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The Outing of Nancy Reagan
Mainstream publications often insist that lesbian and gay public
figures have a journalistic right to privacy and that the open discussion of their lives, or "outing," violates that right.
. On the opposite side, those who favor norrnalizing the discussion of homosexuality point out that public figures are routinely
denied any privacy in the media, In all instances except homosexual~ the foibles of the famous are an open book, their lives and loves
the fodder of an established brand of reportage called celebrity journalism. Why, outing advocates ask, should homosexuality be the one
exception to this established journalistic rule: Celebrities, having traded ~eir privacy for fame, fortune and influence, must accept media
sautiny into their private and intimate lives?
To this question, the mainstream media has but one reply:
Homosexua1ity is still so damaging in our society that its disclosure
constitutes a case where special sensitivity must be observed. Damage, they imply, is the key. The principle seems to be that media
intrusion is legitimate only when it would not damage the celebrity
being discussed. If hanD might occur, as they insist it would when
the topic is homosexuality, the media should tastefully refrain fromdiscussing a public figure'S private life.
7be New Yom Times has been at the forefront of this argument,
squelching talk of homosexuality in its pages because of the hanD it
would supposedly cause those being discussed, even when, like
Aaron Copland or Malcolm Forbes, they're deceased. It was thus
unintentionally revealing when the following sentence appeared in a
recent Sunday New Yom Times front-page article about Kitty Kelley's
biography of Nancy Reagan:"Reagan confidants have whispered their fears that the biography will puncture what remains of the Reagan myth in a mannerthat wtll prove devastating for the former president and his wife'(emphasis added).
The Times article then blithely goes on to list in explicit detailthose devastating things rattling around in Mrs, Reagan's closet: preinarital sex, shotgun wedding, adultery, drug use and so on. Neverdoes the Times question the ethics of Mrs, Reagan's biographer indisclosing such private infonnation, nor does the paper of record
ruminate on its own conduct in reporting allegations which, it suggests, will be "devastating" to their subjects.
. Like ariy publication, the Times has a right to practice whateverfonn of journalism it wishes. If it doesn't choose to normalize homosexual discourse, so be it. But, as was amply demonstrated by the
Nancy .Reagan piece, damage, even "devastating" damage, is not thestandard to which the Times or the rest of the media usually adheres. ~hen reporting on public figures' private lives,. Whatever one thinks of outing, there are words for the mainstream media's standard, or, rather, double standard, on discussing
everything· but the sexual orientation of public figures, And those'w'ords are not "ethics" and "privacy."
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ture. Unless your SIM identity is
Michael Bronski makes your leather jacket, you shouldsome telling observations about have nothing to worry about.
the main streaming of theFish"leather lifestyle" and S/M [no.
San Francisco
89, March 13]. I feel the same
way about leather "Miss Ameri- .
... AND TELL 'EM
MOM SENT YOU
ca" contests as he does, but I
also think many of the developUnless you are an ingratements are positive. The S/M of a child (like me) who habitucommunity is expanding, diversifying ... and subdividing. Not
srON£WAI.I.
RIOrS
only have the "trendies" stolen
our look, but the new visibility
also means many more people;
are playing with radical sexuality.
I
As a "punk" dyke who's•
been out (mostly as a bottom)
for two years in the San Francisco women's leather community,
I'm happy to see some of the oldattitudes going the way of thedinosaur: the elitist "privateclub" mentality, community hierarchy and performance-rating
systems, rigid dress-codes,
unimaginative toplbottom andbutch/femme roles and rules of
behavior (butches who bottom~IV'--\
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are wimps; femmes must be
fluffy; tops can't get fucked; all.bottoms must be obsequious toanyone who flags as a top) all
the conservative elements of acommunity on the defensive.
Bronski seems to equate
community activism with thedesire for assimilation. My comI
munity activism is about delivering a swift kick in the pants to a ally forgets to honor the woman
society utterly terrified by sexu- who raised you, you are beginality, and fighting back against all ning to contemplate Mother's
the bigotry, censorship and Day with that old sense of vague
attack. Beauty contests will not indecision. What's the dutiful
do that, but the National Leather gay son or daughter to send?
Association seems to be beginTo all you tonnented souls
ning the attempt. Good for them! in the throes of Mother's Day
MTV and Macy's may sell madness, let me suggest theleather and chains, but they will solution to your dilemma-thenever sell the truly radical
PERFECTGIFT! Why not give anature of S/M and queer cul- suitably substantial donation--(let's say $50, equivalent tosending a dozen roses long-distance) in your mother's name to
P-FLAG, Parents and Friends of
Lesbians and Gays,
P-FLAGis a national organization with chapters in almost
every state whose purpose is tohelp parents cope and accept
their child's gayness. And while
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P-FLAG counsels and supports
the families who are still struggling to come to terms with
their child's orientation, it also
serves as a rallying point formothers and fathers who actively work in our behalf. Countlessparents are risking ridicule andworse to join speaker's bureaus
and staff hotfines, march beside
us in our Pride parades, testify
in our behalf before congres-sional committees and serve as
buddies to people with Aids.
P-FLAG parents are there
for us 365 days a year. ThisMay 12, let's show our love andaffection for our mothers bysupporting this brave and loyal
anny of parents in the battle forgay and lesbian civil rights.
Send your checks to: P-FLAG,Box 27605, Washington, DC,
20038.
PS.And let your Mom knowthat you did: It'll make her proud.
Drew Siegel
San Francisco
MISSED SAIGONI am very much disturbed
by Messrs. Emery [no. 92, April
13] and Tsuchida's [no. 93, April
10] letters that unjustly criticized
Asian Lesbians of the East Coastand Gay and Pacific Islander
Men of New York of infighting .
Perhaps those on the West
Coast have not been impacted
by the controversies surrounding the Broadway production ofMiss Saigon as much as New
Yorkers. For quite a long time,
all major newspapers in town
carried daily updates on thecon- troversy, Lambda Legal
Defense and Education Fund
could not have failed to notice
that, yes, all is not well with thisproduction nor excuse thenjselves from investigating
whether it was wise to raise
funds by adding to Cameron
Mackintosh's coffer.
In as such, Lambda has
inadvertently thrown itself in linewith the mainstream media andother public institutions that
uphold Asian stereotypes.
Obtrusive among the many
issues embodied in this production are: 1) the portrayal of a .
Eurasian role by a caucasian
April 24. 119911 OUTWEEK

5•TAKEALEAP ...
Whatever glasnost we
may be experiencing
on the subjects of
AIDS and our homo
lives seems, sadly,only. to play itself out
in the most contorted,
obscene ways. Take,r
fo ..'example, thestrangebabble coming,,from T·Y's Quantum
L.f1apstar, Scott Bakula, in a recent Entert.inment Weekly:''What's fun about thisshow is that we cantake on an obvious
issue in a totally different way. I want to
do an AIDS story thisyear. It would be set
pre-AIDS, and I mightleap into the situationof a highly promiscuous person and keep
him from spreading
AIDS around. [The producers] were talking
about me not coming
in gay, but I told them
we'd be copping outo~the story. I say, if""e're going to do it,t~enjust do it." Maybe
Bakula will do a little
researchon his char,acter before leaping
into, that most banal of
Hollywood roles thestereotype.
-Sarah PeHit,

actor wearing prosthetic makeup, i.~.,yellow-facing; and 2) thecontinual stereotypical depictionof Asian men and women using
elements of the "butterfly myth."If such concerns have been
expressed by another racial
minority regarding a productionthat they consider to be offensive, would Lambda have been
more cautious before supporting it? A revival of AI Jolson or
Birth of a Nation comes to mind
very quickly,
I take exception with Lambda on the grounds that as gays
and lesbians we are constantly
urging those in the closet tocome out, to be visible and to
be counted because we are
everywhere. Indeed, Asian Americans are everywhere too, andsome of us are gay as well. In
this particular case, I don't
believe Lambda considered thispossibility before signing on
Miss Saigon. We have been rendered twice invisible-riot onlyby the society at large, but also
and within "our community."
Yes, I am aware of thegood work Lambda has performed, and I recognize Lambda
as an outstanding institution in
the gay and lesbian community.
As a lesbian, I do not want to dowithout the existence of lambda. While I would not accuse
Lambda of being bigoted, I willaccuse Lambda of being insensitive and inconsistentin
upholding its non-discriminatory standards. The issues
involved should not be clouded,
over by accusations of infighting. In fact, infighting does notexist when a member of theconstituency has not even beenrecognized as such. Our community may well be served byconstructive criticism instead ofasking the victims to bear the
responsibility of maintaining
superficial cohesiveness. And
Lambda may be better served if
it thinks about how this breachof trust could have been avoided
in the first place.
Ellen E. Chen
Brooklyn

CLiT QUOTA
I am writing about an
unfortunate incident that happened on March 29. I was askedout by three of my female friends
who are beginning to check out
the gay women's scene. We went
to the Clit Club at 432 W. 14th
St. When we arrived, I was told I
could not go in until a malecame out. The female doorperson apparently took great joy indenying men entry. She assuredme that she wasn't saying I
couldn't come in: "I am just saying you have to wait until a malecomes out." Of course I was notwilling to play this game and told
my friends to go in without me
and I would go to the Spike. The
quota of men allowed inside wasnever stated by the doorperson,
but the next day one of the threefemale friends who had beenwith me informed me that she
had counted three men inside
the bar.
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I have never heard of sucha quota and regret that the doorof this club is not freely open to
everyone. I have seen many
women in male bars no matter
how crowded they were. Thiskind of behavior only serves tokeep the gay community separated at a time when we need so
desperately to come together as
one group. I read so much about
the gay community's feelingsof discrimination, and theseare justified. But I ask how we
can make a case for discrimination from the heterosexual
community when such discrimination is at Work within
our own community?
Thank you for hearing meout. I did have a good time at
the Spike but am sorry that I
was unable to carry out myoriginal plans.
Rodney Pridgen
Manhattan•

THREE THOUGHTS
A thank-you to Cynthia
Nichols-Beal. The kind of PCshe
is upset about [no. 91, March27] is "as old as the hills" andnot at all limited to lesbians. You

can still find it in some obscure
Marxist cults, and it prevailed
throughout the Marxist left
before World War II. It was thenknown as "the Party line" andone was expected to absolutely
follow it. Stalinists and Trotskyites were forbidden to haveany political or social contact
with each other. On the religious scene, some Protestantsects call this "shunning" andRoman Catholics may call it"excommunication." It is a very
traditional Christian attitude"We have the one ~rue faith,and everyone else is wrong"which was the rationale for thepersecutions Christians visited
upon Jews, pagans, Muslims
and even each other. It is adangerous and· destructive·
state of mind.
Just how really gay andI~sbian are those women whowant rigid ideological and social
boundaries around their grouplets? Obviously, they are still
thinking very much like macho
male straights who want us all
neatly classified into rigid
pigeonholes labeled "approved"and "condemned." I thought
one of the function$. of being
homo was to break down andfuzz up all such social.barriers.
(What the hell ever bappened togender-fuck?)','I'd also like to comment on
Marc Reiss's article [no. 91,
March 27]. It is the first one I've
read that begins to make any
sense to me of SIM.
My instantaneousand deeply felt gut reaction, as an outsider, when I see someone in
the sort of leather •outfit that
displays lots of overdeveloped
muscles is: "Here is the enemy.
Here is another of those hulky
males of the kind who want todominate." Only they show it
openly instead of hiding behindan executive suit and attachecase. And usually, they're all
decked out with the symbols ofbrute power-all that hostilelooking metal stuff. Why are
they so hung up on maleaggressiveness that they have to
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wear it, make it their own, jokingly reasons that since queer for boys too. I see the me. Say we're not really queers.
flaunt it? And what is S/M but David Geffen is bisexual, his beauty and sensuality of both rather than believe a woman can.
an internalization of what is sick movie should be "half-gay and sexes, and I don't discriminate satisfy a hot man as well as you
in our society? The very con- half-straight."
against a nice butt going by can. Lesbians have done this forcepts of master and slave, theFor all you intelligent read- because of the owner's gender. I years, believing only they,canglorification of dominant and ers, writers and editors, here's a notice and appreciate it.
realfysatisfy women.
'
My lover of five years is asubordinate: Is this not what Latin lesson to remember. "Bi"Fine. You all keep guarding.
has been wrong with human does not mean "half." Ever see a beautiful bi-m. He's as sweet, your own fences, I think you're
civilization for ages? Or, alter- bicycle with half a wheel? "Bi" sexy and gay as any of you wonderful, sensuous people, and.
natively, is not the exaltation of· means "two." "Twice," "Double." boys, and I'm the lucky top that I defend your choices. But I can't
pain as pleasure the same sick Look it up.
keeps him smiling. Is that too be like you. Limiting your desires
and perverted attitude which
I am not half-straight, I'm much to swallow, guys?
to one genderonly feels too muchhas produced the flagellants
twice-queer. Queer for girls and
Its OK,be insecureand bash like straight to me, and I'm notand penitents among the reli.gious? Or is not one trying toprove one's manhood by demonstrating how much pain,
one can endure?
. S/Mers may find my remarks offensive or hopelessly
naive, but I'm merely voicing
the impression many of themcreate on outsiders. I'm sureI'm not alone in this. So Reiss's
views were of interest to me
because he was revealing someother reality. Thanks. I'll stay.with vanilla, thank you, but little
rays of light about different
strokes for different folks are• Call Toll-Free for a C.onsultation.at No Out-of-Pocket. always welcomed.
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demonstration protesting the azine concerning one of yourFeb. 5 brutality, a woman was writers, "the Mad Queen." I
arrested as well. She was don't like his idea of telling us
attempting to videotape the how he gets high all night andpolice attack against the demon- doesn't remember who he
MISSING DETAINEES
stration. Her video camera was wakes up with. Do you know
Nina Reyes' article "When destroyed in front of her by the anything about the AIDS viBashers Wear Badges: Cops, police while she was handrus [sic]?!
Queers and the CCRB"·[no. 93, cuffed, and she was held for 21
I always wonder why you
April 10] omitted importanthours and charged with assault never advertise about the Octofacts about the Feb. 5 and Feb. (with a cameral).
gon Club. Is it because the sis11 police crimes against memIn all of our contacts with ters hang there? Do you have abers of our community.
the mayor's office, other elected problem with that-the music is
When a gay man was beat- officials and the District Attorney, good, "by Cinnamon Prod"?
en and arrested outside Cardinal we have insisted on justice for all Why didn't you advertise more
O'Connor's residence on Feb. 5, five people. It is unfortunate
about Black History Month? Are
two lesbians were arrested as that the three women among you "racist"?
well. Throughout their extended them were forgotten in the
Donna Keithcustody pending arraignment,
CCRBarticle.
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ACT UP PS: I want to thank my wife forpolice officers told them that
Queer Nation writing this.
they wanted to videotape theManhattan
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QUEEN BEEF
Not (I fear) that you will
When a gay man was beatMy name is Donna J. Keith, care, but what has become theen and arrested at the Feb. 11 and I have a beef with this mag- OutWeek editorial refrain at theeven half-straight I'm twice-queer
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end of most letters criticizing theaccuracy/bias of your news reporting has become a real borel
Pure objectivity acknowledged as a journalistic myth,
every news department has an
editorial slant. However, a literate sixth grader (assuming one
can find such these days) could
easily point out the extremely
biased reporting on the Hispanic
AII}S Forum/Joe Franco mess[no\ 89, March 13]: E.g~, 1.
Practically all HAF employeesinterviewed. were ex-employees,
leaving critical information fromcurrent HAF employees who
refute much of the informationin the article to have to wait for
the next week's "Letters." Theircomments clearly showed a different side than the (once again)
hysterical Franco-based version,
the same "leader" of the GGIV
Boycott disaster. (Another story
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but gave only token coverage to
ACT UP's decision to cancel theboycott when the true f·acts·came to light.) 2. Had yourreporter even read the sidebar
which gave the empirical data ofbudget and accomplishment of
HAF, and had said reporter put
two and two together by talking
to others who have struggled tocreate and maintain specialized
community-based organizations,
there should have been an obvious awareness that all was not
Kosher in the reported "facts,"
The only thing topping that
article, "Letters" and the "Wewere-perfect"
refrain is theunmitigatedgall you had intelling Steven Farmer ["Letters,"
no. 92, April 13] that you are
more aware of the facts of hislife than he is. Such would belaughable did it not point out
such an obvious pretentiousness on your part.
Out Week is a leftist rag.
There's nothing wrong with that.
In fact those progressive gay
and lesbian leftists out here likehaving a magazine for us verymuch. However, bias and hysteria have no place in fine journalism-which I'd like to see OutWeek's news department getback on the track of being.
Spare us the "best little
boy/girl in the world" syndrome.
You're not always fabulous. You
once printed an editorial callingthe "Letters" column a place ofcommunity dialogue, but yourdefensiveness is interfering withthat. I realize the financial limitations in terms of paying reporters
their due, for a magazine like
OutWeek, but the bias, hysteria
and inaccuracies of some of your"news" stories has begun to be alittle much. Please invest moretime and energy in digging out
the full story and less on thetabloid hype.
Rodger Pettyjohn, RN, PWA
Brooklyn•

PAYING POLISH
The recent "debt relief" offoreign governments by the Bushadministration in the name of

democracy is too hot a subject to
let slip by without comment.
The United States has
cleared 70 percent of Poland's$3.8 billion debt. An additional$7.1 billion was canceled against
Egypt last year. I would be pleasantly surprised if my tax debt
was forgiven as easily.
New York State has a $6
billion budget gap. New York
City must contend with an estimated $3 billion shortfall. To
cover these debts, cuts havebeen made in every service we
New Yorkers have a right toexpect as tax-payers.
The above leads me to ask
whatever happened to themoney pegged for support of
AIDS programs and research by
Congress when the Ryan WhiteBill was approved? Somewhere
along the line the amount wasslashed to the point [where] ifs
almost impossible to account forthe original award. New Yorkstate has frozen a great deal of
its allotted support. Perhaps thismoney is balancing the books ofa state with inept financial management. Whatever the case, it
may not be such a bad idea tolook toward Cairo or Warsaw forbreakthroughs
in research.
These countries appear to have abetter "in" with Washington than
we do as tax-payers. I trust thepresident's "new era of cooperation and partnership" will include
Poland's financing of the Ryan
White Bill.
Matt Baney
Manhattan. MARCH MEETTo all members of thecommunity interested in organizing a third March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights,
please note that there will be asecond national planning meeting on May 11 and May 12 totake place in Washington, DC.
The meeting will be held at theOmni Shoreham Hotel, 2500
Calvert St. NW. Special arrangements for travel and accomodations are currently being made,and will soon be made public.

While I was not able toattend the first planning meetingon March 9, I understand thatseveral people urged that themarch be deferred until after
1994. As an HIV-positive manwith more teeth than T-cells, I
would like to strongly press for amarch in May of 1992. While I
understand that a year is notmuch time to get one million
women and men to the capital, I
also know that there are tens of
thousands of gay men eager tomarch again who will not be
above ground in 1995 or 1997.
I recommend that all thoseinterested in the march begin toplan grass-roots meetings intheir city or region, do outreachto the diverse elements within
our lesbian and gay communityand commit to attending the May
meeting. It is vital that there be ademonstration of broad-based
support for a march so that thenational gay and lesbian organizations and established activists
understand the importance of
this event.
There has been a toll-freenumber set up to answer questions concerning the May meeting-1-800-832-2889.
If thisnumber is not functioning, or if I
may be of assistance, please
don't hesitate to contact me at
the address and telephone numbers listed below.
Drew Siegel, 1420 Clayton
St., #203, San Francisco, CA
94114. Home: (415) 552-8382;
work: (415) 863-4676.
THE POWER OF PRINT
AND PRE.JUDICE
In response to Robert
Vazquez's article "(No Longer)
Sleeping With the Enemy" [no. 9.0,
March 20], I would like to ericourage the author, with whom I havealways had a friendly acquaintance, to examine his premise on
the exact nature of racism. He
equates power as being the prerequisite for racism: "I can be prejudiced about the issue of race, but
I don't have the power to enforce
my prejudices. And prejudice plus
power equals racism."

Well, Robert, how do you
consider the power of the printed
word? What substance does it
lend to any argument? If it exists,
is that power ever exercised
against you as Latin or gay?
Don't you ever get that "sinking"feeling in your stomach from amagazine or newspaper, or is it
restricted to your interaction withinsensitive lovers?
I support your position to
the extent that we need to examine all aspects of what we needto feel safe and comfortable withourselves and others. In intimate
relations, it is imperative. Gay
men need to examine this fromsome basic emotional (as well associological) perspectives, We've
inherited and promote a systemof objectifying our attractions,being, for the most part, forbidden to do otherwise, So I understand your offense at being
objectified by your color and/or
ethnicity, But that, Robert, is aproblem that needs to beaddressed with language andperspective far more sensitiveand mature than what you havegiven to us in this article.
The politics of race andobjectificationthat you havebrought to li.ght deserve to be
examined both individually andwithin the context of our community. But hopefully it can bedone without employing theword "enemy" on other gays,
without naming one race or ethnic group as "the fierce rulingpeople" to whom has been
given the role "to transform theworld" (this has some frightening historical resonance) andwith full responsibility to thepower of the printed, as well as
the spoken, word, Otherwise,
your position, sir, is as unacceptable as those who would
fuck you or kill you for what(and not who) you are.
Tim Greathouse
Manhattan
ADEQUATE TINT
In reference to "Commentary" by Robert Vazquez [no, 90,
March 20]. Narcissist! Ignoramus!

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was frightening to read,especially when considered that it purportedly comes from one whowill go on to educate others
about racism and prejudice, The
fear, anger and feelings of inadequacy which resonate throughout your article are unsoundmotivation in a responsible educator. Your decision is inappropriately expressed in a publicforum. How you can expect toeffect change by shutting yourseH off from any group of people,
especially such change as theacceptance-issuesyou strive for,is beyond my comprehension.
Your announcement only further
widens the gap, and you do thatin our own community.
Being born into a Mayflower-descended family, witha great, great grandfather'ssignature on the Declaration of
Independence (two facts I usually keep to myself), and beinga white male does not makeme any more comfortable withthe current power structure
and the attitudes it fosters
than you are. It also has notmade me exempt from discrimination or even thoseridiculous comments fromfamily, friends, strangers andinstitutions because I'm gay,
HIV-positive or sharing several
years of my life with a Black
man. I have no more power
than you do, and we all haveas much power as we choose
to seize. What I do have is agenuine desire to effect constructive change and enlighten
people. The difference between
you and me is, I choose to doso, not by cutting myself off
from any particular groups,
but by embracing every groupas equals. And by that,
demonstrating how it is possible to be color-blind, accepting-regardless of sexual ori-

entation-and duly informedon health concerns.
Your decision is a racist
one-you are reacting withprejudice and using yourpower to broadcast it. That fits
your definition of racism. You
don't want to be understood,and you are nowhere near tounderstanding.
As someone who cares
more about raising public awareness than feeding my own ego, I
would refrain from such an emotionally demonstrative outburst I
suggest that you instead use theenergy toward an approaChwhich illustrates to the public andyour friends (if you have any
left!?) how real moral discemment can make a d~erence. Correct moral judgment is foundedwith love, for all mankind. Loveand acceptancebegins with seHlove (the only correct point you
made-"World transformation
beginsat home").

Prejudice and racism areindisputably damaging-theyseem to have had severe ramifications on you. That is unfortunate, Mr. Vazquez, because
not all white boys ate racist.
The two ills will only be cured
by continued mixing and interrelating on all levels. Alienation
will only be perpetuated by thekind of biased withdrawal to"the barrio" as you have chosen. Your public declaration isdamaging for our communityand for yourself.
I hope you are. sleeping
soundly at nights-don't
slip
now-with an adequately tinted bedfellow.
J, Bartlett
Manhattan
REACHING FOR
MT. OLYMPUS,Every week I read Michelangelo Signorile with pleasure.
However, I feel he and the rest

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WHAT £L5E'IOU 6aT .,•. of the gay community are allow- and if we have to use gayness
ing (nauseating) Whitney Hous- as a targeting tool, let's target
ton and Clive Davis to get away the monsters who reallydeserve it. After all, all is fair inwith queer murder,
Over the past few years, love and war, and that's why I
Clive Davis and Whitney Hous- love Signorile (he's the reason I
ton have been systematically
finally subscribed).
Jimi LaLumia
working to turn Houston into a
Lake Ronkonkoma; NY
combination of Diana Ross andMary Poppins. This became
THE NOSE KNOWS
patently obvious in 1988 when
I would like to thank OutHouston recorded the "theme"
for the Summer Olympics, "One Week for per10rming a valuable
Moment in Time" (disgraceful). community service. Did yourThis all-American ditty was fol- magazine not provide Michelanlowed by a patriotic Olympic gelo Signorile a forum for hiscomments, I am afraid I would
album of the same name (sick).
Now, we have the lip- find him on my doorstep withsynched version of the "Star lipstick on his teeth, trying toSpangled Banner" (abomination) sell copies of Watchtower. He isclearly a proselytizer looking forfrom this closet queer,
Gays and lesbians should a religion. Although I do not
be screaming and gagging
deny that reading his shrille.very time she sings from her . polemics holds the same morbid
red, white and blue closet. And appeal as watching a child pick
she will continue to sing from his nose in public, OutWeek's
this small room until forced outl editorial tolerance has gone far
Try to imagine the uproar in enough, In his column of March
the Black community if Whitney 27, Mr. Signorile accuses C.
Houston suddenly announced Carr of misdirecting her energythat she is really caucasian.
when he has spent three issues
Well, where is the gay uproar in wandering, flatulent attacks
when she says that she is really on his critics. Perhaps he could
straight?
devote future columns to other
When Whitney Houston
hot topics like his favorite
denies her existence, she de- recipes or the name of his dog.
nies oursl
Mike Stocker
Andrew Roberts
San Francisco
Manhattan

Michelangelo Signori/e responds: I don't have a dog.
But my cat's name is Imelda.
As for my favorite recipe:
Foccacia, with just a little bitof oregano, suits me finel
Thank you.
.
PS. You should check into
this strange obsession you havewith watching kids pick theirnoses. Weird, man, weird,

All letters to the editor must includeaname,address
anddaytime·phone,
althoughnames
m'ay
be withheld
at theauthor's request. Out~eek reserves
theright to edit lettersfor clarity and ~paceconsiderations.

orrectionsat Because of an editing error, the subhead for the article"Sweethearts of the Radio" in the last issue dropped a word,
It should have read, "The dilemma of the contemporary
girl group. n
at The three illustrations for the article on phone sex in issue
no, 93 should have been credited to Kris Kovick.
at In an article on this year's incarnation of the Federal Lesbian and Gay Rights bill in issue no, 92, a passing reference
to federal laws governing the immigration of gay men, le,sbians and people with HIV could have been clearer. While
gay people are no longer disqualified as immigrants basedon their sexual orientation, the ban on people with HIVremains in effect, although Congress has empowered thesecretary of health and human selVices, Dr. Louis Sullivan,
to lift it, and, despite pressure from the right wing, he haspromised to do so later this year. Gay men, lesbians andpeople with HIV are also no longer restricted from crossing
the border as tourists,
at The "Nightmare of the Week" photo of Ed Koch in issue
no. 93 was by Kendall Morrison, not Roberta F. Raeburn.
at The jump for the story on Terry McGovern in issue no, 94
is on page 86, not page 79,

TARGET PRACTICE

Regarding the entire outing
system and syndrome, I'd liketo know why the industrious
types who are plastering posters around Midtown aren't
using their power wisely? Why
not plaster mugs of hard-rockassholes Axl Rose of Guns 'n'Roses and Sebastian Bach of
Skid Row, as well as Turbo of
Snapl, with allegations of theirqueerness? Once the rumor mill .
starts churning (and it will, it
always does), maybe the rockand pop monsters who use
their power to inspire anti-gay
activity in the teen sector willlearn to keep their mouths shut!
So layoff Jodie, etc., for awhile,,

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by Duncan Osborne
WASHINGTON-Allocations of thefederal funds made available under the
Ryan White Comprehensive
AIDS
Resources
Emergency
Act wereannounced last week, and most of the
16 cities eligible for Ryan White funds
received significantly less than theamounts they applied for.
The Ryan White CAREAct, enacted
in 1990, originally would have distributed $200 million• in AIDSrelief funds
to 16 "eligible metropolitan areas," butCongress cut the allocation to $88 million, Half that amount was distributed to
the 16 cities in a fonnula based on their
AIDS caseload.
To receive funds from the remaining $44 million, the municipalities wererequired to submit grant applications for
supplemental funds. The total amount ofmoney that all 16 cities applied for cameto nearly $106 million.
The Ryan White funds wereintended to provide "disaster relief" tothe health-care systems of the 16 cities
hardest hit by AIDS. The funds are overseen by the Health Resources and
SeIVicesAdministration, or HRSA,a division of the Department of Health andHuman SeIVices.
An ll-member panel that included
representatives f~om community-basedorganizations and medical and publichealth professionals reviewed the applications and recommended grant amounts.
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"We asked for $25 million, and that
doesn't begin to meet the need," said
Richard Elovich, a member of ACT
UP/New York who served on the 42member HIV Planning Council thatwrote New York City's application for
Ryan White supplemental grant funds.
"Congress, created legislation that wasgoing to address AIDS as a national priority, and then they starved it.·
The New York metropolitan area,
which includes
New York City,

Westchester, Rockland and Putnam counties, has the largest AIDS caseload in thenation. It received $15.8 million ,in a formula grant, and $17,6 million in supplemental grant funds.
"Realistically, everyone knew it wasgoing to be tough divvying up thatmoney,· said Gretchen Thorp, administrator of Casa, an AIDS hospice in
Houston, who served on Houston's 67member HIV Planning Council. "A cut
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NUMBER-CRUNCHING
All amounts in millions rounded off to nearest ten thousand:

CITY
NEW YORK CITYSAN FRANCISCOLOS ANGELESNEWARKMIAMI
HOUSTONWASHINGTON, DC
CHICAGOSANJUAN
ATlANTAPHILADELPHIA••FORT LAUDERDALEDALLASBOSTONJERSEY CITYSAN DIEGOGRANT AMOUNT
15.80
6.30
3.90
1.96
1.85
1.82
1.65
1.35
1.18
1.10
1.10
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APPLIED FOR
25.00
6.10
5.00
6.40
5.00
5.80
3.00
10.00
13.90
5.00
2.51
3.70
7.80
2.50
2.10
1.90

Source: Health Resources and Services Administration.

GRANT RECEIVED
17.63
6.31
3.90
2.14
1.18
1.88
1.73
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NEW YORK-At a time when city, .
state and federal hea1th-care funding isbeing squeezed, New York City can·
expect 36,000 new cases of AIDS
between now and 1995, according to
new AIDS projections recently releasedby the New York City HealthCommissioner.
And the Health and Hospitals
Corporation, which runs the city's public
hospitals, where 35 percent of all AIDS
patients are currently being treated, said
that the reS\}lt of this increased pressUreon the already fInancially strapped public~ healt.h care system would be catastrophic.
1be bottom line is that if you needj treatment you will receive it, but yout;;; may have to wait longer for treatment,
5 there will probably befewer nurses, docif tors and technicians to treat you and you
may be discharged into friends' or families' care rather than a long-tenn AIDS
facility," said a spokesperson for IlliC.
"We are aware of the new AIDS
projections, and we are already grappling with an epidemic," continued the
spokesperson. "We are having to copewith budget cuts that the corporation has
not seen in its entire history, dearly the
resources we have currently and that we
can anticipate will not be adequate, butthey will simply have to do, The system
will become more clogged than it should
be. Things will now get increasingly tightin our institutions."
A possible result of the expected
increased case-load may be that PWAs
will decide not to seek health carebecause of growing waiting lists, or willdefer treatment until their condition
becomes critical, he said. Not only will
they then be more difficult to successfully treat but also more expensive, he
added,
As of March 1, 1991, 31,845 AIDS
cases had been reported in the city since
the epidemic was recognized and SUlVeillance began in 1981. The projection of
36,000 new cases from 1991 to 1995 isbased upon a middle-ground scenario
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which assumes 5,000 new illY infections
per year since 1986, and predicts that
AIDS incidence will decrease by an average of 0,9 percent yearly from 1991 to
1995. AIDS prevalence is predicted togradually decline from about 9,200 casesin 1991 to about 8,600 in 1995,
Margaret Karanjai, a spokesperson
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NEEDLE·TRIAL UPDATENEW YORK-As
OutWeek went to press,
eight of ten AIDS activists
on trial for needle possession were set to testify intheir own defense, and theprosecution was gearing
up to discredit thei r"necessity defense."
The defense conceded early on that thedefendants "illegally andknowingly" possessed
DEFENSEATTORNEYS-Jill Harris and Mike Spiegel
intravenous needles themorning of March 6,
1990, at the corner of Essex and Paul Shechtman was trying to establishthat the defendants had a legal alternaDelancey streets in Manhattan.
Defense attorneys Jill Harris and tive to achieve their goals: bleach distriMike Spiegel are claiming that the ille- bution. The prosecution had also
gal-needle possession was a lesser evil painted the defendants' actions as ademonstration rather than a sincere
than the transmission of HIV, which
defendants sought to prevent by dis- attempt at distributing clean needles.
. tributing clean needles to IV-drug
Check next week's Out Week forcomplete details on the trials outcome.
users.
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NEW YORK-A
non-violent
demonstration at a benefit preview ofMiss Saigon, staged by members of aar!!eswhite men, two Asian and two AfricanAmerican to avoid criticisms of racism,"1he arrests were made at the beginningof the demonstration to intimidate thethe chest and had their eyeglasses
smashed by police.
"I think the arrests are bogus," said
Joe Pressley, a member of Gay Men of

THE FALL OF (MISS) SAIGO~Protesters at Lambda'sMiss Saigon Benefit
coalition of gay and Asian groups
protesting the show's alleged racism andsexism, turn.ed ugly when police turnedon the crowd.
According to eyewitnesses, cops
allegedly acted violently in making six
arrests and in controlling the crowd outside the Broadway Theater on West 53rd
Street. Two of the demonstrators who
were later charged with disorderly conduct and resisting arrest were allegedly
hit with 'nightsticks in the head and in
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African Descent who was one of thosecharged with disorderly conduct andresisting arrest. "1hey were just randomly
hitting people I was pushed, my eyeglasses fell off. They held me by myarms and legs, and ail 1 could see was asea of blue, They were hitting me in thechest with a nightstick."Haftan Eckholdt, a gay white man
who demonstrated against the benefit for
the lambda Legal Defense Fund claims
that the police deliberately arrested two•

crowd," he charged.
Arrested for disorderly conduct,
Eckholdt said that when the six men
were taken to the Seventh Precinct, at
Pitt Street, they were greeted by cries of"Her~ come the homos!" as they were
led into the holding cell.
He added that he held Lambda
accountable for police actions, alleging
that staffers called the Manhattan South
precinct prior to the demonstration towarn cops that a contingent from ACf UP,

LAMBDA NIXESSF FUND-RAISER,SAN FRANCISCO-In the wakeof continued controversy over the
Broadway play Miss Saigon, theLambda Legal Defense Fund canceled a San Francisco reception
after the Asian Pacific Sisters andthe GayAsian Pacific Alliance threatened to picket, according to a reportin the San Francisco Sentinel.
The musical recently resolved
a dispute between the producers
and Actor's Equity based on the factthat the role of a Eurasian was
played by a white actor in "yellow
face." But other groups have notbeen appeased. Asian Lesbians of
the East Coast and Gay Asian
Pacific Islander Men of New York .
. are angered over what they allege
are racist and sexist stereotypes in
the play. .
-Lowell B. DennyIII

and Queer Nation wQuld be protesting
and to expect violence,
But Ruth Herring, deputy director of
Lambda, told Out Week that while
Lambda did indeed speak with thepolice prior to the protest, it was simply
to tell them that the protest would betaking place and to plan for several hundred demonstrators. "We called them andsaid, 'Please be ready to police a large
crowd.' We did not characterize who
would be there. We were just trying towork the numbers." And she maintainedthat Lambda cannot be held responsible
for any alleged police brutality. "We had
no part in the police's decision-making
process, It is not appropriate to link uswith the police'S behavior, Being what
they are, sometimes they behave inappropriately," she said.
Spokespeople from the Manhattan
South precinct declined to speak to areporter,Allegations of police brutality aside,
the protest organizers are pleased with
how it went, and particularly with theturnout.
A spokesperson for Gay Asian andPacific Islander Men of New York,James Lee, said that the crowd ofapproximately 350 people was raciallydiverse, demonstratingthat concern
about Miss Satgon was not limited to the
Asian community .
•As regards Lambda, I don't holdany personal grudges, and I hope thateventually we can resume a relationship," he added.
Milyoung Cho, a spokesperson for
Asian Lesbians of the East Coast, was
one of two people who managed to gain
entrance to the theater and chant, "We
are not slits or greasy chinks," a reference to some of the show's lyrics, during
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official opening night, April 11.
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groups,theLesbianandGayCommunity Services Center withdrew
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WASHINGTON-While members ofCongress enjoyed their spring recess, the1991 incarnation of the federal Gay and~bian Civil Rights Bill gained three cosponsors in the House and one in the
Senate, giving the measure an unprecedented number of backers.
~ Since the House measure was introduced by Democratic Rep. Ted Weiss of
New York on March 13 with a whopping
78 additional co-sponsors, five moreHouse members have signed onto thebill, bringing it to a record of 84 total
sponsors.
The Senate bill, introduced bypemocratic
Sen, Alan Cranston of
Galifornia on March 6 with nine addi•tion~l co-sponsors, has since acquired
one more backer. The Senate bill last
had its record at 12 co-sponsors by theend of.the 100th Congress in 1988.
In addition, Democratic Reps. Leon
Panetta of California and Rob Andrews
of.' New Jersey came on the House billo,oe day after its introduction
andDemocratic Reps. William Gray ofIlennsylvania, Bruce Vento of Minnesota
and Mike Kopetski of Oregon signed onin the last few weeks.
The addition of Gray, who first cosponsored the bill last year, is expected
to boost the measure's chances, because
heis the Democratic Minority Whip in•the House.
In the Senate, the newest co-sponsor is first-term Democratic Sen. Paul
Wellstone of Minnesota, the iconoclastic
college professor who upset incumbent
Republican Sen. Rudy Boschwitz in theNovember elections,
Only two
senators. who co-spon•sored the Senate measure last year,
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Lobbyists working on the bill anticipate that those fonner co-sponsors who•
have not yet returned will soon comeback, citing Congress' recent preoccupation with military and foreign policy mat••I

ters as reasons why some legislators havedelayed renewing their co-sponsorship.
In the next several months, activists
expect to bring more first-time co-sponsors onto the bill, particularly the nearly
50 House and Senate members with perfect or near-perfect voting records on
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The holiday, which ran from March
29 until AprilS, commemorates the emancipation of the Jews from enslavement inEgyp~ the story recounted in Exodus.
It has become the custom among
Jews to invite people of other faiths to joinin the oj2servance. And for many gay andlesbian Jews, the rituals commemorating
a story of a people winning its freedom areespecially moving.
-Andrew Miller

issues who have never been gay rights
bill co-sponsors. But they will have toovercome some political fears first,"Many members don't co-sponsor
legislation that hasn't moved throughcommittee," explained Human Rights
Campaign Fund spokesperson Gregory
King. "Also, some feel this would be apolitical lightning rod ....We just have toconvince them that this isn't true. Their
support for our equal rights will not costthem votes. Our job is to make sure thatthey understand that."
Activists are also praising the newfound support of the bill by Vento, theeight-term congressman who has neverbefore co-sponsored the measure. The
House bill now boasts a total of six cosponsors'who,while veterans of theHouse, have never before signed onto
the bill.
Those first time co-sponsors are
Democratic
Reps. Vento, Barbara
Kennelly of Connecticut, Donald Payne. of New Jersey, Louise Slaughter of New
York, Edward Feighan of Ohio andHarold Ford of Tennessee.
Kopetski, who was elected to his
first term last November, joins eight
other freshman representatives whosenames appear on the bill. Those are
Democratic Reps. Maxine Waters ofCalifornia, Rosa Delauro of Connecticut,
Eleanor Holmes Norton (Democratic
non-voting delegate from Washington,
DC), Neil Abercrombie of Hawaii, Patsy
Mink of Hawaii, Tom Andrews of Maine,
Barbara-Rose Collins of Michigan and
Rob Andrews of New Jersey.
Both Abercrombie
and Mink,
elected to the House in November, cosponsored the bill during their previous
stints in the House.
Gay rights activists have found the
newfound strength of the measures aninspiration for effecting passage of the•bill within the next nine years.
"Despite the fact that we have more
co-sponsors than at any time in history,"said Eric Rosenthal, political director for
the HRCF,"this is only the beginning."
The twin measures, S 574 and HR
1430, would amend the Civil Rights Act
of 1964 and make illegal discriminationon the basis of sexual orientation in
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what police are calling a bias-motivatedattack on Staten Island's South Beach on
Tuesday, April 8, shortly before 5:30 pm.
Seventeen-year-old Charles Mcleanof 84 Bell St. was arrested later that day
and charged with robbery, seconddegree assault and criminal poosession ofa weapon, according to the Staten Island
Criminal Court clerk's office. Also
arrested was William Gay, 17, of 11
Andrews St., on charges ranging fromaggravated harassment to attempted murder, April 10.
The two men were reportedly on
the boardwalk
near
Capodanno
Boulevard when they passed a group ofsome six beer-drinking males and two
young women, according to the Staten
Island Advance, a local daily paper thatfirst reported the story.
One of the teenagers
beganharassing the two men, and when theyfailed to respond, the group attacked
both, allegedly kicking and punching•by ELLEN
B. NEIPHIS,•PROSPECT PARK, BROOKLYN Pent up in their Park Slope flats all winter, eager leagues of lesbians
in muscle T's, Champion shorts and cleats are flooding the parks to play softball.
We caught Kate of the Park Slope Diamonds, pictured here, taking a well~served break on the firstday of practice last weekend. Meanwhile, Cindy, a teammate of Kate's, when asked if she wanted someseltzer, replied, "Girl, I don't need water I need mouth to mouth."
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,them in the face and body while theyoung women cheered, according to
the Advance,•
James McKee, 69, a retired police
officer who heard the two men's aies for
help, reportedly rushed to the scene withanother retired officer and orderedrthe
teens to stop, But upon drawing his
licensed revolver and firing a warning
shot, he was allegedly bludgeoned
unconscious by one of the attackers
wielding a 2-by-6-inch piece of wood,accordirig to the Advance.
Shortly thereafter, the group ofyoung men and women left the scene.
According to Matt Foreman of theAnti-Violence Project, "this is a classic
bias assault It underscores the psychology of some of these perpetrators. Oneof the noteworthy things about this caseis that it was done in front of the perpetrators' female companions," which, hestresses, is "not an uncommon occurrence" as "40 percent [of bias perpetrators] are trying to demonstrate to themselves and to others in their gang thatthey're not gay."
About a half-hour prior to theattack, a 39-year-old South Beach manreported being verbally abused by agroup of white males who repeatedly
shouted "faggot" on the boardwalk
nearby.
He reportedly said that at least fouryoung men stalked him and one of themthrew a stick at him as he descended aboardwalk ramp.
Police believe that the two incidents
are related and have declared both bias•
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bill, the community here has had to grapple with the murder of a local activist,
allegedly at the hands of another man
who many local people say is also gay.
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the person who did it," said Elze,Gaffney lived in Portland for only
a short time, having moved fromWorcester, Mass., six months ago. Wellknown in the local gay community,
Gaffney was a member of ACT
UP/Portland and a volunteer with the
AIDS Coalition, He also worked as abartender at the Unicorn, a popular
gay club, and as a waiter at Friday's, arestaurant chain,
According to police, Gaffney diedafter receiving a blow to the head anda laceration of the throat. Gaffney wasapparently lured to Slaughter's apartment, where he died on Feb, 25,
according to police. Slaughter wasarrested three days later, A grand jury
delivered an indictment in March, andSlaughter is currently being held without bail,"One of the weird things about
this was that John was the kind of person who was your friend immediately, said Tom Martin, Gaffney's
roommate, "It just baffles us that it
could happen to him, because he wasso friendly.""John was a saint," said Unicorn
co-worker Mary Rossi. "I've never seen
anyone who could captivate people as
quickly. He just made you feel like amillion bucks, she went on. "Peoplecame in just to see him. Even his
straight friends from Friday's would
follow him over" to the Unicorn,
Rossi described the Unicorn as arelaxed, comfortable club, "like family,· patronized by both women andmen/Slaughter, she said, was an occasi<inalcustomer there, and an acquaintance of Gaffney's,

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Reich. The three articles set the age-of-consent for man-to-man sex five years
higher than for lesbian or straight sex, prohibit "public promotion of homosexuality" (specifically via films and printed matter) and ban the formatio~ ofany organization seeking to "legitimize" homosexuality. HOSI urges protests
at airports with direct flights to Vienna, demonstrations at Austrian travelbureaus and ~ngry letters to Nicolaus Michaled, Attorney General,
Museumstrasse 7, A-1070 Vienna, Austria. Send a copy to HOSI Wien,
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very silly Ottawa City Council has finally agreed toproclaim June 23 "Lesbian and Gay Day." Ottawa made headlines last
I spring when the Council proclaimed "Lesbian and Gay Pride Day" at one
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Soldier now includes a regular column named Lambda, which recently wentso far as to print a series of male nudes. Among the column's regular contributors are the members of Svaz Lambda, the Czech national gay group, andthe editors of the Czech gay newspaper, which is also named Lambda.
"Thanks to its open editorial policy, Czechoslovak Soldier is much sought
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announced the beginning of its efforts tocollect data on bias crimes, including
those motivated by anti-gay prejudice,At an April 4 press conference at theFederal Bureau of Investigation's DC
headquarters, Justice Department offj·cials, flanked by members of a widearray of groups, including the National
Gay and Lesbian Task Force, or NGLTF,
proclaimed that, three months after thedata-collection effort began, the program
is now "on track.".
. "Not only do such 'hate groups'
commit outrageous acts of violenceagainst our citizens," said Attorney
General Richard Thornburgh in a prepared statement, "but they seek toengage in a concentrated effort to tearapart the moral fabric of our society."
Speaking on the new effort, FBI
Director'William Sessions mentioned thatwithin the last three years, the JusticeDepartment has indicted 139 defendants
in 26 states for hate crimes. Of those, 129
have been convicted,
Staffers at the Department of Justice
did not tetum a reporter's ca11s inquiring
as to how may of those were anti-gay
crimes, bilt a staffer for the task force
suggested that the number was likely
very low, because current Federal civilrights laws do not presently include "sexual orientation" among their mandates.
According to the NGLTF's statistics
on anti-gay offenses, in 1990, 1,588 incidents of anti-gay crimes were reported toanti-violence groups in six major urban
areas alone, a 42 percent increase over
1989 numbers in the same cities.
In his statement, Sessions maderepeated reference to the hate-crimes
bill's inclusion of sexual orientation andthanked the task force for its extensive
work in documenting anti-gay violence.
As a result of the bill, Sessions
stated, the bias-crimes data~collection
program "will be an integral part ofthe existing Uniform Crime Reports,
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participate."
The crime
reports provide standard definitionsof hate-crimes and objective criteria
to be used in determining whether ahate crime has taken place.
But noting that participation by law
enforcement in the program is voluntary,
Kevin Berrill, NGLTF Anti-Violence
Project's director, pointed out that very
few states currently mandate the collection of hate-crimes data, and of those,
only six states and the District ofColumbia order the collection of statistics
on anti-gay aimes.
"We need for communities that are
affected by hate crimes to unite behind
efforts to promulgate hate-aimes laws intheir states and localities," said Berrill.
"It's important for all communities at risk
to pull together and lobby for measures
to monitor hate violence in their communities, because, right now, law-enforcement participation is still spotty."
Berrill also called on Congress toappropriate sufficient funds for the
training of law-enforcement personnel
in how to identify, record and classify
hate crimes.
"To put it bluntly," he said, "the battle against bigoted violence cannot be
won on the cheap,"
And representatives
for the
Human Rights Campaign Fund, or
HRCF, who, along with the task force
and a broad coalition of other minority
groups, lobbied for the passage of theFederal Hate Crimes Bill, expressedsatisfaction at seeing it finally go into
effect.
"We're satisfied that the work we
did on passing this bill has come tofruition,» said liRa's Gregory King, "Weencourage
all lesbian
and gay
Americans who are victims of hatecrimes to report them not only to their.1o<;al police but to the JusticeDepartment as well.»-Cliff O'Neill

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LOS ANGELES-Gay and lesbian
groups throughout LA are now actively
calling for the resignation of Police ClUef
Daryl Gates. More than a dozen community organizations charged at a press .
conference on Monday, April 8, that oneof every six gay-bashings in the city is
initiated by an IA police officer.
The LA Gay and LesbianCommunity Services Center's Anti~
Violence Project also reported four incidents of hate aimes allegedly committed
by the IA cops against members of thegay and lesbian community in the 30day period preceding the beating ofRodney King, which was captured on a

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Perry, pictured here, a founder of the MCC networkthat now crisscrosses the globe, was also on hand todeliver the Easter Day sermon.
-Andrew Miller

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Earlier this month, about 100 members of Queer Nation and ACf UP/LA
joined Jesse Jackson and about 1,000 others for a march through the downtown
area to the Police Department headquar-ters to demand the resignation of Gates,
The march and rally that followed were valiant attempts by the
gay-community here to broaden thepolice-violenceissue to include
attacks against gays,"The highly publicized abuse of Mr,
Rodney King provided a honifying ringside seat for the entire world to witness
the immediate need for change at theLos Angeles Police Department, beginning with top leaders,» said Torie

THE OTHER HATE·CRIME: A recent Senate
Judiciary Committee report
recorded over 100,000
rapes in the United States in. 1990. The incidence of rapeis up 6 percent nationally,
although Alaska, Colorado,
Maryland, Utah and West
Virginia
allreported
increases of more than 20
percent. In Washington, DC,
there were 303 reported
rapes last year, 63 percent

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Fellowships, Inc., will be the new director of development at
the Lambda Legal Defense Fund. He will replace Jeri Suratt,
who oversaw fund-raising at
the $1.6 million organization
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"Discrimination and intolerancegrow out of ignorance,"
Cothran commented. "I lookforward to the day when weare judged by our accomplishments, and not by gender. raceor sexual orientation,".

more than the year before.
Califomia led the nation with 12,413 reported cases, followed by Texas (8,427), Rorida (6,874), Michigan (6,938) and
New York (5,315). Delaware, Illinois, Maine, New Jersey,
Rhode Island, South Dakota and Wyoming all reported declines
in the incidence of rape. Most rape counselors agree that thereported statistics are merely the tip of the iceberg, and thatmany cases still go unreported.

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playing the Golden Nugget). But brothers and sisters fromNevada, Utah, Wyoming, Colorado, Arizona and New Mexico
will converge. on the Strip on June 6 for four days of fun andfabulousness. Call (702) 366-8085 for more information.

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HERE COMES THE .JUDGE: New York State Attomey
General Robert Abrams was on hand at the Bar Association for
Human Rights' fifth-annual dinner last month, where activist
attorney Lori Cohen, who has represented hundreds of members of ACT UP at various court appearances, was honored witha community service award. Kudos were also presented toParents and Friends of Lesbians and Gays' Paulette Goodman;
Dr. Herbert Cohen; M. L. Henry Jr, of the Fund for Modern
Courts; and attomey Paul Jeselsohn.
IT'S THE LAW: Gay-inClusive hate-crimes legislation in
Missouri and Maryland has been causing a little trouble forlawmakers in those states, In Jefferson City, state senators
deleted sexual orientation from a statistics collection bill before
releasing it from committee, according to the St. Louis News
Telegraph, a local gay and lesbian paper. And in Annapolis,
members of the House of Delegates first defeated, then reconsidered and passed, a similar bill, which now faces an uphillbattle in the state Senate, according to the WaShington Blade.
Meanwhile, in Cincinnati, where just last year local law
enforcers unsuccessfully attempted to convict a museum curator on Obscenity charges for playing host to a Robert
Mapplethorpe retrospective, the City Council added sexual orientation, HIV status, marital status and Appalachian regional
origin to the city's anti-discrimination ordinance in an 8-to-1
vote .
•LET SAIGONS BE BYGONES?: Paul Cothran, who
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WASH ON MARCHINGTON:
A weekend~longnational town meeting has been called by the National Gay
and Lesbian Task Force, to discuss the possibility of a·third
march on Washington for lesbian and gay civil rights. The
meeting is a follow-up to a March 9 brainstorming session,
where 100 activists from around the country discussed a follow-up to the 1987 march,which attracted more thana half- million people. For
more information,or toregister for the May 11-12
meeting in WaShington,
DC, call 1-800-832-2889.
R.I.P.: Mike Hippler, atalented journalist whose
weekly column in the Bay
Area Reporter has been amainstay of the paper for\years, died of AIDS-related
complications on April 2.
He was 39 and lived in San
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Community Center.
Osborn also emphasized that not
one openly gay man or lesbian is currently serving in the 8,300 member LA
police force, They also say that Gates,. and Assistant Police Q1ief Robert Vemon
have consistently blocked the inclusionof gay and lesbian people on the force,
In a related statement, the National
Gay and Lesbian Task Force last week
also called for the resignation of Gates.
"Police abuse against lesbians, gay men
and other groups is a systematic and persistent problem not only in Los Angeles
but across the United States," it said, "We
believe the dismissal of Gates will signal
to law-enforcement officials across thecountry that they will be held accountable for failing to act against brutality intheir ranks. "Since the release of the videotape ofthe beating of Rodney King, whiChspurred on widespread calls for Gates'
dismissal, the Community Center has notreceived one single report of violenceagainst gays by police.
-Allen WbIte

COLLEGE PARK, Pa.-The NCAAbasketball finals are over, but the Penn
State women's basketball team is still
making headlines. The reason is thealleged discriminatory
policy of the
team's coach, Rene Portland, who stands
acCused by fonner players, the Women's
Basketball Coaches Association,
the Penn,
State Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual Union
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the policy, 'which only the board has themaking every effort to call attention to
power to change. The board does not
anti-lesbian and anti-gay .
'on inmeet again until May.
an effort to dispel stereotypes and rid thePortland's practice came into quescampus of discriminatory behaviors.
tion 18 months ago when a student filed
According to the afi"lllllative-action
a complaint with the school's affinnativeoffice, letters of complaint about Portland
action office, Portland denied that thehave been received, as well as petitions
student had been dismis<;ed because she
calling for her dismissal, signed by stuis a lesbian, and cited poor performance.
dents and faculty, But, said a spokesperNo action was taken against the coach.
son for that office, "we can't file suits
When the team, the Lions, wasbased on hearsay, No young woman has
seeded first in this season's NCAAvolley,come forward alleging discrimination,
the, Philadelphia Inquirer ran a story on
Portland, including information on the
Until that happens, we have no recourse
controversial policy, quoting fonner playagainst the coach."ers; current players and others familiar
Stewart said that he hoped theboard would move to change the policy
with her strong stand against lesbianism.
in May, "The success of our society's
Several current players were quoted asefforts to transfonn itself from a disaimisaying that Portland's policy was a goodnatory one to a tolerant one will rest on
one because it was helping to change
how we address this issue [of anti-lesbianthe "image" of women's sports as lesand -gay discrimination]."bian-dominated.
-ViaorlaA. Brownwortb/
last year's MVP from Pennsylvania,
Pbtladelphia .
Meggan Yedsena, told the Inqutrer. "Ilike that she took that stance. She's trying
to get rid of the stereotypes." Yedsena
said that when Portland recruited her,
she told Yedsena that she would "revoke
the scholarships of players she found out
were gay,"
Women'sBasketball
Coaches
Association's director, Betty Jaynes, who•
said that the association has held seminars on homophobia but not developed
SAN FRANCISCO-Membersofa policy on it, corrunented: "Everyone isaware of Portland's stance, Many would . I Queer Nation allegedly vandalized thehome ·of San Francisco Mayor Art Agnos
agree with it, many would disagree."because he criticized a proposed City
Portland has not been reprimandedby the school, said Penn State sources,
nor is her dismissal being considered,
Portland cannot be reached for comment. All press calls are being referred tothe director of the athletic department,
Jim Tarman, who has released a statement saying that there is no policy ofanti-gay or anti-lesbian discrimination
against any students or players in intercollegiate sports at the school. He also
said that the department would adhereto school policy and state and federal
guidelines,
But Vice-Provost Stewart noted that
ARTAGNOS
discussions with the university's lawyers
Council resolution making the city a
had indicated that "there is no violation"queer sanctuary." And the alleged perof any law going on here, even if this ispetrators reacted angrily when initial
her policy." Stewart admitted that thepress reports said that the incident was
attention to Portland had caused the unithe work of homophobes,
versity "great embarrassment." He noted
The incident took place following athat "no one at this school-faculty or
Queer Nation meeting on March 7:7, Pink
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toilet paper was draped over bushes andtrees, a mural depicting an orgy wasplaced in the driveway, and a sign reading "Now leaving queer safe-space" wasplaced on the grounds of the home.
There have been no arrests in the case,
A group calling itself "A ConcernedGroup of Radical Queer Individuals"
issued a statement saying that the "action
itself was quite innocuous,"Theysaid-and the police confirmed-that
there was no property damage. "In fact,"
they said, "all materials used were
biodegradable and/or recyclable." They
even suggested that Agnos could "bestdispose of the pro-queer, pro-sex mural.panels at his local recycling center after
he has finished admiring them."
But lesbian Supervisor Roberta
Achtenberg was furious when shelearned of the incident. "'There is a goodquestion in the gay community about
whether pushing sanctuary at this pointis a good idea," she said. A sponsor of
the resolution, she acknowledges that thelegis1ation may be facing obstacles,"Taking on the tactics of the rightwing and acting as if it is justified to violate someone's home and space because
you believe you have a superior point ofview is deplorable conduct, and I don't
care who it comes from," she said. "Evenif the anger were overwhelming, which I
don't believe it is, even if it were, trashing the mayor's house is not OK."
Jean Harris, an aide to gay jj
Supervisor Harry Britt said, "The action ji.
that took place in the driveway of the filmayor with the toilet paper and all that ~stuff was a clear message from Queer
Nation and people active in the lesbian
and gay corrununity they want Art to takeanotherlookatthesexualminority/refuge legislation,",
Asked if the attack was an invasionof privacy, Harris responded: "He is a
public figure, I approve of any kind ofoutburst from the public that wants theirFirst Amendment rights to state theirposition,"
The remark which set off the vandalism was Agnos' statement that the resolution making San Francisco a sanctuaryfor queers would make the dty the "buttof jokes across the country."
Kurt Barrie, another aide to Britt anda member of Queer Nation, said: "'There
was no damage. The community is veryoutraged to his response to the sanctuary
resolution, When you have a corrununity

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Commentary•

tan lng•ittompieby Cary Alan Johnson
he

trial

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Africa. Why, for example, in the midst ofa Pretoria-imposed state-of-emergency
and news blackout, were 'IV cameras
on-hand to capture footage of Mandela
in her home and to interview people on
the streets of Soweto after the charges
were announced? Why, in the middle ofone of the most fundamental politicaland social changes since the end of theCold War, do so many mainstream daily
publications devote significant space tothe Mandela trial, while ignoring govern-dela on charges oflkidnappingandassault is a disturbing episodefor'everyone conthe.'ierned with'struggle
for freedom, Mandela,· perhaps
even more than her husband,•· c;:ameto symbolize justice and perseveratlce against all odds
"during the long years:.Nelson Mandela was..imprisoned, Her road.has always been the
mom! high ground. So
the notion that the"Mother of Struggle"
m,ay have stooped to
gay-bashing is quite
disturbing to AfricanAmerican gays andlesbians who haveidolized her,.
Winnie Mandela
stands accused ofslapping, punching
and whipping fouryoung men who were
forcibly brought to her
SAME STRUGGlf. SAlliE RGHT
house late in 1988.
Nelson and Winne Mandela with the key to NYC
She denies being in
Soweto at the time ofthealleged abduction but contends thatme nt-inspired violence, semi-offical;; !If.
death squads and the political shredding.thexoung men were rescued from thewhich continues in the country? (Andhome of a white Methodist minister who
why is the gay angle so often buried
was sexually abusing them. The oldest,
deep in the story?) dearly, the timing ofKenneth Kgase, was 29 at the time of thethe trial is beneficial to the racist govern·alleged incidents. The youngest, Stompie
Seipei, was 14. Stompie was found shortment and its attempts to discredit thely after the alleged abduction with his
African National Congress at a crucial
throat cut. A member of Mrs, Mandela's
moment in history.
But the questions remain: Did Wm"Football dub," a group that functioned
primarily as bodyguards, was convicted
nie play any role in the beatings or· themurder? Does she consider sexual relaof the murder last year.
Observers should have little faith intions between grown men to be sexual
abuse? If Stompie was being abused by
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April 24, 1_1

the white minister, why did he, a 14-yearold boy, end up beaten, degraded anddead? Or are the allegations of homosexual activity at the manse merely a coverup, as some have suggested, for the Foot- .,>ball dub's belief that the young men ~were government infonners? If that's the .2'
case, the defense strategy of emphasizing c?'"the homosexuality of the victims shows ~up as blatant homophobia.
"'According to the Weekly Mail, aSouth African newspaper, Mandela statedin her defense that
she'd been informedthat "the Rev, Paul Verryn was sexually abusing a number of the
youths that had taken
refuge in the manse"and that "some of the
youths were following
Paul Venyn's example, in indulging in homosexual practJce." But 1
why are all~gations of ~homosexuality being ~used as an implicit .~excuse for violence on ~the part of Mandela, or ~her Football dub?
ffi
Mrs. Mandela
does
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not speak for the ANC, if
and there have been
vain attempts in recent
years to distance herfrom that group. But she remains animportant moral and political leader
nonetheless,
The changing political climate in.South Africa has so far been more or lessencouraging to the nascent gay and lesbian struggle there. According to Thabo
Mbeki, a key ANC spokesperson: "TheANC is very finn!y committed to removing
all forms of discrimination and oppression
in a liberated South Africa....That commitment must surely extend to the protectionof gay rights." Activist Simon Nkoli, one ofthe defendants in the celebrated Delmaas

•Treason Trial, shattered stereotypes withhis principled stand as a gay activist,
acknowledging the indivisibility of thetwo struggles against apartheid and forgay and lesbian rights, And South Afiica's
Organization of Lesbian and Gay Activists
was a member in good standing of theanti-apartheid United Democratic Front,
until that group dissolved itself to makeway for the newly unbanned ANC.
African leaders have, in the past,promised equality to oppressed groups
in the heat of revolution, only to subordinate these commitments once their new
governments were firmly entrenched.
Witness the treatment of Zimbabwean
women, who made up 25 percent of
ZANU Patriotic Front guerillas in the
struggle for control of their own country,
Now, 11 years later, despite bitter complaints from the Zimbabwean Women's
Bureau, the government has refused tochange customary land rights that fu.vor
men or to challenge the continuation of
the payment of "brideprice," a custom
which many women find demeaning,
Romantic attachment to the ANC
should not blind observers to the typically forked tongues of political expediency, A serious education campaign, bySouth Africans for South Africans, isneeded to combat homophobia and tofight the notion that gay and lesbianconcerns are "Western," Honest discussion about homosexuality
in Zulu,
Tonga and other traditional southern
African cultures would help, The greatest of hopes: a free ANC-Ied South
Africa with an enlightened gay, lesbianand bisexual agenda in the leadership ofa revitalized African continent. Vigilanceon the part of South African lesbian andgay groups, as well as international
observers, is essential,
Whatever the verdict in the trial,
justice will not be served, A young boy .
whose childhood- was stolen by racism
is dead. And no Black woman could
ever get a fair trial in contemporary
South Africa. We may never know thetruth about Stompie's death, But wemust stand with our brothers and sisters, particularly those who are gay, lesbian and bisexual, as they struggle for
their place in a new national order inSouth Africa, ...

Cary Alan Johnson is an author,
activist and Africanist living in New
York City.

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Tyler Mackintosh, born on Nov. 5, 1958,
passed away peacefully from complications(lue to AIDS at his home in Los Angeles, on
Saturday, April 6, 1991. He was 32 years old.
Tyler was the renowned owner and creatorof the Mackintosh exercise studio in,
Manhattan, After discovering his illness, heretired to his original home in California.
Those of us who know Tyler will sadly
miss him, but our lives will always be touchedby his spirit that hovers around us still.
I
Donations can be made in his name to:
Project Angel Food, in Los Angeles, andGod's Love We Deliver, in New York
-Jeffrey Herman .
•LOU FIERO,
On Saturday, April 6, 1991, Lou Fiero. died after a long battle with AI DS. I met Lou,
just a few short years ago, at the first meetingof ACT UPILong Island. Lou, Ted Oneto and I
went to the very first ACT UP/LI demo
together-it was at the house of state Sen.
Ralph Marino.
,
When we met, Lou was already livinglYLER MACKINTOSH

with AIDS. He was quiet and had not gone
public with his health status. During the years
I knew him, he grew into a courageous, outspoken activist He went public about his liv-

ing with AIDS and used that status
to fight the epidemic for all people
with AIDS. He gave repeated interviews to the straight press as partof his activism. It seemed as if all of
Nassau County knew about his living with AIDS and what needed to
be done to help PWAs across Long
Island. He became the only PWA toserve on the Nassau County HIV
Commission
itself. Behind the•scenes, at our ACT UPILI meetings,
Lou was always the one to remind
us to place principle above personalities-the thing that we needed tohear the most. Lou demonstrated
courage in the face of AIDS, and hefought hard for his life ·and for
all PWAs.
Lou met his lover, Greg
Noone, during the time I was privileged to know him. Greg was with
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while he died, I will miss Lou greatly.
ACT UPI AGHT BACK! FIGHT AIDSI-Gary Konecky

Commentary

Reader's Guide to Periodical Literature•

by Scott Shennan
Defamation of gays and lesbians involves more than just insulting us: It also occurs when we are made invisible and acknowledgement of our existences is refused.
Periodical indices, the principle tool of researchers and stu~ents,list periodical publications by subject so that an interested
reader can conduct a review of any given topic. For example, among
the many subjects listed are "Christian Magazines," "RtJ1ess Magazines" and "Children's Magazines."
Traditionally, the major periodical indices have been resis1ant tolisting gay and lesbian publications. However, thanks to the Gay andLesbian Task Force of the American Library Association, that is
beginning to change. The task force has convinced two of the leading iildexing companies to start listing lesbian and gay magazines.
Now, interested readers will be directed to such publications as the
Advocate, OutWeek and the Journal of Homosexuality.

30 OUTWEEK April _,1_1

However, the major periodical guide has refused to stop snubbing gay magazines. Unlike their more enlightened counterparts,
they will not list our journals, and so they perpetuate their ugly practice of defamation by exclusion.
Our gay and lesbian librarian friends have asked our help in
convincing this reluctant indexer to include us. We figure that it's theleast we can do--ff only to make up for all those overdue books I
Write to the publishers of the Reader's Guide to Periodical literature
and ask them to stop their biased omission.
Write to: Leo Wains, President, H.H. Wilson Company, 950 University Ave., Bronx, NY 10453, or call (212) 588-8400,

GLAAD Tidings is a program of the Gay and Lesbian Alliance
Against Defamation. For more information about the material inthis week's column, or about GLAAD, call (212) 966-1700.

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Dates for action

on the new City
Council lines arequickly approaching. Publication of atentative 51-district
map is scheduled
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fied dIStrict map IS
due on May 16; and a fmal commission
vote on the lines will be taken on June 3,
Even without official word on the lines,
candidates are gearing up and getting
ready to run.
We hear that Bella. Abzug's
youngest daughter is already working
the phones, telling people of her
expected candidacy and asking for support. As I've indicated before, chances
are that she will run against gay activist
and former Democratic District Leader
Tom Duane. Our community has beenlaboring for 20 years to achieve a seaton
the Council and we are closer than••ever with Duane following up on his'89 bid, However, Abzug could prove a
tough opponent. While Duane would
ce11ll4lly receive the support of.the gay
and lesbian community and of Olelsea,
his hdme district, Abzug has tremendous name-recognition, plus her mom
and , company in tow.
Our community needs a voice. We
need someone who has been on thefront lines, the picket lines, the protest
lines, We need someone who could be:µ1 example for gay and lesbian youth.
We. oeed someone with a history of
Duane vs, Abzug would,ipvolvement.
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Sexist Agitprop

The Stonewall News, the two-sided,
one-page newsletter of the Stonewall
Democratic
Club (gay Republicans reg,,istered as Democrats) has come out
with its March edition, More than half of
its words are devoted to Stonewall's
Valentine's Day salute to Robin Byrd.
There are eight pictures, and, as isalway,s,.,Jhecase, more than half feature
the club's president. Among the other
32 OUTWEEK April _,1_1

people pictured, 14 are men and only
one, Byrd, is a woman, The newsletter
describes Byrd as "decked out completely in hot-pink suede, a rhinestone
choker with a dangling heart and whitelace leotards to cover her bare bottom,
After all, it was cold outside." Onephoto is of Byrd's rear end. One would
ho~ that a Democratic club with an
exclusively male board (nine men, no
women) would try to be sensitive tothe blatant sexism (and heterosexism)
illustrated by this incident. Instead, you

If anything, GLAAD
should be after the
Stonewall Club forperverting the use of
the word "Stonewall"now that's defamationof our community.
•

GLAAD should be a bit
more discreet in whom it
associates with.have one picture of John Wade ofBronx Borough President Fernando
Ferrer's office· posing with Byrd's legs
across his chest and on his ann. TIlls iscertainly not the way our friend Ferrer
poses with women from the Bronx.
Included on the Stonewall Board
are David Gilbert, who worked for the
racially polarizing former Mayor Ed. Koch and Bruce Peyre, an· aide toAssemblyman Jerry Nadler, Nadler
claims to be a feminist and has close
ties to women's organ-izations. One
wonders if he knew the nature ofStonewall's party, Only one elected

official, Manhattan Assemblyman Ed
Sullivan, showed the poor taste of personally attending the party, the invite
for which had a picture of Byrd declaring, "Baby, bang my box." However, in
addition to those already mentioned,
Assemblyman Dick Gotfried, Councilwoman Carolyn Maloney and Congressman Ted Weiss all sent representatives. Assemblywoman Deborah Glick,Councilman Ronnie Eldridge and Manhattan
BoroughPresident
Ruth
Messinger all had the good sense not
to attend or send representatives.
Gay and LesbianManhattan's real Democratic club,
the Gay and Lesbian Independent
Democrats, or GIlD, will be having its
annual dinner on Thursday, May 16, at
Rutgers Church at 73rd Street andBroadway, GUD, which has seven
women on its 15 member board, is partof the struggle for women's rights andthe rights of people of color, boththose within and those outside the lesbian and gay community. At the annual
dinner, GUD will be hono~g openly .
gay Council hopeful Tom Duane,
actress Susan Sarandon, the.]Irish lesbian and Gay Organization, Harlem
District Leader Pamela Green and thecoalition of Asian and Pacific Islander
Lesbians and Gays organizing against
Miss Saigon. Cost is $65 ($125 if you
want to be a sponsor), Callthe club's•
president, John Magisano, at (212) 4750271 if you're interested in this goodcause, Among other things, GUD will
help fight the seJ.(ism perpetrated byorganizations like the, Stonewall Democratic Oub,
A Bit More Discreet
Which leads me to one final observation about the Stonewall
Club,
Stonewall cosponsored a forum on Tuesday, April 2, on the use of the word"queer" by members of our community,
including publications such as this one,
the Advocate and the Village Voice, The
event was cosponsored. by the Coalition
for Lesbian and Gay Rights, the Log,Cabin Club (gay Republicans honest
enough to be registered as Republicans)and the Gay and Lesbian Alliance
Against Defamation, or GLAAD. Now,
GLAAD is a well-respected, hard-working group and one questions their wisdom in giving any credibility whatsoever
to Stonewall, a group that seemingly
opposes gay and lesbian politicians (theyrefused to support Deborah Glick's
Assembly bid or Tom Duane's Councilbid) and is no friend to people of color(they were staunch supporters of Ed
Koch) and women ("Baby, bang mybox"), If anything, GLAAD should beafter the Stonewall dub for perverting
the use of the word "Stonewall"---now
that's defamation of our community.
GLAADshould be a bit more discreet inwhom it associates with.
At the forum, some strange comments were made by Campion Reed, amember of the Stonewall board, Actually, they're only strange if you consider that they came from a gay man living in New York City in 1991. Not only
did Reed spend the evening berating
Out Week and the Advocate for using
the word "queer," but he alsQ .madethe following cOqlment: "I would
never say in public that I have participated in homosexual behavior,"· It was
his assertion that sodomy is illegal
behavior and that, in many states, toadmit to it would be like admitting that
one was· a criminal. If he were asked,
he said? he "would take the Fifth."
Sounds like a statement you'd expectfrom someone living "before Stonewall,"not 21 years after!

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Odds and Ends
Stillabsolutely no word from Brooklyn Borough President Howard Golden's
gay liaison Ed Rogowsky regarding Golden's refusal to speak in front of Lamda.
Independent Democrats of Brooklyn.
Come on already, Rogowsky.
New York State Attorney General(and US Senate candidate) Robert
Abrams received several standing ovations during his speech before theannual Bar Association for Human
Rights (gay and lesbian lawyers) dinner, Abrams was accompanied by gay
public-relations guru Ethan Geto,
Seizing on the media attention
generated by the recent subway-tunnel
rape, the always-sedentary-unlessthere's-a-media-opportunity
Councils __ INSIDER on pag_ 84
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Queer life by day can be a drag,and no, we don't mean the dress-up...
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kind. Many of us still keep our love,"

lives under wraps in the workplace,•and only a handful of us actuallywork in a gay environment. But when
the sun goes down, and the music
begins, the lipsticks, oils, leathers andother .queer gear come out, as ourcolorful culture explodes around us.
To capture just a slice of New
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•asked some of our tn/sty writers andeditors, along with some of the scene ~s
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more-notable night

MICHAEL AT
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crawlers, to take us.on a guided twilight•

tour. Of course, we
couldn't possibly goeverywhere. Tbat
would require an•army of swingers,
our own fleet ofcabs, andaccording to the·latest statisticss:-upward of a million
entries. Lacking
such resources, weoffer simply a tasteof what a single
Friday night mightlook like. Just call it
any Friday night in
the life of queer
New York.
-Victoria

Starr

7:00 Michelangelo
Signori Ie, glllZJ East
Side bar
I go only by the name of"Mike" here. I never tell anyone
what I do or where I work.
Vinnie, the bartender, has givenme my third drink and puts
down a shot glass next to it tosignify that my next one is free.
Vito, the man next to me,cannot understand why I'm
getting free drinks. "Because
it's my third one," I tell him. "It'salways that way.""Really?" he asks. "I don't.think so. I've been coming herefor 17 years, and I don't get freedrinks after my third. No, honey, I
don't think it's because it's yourthird drink."
He and Vinnie, thebartender, get into a cat fight

7:00 Jim Provenzano,
OulWeek ollice
Call to get on the guest listat Parallel. "You know gay night
is Saturday," the woman on theline says, Will there be a sexualorientation check at the door
every other night?

7:00 Pamela Sneed,West Village vlnlageclothing store,

I have this voracious craving
for dusty rose, which promises tomake me more vibrant, self-

assured, wilUng to go out on a
Friday night and risk running into
every teenage client I ever taught
or cOunseled-anything as long as
I have ciJsty rose, Iwind up in a
men's clothing store on Greenwich,sifting through piles of used jeanstrying to find the appropriate oversized jeans for a six-foot-two
lesbian. My jeans search was
unsuocessful, but I ad leave with abeautiful, deep dusty-rose shirl

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7:00 Aline Rubenstein,
Brooklyn Women's
Manlal Arts
Teacher-training class began
half an hour ago, At the moment,
we're immersed in a technicaldiscussion of eyeball-gouging.
There are15 women in the room,
not all lesbians, from a wide rangeof backgrounds and culturess-Eastem European, Caribbean,
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glitzy bar. I'm in a big sedan, Pedro,
Juan, another guy named Victor
and myself, where I was invited
to smoke some pol I don't know
these guys, but I'm having fun.
"Mike: Pedro says, "Youreally are a piece of trash,aren't you? Oooh, and I bet you
suck dick really good. "They all
laugh and then exchange somewords in Spanish.

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TOP: LESBIAN POETRYIFICTION READINC AT THE
WOMEN ACTIVIST COFFEEHOUSE. ABOVE: BACKSTAGE AT SELLE REPRIEVEWITH SPLIT BRITCHES AND
BLOOLIPS. BELOW: GUEERSQUARE DANCINC WITH
THE TIMES SQUARES.

South American. All we have In
common is that karate has
been so IlllX>rtant to us that wewant to pass our training along.
The room hums with ourconcentrated attention,

7:15 Jay Blolcher,lesbian and Say
Community Senlces
CenterPeak activity at this hour,
Many of the groups meeting.
tonight. read like a laundry listof our community's capability
for mental fragility and selfdestruction: Narcotics Anonymous, Relationships Anonymous (lesbians), Overeaters

36 OUTWEEK April 24, 1_1

Anonymous, Incest andSexual-Abuse Survivors
Anonymous. The warbling
announcer of the Times
Squares' square-dance groupis do-si-do-ing these urban
hayseeds through a variety ofmoves. His voice ricochets
through the stairwell.

7:30 Michael Soft,home In lIIe
East Village
Was going to do somepuSh-ups and sit-ups, but myfabulous dyke friend (who I am
going to have children with)called. She loves Musto's
Madonna piece (two weekslate), though she and her
girlfriend are split on the Sandra
thing, They're doing opium
tonight. How to beat that?

7:45 Michelangelo
Signori Ie, outside lIIe

Victor puts his hand on
my knee and begins rubbing. "Ilike you, Mike," he tells me.
"You're nice.""So are you," I say back.
(I'm getting a little nervous, but
I like this kind of tension.)"You're very mysterious,

you know?" says Pedro. "And
why are you holding onto that
notebook so tightly?"

7:50 Janice Astor delValle, Poker Night
WIlli Slope AcllVlUes
lor Lesbians
We're playing poker in adoorman building? Even
worse, the entire ground floor
Is comprised of doctors' anddentists' offices. Upstairs, I am
welcomed by our gracious
host, Pat, who immediately
bestows an aura.of comfort:"Are you hungry? Thirsty? Help
yourself," she offers. Then she
introduces me to June-l'm notsure what her present occupation is, but she may have been
my favorite English professor ina past life and Penny, astudent of Social Work at NYU,
who looks too much like one of
my ex-crushes, This place
exudes too much warmth for apoker game: Where's thesmoke-filled tiny room? Where
are the beer-swaggering
dykes? Where are the tattoos?
And who the hell brought that
Peach Riunite? Uh, wait aminute ... 1 think the wine's mine.

7:50 Jay Blotcher,
Women Activists
Cofteehouse (theCenter)•"Elizabeth Randolph reads
Pat Parker's soul-sth'ringverse. Melinda Goodman, aspunky, sassy woman, reads anarrative piece as Millie, theWhite House dog. In it, Millie
experiences an awakened
politicism and ends hermaster's fascist regime bynipping off his privates. Cheryl
Boyce Taylor, a Trinidadian,reads fierce, vibrant poetry,slipping in and out of island
dialect. The effect is exhilarating. Jacqul reads her own"Roll Call,· a list of events
scarring our community thathave set the stage for
Apolcalypse Now.

7: 50, Victoria Starr,
Belle Reprieve(starring Spill•

Britches and Bloollps)
Cici (an ex-roommate)and company are waiting for
us In front of the theater. "Hey,
Ciccollna, I haven't seen you ina while." ("Ciccollna" is thenickname we've given Clci In
honor of the Italian porn star
whose mayoral campaign ofseveral years ago was conducted largely-pardon
thepun--topless.)
There are two girls
making out on the comer. "Isn't
that Uz and Andrea?" asks
Clci. As the rest of the gang
wandered up, we gossip ourway Into the theater.

8:. Les Simpson,
14111Slreet at
8th Avenue
Rendezvous with myfriend John, who's leaving for
Miami Beach tomorrQw. Givehim some copies of My Comrade and Sister magazine anda list of stores to check out I'dlike to penetrate the Miami
Beach market

8:. Sydney PokorllJ,.home In the
East Village
Uz spends an hOl,lr
preparlng.to call two friends
who hav~~own great
aptitude In' the past for livening
up any evening. She is tense,and I am .pynlcal
about the,propects for the evening. At
times like these, when thepressure to have fun is too
hard to handle,
I tum on my,lava lamp and blare my stereo.

8:15 Michelangelo
Signorlle, back at theglitzy bar.Pedro demands that I go
Into the bathroom with him
and, of course, I comply.
"Mike," he orders. "Pullup to the urinal and make likeyou're taking a piss, so I cantalk to you. I want to know why
you are so cagey. What's yourgame?""Why, what do mean?" I
ask.
"Hal Mike, let me tell you:This is a really cute act you got

goin' here. Really cute. I like it."
He laughs. "Now, get out there,
you piece of trash." I giggle.

8:25 Jim Provenzano,
J.ny's 103•. Late for dinner with
Earnie. We get a good table,
and my pasta's tasty, but thecream sauce is a bit runny. We
chat and have coffee. The
service is pleasant, and all theguys are handsome, especially
our waiter, Anthony.

9:. Pamela Sneed,
Pan Pan
Pan Pan, at 137th Street
and Lenox, is a fabulous fastsoul-food place admired for
its earnest, unpretentious
prices, fried chicken wings
and very pretty women. It is
not a place I imagine theaverage OutWeek reader
eating at, but fun for Harlem
Hospital workers, Harlemltes
and those seeking midnigh~munchies.

1:.Dale Peck,home In M_allanvllle
My friend CB, in from
Connecticut, buzzes. "I'll wait foryou in the car," he tells theintercom. CB has this thing
about cars: His last one wasstolen, and this one's beenbroken into three times in six
months, so maybe It's justified.
When I get In the car, I notice
the absence of his current beau.
RIGHT: NEON BECKONS AT"ERRY'S 103. BELOW:CALVINA AND ARLENE
LIVEN UP LA ESCUELITA.

•"INhere's Jay?" I ask. "Jay's athome," CB tells me. "There'rebeers under the seat." We drink
Rolling Rocks and drive throughthe park. I feel like I'm a scenefrom Less Than Zero.

I:. Michael Goft,
Dolo'sWhenever you get fags
together, they talk aboutparents. I'm with fourboys one who is visiting from
Boston-and we're on to how
Hispanic mothers always knoYi
when there's something
wrong. Vince says that hisalways gets psychic messages
when he's out with fags, andshe'll be on his machine when·
he gets home. "Be sure to becareful," is her code, because
she won't acknowledge that hecame out to her years ago.

9:05Aida Hernandez(a.ILa. Nobody's
PUSSy),home In lIIe•

East Village
I go downstairs to,
Anthony Ledesma's apartment
with two color laser prints of
Anthony for his father andbrother. Anthony died last
Monday morning. The three ofus talk for a while and thensmoke a joint together.

1:20 Victoria Slarr,
Belle Reprieve
Lois Weaver and Peggy
Shaw (of Split Britches) aresex goddesses. Not In thetrendy, in-your-face style ofsomeone like Diviana, but sex
goddesses nonetheless. NOW,·
as Peggy falls to her knees, ':her muscular back and arms'
exposed as her large hands' ',~run slowly, steadily, up Lqis,f·well-defined calves and thighs,
I feel my blood rushing to mygroin, "Don't stop. Don't stopl"
I want to scream.
Something tells me it's
going to be a long night.

1:40 Anne Rubenstein,a Park Slopeaparlment
Darlene, Mickey, Cubby
and I argue about where to go
for dinner, We could go to the.
Thai place where we've offen
seen AI Sharpton, but theservice is slow. We could go to
the pricey cafe where we once
saw Andrea Dworidn, but they
only serve desserts. We settie'
on the Purity Diner, to reward
them for feeding us free·'.·jsandwiches during the fiV~-' , .,borough anti-violence mai-Chh":last month.
.

1:45 Jay Blotcher" an
East Side apartment
This is an all-out wankfest by USA, the Uncircumcised Society of America. Theapartment door opens,_,and agaggle of faces, hiding behind,-

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use 1he ballToom, and 1hen hecIsarms 1he car alarm, unIocks
1he door, lI1SCI'9WS that steeringwheel thing, plugs In 1he rado,
and we go for <inner.

10:. Pamela Sneed,home In~HarlemShave my head-what
every good androgynous
lesbian should do at least
once. Ifs excellent meditationand preparation for a night out,
great for getting attention,
sexually stimulating, good for
Intimidating obnoxious men. If
you're alone and don't know
karate, smile demurely when
they say you resemble Sinead
O'Connor, even If you're Blackand have been shaving you'rehead for ten years.

10:. Les Simpson,
home
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lIIe Bar
There's a parking spot,amazingly, right In front of 1he Bar,and after CB's pulled his radofrom 1he dash, put it in its
shoulder bag, attached one ofthoselocks to 1hesteering wheel, Jocked the doors,
set his alarm and taken a a;t lookaround for suspicious types, we
go inside. About 15 people, noneof whom Iknow, line 1he room's
per1Jhery or sit on bar stools
facing the room, and you can tellthat they're all planning on setting
up shop for the next four hours or
so. CB and I stay long enough tothe portal for modesty's sake,welcomes us. The ~Ights are
Jarring. A man In his niid-'40s,
slight and graying, Is walking
across the room to get adrink. The man fellating him
will not Interrupt his
ministrations. He scrambles
on all fours to keep the organ
In his mouth. Gene, our host,Is a hulking man with a docile
face and roaming hands. He
welcomes us with the reminderthat "any dick you want
. here-you Just reach out andsuck it. Thafs what Ifs there
for." Although condoms areprovided, safer-sex rules are
not compulsory. A knot of men
stands in the comer, taking halfhearted tugs at each other's
penises. The faces and bodies
are, at best, unremarkable, The
only muscle<:!body in the room
belongs to an activist acquaintance who blanches tosee me, hastily dons his clothes
and leaves.

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ABOVE: RICHARD QREICOSTARS IN IF LOOKS COUI.D
KILL. BELOW: ..OHN FINDSRELIEF IN THE SUBWAYSYSTEM.

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Decide n'Iy apartment Is
too cluttered and start packing
all extraneous knick-knacks
away. Get distracted and startreading Vanity Fa/r. Talk onphone get the latest gossip.

10:. Aida Hernandez,
home
I frantically pack the toolsof my trade: flashlight, incense,
matches, papers, all manner ofbatteries and adaptors, needes, cleaners, portable CDplayers and 999 other goodies.

10:. Jan Astor delValle, Lesbian Poker
Nlghl"Pat, is it okay if I gave
my babysitter your phone
number?" asks Sue.

"Of course I" Pat respondswith matemal reassurance.
The phone rings. Ifs
Sue's babysitter, who has
been besieged by a maleprankster whQ repeatedly
phoned, asking for Sue by
name. Someone suggests todirect the calls here and let
us take care of him.
Penny Is trying to teachme "Ratfink," but I'm studying
her lips more than the cards,
and, besides, my ooncentratlon
went out the bay window two
glasses of Rlunite ago. I am
this close to asking Penny forher phone number.

10:. Michael Goff,lIIe Temple Bar
Even In the Terrple Bar
bathroom, boys miss the basin.
The beautiful Korean maitre d'with tatooed eyebrows is out
tonight. In his place is a sorry
excuse-the former Comell
med student who dropped out
to become a Broadway something. But he's trying too hard,with too much attitude for 1991,
thank you very much.

10:15 Dale Peck,
DoJo'sSomeone should tellthose bQys at the Bar that, at
this hour, the cruising is better
here. If you've never seen thehost a thin white boy-, about
22, who always wears blackjeans and looks like he grew
up on a farm-he's worth alook. The place is littered
tonight with same-sex couples
at tables for two.

10:20 Aldo Hernandez,
Meal
The outside windows aredone up in a black-and-whitecheckered board and goldleaf
boutique. Inside, tonighfs decor,
by Dave Whyte, brightens the
pukey fuschia of the walls with
100 gold and white "angel's
wings' for Anthony's ascent into
his next realm. I wonder if his
brother and father will get it
when they arrive later.

lq:25 Anne Rubenstein,lIIe Purity Diner
Suddenly, we remember
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why we avoided the Purity long
before the to-do over thebashing here-the food is awful.
We desalbe the anti-viOlen09
march for Mickey, who missed
It. Meanwhile, the waitress
noUoes me taking notes. When
we tell her what we're doing,
she says, "Go on with you bad
selfl" We overtip wildly.

10:25 VIctoria Slarr,

he asks suddenly.
"OK."
We leave the bar and•drive off In his gorgeous black
sports car.

10:35 Jim Provenzano,
RIGHT; THE PINKPANTHERS REACH THE
MIDNIGHT HOUR. BELOW:
AT THE WHEEL WITH
DE&.IAY NOBODY'. PUSSY.

don't know the words to the
new songs, and the old songs
they play are annoying halfremakes of original vocal
tracks laid on top of "Industrial"
dance beats. After a while, I
stop dancing and stare at the. kids, a solitary existential
figure In a roomful of teenage'
angst. The Inevitable has
happened: I am 23 years old In
an 18-year-old WOrld. I havebecome irrelevant.

,11:. Les Simpson,home
My apartment is a mess.
Make list of necessary .
Improvements. Think: Whenam I going to get my life
together? Decide: Stop being
so hard on myself, Vacuum.

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11:05 Aldo Hernandez,
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B811e Reprle,eAfter-the show, we stumble.'

back stage to say hello, Just In

time to find the cast receiving
their paychecks. "HI, we're from
OutWeek. The !lhow was great. "I am trying to remain cool, bothrelieved and disappointed thateveryone is already dressed.
Noticing the puzzled look on
lois Weaver's face, I rromble
something about having met her
and Peggy at the studios of
WBAI. Peggy glances over witha nod of recognition, Still hot
from the show, I wonder if thiscouple Is monogamous,

10:30 Michelangelo
Signorlle, 51111 at Ibe
glllZJ bar
A beautiful man sits next
to me. He's tall, dark blackskin, warm smile, sexy eyes. .
"My name is Henry. Do
you want to go to my house?"" Looks Could Kill
We're a half-hour late for
Richard Grieco's latest vehicle
to movie stardom. Locatedaround the comer from theheart of gay Chelsea, theenormous Clneplex Odeon,
with three floors anci eightscreens, may be a neighborhood eyesore, but at least thescreens aren't broken and theseats are clean. We laugh andhoot at the movie with the otherappropriately rowdy audience
members,"Richard Greico shaves
his eyebrows,· announces

ernie. "Look.""Oh my God, you're right.
And he shaves his chest," Ilaugh.
"Body waxing," responds
Emle. "Is he gay?"'Well,· I explain, "when I
worked in a video store, he
used to come in with a woman
all the time. That was before
21 Jump Street, when he was

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In those beautiful Mount Airy
Lodge commercials. But thisguy who used to work at
Palladium with him said he
was pretty discreet, andsomeone else says he's a totalbottom and that Barry Diller
took a liking to him:,.

11:00 Dale Peck,
Ibe Building
Tonighfs the party thatused to be called Purgatory,
but now goes by Damnation or
Crucifix or Rosary Beads orsome other religious term. Our
Lady of Comp Usts gets us In
the door fast, but once inside,
the full horror of the situation
weighs upon me. I look at all ofthese post-New Wave gay
boys (and there are a lot ofthem) clinging to their girlfriends with one hand and theirclosets with the other, I try to
blend in but it doesn't work-I

I put the discotheque In
motion, as college kids,
straight and gay homeboys,
early drag queens and milkana~cookie gays pass Insideand sit or dance.

11:10 Michael Gon,
Ibe Temple Bar
Called the Boy(frlend) 10
minutes late, so he won't think
I'm anxious. We'll meet at the
Bar at midnight. Checked mymessages, including one froma college roommate who
asked me to go to Cannes. "It
could be really fun." Sure. He
really will direct. Someone
spilled my martini, I was savingthat olive.
The Columbia boy asks,"Whafs a 'hot top'?"11:15 Jan Astor delValle, Lesbian Poker
Nlghl"How can you play cards
without smoke-thars
depressing I" Amy sneaks.a_.11,..& "''A'A1 OUi WEEK 39••

LEFT: INTRIGUE AND SEX
AT MEA CULPA. BELOW:BODY HEAT ON THE DANCEFLOOR.

up, and after Sidney delivers
another rousing defeat at thepool table, we decide to leave
for our next destination. On theway out, our "Gaydar" goes off,
and we run Into Michael Goff,
also on assignment for theevening. We discuss the"nlghUife decathlon" while wenegotiate our transportation.

11:55,Anne
SpeCbUm

another clg. Irs just a matter oftime before another unidentified
woman approaches the livingroom. Arrtf Is so quick this time
In extinguishing the evidence
that all the woman can say isthank you.
Ijust cleaned up--twogames in a rowll rrust havedose to a dollar now. I pronise tobuy everyone ice-cream cones...
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11:30 Victoria Slarr,an East Village
apanment,
I pace back and forth In
Diana's tiny kitchen, sufferingboth hunger and claustrophobia The apartment looks likeGrand Central, dykes running In
every direction. As Nancy. leaves with. some gorgeous
schoolmate, Usa Winters comesstraggling in,girffriend in tow,
, topick up the fliers that Diana hasjust printed, Andrea searches
the fridge for seltzer. Diana
searches her laundry bag forclean socks. "Can we change
this to say '/esbianaS instead of'lTXJjeresgays?" asks Usa,
pointing to the flier. When I begin
to grunille about yet anotherdelay" Diana shoves us out thedoor,8rranglng to meet us at
Benny's in a few minutes. We

40 OUTWEEK Aprtl 24, 11_11

Brooklyn's only gay disco
was called 2001 whensaturday Night Fever wasfilmed here, but other thanthat, It hasn't changed much.
There are no mirror balls, anymore, but even In the dark,
ground-In chewing gum andcigarette bums are noticableon the walls. The lit-up dance
floor Is still there, just like themovie, flanked by a small
stage on one side and a seriesof risers on the other. There's
a pool table which will beoccupied by the same four
women all night, and acrossthe hall there's a sit-down bar
with soundless music videos.

pause in the haHway to roDa
joint

11:30 Dale Peck,lIIe Building
My friend Mid1ael T. is
working the velvet rope to the
VIP room, which Is filled withjust as many straight people as
the rest of the club. He sees me
and waves me up. A couple ofguys in full-body acid-washeddenim, lOOkinglike they left theroad crew just a couple of hours
ago, have made their way to theropes. and stand there, waiting
to be picked. Mercilessly, hepicks around them until they ,leave. Ten minutes later, I noticethem by a wall. Suddenly, oneof the guys pulls his hand out
from behind his back, and in it is
the other guy's hand. I'mshocked. I feel like I've caught
my father and one of my uncles(on rrtf mother's side, please)kissing. "Michaei," I shriek.
"Lookl They're faggots I" Michaellooks over. "Ch, rrtf gawd; he,says. "OIl, rrtf gawel••

11:30 Liz and S"dney,lIIe Bar
Everyone finally showsIn,

The bartenders and busboys
wear tuxedo shirts and bowties. So does the deejay, whoplays "Wiggle It" twice In thenext three hours.

12:. Dale Peck,
Mea Culpa (Llmellgbl)
After the door-ordeal
here, (the doorman's very nice,but he should stop taking
whatever It Is he's taking orbalance It with barbituates), we
get Inside. CB's never been
here before, so I show him
around-the chapel, the AliceIn-Wonderland room, the sexroom, the laundry room. The
strippers are amazing
bodybuilders In G-strings. We
dscuss them for a while andfinally decide that they're "notsexy, but really, really sleazy.·
ReaJlysieazy. We findourselves at the door of the sexroom, which gapes at us like abig, black mouth. Someone
should paint lips on this thing
and hang a sign that reads"Sexual abandon and gropes
for all ye who enter here."

12:. Les Simpson,home
Eat frozen plzz~ SwItch
channeis between Johnny
Carson and Arsenio. Arsenio
makes a joke about ~rplaneOnfood. Jump Into my ~ub
the kitchen) and soak. Shave.
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12:. Pamela Sneed,
Ibe CIK Club••

Happy to see Mlphele atthe door, an old employee ofthe now-defunct Duchess.
Entering the Clit Club is likestepping into a den of wall-towall women and cigarettesmoke. For someone who
missed Bonnie and Clyde,
hates Shescape, thinks thatcertain parties are too trendy
and likes Black women, theClit Club is a great mix of colorand class.
Downstairs., I glance atthe videos: A woman Is
smearing something that looks
like chocolate allover another
woman's ass and moving
more than one finger In andout of her pussy, while In theother video a woman Is doing
things I have never seen donewith a dental dam.

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12:00 Liz and S,dne"
Parallel

12:00 Ja, Blotcher,
Uncle Charlie's

There Is a small door scene
atthe only new club to open thisyear. Inside, everybody
corrpetes to come up with thewittiest surrvnary of the club's
decor, Among the better ones: agay club in Cleveland (likeanyone knows what that means),
a neo-Punk club somewhere in
Berlin Iii la "Dieter's Dance Party"(from Saturday Night Uve) or a

ColT1XJler animalion on thevicteoscreen. The place is dolled
up for the Oscars, with the logos
Of co~ngmovies lining theWalls. Isee my friend Jim. a rockc:riIic who has been cooling hisheels as his major New York
newspaper resolves its monthslong strike. We also see preppiesupreme Andrew, a reporter forthe same newspaper. His

Meal
Erotic slides and other"wow" Images are projected onto
two five-foot balloons aealing
delicious 3-D effecIs. The regularci'ag contingent from the Bronx
can't resist using the balloons as
personal vogueing props-to theextent that they began to slap
and HghUykick the balloons
about I yelf "Hyper-d'ags, chDI
outl" to no one listening, then ask
Spike E to tell them.

with ultra-nip jewelry and a
Phranc haircut She turns out tobe a famous model who rlV8S in
the same building as one of
Diana's friends. Now, if only she
wasn't clinging to her e<:JJa/1y
aIIracIive (well, almost) girlfriend. ..
The conversation tums tohallucinogenics when thewalter InfomlS us that theworm from the mescal bottie
had accidently landed In
Diana's drink (the bartender
noticed and took it back). The
boy Is obviously trying toprovoke us by showing us thebloated critter floating·at thebottom of the bOttle, but I
assure him that we would haveenjoyed the free trip.

12:30 Liz Trace"
ParallelThe dub is filled with
rmilSIream press. Someone in

my party suggests that we should
Iam not
amJSed by this. We seem to havespilt up aJong a butctvfel1TT18 line,with Sydney and me as captainsof the two teams. I lose myentire team somewhere on thedance floor. Sydney and hers
vanished as soon as we got in.
well' name-tags.

ABOVE: SKIN AND
LEATHER ATTRACTPATRONS TO THE CLiT
CLUB. RIGHT: SEE AND BE
SEEN THROUGH THE
WINDOWS OF BENNY'S
BURRITOS.

:,,;..:;"As I step into the club, myglasses fog up. Iwant to checkmy stuff-especiallythisgoddamned backpack, now
laden with pennles-but alii
can see are women: legs tolegs, breasts to breas1s, sweat
to sweat .•.1 can't even find thebar", Wow, my ed'ltor didn't tellme they had exotic dancers
here. What's she standing on, ago-go box? Oh, that's the barlhotel disco in the Hilton ·chain.

12:00 Michelangelo
Signorlle, Henry's
apadmen!
"I knew I would get you
when you walked into the bar,"
he whispers. "You were playing
with those Puerto Rican boys,
But I knew I'd get your white,virgin ass. Iknew you wanted mybig Black dick." (I can't believe
myears~StiR on assignment, I
reaJize irs time to get on with thenight. Eventually, I leave.

12:30 Janice Aslor delValle, the CIII Clubboyfriend, Jack. Is painfully
adorable, with saubbed featuresand puppy-dog eyes.

12:15 Victoria SlalT,
Benn,'s BUITIIOS

12:00 Aldo Hernandez,

margarita in front of me, I havethe on/yview of a gorgeous dyke

Sitting with my ~12:30 Michelangelo
Signorlle, ABC
John's at the door. Thank
God-I can't wait to see him
after all of this (I need someApril 24, .._.. OUTWEEK

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•Parallel. The place finally getsrolling. Catch up with Dee andhis friend. Bump Into Uz andSidney. At first it's all businesssuit mafi~r,
managementtypes. Then the ilflX)rted dragqueens roll in, followed by thehired muscieboYS dancing onboxes, The drag sllow
includes the usual suspects.
The music is good. Ernie's
beer bottle is chipped. He
spits out pieces of glass, Thebartender gives him another,

12:45 Anne Rubenstein,Speclnlm
We are drinking tasty sloegin fizzes that arrive with marlschino cherries. I tie my cherrystem Into a knot using only
my tongue. Does my girlfriend
know how lucky she Is?

1:00 les Simpson,
home·

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Start putting on makeup. It
turns out pretty good. thank god.
Opt for sexy lace, sightly flared
hip-hugger panls, maIchIng jacket over a black bra and a blond
wig very I Dream of Jeannie.

drink tiCkets, too). There's also
Uz and Sydney and lots ofother night-time zanies. Kiss,
kiss. Smooch, smooch. "Howare you?" "Hey, glrffriend." "Hi,baby." Blah, blah, blah, blah,
blah, blah. I start drinking andstop taking notes. I'm signing
off now.
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12:30 Anne Rubenstein,
Spectrum
Unlike other New Yorkclubs, extreme youth and/or
perfect physical condition
doesn't seem to be required
for admission. The men range
from businessmen In suits andties to pumped-up musclemen
In artfully ripped gym T-shirts.
Women tend toward acidwaShed denim and whitesneakers. Most of them have. long hair, big hair, mall hair.
AfriCan-American hair looks
conservative here: no dreadlocks, no fades. A few butches
sport ties and jackets, andth~re's one skinny girl In black
spandex and thigh-highleather boots. Downtown
Manhattan queer style has noplace here ..

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April 24" .._MONA FOOT OF MATTHEWKASTEN'S BEAUTIESBACK-STAGE AT
PARALLEL. BELOW:CALVINA AND ARLENE
LIVEN UP LA ESCUELITA.

We all clear the bodysearch (no knives andSorryl--no coke) at the door ofthis most-treasured cive, making
the mandatory stop to visit theooat-check queen. We are just intime to catch a last merengue
before the drag show begins.
Avoiding the overly anxious
walters, we snake our way onto
the dance floor.

1:40 Anne Rubenstein,
SpeClnlm•

The dance floor lights up
from undemeath us, and I am
suddenly compelled to do thepointy-finger dance. For abrief, shining moment, I am
John Travolta. The crowd haspeaked at 200 or so people.
Fortunately, none of them islooking at me. Cubb,~ assuresme that, in 'the summertime,
II,,andSpectum Is twice
everyone does the 'fingerpointing thing.
.'

I'm peeing and notice the
AsIan guy using the urinal next
to me and staring at my dick.
Of course, I check his out too.
As I finish peeing, he says,"Can I touch it" and reaches).,~,;,"-·1<'.4'

The heat inside isoppressive. So is the visual andaudial stimuli. I give Chip Duckett his birthday present, aCalholic do-goOder award I
found in the trash outside of a

1:35 Victoria Slarr,
la Escueilia

2:00 Aldo Hernandez,Meat<~r·-;'l.~;/-!~...

1:15 Jay Blotcher,ABC

The thought suddenly
strikes me that this night might
be easier if I could be someone else. Maybe If I was Kate
Pierson, it wouldn't be so hard
to have a good time.

We are at the entrance toABC, and Pamela Sneed isleaving, on assignment, toanother party in Brooklyn. As itis the promoter's birthday,
there are more people here
than usual, a great many ofthem not wearing shirts andsliming you as they walk by. I
buy my team drinks In a showof camaraderie. They takethem like this is my job.

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I am shocked by the enormityof this place. It is packed withmen in white T-shirts or topless, and everything reminds
me of the '70s. People keep
walking up to me, saying thatthey thought I waspause-but they never say
who. Maybe they're too
embarrassed to say, "Grace
Jones." To amuse myself, I goaround to women introducing
myself as a roving reporterfrom OutWeek. To the firstwoman Iask, "Are you alesbian?" She replies, "I'mfrom Germany."

1:45 liz Tracey, ABC

12:40·Jlm
ProIenzano,. .'Lower East Side store. He
shoves a ctink ticket in my hand.

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1:00 Pamela Sneed,ABC..

out. I think, What does thismean? and look at him like,Well, OK. As he grasps It, hesays, "I love to suck uncircumsized dick." My mouth blurtsout, "I have to play the nextsong," but my eyes say, "Don't
let me stop you." One minute Qt
seemed like only one) into thisgenital-sensory experience andsomeone slaps the bathroom
door agalnst my ass as they try
to enter the bathroom. We
spring like Jack-In-the-boxes,
him back up to the urinal and I
racing up to the deejay booth,smiling to myself.

2:. S,dne, Pokorn"ABC
We spot another "nightlife decathloner," Jay Blotcher,,dance?" "Was there rectal
penetration?"

2:05 Anne RubenSieln,

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Spectrum
The lights come up, andthe strip show begins, with oneof the strippers looking like Jon
Bon Jovi. Squealing people ,stuff dollar bills Into the strip- ,pers' thongs. Almost half of the
tippers are women. The man .
next to us, noticing ourbewilderment, says: "Nah,those girls aren't stralght. They
just like to feel Involved." Whenthe third female stripper comesout-Roxy, in high heels and ahard hat-the girls tip her, too.
One butch number lies on thefloor while Roxy squats overher face.

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2:. Las Simpson,
Loon, Bin
I usually like arriving
earlier at a club, but it's kindof chic to be late. Warm hello
to Aner, the doorman. Headdownstairs to my favorite
club hangout, hosted by New
York's most fascinating preop, Page, and her partner,
Don. The theme Is Hari
Klrshna meets Joan Rivers.
Unfortunately, I've missed
the Joan Rivers Impersonator, but lots of people
have dressed thematici~lIly,
and there's incense andIndian music.

2:15 Aida Hernandez,
Meat
I go outside and smoke'a
joint with a Diana Ross iook-alike who keeps asking me if I
really am Nobody's Pussy. I
ask her to let me go back Inside and prove It,

2:. Dale Peck, Ibesex rGO,W, Mea Culpa
I'm IJ?'iJ!~to keep CB andmyself in ~parate social cirdes.
I have some drugged-out halrychested dude pinching my
nipple while someone whose
face I haven't really seen
applies his mouth to my cock.
(James St James, I think ofyouQ Meanwhile, I've got a cockin both of my hands-one ofthem goes with the halry chest,
but I'm not sure what the otherone's connected to. I dose myey.es and try to lJll)8rsonate theguy on drugs, who's moaning
pom aphorisms: "Yeah, baby,
do It." "Oh yeah, pull on thatthing." I can't bring myself to say
such things, though, for fear I'll
start laughing, so I close myeyes and pretend I'm
masturbating with somebody
else's mouth, When, I'm about
ready, I push the guy off me. Hetums away, looking for anothertarget, and I make my little
mess, sigh, button up and meet
CB at the door.

2:15, Victoria Starr,
La Escuelna
As the drag show unfolds,
I find myself sitting conveniently across from a hot, young
thing I spotted earlier. As thetwo of us cruise each other,her girlfriend begins to bum
out, while I, In desperation,
contemplate how to pry themapart. I head for the bathroom,
hoping she takes the hint andfollows, where I will convinOQ
her that an older woman is just.
what she needs tonight.
She doesn't follow, and,as the show comes to an end,
the best I can do Is the oldjoumallsm trick agaln: "Hi,
we're from OutWeek. Do you
mind If we take your picture?"Thank goddess for Michael's
camera at least I get the girl'sphone number.

ABOVE: MORE SKIN
ACTION AT THE CLiT CLUB.
RIGHT: Go.GO DANCERSSHARE A MOMENTBACKSTAGE AT MEAT.

who wasn't happy about his
assignment to the Foreskin
Club, I thank my editor for notsending us to the Cellblock
Vault, and I thank Nature for
not having endowed lesbians
with the ideas of specialty•
fetish dubs.

2:. Michael Goft,

ABC
Chip says that we should
watch the stage at 2:30.
Michelangelo has a fullnotebook from his evening, fullof things he can't print.
Everyone is on bar-schmoozamatic: "The Boy Is cute." "I
liked your article." "You want to'::M.... ,/.-;.....'"'

Queer Night continued
on page 95

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good, 01' prudish Webster~.Hell, I still
failed to comprehend
why beingcalled "gay" ("adj. 1 joyous and lively;
merry 2 bright; brilliantb) could possibly be insulting. (Webster~now carriesa third definition: On. a homosexual,. esp, a male homosexual"---and I still
ain't insulted.)
Somehow I knew that the answer
to my dildo dilemma, among others,
lay behind the sign that read:" Anyone
under 18 not permitted beyond thispoint!b It hung above 'a taped-off section of a "novelty shop" at the local
shopping center and its large, crudely
painted red letters taunted me almost
as much as my brothers did. If I could
get into that section of the store, I
thought, the mysteries and bizarreriesof sex would open wide (which, I
later learned, was the purpose of theaforementioned rubber device),. Now I live in New York City (thecapital of sexual mysteries andbizarreries); my motfier remains in thehigh-walled anti-sexual heartland; mybrothers have moved on, married andgotten fat. I can walk into any numberof sex shops and erotic emporiums andask in a very loud voice, "Yes, hello, I
would like to see that lifelikeJeff Stryker ~ildo with moving testicles, please. I recently made a whirlwind sixstop tour of such dildo-purveyors.
I began by descending the stairsof 161 West 4th St" the Pink Pussycat,
where there always seems to be a
huddle of suburban gawkers and a"Help Wantedb sign in the window. I
was treated very cordially by Lois, .
who told me that "probably half of(their) custometsare gay, and half arestraight, b and "by Liz, who explainedbthe, difference between a "realistic
vagina ("by Doc Johnson"), which has
hips and realistic pubic hair, and a"naturalisticb vagina, which looks plastic and is very unappealing, They
regaled me with stories about a pair offast-fuckers who purchased a "gargantuanb dildo with the seriousness offirst-time home-buyers and the man
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The Pink Pussycat carries lingerie, a ·wide assortment of condoms
and novelties and some leather andlatex, Upstairs at their "Penthouse,"
they have enemas, butt-plugs, videos
and magazines (mostly hetero-otiented) and a cute security guard who
asked me on a date (I declined).
My second stop was 156 Seventh
Ave" the ever-popular
Pleasure
Chest. The layout of this store is theSTYlilarger cock-lollipops).
Johnny, the daddy behind thecounter, admitted that their latex supply
is limited. He then gave me a hands-on
demonstration with the Honey-Mate, ashiny metal vibrating ball for "female
masturbation." It sells for $200 andcomes in an attractive blue-velvet case,"Most women don't get off on intravaginal vibration," Johnny warned. "Ifthey're going to use a vibrator, they'regoing to use it on their clitoris, Or that's•

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neatly in well-lit cases, They have alarge collection of gay erotic magazines, videos, leather goods andsex-oriented .gifts such as greetingcards and board games. And if you're
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April 24, 11_11•.what they tell me.". ,The Leather Man, my third stop, at
111 Christopher St., more than compensates for what the other stores lack intheir S/M and leather departments, I
must admit that I always get a bit excited going into the Leather Man, with allof those masked, harnessed and leatherbound stuffed teddy bears and pigs
scattered about. Looking anywhere butat the steely eyes of the leatherman at
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the store has a huge library of erotic
videos, Anyone even faintly interested
in bondage and discipline, or slaves andmasters, should check out the Leather
Man-but
I suppose that that's liketelling Roman Catholics to visit Rpple,
The sign above the counter at theUnderground, 390 West St., warns, "Allitems sold as marital aids and novelties only!" The store is small and outof the way, but it's the only sex shopthat does in-store custom leather
work, and there's an interesting sexual
history that perspires from the lingerie
and leather-clad walls. According totheir catalogue, in the 19th century the. Underground "was a ,..bordello which
welcomed sailors from all over theworld." The present-day Undergroundbegan in 1973 as "the Underground
Social Club for swinging couples."Who said a trip to a sex shop couldn't
be cultural?
For my fifth stop, I ventured. uptown to Ricky's Place at 210 W, 42nd
St. Located in the lower level of the
Adult Video World Center, Ricky's Placeis actually more of a bookstore than asex shop and carries· a wide variety oferotic magazines and videos and, forgood measure, some dildos against awall. There's also a labyrinth of those
god-awfUl quarter-eating video booths.
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the UppeI; East Side, where I popped
into Come Again at 353 E, 53rd St.
Come Again stocks plenty of novelties
and sexual games, blow-up dolls,
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The store seemed fairly tame considering where I'd been previously, but then·again, this was the Upper East Side.
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Switch-hitting seems to•be all the rage. Whife
the proudly ,lesbo Phranc
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femmed up for the cover .
of Aprils' PAPER (left).
the purportedly hetero
Christy Turlington.
Naomi Campbell and
Linda Evangelista toughit out for Italian Vogue.
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•,f· q>lirse we all knewthat Liz' Smith would
spin herself into a frenzy
about Kitty Kelley's Nancy

Reagan: The Unauthorized
Blograpby-in spite of the
f~ct that Liz has, over theyears, promoted Kelley's
other projects. You see, liz
herself is thoroughly trashedin the book, revealed (once again) as a
scuJllIDY, vile sellout who, like many others in the media, sat around and gave
rim-jobs to Nancy-and
Ron-while
thousands of her own people died fromAIDS due to the the Reagans' imper.ial
negligence. And she's probably alsomiffed that Kelley speaks honestly ofSmith's lesbianism.
"Liz Smith ...endeared herself in thelate '80s by phoning and reading hercolumns to Mrs. Reagan, letting her
rewrite the Reagan items in their entirety, [and then phoning] her editors
around the country, instructing them toinsert Mrs, Reagan's changes/' writes
Kelley, who describes Smith as a gossip
columnist "who lives openly [sic) withanother woman in New Yolk" and who
was the target of lesbophobia
byNancy's loud-mouthed, foul freak of a.boyfiiend, Frank Sinatra.
The Sinatra debacle aside, Smith
comes off as just another little, ass-kissing ogre in a book filled with greedy,
self-serving mo~ers who built up andmaiOtained one of the greatest Americanscams of this century.
This is not garbage nor is it trivial.
Kelley's five years of research, reflected
in meticulous notes (and what she claims
were over 1,000 interviews), have proquced
one of the most important books,of our .
, y for queers,. Go ahead, and laugh. The truth isthat, in our sleazy society, gossip columnists are among the most-powerful,ql()st-listened-to people in the media,
Eyen Tbe,New York Times, in a puffy
piece several weeks ago abou.t Liz
Smith's move to Newsday, referred to the"prominence of gossip and the columnist" and how know!
.
. about
people's so-called private lives---equals
power, The editors of ~t paper certainly
revealed that belief again last week,
when they gave Kelley's book front-page
play (after getting an exclusive),
knowing full-well that dirt~gtomes are the most read of all
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and that this was going to be a hot one
about a major historical figure.
And, in an obvious attempt at justi-.
.fying their giving the book such prominence, the TImes ran a story later in theweek that suggested that Kelley had
invented a whole new, fascinating genre:"is she practicing biography as that word
is understood-investigative
journali"Nancy,you ..
haveottotake this
AIDS
thing
seriously."-Elizabeth Taylor

ism-or some other genre closer to what
the French call the chrontque scandaleuse? ..Should she be judged by thestandards of a. Peter Ackroyd writing
about Dickens, Bob Woodward on
Watergate or Liz Smith on the personalities of the NeW Yolk scene? Because Ms.
Kelley blends· techniques from all thesestyles of writing, no clear answer seems
possible," Of course, from a commercial
standpoint, Kelley's formula is perfectfor the '90s: It gets her attention andrespect, while at the same time it sells
lots and lots and lots of books!
All of which is why I've spentalmost two years here screaming at Liz
Smith----and the Dally News' Billy Nor-wich (who, by the by, hasrecently written some goodthings) and every othercolumnist-to address AIDS
issues and homophobia andto make queers visible. Not
just because many of thesecolumnists are gay themselves, but because their
dishy forums are more p0pular than any other. And our objective isto get vital information out to the public
via the most poweiful means.
Kitty Kelley seems to have done
everything we've wanted evety gossip writer to do: In addition to all the delicious anddel«table slime, she ·shows the hypocrisyeX her subjeds'-QIld society's I
homophobia and reveals, among muchelse, the dirt behind the government's
scandalous mishandling of the AIDS crisis, And more Americans will read Kelley's succinct, to-the-point and damning
few pages on the Reagans and AIDS than •will ever read mast AIDS books. Everyone
is gobbling up Nancy Reagan: The Unautborized Biography,"Despite 21,000 deaths from AIDS[by 19861,Ronald Reagan refused to discuss the disease or even to say the word
aloud in public," reports Kelley. "He hadturned down the suggestion of 'the surgeon general, C. Everett Koop, to educate
the countIy by combining warnings about
AIDS with his anti-narcotics campaign. In
fact, Reagan never discussed the disease with his surgeon general and never,according to a White House official, bothered to read Koop's report predicting
180,000 deaths from AIDS by 1991, Reagan, who enjOyed mimicking homosexuals, now [in 19861added AIDS jokes to hisrepertoire .... Moderates on the WhiteHouse staff who regarded AIDS as a
medioJl disease worried that Ronald Reagan was spending too much time with his
mend, William F. Buckley, who advocated tattooing the upper 'foreann and buttocks of those who tested HIV-positive, 'If
someone's got a sickness, they could hurtsomebody else with,' said the president,'we should do something
aboutit.'...White House irifighting on the subjectof AIDS rose to such a pitch that Reagan
finally announced at a cabinet meeting: '1
don't want to hear anything more about
AIDS!'...Elizabeth Taylor called the WhiteHouse to speak to Nancy psonally. 'You and the presid
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Beyond AIDS, Kelley shows that, aswith most Americans, homosexality andhwere prevalent throughout
the Reagans' lives, though they would
publicly condenm queers as "an abomination of the Lord," She reports that
Nancy's mother, an actress and "ardent
suffragist" in the '20s, "remained single
long after most of her contemporaries
married" and "flaunted her friendshipwith actress AlIa Nazimova, one of thetheater's most prominent lesbians." Aftermarrying a man years later and giving
birth, she "shocked her puritan motherin-law by choosing her lesbian mend AlIa
Nazimova to be [Nancy's) godmother."Kelley alludes to Nancy Reagan
herSelf having had a lesbian relationshipwhile at Smith College and tells of how
she would later, in 1967 (while Ron wasgovernor of California), call homosexuality a "sickness" and an "abnonnality"(she reportedly
said this publicly
because the governor was stung politically when it was revealed that two of
his aides had gay sex in his offices),"Yet, privately," says Kelley, "[the Reagans) continued
to patronize theirastrologer, Carroll Righter, a homosexual....1At the same time) Nancy maintained
close relationships with Truman Capote,
Roy Cohn and ]eny Zipkin, who once
lived with Somerset Maugham ..."
To add further evidence of the Reagans' hypocricy, Kelley tells all about
Nancy's gay hairdressers and interior
decorators, one of whom shared the lincoln Bedroom in the White House withhis male lover for a night, and all ofwhom were close with Nancy.
Of course, Kelley picks the lock on
the door of the closet of Ron Reagan Jr"
too, and extensively quotes larry Kramer
regarding all the queer rumors, She also
makes some simple deductions: "Shortly
after the election, the young balletdancer was asked by a Washington Post
reporter if he was homosexual. Ron dismissed the question, saying, 'I find thatamusing more than anything else. 1 think
it's kind of irrelevant.' ...A few days after
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Back to You,
Barbara (lV"alters)
opefully, a bunch of parents caught
the heart-wrenching Tod(lY Sbow
report on gay and lesbian teen suicide(30 perCent of us tried it, according to a
recent Health and Human Services
study). One interviewee,
a mother
whose religion drove her son to kill himself, now spends her evenings volunteering for P-FlAG,
J':lo matter how safe your life may
seem or how much you think that yoursexuality doesn't matter, this bloodsoaked reality is what we fight to change.
Those dykes and fags in· training
need us to be good role models like
Karen Stupski, the former Navy ensign,
who told 20/20: "I thQught if it turned
out that I really was a lesbian, I would
never be able to deal with it ..and then,as time went on ...! became angry withmyself for being such a wimp and forbeing
so afraid, And so, I needed to,affirm myself and to take a stand [bycoming outl."
As the yellow ribbons Jade and start
to disappear Oong before many servicemen and -women see them), 20/20

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with a piece on gays in the military,
Pnxlucer David Sloan and rep<:liter
John Stosse1 interviewed, among otl!ers,.
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the persuasive
and articulate Jim
Holobaugh (an ROTC cadet who wastold to repay his scholarship) andJosep~
Steffan (kicked out of the US Naval
Academy and. now suing), The teamreported that women are more likely to
be targeted for dismissal than men andhighlighted the wasted tax dollars spent
first training and then hunting down
queers, (Sloan has been openly gay andmoving up the ABC ranks for many
years. He did a story on Perry Ellis lastyear titled "AIDSon Seventh Avenue").
The only major omission in thepiece was any mention of the Perserac
Report, a major in-house •Pentagon
study which found that gays and lesbians are rwt incompatible with military
service, It was leaked to .the press
through Reps. Pat Schroeder
andGerry Studds last year,
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would talk to 2()120, So, Stossel argued
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nately, she didn't say anything so
innocuous on the air. Her comment to
20 million Americans implied that there
was some sort of empirical validity on
both sides, despite the report they had
just seen,
She continued her statement to
OutWeek: "May I say, there is no one
who knows me or my views who would
ever doubt my private support for gay.rights," When pressed, her officewouldn't elaborate on Walter's participation in. AIDS charities or gay rights
groups, saying, "Her activities are personal and private" (of course we doknow of her close friendship with Roy
Cohn a story of a different colOr).
While we are not in a position to doubt
the sincerity of her statement, we can
ask why her support is "private," but thereaders of Outweek, can be privy to it
Why can't Barbara Walters publicallysupport the rights of her many gay
friends and viewers?
Such· public support certainly

Stossel compared the militaty's arguments
to those used against racial integration of
the anned forces 50 years ago,
Nothing objectionable occurred
until the wrap-up. Sticking her foot in
her mouth by way of working the transition, Barbara Walters said, "And weshould point out, as you did in yourpiece, this is a very strong subject andvery controversial, and I guess there's
validity on both sides."When the camera turned to Stosse1,
his face seemed to drop, In one sentence, grasping for that illusory journalistic "objectivity," Walters took the bite outof a hard-hitting journalistic piece.
When asked about the comment,
Walters released a statement to OutWeek which implies that she wasn't as
clear as she could have been: "My comments at the end of 2Q/20 on gays in the
military meant nothing more or less thanthe military believes it's position has
merit, while gay people in the military
believe theirs does as well," Unfortu-••••,••• Lear's did the "when-your-husband-comes-out-and-ruins-your-Iife",

horror story. Yes, this happens, and yes, irs bad. Butwhat about all of thosemen who are well-adjusted. What about the argument that society did it?
And while we're on it, editors of Lear's, what about covering lesbians? ...
Hell piece by Richard Brookhiser in the New York Observer who asked why
ILGO was so "in your face" at the parade. What does he call "in your face"?
"Arms around each other's waists." GO(fforbid ... Nancy Lyn Define wrote
in the Washington Blade about "gay"hating homosexuals," the ones who...

,"secretly understand the reason for gay-bashing. As' one closeted guy once••

remarked, 'If you people insist on flaunting it, what do you expect?'" Her• •••summation: "Should we follow through on our impulse to kick them in theirsorry asses? Now that works for me." And for me too.

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worked for Mayor Dinkins. A Newsday poll last week showed that 61 percent of New Yorkers approved of his
support of gays and lesbians at the St.
Patrick's Day parade, This poll, in thewake of the parade, ended a downward
slide for Dirikins approval ratings whichstarted. last June• • •Quentin Crisp did a strange pieceon Jennie Uvlngston's Paris Is BumIng for the Sunday Times Arts & Leisuresections, While cmp obviously liked thefihn, he (and his editors) didn't seem to
get it. Even the title of the piece, "A Place
Where ·love Becomes a Chronic Invalid,"was "like a perversely insensitive reference to AIDS," according to livingston.
Crisp focused on the "secret jargon" of "jobless layabouts" and thecompetitive side of Ball life 'Vogueing
and shade and omitted the bulk of
the film, which was about theVoguers' love, creativity, style. andresourcefulness verging on genius in
the face of massive oppression, While
Livingston appreciates
what Crisp
wrote about language and the historyof drag, she says that the film is "notjust about
dancing
or verbal
insults ....It's about old fashioned family values like kindness and tolerance
and loving your mother, even if yourmother is a drag queen who is taking
the place of your biological motherwho refuses to speak to you because
you are homosexual."
Crisp tried so hard to fit Paris Is
Burning into a weird argument about the
decline of romance, that he went so far as
to claim that "while sex: is in pennanent
good health, love is a chronic invalid," Inthis day and age, sex: is far from being ingood health, Ask anyone.
'
For living his life and helping toblaze a trail for us hooray for you,
Quentin Crisp! But, it's strange to readthat he finds politics "boring" when
his very existence is political. He's an
out gay man (though this is nevermentioned in the piece) who writes acolumn for the Nattve and walks
around the East Village in all his foppish glory, .
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Perhaps ,Crisp could see the film
again and check out the reviews by Vincent canby in the TImes and Terrence
Rafferty in the New Yorker, twostraight reviewers who had no trouble
getting the goods, ...

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've been pretty selfISh lately, I
know. I've been pretentious
and boring. I've been wallowing
in self-pity-ramblingon and on
about things that probably don'tinterest you. You don't care about
my stepmother or my Pat Buckley
fantasies,
You want dish, You wantdrugs, drag and debaucherie. You
want lurid little tales about someone filthier than yourself---someone
who makes you feel better about
your GUm sick excesses.
Well, here I am.
And here's another tale fromthe dark side. It's called: Love Is a
Stranger in an open Car. And it .
" goes something like this ...
~I was in Miami Beach last
~ week, that steamy, seamy new~ Babylon-by-the-sea.
I was stum~ bling about town in a fabulous little~ tap suit that laced up the back, likeS so, and had a thong that went up£. my butt in a rather provocative
fashion, My hair was twisted up like
this, and there was a little piece that hung down, like that, I was,in a word, gorgeous at least by Miami standards.
At one point during the evening, I gave a group of visiting
New Yorkers the key to my hotel room. "1here's vodka in thefreezer-make me a drink. I'll be back in a bit.·
Lord knows why I did this. I must have been feeling very
grand, Of course, I never made it back to my party, I foundsome more friends, some more drinks, Some wild new afterhours club and a hit of Extasy along the way. I got back to thehotel around 9 in the moming--stilliooking flawless, mind you.
Only now, I'm sporting a big pair of Jackie 0, sunglasses and a
fresh coat of lipgloss, And one of my heels is broken,
The note on my door says that they've left, with my keys andmy vodka, to go to another party in another hotel seven blocks
away.
What the hell, I think, I'll go for one drink. And it's such anice day, I guess I'll walk. So I sashay down the avenue; looking
for all the world like Ann-Margret (before the accident, thankyou all), at 9 in the moming, mind you,
A cab passes by, and I wave andsmile: "Top 0' the momin' to ya." The driver does a doubletake and smashes into theI

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car in front of it, and all threedrivers, for some odd reason, run
after me, screaming lewd and lasdvious things.
I'm running down the street,in one heel, laughing
likeMadonna in Who's That Girl?
Suddenly a car pulls up, and I
hear "Nice ass, baby."
So I dive into the car.
Wouldn't you?
Well, the Goddess of Sleaze
was on my side that lovely Sunday moming, because the driverof said car was one of thoseswarthy Cuban studs I had heard
so much about.
Not one more word wassaid as he pulled into an underground parking lot and proceeded to nail me, but good, in hisback seat, (Never fear: The ceremony included too many mintflavored condoms to number.)
But this is not the letterspage of Honcho magazine, andI'm too much of a lady to go into
detail. Suffice to say: He worked this pussy lovely. He had it
doing backflips, girls.
Afterward, I had him drive me back to the hotel---passing,on the way, the pile-up I caused and two police cars auising up
and clown the strip, searching for the "drag-queen prostitute withhis ass hanging out. •Honestly,
I went in the back entrance, up the back staircase, into myroom (it was unlocked, after all) and fell into a deep, dark sleep.
Ithink you'll agree, there's just something about the humidity down there that brings out the beast in everyone. Lahoma van
Zandt got plugged right on the beach one night. My friend Doris
had a lesbian menage Ii trois, complete with whips and chains,
Kenny Kenny got the clap, Miami is marvelous,
Who else would tell you these things?
The next day, another odd thing happened. It really has
nothing to do with anything, but it was so disturbing I wanted toshare it with you.
Let me preface this by reminding you that Miami has
become quite a little fashion capital.
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and there.
Well, I was on my way to the·beach to get a sunburn, when I saw abody being ftshed out of the water,
Apparently some man had swum out
too far, gotten cramps and drowned.
There was an ambulance there, lotsof beach patiol cars and a police vanon the scene.
Suddenly, a swarm of fashion
photographers descended on thecorpse and the whole tragedy
became a fashion shoot. Twenty or
so mooels began posing furiously on
the police cars, next to the deceased,in the ambulance--a11 vogueing in amacabre dance of death,. I actually
heard one photographer scream,"Look upset, Patty-can we get sometears, honey, and for Christ's sake,show more tit!"
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We'd call it neo-realism, but we've never seen a real-life editor so well dressed, Those hats!
Between stints in Hollywood,over the hem of her garment.
she fronts Bongwater, a band
Most of you know her, if at all,as Catherine, the trendy editor inwhose last album was called The
chief on ABC's Anythtng but
Power of the Pussy the coverLove. Some New Yorkers may
features Raquel Welch, wearing
also have seen her last summer
thigh-high prehistoric combat
boots, in a still from someat Lincoln Center as part of theirdinosaur epic, On one song, they
Serious Fun series, We've been
follow an "I Am Woman" sample
following her career for years
with the line "I wish there were
before her weekly televised
apotheosis,
from East Village
four big rednecks here, so wedives to mega-bomb movies, via
could go into the woods and do it
appearances in Mondo New Yorkwild." Oh, Ann! Take us with you!
So many lesbian icons are
and with the band Bongwater,
Ann Magnuson is our heroine
well meaning but humorless, like
Sinead O'Connor. It's hard to disbecause she manages to rake inagree with her message, and sheloads of money, thanks to aslightly-above-average
Hollycertainly looks great, but our opinion is: If you must have a aush onwood 'IV series, while continuing to appear at CBGB's in fronta straight girl, why not pick one~ of drunken would-be hipsters.
who knows how to party? Ann
8
She hung around the downMagnuson, on the other hand, isn't
particularly political, and her-3co town performance-art scene forhumor is more campy than warm,~ years before she had a cameo in~ Susan Seidelman's Desperately
fuzzy or life-affinning. Magnuson<I..
Seektng Susan, Another Seidelisn't afraid to do a sitcom andOUR HEROINE-Ann Magnuson
man flick, Maktng Mr, Rtght,
wear a fishnet T-shirt onstage, Herreferences to '60sB-movies risk
was supposed to make Magnuson famous, but the movie was such trash that not even its confuSing all but the dorkiest fUm-nerds. She still writes bizarre
fiction and obscure famines, just for the hell of it.
star's red-haired beauty could redeem it (Madame X has
Not that she'd ·care unlike O'Connor, she seems to sufbeen caught watching it without the sound).
fer from no illusions about herself as a
As 'IV sitcoms go, Anythtng butrole model-but Ann Magnuson really isLove is not intolerable. Jamie Lee Curtis
someone we'd like to emulate, And not
sometimes appears in a leotard, to disthat we yearn to be rock goddesses ortract us from Magnuson-worship (butsitcom queens, let alone performancethen she's been shown getting into bed
art~. (Performance art,we predict, willon the show with Richard Lewis latesoon achieve the unanimous disdain
ly-tck!), Ann Magnuson would never
now reserved for mime.) But we're
do something like that. Wearing the only
impressed by Magnuson's ability to leadinteresting outfits on network 'IV, shea double life. There she is in Hollywood,plays a self-centered, troublemaking pig
having a reasonably successful career,of an editor. Her demented performance
Here she is in New York, acting like areally captures the channing insouciancemaniac, So far, being a complete,of the breed: "Kill fee? What kill fee?
screaming weirdo hasn't hurt her career
Surely you don't expect to be paid for
one bit. This fact alone fills our hearts
something we won't run?" she says with
with hope, T
her Mom-always-loved-me-best
smile,h, how we love Ann Magnuson. Half the time, we want

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Queer books now constitute thefastest-growing segment of the publishing industry, Although gay-themed
novels don't outsell Garfield collections yet, mid-list fiction (novels that
doh't fit categories like "romance" or"thriller" or "fme literature") by firsttime authors actually sell better ifthey're queer than if they're straight.
Gay men and lesbians are eager readers of anything we can fmd about orby ourselves, maybe because, unlike
straight people, we can't routinely turnto popular culture to find stories about
our lives. Naiad Press, the biggest andoldest lesbian publishing house, helps
fill this void by publishing 24 books
per year, with hundreds of volumes
still in print on its backlist. For lesbians, Naiad novels are not only ourHarlequin romances, they are our soap
operas and our Hollywood movies,
Some lesbians have read everything Naiad Press has ever printed. A
few have purchased everything in the
catalogue with a single cheek, investing more than a thousand dollars in
the world's biggest collection of lesbian books, Other dykes, rolling theireyes at the mention of Naiad books,
consign the IS-year-old publishinghouse to the same closet as Birken- ...
stock sandals and Meg .~Christian albums. But .~the name hasentered ~c:.
our language: "Oh, I .g
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"Just took a bath and read a Naiad." .
Naiad novels available in every
Western-European language, Japaneseand large-print English editions---are not
all Sapphic versions of Danielle Steele.
For one thing, not all of them are fiction.
The Florida-based publishers print such
unfashionable titles as Jeanette H. Foster's Sex Variant Women in Literature,
Lilian Faderman and Brigitte Eriksson's
Lesbians in Germany and Pat Califia's
Sappbtstry. Lesbtan Nuns, by RosemaryCurb and Nancy Manahan, caused awomen's<ommunity
controversy over
Naiad's decision to sell reprint rights to astraight male-pornmagazine; theexcerpt proved fairly tame, the bookbecame a best seller (at least by smallpress standards), and, after the dust settled, Naiad looked like an inadvertent
pioneer of the pro-sex, anti-censorshipwing of the women's movement.
Not all the fiction Naiad publishes
is trash, either, Creating great art is not
Naiad's purpose, clearly, but some of
their novels are better than others; theyrange all the way up to Sarah Schulman's first novel, Tbe Sophie Horowitz
Story, and Jane Rule's Desert of theHeart, On the other hand, most Naiads
are no better-written than any othertrashy mysteries or romances: "1bechild insists on wearing those grab-mesweaters over those twin torpedoes onher chest, Of course Zoe's gonna try fora free feel," writes Dorothy Tell in Murder at Red Rock Ranch. A few could
send shivers down the spines of thegrammatically correct, including Virago,
whose author invented
the word"shatterability" as a handy substitutefor "fragility,"
All the same, Naiads are a category
unto themselves. Even the books, as
objects, encourage us to think of themgenerically: same size, same paper, same
typeface, similar jacket designs. The
authors' biographies in last year's Naiads
add to the uniformity.
Almost all
describe the writers as living with "lifepartners" and cats, They mention day
jobs-dentaI hygienist, English teacher,corporate middle-management-which
they hope to quit or have quit. None ofthem live in New York, Boston, Northhampton; mostly, they're from Southern
California or the South. They appear tobe between 35 and "retirement age," Ifthey're politically active, they don't mention it. In other words, Naiad authors

have a lot in. common with Naiad characters and, probably, with the majorityof American lesbians too, but very little
to do with the self-conscious, urban gay
communities which have sprung up
since Stonewall.
The guidelines Naiad sends to .
. prospective authors (they received athousandunsolicitedqueries andmanuscripts last year) reveal their books'
unanimity to be more or less deliberate,"Be sure you understand that you aresubmitting a manuscript to the Naiad
Press and that our publishing program is
unique. We do books by, for and about
lesbians, and we emphasize popular fiction sub-genres," it warns. "Know that
we feel that being a lesbian means
being superior." In a phone interview,
Naiad co-founder Barbara Grier expanded on this theme, saying firmly: "We
don't have lesbian characters who
despise themselves. No Djuna Barnes,
no Violette leDuc, no Don Juan in the
Village....We refuse to espouse the dramatic value of having your heroine miserable, Being a lesbian gives you a leg
up in the world, a real leg up in theworld, a chance."
Grier was active in the preStonewall lesbian movement-she
describes it as "white and middle-classand comfortable"----as an editor of theworld's first lesbian publication, 1be
Ladder. Stonewall-era activism, she feels,
distorted our image of dykes: "I~was the'60s! Everyone lived in trees! It was thething to be poor and proud of it." Butshe believes that "lesbians are successful
women. They aren't bum losers."
Fittingly, Naiad novels place aheavy emphasis on money and social
class. Poverty was part of the story inmany Naiads published before about
1985, including their many reprints of
pre-Stonewall pulp fiction, The catalogue billing for one backlist title was"Poor, on welfare and very much inlove," In Lee Lynch's books--also on
the backlist-the
characters' identities
are firmly anchored in their workingclass backgrounds, as in 1be Swashbuckler, in which the title·,character isa cashier in a supermarket by day, abutch on the prowl by night. Phyllis
Horn's 1be Chesapeake Project,' published last year, gives us a thoroughly
romanticized picture of working-clasS
solidarity--acrosslines of race, gender and sexual orientation--among

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Maryland fishermen.
But class relations in most recent
Naiad novels are ambiguous, to say theleast. A survey of last year's Naiad
characters turned up several successful
middle-classwomen with mid-lifecrises. Should the real-estate lawyer in
A Room Full of Women open a restaurant instead? Will the heroine of Murder at Red Rock Ranch succeed as a
private eye, or should she go back toworking for the sheriff?
Some Naiads shamelessly flaunt thecrassest wealth, as in Players, whosecharacters'riches and attractivenessseem inextricably linked. "Ruby felt
drawn to the attractive woman ordering
the expensive
champagne
for her,"
begins one scene, and other episodes
signal wealth with "classy looks" and"expensive, unusual French perfume."
There's something
mild about
Naiads' fantasies of wealth, though. The
difference between these romances andJudith Krantz novels, besides sexual
orientation, is that Krantz' characterswouldn't just buy "expensive shirts" or"diamond-smothered pinky rings"; theywould own the sweatshops and the
diamond mines in which the lovely
objects were produced. In Players, abutch with a trust fund invites a femme••
on an Impromptu
cross-country Jaunt,
but instead of taking off on a private
Lear jet, they just make out under ablanket in first class.
On the other hand, that all Naiad
characters are more or less forced tosupport themselves marks another significant departure from straight lovestories, Nobody in the Naiad world ismarking time at some hideous job
waiting for her prince on a whitecharger so that she can retire to suburbia. As one catalogue blurb put it,these are novels "about the contracts. we make with the world," As lesbians,
our contracts usually include supporting ourselves, romance or no romance,
Making fun of the dirty bits in
Naiad novels is a dyke tradition only a
few minutes younger than the publishing house itself, Watery Cliches abound,including the ever-popular "soft wetness." Orgasm is frequently evoked bycrashmg waves, as in "waves radiatedout from Maggie's hand on her." The
usual construction, "wave after wave,"appears so frequently that you'd think
Esther Williams ruled the Lesbian
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Nation. "It was a torrent of joy thatwent on and on, as wave after wave
drowned her in obliterating sensation,"
She "drifted away on wave after waveof ecstasy," Naiad's editors may be
spending
too much time on those
Florida beaches,
Dumb sex scenes aside, the real
problem with Naiad romances tends tobe a certain flatness in both the characters and the plots, So scrupulously do
Naiads avoid anything that might beconstrued as lesbian self-loathing or selfpity, and so finn!y do they support theideals of long-term monogamous coupling and upward mobility, that they
don't leave room for surprise. All endings are happy ones, all the time, Naiad
mysteries, which have stronger plotlines and (thank the goddess!) villains,are a lot less dull. last year's bad girls
included animal-rights activists run
amuck, a closet-case news anchOlwoman, and "one of those California lesbianfeminist, let's-all-live-in-a-commune,
witchy-woman dykes." They livened up
the proceedings considerably.
Naiad also publishes other genres, notably thrillers and science fiction. Unlike other publishers of lesbian pulp novels, Naiad avoids all-girlutopias full of happy vegetarians, The
only space fantasy they published lastyear, Linda Lyon's Priorities, actually
had a lot in common with last year's
spy thriller Gub Twelve. They share an
imagined world in which open lesbians can function on the highest levels of the state, with nary a raised eyebrow and without sweeping changes
in any other aspect of SOciety. Thesenovels' heroines get along fine with
their male bosses, colleagues, subordinates;. we even see PrioritieS protagonist visiting her nuclear family. Grier
asked, with some indignation: "Whyshouldn't there be a top FBI agent
who's a lesbian? I'm sure there reallyis!" So much for separatist fantasies,
Actually, separatism doesn't seemto be much of an issue in any of last
year's Naiads, except a few set in the'70s, Gay male friends and brothersabound, including three who die of
AIDS (no HIV-positive men were left
standing at the endsof the stories). Naiad
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by Abigail Child
Nicole Brossard is one of the mostimportant lesbian poets alive today, Herlanguage is immense and tactile, her
project large and visionary in the spirit ofJoyce or Stein, two influences she cites,
In Picture Theory, her latest booktranslated into Engljsh from her native
French, Brossard combines poetic prose,philosophy, invitations to the novel andlyric ecstasy, Ostensibly about the travels of five women between Montreal,
New York, Curacao and islands off Cape
Cod, the book weaves description,rhythm and analysis of the future, ofwriting and of the body. Narration is
not linear here, but momentary, Time iscollapsed,
an associatedweave ofwomen in the future perfect, This is sci
fi, This is architecture,
Brossard's structuring shape is thehologram,
which produces
a 3-D
image, each fragment of which is anautonomous whole, In prose, the result
is dizzying and lucid; the language fullof starts and stops, multi-vocal-which.
might reflect the experienceof awoman, gay and French-speaking, in apatriarchal English-speaking nation:
South of Cape Cod, five women
were crossing an island from thecliffs to the beaches, These were
women who had read a lot ofbooks and who all lived in big
cities; women made to endure intime, sea, city and love, Bordercrossers, radical city-dwellers,
lesbians, today electric day, theirenergy took on form like electricity through the structure ofmatter itself.
A major Canadian writer since the70s, the editor of La Barre du Jour and
La Nouvelle Barre du jour, Brossard's
influence
has spreadthrough the feminist journall£s 7etes de Pioche andthrough her many theoretical essays. She has published more than 20

,books, with eight available in English,
Her works share with French feminists
the corrunitment to formal invention andto the idea that inverting syntax, changing
pronouns and using new constructions
could express a language open, towomen's vision. Simultaneously, Brossard
rejects the psychoanalytic bent of contemporary theory that would define woman
as absence or lack. Instead, her project is
utopian: to rewrite space as women, totransgress existing dimensions of gender,
sense and syntax. In talking to Brossard
recently, she discussed some of her ideasof new construction and what this mightmean for writing.
"For me, the feminist consciousness
or lesbian experience calls for a struggle
with meaning, as well as the mapping,or the conquest, of an unknown territory," she asserts. "So one can makespace for herself in the language, makespace for her vision, for a revolt, for her
memory, for utopia, You have to comeup with new constructions in order totake a place within a patriarchal language which does not want to know
anything about a woman subject in thelanguage. Optioning for new contents is
not enough because words are alreadyso much connotated with a male experience, you need to process the words sothat they will spread around themanother meaning."
This belief in formal invention
places Brossard directly in the modernist tradition, in which form is radical
potential. Inspired by Marxist theories
of cultural work as material production
and structuralist theories of the active
construction of our world, Brossard's
writing enacts such construction. The
writing engages a politic, confronting
issues of power and change.
"I say that my politics have broughtme as far as 1 can dream. But being
politically correct has never improved
my writing," Brossard contends,"I
believe more in being politically connected, which means that you have awide range of questions to work withrather than having to work with what isalready expected. It is said that working
on formal issues is male-biased, but I
don't think so ....It's an easy answer tosay you are writing a difficult text toread, and therefore
you are doing
exactly what men have been doing thelast 20 years. But, for me, 1 believe somuch in the work that can be· accom-

plished, I mean, if you are being carefulwith words, and if you really try to
expand their meaning, and if you put
them in such a way-in such a syntactical way-that each word will get a newmeaning, because of course we cannotchange all the words which are in the
dictionary, and therefore we have to
put them in a different order so that, forexample, whatever the word would
be woman, of course, is a very loaded

is exploratory, various, thoughtful andsimultaneously streaming, ecstatic, wet.
In its beat and visual silence, its associative connections and play, the text isreminiscent of Dada; in its sense of thepage and reader, the influence is Mallarme as well as Stein. This is writing forthe present:.
overall the surface skin thin mm
the pleasure of audadty on my sex
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word-it will be a new connotation,"I think it is very· important that you
make no compromise with yourself," shecontinues. "You can only properly writefor yourself first, and therefore, if you go
deep into the roots of what you are, if you
are talking about oppression, alienation,then you might be able to reach othersfrom any other classes who know what itmeans to be colonized or to be oppressed. And you can be oppressed,
whatever the class you belong to, you canbe dominated definitely. You have beencolonized because, I think, all women
have been colonized. ".-,For Brossard, writing breaks all
expectations,confuses taste, confers
paradox. In Picture Theory, the language

to write would become apennanentconcem"The act of writing is essentiallyprocessing an energy," Brossard asserts.
"Empowering your reader comes fromthe intensity of your desire and yourability to design new perspectives andto reveal lies, And this is where people
connect, because once you say thiscannot exist, this is a lie, take away thatlie, you free yourself from so manythings at the same time."T

Nicole Brossard will be reading in
New Yom on Aprll15 at St. Mam's Poetry Project at 8pm, Her most recent work,
Picture Theory, translated by Barbara
Godard, ispublished by Roof Books,
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NOW YOU SEE IT: STUDIES ON LESBIAN AND GAY FILM by Richard
Dyer. Routledge. $59.95 ct., $16.95 pb. 328 pp.
by Petef BoweD
And now you don't .. ,Such is thehistory of lesbians and gays in Hollywood
flim, a saga of disappearing acts and vanishing characters, When we do appear,
we are transformedby Hollywood's"magic," as Vito Russo amply documentsin The Celluloid Closet, into sociopathic
murderers, child-molesters or devastatingly unhappy people, But this is, thank god,
not the whole movie picture.
In Now You See It, Richard Dyer
patches together a fragmented history oflesbian and gay ftImmakers who haveresisted such representational oppression
by seeking to construct homosexual.. identity on their own terms, Meticulously
historical and an invaluable reference
guide, Now You See It, however, is not. exactly a history of lesbian and gay film
production, Rather, as the independent
nature of its five extended chapters formally suggests, it explores different (historical, cultural, aesthetic, etc.) formationsof lesbian and gay identity through film,
The differedce between writing ahistory of lesbian and gay film production
and writing-to
use current critical jargon---a genealogy becomes apparent in
Dyer's focused iJ)terrogation of lesbian
and gay filnunaking. Rather than tracking
filmic lesbian and gay figures historicaJly,
Dyer's work examines the complicatedcultural machinery that, at different times
and in different places, makes such figures recognizable. Making queer cinema
has never been as simple as putting otherqueers before the camera. For what bothprecedes and determines any cinematic
representationof "gayness" is, among
other thing5, the complex configuration ofcultural defmitions, legal limitations, psy-chological models and aesthetic strategies, which frame what one means andunderstands by "queer" in the first place,
While much of the power of Dyer's work
resides in his refusal to assume any universal or stable category of homosexuality, his reluctance to spell out the theoretical implications of this approach unfortunately stops the work from articulating,however tentatively, the basis for a theory of queer film.
Starting with early Gennan cinematic representations of gayness----the firstgay-positive film, Anders ok die Andem(D!lJerent From the Others) (1919) and an
early lesbian-oriented fllm MlJdchen in
Uniform (1931)-Dyer goes on to map
out other occasions of lesbian and gay
cinematic self-representation:
Jean
Genet's infamous Un Chant d'amour(1950); the fonnation of American underground (gay) film; the linking of feminist
and lesbian fllm practices; the political
function of lesbian- and gay-produced
films in defining and promoting various
gay movemeQlS. Keeping his focus local,
Dyer reads particular fiJms thoroughly,
showing how a film's narrative, iconography and structure reflect and refract both
the gay subculture from which it emerges
and the dominant culture which it resists,
In his first chapter, "Weimar. Less andMore like the Others," for example, Dyer
suggests that early Gennan film's abundant interest in gay themes and charactersreflected a specific crisis over cultural definitions of sexuality, a crisis which not only
produced but also helps to explain agroundbreaking film like Anders ok die
Andem. Narrating a gay man's seduction
and blackmail, Anders was both a commerdal succeSs and a public controversy,

When we do appear, we are transfonned by Hollywood's "magic" into sociopathic murderers,
child-molesters or devastatingly
py people. But this is, thank gocl,
not the whole movie picture.
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garnering as much police repression as
popular support for its plea to overturn
Germany's . . . 'on of homosexuality. At the same time, the film emlxxlied its
culture's crisis by alternating between theimage of a homasexual body (a pathologized third sex) and a homoerotic ideal(the classical male athlete). In Mildchen in
Uniform, Dyer recognizes a similar conflict-here
between the cross-dressedschoolgirl and the feminine womandefining the image of lesbianism
While changing topics and approaches, Dyer continually returns to thequestion of how lesbian- and gay-produced mms help to deftne the subcultures out of which they emerge. In"Shades of Genet," for example, Un
OJant d'amour not only responded to a
French cultural equation between homosexuality and criminality but also served
to raise Genet's own criminality to a veritable social index for reading gender andsexual relations, In "Underground andAfter," the fonnation of underground film
genre, especially in the works of Kenneth Anger, Jack Smith and Andy
Warhol, helped to facilitate an association between the gay artist as rebel andthe rebellious gay as artistic. Lesbians,
whose sexuality must be negotiated inrelation to their gender, fonned a mmpractice that attempts to re-imagine theiridentities as both women and womenloving women, And finally, in "From andfor the Movement," Dyers surveys thecomplicatedaesthetic strategies deployed by filmmakers attempting to formulate a political cinema for a very new
and emerging gay audience.
In many ways, the shortcoming5 ofDyer's work (the lack of in-depth analysis, his failure to theorize fully his project) stem less from Dyer than from theimpoverished fleld in which he writes,
While feminists in the 70s and '80s led
the way by making "gender" an essential
term theorizing
film, few scholars
brought an equal scrutiny to the question of sexuality, With the exception of afew exemplary texts Oike Teresa de Laut:etis' Technologies of GendefJ, queer film
theory and analysis provides a pitifully
empty bookshelf. As such, Dyer's work
offers a aucial step inmaking what we as
lesbians and gay men. "see" less ephemeral
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Catching Up With
Richard Elovich
by Eric Latzky
Playwright and solo performer bynight, criminal defendant during theday, the public Richard Elovich,whether onstage or at large, can be
brash, even short, He's busy, doing
too many things at once. On Saturday
mornings, he distributes clean needles
on the streets of Harlem and the SouthBronx as part of an effort to preventthe spread of HN. Posessing needles
is illegal; he's on trial for it (defending ...
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himself) starting on April 8, When he's f}3%{
Vi':':,'
not doing that, he's directing Move- ~;::::::: ..
ment Research Inc., an arts organization which presents dance, performance and workshops and discussions
for other performing artists. Then he ,)1::!i writes solo theater-pieces, which he ..
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~ ETC and PS 122, Beyond Baroque in~ Los Angeles, Intersection for the Arts
in San Francisco-thelist continues.
.. His !flew piece, Someone Else From
AVE MINUTES I-Richard Elovich pauses momentarily,
Queens Is Queer, is premiering at PS
like him or the coffee-a journalist
did you know him?
122 now,
EL: We'd met.
thing-and failed.
The public Richard Elovich a
RE: We all hung out at the Ninthmember of ACf UP, the mayor's lilY
Circle. I kind of kept office hours
Eric Latzky: I don't know why I
Planning Council and the AIDS-activist
there. Well, hmm, I'm not sure I feelthought you were a dancer,
artists' collective Gran Fury-is busy,
really comfortable
talking about
Richard Elovich: I used to write
brash, short: That was the attitude I
other people,
stories I started back in the early
copped going into the interview.
EL: We all have our secrets. Don't'70s they were published in poetry
The semi-private Richard Elovichmagazines,
worry.
is different.
. RE: My relationships
were so
EL: Wait. You wrote poetry or
On a Saturday afternoon-for me
funny back then. Looking back, theyprose?
early in the day, for him well into
were all such oudaw relationships.
RE: r wrote stories, but they wereit-we
met to talk in one of two
EL: How do you mean?
published in poetry magazines. I wasapartments
he shares with his
BE: It was like [we] were trying tosort of part of a kind of scene in a lot
boyfriend in a building on the Westget as far awayof ways, it's reallyern edge of SoHo. Richard, a little
from our backbeen decimated nowr-' shy, endearingly sheepish, not totally
grounds as possible.
Tim Dlugos, Brad
comfortable, mixed a dreadful Turk[We] never could
Gooch, Steve Hamilish-esqueconcoctionof instantsort of, like, deal
ton, a lot of people.
espresso, soy milk and sugar. He
with each other in a
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lives that comes up in more than one
way in Someone Else From Queens Is
Queer.
BE: I always loved the idea ofjumping out of my own life. Thatmaybe begins with jumping out of thisJewish family. Also the idea of thefather, like in the new piece, having adouble life. It's all very Houdinilike Houdini was a hero of mine, He
would create these cabinets for himself and then he'd create the keys. But
he'd create the cabinet fIrSt. There's areal exhilaration in that. In this way,
there is a kind of autobiographical element to the new piece, The incidents
are not literally true, but it's that kindof direction that's kind of truthfulabout it.
EL: So, in a way, in Someone
Else From Queens Is Queer, you're
dealing with people who are prototypes lives that weren't made fromalready existing molds.
BE: I think I've always reacted
against a kind of consumer-createdlifestyle, against a gay lifestyle thatwas created out of porn magazines, or,like, these clothes identified you as
being gay, or, you know, a gym body
identified you as being gay.
EL: There's a very definitemaybe ev~n definitive-tone
to thepiece. It seems deliberately against theidea of abstraction,
Why did you
choose this kind of approach?
HE: There's an importance to clarity. There's a great passage in this bookby Primo Levi-1be Drowned and the
Saved-where he talks about what communication is worth to people in termsof their survival and what non-<:onununi.cation does in terms of the level of pe0ple's anxiety, I think there's something
key about taking responsibility for being
clear about your stake, about not pretending that your interest in something is
objective or academic or aesthetic, but
being willing to say that "this is my stakein this, this is what I'm trying to say,"
The really important thing about theater
is that there's the possibility of a public
meeting, of getting something acrosS,T

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Someone Else From Queens Is
Queer, written and performed by Richard
FJovich and dtrected by !Jamar Kubovy is
playing at PS 122, 150 First Ave" (212)477-52B8,from AprllI8-21 and ~28atway of, .lil~e,. saying, "I love you," SQ
fwe] were· always copping dope, get'ting high, going to the Mineshaft,:Spendingthese lost weekends together,,[We].would disappear, [We] were OUI:side, [we] were outlaws, All this is reallywhat·
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QueensIs.. tQue~-thesesecrets.
EL: Hmm.
,; .BE: I think back, about where I'm•
from, and think about who were thejunkies and who were the queers, For~ome of us, whe{e we came from,being homosexual
wasn't even a viable option.
EL: What doyou mean when
you say "where you,0;came from"?
BE: Well, it was pretty much a
Jewish and Catholic ghetto. People
only associated with their own kind.
And there was no way of dealing withhomosexuality-there
were no realwords for it.
EL: Except nasty ones,
BE: Yeah, So, for me, being queer
was being an outlaw. It was about
being high and being outside any kindof lifestyle. I wanted to be what was
unnameable, what couldn't be categorized, But you know, there's a kind ofgiddiness, a certain
joy, in being outsideof the world.
EL: Right. Yes.
And there's this ideaof leading
double

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GIRL GUSHER ... Goddess help us,
Hollywood is in a mad, (not-so-)sublimatedwhirl again, Look out lezzies, the spring isa-bloom with shockers. Heading the not-tobe-believed list is, of course, the Blake.
Edward's extravaganza,
Switch, ,Starring
Ellen Barkin as a dead male chauvinist
brought back in a woman's body, it purportedly contains girl-on-girl scenes between ~eactress and a lesbian cosmetics exec played
by Lorraine Bracco. Needless to say, the straight media is in afeeding frenzy around Barkin, but she has, thus far, handled
the flap very graciously, Swttch opens on April 26,
Next comes news that Penny Marshall is to direct Debra
Wmger in A League ofTbetr Own, a film about an all-women's
baseball team. Oh, mother, And what role is Ms, Wmger toplay? That of the catcher, Wonder who's pitching ....Wmger's
publicist told People that "Debra's learning a lot about baseball. She is pretty strong, and she expects to train for a couple
months before the movie starts production,"
And Variety reports that brother-in-arms Gus Van Sant
hopes to guide Vma Thurman (Henry and June), Madonna
and Gary Oldman (Prick up Your Ears) through a film adaption of Even Cowgirls Get the Blues. The director promises a"certain amount of lesbian sex,"

If that weren't enough, last· week saw
the premiere of the much-delay,ed film abOut
the 19th-century cross-dressing writer George
Sand, Sand is played by the deadly Judy
Davis, who most recently had a cameo ip
Woody Allen's Alice but reached her transcendent moment in Gillian Armstrong's
High Tide. Annstrong was, in fact, originallyslated to direct the Sand story, Impromptu,
but seems to have been pulled in favor of thecredited director, James Lapine, Guess all this girl action does
eventually make some people nervous. Happy movie-going.
PRISON PRESS ... Stories of life behind bars are
popping up everywhere, Todd Haynes' Genet-inspired
picture of prison in the film Poison has New York audiences twittering, Now, from Boston, comes word that areal-life battle between Alyson Publications and the Illinois Department of Corrections has at long last been settled, Rescinding its ban on Larry Duplechan'snovel,
Eight Days a Week, the story of an interracial gay couple,
the department has now allowed that the book be madeavailable to a member of its prison population. Sasha
Alyson, the publisher of the title, asserted, "We're heartened that, at least in this case, it was so easy to score a
victory against homophobia."---rompiIed by Sarah Pettit•
PIGEONS ON A COUCH. Written
by Melanie Nelson. Directed byReginald T. Jackson. The Lesbianand Gay Community Services Center. 208 W. 13th St. Saturdays andSundays through April 21.

by Victoria Starr"I don't believe in ex-lovers,"
declaresDeb (Tia Sinclair),theyoungest of four Black lesbians who
fmd themselves embroiled in a webof love and lying. "Once a lover,always a lover."Welcome to the living room ofSonya (Deirdre Boddie-Henderson)
and Jackie (Nicole Hill), ex-lovers
who still live together and who, on
occasion, are still lovers, Or are they?'
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I sit on the chaiselounge holding
the portable phone. Reflection
hQres me. I wade through cold
water, comeup from behind, and lay
a wet palm on her external
oblique. It is smooth, ftrm,
and I reach up, touch her breasts.
They feel like small summer
fruit, exotic, cool, and I tum her around,force her down, grab
her legs. I hold her
like a wheelbarrow, split
open. I raise
and lower her. Water spills
fromher hair. I want•to eat from her mouth. I want

her milky, swollen. It is August,••(Pamela Sneed), Sonya's new discovery. Even Sonya and Jackie don'tseem to be sure.
Most of us have been here
before. So true to life is the story, infact, that by the last couple of scenes,
some members of the audience weremoved to coach the characters (withcomments like "Damn sure" and "Tellit"), while others of us were only toosure that we were reliving our recent
past. But if the bickering occasionallyreached intolerable proportions, it
was a certain realism that made theplay so memorable.
What is most remarkable about
Nelson's story is the way her background and culture are both vital andintegral to the piece without becoming the sole focus of it. Plays about
Black lesbians (or even Black womenin general) are almost nonexistent,
and when we do ftnally have accessto such work, it is too often presented by white producers and geared
toward a white audience, reducing
the material to superftcial presentations of what it is to be Black. In
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and the lines
are down. Men
in the trees. The young
birch is tied to the fence,
so it will growstraight. I promised neverto seduce her. Now
I lift her onto the blueedge and begin .

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language, set design and even thediversity of the actors' skin tones,
while at the same time sharing in theuniversal experience of intimate relationships. The result is refreshing andempowering.
As Nelson's first play, it is, as
she admitted after the show, still alittle rough around the edges. The
ending is not entirely resolved, andthere are times when the dialogue
gets bogged down with snide
remarks and small talk. The casting,on the other hand, was brilliantly
conceived, and the caliber of the acting leaves one craving more options
for these talented women,
Rainbow Repertory
Theatre,which produced the piece, is a groupcorrimitted to bringing to life original
works by and about lesbians and gay
men of color: Facing a dearth ofresources, roles and venues for Black
lesbian and gay playwrights, actors
and theater producers, the group fills
a persistent void,' providing both theartists and the community with freshand vital voices and images. Here's
hoping that they continue to grow andinfluence theater both in New York
City and nationally."•

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S8characters often have ex-husbands andother straight men in their lives, And
parents play big roles in most of the
Naiads we read: They come to termswith their daughter's sexual orientation,or they fail to come to terms in some
spectacular way (as with the evil-diplomat villain of Virago who tries to havehis dyke daughter kidnapped), or they
die and leave our heroine to grapple
with their memories,
Grier reminded me that Naiad putsout genre fiction-"not autobiography!"
All the same, Naiad novels, taken as awhole, did add up to a kind of truth
about American lesbians, The books
may not tell us what our lives are like,but they let us know what fantasies
some of us have in common. That's
what easy-reading, trashy novels always
do. Grier points out that dykes needtrash too, since otherwise "only theprivileged [lesbian]would be allowed toread." She imagines her average reader
as "13 years old, with the attention spanof a six-month-old." How strange thateven our daydreams should tum out tobe so assimilationist...

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THE MANHATTAN BOROUGH PRESIDENT'S OFFICE In cooperation with
DEPARTMENT OF TELECOMMUNICATIONS AND ENERGY and DEPARTMENT OF CONSUMER AFFAIRS are
holding Hearln •• on Manhattan and
1'I1'110n Cable. Thars a mouthful, butwhat it bolls down to is this: Do you getyour money'e worth from cable? and,
Are we getting the cable system wedeserve? The Manhattan Cable Service
Area hearing will be held on
Wednesday, April 17. Board of Estimate
Chambers. City Hall. 6:30 pm. The
Paragon Service Area hearing will beheld on Monday, April 22. Hariem State
Office Building. 1~5th Street and Adam
Clayton Powell Boulevard. 6:30 pm.
Info: (212) 669-8157.
THE NEW SCHOOL FOR SOCIALRESEARCH presente lbe State
the
City: A Gay and L•• blan PenpectlVl,
given In conjunction with DutWeekmag. azlne. "Gay men and lesbiane are vital
particlpanllln the life of New York CI1y,"says the class description. "Despite this,many believe that the popular media andmainstream ar1Bcommunities either fall
to represent or actually misrepresent
gay and lesbian concerns." Given inthrse se88lons which focus on the arts,
the media and politice, respectively, thecla88es will be led by Ar1BEditor Sll'Ih
P.ttlt, Features Editor Michelangelo
SlgnorU. and News Editor Andrew
Miller. $15 for the course, $8 for a single 8888Ion.The firet s888ion is April 25.
For more info, contact the New Schoolat (212) 741-5600.

inspired by a true incident which wasreported in the Argentinian newspapers." With Cord,lla Gonzal.. , Marilyn
Rom.ro and Nancy Walsh, Director:
Alba Oms. Design: Edward Glanfl'lnC8ICO. Ughting: Rick Batllr. Costumes:
Mary Mar.lcano. $10/$12/$15. The
Puerto Rican Traveling Theatre. 304 W,
47th St., at Eighth Avenue. English
schedule: We-Fr at 8 pm. Spanish
echedule: Sa-Su at 2:30 pm and 8 pm.
Reservations: (212) 354-1293. ThroughApril 21.

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Send announcements and listings to: 159 w.
25th St., 7th floor, New York, NY 10001. Next
deadline: Monday, April 15, for issue #96,
available in New York on Monday, April 22.

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LIVELY ARTS
Also S88 the dally listings for showingsof one or two days,
PS 122 presente Mabou Min .. ' Th,'rlbe, a poetic musical work inprogress which traces a day in the lifeof Gill Clout Written by Terry O'Reilly.
Directed by Ruth Maleczech. Music byJohn Zorn. Performed by O'Reilly andBlack-Eyed Susan. $6. PS 122. 150
Am Ave. March 13, 20, 27 and April 24
at 8 pm. Reservatlone: (212) 477-5288.
AMOS ENO GALLERY presente Jo.eph
A. Kamln.kl'. 01" .ntl M,. Dick Is aseries of seven large paintings, each ofwhich focuses on the penis as subject
matter, and came about as a direct
result of the censorship currently
spreading throughout the art worid. Me
Is the l'88ult of an ongoing photOgraphy
project (n which the artists focusee onhlmeelf to explore leeuee euch as sexual orientation, represeion, acceptanceand ceneol8hlp, both personal andpsychologlcal, 594 Broadway, at Houeton.
Tu-Sa, 11 am to 6 pm. Artiet's receP"'
tion: April 6 from 2-4 pm. (212) 2265342. Through April 18.
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THE PUERTO RICAN TRAVELING THEATRE presents Alberto Adellach'.
labl", .ntl LBIWI •. The play Ie about"two women fugltlvee from an asylum
whoee views of reality clash with one
another In a series of oddballsequences which ultimately end in a"rlousresolution. The play was

lbey're here, they're queer, they're 'Ieree, and we've heard only
OOd things about them. They're the RAINBOW REPERTORYHEATRE, and you can catch them this week doing Melanie'Nelson's PI"ons on a Cou~h.lbe play Is a look Into the lives o.
.our lesbians o. A'rlcan descent. In brle', two roommates,
Jackie and Sonya, struggle to keep their on-again, oH-agaln
love affair hidden from Jackie's young lover, Oeb, until a mysterious and alluring new love Interest .or ,Sonyacauses 'eellngs toerupt... Intrigued? lben .ork over your $10 and get to the Center.
208 W. 13th St. Sa at 8 pm and Su at 3 pm. lbrough April 21.
For more queer theater, CHAPTER III STUDIO oHers two plays
taking nontraditional looks at gay men: Kevin Bro'sky's Th,
Momln, Sun and Mark Averitt's Down on Ih, Fann. Both one. acts are about two men. Th, Momln, Sun, which stars John
Paine and Keno Rider, concerns a muting a between a
Hollywood actor and a retarded boy. Down on Ih, Fann, whichstars Danny Ashkenasl and Michael Gilpin, Is about the relationship between two male 'armhands. $8 general admlssloll/$4 students. 797 Sixth Ave., at 27th Street. Tb-Sa at 8 pm
and Su at 3 pm. Reservations: (212) 727-8143. Through April
21.
If you're hungry and you lInow your ABC's, SOUTHERNERSwants
to help you out wDh one o. their monthly Potlucks. lbls one .e.
tures a cook-oH. and talent Show, as diners (a.k.a. you) selectprize winners .or the best lood Items In several categories.
Here's the catch: To maintain a balanced meal, Soutlremers suggests the 'ollowlng divisions o. menu by everyone's last name:A-E bring vegetables or salads; F-J bring potatoes, starches orbreads; K-o bring deserts; and P-Z bring entrees. Got that? Iced
tea and soda provided. $8 nonmembers/$5 members. The
Center.208 W. 13th St April 15. 8 pm. In.o: (212) 874-8073.
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A message every queer needs to hear: MID-MANHATTANUBRARY presents On Not Giving Up: A WrDer's Wort, a lecture
and conversation with Martha Clark Cummings and Usa Vice.
The two writers have published In Kaillop" Hurrlcan, AII~',
Namln"h, Wav,s and Gay and L,sb/an Po"ry"!n Our Tim,.
••CHAPTER III STUDIO presents Kavln
Broflky'. 111' M/Jmln, 'un and Marie
Averitt'. o/Jrm /In the Finn, two oneact plays. Both plays are about twomen: The Morning Sun, which stare
John I'Iln. and Keno Rider, conceme
a meeting a betwesn a Hollywood actor
and a retarded boy. Down on the Farm.
which stars Danny A.htln .. 1 andMlch .. 1Gilpin, ie about the relationship between two male farmhands. $8
general adlmisslon/$4 students. 797
Sixth Ave., at 27th Street April Th-Sa
at 8 pm and Su at 3 pm. Reservations:(212) 727-8143. Through April 21.
bRAINBOW REPERT,ORY THEATRE
presents Melanie Nel.on's Plg,/J". /JII
• C/Juch,a look into the lives of four lesbians of African descent "Two roommates, Jackie and Sonya, etruggle tokeep their on-again, off-again love affair
hidden from Jackie'e lover, Deb, until amysterious and alluring new love Interest for Sonya causes feslings to erupt.. "$10. The CentBr.208 W. 13th St Sa at 8pm and Su at 3 pm. Through April 21,
bTHE RAPP ARTS THEATER preeents
1111N/Jnn. tJf th. M.. /Jpmml. Op."

with poetry and dance by Pet.r Wing
Healay, new music by Linda Dowelland old mueic by the great composers.
$7 and $12. 220 E. 4th Sl 8 pm. Reservations: (212) 529-5921. April 18-21 •bTHE SANFORD MEISNER THEATRE
presents 111, Bta".t//Jn tJf Rub, N.III,
by Jilt Ros•. Directed by Tony Ph'lan.
The play tells the story of a young girlIn the rural South who sets out to eave
the world by staging a hunger sbike on
the White Houee lawn. Some thingscomplicate her plan, however, including
but not limited to attempted murder,
makeovers, weird sex, fried chicken,
spumed lovers, assault, floor wax. fastcars, bomb drills, caseerolee, bondage,
patriotism and eponge rollers, $10 or
TDF. 164 Eleventh Ave., between 22ndand 23rds straell. Reservations: (212)206-1764. April 18-21 and 24-28 •.
THE WINGS THEATRE COMPANY presenll R/Jman'p./:tIc/., "a night In theorgy chamber of the teenage emperorof the Roman empire, Heliogabalus:
written and directed by David Mlch .. 1
Gallagh,r, Featuring "a spectaculardrag wedding in the palace." 154
Christopher
St. Tu-Fr at 8 pm.
Beginning April 13, Sa at 7 and 10 pm
and Su at 3:30 and 7 pm. R_rvatlons:(212) 627-2961, Through April 28.
PS 122 presents Richard Elovlch'.
'lJIIJlfln. £1" FrrImQu"". I' Qu""
Written and performed by Elovich.

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Directed by ltamar Kubovy. The solo play
is a love story about activism and deathIn the age of AIDS. It tells the story ofFelix the Kat, a human cannonball shotout of Queens and Gordie Benjamin, astand-up spritzer who theorizes about
everything: outlaw queemess in William
S. Burroughs,
assimilationinThe
Munsters and The Addams Family,
heroin, Jewish law and the Panopticon.
$10 or $5 plus IDF. 150 Filllt Ave. Th-Su
at 9:30 pm. Reservations: (212) 4775288. Through April 28.
'THE DUPLEX preeents Cat. B"lIn, starring Sybil Bruncheon, Bob Gutowski, Jay
Rog.r., Thomaa Stoehr and Jeffrey
Wallach. The Duplex. 59 Christopher St
Fr at 10 pm. Reservations: (212) 2555438. Through Ajiri130.

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hLOVE CREEK PRODUCTIONSpresente
Gay and L.. blan Penpectl".,a seriee.of at least 12 one-act plays featuring gay
and/or lesbian characters or "themes
related to alternative lifestyles." The"mlni-feetival" is part of an ongoing playwrighting competition designed to provide a venue to quality scripts dealing
with gay and lesbian themes. $10.
Westbeth Theater. 151 Bank st.
Reservations: {212) 769-7973. April 18
through May 6.
UPSTAIRS AT THE DUPLEX presents
Wicked Tra.h Production.'
B.dt/m.
S1orl", Join them .for "more tales ofshattered, splintered, spit-upon love."
Written and performed by MarianGold.teln,
Scott King and Juon
Kordelo •. Directed by Simon Fill. $7
cover/2 drink minimum. 59 Christopher
SI. Mo at 8 pm, Reeervations: (212) 2555438, Through May 6.
h THE PERRY STREET THEATRE presents
fllmann',
Artificial
Rullty. Accompanied by comp08er
Michael John LaChlun, ES8man will
pre8ent a 8eries of sketches featuring
such characters as Stan, a recovering
recovery addict; Jean-Louis DeBris, aFrench existentialist cabaret singer; andRaye, a woman with a lover who's literally out of this wOJld. Directed by David
Warren. 31 Perry St. For ressrvations
and showtlmes, call (212) 279-4200.
Through the filllt week In May.

J.tt",ART IN GENERAL presents Out Loud:.
ArUIb Enllulfed Allalnlt War, a collaborative multi-media Installation which
a88emblee contributed works from arti$te
and writers In opposition to the Gulf
War. Other artists's works are also featured In the show. 79 Walker St. (212)219-0473. Through May 11.
THE BALLROOM presents Julian Clary,"a self-effacing comedian who creates asurrealistic
fantasy world with his
cro888d-dreeeedZlggy Stardust persona,fast-paced barbs and sly double entendres." $15, plus a two-drink minimum.
253 W. 28th St Tu-Sa at 9 pm, Fr and Sa
at 11:15 pm, and Su at 3 pm.
Reservations: (212) 244-3005. April 21
through May 12.
EIGHTY EIGHTS preeente Rohn Seykell,a singer currently appearing in Les
Miserables, In a cabaret engagement tobenefit Broadway Careeand Equity Figh1B&& ou I _WEEK April 24. 1_1

AIDS. $15. 228 W. 10th St Su at 10:30
pm. Reservations; (212) 924-0088.

Thay wllllaik abo.ul how Ihey gol started as wrllers, how andwhere Ihey have found encouragement and support, and Ihey'll
share Ihe ways Ihey have helped each olher and Ihelr students
nollo give up wriling. 455 Fifth Ave., at 40th SI. 61h floor conference
room., April 16. 6 pm.
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If YOU'drather hear someone read, ralher Ihan lalk about wrlllng, JUDITH'S .ROOMpresents Marilyn Nelson~Wanlek, reading
wllh Sophie Cabol Black, winner of Ihe 1990 Judllh's Reom
Emerging Talenl Compelilion. 681 Washlnglon SI. April 16. 7
pm. (212) 727-7330.

Blow Ihe lid 0" Ihls one: LAMBDA INDEPENDENTDEMOCRATS
presents Geraldine Fenara, Ihe lonner Queens congresswoman
and vice presidential candldale. (Has II ",ally been a decade?)
LID Is Brooklyn's lesbian anel gay polilical club. Camp
Friendship. 339 8th SI., between Fifth and Sixth avenues. Park
Slope, Brooklyn. April 16. 8 pm. Info: (718) 384-1285.
She's gollo be heard 10 be believed, and you've gollour
chances 10 do U. THE KITCHENpresents Dlamanda Galas, perlormlng excerpls Irom Plagu, Mass (1984 to th, End of
Epld,mlc). Selections Include "There Are No More·Tlckels 10
Ihe Funeral." $15 nonmembers/$10 members. 512 W. 19th SI.
April 17, 19, 21 and 23. All shows al 8:30 pm. Reservallons:(212) 255-5743.
You read aboul 'em In OutW"ka couple weeks ago, so now
check 'em out. CBGBpresents lbe Scouls, a queer-led rock androll band. Bowery al Bleecker. April 18. 8:30 pm sharp. Info:(212) 982-4052.
This Is lood week. II you missed Soulherner's polluck, loin
MAMA DOESN'T KNOW PRODUCTIONSIlor a Soul Food Nrghl.
Proceeds benelU MDKI In Ihls lund-raiser sponsored In part by
Ihe Mlnorlly Task Force on AIDS. Your menu Includes greens,
rice and peas" barbecue chicken, macaroni and cheese, sweel
polalo pie, coconul cake and more. They even cook II lor you.
$10 per plale. The Cenler. 208 W. 131h SI. April 19. 7-10 pm.
Info: (212) 827-6350. ,;";(lbe hardest worlelng gals In Brooklyn are Ihrowlng a party, andIhey wanl you 10 come (to Ihe party). SLOPEACTIVITIES FORLESBIANS presenls Lesbian Extravaganza, Ihelr IIrst anniversary dance. Fealured are OJ Karen Ward, an awards presentalion 10 honor Ihe hard work and splrll of certain SAL Gals,
vldeoul past SAL actlvUes (Including Lesbian Laundry Nighl,
Butch and Femme Nighls, lbe Newlywed Game and sports pl~nics). Open 10 all lesbians (nol/ust Park SI0r.e-baSed ones).
$10 allhe door. Camp Frlendsh p. 339 81h S ., between Flltb
and Sixth avel!ues. April 19. 8 pm. For more Inlo, Jusl call:(718) 985-7578.
SoundS twisted, so II's probably good: THE KITCHENpresenls
Dudley Saunders In Th, Long Swallow,d Halt, a solo performance work In which Ihe "Iransplanled Southerner mixes songand spoken word 10 bring forth lales dealing wllh religion andrepressed sexuallly." $8 nonmembers/$3 members. 512 W.
19th SI..April 20. 8:30 pm. Reservallons: (212) 255-5793.

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THE NUYORICANPOETSCAFE,Ihe hlppesl happening place In
Ihe East Village, presents wrne Onl, a poelry reading celebralIng gay and lesbian poelry. Featuring. MI Ok Brulnllig, Bruce L
Burgos, Cheryl Clarke, Rachel GuidO de Vries, Charles
Frederick, Dorolhy Randall Gray, Gale Jackson, Margarel
Randall, Susan Shennan, David Trinidad and Donald Woods.
$6. 238 E. 3rd SI., belween avenues Band C. April 20. 9 pm.
Go. Just go.
End your week wllh a couple more plays: IN YOUR FACEPROOUCTIONS presenls FAG, Ihe Freelance Acllng Group, In
Buddl,s and B,foTl th, Parad, Pas.,s By. Written by Lon
Lowry. Slarrlng Lowry and Owen Wilson. Buddl,s Is a look al
Ihe "splrll:and guls displayed by ga; men laking back Ihelr
lives." In B,tore th, Parad, Pass,s By, "Ihe surviving memberof a couple gels Ihose lew more minutes we all long lor." $5.
The Cenler. 208 W. 131h SI. April 21. 5 and 8 pm. Inlo: Lon
Lowry at (212) 924-7602.

'THEATRE-AT-224-WAVERLY-PLACEpresents Homo'lXual At:t" a seriss of 12
short plays, including seven world premieres and three New York premieres.
They are: Robert Patrick's Ludwig and
Wagner, TheFamily Bar and The Way We
War; Daniel Curzon's S&M, Ce/ebritiee in
He/I and One Man s Opinion; Carl Morse's
Annunciation and Fairy Fuck-In, or A Callto the States; Robert Chesley's
Somebodys Uttle Boy; Victor Bumbalo's
Show; Bil Wright's Mother Father Lover
Man; and Rich Rubin's That AI Pacino
Look. $20. We-fr at 8 pm, Sa at 7 and 10
pm, Su at 3 and 7 pm. Tickets: (212)564-8038. Through May 26.
T1jE GLINES present Evan Brldenltlne ..
Hlgh-BtIVngQuarl.~ a comedy in which"David loves Greg, Greg lovee Sally, Sally
loves Bruce and Bruce loves David.'
Directed by Lesll. Irons. Starring John
Carhart III, Suzanne Cryer, Dane Halland Mark Leydorf, $15. 39 Grove St., at
Bleecker. We-Fr at 8 pm, Sa at 6 and 9
pm and Su at 7 pm. Reeervations: (212)869-3530, Through June 9.
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THE CASTILLO CULTURAL CENTER represents James Chapman'. Our Young
Bluk M.n A" Dying and Nobody
Slim, to Ca", a look at some of thosemen whose lives and deaths are reflected
in drug-abuse, crime, police-brutality,a)coholism, poverty and AIDS statistics.
$20. 500 Greenwich St, suite 201. Th-Sa
at 8 pm and Su at 3 pm. Reservations:(212) 941-5800. Through Aug. 31.
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UBU REPERTORY THEATER presents
Copl's GrandFinal•. Directed by Andr.
Emotte. Translated by Michael feingold.
Starring Robert Carrlcart,
DelphiHarrington,
Jack Koenig,
Kalth
McDermott, David Punley and Margo
Skinner, The play "may just be the fllllt
farce written about AIDS,. a farce whichmixes pathos and wit,tendemeee and cruelty." $201$15 for students and seniors, 15
W. 28th St Tu-Sa at 8 pm, Sa and Su at 3
pm. Reservations: (212) 679-7562.
THE WPA 'THEATREpresen1B R.d Sca"
DnSunlIt, a new play by and starring
Chari .. Busch, creator of Vampire
Lesbians of Sodom and Psycho Beach
Party. Directed by Kenneth Elliott.
Starrring Ralph Buckley, Roy Cockrum,
Andy Halliday, Julie Halston,Mark
Hamilton,
Judith Hanlin,
Arnie
Kolodner. 519 W. 23rd St Tu-Th at 8 pm
and Su at 7:30 pm-$22. Fr and Sa at 8pm and '5u at 3 pm-$26. Reservations:(212) 206-0523.
THE LESBIAN HERSTORYARCHIVESand
THE CENTER present K.. pln' On:
Imall" of African-American Lesbians.
Opening Feb. 28. Wheslchair acce88lb(s.
The Center. 208 W. 13th St Hours: daily,
4-6 pm, For more Info, contact theArchivee at (212) 874-7232.
55 GROVE STREET presents Cam
Brainard and Bob Koherr's Br/ck/ac. ,Stut:CD,
perfonnelll who both appeared inParting Glances, their original comedy
material includes two jocks who learn
they can vogue, retired Solid Gold
Dancers, Amish rappers who put the•I"men back in Mennonite," an earty Simon& Garfunkel, and the Rocky Mountain
Butt Boys who open at a gay rodeo in
W88t Hollywood; videos serve as transitions between live routines; at 55 Grove
St (W88t of 7th Ave South); $8 + 2-d rinkminimum; Fr at 8 pm; 366-5438.
CHERRY LANE THEATRE pr88ente DIYI~
StlVllII' 711. 'um fII UI. S1arring Robelt
Lanalng and Nell Mallin. Directed by
Kevin Dowlllll. By the writer of Breaker
Morant, this play Is about a fathsr who
tries to help with his son~s gay relationships while looking for a new wife. 38
Commerce St $27.50-$32.50. Tu-Fr at 8pm, Sa at at 7 and 10 pm, Su at 3 and7:30 pm. (212) 989-2020.
THE FRIENDS OF ALICE AUSlEN HOUSE
present Allee Auaten: Th. Laity Life,
From her blo, AliCe Austen sounds likethe Gertrude Stein of Staten Island. Visit
her house, now a museum, and Bee pictures that she took of upper middle cla8B
men and women. 2 Hylan Blvd. Staten
Island. Th-Su. 12-5 pm, Info: (718) 8164506. Through December.
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LESBIANS WORKING IN AIDS PROJECT
pr88enlll a Suppolt and Advocacy Groupfor lesbians working In AIDS agenciee.
GMHC. 129 W. 20th St 6-8 pm.
GAY ACTIVIST ALLIANCE IN MORRIS
COUNlY presenlll Womyn'l Network andMen'a Rap Group at 7:30 pm, before
their G.neral Millingat 8:30 pm.
Tonight's topic: "Coming Out: Horrors
and Thrills." GAAMC membsr8wlll disclose some of their better and worse
moments. 21 Normandy Heights Rd.
Morristown,
NJ, Il1fo: GAAMC Gay
Helpline: (201) 285-1595.
ACT UP Glnlral Mletlng. Cooper Union.
Fourth Avsnue at 7th Street. 7:30 pm.
Info: (212) 564-AIDS:IN OUR OWN WRllE Wrlter'a Worbhop
for lesbian and gay writers. Workehops areheld on the lim and third Mondays of themonth, Please bring work. The CeQllIt 208
W. 13th Sl 8-10 pm. (212) 620-7310.
SOUTliERNERS preeenllI a Polluck, CookOH and Talent Show, Diners will selectprize winners for the best food items in
sevsral categor188.To rnaJntalna balanced
meal, Southemers sugg88ll1the following
divisions of menu by· everyone's last
name: Hbring vegetabl88 or ealads;, hibring potatoes, starch88 or breads; K"{}
bring desertB; and P-Z bring entrees. Iced
tea and soda provided. $8 nonmembers/$5'rriembers. The Center. 208 W.
13th St 8 pm. Info: (212) 674-8073.

Conference room 3, 234 E. 149th St.
Bronx. 9:30-11 :30 am. Info: Janet
Goldberg at (212)~93-2658 or Rosaline
Morale. at (212) 295-5605,•

PROFESSIONALS IN FILM AND VIDEO
preaent a Backltagl Tour of Radio City
Mu.lc Hall. $7 members and gueetal$10
non-lnembers. SIxth Avenue at 50th Street.
6 pm. Reservations: (212) 245-1182.
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MID-MANHATTAN LIBRARY preaenllIOn
Not GI"III Up: A Wltter'a Work, a lecturs
and conversation .....itli Martha Clark
Cumming. and U.. Vlci. The two writers have publiehed in Kalliope, Hurricane
Alice, Naming the Wave;' and Gay andLeBbian Poetry in Our Time. They willtalk about how they got started as writers, how and whefll they have foundencouragem·ent and support, and will
share the ways they have helped eachqther and their students not to give up
writing. 455 Fifth Ave., at 40thSt. 6th
floOf conference r90m., 6 pm.
LESBIAN AND GAY PEOPLE OF COLORSTEERING COMMITTEE Mlltlng. 169
Manhattan Ave., #4B, at 108th st.
6:30-10 pl)1,lnfo: (212) 932-3138.
JUDITH'S ROOM presents Marilyn
NII.on-Wanlek,
reading with Sophie
Cebot Black, winner of the 1990 Judith's
Room Emerging Talent Competition. 681
Washington St 7 pm. (212) 727-7330.
GAY MEN'S HEALTH CRISIS preserillla
Hilith Slmlnar: B.neflta Information
and NutriOon.llliaa •• 129 W, 20th St,
third -and sixth floors. 7 pm. For more
information, call the GMHC hotline at(212) 807-6655. TDD (212) 645-7470 for
the hearing impaired.
THE COALITION FOR LESBIAN AND GAYRIGHTS General Mlltlng, The Centsr.
208 W. 13th St 8.pm. (212) 627"1398.
LAMBDA INDEPENDENT DEMOCRATS
presents Geral~lni Ferraro, tHe. former
Queens congre8swoman and vlcs presidential candidate. UD is Brooklyn's lesbian iUld gay politJClIIclub. Regular bU8ineS8 '!leeting happens at 7:30 pm;
Ferraro 8peak8 at 8. Camp Friendship.
339 8th St., bstween Fifth and Sixthf'avsnuss. Park Slope, Brooklyn. Info:(718) 384-1285. ..
.
,THE NINTH STREET CENlER presents
Ouer Oll.tlon.,
O.lIr An.wer., a
88riefof rap. group8 whoss focu8 ·i,
defining homosexuality for the 199()8.
Tonight', topic:,"Tired of the Bars andStreetCrui8ing." 319 E. 9th St., basem'"t8-fO
pm. (21?)228-5153.
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••TUESDAY, APRIL 16

WOMEN ENTREPENUERSIN BUSINESS
and iNNOVATIVE WOMEN present An
Evening With Ju~j Dlugacz, e$sp80surand founder of Olivia Records, the oldest
and mOit vlsibla lasbian-ownsd 'andoperated busine88. ·Dlug~cz wiU be discU88ing her nswest company, Olivia
Cruise8, the lim cruise company for lesbian8, $5: The Centsr. 208 W. 13th st.
8:15 pm. Info: (718) 237-2399 or (212)580-9624.

BRONX AIDS EDUCATORS NETWORK
General Milling,
Lincoln Hospital.

1WENl'YSOMETHING St.. rlng Commltt..
Mlltlng
frllm· 6:30-8
pm.

SlEVE MCGRAWS presenlll An Evening
With Lor and Sondhelm, starring
M.g B
rt. Tom 1:I.lm will be theaccompanist Buesert has starred in 71Ie
MUBic Man, Brigadoon and Camelot on
Broadway. 158 W; 72nd st. 8 pm.
Reservations: (212) 575-3030.

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Nomination8 for officers close. Election
and instaliation of officers. Then, at 8 pm,
Irs a Rap Grolp on "How'Gay Men andLe8bians Relate to Each Other."
Twsntysomething is a social group for
lesbians and gay men In thei r 208 andaarty 308. $3. The CenlBr. 208 W. 13th St
Info: Scott Hummell at (212) 242-4881
or Perry at (212) 242-3038. .

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 17
GAY MEN OF THE BRONX General
Muting and Orientation. Tonight'8
meeting is their Spring Social. Join themfor good food and mueic. Hostos
Community College. Grand Concour8e,
Building A, room 227. 7-9 pm. Info:
Jimmy at (212)365-6239,
Charles at(212) 378-34397 (Spanish) or Ed at(212) 792-8078.
CONGREGATIONBElli SIMCHAT TORAH
presents a J.wl.h
Women'. Ruh
Chodllh/Ne.
Moon Celbratlon.
Congregation Beth Simchat Torah is New
York's lesbian and gay 8ynagogue. 57
Bethune St7:30 pm. (212) 929-9498.
SLOPE ACTIVITIES FOR LESBIANS pre88nlll Pool Night. Featuring free pool,ping pong, billiards, air hockey and shooting hoops at Brownstone Billiard. Seventh
Ave. at Flatbush. Afterwards, relax at the
Roo.t at 9 pm. Seventh Avenue at 8thStreet. The evening begins at 7 pm.
Please call 24 hours In advance to conlinn all SAL activiti88: (718) 965-7578.
A DIFFERENT LIGHT presents Eve
Sedgwick, reading from her book, The
Epistemology of the Closet. 548 Hudson
St8 pm. Info: (212) 989-4850.
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THE NATIONAL GAYAND LESBIAN TASKFORCE presents an Op'n Mlltlng formembers and friends to'discu88 illl new
member8hip drive and' outreach campaign,'"strength in Numbers." NGLTFis a
gay arid lesbian civil rights and lobbyingorganization. The CenlBr. 208 W. 13th St
8 pm. Info: Kenneth Cole at (202) 3326483 or lise de Vser at (718) 788-4558.
GAY MEN'S HEALTH CRISIS present8
ErotiCizing Safer Sill. No regi8tration
required. The Center. 208 W. 13th St.
·8-10: 30 pm. (212) 80Hl664.
CELLBLOCK 28 presenlll the Smoke andSt"*" a party sponsored by Hot Ash. 28
Ninth Ave., between 13th and 14th
8treets. Door. open 8 pm. (212) 7333144.
ORGANIZATiON FOR GAY AWARENESS
pre8Bnt8 OUlir Nltlon. Representatives
from QN wiU 8peak about their"de~ication to fighting homophobia, homohatred, qUeerInvisibility and all oppreseions
any queer may facs." st. George's
Church. The comer of Ridgewood andWoodland roads. Maplewood, NJ. 8:30
pm. (201) 743-5322.
THE KITCHENpresenlll Dlamanda Galaa'
in excerpt8 from. Plabue MaBB (1984 to
the End of Epidemic). Se(ection8 inciude"Thers Are N·o More Tickst8 to the
Funeral." $15 nonmembsrs/$10 members. 512 W. 19th St. 8:30 pm.
Reservations: (212), 255-5743. [See also•

April 19, 21 and 23)
THE EAGLE presents Movie Night:
AruhnDphDbl •. "A young doctor (Jeff
Daniel8) and his family move into a
81eepy little community nestled in the
California hill8 overlooking the Pacific
Ocean. But what this typical family
doesn't realize Is that they aren't the only
newcomers to the neighborhood ....• The
Eagls. 142 Eieventh Avs" at 21st Street
11 pm. (212) 691-8451.

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THURSDAY, APRIL 18
SOUTHERNERS St .. rlng Commltt ..
Mlltlng. At Rick Hardin'8. 195 Garfield
PI., unit 4J. Brooklyn. 7 pm. Info: (212)674-8073.
MEN OF ALL COLORS TOGETHER
HIV/A1DSConcerns Committee Meeting.
169 Manhattan Ave., 14B, at 108th St. 7
pm. Info: (212) 932-3138.
GAY ACTIVIST ALLIANCE IN MORRISCOUNTYexecutive Commltt .. Mlltlng.
Hank's. 7:30 pm. For compleIB demils; callthe GAAMCGayHotline at (201) 285-1595.
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LATINO GAY MEN OF NEW YORK present
Know Your Legal Rlghta as Latino
Homollxuals. For Latino gay men only.
The Center. 208 W, 13th St 8 pm,
A DIFFERENT LIGHT presents Jam ..
Broughton, reading from hi8 book,Special DeliverieB/Broken Moon, 548
Hudson St8 pm, Info: (212) 989-4850.
CBGB presents The Scout., a queer-led
rock and roll band. Bowery at Bieecker.
8:30 pm sharp. Info: (212) 982-4052.

FRIDAY, APRIL 19
BRONX LESBIANS UNITED IN SISlERHOOD General Meeting. Tonighr8 topic:"Setting the Le8bian Agenda From theBronx: What do we want to bring to the
National Lesbian Conference in Atlanta,
Ga.r The Center. 208 W. 13th St 6:3G-8
pm. Info: Miriam at (212) 409-2692 in
Spanish, and Lisa at (212) 829-9817 inEnglish.
'MAMA DOESN'T KNOW PRODUCTIONSI
pr88enlll Soul Food Night, a benefitfundraiser sponsored in part by the Minority
Task Force on AIDS ..With greens, riceand peas, barbecue chicken, macaroni
and cheese, sweet potato pie, coconut
cake and more. $10 per plalB, The Cenlllr,
208 W. 13th st. 7-10 pm, Info: (212)827-6350.
j'

DYKE ACTION MACHINEI pre88nts a
DAMI Visibility
Action at Chelsea
Billiards. 54. W. 24th St 7:30 pm.
,.

THE ANSWER IS LOVING presents
Women Talking
Women'.
Talk:
Atmo.fear. From their flyer: "Mother
Earth and our responsibility. The politicaland social iS8ues behind the feminine
image." $10. 1964 E. 35th St Brooklyn.
7:45-10 pm. Info: Ruth Berman andConnie Kurtz at (718) 998-2305.
SLOPE ACTIVITIES FOR LESBIANS pre"sents First Anniversary Dance andParty. Featured are OJ Karen Ward, an

April 24, .._..

,OUTWEEK&9I•awards presentation to honor the hard
work and 8plrlt of certain SAL Gal8,
vlde08 of pa8t SAL activlte8 (including
Le8blan Laundry Night, Butch andFemme Nights, The Nswlywed Gams and
8pOrts picnice). Open to allle8bian8 (notjU8t Park Slope-ba8ed ones). $10 at thedoor/$8 in advance for non-8ub8cribsrsl$6 for subscribers to SAL'8 calendar. Camp Friend8hip. 339 8th St.,between Fifth and Sixth avenues. 8 pm.
For more info, just call: (718) 965-7578.

LAVENDER LIGHT GOSPEL CHOIR pre8ents a Workshop and Concert. A daylong event. $15. St. Clement'8 Church.
423 W. 46th SI. 11 am. Info: Charles at(718) 624-1196.
SOUTliERNERS visits Prospect Park andthe Bnloklyn Botanical Gardlns. The trip
will be led by Staven Cantor, a landscapearchitect, and David Gilbert, an authority
blrd8 and edible wild plant8. Meet at
Grand Army Plaza under the Arch de
Triumph. Bring a picnic lunch. 11:30 am.
Info: (212) 674-8073.

MEN OF ALL COLORS TOGETHER present Glml Night. The Center, 208 W.
13th Sl 8 pm. Info: (212) 222-9794.

GAY MEN OF THE BRONX present8 a
Nllure (Wild Food) Walk led by

GAY FATHER'S FORUM pre8ents Dinner
Illhe Townhouse ",Nuran!. 8 pm. Callfor complete details: (212) 288-3236.

INTEGRAL YOGA INSTITUTE presents
Hatha Yoga Claa. Hatha Yoga refers to
the phY8icai p08ture8, deep relaxation
and breathing practices which revitalize
and 8trengthen the body and calm themind. Thi8 class is especially for th08e
who are HIV-p08itive. IYI. 227 W. 13th
St 12-1:30 pm. (212) 929-0586.
SYNAGOGUEB'NA! JESHURUNpresents a
Shabbal Luncheon for persons with AIDS .
and their loved ones. The luncheon will feature a food, music and dialogue, and i8
open to all persons affected by HIV or AIOS

BRING THIS AD TO BOX OFFICE"Ally Sheedy shines!"-Clive Bames, New York Post

"Very funny! An urban comedy that scores big.
Ally Sheedy soars!"

THE WEST BANK CAFEpresents HomIlIArvanltnl,
or HAl, a comedy duo.
Written and performed by Hillary
Homzll and Steven Amnlt ... $10 plu8
a one-drink minimum. 407 W. 42nd SI.
10:30 pm. Reservation8: (212) 239-0827.
[See al80 April 20]-Neil Rosen, WNCN

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"Cool, au courant comedy:'-Gloria Cole. UPI"Zippy-fascinating-clever!"

SATURDAY, APRIL 20-Jan Stuart, Newsday

THE GIRTH AND MIRTH CLUB presents
Spring Fling. For complete details, contact G&M at (914) 699-7735.

"A comedy for the '90's:'-Vanety

HYACINTH FOUNDATION prsssnt8 a
Volunt .. r Training Program to givepotential volunteers the opportunity to
examine thei r own re8ponses to AIDS
and learn about area8 of 8ervice in thisfield. Hyacinth Foundation is New
Jersey'8 leading AIDS service and education organization. April 20 and 21. Infoand reservations: (800) 433-0254.

A post-modern romantic comedy

THE NEW YORK ADVERT(SING AND
COMMUNICAT(ONS NETWORK presents
hlllngYour Work and Youraell:
Presentallon Skills Training. Thi8 is apersua8lve-8peaklng work8hop dssigned
to leach you to sell your8elf and yourproducts more effectively, Led by
Rabecca Ray. $35 member8/$45 nonmenbers. The Center. 208 W. 13th St 10
am to 1 pm. Info/confirmation:(212)
517-0380.

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HERITAGE OF PRIDE presents a FundRIlslng Seminar. Leland Wycoff will leadthe dlecueeion. $25 in advance/$35 at thedoor. The Centsr. 208 W. 13th St 10 am
to 4 pm. Info: (212) 691-1774.

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GAY MEN'S HEALTH CRISIS present8
SII, OIling and Inllmacy. Their flyer
8ay8, "Join U8for a day of exploration ina fun, 8ex-posltive environment and discover way8 men are loving men in thisage of AIDS." For gay and bl8exual men
only. Free, but registration is required.
129 W, 20th st. 10 am to 6 pm.
(Latecomers not addmltted.) Info: (212)807-6655 or TOO (212) 645-7470.

April 24, .._regardleeeof religiou8 affiliation or nonaffilialion. Undenbaum CenlBr.270 W. 89th St,
between Broadway and West End Avenue.
2 pm. Reeervations:(212) 787-76f1J,

Y2PRICE FOR OUTWEEK READERS!

THE KITCHEN presents Dlamanda Galas
In excerpt8 from Plague Mass (1984 to
the End of Epidemic), Selections Include"There Are No More Tickets to the
Funeral." $15 nonmembere/$10 members, 512 W. 19th St. 8:30 pm.
Reservation8: (212) 255-5743. [See also
Apri( 21 and 23]

70 OUTWEEK"Wildman" Steve Brill. Van Cortlandt Park.
12 noon. Info: Eddie at (212) 652-5958.

DOUGLAS CARTER BEANE
Tuesday- Friday at 8; Saturday at 6 & 9;, Sunday at 3 & 7

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Tuning In: A TV/Radio Guide for OutWeek Readers•

Information must be received by Monday to be included in the following week's issue. Send items to
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ME (Arts & Em, 555 Fifth Ave, 10th R, NYC 10017;661-4500)
CCTV (RickJ<, Box 790, NYC 10108){
GBS (Gay Broadcasting System, Butch Peastrin, 1787th Ave, Ste. A-3, NYC 10011;
243-1570)
GCN (Gay Cable Network,LDu Maletta, 32 Union Square East, Suite 1217;4714220)
GUB (Gay and Le,sbian Inde~e.ndent Broadcasters. (212) 473-1689.)
GMHC (Gay Men s Health CrISIS,Jean Cariomusto, 129W 20 St, NYC 10011;807-~ln

RB PROO (Robin Byrd Prod., Box 305, NYC 10021;988-2973)
WASC-TV In W 63 St, NYC 10023; 456-TTn)
WBAI-FM (505 8th Ave, 19th R, NYC 10018;279-0707)
WCBS-TV (51 W 52 St St, NYC 10019; 975-4321)
WNBC-TV (30 Rockefeller Plaza, NYC 10112;664-4444)
WNET-TV (3$ W 58 St, NYC 10019;560-3000)
WNYW-TV (Fox. 1211AV/AM, NYC 10036;556-2400)
WPIX-TV (220 E 42 ST. NYC 10017;949-1100)

MONDAY, APRIL 15
6:00 AM WIND-1V Broadcast New York Scheduled: a discusion of people
with AIDS using unapproved and black-market drugs for treatment CH
11.
7:00 AM WABC-1V Good Morning, America Scheduled: Actors Jonathan. Pryce and Lea Salonga from Miss Saigon. CH 7,
9:00 AM WABC-1V Regis & Kathie Lae Scheduled: Liza Minelli. CH 7.
12 noon A&E The Legend fo Valentino I wonder if their legend is the sameas our legend, Featuring newsreel footage and film clips used. Repeated
at 4 am this morning,
1:30 PM WUSB 90.1 FM The Word Is OutMarc Gunning hosts a weekly lesbian, gay and bisexual variety show.
2:00 PM WUSB 90.1 FM Lavender Wimmin News, songs and music produced by women for women,
2:30 PM WUSB 90,1 FM This Way Out More queer news.
4:00 PM HBO Rrst Love, Fatal Love 'The true story of Kim Frey, a college
woman who contracted the 'AIDS virus."
4:00 PM TNT Hercules, Samson and Ulysses From 1963, a little slice of
Italian beefcake,
7:00 PM WCBS-1V Hard Copy Scheduled topic: sexual misconduct andteachers. CH 2.
8:30 PM Manhattan Cable The Brenda and Glennda Show'Seize Controlof the Taj Mahal.' An army of drag queens invades Atlantic City. CH 17
9:00 PM GBS Outin the!KJ's: community news, discussion, interviews. BQ
Cable, CH 5& (1:001
9:00 PM GCN Gay USA CH C/16 (:301
11:30 PM Tomorrow/Tonight live: entertainment; Manhattan and Paragon
Ceble, CH D/17 (1:001
Midnight CC1V The Closet Case Show. K10set K1ips; Manhattan IParagon
Cable, CH C/16 (:301

TUESDAY, APRIL 16
6:30 AM WNET-1V Urban Health Report A magazine series examing urban
health concerns, CH 13,
10:00 PM RB PROD The Robin Byrd Show. male and female strippers;
Manhattan Cable, CH V/35 (1:001
10:00 PM WABC-1V thirtysomething Michael searches for guidance fromGary's ghost on how to help a friend vvho's decided to be 18sted for HIV.
CH 7,
11:00 PM GBS Out in the!KJ's: news, information and interviews;
Manhattan/Paragon Cable, CH C/16 (1:001

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 17
7:00 AM WABC-1V Good Morning America Scheduled: Barbara Bush, I'msure they'll all be talking about Nancy Reagan. CH 7,
9'.30 AM WBAI99,5 FM Ghosts in the Machine We've been long remiss inlisting this weekly radio show, hosted by OutWeeKs new features editor,
Victoria Starr. 2,5 hours.
11:00 AM WABC-1V Home 'Scheduled: Ryan White's mother on the fightagainst AIDS; fall fashions.' Good to know 7V Guide gives AIDS billingover next season's clothes, CH 7,
8:00 PM WCBS-1V Bugs BunnyWe're not trying him or nothing, butwe've
noticed him kissing a lotof men. CH 2.
10:05 PM M1V More Sex in the '90s Topics include sex education and the
AIDS crisis,
Midnight RB PROD The Robin Byrd Show. male and female strippers,livecall-in show. Manhattan Cable CH V/35

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THURSDAY, APRIL 18
1:00AM WNET-1V Arms/Relatives The third of three dance performances
is by Bill t Jones, in a collaboration with videographer John Sanborn, ina tribute to Jones' lover and partner, Arnie Zane, vvho died of AIDS lastyear. CH 13.
.
9:00AM WIND-1V Best TalkScheduled topic: police brutality. Remember,this show has a call-in segment CH 11.
1:00 PM WBAI-FM This Way Out. the international gay/lesbian news magazine; 99.5 FM (:301
1:30 PM WBAI-FM An Afternoon Outing: local news and information about
the gay and lesbian community with Lany Gutanburg; 99.5 FM (:301
8:00 PM Over the Influence Hosted by Tom Selleck and Whitney Houston,This show's ad contains the following warning: 'This program contains
solutions ...hope ..and ways to save our children from substance abuse.'
But not from closets, CH 9,
10:00 PM GCN Be Our Guest entertainment for and about the lesbiaiVgay
community; Manhattan Cable, CH D/17 (:301.
111".30PM GMHC Living With AIDS: health and politics; Manhattan Cable, CH
V/35 (:301
11:00 PM GCN Gay U.SA: news and entertainment from around the country; Manhattan Cable, CH V/35 (1:001
Midnight GCN Men in RIms: male erotica, interviews with adultfilmstars;
Manhattan Cable, CH V/35 (:301
12:30 AM RB PROD Men For MerT. Robin Byrd presents gay male pornostars; Manhattan Cable, CH V/35 (:301

FRIDAY, APRIL 19
10:00 AM WNBC-1V Sally Jessy Raphael Scheduled topic: sexual addiction,
Watch outforthis one, folks. CH 7,
2:30 PM WBAI-FM ROlppiendo el Silencio: todos los viernes, Gonzalo
Abulto con tern as y:noticias para la comunidad latina gay y lesbiana;
99,5 FM (:151
7:00 PM WBAI-FM AIDS In Focus, Michael Alcalay, producer,.
9:00 PM LlF Silkwood Cher's comeback role as the lesbian best friend of
Meryl Streep,
12:50 AM TNT Cat People Simone Simon as a woman vvho turns into a cat
and kills the men vvho make her mad, Go for it, sister,
1:00 AM RB PROD The Robin Byrd Show. male and female strippers;
Manhattan Cable, CH V/35 (1:001
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SATURDAY, APRIL 20
8:30 AM WBAI-FM Any Saturdaywith David Rothanberg; live call-in; 99,5
FM (2:001
7:00 PM GCN Gay U.SA.: news and entertainment from around the country;
Bo, Unity, Ar:N Cable, CH 56 (1:001(For Manhattan Cable, see THURSDAy)
11:00 PM Gay w'·male porn; Manhattan Cable, CH V/35
1:30 AMRB PROD The RobIn Byrd Show. male & female strippers;
Manhattan Cable, CH V/35 (1:001

SUNDAY, APRIL 21••

1:00PM WNET-1V TurnstilesA program on home health care, CH 13.
7:30 PM WBAI-FM The Gay Show Alternates with Outlooks. 99,5 FM (1:001,
111".30PM RB PROD Men For MelT. Robin Byrd presents gay male pornostars; Manhattal\ Cable, CH V/35 (:301
11:00 PM GBS Way Out! Mark Chesnut and Michelle VanVoorhies hostRich Volo is the producer. CH C/16 (:301,•,

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Monday• Millennium (ladies Night.) 1770 New York
Ave. (Route 110) Huntington, LJ, (516)3511402.
Paranel (Uncoln Palsgrove IV, Scott Currie andChauncy present Satyricon. Featuring
Matthew Kasten's beauties and Bold Soal
Sisters.DJ Johnny Dynell, $12.)229 W. 28th
St (212)563-9292,
Private Eyes (YMVA Night. Attracts students
and professionals,) 12 W. 21st St. (212)206-

Private Eyes (Marc Berkley's Kool Komrads;
strippers; downtown crowd, students, professionals. 2-4-1 drinks till midnight ,$7)12
W 21 St (212)206-

nn.

Tuesday• Clit Club (Drink specials till midnight Lesbianerotic videos and slides. $3 before midnight/$5 after,) Pyramid, 101 Avenue A. (212)420-1590.
• <\-Club Edelweiss (TVs, TSs, gays, bi's, singles, couples; Tuesdays are especially for
lesbians, but everyone is welcome.) 167 W,
29th St (212)868-6989.
Danceteria (Coming soon: Chip Duckett's gay
Tuesdays. Keep your eyes on this space for
opening,) 29 E. 29th St• Grand Central (Women's night tonight Mixed
We-Su.) 210 Merrick Rd. Rockville Centre,lI, (516)536-4800,
Jack Officer'S Club (Cruising, Bruising, Drinking
and Carousing, Audio, Video and Manual
Manipulation by OJ Craig. $3)505 E. 6th St,
between avenues A and B.
Roxy (John Blair's "Muscle on Wheels." Gayrollerskating. Doors open at 8 pm. Varied
cover.) 515 W 18 St (212)645-5156.

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Wednesday<\-Channel 69 (Drag Extravaganza, with Linda
505-5033.
Simpson, Go-go stars, OJ Dany Johnson,<\-Copacabana (Susanne Bartsch. last TIl of theSexy, upbeat, East Village fag and dyke
month. Iffy door) 10 E. 60th St., at Fifth
crowd. $5.) Pyramid. 101 Avenue A. (212)Avenue. (212)755-6010.
420-1590, .
Excalibur ($1 drinks.) located at the corner of
The Building (Dallas' The Boys' Room. House
10th Street andJefferson behind football
music, downtown crowd, go-go boys and astadium. Hoboken, NJ, (201)795-1161.
60-foot ceiling. $10/$7 with invite,) 51 W.
Hatfield's (2-4-1 drinks, female impersonators.)
26th St (212)576-1890.
126-10 Queens Blvd. Kew Gardens, Queens,• Excalibur (ladies Night $1 drinks,) located(718)261-8484,
at the corner of 10th Street andJefferson. Mora Men (Tony, Keith and Dominic present OJ
behind football stadium, Hoboken, NJ. (201):j ,Tommy Richardson, go-go boys, videos, bil795-1161.
liards, $101$7with invite,) 239 Seventh Ave.
<\-Limelight (Disco 2000, with Michael Alig and(212) 5788-3283,
larry Tee, Doors open at 10 pm, $10.) Sixth
Stingray's (New club, new sound system,
Avenue at 20th Street (212)807-7850,
everything else is a surprise. No cover<\-Limelight (Queer U, DJs Andy Anderson andtonight) 641W. 51st St (212)664-8668.
Keoki. $5/$10) Sixth Avenue at 20th Street.
(212)807-7850.
Friday• Cadillac Bar (Gini DeSantis presents Pure
ABC (Chip Duckett presents OJ Merritt andParty Production Dances for Women, Free
dancing in the ·ballroom and balcony. Dinahbuffet from 6-8 pm. Renee Cooke, barin the upstairs lounge, $10/$7 w. invite.) 17
tender. $5,)16 W. 22nd St., between Fifth
Irving Place at 15th Street
and Sixth avenues.
The Bank (Alternative Music Night, hosted by• Private Eyes (Shesca pe Afterwork Party fromlee Chappell, David Leigh and Michael T, OJ. 5--10 pm, 2-4-1 drinks before 7. $5 before 7
Ralph Duncan, Mixed crowd, $101$7,)225 E.
pm/$7 after,) 12 W, 21st St. Shescape: (212)
Houston St, at Essex Street (212)505-5033- 645-6479. Private Eyes: (212)2rJ6-7772.
• Clit Club (Jocelyn & Julie present Clit Club
Private Eyes (YMVA Night. Students, profesWest With go-go girls and lesbo videos, $1
sional and women. Door often benefits adrinks between 8 and 9 pm. Doors open at 8
gayflesbian organization, $7,)12 W, 21st St.
pm, $5)432 W 14th St (212)406-1114.
(212)2rJ6-7772.
Columbia Dances (Rrst Friday dances. 10 pm to .
Silver Lining (2-4-1 drinks.) 175 Cherry lane,
2 am.) Columbia University Earl Hall, 116th
Aoral Park, 1I. (516)354-9641,
Street at Broadway. Daytime phone: (212)Stutz (2-4-1 drinks,) 202 Westchester Ave,854-3574,
White Plains, NY.(914)761-3100,• Hatfiald's (Women's night.) 126-10 Queens
Blvd, Kew Gardens, Queens. (718)261-8484.
Thursday·
Mea Culpa (For men, with dancing, video and
The Bank (Upstairs it's Sperm Bank for Fags,
live entertainment. $7/$10.) 47 W, 20th St.
with hostess Hapi Phace, DJs Craig(212)807-7840.
Spencer and Victor Anonymous? DownMeat on Friday (Xclusive perfonnances at 1:30
stairs, Egg Bank for Dykes features guest
am, OJ Nobody's Pussy. $5.) Pyramid, 101
DJs and hot and sleazy Girl Action. $101$7)
Avenue A. (212)420-1590.
225 E. Houston St" at Essex Street. (212)72 OUTWEEK April 24. 1_1,

Stingray's (New club, new sound system, Free
before 10 pm, $7 after,) 641 W, 51st St (212)664-8668,• Visions 56-01 Queens Blvd, Woodside,
Queens. Info: (718)846-7131. Club: (718)8999031.

Saturdaylbe Bank ( Controversy. OJ Patrick Butts. Dragqueens, drinking, dancing and scandal,$15/$10/$7,)225 E. Houston St., at Essex
Street (212)505-5033.
Barefoot Boogia (A party for adults and kids,
2nd and 4th Saturdays of the month, Smokeand alcohol-free. April 27 is themed "AfroPop." 8:30 pm to 12:30 am, $5/kidS' free.) 434
Sixth Ave" 4th floor, between Ninth andTenth avenues. (212)857-5152.
Center (2nd & 4th Sat, 9 pm to 1 am, $8. OJ Peter
Arden,) 208W, 13th St (212)620-7310,• Center ("Women & Friends." Every first
Saturday, Next is April 6, OJ Gini DeSantis. 9
pm to 1 am,) 208W 13 St. (212)620-7210.
• Clit Club (Jocelyn and Julie expand to both
weekend nights,) The Pyramid, 101 Ave, A.
(212)420-1590.
Club West End (Michael Fesco's Saturdays;
midnight - 9 am) 547W, 21st St
Columbia Dances (Third Saturday dances withOJ Karin Ward. 10 pm to 3 am, $5.) Columbia
University
Earl Hall, 116th Street at
Broadway. (212)629-1989.
419419 N. Highway, Southampton. lI, (516) 283- .
5001.
Love Zone (dancing & perfonners) 70 Beach St
Staten Island. (718)442-5692.
.Girl Saturdays (Shescape presents SaturdayNights for Women,With go-go girls and aguest OJ, $8 before 10:30/$10 aftilr,)20}20. 20
W, 20th St" between Fifth and Sixth
avenues. (212)645-6479,
Maat (OJ Aldo Hernandez, every Saturday; gogo boysi videos; opens 10 pm; $5) 432 IN 14
St
Paranel (John Blair and The Athletic Complex
present New York's hottest go-go boys, OJ
Tommy Richardson, $15.) 229 W. 28th St(212)563-9292.
<\-Roxy (locomotion. Gay boys, men; straightwomen, some lesbians,) 515 W, 18th St.,between Terith and Eleventh avenues, (212)645-5156.
• Silver Lining 175 Chllrry lane. Aoral Park, lI,(516)354-9641,
Sound Factory (Mixed crowd but mostly gay,
Serious House music offered, No alcll.hol,
Doors open at 11 pm,) 530 W, 27th SI,;between Tenth and Eleventh avenues, (212)643-0728,
Stingray's (Brand new club, brand new soundsystem, everything else is a surprise. $8.)
641W. 51st St. (212)664-8668.
The World (ChriStina Vista and Junior Vazquez•

present an after-hours party; Doors open at
midnight) 254 E. 2nd St, at Avenue C.

SundayThe Building (Dallas' The Men's Room. Students, professionals,
Go-go boys and 60foot ceilings,) 51 W, 26th St (212)576-1890,
Crazy Nanny's (Sunday evening Tea D!lnce,
Free before 9 pm/$5 after.) 21 Seventh Ave,
South. (212)366-6312.
1\-fUCKI (DJs Craig and Victor spin industrial,house, bass, soul and twirly
disco,
Downstairs, the Lesbian Luv Lounge with OJ
Lori E. Seid and guest DJs, $5,) Pyramid, 101
Avenue A. (212)420-1590.
KeUy's (OJ Moaning Usa spins the records for
dancing dykes, Doors open at 8 pm, $3,)46
Bedford St (212)929-9322.
Monster (Sunday Tea Dance at 4 pm; dancing
also on other nights from 10 pm) 80 Grove
St at Sheridan Square. (212)924-3557,
Parallel (Michael Fesco presents Sunday Tea
Dance. Open bar 5-7 pm. Complimentaryhors d' at 7. Go-go boys. $6.)229 W. 28th St(212)563-9292.
Safe Sundays (Kool Komrads' party at the
Cadillac Bar; go-go boys, $2 shots, $5 beer
bias from 5-8 pm,) 15 W, 21st St (212)6457220.·.SOBs (Leticia Montalvo presents The Lust
House, First Sunday of the month only,
Grand opening April 7, with OJ Marlow. $5.)
204 Varick St, at Houston, (212)243-4940,

Every Night (or almost)• Bedrock (Lesbian club, closed Mo and Tu,)
121 Woodfield Rd, West Hempstead, LI, (516)486-9516.
1\-Club Edelwei .. (Tuesdays are for lesbians,
but it's open to ali Tu-Su.) 167 W, 29th St(212)868-6989,
419 (Opens 6 pm.) 419 N, Highway (Rte 27),
Southampton, LI. (516)283-5001.
Grand Central 210 Merrick Rd, Rockville Centre,
LI. (516)536-4800,
Magic Touch (Anglo/Latin/Asian) 73-13 37th Rd.
Jackson Heights, Queens, (718)429-8605.
MonSter 80 Grove St, at Sheridan Square. (212)924-3557,• Pendora·s Box (formerly
the Duchess)
Sheridan Square & 7th Avenue, (212)242-•

Chelsea
Barbary Coast, 64 Seventh Ave. (14th St)675-0385
The Break, 232 Eighth Ave, (22nd St)627-0072
Cellblock 28,28 Ninth Ave., 733-3144(M-W). Chelsea Transfer, 131 Eighth Ave. (bat 16th and17th)92~ 7183
Eagle's Nest, 142 Eleventh Ave. (21st St)691-8451
Private Eyes, 12W. 21st St (bat Fifth and Sixth
avenues)2OB.7770
Rawhide, 212 Eighth Ave., (21st St), unlisted
Spike, 120 Eleventh Ave,,243-9688
The Vault, 28 Ninth Ave" 733-3144 (F, 7-11 pm,
women) 255-6758

West Village
Badlands, Christopher lind Weststreats, 741-9236
Boots & Saddle, 76 Christopher St, 929-9684
Crazy Nanny's 21 Seventh Ave. S., 366-6312(\Vomen)
D.T.'s Fat Cat 281 W, 12th St,243-9041
Pandora's Box, 70 Grove St (Seventh Ave.) 2421408 (women)
Dugout. 185 Christopher St, 242-9113
Eighty-Eights, 228 W. 10th St, 924-0088

The Hangout (J's)679 Hudson St,242-9272
Julius, 159W, 10th St,929-9672
Keller's, 3B4West St/Christopher, 243-1907
Kelly's Village West, 46 Bedford St, 929-9322
Marie's Crisis, 59 Grove St, 243-9323
The Monster, 80 Grove St (Seventh Ave,) 924-3558
New Jimmy's 53 Christopher St, 463·0950
Ninth Circle, 139W, 10th St, 243·9204
Sneakers, 392 West St, 242-9830
Two Potato, 145 Christopher St, 242-9340
Ty's, 114 Christopher St, 741·9641
Uncle Charlie's, 56 Greenwich Ave., 255-8787

Tribeca
Altar, 161W. Broadway. 571·7272.

West Side
Candle Bar, 309 Amersterdam Ave., 874-9155
Cat's, 730 Eighth Ave., 221-7559•
Don't Tell Mama, 343 W. 46th St, 757-0788
Gents, 360 W, 42nd St, (Ninth Ave,)967-0659
Sally's Hideaway, 264 W, 43rd St,221·9152
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1408.
lbe Pyramid (Look under daily listings for individual parties and themes. Also check Going
Out for special events,) 101 Ave, A, (212)420-1590.
Spectrum (Look under daily listings for individual parties and themes. Coors served,) 802
64th St., at Eighth avenue, Bay Ridge,
Brooklyn, (718)238-8213.
• Tod's (Night club and restaurant. Mostly
women, but men are OK.)2 Georges Rd.
New Brunswick, NJ, (201)545-8990.

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& Countly, Ninth Ave, at 45th St.307-1503,

236-030!1.

Trix, 246 W. 48th St, ( 664-8331

Friend's Tavern, 78-11 Roosevelt Ave" Jackson
Heights,397-7256
Halfield's, 126-10 Queens Bivd.,Kew Gardens,..

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The Works, • 428 Columbus Ave, (at 81st), 799-7365·

East.,Side

261-8484

Bogart's, 320 E. 59th St, 688-8534
Brandy's Piano Bar, 235 E, 84th St.,650-1944
G,H. Club, 353 E. 53rd St.,223-9752
Johnny's Pub, 123 E.47th St,355-8714
NY Confidential, 300 E.49th St.,308-8390
Rounds,303 E, 53rd St., 593-0807
South Dakaote, 405 3rd Ave., (29th St) 684-8376
Star Sapphire, 400 E. 59th St.,688-4710
The Townhouse, 236 E. 58th St,754-4649
Twenty-Nine Palms, 129 Lexington Ave" 686-8299

Hideaway, 87-36 Parsons Blvd., Jamaica,657-4885. Love Boat, 77-02 Broadway, Elmhurst. 29-8670
Magic Touch, 73-13 37th Rd., Jackson Heights,

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Playroom, 590 Nepperhan Ave" Yonkers, 965-6900
Stutz, 202 Westchester Ave., White Plains,761-3100

The Bar, 68 2nd Ave., (4th St.) 674-9714
Cave Canem, (Fr and Sa dinners, Su brunches) 24
First Aile., 529-9665 (women)
Pyramid, 101 Ave. A, 420-1590
Tunnel Bar, 116 1st Ave., (7th St) 777-9'l:rl

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After Five Plus, 5 Front St, 852-01 39
Spectrum, 802 64th St, (Eighth Ave,), 745-9611•
SW!lat Sensations, 6322 20th St, 435-2580

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Club Swamp, Disco/Annex Restaurant, Montauk
Hwy, Wainscott. 537-3332
Ice Palace, Cherry Grove Beach Club, Fire Island,

Millennium, 1770 New York Ave" Huntingdon,
351-1402
Stall, 836 Grand Blvd" Deer Park, 242-3857
Thunders, 894 Jericho Turnpike, Smithtown, 864-1410

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Bedrock, 121 Woodfield Rd" West Hempstead,~9516(women)
Blanche, 47-2 Boundary Ave" Farmingdale, 694•
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Grand Central, 210 Merrick Rd" Rockville Centre,

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Station House Pub,:fi47 Merrick Rd.,Seaford,785-9IDICharlie's West, 536 Main St., E. Orange, 678-5002
Faather's,77 Kinderkamack Rd" River Edge,
342-6410
Friendly's Bar, 6310 Park Ave., West New York,854-9895
Excalibur, 10th and Jefferson, Hoboken, 795-1023
Nite Lite, 509 22nd St, Union City,863-9515
Vibrations, 165 Cedar Lane, Teaneck, 836-5518
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Thursday, Kitchen open Noon till Midnight
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A.c.a.c.-AIJS CENTEROFQUEENSCounty Social Seriveces Education • Buddies· Counseling· support Groups VoIunlMr Oppottuniti.. (718) 896-2500, (voice) (718)
89&-2985ITDD)ACT UP (AIDS COAUTION TO
UNlEASH POWER)
496A Hudson Street, Suite G4
NYC 10014 (212) 564-2437 A
divers.e, non-partisan group ofindividuals united in anger andcommitted to direct a ction toend the AIDS crisis. Gen. meetings Mon. nights 7:30, in The
Great Hall, Cooper Union, on
Cooper Square between Astorand St Marlts Place's.

and church and upholding thecivil rights of Lesbian and Gay
Atheists. Meetings the firsts
Sunday Community Center, 1 to
3 P.M. Dial a Gay Atheists(718)899-1737,24 hours.
ARCS (AIDS-RElATED
CotmIIrity Servi_)
for Dutchess, r:lrange, Putnam,
Rockland, Sullivan, Ulster andWestchester
counties. AIDS
education, client services, crisis
intervention, support groups,
case management, buddy andhospitel visitor program. 214
Central Ave., White Plains, NY
10606 (914) 993-0606 838 Broadway, Newburgh, NY 12250 (914)562-5005 AIDSlina (914) 9930Ii07

ADULTSURVIVORS OFSEXUAL ABUSE(Sponlllf8d by SAGE)
Mondays, 7:00 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.
Sage Room at the Center
Exparimantal
Tharapy Groupfor Woman (Ages 21 end up) to
support the recovery process
and free you from the pain andsilence of sexual abuse. In asafe setting, we sha re feelings,
develop relationships with innerchildren,and exploreandrelease beliefs and patterns
that block growth. This re-inter•••gratlve processassists
In
uncovering your self worth andinner strength. Psychotherapists Joyce Z. Meyers;CSW.,
and Robbye Stuart-Russell,
MA facilitate the group.
AfRICAN AMERICAN
WlMMIN UNITED FOR
SOCIETAL CHANGE
lesbian_ " Gay Community Center 208 West 13th Street, NY.,NY
Meeting every Thursday 8:00 P.M
AIDS RESOURCE CENTER (ARC)
Supportive housing for homele8s PWAs (Bailey House andapartments).
Non-judgmental
pastoral care for PWAs andloved ones. Volunteer opportunities, (212) 481-1270, 24 West
30th St, NYC 10001
ALOEClAPlN-NY(A,ian Lasbians of the E.. t
Coa,t/As.ian Pacific La,bianNatwork-Naw York) We are apolitical, social and supportive
network of Asian Pacific lesbians. Planning meetings on the
1st Sunday and social eventson the last Friday of eachmonth. Call (212)517-5598 formora infonnation.

AMERICAN GAY/WBlANAlHBSrS
AGA.lnc/701 7th Avenue, Suite
9W/New Yorlt, New York 10036
A non-profit, educational organization dedicatod to preserving separation between state

ASIANS" FRIENDS- N Y
A not-for-profit
organization
which promotes friendships with
Asian/Pacific Islander, AsianAmerican,. and non-Asian gay
men through social, cullllral, educational, and service activities
and programs. Call our Hotline:
212-674-5084, or write to: P.O.Box
6628, NY,NY10163-6023.
ATR (AIDS TREATMENTIIESOIllCES, INC.)
Publishes a quartarly Directory ofclinical trials of experimental
AIDS/HIV treatments in NY/NJ,
and Philadelphia, and has educational materials/ seminars for trial
participants. ATR also advocates
for improvements in the trial system. 259 W. 30th St, 9th fl., NYC,
1(XX11.
(212) 268-4196. Publications
free/donation requested.
BAR ASSOCIATION FOR
HUMAN RIGHTS
Lawyers Referral Service forthe Lesbian and Gay Community
Full Range of Legal Services(212) 459-4873 Free Walk-in
Legal Clinic. Tuesday 6-8 pm.
Lesbian " Gay Community
Centro Ground Roor
BIDS (BISEXUAL DOMINANCE"SUBMISSION GROUP)
Share S/M experiences
andfantasies with others in a positive, non-judgmental
atmosphere. First Sunday of themonth, 4:45pnJ at the Community
Center 208 W. 13 Street, NYC.
This group is pa rt of the New
York Area Bisexual Network.
BIJOUX (THE BISEXUALJEWISH GATHERING)
Comel Noshl Schmooze I Meetother Jewish bisexual (andallies) and share your interests
at a "show- and-tell: Second
Friday of each month, 6pm at
The Community Center 208 West
13th Street, Part oHhe New
York Area Bisexual Network. formore info. Call (201)440-3902.

BISEXUAL INFORMAnON"COUNSEUNG SERVICE. INC.
A professionally steffed, nonprofit organization for bisexuals, theirfamilies and partners,
facing problems of a psychological or medical kind. WIl also
work with those in doubt about
their sexuality. Confidentiality isprotected by law, For infonnation phone: (212) 498-9500
BISEXUAL PRIDEDISCUSSION GROll"
Topical discussions on issues ofinterest to the community in acongenial
atmosphere,
followed by an informal· dinner ata friendly local restaurant.
Every Sunday, 3:00- 4:30pm at
the Community Center 208 W. 13
Street, NYC. Pa rt of the New
Yorlt Area Bisexual Network.
BISEXUAL WOMEN'S• SUPPORT GROUP
Discussion"
CR Group meets
every 2nd" 4th Wednesday,
6:30 - 8:00 pm at the Community
Center, 208 West 13th Street,Part of NYABN.
BIWAYS NEW YORKMonthly social events for the
Bisexual community and friends.
can NYABNfor details of upcoming events. (212)459-4784
BIPAC (BISEXUAL POUTICAL
AcnON COMMImE)
Political action on issues ofimportance to the Bisexual/lesbian/Gay community. Monthly
meeting! potluck held 8:00pm on
fourth Thursday of the month atmembers homes. Call NYABN
for this month's location. ((212)459-4784
BISEXUAL YOUTH
Infonnalsocial"support groupfor Bisexual kids/youth. Monthly
meeting/potluck
lunch held
1:00pm on fourth Sunday of themonth at members homes. Call
NYABN for this month's location.
This group is psrt of the New YorkArea Bis8Xllal Network.
BLUS-BRONX WBIANS
UNITED IN SISTERHOOD
Is an active, visible, multicultural membership organizationthat is addressing the socialand political needs of the Qronx
Lesbian community. Regularmeetings, the 3rd Fri, 6:30-8 pm
C 208 W. 13 th st. and the 2ndWed, 6:30-8pm et One Fordham
Plaza, Bronx. Call Lisa 212-8299817 (English) or Miriam 212409-2692 (Spanish))
BODY POSITIVE
If you or your lover has tested
HIV+, we offer support groups,
seminars, public forums, referencelibrary,referrals, social

activities
and up-to-datenational monthly, 'THE BODY
POSITIVE' ($25Iyear). (212) 7211348.2095 Broadway, Suite 306,
NY, 10023
BROOKLYN'S WBIAN AND
GAY POUl'ICAL CLUB LAMBDA
INDEPENDENT DEMOCRATS
Ll.D. endorses and works forcandidates in local, state andnational elections, lobbies for legislation, and conducts community
outreach through street fairs andmeetings on special topics. Join
us. 336 Ninth St, Suite 135 Brooklyn, NY11215 (718) 985-8482

CENTER FORANTl-VlOIfNCEEDUCAnONIBROOKLYNWOMEN'S MARTlALARTS
a non-profit organization teaching self-defense and karate for 17
years. 5 week courses in selfdefense for women. Community
worltshops in self-defense. Ongoing classes in karate" tei chi for
women. Courses" workshops in
SD for lesbians" gay men. Sliding fee scale according
toincome. Call for more info. 718783-1775.421 5th Ave., Brooklyn,
NY 11215,
CIRClE OF MORE UGHT
Spiritual support and sharing in agay/lesbian affirmative group.
West-Parlt Presbyterian Church
165 West 86th Street Wed: worship service 6:30 pm, program
7::30.Marsha (212)304-4373 Charlie (212)691-7118.
COMMUNITY COUNSEUNGCENTERGay Affinnative Psychotherapy
for Individ·uals,Couples
andGroups by licensed clinicalsocial worlters and psychologists. Special experience e inaddictions, stress management,
depression, career counseling,
relationshipconcerns,
AIDS
anxiety and coming out issues.
Sliding fee scale. Insurance
accepted, Village location, For
immediate appointment. call 212353-2888. A staff member will
relllm your call within 24 hours.
COMMUNITY HEALTHPROJECT
208 West 13th Street, NYC, New
Yorlt 10011 For Appointments andInformation. (2t2) 675-3559
tnYNoicejPROVIDING CARING,SENSITIVE AND LOW COSTHEALTHCARE SERVICES TO THE
LESBIANAND GAYCOMMUNITYCOMMUNITY HEALTH .
PROJECl', HEAIJH INFORMAnON UNE FOR TEENS
Do you have questions about
your health? Your Body? Coming
Out? Safer Sex? Feel like you
have no one to telk to? Not any
morel Now you can call the
HoTT-LiNE. 212-255-1517The

Teen HOlT-LINE for Healthl Clfll
Monday to Thursday, 7pm to
9pm. At other times, leave a m8&sage and we'll call you backl
COMMUNITY RESEARCH
INmATIVE. NY (CHI)The Community Research Initiative of New Yorlt ("CRI NY" isa not-for-profit,
communitybased centerfor AIDS and HIVrelatad clinical research, Craated in 1987 by people withAIDS and their physicians, CRI
NY tests promising experimental treatments
which many
restore or stabilize immune
unction, and treatments
andpreventions for AIDS and HIVrelated op~ortunistic
Infections.Thereis no change forparticipationin CRI studies.
Many laboratory
tests andphysicals are provided free ofcharge to participants.
Childcare can ·also be provided. All
Identifying information is kept
confidential. Call (212)481-1050
CONGREGAnON BETHSIMCHATTORAH
NY's Gay and Lesbian Synagogue Services Friday at 8:30pm
57 Bethune Street For info. call:(212)929-9498.
CONGREGAnONJI'NAI JESIIlRlI4Monthly Spiritual Gatherings andfree catenad festive luncheons for
a// People With AIDS, their lovers
and families. Program includes
music and discussion led by our
Rabbis. Call(212)787-71KX1DIGNITY-BIG APPlf
A community of Lesbian and Gay
Catholics. Activities include Uturgies and socials !Ivery Sat, 8:00
pm, at the Center, 208 W. 13
Street, NYC,Call(212)816-1309.
DIGNITY NEW YORK
Lesbian and gay Catholics andfriends AIDS Ministry, Spiritual
Development The Cathedral Project Worship Services" SocialSun. Eves. 7::3Opm-StJohn's Episcopal Church 218 West 11th Street
C Waverly-67S-2179
DROP-IN COME OUT .
RAP GROUPSFor L.. bian, and Bi.axual
Woman. Fridays starting April
5th 6:30-8:30 p.m. For Gay andBiMxusl M,n. Saturdays starting April 6th 11:30 a.m.-l:30 pm*$5.00 Donation Rap Group for
Lnbian and Bi-Saxual Woman
oyar40 lst$3rd
Saturd8y8-~p.m. *$5.00 Donation Rap Groupfor L.. bian and Bi-Saxual
Woman Every Saturday 2:305:00 p.m. *$5:00 Donation Rap
Group for gay and Bi-Sexual
Man Every Sunday 2:30 - 5:00
p.m. *$5:00 Donation

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THE FIFTH NEW YORI WBIAN
AND GAY EXPERIMENTAL
RlM FESTIVAL
win be held at Anthology Film in .
September 1991. Submissions
will be -accepted until June 30.
Please aend your 18 or Super - 8
prints or video transfer (only film
will be show at the festival) withretu'rn postage to Jim Hubbar,
503 Broadway, Rm 503, New
York, NY 10012 Early applications and premieres
will begiven priority. For further info
please call (2121925-5883.
FRONT RUNNERS
A-running club for lesbian andgay athletes of all abilities. Fun
Runs of 1-8 miles held every Sat
at lOam and Weds. at 7pm inCentral Park and every Tues. at
7pm in Prospect Park. For information: call (2121724-9700.

ARI,~

GAY
AMERICANS OF
WESlCHESTER(THE G.AA.I
is a ·community based support
group formed in Westchester
County. Various activities areplanned for the coming months.
Call 914-37&-0727for more info.
.GAYFATHER'S FORUM
A,support 'organization for gay
father's, their lovers, and others
in child-nurturingsituations.
Monthly meetings include a
potluck supper, support groups
on varied specialized
topics,speakera, and socializing.Ml'etings: 1st Friday each month,7pm,
at The Center, 208 W. 13th St.,
West of 7th Ave. Contribution: $8.
Bring a main course for 4 people(or pay a $5 food charge.1 For
information call: 212-979-7541 or
212-288-3238.. " G~Y

l LESBIAN

AwANcE AGAINSTDmMAlION
80 Varick Street, NYC 10013 (2121
98&-1700 GlAAD combats homophobia in the media and elsewhere by promoting visibility of
the lesbian and gay communityand organizinggras~roots
response to anti-gay bigotry. Do
you have 30 minutes a month tolight homophobia?Join the GlAAD
PhoneTr88ICall (2121-98&-1700for
information.

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GUB-GAY AND U:SBIANINDEPENDENT -.OADCASTERS
Gay and Lesbian Independent
Broadcasters invites you to tune
into
OUTLOOKSon WBAi-NY. 99.5•
FM every other Sunday, 7:308~m and join us avery Tuesday
at 7:30pm to 9pm to become ainember of GLIB. No experienceneeded. 505 Eighth Avenue, NY,
NY 10018 4ttn: Outlooks or call
Mack,A1len, (2121473-1689.
GAY.WBIAN
HEALTH CONCBINSAn office of the NYC Dept. of

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EDGE EDUCAnON IN A DIS'ABLED:GAY ENVIRON·MENTFor the physically disabled lesbian and Gay Community. P.O,
Box 305 Village Station, New
York, NY 10014

Health, providaslinkagas
betwn
NYC Health 8. Human· Svcs, andthe Lesbian 8. ·Gay community,
focusing in ALl health concerns;
resource information for healthservices
consumers
andproviders. 125 Worth Street, Box
87, New York, NY 10013. For info
call (2121588-49fl5.
GAY MAl£ SJM ACJMSTS
Dedicsted to asfa and responsible

SIM since 1981. Open meetings
w/prograRlS on SIM techniquas,
lif9St'rie issues, poIiticsland social
concerns. Also special events,
speaker! bureau, workshops,
demos, anmity groups, newsl8tt8r,
more. GMSMA - Dept. 0, 498A
Hudson Street, Suite D23,NYC
l0014~2121727-9BJ1L
GMAD (GAY MEN
OFAFRICAN DESCENT)
80 Varick Street, NYC 10013 a
support group of Gay Men of
African Descent dedicated toconsciousness-raisingand thedevelopment of the Lesbian and
Gay Community. GMAD is inclusive of African, African-Amiliican, Caribbean and Hispanicl
Latino men of color. M88tings
are held, weekly, on Fridays. For
information, call 71B-802-DI82.
GAYMEN'S HEAlJH
CRISIS HOTUNEFOR INFORMATION ON SAFERSEX AND HIV-REIATED HEALTHSERVICES, AND FOR INFORMATION ON ONE-TIME, WALK-IN
AIDS COUNSELING, SERVICES
212-807.-& 212... 7470 TDD(For the .... ring lmpail8dl Mon.Fri. 10::1l am:lD 9 pm. 12:00103:00
GAYSlAMP COlUC110N .
One of the collections on exhibit
will be Alternate Lifestyles outof the Closet. This is the only
gay/lesbian stamp collection ofits kind. It has won'9 gold
awards so far. For informationon GLHSC, send a SASE ,to:
GLHSC, P.O. Box 230940, Hartford, CT 0811B-094O'.

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GIRTH & MIRTH
CUJ8 OF_YORKSocial club for heavy, chubby
gay men 8. their admirers,
Monthly socials at the ·Center',weekly bar nights ThurSdays ·at
the ·Chelsea Transfer'. monthly
Fat Apple Review, bi-monthly
FAR. penpals. For more information call Ernie at 914-899-7735 or
write: G&M/NY, Dept 0; P.O. Box
10. Pelham, NY 10803. ..
ilEAL - (Health Education
AIDS U.ilOnl
Weekly info. and support groupfor trastments for AIDS which do
not compromise
the immune
system further, including alternative and holistic approaches.
Wed 8pm. 208 W. 13th St. (2121874-HOPE.
HERITAGE OF PRIDE-INC.
Organizers of New York's Lesbian and Gay Pride events: theMarch, the Rally and the Danceon the Pier. Call (2121 891-1n4

for meeting schedule or more
informatro~.
208 West 13thStreet,.NY. NY 10011.
INSTITUTE FOR WBIAN ANDGAHOUTH.
Couns8iing, drop-in centsr (M-F, 38pml. rap groups, Harvey Milk
High School, AIDS and safer sex
inforinaIion, referrals; professional
education. (2121833-8920 (voicel(212183H928 TrY for deaf.
HISPANIC UNITED GAYS & WBIANS
Educational services, politicalaction, counseling and social
actiVities in Spanish and Eng6sh by.and for the Latino Laabian and Gay
Comnunity. General meatings 8:00
pm 4th Thursday of avery month at
2111 West 13th street Call 201-87824 orwrite H.U:G.L.,P.O.Box 228
Canal Street Station, New Yorl<,NY10019.
IDENTITY HOUSE
Now in our 20th yaar, Wi! provide
peer counSilling, therapy referrals arid groups fot the lesbian,gay and bisexual community.
Call us at (2121243-8181. Visit us
at 544 8th Ave., between 14thl!i1h Streets, Manhattan.
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INTERNATIONAL GAY8.
LESBIAN HUMAN RIGHTSCOMMISSION
works to focus the spotlight ofworld opinion on the oppressionof gays and lesbians throughout
the world. Currently organizing
an·fntfsympcisium
on Gay andLesbil\n issues to be held in
MoscOW and Lenin-grad in July
199) •.in addition to many otherexciting ·projects. For more info
write 'IGLHRC, 2978 Folsom
Street;,SFCA
94110, or call
(415164<T-0453.

INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN
IJENmYI\lc.
New,York'iI non-profit lesbianand '!lay psychotherapy center.
Ucensed psychologista, psychiatrists, and clinical social workers.
Sliding scale fees. Insurance
accepted. Individual, couple, andfamily therapy. Variety of Man's
and women's groups forming
coiltinuously. 118 W. 72nd Street
212-799-9432, INTEGRIlYINY
Lesbian and Gay Episcopalians
and friends. Eucharist and pro. gram:every Thursday, 7~m. St
Luke's· Church, Hudson andChristopher Sts. INFO: P.O. Box5202, NYNY10185(7181720-3m4
ICLGO--(KOREAN WBIAN
AND GAY DRGANIZATIONIIs a group of lesbian and gay
Koreans who are committed tosupporting each other, creating
positive visibility and confronting anti-lesbian
and gay
bias within the Korean community. For more information call
Gene (212I4n-8558
LATINO GAYMEN OF NEWYORK(LGM I NYI
Is dedicated to consciousness-,raising. education, support andempowerment
for Latino gay
men. We are inclusive of Latino
gay men of all nationalities, colors and ages. We meet weekly
and publish a monthly calenderof events. For more information
call (7181834-8785 or write to
P.O. Box 7108 Grand Central
Station N.Y~N.V.10183.
lAMBDA lIGALDEHNSE
AND BlUCAlJON RftD
Precedent-setting
litigation
nationwide
for lesbians, gay
men and people with AIDS.
Membership ($40 and upl inc.
newsletterand invitations to
special events. Volunteer nighton Thursdays. Intake calls: 24pm Mon thru Fri (2121995-8585.
LAVA
WBIANS ABOUT
VlSUALART
Call for slidas for Lasbian Artista'
Exhibition, Gay 8. Lesbian Community Center, NYC. For more
information,
send SASE to :Miriam Fougere, 118 Fort Greene
Place, Brooklyn, NY 11217.
LESBIAN AND GAY
ADULT EDUCATORS
Meet with other lesbians andgays who work in adult education as teachers, administrators,
counselors, tutors, etc., to discusa isauas such as coming out
to steff and students. materials
and curriculum, workshop andconference
participation.
We
meet the first Friday of every
month at 8:00 pm at the lesbian
and gay Community Center 208
West 13th Street Call Bryna Diamond at (2121932-7902 (dayslfor
information

THE WBIAN AND GAY
BIGAPPlE CORPS
Get your instrument out of thecloset and come play with us.
Symphonic, Marching, Jazz, Dixieland, Rock, Flute Ensembles
and Woodwinds. 123 West 44th
St Suite 12L New Yorl<,NY 10038(2121869-2922.
LESBIAN & GAY COMMUNIlYSERVICES CENTER
208 West 13th Street New York,NY 10011 (2121820-7310 9am"pm everyday. A place forcommunity organizing and networking, so·cial services, cultural programs,
and social
events sponsored by the Centerand more than 150 community
organizations.
WBIAN AND GAYlABOR NETWORKAn organization of Lesbians andGays who are active in theirlabor
unionsworkingondomestic partnership benefits
and AIDS issues. For more
information call (2121923-8890.
WBIAN AND GAYRIGIITS PROJECT
of the Am.rican Civil Ub.rti ••Union KNOW YOUR RIGHTSI
WE·RE EXPANDING THEM (2121
944-9800, ext. 545

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WBIAN & GAYTEACIIERS
ASSOCIAnON-- NYC
The LGTA has bean in existence
since 1914. We promote theneeds and rights of Gay/Lesbian
educators,
students and parents. We re currently in active
negotiations with the Board of
Education concerning the multicultural curriculum; sensitivity
training of guidance councilors,social workers, and teachersand many other issuas. We also
have a friendly working relationship with the U.F.T. For more
information call (7181828-4899(718159&-1884
WBIANS AND GAYSOFRATBUSH
Brooklyn's social organization
for both gay men and lesbians.
P.O. Box 108, Midwood Station
Brklyn, NY
11230, (7181859-9437,
WBIAN HERSTORY ARCHIVES
P.O. Box 1258 New York, NewYork 10118212/874-7232Since
1974, the Archivas has inspired,shaped and reflected Lesbian
lives everywhere.
Call toarrange a visit or to volunteer
forThursdayworknights•.
UFEUNETHE NAnONAL LESBIAN ANDGAYTOLL-FREE SERVICE
1-aJO.UfE.

LOST PEER SUPPORTSERVICES (LPSSI
Lost Peer Support Services,.
new program 10 provide counaaling and support to the lesbian,gay and bisexual community ofGreater Westchester, is planningits. first volunteer training. Thoseinterested in becoming groupfacilitators and peer counselors
should call the Lost switchboard
at (9141 948-4922 for further
details. Experience and beginning volunteers welcomed.
LONG ISlAND ACT-UP
M88ts Tuesdays at8pm at 181 PIliIt
Ave. in WestburY, NY.Support us
for change on Long Island. Mailingaddress: PO Box 514,Westbury, NY
115!K1.51~
LSM
is a support and information groupfor lesbians and bisexual women
intsrastsd in fantasy, ro/e'p/aying,
bondage, discip6ne, 81M, fetishes,
alternate gender identities, costumes and so forth. Membershipis available only to women 18
years and older. Actualexperience is not required but genuine
inlDrest and an open mind ara. For
information plasse write: P.O. Box993, Murray HmStation, New YorI<,
NY10158
MARANATHA: RIVERSIDERS
FOR WBIAN/GAY CONCERNSMonthly program meeting on
second Sunday for gay/lesbian
Christians and friends. Educational, political, and socialactivities scheduled. 12:30 p.m. Riverside Church, 490 Riverside Drive,
Sunday worship 10:45 a.m .. For
info.,call (2121222-5900 (ext. 2901

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MEN OFALLCOLORSTOGEIHBI NY
A muhi-racial group of gay men
against racism. Meetings every
Friday night at 7:45 at the La&bian and Gay Community Services Centllr,208 W. 13111Street
For more info. call: (212) 24563118or(212) 222-9794.
MErROPOUTAN TENNISGROUP(MfG)
Our 200 member lesbian andgay tennis club includes playera from beginning to tournament level. Monthly tennis
parties. Winter indoor league.
Come play with usl For information: MTG, Suite K83,496-A
Hudson St., New York, NY
10025. (718) 852-8582,
MaCA (MEN OF COLORAIDSPREVENTIONPROGRAM.)
Provides safer sex and AIDS
education information to gay
and bisexual Men of Color;
coordinatesa network ofpeer-support groups for gay
and bisexual Men of Color inall 5 boroughs of New York
City 303 Ninth Ave, New York,
NY100010r call (212) 239-1798.
NATIONALGAYANDLESBIANTASK FORCE
is the national grassroots political organization for lesbians
and gay men. Membership is$3O/year. Issue-oriented projects . address
violence,
sodomy laws, AIDS, gay rights
ordinances, families, media,
etc. through lobbying, education, organizing and direct
action. NGLTF 1517 U Street
NW, Washington, DC 20009.
(202)332-6483,

NEW YORKADVERTISINGAND COMMUNICATIONSNETWORKNYACN is the community's
largest gay and lesbian profe.ional group, welcoming all
in communication.
and theirfriends. Monthly meetings, 3rd
Wed 8:30pm at the Community
Center. Members' newsletter,job hotline, annual directory.
Phone (212) 517-0380 for more
info. Mention OutWeek for
one free newsletter.
N.Y.FEMMESSupport and discu.ion groupfor 198bians who self identify as
Femme and are primarily
attracted to butch women. For
membership information call
Lisa (212)829-9817.
N.Y.WOMEN'S SOFTBALl
GUIlD
For experienced, serious Softball Players, Coaches andManagers. We play mod/fast. pitch weekends in Manhatten
and Queens. Try-outs begin
Feb. 11 thru April- or until
filled. (212)255-1379 Janet
NINTH STREEr CENTER
Since 1973, a community dedicated to demonstrating that ahomosexual lifestyle is a ratio-nal, desirable choice for individuals dissatisfied with therewards of cOl1Ventionalliving.
Psychologi cally - focu.ed ra pgroups, Tues., Sat, 8 to 10 pm.
peer cllunselling available. 319
E. 9 Street, New York,NY10003,
for info call (212)22&-5153.
NORTHAMERICAN
MANIIIOYLOVEASSOCIATION (NAMBLA)
Dedicated to sexual freedom
and especially interested in
gay intergenerational
relationships. Monthly Bulletin
and regular chapter meetings
on the first Saturday of eachmonth. Yearly membership is$20; write NAMBLA. PO Box
174, Midtown Station, New
York, NY 10018 or call (212)807-8578 for information.
NORTHERNUGHTSAIlBINATIVES
Improving Quality of Life for
People with AIDS/HIV. THE
AIDS MASTERYWORKSHOP:
Exploring the possibilities of apowerful and craative life in theface of AIDS. Can (212)255-8554
NYCGAY.. LESBIANANTI-VlOLENCEPROJECT
Counseling, advocacy, andinformation for survivors ofanti-gay and anti-lesbian violence, sexual assault, domestic
violence, and other typea ofvictimization. All servic98 freeand confidential.24 hour hotline (212)807-0197
PARENTS/RIIENDS OFLESBIANAND GAYS
Let P/FLAG help you and yourfamily deal with the uph98val ofyour coming out Our meetings
a re free: monthly on the 4th
Sunday, at 3:00 pm, in Duane
Church,201 West 13111.lnf07can
J98nne,212~
PEER COUNSWNG FORSURVIVORSOF BIAS ASSAULT,DOMEmC VIOLENCEANDSEXUALASSAULTThe New York City Gay andL.sbian Anti-Viol.nc.
Proj.ct (AVP) is offering freepeer counseling for lesbians
and gay men who are survivors of bias assault, dome&tic violenceand sexual
ISsault. Trained volunteer
peer counselors will be available from 8 to 8 PM av.ry
Wedn.sday and Thunday at
the AVP offic.s, 208 W .. t
13th Str •• t. AVP offers freecounseling, advocacy andinformation and referrals tosurvivors of bias ISsault,
domestic violence and sexualassa ult Call (212) 807-0197 formora informatioJL
PEOPLEWJI1I
AIDS COAUTION(212) 532-029Q(I-BOO-828-328(VHodine (212) 532-0588Monday
thru Friday lOa~
Meal programs, support groups, educational and referral services for
J7WA'sand PWArc's.

PEOPLEWJI1I AIDSIEAIJH GROUP
Underground buyer's club
importing not-yet-approved
medications and nutri1ionalsupplements.31 West 28th St 4thAoor(212)532-a280
PINK PANTHERPATROL
Community street patrol in
East and West Village dedicated to deterring violent
crime against gays and lesbians. For info and meetingtime for West Village, call
212-475-4383. for East Village
Patrol info, call 212-248-8588.
70 A Greenwich Ave., Box107, NYC10011
PROFESSIONALSIN
RlM/VIDEO
338 Canal Street, 8th Aoor, NYC
l0013212-e45-3351
QUEERNATION
Queer Nation is a multi-cultural direct action group dedicated to fighting homophobia,
queer invisibility, and all formsof oppr98sion that any queers
might face. Anyon a can suggest an action and shouldcome to meetings prepared toorganize and implement it aN,
208 W. 813111St., New York, NY
10011. Ca II 212-978-8720 for
meeting info.
SAGE:(SENIOR ACTION
IN A GAYENVIRONMENT)Social Service Agency. providing care, activiti98," aducationalservices
for gay"lesbian senior citizens. Also
serves over 180 homeboundseniors .. older PWA's,.208
Wast 13111St NYC10011, (212)741-2247
SETHIAN GAYS,LESBIANSAM) BISEXUALSFor aD of us intllrastlld in reaching out to 98ch other in exuberance to spontaneously explore
and expand upon the SallVJanB
Roberts 'Philosophy'
a. it
relates to our liv98, personally,sexually and politically. CIII AI(212)725-1289,x287

TASK FORCE
ANNO.UNCEMENT
The lagal Action Center
located at 153 Waverly Place,
NY, NY 10014, has begun two
naw programs. All their services are free. The HIV/AIDS
Lagal Service Project provid98
free legal services to people
with HIV/AIDS.Their scope ofservice is wide, encompassing
child care and custody, discrimination, ,housing, healthy
health planning, 90nfidantiality
and·employment.
The
HIV/AIDSAgency Training andAssistance Project provides
technical assistsnce to public
and private agencies about
legal and policy issues on
HIV/AIDS and drug abuse.
They provide training, individual consultations, and model
policy guidelines, among otheritems. If you have any further
questions, please conts ct Ms.
Catherine O'Neil at (212)2431313. Th. AssociationofNun.s in AIDS Cara (ANAC)
has monthly meetings withspeakers
and networking
opportunities. For meeting info,
pleue contact Janet Vaccariello at (212)34G-8724
THE OUTREACHUSING COMMUNALHEAUNG crOUCH)
Community volunteers providing a weekly buffet supper for
the Brooklyn AIDS community. TOUCH meats Monday
eves. 5pm to 8:30pm- at downtown Brooklyn Friends Meeting House (110 Schermerhorn
St naar Boerum Place). limited transportation
may be. arranged, Info: (718) 622-2756.
TOUCH welcomes contributions of funds, food and volunteers.
ULSTERCOUNTYGAYANDLESBIANAWANCE
Meet. first and third Monday
of each month at 7:30 pm at
the Unitarian Church on
Slwkill Road in Kingston. For
Information, call 914-828-3203

in the following disciplinespainting, drawing, sculpturing,illustration, architecture andpnvironmentsl d98ign, interior
design and graphic dasign.
Should be interested .pleasecall Eric Strauss at (718) 8558491 .
,WHAMI-WOMEN'S HEALTHACTIONAND MOBIUlATlON.
A direct action group committed to demanding. securing anddefending absolute reproductive freedom and quality healthcare for all women. We meat
every Wed. at 6:30pm at 105, E
22nd Street, 4th floor. 212-7135968Mailing address: WHAMI,PO Box 733, NYC10009
WOMENS ALTERNATIVECOMMUN CENTER(WACC)
A non-profit, Lasbian community center serving Queens,
Nassau and Suffolk Counties.
Thurs, night weekly discussion groups. 8:30 pm, for otheractivities plaase contsct us at
518-483-2050.
AMNTlON WOMEN SOFTBALl PLAYERS
There is a Manhatten softballleague looking for players;
especially experienced pitchers. If interestad please callMary at (718) 3n-7279 Hopeto hearfrom you soon.
WRESTUNG FORGAYS&LESBIANS
Watch the men of the knights
wrestling club inaction every
Sunday at 7:30 PM at the GAY
CENTER.The club also conduct training classes on alternate Saturdays afternoon (1st.. 3rd Saturdays for man 2nd.. 4th Saturdays for women)
for more information please
call: 718-639-5141

UNITY 94

SUNDANCEOU11l00R
ADVENIURE SOCIETY
A non-profit club offering Outdoor activitia. for every saason including hiking, biking,skiing, water activitieslnd
other outdoor activitias for the
Gay/Lesbian community. For
information or complimentary
Newslatter call (212) 598-4728.

NEEDS YOUto become a partof itl Organizers for. Gay
Games IV, to be held in New
York in 1994. Olympic-stylesport. and cultural event islargest in world. Theme is
INCLUSION,everyone
isneeded.
SUPPORT THE
GAMES by volunteering, joining or making a donation, Call
212-732-3812 or write
UNITY•'94, PO Box 202, NY,NY10038.

TASKFORCE
ANNOUNCEMENTS
Woman's HIVSupport Group at
34S East 149th Street Room,809,
on Thuradays 11:00- 12:30.Thi•
is an on going closed group for
women who are HIVinfected.
2-3 individual consolation. are
required before admittanceinto group. No fee. For further
information clli Donna Barachof Planned Parenthood/HUB at(212)58S-!iOO1

Y1SUALARTSPROJECT
In Honor'" Artistic Vision
Ellacbld by A.I.D.S.
The Visual Arts Projects isinterested in documenting
and collecting
art work(.lides) by those people whohave AIDS or Arc. It is the
Project's intention to not just·focus on AIDS but on someone' work and artistic vision.
We are interested in receiving
responses from those people
April Z4. ~_1

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to a functional cut in funds,,, And the Budget Enforcement Act
passed last year divides federal funds into
four discrete pools: entitlements, defense
funds, foreign aid and domestic discretionary funds. No pool may increase by
more than five pci-cent, nor may anyone
be raided to fund another, according to
the new law.
The AIDS Action Council has nevertheless committed to gaining full funding
for the disaster relief portion of the Ryan
White Act in the coming fiscal year, tothe tune of $275 million. But Capitol Hill
staffers, who requested anonymity, told
OutWeek that that is unlikely at best.
One
House
Appropriations
Committee staffer said, "It's going to bevery difficult to get full funding," And a
Senate staffer termed the prospects forfull funding "not terribly likely." T- filed from New Yom

was certainly expected, I think we're all
loqking a~ the dilemma of limited funds
and many cases."
Houston's
counciloriginally
thought its city needed $12 million, butwith the smaller pool of available funds,
the council applied for only $5.8 nilllion.
HRSA funded roughly one-third of •Houston's application, awarding the city
$1.8 million. The Centers for Disease
Control ranks Houston fourth among
cities in total AIDS caseload.
Houston, like every other metropolitan area granted money, must now divide
the limited funds as equitably as possible,"It's not going to be an easy process," said Casa's Thorp. "Everyone isvery concerned. Anytime you talk aboutmoney; the conversation gets heated.". But the stark contrast between
need, as demonstrated in an application
for supplemental grant funds, and thefinal allocation is nowhere more apparent than in San Juan, Puerto Rico,
According to a staff member of
OUTTAKES
Puerto Rico's 24-member planning councontinued'frQITI
p_g_
27cil, that conunonwea1th applied for $13,9
November, it gave the issue clarity andmillion in supplemental funds to provide
definition, which has helped push it to
many basic services to one of the fastestthis next, logi~l stage of dealing withgrowing AIDS caseloads in the country.
health insurance,
But San Juan received just underIf this proposal is passed by the$500,000,San Francisq> Board of Supervisors, it.
The island's funding shortfall iswould make~thecity one of the largest
aggravated by a cap recently placed on.
,
ml!,nicipaliti¢s to offer such an incluMedicare spending'in Puerto Rico by thesive health-insurance pian. .
federal govenunent. So, as Puerto Rico's
According to one source, an esti- .
AIDS caseload increases, Medicare funds
mated 2,000 city employees will beremain constant.
taking advantage of the new measure,The 1arge gap between supplemen-Lowell B Denny III
tal grant funds sought and available
funds was also expected by Washingtonbased AIDS lobbyists, Reached for comment prior to the HRSA announcementof the grant amounts, Jeff Levi, the director of government affairs at the AIDS
Action Council, told OutWeek "It's not asurprise, It's a reflection that without full
funding of [the CARE Actl, we are not::>.
,.Ieven beginning to meet the need that isout there."And, according to Levi, funding for
New York'sonly complete•
the Ryan White Act in the coming fiscal
pet care serVIce
year looks worse. President George Bushfor HIV+ people
has sent a budget to Capitol Hill that
For assistance, more information, to make adonation or to volunteer call (212) 744-0842,
contains no new do11arsfor the bill. Afteror write POWARS, P,O. BOX 1116,
indexing for inflation and factoring in an
Madison Station, New York, NY 10159
increasing AIDS caseload, that amounts
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Myers, said that the new projections are
based on rates of infection developed ',in
1981 and assume an incubation periodlof
11 years, They also suppose 5,000 ·new
HIV infections per year since i986. 'And a spokesperson·for
ACT UP
said that the new cases indicate problems
with the department's, education :!pd-prevention campaigns, "They didn't target 'the right people, such as adolesc€p~.andintravenous-drug users but instead havebeen targeting gay ~hite males,~,!.~()~mented David Z. Kirschenbaum. "Their
education programs have not been specific. You hear about 'bodily fluids,' neit
menstrual fluid andblOod."· :' .. ,,',Kirschenbaum predicted that the
hea1th-care system will collapse under theweight of the projected new caseload, aview shared by fellow ACI' UPer Robin
Haueter, He predicts that the result will
include more homeless people with AIDS
and more hospital and ward closures.
The new projections, develope~ by
the Harvard School of Public Health, for
the New York City Department_ofJiealth,
do not give any breakdown for different
groups affected by the disease, That wasa task considered too complex, said
Karanjai, who added that the projections
would be used as a basis for plannin,s forprevention and educational programS.
That planning is going to bediffi•
cult, as the health department has notbeen able·to predict which groups , aremost likely to be affected by the epidemic over the next five years, said
Haueter,"It will be extremely difficult to target educational and prevention programs_
without knowing who are the groups
most affected and most at risk,j" headded, "AIDS has not been on Myers'
agenda since he took office."
And rumor has it that Myers may be ,on the verge of hanging up his -<;ommis-'sioner's hat. Although spokespersons for,Myers denied that he is considering quit-.
ting, published reports have alleg~ that
he is disgruntled with constant budget
cuts and restraints, fed-up with living in
the city and finding it difficult t? surviv~
on his salary of $104,500, which is su~
plemented by a $22,000 per year. teaching position, T,•=_=:_0••.

,,COIIRACTORS'

HORnCULTURISTS
Personal and professional networkingfor lesbi'anand gay Horticulturists. Write UATRIS International PO.. Box 1336 Davis, CA 95617-1336

AimtUR LOVEJOYUCENSED ELECTRICALContractor
repairs and New Instaliations.Commercial and Residential.Courteous, Professional Service Available Eves. andWeekends.(718) 782-4735

HEAlTH PRODDCTSZUMBA. ..THE MUCH SOUGHT AFTER.
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Call Tony or Bill at the
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212-&95-1500
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Formerly of 57th and 2nd Avenue andHotel Sutton. Please contact Bill in Ft
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APARTIEIT SHARE,.
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GW seeks GW roommate to:share
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to apply. Please no phone calls.

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Resume: Cooper-Lambert. 9610 57th
Avenue, 11K, Rego Park NY 11368(Bar in Lancaster, PAl

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To edit and produce newsletter andpromotional materials, draft press
releases and place articles, staff public forums and maintain library for
AIDS research center. Minimum of
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skills and ability to meet deadlines
required, Knowledge of AIDS issues
desirable, Please submit writing sample, resume and salary history.

The Introduction Service for Professionally-Oriented

Call for a free brochure Mon.-Fri. 7 pm-11
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People with AIDS, women and peopleof color are encouraged to apply.

MARKETING MANAGER
Dial Out Corporation, a leader revolu.tionizing the telecommunications
information industry, seeks highly
motivated, creative individual toresearch, develop and implement
marketing plan. Our services include:
factual information,directory assistance, voice mail, entertainment,
teleconferencing, adult & dating services. MBA in Marketing requiredwith mastery offollowing disciplines:
strategic marketing, services marketing, new product design, management, research, segmentation,
pricing, a~vertising. Two years
experience plus in entertainment orservice marketing required. Excellent
benefits, Resume with cover letter(include salary requirements) to:
Ms, Fjeld, Dial Our Corporation, 159
W. 25th Street, 7th FI, New York, NY79
10001. Dial Out is a lesbian and gay
owned corporation.

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respectful and come with landlord refs.
Security required 914-668-0631

SITUATIONS WAITIDSECURITY PROFESSIONAL
I am expo in access control, security
ADM, CCTV & Security operations. I
am also available to supervise yourprivate security needs.
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Send info. to Derek Newman, 350
Laguna St 120, SF, CA 94102
or call 415-626-7853•

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Fully renovated apartments in the art
deco district of Miami Beach. Perfectfull time residences or the best inaffordable second homes.VINTAGE
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Investment, Home or both on thisIsland Paradise. Chose Oldtown
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THIIAPYGAY AND LESBIAN CONCERNS
Depression, Fears, A.A. Issues, Care
Partners Anxieties. I can help.
Licensed for Insurance C.S.W.
Therapist, Upper West Side
212-362-7664
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woman Carol Greitzer is asking thattransit officials close the 16th and 17thstreet exits to the Eighth Avenue subway, Greitzer claims that her survey
found them to be dark and dangerous.
My question is why doesn't she try to
make them light and safe? Closing
streets and passageways is no answer
to the crime problem, Or is Greitzer
just trying to inconvenience
all thegays who voted for Tom Duane in
1989 who use those exits to get to theChelsea Gym?
The new Pride Agenda certainly
has a formidable task ahead. Getting
a bias bill passed will be difficult
because of the Republican senator.
Ditto for a gay rights bill for Long
Island. However, there is only somuch one can rightfully blame on
the Republicans.
,
A Stroke of a Pen
There is one constructive act that
the Pride Agenda can push for which
the Republicans have no say over: agovernor's executive order banning
discrimination based on sexual orientation for all entitites doing businesswith the state. What we currently
have in New York state is an executive order banning discrimination instate-government hiring-not
a wordabout those contracting with the state.
The present executive order is very
similar to the New York City personnel directive former Mayor John Lindsay issued in the early '70s. It wasn't
until Ed "I-am-a-heterosexual"
Kochbecame mayor that the personnel
directive was made into an executive
order outlawing discriminationbycompanies and entitities doing business with the city. All the statewide
order would require is a stroke of thegovernor's pen, Our community has
not been demanding on this score,and it makes our case against theRepublicans weak when we haven't
pushed our Democratic governor touse his power, We demandedasmuch from our mayor, so why do we
expect less from the governor? Let'shope that the Pride Agenda will consider this, -Will it ruffle some gay
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and Doria Palmieri, his ~year~ld roommate, walked into New York's City Halland were married by a state Supreme
Court justice."
Predictably, in the midst of theunprecedented media storm surrounding
this book, most papers ignored the homo
fare, And the New Yom Post actually instituted the first case of what has beencoined "ining." Because Kelley discusses
how Ron Reagan Jr. once had an affair
with the wife of Ricky Nelson, thereporter, Michael Shain, took this as evidence that Ron is really straight (Mr. Shain,
I've also had several affairs with women,
but that sure as hell doesn't make me ahet). The only paper that was willing toeven go near queer stuff (beyond theTime's reporting of Daddy Reagan's penchant for "anti-gay hwnor") was Newsday,
which mentioned how upset Nancy was
when she found out that her son wasgoing to study ballet, because he might be"perceived as homosexual,"
By mid-week, the media coverage
began to shift to Kelley and her credibility. All of the papers that had built up thebook two days before, in typical fashion,
had to make an effort to discredit her-m
least a little.
The Post, in its editorial, came out
against the book. And the TImes ran an
editorial saying that, whether or not it's
all true (many respected experts .andpublishing people have vouched for Kelley's credibility and professionalism), "noone deserves this." And that "stoopid" liberal columnist Jim Dwyer did a Newsday
front-page column headlined "Hey, Stop
Bashing Nancy!" in which he evendefended Nancy's response to the AIDS
crisis, by saying that she did try but had"little success in changing her husband's
outlook on the disease that has wipedout tens of thousands [stcJ of people."
GIVE ME A FUCKINGBREAK,JIM! Sure,
it's true that there is a lot of sexism inherent in all of this. And I wonder just how
1be New York Times would have played
the story if this were a'd of awoman rising to power who was being
trashed in a book, But Kelley recounts somany instances of homo- and AIDS-phobia on the part of Nancy that it's quite
evident-illld no surprise to us---that thefirst lady just didn't give a shit. And theway she ruled the presidency, she certainly could have gotten things done if

she had cared. No, Nancy was only worried about staying on top herself-at theexpense of everyone.
Perhaps, Mr, Dwyer, if you knew
some of those "tens of thousands of pe0ple" who've died, perhaps if you knew
some of the more than one million
Americans who are infected now, perhaps if scores of them were among thosepeople you love, you would understandthat we see the Reagans no differently
from the Ceacescus of Romania. TIIEYARE TYRANTS AND MURDERERSWHOSE HANDS DRIP WITH THE
BLOOD OF THOUSANDS OF INNO- •CENT PEOPLE.And I, for one, have noproblem imagining Ron and Nancy meeting the same fate as their Romaniancounterparts.
Fair and square: The Reagans
should be executed.
live, on CNN,of course. T

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Asian Lesbians of the East Coast! Asian
Pacific Lesbian Network-New York)We are a political, social andsupportive network of Asian
Pacific lesbians. Planningmeetings on the 1st Sunday
and social events on the last
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w/a future? Photo!
Phone pIs. to Outweek Box #4334.

HEREIAM
29 years old 6' 195
Ibs, OK Skin With
military hair cut,••Sincere, passionate witty, loves
music wet kisses,
read.ing. Possedwith a desire to be
loved andchereished. Seeks
warm, funny,strong, liberal resonably butch,
down to earth, GM
age 27-45, forfriend, date, possible relationship,
race unimportant,sanity is . Send
photo & phone # to
Outweek Box 4361
HEYU1l1E
BROTHER
Tall (6'3"), blonde
big brother in goOd
shape and goodlooking, 35, wants
hot little brother
18-30 to play with:intense, safe fun,massages, biker's
tights, football jerseys, jock straps.
Let's fine the fantasy. Rick P.O.Box
938 Rock Center
Sta. NY, NY
10185-0009

HOPELESS ROMANTIC?
Love to cuddle,
make love by candlelight. take longwalks in the park?
I'm 22, 5'6', 150#,
Italian, attractive
and REAL Try me
on, I might be thelover that fits.
Ph/Ph. Outweek
Box 3688
HOT JUICY MOUTH
Wanted by twohorny HIV neg
white males age 50
in Santa Rosa Calif.
on a regular steadybasis. Keep our
juices drained.
Write Doug andGeorge Box 282
Fulton, CA 95439Come soon I
HOT MUSCULAR
BOY
Looking for weekend lover 5'7', dark
hair/eyes, trim, extremely cut, beautiful, 25. Looking for•
aggressive, muscular, hung boy up to
30year old. Must be
sexy, verbal, hot
Must like to dance,
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IWANTABOYFRIEND
Handsome, built

writer, 31, seeksfriend for fun andromance. I'm 6'1',
160, dk bl, stache,goatee; like books,
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Reeves movies; anhuman but capableof greatness, funny,mQody but worth
the hassle, Hope
you're great shape,
affectionate,
thought-provoking,Outweek Box #4113
IMPOSSIBLE?
I won't accept theimposibility of finding a decent sensitive man who iswarm and funnywith a fully functional brain. Am
looking for a secure
independent companion to share
life's pain and wonder, willing to work
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ITAUANOR.LAnNGUY
All American regular guy - 6' 175,30,
blue eyes, handsome straight - acting, fun & horny
seeks good looking
Lating or Italian boy
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Men 50 uplf you get
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CUTE I
160 Ibs Indianabred, not whitebread in bed I 40
and looking 32. You
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I am fello assoc.
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and such pleasecall or write, let's
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weekday AM/
noon trystw / uncut
top in Chelsea / w.
Village Areas. Hairy
andl or BB a turnon. Top boddy
availablp for 3 ways
call Steve 989-8597
MONOGAMY,ANYONE?
GWM, early 4Os,
successful professional, 5'9', br/bl,
moustache, hairy,
healthy, 160 Ibs.
with a good senseof humor. Enjoys
movies, theater,
good music;, dining
out. reading, travel, good conversation. Seeks
Gv,vM, 25-38 who isintelligent, warm
hearted, slim nonsmoker with agood sense ofhumor, a sane but
passionate attiwde
towards sex, and
who is also seeking a serious relationship. Write to:
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NAIDTOP
Really good looking
bottom seeks reallynasty top to explore
all the different
ways you can dominate me over makeme serve you. I
wantto be knocked
out to my senses by
how erotic you canmake being tied up
and make to serve.
You could be a boy
from the S/M or an
aggressive business man. Photo &letter to Outweek
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NEED A GENREPUSH
GWM 25 looking fora man to help me
get my life in order.
1mnot a loser in" search of a daddy. I
just wantto meetsomeone who has
the power to help
me end my perpetual strugles, Even if
only advise andmoral support. 1mkind, int gd Ikng,sincere. Just needpush in rt direction.Outweek Box. 3737
NEW FRIENDS
WM, 35, 6'1', 185,
handsome, masculine, works out, andsincere. Career-oriented business professinal, but hot &creative; humorous,probing, andsupportive. Seeks
similar very tall guy
for explosive action, intense friend. ship,and/or caring,
long-term relationship. Call Art,btwn
8pm-12mid, at (212)675-7352.
NICE NORMAL
GUY
Ivy prof, 33, 5'6',
br/br, 135, haven't
broken any mirrors.
Have usual guppy
indicators: gym,
travel, restaurants,
theatre, books hard
worker but love a

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GWM, 36, 5'11', 175
has Christmas wish
to behalf of acouple, Seeking
intell, romantic,
sincere, attract,
GWMto sharemusic, films,books,
cuddling, hugs,
kisses, love, life.
A furry chesttosnuggle against
would be nice. if
honesty, caring,monogamy are inyour vocabulary,
send descriptive
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OR DADGAM 19,5'6',140
Ibs swimmer islooking for a olderman (23 +), who
can help me findthe way, Very new
to the scene don't
know whatto do
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St George WM, 39,
looks 39, in shape(but not body
beautiful) wants
BM for friendly,
regular sexual
meetings (friends
not lovers). Not
looking for any
special 'type' orage. Send letter.
Outweek Box 3680
SANE & SEXY
, Unpretentiously
masculine GWM,
Br/Br, good looking,great athletic bid,
wen-endowed, sex.
Versatile, hairychest, upbeat,
manly, bright, 34,
5'8" seeking attractive in-shape masculine 25-45 yr old
with extra-hairy
body for unprintableexcitemeht&•
pos. relationship.
Beard; stache or. clean-shaven fine.
Photo (important) &letter/phone to J.
Cort 532La Gurardia PL Box 476
NYC, NY 10012
SCIENCE, SCI-R
GYM, film, bigquestions.Bright,
down-to-earth,midwestern GWM,
31,5'8",145, bVbr,seeks attractive unpretentious guy ofsimilar build andage, into some of
the above forfriendship, datingand ...? Send to
Olitweek BoX#3790
SHAVED HEAD
Pretty blue eyes, 6',vegetarian, 33, thin,sincere; .wants longterm cheap taw dry
deeply meaningful
affair w/some downhome Hip nonstraight-acting man
with a voyeuristic
appreciation ofsleaze. A man creatively diverse,

bright & witty, sensual & direct, having a strong senseof self, a good grip
& great eyes. A
laughing dancing
sentimental bitchgoddes sap. someone clearly queerly
fabulous. Write
with Photo to POB
582 NY, NY 10023

e~ucated travelled/mature gd
IkS/lrsh Amrcn
quck wit smile/nn
smkr/drnkr sks yngr
Fra Grp gent of 'quality objct dating
prhps more Outweek Box 4084
SPIRITEDAMBITIOUS
JAPANESE MANInto Music, Art Lit,
Film & conversation seeks studentof Nihongo Interested in exchangeof lar;.guage
lessons also desires romance, I
enjoy dancing I'm
6'1" 150 Ibs 28 yrs
old, Broad mind
with a fair fluency
in English. Seeking
sincere relationship: Photo &Phone appreciated.
Returned uponrequest Send to
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SINCERELY
Goodlooking, Intelligent, kinda funny,kinda worksout,.
Sincere 24- year
old Manhattanite
seeks similar GM
for a drink andmaybe more. Photoand phone a must
I'm open·
to meet someone
to spend timetogether without•
killing each other.
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drugs, eat meat,
make love. If you
like the same, call
let's talk or something. The more
pleasure. The more
gain. 725-1289 x282
QUEER MALE, 23,
TIGHT BOD
seeks other compatible guys forurban frolic. I'm,young, mature,need to laugh.
Ready for somedates and somesweaty dancing.
Good kisser a must
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Tall masculine
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seeks masculine
Gay/Bi Black or
Hispanic male. He
must be a matureminded sta ble individual (35-45 yrsold) who enjoys
good music, art.
movies, and interesting conversation. If you are a romantic and sensitive guy who's funloving and witty

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No drugs, drunks,
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get quick replys. To
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TAll ATTRAcnVE
GBM
6'5·, 225Ibs, 30 yrs.
Seeks a style conscious 25-35 black
male of similarbuild who interests
include: Movie, theater, arts, books.
For companionshipor possible rela-tionship. Muat havea good sense ofhumor. Photo /Phone get prompt
response. To Outweek Box 3971

by age 40. NQw 36,·5'8",'135, br/br, HIV+, needs potential.
lover who understands. Outweek
Box #4255 or call(212) 989-5923

THE WRIlER'S UFE
AGWM Poet/
Artist Became amasseur 1Dfree up
mornings but lost
evenings, charged
a book's expenseon Visa 1DGet it
published andhopes for pay-off

VERY ATTRAcnvE
MAN
Msclr, dk hair/eyes,
smthskin, cln shvn
6Ft170# sane n2
dark-haired men,
humor, movies,
gyms, reading, writing, walking, flea

marketS, sex, politics, commitment,
kinky sex, long con•versations,commit-•ment, cooking, fix.
ing broken things,
big dicks, kissing,commitment, hug••glng, arguing,laughing, camping,computers andcommitment Reply
245 8th Avenue,#174, NY, NY 10011
VERY HANDSOME
IRISH
GM, 5'11,150, br/bl,
35, HIIV-, smooth,swimmer's build,easygoing, masculine, humorous, integrated, fairly literate, sexual but notpromiscuous, notin1D bars. Seeks
dark (Italian?),handsome, possibly
toppish GM, atpeace ,with himself,
for sensual, intense
sex and more.
Photo a must; discretion assured.
Box 3873
WANTS TO FAll
IN LOVE
Down-1D-earth redhead ac1Dr dancer
looking for someone
to share my life
with. ~ysterious
eyes and an unforgettable smile aredefinite requirements -also a sens
eof who you are,fun, adventure,
witty, able 1Dlaugh,
in-shape body, romantic, spontaneous, stJ. acting,no drugs, NS. I'm
5'10"145lbs., 30 yrs.
old and want 1Ddate
someone who will
be both a best friend
and a lover. Send
Photo & letter 1D
Outweek Box 3684
WHOLESOMEVALUES
Handsome, masculine 40, 6'2" 190,bn/blue, clean
shaven, muscular,hung All Americanwith successful
business career
and wholesome
values seeks single
prof. 25-45 with
WASP/Irish good
looks for fun/friend/poss. reI.
Photo and phone amust for replyl Out-·
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WISE MEN STOPHERE
GWM, 38 5'9" 150 br/ br moustache andtrim beard, hairy,
defined, muscularbuild, handsome,masc., intell., unpretentious. Enjoys
movies theater
photo., cooking bicycling nature. .
Seeking other rarefind who is-goodlooking, masc., very
health-conscious,
intell., well-built w /musc., arms &peds, sense ofhumor, enjoys thearts, mature, honest, affectionate,
non-cig. smoker.
Let's exchange let-·ter and photo. Outweek Box 3623
YOUNGAND .
ETHNIC
5'9·, 150lbs, 20yrs
young GBM, wholooks Latino, Col- lege educated, insearch of a GBM or
Latino man for afriendship orrelationship intrests
should include
house music, clubbing, movies kiss- .
ing and safe sex.
Include photo, I will
respond.
OutweekBox #4333
WRESTlE
Ex-college jocklacks opponents
and floor space.
Slow and easy orrough and sweaty.
Ring, mat, or mattress. Or do you justlike to watch?
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1b8'iexroom, Mea Culpa;"l.feeUike Anne Frank in a porn storeroom,"somebody
whispers, SOmeone• else flashes•
a C:arnei'a. Waitl" a voice CI'owS. "You cIdn't 'getiri1y best,
. sldel"•-2:4tt Aldo·Hernandez, Meal
·1 ask Craig to continue playing so I

can go downstairs to the Loony ,Bin. As I.
enter; Joan Rivers has just finished off
Harry Krishna, who's Hindu brain has,adopted lhe body of deejay Patrick Butts. I
keep my left nostril In a kundallnl
splnelock for fear of Inhailng the cheap
Incense and puking.

2:50 ~1_m.Prolenzano,
Ibe ClllblOCk vaull, While most of the business-suitedmen, leather dominatrices and slaves,transvestites and trucker types sit at the bar.with soft'drlnks, a few guys wander the
backroom. Not rnJch goes on. Irs like amoving Paul CadfTIJS painting. There are a
lot of crossed signais. A hun((y ltailan~'looking gLiy unzips himself but gets scaredwhen Dee and IStep up to him bumming'smokes. Wege> next door to J's, a moretarget-rich E\nvironment

2:50 .Anne Rubenstein,
SPlcbm;'f ,"1-',

3:. Dale Peck, homeThank god for CB's car-my Idea of
sexuai denouement Is not a subway ridehome. "How was Alex?" I ask CB. "Alex?""My friend, Alex," I say. "That's the guy you
ended up with." "Oh," CB says. "He came
ort'my shirt." He shows me the spot, whi~by now looks as innocuous as a Water
stain. We stop at Columbia Bagels on theway uPtown, and I pick up a poppy seedwith garlic and.herb cream cheese fortomorrow morning.

3:. Pamela Sneed,prllate parIJ In Brooklrn. This supposedly "mixed" party is rrixed
with ail kinds of straight people, Including.men who keep staring at my ass. But there's
goOd food, no aJcohol and lots of room todance, so I party, gMng them major '1esbian
from ManhatIan" drama.
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really sing "Fuck your pussy," or ~ it my
Imagination? I smell chlba. There's a latinobrother lighting up In the comer by thedeejay.··Columbian?" I hypothesize, as heoffers me the joint"Chocolate Budc:tla," he smiles. Next
thing I know, I'm dancing Oke. a banshee withhis sister. I want to tell her that I dd1't mean to
do that with my hips, but she dd it back, so ...
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. 3:50 Michael SoH, home
Phone rings. Irs the Boy-home In
Brooklyn.
'Why didn't you taik me into staying
over?" he asks.
"Because you said you had to go," I
say.
"You should -have tried to convince
me. ")"You know you could have stayed,"-

3:. Aldo Hernandez, Meal ".. ~ckat the ~eels ofsteeU, play ,.,h ,some t;omy latino. . ,. ·i,'. _,·t.'.,;. ,techno which causes ail
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th~East Village bisexuai
males to climb Into thebooth, whining, "Oh I Play"one for my baby." One"guy says",:Oh yeah, the•one by Deee-Box
or.
,Black Utel"

3:15 Mlchael.SoH,
Ibl$Ubwa,- Waik!he Boy to the subway, thinking

thaJ the. problem
with a swimmer's
body is.
,swim ~ts
at random times like 9 am on
Saturday. We make definite but nonspecificplans to see each other tomorrow.

3:15 Anne Rubenstein, home

Mickey, who has attracted more
attention than he wanted from a huge guy
In gym clothes dancing like King Kong,convinces us to leave.
ifived. I thought they were slsters--theylooked so rnJchaiike, same face, build, hair.
Oh,weil, they're throwing us out anyway. I
wonder if tomorrow's too soon to call Penny,,

A message on my answering machine
begs me to take a 6 am train to White
Plains to help defend a besieged abortion
clinic. As I- crawi under the covers, I
actuaily consider the idea.

3:35 Victoria Starr, drillng
across"'l Brooklrn Bridge
Afte~ toying with the Idea of a lastditch attempt atpicking up someone at
the Clit Club, I admit to myself that I'm
not that desperate. I simply vow that
Instead of spending ail my time withwomen who move In pairs. I will starthanging out with more single women. I
aiso remind myself that collecting
women's phone numbers wili only work If
I actuaily call them. Now, let's see:
There's the married woman or how
about that girl with .the wlgs or that hotbartender at. ..Ilose myself in the reggae
rnJslc flowing from the stereO speakers.
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3:50 Jan Astor del Valle,
Ibe CIIIClub, My dance partner was whisked away
by her angry Iover-but

not before we hlgh- .

3:50 Jim Provenzano,'.: '. J'SlTlle Hangout .

The horniest
after-·\.
."hours
bar still packs the',.. weekend
quickie fans in,,. / You don't have to have ,: . '..sex. Most guyS Chat gaily, .\. up at the front bY the bar.. ' whilepom videOs play,.'. -hypnotizing some. I tr~pse"::;' back into the recesses ofwhile Dee); ~ ~..the sa1<~i. Ghats up aJanky, com:fed, shy boy. After a
bit of dry hillnping with a guy wearing a. Rutgers s~eatsl)irt. I satUe down with a·shirtless rnt~ey guy who grabs my gonads
while Ilick , his: cheSt and do other fun, safe
things. A herd of. guys, grope and watch, At
our worst, we're no· mOre than a pile ofspawning horseshoe crabs. At best and forthe ~ment, we're alMng Tom of Finland .
cartoon, hands on cocks, tongues on-butts,
lips on nipPles. A few of Uf! bJJrst energe~cally, then shuck our pantS up andshuffle out}nto.the light. .
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other people. Idecide tHat it i$ time for us togo grocery shopping, as we do every Friday,
and Sydney decides to put herself in a cart
and beg to be pushed around.

4:. Les Simpson,cab ·10Florent
Our driver makes some condescendIng remark that In "his country" men don't
dress as women. We firmly but politely
reprimand him. As we exit, I drop myhairbrush, and ifs crushed under the tires
as the driver takes off.
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5:. Aldo Hernandez, Klel
. Att8r Meat, o.ur gailgwaiks off to Kiev
for fries, shakes, a major chowdown: ltis
rev:eaied that I'm the only one not on.
mushroomSttils evening.
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53. Classifieds
56, Calendar abbr,
58, Above, to a bard
60. End of quip
62. Word of woe
63. C'est_
69. Pathway
70. Actor Dillon
71. Photographer Walker
72. I
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73. Formerly called
74. Med. schjool subject
75, Congers

1. Saturday night ritualvera
3. Latvia's capital
4. Civil War general
5. Swift's forte
6. Small bird
7. Oldest: Fr,
8. Requirements
9. 1551, to Cicero
2.

43. Ills
44, Released
49. Helium or hydrogen
51. Humble
53, First man
54. Poet Thomas
55. Emulate Fleming
57. Tropical fruit
59, German poet
61. Ital. family of note
62. The Terrible
63. Director Wertmuller
64, Citizen __65. Chemical ending
66. Bastes

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