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Phone sex. AIDS. the gay press and thl
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Stooewall Riots (Natalie)

Blurt Out
Dykes to Watch Out F<r (Becbdel)
NighImare of the Week
Out of q,ntrol (Day)
GLAAD ridin~
OutLaw (Lronard)
lookOut
Out of my Hands (Ball)
Gossip Watch
Out on the Town (Pokorny and Tmcey)
Going Out Calendar (X)Tuning In (X)Dancing Out (X)Bar Guide
Ccmmunity Directcxy. Oassifieds

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The Gay Press and Mr. Helms
Last week it was announced that an obscure amendment byJesse Helms banning the national phone sex industry' will go into
effect on March 21. When it does, gay phone sex will disappear
overnight. As a result, the incidence of unsafe sex will skyrocket.
The incidence of AIDS will skyrocket. And in an added benefit for
Mr. Helms and his crowd, most of the gay press, which is heavily
dependent on phone sex advertising, may also quk:kIy disappear.
With the gay press silenced, the community will be renderedsilent. And Helms will have won his greatest anti-gay victory.
There are those who may think that the above statements
about the rise of unsafe sex and seroconversion are extreme. We
hope they're right. And there may be some gay publishers reluctant, for obVious reasons, to admit the devastating effects of a cutoff of phone sex revenue.
But this action may very well cost lives, and will inevitably
seriously disempower the gay press. Both results wound our community and each of us as individuals.
When OutWeek began publishing nine months ago we were
financed to a large extent by the gay phone sex industry. It
seemed fair and fitting that gay people's money, spent in the pursuit of safer sex, recycled by gay entrepreneurs, would be i,nvested
not in safe, highly profitable straight enterprises, but instead in therisky, low profit but socially vital gay press. We're proud of thatdecision. And we're proud of all those other gay businesspeople inthis and other cities over the last 20 years who have struggled
against economic common sense to proudly found and tenaciously
maintain a vibrant gay press.
One of the most bitter realities in gay publishing is thereluctance of straight advertisers to patronize our media. Major
advertising studies have shown that given the economic strengthof our community the gay press is an exceptionally good buy.
Yet things like VCRs, health ca(e products, cars, department
stores, movies and theater, foods and beverages are usuallyabsent from our pages. Some have suggested that the presenceof phone sex ads themselves, and the bathhouse ads before
them, scares away mainstream advertisers. But volumes of evidence contradict this. And mainstream advertisers in straightmagazines like Playboy, right there next to the centerfolds, contradict it as well.
The problem isn't perceived sleaze, which papers like
OutWeek, the Advocate and the Native can rarely be accused of.
The problem is homophobia. Straight advertisers don't patronize
gay mags because we're gay. Pure and simple. And in New York,
most gay owned bars, restaurants, cabarets, discos, agencies, companies and corporations are often less than supportive of the gay
press as well.
So'this has left the safe, harmless, sex-positive recreation ofphone sex to support the gay media. Phone sex money is yourmoney. OutWeek, the NaUve and other publications, for all theirfaults and foibles, are your voices.
, And Mr. Helms, of course, is aware of this. ~

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February 25. 1990

A Letterfrom the Publisher
2-16-90

Since its launch less than nine months ago, Out Week has attempted to provide thegay and lesbian community with the highest quality in advocacy
journalism.
We have
tried to become a reliable source of informationin the fight for the rights of thegay and lesbian community. We have c~rtainly been controversial.
No publication
covering these intensely difficult subjects could bo otherwise. But we honestly attempt
to provide a free and open forum to reflect the wide diversity of our community.

OutWeek has grown phenomenally.
At our June debut we had a paid circulationof600. Since then our paid circulation
has grown to over 25,000, and we've recently
created a plan to be distributed
nationwide
as th~ first national
gay and lesbian
weekly to originate in New York. Like the gay and lesbian nation we try to serve~ weare strong, healthy and growing.
But like the gay nation, we in the gay press are constantly under attack. We areconstantly
in a battle for rights and we must constantly fight. Because of t,he current attack by Jesse Helms, we at Out Week may lose up to 60 percent of our advertising revenue, specificallyin the adult phone line services. The evil and vindictive
Mr. Helms is hard at work as usual. But this time he's no longer cutting at our
growing branches, he's attacking our roots - our businesses~
If Out Week does not replenish
our advertisingbase, we will suffer tremendous
losses. The entire gay and lesbian press nationwide
will suffer. We will lose ,our
voi'ce, our forum, our common grounds for communication.
And the gay nation will suffer.
We have met with our supporters
and backers and have made the firm committmentthat OutWeek magazine will not succumb to this pending disaster.
We have drawn up
workable plans to this effect. We will survive. But a post-Helms
OutWeek would be a'very different
resource than it has been, and it could take us many years before we
attain the standards
or the size that we have already achieved,
and that you havecome to expect.
I am directly appealing to every gay and lesbian business that has ever considered advertisingin Out Week. You've waited, you've checked us out, and now is thetime. By supporting
Out Week at this crucial moment, you are supporting yourselves,
your friends and your community.
I appeal to those of yo~ who patronize
gay-owned
businesses
to ask those businesses
to advertisein the gay press. Do not take theexistence of a gay press for granted.
Every ad in this magazine supports another news article about AIDS, about vitallegislation,
bias crimes, homophobia,
oqr' community
organizations
and leader,S; andthe precious
love among us all., Every ad supports
our wide open letterssectionwhich has become such a vital community forum. Every ad supports the gay and lesbianarts we review. Every ad supports the truth that we exist and we are fighting for
our lives.
This is an urgent plea for support.
a call to arms. Act now. 'I don't

thinkof it as begging.

It is instead

Kendall Morrison
Publisher

OutWeekFebruary 25. 1990

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I amwritingIn
response to your shortpiece referring to an
Interview
I gavetoDetals magazlne.
I do l"I'ldny Interviews;
sorTie are printed verbatim. There are times,
however, when words
can be changed
or
1wIsted to fit a Journalistic
need. This Is the casehere: I never Initiated theword -dyke. - I find theword to be vulgar andderogatory.
I foundmyself forced to respondto a question and mycomments were directed tothe journalist and the slRInessof It. I was trying to makeIght of his comment, which I
feel was a typical labelingfor women who are considered strong or outspoken.
The gay communityIsvery Important to me. If I
offended anyone In the gay
community I would like you
to know It was not my Intention to Insult or judge anyone; I was raised withenough humanity and cult\n to know better.
Taylor Dayne

A Goddess Grows In Brooklyn
Not to be matronlzlng,
but everyone knows that
god doesn't make lesbians, I
do. Even Susie Day knows
this, although she may temporarily forget this (andmer-os In last week's otherwise well-written and welledited Issue-on page 42,
Ines 21-22, collmn' three. But

erring Is 01 so hu'nan, and In
time, SusIe, forglveable.
, Also, wHJe I approve of thearch sentiment expressed In~ letter 0$SIgred to him (lastalso), I assure you that
there Is no such Individual,celestial or otherwise, known
as -god- tv1ng h the enwonsof the, majestic and noble

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a complied listing of gay
organizations
thatwasassembledby the Kochadministration. If we can get
one representativefromeach organization
toattend the meetings,
voting on Issues that arepresented to the council as a spokesperson for
their organization, this Isa beginning to assemble our own governingbody.
We can then holdopen elections for thegay comml.l'lHy to electO'Connor at the Ramrod
Father

Bruce

Ritter of

Covenant House Is reported tohave bIcmed gay actMsIs forhis current~.
He con1lnJes
to deny any sexual activity,...
with boys, but his Franciscan
superior has directed him toleave Covenalt House for a-rest and r9Cl.p9ratIon. - And
Cadlnal o'Comor Is tryhg tocover up.
Recentstudies,
Includingtwo scholarly,books,show that
the
CatholiC clergy Is riddenwith homosexuals, one 'estimate running as high as
CJl executive COI.I'lCI witheach position bang held almost 50 percent. A large
by two people, one mde
percentage
aresickand one female. This homosexuals, ridden withexecutive council could
self-loathing,hiddenact as liaison to thepractices of homosexuality
mayor's offtce, as well as andthenpubliclynation-state of Brooklyn. For spokespersons for the gay
proclaiming
anti-gaycommunity. And If they dothose who may stili need tosentiments, and In Ritter's
believe, It has been nJ'T)Ofed thai jobs correclty, Il"IOIbe wecase him Imputing to gaythat -god- has retired to Jerjust mght end lop with 00' own
activists the Investigation of
sey CHy, New Jersey.
candidates for the city alechlsextracurrlcular activities.
I thank you for your atten- 1Ior6 h 1994.
And these are about a halftion to these mundane matI know that this Idea Is farof the men (for the otherters.
fetched, I can only Imagine
half,
turn
to
anotherthe goddess
the amount of work that this chapter In Basic Psychiatry)
Brooklyn
will entail, just In putting the
who
lead
the
largestwhole Idea together.
Christian denominationIn
For a Gay Government
We need to unite our
America.
Last evening (February 6), community, we need to get
One need not attack
I was watching
the Gaypeople off of their duffs andthe CathOliC religion, as
Cable Television show -Out
get Involved. We need to
the gay activists did a few
In the 90s. - Their discussion
show our mayor that we will
weeks ago at St. Patrick's
was on the appointment of
not be Intimidated by a cou- ' Cathedral; one need only
Woody My91Sby David Dink- pie of set-backs no matterbroadcastthat
theIns, as weH as the additional
what their magnitude. We
Catholic clergy Is a prividecisions made by Mr. Dink- need to show our strength.
leged caste anchored to
Ins over the past few weeks.
And most Importantly, we
an archaic mythology, andThe roundtable panel could
need to find spokespeople
that withholding
any andnot even decide among
who will speak for us as a
all financial contributions,themselves what course ofcommunity and not for theirwill do the job. Imagine
action we should take. It
own needs at that moment
then O'Connor
tendingqUcldy become apparent toand the only way we can dobar at the Ramrod In theme that Mr. Dinkins Is sucthis Is to respond as a cornVillagel
ceeding In his ultimate goal,
munHy. Not as the Opinion ofRobert Lyon
to divide the gay communione group or organization,
Philadelphia, PAty.
but as the opinion of all theDuring this show, a callergroups and organizations as
Non-Smokers Only
made (I suggestion that we
a communHy. A community
In light of Andy Rooney's
as the gay community
In totai agreement, whether
first homophobic and now
should start our own governgay' or lesbian, white or a ' raCial slurs, the question
ment. I would like to elaboperson of color, AIDS orcomes to mln~ow
muchrate on this suggestion.
I healthy. WE MUSTUNITEFOR time can Mr. Rooney spend
believethat we should
OURUVES.
In a room with Ed Bradley?
assemble a council of ourJohn J. Mantovan!
Ron Parisi
pe91Sto begin with. There Is
Manhattan
Hoboken,NJ

February 25, 1990

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A Reminder
Painful \ memories
returned wh'en I read withgreat sadrless about thede,ath of Staten Islander,Frank Zappalortl, In OutWeek(2/4/90). I also~wOs a victim
of a brutal attack on Staten
Island In July\of 1976. One
night In that bl-centennlal
month, I was,Surrounded bysix young men 'with baseballbats, beaten to the ground,stripped, robbed and humiliated. As they attacked me
one said, "I had to go to Jailbecause of you faggotslApparently
he had been
convicted of robbing a Staten island health food store
that was gay-owned. Everyone, my family, the doctors
and I, was amazed hOw wellI survived. To this day I have
mal'ks and scars all over mybody that go mostlYi unnoticed even to myself" sa ~'seasy to forget. The police
officers were great to me,very respectful and su~rtIve. They were genuinely
anxious to put an enq towhat was an apparent stringof gay-related 'bashlngs 1tlat
summer. The police suspected that these Individuals
were responsible for many of
the crimes. One man had
been found badly beaten
ancIlocked In the trunk of hIS
car a few weeks before myattack. The, attackers werearrested driving my car the
next day.
, I decided from the outsetthat I woud admit openly tobeing gay so that we could.hopefully put an end to thebrutality. So I showed up In
court, left arm In a cast,head bandaged, and gave
my story. Several of my family members learned of mysexual preference In courtthat day (not the best
method for coming out toyour famllyl), but all werevery loving and supportive to''me. The attackers p/ea-bargained and a few of themwent to jan for a short time. It
was a system of justice thatmade IttIe sense at the time

but at least I felt that theword was out. Because of
my openness, beating on
gays became a little morerisky that summer on Staten
Island. The attackers learned
that we don't all keep It shut
up-someof us feel we
don't have anything to beashamed of. I have mJCh to
be grateful for, yes, my life
for sure, but something more
Important. a sense of pride
that the lesbian and gay
commuhlty has helped me
foster since those dark ageson Staten Island.
This reminder has a ~ssage of Its own. It's time toteR the story and act l4=>. It'stime to express our anger
and rage. But we must be
sure that we direct our anger
positively, so that healing
occurs In our hearts and

COmrTlU"lltles.
The enemy has b9comemuch bigger now but you
can attach fhe same names

tant It Is for us now,morethan ever to be "out: andto strive to be united. as ato It: homophobia,
prejudice, Indifference,
Ignorance, brutality, hatred, fear,
etc. The genocide
hasbecome much more threatening: late and sluggish
responses from the govem-ments to AIDS, low priority togovemment funding for AIDS
research and services, nogovernment
fundingforeffectlve,AIDS
education
programs, low funding for
drug treatment
programs
and the Increase of blatantgay-bashlng are among fheevidence. Face It, for many,homosexuals by their very
existencechallenge
theroots of traditional life In thiscountry. Awareness of this Is
what drives some us to thecloset and keeps 'us there.
When we come out, fhere's'
often the risk of being vlcHms
of brutality. Realizing all thisand remembering, what It
felt like to be a victim of ~lence, I thought how Impor-people, supportive c:rlO ruturing

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What Is missing from all
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condemn homosexuality soseverely, he wouldn't haveto be so closeted .. .I.e., hecould have had ci real life:
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on homosexuality,
AIDS,
abortion ~. Ritter post-KIte.
DIdo't he have a lot do with'keeping sexUal orientationout of 1he bias big?
.
Today's Monday. Maybe
you've ~Iready covered
this ... I can't find OutWeek
down hefe In 1he Wan Street
aea ...Ny keep trying to senorder to help hfm keep hisseries popular with thegay and AIDS communities, and In order to keep
him from sending negative messages to theviewers at large.
Michael DavIs
Manhattan

meA~.

Keep up 1he GREATworld

AR~r

GoGo,BonoAn Q:len letter to 0l0SfIty

Bono:
NurseJIn 1tIe latters section ofa
recen~ OutWeek magazine
was a latter written In praiseof an/episode of-Doctor,
Doct~r·In which a gayof a doctor was porttay~_~.anon-stereotypical, ~lIveway.

brotJ:tDear ChasH1y:. Obviously
you'vebeen the subjectofmuch controversy In thepast few weeks. Street
rumor Indicates that you
were very disturbed oy ,the press' recent Invasionof your privacy.
At first theStarseemed to be handlingyour story "responsibly·
but It only took a few
more days before all 1hemajor "rags· (Star Included) degenerated
Into"business as usual .•I have never met you
and only know what pe0ple tell me. Surprisingly,
the profile I've heard has
been one of a "sweet:"shy:"Intelligent
gW ...
·hardly the publicity hound .•(MInd you, I never asked tor
this Information-It
was
GIVEN to me by more thanseveral. Greenwich Village
locals).
As you have
been
recently pOinted out as an

ne~t!~7s~~~~~rt~~~:~~

horrjophoblc female doctor~
refused to diagnose or
tredt her HIV posItIVe patient.
'I w¢Js extremely offended by
the homophobic
episode,and I have sent a letter to-Dpctor Doctor·'s executive
prOducer, Norman Steinberg.
I thought your readers
should be made aware ofthoughtless and Insens!way Mr. Steinberg choset~ treat the "AIDS Issue:e,speclally after such lavishpraise was bestowed on him
earlier.
I would
like toencourage
otherswho~Wed 1heto wI)Ich
I refer and were offended by,It to write Mr. Steinberg In!

,fh'e.

mreepisodewele~texample of the gay commuwas an effective
nlty (ur)wlttlngly
or not)forµm during the Covenant
please have the responslblllHoUse lnadent and I think It
ty to tell yoU'side of the story
may help you retain someto a legitimate magazine'self and public respect. Persuch as this one (whether
haJj's telling the truth to a
you are gay or not) and domagazine will keep theso quickly before the media ,paparrazzl at bay.
•eats us and you alive. OutChastity, please take my
I suggestion seriously. I am agay female In my 20s and I
pm convincedthat Out'Week Is an acceptable! placefor you to make astatement (and the sooner
the better-for aUour sakes).
Peace and good luck In
your life.
Concerned In Greenwich
Village,news

TIm Sweeney Pro and Con
IV: The Never-ending Story
Your January 28 JournalIsm on the Myers question
departedfrom the valuable Investigative reporting

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February 25, 1990

and balance 1n your prior
two Issues, which helped
open the d.ebate
overMyers' recora. Your assertlon'that-virtually
every
gay and AIDS group In the
citywas ,opposed
toMyers' appointment Is arrogant and your statementthat Myersl-has
provenhimself Inept', uncaring, callous to the civil liberties ofpeople with AIDS and an
unrepentant homophobeIrresponsl9le.
We weregrateful to: see Ray Navarro's piece appear In the following Issue, attempting tooffer -a new dialogue- on
these Issues.
1.I<e seyeral other aci'nhlstratOlS at AIDS service orgcr.Izatlons serving people ofcolor, we dso ftnd yotS coD for
TIm Swe~ney's resignation

c:IestTucItve. ~ ga( men wort<Ing at CJi agency serving ald
advocdting 'for Clients who
aeo~peop/eof

color and the majority of
We Are The World
0utWeek Is reaily a goodwhom are no~ay.
we areespeddIy sensitive to the dlffi- magazine. but why after all
culties of building coalitions
this time are you stili culturalbetween organizations likely. sexuaUy.racially and genours and gay white AIDS
der-wise Insensitive. or should weorganlza1lons. Few white fJ9I
men or IndMduds In positions say negligent?
theof Influence In the AIDS ser- Specifically.
-Are Gay Men
vice community have displayed SWeeney's sensitivity , Having Safer Sex?Issue (2/18/90).
to the cIversIty of the ~Ie or his capacity for forging
only talks about.
the Idnds of ~that you guessed It.
ae necessary to developlng
MEN. What about
women? The facta coordinated response toHIVthat Is fdr to al comlTllJ'll- that lesbians are
rarelytalked1Ies affected.
about
when
It
Building bridges among
our communities demands
comes to AIDS.
rtsk-taklng and trust. It Is chill- should certainly
Ing when what appears tomake It OutWeeKs
be leadership In this area Is ' concern'andperceived In the gay comresponsibility to Its
roonlty as betrayal.
leadershipand,community to do Its best to
Richard 1. Statelman
Colin M. Robinson
Inform. where most otherBronxAIDSServICes.Inc.
sources fall miserably. Also.
Bronx
what
about
peopleofcolor? ~de from the cover.
the I.atest OutWeek subscription ad, the one withthe two very cute but while-guys: Is equally shamefU.

And people wonder why
everything Is so dominatedby white. gay men. It·s avery nice ood enticing ad. '\;'February 25, 1990

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but'wouldnTIt
bemuch
more politically correct, sensitive and just plqln decent
to also put couples of othervariations? Some obvious, Ideas for couples which pop
Into mind are: latin, AsIan,
Aflcarl-Amerlcan',NatlveAmericanand others ofboth genders. We're notsaying you should put every
group at the same time, but
do put clverslty. I", the future
we hope that OutWeek
becomes the magazine for
ALL of the diverse Queer
Nation. Remember, we are
In every race, creed, color,se~, religion, social status
and ethnlclty. We are truly
everywherel, By the way, Signorlle's
Cher column was right ontaget. Go GIIII .

What hasbeen totally
forgottenInthesmokeand-mirrors
show, Is that
there
are
many deadPeace.
Sonlo-lvette Roman

Dignity on St. Pal's
There has been a great
deal of controversy c0ncernIng the ACT UP/WHAMI
demonstrotIon at St. Patrick's
CothectoI on (10) December
1989-05 Is to be welcomed
Servalan Erfk
wlth matters of such Imporfa'lce. Ukewlse the discussion
Da'l Hunter
Manhattan
h the DIgnity/New York comITUlIty has been Intense crd
Color-Blind?
Is not resolvable wHh a shl:lIe
atftrmatlon or condermatlon
I am a person of color.
My color Is pink. In the sum- of the event.
The Board of Directors ofmer, my color Is tan. I
In acity where the mayor's color
Dlgnlty/New Yorkwish that theIs brown and he just appoint10 December demonstrat1on
Inside the Cathedral did not
ed a police commissioner
who, sounds lousy, who Is also have to have happened.
Vv'hat Is most ImportCJ'lt, howbrown, and a health comever, Is that we understandmissioner, equally (or moreso) dlstateful who Is, surprise, why this has happened. We
also brown. Their skin color , know and we hove felt themeans nothing to me, but
truth 'of this pain crd the truthof this anger. What has
their Incompetencedoes.
caused this demonstration Is
Can you please drop thiswhat rrut be aclc:ressed crd
politically correct 'color"aneIorated-ffis Is the proper
shtick? How Is 'Black" more
response to the event HseIf.
of 9 curse than 'gay" or
Most of the debate In the'female"?
I find It a non~mainstream press In'regard to
derogatory
descriptive
the ACT UP/WHAMI demonname. I'm ardently antlracism, and I'm so tired ofstration at the Cathedral on
10 December has centeredbeing judged by my color.
on the dlsruptfon of the mass,
Not 011whlteli ,are your eneeven using words like desemies, OK? GIve It a rest;
cration. Hence, since the
MlkeB.
costumes of hypocrisy go on
Manhattan, and off with so little effort;
particularly after years ofLet's Bashpractice, the Cardinal has
I found this picture of Ax!
aod David In Beats magadomed easily the role of thezine. I think, It should read:besieged, and the martyr.
-DavId Bowie from Homo to'Over my dead body," he so
Homophobe."
eloquently
responds
In
N' est pas, girlfriend?
defense of his power.

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amelJo(atlrig the devastationof AIDS? When the Cardinal

Is using his pulpit to attack
women's,rlght
of authOrity
over th'elr own bodies andwhen the lnstltut1onai chuch
under O'Comor's leaderstip
has moved aggressivelybo<:.Ies-ln the agolnst gov9rM'ent officials
who suppprt the low, whogay
andsupport a woman's right towomen's, choose, has he not been thecommunities""",""",,,these words
first to dissolve the membrane between the sacredare no cliche. Qulte.to theconfray: It Is the tEn'l of th0u- and the secular? Isn't It the
responsIblHy of citizens comsands of people who hovemlttedto
the democraticcIed from AILS who oaIed out
for that demonstration at the trq<jljlons In this country to'confront this abrogation of
Cathedral. The tens 'Of thouSQ"lds-nay, tu-.c:teds of th0u- the separation
betweenchurch and state?
sands
more
who
are
predicted' to become s1ckWhen O'Connor' Interare also calling out against
feres with ~Ic health meaCardinal John O'Connor tosures to address the spreadstop hlm. And It Is the thouof AIDS, perhaps causing the •sands of women who dieddeath of tens of thousands
from Illegal abortions whoof more people, do we not
cdIed out as wei.
'
have to raise 1hese quesHons
To stop him from interfering
wherever he stands In pubwHh safer-sex educatlon-on
lic? Why should the CatheInterference
which
has
dral be a sheath Protecting
become a new means ofhim, when he has attemptedtransmitting the virus. To stop
to deny the protection of thehim from auIhorIzi'lg or ~condomsheathwhich
Ing with statements which
wouldallow peopletoremain free to love, comImply that the wOf of ~love between men who loveplete with body and soul?
each other Is the cause of this Why should O'Connor's perdisease. To stop him fromsonal choice of celibacy
demanding of People withbecome a universal direcAIDS that they declare their
tive?
glJt to achieve their peace.
Dignity has long had to
These are the questions
bear the bnrIt of this man'sthat must be asked duringpersecution of us. And we
this time of controversy after
wonder, sacIy, why tt:e press
the ACT UP demonstration:
has not had a better mem0what Is the poUtfcal power of
ry of what this man has done
the Cardinal In this city andto us. Is It remembered that It
what effect has he had on
was Cardinal O'Connor who

ease with the proper education and protection. And It
was the assertion of the cltizenry against church tyranny. This was one of theprinciples
on which thisCOll"ltry was founded. Isn't It
In the Interests of a free press~ to be asking these ques-

tions?
Robert Pusllio
Board of Directors
DIgN1y, New York

expelled gay:and lesbian
people from our church, so
we have had to wander In
exile? Was not,that a disruption of our, worship? Is It
remembered that when we
have gone to St. Patrick's
CoIhedraI to stand In prayer
and silent witness that hebrought poUce force Into theCathedral to have us arrested (December 1987)-was
not that a ldesecratlon? Is It
remembered that the Cardinal has threatened to have
us arrested simply for conducting a prayer service at
one of the chapels In theCathedral
before mass?
That he threatened us witharrest for, the act of leaving
flowers on an altar?
If the, people of this cityfeel they have legitimate
questions to ask of thedemonstrators at the Cathedral, fine, they should be
asked. And the demonstrators should listen well toobjections that have beenraised. But there Is a more
Important responsibility: that
Cardinal Archbishop John J.
O'Connor be held accolJ"ltable to the people of thiscity-thepower he hascome to wield and misuse Is
not a spiritual power. It Is.a
power of secular politics. If
we do not confront him, do
not tear away the veils of
hypocrisy, we wl,lI have fos-tered a tyranny In our midst.
The demonstration
on 10
December was a cry of grief
for those who have died, ashout of support for those
who are IMng with AIDS anda cry of hope that we might
be able to contain this dls-

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Your subconscious mind
Is unwittingly
being bom'barded dally with the 900
numbers so as to accustom
you to a three-dlglt series,
especially the numbers 666
which Incidently happen to
be the globally accepted
computeraccess code.
This statement takes on Q
deepermeaningwhen
considering the computeruse, of the numbers one (1)and zero (0).

Thequestionarises·What does 666 have to dowith the aforesaid ? Well,
any opthanologlst will confirm that the Initial visual
impression before trCllSlatlon
Is upslde<lown and Inverted. Thus the number nine (9)becomes six (6) and viceversa.
Wt'len the ·one world
ruler· arrives on the scene,
he will force all mankind toreceive a mark on 1heIr righthand or forehead, so that noman might buy or sal except
he that has the mak, or thename of the beast or thenumber of his name. Of
course, all unsaved and·condltloned·
people willridicule the so-called cultfanatiCS (real born-a,galn
ChrIstIarls) who waned themagainst accepting the mark.
·Afer all-they'll
say, 666 Is
Just a number.· WHO WILLYOU TRUST?
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NYNEXMoves to Ban

Phone Sex Services
by Gabriel Rotello
NEW YORK-In an unexpected move that took thegay legal and business communities by surprise, NYNEX
flied new regulations Wednesday that will have theeffect of closing down New York's thriving phone sex
industry. The regulations are designed to bring the company into compliance with a federal law, sponsored by
Jesse Helms and passed last November, which in effect

12

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will go into effect on March 21. At least one phone sex
advertiser has already begun pulling it's ads from thegay media in anticipation of the ban.
Similar regulations are expected to be announced
shortly by other regional phone companies, leading to anational shut-down of the industry, and the ban is
expected to have widespread implications for the gay

comeSupremecommunity. Since phone sex has become a primary
Court objections toform of safe sex for gay men, AIDS service providers
expressed concern that a termination of the phone sex a similar ban legisin
1988.
industry would have a negative effect on their efforts to lated
Lawyersemphaprevent the spread of AIDS. (See box on page 14)
Gay legal experts denounced
the cutoff as an sized that without
abridgement of free speech. (See box, page 15) And widespread support
from gay organizaarialysts of the gay press predicted potentially disastrous
tions, AIDS groups
consequences for gay newspapers, magazines and cable
1V programs, many of which are heavily dependent on- and civil liberties
groups, the ban wasadvertising revenues from gay owned phone sex compaalmost sure to take'nies. (See box, this page)
effect.
Legal advocates for the gay community and private
How the law
lawyers hired by the Information Providers (IPs), which is
how the phone sex companies are known, began mobiliz- was passed, whyadv,ocatesing to fight the ban both statewide and nationally. But legal gay
noticeitanalysts were not optimistic about a court challenge to the didn't
now,
andcarefully worded Helms bill, which was designed to over- ' until

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how the community is reacting as
the implications
become clear
proves a complicated picture of theinteraction between Congress, thederegulated telephone companies,
civil liberties groups and gay and
AIDS advocates.,'Top Priority for Helms
The phone sex industry was
made possible by the break-up of
the Bell System, which previously
monopolized the telephone industry. The judge who presided overthat break-up ruled that the new
regional phone companies were
obligated to make information services available to private vendors,

and could not concern themselveswith the content of those services.
Entrepreneurssoon invented thestraight and gay dial-a-porn industry, which proliferated
in a gaycommunity reeling from the onsetof the AIDS crisis and eager to findalternatives to unsafe sex.
As the gay IP industry grew, its
advertising revenues began to fill thevoid left in the gay press by the failing bathhouseindustry.
Many
observers credit the phone services"with saving the gay press, which had
seemed unable to attract mainstream
advertisers. At present, IPs provide
anywhere from 25 percent to over 50
percent of total revenues for many

gay newspapers, magazines and cable
1V shows. But the IPs were constantly under pressure from fundamentalist
groups who objected to their sexual
nature, and Jesse Helms led the battle
against the IPs from the start.

Touch- Tone Prevention
Fearing a loss of perhaps the safest fonn of sex, AIDS educators and gay leaders reacted angrily to last week's announcement by NYNEX that it would proceedwith tennination of telephone sex services beginning March 2l.
"It's another assault on the freedom of gay people and tIkes away a viable altetnat:M:
fOr safer sex," said Ronald Johnson, exocutive director of the Minority Task Force on AIDS.
"It's counter-productive to what we are ttying to achieve in terms of HIV prevention."
Roben Bray, communications director at the National Gay and Lesbian Task
Force, stated, "Phone sex Unes are a sexual outlet for some gay men. They should beallowed to purchase these outlets. This is another poUcing measure.""Phone sex is an important safe sex resource that people are utilizing," said Rene
Duruzo, director of pubUc policy ror the San Francisco AIDS Foundation. "In the outreach programs that we do in the community, people tdl us that they utilize phone sex
vehicles as safer sex. It's played a very slrOf18 role In the prevention of HIV bansmlssion."
And Jeffrey Braff, executive director of Gay Men's Health Crisis (GMHC) said
that halting telephone sex lines would "open up a Pandora's Box of unsafe sex..
Most AIDS educators view the telephone sex lines as one of the easiest choices
available in terms of safer sex. Luis Nieves of the Hispanic AIDS Forum said
"options" are the basis of safer sex. ·Phone sex is one option. If we take it away,
we're limited We need to give the, conimunIty as many options as possible."
Michael DeMayo, GMHC's Assistant Coordinator for AIDS Prevention Program
Development, feared that a "hard-to-reach" group of men would be adversely affected.
"One of the problems with educating people about safer sex is that there are pe0ple who don't consider themselves at risk, whether because of denial about their gay
identity or because of the way they may rationalize safer sex or their sexuality,· he said.
"For that grouP. phone sex is a way to have sex. I'm assuming that it's the way that thisgroup-which
we call 'men who have sex with men'-expresses
its sexuality without
having to 'come out' For us as educators, they are a difficult group to isolate and reach .•Above 'all, educators stressed the ease and accessibility which telephone sex
lines provide. especially to some men who might otherwise engage in unsafe sex.
"Some people might not' yet have the skills and knowledge to negotiate safer sex,.
said DeMayo. "I think phone sex is an easier way to have safer sex. It's a really comfortlble way of getting off. It's unfair and dangerous to take that'away."
II'Contacted in Indiana, New York City Health Commissioner appointee Dr.
Woodrow Myers decided not to comment on the impact on safer sex of cutting off
the sex lines. "He's not commenting on anything right now,· said his spokesperson
IlIm= McCany after infonning Myers of the actions in New York. "He's very busy
cleaning his office and getting through paperwork.·~Mlcbela"8elo SiglfOrile

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Many gay lobbyists
werecaught unawares by last Wednesday's
NYNEX ann,ouncement
despite their generally
vigilant
scrutiny of Senator Helms' activities. Barry W. Lynn, a legislative
counsel to the ACLU in Washington
who monitors anti-pornography
legislation,
said that Helms had
been sponsoring anti-phonesex
legislation for years. "This fightstarted in 1983, and Helms wasalways behind it," he said. The next
to last Helms bill, in 1988, banned
phone sex outright, and passed the

Senate by a lopsid~98-ovote, butwas struck: down by the Supreme
Court on First Amendment grounds.
Many gay advocates then relaxed,assuming that the court's decision
was fmal.
But last November
Helms
moved again, this time with anamendment to a Health and Human
Services appropriations bill which
does not ban phone sex outright,
but in essence regulates it to death.
"The bill was tacked on very quickly," says Lynn, "there was no disSee PHONE SEX8AN ......
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N.C. Politicos Plan forHelms'Defeat
by Kathy Hoke

Defeating Helms became a top priority of lesbian and gay activists inNorth Quolina well before he made his
latest anti"gay public remarks. Last summer, a dozen activists met in Chapel Hillwith Sue Hyde of the National Gay
and Lesbian Task Force to talk about
the 1990 Senate race. Four in thegroup were delegated to come up,with a proposal. "Weall felt the needfor a gay/lesbian response," the four
wrote in a letter announcing the Jan.
1:7 strategy meeting. ~ agreed thatit shouldn't be based totally within
the Democratic Party, since they were
too prone to ignore or mute ourissues. We felt that we could get substantial support from gay people
across the country for our campaign."
In addition, the Helms racecame up as a top organizing project during a lesbian leadershipretreat in Durham conducted by
SuzannePharr
of Arkansas.
Activists met again Jan. 9 to form apolitical group, agreeing on calling
it North Carolina Project 1990.
CAN HE aE UCKED?
Discussion continues on the new
J...
Photo: Jim Marks
group's otgani2atio~er
it willcuss a lesbian and gay strategy to be a polit:iad action committee or a non-'help make 1990 the year he comes, profit educational group with morehome to North Carolina-in defeat
restrictions on activity. So fur, more than
"When you get hurt enough, you $2,500 has been raised for the group's
have to say, 'Enough is enough,'" said $30,000 projected budget. Organizers
Mandy Carter, coordinator of North
expect North Carolina Project 1990 toCarolina
Project
1990, a new
join other social justice, peace and pr0statewide lesbian and gay group fight- gressive groups seeking to end Helms'
ing to defeat Helms. "You have to say, IS-year Senate career. Project 1990 will
'I'm not going to take it anymore.'"disband after the Nov. 6 election.
In his campaign opener Jan. 13,
Carter, the paid, full-time staff
Helms told a boisterous crowd of 1,700 member who works from Project 1990's
in Raleigh, "Homosexuals" lesbians, all Durham office, encourages money and~of disgusting people are marching
volunteers from within North Quolina
in the streets demanding all kinds of and elsewhere. She said she will talkthings, ,including the right to marry each about the effort Feb. '18 in San Francisother." He also denounced abortion
co to lay the groundwork for a major
rights, "filth of pornography" and public fundraiser there later this year.
spending on sick and perverted soMeanwhile, activists from thecalled art work."
coastal city of Wtlmington are preparCHAPEL HIll, N.C.-Two weeks
after U.S. Senator Jesse Helms vilified
lesbian and gay men in his campaign
kickoff, about 40 activists met to dis-

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ing to file papers for The Family
Fund, a political action committee tofight for lesbian and gay rights inlOcal, state and federal elections. Family Fund organizer Leo Teachout said
defeating Helms will figure prominently in the PAC's agenda for 1990.
"Judging from his comments in the
United State$ Senate on gay and lesbian
people, and AIDS issues in particular,
homosexuallty is going to be a majorpart of his campaign," Teachout said
Homophobia played a role in thebitter and expensive 1984 race, in which
Helms defeated then-Governor Jim
Hunt by a margin of 52 percent to 48
percent. In August, 1983, Helms wrote
his supporters a five-page letter devoted
almost exclusively to the theme thathomosexuals "have drawn a bulls-eye
on my campaign ...Make no mistake:
The SO<alled gay rights crowd '~ thecash to bankroll my opponent."
Other
gay-baiting
incidents
occurred in 1984, but the most noteworthy was a story published in a Olapel
Hill weekly. The front-page headline in
the Landmark read: jim Hunt is Sissy,
Prissy, Girlish and Effeminate.· The
lead paragraph read: "Is Jim Hunthomosexual?" and said rumors indicatedHunt once had a male lover. On thesame issue, a page and a half of Helms'
advertising included a photograph ofHelms with his right arm around Wmdsor. The caption read, "Jesse Helms ismighty good hugging.")
Hunt threatened
a libel suit,accused Helms of planting the story andsaid his "character and reputation" hadbeen attacked. Helms denied having
aI.ly connection to the Wmdsor story.
An editorial in the Greensboro News &Record called the Wmdsor story "politicaf smut." So what if some gay people
contributed to Helms' campaign in outof-state fundraisers, the editorial asked.
"CertiinIy, no gay rights activist group
has had any connection with the Hunt

campaign. It is simply a non-issue,
except for people who want to smear
Hunt and divert public focus from thereal issues."
Working with the news media
about homophobia and its probablerole in this year's race may emerge asa major strategy of Project 1990 -andother groups. "It's difficult to get themainstream media in North Carolina
to run very many stories about gay
and lesbian people," said Teachout of
the The Family Fund. "So we're talking about buying newspaper space,radio spots and 1V time to tell the
North Carolina people about gay andlesbian people from the experts-Qnd
not just from gay men and lesbians.""We need to respond in the mostpractical way possible-in
a way
designed to achieve our ends-to seethat the word 'former' comes in frontof Jesse Helms' name after Nov. 6,"

New Yorksaid Eric Rosenthal, political directorof the Human Rights Camapign Fundof Washington, D.C.
Rosenthal, who attended lastmonth's meeting in Olapel Hill, noted
the increasing anti-gay role Helms hastaken on in the last three years. Withhis power and eagerness to block legislation on lesbian and gay concerns,
Helms seems likely to kill efforts tobring promising new treatments forpeople who are mY-positive. "People
will get sick and die because of the rolehe plays as a roadblock," Rosenthal
said "I think we have a lot at stake."
There are currently six democrats
running against Helms in the upcoming primary elections: Former Charlotte Mayor Harvey Gantt, the only
African-American candidate; former
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'Ex-Gay' Ministry

Founders Come Out
Ten Years Later, Lovers Denounce ICon versions I
what he called "a homosexual past."
ed Bussee. "I counseled. ..hundreds ofAfter a brief time, Bussee, who waspeople ...who tried to change their sexuAfter 11 years of life in seclusion,
then' geting his master's degree in counal orientation and none of them [were]
two original founders of Exodus Inter- successful. If you got them away fromseling, found himself pushed to thenational, a global church-based coali- the Ouistian limelight and asked them,
forefront by the church leaders whotion of so-called "ex-gay ministries,"
asked him to help train hotline volun'Honestly now, are you saying that you
have gone public with their personalteers to counsel homosexuals into forare no longer homosexual and you arestories, denouncing all such programs
going the gay or lesbian lifestyle for
now heterosexually orientated?' ...notheterosexuality and to promote the serone person said, 'Yes, I, am actuallyvice.
now heterosexual.'''Soon, he realized he was not
Prodded into action by the risealone.
of the Anaheim, California-based
Rev. Louis Sheldon and his CoaliWith another church volunteer,
whose name he declined to reveal, andtion for Traditional Values, Bussee,
once a driving force behind the "exa 21-year-old Cooper, who was thengay' movement, now looks withalso part of the church staff, Bussee
consternation at Sheldon's promolinked up similar shoestring organization of "reparative
tions in a handful
therapy" for homoof
churches
sexuals. Presently anationwide
tofamily counselorstage the first-everfor gay and lesbian couples, Bussee
conference of "ex-gay ministries."
now looks back at his years in the
It was out of that conference thatmovement, calling what he and the.odus was born.
group did "psychological damage:For the next four years, Bussee,"There may be very well out
Cooper and other Exodus staffers travthere people that I talked to who areeled the nation, speaking to church
dead now because they committed
groups and recruiting local parishes
suicide because eX the guilt that I inadinto the "ex-gay" movement. But evenvertently heaped on them," he added.
then, the men were well aware of the·SPUT IN TWO·
Photo: Kent Garvey "I feel guilty about that. I mean, it was
program's shortCOmings, noticing that
Ex ·.Xlla,· CDu"'.'DII Ga" CtHlp.r(left) well intentioned. I was getting brainnone of the hundreds they counseled
and Mic"'.' Buae.
washed by the church; this was what I
actually changed their sexual orientawhich seek to "convert" homosexuals
was supposed to be doing. [But) it damtion. The majority, they now note, at
into heterosexuality, according to an aged me; it damaged the people I talked
most, managed to be celibate.
audio-taped interview conducted by to." The damage Bussee and Cooper say"I was convinced it was working,"
the Gay Broadcasting System.
they brought to themselves and others
Bussee said "Every once in a while, aIn the two-hour telephone inter- had its humble beginnings in the Orange
crack in that conviction would occur.
views with GBS's Kurt Wolfe, Exodus County, California neighborhood in _I'd [ask], "How come I'm still having
co-founders Michael Bussee and his which they sti1l reside.
these feelings?' I'd see a Ouistian psylover Gary Cooper discussed at length
The two first met in the early 19708
chologist, and he'd say, 'Oh, that's justthe formation of the organization and when they both attended Melodyland, a
temptation. Ignore it, or surpreS5 it.
their departure from it after they dis- now-defunct local Ouistian fundamenYou are different. You are now ex-gay.
covered that, despite years in thetalist church. And it was while a 20You're, no longer gay. Those feelings
program, their sexual orientations had year-old Bussee was part of the staff at
don't mean anything.'"in effect remained unchanged.
the church's hodine in 1974 that he c0nBut tho~ feelings didn't go away
"I had no success with them," stat- fessed to a church director that he hadfor either of them.

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In fact, even during their tenurewith Exodus, some "ex-gay" counselors
actively engaged in gay sex, even after
a full day of "ex-gay" counseling.
"One of the guys who was real
active in presenting himself as an an
ex-gay, ,went [with mel to ...Philadelphia to speak to the United Presbyterian Church ...general conference,"
Bussee alleged. "Mter we finishedspeaking, he took me on a tour of all
the porn shops in Manhattan. This is
how much he had changed."
But in the eyes of Exodus that was
acceptable, as long as it was confessed
as a momentary lapse back into sin.
"If you were in the church andadmitting you were sinning," Cooper
said, "you could admit that you hadbackslid. You could admit that you
had an affair, or you could admit thatyou had the feelings. That was OK aslong as you would also follow that byadmitting that you realized you werein sin and you backslid."
Even during their fout-year promotion of the ,ministry', there were times
when they 'were at odds with others in
the fundamentalist churches. In one
instance, they were roundly criticized
when, despite promoting their n1inistryon Rev. Pat Robertson's
700 Club,where in 1977 Robertson loyalists
described homosexuals as being "p0ssessed by demons," Bussee and his
group declined to endorse the anti-gay
rights campaigns of Anita Bryant in
Dade County, Florida and John Briggs
in California, saying they were not inthat movement to be political. They
were also occassionally booed by several of the congregations to which theyspoke when they portrayed homosexuals as human afflicted with a psychological condition, rather than evil
people possessed by "demons."
It was during that time that thetwo friends, both with wives and children at the time, began to simultaneously realize that despite
theirstrongest efforts, they were still gay.
It was Cooper's two-month trip
into despair that actually precipitatedthe pair's break from the group.
Placed on heavy doses .of anti-psychotic medications(the names ofwhich he doesn't remember) by a
Melodyland-affi\iatedpsychiatrist(whose name also escapes him)

Cooper says he found himself split
between his conflicting public andprivate personalities.
"It got to the point that I felt...like
I was split in two," Cooper now says.
"I thought I was two individuals. I
was this one person that was really
Gary and there was this other personthat everybody expected me to be,going to Melodylahd."
And that's when it all snapped.
He escaped. Sequestered awayfrom his family, his church and his
friends, Cooper pondered his next
move, and finally, he decided toaccept his being gay. He called his
parents, his wife and the man who
would soon leave' Exodus with him,
his lover, Michael Bussee.
"The main question has to be,"Cooper asserted, "'Why does somebody want to change? Why would ahomosexual person want to change
and become
heterosexual?''I
think ...the reason was that I felt I had
to change because thjs is what society
expected. I was fearful of losing loveof family, losing my wife, losing jobs,
losing all my security that I had
grown up to know."
It wasn't long after the 1979 incident that Bussee left Exodus as well.
The reaction from their former colleagues, however, waS less than friendly.
"I got immediate and complete
abandonment from all the people I
knew before," Bussee told GBS's
Wolfe. "I was anathema. I was backslidden. They have this thing about
turning you over to Satan" thedestructionof your flesh kind ofthing. It was as though I didn't exist."
And while Rev. Sheldon contends
that people fall away from "ex-gay"therapy programs all the time, as pe0ple "fall away from the Lord" all thetime, and adds that the way to counterthat is more compassion towards the"sinner," Bussee is highly skeptical.
"All that that did for me was makeme feel even more inadequate, that
there was something I wasn't doingright," he added. "It doesn't work. The
bottom line is, it doesn't work. We're
not talking about just changing a behavior. That's what he likes to push: thisidea that it's a chOice, that it's a behavior. I believe it is an intrinsic part of who
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Rough Going for Mayorat Center Speech
Dinkins, Jeered and Cheered, Posts S.I. Murder Reward
Woodrow Myers to the post of city health commissioner-Dinkins emphasized his belief that "the highest purpose of government" is to protect the civilrights of all citizens while ensuring the protection of
the public health.
Many of Dinkins' remarks were aimed at de-fus..
ing the controversy surrounding the Myers appointment. Myers has been criticized by some gay activists
and AIDS service workers for policies he pursued
during his tenure as health commissioner for the stateof Indiana. These policies included tracing the sexual
partners of PWAs, the forced quarantine of HIVinfected persons who continued knowingly to engage
in unsafe sexual practices and Myers' proposal thatgay bars and bookstores in Indiana be closed down
as a step toward controlling the epidemic.
TESTING: NO. DOMESTIC PARTNERSHIP: MAyaE.
Attempting to quiet fears that Myers would push
M."" O.vld Olnkins.t the Center
Photo: Ellen B. Neipris for similar measures in New York , Dinkins said , "I am
by James Waller
committed to making sure that no one uses [AIDS]to deny
NEW YORK-New York City Mayor David Dinkins anyone their constitutional rights.
addressed an overflow crowd of several hundred people at"As long as I am Mayor of New York, there will never be
the Lesbian and Gay Community Services Center on West a quarantine of persons with AIDS or those wbOare fnV-posi13th Street last Tuesday night. The mayor's brief speech, in tive," Dinkins promised. "There will be no mandatory testing
which he reiterated his commitment to push for full civil or testing of people without their knowledge or consent"rights for lesbians and gay men in New York City, the stateIn his speech the mayor also addressed the divisive,
and the nation, was followed by a stormy question-andreciprocal charges of racism and homophobia that haveanswer period that at moments deteriorated into a shouting sullied the controversy surrounding the appointment ofmatch between various contingents ip the audience.
Myers, who is African-American. Dinkins expressed the
The mayor's appearance came as part of the Center's hope that he and those who fought him on the Myers issuemonthly-"Second Tuesday" series, which features speakers could "join in agreement that the disagreement was not
on topics of interest to the gay community. Saying that he about race or sexual orientation.
came to the Center to thank lesbian and gay New Yorkers"Despite misunderstandings we will all work together,""for doing so much for me and to let you know that I Dinkins said. "If friendships were feeling strained, let's
would not be here as mayor without your help and, sup- remember the difficulty of struggle. We are all footsoldiersport," Dinkins praised the center as a "vital grassroots insti- on the march to freedom."tution." The Dinkins visit was scheduled to coincide with
In his speech on Thesday, Dinkins refrained from. menthe celebration of Black History Month.
tioning his action, taken earlier that day, to discontinue the
Dinkins admitted in the opening sentences of his city's controversial needle-exchange program. The year-old
address that the flfst six weeks of his admiriistration had, program, which was .subjected to fierce criticism both frombeen "rough times" during which many in the gay commu- those who maintained that it encouraged addiction and fromnity had already come to think that he had "broken [his] ~ose who contended it should have been more widely implevow." He insisted that his appearance at the Center was an mented, had served only 300 addicts during its existence_ On
effort to restore the community's trust in him.
Wednesday, tbe New Yorll 7Jmes reported that Myers joined
Without specifically naming the event that has so sore- with Dinkins in making the decision to dismantle the program.
ly tested the good relations between the mayor's office and
The audience that turned out to hear Dinkins was genmany in the gay community-his
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information leading to Sarlo's arrest. ,several times. But the crowd was peppered with opponents
But even that announcement did little to quell the discooof the Myers appointment whose shouted comments occatent with Dinkins for some in the community. In a letter tosionally drowned out the mayor's remarks. The hecklers'interruptions, in turn, drew a vocal response from other Dinkins sent the day he appeared at the Center, Matt Foreman,audience members, who loudly shushed the sporadic cries executive director of the Gay and Lesbian Anti-ViolenceProject,contrasted Dinkins' speedy response to a rackial firebombiongof "No more business as usual!" "Fire Myers!"and the like.
Addressing other matters of concern to lesbians and in the Cmarsie section c:i Brooldyn to what others have charncgays, Dinkins pledged his staunch support for the inclusion terized as his sluggish reaction in the ZappaIorti case.
"For 23 days, one of the murderers has been at largeof sexual orientation in the bias-crimes bill now before the-andthecity has failed ...to post a reward for his capture, a
New York State Legislature.
He also announced that the city was prepared to offer common practice in the past. I assume you will announcea reward of $10,000 to anyone providing information lead- the posting of an award at your visit to our Community
ing to the arrest of Philip Sarlo, the still-at-Iarge suspect in Center tonight A reward is a law enforcement tool, not athe murder of James Zappalorti, who was stabbed to death political present," Foreman wrote.
And the mostly congenial atmosphere that had preon a Staten Island beach on January 22.
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The slaying of Zappalorti, who was gay, is believed to vailed during Dinkins' formal address grew, much moresession thathave been bias-related. The Lesbian and Gay Anti-Violence strained during the question-and-answer
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Naming Names,
Keeping Lists
and what we know-I don't think I
said 50, I think I said 35-that is pe0WASHINGTON-How many clos- ple whose sexual orientationiseted homosexuals are there in thereported from the grass-roots level,"
U.S. Congress? And do they vote pro- Bray explained.
"The [Pink Papeti
gay or anti-gay?
interview was very long and some of
Although the question has been , the words may have gotten moved
around for a long time, it wasn't
around in editing."
asked directly until a recent interview
The "Foley flap" occurred lastby London, England's ThePink Paper June, when former Republicanwith the U.S" National Gay and Les- National Committee 'communications
bian ras~ Force's Robert Bray.
director Mark GOQdin released a" 7blPink Paper quoted Bray as " memo suggesting that House Speakersaying: "We have a list of many of the Thomas Foley was gay. Frank blasted
over 50 gays in the U.S. Congress.
the "innuendo campaign" and threatMany are very pro-gay and vote Pro-Ir---'------=---=------------------I

by Rex Wockner~y.

"~;~::~::"oi!;'!nOO:Crls Williamson:
I Out At Lastued, "hurt us yet they benefit from pr0gresses made for gays, like going to ourbars and buying gay literature, and they
benefit from the protection we havefor...our privacy. We know who theyare. We have proof from local communities or we have documents.",Bray told tbe Pink Paper that
U.S. "activists are talking about identifying anti-gay homosexuals, and the, term we use ...is 'tossing.' Tossing outof the closet.",
Asked in early February about
the British interview, Bray said that he
may have misspoken or ,the Pink
Paper may have misquoted him.
In fact, Bray said, Washington
activists know of perhaps 3, closeted
members of Congress and any list
would have to be compiled from scattered notes at the offices of NGLTF,the
Human Rights Campaign Fund, Rep.
Barney frank £D-Mass.] and Rep. Gerry
Studds £D-Mass.J. Frank and Studds are
Congress' two openly gay men.
"Barney said he has a list-when
the Poley flap happened~d
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ened to reveal names of closeted gay
Republicans in Congress. Within aweek, President Bush labeled thememo "disgusting," Goodin resigned
and RNC chairman Lee Atwater apologized to Foley.
Had Frank made good on his
threat to 'toss' gay Republicans, hewould have had Bray's support but
not that of Bray's boss, NGLTF execu.' tive director Urvashi Vaid.
She believes the gay movement isfundamentally about privacy rights andsays activists must not be selective
about whose privacy they respect.
"Dragging someone out of thecloset is not going to pass a gay rights
bill," Vaid said. "We'll'only move forward as a result of a long-term processthat forces them to pay attention to us.
There's no quick fix for homophobia."
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by Jor;et Harper
Cris Wllliamson, a 'founding foremother' of women's music, claimed ina recent interview that "no one~~~...,.

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knows" whether or not she is a lesbian. Later, she recanted, saying her
refu$al to aff1rm that she is a lesbian
was a "kneejerk reaction" to questions

WlIII.mlDn (I) with long-time p.rtne, Tret Fure.
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Of the "Four Founding Foreabout her personal life.
JoAnn Loulan, author of Lesbian
The interview appeared in the mothers" of women's
music,
Sex and Lesbian Passion-has
September, 1989 issue of Hot Wire Williamsonis the only one who conreportedly done a lot of "gardening"magazine. Toni Armstrong, Jr., the tinues to perform regUlarly and primagazine's publisher, broached the marily on the women's music circuit. , since she stopped touring a numberof years ago. Holly Near is still an
subject of Williamson's sexual iden- For a number of years she has
active performer, but concentrates
tity, saying, "You've been forced out worked closely with singer/guitarist
as a lesbian over the past 15 years Tret Fure. Recently she has been , on progressive social change music
whether you wanted to be out or touring with Teresa Trull, with whomof a more general nature. In an
she collaborated on the album Coun- interview with the gay press innot...•
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1988, Near was asked point blank"Noone knows if I am or noC
if she was a lesbian, and Near,
Of the others', Meg ChristianWilliamson's Cbanger and tbe left women's music to follow Gurutoo, avoided a direct reply, saying
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Williamson went on to say, "I
don't care who you love in thisworld-it's that you 10ve.. .I thinksome women are defmitely lesbians
and that's their religion-that's whatchanged them, that's what moved
them. It is not what has moved memost in my life. Who I am and who
I love, and how that is, is a part of
my life, but' it's not the heart andcenter of it."
In a lette.r in the January, 1990
issue of Hot Wire, Williamson tried
to explain herself, having realized,
she said, that her statem~nts had"caused concern and confusion
among some of Diy listeners andsupporters." Her responses in theinterview, she said, were "reactive
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Call Boy Talks on Penthouse Rap Lineby Cliff O'Neill

members of cOngress at the Washingjudgment.
Aµd that would be all.
WASHINGTON-With the tale of ton press conference, Maxa stated thatThat would be the end of it.»his exploits at the side of openly gay
through his interviews with male
,In Pentbouse, on the 1-900 line
Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.) in the escorts for the Penthouse story, he had
and in his recent statements, Gobie
March issue of Pentbouse magazine
heard of two senators and a number ofmaintains tha~ he has been maligned
widely regarded a dud, male prosti- House members who had been clientsby reporters' which have portrayedtute and pimp Steven Gobie's brief of the service, but wouldn't say ,moment 'in the spotlight appears to be who they are. Roll call quoted
coming to an end, an influential Capi- Maxa as estimating that ten pertol Hill newspaper suggested Feb. 12.
cent of Congress-or
about 53
Gobie, who became a personal
members-is gay or bisexual.
aide and chauffeur to Frank after iniGobie also now appears on
tially being paid for sex with him, sold Pentbouse magazine's pay-perhis story to the adult magazine, whichcall phone number (1-900-568suggested that he would name up to 30(0) on which-for$2 for theten closeted gay members of Congress.
first minute and 75 cents a
When the story hit the stands, howevminute afterwards--one can hearer, it contained far more titillation than him 'sigh repeatedly and give atestimony, only hinting about certain
brief version of the story.
congressmen and reasserting what
Saying he and Frank were
Gobie has already stated.
"great friends," on the line Gobie
In a column headlined, "Celebrity talks about how Frank respondcall bOy nears end of his fifteen min- ed to his escort service ad andutes," writers Glenn Simson and Craig how the two played football andWmneker of the Capitol Hill tabloid Roll worked out together. Gobie also
Call gauged the mood in the media as reiterates his chargeswhich
reacting to Gobie's much touted
Frank
has
vehemently"expose" with more ennui than interest.
denied-that
he and Frank ran DIAL 1-900-PRESS WHORE
Photo: Patsy lynch"In New York last, week," thea~ound the locker room snap- Steven GDbie .f 'D.c. pTIIU cDnfetencecolumnists wrote, "Gobie failed to pmg towels at each other and.
impress local reporters
with his
proceeded to have "what is known as
him as ,a mercenary opportunist andaccount of [Frank's] ,sexual habits.
a J-O (masturbation) scene" on theninsists ~e only came forward with his
The Big Apple pressies wanted to Vice President George Bush's locker" story when he felt federal agents andknow the names of other gay mem- in the U.S. Hause gymnasium.
reporters for the Wasbington Times
bers of Congress, mentioned in theGobie, in between numerous
closing in on him. Initial accounts'ofarticle, but Gobie wasn't telling.»
pauses, also restates his account of
the revelations had Gobie approachTo promote the March issue of the how Frank was at one point physicaling the Wasbington Times, the Washmagazine, Pentbouse has sponsored a ly attracted to his colleague Rep.
ington Post and a local television
tour of the northeast by Gobie and the Joseph Kennedy (D-Mass).
outlet looking for the highest bidder.
authors of the piece, Wasbingtonlan, "[Frankl was admiring !Kennedy's]
When the Times eventually broke themagazine columnist Rudy Maxa and physique and, uh, saying how-6aying
story of Gobie's running his escort
former Washington Post contributor Art that he would like to, uh, hit on him
service out of Frank's apartment, they
Harris. As' part of that tour, Gobie
one time,» GQbie says on the line.
insisted that they did not compensate
appeared Feb. 8 at the National Press
Mer again insistipg that Frank
Gobie for his testimony.
Oub, where reaction to his story was
knew of the escort service being run
Since then, Gobie has repeatedly
much the same, with, as Roll Callout of his apartment-whichFrank,stated that he is looking to sign a valuoh5erved, most reporters more interest- has also fumly denied-Gobie
states,able deal for a book and movie which
ed in the rest of the magazine than in "I feel, badly that he can't come forhe plans to call "Capitol Offenses: The
the Gobie story.
,
ward an~dadmit to what he did
End of Innoncence."
To date, only
Asked about the closeted gay
and say it'was a mistake, an error in
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Rights Group Bombards
High Schools with
Pro-Gay Literature
by Rex Wocknar
CHICAGO-The illinoiS Gay andLesbian Task Force in early February
sent every high school iIi the state alarge kit of information for counselors, for student who think they'might· be gay or lesbian, and for theparents of those students.
.
In announcing the counselingpacket, project, co-directors Al Wardelland Genny Allegra Goodrum said: "Gayand lesbian stu~
live behind an ironcUrtain of silenCe. Because everyone isafraid to help them, they become victims of violence and desperation.", IGLTF had previously surveyed:the state's 691 high school' counselingdepartments and, found counselors'acknowledging they were desperate
for written materials to help gay andlesbian students.
In a 'cover letter to the new packet,
IGLTF said to counselors: "One out often students in yOur high school is gay
or lesbian.... Suicide is only one problem that these students face.:.. In mostcases 'all that the gay ,or lesbian student
needs is a little positive encouragement
fiom those whom he Of she truSts.
"We know that Sexual orientation isdifficult for many people and that yourown feelings may be somewhat ambiguous," the letter admitted. "However, it isa subject about which a:sizable percentage of your SJUdents rieeds infonnation.
These students must deal with it, as best
they can, on a daily basis.",Although the packet contains
information on coming out to parents,
AIDS, the military draft, 'W~t the Bible"reallY" says about gay sex and how to
tap into parents-of:gays.groups,
thecore of the kit is two new IGLTFpamphlets entitled, "I Think I Might Be Gay
Il.esbianl. What Do I Do Now?"

An additional component is an
IGLTF poster that activists urge counselors to display behind glass in aprominent location in the high school.
"If you, or someone you love is
gay ,or lesbian," the poster reads, "theschool counselor has information thatcan' help." IGLTF told counselors that
putting the poster up is the single
most important thing they could do.
The two new pamphlets are written in language geared to teenagers.
"Men who call themselves gay are sexually and emotionally attracted to andfall in love with other men," the gay
male pamphlet begins. "Their sexual
feelings toward men are normal andnatural for them, just as sexual feelings
for women are normal and natural for'straight' or heterosexual men."
Later, the pamphlet prints photographs of the "many famOus men in
history who were gay or bisexual."
Included are Leonardo da VInci" football's Dave KopaYi championshipbodybuilder
Bob Paris, U.S. Rep.
Gerry Studds, author James Baldwin
and Alexander the Great.
The lesbian pamphlet includes
comedian Lily Tomlin, author Rita
Mae Brown, tennis pro Martina
Navratilova, singer Holly Near andMinnesota Rep. Karen Oark.
"If you think you might be, gay,"
the pamphlet instructs boys, "ask yourself: 'When I dream or fantasize sexually, is it about boys or girls? Have I everS.. HIGHSCHOOLS on pell. &I

i~jects ranging from fund-raising to
ethics and confidentiality, to lobbying,
to direct action; and an optional 21session course in culture and politics
of the gay and lesbian community.
Foundedby NAMES Project
founder and Executive Director Cleve
Jones with Luke Adams, an activist,
student organizer, and education specialist, the New Pacific Academy aims
to educate and encourage lesbians andgay men who will lead the movementin the future. According to Adams,
organizers will work to raise a $7 ninlion endowment for the academy,
which they hope will eventually offer
an annual program on its own campus. "It's an amaZingly expensive
proposition at the front end," Adams
said of the institution's financial needs,"but if you think about it, it's a minimal investment." This year's budget of$633,000 has been raised through private donations, with payment for therental for the Berkeley camp~ut
a third of the total figure--<lonated bya single anonymous donor.
The first 200 academy students,
who will be between the ages of 18

and 30, will be chosen on the basis of
their ability to demonstrateacommittment to social service or political activism in the lesbian and gay
community and their ability to complete projects. An admissions committee composed of members of theorganization's advisOry board, which
consists of representatives of a number of lesbian ana gay organizations
nationwide, will, choose from among
the applicants. The advisory board
will be' headed by Renee McCoy, theformer executive director of the
National Coalition of Black Lesbians
and Gays, and Sally Gearheart; alongtime activist and a professor at
the San Francisco State University.
To complement its revolutionary
academic program, the academy has
set groundbreaking
goals for the
makeup of its student body. In con~trasts to the primarily white male face,of current lesbian and gay leadership,'half of this year's academy enrollees
will be people of color and half will
be female.
"We're not focusing awhole lot of outreach on college students," stated Adams.
But even

before the academy undertook any
outreach at all, it had received a hundred requests for application forms.
In future years, the academy willsponsor internships and independent
projects for graduates. According toAdams, future courses may be taught
at different locations, although he i,sconfdent that the academy's permanent site will be in Sari Francisco,because "outside of Amsterdam and
New York City, there is no otherplace that offers this kind of opportunity for immersion in gay and lesbian
culture."Adams, who is only 26
years old himself, added that he had"some wonderful ideas for how I am
going to march these tWo hundred
young queers in the [Lesbian and Gay
Freedom Day] parade."
Young peopleinterestedinenrolling in "Basic Training" should
write to New Pacific Academy Critical
Literacy Institute, 2338 Market Street,
San Francisco, CA 94114. Anyone
interested in presenting a workshop
or a lecture should contact Cleve
Jones at The NAMES Project, PO Box
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repealeffort fails
in Georgia

ers don't want to get too close to voting against a repressive sodomy law,"said Cathy Woolard, president of the
Georgia ACLUGay and Lesbian Rights
Chapter. "But they'll have to, because
we'll be meeting with legislative
sponsors to go over the vote countand plan our strategy for 1991. We
will be back."
Sue Hyde, NGLTF Privacy Project
director who worked closely with theGeorgia activists on the repeal effort,
observed, "Legislators are allergic tocasting votes in favor of private consensual sex-whether
it's to repeal asodomy law or mandate AIDS education in schools."
In its post-vote editorial, theAtlanta Constitution said of Speaker
Tom Murphy, "Ignorance is a fullyplaUSible explanation for [the sodomy]
vote, thc:>ugh it is no comfort to be
confronted so brazenly by a legislator
boasting of his stupidity."
ACT UP/Atlanta was joined by
activists from New York and elsewhere last month in a protest against
the state's sodomy laws on the stepsof the Georgia statehouse.

ATLANTA-The Georgia Houseof Representatives rejected a move torepeal the state's "ancient statute" thatoutlaws sodomy Feb. 2, drawing condemnation from the National Gay andLesbian Task Force (NGLTF), local
activists and the media.
Atlanta
activists vowed to press for sodomy
repeal in 1991, and blasted homophobic remarks made by Georgia's
Speaker of the House, during thecourse of the bill.
Georgia's sodomy law was challenged unsucce~sfullyin the U.S.
Supreme Court
Michael Hardwick
in 1987. The Court upheld the constitutionality of Georgia's staute, and, byextension, similar laws on the books
in 26 states across the country'. New
York State has nQ sodomy laws.
The repeal bill, sponsored byCynthia McKinney (D-Atlanta), would
have exempted all consenting adults
from prosecution under the sodomy
law. McKinney's father, Billy (DAtlanta), had introduced a bill thatwould criminalize only gay sex.
NEW YORK-Two members of
On February 1, the House Special New York's lesbian community were
Judiciary Committee voted 7-3 to send 'among the recipients of the 11th
Cynthia McKinney's bill to the floor. annual Susan B. Anthony Awards,
But, the younger McKinney's bill was which were presented by the New
amended to resemble her father's gay- York chapter of the National Organionly bill. Even that bill proved too zation for Women (NOW) last Tuesmuch for-the Georgia lawmakers,
day night. Susan T. Chasin, editor of
who quickly killed the bill, 64-t0-44.
VtsibtltUes: The Lesbian MagaZine,
Before the vote, House Speaker
and Nan Du Bois, public information
Tom Murphy told the, Atlanta Consti- vice president of NOW-NYC, weretution-Journal
he didn't "knowjoined by six other winners at theenough about sodomy to talk aboutaward ceremony, which was held init. Believe me, I don't know about
the City Council' chambers in Cityit." In response to an Atlanta gay and Hall.
lesbian demonstration against sodomy
According to NOW, the awards
laws on January 8, Murphy said,"honor individual women and groups"Those gay people, I didn't go aroundin the New York City area whose selfthem. I didn't want to get too close."less efforts at the grassroots level have"Tom Murphy and other lawmak- furthered
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equality." Du Bois, who has worke<;ifor NOW-NYC since 1978 and credits
the organization's
convivial atmosphere with enabling her own coming
out, said that the awards ceremonywas "the greatest night in my life."
Her delight was shared by
Chasin, who said, "It was a very
unexpected and major recognition
and a very powerful experience for
NOW New York to recognize all thehard work we at VisibtltUes havedone."
VistbiIUies, which has been publishing on a regular bimonthly basis
since 1987, is a general-interest highquality publication for, by and about
lesbians. It has a national circulationof about 5,000 and is available at anumber of bookstores and newstands
in Manhattan.
Chasin foresees 1990 as being the
publication's "big growth year," andshe is extremely proud of what themagazine has thus far accomplished:"We've done what no other lesbian
publication has managed to do - topublish on time and continuously . . .
with no moneyl"
Most notably,
the magazine
served as the vehicle for the first scientific study of lesbians', potential
risks for AIDS, the results of which
will appear in a scientific journal later
this year and will subsequently be
published in VisibtIUlps~The magazinealso features an ongoing "Lesbians
and AIDS" column, which Chasin
hopes "will help break through a lotof the denial that still goes on in thecommunity."
Du Bois' many accomplishm€:nts
include membership on NOW's lesbian rights committee' and service as
NOW's representative to the umbrellaorganization Lesbians United. In work
she does for a company that gives
community-service
grants, she has
directed two essay contests for New
York City elementary and high-school
students.
About the Susan B. AnthonyAwards, Du Bois said, "They consistently represent
all women. The
award winners aren't all white or all
black, all young or all old, all lesbian

Out Takes
or all straight."
This diversity, Du Bois said,
reflects NOW's (and her own) commitment to the belief that "only when
all women work together will we
make any progress."city cannot empower individuals tobring lawsuits against discriminatory
employers. Arguments on these contentions may take place as early as
February 22.
Western Union's argument is-James Waller based on a legal concept called "preemption." The California legislatureincluded a provision in the state Fair
Employment
and Housing Codewhich indicated the legislature's intention to "occupy the field" of employment and housing discrimination,
ousting local governments of jurisdiction.
Western Union argues that thisprecludes the addition of new categories, such as "sexual orientation,"by local legislation. Governor George
SAN
FRANCISCO-Western
Deukmejian vetoed an attempt by theUnion Corporation, defending against
California legislature to pass a gay
a charge of anti-gay employment disrights law several years ago, arguing
crimination under the San Franciscothat there was no demonstrated prob-'
Gay Rights Ordinance, is arguing thatlem with anti-gay discrimination in
San Fran¢isco and other California
California.
cities do not have authority to pass
Ertag's lawyers argue that the leggay rights laws. If successful, Westernislature did not intend to preclude
Union's argument could endanger
local legislation on gay rights, since
employment ordinances in six otherthat subject is not mentioned in the
California municipalities.
"
state law and the "preemption" proviThe challenge comes in whatsion does not clearly indicate an
seemed like a routine sexual orientaintention to preclude cities from acttion discrimination charge brought by ing on this issue. Other California
Armand Ertag, a former Westerncities with gay rights laws covering
Union executive complaining of anti- private employment
include Los
gay harassment by a management
Angeles, Berkeley, Davis, Laguna
official. Ohe same manager is also a Beach, Sacramento and West Hollyw~.
'
defendant in a race discrimination
pending against Western Union-Arthur S. Leonard
in federal court.)
Ertag's complaint was brought
before Judge Ira A. Brown, Jr., of
California Superior Court ,in San Francisco. Western Union asked Judge
Brown to dismiss the case.
On
Pecember 13, Brown ruled that mostof Ertag's claims had no legal basis,
NEW YORK-WBAI is currently
but granted permission for Ertag's
accepting ideas from skilled people
attorney to file a new complaint.
interested in producing feminist andThat new complaint was filed on
lesbian and gay programs.
January 3. In response,
Western
WBAI has been servitlg the left inUnion came up with the argument
NYC for 30 years as part of the larger
that San FranciSco's BOard of Su,pervi- Pacifica Network. The station presors lacks the authority to baD anti-, empted all of its scheduled programgay discriminationby private
ming on Dec. '10 to cover the ACf
employers, and also argued that the
UP/WHAM! demomstration
at St.

Calif. gay
rights laws
underattack.case

Activist
radio 99.5

Patrick's Cathedral.
The new program
director,
Andrew Phillips, is opening up slots
in the current schedule in the hopesof adding to the gay and lesbian content of the programming.
The prograoiming at the station,
which can be found at 99.5 FM, iscreated almost entirely by volunteers
active in their own communities.
Those who are interested should
contact Mario Murillo, Public Affairs
Director at the station at 212-2790707.
~SmithGay rights
in Florida
CountyIn two related decisions, thecommissioners of Palm Beach County,
Florida, have voted to end discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation
in hOUSing,financing of housing, andpublic accommodations,and toamend the county's municipal affirmative action regulations to prohibit
discrimination against gay men andlesbians applying for work with thecounty or currently in its employ.
The flfSt measure, which was
paSsed on January 16 and took eff~at the beginning of February, also
provides for civil fines ranging up to$50,000 (for a third offense) for those
who continue to discriminate against
gays and members of other minority
groups. The second ruling, enacted
on February 6, became law on Thursday of last week.
,
According to Rand HOCh,who as
attorney for the Palm Beach County
Human Rights Council (PBHRC) was
deeply involved in the push for"theseamendments, the steep increase infmes that can be levied on housinglaw violators is an extremely important victory in Palm Beach County.
Hoch, who claims to have been a
victim of discriminatory housing poll-

February 25. 1990

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impressive contingent of 30 religiOUS
des himself, said that landlords andtenant boards of apartment complexes
leaders,
realtors (both gay andand condominums in ~e ultra-exclustraight), representatives
from thesive communities
of Palm Beach,Black community and others whoseWest Palm Beach and Boca Raton
carefully prepared presentations easily
have in the past regularly suffered the overwhelmed the ill-organized andinconvenience of small fines rather
poorly prepared opposition. The rulthan to open their doors to gays,
ing passed 4-1, the only nay vote castBlacks, Jews and others they consider
by one of the commission's
twoundesirable.
Republican members.
The victories for gay and lesbianThat commissioner
has in therights in Palm Beach County are the meantime apparently changed his
result, Hoch contended, of a quiet but mind about lesbian and gay rights:
perserverant
campaign conducted
the affirmative action amendments
over the course of almost two years enacted on February 6 drew theby the PBHRC and the gay-oriented
unanimous approval of commission
Atlantic Coast Democratic Club. The members.
methods pursued by these groups toPalm BeachCounty(pop.
ensure passage of the legislation are 900,000) is the ftrSt Florida county torecommended by Hoch as effective
enact such legislation since 1977,
ways of getting gay-rights bills enact- when a gay-rights ordinance in Dadeed in municipalities where large-scale County was overturned by referenpublic debate would be counterprodum after an infamous campaign led
ductive.
by Anita Bryant. During 1989 gayBeginning in 1988, the PBHRC rights bills were defeated in the city
screened all Democratic candidatesof Tampa and in Hillsborough Counfor the county commission, securingty.
-James Waller
promises from those candidates it
endorsed that they would introduce
and work for passage of the gayrights legislation.
"We did our political homework
first, and we kept [the campaign] lowkey," Hoch told OutWeek, emphasizing that the upcoming vote on the
housing issue was intentionally kept
away from the forefront of public
consciousness. "We didn't care how
The American Center of PEN, thewe got the law, [so we] deferred to international writers' association, has
what the politicians wanted,"' Hochannounced the creation of a Fund tor
said.
Writers and Editors with AIDS. The
Activists were careful to avoid
fund represents an expansion of themedia debates with well-known
PEN Writers Fund, which has been
homophobes,
which could haveassisting writers in fmancial emergenfocused too much attention on thecies for more than 30 years.
issue. They al$o enlisted the support
The special fund for editors andof a number of minority-rights groups
writers with AIDS was actually started
and with them engaged iµ an inten- in late 1988 at the urging of several
sive letter-writing
campaign that
PEN members, including Susan Soneclipsed calls for a referendum on the tag and gay writer and activist Gregofair-housing amendments.
ry Kolovakos.
A benefit held inwhen the hOUSing-law amendSeptember of that year raised $45,000
ments were presented for fmal con- to initiate the fund.
sideration
at the commission'sMore than 20 grants have been
meeting in mid-January, the groups
awarded -to date. But according topressing for passage marshalled an PEN officials, applications for awards

Grants forwriters
with AIDS

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have so far mostly come from New
York and San Francisco.
Grants are available in amounts
ranging from $500 to $1,000. Applicants need not be members of PEN,
but must be published writers, produced playwrights, or editors. Thoseseeking grants must submit samplesof their published or produced workor" if they are editors, a professional
curriculum vitae.
PEN spokeswoman
PamelaPearce told OutWeek that the need forthis special fund became evident as
administrators of the already existing
Writers Fund realized that more andmore applications
were being
received from people with AIDS.
There was also a growing recognition
that the kinds of fmancial emergencies faced by PWAs were larger, morediverse, and often more acute thanthose faced by other writers.
Although applications for grants
under this program are reviewed only
once every six weeks, funds can beawarded in as little as 24 hours, and$200 can be made available in threehours in cases of extreme emergency.
The application form does ask
how the money will be used, butwriters and editors who ate awarded
grants are not required to provide
PEN with an accounting of how themoney is actually spent. According toChrlstine Friedlander, who administers
the fund, PEN is aware that "almost
anybody who has AIDS has terrificfinancial problems" and that there are
innumerable legitimate reasons forrequesting financial help.
Besides disseminating informationon the availability of these grants, PEN
continues to solicit donations to ensurethat the fund is kept alive. The organization is also planning a second benefit for the fund, tentatively scheduled
for October or November of this year.
Further information on how toapply for grants or how to donate to
the fund can be obtained by contacting Friedlander at (212) 334-1660 orby writing to her at PEN AIDS Fund,PEN American Center, 568 Broadway,
New York, New York 10012.

-James WallerNGLTFsee,ks dataon violence
WASHINGTON-Knowof any"gay-bashing" or anti-gay and lesbiandefamation that happened last year?
The National Gay and Lesbian TaSk
Force (NGLTF) is urging local activists
and organizations to provide documentation on harassment and violence for its "1989 Anti-Gay Violence,
Victimization and Defamation Report."
In recent weks, NGLTF sent
questionnaires seeking statistics onanti-gay and lesbian hate crimes to
375 campus groups, 250 Metropolitan
Community Churches and 150 otherorganizations, including communitybased groups and police and humanrelations departments. The questionnaires were, Sent to all 50 states andthe District of Columbia.
The survey collects information
on a variety of anti-gay incidents,
including harassment, threats andmenacing actions, bomb threats,physicalassaults
and thrownobjects, vandalism,
police verbal
and physical abuse, arson, homicide and others.
NGLTF's hate crime surveys
reveal the pervasivenessof antigay and lesbian violence acrossAmeri,ca. In the 1988 report, 7,248
incidents were reported.
"It is vitally importantthat
every known incident in every areaof this country be documentedin
our report,"
said Kevin Berril,l,
NGLTF Anti-Violence Project director. "Although most lpcal groups
do not systematically monitor antigay episodes,
we urge them torecord the incidents they do know
about, even if it is only a few.
"We cannot remedy injustice if
we do not make it visible,'said
Berrill.
"The data pr~vided
by, local groups will help us keep theissue of anti-gay and lesbian hatecrimes on the federal, state and local

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only want to be in compliance withanother question, that a new - andensued. The tension was indicative of better - city-sponsored AIDS-education the law."
Lawyersfamiliarwith thethe animosity that has developed
advertising campaign was in the works.
NYNEX proposals disagreed, howbetween the mayor's office and ACI'
As the mood inside the Center's
ever, arguingthat NYNEX has
UP, which had strongly opposed the auditorium degenerated, Dinkins wasgone beyond even the stringent
Myers appointment.
several times overwhelmed by the
In response to .a question conHelms bill in an attempt to kill thecommotion on the floor. The mayor
cerning whether he intended to consult was, however, able to make himself
phone sex industry. One lawyer
with PWAs or AIDS activist organizaworking on the case, who asked
heard during intervals between thetions such as ACI' UP before selecting give-and-take between members of
not to be named,
commented,
someone to ftll the city's housing com"The New York Telephonerules
he audience:
missioner slot, Dinkins responded, "I
go beyondHelms'
bill in two"I didn't come here tonight because
will not pledge to consult with ACI' UP there's an election next month," he said
importantways. First, they are
but I will receive whatever suggestion
applying this to anything 'adult,'"I am here because 1 care.
ACI' UP will send."
not just 'indecent'as the Helms"I'm here because I have a deep
Reacting to angry comments
commitment and I have a record ofbill allows. And second, they arevoiced by some audience members
withdrawing their billing services,which I'm very proud. I don't needthat his administration was not mov- any lectures on discrimination andwithout which the IPs cannot suring quickly enough to provide safe prejudice. "vive regardless of other considerahousing for homeless PWAs, Dinkins
The connection between the Dinktions. Helms' bill says nothingstated that "housing for PWAs is a ins visit and Black History Month was
about that."'
constant subject in our office. To sug- obscured both by the nature of Dinkins'
Analysts familiar with phonegest that this is not a subject of con- speech and by the tumultuous, advercompany
regulations
noted thatcern is just inaccurate.
sarial question-and-answer session. 1hemany objections to phone sex ser"I'm just being very clear that I'm mayor was provided with an eloquent
vices nationallycome from cusnot giving anybody veto power. I introduction by Geoffrey Morris, a Black tomers who are unable to block
don't intend to seek the assent of ACI' gay man who is the foaner president of the services from their telephones,
UP 'before I make an appointment,"
the Center's board. Saying that theor who are charged a fee to do so.
he added testily.
evening presented an opportunity to
In New York, however, the phone
Many of the hecklers scattered"reflect on the contributions of people
company has long provided a freethroughout the auditorium appeared to of color to the community," Morris
blocking service to any customer
be members of ACI' UP, although Out- expressed his gladness that the mayor
who requests it, making it unclear
Week sources who attended that group's had come, and he enjoined Dinkins to who was complaining and why theregular weekly meeting the previous
take time to listen to what the commucompany felt these services damnight reported that ACI' UP members
nity had to say.
aged their corporate image.
were sharply divided about whether Or
As Dinkins exited the Center after
Spokespeople
for New Yorknot to "zap" Dinkins during his visit tohis 4O-minute stay, he was surroundTelephone stressed that their new
the Center, and there was no official ed by a small crowd which continued
rules would have no, effect on theaction planned by the group.
to shout its disapproval. ~550 exchanges, which are commonly
The mayor gave a cautious I
I known as the "chat lines" in whichanswer to a question concerning th~
up to ten callers are connected for, PHONE SEX BAN from 118•• 15
city's willingness to move towatd
group conversations.
legitimizing homosexual unions by cussion, no press. We thought it"We have absolutely no intenproviding healthcare benefits to the was just one more dial-a-porntion to stop billing the 550 services,"partners of lesbian and gay teachers.
amendment. "Marcus said. "We're not changing the"I have been supportive of thisservice, just the tariff."
general theory [that gay relationships
NYNEX Makes its Move
But Joel Dichter, a lawyer workdeserve the same treatment as heteroAccording
to sources in theing on the case for the IPs, dissexual marriages] for a long time," he phone industry, the Helms bill proagreed. "They filed a tariff which
said. "But I need to know what the vides the excuse many regional
prohibits adult conversations of therepercussions are before I act."
phone companies have long sought
550 lines. If that is approved, they
Mentioning the budgetary con- to ditch the sex services, "We findwill have the power to interrupt thestraints under which the new adminis- these services damaging to our repu550 services the moment they decidetration is operating, Dinkins stressedtation,,"said Steve' Marcus,aa conversation adult. Their intention
the importance of the financial impact spokesperson
for New York Teleis clear."of granting gay unions and long-term phone. "Many parents groups findrelationships between heterosexual
these services offensive." But Marcus
TWQ- Tiered Strategy Planned
partners the same rights as marriages.
continued, "It's not our intent to put
Lawyers and gay advocates
Dinkins also said, in response to these services out of business. We
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strategy to

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attempt to derail an imminent cut
off of the services. The first plan is
to challenge the new phone company regulations region by region
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who use the sex lines would significantly strengthen their case.
- ELECTRICAL Karin Schwartz of the Gay and- CARPENTRY Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation
said, "People should write to John J.
- PLUMBINGKelliher, Secretary, Public Service- PAINTINGCommission, State of New York, 3
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12223, and tell him how important
Serving the gaythese services are," She continued,
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In addition, lawyers for theIPs, who plan to file legal briefs
before the Commission, stressed
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I>olitical Science

Opportunists Incognita?
by Mark HarringtonIthen past two months, new information has emerged about thepossibility that some complications of AIDS may be related to an'undiscovered co-factor (a KS virus?)
and a newly-isolated microbial parasite(lo's mycoplasma

incognitus).

A Kaposl'llBrcoma virus?
Alvin Friedman-Kien reported in
the Lancet on January 20 that he had
observed, over the past nine years, six
cases of Kaposi's sarcoma (KS) in HIVnegative gay men. Five of the men had
their blood cultured for viral presencewith polymerase chain reaction (PeR),a relatively sensitive test that looks
for viral DNA in
the nucleus of thehost cell. None ofthese five had evidence of HIV. KS
mayprogressslowly or quickly
in the presence of
HIVj in its absence, little or no
progression
wasobserved. This slow, indolent course issimilar to that seen in KS before theera of AIDS-when it affected mostly
Mediterranean men over 60. The men
in Friedman-Kien's paper 'were agedl>etween 32 and 62, with no ethnic
background given.
, Friedman-Kien, and a team fromthe Centers for Disease Control (CDC)
in another paper in the same issue ofthe Lancet, suggest that KS may becaused by a sexually-transmitted agent
which became widespread at the sametime as mY.
Logically, there are two steps tobe taken: 1) other investigators shouldaScertain whether they, too, have pa-

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February 25. 1990

fectious Diseases (NIAlD) in a December meeting in San Antonio, Texas. Lo
showed data suggesting that the mycoplasma damages brain and liver tissue in people with AIDS.
Test tube studies showed the mycoplasma was susceptible to doxycycline, an antibiQtic. John S. James, in
AIDS Treatment News, has suggested asmall study design which might quickly answer the two key questions raised
by Lo's work: 1) Is the mycoplasma an
opportunist in AIDS? 2) Is it susceptible
to doxycycline or other antibiotics?
In short, this his how it would
work: doctors would send blood samples from 30 patients to be examined
La's MycDplasma incDgnitus.
for mycoplasma. The samples would
Army pathologist Shyh-Ching Lo be screened by a mycoplasma exmade things hard on himself by reportpert-not by Lo, in case his discovery
represents
somesort of lab contamination.
Doctors
and patients would
not be told, until
the end of thestudy, whether the
blood was positive
for mycoplasma. In
the meantime, doctors and patientswould make theirowndecisioning, two years ago, the discovery' of an
about using an antibiotic, such as doxyunknown pathogen in tissues fromcycline, to treat any non-specific, unexpeople with AIDS, and then declining
plained fever, in case it was caused by
to send other investigators samples of
mycoplasma (or another parasite which
the new agent, which he then called
might respond to the antibiotic). Ulti"VLIA"-"virus-like infectious agent."
mately, this blinded study design might
Now, after several medical journals
reveal whether mycoplasma was a seriturned down Lo's papers, they wereous pathogen in people with AIDS, andpublished in the American Journal ofwhether it responded to doxycycline or
Tropical Medictne and Hygtene. No . other antibioticsj even if it did not prolonger virus-like, the agent is now
vide defmitive answers, it would be acalled mycoplasma, tncognitus ("ungood pilot study to rapidly assess
known mycoplasma"). Mycoplasma ocwhether this avenue of research was
cupy a biological niche intermediate
worth pursuing.
between viruses and bacteria. Lo
It will not be surprising if othershared his data with researchers frommicrobial parasites are discovered
the National Institute of Allergy ~d InSII OPPORTUNISTS on Plgi 41
tients with biopsy-confirmed KS andno evidence of mY infection. If so, 2)
the next step would be to search for avirus or other agent which might cause
KS even in the absence of HIV. Many
people have tried this already, even
before mY was discovered. New techniques in viral isolation might makethe search easier than it was in theearly 1980s. Until more is unknown
about the mechanism that leads toKS-with or without mY-it is hard toderive new treatment information fromFriedman-Kien's suggestion that KS iscaused by a sexually transmitted agent
other than mY.

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So I love you desperately, mydarling. Who cares if a lot of limited,
self-hating lesbians didn't send you
Valentines? We still have each other.
Shall we put on our favorite Kay
Gardner record, Lamb Chop?
There now. Let's relax and create
a whole new reality. See? When you
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chakra alignment. Hmmm. People
that I may better visualize World
starving in Asia; I must remember to
Peace. Amen.
buy miso. Ah, the Discrete Charm of
Do you feel better now, my radithe Bourgeois Me. Folks have always
ant, god-like creature? Oh, I know
said that lesbian relationships arethat I've treated you badly in the
narcissistic; we'll prove them wrong,
past. I called you stupid and ugly; I won't we dear?
Oh, Dear? Are you
there, Dear? Alright, stop
the music. I think we needto talk, Passion Flower.
Frankly, I feel like I'm giving a lot more in this relationship than I'm getting. I
feel torn. I mean: If
I-meaningme--am supposed to love my Selfmeaning You-gosh. Does
that not indicate a certain
existential split in my psyche, Loveboat? Have I become the Other? Or is it
You? Am I setting myself
up as a target, for internalized homophobia?
And
why don't you ever say
anything, my pet?, I think I
deserve better. I have really tried to-t9ld you that you were doomed
OK, let's try to stay calm. We
never to get rid of the hideous charmustn't quarrel, my delicate blossom.
acter deformations that made you
If we quarrel, we won't be able toeternally unattractive and unemployattract all the abundance that theable. I'm sorry, my precious treasure. ,Universe
has to offer. Maybe the
All that was before the New Age
Universe could suggest a good couraised my consciousness and taught,pies' counselor. In the meantime, notme the importance of Self Love. Silly to worry, Querida; you're still perme. I had failed to realize that, in ~isfeet. Don't change a thing. Stay asworld of poverty and loneliness andsweet as U R. I approve of you comdisease, where the best people go topletely. Not to mention I love you. I
jail, and the worst people run thereally do. I'm not kidding tbis time.
government, where nuclear annihilaNo, really ... 'Y•ocONTROL
Commentary by Susie Day
A Valentine to My Self:
Hello, Poopsie. How's my highly
evolved lesbian luv muffin who is 2
sweet to be 4-got-l0? Honey Bee?
Sugar Babe? U 4 ME? Say something,
Wonderful One. Are you miffed, mydewdrop? Ah, now, don't be likethat. Just because the only
woman-identified mail you
received on Valentine's Day
this year was from yourbreast doctor, who wanted
you to finish paying off
your mammogram. Just because the world is in such amess and nobody in the lesbian community seems tocare that the U.S. invaded
Panama, or that you placed
an appeal for hot, lesbo
love in the Vegetarian
Times personals. Surely we
can find some humor in thesituation. Smile. All this will
make sucb an amusing
anecdote to tell our ex-girl- 'friendThere, there. Get it allout. I know. Let those sobs
come from deep within. Can I get
you something? A glass of springwater? Your rose quartz? At least letme turn on your negative ionizer. The
important thing, Angelcake, is that I
love you. You are my Self, and I loveyou. For I have Self Love. My Self iswhole and complete and flawless,and filled with perfect, terribly alluring lesbian sexuality. I hereby affirm
that sexuality. I hereby affirm that, sexuality. I affirm that I deserve success, love and prosperity in my life,

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OUT.wEEK'February 25. 1990 'GLAADTIDIN'GS.'1

he arrogant Narcissism ofboth gay men who engage in unnatural acts
and women who play Russian roulettewith their periods is something I reject
as a taxpayer.", This quote is from a cover story ofa recent issue of We/comat, a Philadelphia weekly that on its masthead describes itself as "A Forum for Philadelphians." The article entitled "Your
Bodies, Yourselves," blames the "weird
promiscuity" of gay men for causing
the AIDS crisis, and the lack of selfcontrol on' the part of women for theneed for abortion.
The pull-quote on the cover goes

February 25. 1990

to the heart of the author's twisted reasoning: "I would defend to death gays'
right to pursue alternative lifestyles.
Ditto abortion seeking women. But
don't come running to the public topick up the pieces."
As an editorial in the Philadelphia
gay newspaper, Au Courant, put it,
he's saying: "you perverts brought thisillness on yourselves. Why should decent normal people have to pay thecosts of caring for you?"
The body of the article, according
to Au Courant, perpetuates numerous
myths that have fueled AIDS hysteria
for six years now. One, that AIDS islimited almost totally to white gay
men. Two, that gays ·caused" thespread of the virus by their ~alactivity. Three, that health officials' declarations that AIDS threatens everyone isa sop to the power of the gay movement so they won't be accused of gay'bashing. Four, that no one else needworry about about getting it.
The author is racist, says Au
Courant, because he ignores the factthat new AIDS cases are increasingly
found in racial and ethnic minority
populations. He's misogynist because
he characterizes the pro-choice movement as women wanting to be able torid themselves of babies because they
are iriconvenient. And, finally, he implicitly justifies homophobia by implying that those nasty queers brought'about AIDS.

One fmal point: notice how theright wing bigots simultaneously attack
gay men and pro-choicestraight
women? Both are groups seeking to
wrest control of their own bodies' fromthe state. It's a standard conservativetechnique: use false medical and ec0nomic reasons to support repressive
laws on sexuality.
If you'd like to express another
opinion, write to the editor of We/comat, and tell him what you think. '\lTite
Dan Rottenberg, Editor, We/comat, 1816
,Ludlow Street, Philadelphia, PA 19103.
Or give him a call at (215) 563-7400.

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Some months ago Ami Landers, in
one of her daily advice columns, asked
her readers what they thought abOut
the question "Should gay couples beallowed to marry?" Since then, she's
printed a sampling of the answers. Predictably, many of them have been vicious and homophobic;- As one reader
later put it, "I was shocked by the intensity of the hatred reflected in yourmail. It is not enough for some peOple
to be' opposed to the idea, they felt
compelled to label homosexuals 'diseased,' 'perverted' and 'fruitcakes.'"This past week, Ann finally came out
with her own opinion.
"How do I vote?" she asked,"should homosexuals be allowed tomarry?" "No," she answered, "but along-term monogamous relationshipshould be entitled to legal ~ctions. It
is unfair that same-sex couples wholive together do not have tax benefits,
housing breaks, hospital visiting privileges, corporate health insurance coverage and Social Security death benefits. This has nothing to do with sex,
morality, religion or personal bias. It
has to do with decency and fairness.
To thank Ann Landers for her
well-thought out counsel, write to her
in care of the Chicago 7Hbune, 435 N.
Michigan Ave., Chicago, IL 6061i. Youmight raise the issue of whether committed
relationships
requiremonogamy;
several surveys haveshown that a substantial portion of heterosexual marriages are not entirely
monogamous, but this is an issue thatis rarely discussed.
-Henry Yeager

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political agendas and before themedia."
Deadline for reporting
1989
incidents to NGLTF is mid-March.
The new survey is slated for publication in late spring.
To learnwhere to report a local incident, or
how to monitor anti-gay episodes,
contact Kevin Berrill at (202) 3326483, or write NGLTF, 1517 U Street
NW, Washington, D.C. 20009.

Lesbian orientation at
the Center
NEW YORK-For the first timein its five-year history, a branch of
the orientation program sponsoredby the Lesbian and Gay Community
Services Center will focus exclusivelyon lespians. The orientation will
be held on March 8, International
Women's Day.
The Center's monthly orientation generally attracts 200 to 300
people, both men and women, i~ anatmosphere designed to both orient
and welcome anyone wishing tolearn more about New York's
diverse lesbian and gay community.
Over 40 organizations that meet regularly at the Center will set up information tables. Attendees will firstmeet in small groups and then alarger assembly will be addressedby several speakers.
This orientation has been organized by the Center with the collaboration of Lesbians United, anumbrella organization for arealesbian organizations. For more information, including having groups
take part, contact Richard Heyle or
Robin Fetchko at the Center, 212620-7310. The Lesbian and Gay
Community Services Center is located at 208 West 13th Street in Manhattan. The orientation will begin at
7 pm, Thursday, March' 8th. There
will also be a general orientation on
Wednesday, February 14th.
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()ut Law

Our Right to Spepk Out & Act Up
by Arthur S. Leonard··congress shall make nolaw respecting an establishment of religion,or prohibiting the free exercise thereof;or abridging the freedom of speech, orof the pressj or the right of tbe people
Peaceably to assemble, and to petition
the Government
for a redress ofgrievances. "These words-the'First Amendment-became
part of our federal constitution in 1791. Their interpretation
comes sharply into focus as, our community mobilizes to assert our interests
through demonstrations and civil disobedience. To what extent does theConstitution protect these activities?
The flfSt thing to get clear is thatthe courts do not take very seriously
the literal language of the amendment.
On its face, the prohibition is directed

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solely at Congress and is phrased inabsolute terms. This would support avery narrow but absolute restriction:
Congress may not legislate in any way
that restricts free speech or press orpeaceable assembly.
The courts have taken a view atonce broader and narrower. The
amendment binds not just Congress
but the entire apparatus of the federal
government. Furthermore, during thepast half century the Supreme Court
has developed an interpretation of the
post-Civil War 14th Amendment underwhich First Amendment prohibitions
are also effective against state andlocal governments, and indeed any
state entity, such as a public school ora publicly-funded
communications
medium.
On the Qther side of the equation,
however, the courts have rejected a literal reading of the phrase "shall makeno law" by fussing around with thedefinition of "speech" and insisting thatFirst Amendment rights are not "absolute." While the language appears tohave no exceptions, the courts haverecognized several: obscenity, incitement to public disorder, solicitation tocommit a crime, for example. The federal and state governments may, under,current interpretationsof the First
Amendment,take actions which
abridge speech which falls into thesecategories. The government may even
abridge otherwise protected speech
under certain circumstances, where
there is an overriding public interest inpreserving order. Thus the famous observation that one has no right falsely
to yell "Fire" in a crowded theater.
On the other hand, the courts
have adopted an expansive interpretation of "speech" to include symbolic
speech, such as picketing, nude dancing or burning a flag to protest government policies, and have read into
the First, Amendment speech and assembly provisions a constitutionalright of freedom of association. Whilea literal reading of the First Amendment might at flfst blush seem' more
protective of freedom due to the absolutenessof "nolaw,"
literalness
might also haveruled out protection
for a wide variety ofnonverbal expressive conduct.
Onbalance, the non-literalist
approach
may result in more
freedom.
As to politital
protest and demonstratioris, there are
two important principles to keep inmind. First, the constitutional protection
for speech runs only
against government
prohibitions
or restrictions. Second,the courts
havetaken the view thatthe First Amendment bans have to do
university such as Yale should abide
side of St. PatriCk's Cathedral illustrate
WIth content-based censorship rather
these points quite nicely. Although it is by them, but one must remember thatthan with regulation to preserve public
the First Amendment is not legally apa place of public assembly, St. Patrick'sorder.
is privately owned by the Archdiocese
plicable to the private university.
Owners of private property in ourof New York. Individuals present in the 'Finally, the states may, under oursociety are generally free to exclude
Cathedral have the legal status of "invi- federal system, provide more protecpeople whose messages they do nottee" under the law, and given the nation for speech than the First Amendwant to 'hear, and to secure the assistUre and purpose of the building theirment affords. The New York Court oftance of law enforcement authorities ininvitation to be there extends to behavAppeals has from time to time given
removing objectionable people who
ior consistent with the religious services
our state constitution's
free speech
will not leave voluntarily. This princibeing conducted there. The owner ofguarantees a broader reading than theple explains court decisions allowing
the building is legally entitled to order
Supreme Court is willing to give tothe ejection of union organizers fromtheir removal if their conduct departs
the First Amendment. However, in reindustrial plants or forced remov:lI of
from that standard, and is entitled to thegard to political demonstrations,itpolitical demonstrators from shopping
assistance of law enforcement authorihas followed the federal standard
malls. Even though government offities if the offending persons do notrather closely.
cers are assisting in the removal, this isleave voluntarily.
I do not mean by this des<;ription
not seen as government censorship ofMatters are different on the sideof the practical operation of the First
speech, because our society frowns on
walks and streets surrounding
St.
Amendment to be endorsing any parindividual property owners taking thePatrick's. These are public property,
ticular view of how the Amendment
law into their own hands to enforce
and demonstrators have a right to beshould be interpreted. I disagree with
their property rights. Although the govthere if their conduct ,is peaceful andsome particularsof the, Supreme
ernment is physically removing thedoes not present an immediate threat
Court's approach to these issues. Whatdemonstrators, it is doing so to enforce
to public order, life or property. ThisI am trying to do is to help our comprivate property rights.
was the basis for the court order it few
munity understand the current court,While non-violent expressive acyears ago requiring ¢.e police departinterpretations which affect how thetivities which take place on public
ment to accommodate Dignity's desire
police interact with us during protest
property (streets, sidewalks, town
to demonstrate in front of the Catheand demonstration activities. ~squares, parks) may not be prohibiteddral during d:te Gay Pride Mar~h. Howor restricted solely on the basis of theirever, the government may regulate that
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content, the courts have upheld restricactivity to maintain order and avoid vi- which play a pathogeneticrole intions as to the time, place and nianner
olence, as the court ordered in that
AIDS. All too often, unexplained feversof such activities for purposes of precase by limiting the time and the numand other symptoms are attributed, in 'a
serving public order and preventing inber of people who could participate in mindless and automatic fashion, tojury to persons or property. The theory
the demonstration. By the same token,
HIV. Most likely there are many hunbehind this is that the same social conthe 'government can assert concerns fordreds or thousands of tiny organisms
tract which protects the rights of indipublic safety and order when traffic is which have never been isolated fromviduals to speak also protects the rightblocked (ambulances,
firefighting
humans because they have 'never beof society to preserve order. So long as
equipment and the like may be signifi- fO,re (in the absence of immunosupthe restrictions are reasonable and arecantly delayed), or when a picket linepression) caused clinical disease.
equitably imposed regardless, of theoutside a building blocks access for
The AIDS establishment- has madecontent of the speech, the government
those who have a right to enter.
clear its devotion orthodoxy that HIV
can impose rules of order, such as reSometimes it is hard to apply
alone is the target for AIDS therapeutic
quiring that picket lines or demonstrathese principles, as in the continuingresearch. The more prosaic and often
tions not block traffic or, interfere withlitigation over a court injunction
obscure work of identifying and treatother lawful activities. A reasonable reagainst The Cathedral Project with reing the opportunistic infections has, tostriction is one that fairly accommospect to permissible
conductina certain extent, been ghettoized into
dates the interest of the speaker indemonstrating on the sidewalks andcommunity-based
research groups,
communicating the message.
steps of St. Patrick's. Sometimes, thefunded by a shoestring. Hypotheses
Thus, as we picket, protest andactual workings of the First Amendabout co-factors and new pathogens
demonstrate, we should bear in mind
ment have little relevance to the ,c;on- are all too often marginalized py mainthe degree to which we can expect
troversy, as for example when Yale
stream science, rather than being sub(and demand) the protection of law
University police hassled (and eventujected to the scrutiny they deserve. It is .
enforcement
authorities,
and theally arrested) a New York la!iYer acnow up to community-based
repoint at which their duties, as they
cused of putting up sexually explicit
searchers, prodded' (hopefully)byunderstand them~ put them in opposiposters on private university property.
whatever community they serve, to foltion to our actions.
In such cases, one may invoke First
low up on the implications of the work
The demonstrations inside and outAmendment ideals and argue that a of Friedrnan-Kien, 10 and others ....

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ICE BLESSEDTWl'Illy-lhl')TarS ago Ihis monlh.
apeopk puslll'd hal'k Ihl' raei ...1 lide ill Selma.
,\Iahama,
T\\l'Illy Yl'ars ago la ...1 ,1une. a pl'opk
look III Ihl' SIITl'"" in \\ hal \\ ould UlIlll' 10Ill" known a ...Ihl' legl'lulaq
SIOIK\\ all Ikhel,lion,
Bul \\ hal al\\a) .....lTIll'" 10 hl' forgolll'll
is Ihal Illany peopk an' in hOlh communi,
til's. ,\s SUIT as Ihere \\l'IT Black gays alldkshians in Selllla that day. thl're \H'IT gay
and kshiall Black .. al Ihl' forl'frontof thl'(,I'l'l'n\\il'h \,illagl' .-iol.
Today. Black k hians and gays contill'lll' !Iwir lightagain t higoll'y and injustil'e
from hoth \\ithin
and ou ....idl· tlKir co III ,lllulltil'S. l'lICoulltl'ring a...IIKY do. racislll ill
t hl' gay cOllllllun ity and homophohia
in tIll'
Black cOlllmunity.
In this i......
lll' in honOl' of B1al'k lIi ..tory\\olllh 'n' Ill'ar frolll people on Ihe cu ...p of
t\\o--{)r thl'l,,{"or four- world .... 'll"opk \\hodaily nl'gotiate till' houndarksof thdr idl'll'
titk ... a ... Blacks. as gay .... a ... kshian ... as'HlIl1l'n.

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I Pledge AllegiancebyJacquie Bishop"One person two worlds." I am with, we are always colored girls
Black, African American,
Colored,flrst-sharing our individual histories ofbrown-skinned ... I am a lesbian, a dyke, being Black and being women. Anda bulldagger, a femme-butch, a top whothen we are lesbians sharing our histodoesn't mind being a bottom (someries about being out. We share food,times!). I am a Black woman who is a clothing, art, language, hair care prodlesbian and a lesbian of color. I am ucts, gestures, music, our lives, ourmany other things to many other pe0struggles.
ple, including myself. However, when I
I have not found food indigenous
walk down the street, before someone
to the gay community-just restaurants.
notices my sex, never mind my "sexuali- We as gays have a language that "hepty," they notice my race. Therefore, I cats" in the music industry' were using
pledge allegiance to my brothers andlong before it became fashionable
sisters of color first. Besides, I may
among queens and queers. I have found(although unlikely) change my mind
it difficult, although not impossible, inabout being a lesbian, but I could never the gay community to bridge the gap of
nor would I ever change my skin color.
"myselves:"• • •I am "out" as a lesbian in 95 percent of the things I do, places I go, pe0I worked for a national lesbian andple I meet. But as a Black woman I am gay organization that was 98 percent
always out.
white. Cultural differences were deemed
I am aware of "Black History."
unimportant unless the person in quesKings and queens, revolutionaries,
tion was from a different country'. I haveactivists, educators, music, art, food,found in the gay community (as I define
events, etc. All of this and more creates
it for myself) that white gays, like whitea culture. I wonder at times if there real- hets, still do not understand the need
ly is something called "gay" culture, i.e. and importance of "inclusivity." I havesomethiQg strictly our own. I have been
stopped expending all of my energy
fortunate to spend most of my life in doing CR 101 work, while chOOSing to
New York. I came out in 1982, months
work on issues of importance and conbefore I was to leave for college. I was, cern' to gays
andlesbiansof
17-years-old. The Duchess was rockin'color-financial security (for our organiAriels, De Ja Vu, Peaches and Creamzations), drug/substance abuse, health,and, later, Peaches, were my haunts.
housing, self-esteem, reconciliation with
Identity House and many white lesbians
our churches, etc.
and gay men hoped to make my transiI must admit that I do not spend
tion from quasi-het teen to dyke a rela- much time with "straight" Black groups.
tively smooth one. I wore punk jewelry The blatant homophobia is too much for(mostly leather and spikes-I still wear me to handle-alone.
While I do go tosome of it) and· found ( as Jan Oausen
things like Dance Africa and 125 Mart, I
recently wrote) "myself caught up in the am aware of how "gay" I am. Do I hold aarrogance of the lesbian theory that we lover's hand? Do I embra,ce? What jewelry
are more- evolved than our heterosexual
do I wear? Do I go in ethnic drag? I am atcounterparts.
no time "in." I do wear a labrys, and until
I was always slightly on edge/disrecently wore little to no hair as to create
satisfied with this new world. Until
a self-identified lesbian "look."•
October 1982, when I met a lesbian ofcolor wh9 would become first my men"It isn't easy being green you tend
tor and then a friend, Michelle Bell.
to blend in with so many ordinary
With Michelle and the 20 or so things ..."
other lesbians of color that I spend time~sung by Kermit, The FrogOUTTWEEK

February 25, 1990

I am gay. I am a lesbian. I love
women-theway they smell, taste,
look, feel, think, behave, act, dress. I
am woman-identified.
I also work on
building bridges between the men in
my gay community and my Black commuOity. 1sometimes fight the impulse tobelieve that in some circleS it isn't cool
to be "out." While trying to make acommitment to my Blackness by marching, spending time with young people,
writing, lecturing, educating, entertaining, I fight the impulse to believe thelie. "I want them to know me as'Jacquie'
not the'queer.'Selfhating/internalized
homophobia, withall due respect to AIDS and substanceabuse, is the number one killer in ourcommunity. Even those of us who are
known as "activists" and "community
leaders" are victims to this disease. 1
work every single day to do somethingthat lets the world know 1 am a strong
Black lesbian. 1 have started my own
business-Mama Doesn't Know! Productions--a cultural production company
that serves to promote positive imagesof lesbians and gays of color throughthe arts. 1 work every single day tomake sure that someone knows that
there is someone else out there just like
them-Black and gay. 1 work every single day to understand what it means forme' to "live as a lesbian." I explore theart of other Black gay male and lesbianartists. My heroes/heroines
are Black
women-mymother, my aunts, mysisters: Oaudine, Charisse and Jennifer,
my grandmother and great grandmother.
As a lesbian, I draw from the energy
and knowledge of Vlfginia Apuzzo, Joan
Nestle, Majorie Hill, Adrienne Rich,'Ninia Baehr, Chezia Carroway and myfriends. 1 have learned from artists bothBlack/gay and gay-Jewelle
Gomez,
Cheryl Clarke, Cheryl Boyce Taylor,
Maya Angelou, Ntozake Shange, Nikki
Giovanni, Sapphire and some of theaforementioned lesbians. 1 have learned
that my lesbianism is an integral part of
my identity as a woman. The courage 1

have comes from both straight womenand lesbians; buUdaggers who braved
cops, bashers and society at large tohelp create what we now know as apolitical, social movement and Black
women, slaves who jumped ship, birthbabies, worked fields and put,their children thrQugh school, my great grandmother and her children who became
educators, landowners, wives, lesbians,
mpthers and artists. There are times
though when I struggle to see the connection of these two worlds. It isbecause of my lesbianism that I have
explored sexuality. Not just in terms ofwhom I sleep with, but in terms ofneeds, dysfunctions, inhibitions, liberating factors and so much more. It isbecause I am Black and generations ofvoices and spirits of other Black women
live in me that I live my life with theknowledge and understanding that I am
, a powerful human being. My motherwent back to school while bringing up
three chUdren and working a full-timejob. She was also a union leader who
took us on the line when she marched.
My grandmother gave birth to 13 children, nine of whom lived. She broughtthem up in rural Georgia without thehelp of a man, or welfare. I am their
chUdren. I am them.

•• • • •According to a friend, because
Blacks were stolen from our land andour heritage is unknown she deems
each and every, one of us King or'
Queen. The responsibility of being a
Queen, an out lesbian, a Black person
and a Black woman is great . When I
am weary, I tum to the bosom of thewomen in my life, in my books and on
my albums. I tum to the artists that do
homoerotic art, and portrayals of power- ful Black people. I eat food with colored
girls who tell stories about getting their
hair pressed, their asses whipped" theirhearts filled with love of a culture andunderstanding of a history that keeps us
alive. I tum to lesbians whose courage
and strength feeds mine. There are times
when my lesbianism is not a factor iIi
the lives of the people with whom I
come into contact with. But my color,
my culture, my race, are always factors
in the world that I travel 41. I am a Black
woman. As a lesbian, as a Black lesbian,these are factors in how I look andbehave in life.
For love and' for life I, pledge allegiance ...

In Search ofBlack Gay Art
by Robert F. Reid-Pharr
Black gay men often inhabit thesmallest of spaces: a comer of a bar, thepiano bench at a church, a few pages
between the news and the personals.
And like other outlaws, we have nolicense to cross those boundaries. We
are not invited to grow, to create a community, to show' ourselves larger thanthe lies and fantasies that surround us.
Yet, within this rather "cramped"
environment, Black gay artists have created new "spaces" for themselves. The last
decade in particular has been a remarkably fruitful time for the 'production ofBlack gay culture. In the face of AIDS,
poverty, drugs, homophobia and racism,
Black gay men--as Black gay men-havefounded journals, published novels,
directed films, painted, danced and sung.
The In the Life anthology (Alyson,1986) edited by Joseph Beam probably
stands at the center of these efforts. The
anthoJogy features a wide variety ofpoems, short ,stories, essays and interviews by 28 Black gay men. It's message
is that we are greater, much greater thanour oppression:

I want to start an organization
to save my life.
lf whales, snatls, dogs, cats
Chrysler, and Nixon can be saved,
the lives of Black men are pricelessand can be saved ...
("For My Own Protection," Essex
Hemphill)
While In the Life is a central (or should
I say, seminal) worlc in the ongoing articulation of "the Black gay experience," it was
not created in a vacuum. It is instead but"one manchild" in a family that includes anever-growing nUmber of works.
Among the best of these is the
Other Countries Journal published in1988 by the New York-based OtherCountries writing collective. 'The journal,
which contains pieces by some of thenation's best Black ,gay writers (including Donald Woods and Assoto Saint),
not only demonstrates
the ability ofBlack gay men to produce high quality

literature, but also the great potential
inherent in our coming together toexpress ourselves as a community.
Other Countries is not Simply a space(lOO-odd pages) in which writers canpublish. It is a workshop in which they
can develop t,heir craft, an "event" inwhich they can share their viSions with
their communities,
and a retreat-a
home--in which they can receive thespiritual and emotional nourishment necessary for the practice of their various arts.
As our community
our artists
continue to "trespass." They continue topush against and sometimes break down
the barriers that divide us. In 1987,
Britain's Gay Men's Press publishedTongues Untied, a collection of five
Black American, British and Caribbean
poets:Dirg Aaab-Richards, Craig Harris,
Essex Hemphill, Esaac. Jackson andAssotto Saint. This was followed in 1989
by British ftlnunaker Issac Julien's Looktng For Langston, a lyrical examlrultionof the famous African American poet's
life and times.
The production of this film is itself
yet another example of the many "transgressions" of which Black gay artists are
guilty. Black mm, like most film produced in the West, has been marred bysexism, racism, homoph9bia
arid anunprincipled desire to "tum a fast buck."
This has meant that Black gay men havebeen largely absent from the Qig screen
and where they have been present they
have been derided.
Julien's film, along with Marlon Riggs'
recently released treatment of Black gay
life, also entitled Tongues Untied, are not
only refreshing, but radical in theirattempt to break through the silt(!:lcesurrounding Black gay men's lives. Riggs'
film is also noteworthy for its Use of thepoetry of Essex Hemphill as well as sever-al New York-based Black gay artists.
Perhaps one of the most daring
vehicles for the expression of Black gay
mens' "sensibilities" is the autobiography. In it, the Black gay author declares

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that the text of his life is not only "legitimate," but representative of the humancondition. It is the stuff of which literature is made.
Samuel Delaney's tbe Motion ifLigbt
in Water (Plume, 1988) chronicles the,early years of the science fiction author's·publishing life" and is one .of the mostsuccessful meditations on sexuality andwriting I have ever read. Mr. Delaney isjoined, moreover, by Mickey Fleming
who published his autobiography, About
Coumg~ (Holloway House) in 1988.
Even the seemingly insurmountablebarriers erected by the mainstream publishing industIy have begun to give way
against the push of Black gay maleartists. The publicationof Randall
Kenan's novel, VlsitatWn'o/ Spirits, by
Grove in 1989 was one of the few
instances in which a work by and about
Black gay men has been carried by amajor publishing house.
The novel, which chronicles the lifeof Horace Cross, a Black gay adolescentliving in Tim's Creek, North Carolina,
places Kenan among the best of young
American novelists and may herald a
new era of both critical and commercial
success for Black gay artists.
Still, the successes of these few
writers and filmmakers
are neither
emblematic of the Black gay male "artsscene," nor the Black community generally. The majority of Black gay artists
and entertainers continue to work andperform within spaces controlled by others. The Black gay playwright or choir
director has little opportunity, therefore,
to fully explore and express his sexuality
within his art.
Even those Black gay artists (Drag ,queens,Vogue dancers)
who areallowed to demonstrate some measureof "sexual freedom" in their work areoften seen as tangential to the practiceof "true" art. A drag show is seen less asa craft to be appreciated, than a spectacle to be jeered at, or ignored.
Black gay men have long been a significant part of the ~canartistic community. Bruce Nugent, langston Hughes,
James Baldwin and Samuel Delanq are
all recognized as giants in their particularfields. 9thers will follow in this vein.
But, if we care to move beyond acelebrationof individual Black gay
artists to the production of "Black Gay
Art" we will have to do more thanapplaud our members who "breakthrough." We will have to fight against

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homophobia and racism as well as struggle over issues of sexism and class-bias
in our own communities. We will haveto conquer self-hate. We will have to,create our own aesthetic. We will haveto continuously push against the barriers
that limit our existence: AIDS, poverty,
violence, ignorance and fear. In short,creating Black gay art is nothing lessthan creating Black gay community.

1\ Ne,,' York Citv African&-Aillerican I..Jesbian (Etc.)
Stress Test
In E\ a Yaa .\sante\\aa
Note: The higher the score, the higher the level of NYCAPAMLETC
Stress.
1. You are born out of wedlock and Into I950s America. (+1)
2. You are born Into a dysfunctional famlly. (+1)
3. You are placed In a Roman Catholic grarDmar school where thenuns force you to go to weekly confession even when you 'don't have anything to confess. (+1)
4. Boys, girls and nuns all catch their breath at first sight of the
IVi!Vi girl In school. In a year or so, what you only now realize
was your first crush on a female is dashed when this latina
beauty cuts her haJr short and changes her name. (+1)
5. Many years later, In a blaze of self-<letennlnation, you cut your
haJr short and take an African name. (-1)
6. You get used to carefully spelling your name, seeing it misspelled and hearing it mispronounced. (+1)
7. When you take an Ashanti WlllTior'sname, get used to a lifetimeof fighting battles. (+1)
8. Congratulations! You've Inherited your mother's artistic nature.
(-1)

9. Our condolences. This society neglects its artists, especlally theBlack and female ones. (+1)
10. You enroll In an all-girls high school. (-1)
11. A Catbollc all-gtris high school. (+1)
lZ. Hey, not so bad! After a weird year, Suddenly the nuns start toturn politically radical and hip. Some are even cute. (-1)
13. Your buddies are Black and Latlno,Greek and Arab, brainy
and witty and different! (-1).
, 14. On graduation day, you tell your most admired friend (anotherunacknowledged crush?) that you'll name your first daughter
after her. She gives you a strange look. (+1)
15. In college, you write stories featuring sexy, andogynous characters and pagan rites. (-1)
16. This colleg~t's
a Catholic one, isn't it? (+1)
17. You're very Interested In news from distant gay rights battle-

gmunds. (-1)
18. You date men. (+1)
I9.,Sometimes you date white men. (+1)
20. Black men verbally harass you as you walk with your whiteboyfriend (+1)
21. A Black man physically attacks you as you walk with yourwhite boyfriend (+1)
22. On vacation In Miami, you are accused of prostitution for, merely sharing a hbtel room with your white boyfriend. You
are both thrown out. (+1),
, 23. Your best friend-Southem-bom,white and gay-introduces
you to gay male Philadelphia. (-1)
24. A host of dysfunctional relationships and some years later, you
flnally come out as bisexual. (-1/2)
25. You have your first fling with a woman. (-1)
26. She's married. (+1).
27. That's okay because she and hubby are into swinging.
(+2)
28. You decide you're not. (-2)
29. You flnally come out as a lesbian. (-1)

30. You lose old friends who can't handie your being a dyke. (+1)
31. You decide that's okay, too. (-1)
32. Carefully, you test the waters and slowly join the exciting New
York City lesbian community. (-1)
33. Where are all the women of color? (+1)
34. You meet women who claim to be spiritually and politicallycorrect. (-1)
35. You get your butt kicked by them anyway. (+1)
36. New Year's Eve and here you are reading Women Who Love,
Too Much and crying your eyes out. (+ 1), .;,37. You admit you are powerless over other people's insanity. (-,'
12)
38. You don't want to get close to anyone for a long, long, longtime! (-1)
39. Walt a minute! Could it be you're falling for a mari (+1)
40. A wblte man! (+1)
41. Bravely, you put your cards on the table. He ignores them.
(+1)
42. Hey, just because you feel healthy enough, to be close tosomeone again doesn't mean it has to be this guy. (-1)
, 43. You know how to be alone. As an only chlld, you had to carefor your own Inner needs. You can draw on those skills now.
(-1)

44. Uh oh, Valentines Day is coming (+1)
45. It's been over a year since that fateful New Year's with thetearstained book, and you volunteer your time at a' community
Valentine's Day dance. Good move! (-1)
46. At the dance, you meet the love of your life. (-10)
47. So, now it's'two women, one African-American, one Jewish,
walking down the mean streets or sitting In the subway hold'lng hands. Deja vu with a twist. (+1)
48. David DInkins decides to ron for Mayor of New York. (-1)
49. On Black-owned, "Afrocentric" WUB, you hear guests and. callers refer to gays as "men who don't know they're men"with no comment from hosts or other callers. (+1)
50. But you keep you Black lesbian head up, 'cause out there In
the real world there are people like Audre Lorde and Stonne
Webber, UOOka Hill and Dorothy Randall Gray, groups like
Other Countries and Salsa Soul. (-1)
51. DInkins courts the lesbian and gay community. (-1)'
52. In his unofficial campaign announcement, Dinkins carefully
notes every current city crisis...except AIDS. (+1)
53. New York City elects its first African-American mayor. (-1)
54. Bush orders the Invasion of Panama. (+1)
55. As a woman, you're expected to be thrilled that a woman led
some of the U.S. forces in Panama where as yet untold num- ,hers of Innocent people of color-womenand chlldren as wellas men-lost their lives. (+1)
56. Even Bush In Panama and Mercury In retrograde can't dim the, , healing light of Kwanza with lesbians and gays of color at theCommunity Center. (-1)
57. DInkins embraces and defends Cardinal O'Connor. (+1)
58. joyce Dinkins wears fur to the inauguration. (+1)
59. Dinkins appoints an African-American as health commissioner.
(-1).
60. That would be Woodrow A. Myers of Indiana. (+1)
61. Your editor requests an essay for Black History Month on ·One
Person, Two Communities." Gee, only tWo? (+2)
if"
62. What hurts worse--a knock from a Black man or a knock froma white. A betrayal by a woman or by a "womyn"? The unkindness of a stranger or of a blood relative? You realize you will
~ever be ~ separatist Your own can fuck you µp as easily as
your opposite, and that smashes the naive idealism, the denial, ' 'that separatism requires. And you've $Qmehow learned that lesson from the very beginning, haven't you? (+ who knows how
many?)

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A Black Lesbian
Referral Service
by Ayofemi Folayan
Douglas Turner Ward, the noted
variety of topics at different times of the
playwright from the Negro Ensemble
year. I also want to support groups which
Company, probed the importance of the are actively trying to include a diverse
interdependence between the Black and pool of artists. Yet it is hard to escape thewhite communities in his play, Day of sense of tokenism that goes with the
Absence. The premise of the piece is same requests being made only in thosethat all the Black people whose labor is months year after year. While I have cerso vital to the operation of the commu- tainly developed some positive working
nity take a day where they refuse to relationships with some groups in ourshow up for work. A small Southern
community that initially approached me
town is forced thereby to acknowledge
to sit on a panel, during Black History
the many contributions of the heretofore
Month or do a reading during Women's
virtually invisible Black community.
History month, all too often I don't hear
I sometimes fantasize that all the from these groups until the next timelesbians of color would similarly disapthey "need" some aspect of who I am topear on April 1. I am afraid that either
be represented.
everyone would assume it was an April"Diversity" has become a catch-all
Pool's Day joke or nobody would noticephrase that seems to imply as long as
their absence until late November or we follow the letter rather than the spirit
December when planning begins for the of the concept and have a member fromnext round of Black History Month and each "under-represented"
group, then
Women's History Month activities. As a actually engaging in the struggle to end
performance artist and writer, requests
oppression can be delayed.
for my work reliably quadruple for
Similarly, I am often seen as anthose two months of Pebruary and 'automatic referral resource for all Black
March as organizations
scramble to lesbians. I recently received several perinclude my Blackness and femaleness in sistent telephonemessages from atheir calendar of events. One year I had woman looking for a Black lesbian forseven readings scheduled for'the month
her documentary program on accessof March!
television. She wanted me to identify
My reactions to this reality are load- several Black lesbians she could call to
ed with ambivalence. On one hand, I feel participate in the project and became
exploited and angry. I don't stop being a very irate when I couldn't provide hervital contributor to our community at the with the information she needed. She
end of the special month of observances.
was very excited as she reported to me
I deserve to be included in readings on a that she had already successfully locatedFebruary 25, 1990

a Native American lesbian, a Jewish lesbian, an old lesbian and a disabled lesbian. Her disappointment at my lack of
information felt more like someone who
is trying to find a missing piece of china
than a genuine interest in representing adiverse spectrum of lesbians.
I didn't always have such a clear
sense of who I am or how to maintainthe wholeness of the various parts of myidentity. That is something which has
evolved through 25 years of politicalactivism and personal growth work.
Prom the moment when I first grew myhair into an enonnous "Afro" as a statement of Black pride to my participatingin the Gay Pride march in a wheelchair, I
have had many opportunities to confront
my many identities: as female, as Black,as lesbian, as disabled, as parent, as survivor of all the storms of opp~ion.
Now I celebrate the strength andbeauty of all aspects of myself all the time.
It is only the world around me whichfunctions best by trying to compartmentalize and separate who I am. I am forced toexperience the duality of my identity
mostly in response to the persistently
unconscious behavior of the community
around me. When I am in the Black c0mmunity, I push up against the limits of
their homophobia by being openly lesbian. In the gay and lesbian community, I
am constantly challenging the limitationsof racism. Neither community, for themost part, is prepared to accept or even..

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DearBraci:
A couple of weeks ago I wentout to buy a new sweater for this big
date I had lined up. In the store I ran
into my good friends, Rodney andNigel, who were also shopping forsweaters. Nigel and I both reached forthe same cardigan and there wassome nervous laughter and then weboth agreed to try it on to see wholooked better in it, though I could tellthis was an exercise in foregone conclusions. The color was completely
wrong for Nigel's problematic complexion whereas it perfectly suitedmine. Nevertheless Nigel said the style
made me look like a toadstool. I
explained that my need was greaterthan his since I was trying to create agood impression for my date while
Nigel already had a lover who obviCHOO!: !NG UP SIDES

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ously didn't place a great deal ofimportance in appearances.
Then
Rodney teamed up with Nigel, sayingthat was exactly the kind of bitter
remark one could expect from thechronicallyunattached
and if I
expected my date to be anything
more than another pathetic failure
maybe I should be out shopping for a
new attitude instead of a sweater. I
replied that only his trust fund prevented him from being one of thechronically unattached himself andNigel shrieked that that was a vicious
lie and he'd never told me anythingof the sort-and, besides, that had
been in confidence. At that point a
secutity guard asked us to take ourargument elsewhere and hustled us
out of the store.
Because I had to wear an old

sweater on my date that night I ended
up coming home early and alone andfound Nigel waiting outside the door.
He said Rodney had thrown him out
and he asked me to take him in for a
few days. He's been at my place eversinc~, keeping me awake with his
weeping and leaving my alpums on
the turntable. Whenever I broach thesubject of his leaving he says hedoesn't have anywhere else to go andsince it's all my fault he's there in the
flfst place I should just have to put up
with him. I think that if he hadn't
been so damned intractable about thesweater none of this would have happened and we'd all be happy. Who
do you say is right?
-Me, I hope
Dear Me,
It's funny you should write. I
had almost the exact same experience myself last week when an
attractive young man approached meat the Bay in Montreal while I was
shopping for a sweater. At first I
hoped I was going to be asked for adate but unfortunately language was,as it so often will be, something of anissue and he left me alone. So I
,bought a shirt and had dinner with
my best friend instead. (Boy, if you
think Nigel's keeping you awake justtry spending a few nights with myfriend. His snoring is the mosthideous form of sleep deprivation
tortureimaginable!)Anyway, I
received several compliments for the
new shirt which leads me to thinkthat sweaters just aren't making it
anymore. I don't know. I mean, thatwould seem to fly in the face of conventional wisdom, would it not? But'maybe we're seeing the developmentof some ne'V trend. I suppose it's
time once again to conduct anotherone of my reader polls. Kids, what
do you think is the gannent of choicethese days? This time I promise to
publish my results ....

By Michelangelo Signorlle"We at Egg think you should stir
up some courage. It's not like you
have much choice,"
writes Hal
Rubenstein, editor of Malcolm Forbes'
new Egg magazine, which hit thestands last week. Well, Hal darling, we
at OutWeek also believe that "youshould stir up some courage." That's
why our publisher andeditor are out of the closet-unlike pUblisbers andeditors at lots of otber
publications.; .girlfriend. 'And, yes, you'reright, you don't "havemuch choice." Not with
OutWeek exposing such
hypocrisy.
But let's get back ~oEgg.
What a nightmare!
It's a shame to see somuch money wasted onsuch garbage. The frontrover, a photo of a ,pair oflegs-whichturns out tobelong to oh-so-cuttingedge, Mary Hart~demefirst think that this was apanty hose catalogue. After
opening it though, and seeing boring chart after boring chart after boring chart
gaging the night scene(Total Square Footage ofClub, Maximum Cost of
Admission,
Maximum
Occupancy, Median Age of
Oubgoer, etc.), I've realizedthat this rag looks much more like some
sort of trade magazine; something likethose eyeglass industIy publications withall the graphs and arrows. Yawn.
I've never seen art direction that
tried so hard anq resulted in suchunreadable diek. I didn't think things

ain't ever gonna happen. Got it? And
could get much more visually annoying than Spy-until Egg attempted to there's nothing in your magazine thatbe Spy. (Oh, God, I fear what will indicates anything new to me rightnow (Mary Hart? Geoffrey Beene?
happen if some magazine comes,
IlNDA EllERBEE!?!).
along trying to be EggO
But perhaps the creepiest thing
But Malcolm's letter to the reader
about Egg is, like so many other magais what sent me into orbit. It's embarzines where scaredy-cat queer puppets
rassing to read anyone's own thoughts
on how hip he or she is, but it's multi- art" :unong the staff, there is little or noplied a thousand-fold when that per- visibility of gays and lesbians. Unlike
at the new InIerotew, where open lesson is a rich, white, 70-plus-year-old
bian editor Ingrid Sischy offers us
man. Actually it's more than embarimages of same-sex couples, Egg israssing-it'sugly, dirty, silly, sleazy,slimy, stupid, sad, painful and riducu- very ...careful. And very straight. Whilelous. "There's a whole, pulsating Life there is an interview by Rubenstein
After Eleven we never knew was out I with Charles Busch, john "Lypsinka"
and Jeffrey Essmann,
there," he states., (Really, Malcolm!?!? Epperson
Who the fuck are you talking to? Hz nowhere in this magazine is there any
Talyor?) He then tells us that Egg ';Jill discussion of anything remotely homo
be "unearthing what is going to iurn (the words gay or homosexual don'tup" and proclaims that "by tht time even corne up in that interview). Thisin a magazine which is
supposedly about a scene
which we all know is generated by gays-downtown, the club circuit,nightlife, fashion, etc. Even
Phranc, in a photo caption, is describedas'"folksinger/ activjst." What
the fuck does that mean? It
doesn't tell us what kindof activist she is? She's-a
LESBIAN activist,Mi'.
f/orbes. LESBIAN.Some ofyour best friends-yourViClY best frien~that,remembcA·?
(Funny,I
neve. see environmental.,
ists or feminists or any
other activist just labeled'I"activist. n)everybody else is tuned in and thepeople, places, styles and things havearrived on the establishment magazine
pages, they're over over here:" Ohplease, Mr. Forbes. The fact that you
have to tell me how fab it wtll
be ...well, that just reveals to me that it

But I suppose
weshould come to understand and accept that aman is his magazine. We
never saw Forbes magazine take any sort ofpr0active stance' in the
AIDS epidemic. And, if
anything, Egg has much
more of the man's·ego
than Forbes ever did. Egg, indeed, isthe epitome of Malcolm Forbes; desperately desiring to go to the edge, it
stops just short of it, repressively flirting with, what's really going on, butnever, ever letting out any exciting,deep, dark secret truths. ~February 25. 1990

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With Liz and Sydney,

Uz: !was looking foIward to the My ComrfJdelSister(benefit party
fur weeks, m was not disappointed. Held at Tlliler latinamericano, it
was th~ gay and lesbian basel1)ent party I yeamed for during highschool. Les Sfmpso,n (My ComrfJde), Dany Johnson (SisterU OJ
extr8ordinoire) and Ande Whytand (Sisteri) put together a fun cruisy
time only two blocks from our house (no mean ~t). Sydney doesn't
cruise, so this party was sort of lost on her. But the drinks were HUGE
m cheap, and the company happy and uniformly sweaty. luCkily, Iwas
wearing my sleeveless t-shirt#30.
Yo-Yo Disco, the go-go dancing dyke and all around fun girl,plOced lollipops in the mouths of girls who lined the runway during her, walk. Iwas the proud recipient of one; until Itried to ~ a picture and~dit clown my own throat, which hurt. They give good party, alongwith a fine reading experience.
,~nCy: Cries of exploimtion are still ringing in the now infamous
MorrisseylPantyGirdles ,affair.TW'Obrothers from Brooklyn have been pittEd against three drag queens from 'Where-ever in the most peNerse fairy
tlIle heard in modem ti~. The drag trio of Kemy Kemy, Bela BoISId, and SIster DImension have accus,ed the brothers Morrissey (Joey andJamiC) of homophobia and bankrolling on the publicity generated bytheir Pllnty Girdles party. Panty Gird'les-a preclominontly gay,,latin andBlackcrowd-beglln on a Friday night Mer three weeks, ~ night was
moved to Sunday. The brothers cite finolJCialreasons as their juStification'I,.

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fur the 1TIO'v'e. The PG3, however, insist that the brothers did not like themixed crowd lind charged them with homophobia and racism. The
owners h8vt responded to these accusations by claiming that the ttwe
promoters have exploitEd these charges of bias to disguise what were
essentially personality clashes. With the smoke still cleoring-«ld it isuncerUlinwhether bigotJy or ineptitude is the root of the conflict--several damming stories still remain.
Uz: A well-kncMIn videQlfilmmaker was denied entrance to a room
within the club, while opposite-sex couples were admitted ahead ofhim. When one of the promoters of the night:,with whom he was friends,
went through, he was still kept out. A physical altercation ensued,
the filmmaker was smuggled out of the club behind a willowy dragqueen's wig. Allegedly, anti-gay remarks were made during the incident
A prominent transsexual performer, attending the club on a Friday
after PantyGirdles was ITlO'Ied, was admitted to the club free, and washaving a drink a few minutEs after arriving, when she was approached bya security person. Asked is she was MXXXX: she Said yes,m was thentold ,she would have to I~ the club without reason. The drink wasfrom her hand, and she was escorted all the WZtf out the door.
Allegedly, two men kissing in the club were poked by a security
person and told Mthatshit doesn~tgo here.",
These stories were told independently of one another over a
period of weeks. Those who t91d them were unnconnected to any of
those involved in the situation. Even if the Morrissey brothers wh
own the club are not Mactively" homophobic (the third brother ishead of security, however), they seemed to have created an atmosphere that tums gays into sPectacles for straights to g~ at; but
once too many of us get together, we become a threat to their Mgood
business."
Sydney: The COOL (Comm~of Outraged lesbians) and BWES(Bronx lesbians United Eternally'!';' Sisterhood) Valentine's Day Dance,~da door girl who greeted me by asking, MIVe you wearing lingerie?" Yes, but it was under my clothes, not on top of them. Onceinside, the room tEmperature (as well as that of the participants) was sohot, most of the girls danced around us in VlIriOUSstages of undress.
Those that were clothed ended up disrobed. Eve's Garden set up atable with a silicon display that 'v'tUUldmake the most seasoned lesbian
tum red.
Sound Factory OJ Junior Vasquez dedicated several songs to
Nelson Mandela Saturday night, and it seemed the perfect place todance in celebration of his quasi-freedom. The police department
has put a damper on the club's late night hourS. Despite the fact thatSound Factory has had few reported incidents of violence, it isbeing harrassed and for seemingly no reason at all. Currently, theclub is open and hopping from 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 a.m. while theowners fight it otJtin the legal arena. Junior urges people to write
and telephone Manhattan Borough President Ruth Messinger in sup, port of Sound Factory (Municipal Building; 19th Floor, New York, NY
10007)
Liz and Sydney:
We can't cover things we don't know
about-and even though you might think we know everything, we don't
So if you know about something, drop us a line: Uz m Sydney, OutWee~ 159West 25th Street, NYC10001. Tm*"

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by Otis Stuart 'sixty years and 81 films after Frank Capra's Ladies of
Leisure made her a Hollywood star, Barbara
Stanwyck died at age 82. Her vast body of work
summons some striking images, all of them standing anderect. There's Stella Dallas in the rain, chewing on her handkerchief and staring through a window as the daughter she
sa~marries into a better life. There's Phyllis Dietrichson,
the ice bitch on a slow bum, dealing Fred MacMurray Double
Intiemnlly. In BtiIJ oj Fire, there's one of the great ~ces:
Sugarpuss O'Shea is first a come-hither finger through a slit ofcurtains, and then a burst of sequ~, slink and slit skirt, thefuse~firing Gene Krupa's electric "Drum Boogie." And, of'course,"there's The Big Va//ejs Victoria Barkley. Legs wide andarms akimbo, Stanwyck---Qll 5'5" of her-stands tall enoughto suggeSt that She is the title character.

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Each image was branded onscreen and inmemory by two Stanwyck signatures. The more
immediate is the energy, all explosion. Capra was
the first to tap into it. He discovered right away that
Stanwyck's first take, when the energy was in full
• I flight, was her best; he built all of their subsequentfilms around her first go. A lifelong trademark, theStanwyck energy vitalized even her entry' into theBlackglama sweepstakes. The shoot was a bitch,leaving both star and photographer frustrated, andStanwyck was caught, standing, with her mouthwrapped around an emphatic word either ending in"ch" or starting with "sh." The result is one of the
few Blackglama ads that doesn't look after the fact.
The second stamp was sex. The least
chameleon of divas, Stanwyck staked her claim tofUm legend on a consistent physical presenceclipped, ripe, prlmed--atld an ever-ready sexuality
as deep as her charcoal-broiled voice. To the end.
Stanwyck never won an Oscar, but she got the lastof her three Emmys in 1982 for The Thorn Birds;
the performance included a vintage Stanwyck
command to Richard Chamberlain: "Kiss me on thelips." In fact, Stanwyclc's quality of sexual engagement is perhaps a reason why she is one of the
few ftlm goddesses not to have made the transition
to drag icon. Queens have tried but rarely succeeded because Stanwyck was never static enoughfor frozen portraiture. American as the day is long,
Stanwyck was the Hollywood myth who brought
to film a matter-of-factness about sex possessed by
I the great, grown-up European divas from Magnani
to Signoret. There was none of Garbo's swooning
androgyny or Crawford's moist innuendo, none of
Ava Gardner's lusciousness or Marilyn Monroe's baby doll.
Like Bette Davis; Stanwyck let herself be ugly, and hercome-on was for consenting adults on both sides.
Stanwyck's sexual assurance blazed a coherent paththrough Hollywood's wavering attitudes toward human sexuality. Her career encompassed all the major chapters, and, whatever the era, Stanwyck was in the vanguard. Amid thepfe..code license of the early 3Qs, Ladies of Leisure and The
Bitter Tea ojGeneral Yen, the Stanwyck film that opened Radio,
City Music Hall to the movies, touched two of the biggest,taboos right off. In the,fonner, Stanwyck's Lady of the Nigbt
made her an oVernight film star (she'd been in Hollywoodbarely two years). The latter brought sufficient protest fromladies' organizations across the country' to kill the film at thebox office: Stanwyck. touching the hand of the eponymous
Olinese warlord cut too close to the borders of miscegenation.
When the code's stranglehold began to relax in theearly 60s, Stanwyck's chiseled catho,!se queen in Walk on,'<C,tbe wad Side was the first fully lesbian portrait, albeit of thevillainess variety, by a major star (excluding those who
couldn't help themselves,
such as Garbo in Queen
Cbristina). Shirley Maclaine's Martha in Tbe Cbildren's
HOur, released just months before Walk on tbe Wild Side,
was driven to suicide by her lesbianism and Stanwyck's Jo
Courtney went to jail for hers--this was; after all, the early60s-but Stanwyck's integrity as a thinking actress wasnever more eloquent than in the options she brought her
character despite Edmund North's script. The lesbian subplot was an invention of North and not in the Nelson
Algren novel on which the fUm was based.
The film literally crawls with vaginal imagery. Saul
Bass' great opening credits are an ode to a strutting black
cat. Jo's brothel is called the Dollhouse, and Jane Fonda isa lip-licking twinkie, Kitty. Stanwyck's early duets with
Capucine, before the plot and the times take over, are theonly moment the imagery coalesces into tenderness andcompassion, into a present tense with a potential future.
Working around a cliche was, of course, Stanwyck's great
trick of the code years, the decades of her greatest celebrity.
When people couldn't say anything, Stanwyck didn't have to.
In Double Indemnity, Stanwyck serves MacMurray iced tea
and he's hard. In Ball of Fire, her first come-on to a confused,collarless Gary Cooper is, "You know, once I watched my big

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brother shave." All entendre, both roles fuse on St3nwyck's
sexuality, murderous in the first, exhibitionist in the second.
The hero of the former kills for her. The hero of the lauer
takes on Murcier,Inc. to get her back.
The code's restrictions are, in fact, a default reason why
Stanwyck achieved a distinction that Molly Haskell recently
described in The New Yo" TImes as 'a privileged prerogativeof male stardom in Hollywood: •...in American movies
rarely see a morally ambiguous heroine ...The range of whata man can do and still be sympathetic-or
shall we say'manly'-is much wider than what a woman can do andremain acceptable." Stanwyck the fully sexual woman '\WS
never in question. If, asGoldwyn said, Clark Gable's
balls could be heard clanking when he walked into a room,
then Stanwyclc's vaginal vitality was no less vivid or noisy.
She was instantly acceptable, however suspect her 1;DOtives.
Stanwyck's happiest moment is sexuality past ambiguity:
Sugarpuss gets everyone going in one way or another. Her
blackest character, the California Lulu of Double Indemnity,
is ambiguity past morality, the dark side of the force. The
Hitchcock blonde with brains, Phyllis never raJses ber voiceand never reveals anything about herself. even at gunpoint
Stanwyck makes unquestioning, unquesitonable control feminine property. This is a woman who has men do the dirty
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A View with Some Roomby Peter BowenIDn ouble Talk, Wayne Koestenbaum points out that whateverlengths collaborating boys travel todismiss the homoerotics of their partnership, "the ambiguities of their discourse
give the taboo subject some liberty toroam." But when the nature of collaboration is less the meeting of two minds
and more an international menage-atrofs.-'J.S is the case with the films of the
Californian director James Ivory, theIndian producer Ismail Merchant and
the German-Indian writer Ruth Prawer
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Despite the placid and seemingly
unsullied surface of their ftlms, this trio
has produced a formidable range ofwork in which different bodies continually roam landscapes whose otherwise formal contours offer little chanceof sexual, cultural or emotional mooring. For the month of February, however, the films of this trio (acollaboration
which by 1986 wasentered in the Guinness Book of World
Records as the longest running writerproducer-director team in the history offUm), will stay put at the Angelika Film
Center in a retrospective preparing fortheir new fUm, A Perfect Murder.
Although often criticized for being"too beautiful" (how can anything be"too beautiful"?), Merchant-IvoryJhabvala's films succeed when their
obvious cinematic beauty appears, if
not simply dangerous, then certainly
disorienting. Whether it be from thenational dislocation in The Europeans(1979), the imperialistic confusion of
Heat and Dust (1983), the lesbianundercurrentsin The Bostonians(1984), the confused heterosexuality of
A Room with a View (1986) or theeven more confused male homosexuality of Maurice (1987), these films
stand at odds with their Masterpiece
Theater settings. This subtle tension
has' garnered them a limited critical
success, while the ambiguity of theirintentions has rarely brought fmancial
rewards. Except for A Room with aView, whose $3 million budget
brought in more than ten times that,
their films often demonstratetheindomitable will of independent fUmmakers to follow their vision, even at
the cost of financial success.
The most stunning example ofsuch a persistently ambiguous 'vision,
which is often about the inability to
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Nolret and Salvatore Cascio (bottom)

Do the Nostalgic Thing
by Bruce C Steele

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Paradiso re-explores the familiar territories of the idealized childhood in small-town
Italy (a la Amarr:ord) and the moviehouse as a
microcosm of society Oast twisted into use for Apartment
Zero). Writer-director Giuseppe Tornatore's setting is postwar, but his village is timeless and utopian. It's a Sicily
without mafiosi, and, even more inconceivably, an Italy
without significant poverty or politics, save for passing references to unemployment and Communists.
Despite the town's separation from political reality, theimaginary community of which I was most reminded was
Spike Lee's Bed-Stuy in Do the Right Tblng. Tornatore's village has no racial tensions or vicious bigots, but it has thesame parade of charming, cartoonish characters, each, hung'on a single ~rsonality hook. No doubt shot on location
like Lee's film, ParadisQ has the same backlot-like appearinema

ance. It's another clean, colorful community with an unreal
sense of vitality, everyone playing a comfortable role in theneat storyline.
In ,place of Sal's Pizzeria, we' have the Cinema
Paradiso moviehouse"":""which also burns down, albeit
with vastly different signification. As in Right Tblng, themovie's central figure is the filmmaker's stand-in, in thiscase a young boy Oater a teenager, and an adult in theframe) called Toto. But the most riveting character-theequivalent of Danny Aiello's Sal-is the boy's mentor,
Alfredo, the old projectionist at the Paradiso. His wisdom,
like Sal's, is an amalgam of cultural assumptions, romantic
hopes and the tough lessons of hard life.
.
Philippe Noiret, who plays Alfredo, is a continental
version of the late, great Ray Mdnally. He has a gruff
world-wearinesstempered with a twinkle of faith' inhuman ingenuity and a touch of mischievousness. Noiret
is a joy to watch, and the movie slows to a ~awl when, .
he's replaced in teenaged Toto's life by a girl who falls
into his arms for no discernible reason whatsoever. The
romance is a male, heterosexist fantasy that drags on andon and almost dissipated all the pleasure the movie had
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that every dyke and fag in the city could get a chance to
see it. Unlike traditional "women's theater" which often
shies away from explicit and ambiguous expressions offemale sexuality, Weaver and Shaw take it all on withgusto. Madly changing roles (and costumes) from butchfemme to femme-butch, each of them try' on and discard
personas and stereotypes with such bawdy glee andsophistication that the ~rience
is nothing short of thebest high camp taken to its most outrageous extremes. In
addition to men's suits, ladies ballgowns, wigs, gloves andsilk stockings with garters, Weaver and Shaw even use thatold camp classic of lipsynching and bring it to new heights.
Watching these women in rehearsal recently, I was
struck by their bold portrayal of lesbianism. Their decadelong love affair does, in fact, reflect many of the changes
the lesbian community has undergone since 1979, making
this current show a veritable time-line of the lesbian community as seen through one passionate and worldly relationship. As Lois Weaver, of the bleached blonde hair andMarilyn Monroe body, explains at the opening of the show:"We were in Berlin when we ~et, each of us on tour witha different theater company. Me, with a feminist theatergroup called SpiderWoman Theater and Peggy with an allmale drag show called Hot Peaches," Shaw, whose statuesque beauty is Completely and utterly compelling, steps
in and they reenact their first encounter. "Over the romantic
glare of flourescent ligbting in a Chinese restaurant,» Shaw
asks Weaver if she is a leSbian and Weaver coyly, though as
expected, says no, she's bisexual. Standing on opposite
sides of the stage, they recount their earliest lesbian experiences in monologues that are moving; not only for theforce of their delivery, but because these stories of slowly
awakening lesbian sexuality are so recognizable.
Like the real life of love that they are portraying, thetension between autonomy and intimacy are part of theby Maria Maggenti
struggle that Weaver and Shaw so masterfully play out intheir performance. They merge and part, using both sightgags and corny songs like "You've Lost That Loving
line On the poster for their new show Anniversary
Feeling" to express the many changing rhythms of a longWahjust about sums it all up. It reads, "What's the term love affair that has withstood poverty, professional,, 'difference between a relationship and a lounge ups and downs and even motherhood. Their lip-synch
IdI" and when it comes to the collaborative material of Lois number of "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof," with each of them,~andPeggy,Shaw, such an inquiry seems hilariously playing against type (Shaw as Maggie and Weaver as
apt. ,Known to the tI:,leater community for their highly original Brick), brilliantly and hUariously pushes Williams' original
work in the Split Britches Company, Weaver and Shaw are text into a realm of such surreal emotional and sexual
lesbian ,perl'ormers who are unabashed, fearless and utterly lUcidity that it really has to be seen to be believed.
riveting in their portrayals of the inside and outside of lesbian 'The significance' of Anniversary Waltz is not simply
leX, sc:iruality' and existence.
located in the fact that it portrays a real lesbian relationship",.'
Anntversary Waltz is a romp through the ten years that in the context of a very unconventional marriage. Nor is it
Weaver and Shaw have been both lovers and colleagues. It merely that these two women are consummate performers
ISa celebration of such poignancy, clarity and passion that who know how to quiet a room with their voices and
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i~is that they push the limits of theatrical experience, eliminating orthodox dramatic boundaries and creating new definitions of what it means for lesbians to have a public voicein the intimate conftnes of a small dark space.
What is the difference between a lounge act and a relationship? Lois Weaver and Peggy Shaw only begin to explore
the 'matter in Anntver.5tlry Waltz, but what an exploration.
One can only wait with excitement for their 20th anniversary
party and in the meanfune, eat some of the wedding s;ake,marvel at their talent and toast them for their creativity andstamina. It looks like it has been an amazing ten years.

AIDS community. There is a lesbian pricked by a needle
and has become positive. Though it was good to have alesbian in a piece so dominated by men, it seemed astrangely contrived and hollow monologue by comparison
with the rich variations of sex and life and death expressedby the male characters.
The sheer breadth of Russell's "types" does, however,disperse the emotional range across too large a landscape.
The use of words and music in such a conventional format,
when attempting to cover such an unconventional andcomplicated drama as the AIDS crisis, ultimately causes•• • • •It's hard to cast a critical eye on theater that you know
serves an immediate emotional and political service. Unlike
the "catharsis" required by the classical theatrical experience, AIDS theater must provide an outlet not only for ifldividual grief but Simultaneously affirm the drama of a
specific, collective minority experience. Thus, because
AIDS is not Simply about death, it cannot easily be universalized without suffering a loss off its constituent parts,
being trivialized or rendered unrecognizable so as to "meansomething" to broad audiences.
Unfortunately, this balance between the specifics of
the AIDS experience and the inherent drama of loss andgrief has sometimes created work that is too individualized, 'particularized or highly sentimental. Unlike most drama,
however, AIDS theater can be assessed against the very real
lived experience of those who are, at the actual moment ofviewtng, experiencing the action that is being portrayed.
Elegies for Angels, Punks and Ragtng Queens falls into
the category of work that is highly personalized, specificand bound by recognizable references to gay male experience. Set up as conventional testimonial theater, Elegtes
uses long individual prose-poems often accompanied bymusic to portray the specific losses that AIDS creates in atight-knit and often homogenous
community of men.
Inspired by his viewing of the Quilt, writer Bill Russell
seems to have extrapolated and constructed "lives" from its
panels, which are then delivered as monologues by PWAs
after death. Thus, we have the diva, the aerobics instructor,
the actor, the tough guy, the muscle man and nellie queen,
the ranting politico and self-hating fag all reflecting on theirlives and their deaths in relatively conventional cabaretstyle. In addition, there are brief appearances by a Black
woman raging against her husband's death, a woman prostitute mourning her HIV positive status, and a little Blackgirl who lives orphaned in a hospital.
All the stories seem "true" insofar as they mirror many of
the well-known stories of PWAsin the United States. There is atendency, however, for many of the stories to begin to run
together, especially those about gay men. There are only somany ways one can express the lost days of disco, drugs anddiva-dom, or, the many. variations on looking for love in all thewrong places and finding it unexpectedly and, often, too late.
The women in the piece seem flat and tacked on-as'
though to do an "AIDS anthology" without induding
women would seem an affront to the actual diversity of the

AND ME-Actor John Schiappa

Photo: David Morgan

Elegtes to collapse under its content's weight. AIDS isalmost too big and too astonishing for cabaret-type tunes
about disco days gone by.
But Elegies is not simply a theater piece. It is a tableau
vivant with, words, providing its viewers with a ·mirror inwhich to see themselves without hatred, distortion or derision. Though not particularly bold or original in fonn orcontent, I can see that Elegies will leave its intended audiences on their feet clapping and perhaps weeping withrecognition. This is catharsis in its truest sense and in aworld bereft of compassion and understanding, this cannot
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PerformanceBlue in the Faceby Rick SugdenModern monologuists walk a perilous andzigzagging
line' as performance
artists.
Currently, the gamut of well-known performance artists that do monologues run from producers ofspectacles, like Tim Miller and Laurie Anderson, to storytellers-cum-stand-ups,
as in Robert Ashley and Spalding
Gray. These people have helped inspire the 80s resurgence of monologuists that is still going strong today.
The title of Richard Elovich's If Men Could Talk, The
Stories They Could Te/~ could easily be an oblique defmition of their task. Elovich goes from set piece to set piece,
acting out the stories of his protagonists. Danny is an artist
with HIV infection who works at Marvel Comics. He isfighting his disease and doesn't want to be a "moselmann,"
the German word for "muslim" used in the concentration
camps to describe the near-death skeletons who walked
around in an apathetic stupor. Danny is accompanied byhis ex-lover, Joseph, a microbiology teacher at John Jay
High School who wants to be Marie Curie-Tma Turner, thefirst drag queen to win the Nobel Prize. When not entertaining Danny with renditions of old movies, Joseph tries to
explain the extremely complicated biologies of HIV infection to a classroom full of kids who, for diversion, would
rather go fight in a war.
The third character is Danny's physician, Dr. Suess, aCzech Jew survivor of the concentration camps, who tells FROM MARIE CURIE- TINA 7VRNER TO MARVEL COMICS
the story of Freddie Hirsch, a gay man in the camps who Rlch.rd Elo'llch .p•• out.
would have been a leader in the "uprising" had he not as a time to channel his energies into his art work.
doubted the rumors that they were to be gassed in 48 hours.
The long explanation of HIV and the re-enactments of
The set is minimal: a sleeping bag to the left, a sChool the movies scenes could be edited. They don't mix wellchair in the center, a table and chair off right. The, back- with the stronger, more personal moments. In the scene
drop is a dark gray wash with a cropped picture of'generic from which the piece derives its name, Danny tells us how
ACf UP boys: nearly shaved heads and white tee-shirts his mother translates his father's facial ticks as expression
with scr~g,
angry faces.
of emotion. When he turns his head a certain way, it
If Men Q)uJd Talk is another work in what can be seen as means he loves you. But when he looks down, you've
a "living in the age of AIDS"genre. It is part agitprop, part per- made him angry. "It was like the Cold War called all thesonal essay. Flovich's work is not so much a personal 'response fathers away on businesS," says Danny. If fathers could
to being ffiV-infected as it is a call to anm in the AIDSwar.
talk, they could say "I love you" to their children. If the
He contrasts Dr. Suess' story of Freddie Hirsch's indeci- ,dead men he dedicated his piece to could talk they mightsion to ACf UP's disruption of ex-Health Commissioner Dr. say, "Voice your anger. Don't be a victim like our fathers."
Stephen Joseph's meetings following his reduction in the
In Elovich's .other works, he brilliantly created characestimated number of HIV-infected in NYc. In a sharp and ters that were comic evocations of a pathetic, dysfunctional
painful scene, he has Danny's confused reaction to receiv- family. Here he has connected this masculine inability to
ing "lifetime disability," seen not as a death sentence, but
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Music

Women and Trains
by Rachel PepperJ

ane Siberry is one of thoseartists who will be eternally on
the edge of the cutting edge.
This is largely because she's soinnovative that by the time the pop
movement has come close to catching
up with her lyrically or musically, she's
long since moved on. It could also bebecause she's so artsy (read that bizarre)that her following is naturally limited toher ever-loyal Canadian fans and expatriate Torontonians, of which I am one.
A leader in Toronto's progressive
arts community since she released her
self-titled LP in 1981, Siberry has
never hit the big time in the u.s. She
got close in 1985 with The Speckless
Sky, but her overly experimental follow-up in 1987, The Walking, -didn't
give her much commercial success.
But Bound by the Beauty, Siberry's
delightful fifth album, should go aways toward properly introducing her
to an American audience.
For starters, Siberry's folky pop
sOund is definitely "in" right now on
American airwaves,and women
singers are all the rage. Though sometimes still too surrealist for even thisreviewer, Siberry's more recent lyrics
are more accessible than they havebeen at other times, and her sound isdefmitely more upbeat. And besides
her own very real talents, Siberry has,assembled some of the best Toronto
talent to produce her latest vision of
the world, including singers Rebecca
Jenkins and Anne Bourne, both now~ginning their own solo careers.
Bound by the Beauty starts out
strongly with the title Cijt, a funky lovesong to the earth by Jane, who vowsthat when she comes back in 500 years,
she's going to first "...find a forestland
stand there in the trees/anq kiss the fra-

grant forest floor/and lie down in the funky ode to the rails which will makeleaves/and listen to the birds sing/the you wonder why riding the subway
sweetest sound you'll ever hear."
can't be just as much fun:
Although these lyrics sound like an
Something about trains
invocation to the Goddess herself, a typiSometblng about love
6U earth mother SiI>erryis not. Humor
sometblng about this old eartb
touches every breath she takes, and her
and tbe way it looks from up above
lyrics frequently border on the absurd.
but everyttme [ bear tbat wbistle
Some songs, like "Ia Jalouse"
purelyblowingself-indulgent Siberrian melancholy, buteveryttme [ bear that old black crow,
she'll win ,your heart singing about
evertime [ hear the old wbistle blowpulling red wagons, how everything
Ing
reminds her of her dog, Sunday after[find myself a-sblvering In my soulnoons playing hoCkey, and trains.
Oh yes, women and trains. What
It's fitting that Sibeiry ,should end
exactly is this new trend? First came the album with "Are We Dancing Now?
Michelle Shocked's super sexy "if Love (Map ITl)," part three in an ongoing
Was a Train," which made us 'Want to song series whose last line this time ishop on Amtrak with our best girlfriend "Life's a mystery." Although somewhat
and ride away all night long. Then of a musical mystery herself, Jane
Melissa Etheridge blew us away with Siberry's Bound by the Beauty is a first"Royal Station 4/16." And now comes class album by one of Canada's finest
Siberry's "Something about Trains," a home-grown talents. T

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spedmens. Photographs such as "Robert
Li Bending, 1978,· helped budd thefoundation for Mapplethorpe's innovations and e:xIre!neS. 'Many ~
show people rediDing. Candy Darling, Susan SOntag,
Rene Ricard and Hujar himself can ~be seen on their backs or in bed. The
viewer feels an intimacy with th~people,absence of pretense. ODeeX Hujar's greatest skills is the rapportand spoOImeity he generated with his
subjeds. Aside from these big names
Hujar also documented gay µreo "DragQueen on a Commode,· "Scene on thePiers" and' a man cruising the parle atnlght are but a few examples.
His book, Portraits of Life' andDeath, was published in 1976. Its plcturesof
shriveled corpses at thePalermo ~have lost some of
their power to current AIDS images.
These pictures, as well as New York
scenes like "Ruined Pier" do, however,show Hujar's inclination fur the dlsturbing image. Even the portraits, whllehonest, are frequently mournful, the'ansubjects vulnerable.
Peter Hular. H.IIDWHn,1. Sllver .. ,latln print. ,In Retrospect
byJohn DonahueViewing Peter Hujar's show at
NYU's Grey Art Gallery is likedipping into a friend's photo
album; the warmth and sensitivity with which the photographs werecrafted is evident, a great many of thefaces are familiar. In this, the firstmuseum exhibition of Hujar's work,
132 black-and-white photographs provide a welcome look at the 30-year
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dows over downtown; they look at its,
crumbling landscape, its drag queens,
artists and eqtertainers. The show displays the diversity of ,Hujar's range, ,thecrisp compositions of people having thegreatest impact. Look at "Divine, 1975,·with just a touch of makeup, a demure
and bulging vision in white polyester.
Although Hujar was a traditional
photographer; the influence of Diane
Arbus, as well as intimations of Robert
Mapplethorpe. can be felt. The freaks
that inhabit many of Arbus' phaographs
are missing. Instead, HUjar's dragqueens and downtown stars remain
unmanipulated by the photographer,giving the sense that they were allowed
to do what they wanted for the picture.'
Nor is his work focused on sexuality, aswith Mapplethorpe. There are nudes,
but they're skinny; they're portraits, not'An exceptioo can be found in his
animal portraits. Hujar's earliest pho-tographs were of cows at his grand&ther's Calm (not in the show) and it's
obvious he's an animal lover. The pclI'traits of a goose, a goat scanding OIl atire, a running horse, and dogs-one
beautiful dog with muddy fur resting ina field-..ere goofy and tender.
Hujar never attained the famethat many of his subjects reached.
Hopefully, the publicationof theshow's catalogue in mid-month will
rectify that. His portraits and documentation of contemporary gay life of
the 70s and 80s deserve a wide audience, both for what they can, tell US
about yesterday and about today.
One of my favorite photos in theshow is "Halloween, 1980: In someways, I think, it sums up the decade.
A couple of men are walking on thestreet. You know, these guys .. , The
doctor, his nurse. A spectral figure
off to the side. All looking back atyou, mouthing off, but interested.
The night is just beginning. Then you
notice the baby doll and what's written across its lips: D.O.A. .,

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Aphasia ByAny Other Namerate boardrooms to hospitalemergency rooms, is nothing
short of murderous.
Pumping :rrid thrusting,
grinding
and pounding,Harder, Harder, Harder,
Harder,Harder,(1990)
byJonNaUey
acutely captures the timbre
andrhythmof beingscrewed; this, whether by
nOH-OH-HARDER-asolochoice or through violation.
installation of his new body of The latter is unfortunately
work-Donald
Moffett has bold- more prevalent, whether itly and bravely moved in a new direc- means getting punched outtion, one that cuts through (or, for the for five dollars on an IND
knife and fork set-deconstructs)
the platform by three scumbags
pomposity of video like a machete.
or being reminded on April
Constructed from video-derived text,
15th that the bulk of thathis pieces are totally without photos
check to the IRS will go toor other images. Using recycled text Stealth bombers and deathfrom videotapes, Moffett has cropped
squads in El Salvador. (Justand edited together a series of politi- imagine Billie Burke in thecal slogans, aggressive slang, condeWizard of Oz asking: "Arescending barbs, ambivalent
love
you a good Vulnerability or
remarks and sex mutterings.' Thesea bad Vulnerability?")
Moffett touched on the Donald MofffIlt. Harder, Harder, Harder ... (1!J!ltJ).
texts-as-images,
dealing with theartist's ever-continuing examination of unspeakable in By Accident, Bac/clit cibatransparency
sex and politics, were then repetitiveI Lick All The Wrong Holes Over andMoffett tells us about "the system's"
ly processed and fused as backli't
Over Again (1990). A lesbian friend
use of drugs and educational medicibatransparencies.
asked me increduously, "Why is it
ocrity (illustrated
so well by the
The work OH-OH-HARDER,
that' all the boys like that one best?"
confusion about aphasia's meaning)"somewhere between a psychic belch Hmmmn.
This piece in 12 units
as the prime methods of social conand a sex: grunt, somewhere between a speaks to the cogn,itive dissonancetrol. This, in "the bastion of demochate rant and a private weeping, [and] that many gay men share with regards
racy" beingemulatedby the,somewhere between an incantation and to "safer sex"~rmore particularly,"newly-liberated" Eatern Bloc (God·eating shit in defiance," powerfully rep- those "borderline" activites elaborated
forbid!).
resents the concurrent
crisis andon lists delineating the unsafe, s3.re
In I Spoke With Your God. He
malaise of American society. Most of and possibly unsafe. The round forCommands
Me To Cut Out Your
the work is quite accessible and easily mation of these blue units and theMouth and Oh, Baby. Baby. Baby.
interpreted, at least by those of us in shadow they cast are most reminisBaby. Baby. (1990), Moffett again
the margin of our empire's culture.
cent of a ripe and ready asshole, andaddresses a culture in which social
In eight units, You and Your Kindprovide a ready transition to the one
development has not kept pace with
Are Not Wekome Here (1990) explores unit piece, Lick (1990).
the technological.
Both capture thethe exclusion-of-hatred so easily seen in
I Control Terror by Aphasia
dark side of emotions and feelings felt
the United States, whether that exclu- and Narcotics marked the only co~~by many gay men living day-to-day insion is manifested in the burning of the fusion in OH-OH-HARDER.
Witha hostile and hateful culture. Whilehome of the mY-infected children in even a gallery owner asking, "What
Oh, Baby brings to light the very
Arcadia,
Florida,the gruesome
is aphasia?",
this apt statement
depth of sexual desire, pinpointing
Bensonhurst murder of Yusuf Hawkins, about one of American life's mostthe beauty of surrender, to power, I
qualities
went -overSpoke gives voice to the welling anger
or the excessive carding of white les- unfortunate
heads.
and revenge felt by the disenfranbians or lesbians and gay men of color many of the viewers'
chised toward those who would crush
attempting to enter gay clubs. The Speaking directly to the American
them had they the chance .....
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DanceEverything is Beau-tiful·at the Balletby Joe E. Jeffreys

Aballerina is not a woman
dancing, because she isn't
a woman and she doesn't
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never
a petson.
Les Ballets
Trockadero De Monte Carlo has successfully mass marketed this outre
critical premise to an adoring worldwide public since 1974.
Yet the company did not spring
full tutued from the thigh of Venus
Castina. Madame Ekathrina Sobechanskaya, a k a Larry Ree, founded
the Trockadero
Gloxinia Ballet
Company in 1972. Disharmony soon
erupted, resulting in the resignationof several members who subsequent-roD- Lea aallets Trockadero De Monta Carlo
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ly formed Les Ballets Trockadero De, Monte Carlo. The disillusioned members claimed that the Trockadero
Gloxinia was not about the choreography, which they were desperate todance, but rather about the externalsof costume and mise en scene.
Fifteen years later, the same criticism
may be turned upon the Trockadero
Monte Carlo.
In 1987, feeling the company's
repertoire had become tired and was
wearing thin, Natch Taylor, a k aAlexis Ivanovitch Lermontov
and the only remaining charter
member, stated that the company needed new works. Their
recent appearance at City Center
was New York's first chance toview these latest creations.
The new work is not somuch about the choreography as
it is about the visual punch lineof drag. In Kazmtdtty, choreographedby Ann Marie De
Angelo and drawing heavily
from Balanchine's Sylvia pas dedeux, is sloppy where it's notmeant to be and lacks a clear
pictorial focus. The fantasticalcostumes, by Mike Gonzales,
upstage the dance. Taylor's own
swipe at modern dance, Gambol,
fairs far better. Taylor pushes thechoreographic conceits to theirextremes exposing the seams.
The endless variation of lifts
becomes tiresome, although the
openingsequence
in ~treetclothes and the subsequent sustained closed curtain to music
are deadly accurate in aim.
Lori Belilove's
IsadoraDeconstructed has little to say
about Duncan's barefoot naturalism, but does manage to sneakin a wicked tasteful/tasteless
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Maurice. Adapted from E.M. Forster's
novel of a confused Edwardian aristocrat unable to get. past his publicschool homosexual phase, the film
Oike the novel) is more interesting forthe story of its prOduction than for its
plot. Continually labelled a "lesser
work" by film and literary critics, aswell as Forster's grudging literary
executors, the novel, begun in 1914
and not published until 1971, remained
deeply personal to Forster himself.
While somewhat predicated on
the huge fmancial success of another
Forster adaption, A Room with a View,
Merchant-Ivory's choice of Maurice
demonstrates the persistence of theirown peculiar choices. If the film isslow and confusing, its confusion isinherent in attempts to represent gay
sexuality. Relegating the only openly
gay novel of a major English novelist
to a "lesser work" status, the coyly
homophobic critics miss the difficultyof imagining gay sexuality in an
oppressively heterosexual world. In
one scene, where the otherwise welleducated Cambridge boys are too sexually illiterate to know how to kiss,the filmmakers
have comicallyrevealed the simultaneous success andfailure of their own entetprises. ....
PARADISO
from pell. 59
afforded me up to that point.
Mostly, though, the film is quaintand clever and beautifully filmed. Indeed, to my mind, the channing, superficial nostalgia of Cinema Paradiso
suits the contrivance of a comic-bookcommunity somewhat better than did
Spike Lee's strident, ambiguous parable. In Paradiso, the superficial characters can be enjoyed as the clownish
phantoms of one man's recollections.
The moral aggressiveness of Do the
Right Tbing, on the other hand,
seemed to be at odds with its handsomely styliZed setting.
I realize that the parallels between
the two movies are only skin-deep, ofcourse; certainly the filmmakers' intentions were vastly different. Tornatore
wants to say something about how
movies unified his boyhood home, andhow that unity has been lost with theadvent of 1V and video. What he ends
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movies unify his memories, and how
connection between the Nazis and theJews and the government and thethe romanticism of pre-50s cinema can't
PWAs is a frighteningly
pert~nent
stand up in the modem world-except
thought for today. With If Men Could
within the solipsistic enclosure of a priTalk you have to get angry. The
vate screening room, where Cinema
question is, at whom? ....
Paradiso ends with one last dose ofhappily saturated sentiment. ....
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allusion to the dancer's death by scarf.
The best of the new works is
Taylor's own Anarchic Heart. The
dance has Martha Graham stamped allover it. From the moment the curtain
rises, there can be no mistake that weare in the land of Night Journey and
Lamentations. As with Taylor's otherpremiere, Gambol, the choreography
is done and in its doing executed on
both a literal and figurative level.
The new work demonstrates abroader, less witty approach than previously evidenced. A passing knowledgeof dance
is no longer
prerequisite to an appreciation of thework, as now the styles are merely
mimicked not directly parodied. The
Trockadero is becoming more andmore dependent upon the prat falland diva posturing.
The contrast
becomes blatant when the company
dances its Le Lac De Cygnes against
the new material. Swan Lake, thecompany's
oldest and signaturedance, still emerges as their best
work. They actually dance the dance.
The steps are all there.
The Trockadero's audience, mainly heterosexual, middle-aged and middle class, continue heartily yukking it
up at these men in tutus dancing en
pointe. Yet in the new work thepoint(el is less sharp. The company ispandering to its market where theyknow the Trockadero ballerina isn't a
woman and don't expect him todance. At their best, the Trockadero isable to demonstrate the former as true
and the latter as false. Sadly, couture iscurrently winning out over outre. ....
,,
B.OVlCH from pell· 62
express emotions to the inability to
get angry at the AIDS crisis and thegovernmentthat has fanned its
flames. Sometimes the ardor withwhich Elovich presents his activist
point of view causes the piece to be
stilted or didactic, yet the suggestedpell·

had a crush on or been in love withanother boy or man? Do I feel different from other guys? Are my feelingsfor other boys and men clear andtrue?'"If you cannot answer thesequestions," the pamphlet continues,"don't worry. You will be more surein time. You and only' you know
how to label yourself correctly."
Both the gay and lesbian pamphlets include short testimonial
quotes from gay teenagers. "One day
I was flipping through a magazine,
there was a cute guy and bam! I
knew," recalled 16-year-old Antonio.
Forty-fourpercent
of highschool counselors who responded
to IGLTF's 1989 survey had counseled gay students and 58 percent
were aware that other counselors
at their school had done so. But 75
percent of the counselors did notknow of any gay church groups,social agencies or services.
Sixty-nine
percentof thecounselors agreed with the statement: "Gay and lesbian youth arecapable of helping themselves
ifthey are provided positive readingmaterial." but 77 percent of the
respondees
know of no suchmaterial.
Ninety-nine
percentof theschools requested "a list of positive
resources and literature" and 86 percent asked for information "about
how to 'come out'to parents."
According to Wardell, IGLTF
began the counselors' project after
learning that the topic of gay andlesbian youth is avoided by graduate school and professional journals
and magazines, an observation thatwas confirmed by Margaret Fiorillo,guidance director for the 300 students at Paxton High School inCentral Illinois.
' In an interview, Fiorillo said theclimate in small-town Illinois for gay
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not improved in the 20 years she has
worked as a counselor,and shespeculated that most gay teenagers
wait untll college to come out
Joete Poole, the counselor at
OMterville hlgh School in Southern 00nois, agreed, adding: -I've noticed, acouple d students who really needed
to t2lk about that lhomosexualityJ andthey were ostracized by their peers. POOle said she would be comfortable offering gay-supportive literature to students if they seemed, in
her judgement, to be in need of it.
-To me, it's no different thantalking about birth control or suicide.
It's an important issue, - Poole said.
Carterville High has 430 students.
IGLTF may be reached at (312)f175-0707. ~
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)'00 are. You might be able. ~ swpress
the behavior, but }'OU can't c:han&e thefeelings. I don't trust it when he saysthat we should give more oompassioo,
because he doesn't sound like a very~
man to me.- 'Bussee, who through his work"
still keeps abreast of the latest in studies on b~ity,also points out
with a fair degree of trepidation that
Sheldon has never renounced theemployment of radical techniques in
his programs.
Although noting that Exodus,
during his tenure, only used the standard Alcoholics Anonymous 12-stepmodel coupled with church and Bible
study, Bussee voiced uncomflrmed, fears that Sheldon may be using genital electroshock and chemical aversion therapy to thwart his clients'
homosexual urges.
"[When] Sheldon goes on the airand he ...says that reparative therapy[is] possible or destrable, it just makes
me mad,- Bussee adds. "And it scaresme, because even if they may notnecessarily employ tactics like shockor drugs, the psychological damage isthere..
When asked by Wolfe what theywould tell a gay man or lesbian seeking to -become- heterosexual,
thepair responded with equal candor.
-I'd ask them to explain to me asbest they can why it is that they'rewanting to change to find out what ismotivating this ~ppinessthat theyfeel,- Bussee said. -Is it the homosexuality itself, or is it the feedback !hat
they've gotten from family, fromfriends, from 'culture that says thatthey must be sick, or they must be
demon possessed or they must be
horrible people if they're attracted topeople of f!1~irown sex?", "I think. in most of the people
that I talked with," Cooper added,"that was the number one reason forwanting', to get out of the, quoteunquote, homosexual lifestyle. It
wasn't because 'I hate it,' and 'Ooh,
it's ickY,' and 'I don't like 'having sex
with another man or ;mother woman,'whatever the gender was. It was,'I~ got to change because my family
will, abandon me,'Told that, since his and hislover's exit from the group, 'Exodus
has come to encompass virtually all"reparative
therapy"programs,
Bussee's response was sharper still.
"That just curdles my blood," hesaid. "I'm so ashamed. The cancer
keeps growing." ~IOIEtra.pep24
Pentbouse has agreed to pay for his yam.
Although the amount Gobie waspaid by the adult magazine for hisstory was to remaIn secr:.et, he inadvertendy revealed he was paid $50,000 for,it at his Press Club appearance, when
asked if he was motivated by money
to tell his story.
"I'm as happy with 50 cents in mypocket as with this $50,000;" he retorted to the visible wince of writer Maxa.
Roll Call cited a "source in a position to know" in reporting that of the$50,000 figure, writers Maxa and Harrisreceived $10,000.
"It's a good thing Gobie doesn'tcare about money," the columnists
concluded.
"From the looks of thePentbouse fizzler, it's extremely doubtful he'll be able to encourage a bookpublisher to give him (and his tWo coauthors?) an advance. It look's like theend of Steve's appearance
on theGrand Stage. Bye. Bye.""I hope to, uh, walk away fromthis and, uh, start a new life,· Gobie
haltingly'concluded on the 1-900 line.
"A more ~aditional, typical lifestyle.
And, 'uh, work a regular job." ~NAMES
fnIIn pep 22'tossing' is a valuable fmal strategy
against unrepentant, virulendy antigay, closeted public figures.
"The rules change and the rightto privacy ends where hostile bigotry
begins," Bray stated.
Former HRCF executive director
Vic Basile agrees. He has in his passession preliminary documentation
showing that one of Congress' topfour homophobes is a closeted gay.
Basile hopes to eventually produce"the smoking gun "-someone
who
had sex with the congre~smember
and will say so publicly.
,
Many ,observ~ are surprised thathomosexual but homophobic congressmembers engage in personal activites
that might expose their situation. Braysays they are vulnerable because "theyworked their way up 3nd they had lives
back on the grass-roots level.
"A recent example is the alleged
homosexuality of Illinois Governor
James Thompson," Bray pointed out.
"Before he became center spotlight in
Dlinois politics, he had a private life, thatmany gays appear to be calling forward
now that he's governor." Thompson ismarried and has one daughter.
Members of ACI' UP/Chicago ~repeatedly called Thompson a closeted, anti-gay hypocrite and the allegations have been reported in Chicago's
three gay newspapers and alluded to in
the city's mainstream press. ACI' UP'stactic has been controversial in illinois,as has a similar c;:ampaign in {)rego(l,directed at U.S. Sen. Mark Hatfield by
ACI' uP/Portland.
'
Press spokespeople
for both
Thompson and Hatfield have insisted
that their bosses are practicing heterosexuals-statementsthat will likely
appear more often on Capitol Hill as
the gay community, under assault
from the New Right and .AIDS, moves
to change the rules of the American
political ballgame. ~t--------------I
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Hannon, a retired educator fromGreensboroj John .Ingram, a former
state insurance commissioner who
and lost against Helms in 1978j and
Lloyd Garner, a writer and Southern
Baptist minister from Thomasville. ~ran

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prepared by Rick X
with additional information fromThe Gay at Leabian Switchboard of
NewYor1c

CALENDARAN EVENTS
Scad caIeodar Items to.
RIck X. GoJna Out
1km790
New York, NY 10108

Items IIlIISt be l"CXldftd by
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MAYOR'S OFFICE FOR THE LESBIAN AND GAY COMMUNITY
Solicit.
Information
on JuneEventa to place on the 1990 Pride
Month Poster Calendar, which will
be widely distributed throughout
NYC;deadline is March 15, for any
gayJlesbian events taking place inJune; Lee Hudson or Jan Carl
Park, 566-7385
TOWER PRESS Pride Guide go
D.. dlin .. are March 23 for organization listings, and April 20 for
calendar of June events listings;
966-n22 (these basic listings areprovided free)p.,.,

GREYART GALLERY
Hujar
Exhibit, 33 Washington Square
East, off Wash. Place; T,TH,F 116:30; W 11-8:30;SA 11-5; 998-6780(thru FEB24)

THE GUNES presents Sidney Marria'a The Wind Baneath My
Win, .. a new play about two gay
men, a comic and an activist, andtheir conflicting passions; at the
Courtyard Playhouse, 39 Grove St(at Bleecker); 8 pm; $12; 869-3530(run extended thru FEB 25; WEDFRI at 8 pm, SAT at 7 and 9:30 pm,
SUN at7 pm)
VILlAGE THEATRECOMPANYpresents the first New York revival of
Lany Kramer'a me No"".' Heatt,directed by Henry Fonte; at The
Village Theatre, 133W 22 St; 8 pm;
tix 627-8411, press 721-6639 (thruMarch 4; WED-FRI at 8 pm, SAT at
7 & 10 pm, SUN at7 pm)
SAL PIRO presents Bu.,in, Out{uzzyr;'ion Com.. til A,e}, a gay
women's musical comedy revue
for everyone, written by Maz
Trappe, directed by C.C. Banks; atTrocadero, 368 Bleecker (atCharles); FRI and SAT, 8 & 10:30
pm; SUN 4 & 7 pm; $12 + one drink
min.; reservations 869-3530 (thruMarch 18)-PRESIDENTSDAY
INrL CENTEROF PHOTOGRAPHY
MIDTOWN me Indomitllble Spirit, MARC BERKLEY'S KOOL KOMRADS presents Monday Night'works by 100 artists created in
responseto tha AIDS crisiS;11336th
Madnell, at Private Eyes, a Post
Ave (at 43 Stl: TU-SUN,11-6.except White Party Tea to benefit HerTHUtil 8;768-4680 (1hruAPR7)
itage of Pride; with strippers, gogo boys, videos, music; 12W 21 S1;SIMON LOWINSKY GALLERY 6 pm - 4 am; $5 before 10 pm/$7
David Hackney a sampling ofafter; 200-mO
paintings and photo collages, andllerlde P.... y Allen dye-transfer
ponraits of cross-dressers; 584
B'way,3rd Roor; TU-SA, 11-6; 226- !'iI''¥i:~1£j(.Vi·wr'~_:_%i'i''.~.JE.p'1(..')iK:;~iiA.B~~;-~
5440(thru FEB28) ,COALITION FOR LESBIAN & GAY
NEW YORKTHEATREWORKSHOP RIGHTSFamily Dive...ity Coalition
Meeting at 6 pm; AIDS Diacrimipresents Chriatopher Grabowakra
nation Fonamat 8 pm; at the CenA Fotwt In AnI"", an -emotionallycharged distillation of Shaketer, 208 W 13S1;627~1398
speare's As You Like It" that
-explores the modem gay/lesbian
GAY MEN'S HEALTH CRISIS HIV
romance, the politics of love, and , Heahh Seminar: Benefita Infonnaterror of sexual passion-; at thetion and Nutritionallllu .. ; 129W
Perry Street Theatre, 31 Perry St; 20 S1;3rd & 6th Roars; 7 pm; free;
TU-SA at 8 pm, SUN at 3 pm & 7 807-6655, TDD 645-7470 (this andpm; $20 ($22 FRI & SAT); 302-n37
every 3rd TUES), (thru FEB24)

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For more information or referrals, torap, or to volunteer, call the GLSB
daily, noon to midnight, 212-7n-1800

February 25, 1990

JIMMY CAMICIA and HOT
PEACHESpresents Chrp;" Hee'"a Baneflt for International Chrysia,
to help defray her recent medical
expenses; with Marsha P. Johnson, Hot ,Peaches, Penny Arcade,Julia Dares, Sister Dimension,
David IIku (Butt Kiss & Thunder
Pussy), Babs Gray, Taffy Jaffe,
Michelle Uemont, Michael Lynch,
Joseph Mulligan, Tony Nunziata,
Terry Paris, Paulina Pariscova,
The People Tree, Perfidia, Hapi
Phace, Everett Quinton, Clark-Maggie'ThatcherRender,
RuPaul, Peggy Shaw, Annie Sprinkle, Tabbool, Larry Tee, Mark V.,
Lahoma VanZandt, Wendy Wild,
Lois Weaver, and Matthew Casten's Boy Bar Beauties (MissGlamamore, The Connie Girl, Sistar Codie, Miss Lulu, Nicki Nicole,
Miss Peaudesoie, Miss Guy); at
LaMama Club, 74A E 4 St; 8 pm;$15; reservations 475-nl 0 (Editor:
Sorry for the short notice. Callnow/)tion; Integral Yoga Institute, 227 W
13S1;7:30-9pm; $5; 929-0586
GAY MEN'S HEALTHCRISISEroticizing Safer Sex Worklhop, to-help make safer sex erotic, creative and satisfying-; at the Center, 208 W 13 S1;8-10:30 pm; free;
no pre-registration; info 807-6655,
TOD 645-7470
EAGLEBAR Movie Night UClllce
to Kill. 142 11th Ave (at 21 St~ 11
pm; 691-8451'~'"

JUDITH'S ROOM BOOKSTORE
presents Lynn Lauber reading anddiscussing White Girl., a novel
about a young white girl in an Ohio
town; 681 Washington St (atCharles St); 7 pm; free, but limited
seating; 727-7330,

CELLBLOCK 28 Underwear andLong Johna Party, 28 Ninth Ave(btwn 13/14 Sts), 8 pm - 3 am, $10,
733-3144 (Editor's note: this is asafe-sex leather man's and j/oclub)

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ASIANS AND FRIENDS NY Membe... Meat Membe... at Dusit Thai
Restaurant, 256 Bleecker St (btwn
6th/7th Aves); 6-8 pm; $15;member
info 673-2596
LESBIAN AND GAY ISSUESCOMMimE OF DC 37 Forum and Di..
cullion: Comin, Out in tire Worlrplace; at the Center, 208 W 13 S1;
6:30 pm; 718/439-7173 (all NYC
workers invited)
NY ADVERTISING & COMMUNICATIONS NETWORK Meeting:Direct Markating Made Eaay, with
Betsy Sherer and Sean Strub; at
the Center, 208 W 13 St; 6:30-9:30
pm; $5 members!$7 n(ln-members;
517-0380SITIVE APPROACHESTOWARD HEALING Seminar: Ceieblatin, OUIUniquen... , led byPater Hendrickson, Ph.D., for anyone concerned about HIV infec-

GIRTH AND MIRTH Bar Night at
Chelaea Tranafer, toasting theGeneral's r8al binhday; 131 8th
Ave (16/17 Sts); 8 pm (Editor's historical note: General Washington,a true leader, entertained friends
at taverns by cracking very hardnuts between his fingers.)
WOW CAFESex. Urea. and /lape,created by Susan Young; 59 E 4 St;
460-8067(also FEB23, 24)

FA'///AY!j'.I~-.!'Y'"DIGNITY/QUEENS Weekend Trip
to New Hope, thru SUN, FEB 25;
718/565-2171

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THE ANSWER LOVINGWomen
Talking Women'a Talk: Seduction
and ita many forma; -An offer I
can't refuse and what price do I
pay financially and emotionally?-;
led by Ruth Berman and Connie
Kurtz; Sheepshead Bay, Brooldyn;
7:45-10pm; $8; 71111998-2305
MEN OF ALL COLORSTOGETHER·SABU- Evening: Soulful Awakenin, 101 Black UnitYi withappearances of noteworthy participants from the NYClesbian andgay people-of-color community,performers, refreshments, potluck
meal contributed by members; at
the Center, 208 W 13 St; 7:45 pm;
222-9794, 245-6366

WOW CAFE ,~LirM, e...

,.,see FEB 22
GAY MEN OF AFRICAN DESCENT
prellnts AllIn E. MilllI', Black gay
poet. reading from his letast work.
attha club; at the Center, 208 W 13
St; 8 pm; 820-7310'
FRIENDS OF ALTERNATIVES CORNER presents a Dance tothl"lOa
Long Island's first Lesbian &: Gay 24-Hour Dance
Marathon, with guest DJs fromU's leading bars and clubs; at theUniterian Univerililist Fellowship,
109 Browns Rd, Hbntington, LI;
doors open 9 pm, marathon begins
10 pm; $10; info 51111483-2050(see
FEB24for continuation)

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MONDAY, FEBRUARY 19
GAY CABLE NETWORK (Lou Maletta, 32 Union
Square East, Suite 1217;4n-4220)
Be My Guest. tonight Part 2 of David Gadberry's gay
soap opera, Secret Passions
Manhattan Cable, Channel J/23, 10:00-10:30pm

CCTV (Rick X. Box 790, NYC 10108)
The Closet Case Show, tonight assorted K10setK1ips
from TV and movies'
Manhattan Cable, Channel C/16, midnight - 12:30am

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 20
GAY BROADCAmNG SYSTEM (Butch Peuton, 178
7th Ave, Sta. A-3, NYC 10011;243-1570)
Out in the 90's, tonight Ta//cingWith Parents, interview by Amy Ashworth (a founding member of
Parents &: Friends of Lesbians and Gays), tonightand every third Tuesday; also live news coverage,'
discussion and interviews
Manhattan and Paragon Cable, Channel Cl16, 11 pm
to midnight

FRIENDS OF ALTERNATIVES CORNER continues the Dance to KIIP... 'III
from FEB 23; with allyou-can-eat pancake brealetast, 810 am, $6; gay/lesbian organizations, businesses and craftspeople display goods and info, 10 am5 pm; all-you-can-eat spaghetti
dinner, 5:30-7:30 pm, $8; entertainment, auction, marathon awards,
and more dancing at 8 pm; general admission $4 (free when you
buy a mealt 51111483-2050

WNET-TV (356 W 58 Sf"NYC 10019;560-3000)
Panama: Just Cause?, Andrew Jones' ·compelling·
camcorder video account of the nine days leading
up to the invasion, the operation itself, and theaftermath (Editor. Will Bush beat Reagan to Mt.
Rushmore?), Channel 13, 11:30pm - 12:30am

INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN IDENTITY.... Annual Conilreacl: Afte,

The Robin Byrd Show. male and female strippers
Manhattan and Paragon Cable, Channel J/23, midnight-lam

aer,_.well:WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 21

TIl."" e.d hectic.
I. D., TII;,d D.ced., a confer-

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 22,ence on psychotherapy for theles,bian and gay community; with
Keynote by Ernesto de la V.aga,
Program Director, AIDS in theAmericas Initiative; plenary discussion panel on SIIf-diaclolllre:

WNET- TV (356 W 58 St, NYC 10019;560-3000)
Cinematheque: My Bellutiful LIIundrette, directed by
Staphen Frears
Channel 13,9-11 pm

Impllc:etlona for the Therapeutic
Alliance; workshops on confrontation, intimacy in the age ofAIDS, homophobia and leadershipin the gay community, professionals in recovery, strategies forworking with lesbian and gay
clients and couples, raising chil-

MORE
LISTINGS
ON NEXTPAGEGAY MEN'S HWTH CRISIS (Jean Cariomusto, 129W
,20 Sf, NYC 10011;807-7517)
living With AIDS: health and politics
Manhattan Cable, Channel J/23, 9:30-10:00pm
Paragon Cable, Channel J/23, 11:30pm - midnight
GAY CABLE NETWORK (Lou Maletta, 32 Union
Square East, Suite 1217;4n-4220)
Pride & Progress: news, health, sports
Manhattan Cable, Channel J/23, 10:30-11:00pm
The Right Stuff: media, entertainment, advice
Manhattan Cable, Channel J/23, 11:00-11:30pm
The Robin Byrd Show (vintage Byrd): male andfamale strippers
Manhattan &: Paragon, Chan J/23, 11:30pm - 12:30am
WNET- TV (356 W 58 Sf, NYC 10019;560-3000)
Moyers: A Worid of Ideas - The Science of Hope with

Jonlls Salk, who discusses AIDS research
Channel 13, 11:30pm - midnight

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 23
The GIlYDllting Gllme Show
Manhattan Cable, Channel J/23; 7:30-8:00pm
WNET-TV (356 W 58 Sf, NYC 10019;560-3000)
Dance in America: Bob Fosse: Stellm Hellt, withselections from his works, il)tarviews with Fosse
and Gwen Verdon
Channel 13, 9-10 pm (repeats MON, FEB 26, 11:30
pm),
Going Home: Alvin Ailey Remembered, taped at theDecember memorial at the Cathedral of Sl John
the Divine
Channel 13, 10-11 pm (repeats late MON, FEB 26,
12:30am)
GIlY Tv. male porno clips
Manhattan Cable, Channel J/23, 11-11:30pm

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 24
The Robin Byrd Show(repe~: male and female strippers
Manhattan and Paragon Cable, Channel J/23,
latenight 1-2 am

SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 25
WNET-TV (356 W 58 Sf, NYC 10019;560-3000)
Caucus: New Jersey- Athletes lind Steroids: Prescription for Disllster
Channel 13, 1-1:30 pm
GAY CASt! NETWORK (32 Union Square East, Suite
1217;4n-4220),
Men & Films: Best Butt Contest from 2/11 My ComrlldB/SisterTeadance benefit'
Manhattan Cable, Channel J/23, 11:30pm - midnight

MONDAY, FEBRUARY 26
GAY CABLE NETWORK (Lou Maletta, 32 Union
Square East, Suite 1217;4n-4220)
Be My Guest entertainment
Manhattan Cable, Channel J/23, 10:00-10:30pm
CCTV (Rick X. Box 790, NYC 10108).
The Closet Cllse Show. politics and erotica for thesafe-minded homosexual
Manhattan
Cable, Channel C/16, midnight 12:30 'am
WNET-TV/13 (358W 58 Sf, NYC 10019;560-3000)
Dance in America: Bob Fosse: Stellm Hellt, withselections from his works, interviews with Fosse
and Gwen Verdon
Channel 13, 11:30pm -12:30 am
Going Home: AMn Ai/ey Remembered, taped at theDecember memorial at the Cathedral of St John
the Divine
Channel 13, 12:30-1:30am (follows Bob Fosse)

February 25, 1990

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dren. victims of sexual abuse. rebonding as adults with parents.
issues for gay/lesbian
psychotherapists. coming out. racialconsiderations. anti-gay violence;at Hunter College. E 68 St andLexington Ave. West Bldg.; 9 am 6 pm; on-site registration $75 regular!$35 students. seniors. PWAs;
799-9432
GAYMEN'S HEALTHCRISIS Eroticizing S.f.r S.x Workshop, toMhelpmake safer sex erotic, creative and satisfyingM; at AIDS Center of Queens County, 97-45
Queens Blvd, Rego Park; 1-3:30
pm; free; no pre-registration; info807-6655,TOO645-7470
WOMEN OF LAMBDA (LEGAL
FUND) G.II.ry
R.c.ption.tN.h.n Cont.mpor.ry, 380 West
B'way (at Spring); 6:30-8:30 pm;$35 (benefits LLD EF);995-8585

KOOL KOMRADS Sinful Sund."presents Sist.r Cody, with $2'draft, $3.50drinks; free buffet from
10 pm to midnight, go-go boys,
drive-in porn theater (where you
can'make out in classic cars); 270
11th Ave (at 28 St~ doors open 10
pm; 244-1950

CENTER STAGE sees City ofAn,ell; 8 pm;$70;620-7310

BODY POSITIVE Discullion
Workshop: How Do I re" My FanJoo
IIy7, on sharing one's HIV status
with family and loved ones; gainskills and strategies and evaluate
alternatives; at the Center; 208 W
13St; 7 pm; $10;691-5689
BAR ASSOCIATION FOR HUMAN
RIGHTS Annu.1 M •• ting, at theCenter, 208 W 13 St, 7:30 pm (info:
BAHR, Box 1899,NYC 10163)

lAVENDER LIGHT GOSPELCHOIR
5th Anniv ..... ry M.jor R.union
Conc.rt, at Friends' Meeting
House. 221 E 15 St (btwn 2nd/3rdAves) at Rutherford Place; 7 pm;$10 donation/PWAs free; 212/2229794. 718/624-1196
METROPOLITAN COMMUNITY
CHURCH/NY Ev.ning of Gosp.1
Music with Th. Rev. D.lor.s
B.rry; at the Center, 208 W 13 St;
7:30pm; $5; 242-1212
WOW CAFESex. Li" .. , and Rape,
see FEB22
CENTER4th Saturd.y D.nc., with
OJ Tom Karopulous; 208 W 13 St; 9
pm - 1 am; $8,1$6 members, seniors
and students; 620-7310
EAGLE BAR R.d H.nki. Soci.l;
142 11th Ave (at 21 St); 9 pm; 6918451 (Editor's note: a red handkerchief symbolizes fisting, which
does not take place on the premises; see your Damron Guide for acomplete hankie color guide)~. .

·'J",@1ji;"-..>;xmt~l«w..-<:;;:w.""""~:,,....;:~,.;.a":<

CENTERSPORTS seas NY Knicka
Pistons, basketballgame; at Madison Square Garden. 33rd St & 7th Ave; noon;
members $l0/non-members $40;
620-7310
VI. D.troit

BAR ASSOCIATION FOR HUMAN, RIGHTS M.rdi Gr.s P.rty with
Gay Offic .... Action L•• gu., East
Village area, 4-8 pm (info: BAHR,
Box 1899,NYC 10163)

OUTTWEEKCARROT PRODUCTIONS begins
previews of Spare "am, about
two gay women who want to havea baby. but who need Ma spare
partM; at Circle In The Square
Downtown, 159 Bleecker St; 6457744(opening slated for March 12)

GAY MALE SIM ACTIVISTS Meating: Water Spom and Raunch,with Mawet and wild talk on piss,scat and other bodily secretionsM;
at the Center, 3rd Roor; 208 W 13
St; 8:30 pm (doors open at 8); $5;
727-9878
EAGLEBAR Moyi. Night India".
Jon.. : The un CnJud" 142 11th
Ave (at 21 St); 11 pm; 691-8451
CELLBLOCK28 Hot AlII Party. forcigar-smokers and their admirers;
28 Ninth Ave (btwn 13/14 Sts); 8
pm - 3 am; $10;733-3144~~
GAY MEN'S HEALTH CRISIS HIY
H•• lth S.min.r: M.dic.1 Tr•• tm.nts; 129 W 20 St, 3rd Floor; 7
pm; free; 807-6655, TOO 645-7470(this and every 4th TUES)TUNNEL BAR M.rdi Gr.s P.rty.
with MBloody Marys, Planter's
Punch, Tequila Sunrises, prize forcostumes, free buffet, videos andmusic·; 116 Rrst Ave (at 7 St); 10
pm - 4 am; 777-9232'."1!i .. ''NEW YORKCITYGAYMEN'S CHORUS .polly. with special guest
1 :~JA~~;.A~,;,.lJiL!ffiJ\4:VSWll!Marilyn Hom., and a full symphony
Alh W.dnnd.yorchestra perfonning Brahms' AltD
Rhapsody, several Rossini arias,
METROPOLITAN COMMUNITY
Only in the Dream by John DavidCHURCH/NY Ash W.dn.sd.y
Earnest, and a new work by John
Wo ...hip S.rvic., introducing an
COrigliano;a benefit for the Chorus'
original work for the MCC/NY
AIDS Outreach Fund; at Carnegie
Choir by Stephen Mayer, directed
Hall, 57 St & 7th Ave; 8 pm; $15by David Heid; at the Center; in the$100; info 691-7500,tix 247-7800
MCC office, 208 W 13 St; 7 pm;
242-1212
WNET-TV/13 The Musicels: Sha"
Wa Dance, with Fred and Ginger
PATH: POSITIVE APPROACHES
and the music of Gershwin; 9-11
TOWARD HEALlNGS.min.r: Thepm (also-SAT,2/3, 2 pm)
Dmerent uve" of Hulin" led byPeter Hendrickson. Ph.D., for anyone concerned about HIV infection; Integral Yoga Institute, 227 W
13St; 7:30-9pm; $5; 929-0586
GAY AND LESBIAN SWITCHMEN OF ALL COLORS TOGETHBOARD/NY Yolunteer Interview.,
ER/NY D.nc.
Outing to Lar
for those who wish to work at
Lubovitch Danc. Company, at City least two 3-hour shifts per month;Center, 131W 55 St; 8 pm;,222-9794 6:30 pm; rsvp m-l800

February 25, 1990

M~~lllP.~

MEN OF ALL COLORS TOGETHER/NY Edue.tion.1 Forum/Sefer
Sex WOIbhop: ICe." h Up: at theCenter, 208 W 13 St; 7:45 pm; 2229794.245-6366
BODY POSITIVE Frid.y Night
Socials, for HIV Positives andfriends; every 1st & 3rd Friday;
Rutger's Church, 236 W 73 St (offBway~ 9 pm - midnighti free; info721-1346 (Note: the next social,
FEB 16, will be a special Valentine's Day Dance)
COLUMBIA LESBIAN, BISEXUAl.,GAY COALITION Fi ... t Frid.y
Dance. in Earl Hall, Columbia U.,
116 St & Bway (#1/19 train); 10 pm- 2 am; photo ID to drink; 854-3574,
854-1488'3;GAYWOMEN'S ALTERNAnVE presents M.rlin Stan., author of
When God Was a Woman andAncient Mirrors of Womanhood;presenting Sacred Symbola crt theGodd.... a slide presentation of
the works of contemporary womenartists whose aesthetic sensibilities have been excited by Goddess
Symbols, Rituals and Sacred Connections with the Earth; atthe Universalist Church, Central ParkWest at 76 St; 8 pm; $5 (for women
only, meets every first Thursday)

rJrMYUK411

THE ANSWER IS LOVINGWomen
Talking Women's Talk: Relatlftly
Spe.king; "We are family. Traditional. Cultural. What happen.d to
choice?M; I.d by Ruth Bennan andConnie Kurtz; Sheepshead Bay,
Brooldyn; 7:45-10 pm; $8; 718,199823O!iGAY MEN'S HEALTH CRISIS Sex.
Dating and Intim.ey Workshop,where Mgayand bisexual men will
explore the many ways th.t men
are loving men in the age ofAIDSM; 10 am - 6 pm; free; registration required. 807-6655, TDD
645-7470
SAGE Brunch at Coldwetara, withfish, chicken, burger, omelette, orbacon & eggs entree, fries, salador slaw, and libations; 988 2nd Ave(btwn 52/53 Sts); noon or 2 pm
seating; $9.50; rsvp 741-2247(check for & to SAGE,208 W 13 St,
NYC 10011)
WNET-TV/13 The Maleels: ."Wa Danca, with Fred and Ginger
and the music of Gershwin; 2....pm
LIZ TRACEY and ,SYDNEY POKORNY present First Sund.y Te.
D.nell for Women at Mars. thisand every first Sunday of themonth; 13 St and the W.st Sid.
Highway; 5-9 pm (particip.nts
may stay on for Mafs Needs
Men); $7; info 228-1240, Mars
691-6262
WOMEN AND FRIENDS Danceat the Center. this and every
first Saturday through May; 208
W 13 St; 9 pm - 1 am; $8/$6
members, seniors and students;
620-7310

DANCING OUT
MondayPrivate Eye. (Marc Berkley's Kool Komrads; male strippers) 12 W 21
St. club 'JD6..7772

Tuesday
Better Days 316 W 49 St (8/9 Aves) 245-8925-Love Machine at Underground, 860 Bway, near 17th S1;254-4005

Wednesdayaetter Days 316\11149 St (819 Aves) 245-8925
Private Eyes (Jeffrey Sanker & Dallas's Club Bat/J 12 W 21 S1:.btwn
5th/6th Aves, 'JD6..7772
ttpyralDid (Dean Johnson's Rock & RolIFag Bsn 101Avenue A. btwn
6th/7th Streets, 420-1590
Silver Uning (2-4-1 drinks, also open Tues-Sun) 175 Cherry La., Roral
Pk, LI, 516/354-9641
Spectrum (free admission) 802 64th St @ 8th Ave, Bay Ridge, Bklyn,'
7181238-8213
Stutz (2-4-1 drinks, also open daily) 202 Westchester Ave, White
Plains, 9141761-3100
Twenty/l'wenty (Marc Berkley's Kool Komrads, gay men after 10 pm)
20 W 20 S1:.club 727-8841

Thursday-Boybar (has a new wave drag show) 15 1/2 St Marks Place, btwn
2nd/3rd Aves, 674-7959-Copacabana (last Thu. of the month has Susanne Bartsch party) 10
E 60 St, at Fifth Ave, 755-6010'
Excalibur ($1-drinks, also open Tues-Sun) corner 10th/Jefferson
behind football stadium, Hoboken, NJ, 201-795-1161
Grend Central (2-4- 1 drinks, also open Wed-Sun) 210 Merrick Road,
Rockville Centre, LI, 5161536-4800 '-Pyramid 101Avenue A. btwn 6th/7th Streets, 420-1590-Ouickl (Chip Duckett Thurs. started Feb. 15)6 Hubert St, 925-2442
Spectrum (free admission all night, 2-4-1 drinks) 802 64th St @ 8th 'Ave, Bay Ridge, Bklyn, 718/238-8213

Friday-Boybar 151/2 St Marks PI., btwn 2nd/3rd Aves, 674-7959
4lCanneliIa~ (ChipDuckett's 8oyfBoy& Girl+GirfI 150E 14Sf, club 673-0015
Columbia Dances (1st Friday of every month) 116th St & Bway, 8543574 days
Private Eye. (preppies and young professionals) 12 W 21 St, btwn
~th/6th Aves, 206-7772
Spectrum (male and female strippers) 802 64th St @ 8th Ave, Bay, Ridge, BkIyn, 7181238-8213

Saturday
Barefoot aoogie (smoke & alcohol free) 434 6th Ave (btwn 9/10 Sts);
832-6759-Boybar 151/2 St Marks Place, btwn 2nd/3rd Aves, 674-7959
The Center Dance. (2nd and 4th Saturdays) 208 W 13 S1:.btwn
7th/8th Aves, 620-7310
Girth and Mirth Club at the Canter (heavy men & their admirers, 3rd
Saturdays) 208 W 13 St. 620-7310
Pep Boys at Columbia (3rd Saturdays, through June 16) 116 & B'way,
10 pm - 3 am; info 629-1989
Private Eyes (Jeffrey Sanker & Dallas's Club Bat/J 12 W 21 S1:.btwn
6th/6th Aves, 206-7772
Saint At Large (alternate Sats discontinued; March Black Party will
be last event) 674-8541
Sound Factory (Acid HQuse, no alcohol, doors open midnight) 530 W
27 St (btwn 10th/11th Aves), 643-0728
Spectrum (guest performer night) 80264th S1:.Bklyn., 7181238-8213

SundayBetter Days 316 W 49 St (8/9 Aves); 245-8925,-Mara (Chip Duckett's Mars Needs Men night) Westside HighWtY •and 13th St. 691-6262'-Pyramid (Hapi Phace and Drag + Variety Show) 101 Avenue A,
btwn 6/7 Streets, 420-1590 .
. '.
~ ;Hot Rod (Marc Berkley's Sinful Sundays; Father Ritte(s fri.nd,.KevIn
Kite, on the door) 270 11th Ave (btwn 27/28 SIs), club mi.:, 'Spectrum (show; free admission 9-10 pm) 80264th St 0 8th Ave; iiy
Ridge, Bklyn, 718!238-8213...
Twenty/l'wenty (T-Dance, 4 pm - 2 am) 20 W 20 St (!Va Aves), 721.1, Every Night'•

Monster (West Village) 80 Grove St at Sheridan Sq..',924-3557

DANCING OUTfor Women's Dancing
NOTE:Party events are subject to change. Always call first to co~

Tuesday,

Hatfield'. f26-10 Queens Blvd., Kew Gardens, 7181261.a484

Wednesday, .

Bedrock 121Woodfield Rd, W. Hempstead, LI; 51&1486-9516,
Excalibur (Ladies Night, $1 drinks) corner 10th/Jefferson behind, football stadium, Hoboken, NJ,201-795-1161
Twenty/Twenty (Shescape After Work, 5-10 pm) 20 W 20 St (btwn
5th/6th Aves), info 645-6479, club 727-8841

Thursday.''Bedrock 121Woodfield Rd, W. Hempstead; U; 51&1486-9516

FridayBedroc/( 121Woodfield Rd, W. Hempstead, LI; 51&1486-9516
Cheeks 2000 Long Beach Road, Island Park, LI, 51&1431-5100,
Roxy (Shescape party) 515 W 18 St. btwn 10th/11th Ave.; Info_
6479, club 645-5156
Vi.ion.
56-01 Queens Blvd, Woodside, info 718/846-7131 , clult
7181899-9031

SaturdayBedrock 12 Woodfield Rd, W. Hempstead, LI; 51&1..,9516
The Center (Women & Friends 1st Saturdays, Feb. thru May) 208 W
13 S1:.620-7310.
Silver Uning 175 Cherry Lane, Roral Park, U, 516/354-9641
Starz 836 Grand Boulevard, Deer Park, LI,51&1242-3857'.
", Twenty/Twenty (Shescape party) 20 West 20 Street (btwri SthINa
Aves), info 645-6479, club 727-8841

Sunday,Bedrock f21 Woodfield Rd, W. Hempstead, LI; 516/486-9516
Cave Canem (Sandwich Sister Sundays) 24 1st Ave at 1st st ~_Handle Bar (Jenny & Nancy's Girl Ban 232 E 9 St (2/3 Aves), 8 pin •midnight

Every Night (or almost),

Cubby 1I0ie ~ Hudson St@ Mortan St. 243-9079
Duchea" Sheridan Sq. & 7th Ave South, 242-1408
Spectrum (closed Mon & Tues; good mix of men and wcimel'l ....
left side ,for different nights) 80264th St. BkIyn., 718/238-8213
All phone numban are area cod. 211.,.. I.. OIhirwile IIIIIe4.
• .. TV. welcome.
Send cornctiontladdition. to:
Rick X. P.O. Box '1!10,. New YIIIt, NY 111.

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OUTWEEK BAR GUIDEWESTSIDE

EASTSIDE

Bike Stop West, 230 W. 75th St., 874-9014,
Neighborhood bar, occasional entertainment.

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

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

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

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

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

WEST VILLAGE

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

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

The Annex (to Cellblock 28), 673 Hudson St. (bet.
13th & 14th), 627-1140, J/O Club.

Jason's, 23

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

ttaSEDBoy Bar, 15 St. Mark's PI., 674-7959, Dancing /Drag shows.
The Pyramid, 101 Avenue A, 420-1590, Dancing /Drag shQws.
Tunnel Bar, 116 1st Ave (7th St.), m-f5l.32 W.
Village crowd in the E.Village.

Badlands, Christopher & West St. , 741-9236,
Cruisy waterfront bar.

Sally's Hideaway, 264 W. 43 St., 221-9152

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

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

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

Boots & Saddle, 76 Christopher St., 929-9684.
Funkydive and juke joint.

Trix, 246 W. 48 St. (bet. Bdwy & 8th Ave), 6648331, Cash and carry.

EAST VILLAGE

Cellblock 28, 28 9th Ave, 733-3144, J/O club.

The Bar, 68 2nd Ave. (at 4th St.), 674-9714, East
Villagers and ACT UPers.

The Cubbyhole, 438 Hudson (Morton St), 2439079, Neighborhood bar for gay women & men.

The Works, 428 Columbus Ave (at 81 st), 7997365, Cruisywest side crowd.

To advertise in this space,call 212-337-1200

ooa6yeto-Ui.ltin the 80s.
It's time for a cha~ge.

IN,
THE
90s

Television for a
new decadeof lesbian ..
and gay life.

Manhattan Cable/Paragon Cable
Channel C/16

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February25, 1990

Duchess II, 70 Grove St (7th Ave.), 242-1408,
Women.
J's, 675 Hudson St., 242-9292, J/O club.
Julius, 159 W. 10th St., 929-9672, Serving Coors,
Coors lite, & Coors Draft.
Keller's, 384 West St. (at Christopher), 243-1907,
Friendly neighborhood crowd.
Kelly's Village West, 4,6 Bedford St., 929-9322.
Piano bar.

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D.T:s Fat Cat, 281 W. 12th St., 243-9041, Pianobar. Mixed M/F.

The locker Room,400 W. 14th St. (9th Ave), 4594299. J/O club.
Marie's Crisis, 59 Grove St. (7th Ave). 243-9323.
Sing-along piano bar.
The Monster, 80 Grove St. (7th Ave.), 924-3558.
Piano bar & disco/dancing.
Nimbus 22, 22 7t~14826.
ing, pinball, pool, 1tiUI~..-

Danc-

Ninth Circle, 139 W. 10th St.. 243-9204. Younger'crowd.
'Ramrod, 185 Christopher St.
Sneakers, 392 West St., 242-9830.
Two Potato, 145 Christopher St., 242-9340.
Ty's, 114 Christopher,741-9641, Cruisy neighborhood bar. '(Uncle Charlie's, 56 Greenwich Ave., 255-8787,
Huge video bar.

CHELSEA
Barbary Coast, 64 7th Ave. (14th St.), 675-0385,
Friendly, neighborhood bar.
The Break, 232 8th Ave. (22nd St.), 627-0072.
ChelseaTransfer, 131 8th Ave. (bet. 16th & 17th),
929-7183, Neighborhood English pub.
Eagle's Nest, 142 11th Ave (21st St.). 691-8451,
Leather / Levi·s.

68 SECOND AVE. AT FOURTH ST.
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Tradition"

Private Eyes, 12 W. 21st St. (bet. 5th & 6th), 206-

mo, Dancing, Video Club.

Rawhide, 212 8th Ave., (21st St.). Leather /Levi's.
Spike, 120 11th Ave., 243-9688, Leather & Uniforms.
Tracks, 19th St.&\l8SEDnCing.

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SOCIAL SERVICES - EDUCATION -BUDDIESCOUNSEUNB-SUPPORTGROUPS
VoIum.er Oppor1uniti ..
(711''''2!OO(voice'(718' 88&-2885(TDDI

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4IIA HucllOII Strut, Suite G4 NYC 10014(2121818-1114
A diver., non-plrtiangroup of individu.l. unilAld in
II1II11' Ind coinmitlad to direct .ction to end the AIDS
oriIiL Gen. _ting.
Mon. nighlAl7:30,
It the Community Cem.r 208 W.l3th.

ALOEfIAPlIf..NY

BIMC (BISEXUAL POUTICAL
AC'nON COIIMJm.E)
Political action on illu" of importlnce to the Bi.exu.I/L .. bi.,yG.y community. Monthly meetinwpolluck
held 8:00pm on fourth Thurad.y of the month .t membera hom ... Call NYABN for thia month'. location.
(7181853-8245

DIGNITY NEW YORI(•
leabian and gay Catholica and friends
AIDS Ministry, Spiritual Development
The Cathedral Project
Wo,.hip SelVicea lit Social-Sun. Eve .. 7:3Opm-St
John'a Epiacopal Church 218 Weat 11th SlreetO
Waverly-87S-2178

BISEXUAl. YOUTH
Infonnal .ocial a .upport group for Bi.exualkida/youth. Monthly meetinwpo1luck lunch held
1:00pm on fourth Sunday of the month at members/
homea. Call NY ABN for this month's location. This
group ia part of the New York Arel Bisexual Network. /EDGE
Educ.tion in I Diaabled G.y Enviroml8nt
For the phyaicallydisabled
Leabian and Gay
Community.
(212198&-1921
P.O. Box 305 Village Station, New York, NY 10014

I/AIi.n 1Mb/an. of the E.1t COiaV
AIi.n P.cifio 1Mbi.n Network-,New Yorkl
WI .re • poI'lIicel, _iel.nd.upportive network of
Aliln P.cifio INbi .... PI.Ming m.. tinga on the 1st
Sund.., IIId IOci.leventa
on the I.st Friday of ea chmonth. Cal (212) 517-1i&18 for more infonnation.

BWS-BRONX WBJANS
UNITED IN SISTERHOOD
Social, political and aupport networking group for,women .nd their friend .. Regular IOcialevenu
andmeeting. on the first and third Fridays of every mon.lh.
At The Community Center, 208 W. 13 Straet, from 8:308pm. For more info call till at (2121

AIel (AIDI-IIeI'" c.n.nunity s.mc .. 1for DutchNa, Orenge, Putn.m, Rocldand, Sulliv.n,
UIIIar.nd w..tcheIter
countiN. AIDS education,
oIIent IBIViC8l, oriaia intervention, .upport groupa,_
manaa-t.
buddy .nd hOlpital viaitor program.
214C1rn1M,. YHaPlliw, NYll811(8141&a118
ISIInIIcIMIy ~NY 122!i11(9\4I!i112-8m

BODY POSITIVE
If you r your lover haa tesl8d HIV+, we offer aupport
gro~ a, IIminars, public foruma, reference library,mala, aocialactiviti .. and up-to-date national
monthly, ,.HE BODE,:.iS1/Vvearl-.,(212
1782 0-1 ~ l,.l 'i("2095 Broadway, SUI, NYC, NY 10023

AIDIII .. 1t14t-..07m (AItI TIEAIIIEN1' IIEIII1IIY. .. C.I
bi-mon1hIy DirectDly of clinic.1 tri.1a ofin NY/NJ, and haa
education.1 rnalAlri.It/ .. min.ra for tri.1 plrticipanll.
AlA Il1O advoOltN for implW8rnanll in the tri.1 tyIIHL P.O. Box 30234, NY. NY 1011-0102./2121288-4188.
Publioati_
fret/don.tion
requNtad.
PuIIIiIhN.

.....m-III AlD&'H1V tre.tmenta

1M AISOCIAnoN FOIIIJIIAN RIGHTS
Uwy.ra Referral
SeMCI for thllMb/.n.nd G.y Community
Full Range of "'g.1 SelVic..
(2121458-4873

1M AIIOCIA11ON FOI 1lIIIAN IIIGIITS
Free Walk-in LIII.I Clinic. Tuesday &-8 pm
1Mb/.na e.., Community Cllltr. Ground Roor
BIll (IIIEXUAL DOMINANCE a.........
UOUP)
Share $1M uperilllO ... nd fenlAlai .. with othera in
I poIi1Ivl, non-juclge"""lAIl.tmoIphere.
First Sundey of the month, 4:46pm .t the Community CenlAlr
2OIW. 13 Street, NYC. Thitgroup it p.rtofthe
NewYork ArM BiIlXUBI Network.

IIWAft NEWYOU 'ManthIy _iel

1"",11 for the Bi.. xu.1 community
8IId fritnda. C.II NYABN for dtlAlila of upcoming
IYIntI. (7111__ 8245

82&-9817'j

CIRCLE OF MORE UGHr
Spirituallupportand Iharing in a gay!l8lbian affirmative group. West-Park Prelbytarian Church
185 Wilt 88th Street
Wed: worship .. lVice 8:30 pm, program 7:30.
Marsha (2121304-4373
Charlie (2121891-7118.
COMMUNITY HEALTH PROJECf
208 Weat 13th Street, NYC, New York 10011
For Appointmenla and Infonnation(212187H559 (TIY/Voicel
PROVIDING CARING, SENSITIVE AND LOW COSTHEALTH CARE SERVICES TO THE LESBIAN AND GAYCOMMUNITYCOMMUNITY RESEARCH INmATIVE, PWARCa lit their physicians laking the initiati"to .. ek promising intelVention against AIDS in areap. mlnner., For more info or to volunlAler ple .. ecall (2121481-1050.
CONGREGATION BETH SIMCHAT TORAH 'NY'a Gay and Leabian Synagogue SelVicea
Friday at 8:30pm
fi1 Bethune Street
For info. call: (212192S-9498.
DIGNITYJBIG APPLE
A community of Leabian and Gay Catholics. Activitiea
include Uturgi .. and lociala every Sat, 8:00 pm, at
the Center, 208 W. 13 Street, NYC.
Call (2121818-1309.

fBtME SUPPORT GROUP
For leabian. who self identify as Femme. For info andmeeting timea call Usa at(2121829-9817. No men please.
FRONT RUNNERS
A running club for I.. bian and gay athletesof all abilitiea. Fun Runs of 1-8 miles held every Sat at
lOam and Weda. at 7pm in Central Parkand every Tuea. at 7pm in Prospect Park.
For infonnation: call (2121724-8700.
11IE RIND FOR HUMAN DIGNITY
National Gay and Lesbian Criaia Line'AIDS 800" --I-~SOS-GAYS
Educational Relource CenlAlr; POlitivelmage.
Media CenlAlr; NY SIaIAl Arts Program
888B'way SuitB 410 NYC, NY 10012 /212152&-110)
THE GAY AFRICAN AMERICANSOFWESTCHESTER(The G.A.A.I
is a community baaed aupport group fonned in
Westchester
County. Varioua activities are planned
for the coming months.
Please call 814-378-0727 for more info.
GLAAD.ya ....bi.n Allilnee Ag.inst Defemttion
80 Vanck Street. NYC 10013 (212198&-1700
GLAAD combala homophobia in the media and els8where by promoting visibility of the lesbian and gay
community and organizing grassroots reapon8e toanti-gay bigotry.
GAY a LiSBIAN HEALTH CONCERNS
An office of the NYC Dept of Health, provides linkagea betwn NYC H8Ilth,a Human Svca, and the lesbian lit Gay community, focu.ing in ALL healthconcerna; reaource infonnation for health salVices
conaume,. and providers. 125 Worth Street, Box 87,
New York, NY 10013. For info call (212158&-4995.
GAY a WBIAN PSYCH011lERAPY
Sliding Icale fees -Insurance accepl8d.
Institute for Human Identity.
(2121799-8432
GAY MALE $1M ACfMSTS
Dedicated to aafe and reaponsible S/M aince 1881.
Open meeting. w/programa on SIM IAIchniques,
lifestyle issue a, political !lnd IOcial concerns. Also
apecial evenla,apeake,.
bureau, workahops, demoa,.ffinity group., ne_lettar,
more. GMSMA -Dept 0,
498A Hudson Straet, Suite D23 ,NYC 10014.
(2121727·9878.
'
GMAD(GAY MEN OF AFRICAN DESCENT)
80 Va rick Straet, NYC 10013 a support group of Gay
Men of African Deacent dedicated to consciouanesaraising and the development of the Leabian and Gay
Community. GMAD is inclusive of African, AfricanAmerican, Caribbean and Hiapanicll.atino men ofcolor. Meetings are held, weekly, on Fridays. For
more infonnation, oaIl718-802-0182.

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CAY IllEN'S H£AIJ1I ClllSIS HOIUNEFOR INFORMATION ON SAf£R SEX AND HIV-RELATED HEALTH SERVICES, AND FOR INFORMATION ON
ONE-TIME, WALK-IN AIDS COUNSB.ING SERVICES
212 __ .21M41-7C70TDD (fertile HeMnglmplliredl, Mon.-Fri. 10:30 I.m. to 9 p.m. Sit 12:00 to 3:00
8111111& MIITH CWB OF NEW YORK
Socill club for heavv, chubby glY men & their .dmirera. Monthly 10ci.11 .t the 'Center', weekly bar
nillhta Thurad • .,. It the 'ChellB. Transfer', monthly
Fat Apple Review, bi-monthly FAR. plnp.ls. For moreinfonnltion cill Emie It 914-89&-7735 or writa:
GaMlNY. Dept 0, P.O. Box 10, Pelham, NY 10B03.

WllAN AND GAY RIGIfl'S PROJECT
of the American

CiYillibertiel

Union

ICNOINYOUIIIIIGIfI'S /WFfE ElIPAM)f4G 1IIEIt(2121944-9800,

ext. 545

WBIANS AND GAYS OF RATBUSH
Brooklyn'llOcisl
orgsnizltion for both g.y men Ind
l8Ibi.ns. P.O. Box lOll, Midwoocl Station
Brookl~, NY 11230 -(7181859-9437
LONG ISLAND ACT-UP
P.O. Box 291, New Hyde P.rk, NY 11040
Support UI for change on Long laland.
(518)338-4882(5181997-5238 Naa .. u
(5181928-5530 Suffolk\)

HfAI. (.... Ith Ell_lion AIDSLililOllleeldy info.lnd IUpport group for tre.tmenta for
DS which do not compromilethe
immune aystam
further, includinglltamltive
Ind holiltic Ippro.ch ...
Wed 8pm. 208 W. 13th St (2121874-HOPE.

MEN'OF All COLORS TOGE11fER NY
A multi·racill group of g.y men Ig.inlt~.ciam.
Meetinga every Frid.y night at 7:45.t thewbian.nd G.yCommunity Servicea Centar, 208 W. 13111Street For
more info. c.lI: (2121245-l1388 or (212) 222-9794.

HETRICK-IIAII11N
INSTIJUTE
r l8Ibiln Ind glY youth. Counl8ling, drop-in cen'tar(M-F, 3-epml, rap groups, Harvey M~k HighSchool, AIDS .nd lafer IBX infonnltion,referrlll, profeSlion.leducltion.
(2121 833-8920(voicel(2121 ~8928
m for deaf

METROPOUTAN TENNIS GROUP(M1'G)
Our 200 member l8Ibi.n.nd g.ytannia club includea
playa,. from beginning to toumament level. Monthly
tannia perties. Wintar indoor league. Come play wi1h ual
For information: MTG, Suita K83,48&-A Hudaon St., New
York, NY 10025. (718) 852-8582. 'HISPANICUNnm
GAYS & WBIANS
Educltionll .. rviq8l, poIiticII.c1ion, colllll8Jing .nd
IOcill.ctivitilllin Spsnilh .nd Englilh by .nd for theLatino wain
and Gay Commun~
Gener.1 meetings 8:00 pm 4th Thurad.y of every
month at 208 W8It 13th Street
C.II (2121 891-4181
or writa H.U.G.L, P.O. Box 228 C.n.1 Street Station,
New York. NY 10019.

lAIBtA lRALDmNSE
AND EDUCATION RIND 'Precedent-lBaing
litig.tion n.tionwide for
l8Ibi.ns, g.y men Ind people with AIDS. Memberahip ($35lnd upl inc. n_leUer
Ind invitations to
Iplci.levant..
VoIuntHr night on Thurad.ya.lntake
Cilia: 2-4pm Mon thru Fri (2121995-8585
lAVA (WBIANS ABOUT VISUAL AIITICIII for slidel for L8Ibi.n Artiala' Exhibition, G.y &Lasbi.n Community Centar, NYC. For more infonnstion, land SASE to :Miri.m Fougere
118 Fort Greene PI.ce
Brooklyn, NY 11217.
THE WBIAN AND GAY BIG APN CORPS
Get your instrument out of the clOl8t .nd come pl.ywith us. Symphonic, M.rching, J.zz. Dixiel.nd, Rock,AUla Enl8lllblellnd
Woodwinds.
123 Wilt 44th St Suita 12l New York. NY 10038(212188&-2922.
'

MOCA(M... ", ColorAIDS"-ntion
Pratram.)
Provid8laafer
lex .nd AIDS education iAfonn.tion
to gay and bi.. xual Men of Color; coordinatas a net·
work of pler-Iupport groupe for gay .nd bisexu.1
Men of Color in III 5 borough. of New York City.
303 Ninth Ave, New York, Ny 10001
or call (212) 239-1788.
NATIONAL GAY AND LESBIAN TASK FORCE
is the national gral8room politic.1 org.nization forleabi.nl .nd g.y men. Membe,.hip ia $3IVye.r.
laaue-orientad projecm.ddre.. violence, aodomy
IIWS, AIDS, gay righm ordinancea, fammas, media,
etc. through lobbying, educ.tion, org.nizing .nd
direct .ction.
NGLTF 1517 U Street fNi, W.shington, DC 20009.
(202/332-8483.
NEW YORK ADVERTISINGAND COMMUNICAnONSNETWORKNYACN iathe community'll.rgelt
gay .nd leabian
profellion.1 group, welcoming .11 incommunic.tion.-Ind
theirfriends. Monthly meetinga,3rd Wed 8:30pm at the Community Center. Membe,.' nllWllettar, job hotline, annu.1 directory. Phone(212) 517-0380 for more info. Mention OutWeek for
one free newa/etter.
N. Y. WOMEN'S SOFTBAU. GUR.D
For experienced, .. rio~ Softball Playa,., Co.chea
Ind Managera. We plsy mod/falt pitch weekends in
Manh.Uen .nd aueens. Try-oUlll begin Feb. l1thru
April~ or until filled. (212) 255-1379 Janet

WBIAN & GAY
COMMUNITY SERVICES CENTER
208 Wilt 13111Street New York. NY 10011(2121820-7310
1IIm-11 pm everydlY.
,
A pllce for community org.nizing Ind networking,IOCillIBrvic8l,
culturll progrsml, Ind IOcill eventa
lponlOred by the Center .nd more thsn 150 community org.niz.tiona.

NINTH STREET CENTER
Since 1973, a community dedicatad to demonstratingthat. homoaexuallif8ltyle
is a ration.I, desirable
choice for individuIls di... tiafied with the rewarda ofcOllVentionalliving. Psychologically - focusaed rap
groups, TUII., S.t, 8 to 10 pm. peer counselling avail.ble. 319 E. 9 Street. New York, NY 10003, for info c.1I
(212) 228-5153.
' ,WBIAN AND GAY WOR
NElWORKAll org.niz.tion of Lesbilns al)d GI.,. who.re .ctivein their I.bor unions working on domellic psrtne,.hipbenefim .nd AIDS i.. u8l. For more infonn.tion csll
(2121923-8890.

NOII1H AMERICAN MAfWOY
LOVE ASSOCIATION (NAMBlAl
Dedicatad to aexu.1 freedom and 81p1cially intareted
in gay intergener.tional
relationshipa. Monthly Bulletin .and regular .chapter meetinga on the fim SaturdlY of eech month. Yearty membe,.hip ia $20; write
NAMBLA. PO Box 174, Midtown Station, New York,NY 10018 or cllI(212) 807-8578 for infonnation.

NOI11ERN UGHI'S ALTERrwIVES
Improving Qu.lity of Ufe for People with AlDSIHIV.
THE AIDS MASTERY WORKSHOP: Exploring the po&sibmtiea of • powerful and creetivelife in the flce of
AIDS. CaU Jack Godby (212) 33H"47
NYC GAY a WlIAN
ANTl-VlOLENCE PRo.ECTCounseling, .ctvo'CICY, .nd infonnltion for .urvivo,.
of .nti-g.y and .nti-Illbian violence, .exu.1 .... ult,
domeatic violence, and other typ8I of vic1imiZition.
Aliservicea free .nd confidenti.l.
24 hour hotline(212) 807-0197

III /

/tJ;/
'2) 532-o29CW1-8IJO.828-328IVHotIine(212) 532-0588
Monday thru Frid.y 10.m-epm
Meal prograrna, support groups, ec!ucitionillmt.referralIBrvice8
for PWA'I Ind PWArc' ••PEOPLE WITHAIDSHEAI1II GROUP
Underground buyer's club importing not-yat-IPproved
medic.tiona .nd nutritiOlllIluppl8lll8ll1ll. 31 Weat 2II1h
St. 4thAoor (212)532-0280
PRIDE FOCUS GRO ..
Topic.1 disculliona on i.. u81 of intareatto the conwnunity in • congenial atmoaphere, followed by In infonn.1
dinner.t • friendly 10c.ll'llltlu,.nt
Every SundlY,3;OO- 4;3Opm .tthe Commll'lityCentar208W.13Street"
NYC. Part 01 the New York Are. Bi_.1
Network.
SAGE: (S .... r Action in I Gay &ni~
Social Service Agenc~ providilg c.re, .ctivitilll, &educ.tionallBrvic8l,for
gay & IlIIbiln lanior citizens.
Also seMIS ovar 180 homebound .. nions & old.,. MA' ••208 Wilt 13th St NYC 10011, (212) 741-2247
SETHIAN GAYS, WBIANS AND BISEXUALSFor all of ua intareatad in re.ching out to each otherwith exuber.nce to .pontaneoualy explore anJ!
expand upon the SeWJane Roberta "philosophy" ••it rel.t81 to our live., plnIOn.lly,lBlWIlly.nd porrtiClily. Cell AI (212) 979-5104.
THE OurtlEACli
USING COMMUNAL HUlING (TOUCH)
Comnunity voIuntae,. pnMcling • waeIdy buffet aupper
for the Brooldyn AIDS comnllrity. TOUCH 1118811 Monday-.
5pm to 8:30pm- .t downtown BrooIdyn Frienda
Meeting HOIII8(110 Schlll1ll8r11om Stlllllr Boenrn, P1ace~ Unitad trIInsportation may be 1rnnged.1nfo: (718)822·2758. TOUCH walCOII18I contnbulionaoffunda;foodand voIuntaera.
.
ULSTER COUNTY GAY AND WlIAN AWANCE
Meem fim .nd third Monday of elch month.t 7:30 p.m•• tthe Unitarian Church on SlWIall Road
in Kingston.
For infonnation, c.1I (914) 828-3203.

WHAMI (W_n'I.... 1th Action .... ilizati ...
A non-partis8n coalition committed to dem.nding,aecuring and defending abaoluta reProductive freedom .nd quality he.1th care for .11 women. We meetevury Wed .• t 8:30 pm .t the Village Independent'Democram, 224 W8It Fourth Street (off Sheridan Sq.).
We are not affili.ted with VlD.(212) 713-5988..
WOMEN'S ALTEIINA11VE
COMMUNITY CENTER (WACCI.
A non-profit, Le8bian community centar .. rving
Quaena, N.... u and Suffolk counties. ThU,. nightwuekly diaculsion grpa. 8:30pm, for other .ctiviti81
ple .. ~ contact us .t (518) 483-2050.

February 25, 1990

OUT'YWEEKnACCOUNTING

APARTMENT CLEANINGBUDDY DIKMAN, CPA, ~ARBARA L/, CPA

A CLEANER CLEANINGWITH A MIDWEST FLAIR
DONE BYAGUYWITH BRIGHT RED HAIRWEEKLY AND BIWEEKLY LEGIT ONLY
, RATES $40.00 AND UP
CALL PAUL 941·0603

YEAR-ROUND TAX PLANNING AND
PREPARATIONPERSONAL FINANCIAL PLANNING

586-3000CASTLE CARE, INC.
AIDS MINISTRYIN THE SPIRIT OF
FRANCIS OF ASSISl ...serving
our brothers and sisters affected byAIDS
S l Francis AIDS Ministry
135 W. 31st Street Manhattan 10001
695-1500

Apartment & Office Cleaning.
Gay Owned. Reliable.
We are available 7 days.
CALL (212) 476-2955

e 1989 Holy Name Province

ANNOUNCEMENTSGAY ARTISTS WANTEDQUICKI is seeking gay artists to eXhi.bit
homoerotic art on its Thursday nights.
Br)t11 gay male and lesbian eroticism,so,,~ht in any medium. Contact Chip
Duckett at 925-2442 to set up an
appointment.
,
FREE DRESS REHEARSAL PASS
2/26/00 CH OONY ·Maid ofOrleans· -Zajick, Martin, Hymminen.
For full info., call 201·680-9310. No
strings, prefer voice or music student or
young opera buff.
Deadline 2/22/00. 1:30 curtain.

ANSWERING SERVICES
NYC'S FINEST
CALL FORWARDANSWERING SBlVlCE
IS
GAY-OWNEDPROTOCOL

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february 25, 1990

DONNA
E.S.P. Psychic-Professorof SpiritualismReader and Advisor-Palm and Card
Readings
ANyou contu~ed, unh."" lIe"..-.I.
untI.mand you,.e" end fhNe ."""'" "",7

I CAN AND WILL HELP YOU.
Reunite the Separated-Restore Lost
Nature-Unfold the Mystery of the Past,
Present and Future.
(212)686-1.
Se Habla Espanol

CLUBS
APARTMENT SHARE
OPEN-MINDED DYKE OR FAG
wanted to share our Park Slope pad.
Beautiful neighborhood, close to train.
$300 own bedroom. We are 2 GM
students seeking 3rd beatnick libertine
to complete our groovy gay home. (718)788-2656 ...John. Need by March.

Copyright

ASTROLOGY

SHARE 4 RM APARTMENT WI BiF
79th and York-$488.oo plus security. I
work at home on fantasy line and do
S&M with my friends. If these things
bother you, please look elsewhere. No
perfume/tobacco in apt (allergy). Leave
message wlbest time: 459-4811.

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

CHIROPRACTOR
DR. CHARLES FRANCHINO
30 Fifth Avenue,
New York, NY 10011,
call for info (212) 673·4331.

COMPUTERSAPARTMENT WANTED
OutWeek staff person seeks sublet or
share. Prefer downtown. Need
immediate. Call Raul days (212) 685-8671
Eves (212) 932-1496.

THE MALE STOP
A computer BBS.
Use your modem.

(212) 721-4180 FREE!

ART BUY/SELL•ART SOURCE UNUMITED-

CO-OPS / CONDOS

We buy, ,,", trade and locate artworks.

CO-OPS/C,ONDOS
Helping
Our Community .
Buy and Sell Real Estate
Since 1980

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

Andrew Weiser (212) 721-4475
The Corcoran Group

OutWeek Classifieds
212/337-1222

CONTRACTORSElECTROLYSISAFFORDABLE ELECTROLYSIS
h.-lit

ACE Contractor & Craw
. AUjob ..... U., I.".
Electrical' Sh.etrock •Ap.""enll • Loll •• S.....
(2121 121- nn

Ce.,.n", •DENTISTSOUAUTY PERSONAL DENTISTRY
William De Bonis DDS.
Suite 704,
200 West 57 Street.
New York, NY 10019,
Office hours by appointment only call
212-333-2650.

HIlt RenIo¥IINew Airflow
Ttclmi .... wiIIIl.B. ProIIe

COMPUMENTARYCONSULTATIONPROFESSIONALlYOPERATEDGREENWICHVIUAGEQUIET,PRIVATEOffiCE, Kenneth H~y226West 4th Street
New York, NY 10014
Lower Level, By Appointment Only.
(212)m-115O
Certified Electrologist
Member I.G.P.E.

FINANCIALPERSON V'iITH AIDS?

IHEALTH
EATING AWARENESS lRAIN1N6:

The answer to the puzzle about e.ating.
Biminate your weightfeating problem
forever. (212)~1.

HElP WANTEDPHONE SEX MODERATORS
Must have friendly,
out-going
personality. Part-time, eight hour shifts.
Call Mr. Lyons at 935-3440.
OUTDOOR DISlRIBUnON
Several people needed to distribute
ftyers part time, advertising phone sex
lines. Aexible hours. Call Mr. Davis at935-3440.

Terminally ill? Need cash?
LEGAL SECRETARYEDITING SERVICES
ProfessionalEditingand Word Processing
Services availableon businessdocuments,theses and disser1a1ionsby
Ph.D.
Negotiable Rates
Call (7181&;i3-8304

ElECTROLYSIS
A. lAMBDA B.EmOLYSIS A.
Permanent Hair Removal
Men/Womene TVITS·s· All Methods
Computer Aided· Sterile Conditions
By Physicians' Aid
14Years Experience· Sliding Scale Fee
Ucensed and Board Certified(718)937-3389

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BGR(Beat the Grim Reaperl
International pays up to 80% cash ofyour life insurance policy's face value
nowl, Personal, Confidential Service
Call: (7181854-0362/24hour tape.

Experienced, dedicated secretarycapable of office management, familiar
Wordperfect, for small, City Hall area
firm with strong social conscience. Fairsalary and benefits, pleasant working
environment. Call Mark Scherzer at(212)406-9606.

GROUP MASSAGE

Community Research Initiative islooking for a full-time secretary. Skills
must include typing 60-80 wpm,
computer skills, and experience dealing
with phones. PWA:s,women and peopleof color are encouraged to apply. CRI is
an equal oppurtunity employer. Send
resumes to: MARVIN PALMER,
CRVSECRETARY,
31 WEST 28THSTREET,
NYC,NY 10010.

MEN'S MASSAGE GROUP
Get together with a group of men to
give and receive massages. Taught by
Terry Weisser, Uscensed Masseur andteacher at the Swedish Institute.
Sundays, 7-10pm,$15.00,
call (2121463-9152.

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

STORE HELP
$22!i/wk. start, $275/Wk. after 2 months,
32 1/2 hrs, Blue Cross, 1 week paidvacation, 18 years age min., references
required. Gay Treasures, 546 Hudson
Street, (2121255-5756, askfor Don.

CLASSIFIED SALES REP.
OutWeek, New York's #1 Lesbian and
Gay weekly, seeks a Classified Sales
Rep to join our growing dept. Must be
responsible, articulate, and motivated.
Previous sales experience helpful but
not required. $18K. Send resume andcover letter to: OutWeek, Attn: Mr.
Winter, 159 W. 25th St., 7th Roor, New
York, N.Y. 10001. OutWeek is an equal
opportunity employer. People of Colorand women are encouraged to apply.

ADVERTISING SALESRECEPTIONISTOUTWEEK Magazineseeks an energetic, bright,
fast-paced individual for our highphone volume, deadline oriented, office. Meet/greet visitors, keep
track of staff and assist
production department withkeyboarding of articles. Must
have some IBM/PC or Macintosh
experience. Accurate and fast
keyboarding skills required.
Salary plus benefits.
Contact Joe 212-337-1200.
People of color and womenencouraged to apply.

A REAL CAREER.Excellent presentation skills combinedwith a moderate amount of travel are
your ticketto a definite lucrative career
path with a dynamic, major and growing
gay-owned and operated financial firm.
Some typing, good phone'manner andcomputer literacy required. For more on
this exciting oppurtuility
call Jeff at(7181380-2054.

MOVE TO SAN FRAN AREA
Progressive and aggressive firm seeks
print-media
buyer who knows whatmagazine to buy from various products
from blow-dryers to phone sex. Two years
New York corporate advertising experiencedesired. We pay all moving expenses. Send
resume and cover letter to Cindy
McDowell, P.O.Box 1029,Soquel, CA95073.

BOOMING PHYSltlAN'S

PRACTICE

Private physician serving St. Louis gay
community is seeking qualified partnerwith HIV experience and interest. Veryhigh salary and fab benefits in very lowcost city. Call Billene, (3141n6-4444.

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OutWeek, New York's #1 Lesbian and
Gay weekly, seeks an energetic,
motivated, articulate individual to join
our display advertisingsales team.
Previous ad sales experience helpful.
Salary & commission & benefits. Please
send resume & cover letter to:
OutWeek, Attn: Mr. Kit Winter, 159 W.
25th St., 7th Roor, New York; N.Y. 10001.
OutWeek is an equal Opportunity
employer, People of Color and womenare encouraged to apply.

HElP WANTED
CO-DIRECTOR
SAGE: Senior Action in a Gay Environment, Inc. a non-profit organization, isseeking an individual who will have fulltime financial responsibility for this social
service agency caring for gay and lesbian
seniors in the NY metropolitan area. This
person must have three years or morework
experiencein fund-raisingstrategies, public relations activities andpreparationof grant proposals forfoundations and gove~mental agencies.
This persoii- must have previous, experience in financial management andbudget preparation for business and/or
non-profit organizations. SAGE, Inc. is anequal opportunity employer.
Please direct all inquiries and resumes to:
Chair, Search Committee, SAGE; Inc., Z08
West 13th Street, New York, NY 10011.
Confidentiality respected.

OUTWEEK'S MUSIC EDITOR
is looking for an intelligent, creative andexperienced writer to cover the -dancemusic scene- periodicallyfor themagazine. Please send 2 writing samples
and cover letter to the attention of Victoria
Starr, OutWeek Magazine, 159W. 25th St.,
7th Roor, New York, N.Y. 10001. No phone
calls will be acceptedl Women andpeople of color are encouraged to apply.

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

STORE HELP

$22!i/wk. start, $27!i/wk. after 2 months,
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MUSIC INSTRUCTIONPIANO INmUC110NSITS NEYER TOO LATE
All levels taught by patient, experienced
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Reasonable rates.
(212) 799-3747.
(Message answered promptly)

HEALTH PROJECT

208 W. 13 Street, New York, NY 10011.
for info call (212) 675-3559.

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REAL ESTATEREAL ESTATE

Gay couple selling well-loved home in
comfortable, safe neighborhood inStaten Island. 9 room Colonial, chestnut
trim, beautifully decorated,
fenced/landscaped yard with fish pond.
IC-l) Commercial zone permits in-homebusiness. Perfect for lawyer,
accountant, therapist. 10 minutes toferry and Snug Harbor Cultural Center.
$198,000. (718) 816-6867.

Fire Island Pines

WASHINGTON D.C.
8 Bedroom renovated Victorian guest
house, well-established business, gay
clientele. Located in prestigious DuPont
Circle, metro-accessible. $750,000
includes most furnishings. No brokers.
(202) 462-0709.
SERVING THE GAYCOMMUNITY OF MANHATTAN
Buying, Selling Real Estate
Call Tony Czeb~I, '(212) 460-9999
WALSCOTT CO.

co-op FOR SAl£
East 53rd Street between 1st and 2nd.
1 bdnn pre-War wl'lJXJsq. ft. terrace. Opencity views, blchd oak firs, orig details, new
kitchen, sunny. Reduced, must sell at
oncel A gem, $150.000.Owner(212) ~9619.

WASHiNGTON D.C.
8 Bedroom renovated Victorian guest
house, well-established business, gay'clientele. located in prestigious DuPont
Circle, metro-accessible. $750,000
includes most furnishings. No brokers.
(202) 462-0709.

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Noted
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call (718) 851-1571
Sales office open: Tues/Thurs 11am5pm, Sat/Sun 12pm-5pm
Sales by BLARE REALTY CORP.Offering
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THERAPY
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including spiritualdifficulties or growth.
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COMPASSIONATE, CARING THERAPIST
Supportive individual & couple
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EXPERIENCED PSYCHOTHERAPISTTUNED IN TO YOUR FEBJNGS• Relationship Problems• Self-esteem Issues• Depression• Anxiety• ACOA Issues• Gay Identity
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$75 Call 12,to 7 pm.
CHARLES.(212)581-3179.

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Emmanuel 718-284-9622

By Handsome WASP ,(212)989-6316 .•SENSUOUS BODY RUB
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BLOND HUNKHOT TORSOSENSUOUS BODY RUB

Athletic bodywork from boyish 145# 5'927 yo with ve!y muscular build and anice tan line. Clean cut and friendly.
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No calli 12am-8am(212),727-2842

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HOT MUSCULAR SlUD
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Call Steve et(212)268-9539"," Lends sacred and profane k~oWtedge •to 8Very,lone.

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Have yOur body rub the FrenchCanadian way. A,-o body,clipping.
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Complete satisfaction
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Complete body ru~. Call Joey(212)627-1884
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Protessionally trained in
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Very. Discreet Massage
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924-2253

Atflleti!l bodywork from boyish 145# 5'9~
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Call Steve at(212) 721-4547

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Amex welcome • Models interviewed

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from $150190 minutes out only

MARINE RECRUIT
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from $150/ 90 minutes out only
Hot Lunch $95160 min. out noon:4p.m.

*

New applicants welcome.

MARK
HOT SOUTHERN STUD-ATHLETIC,
SEXY, VERY HANDSOME.
VERSATILE W/BIG TOOL FRlGR,
F/FTOP, 6'2-, 30 YEARS OLD.
VERY FRIENDLY.
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MUSCUlAR IRISH DUDE
Ukes to lean back. 32, 5'10-, 210 Ibs.
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P.O. Box 20028, c/o
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Station, NY, NY 10009.
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FIVE YEARSII
Imagine that we're
iucky enough to loveeach other in a time
when I can tell you
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Box 2075
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I'd like to here fromanyone, especiallythose In their 50's 8JlCI
60's. If you can send
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will not regret It. Ronnie Meadows, #29027,
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In good talk-good
food-and good musicsend phone-photo leas
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talkflrstl P.O. Box 20322,
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ME: PlSCESISCORPIO RISING
20, slim, handsome,Blkllrish mpc,poetlMlter, brutally, honest, eIfflcult to deceive, perceptive, bright, serious
yet child-like and trustIng, fragile In love yetaloof for fear or reaotion by my ov8Mhelm1119 emotional Intensity.
I'm passionate, sensitive, given to dark fitsofsilentanger
damned moody fo, cu.ed; Spiritual but
not spacey and Interested In meeting YOU:
18-45, secure In who
you are, able to mirror ,my emotional tenor
w/equalllquid 88I1sitivIty and above all, true
to yourself. I 'preferbind, blue eyes but
this Isn't V!tal. I enjoy

German, sign language, psychology/_
trology, Intensity andIntegrity. honesty andof course, sex. H you
canhandl.
thl'.
pI_ write: P.O. Box
66, 198th Str •• t Station, St. Alban' •• NY
11412.
BATS AND BALLS
Pitcher seeks catcher
with well-olled glov ••GWM, 33, blond. brd,
looking for a man wh
can handle a slider. I
pronise you ,.,. good
Innings before w. hit
the ~L.IrIpIu».
0uIwMk Box 2133
SOMEWHERE
OUTTHEREI
looking for sonieChlng
more than Icould __find at Charll.· •• (No,Macy's circular Is not
Literature.) 'Do you.uffer from serious Intention.,a serlou.
.ens. of humor, and'.erlous
circumstances? GWM bllbl
mstd1 24 6'2" cute prtI
slim ex-runner. lookIng for enlightened,possHltles.
Photo appreciated. Outwe.k
eox2134

HANDSOME, LAnN
AND HUSKY

with brains,tool5'9", 31
y.o., performing artist,stable, masc. In appearMC8, 88I1s1t1w bynatur." easy laugh.
emile and great kisser.
UR: Ma.cullne, mature, 30-45, .en.ual,
ready to ehanI, ......
slve, hungry TOPkMIr of Rubens! SImobods, lean to chunky,
have varied Inte,.sts.
Photo and phone t,pi .....
TaM heart, n_ral.
GAY PUERTO
RICAN, 5'11",
162, black hair. beaId,
average, 33, looking
for a monogamous,
loving relatlol)shlp.
with another Puerto
Rican or GWM. I low
the beach, long waIw,
books, quiet time.,
movie., cooking. I'mlooking for someone
with similar Inter.. ts.
Letter and photo to:
P.O. Box 621, Cooper
Station, tww York, NY
10278.
MISPLACEDCAUFORNIAN_ks kInchd spirit for
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OUtwHk Box 2138

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Hispanic good looking
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5'9" 170
Ibs. healthy. S.nd
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SELF-REUANT
WM, 45, 6,'2", 185,
rdIbIIstache, works out(46c, SSW), mucullne
attitude, .eeks .Imllar.ort for occasslonalsocializing and whatever. Ain the Independent minded type-my
phllo.ophy of life I.
somewhat out of StIrner-NI.tzche-Crowl.yRand-witha wry sen ..

of humor and a no..
for'the off-b.at, yet
feel more at easehanging out In the out.r borough. than hitting Manhattan hot.pot •. R.adlng run.
from SF to SOF, musicfrom WQXR to WPW.
Seriou. replies to Outweek Box 2140
THE OLDER AND
THE YOUNG
GJM, lat. 50th, Euro-,pean background. Romantic and kind person, Opera and classical music lov.r. Non.moker dl.llkes heavy
drinking. Looking forr.latlonshlp with GM,- 20'. Into 40'•• Write In
all conflld.ric.
withphoJo If possible, to:P.O. Box 52H, N.w
York, NY 10268.
HUNG HUGE-EXHIB.
Llk. to' .how off that
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February 25, 1990,....

GWM, 40, wants hot,.af. action. Photo/phon. Box 126, 70A
Gre.nwlch Av.nu.,
NYC, NY 10011.
MUSCULAR JOCKDADDYBB Trainer' and promass.ur, BrlBr, 40'.,,6',185, uJc, 81, Scand,
ColI.g.
Grad, nonsmoker, travel, .ports,
arts: Seeks young jockbottom. Box 1706,
2109 B'way NYC,
10023. Wann, frlendy
nice guy.
AlTRACTlVE
Prof'l GWM, 26, 175,
6'2". Dark I?lond withbeard and .tache.
Looking for Mr. Tall:
5'10" or above, Dark:
brown to black hair,.tache a plus, Handsom.: .eH-expianatory. Prospective GWM
shouldb. 25-40,
profl, stabI., fit, masculln. and enjoy thearts and .. nsual safe
sex. L.tter, phon. andphoto appr.clat.d.
Outweek Box 2102
GWM,26,
5'8",140, BIG-seeks younger strt, bI,or gay mal. to .ntertaln, spoil and h.lp
through school. I'mcute and fun to be withand I care about you.
You don't ne.d towrite your IH. story or
send a photo. Serious
r.pll •• answ.red withphoto. Serious repll••
an.wered with photo.
Box 1365, Jackson
Heights, NY 11372.
BODYBUILDER
GWM
37,
1901,
brown hair and ey.s,
5'11". I'm looking fora GM with muscle. tospare. A take charge
type of man, for datIng, romance, safesex, possible r.latlonshlp. R.ply withcu·rr.nt photo, lett.r,
t.1.1 to LTS 20053,
NYC 10011-9993.
COCK CONTESTIBIW gay coupl.

lat.
20's want to know
who has the blgg •• tor most goodlooklng
cock aroundl Prlz.s
Include an unforg.ttabl.
fun-fIIl.d
ev.nlng.
Do youhave that .peclal
dick? Prove ItI S.nd
photo to Box 697
Conte.t,
Mldwood,
NY 11230.

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