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The First Queer War
Wars are often catalysts in ways never intended by those whostart them, The czar and the kaiser, for example, hardly expectedthat their rush to fight over Serbia would result in the rise of worldcommunism, Nor did Tojo envision an ultimately pacifist Japan. And
Lyndon Johnson hardly imagined that his policy of escalation in
Vietnam would lead to 15D, Woodstock and a liberation movement
for women and gays,
So it's impossible to predict the social consequences of George
Bush's decision to forsake sanctions and start a shooting war in the
Persian Gulf. For gays, however, key elements of the war's social
equation are already clearly in place.
The Persian Gulf conflict is the first queer war, By that wemean that it's the first war in modern times perhaps the firstsince ancient Greece, perhaps the first ever-which
is being
fought by a Western society with an openly declared and politically organized homosexual community, a community which pervades the military itself, Alan Berube's groundbr~ing
history- Coming Out Under Fire
: implied that our gay community and civil rights movement arose, from tfie consciousness generated, unintentionally, by World War II.
But as he and others have shown, gays in modern conflicts-even
Vietnam, which straddled the historical infancy of the gay movement-werealmost completely closeted. So while historians have
amply demonstrated the effect of modern American wars on lesbians and gay men, we have never seen the effect of open lesbians
and gay men on a modern American war,
Among the half-million Americans serving in the Gulf, however, are thousands who are openly gay in their private lives and who
only hide those private lives while serving their country. They are incross hairs not only .of a military conflict but of a social conflict aswell. As they and their legal repr~sentatives fight for the right toexist openly in the military, they are now compelled to fight, and todie, in a half-woriGi of semi-secrecy,
As we reported recently, a large and well-organized support
network has appeared across the nation to provide support for milithe Gulf and communication between them and theirtary- gays
lovers at home. This unprecedented developqtent is necessitated by
the injustice inflicted on the relationships of militaiy gays and theirstateside lovers who, because they are not legally recognized as family, have no recogpized rights of contact. The well-publicized phonelines set up to provide information about family members overseas,for example, are not available to gay and lesbian couples. Amid theinevitable horrors of war, such additioruil injustice and petty bureaucratic ouelty is sure to radicalize even the most apolitical queers andstir the sympathies of many of the most heartless straights.
The end result of this tunnoil is sure to be a sharpening of theconflict over the militaty's ban on homosexuals-andanother sharp
challenge to society's anti-gay stereotypes. This social clash will now
be fought against a backdrop of real lesbians and real gay men
placinithemselvesin hann's way, 1Jeing wounded and being killed
for a country that continues to despise and silence them.
The revolutionary- effect of such a spectacle is likely to provide
another example of war's unintended consequences.

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empowered by the force
Your article on bisexuals bisexuals can contribute to the lesbianism as my lifestyle. So[no. 84, Feb. 6] has painfully
movements? If lesbians and now I am a full-fledged lesillustrated that our queer family gays are not willing to accept bian. I live with a woman; I
is not immune to the ageless others because of dual-gender identify primarily with othercurse "The oppressed becomes sexual preference, we are hyp- lesbians. I write lesbian plays.
the oppressor." Some quotes of ocritical caricatures of our However, this doesn't mean I
queers speaking on bisexuality oppressors and deserve nei- don't appreciate men or allow
in the article are almost verba- ther the rights we have men into my life or even find
tim excuses I have heard used attained nor the rights we will certain men attractive.
against my own queerness:"You just haven't had sex withthe right woman ....You're justsrON£WAU RIOrSBY ANDREANATALIE
experimenting....lt's just a phase
you're in....Just give yourself
some time to come around.". This is all ludicrous. No,
dismal. No, regressive, Shall
we ignore and ostracize bisexuals because they don't exclusively love/suck/fuck the way alesbian or gay does? Shall wedeny the inclusion of bisexuals
in our movements because
they're different from us? Does
any of this sound familiar?
Phrancly, I feel this issue
supports the need to use amore inclusive name for ourfamily, such as "queer." Labels
can be exclusionary when they
don't fully define the diversity
we truly represent. Terms usedotherwise are simply labels forless. The term "lesbian" does
not include queer men, and formany people "gay" is assumed
IN
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Dl/IlJ/'1000R;40(.LYFF£;<EIvI(Or£to define men. Now queers are/'1//CNOF
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viduals who wish to be includ- eventually achieve.
I believe strongly thated in the movements, but do
Tony Malliaris having a male lover means
not identify as lesbian or gay.
Brooklyn you are not a lesbian. It iSIl't a
Yet bisexuals are indeed partquestion of your politics-it'sof the family, the strength, our
A SEPARATE SPACEY
your lifestyle. Bisexualitynumbers.
Carrie Wofford's article on whatever it really means-isLesbians and gays need bisexuality was remarkably
not the same struggle as
to sit down and force ourinsightful and tolerant. As a being gay. It is easier; it has toselves to truly define who the 27-year-old lesbian, who came be because a bisexual person
enemies of the queer nation out after living my first 22 always has the option to getreally are. Are we really threat- years as heterosexual, I used married, to be "heterosexual"
ened by bisexuals? Or are we the term "bisexual" for two in society's eyes and to gain
A FAMILY AFFAIR

all the perks inherent in heterosexuality, Because of thisoption, bis can't truly identify
with the gay struggle; they canrelate to the sexual oppression
and disapproval, but they are
not necessarily in the fight for
the long haul the way lesbians
and gay men are.
I felt sad after reading thearticle, mainly because thebisexual voice does feelthreatening, especially since
the bi-movement seems to begaining its momentum amongcollege students, and college,
students are notoriously sexually confused. I can't help but
wonder if "bisexual" 'lisnljust
an umbrella term that delays(temporarily or permanently)
the pain and isolation of coming out. The danger in bisexuality is that it's easier for thestraight world to stomach;they can treat it as a phase,since the majority of us ultimately settle down with someone who is one sex or theother. If so many bisexuals
can conform, homophobes
will say, why not gays and lesbians: What's wrong withthem? There is too muchpotential for "reform" in bisexuality; it gives us nothing tohold onto,
Calling bisexuals queers
is acceptable to me, But calling a woman who sleeps withmen a lesbian-no
matterhow flawless her politicsthere I draw the lin!!. A lesbian
is woman-identified;shedoesn't need men in her life.
Any woman who sleeps withmen can not make this claim.
Bisexual woman are, by thenature of being bisexual, transient within the lesbian community. And they do not share

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our experience. I'm certainly
grateful to have them along as
allies, and I believe we have tocreate a space for them, but I
also think we have to keep thatspace separate from our own.
Hilary Sloin
Brooklynefforts of the lesbian movement,
I believe that the last thing
women need is another group of
closed-minded, sexually oppressive people dictating our lives.
C. Donnelly
Manhattan

LABEL WARS
HOWWOULD HE
Carrie Wofford's article,
KNOW?
"The Bisexual Revolution," is..TOO'WMANyi'
In reference to your article one of the most exasperating
on bisexuality in the latest issue, things I have ever read in OutM,I~.~S,Bf!F9R~·.'I am appalled at the unidentified Week, both because of the
I SLEEP.~. .,.,; malegay activist's reasoning author's ill-educated assumpthat female bisexuals sleep with tions about the nature of sexual.;So.riltim~l!\it;$IIII]justmen "because they haven't had orientation and the soul-numb'>rt .•~,_· :'.t&'",great lesbian sex yet" for a num- ing politicking of "movement"a littl4inocltrying.
ber of reasons. The first is for people on both sides of this'Evi';one:ilp~si'ng,'
the obvious question it raises: "issue." Why didn't Wofford talk......
~v:ogueing,looking glam
How the fu.:k would he know to a few people whQ don't havetm,lal'ici'ltositiYely'dfippinl.
anything about lesbian sex? a political stake in the cultivation};h AlWhile I must agree that even of superfluous organizations
witheau de homomediocre lesbian sex is more and pointless agendas a few"Ksex~but.ileas:;don·'t~"~~J!//~~
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make: too large a matmen, I say so with nine years of wars? I mean, are these people
lesbianexperience under my for real? I, for one, have never!!'t;·.ti''-.ti~:iw>~"
belt. Even in his wildest dreams, met a single gay man or lesbianers include' 'HerrHerb'
this man is no authority on the who "selected" his or her oriend·8itt~~and,hiss"'.me.
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emotional/libidinal possibilities.
when he doesn't know what You cannot cram human sexual
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open in your face. That is
Now, on to women telling because people are born sexu. c;ing c;i.ivhf Klein.!blackwomen what they should do al, not straight or gay or bi.
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may be more
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lesbian reminds me of little
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erosexual marriage. That nonstraight people should choose
to tighten the straight jacket or
sexual orientation of nitpicking
over homo-purity is patently
absurd. And although there areplenty of people who pre,fer tocall themselves "bisexual"
because they are "confused" orafraid of the consequences ofbeing labeled "gay" or: "lesbian," many others are following a sequential pattern of hetero and homo relationships,
based on what they are feelingat a given point in their life. (Ihave a feeling this is morecommon than having an equal
attraction to men and women at
one and the same time.) I've
known drag queens and go-goboys, who certainly never caredabout their standing in the"straight" world, who met awoman, fell in love, got married
and had children (their wives
did, that is).
Several of, Deeg Gold'scomments strike me as especially bizarre, such as the grossly
simplistic notion that oppressedpeople cannot be sexist, racist,
etc. The world is a complex cauldron of relationships,
andoppression in one sphere of life
does not purify one's hatred inanother. And where does Goldget off saying, "Maybe'thepeopie who think bisexuality is pretty hip are confined to [the upper]class?" Maybe people who havethe time to label people liketaxonomists-are middle class.
Sounds like Gold is as intimidated by variation from her brandof '70s lesbo-feminist separatism as straights were by her
bad-dyke self back in preStonewall days.
Wofford blandly observes •that there may be as manybisexuals as homosexuals. I
assume she means self-identified bisexuals. Back in the '50s,
even the conservative Kinsey
Report (which unfortunately
didn't bother to include women)
showed that about 50 percentof the American male population surveyed rated from pne to,

six 'on the "Kinsey scale."(Roughly put, from mostly hetero iwith faint homosexual
impOlses [1] to complete psychieJ'and overt homosexuality[6]. tA score of zero meant total
heterosexuality.) Although thescientific validity of the Kinsey
Report may be questionable,
and its relevance to female sexe
uality unclear, at best, I think themodel of sexual orientation as
following a continuum, rather
than a hetero-homo polarity, is
still compelling, particularly inlight of cross-cultural
andcross-species studies.
Bisexual activist Jean
McGuire's comments at the endof the article are the most telling:"I don't know that I would label
myself anything if I didn't haveto," I tend to agree with Deeg
Gold on one point, that [being
lesbian or gay] really challenges
the roots of society in a way thatbisexuality doesn't It is, after all,for our homosexuality that weare oppressed, But we must
realize that to objectify "bisexuals" as ''the other" is to follow in
the footsteps of our oppressors.
Harold Chester
Manhattan
BAH ON B.
In regard to "The Bisexual
Revolution," homosexuality (apurely sexual definition) is aterm which we left behind at
Stonewall when we became apolitical force to be reckoned
with-when we in fact became
the gay and lesbian communities. Bisexuals, by definition, areindividuals who jump the fence,
so to speak, and fuck with either
gender, There is no politicalcommitment for the most part,but in fact,political avoidance orout-and-out denial.
Bisexuals can enjoy thetrappings of the lesbian and gay
communities and avoid all of

the responsibilities. When thetime comes for commitment
they can slink back to the heteroworld and relax, while those of
us who proudly carry the banner put our asses on the line.
How many of us havebeen told by people that they'rebisexual-butof course that
their partners of the opposite
sex don't know (because of
their internalized homophobia).
When do we hear of people
being "bi-bashed"? In fact being
bisexual is much more acceptedby the hetero world as hip or
cooHook at how many of ourheros havebeentaken away fromus as a result of this cop out!
Bisexuals are not gay.
Bisexuals are not lesbian.
, Why are they taking up
space in our magazine?
Keep the information•
commg.
Joseph Gilmartin
Manhattan

WHERE'S NY?

I have the strong impression that Carrie Wofford reallydoesn't understandus. I
would rather have seen OutWeek publish something written by bisexuals themselves.
And we are particularly disturbed that a New York-basedmagazine would run a coverarticle on bisexuality without
mentioning any of the bisexualorganizations in this city.
TamaraBower
Manhattan

Carrie Wofford responds: In
response to Harold Chester:Thank you for your views on
sexuality as a continuum(one of the perspectives inthe story). I found yourcomplaints confusing. You
begin by calling the story"exasperating"but endagreeing with much, of thecontent and the quotes.
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40-year-old
debate-with
Sedgwick, Weinrich or Blumenfeld. Because I quote theorists
does not mean I share their"assumptions. "Second, y()u ask why I
didn't "talk to a few people who
don't have a political stake." I
did. You are correct that thearticle highlighted political conflicts in San Francisco andNorthampton, as well as thepolitical debate which has
evolved specifically about bisexuality. But did you miss quotes
by the.tenpeople not involved in
the political debates? Peoplelike
Keri Duran, whose gay friends
tell her bisexuality does notexi§t,...p..rLeonard Jewell, whosays: "Queens...will deny it, but
I belid-v.e,[many are bisexual].
'1'13 ?trBisexuality is almost laughed my hope was to create moreat in gay life"; or "George"dialogue. One gay man sugwho describes his three-way
gested that some gays feel
relationship; or "Jennifer" and threatened by bisexuality after
Faye lama, who felt pushed
seeing gay lovers go straight orout of their lesbian circles
bi and therefore wonder how
when they came out as bi. Or secure their gay sexuality is.
Madonna and Jeff Stryker? Or
And an older lesbian felt I
Susie Sexpert?
did not pay attention to histoThird, you criticize Deeg ry such as the 1974 article inGold's definition of oppression. Lesbianism and the Women's
I apologize if I did not make her Movement by the Furies, which
comments clear. I think she claims that bisexuality is neither
meant that women can't be new nor revolutionary because
sexist toward men, people of . women have always faced
color can't be racist towardpressure not to be lesbian (i.e.,
whites, and gays and lesbians compulsory heterosexuality).
can't oppress straight or bisex- She suggests probably half ofual people. I don't think she was lesbians go straight/get marsaying that "oppression in one ried and wonders whether
sphere of life purif[ies] one's bisexuality for some women
hatred in another." as you
does not originate in compulallege, I think Gold knows that a sory heterosexuality.
white lesbian can be racist andIn response to Tamaraa Black gay man can be sexist.
Bower. I'm really sorry that
I'd like to thank everyone you felt misunderstood. Peowho responded to my article; ple interested
in New

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to our work on gay rights,.
With 11 lawyers aroundthe country working to combat
discrimination against lesbians
and gay men and against people with HIV disease and AIDS,
the ACLU has more resources
dedicated to these areas thanany other organization, either
straight or gay.
The ACLU is certainly notin the closet about this fact.
Although ·as an organizationthat regularly deals withdozens of issues, we may notherald our gay rights and
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in this field.
In addition to our national
Lesbian and Gay Rights Project, t'fhose activities include a
growing number of gay rights
projects in our affiliate offices
and .the sponsorship of anational conference on combating the anti-gay policy of
the ROTCprograms.
Most recently, to help
spur state and local domestic
partnership laws around thecountry, our Department of,Public Education and ournational Washington officepublished a 14-page legislative briefing packet for use bylobbyists and activists.
It would be impossible totell prospective members andour ,membership about all of
our activities in each mailing.
Through the national headQuarters and affiliate offices,
the ACLU has 6,000 cases
pending at anyone time. And
thaLonly takes into accountour litigation efforts-we also
have eXtensive legislative andpublic education programs
throughout the country,
Obviously, we cannot talkabout all of our activities ineach of our mailings. But thatfact should not be taken as asign that the ACLU is in anyway embarrassed or ashamedof its work with gay rights:
We are, in fact, Quite
proud and committed to ourrole ,as the leading combatantof anti-gay discrimination andbelieve that work to be a corecivil rights issue. We have
neve r hesitated to state that
belief openly, and we never will.
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LET'S MISS SAIGONI am writing regarding an
upcoming 1991 fund-raiser byLambda Legal Defense and
Education Fund. I am also concerned about alleged similar
circumstances with the Lesbianand Gay,Community Center.
Each of these organizations have two things incommon. They serve the les• Because of a production error in our last issue, part ofbian and gay community, andthe final paragraph of Scott Harrah's story on a proposed
they have purchased blocks
privacy amendment to New York State's Constitutionof seats to the upcoming
was omitted. The final paragraph is reprinted here: But
Broadway play Miss Saigon
will such an amendment
prevent the media fromfor the benefit of the respecpublishing information, such as the sexual orientation oftive organizations.
a politician, if there is cause for blowing a public figure's
Historically, organizations
cover? Some feel that the threat to the media issuch as the Asian American
nonexistent. Richard Rivkin, counsel for Robert Abrams,
Legal Defense and Education
told
the New York Law Journal that the state "recognizes
Fund (AALDEF) have madea right to freedom of the press and the courts, as theygreat'strides in publicizing thefact that Miss Saigon has racist
do in other states, would balance those interests."
and sexist overtones as well as• In the same issue, a production error resulted in
exposing the production's diserroneous birth and death dates for four of the Blackcriminatory hiring policies. They
historical figures profiled in the feature section. They arehave organized the community
Bayard Rustin, 1910-1987; Ma Rainey, 1886-1939;
and were part of the instrument
Sylvester, 1948-1988; and James Baldwin 1924-1987, Andto call upon the City's Commisthe photographs of Bessie Smith and Langston Hughes "sion on Human Rights to holdwere provided courtesy of mosaicBooks.
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industry's hiring policies, As it,I.'Y' :"'"was explainedto me, this play israiser. As I understand it, shown by these organizatiIII]S.
based on Madame Butterflyr-a
As a Human Rights Spestereotypical discriminatory
although the Center has notWestern concept of Asian and finalized plans for their ticket cialist for the city, I have
Pacific Islanders.
many cases
distribution, this does not dis- investigated
The lesbian and gay com- count the fact that they have involving sexual orientation,
munity is no stranger to public sought out and purchased
gender, race and the disability
outcries. Lambda and the Cen- tickets to support a play of AIDS. I have worked witheach of these groups extenter are no strangers to such whose content is discrimina,sively, It truly saddens me thatpractices. So why then are tory in nature,they can support a racist andSi nce the dramaticthese organizations forsaking
and ignoring Asians' and increase in anti-Asian violence sexist production.
I call on Lambda and thePacific Islanders' public out- over ·the past years-in precries of racism and sexism , dominantly urban areas like Center to come forward totoward the Asian and Pacific New York and Los Angeles, I respond to their insensitive
Islander community, particu- would have hoped that my actions by addressing theselarly when a portion of the les- community would be empa- issues in an open forum. I
bian'and gay community is thetic to the Asian and Pacific also call upon these organizafrom either Asia or the Pacific Islander struggle. Our com- tions to provide an explanation
to the lesbian and gay comIslands? Are these organiza- munities have similarities
munity at large of their mechtions perpetuating the myth? when it comes to discrimination. As an Asian and Pacific anism to deal with disenfranIt seems like it!
In essence, they are Islander who has worked with chi!!ed segments of their comtelling me that they condone local and national Asian and munity-including lesbian andgay Asians and Pacificplays of this nature and have Pacific Islander communities
demonstrated their willingness to combat homophobia and as Islanders and non-Asians andto accept discriminatory acts a lesbian who has worked with Pacific Islanders who are
the lesbian and gay communi- against discriminatory practoward Asians and PacificIslanders and the women of ty attempting to dispel the tices to boycott Lambda andthese communities. As an "model minority" myth, I fear the Center.
, Our numbers may seem
Asian, a Pacific Islander, a les- that involvement by lesbian
small in nature, but our will isbian, I am appalled by the and gay Asian and Pacificinsensitivity Lambda has dis- Islanders will wain from the great.
JOMAL
played by purchasing seats to lesbian and gay community
Manhattan
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legislation, heard three hours of testimony
on the bias bill fran. of many
communities, the gay and lesbian rommunity 3mong them, as well as New York Police•

NEW YORK-With the start of a newstate legislativ~ session in Albany, propoq~~;,~fGov. Mario Cuomo's Bias-Related
V1.o1i¥¢eand Intimidation Act; tagged "the.'--,'''r.b~3~!!rby p:>liticos, are firing up lobbyiIlge1f6-rts in the hopes of gaining enactment for the legislation, which has beenstalled in the Republican-controlled state
Senate for more than three years,"It's clear to every good and decent
person, the longer we wait the greater
the suffering. My hope is that our state
Legislature will bring this legislation toenactment this year," said Robert Dryfoos, who represents Manhattan's Upper
East Side in New York's City CounciL
On Feb. 4, Dryfoos, the chair of thecouncil's Committee on State and Federal,,'1;1•esslonDepartment offidals, district attorneys and•the city's Human Rights.'

Dryf06s said that the hearing's purp:>se was "to have the City Council speakout in a very public way. The City Council
will issue a very strong report, n When it iscompleted, Diyfoos intends to carry thatreport to Albany to lobby for the bias bill.
The bill, proposed by Gov. Cuomo,
makes bias-related crimes a separate category of crime and makes it illegal tothreaten or commit violence against aperson on the basis of that person's race,
creed, color, national origin, sex, disability, age or sexual orientation.

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BILL BY EXCLUDING GAYS.State Sen. David Peterson •••Cathedral Graffiti Leads to Three Arrests
NEW YORK-Three adivists were charged last week with spray-Jllinting"O'Connor Spreads Death" on the sidewalk outskle the MadIson Avenue residence of John Cardinal O'Connor, behind St PatIickS cathedral, prompting thepolice to file felony charges against the activists for a bias;elated crime.
But one of the activists, Scott Sensenig, claims that he was brutallybeaten while in police custody and Intends to file suit against six officers
that he says physically and verbally abused him, according to his attorney,
Lori Cohen. '•"He has two black eyes and a laceration about five inches longacross his forehead," explained Cohen, noting that the police claim that
Sensenig and his two c<rdefendants, Dorice Meieran and, Cristiane San
Miguel, attempted to evade arrest by running aw~, and that when the 0fficers caught up with Sensenig, he shoved them. Cohen also said that
Sensel)ig was repeatedly called "cocksucker" and "faggot" while in custody,
The bias-related charge aggravated harassrnent-thatthe trio of,'1 0 OUTWEEK F.bruary

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"urban redecorators"were slapped With arises from a law protecting people
from harassment on the basis of their race, color, religion or national origin.
Cohen, however, disputed the felony charge. "They don't have acase because it's clear that what they're alleged to have written is notdirected at the Catholic church or at Catholics in general," she said, "It'sdirected to [John Cardinal) O'Connor because of the way he himself has
thrust himself into the public spotlight,"
The three octivisIs werecharged with two m''mi1almisdiefand resisIi1g ant!Sl-;dtertrey were anesIed i1tre ~ Inlls of Feb, 5,None of the three was available for comment before OutWeek went
to press.
Cohen recently represented six members of ACT UP who were convicted of trespass and other misdemeanors in connection With a demon-'stration insIde st. Pat's on Dec, 10, 1989, which targeted the church's
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Perhaps most importantly, the billallows for related sentences to run consecutively with any other sentence, The pr0posed law has twice passed the state
Assembly by overwhelming margins andwas narrowly defeated in the state Senate
last year by a vote of 25 to 29.
Witnesses called for prompt passage of the bias bill, citing arguments
ranging from hard facts and statistics tomoral suasion, Many insisted that sexual orientation, the class in the bill thatobservers say prevents Senate Republicans from passing the legislation, mustremain in the language of the bill.
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"There is no reason to put bias in thebias bill by excluding sexual orientation,"
said state Sen, David Paterson, a Manhattan
Democrat. While calling for enactment of
the bias bill, Paterson has also proposed
to New York City's charter thatwould establish a special pro;ecutor for bias
aimes, and a 13-member bias-related classification review panel with citizen representation, The panel would oversee police classification of bias crimes and would allow
bias vi<tiIm to ask for a review of non-bias
determinations,
The current 5-member
panel has only NYPD officials,
Dennis deLeon, New York City's
Commission of Human Rights, detailed thecity's effort to record bias crimes against
gay men and lesbians as part of Mayor
David Dinkins' lobbying for the bias' bill.
Because Dinkins was in Israel on a trip
related to the war in the Persian Gulf,
Police Commissioner lee BroWn read themayor's statement into the hearing's record.
Brown made no statement of his own.
In the meantime, the city's newly
created Bias Documentation Project will
distri\;Jute thousands of fliers through gay
and lesbian community
groups. The
flier:; ask individuals to report bias crimes
they have experienced, including information on location, date and effects of
the incident. Dinkins plans on carrying
the completed fliers to Albany to demonstrate the need for bias legislation.
Dinkins had planned on announcing the project at a press conference on
Feb. 1, but according to a City Hall
spokesperson,
his recent trip to Israel
forced the cancellation of the conference,
Other sources, however, said that Dink~
ins canceled the press conference after state
Senate majority leader, Republican Ralph
Marino of Muttontown, obje<ted to a document in the press packet that urged bias-bill
supporters to call Marino's office to voice

their support. Marino has been one of themost vocal opponents of the bias legislation,
In Albany, according to Libby Post,
chairperson of the Empire State Pride
Agenda, the state's gay and lesbiar. lobbying group, there is little activity on the bias
bill currently in the state's capitol. Cuomo
has introduced an omnibus crime bill that
includes the bias bill, but with the Legislature tackling the state's precarious budget,
work on the bias bill is months away,"There is some discussion going on
about crime," Post said, "The bill will go

up again in the Assembly, but in our estimation, anything out of the Senate
remains to be seen."
A spokesperson for majority leader
Marino, BiJI Stevens, told Out Week: "Iwoul<;l, be surprised if the Senate did not
approve some version of the bias bill thisyear. It's one of those issues that does
not go away," Stevens would not say if
the version would be Cuomo's bias billor the Republican bias bill passed in the
Senate last year deemed unacceptable by
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BOSTON-When the National AIDS
Brigade rented its first storefront officespace, located in Boston's Mission Hillneighborhood, great things were expected for the prevention of HIV transmission, among N-drug users who cannot
legally obtain needles, The AIDS Action
C6rrunittee of Massachusetts was considering giving the Brigade a grant fromtheir annual AIDS-Walk fund-raiser, andthe Corrunittee's Executive Director, Larry
Kessler had said publicly that police
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haveto arrest him .first before,:y.
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one of 11 states in which the distributionof hypodermic needles is illegal.)But, within one week, a 24-hour
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to members, The Brigade is comprised
mostly of former IV-drug users who'
want to prevent HIV transmission
among N-drug users by arming themwith clean needles, bleach and condoms, Activities began simultaneously
in Boston and New Haven, and currently the Brigade assists with needle
distribution
in all 11 states where
hypodermic needles are not available
without
a prescription.
In Massachusetts, it is even illegal for physicians to possess or distribute needles if
not used for medical purposes,,
Boston, New Haven and ,New
York are the centers of most activity,with ACT UP/New York and ACT
UP/Boston offering money and volunteers. Last year, Parker received a grantbomb threats and monitor demonstrations
by African-American clergy and former
addicts outside the Mission Hill storefront;
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threatened to close down the office; andParker and an AfiiGlIl-American community
minister came to blows.
"It's been a media circus," said Jim
Voltz, a spokesperson
for the AIDS
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referring to the front-page coverage in
Boston newspapers in recent weeks.
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distribution. And the money to open
the storefront
office came from a$50,000 Richard Dennis Drug PeaceAward Parker received from the Drug
PoliCy Foundation of Washington, DC.
The problems started, says Neil
Sullivan, the chief policy 'advisor to
Mayor Flynn, when the AIDS Brigade
failed to follow the city's unwritten
policy of notifying and involving community groups before siting a "controversial" facility in their neighborhood.
The movedisplayed "arrogance,"•
according to Rev, Graylan Ellis-Haglerof the Church of the United Communityin Roxbury, a predominantlyBlackneighborhood, and a representative for
the Treatment on Demand Coalition offormer addicts. "This was a group withno ties to the community, [which) justcame in and made decisions about what
was best for the community," he said,
Greg Davis of the Recovery Coalition accused the Brigade of trying to
be "the Great White Hope," The AIDS
Brigade's Will Murphy says that thegroup was "not aware of the city's procedure, but we were aware of people
in the neighborhood" who would have
opposed the office opening.
The day before the fonnal openingof the storefront office on Thursday, Jan.
24, the board of the AIDS Brigade which
was incorporated as a nonprofit 01B'lniZation with a 'board of directors on Jan,
23 agreed to send representatives to, meet with Rev, Ellis-Hagler in order tohead off opposition.
On behalf of his Church of theUnited Community in Roxbury and theTreatment on Demand Coalition of former addicts, ElliS-Hagler asked that theBrigade cease distributing
needlesfrom the storefront "until a community
process could educate and build consensus," he later recalled.
The Brigade agreed, m:tintaining
the right to distribute needles on thestreets and from their mobile van, and
ElliS-Hagler agreed to support the ideaof needle exchange in the future, amajor shift in his, and the Coalition's;'
standpoint. ElliS-Hagler then attended
their open-house celebration and press
conference, "It was the beginning of a
coalition," Ellis-Hagler remembered.
But when Jon Parker, the founderof the Brigade in 1986 who had
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TACOMA, Wash.-A gay former
Army sergeant who battled the military
for ten years has finally settled hiscase, winning a retroactive promotion,
approximately $135,000 in: back pay
and full f(;!tirement.
"It is the only case that has resulted in a final victory for lesbians andgay men against the military," pointed
out Bill Rubenstein, director of the
Lesbian and Gay Rights Project of theAmerican Civil Liberties Union, which
pursued former Sgt, Perry Watkins'case. "We're very pleased with the outcome of this case,"
Accordingto the settlement,
Watkins will voluntarily retire with anhonorable discharge, foregoing the,court decision thatordered the military•
to allow him to reenlist. That decision
was appealed
all the way to theSupreme Court, which let the lower
court ruling stand without comment.
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Jan, 30 by James Lobsenz, the Seattlebased ACLU attorney who represented
Watkins throughout the case,
The Watkins decision was madeon a doctrine called "equitable estoppel," or general fairness, It was basedon the principle that since Watkins had
told the Army that he was gay when
he enlisted and had been openly gay
throughout the course of his 14-year
career, the Army could not arbitrarily
refuse to allow him to reenlist because
he is gay.
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Watkins first obtained a security clearance in 1977, but only after first being
refused because he was gay. At thattime, his commanding officer said that
Watkins had an "outstanding professional attitutde, integrity and suitability," adding, "he has, in fact, become
one of our most respected and trusted soldiers."
While the final court opinion was
not made on constitutional grounds,
Rubenstein asserted that the Watkins
case could serve as precedent if, forexample, an openly gay or lesbian soldier who had served honorably in the
Persian Gulf found her- or himself facing discharge after returning to the United States. "['The, casel is not without its
value in that case, nor is the symbol ofa victory against the military machine
without value," he commented. "It's likedrawing a line in the sand," T- jikdfrom New York

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FORT ORD, Calif,-An mv-positive
soldier who failed to comply with an orderto tell his sexual pa11Ilersthat he had tested
positive for mv was court-martialed last
week and will serve four years in prison,
The soldier, 25-year-old Mark Rogers,
who is not gay, was also dishonorably dis-•charged in the decision, but that separation will not occur until Rogers' automatic'
appeal process has been completed,
Although Rogers was originally sentenced
to ten years in jail, because he enteredinto a pre-trial agreement, he will only
serve four years' time,,Capt. Joel Wuson, who prosecuted
Rogers, said that he expects Rogers will betransferred to Fort Leavenworth, a militaryµis:o fucility in Kan.<m, and that the automatic
appea1 prorec;s could take ~yean;.
Wuson also stated that the militarybegan investigating Rogers after a woman,
who later manied Rogers, went to military
authorities to report that she had reason tobelieve Rogers was IDV-infected, She later
ceased cooperating with investigators, but
the case was re-opened when several
other women reported that they too
thought that Rogers was IDV-positive, butthat he had not infonned them of his sta. tus, Wilson added,
The military lawyer who defended
Rogers, Capt GaIy Loxley, has declined to
speak with the media.
According to the Associated Press,
Rogers tested IDV-pa;itive in the spring of
1989, three years after he enlisted Beth Settle, a spokesperson for Fort Ord, said that
Rogers "is in ronfinement He's already starting to do his time. No one can ream him"
Bill Rubenstein, director of the lesbian and Gay Rights Project of the American Civi!liberties Union, pointed out that a
number of restrictions can be placed onmilitary personnel who have tested IDVpositive, and while people who become
symptomatic are routinely honorably discharged, people who have Simply tested
IDV-positive are subject to prosecution anddischarge for violating any of the restrictions military has imposed upon them.
"Sometimes they're doing that to tty
to get you out, and sometimes they're
doing that just to be mean-spirited,"
Rubenstein commented,
While the fact that the militaryordered Rogers to notify his partners of his
IDV-status would seem to violate his privacy rights, according to several expertson military authority, the anned setvices
have been judicially vested with powerover even the most intimate matters in the
lives of enlistees, "A setvice member does
not have the same privacy rights by virtueof judicial decision as you and I do,"noted Wtlliam R FISher, a former marine
captain and military lawyer.
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Such a prosecution, FISher added. is
not atypical. "The military has been foundto have the power, time and again, by military judicial decisions, and even by theSupreme Court, to issue oo:Iers that affectthe health, safety, morale and welfare of
the military setvice," he explained, T-:fiIedfrom New York

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only
organization representing lesbians andgay men worldwide had judgment on
its application
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Nations deferred until 1993. But thegroup's officers are pleased with the
response their application received
from delegates from a diverse crosssection of member nations and hope
to be successful in two years.
The International Lesbian and Gay

UN's Economic and Social Council on
hl:lman rights issues pertaining to the lesbian and gay community worldwide,
ILGA would constitute the only gay andlesbian representation at the UN, and
ILGA would function as a resource for
UN member nations. Currently, there are
hundreds of organizations at the UN withNGO status, including charities, thinktanks, trade groups and other nonprofits.
In late January, ILGA co-secretary
generals Lisa Power and John Clark tes-

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Association, with member organizati.ons in more than 50 countries worldwide, has applied for non-governmental organization status at the UN, but
the 19-member Committee on NonGovernmental Organizations that oversees the application process has postponed action on ILGA's .application
until it meets again in 1993,
Were ILGA to obtain NGO status,
the organization could consult to the
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Ole ontifled before the Committee on NonGovernmental Organizations, detailingthe group's international scope, work on
AIDS issues and human rights issues relevant to the gay and lesbian community.
Power emphasized that ILGA qualified
for NGO status under the criteria
defmed in UN Resolution 1296.
On Jan. 29, the NGO committee,
which comes to decisions by consensus, opted to delay ,action in the faceI,•of opposition to the ILGA applicatioh.·"The results were, obviously, very
mixed, but we received a far higher .
level of support than expected,» PQwer
told Out Week, "We were pleased theobjections were not to the application,
but moral and spiritual,»"There is currently no gay rights
organization represented at the UN,
and we felt it was imperative that there
should be; Power added.
Power was pleased with the support from African, Latin American andEuropean delegates, crediting ILGA's
anti-apartheid stance, growing mem.,bership in Mrican nations and workwith the anti-apartheid Mrican National
Congress as gaining that help for.ILGA's application.
According to a UN press release,
opposition to the application came fromthe Libyan delegate, Andelsa1em Sergiwa,•
who said that the group was "neither in•conformity with morality, nor with religious principles, and contradicted. the lawof life." Sergiwa added, "Sexually immoral
practices by adherents" had spread AIDS.
Delegates from Oman, Cuba and thePhilippines are reported to have joined
libya in opposing ILGA'sapplication,
Supporters included the Swedish
committee chair, Annie Marie Sundbom,
and the Ethiopian delegate, Haile Mariam
Goshu, who "spoke against a subjective
approach and urged the Committee to•base its consideration on the merits stipulated by the Economic and Social
iliunci1." The Costa Rican delegate, Emil•ia Olstro de Barish, also supported ILGA.
Power added, "We would urge
groups in the US to join ILGA." Currently, in the US only the National Gay andLesbian Task Force, Lambda Legal
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A spokesperson
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the'routewhile .singing their own.lyrics to Madonna's hit song: "Sad'dam 'with an attitude ,/Bush andMajor in a mood,! Don't just standthere'/Let's
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thewar,!There's nothing to it-Vogue."
On Jan, 14, police arrested five of.the camping lesbians for obstructing the:highway, F9ur lesbians chain~d them,selves to 10 Downing St., Prime Minister:John Major's residence, on Jan, 15,
police cut them loose, and no arrests
were made.
Later that afternoon, two lesbians invaded the House of Commons, blowing whistles and throwing red powder on 15 members of
Parliament,
as Major made theannouncementthat the war wasgoing to begin.
Major stopped speaking as thetwo women were tackled by police
and arrested.
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TO GAUGE••NEW YORK-The pledge boycott
by a coalition of gay" and lesbian
groups of Channel 13/WNET's December membership drive was successful
to a limited extent and will have to becontinued, according to Stephen Beck,executive director of the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation,"The reports are that they did nothave a successful pledge drive," said
'Beck. "I think that the boycott did
have an effect, :but,.of ~ourse, all thenumbers are held by ..,13, and they are
not about to admit that the boycottaffected them."
The main ~roblem in, gauging the
success or failure of the boycott is that
all the evidence is largely anecdotaL
Channel 13 raised $1,552,430 during its
nine-day fund-raising drive, representing
24,292 pledges, a response which thestation described as "overwhelming,"
Beck said that he knows of at,least 80 instances of pledges being
withheld in support of the boycott,. However, the total amount of thatmoney would likely have been felt by
the station, It is also difficult to distinguish between money withheld in support of the boycott and because of the.
,current economIc receSSIon,, WNETs director of communicationsand vice president, Stella Giammasi, told
OutWeek that gays and lesbians might
be acting to their own detriment in supporting the boycott, as the money withheld could be used to provide programsfor them in the long-term,
Members of the boycott coalition
met with the chief executive of 13,
George Myers, on Jan. 7 to discuss theboycott and the coalition's demands
for regular programing for the gay andlesbian community, and for an exclusively gay weekly program,
Beck, who was at the meeting
said that it convinced the coalition thatthe boycott had to be. continued. Further discussions will be taking place
this week. Channel 13 has promised toinclude gay and lesbians issues in several new public affairs shows on a reg-.
ular basis.
•-Avril McDotulId•

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incidents
i~vol¥ing theft-including
one robat the Lesbian and Gay Community Services Center two weeks ago
touched .a nerve about the Center's
security among the community building's organizational tenants,
In the first incident, a taperecorder and a Walkman were stolen
from the Center's staff office, and in
the second, a Senior Action in a, Gay
Environment volunteer was accosted
and robbed, In the mugging, the perpetraJor reportedly implied that he had
a concealed weapon, although theobject was never shown to the victim,. Both incidents were reported tothe police, according to Robert Woodworth, deputy director of the Center.
Another source who works in thebuilding commented that although
there are occasionally petty thefts at
the Center, overall building security is
sufficient to deter more serious crime,
Woodworth also noted that neither perpetrator is apparently a member of the community that uses theCenter.
"It was a very frightening experience," commented Arlene Kochman,
executive director of SAGE, At thesame time, she. sa,id, nothing of thesort ,had ever happened before, andwhile it reminded members of herorganization that they need to be vigilant :;about their personal safety, she
noted, ''We're always cautious wherever we are,". In an unrelated event, a 36-yearold drag queen has been banned fromthe building for allegedly threatening
members of Gay and Lesbian Youth of
New York, according to GLYNYmember Eric Denise, Deputy Director
Woodworth confirmed the expulsion.'
According to Denise, the ban was"
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had struggled upstairs,
Following that fracas, rumors
apparently began Circulating among
members of GLYNY that the youth
organization was on probation with
the Center and may face eviction,
Woodworth, howev~r, said that thatwas not the case, "They've been here
since we opened, and they will continue to be, here," he stated, although he
did add that the Center has adopted"very strict rules about appropriate
behavior" inside the Center building,and that the Center staff is enforcing
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"Playing tr.affic cop for young
people in the building is not what I
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Jf8RDERCROSSINGSSHOSOONBE EASIER•\ TORONTO-When
Caitlin Rockman and her French-Canadian girl, friend, Martine, traveled from Montreal
to Boston late lastyear, they were sur,prised to end up being separated at
the border specifically, they thought,
because they were lesbians. Though
the couple had no legal recourse at
the time, come next summer, a change
in US immigration law will makeexclusions on the basis of homosexuality an unpleasant memory,
The Immigration Act of 1990,
signed into law by President George.Bush on Nov, 29, effectively redefines
the categories of people who can bedenied entry to the US. The previous
law listed two behavior types, "sexualdeviance" and "psychopathic personality," which immigration officials often
used to exclude gay and ksbian visitors,
In the new law, those provisions are
eliminated entirely. When new regulations take effect on June 1, 1991, there
20 ou, 'WEEK February 20, 1_1

some constitutional
grounds. As it
will be no legal basis for any visitor to became out," Guberman explained~ "wedenied entry because of homosexuality.
almost made a deal with the INS" to
But the new law carne too late for Caitlin
eliminate the incident from Sac~ary's
Rockman, who said that she and Marrecord, but the new law made thetine faced such "rude and gruff" treatwhole case moot. As for the old )aw's
ment from border officials as questionexclusionary clause, Guberman dsaid:
ing Martine in English, a language she"It's not a legal issue anymore, It1 maydoes not speak well, and poring overbe a practical one, facing prejudicepersonal belongings and love letters. "Iand issues in [AIDS]treatment, but It'S
imagine they thought we were lesbianJ
not going to be in the law anymore."
beforehand," Rockman said, and so the
According to Duke Austin, aofficials searched for evidence.
spokesperson for the INS, would~l;>e
Ultimately, Martine was told that
visitors denied entry to the US on any
she lacked sufficient funds for herof the grounds which the new law
four-day trip and was denied entry toeliminates can breathe easy: Jheir
the US on that basis, That decision
records of exclusion are to be erased
revealed a quirk of the old law, underfrom federal databases. "We have been
which foreign nationals had to actually
directed that we will review ourdeclare their homosexuality to bedatabase and purge our recordf fordenied entry.
those excluded on the old grounds,
Though the Immigration and Naturalization Service claimed that no statis- . "We're directed to do so on a wholesale basis," Austin said, "There's"- notics have been kept on how many visirequirement, nor do we wish to havetors have been excluded on the various
people in there on grounds which no
grounds, gay find lesbian activists
longer exist."
objected to the very possibility of cateBut Austin warned visitors not togorical exclusions of gays and lesbians,
expect too much, even under the liberThe issue came to a head during thealized law. "No one has the right to
Sixth International Conference on AIDS
enter the UnitedStates," he said ftrrnly,
in San Francisco last year, where.
"It's a privilege to enter here. There isrumors abounded that foreign gay
no God-given right to enter."
activists would deliberately state that
-Joe Clark
they were queer and had AIDS (another ground for exclusion which nolonger exists), creating an administrative overload to protest the law,
Though San Francisco immigration
officers weren't confronted with thehordes of self-professing homosexuals
they had feared, one Canadian gay
man had previously found himself
WASHINGTON-The
nation's
making the same point by accident.
leading gay, lesbian and AIDS lobbyJames Saccary, a resident of Toronto,
ists reacted sharply to President
was traveling to Provincetown in thefall of 1989 when immigration agents
George Bush's Jan. 29 annual State
noticed AIDS literature in his luggage.
of the Union address, arguing that
When questioned, Saccary stated thatthe speech's passing reference to
AIDS was "woefully inadequate" and"as a. gay man" he had a responsibility
an indicationof what they may .
to be educated about AIDS, Having
said the magic words, Saccary was
expect from the administration in the•barred from enterin'g the US.
commgyear.,'1
The case was front-page news
In-between extended comments
across Canada, Saccary's lawyer, Joel
about the ongoing war in the Persian
Gulf, Bush sandwiched broad-brushed
Guberman, was surprised to learn that
remarks about domestic issues, includthe actual ground for exclusion was
ing brief references to AIDS, civil rights"pychopathic personality." Guberman
and health care,
immediately started proceeding within"Who will lead us in this next
the INS bureaucracy and was prepared
American century?" Bush asked.
"to take it as an action to federal court"Everyone who steps forward to getto have the whole [case] quashed on~'

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one addict off drugs, to convince one
troubled teenager not to give up on
life',' to comfort one AIDS patient, tohelp one hungry child.""People with AIDS need more thanhugs," stated Gregory King, spokesperson for the Human Rights Campaign
Fund. "They need federal resources,
they need dollars for programs providingl'education,
research, treatment and,care. Hugs aren't enough."! At the AIDS Action
Council, a. national lobbying group which represents
over 500 conununity-based AIDS service
organizations, the responses to the presiderit's remarks were equally sharp,"Ten years into the epidemic, theonly national response has been acommunity-based response," said Dan
Brose, the Council's executive director.
'''Though volunteers have been heroic,
they cannot build hospitals,
dobiomedical research, provide medical
services or play the leadership role' ofthe president"
Gay lobbyists seemed to feel thatrather than pointing toward any future
agenda for US domestic policies, Bushchose instead to focus on the gloriesof the last Congress, with veiled references to the 1990 passage of the Hate
Crimes Statistics Act and the Americans
with Disabilities Act
Said Peri Jude Radecic, lobbyist for
the National Gay and Lesbian Task
Force, "This reinforces our thought
here ...that this war is going to have an
impact on moving our gay and lesbian ~agenda forward,",
Of particular interest to one gay
and lesbian lobbing group were
Bush's comments calling for the abolition of all political action committees,or PACs, which contribute heavily tothe reelection campaigns of the majority of the members of Congress,
But the Human Rights Campaign
Fund, which runs a gay rights and
AIDS PAC among its other legislativeand grass-roots mobilization functions,expressed little concern,--,. "We are busy lobbying on AIDS,
civil rights, choice and issues of conce~l'l.,
to lesbian and gay Americans," said
HRCF's King. "Our plate is pretty full.
Fighting to keep PAGs alive is not oneof our high legislative priorities. We will
adapt to meet whatever the environment is out there,"-Cliff O'NeiU
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W;'GAYSEX••BANNEDLOS ANGELFS--A1most half of ftrstyear students believe that "it is importantto have laws prohibiting homosexual
relationships," according to an annual
sulVey conducted by the American Council on Education and the University ofCalifomia/Los Angeles.
The sUlVey, "The American Freshman: National Norms for Fall 1990,"
found that 44.4 percent of college

freshmen and -women believe that the
government should criminalize gay sex.
The survey questioned
nearly200,000 freshmen and -women at nearly
400 two-year and four-year institutionsin the fall of 1990, It was designed by
the noted academic Alexander Austin,
In addition to the homophobia
expressed, 66.4 percent of the students
believe that "the best way to control AIDS
is through widespread, mandatory testing."
About 30 percent of the students
defined themdves as ''borrxigain amtians."
Seventy-eight percent support thedeath penalty, 51 percent think thatcasual sex is "alright," and 65 percent
said "abortion should be legal."Twenty-five percent think that "married women's activities are best confined
to home and family.";
Sharply breaking with their coJ~terparts of previous decades, onl¥ 19
percent of the fIrSt-year students believethat marijuana use
should be legal, ~.
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,Seventy-four percent want to see anational health-care plan. Twenty-one
percent say that "racial discrimination is
no longer a major problem in America."
Seventy-five
percent
opposeincreased military spending, 77 percent support greater handgun control,and 61 percent believe that nuclear
disarmament is possible.
-Rex Wockner/Chicago•

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F:EELING WE'RE
NOT IN KANSASANYMORE:
But
across the river, in Kansas
City, -Mo., Jon D. Bamett has
become the municipality's
first openly gay City Council
candidate, running with thebacking of the Greater
Kansas City Greens, a local
by ANDREW MILLER
environmentalist party.
"I see myself as a
grass-roots organizer and work hard to build coalitions and consensus," said Barnett, a co-director of the Human Rights
Project, which works for the passage of a gay and lesbian rights
ordinance in Kansas City. The city's primary election is Feb. 26.
OVER'THE RA.NBOW: Men of All Colors
Together and their best girlfriends kicked off Black His-/ Herstory
Month with a swell potluck social on Feb 1. at the Gay andLesbian Com munity Center. And don't miss the AfricanAmerican History Month Celebration at the court hearing roomon the second floor of City Hall on Feb. 27 at 6 pm, sponsoredin part by the mayqr's office for the lesbian and gay community.
For more info on this perfonnance-studded event, call mayoral
liaison Ma~orie Hill's office at (212) 566-7385.

More than 9,000 San Franciscans have been diagnosed
with AIDS since the beginning of the epidemic.

RUBY(FREUDIAN)SLIPPERS:

Guess what color they made the new parking permits forcars parked in the House of Representatives' private parking
lot. Guess what shape. Now, if you ask Rim Shots, it sounds
like some pesky queers have infiltrated yet another level ofthe federal bureaucracy. But the sea of pink triangles glued
to the bumpers of high-level politicos' automobiles was
explained this way to New York magazine: "We change thecolors every year, and we have only a certain number of colors," a parking manager said. Right. And they'd alreadyused up aubergine, chartreuse,puce, lavender, faun,mauv,and magenta.

THE BELLS ARE RINGING ... : The
Community Health Project's Health Outreach to Teens program
has a new hotline for gay, lesbian and bisexual adolescents withquestions about sexuality, AIDS and other health-related topics.
"Gay and lesbian adolescents who are not out, and are notable to talk about sex and sexuality with anyone, can call thisnumber and talk to us, freely and anonymously," said Richard
Haymes, the director of HOTT, in a press release.
The number is (212) 255-1517, and it is staffed from
Monday to Thursday, from 7 pm to 9 pm. At other times, callers
may leave a message and receive a call back. .

CLANG! CLANG! CLANG! WENTA HEART, A BRAIN, A HOME,
THE TROLLEY: "Today, for a short time, you may THE NERVE: AVP has it all. Maneuvering scant
experience the trapped feeling of someone who cannot get what resources through an ever-growing caseload, the Gay andthey need," said a message to San Francisco commuters in a Lesbian Anti-Violence Project has once again perfonned a bit offlier from friendly local AIDS activists. "Be grateful that a train wizardry, extending its hours on weekday evenings to makedelay won't kill you, and take responsibility for a national AIDS peer counselors available to the victims of anti-gay attacks.
policy that has been nothing short of murder.""To be as aa:essible as possible, we also wanted our services
As part of its Day of Disaster on Jan. 23, nine activists
to be available after normal working houlS," said Naomi Uchtenstein,attached themsleves to a Bay Area Rapid Transit train headed for the Project's director of dient services, in a press statement.
Daly City with a chain that ran from the subway-like train to.an
The Project's hotline operates on a call-back basis 24
escalator in the station, delaying service for about five minutes, , hours a day. For more information on its counseling, legal andaccording to the San Francisco Chronicle.
crisis-intervention services, call (212) 807-0197.
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that attacks people with AIDS, usually inthe lungs. Despite standard treatment andprophylaxis,
peoplewith HIV infection still
get it and die from it.
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the brief report, published in the journal's Jan. 24 issue, stressed in interviews
that the HIV-infected community should
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of concern, but it's not something weshould be jumping to conclusions
about," said Jeff Levi, a spokesperson for
the DC-based AIDS Action Council. "lbis
is not something that should change policy." Christopher Babick, executive director of the PWA Coalition here, agreed,"We would need to fmd out more before
becoming alarmed about the situation,"
he said. He added that in the '80s, certain precautionary measures were takenthat are now regarded as unnecessary.

"People with AIDS shouldn't be moreostracized because of the theoreticalpossibility of transmission."
One of the report's authors, Dr.
Jonathan L. Jacobs, stressed that the paper
has "no major implications" for the HIVpositive community,that it described an
unusual occurrence ofPneumocystis carinii
p~eumonia
in theelderly, The authors
described
in greatdetail their attempts todiscern the presenceof HIY, which they
could not fmd,
Nevertheless, they
do suggest the possibility that "this cluster
is related to the P.
carinii epidemic assodated with AIDS," that
there may be "a morevirulent strain" because
of increased exposure
to the organism overthe past eight years.
Jacobs suggested
to OutWeek that most of the population
has been exposed to the Pneumocystis
organism, probably when young. "Mostin the medical community believe that
PCP is a latent infection, like toxoplasmosis." In short, one already has the organism, and it's a matter of something activating it.

Isolation?
Whether those with Pneumocystis
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Because of my misreading of
the source, in "A Case for Dental
Dams?" ("AIDS This Week," issue
no. 85), I erroneously reported thefacts that led to a 25-year-old heterosexual
man's
seroconversion
acquired through oral sex.
I reported the mode of transmission as oral-vaginal intercourse. In their
letter to the editor that appeared in
September's European Journal of Epidemiology, the authors write that theman seems to have acquired the humanimmunodeficiency virus through one
act of fellatio with a woman with whom
he was having an extramarital affair.
This wasn't at all a case for dental
dams. It may be a case for condoms,
That this man was the passive partner
raises many questions the authors do
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lation was "untenable, impracticable--it
cannot happen." He explained thatmost New York-area hospitals havecohort policies, where people with ffiV
infection, for example, are roomed ,together, "Most hospitals would notcohort PWAs with people without
AIDS," he said. At some hospitals, beds
are difficult to get, Isolation would
mean waiting for a private room toopen up. "With a shortage of beds,"
Babick said, "what the hell are they
going to do? I wouldn't want to fright-

R. Allen Wood, D.C.
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Walzer, in an editorial commenting on
brief report, says that those with
Pneumocystis should be isolated.
Unlike the views of his colleagues, hesaid that he believes that the report
does have practical implications. "Mostphysicians
in infectious diseaseencounter ffiV-positive patients with
Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia. A
close contact-a roommate, for example-may come down with PCP later."He said that it would be unknown
whether one were infected from theother, 'We need to do studies to fmd
out whether these bugs are the same,"
Walzersaid. He added that issues of•resistance to currently available medications also need medical exploration.
Walzer recommends isolation,
which he defines as keeping otherimmunocompromised
people away
until the PCP is under control. He
admits that• this is a controversial view
but says that many physicians do support the concept. Currently, he said,
hqspitals lack general guidelines for
deci9ing where .to put patients,
Both Jacobs and Dr, Gabriel Torres, a medical consultant to Gay Men's"
Health Crisis, a service organization
here, fmd isolation impractical. "It'smuch too early to say whether it canbe, transmitted from one person toanother," Jacobs said.
Torres said that the idea of iso-en people again," New York Unjversity
used to keep people with AIDS in theemergency
room-sometimes
fordays before a single room opened up.
They changed this practice after a complaint was filed with the Human RigQts
Commission.
He also pointed out that an outbreak like the one in the cluster of elderly patients has not occurred in any other
New York hospital. "I don't think thiscluster is evidence," he said.
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Since I hate old movies, I wasn't in his
home-screening crowd. And I didn't playcard games on his nights out with the boys.
My Vito was the friend who called late atnight and read me the long angry letters ofprotest he constantly wrote, or mailed' me.
the printouts of his furious speeches. We
talked constantly about gay politics, about
our organizations and our leaders. He was
the only person who agreed with me
unequivocally on everything I did and said..
We even talked about the content of thisspeech.
, We killed Vito. As sure as any virus
killed him, we killed him. Everyone in thisroom killed him 25 million people outside
this room killed him.
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Vito was killed by 25 million gay men
and lesbians who for ten long years of thisplague have refused to get our act together,
Can't you see that?
Vito was the most beloved gay man I
know. I've ever known. And gay men
killed him. And lesbians,
When will we get our act together?
When will we take responsibility for ourlives? And our community? And our future?
What does it• take? When will the Dick Jenrettes and the Bany Dillers -and the David
Geffens and the LilyTomlins-and where isVito's great buddy Lily today?-andtheCalvin Kleins and the Bill Blasses and the,2&

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Bob Grays and the Leslie Wexners and theWhitney Houstons and the Carol Bellamies
and the Liz Holtzmans and the Jodie Fosters
and the Ed Koches stop pil\aging and robbing us blind and stabbing us in the back?
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There are no more than 5,000 gay
men and lesbians fighting to keep us alivein this entire country. Really fighting. Not
being dilettantes. Fighting on an everyday,
week-after-week basis,
By the refusal of those who should be
leaders to come forward to lead, and fighters to come foIWafd to fight, Vito was murdered--by his very own. Can't you see that?
Because so few of us are fighting fortreatment and a cure and research, there
was no treatment or cure for Vito.
There could have been, There shouldhave been. It shouldn't still be in the samemess it is now. In ten years, we're
nowhere nowhere. Anyone who tells you
otherwise is a liar.
He devoted his life to fighting for us.
And we let him die. Time and again he sacrificed his own career when he felt it wasmore important to protest or write an artideor make a personal appeal that might help
further the cause of gay rights or help for
AIDS victims. That's right. I said "victims:
We are victims-of our very own. We'rekilling each other. Can't you see that? ,Ten years into plague and our organizations still don't talk to each other. And
our boards of directors are still incompetent, And our leaders are cowards or
weak tokens or idiots. We are still themost leaderless 25 million history has everproduced. If Moses or Jesus or Joan of Arc
came along to lead us, we'd shit all overthem and throw them out.
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For ten years of a plague we haverefused to organize and find ways to designate leaders to negotiate for us in the corridors of power. So we don't have any
power. Surprise, surprise.
When Vito was offered the morphine
drip for the first time in the hospital, Arnie
asked him, "You know what this is for?"
Vito shook his head yes. Then Arnie asked
him, "Do you want it now, or do you want
to stay a little longer?"
Vito somehow found strength to ~per back, "I want to stay a littlelonger."Don't you ever forget those -words: "Iwant to stay a little longer." Because atsome point, we're all going to face thatquestion, and we're all going to want toanswer it with the same words: "I want tostay a little longer:
There ain't no cures yet, boys andgirls. There should have been by now.
There would have been by now if we were
all straight and white and male and middleclass. There would have been by now if 25 •million gay men and lesbians had their act
together. But we didn't. And they shit allover us. Day after day they shit huge [\lids
all over us. And Vito's dead, And everyone
in here knows plenty who are dead. We
killed them. And I'm going to be dead. Abd
20 million HN-infected by the year 2000
are going to be dead .
They haven't even done the basic science yet. That's what they think of us.
How can they discover a cure when they
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don't do basic sdence for faggots andqueers and niggers and spies and junkies
and whores and bastards. And we let themshit all over us. We let them kill us, too.
We're very generous,
If we don't let them kill us with mv,
they kill us with gay-bashing. Or taking
away our insurance. (Vito didn't have any
insurance, He had to declare bankruptcy so
he could qualify for Medicaid and Medicare.
He had to scrounge around for decent care,and he was not allowed to earn any
money). Or not writing about us in thenewspapers. Or portraying us as freaks onmovies and lV. They throw a million turds
at us,
There's going to be a benefit screening of a movie called Silence of the Lambs.
The villain is a gay man who mass-murders
people. AmFAR is holding the benefit.
Thanks a lot, Mathilde Krim. Thanks a lot,
Arthur Krim, for financing the film. Thanksa lot, Jodie Foster, for starring in it. Vito
really would have screarned about that one.
Who says we're not killing each other?". You want to stay a little longer? Thenyou better plug into the activist community•
somewhere. And work your butt off, And
don't complain about how you can't standthe process, or the meetings are so boring
you want to puke. You've got brains andabilities. You've got something to contribute.
Make it better!
Because the few of us still fighting are
tired as hell and dying faster than we'rebeing replaced. Vito is dead, You can't
replace Vito, And we killed him. We all
killed him, We didn't fight hard enough tosave him. Even those of us who are fighting
are not fighting hard enough. And everyone
here knows it. You all know it!
Did you love him? You're here
because you said you loved him, Howmuch did you love him?
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I think most of us are full of pious shit
We come to seIVices like these and most of
us didn't do one goddamned thing to help
save the loved one we came to mourn.
-If Vito meant anything to you, go out
and emulate him. Do what he did, Get
your hands dirty. Fight in his memory. If
you don't know what I'm talking about,learn. Then you can say to Vito: So long,
Vito. This one's for you. T
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by Cliff O'Neilly mother. ..

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knows she means
well. It's just that
she really doesn't
get it.
The phone
rang
early
on
Tuesday morning.
It was Mom, As
usual, she didn't remember that Puerto
Rico is one time zone ahead.
The news that had her all excited?
My cousin Lourdes is going to be married, And my cousin Rosalie had just hada baby,A hint, perhaps?
Now, Mom knows. We even talkabout it. It's just that lately, since Dad's
open-heart surgery, the signs of our collective mortality have caused her to havea bit of, well, a relapse,

She's doing the "marriage/baby"
guilt thing again,
Damn, I had thought that she waspast all that.
It seems that all the O'Neill kids andgrandkids will be in Puerto Rico for Lourdes' impending nuptials. With her wedding, she will be the last of the O'Neillclan to tie the knot (in' a heterosexual
sense, anyway). And Mom is insistingthat I go to Puerto Rico for the gala celebration-illl O'Neill family reunion,
Think of it. For three glorious, sunfilled days, I could have the singularpleasure of being reminded that now I
am the last one left.
What joy,
I learned to say no to Mom shortly
after she introduced me to creamed
spinach, so I was quite clear with herthat I was not keen on the idea.
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Being an only child is a real pain in
the neck. Being a queer one is an achejust a bit lower,
I told her that I'd think about it.
For the next half-hour, I lay on mywater bed and contemplated the shadows on the ceiling.
Normally, I would do the passiveaggressive thing that I learned so well inadolescence.
I would ignore herrequests and put up with the guiltinducing long-distance telephone callfrom the reception:
Mom: "Your uncle Tony's doing thesamba with the mother of the groom,dear. Lourdes looks so lovely in her
wedding dress. You should see Tony Jr.
and darice's kids-they're so precious,
I hear that Tony Jr.'s going to haveanother one."
diff: (Big sigh.) "Gosh, Mom. I feelso left out."'
Mom even gave me a preview ofthat call when she told me how they
took a picture of "the whole family" over
the weekend, and I was noticeably "theonly one missing," She was reduced togiving them an old picture of me to graft
into the group shot.
"You have to go," she insisted,"They all really want to see you." Afterall, she added, it's family,p
I mused on what "family" meant as
I tried to make out the abstract shapes of
sheep on the ceiling.
And I came up with something I
can tell Mom when she brings this up
again-illld she will,First off, I can ask her what she. means by "They all really want to seeyou."
Who is this "you" they all want tosee? Is it diff O'Neill, twentysomething
Washington reporter for some 20 gay
and lesbian newspapers around the•country, or is it who they tmagine their
14-year-old relative turned out to be?
Next, I can ask, if were I to be wed
in, say, a holy union ceremony, to, say,another man, would ~ey all flock to
Washington, DC, for the festivities?
To be fair, I must say that it's myfather's side of the family to which I am
closest. At least one cousin from thepaternal line will likely be reading thismagazine and, I would guess that myuncle, aunt and my remaining four
cousins-unless they've had major brain
surgery-have most probably figured outthat diffie's a homo,
But there's Grandma, a 91-year-old,extremely moralistic and overtly Roman
Catholic woman whom I love dearly
but who, I'm sure, has not the tools todeal with what I would have to tell her.
I'm sure that my being gay has crossed
her mind (she nervously asks if I have agirlfriend every time we talk, and I
always say no), but to have me confinn
her fears would likely end our alreadyestranged relationship,
And that doesn't even begin toaddress
the issue of the 20-odd
cousins, uncles and aunts from mymother's side of the family tree withwhom I would have to contend were I
to return to Borinquen.
The last time I went home, five
years ago, it took a total of 32,7 seconds(l timed it) from the moment I left baggage claim to the moment when myuncle Luis asked if I was getting manied.
So I came to this conclusion: As
honesty is one of those moral imperatives that was instilled in me by my parents,.whom I love, I decided to tell Mom
that, since having to lie about my life has
led <tothe biggest traumas in it, I am notwilling to do it again for her, or anyone
else's, peace of mind,
Simply put, if she is prepared for me
to be completely honest when all of ourrelatives ask me why I haven't met "somenice girl" and gotten manied, Iwill gladly
go, If she isn't, it likely isn't me they want
to see,In that case, that 12-year-old class 'picture will do nicely. That's who they'r,e.,
expecting anyway.
Who knows? I might get to see Rosalie's baby anyway, T
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esbian Criminal
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Marcy L Kahn hasreceived a favorable recommendation from the gov- Ii
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panel, according toLCourtI' ,~_

a source close to
the panel. The gov~
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among the othernames approved for the governor are
judges Lew Friedman, Harold Tompkins,
Phyllis Gangel-Jacobs and William Wallace. There are currently no open
Supreme Court lesbians in New Yorkstate. Will Marcy Kahn be the first? It's up
to the governor,• On Monday, Jan, 28, Fred Dicker
reported in the New Yom Post that Gov.
Mario Cuomo will merge the Advisory
Committee on Black Affairs, the Office of
Hispanic Affairs, the Woman's Division,
the Advocate for the Disabled and the
Office of Volunteer Services into a single
unit at the Division of Human Rights.
1bis would all be done in the interests ofsaving moiley and balancing the budget
You'll notice that the Office of Lesbianand Gay Concerns is not on that list. Is
that because we are being spared? Abs0lutely not It is because we never made itout of the Division of Human Rights inthe first place, We are already at the,place these other groups' might bedemoted to, You see, up until now, allthese other groups have had offices
located on the same floor of the World
Trade Center as the governor and his top
cabinet members,
giving them theappearance (and the reality) of accessand clout But if what Dicker says does
happe~, they'll lose that direct access and•be sent to where the Office of Lesbianand Gay Concerns
has been all
aIong-an office building on West 125thStreet, a long way from Cuomo and the
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World Trade Center.
The Lesbians and Gays for Cuomo
literature for campaign '90 boasted, "The
Office of Lesbian and Gay Concerns of
the Division of Human Rights, created by
Gov, Cuomo, is the first and only fully
funded state government office in "'thenation which works exclusively on theconcerns of the lesbian and gay community," It could just as easily have boasted
that it is the only New York state constituent office not located in the samebuilding as the governor's office, is quite
out of sight and out of mind and has a

It seems thatTom Duane is preparing
for another City Council
race by geUing into
fighting shape and••pumpznglron.

small staff and few dollars, While you
will see a lot of political heat generated(as well there should be) if these otheroffices are consolidated, remember thatthe only reason the Office of Gay andLesbian Concerns is not being demoted
is because it never had equal status in
the first place,• The August .1990 StonewaU News,the newsletter of Manhattan's conservative gay democratic club, says, "Throughout the years, Mario Cuomo has, been agood friend to our community, and his
liaisons ...have done terrific wOlk in representing our concerns and agenda to thegovernor and the members of his administration." Correct. The club's concerns

and agenda have been addressed, but
the concerns and agendas of progressive
organizations, such as Gay and Lesbi:;mIndependent Democrats, lambda Independent Democrats, ACT UP, Queer
Nation and a host of others, have not
This-in spite of the fact that all three of
his liaisons have hailed from Lambda
Independent Democrats of Brooklyn.
• The struggle to ensure a gay aty
Council district was lost the day the Distrieting Commission was constituted. Not,
one openly gay man or lesbian was chosen for a seat on the Commission, so no
one on the Commission is putting ourinterests first; if anyone is considering
them at all. We can still hope for the best,say, a West Village--Chelsea or ChelseaClinton district, There is a good chance,
however, that there won't be a single district we can point to as heavily gay.
Much will be decided by aty Council Speaker Peter Vallone, who is now
setting up a "Committee on Reapportionment Oversight." This Council, committee
will receive funds for staff, an "office andcomputers. It will definitely be made up
mainly of council members who are subservient to Vallone.
Some people don't understand why
the Committee on Reapportionment
Oversight is necessary, It seems to be justanother power play by Vallone to rulethe decisions of the Distrieting Commission. Vallone already is responsible forthe appointment of eight of the 15 com- .
missioners, and if they are doing theirjobs properly, this Council's oversightcommittee is redundant and a waste ofour tax dollars. If the members of theDistricting Commission are not doing
their jobs properly, they should be
replaced, Perhaps we need a new citizen's committee to oversee the activitiesof the newly empowered City Council .
•- It seems that Tom Duane ispreparing for another City Council race,by getting into fighting shape and pumping iron, Duane has joined the Chelsea
Gym and is working out with Michael
Cohen. Look for a trimmer, leaner Duanein future appearances. Wm the vapid
Council member Carol Greitzer follow
suit?, People at gyms throughout the district tremble at the prospect.
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director. The event is scheduled for Feb,
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It's a $50 donation, Call (212) 966-1700,
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to challenge Sen.
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STUART (STUBSY)FORSTERThe AIOS community lost a valued
friend when Stuart ("Stubsy") Forster, 44,
died of a heart attack on Jan. 11, 1991.
Long before the AI OS crisis, Stubsy
stood out as a highly competent andprofoundly caring professional whose
unabashed heterosexuality never prevented
him from keeping up-to-date both on gay andlesbian health issues and on dishy gossip. At
the very beginning of the plague, Stubsy tooka stand on the moral high-ground. From thestart, he rejected any notion that a health professional should avoid patients with AIOS. He
provided care to middle-class gay men, topoor IV-drug users and to anyone else who
needed it. He provided the best care possible everi when that put him in conflict withthe medical establishment. With HIV-infected'patients and with others in his broad practice,
Stubsy's personal caring went beyond that of"bedside manner," Each patient was an indi~vidual treated with respect and affection.
For the three years my late lover lived
with HIV disease, I saw how Stubsy constan~y threw himself into the battle. Hefought
unstintingly for his patients' lives, for theirrights and for their dignity, I also saw how he
exemplified a professionalism free of homophobia. Stubsy needed no domestic partner
legislation to bring me into the hospital andinto the decision-making process.
Stubsy was not immune to fear: Hefeared the occasional needle-prick. He feared
emergencies that took time away from his
beloved family. Hefeared the incessant deathsof patients for whom he cared deeply, But heworked on despite his fears. He was one ofour bravest friends.
Stubsy is survived by his wife, Carole

Rothman; his son, Charles; his daughter,
Molly; his parents, Amold and Mae Forster;and his sister, Janice Berman. Contributions
in his memory may be made to the Second
StageTheatre.

-Hayyim Obadyah

NATHANIEL H. PIER
A memorial service forphysician and AIOS activist
Nathaniel H, Pier (May 25,
1952-0ec, 27, 1989) will be heldon Sunday, Feb. 17, 1991, at 2
pm at Ceremonial Hall, New York
Society for Ethical Culture, 2 W.
64th St. at Central Park West in
New York City.
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from gay men and lesbians encountering difficulties placing
personal ads in New York magazine, We can only conclude
that New York wants to tell gay people how they can-andcannot-describe
themselves.
Most recently, GLAAD received a complaint from a lesbian that the New York advertising staff wanted to edit her
personal ad beyond recognition. For example, the magazine
would not accept her use of the word "butch," though it
would tolerate'"masculine-oriented"
as a replacement. The
word "butch" connotes a range of personality and physicaltraits-aggressive
and competent, for example, It does notnecessarily connote "male,"In their defense, New YorKs advertising reps cite guidelines that prohibit the' use of certain words, But the magazine
canoot, or will not, prod.uce written copies of these guidelines,
We believe that no written policy exists. Further, it is our contention that the arbitrary way in which certain words are

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deemed objectionable reflects heterosexist bias.
Write to New York, and let them know that you are disturbed by the arbitrary and capricious treatment lesbian andgay personal ads are receiving from the magazine's staff.
Demand a written copy of their advertising guidelines. Tellthem that you reserve the right to describe yourself any way
you want. Write to: Mr, Edward Kosner, Editor and Publisher,
New York Magazine, 755 Second Ave" New York, NY 10017;
or call him at (212) 880-0700.
If you or anyone you know has experienced difficulty
placing a personal ad with New York magazine, please contact GLMD at (212) 966-1700.

GLMD ndings is a program of the Gayand Lesbian,Alliance
Against Defamation. For more information about the material
in this week's column, or about GLMD, call (212) 966-1700.

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worked nearly solo until last year, learnedof the agreement, he walked out of theopen house in a fury and fired all board
members, Parker resumed distributing
needles, and on Sunday, Ellis-Hagler andthe Coalition, along with the Mission Hill
Neighborhood Association, began daily
demonstrations outside the storefront 'The 'physical disagreement
alsocame on Sunday, According to two
members of ACT UP who witnessed..'
the fight, Parker allegedly bit EllisHagler'S nose after screaming into his
face f(om just inches away that EllisHagler "caused AIDS" after police
impounded
the Brigade's 4-year-old
unregistered, uninsured needle-distribution van at ElliS-Hagler's urgings,, "Totally out of control" was how
one witness described Parker,Parker
denies that he bit the reverefld:, claiming instead that the, reverend knocked·Parker unconscious,
a claim Parker
brought three days later to ACT UP' ~nseeking an ACT UP/Boston endorsement of Parker against the reverend,
ACT UP member and witness Neil
Cronlin recalled the events: "The minister pulled back, holding his nose,
Several seconds went by, and then Jon
threw himself on the ground. There
was certainly no relationship between
Jon's being on the ground, and [thereverend's
actiori]. Too much time
elapsed," ACT UP, which has supported theAlDS Brigade with $100-permonthcontributions,
would
not
choose sides in the debate, urging
Parker not to destroy coalitions they
had built with the community groups.
',' By midweek,demonstrations.reached 300 strong, according to Sullivan, but Parker maintained that "thewhole philosophy of the group" wasthreatened by halting needle distribution .
in the face of community opposition.
"A lot of us spoke up saying, 'It is
quickly becoming 'a racial issue,' " onemember said, And Murphy added, "If
Jon-especially Joo-<ontinued with his
confrontational tactics, we would nev:er
be able to operate in Mission Hill again."
Racial tensions have flared'in Mission Hill before, setting a disquieting
backdrop
for the current dispute.
When Carol Stuart, who was white,
was murdered there last year, her husband blamed neighborhood
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In the meantime, demonstrators
outside chanted,"Needles equals
death," while Parker stated: "If we go
down, we're going to go down fighting" ,;We, save more lives with hopethan with the actual work of neecan't deflate that hope [bydies.
giving up];"
Other Brigade members attended
city-sponsored negotiations (to which
Parker had not been invited) where thereverend,
Coalition, neighborhoodgroups and even openly Bay City Coun- .
cillor David Scondras pressured theBrigade to move out entirely as an act ofgood faith, And the mayor's office andpolice department tried to force eviction
through aimina1 and civil statutes for theillegal distribution Parker had conducted,, On Feb, 1, the board of theBrigade voted Parker off and changed
the locks on the office door, "We felt
we had to assert control" as a democratic body, Murphy explains, When
Parker broke through, Murphy andnewly elected President Jeanie Glavin
had Parker arrested for trespassing,and police added a second charge
when they found needles on Parker: ,Now, after two weeks, "thing; are atan uneasy peace," says Sullivan; The
demonstmtions have stopped, The mayor's
office has ceased seeking an eviction,
mainly because there are no longer needles in the office, The new board is registered with the secretary of state, And Parker
is seeking a court order to be reinstated, He
charges that there was no quorum at theJan. 16 meeting at which the new board
members were elected (members who
only two weeks later evicted him). Mwphy
claims that quorum had been reached andthat he has the µlperwork to prove it
A standoff continues between community leaders and the AIDS Brigade,
Reverend Ellis-Hagler and others are
steadfast in their demand that theBrigade "shut down, then sit down," but·
the new board of the Brigade shows nosign of leaving .. "Our fear is that if wemove out, shut down, we will never beable to return, This is a request to go
away, to disappear," W!Il Murphy said.
'And, amidst it all, Boston newspaper
editorials and city officials are calling forthe legalization of needle exchange, T

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FAT.E & DIANE MELEDIANE: I have a big dick, and so does Alistair. And lNe bothconsider ourselves faggots.
ALISTAIR: It's true. We've had long conversations about that .

•,ASSOTO SAINT& dAAN URBAN•ASSOTO: Sex is sex; love is ,love.
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GREGG: He said, "These
are a dozen pink roses fit
for a queen." And I
thought, Yes, this is it,
this is right.
TOM: Both of our rents
caine up due on .Jan. 1,
and we thought, Maybe
this is a sign froln thegods that we should
Inove in together ••.JULIE TOLENTINO WOOD
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MICHAEL: The gymnast lNas a pig, but it lNas fun. It lNas really fun. That lNas
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BROWN, dEWELLEGOMEZ, ,SANDRALARA'..IEWELLE:We all met
in Central Park at a
picnic about 14 years
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SANDRA: These areboth major milestones
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hold hands In the middleof the dayUght in front,iof 25 homophobi~menon 14th Street. But
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suppose you could say
he has flallVless instinct.
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must be lovers because lNe'reso close and lNe live together.
They can't fathom that there
are other things
like, lNe haveother kinds of loving needs.
DAN: We both share a passion
for ..JoanCralNford
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WITH OZZZY, NOODLE
AND SALLY
STEPHEN: Everybody lNas as
bereaved as I lNas the moment
mylover, Danny, died. Even the.,three cats. But they gave me
this passionate
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istory books can be big, dry things ftlled with thewords and deeds of the politically and fmancia1ly
powerful. But herstory is juicy, flexible and various. As deftned by author Joan Nestle, motherspirit of the Lesbian Herstory Archives, it can show
us "who really is at the heart of history. "On Feb, 28 (6 pm-8 pm), the Archives willhold an opening-night reception to celebrate its
new exhibit, Keepin' On, devoted to images andother memorabilia representing
the lives ofAfrican-American lesbians, Co-sponsored by the
Lesbian and Gay Community Services Center and$e National Museum of Lesbian and Gay History,
the show will be -mounted in one of the meetjng
rooms of the Conuµunity Center and open from 4
pm to 6 pm every day through April 11.
Keepin' On takes the fonn of panels of bold, vivid color
xeroxes of the original materials (some from the Archives holdings, others recently donated for this exhibit) including photographs, fliers from the events of various organizations, tIckets,letters, covers of books and other publications, clippings and thelike. Produced by photographer-curator
Morgan Gwenwald,these lightweight panels travel well, and the Archives hopes to .
ap-ange several shows nationwide, One may be planned for the
Atlanta Conference ang another mounted at Queens College,
where Nestle teaches.
,
Georgia Brooks, an activist from the Hudson County Rainbow Coalition and one of the exhibit's curators, notes the importance of variety in the images, "Although we show what AfricanAmerican lesbians may have in common, she says, "we all do not
do the same things or think the same way." Indeed, the selections
I was shown in mid-January (as more donations of materials werebeing sought and fmaI choices still pending) represented women
who lived their lives and styled themselves in very different ways,
who were celebrated ftgures in mainstream society or, mainly or
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picket in the mid '60s.

exclusively, community heroines. And there are everyday dykes
doing everyday things, In addition to the very butch, the very
femme and the very casually self-created, there are artists suchas Lorraine Hansbeny, the lesser-known, and intriguing writer
Hazel Crawley and entertainer Moms Mabley.
Keepin' On is partially about 'reclaiming more of our spirituperhaps ~ing parts of ourselves shining back at
al ancestors,,,,
us. The mission of the Archives, Nestle added, is to document• that "there has always been more to our lives than oppression,"..."Mabel Hampton is, of course, an icon figure," says Nestleof het friend who helped found the archivesx, "She played all
the ~ially expected roles: domestic worker, custodian, entertainer. Yet she never let a racist, homophobic society empty herlife"of meaning, Before there was a 'lesbian community,' there
was Mabel. The Archives has pushed the curtains of history
apart arid said, 'This woman must be remembered,'"Gwenwald says that Keepin' On will also include "foundimages" from the past-unidentified
items that suggest that
great dyke tales could be woven around them.
Whatever images are fmally selected, the show is bound to
be a beauty, Gwenwald's reproductions are fun, inclusive andwann. They will stir memories, start discussions and move allkinds of women to feel good about themselves--and maybe•
even begin to pick through their own .old boxes and mes m
search of lesbian memorabilia.
'''Yes, we're always accepting donations," Gwenwald says,
Nestle agrees: 'We don't throw anything away, TheSe items represent whole lives of women,"
To fmd out how you can subffiit materials for Keepin' On(or for the Archives' general collection), contact Morgan Gwen-.
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even most times thinkthat certain others of us
are equally deranged,)That's OK, It's thenature of the activism business.
But just think about it: Not longafter Larry erupts with something hurtful and seemingly fabricated, not longafter he blurts out some outlandish,freakish, appalling comment, not longafter he appears to have flipped' hisqueer, little lid before your eyes, youcome to realize tbat just about every-tbinghe says is true.
I love that man.
At Vito Russo's memorial service
last Decembel', Larry gave yet anotherpassionate speech [reprinted in thisissue of OUtWeek on page 261that left
me in tears while it sent many wellknown queer media types angrily huffing out of the auditorium, mumbling
something about "how dare" Larry"blame" them for "killing" Vito.
(Guilty? POSSibly,Lazy? Probably, Literal-minded? Definitely.) ,There was one thing about the
speech, however, that bothered me at
the time: Larry attacked Jodie Fosterand her new movie, The Silence of tbe
Lambs, branding the film "homophobic," He claimed that the serial killer inthe film-who'
preys on young
women-isa gay man, But it justdidn't sound lil<;eLarry had his facts
right-andhe hadn't seen the movie
himself, However, that very vicious
attack, made at a highly visible queer
event, was enough to scare the shitout of AmFAR, which was planning abenefit around a star-studded screening of the film. They pulled out assoon as they smelled controversy'and yet no one involved had actuallyviewedthe thriller flick.
,I'd previously heard about theThomas Harris novel of the same
name on which the film is based. The
killer was a transsexual who was notgay, according to those who'd read it.
, And as reported by some who'd been
to early screenings of Lambs in thefall, the movie apparently had
the same storyline. Then, lastmonth, in an interview with
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director Jonathan Demme in Interoiew,
Voice columnist Gary Indiana, reaffirms that the killer "makes himself
up in drag but is identified in various
ways as someone who's not gay, not a.
real transsexual, not representative of aminority group." Demme responds toany charges of homophobia by defensively laying the blame on "the presidency of this country," "our school system" and "a gigantic toxic problem."But he does say that "if Silence of tbe
Lambs is found eventually, throughdebate on the subject-to be guilty tosome extent, however unwittingly, of-JODIE FOSTER,
TIME'S UP!
functioning as a tool of homophobia
then I will learn a lot from it."All of this made it appear as if thefilm would not be so offensive.
Demme seemed reasonable and Sensitive. And once again, Larry seemedwacked out.
"Was Kramer acting as a censor,
rabble-rousing about a vitally important issue but which has nothing to dowith the film at hand? Is he a gay version of those pitiful nuns and religious
zealots who stood outside cinemas
twaddling on about Martin Scorcese's
Tbe Last Temptation of Christ or JeanLuc Goddard's Hail Mary? I'm afraidso." So wrote the proud, openly gay
and usually on-target Paper columnist,
Joe Dolce,
Obviously,
I had to. see thismovie, so I caught a sneak preview
last week. It's thrilling, It's frightening,It's mesmerizing,
BUT-PROVINGTHAT WACKED-Our LARRYIS ONCEAGAIN ON THE MONEY-IT'S BLA-TANTLY HOMOPHOBIC.
(And, sorry Joe, but you're
way off-base about the"censor" analogy-though
I know it's hard to resist
those reactionary buzzwords. Larry is not asking
for any legal sanctions
banning the film, He's simply exercising bis freedom of speech, by screaming about it. Get a grip.)I'm really tired of people who, justbecause they like the stars or the story
line or the author or the director of afilm, either consciously or unconsciously whitewash it of its offenses,
thus rationalizing anti-gay depictions.
Dolce, like Indiana, claims that thekiller is straight. Interestingly, both ofthese writers also read the book,where the killer's heterosexuality is
supposedly explicit.
But-as someone who only saw,
the movie, with its flashing, quick
images and its ,lightning-fast script-I
can tell you that this character is definitely not depicted in any way as heterosexual. In fact, in one scene, we'retold that he once had a lover, and that
person's name is a male one. The lasttime I checked, that meant GAY. (Andthe LA Times last week confinned this:"A reference is made to [the psychopath) having killed a male lover.")Throughout the film, the killer is in
drag and is playing up every. known
gay stereotype. TO THE AVERAGE,
IGNORANT, AMERICAN MOVIEGOER-AND TInS IS A BIG-BUDGETHOLLYWOOD FILM INTENDED FOR
THE MASSES-THE
MESSAGE IS
CRYSTAL-CLEAR:THE KILLER IS A
FUCKINGQUEER!
And yet Dolce sadly tries to convince himself that it just ain't so:"Though one could infer homosexu'ality (statistically, most cross-dressers are,in fact, heterosexual), it's hardly the
point, and it's the most simplistic read- .
ing of the character," Oh, really? Yeah,
Joe, let's talk about "simplistic read.ings," FiISt off, most film-goeIS know
nothing of the statistics on crossdresse~
man dressing as a woman
is simply a "faggot." Secondly, it reallydoesn't matter whether this character isgay or straight anyway, I MEAN,
DOESN'T lHE QUEER MOSAIC
lNaUDE TRANSSEXUALSAND
TRANSVESTITES-WHETHER

ie I IIII 0 iOIOrill'mEY'RE STRAIGlIT, GAY, BISEXUAL
OR WHATEVER?SHOULD WE NOT BE
STANDING UP FOR CROSS-DRESSERS
AND DRAG QUEENS? AND DON'T
MOST PEOPLE IN THIS COUNTRYLUMP US ALL TOGETHER ANYWAY?
On the same night that I saw thefilm, in one of those chilling and nervous late-night incidents that we allknow so well, a friend and I were
physicallythreatened
and called"homos" by three young men as we
playfully walked the streets of the East
'Village--and I can assure you that wewere not dressed as women, No
doubt,
those men would watch
Silence of the Lambs and certainly callthat killer the same thing: a "homo."
They simply don't see a difference,
AND THEY WOULD CHEER WHEN
JODIE
FOSTERSHOOTSTHE"HOMO" DEAD-BECAUSE HE'S A .
DANGEROUS FREAK WHO KILLSWOMEN AND WHO MUST BE EUMINATED, And then-who
knows?-thenext time they see me and my friendon the street, the next ·time they see a
couple of "homos," they might justfeel more validated and more empowered to BASH OUR FUCKING FACES
IN! You see, they have no other examples of gays to compare this to, Where
are all of the films from Hollywood
showing positive images of gays tobalance out this kind of stuff? I DON'T
SAY 'I1iAT WE MUST SANITIZE ALL
DEPICTIONS OF QUEERS OR ANY
OTIfER GROUP, Bur UNTIL HOLLYWOOD-PEOPLE
LIKE JONATHAN
DEMME AND JODIE ROSTER-FAIRLYSERVES UP THE EN11RE SPECTRUM
OF EVERY COMMUNITY, IT IS NECESSARY TO SCREAM LIKE THIS AT'ffiESE DEPICTIONS!
Every single day in this nation,
women are being raped and tortured
arid murdered by STRAIGHf, MACHO .
MEN. And 99.9 percent of serial killers
who kill women are STRAIGHT,
MACHO MEN. When was the last time
you 'can even remember
a dragqueen/transvestite/cross-dresser/transsexual serial killer? (Truthfully, it is thetransvestite and transsexual communities, as well as the lesbian and gay
communities,
who are also daily
under physical attack by straight men).
But in our homophobic society, it certainly seems that it must be a common___

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veryoneopening letter, comparing those fightingwith AIDS deserves a big

E story in People. But with only 52 AIDS to more popular soldiers in theGulf, saying, "We at People think thatsuch bravery, on battlefields of all kinds,
should be celebrated," The sentiment isalmost right, but Larry Kramer wasn't
given a cover.
It seems that the only PWAs w0rth
canonizing are "manly" movie stars andwhite women. (For those of you who arestill confused, ,Glaser was the dark one.)
The holy canon emerged from thecloset when the Times outed St. paullast week, Bishop Jolm Spong, an Episcopalian who recently ordained a sexually active gay man, has written that oursensitive St. Paul was a "self-loathing andrepressed gay male." The TImes found it
fit to print. If you doubt Spong, stop by achurch to look at these Uncle Charlie'shappy-hour eyes, preserved forever instained glass,.. •..
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Putting aside religious conundrums,
my big question is thestatute of limitations
on a closet.
Two-thousandyear-old saints arefair game, but the
TImes won't discuss
Malcolm
Forbes'penchant for blondboys or his role in
the outing controversy his proclivities
spawned.
But forsome reason,
when,
Leonard Bernstein
died, the TImes mentioned an unauthorizedbiography
which included his
affairs with men.
Of course, theTImes plays the fool. cEveryoneknows ~
about Malcolm, and g
the Times has to i5
keep dancing around .~it-alone.
Decades9
ago, when Somerset =issues per year, and perhaps two AIDS
covers, they become symbolic. But thesymbolism must be questioned when
what appears is yet another heart-rending
story of white women and children who
got AIDSwithout any messy sex or drugs,
Obviously,
you can't knock a fam,
ily's courage in facing AIDS, especiallywhen that family belongs to ex.-Starsky
and Hutcb star Paul Michael Glaser.
But People consistently ignores gay people or hides them in the back of theissue-withthe exception of RockHudson many years ago, Last June, their
AIDS cover girl was Allison Gertz.
The publisher speaks to us in her

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M;lUgham died, a Times article questioned his sexuality the very next day.
And I might add, it had never evenappeared in a book,• Without raising Forbes to sainthood,
I ask, "Why wait thousands of years to
discuss the sexuality of the man responsible for Egg?" To those who answer,"But it doesn't matter who you have sex
with," I can only say, when our choiceof sex pa'rtners doesn't inspire in our
haters gay-bashing, discrimination andinvisibility, it won't matter.
And outing-type techniques are
spreading, Chris Edley, who left his
post as head of the United Negro
College Fund, recently spoke of successful African Americans who won't
contribute to the fund: "If. I had myway, I'd ask them for money and publish in the paper the next day whether
or not they gave."
The fabulous Washington Post
style section did a major cover featureon the male couple who are doing legal
battle for the right to be married in our
nation's capital, And why shouldn't they?
Whatever your feeling about heterosex-,
ual conventions, you should be able tochoose not to play with them, As
reported in OutWeek and in the Post,
the nuptial battle has irked gay politicalgroups who don't think DC is the place
to test the marriage laws. They say thatpag_

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the case may, in fact, hurt other test
cases around the country.
'
But love makes us do some pretty
apolitical things-things like forget to getmarried. The fact that now only one outof four households in America is "traditional" should make politicians sit up andtake notice. That's "should," not "will."
Without specifying lesbian and gay
cohabitation, a RAND corporation sociologist told the Times, "You could say that
all the increase in households has takenplace outside of traditional families."
On a discriminating note, it seems
that the Times can print "RAND" in all
capital letters, something they refuse to
do with "ACf UP."If I used capital letters in my column, I would have saved them for Bay
Windows, "New England's Largest Qay
and Lesbian Newspaper." Luckily, I'm
not a size queen, This is one twisted
paper. In their editorial (and biased coverage to match) about the police raid
on a private j-o club, the paper begs
readers to "resist the urge to invest ourcommunity resources in defending sucha dubious venture." To activist allega_tions of homophobia, they say, "There's
simply no proof that it was the result ofanything more sinister than archaic vicelaws, irritated neighbors and ignorantclub owners."
Arguing that homophobia was not a
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Even if everyone knows it, why not flaunt it? This magazine could have self-identified better in a half-page article
on bisexual phone lines two weeks ago. They didn't mention
that both lines mentioned are owned by OutWeek's publishers ...Peter Jennings'
the Health

AIDS Quarterly has been renamed

Quarterly.

Does one have to preclude theother? ... G·a has bearded itself further with its first-everfemale cover girl. I guess that they are serious about sending the message to the estimated 40 percent of their reader.

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Facing a world at war and a lackof sleep from watching CNN correipondents develop bags under their ~ thesize of Samsonites, Liz and Sydney haveretreated into a private world where
Charles Jaco 1 takes on Oprah Winfrey-like qualities, and where newscasters are p.rone to assuming terrorist
attacks when one of them isn't where
they should be. Nonetheless, our bravedyke duo go on with the mundane rituals of life, if only to forget. And for the
first time in their lifetimes, they are now
confronted
with the paradoxof(nighVlife during wartime.

underground methadone clinic,
liz: It's one of the few parties where marshaltraining pays off, You can lead people to the available exits, as opposed to having them trap themselves agaiffit subway gates,
Sydney: Yeah, I would have liked to marshal
those kids waving the American flag and screaming "Fuck Iraq" right onto the third rail.
liz: Remember, the United States has gone to
war to protect a country which won't let women
drive, 'Sydney: I don't think that means a great deal
to those kids. They were more concerned withdancing on top of that car and making it to Limelight in time for the open bar,
liz: I iust don't understand these kids tcxlay.
LIZ: (Entering Big City Diner,2)Sydney: Maybe New York City can hire themfor their Tactical After-Hours Strike Force.
- It's the end of the world as we know (NIGHT)UFE DURING WARTIME ...
it...and I feel fme.
liz: I don't think these guys need any help,u.Maybe the US government will send them to the Gulf and then we::2..
SYDNEY: Yeah, well, this is the place to be if the world can all go out again .
doesend. They hid the dans:e floor in the basement. 11Iis club is theoS:
Sydney: I don't think I can take another night of hiding in our,Cclosest thing to a bomb shelter that the city has,stairwell waiting for the cops to leave Save the Robots,
Liz: I hope the Civil Defense is reading this.
liz: Robots is always a sure sign of desperation, We only meant
Sydney: Actually, it's not big enough to use. People would getto go there after they closed Sound FactOIy and the Warehouse withhurt just trying to find it. I wouldn't want to cause an ugly riot by
in ten seconds of each other.
yelling "Scud!" in a crowded club or anything.
Sydney: No one should have to hide in their own building, but
liz: Knowing some of these people, they'd be holding an openthat girl was driving me crazy.
bar on the roof so we could watch the Patriots intercept them.
liz: Someone should tell people it's not nice to stand outside, Sydney: Maybe someone can sample Martha Wash3 for aafter-hours clubs begging people who live next-door to use theirrecord for the occasion, "It's raining Scuds, Hallelujah ..."
bathroom, and then try and force your way into the building.
liz: I have only one request to make: Please don't let me die in
Sydney: Some people have no couth,a nightclub. My family would be so embarrassed.
liz:Couth?
Sydney: liz, why did you bring me here?
liz: I'm plenty couth. (She burps.) How about these American
Liz: For the free Burger Buddies, These Hollywood movie pe0Music Awards?
ple really know how to feed hungry, paranoid New Yorkers,
Sydney: I wanted Me Hammer to win Best New Country
Sydney: You said this was a party for a movieA You promised
Artist-Female.
we celebrities. I don'S see anybody famous.
liz: He won everything else, didn't he?
liz: That's because Glenn Close is too busy passing out food
Sydney: Yes, well, this is the "new world order."to socialize, What's John Malkovich doing here?
liz: Really?I didn't even notice, •Sydney: Did you actually see Glenn Close serving guests? Manners. Etiquette. Something you're not familiar
NOTES:
with.
1. OIN oorrespondent stationed in Saudi Arabia who
Liz: No, she was sitting behind some plastic
reports from the same palm tree every time and has a tenchains and a very overzealous security boy:dency to run off to bomb shelters in the middle of his"Please do not feed the celebrities."
reports,
Sydney: Pretty interesting, isn't it? They
2. FOlluerly the Malket Diner, now a restaurant! club
could only get the stars from the director's lastwith a deddedly ·uptown-gon~lumming" feel to it. On its
film to show up.
gay night, it's caned Big Sissy Diner.
'4
Liz: I think these parties are so.:.ditist. At •.
GIrls, Wdsh has been the
3. One half eX the ~least at the Outlaw Party,5 evetyone's equal.
voice behind such groups as Black Box, G+e Music Factory,
Sydney: well, they're all equally subject to •etc.
arrest. And no one needs a drink ticket. Just
4. The Grifters, starring Annette Benning, John
show up early and bring a glass.
Cusack and Angelica Huston.
liz: Talk about a mixed crowd. Even the
5. Parties held in marginal public spaces (e,g.,
subway workers were there,
underneath the Brooklyn Bridge). Most recently, one hapSydney: Yeah, and with everyone standing
pened in the subway station at 16th Street and 8tharound holding their cups out, it looked like an
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y upstairs neighbor Jeff, a wickedtease, pads about thebuilding in a T-shirt andcotton briefs, the fabricfaithfully outlining
hisboyish' pudendum In theworld . of underwear
advertising, however, suchreality gets an airbrushing,At age eight, withmy libido just percolating,
I'd pore over the Sears
catalogue
with glazedeyes, Alas, every- cookiecutter-perfectmodel inthe men's panty section
had barely a basket toconfirm his gender. A
measure of the puritanicaltone of underwear ads:
Not until the '80s did television allow the productto be shown on a person,
not merely in its pa<;kage, (Remember those campy Fruit-of-theLoom fellas?) It would be years before Calvin Klein would liberate the penis, via Bruce Weber's sensual tableaux.
For Hanes, white underwear still stands for purity, an image
carefully guarded at their Greensboro, NC, headquarters. Patrick
O'Sullivan is an account supervisor for the campaign featuring
jocks Joe Montana and Michael Jordan. He says: ''We emphasize
good taste in our ads, These people are not in.sexual situations, We do not use frontal shots."
Apparently, a bulging crotch on a gridiron star
clashes with company policy. The credo, hecontinues, is "wholesome, good, middle-of-theroad, all-American ethics," The athletes chosen
for the campaign have "great integrity, excellence in their field." Actually, he says, several
candidates were rejected for not exemplifying~,:that code of honor, Was our queer pal Greg
Louganis, a delicious figure in underwear or
swimsuit alike, one of those scuttled? Sullivan
will not answer,
Lon Murdick, a photographer for Hanes
trade ads, calls the process "a styling nightmare,If you're shooting a man's underwear ad, it
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v, "pair of panty hose beneath thebriefs keeps, the ad frombecoming an anatomy lesson.
Casting directors filter out themodel who may be too wellendowed for the Hanes ideal.
On the other hand, h~ adds, amodel shortchanged by naturesubmits to cotton padding fora more eVen bulge.
When a male lingerie adrequires an every-day Adonis,
what is the selection process?
Maria Demme is catalogue
coordinator for International,
Male, the titillating Californiacuddleboy quarterly and thecloset-case's delight, with a circulation of more than five million, "We look for good bodies
that sell the 'merch,'" she says,
The ideal underwear model forher catalogue, she adds, has
wideshoulders , andnohips-ilie perfect V-shaped torso. Has the incident arisen wherea model is physically ideal but so overly. endowed that theresulting photograph would saaifice decency? De~'hedges:"'There are different styles, but they fit most men proportionately.
We've never run into a problem."Recently, International Male has modified its bulging offerings. The company was bought out by a larger, more conservative catalogue-empire back East. Den1me saysthat the home office was aware of the publication's queer following but was more concernedwith a larger market share., "We toned down
our sex stuff 'cause the nature of the catalogue
has changed," she concludes, ''We just sell the
product right. "One of the longtime photographersforInternational Male and its sister catalogue,
Undergear, requested anonymity, He acknowledges the endless parade of male bodies before
his lens and confesses that their perfection
sometimes amazes him, Most men eschew
makeup it gives them an unnatural look, henotes. Photo retouching is rare, "These guys
have very- few flaws what you see is what
you get." Before an underwear
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Divas in Drag Dominate the Stage at the Met This Spring
by Dawn Fatali
In light of the unusually heavy
wave of female drag,' politely known
as "trouser roles," in the Metropolitan
Opera's current schedule, it seems likea good time to spotlight this muchignored phenomenon.
"Trouser roles" (in Italian travesti,in German bosenrollen) are a standard
feature of the operatic stage. These areusually supporting parts (occasionallyleads), in which a male character, anamorous adolescent or young man, is
portrayed by a female singer dressed
as a boy. Though ostensibly innocent,"trouser roles" are a source of endlessdelight for the gay and lesbian opera
audience, while straight audiences, areoften alarmed by the dangerous juxtapositions ("Couldn't they get a tenor?")that result.
"Trouser'roles" originated in the
Italian baroque repertoire, but it took
the Germans to turn hosenrollen into
a fetish, In German opera, such characters invariably have a love affair or
two and may be expected to kiss atleast one soprano (or do what inopera passes for kissing, usually afurtive cheek-rubbing that looks quite
convincing from a distance), Theaudience is well aware that both ofthese singers are "really" women, andan air of discomfort c,an frequently besensed in the modern opera housewhen such ambiguous moments crop
up. After all, the modern .audience expects
certain specific thingsfrom a cultural event,particularly an eventwith the gravity of
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opera: They expect to be enlightened,,educated, edified and, possibly, bored,
But they do not expect to see two 'women kiss onstage, ,One wonders if Mozart's audience
was equally uncomfortable with such,gender ambiguity, Would Mozart haveintentionally subjected the sensibilities
of his patrons to such assault? I suspectthat the dubious undertone was deliberate, Mozart's audience knew' boys
from girls just as we do, and while the"will-they-or-won't-they" juxtaposition
was risque, it didn't then have thepotential of undermining an entire
social structure. It was simply part of
the fun of theater, which at that time
didn't carry the burden of naturalismthat ours does today, In fact, the rococo aesthetic sought to veer as far fromnature as possible.
Gender-bending of one sort oranother has been a part of operafrom the earliest days, when women
were prohibited from the stage andcastrati (castrated men who retained
their childhood soprano voices all
their lives) sang all the women'sroles. /By Handel's time, the situation
was somewhat altered: Women sang
women's roles, and castrati, whowere wildly popular, dominated themale hero I parts (Mozart wrote for all
available options, including one"
opera where a male tenor, a castrato
soprano and a female soprano sang
the three male leads).
Castrati went out
of fashion in the early
1800s, and so did therage for• "trouser'roles," victims of post,'\

revolutionary humorlessness. Arts andfashionabandoned artifice for austere,"aeoclassical" garb, and, theatrical sex
roles began to settle into the stereotypes we are familiar with today, Victorian rigidity only codified this further-:-Verdi uses the occasional
travesti pageboy (even Wagner has
one or two), but the dubious lovescenes are gone.
All things being cyclical, it was only
a matter of time before a nostalgia forthe luxurious playfulness of the 18th
century seeped bac}<into European culture. When, in turn-of-the-century Vienna, the radical Richard Strauss revived
opulent rococo settings for his operas
Der Rosenkavalier and, Ariadne auf
Naxos, he also !lPpropriated Mozart's
convention of divas in drag for his
young heroes (Octavian in RosenkavaIter and the composer in Ariadne)albeit self-consciously, and with a new,faintly freudian undertone, Strauss
defended his innovation as a purely
musical decision. Remember: This isright around the time that Sarah Bernhardt was packing 'em in as Hamlet.
Der Rosenkavalter actually openswith a bed scen~: After a suitably
suggestive
overture,
the curtain
comes up on a soprano and a mezzosoprano lying in each other's arms,
singing, in effect, "Wow, that was
great!" Naturally, different directors
stage this in different ways; in the
nervous '30s and '40s, Octavian tended to be out of bed before the curtain
came up, and sometimes he wasalready dressed. These days, directors
tend to go for, shall we say, maximum realism,

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offerings, in .
"trousers," Johann Strauss' (no relation) popular comic operetta, Dte
FJedermaus, features a pivotal "trouser role," the post-pubescent Prince
Orlovsky, whose palace motto :'To
each his own" is strictly enforced. In
the last century, uncomfortable directors have felt free, for some reason,
to subject poor OrIovsky to a varietyof alterations. I have seen "Princess"Orlovskys and bass-baritone
Orlovskys; a current opera video features a skinhead Orlovsky a la
Sinead O'Connor, Why this seemingly innocuous role should provoke somuch revision is a mystery, Mercifully, the Met's current Fledermaus preserves the original mezzo-sopranocasting: This season, Prince OrIc}Vsky
is played by Helga Dernesch, a seasoned veteran for whom the .regal
air comes naturally. The opera isperformed here with English dialogue (so we'll all get the jokes) andlavish sets.
The upcoming Rosenkavalier,again lavishly staged, will star one of
the great Octavians of our time,
Tatiana Troyanos. Although theoretically beyond the optimal age-range
for impersonating a teenager, Troyanos flames with youthful exuberance and has never shown any great
reticence about expressing physicality
with other women on the stage, blessher. heart. Troyanos really getsbehind the "masculine" bravado ofher many trouser roles-friendsofmine are still talking abou t her
sword-swishingaria as Handel'sJulius Caesar a few seasons back,which provoked a show-stopping display of enthusiasm from a female fan
in tlie upper balcony,
Also upcoming is Mozart's bedroom
comedy The Marriage of Figaro, with
Frederica von Stade (aka Flicka) as
Cherubino, the love-crazed adolescent
who, in the aria, sings, "Non so piu": "I
don't know what 1 am or what I'mdoing./Every
woman makes me
blush'/Every woman makes my heart
pound ..." This is a signature role for
F1icka, and she's quite a dish in thoseg
Imickers.
;;zAnother Mozart opera featuring a .E'"
major drag role is La Clemenza dt Tito,~• •,.0 EACHHIS OWN--Helga Dernesch as
Prince Orlovsky in Strauss'Die Fledermaus
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The best seat in the house thisseason goes for as much as $115,
which might give one, the impressipn that opera-going is an imprudent habit. Standing room, however,is only $12 ($9 for the upper balcony), and you're standing rightbehind the good seats, so you don'tlose much, Standing room is sold bynumber, starting the previous Saturday morning for all that week's performances. Pavarotti fans had better
get in line at the crack of dawn,
when priority is determined bymeans of a fair but bizarre ritual toocomplicated to go into here, For the
non-Italian repertoire, however, thehouse almost never sells out, so
standing-room tickets should beavailable at the box office any point
during the week, Also rememberthat the richest people in. the opera
house are generally the least interested in music and will often gohome at the first intermission, so if
you 'can sneak past the attacktrained ushers, the seat is yours,
Metropolitan Opera performances:
Die Fledermaus: Jan, 21-Feb, 8Fidelia: Jan. 31-Feb, 21
The Marriage of Figaro: Feb,
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La Clemenza dt Tita: April 8-20
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Marques and Lorin Sklamberg"'CITY: boseon'
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a lesser-known work about a lovesickyoung Roman who gets on the wrong
side of the Emperor Titus. Again, 'look
for the divine Troyanos to be wearing
the toga in this one.
Along a slightly different line but
worth noting is a rare production of
Beethoven's Fidelio, which uses the'Shakespearianconventionof awoman passing as a man to do things
she couldn't do as a woman, Shakespeare, of course, had only male
actors, so the gender illusion was
twofold: a. man playing a woman pretending to be a man (Strauss reverses
thIS in Rosenkavaiier, but that's giving too much away). In Beethoven's
opera, Leonora disguises herself as a
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Gwyneth Jones.
Another Rosenkavalter on viis features
Anne Howells as Octavian, and Kiri te
Kanawa at the height of her powers as
the older Marschallin,
Another recommendation is thewonderful Met tape of Strauss' Ariadne
auf Naxos starring, again, Troyanos as
the Composer and Jessye Norman,
appropriately, as the Prima Donna,
This was from an honest-to-gooclness
live broadcast (unlike most Live From
the Met telecasts, which are prerecorded), so it retain~ the tension and irmnediacy of the real thing.
A recent PBS broadcast of Peter
Sellar's "Trump Tower" update of Marriage of Figaro was actuallY quite
good-Susan Larson, the Cherubino,
wore spiked hair and a football jersey
and looked more like a lesbian than ateenage boy, which enhanced myappreciation of the opera immensely.
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If someone you know taped thisbroadcast, borrow it....
-researchassistance by Sarah

the dungeon where her husband isbeing held as a political prisoner by awicked dictator. She's a very' heroic
female icon, one of those charactersthat help belie the commonly held
stereotype of opera heroines as passive victims. In the (ideally) thrillingclimax, Leonora holds the villains atbay while liberating her helplessspousal unit.
If you can't make it to the Met orwant to explore the subject in a morecongenial environment, a numi:ler ofthese operas are available on videotape or videodisc. (rower Records, for,instance, has quite a broad selection ofrentals,) One of the advantages ofvideo is the subtitled translation, a
blessing to all but the most polylingual
opera buff.
Available on CDV is a recent
movie-style production of Clemenzawith Troyanos as Sesto, Also on disc isa reportedl¥" salacious RosenkavaUer
with the strange and wonderful
Brigitte Fassbaender as Octavian,singing opposite the politically correct•

1. "Baing Borlng"/"We All Feal BaHar In tha Dark" by Pat Shop
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7. "Waif and Strays" by Marc Almond (Import),

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THE BODY IN QUESTION. The
Burden Gallery. 20 E. 23rd St.
(212) 475-8790. Through Feb. 28.
by John Donahue
One of the strategies of Sen. Jesse
Helms' crusade to curb government
spending on "obscene" art was toequate images of a child's naked bodywith pornography. One photographsingled out by the senator, Robert Mapplethorpe's "Jessie McBride," is on viewat the Burden Gallery in a show entitled The Body in Question. Make up
your own mind about this image of a
naked child; to my eye, it radiates
beauty and innocence, Curator Melissa
Harris has selected, in addition to themany naked children, pictures oftransvestites, battered women, cheesecake, large women, women making
love with other women, PWAs andmore-morethan 100 images infact-in an effort to confront censorshipby presenting unconventional views of
the body. Here, the human form isrevealed as as varied and wondrous as
any landscape, and as an endless sourceof inspiration.
The show's highpoints include Sally
Mann's photographs ofchildren, Mann, themother of three, depicts a drama-drenchedchildhood that is both
enigmatic and messy("Popsicle Drips"). In"The, Last Time Emmet
Posed Nude," a young
boy stands waist-deepin a stream, his hands
skimming the surface,"Virginia at Four" captures its subject's headof ringlets and its disconcertingly adult stareat the camera. Unlike
many photographs ofchildren, the work isunsentimental
andunflinching in its depiction of such childhood

terrors as "The Wet Bed." Her work
alone is worth a trip to the gallery.
Equally strong is the work of
Bruce of Los Angeles, whose influence on younger artists is visible inmuch of the surrounding work in thegallery. Shot in the '50s and '60s,
Bruce's' use of minimal props andmuted colors prefigured post-modernism by, years. His pictures are also
sexy. In "Cowboy," Mark Edwards,
nude (except for boots and a cowboyhat), shoots his revolver from his hip
in a picture that's hard to take seriously. The photographer's lights arevisible on each side of the model;
there is no doubt that these are controlled environments, yet they let theimagination soar.
The show presents a democratic
mix of well-known and lesser-known
artists, including Cindy Sherman, David
Wojnarowicz,Joel Peter Witkin, Eric FiscW and Barbara Kruger, as well as presenting a solid 'number of gay and lesbian photographers.
Christopher Stromholm's
images of glamorous'60s
cross-dressers are juxtaposedwith Ken Miller's bleak urban
vignettes. Patricia Schwarz has
work on "Women of Sub-stance: Portraits and Nudes of Large
Women," Allen Ginsberg contributes aself-portrait that highlights his belly,
Unfortunately, Nan Goldin's pictures,
self-portraits and portraits of her girlfriend suffer from poor placement ina corner behind a desk.
Some unfortunate
omissions
include Larry Clark's "Teenage Lust"
photographs
and John Coplans'
nude portraits of his own aging
body, Other omissions are more
explicable, Bruce Weber is missing:It's unclear how his work would
stand up in this fierce company.
The show accompanies a glossy catalogue published by Aperture. The text
argues the politics of censorship andincludes accounts of recent seizures ofphotographers' work deemed pornographic. That artists need unrestricted
opportunity to represent the body as
they see it without fear of censorship is,
unfortunately, a point that cannot bemade too vehemently or too often,
Omitting any discussion of the beautyand power these photographs
have as art is, however, adangerous byproduct of such
essential foci. We mustn't forget that the work here itself
crushes all argument....

•AMY JENKINS·UrrnnED VI" (1990).
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MEDIUM COOL by Ethan Mordden. Knopf. $24.95 d. 287 pp.

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Claudette Colbert and Clark Gable first
spend the night together in in It Happened One Night?
A: Dyke'sAuto Camp,One of the great chicken-and-egg
themes of contemporary mm criticism isthe movies as sociOcultural mirror, andthe question of who came first-theartist or the audience
opens onto ahail of mirrors, Since box office was, isand always will be the bottom line, mm
is, by defmition, as much about its time
as its technology, You get what sells, orwhat some schmo thought would sell.
As Black a playwright as I know saysthat '305 Hollywood, the whitest of eras,
was fundamentally non-racist: If Blacks
had had fmancial clout, they'd have gotten whatever they wanted. Is there amore leveling comment on the deadend of the '80s than its passion for thesequel, for "More of the same whatever it is just don't make me think?"
Two books published by Knopf latelast year, Elizabeth Kendall's The Runaway Bride and Ethan Mordden's Medium Cool, examine the interaction
between American film and our socialand polipcal landscape. Kendall's studyof the romantic comedies of the '30s,
and theii breakthrough heroines in particular, traces the development of thegenre against '305 America's response to
the earthquakethat was the Great
Depression, Mordden's assessment ofAmerican film during the '60s places thedecade's radical rearrangement of the
Hollywood superstructure-the
final
decentralization of power, the suicide of .
the epic and the last rites for the musical-in careful counterpoint to anothergreat American quake, the decade thatcommenced after 1959. Both books are
passionately
argued, researchedtoexhaustion and just the kind of stuff tosend you straight to the video store.
Kendall has the tougher task: She
wasn't there, Still, she manages an

MORDDEN'S MAXAPPEAL-Beatty and
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absorbing, breathless account of themaverick environment in which theromantic comedies flourished, In her
portrait of the downscale studios that
produced them, their un-MGM-nessallowing for experimentation, Kendall
provides a glimpse of genius at workon the wrong side of the tracks, a pan
shot on the democratic ethos that was
the very essence of the form's special,strikingly emancipated heroine, The
Runaway
Bride is at its best in
Kendall's close-ups of her title character, the romantic-comedy heroine asembodied by the likes of Barbara Stanwyck, Claudette Colbert, Katharine
Hepburn, Carole Lombard and Irene
Dunne, Her appraisals of Colbert in It
Happened One Nigbt and Stanwyck inanything have the intensity and insightof the best kind of identification, thesight of an ideal become real. We see
the independence of her heroines, selfdetermined in spite of 1933, as theecho of a first step to national recovery,
I wish that Kendall hadn't gotten
so worked up over Ginger Rogers,(The film choices have their odd
streak, too: Double Indemnity as heir
to the romantic comedies?) Kendall
contends that Rogers made Astaire not
only more interesting but morally correct. Pub-lease, Ms, Kendall! Granted,
it's an under-appreciated career, Astaire
never looked better, and no one evergot more mileage out of a trailing skirt.
My bid for the all-time most-embarrassing Oscar is Rogers for Kitty Foyle overHepburn in The Pbiladelpbia Story.
The latitude Kendall grants Rogers'
monotone screen persona picks up ascent of plea-bargaining, particularly
when Astaire becomes the heavy. It's acontradiction in terms. In a single paragraph, Kendall calls Astaire "shifty,""nasty," "goofy" and "callus." Men, in
fact, come to look like a uniformly suspicious lot, by default finally undermining a key quality of Kendall's hero- \ine her intelligence: If Fred Astaire isa sadist, why bother?
Of course, everyone was a sadist"of one stripe or another during th~.
'60s: Did anyone ever get smacked
harder than both Ann Bancroft andPatty Duke in one of the decade's mostloving ftlms, Tbe Miracle Worketf Medium Cool charts the chaos of the '60s
through its seminal film images---Mrs,
Bates, Hud, Mrs, Robinson, Bonnie andClyde-andmakes
sense, at the movies,
out of its contradictions.
Like the '60s, Medium
Cool moves at a clipped
pace, approaches sensory overload in the range and specificity of~ordden's
research and confronts the issues head-on: Page one
goes to Psycbo, Possibly because he is,working in an era of his own experience, Mordden has access to a sharpedged vernacular that has been aroundthe block: His book fairly crackles withthe '60s signature tension.
Mordden's central premise is that,in film as in life, the '60s changed everything and nothing, He grounds his claim
by telling the story straight, in a kind ofblow-by-blow reportage that uncovers
just how the '60s rewrote the Hollywood game plan. Mordden focuses lesson genre than on events, not so much
Psycbds genesis as its impact and why
the world has never been the same. You .
see how the successive events of the'60s affected eVerything that ~e after
until all hell broke loose and the heroes
bad to die, from the Barrow gang to all
three Easy Riders. And Mordden's mordant, you-are-there prose keeps theevents in close-up, from Mama Bates,that shower and Janet leigh's bra to thebreakthrough of the B
picturesto Bosley
Crowther's unseating at
the TImes,
The fat lady hits
high-C when Mordden
gets to Bonnie and Clyde, Its development, the wildcat response and thefacts of the film itself give Mordden theopportunity to exercise his every writer's and researcher's asset. This is a
man who not only knows the movies
but can slip in a Dorothy Parkerism
without calling attention to its precedent and so getting the best part of Ms,
Parker-her effect. For all that, the bestof his Bonnie and Clyde number is its
daring, In showing why the film wasso· unnerving to so many, Mordden
returns to the fIrSt fact of the movies:
Actors have to put it over. (1be accompanying photograph of Faye Dunaway
and Warren Beatty is captioned: "Could
such pretty people be guilty of anything but looking fabulous?") The ohso-moist odes to the Dunaway ,and
13eatty persons let us revel in "All theWorld's a Face," before suggesting abirthright subject for the film's director,
Arthur Penn: "Next, Penn should film
The Oltver Nortb Story, with Oliver
North, for Penn knows the drill." Like
the '60S, in your face,T,o
THE BURIED BODY by Mark Ameen. Amethyst Press. $10.95 pb. 216 pp.
by Beatrix Gates,

Mark Ameen's Tbe Buried Body- isa unique and startling book of desire's
search, The poet drives the reader
through his quest to fully locate thebody in the present, engaging in freeassociation that is alternately fiercely
cerebral, lean and wry, angry, funny,frighteningly self-conscious and tender,Book I of this trilogy is comprised ofAmeen's first collection, A Circle ofSirens; "Book II contains a sequence of
22' sonnets and the powerful "Monologue of a Dying Beast"; and Book III
holds the many-layered "Extracts."
Throughout The Buried. Body, prose

weaves in and out of the poems with arazor clarity that often refreshes thereader with direct descriptions of s1!XUal play and realigns the sometimes
rambling nature of Ameen's poems, '.Desire is the operative element
here, and we .experience not only thewaves of sex and wanting but also its
accompanying states of mind. The selfconsciousness of the cruise in "Apparent Trance" begins Ameen's exploration of the many facets of being
seen, recognized, met and fucked, andin the prose of "Fish Tank," a calmer
state of mind opens to vulnerability
and very mixed emotion:,
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WOMEN
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MEN ... The organizers of the four'th Gay
Games championship, Unity '94, are combing
the community for a brilliant new redesign of
their logo, All submissions must incorporate
elements of the current logo and may notexceed eight and a half inches by 11'inches insize, For full details contact: John Lunning at
203 E, 13th·St., Apt. 40, New York, NY 10003;
or call Rich F10wers at (212) 932-0762, Entries
muSt beposunarked no later than Feb, 25, so get on with it.
"Prize awards" await you,OH MICKEY, YOU'RE SO FINE, YOU'RE SO FINE,
YOU BLOW MY MIND, HEY MICKEYI ••.Now what you've
all been waiting for-Mickey Rooney's tell-all autobiography, Lifo
Is Too Short, soon to be published by Villard Books, does contain•some toothsome nuggets, Gnaw on this one about Judy Garland:"She'd.always idolized her own channing father only to learn,
after she'd grown up, that he was' a homosexual, She couldn't
accept that in him, And then, she had an even harder time
accepting a trace of that in herself, She had an affair with a•female singer and, caught up inguUt, couldn't
accept herself, So she tried to lose herself in anever-never land where reality faded and her
dreams drifted just out of reach,",SOMETHING, ANYTHINQ ... Even
though we didn't oust that vulturous Jesse
Helms this last fall, we did manage to rally alarge number of troops, Many whom we never
expected to hear from on the political tip cameout of the woodwork, including .the long lost
runt himself, Todd Rundgren,
Although it is not included on (and was never intended for)his neW album, Second Wind,. which hit the racks last week,
those who attended any of Rundgren's more recent performances were treated to a.heartfelt rendition of "Jesse," an ode to
the great white nightmare himself: "I !mow it sounds crazy/I canhardiy bring myselfto say/But the feeling is oh, so strong now/I
can't wait another day...! want to fuck you )esse/I want to fuck
you 'cuz 1 got evety right to love a man that's' stupid ugly andwhite," Let's hope for a B-side release--for posterity,...

-compiledby Sarah Petitt, Victoria Starr/

It doesn't matter much what he•leeks like much as it deesn't matter
what he is saying as he is speaking
because I am rooted in a land which
ence fertlllzed all eur cenversatiens
and made him quite interesting, I look
into. his eyes at a free-associative landscape sown ef leve and he must see
this, he must nete a pleased and starrygaze upen his front yard ...I can see thebleed rushing to. his brain. I havegiven him epen.space but the rapidity
with, which he chooses to. fill it new""

Mark is my name, I try to.werk withtheughts,
believing each to. have a life ef its ewn.
1bis is difficult, then, fer in the', stepping ef ene
some others are missed, and ene stares,
into the space'.
,frem which they have just exited
upon lingering teasingly fer light,

sends me scurrying back to. the relaxedtable having lest my landscape, It's net
so. easy anymere,..

eut in frent of the eyes,
where they'll blur when the timing Is right.

Neither looked at the ether but
beth gripped the scented breeie ef
bodies passing in the night. T.]. felded
expectanr'iy. Frem the creek df hisneck 'all the way dewn threugh his
sheulders, back, buttock, thighs andknees, eyeballs were blinking epen
. to.
view a werld mere real than the ene,

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Being seen now entersdes~re's landscape, theporeS of sensation opening as a welcome gesture,
The prose in BookI, including"Transit

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House," a chronicle of the "teas," heldme much more powerfully than thelong poem, "The Mixed Report." Thefirst 17 pll:ges of the poem blur into
fast-forward incoherence, at which
point the poem'stops and speaks in afull and self-satirizing awareness that
leaps off the page:

If the previous pages had had thisclarity and tjqling, I wouJdn't complain,
but the pOem cried out for eoiting.
Book"I(takes off with the 22 sonnets .follo~ed by th~: very powerful"Monologue of a Dying Beast." "Beast"
turns tenderness into'deftance, and thepoet askS, "Oh where; oh why, in the .
search for love/did the 'love' of searchtake, command?" Desire's constant.
. . ,motion toward the
body is' located inthese lines. The, poetwarns with offhand
humor and ends witha brilliant, wide slash:.-....yeu sheuld blow semething upbefere yeu go..
•Preferably the triplex ef the man who.'
made yeu a heuseboy.
And den't ever believe It
when they come back and tell yeu
yeu were just standing there"asking witheut asking" fer such a hand,which is just what they say ,when they rescue other ceuntries
in erder to. suck ether lands .. ,'By Book III, Ameen 'has locatedthe body in manyplaces-;:-themindof the body, the community of wordless, electric bodies, the floating, disconnectedbody and the searching,
body whose discomfort heightens all
possibility, Other than the disquietinginterruption of footnotes scatteredthrough the poems, Book III moves
desire's story through a collage ofquotes and narrative and pushes us
into simultaneous appreciations, suchas Brancusi's "When we cease to be
children we are already dead" andthe author's "Now do you understandmale promiscuity?" The poet's wry
comments
in "Extract #1, Proterandry" wrap up the journey of The
Buried Body: "The body and themind might have been given/One
Name/And then I wouldn't have had
to take up circling the Abyss." I'm
not sorry to have taken his "roller
coaster," ready.or not. ...
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thing,
With last year's NEA debacle still
hovering over the art world like avulture over carrion, it is not surprising that many are beginning to referto the '90s as the "censorship"
decade. More grist was added to themill when the nation's largest videorental chain recently announced that
it would no longer carry movies
rated either NC-17 or X.
The
decision by Blockbuster,
Video, a company with nearly 2,000
outlets in the US, was allegedly"merely coincidental" with a lobbying effort by Rev, Donald Wildmon
and the American Family Association (AFA). Blockbuster, which calls
itself "America's
Family VideoStore," was the target of thousandsof postcards and letters demandingthat the NC-17- and X-rated films beremoved from the stores or customers' would take their businesselsewhere.
Blockbuster
VP RonCastell stated that the campaign had
nothing to do with his decision, butother video retailers disagree, inparticular Video Software Dealer's
Association (VSDA), which termed
the decision "very disappointing."<' At the heart of the censorshipcontroversy is the newly adopted
MPAA rating, NC-17. Officially, only
three films have been so ratedHenry and June, Tie Me UP! Tie Me
Down!. and The Cook, the Thief, His
Wife and Her Lover-and only the
first of these was released to movie
theaters with the rating, Oddly
enough, in cases such as these, theratings were applied specifically to.
negotiate the troubling category of,•

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so-called art films of serious content
which, because of violence or sex,
had been rated X by tbe MPAA.
But since the NC-17 rating was
released last fall, a great many otherfilms~previously
rated X-haveapplied for the new rating, ,especiallyfor the video market. And this iswhere the problems have occurred,
Because the MPAAnever copyrighted
the X rating (as it has its other ratings), the X was appropriated by thesoft- and hard-core pornographyindustry to "rate" their films. Now,
claims Blockbuster, Henry and June
may have the same rating as Blonde
Emmanuelle in 3-D, And although
VSDA board member Brad Burnsidecommented in a video trade weeklythat "the stigma associated with X
need not be associated with NC17"-that is exactly what Wildmon
and the AFA are afraid of So Blockbuster, shoved along mightily by the
AFA, has taken the path of least resistance and removed not only X-rated
films from its shelves but .also NC-17rated films. ,This may not present a problem
for viewers in New York or Los Angeles with a wide range of vid~o outlets
vying for their business, But if Blockbuster removes a title from its shelves,
it definitely doesn't play in Peoria.
The trend toward such censorship isclearly growing, and when a hugeretailer like Blockbuster jumps on the
censorship bandwagon, it bodes ill forthe rest of us, Consider, for example,
some X-rated films that were so rated
long before the NC-17 rating wasdevised and that might now reapply
for the new rating-films
with adecidedly queer content, such as The
Killing of Sister George or Bertolucci's
The Conformist,
Last•
Tango in Paris, Taxi
Zum Klo and the video
releases of such queer
classics as ScorpiORisingand Law of Desire.

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narrovvs
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for films
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sexual content
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MPAAlooks at language, sex and violence. Henry and June received its·
NC-17 for the sexual involvement
between June Miller and Anats Nin
and for the shots of male frontal
nudity. Twenty years ago, The Conformist received its X for lesbian sex
scenes, male frontal nudity and one
quite grisly murder, Yet films such as
Reanimator, one of the most gruesomely violent films ever made, or
Die Hard 2, in which murders arecommitted at a rate of one every few
minutes,
both garneredan R.
Although the MPAA says that violence can get a film rated X (nowNC-17), it is almost always violenceof a sexual nature, as in Tie Me UP!
and The Cook, The MPAA's top dog,
Jack Valenti, has stated that sex,
more often than violence, brings
about the more stringent rating,
Blockbuster's decision points tothe basic flaw in the system: What
kids can't see at the movies they rent
on video, It is a rare video outlet
that enforces the ratings in rentals
and unless X-rated or NC-17-rated
films are kept separately from othervideo choices, that's unlikely tochange. (It should be noted, however, that legislation is pending in West,
Virginia, Indiana and Connecticutthat would make the sale or rental ofR, NC-17 or X videos to minors afederal crime.) B-ut is this problem
best addressed by removing these
titles from everyone, including theadult viewers? And how much of thedecision is being made by a fundamentalist group whose spokespeople
are virulently anti-gay and anti-sex?
The Blockbuster decision significantly narrows the market for films withalternative sexual content or which
deal with issues-asin Bertolucci's
or Almodovar's films-thatmay beanti-church as well.
By taking a leadership role interms of censoring films from its
shelves, Blockbuster has also started
an inevitable chilling effect in the market as a whole. Recent years haveshown an unquestionable
trend
toward video rentals over movie~
going, and the majority of films do notreceive wide release, If a distributor
knows that it will be losing a large
percentage of a retail market, it may••&2 OUTWEEK F.br ....ry 20, 1991

be less likely to carry films that present those problems,
The irony for video renters is that
purely pornographic films-the tripleX hard-core will remain available toviewers through a wide range of outlets, while the serious X films, the NC17s, will be unobtainable, This meansthat innocuous films, like Longtime
Companion, which deal with gay life
but totally skirt the sexuality issue byleaving sex out altogether can be rented by the video-viewing public, whilemore representative-and
grittydepictions of gay life, like Taxi or

Laws, will only be seen by those whohave acceSs to them through an alternative outlet.
The censoring of these films
adds further homogenization
to afilm market already predicated on ateenage viewing public. Once again,
censorship is disallowing adults frommaking informed choices by removing the options,"'"Victoria Brownworth's book on
women film directors, Camera Obscura, wtll be publisbed by the Women's
Press (UK) in Spring '92,,

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factor in this Stonewall-era bust is quitea leap for me, Bay Windows own article reports that police called 20 officers
to the scene, didn't have a search warrant and are supposed to have harassed
patronswith bigoted
comments.
Officials have charged the club withprostitution based on their food-anddrink cover charge, and police officers
continue to harass the club withobscene phone calls to an unlisted
number known only to club members.
This doesn't sound like your averageby-the-book disturbing-the-peace caseto me.
Just drawing from their own reporting, I don't see how a gay community
newspaper can write, "Let's hope ourcommunity organizations spend as little
time as possible on it."Is their editorial staff filled withvanilla editors who are skittish about aclub where "certain gay men ... could
take off [their] clothes and wanderaround playing with various pieces of
S!M equipment?" Or maybe they're jealous because they weren't invited.
And finally, aren't those "archaic
vice laws" inherently homophobic,
unenforceable
and worthy of ourattention? It may be your door theyknock on next.
Everyone knows Todd Haynes'
Poison won at Robert Redford's
Sundance festival, but those on the
Coast are more concerned about the"buzz." According to the HoUywood
Reporter, the fIlm "caused a stir," was"inspired by the novels of Jean Genet"and comprises three interwoven story
lines dealing with aspects of sex."
Accurate enough.
, If you read Variety, however, you
got another story, Duane Byrge saysthat the festival jury included the rightsort of people with which to start a
lunatic asylum. He says that the flim has"major gall" and then calls it "piffle,""cinematic
onanism" , and "facial
mucous," "designed to shock the sensi-'
bilities of middle-class women," Ladie_s,·
you have a new protector, and his nameis Byrge,
In my uninformed opinion, thisfIlm struck some loathing in this Variety
reporter, and it's most likely the kind hedirects at the image in the mirror. Tell it
to your therapist ...

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reality for such fruitcakes to be mur-'derers. People like to see this kind of
killer and want to believe it. It's exciting and scary and helps them condone
their irrational hatred. Presto! Let's
make a movie and make a fortune!
"We want to send a message toOrion [Pictures] and to the rest of thefilm industry that we're tired of being
depicted in the movies almost exclusively as villians, murderers and twisted psychopaths," said Rich Jennings,
executive director of GLAAD/LAto the
LA , Times last week. In California, thecontroversy has already heated up(and is no doubt heading East, where
the film opens on Feb, 14). The headline blared across the pages of the LA
Times: "GAYS DECRY BENEFITSCREENINGOF LAMBS.» It was a story
about how GLAAD/LAis furious that,
unlike AmFAR,AIDS Project Los Angeles went through with a benefit
screening of the film. And Jennings
had some astute observations as towhy the AIDS benefits were offered byOrion Pictures in the first place: "Themoviemakers were obviously concerned about the movie. Theyattempted to launder the .fiIm by using [organizations] whose clients are mostly gay
to deflect criticism.»
HOLLYWOOD DISGUSTS ME!
ALL OF YOU LYING FREAKSMAKE
ME WANT TO VOMIT. Jodie Foster,
TIME'S UP! If lesbianism is too sacred,
too private, too infringing of yourdamned rights for you to discuss publicly, then the least you can fucking do
is refrain from making movies that
insult this community! Is that too muchto ask of you? Jesus, you want to haveyour queer, little cake and eat it too,right? NO WAY,SISTER!
And all of you queer writers
who caressed dear Jodie in yourinterviews, why didn't you bring up
this subject? Jonathan Van Meter,
why didn't you ask Foster about thisissue in your New York Times Magazine piece on her? And what about
you, Cindy Carr, Ms, Openly Lesbian
VtIlage Voice columnist? Why didn't
you :iiddress this in your Mirabella
piece? Certainly you saw a screeningof the film before doing a coverstory for a major magazine, (And, by
the by, why couldn't you even bring•

64 OUTWEEK,MAKING MOVIES LIKE THIS? You
writers are on the front lines, talking
to the powers-that-be, It is up to you
to confront them and get all of thisshit out into the open (and, politics
aside, it's also part of your jobs asjournalists, period). I mean, we've got
to get moving here, folks. We've suffered long enough, and we've taken
too many losses.
You can call me wacked out. Or
you can get with the program•SI _F.br .... ry 20, 11_11

yourself to ask Jodie if she's a dyke inthat interview?)
Everyone tells me that I'm too
mean, so I'm going to try to say this in
the nicest way possible: Why is it that,while we are being beaten up andkilled and defamed and denied drugs~nd left to suffer in hospitals, thesewriters are prancing their way acrossthe glossy pages of glamour rags,
without even challenging the people
who are not only hiding in the closet
Bur ARE ACTIVELYHURTING US BYQUICK.T••'and your face, too!
Gay Men's Health Crisis and
AIDS ACTION COMMlnEE of Boston
are co-producing a safer sex poster.
We're looking for 2 male models
for explicit, full body, frontal
nudity photographs.
Contact Michael DeMayo
at 212/337-3555.
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GAY

MEN'S

HEALTHCRISIS•ADVANCE LISTINGS

9. Look forward to an opening recep- ,tlon hosted by Heritage of Pride, an
all-day national conference with 15
workshops and panel discussions on
SIM technique, leather lifestyle and •political Issues. Also: the Steel
Bondage Museum, an art show andsale of the best of SIM art anti an
S/M-Ieather vendor area. At the 10th
anniversary banquet, there'll be food,a keynote address by Broadway Cares'
Executive Director Rodger McFariane
and entertainment by leather comedienne Lynn Lavner, Advance registration: $60. $75 after Feb. 15.
Conference only reglstraton Is $20 at
the door, Info: GMSMA at (212) 7279878,•

THE NEW SCHOOL FOR SOCIALRESEARCHpresents The State of theCity: A Gay and Lesbian Perspective,
given In conjunction with OutW66k
magazine. "Gay men and lesbians arevital participants In the life of New
York City; says the class description,"Despite this, many believe that the
popular media and mainstream arts
communities either fail to represent or
actually misrepresent gay and lesbianconcerns.· Given In three sessions
which focus on the arts, the media
and politics, respectively, the classes
will be led by Arts Editor Sarah Pettit,
Features
Editor Michelangelo
Signorile and News Editor Andrew
Miller. $15 for the course, $8 for asingle session. The first session is
April 25. For more Info, contact the
New School at (212) 741-5600.
THE NEW SCHOOL FOR SOCIALRESEARCHpresents Gay and Lesbian
Writing: from World War II 10
Slonewali. Instructor: Joseph Cady.
"The years after Worl d War II witnessed a significant body of gay andlesbian literature that has tended to
become overshadowed by the more
open homosexual expression of the
post-Stonewall years of the '70s and'80s. But the relative burst In gay andlesbian writing from the mld-1940s
through the 1960s contributed to thechange In cultural atmosphere that
helped make possible the contemporary gay and lesbian liberation movement and is an Integral part of the
background of the present gay andlesbian situation, Among the authors 'we may consdler are: Tennessee
WIlliams, Carson McCullers, Allen
Ginsberg, Sylvia Townsend Warner,
James Baldwin and Janet Flanner."
The six sessions begin on April 4,$130. For more Info, contact the New
School at (212) 741-5600.
,.6THE COOPER UNION presents
WO,lJIen In Arl
Hislory:A
Contemporary
Investigation.
Instructor: Mira Schor, "Despite recent
revisionist art historical literature andcritical theories on women artists,many remain unfamiliar with the history of women artists and with contemporary critical discourse. The lectures will focus on the formatIon of
the discipline of art history In relationship to the place of women, femininity,
the politics and strategies of InvisibilIty and will examine how and to what
extent feminism and related movements since the 1960s has changed
the disciplines of visual art and art history. $45, In five lectures, beginning. Feb. 19. For more Info, contact Steveat (212) 353-4195.

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.6THE ANTI-VIOLENCE PROJECT
offers a Support Group for gay men
and lesbians who are now or havebeen Involved In abusive relationships,
The 12-week groups, which start In
March, have professional leaders andare completely confidential. Info:(212) 807-0197,

LIVELY ARTS•'

Also see the dally listings for showIngs of one or two days.
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AMERICANTHEATREOF ACTORSpresents Eye to Eye, a comedy
thriller by Matthew Davis (who, we confess, is alSo OutWeelts
advertising coordinator), whose work has been seen In New
York at the West Bank Cafe and the 13th Street Repertory
Company. With Edle Falco, Daniel Pardo and Doug Von Nessen.
Stage manager: Cyra Quinones. Director: Danald L Brooks, oneof the founders of the Off-Off-Broadway movement and the
director of original productions by John Guare, Harvey Fierstein
Ronald Tavel and H,M. Kou.oukas. $8. ATA. 314 W. 54th St.
Feb. 13-11i. 8 pm. Reservations: (212) 581·3044.
DON'T TELL MAMA presents The Songs the Girls Sang, e musi·cal revue conceived by David Perkins and directed by Mark
Cole. Musical director: Matthew Ward. Their flyer says: "Oldyau ever wonder why the female characters always get the best
songs In Broadway musicals? Did you come to New York hoping
In your heart of hearts you would be cast as Nellie Forbush in
South Pacific and sing, "I'm in Love With a Wonderful Guy, "only to end up in the male chorus singing "There is Nothing
Like a Dame"?" Their answer: a revue In which faur men-.Jey
Montreal,
Allan Palmer, David Perkins and RobertHanyman-sing Broadway show tunes all originally written forfemale characters. $10, with a two drink minimum. Don't Tell
Mama. 343 W. 46th St. Jan. 27 at 10 pm; Feb. 3, Feb. 10 andFeb. 17 at 8 pm; and Feb. 24 at 10 pm. Reservations: (212)757·0788 after 4 pm.

WESSELL O'CONNOR LTD presents
Donald MoHett's W., Hoi.. , a seriesof back lit clbatransparencles
employing both figuration and his distinctive activist text. This exhibit Is afurther continuation of the artist's
examination of sex and politics In the
midst of the AIDS pandemic, With
Moffet! Is Scott Llfshull'S
N••
Palntlngl, a series of portraits which
focus entirely on the backs of theartist's friends. Wessell O'Connor, 580
Broadway, 8th floor, Gallery hours:
Tu-Sa, 10 am to 6 pm. (212) 2199524. Through Feb.16.

ARTISTS TALK ON ART presents a_Portrait Painting Marathon
to benefit Artist Talk an Art. As their flyer says, "Bring yourhoney and get Immortalized in_paint." The 20 painters will ,charge you $1 per mlnule-you decide ahead of time how long
YO!,lwant the portrait to take to paint. What beHer way to spend
Val!lntlne's Day? SoHo Foto Gallery. 15 White St., at West
Broadway. Feb. 14. Info: (212) 385-2862.

GAYMALE SIM ACTIVISTS presents A
Decade of SIM Pride on March 8 and

THE VORTEX THEATER COMPANY,
INC., presents Fri. Will .nd W.nton
LUll, a new play by NlcIIy S"V8(, The
play Is about a mother and a son andthe illusions they Impose upon themselves and their sexuality. $10 or $5
with TDF. The Sanford Meisner
Theater. 164 Eighth Ave., between
22nd and 23rd streets. W-Su at 8 pm.
Reservations:(212) 206-1-764.
Through Feb.14.

-.6AMERICAN THEATRE OF ACTORS
presents EYI to EYI, a comedy thriller
by Matthew Davis, whose work has
been seen In New York at the WestBank Cafe and the 13th Street
Repertory Company. With Edle Falco,
Dalilel Pardo and Doug Von Nessen.
Stage manager: Cyra Quinones.
Director: Donald L BrOOD, one of thefounders of the Off-Oft-Broadway
movement and the director of original
productions by John Guare, Harvey
Fierstein Ronald Tavel and H.M.
Koutoukas. $8. ATA. 314 W. 54th St.

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DIXON PLACE presents Frank Maya, who digs deeper Into his
Unautliorized Autobiography (this time his parents arit coming).
Maya Is an established (and unclaseted) perform alice artist
who has appeared on television, worked araund the world andin New York at PS 122, La Mama and other clubs-and he's
been wrHten about in OutWeektoo. $6 or TDF. Dixon Place. 37
E. 1st St., between First and Second avenues. Feb. 16. 8 pm.
(212) 673-6752.

ARTISTS SPACE presents Relramlng
the Family, a group exhibition andvideo program exploring the mythologyof the American family co-designed by
Connie Butler and Mickl McGee; and A
Prolecl, a conceptual Instalatlon mirrorIng Simone de Beauvolr's
1971
Manifeste In support of women's reproductive freedom, co-organized by Kathe
Burkhart and Chrysanne Stathacos; andInstallallon
by Francois MorellI.
Opening recetlon: Jan. 17 from 6-8 pm.
Gallery hours: Tu-Sa, 11 am to 6 pm.
Artists Space. 223 West Broadway. Info:(212) 226-3970, Through Feb, 23.

THE ANGELIKA FILM CENTERpresents The Culture God 01 the19601: lbe Films al Andy Warhol. lbe sill-week series enters Its
fifth week with the ane and only Chelsea GIrls. The Chelsea
Hotel Is the setting lor this film's series 01 narratives, each
acted out by the stars 01 the Warhol entourage. Each 01 thefilms 12 reels constltues a separate episode, and the reels are
not prajected In a single linear sequence, but are divided Intotwo parts that playoff each other as those reels are projectedside by side. Part ane pays on Friday, Feb. 15, and part two on
Saturday, Feb. 16. The Angellka Film Center. 611 Broadway.
Midnight. (212) 995-2000.

DON'T TELL MAMA presents The
Song, the Girl' Sang, a musical revue
conceived by David Perkins anddirected by Mark Cole. Musical director:
MaUhewWard. Their flyer says: "Oldyou ever wonder why the female characters always get the best songs in
Broadway musicals? Old you come to
New York hoping in your heart of hearts
you would be cast as Nellie Forbush In
South Pacific and' sing, "I'm In Love
With a Wonderful Guy," only to end up
In the male chorus singing "There is'
Nothing Like a Dame"?" Their answer: arevue In which four men-Jey
Montreal, Allan Palmer, David Perkins
and Robert Harryman sing Broadwayshow tunes all originally written forfemale characters, $10, with a two drink
minimum. Don't Tell Mama. 343 W.
46th St Jan. 27 at 10 pm; Feb. 3, Feb.
1 a and Feb. 17 at 8 pm; and Feb. 24 at
10 pm. Reservations: (212) 757-0788
after 4 pm.
THE COURTYARD PLAYHOUSE presents John Glines' Chicken
Del/ght,•
directed by Charles Catanese. $15. The
Courtyard Playhouse. 39 Grove St W-F
at 8 pm, Sa at 6 and 9 pm and Su at 7
pm. Reservations: (212) 869-3530.
Through March 3,
THE GLINES presents Landscape With
Male Figure, a farce about two gay men
and their sexual fantasies, written by
John Crabtree. Director: John Wall.
Cast: Marlin Outzen, Rob Parker,
Jimmy
O'Neill.
$15. Courtyard
Playhouse. 39 Grove St at Bleecker
Street Wednesday through Friday
evenings at 8 pm, Saturdays at 6 and 9
pm, Sundays at 7 pm. Reservations:(212) 869-3530. Through March 3.
LIVING THE DREAM, INC., presents
OUr Youn;g Black Men Are Dying and
Nobody Slim, to Care, an original
musical play by James Chapman. The
play Is "a compassionate look at someof those. melT whose lives and(untimely) deaths are reflected In thefamiliar statistics of drug abuse, crime,
police brutality, alcoholism, poverty and
AIDS. $15. The Castillo Cultural Center.

ACT UP NEEDLE EXCHANGECOMMITTEE Benefit Tea Dance.
Featuring music, videos and possibly guest perlorm~nces. $7.
A good time with a social conscience. 148 Chambers St., atWest Broadway. Feb. 17.4-10 pm. Inlo: (212) 777-2270.
MOSAIC BOOKSpresents a party lor Out From Under-Tem by
Women Performance Artists. Featuring Robbie-McCauley,
Laurie Carlos, Jessica Hagedarn, Karen Finley, Rachel
Rosenthal, Beatrice Roth, !tolly Hughes, Leeny Sack, Fiona
Templeton, laurie Anderson and Lenora Champagne, editor.
That's who's In the book, though not necessarily who's at the
party. Mosaic Books. 167 Avenue B at 10th Street. Feb. 17. 4
pm. Inlo: (212) 475-8623.
SHESCAPE President's Weekend Party. lbis Is typically !lRe 01
their biggest parties 01 the year. Shescape expects 1,500
women to attend, and they're offering a special guest OJ as
well. $10 with Invite gets you Into this affair; It's $12 without.
Reins. 511 Lexington Ave., at 48th Street. Feb. 17. 9 pm to 4
am. Into: (212) 645-6479.

500 Greenwich St., 1201, between
Spring and Canal streets. Feb. 1, 2,
7-10,14-17,21-24,28
and March
1-3. Th-Sa, 8 pm and Sundays at 3 pm.
Reservations: (212) 941-5800.

55 GROVE STREET presents Cam
Brainard and Bob Koherr's BrlcldBce &Stucco, performers who both appeared
In Parting Glances, their original comedy material Includes two Jocks wholearn they can vogue, retired SOlid Gold
Dancers, Amish rappers who put the"men back In Mennonite," an early
Simon & Garfunkel, and'the Rocky
Mountain Butt Boys who open at a gay
rodeo in West HOllywood; videos serve'as transitions between live routines; at
55 Grove St (west of 7th Ave South); $8+ 2-drlnk minimum; FRI at 8 pm; 3665438

EL TEATRO RODANTE PUERTORRIQUENO inlcia la 1991 temporada con
Asl en Miami Como en el Cle/o. Escrlto
por el dramatrgo Cubano Raul de
Cardenas, el estreno mundlal se trata
del regreso al hogar de un hljo gravemente enfermo, yel doloroso encuentro
entre dos generaclones con vlslones
opuestas de la vida. [EI Teatro Rodant!!
Puertorrlqueno kicks off Its 1991 sea~
son with the world premier of Asl en 'AMERICAN PLACE THEATERpresents I
Miami Como en el Clelo. Written byStand Befo" You Naked by Joyce
Cuban playwright Raul de Cardenas, theCarol Oates, about ten women dealing
play depicts the return home of awith life In today's America; withgravely ill son and the painful clash
Elizabeth Alley, Penny Templeton,
between two generations with opposing
Nancy Barreu, Annie McGreevey,
philosophies of life.] $12 and $15. 304
Marguerne Kuhn, Bronwen Booth; 111
W. 47th St Descuento para estudlants,
W 46 St; $20; WED-SAT at 8 pm, also
mayo res y grupos. En Ingles: We-Fr at
WED & SAT at 2 pm, SUN at 3 pm; 8408 pm. En espanol: Sabados y Domingos,3074
a las 2:30 y a las 8.

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CHARLES LUDLAM THEATRE presents- Ludlam's Camille, starring and directedby Everett Quinton, with Cheryl
Reeves, Ken Scullin, Georg Osterman,
Eureka, Bobb Reed, Jim Lamb, Carl
Claybourne, H.M. Kououkas, JeanClaude Vasseux, Steven Pell, 1
Sheridan Square; $25; TUE-FRI at 8 pm,
SAT &SUN at 7 pm; 691-2271
CHERRY LANE THEATRE presents
David Stevens' The Sum of U" by thewriter of Breaker Morant, starring Tony
Goldwyn and Richard Venture, directedby Kevin Dowling, about a father who
tries to help with his son's gay relationships while he looks for a new wife; 38
Commerce St; $27.50-$32.50; TUE-FRI
at 8 pm, SAT at at 7 & 10 pm, SUN at 3
& 7:30 pm; 989-2020
LUCILLE LORTEL THEATER presents
Fa/llttoland, the William Finn/James
Lapine musicaL The third In Finn's
Marvin Trilogy, Falsettoland examines
the Impact of AIDS on a gay male couple, a lesbian couple, a heterosexual
couple and a child. 121 Christopher St.
$27,50-$35. Tu--F at 8 pm. Sa at 7 and10 pm. Su at 3 pm. (212) 924-8782.
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RAPP THEATRE COMPANY revlYes
Thomas M. Disch's The Cardinal
DetoxBI, "a chilling look Inside the hierarchy of the mQdern CathOliC Church
exploring such Issues as AIDS, abortion, ties to organized crime and homosexuality"; directed by R. Jeffrey
Cohen, starring George McGrath as the
Cardinal; 220 E 4 St; $10 (TDK ok); FRI& SAT at 10 &11:30 pm, SUN at 2 pm
(RT= 35 min.); 529-6160.
MEN WITH WIGS, INC., presents II's a
Man's World: Ladles Sing the Blues, afun-filled, gender-bender fantasy, fromthe Cotton to Motown. Men, With wigs,
examine Incandescent Images of theblues' queens and their descendants.
$10. The Producers Club. 358 W, 44th
St., 2nd floor, suite 7. Fridays at 11 pm.
(212) 971-9021.

MONDAY, FEB. 11•

BRONX AIDS COMMUNITY SERVICEPROJECT presents Bronx AIDS Task
Force Meellng: Impacllng
PublicPolicy. Bronx AIDS Services, Inc. One
Fordham Plaza, suite 800. The Bronx.
2-4:30 pm. (212) 295-5605.
SAGE presents Adult Survivors 01
Sexual Abuse, an experiential therapy
group for women ages 21 and up to
support the recover process and free
you from the parn and silence of sexual
abuse. Psychotherapists:
Joyce Z;
Meyers, CSW and Robbye StuartRussell, MA. The Center. 208 W. 13th
SI. 7-a:30 pm. (212) 741-2247.
GAY ACTIVIST ALLIANCE OF MORRIS•COUNTY presents Womyn's Networkand Men's Rap Group at 7:30 pm,
before their General Meeting at 8:30
pm. Tonight there's a Valentine's Day
dance, with food, fun and special surprises.
Morristown
Unitarian
Fellowship. 21 Normandy Heights Rd.
Morristown,
NJ. Info: GAAMC Gay
Helpline: (201) 285-1595.
ACT UP General Meeting. Cooper
Union. Fourth Avenue at 7th Street. 7:30
pm. Info: 564-AIDS.

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sent MACT Ne.lener Editing. 225 W .
34th St.,#1500. Call before attending. 8
pm. For more Info, contact L1dell at(212) 736-5295.
ASIANS AND FRIENDS NEW YORK celebrate Chinese New Year at the Sung
Hal restaurant. Limited to 80 people.
Prepayment was required by mall, andyou should've gotten your checks In
already. If you haven't, contact AFNY at
PO Box 6628, New York,NY 101636023. Info: (212) 674-5064.:~, ',SLOPE ACTIVITIES FOR LESBIANS presents Phone-In Night A much more
personal sort of planning meeting. Got
an Idea, a question? Can't bear fillingout a survey? Want to get In the
Directory? A real, live operator will bestanding by, just waiting for your call.
7:30 pm. (718) 965-7578.

TUESDAY, FEB. 12
BRONX AIDS COMMUNITY SERVICEPROJECT presents Women Peer
Education Tralnlnll VI. Bronx AIDS
Services, Inc, One Fordham Plaza, suite
800. The Bronx. 10-12 am. (212) 295-

JOCELYN AND JULIE present cln Club
Eait Valentine's Day sexy evening withlesbian erotic slides of women In love,
Go-go couples and lesbian erotic
videos. OJ Dany Johnson. Drink specials till midnight $3 ,before mldnlghU$5 after. 101 Avenue A. Doors
open at 8 pm. (212) 406-1114,

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WEDNESDAY, FEB. 13

GAY MEN OF THE BRONX General
Mlltlng, 1 Fordham Plaza, 8th floor.
6-8 pm. Info: Chris (212) 0806
(EngliSh) or Robert (212) 882-3404.
Meetings are 2nd and 4th Tuesdays;
next Is Feb. 26.

BRONX AIDS COMMUNITY SERVICE,PROJECT presents Speakers Bureau
Tralnlng'- Bronx AIDS Services, Inc.
One Fordham Plaza, suite 800. The
Bronx. 1()-'12 am, (212) 295-5605.

DYKE ACTION MACHINE presents a
Benefit Party. DAMI Is a multlcultura,
direct-action organization dedicated topromotiong lesbian visibility and fightIng all oppressions faced by lesbians.
Join the dymanlc dykes of DAMI, whoprovide you with gorgeous women andlive entertainment. $5. Crazy Nannies.
21 Seventh Ave., at Leroy Street. Info:(718) 832-0108.

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LESBIANS AND GAY MEN OF NEWBRUNSWICK presents Valentine's Day
Social, featuring "more love songs thanthe Nashville Network," Friends Meeting
House. 109 Nichol Ave, New Brunswick,
NJ, 8 pm, (908) 247-0515.

SLOPE ACTIVITIES FOR LESBIANS presents Dyke Video Night Come see a
couple of lesbian classics (yourrequests welcome) at the clubhouse.
Celebrate Fat Tuesday and warm up forValentine's Day, 7 pm. Please call 24hours In advance to confirm all SAL
activities: (718) 965-7578.
GAY MEN'S HEALTH CRISIS presents a
Health Seminar: Insurance Information. 129 W. 20th St., third floor. 7
pm. For more Information, call the
GMHC hotllne at (212) 807-6655. TOO(212) 645-7470 for the hearing Impaired.
LONG ISLAND GAY MEN'S GROUP presents The Bailie of the Bedroom. Is
your love life a power struggle? Comefind out at this bl-weekly discussion
group. For complete detailS, contact
L1GMGat (516) 694-2407.
MEN OF ALL COLORS TOGETHER pre-AIDS AND ADOLESCENTS NETWORKOF NEW YORK Monthly Meeting, topic:
The chancellor's expanded HIV/AIDS
education plan. YWCA of New York. 610
Lexington Ave., at 53rd St 3-5 pm.
Info: (212) 925-6675.
THE GAY AND LESBIAN ALLIANCE
AGAINST DEFAMATION presents a
Cocktail Celebrallon saying goodbye
to GLAAD's founding executive director,
Craig Davidson, and hello to GLAAD's
new executive director, Stephen Beck,$50. 126 Fifth Ave. at 18th Street.
6-9 pm.
THE GAY AND LESBIAN ANTI-VIOLENCE PROJECT Peer Counseling forsurvivors of bias assault, domestic violence and sexual assault. Held every
Wednesday and Thursday from 6-8
pm. The Center. 208 W. 13th SI. (212)807-0197.
TWENTYSOMETHING
Women's
Wednesday. An evening of entertainment for women. Men welcome.
Twentysomethlng Is a social group forgay men and lesbians In their 20s andearly 308. $5. The Center. 208 W. 13th
St. 6-8 pm. Info: (212) 967-7711 ext.
3163.
BRONX LESBIANS UNITED IN SISTERHOOD General Meeting. Tonight's
meeting topic: "lesbian love through theages,' Come bring your poetry andwritings and share your love and experiences. 1 Fordham Plaza, 8th floor.
6:30-8 pm. Info: Lisa at (212) 8299817 (English) and Miriam at (212)409-2692 (Spanish).
SLOPE ACTIVITIES FOR LESBIANS presents Pool Night Featuring free pool,ping pong, billiards, air hockey andshooting hoops at Brownstone Billiard.
Seventh Ave. at Aatbush. Then, Insteadof The Roost this week, it's Dinner at
the Rex Cere at 9 pm. Seventh Avenue
at 3rd Street. The evening begins at
7:00 pm. Please call 24 hours In
advance to confirm all SAL activities:(718) 965-7578,
JUDITH'S ROOM presents Joy Harjo,
reading with Nancy Krlcorlan, one offour winners of the 1990 Judith's Room
Emerging Talent Competition. Seating Is
limited. Wheelchair accessible. Judith's
Room. 681 Washington St 7 pm. (212)727-7330.
RUTGERSGALA Roller Skating BenetH
for the Third Annual Lesbian and Gay
Studies Conference. Themed "Roller
Skate Into Romance." $5. Limited number of tickets available, so call for reservatons, Kendall Park Skating Center. Rt.
27, halfway between Princeton and New
Brunswick. 7-9:30 pm. For complete
details: (908) 246-8325.
INTEGRAL YOGA INSTITUTE presents
PATH Seminars:
The Body-Mind
Connection. Seminar leader: Peter
Hendrickson, PhD, psychologist. $7 perclass (scholarships available). IYL 227
W. 13th St.7:3!Hl pm. (212) 929-0586.
A DIFFERENT LIGHT presents John
Weir, reading from his book, The
IrreversIble Decline of EddIe SOCket.
548 Hudson St. 8 pm. Info: (212) 9894850. [Weir Is the recIpient of fheLambda LIterary Award fof Best Gay
Male Debut, and he's also a frIend of
mIne. Go see hIm. -OF')GAY MEN'S HEALTH CRISIS presents
Men Meeting Men. The Center. 208 W,
13th St. 8-10:30.
CELLBLOCK
28 presents
Ash
Wednesday, featuring free cigars, soda,
aod clothes check. The party Is sponsored by Hot Ash, $13. Cellblock 28, 28
NInth Ave., at 14th Street. (212) .7333144. Hot Ash: P.O. Box 20147. London
Terrace Station. NYC 10011. (718) 7896147,
GAY MALE SIM ACTIVISTS Meetingand Discussion: Fear and Mystery, a
discussion featuring an experienced
topman. Audience discussion encouraged. $4 members/$6 nonmembers,
The Center. 208 W. 13th St., 3rd floor.
Socializing at 8 pm; program at 8:30
pm. (212) 727-9878.

MAR~ BERKLEYpresents the fll"$l Hunt
Magazine Party, In conjunction with
Disco 2000 and the Limelight. With
Mistress of Ceremonies Lahoma Van
Zandt. Featuring the Hunt Man of New
York Contest. $5 with Invlte!$10 without. Limelight. Sixth Avenue at 20thStreet. Info: (212) 337-1200,
THE EAGLE presents Movie Night:
LongtIme CompanIon. The Eagle. 142
Eleventh Ave., at 21st Street. 11 pm.
691-8451.
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ARTISTS TALK ON ART presents a
Portrait Painting Marathon to benefit
Artist Talk on Art. As their flyer says,"Bring your honey and get Immortalized
In paint." The 20 painters will charge
you $1 per minute-you decide aheadof time how long you want the portrait
to take to paint. SoHo Foto Gallery. 15
White St., at West Broadway. Info:(212) 385-2862.
CENTER SHOWS takes a trip to see
Ne" Simon's LillI In Yonk",. The
play Is set In Yonkers In 1942 and concerns two boys who are sent to livewith their grandmother for the duration of World War II. $50. For complete details, contact Center Shows at(212) 620-7310.
THE GAY AND LESBIAN ANTI-VIOLENCE PROJECT Peer Counseling forsurvivors of bias assault, domestic violence and sexual assault. Held every
Wednesday and Thursday from 6-8
pm. The Center. 208 W. 13th St. (212)807-0197.
THE NATIONAL LESBIAN CONFERENCE
presents NLC Into Sharing. ASO Interpreted by previous request. Wheelchair
accessible. The Center. 208 W. 13th St.
6-8 pm. (718) 230-3532.
THE STONEWALL DEMOCRATIC CLUBpresents Robin Byrd. The Club
promises Robin and some of her handsome and hunky friends, and "fun andsurprises' are guaranteed,. Open bar.
Hot hors d'oeuvres. $20. Stark's
Veranda Restaurant. 319 Broadway at
Thomast Street. 6-8:30 pm. RSVP.
(212) 969-8854.
JUDITH'S ROOM presents Kay Gardner,
reading from her book, SoundIng theInner Landscape: Music as MedIcIne.
Seating Is limited. Wheelchair accessible. Judith's Room. 681 Washington St.
7 pm. (212) 727-7330,
THE NEW YORK ADVERTISING AND
COMMUNICATIONSNETWORK
Valentine's Day Party. Join them for aclassic French bistro supper, accompanied by an open bar, In a colorful SoHoloft. their theme: "Treat your Valentine,

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.Tuning In: A TV/Radio Guide for OutWeek Readers,

Information must be received by Monday to be included in the following week's issue, Send items to.
OutWeek Listings, 159W. 25 St, NY, NY 10001.
ME (Arts & Em:.555 Fifth Ave, 10th FI,NYC 10017;661-4500)
CClV (RickX, Box 790, NYC 10108)
GBS (Gay Broadcasting System, Butch Peaston, 1787th Ave, Ste, A-3, NYC 10011;
243-1570)
GCN (Gay Cable Network, Lou Maletta, 32 Union Square East, Suite 1217;4774220)
GMHC (Gay Men's Health Crisis, Jean Carlomusto, 129W 20 St, NYC 10011;8077517),
RB PROD (Robin Byrd Prod., Box 305, NYC 10021;988-2973)
WASC-TV (77 W63 St, NYC 10023;456-7777)
WBAI-FM (505 8th Ave, 19th FI,NYC 10018;279-0707)
WCBS-TV (51 W 52 St St, NYC 10019;975-4321)
WNBC-TV (30 Rockefeller Plaza, NYC 10112;664-4444)
WNET-TV (356 W 58 St, NYC 10019;560-3000)•
WNYW-TV (Fox, 1211AV/AM, NYC lOOl6; 556-2400)
WPIX-TV (220 E42 S1; NYC 10017;949-11(0)MONDAY, FEBRUARY 11
6 AM SHO Victor/Victorial

know-lt's early, so if you miss Blake Edwards'
woman-playing-a-man-playing-a-woman
farce now, you can catch it
again this week. It's on Friday at 1:45 pm on SHO, and Wednesday at
7:30 pm on MAX.
7 AM WABC- TV Good Morning America Jodie Foster (cough, cough) is oneof the scheduled guests, and AIDS activist Elizabeth (Paul [Starskyand
Hutch] Michael's wife) Glaseris another, CH 7.
10:00 AM WABC- TV Sally Jessy Raphael Scheduled: a discussion of sexually explicit home videos. Why do Ithink that they're not going to be rating them? CH 7.
1:30 PM WUSB 90,1 FM The Word Is Out Marc Gunning hosts a weekly lesbian, gay and bisexual variety show featuring music, news, editorials,
comedy and guest interviews,
2:00 PM WUSB 90,1 FM Lavender Wimmin News, songs and music pro. duced bywomenforwomen,
2:30 PM WUSB 90.1 FM This Way Out More queer news,
8:00 PM TNT Kisses Lauren Bacall hosts a retrospective of great screen
kisses, You'll see Leigh kiss Gable, Bacall kiss Bogie, Clift kiss Dean ....
Repeated tonight at 11 and Thursday at 11 am.
8:30 PM Manhattan Cable The Brenda and Glennda Show CH 17
9:00 PM DIS Gentlemen Prefer Blondes And everyone prefers Marilyn.
Repeated Tuesday at 4:30 am.
9:00 PM GBS Out in th1/9O's: community news, discussion, interviews, BQ
Cable, CH 56 (1:00)
11:30 PM Tomorrow/Tonight livel: entertainment; Manhattan and Paragon
Cable, CH D/17 (1 :(0)Midnight CCTV The' Closet Case Show. K10set Klips; Manhattan IParagon
Cable, CH C/16 (:30)
1:30,AM USA Hollywood Insider More with Jodie (cough, cough) Foster.

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 12
11tOO AM TNT All This, and Heaven TooA little Bette Davis never killed anyone.
4:00 PM WCBS- TV Oprah WinfreyScheduled topic: extramarital affairs, I
must say, I've known a few married men in my time, CH 7,
10:00 PM RB PROD The Robin Byrd Show. male and female strippers;
Manhattan Cable, CH V/35 (1:00)·11:00 PM GBS Out in the 90's: news, information and interviews;
Manhattan/Paragon Cable, CH C/16 (1:00)

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 13
11:30 PM WNBC- TV Tonight Jodie Foster is coming out everywhere thisweek. Heavensl CH 4.
Midnight RB PROD The Robin Byrd Show. male and female strippers, live
call-in shoW; Manhattan Cable, CH V/35•

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 14
9:00 AM. WIND-TV Best TalkScheduled topic: romance and AIDS in the'90s. The factthatthese two words appear in the same sentence is agood sign for network TV. CH 11,
10:00 AM WABC- TV Sally Jessy Raphael Sally offers you your stupid dose

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for the week. with her guest, Marla (I'll marry Donald) Maples. CH 7.
1:00 PM WBAI-FM This Way Out; the international gay/lesbian news magazine; 99.5 FM (:30)
1:30 PM WBAI-FM An Afternoon Outing: local news and information about
the gay and lesbian community with lany Gutenburg; 99.5 FM (:30)
1:55 PM TNT Queen Christina Greta Garbo stars in this film, based on thelife of Sweden's 17th-Century monarch, Queen Christina? Queen
Christina?
7:00 PM WCBS-TV Hard Copy S~hel:luled topic: sexually explicit home
videos. Just in case you missed it on SJR on Monday, network TV
repeates itself, Quelle surprise, CH 2.
7:30 PM WCBS- TV Entertainmel1t Tonight Scheduled: A look at Hollywood
couples. Who are Barry Diller and Merv Griffin seeing now,
8:00 PM MTV Big Picture Scheduled: Jodie Foster, Not only is this her
fourth appearance this week, butthis program even airs twice. Catchher again at 11:30 tonight
8:00 PM The Gay Dating Game Showwith Tommy Saeli and lahoma Van
Zandt; Manhattan Cable, CH C/16 (:30).
10:00PM GCN Be Our Guest entertainment for and about the lesbian/gay
community; Manhattan Cable, CH D/17 (:30)
111".30 PM GMHC living With AIDS: health and politics; Manhattan Cable, CH
V/35 (:30)
11:00 PM GCN Gay U.SA: news and entertainment from around the countIy; Manhattan Cable, CH V/35 (1:00)
11:30 PM A&E Improv Tonite The host is Greg Louganis. I wonder what stories he'll make up.
Midnight GCN Men in Films: male erotica, interviews with adult filmstars;
Manhattan Cable, CH V/35 (:30)
12:30 AM. RB PROD Men For Men Robin Byrd presents gay male pornostars; Manhattan Cable, CH V/35 (:30),,

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 15
11tOO AM WABC- TV Sally Jessy Raphael Scheduled topic: sexual fantasies.
Use those phone lines, dykes and fags, and telly Sally some of yours. If
any community knows' phone sex, ours does. CH 7
2:30 PM WBAI-FM Rompiendo el Silenciu. todos los viernes, Gonzalo
Aburto con temas y noticias para la comunidad latina gay y lesbiana;
99.5 FM (:15)
7:00 PM WBAI-FM AIDS In Focus, Michael Alcalay, produc 1:00 AM RB
PROD The Robin Byrd Show. male and female strippers; Manhattan
Cable, CH V/35 (1:00).'
Midnight ESPN Bodybuilding Just for dykes: It's the women's IFBB North
American Championships,•

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 1,6,

4:00 AM A&E Oranges Are Not the Only FruitThe only truly queer movie ofthe week-andwhat a prime programming slot~ygaveit
8:30 AM WBAI-FM Any Saturday with David Rothenberg; live call-in; 99.5
FM (2:00)
7:00 PM GCN Gay U.S,A: news and entertainment from around the country;
Bo, Unity, ACV Cable, CH 56 (1:(0) (For Manhattan Cable, see THURSDAy)
11:00 PM Gay 11f. male porn; Manhattan Cable, CH V/35
1:00 AM RB PROD The Robin Byrd Show. male & female strippers; Paragon
Cable, CH C/16 (1:00)
1:30 AM RB PROD The Robin Byrd Show. male & female strippers;
Manhattan Cable, CH V/35 (1:00)

SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 17
7:30 PM WBAI-FM Outlooks; with host Sue Heske, GLIB's co-founder.
Alternates with The Gay Show; 99,5 FM (1:(0)111'.30 PM RB PROD Men For Men Robin Byrd presents gay male pornostars; Manhattan Cable, CH V/35 (:30)
11:00 PM GBS Way Outl Mark Chesnut and Michelle VanVoorhies interview
Carol Polcovarand Raven Hall of Village Productions, WOltakes a trip
to Divine's grave. Shirley Chisolm talks about lesbians and gay men, CH
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or meet your Valentine." $25. 482
Broome St, top floor, at Wooster St
7-1'0 pm. Registration: (212) 517-0380.
THE CENTER presents Orientation, theCenter's outreach program. They ask,
Looking for a new sweetheart or a newcause? Then come to Orientation. The
Center. 208 W. 13th St 7 pm. (212)620-7310.
MEN OF ALL COLORS TOGETHER New
York HIV/AIOS Concerns Committee
Meeting. 169 Manhattan Ave., 14B, at108th Street 7 pm. For info, contact
David at (212) 932-3138.
SLOPE ACTIVITIES FOR LESBIANS presents Couples Dining Out: The
Oasls.Take your honey and meet other
SAL couples. 7 pm. 133 Seventh Ave.,
between Carroll and Garfield. Then, at
7:30, it's a Singles Party. Come to theclubhouse to make new friends ... andyou never know when Cupid will strike.
Don't forget the snacks, drinks and cassettes. Please call 24 hours In advanceto confirm all SAL activities: (718) 9657578.
SISTERSI presents an Atter-Work
Valentine's Day Danc,e to celebr~telezzle love. The Ward Lawrence Gallery.
543 E. 12th St, between avenues A andB. 7 pm to 12 am. (718) 768-7453.

'FRIDAY, FEB. 15
BRONX LESBIANS UNITED IN SISTERHOOD General Meeting, Scheduled
topic: African-American
lesbians in
1991: the journey to full liberation. The
Center. 208 W. 13th St 6:30-8 pm.
Info: Lisa at (:112) 829-9817 (English),and Miriam at (212) 409-2692(Spanish).
SLOPE ACTIVITIES FOR LESBIANS presents Thirty-PIus Potluck and GameNight An extra-special night Visit a
Cobble Hill SAL Gal's place with
antiques, petite poodles and other "curlousities." And bring the food (homemade if possible), drinks and games, 7
pm. Please call 24 h.ours In advance toconfirm all SAL activities: (718) 9657578.
THE ANSWER IS LOVING Women
Talking Women's Talk: Emotlon,l/Loglc,l, "How do we live with both?
And the wisdom to know the difference.
To feel, to act, to be stili"; 1964 E 35 St,
Bklyn; 7:45-10 pm; $10; Ruth Berman& Connie Kurtz, (718) 998-2305.
MEN OF All COLORS TOGETHER presents a Role-Playing,
C-R Session,
Tonight's topic: "Getting Our Message
Across-Telling Albany About eashlng."
The Center. 208 W. 13th St. 7:45 pm.
THE LATINO GAY MEN'S ALLIANCE presents a St Valentine's Celebration.

Food and music will be combined with acritical discussion of first love. Readyour own poems, The Center. 208 W.
13th St 8 pm. For more Info: Rafael
Ruiz-Ayala at (718) 834-8785 or Luis
Nieves-Rosa at (212) 966-6336.
BODY POSITIVE Friday Night Social.
This week's is a Valentlne~s Day dance
featuring cabaret by Sharon Douglas.
Body Positive's Friday Night,Soclals areheld for all HIV-positlve people and theirfriends. 'MIddle Collegiate Church. 50 E.
7th St., off Second Avenue. 8-1 a pm.
Info: (212) 721-1346.
DIXON PLACE presents Emmen Foster,
performing "a new monologue of some
sort," probably autobiographical. Foster
is Is the author and performer of theacclaimed autobiographicalwork,
Emmett, a One Mormon Show, Also
tonight: Stray Bullets, A Vudevllle
Show With Teeth. Written by Ed
Cachianes and directed by John Albano,
this piece .:'concems the effect of urban
warfare on a group of disconnected
New Yorkers,"
and stars Helen
Shumaker and Joe Pichette. $6 or TOF.
Dixon Place. 37 E. 1st St., between Arst
and Second avenues. 8 pm. (212) 6736752.
LAGUF presents a Valentine's
Day
Party. $3. Hostos C.C. 500 Grand
Concourse. The Bronx. 8 pm to 1 'am.
Info: Chris (212) 0806 (English) or
Robert (212) 882-3404,
JOCELYNAND JULIE present Cllt Club
West. Valentine's Day sexy fun with go,go couples and erotic visuals of women
In love. Dollar drinks till 9 pm. Billiards.
OJ Dany Johnson. $5. 432 W. 14th St
Doors open at 8 pm. (212) 406-1114.
THE ANGELIKA FilM CENTER presents
The Cu ltur8 God of the 1980s: The
Films 01 Andy Warhol. The six-weekseries continues with the one and only
Chelsea Girts. The Chelsea Hotel is thesetting lor a series' of narratives, each
acted out by the stars 01 the Warhol
entourage. Each of the films 12 reels
constltues a separate episode, and thereels are not prOjected in a single linear
sequence, but are divided Into two parts
that playoff each other as the reels areprojected side by side. Part one pays on
Friday, part two on Saturday, The
Angellka Film Center, 611 Broadway.
Midnight. (212) 995-2000. [See Feb.
16).,'

SA1lURDAY, FEB. 16
AUSGAY Australian Gay Mardi Gras•
Tour departs today for a 16-day vacation. $3999-plus. For Info, contact Eml
Weir at (212) 972-6880.
INTEGRAL YOGAINSTITUE presents
Hatha Yoga Clall. Hatha Yoga refers to
the physical postures, deep relaxation

and breathing practices which revitalize
and strengthen the body and calm themind. This class is especially for those
who are HIV-positlve. IYI. 227 W. 13th
St. 12-1 :30 pm. (212) 929-0586.
THE GIRTH AND MIRTH CLUB presentsa Sweetheart Party (your sweetheart
party gets In for half price). Call for
time, place and other details: (914) 699-

n35,
CONGREGATIONB'NAI JESHURUN presents a Shabbat Spiritual Gathering forpeople with AIDS and their loved ones,
with a festive luncheon, dialog andmusic, Including a Klezner band. Opento all affected by AIDS or HIV, regardless of religious affiliation. Call In
advance to register. 257 W. 88th St. 2
pm. (212) 787-7600.
SLOPE ACTIVITIES FOR lESBIANS presents Ice Skating In Prospect Park at
12 noon. Come rent with us at the Kate
Wollman Rink. Beginners welcome.
Then, at 7:30 pm, It's a SAL First·
Timers party, a special monthly gettogether for lesbians that have neverbeen to a SAL thing belore. We'll kill
you with kindness at the clubhouse.
(Second-timers,
seldom-times andmaternal types welcome, too.) Pleasecall 24 hours In advance to connnn all
SAL activities: (718) 965-7578.
ASIANS AND FRIENDS NEW YORK present a Third Saturday Social: New
Year's/Valenllne's
Day Celebrallon.
The Center. 208 W. 13th St, 8 pm. Info:(212) 674-5064,
DIXON PLACE presents Frank Maya,
who digs deeper Into his Unauthorized
Autobiography (this time his parents arecoming). Maya Is an established perfo~mance artist who has worked aroundthe world and In New York at PS 122,
la Mama and other,clubs, and he's
been written about In OutWeektoo. $6.or TDF. Dixon Place. 37 E. 1st SI.,between First and Second avenues. 8
pm. (212) 673-6752.
NEW JERSEY lESBIAN AND GAY
COALITION Meeting. 4 Huntington St.,room 114B. New BrunswiCk, NJ. 12:30
pm,
THE ANGELIKA FilM CENTER presents
The Culture God of the 19801:, The
Films of Andy Warhol. The six-weekseries continues with the one and only
Chelsea Girts. The Chelsea Hotel Is thesetting for a series of narratives, each
acted out by the stars of the Warhol
entourage. Each of the films 12 reels
constltues a separate episode, and thereels are not projected In a single linear
sequence, but are divided Into two parts
that playoff each other as the reels areprojected side by side. Part one pays on
Friday, part two on Saturday, The
Angellka Film Center. 611 Broadway.

Midnight. (212) 995-2000. [See Feb.
15)

SUNDAY, FEB. 17
SLOPE ACTIVITIES FOR LESBIANS
takes a trip to the Brooklyn Botanical
Gardens at 1 pm. Rowers are bloomingat the Spring Bulb Show In the
Steinhardt Conservatory. Call for exact
meeting place and other details; theevent Is free. Then, at 7:30 pm, It's
Vacation Night Bring photos, videotapes or stories about you r most recent
or favorite trip, Please call 24 hours In
advance to confl rm all SAL activities:(718) 965-7578.
MEN OF ALL COLORS TOGETHER presents Healing Sound Workshop for Gay
Men. $8. The Center. 208 W. 13th St.
2-5 pm. Reservations: 222-9794.
ACT UP NEEDLE EXCHANGE COMMITTEE Benefit Tea Dance, Featuring
music, videos and possibly guest performances. $7. 148 Chambers St, at
West Broadway, 4-10 pm. Info: (212)m-2270,MOSAIC BOOKS presents a party for
Out From Under-Texts
by Women
Performance Artists. featuring Robbie
McCauley, Laurie Carlol, Jessica
Hagedorn, Karen Finley, Rachel
ROlenthal,Beatrice Roth, Holly
Hughes, Leeny Sack, Fiona Templeton,
LaurieAndersonand Lenora
Champagne, editor. Thars who's In thebook, though not necessarily who's at
the party. Mosaic Books. 167 Avenue B
at 10th Street. 4 pm. Info: (212) 4758623.
LAVENDER HEIGHTS Third-Sunday
Potluck, Lavender Heights Is an organization of lesbian and gay neighbors ofWashington Heights and Inwood, Bringa dish and enjoy socializing, network,
games and volleyball. This month's
theme: Valentine's Day. $2 suggested
donation, Cornerstone Center. 178
Bennet Ave., west of Broadway at 189th
Street. 6 pm, Info: (212) 569-2023,
JUDITH'S ROOM presents bell hoon,
reading from her book yearning, race,
gender and cultural politics, Seating Is
limited. Wheelchair accessible. Judith'sRoom, 681 Washington St. 7 pm, (212)727-7330.
SHESCAPEPreSident's Weekend Party,
This Is typically one of their biggest parties. Shescape expects 1,500 women,
and offers a special guest OJ. $10 with
Invlte/$12
without.
Relngs. 511
Lexington Ave., at 48th Street. 9 pm to4 am. Info: (212) 645-6479.
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Private Eyes (f\ilarc Berkley's Kool Komrads;strippers; downtown'crowd, students, professionals; $7) 12 W 21 St, club 200-7772
Temple (BillieKlub's party: a different theme each week,) 101 Avenue A

TUesday,

Big City Diner (""Subkulture," featuring dancing, food and bar. For men,but women are welcome. $7/$5,) 43rd St.at 11th Ave, (212) 268-4572.
• Clit Club (Drink specials till midnight. Lesbian erotic videos and slides.
$3 before midnight/$5 after,) 101 Avenue A.*Club
Edelweiss ('1Vs, TSs, gays, bi's, singles, couples'; TUES especially for lesbians; but open to all TUE-SUN.night) 167 W 29; 868-6989
hDanceteria (Coming soon: Chip Ducket's gay Tuesdays. Keep youreyes on this space for opening,) 29 E, 29th St.
• Grand Central (Women's night tonight. Mixed We-Su.) 210 Merrick
Road, Rockville Centre, LI; (516) 536-4800.
Kilimanjara (Tracks Tuesdays.) 531 W 19th St, 627-2333.
IRoxy (John Blair's "Muscle on Wheels,' Gay rollerskating, Doors open at 8
pm. Varied cover.) 515W 18 St; 645-5156,

Wednesday-ccChannel6!l (Unda Simpson presents TheAquarian Psychodrama, starring
Aloyd and Tabbool Go-go stars abound, DJ Dany Johnson. East Village fag
and dyke crowd. $5.) 101Avenue A.
IThe Building (Dallas' The Boys' Room, House music, downtown crowd,
go-go boys and a 6O-foot ceiling: $10/$7 with invite) 51 W 26 St; 576-1890• Excalibur (Ladies Nigh~ $1 drinks) corner 10th/Jefferson behind football stadium, Hoboken, NJ; 201-795-1161'*Limelight (Disco 2/JOOwith Michael Alig and Larry Tee;10 pm, $10;
Coors no longer served!) 6th Ave at 20 St; club 807-7850• Private Eyes (Shescape Afterwork Party, 5-10 pm; $5 before 7 prrv'$7
after; 2-4-1 drinks before 7) 12 W 21 St; info 645-6479, club 200-7772. Private Eyes (YMVA Night; students, prof Is, women; performers; $7;
door often benefits a gay/lesbian organization) 12 W 21 St; 200-7772
Silver Lining (2-4-1 drinks, also open Tues-Sun, women SAT) 175 Cherry
Lane, FloralPk, LI; 516/354-9641
SIan (241 drinks, also open daily)2D2WestchesterAve,White Plains;914/751-3100

ThursdayCheap (It's a new party, promising 'cheap drinks and cheap queers." No
cover.) 101 Avenue A*Copacabana (last Thu. ofthe month Susanne Bartsch party, next isNovember 29; iffy door) 10 E 60 St, at Fifth Ave; 755-6010
Excalibur ($1 drinks, also open Tues-Sun, women WED) corner 10th/Jefferson behind football stadium, Hoboken, NJ; 201-795-1161
Hatfield's (2-4-1 drinks, female impersonators; also open nightly, women
on TUE & FRI) 126-10 Queens Blvd, Kew Gardens, Queens; 718/261-8484
hMore Men (Tony, Keith and Dominic present DJ Tommy Richardson, gogo boys, video lounge, billiards, $101$7 with invite,) 239 Eleventh Ave" at26th Street. (212) 633-0701.
*Roxy (Disco Interruptus, DJs Larry Tee and The Fashion Patrol. Performances by Lady Bunny and Alien Comic. With Lahoma, Richard. Move and Shelly Mars, Living installation by P,O,O,L. Decor by Hildebrando de Castro, $10) 515 W 18; 645-5156
Stingray's (New club, new sound system, everything else is a surprise,. No cover tonight.) 641 W 51st St. (212) 664-8668

FridayIABC (Chip1Juckett's ABC Fridays, DJ Merritt; ~allroom, balcony, billiards,
boogying; $101$7 w, invitll; opened Nov, 16) 17 Irving Place at 15 St.Clit Club (Jocelyn & Julie, Every Friday Party. go-go girls, lesbo videos; opens 8
pm, billiards &$1 drinks between 8 and 9 pm; $5) 432W14St;G-1114
Colmnbia !;lances (1st Friday of every month, Earl Hall, 10 pm - 2 am; next
is March 1.) 116th St &.Bway; 854-3574 days
• Hatfield's (women's nights are TUE & FRI) 126-10 Queens Blvd., Kew
Gardens, Queens; 718/261-8484
IMeat on Friday (Xclusive performances at 1:30 am, DJ Nobody's Pussy,$5,) 101 Avenue A
70 OUTWEEK February 20,1_1*Mike Todd
(Sister Dimension's Panty Girdles) 123 E 13 St; 473-7171(Ladies' Night, 1770NYAve (Rte 110),Huntington, U; 516'351-1402.Millemilln
PrivaIe Eyes (YMVA Night; stUdents, professionals, men) 12W 21 St '1JJ>.
Stingray's (Brand new club, brand new sound system, everything else isa surprise, Free, ~-10 pm. $7 after.) 641 W 51st St. (212) 664-8668+Visions (women's party) 56-01 Queens Blvd, Woodside, Queens; info
718/846-7131, club 718/899-9031

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Saturday

Barefoot Boogie f2nd & 4th SAT;adultslkids, smoke & alcohol free; 831 pm 12:31am, $4; next is Dec 8) 434 6th Ave (btwn9l10 SIs), 4th Aoor; 832-6759
Center (2nd & 4th Sat, 9 pm to 1 am, $8; next is Feb, 24,) 208W 13 St; 620-7310• Center (Women & Friends, 1st SAT; 9 pm - 1 am, $8; next is December 1) 208 W 13 St; 620-7210
I Club West End (Michael Fesco's Saturdays; midnight - 9 am) 547 W 21 St
Columbia Dances (SamE BuT DifferenT, 3rd SAT, next is Feb. 16. DJ
Karin Ward, 10 pm - 3 am; $5) Earl Hall, 116St/B'way; 629-1989
Controversy (Hosted by Patrick Butts and the people who bring you
Disco Interruptus, $2,99) 101 Avenue A
419419 N. Highway, Southampton, LI; 516/283-5001
Love Zone (dancing & performers) 70 Beach Sf, Staten Island; 718/442-5692
I Meat (DJ Aldo Hernandez, every Saturday; go-go boys, videos; opens
10 pm; $5) 432 W 14 St; 353-3866,+Irving Plaza (Shescape and Girlgate's 'Girl Saturdays." DJ Dany Johnson. Go-go girls, billiards. $5 before midnight/$7 after with invite.)
Iriving Place at 15th Street. (212) 645-6479 .
*Roxy (Locomotion; gay boys, guys, men; non-gay women, some lesbians; mix depends on party) 515 W 18 St (btwn 10/11 Aves); 645-5156+ Silver Uning (women's Sat) 175 Cherry Lane, Aoral Park, LI; 516/354-9641
Sound Factory (mostly gay; serious House/Club dancing, no alcohol,
opens 11 pm) 530 W 27 St (10th/11th Aves); 643-0728
Stingray's (Brand new club, brand new sound system, everything,lIlse isa surprise, $8.) 641 W. 51st St. (212) 664-8668~+TIIIy City (Karen Diga presents an array of eccentric, voluptuous and titiilizing
women. $5) The Box. 70 Grove St reet at Sheridan Square, (212)242-14!IL
Trileca Tnnfer1Kooi Komrads' Outl party, with hot men, music, videos. No
Coverand a free buffet) Tribeca Transfer. 148Chambers St (212)385-7572.

Sunday, .,'IThe Building (Dallas' The Men's Room, students, professionals; men;go-go boys & 6O-ft, ceiling) 51 W 26 St; 576-1890 .
*Cafe Society (Society Sundays Tea Dance, Hi NRG DJs, Society
Dancers; 5 pm-??; $10) B'way at 21 St; 529-8282
FUCKI (DJs Craig and Victor, 'caged go-go animals' and 'ruff music forruff dykes and fags." $2.99) 101Avenue A
Kelly's (DJ Moaning Lisa spins the records for dancing dykes, Doors
open at 8 pm, $3,) 46 Bedford St, (212) 929-9322.
*+Mars (Lahoma's Home for Runaway Boys. DJ Lany Tee, emcee Ru-Paul.1Vs
and women vvelcome, $1tr$5 with invite,) 13th St atthe West Side Highway
Monster (Sunday Tea Dance at 4 pm; dancing also on other nights from
10 pm) 80 Grove St at Sheridan Sq.; 924-3557.
More (James St. James, Bella Bolski present) 239 Eleventh Ave, 633-0701,
Safe Sundays (Kool Komrads' party at the Cadillac Bar; go-go boys, $2
shots, $5 beer bias from 5-8 pm.) 15 W, 21st St, (212) 645-7220
20120 (Michael Fesco's Tea Dance, opens 4 pm; $6; free Mimosas & BMs
from 4-6; buffet at 7:30) 20 W 20 St; 727-8841

Every Night (or almost)• Bedrock (lesbian club, closed MON & TUE) 121 Woodfield Rd, W,
Hempstead, LI; 516/486-9516*Club Edelweiss ("lVs, TSs, gays, bi's, singles, couples all welcome';
TUE for lesbians, but open to all TUE-SUN night) 167 W 29; 868-6989• Pandora's Box (formerly the Duchess) Sheridan Square & 7th Ave; 242-1408
419 (nightly Gay House Party, opens 6 pm) 419 N. Highway (Rte 271.
Southampton, LI; 516/283-5001,NOTES:....[IlIIW info!
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Volu ..... r OppaltiJnitjes(718)896-25OO(voice)(718) 896-2985(mD)

ACf UP (AIDS Coalition to
UnleashP_)
498A Hudson Street, Suite G4
NYC 10014 (212) 584-2437 A
diverse, non-partisan group ofindividuals united in anger andcommitted to direct action to end
the AIDS crisis, Gen, meetings
Mon. nights 7:30, in The Great
Hall, Cooper Union, on Cooper
Square between Astor and St
Marks Place's,/

AIDS RESOURCE CENTBI (ARCI
Supportive housing for homeless
PWAs IBailey House and apartments). Non-judgemental pastoral care for PWAs and loved
ones. Volunteer opportunities.
(212) 481-1270, 24 West 30th St,
NYC 10001•

ALOEC/APlN-NY.' ·(Asian Lesbi_na of the East
CoastfAiian Pacific Lesbian Network-fHw York) We are a politi, cal, social and supportive
network of Asian Pacific lesbians. Planning meetings on the
1st Sunday and social events on, the last Friday of ea ch month.
Call (212)517-5598 for more irrfor. malion,

AMERICAN GAY/
lESBIAN ATHBSTS
AGA. IncJ701 7th Avenue, Suite
9W/New York, New York 10036
A non-profit, educational organization dedicated to preserving
separation between state andclturch and upholding the civilrights of Lesbian and Gay Atheists. Meetings the firsts Sunday
Community Center, 1 to 3 P.M,
Dial a Gay Atheists (718lBOO-1737,
24 hours.

ARCS (AlDS-Re11llal
Conmunity S.nric:n)for Dutchess, Orange, Putnam,
Rockland, Sullivan, Ulster andWestchester counlies. AIDS education, client services, crisis
intervention, support groups,
case management, buddy andhospital visitor program. 214 Central Ave., Whita Plains, NY 10606
1914) 993-0806 838 Broadway,
Newburgh, NY 12250 19141562sen; AlDSlill8 (914)!J9S.461J7ASIANS a RIIENDS- NEW YORK
A not-for-profit
organization
which promotes friendshipa with
Asian/Pacific Islander, AsianAmerican, and non-Asian gay
men through social, cultural, edu-

cational, and service activities
and programs. Call our HolLine:
212-674-5064,or write to: P.O.Box
6628,NY,NY 10163-6023.
AnI (AIDS l1IEAlMENf

RESOURCES, INC.)
Publishes a bi-monthly Directoryof clinical trials of experimental
AIDS/HIV treatments in NY/NJ,
and has educational materials!
seminars for trial participants.,
ATR also advocates for improvements in the trial system. P.O.Box
30234, NY, NY 1011-0102, (212)26S-4196.Publications free/donation requested.

BAR ASSOCIATION RlR
HUMAN RlGKTS
Lawyers Referral Service for the
Lesbian and Gay Community Full
Range of Legal Services 1212)
459-4873Free Walk-in legal Clinic. Tuesday &-8 pmLesbian & Gay
Community CentroGround Roor
BIlS (BISEXUAL DOMINANCE a

SUBMISSION GROUp!
Share SIM experiences and fantasies with others in a positive,
non-judgemental atmosphere.
Rrst Sunday of the month, 4:45pm
at the Community Center 208 W.
13Street, NYC . This group is partof the New York Area Bisexual
Network.
BISEXUAL INFOIIMAnON a
COUNSBJNG SERVICE.I,NC.
A professionaly steffed, non-profit organization for bisexuals, theirfamilies and partners, facing
problems of a paychological or
medical kind. We also work withthoso in doubt about their sexuality. Confidentiality is protected bylaw. For irrformation phone: 1212)
49&-9500

BISEXUAL PRIDEDISCUSSION GROup,
Topical discussions on issues ofinterest to the community in acongenial atmosphere, followedby 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.

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BISEXUAL YOUTH
Irrformal social & support group, for Bisexual kids/youth. Monthly
meeting/potluck
lunch heldl;OOpm on fourth Sunday of themonth at members homes. Call
NY'ABN for this month's location.
This group is part of the New
York Area Bisexual Network.

BWS-BRONX If.SBIANSUNIlB) IN SISlBIHOOD
Social, political and support networking group for women andtheir 'friends. Regular social·
events and meetings on the first
and third Fridays of fNery month.
At The Community Center. 2IXI W,
13 Street, from 6:3G-8pm, For
more info call Lisa at (21218299817.

BODYPOSITM
If you or your lover has tested
HIV+, we offer support groups,
seminars, public forums, reference library, referr,als, social
activities and up-to-date national.
monthly, iHE BODY POSITIVE'($2!i/year). (212)721-1348. 2095
Broadway, Suite:m, NY,10023--------1B
ROOIaYN'S If.SBIAN AND GAY
POUTICAL CUlB lAMBDA

Political action on issues of importence til the BisexuaVlesbiarv'Gay
community. Monthly meeting!
potluck held 8:00pm on fourth
Thursday of the month at members homes. Call NYABN for thismonth's location. ((212)459-4784

CONGREGATIONIrNAI.BHURUN
Monthly Spritual Gatherings andfree catBred festive luncheons foraU People With AIDS, their lovers
and families. Program includes
music and discussion le9 by our
Rabbis. Cell (2121787-7eoo

DIGNITY
BIG APPLE

Lesbian and gay Catholics andfriends AlPS Ministry, Spiritual
DfNelopment The Cathedral Project Worship Services & SocialSun. Eves, 7:30pm-St. John's
Episcopal Church 218 West 11th
StreetCWave~2179

CllClE Of MORE UGHT
Spiritual support and sharing in agay/lesbian affirmative grouJ1.
West-Park Presbyterian Church
165 West 86th Street Wed: worship service 6:30 pm, program
7:30.Marsha (212)304-4373 Charlie (212)691-7118.

COMMUNITY HEALTH
PROJECTCOMMUNITY HEALTH
PROJEcrs HEAIlH INFORMAnON UNE FOR T&NS•

NY's Gay and Lesbian Synagogue Services Friday at 8:30pm- fiT Bethune Street For irrfo. call:(212)929-9498.

Ll.D. endorses and works forcandidates in local, state andnational elections, lobbies forlegislation, and conducts community outreach through street
fairs and meetings on special
topics. Join us. 336 Ninth St.,
suite 135 Brooklyn, NY 11215(718)985-8482

BlWAYS NEW YORKAcnONCOMNmnEa

CONGREGATION BETH
, SIMCHAITORAH

INDEPENDENT DEMOCRATS

Monthly social events for the
Bisexual community and friends.
Call NYABN for details of upcoming events, (212)459-4784
BIPAC (BISEXUAL POUTICAl

CRI tests experimentel drugs andtreatments for AIDS and'HIV
related illnesses. Monthly treatment and research group for
HIV+ individuals. Treatment andresearch newsletter, forums andpublic seminars. Call Alice
Spears or Ken Fomataro at (212)481-1050for irrfo and mailing list.

A community of lesbian and Gay
Catholics. Activities include liturgies and socials fNery Sat, 8:00
p.m, at the Center, 20a W. 13
Street, NYC.Call(212)81&-1309.

2IXI Wast 13th Street, NYC, NewYork 10011For Appointments andInformation(212) 675-3559(TIYNoice)PROVlDING CARING,SENSITIVE AND lOW COSTHEALTH CARE SERVICESTO THE
LESBIAN AND GAYCOMMUNITY,COMMUNITYRESEARCH INmA11VE

Do you have questions about
your health? Your Body? Coming
Out? Safer Sex? Feel like you
have no one to talk to? Not any
morel Now you can call the
HOTT-UNE, 212-255-1517The
Teen HOTT-UNE for Healthl Call
Monday to Thursday, 7pm to
9pm. At other times, leave a message and we'll call you backl

DIGNITY NEW YORKBJGEEdllClllion in a Disabled
GayEmira,-ment
For the physically disabled Lesbian and Gay Community, P,Q',
Box 305 Village Station, New
York, NY 10014
FRON'{ RUf1INERS
A running club for lesbian andgay athletes of all abilities. Fun
Runs of 1-6 m~es held fMlry Sat
at lOam and Weds. at 7pm inCentral Park and every Tues. at
7pm in Prospect Park, For information: call (212)724-9700.

THE GAY AFRICAN AMERICANSOFWESTCHES1EII(TM GAA)
is a community based support
group formed in Westchester
County. Various activities areplanned for the coming months.
CeII 914-37fHl727 for more info,

GAY rATHER'S RlRUM
A support organization for gay
father's, their lovers, and others
in child-nurturingsituations.
Monthly meetings include a
potluck supper, support groups
on varied specialized topics,
speakers, and socializing.Meetings: 1st Friday each month, 7pm,
Februaryat The Center, 208 W, 13th St,
West of 7th Ave. Contribution: $II.
Bring a main course for 4 people(or pay a $5 food charge,) For
information call: 212-919-7541 or
212-28&-3236

GlAAD -Gay a Lesbian Am_
Apilllt Dafamation
60 Varick Street, NYC 10013(212)
98&-1700GLAAD combats homophobia in the media and elsewhere by promoling visibility of
the lesbian and gay communityand 'organizing
grassroots
response to anti-gay bigotry, Do
you haw 30 minutes a month tofight homophobia?Jointhe
GLAAD PhoneTreelCal1(212f-98&1700for information.
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GUB
Gay and Lesbian'lndependent
Broadcasters invites you to tune
into OUTLOOKS on WBAI-NY,
99.5 FM every other Sunday, 7::308:30pm and join us ewry Tuesday
at 7:00pm to 9:00pm to become amember of GUB. No experienceneeded, 505 Eighth Avenue, NY.
NY 10018 Attn: Outlooks or call
(212124S-8366-ask forGUB.

GAY & If.SBIAN HEAUHCONCBlNS
An office of the NYC Dept. of
Health, provides linkages betwn
NYC Health & Human SIIcs, andthe Lesbian & Gay community,
focusing inAll health concems;
resource irrformation for healthservices
consumers
andproviders. 125Worth Street, Boxffl, New York, NY 10013.For'info
call (212) 588-4995,•

GAY MAI£ S/M AClMSTS

Dedicated to safe and responsible S/M since·I981. Open meetings w/programaon S/M
techniques, lifestyle issues, political and social concerns, Also
special events, speakers bureau,
workshops,
demos, affinity
groups,newsletter,
more.
GMSMA' - Dept 0, 498A Hudaon
Street, Suite D23,NYC 10014,(212)n7-9878.

GMAD (GAY MEN OF AFRICANDESCENT)
80 Va rick Street, NYC 10013 a
support group of Gay Men of
African Descent dedicated toconsciousness-raisingand thedevelopment of the lesbian and
Gay Community. GMAD is inclusive of African, African-American, Caribbean and Hispanic/
Latino men of color. Meetings are
held, weekly, on Fridays. For
information, call 718-602-0162.

GAY MEN'S HEAIlH CIIISISHonJNEFOR INFORMATION ON SAFERSEX AND HIV-RELATED HEALTHSERVICES,AND FOR INRlRMA-

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TION ON ONE-TIME, WALK-IN
AIDS COUNSELING SERVICES
212-807.-s5212-645-7410
TDD(For the Hearing ln1JIIirad) Mon.Fri. 1!t30 a.m. to 9 p.m. 12:00 to 3:00

and friends, Eucharist and program every Thursday, 7:30pm. St
Luke's Church, Hudson andChristopher Sts. INFO: P.O. Box5202, NY NY 10185 (718) 720-3054

GIRTH & MIRTHCWB OF NEW YORK
Social club for heavy, chubby
gay men & their admirers.
Monthly socials at the 'Center",weekly bar nights Thursdays at
the 'Chelsea Transfer", monthly
Fat Apple Review, bi-monthly
FAR penpals.
For more infonnation call Emie at
914-69S- n35 or write: G&MlNY,
Dept 0, P.O. Box 10, Pelham, NY
10m.

lAMBDALEGAL DEfENSE
AND EDUCATION RIND
Precedent-setting
litigation
nationwide for lesbians, gay men
an~ people with AIDS. Membership 1$40 and upl inc. newsletterand invitations to special events.
Volunteer night on Thursdays.
Intake calls: 2-4pm Mon thru Fri
12121996-8585.

HEAl.
(Health Education AIDS Liaison)
Weekly info. and support group,fur treatments fur AIDS Which do
not compromise the immunelV{Stem further, including alternativeand holistic approaches.
Wed
8pm. 208 W, 13th St (212)674HOPE.
HERrrAGEOFpmD~IN~
Organizers of New YorK's Lesbianand Gay Pride events: the March,·the Rally and the Dance on thePier. Call (212) 691-1n4 fur meet·ing schedule or more infonnation. 208 West 13th Street, NY, NY
10011.

"'/fETRICK-MARTlN

INSTITUTE

for I~bian and gay youth. Counseling, drop-in. center (M-F, 3, 6pm), rap groups, Harvey Milk
. High School, AIDS and safer sex
infonnation, referrals, professional education.
(212) 633-8920(voice) (212) 633-8926 TIY fur deaf
HISPANIC UNITEDGAYS & LESBIANS
Equcational services, politicalaction, counseling and social
activities in Spanish and En'glish
by and for the Letino Lesbian and
Gay CommuniW. General meetings 8:00 pm 4th Thursday ofellery month at 208 West 13thStreet Call 201-653-7824 or write
H.U.GL, P.O. Box 226 Canal Street
Station, NewYort(, NY 10019.
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IDEN1TTY HOUSE
Now in our 20th year, we provide
peer counseling, therapy referrals and groups for the lesbian,gay and bisexual community.
Call us at 1212) 243-8181. Vis~ us
at 544 6th Ave., bet.ween 14th1'5th Stre~1l!, Ma nhatten.

INSTITUTE RJR HUMAN
IDENTTTYINC.
New York's non-profit lesbian
and gay psychotherapy
center.
Ucensed psychologists, psychia·
trists, and clinical social worKers.
Sliding scale fees. Insurance
accepted. Individual, couple, andfamily therapy, Variety of Men's
and women's groups forming
continuously. 118 W, nnd Street
212-7le-9432
INTEGRnv/NY
Lesbian and Gay Episcopalians

72 OUTWEEKlAVA -(LESBIANS ABOUT
VISUAL ART)
Call fur slides fur Lesbian Artists'
Exhibition, Gay & Lesbian Community Center, NYC. For more
infunnation, send SASE to : Miriam Fougere, 118 Fort Greene
Place, Brooklyn, NY 11217,
LESBIAN AND GAY ADULT EDUCATORS

Meet with other lesbians andgays who worK in adult education as teachers, administrators,
counselors, tutors, etc., to discuss issues such as coming out
to staff and students, materials
and curriculum, worKshop andconference
participati,on. We
meet the first Friaday of every
month at 8:00 pm at the Lesbian
and gay Community Center 208
West 13th Street Call Bryna Diamond at (2121932-7902 (days) for
infunnation
THE LESBIAN AND GAY
BIG APPlE CORPS

Get your instrument out of thecloset and come play with us.
Symphonic, Marching, Jazz. Dixieland, Rock, Flute Ensembles
and Woodwinds. 123 West 44th
St Suite 121. New York, NY 10036(212) 869-2922.
LESBIAN & GAY
COMMUNnv
SERVICES CENTER
208 West 13th Street New York,NY 10011 (2121620-7310 9am11pm everyday. A place for community organizing'and net:
worKing, social services, cultural
programs, and social events
sponsoredby the Center and
more.. . than 150 community orga",zatlons.
LESBIAN AND GAYlABOR NElWORKAn organization of Lesbians andGays who are active in their labor
unions wor1<ing on domestic partnershipbenefits
and AIDS
issues. For more infonnation call(212)923-8690.
LESBIAN AND GAY RIGHTSPROJECTof the American Civil UlHtrties
Union KNOW YOUR RIGHTS!
WE'RE EXPANDING THEM (212)944-9800, ext 545
LESBIANS AND GAYSOFRATBUSH
Brooklyn's social organization for

February 20,19911

both gay men and lesbians. P.O,
Box 106, Midwood Station Brooklyn, NY 11230. (718) 859-9437
LESBIAN HERSTORY ARCHIVES
P.O. Box 1258 New York, NewYork 10116212/874-7232Since
1974, the Archives has inspired,shaped and reflected Lesbian
lives everywhere. Call 10 arrange
a vis~ or to volunteer for Thunr
dayworknights.
LONG ISlAND ACT-UP
Meets Tuesdays at 8pm at 181
Post Ave. in Westbury, NY. Support us for change on long Island.
Mailing address: PO Box 514,
Westbury, NY 11500. 51&-33S-4662.

LSM
is a support and informationgroup for lesbians and bisexual
women interested in fantasy,role-playing, bindage, discipline,
S/M, fetishes, alternate genderindentities,
costumes and soforth. Membership is available
only to women 18 years andolder. Actual experience is not
required but genuine interest andan open mind are. For infonnation please write: P,O, Box 993,
Murray H~IStation, New York, NY
10156
MARANATHA; RIVERSIIlERS
AIR LESBIAN/GAY CONCERNSMonthly program meeting on
second Sunday for gay/lesbian
Christians and friends. Educational, political, and social activities scheduled,
12:30 p.m,Riverside Church, 490 Riverside
Drive, Sunday worship 10:45 am ..
Forinfo.,call (2121222-5900 (ext200) MARANATHA RlVERSIIlERS
FOR LESBIAN/LESBIAN/GAY
CONCERNS is a dues supported
group within the Riverside
Church. We are unable to affrot
you standard rate of $400.00 per
yea r at this time, but will be
increasing our dues in the next
fiscal year 10 include more advertising funds.
MEN OF AlL COLORSTOGETHER NY
A multi-racial group of gay men
against racism. Meetings every. Friday night at 7:45 at the Lesbianand Gay Community Services
Center,208 W, 13th Street For
more info. call: (212) 245-6366 or(2121222-9794.
METROPOUTAN TENNISGROUPfMTG)
Our 200 member lesbian and gay
tennis club includes players frombeginning ,to tournament level.
Monthly tennis pa rties. Winterindoor league. Come play withusl For infonnation: MTG, Suite
K63,49&-A Hudson St, New YorK,NY 10025,17181852-8562-------M
OCA (Men of Color AIDS
I'nIwntion Progrwn.)
Provides safer sex and AIDS education information to gay andbisexual Men of Color; coordinates a networK at peer-support
groups for gay and bisexual Men
at Color in all 5 boroughs at New

YorKCity 303 Ninth Ave, New York,NY 10001or call (212) 239-1798.
NATIONAL GAYAND LESBIANTASKAIRCE
is the national grassroots political organization fur lesbians andgay men. Membershipis$3IVyaar, 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.

NEWYORKADVERTlSIIIG AND
COMMUNICAnONS NElWORKNYACN is the community's
largest gay and lesbian professional group, welcoming all incommunications-andtheirfriends. Monthly meetings, 3rd
Wed 6:30pm at the Community
Canter. Members' newsletter, job
hotline, annual directory. Phone
1212) 517-0380 for more info.
Mention OutWeek for one free
newsletter.
N.Y.fEMMESSupport and discussion group for
lesbians who self identify as
Femme and are primanly attracted to butch women. For membership infonnation call Lisa (212)829-9817.
N.Y.WOMEf{S SOFTBAll GUILDFor experienced, serious Softball
Players, Coaches and Managers.
We play mod/fast pitch weekends in Manhatten and Queens.
Try-outs begin Feb. 11thru Aprilor until filled. (2121255-1379 Janet
NINTH STRE£T CIMER
Sinca 1973, a community dedicated to demonstrating that a homosexual lifestyle is a rational,
desirable choice for individuals
dissatisfied with the rewards ofconventional living. Psychologically - focussed
rap groups,
Tues., Sal, 8 til 10 pm. peer counselling available. 319 E. 9 Street,'
New York, NY 10003, for info call(212) 228-5153.
NO,RTHAMERICANMAN,IIIOY(NAMBlA)
Dedicated to sexual freedom
and especially intereted in gay
rintergenerational
relationships.
Monthly Bulletin,and
regularcha pter meetings on the first
Saturday of ea ch month. Yea rIy
membership is $20; write NAMBLA. PO Box 174, Midtown Station, New YorK, NY 10018 or call(212) 807-8578 for infonnation.
LOVE ASSOClAnON

gay and anti-lesbian violence,
sexual assa ult, domestic violence, and other types of victimization. All services free andconfidential.24 hour hotline (212)807-0197
PAIIENItJRIIENDS OFLESBIAN AND GAYS
Let P/FLAG help you and yourfamily deal with the upheaval ofyour coming out Our meetings
are free: monthly on the 4th Sunday, at 3:00 pm, in Duane Church,
201 West 13th, Info? call Jeanne,
212-463-a129

PEOPLE WITH AIDSCOAUTION(212) 532-0290/1-800-828-3280/
Hotline (212) 532-0568Monday
thru Friday lOam-6pm Meal programs, support groups, educational and referral services for
PWA's and !'\NArc's.

PEOPLE WITH AIDSHEALTH GROUl'
Undergroundbuyer'sclub
importing n,Qt-yet-approved medications and nutritional supplements, 31 West 28th St 4th Roar
(2121532-0280
PINK PANTHER PATROL
Community street patrol in Eastand West Village dedicated todeterring violent crime against
gays and lesbians. West Village
weeklymeetings
at Tues,evenings at Community Center,
Call for time .and Info: 212-4754363. For East Village patrol info,
call 212-24&-6566.
PROFBSIONALS IN FUNVlDEO
336 Canal Street, 8th Roor, NYC
10013212-645-3351,
QUEER NATIONThe Lesbian and Gayditect
action group dedicated to fighting homophobia
arid Gay andLesbian invisibility. Anyone cansuggest an action and shouldcome to meetings prepared toorganize and implement it QN,
Box 1524, Cooper Station, New
York, NY 10003. Call 212-463-7208
for meeting info.
SAGE: ~s.nior Actionin

a Gay EnviI1llllll8lll)
Social Service Agency. providing
care, activities, & educational
services fur gay & lesbian seniorcitizens. Also serves over 180
homebound
seniors & older
PWA's ,208 West 13th St NYC
10011, (212) 741-2247

NORTHERN UGHTSAlJBINATM.S
Improving Quality of life for People with AIDS/HIV. THE AIDSMASTERY WORKSHOP: exploring the possibilities at a poWerfuland creative life in the face of
AIDS. Call (212) 255-8554

SETHIAN GAYS,LESBIANS AND BISEXUALSFor all of us interested in reaching out to each other in exuberance to spontaneously
exploreand expand upon the Seth/Janeas it
Roberts 'Philosophy'
realtes to our lives, personally, 'sexually and politically, Call AI(212197&-5104

NYC GAY & LESBIANANTI-VIOlENCE PROJECT
Counseling,
advocacy,andinfonnation for survivors of anti-

SUMJANCE OUTDOORADVENTURE SOCIETY
A non-profit club offering Outdoor activities for every season•

including hiking, biking, skiing, water activities and otherou1door ac1ivities for the Gay/Losbian community. For information or complimentary Newsletter call (212)598-4726,

TASK FORCE ANNOUNCEMENT
The legal Action Center locatad at 153 Waverly Place, NY,
NY 10014, has begun two new programs. All their services
are free. The HIV/AIDS Legal Service Project provides freelegal services to people with HIV/AIDS. Their scope ofservice is wide, encompassing child care and custody,
discrimination, hou, housing, healthy heahh planning, confid~ntiality and employment The HIV/AIDS Agency Training and Assistance Project provides technical assistanceto public and private agencies about legal and policy
issues on HIV/AiDS and drug abuse. They provide training,
individual consultations, and model policy guidelines,
among other items. If you have any further questions,please contact Ms. Catherine O'Ne~ at (212)243-1313. The
Association of N..... in AIDS Care (ANAC) just received
Chapter Charter for the local Greater New York Chapter.
They have monthly meetings with speakers and networking opportunities. Their next meeting is scheduled for January 9, 1991, 6-S pm. at the AIDS Institute, 5 Penn Plaza,
4th floor, NY,NY. If you have any further questions, pleasecontact Janet Vaccariello at(212)340-sn4-~'"Clients don't want to see it strapped
down to the side of the leg," Adrien
adds. "And they don't want to see rings[industry slahg for the'head of the penisJ.
They want it to look as neuter as possible just a little bump."
But consider the difference between
mountains and molehills, One day,Adrien was working a Macy's photo session. The Ford model hired was a tall,brown-haired young man who had donelayouts for the Gap, This was his second
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Flustered and puzzled, Adri-eh
asked , "Tweak it?"".
"Yeah,,, the model explained, "tuckit up and under," ,Johnny tweaked, the photographer
was satisfied, and Macy's had a celebrity
underwear ad, ...

-THE OUTREACH USING COMMUNAL HEAUNG (TOUCH)
Community volunteers providing a weekly buffet supper
forthe Brooklyn AIDS community. TOUCH meets Monday
eves. 5pm to 6:30pm- at downtown Brooklyn Friends
Meeting House (110 Schermerhorn St. near Boerum
Place). Limited transportation may be arranged. Info: 171S)
622-2756. TOUCH welcomes contributions of funds, foodand volunteers,

ULSTBI COUNTY GAY AND WBIAN ALUANCE
Meets first and third Monday of each month at 7:30 pm at
the Unitarian Church on Sawkill Road in Kingston, For
Information, call 914-62&-3203
WHAMI-Women'.
H•• lth Action And Mobilimtion.
A direct action group commited to demanding, securing, and defending absolute reproductive freedom and quality
heahh care for all women, We meet every Wed. at 6:30pm
at 105, E 22nd Street, 4th floor. 212-713-5966Mailingaddress: WHAMI, PO Box 733, NYC 10009

WOMENS AlJERNATlVE COMMUN lTV CENTER (WACC)
A non-profit, Lesbian community center serving Queens,
Nassau and Suffolk Counties. Thurs. night weeldy discussion groups. S:30 pm, for other activities please contact us
at516-4lG-2(8).

WRESTUNG FOR GAYS &l.£SB1ANS
Watch the men of the knights wrestling club inaction
every Sunday at 7:30 PM atthe GAY CENlERThe club also
conduct training classes on altarnate Saturdays afternoon(1st & 3rd Saturdaysfor men 2nd &.4th Saturdays for
women) for morelnformation plesse call: 71&-63&-5141

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frequent employers, frown upon the
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Barbary Coast, 64 Seventh Ave, (14th St.)
675-0385

Crazy Nanny's 21 Seventh Ave. South 3666312 (women)

Ty's, 114 Christopher St., 741-9641

D.T.'s Fat Cat 281 W. 12th St., 243-9041

West Side

Pandora's Box, 70 Grove St. (Seventh Ave.)242-1408 (women)

The Break, 232 Eighth Ave. (22nd St.)
627-0072,"

Dugout, 185 Christopher St., 242-9113 (formerly the Ramrod)

Cellblock 28, 28 Ninth Ave., 733-3144 (M-W)
Chelsea Transfer, 131 Eighth Ave. (bet 16th
and 17th) 929-7183

Eighty-Eights, 228 W. 10th St., 924-0088

Eagle's Nest, 142 Eleventh Ave. (21 st St.)691-8451

The Hangout (J's) 679 Hudson St., 242-9272
Julius, 159 W. , 10th St., 929-9672

Private Eyes, 12 W, 21 st St. (bet Fifth andSixth Avenues) 206-7770

Keller's,
384 West SVChristopher, 243-1907,
KeUy'sVillage West, 46 Bedford St., 929-9322

Rawhide, 212 Eighth Ave., (21st St.), unlisted
Spike, 120 Eleventh Ave., 243-9688

Marie's Crisis, 59 Grove St.; (Seventh Ave.)
243-9323' ,, The Vault, 28 Ninth Ave., 733-3144 (F, 7-11
, ' pm, women).

The Monster, 80 Grove St. (Seventh Ave;)924-3558

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,New Jimmy's 53 C~ristopher St., 463-0950, ' Ninth ,Circle, 139 W. 10th St, 243-9204 .
,,; Sneakers, 392 West St., 242-9830

I, 'Saddle, 76 Christopher St., 929-9684. Two Potllto, 145 Christopher St., 242-9340

f-Don't Tell Mama, 343 W. 46th St., 757-0788
Gents, 360 W. 42nd St., (Ninth Ave.)
967-0659
Sally'sHideaway, 264 W. 43rd St., 221-9152
Town & Country, Ninth Ave. at 45th St.,
307-1503
Trix, 246 W. 48th St., (bet B'way and Eighth
Ave.) 664-8331.

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East Side
Bogart's, 320 E. 59th St., 688-8534
Brandy's Piano Bar, 235 E. 84th St., 650-1944
G.H. Club, 353 E. 53rd St., 223-9752
Johnny's Pub, 123 E. 47th St., 355-8714
NY Confidential, 306 E. 49th St., 308-8390. Rounds, 303 E. 53rd St., 593-0807

Star Sapphire, 400. E. 59th St., 688-4710.
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The Townhouse, 236 E. 58th St., 754-4649*
Over 600 tiUes
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cat's, 730 Eighth Ave., 221-7559

South Dakaota, 405 3rd Ave., (29th St.)684-8376.-,,

Uncle Char1ie's,56 Greenwich Ave., 255-8787

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686-8299)."

East Village
The Bar, 68 2nd Ave., (4th St.) 674-9714
101 Avenue A, (formerly the Pyramid), 101
Avenue A, 420-1590"EYE TO EYE"
a comtdy thriller
by Matthew Davis

Edie Falco
Uaniel Pardo
Doug Von Nessen

Tunnel Bar, 1161st Ave., (7th St.) 777-9232

Brooklyn (area code 718)
After Five Plus, 5 Front St" 852-0139

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Stag' MaMger . Cyra Quinones

Directed by Donald L. Brooks

Sweet Sensations, 6322 20th St., 435-2580

Wtd., TIIur" Fri" Sat"

Queens (area code 718)

Feb, 13,14,15,16 -- 8:00 PM
Chernuchin Theatre
American Theatre of Actors
314 West 540, St" New York, NY
Reservations 581-3044 - Tickets $8•

VIIlmI;"'·s Nighl P<rfo""",,c<, F.b" 14
will ~ i11Jt'vfeted fa; tilt karing impu.ired.

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•Spectrum, 802 64th St., (Eighth Ave.),
745-9611

Breadstix, 113-24 Queens Blvd., Forest
Hills, 236-0300
Friend's Tavem, 78-11 Roosevelt Ave.,
Jackson Heights, 397-7256
Hatfield's, 126-10 Queens Blvd., Kew
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657-4885(area code 201)

. Love Boat, 77-02 Broadway, Elmhurst,
429-8670

Charlie's West, 536 Main St., E. Orange, .
678-5002

Magic Touch, 73-13 37th Rd" Jackson
Heights, 429-8605

Feather's, 77 Kinderkamack Rd., River
Edge,342-6410

Staten Island

Friendly's Bar, 6310 Park Ave., West New
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863-9515
Vibrations, 165 Cedar Lane, Teaneck, ,.
, 836-5518•••

Yacht Club, 366 Berksire Valley Rd.,'
Jefferson, 697-9780~

Sandcastle, 86 Mills Ave" 447-9365

Westchester(area code 914)
Playroom, 590 Nepperhan Ave., Yonkers,
965-6900
Stutz, 202 Westchester Ave., White Plains,761-3100

Long Island Nassau(area code 516)
Bedrock, 121 Woodfield Rd., West
Hempstead, 486-9516 (women)
Blanche, 47-2 Boundary Ave., Farmingdale,694-6906Grand Central, 210 Merrick Rd., RockvilleCentre, 536~4800
Pal Joey's, 2457 Jerusalem Ave., North
Bellmore, 785-9301,:"$

Silver Lining, 175 Cherry Lane, New HydePark,354-9641

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Seaford, 785-9808

Long Island Suffolk(area code 516)
419,419 North Highway (Rt. 27),
Southampton, 283-5001
Bunkhouse, 192 N. Main St., Sayville,
567-2865•

CHerry's, Bayview Walk, Cherry Grove,
Fire Island, 597~6820
Club Swamp, Disco/Annex Restaurant,, Montauk Hwy, Wainscott, 537-3332
Ice Palace, Cherry Grove Beach Club,Fire Island, 597-6600
Kiss, 161 Farmardie Dr., Lake
Ronkonkoma, 467-9273
Club 608, 608 Sunrise Highway, W,
Babylon, 661-9580
Millennium, 1770 New York Ave.,•
Huntingdon, 351-1402",

Starz, 836 Grand Blvd., Deer Park,242-3857
Thunders, 894 Jericho Turnpike,
Smithtown, 864-1410..

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Ministry to
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COMPUTERSBOOKSTORE FOR SALE
Les/Fern/Gay Bookstore. 4 sale withgood NYC Metro & Tri-State
Following since 1978. Center of U's
Lesbian Community. Liz Simon c/o
Alternatives Corner, 675 Woodfield
Rd.,W. Hempstead, NY 11552

CliNICAl TRIAlSNIH SPONSOREDAIDS CLINICAL TRIAL
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CONTRACTORS•ARTHUR LOVEJOY,
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Repairs and New Installations.
Commercial and Residential. Courteous,
Professional Service. Available Eves.
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struggles highly desirable. $29,000 $32,000 based on experience.
Excellence benefits. People of color,
women, gay men and lesbian encouraged to apply. Send resume, byfebruary 21, to Attorney SearchCommittee, CCR, 666 Broadway,
New York, NY 10012.

HELPWANTEITHE CENTER FORCONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS
a non-profit. progressive legal andeducational organization, seeks an
attorney to develop an innovative new
litigation project to address biarelated violence against people ofcolor, women, lesbian and gay men.
Experience with litigation underfederal and state civil rights statutes

FULL-TIME SECRETARY
Lesbian & Gay rights project of the
ACLU seeks Secyfor legal office work.
Duties inc I. hndlng busy phones, intake& referral, preparing and filing legal
documents, Bright, motivated & committed individuals sought Excellent
benefits. Women & minorities especiallyencouraged to apply. ANEEO. Start 'immed. Resume to: William Rubenstein,
ACLU, 132West43rd Street, NYC 10036

UFETIME OPPORTUNITY,•

Gay Men's Health Crisis is the largest community based organizationdedicated to the fightagainst AIDS. Our triple mission is to provide services to people with AIDS and their loved
ones; to educate the public; and to advocate for fair and effective AIDS policies. Our servo
ices are provided free of charge to 3,000 men, women and children with AIDS in the fiveboroughs of New York. We seek individuals to fill the following positions:

Looking for 12 people to become executives in a 15 billion $ industry. Together,each of us will achieve total financial
independence & retire for life within 18
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213-964-2539 24hr, recorded mess.

COORDINATOR, CRISIS INTERVENTION SERVICES: Coordinate theactivities of the crisis intervention program, including the supervision of volunteer teamleaders,buddy captains, crisis intervention workers and care management partners. Super·vise professionaland para-professionalstaff of five arid 500 volunteers:MSW or MS in clinicalpsychology required; minimum two years supervisory and administrative experience,
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Brownstone Bros. seeks qualified individual w/min, 2 yrs, expo wI a licensed
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COORDINATOR, INTENSIVE CASE MANAGEMENT: Provide direct
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NUDE MODEL WANTEDASSISTANT DIRECTOR, CLIENT SERVICES: Supervise professional andpara- professional staff and volunteers for program areas. MA in social work or related fieldrequired, with clinical, supervisory and management experience. Knowledge of HIV issues
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COORDINATOR, NUTRITION SERVICES PROGRAM: Manage on-sitedaily meal service for clients including menu planning, program budgeting developing program including individual nutritional counseling, and provide technical assistance to otheragencies. RDcertification required; minimum 3years experience in hospital or food services, along withkhowledge of AIDS issues.
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Must be available to work a flexible schedule, including evening and weekend hours asneeded. Knowledge of HIV/AIDS issues required, 'CLINICAL CASE MANAGER: Provide professional one·on·one assistance toclients who present a multiplicity of concems primarily relatedto substance use, psychiatricissues as well as ARC/AIDS issues. MSW or equivalent work experience. Knowledge of
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GAY/LESBIAN CENTER
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to detail, ability to work with minimum
supervision. Experience preferred.
low teens + benefits.

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Resumes (indicate position desired)to Robert Woodworth,lesbian & Gay Community Services,'2!J8 W. 13th.; NYC 10011

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THINKINGSERIOUSLY?
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