brief unsatisfying affair withof easy alumtation.
was, out of bis moutb rigbt now,
Merrlt, a cold-hearted WASP who isb'for, b, caugbt sometbing b,
Weir switches viewpoints adeptmore interested in his sweaters than
couldn't get rid oft
Eddie. Polly has a brief unsatisfyings. CAmOHT on INIII' &1
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BooksB'attle Sations
War At Home: Covert Action
AgainstU.s.~
and What We
Can Do About It Brian Glick SouthEnd Press, Boston, 1~. $5.00, 92 pp.

·F

bYJonNalley

whistleand publicationof the"Pentagon Papers· exposed years ofsystematic official lies.
More unfortunate,
as former
SDSer Glick points out, is that suchgovernme~tal neutralization didn't end
with COINTELPRO's exposing. It
merely changed its name and continued on under the pretext of "national
security.· This most necessary bookwas desi~ned to help today's activists

alse' media stories, bogus
leafletsand pamphlets,
forgedcorrespondence,anonymous letters and telephone· calls, tampering with
mail and phone service, pressure through employers, laild~lords and family, monl'!ystolen and equipment sabo-'tag ed-allused in order ~o.
discourage democratic discussion of public policy and prevent effeclive organizing for .
social change. Conjures up
images of the Soviet Union,
South Africa, Iran and Chile,doesn't. it? Yet, this and much
more happened-andhap-'pens-here.
How
do youspell
repression? C-O-I-N-T -E-L-P- \R-O. Carried out secretly or
under the guise of legitimate
law enforcement, and coordinated by the F~I, this program attempted to neutralize
U.S. 'dissenters through political. ·repression,
called"covert act:ion.· Paranoia?
Unfortunat~ly the worst suspicions and assumptions ofpeople-ingroups ranging
from the Gay Liberation
Front and day Activists. Alliance to the National Lawyers , leam from the history of COINTELGuild and 'the American Friends'PRO and its successors so that future
Service' Committee-wereconfirmed
movements can better fight this "warby secret files removed from an FBI
at home"-whicheven the august
office 'in Media, 'Pennsylvania
in
Senate! Intelligence Committee viewed. 1'971. At that' time of mounting
as "m~intaining the existing social andsocial unrest and declining faith inpolitical order· and "subverting
the U.S. government, agents resign- . demotracy· in its rejection of "intelliing from tht; FBI began to blow thegence community· claims of combato

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ting violence, espionage and sabotage.
With extensive documentation andresearch-including uncovered government memoranda- War at Home cites
the array of government infiltration,harassment, blackmail and general
repression aimed at activists in an arrayof movements and groups such as
Physicians for Social Responsibility andthe violently persecuted· Committee in
Solidarity with the People of EISalvador (CISPES). It also
exposes the variety of ways inwhich government intelligenceagencies aided extremist rightwing groups such as the Klan,
Minutemenand American
Nazis. While receiving token
FBI harassment in the interestof appearing "even-handed,·such organizations and groupsof fascist vigilantes
also
received substantial
funds',
information and protection.
The experiences of GAA
and GLF were not isolated.
Covert operations were quite
involved against lesbian andgay community organizing:
One former FBI informer
revealed that from Octol;>er
1971 through June 1972 he
had received a weekly stipend
to infiltrate gay publications
and groups in Washington
D.C.-and conduct break-ins,
createracia.! dissension
between and within groups,
and spread false rumors thatcertain gay activists were actually poli~e or FBI informants.
Lesbian activists, in particular,
received terrible assaults by the FBI
during the mid-70s under the pretextof pursuing anti-war fugitives Susan
Saxe and Kathy Powers. "Women's
communities·
in such places as
Boston, Philadelphia and New Haven
which had important initiatives suchas health collectives, were brought toa standstill through grand jury sub-

poenas and jailings-and the instilledfear hampered lesbian and feminist
organizing nationally.
War at Home, while candidlyrecognizing other factors in the lost
momentum of the mass activist movements (such as disillusionment at theracism, sexism, homophobia,
classbias and competition found within the"movement" itself), also recounts theterrible tragedy of jobs lost, marriages
destroyed, movements torn apart,
coalitions aborted and activists killedby the direct or indirect actions ofgovernment agencies.
Yet, this book-illustrated
by OffOur Backs cartoonist Abbe Smithshould not be seen in terms of gloom
and doom. On the contrary, it is abook of hope and resolve which canaptly enable activists, movements andminority communities to prevent or
minimize such activities today. It does
this in a series of practical and wellthought out guidelines to limit the
impactof various
formsofattack-andwithout encouraging
movement paranoia or being diverted
from major goals. 'Y
KILL!. DIG!. BURY! from page 56

became completely distorted and perverted and strange. But they didn't.
Instead we are asked to suspend ourdisbelief for 90 minutes while abunch of obviously talented andcompetent actresses are forced to act
like teenage girls who still can't
believe they have to wear such ugly
shorts in gym class.
This play expresses the sameproblems that all media have when theimpulse is to create something "light"
and funny and not too weighted downwith the problems of the world. But
light and funny doesn't have to meanfatuous and foolishj nor does it meanthat we have avoid the things that areso particularly difficult about our lives
as women, and especially as lesbians.
One of the characters in this play says
to another in mock sagacity: "What weneed is the courage to fail." I can only
say that this company of women andthis playwright can be lauded for justthat capacity-they all have an inordinate amount of courage to act andproduce this play, bring it to New York
and, quite simply, to fail. 'Y

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CAmGHTfrom page 59

eight years threatens to leave. He savagely strikes out at his tormentor
using words as his gauntlet, but whenthat tactic fails, he is left with no otherrecourse anc,islowly begins to unravel.
Until now, operatic recordings and thewritten word have served as Stephen'smeans of communication. Toward theend, when his language doesn't suffice, Stephen has to accept the consequences. His delicately constructedworld is a pretense, an escape which
precipitates his undoing. For Stephen,
life and death struggles are no longer
played out in operatic settings. They
have come home and hit him squarelyin the face.
Anthony Heald is one of our theater's finest talents. It is to his credit
that he makes Stephen's loss believableand empathetic. From the first moment
we see him, his fingers nimbly thumbing through Mendy's records, we realize trouble awaits. Heald's facegracefully masks Stephen'S pain andanguish but we know it's there. It surfaces in the second act and Heald's acting virtuosity propels the play to its
dramatic resolution.
It is no accident that when The
Lisbon Traviata first premiered last
spring,Nathan 'Lane
received
tremendous press attention. Mendy
is an actor's dream, a wonderfully
written part brimming with theatricalpossibilities. Lane doesn't just portray Mendy. He inhabits the role
using h·is entire body as a comic
instrument. He elicits laughs by simply raising an eyebrow. Dan Butler
and Paul Slattery provide excellent
support as Mike and Paul, respectively. John Tillinger's adroit direction looks seamless and the sets byPhilipp Jung provide a well-balanced contrast between Mendy'S
Victorian decorated apartment andthe modern
abodesharedby
Stephen and Mike.
McNally has rewritten the play'S
final sequences. The ending is now
more dramatically sound. Regardlessof sexual persuasion, McNally's truthful writing forces us to realize thatsooner or later, we all must face ourown reality and accept the truth. And
that is precisely the aim of first-ratetheater. 'Y

Iy. This is a necessary device in abook where the central character
undergoes an irreversible decline like
Eddie's. Sections are convincingly
narrated by Eddie, Saul, Merrit, Pollyand Eddie's mom. The Irreversible
Decline is heartbreaking, moving andflip.
The book is filled with greatlines, such as:
I remember what I want, and I
compare it to what I have, and thegap between the two is big enoughto set up a discotheque.
Weir is quite eloquent on the following subject:
Eddie hated men and liked
dicks, but he didn't see the contradiction. Polly did... According to
Eddie, dicks were the really
important thing; he had dedicatedhis life to wanting them, or disdaining them, which kind of left
her out completely. The problem
was, she kept on meeting men like
Eddie. Whether they were straightor gay, they were all menj they
were all more interested in dicks,
she suspected, than anything else.
What was a straight banker, after
all, other than the flip side of
Eddie Socket, played fast andturned up high, with dru~
Unfortunately, most people are
reluctant to purchase what Richard
Hall calls BWAs (Books With AIDS).
What can I say? That nine out of ten
books I read fall apart in the end andthis one doesn't? That there.is anoffhanded comment about David
Leavitt on page 7S? (Check this atyour booksellers). That I am delirious
with envy?
People are bound to make comparisons between Socket and EightySixed Although I'm hardly objective,
I will say that my cover is better. His
book has a larger author shot (theentire back cover)j we're both evidently wearing the same generic Poloshirt from Macy's Action Down
Under. Weir's novel retails for one
dollar less than mine .. You want tosave a buck? Buy it. 'Y

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WOMEN ABOUT Qlt-off datefor Beginner SWim Lessons lit
YWCA, 874-2104
DESIGN INDUSTRIES FOUNDATION FOR AIDS (DIFFA) Skating
for life Fundraiser,with cocktail reception, gala skating performance, formal dinner/dancej at
the 69th Regimental Armory, lexington Ave & 26 Stj $125-$1000j
477-1717
BLEECKER STREET ONFMA presents Loolmtgfor liMgs'OfI, afilm that focuses on Langston
Hugh~ and gay/lesbian life inHarlemj 144 Bleecker St (btwn
Thompson and laGuardia Place)j
10:30 pmj $7j 674-2560 (thru

1HE WEST BANK CAFE DOWNSTAIRS 1HEATRE BAR presents
CM1_ Doubts, by Richard Willett, conceming "two best friends
from college, Stephen and David,
and the emotional but also
humorous confrontation that
erupts between them when
Stephen announces that he is not
only gay but In love with David,
who Is now a somewhat homophobic phys. ed. teacher"j 407 W
42 Stj 8:30 pmj $7j reservations
695-6909 (also plays tomorrow)
CElLBLOCK 28 Hot Ash Party,
for cigar smokers and theiradmlrersj 28 9th Ave (btwn 13/14
St)j 8 pm - 3 amj $10j 733-3144
BLEECKER STREET CINEMA presents LooW.gfor Lmrgs'OfIj see
NOV 6
OUT IN 1HE 80'S presents live
Election Coveragej the gay/lesbian news and interview cableshow will give our community's
perspective on the day's results at
the pollsj Manhattan and Paragon
Cable, Channel 016j 11 pm tomidnight

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WNET-1V/13 Great Performances: the lincoln Center
productionof Our TOWII, with
Spalding Gray, Eric Stoltz, andPenelope Ann MilIerj 11:30 pm (2hours)

ELEcnONDAYMUSEUM OF 1HE OlY OF NEWYORK and 1HE HUMANITIESCOUNCil. OF N.Y.U. Lecture:.~Radlcal Feminism
In Greenwlch'VlUage: From Crystal
Eastman to Eleanor Roosevelt.'
by Dr. Blanche Wiesen Cookj at
Judson Memorial Church, 55
Wdsh.
Southj 6 pmj 534-1672

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CEN1ER STAGE sees Tommy
Tune's GrmId HoUl, with Liliane Montevecchi and Keene CurtiSj at the 46th St. Theatrej
pmj$60j 62(}'7310

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NEW YORK OlY DEPT. OF
HEALlH Conference:
The
Impact of AIDS on Women, forwomen's health and social service providersj strategies for prevel)tion, education and care;practical exchange of informationj structured networking
opportunitiesj at New York
Academy of Medicine, 2 E 103 Stj
freej 566-3624, 566-4995
PUBliC HEALlll RESEARCHINSTITUTE Semlnan UnderstandIngs In AIDS Therapy andPrevention
with Dr. Anthony
Fauclj info 578-0809
IDEN11lY HOUSE Women's
Conference:
Womell Lovlflg
Womell, three weeks of 23 workshops exploring sexuality, identity, relationships and coming out,ends Nov. 1ij today: Making
Peace with Your Body with
Mary Rose Dallalj 7-9 pmj 544 6th

Ave (btwn 14/15 St)j $15 perworkshop/$35 for three/$7 perworkshop from the 4th one onj
243-8181
SAGE lesbian U1ness SUpport
Group beginsj for lesbians afflicted with serious illnesses and theirprimary female supporters, single
women welcomej limited to eightparticipantsj at the Center, 208 W
13 Stj 7:30 - 9 pmj 741-2247
CONGREGATION BE'IH SIMCHATTORAHJew~hEduadon
Coursesj tonight: Hebrew language Reading Class at 7:30jPrinc1p18s 0/ Kasruth at 7 :30j at
57 Bethune Stj info 929-9498
CONGREGATION BE'IH SIMCHAT TORAH Semlnan Why
Mel Copbrg wi,b Grief, Loss
med Cbmege, with Rabbi Pesach
Kraus, author and Director ofJewish Rabbinic Counseling at
Memorial Sloan-Kettering cancer
Center; at 57 Bethune SI, Westbeth Housing Complexj 8 pm
sharpj 929-9498
GAY MEN'S HEALlH CRISIS Men
Meeting Men Workshop,toenhance self-confidence and ability to negotiate safer sex withpotential partnersj at the Center,
208 W 13 Stj 8-10 pmj freej nopreregistration, 807-6655 (TOD
645-7470)
1HE WEST BANK CAFE DOWNSTAIRS lHEA1RE BAR presents
Cerltllfl Doubts, see Tuesday,

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3-DOLLAR BIll1HEATER opens
Victor Bumbalo'sAdam
lIf1d,btl E:Kperls, a "comic examination of friendship, hysteria andhope in our daily Iives"j at theApple Corps Theatre, 336 W 20 St(btwn 8th & 9th Aves)j through12/17j 255-7161
GAY MALE SIM ACTIVISTS MeetIng: Bikers and their Bikes,
with members of tri-state bikeclubs talking about Harleys vs.
Hondas, bike safety, and bikeeroticismj at the Center, 3rd Floor,
208 W 13 Stj 8:30 pmj $5j 7279878

WNET-1V/13 presents Cbllrles
III Forly: A Priru:efor Our
nmtl, offering a "critical but
affectionate portrait of a man
known to everyone and understood by few"j Includes British
MovieTone Newsreels of Charles'
daily activities at prep schools in
London, Scotland and Australiaj
1(}'11 pm
BLEECKER STREET CINEMA presents ~ooWflgfor L_gs,mej see
NOV 6

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IDEN11lY HOUSE Women's
Conference:
Womell fdvlflg
Womell, today: DealIng withYour FamUy with Naomi Goodhartj 7-8:30 pmj see 11/8
JUDIlH'S ROOM BOOKSTORE
presents Phyllis Chesler discussing Womellllfld Mlldflessand About Mellj 681 Washington
St (btwn W 10 & Charles St)j 7
pmj free, but seating is Iimitedj
727-7330
CEN1ER SPORTS sees NY
Knlcks VI. !IU Nets, basketball
gamej at Madison Square Garden,
33rd St & 7th Avej 7:30 pmj members $30/non-members$40j 62(}'7310
HERITAGE OF PRIDE Community Speak-Out,
which will "givethe public an opportunity tomake comments and offer ideas
and suggestions to help HOP
make next year's Pride celebration the best ever"j at the Center,
208 W 13 St; 7:30 pmj 691-1774(Editor's admonition: Don't complain in June unless you've spoken up in November.)t

LA MAMA E.T.C. presents the
opening of Positive Me, Lisa
Edelstein's ·original healing musical about life in the time of
AIDS"j 74A E 4 Stj 475-7710 (per- II
formances 11IUR-SUN throughNov. 26)
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OF All COLORS TOGETIIER,COMMI1TEE OF OUTRAGEDLESBIANS Community
Forum:
7NrllllIg AIIgw 10 AcffOff, toreclaim our humanity in responseto the climate of violence in New
York against people of color,
women, lesbians, and gay men;with Pamela Sneed, Robert Garcia, Gwen Braxton. Liz Walber,others; Nancy Klrton moderates;
at the Center, 208 W 13 St; 8 pm;
MACf 222-9794, COOL 243-0202
BLEECKER S1lUlET ONEMA presents LooltItIg/or L_gslOff;
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NATIONAL GAY AND LESBIANTASK FORCE 2nd Annual Creating Change Conference,
through Sunday, November 12;
with plenary speakers, Perry J.
Watkins, Vito Russo, Suzanne
Pharr; at the Holiday Inn, Bethesda, MD; $125; 2021332-M83
MEN OF All COLORS TOGE1HER!NEW YORK 7th AnnlversaryWeekend
In New Haven,through Sunday; 222-9794, 245-

6369
ANSOIE CHESED Shabbat Din·ner and Lecture, with Judith
Plaskow, Prof. Religious Studies
at Manhattan College, Towa,.ds a
New Tbeory 0/ SexuaJily. 251 W
100 St; services at 6:30 pm, followed by catered dinner and lecture at 7:15 pm; $16; rsvp

MEN OF All COLORS TOGE1HER/NEW YORK Game Nlte,
including Scrabble, Scruples,
Boggle, cards, Gay Monopoly,
Gay Trivia; at the Center, 208 W
13 St; 8 pm; 222-9794, 245~366
GAY MEN OF AFRICANDESCENT Discuslon: MUnien.
donos,· tratando de la cuestion
de como GMAD puede atraer alos hermanos latinos y hacer quese sientan bienvenidos y que losasuntos particulates de los latinos
reciban atencion adecuada (dealing with the issue of how GMAD
can attract Latin brothers, make
UJem feel welconu:, and give
their particular issues adequate
attention); en el cuarto Charles
AngeVPeople of Color Room, delCenter, 208 W 13 St (620-7310); 8
pm; GMAD info 7181802-0162,
71&'756-1548
RIDICULOUS TIlEATRICALCOMPANY presents the opening
of.v... JellyU 0, Mr. Hytk, directed by Kate Stafford; with Everett
Quinton, Eureka, Terence
Mintern, Minette Coleman, Mary
Neufeld, and Georg Osterman; atCharles Ludlam Theatre, One
Sheridan Square; 8 pm; $22; 5648038 (before 8 pm)
VIRGINIA GIORDANO presents
SWeet Honey In the Rock inconcert for an annual fall celebration; at Carnegie Hall, 57th St& 7th Ave; 8 pm; $15-$25; info929-1585, tix 247-7800

865-0600
IDENTI1Y HOUSE Women's
q>nference:
W'ontell Loving
W'omM, today: Women andMoney with Carolyn Pope; 78:30 pm; also Unblocking
Creative Blocks with Mary Wallach;see 11/8.
KATIIEXIS COVEN Open Circle
MedItation and Ritual marking
the Full Moon and in praise of
the Godidess; in the Center's
garden, 208 W 13 St; 7-7:30 pm;$1; 620-7310
BODY ELECTRIC SCHOOL pre·sents Tantrlc Group Rebirthfor Women and Men, an
evening of "tribal joy, ecstatic
breathing and freedom at thecore; this event is done clothed";
135 W 14 St, 2nd Floor, 8-11 pm;$15 advance/$25 door; 463-9152

SAGF}SHERlDAN SQUARETOURS Three Villages on Long
Island's North Shore, including
historic settlements of Stony
Brook, Setauket and East
Setauket; cost includes museum
admissions and lunch; $45; member info 741-2247
BODY ELECTRIC SCHOOL presents Joe Kramer teaching
Healing the Body Erotic for
Men, with Taoist and self-erotic
massage techniques; in a weekend of "erotic exploration ...you
will experiment with Tantric,
Taoist, and Native American
approaches to energetically andpl~surably connect with othermen ...this hands-on class is donenude"; 135 W 14 St, 2nd Floor;
today and Sunday, 10 am - 6 pm;$150; 463-9152, 415/653-1594
IDENTI1Y HOUSE Final Day of
Women's Conference:
W'ontellLovlrtg Wontell, today: OrganizIng Our Legal AfCaJrs with
Linda Maryanov, 11:30 am - 1
pm; Coming Out, Women OVer
40 with Carolyn Pope and Susan
Harris, 11:30 am - 1 pm; Homophobia and Its Effects on RelatJonships with Susan Gair,
6-7:30 pm; Lesbian RelatJon·
ships-Boundaries
and MergIng, Part n with Arleen Bandler
and Madeline Price, 6-7:30 pm;
see 11/8
SAGE Workshop:

Gay Mell_d Opera: Why', at the Center,in the SAGE Room, 208 W 13 St;
1-3 pm; 741-2247
KNIGHTS WRES'IlING CLUBTournament,with 20 wrestlers,a fundraiser to send the cl ub
wrestlers to the Gay Games th!ssummer, and to support TeamNew York; at the Center, 208 W
13 St; doors open after 7 pm,
tournament at 8 pm; $15; 6271921
IDEN111Y HOUSE Women's
Conference
SocIal, celebrating
the final day of three weeks ofworkshops, 7:30-9:30 pm; see
11/8
SALSA SOUL PRODUcnON
invites you to Dance with New
York's Beautiful Women at
Club Circus Maximus, 2nd St
btwn First Ave and Ave A (F train
to 2nd Ave stop, use 1st Aveexit); 9 pm; $7; 529-9665
CENTER 2nd Saturday Dance,with DJ, cash bar, juice andsnacks; at the Center, 208 W 13
St; 9 pm - 1 am; $8 generaV$6
members, seniors, students; 6207310
SPEcrnUM DISCO presents
Jlnuny ~Bo· Horne, singing"Spank," "Is It In?" and "Let's Do
It"; 802 64th St, Bay Ridge,
Brooklyn (N train to 8th Avestop); opens at 9 pm; 71812388213

low income); 807-0721 (NOWNYC, 15 W 18 St, NYC 10011)
LESBIANS AND GAYS OF FLATBUSH Video Poduck and DIscussion, viewing the movie Cry
Freedom; 3-8 pm; 7181851-4238,

7181633~596
NYC PARENTS AND FRIENDS OFLESBIANS AND GAYS 1989
Annual Awards Dinner Danceto honor Dr. Mathllde KrJm,
researcher and founder of
AmFAR, and David ·N. DInkins,
Manhattan Borough President; at
the Rqosevelt Hotel, 45 E 45 St; 5
pm; $50/$450 for table of ten;463-0629
HOT LAVENDER SWING BAND
Big Band Tea Dance, at theCenter, 208 W 13 St, 7-10 pm.
$10, 683-0919

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NY SOCIETY FOR E1HICALCULTIJRE and WEST SIDE YMCA
. Writer's Voice Film SerIes.
James Bald"" ...· The Price 0/
tbe Tlclret, the first feature film
about Baldwin since his death,
directed by Karen Thorsen; 2 W
64 St; 7:30 pm; $5; 874-5210

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LAMBDA LEGAL DEFENSE ANDEDUCATION FUND Theater
Party and BeneRt: 'Ibreepell"Y
Opera; with Sting in his Broad·way debut, also starring Maureen
McGovern and Ethyl Eichelberger, at the Lunt-Fontanne Theater,
204 W 46 St; pre-theatre party at
Criterion Center, 1530 Broadway
at 45 St, 5:30-7:30 pm; shQw at 8pm; $150 - $1000+; 995-8585 2ND 11JESDAYS AT TIlE CEN-

TER presents James Purdy,
reading from his latest novel,
Ga,.ments the Living Wear, at theCenter, 208 W 13 St; 8 pm; $3;
620-7310

WOMEN ABOUT CUt~ff Datefor Hook Mt. Hike, 874-2104
NOW - NEW YORK CI1Y urges
you to Mobilize for Women'sUves, with a march on Washington to "support legal, affordable
abortion and birth control"; NOW
has buses leaving from Union
Square, Columbus Circle and86th!Lexingtoo; $30 R.T. ($15

CENTER SPORTS sees VIrginia
SUms Women's Tennis, midweek matches; at Madison
Square Garden, 33rd St & 7th
Ave; 5:45 pm; members $30/nonmembers $40; 620-7310

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ConlnlUllity Directory
To list your non-profit
organization in our com-'munity directory, call Tom
Eubanks at 212/685-5277.
A.C.Q.C.
AIDS CENTEROFQUEENS COUNTYSOCIAL SERVICES· EDUCATION· BUDDIESCOUNSELING· SUPPORT GROUPS
Volunteer Opportunities(718) 896·25OO(voice) (718) 896-2985(TOD)ACT UP (AIDS Coalition to Unlelsh Power)
496A Hudson Street, Suite G4 NYC 10014(212) 989 -1114
A diverse, non-partisan group of individuals
united in anger and committed to direct action
to end the AIDS crisis. Gen. meetings Mon.
nights 7:30, the Community Center 208W.13th.
ARCS (AIDS-Rallted Community Services)for Dutchess, Orange, Putiiam, Rockland, Sullivan, Ulster and Westchester counties. AIDS
education, client services, crisis intervention,
support groups, case management, buddy andhospital visitor program.
214Central Iwe. While P\ails, m llBJi(9141!1D.aDi
838 Broadway ,Newburgh, NY 122S!(914)562-5(1)5AIDSIi_ (914) 993-G607
BAR ASSOCIAT10N FORHUMAN RIGHTS
Lawyers Referral
Service for the Lesbian and Gay Community
Full Range of Legal Services (212) 459-4873
BAR ASSOCIAT10N FORHUMAN RIGHTSFree Walk-in Legal Clinic. Tu.esday6-8 pm
Lesbian & Gay Community Centro Gro.und Roor
BODY POSITIVE·
If you or your lover has tested HIV+, we offer
support groups, seminars, public forums, reference library, referrals, social activities andup-to- date national monthly, "THE BODY POSITIVE" ($l5/year).
(212) 633-1782.
2095 Broadway, Suite 306, NYC, NY 10023
CIRCLE OFMORE UGHT
Spiritual support and sharing in a gayllesbian
affirmative group.
West-Park Presbytarian Church
165West 86th Street
Wed: worship service 6:30 p.m., program 7:30.
Marsha (212)304-4373 Charlie (212)691-7118.
COMMUNITY HEALTH PROJECT·
208West 13th Street, NYC, New York 10011
For Appointments and Information (212) 6753559 PROVIDING CARING, SENSITIVE AND
LOW COST HEALTH CARE SERVICESTO THE
LESBIAN AND GAY COMMUNITYCONGREGAT10NBETH SIMCHATTORAH
NY's Gay and Lesbian Synagogue Services
Friday at 8:30pm
57 Bethune Street'
For info. call: (212) 929-9498.

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DIGNITY NEW YORK
lesbian and gay Catholics and friends
AIDS Ministry, Spiritual Development
The Cathedral ProjectWo·rship Services & Social-Sun. Eves. 7:30pmSt John's Episcopal Church 218West 11th
Street@Waverly-675-2179
EDGE
For the physically disabled Lesbian and Gay
Community.
(212)989-1921
P. O. Box 305 Village Station, New York. NY
10014
FRONT RUNNERS
A running club for lesbian and gay athletesof all abilities. Fun Runs of 1-6 miles held every
Sat at lOam and Weds. at 7pm in Central Parkand every Tues. at 7pm in Prospect Park.
For information: call (212) 724-9700.
THE FUND FORHUMAN DIGNITY
National Gay and Lesbian Crisis Line"AIDS 800" 1-800-S0S-GAYS
Educational Resource Center; Positive Images
Media Center; NY State Arts Program
6Ei6 B·way Suite 410NYC,NY10012 (212)529-1600
on

HEAL (Health Education AIDS Uaison)
Weekly info. and support group for treatments
for AIDS which do not compromise theimmune system further, including alternativeand holistic approaches.
Wed 8pm. 208W. 13th St (212)674-HOPE.
HETRICK-MART1N INSTITUTE
for lesbian and gay youth. Counseling, drop-in
center (M-F, 3-6pm), rap groups, Harvey Milk
High School, AIDS and safer sex information,referrals, professional education.
(212) 633-8920(voice)(212) 633-8926
for deafm

HISPANIC UNITED GAYS & LESBIANS
Educational services, political action, counselingand social activities in Spanish and English by
and for the Latino Lesbian and Gay Community.
General meetings 8:00 p.m. 4th Thursday of
every month at 208West 13th Street
Call (212) 691-4181
or write H.U.G.L, P.O.Box 226 Canal Street
Station, New York, NY 10019.

THE GAY AFRICAN AMERICANSOFWESTCHESTER(TheG.A.A.) .
is a community based support group formed in
Westchester County. Various activities areplanned for the coming months.
Please call 914-376-0727for more info.

LAMBDA LEGALDEFENSEAND EDUCAT10NFUND
Precedent-setting litigation nationwide forlesbians, gay men and people with AIDS.
Membership ($35 and up) includes newsletterand invitations to special events. Volunteer
night on Thursdays. Intake calls: 2-4pm Mon
thru Fri(212) 995-8585

GL.AADGlY & le.biln Alliance Against Defamltion
SO Varick Street, NYC 10013 (212)966-1700
GLAAD combats homophobia in the media andelsewhere by promoting visibility of the lesbian
and gay community.a(ld organizing grassroots
response to anti-gay bigotry.

LAVA (LESBIANS ABOUTVISUALART)
Call for slides for Lesbian Artists' Exhibition,
Gay & Lesbian Community Center, NYC. For
more information, send SASE to :Miriam Fougere
118 Fort Greene PlaceBrooklyn, NY 11217.

GAY.& LESBIAN PSYCHOTHERAPY.
Sliding selle ,...
Insurlnce accepted.
.Institute for HumIn Identity.
(212) 799-9432

THE LESBIAN AND GAY BIG APPLE CORPS
Get your instrument out of the closet and comeplay with us. Symphonic, Marching, Jazz, Dixieland, Rock, Rute Ensembles and Woodwinds.
123West 44th St Suite 12L New York, NY
10036 (212) 869-2922.

GAY MALE SIM ACTIVISTS
Dedicated to safe and responsible SIM since1981. Open meetings wlprograms on SIM techniques, lifestyle issues, political and social
concerns. Also special events, speakers
bureau, workshops, demos, affinity groups,
newsletter, more. GMSMA -Dept O,496A Hudson Street, -Suite 023 ,NYC 10014.
(212)727-9878. .
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language, a highly theatrical imagination and teasing intellectual paradox.
Most of that is missing from thisproduction. As Henry Carr, whose faltering memories of these events are
the evening's frame (and are themselves a kind of art), Harris Berlinsky
has all the wrong images. At thebehest, one imagines, of Hupp, he(and many of the other actors) plays
this highly stylized piece in a stodgy
naturalistic style. The character skates
gracefully over Stoppard's dazzling
ice, while the actor wades knee-deepthrough slush. For Carr and the othercharacters, words are as necessary as
air. In this production, however, they
stick uncertainly in the throatj theactors imbue them with no personal
importance that makes speaking theman urgent matter. As James Joyce,
Joseph Menino suffers from the same
sort of imaginative asphyxiation.
Christopher Oden, as Tzara, cuts
a dashing figure, but his director
leaves him stranded. Hupp hasn't
helped him find an imaginative physical life for a character whose behavior
is predicated on playful outrageousness. As Cecily the librarian and
Gwendolyn, Carr's sister, Lyn Wrightand Carol Dearman are somewhat
more facile with words, but'their acting lacks emotional reality.
Since the play argues the relationof form and content, it seems only
natural that Stoppard uses limericks,
vaudeville routines, dialectical argument and strip';.teasej he employs' elements of 'farce and the high style ofEarnest, from which he borrows
whole passages of dialogue. A director needs to find physical'actions
which embody all these 'styles, makesense of the' ch,aracters' 'words andilluminate the;! play'~ meaning: noeasy task.· Hupp keeps his actors~t~n4ing· around talkingj the only
·extravagances of physical action a'rethose, ·specjfic;aIly caIled for in
Stoppard's stage directions.
The script being a .literate. ~ndfl}nni vehicle, the. audie~ce enjoyed
the perfc;>rmance.The play, however,would have been better 'served by afirmer hand on the wheel, and morepotent' imaginations
fueling theengine. ~November 12:1989

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in response
to -gnat"
Signorile's biting trutbs, and let
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me and tbat I'm not taking any
part in a boycott of ber name andtbat 1 will continue to belp ber getincredible publicity for ber gooddeeds, tbereby offsetting ber bus- .
band's reckless rampage.
"She is possibly, these days, themost important New York name one
can put on a benefit invite."Sbe is possibly, these days, ane of
the most important names for me tosuck up to.
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Pat does ber own place settings,

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Pat bad -no comment" when Rat
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SITUATIONS WANTEDGWM, 30 years old, wishes to relocate
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Outweek Box 1624

BLOND/REDHEAD
is wanted by 33 GWM
dark hair hairy hot
passionate and honest
serious about relationship. U R 18-35 slim
clean shaven smoothbottom and serious
European a+, PH/PH
must Box 1536, NYC
10276.

BROOKLYN BOYS
GWM, 30 BR/BR,. healthy good shaperomantic many interests seeks younger
GM for friend poss.
Relatnshp BDM Box
305 Bklyn 11240, send
letter and phone allanswered.

"IS IT YOU?"Are you 18-35, young
yet mature, massculine but colorful, perhaps shy but ambitious? Are you creative, intelligent, resourceful, admirable,
genuine,unique,warm, friendly, attractive, fun loving andloving fun? It's mel
Goodlooking
nicebody well hung W/M.
31 5'9" 1451bs. The
two parts make awhole in the greatest
form .of self expressionlls it Us? Say yesl
PO Box 20595, NYC
NY 10009.
GOODLOOKING
BookishClean cut
37yro WM, 6', 1751bs,
BRlBR, insiteful, artistic, supportive, newage, sks sim creative
quietly masaJline midwestern man for dating, Box 022045,
bklyn, NY 1120120044, Sci-Fi fans A+.
IGET LOST:
Those brief and unexpected conversations
over the telephone after answering someone's ad., forgotten
questions: HIV+? Nonsmoker?
Cleanshaven? GWM? Was
he in his 30's, 5'8",
1351bs,brown
hair/eyes, glasses, orattracted to this? And,
most important, is hein the arts, does heunderstand that a poetneeds blocks of timealone in which to write

HOLA, SENORI
Teacher, 45, learning
Spanish, seeks Latino
man for stimulating
conversation. My interests include the arts,
karate, computers,
and pillow talk. Please
send phone and photo
to: D.L., POB 20089,
NYC 10017, Hasta
Luego.
AUTUMN CHANGESFor this hdnsm, GWM,
30,5'10", 160lb, wellbuilt, Italian. Who- dueto previous work-loads
and travel - is quite
single. Professional,
with brains and brawn;
and with an open
schedule on the horizon - would like to explore quality time wi thsimilar guy. If you areoutgoing, in shape,
and willing to open up,
drop a line to: POB
310429, RHS, Bklyn,
NY 11231 -0007.
FOR LESBIANS ONLY
2 lesbians seek 3rdfor...one hot night. US:
sultry femme/butch

couple,into nonmonog, 3&4 ways, experienced, photo amust, write Outweek
Box 1628
PWA SEEKS SAMEGWM, 38, 5'10",
160lbs, BR/BL, clean
shaven,educated,
healthy. Seeks inshape HIV+ men forsex, friendship. Turnons: liberal politics. finance, working out,tight Levis/Jockwear.

Turn-oils: queens, Republicans,
Yankeefans. Outweek Box
1629
MUSICIAN
GWM, 25, 1551b, 6'
HzlIBR, devoted tomusic. Plays in alternative pop band. Inexperienced,
straight
acting,amusing,
amused. Seeks guy
with similar interest forfriendship +. PH/PH:
Outweek Box 1630
GET ARRESTED
Arrogant stud cop 28,
muscles. mustache,thick 9" night stick.
6'5", interrogates humiliates strip searches
and fucks. Photo amust with letter. You
know you need it. Outweek Box 1631
COLLEGE CARE
Innocent{?) student
studying the laws of
economics. Supply:
GM-21, 5'10", 140lb,
Demand: BI or GM 1830 into travel, books,
music & fun times.

OutWeek Box #_---;:;77 Lexington Avenue, Suite 200
New York NY 10010

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Equilibrium: you andme. Photo & phoneplease. Outweek Box
1632
GUY NEXT DOORGWM, 32, 5'11", 155,
bllbr. serious, sincere,sweet, straight-appearingarchitectwlbizarre sense of humour enjoys adventure and travel, movies
and the arts, and any
excuse to relax, seeks
similar GWM, 25-35,

for fun, friendship andmonogamous relationship. Letter and photo{if convenient) to Outweek Box 1561
TWO ACTIVISTS
Hung, horny GWM
buddies. One Italian,
26, 160 Ibs., smoothswimmer's bod.; one
Swede, 30, 150 Ibs.,
rippling gym bod, both
5'11~and hot seek hot
GWM under 30, single
or couples for sweaty,
safe, sensual romps.
Foto a +. Outweek
Box 1562
GWM SURVIVOR
44, Romantic bottomseeks lifetim~ top. Me:
GermanIks 5'10"
hlthy. You: age-looksrace, not important,just be sincere. Life is
too short to playgames. Write Outweek
Box 1563
LESBIAN FEMINIST
29, in NYC 7 years;
likes Puccini to Chapman, Capra and Hitch
to Lee and Almodovar,
Shakespeare to Morrison; also politics,
sports, animals andnational parks. Stable,
healthy, Romantic, witty, attractive. Slightly
butch in appearance,
not in attitude. Let's go
to the zoo, the Knicks
or Aida. No smoke,drugs. Outweek Box
1564
FAT AND SASSY
GWM, 37, 5'11", 190
Ibs., interested
inmeeting a very fat GM
for fun, sex and possi-

blerelationship I
Replies with photo answered first. No weight
limit, the larger the
better. The more to
love. L.T. S. 20053,
New York, NY lOQll.
BODYBUILDER
I want a big muscleman to feed me andmake me eat. Makeme eat till I feel like I'mgoing to burst. Pumpup as I pig out. Liveyourfat
fantasy
through mE!. Answer
with full photo and letter. LTS 20276, New
York, NY 10011.
SIMPLY ntE BEST
GWF, 23, seeks awoman who is better
than all the rest. Art islife, life is an art, everything is a satirewith an optimistic outlook what do u think?
Send me a letter, or
something revealing.
Outweek Box 1585
BRIGHT RED
Lipstick & toe nail polish turn on this tall,hung, 42yr old wasp.
Looking for tall man into same for erotic
femme lesbian scenes
in heels, panties, earings, perfume & oldies
and bodyshaving. Box6537 Grand Cent Sin,
NYC, 10163-6022.
VERY HANDSOME
GJM,writer, 29, 5'11",
1711bs, strght acting,with wonderful imagination enjoys laughter'and simple pleasures,seeks bright, attractive, NYC based special guy. Letter/Photo/Phone. Write Outweek Box 1587
LOOKING FOR FUN
Lesbian Feminist looking for friend maybe
more to enjoy the lessserious things in life.
I'm into literature, art,
music, political work,
movies, Women, sex,
and a good time. I
want a sensitive woman to share thesethings with. If you'reinterested and have asense of humor pleasewrite Outweek Box
1588
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This GW mature Irishman is at your svc.

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2509
TSS,
NYC,
10108.
WORLD OF MEN
Men from other countries delight my eyes:
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Born GM, 38, trim
body, NON-smoker,
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for friendship, or safesex buddies, or perhaps romance. PH/PH
to POB 300846, Midwood Station, Brooklyn, NY 11230.
LOOKING FOR DAD
Handsome 30yr-old
boy wants dad to playwith him. Boy is into
leather & lace withpierced tits & shaved
body. Erotic times &more for man who iswell hung. Tall Europeans preferred. Outweek Box 1592
WESTCHESTERPreppie top, 36, plays
safe, brown hair/blueeyes. Professional.
Picturerequested.
P.O. Box 875, Harrison, New York, 10528.
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SHOCKING CONFESSIONIThe hottest-hung guy
I've ever seen is in mymirror ... w/plenty toshare. Hdsm superstud 6', 185, young 44,
hunky nips and chGst,
the perfect big bro, top
pal, idol, protector, defender, reSaler, teacher, lover. Sks roMANtic
catch
20-39
who
would
enjoy
2
dreamhomes, exciting
showbiz life, lots of
cuddling, caring, extra
inches and more.
Now's your chancel
Photo required: POB
1164, NYC 10159.
Tough to swallow...but
TRUE IMACHO HOMBRE
Handsome 29, 5'8",
trim, 140, blk hr, breyes, stach, hung andvery hotlll Great senseof humor. Seeks topl
Trim-macho-gdlkhung, 24-45, Latin,
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Photo and note a
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Stable healthy older(50) male ready to offer what he can to atlr
younger TS ready tooffer what she can fora love-your eyes andeverything about you
relationship.
Write
Outweek Box 1597
HANDSOME GOM
6'1", 170, 31 seeks areal man who is not into games but who is
into funl You should
be under 50 and over
21, healthy, happy andsecure. I like movies,
books, travel, theatre,
et al. I love unbridled
sex, but role playing isa bore-versatility is amust. I'm good at virtually anything I do
and I never disappoint,
so let's talk. C'mon
you know you wanttol
Send a photo & phone# and I promise to calland return the photo.
I'm walting ...so hurryl
Outweek Box 1603

Do you like your legsin the air? Me: 30's,
blue eyes, cleanshaven,safe top.
Send photo/tel to: P.O.
Box 172, White Plains,.
New York, 10605.

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areplusses. Esp. attracted
to Orientals
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your passions? (sendphoto and letter to Box
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GWM prof. seeks ,same to 40 in CTINY.
Are you ready to goout on a limb? Send
photo/phone to Outweek Box 1606
SlAVE OF NEW YORK
I have this love/hate
relationship with NYC
and I live in Brooklyn I
Can you
provideenough of a distraction
so I don't notice NY?
I'm always ready foradventure#S,243. Willing to share all-would
like to meet you if
you're in late 30's tolate 40's, in great
shape,
physically,
mentally and spiritually.
Love facial hair & live
in Brooklyn-but none of
the above is essentialIYour sense of adventure is more important
than the size of yourendowment. HIV+ andvery healthyII Outweek
Box 1607
JUNIOR PARTNER
I'm old enough, confident enough, successful enoughfor ayounger boyfriend.

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1608
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Older
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LI COLLEGE TYPE
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I'm a submissive
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only. Send a letter ofyourinterestandphone to P.O. Box
27S, Highland, NY
12528. Pen pals welcomed.
HNDSM HUNG GBM
Top, seeks affectionate bottom, preferably
Hispanic or Italian forfriendship. GoodlookIng intelligent, clean
and honest a must,
40-60 years. Photo, if
possible, will return.
Outweek Box 1187
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Handsome
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34, seeks GM 25-50,
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GWM, ITALIAN
42, S'9", 145 Ibs.,
Br/Br,
moustache,
gOOd-looking, masc.,many interests seeks
similar men for friendship & safe sex relationship, staches and
hairy
a
+.
photo/phone. Box 831,
Grand Central Station,
NYC,10163.
PEACH OF A GUY
Looking for someone
intelligent, affectionate, loyal, employed,adorable, fuckable?
This GWM, 32, S'11,
lSS#, brown/bluew/stache, HIV-(safe sexonly), likes keeping his
man happy, horny, satisfied, and comingback for more. If
you're a tall GWM, 3344, serious, who canenvision shacking up
with another guy for acouple of decades.
Send me a letter. Outweek Box 1268
BEYOND THE STARS
GWM, 34, S'9", 150,
brn/brn,muscled,seeks partner interested in relationship/(212)((718)._ (914)(516)

95¢ for the first minute, 5()¢ for each additional minute.
November

12. 1989

OU~WEEK81friendship. Our interests include gym,
sports, theatre, art,
movies, reading, travei, skiing and beach.
We compliment eachother as winners, areboth professionals,
successful, very goodlooking, masculine,
smart, secure, know
who we are and into
personal growth. If you
are 26-40and meet mycriteria, please sendphone # and photoand written response
for a reply. Outweek
Box 1291
HANDSOME AND
HUSKY
Latin, 31 years old,
5'9", perf. artist,mat.,educ'd, HIV+, healthy,
sensual. U R: mat.,masc., hung top w/
varied interests into
big guys for fun androm. Serious + loving
men 30-45 a plus.
Phone and photoplease OutWeek Box
1304
FASHION CHIC
GWM, 29, 185 attractive, healthy, nonprmiscuous.
I likemoviestheater,
brunch, holding hands,streisand, N.Y., Seeks
GWM 25-35 for friend
to share good time together. And looking forthat all impprtant man
to share my life andlove. Send letter,phone number andphoto a must. Outweek Box 1314
INTERESTING AND

FUN
Perhaps we've seen
each other at the gym,
the beach, the baliet,
theater, gay almmunity events, and o·ccasional demos. We'reboth nonsmokers; professional men who arein shape and who enjoy a wide variety ofinterests like good
food, good books, fiim.
travel,spirituality,
provacative discussions, romance. We
both are sensuousand very sex positiveand ethier are currently in or have been intherapy.
So whyhaven't
we met?
That's the purpose ofthis ad. I'm 38, gwm, 6feet tall, brown hair

just beginning to grey
who lives in Chelsea.
You are at leaqst in
your late twenti es but
could be in your mid
fourties. Perhaps you
are an AIDS widower,
but you are single andare hoping for that tochange. No matter
what your age you
know how to have fun
and are looking tomeet someone speciai
to date and see whatmight develop. HIV
Slatus isn't impolrtant.
Letter w photo andphone no. please.
Outweek Box 1316

155#,
brown/bluew/stache, HIV- (safesex only), who likes
keeping his, man happy, horny, satisfied,and coming back formore. If you're a tall
GWM, 33-44, serious
who can envision
shacking up with another guy for a alUple
of decades. Send me
a letter. Outweek Box
1333
LOVE IS?
Being close 2 each other/ a moon-lit beach/being snowed in 2gether/ Monday Night Football/hot sex! passiOn!
lovel sharing and caring. Me: GM, 27, 6',
210#. U: GM, 24-44,
tall, dark. We: both professional and unbiased
on 1st dalB. We want 2
get to know ellCh otherand have a lasting relationship. Let's travel
new roads to enrich ourlove 4 each other. Loveis also roses on Sunday/ dinner 4 2J a Romantic hideaway/ finding that special loveand celebrating eachday 2gether. Outweek
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monogamy-oriented
GWM, 6', lean, attr,
clean-shaven, Prof, intelligent, non-smoker,
runner and young, 47
years old. Seeking
compatible GWM toshare movies, theater,
music, quiet evns/
times, fun and more.
Send letter/phonel to:
Outw!l8k Box 1507
SM YEARNING."
GF 25 submissive, intelligent,
attractive
seeks experienced,
chivalrous, dominantbutch. Treat yourself
to the charms of a loving, fiesty yet decidelysubmissive
femme.
Outweek Box 1516
THERE'S A PERFECT
MATCH FOR MEl
She just has to be"found." I'm responsible, sensitive, intelligent, honest, fun, andsober. I prefer aggressive women. It's hardfor me to make thefirst moves, but only inthe beginning.
If
there's genuine interest, a feeling of compatibility write, MA,
Box 980, New York,NY 10014.
ALL YOU NIGHT
WORKERS
Have the morning offsleep late afternopn,
seek same for companionship and possible relationship. Single
lesbian, 40, responsible and like to havefun. A little shy ok.
Write AJ, Box 980,
New York, NY 10014.
ONE NICE GIRLLOOKINGFORANOTHERGF, 35, Bright, Funny,Creative Writer-Type,
Feminist. Partial to intelligent charmers andindependent thinkers
who can make melaugh. OulWeek Box
1519
IAMWHATIAM
Short, dark, and winsome lesbian,27
seeks way-above-average broad-minded
woman.(u know who ur)lwanna croon to youfrom my fire escape.
I'm tone deaf but loveis blind. Honest to
goodness kook wants
to watch your freezer(or mine) defrost. Self
portrait or foto if you
please, but not necessary. PS Israeli women particularly welcome. Attention: thislesbian is not a sports
enthusiast.
Pleasepardon me if adseems (is) disjointed.
Outweek Box 1520
DAMSEL IN DISTRESS,
30 seeks GF to rescue
her for quality relationship and one who canappreciate
herlady. Have many interests love cats and old
movles.Cat lovers preferred. Outweek Box
1521
TAKE A RISK? TRY ME
Attractive Black-Latina, athletic, sensitive.
(herpes) looking forfriends or more to takein New York life with,dancing, theater, jogging, working out,
reading, are some of
my likes.
Drugs,
cigarettes and alcohol
are out! Blue collar
workers a plus, anyrace, sorry must be
thin, expect honesty,
since it is my way oflife, ages 25-35. Outweek Box 1522

ATTRACTIVE
ANDROGYNOUS
professional playful
Woman of Color, 30
seeks sensuous attractive affectionate
generous fun loving
GF ints: art, Music,
dancing, being healthyand safe, imaginative
fantasy play. Do you
fantasize
about awoman you can respect, pamper andplease? In between
relationships? Visit the
NY area on occassion? Intrigued by lingerie, leather, uniforms, phone sex.
Then get out your pen
and let your fantasy be
your guide. All races,
areas and ages over
23 are welcome as aredeaf women (lamhearing.) Write Fantasia Box 1234 Edgemere NY 11691.
AFRICAN AMERICAN
MAN
seeks Oriental counterpart. I am 28, 6'
18SIbs, open, intelligent, and funloving,
let's explore all of life's
pleasures together. I
enjoy the arts, dancing, as well as quiet
moments with laughter. Outweek Box 1524
MOMMY
beautiful, intelligent
woman who answers

to the name of Charlie
wanted by goodlooking butch who answers to the name of
Cinge. Reply at homel
HANDS OF FATE
Mine are small, powerful, gentle, wlbig laughlines, callouses frm
tennis & weights, sensitive tips. Yrs arestrong, large enoughto hide mine in, wI intelligent
knuckles,playful thumbs & agrip that you know
how to use. Yours are
the kind of hands that
get marked by thesndy times & mighttenderlyleavenewsprint
on your
boyfriend's cheek. I'm
GWJM
27,
5/8,
138,athletic,
greatbutt, brain & sense ofhumor. I like smart,solidly built, brawny
men any race 25-35
who've a welcoming
lap,a warm laugh & anactive mind,if that's
you ,let's shake on itl(ph/ph, letter) to Outweek Box 1526
CHEST WORSHIP
W/M, 30, 5'10·, 160,
seeks husky
bigchested
guy whowould crave me working his whole chest forlong periods of time,
relationship possible,
also into erotic talk,safe sex only, no
drugs. Outweek Box
1527
LATIN LAWYER
34, 5'5·, 140lbs, attractive, energetic, andfreindly seeks attractive intelligent and versitile adult 25 x 45 forlong term mutually satisfying
romanceplease send letter/
photo and phone. Outweek Box 1528
DANCE WITH ME
GWM,
attractive,
Br/Br, 33yrs,
5'6·,
1431bs, hairy, musc
chest, warm, proll,sense of humor, looking for relationshipwith attr masc man of
integrity and warmth,
under
35.
Hisp/
Mediterranean looks aplus. A relationship of
exploration, fun, andcloseness which joins
us together while making us each more ourselves-it's that special
chemistry I'm looking
for. Incl phone, photo
helpful, not essential.
Write Outweek Box
1529
NICE BRIGHT MAN
seeks same GWM 28,
6' BrlBr, 180, consideredhandsome,straight acting, andwant you to be tool
Don't like barslbut liketo drinkl looking forbright handsome guy if
you're him write, photo& phone pis. Outweek
Box 1530
RIPE AND READY
Marr/Bi/gays: getting
enough/any? me, either I quality man
seeks same (25-50)
for frndshp & ss. I'm
masc, hlthy, in-shape,
bright, affect, caring,older, lers meat! M-Th
NYC, Hampton Wkends. Bx 871 Sag Harbor, NY 11963.
MILITARY MAN
Ex-GI,Bi,Musc,handsome needs Bi Musc
smooth,very aggressive guys under 35fantasy boots animals
spit marines groups
cops backs, write
Adam PO Box 781 Niag Falls,Ont L2E 658
Canada. Kick my buttl
PLEASE USE ME
WM pussy 38, 6', 210
expo in mild bId, cIbItt,
crossdressing,vla,etc
seeks to be tied
up,used as a pussy
and treated as a slutby dominant people.
PO Box 199 NYC
10028.

tellect, wit; old world
probity with new world
scope, Box 250150
CUPO, NY NY 10025.
OK RASSLIN FANS
chubby GWM 39,5'5·,
200,
cln
shvn,
hairychst & belly, u/c,
seeks well-bit, imaginative studs to sweatout
our
wildest,wrestling fantasies (no"real· wrestling) in mymidtown
apt.
Day/Night costumes,
nude, oil, tits, hot talk,"dirty· holds, ss,jlO,
photo, challenge to TJ,
Box 112 Executive
Suite 330 W. 43 Street
NYC, 10036. Posstravel to Western
Mass, BBa +.
GBMWANTEDGWM, 38, 5'10·,1651bs,quiet, serious,
intelligent type,seeks
GBM, 25-40, pref.skinny to large build.
PH/PH to RS, POB
2056, New York, NY
10108.

THOU SWELL
GBM writer, healthy
HIV+, 36yrs 170lbs,
5'9", seeks top with in-

REAL THING
sought by GWM, 35,
5'8·, 1551bs,versatile
with 10er. I go forsmooth skin, thin,muscular guys near
my height & age or
shorter or younger. I
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etc. Do write w/photo& phone " but knowthat Iwant a lover, notanother "buddy" or
one-nlghter. Outweek
Box 1537
NO VEGETARIANSGWM grad student 24,
5'7·, 1601bs, recently
moved from LA, cute,bright, enjoys goodrestaurants, wine, oldmovies, and sit coms,
staying up late. Seeks
sincere guy, 21-33
with similar Interests tolaugh with & sharemeaningful relationship. PhotolPhone appreciated. Hispanic aplus, but certainly nota musl. Send letter toOutweek Box 1538
FUN AND GAMESGWM, 52 nice looks,
5'10·, 1451bs,versatile
enjoy people, converstalon, pOlitics, travel,
movies, human pansk,
hot times, can bekinky, possible relationship, new adventures, PO Box 173 Ansonia Sin NYC 10023.
LATIN LOVER
GWM, 36, 2351bs,
seeks short or aver-

age height LatinoMexlcan-DomlnlcanPuerto-Rican
wholikes a tall guy with a
big butt for sex fun
and Intimacy. I do
speak Spanish. Outweek Box 1540
OPPORTUNITY
Emotional and financial support for very
attractive or boyishlycute WM 18-30 withtight smooth body who
is clean cut and clean
shaven. Intelligent,
good humor, greatsmile a plus, Defined
body hung b~ andvery handsome, 5'10",1501bs, light brown
hair, 8", cut. I am a funcomp anion, a loyal
friend and so are you.
I am above average
and expect you to be.
Hope you like to be
spoiled. Letter andphoto. Outweek Box
1541
MASSAGE ME AND
YOU
strong cute, athletic,
professional,
intobooks, travel, cycling,
friends. Am 29, 6',1581bs, Br/BI tan,cleancut.
Need astrong warm fun clean
guy under 35, basic fit,
not flashy PO:box
1316, NYC 10009.
GWM SEEKS GOM
40s, 6'2·, beard, professional,
seeks
Asian-American GM,
30+ for serious relationship. POB 20089
NYC 10017.
BRIDGE PLAYER?
Average Bridge player
38, looking to join or
start gay bridge clubfor fun times, no sour
apples pis. Phonal to
POB 953 OCS NY NY
10011. Prefer Manhattan. My place or yours.
No age limits. Allraces O.k.
CUDDLY BEAR
heavy, 38yrs, WM,
5'11", HIV-,leftisVathe1st, warm, caring, niceand romantic with asense of humor. Seek
nice guy w/ similar
qualities 18-50, interests inclUde: rock music, sun, bridge, longwalks. all races ok,
photo/phone to POB
953-0CS,
NY NY
10011.

HEART OF GOLD
real·nice, good looks,
can be an absorbing
lover, GWM 42,5'9"
1521bs, would love tomeet an attractive
man with lots of heart
who'd be so nice tocome home to someday. PH/PH Box 746
NY 11364.
MUSCULAR DADDY
6', 1851bs,BB Trainer,
non-smoker, legal fieldseeks young jock bottom, massage, train,
BB/BR,
SwedishAmerican, Box 1706,
2109 Bway, NYC
10023 A great guyl
LIFE IN THE SLOWLANE
can be wonderful if
you are looking forsomeone to share (notmerge) your life with,and are a good natured, stable nonsmoker, then consider
this attractive creative,easygoing
GWM,
43,6'1", 180lbs, who
survives on arts, outdoors, gardening, andthe reflective'life. Writeand tell me about
yourself. (if you have adark moustache, tellme everything.) Outweek Box 1548
HOPELESS ROMANTICIN NEED OF A MAN
21, tall, In-shape, fun,down-to-earth, different IIS/0 agressive,
masc, domin
built
gentleman.
Likes
country, punk, theSmiths, cuddling, dating,dancing,nosmoke, drugs, poppers. NYC pic 175 5th
Avenue '2589, New
York, NY 10010.
GWM,5'S",
1351bs, 40 (looks
younger). proll exrunner,consideredhndsm, likes music,
movies, walks (trying
to learn to like racewalking), sks 30ish to
40ish non-smoker, forfriendship, safe fun or
more photo apprec.
Outweek Box 1550
HOTHOTHOT
All ihe timel 30's, 5'9",170lbs, very muse &masc, shaved balls,
looking for in-shape hot
young masc men forwild times. PhotolPhone
to PO Box 264 RCS
NYC 10101.

MARRIAGE MATERIAL
Attractive 36 yr old
prof. male of Italorlgin, 5'7",1501bs,seeks masclgent Ie M
under 40 to explore an
enduring romance/relationship. I love film,
cycling, pasta and imtlmate glances.
If
you're bright, attractive, with a vision toshare...and looking for
an intmlmate and spirited rapport, please respond. Include tel"photo appreciated.
Outweek Box 1552
LOOKING FOR YOU
GWM, Jewish, 40's,
5'7", 1951bs,easy going, fun loving, prof guy
looking for Masculine
man to share goodtimes with photolphone
PO Box 315 Jackson
Hts NY 11372.
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ATR from page 2&

munity was further angered when
Schmidt told the New Haven Registerthat at least one of the BWAAposters
could be considered obscene according to U.S. Court Case Law. Schmidt,
meanwhile, characterized
Friday's
events as being "a serious matter
which demands careful and thoroughreview ...[which will go forward] withdiligence and security."
The nine were to appear in a
New Haven Superior Court on Thursday, November
2 where charges
against five were dismissed. Charges
against the others, including Dobbs,
were held over until November 20.
Previous to the hearing, drivers
in a State of Connecticut justice Dept.
vehicle reportedly yelled "Faggots,
we're going to ·get you· as LGSCY
held a press on the steps of the court
house. Homophobic reaction has also
been visible on the campus itself,. where unsigned posters scrawled with
"When Gays ACf UP, Lock 'Em Up"
appeared. Fliers with the· message"radical homosexualgroups [are]deserving of our outrage and pity"
were also seen on the Ivy L~ague
campus, calling the conference participants "morally repugnant."
Meanwhile, the favored New
Haven. mayoral candidate,john
Daniels, a Democrat, listened with concern, at a Wednesday meeting of Yale's
lesbian and gay students, where theweek's incidents were discussed ~now underway, which he hopes will
be available by the start of December.

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in a Texas Hotel lobby. La Coute said
that the incident was not motivatedby homophobia-"whensomebody
comes up and hits, you don't stop
and ask them about their sexual preference," he said. LaCourt added that
Ailes was "never held or charged" in
the Texas incident.
Ira Manhoff of ACf ur says thatlast week, Ailes indeed put Ottersten ina stranglehold as has been alleged, andthat he was forced to place his hand on
Ailes' arm in an effort to prevent Ailes
from pushing Ottersten down a flight ofstairs.
If brought to trial and convictedof the third degree assault charge,
Ailes could face a possible year inprison and/or a fine. ~88

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November 12, 1989

Demystifying Drug Trials
But these publications are justthe start. Beginning in AUgust, Cowing said, ATR embarked on a massive
outreach effort to "demystify" the process of experimental drug trials.
·We need to educate the entire
AIDS community about how trials
work, and how to get access tothem,· he said. "We're not pushing
any individual trial, but it's vital thatpeople be informed about what's
available. We want them to be able to
make educated choices and become
partners in their own health care."
ATR's dedicated volunteers andtwo full-time staffers received morethan 100 responses to a survey asking local hospitals, AIDS service
providers and other groups if theywanted to know more about AIDS
drug trials. ATR is now giving seminars on clinical trials to other organiz~tions, including the Brooklyn
AIDS Task Force and Minority AIDS
Task Force.
·We know it's an interactive process," Cowing said. "We're ready to
tailor presentations to' the needs an<,lconcerns of each group. We have awide variety of representatives on ourcommunity advisory board, including
Yoland Serrano of ADAPT (Association for Drug Addiction Prevention
and Treatment) and Ron johnson of
the Minority AIDS Task Force."
Drug Trials = Health Care
One of the biggest battles they
face, he said, is conveying the message th~t drug trials are not all onesided: that well-designed
trialsprovide health care as well as gathering experimental data.
Only 20 percent of trial participants are Black or Latino, he said,
although these groups comprise morethan 50 percent of newly diagnosed
AIDS cases in New York. ATR wants
to change that. It is working on simplified versions of its outreach materials, to be published in English andSpanish.
"It's not just about getting another directory out there,· Cowing said.

·We want to address the bigger
issues, to understand the needs andconcerns of trial participants and givethem the information to be educated'consumers' if they decide to enter atrial."As always, the group's biggest
hurdle is staff and money. ·We're really struggling,· says Cowing simply. He
is always aware he may have toreturn to 'temping' if the money isn't
there for his salary. ATR's president
and scientific director, Dr. Iris Long,
gets no salary at all. ·We're a lateplayer trying to get a new piece oflimited funding pie," Cowing noted.
A Glamourous Struggle?
ATR would like to hire an outreach coordinator and a paid science
director, Cowing said, but can't afford
either now. Their directory is put
together on two borrowed computersand "an ancient copier donated by
Gay Men's Health Crisis," he said.
And their office space in the garment
district, which they got "for a song,· isbarely furnished.
Nonetheless, this small group ofactivists is confident that they can
educate the community and improveaccess to AIDS clinical drug trials. "We
get a very, very, very high return rate
for the user survey in every issue ofthe directory,· Cowing said. "And·
we've gotten almost uniform praise
for the format and the usefulness of
the information.
That's kind of
encouraging. "Moreover, others outside the
AIDS community
are starting totake note as well. From a world far
removedfrom ATR's spartan
offices,for example,
came thenews that Glamour magazine had
selected Dr. Iris Long as one of
their ten ·Women of the Year" forher work with ATR and other AIDS
organizations.
Although it's not particularly
glamorous work, Cowing says, "wecan playa vital role. We want nothing
less than a 180-degree shift in thewhole trials process." ~OutWeek Crossword
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Notional Coordinator Pilo Bueno
Key Volunteers: Steve Dean, Joseph Murphy, Michael Kaplan, Preston Grant, Peter Bollinger,
Steve Sobin,Koren Gaylord, Mort Jonas, Jeff McElroy,Ted Zepeda, Steve Cline
PO Box 15524 Santo Fe, NM 87506 (5051982-2558
Co-Choirs: Rob Eichberg, Jean 0 'leary