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Film Labyrinth of Passion
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Music Consumer Guide
Theater Trn
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Books My Life as a Mole
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Outspoken (Editorial). Letters
Stonewall Riocs (Natalie)
Sotomayor
Blurt Out
Dykes To Watch Out For (Bechdel)
GLAADTIdings
Out of Control (Day)
Outl1.1w (Leonard)
Look OutOut of my Hands (Ball)
Gossip Watch
Out on the Town (Liz and Sydney)
Going Out Calendar (X)Best Bets (X)Bar Guide
Community Directory
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Paradise Betrayed
Mayor David Dinkins' apJX>intment of Woodrow A, Myers,]r, as New York's new health commissioner is a betrayal of thehighest order, With this action, Mayor Dinkins has declared war
on the entire gay and lesbian community of New York, a community which had supJX>rted him overwhelmingly in the lastelection, We find this action both incomprehensible and unforgivable, a huge political error and a nightmare for our
beleagured community, which is weary of attacks from its own
city's health department.
When Out Week endorsed Mr, Dinkins during both the primary and the general election, it was with the explicit understandingthat he would apJX>int a health commissioner who agreed withhis basic philosophy on AIDS, It was also clearly understood thatthe new commissioner would be someone sympathetic to gays
and lesbians, and someone who could build bridges between thevarious groups most affected by the AIDS disaster,
Woody Myers is none of these things, He is, in fact, just the
opJX>site, By his words and deeds he has proven himself inept,
uncaring, callous to the civil liberties of people with AIDS, andan unrepentant homophobe, He is absolutely unacceptable as
our next health commissioner,
It need hardly be said that gays have been terribly let downby those gay leaders we entrusted to represent our interests inthis matter, The chief culprit is Tim Sweeney, the depUty directorof the Gay Men's Health Crisis, An openly gay man who sat on
Dinkins' search committee, he supported Myers even after
Sweeney learned about Myers' nightmarish record on AIDS,
It was Sweeney's job to research Myers' record on gay
and AIDS issues before Myers became a candidate, He neverdid, It was also his job to represent. us and to fight for us
once that record became known, and to spare the mayor theembarrassmentof having to learn about gay opposition toMyers in the streets,
Sweeney's admitted desire to place his vision of "compromise" above our civil liberties disqualifies him from any further
involvement as a representative of our community, For this reason we call upon Tim Sweeney to resign immediately from his
position at GMHC, If he refuses to do so, we call upon the
GMHC board to' fire him,
Additional blame must be accepted by Tom Stoddard andMarie Wilson, the gay members of the transition committee, whowere also charged with looking out for our interests, They have
let us down terribly,
But in the final analysis, the decision was Dinkins' and his'alone, No matter what he now says, he can never repair thedamage this betrayal has done to his reputation, As the gay andlesbian community now moves to repudiate the mayor, he will
.pay a heavy price for this betrayal. We all will, ....

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January 28, 1990

LETTERS
OutWeek Heal Thyself
Had Wil Garcia notpassed on when he did, just
how much longer would it
hove taken OutWeek to feature the concepts of self-

us locked in repression,
Reading the majority of yourarticles one thinks gays andlesbians are the first groupever to realize
we've
allowedourselves to be

ed by Gabriel's questions,
Niro's responses were great
to read, I feel a lot of themisunderstandings folks use
to keep themselves out of
the self discovery movement
were addressed by both
Gabriel and Niro, I also
appreciatedthe length ofthe published interview,
Frankly, I'd enjoy seeing
the healing circles and meditation gatherings and metophysical lectures livened upby the kick-ass contributions
and. questions of OutWeek
staff and its readers in possible attendance,
I'd also
enjoy seeing the pain somany gay people are inbeing cooled and healed by
the extra-human amounts oflove generated weekly at
the above mentioned funcitons,
I hope and visualize(since prayer comes fromthat organization so media
saturated I can't use theirname again) that this new
decade brings Niro and her
counterparts to the coverand inside pages of OutWeek much more frequently,
I'd be happy to support yourpublicationin every way,
Create a space that sincerely supports people's recoveries from AIDS and that space
fillsten times over,Send your writers overto the Healing Circle where
people are always standing
up discussing their diagnosis
reversals, in many cases, andhow life continues in otherforms after the body dies,
You'd be amazed at how
people are having experiences with the spirits of those
who've passed on through
AIDS, So many experiences
so rivetingly honest-thisisthe waveafter people
accept the fact that we areeach in control of our own
health,And for God's sake give~'i1@~ llC:9A1~o. ~O(?fil$~r ANOREANATALI!

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healing as your cover story?
("The Healer Within: Out,
weekno,29, Jan 14)
All over this country
there are people, primarily
gay men, exercising their
American rights of freedom
by exploring their abilities toheal themselves from AIDS,
We're all healing ourselvesfrom the fear of AIDS; thefear of dying from AIDS; thefear of dying at all,I was originallyvery
excited at the prospect of
the first magazine attempting to give equal attention
to lesbian and gay issues,'Thisquickly dissipated when
the uniting factors showed
themselves to be the anger,
attack and self-righteousnessof our community that keeps

oppressed-like
we've gotsome special right to be
angry,
Niro's discussion of ACT
UP is especially terrific toread, In the preview of his
article, Gabriel Rotello statesthat Niro is a therapist of·uncommon insight." I hope
he considers applying his
experience with Niro to his
own life, which will be aneven more positive contribution than getting this interview on the OutWeek cover,In typical
OutWeek
fashion, Gabriel's questions
were abrasive, direct and to
the point. Though not a pointthat I share, I think a great
many people I'd like to see
involved in the self heal
movement were represent-;t?E -

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HEAL a weekly column inyour magazine to spread the
myriad avenues of healing
and the battalion of healfrom-AIDS experts now available,
OufWeek is not serving
the lesbian and gay community thoroughly by reporting
only the acts of rage, These
acts masquerade the hopelessnessmost AIDS situations
have at their root-andthese events have got to
stop
being
considered
media-worthy over and overagain,
I have a public question
for the brave and action-oriented men and women of
ACT UP,Because of anything
this organization has acted
up about, demonstrated,zappedor petitionedexactly how many havehealed their bodies from
AIDS?
Yes, Wil Garcia
haspassed on-in one sense heand his lover George are

beyond AIDS,To dwell on thisone situation would be a terrible limit, Wil has served
many purposes, as Niro and
OufWeek are, Now that
attention has been raised,please folks, dive in and get
those presses running, There
are messages of healing thatmust be helped to spread,Do you really want to sellpapers? There is no message
more newsworthy, no message that people are moststarved to hear than theones of people rising up outof a system that has been
tramplinggays, lesbians,
Blacks, Jews and so on, The
self heal movement is theroot of this,
MarkVenglia
Manhattan
Different Drummer?
On Martin Luther KingDay, I read Larry Kramer's
first
auf Week
column(Kramer vS.. ,l/21/90),
As
always, Kramer is thought

current membership on theboard of the People withAIDS Coalition, I don't want
to be a "gay leader: If I did,I'd take up the proverbial
drums,
I propose a recognitionof Larry as a candidate for

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January 28. 1990

"gay leader,' He just has topick up the drumsticks andcontinue the roll he is socapablyon, Watch out
world, Larry Kramer may be
a drummer boy!
Larry Gutentz
Manhattan
P,S, Despite Kramer's
strength,heprobably
couldn't
be a model inDrummer Magazine,

Leam and Live
Last night. Thursday,
January 18 at 18:30 hours, I
attended the NYU HIV Discussion Forum concerning
Prognostic Markers of HIV
Infection with the participation of Drs, FriedmanKien, Grossman, Farthing
and Valantine which took
place at the Tishman Auditorium of the NYU Law
School free of charge, The
speakers lead a learned
discussion about the significance of T4 cell counts,
P24
antigens,
Beta-2
microglobulin
andaddressed in a knowledgeable way every question
posed by the audience on
a number of HIV-related
topics, The audience consisted on ONLY 30 people,
In my estimation the Tishman Auditorium can easily
and comfortably
seat atleast 500 people,
The
above speakers are at theforefrontof the battle
against HIV disease andthoroughly
preparedforthe meetingand even
went to the trouble of illustrating the topics of discussion with the"help of slides,
I strongly believe thatthe exchange of information
regardingthe different
aspects of this disease will
better prepare the membersof our community affectedby it to remain alive, We
must encourage and support the NYU Medical Centerin their efforts to reach out toour community by sharing
with us the knowledge of theoutmost experts in the field,
They are receptive and wel-come our feedback as tomedical
topics that ourcommunity will like to see
discussed,
The NYU HIV Discussion
Forum takes place the second Thursday of every
month, I hope to" see moreof us at the next forum on
February 8, Until there is acure we should arm ourselves with the knowledgeof the options available tous, I urge the community totake advantageof thisopportunity,
Edgar H, GarzaMorales
Manhattan

Terms of Abusement
In his GlAAD Tidings column (OutWeek Jan, 14,1990), Henry Yeager makes
thesame
mistakehechargesFather Andrew
Greeley made; the writer"fumbles badly ..,in his statement about the sexual
abuse of children," Whileaccusing the priest of labeling most abusers as goy,
Yeager uses "pedophiles'and ."child molesters' as syn-onyms, They are not,Most pedophiles are notchild molesters, Neither are
most
child
molesters
pedophiles, any more thanmen who rape other men in
prison are homosexuals, Sex
between adults and children
is not inherently abusive, andconsensual sex is not rape:
It's difficult
to saywhether Yeager's confusion
is a sign of prejudice, ignorance or just sloppy writing, In
a column designed to analyze bias towards lesbians
ana gays, any of those Is aserious failure, Hiswork reproduces the error GlAAD finds
so often in the straight press,
government and corporate
culture: negative
judgements result from obsessive
focus on a single characteristic of a relationShip, Homophobes make gender the'determining factor, Yeager
relies on age,
What's the remedy forsuch errors? Examine thequality of the relationship,rather than some scrap ofdemographic
data about
the people in it, Let's hope

GLAAD adopts this rule inMure analysis,
BillAndriette
BostonMAAD at NAMBLA
A friend of mine recently introduced
me to OutWeek and 'I purchased theJanuary 7, 1990 issue, I wasvery'distressed to see in yourCommunity Directory an adfrom the North American
Man/Boy Love Association,
NAMBLApromotes
every negative and distorted view of the gay and lesbian community that seriousorganizations, such as theGay and Lesbian Alliance
Against Defamationarefighting against, (For therecord, I'm not a member of
GlAAD, the views in this letter are strictly personal.)
I'm aware that sellingad space is important, but
to sell it to an organizationthat in my opinion maligns
the gay and lesbian community is shameful. Whenthe "main-stream"press
prints a homophobicad,they say "We're hare to

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make money:
and don't
think about the fact thatsuch ads are offensive,
I hope OufWeek isn't

going so use theexcuse,Noah Niller
Manhattan

Dykes to Watch Out For

OUTTWEEK

January 28, 1990

same

ScalpedI have many times in
the last few months thought
to write to you and somehow put it off each time, Youhove shocked me out of my. procrastination,
Havinggone
backthrough the last December
1989 issue, I can find no
warning for what took place
this Monday, I got only anickel back from my two dollars tendered for OufWeek!
Thank God I live in NYC andnot Canada, however, or
they'd have been scraping
me off the sidewalk, A gentle note of explanation
would have been the polite
thing to do, We are your·paylng" friends, after all,and deserve at least thatcourtesy, As well as morethorough editing,
I am deeply disturbed
by the practice OufWeek

employs of using nonsensewords as if they seriously
existed. I am a woman, in aworld of women. We are notwimmin or womyn or any ofthe very cutesy and annoying nonsense words yourmagazine insists on using,
Fooling around with the language only tends to belittle
us and our seriousnessabout
improving our status in life,
Thisgame you play withthe words woman
andwomen is a detraction fromthe things that really doneed to be changed. As lesbians we are a double
minority and the distractionsof reworking the language
are completely counter-productive to the tasks we must
undertake, We need to bevisible and we need to beequal.
Our community
has
enough to deal with in theinformation,
Best of luck in
1990,
P.F,G
Manhattan
P,S, Is it my
imaginationor isMichelangelo Signorile's
columnbasically the samething each weekwith a different
lead?
(It is yourimagination -Ed.)

SAGE + Advice.

way of words as it is, Such as
why it's bad among gays
and lesbians to call someone a fag but okay to callsomeone a dyke, It too isderogatory in origin, but lesbian women are supposed
to be good sports and apply
it to themselves (which it
seems many do) and let others apply it as well. I think it is. in poor taste,
Thank you for your magazine and the time and tastethat you put into it, My loverand I enjoy and look forward
to every issue and are inching our lazy selves toward
writing a cheque for a subscription,
Georgia Griffin
Manhattan
Act What?
I enjoy reading yourmagazine and think you are
off to a generally great start,
One thing I admire is that,
althoughyour reporters
cover events from a gay
perspective (as they should),
they make the effort to be
objective and thorough, awelcome relief from othergay newspapers,
The only time you seemto falter in this is when ACT
UP is in the news, Then thewriting sometimes borders onthesychophantic,
For
instance, you write (issue no.

It's
never
easy, but copingwith aging andHIV positivity can
Photo:RexWockner loom
likean26) that they raised $335,00)
unclimable mountain, One
at an auction, There's no
way to help overcome thepaid staff, they're not prohurdles of such a predicaducing any tangible productment is the support '-andor service (unless you countcompany of your peers,
posters), What are they
SAGE + is a support
doing spending $30,000 agroup for people who aremonth on office space andboth HIV positive and 50 or
utilities? If we're asked toover, Sponsored by the main
donate to the auction or
SAGE organization, it meets
buy a ticket for a Halloween
every Tuesday at 6 pm in thebenefit. don't we have theGay and Lesbian Center atright to know where the
208 W. 13th st. stress reducmoney goes, and who'stion, medical and insurance
accountable for it?
discussions. guest lecturers,
Your coverage of the St. crisis intervention, consciousPatrick's demonstration was
ness-raisingand simple
certainly extensive, but very
shmoozing and dishing arebiased in favor of the handthe order of the evening
ful of protesters who chose(and sometimes a cookie),to go inside the cathedral
all under the direction of aand disrupt the mass, If theaction was so popular, why
did so few go inside of thethousands on the street?
Your editorial (issue no, 27)
was offensive, turgid andirresponsible,
I know from your publicstatements where your sympathies lie, I also applaud
what ACT UP has accomplished and support thegroup's
goals, But that
doesn't mean they can do
no wrong, or that they
COUldn't stand a little scrutiny, Please remember thatthe entire gay community,
not just ACT UP,is looking to
your magazine for news andSAGE facilitator who occasionally leads the group in
meditative visualizations,Don't sit home contemplating your T-cells! Studies
have shown that the progression of HIV can be substantially slowed by a little
appropriate company, And
we won't return a blankstare when you mention
things like Victor Mature's
muscles, my friend Irma andthe Penn Post Hotel. Drop bysome Tuesday, or call Arlene
Kochman at 741-2247 formore information on SAGE+,Art
Manhattan

Space Waster?
Cover-up
House?
Cover Story?!
It's 1990 and I have no'respect for peopJe like Kevin
Kite or Father Bruce Ritter, A
great waste of EIGHTvaluable pages,
Michael Rodrigues
Manhattan

Spectator Sport?
I write in response to aletter which appearedinthe January 21st issue concerning
the dangerofunsafe sex at The Saint, As I
am too young to. have beenaround in The Saint's heyday, my knowledge of thebalcony's tawdry past isjust
heresay, I attended a party
in December, and then on
January
13th, thus
before and after thebalcony's "moral makeover,'Frankly, what I saw
in December was hardly reminiscent of the 70s,
For every pair of sexuat"partakers' there wassuch a vast swarm of"spectators' that one's
most intimate moments
were spent
movingthrough the crowd trying to locate the attraction, A few scattered, people went down onothers and I did see one
couple fuck; but they
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lovers, who seemedtogroove on an audience,
Having come out into
the age of AIDS, I have seen
this issue exploited too frequently as an excuse tojudge,
if not legislate,"moral"and"immoral"behavior, I can expect little
more from heterosexuals; but
I demand more from gay
people, People do what
people do, Some will behave
very irresponsibly;
mostnowadays will not, The verysmall minority of irresponsible
people would have been
and will continue to be irresponsible with or without thefacilities of The Saint, But totake the attitude that thepresence of the balcony was
putting droves of people indanger was extremely unrealistic, What Iwitnessed in thebalcony would surely havebeen laughable by the standards of the 70s, My initialthought when the balcony
was now illuminatedandstaffed by flashlight-wielding"Lips above Hips" squad, wasthat some straight people
must have caught wind of
the goings-on and thought
they'd curb his evil. To findout that this was possibly the
result of a threat made by agay person was quite sad.
Prevalentin today's'War On .. ," mentality are
absurd beliefs, such as thenotion that eliminating drug
dealers will eventually frustrate crack addicts into thestraight and narrow, is thebelief that eliminating thesource will hinder the problem, I believe the balcony at
The Saint was neither thesource nor the problem, andthat we must remember thatthese haphazard distractions
from actual solutions can bevery destructive; particularly
when they are coming 'fromother gays, Is this not one
step away form closing downsome of the seedier West Side
bars and gay theaters? Bugging SSO-TOOL?People, particularly gay people, are notsuch impressionable idiots

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that
thepresenceorabsence of one particularvenue is going to make a difference, Those who practiced unsafe sex were there(unwisely, but irrevocably) topractice unsafe sex, and they
will go elsewhere, There will
always be an elsewhere, For
the spectators, the majority
who had little to gain or losein the first place, they are left
once again to retire to their
Catalina video collection,
Loren Lombard
Manhattan

On Christmas Day 1989,
I took every Holy Bible I
owned, and threw them in adumpster, I have never felt
better in my life, For the firsttime ever; I am experiencing
unconditional. loving acceptance of myself,
I have opened to a
mystical. direct relationshiplove and accept ourselvescompletely
and to love,
accept and nurture our sexuality as being the mostpowerful and holy aspect ofourselves,
God is guidingmethrough a path of healing,which is releasing all of myguilt and self-denial. As agay man, there is no way I
could love and accept
myself and have any connection with the Bible andtraditional Christianity; yet
my connection to God andChrist has never
been
deeper,I am an ordained Spiritualist Minister, The church I
work with is The First Universal Spiritual Church of New
York City located at 171 W.
85th St" NY, NY, Our services are at 2:30 pm every
Sunday,Our doors areopen to all.
Since God has uncondi-

with God, The God I havecome to know is not the biblical. Christian God, but a
God who is unconditionalloving acceptance,
The teachings
I'm
receiving from God tell us totional loving acceptance forus, we must strive to free our.selves of all those things thatprevent us from realizing thefull value within ourselves,
Rev, Daniel B, Neusom
Brooklyn

Direct LineJanuary 28, 1990

Bad Tag Cafe
January 1, 19<;0is a new
beginning as was stated by
Mayor Dinkinsin his inauguralspeech, "Today we markmore th01 a transfer of power;
today we travel another mileon freedom's road," Yes, it istrue there is a transfer of
power but with that transfer
the racism, sexismand homophobia (RSH)isinherited.
Mayor Dinkins stated
that, 'We must oppose discriminationin any form
againstanyone,AfroAmerican, or Asian, Latino;
persons with disabilities
and veterans; lesbians andgays," Those of us who aregays and lesbians of color
must not only listen to
Mayor Dinkins' inspiring
words but challenge those
who project and overtly
display their regurgitating
RSH, It is somethingthat
seethes from a composed
demure,but is boiling
ready to erupt like volcanic lava. hot and overwhelming wanting to firstscorch and then burn,On the evening of New
Year's Day, my lover and I
invited her sister and her visiting companion,a touristfrom Santo Domingo forsome cappuchino and cannolis at a Little Italy cafe,
What we encountered
was a sour taste of RSHform
Howard Beach, in that it was
subdued as no violence
erupted, But that 'You're NOT
welcome here" sign was displayed by the management
and most customers,
The coffee and pastries
were good, but not worth
the price of giving businessto an establishment
that
perpetuates RSH, It's there
and very much alive andwe as gays and lesbians ofcolor cannot be distracted
or blinded of its existence,
We must challenge anyone, and private of public
enterprises that demonstrateit, We can make it 'stop,Whenencounteringitremind them that they are•being racist, sexist andhomophobic,
For the firsttime in the history of New
York City we have a mayor
who has openly expressedsincere concerns regarding
our persecution, Take him up
on his support,
he isaccountable
to us, But wemust remind those that discriminate us that they too
are accountable,
Until we
do ,we will never travel
another mile on freedom'sroad, ,
Ronnie BiUini
Manhattan

Racism Redux
I write in response to
the letter to the editor entitled ~Unbiased Bias" written
by Ms, Pamela Sneed andwhich appearedin yourJanuary 14, 1990 issue, I ama womanof color whojoined the legal staff of the
AIDS division on October 13,
1987, I worked in the AIDS
division up until December,
1989, when I requested areassignment because I felt
my staying in the division
would be a condonation of
the harassment and retaliation waged against those
who dared to speak out
against the incidentsofracism that have takenplace in the AIDSDivision,
During the two years I
worked with the division, I do
not recall Ms, Sneed being
an intern, This leads me tosurmise that Ms, Sneed's
brief tenure with the AIDS
Division occurred prior to
October, 1987,thereby making her experiences quite
dated,
But
even
if
Ms,
Sneed's tenure with thedivision was not dated her
supposition that there canpe no racism in the AIDS
Division because
threepeopleofcolor
she"knows" work with the division is faulty,
There arenumerousorganizations
who have been charged
with racism
who havebeen the employers
of
'4,

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~prominent
peopleofcolor."
Also, for an allegation ofracism to be credible does
not require that it come froma person of color, There arewhite individuals who canrecognize incidents of racismin the varied forms it takes, I
find Ms, Katherine Franke to
be one of these individuals,
However, Ms, Sneed, I will
add my voice to that of Ms,
Franke's and state for therecord that I have observed
and experienced incidents
of racism and retaliation
within the AIDSDivision, If you
want to speak with me further about this, feel free tocall me at the commission,
Nitza Milagros Escalera
Brooklyn

News

Dinkins Appoints Myers
Amidst Angry Protests
Mayor Ignores Gay Objections On Top Health Post
knew that if elected I would need to close thebreach that had opened over a number of years
between the city--especially it's health department-and the community of persons with AIDS,"[But) it is inaccurate to suggest that the viewsof some who happen to be gays and lesbians constitute the views of the gay and lesbian community,·
the mayor continued.
When asked by OutWeek if he had gone backon his campaign promise to aPJX>inta commissioner sympathetic to the gay community, Dinkins
said, "I don't accept your premise, You say it's
very clear what he's done in Indiana, and I don't
accept that."
Dinkins also said he believed that Myers
had not been in favor of mandatory contact tracing and name reJX>rtingin Indiana, contradicting
widespread reJX>rtsin the press,
And when asked after the press conference
whether he planned to meet with the gay and
PULL THIS.
,Photo:TomMcKitterick/IMPACT
VISUALS lesbian community to heal the apparent rift,
Dinkins angrily responded, "You mean, meet
ACT UP Bt city hBII. AgBin.
some more?"by Gabriel Rotello
He continued, "r am, maybe the best friend the gay
NEW YORK-Mayor David Dinkins appointed Indiana
community has."
Health Commissioner Woodrow August Myers, Jr, health
Gay and AIDS activists reacted qUickly to thecommissioner of the City of New York on Friday, Jan, 19,announcement. A demonstration at city hall which took
amidst a storm of controversy about Myers' AIDS record inplace as the announcement was made drew an estimatedIndiana, A protest by gay and AIDS activists engulfed city
300 people,
hall just hours before the announcement was made,As OutWeek went to press, demonstrations were
By choosing Myers, Dinkins overruled the opJX>sition
planned for midnight Friday night, and in Times Squareof Virtually every gay and AIDS group in the city, He also
the following night.
ignored the pleas of some of his closest political sUpJX>rtGay groups issued unusually strong statements, Craigers, including Manhattan
Borough President
Ruth
Davidson, the executive director of the Gay and Lesbian
MeSSinger,to bypass Myers and find someone else,
Alliance Against Defamation, said, "We are angered by theControversy over the appointment placed Dinkins inmayor's preemptory action in light of the many expresthe unenviable JX>sitionof appearing to choose between his
sions of concern and requests for meetings by the gay
Black and gay supJX>rters, Black JX>liticaland AIDS groups
community."
generally supJX>rted Myers, who is Black, while gay groups
Pleading for an end to "this period of divisiveness," Jefuniversally opJX>sed him,
frey Braff, head of the Gay Men's Health Crisis, said his
At a press conference announcing the appointment,group "did not sUpJX>rtthe apJX>intmentof Dr, Myers, But
Dinkins called the 35-year-old Myers a "rising star" in public
the mayor has made his decision and we must move on,"health, and "a person of great conviction and great courage,"
The statement concluded, "Our hope is that any damage to
Acknowledging the widespread opposition to Myers in
the AIDScommunity in the last two weeks will be repaire~,"the AIDSand gay communities, Djnkins said, "I cannot make
AGf UP accused Dinkins of "betray[ing) the trust andthis announcement without referring to the debate andhopes of the diverse communities which elected him," anddoubts that have been reJX>rtedin the press in recent days, I
See HEALTH COMMISSIONER on page 54

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An Interview with Tim Sweeney

The Gay Man Who First
Backed MyersNEW YORK-Throughout
the tumultuous week leading to the Myers
apJX>intment,attention focused on the process by which Myers' name passed thereview process, Many members of our community assumed that gays had been
shut out of a process which so totally ignored our interests, Others assumed thatthe search committee hadn't uncovered
the frightening facts about Myers,
They were wrong on both counts,
There had indeed been an openly
gay member of the search committee, who had presumably been apJX>inted tosafeguard the interests of the community, That member, Deputy Executive
Director Tim Sweeney of GMHC, has been involved in gay and AIDS issues formany years,
And, as Out Week learned in an interview last week before the Myers
apJX>intment became official, Sweeney had indeed discovered the damaging.
facts about Myers' record during the search process,Far from being unknowledgeable about Myers' record, Sweeney seemed
fully informed about, and strangely sympathetic to, Myers' history of namerecording and quarantining, Sweeney's reasons for failing to strenuously oppose
Myers make for riveting reading,--G. R.
Gabriel Rotello: Were you aware ofMyers' JX>sitions on name reportiog,
contact tracing and quarantining ofpeople with AIDS?
Tim Sweeney:
I wasn't so muchaware of his particular position as I
was the status of name reJX>rtingand
contact tracing and quarantine
inIndiana, I knew he was involved init. I knew he was carrying out thelaw as health commissioner. I also
knew it was in the context of a conservative legislature and a legislative
battle, It's my understanding that he
was progre·ssive in moving that fromwhat the, legislature had originallyintended, My assessment was thatIndiana AIDS policy was better off
over all for Myers' participation, He
was very active in getting anonymous
testing in place, Our feeling was heplayed a constructive,
progressiverole in that debate, Obviously he had
to compromise, He kept it from being
as punitive as it would have been,
GR: We have evid.ence that Dr.
Myers actually wrote the legisl<l:tionthat was presented to the general
assembly and actually initiated wholeareas of debate himself, So what evidence do you have that he watereddown worse legislation?
TS: Frankly, more than anything else
I have his word on that. I believe I
was told there were worse bills in thelegislature by the ACLU; but essentially I am taking his word for this,
GR: Do you think that taking someone's word for something that crucial
is adequate?
TS: Well, I guess that given the
scrutiny that anybody who was going
to be health commissioner of New
York City was going to be under, I
can't imagine he thought he wasgoing to get away with lying about it.
That would surprise me a great deal.
GR: What did he telf you about·quarantine?
TS: That was one of the biggest concerns we had, There was a feeling at .
the ACLU that he was not sensitive·
enough to civil liberties concerns andreally had to be pushed, They ended
up in Indiana with a more progressive quarantine law, That was thanks
to the work of the ACLU and I
assume the gay community there, in

A MORE PROGRESSIVE QUARANTINEw
LAW - GMHC's Tim Sweeney

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Photo: Lee Snider/Photo Images
making sure the first intervention
with someone is counselling,That makes complete
sense,
Before you do' the most. intrusive
step you have to go through a number of different procedures, I don't
see that there's been misuse in Indiana, I understand why public healthpeople think they have to have theauthority to quarantine, I'm not surethat I argue with whether they haveto have the authority, I would certainly want to argue with the application and use of such a statute, but
I think he has done an incredibly
reasonable job, You try to do theleast restrictive intervention
first,and I think it's reflected in that Indiana statute,
I know some people simply do
not believe this is a proper approach,But because of my lobbying activity I
can understand the compromises that
one has to make in regards to someof these public health measures, And
I think it's difficult to judge a person'srecord on that.
GR: . Were you aware when you recommended him that Dr. Myers was
the one who had actually written thequarantine provisions in Indiana?
See TIM SWEENEY on page 54

January 28, 1990

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News

U.S. Pols Eye Warning
Labels for Music Biz
IISodomy" Among Activities Targeted by
State Lawmakers
by Cliff O'Neill
WASHINGTON-What began last
fall with an obscure bill in the Pennsylvania Legislature mandating thelabeling of records deemed objectionable by the state has, in the opening
weeks of the new year, grown into anational trend, with similar bills being
considered by legislators in as manyas 17 states,
The bills, which differ slightly
from state to state, would orderr~cord companies to attach "parental
warning" labels on all records, tapes
and compact discs judged to containlyrics which "advocate or encourage
suicide, sodomy, incest, bestiality,
sadomasochism, adultery, rape or sexual activity in a violent context: involuntary deviate sexual intercourse;
murder; ethnic intimidation; the useof illegal drugs; or the excessive orillegal use of alcohol." At present,such bills have been filed, or will be
filed, in the Pennsylvania, Missouri
and Florida Legislatures,
The first such bill was sJX>nsOredin the 1988 Missouri House by state
Rep, Jean Dixon, who this past fall
gained notoriety by state Rep, Jean
Dixon, who this past fall gained notoriety for her campaign to ban the
Larry Kramer play The Normal Heart
from being performed at a state college on grounds that it promoted
homosexuality,
Although her 1988 bill died incommittee, she recently introduced
the bill to the 1990 legislative session,
In Pennsylvania, a stringent labeling bill sJX>nsored by state Rep, Ron
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the color to the size of the stickers,
passed the state House as an amendment to a JX>pulardrug bill in December, The Pennsylvania bill includes
the "sodomy" provision, althoughPennsylvania does not itself have asodomy law, It is now awaiting actionin the state Senate,
In Florida, Jacksonville Republican Rep, Joseph Arnall has expressed
his intent to introduce an even further-reaching bill into'the state's 1990
legislature when it convenes in April.
If passed, it would hold retailers criminally liable for selling "objectionable"
recordings to anyone under 18. Thoseselling such recordings without the
mandatory labels could also havetheir product confiscatedby law
enforcement officials,
Experts are giving the Florida
proposal little chance of passage, But
state legislators in Kansas, Delawareand Maryland are also reJX>rtedto beready to file similar bills, Maryland's
proJX>sal, sJX>nsored by liberal Montgomery County Democrat Judith Toth,is reported to focus on the defamation issues addressedby the billrather than its sexual aspects, Billboard magaZine reJX>rtsthat with thatstrategy,
Toth has secured
anendorsementfrom the B'nai B'rith
Anti-Defamation League for her bill.
"This spate of bills is very troubling," stated Anne Neal, Senior Vice
President for CorJX>rate Legal Affairs
for the Recording Industry Associationof America, ''The association is strongly opJX>sed to these legislative efforts,
The recording industry has alreadybeen voluntarily labeling products

which might be deemed objectionableby parents of younger children, And
we feel that that and ongoing parental
input are the appropriate approaches,"Also, according to Billboard, Missouri's Dixon has been in contact
with legislators
in Washington,
Nebraska, OhiO, Hawaii, North Carolina, Iowa, New Mexico, IllinOiS, Arizona, Michigan and Oklahoma whohave expressed an interest in filingsuch bills,
The American Civil Liberties
Union, longtime opJX>nents of bothgovernment and industry mandated
stickering, has already begun lobbying against the proposals
and ispoised to file a constitutional challenge against the Pennsylvania bill inthe event that it passes there,"They're all, in our judgement,
unconstitutional," stated Barry Lynn, aWashington ACLU lobbyiSt. "Theyessentially reqUire record companies
to speak some ways they would notchoose to, This kind of forced speech
is almost uniformly held to be unconstitutional. Moreover, they're ludicrously broad, They reqUire a sticker
to say a record may contain one ormore of the follOWing [list], suggestingthat it probably has all of them,"
Lynn suggested that, under thePennsylvania bill at least, over half ofthe recorded music available would
fall under the bill's mandates, "Anyhuman activity that has ever disturbed
anyone is covered by this bill, Underit, no Scottish ballad would go withouta sticker, because they nearly all deal
with suicide, if not murder, or both,"To the surprise -.
of some, the Parents Music Resource
Center, the leadingorganization speaking out about sexually explicit andbigoted lyrics in
rock
and
rap
records, has notendorsed the bills,
stating that it would
rather see suchmeasures imposed
voluntarily by therecording industry,
Among
gay
and lesbian activists
there appears to bemixedfeelings
about the bills, with
unanimouscondemnation of thebills' "sodomy" proJX>sals,but conflicting opinions on thebills' bias-related
JX>rtions,
The Gay andLesbian Alliance
Against Defamation(GLAAD), whichhas' on several
occasions lambasted record labels forreleaSing and pro- •moting recordings
with anti-gay lyrics,
opposes
government regulation,
but favors a volun. taryindustry
approach towards"hate" lyrics,
GLAAD Executive Director Craig

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Photo: Desi Del ValieIBili J3ytsuraslhbort ,of call1n~ a Romanovsky and Phillips, Phranc, Holly Near and other potential sticker discs at A Different light Booksstor.
la e 109
requirement censorship, but expressed con- . of racism, anti-Semitism and othercate this issue for civil rights advocerns about the proposed
laws'
forms of bigotry," .
cates," stated Sue Hyde, Privacy Proimpact on the community, "There's
In other sectors, though, gay and.
ject director for the National Gay andgoing' to be a double standard to thelesbian activists expressed fears that
Lesbian Task Force, "However, for
detriment of gays and lesbians, Any- the support of anti-defamation groups
persons who dream of the day whenthing that's the least bit 'homoerotic'
like the B'nai B'rith in Maryland,hate-motivated speech·is no longer
is going to be interpreted as promotmight serve to cloud the First Amendheard in this coµntry, the only logicaling sodomy, and that's deplorable,"ment issue at hand,.
means of eradicating racism and sexhe predicted, adding, "Homophobia"The addition of hate-motivatedism and homophobia is through more
will not be treated as the equivalent
speech may at first appear to complispeech, not less speech," ...

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News

Martin Luther King Institute

VisitsMACf
by Mark Chesnut

to a tenet held by Dr. King, who
got the big place on Fifth Avenue and
NEW YORK-Fundamental
prin- the Vatican, and all those staunchly
believed the focus of any movement
ciples of nonviolence met the realities loyal Roman Catholics, I don't reallyshould be on conditions, not individof present-day gay activism last week,
uals, ''Throughout history in instances
think you can win that battle,
when the executive director of thewhere aggression was directed against
Cooper stated that an action like
Martin Luther King, Jr. Institute for the one at St. Patrick's did not adhere
individuals, the result was violence,"
nonviolence paid a visit to a meeting I---------------~~-------------___iIIof the group Men of All Colors
Together (~,ACf) on Frida~, Ja?uary
12, The VISItmarked the fIrst tIme aGar.'1' .1J'J.en
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Gbu.ttellOe~11~ ...

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institution '1Y~L»H~~;;~:~~~~~ea ~~h;r:~~~
The institute, which was createdby the New York State Legislature in
1988, is the only government-sponsored entity whose purpose is toteach and further the principles ofnonviolence, The institute is affiliatedwith the Martin Luther King, Jr, Center
for Nonviolent
Social Change inAtlanta, which is run by Coretta ScottKing,
Executive director Thomas H,
Cooper spoke to an audience ofabout 50 people at the Lesbian and
Gay Community Services Center onWest 13th Street, where after a, brief
introduction the floor was opened
and discussion centered on how thenonviolent principles espoused by Dr,
Martin Luther King, Jr, could apply to
the gay rights movement and AIDS
activism,
Cooper found that many in theaudience were not willing to accept
nonviolence unconditionally, and hedisagreed with some of the tactics
that have recently been used by gay
and AIDS activists, most notably thedemonstration
which took place
inside St. Patrick's
Cathedral on
December 10,"Doesn't the cardinal have people who are going to take his side?"
he asked, "When you single out individuals or personalities as your target,
you bring that baggage with you, Youcause a schism,
And it becomes abattle of personalities, And since he's

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W..." ,...::;;.,~A Boston gay man, Bob Kavin, hasfiled a city Human Rights Commission
complaint against Crone's Harvest, a lesbian retail store, because the owners
sJX>nsorevents that are closed to men,
Laws in both Boston and Massachusetts prohibit discrimination in public
accomodations 'on the basis of gender,"It really, frankly, pissed me off,"
Kavin told Boston's Gay Community
News, "It's the 90s, We don't do things
like that anymore .... Who should theburdenbe on-women
who feel
uncomfortable with men around, or me?
I don't think it should be on me,"Cone's owner Mary Stockton, whosays she is a separatist, told GCN she is"reluctant to bow down to this stuff[Kavin's complaint) but I don't know if I
can fight it I hope there will be a community response," she said, "To gather as
oppressed beings to address issues of what
it is to be a woman in America, we don't
need the oppressor in our midst,"
Boston gay activist Gary Daffin is
supJX>rtingKavin in his fight, saying "weshould not subvert a good law in any
way, even for us, or especially for us,"
Judy Norris of the Cambridge
Women's Center is supporting Stockton,"It's very important that women ..,have
their own spaces, It seems so sad that agay man-of all people-wouldn't understand this," she said,~ ,~~I,.rn

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The Boston controversy comes on
the heels of a similar dispute in Chicago, where Mountain Moving Coffeehouse refused in October to allow gay
reporter Rex Wockner to cover aforum on racism,
Wockner wrote an opinion column in the December issue of Chicago Outlines
chargingthat theMountain Moving door JX>licyis iIIega\. He also said that discrimination iswrong no matter who does it to whomand argued that "two wrongs don't
make a right.""Any minority group does itself a
disservice when it locks itself in a ghetto and licks its wounds rather than
infiltrating the mainstream and bustingass," Wockner wrote, "Rather thanregurgitating politically pure rhetoric
when a male reJX>rterasks to cover anews event at their coffeehouse, Mountain Moving should be working to get
its concerts scheduled on the Taste ofChicago [concert) stages."
The January issue of Outlinescontained seven letters denouncing Wockner
as an "ignorant slut" and an "oppressive
prick" who "writes from a JX>Sition
that isanti-lesbian and anti-women,"''The consciousness of the dick isbased on getting what it wants whenever it wants," wrote L.M, Conforti.
See WOMEN ONLY on page 67

Cooper continued,"And I'm trying to get
you to think nonviolently, Throughout
the entire civil rights
movement,
MartinLuther King, Jr, nevercalled one governor
or one state trooper a
name, The cardinal
is not the problem,
The mayor is not the
problem,
How doyou get them to workwith you?"
A memberof
ACf UP in the audience listed the unsuccessful efforts that
had been made toeducate opponents
like the cardinal.
Some in the group
doubted the effectiveness of nonviolence
as a movementbyitself. "Martin Luther
MACTcelebrated MLK'sbirthday with a forum on
King didn't operate innonviolent social change.
a vacuum," said one
member of the audi- . I
I
one member of the audience, "and I
ence, pointing out that there weremany others involved in the ,civil think history has proven that people
rights movement who helped to fur- sometimes don't want to understand,
It has a certain smack of self-righther the cause but were not students
teousness to it to say 'I know I amof nonviolence,
It was also pointed out that in correct, therefore the force of mymoral argument will prevail.' People
South Africa, years of unsuccessful
nonviolent protest had led the anti- do not want to give up what they
have as a privelege,"apartheid
movement ,to embrace
But by the end of the meeting,armed warfare as a possible means ofwhich lasted nearly three hours, noachieving equality,.
Cooper presented six steps for one appeared to have been converted,
non-violent social change: informa"There's always a differencetion gathering, education, purification
between theorists and activists, comand personal commitment, negotiamented Tony Glover, a member oftion, confrontation and direct action,
MACf and an organizer of the event,and reconciliation,
after the meeting, He said he was not
He stressed that education could
be used to increase understanding of surprised that there was a disagreeAIDS issues, by relating the epidemic . ment during the meeting, "[Theorists]
come from a perspective of analyzing
not only to the hearts of the public,
the principles, and activists are a little .
but a.lso to the pocketbook: "Whatmore knowledgeable when it comes
impact is AIDS having on the economy of this country? What impact is to applying principles to day-to day
activities, "AIDS having on insurance rates andStill, Glover felt that it was a promedical coverage?"ductive meeting, "I think Mr, Cooper"You're going on the assumption
learned as much as we did, It was athat people want to do right and peogood chance to dialogue," ~ple want to understand, commented
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udge Acquits Man who
Gives Needles to Drog Users
Preventing AIDS Deemed More Crucial Than Syringe Law
clean-needle distribution is an effective means of preventing transmission
BOSTON-AIDS activist Jon C,
of HIV in a JX>pulation that is experiParker, who has received national
encing 'sky-rocketing rates of HIVattention for his clean-needle distribuinfection,
tion campaign, was acquitted here lastAbelow also called on State Rep,
week of illegally JX>ssessinghypoderByron Rushing CD-Boston) to show
mic needles, despite the fact that hethat because legislative efforts to passclean-needle bills have been stymied
repeatedly, "there is no legal alternative which will be effective in evading
the danger [of HIV transmission),·
Additionally, Abelow argued that
Parker's "pufJX>se in going to Mission
Hill [a Boston neighborhood) and distributing needles was to stop the
spread of AIDS, not to promote theuse of drugs, •The prosecution called only thetwo arresting officers to witness, thus
failing to rebut the defense's expert
testimony, In delivering her decision,
the judge implied that the prosecution's failure to produce experts contradicting
the defense witnesses
indicated that the prosecution did notdispute that the defendant's actions
were justified,
MORE WORKS IN THE WORKS-Jon Parker
Photo: David Binder
While OutWeek was unable to
did not dispute the charges broughtexchange for their used needles, wasreach the prosecution for comment
against him, Although some city and arrested in Boston in August of 1988
after the trial, Assistant District Attor:;tate officials have declared their sup- and charged with JX>ssessionof hyJX>- ney Mary Orfanello told The Boston
port for a clean-needle
program,dermic needles without a prescripGlobe, ''The law is pretty specific, andParker's acqUittal marks the first time tion, Had he been convicted of the'her verdict was contrary to the fa~,·such an effort has been given legal
misdemeanor, the defendant would
However, a friend of the court
sanction in Boston,
have faced up to a year in jail andbrief filed by the AIDS Action ComBoston Municipal Court Judge$1,000 fine,mittee, Massachusetts' largest AIDS
Sally A, Kelly, noting that Parker gave
Court-apJX>inted defense attorney
service organization, cited a similar
needles only "to those who alreadyArnold I. Abelow delivered a defense
decison in which a defendant was
had the means to use drugs," foundof competing harms, or a necessity
found not guilty, even though hethat Parker acted "solely for the pur- defense, in which he argued that the
had technicallybroken the law,
JX>seof limiting the spiead of AIDS,"
harm' resulting from the violation of
because the intent with which he"I don't wan't to flaunt the law," the law was less egregious than thebroke. the law was not the intent
Parker said after the trial on January
harm that would have resulted had
which the law was created to pro9, expressing gratitude for the vindi- the defendant complied with the law,hibit. The case cited in the brief
cation of his effort, "Let me just say To support his case, Abelow called
involved distribution of condoms,that ~he work will continue," Parker expert witnesses to establish thatwhich was illegal at the time, andalso stated that he hopes "if people
are aware there is a needle exchange .
going on, it will take some of theshock value away,·
The defendant, a former intravenous drug user who fights HIV
transmission by distributing clean
works to intravenous drug users inby Nina Reyes

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of a larger needleexchange program,
In Boston, theity council passed apilot
needleexchange program in
1988, with the support of the mayor,!
but the measuref required that the legislature grant the city""~ a home-rule petition
to implement
theprogram, The legislature denied
thepetition, ,and subsequent bills filed in
1989,
both
to
change the law on
distribution of hypodermic needles, andto create a legal, ~ means for needle exchange, languished'c

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Photo: Richard Sobol
Photo: Masha Gessen in legislative commit- NEEDLENIXER
tees and died with Governor.
M·Ie haeI Dub k'IS
Mayor Ray Flynn at AIDS rally last springhd 0 f t he Iegteen
the defendant distributed condoms
islative year,
dIes available to intravenous drug
not to prevent conception .but to
The fate of a similar campaign
users, although a task force convened
prevent the spread of disease,in New York is currently up in' the last year by a commissioner of public"I find it more likely than not that
air. The small program,
whose
health developed a two-part plan
one man was saved from HIV infecdesign was compromised by politi- which called for increased .access totion by a needle given to him by' Mr,
cal wrangling, leading many advotreatment as well as a clean-needle
Parker," said the judge in her verdict,cates to pronounce it deSigned to distribution program,referring to the statements of a witfail, was supported by outgoing health
Although state officials estimate
ness for the defense who testified thatcommissioner Dr. Stephen Joseph;that Massachusetts has approximately
Parker gave him clean needles andbut newly-elected Mayor David N, 40,000 intravenous drug users, thewarned him about the danger of HIV
Dinkins has gone on record in state currently offers only abouttransmission through dirty needles at
opposition to the concept of needle
12,000 slots in treatment programs,
a time when he "thought {AIDS}was a
exchange,
Representatives of the Black andhomosexual disease,"
The issue has also provided pol it- Latino communities, too, have record"I think everybody would agree
ical fodder for Massachusetts politi- ed their opposition to making cleanthat possession of a needle, unlike
cians, who have bitterly divided over needles available to intravenous drugmurder, is not in and of itself evil," thewhether to support a combined clean users, arguing that needles only
judge concluded after almost fourneedles and treatment program, or superficially make the habit safer
hours of testimony, "I find that thewhether to advocate a treatment-onlywhile drug treatment, which they
defendant, Jon c. Parker, has not comsolution, Boston Mayor Ray Flynn advocate, addresses the underlying
mitted the crime with which he wasstrongly supportes needle-exchnage,
addiction,
The fact that the, AIDS
charged, and I find him not guilty,"
while Governor Michael Dukakis and Action Committee, which serves a
The courtroom erupted in applause
the Department of Public Health have constituency of people with AIDS thatand the defendant quickly exited to
opposed legalization of hypodermicis largely gay white men, and Boston
face a crowd of television cameras
needles, despite studies which have Mayor Ray Flynn have been at theand news reporters,
shown that making clean n~edles' . forefront of the call for increased
Parker's trial is only the latest in aavailable cuts down on rates of HIV access to clean needles has only exaclong series of battles over clean neetransmission
without resulting in erbated opposition to clean needles
dles in Boston, and while vindication
increased intravenous drug use, from Black and Hispanic 'AIDS advoof his work marks a major victory for
Instead, the governor has called cates, who see ~em as fighting for a
advocates of needle-exchange, It doesfor drug treatment on demand devoid short term pallIative rather than anot pave the way for implementationof a provision for making clean nee- long-term solution, ...
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U.S. Eases AIDS Border
Constraints
by Rex Wockner
Embarrassed
that numerous
European AIDS organizations
hadcalled a boycott of June's Sixth International Conference on AIDS in San
Francisco, the V,S, Immigration andNaturalization Service Jan, 16 eased its
restriction on the entrance of HIVJX>sitiveforeigners into tqe country,
But as of deadline, AIDS community spokespersons
were indicatingthat the INS had not gone far enough,and they were predicting that theboycott will move forward,"This is not enough,» stated Dr.
Robert Wachter, program director for
the San Francisco conference,"Asphysicians and researchers, we see nopublic health justification in restricting
travel by HIV-infected people, We
think the law as it presently stands is
discriminatory, »Since last May, HIV-positives
have been allowed into the V,~, for
30 days to visit family, conduct busi-

ness or receive medical treatment, if
they applied for and received a special INS waiver,
AIDS activists opposed that system, arguing:• that applying for the waiver
could lead to an HIV-JX>sitive'sloss 'Of
confidentiality at home,• that the V,S, waiver 'stamp in
passports could lead to discriminationor quarantine,• that international health authorities 0pJX>seall restrictions on the freemovement of HIV-JX>sitives,• that viral transmission can justas easily happen on a 30-day businesstrip as a 31-day pleasure trip and• that it is silly for the nation withthe most AIDS cases to try and stopthe virus at its borders,
In its Jan, 16 moves, the government resJX>nded to two of the objections, agreeing
to route waiver
requests through high-up American
officials rather than embassy employ-

ees who are foreign nationals, andopting to place the waiver stamp on a
separate piece of paper, rather than inpassports,
Accordingto The New YorkTimes, officials said their moves werea direct resJX>nse to protests by theWorld Health Organization, the Red
Cross, the National Association of
People With AIDS [NAPWA]and others,
AIDS activists resJX>nded to thechanges by JX>intingout that HIV-JX>sitives will still have to tell somebody
at an American embassy of theirhealth status, And they say that is
unacceptable,"If you go the embassy and ask
specifically to see an American official, the people in the office are going
to know why you're circumventing
them and that's just as good as tellingthem,» said NAPWAsecretary Ron Jerrell, speaking from his home in Kentucky,"The groups who ahve
called the boycott-andI metwith them in Madrid in
November-are
simply goingto say that this is not goodenough," Jerrell said, "There
are South American countrie's
who jail people that they findout are HIV-JX>sitive, If thesepeople need to come to the
V,S" they are putting theirwhole lives in jeopardy,
Jean McGuire, executive
directorof the V,S, AIDS
Action Council predicted that
the INS's "path of least resistance by not going farther .. ,may just excite a louder callfor change,»
She joined
Wachter in calling the partial
moves "disaPJX>inting,"
Only
Congresscanremove HIV from the U.S, list
See INS on page 67

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January 28, 1990

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o YES
o YES
o YES
o YES
o YES
o YE5
o YE5
o YE5

OK
OK
OK
OK
OK
OK
OK
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New York

NO
NO
NO
NO
NO
NO
NO
NO

Relag~nshi~o

YE5
YE5
YE5
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YES
YES
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OK
OK
OK
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lover (monogamous)
lover (non monogamous)
Buddy (sexual)
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OK
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OK
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NO
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35-40
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0 YE5
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OK
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NO
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NO
NO
NO

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51im
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0 YE5
0 YE5

OK
OK
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OK
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NO
NO
NO
NO
NO

5'6" or less5'6"'5'9"
5'9",6"6'-6'3"
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OK
OK
OK
OK
OK
OK
OK
OK
OK

NO
NO
NO
NO
NO
NO
NO
NO
NO

Black
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o

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0
0
0
0
0
0
0
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YES
YE5
YES
YES
YES
YE5
YES
YES
YES

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YE5

OK
OK
OK
OK
OK
OK

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NO
NO
NO
NO
NO

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0 YE5
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0 YES
0 YES
0 YES
0 YES
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OK
OK
OK
OK
OK
OK
OK

NO
NO
NO
NO
NO
NO
NO
NO

5moothClean 5haven
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OK
OK
OK

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NO
NO
NO
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Aslin oriental
Bilek
Latin
Eist Indian

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0

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OK
OK
OK
OK
OK
OK
OK

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YES
YES
YES
YES
YES
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YES

NO
NO
NO
NO
NO
NO
NO
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Brooklyn
QueensBronx
Staten Island
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OK
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NO
NO
NO
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0 YES
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0 YE5
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0 YE5
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0 YE5
0 YE5
0 YE5
0 YE5
0 YE5
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OK
OK
OK
OK
OK
OK
OK
OK
OK
OK
OK
OK
OK
OK

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NO
NO
NO
NO
NO
NO
NO
NO
NO
NO
NO
NO
NO
NO

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OK
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OK
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OK
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OK
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OK
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NO
NO
NO
NO
NO
NO

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YES
YES
YES
YES
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YES
YE5
YE5
YE5
YE5
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NO
NO
NO
NO
NO
NO
NO
NO
NO
NO
NO
NO

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NO
NO
NO
NO
NO
NO

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0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0

OK
OK
OK
OK
OK
OK
OK
OK
OK
OK
OK
OK
OK

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0 YES
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0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
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YE5
YES
YES
YE5
YES
YES
YE5
YES
YES
YES
YE5
YE5
YE5
YE5

OK
OK
OK
OK
OK
OK
OK
OK
OK
OK
OK
OK
OK
OK
OK

NO
NO
NO
NO
NO
NO
NO
NO
NO
NO
NO
NO
NO
NO
NO

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Parties
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0 YES
0 YES
0 YES
0 YES
0 YES
0 YE5
0 YE5
0 YE5
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OK
OK
OK
OK
OK
OK
OK
OK
OK
OK
OK

NO
NO
NO
NO
NO
NO
NO
NO
NO
NO
NO

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ProtestantJewishNew age
MCC
Very religious
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Conservative
Social democrat

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0 YE5
OK
0 YES
OK
0 YE5
OK
0 YE5
OK
0 YE5
OK
0 YE5
OK
0 YES
OK
0 YES
OK
0 YES
OK
0 YE5
OK
0 YE5
OK
0 YE5
OK
0 YES
OK
0 YE5
OK
0 YE5
OK
0 YES
OK
0 YES
OK
0 YES
OK
0 YES
OK
0 YES
OK

NO
NO
NO
NO
NO
NO
NO
NO
NO
NO
NO
NO
NO
NO
NO
NO
NO
NO
NO
NO
NO

0
0
0
0

YES
YES
YES
YES

NO
NO
NO
NO

Kissing
Cuddling
JO
French active
French passive
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Greek passive
SAFE SEX
Toys
leather
SMtop
SM bottom
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Experimental
Three-waysGroup sex
Very experienced
Average experience
Inexperienced
Virginal
5mall to average
endowment
Average to la~eVery large en owment
Cut
Uncut

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OK
NO
NO
OK
OK
NO
YES
NO
OK
YES
NO
OK
YES
OK
NO
YES
NO
OK

0 YES
0 YES

0
0
0
0

OK
OK
OK
OK

Sensory speech handicap
Movement handicap
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BlsexuaTranssexual

Out Takes

Where were
you on theafternoonof Wed. Jan
10th?
NEW YORK-Around 4 pm thatday, Will Morales, a person with
AIDS, was apparently
beaten andarrested by officers from the New
York-New Jersey JX>licedepartment in
the Port Authority bus terminal at
42nd Street and Eighth Avenue,
Morales had gone to the terminal
to buy Chapstick and a magazine, but
once inside, he said, he became tired
and sat down on a staircase to rest.
The excursion was his first after fourweeks in bed due to illness,
When an officer told him to getup, Morales said, he showed his MTA
handicap card and said he was temporarily too weak to walk, Morales
alleges that the officer then threw ,thecard in his face, hit him several times
on the head with his nightstick,pulled him up, turned him around,pushed him down into a crouch on
the ground, handcuffed him and finally arrested him,
On Thursday, January 18, morethan a dozen volunteers from ACf UP. helped the New York Lesbian and
Gay Anti-Violence Project distribute
5,000 flyers in the station asking for
witnesses.to the incident. The AntiViolence Project also offered a $1,000
reward for information leading to a
successful prosecution of the officers
involved,
Henry DeGeneste, superintendent of Port Authority police anddirector of public safety, told OutWeek the incident was being looked
into by the PA's internal affairs unit.
He noted that as of last Friday, however, investigators had twice requested interviews with Morales, who was
unable to comply because of illness,"We want to get to the bottom of

this as much as anyone else," DeGeneste said, estimating that the results of
the investigation could be made available to Morales within 30 days after
he is ,interviewed,
According to Matt Foreman, the
new head of the project, the Port
Authority police have a particularly
bad record of violence and bias
toward persons of color and thosepeople they perceive as indigent orhomeless, He called the station a "fascist state," and notec\ that the Partnership for the Homeless is pursuingseveral similar complaints,
The Port Authority is particularly
frustrating, Foreman said, because ofclaims that its bi-state charter removes
it from the jurisdiction of any of thethree state or local agencies that deal
with bias-related violence, Those are
the New York City Commission on.
Human Rights, the New York State
Division of Human Rights and the
New Jersey Department of Law's Division of Public Accommodations .and
Human Rights,
Anyone with information can call
the Anti-Violence Project at (212) 8076761.
-John Voelcker

Skinheadsentenced
in anti-gay
attackWASHINGTON-Superior
Court
Judge Robert M, Scott on January 12
sentenced "skinhead" gang memberDavid McCall of Dale City, Va" to 15
to 45 years in prison for the brutal
assault and armed robbery of gay
waiter Rodney Johnson,
Fearing life imprisonment, the19-year-old defendant interrupted his
attorney's attempt to re-argue his
innocence before sentencing
andadmitted he accepted responsibility
and was sorry for his crime,
Judge Scott replied there was no

RODNEY JOHNSON
Photo: Patsy Lynch
excuse for yielding to the gang mentality and attacking the victim becauseof his assumed homosexuality, He
rebutted all the defense's arguments,'The judge went right to McCall's
hate motivation and anti-gay passion,"
said Johnson's
counsel,
Linda
Delaney, "He used a Simplistic, common sense approach to explain thatsocial order could not tolerate thecrime and that. he could not soseverely beat another human being
without expecting to pay for his crimewith a substantial sentence,"
Delaney, who represents Johnson
in a unique $20 million civil suitagainst McCall and other skinheads, isno stranger to such cases, She wasalso counsel to relatives of five civilrights activis,ts kiIled in 1979 by Ku
Klux Klan and American Nazi Party
members in Greensboro, N,C.
She said she was "satisfied" withthe sentence in this case, but added "I
wouldn't have been upset if it had
been longer,",
Judge Scott sentenced McCall to
ten to 30 years for assault with intent
to kill while armed, and a consecutive
five to ten years for robbery, He will
be eligible for parole in 15 years,
A jury unanimously
convicted
McCall and Mark Hyder, 18, ofSoutherland, Va, November 17, after aspree of bea~ings and robberies ofgay men in the DUJX>ntCirc\e/Rock
Creek Park area,

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The judge delayed Hyder's sentencing until March 12 after he gets au.s, Youth Act review which allows
juveniles special consideration, "I canwait," said Delaney, "I don't want thecase overturned on appeal."
A third gang member, Richard"Craig" Grimes, 18, of Ridge, Md" issought as a fugitive,
Activists from the gay and lesbianrights, anti-violence and civil rights
communities also praised the sentence, "The length sends a strong
message to would-be hate mongers
that their contemptuous attitudes andactions will not be tolerated," said
Paula L. Ettelbrick, legal director of
Lambda Legal Defense and Education
Fund in New York City,
The civil lawsuit is believed to be
the first against members of the skinhead movement, who are identified
generally by shaved heads, heavyboots, suspenders,bomber jackets
and neo-Nazior otherwhitesupremacist rhetoric, It marks the firsttime a victim of anti-gay violence hassued members of an organized hategroup for civil damages, according to
Lambda,-JohnZeh

New editor
forPWAC
Newsline
NEW YORK-Writerand ,filmmaker Phil Zwickler has been named
the new editor of the People WithAIDS Coalition's monthly magaZine,
Newsline, following in the footsteps ofpast editors Max Navarre and Michael
Callen, He comes to the JX>sitionwith
a distinguishedrecord in film andprint journalism,"We are extremely pleased tohave him on staff," director of publications Chris Babick told Out Week,"Phil is a colorful person with astrong personality who will lend avery fair and honest perspective to24

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PHIL ZWlCKLER

Photo: Bill Bytsura

our readership, He knows the most
imJX>rtant thing that PWAs can do isthink for themselves,""I want my work to be important," Zwickler told OutWeek "I want
it to have an impact. I will follow inthe tradition of empowering PWAs."
He will begin work next month,
Zwickler, who has also contributed to OutWeek, said that when hislover passed away in 1985, "I wasradicalized
into doing somethingelse.""I was determined not to go into
anything that didn't relate to lesbian;md gay rights," he continued, Zwickler received a New York state grantand produced the film "Rights andReactions," which examines the process that lead to the passage of the
New York gay and lesbian rights bill.
The film won awards at film festivalsin Houston, San Francisco and thedistinguished Gold Plaque at the 1987
Chicago Film Festival.
As a reJX>rter for the New York
Native, his outspoken style earned
him the nickname of "HIV Hardliner."
After a year' and a half with the paper,
he left to work on two films with
West German filmmaker Rosa vonPraunheim: Positive, which examines
AIDS activism in New York and features AIDS notables Larry Kramer andMichael Callen, and Silence = Deatb,a film about the reactions of artists to
the AIDS crisis, with artist David Wojnarowicz, Zwickler has also worked
in tandem with Creative Time, Art
Matters, Gay Men's Health Crisis andthe Gay Cable Network,
Newsline is a monthly magaZine
published by the People With AIDS
Coalition and functions as a resource
directory for people dealing withdiagnosis,
who want updates on
drugs and therapies, who want togain information and take control of
their lives, It began as a 250-copy,
seven page xeroxed newsletter andhas since grown into a distribution of
13,000 and is available in both English
and Spanish, For more information
about Newsline or The People WithAIDS Coalition, call (212) 523-0290,-Keith Miller

MarchilIlalarkey
for gaytenants
ALBANY-State
Senator John
Marchi (R-Staten Island) has introduced three bills in the New YorkState Senate in an attempt to overrule
a recent New York Court of Appeals
decision which holds that two gay
men can be considered "family members." That decision, in Brascbi vs.
Stabl Associates, amends state rent
control regulations which bar evictions of family membersof, adeceased tenant to include the surviving partners of gay relationships,
Marchi's first bill, s,6564, proposes amending the state constitution torequire that the term "family," whenever used in New York law, be limited to traditional family definitions
spelled out in the bill, Constitutional
amendments must be passed by two
successive legislatures and a statewide
referendum of voters to be adopted,
The second bill, S,6565, would
amend the General Construction Law,

Out Takes
which governs the interpretation ofForce on AIDS, Rep, David Flagg (Dstatutes and regulations
by state
Gainesville), said in a hearing January
courts and agencies, to require a tra8 that he would delay action on the
ditional definition of "family,"
proposal until evidence on the effecThe third bill, S, 6566, would
tiveness of disclosure laws in otheramend the rent control law to require
states is available,that eviction rules regarding families
Moreover, the Florida Departbe interpreted to protect only tradiment of Health and Rehabilitation Sertional family members, as defined in vices (HRS), which proJX>sed the law,
the bill. This third bill is specificallyconceded that recent funding cuts
aimed at precluding protective regula- I.
tions proposed by the Division of ! i
Housing and Community Renewal in
November, which would extend theBrascbi principle to all rent-regulated
housing in New York, The division isholding public hearings on the proJX>sedamendments on the. afternoon
of January 22 at 1 Police Plaza, A lawsuit by landlord groups challenging
the amendments
is pendinginSupreme Court, New York County,
before Justice Irma Vidal Santaella,Marchi's traditional definitions
would restrict family relationship!> tolegally married spouses, children or
their descendants, step-children, siblings, parents or ancestors, aunts or
uncles,immediatein-laws
andadoptees or foster children placed
through authorized agencies,'
The first two bills have beenreferred to the Senate Judiciary Committee for conSideration, the third to
the Committee on Housing and Community Development.
-A,rt Leonard

may impair its ability to enforce theproposed law,
Jeff Peters, president of the Florida AIDS Legal Defense and Education
Fund in Tallahassee, which represents
people with AIDS" called the delay
wise, but warned that "this fight is notover yet."
Testifying Jan, 8 at the Task
Force's request, AIDS Fund attorney
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Brent Taylor said the number of people who volunteer to be tested for thepresenceof HIV antibodies
hasdecreased dramatically in states that
require disclosure, In South Carolina,
for example, that number dropped 40
percent after the state implemented alaw similar to the Florida proJX>sal.
That proJX>sal requires disclosure
so the health department can try to
trace former sexual and needle-sharing partners of HIV-JX>sitivepersons,
But AIDS Fund attorney
RobertWaters noted in a letter to the Task
Force that contact tracing is unlikely
to prevent the spread of AIDS, sincesimilar programs have not worked
against the spread of sexually transmitted diseases like syphilis,
Current Florida law requires
physicians to disclose the names of
persons with AIDS, Persons who test
JX>sitivefor the presence of HIV mustcurrently give permission for such disclosure, The state also operates several anonymous
HIV testing sites,
where names are not recorded in thefirst place,-John Voelcker

Greensboro
axes gayjob rights
GREENSBORO, North CarolinaIn an unscheduled vote three days
after Christmas, the Greensboro City
Council reversed its decision last October to protect gay and lesbian city
employees from job discrimination,
Leaders of the Guilford Alliancefor Gay and Lesbian Equality, which
waged a two-year fight to get thewords "sexual preference" included incity personnel policy, say the groupwill mount an intensive campaign toreverse the reversal.
'The outrage about this is massive,"says alliance spokeswoman Mamie
Thompson, "It isn't just the usual gay
people who are mad about it."
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Dec, 28 after City Manager William
Carstarphen and City Attorney Jesse"Skip" Warren, who opJX>sed inclusion of sexual preference in city personnel policy, told the council it
could face "frivolous" lawsuits if it
extended protection to a group ofpeople not recognized by Congress orstate legislature as needing protection,
In a five to four vote, the council
dropped sexual preference from thepolicy, and substituted broader language benning discrimination on race,
sex, religion, national origin, disability or"any other non-job-related condition,"
Council member William Burckley, who introduced the motion todrop sexual preference from the policy, later told a reporter for theGreensboro News and Record that the
October policy change used "dangerous wording.""I thought it was a mistakebecause sexual preference can mean
just gay and lesbian versus straight,
but it can also mean someone who isa pedophile," Burckley told the paper,
That language, new in Greensboro's public debate about gay andlesbian rights, angered Gary Farlow,
chairman of the city's Human Relations Commission,"Pedophiles and homosexuality
are two different things," Farlow saida week after the vote,"We'd put in two years of hard

work on the this issue,· Farlow said,"The approach they took is a slap in
the face to the commission,"
The commission recommended
inclusion of sexual preference in city
personnel JX>licyafter months of public and private hearings in which gay
people described harassment, violence and discrimination they face inGreensboro,
Alliance leaders say councilmembers will now be lobbied for a returnto the October language and for new
protection to employees of firms andagencies that receive city money, The
Alliance expects to appear before
council in early February, within daysof the 30th anniversary of the Greensboro sit-ins that launched the Black
civil rights movement. -Kathy Hoke

Bon Jovirues "faggot" relllark
DUBLIN-The lead Singer of theU,S, heavy metal group Bon Jovi
aJX>logized to Ireland's National Gay
Federation [NGF) Jan, 9 after activists
threatened legal action over his use of
the word "faggot" on a concert stage,"After reading the articles written

Out Takes
about this unfortunate situation I feellowe the National Gay Federation an
aJX>logy,·Jon Bon Jovi said in a written statement "I at no time meant tocause any hatred or had any intent tocause any animosity towards the gay
community,·
Activists with NGF and GLEN, theGay and Lesbian Equality Network,threatened Bon Jovi under Ireland's
new Incitement to Hatred Act, whichbans public comments that abuse,
insult or incite hatred of certain
groups, including gays and lesbians,
The act passed Parliament inNovember without any lobbying by
gay and lesbian campaigners,
Bon Jovi's remarkS came during a
concert at Dublin's Point Depot
before a crowd of 8,000. According to
NGF, the singer was expressing his
distress that the Los Angeles Rams
had defeated the New York Giants ina football game and, at one point,referred to the Rams as "a bunch offucking faggots,"
In his apology,
Bon Jovi
explained: ·Please understand that myreaction was not at all geared towards
gays, but simply was a reaction to alosing football score:
Bon Jovi's aJX>logy was "accepted" by NGF which further scoldedthat the singer "should choose his language more carefully especially when
speaking to an excited crowd ofimpressionable young minds,"•As we near the end of the 20th

century,· said NGF sJX>kesman John
Bergin, "hopefully no one would tolerate abusive or threatening remarks
about Blacks, Jews or other nationalities, Neither should they be tolerated
when they incite hatred of gays or
lesbi:ans,·
Bergin also took advantage of themedia attention to again call "for the
repeal of the Victorian [Irish] laws
which still criminalize sex betweenmen,"
In October 1988, the European

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News
AIDS and the Elderly

SAGE Reaches Out to theInvisible Epidemic
by John Voelcker
NEW YORK-Quick quiz, There
are more people with AIDS who are:(a) under 24;(b) 50 and over,Wrong, It's (b),Ten percent of the AIDS cases
reported by the Centers for Disease
Control in Atlanta occur in people
aged 50 or older: more than 10,000 at"It's always difficult to get coverage on issues that affect the elderly,"says Michael Rohrer, development
coordinator for Senior Action in a Gay
Environment (SAGE), a 13-year-old
social service agency that serves 1,000
gay and lesbian seniors each month,
170 of them homebound,"When you add
heterosexism
toageism-and thenadd AIDS phobia
on top of that,"
Rohrer said, "you end up with lotsof attention
and government
money for babies with AIDS, andvery little for our clients,"

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First in the Country
Last July, SAGE announced thecountry's first program providing
care and support specifically toolder people with AIDS (PWAs),
Still in its initial stages, the program's specially trained volunteers
serve 20 homebound seniors with
AIDS, Another 20 or so attend special SAGE support groups,
Rohrer said the services were
provided out of necessity before
they were formalized, as more andmore SAGE clients were diagnosed
with HIV-related health problems,"IV-DRUG USERS OVER 50"
The group hopes that its programs
Arlene Kochman
photo: Ben Thornberry can serve as a model for other agencies outside of New York, where
the end of 1989, In New York City
SAGEcannot directly provide services,alone, according to estimates by the
Clients are referred from Gay
Department of Health , there will be
Men's Health Crisis, as well as hospi6,000 seniors diagnosed with AIDS bytals with major AIDS centers, SAGE
1992, Many in the AIDS community
offers needs assessments for new
feel the estimate is low,
Yet virtually all AIDS service pro- referrals; friendly visitors ("buddies")
for homebound c1ient~; weekly supgrams, treatments and drug therapies
JX>rtgroups for older PWAs and HIVassume a target audience in their 20s
positive
seniors;
supportandto 40s,bere_avement groups for surviving
So where the outrage? Where's thepartners of older PWAs and a variety
uproar? \X/here's the press coverage?

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January 28, 1990

of training for hospitals and social service agencies on the special needs ofolder PWAs,
SAGE offers a level of cultural
sensitivity that is absent in other AIDS
services, most of which are targeted
to clients in their 20s, 30s or 40s,
"AIDS is perceived as a young person's disease,"
Rohrer said, "But
it's a very different experience
for a PWA who's
60 than for someone who's 30,"
Many SAGE clients have been
extremely closeted for their whole
lives, he explained, and hence are
reluctant to seek help or even consider
being tested .for HIV antibodies, They
may be uncomfortable discussing sex,
and feel removed from the concerns ofyounger, more openly gay people,"Imagine a person who's never
told his doctor he was gay," Rohrer
said, "If he's put into a support
group with people in their 20s and
30s, all that internalized oppression
comes out. He may question whether
his life is less valuable than theirs,
because they're being 'cut down in.
their prime' while he's already lived
a full life,""It's our job to validate their healing process, and help them come toterms with what they are," he sa!d,"Everybody has the right to live andsurvive, no matter what their age,"That message hasn't yet arrived
in New York, The U,S, newspaperthat has covered the SAGE program
most exhaustively
is Florida's St,
Petersburg Times, which takes theconcerns of its many older reade'rs
seriously,

A Family that Takes Care of its Elders
Rohrer stressed that SAGE is anitltergenerational group, :'Think of us~ a family of gay people of all ages,
taking care of our elders;" he said,
Because many clients have led suchcloseted lives, he said SAGE often
bas trouble finding sJX>kespeople to
do outreach to other seniors, But hestressed that the group intends topromote the needs of its clients
throughout the AIDS community, 'Virtually no scientific studies ofthe effects of HIV illness in older
people have been released, Rohrer
said, Yet the disease may interact inunknown ways with more typicalgeriatric health 'concerns: high bloodpressure, heart disease and Parkinson's Disease, for instance,
The pext steps for the SAGE
project are to develop materials thatspecify the different needs of older
PWAs and to work with othergroups-including AIDS activists-toensure that their agendas and programs include the concernsof "HETEROSEXISM AND AGEISM"
Michael Rohrer
Photo: Ben Thornberry
seniors with AIDS or HIV infection,quentlythanothers,and there do
Safer sex education is one such
exist
intravenous-drugusers
over 50,
area,., "When was the last time you
saw anyone other than 25-year-olds in "No one has addressed their fears,"
she said, "or told them that you can't
safe sex literature or videos?" Rohrer
get AIDS from flu shots,"demanded, "We have anecdotal eviBut these kinds of education aredence that older people are not pracstill just "our little dream," Kochmanticing safe sex, -because no one
said Wistfully, SAGE is presently
reaches out, especially to. older -gay
applying
for grants and working tomen and says, this problem can affectraise funds just to expand its services
you too,"to clients in its own AIDS pro"I'd love to see a poster at agram-whoare presently all older
demonstration that said 'Teach safegaymen,
sex to older gay men too!'"
And funding is always a major
concern, "Aging is not a popular
topic," said Rohrer, "particularly in the
Later: AIDS Education for all Seniors
gay community," He admitted theIn the longer term, said Arlenegroup is particularly concerned about
Kochman, acting executive director
how it will meet the needs of itsof SAGE, the group hopes to seek
growing client population of older
funding for AIDS education
for
PWAs,
senior centers all over New York,
Toward that 'end, SAGE is mount"Many older people at senior cening
its Second
AnnualDanceters are terrified of AIDS, because
Marathon as a benefit for seniors withthey don't know the facts," she said,
AIDS, To be held at The Columns,"but the medical establishment
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Lillian Monevecchi and the gay and
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Atlanta Journal

Reporter's Notebook

Atlanta, Sodomy; Sodomites & SuchI

came to Georgia for the sodomy,Well, for the sodomy
demonstration at least, Sodomy
in Georgia, for some cosmic reason,remains for me but a fabled concept.
Let's just say this gay newshound did
not "get lucky" in the Peach State,
But, after a week of looking at theflyer announcing the Jan, 8 lesbian/gay
gathering on the Georgia Capitol steps
to protest that state's sodomy law, mytask to cover it for the country's queer·SIT ON MY FACESodomy at the state house

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newspapers began to stare me down
like one of the gargoyles on the
church outside my window,
So, reluctantly, I packed up my
car with enough cassettes to get toTierra Del Fuego and drove south,
After making the II-hour jaunt,
much of it through a Georgia downJX>ur,I arrived in Atlanta groggy andwet. And like any thinking person
needing to recover from the long drive
to prepare for the next day's demonstration I did the sensible thing,
I went dancing,Now, I had heard that the homosexual rabble-rousers would be hold-ing a fundraiser at one local disco thatnight, so I headed for the action, I was
still wondering just how much supJX>n
the next day's demo was going to getin a city where many in the gay andlesbian community had voiced theirdispleasure with the idea of a bunch of"outsiders" coming in to yell at theirstate legislators about sex,
Pulling into the bar's parking lot, I
had a sneaking suspicion that perhaps
I wasn't where I thought I was, Therein front of me, cruising up to the lot attendant, was a caramel-<:olored 78 Impala with a bumper sticker that read,"More Nukes, Less Kooks,· Not exactly

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the sort of sentiment you imagine inhabitating the same room with 100
some-odd Greenwich Village types
whose favorite phrase-of-the-moment
is "Suck my dick, lick my clit, sodomy
laws, are full of shit."
Maybe I was in some other bar's
parking lot, I thought. For a second,
But when two dapper gay males in
oh-so-tasteful sweaters emerged fromthe car, I remembered that, as in myhometown of Miami, conservativehomos abound here, It was, in fact, in
this same parking lot during the 1988
Democratic Party National Convention
that a well-to-do gay Atlantan told methat for the first time he might give the
Democratic presidential candidate a second thought before voting Republican,
I followed the sweater men in,
Scanning the barren room, myfears were momentarily confirmed, Oh,
goddess, I thought, they're boycotting
the fundraiser! Things must be' worse
than I thought.
'
But I quickly found out otherwise,
Turning the corner, I discovered The
Mob,
On the stage was a band ca!1ed
the Opal Fox, While a man looking
like a young Mick Jagger in a chic
black dress and matching Cher wig
belted out a minimalist chant, a portly,
bearded man, looking like somethingout of The Dukes of Hazzard, but
wearing a bra and a beanie, poundedout the beat on some sort of archaic
household appliance,
The crowd wasn't quite the buttoned-down type, either, If the sweatermen had an allergy to "kooks," as they
put it, they would have needed a caseof antihistaminesto get to the fire'exits,
During a heartfelt discussion witha fellow
Now, fundraisers and dancing are
one thing, but sodomy laws are a serious matter, But if one was to make alist of adjectives describing the next
day's protest, "serious" wouldn't be
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AIDS, or those of
their friends, moredifficult,
Neithertype of criticism satvery well with Mr,
Mark,
In the article hecomplained
about
having to hear testimony on how some
Jews
have
not
shown compassion
to people with AIDS
because of homophobia, He characterized many of the
speakers as pushinghardline gay propaganda,And
herepeatedly asserted
that gays and drug
users
have
only
themselves to blame
for AIDS, nonsensically arguing thatsince the disease is
not casually transmitted, transmission
How did The Jewish Week, aprominent New York-based Jewish
must be intentional.
To cap' this idea, in
newspaper, choose to headline its coverage of World AIDS Day? This is how:the last paragraph"Fear and Loathing at an AIDS memorihe made a reference to the innocenceof a child infected with AIDS, presumal." And the article got worse fromthere,
ably because of an infected mother ora blood transfusion,
The article, by Jonathan Mark,Mr, Mark was obviously
toocentered on the New York City's Jewish Museum's observance of the day,threatened by the memorial to be able
to reJX>rton it. So instead he used the
The museum presented all eveningof music, poetry and speakers, Apspace available to him to blindly lashparently, some of the speakers criti- . out at those criticizing an institution hehoids dear, That's not journalism, It is
cized the government's
slow repropaganda,
sJX>nseto AIDS, And a number of the
To complain, write to Mr, Phillip
speakers addressed the topic of how
Ritzenbert, Editor and Publisher, The
prejudice in the Jewish community
JeWish Week, 1457 Broadway, New
has made their personal struggle with

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Shenandoah
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York, NY 10036,* * * * *Mr. Mark's column is almost
friendly compared to a piece of undisguised hatred that comes to us from a
Shenandoah, Pennsylvania newspaper.
In an early December edition, theShenandoah Evening Herald ran acommentary piece by Christine Goldbeck, a regular writer for the paper, Titled "Angered by AIDS Care," the pieceis an extraordinarily hateful diatribe

against gay people and all those whoare HIV-JX>sitive,
It begins:. "If you are a druggie, ora fag, chances are that you are going
to contract AIDS..," It continues, •ifyou do, chances are that you will receive better medical care and more financial help than if you were 'a normal, drug-free heterosexual
personwho has a disease which normal people acquire."
The column offers cancer as an
example of a disease that affiicts normal people, stating that it doesn't effect "wusses who cannot deal withnormal life."
It blames gay rights groups for diverting government funds to AIDS,
claiming that "[qlueers inside the big
beltway are pulling strings to help theirhomo brothers and sisters, n _You get the idea,Thi~ column is not only oozing
hatred and bigotry, It is also laced witha heavy dose of hypocrisy,
This is conservative,
straight
America once again complaining thattax dollars are being spent on programs for gays and lesbians, without
once, for a moment, considering that
we generate at least ten 'percent of tax
revenues,
Put another way, at GLAAD wesee many columnists who jump at
every opportunity
to editorialize
against using tax money to subsidize
programs that appear to serve primarily gays and lesbians, But you'll
never see these columnists editorializing on the ways in which the gay
community bears a disproportionate
share of society's costs, Consider, forexample, the American government's
policy of taxing married couples at alower rate; at the same time that it
doesn't permit same-sex couples tomarry,
To complain about the columnist,
Christine Golbeck, and about the
paper's editorial policy in general,
write to Mr, Edward Schreppel, Editor, The Evening Herald, Ringtown
Boulevard, Shenandoah,PA, 17976,
Demand that, as a minimum, theyedit pejorative terms when describing
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1Hello, I'm Bob, the thoughtful
media psychiatrist who was asked togive his professional opinion about
these shocking murders, Of course, I
haven't had time to ftnd out much about
this particular case, but offhand I would
say that the homicidally obsessed young
man-aboutwhom I know next tonothing of a personal nature, you understand-this deeply troubled malconistic objectivity, you'd never guesstent who shot those 12-ten?-no,that item was written by a real human
18-those women .., Anyhow, this fascibeing, I just hope that the word "feminating psychotic-probabry came from anism" didn't stridently detract from thedysfunctional family, where there was avery real suffering of this tragic event.
substantial amount of emotional represLater, I made sure to ask a lot of men
sion, alienation and occasional bouts ofwhat they thought about the masdomestic violence, He likely became
sacre, so they wouldn't think it was
confused as tosex roles; didn't
know who he
was supposed to
be as a man in
today's society,
And, in order tosurvive in thisoppressive environment,
helearned to hate
his mother,
Naturally, hishatred carried 0ver to feminists,
because, as women, they reminded him of
his mother when
she was being assertive, The results were tragic,
What a pity he
Photo: Marilyn Humphries
couldn't'have
another one of those women's issues,
been normal,
Which brings up a fine, journalistic
Boy, you said it, pal, That Canadian
JX>int:were these unfortunate women indude was totally sick, As a straight, whitedeed feminists? Did they hate men? Hardman, I completely reject the actions ofto know, No time to care, I've got to report Qn a ·story in Rochester, where 12 this fruitcake, who is embarrassing to theprostitutes have been found mysteriously Men's liberation Front, of which I am acharter member, Like I said in my 1V inmurdered, Or was that two little Omaha
terview about this mess, militant' femigirls dug up in a ravine? Maybe it was
one Black attorney snuffed out by a let- nists may be taking away men's hardearned rights, but that's no reason to go
terbOmb?A gay man beaten to death in a=oby Susie DayHi, I'm a reporter for a major
metroJX>litannewspaper, See
how objective I am? I got thisjob because of: (a) my objectivity; (b) mykeen, analytical mind; and(c) my ability
to work longhours-notbecause I ama woman, Affirmative Action had nothing to do with
it. And now,the news:
In a bru-tal display ofgunfire,14
women students at the
University ofMontreal were .'shot dead today, when aman burst intoa classroom at
the Engineering School, brandishing a rifle, After 0Triering the male stut:J,entsfrom the room, he
fved repeatedly into the group if remaining women, shouting at them, , "You're ali
feminists, The aUeged assailant, identified
as Marc Lepine, W::lS later found dead witha tbree-page suicide note that blamed feministsfor "ruining his life, Funeral services
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park?.., No Matter, You see, underlying
my cool impartiality is a folksy sort of
wisdom that says, "Let's ftnd out whatmakes those deranged killers tick" And
now to you, Bob,

around shooting them, It's reverse reverse discrimination, and is JUS( not civilized, If this guy could have assimilated,as they say, into his culture, he might
have gone on to fight feminism from asane, nonviolent perspective,
He could have become a judge,
maybe, and ruled against those. sexist
women who claim they're harassment
and discrimination victims, He could
have gotten himself on the board of directors of that Montreal University, for
Christ's sake, and cut the funding fortheir women's studies program, so horrible things like this wouldn't have tohappen, Or maybe he could have beena men's rights activist and spearheaded
a campaign for a Straight White Men's
History month, He didn't have to takethe law into his own hands, Maniacs
like him do the work of a dozen legislative assemblies,
and must be
stopped, If this madness is allowed tocontinue, we'll all be out of jobs,
Hi. Hello, Yoo Hoo, Hi. We'reJohn and Jane Q, Public, Yes, we are,aren't we dear? That's right. And we
think it was just terrible what happened to those poor girls at that engineering school up in Canada, don't
we John? That's right,Jane,
If those
girls had enrolled in home economics,
none of this would have happened,
John! That's a terrible thing to say,Don't mind him, folks, He just makesthese horrible jokes, Well, Jane honey,
with the world in the shape it's in,
you gotta k~ep smiling, Floods,
Famine, Drug Wars, Crime in thestreets, I feel it is my duty as a loyal
American to keep up with the latest
mass murders, at home and abroad,Ahh, shut up, John, Being a mother, I
can only hope that I am not raising
our little Billy to be one of those demented monsters of depravity when
he grows up, I pray.to God, You
know, Jane, I read somewhere thatfeminism causes cancer, Or' was thatoil slicks? But it is too bad about
those poor girlsl I guess" Had theirwhole lives before 'em, Terrible, Terrible thing, Finally, John, You're showing some compassion, It is terrible,
Still, you've gotta wonder, How comethose women wanted to be engineers
in the first place? ...

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OutLaw

1"More on Naming Names in Print•~ Arthur S. LeonardI

myn last column, I introduced
some basic principles of libel lawthat could apply to a lawsuit.gainst a newspaper which publishedinformation about the sexual orientaion of a news subject, After I submitted my column for publication, theew York Court of Appeals issued two~'mportant decisions on libel that are\vorth discussing in this context: Imlmuno, A,G, v, Moor-Jankowski, andWeiner. v, Doubleday & Company, Inc"lI lboth decided on December 14, 1989,
Both decisions appear to expand protection for publishers,
I Immuno concerned a letter to theeditor pul;>lished in the December 1983
lissue of the journal of M"edical Prima'Ifology, a scientific journal concernedrith medical experimentation on priates, The author of the letter, theead of an association dedicated to the
L elfare of primates, asserted that a
rew facility in Africa planned by theplaintiff would be detrimental to thelweIfare of African primates in a variety
p'f ways, Before publishing the letter,
f..hejournal submitted it to the plaintiff
for comment, and prefaced its appearknce in print with the information thathe plaintiff's lawyers had characterIzed it as "inaccurate, unfair and reckless." The plaintiff sued the writer of
e letter, the journal and its editor foribel. All of the defendants except the
ditor settled the case by paying "sub,tantial" damages,
The editor, being bolder sort, resed to settle and asked the court toismiss the plaintiff's case against him"
being without legal basis, The trial'dge refused to dismiss the case, but
he Appellate Division reversed andhe Court of Appeals upheld the disissal. The decision by Judge Judithayesets out sweeping protection~'ased on the First Amendment of the

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Constitution as well as the New YorkState Constitution for publications ofletters to the editor,
The basis of the court's ruling is
the long established distinction between "opinion" and "fact" in libel law,
A published expression of opinion
may not be held defamatory, becauseof the special role of the press in publishing letters to the editor as part ofthe public debate on ideas of public
interest. Wi~hin the context of libel
law, "opinion" has a broader meaning
than its everyday use, including material that in other contexts might be considered factual assertions, Judge Kayenotes that letters to the editor, despite
their phrasing, are normally understood by the reader to be expressionsof opinion "by the letter writer, and are
not generally understood to have theagreement or endorsement of the editor or publisher, This is especially sowhen the journal indicates in print thatthe content of letters it publishes are
the views of the writer and should not
be attributed to the journal, but eventhe absence of such a disclaimer is notfatal to the defense,
There might be circumstanceswhere assertions in a letter to the editor are so outrageous and maliciousthat they would give rise to liability on
the part of the publisher, but the court
felt that this was not such an occasion,
Judge Kaye cited leading U,S, Supreme
Court and other federal appellate rulings holding that competing ideas inprint are what the First Amendment is
supJX>sed to protect, and commented
that the subject matter of the letter
challenged jn this case was a matter ofpublic controversy as to which readersof this journal had a particular interestin being informed,
The Weiner case concern.ed thebook Nutcracker by Shana Alexander,
In Nutcracker, Alexander explored thecircumstances of the murder of multimillionaire Franklin Bradshaw at thedirection of his daughter, Frances

Schreuder, In the course of her research, Alexander and her research associate interviewed everybody who
was part of Frances' circle of acquaintances, including her friend and confidant Richard Behrens,
Frances had
been a patient of Dr, Herman Weiner,a psychiatrist. In a part of the bookwhere Alexander describes Frances' relationship with Dr, Weiner and his testimony at her divorce trial, she reJX>rts
that Behrens claimed that "Frances always slept with her shrinks."
Dr, Weiner sued the publisher ofNutcracker, Doubleday & Company, as
well as Alexander, claiming that he had
been falsely accused in print of having
sexual relations with a patient, a serious
breach of medical ethics, The defendants moved to have the case dismissedon several theories, They claimed thatthe challenged sentence was too vague
to have damaged Weiner's reputation,that it was a protected expression of
opinion, and that Alexander had merely
reported Behrens' statement without
necessarily endorSing it. Furthermore,
Doubleday insisted that it could reasonably rely uJX>nAlexander's reputation
as a reJX>rterwithout any need to verify
independently the truth or falsity of thestatement.
The trial judge refused to dismissthe case, but the Appellate Division reversed and the Court of Appeals upheld the dismissal, in another opinion
by Judge Kaye, This time, the court
based its decision on the last defense
asserted by Doubleday: that the publisher had a right to rely on the reputation of an established reJX>rter, Shana
Alexander, who had used a' research
assistant and interviewed all available
sources for her book,
Judge Kaye did not agree with theother defenses, She asserted that thesentence, read in context, clearly referred to Dr. Weiner and could be
judged defamatory, Furthermore, she
indicated that the Court of Appeals hasin the past rejected the defense that a

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newspaper or book publisher is autotions when news reporting is chalmatically free from legal resJX>nsibility lenged in a libel suit. The statement
when it "neutrally" prints the defamawas consistent with other evidence obtory comments of an interview subject.
tained by the author, and the publisher
Referring to her Immuno opinion,
had acted appropriatc\y in relying on
Judge Kaye reiterated that the characan established author's reputation forterization of ·opinion" should be broadcareful research,where matters of public interest are
A few further words about theseconcerned, but that the court was not
two opinions: While the Court of Appeals is the highest court in New York,
ready to expand that characterization
its interpretations of the First Amendto include all reJX>rtingwhich accurately transmits the remarks ,of interview
ment protections enjoyed by writers
subjects, "Defendants have merely inand publishers are not the last word,
since they are not binding on federal
sisted that the challenged statements
courts or the courts of other states,
must be deemed opinion as a matter ofSince New York is a major publishingsettled law," she said, "and we concenter, its courts have been especiallyclude that t\:lis argument should be reprotective of the interests of the pubjected." The reJX>rted statement must
be examined to determine whether itlishing industry, but courts in someother states are not so protective,
was a statement of fact or opinion, in
In both of these cases the trial
this case it was a statement of fact.
To the court, the imJX>rtant thing . judge refused to dismiss the case andwas that the challenged sentence reintended to hold a trial. The defendants were able to escape the vast exferred to an important aspect of a
newsworthy subject, it was a reasonpense of trial because New York law
able editorial judgment to include theallows an appeal of a refusal to award
statement, and there was no assertion
summary judgment (i.e" judgmentby the plaintiff that either the author orwithout a trial), but not all jurisdictions
appeals,
the publisher had acted in a "grossly ir- allow such "interlocutory·
resJX>nsiblemanner," which is the genJudge Kaye had a few choice words oneral standard for judging such situathis subject, which echo the cautions I

voiced in my previous column, She
urged the trial courts not to hesitate todismiss libel cases against publishers ofjournals, newspapers and books, stating in the Immuno opinion~..,This case-having
already engendered thousands of pages ofa litigation record and "substantial" settlements from all' otherdefendants-exemplifies
that the"threat of being put to the defense of a lawsuit ..,may be as
chilling to the exercise of First
Amendme.nt freedoms as fear of
the outcome of the lawsuit itself" .. , We have therefore
stressed the particular role andimportance of summary judgment, where appropriate, in libel
cases ..,
Judge Kaye concluded that judges
should not engage in a "hypertechnicalparsing of a possible 'fact' from its
plain context of 'opinion'" because to
do so "loses sight of the objective ofthe. entire exercise, whi~h is to 'assure
that-with due regard for the protection of individual reputation-the cherished constitutional guaranty of freespeech is preserved." T

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Political Science

The Fallacy of the Public
Health Control Modelby Mark HarringtonM

eet the new bossSame as the old boss,"-The Who, Won't
Get Fooled Again

Why do health commissioners get
unhappy when they can't keep lists ofpeople with communicable diseases?
Before answering this question, let's g<?
back 200 years,
Syphilis was the diagnosis of 103
of the 472 patients admitted to New
York Hospital in 1978, This made it
New York's most common
infectious
disease, The
city's Common Council had
created the post of healthcommissioner in 1797, So
pressing were the city's
health problems that they
named three health commissioners, We should be
grateful to' have just one,
Things haven't changed much in
192 years, Syphilis is still the city's
most common infectious disease, according to the New York City Department of Health, The city's health problems are just as pressing as ever. Yet
we now have treatments for syphilis,
Why is the disease still epidemic?
Over the years, health officials haveplaced too much faith in coercive measures to control public health-measures like mandatory name reportingand contact tracing, Just try to find ahealth official who doesn't believe thatthese JX>licieshave "worked,"
Keeping lists is an instinct deeply
embedded in their training, It provides
the illusion, in the absence of a decent
and equitable health care system, thatsuch diseases are "under control." Yetit has failed to control treatable diseases; how can it work in a disease38

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that is not curable, like HIV infection,
How would you notify the "partners"of a person who had sex, or sharedneedles, with 20 or 200 people over
the ten year period when HIV may remain asymptomatic?
Back in November when David
Dinkins was elected to replace Ed
Koch as Mayor of New York, I thought
we'd left that question behind us forever, Now it has come back to haunt
us because the transition search committee, named by Dinkins and including officials from Gay Men's Health
Crisis, Lambda Legal Defense, theBlack Leadership Commission on AIDS

and the American Foundation for AIDS
Research (AmFAR), selected, as its first
choice for New York City Health Commissioner, a man whose record shows
his enthusiastic support for policies of
mandatory name reporting, contact
tracing, partner notification and-in
certain circumstances--sequestration ofpeople with communicable diseases,
i.e, quarantine,
Even by its own standards, thepublic health control model has failed
to prevent epidemic rates of treatable,
curable diseases in America in the
1980s, Syphilis and tuberculosis havebeen treatable since the 1940s; this history is taught to aspiring public healthprofessionals as the heroic past which
they can replicate today: Yet America
under Reagan and Bush has allowed
these treatablediseases
to rageunchecked in communities of color,
Until free, eqUitable quality medi-

cal care is available for all HIV infected
persons in this country (or this city), it
is delusional to maintain that mandatory reporting and contact tracing will
help anyone, Coercive measures likethese tend to drive people away fromseeking health care, rather than bringing them closer to treatments and medical care,
The public health control model
criminalizes disease, It transforms infected persons into miscreants whose
freedom threatens the health of allright-living persons, It renders infected
persons vulnerable to penalties of law
and restrictions of freedom in returnfor the "benefit" of mandatory (yet still inadequate)
treatment. Rather than relying on persuasion
andpublic education to encourage people to minimize risk behavior andseek out treatment,thepublichealthcontrol
model treats adults as children, wardsof the state, errant and dangerous beings whose disease has removed theirrights as citizens,
In this way disease is transformed
simultaneously into a sin and a crime,
This philosophy reaches its logicalconclusion in quarantine-thepolicyimplemented in Cuba by Fidel Castro
in his "idyllic" camp for seropositive
Cubans, and in Indiana by Woodrow
Myers, Jr" MD, in his letters threatening "noncompliant" HIV JX>sitiveIndianans with forced hospitalization or
jail. This is America, not Cuba, Only
two Indianans have been detained
under the despicable Hoosier law, Yet
what kind of legacy is this to bring to acity which has abandoned most of its
23,000 people with AIDS, at the start ofa new administration which we hoped
would make a clean break with thegrim legacy of Koch and Joseph? ...

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It seems like just a minute ago she was performing at community benefits andtrying out her unique, crazy, urban angst humor in front of small, loud crowds at
King Tuts Wah-Wah Hut and the Gay and Lesbian Community Center, But this year
has been a turning JX>intfor Reno, And after three years on stage she seems to be
standing on the ledge of crossover dreams, Her show, Reno in Rage and Rehab,
played to sell-out crowds at Actors Playhouse last year, HBO then filmed it in frontof a live audience at PS 122 and broadcast it last fall.
It seems that everyone has said everything about Reno: the Puerto Rican girl"adopted by a white family on Long Island; the years of random wandering and drug
abuse; the energetic and off-the-wall way she plays to an audience, Her press packet
bulges with information, But no one speaks as well about Reno as the woman herself, Her show is based on her life-part street, part angry, young woman, part completely charming and vulnerable Cassandra of late 1980s New York.
When we meet at her favorite restaurant (Aggie's at Houston and Sullivan), she iswindblown, excitable and full of ideas, She leans toward me and I am struck by her
intensity, honesty and piercing, intelligent eyes, This is a woman who has been there
and back-and now seems to be moving forward with incredible velOCity,Seeing her
on stag~lectric,
funny, unrelentingand talking with her in person-down-toearth, original, principled-I am reminded that in a world where we are mostly invisible, distorted or despised, to have one of us be seen, on her own terms, opens a door
that is never again easily closed, For all of us who are weary of the crass conspicuous
consumption of the 1980s, the Donald Trumps and Jesse Helmses and John Frohnmeyers, the fag-bashing comedians and woman-hating talk show hosts, Reno stands
by herself at the crossroads of what seems like a very different future,
Maria Maggenti: You have an off-Broadway show behind you, an HBO special, amanager, an agent, meetings and meetings, Things seem to have changed dramatically in your life, right? It sees like you are at a very different place emotionally, intellectually, profeSSionally,
Reno: Yes, definitely, I know so, because I spend at least half of the time that I havetalking to those adults, those business people and most of them I can get through to,
I don't know why they even' want to deal with me and the obvious answer iswhether they can make money off me, but that's not necessarily true; definitely not aforegone conclusion, See, there are doomsayers who thought that you can't say realthings, substantive things to a public that isn't really on your wavelength, whereas,
God knows how, but MinneaJX>lis·and Atlanta and other places and this place [NewYork) are no hotbeds of radicalism, People in flowered dresses were getting behind
what I was saying, particularly the women, Before, I was just so uptight about failingor not coming off cool. But I'm getting so un-uptight about that, I have more clarity
as time progresses therefore I will be a better purveyor of information and I'm very
lucky that I'm silly at the same time because if I weren't so I wouldn't be able to say
the things I say, I just hope it does'n't le<).ve,and if it leaves and if I take myself too
seriously or something, then I won't work anyway,
M: Well what about the stuff you did at 122 with Pat Place? I went on a Saturdaynight and it was a different audience, I've seen you now almost exclusively in downtown venues, in gay and lesbian things, ACT UP benefits ..,so there's an intimacy andfamiliarity of you being part of a particular community of people, right? And yourhumor is very much based on-I mean I know what you're talking about so I go thatnight and there were a lot of well-dressed male and female couples who are probably my age but seem thousands of years away from me, right?
R: Well, you don~t know who they are,
M: Well, you're right but anyway you were talking about dental dams and my wholerow was bent over laughing. and this woman in front of me with a perfect bobbed
haircut and these shoulder pads turns to her boyfriend with a look on her face that
said: what is she talking about? What is 117
R: I should make more explanation of it.
M: Well, we lean forward to tell her wnat it is and you can use it to go down on awomanR: And what did she say?
M: She was horrified,
R: Shit, really?
M: Yeah, she was not grooving on it.

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Woman
On
The
Verge

Poised at Crossovers
Crossroads, Reno Chatsit Up About Success,'
Dental Dams, HBO and
Dolly Parton
by Maria Maggenti
photos by lot Leonard

R: How long had I been on? Oh god, like maybe 20 minutes?
M: Reno, listen, it was one woman, don't take it personaIly-

R: Yeah, yeah, I know I'm tryingM: Look, the JX>intI'm trying to make is: what does it mean for you that a lot ofthese people came because they had simply heard of this person caIled Reno andthen they get there and have to deal with somebody who is more confrontational
than they had anticipated? Also that you are going to be talking abo~t some ideas
which I don't think most people anticipate when they go to see a comedienne or aII performance artist or monologuist..
.
R: WeIl, I think that, ahh ..,too bad, [Laughter) You know that I think that if people go
to the neighborhood and they take the trouble to go someplace to see something justbecause they're not ostensibly resJX>nding it means they want something else, otherwise they wouldn't go to that neighborhood or they wouldn't see someone they neverheard of, And definitely not everybody who comes to see me likes me and that's perfectly fine, I mean it has tQ be that way or I probably wouldn't have any edge at allM: You would be jeIlo,
R: Yeah,
M: But as you anticipate being able to do more stuff, reach more people either
through film or video or more live performance, is there a tension now with otherpeople wanting to be around you who are executives-R:No,
M: There's no tension at all, about your material?
R: Well, not so far, I mean I've been having meetings With, like, 1V and film ~ecutives alright? I mean they're all preliminary meetings and they are already very
respectful. I mean so far the ones I've met-I haven't met any obvious slimeballs yet.
,I mean the thing is you are weIl aware that even if the first people you meet, eventhe 15th level are nice to you on a one-to-one basis, I mean you can be nice to someone-a 'poor person on the street-and is it ever going to translate to the law? No, notI necessarily, maybe, So these people who I'm talking to, these executives, you get the
impression that you can say practicaIly anything to these people and they'll glad handyou, You know what I'm saying? They think that they might have something there, So
you know it's almost like I'm giving a speech but you know we'I1 see what they offer
back, The HBO experience was so JX>sitivethat although I'm not pleased about them
:1 producing Andrew Dice Clay and I told them that, it probably didn't matter to thein,
II But maybe it did, I said I thought it was a shitty idea that they produced him, But I'mean they're in the business to make money and you know, anytime you start making a living yottre in it. I mean nobody changed a word in my showI M: So they didn't-ask you to change any of the language?
, R: Oh no, absolutely not. I mean I wouldn't have gotten that show on network, it wasIi cable, but oh no no no no no no not a word, Not a word, I mean I was lucky that
I time, I mean of course I've done a couple of years of stuff where I ,didn't make any'I money and I was living off stamps and bullshit. So I feel fine about being given thati opJX>rtunitybut on the other hand who knows what's gonna happen in the future,
I mean I think the only way you can remain totally completely pure with what
II you're doing is if you don't work in that, you do something else, I don't know how you
1 do it but you cannot expect to be paid by someone else and remain completely pure inthis capitalist culture, You cannot. It will not work You can fight, fight, fight. So you
I know, I mean; if they want you, you have to make another contract to say that you will
get what you want. ,NOWthere's ways of breaking every fucking single contract, Who
knows with these people, I don't know, They might offer me a development deal
where I get to make my own film. That's kind of what I'm after, you know, and if not in
the meantime I'm writing another show, You know I've got a whole month of work
planned, just fooling around around town at Knitting Factory in January and!I M: I was thinking about how your humor is that kind of humor where you, get that
I complete click of recognition, It's like that moment of consciousness, a click,
I R: I think humor, period, is about that, [that click], Some humor ends up' being reallybullshit and just a replication of something you already know, That's why I'm hardpressed to caB myself a stand-up comedian, Because the stand-up comedians thesejust go up and give a line from a song, from a 1V show in the 60s and that's it," daysman, Please! And not only that, they start with their fag bashing and tlley always
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women hate women, everybody hates women, but who hates men? WHO?
[A man looks up at us startled, Reno JX>intsher fork at him, "You,· she JX>kes,"you just keep eating." He casts his eyes downwards,. astonished,]
You know, it pisses me the fuck off, It just drives me crazy, It's the most simple
basic fundamental thing but I can't get over it. You know that's the problem withme, I don't get over these things,
M: So tell me, how is all this stuff about television and film and managers and executivesj how is that affected by you being out or do they know' you're out or how
does that play or is that an issue at all or what?
[Pause, Reno does not answer,]
M: I mean when I saw you at 122 you were totally open and talking about your girlfriend and you were saying I'm in love ..,R: It doesn't matter who I'm in love with [We are interrupted by friends who know
Reno] Hi Kathleen! You are literally a breath of fresh air,
R: No I mean half of them [the executives] are gay, you know,
M: Well, do you think they'd ever say to you, "Look Reno, whatever you do don't do
stuff about lesbianism?~ [I pause] Well, I guess not if HBO did your "Homo No· piece,
R: You know, people remember stuff in that show so well, it's really astonishing tome, That's good, I mean, you know, it's groovy, [She leans forward and JX>intsher
fork at me] It doesn't have that much to do with me, I'mjust lucky Ijina//yam contributing something to this community because jor years I was such a bum,
M: Yeah, you think so?
R: Oh yeah, I was just nothing, So unhappy and dissatisfied and bored, And thisdeep existential blues and I'm much more released from all that.
I'm trying to work on this point of view of what made me a drunk, I mean in asort of "light" way,
M: Isn't that hard?
R: I already got two or three things that work perfect but it's kind of like this [shemotions up and down with her handsJ...I've never done this before, I've never, ,like,planned a structure and then tried to fill it in, I've had the content [for In Rage andRehab), And then I tried to plan the structure, But this time I'm trying to force myself
because then it will help me learn how to write and to be read as well, And it's sohard, My concentration is so shitty, That's why I booked so many little try out times
because that's really the only way I work, At home, it's just...I try and try.and try,
You know the night you saw me at PS lperforming with musician Pat Place), I mean
I was lucky I got some stuff out. I hadn't planned much and I thought it was gonna be afriendly little crowd, And it tumed out to be---<iidI tell you that Dolly Parton was there?
M: No but I was at this lesbian party and that was the biggest topic of the' evening,
Dolly Parton at Reno's performance, Did Dolly come back stage and say hi to you?
R: Shit yeah! She was the first person back there, We were all hugging and ahh,then ..,anyways, what the fuck was I saying?
M: You were all hugging ..,R: Oh yeah, I turn around and she's kissing me like that and oh yeah, it was wild,
M: What, you turn around and she was just right there? .
R: She came right up to me, she hugged me so tight.
M: Did she have big hair and everything?
R: Well I guess it's a wig, That's what I heard, I don't really know, I didn't ask her oranything, I said, "Pat [Place), this is Dolly," I was so nervous, I started introducing
her to everybody, Dolly, Pat, Eunice, it was hysterical. And then Fran Leibowitz isstanding there, I have alway& thought of her as very inSightful and brilliant. Meanwhile she's totally the opposite from me because she's very negative and completely,
cynical. And that part of her has always scared me, you know, and I kind of always
wished-and I know it's sorta an act-but, you know, I always sorta wished that she
was a little moreM: Hopeful?
R: Hopeful, exactly, So I was apprehensive to meet her and see her standing there, to say
the least. But obViously if you come backstage you musta liked it otherwise you wouldn'ta
bothered to come back stage obViously, And so she was actually extremely generous tome and open, And, you know, approaching loving, I meari I swear to Christ I couldn't
believe it. She had this great smile on her face, I was dropping dead, you know: Dolly Parton is one thing but FRANLEIBOWITZ,I mean she's brilliant. So that's the thing, Dolly Par-

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ton, I don't have many impressfons of her but apparently she's a hero on the Lower East
Side, I keep meaning to write her and tell her that. She was lovely,
M: Are there any people you would like to work with?
R: Oh yeah, I'd like to work with Spike Lee,
M: That would be great. You could have a long talk with him about women though,He's got a little ways to go don't you think?
".
R: Well, that's exactly why I'd like .to work with him, I think he's big, Thank the lordfor him, I hope his position spawns ,other people like him, I think it wi11,You know
he teaches classes up in Harlem and shit you know,
M: Well the two of you would be ..,combustible,
Does your life exist now as though anything could happen at any moment?
Your manager, the press clippings, the formality of trying to get in touch with you
now, It's all part of the sense that you are really on the cusp of some major breakthrough fame,
R: Oh I don't worry about that. That's bullshit. I don't know, I don't worry about
that. I mean I worry because I'm a worrier but, I mean, I just wanna make sure I canstay clear,
I mean, my whole life I've never had any discipline, I sti11do not know how totake one step and another step, I'm very unorganized and fuleacht. That's why when
you see me talk off the top of my head everything it's everywhere, you know, But
that's okay and I really am really worried about that.
You know, I think the fact that I didn't start working until I was over 30 indicates to me, that I'm not a flash in the pan, In terms of the commercial entertainment
world, from their point of view, perhaps I will be, And if I don't do their imprecisionof what's next or what's right for somebody of my stature to do, then maybe they'll
think of that as something of a failure, But for me I did everything I'd needed to do
pretty much for my own comfort, I mean I put a carpet in my house, I got a washer,
I did a lot of material things, You know, I'm set. Unless I lose my apartment ofcourse, which can happen in New York. But that is shit. I feel like I finally have ahome and at 35 it's not so bad to finally have a home, You know what I'm saying? I
mean a lot of people don't and I'm very, very grateful for it.
So now, [know [ can fucking make a living, Marla, [know [ can do it myself and[ don't need all those motherfuckers, And they're not all motherfuckers, Some of them
are really wonderful. See but I found out. I went to goddamn Atlanta and those people
dug what I was saying, Every single thing I said went over like gangbusters better thanthe Lower East Side, I swear to Christ, they were so fucking enthusiastic, They were outof their seats and this wasn't even real Atlanta, this was suburban Atlanta,
I walk out on stage and there are these guys with ten gallon hats on their knees
and smoking and I went there with [a friendl and she was like checking out theexits, thinking well, we're gonna have to run, But until I got to that thing about the
GHET-TO-"people in the ghetto have heard no all their lives, got any opJX>rtunity?
NO'''-that thing, it quieted down because I think these were working class people
and I think they feel that they don't get an opJX>rtunity in life themselves and ..,sothat chilled the room, But not horribly, and the feminist version of cunt thing, I
mean who knows how people get it, in a prurient way or, I don't know, but I thinka lot of people get what I'm saying,
So...1 know now, I have a tape, man, [the HBO speciall A beautiful fucking tape,that says this is what I do, And I can make a living on that. I don't need to make hugefucking buckets of money, I gotta tell you that half of my time is spent explaining tothese people wpo work for me, what I want. Because·they're not like you, You know
they're not people that I would normally choose to be friends with, Definitely notman, You don't know who. the fuck they are, It's weird, I mean, it's the communications business and I gotta tell you miscommunication is rampant. And it's very gnarly,
M: Before you started performing did you do political work too?
R: I was interested always but I couldn't ever stick with anything, I just sat aroundand drank and got high, I was despondent half the time about all the shit that was
happening, Tonight I was writing and it was hard, I want to do stuff more about
AIDS and I was working on something for the Day Without Art and I mean I was
crying working on it. Of course it was me talking, But I was remembering the man I
was talking about.
I've thou'ght often of these men who are dying, and women, Particularly artists

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who are gay who are dying and leaving a hole and particularly in the commercial
end, And those holes are gonna get filled up real quick with, I just can't imagine,
those real straight boys and drek, those totally-dense-no-fucking-premise-for-talking-

type,

.

Not to mention it's the people [dying] who are at the vanguard of the culture, I
mean not all of them certainly, But in terms of stretching the boundaries, That's what
arti.$ts do and when that fuckin' Prohnmeyer started talking about artists and' JX>1itics-excuse me, I mean, artists have been always the phalange of NEW ideas, I
mean always always always always,
I love that they [Prohnmeyer, Helms, et, all think that w~'re so fucking importantbecause you know what?, we are, They've always been after us, They're always
watching us"l mean come on, the fucking HoIlywood blacklist and everything,
M: WeIl, that's the other thing that's so interesting about this HBO thing and you
having a manager and an agent and people want to see you and want to makemoney off you'
R: Well it's accidental, whatever it is-M: Well it's got to be somethingR: I mean there haven't been that many people in the 80s who can' be silly andmean something at the same time-M: So there must be a hunger for it is what you're sayingR: OH, there's.a HUGE hunger for it. People would much rather· be in harmony thansit there and hear "Ahh, that nigger's got a big dick,· and whatever the fuck thoseassholes say, and, "That chick with the big tits,· and, "Chinese people have piss-colored skin" and people don't want it!
Even though it's,like sucking a so.re tooth, you know, they can get a hard-on
over it but they really don't want it. It makes them feel dirty, I know that, I know
that-and if they could get back to the innocence they had as children and I'm notsaying I'm doing this-I'm just saying generally everybody in the culture, I know
they'd rather just feel good, Everybody wants to feel good, It's just we can't see ourway to feel good, that's all, I mean that's why HBO gave me that show, Because
they said, "nobody's doin' what your doin" and I take that to mean that [my work] is
not insulting, Unless you're rich, [laughter]
M~Well I think that one thing we will be able to say about the 80s is that it was thedecade of selling outR: Oh absolutelyM: And that's the essential tension that everybody lives with and the thing that's so
exciting is that you're in a JX>Sitionwhere you have kept on being who you are, nottrying to be somebody elseR: Right rightM: And you keep on saying what's true for you and what you see in the world
around youR: That's all that can come out of me,
M: Well, that's pretty inspirational, considering how many people who have a public.
voice have no self and are created by someone else, People who say yes all the timeand especially for gays and lesbians, I mean think aboutR: f think we sJX>kebefore about how it took me this long and that's why I don't
have any qualms, you see, I really wanna give it the best shot and everything, I
wanna try real hard to get to a broad audience because .... [pause].. .. because I justwant to do my service arid get it out there and get off and if I start wanting a swimming pool and amenities only, then I won't have that voice and no one will listen tome anyway, I'm very, very happy and very luck I think, The only thing that's hard isthat I still have a difficult time concentrating and that's from being a drug addict you
know,
M: But you haven't done drugs for awhile? .
R: Three years, Everyday is Iike..,a struggle, But that's when I started performing,
M: Three years? That's not much time at all.
R: Yeah, it's been good, My life has turned around, I'm much, m\.lch happier, Mostly,
I stopped t\1inking that it was all my fault. That immobilizes a person and it immobilized me, Or I got in fights, daily, so I was waylayed by each little fact. But now itsM: Well; that's your show [Rage and Rehab],
R: Well, I have more JX>wernow, It seems, [Laughter] We'll see, •January 28, 1990

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Robert La Fosse:

A
World
Apart
Ballet's Wonder
Boy Thrills to
the Twirlby Bruce C. Steele

Robert La Fosse has always been willing to struggle tofurther his career as a dancer-heworked a year as a busboy
in his native Beaumont, Texas, in order to pay for a summer atballet school-but
since arriving in New York in 1977, hehasn't bad to suffer the indignities of the starving artist. Not
yet 18-years-old, La Fosse almost immediately landed a placein the corps de ballet of American Ballet Theater (ABT), Since
then, sharp talent, a notable adaptability and a bit of good fortune have consistently brought him success: He was named an
ABT soloist in 1981, a principal in 1983 and he joined New
York City BalIet as a principal in 1986, On Broadway, he has
danced leading roles in Bob Fosse's Dancin' and, for six
months last year, in Jerome Robbins' Broadway.
With his fresh, startling-blondgood looks, La Fosse
arrived in New York welI before AIDS brought down a blackgauze curtain on the uninhibited nightlife of the 70s and he. soon immersed himself in the wild partying of the disco era,
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get out of something: You know, I finally got out of Texas,
and now I was here and everything was accessible to me," In
his 1987 autobiography, the disingenuously titled Notbing toHide, La Fosse neglects to mention his sexual adventures, but
he briefly describes his regular forays into Studio 54 and his
period of attachment to the drugs that made all-night partying
possible, which he says he stopped forever after a friend
almost died in 1979,
Maybe La Fosse and his friends modified their personal
lives at just the right moment; maybe it's just another way inwhich he's been fortunate, But by 1985, when the New Yorkdance community joined together for its first AIDS benefit(which featured the first public performance of La Fosse choreography), his life remained largely untouched by the crisis, His
first close ,friend to die, dancer Peter Fonseca, didn't succumb
until late '86, Indeed, even now La Fosse feels the dance world
has been spared the worst of the epidemic, Friends havedied-including
Fonseca and fellow ABT dancer David
Cuevas-but, he says, "of the people that I know in the dancemunity, AIDS has not taken as many as it has in, say the art
munity." He speculates, perhaps naively, "just the sheerthat dancers are primarily physical beings and generally inhealth means they have better immune systems to begin
I don't know, But the majority of the people that I know
,I have gotten sick and died were not dancers,"
Whether or not being a dancer has protected La Fosse
m AIDS, the largely self-contained ballet work has definitely
ielded him from much of the prejudice and oppression sufd by gay men and women in less ethereal pursuits, !'I'm
lucky and very fortunate because I live in a world that is
mfortable with gay people," Although La Fosse says he,ws.of no gay women in the company, he estimates thatf the UJale dancers at City Ballet are gay, "I mean, you bringiUf boYfriends to performances--homosexuality
is treated as
ual as it could ever be,
Since he already had the acceptance of his peers and therons and functionaries of the dance community, La Fosse
free to be open about his sexual orientation in his book,at was always one of the things that I knew I was going to
ite about," he says, "because of what happened to mynd Stephen." Stephen is the only sexual relationship La
describes in his autobiography~including
their separaa after some years together. "He went home to tell his
er that he was gay and his father essentially said, 'I don't
at to know you, you're not my son.' It was the first time I'dr seen that happen to somebody,. He knew what the oute would be, but he told me, 'I don't want to have a relanship with my father that's not based on something' true, I'der; have my parents know me and hate me for it than notlOW me and pretend like we love each other.'"You have to be that way," La Fosse says, "You can't live
this world hiding things about yourself unless you're a totalprivate person, But I'm a public pe~son, and I feel like I cana little something by saying, 'Look, it's OK to be gay.' It's
,to our generation to educate [people),"But except for its passing openness about his sexuality,
Fosse's book is a traditional, upbeat narrative which, as heit, "tells the story of an American boy wanting to take bal• It has none of the kiss-and-tell revelations and scandalous
fessions that made ballerina Gelsey Kirkland's Dancing on
Grave a bestseller in 1986, Perhaps, La Fosse suggests, he-simply led a less melodramatic life-he intended the title
a joke, meaning in part that he had nothing to say that was'rth hiding, "They [the publishers) really thought I was going
expose Mikhail Barishnikov [ABT's artistic director during La
Ese's tenure] the way Gelsey did, Well, I wish I had thebut I don't. I mean, God knows I wish I had gone to
id with him, but he's not gay, so I couldn't."
In his writing, La Fosse detaches his sexuality from whatsees as his primary identity as a dancer, and that self-isolaInhas now extended to his role as a choreographer, Work~primarily in the "classical" mode, he is unable to imagine
orking the traditionally heterosexual idiom to express himf as a gay man, "I don't see where I ever would connect
loreography and homosexuality]," he says, He "wouldn't bef about making a dance with two men together or two~men together, "if I needed that, but I never want to wave ag, I'm not one of those people who isolates myself because
I gay, I just think that when you get into groups [on thesis of race or sexual orientation], there's something-I don't
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want to say incestuous, but something unevolved, in a way, It
doesn't open yourself up to many other things,
BalIet, for example, "appeals to everyone,
Sexualorientation shouldn't be an issue, It doesn't appeal more togay people or lesbian people than it does to straight people,
The tyranny of gender roles in classical ballet, he insists, issimply a reflection of the times in which the music and muchof the dance was created, "You don't challenge the period,·
Classical ballet should be enjoyed for its beauty, he argues, nottaken to task, for such modern sentiments are modern dance,
For example, he recalls a piece done for Dancing for Life, thedance community's 1987 AlPS benefit. "Lar Lubovitch had
choreographed this pas de deux for two men that was one of
the most beautiful things I've ever seen that was about twomen, and that was one of the most effective things that I've
seen done in this era of the AIDS crisis,
La Fosse's only AIDS-tinged choreography to date wascreated for Lisa Edelstein's Positive Me, An educational musicalabout safe se~, sexual prejudice and AIDS first staged in October at La Mama and intended for the entertainment
andenlightenment of mostly straight teenagers, For the most part,'
however, his conventional thinking about ballet seems to have
limited La Fosse's ability to incorJX>ratehis life into his art, Heeschews the idea of working on anything that more directly
expresses the turmoil of emotions that have accompanied the
AIDS crisis, "I have not been compelled to want to do anything theatrically about AIDS I thInk for anyone who has lived
this disease, it's very hard to see a theater piece about AIDS,
It's been very difficl.dt for me, because I've lived all the things
they're trying to say-why go to the theater [to see it]? It's nota revelation to me, The choreography that I want to do-I just.want to bring as much beauty as I can into the world to makethese moments on earth that we have a little less painful.
Currently, La Fosse is creating a ballet based on Puss in
Boots for the School of American Ballet, as well as working on
a ballet based on the legend of Osiris, the Egyptian god of theunderworld, He has also done two dances for City Ballet:
Woodland Sketches for 1988's American Music Festival and last
year's Haydn Trumpet Concerto,
La Fosse's efforts to help stem the AIDS epidemic haverecently been related not to dancing but to walking, He works
each year to raise money throughthe spring AIDS
Walk-including a 1989 appeal directly to City Ballet audiences,"I suggested to Jock [Soto] and Heater [Watts, the company's
leading AIDS fundraisers] that we go out front before the performance and just sell ourselves, So we did, and it was' really surprising to me, you know, to see the people who've been
coming to the ballet for years on that level. They were reallyexcited to give $5 and $10 because they were giving it to thedancers that they've been seeing, Also; it was very surprising tosee how many people didn't know about the AIDS Walk. .Of
course, when you're living in it, you learn that not everyone has
AIDS,.Nevertheless, it's shocking what's happening out there,'
La Fosse has ideas .for another dance benefit for AIDS,
one that would combine the talen!-Sof rock songwriters andmodern choreographers, 'but his several choreography projects
and principal dancing with City Ballet have kept him too busy
to take his plans past the idea stage, "I pray every night that
we won't have to do any more benefits,' he says with sincere
but untenable optimism, "I pray that [the cure] is going to happen faster than we can do another benefit.' ....
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last week OutWeek ran a feature entitled HTheNative Masthead: Where are They How?" In which we p,olnted
out that most of the people listed on the paper's masthead haven't written for the paper In a hundred or sci years.
This week, however, the question seemsto be, HTheNative Masthead: Where Is It How?"
Yes, it seems that In the very week that we ran the piece, The Native mysteriously removed Its masthead fromthe paper. Could It have been Spin copy editor Drew Hopkins who told Native editor Charles Ortleb about our
upcoming feature? (It was Hopkins, a current Native contributor, who stated to us for the article: "Chuck Is afrlend •••er•••but don't write that.") But a better question Is: If we keep writing nasty things about different parts of
The Native will they simply disappear? Will the entire paper dlsappear?_WlIIChuck Ortleb disappear?
Ooohl This Is funl
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BY

Dear Brad:
I went out the other night tomeet one of my friends but I hadn't
gotten more than half a block andcouldn't remember where I was headed or who I was supJX>sed to meet or
what we had planned to do, I kept
walking, hoping that something might
jog my memory but nothing did so I
went back home, There wasn't anything written down in my datebook
but I thought maybe whoever I was
meeting would phone and ask where
I was so I'd know where I should be,
I waited for a couple of hours but the
only cal\ I got was from somebody
wanting to sel\ me a magaZine subscription, Then a deliveryperson
showed up with some wonton soup
and coid sesame noodles, I couldn't
recal\ ordering any takeout or evenliking wonton soup for that matter but
I paid him anyway since by that time I
was getting hungry, I fel\ asleep on
the sofa and dreamed I was back incollege and had to write a chemistry
exam naked; When I woke up thenext day I was in bed and a strange
man was sleeping' next to me, I tried
to wake him but I couldn't so I went
to the newsstand around the corner tobuy the New York Times, I didn't real-50

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BRADLEYBALL
ize until I got back to the apartmentthat I'd bought the Philadelphia
Inquirer
instead and a pack C!fMarlboros even though to the best of
my knowledge I don't smoke, The
strange man wasn't there anymoreneither was my datebook. While I wasin the shower another deliveryperson
arrived with a sausage and mushroom
pizza, Later in the day when I wentout for more cigarettes it took me half
an hour to find my way back home,
There was a note on my doorknob
from the telephone company sayingthat a repairman had come by tocheck the problem I had supposedly
reported and to please caB to reschedule, I picked up the phone to see if
there really was some problem andinstead of a dial tone I heard Bobbie
Gentry singing "Let It Be Me," Just
then somebody got on the line andinformed me that I as confirmed on aflight to Vancouver, She asked what
credit card I was using and I gave her
my American Express number, I didn't
even know I had an American Express
until that moment. The flight's scheduled to depart sometime next week
and the ticketing agent said nochanges or cancellations are permitted
on the fare without paying a substan-tial penalty, I don't want to have to
pay a substantial
penalty but theway things have been going lately
I'm a little scared that if I leave theapartment I might never return, At
this point I don't quite trust myability to make a decision so maybe
you could tell me what to do,-DazedDear Dazed:
If you're anything like me (andwho of us is not?) you've probably
been working much too hard lately
and could use a little vacation rightabout now, Take advantage of thissplendid opportunity to travel anddon't worry: I, too, once feared that if
I went to Vancouver I might not
return to New York, It's a common
fear, That stunning and immaculate
world class city ringed by majestic
snow-capped peaks and the relaxed,
friendly manner of the citizens sing asiren song to every traveler fortunate
enough to pass that way, Strolling
along the banks of glittering English
Bay or gazing rapt at the swirling
Emily Carr paintings in the Vancouver
Art Gallery, it's nearly imJX>ssible toimagine a more serenely beautiful life
anywhere else on earth, But after awhile one begins to realize that theWorld's Fair's not what it used to be
and that everything is terribly expensive Oet me direct your attention, forexample, to the Canadian newsstandprice of this very magaZine and, nowthat you've started smoking, let me
point out that a pack of cigarettes
runs at least $4,50 CDN) and one
begins to miss, in a peculiar way, thevicious frenzy of Manhattan and one
does, in the end, come back east
where the work of Stephen Sondheim
is not only known but, rightly,
revered, So go enjoy yourself andwhen you return you'll find everything just the way you left it...more or
less, Bon Voyage! T

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This is going to· be a different
kind of column, I need to vent.
But, before I get into what's reallyeating at me, I'll tell you that if you
want something to do that deals withthe usual kind of stuff we do in thisc~lumn you can call the Mayflower
Madame, Sydney Biddle Barrows, athome, She's listed, Tell Sydney she's ahomophobe and tell her you'd never,
ever have dinner with her, She wrote
an etiquette book which will be hitting the stands soon, in which she
expresses the opinion that the proper
thing for a host to do when a personwith AIDS is being invited todinner is to notify all theother guests,
Now, what's really bugging me? Well, it's Friday atnoon, This column was due
three days agOj but threedays ago I was busy working in vain with many other people tostop the apJX>intment of Woody Myersas our health commissioner, Woody,in case you haven't heard, like Sydney
Biddle Barrows, thinks we should
notify everyone and give out thenames of people with AIDS, Woody
likes keeping lists, He believes inquarantine, He's tried to close down
gay bars in Indiana, his home state,
And there's a litany of other things
he's done which you can read allabout in the news section,
The JX>intis, I've spent all week
trying to stop this man, (Thank goodness' I have the kind of bosses who
understand this sort of thing,)
I can't write about anything elseright now-not
gOSSip, not fluff, noteven Liz Smith (Daily News) withwhom I'm usually so obssessed, All I
can think about are the facts of thepast fews days and this horrible feel-ing in my stomach, I know that some have been the first organization tototime today, Dinkins is going to become incredibly concerned,
apJX>inta Nazi as our health commis- voice its opinion. against the apJX>int-,
ment and protect our basic civil Iiber"
sioner, And I know I'll be down there
ties, Instead, it languished because its
at city hall with a lot of my comrades
executive director, Tom Stoddard, wasto scream and yell about it.
caught in the middle of the entire chaAt this JX>intit's all we can do,
I'm angry, I'm angry at the fact rade and was much too afraid to extrithat I voted for David Dinkins think- cate himself, So, as of last Thursday,
ing that he would never hire such a , good old Uncle Tom was quoted inmonster for a JX>sitionthat affects my The New York Times still favoring
community so much, I'm angry that he Myers' apJX>intment-after countless
reJX>rtsand demonstrations by the gay
lied, I'm angry that he sold us out.
community had occured, "It's all very
But what I'm more angry about
are those people in our own 'commu- sad,' was what Stoddard said,
Sad, indeed,
nity who were given the resJX>nsibility
Sad, that we have such weak,
to make sure that we picked a sane,
ineffective, egg-shell walkers who arecompassionate,experienced healthcommissioner who puts basic civil lib- charged with duties such as being on
mayoral transition teams,
erties above all else, I can't underSo, for most of the week, ACf UP
stand why the transition team which
was charged with choosing the best stood alone, with only the ACLU
doing what was morally right andcandidate didn't check out Myers'
backgroud in Indiana, Why didn't the coming out with a. statement asking
only gay man on the search commit~ for further investigation of Myers, (Atee, Tim Sweeney of the Gay Men's move which I commend Nan Hunterand Bill Rubenstein for, though I think
Health Crisis, look into these things
and then come out against this .man they too could have done muchmore,) Then came the Post'slLL,J,<
front page story, which provided many of our so-called
leaders with what they mightcall their"ticketout,'
Suddenly they began faxing
around their statements, condemning a man we all knew
once it was revealed that Myers was a was a monster for two weeks, But
ultimately it was all too late, They hadnightmarish homophobe? Why didn't
he come out against him when this sold us down the river already, I supJX>seI'm incredibly naive, but I can't
magazine finally published a thoroughimagine my.personal
career taking
investigation which proved Myers'
despicable JX>licies?Why, instead, did precedence literally over the lives ofhundreds of thousands·of people-myhe, and Mathilde Krim, head of theAmericanFoundation
for AIDS people,
All of the ass-kissingj the caving
Research, not think in our best interests until it was much too late, It in, For what? Even if I were to castaside the more sensible theories--as
miikes me think of so many things:
try
deals, pay-offs, careerism, shitty JX>1i- well as the persistent rumor~andtics, And it belches forth the kind of to imagine that Sweeney, Stoddard,Marie Wilson and the rest of the gang
hatred and resentment I'm embarrassed to admit I'm capable of,were operating in the best interests ofOver two weeks ago-yes,
two' us all, trying to bridge the gap
between the gay and Black communiweeks--the horrors began to surface
ties, I can't imagine that they'd forge
about Myers, That's when Lambda
ahead with coalition-building at theLegal Defense and Education- Fundshould have become vocal andexpense of our basic civil liberties,
But, then 'again, I'm not so suredemanded an investigation, As anorganization established by gays for they do operate with the best interestsof us all, 'Y
the protection of gays, Lambda should

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Out on the Town
Liz and Sydney: From celebudyka to celebutantes,
our favorite game to play In clubs Is Spot the Dyke. In a
mixed crowd, It Is sometlma hard to find the Sisters, so wehave prepared a list of helpful hints.
1. Look at the shoa-dyka
like to make fashion statements With footwear. Lesbians are shoe size queens-thebigger the better. Girls either totter on six-Inch heels or
clomp across the dance floor In kachunga battle wear. (variants: converse all-stars or Doc Marten shoa)
2. Look for women drinking beer from the bottle.
3. Lablans tend to travel In packs. If you spot a groupof four gorgeous women, walt for a few minutes. As men
approach, then leave, you'll know by their hasty retreat
where those glrls'lnterats lie.
4. Ask a girl to vogue-If
she bends you over andbumps you repeatedly, get her number. Unlas, of course,
you are a top.
5. Ask your good friend/club promoter to run Interference for you. Our favorite line Is: "I've got a friend who IIka
you. But she's a girl." Measure response from across theroom, nervously clutching a drink (beer bottle).

With Liz and Sydneythen spoke of the nud for positive gay role models, reemphasized by guat MC Grace, calling for unity among Housa, Raca and the gender spectrum.
In the spirit of political awarenas, GMHCalso distributed condoms and HIV/AIDS Information kits. They also
screened their vogulng safe sex video starring Tracy Africa.
(My favorite line: "no matter what sex you have, use a condom." Ok, but how do I fit It on my tongue? Question for
GMHC: "Ou est les Dams, Madames?") It was an evening
where the Queens were fierce and the Butcha were ruling.

Liz and Sydney: Another popular spot for Gender
Roulette Is a place we'll call "the Little Schoolhouse." Saturday nights are a drag queen extravaganza with the added
bonus of being able to sit on the dance floor during theshows, have a perfonner bend over In your face and watch
the patrons tip the queens with dollar bills stuffed Indelicately Into any available opening In those fierce gowns. A
sample game of Gender Roulette:
Sydney: Look at those 70s shoeboots on that guy.
Liz: Which guy?
S: The one tipping Perfldla right now.
Sydney: Playing Spot the Dyke In clubs Is confusing
I.: That's not a guy. Look at her chat.
but nothing In the world can equal the exhlllratJon of GenS: Oh, and those are cowboy boots. My mistake, I didn't
der Roulette. Gender Roulette can only be played In a few look close enough.
select locala. Our personal favorite Is the House Ball. Every
Two women In matching polka dot shirts come up tocategory adds a new slot on the wheel 0' fortune. Chicks the stage.
come In two varletla: with and without dlcks. Girls can look
L: Walt. Look at this couple. Where did they get thoselike girls or boys. Women can be Real(straight) or gay.
matching outfits?
S: Strawberry. Look, one has palazzo pants and theLiz: At the last ball we went to, hosted by the House of other has pleated pants. Does that mean something?
Africa, at Sound Factory, Sydney made me promise to walk
L: Narrow pants are for tops. nght shirts are for bot(compete In) the Butch Realness category. I'm waiting
toms.
because I could not have neared In butchness the three
S: Her top Isn't tight, but the narrow pants girl has
women at!b.ll Ball. Essentlall~ the catagorles, developed by slicked-back halr~o I guess she's a top.
the Housa of the Balls, divide Into:
Vanessa Xtravaganza walks onto the stage. She's a 6'+
blondewearing a sheer, black lace outfit. A shawl Is
MEN
WOMEN
.
\
draped across her chest. Yanessa drops the shawl-fheaudience passes out.
WOMEN (REAL)
L: Her chest Is bigger than some of the girls I know.
S: I wonder If she stili has It. Can you tell from what
GAY MENGAY WOMEN
she's wearing?
L: Haswhat?
S: IT.
FEMQUEENSBUTCHQUEENS
BU~"FEM
L: Oh, no. There's nothing tucked there. (Liz points discreetly to Yanessa's groin, only Inches away.)
During this Ball, one contatant from a popular House
S: I heard she stili does, but she doesn't have thatwas disqualified, and read by MC Renee Africa when, during funny little DQ walk. I don't know.
Butch (Queen) Realnas, the boys came out with baseball
L: Dairy Queen?
.
bats, and kissed a "Real Girl." Renee quipped, "It's so nice
S: DragQueen.
to see such happy people In such gay surroundings." He .

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• • •
Sydney: Last Sunday at the On OUf Backs party at
Mars (which, I guess I should mention, Liz and Ihostessed),
Spot the Dyke had to be abandoned. There were just too
many of them. So we amended the rules and changed thename of the game to Meet the Dyke or even Strip the Dyke.
A game which I am stili learning. In a club filled with 700
lesbians, I was the only dateless dyke, while Liz worked
those go-go girls.
Liz: If Sidney hadn't spent so much time on her past,she might have a future. T.... -:~:.....•.
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Robbie and Todd Tomorrow
Photo: Tina PaulHEALTH COMMISSIONER on page 12

added, "We condemn Mayor Dinkins
for failing to consider the concerns" ofdiverse AIDS and gay groups,
Mathilde Krim of the American
Foundation for AIDS ResearCh issued astatement that JX>intedlyignOred Myersand focused instead on Dinkins' AIDS
JX>licy,which she termed ·sound andwise," She continued, "The ma'yorhas myfull supJX>rtand cooperation ..,and I will
work with his Commissioner of Health:The outrage over Myers stems
from charges,
first re(5orted in
OutWeek, that he supJX>rledmandatory
hame reJX>rtingand contact" tracing of
HIV JX>Sitivepeople in Indi:iha, as wellas the quarantine of certain people
with AIDS,Myers is also accused of targeting gay sex establishmentsforharassment, and for attempting to close
all gay bars and bookstore in Indiana,
Other sources maintain that Myers
acquiesced in the virtual imJX>undment. of federal funds for AIDS programs inthe state, and declined to ask the statelegislature for money to fight AIDS, He
is also said to have blocketl the conversion of nursing homes td'AiDS hospices and opposed the seati~g of
PWAson AIDS JX>licyboards,
The furor over the apJX>intment
has developed into the Dinkins administration's first major JX>licyfiasco, By
the time the charges appeared in the
media last, week, Myers' selection had
already been leaked to the press, setting
the stage for a diyisive public conflict.
At the unruly and combative press
conference, the mayor repeatedly
stressed that he has been soundly
behind Myers from the start, The delayin the announcement was based solely
on whether Myers would be allowed
to supplement to his six figure income
as commissioner with 'a university professorship, according to Dinkins,
The controversy also resulted in
the first demonstration
against the
newly-inaugurated Dinkins administration, when an estimated 300 ACf
UP members mounted a midnight
rally at Gracie Mansion on the Monday night prior to Myers' appointment. Hundreds more massed at city
hall Tuesday morning,
The demos resulted in two meetings between Deputy Mayor Bill Lynchand members of ACf up, The second

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meeting, on Wednesday, consisted ofmembers from ACf up and the transition team, who attempted to fmd common .ground on the nomination,
But on T!,lUrs~ay morning, theprocess was complicated by a frontpage story in the NeW York Post by
AIDS reporter Joe Nicholson,inwhich Myers confirmed that he would
not rule out an AIDS quarantine in
New York, According to the Post,
Myers contradicted reports that hehad ·promised" Dinkins he would notpush for a quarantine,"I don't ever remember making
any promises," Myers told the Post,"There are occasions when it is imJX>rtant to use isolation techniques."
The interview outraged many,
including some Myers,supJX>rters who
had based their sUpJX>rton the ideathat Myers would toe the Dinkins lineon AIDS,
From that JX>inton, the nomination seemed to unravel, as politicalleaders, gay and lesbian grouf}s and
AIDS organizations rushed to disavow
the nominee, AmFAR's Mathilde Krim,
GMHC's Tim Sweeney and Tom Stoddard of the Lambda Legal Defense and
Education Fund, three members of
Dinkins' transition team, all reversed
previous endQrsements of Myers,
A statement against Myers was
also issued by the Minority Task Forceon AIDS, which was considered particularly significant because many had
feared' that JX>sitionson Myers would
divide strictly along racial lines,
Ronald Johnson, the Task Force's
executive director, later reversed himself and s\lpJX>rtedMyers' selection,
Many felt the nomination had
been dealt a fatal blow when Krim
withdrew her suPJX>rt,because Dinkins
had publicly stated that he would. not
apJX>intMyers over Krim's objectiOns,
But on Friday morning, rumors
swept the city that Dinkins would go 'ahead with the appointment. Myers
flew to New York to meet with Dinkins and search committee members,
and the announcement
was finallymade late Friday night.
Reached for comment, ACf UP's
Mark Harrington summed up the twoweek long deoocle, "We were sold out by
all our leaders, most especially the man
we elected mayor," he told OutWooA!,...

TIM SWEENEY from paga 13

TS: I knew that he had instigated it.
GR: Did you have any informationthat anybody else in J Indiana was
attempting to instigate something
worSe?
TS: No,
GR: Do you believe that quarantine
legislation for HIV JX>Sitivesis good?
TS: It's quite JX>ssiblethat the quarantine statutes could be used here in
New York, They are used right now
for some other diseases like tuberculosis, The quarantine issue is really
not an issue here in New York, The
power exists:, I doubt that it will
have to be used,
GR: It's up to the health commissioner, It hasn't been used in New
York because David Axelrod has chosen not to use it, yet it has been
enforced in Indiana by Woody Myers,
TS: Well, we asked him about 'theuse of the statute, We don't wantto ca\l it quarantine, It's isolation,
containment, there's lots of words
for it.. ,GR: Why don't you want to use
quarantine?
TS: ..,and we specifically said thatthey're using it. I can understand thetheoretical use for it. There always
could be a recalcitrant individual. I
have trouble SOrt of making that intoa reality, In Myers' mind he obviously
felt the need to utilize that particular
procedure, He makes real clear thatthey try to do every step first, including counselling ..,GR: Although they refuse to pay foror,provide any counselling,
TS: Well, they provide it with CDC
dollars, Isn't the charge that they
don't use state do\lars?
GR: No, not at a\l, The charge is thatthey don't even spend CDC dollars,
The two main organizations
that
Myers has sent people to for mandatory counseling haven't received adime to repay them for this counse\ling, nor has Myers requested adime to repay them for it, from any
source,
TS: You said that there's a trend in
Indiana towards quarantining,Do
you consider two people to be amajor trend? Do you think that's
going to happen
under David
Dinkins? ...

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evening late last year, they foundthemselves subjected to the kind oftreatment they dish out routinely theirminions-a JX>pquiz and hard homework.
The "class" was a workshop,
run without official school sanction,by peers who are lobbying Cincinnati Public Schools for in-service
sensitization
on problems
andneeds of students who are gay, 'lesbian or confused about their seXual
identity,
Teacher and union steward Dan
Stephenassembleda panel of
informed and involved presenterstwo recent high school graduates, aparent of three homosexuals, a youth
worker and a University of Cincinriati
researcher, Their raw data documented what the "test" revealed,"How many of you know what it
feels like to be attracted to somebody?" quizzed Stephen, a special
education teacher at Rosenberg Elementary School. "Very good! Thinkback to where you first were when
you saw that person, How old. wereyou?" he challenged the 35 participants,"When' you felt that attraction,
was it somethihg you consciously
decided to feel, or something that justcame to you? Did you decide to be
attracted to that person, or was it afeeling that just came naturally?" ,Nobody had to scratch theirheads during the exercise, and everyone smiled when Stephen disclosed
his lesson plan, "All of you now
know what it feels like to be a lesbian or a gay man and feel attraction
to the same gender. It's not 'something anyone makes a conscious
choice to do, It happens naturally,
That's why sexual orientation is abetter term than sexual preference,
Nobody chooses to be gay or lesbian, It just happens,"
Facts of gay and lesbian life arewhat Stephen'S group wanted Cincinnati Public Schools to include at its inservice training day in December, but
School Superintendent Dr, Lee Etta
Powell vetoed the proJX>sal.
"We're here to ask you to breakthe silence about gay and lesbian
youth, [whol have been neglected for

too long," Stephen said at his unsanctioned event. "We want to stop children from calling each other 'fags'
and 'dykes' for the same reason we'don't let them use" racial and ethnic
slurs, "Don't let them do it in yourclasses," he assigned the teachers,-JohnZeh

Outreachvolunteers
wanted,NEW YORK-On
Sunday, January 28, the Hetrick-Martin Institutewill hold an open house for anyone
interested in volunteering at its Project First Step storefront, located on
Horatio Street in the Village,
Project First Step reaches out tohomeless gay and lesbian adolescents,
particularly those in the West Street
and pier areas, Staff and volunteers
dispense hot meals, provide warm
clothing and distribute safer-sex literature and condoms,.
Helpers for these tasks are needed, as are messengers and volunteers
for special projects, The open housewill be held from 2 to 5 pm at ProjectFirst Step, 24 Horatio Street (just westof Hudson Street), For more information, call Francine Shifrin at the Hetrick-Martin Institute, (212) 633-8920,-J ohn Voelcker

Sp,encemakes
news from.
,graveWASHINGTON-Craig
Spence,the notorious D,C. scandal figure who'
committed
suicide last fall after:'months of published accounts of his
reputed sex and drug related activity,
is still making headlines, This time,
it's his will,In the document, signed Nov, 3,

Spence created the Spence Trust, afoundation intended for the defenseof people who perceive themselves tobe the victims of unfair media accusations-including Spence himself,
The amount earmarked for thefund is still unknown, But Spence's
will also contains a provision forexcess funds to be donated to Mother
Theresa,
Spence ..was found dead in a
Boston hotel room Nov, 10, the victim
of an apparent suicide, fully dressedin a tuxedo with a suicide note written on the mirror,
In a videotaped "farewell" to his
close friends, Spence blamed histroubles on "a local cult-owned
newspaper," apparently referring to
The Washington
Times, his chiefaccuser, and its' ties to the Unification Church,
Spence, a former Republican
lobbyist, gained unwanted notoriety
last summer when the conservative
Washington Times printed reJX>rtsof
his spending thousands on a D,C,
male esco'rt service, giving unautho-,
rized midnight ~ours of the WhiteHouse and ac~epting
a pilferedpiece of TrumaQ china, After being
in hiding for months, Spence wasarrested in New York, along with amale prostitute,on drug andweapons charges"
Spence, who at one time hosted
parties for Washington's conservative
JX>wer elite, was widely known forhis bizarre behavior and his stories ofbugging private c~nversations, Once,
when arrested on drunk driving
charges, he listed his occupation as"millionaire," 'According t~ a lengthy jailhouseinterview with the Times shortly after
his arrest, Spence became increaSingly
obsessed with sex and suicide after
his being diagnosed with AIDS,
To date, no one has: been
charged in connection with the prostitution service, which has been
under investigation for credit cardfraud, In the wake of the stream of
Spence stories in th Times, a WhiteHouse security guard was dismissed
for allegedly
acceptinga Rolexwatch from Spence in return for thepiece of Truman china,-Cliff O'Neill

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Film

A Downward Spiralby Karl SoehnleinIlnooking back on the 80s, themedia has had the chance .torewrite the 70s, In the past two
weeks, Peter Jennings, Tom Brokaw

PLUS aUE ~A CHANGE -Sexilia (Cecilia Roth) and Hiza Niro (lmanol Arias)

and homophobe Andy Rooney (whoin his year-end TV analysis equated"homosexual
union" with drug
addiction and alcoholism) have officially declared the sexual explosion.56

OUT.. WEEKof 20 years ago a failure, The freedom of the 70s, they tell America,
did nothing more than sow theseeds of epidemics, and in the, 80s
the choice was either cleaning up
your act or paying the price,
Of. course, decades are not astidy as the media would have us
believe, The U,S, release of Pedro
Almod6var's Labyrinth oj Passion
is a case in point. Made in 1982, itfeels like the last gasp ofthe previous decade,The film's many
characters pursue sex with a carer
free, "swinging" attitude, summoning to mind the likes of Dh
Calcutta, the Broadway show ofJanuary 28. 1990

the 70s which used the tension of
frank sexual situations to get easy
laughs,. Labyrinth centers around the"proudnymphomaniac·
Sexilia(Cecilia Roth), so named by her
father, a famous fertility specialist,
and Riza Niro (Imanol Arias), theson of a fallen Arabian shah, who is
hiding fro!11both his family and terrorists in Madrid's gay ghetto, In the
opening sequence
Riza and Sexi
crotch-watch
at the market, separately seeking similar conquests,
She winds up taking home severalmen.
He picks
up Fabio,aglam/punk street queen who fronts
a band with another diva (playedby Almod6var himself in a fierce
cameo),
When Sexi and Riza meet midway
through the ftIm it's love at fIrst sight, asurprising
twist whichturns the plot
around in amost regressiveway,
Finding happiness at lastwith a woman ("before I
met you I
preferred
men,·
he
tells
her),
Riza is also
the answer
toSexi'sproblems-it
turns out achildhoodtrauma left
her unable toenjoy monogamy,
but
once that's
solved she
can devoteherself exclusively to the
newly converted Riza, The consummation of theirrelationship is the film's fInal shot-an
orgasmic fuck aboard a plane ascending toward the heavens, Labyrinth
starts off trying to break taboos, but theshock comes when it abandons them,
In some ways the film is classic
Almod6var-an
abundance of characters whose lives criss-crossin
unexpected and cOincidental ways,
It's cluttered with over-the-top sightgags, 'some of which work, (Fabio's
stint acting in a JX>rnlslasher film is
especially outrageous,) But for every
well-targeted comic moment there
are three or four of the lowest quality-most notably, when a woman's
laxative hits her before she gets tothe toilet. There's no evidence hereof the chic sophistication which characterized later films like Women on
the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown,
The film has a disturbing
obsession
with making light' ofincestj one character's father rapes
her every other day ("you get used
to it," she explains), The solution
to the situation, she is told, is to. give him a chemical antidote, as if
his problem is merely a powerfulsex drive, Of course, political correctness is not what Almod6var isabout. He isn't interested in creating pro-gay or pro-woman images,
and rarely does in his films-Law
of Desire's
queerswere highstrung, even psychotic,
and, Women on the Verge presented, females as an array of castrating
bitches and helpless hysterics, Butboth of those films came off as
irreverent
rather than offensive,
They displayed a certain sweetness
that's missing here, Almod6var
cared for his characters rather thanholding them in contempt.
Ultimately what undoes Labyrinth is not its lack of "correct" portrayals but its reactionary con
56
c1µsion, A film claiming to
be about passion but which paints
most desire as sick, and which rejects sexual exploration for happy
heterosexual monogamy, can hardly
be considered enlightening,muchless liberating, With the added hindsight of the past eight years, thefilm' becomes a portrait of the preAIDS era as a decadent time, theresolution to which is the sublimation, or at most homogenizing,ofdesire, Though his style remains
uniquely his own, Almod6var's conclusions are regretfully familiar. T

From the Director of"WOMEN ON THE VERGE OF A NERVOUS BREAKDOWN""THE JOYFUL WORK OF A MASTER FILMMAKER!""LABYRINTH
OF PASSION: A lively 1982 farce
by Pedro Almodovar, just released here, The plot is indescribable, involving a smorgasbord of obsessed and outrageous folk dashing around Madrid in search of such things
as sperm from the imperiol family of Iran, A terrorist who
works by smell (Antonio Banderas); a desperate empress; anympho punk rockette; a healer laundress; an incestuous. gynecologist - all collide crazily in the hunt for happiness,
Overcrowded and noisy as a rush-hour subway, the story carries most of its passengers to their goals, Its main theme andgimmick is metamorphosis, Anybody can change into anything they want in this Ovidian comedy; a fon becomes her
idolized sto.r; a nympho goes monogamous and a gay
straight; impotence is cured by incest,
Taboos are dissolved by laughter; childhood traumas that
fixed characters are cured and characters loosened by a sortof dream-rerun of the traumatic scene, All society's fixatingdogmas are mocked by eros, which reshapes people like
Play-Doh,
It's a mark of the earliness of the work that society, the polis,
offers too little resistance to the play of eros; "Women on the
Verge" is tougher in this regard, But "Labyrinth"is the joyful
work of a master filmmaker who's made the city of Madrid a
new Forest of Arden" the playpen of the Western world,".L...J.~
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Television

Rock in a' Hard PlaceFAUX ROCK~ctor

Thomas Ian Griffith

by M,ark GevisserHow gay men kiss on network TV: they l?egin openarmed, with mouths honing in on each other inperfect, conventional, time-tested heterosexual
fashion, only to be deflected into a buddy-style embrace by
the JX>werfulantimagnetic properties of society's homophobia at the last possible moment Last week's ABC docudrama,
Rock Hudson, set out to show the extent to which living thelie of heterosexuality killed the star, and yet, because of network censorship, it depicted Hudson mouth-to-mouth withhis for-display wife but not with any of his many boyfriends,
Rock Hudson's openly gay screenwriter,
DennisTurner, has complained publicly about the network'scensorship of the kissing scenes; ABC Vice President for
Policy and Standards Alfred Schneider explains the decision by saying' that "two men kissing would have been
inappropriate and would be found offensive by some of
the folks in their living rooms, n Inappropriate in a film
about the entertainment industry's homophobia and own
self-censorship? "We did feel," Schneider adds, "that we
gave an honest and fair JX>rtrayalof gay life,nHave gay men come a long way now that we can be
portrayed on network TV as red-blooded American men
rather than as Iimp-wristed pansies or leather queens? Oh,for a fingersnap or a bit of mascara round the eyes to liven

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up this sanitized prime-time take on homosexuality! Rockand his boypaIs cavort around a swimming-pool with crackingly handsome square chins and Physique Magazine pees,
but, even by the standards of B-grade TV acting, theirwooden-ness makes being gay seem like nature's most
JX>werfultranquilizer. The failure behind this media representation of Rock Hudson is, ironically, the very denial themovie says drove the real man to drink and self-destruction:
Rock Hudson the Man had to play at being the all-American
boy next door while concealing a sexuality wildly at odds
with the values and judgements his own participation in
Hollywood helped perpetuate, To be aired on network TV,
Rock Hudson the Movie had to do exactly the same thing,
To be sure, the makers of the docudrama were facedwith a dilemma: to JX>rtrayhomosexuality as anything otherthan airbrushed musculature would have run the risk of playing into all the stereotypes with which their medium has
already abused gay people, And evidence does JX>inttowards
Rock being a kinda dumb, macho guy who liked making itwith other kinda dumb, macho guys--there were certainly no
mascara sticks left lying round his pool, and, as the movie
attests, the only times he snapped his fmgers was when hewanted his latest twinkie to get him a drink, And maybe it did
open the eyes of those folks in their living rooms to see
straight-acting musclemen spouting declarations of love withsoap-operatic instensity, Perhaps we could dismiss RockHudson as generic TV docudrama--badly written, appallingly
acted but well-intended-if it weren't for the dangerous metaphor it fashions fromhe actor's death,On network TV,
you see, gay men die
AIDS, with the folowing extraordinary .
ast gasp: "1 spent myhole life keeping
very thinginside,enying everything,nd now everybody
knows anyway, You
know what's so damn
funny, all the time 1,
kept pretending that 1
wasn't gay, 1 kept onthinking 1was the perfect man, the perfectstar, if it ever came out that 1 was gay it would kill me, And
look, it has." And so ABC's Rock Hudson passed into dubious
immortality, sweeping America along with him in the belief
that homosexuality (or its more marketable derivative, gay selfhate) and not a virus had killed him, Turner ends Hudson's life
and the film with these lines because, he says, "my premisewas to show that secrets kill,"and because he believes that
Rock's self-hate led to his ala:>holism and promiscuity which
led to his ..,well, you know
how the rest goes,
Even before AIDS, theentertainment industry had apathological need to kill the «gay characters it created: Vito
Russo catalogues this impulse
brilliantly in The Celluloid
Closet. Now the industry has it:11 easier than ever before, for
I AIDScan be used to verify all
myths; it gives homosexualitya primetime narrative withteary-eyed death as its climax,
And Rock Hudson's story isalmost too good to be true--a
~
~v
,Ii
•
hunky all-American body, het
~~~:
,Il;'
I
to the max, houses a tiny little
virus of destruction (call ithomosexuality, call it selfhate, call it HIV) that eventu-·
ally causes the big, strong
body to disintegrate,
If Rock Hudson had lived
an openly gay, honest, fulfilled life, would he have lived
forever? The show's moral
message (this is television,
remember) is that if we aretrue to ourselves, all else will
fall into place; if we are psychologically healthy, we willremain physically healthy, This
notion is strikingly similar to
one of the fundamental..~Z;~premises of the AIDS activist ~ ,"'"
cl!\ture where, as in the"'
Hudson .mythology, silencealso equals death, There is, ithowever, a critical distinction: •activiststake social reality into
account, affirming their lives
through the struggle against
political and cultural repression, A mm like Rock Hudson,on the other hand, allows its
audience to float off on themyth that aU it will take tosolve homophobia is selfacceptance,
It takes the
resJX>nsibility
off the shouldersof those "folks in their livingrooms" and places it squarely
Onthe shoulders of the victimsof homophobia, ...
BEDROCK-The real Mr, Hudson

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,

Music

Choose to Chooseby jim MayloThe complacency and apathy so prevalent in the
80s has afforded the Gores and Buckleys of thiscountry the opJX>rtunity to attempt molding oursociety into homogenized, ice-cream culture where racism,
homophobia and censorship is the name of the game, We
need to turn the agenda around again, focusing on positive change through togetherness ideology rather than separatism and elitism, And we certainly don't need to betreated as juveniles, having our art, music and literaturescreened for us, like a mother might cut up a child's meat,slicing away all the fat.
Censorship is becoming an alarming fad-one
wemust halt. In a recent case sure to spark an alarming chain
reaction, the House of Representatives in Pennsylvania
passed legislation prohibiting the sale of music containing
explicit lyrics "unless the cover of such material contains aparental warning that the lyrics contain violent messages,"
The warning shall serve to inform us the album may be"advocating one or more of the following: suicide, sodomy,
incest, bestiality, sadomasochism, adultery, sexual activity ina violent context, murder, morbid Violence, use of illegal
drugs or alcohol-PARENTAL ADVISORY,"There's a number of requirements for the stickers, including minimum

size for the typeface, but more alarming is the national
effect this may have if supJX>rtedby that state's Senate,
These moral-types realize the power of music as
medium, and want control. The 90s should become the I
decade of the people's choice, not of the select few who!
think they know what's best for us all, What follows is aconsumer guide of sorts, introducing you to some new
independent label releases worth checking out, Some of
the music may contain "questionable" content, so by alI
means run out and Bl)Y IT!

Like a Girl, I Want You to Keep Coming/
Various artists/Giorno Poetry Systems/RoughTrade Records.
Creeping out of the vast library of tapes at Giorno
Poetry Systems emerges yet another terrific compilation,
Some rare moments, obscure dabblings and serious jams
make this a must for fans of any of the artists included,
Ardent fans of the comic-inspired art of Robert Williams will
want to pick up a copy simply for the cover art: a reproduction of his work "Enchiladas De Amora" (full-size prints
available at Psychedelic Solutions on West 8th St., NYC),
The LP opens with an exercise in voodoo-rhythmiCS,
as Debbie Harry (she calls herself "Debbie" now) injects
love JX>isoninto her vocal chords on "Invocation to Papa
Legba," backed by trance-like, incessant drumming, showing she's made of more than just dance-wave bleach (butwe knew. that already), New Order does a tremendous"
cover of the Velvet Underground's "Sister Ray," while
David Byrne performs "Song for the Trees"-originallyused as part of a sculpture installation-using
loopingsnippets of frogs, crickets and birds to create a backing
rhythm for his fragile song of love,
There's also stuff from Henry Rol\ins Band, John
Giorno Band, PMS, New York City's Live Skull, mutteringsof-worth from William S, Burroughs on the anti-drug scare
and a 7-11 countergirJ fuckscene-fantasy by none otherthan Karen Finley,

i /A.R.Kane/Rough Trade Records (UK).
Each side of this double LP represents one of th~ four!
suits in a deck of cards, and the musical styles are as variable as the shuffled deck itself, The second full LP fromthis British ensemble (the mysteriously unnamed duo 0
A,R, Kane was also one half of the pseudo-anonymous
M>A>R>R>S, i creates an atmosphere of ecstatic, psycho-I'
sexual energy, So it's no surprise that "Pump up theVolume" engineer Lincoln Fong, with a host of others,
moved his magic wand over the i project as well,
Everything from jazzy beats to rocking riffs is rep
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~are playing at once, gliding over each other with disso- requires a few listens to appreciate, Layers of guitars echo,nant charm, While some tracks are JX>sitively for hallu- creating a beautiful webbing which surrounds purposely
Cinatory fucking ("Honeysuckleswallow"),some are for off-key vocals, often dealing with gay subject matter Oove, 'pumping on the dancefloor ("A Love From Outerspace,"lust and relationships usually), With openly gay members"What's All This Then," "Supervixens"), and others sim- (that doesn't sound right, but it remains!) and nude maleply fondle the mindspace ("And I Say," "Miles Apart"), drawings gracing most of their record jackets, the band's"In. a Circle" sounds like heaven's gate symphonies
frankness picks up where the Smiths left off,washing over an opera of the damned, while "Insect
The material is highly self-indulgent, and should beLove"'s rock, hard and soulful, breaks into the acid-reg- applauded for ignori.ng the Top 40 formula as well as
ga'e lilt of "Catch My Drift."for its quality, Bac~ed by a siqlple beat, it often sounds
The list of styles is endless, with all the JX>pelements like underwater sex to ultrasonic noises, and while thepresent, but it's the lyrics and unpredictability that sets A,R. A-side is good, the flip gets better, "The 1001st Fault"
Kane far above theideals with a probdance
pack,lematic gay relaAvailable now astionship("I'm
an import
only
slowlywalking(hopefully, Roughout, to myoId
Trade V,S, will
friend in a car .. ,")release it domesti- .,'while the closing
cally soon), youtrack, "Anvil Dub,"
can find i at anYl1
is what the band
record store with acoins "Welsh regdecent selection ofgae"-emphasis
new imJX>rts,
on the irresistible
beat-witha subtIe but strong plea
for gay men to
take charge of thehealthproblems
facing us, Look forcopies of this 4sQng EP at any
well-stocked
importoutlet,along with theirdebut LP from lastyear, Loue is Hell,:/,' If your store isn't
yet carrying
theimport, urge themto place an order.

Blood
and
Tbunder/Neon
Judgement/
Play it Again
Sam USA/Wax
Trax Records
With 'a cover"still" from Wim
Wender's own fascination
with
Texas, along withimages of cowboys
on the sleeve (tworiding one horse, I,
might add), we gethints of tabasco flavoring in the music of Neon Judgement, Hardly typical fireside waXing, Belgium'S Neon Judgement welds an ironcattleprod to the industrial hammer, prodUcing the perfectsoundtrack 'for a spaghetti western,"Facing Pictures" opens the LP, setting the tone withharmonica and a slow, heavy, drone, Moving into a beatmore fit for Indians than cowboys, "1313" pulsates with a
Heavy-with-a-captial-H
pump, as good as any of the
neubeat hatchlings, but with an added' barbeque twang,Club Drs should check out "1313," as well as "Games ofLove" (find the new 12" remix) and "Le Suicide Du Beau
Serge," This is a brand of club beatings and brooding
soundscapes ready to be embraced by the 90s, so open up
your minds and explore,

Elepbantine/Kltchens
little Indian (UK)of Distinction/EP/One

Not an easy pill to swallow,

the Kitchens'musie

Scar /Lush/4AD (UK)This six-song EP is a dichotomy of ideas and sounds
complementing each other with beautifully harsh style, Twogirls (Emma and MikO and two boyd (Steve and Chris) mix
combinations of familiar elements, but pull it off with an ear
to the future, Imagine The Ronettes' "Be My Baby" underneath a guitar fuzzfuck, and you'll get the idea,
Each track is distinct and separate from the last, andwhile the lyrics are pretty much buried in sound, they
serve more as an undercurrent to the stinging instrumentation hovering ov.erhead, Miki's breathy vocals constantly
struggle to the surface, washed under by the incredible
force of Emma's guitar, especially on "Thoughtforms:. I've read that Miki had sexual fantasies about Jodie
Foster in "Freaky Fridays" when 'she was ten, but hey, I
remember liking Donny better than Marie myself, Again, look
for this EP in the imJX>rtsection of your local outlet. ...

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Theatertaken CaJX>te'sunflattering JX>rtraitspersonally and have cut him dead, Feeling betrayedand deserted, Capote is at a loss, In thecourse of several phone calls and directspeeches to the audience, CaJX>tefills us inon the details of the surface of his life, .
The names of his rich and famous acquaintances flow by in an unending stream-CoUette,
Norman Mailer, the Kennedys, Marilyn Monroe,
Sirhan Sirhan, Lee Harvey Oswald and, ofcourse, the socialites, This is CaJX>teas we'dhave seen him if he'd had The Tonight Show tohimself,
While some would object to this presentation of a physical stereotype-the gay man
sissy-it can also be said that Morse and Allen(who has also directed) have made no attempt
to homogenize Capote, They present him in all
the flamboyance the public figure cultivated,
Photo:
MarthaSwope
Neither does Allen's script, taken largely
Robert Morse stars as Truman Capote
from Capote's own writing, What's missing are
the explanations as to why Capote led the life he did, Why
did he choose to spend so much time in the limelight amidst
the rich and famous, instead of writing? He promised thatAnswered Prayers would be his Vanity Fair, hisRembembrance of Things Pas~ yet his inability to ever finish
the book is left unexplored He te\ls us that for 50 years he's
lived with the feeling that any minute something terrible will
happen, that he's never spent a tranquil moment in his life,
but these are mere observations along the way, The sadby Michael Pallet:
Capote comes through when he fondly surveys a Hockney
JX>rtraitof himself, inscribed to the memory of better times,
and then Violently puts his fist through it; he does a sad,atching Robert Morse playing Truman Capote
graceful soft-shoe to The ~unny Side of the Street. But withon Broadway in a show called Tru by Jay
no underpinning of understanding (beyond a mention that
PreSson Allen is at once disconcerting and oddly
his parents deserted him at an early age), these moments
appropriate, There, in the familiar fedora, mincing, prancing
topple over into the pathetic,.
and lisping across the stage of the Booth Theater is the media
There is one moment which does illuminate CaJX>te's
notion of a fme, serious writer, on view for an audience of leersadness, but it is accidental-andso all the more telling,ing folk in for the afternoon, 1bey have come to be entertained,
When CaJX>teca\ls his florists to order several narcissus
and if they weren't here they could be at Rumors, Lend Me a
Tenor or Phantom of the ~a--forthe audience's pufJX>Se5, plants, Allen mocks his accent-and the audience howls,
they are interchangeable, 1bere is something offensive in the The moment when that crowd of strangers laughs at his
physical difference explains, more sharply than any
notion that this image of CaJX>teis being presented for theenrichment of its writer, producers and star, Capote, in Tru,· has words compiled by A\len, why CaJX>tesurrounded him-,
self with admirers to whom he could feel superior,been reduced to the audience's expectations,
CaJX>tewas a master of words and the pity of his life
But then, Capote himself created and assiduously nurtured
was his comparatively slim oeuvre, The paradox of this
this very image through scores of television appearances andmagazine interviews and for much the same reasons that Allen, play is that, sharp and elegant as his words are, there are
too many of them, By fastening herself to the safety-line
et al, are recreating it in a BrOadway theater; for money andof Capote's words and offering none of her own-by
attention, To a large extent, the late Capote is SOWingin Trn
to engage her own imagination
more
what he reaped-and he might well have been delighted by declining
fu\ly~A\len deprives us of an artist's insight, There's no
the notion of himself holding sway over a theaterful of voyeurs,
Allen presents CaJX>tein his well-apJX>inted East Side crack in the seam of CaJX>te's words that a\lows us tosqueeze beneath them and <;:omeback with some image
apartment the week before Christmas, 1975, He is near theof who he really was, When it's over, one is left graspingend of his tether; excerpts from his long-promised novel,for the JX>int.The play's strength-the words of this man
Answered Prayers, have just appeared in Esquire, The subas delicate as a pitbull-is its weakness, too, ...
jects of those excerpts-his
very wealthy friends-haveas

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PerformanceIt's a Bird, It's:,.,a" Dameand JX>wers,Does he win? Stay tuned next week,
In the beginning we see three fc;:male figures dancing behind a scrim, Spectre Woman is everyone,·avoice hauntingly informs us, She's everywhere, battling
By Jonn Wasser
evil and passing her Spectre-know!edge from one generation to the next. Her body is her' world and vice versa,
It
is an excellent concept filled with Spectre Woman
Suvival Kits (matches, comb, pencil and a handy Wash &atching Spectre Woman's spectacle at La Dri), Spectre
Woman comicbooks
and other~~areminded me of that age 01' cred~, :'Sp~ctretacular" wor?s, although these Wagnerian heroGIrlS Just Wanna Have Fun," ThIs tnes don't come a\tve, These three ar-e performancetrio-Ellen
Fisher, Mary Shultz and Tone Blevins-haveartists first, actresses second, Each incorporates a wonreturned to the tiny club stage on 4th Street for a series of derful lyrical movement but the individual acting stylesc\iffhanging mission, Together, they portray one superare embryonic,
heroine combatting societal eyil in an act that is. sprinkledThis nimbly staged one hour show about power ofwith a liberal dose of high-style feminism,
every kind manages to sweep us into a world of its own,
Spectre Woman's four Monday night performances are part but it is not, finally, great theater or performance art, Theof a series entitled "One Night Stands," Half work-in-progress, problem is that its strongest assets-steam rising from thehalf finished performance,stage, rear view projecthe series has already pretions and televisionsented Funny Gay Males,
monitors--arealso .its
Ethyl Eichelberger
and<biggest detriments, The
Kaniecki and Zippi. Some
story becomes lost inof these artists go on to star
the George Lucas/lnon La MaMa's Main Stage
dustrial Light and Magwhile others merely fade
ic inspired shuffle, We
into the scenery, With direcmarvel at the technicaltion and some acting
effects, but they do ullessons, Spectre Woman
timately, detract from" could very well find itself
the evening's
purcombatting ne'er do wells
pose-ourheroine'sin front of larger audiences,hair-raising
episodic
The group's
fouradventures,shows feature various guest
Spectre Woman isstars, The performance I
hiding behind their own
caught was entitled Visit
scrim. I desperately wantFrom a Madman, No, Ed
ed Someone to shout,Koch did not emerge frommingle with the audience
his new Greenwich Village
or simply emote Withdigs, Instead,
RichardDuse-style feelings, Once
Elovich, who resembles a
the 'scrim is ripped down
boy-toy Rick Moranis,and the trio sink theirattempted to out-spectre.teeth into the role, they
Spectre Woman, If you arewill discover their Spectre
one of those comic book
Power and emerge asaficionados who haunt rare
full-fledged artists, Whenbook stores or who havethat occurs, evil wi!! defiseen Spectre Woman on a
nitely not have a chance,
previous outing, you may
Future One Nightsay this is impossible,.
Stands include Mr, Fashion~erhaps, but dO?'t ,underes- PUMPING UP THE VOLUME -(l-rl Mary Shultz. Ellen Fisher. Tone Bleyins (F,ebru,!-ry 5) and Liz
tlmate Mr, Elovlch s talents
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BooksMolingit Overby John PrestonL64

arry Mitchell has been on the edge his entire
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stream seems to be as shallow as the latest club fad in
New York's East Village, Mitchell, whose books include
The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions(1977) and The Terminal Bar (1982), has a searing wit
and a dark, dank worldview that simply isn't going to
make it into the literary clubs, His overtly sexual proseis hard-driven, sometimes mean-spirited,
but always
honest in a way polite society will never tolerate,
But he is a good writer and his new book shouldmake it into the hands of anyone who wants a challenging
take on gay life in urban America today,
My Life as a Mole, the novella whichtakes up half of Mitchell's current volume,
is a slice of life in the lumpen track, Thecrazed mind of the narrator tells you just
how and why a gay man becomes homeless and angry in America today and it's
not because of any lack on his part, The
insanity in this man's existence isn't hisown, it's our venal, profit-driven society's,
Rebellion, kinky sex, the pandering ofchildren, all of them are simple and honest reflections of what passes for our dominant culture,
My Life as a Mole has a darkness
wpich isn't simply nihilist, nor easily categorized as existentialism, It's a cry of pain
and anger and disgust with a world whichlets a man with AIDS die without honor.
But AIDS is only one of the crimes of thissociety, one which seems to heap untold
indignities on its citizens, 'Mitchell's sharp eye continues to capture life in the accompanying short stories, Without a Kiss tells a boy's point ofview of a child-sex scandal. By reexamining the events and the accusations madeagainst a pedophile from the perspectiveof his supposed "victim,· Mitchell forces
us to reevaluate the entire premise thatany victimization occurred, It's brilliant
agitprop, written so well and so sensitively that its arguments can't be easily dismissed,
There's a no bullshit, right to the coreof the matter sensibility in all Mitchell's writing, My Life as a Mole is one of the mostunique gay-themed books of the year, This
isn't a cozy read for an airplane ride; it's abawdy, funny, sad and infuriating look at
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Art"

DoMe/DoMe/DoMe

at Mel Drink Me! Love Me is aquintessentiallyfemale venture into history, culture,from whose work the ti~e Eat
Mel Drink Mel Love Me was tak ,Though the exhibit has a de nitelesbiaq subtext, it is not overt or consistent. UJX>nentering the installation,
portraits of Emily Dickinson andChristina Rossetti greet the viewer
head on, Placed below them is a basket of coal, perhaps to illustrate
women's work, in this case the task ofstoking the home's hearth, Passing
into the space through two screen
doors conjures the allegory of enter-

Sangsue/Mandragore, 1989, mixed media

photo: Marik Boudreau

nature and architecture,
MarthaFleming and Lyne LaJX>inte'scollaboration creates a pastoral late 19th century setting, referring to the "alleged"
love affair of Emily Dickinson andChristina Rossetti, a poet considered
devoutly Catholic in her time anding the. home and summons to mind
its historical association with women,
The JX>rtraitSof the two womenside by side are, I suppose, on anemotional level, a lesbian reference,
yet the basket of coal and the absenceof sexual contact put a damper on any

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true references to the homoerotic, The
whole idea of an affair between
Dickinson and Rossetti and its being
based on ambiguous allusions to one
another in poetry is a fine fantasy (andfor our sake, hopefully, a reality), but
the effect could be much more satisfying were it based on an actual torrid
and passionate love affair.
The exhibition is set up in period
late 19th century sun bleached
Americana-thescreendoors,
mamma's front JX>rch,the faded earth
tone palette, Architectural remains
serve as integral parts of the work,
Spindles from a railing form a boarder
for a row of assemblage pieces to rest
uJX>n,These parts reek of the feminine
in that they are decorative, rather thanarchitecturally structural which is more
often an association with masculinity,
Much of the work resembles a dayin biology class, Each work contains
either a botanical or a zoologicalremain, Stems, buds, bones andbranches JX>pout in relief giving thepieces needed dimension from the flatness and lack of perspective theywould have otherwise, Technically,neither Fleming nor LaJX>inteseem to
be masters in painting and drawing,
Sculpturally, however, they excel.
Interesting to note is that their work is
indistinguishable, These women havemeshed so tightly, in a way that probably only lesbians can, There is no JX>int
where one ends and the other begins,
What we have here is the Gilbert andGeorge of the lesbian art world,
In keepingwith tniditional
women's art of this era, Lapbinte and II
Fleming have signed nothing, Womenof the late 19th century were generally
involved in making rather egoless art,i.e, quilts, clothing (before labels),
embrOidery and interior decorative art,Things of this nature were generally
deemed to be more of a craft than an
art form and to sign them would havebeen terribly inappropriate, Though
the work in this show is clearly
intended to be high art for hanging on

ists for gay and lesbian issues in Atlanta,

JX>st-modern gallery walls, the lack ofa signature relegates it to its feminine
late 19th century cpntext,
The final room of the installation
remains separated from the home-like
section by a staircase, It Is here thatlove makes itself evident, that the
woman-as-Iesbian emerges and thathints of the flesh as fruit are ~anifest-.
ed, An elaborate floor paintlOg ands~one mosaic i1Iu~rat~ and articul~telld
It~ehsfrom R OS5ebUI s titleI poem~hnlg , ts, cou I
ed our
uxury
Wit
.
,
depictions of celestial scenes, aOimals
,
,
d'
I'
In motIOn an
SinUOUS p antllfe
unleash the seduction and erogenous
tremors we've all been waiting for,
Perhaps this could have been intensified by a visual meshing of female
flesh, Quality lesbian erotica is commodity and an unabashed image ofthis may have given the show the sex
appeal it needed, Instead, we getanother all too familiar woman-as-victim-of-prey images, A lovely, opaqueIy veiled woman seen behind awooden cage is juxtaposed with an
imJX>sing,vicious looking wolf,
As quaint and endearing as Eat
Me/Drink Me/Love Me is at times, it
generally lacks that fire-in-the-Ioinsfeeling which,modem audiences crave,
It does what It does very wellj femaleenergy is difficult to JX>rtrayeffectively
and with JX>wer,I can't, however, help
but wish it took us one stepfurther-into the tactile rather than the,, I an d psyc hI'0 oglCa,I-lOg
emotiona,.

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who lick their c1its?"Were unlikely toconvince legislators from South Georgia that sodomy laws are part of thatsame government they keep trying to
get off everyone's
back, We may
never know what those insidethought of the New Yorkers who sat
on each others' faces outside thestate's highest lawmaking chamber,
One cannot control all people, norshould we seek to in a plurali5ticsociety,
But it's the locals who must clean up the
JX>\iticalmess once the out-of-towners
leave and, hence, the resentment.
"Anytime that a bunch of people
from another place come into an
area-and half of this group was fromoutside of Atlanta-[it doesn't help),"
states Dick Rhodes, a registered lobby-·We've finally' established a working relationship with lots of people in
the government, and [the demonstration) didn't make our jobs any easier,I was at the Capitol yesterday, and a
few people mentioned it."
About the sexually-explicit placards at the demos, Rhodes adds, "Mostpeople, taken in the context they were
in
would
find
them
not
obscene-let'ssay, offensive, They
just should not have been in thed emonstratlon,'Th
a t' s no t th e way we
h'
d
'Atl
G
'
get t lOgs one 10
anta, eorgla,lId'h' k 'd'ddaOvera, I on t t 10 It I any
mage, I just .do,n't t,hink it ~id any good. "And while I ve lost my cool manytimes butting heads with "conservative" gays over their "disapproval" of
virtually all gay and lesbian publicdemonstrations, this particular puzzle
still remains to be addressed,
The proportionately
few Atlantans at the Jan, 8 action wereprominently supportive, but the factthat out-of-towners outnumbered 10cals by more than two-to-one cannot
be ignored,
And even if the mainstream
media censors those images that
could garble the intended message, as
it did in this case is it wise to continually be at the ~ercy of an unthinking and oftentimes anti-gay media?
So ft th'ddan
' ,a ~r e screamlOg ancand Jokmg
are over and,'" the Southemers agam go about their busmess, It
will be up to those often-chided "behind-the-scenes"
people to smooth
down the ruffled feathers, Again,
If there is one consolation forthem, though, it can be found in two
speeches ~ade that day, In one, alocal Atlantan reminded the crowd
that, for legislators as for all others,
supJX>rting justice should not depend
on which way the wind is blOWing,
In another speech, a New Yorkman reminded listeners that after thedust settles, what remains are not thedetails of a demonstration-the
nuances that more often than not lead toshouting matches in gay and lesbian
circles-but the reason for which -theaction was called,
And that, one can only hope, iswhat will ultimately endure, 'Y

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of contagious diseases that must be
stopped at the border and organizersof the San Francisco conference are
furiously lobbying House and Senate
members, according to Wachter, Antigay U,S, Sen, Jess Helms [R-NC)
orchestrated the addition of HIV tothe immigration list in 1987,
Organizers of the San Francisco
confernece"sympathize" with thegroups who are boycotting the gathering, according to Wachter, but hesaid "the conference is not expendable,
It would be throwing the baby out
with the bathwater," Wachter stated
Among those boycotting the conference are NAPWAj Denmark's Postivigruppenj Austria's Positiv Lebenj
France's AIDES Solidarite PlUS;Canada's National Advisory COmmittee on
AIDSj Spain's Comite Cuidadano
Anti-SIDAj Deutsche {German} AIDSHilfej the European AIDS Service. Organizationsj
the League of Red. Cross and Red Cresent Societiesj the
Scandanavian AIDS and HIV Organizationsj the British Hemophilia Soci-'etYj the British Red Crossj and theNorwegian Red Cross, 'Y
WOMEN ONLY from page 16"Women who chal\.enge, ignore or
threaten its presence are subject ot
ridicule, coercion and intimidation,""Wockner questions women'sability to know what we need andwant in our community,»
added
another angry reader, "He trivializes
thousands of years of violence andoppression directed against women,»
Wockner wjl\ not file a legal challenge to the coffeehouse policy, 'Y

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Workshop:
Keep It Upl, to"reaffirm the importance of safer
sex, and feel confident about saying yes, whether
you:re into
casual sex or serious dating, andno maUer what your HIV statusis"; at the Center, 208 VII 13 St;
noon - 6 pm; register 806-6655,
IDD 645-7470

NOW-NYS, NYS-NARAL AND
PLANNED PARENTIIOOD Lobby
Your Legislators for Choice, in
Albany;
buses
leave
Union
Square (14 St/Bway) at 6:30 am;$27 round-trip/$20
low-income;NOW-NYC 807-0721 (checks to
NOW-NYC, 15 W,18 St, NYC
10011)

1HE CENTER Two-WeekFirst
AJd Class, today and next Tuesday, to learn
about
rescuebreathing,bleeding,
shock,
bums, fractures, seizures; 208· W
13 St; 8-11 pm; $2; register wjth
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DIFFERENT IlGHf BOOKSTORE
presents Douglas
Simonson,Islanders, signing copies of hiscollection of paintings and drawings of young men of Hawaii;
548
Hudson(btwn
Charles/Perry); 6 pm; 989-4850

MEN OF ALL COLORS TOGETIIER Dance Outing to the Jaml.
son Project Dance Company,at the Joyce Theater, 175 8th Ave
at 19 St; 8 pm; info 222-9794

TIMES SQUARES Free Square
Dancing
Class for Lesbians
and Gay Men; at PS 3, 490 Hudson St (btwn Grove & Christopher);
7:30
pm;
873-3962,
799-2492 (starting JAN 29 classes
are $5 each and enrollment closes)
S.H,A:R,E, Free Introductory
Evening anticipating the Jan, 31- Feb, 4 program on self-healing,
Who Heals?, with Niro andAmitabh(RobertBirnbaum,
Ph,D, 'in clinical psychology, UC
Berkeley); 441 Lafayeue St; 7:3(}
8:30 p,m; 460-8074 (also WED,
Jan, 24)
THE KITCHEN presents Sarah
Schulmanreading
new andunpublished work; 512 W 19 St;
8:30 pm; $6; reservations
2555793
MARC BERKLEY presents Kool
Komrads
at PrIvate
Eyes,
tonight and every Monday; with
Razor Sharp, go-go boys, strippers; 12 W 21 St; $7; info 2465646, club 206-7772

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with additionallhformation
from
The Gay & Lesbian Switchboard of
New York
For more Information or referrals, torap, or to volunteer, call the GLSB
daily, noon to midnight, 212·777-1800

Wlllgs, a new play about two
gay men, a comic and an actiVist,
and their conflicting passions; at
the Courtyard
Playhouse,
39
Grove St (at Bleecker);
8 pm;$12; 869-3530 (plays thru FEB 4;
WED-FRI at 8 pm, SAT at 7 and9:30 pm, SUN at 7 pm)

BISEXUAL POll TICAL ACTIONCOMMITIEE
Meetinga: PotLuck Dinner
at a member'S
home, 8 pm, 71&'353-8245

3-DOLLAR BILL TImATER Free
Readingof Jonathan
Ned
Katz's Comrades & Lovers in aseries of readings of Piays by
Men, this and every Wednesday
through Feb, 7; at Apple Corps
Theatre, 336 W 20 St; 8 pm; 9893750

TIm PYRAMID presents Dudleyin his new performance
work
Secolld Sleep, a "homoerotic,
religio-sexual
work-in-progress";
101 Avenue A (at 6 St); 9 pm;
info 473-5625 (presented this andevery Thursday in January)

SCRABBLE PLAYERSCLUB GameNight, newcomers should bringa board; at the CenIer, 208 W 13
St; 8-11 pm; 57(}9369
GAY MALE S/M ACIIVISTS MeetIng: Hot Tales for Cold Nights,
with "dramatic readings of thebest bits from a wide variety ofs/m-themed
erotica and literature"; at the Center, 3rd Floor,
208 W 13 St; 8:30 pm (doors
open at 8); $5; 727-9878
EAGLE BAR Movie Night: Jim
BelushilnGhostbusters
II; 142
11th Ave (at 21 St); 11 pm; 6918451

BROOKLYN WOMEN'S MARTIAL
ARTS Two-Week Defense Class,the second of two classes, pointers on basic self-defense
withspecial attention to concerns oflesbiansand gay men; at theCenter, 208 W 13 st; 7-9 pm; sliding fee; register 718n88-1775
S,H,A,R,E, Free Introductory
Evening, see WED, Jan, 22
CEN1ER STAGE sees The Tetlth
Man, Paddy Chayefsky's drama
about a man's crisis of faith; atthe Vivian Beaumont Theater of
Lincoln Center; 8 pm; $45; 62(}7310
THE GLINES presents
SidneyMorris's The WInd BeIIeqlh My

January 28, 1990TJ

IN OUR OWN WRITE Writing
Workshopwith Dorothy
Randall Gray: Ancestors
WithinUs, focus on past life, music
imagery,time and place, andinanimate animation writing exercises, for writers of all levels; Ms,
Gray teaches writing at HunterCollege and is a poet and performance artist, co-founder of GapTooth Girlfriends; at the Center,
208 W 13 St; 6:3(}9:30 pm; $10;
register 718/384-2234
JUDITH'S ROOM BOOKSTORE
presents Kay Hagen, Internal
Affairs:
A jourflailleeping
Worllbooll for Self-Intimacy,
discussing "journal-keeping
as arevolutionary act"; 681 Washington St (at Charles St); 7 pm; free,
but limited seating; 727-7330

1HE GLINES presents
SidneyMorris's The Wind BeIIealh My
Wings, see JAN 24

NEW SCHOOL last Day to register for AI411: 20th-Cetltury
Gay attd Lesbiatt Literature, a12-week course to be held on
Thursdays,
beginningFeb, 8,with Joseph Cady, poet, critic,
psychotherapist,
founder of the
Gay Academic
Union; authors
include A,E, Housman,
Andre
Gide,
Renee
Vivien,StefanGeorge, Gertrude Stein, Lytton
Strachey,
MikhailKuzmin,ThomasMann, E,M, Forster,Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Amy
Lowell and Wilfred Owen; 66 W
12 St; $255; 741-5690
WOMEN& AIDS PROJECT
Obstetrical
HIV Counsellng/
Testing/Care
Initiativewith
Susan Holman of the NYS Dept,of Health
AIDS Institute;at
Empire Biue Cross/Blue
ShieldEducation Center, 3 Park Ave at
34 St, 1st Floor; 10 am to noon;,Linda or Annamarie 587-4408
IDENTI1Y HOUSE Rap Group:
Coming Out ill the Gay '90s;
544 6th Ave (btwn 14/15 Sts);
6:3(}8:30 pm; 243-8181
GAY
MEN
OF
AFRICANDESCENT Gay Men's Health
Crisis Workshop:
Keep It Up,
Brothers!, at GMHC, 129 W 20
St, 3rd Floor; 6:30 pm; 807-6664
CASTILLO CULTIJRAL CENTER
presents John S. Patterson
In
Wbetl the Colored Band Goes
Marchin', a one-man show dra-

matizing the African American
struggle for freedom and democracy with writings by Patterson
and Paul Lawrence Dunbar, Frederick Douglass, Langston Hughes, W,E,B, DuBois, Pat Parker,
Alice Walker, with music by
Tevin Thomas, direction by Amy
Pivarj 500 Greenwich Street(btwn Spring/Canal); 8 pmj $10;
tix 941·5800, press 362-1818(plays all weekends in Januaryj
PRI & SATat 8, SUN at 3)

before 11 Pm/$7 after: photo ID,neat appearancej info 645-6479,
club 645-5.156 (Editor's note:
Shescape Friday night parties at
Octagon are discontinued,)

ChJneseNewYear
CENTER SPORTS sees The Ice
capada at Madlaon Square Garden, children welcomej 3 pm,$25-$35 members/$35-$45 nonmembers,620-7310.

BORICUA GAY & LESBIANPORUMattends Voc•• M A.cero(Voices of Steel) by Pregones
Theater Company, which is dedicating tonight'S performance toall Latino gay and lesbian organizations in New York City; at 295
St, Anne's Ave, the Bronx; 8 pm;
info and re.tervatlons 585-1202
CASTILLO CULTURALCENTER
presents John S. Patterson In..".. IN Colored S-d Goe.
MlllrCbhI', see JAN 26

NEW YORK COMMITTEE TO
FREE SHARONKOWALSKIMedJ·
cal Powers of Attorney Workshop and Discussion, for men
and women, to choose who you
want to care for you in case of
accident of mness; a lawyer wiIJ
help you fill out the'important
forms; at the Center, 2~ W 13 St;
1-4 pm; 718/939-7730

KAREN SMITH directs Eric
Booth's Mellu"orpbod.:"
KAREN SMITH directs Eric
KAREN SMITH directs Eric
slice 01bl"d gay IIle, an origiBooth's Meta",orpbosls: a
Booth's MetRmorpbosts: a slice
nal play about a 60-year-old.lke 01 blRe" gay IIle, see JAN of blRclr gay lU'e, see JAN 26
black drag queen, a 35-year-old
MEN OF AU. COLORSTOGE'IH26
ex-pimp and rehabiliwed addict,ER HOI, HOr"flY'" He"'lby
CENTERWomen's Circle, Uneand a 25-year-old Hispanic who
Plays hop, in the Columbia U, THE GLINES presents Sidney.and Square-Dance,with live
loves the good life of sex, disco
neighborhood, 7 pm, 245-6366
Morris's The Wlrrd S-eatb My
musicians and an instructor callingand drugs, and who puts the
1Ji'lrrg., see JAN 24
the movesj 2~ W 13 St; 2-5 pm;other two through changesj at
NEW YORK IN '94 Physique$10; ~12/567-2636,71&'784-2554
the Producer's Club, 358 W 44 St
Exhibition of gay and lesbian
1HE 3-DOLLAR BILL 1HEATER(btwn 8th/9th Aves)j today and' bodybuilders traiiling for the Gay
presents East Go •• Wesl, with JUDITH'S ROOM BOOKSTORE
SAT,JAN 27 at 8 pmj SUN, JAN Games ill in Vancouver, a benefit
performance artists Mark Ameen, presents Sar.dl Schulman. read28 at 2 & 8 pmj also next weekj
to bring Gay Games IV to New
Richard E1ovich, Eileen Myles; at
ing from Peopk III Troubk; 681$10 advance/$12 doorj reserva- " York City in 1994 (the 25th
the Apple Corps Theatre, 336 W Was~ington St (at Charles St); 3
tions and info 893-9852
Anniversaryof Stonewall),20 St; 8 pm; $10; rsvp 989-3750 ,pm; free, limited seating; 727-7330
refreshments; at the Center, 208
THE GLINES presents Sidney
W 13 St; doors open 7 pm, show
THE BOTTOM LINE presents
CASTILLO CULTURALCENTER
Morris's The WIlfd S-etIIh My
at 8 pm; $10; Tom 732-3612
Betty In Concert, see JAN 26
presents final performance ofWings, see JAN 24
John S. Patterson In Wbell the
SAGE 2nd Annual
Dance
WNET/TV-13 FII", 011 FIl",:
Colored Btmd Goes Marchi"',THE 3-DOLLARBILL 1HEATER Marathon, a benefit for Seniors ElIzabetb Taylor, "featuring
see JAN 26
presents En""etl: A. O"e·Morwitli AIDS, OuIWee. is among
numerous film clips and nevermOIl Show, an autobiography inthe sponsors; dancing, prizes,
before-told stories from her
BISEXUALYOUTH Meeting a:
one act by pe.rformance artist
food, drink, live entertainment byfriends and co-workers"; includes
Pot Luck Lunch at a members
Emmett Foster; tonight only, at
Hot Lavender and others; at The
scenes from Cleopatra, Cal on ahouse; 718/353-8245 .
the Apple Corps Theatre, 336 W Columns, 584 Broadway (atHot Tin Roo/. Butterfield 8; 920 St; 8 pm; $10; rsvp 989-3750
Houston, wheelchair accessible);
10:30 pm
FUND FOR REUNION/PRINCE7 pm - 1 am; $20 advance/$25
TON GALA: Ivy League/Seven
THE BOTTOM LINE presents
door/free for Marathoners; for
CENTER 4th Saturday Dance,
Sisters Gay '90s Mixer for gay
Betty In Concert, tonight andreservations or to register as a with OJ Peter Arden; 208 W 13 and lesbian al:umni/ae and stutomorrow night at 8:30 and 11:30
Marathoner call SAGE at 741St; 9 pm - 1 am; $8/$6 members,
dents oft'ne 15 Ivn-S schools;
pm; 15 W 4 St (at Mercer); tix
2247
seniors and students; 620-7310
482 Broome St (at Wooster); 5-8
228-6300
pm; $35 (current students $20);
THE ANSWER IS LOVING 7th
COLUMBIAPEP BOYSPRODUC- info 212/689-4691'
METROPOLITANCENTER FOR Anniversarycelebration
for
TION Same But Different
MENTALHEALTH, el aJ, present, participants in Women Tallring Dance, tonight and then every
HER ROYAL HIGHNESS AVISa Scientific Meetlngl Pal",
Women's Tal. and Beller Off;
Ihird Saturday, for gay men and
PENDAVIS summons you to a
Aggresstorr, Fa"tasy, ""d Cott·music, food, entertainment, nonlesbians and their friends; OJ Gala Evening of Fashion Fan·
cepts 01Sadomasochism, withalcoholic drinks; family, friends
Karin Ward; Earl Hall, 116 St &tasy and Ball Deluxe at Red
speaker William Grossman,and significant
others are
B'way (#11"9 train); 10 pm - 3
Zone, 440 W 54 St (btwn 9/10
MD, discussing "findings that "sowelcome; led by Ruth Berman
am; $5; 629-1989 (part of theAves); 5:30 pm - 1 am; 927-6571
called sadomasochism
may
and Connie Kurtz (Editor: whoproceeds will be donated to adevelop early in life..,relationare leaders in the fight with thecommunity-based charity)
NEW YORK ADVERTISING &ships involving child abuse and
Board of Education to attain the
COMM, NETWORK &, BAR
trauma impair the ability to use
benefits for gay/lesbian pannerSPECTRUMpresents E.G. Daly,ASSOCIATION FOR HUMAN
fantasy for the master of impulsships that are currently accorded
singing Say II, say It; 802 64th
RIGHTS Party,
info fromes..,painful affects are sources ofheterosexuals); Sheepshead Bay, Street, Brooklyn (N Train to 8th
NYACN,517-0380
aggression toward caretakers,
Brooklyn; 7:30 - Po; $12; 718/998- !,.ve stop, Bay Ridge); 718/238Difficulty in expression and con2305
8213
MARC BERKLEYpresents Kool
trol of aggression are central
Komrads 'Slnful Sundays atissues in character disorders"; at
PEOPLE'S VOICE CAFEpresents
THE SAINT AT LARGEpresents
Hot Rod, this and every Sunthe New York Academy of Sci- Arlene Mande, Canadian Singer; "Saint" Saturday Nlihts, 105 day; "4 DJs, 4 dance clubs";
ences, 2 E 63 St; 8:30 pm
133 W 4 St (In Washington
2nd Ave (at 6 St), 11 pm, $15 doors open 8 pm, free buffet 10
Square Church Parlor); 7:30 pm;
cash at door, 674:8541
pm to midnight, drive-in male
SHESCAPEOpening of Friday$6 or IDF + $1; info 718/426porno t~eater from 11 pm; $2
Night Parties at the Roxy, with
2183,
performancenight
draft till midnight; at 28 St andOJ Nancy B; 515 W 18 St (btwn
212/777-2528
11th Ave; $8; ,info 242-5646,
10/11 Aves); 10 pm - 4 am; $5
club 244-1950

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OUTWEEK BEST BETS
(for finding other gays and lesbians to dance with)MondayPrivate Eyes (Kool Komrads; male strippers) 12 W 21 St, info 2425646, club 206-7712

Tuesday,'

Better Days 316 W 49 St (8/9 Aves) 245-8925·Love Machine at Underground 860 Broadway, near 17th St; 2544005

Wednesday
Better Days 316W 49 St (8/9 Aves) 245-8~5
Private Eyes (Jeffrey Sanker & Dallas's Club Bad) 12 W 21 St, btwn
5th/6th Aves, 206·7712.
·Pyramid (Dean Johnson's Rock & Roll Fag Bar) 101 Avenue A, btwn
6thnth Stre ets, 420-1590
Silver Lining (2-4-1 drink) 175 Cherry La" Floral PI<,LI, 516-354-9641
Spectrum (free admission all night) 802 64th Street, Brooklyn, 718·
238·8213
Stutz (2·4-1 drinks) 202 Westchester Ave" Wh, Pins" 914-761-3100
Twenty/Twenty (Kool Komrads, gay men after 10 pm) 20 W 20 St, info242-5646, club 727-884,0

Thursday·Boybar (has a new wave drag show) 15 1/2 st Marks Place, btwn
2nd/3rd Aves, 674·7959·Copacabana (last Thu, of the month has Susan Bartsch party) 10 E
, 60 St, at Fifth Ave, 755·6010·Pyramid 101 Avenue A, btwn 6th/7th Streets, 420-1590
Spec~rum (free admission all night, 2:4·1 drinks) 802 64th Street,
Brooklyn, 718-238-8213

Friday·Boybar 151/2 St Marks PI., btwn 2nd/3rd Aves, 674·7959·Carmelitas (Chip Duckett's Boy+Boy & Girl+Girl) 150 E 14 St
Columbia Dances (1st Frillay of every month) 116th St & Bway, 8543574 days
Private Eyes (preppies and young professionals) 12 W.21 St, btwn
5th/6th Aves, 206-7712
Spectrum (male and female strippers) 802 64th Street, Brooklyn, 718238-8213

Saturday.

Barefoot Boogie (smoke & alcohol free) 434 6th' Ave (btwn 9/10 Sts);
832·6759·Boybar 151/2 St Marks Place, btwn 2nd/3rd Aves, 674-7959
The Center Dances (2nd and 4th Saturdays) 208 W 13 St, btwn
7th/8th Aves, 620-7310
Pep Boys at Columbia (3rd Saturdays, except Jan, 27) 116 & B'way,
10 pm - 3 am; info 629-1989
Private Eyes (Jeffrey Sanker & Dallas's Club Bad) 12 W 21 St, btwn
5th/6th Aves, 206-7172
Saint At Large (alternate Saturdays, from 1/27) 105 2nd Ave (at 6 St)
674-8541
Sound Factory (Acid House, no alcohol, doors open midnight) 530 W
27 St (btwn 10th/11th Aves). 643-0728
Spectrum (guest performer night) 802 64th St., Bklyn" 718-238-8213

Sunday.

Better Days 316 W 49 St (8/9 Aves); 245·8925·Mars (Chip Duckett's 'Mars Needs Men' night) Westside Highway
and 13th St, 691-6262'·Pyramid (Hapi Phace and Drag + Variety Show) 101 Avenue A, btwn
6/7 Stre ets, 420-1590

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Hot Rod (Kool Komrads' Sinful Sundays, open 8 pm) 28 St at 11th
Ave, info 242-5646
Spectrum (shoW; free admission 9-10 pm) 802 64th Street, Brooklyn,
718·238·8213

Every Night
Grand Centr81 (Rockville Centre, LI, closed Mon, & Tues) 210 Merrick Road, Rockville Centre, LI, 516-536-4800
Monster (West Village) 80 Grove Sl at Sheridan Sq" 924-3557

BEST BETS for Women's Dancing
NOTE:
Party events a.re subiect to ch,!nge. Always call first to confirm,

Tuesday
Hatfield's 126·10 Queens Blvd" Kew Gardens, 718·261-8484

Wednesday
Bedrock 121 Woodfield Rd, W. Hempstead, LI; 516-486-9516
Spectrum 802 64th St. @8th Ave, Bay Ridge, 718-238-8213
Twenty/Twenty (Shescape After Work, 5-10 pm) 20 W 20 St (btwn
5th/6th Aves!. info 645·6479, club 727-8840

ThursdayBedrock 121 Woodfield Rd, W, Hempstead, LI; 516·486-9516
Spectrum 802 64th St. @8th Ave, Bay Ridge, 718-238-8213

FridayBedrocl< 121 Woodfield Rd, W. Hempstead, LI; 516·486-9516·Cannelitas (Chip Duckett's Boy+Boy & Girl+Girl) 150 E 14 St
Cheeks 2000 Long Beach Road, Island Park, LI, 516-431-5700
Roxy (Shescape) 515 W 18 St, btwn 10th/11th Aves; info 645-6479,
club 645·5156
Spectrum 802 64th St. @8th Ave, Bay Ridge, 718-238-8213
Visions 56-01 Queens Blvd, Woodside, info 718-846-7131, club 718899-9031

SaturdayBedrock 121 Woodfield Rd, W. Hempstead, LI; 516-486-9516
The Center (Women & Friends 1st Saturdays, Feb. thru May) 208 W
13 St, 620-7310
Silver Lining 175 Cherry Lane, Floral Park, LI, 516-354-9641
Spectrum 802 64th St. (@8th Ave, Bay Ridge, 718-238-8213 'Starz 836 Grand Boulevard, Deer Park, LI, 516-242·3857
Twenty/Twenty (Shescape) 20 West 20 Street (btwn 5th/6th Aves),
info 645·6479, club 727-8840

Sunday,.

Bedrock f21 Woodfield Rd, W. Hempstead, LI; 516·486-9516
Cave Canem (Sandwich Sister Sundays, Dega Productions)Spectrum 802 64th St. @8th Ave, Bay Ridge, 718·238·8213

Every Night
Cubby }fole 438 Hudson St. @ Morton St., 243·9079
Duchess II Sheridan Sq, & 7th Ave South, 242·1408

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Bike Stop West 230 W. 75th St.,874·9014, Neighborhood bar, occasional entertainment.
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The Works, 428 Columbus Ave(at 81st), 799-7365, Cruisy westside crowd,

EAST SIDE

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

Brandy's Piano Bar, 235 E. 84th St.,
650-1944, Sing-along piano bar,Cat's, 730 8th Ave" 221-7559, Older, men, younger guys

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

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

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

Jason's, 23 W. 73rd St.

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

Sally's Hideaway, 264 W, 43rd St.,
221-9152
Town & Country, 9th Ave at 46th St.,
307 -1503'

EAST VILLAGE
The Bar, 68 2nd Ave, (at 4th St.),674-9714, East Villagers and ACT
UPers,.
Boy Bar, 15 St. Mark's Pl., 674-7959,
Dancing I Drag shows,
The Pyramid, 101 Avenue A, 4201590, Dancing I Drag shows.
Tunnel Bari 116 1st Ave (7th St.),
777-9232W. Village crowd in the E.
Village.

WEST VILLAGE

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

The Annex ito Cellblock 28), 673
Hudson St. bet. 13th & 14tli), 6271140, J/O Cub,South Dakota, 405 3rd Ave" 6848376. Badlands, Christopher & West St. ,741-9236, Cruisy waterfront bar,Trix, 246 W. 48 St. (bet. Bdwy & 8thAve), 664-8331, Cash and carry,Star Sapphire, 400 E. 59th St., 688,
'4710.

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Boots & Saddle, 76 ChristopherSt.,
929·9684, Funky dive and Juke joint.
Cellblock 2H, 28 9th Ave, 733-3144,
J/O club:
The Cubbyhole, 438 Hudson (Morton
St), 243-9079, Neighborhood bar forgay women & men.
D.T.'s Fat Cat, 281 W. 12th St., 2439041, Piano bar. Mixed M/F.
Duchess II, 70 Grove St (7th Ave,),. 242-1408, Women.
J's, 675 Hudson St., 242-9292, J/O
club,
Julius, 159 W, 10th St., 929-9672,
Serving Coors, Coors Lite, & Coors
Draft,
Keller's, 384 West St. (at Christo·pher), 243-1907, Friendly neighborhood crowd,
Kelly's Village West, 46 Bedford St.,929-9322, Piano bar,.
The Locker Room, 400 W. 14th St.
(9th Ave). 459-4299, J/O club,72

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

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

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

The Break, 232 8th Ave. (22nd St.),
627-0Q72.

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Ninth Circle, 139 W. 10th St., 2439204, Younger crowd.
Ramrod, 185 Christopher St.
Sneakers, 392 West St., 242-9830,
Two Potato, 145 Christopher St.,242-9340,
Ty's, 114 Christopher St., 741-9641,
Cruisy neighborhood bar,Chelsea Transfer, 131 8th Ave. (bet.
16th & 17th), 929-7183, Neighborhood English pub.
Eagle's Nest, 14211th Ave (21st St.),691-8451, Leather / Levi's,
Private Eyes, 12 W. 2'1st St. (bet. 5th& 6th), 206-7770, Dancing, VideoClub.

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

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Community Directory
A.c.n.c.
AIDS CENTER OF QUEENSCOUNTYSOCIAL SERVICES· EDUCATION. BUDDIES COUNSELING • SUPPORT GROUPS
Voluntaer Opportunities(718) 896-25OO1voice) (718) 896-2985(TDD)ACT UP !AIDS Coalition 111 Unleash Power!
496A Hudson Street. Suite G4 NYC 10014, '(212)989-1114
A diverse, non-partisan grou~ of individuals united inanger and committed to 'direct action to end the AIDS
crisis, Gen, meetings Mon, nights 7:30,
at the Community Centar 208 W,13th,
ALOEC/APLN-NY(Asian Lesbians of the East Coast/
Asian Pacific Lesbian Network-New York)We are a political, social and supportive network of
Asian Pacific lesbians, Planning meetings on the 1st
Sunday and social events on the last Friday of eachmonth, Call (212) 517-5598 for more information,
ARCS !AIOS-Related Community Services)for Dutchess, Orange, Putnam, Rockland, Sullivan,
Ulster and Westchester counties, AIDS education,clientservices, crisis intervention, support groups,
case management. buddy and hospital visitor program,
214Cen1raIAile., Whi1B Plains. NY 1!mi (914)!mffiXi
838Broadway ,Newburgh, NY lm1l (914)562-5005
AIDSline (914) 993-0607
BAR ASSDCIATION FORHUMAN RIGHTS
lawyers Referral
Service for the Lesbian and Gay Community
Full Range of Legal Services (212)459-4873

GLAAD
Gay & Lasbian Allianea Against Defamation
80 Va rick Slreet, NYC 10013 (212)966-1700
GlAAD combats homophobia in the media and else-'
where by promoting visibnity of the lesbian and gay
community and organizing grassroots response toanti-gay bigotry,

CIRCLEOF MORE UGHT
Spiritual support and sharing in a gay/lesbian affirmative group,West-Park Presbyterian Church
165West 86th Street
Wed: worship service 6:30 pm, program 7:30,
Marsha (212):ll4-4373 Charlie (212)691-7118,

GAY & LESBIAN HEALTH CONCERNS
An office of the NYC Dept of Health, provides linkages betwn NYC Health & Human Svcs, and the Lesbian & Gay community, focusing in All healthconcerns; resource information for health services
consumers and providers, 125Worth Street, Box 67,
New York, NY 10013,For info call (212) 566·4995,

COMMUNITY HEALTH PROJECT
208 West 13th Street, NYC, New York 10011
For Appointments and Information(212) 675,3559 (TTYNoice)
PROVIDING CARING, SENSITIVE AND LOW COSTHEALTH CARE SERVICESTO. THE LESBIAN AND GAYCOMMUNITYGAY & LESBIAN PSYCHOTHERAPY
Sliding scale fees
Insurance accepted,
Institute for Human Identity,(212) 799-9432

COMMUNITY RESEARCHINITIATIVE
P'WAs, P'WARCs & their physicians taking the initiative to seek promising intervention against AIDS in a
resp, manner, For more info or to volunteer pleasecall (212) 481-1050,
CONGREGATIONBETH SIMCHAT TORAH
NY's Gay and Lesbian Synagogue Services
Friaayat 8:30pm
57 Bethune Street
For info, call: (212) 929-9498,

BAR ASSDCIATION FDR HUMAN RIGHTSFree Walk-in Legal Clinic, Tuesday 6,8 pm
Lesbian & Gay Community Centr, Ground Aoor

DIGNITY/BIG APPLE
A community of Lesbian and Gay Catholics, Activities
include Liturgies and socials every Sat, 8:00 pm, at
the Center, 208 W, 13 Street, NYC,
Call (212) 818-1309,

BIDS (BISEXUAL DOMINANCE &SUBMISSION GROUP)
Share SIM experiences and fantasies with others ina positive, non-judgemental atmosphere, Rrst Sunday of the month, 4:45pm atthe Community Center
208W, 13 Street, NYC, This group is partofthe New
York Area Bisexual Network,

DIGNITY NEW YORK
lesbian and gay Catholics and friends
AIDS Ministry, Spiritual Development
The Cathedral Project
Worship Services & Social-Sun, Eves, 7:30pm-St
John's Episcopal Church 218 West 11th Street C
Waverly,675,2179

BIWAYS NEW YORKMonthly social events for the Bisexual communityand friends, Call NYABN for details of upcoming
events, (718) 853-8245

EDGE
Education in a Disabled Gay Environment
For the physically disabled Lesbian and Gay
Community,(212) 989-1921
P.O,Box:.l5 Village Station, New York, NY 10014

BIPAC (BISEXUAL POUTICAL.
ACTION CDMMITTEE)
Political action on issues of importance to the Bisex-'
ual/lesbian/Gay community, Monthly meeting/potluck
held 8:00pm on fourth Thur~ay of the month atmembers homes, Call NYABN for this month's location,(718) 853-8245
BISEXUAL YOUTH
Informal social & support group for Bisexual
kldstvouth, Monthly meeting/potluck lunch held
1:00pm on fourth Sunday of the month at members
homes, Call NY ABN for this month's location, This
group is part of the New York Area Bisexual Network,
BLUS-BRONX LESBIANS
UNITED IN SISTERHOOD
Social, political and support networking group for
women and their friends, Regular social events andmeetings on the first and third Fridays of every month,
At The Community Center, 201 iN. 13 Street, from 6:30,
8pm, For more ihfo call Lisa at(212) 829-9817,

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BODYPDSmVE
If you or your lover has tested HIV+, we offer su pport
groups, seminars, public forums, reference library,referrals, social activities and up-to-ilate national
monthly, 'THE BODY POSITIVE"(S1!i/year),(212)633-1782,
2095 Broadway, Suite 306, NYC, NY 10023

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January 28, 1990

FEMME SUPPORT GROUP
For lesbians who self identify as Femme, For info andmeeting times call Lisa at (212)829,9817,Nomen please,
FRONT RUNNERS
A running club for lesbian and gay athletesof all abilities, Fun Runs of 1-6 miles held every Sat at
lOam and Weds, at 7pm in Central Parkand every Tues, at 7pm in Prospect Park,
For information: call (212) 724,9700,
THE FUND FORHUMAN DIGNITY
National Gay and Lesbian Crisis Line'AIDS 800'---1-8oo-S0S-GAYS
Educational Resource Center; Positive Images
Media Center; NY State Arts Program
666B'way Suite 410 NYC,NY 10012 (212)529-1600
THE GAYAFRICAN AMERICANSOFWESTCHESTER(The GAA:)
is a community based support group formed in
Westchester County, Various' activities are planned
forthe coming months,
Plea~e call 914,376,0727 for more info,

GAY MALE $1M ACTIVISTS
Dedicated to safe and responsible SIM since 1981.
Open meetings w/programs on S/M techniques,
lifestyle issues, political and social concerns, Also
special events, speak'ers bureau, workshops, demos,
affinity groups, newsletter, more, GMSMA -Dept 0,496A Hudson Street, Suite 023 ,NYC 10014,(212) 727-9878,
GMAD(GAY MEN OFAFRICAN DESCENT)
80 Varick Street, NYC 10013a support group of Gay
Men of African Descent dedicatad to consciousnessraising and the development of the Lesbian Ind Gay
Community, GMAD is inclusive of African, AfricanAmerican, Caribbean and Hispanic/Latino min ofcolor, Meetings are held, weekly, on Fridays, For
more information, caU 718-802.0162,
GAY MEN'S HEALTHCRISIS HOTUNEFOR INFORMATION ON SAFERSEXAND HIV-RELATED HEALTH SERVICES,AND FORINFORMATION ON
ONE-TIME, WALK-IN AIDS COUNSELING SERVICES
212-807-6655
212-645-747OTDD (For tile Helringlmpairad)
Mon,-Fri. IO::.Ia,n" to 9 p,m, Sat 12:00to 3:00
HEAL (Health Education AIDS Uaison)
Weekly info, and supportgroog for treatments for
AIDS which do not compromise the immune systemfurther, including alternative and holistic approaches,
Wed 8pm, 208 W, 13th St (212)674-HOPE_
HETRICK~MARTIN INSmUTE
for lesbian and gay youth, Counseling, drop-in center (M-F, 3-6pm), rap groups, Harvey Milk HighSchool, AIDS and safer sex information,.
referrals, professional education,(212) 633-892O(voice)(212) 633-8926TTY for deaf
HISPANIC UNITED GAYS & LESBIANS
Educational services, political action, counseling Ind .
social activities in Spanish and English by and for theLatino Lesbian and Gay Community,
General meetings 8:00 pm 4th Thursday of every
month at 208 West 13th Street
Call (212) 691,4181
or write H,U,G,L, P.O,Box 226 Canal Street Station,
New York, NY 10019,
LAMBDA LEGAL DEFENSEAND EDUCATIONFUND
Precedent-setting litigation nationwide forlesbians, gay men and people with AIDS, Membership ($35 and up) inc, newsletter and invitations to
special events, Volunteer night on Thursdays,lntake
calls: 2-4pm Mon thru Fri (212) 995-8S85

LAVA ILESBIANS ABOUT VlSUAlARTI
Call for slides for lesbian Artists' Exhibition, Gay &lesbian Community Center, NYC, For more information, send SASE to :Miriam Fougere'118 Fort Greene PlaceBrooklyn, NY 11217,
THE LESBIAN AND GAY BIG APPLE CORPS
Get your instrument out of the closetandcome playwith us, Symphonic, Marching, Jazz, Dixieland, Rock,
Aute Ensembles and Woodwinds,
123 West 44th St Suite 12l New York, NY 10036
12121869-2922,
LESBIAN & GAY
COMMUNITYSERVICES CENTER
208 West 13th Street New York, NY 10011
1212) 620-7310
9am-llpm
everyday,A place for community organizing and networking,social services, cultural programs, and social events
sponsored by the Center and more than 150 commu,
nity organizations,LESBIAN AND GAY LABOR NETWORKAn organizationof Lesbians and Gays who are activein their labor unions working on domestic partnershipbenefits and AIDS issues, For more information call(212)923-8690,
LESBIAN AND GAY RIGHTS PROJECT
of the American Civil Liberties Union
KNOW YOUR RIGHTS/WE'RE EXPANDING THEM
(212) 944-9800,
ext 545LESBIANS AND GAYS OF FLATBUSH
Brooklyn's social organization
for both gay men andlesbians,.
P,O, Box 106, Midwood Station'
Brooklyn, NY 11230· (718) 859-9437
LONG ISLAND ACT·UP
P,O, Box 291, New Hyde Park, NY 11040 ,Support us filr change on Long Island,(516)338-4662 (516) 997-5238 Nassau(516) 928,5530 Suffolk
MEN OF ALL COLORS TOGETHER NY
A multi-racial
group of gay men against racism. Meetings every Friday night at 7:45 atthe Lesbian and Gay
Community Services Center, 208 W, 13th Street For
more info, call: (212) 245-6366 or (212) 222,9794 .
METROPOLITAN TENNIS GROUP(MTG)
Our 200 member lesbian and gay tannis club includes
players from beginning to tournament level. Monthly
tennis parties, Wintar indoor leegue, Come play with us!
For information: MTG, POB 2135, New 'tIrk, NY 10025,(212) 662-0695,
MOCA
Men of Color AIDS Prevention
Program,
Provides safer sex and AIDS education information
to gay and bisexual Men of Color; coordinatesa net,
work of peer-support
groups for gay and bisexual
Men of Color in all5 boroughs of New York City,
303 Ninth Ave, New York, Ny 10001
or call (212) 239,1796,
NATIONAL GAY AND lESBIAN TASK FORCE
is the national grassroots political organizationforlesbians and gay men, Membership
is $JO/year,
Issue-oriented
projects address violence, sodomy
laws, AIDS, gay rights ordinances,families, media,
etc, through lobbying, education, organizing anddirect action,
NGLTF 1517 U Street NW, Washington,
DC 20009,. (202)332-6483,

YORK ADVERTISINGAND COMMUNICATIONSNETWORKNYACN is the community's
largest gay and lesbian
professionalgroup, welcoming
all incommunications--andtheir friends, Monthly meetings, 3rd Wed 6:30pm atthe Community Center, Members' newsletter, job hotline, annual directory,
Phone(212) 517-0380 for more info, Mention OutWeek for
one free newsletter,
NINTH STREET CENTER
Since 1973, a community dedicated to demonstratingthat a homosexual lifestyle is a rational, desirable
choice for individuals dissatisfied with the rewards ofconventional
living, Psychologically- focussed rap
groups, Tues" Sal, 8 to 10 pm, peer counselling available, 319 E, 9 Street, New York, NY 10003, for info call(212) 228-5153,
NORTH AMERICAN MAN/BOY
LOVE ASSOCIATION (NAMBLA)
Dedicated to sexual freedom and especially intereted
in gay intergenerational
relationships,
Monthly Bul,letin and regular chapter meetings on the first Satur'
day of each month, Yearly membership is $20; write
NAMBLA, PO Box 174, Midtown Station, New York,NY 10018 or call (212) 807-8578 for information,
NORTHERN LIGHTS ALTERNATIVES
Improving Quality of Life for People with AIDS/HIV,
THE AIDS MASTERY WORKSHOP: Exploring the possibilities of a powerful and creative life in the face ofAIDS, Call Jack Godby (212) 337-8747
NYC GAY & LESBIANANTI-VIOLENCEPROJECTCounseling, advocacy, and information for survivorsof anti'gay and anti-lesbian violence, sexual assault.
domestic violence, and other types of victimization,
All services free and confidential,
24 hour holline (212) 807,0197
PEOPLE WITH AIDS COALmON(212) 532-0290 I Hotline (212) 532.0568
Monday thru Friday 10am,6pm
Meal programs, support groups, educationalandreferral services for PWA's and PWArc's.

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_CASTLEPEOPLE WITH AIDS HfAlTH GROUP
Underground buyer's club importing not-yet-approved
medications and nutritional supplements, 31 West26th
St 4th Aoor (212) 532-0211)
PRIDE FOCUS GROUP
Topical discussions on issues of interest to the community in a congenial atmosphere, followed by an informal
dinner at a friendly local restaurant Every Sunday, 3:00
- 4:30pm at the Community Center 208 W. 13 Street,. NYC, Part of the New York Area Bisexual Network.
SAGE: (Se'nior Action in 8 Gay Environment)
Social Service Agency, providing care, ac1ivities, &educational services for gay & lesbian senior citizens.
Also serves Wei' 160 homebound seniors & older PWA's ,208West13th St NYC 10011, (212)741-2247
SETHIAN GAYS, LESBIANS AND BISEXUALSFor all of us interested in reaching out to each otherwith exuberance to spontaneously
explore andexpand upon the Seth/Jane Roberts "philosophy"
as
it relates to our lives, personally, sexually an4 politically, Call AI (212) 979-5104,
THE OUTREACH
USING COMMUNALHEALING (TOUCH)
Community volunteers providing I weekly bufletsupper
forthe Brooklyn AIDS community, TOUCH meets Monday
oves, 5pm to 6::1lpm- etdowntown Brooklyn Friends
Meeting House (110 Schermerhorn Sl near Boerum
Plac&),,[jmited transportation may be arranged, Info: (718)622-2756, TOUCH welcomes contributions of funds, foodand volunteers,
ULSTER COUNTY GAY AND LESBIAN AWANCE
Meets first and third Monday of each monthat 7:30 p,m, at the Unitarian Church on Sawkill Road
in Kingston,
For information,
call (914) 626-3203,
WOMEN'S ALTERNATIVECOMMUNITY
CENTER !WACC),
A non-profit, Lesbian community center serving
Queens, Nassau and Suffolk counties, Thurs night
weekly discussion
grps, 8:30pm, for other activities
please contact us at(516) 483-2050,

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Limited Appointments Available
Please call early (718) 726-3847

APARTMENT CLEANINGCASTLE CARE, INC.
Apartment & Office Cleaning,
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We are available 7 days,
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Perfect for couple, 2 non-working
fireplaces & alot of charm,
Neartrains, $804 per month,
No fee, Call (718) 638-2884,

DONNA
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Readings
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ATIORNEYS

586-3000MICHAEL ALAN DYM, ESQ.
Attorney At Law

AIDS MINISTRY

Artists' Rights Issues,
Landlord/Tenant Disputes,
Real Estate Closings,
Business Partnerships &Incorporations,
Wills & Estates,

IN THESPIRIT OF
FRANCIS OF ASSISl...serving'our brothers and sisters affected by
AIDS
S t, Francis AIDS Ministry
135 W, 31st Street Manhattan 10001
695-1500

APARTMENT SHARESUNNY BROOKLYN APT,
GM, 26, seeks artist types, $2851month,$400 deposit 20 minutes on 0 train, Call
Cliff, (718) 258-1288,Activist preferred,

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GAY-OWNEDPROTOCOLCALLING ALL POETS. OLD AND NEWI
The end of history? Enter Castillo Cultural
Center's HLastPoem" Contest Winning
entries will be made into multi-media
videos, Call 212-941-5800for details,

OUTTWEEKOWN ROOM IN TRIBECA
apartment, female only, $400 p/m +util, Ref,req" safe, convenient, quiet. Non-smoker
only, Until April, maybe longer, (212)9253686,

APARTMENT WANTED
OutWeek staff person seeks sublet or
share, Prefer downtown, Need
immediate, Call Raul days (212) 685-8671
Eves (212) 932-1496,(212) 645·3535

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UPPER EAST SIDE
Share with GWM, 25, smoker, Own large
room in 4 room apartment, S435/mo,+share utilities, Call Allan M-F, 9-5 (212)5985319,

January 28, 1990

ART BUY/SELL

212.932.2034

1250 Broadway. NYC

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

CLUBS
FORESKIN LOVERSThe New York City chapter of theUncircumcised Society of America(NYC·USA) seeks new male members(with or without foreskin) to join its'swelling ranks, Call for more clubinformation or to make reservations forthe new members party, (212) 777-4208,"ART SOURCE UNLIMITED"We buy. se", trade and locate artworks,

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

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

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COMING OUTYOUR OWN WAY
8 week group for Gay & Bi men
exploring coming out to meet individual
needs, Ledby Profl. Group leader,Call (212)523-0047,

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

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Lower Level, By Appointment Only,(212)727-1850
Certified Electrologist
Member I.G,P'E.

PERSON WITH AIDS?
Terminally ill? Need cash?
BGR (Beat the Grim Reaper)
International pays up to 80% cash ofyour life insurance policy's face value
nowl
Personal, Confidential Service
Call: (718)854-0362/24 hour tape,

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

GROUPSA GAY MEN'S GROUP:SEARCHING FOR A WAY OF BEING
Small group to discuss being gay insociety, family, friendships, CtI',for
Psychological Services, Teacher's
Col/ege, Columbia University,(212)678-3262,
FRIENDSHIP: an 8 week group for gay
men, Exploring what we want/needfrom friends, confusing friends andlovers, stalting friendships, Professional
leader. (212)866-2705,

GROUP MASSAGE
MEN'S MASSAGE GROUP
Get together with a group of men to
give and receive massages, Taught by
Terry Weisser, Uscensed Masseur andteacher at the Swedish Institute,
Sundays,7-10pm,Sl5,OO,
call (212)463·9152.

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January 28, 1990

SURGEON

I

General surgeon or colorectal, BC"BEdynamic anorectal practice in NYC,
Resume to: J, Lavigne, Laser Medical, 7
East 68th Street, New York, NY 10021, 1800-MD-TUSCH,

MARKETING DIRECTOR
OutWeek seeks marketing director tocreate and implement all promotionaland marketing strategies, (Including:
direct mail, telemarketing, televisionand print media,) BA required, No
smoking office, Salary plus benefits,
Equal Opportunity Employer, Call Mr,
Rotello (212) 685-6398,

CO-DIRECTORSAG E: Senior Action in a Gay Environment, Inc, a non-profit organization, isseeking an individual who will have fulltime financial responsibility for this social
service agency caring for gay and lesbian
seniors in the NY metropolitan area, This
person must have three years or morework
experiencein fund-raisingstrategies, public relations activities andpreparationof· grant proposals forfoundations and governmental agencies,
This person must have previous
experience in financial management andbudget preparation for business and/or
non-profit organizations, SAGE, Inc, is anequal opportunity employer,
Please direct all inquiries and resumes to:
Chair, Search Committee, SAGE, Inc., ~8West 13th Street, New York, NY 10011,
Confidentiality respected,

CRNA
Ambul. rectal surg, practice, NYC, fulltime, Laser Medical. 1-800-MD-TUSCH,STORE HELPHEALTH,

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

FINANCIALEATING AWARENESS TRAINING:
The answer to the puzzle about eating,Eliminate your weight/eating problem
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WOMEN'S PERSONAlS
UNUSUALLY
SANEGWF
I like high drama onstage at the Met not in
my relationships, Amiable, perceptive cutie,
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Box 2007
WANTED: GWF,
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I'm "softbutch", GWF, 28, 5'4",
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andcommitment. No drugs
or unappreciative primadonnas, Write: P,O,
Box 3908, NY, NY
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P,O, Box 20028, c/o
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Personals-does thisstuff really work? Am
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New York with a tall,
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I'm alive, sparklingand ready, if the rightbuttons are pushed,
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write Outweek Box
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one, who love music
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NY, NY 10010,
QUIET BUT
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We haven't yet met
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are affectionate, goodnatured, secure inyour professional andemotional life, drop thebook and write, I am a
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NYC 10163:
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10, Femme fatale
14, History
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21. Before coffee or stew
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30, Submitted for judgement
31. Corner
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12, Photo finish
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19, German musical event
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