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Lesbian History Month
March is Women's History Month, a time set aside toreclaim, teach and celebrate the historical role of women. Itshould also be a time for a certain anger and defiance by
women, and particularly lesbians, against their continued
invisibility in the discipline of history.
Those who are not personally interested in history areoften unaware of the importance of claiming and reclaiming
the past. But that cannot. be said for men, particuIarly white
men in positions of power and those in the ruling circles ofpolitically dominant countries. They have long understoodthe significance of staking their claim to the past andputting their own 'spin' on the events that have shaped theworld.
Both the dominant sex (male), the dominant race
(white) and the dominant sexuality (straight) have always
jealously controlled the Western historiCal discourse. For
lesbians this has, as usual, led to 'a double or even triple
invisibility. As women they are routinely ignored by male
historians who promote male versions of the past. As lesbians they are also routinely dismissed by gay male histori-.
ans who write gay history as though this means exclusively
gay male history. The frequent disclaimer in the opening
chapters of such chronicles goes something like this: "Theauthors would like to have included women in this study,
and we do so wherever possible. But the historical record
left by lesbians is so scant that here we have to concentrate
primarily on gay men." They often then proceed in total disregard of lesbians, fusing the term homosexual with malehomosexual in a manner that would make Freudian psychoanalysts beam with approval.
But the excuse of historians who justify their neglect oflesbians because of the thinness of the histoJ;icalrecord has
been jolted lately by studies such as Hidden From History, amajor collection of gay historiall essays that gives equal
time to lesbians and opens up whole new fields of lesbian
study. Such books explode the myth that lesbians didn't
leave written records, that their stories are forever lost, andthat it's hopeless to seek the lesbian past. As similar studies
appear, and they will appear, we should become less andless tolerant of those who continue to ignore the lesbian
dimension of history.
.
As is fitting, lesbians are and shall continue to be at theforefront of this act of reclamation. Projects like the Lesbian
Herstory Archives, founded, funded and run by women,
continue to break new ground in lesbian historical work,
recognizing that self-reliance is the best way to effect the.
necessary changes in historical consciousness.
.
But male historians should not be let off the hook. As
long as ~y
new gay historical works are written by men,those men must be pressured to include examinations oflesbians not as an aside or a footnote, but as an integral partof the mosaic of gay history. T
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iloLETTERS
Master the PossibllHies
Just when you thought It
was safe to go back In the
bedroom ...
Stuart Edelson's column,"New-speak and Sexual Politics In the Midst of a Plague(no. 34, Mar. 4). has, In thewords of Addison DeWitt, apolnt-<ln idiotic one, but apoint nonetheless. The pOlitics of epidemiology having
been long established, Mr.
Edelson Iscorrect In suggestIng that rJsk-reductlon guidelines,
no matterhowprestigious the citation, canonly Inform a personal decision regarding the safety ofparticular sexual acts.
However, when It comesto what I do In my bedroom(or In my local tea-room forthat matter), Mr. Edelson
serves me no better thanthat Senator from North Carolina. While proposing to"open up the definition ofwhat Is a man: (syntactiC
clumsiness his, not mine) heproposes only a narrowIng-backto "the classic
heterosexualmodel. - Hislegitimate questions about
the accuracy of "officialepidemiological studies do
not disguise an unpleasantmoralistic agenda not unfamiliar to readers of Hunterand Madsen's After the Boll.
The Son Francisco AIDSFoundation has extensively
studied the effects of theireducational
programs on
HIVseropositivity rates In theirtarget popUatlons. The mosteffective programs have,
H's Later Than You thinkunsurprlslngly, been thoseThank you Michelangelo
that celebrate and affirm
Signorlle
for· Ironicallysexual possibilities. "Now Is denouncing Malcolm Forbes
the time to fulfill the promise
Just days
beforehisof liberation:
Mr. Edelson . deathrGosslp
WQtch~"no.
writes. Let us fulfill that
36. Mar. 4). Unable to pullout
promise by empowering
your criticisms, I was glad topeople to make their own
see them Included at a timedecisions, especially about
when their meaning Is mostlife-and-death Issues, rather
poignant: "WHAT MALCOLM
than by berating them with
FORBES CAN DO MOST IS
fear.
STOP LIVING LIESAT A TIME
Spencer Cox
WHEN TRUTHIS ULTIMATELY
Manhattan
THE
MOST
POWERFULWEAPON.·
Imaginethe
Incredible
servicehecould've provided as a rolemodel for the lesbian andgay community
had hedone more than contributemonetarily.
My hope Is that this loss
will eliCit confessions fromother public figures lessening
societal
homophobia
through familiarity. If thatwere to happen, Malcolm
will have done his greatest
servtce.
Michael Forslll'ld

I Dreamt I Was Michael
Musto In My Maldenform ...
I was so glad to findMichael Musto In your February 4th (no. 32) Issue, with hisstory "How Not to Get
Ahead In Advertising: Madison Avenue Stili Has No
Place for Q.Jeers: I hope wehear more from him In yourpages; I think he's one of thefunniest-<lnd most politicallyastute-writers
In NYC Journalism.
One odd omission In hispiece, however: how could

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March 11. 1990

he miss those blatantly
homophobic and Sf.rxlst ads
for Maldenform lingerie? You
know, the ones where handsome actors-who
havelong. ..,dodged rumors of
being gay-tell us how lingerie 'makes a woman truly
feminine.· A close-up of
Michael York's square jaw
telling us 'what he looks for
In a woman· (It's not her
brother's phone number), or
Christopher Reeve blushingand cooing
aboutawoman's 'secrets· (and not
his own), make me sick to
my stomach. I want to reachInto my 1V set and slap themInto the next channel.
Since these ads clearly
exist to sell these actors as'true heterosexuals: as well
as sell some bras and panties
along the way, I'm wonderIng If the aytors even got
paid, considering the career
boosts Involved. Ah, marketIng-the perfect marriage ofhomophobia and capltalIsmlWhat are they really promoting anyway?
Thanksto Mister Musto fortelling us not to buy ItTom ClJ'Inlngham
Manhattan

maybe one was this newlydiscovered kind of Invert?
Maybe both? Maybe their

WHEN DO WE ESCALATE?
Lee Arsenault
Port Washington, NY

dog?

Ahl We grow up thlnklng
we have reached someunderstanding of where weare, and something like thispulls the rug right out' fromlJ'Ider. There Is just no secul'!ty arr( morel
Perhaps Bradley Ball will
be able to sort me (and thethousands of others who
dolbtless noticed this upsetting news) out on this. For I
am totally unprepared for It.
Formental health,
John Maynard
Manhattan
Waiting for the Robelt E. Lee
Eleven years Into this epidemic and we are stili talkIng about contact tracing
and quarantine.
Eleven years Into this epidemic and we have only
one ED.A. approved treatment.

Kinder Kramer
Are we seeing a kinder,
gentler
Larry Kramer?
("Kramer vs...: No. 34, Feb.
18) I never thought I would
see the day that Larry
Kramer would advocate tostop fighting other gay
activists whose agenda happened to differ from his. He
speaks wisely but to hear It
from him GMHC Is not theenemy. Tim Sweeney Is not
the enemy. Even Marlo
Cuomo cannot be considered the enemy. The way
Cuomo stands up to the
Catholic patriarchy on theIssue of choice shows apolitician who does not follow lock-step with a repressive clerical structure. He Is
an adversary, and a formldlble one, but not one to be
described
In the same
breath as Dannemeyer orHelms. Time Is precious. Energy Is precious. The great
resource that Is the anger of
ACT UPmust be spent wisely,
not wasted battling fellow
members of the greatercommunity but used to go
after those truly culpable.
Marlon G. Seggerman
Stamford, CT
P.S.The New YorlcNative
was quite honored to be
named by Senator Helms ofNorth Carolina as mouthpiece of the militant homosexual organization.
Inclusion Confusion
I got a real charge when
I first saw the cover story of
OutWeek two weeks ago(no. 34, Feb. 18). The.subject
was safer sex among gay
men, an Issue of extreme
Importance to me and myfamily of friends. Here was a
subject I could relate to
Immediately and powerfully.
Here was something of vital,

srON£W'A~~/llorsWhat?
Nahl Say It Isn't sol I've
got enough difficulties wlthout you unearthing lesbianmen. ('Gay Guidelines for
Judges· no. 34, Feb. 18, p.
24; lines five and six where It
says 'protection for lesbian
and gay men:)
Many may view this as anopportunity,
not with the
deep despair I have. They'll
see endless new varieties ofcombinations of relationships.
But I, with a rigid (I) sensibility of right and wrong andgay and straight, will look at
the man I'm with and wonder what he Is--or worsebecause I've been so Insecure from my birth, whether,perhaps, I AM ONE.
And I'll wonder If that's
what went wrong with thetwo women down the ha!l:March 11, 1990

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ters column. ~How! could

If not quite dally, relevance
to my life. Unlike a good
many OutWeek articles In
which my political ho~zonsare abstractly broadened
and my gay cultural awareness remotely sensitized, thisarttcle really hit home. I joyously concede the progressively sexier photos of two
attracttve men well on their
way to getting It on gave
me a minor thrill and hastened my page-tumlng.
That's when It hit me.
These two were young("strike one-), white (~st~ketwo-) and male (~you'reout-). Never mind that withevery Issue, OutWeek clearlymakes a good faith effort toprOC,ttcethe pollttcs of Incluslon...never mind thatarttdes
for and about lesbians andpeople of color Including
sofer sex appear on a regular basis and seem fairly wellwritten ...never mind that the .
article In question was notabout safer sex· In general,
but concerned the specificdangerthat some gay.
(white?) men are apparently
slipping back Into the delicious, but deadly, practiceof unprotected
anal Intercourse, I knew that suchprominent
photos would
elicit a condermatory, knee-

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do such a thlng?the
response
seemedto be.
~How could you
write one major
articlewithout
bendingover. 'J backwards to fulfill
yourRainbow
Coalition requlrements?Suchanaffrontl Don't you
realize every article must ~reachout to- every one" of l!S or we will
unleash a blisterIng torrent of pollt1cal Inv~
tlve? For the mortal sin of
tossing one homogenous
bone to the majority of Its
guilt-ridden
readers,I
demand the Immediate resIgnatlon of the enttre edlto~al staff of OutWeek.
JomJurlcek
Manhattan

Jesus, Marry
Tonight an open forum
was held at the community
centeron the Issue of
whether or not gays and lesbians should be allowed tomarry. The gathering was
well-attended and a myriadof viewpoints were represented.
One of the more Importaht points to surface was,basically, that people are
getting married for otherreasons besides love. Paula
Ettlebrlck, Lambda legal
director and panelist, highlighted this point beautifully
In her argument. She talked
about the Inequalityofbeing married as opposed
to not being married. For
example, the medical benefits denied someone whochooses to be In a relotfonship outside of marriage.
Wouldn't our energy be better spent focusing on health

March 11, 1990

care
for
all,
regardlessofmarital status?
Well, obviously, there'sabroad spectrumof Issues facing
gays and lesbians In the 90s.
Certainly
weshould be fightIng for national
health care In
this country. We
should also be
flghttng to repeal
all sodomy laws
(as panelist MaxIne Wolfe stated), But do westop there? No,
we must· keep
going until gays
and lesbians can
Immigrate freely, unttl gays
and lesbians are allowed toadopt, and-YESI-unttl gays
and lesbians are allowed tomarry.
Many people feel thatmarriage Is an oppressive
Institution. Anel Don't marry,
but don't step on my ~ghts.
As long as heterosexuals areallowed to marry and gays
and lesbians are not, there's
discrimination.
And that's
unacceptable.
A finally note to Bill
Rubenstein (ACLU lawyer,and panelist), whose mothertold h!m It was not yet ttm~
for homosexual mar~ages.
You might ask your motherwhen Is the right time. For
many of us, that ttme Is long
overdue.
David Lopez
Manhattan.
P.S. It's apparent
that
nothing will be resolved In
the Sweeney/Myers debate.
So, please, call the question I

Battle of the Bishops
I was shocked'
andappalled at the critique of
Eric Booths Metamorphosis
by Jacqule Bishop (no. 33,
Feb. 11). No I WQS not
offended by the fact thatshe panned the play, that Is

her job, to give an unbiased
view of the production.
Where I find fault Is In thelast paragraph with the line
~I believe that It Is Importantto support works by peopleof color no matter the quality. - ~People of color, - What
does that mean, green, redor blue? Also, that statement
undermines her objectfvlty or
so It would seem to me.
Does It matter the ethnlclty
of an author to judge thequality of the work? I hopenot. just as It wouldn't matterthat the doctor that saves alife Is Black, white, Hispanic,
etc. or If a c~mlnalls a "person of color: To say that weshould support the work of
any Individual based on theirrace or religion and not thequality of the work Is evenmore abhorrent.
Lest weshould punish that c~mlnal I
spoke of earlier on his colorand not the heinousness of
his crime. If this Is how
Jacqule Bishop feels, I justthank god she Is reviewing
plays and not educating In
our schools or running ourcriminal Justice system.
Thomas A. BIshop
I couldn't help but communicate to you my disgust
after reading Jacqule Blsh-op's thoughtless article, "I
Pledge Allegiance .. : (no.

35, Feb. 25).
When will the queer
nation flnally stop perpetuat~terosexlst
mythologies
that 011 sexualIty Is a deliberate choice? For most of us,
like the color of our skin,homosexuality and lesbianIsm Is our birthright. How, In
this time of Intense homophobia, could OutWeek print
Bishop's statement that she" ... may (though unlikely)change (her) mind about
being a lesbian"?
In effect, you've allowed
BIshop to reinforce long-held
homophobic beliefs that gay
men and lesbians can easilychangetheirsame-sex
lifestyles. We should all know
by now that the straight
media Just eats that klnda
thing right upl Need I redirect you to your own Cooper/Bussee/Exodus
article?
We alre~dy know why that

Latins, Africans and Indians
for the rest of us In the multIarticle hasn't graced theto name a few. In (white)
pages of the New York Post ethnic, multi-racial, multiAmerica, people are segredenominational
queer
and the Enquirer.
gated and judged based
nation-for those of us who
Now more than ever, ouron their skin color. Dr. Matfn
gay and lesbian media Is find that we have about as
Luther KIng's dream of havmuch choice In choosing
carefully scrutinized by aIng people judged on theour sexuality as we do In
predominantly heterosexual
content of their character
media. Andy Rooney's sus- selecting our biological parhas not been real/zed byents and slbllngs-well then,pension verifies that. And
white Americans. As a restJt
towhile we need not scrub our· let's not communicate
we, people of color. use thJs
the heterosexual wortd thatrhetoric for them, we mustterm to empower ourselves,
we play touch-tag games
be vigilant and remember
bridge gaps that exist
wHh our identity. Lest we forthat we are being observed;
between ourselves and, Inget, hundreds of our brothers
listened to. What we comgeneral, create an Inclusive
and sisters die every day asmunicate to straights Is vital
envfronmentfor 011 culturala result of. what straights
to our rights and, perhaps,
diversity.
read and perceive as ourour very existence,
A day affer I received"carefree" choice to be gay
If Jacqule Bishop Is careyour letter. the white-confree about her sexuality (andand lesbian.
trolled media reported 1flat
An OutWeek Reader
I doubt that she really Is but
25 percent of Black males
wish to communicate how,between the ages of 20
Jacqule BIshopresponds:
taken out of context, herand 29 are Involved (IncarMr. Bishop, tfle Ignorance
essay could well be readthat way), and If she reallydisplayed In your letter Is cerated, on parole or on
probation) In the criminal
frightening.
"Peopleofcan be a heterosexual, wellcolor" Is a term used to Justice system. With thisthen please, go do It todayl
knowledge and my experiInclude al/ non-white, nonWhy suffer unnecessary
homophobia? Isn't the big- . European descendents, This ence as an asslstantto crimInal Justice counselors, I
term extends to Asians,
otry and sexism enough? But

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know for a foet that the JOO/- Images were conceived.
dol system Is not colorblind, I
Dean Lance. DIVA-TV
know that we live In a ;aclst
and classlst society where
Manhattan
criminals are Judged In partby their skin color and class
TIm SWeeney
Con VI-Aaoaoaahl
backgrounds.
Thirdly,
because mainstream media
Your article -The Myers
venues do not promote pos- mess' (no. 31, Jan. 28) might
Ittve Images of Blacks, we're better be called -The Dinkins
doing It for ourselves. Thus, Mess.' After all It Is Davethe need to support andDinkins who sought the gay
and lesbian vote. He madeencourage our artists andtheir artistic growth. But at
commitments to our comthe same time, I do expect,munity as outlined In youras an artist, as a producer
editorial endorsement. Afterbeing elected by the narand as an audience memrowest of margins he showed
ber, qual/ty work. The Ignoa side of himself we had not
rance displayed In yourletter Is not only Inexcusable, seen during the campaign.
His stubbornness and arrobut dangerous. I hope you
get Into an antl-raclst meet- gance during this whole
embroglio and his total lackIng to understand why.
of concern for the health
As to the anonymouscommissioner's appointment
reader's letter: 7) I'm out
Is a serious affront to ourand I'm proud and I'm notcommunity.
afrcid to sign my name and
Tim Sweeney's vision of
print It In pLbllc. 2) I do notcompromise has certainly
vIew my chosen lifestyleearned him our distrust andcasually. WhIleI believe pe0his resignation or dismissal byple have orIentatIons, I do
belIeve we choose to or not GMHC seems essential.
to live out Otl 'orientations, •There Is an even more dis-Pro,

Don't Write Twice, It's AlrightIn his review of -Set the
Woods on Are' (no. 27, Dec.
24), Jon Nalley misidentified
the music used In my segment of the DIVA-TV compilation. Pun notwithstanding,. the piece was titled -A
Hard Reign's Gonnq Fall'
after the Bob Dylan composition
from
which
the

DressYou Up In My

Homophobia
Ms. Madonna Cucclone
c/o WIlliam MorTIs Al;Jercy, Inc.
New York, NY 10019
Dear Ms, Cucclone:
I am writing with regard
to the -trailer' that Is now
being shown In local theaters for your forthcoming
film Dick Tracy.Our organization has received complaints

tressing element In this wholemess. Both In ACT UPand thecommlX'llty at large lines arebeing drawn simply on thefact that Mr. Dinkins and Dr.
Myers are Black.
Everyone must be Judged
on their actions and pOSitions, not on the color of
their skin..
Robert Lachance. Port Washington, NYfrom members of the audience who were offended bya young boy's statement toDick Tracy that -(f)or a toughguy like you, you do a lot of
ponsy things.•
Unfortunately, the term-pansy' Is stili commor)ly
used as a derogatory synonym for a gay man. Thus,
for many members of dn
audience, a statement contrasting -tough guy' and-ponsy things' In effect reinforces, although In a subtle
way, common myths andprejudices holding that gay

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men are necessarily effeminate.
At GlAAD we are awareof your support for the rightsof lesbians and gay men as
well as your admirable
efforts In the fight against
AIDS. We hope that you willagree that the statementabout-pansy things'
Is
unnecessary In the movie
and risks relnforclng antl-gay
stereotypes. We therefore

March 11, 1990

urge you to have this statement deleted before themovie Is released.
Thank you very much.
Glenn Gordon
Gay and Lesbian Alliance
Against Defamation, Inc.
Manhattan

Pro-ChoIce
John J. Kelll~r
New York State Plbllc
Service Commission
Albany, NY 12223
Dear Mr. Kelliher
A~ an AIDS educator, Iam writing to you regardingthe Impending applicationof restrictive regulations to
telephonesex services In
New Yorl<State.
Gay Men's Health Crisis
Is. the nation's
first and~largest :AIDS service, education
andadvocacy
organization.
We havebeen educating
gay andbisexual men about safer
sexual practices since 1983.
Our Innovative prevention
programs, among the first
In the world, have saved
thousands of lives. AccordIng to one researcher, ourwork has "resulted In themost profound modification of personal
healthrelated
behaviors
everrecorded.·
However, the popular
notion that everybody In thegay community
alreadyknows everything about AIDS
and how to avoid It JustIs nottrue. A signifICant problem In
safer sex education Is reach-.....

Ing homosexual and bisexual
men who may not haveacknowledged
to themselves or to anyone else theirgay Identity. They do nottake part In activities of thegay communHy, do not feel
comfortablecomingtoorganizations that have agay Identification and consequently have not yet beenreached by safe~sex education.
lhese are people without
the knowledge, skillsor confidence to negotiate a safer

sexualencounterwithanother person. For them,
telephone sex services allow
them to be sexual-safeIy-wlthout
coming out of
thedoset.
As you may know, by theend of 1989 In New Yorl<CHyalone more than 12.(XX) gay
and bisexual men had been
diagnosed with AIDS. In the
middle of an epidemic, It Is
critical to retain every tool
we have to fight transmIssion. Telephone sex Is one
such tool. We can prevent
more loss of life. I strongly
urge you not to undermIne
the efforts of those of us
who are trying to save lives.
Any pressure you may beunder to restrict or eliminate
telephone sex servIces surely
must'be outweighed by thedemands placed on all of
us to flght this epidemIc.
Jeffrey Braff
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Gay Men's Health C~sIs.

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Ne,,,sGay Man to Lead Human
Rights Commission
by Nina Reyes
NEW YORK -Noting that in the
fluny of activity before his appointment,
he did not find the opportunity to statepublicly that he is especially pleased toaccept his new position because he is agay man, New York's recendy appointed
Human Rights Commissioner Dennis
DeLeon told OutWeek last week, "People who I make contact with should beclear about who they're dealing with. n"People should view the commission - will more easily view the commission - as a place where they cancome with sexual orientation [discrimination] complaints, n DeLeon remarked
in a telephone interview, adding that hesees his appointment
as significant
sysmbolically because of the Human
Rights Commission's leading role inresolving ·discrimination issues thatdeeply concern the gay and AIDS-affected communities .
.Given that the Human Rights Commission's mandate encompasses two distinct areas - to adjudicate complaints
and to promote intergroup relations - inwhich Deleon, who, as a gay man, aLatino and an attorney, is uniquely qualified to perfonn, he said, "I certainly hope[that my appointment! will enhance thecommission's ability to promote relations
between the gay communities and othercommunities in New york City.
Where He's Been
Explaining that his Latino identity
has also played a latge role in shaping his
civil-rights perspective, DeLeon .emphasizes that in his new position, which hewill assume March 1.2,he hopes to playa
key role in building mutual respect andcooperation between the Latino.and gay
communities. Although he admits that hehas not been active in any of the several
gay Latino organizations in New York, he
is currently On the board of directors of
the Puerto Rican bar association, and heremains active in a number of other latino organizatioos ..

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DeLeon's appointment
follows
closely on the heels of Mayor David
Dinkin's selection of another openly gay
man, Dr. Billy E. Jones, as Commissioner of Mental Health, and soothes disconte~t among some members of New
York's Latino community who wereangered wh~ Jones, who is Black, waschosen over a Latino' candidate for the
position. Jones and DeLeon are, respectively, the first and second openly-gay
people appointed to commissioner-leveljobs in New York City's history.
Throughout his career, both in New
York and in his home state, California,
De Leon has fought for social change
through civil-rights litigation. He was afounding member of Bay Area Lawyers
for Individual Freedom, the San Francisco area gay bar association, and heworked as regional counsel for California Rural Legal Assistance. As seniorassistant corporation counsel for New
York City, DeLeon successfully broughtsuit against a number of private clubs in
New York because they excluded
women, and he was involved in a suitagainst the Catholic Archdiocese and theSalvation Anny for disaimination on thebasis of sexual orientation.
Most recendy, as deputy boroughpresident under Dinkins, DeLeon won
praise from AIDS activists for his advocacy before the Board of &timate, particularly on housing issues for people
with AIDS.
Deleon's lover of 12 years, Bruce
Kiernan, shares his commitment to socialchange through advancement of civiland human rights issues. Kiernan, who

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currently directs development at Union
Theological SeminaJy, has a backgroundin international human rights.
Where He's Going
Talking about the direction inwhich he wants to move the Human
Rights <;:Ommission,which is currently
swamped with over 600 unassigned
investigations, Deleon outlines two
major areas for improvement within thecommission's mandate.
"I think this commission has to beavailable as an institution to deal withsome of the major intergroup problems
people are facing in this city," Deleon
stated, explaining that he hopes todevelop a mediation program within thecommission that will allow the commission to resolve disputes before theyreach the level of complaints.
To that end Deleon could very
well have his hands full. Just last year,
the AIDS Discrimination Division of the
Human Rights Commission nearly tore
itself apart over tensions between gay
and lesbian staffers and employees from
communities of color. The director of
the unit arid deputy director were fired
and then reinstated before the monthslong debacle was finally put to rest.
Katy Taylor, the deputy director
involved, Called Deleon's appointment"a good choice," and mentioned that
she would be particularly comfortableworking with him because they haveworked together in the past. Taylor said
Deleon was instrumental in securing
the original municipal funding for thedivision she now heads, and said thatfrom her standpoint, the hiring of acommissioner knowledgeable
about
AIDS was "a thrill."
AIDS Discrimination Director Keith
O'Connor concurred. "He's the pettect
person," he told OutWeek. "And he's aknown. With him we won't have toreinvent the wheel."
Deleon also hopes to secure amajor change in the law govem1ng thepowers of the Human Rights Commission during his tenure. Right now, thecommission can collect attorney's fees
and can level penalties for compensatory damages only, obviOusly limiting thedisincentive effect of the city's anti-dis-crimination law. However, legislation
has been introduced to the city council
that will empower the commission tocollect punitive damages as well, andS .. GAY COMMISSIONER on pagl 55

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Black Gay Summit Draws
Hundreds>

New Church Founded; Honors Awarded
by Jim Marks
A11.ANTA~urchcame to Atlanta's Hyatt Regency Hotel Sunday February 18. The 3O-voice,gay Lavendar light
Gospel Oloir, resplendent in white robes
and orange kinteh cloth sashes, performed a jubilant rendition of "There is

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no failure in God. " Then, the Rev. Renee
McCoy from Detroit,
Michigan,preached. "I've always thought Ezekiel
was the prophet of the gay community,"
she said "Ezekiel was a flaming faggot,
a crazy guy who had visions and talked
back to God. But God always told ole·

Zeke to go back and minister to his
brothers and sisters in exile."
For the 200 laughing, praying,singing participants, the morOing's service was powerful affirmation of theirdetermination not to be exiled fromtheir communities.
For Black gays

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GOING HOME. COMING OUT-R.v. R.".. McCoy

Photo: Jim Marks

the service marked the of Black gay men's groups has sprung
beginnings of a new Black gay religious up in cities such as Boston, New York,
organization, headed by McCoy and the Philadephia, Chicago and Oakland, 'QURev. Carl.Beam of Los Angeles, called ifornia. There is a national Black gay
the Unity Fellowship Church.
news publication, the Los Angeles based
The worship service was part of BLK. RepresentativeS of the flourishing
the third' annual National Black Gay African American gay literary scene
and Lesbian Conference, Feb. 16-19, flocked to Atlanta, most notably Barbara
which drew over 450 Black gay men Smith of Kitchen Table Women of Colorand lesbians from around the country. Press, the conference's keynote speaker,
In addition to the formation of Unity and many members of New York's
Fellowship Church, other conferenceOther Countries writers workshop.
relateddevelopments
included
Other conference
participantsannouncementof plans to form a included minority AIDS projects, reliBlack gay political action committee
gious organizations and even a Univer(PAC), and the creation of an ongoing sity of Michigan Black gay student
leadership development program.
group. The three awards handed out
According to Brandy Moore, an at the conference banquet all went toaide to QUifornia State Assembly Speak- women-New
York's Candice. Boyce,
er Willie Brown, the as yet unnamed
Atlanta's Sabrina Sojourner and Rev.
Black gay PAC plans to raise $20,000 in McCoy~ indication of the prominent
the next six months. The first race it role women play in the movement.
has targeted is the Washington, D.C.
The conference was produced by
City Council candidacy of Jim Harvey.
the Los Angeles-based Black Gay and
The conference also featured a Lesbian leadership Forum, begun by
high-spirited, sexy fashion show, a activist Phill Wilson. With an annual
display of work by Black gay and Ies- budget of $180,000, $100,000 of whichbian artists from around the country, a goes into the conference, the BGIl..F isliterary evening and the East Coast pre- itself one of the nation's most substantial
mier of Marlon Riggs' Black gay docu- Black gay groups. According to BLK
mentary, Tongues Untied. A daylong
publisher Alan Bell, the conference sighealth institute focusing primarily on nificantly increased its national represenAIDS and women's health precededtation by holding the event in Atlanta, its
the conference.
first move outside Los AngeleS.
The conference marked a major
While unity and fellowship were
step in the Black gay community's
the prevailing. spirits, there was considrecent development. The 1980s wit- erable diversity among participants. On
nessed an explosion of local African- . the political spectrum, keynote speaker
American gay organizations. A network
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Ne,,,s,ngh Court Declines tollearGay Military Cases
by elHf O'Neill and John leh

court will not grant gays and lesbians them and sooner or later they're goinglegal protection under constitutional
to have to look at the issue," she said.
guarantee of free speech and equal
The court's action brings to anprotection or treatment.
end Ben-Shalom's 16-year battle with
The court has "historically been
the AnDy to remain in the service inreluctant to take gay-related cases,"
which she won virtually every phase of
said Evan Wolfson, an attorney with her struggle.
Lambda Legal Defense and Education
Although, as of Feb. 28, she hadI._iFund. "They're not going not yet received her discharge, sheto reach out' and take the expects that it may be coming soon.
opportunity to protect gay"I suppose the only appropriate
people's rights to protect
words [I cart say] are: I feel devastattheir own rights, evened," said Ben-Shalom. "I feel outrage. I
though theyve never ruled feel angry. Would you understand it ifon the equal protection or I said, 'What in the name of God do I
First Amendment issues
need to do to be a citizen of this counwith regard to gays."
try and be fit to serve her? To have theGayandlesbiansame responsibilities and privileges asactivists also worry about any other citizen?'"
implications of this latest
In the Ben Shalom case, Berrigan
move on discrimination in argued that the Army violated Bencivilian life, although some Shalom's First Amendment right to free
see the decision
as a speech and her constitutional protecmixed blessing.
tions under the Equal Protection"Although many homo- Clause by penalizing her for her statesexuals have no interest in ment that she was a lesbian.
joining the military," aIgUed
After winning repeated rounds inPatrick T. Berigan, Ben- her case, Ben-Shalom was set back by
Shalom's attorney "all have a Chicago
appeals
court which
an interest in making sure declared that by identifying herself as athat the federal government lesbian, she declared herself as prone
does not, in any of its agen- to "criminal" behavior, and that evicies, condone discriminadence of same sex sexual behavior wastion whichdoes
not not needed to deny her reenlistment.
rationally relate to any legitThe Bush Administration had earimate interest. nlier flled a brief with the court supLO~S ytOMEN, LOVES AMERICA
The refusal-to-review
porting the military's position. In it,
Sgt. M~ti"'"Ben-Shalom
Photo: Tracy Bain/Outlines
prompted mixed reaction
Solicitor General Kenneth W. Starr
Without comment, the tribunal
from Lambda staff attorney Sandra Lowe, said that, as the military has beenrefused to consider an appeal by Miri- who represents fom1er Midshipman Joe allowed to ban same-sex sexual conam ,Ben-Shalom, a lesbian sergeant
Steffan in a suit againSt his exPulsion by tact, "it is implausible to say that thoserefused reenlistmentin the Army
the U.S. Naval Academy .. "One was with a proclivity to commit such acts
constitute a group that deserves speReserve. And it declined to decide a relief," she said. "This is .the Hardwick
plea by James M. Woodward, a Naval court," which ruled in 1986 that homo- cial protection under the Equal Proofficer booted out after being honest
sexual conduct is not protected by the tection Clause."
The other case centered aroundabout his sexual orientation.
constitution's privacy provision.
The decision to forego review is"But my initial reaction was, 'they James M. Woodward, a Naval Flight
Officer candidate who was denied'not ~ ruling on the military's policy per can run, but they can't hide.' These. se. ·But it is seen as a sign that the high cases do arise. We're going to bring enlistment in 1972 when he checked
WASHINGTON-The U.S. Supreme
Court on Feb. 26, declined to hear twocases challenging the military's standing
policy of excluding lesbians and gay
men from the service, handing down amajor setback for lesbian and gay military activists.

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"yes" when asked if he has same-sex
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attractions, but denied having acted
upon them.
While lesbian and gay militaryactivists have been extremely disappointed by the Supreme Court's refusal
to hear the two cases, they are hoping ,that, should the court likewise decline
to hear other cases challenging the mil'. Call for a FREE CONSULTATION with a Male or Female Board
itary policy, they will seek to have itchanged by other means.
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Gay and Lesbian Task Force. "But this• Insurance plans accepted.
issue is not closed and we plan onpressing the Congress to force thePentagon to change their deeply irrational policy."
Jeffrey E. lavigne, M.D.
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the truth."
As for herself, Ben-Shalom is waiting for her impending d~ge,
and ishoping it will not be a bad one, which :::1:
would affect her civilian employment.
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Ne\;\'sRising AIDS Case/oads and the NY State Budget:

When More Moneyis Still Not Enoughfor treatment of HIV-related illnesses.
The draft budget actually calls for a cutof about $600,000 in funds to support
the work of CSPs.
Meanwhile, caseloads at state-supported CSPs and at private organizations that receive state funding areexpected to continue to rise sharply
during the coming year. Groups contacted by OutWeek reported caseload
increases ranging from 25 to 100 percent in the past year alone.

KlWNG ME SORLY?-ACT UP goa down on the State Capi",1by Jam.. Wallar!'fEW YORK-Even in a year of
drastic budget slashing, a 28 percent
ina-ease in state AIDS funding won't
be enough to keep many needed services alive, according to AIDS care
workers around the state. Advocatessay they face huge service cutbacks"
because of the ever-rising caseloads ofpeople living with AIDS.
Community
service providers(CSPs) and related AIDS service andadvocacy organizations
throughout
New York State are finding themselves
fighting an uphill battle for what they
see as bottom-line necessary increases
in AIDS-related spending by the state
during the coming fiscal year.
Despite an increase of more than
$60 million for AIDS-related expenditures in the draft budget prepared byGovernor Mario Cuomo and submitted
to the state legislature in January, thetotal monies allotted for AIDS-related
services represent a significant shortfall
when compared with need.
.
.According to Yun Sweeney, deputy
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Photo: Tom McKitterick/lmpact Visuals
executive director for policy of the Gay
Men's Health Crisis, well over half ofthe more than $266 million
allotted for AIDS in the governor's draft· budget for 1990-91
will automatically go into mandated
programs such as Medicaid payments

Service CUll Expected
The state's 13 CSPs, which arechartered under the state-run AIDS InsIitute, often serve communities in which
private organi2ations providing similar services do not exist. Paula Silvestrone, who
directs AIDS Rochester Inc., a CSP thatserves eight upstate New York counties,
told OutWeek, "If you want services otherthan medical
services in theNEWS FOCUS Rochester area,

we're basically the only ones providing
Se. NYS BUDGET on .. ,. 2D

AIDS, Church and State

When a House is
Not a Homeby Jamas WaUar
NEW YORK-Despitequestionsand objections raised by' more than 30
AIDS service organizations and advocacy groups, the New York State Public
Health Council (PHC) on February 23
granted tentative approval to the
Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New
York City's application for state fmanc- .

ing for two health-related
facilities(HRFs) for the long-term care andhousing of HIV-ill people.
The archdiocesan facilities are to
be constnlcted at locations on Tompkins Square Park and on East 99th
Street near Seq>nd Avenue, on cityowned land that will be sold to thearchdiocese for this purpose. The facil-lUes, If built, will house 200 PWAs
whose health is good enough that thc:ydo not require hospitalization.
Before fmal approval can be given
to the facilities, which will be operated
by the Terence Cardinal Cooke HealthCenter, church officials must by May 1
negotiate a "memorandum of understanding" with the state-run AIDS Institute. If agreement is reached, thatmemorandum will provide guarantees
that the archdiocesan agency will operate the new facilities in accord withstate-mandated regulations, rather than
Catholic doctrine.
The city's sale of its properties tothe archdiocese, which was approvedby the Board of Estimate last year,
must also be fmalized before construction of the HRFs can commence.
The Cooke Health Center's application has received vocal opposition
from a wide range of AIDS advocacy,
women's, family planning, health workers' and civil liberties groups. Some,
while not opposed in principle to thearchdiocese's desire to provide housing
and medical services to HIV-ill people,
insist that strict guarantees to provide
safer-sex education, drug treatment,
gynecological and other services must
be built into the church-state contract,
Beyond doubting the archdiocese's good faith if it agrees to provide
on-site condom distribution, abortionand birth-control counseling and otherservices that run counter to Catholic
doctrine, opponents have raised questions concerning the independence ofthe board that will administer the facilities. According to several sources, thebOard proposed by the Cooke Centeris composed of individuals closely
linked to the archdiocese or to archdiocese-run medical facilities and isoverwhelmingly white and male.
Objections to the design of the
proposed facilities have also been
voiced. Reportedly, these designs specify semi-private rooms, toilets to beshared among four people, and shower rooms that are located away frombedrooms but near common facilities
such as dining halls.
Some groups,
such as ACT
UP/New York, remain adamantly
opposed to the state's financing any
Catholic-run HRF or other medical or
housing facility for people with AIDS.
Eric Sawyer, a spokesperson for ACf
UP's housing committee, tol<1 Outweekthat the members of his committee feelthat the archdiocese is incapable ofdelivering nonjudgmental care to PWAs.
Many of those who during thepast year have been involved in fighting the archdiocese's application complain that both the church and the
PHC have been unresponsive to theirrequests to be included in the deciSion-making process.
Robert Peterson, of the Gay Men's
Health CriSiS, told Out Week that the
PHChas ignored community appeals
to delay approval of the Cardinal
Cooke facilities. GMHC's repeatedrequests for clarification on the' archdiocese's willingness to prOvide statemandated services' have never received
direct response, Peterson ;S3id.
"The PHC's approval provides theillusion of community support," he said,"whereas in reality the Catholic CllUrch
facilities appear to have been granted an
exemption from following New YorkState public health policy." Peterson said
that the Public Health. Commissioner has
tended to use the state's AIDS Institute asa clearinghouse for objections raised bycommunity-based AIDS service providers.
Peterson also told OutWeek that
14 other potential HRF providers currently have applications pending before
the PHC: A source experienced in theapprovals process told OutWeek that
archdiocesan proposals were among
the first to receive the PHC's okaybecuase "the church was smart enoughto see AIDS-related HRFs as a cash
crop long before anyone else did."
ACT UP's Sawyer charged that"the archdiocese is attempting to get amonopoly on AIDS housing in New
York State." He said that ACf UP had
received no response to communications urging the archdiocese to include
PWAs and AIDS advocates on the proposed facilities' governing board.
Sawyer said that his committee haslearned that in the agreement governing
the dty's sale of its Fast Village and FastSide properties to the archdiocese, thedty will only require that the archdiocese
dedicate the new facilities to the care andhousing of HIV-ill people for sevenyears. Usually, Sawyer said, such bills ofsale require a 3Q-year dedicated uSe.
The Archdiocese of New York currently has another application pending
for state financing of a proposed 66bed health-related facilities on Manhattan's Upper West Side. T

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Ronald Johnson, director of the
Minority Task Force on AIDS, sajp thatunless allotments rise above the levels
suggested in the draft budget, his 0rganization will be forced to tum clients away
or cut back on the level of services
offered. Johnson's organization, which
receives about 80 percent of its operating budget from government sources, hasregistered a 50 percent
increase in its caseload
over the past year.
So far, Johnsonsays, staffmg increases
have kept pace withthe rise in the numberof the task force's
clients. But, he says,"we are already at thatpoint where the levelof staff is reaching its
saturation point."
He also said thatthe proposed budget
would effectively cancel the chances of any
start-up communitybasedorganization
being able to begin
operation-Q dire prediction for communities of. color, where
the impact of the epidemic is being felt
ever more severely.
Such bleak prospects were reiterated
by Ron Silverio, who
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the past year.
New York, a Buffalo-based CSP that
Another CSP, the AIDS Center of serves an eight-county region. ComQueens County, has already begun
pared to New York City levels,
cutting back on the services it now caseloads in the western part of theoffers to more than 700 clients.
state are light. Still, says SilveriO, his
According to its director, Gary Maffei, organization has seen a 100 percent
ACQC will be forced to discontinue
jump in the number of people seeking
completely the counseling and other services in the past eight months.
services it provides to the family mem"We've grown tremendously in thebers and friends whose lives are also past year," said ·Silverio, "but if thedevastated when a loved one gets sick. .state budget stays flat in terms of CSPs,
And programs serving communiwe feel it would be tragic to potential
ties of color, women and adolescentsclients." He said that the Buffalo area is
are likely ~o be hardest hit by the new beginning to see dramatic increases inbudget if it is approved without signifi- seropositivity among African-Amerithose sevices."
She Said her group expects it will
have to slash the number of prevention education materials it can purchase and distribute if the governor'sbudget is approved. AIDS Rochester'scaseload, which stands at nearly 400,
has risen by more than 30 percent in~¢I

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On February 6, about 175 AIDS
service workers from New York Cityand elsewhere traveled to Albany, meeting with more than 90 state legislators ina massive lobbying effort that represented the first engagement in a campaignthat will extend through the end of
March, when state senators and assemblypersons are required to approve thestate budget for the coming fiscal year.
That event was organized by the
New York AIDS Coalition (NYAC), an
umbrella organization representing alarge number of AIDS service organizations, both private and public. Lobbyists presented legislators with a "moral
benchmark" funding agenda, drawn up
by NYAC, that requests an increase of$270 million in state AIDS spending
over the next fiscal year.
That is the amount activists say isnecessary to effectively meet the crisis
spawned by the epidemic. Realizing,
however, that such a proposal mightseem fiscally outlandish in a year whenmany state social-service programs facebudget cuts, NYAC pared down its
demand to a "survival budget" that asks
for nearly $20, million more than the. amount proposed by Governor Cuomo.
The "survival budget," also given
to legislators, provides an extremely
detailed funding agenda that its compilers hope will be followed if the legislature does decide to add money tothe governor's AIDS allotment. The
survival budget's demands include $10
million in additional funds for CSPs
and community-based organizations.
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ive. 1 told her 1 would be needing time off for the AI stuff
and she was just supportive 'all the way.". There was never a question which member of the couple would be the birth mother. "Laura jokes about being thechild's father,· said Margaret, "but the child will have two
by Victoria A. Brownworth
mothers.·
Artificial insemination (AI) has become almost comThe medical process began. Margaret and Laura weremonplace among lesbian couples under 45 who want to "interviewed" by the team of doctors who would work withhave children together. But although a fair amount of them at a local hospital known for its work in fertility probpress-gay
and lesbian as well as mainstream-has
been lems and artificial insemination. It is one of the best progiven over to the subject, that coverage hasgrams in thefocused mainly on the trend itself and the resulcountry
andtant family. The stories have been about how the
had been usedmothers cope, how outsiders deal with lesbian
by a couple
families and how children cope with the two-mother/noMargaret was quite close to.
father families, rather than about the process itself.
.The initial consultation and testing cost close to $500.
1 interviewed a lesbian couple who are going through The doctors explained the variety of issues involved andthe AI process. They are fairly typical of lesbian AI cou- talked with both women. Margaret said the doctors, men,
ples. Margaret is 34 and her lover, Laura, is 41. Both are were "extremely respectful of our relationship" and that thewhite, with good incomes. They own their small I
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house which is situated in a neighborhood full ofyoung children. They have been going through the
AI process for nearly a year. They agreed to tell thestory of their experience with AI in the hope that it
would help other women realize the implications of
the decision and the various factors·that need to beconsidered.
.
Many jokes are leveled about "turkey baster"babies. But in t.1-teera of AIDS and other frightening
and life-threatening sexually transmitted and genetically defined diseases, the AI process couldn't be amore scientific and complex one.
Margaret (the names here. have been changed toprotect the women's jobs; both are teachers) comesfrom a large Midwestern family. She has always"assumed" she would have children but the talk of
doing so began about six years ago. She and Laura
have been together ten years and have lived together for eight. "I knew 1 wanted a child-l knew wewanted a child. We sort of settled on my being 31 or
32 when we would initiate the process and that's. about what happened. We'd already bought thehouse and settled into it. Our jobs were very secure.
1 went to my supervisor and discussed the effect thatbeing· a pregnant single mother might have on my I.
.•i.students and, to my surprise, she was very supportIllustration by Kns Kovlck

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Ne\tvswomen have never encountered any discrimination for theirlesbianism.
One of the first decisions the women had to make had
to do wi~ donors. They chose anonymous based on a variety of problems that can dCcur with a known donor. "Basically," said Margaret, "there is simply no involvement or
claim an anonymous donor can have on your child. And his
family can't have claims either. Although we didn't personally know of any problems with known donors, we had reada lot of hOlTor stories. If you have a known donor you are
obligated legally to allow that child to be visited by not justthe donor, but by his parents. If those parents decide you
aren't a fit mother because you're a lesbian, they could suresue for custody. And if you have a falling out or other problems with the donor, be can sue for custody too. We just felt
the potential for problems was too great.·
The other issue with donors is whether to use fresh or
frozen sperm. Margaret explained that fresh sperm, thoughmore expensive and potentially slightly more dangerous interms of transmittable diseases, is much more likely to get awoman pregnant. "The sperm in the frozen state are much
more slow-moving-they
aren't as motile and they aren't as
likely to get you pregnant.· And ~ince the cost of each
insemination is $225 to $300 depending on where thewoman is having the procedure done, and since there mustbe at least two inseminations a month, the costs can run

quite high, making fresh sperm a more economical choice.
Margaret and Laura's team uses sperm from donors whoare screened every four months for everything from mv tohepatitiS, as well as genetic diseases. The women feel they
are as safe as they can be with the AI process.
But pregnancy doesn't always occur immediately. After
six months of insemination without success, Margaret's doctors suggested further tests for fertility. She went through alaparoscopy, which examines the Fallopian tubes for blockage or other damage. An estimated 50 percent of womenover the age of 30 have at least one' blocked tube. Since
ovulation is dependent on the egg getting through the tube
to the uterus to be fertilized, blocked tubes are nearly
always the reason for infertility.
Margaret was told she had one blocked tube and anoth-.
er filled with scar tissue. This was removed and she wasthen able to ovulate normally. To facilitate the ovulation she
was put on a fertility drug, Oomid, and had further testing.
She then found that her cervical mucous was· fighting thesperm and that too was interfering with her chances of pregnancy. She then began intra-uterine inseminations (which
are more complex and more expensive than regular AI).
After three months of intra-uterine AI and the drug, Margaret'became pregnant.
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Nc\vsreally have to want to have a child because it really becomes
AI and about lesbian parenting. Talk to other women who
a consuming issue-you' can't not think about it. First you
have gone through the procedure and talk to as many mothhave to take your temperature every day at the same time ers-lesbian and hetero~
you can. This is a highly
when you get up so you can detennine when you're ovulatemotional thing, and you're on an emotional roller-coastering so that you can' be inseminated at that time. Then you much of the time waiting to get pregnant. There are all sorts
are always going for something. I felt that I was always wait- of stresses involved and that is bound to effect your relationing for the insemination
ship. When Laura and I
or waiting for my period
decided to have a baby
and then waiting for the
we also had to sit down
insemination again. Thenand redefine our relationif you are on the drugs
ship in terms that-what
you're taking those five
we wanted,
what wedays a month so that's
didn't want. Your relationsomething else to remindship has to be strong andyou of the process. And
settled to withstand having
then the people who
a child with no problems.
know are always asking
AI is problematic- it isn't
you about it so it reallyeasy and so I would say
does take up a huge
women really have topiece of your emotional
know what their bond isself. It's almost like it has
before they start to do it.'to be an obsession for
Laura was also conyou to get through it.'cemed about her role in
Margaret also warns
the parenting and her feelthat the process is timeings of ambivalence. Talkconsuming. 'Women r.eed
ing to other non-birth
to take time off frommothers was helpful forwork for the inseminaher but she said she reallytions which must be done
didn't know how she felt
first thing in the morning
until Margaret was actuallywith fresh sperm. The
pregnant. Both womenintra-uterine is even moreemphasize that support istime consuming since it
essential.
requires first an ultraLaura and Margaret
sound then a return trip
have worked out the parfor insemination. Lauraenting of the child both. went with Margaret for
legally and personally.
one of the two inseminaBoth say it is essential thattions each month.
legal
documentsareThe other consideraIllustration by Kris Kovick drawnupregardingtion is the expense. The
guardianship and the roleinseminations cost over $500 a month and the dnig is $50. of the non-birth mother before the child is born. The interests
In addition there are various tests that need to be made,of the child and both mothers need to be addressed. This isespecially if the woman is not pregnant by the sixth monthespecially important to protect the child from custody battles
of insemination. Only about half of all women who are
and keep such issues with extended family from arising.
undergoing AI get pregnant in their fJISt six months of AI;
Knowing the process and having good references forabout seven percent more will get pregnant in the second
doctors is another essential, they agree. "You're going to a
six months. Others have more difficulty. A certain percentstranger for something deeply personal," said Margaret.
age tum out to be infertile.'"You have to feel safe with that person and sure that
Margaret's insurance pays for most of her insemination
everything is being done to ensure a safe and healthy
fees, but it took her several months to understand the propregnancy. Be assertive, ask questions, know what you
cess for applying for the reimbursements. And not all states . need ahead of time and remember that when you're workare supportive of AI, and therefore only certain insurance
ing with a team. of doctors th~y don't always know whatplans cover any of the costs.
the other ones have said or done. This is your child andAs for what women should do to prepare for AI, Mar- you are paying a lot of money and putting in a lot of emo. garet and Laura recommend the following. "Read. Read as tional and physical time and eqergy. You need to be sure•. inariy books and articles as you can about moth~ring, abput . your needs are met.' T
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Reward 'paidin 8.1. Dlurder

captureNEW YORK-A $5,000 reward
posted by the Gay and Lesbian AntiViolen.c~ Project will be paid on Tuesday, March "6, to an informant who
cooperated with the police and facilitated thJ capture of Philip Sarlo,
accused in the January 22 anti-gay
murder of James Zappalorti.
. "We are pleased that our reward
heiped lead to Sarlo's arrest," said Matt
Foreman, the project's director. "We'renot pleased that we had to post areward in the first place, however. The
city's failure to act forced us to do so,
and we're not sony.", The Anti-Violence Project posted areward on' February
8, after the
mayor's office failed to respond to
repeated requests for the posting of areward. The mayor announced theposting of a city reward of $10,000
during his appearance at the Commu-'
nityCenter on February 22.
The municipal reward will only be
paid ,if. tQe information
leading toSarlo's arre$t results in a conviction,accor<uog td police officer Joseph GaIlagher:m
public information office.at the Police Department.
According to Foreman, police
sources 'say .that numbers of persons
began calling with· information when
the reward was posted.
Sarlo, 26, was arrested on February
18 in Ocala, Florida, while he talked
from a ,pay telephone with a police
depattment detective in New York. The
detective was able to reach Sarlothrough the informant, and the call wasplaced fro~ 'the informant's house.
Both the police and AVP have declined
to reveat the identity of the infonnant.
Sarlo waived an extradition hearing and was returned to New York on
Febru~ry 23 and was arraigned on
February 26. Bail was set at $500,000.
. The' other man charged in the. murder, Michael Taylor, was arrested. on January 23, shortly after Zappalorti'stheI
was acquainted with Melton. ,Accordingto trial testimony,
Melton ·and Johnson turned on Nashafter he made sexual advances toward
them while they were riding: around in
Nash's car drinking.
Key witness Robert Cox, a closefriend of Melton, told th~ jury that
Melton and Johnson told ,him "theyhad gotten into it and hit (N~h) with abumper jack. One of the~ said theboy was queer and tried to get a holdof them. They said that he had tried tosuck one of them ... They· said they
were going to bum the car and hadtaken the car down Clark Road anddrove it off in a holler," Cox said.
Cox reported Melton: and Johnson's story to police the evening of theattack and police located the car some
24 hours later in a wooded area on anabandoned logging road.
In trial testimony, state trooperDavid Grant said he found Nashlocked in the trunk with seVere lacerations about the head and With his headresting on a large snapping turtle.
There was a strong odor: of gasoline
and charred paper on thelid.
Dr. Eugene Shively, ~hotreatedNash at Taylor County Hbspital, told
the jury that Nash had b~n severely
beaten and had multiple lacerations to
the head. "Brain was corDing out thelacerations to the forehead;" he s~d.
Although it did not come out during the trail, sources say Nash had also
been raped with a crow bar or stick,
and attacked by the snllPping turtle.
The American snapping turtle, CbelyA white man who tried to murder
dra serpenNna, will eat human flesh.
a Black man he believed was gay by
Nash survived the ~ttack but isbeating him with a bumper jack, lock- described as' a "vegetable~ and will be
ing him a car trunk with a live snap- institutionalized for the r~ of his life.
ping turtle, and then attempting to
The verdict againSt Melton was forburn the car, was sentenced to 50 first degree assault, for which he will
years in prison Feb. 16 by a Taylor serve 20 years, and first degree arson, forCounty, Kentucky ju~y in Campwhich he will serve 30 years. The senbellsville. A second suspect charged in . tence will run consecutively. A chaIge ofthe att"ack is undergoing psychiatricattempted murder was dropped after it
evaluation and has not stood trial.
.
waS learned that Nash wduld not die.
The victim, Kirk Nash, 21, wasA psycholOgist testified during theassaulted Sept. 14 in rural Camp~ trial that Johnson ha~ a "borderline
bellsville by Rex Melton, 23, andpersonality disorder" abd is subject toallegedly by Ricky Johnson, 19, who explosive behavior. Sdurces say Johbhas not yet stood trial. Nash and John- son has received soci~1 security payson were lifelong friends and Nash ments for a "mental <$order" for ninebody was discovered.
The Staten
Island District Attorney's Office has
previously indicated that Taylor was
the principle wielder of the knife usedin the murder. Zappalorti was stabbed
four times. and his throat slashed.
At his arraignment, Sarlo was also
charged with second degree murder.
Taylor was previously indicted for second degree murder for. stabbing andkilling Zappalorti. Both men wereindicted on 12 other counts, including
robbery grand larceny, burglary andpossession of stolen property.
Foreman has also made a formal
request for a special prosecutor in thecase, citing Staten Island District Attorney William Murphy's indifference topast bias cases. Gov. Mario Cuomo has
not made a decision on the request.
Second degree murder carries a minimum sentence of 15 years, and a maximum sentence of 25 years. Bothdefendants have prior convictions for ananti-gay attack in 1986. If convicted in the
Zappalorti case, Sarlo's prior conviction
could be used to extend his sentence
considerably. Taylor was previously convicted as a youthful offender and his priorconviction cannot be used against him.

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years and will likely never stand trial.
Racism is believed' to have been afactor in the attack as Melton bragged to
Cox that he had "knocked a nigger inthe head," according to trial testimony.

-Rex Wockner
Stan McKinney, news editor of
Tqe Central Kentucky News-Journal,
contributed to tbts report.

Europeansjoining boyClott of U.S.
AIDS talks
Meeting in Copenhagen Feb. 17-18,
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onto the growing boycott of the Sixth
International Conference on AIDS,to beheld June 20-24 in San Francisco.
The 200 delegates join numerous
AIDS service organizations, scientists
and governmental health officials from
Europe, Canada, Australia and the U.S.
in refuSing to attend the gathering.
They all object to U.S, immigration
rules that require HIV-positive foreigners to receive an "HIV waiver" before
entering the country.
In a resolution, the Copenhagengroup "demand[edl the abolition of
travel restrictions based on HIV-antibody status throughout the world andin particular the USA, which should
honor its own commitments to the1988 International Health Minister'sCharter and the recommendations of
the World Health Organization."
All of the delegates represented
member groups of the European Council of AIDS Organizations.

The Copenhagen conference 'was
subtitled "Re-Gaying HIV," in recognition of the fact that the "AIDS establishment" is rapidly gaining control of
the AIDS organizations founded andnurtured by homosexuals.
"It's a question of doing justice tothe achievements of the gay community," said British AIDS activist and conference organizer Simon Watney.
"AIDS organizations in the Westappoint heterosexuals as directors inorder to appear respectable and getgovernment funding. We have to insist
that it be remembered that the professionals who have entered the epidemic
entered late and entered reluctantly ..
"Everywhere you look," Watney
continued, "governments are claiming
responsibility for the safer sex revolution amongst gay men, which is preposterous. Gay men invented safe sex."
Watney charged that the "heterosexual professionals who have enteredthe field have refused to learn anythingfrom gay community
experience,
which is demonstrably the most important factor in safer sex. There is arecalcitrant homophobia."
Among the 200 delegates, whocame from 19 European nations, werereprese'ntarives from gay and AIDS
groups in the former Communist
nations of Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary and Poland.
-Rex Wockner

Anti-gayterror inArgentina
Thirty gay men are arrested eachnight in Buenos Aires, according to thelatest communique from Communidad

Homosexual Argentina.
In a plea JOr help sent to membersof the International Lesbian and Gay
Association· Feb. 21, CHA president Alejandro Zalazar and secretary Teresa De
RitO also desaibed a massive raid on all
the city's gay bars Dec. 22 during which
400 homosexuals were arrested.
According to CHA, federal police
officers engage in varying fonns of psychological torture, including: "If the person is in the doset, they threaten to phone
the fumily or the employer and sometimes
do. Persoos anested are forced to undress,
threatened with guns, verbally abused,
given nothing to eat and little to drink,~
to mockery, insults, humiliation
aild even sexual assault"They get thrown into common
cells with drunkards, robbers and thehomeless,."
CHA continued,"getslapped, and are forced to clean thebathrooms, sweep the precincts, serve
the policemen and do menial work.
They are also denied access to thephone and beaten if they appeal."
Homosexuality
is not illegal in
Argentina, so gays are taken in on"trumped-1Jp prostitution
charges."According to CHA, such arrests areallowed under "police edicts," which
circumvent the courts. The first twoarrests require the payment of large
fines. A third offense leads to a monthin jail and a fourth to years in prison.
A second level of police harassment of gays falls under a law known

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as ACf 333/58, which allows rando.marrests in o.rder to. searCh fo.r criminal
records. Under the law, those arrested
can o.nly be held fo.r 24 ho.urs, but
0iA says police routinely fail to. register arrests until ho.urs later.
"In practice, police kidnap people
fo.r o.ne o.r two. days," the group said.
On Jan. 4, 0iA members met with
Secretary o.f the Interio.r Dr. Rafael
Barra, who. said he Wo.uld talk to. thefederal chief o.f Po.lice. The result,ho.wever, was large-scale raids o.n thecity's gay bars o.nJan. 5, 6 and 7.
In defense o.f the policies, federal
police maintain that the arrest o.f gays
keeps law and o.rder because o.f "thecriminal tendencies o.f drunkards, drug
addicts, gay people, teenagers, prostitutes,
the homeless and the poor," QiA wrote.
CHA requests pro.test letters to.
Argentinean President Carlo.SMenen at:
Balcarce 50, 1064 Bueno.s Aires,
Argentina;
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Figuero.a, Minister o.f the Interio.r " atthe same address. Send a Co.Pyto. theInternational Lesbian and Gay Associatio.n Actio.n Secretariat at GLF-Koln,
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A clandestine
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hetels. There is also a gay greup in fermatien at the University ef Bucharest,
but it is still clandestine. We did net
manage to. get in teuch with them."
In a Feb. 22 interview, Almedal
said his infermatiencame frem aRemanian 1V reporter who. received aletter frem the gay greup.
"They have demanded that she
have pregrams en hemosexuality andthat she help abolish the [anti-gay] law
in the penal code," Almeda! said. "We
also. heard there had been a street
demenstratienin which students
demanded that the law be abo.lished,that the study week be shertened andthat some exams be postponed."
Almeda! said it was easy· to. meetgay men in the receptien areas ef the
Hetel Do.rbanti and Hetel Intercenti. nental in Bucharest.
Romania is presently in the throes
ef a childheed AIDS epidemic that
health efficials believe will soon explodeinto.the adult heterosexual populatien.
The children were infected via
centaminatedbleed transfusiens er
threugh the, re-use ef unsterilized
hypodermic needles.

Health authoriti~s believe heterosexual adults are at serious risk
because of a ·series of factors present
in the port city of Constanta:
First,' prostitu~es :n Constanta havesex with a wide vanety of international
sailors. Then, the same women havesex with Romanian dock workers andwi~ 6tl'ierlmen in the tGwn. Finally, allfull-time laborers in Constanta are
required to donate blood, which is notscreened for HIV.
To date, Romanian health authorities have apparently not spoken about
AIDS among homosexuals.
According to Almedal, part of thereason is that "the gay community as
such doesn't exist in Romania.
"There are just nuclei of gay people who know each other," he said.
"The laws were very strictly enforced.
Even people who have been homosexually infected with HIV would not havecome out [of the closet]; they would
have said they got it from a woman."
The emergence of the clandestine
gay group in Bucharest leaves Bulgariaas the only East BloC' nation with no
known gay organization.
-Rex Wockner

Kooppushes
for early
HIVcareWASHINGTON-Former
SurgeonGeneral C. Everett Koop joined Rep.
Heruy A Wdxman (D-Calif.) in calling on
Congress to ensure HlV-infected individuals early and convenient access to medical
treatment during testimony before a House
subcommittee Feb. 27, while guarding
against demands for federal man~tory
HlV testing and contact tracing.
Speaking before the House Subcommittee on Health and the Fnvironment,
Koop stated .~t a growing feeling ofcomplacency about AIDS, coupled with asense that the disease will not affect thegreat majority of Americans, has led
many to think that the ever-growing epi-

demic is already under con~.
"These problems have yet to beaddressed at the national level," Koop
stated. "And if they are not addressed
they will only get ·worse." .
He added, "When a patient feels

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()ut '"rakes
there is sufficient reward to take the wonder why we're now having thedemonstrations which are expected torisk of getting tested, they will," Koop highest rates of syphUis in' years. "happen ...in San Francisco that week."
added, "If they do not, they will not."The Sixth International Conference-CUff O'Neill
Earlier, Waxman chided both theon AIDS, to be held the ~~asBush and Reagan administrations for
San Francisco's Lesbian and Gay Freetheir limited AIDS funding. .
dom Day celebration, is expected to ,be"Because of the years of misthe target of vociferous demonstrations.
placed moralizing
about sex and
by AIDS and gay/lesbian activists. Manydrugs," Waxman stated, "government. of the demonstrations will be focusedhas missed its opportunity 'to slow theon the standing U.S. immigration andspread of the virus. Now the"weight ofvisitors policy against HIV infected forthe inevitable caseload is coming
eigners. -CUff O'Neill T
crashing down on our hospitals and
WASHINGTON-President George
MUlE from pag. 14
our public assistance programs.... The Bush is scheduled to deliver his second
sins of the Reagan prevention policy
Ouistianity was identified as a major
speech on AIDS as president at anaround AIDS are going to have to be upcoming suburoan Washington confer- factor in homophobia, AIDS hysteria,
paid by th~ Bush payment plan:"internalized racism and self-hatred. Andence of bUSiness and labor leaders
To counter that problem, Waxman addressing the epidemic, a :White House sexism, misogyny and cloSed-<Joor"gOod
has now introduced the Medicaid AIDS spokesperson confirmed Feb. 21.
ole boy-ism" were tagged for impedingand HIV Amendments of 1990 (H.R.
the success of the pro~ive
movements.
The president will deliver the
Bellinger's message was that we4080), a comprehensive
AIDS carekeynote address at. the\ March 29
package which would, among otherneed to work with everyone if we are
Crystal City, Va. conference of thethings, allow asymptomatic, HIV posi- National Leadership Coalitiqn on AIDS, going to get any work done. "I know
tive individuals to qualify for Medicaid a confederationthat there are some of us who don'tof 180 businesses,
disability benefits befor~ they actually labor unions and community groups
date certain people because they prodevelop AIDS symptoms and would
cess their hair, or we don't talk to pe0addressing AIDS in the workplace.
grant federal matching funds to states .
ple who change their eye color, orAlso scheduled to speak at theimplementing insurance assistance pro- conference are Dr. Anthony Fauci,
they're not attractive, or they're not thisgrams for people with AIDS.
'
director of the National Institute of or that." Johnson put it best when she
As he has done in virtually every Allergy and Infectious Diseases, andsaid, "We must get past our differences
AIDS hearing of the subcommittee,
in order to make a difference."
James Curran, AIDS activities director
Rep. WilliamDannemeyer(R- for the Centers for Disease Control.
Although much of the workshop
Calif.)-absent
for virtually all of
was practical, much more of it was a
Gregory King, communications
Koop's testimony-took the opportunidirector of the Human Rights Cam- healing of our battle wounds fromty to again call for the U.S. government
paign Fund, said "They [the coalitionJ activist work, validation of our worth
to treat AIDS as "a public health issue have been great leaders in the fight for as individuals, as gays and lesbians, as
and not a civil rights issue."'Blacks, as people of color, as leaders.
responsible AIDS-policies in the workWhile on one hand professing sup- place. The president's
decision to And we were challenged, and encourageq, to remain committed, focused,
port for AIDS and HIV patients being
address them indicates that he under.informed and concerned.
.
afforded early access to. drugs with fed- stands that discrimination against pe0It is the hoPe of conference planeral tax dollars, Dannemeyer also insist- ple with HIV disease is still a serious
ners to package the leadership workproblem that needs to be addressed.'ed that the federal govemment should
shop so that organizations across the
But the White House's agreement
make those funds contingent on states'ordering mandatory testing, namecountry will have access to it.
to speak to the group has also been
Not enough sleep, not enoughmet. with skepticism from some gayreporting and contact tracing of people
single women, and expensive Atlanta
infected with HIV. Dannemeyer also . and lesbian activists who note thatpressed Waxman for committee consid- Bush recently declined an invitation to cab rides could not dampen the feeleration of his AIDS bill (H.R. 3102) speak to the Sixth International Confer- . ings of healing, courage, encouragewhich would order such efforts.
ence on AIDS, which will be held in ment, friendship, fear, hope, power,
pride and love that I felt intensely
But Waxman reminded
DanSan Francisco this June.
throughout the weekend. Many of us"We were extremely disappointed
nemeyer that, even with widespreadin his unwillingness to speak there, " left the conference hopeful that we arelaws mandating contact tracing apd
making a difference
through thename reporting of carriers of sexually stated Robert Bray, public information
activism work that we do, and thattransmitted diseases, syphilis and gon- director for the National Gay and lesbian Task Force. "Our sources told us Black lesbians and gay men are a partorrhea rates have not abated.
of a national movement that cannot be
that,' among' other reasons, he declined"If this is a panacea for the probturned back ....
lem," Waxman quipped, "it makes you to speak [due tol a fear of huge

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Howard Schwartz
Howard Schwartz died from AIDS
on February 23. He was 41. Howard
was a dentist, withacommunitybased solo practicein the East Vtllage.
He was an active
memberof theManhattan Dental
Guild, an organization of lesbian and. gay dentists, and of
Ii Congregation BethSimchatTorah,,:j;jt:'~ ,.; New York's synagogue serving the lesbian and gay
community.
Howard was an unusually gentle,
earnest and caring man. I first met him
in the late 1970s, when we both beganattending services at C.B.S.T. .At thetime, Howard was an environmental
biologist employed by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. His main
project involved exposing environmental violations along the Hudson River,and he was very proud of his testimony at important environmental trials.
But he felt a strong need to help people more directly, so he went back toschool for a dental degree.
.
Howard graduated from dental
school in the mid-1980s as the tide of
AIDS was relentlessly rising in New
York City. He was determined to provide services to people with AIDS, so
he advertised his practice in the gay
press and notified appropriate agencies. He was one of a handful of dentists in this city who accepted persons
with AIDS as clients without any special fuss and on a no-fee basis in manycases, and he continued to practice aslong as he could after receiving his
own diagnosis so that those vital services would still be available.
Howard was also a very dedicatedJew. During the Yom Kippur war, hewent to Israel as a volunteer, an4 he
integrated his Judaism and his gay
identity through active participation at
C.B.S.T. Many times over the past
decade he stood up on Friday nights
or at holiday services to give sermons
which always stressed the duty of allof us to serve those less fortunate.
In 1987, Howard suddenly developed tuberculosis
and was subsequently diagnosed with AIDS. It is
likely that he contracted the tuberculosis from a patient. He was able tosecure access to AZT and responded
well enough to be able to resume his
dental practice until this past fall.
Howard was very lucky to sharethe last nine years of his life with Dr.
Jose Sotolongo, who provided love~.',Iand support
th ough his ilIness.
Howard is also su ived by his parents
and sister. Howar and Jose requested
that donations
made in Howard's
memory to the
bda Legal Defense
and Education
undo Congregation
Beth Simchat To h will hold a memorial service fo' Howard later thisspring.
Arthur S. Leonard

Micha I Scherker.
Dance Arc Vtst and Author
Michael S herker died Fe.bruary
19th at Coney Island Hospital. A diabetic, Michael ad been weakened andthe level of' ulin in his body imbalanced. While at home alone, he fell
into insulin s, later succumbing tocomplication from a diabetic coma.
He was 32 yold.
A nativ New Yorker, Michaelbegan his
er at the Cooper-Hewitt
Museum as n assistant librarian .. Hethen assum
the position of archivist
for the Dace Theater of Harlem.
Michael's d ,cation .to the project ofmaintaining
d preserving documents,
be. they wr tten, recorded or filmed,
led him in 987 to found Preserve, theCoalition f, Performing Arts Archives.
Working w
Preserve co-founder andfriend LesI"' Hansen Kopp of Lincoln
Center's)pecial Collections,heinstructed dance, theater and musicgroups i preservation
techniques,With the rganizational help of Dance
U.S.A., a ashington-based dance'service org nization, Michael and Ms.
Kopp tra eled the country throughout
1989 givi g archival workshops.
De ng the usual concessions tosleep an rest, Michael was simultaneously i olved in conducting interviews,
ompiling information
andplotting .e outline of a major oral history on the Stonewall riots. A vitalbr. ugh came when he and Joan
Gibbs, n attorney' at the Center for

Constitutional
Rights, fought-and
won-togain access to New York
Police Department records on the riots,
many of which had never before been
made public. Working with editor
Michael Denneny at St. Martin's Press,
Michael had only recently begun towind down his extensive research andconsolidate the two cubic feet of material he had amassed. Michael often
joked that people had started referring
to him as the ·Stonewall expert, n acomment that reflects his exceptional
humility and near awe at being commended for his devotion and labor.
That Michael was never able tofinish his book is an unspeakabletragedy. The material is not lost as hewas meticulous about the project andhis responsibility to it, but there is no
way to fully envision what life hewould have breathed int-o it. Michaelworked for his convictions.' He was asweet, sweet man and a great friend to
all those who knew him.
Michael is survived by his parents,
Leo and Dorothy, and two brothers,
Elliot and Steven, all of Miami. .
-Sarah Pettit

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(Iliving in a culture that fears aging andhates the aged; a woman who's spent
her life working for rich white men.
I'm just one granny among many inthis country who has to stay in ,bed
most of the day in order to save on theheat, hoping that her relatives willbring her goodies, so she won't haveto owe the grocer for another week's
cat food. But I'm darn proud you're alesbian, dear.""Why Granny," exclaimed Little
Red Riding Hood. "What a b-i-i-g social
consciousness you have!""The better to understand the nature of oppression, my dear," said thegranny's mirror, a strange transformawolf.
tion overcame him.
"But Granny ," continu~ the puz"Oh my lord," he gasped, ftngering
zled moppet, "What a b-i-i-g talent you
the lace on his cuffs, "'m in granny's
have to make your granddaughter feelnightie; I understand. I see now thatenormous guilt."
my own closeted homosexuality drove
The wolf smiled. "The better to
me to exploit gays, pebple of color,bring about' lasting social change, mywomen and the elderl~ ~n the maindear."
• J"
; '"
j
Just then, Red Riding Hood spied
the media equipment that had surfaced from under the quilt. "But
Granny. What a bi-i-i-i-g microphone
you have.""The better to interoiew you, mydear!" cried the wolf, throwing off
the covers and following the terrified
damsel with the camera, as she ran
screaming around and around theroom.
"EEEEE! EEEEE!You ate my granny! EEEEEEEEm""I had to. It was an historical imperative," argued the wolf, raising his fist in aradical salute. "GRANNY!LIVE UKE HER!
Granny was a fine example of the defiant,older working class woman. You'll notice,
1 hope, that 1 am wearing a Granny nightgown in solidarity with the worldwide
Granny Liberation Struggle. Soon everystream media. 1 hereby pledge to work
one who wants real social change will be
only for the progressive lesbian and gay
wearing on~, with a decal of Granny herpress, and to depict the downtrodden
self on the front There'll be Granny butwith accuracy and sensitivity." So saytons; Granny calend;us. Perhaps you'ding, he took his camera and microlike to join one of our "Grannaremos
phone and crawled into granny's bed toBrigades." We go all over North America,
have a good cry.
liberating old age homes. How do you
But before he could .get to the firstfeel, as the granddaughter of such asniff, Little Red Riding Hood skipped in- 'nobl~"
nocently into the CQttageand up to the"I want my grannyl" wailed Red
wolf's bedside. "Hello Granny," chirped
Riding Hood.
"Good!" shouted the wolf, tripping
the wholesome young miss. "And ho.w
are you today?"over his hemline. "Let me hear your"Oh, I'm all right," answered thepain as a red diaper lesbian whose prowolf in a quavery, granny-like voice.
letarian snµldmother has been eaten by"All right for being an old, old woman
a neWs-hungry wolf. Will you be form-•ocONTROL
Commentary by Susie Day
One day, Little Red Riding Hoodwas skipping merrily through the forest with a lovely basket of goodies totake to her grandmother. The sun wasshining and the birds were singing,and things were just as nice as they
could be, tra la lao S.uddenly, a .loud,obnoxious
wolf In a plaid r h,sportscoat jumped out in front of
Red Riding Hood, waving a micro- 'phone in her face and trying tofocus his camera.
"Hiya, Babe," roared the wolf.
"You look like a lesbian. You
wouldn't be one of them lesbians
who sleep with men, wouldja? Or
did I see you with Madonna at the
Cubby Hole? You got spike heels
and a whip to go with that cape?
What's Chastity Bono like in bed?
Come on-help
me sell a story to
the Past. Spill your guts, kid-""Why, I'm Little Red Riding
Hood," sang out the apple-cheeked
lass. "And I'm taking this basket of
goodies to my granny who lives allby herself in a cottage in the woods.
Well, bye!" And off she skipped,with another tra lao
The wolf twirled his whiskers injournalistic glee. "There's a story here,"he muttered. "I can smeil it: Lesbo
Lovecbtld Gives Granny Gay Goodtes.
No. How about: RUstic Grandma
HeartsickOver Gay Red Wench;
Blames Navrltalova. Ehh, i'll work out
the details later..."So the wolf picked up his cameraand microphone and took a shortcut
through the woods to Granny's house.
There, in a ftt of media overkill, he ateup the old woman and threw her'night.gown on over his sportscoat. But assoon as the wolf saw himself in

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ing a support group to help' you cope,or are you already going to ACOA
meetings? What are your feelings aboutanimal rights? Tell radical America
where it hurts--""Oh, will you just go away?"
sobbed the girl.
"OK, let's talk," reasoned the wolfin his new!V-Sensitive voice. "I knowwhat you're thinking: 'He ate mygranny.
What a male thing todo'-Right? I admit it; I wanted to consume what I couldn't control. Capitalism is pretty male, too, you know. So ishomophobia-"
Suddenly the wolf let out a howl of
jubilation. "Here's an idea: we'll start a
weekly lesbian and gay magazine. You
write your story; I'll write mine. We'll
have news'n sexual politics'n health'n
the arts. Of course, we'll have to rely
heavily on phone sex ads to pull us
through financially, but that's good, because they'll promote safer sex. Will
you help me?"Little Red Riding Hood wipedaway a tear with her sleeve. "Well.
Maybe," she sniffed ..
All at onc.e, a big bad senator ina camouflage outfit barged in withhis hunting rifle. He had been out
shooting
defenselesswoodlandcreatures to keep in trim for the next
legislative session. "You disgusting
beast!" bellowed the senator. "Ahheard whut flith you plan to perpetrate on the innocent people of thisland. Ah have already sponsoredlegislation to cut yore arts fundin';now Ah'll do away with yore advertisin' revenues. Phone sex will die,an' so will you, you pervert." Thesenator chuckledmaniacallyandmotioned
to Red Riding Hood.
"Come here,
li'l darlin'.
Ah'magonna protect you. Huh huh huh ... "But at the thought of being protected by such a horrible man, Red
Riding Hood threw up all overgranny's quilt. Inspired by this innovative protest action, the wolf threw
up in solidarity,and up sprang
Granny, who was fine, except for amild heat rash. Granny, the wolf andLittle Red Riding Hood instantly decided to put aside their differences
and beat the senator to an unrecognizable pulp. Which they did. Thenthey all sat down to enjoy the goodies and work on their new magazine.
Tra la lao The end. T

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AIDS Treatlnent News

Hypericin Resulf,s:Community Research ~lliance StudybYJohn S.James
Hypericin is an antiviral found in St
John's wort, a plant long used as a medicinal herb. AIDS researchers at New York
University have studied hypericin's activity against HIV, and also against otherretroviruses in animals. Hypericin works
in an entirely different way than AZI', andwas better than AZf against the retroviral
infections in animals.
The researchers have now developed methods for synthesizing large
amounts of hypericin; with luck they
will begin early "phase I" human trials
next summer. Meanwhile the Commu-

nity Research Alliance, a San Francisco
research organization started by San
Francisco's PWA Coalition, began its
own observational study of hypericin
herbal extracts as an AIDS/HN treatment last summer. Because the study
volunteers obtained their own extracts
from buyers' clubs or health-food stores,
the Community Research Alliance did
not administer any drug and therefore
did not need to go through the FDA toobtain an "IND" (Investigational New
Drug approval), which for various reasons would have been rmpossible inthis case. The study complied with legal
and ethical requirements by being approved by an Institutional
Review
Board, which the Community Research
Alliance had previously organized in accordance with federal regulations. The
organization's Scientific AdvisOry Committee had also approved the study.
Methods
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study lasted four months; a total of 33
volunteers were enrolled. The only
entry criteria was to be HN positive,
and not to have used hypericin extracts
within the last six months (so that baseline data could be obtained). Extensive
blood tests were given at baseline andat four additional monthly visits; otherdata collected included medical history,
physical examinations before and after
the four-month test period, and theMerieux Multitest of skin immune response. All testing and other expenses(except for the cost of the herbal extracts, which the research organization
could not legally provide) were paid by
the Community Research Alliance,
which financed the study primarily
through donations from individuals; agrant from the American Foundation for
AIDS Research (AmFAR) paid salary fora medical director.
While four months of data werecollected, the study actually ran six
months, as resource limitations prevented enrollment of all the volunteers at
once. There was no problem recruiting
people to join' the study. Volunteers
were not asked to use any particularbrand or dose of hypericin extracts, andthey were not asked to make anychanges in the treatments they would
have used anyway, for the sake of thestudy. They were, of course, asked toreport all treatments they used. All volunteers kept daily logs, and compliancewith the protocol is believed to havebeen very good.
A separate treatment database now
being developed may be able to collect
long-term follow-up information fromthe volunteers in the future.

Results
Of the 33 patients enrolled, 26 completed the four months. Of the seven
who did not complete the study, six
were hospitalized for AIDScomplications
and had to drop out; one was dropPed
for non-compliance with the protocol.
At ftrSt look at the data showed noclear trends. About as many of the volunteers had T-helper decreases as increases. But a closer look showed apattern which had not been expected.
Of the 26 volunteers who completed
the study, ten had never used any AZf,
while ten others had been on AZT
t4roughout (the remaining six had either started or stopped A'?f during thefour months). Of the ten "AZf virgins,·
eight had T-helper decreases, with themean decrease for the ten of 13 percent. (The mean T-helper count increased nine percent in the first month,then declined.)
These results do not show thatAZT worked poorly with hypericin.
Those who were on AZf were more seriously ill, with mean T-helper count of
189 at baseline (before they started hypericin) than -those who had never usedAZf (mean T-helper count 558 at baseline). The difference in outcome is not
surprising, since other anti-IDV treatments, such as AZf and ddI, are known
to work better in patients who begin
with higher T-helper counts.
The 12 percent T-helper increasein the ten who had never used AZT
may be a meaningful trend, since without any treatment the average T-helpercount would tend to decrease. However the increase in this small group was
not enough to be statistically significant,meaning that it might have occured bychance. The fact that the increase occurred in the first month, and then was
sustained .for several months, is consistent with results of other antivirals.
P24 antigen test results were inconclusiv~lthough
they did show that
there was no dramatic antiviral effect of
the hypericin-extract
treatment. Only
. six of the 26 who completed the study
were p24 positive at the beginning,.Two became p24 negative, but they
were on AZf throughout the study, so
the improvement might have been due
toAZf. Of the other four, two went up
and two went down. No one changed
from ne~tive to positive.

What about safety? There havebeen several anecdotal reports thatsome people's liver enzyme values
have risen after use of St. John's wort,
suggesting possible toxicity. In thisstudy, five of the 26 volunteers showedrises in liver-function test values, andwere advised to discontinue the herbal
extract.. All returned to normal after 30days off the treatment, except for one
who had earlier liver problems andhigh liver-function values before starting the study. This effect (rise in liverfunction tests in some patients) is suspected to be due not to hypericin but tosome other component in the herbal
extract, since animal studies haveshown no effect on liver enzymes evenwhen very large doses of pure hypericin were given.
Much other data was collected andhas not yet been analyzed. But principal investigator Dr. William Cooper has
not seen anything striking or unusual ina first look.
Comments
A small, .uncontrolled observational study like this one is not designed toprove that 'a treatment does or does notwork. This study provides no proof either way, although the trends observed
were in the direction which would be
expected if there was some effect.
One reason for doing this study
was the hope that there might havebeen benefits dramatic enough (forsome groups of patients at least) thatthey would be unmistakable even inthis limited trial. No such benefits were
found. We should remember, however,that the available herbal extracts contain only small amounts of hypericin,
and there have been doubts as towhether there is enough to be effective.
It is still possible that pure hypericin, or
perhaps better extracts, could be ofmajor benefit.
.
Even before this study began, it was
clear that the chance was slight that theherbal extracts would have so dramatic
an effect that a small observational study
would show it unmistakably. But the
chance was not zero; and a positive result would have been of such great importance that we believe the chance justified doing this study, and justifies futurestudies of other available treatments
which have a good scientific rationale.

Reprinted from AIDS Treatment
News #96, Feb. 2, 1990,

Dr. Charles Franchino
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Positive Alternatives

Racial·and Class Bias
in ·The New Age'es were presented, including discussionof the helpful roles of certain drugs.
The important messages that AIDS canbe a "chronic manageable disease," andthat a positive mental approach makes
Elitism on Display
As a longtime user and advocate of a difference, were well communicated.
•
Healthis the place
But the .weekend
holistic
healthwhere all social forces
showcased big-nameconverge." So said formethods, I am
self-love
advocates
tired of "Newmer Washington, D.C. Health Commis(like Louise Hay andAge" practitioners
sioner Reed Tuckson, addressing theBernie Siegel, M.D.),
more interested
Second International Conference on Trameditation teachers,
in money andditional and Complementary AIDS Theracupuncturists, nutriself-promotion
apies, held in his city on February 9-11.
tionists and conventhan in extending
Tuckson, an African-American physician
tional doctors who prihealing tools to(and recent runner-up for NYC Healthmarily serve white
those in greatest
Commissioner), was particularly refermiddle-class gay men.
need. At holistic
ring. to the racism and class dispariFew presenters offered
AIDS conferencesties--es well as sexism and homophopractical or sensitive
I have attended,bia- which have made AIDS just thesuggestions to those
thiselitismlatest example of horrendous rates of
who can't afford upwhich also downdisease and death among people ofscale services or lackplays the vitalcolor in the U.S. (and the Third World).
space to address negacontributionsofFaced with these multiple health'tive thinking and selfPWAs and podisasters, a small but growing number
hatred-real issues for
litical activistsof Mrican-American,
Latino/Latina,
sure-because
they'rehas beenon
Asian-American and Native American
struggling
with
day-toblatant display.
doctors and holistic healers haveOnesuch LASTMINUTEAOOmON
day economic survival.
drawn on their rich cultural heritages
event, the Ad- Aundrea Scott
Problems of IV-drug
to serve poor people of all nationaliusers were virtually ignored; prisoners
vanced Immune Discoveries Sympo~ties. One might think the ravages ofwere unmentioned; activist voices were
AIDS in communities of color would . sium in Los Angeles a year ago
almost nonexistent.
February, run by San Francisco physihave also spurred many white "NewNo person of color was on thecian Lawrence Badgley, was expensive,
Age" healers-withtheir talk of "emmiddle-class-oriented and virtually all- panel of seven PWA long-term surpowerment" and "enlightenment"-tovivors. Tuckson was the only plenary
white. I was one of several activists
share skills and resources with those
speaker of .color, although a dynamic
who publicly criticized these biases andcommunities. (Especially since many ofand energetic D.C. Black gay activist,
formed a broad group which petitioned
their methods came originally from
Aundrea Scott, led two excellent
for changes in future conferences.
Third World cultures!)workshops sharing his experiences in
The recent Washington conferBut like their conventional medical
forming Black health and politicalence,thesecondorganized
byDonaldcolleagues, white holistic doctors, nutrigroups which have empowered PWAs
Pachuta, M.D., director of a Baltimore
tionists, acupuncturists and spiritual healand' advocates and impacted city AIDS
holistic clinic/school, was again held at
ers are shaped by a competitive, profitpolicies. The invitation to these two
a fancy hotel and charged $250 for regbased and increasingly racist society. A
speakers,
while a step forward, grewistration.
Onlypeoplewithfull-blownrare few~allyFisher's AIDS Masteryout of my criticism of Pachuta last year
AIDS could get full scholarships; HNSeminar, the San Francisco Holistic Confor planning an all-white AIDS policy
positives had to plead for a discount..~
sortium and several lesbian and gay
discussion panel (he added them at
a
city
whose
PWAs
are
over
50
percent
practitioners come to mind--offer scholthe last minute).
Black,
less
than
five
percentofthe600
arships and sliding scales. But most "alBefore, this year's conference, both
attendees were people of color.
ternative" health professionals and traina Spanish-speaker and a sign language
Several valuable holistic approach. ing schools (again, like their mainstream

by Bob Lederercounterparts) charge inflexible, high feesand serve mainly white middle- andupper-class people.

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interpreter for the deaf offered totranslate the proceedings; Pachuta refused to waive the conference fee toallow them to attend. He also denied
free admission to an independent
Black PWAfilmmaker seeking to interview conference attendees for an upcoming production on neglected PWA
populations. Yet 1V newscrews were
warmlywelcomed.
Organizing For Change
During the question period afterTuckson's speech, I spoke out about
these issues and invited concerned
conferees to meet. A diverse group of
12, among them a social worker,
nurse, spiritual healer and PWA activists (including eight Blacks and one
Latino), came up with a list of suggestions for future conferences, suchas: discount admissions for those inneed; more speakers of color;' more
attention to issues of drug users;
holding the conference at a cheaperand more community-oriented location; and bringing grassroots Black,
Latino, PWAand AIDSactivist groups
into the plaxµrlng.Our spokesperson
briefly took over the microphone during a break and summarized ourpoints. Pachuta ignored the intrµsion,
but hopefully, seeds of change wereplanted in the audience, which included many doctors, nurses, HIVcounselors, holistic healers and PWAs
whom I found to be genuinely concerned.
A long struggle lies ahead-with"New Age" institutions for sure, but
primarily with the real power centersin the government, drug companies,
insurance industry and AMA(American
MedicalAssociation).Just maybe, withpersistent education and organizing,
holisttc' health can some day become"the place where all social forces converge"-this time, to set an example ofcommunity empowerment for the
medical system as a whole.
Aundrea Scott leads a certtftcateawarding "Holistic Peer Counselor
Training Program" geared to HIVlAlDS
In tbe Black community; toptcs Include
berbs, vitamins, diet, massage andmlnd-body bealing. Contact. Us Helping
Us, Inc., 1707 7tb St., N. w., Wasblngton, DC 20001, or call (202) 387-0800,
For coptes of tbe sulf8esttons submflted
to the 1989 and 1990 conferences, contact tbe autbor do OutWeek.T

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GLAADTIDINGSW

estern Union has decided that profits are
more important thangay civil rights.
Armand Ertag, a former Western
Union executive, has filed a lawsuit
against the company charging he wasdiscriminated against because of his
sexual orientation. The lawsuit was
filed in San Francisco which has a gay
rights ordinance prohibiting discrimination in employment and elsewhere.
What is particularly troubling is
the argument that Western Union isusing as its defense. Rather than simply
denying the charge of discrimination,
the company is attempting to attack
the legality of San Francisco's Gay
Rights Ordinance, and those of other
cities in California.
Western Union is arguing that San
Francisco's Board of Supervisors lacks
the authority to ban anti-gay discrimination by private employers. It is also
arguing that the city cannot empower
individuals to bring lawsuits against<Uscriminatoryemployers.
The company is basing. its arguD;lents on language in the State's Fair
Employment and. Housing Code, whichindicates that the state, as opposed to
local governments, have jurisdiction in
employment and housing discrimination.
Ertag's lawyers have responded thatsince local gay rights ordinances are notmentioned in the code, there is not clear. indication that the state meant to preclude cities from acting on the issue.
What is the bottom line? Western
Union's arguments, if supported by the
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ordinances in several California cities.
Western Union needs to hear fromyou that anti-gay discrimination,and
not anti-discrimination laws, should bechallenged and condemned.
Write to Mr. Robert J. Amman,
President and CEO, Western Union
Corporation, One Lake Street, Upper
Saddle River, New Jersey, 07458. Or
call him at (212) 825-5000. GLAAD
wishes to thank GLAAD member (andOutWeek columnist) Art Leonard forsupplying us with information for theabove item.
Kudos go to New York Woman
magazine' for their February article "Truth
and Consequences" about lesbians deciding whether or not to come out.
The piece acknowledged that "thedecision to live our lives openly, as
what we are, can be an agonizing one,and for many, an intensely brave one"
Based on interviews with many of
New York's own, it examines the political content of coming out, the pricewe pay to stay in the closet, as well as
domestic partner issues, adoption andnatural parentirig, and political activism
in the lesbian community. There are.also two sidebars, one giving a brief
history of the bar scene, and a "dateline" account of important moments in
our history.
Although lesbianism was acknowledged as a legitimate concern of feminism almost 20 years ago, it is all too
seldom we are made visible in any
women's magazines. Write to editor-inchief Betsy Carter at New Yo" Woman,
1120 Ave. of the Americas, New York,NY 10036. Thank them for a fine article that contributes to increased visibility and positive images of lesbians.

* * * * *Rush Limbaugh is a homophobe
and radio commentator whose rantings
can be heard in many cities across thecountry, including at least two cities
with GLAAD chapters:
New York(WABC-AM), Los Angeles (KFI) and
San Francisco (KGO).
We've documented the homophobia of many bigots in this column.
Trust-Limbaugh
is one of the worst'
Here's a sampling provided by our Los
Angeles chapter, of nastier moments in
his February 13 program:• on members of a family that got

AIDS through a blood transfusion (incomparison to gay men): "innocent,"and "didn't do one damn thing behaviorWise that placed them at risk. n ,• On the gay community's complaints about Reagan's silence of AIDS
for many years: "If Ronald Reagan had
said 'I care, I'm spending money,'
would you have stopped going to thebathhouses? Would you have stopped
anal intercourse? Would you havestopped the level of promiscuity thatexists in your community ...?"• On gays and political power:"The Democratic party-is it any wonder they cannot win national electionS-they give platforms to aberrant
people....
.
• On his own commentary's relation to anti-gay violence: "[Some pe0ple say) that I am somehow going to
be responsible for motivating to violence people who are anti-gay andwant to take action on it. Now, I don't
know that I can be held responsible
for that by Simply commenting. I don't
know how I can be held responsible
for the actions of the people, unless
I'm urging them to go out there and doit...1 am merely reporting on what they[gay people] themselves have written
and offering my comment on it. If any
one takes action, they are the ones responsible for it, not'moi.'"
Like many conservative homophobes, Rush Limbaugh is fIXated on
the gay and lesbian community andjumps at any opportunity to vent hishatred (Andy Rooney's suspension, theACf UP demonstration at st. Patrick's
Cathedral, etc.). His spiel even has aregular "Gay Update" where, in a par0dy of standard newscaster style, he "reports" on gay and lesbian issues andhappenings from his warped and bigoted perspective.
GLAAD/LA has been in contact
with Limbaugh's syndicator and has
asked that 1) Limbaugh be prevented
from using inflammatory rhetoric when
discussing our issues and 2) the gay
and lesbian community be prOVidedwith reasonable rebuttal time eachtime Limbaugh indulges his bigotry.
. To support this national campaign, write to Rush Limbaugh's syndicator, Ed Mclaughlin, President, Excellence in Broadcasting Network, c/o
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olitica

uscle

They have Ken-doll beauty, miles of biceps and theperfect marriage. And when award-winning, worldclass bodybuilder Bob Paris and internationalmodel Rod Jackson came out and tied the knot,
they brought gay liberation to Middle America.
by ..Jay Blotcher

Bob Pari, (I.") and RodJacboil
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Gay America just got itself a pair of
Jay Blotcher: What drove you toposterboys. Image makers. Middle<lassuse an act of love, your marriage, as amusclemuffins with Pepsodent smiles
springboard for a political statement? .
and wholesome values in line with any
Bob Paris: Our marriage wasn't a
nuclear family surrounded by a white
political statement. What's sad is that it's
picket fence: marriage, monogamy andbeen turned into one.
the fulfillment that comes from both.
Rod Jackson: I. think the gay comBland? No, heroic. Especially when themunity should question why it is political
couple in question is Bob Paris, former
to get married. Why can't the community
Mr. America and Mr. Universe, and hisallow diversity?
husband, social worker and model Rod
BP: Our marriage was covered in theJackson.
bodybuilding press the same way as any
Refreshingly so, these guys don't
other professional's marriage. They hanapologize for their sheer ordinariness.
died it matter-of-factly.
And they put those well-muscled butts
IU: Our friends had been asking us
on the line in the name of gay pride. It's
why we hadn't been married yet. Many
been Seven months since Paris, a majorof our friends are straight and had seencelebrity on the sweat-and-steroid circUit,
our relationship for three and a halfcame out in musclemag Ironman foryears. Our gay friends were saying thehimself and the man he loves--the mansame thing.
he married last July at a Unitarian Church
We got no objections from friends,
in Santa Monica. It was only a matter ofand even' if there were some, we, don't.time before they were on oprah, to titilgive a damn. We got married for us andlate and challenge the value systemS of
only us. AS a community, why aren't we
American housewives.
fighting for all our civil rights, so that we
Novices to the tug of war of gay pqlall have those options open to·us?
itics, Paris and Jackson are overly-cau-'
BP: Protection from violence, job
tious in their dealings with the gay press~
protection, legal marriage--all of those
Negotiations for this interview began lastthings. As long as we're missing any of
October Qong before their oprah stint).
our rights, we don't have any of ourParis and Jackson liked OutWeek; they'rights.
had previously turned down other interIU: Part of it is that the community isview requests. What followed was aafraid. Let's face it, there's a small circle ofstring of letters and phone calls, all thepeople in the gay community who decide
while the pair profusely apologizing forwhat the gay ideology is. We've had it thrust
their paranoia. They have since loosened
down our throats by the straight world andup, and granted other interviews to theit's being reinforced by the gay world
gay press.
BP: We're the most diverse minority
Still glowing over their. matrimonialin the entire world; we cross all lines.
state, Bob and Rod fled Los Angeles thisWhy are we limiting. ourselves from thepast fall for Olympia, Washington, where
diversity that everyone else enjoys?
they now live with Barney the macaw,
IU: We [gay people] are our own worst
and canine pals Samantha and Dakota.
enemies. We are asking for our rights.
Ariculate and charming, Bob and Rod . Shouldn't we be demanding our rights? Ifoffer a party line based on New Age jar- '. evay gay and lesbian came out of the closgon, self-respect and mutual love. Hailet, sexuality prejudice would be moot.
them as lovers taking their first baby
BP: There are people out there
steps as activists. And be kind to them;demanding rights, but it gets undermined.
they're fighting for your rights too.
IU: We are so busy saying that 'theUSome of the gay people in powerful situations were disappointed that we wouldn't be
two little bunny boys that they could hand ascript to."-Bob Paris[lO(]

TAKING VOWS -Ps,is snd JscksDn during th,i, w,dding c,remDnystraight world is [oppressing) me.' Who's
you. Many people are not liking whatgoing to change it if we're not going to?
they're seeing.
BP: We got 14,000 letters since
BP: And by the mail we've gotten.
Ironman. The majority of them have
JB: You came out for individual love,
been incredibly supportive and embracas well as gay love and marriage, and yet
ing. Two letters came this week fromthere was a backlash from the gay comtwo young men, and they made all of
munity. What happened?
this worth it. They basically said} ."If I
BP: Once a person comes out of thehadn't seen you guys on oprah, I would
closet, everybody wants a little piece of
have killed myself. I already had it
you to take for their organization. .
planned out, but now I see there's a reaBJ: And they feel that since you're
son to live."gay, they have a right to put their words
RJ: We know people who arein your mouth.
involved in several gay rights issues, but
BP: Some of the people in powerful
they're closeted to their family, in theirsituations were disappointed
that wework, in society. We also know people . wouldn't be two little bunny boys that
who don't have time [to be polititallythey could hand a script to. And all these
activel but they're out all the time in thes.trings appear and [the offersl go away.
world, being who they are. So, you tell
RJ: And we're left behind with,me who's more political?
"You're self-hating; you're greedy; you're
Being young and gay, it's hardout for money."enough to have the straight world
BP: We didn't come out to be[against youl. Then you' run to the gay
activists ; we're just living ou~ lives
proudly.
.
world to find something else to 'embrace

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March 11, 1990

\

BJ: We have too many: people say-accepted than people of color do?
ing, "this is your responsibilitY" when
BP: I don't know if our road: is any
they're not taking responsibility for their easier as white gay men. By living ourown lives. If we had kome out] for other lives out of the closet, we ldlow racism,
than our spiritual growth, our persOnaL prejudice and bigotry ftrst harld. We need
love for ourselves and each other, weto build bridges between the gay minoriwould be so disappointed at this point.
ty and Black and Hispanic minorities.
BP: I'm not trying to cry poormouth,
There's a real level of hatred ,there andbut we lost a lot of money during this last it's causing problems.
year. By coming out, we lost a lot of our
JB: Do you believe that a gay relationship operates by different: standards
bookings.
BJ: And people say, "they did this to than a heterosexual uniop? , .
BJ: Doesn't a union go by 'the rules
get rich." If there is so much money to bemade being a public gay figure, why are you set yourself? Some gay mert -say they
there so few? .
can't be monogamous; I think that's comI .tell the gay community, "you have plete bullshit. They wetr;!taught tp.is bullan openly proud, gay athlete, the only one shit that straightmarriages
arewho's taken things this far. Back this up."monogamous. Let's get a grip on what
BP: If you want openly gay people,
marriage really means.
you're going to have to support them.
We're not saying fidelity andOtherwise, we're just going to get flushed monogamy for everybody. There needs
to be options within the community. I
down the toilet.
RJ: Why can a closeted gay per- have gay and straight friends in monogaformer or athlete be in the closet yet mous relationships, and gay and straightfriends who are incredibly promiscuous.
make a killing from the community,
while being very self-hating and serving' That's their option. But we're not alone.
We've gotten 14,000 letters andgood
as a very poor example in public?
half of them are looking for the same.]Bi Where do gays figure in the
bodybuilding world? In the mid-70s, the thing [as we havel.
JB: Bob, in interviews, you have said
book and movie Pumping Iron briefly
looked at bodybuilding and homosexual- . that the dilemma of corning to terms withyour sexuality in public hindered. theity through the' filter of narcissism.
growth of your bodybuilding career.
BP: As far as gayness· and bodyBP: I'm 30-years-old,
I haven't
building are concerned,
it's been amythical thing that bodybuilding is a reached the prime of my career yet. I
make some mistakes. My career has
gay sport. It has an incredible amountmoved along pretty conSistently. I alsoof gay support. But from my perspective, there are as many gay athletes as took a two year break. It held me backinside my heart. What was missing fromthere are gays in society in general.
my life was my soulmate.
that took
There tends to be a good camaraderie
between the pros, as in any sport. My place, I had a much purer perspective,
and a lot more strength.
fellow professionals may be religious
There's this assumption that sinceor have their homophobia.
But once
they see a proud person, they are very I've come out pubiicly, I'm retired fromthe sport. They say, My God, how could
supportive of that. .
JB: As white, homosexual' men, do you still be competitive. If you've comeout, haven't you destroyed your career?
you have a better chance of being

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BJ: By saying that, they're limiting
him already.

BP: More people should realize theyhold the power. The community shouldbe there to back them up. If an openly
gay person was bashed on the street in
my' hometown, Columbus, Indiana, ~nd
the police gave them shoddy. treatment,
why don't 20,000 people descend on the
town until justice is served?
BJ: We've had our lives threatened
and we've talked about what if one of us
gets taken. But we have faith enough that
there's something past this. Maybe that's
where the spirituality needs to come in.
The Black movement
got moving
because there was something to keepthem going. Maybe as a community wehave to develop more spirituality toenable us to set ourselves free.
BP: We really have to reach insideand gather all the 'strength we can ftnd.
Look at' the resilience it takes to maintain the lie of the closet. If that energy .
c~)Uld be rechanneled into out-of-tbecloset energy, then you!ve changed
your life. T
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From Past to Present, Filmmaker Marlon Riggs
Continues to Unearth Black Gay America
by Jim Marks

With his balding pate and roundglasses, 32-year-old filmmaker Marlon
Riggs looks a little like a young Mahatma
Gandhi. The comparison is apt if it recallsthat Gandhi was also an intensely spiritual, intellectual man who liked to shakepeople up.
Riggs dic;ijust that with his fUm, Etbnic Notions. When Notions aired nationally on PBS it proved unsettling to Blacks
and whites alike. It also won ~ 1989
Emmyaward.
Riggs continues to defy convention.
In October 1989, his Tongues Untted premiered at the American Film Institute's(API) Video Festival. Tongues captures
Riggs' personal "search for affirmation,community, fellowship and love in America as Black gay men." It begins with hisnude image behind the opening credits(and discusses AIDS in the context of his
discovery that he is mv antibody-positive). As Howard University Professor
Ron Simmons wrote in Black Film
Review, "One cannot help but admire[Riggs'] courage."That courage goes back a long way.
Riggs first encountered racism during the year he lived in Georgia. In 1968,
racial tensions ran high at the newly
desegregated Hepzibah Junior High. The
ll-year-old Riggs was one of two Blacks
placed in the top class. "I thought, foolishly, of running for student council. It
was foolish because in the schoolyard it
was, 'look at that damn nigger over there,
who does he think he is?'"He was friendless and isolated.
"Because I was in this class, the Black
students looked at me as if r thought I
were above them, so they treated mewith hostility too. I just sufferq9' worked
This is where you need to .start.' He diedhard and got good grades."\!.
of AIDS this year.
no wonder he felt liber~t~d when
"I considered him my·mentor. He
the family moved to Germany;, {'For the made me see that homosexuality was
military dependents-dle
army brats-it
more than intellectual. It became spiritualwas extremely idealistic. In Gertrlanyone
as well. It wasn't just fucking, it wasn't
saw friendships between guys \fud girls just finding a boyfriend. And that's
who were Asian, white, Black,\Latino,
always been my thing, to look at history
Puerto Rkan. It was a very affirming
and find value and meaning and lessons."
experience to find there could beta comThe move from Harvard history,munity in which I could be myse~ff
major to video maker "wasn't a big jump
By contrast, Harvard proved ';anoth- for me. I grew up hearing that those who
er traumatic time. I had then to ~6nfront succeed in some ways owe it to the comthis emerging sense of homose~uality
munity and they. need to pull others ~pwithin myself, and how that was, ~etting with them. It was always assumed I
me apart from the Black students ..Things would be a preacher, or an attorney; thatwere said about that "faggot" (as it was I would mobilize and lead people."put then) and I knew, even thou~
had Through an "intellectual process," hea vague notion of what I was at the time, arrived at television as the best way "toit applied to me in some way."\communicate all the wonderful things I
Just as the little boy in Hepzibah stud-· was learning. I really couldn't reach peaied harder to survive, so the college stuqent pie through the usual teaching method."turned to books to find out about h~lf.
After a year-long detour in his home"I was so naive. You can imagipe.
town of Ft. Worth, Texas, Riggs enrolled at
These are respected, staid Harvard prof~s- the Graduate School of Journalism at thesor types. A. short Black student com~ in, University of California at Berkeley (wherevery serious, very somber, saying, 'I wduid he now teaches). His first video, his maslike to do a study independently directed ter's thesis, Long Train Running, docuby you on homosexuality in American 1i~- mented the creation of a distinct jazz sounderature, from the 1800s to the present'; las by the Blacks who'd migrated to the Easy
if it were a course listed in a catalogue. .\Bay in World War II. It won an API ftrst"They could not get out of theirprize in 1982. "It was a deceptive beginmouths the word 'gay.' They would say ning. I was so naive. I didn't know filmthings like, 'That's an interesting theme. I makers go into poverty to do this work."
don't know if I have any qualifications to
About the time that Long Train Rundirect it."_,nirig began wirining awards, Riggs
But thanks to "this tunnel vision that \ attended an exhibition of Black memoraI can have" he' eventually met a tutor, \ bilia. Harvard hadn't prepared him.
named Paul Marx. "He was an exuberant"Imagine a house full of pickannies, grinman, full of life. He brought out books,1 ning coons, watermelon-eating
mamsaid, 'here, loolt at this. Walt Whitmanlrpies, banjo-thumping
Sambos, Uncie

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OUT'YWEEK47

Toms. And all these images on plates,
their own voice ith the publication of , an overall structure."cups and saucers--things you find in a In the Life, edit d by the late Joseph
He found that structure in his own
household but with images of you as a Beam of Philad lphia. In Washington,life. At Tongues'Los Angeles premiere, heBlack person, hideously distorted. This D.C., Essex H mphill was writing
said,"the hardest part was injecting Plyself
was saying something about America that poems of extra dinary immediacy andinto the film. I was trained not to put
no one had ever told me in a history class beauty. In Ne York, the Black gay
myself in the shot. But without a narrativeand I'd definitely never seen this in any collective Black eart spawned the writ- thread there was no cohesiveness, justfilm or video."'ers group, Oth r Countries. Across thenice moments and interesting poems."
It took five years to make Ethnic
country,sim' ar Black gay men's
The personal
aspect "gives aNottons, the film that exhibit hadgroups sprang p.
poignancy to the film's more somber
inspired. "The primary problem was
Riggs was a regular at Oakland's
moments. Hate violence comes into thefundraising. It rubbed people the wrong .Black: Gay Me United. At readings andmovie in the f~rm of a mugging, andway, as cutting edge material often does. conferences, h met many of the leading Riggs' voice says; "and a white boy came'Aren't we over this? Can't we forget
figures of thi "renaissance-or
naisto my rescue." J{acism emerges as Riggs
about this?' funders would say.
sance" of Blac gay literature: Joe Beam,walks the Castro and his voice talks"And I would respond: 'your reac- Other Countri 'Colin Robinson.
about being a snow queen "immersed intion tells me that we are not over it. If"I said, oy this is just amazing. I vanilla"-andinvisible. AIDS is introyou look at the images on television,
also realized 'hungered for work visual- duced in a montage that starts with lovers
you'll find much the same as 100 years ly. There was nothing, video-wise. I was embracing,
Hemphill performingaago: singing, laughing, strutting, happy
tired of goin to the gay and lesbian fUm pOem: "Now we think/as we fuck/thisdarkies entertaining America.'
festival 3.Qd ing nothing that touched
nut/might kill us," while on the screen"This role of being the down needs to my life diry."appear newspaper obituaries ending up
be communicated within thewith a shot of Riggs' face.
historical context. And then .
tRiggs says learning he
you need to examine what it!
. ~ f.
was HIV-positive made him
tells us about America, partic- ;_.
realize that "there are thingsularly white America. And
I can't take for granted any
that blOWspeople away."·. more. If 1have the opportuEthniC Notions' starti nity, the energy, theling use 1MBlack: images toresources to do this; do it.
focus on "white fantasies," . There's no excuse."
white perceptions,dis-·..
Throughout,humor
tortions and paranoia" is"i.,.
leavens Tounges' serious-

fI~.","rJ 'enhanced by its clinicallydetached tone. "Documentaries about racism tend torail against racism, or show
its heart-menchingconsequences. My intent was tolook at America as somespecimen beneath a glass,W':':1'....·....'.1'"'' ',.
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ness. It can be campy
funny, as in describing Castro clones as "body by Nautilus, mind by MatteI." Thereis an absolutely uproarious
dissertation on the "snap,"
followed by an equallyhilarious demonstration ofand say, 'look at this can~~. Riggi(left) with poet ex Hemphill
Photo: Ron Simmoni it~ use by dueling s~ap
Let's dissect it, see what 1t IS
divas. And the Temptations
made of.'"·'
11 gues Untied, Riggs' portrait of his will never sound quite the same after
Riggs knows the technique works,
post-C ilRights, post-Stonewall generahearing a lavendar R & B quartet performand he,doesn't need awards to prove ittion,
gan more casually than his care- their composition, "hey boy, can you"I've been in.numerous screenings where
fully- cripted documentaries.
"I justcome out tonight"
people 'll!.ughat the beginning. They see starte shooting things." Riggs went toIn Tongues Untied, Riggs has foundthe cartoon of the big Black:mammy with New ork, shot an Other Countries work- that harmony he lost with adolescence.
the little coon at· her breast. People gig- shop and dinner. He caught street queens
He's learned how to make people laugh,gle. But by the end of the film, people
vog eing on the pier at the foot of and not just be a clown. As he told thestop laughing. They get the point."
Chr' topher Street. He took the footage
openul,3 night audience in Los Angeles,
Ethnic Notions and Tongues Untted ba to Oakland and shamed his group"The lesson' is, I'm going to do muchare vastly different works. Ethnic Nottons int performing for him. He contacted
more of this. I love it There is a virtue inis history as Riggs fell in love with it, "his- Es
Hemphill and said, "Essex your
your own voice." Ttory as interpretation." Tongues Untied
w rk is so right, it speaks to so many
. doesn't reexamine the past; it surveys the is es of being Black and being gay: 1
Tongues Untied will be shown onvideo at the Museum of Modern An, 11
preseht, the living, breathing moment
uld love for you to be part of this."frozen in the amber of technology.
.And then "a form and shape began
west 53rd St" on March 12. Tbefilm wtII
have its theatrical debut In New York at the
Tongues Untied began in 1986,
t take place. I .couldn't go on just shootwp.en Black gay men f11'streally found. g willy nilly; 1 had to organize, give it Lesbian and Gay Film Festtvai this spring.

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last week you turned on us, your very
Dear Mr. Ball:own experts, and this position we find
When we agreed to serve as yourinsupportable. Simply because we had
panel of experts we were proud towhat you call the nerve and what weparticipate in a bold, new publishingcall the spine to make recommendaventure and we had high hopes thattions you'd rather not (for whatever
your column would function as a sorereasons) hear, you called for our colly-needed channel through which tolective resignation, publicly defamed
disseminate valuable information to
us and threatened us with blackmail:the community. We applauded thesurel¥ the tools of a petty tyrant.
courageous and personally dangerous
stands you dared to take against insti- Despite your undeniably admirable
record,we must now question
tutions of oppression
such as thewhether you are serving the communiAcademy of Motion Picture Arts andty or, in fact, just serving yourself.
Sciences, the Free Trade Agreement
Well, Mr. Ball, you might fmd ~t
between Canada and the United States
and the producers of A Doll's Life. We unwise and uncomfortable to blackmail the people who know what realthrilled each time you defiantly proly occurred on the Christmas of 1980
claimed, "If they want to get rid of me(yes, we've been in touch with a certhey'll have to assassinate me.·Somewhat alarmed we watched . tain party-with-a-price now residing in
Boca Raton). We will therefore not be
you do battle with your editors but weso shamelessly coerced into resigningassumed this struggle was necessary toso that you may install the crew ofmaintain a free press. With mountjng
devoted puppets we have refused to.
dismay we then saw you treat the box
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nously stated last week, they will be
coming from your quarter. You canstart by getting us a coffee maker.

-The Experts
Dear Experts:. I don't understand what's happened to everybody. Where has everybody gone? Tune and again I've sought
your paid assistance with problems ofdeep and urgent concern to our readers and time and again you have merely. made cautionary remarks about theeffects of gin. At no time did I doubt
the validity of these statements butwhen I did call to question their general applicability to the myriad, complex
Issues which this column must address,
you accused me of abandoning youragenda and you cut off·all communication. Rather than discuss this little disagreement in a mature, responsible
and open-minded manner so that weall might reach an equitable solution,
you have instead chosen to unleash
this firestorm of monstrous allegations
and ultimatums which will, undoubtedly; make any future discourse just.that much more' difficult. I am, ofcourse, b.ewildered by such an unwarranted display of hostility but, morethan anything, I am frustrated that you
would take up not only your precious
time and mine, but also that of ourreaders. By unfairly involving them inthis, a dispute which is really none of
their business, you are aggravating a
potentially divisive situation and diverting inward our c'oncerted, mutual
struggle against a much bigger enemy.
You think about that for a little while. and when you're ready to act likehuman beings again you have yourrepresentative get in touch with me.
P.S. And you can forget all aboutthat coffee maker. In case you've been
so wrapped up in yourself to notice,
we're due for some straightened times
around here. If you need coffee, send
the kid oot for it. ....

dent, wherein Andy insulted first gays; Andy back" and then defends his coming back, outlining freedom of speechthen, according to the gay magazine
issues. Ever-too-weak-of-spine to give
The Advocate, Blacks, had Rooneyapologizing for the former, but deny~ her own opinion when it comes to civil
liberties or any other ideas that mighting doing the latter. CBS headman
David Burke suspended Rooney for offend the conservative rich and powerfµl idiots whom she does cartwheels
three months anyway.·for, Liz says she finds "interesting" theIf Liz read outWeek--orevencomments of Peter Davis of Newsday
Newsday or her own paper-she
would know that Rooney was not fll'ed who contends that it is more importantfor us to get the representation of gays,
for his remarks per se, but for insuborblacks, women and other minorities ondin{Jtion-for writing a letter of apolotelevision, rather than take other peogy to The Advocate which :was more
ple off.
Taking a minuteout from . insulting than the original remarks
Well, I certainly agree, Liz. But
indulging herself with Ivana Trump, Liz themselves and for mailing that letteryoureally confuse me and make me
after
Burke
told
him
not
to.
Oh
no,
but
Smith (Daily News) decided to jumpLiz doesn't even mention this letter or want to ask a zillion questions. I mean,
into the Andy Rooney!CBS! Advocate
what the content of it was. She instead couldn't you, who have your own slot
controversy.
It's been quite a while since we've tells us how uthe public majority wants on television and who have your own
syndicated column, solve
discussed Liz's rantings
some of this visibility probhere. Though I haven't
lem which you cite byseen any real change in her
simply ... well ... ACTING
column in general, the
LIKE A LESBIAN YOURRooney column was probaSELF?
bly one of her more wellAnd then, following
reasoned, well-thought-out
your own-excuse
me,columns in quite some
Davis'-thoughts,
shouldn't.
time. Perhaps
it waswe, rather than ask Rooneybecause she was tacklingback, simply ask CBS to fireissues that Liz usually likes
him and replace him with ato stay away from: the gay
lesbian of color?
.
kind. Stil1, though she
It baffles me that you
seems to have collected her.~.
WILLIAM
would ask CBS to quickly.
thoughts, there are many
bring back your own
IilU"· - .
or NORWICH
problems with her analysis
oppressor to continue hisof the 'Rooney affair, andAnd what are people downtown
whipping. But it's this line
reading it depresses me,talking about? Phone sex. Legislationof yours that really kills me:
making me think that it'll
proposed by Sen, Jesse Helms ban-.
"On the issue of racism, I
be a cold day in hell beforening
dial_a-titillation
waspassedgenthink
we should accept the .
Liz ever really sees the lighterally unnoticed in November. If unword of a 40-plus veteranat the end of the tunnel.
challenged, NYNEX will close down
journalist that he didn't say
Rather than read the'thephone sex industry on March 21.
those things." Oh really,
actual accountsof the
,
That
may
be
good
n~ws;
particularlY
Liz? Just like we should
Rooney controversy,Liz
to parents. But it comes as a bloW tohave believed "40-plus vetfrighteningly
seems tocertaiIi downtown liberal newspaeran" Suzy (New York Post)
make' up her own facts. She
pers, especiallY the gay gazettes,
that she really went to all
distorts the truth, ignores
whose major advertisers are phonethose parties even thoughnews reports of situations
sex companies. Without the ad money,
James Revson (Newsday)
and omits pertinent inforthese papers could fold, taking withhad revealed that she nevermation(~course,whatdo. them an important forum for politicalattended them? Just lik~ wewe expect from a woman
should have believed you,.andsocialexpression
oftheno~-:Jesse
who slaps her own face onanother "40-plus veteran,"
Helms
type.
You
knOW;thehip,enera newspaper cover next towhen you. told us a couple
getic young voices who can make thisthe subject she is writingof weeks ago that publicist
city hoP in a waY the estaplishment
about?).
HarveyMann died of aThinking that she's
simply can't.
'"bramtumor"
when we allsomehow scored a behindknow he died of AIDS? No,
Gotham'S earliest promise of springthe-scenes
scoop,
Liz~h~:~iti)****states: "This recent

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Wilh Liz and Sydney

Saturday night we were foraging
around the apartment for food, and as
usual, came up empty. This is a productof the life we lead: We one three pans,the most recent edition being a frying
pan that fits more than one fish filIet at atime. So, in the mood for,a little weinerschnitzel, we ended up at Rolf's,a vegetarian's nightmare in what we like to call
Turtle Bay. As a German-American
Restaurant,it was for some reasondecorated for a children's Valentine's Day
Party. Red and white beads, ribbons,
three-dimensional hearts and stuffedpolar bears hung from every square inchof ceiling. After thinking quite hard about
it, not believing st. Valentine's to be a
big German holiday, Sydney happened
upon some distant memory of an Octoberfest in February.A Februaryfest that
had something to do with love, butwasn't really Saint Valentine's Day. She
wasn't sure what it was called, because
she stopped taking German pr~tty
recently-I had stopped listening.
I had just seenthe waitresses.
They were all strapping young
women with sturdy calves, and large
bosoms ...for hundreds of years theirancestorshad been tossing CCMIS around
Bavaria, and here they were. Wearing
Lederhosen. I was happy. Our waitressapproached. She stopped at our table
and spoke, With an accent. I felt badly,
staring at her so...1 think she thought wewere lightweights for not ordering beer.
Ph t . M' h I W ke" Id Buddy Ebsen and Lee Meriwether We ate Our dinner, listening to the man
a 0, Ie ae a Ie to come in, ask for a drink, scope across from us telling his friend how
enough when $he accidentally slapped a out the scene and pick up an informant happy he was Andy Rooneywas coming, woman in the face at CiNe Canem Sunday . for Some information. While information- back (more staring on our part), andnight 'NIlile fake vogueing. We hope that sharing didn't seem quite the purpose watched in admiration as our waitresswalked around the restaurant,her thighs
spring picks up very soon,' that we fall in served here, we still kept wondering.
love andlor lust with ~'Nh6 feels where the "action was. (We're naive. flexing. This was dinner the way it's
the same way, and in the meanwhile,
You say after-hou~, we say "action: But, . meantto be.
Liz and Sydney: We are sorry that
don't dance with Sydney.
10 and behold, as Sydney tried to makeboth Girl Barand Malcolm Forbes have
Sydney: I can wait for spring and
her way past some larger-than-normal
passed on-we will now be accepting
lOVe/lust. I hate rain, it ruins my shoes palms fronds, up the stars tC) theand you can't even get a cab. To my "action, we found ourselvesstaring into letters from people 'NIlo do not wish to. mind, there is nothing more unappealing the skylight, and a very bright one, I be mentioned, since longevity doesn't
seem to be strong point for those who
than a girl with spring fever.
might add. We found no intrique; we
appear in this column. 'Y
Our never-ending search for night- couldn't find a cab home, either.', Liz: For some reason this week thetime fun brought us to a very unexpected locale-Nell's. Tuesdaynight deejay~ either havingcarltaxiaccidents,or flee- Johnny Dyncll and assorted children (ainS oppressive interpersonalrelationships. person who belongs to a House is called
While there is every possibility that a moon a child; I am not being mean) from~may be to blame" I think it may have assorted Houses, take over the baseoeen the promise of spring thwarted, so ment, bringing something that seemsfor~eartlessly.While people were playing eign to NeWs-Real Fun.When we asked
to take a few photos, Johnny rounded
qumper cars to rush to the next site of(flog-me-until-l-have) fun, Sydney and I up the kids and we ended up with arealized we had beaten ourselves long plethora of well:dressed children posingI
and vogueing. Thinkingwe were aIreal magazine, no expense wasspared. One boy did a special light
1'show. He flashed the booklight inIthe deejay booth on and off insynch with the beat, proving that
great lighting effects don't have tocost millions. Rumorhas it that there
is a secret password, 'NIlich, whenuttered to the doorpeople admits
you free of charge. We used the.guest list.
Liz: We made a trip to Attitudes. The location is secret; werespect that. (Actually, we encourage it.) A predominantly gay afterhours club disguised
as asort-of-Carmelita's bordello withpotted palms, cozy rooms withSeaman'sfumishings,and a strange
languidity among the upstairsIguests. We stayed on the top floor,
which has a very Quinn-Martin
1970s1Y detective show bar feel toit; I kept waiting for Quincy orvibes 'Here all wrong. Everyoneseemed to

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GOSSIP WATCH from paUl 53
Liz. The longer
peopleare inpower-especially
if it's 40-plus
years-themore they lie, steal andcheat. And the more they have to bewatched. It's the nature of the game.
But you know all of this.
.And yet, we now know that you
know all of this. And you now knowthat we now know that you know allof this. Which is why I can't understand how in the name of goddess you
think you can get away with anything.
I wish you'd simply look to yourcolleague, William Norwich (Daily
News). It was only eight months ago
when we were clobbering him overthe head, printing his telephone number and having people call to tell him
just what it was he might haveunknowingly, been doing that was
hurting his own community. And withamazing speed and enthusiasm he has
responded to those pleas on several
occassions. The latest was last week
when he wrote the statements we've
higlighted in the center of this column
regarding the telephone sex industry. It
was Out Week which broke that story
on its cover. And it is Outweek which
NOlWichis defending.
We have to recognize how much
NOlWich went out on a limb standing
up for the right to masturbate over the
telephone in a society column in the
Dally News. It's extraordinary. And hehas to be highly commended for it.
Liz, Billy didn't do this because
he's afraid of us. (Who the hell are we,anyway?). He did this because he has aconscience. He did it because he realizes something that I just wish you
could just try to come to terms with:
WE'RE All IN TIllS TOGETI-IERANDGAY COMMISSIONER from paUl 13
DeLeon thinks that with the backing of
the mayor and the commissioners of
the human rights agency, this change
in law may well be put into effect.
€ommenting on DinkinsY selectionof op,enly gay people of color for two
pOSitions of symbolic and practical
imp6rtance to the lesbian and gay
community, Evan Wolfson, a board
member ofand Lesbian Alliance
Against Defamation and a lawyer at
Lanibda Legal Defense and Education
Fund, said, "I'm very happy with Dennis' appointment.""I think the appointment of Billy
Jones was a terrific appointme'nt, andthat is a very important bridge community," Wolfson continued. "We need tobridge to the gay people in the latino
cdmmunity, and the non-gay people in
the latino community."

Gay

Out is Enough.
But while DeLeon seems .to bealmost universally well respected, thefact that Deleon has not made his sexual orientation a matter of publicrecord' in the past has led some
activists in the lesbian and gay community to perceive a disturbing coincidence in Dinkins' two openly gay
appointments. Mental Health Commissioner Jones, too, was criticized forwhat activists termed a lack of candor
about his sexual orientation. In thewake of the controversy surrounding
Dinkins' choice of Dr. Woodrow A.
Myers Jr. for health COmmissioner,gay
and lesbian suspicion of Dinkins'
motives remains high.
"Dinkins is appointing people
who are semi-closeted," charged one
gay activist familiar with the Dinkins
WE All HAVE TO DO AS MUCH AS
administration, who did not wish to be
WE FUCKING CAN. T
identified. He pointed out that the new
Commissioner of Mental Health, Jones,"was not exactly open about beinggay" before The New Yom Times publicly announced his sexuality in an article published the day following Jones'
appointment.
"I think it's good that Dinkins is
appointing openly gay people to positions," another activist, who has worked
closely with DeLeon, said guardedly.
"But I think appointing community
activists would help ensure that thepolicies ano concerns of our communities would be brought fOlWard.""I've never made a secret about
it," Deleon countered, explaining that
his role . 5 a gay man on the inside ofcity government has often offered him
the opportunity to affect policy mattersof interest to the lesbian and gay community. While he acknowledges that
his active involvement with the lesbian
and gay community has been somewhat limited, he points out that he is amember of Lanibda, has attended ACf
UP meetings "as an interested party"
and, a bit bashfully, admits that he considers himself a gay activist.
"I did so many gay issues working
for the city," he explained. "I tried towork on all the issues I cared about."
When the closing of gay bathhouses
was under discussion in the city,' forexample, ~e claimed, "I had moreiriput,
had more impact, because I wasn't amember of the [organizedlgroups.""I think that people &pm the gay
community who have worked with me
would say that I have contributed tosome things," Deleon concluded with
dignity. "And for everyone else, .I hopethat seeing me work for four years, they
will come to consider me an activist."
The Underlying Issue
The issue underlyirig some gay
activists' dissatisfaction with DeLeon's
appointment seems to be ling~ringresentment over Dinkins' intransigenceon the appointn)ent of Woody Myers tohead the departmentof health.
Although gay, lesbian and AIDS
activists strongly supported Dinkins
over former Mayor Edward. Koch,many felt betrayed by Dinkins when, .
despite the fact that serious accusations
were leveled against Myers, Dinkins
refused to back down from his choiceof health commissioner. In late January,
over the objections of prominent gay
and AIDS activists, Dinkins named
Myers as New York's new health commissioner. In his previou~ position as
chief of Indiana's Department of Public
Health, Myers favored mandatory IDV. testing, indefinite incarceration of pe0ple whom the department Qeemed to
be engaging in unsafe sex, and wasreportedly sluggish in obtaining funds
for AIDS selVices.
So while many lesbian and gay
activists }:lave praised Deleon's pastwork on behalf of the gay and lesbiaIl
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SUMMIT from palle15
Smith delivereda fiery call for Blackgays to align themselves with anti-capitalist socialist movements.
Others,such
as San Francisco activist Brandy Moore,envision Black gays working within theestablishedelectoral
political arena.
Ways to bridge the gap between gay
men and lesbians also figured prominently in conference discUssions. There
were lively debates
betweenproponents of Christianand Afro-centric
approaches to spirtual worship.
The most controversial decision of
the conference
was the dedicationofthe event to white gay AIDS activist
Chris Brownlie, who died of AIDS lastyear and who was founder Phill Wilson's lover. According to BLK publisher Bell, "While nobody
wantedtodetractfrom Ph ill, many
peoplethought
the dedication
was simply
inappropriate."
The final conference
newsletter called the dedication"misguided."
Despite differences,
there was aconsensus on the Black gay community's fundamental
objectives.
AfricanAmerican gay men and lesbians, Rev.
McCoy preached,must come out.
Black
gays,
she said,
are dying"because we are scared that people aregoing to call us a sissy, a faggot, abulldagger.
Fact is, they've been talking about us that way all along. If they
are going to call us names, let them callus that to our. face in church or at thepolls."
Coming out wasn't necessary justfor healthy sexuality, she added.
"It istime for us as gay people to deal with
our own communities,"
McCoy said.
"There is no way to build a healthy
Black gay community without building ahealthy Black community." Black gayS
shouldn't remain exiles, McCoy insisted:"It is time for us to go home." T

NYS BUDGETfrom pale 21
includeda roaming
picket line that'meandered through state offices.
Thirteen ACT UP demonstrators
chainedthemselvesto desks io theoffices of the Division of the Budget;they were arrested and later releasedon bonds of $500 each. A group fromACf UP/New York's housing committee donned "Mario Antoinette" dragpowdered wigs and bustled gowns and threw cake crumbs at the closed,
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Anotherlobbying
effortwasmountedby several
minority
AIDS
advocacy groups at the annual weekend sponsored by the state legislature'S
Black and Puerto Rican Caucus in midFebruary.
The Minority Task Force's
Johnson told Out Week that lobbyists'requests
had been well-received
bymany individual Black and Latino legislators. "But," he said, "the respOnse
has been slow."
A number of sniaJler, targeted lobbying events have been held or ar,escheduled for the coming weeks. The
New York Citizens' AIDS Lobby is alsosponsoring a letter-writing campaign insupport of the NYAC budget agenda.
Since 1983, when funds for AIDS
prevention,
treatment
and researchwere fll'St specified in the budget, NewYork State has witnessed a 600 percent
increase in the number of state dollars
earmarked
to fight the epidemic. The
last seven years, however, also represented a period of strong economic
growth for the state.
That growth has fallen off dramatically in recent months, and the state isfacing deficits that will' force cuts inmany social-service
and entitlement
programs. The money crunch is likely
to becomemuch worse if the final
phase of a state tax-cut law is notdeferred or eliminated by the legislature during its current session. NYAC
and affiliated groups are also pressuring state legislators to' act to preventthe tax cut from taking effect.
The revenue
shortfalls
underwhich the state is now operating
mean that social-service
agencies. arebeing forced into competition
for ashriOking slice of the state budgetarypie. "The fear Is that one issue will bepitted against another," says GMHC's
Sweeney.
He' andother
AIDS
advocates hope to convince legislatorsthat the magnitudeof the AIDS crisis
demands
that it be given absolutebudgetary priority.
They also hope to persuade senators and assembly members that adequate funding for community
serviceproviders is cost-effectivein the longrun, since the prevention eduCation that
CSPs supply will save millions of state
Medicaid dollars in years to come.
As Buffalo's Ron Silverio said, "We'retrying to convince [legislators) that they
get the biggest bang for their buck when
they use oIganizations like ours." T

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community, including his work on thecity's civil rights protections and his workwith ACf UP's housing committee, manyremain uncomfortablewith what they'
perceive to be Dinkins' attempts to skirt amore serious commitment to lesbian andgay issues by making strategic appointments.
"The fact that Dinkins is appointing openly gay people is admirable,
but that does not equate with giving
the desires of the gay and lesbian community· fair input into the operational
decisfonsof the city," remarked
Eric
Sawyer, a spokesperson
for the ACf
UP subcommitteethat deals withhomeless ness issues. "I think ·he isusing the gays and lesbians on his staff
as scapegoats for his refusal to implement policies that are more in line withour community."
Sawyer quickly pointed out, however, that his criticisms of Dinkins are in noway precipitatedby Dinkins' appointment of Deleon in particular. "I think[Deleon) is the exception to the rule,"
Sawyer explained. "Dennis DeLeon is by
far the most receptive, the most willingto listen to the ACf UP housing committee concerns with city housing proposals, and probably has a viewpoint mostsimilar to what I think are the community's viewpoints on AIDS."
"I'm
not
going
to criticize[Deleon) because he worked on theinside rather than in a community
organization,"agreed Wolfson, pointing out that Deleon's
appointmentpr.pvides
both the gay and lesbiancommunity and the Latino community
with crucial access to a confidant of
the new mayor. But, Wolfson added,
alluding
to the trust Dinkins brokewith the Myers appointment,"I think
Mayor Dinkins has to be judged in thenext few months on the gay teachers'case, which is a top priority for ourcommunity,and health care issues,
including AIDS issues."
Wolfson, and other activists, also
noted that several appointmentsof crucial importance to the lesbian and gay
community-including
the top posts atthe Human Resources Administratoin
and the Health and Hospitals Corporation-have
yet to be made,andDei.eon divulged that he knows of atleast several openly gay people who
are under consideration
for appointment. T
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Sweetest Birdfinger
by Otis Stuart

optioned the mm rights for $400,000
before the play was anywhere near
Broadway. As consistent as the cash,
ichard Brooks~ 1962 mm ver- Williams' battle royal with Hollywood
sion of the Tennessee Williams censorship could not have. IlSked forplay Sweet Bird of Youth,richer ground. Set on Easter Sunday,
recently released on videocasette by Sweet Bird of Youth involves incest,
MGM/UA,synopsizes Williams' convey- prostitution, drugs, venereal disease
er belt relationship with Hollywood,and castration.
beginning with the box office clout that
In retrospect, what made it to thesets things in motion. Excepting
screen is perhaps Williams' last laugh.
Camino Rea4 Williams' plays from the The film is gutted, but not, unfortuera of his theatrical supremacy. made it nately, of the tripe. Although he hadstraight to the movies, and Williams written one-acts that would evolve into
paved a Hollywood track record with Sweet Bird of Youth as much as nine
Oscars and big bucks .. Sweet Bird of .years earlier, Williams completed theYouth was his sweetest deal: MGM play during the era of his serious drugR.. WHEN MONSTERS MEET-Paul58

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and alcohol dependency. The imagery
is reeling, its size hallucinatory. The
play is all broad strokes, and, evenworse, the mm does its damndest to
sanitize them. The incest was dropped
before Broadway and Brooks got
around the more clinical complicationsof gonorrhea and gelding, although
the studio promised an optional ending that he was never allowed to mm.
But censorship held to the fixations of
the era, among them one that Sweet
Bird of Youth stroked only peripherally: no homos. In the play, callboy
Chance's record of sale is ambiguouson the pronouns.
In fact, Night of the Iguana, two

Newman and Gereldine Page in Sweet Bird of Youth. March 11. 1990

years after Sweet Bird, was the first
Wtlliams ftlm released after the relaxation of the motion picture code madehis central subjects, such as homosexuality, into plausible ftlm material. Baby
Dolls scandalous success in the mid50s.-the Catholic Church wanted tobum the negatives-helped
break thecode's hold, but even that film's focus
was heterosexual, however exoticallyso, and no challenge to the missiOnary
position forced onto Williams' exploration of human sexuality. Forget allreference to the homosexual catalyst in
the films of Streetcar Named DesIre or
Cal on a Hot Tin l?ooj. In the former,
we can hear that Blanche's young husband killed himself by going down on
a revolver but not that the act was precipitated by his discovery in the sackwith "an older gentleman he had
lmown for many years." (But we canalso hear that even Stanley Kowalski
has his fey streak. One retort to"Stellah"-"What is this sister of yours?
A deep Sea. diver?"~would work anns
akimbo.) In Brooks' film of Cat, theonly hint at Brick's real problem is his
unrelieved harping on wife Maggie's
failed coupling with best buddy
Skipper: the lad protesteth that much.
Sudtknly, Last Summer, as Vito Russo
points out in The Celluloid Closet, isthe apotheosis of Hollywood's invisible homosexual era: we never see
Sebastian Venable. In the press predating its release, the most titillating facetof a film involving, among othereccentricities, a mother procuring forher son who is later eaten alive, was
Elizabeth Taylor in a white bathing suit
wet to the point of nudity.
Obviously, the code's fixations. were as pronounced
as Elizabeth
Taylor's breasts. The heroine was their
comeuppance. Hollywood and its public were ~o determined not to see somethings that they did not see what
Williams actually set before them.
Willful blindness is the only explanation for a monster as gloriously unregenerate as Princess KosmonopolisAlexandra del Lago, "artist and star."
She recites her creed as, a prelude to
seduction: "When monster meets monster, one monster has to give way. And
it will never be me."Completely irrelevant to the narrative-she's the baggage the returning

PLOmNG REVENGE-Tenness .. Williams at his desk in Key Westhero has in tow-Alexandra is an aging
actress awash in 'booze, drugs. andbeach boys. She is not only the world's
greatest aside but, .like Serafina in The
Rose Tattoo, a Williams heroine who
fully upstages her play. The sources of
the role are disputed. Williams was
befriended by an ·alcoholic actress during his down-and-out days in the early
40s, He was working on Sweet Bird
during Tallulah Bankhead's assault on
Streetcar-after
one famous row
Williams knelt in apology-and
Williams' personal and profeSSionalobsessions of the period line up with
Alexandra's. His anticipation of the Cal
on a Hot Tin Roof Broadway opening
matched Alexandra's panic over her
failed comeback. A man who knew
how to work art 'actress, Wtlliams also
told Margaret Leighton that he'd written
the part for her.
Alexandra summarizes all the fears
inspired by Williams' work. By
embodying them in a sexually viable
woman-theimage Hollywood neverquestioned-Williams
beat American
strictures at ·their own game. (And his
own-Alexandra
is his first nonSouthern heroine.) Alexandra got past
the censors, and she is Amanda
Wingfield's nightmare incarnate. Overthe course of his career, Williams'
women progress to autonomy, andPhoto: Don Pinder, Key West
Alexandra is Williams' penultimate
statement on the concept that broke
Blanche du Bois-a
self-sufficient
female. Challenged to face herself in a
mirror, Alexandra answers in the affirmative: "I see me." In the process toindependence, the gossamer side of
the Wtlliams woman lost out entirely.
Alexandra is pure appetite: "I -don't
remember your face but your hands
are familiar." For all intents and certainly for all practical purposes, she is a
man and· was a. man, Artemis
Parmezoglo, in the series' of sketches
that evolved into the first act of Sweet. Bird. As a woman, she is Williams'
sweetest birdfmger to male, dominarice.
Alexandra's
accessibility
toactresses of a certain age is perhaps areason why recent performances have
obscured the legacy of the original.
(And maybe one day Elizabeth Taylor
will get another shot, this time at therole as Williams wrote it.) Many
names were bandied about during
preproduction. Marlene Dietrich andBette Davis were among them,although Claire Trevor seems to havebeen the most serious contender.
Instead, the choice went against type, ·violently.
Even. Geraldine
Page
thought Geraldine Page was wrong.
Glamour wasn't her game, and she~d
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photography and cinema.
"Moving Pictures: Films ,byPhotographers" is the first travelingexhibition to examine the impact ofthe photographer's eye on the art ofcinema. The Public Theater will present 41 films, selected by Tom Smith,spanning the 100-year history of cinema, from the pioneering works of the
Lumiere brothers to the recent filmsof Robert Frank and Bruce Weber .
. The screening should prove to be
provocative and encourage the viewer to make connections between thetwin identities of each artist.
Certain photographersin lovewith forms, others with people, someboth. Harry Callahan, known for thesuperimpositions in his photography, carries out similar experiments in his photography, canies out
similar experiments in his only completed film Mottons (1947). The
motion .of sea waves, like the undulating mutations of fire, has always been"cinematic" even before the birth ofcinema, and Callahan loves overlaying
his black-and-white urban scenes ofpassing automobiles with thesewatery ripples. In Le Retour a la
RUNNING SCARED--Pattl Smith In Robert Mapplethorpe'. Stlllltfoving
Ratson (1923), Man Ray employs neg,
Photo: The Estate of Robert Mapplethorpe alive images and "rayograms" which
are images fonned by placing objects
like nai1s and springs, directly on thephotographic surface. Female torsos
and spinning Dada sculptures arearedreamy,.h'Dancing Snaps om"'tedaced 'hythmlcaUy ",,,,,,,,m8.
.
Ray's love of rotating hannonic forms.
Photographers Helen Levitt, Janice Loeb and James
Agee collaborated to make In the Street (1952), a loving
look at small cblldren in Spanish Harlem playing and fighting in the streets. Human behavior is fascinating to behold
andthe spontaneity captured by the makers' hidden camby Robert HilJerty
era is as disarming as it is entertaining. Rudy Burkhardt's
Under the Brooklyn Bridge (1953), another exquisite blackmema is a strange ~nimal. As the "seventh art," the and-white documentary, starts off with empty streets and. . .' cinema' has been influenced by and compared to warehouses but is soon peopled with workmen tearing
down buildings, What steals the show, though, is theits predecessors,
giving theorists o.ntological
headaches for nearly a century. Like theater, it may have extraordinary sequence of young boys bathing nude underactors. Lik~_th~.QPvel, it ~y be narrative. Like painting, it neath. the bridge. Diving, splashing and swimming, these
oomposes itself ,within a frame. Like music, it structures time .. boys engage us in a: sensuous pastoral scene against the
Lik~ architecture, it structures space. Like dance, it moves. backdrop of steel and concrete.
. Primarily known for his candid tabloid black-andBut it is with photography that cinema shares' somethingcolor film called·special that it does not share with the others: a camera. This whites, Weegee made a voluptuous
Weegee's New York. Rainbow filters give New York a· caniera allows the photographer and filmmaker to reproduce· .theworld1n·a way which satisfies our obsession for realism. psychedelic look in the film's first half, accompanied by
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Sourbabytasteless conspicuous consumption. Adlon's anti-materialistic point is made and grows tiresome within the movie's
f11'St few scenes.
Questions of plausibility, suppressed in the earlier film'>bythecoherence of Adlon's alternative universes, here eat
by Bruce C Steeleaway at the storyline. We have to assume no one stops
Rosalie because everyone else is Simply too dumb, and the
predominance of idiocy quickly becomes uncomfortable.
ugarbaby (1984) and Bagdad cafe (1987), director The plot. is limp and uninvolving. Rosalie's modus operandi
Percy Adlon's last two movies, conjured up magi- is well-established from the start, so there's no real developcal, seductive worlds that existed beyond· the ment, no joy of discovery. Her latest scheme to escape ~fringes of "nonnaiity." Strong, quirky, magnetic people strug- sure-the script's weak excuse for a conflict-is mechanicalgled to free themselves from cOnformity and prejudice, and and thematically redundant.
Adlon should never have attempted to. assail society
triumphed (to varying degrees) through the sheer force of
their need to be different, to be accepted as themselves, to be from the inside-his distrust and alienation from dominant
loved unconditionally. Adlon's aggressively eccentric
stylization--OOd camera angles, unnatural infusionsof color, unmotivated camera moves-was striking
and entirely appropriate, a visual manifesto indelightful collusion with the unorthodox narratives.
s.ugarbaby seduced the audience as completely
as its rotund lead character (played by Marianne
Saegebrecht) seduced her handsome, pliant subway
motorman. Then Adlon shattered the idyll with abrutal intrusion of conventional society. The' film
ended on an unforgettable and enticingly ambiguous image that suggested perseverance against
repression. In the last minutes of Bagdad Cafe, thepatchwork community of outcasts--Jed by a Black
woman
and an obese
Germanhausfrau(Saegebrecht)-founda niche in the mainstream.
The highly sentimental ending was perhaps lesspowerful than the socko finale of Sugarbaby, but it
was certainly a satisfying vindication of the Other.
011WHATA MESS.- Dlrectur.percy Adlon flanked by Judge Reinhold
But Adlon has faltered tremendously with and Marianne SaegebrechL
Rosalie Goes Sb~ng,
a movie that is neither seductive nor value systems runs too deep. The flipside of his intuitive
ambiguous nor satisfying. The previous two films were understanding of social pariahs is a complete inability toi>rov~tive and entertaining; Rosalie is commonplace and' breathe even comic life into more traditional characters.
dull, as if by design. It's like ~ parody of an Adlon film, the Saegebrecht is skillful enough to make Rosalie likeable, but
offbeat characters reduced to stupid caricature, the distinctive not credible. The other performers are simp!y helpless, theirstyle stripped of both poetry and utility.
characterizations as thin and monotonous as the script. Judge
The central figure, Ro5aiie, is again played by the mar- Reinhold is stuck in a particularly awkward and half-baked
velous Ms. Saegebrecht, but this time she's inunersed in soci- role as the rural priest to whom Rosalie confesses her fiscal
ety, battling to preserve convention rather than to reshape it. crimes (thus absolving her guilt).
Rosalie is the German wife of a moronic Arkansas pilot (Brad
Humor, integral to the channing incongruity of the other
Davis) and the mother of seven spoiled children ranging from movies, is here forced, cheap or, at best, fleeting. I:aughter isa pair of surreal, near-catitonic twin girls to two obnoxious replaced by sighs and groans. And those who have in the
teenagerS who seem transplanted from a John Hughes film.
past labeled Adlon's audacious style merely distracting now
Rosalie herself is a ridiculously exaggerated symbol of have just complaint. Here, the intrusiveness of the pink-filcredit-fed American consumerism. She juggles dozens of tered skies and other weird cinematography doesn't connect
credit cards, aliases and bank accounts and pile up hun- with the material; the visual effects are jarring, but the condreds of thousands in past-due debt in an endless flurry of tent is simple-minded. T

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Lions and Tigers and Bears.pby Joe E. Jeffreys

ataphysical compilation,""a theatrical fruit-basket
turn-over of improbabilities, coincidences, empty chronicles,
bizarre occasions of false rememberingand implacable forgetfulness," and "aghoat story" are phrases author Mac
Wellman employs to describe his play
Crowbar. The play's chorus arrives atthe core more succinctly, "All theaters·are haunted." .

tance of lighting designer Brian
Aldous, he is able to frame scenes
and provide perspectives striking
in their composition. The balconies, stairs, house and aisles are
all co-opted as playing areas.
Caliban also introduces subtle
visual echoes of the text. The
character of Mr. Rioso, portrayedby Reg. E. Cathey, who we later
learn was killed in the theater
when a crowbar fell from the roof
garden striking him on the head,
enters the play's action suspended
from a rope high in the fly space.
While Aldous' lighting design
meticulously lights the selected
playing areas, it rareiy exploits
the theater itself. The theater isthe protagonist of Crowbar andshould be treated as such beyond
the mere illuminating of its dome.
. The acting throughoutisstrong. The chorus of 20 provide agood deal of humor and· manage
to. make their chants intelligible nomatter where they are reciting. Crowbar exercises the ghosts of
the Victory Theater, Tune Square's oldest eti.Stlng theater company. The play's·text is adapted from newspaper obituaries, fire reports and articles centering
around the 28th of September 1900. On
thls date the building opened undO' the LACEY DAYs-£lzblela Czyzewska in Crowbar ~.
Elzbieta Czyzewska also promanagement of Oscar Hammerstein as•
Ph t 'Ii B '1 vtdes humor and sparkle to her
o 0: om razi role of F~ Woman. yusef Bulos,
the Theater Republic with a production
as the much anticipated gh~ of Davidof James A. Hearn's Sag Harbor.
house), an artificial lake is under the
Crowbar occurs during Sag Harbor's
same stage, lionel Barrymore and Lilian
Belasco, portrays the mega-theatrical figintermission--QIl intermission hypothet- Gish played the stage in Abie's Irish
ure with strength and dignity. The
Victory, a k a Theater Republic and· ically lasting from Crowbar's start to flD- Rose, David Belasco worked out techBelasco Theater, graciously portrays~
period of 90 years. The chorus' . niques of realism on it changing the hlsitself while allowing a minute inspection
words again become all important,
tory of American theater history. Duringof its glory and demise never once losthese moments, the site specificity of"Time is empty air."ing its stateliness.
Crowbar is so strongly foregrounded as
Crowbar is a historical pageant
Crowbar creates a strong fascinacum son et lumtere. The straight forward to send meta~theatricalshivers down thetion. Its site-specific nature, though not
dramaturgy of pageants is experimented spine. The presence of the Victory's
completely or clearly explored, grips
with by Wellman to arresting but con- gh05tScan be felt, almost seen.
.the imagination. Much has changed onDavid Tan Tieghem's music andfusing results. The obituary reports,
42nd Street since the opening of Sag
occupying the play's first structural sec- Richard Caliban's direction completely
Harbor and the Victory Theater hastion, obstruct the play's primary objec- explore the nature of the perfonnance.
witnessed it all while playing a key
tive-the telling of the theater's story. Van Tieghem transforms the theater.role in, beyond and through it. The
into his instrument. He beats the theWhile adding flavor to the text andAmerica outside its doors today would
extending the world of the stage out ater's seats, bangs on the .pipes, stomps
be unrecognizable to those attending. into the world itself, the facts and myths the floor and runs bowls along its
the opening night of Sag Harbor inof the theater being told in the theater walls. He plays the theater like one big
1900. All theaters are haunted anddrum set. His eerie, haunting percusitself are where Crowbar shines.
ephemeral. Go see Crowbar before it
Houdini performed on the very stage sive music is site-sonic.
becomes yet another of the Victory's
Caliban's direction explores allwhich the audience sits (the play being
theater ghosts, 'Y
nooks and comers. Through the assisperformed throughout the theater's

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GristlyF

rom the ftrst "Merde!" that spit
forth from the mouth of Alfred
Jarry's alter ego, Pere Ubu, atheater of infaptile subversion has
held the promise of a social revolution. Seeing the state and the family
as one and the same, Jarry and theDadaists and Surrealists that followed
him created art that bypassed thedeath grip of these institutions. Thishas been the desperate revolt of themodernists, and it is being valiantly
fought by Winchester Chimes in his
current production.
American Fat is a series of scenes
from the de-evolution of the humancomedy. A raucous mix of Joe Ortonish, post-Wilde comedy of manners
and a punk rocker'S gob in the face,
Chimes stands somewhere between
poetry and provocation. "I'm just a theater-goer," says an "audience member"
unwillingly drawn into the drama. "I'mas bourgeois as a miniature horse."
The understanding of language,
not as passive vehicle of communication, but as a double agent in the war'of doµtinion has lead radical poets
and writers to subvert language,
either as a method of social revolt or
as a sublimation of their anger. The
state seems impervious, but I can dismantle language. For Winchester
Chimes, this can mean having two
men at a cafe order a lunch of "total
enlightenment and an end to all government that does not truly serve its
people" .or it can mean farting in theteacher's face of the one true class leftin America: the Gross Class.
As in ifi?beciles, fool and clowns,
the infantile has been a ,part of theatrical

THE GLAMOROUS UFE.
Matthew CDurtney 8S W8claemDydsatire from the Greeks on. Chimes sees
something in the anarchism of children's
rebellion against familial rules thatmakes us want to' cherish childishness
as a social subversion. The possibility
remains, though, that by adopting thisstance, the transgressor helps to maintain this parent-child power relationship.
Sharp satire can enlighten us, but fattingin the face of a soldier holding a rifle isnothing but a danget'9USprank. Yet, it isinvigorating to join Chimes in givirig thefinger to a social structure that "hasturned the earth into one 'huge bank,shopping mall and prison." This ppetic provocation is bestwhen Chimes works his surrealistic
word play. An androgyne New Ager

identifies himself: "Oh, babycakes, I'm
Western civilization on two legs. Got
any rat poison?" A father explains toan inquisitive child that air-rights arewhere IDiddie management sleeps. In
a society that survives on the energy
zombies, having an 'enlarged liver isthe best revenge. A political rally to
ftght for the right to raise money for.the right to have rights. Or the eyeopener that comes when you have
bitten into a Western omelet only tofllld that it is filled with Spiro Agitew's
qiarrhea, not. the usual potatoes,
onions and green peppers.
Delivering this kind of multidimensiorial dialogue can be difficults•• GRimy on page 68

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BooksGreek Love
by lS1ichael SchwarZ

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avid M. Halperin's brilliant new collection of
essays, One Hundred Years of Homosexuality
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perspective on the matter of sexual classification. In a
major contribution to the debate over whether homosexuality is a socially constructed concept or a timeless descriptive category, Halperin argues (among other things): 1)
that "homosexuality" and "heterosexuality" represent twopoles in a single symbolic system; 2) that the concept of"homosexuality" did not exist in the English-speaking
world before 1892; 3) that sexual object choice is not necessarily more significant than dietary object choice; and 4)
that cultures such as ancient Greece viewed same sex sexual contact in ways which have little if anything to do withconcepts of sexuality, gender or sexual
object choice as we currently understandthem.
One Hundred
Years of
Homosexuality is the single most important contribution to the interpretation ofgay history in nearly a decade.
In these six essays written in thecourse of several years, Halperin, aProfessor of Literature at MIT, ranges
freely between ideas about "Greek love"in classical Athens and modem ways ofconceptualizing
sex, sexuality
andhomosexuality.
In the volume's title
essay, named in honor of the 100th
anniversary of the introduction of theword "homo-s~xuality"
into English,
Halperin develops the thesis that "homosexuality and heterosexuality, as we currently understand them, are modern,Western, bourgeois productions."
He makes this point by arguing thatmost non-western and pre-modem cultures organize sexual meanings aroundsocial and cultural factors which have little to do with a narrowly drawn idea of
sexual object choice. Thus Greek citizens
could assume an insertive sexual rolewith women, non-citizen boys, slaves
and' prostitutes without th.inking of theirassignations with other males as being
especially significant; elder males, ofcourse, needed to be heedful of the ,dignity of male citizen youths, with whom
sexual penetration was considered a violation Qf status; but they also needed tobe careful around citizen women, whowere considered reproductive chattel
protected by the state. However one
looks at it, ancient Greek rules about sex
have more to do with the hierarchal
structure of the' Greek polis than with

sexual object choice as we currently understand it.
Like the New Guinea "tribesman and warrior whofrom the ages of eight to 15 has been orally inseminated on a daily basis by older youths and who, after
years of orally inseminating his juniors, will be married to an adult women and have children of hisown,;' Greek men who engaged in sex with boys cannot be thought of as "homosexual," in anything likethe modern definition of the term.
Greek men did not make lifelo~g commitments
to sexual relations with men or women; but this did
not mean that Greek men were "bisexual" either.
Simply put, whether one chose to have sex with anephebe (a young man between puberty and theonset of the beard) or an. adult woman was no more
Significant in and of itself than choosing to eat chicken over beef. What was crucially important in the
Greek context was that the sexual roles assumed by
the participants correspond to the status categories of
Greek society. Men could fuck boys and citizens
could fuck non-citizens; but the reverse was unthinkable. Boys, it was assumed, did not experience "sexual" pleasure with their lovers; this was the provinceof the inserter. Also adult men never penetrated other
adult men, since this was considered a challenge totheir "masculinity." The question of taste (in relation
to gender as with other things) was questionably an
important one; but it would have seemed absurd toattempt to "explain" or "cure" a sexual taste for boys
or prostitutes, especially when the more important
political realities were so easy to discern. To think ofboth partners in a pederastic relationship as being asingle kind of "homosexual,"
Halperin observes,"would have struck a classical Athenian as no lessbizarre than to classify a burglar as an 'active criminal,' his victim as the 'passive criminal' and the twoof them alike as 'partners in crime.'"
Author David M. Halperin
In his second and third essays, "'Homosexuality':
A Cultural Construct" and "Two Views of Greek Love: any criticism, it is that Halperin did not go far enough in
Harold Patzer and Michel Foucault," Halperin addresses his exploration of gender and its relationship to ~he synihimself to the theoretical issues raised by his analysis of the bolic structure of Greek culture and society. (Others, forsexual life and categories of Ancient Greece. Halperin example, have argued that the concept of gender is itself aeffectively demolishes the argument put forward by John . historical construct,) But this is a minor issue. This is a proBoswell that "homosexuality" is a universal historJcal fact, found and inspired book. Like his philosophical forbearer
instead arguing for an interpretive and histOrically contin- Foucault, Halperin uncovers new possibilities beneath thegent view of sexual meaning. Just because "many societies edifice of our current sexual categories. As Halperin elocontact with members of their own sex" does not mean quently puts it, "if there is indeed a way to free ourselvesthat homosexuality is universal, either as a form of behav- from the conceptual tyranny of current sexual categories, it
ior or as a category. Indeed, "redescribing same-sex sexual lies not in an attempt Simply to do away with these catecontact as homosexuality effectively obliterates the many gories by means of a methodological sleight of hand but indifferent ways of organizing sexual contacts and articulating an effort to understand them better as histOrically condisexual roles that are indigenous to human societie~
if tioned cultural representations-or,
to be exact as instances
one were to claim that, because feudal peasants work with of an ideology which we not only fashion but also inhabit."their hands and factory laborers work with their hands, feuThat 1!e is able to do this-to elucidate modem sexual
dal peasantry was the form that factory labor took before concepts and categories while at the same time remaining .
the rise of industrial capitalism!"true to the "otherness" of the sexual culture of ancient
These essays, including a remarkablepiece on Greece, is nothing short of remarkable. It's by far the best
Democracy and the social status of male prostitution, are book I've read this year. And, part of the profits are going
consistently surprising, brilliant and entertaining, If I have to the San Francisco AIDS Foundation. T
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MusicRocking the Gay Nerve
by ZeccaI

have never felt that, just because I'mgay, I have an obligation to be asissy ...or love tea-dances, or dress like'it's still the 1970s, 'or do anything "officially,"
recognizably gay. I am not a gay cliche, andI shouldn't have to be one to be accepted by
my fellow homosexuals.
Growing up in the Post-Gay-Lib 70s, I
always believed that we can be anything wewant to be, from transsexuals to "straight"
rum idols. "We are everywhere," and everything. Yet, on Gay Pride Day, I overheard
an original Stonewaller carping that severalof the day's performers should not havebeen allowed on stage because what they
were doing wasn't "gay enough."Theywere playing Rock and Roll. .
.l'ruthfully, most bands that back openly
gay artists are a blend of straight and gay
musicians who couldn't care less about eachothers' sexual orientation. Smacks of liberation to me. To say that these artists should
be banned from Gay Pride Day is like telling
Lena. Hombe she can'ht s~g ~t andNkAACPcon - I AM NOT A GAY CUCHE--Gay rocker Cha Cha Fernandez Photo:Ruth Kluchinik
venttonecause s e 1sn t ar enoug. hWolfgang Busch has become New York's number one proWho's prejudiced now?
The enormous success of Dean Johnson's Rock and moter of the bands of tomorrow. His syndicated cable proRoll Fag Bar (at the Pyramid, NYC) with gays under 40 has gram New Yom, New Rock, with its accompanying tip sheetsremained undetected by the media. Drawing over 1,600 and projected magazine Demo, along with his New York,men and women per night during irs heyday at The World, New Rock concerts, have done far more than the homoespecially from the new generation
young men who phobic New Music Seminar to uncover original, local talent.
prefer the East Vtllage and were in school in the 70s, Fag Openly gay in II field notorious for bullying machismo,Bar became the largest weekly event in gay New York. But Busch has achieved a major coup in being responsible for
as Dean Johnson puts it, "Gay media cover whatever the the signing of local act Carboy to MCA Records. The
record companies are promoting," instead of listening to straights in the business love both him and his work, buthave you ever heard of him in the gay press? Guess.
and representing gays thenrselves.
On Gay Pride Day, 1987, Pat diLillo and I produced a
What's worse, as Johnson once told me, "There
couldn't possibly be a more homophobic industry than the live concert of gay artists on Washington Street, next to theAmerican recording industry. " This is certainly obvious in Archives Building, originally with the blessing and support
the American 'avoidance of successful,
openly gay of the Christopher Street Festival Committee. Once it was
European artists like the Tom Robinson Band (R'n'R), The clear that only half of our show would be drag and cabaret,
Smiths and the solo work by their lead singer Morrisey (Art with the other half devoted to live bands, we encounteredRock), and Paul Zone's Man Two Man (Dance Music). constant and abusive resistance from the more biased
Each of these acts has had top ten singles in England. Yet members of the committee', who went so far as to remove
50 percent of our P.A. system so that prerecorded disco
our gay' media has done almost nothing to expose
Americans to these artists who sing openly about same-sex could be blasted from the roof of Badlands to compete
love. And local, unsigned artists have been totally ignored with the Dance on the Pier (sponsored by their arch-rival,
Heritage of Pride). Starring such popular performers as
regardless of their popularity.
See ROCKING on page 68
In the four short years since his arrival from Germany,

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~
I've seen at Barnum and Bailey.
Henri Cartier-Bresson's Le Retour(1945) is a disappointing, run~f-th~milldocumen~about French prisoners-ofwar. But William Wegman and Robert
Breer's Blue Monday (1988) is one of
the most inventive music videos I've
seen. Vertiginously mixing animation
with live action to New Order's beat,Breer and Wegman place a droopy-eyedhound in the most compromising positions. Robert Mapplethorpe's skills as aportrait artist are evident in SItII Moving:
PatH Smitb (1978), with Smith waxing
theologically. Michael Snow's So is 7bis(1982) is the wittiest and most concise
statement on cinema's temporality, textuality and self-referentiality. There arealso mms by Bruce Davidson, Bruce
Weber, Paul Strand, Wdliam Klein andlaszlo Moholoy-Nagy. Don't miss it. ...

The distinction is one of the reasons
Diane Ponzio, Zette, Michael Musto,
why the small screen magnetizes her
Brian (Tish Gervais) Neal, Dean
performance. Everything around h!!r(Johnson) and the WeenieS, and headrecedes into a TV movie with bad
lined by the electrifying
Cha Chamanners and good actors-Ed Begley's
Fernandez and the Slumlords, the show
Boss Finley won the supporting actor
drew and held such huge numbers that
Oscar--QS the precision of Page's perit was immediately scrapped for the folformance takes on a blinding clarity.
lowing year by the late (and absurdly
She strikes many a blow forcanonized) Ed Murphy, before it was
American actors and in areas they areeven over. Yet, all but one of these
traditionally deemed deficient The wit
artists were drawing packed houses at
is leveling, cresting to a fare-thee-we1l
the Limelight on nights produced byin a dismissal of attempted blackmail:Wolfgang Busch or his predecessor,"It's so silly it's touching. It's dowruight
Bobby Bradley.
endearing. Makes me feel close to you.·
These days, when gays swallow with
The 30 seconds that begin the fabledopen throats even the most obscenely
telephone call from Walter Wmchellsexist hetero-discs from the hetero-disco
make mincemeat of the myth that
assembly line, the rising popularity of our
American voices lack range. From a
Rock and Rollers with gay and straight
trembling whisper at the top of theaudiences alike is something we should
scale-"Walter?"-Pageswan dives tobe proud of. Why the gay media doesn't
the bottom of the register, in character:think so is simply beyond me. The numGRimy frOIII palle &3"Is that really you, Waldo?" En route ishers speak for themselves; too bad our for an actor, and many in thisthe laugh, Alexandra's trademark.
media doesn't speak for us. ...
unwieldy and inexperienced
cast
Spontaneous, raucous, the bottom of-----------------. ----------+ couldn't handle it. Sometimes lines the bottle, it signals the blissful sarcasm
SNAPSHOTS from palle &0
came out flat or with too much of a as an echo off the precipice. T'aint no
Leonard Bernstein's jazzy cityscapeverbal wink at the audience. Matthew
place for.sissies, the point Williams got
poundings on the soundtrack. Coney
Courtney, Baron Von Blumenzack,to make after all....
Island, Weegee's inescapable subject
Sasha Forte-allof whom have ,•in photography, dominates the secworked with Chimes before--had theond half, complete with fatties, cuties,. right level of energy and discipline.
uglies, oldies, beauties, necking couThe "Sunny Cafe" scene is exemplary.
pIes and burgeoning erections (just,Last years' "I WANT Tonsils" waslook in the right places).
Winchester Chimes' theatrical debut
Coney Island is also the main setand showed us his wit and rage. As a"'""ting of The Uttle Fugtttve (1953) bybastard son of Jarry, Chimes spits andthe trio Morris Engel, Ruth Orkin andlaughs at the strangleholds of the big
Ray Ashley. Hailed by Truffaut as thethree: church, state and the family.
".
one mm responsible for the French
The subtitle to American Fat invites
New Wave, this channing low-budget
us to "come to where the flavor is."feature follows the adventures of its
While it seems that Chimes sees thislittle herQ, Joey, who has escaPed toparticular fat as fetid, he none the less
Coney Island believing he has killed
makes us want to eat it. ...
ourhis brother. This little cowboy isI
Theyfunny and resourceful, and you will
SWEET BIRD from palle 59C)nyournever forget his adorable pouting;made her reputation at the opposite
support--andrOne of my favorites is Brassai's
end of the Williams spectrum, as nerLovers and Gowns (1955). As a photogvous Miss Alma in Summer and. they're justrapher, the Hungarian-born Brassai docSmoke. Kazan prevailed.
Page'sitching to hearumented Parisian nightlife; but in his
Alexandra became the only aspect ofthat you eaw their
only film he uncharacteristically reveals
the play and the film never chalad in OutWeek.
himself to be a zoological humorist.
lenged by anyone.
These giraffes, bears, lions and monkeys
Page herself saw' the stage and thewill keep you in stitches from beginningfilm Alexandras as "totally different.to end, especially during those momentscharacters." The film perfonnance, she'they are most human. Long-limbed, treesaid, missed the clawing passions ofswinging chimps provide the film with a
Alexandra on stage and was "much.flyirlg trapeze act that outdoes anything
more of a light comedy perfonnance."
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MEDICINE SHOW Word/Pia,
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NY COUNTY lAWYER'S ASSOCIATION CMTE. ON WOMEN'S
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ALe,., •• d Mic.' Criais;with
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series of readings; tonight. Joan
Larkin and Honor Moore, poetry;
353 B'way (3 blocks below Canal~
8 pm; $6; 431-9545 (gay!lesbian/
AIDS organizations Wi" have info
tables in the lobby)

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Integral Yoga Institute, 227 W 13
St; 7:30-9 pm; $5; 929-0586

WOMEN MAKE MOVIES Changing tha Subject. an international
exhibition of work by Black, Asianand Latin women from Australia,
Britain, Canada and the US;
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The Displace View, Marilu Mal-

let's Unfinished Diary; at 9 pm:
Zeinabu Davis' Cycles, Hiroko
Yamazaki's Juxta, Pam Tom's Two
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Anthoiogy Fiim Archives, 32-34 2nd
Ave (at 2nd St); $5; 477-2714, press
925-0006
NEW SCHOOL FOR SOCIALRESEARCH auee, Min" A seriesof lectures informed by the les·bian, gay and bisexual experience,·Communities in Crisis: ACT UP's
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Room 308; 8 pm; 741-5600
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HiV and AiDS; with Andrea
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Kim Hunter, NYC Gay Men's Cho·rus, Madeleine Potter, Christopher
Reeve, Ron Silver, Tommy Tune,others; Beacon Theatre, B'way at
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Tomorrow's TV Tonight entertainment
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ON NEXTPAGEFRIDAY, MARCH 9
The GayDating Game Show
. Manhattan Cable, Channel J/'J:3;7:30-8:00 pm
Gay Tv. male porno ciips
Manhattan Cable, Channel J/Z3; 11-11:30 pm

Gay Tv. gay male porno ciips
Paragon Cable, Channei J!23; 1-1:30 am (MON/TUE)

RB PROD Robin Byrd Show. male and femaie strippers
Manhattan and Paragon Cable, Channel J/Z3; 1-2
am (FRI/SAn.

~.JtA_MOhl&~!!J;;;.",;j~~~HBO What If I'm Gay?,"Tom plays on the high school

WOMEN MAKE MOViES Chenging
the Subject, an international exhibition of work by Black, Asian and
Latin women from Australia, Britain,,Canada and the US;tonight at 7 pm:
Mona Hatount's Measures of Dis·tance, Pratibha Parmar's Sari Red
and Resh and Paper, P. Diaz and M.
Mcintosh's The Hidden Wisdom,
Ngozi Onwurah's Coffee ColoredChildren; at Anthology
Film
Archives, 32·34 2nd Ave (at 2nd St);$5; 4n-2714, press 925-0606

RB PRODMen For Merr. Robin Byrd presents gay
male porno sters
Manhattan Cable, Channel J/Z3; 11:30 pm - midnight

Marc Berkley's Sinful Sundays at Hot Rod; aiso,thecontinuing saga ·of Frankie and Jake covered inmarshmallow fluff at Mars
Manhattan Cable, Channel C/16; midnight· 12:30am.TUESDAY, MARCH 6
OPEN CiRCLE gathens on the Full
Moon to Ce/eb,ate the GDd/d,",at the Center, 208 W 13 S1; 7·7:30
sharp; $1 (Box 4538, Sunnyside, NY
111 ()4.4538)

GCN The Right Stuff: media, entertainment, advice
Manhattan Cable, Channel J/Z3; 11:011-11:30pm

soccer tllam and has a steady girlfriend ...but why is
he confused?W
12:30-1:15pm (repeats MARCH 15,20,29)
GBS Out in the 9O'1f.livenews coverage, discussion
and interviews; tonight, live roundtabie with Larry
Kramer, Vivian Shapiro, Paula Ettaibrick, Ann
Northrop
Manhattan and Paragon Cable, Channei C/16; 11 pm
to midnightWEDNESDAY, MARCH 7
WNET·TV American Piayhouse, Andre's Mother.
Sada Thompson copes with her son Rrchard Thomas'
death from AIDS
Chimnei 13,9:10-10 pm; repeats 4 hours later,'·I:50
am (WED/THUR)RB PROD The Robin Byrd Show. male and femaie
strippers
Manhattan and Paragon Cabie, Channel J/'J:3;mid·night· 1 am

THURSDAY, MARCH 8
GMHC Uving With AIDS: health and politics
Manhattan Cabie, Channei J/'J:3,9:30·10:00 pm
Parllgon Cabie, Channei J!23; 11:30 pm - midnight

SATURDAY, MARCH 10
WNET·TV Folk Music Festival: James Tay/orat4:05
pm; Peter. Paul, and Mary 25th Anniversary at 6 pm;
Joan Baez with Jackson Browne at 8 pm; Simon andGarfunkel 7981 Reunion in Central Park at 9:30 pm;
James Tay/or repeat at 11:30 pm; Peter, Paul andMary repeat at 1:30 am (SAT/SUN), Joan Baez repeat
at 3:30 am (SAT/SUN)
Channel 13
RB PROD The Early Byrd: Robin Byrd presents
maie/female strippers
Manhattan Cable, Channel J/Z3; ll-midnight

SUNDAY, MARCH 11
WBAI·FM Outlooks (Gay & Lesbian Independent
Broadcasters~ tonight, l.ssbians in the Labor Movement. with Usa Winters and Priscina Ehly
99.5 FM, 7:30-8:30 pm (every other Sunday, alternat·
ing with The Gay Shawl'
WNET·TV Great Moments From the Met. with F. Murray Abraham paying tribute to the lOll-year history of
the Metropolitan Opera, with clips of the best perfor·
inances taped and fiimed over the years
Chanmil13, 8-9:30 pm
GCN Men & Films: maie erotica
Manhattan Cable, Channel J/'J:3;11:30pm - midnightGCN Pride & Progreslf. news, health, sports
Manhattan Cabie, Channei J/'J:3;10:30·11:00pm

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atthe Center, 208W 13 St; 7:30pm;
limited registration 741-2247(Thisis the second of a five-weekseries.)w:.lt)__
THE NEW MUSEUM OFtONTEMPORARY ART Symposium: Subjam of Hi.",ry, a day of discussion in conjunction with the exhibition ''''.rim, by Mary Kelly; with
Mary Kelly and Laura Muivey(Visual Pleasure and Narrative
Cinema) in the morning; Parveen
Adams (editor, m/f), Griselda Pol·lock (Vision and Difference: Feminism, Femininity and the Histories
of Art), Emily Apter (Fetishism andDomesticity: Psychoanalysis andLiterary Obsession in 79th-Centry
France), Iseac Julien (director,
Looking for Langston), and moder·ator, Hal Foster (editor, The AntiAesthetic: Essays in Postmodem
Culture); 584 Broadway (above
Prince, across the street from themuseum~ 9:30-4pm; $10 members
and students/$15 nonmembers;
reservations 219-1222
THE ANSWER IS LOVINGWomen
Telking Women's Talk: Beyond
Embem.llment; ·our relationshipwith self and others. How do wethink, feel and behave? Do wehold ourselves back because offear, anger, shame and embarrassment of what all the you's may
be thinking and feeling?MManhattan location; 9:45 am - 4 pm; $55;
rsvp 7181998-2305
CENTER KIDS sees Humpty
Dumpty Fa"s in LO"I, for young
children; at The Little People's
Theater Company, 38 Grove St;
1:30 pm; $5.50; for member info,
leave message at 620-7310

Prince); 9 pm; $6 members andstudents/$10 nonmembers; reservations 219-1222. SPECTRUM presents Bardeux(Jaz and Acacia), singing When
We Kiss and I Love to BasS; 802
64th Street. Brookiyn (N Train to
8th Ave stop, Bay Ridge); 718/2388213~
SAGE Rlachin, Out & Reachin,
In: A Workshop About Making
Connactions, to help participantsin -becoming aware of their innerexperiences and learning to relate
more spontaneously and creatively to othersM;led by therapist Lynn
Preston; at the Center, 208 W 13
S1;register 741-2247
WiLLIAM AND MARY GAY ANDLESBIAN ALUMNI/AE Sunday
Brunch, for alums living in New
York and New England; to be heldin Springfield, MA; 1 pm; brunch
info, Bob, 4131736..()629; New England member info 617/353-19251
CENTERWomen's Circle, Une andSquare Dance, with iive musicians
and an instructor calling the
moves; 208 W 13 S1;2·5 pm; $10;
212/567·2636,718/784-2554
JUDITH'S ROOM BOOKSTOREFirst Annivel'lliry Party and Open
Hou .. ; 68,1 Washington St (atCharles St); 2-6 pm;free; 727-7330
KOOL KOMRADS Sinful Sundays
presents Glamamora as -Evita-,
with $2 draft, $3.50 drinks; freebuffet from 10 pm to midnight. gogo boys, drive·in porn theater(make out in ciassic cars); 270
11th Ave (at 28 St); doors open 10
pm; 244-1950

C<~.-GAY MEN'S HEALTH CRISIS HIV
H.. 1th Seminar: Insure nee Information; 129 W 20 Sf, 3rd Roor; 7
pm; free; 807-6655,TDD 645-7470(this and every 2nd TUES)

HBO What If I'm Gay?, MTom
plays on the high school soccjtr
team and has a steady girlfriend ... but why is he confused?M 4:30-5:15 pm

GBS Out in the 90'$ live news coverage, discussion and interviews;
tonight. AsnyAshworth of P-FlAG(Parents & Friends of Lesbians
and Gays) talks with gay parents;
Manhattan and Paragon Cabl\!,ChannelC1l6,11 pmto midnight

HERITAGE OF PRIDE OutreachNight, with rare film of NYC's
first Gay and Lesbian Pride
March in 1970, video of last
year's march and fireworks
over the Hudson, discussion ofthis year's volunteer opportunities both before and during thePride Weekend,
with freerefreshments;
at the Center,
208 W 13 St; 7:30 pm; free; 6911774 (Editor: general membership meetings will be held at
the Center on second Mondays: APR 9, MAY 14, JUNE 11;
executive board meets firstMondays: MARCH 5, APR 2,
MAY 7, JUNE 4, at the HOP
office, 57 W 18 St)

lAMBDA LEGAL DEFENSE ANDEDUCATIONFUND Theatre Party:
UttiCI a Lo"a,a, starring Maggie Smith; with open bar and horsd'oeuvres at'Sam's Cafe (152 W52) from 5:30-7:30 pm, show at 8
pm (Barrymore Theater, 243 W47); $125-$1000; 995-8585 (toLLDEF,666 B'way, NYC 10012)
JUDITH'S ROOM BOOKSTORE
presents Bonnie S. Andereon I.
Judith P. Zinsser: MAHistory of
Their Own; in honor of Women's
History Month; 681 Washington
St (at Charles St); 7 pm; free, but
limited seating; 727-7330
PATH: POSITIVE APPROA.CHESTOWARD HEALING Seminar:
Makin, Pilei Wit" tile Past,
led by Peter Hendrickson, Ph.D.,
for anyone concerned about
HIV infection;
Integral Yoga
institute, 227 W 13 S1;7:30-9 pm;$5; 929-0586

GAYMEN'S HEALTHCRISiS Men
Mllting
Men Workshop, toenhance self-confidence
andability to negotiate safer sex withCONGREGATIONBETH SIMCHAT
potential partners; at the Center,
TORAH Purim Evening, 7 pm;
208 W 13 S1;8-10:30 pm; free; noParty, 9:15 pm; 57 Bethune St (inpre-registration, 807-8655 (TDDthe Westbeth Complex);929-9498:M~l1t<R"·2}¢;&lJ!,fjlfl!;'0:i'~:~ 645-7470)
CARROT PRODUCTIONS preDIGNITY/BIG APPLE Forum on
GAYMALE S/M ACTIVISTSMeetsents the opening of Spa,.
Dignity, Inc:s StatelJlent on Sexuing: Sensory Dlpr/llltion a RI,Parts, about two gay women
al Ethics, following the Uturgy; atorous Bondl,l, with answers to
the Center, 208W 13 S1;8 pm; 818· who want to have a baby, but
the question, "What's it like when
who need -a spare partM; at1309
you not oniy can't move a musCircie In The Square Downcie, but can't see, feel, or hear
CENTER2nd Saturday Dance; 208 town, 159 Bieecker St; 645·
anything outside your skin?M; at
W 13 St; 9 pm - 1 am; $81$6 mem· . 7744
the Center, 3rd Roor, 208 W 13 S1;bers, seniors, students; 620-7310
8:30 pm (doors open at 8); $5;
CENTER SPORTS sees NY
721-9878
THE NEW MUSEUM OF CONTEM- Rangers VI. LA Kings, hockey
match; at Madison Square GarPORARY ART The Question of
EAGLE BAR Movie Night: Parden, 33rd St & 7th Ave; 7:30
Manet's Olympia: Posed andInthood; 142 11th Ave Cat21 St);pm; members $25/non·mem·
Skirted, presented by Tha V-Girls,
11 pm; 691-8451
bers $35; 620·7310
a New York-based study and performance group; 583 B'way (above

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BAD NEIGKS1fRS presents rile
Monk, a MGothic tragedy- with
Ma dash of East Village highcamp; about a monk -betrayedby his own sexual perversity,
adding rape, incest and matri'cide to his resume ... ultimately
led to his death by Satan disguised as the Pope-; at the
Cooper Square Theatre, 50 E 7
St (near 2nd Ave); $10; reservations/info 989-0788 (THUR-SUN,
8 pm, thru APRIL 1)
JUDSON MEMORIAL CHURCH
presents La Gren Scena Opera
Company, doing spoofs of opera
favorites, a benefit for Judson's
yearlong Centennial Celebration; 55 Washington SquareSouth; 8 pm; $15; reservations
777-0033 (also FRI & SAT,MARCH 18 & 17, 8 pm) (Editor:
Julie Kurnitz appears MARCH 23& 24; The Rirtations sing APRIL
6&7)
WOMEN'S
ALTERNATiVESCOMMUNITY CENTER Weekly
Disculiion
for Lubilns;
tonight, -long-term
relationshipsM; 675 Woodfield
Rd,
West Hempstead, LI; 8 pm; $3
more if/less if; 518/483-2050(Editor's note: This disc ussion group
meets
every
Thursday.
There are alsomonthly discussions for lesbian educators,
lesbians inhealth care" lesbian mothers,
as well as social/support
groups for single lesbians
and older lesbians.)

Monday
Private Eyes (Marc Berkley's Kool Komrads; male strippers) 12 W 21 Sf.
club200-m2

Tuesday
Betl8r Days 316 W 49 St (819 Aves); 245-8925*Love Machine at Underground, 860 Bway, near 17th St; 254-4005*Quick (Chip Duckett's 1st Tuesday of the month, AIDS benefit) 6 Hubert
St (on Hudson, 3 blocks below Canal); 925-2442

Wednesday.
Betl8r Days 316 W 49 St (819 Aves); 245-8925
Private Eyes (Jeffrey Sanker & Dallas's Club Bad) 12 W 21 Sf. btwn
5thI6th Aves; 200-m2-Pyramid (Dean Johnson's Rock & Roll Fag Ban 101Avenue A, btwn
1590
• ~Streets; 421.1SIIYe~ I,inlll9 (2-4-1 drinks, also open Tues·Sun) 175 Cherry La., Roral Pk,
9641
U,5161354:.
..
S1uIz (2-4-1 drinks, also open dally) 202 Westchester Ave, White PlainS;
914/761-3100.
Twenty/1\Nenty (Marc Berkley's KoolKomrads, gay men after 10 pm) 20
W 20 St; club 727-8841

Kite, on the door) 270 11th Ave (btwn 27/28 Sts); club 244-1963
Twenty/Twenty (T·Dance, 4 pm • 2 am) 20 W 20 St (!i16 Aves); 727-8841

Every Night (or almost)
Monster (West Village) 80 Grove St at Sheridan Sq.; 924-3557
Spectrum (closed MON & TUE, WED free, THU free & 2-4-1 drinks, FRI
mlf strippers, SAT guest star show, SUN live show & free 9-10 pm)
80264th St@ 8th Ave, Bay Ridge, Bklyn; 718/238-8213

DANCING OUT for Women Dancing

TuesdaH

atf' ,01< Y"10 Ou
BI d K
G d. 718/261 8484
Ie usl~beens v., ew ar ens,•

Wednesday.

Bedrock 121 Woodfield Rd, W. Hempstead, U; 516/486-9516
Exc.libur (Ladies Night, $1 drinks) comer 10th/Jefferson behind footballstadium, Hoboken, NJ; 201.795-1161
lWenty/1\Nenty (Shescape After Work, 5.10 pm) 20 W 20 St (btwn
5thI6th Aves)' info 645-6479 club 727.8841"

ThursdayThursdayBedrock 121Woodfield Rd, W. Hempstead, U; 516/486-9516*Boylt.r (has a new wave drag show) 151/2 St Marks Place, btwn
2nd/3rd Aves; 674-7959.
-Cop.caban.
(last Thu. of the month has Susanne Bartsch party) 10 E 60
St, at Fifth Ave; 755-6010
Excalib .. ($1 dr~nks, also open Tues·Sun) corner 10th/Jefferson behind.
football stadium, Hob()ken, NJ; 201-795-1161
Grand Centr.1 (2-4-1 drinks; also open Wed·Sun) 210 Merrick Road,
Rockville Centre, U; 5161536-4800*Pyramid 101 Avenue A, btwn 6th/7th Streets; 420-1590.
*Quickl (Chip Duckett Thursdays) 6 Hubert St (on Hudson, 3 blocks
below Canal); 925-2442

Friday,.

Bedrock 121 Woodfield Rd, W. Hempstead, U; 516/486.9516-Cannalita's (Chip Duckett's Girl+Gir~ 150 E 14 St; club 673.9015
Chlf8ks2000 Long Beach Road Island Park, U; 516/431.5700
Roxy (Shescape party) 515 W t'8 St, btwn 10th/11th Aves; info 645-6479,
club 645-5156
VISions 56-01 Oueens Blvd WQodside' info 7181846-7131 club 711V899-9031.
",

SaturdayBedrock 121Woodfield Rd, W. Hjlmpstead, U; 516/486-9516.
The Center (Women & F.riends 1st Saturdays, Feb. thru May) 208 W 13

St;~~oFriday.

*Boylt.r 15.1/2 St Marks PI., btwn 2ndl3rd Aves; 674-7959*Cannalita's (Chip Duckett's Boy+Boyl15O E 14 St; club 673-9015
Cohnbi. Dances (1st Friday of every month) 116th St & Bway; 854-3574
days
Private Eyes (preppies and young professionals) 12 W 21 St, btwn Sttv'6th
Aves; 200-m2
1W'8nty/1\Nenty (Marc Berkley's Professional Happy Hour starts MAR 9)
20 W 20 Sf. 4-8 pm; club 727-8841

Satur d ay

Barefoot BoOgie (smoke & alcohol free) 434 6th Ave (btwn 9/10 Sts); 832-

6759

Silver Uning 175 Cherry Lane, Floral Park, LI; 5161354-9641
Starz 836 Grand Boulevard Deer Park, LI; 516/242.3857
lWenty/1\Nenty (Shescape' party) 20 West 20 Street (btwn Sttv'6th Aves);
info 645-6479, club 727.8841..

SundayBedrock 1~1 Woodfield Rd, W. Hempstead, U; 516/486.9516
Cave Canem (Sandwich Sister Sundays) 24 1st Ave at 1st St; 529-9665
Handle Bar (Jenny & Nancy's Girl Ban 232 E 9 St (2/3 A\les); 6 pm· midnightHeartbreak (Nasty Girl Prods. Patty for Women) 179 Va rick St (7th Ave),
below Houston, 5.11.pm; info 353.0227, club 691.2388
Hot Rod (Our Parties/Ourselves, Tea Dance 2nd Sundays) 270 11th Ave(btwn 27/'11JSts), 5-10 pm; info 245.1786, club 244-1963
Mars (Girl Sunday, Tea Dance 1st Sundays) Westside Highway and 13th
Sf. 5.9 pm' 691.6262*Boyltar 151/2 St Marks Place, btwn 2ndl3rd Aves; 674-7959
The c.....r D.nces (2nd and 4th Saturdays) 208 W 13 St, btwn 7tlVSth
Aves; 620-7310
Girth and Mirth Club at the Center (3rd Saturdays, heavy men & their. EN.'h (I).
admirers) 208 W 13 St; 620-7310 ..
very
Igi
or a most
Pap Boys at COI...... i. (3rd Saturdays, through June 16) 116 & B'way, 10
Cubby Role 438 Hudson St@MortonSt;243.9079
pm· 3 am; info 629-1989'
Duchess II Sheridan Sq. & 7th Ave South; 242.1408
Private Eyes (Jeffrey Sanker & Dallas's Club Bad) 12 W 21 St, btwn
Spectrum (closed Mon & Tues; good gay/lesbian mix, see Every Night,
5thI6th Aves; 200-m2.
above, for details) 802 64th Sf. Bklyn.; 718/238-8213 ,Red Zone (mixed gay/straight) 440 W 54 Sf. btwn 10111Aves; 582-2222'
Roxy (mixed gay/straight) 515 W 18 St (btwn 10111Aves); 645.51~
Saint At Large (Saturdays discontinued; March 17 Black Pattywlll be
the last party at 105 2nd Ave); 674-8541
Sound Factory (mixed gay/straight, Acid House, no alcohol) 530 W 27 St(btwn 10th/11th Aves); 643-07'11JtSunday.

Betl8r Days 316 W 49 St (819 Aves); 245-8925..
*Mars (Chip Duckett's Mars Needs Men night) Westside Highway and13th St; 691-6262.
.
*Pyramid (Hapi Phace and Drag + Variety Show) 101 Avenue A, btWn 6{1Streets; 420-1590·
Hot Rod (Marc Berkley's Sinful Sundays; Father Ritter's friend, Kevin
March

11, 1990

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OUTWEEK BAR GUIDEWESTSIDE

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

Johnny's Pub, 123 E. 47th St., 355-8714, Neighborhood restaurant and bar.

Bike Stop West, 230 W. 75th St., 874-9014,
Trix, 246 W. 48 St.lbet. Bdwy & 8th Ave), 664Neighborhood bar, occasional ent,er:tainment.
. 8331, Cash and carry.

Regent East, 204 E. 58th St., 355-9465

Candle Bar, 309 Amsterdam Ave., 874·9155,
Friendly leather/western bar.

The Works, 428 Columbus Ave lat 81st), 799·
7365, Cruisy west side crowd.,

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

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

EASTSIDE

South Dakota, 405 3rd Ave., 684-8376

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

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

Don't Tell Mama, 343 W. 46th St., 757·0788,
Sing-along piano bar and cabaret.
Sally's Hidea~y, 264 W. 43 St., 221-9152

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

Friendly

EAST VILlAGE
The Bar, 68 2nd Ave. lat 4th St.), 674-9714, East
Villagers and ACT UPers.
Boy Bar, 15 St. Mark's PI., 674-7959, Dancing /Drag shows.

The Cubbyhole

The Pyramid, 101 Avenue A. 420-1590, Dancing /Drag shows.

438 Hudson Street
at Morton(212) 243-9079
A neJghborhood bar forboth gay men & women

Tunnel Bar, 116 1st Ave 17th St.), 777-9232 W.
Village crowd in the E. Village.

WEST VILLAGE
The Annex Ito Cellblock 28), 673 Hudson St. Ibet.
13th & 14th), 627-1140, J/O Club.
Badlands, Christopher & West St. , 741-9236,
Cruisy waterfront bar.

The only gay and lesbian TV programming
serving all of Manhattan.

Boots & Saddle, 76 Christopher St., 929-9684,
Funkydive and juke joint.
Cellblock 28, 28 9th Ave, 733-3144, J/O club.
The Cubbyhole, 438 Hudson IMorton Stl. 2439079, Neighborhood bar for gay women & men.

In
The'
90s

Television That
Matters to the
Lesbian and
Gay Community.

. D.l's Fat Cat, 281 W. 12th St., 243-9041, Pianobar. Mixed M/F.
Duchess II, 70 Grove St Oth Ave.), 242-1408,
Women.
J's, 675 Hudson St., 242·9292, J/O club.
Julius, 159 W. 10th St., 929-9672, Serving Coors,
Coors Lite, & Coors Draft.

Live News • Interviews • AIDS Updates
Tuesday Nights 11pm-12midnite
Manhattan & Paragon Cable'-Channel C/16

Kelle(s, 384 West St.lat Christopher), 243-1907,
Friendly neighborhood crowd.
Kelly;s Village West, 46 Bedford St., 929-9322,
Piano bar.
The Locker Room, 400 W. 14th St. 19thAve), 459.. 4299, J/O club.
Marie's Crisis, 59 Grove St. 17th Ave), 243-9323,
Sing-along piano ~ar.

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The Monster, 80 Grove St. (7th Ave.), 924-3558,
Piano bar & disco/dancing.
Ninth Circle, 139 W. 10th St., 243·9204, Younger
crowd.
Ramrod, 185 Christopher St.
Sneakers, 392 West St., 242-9830.

68 SECOND AVE. AT FOURTH ST.
OPEN 1 P.M. - 4 A.M.
674-9714

Two Potato, 145 Christopher St., 242-9340.
. Ty's, 114 Christopher,741-9641, Cruisy neighborhood bar.

"An East Village
Tradition"

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

CHELSEA
Barbary Coast, 64 7th Ave. (14th St.), 675-0385,
Friendly, neighborhood bar.
nie Break, 232 8th Ave. (22nd St.), 627·0072.
Chelsea Transfer, 131 8th Ave. (bet. 16th & 17th),
929-7183, Neighborhood English pub.
Eagle's Nest, 142 l.1th Ave (21st St.), 691-8451,
leather / Levi's.
Private Eyes, 12 W. 21st St. (bet. 5th & 6th), 2067nO, Dancing, Video Club.

•EROTIC· OR
NOT?

Rawhide, 212 8th Ave., (21 st St.), Leather /Levi's.
Spike, 120 11th Ave., 243·9688, Leather & Uniforms.

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COllllllUllity ~ Directorv ~A.c.o.c.
AIDS CENTER OF QUEENS COUNTY
SOC:u~~~~:::8~=O:R~~~DIES
Volunteer Oppor1unitiel(718) 88&-25OO(voice) .1118) aae-2885(TDD)

ACI' UP IAlDS Coalition til Unl_h Powert
488A HudlOn Str .. t, Suite G4 NYC 10014(212)888 -1114
A dive,.., non-plrtiNngroup of individuII. united inInger Ind committed to direct Iction to end the AIDS
criala. Gen. mlltingl Mon. nightl7:30,
It the Community Center 208 W.I3th.

ALOE~APLN-NY(Ali.n LNbi.na of the Ellt Coa.v
Aliln Plcific L.. bi.n Networlt-New Yorlt)
We lie I politiCII, IOcialand .upportive networlt of
Aliln Plcific i.. bilna. Pllnning mllting. on the 111
SundlY .nd IOciii evente on the illl FridlY of e.chmonth. CIII (212)517-5588 for more inform.tion.

AIICS (AlDI-llalItId Co_lty
s.mc .. )for Dutch ... , Onlng., Putnam, Rockland, Sullivan,
UJatar .nd Weatohlltlr
counti ... AIDS .ducation,client .. rvlc .. , c rial. intervention, .upport groUPI,
c ... man.gement, buddy Ind hoapital vi.itor progl'llm.
214C1n1r111Iw.
PIai1f, NY lC1108(8141&G108
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AlDSUne (114).....r7wn.

ATR IAlDS TREATMENT REGISTRY,INC.)
Publiah .. a bi-monthly Directory of clinicli triala ofup.rimentel
AlDSIHIV tnIItmente in NY/NJ, .nd ha.
educational materiall/llminll'll
for trili participlnll.
Am lilO advocatel for improvemenll in the tri.1 ayetem. P.O. Box 30234, NY, NY 1011-0102. (212)288-4188.
Publications freeldon.tion
requ .. ted.

BAR ASSOCIAnON FOR HUMAN RIGHTS
LaWye'" Referrai
Service for the LNbian and G.y Community
Full Range of Lagal Servlcea (212) ~73

BAR ASSOCIAnON FOR HUMAN RIGHTSFree W.lk-in Legal Clinic: Tueaday 8-8 pm
Laibian a. Gay Community Centro Ground Roor

BI.,. (BISEXUAl. DO'-NANCE a
SUBMISSION GROUP)
Share SIM experienc ... nd f.ntasi .. with othel'll ina positive, non-judgem,ntai
atmoaphere. First Sunday of the month, 4:45pm at the Community Center
208 W. 13 Street, NYC. This group ia part of the New
Yorlt Area Billxual Networlt.

BISEXUAl. PRIDE DISCUSSION GROUP
Topical diacllllion. on iNU8I of interaat to the COlTVnU-nity in a congenialatmoaphere,
foliowad by.n inform.i
dinner.t a friendly locai l'8Itaurant Every Sunday,:tOO- 4:30pm at the Community Center 208 W. 13 Street,
NYC. Part of the New Yorlt Area Bisexual Networlt.

, &MAYS NEW YORKDIGNITY}BI8 APPll

Monthly lociai eventl for the Billxual communityand frienda. Call NYABN for detaila of upcoming
eventa. (718)353-8245

A community of Laabian and Gay Cttholica. Activiti ..
include Uturgi .. and .ocilla every Sat, 8:00 pm, at
the Center, 208 W. 13 Streit, NYC.
Cail (212)818-1308.

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BBC (BISEXUAL POUT/CAL
AmON CO_ITTEE)DIGNITY NMYORKPoliticai .ction on iNu" of importlnce to the Bilexu.V\. .. bia.yGay community. Monthly m.. tinWpolluck
heid 8:00pm on fourth Thul1lday of the month at membe ... hom ... c.n NYABN for thi. month' •. locltion.
(718)353-8245

i.. bian and gay C.thoiica and frienda
AIDS Miniatry, Spiritual DlVliopment
The Cathedlli Proj.ct
Worahip Servic .. a. Social-Sun. Eve .. 7:3Opm-St
John'l Epi.copil Church 218 Wilt 11th Street 0
Wave~2178

BISEXUAL YOunt
Informillocill
a. IUpport group for Bilexuli
kida,lyouth. Monthly meetinwpotluck iunch heid
1:00pm on fourth Sunday of the month atmambe ...
hom ... Can NY ABN for thil month 'I location. Thilgroup il part of the New Yorlt Area Bi.. xuII Networlt.

EdUNdDn in a Di.... I.. .., EnI .. 1llll1It
For the ph.,.icaily diNbied Lalbiln and Gay
Community.
(212)888-1821
P.O: Box 305 Village Station, New York, NY 10014

BLUS-IIRONX WBIANS
UNmD IN SIS1UHOOD

For ioabilnl who "if identify II Fe_. For info andmeeting tilll8l clil Lill It (212) B2NI17. No men pi .....

EDIIERIIME SUPPOII' IRa..

Sociai, poiiticli Ind IUpport networking group for
women Ind th.ir friencia. Regullr IOcill'lVII\tIlnd
mlltingl on the first and third Fridl.,. of every month.
At The Community C.nter, 208 W. 13 Street, from 8:». 8pm. For mora info can UII It (212)82&-8817.

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If you or your lover hll lilted HIV+,
offer IUPPOrt
group., .. minlra, public foruma, reference iibllry,referral., loci.lactiviti ... nd up-to-data n.tion.!
monthly, 'THE BODY POSmVF ($1r.'y8,r).
(212)833-1782.
2085 Broadway, Suita 308, NYC, NY 10023

CIRCJ,1 OF MORE UGHI'
Spiritu.l.upport
and aharing in e gayllelbian Iffirmative group. Well·Parit Pre,byterian Church
185 West 88th Street
Wed: worthip .. rvlce 8:30 pm, program 7:30.
Marth. (212)304-4373
Charlie (212)891-7118.
COMMUNITY HfALTII PROJECI'
208 W .. t 13th Street, NYC, New Yorlt 10011
For Appointments end Information(212)87S-3559 ITTYNoice)
PROVIDING CARING, SENSITIVE AND LOW COSTHEALTH CARE SERVICES TO THE LESBIAN AND GAYCOMMUNITYFRONT RUNNEII
A running club for I.. bian and gay athi'lIIof allabiiiti ... Fun Run. of 1-8 mO.. held every Sat It
lOam and Wed •. It 7pm in Ctntrai Parlt
and every Tuea. It 7pm in Proap.ct Plrk.
For inform.tion: cail (212)724-8700.

THE RIND FOR HUMAN DIGNITY
Nltion.i G.y and LNbiln Criala Une'AIDS 800'-l-IIOO-SOS-GAYS
Education.1 Reaource Center; Poaitive Imag ..
Media Center; NY State Arta Progllm
888 B'wiy Suite 410 NYC, NY 10012 (212)52&-1800
THE GAYAfRICAN AMERICANSOF WESTCHESTER(1'he Cl.A.A.)
ila community based aupport group formed in
Westcheatar
County. Varioul Ictivitiel are p1lnned
for the coming montha.
Plea .. call 914-378-0727 for more info.

GWD
Gay. Laabian Alliance Aeailllt o.r-tIon
80 Variek Street. NYC 10013 (212) 888-1700
GlAAD combalB homophobia in the media Ind."where by promoting visibility of the i.. bian and gay
community and organizing gra .. roo1I raaponII toanti·gay bigotry.

COMMUNITY RESEARCH INITIATIVE
f1WIu, f1WARC, a. their physician, taking the initia·
tive to aeek promiling intervention .glinll AIDS in a
resp. manner. For more info or to volunteer pili.,c.1I (212)481-1050.

CONGREGAnON IIEnI SlIICIIAT TORAH
NY'a Gay .nd L.. biln Synagogue Servlc ..
Friday It 8:30pm
51 Bethuna Street
For info. call: (212)82&-9488.

Do you have 30 minutaa a month
to fight homophobia?
Join the GlAAD PhoneT .... 1
Call (212)-98&-1700 for infonnltion.

GAYa.I.ESBIAN HfALTII CONCEINS
An office of the NYC Dept of Health, provid .. Hnkag" betwn NYC Heaith a. Human SVca, and the 1Mbi.n a. G.y community, focU8ing in All h .. ~/concema; reaource informltion for h .. 1th .. rvlc ..
conaume ... and providellI. 125 Worth Str .. ~ Box tn,
New York, NY 10013. For info call (212) se&-4885.

GAY al.ESBIAN PSYCHOTHERAPY
Sliding Icale fees -Insurlnce
accepted.
Institute for Humin Identity.
(212)799-9432

GAY MALE SIll ACIMSTS

Dedicated to aafe and r.. ponsible 81M lincel881.
Open meatings w/programa on SIM tachniqu .. ,lifeatyle is,ue" political and IOcill concel1)l. AlIO
lpeCili eventa, Ipeakelll bureau, worltahO(ll, demoa,
Iffinity groups, newsletter, more. GMSMA -Dept 0,
488A Hudaon Street, Suite D23 ,NYC 10014.
'(212) 727·8878.

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I..-------======~;;;::;;;;;;;;;;~GMAD(GAY MEN OF AFRICAN DESCENT)
80 V.rick Street, NYC 10013. IUpport group of B.y
Men of Afric.n Dllcent dedic.tlld to conaciouan ....
.... iling and the dev.lopm.nt
of th.Lelbian and B.yCommunity. BMAD il inciuaiv. of African, AfricanAm.ric.n, Caribbe.n .nd Hilp.nic/LItino men ofcolor. Mlltingl .... h.id, we.kIy, on Frid.Y'. For
mo ... infonn.tion, c.H 71~802-G182.

GAY MEN'S HEALTH ClllSIS HOTUNEFOR INFORMATION ON SAFER SEX AND HIV-RELATED HEALTH SERVICES, AND FOR INFORMATION ON
ONE-TIME, WALK-IN AIDS COUNSB.iNB SERVICES
2'lNII1'2'lM4J.74711lDD (For the IIMrInglmpairM)
Mon.-Fri. 10:30 '.m. to 8 p.m. S.t 12:110to 3:110
GlIIlHalllll1l CWB OF NEW YORI
Social ciub for hllVY, chubby g.y m.n & th.ir .dmir..... Monthly aoci.il .t the 'C.ntII", we.kIy bar
nightll Thu ... dlY' .tth. 'Chell" Tr.naf ... , monthly
Fat Appi. Ravi.w, bi-monthly FAR. penpli .. For mo ...
infonnltion cd Emi. at 814-888-7735 or writll:
B&M/NY. D.pt 0, P.O. Box 10, p.ih.m, NY 10803.
HW (.... Ith Educelloft AIDS Uaiaon)
W .. kIy info •• nd IUpport group for tre.tm.ntll for
AIDS which do not compromill the immune eyatem
furth.r, inoluding .ltem.tiv.
Ind holiltio .pproach ...
Wid 8pm. 208 W. 13th St (2121874-HOPE.

lUBlAN AND GAY WOR NElWOIIKof Leabi.naand G.Y' who ..... 0tiVl
in theirJ.bor uniona working on dom .. tic partn.rahip
benefita .nd AIDS i.. uII. For mo ... infonn.tion c.1I
(212)92H880.

An org.nization

LUBIAN AND GAY RIGHrS PROJECT
of thl AmeriCMIft CMI Ubertin

IINOWYOUIIIIIIiII/VIFfE(212)944-8800,

IlETRICK-MAIITIN INSTmnE

HISPANIC IINITED GAYS&. LUBIANS
Educational.ervicn,
political action, counlliing andaocialactivitill in Spanish and English by and for theLatino Leabian and Gay Communi1\tGeneral meetinga8:00 pm 4th Thu ... day of every
month at 208 Walt 13th Straat
Call (212)891-4181
or writll H.U.G.L, P.O. Box 228 Canai Street Station,
New Yort, NY 10019.
~A

lBiALDEFENSEAND EDUCATION RIND
Pracedent·lllting
litigation nationwide for
illbians, gay men and people with AIDS. Member·ship ($35 and up) inc. newaietter and invitations to
Ipecialeventa.
Volunteer night on ThullldaY'. Intake
calla: Hpm Mon thru Fri (212) 995-8585
LAVA (LUBIANS ABOUT VISUAL ART)
Call for slides for lesbian Artiste' Exhibition, Gay &.
Lasbian Community Centllr, NYC. For mo ... infonna·
tion, send SASE to :Miri.m Fougere
118 Fort G... ene PlaceBrookiyn, NY 11217.

THE LUBIAN AND GAY BIG APPI1 CORPS

lUBlANS AND GAYS OF RATBUSH
Brookiyn'IIOCi.1 org.niz.tion for both g.y min .nd
IlIbi.na. P.O. Box 108, Midwood Station
Brookiyn, NY 11230. (718) 869-8437

LONG ISLAND ACT...
P.O. Box 281, New Hyde P.rk, NY 11040
Support u. for ch.ng. on Long ial.nd.
(518)338-44182 (518) 897-5238 N.... u(518) 82~1i53O Suffolk

MEN OF AlL COLORS TOGETHER NY
A multi-r.ci.1 group of g.y min .g.in~ r.ciam. Meatingl .v.ry FridlY night It 7:45.t th.Leabi.n .nd a.y
Community SelVic .. Center, 208 W. 13th Street For
mora info. c.i1: (212) 2~
or (212) 222.8784,

Our200 member illbi.n .nd iI.ylllnnii club includll
pl• .,.... from beginning III tourn.ment IIVIII.Monthly
tIInnil Plrti ... Wintllr indooilllgue. Come pllYwilh ual
For infonnation: MfB, Suite K83, 488-A Hudson St, New.York, NY 10025. (718)852-8562.

MOCA (lien of Color AIDS P_mion...... ram.)
Providns.fer
IIX and AIDS education infonnation
to gly and bisexual Men of Color; coordinates a net·
work of peer-support groups for gay and bisexual
Men of Color in ailS boroughs of New York City.
303 Ninth Av., New Yort, Ny 10001
or call (212)239--1798.
NATIONAL GAYAND LUBIAN TASK FORCEi. the national grassroota political organization fori"bian. and gay men. MembellIhip is ~ar.
Issue·orientlld projecta adrlress violence, sodomy
iawa, AIDS, gay righta ordinances, familill, media,
etc. through lobbying, education, organizing anddirect action.
NGllF 1517 U Street NW, Washington, DC 20009.
(202)332-8483.

NEW YORK ADVER11SING
AND COMMUNICATIONS NETWORKNYACN is the community's largest gay and IlIbian
professional group, welooming all incommunications-andtheir friends. Monthly meetings, 3rd Wed 8:30pm at the Community Center. Membelli' n8WIiettllr, job hotline, annuai di... ctory. Phone(212) 517·0380 for more info. Mention OutWeek for
one free newsletter.

Get your inltrument out of the cloaet and come playwith us. Symphonic, Marching, Jazz, Oixieiand, Rock,Rute Ensembles and Woodwinds.
123 Waat44th St Suitll12l NewYort, NY 10038(212)88&-2922.

N.Y. WOMEN'S SOFTBAlL GUILDFor experienced, serioua Softball Playelll, Coachn
and ManagellI. We play mod/fa at pitch weekends in
Manhattan and Queen •. Try-outs begin Feb. 11 thru
April- or until filled. (212) 25S-1379 Janet

I1SBIAN &.GAY
COMMUNITY SERVICES CENTERNINTH STREET CENTBI .
Since 1973, • community dedicatlld to demonatratingthat a homo.exuallifeatyleia • rational,lIeair.bte
choice for individuala di.. atiafied with the rewarda of
conventional living. Psychologically·
focussed rap
groupa, Tues., Sat, 8 to 10 pm. pear counselling available, 319 E. 9 St... et, NewYort, NY 10003, for info call(212)22~5153.

208 Wnt 13th Straat New York, NY 10011(212) 82(H31 0
9am-l1pm everyday.
A place for community organizing and networking,
IOcialllrvicn,
culturai programs,andaocialeventa.pon.ored by the Canter and mo ... than 150 community organizations.

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NORTH AMERICAN 1lANlB0Y
LOVE ASSOCIATION (U.W
Dedic.tlld to llxual freedom and elpeci.Dy intllrated
in g.y intllrgenellltional
raiationlhipa. Monthly Bulietin .nd ... gular ohaptllr mlltingl on ~fil'lt
S.turd.y of each month. Yearly m.mberahip i. $20; wiitII
NAMBLA. PO Box 174, Midtown Station, New York,NY 10018 or c.1I (212)807.8578 for infonn.tion.

Union

ElIPAMHNG1IIII.xt. 545

METROPOUTAN TENNIS GIIOUP(MTG)
for I.. biln and g.y youth. Counilling, drop-in centIIr (M-F, 3-8pin), rap groupa, H.lVey M~k HighSchool, AIDS and lifer 18X infonnation,.... ferr.ll, profe .. ionaleducation.
(212) 833-882O(voice)(212)833-8928 TTY for de.af-ii' -NORTHERN UGHTS AIJ'EIINA11VES
Improving Quality of Ufa for Peopl. With AlDSlHIV.
THE AIDS MASTERY WORKSHOP: Exploring the polaib~iti .. of • powerful and crlltivelif1 in the flOe of_AIDS. Cail (212)21i&-~

NYCGAyal1SBlAN
ANTI-VIOLENCE PRUCF
Counaeling, advocacy, and·infonnltion for aUMvoIlIof .nti-g.y and anti-Ie.bian vioi.nc., llxuai .... uIt,
domaatic violence, and oth.r type. of victimization.
Ali lllViclI free and oonfidenti.l.
24 hour hoUine (212) iIOT-Gl81

PEOPI1 wrrH AIDS COAU110N(212) 532-Q28CWI-800-828-328IVHodin. (212) 532-0&18
Monday thru Frid.y lQam-8pm
Mill progr.ms, support groupa, eduo.tion.l.nd... fe ..... I .. lVices for PW"". Ind PWAro' ..
PEOPLE WITH AIDS HEAIl'II GROUP
Underground buyer's club importing not-yat-.pprovad
medio.tionaand
nutritionai supplementa,31 Weat:leth
St 4th Aoor (212)!i32-Q280.
SAGE: (Slnior Action in I Gay EnviI'Ollllllllt)
Sociaiservice Agency. providilg c.re, activitill, &educationalseMces
for gay &. ieabian .. nior citizena.
AlIO IIMII over 180 homebound llniln &. older FWA'a.
208 Waat 13th St NYC 10011, (212}741-2247

SETHIAN GAYS, LESBIANS AND BISEXUAlS .
For ail of us interestad in reaching out to each otherwith exuberance to spontanaously explo ... andexpand upon the Sath/Jane Roberti ·phiiosophy" as
it relatlll to our livas, parsonally, sexuaily and politically. Cail AI (212)97~5104.
THE OUTREACH
USING COMMUNAL HEAUNG (TOUCH)
Conwnunityvoluntsars providing a weakly buffet suppar
fortha Brooklyn AIDS community. TOUCH mealS Monday
8V8I. 5pm to 8:30pm- at downtown Brooklyn Friends
Meeting House (110 Schennerhom St nllr Boenm
Place~ Urnitlld transportation msy be a .....nged.lnto: (718)822-2758. TOUCH welcomes contnllllliona offunda, foodand voluntaers.

ULSTER COUNTY GAY AND LUBIAN AWANCE
Muta first and third Monday of each monthat 7:30 p.m. attha Unitarian Church on Sawlall Road'
in Kingston. For information, cail (914)828-3203.
WHAMI (Women's He.lth Action Mobilization)
A non-partisan coalitic;m committed to demanding, .
securing and defending absolUte reproductive freedom and quality haalth cara for ali woman. We maet
every Wed. at 6:30 pm at the Village Independent
Oemoc ... ta, 224 Wast Fourth Street (off Sharidan Sq.).
We are not affiliated with VID. (212)713-5986. M.mng.dd ... ss: WHAM I, P.O. Box 733, NYC 10009

WOMEN;S ALTEIINATIVECOMMUNITY CENTER (WACC),
A non-profit, lasbian community center serving
Q,ueens, Nasdu and Suffolk counties. Thulll night
weakly discussion grps. 8:30pm, for other activitiea. please contact us at (518)483-2050.
.

March 11, 1990

OUT~EEK77

ACCOUNTING
TAX.TIMEIS.BUDGETWISEBOOKKEEPING TIME
Limited Appointments AvaUable
Please call early. (718) 716-3847
10,. dllcount with ad

AIDS MINISTRYIN THE SPIRIT OF
FRANCIS OF ASSISl...serving
our brothers and sisters affected by. -AIDS
St. Francis AIDS Ministry
135 W. 31st Street Manhattan 10001
695-1500I

ANNOUNCEMENTS

APARTMENT SHARENYC'S FINEST
CALL FORWARDANSWERING SERVICEIS
GAY·OWNED

79TH AND YORK·CLEAN AND OUIET
own bedroom in airy, cozy apt.·roachfree bldg nr buses, 24 hr sprmkt.
I'm BiF,ACT·UPer, work at home on
fantasyline, do SIM with my friends. No
perfume/tobacco in apt (allergyl.
Leave message w/besttimes:459-4811.

PROTOCOL(2121645·3535

A CLEANER CLEANINGWITH A MIDWEST FLAIR. DONE BYA GUY
WITH BRIGHT REDHAIRWEEKLYAND BIWEEKLYLEGITONLYRATES$40.00AND UP
CALL PAUL941·0603

CASTLE CARE, INC.

Copyright

APARTMENT WANTEDANNOUNCEMENTS,

OutWeek staff person seeks sublet or
share. Prefer downtown.
Need immediate. Call Raul days
(2121337·1232
Eves (2121932·1496.

ART BUY/SELL-ART SOURCE UNUMITED-

Apartment & Office Cleaning.
Gay Owned. Reliable.
We are available 7 days.
CALL (212) 475-2955

W. buy, s.lI, trade and low. artworks.

REUABLE HOUSE WORKS
Cleaning or AssistanceCall and Ask for Details(212)884-2801
Serious Inquiries Only

ARTISTS AVAILABLE: Keith Haring,
Robert Longo, Ross Bleckner, James
Rizzi,Andy Warhol, Martine, and many
more ... For information,. call Dim at 255-6680.

APARTMENT RENTAL

ASTROLOGYPROSPECT-~TS,BROOKLYN
Large, sunny, 1·2 bedroom floor·throughapartment with yard. 1 block fromsubway and shopping.
Flexible lease, available immediately.
(718)941·1204or (718)469-0782.

E.S.P.Psychic-Professor of SpiritualismReader and Advisor-Palm and Card
Readings
Are pu confwed, u..."" H",..H,

e 1989 Holy Name Province

ANNOUNCEMENTSGAY ARnSTS WANTEDQUICKI is seeking gay artists to exhibit
homoerotic art on its Thursday nights.
Both gay male and lesbian eroticism
sought in any medium. Contact Chip
Duckett at 925-2442to set up an
appointmelJ.!:.
GAY MALES WANTED
Gay males wanted to participate inresearch to create' a national public
service campaign. Feewill be paid for
1/2 hour interview. Confidentiality
assured. Call collect 919-544-54483PM
to 7PM M·F. Ask for Mike.
SAGE INVITES ALL WOMENTO THE 6TH ANNUAL ALMOST SPRINGDANCE, APRIL 1, 1990,ATTHE RED
ZONE, 440WEST 54TH STREET,5:00·
10:00.$15.00 IN ADVANCE,$20.00AT'·THE DOOR.SEND CHECKSTO SAGE,
DEPT.0, 208WEST 13THSTREET,NYC,
10011. (212)741·2247.

RENT MY PARIS APARTMENT
Furnished modern studios near bars,
metro, sleeps 2 non·smokers; Nextt'
Notre Dame $6OOIwkor Place des. Vosges $700/wk. Quiet kitchen linens
phone ~tc. included ..

APARTMENT SHARE
Own bedroom/own bath in a very
beautiful2BR/2 bath apartment withextremely private terrace. GM seeks
reliable, professional person to share.
Safe neighborhood, transportation andshopping. Minutes to Manhattan. Cable
TV, $45O!mo.and share util.
Astoria (718)204-0440.

DONNA

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puINN.IIII ,*-.I0IlIIII,.,,1

I CAN AND WILL HELPYOU.
Reunite the Separated-Restore Lost
Nature-Unfold the Mystery of the Past,
Present and Future.
(212) 686-1992
Sa Hable Espanol

CLUBS
FORESKIN LOVERSThe New York City chapter oftheUncircumcised Society of America(NYC·USAI seeks new male members(with or without foreskin) to join its
swelling ranks. Call for more clubinformation orto make reservations forthe new members party. (212)m·4208.

TO PLACEYOUR AD, CALL11" 337·1111
78·OU~WEEKMarch 11, 1990

,CHIROPRACTORElECTROLYSIS

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

COMPUTER DATING

THE MALE STOP·aas.

A computer
Use your modem.

AFFORDABLE ELECTROLYSIS

IN-HOUSE MESSENGBI

Permanent Hair Removal New Airflow
Technique with I.B. Probe

OutWeek is seeking an energ(rtjc
individual for the position of messenger.
Pick-up and deliver hand-carryable.packages and envelopes to various
points from our midtown office. Fulltime:You need a familiarity with
Manhattan (streets,and subways). Call
212-337-1200. No walk-in applications.

COMPLIMENTARY CONSULTATIONPROFESSIONAUY OPERATEDGREENWICH VILlAGEQUIET. PRIVATE OFACE

Kenneth Hay
226 West 4th Street
New York, NY 10014
Lower Level, By Appointment Only.

. (212) 727-1850 .
Certified Bectrologist
Member I.G.P.E•.

(212) 721-4180 FREE!
FITNESSCONDOS / CO-OPS
CD-OPSICONDOS
Helping
Our Community
Buy and Sell Real Estate
Since 1980

The answer to the puzzle about eating.
Eliminate your weight/eating problem
forever. (212)929-0661

CASTING SPECIALSHOWSPERSONAL TRAINER-DIs -Mak Dancers-'l'rtutnestiles -Cross Dressers-Bod, Builders -SpeciakJ Acts

Paul Simpson(212) m-3656
by appointment
TAKE ME TO YOUR GYMPERSONAL FITNESS TRAINER
MEN AND WOMEN-BEGINNERS
WELCOMEREASONABLE RATESCAU JEFF (212)

CONTRACTORSVOWNTEER COORDINATOR
for social service agency for gay amd
lesbian youth. Develop and implement
agency-wide
volunteerprogram;recruitment, screenings, trainings andcoordinationof volunteer activities.
Exp~rience preferred. Send resume to
HMI, 401 West Street, NY'10014. EOE.

.
.
EAnNG AWARENESS TRAINING:

One-on-One Weight Training
Bodysculpting

AndrewWeiser(212) 721-4475
The Corcoran Group

HElP WANTED

PLUS-Bartetuhrs -Waiters-SecuritJ GIUII'ds
Apply in person. 1\aesdays andThursdays, 2 pm to 4pm.
(DO NOT CALL)

Pyramid Club

101 Avenue A

m-32JJjART DIRECTORACE Contrlctor & Crew
AUjo~..... U., I....
ea"•••,t • Electrical' Sh.etn>ck •Ap ..........
Loft. ' SIo,..

GROUPS

12121ZZl-1U2

MEN'S GROUPDENTISTSOUAUTY PBlSONAL DENTISTRY
William De Bonis DDS.
Suite 704,
200 West 57 Street.
New York, NY 10019,
Office hour, by appointment only call
212-333-2650.

ElECTROLYSIS
A lAMBDA aEmOLYSISA

Permanent Hair Removal
MerVWomene TVITS's· All Methods
Computer Aided • Sterile Conditions
By Physicians' Aid
14 Years Experience· Sliding Scale Fee
Licensed and Board Certified(718)937-3389.

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OlJTTWEEK. March 11, 1990

Ongoing group dealing withproblems related to positive
self-esteem and male intimacy
Licensed psychotherapist
Call for consultation.
(212) 941-9830

GROUP MASSAGE
MEN'S MASSAGE GROUP'Gettogatherwith
a group of men to
give and receive massages. Taught by
Terry Weisser, Licensed Masseur andteacher at the Swedish Institute.
. Sundays~ 7-1Opm, $20.00, .
call (212) 463-9152.

OUTWEEK Magazineseeks a full-time person tosupervise all art-related aspectsof the publication Including
covers, logo deSigns, layouts,
ad designs, promotional
materials, etc. Must haveexperience working on
publications, dealing withprinters and working underdeadline. Salary plus benefits.
. Call Mr. Rotello212-337-1200.
People of color and womenencouraged to apply.

A REAL CAREBI
Excellent presentation skills combinedwith a moderate amount of travel are
your ticket to a definite lucrative career
path with a dynamic, major and growing
gay-owned and operated financial firm.
Some typing, good phone manner and. computer literacy required. For more on
this exciting oppurtunity
call Jeff at(516) 76;4-2300 or (212) 593-4200.

HELP WANTEDHELP WANTEDMUSIC INSTRUCTION

RECEPTlONISTJFlLE CLBlK

CO-DIRECTOR

Busy private practice; must type withcomputerknowledge;
full·time
w/benefits
after 90 days; good
personality to handle pressure, callFrank after lpm M·E 212·787·7820.

SAGE: Senior Action in a Gay Envi·ronment, Inc. a non-profit organization, isseeking an individual who will have fulltime financial responsibility for this social
service agency caring for gay and lesbian
seniors in the NY metropolitan area. This
person must have'three years or morework
experience.
in fund-raisingstrategies, public relations activities andpreparationof grant proposals forfoundations and governmental agencies.
This perso,n must have previous
experience in financial management andbudget preparation for business and/or
non-profit organizations. SAGE, Inc. is anequal opportunity employer.
Please direct all inquiries and resumes to:
Chair, Search Committee, SAGE, Inc., 208West 13th Street, New York, NY 10011.
Confidentiality respected.

PIANO INmucnoNs
rrs NEVER TOO LATEPHONE SEX MODERATORS
Must
have
friendly,out·going
personality. Part·time, eight hour shifts.
Call Mr. Lyons at 935·3440.

LEGAL SECRETARY.
for small labor law firm in Penn Station
area. WordPerfect + dictaphone expo a
MUST. Typing, filing, tel. & g'en'l officeduties. $26K·$28K, dep. on expo (212)268-1000. Ask for Bill.

All levels taught by patient, experienced
professional. Beginners welcome.
Convenient West End Avenue location.
Reasonable rates.
(212) 799-3747.
(Message answered promptly)

PAINTING

MOVE TO SAN FRAN AREA
Progressive and aggressive firm seeks
print·media
buyer who knows whatmagazine to buy from various products
from blow-dryers to phone sex. Two years
New Yori<corporate advertising experiencedesired. We pay all moving expenses. Send
resume and cover letter to Cindy
McDowell, P.O.Box 1029,Soquel, CA 95073.

INSURANCE

INSURANC£ ..
of~kind
Bernard G'ranville

I ,.~".

n."',':.,,,, ,he",. SO:

ers part.timeh' ~~s. Call Mr. DavIs a I,

. .F1."bI..
Imos.
935-3440.

STORE HELP

$225Iwk. start, $2751wk. after 2 months,(212) ~_r_

MOVERS, LICENSEDOUTDOOR DIsn:~~~~ribute

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PHONE SERVICES

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PUBUC EDUCATION
COORDINATOR

Call1!~1ItJ '~I.fill

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

STORE HELP
$22!i/Wk. start, $2751wk. after 2 months,
32 1/2 hrs, Blue Cross, 1 week paidvacation, 18 years age min., references
required. Gay Treasures, 546 Hudson
Street, (212) 255-5756, ask for Don.

•IlAVfLTIME

a Commun~tv

Serving the~)v¢_• .._

32 1/2 hrs, Blue Cross, 1 week paidvacation, 18 years age min., references
fequired. Gay Treasures, 546 Hudson
Street, (212) 255-5756, 1;sk for Don.

•I

447.5555

MOVERS, LICENSEDTIRED OF HOMOPHOBIC MOVERS?
Try Brownstone Brothers instead.
Profe ssional an~ Reliable.
Serving the Gay Community 15 years.
Sensitive, fun people who getthe job
done right with no bullshit.
Ucensed DOT 10166. Insured.
Reasonable storage rates.
Pianos-Art-Antiques
Packing. Moving Supplies. 426 E91 .
Call2B9-'51'.
Mention OUTWEEK for Special
Dis.count. Frell Estimates.

PHONE
SEX'
Billed to Your Phone or Credit Card.
Talk to Other Men from NY.
Safe, Fun, Anonymous
Free Information
Why Pay More?

(212) 319-2270
The BuddySystem™

March 11, 1990

OU~EEK81

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69 WEST 9TH STREETSPACIOUS ONE BEDROOM
Exclusive with windowed1dining area.
Chic West Village. 24 Hr. Dforman, Elev.
Bldg.
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WALSCOTT CO. TONY 212-460-9999
Asking $185,000
630.

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2 Bpdroom Truly
an Architectural Geml2. Bathrooms,
Large California Kitchen with Designer
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SERVING TH~ GAY
COMMUNnv OFMANHAnAN
Buying, Selling R"al Estate
Call Tony Czebatul(212)460-9999,WALSCOn CO.
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1 BdrmCoop with space to tjt your life-style.
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WALSCOTT CO. TONY 212·460-9999.

PHYSICIANS

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CHP - COMMUNnY HEALTH PROJECT
208 W. 13 Street, New York, NY 10011,
for info call (2121675-3559.

Gay couple selling vJell-loved home in
comfortable, safe ~eighborhood inStaten Island. 9 room;Colonial, chestnut
trim, beautifully decorated,
fenced/landscaped yard with fish pond.
(C-l) Commercial zone permits in-homebusiness. Perfe'ctfor lawyer,
accountant, therapjist. 10 minutes to .
ferry and Snug Harb.or Cultural Center.
$198,000. (71eI816-6867.

ANAL WARTS, FISSURES,HEMORRHOIDS
treated in minutes with lasers call for a
free consultation. Laser Medical
Assoc., Jeffrey Lavigne M.D.,
call1-800-MD-TUSCH.

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Hudson Street NYC, NY 10014
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achieve responsive, fair schooling. New
study discloses 25 ways gay andlesbian teens can get better treatment
from peers and adults at school. Send
$5 to Students, 1455 Chapin Street NW,
Washington, DC 20009-4510.

82. OUTTWEEKMarch 11, 1990

DEADLINE FOR ALL
CLASSIFIED
ADVERTISING IS THE
MONDAY PRIOR TO
ON-SALE DATE,REAL ESTATE
HATE BROKERS?
At last there's
an understanding,qualified real estate professional who
will help you buy or sell your Manhattan
co-op or condo. I have 1000's ofapartments and 1IlOO'sof customers.
Please call Phillip (212) 308-0870.
Leave message.

WASHINGTON D.C,
8 Bedroom renovated Victorian guest
house, well-established business, gay
clientele. Located in prestigious DuPont
Circle, metro-accessible. $750,000
includes most furnishings. No brokers.
(2021462·0709.
WOODSTOCK, ARE ISlAND
AND THE MOUNTAINS
Come see this romantic hideaway. A
three level contempo tucked away on
3.5 acres w/soaring space, endlessglass, two fplcs, new jacuzzi, loft
looking out on beautiful forest. Greatvalue in this designer-owned home.
$187,500. Call Mona at Woodstock
Country Properties. (914)679-5926.

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KINGS ANq QUEENS
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THE STER~~G ARMS

Our luxurious coopenitite apartments include:• spacious and airy layouts• unique;design• fabulous imported ,Italian marble in allbathrooms/and lobby• 1400 sq. ft. apaljtlT1ents available• video intercom system
Come to The Steriiog Arms to see how·royalty· really live.
The Ste~ing Arms
296 Ster!ing Place. BrooWlyn, NY
call (718) 851-1571
Sales office operi: Tues{Thurs 11am5pm, Sat/Sµn 12pm-5pm
Sales by BLARE R~LTY CORP. Offering
by pros~ectus only.

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Exclusive Seasonal Rentals
2BR and 3BR from $12,000
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also all price ranges, including
waterfronts and swimming pools
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FDR Statton, NYC, NY 1015()(212) 355-6739

SEXUAL HEALINGBIOTIC MEN
Joseph Kramer and Matthew Simmons
invite you to a sacred sex seminar. (Nolecture.) Celebrate our tribal joy witherotic rituals based on Tantric, Taoist,. and Native American traditions. Learn
25 erotic massage strokes and how toenhance and prolong orgasm. Relearn
sex as sacred, playful, non-addictive,
non-compulsive and non-stop. April 7, 8
or 14, 15 9am-6pm. Cost $195. You .areinvited to a day ofTaoist Erotic
massage on April 16, 9am-6pm. learn togive and receive a 11/2hourtransfonnative genital massage, Cost
$60. For brochure and registration; call
Body Electric at (415) 653-1594 or Bob
Yohn'at (212)929-4019. .

BIOTIC MEN AND WOMEN
Joseph Kramer and Annie Sprinkle will
host their popular Tantric Group Rebirth(clothed) on April 6 at 8pm. Cost $20.
-Healing with Empowerment throughSelf Erotic Massage- a clothed evening
with Joseph Kramer, April 10, 8pm. $15.
No reservations necessary for either
event. Place: 135 West 14th. For
brochure or .information, call Body .
Electric School (415)653-1594 or Bob at(212)929-4019.

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Supportive individual &. couple
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NY and NJ offices:(212) 724-7205 (201) 567-2445.
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Has love become stressful lindconfusing?
Wann, supportive psychologists/lovers
with 8 and 12 years' therapeutic
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energies.
Our innovative approach includes roleplaying, visualizations and dream'
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(2121255-2113

DAVID UNDSEY 8R1FF1N, caw, CAe
Psychotherapist
and Alcoholism
CounselorTo the Gay and Lesbian Community

WATER ISLAND. RREISLAND
Beautiful sunny bayfront house with
fireplace, very charming 3BR, 2 bath,full or half shares available.
(212)242-5380

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212-582-1881

Experienc .... Llcensed.lnsunince
Reimlnnible
Specializing in alcoholism/substanceabuse, A.C.OA. and co-dependency
issues as well as gay male identity,
relationships, coming out, AIDS, anxiety
and depression.
Chelsea office.
(212) 691-2312
PSYCHOTHERAPYFor all lesbian/Gay issues
including spiritualdifficulties or growth.

Don

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Insurance accepted-sliding tees
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for info call800-526-3S59.
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Enjoy NYC business or pleasurehandsome downtown luxury hi rise 'comfort clean modem w/ cable tv.
Near: Seaport, liberty, Soho, Village
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Advance reservations suggested,.
call 1-800-842-3450.
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MIDWESTERN BOY
S'10-, 150119 y-o co"ege student withbeautiful body and cute face available
for bodywOrk. Very friendly. Call for
iiVout appts. 10am-4am any day. Also
available with Chris..
Damon (212)496-6710.

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Call Ken at (212)353-9317

2OYRADONIS
With swimmer's build will give
you a complete rub down.
$75 Call 12to 7 pm.
CHARLES (212)581-3179.

COMPLETE SENSUOUS BODYRUB
by we"-built bi male 6'3-, 1951bs.,
clean-cut and discreet. Married andmature men are welcome. Into erotic
safe fantasies. Call Peter (212)580-9401.

ATHLETIC BODY RUBDOWN
Claancut, Masculine
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Gives Deep Muscle Body Work
Chris (212)633-1197

HOT TORSO
Athletic bodywork froin boyish 1451S'927 yo with very muscular build and anice tan line. Clean cut and friendly.
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Complete body rub
Call Joey (212)627-1884
BODYRUB .
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Blond Masculine day/night(212)889-2784
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Have your body rub the l1'enchCanadian way. Also body Clipping.
Call Guy 924-2528.
COMPLETE SENSUOUS BODYRUB
by we"-built bi male 6'3-, 1951bs.,
clean-cut and discreet. Married andmature men ere welcome. Into erotic. safe fantasies. Call Pater (212) 580-9401.
HOT TORSO
Athletic bodywork from boyish 1451S'927 yo with vary muscular build and anice tan line. Clean cut and friendly.
.
Noon to 4 am.
CHRIS (212) 254-4570.

HOT MUSCULAR SlUD
Rubdown by Handsome
Young Athlete
Ca"Steve et(212) 268-9539
HOT TORSO
Athletic bodywork from boyish 1451S'927 yo with very muscular build and anice tan line. Clean cut and friendly.
Noonto4am.
CHRIS (212)254-4570
95-MINUTE SWEDISH
Deep and relaxing bodywork by agoodlooking guy. Reasonable. liVOut.
Marc (212)864-0091.
SWIM COACH
6'2-, 18Slb, gives great rubdown
CHRIS (212)427-3210
LItIn Min for Matull PeOple
Relaxing Body Tone
Competent, Cleancut, and Safe
Fernando(212)831-3580·

IN TOUCH
massage
Professionally trained in
Swedish'. Rick Cllbe (2721989-9548ln/Out

rrAUANBOY
Gives best rub
Complete satisfaction
Vinnie(212)255-2303.
MUSCLE MAGIC
Strong deep sensual massage byhandsome muscular nude athlete.
BRAD (212)876-6014
BODYWORK
Midtown Eastside Location
Frank (212)371-6385
SENSUOUS 9O-MINUTE SWEDISH RUB
By Handsome WASP
(212)989-63l6.
SENSUOUS BODY RUB
By tall, goodlooking 25 year old.
In/out 24 hours. Phillip.
(212)645-9107
ATHLETIC MASSEUR
Handsome,'Clean Cut
Into Wrestling and Sensuous Situations
JOHN(212)741-3282
BUSINESSMEN·WALL mEET
Very Discreet Massage
Out-of-towners welcome
WHITEY 924-2253
ATHLETIC MASSEUR
Handsome, Clttan Cut
Into Wrestling and Sensuous Situations
JOHN(212)741-3282
SENSUAL MASSAGE
No phone sex No calls 12am-8am
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Austranan Body Mechanic
9 years experience with Swedish &Shiatsu. Fortune-ups ring Joseph •(212) 633-2698
8 am to 10pm
$ENSUOUS MASSAGE
Quality bodywork by strong handsome
Italian. (212)721-6718.
rrAUANBOY
Gives best rub
Complete satisfaction
Vinnie(212)255-2303.
BODYRUB RELEASE
Serious pro-nude w/oil Swede,
Accupressure, Reflexology, Trager, very
sensual, fluid, deep tissue massage by. handsome young expert. Lower East
Side. $55 in, out negotiable. Call John
(212)475-6550.

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Various Techniques Available
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You can reach me by cal/ing a digital
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ROB (212) 845-2465.

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North Carolina country boy, 20 yrs, 6'1-,
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Hunter(212)969·0808

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Rubdown by handsome stud.
6', 165,33, rockhard, out only
ROD (212)967·6747.

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Emmanuel(718)284-9622

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VERY FRIENDLY.
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JUICE EXTRACTOR
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MUSCULAR IRISH DUDE

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Likes to lean back. 32, 5'10-, 210 Ibs.
Handsome, wel/·hung-Big man, Big MeatDan (212) 459·4152.

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Our escorts are clean cut, safe, hotand dependable.
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Tony 932·1496

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5'8', BVbI, fun andcontroversial.
Please send photo/phone. Outweek
Box 2131

WOM~N/S P~RSONAlSI'M COMU.Q OUTI
I'm seeking a sensitiVe woman to sha'e
the excitement, anxIety and eruption
wlthl I'm 30, attractive, sensmve, ~ligent and a tlumorous (except when
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are all sports, LErSGO MET$, goodmovies, I carl wal!:ha Meryl Streep
movie anytime anyplace, scrat~hlng
my cat's neck, ablazing campfire,and good old rock'n' roll. If you're a
GF with similar orcomplementing Interests, please write
P.O.Box 7517 Rego
Park, NY 11374.
LIGHTHEARTEDLESBIANA sensitive romantic Irreverent book .
thief Is looking for awoman comfortable
In her skin and sexuality with a feminist sensibility. Outrageous and articulate? Write to me at
Outweek 8c?x 2104

CUTE BLONDEWRITER(top) seeks hot
women (girls, etc.)
for sex. Have agood time w/out
getting tied down
(or
LIP,
your
choice). I'm 23,

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en~lous, and ;fun.
Send reply to Box
20010, NYC 10009.
BLUE EYED TOP
Clean cut boy-nextdoor type,. 30's,
niCe guy seekssame for safe fun. If
you're a cute hot.bottom, please answer with photo.
Outweek Box 2193

BON APPETITEMy "fIrst and only"
barely scratched
the surface. Delicious LBF, professional, full-figured,!

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LIKE WHAT lUKE·
D.anclng,films; madia, politics, goingout an~ we'll getalong fine. Be C9mmunlty-mlnded,sensitive, Intere'$ted, curious; I will
reciprocate
yourenegy. M 32 5'5"120 br/br sks M
who's 'nQt' overly
angry, just co':!scl.

HERE I GO AGAIN
GWF
25
dark
brown hair browneyes looking for tall
dark and handsome woman toshare good times
with. I enjoy music
movies concerts
diningout andmore. Please Include photo. Outweek Box 2168

THAT CRAZY
REDHEAD-LUCY
th-lnk-a-lIke...
searching for her
Ethel Mertz partner-In-crime.
No
Mrs.
Tnjmbulls
need ~pplyl Out~
Week Box 2106

SWEPT AWAY
ROMANTIC
Jam/you-creativeand hardworking orpart-time beachbum. But committed to lazy days
and nights of sex,
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ABOVE OR JUST

SOME. LETTER,PHONE AND PHOTO (FUN DAYSAHEAD) GWM Outweek Box 2194
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GWM, 25, 6'2",
205, blond, blue,
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sex. Outweek Box
2171
IBELIEVE
there's
at least
one other cute,witty, bright lesbian out there
who's not In a lifelong monogamous
relationship.
I'm
26, political, athletic?, cynical anddig movies, dinner,
dancing,pool,
SEX (nQt. necessarily In that order).
Let's
dosomething
fun.
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OutweekBox 2197
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and playing thefield and ready for amature, satisfying,monogamous relationship. Outweek
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43 year old Dadneeds son. You 1826, race/color not
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5'6" 1501bs. blondblue versatile kind.
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get mine. Respondto Box 255-250
MercerStreet,
NYC, NY 10012.
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5'11",
150 Ibs.
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for iife seeks GWM
25-40, witty, self·
confident, masculine with strongI-

hands. OK-so ihave a hand fetishl
If you're looking forromance, companlonshlp and want toshare your life withsomeone who has
a lot to offer. Pleasewrite with phone/photo to: Outweek
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FUN/SMART/SUPERHUNG
friendiy, prof'l WM,
In shape, French
pass., HIV neg,young 41, seeks at-.

tractive, built men
30-45 for frlendship, hot sex, andmaybe much more.
Our relationship willfind Its own levelbased on the chemIstry between us.
I'm 6'1",160 #, Grk·
Ital and hot. Interests Include music,plants, animals,tennis,current
events,health
medicine. Respondto POB 6221, NYC,
10150
w/photoshowing your face,

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Photos w/SASE
promptly returned.
Let's go for ItI
SNAKE NEEDSCHARMER
Amusing,
confldent, attractive,
healthyHIV+
GWM, 33, 6'1",
150, BR?GR withhair on body andface seeks strongminded, experlenced and worldiy
GWM (27-47) for
the 90's and bey..

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be good-natured,
open-minded andcharming,withsome interest, likemyself, In travel
and the country.
Men too thin or too
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become friends,
not mates{sorry).
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STEAM HEAT
Searchingfor hdsm
couple 20-40 for
ss/romanceandcomradery.
Me:
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295'11" 155 whodigs video, art. dinners and more.
Must send photos
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CLYDE'S
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about .. fe •• x andfree .peech,.
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split room. Send
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enue, NYC, NY
10003.
PHONE SEXIS SAFESTHot GWM, aUr,
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Tall, husky, hairychest, grey, musc.,
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slonal with similarInterests who wants
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GWM SUCCESSFUlARTPHOTOGRAPHER
Highly creative,
slightly eccentric,
spending summer
renovatingoldstone farm house
In upstate NY. I
like animals, flowers, walks In thewoods. I am also
very horny andwould like to ravage the body of ayoung model typeor dancer (18-28).
I'llphotograph
you nude In mybarn or under anearby waterfall,and I'll lick yourbutt clean every
night. I'm a goodlooking
andhealthy (HIV-) 40
year old. Nonpossessive
andcaring. If you're agood·looklng
young lad, send
photo and letter
to: Outweek Box
2166. VGlGWM
Interested in a VGl
GBM 25-30 years. oid, for a very serious reiatlonshlp. I
HANDSOME
am 29, 5'10 1/2/",
HUNGGBM
155 Ibs. I love
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preferably
hairy
Hop, New Jack
Hispanic or Italian
Swing, Rap, R&B,
forfriendship.
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health food stores.
turn. Outweek Box
Please send me a2164
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ATTRACTIVE
drugs, sam, smokGWM
31, Brn/Hazel, 5'7",. ing, or hustlers.
OutWeek Box 2167
muscuiar, sincere
and relaxed protes·
ONCE UPON
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In a iand called
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FUN/SMART/SU. PERHUNG
friendiy, prof'i WM,
in shape, French
pass., HIV neg,!;'nllng 41, seeks ",t-tractive, built men
30-45 for friendship, hot sex, andmaybe much more.
Our relationship willfind Its own levei
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Ital and hot. Inter·
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tennis,current
events,health
medicine. Respondto POB 6221, NYC,
10150
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w/SASE
promptly returned.
Let's go for itl
SNAKE NEEDSCHARMER
Amusing,
confident, attractive,
healthyHIV+
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150, BR?GR withhair on body andface seeks strongmin~ed,
experienced and worldly
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yond. You should
be good-natured,
open-minded andcharming,withsome interest, likemyself, in travel
and the country.
Men too thin' or too
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Otherwise, aspires
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better you know
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your chances with
me. Photolietter toOutweek Box 2201

sprr
for your boots. The
Navy Way. Outweek Box 2203
STEAM HEAT
Searching for hdsm
couple 20-40 for
ss/romanceandcomradery.
Me:
Hdsm loverboy GM
295'11· 155 whodigs video, art, dinners and more.
Must send photos
and steamy letter.
(BI-boy+glrl o.k.)No drugs. Outweek
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CLYDE'S
Friday, Feb. 16. 9
pm. Attractive blondwith glasses sitlingalone in the far corner. You smiled thru
dinner then motioned to join. You
toasted, i nodded. iam completely enamored and .can't
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.J•••• H.lm. and NYNEXare trying to take away your right to u••• afe, •• x-pO.ltIv.
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Tall, husky, hairychest, grey, musc.,
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Use and abuse me.
Send tei, fantasies(foto a +) to POB
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HANDSOMEHUNGGBMTop seeks affec·
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hairy
Hispanic or italianforfriendship.
Goodiooking, hung,'
intelligent, clean
and honest a'must,
40-60 years. Photoif possibie, will return. Outweek Box
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Outweek Box 2165
GWM SUCCESSFUlARTPHOTOGRAPHER
Highly creative,silghtly eccentric,
spending summer
renovatingoldstone farm housein upstate NY. I
like animals, flowers, walks in thewoods. I am also
very horny andwould like to ravage the body of ayoung model typeor dancer (18-28).
I'llphotograph
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night. I'm a goodlooking
andhealthy (HIV-) 40
year old. Nonpossessive
andcaring. If you're agood-looking
young lad, send
photo and letter
to: Outweek Box
2166
VGlGWM
interested in a VGl
GBM 25-30 years
old, for a very serious relationship. I
am 29, 5'10 1/21",
155 Ibs. I love
watching
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Hop, New Jack
Swing, Rap, R&B,
Jazz, stereo equipment, art. photography, computers,
movies, plays, performancesandhealth food stores.
Please send me aietter, photo andphone number, Nodrugs, sam, smok·
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DESPERATELY
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QUEENSIntelligent and affecI want an East VilGWM 6'2" 175 ibs.
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CLYDE'S
Friday, Feb. 16. 9 pm. Attractive blond with glasses
sltllng alone In the far corner.
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spiritual
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steamy. You want agood time where"sex only' Is therule. Keeping the
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to be your highest
priority-even
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I'm cute, bright, 23y.o., fun, good
shape, 145 Ibs.,
and waiting. Let'strade photos. OutWeek Box 2177
BATS AND BALLS
Pitcher
seeks
catcher with welloiled glove. GWM,
33, blond, brd, lookIng for a man who
can handle a slider.
I promise you nine
good innings before
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love the beach,long walks, books,
quiet times, movies,
oooking. I'm looking
for someone withsimilar Interests.
Letter and photo to:
P.O. Box 621,
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seeks kindred splrlt
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actlngllooklng,.smoke, drug and.

attitude free, prof.
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and athletic. Surfs
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2137'
EASY SMILE
seeks to share life's
special moments
withsensitive,
straight actlngllooklng, adventurous
spirit.
Nondrug sinon smoker.
I'm 27, 6'2", brown
hair, 165, blueeyes, prof. with
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Outweek Box 2138
AT YOUR'DISPOSAL
BIIW/M slave, 42, •.
obedient,
subservient and eager
to please. Available
to dominant males
and couples. The
meaner the better.
P.D.S. P.O. Box 119
Murray Hili StatIon,
NY, NY 10156.
SELF-RELIANT
WM, 45, 6'2", 185,
rd/bVstache, worksout (46c, 33w),
masculine attitude,seeks similar sortfor occasslonal socializing and whatever. Am the Independent
mindedtype-myphilOSOphy of life Is somewhat out of StlmerNletzche-CrowleyRand-with a wry
sense of humor anda nose for' the offbeat, yet feel moreat ease hanging out
In the outer boroughs than hitting
Manhattan
hotspots.
Readingruns from SF to
SOF, music fromWQXR to WPLJ.·
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THE OLDER AND
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ropeanbackground. Romantic
and kind person,
Opera and classicalmusic lover. Nonsmoker
dlsiikesheavy
drinking.
Looking for reiationship with GM, 20's
Into 40's. Write in
all conflldence withphoto If possible,
to: P.O. Box 524,
New York"
NY
10268.
HUNG
HUGE-EXHIB.
Like to show off
that' big bulge,
stroke that extra big
meat. Underwear,
jocks, cockrings.
GWM, 40, wants
hot, safe action.
Photo/phone Box
126, 70A Greenwich Avenue, NYC,
NY 10011.
HEALTHY HORNY
Handsome, hung,HIV+, iooklng forsafe fun reiationship notnec. 35 all
American iooks, reply let & photo.
Specify desires - I'll
call you. Outweek
Box 1818
CZECH IT OUT
Looking for new
friends to sharegood times. GWM,
42,
170,
5'9",
stache, work-out
body,balding,
frlendiy, handsome,
Czech·Amer, into
massage, j/o, kiss·ing, jockstraps, hot
looks, duos or trios.
Ph/ph if possible.
Outweek Box 2009 .
ARE YOU
LIKE ME?
You already have a"friend" but iooking
for a "buddy"·this Is
my first ad·I'm masc;uline-very affectionate and roman·tic-52 but friends
say 42-6 ft· 186Mediterraneanhung·halry chesthealthy-also interested in good talkgood
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Important-let's talk
flrstl
P.O. Box
20322, DHCC, NY,
NY 10017.
GWM, 26,S'S",
140, BIG
seeks younger strt,
bl, or gay male toentertain, spoil andhelp
throughschool. I'm cuteand fun to be withand i care aboutyou. You don't needto write your life
story or send a
photo.
Seriousreplies answeredwith photo. Serious
replies answeredwith photo. Box
1365,
JacksonHeights, NY 11372.
NAIVE
CYNIC/ADULT KID
GWM, 23, 6'2" withmulti-faceted personality seeks fascinating GM, 20-30,
to enjoy all sides.
Button-down professional by day,bon vivant by night;
beach bum In summer, playgoer inwinter. I seek aman to compliment
my varied tastes
with his own style.
If you want astrong, steady relationship that won't
grow oid, send yourph/ph to Outweek
Box 2105
BODYBUILDER
GWM 37, 190#,
brown hair andeyes, 5'11". I'mlooking for a GM
with muscles tospare.
A takecharge type of man,fordating,romance, safe sex,
possible relationship. Reply withcurrent photo, letter, teLl to LTS
20053, NYC 100119993.
FLOAT LIKE A
BUlTERFLY
STING LIKE A
BEEAre you ready to be
knocked out by loveand passion? Romantic hdsm, down

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man for fun andlove. I like movies,
dinners, w/frlends,
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warm person for
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don't expect tomeet Mr. Right In
one-someone carIng, Intelligent, sincere, easy-going,
healthy, and fun to
be with. Pleasewrite If you're ofsimilar age, sick of
one-night stands
anil playing thefield and ready for amature, satisfying,monogamous relationship. Outweek
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CREATIVE SEEKSCREATIVE
enterprising graphIclffne artfst. Attractive, In shape GWM
33 5'6" 130 finds
creative taient aturn on. Attributes:
sincerity, optfmlsm
andopenness.
Seeking attractive,
Imaginative
artfstlwrJter wfth offbeat sense of humor fOr a dateI Not
Interested In drugs,
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DADDYISON
43 year old Dadneeds son. You 1826, racelcolor not
Important. Me attr
5'6" 1501bs. blondblue versatile kind.
Photo and phone
get mine. Respondto Box 255-250
MercerStreet,
NYC, NY 10012.

UKE WHAT i LIKEDancing, films, media, politics, goingout and we'fI getalong fine. Be community-minded,sensitive, interested, curious; I will
reciprocate
yourenegy. M 32 5'5"120 br/br sks M
who's not overly
angry, Just conscl·
entlous, and fun.
Send reply to Box
20010, NYC 10009.
BLUE EYED TOP
Clean cut boy-nextdoor type, 30's,
nice guy seekssame for safe fun. If
you're a cute hotbottom, please answer with photo.
Outweek Box 2193
HELLOFA
NICE GUY.GWM, 25, 6'2",
205, blond, blue,
masculine professional. interested In
movies,music,
cooking and longwalks. Bars are finewith friends, but I

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VERY UNUSUAL
SWM, 25, Brlgr,
5'11",
150 Ibs.
Handsome, healthy,
HIV.f., wealthy andwise with a bigheart and a great
sense of humor.
Seeking a serious
also handsome,healthy HIV+ or
HIV-, wealthy andwise male to sharea'relatfonshlp
based on honesty,
understanding, andthe drive to makeour dreams
tocome true. Let's
five up to fife together. Send phonet, lers talk first. Serious replies only.
-Outweek Box 2198
WANTED: A MAN
with all the gorgeous gay men In
NYC, why am I sitting home on a Saturday night? GM,
29,5'10", slim, boyIsh good looks,
dark hair and eyes,business professional with a zest
for life seeks GWM
25-40, witty, selfconfident, masculine with strong
hands. OK-so I
have a hand fetlshl
If you're looking forromance, companIonship and want toshare your life withsomeone who has
a lot to offer. Pleasewrite with phone/
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FUN/SMARTISUPERHUNG
friendly, prof'i WM,
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pass., HIV neg,young 41, seeks attractive, built men
30-45 for friendship, hot sex, andmaybe much more.
Our .relationshlp willfind Its own levelbased on the chemIstry between us.
I'm 6'1",160 #, GrkItal and hot. interests Include music,plants,animals,
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POB 6221, NYC,
10150
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promptly returned.
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SNAKE NEEDSCHARMER
Amusing, confident,
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HIV+ GWM, 33,
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be good·natured,
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Men too ttiin or too
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better you know
yourself, the bettery'our chances with
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pm. Attractive blond

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with glasses sltllng
alone in the far corner. You smiled thru
dinner then motioned to Join••You
toasted, I nodded. I
am completely enamored and can't
forget your smile.
One In a million
you're reading this.
Write Outweek Box
2202
SPIT
for your boots. The
Navy Way. Outweek Box 2203
STEAM HEAT
Searching for hdsm
couple 20-40 for
ss/romanceandcomradery.
Me:
Hdsm loverboy GM
295'11" 155 whodigs video, art, dinners and more.
Must send photos
and steamy letter.
(BI-boy+glrl o.k.)No drugs. Outweek
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HOT FOR
BOXING?
If boxing tums youon, lers put on the
gloves & see what
happens.
Sweat
Jock & athletic soxand hot sex at the.
end of a bout Interested? I'm 5'10"
165 bearded hairychest. You're 20-40,
fairly good shapeand turned on byfists hitting hot male
flesh. I provide
gloves-you provide
place or we split
room. Send fantasy
and pic. Get em' up
dude. Make my day.
Box 124-151 First
Avenue, NYC, NY
10003.
PHONE SEX IS
SAFESTHot GWM, attr, well-bit, hung, seeks verbal men, esp tops
over 30. Tall, husky,
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me.
Send
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