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MUSIC . VICTORIA STARR'POETRY . DAVID TRINIDAD
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Activist, film critic and one of ACf UP's and GLAAD'sfounders,
VitoRtisso 'died of AIDS this week, and for a moment the private"
struggles and personal tragedies we wrestle with every
day were,
blended into a more communal kind of loss. For Vito belonged not
to any cine of us, but to us all. He helped invent the gay world,taught us. how to go ,to the movies and opened our eyes tooppressions we were .too
oppr~ssed to see.' His life i~spired',.
thousands to activism;
his
death
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us
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When, as a child, Vite>,.
embarked on his epic love affair with
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the movies, he brought along, a queer and penetrating eye. His '· unique ability to see tl)ro':Jgh to the social biases of films, inparticular, how they reJlect and ,reinforce homqphobia, allowed
him to use screenplays as metaphors for the predicaments oflesbian and ~y life. H.e saw truth in film: Reversing Plato's fable,,
he crawled intot the darkened
cave,' watched the" shadows dance,/.
then walked out into the sun and enlightened the rest of us.
Great thinkers'often ride unlikely vehicles to intellectual
heights.
Vito.uSed film criticism: In his book, The Celluloid Closet,.
,, in his AdtJO(:(;Jte mQvie column and in his countless essays and .
· lectures, he used film as a· vehicle to talk about lesbian and gay
life, ..to teach, raise
consciousness
and,~"~.,.
.. radicalize. In writing about. , tnemovies, , Vito enunci3ted
anentiretheory of human liberation.
and did it in a form often' more engaging ana accessible than thedry polemics of lesbian • 'and gay politicians. His writing,. which
remains with Us, i$ an education.
Then there was the man. A paradox of good nature and\impatient, angry activism, Vito could propound the most militantopinions as if they were gentle commonsense, In doing so, he
politicized-evenradicalized-many
who were' otherwise turned
off by the' shrillness of zealots. Vito's ability to see both sides,of anargument may' h~ye softened his nature,. but he remained to the '· end a fiery propo~ent of gay and lesbian liberation, AIDS activism
and the rigorous examination of self-hatred. One of his last acts,days before his cleath,was to stir from semlconsclousn~ss long
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who had come to his bedside.
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at a worse time.
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stratlon targeted the c~rdlnal absolutely no risk of tranamlsI dId not charg, Dr. Burk,tt
wIth plagIarIzIng Bruce Nuss· fOf...hls refusal to countenance slon) actlvttlea. I assume this Is
baum's book. In cQntext, as Is safer-sex education within the what you mean by "safe," but jthen again, trylng'to'deflne
clear from the first four para- Institutions ofthe church."
What burns In the belly "safe" Is part of the problem.
graphs of my crItique, thestatement deals with the pre· of this activist IsO'Connor's- There are no safer-sex guidepublication IntBrtlSt Good direct obstruction of p.ubllc lines In this country (or !n Aus- policy-making when It comes tralla, Holland, France, England , ,Intentions was generating .....
I am not now, nor have I to the health education of and Germany, am9ng: others)
ever been, a misogynist.
public ~chool children In New that have ever stated that oralYork CHy. And I dare say sex Is safe. In fact, eve,n the
IMPRUDENT
that's what brought many of CDC has always categorized
ANNOUNCEMENT
the thousands of people out oral sex as carrying a high risk
In his letter [no. 70, Oct. that cold day to scream for of transmission. ,/31], Dr. Bern~rd Blharl states three hours. Where have you
Your editorial makes Itthat Community Research Inl-. been? We stili don't have real . sound like someone Is trying
tlatlve (CRI) of New York will' sex and health education 'In to pull the wool over our eyes.
open trials of VaxSyn In public schools In New York, It's not as If we've been led to
December 1990 and of much less the condom distri- believe that oral sex was abso566C80 In February 1991. In bution planned by Schools
lutely safe, and now, suddenly,
addition, h'estates that ~RI/NY ChancelJor Fernandez (read we're finding ol:lt It Isn't. There,may soon open trials of WOB ACT UP).
has been, a risk of unknown,
enzyme, Curdlan sulfate, etioWhile I,care about, par- - severity associated with oral
cholanalone and the IVAX ochial school children and am sex from the beginning. You
AZT/ddl dimer study. 'greatly sadd~ned that they're state that the "biggest barrier, While Dr. Biharl certainly getting their minds polluted to a clear appraisal of the reJa""
every day, let's exercise our tlve hazards of oral sex is theconstitutional right to educate lack of a major CDCstudy preour children lJl public schools clsely delineating the risks ofwithout the deliberate, sophlstl- the practice." This Is the leastcatedand unconstitutionalsignificant barrier. The point of,(therefore Illegal, get it?) Inter- a major CDC study Is to force
ference of that small hateful them to act on our behalf, toman Inthat big stone building.'
listen to, us and take us serlBy'the way, thanks for an ously, to value our lives and tootherwise thoughtful and do their best to find out exactInformative piece.
Iy what puts us at risk. How.
Steven Keith ever, It will have little bearing
Address Withheld on whet.her we suck cock ornot. Telling someone that the
SAFETY AND
risk for contracting AIDS fromSUPPORT.oral sex has gone from 1 In
In response to your edi- 5,000 to 1 In 900 Is hardly
torial [~'Oral ConSiderations," going to be the deciding factor
no. 70, Oct. 31]~ I would like of Whether to go down on thatto add to some of the pOints dick or not. What you're talkyou made.
Ing about Is knowledge, andYou state that the canadi- .knowledge does not necessaran g,overnment has pro- Ily equal action.
nounced oral sex safe. This is.
There are two Issues ,Gulde- here, neither of which has to
not true.
. . The Safer-Sex,lines: A Resource Document do with charts, percent~ges,'for Educators and Counsel/ols numbers, statistics,
bar,of the Canadian AIDS SOCiety, graphs and anything else CDC
which Is the document I belleve~- researchers will throw at us
you are referring to, states that after a long, two-year study on•oral sex carries a "minimal to oral sex that Is not even In the
low risk" of transmission. It planning stages. These twodoes not Include, oral sex under Issues have to do with support
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more conc~eteevidence of. the
THE GODDESS BE
straight (female) witches were herself. What it was my intent
about nothing else in life but to say Is that, like mostrls.k o'f oral transmission.
.: WITH you.
While ar, Important part of the . I am 'happy about, and being of servitude to their straight women In society, aproblem, It Is not the only .grateful, to Jay Blotcher and men. That me~sage, mo~t 'straight witch is more thanlikely going to have more of a'part: Encouraging and sup- OutWeek for featuring the arti- assuredly,was not my Intent.
porting gay men, In ,all COrll- cle iii your Oct. 24 issue [no. _ The writer states In the focus on men and their needs
munltles, Is a more compllcat- 69] on witches In the lesbian article,"As a religion dominat- than a lesbian might, by theed process than simply pro- and gay community. I would ed by celebration of the God~ mere fact that a lesbian may
vldlng them with .the kind of like the lesbian and gay com- dess, Wicca speaks to' the not (In all probability) relate
Information you seek. We munlty to know more ~bout Independence and growth of sexually to men, and someneed to offer each other sup- Who we are and what Goddess women, unfettered by men," times not socially as well.
port, encouragement and spirituality is all about. We need This sentence more aptly and Dependent upon personal cirrewards for' making the more visibility. It's about time clearly expresses my feeling.s cumstances, of course (I.e.
changes we have made. W,e we queer witcheS came a little about the participation of both . job and career demands, chil. needto find ways to contlnual- more out of the broom closet! ,lesbian and straight women in dren, etc.), this may give a
Iy.celebratesafer sex as II pos- .
There Is one sentence. the Craft.,Any woman seeking , lesbian more freetime to .
'Itlve feature of Oijr lives, not, though. that I feel was taken ~ the Goddess In her Ufe has to devote to herself and hersorrie nasty. unpleasant alter- \ bit out of context. In the artl- be. at least to some extent, a needs. And all things befng
native. We can fight the CDCto. ' cle, I was quoted as saying, woman of Independent mind, equal, I do feel that most,take our IIves·more seriously, "Lesbian witches are more bO'dy and' spirit. A womin
straight women, In giving per-,but In the meantime, we have Into themselves, wHile straight dedicated to developing her sonal,ene'rgy to men, end up
to use our strength as a com- witches are more I~to serving creative - expression' and sacrificing some part of therT)ml,mlty to support each other .their men." If I were a reader,I growth. A woman who Is selves In order to maintainIn the d'eclsio!ls we have to would take this sentence to . Interested In tapping Into their relationships to and with.makerightnow. '',meantha.t lesbian witchessome of the unlimited poten- their men. Men, In geneFal,•".' Michael DeMayo werl! self-centered, self-serv- tlal power-that reservoir of demand this' of any woman
Address Withheld Ing Individuals, while (all) strength-that she has within they relate to. The unfortunate

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the gay community (no dishto GLAAD Intended-they dosome good work). When you
started out, I was thrilled that. someone had come along tochallenge the ridiculous New
York Native, but you've
become as silly and shrill as
your competitor. Would one
regular columnist of a somewhat centrist ·bent be toomuch to as\<?The Tony Salernos and Hunter
Madsensof.
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the world have as much right. to be heard as Mr. Signorile(and they'd probably have alarger base 'of support). Not
everyone who disagrees with
you Is a "self-hating homo, .phobe" an epithet you tossaround far too carelessly. Dialog Is a healthy thing only
fascists suppress It
The gay community Is
as divided as I've ever seen
It. A few groups presume tospeak for all of us. Not every-

one Is In a position to be"politically gay" 24 hours aday, and yet the Idea continues to be put forth that anyone who Isn't wearing a"Silence = Death" button Is
some sort of traitorous asskisser. that makes me sad~And angry. Because people
who aren't able to march In
the streets, or who are
Involved with less flainboyant, behlnd-the-scenes kindsof groups (FAIRPAC comes·
to mind), deserve better thanto be Ignored by you.
Mike Schaefer
Glendale,NY
Gabr/,/ Rot,/Io r"ponds:
The word "queer" was In
widespread use In theactivist community long
before OutWeek' began publishing. The fact that its
usage was largely Ignored or
wen suppressed by the gay
press until we came along(Charles Ortleb reportedly
brands anyone who uses It a"traitor") Is hardly reason to
say that we "dishonestly pro- .
moted" the term. And if you
think It's the queerest development in your gay lifetime, .
where were you when lesbians reclaimed "dyke,"which was also once a termof hate and derision? Or
don't lesbians and theirterms count?
As to your second
point: We have'been printing'regular columns by Arthur
Leonard on law, Charles Silverstein on p,sychology,
Ayofeml Folayan on Issuesof race and Inclusion, Risa
Denenberg on women's
health, John James and now
Paul Coleman on AIDS treatment, plus the largest community-supportive free-listing section of any gay paper
In the' country, as well as

GLAAD Tidings, Bradley Ball
(who often satirizes our editorial positions) and on andon. None of these people fit
the description of wild-eyedradicals. They are all wellwithin the mainstream of ourcommunity, unlike Hunter
Madsen or Tony Salerno,
who represent the conservative side of gay thought. And
yet ,even Salerno and Madsen have had ready access.toour pages, Madsen evenwriting his opus against outing at our request, as part ofan OutWeek cover story;
Nor have we "Ignored"
FAIRPACor any other group,
as you claim. We report onsuch groups frequently andoffer them space to present
their views whenever possible. We do, like any othernewpaper, give preference to"hard news" stories- demos,arrests, confrontations--.

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looked by the board andthe organization.
staff of the Lesbian and Gay
Donors, volunteers, staff, . Community Services Center,at In issue no. 71, Susie Bright's book was incorrectlyJitled.
board members and friends
In preparing for the new
The correct title of the bopk is: Susie Se:xpert's Lesbian
who helped build the Fund:.faeel/ft. Not until Communi-.
Sex World.
Pleaseknow that your efforts
ty Health Project pointed
were 'not In vain. The Fund'sout the problems did they
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education work helped many,bother to Inform the com- .
many thousands of people
munlty of potential rlsks"Out/Law" column about lesbian. "mothering" innationwide In need of our
a:ndthen, quietly.
Wisconsin: was. inco~ct. There is no "mothering."
information and support. .
Dig that for dirt. There's
The sentence should have read:· "Wisconsin does
Activists and concernedmuchmore around. That's
not authorize joint adpptions by same-sex couples,I.
,friends: Our national lesbian
what we want to read.
so Hermes became the sole adoptive moth!!r of aI•
and gay community Is still In
Rodger Pettyjohn
ypung bOy."
need of a toll-free Crisisline
RN, PWAand other education proBrooklyn• In issue no. 72, page 45, 'the unmarked photo credit
grams to counter the bar. should be: "courtesy of Mary Perillo,. while the photorage of homophobic misinHOMO?
on page 44 should be: "Carol RoseggIMartha
Swopeformation and to build pride
I spend a lot of time•
Associates." .
In all 'people of the lesbian
blasting television for ignorantand gay community.
and unsympathetic depictions,.
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My ep~aph for the Fun~:of women and gays.
on conducting workshops on
tlon as an auton9mous enti"We dared to struggle, dared .
"Too faboo!" to Married /homophobia and sensitizin\lty. Until that time, the Fundto win."With Children, an unlikely
police officers on lesbians
was the educational foundaMayall of our lesbian
source for sens~ivedepictions
and gay Issues._tion of the National Gay andand gay liberation and rights
ot anything. Their episode
The Fund produced Its
Lesbian Task Force and, basl~ efforts continue. .
_tonight that Indirectly.involvedFirst National Lesbian and
Sherrie Cohen
cally, had no programs Of ~s.
a gay couple (the guys fromGay Education Conference inown. When the Task Force. Former Executive Director
Tracey Ullman) was funny
Boston with more than 70',.
consolidated Its offices in
The Fund for Human Dignity
w~hout being negative.Ne~her
presentations on strategies
Washington, DC, in 1986, the.
partnerwas particularly 'effem·for educating about lesbianFund adopted Its Crisisline
DIG THAT DIRT
• lnate; one di.dall the cooking, and gay lives in schools,
and Resource Center and.' 'I'm really tired of the
but watched sports and_,workplaces and throughout
became Independent.
Kramer et al. school ofworked (he and AI had a cutethe" community, and had
activism preaching that the
When I was hired by thelittle tryst In front of the televl- .
received funds to plan,Ne~,FundIn ,.1986,the board"was , only way to be an effectiveslon), and the other partner.. York's First National LesBian;. debating whether or not the .. ' activist is to yell arid scream
had a relationship with a•·and Gay'Writers Conference.
organization shourd contln":" like a mad person. There arefeinale prior..(This information
We produced a media bJlefing
ue. Some members felt It
many forms and many ways.
Is all very fresh to your slobbo
on the 20th annlversary,of theshould close because of limof being effective. Sometimes
TV viewer In the Midwest.)
stonewall rebellion In June
Ited finances; others wanted
yelling and screamin.g work;
MWC found a way to
1989 attended bY'top media
to close the Crisisline be,sometimes they don't. Some
Incorporate gay characters
representatives, obtained
cause it was costly.
people are better at yelling . Into their almost-anythlngstate-sponsored grants for
As executive director, I
and screaming than others,
goes comedy scheme with- ,.artists In our community andworked and fought to keep
Tolerance of differences has
out AIDS Jokes, Charles Nel•gave'grants to National Public
the doors of the 'organization
to be on all levels. Many peoson RelllY""like charactersRadio, the Klris.ey Instituteopen 'and the phones of thepie are accomplishing things
that drool at the sight of any
and the National Gay and LesCrlslsllne on. Our financial
In many different ways. (Thisman or clicMs that speak I'n\.
bian Health Foundation. Our
situation was often tight. We . doesn't mean I think everycontinual s'exualinnuendos.
budget more than doubled towere a young and struggling
one is doing a great job!)
Granted,AI did say, "He's· more than $50'0',00();our vo~
organization. And we sought 'Also, what happened toa homo," not "He's gay," althe
unteers doubled to 10'0'peoto do a lot with a little.
the Out Week that gave ,us
end of the episode (~hichple our staff grew from three .
It Is tragic thatthe board,
the real ,dirt on what Is
might put some of us on our
to more than 10'; and ourhaving kicked out its execu~ going on In the community?
broomsticks, and I hav~",).ointtive director and then acting
Lately, I've felt Iike I wased this out to them), but it was '- donors tripled from 2,20'0'to
more than 7;70'0' people In .director, locked out its staff
rereading the many media
worth it to hear AI say to his·this period.
and hired a heterosexual man
releases that come across
new gay chum, "I love YO,u,"In fact, 1986 was reallywith no experie~ce In the lesmy desk. For beginners,"Here's to us," and "Whatthe first year of the organizabian and gay community towhat about the major healthabout our quality time?" all in 1,

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Pepper,_came in fourth with ~.9 percent of theWith this historic electi<?nwe'll be bringSANFRANCISCO--:-In the commuballots, or 16;605. ing that movement to City Hall.· .
,,,_. .votes. Achtenberg. lost
. - nily's bi~
election day victory, vOtersa bid in 1988 to becomea memberOf .
The only openly gay"candidate in, .
lan4ednot just one but two openly les- .'-the state Assembly; but for this election
the lOcal election was Tom Ammiano, a• together a!?extremely large andbiancandidates to its Board of Supervishe put
48-year-old AIDS education teacher insors, seated a gay man on their school""ell-organized coalition of volunteers
the public schools and a locaJ .stand-up.' board and finally passed a"domestlc
working with a campaign chest boast~
comedian, who ran and won a seat on. 'partnership bill that will allow unmarrieding more than $225,000. Although she
the city's board of education. this waspaitners to register with City Hall. .
did not receive the endorsementoftheAmmiano's third bid for the board and,Carole Migden, 41, and Robe~aAchtenberg, 40, placed third and fourth
in a fteld of 25 candidates vying for five. openseat,s on San Ff'3ncisco's ll-.r.nemher BOard. They ~e theflrst open lesbians to. be elected to the Board and will
join openly gay supervisOr Harry Britlthere; together forming a strong block.!:! representing the city's huge gay and les- ]- bian Population.
cg. Migden, chair of the city's Demo~ cratic party and'longtlme activist, fundl raiser, and gay po!itico, received 82;562-i' votes, or 9;6 percent of the total vote. A~o former mental health administrator,'.
~ Migden had the backing 'of the official
and Democratic machine and the support of Supervisor B~ raiSed more th.an
LESBIANS LAND AT'CITYHALL-Carole Migden (left) hugs Harry Britt. and Roberta$250,000for this election.
Achtenberg gets a smooch from a supporter at their victory celebrations.
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Calling her victory. both "tremen. dously exciting and gratifying,- she said
Democratic Party, she was backed by.
this time he swept up 15 percent of thethat the election of .two lesbians is "withall the progreSSive political clubs and'total vote. Ammiano was instrumental. out question, atrerri"endous boost for thenewspapers in, the city and by ~ayor
this year in persuading the board fO pass
, .ciiY'sgay and lesbian population, which
Art Agnos.
. a counseling program for gay and les.
. will lend both aedence and credibility to. "1hese victories show.that the larger
bian teens .
our contems.community pere has no qualms about
At a party on election night atl a. Achtenberg, a lawyer who helped
voti.ng for gay candidates who can
popular castro Street bar held before the. '. foµnd the Bay Area Lawyers for Indlviddemonstrate their commitment to theresults were in, Achtenberg mingled and,ual Freedom in 1980 ana has se~ed as
quality-of-Iife .Issues we all care about,·
chatted with suppOrters as they partied
the ·executive director of the National , Achtenberg told Out~eek.aLesbia~s'the evening awll,y,eatil)g, drinking andCenter for Lesbian Rights ilnd on thehave. always been at the forefront of thehoping that in a city where queers comMayor's Task Force on Family Planning,
Ii dIU_PH on P_._ 7_
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gay candidates throughout the UnitedStates were swept into office. No openly
gay or openly lesbian incumbents were
defeated last Tuesday, and several newseats were seized.
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OpenIy'lesbian candidates, in particular, were endorsed by the electorate, as
lesbians won state offICeS in Minnesota,
Maine and New York, and county-~evel
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NEW YORK--Despite Jesse Helms'
positions. While Jackson will act as DC'sand gay activists after Silber, a notorious
excrutiating win. in North Carolina, a·shadow· senator, who is charged withhomophobe;
won the Democratic
number of other high-piofile races closely . lobbying the Senate for District statehood,primary. The state's gubernatorial figh.t
watched 'by lesbia,OIl aQd gay ~en reNorton will be·the Distr!ct's nonvoting delfeatured two non incumbents, since theegate to the House. The District's newturned decisive victories.
current g9vernor, Michael Dukakis, theIn Connecticut, former senator and.
mayor, Sharon Pratt Dixon, was also elect.....
ZiO-GAV.n po 18.7.
erstwhile maverick RepUblican Lowell P.
ed wlh gay support. .
~icker,Jr., who ran as an Independent,
The gubernatorial races .,in Massachusetts and Texas ..
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Texas Republican Clayton. Williams and Massachusetts.decision to abandon the Republican Party
and tap dirediy into voters' disoontent, reDemocrat John Silber, a native Texan, both found thatnims one of the lesbian and gay c:ommuvoters rejected both men's
nity's most Conscientious and active sup.'"unmuzzled opinionating. . .
porters to offtee.
. Iri 1988, ~icker was unexpectedly
In Massachusetts, an. expelled from his Senate seat, which heoverwhelmingly Democratic· : had held for three terms..
state, Republican William
Weld narrowly triumphed
Two civil rights advocates highly respected by lesbians and gay men, attor- I . over Silber. Weld, it former
usanomey and the fJl'StRe· . ney and actiV~ Eleanor Holmes NortOn
and Jesse Jackson, were elected iti Washpublican entrusted with the ELECTED NOT NEGLECTED-Protesters snd Supporters
ington, DC, both ftrSt-tUne officeholders
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openly gay elected officials in both h0uses of the state Legislature Tuesday whenopenly lesbian Democratic candidate
Dale McCormick beat out an incumbent
senator. After taking office, McCormick
will join openly lesbian Representative
Susan Farnsworth, who was elected last
week with 60 percent of the vote to her .
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Massachusetts, beat his opponent with aslim margin of victory while Barney
Frank, also a Massachusetts Democrat,
easily maintained the loyalty of his constituents. The state Republican Party targeted Frank after last years revelation that
he had hired a male prostitute damaged.
his reputation.
The only other openly gay candidate
seeking offIce on the national level, Mike
Gelpi, a Democrat from Ohio, suffered a

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Over his 14 years as an
Supreme Court pn Nov. 5 let
openly gay soldier, Watkins,
stand a lowel: court ruling order·
was commended highly and•, Ing the US Army to reenlist' ~gt.
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,',Perry·Wat~ins, marklng;the first' .' ".. He serVed in the US,ln'.Korea
time the ~urt has ever acted in
and in Germany, Where hefavor of an openly gay soldier.
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ance to handle secret do:cuto ,hel( the case of United Stat8s ,metlts.. lhe clearanoe was later I~. Wa,tMins, the,Court upheld therevoked, however, on theruling of the 9th, Circuit Court ofgrounds of Watkins' being gay
Appea1s,which ordered the soland the fact that he sometimes.appellate
diet reenlisted. As- th~performed-with
his comruling was narrowly decided,
manding officer's permis~
however, the Supreme Court acsion-as a female impersontion applies only in this case.
ator at base shows.
, Mit'S .• victory for Perry-be\ But in 1981, the Army inWins, • said William B. Rubenstituted a new regulation de,stein, director of the American
manding the discharge of all
Civil Liberties Union's national
gay and lesbian military per. Lesbian and Gay Rights Project,sonnel and denied Watkins
which handled the case. ~But on
his next reenlistment. In 1984, ,a braader level, It undermines
the Army gave him an honorthe military's whole argument
able discharge.
that gay soldiers are bad for
In court, attorneys formorale. The court seemed to
Watkins argued that, as thethink' that '[gay soldiers are) notcase was so unusual, it wasgoing to be the end of the mill·
highly unlikely that the Court's .
tary as we know It.· .
ruling would affect anyone" "I think the pteeedent wUl af·,,
beyond the one soldier.
feet other people, probably more In THE FEW, THE PROUD, THE OPENLYGAY-Perry WItkin'
The 9th Circuit narrowly
a nonlegal way than In a,legal way,·
Nled that since the Army had al·
added Seattle ~a:omey Jim Lob6enz, who
splt~ Watkins repeated assertlo~sl thatlowed Watkins to serve as an openly. argued the cue. MI think It wUl give otherbe told the doctor that be was. Altnoughgay man for so :lon8 without question
gay ml!ltary people the courage to fight,th, Army finally concluded In 1975 'thatand had reenlisted him three times, It
which they m.lght otherwise not have.'Watklns Is gay, In~estlgatlons centeringlOIt any right to bar his reenlistment be·
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. Watkins,.
resident of Tacoma,
meriting dismissal.
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WUh., was draCted-kito the Army In Au- . .
The Defenae DepIttmetlt werts that
Court, the justice. refused to ~ear two
gust 1967, .t which time he acknowl·homosexuality Is detrimental to troop
slmll.r cues. but as the appellate dec I·.. edge his being say on his m~dlcal
mottle and regularly ferrets out gay and, slons In those case. found In favor ofform •• An Army psychiatrist who exam·
lesbian military personnel for discharge
the military, Monday's decision marks
Ined Watkins at his enlistment later de· . on the arounds that ~mosexuallty Is -In·,
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NEW YORK~The St. Patrick's Six,dubbed "heroes" by their counsel, wereconvicted last week on charges arisingfrom last Decerhbers ACI' UP demonstration at st. Patrick's Cathedral. The deci- ,sion prompted a spontaneous protest in: .the ooOrtfoom from the defendants' supporters • and fomented a new cynicism••• •among actiVists.

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•. 'fheswiftness of the verdict, deliv\ ~red after just 15 miOutes of deliberation,
shocked even jad¢ o~~, who had
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Though activists had antidpated thedecision, the packed courtroom sat instunned silence as the judge reeled off 21
guilty verdicts and just three acqUittals.
, Each of the defendants was charged with,the ~e four c:ounts of trespassing, .disorderly conduct, disrupting a,-,religiOUS,
service and resisting arrest.
•"Justice! When and where will there
be justice?" one activist~ Bob Rafsky,
stood and screamed Court officers, who
had aowded into the chamber apparently in expectation of commotion follOWing" the verdict's delivery, 'quickly dragged theprotester out of the courtroom. The judge
aJso left during the resulting confusion.
But others in the courtroom took up
the pr~,shoUting out, ..ACI' UP!WExitIng the courtroom in a disorganIZed ~ass,the activists found that barricades had
been erected outside the courtroom's
doors to eliminate access to the rest of thecontingent of, , building, and yet another.
court officers had been deployed to form
.an' intimidating gauntlet to the exit.
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Last week's verdict, handed down on. Nov. 8, cappe.d a full week of testimony,- during which Criminal Court Justice Jo
Ann Ferdinand tolerated no departurefrom the parameters of the case laid out
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Four of the defendants, Charles
King, Ann Northrop, Kathy Otter and Rod
Sorge, were convicted on all ch,arges. The
judge determined that a fifth demonStra.tor, 'Sharon TraµlUtola, was not guilty ofresistmg arrest, While the sixth defendant,
Michael Wiggins, was acqUitted both of
trespassing and of resisting arrest.
Sentencing for all
six defendants is set for,Jan. 7, 1991.
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Prosecutors JamesLin and Daniel Rather,Jr" relied on several ofst. Patrick's'Cathedral'shonorary ushers and thedefendants: arresting of, ficers to build the peer 'pie's case against the Sl,Patrick's Six, bolsteringthat testim'ony with
Videotaped footage ofthe demonstration.
"We believe we
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•testimony, serving as a reminder to thedefense that the wrath of John Cardinal .
O'Connor loomed behind the prosecution. In fact, early in the trial, one church
attorney apparently forgot that he was notconducting the case and spoke directly to. the judge in flagrant violation of court-,
room decorum.
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'son fo~ the DA's office told OutWeeA; and. O'Connor's opposition to AIDS education
and reproductive rights for women,.
declined"to comment further on the caSe.
The defense, on the other hand,"You're all very brave," Cohen tolq
brought activists who participated in thethe defendants after the trial had concluddemonstration to the stand and conduct·. ed, p~omising that none of them would
ed a rigorous cross-examination of the, . end up in jail. Maintaining that Judge ferprosecution's witnesses to underscore Indin~d showed prejudice throughout.theconsistencies in the people's case against
course of the trial, Cohen has vowed that .
the six defendants. '"The defendants' inthe convictions will be appe.aled''tention upon entering St, Patrick's was to~ worship," Lori Cohen, who represented"Political" Trial Thwarted
four of the defendants,
contended
Just one day after the trial commenced,
throughout the trial. Defendants Ann
Cohen called the trial a "fix," and 'in the 'Northrop and Charles King represented
ensuing days of testimony, it became
themselves before the court.
more and more evident that the,jucJge did
Attorneys for the Archdiocese sat in
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retribution fromthe NAP, he said
wherefthe money they collect goes and.
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e.xplaining the NAP connection to peo.' NEW YORK-The
New Alliance
Out Week that eight membersof hisple making 'doha~ions. They get vague
Party is difficult to avoid, , ,•••group were gathered in front of tµe
responses. Nevertheless, the NAP told
Strollers in Greenwich Village enRiviera Cafe on Seventh Avenue
South
OUtWeek that its multiracial, multiethnic,
counter its members soliciting money,•
near West Fourth Street• at about 2:30
and pro-gay politkal movement hasfor the Castillo Cultural Center and thepm when ~ woman walked by'andnothing~to hide: To the contrary, Queer'
East Side Institute for Short-Term PsyVideotaped them. When she 'covered
Nationals ,say that NAP members haveIc,:hotherapy virtually every weekend.
up her working pre'ss pass, they fol~surreptitiously
infiltrated their own(The. party oper:it«;!sboth entities out of
lowed her. Eventually, she told themgroup, creating divisiveness at its meetings. ,a buildiqg on Gran<~ Street in ScHo.)that she was from-::the NationaCThe"Thai's preposterous," said an NAP
Most oftenl passersby
who "take a,Queer Nationals knew that i~wasn't the
moment to .support ~rtistic freedom" , spokesperson, Madelyn CQapman.· "Our••daily sports newspaper, but the organ
members have gone to the meetings
I" and the like sign petitions or give monofthe NAP,the National Alliance.
openly, to dialog. This is becoming iney without ever being told about the
About a half-hour later, Mark said,. creasingly leSs possible." Fulani has said
NAP connection.
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the group moved over to Village Cigars
that Queer Nation's "white Vigilante.
During elections, the same workers'"
on the southwest-corner of Seventh Av" also stump for perennial presidential ... gangs" are "(tarassing and threatening theenue Sduthand.Christopher
Street: andparty's Black campaign workers and thatand gubernatorial candidate Dr. Lenora
began handing out. anti-NAP flyers nextQueer Nation is "racist."
B. Fulani. Voters. encounter Fulani's
to a table where inBut the charges
name on the New Alliance party line information
on lheare no~ without
tbe voting booth. Every summer, its
Castillo
Cultural
precedent. The NAP
drum-beating,red-be'ret
members,
Genter-theSoHohas' a reputation formarch in near-military formation in theart gallery-was distributed. The police
divisive, .disruptive
behavior at thecity's Gay Pride Parade.
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meetings of progressive organizations .. . arrived after being called by the New, And readers of the Vii/age Voice
Alliance leafletters, who 'allegedly said
At least once, NAP members attemptedand Gay .community News are familiarthat they had word that Queer Nation
to have the floorof ACT UP endorse awith accusatioll.$ that the party is "a dan-.
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was there to phy~ically attack them.
rally without disclosing that its purpose
gerous, quasi-facist cult" built on oPPOl-(
Queer Nation members worked
was to kick off one of Fulani's many p0tQnism and misrepresentation, The Voicelitical campaigns,.-out a deal with the police to be allowed
has investigated the party's ties to Lyn,to distribute their flyersabout 200 feet
Jackie Salit, another Party spokesdon La Rouche and Louis Farrakhan.
from wh"re the table was set up. At 4
person, said that Queer Nation is taking
Now Queer Nation, an activist
pm, Mark said,theQueer Nationals
a "crybaby" posture. "They thought they-group promoting lesbian an~ gay liber••
moved 'over to Christopher and Bleeker
could make a name for themselves as .
ation, is jumping.into the fray. They say
streets, where the East Side Institute forbullies," Salit said. "When they came upthat NAP is a cult that' recruits, insecure .
Short-Term·" Psychotherpay ,had tables
against the New Alliance Party, theygay~ off the streets of the Village, forcesc~meup
against
a
group
that
doesn'tonboth corners.
.'them to work 1.0ng hours soliciting• •A half-hour later, Mark said, a Fudeal with bullshit. The ways they'vemoney under false pretenses at tables
lani campaign 'van drove by. (Fulani lostbeen acting they look like they're cops
, set up around Christopher Street and
her recent New York gubernatorial raceor racis~ or both. I'd like to know whogets them involved in the cultural center
against.incumbent Mario Cuomo.) The
they are.",and brainwash'ing
sessions at their'
A public confrontation between theheadquarters in SoHo.
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Recently, Queer Nation has been,Mark, a member of Queer Nation (fearing
confronting the street workers,' asking
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sponsor~d by Queer'Nat'ion last week
anti-gay and anti-lesbian viQlence has
br,~ugh! mayora(liaison.MarjOrie
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before ~'largely sU,pportlve, but occacharged that Hill has not been approprisiopally hostile; crowd, effectively easately attentive to the issue. In fact; during the"~ensionthat has mounted being recent genenll meetings of Queer,
tween ¢e gilYand_lesbian direct-action
Nation, which has been closely associgroup apd HilI.inthe last few months.
ated both with al\\;-violence advocacy_ A1ttiot\gh few observers express.ed
and with criticism of Hill, whenever the· deep. satisfaction with the forum, which
Iiaison',s name came up, members
strayed far afield from'the slated topic
hissed and booed,.
of anti-gay Violence, many thought that
, At the Nov, 5,tOWIlmeeting, how.the meelingfacilitated a long-overdue
ever, an entirely different attitude to•dIalog ~tween African-American, Latiward liill prevailed.
'.. no and wbiteactivi$ts, ','"It took years to get into thisPaise rumors circulated priOl'to themess-it's not going to take four months
forum"however,that Queer Nation
to get out," one member of the audience•planned,tocall.' fot Hill's resignation at theremarked pOintedly, Another partici-.
·event, fqeling anger among her 'supportpant, explicitly locating responsibility
ers and creating a. sense of underlying
for the city's lethargy on the issue oftension that permeated a good deal of . queer-bashing, said, "I hear your comthe exchanges througho\lt the meet.ing,
mitment, Marjorie Hill, but I want to
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~magreed to ask Police Commissioner Lee Brown to meet with lesbian
and gay anti-violence activists, although
she did admit that pulling'.
,off a summit.
like that would be quite a feat She also
stated sharply, in response to a question, that i~uing veiled threats of resignation in the face of mayoral policy decisions with J;hich she did not agree is
not her style.
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Probably the most overtly antago. nisti<i. 'moment: of the evening c,ame
when a white woman from Quee,r Na, tionderisively referred to Hill as a "fashion-plate front for this mayor." Immediately, a dozen African-American women.were on their feet in outrage.
"I'm not going to get in a dia!o.g
about my attire," Hill responded calmly,
dc;:fusingthe confrontation. Throughout
the rest of the forum, Hill jokingly re,.
; called thereptark about he~ ward~obe!\
drawing laughtedromthe 'crowd aQdmaking it more' than clear whose position the participants supported,'
When the discussicm touched on
persistent racism and sexism within thecommunitY of a~ivists, Hill diplomaticalIy remarked, "My style, which' has been
criticized along with my dress, isnot to ..
point fingers.""We spend'far too much time andthis is the story of oppressiotl-picking.
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to decide what the salient issues are."
A broad cross section of social andpolitical groups from both Manhattan, and iheput~r borough~ attended, lend....ing the Qµ~ef';Nation-event a-multicultural and co-sexual patina. "It's not'that
we suddenly wanted to attend a Queer
N~ion meeting;"explainedone,African--:American woman"challenging
forum partic'ipaMs ~o fi,ght ethnQcentrism.
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to a recent boycott initiated by ACf UP/
NY, or~nizers of the 1994 Gay Games
vowed this. week to address at least, ,some of the activists' complaints,"We're not exactly happy about it,"said Janet Malachowsky, a Gay Games
spokesperson, of the nascent boycott.
·We're trying our best to straighten
everything out."
But Joe .Franco, dired.or of pr:ogiams".
Of the lilspanic AIDS Forum and an ACf
UP member, derided the organizer's response as ·spin control" and said that he•would press to continue the boycott untU,
the eight ACf UP demands were met.
ACf, UP ftrst unyeUed its demands at
an Oct. 20 zap at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel, during a Human Rights Campaign
Fund dinner honoring Dr. Tom Wadell,the Gay Games' late fowider.
A flurry of leaflets passed out at thedinner accused Gay Games' organizers of
being insensitive to HIV-positive individuals and neglecting tbe concerns of
women, minorities, the disabled , and the.
financially disadvantaged.
,. Gay Games III, hosted:in vancouver,
Canada, attracted over 10,000 athletic andcultural participants from 29 countries andwas reportedly the largest multi-sport
event, held in the world in 1990.
Gay Games IV, titled Unity '94, havebeen scheduled t9.be held in New York. City from June 20 through July 4, in 1994.
The event wUl mark the 25th anniversaryof the Stonewall rebellion.
On Thursday, hOwever, Franco, who, '. Is spearheading the boycott, had harshwords for the Vanc6uver event andquestioned the decision to move the Gay• Gaines to New york City.
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Malachowsky said that the omission has
the subject for OutW6d<.
since been corrected
She also noted that, whUe in the 1986
By moving the games to New York at
a time when the Immigration and NaturaIOlympics only 25 percent of competitors•
ization Service· has banned all HIV-posiwere women, women made up 43 percentof the athletes in the Vancouver games,
tive individuals from entering the country,
Franco said that organizers "have been
and that Unity '94's 12-member board invery insensitive. They are making a statec1udes fIVewomen, two people who idenmc;nt that the anti-AIDS policies of thistified themselves as "economically disadvantaged" and at least one PWA. The
country don't really matter to them."
Franco also called for more represen- 'group has also acceded to ACf UP detation at the Games for women, minorities
mands to proVide services to the Visually'and the disabled and also demanded thatand hearing impaired
But acoording to Franco, the responseorganizers subsidize food, hOUSing and . I
travel to the games so more lower-incomeof Unity '94 has still not been sufficient.
people could participate,.
Malachowsky said that her organiza~
In a detailed response to ACf UP
tion would continue to work for a solution
with ACF UP and ¢ler gay organ~ions.
charges, a Unity '94 statement reaff'umed"We're called Unity '94," she said. "We inthat "the Gay\Games have been foundedon the principle pf inclusion" and entend to live up to the name."-Mae.- Rosba"
couraged diverse members of the com,,munity to get involved,
According to spokesperson Mala•chowsky, representativesof the Gay,
Games have been attending ACf UP
meetings and are working to resolve theissues brought up by the bOycott. .:"Basically, we think they have Son:tevalid points,· Malachowsky said, "some of(.which we were considering ourselves
even before, ,the boycott. We'll obViously
NEW YORK-Two officials of the.
be dealing
Italian government were arrested last·, with them a little faster now."I
Though she admitted that restricweek at City Hall as they protested thetive immigration laws against AIDS pacity's refusal to distribute clean needles totients were troubling, Malachowsky notintravenous-drug users, refocusing local
ed that recent Congressional decisions
and international attention..on the city polihave ameliorated AIDS-exclusion immicy, which, activists say, allows transmis•
gration policies.
sion of HIV to continue unfettered.
"We think that New York, with all its"We think a real genocide is ~oing on
diversity and with its large concentration'in this country," Emma Bonino, a memberof gay people, is the best place to host. of the Italian Parliament, told a crush o(rethe games in 1994," she said. She also
porters shortly before she was ~rrested.
noted that the Games' second choice
Harshly criticizing New York politicians
destination, Australia, would have been
who have opposed needle-exchange protoo inconvenient and also too costly forgrams, Bonino added, "Human life has tomost participants.
be as dear to them as it is to me and to evMalachowsky denied that Unity '94
ery responsible politic¥.·
had neglected HIV-positive individuals,
Then Bonino and Marco Taradash, a'Though Franco noted, that HIV status wasmember of the Italian delegation to the Eu·'
not included in the official inclusive policy
ropean Parliament, approached City Hall's.statement drafted by the organization,
portals and told the helmeted police offi-'IT. . POUfCOS
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Albert Einstein medical school In New
newchief for the Pood and Drug AdminYork and a lecturer at the Columbia Univ,
Istration and a bnt that may result In lower
ersity School of Law, to hea9 up ,the FDA.
prices for ~ertaln medications, including
Kessler will now rul the void left bythose used to combat AIDS.
,, former FDA.commissioner Prank Young
Scarcely noticed under the pile ofsince he resigned nearly a year ago In\
last-minute measures passed In moments
the midst of an agency-wide scan~1 in,before adJournm.ent,·the health-related
volvlngthe questionable approval ofactions taken by the Congress may have . generic drugs.
, far-reacttlng effects for the battle for AIDS
Although disappointed that the New"
treatments for years.
York pediatrician was confirmed by theWith startling SWiftness, the Senate
Senate without the benefit of a publicquietly approved the nomination ofhearing, AIDS lobbyIsts were hopeful,.
David A. Kessler, rrtedical director of theabout working with Kessler on the ap/

proval of AIDS drugs.
"We look forward to working together,· said Jeff Levl"lobbyist for the AlpS
Action Council. "He is a pediatrician fromthe Bronx. At worst, just from experience
he will have a keen understanding ofAIDS, so, we'll see.·
The Orphan Drug Reform Act was also approved, which' will close loopholes
in existing law which have allowed drug
companies to continue exclusive marketing rights to drugs treating disease thatstrike a small number of people.
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that management at the I
Dally News had contact\- ed minority Journalists'groups to recruit replacements for striking
reporters, Rim Shotsphoned to find out .Kgay- and lesbian scabs arewelcome at New York's ,by ANDREW MILLER
hometown paper.':.
"We are commltted to a diverse work force," said News spokesperson Vlr- :glnla Woo. Pressed as to whether such a work force Included !
the queer nation, Woo continued, "We will not speak to thespecifics of our contingency plans.".
While Wo-o said that 150 members of the union that Includes Journalists and advertising staff had returned to theirjobs, one reporterwho never left her post at the News Is gosslplst LIz Sm~h, whO does not belong to the union.
Black, latlno and Asian Journalists' groups have re- .
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A committee of the school's student senate rejected
their nominations because their respective organizations, theUS armed forces and the South African Anglican Church, discriminate against gay men and lesbians, according to the
New York Law JOlJrnal.
A university policy prohibits such discrimination on
campus. The decision led to a protest and petition, both ofwhich were rebuffed.

-SUI THE BASTARDS: Two men who say that drug
enforcement agents beat them up and called them "faggots"
after a minor traffic accident are suing, And the ACLU saysthat the case Is the first to nail federal employees and thegovernment Itsen for an anti-gay attack. I.
. Ironically, the Drug Enforcement Agency, an arm of the
US Justice Department, is charged by Congress this year tocollect statistics on hate-motivated crimes.
. On Nov. 16, 1988, lovers Marc Anderson and Jeffrey
Grubb w,ereallegedly attacked and beaten by three DEA employees after the couple's motorcycle scraped the agents'
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Carter, New York Gov. Marlo Cuomo, New Jersey Sen, Bill
Bradley arid United Nations Secretary General Javier Perez de, Cuellar may speak at Columbia University Law School's graduation ceremQnles this May. But Chairman of the Joint Chiefsof Staff Colin Powell and South African Anglican Archbishop.
Desmond Tutu will not.

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WASHINGTON-AIDS activists are
issuing a challenge'to pharmaceutical.
companies, fe4eral reg\llato~y and'research agencies, 'and scientists .tocqoperate in a novel plan to ~ke treatable by May 1992 five lethal opportunistic infections that commonly occur in\people with AIDS. These entities ha~enever work.ed together in, the mariner
aCtivistsfor years have wanted them to:
The pl~rr requires cooperati9n andirifor~a.ti6n sttaring. Will it succeed?
That dependS' on whether the participants
act as an independent body.
The activists say that the Imedical technology and know-how already exist.
The plan, called "Countdoy..n 18" Months,· was put together by members '.</. of ACf UP/NY and is endorsed by ACf.UP~ and AIDS .and gay groups from,across the country. A press conference
annoUncing, the plan was scheduled for
Nov..,12, On the opening clay of a federal"goveinment AIDSconference here.
'Most of the AIOS drµg research inthe.'US is targeted- toward
the human•. immunodeficiency
virus, Yet HIV
doesn't kill., It does suppress the
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People with cancer are following
A~ UP's lead by challenging t,he FDA
and other government agencies to doaway. with red tape in the developrftent
and approval process for drugs theyneed. A new group, CAN-ACf, is asking for nothing less than the right tohave access to experimental medications, just".as peqple with AIDS have.been dOing,· ... The human.im(llun-.
odeficiency virus may, get a big kick. from cocaine. Recently, researchers fromthe University of Minnesota reported\

HIV multiplies three times faster in thetest tube when exposed to the drug,
The Associated Press quoted one of'the. researchers, Dr, Ronald Shut, assaying that the same process could
occ.ur in people, Shut presented ihis
finding at a medical meeting; it is notyet, published, ••• A. curiosity, or
something to worrY about? New York
Newsday reported on Nov, 1 (Oct. 31
in some editidn's) that ddl, BristolMyers Squibb's answer to AZf now inclinical trials,
may cause a bigher-than.
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originally-thought incidence of pancreatitis. Bristol-Myers says that pancreatitis occurred in almost 2 percent of
15,000 patients. Two Philadelphia
researchers saw pancreatitis in 63 percent of 51 people with AIDS on ddt
Newsdayquoted .one of the r~archers,
Dr, Chester Maxson, as saying: "I think.that it's going to turn out to be a great
drug. But there's no question we. haveto work on the pancreatitis, and weought to take a good look at it before
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Strah, "but we have to,do somethingstatewide environmental bond issue
about it That's the way people feel, andreferendum
as evidence of a low liberal,
the first time that the high court has ever
we have to res~d to each other.·turnout in an election that insured Cuo•
acted in favor of gay and lesbian mili-outWeek also spoke with many
mo's Victory.
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people of color within the group. "In
And with a Democratic governor
Gay and lesbian activists who haveany group there are racists,· said Erroland state Assembly in place, the future, lobbied hard for the end of the Defenseof legislation important to the gay anq
Edwards. "I'm sure those issues exist at
the New Alliance Party.·
Department's ~ti-gay poliCieSwere julesbi~n community will OAceagain de'bilant, despite the narrowness of the apAs for Queer Nation, Edwards saidpend, on the actions of a hqstile, Repubpellate'deciSion.
that they were actively recruiting
licanT<iomihated Senate, headed by ma" "It will help us chip away' 'at th~.jority leader Ralph Marino, who handily
African Americans, Latinos and Asians
through ,their outreach program. Theyw()~ reelection in his Long Island dis~epartment of [)e,f~nse's deep!y irra~·
tio~al .policy.,~ sai.d· Robert Bray,
are also setting up coalitions with othertrict.\ast week.
.'~Unless
Ralph Mar!no says,'I amgroups, but probably n~t the !';lAP.
,.spOkesper~n for·the.l'I~~ional 'G~y ~~ ,,.
·Lesbian task Force. "Thi~is a victory for . going to put this on the agenda,' then it"We're trying to make ,Queer Nationon~ soldier who has served. weU:Out it's . '. will not go on to the agenda, - Piel
more representative of our community
good news for the ~ooSandsand thou- , opined. While some lobbyists say thatat large,· he said.
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Marino. has shown a new willingness to·sands of~he~ ~Idiers, many of whom
Andrew Velez,,a Latino member ofllfe stationed in SaUdiArabia right now.· . pialogue with gay advocates, his repuQueer Nation, said that the issues aretation has left others less hopeful. In.
Massachu~etts De,mocratkRep.
skewed, "Queer Nation has stung them
. Bainey Frank, ·who has p1~ged to takeone voter survey, Marino indicated his. enough so they're going on the offensupport for Cuomo's bias bill, although
sive instead of dealing witb homophoin th~ i$sUeof Plessuring tl1e,'Pentagon· to Change its policy, called the decision'
he ultimately voted against it.
bia within the New Alliance Party,· he· a "V~ory for Watkins·'.but added that it .
. ~ut the additional clout attending
said. "A~far as Queer,Nation is con'. wouldn't'affect the,fight to rescind thethe start of his second term as majority
cernea, it's very commi~ted to being a·Paicy one way'or .th,eother.
healthy rainbow mixture. It's not proleader, together with his party's strong"How would .that giv~ us ammlini- . · shOWing in the Senate races, may alter
ductive to get irivolved in this kind of. the tenor of debate. . .
tion?· .asked the operly,gay congress-,
stuff. Let them twist slowly inJhe wind·. man;" All"it said waS, if you: take a per"This has firmed Ralph Marino's
Velez described a sheeplike obedison ioana,know he's gay, you can't,
statur~,· added Pride Agenda's c<H:hair, - ence he observed at an NAP meeting.
kick' him out for that This is not a deciLibby.Post. "I hope he will really be"You are su~dto accept wholes:de· sion, unforturiately, that says the. anti- ' able to lead. The flip side: Nothing will
what's going on,· he said. The racial
gay thing is wrong,· he added. "It just ' happen.·.
charges,he said, obscured the group's,· says [to the ArmY!that' you can't have it,-flied/rom New York . mandate. "If your skin is not brown
and, you speak against'someone withboth ways:.
TE'NSIONS
Calls to Rep. Gerry Studds, another.
brown skin, you're inevitaoly called
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Queer
Nationals yelled, "Liar! Shaµ1e!
sachusetts, and other members 'of,
live their lives wearing gloves and, .,.Congress working on rescinding the:Homopohobe!· at it.
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brown paper bags over their heads. "I, At 9:30 pm the next day, about 300
Pentagon's ban on,gay and lesbian perdon't want to be distracted and,side- ,Fulani supporters came to Sheridan
sonnel went unreturned .•.
tracked; he said.
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G'OP
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ther charged Queen Nation with dis-"The telling factor in these lo~ses
exactly what it wants: a shatteredpatching "white Vigilantegangs to harass
was that Cuomo did not have any coatgroup. Steve Quester, a Queer National,· and threaten Bla~ suppOrters of Dr, Fu· tails,· said Parrish, who also suggested
spoke for himself when he said fhat thelani on the streets of this .community;that the pro-choice strategies of DemoN~wAlliance Party has "a long history
Further Complicatingmatters are charges
cratic Senate contenders brought out aof drawing out progressive people andof racial bias directed at Queer Nation
legion of anti-abOrtion voters .
groups ..Queer Nation has fallen slamfromwithinthelesbianandgaycommuDemocratic
Senatecandidates'
into that trap ..I'm not interested in fight.nity, stemming from the activist group's
were also outspent by their Republican
ing those lunatics.·
recent vocal criticism of mayoral liaison· opponents by as much as 3-to- i in
Apparently, many Queer Nationals
Marjorie Hill, who is Black..
· some races. Candida Scott Piel, the forare not interested either. "If that's true,·
Interestingly, Queer Nation memmer}head of a New York City gay poIltMark said, "I'll drop it.·...
bers do not d'eny that racism exists
ieal actiori committee that is now part
among members of the group. But they
- ofthePrideAgenda,
called the senate
deny that race is at the rOot of their anraces "a RepubliCan primary that the
Democrats sat out. •tagonism toward the NAP. "We have tostop saying we're not racist,· said David
Piel pointed to the failure of the
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The Stonewall Dem-And though the appointees to the com• mission represent much of New York's
fabled diversity, a gay' or lesbian commissioner is conspicuously absent,~ ocratic Club Wepub- '.' . \ r-;: licans registered aswhich ma.kes.it all the more crucial thatj Derpocrats) endorsed 'we have a strong lesoian and gay pres-'.9 Jacqueline
Silberente at the public hearings. Among~ mann for 'Surrogate's..i_~, .
those testifying from our community
Court in the Demo- pr\:'""
were Human Rights Campaign .Fund
cratic primary. Silbermann' ran a poor board member Howie Katz, Pride Agenfourth behind candidates, Eve frelI)inger da Acting Executive Director Lisa Parand Lew Friedman, who both did well rish,, Tom Duane, Ga,y andLesbian.
in traditional gay voting areas, and Independent Democrats. President John
upstart Arlene Harris. You'll frdnember Magisano, GUD campaign chair Rodrickthat the Stonewall Qub worked against Dial and state Asssembly member-electDeborah Glick's election, to theDeborah 'Glick,. stateAssembly in this year's prip1ary andYou may want to express youragainst Tom Duane's City CoU!1cilbid
last year. (In the Duane race, it ~dOrsed
the comatose incumbent~rol Greitzer;)
The endorsemen(of Silbermann by
a gay organization puzzled m3:ny atfirst,.but now heads are. nodding, andpeople think that they've seen the light.
Several moths after the Stonewall
endorsement, Jason Worth (a Stonewall\Ch.ib me.~b<;r and a law secretary).' became a hou~ing court judge, As
Administrative Judge of the Civil Court,
Silbermann played a role in Worth's
selection. Judge Silbermann, when,re,achedby'phone, made,it quite clearthat there was no quid pro quo and thatno deal. .. had been struck. She main- /, ta.ined that Worth went through theprocess as anyone. else would. I guessthat coincidences do happen.
own feelings bout haVing a lesbian and••. .-The New York City Districtin'g Com- gay district by testifyirig before themission held itS first .Manhattan Public \ commission yourself. Tell them that
Hearing at IS 131 on Forsythe Street on gay is angry, gay is proud, and gay is, , . Nov. 1. You'll recall that when the new demanding. The next Manhattan hear"city chart~r was~ritteri, calling' for the ing is on Nov, 27 at 177 Ft Washington
creation of 51 City Council seats, gays .Ave. (at West 167thStreet), and there,
and lesbians were left off the list of are other heafings 'scheduled during
minorities deserving their ,own district. December in Brooklyn and Queens.
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for a Council seat inhext- year's election. The Council elections are stillslated for next year since the Districting Commission is mandated to havecompleted its work by then. The ideal
winn~ble seat for a gay candidate is a \West Village-Chelsea
district.
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Avenue thaUs, if she in fact decides torun again, Greitzer, though comatose, isreportedly marrying into money andthus may retire: Bella Abzug's youngest
daughter is also looking at the seat. .I
think that our community needs anopen representative at' the Council
table-my money is on Duane,

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WNYC-TV,and in 1985, he was the
Vito had already turned his political ',Vito Russo, well-known author, lec- national publicity director for the Acade- attention to the AIDS crisis, and he was ahirer and activist In the gay rights and my Award-winning documentary, The frequent speaker at ACT UP meetings,
AIDS move,rpents, died peacefully on Nov. Times of Harvey Milk.
demonstrations and fund-raisers. In
7 at .the age' of 44. Plans for a memorial
1986, along wtth five other people, he and'service Willbeannounced
shortly.
I became co-founders of the Gay and .les'.'!
I fltst:Vtto. In 1'970. He was on
bian Alliance Against Defamation In order~he express track then',rushlng from his
to fight the negative effects of the media.
part-time job as a walter to the' protests
on' gay people and people with AIDS. In
and/polltl.cal,meetl'ngs~of the Gay
his writing, he continued the struggle to
Activistsbring the public awareness of media dis.
. Alliance wtth a sandwich hastilytuc~ed Into his sU~de shQulderbag. He
tortions of gay lives until the end of his: hadiJa Maste~s degree In film from New
life. In his final film review he said:
Yor~ Unlv,er,~ity;,but he. preferred 'to, put. "I 'haye alw~ys maintained that judg- " ,his ;edllcaliori to wo'rk at the GAA FlreIng the gay content of art should never be '~ou$e, where' ~e qrganlzed. ali-night film
a case of whether. the presentation Is ,festivals .. F.orthe 1frsHirne, .we watched.
'good forgay People: It's never that sim•these "!ovles with aoall-gay audience,'>.,,'
ple. I always try to take Into account the .'"laughlng,at,hiddengay'lnnuendoes'and " .~~~,~,
apparent ,Intent or-the artist aswell:as' the~",mak,lng sassy comments at the screen ~"context In which lesbians and gays are 1
whlJhev~(\v~ found ~omethlng hom.opresented....While heterosexual characters ~phobic 'or, just plain ,sexy. His favorite
In art are routinely presented In a balanced ~. . episode Was the time he showed Nightway, this has never been true of gays.:...
of thetlvlng Dead and a lesbian In theGays have an unbroken tradition of being ~back yelled out, "Save me a,breast!"".
. played as,elther: buff~o,ns or villains.',: ,. ,.,t,i'··, The gay polltlcl'ans .atthattlme,~
Although 'he:neverouledanyone ";;!E, .
....weren't ~ure that watching movies' was'"'By that time, hls~lover; Jeffrey Sev- himself: he p'erslsteritly attacked the closthe best road to gay liberation, but Vito' clk, had been diagnosed with AIDS, and eted actors, writers and directors of Holk~ew t~athe was on to ,something. He Vito closed his New'York apartmentto be lywood as the sourg{! of homophobia In
h1d begu~ to see the patterns In the way with Jeff In San Francisco. A few months films. "The truth will set you free," hegay and lesblan.characters··.wereportrayed later, he was'~iagn9sed himself, but. was fond of saying, "but first It will make 'In....-.orerased frorn-:-those films. By then aside from KaposI's sarcoma, his healtH you miserable."he had a job at the film d$partment of theMuseum of Modern Art, and he was able ''to begin his research In earnest. Eventual,lY: Itgrew I~to his 19~1book The Celluloid C/ose( (revised In 1987) and Into his
film-lecture
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over 200 COlleges,unlversttles.and muse.urns In the United States, Europe andI
Australia, Including Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Columbia, the .Amerlcan and Swedish· Film Insfltutes, the Chicago and Berlin.
Film Festivals, the Public Theater and theMuseum of Modam Art. " .
. . After two years at the museum, he·. became a freelance 'writer and publishedessays, reviews and Intervisws in New,.
York, Esquire, NewsdaYi Rolling Stone, remained. stable; and he was able to conIn th~ early months of this year, he· . t~ Village' Voice,' the' New York.Native tinue his work. When Jeffrey died in was able to bring his two loves, activism .~arid the Advocate. He wrote material for 1986, Vito made a panel. for the AIDS and film, together In a pair of courses heseveral performers, Including Lily Tom- quilt, which became the subje.ct of Aob taught at the University of California/Santa
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mixed up. To guara~tee accuracy, two ELISAs for· each
person are done simultaneously.
The Western blot test is used to confirm a positive
ELISA,which occurs in the city's lab in about 20 percent ofsamples. With the Western blot, a serum sample is placed ona strip of film, or nitrocellµlose paper, tQat, when' chemicrally
treated and gently rocked back and forth, will reveal the
separate, structural gene products of the HIV antibody.
Whereas the ELISAreacts to the whole antibody, the Western
blot reacts to these separate genes. Because. the genes,
known' as gag, pol and env, have different weights, they
appear at three separate places if HIV antibodies are present.
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he New York City health department runs a state-of- The Western blot takes five hours to produce results.
It is the opipion of research scientist Dr. Michael Heller,
the~art, automated lab at 455 First Ave., where It
proceSses 1,400 tests per day. (Many, labs that don't who works at the lab, that the ,automated system provides
have the volume do the t~st manually.) With the for unsurpassed quality control.
":rhe errors 'are few and far between,· Heller claims.
ELISA,a small am()unt of serum is mixed with agentsthat wUl turn yellow after two to three hours If HIV "I can't recall an error result getting. out lof the lab.· He 'antibodies are present. A machine called a dilutor measures notes that his lab does proficiency testing (establishing
the correct amount of serum and places It on a small tray, a accuracy) and licensing of other labs. "We have to set the _mlcrotiter plate, with 96 holes, or wells twelve across, eight' standards here," Heller says. As for accuracy: !'The test is ~down., Some of the w:ells,. are used as controls, but about 90 accurate to what it's measuring. You have to know what ~I:jare filled with serum samples from that many people. The you're measuring.·
Wherr the ELISA was introduced as a blood-screening
dilutor u~es laser bar~codlng to ensure samples don't get

to labs to gauge uniformity of test- results as part of its
Model Performance 'Evaluation Program. In June, the CDC,
released results from 752 labs retufning samples in 1988
and 1989. Correct matches on the first part of the twopart antibody
test, the ELISA (enzyme-linked
immunoassay), were 99.3 percent in 1988, 99.4 percent in
1989. Correct matches .on the second, confirmatory
Western blot, were' 97.8 percent in 1988, 98.4 percent in
1'989. Ideally, the p~rticpating labs should have beenable to match all samples. But, of course, no one could
or would e~pect that.
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these people are poor Blacks and Hispanics who use the in her neighborhood will get much worse.
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In the past one and one-half years, WARN has counseled 130•
system. They may be in poor health because they have never women. "But we're not only talking about 130 women," she says.
. . .been followed at a clinic or seen by any doctor. A large .''There's also 2.5 children and possibly a husband(" ,And with few" percentage 'have no Idea that they are HIV-positi.ve. H~alth services for women, there are even less for children. "How would· officials believe that as many as 350,000 New Yorkers are foster care handle 6,000 children? Those are the realities that
Infected, with 15 percent tested. Last N9vember, the Citizens happen after testing. It's .labor Intensive, time consuming andCommission on AIDS, a New York City-based nonprofit group, costly. I just don't know if the money will ever be there.", issued a report criticizing the health system for ignoring the
Body Positive,. a Manhattan-based support organization.;"hidden populations," such as people of color who deny'that
for tllose who test positive, also believes that "the counseling.
they are gay, even though they regularly have gay sex.
part Is essential, and testing is only valuable with adequate.: New York was to receive a windfall. Federal AIDS disaster medical care," according to Its director of support services,
legislation signed by George Bush-the Ryan White AIDS care Karen Solomon. The Gay Men'S Health Crisis concurs. Up tobill, allOcated $550 million to the city and state over five years. two and one-half years ago, the AIDS seryice organization was
New York will now: get a fraction of that amount, a victim of-' saying, "Don't take the test." Now it says, ~'Thinkabo.ut it." ,Congress' across-the~board budget cuts..M~nwhile, the city has
Body Positive/Houston
has a different attitude. In
said that It would earrnark'$14 millloll,fQr housing and medical September, it began agresslvely encouraging testing.
treatment In shelters. Activists have criticized the plan, charging, Houston's mayor, Kathryn J. Whitmire, declared Septem.ber
among other Issues, that shelters are Inappropriate places to treat "Get-Tested-Now" month. While the group Is aiming at the.
'people with AIDS. Now that testing is aggressive~ encouraged city's gay population, handing out testing information ,on palm
and there's some money available, the citY's hospitals and clinics cards, it says that it will also promote testing among others inmust provide the necessary care. Or can they?
communities at high risk of HIV infection.
i "When I hear 'testing,~ t go nuts," says Marie St. Cyr,
According to the CDC in its National Health Interview
director of the Women and AIDS Resource Network In Brooklyn. Survey, young and educated men and women-white, Black or'When yo~ don't have the medical resources, what good Is it to Hispanic-were more likely to have been tested than those who. push pressurized testing?" WARN provides counseling and were older and less educated.
More men than women get tested,,education to 'Black women and Latlnas In Its area. CllnIcs in St. ' and more whites take the test than Blacks or Hispanics. Most of'.
Cyr's neighborhood are not equipped to treat HIV-positivethose getting tested do so when they are donating blood.
women, hospltals'refuse patients, and Infonnatlon on drug trials-P.R.C.

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hen both parts of the antibody test are·test, followed by a Western' blot test only for the resolution ofnegative but HIV is suspected, one of anonspecific patterns, is ,the most efficient and cost-effectjve
number of ,experimental
tests can detectmeans of performing reportable HIV serologic findings in a
HIV directly. These tests are not widely
population with any appreciable prevalence.· They blame theavailable and 'are so highly sensitive that
FDA for not approving agef1ts that would allow wider use ofcontamination
can easily
rendera,this test. Another drawback,· they admit, is that the test can useless result, and their general use is limited by the
only be performed by trained technicians.
cost of the technology.'
The perception of the usefulness of the EUSA!Westem ,blct
Many see polymerase chain reaction as the high-tech
has shifted ~ver time. This.is what then-US Health and Human . answer to confinn the virus in cases of latent HIV. With peR,
Servloes Secretary Margaret M. Heckler was quoted in The New a probe isolates a DNA molecule from a blood sample. The
Yen 7fmes as sayfrig when the telItS were I4PProved in 1985: "It is genetic material is put through a series of heating and cooling
important to stress that not all those with positive test results will cycles, doubling each time. After a few hours, enough DNA is·go on to develop AIDS. All our scientific evidence to date . cultured to detelll!.ine the direct presence of HIV.
indicates'that ahhough many people may have'been exposed toInvestigatolS would like to see peR used as a routine·the AIDS Virus, only a few will a(iUaIIybecome ill.· But a recent test, along with the ELISA/Western blot" when in<;iicated.
study in San Francisco showed that 79 percent of 345 men Mayer explains some of the problems: The machine costs·known to have been infeded since 1980 developed symptoms. about $50,000; with the necessary' peripherals, the cost can
Much has been learned about HIV in fIVeand one-half yealS.
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the way· ot~ers do, - says Mayer, who is also chief of design is without flaws. Their skeptiCism is fueled by the fact
infectious diseases at the Memorial Hospital. in Pawtucket, that no Widespread aberrations in the progression of HIV are
RI.. He adds that there are' no reports of people remaining occurring. "If the Emory ~tudy is true,· Mayer comments,
antibody-negatiVe despite haVing AIDS symptoms, what he "we'd have to re<:<;>nsider
things, but there are no trends tocalled the -do-not-pass-go- phenomenon. He stresses that 99 suggest a radical shift in HIV ~nfection.·'I percent of those with silent HIV will develop
antibodies.Still, the studies continue. Researchers from Turku,
within a year of testing.
Finland, and La Jolla, Calif., reported using a technique called
One new antibody test has garnered curiosity in the time-resolved fluoroimmunoassy to detect HIV antibody in 20
medical community. In May, researchers from Emory 'out of 20 samples tested The ELISAdetected,antibody in 16.
University in Atlanta published a paper in the Proceedings of Moreover, the authors reported finding antibo9Y 16 days
tbe National , Academy of Sciences reporting on a technique earlier than with other te~ts, suggesting that they have athat they used to discern HIV antibodies-pokeweed
highly sensitive test that can· shorten the latency period. At
mitogen assay-which revealed 18 percent more positive the ,Sixth International Conference on AIDS in San Francisco, results when compared with the same blood subjected to the last June, a number of posters gave data on enhanced\ EUSA!Western blot. In. a~otherstudy published about a year EUSA/Western blot tests that, the authors claim, are at least.1,
as sensitive and specific as the conventional twostep process. In some of these presentations,l,claims were made that the test not only isreac~ive to HIV-1, the strain iilfecting people in,Western countries, but also HIV-2, seen primarilyin Africa. Many of the presenters were affiliated,with the commercial labs that developed thesetests. (There's big money at stake. The National
Cancer Institute's Dr. Robert C. Gallo and the
Pasteur rns~itute's Luc Montagnier split the
royalties earned from the ELISA/Western blot.
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Other te~ts can rapidly detect HIV antibodies
in saliva or urine. Some companies would like to,\market theSe tests for home use, Experts say that
this pose~ problems by circumventing standard,
operatingtesting procedures,
especially,
escheWing counseling before and after the test is.
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ago, resear~ers using an aptibody test that seeks out a gene administered. A1~, experts note, these tests can be misusedprotein called tax, not detected with ELISA!Western blot, by those wanting to verify their own antibody status arid thatfound HIV antibodies
in 7 of 162. (i1 percent). high-risk, of their partner before having sex, as a way to determine.,
antibody-negative subjects: But as with 'all studies, critics are whether unsafe sex is a possibility, Urine and saliva tests are
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An argument health officials ar!! using to encourage testing
Is the official FDA approval to prescribe AZJ for asymptomatic. HIV-positive people whose T4 cells In the blood fall below acertain number. Low amounts of 'T4 cells, al,so called CD4, are.an!~dlcator of railinglmmljnity. A normal count is 800 to 1,200, .' cells per cubic millimeter ot blood. The FDA recently approved'. AZT In a regimen of 100 mg five times per day forasymptomatiC HIV-posltlve Individuals ~hose T4 cells are 500
or less. Those with private doctors were following lhis regimen- long before the govemment appro.ved it. Burroughs Wallcome
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there is hope. You can' offer treatment programs. You can get[nvolved; So screen, test for and'treat HIV disease." This upbeat
advice to phYSiCianscomes from a company that sells the only
approved anti-HIV drug and for a retail price of about $136 for a
20-day supply (500 mg per day).
Until the federal government launches a comprehensive
national prevention program and the highest quality health careis available to all, AIDS Resource Network's Marie St. Cyr says,"people don't see where to tum."-P.R.C.

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unsafe sex practices, the ~Russian Roulette
phenomenon.·He advises to ·continue- pra~icin,g ~er sex-and .if you te~ positive, things, will not quick way to verify infection and.get treatment started. But, tum around overnight. • He also said that one should get investigators like Mayer have mixed feelings about PCR andtherapy or another form of Sijpport. Meanwhile, those who other tests that measure the virus directly. Mayer credited~ test negative should continue safer-sex and assume that AIDS activists and people with AIDS for challenging
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Ultimately, getting tested Is' a personal decision. No support group rather than having the bureaucracy do it for
matter what AIDS serVice providers or, government health you. If I hadn'tthe support, I'd be up shit's creek:'.
officials say about It, no matter what medical good may comeAs an AIDS activist and an AIDS counselor, Rebecca, 32,
out.of It" it all bolls down to what an Individual person thinks is is concerned about labels and how they affect her credibllity.1, best for him or"her.
With so many men involved, she says, a women's cl~im to.
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activism is marginal. And .if you happen to be negative, well,Counseling and Testing) about a year ago. He suspected that he "you don't have a right to speak." She is "inexplicably•
might be positive and welcomed the' counseling before blood negative." For years she was bisexual; now she's an I.
was drawn: "It seemed like the counselor was there for me."'unabashed lesbian. Two men whom she has had unprotected
Two weeks later, Chris returned for another counselingsex with are positive. About two years ago, she was living withsession and his tes.t re$ult. His lover accompanied him for an "ever-so-gay" man. Both were very sick. Both were AIDS
support, someone to be there no matter what the outcome. But activists and were well informed. "At some point we boththe counselor forbid Chris' lover to be In the room, saying that assumed we were HIV positive," she says. "There was no _partnerS tend to get angry on hearing the result, and he didn't question." Yet neither wanted to get tested. At that time,
want to deal with the potential hysteria. "I 'felt I'should have the approved drugs for A)DS and its complications were still aright to have my lover there whether he freaks out or not," Chris novelty. "I felt like a fool because I was counseling andsays. "The guy-who I thought was sympathetic-wasn't."
educating people about HIV," Rebecca recalls.
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Eventually, her boyfriend got tested; the result was positive.
bad news for you," aM then handing him some pamphlets; Their relationship changed. She wanted to continue having sex,\
one-was a brochure for Body Positive, which he joined, ,finding' .while he was "flipped out." Two months later, she recalls, "I was,.
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'getting sicker and Sicker, he was healthier and healthier:' She. "I ,Question whether there was a human touch to it," Chris needed to get tested but refused to go to an ACT site. AIDS
. says. "I was prepared to hear the news." When the counselor counselors know each other. She wouldn't have anonymity .
. told Chris that he'd tested positive and began to explain the.' Instead, a friend Slipped her into a study at the Cdmmunity" . , meaning of the result, all Chris wanted was ''to get out and see Health Project. The result:' negative. "I felt extremely, relieved\ . my lover." The counselor was obviously a family man. Photos and extremely guilty." She knew that her result,}'Vould affect herof his wife and children were prominently displayed. "How is relationship. "Once we both knew," she says, "he couldn't deal'. he .tuned Into the Clients he is .servlng~" ChriS wonders. "How with me at all anymore." They split up. Ironically, her roommate
was he trained to deal with homosexual men?"kic~ed her out of the apartment because she thOUght Rebecca\ His advice: "Before you go, get a support network going had AIDS.
because you may not get It there. start creating your own
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the existence of options. I imagined several
Then I broke the seal on the hatbox
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before me. That was, ofcourse, .some months ago. Certain' other cir~that the box was empty. From the time
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I leave the room, I could not smoke. As choices go, I wouldn't
then', the appointed
have chosen these.
I'.',. hour struck, and bells rang Ominously in
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night~ when all of the restaurants and shops and Stands werethe elevator bank one man ~patiently pressing the down
closed, and the guests were not coming and going. At least
button as thoughthat would bring the elevator faster-but .
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within the room I was free to smoke, to watch Marne on theeach car that arrived was filled to capacity. I joined several
pay-per-view channel, to read my own copy of Johnny Panicothers racing"Q.ownthe stairwell, ,and we poured out into. theand, thtl Bible of Dreams or the hotel's complimentary copy teeming lobby. I pushed toward the center of this frantic
melee and hoped that Julian could somehow find me. Every~of L'Etranger, to wait for the word some word, any word.
body seemed to be meeting somebody, joyously embracing
But at one moment, long after I'd stopped hoping (orwhatever I did that passed for hope, since that's not a com~ and hunying off arm in arm.
, It went on like that for hours. Sometime close to noon,
modity iI,lwhich I deal), the miraculous did, in fact, occur. At·some moment when' I was once more lost in contemplation
thelobby was fmally empty except for a couple of bellhops.
and myself, and sinkingly I realiz€;d that the assignation wasof Camus' "terrifying picture of a man ,victimized by life itself'(according to the jacket blurb), the sun came up.
And .asnot going to happen. The desk clerk said that there were no
messages in my box. The newsstand was sold out of papers.
soon , as'"'"the
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up,.
the
clock
startedrunning,andthe",
The restaurant was closed between breakfast and lunch. I
telephone rang, and I 'answered iminediately. An electronicalcould either smoke or go back to my room. I went back to\ ly altered voice identifi,ed itself as ."Julian," the person whose
request had brought me to this place. He said that he would . my room and stared at the empty hatbox. Only the words 'Yes~
meet me in the .lobby in exactly one bour. He said for me to" terday" and "tomorrow" sttll kept some meaning, wrote
Camus. Today, on the other hand, was still quite elusive. T
be on time. I asked how I would recognize him.!
·..i'If you wear the hat," he said, "I will recognize you."
And when he hung up, . I experienced a thrilling libera(AN YOU
11t FlIrU/Z€: '•tion, a relief that; whatever this dark journey had been' about,·it was Igoing to reach its culmination. Suddenly charged with~~IAN~. .anticipation, I took a shower: and began to dress. While I wasbarely able ~o suppreSs' my eagerness, I took special care in·my preparations, because the gradual erosion of possibilities
had turned this moment into one of great significance on ;by Kris Kovick·which everything in the world
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whO()plng your cookies in the bathroom. I thought I'd have
. A week or so later, our fearless duo sbcJws.up someto go out alon~ and would never make It back.
where perbaps equally as frigbtenenin8"-tbe Mr. spike ConNo more bad Chinese food for me. I was justtest at tbat bastion of bypermasculinityof the same name. ,.
• .afraid we wouldn't get a cab.
.(The emcee announces tbat tbere is no contestant numberSydneya Everybody ""ho stayed in said, ·Oh, you cansix. HB is /atB.),I
never g~t a cab on Halloween. Sydney. DamnlThey sure are picky. "Those tardy willLIz. We got one to Palladium, and boy, was it mobbed.
'not receive fruit tup."S If this were a hOUsc;lball, We'd.'still
Sydney., That's what, happens when door people'
be waiting....·"-"
spend all their time schmoozing. . .
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. . Uza Oh look, they have a ,sign interpreter.
LIz. That poor man who, ci()es Club MTV's fashion tips'
Sydsteyl That's very 'concious of them.' But I need a
couldn't g~t in. '.
hankie' interpreter. What does', a black hankie on the left
Sydney. Please! He was nasty and pushed every- 'mean? Why did f!veryone,~ems shocked at that brown one?
body out, of his way. The, se.cut:\ty people, fi.n~Uybad JO'
Uza Well, if you wea~ it on your left, it means, ..
let him in! • Witbout]ull_,You're Notbing. -1 Then you
A witty leatherman: Must be ladies'. night.
walked In the door and hit all these TV cameras filmingSydneyl
Very,funny. Go away before I spray you with
Suzanne Bartsch2 and c~mpany doing, her makeup in
my perfume;,
the front lobby.· ".
Uza At least you don't have three men following you. LI7.: It ~ a derncilstration of the truth behind the illusion. around, saying "Hey, guy, how's it hanging?" (It doesn't,
Sydneya Oh, excuse me. I didn't realize it was highGet it, buster?)thealer ...sorry. It's nOt just a' Halloween party. It's a dramatI Syncley: What ate they being judged 'on? Best phoneIe experience. . .- ' . '\<'.:. "".'.
sex demeanor?
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LIz: The ~aln floor...·'"Uz: That's later. They dress up in full gear and talkSydney:, ..looked a' whole lot like Copa. It was like a . about what ,turns them on.
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Sydney: (looking back to the stage) A contestantnight at an Elks Club. .
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. named Johnny Rod. How suQtle.
Uz: The dancing leathermen were my favorites. The
LiZ': I think he's going to ·w·in,. As a matter of fact, I
jugglers, the .
,.'-',know he will.
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Sydney: How do you know?',
asking her, "00 you really swallow those?"
Uza Trust me. As much as these pageants are touted as
Liz: Oh, I'm sorry, Ms. Brill had the coup of thepersonality contests, the judges will still end up voting withevening. Only she would have enough guts to come as her
their fleshyappendages,6\4.
, estl'anged husband's new girlfr'iend.
. ,Sydney: Yes, but Toni [Senec,al](The amount of leather has heatedup'" the room to an uncomfortablecame 'as Dian~, too.
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degree.).
,Uz:Yes; .and Rudolf came as him- self; without either one of them. At least
Sydney:
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can't
take
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macho
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they have each other; But how' come we
stuff anymore, I have to do something
frivilous. I'm going home to do my hair.
didn't wear costumes this year? ,•;4
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. up before we'left. I was going to yankyou, a. half-hour?
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you out of the bathroom and force you
Sydney: Try two and a half. Look,
to put on. a dress? .
,excuseme for being a girl, but I enjoy
it. See you,.
LIz: I knew we should have gone as. each other. "HI..." (she flips ber.bair.),,(liz is left alone to watch the rest of
Sydney: I'd have to find some girlthe contest.)
and start. making out with her and thenLiz: (to herself) Jesus, anotherask her who she Is. That's the quinI.

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Written by James Dean
Jay Byrd. Directed by Jon,.
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Michael Johnson. A Cow Minnie Production. The Cooper Square Theatre. 50 E.77th St. Every Friday atll pm through Dec. 11. (212)228-0811.
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If word of' gay mouth has notreached your ears yet, then focus on
my marks,. get set and read my print:
go see My Pet Homo! Queer th,eater is 'alive, flawless, fabulous and well at the
Cooper Square Theatre, thank you.
How could it not be-inaproduction featuring RuPaul, thereigning queen of Manhattan, the legendary Mona Foot and the star of
Slash dance and other notable B·'
movies, Joel. Van Ornsteiner?
Ever feel that you missed out onsomething because (a) you, were simply too young to have actually been
there, or (b) you just didn't know that. it was happening? I misse,d the early
work' of the Ridiculous Theatricalresult of (a), My Pet
company as
Homo surely captures what some ofthat work must have been like. The
setting is small, the costumes outrageous, the script an intelligent hootsignifying more than it pretends and the actors all unconventional purveyors of the craft,,•
In the play, RuPaul and Mona•,
Foot live on this planet called Ramada,L
It turns out t~at RuPaul has a sick•ness called RAD, Ramada Aging Disor- ,,••der-rather like menopause. To help•
her through RAD,.her absent husband
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. Think back, for a moment, to the
Jeff belongs'tonoface.
Venture's commusical version of lil Cage Au.x: Folies.
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fortable, rumpled
At the end of Act 1,~.Ibin t!Ie dragHe's a football play~ quality, the lived-inqueen sings his great anthem, "I Am
er, but "not ~pobutch"; he "never liked
look of his face, the easy, knowing cast
What I Am." He then spends the rest of
the color pink.· Responding to Jefrs
of his eye, would no doubt lead mostthe play pretending to be, what heplayful jibe, he says that Grandma '"wasof the audience to cast him as theirdecidedly is not. The authors offer no, not a dyke. A lesbian, perhaps." It is aown father if they COUld.A good porexplanation or iresolution, just a great .
joke, but a revealing one.! .
·tion of, the crowd'would take home' , big finale. Does a play about gays. or"
The rejeC1ion of stereotypes is an
Goldwynand Maffm, as well, as much Jesbians have to be so obsequious in•
important task, but in The Sum of Us thefor their authentic charm and C':c;>mplicity seeking , our approvaland so ambivalent.
rejection. is, so insistent as to raise an
as for their decidedly good looks.. Even
about •its main
characters in order to be. ,eyebrow. One gets the idea that Harry's. Somerville, in a telatively thankless role, .a corrimercial success?T.
,
acceptance ,of Jeff is dependent partly
upon how invisible his homOsexuality•
is; And, isn't insisting and insisting and,insisting-tnat
you :respect ,someone's.
; behavior a way of apologizing for it?
Only outsiders !>.eem to have 'a
problem' y.'ithHarry and Jefrs 'relation,•"ship. Greg (Neil ~affjn),; a strapping,QUEEN LATIFAH. ColUmbia Univ.ersity. oct. 18.
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you~g gardener who has as much trou,,b,le getting dates as Jeff .does, is sO disby Desi Del Valle I
comfited by ..Harry's embrace of his
When I asked an acquaintance of."She's down with a lot of rappers.
·Ilfestyl~" that he flees the house. Suchmine over at Def Jam if Queen L:itifah
Have you heard her album?' My experunqualified approval, he says, makes
was a feminist, the- firSlthing he told metise was now being called into question,, him feel guilty, dirty.
w!1Sth~ Latifah is on _the Tommy Boy
Naturally, I had heard the album, evenThe other nay-sayer is Joyce (phyllabeL Then he told me that his impreswithout ever haVing turned the radio on•
lis Spmerville), whom Harry (a widow- " sion of feminists, based op his exposuremover a year.
.
service,For.
er) has met, thrqugh a dating
to
them
in
college,
was
that
they
were
"There're a lot of other rappers.
, all his earlier talk, Harty'can't bring himSort of, "you know, radicaL·I
doiilg guestappearaiic~," he. , explained_ Self to.tell her'thatjeff. is gay. 'She finds
Awkward silence. , .
The 45 King appears on "A King anti,
, out by accident and is riot so toleran~. , '"So you wouldn't call La~fah a femQueen Creation,· and De La, Soul are on
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th?"
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But while Harry admits to believing that
mISt,_en .
"Mama.Gave Birth'to the Soul Children,"love be,tween t:wo same-sex people. "She's ~fmitely down.. Well,I sort \ jusuq name ,a couple.
,- can't be as rewafding.~ between otherof th'ought so. But Homeboy, not quite·What do male . rappers thinkof,sexers. In ttIe end; St~phens employs
sure wrult I was after, and why] was tryher?" As if their participation . on "All Hailthe sort of plot device authors resort toing to get it from him, tried to 3SSIflge the Queen" .doesn't say enough, as if,
when theytherriselves are too uncertain
me by telling me that as far as tlieunderher whole Flavor Unit posse isn't all
to choose, and Harry doesn't get to· ground sc~ne was concerned, Latifah . m:ile. I took a hard swallow. Homeboy
Beneath ,ail , this accep- make his choice.
was defmitely the best female MC.
by now was like: What the fuck?! But he,tance, in other words, is much ambivaI Now we were getting somewhere.
finally said the "R" word:/lence. It belongs not~o flarry
but"to the
But we had to talk 'scenes, underground"She's got much respeC1." ,.
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rap,MCs . not feminism. And please,
RespeC1-'-Qf}dmore thari 'just a little. I
The other: thing one notices is the
don't say the , "L· y{ord .
I had the privilege of m~ting the,number of long monologUes. It is most"Call up Tommy
Boy,·
was
the
-Queenof rap at ,a press conference.
.,
ly through these that we learn of Harry's
brush-off I kept getting from my homebefore her all-too-brief
concert at ·1
assent of his sonand, mother, But a
boy acquaintance.
"Ask'
for
someoneinColumbia
University
in
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publicity. Theyll tell you." .
the fanfare that \ normally .accompanies.device. Indeed, it is undramatic, and the"What would you say Latifah isroyalty, Latifah entered the room quietly
presence of sO many long monologUe,sknown f~?' I persisted "I mean, KRS-l
and confidently and greeted us with a•· in The Sum oj Us suggests
that
there arehas his aC1ivismfor thehomel~ arid for"Hi, y'all.· Before her butt even 'hit the.
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issues here that the playwright isn't
the 'stop-the-violence'.. chair, she was apolo~·~dyt9
drama.~ize-that
under
the
surthing.
What!·s
Latifahgizing for the layers of•
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·.face, aJI is not certain,:.
· known for? Just being
makeup required when
Against this authorial uncertainty is' " the tOR female rapper
she makes TV .appear. ·the total.CQ9fidence of l.he .production.
around?' (As if that's not
ilnces (NBC was there).
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don't really care, or try. to blame it on,
well, Blacks and HiSpanics...or gay peareflect this?
. "There're already rap songs that
ple ..,or white women. Just to classify.
anyone and say that AIDS is [her or his]talk, about AIDS, That'~ a really important issue. I've had members of my fam- J fault is wrong. I think it's a problem. that's going to kill a lot of people in the
ily die, and I've 'had friends who've had
future, and it's seriously going to diminfamily die of AIDs-heterosexuals, And
ish my race; SO'I have a parqcularinterws sad to see anyone die of AIDS,
because it deteriorates
you
before
it
est.
I
want
to
tell
people,'Look,usea,, kills you, so it's a sad thing to watch
condom. Don't be so promiscuous.
happen to someone, especially some- .
What's wrong with you?,n(laughter.)
one
you
love.
And
to
know
that
peopleI appreciated latifah's thoughts'on.
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Will we see' changes in rap music to.

the disease even though I wanted to tellher and probably should have-thatpromiscuity means little if you're practic'"
ing safer sex~But I resiSted.
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Someoneworking the concert,..
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another lesbian, asked. me before thepress conference if I would say the "Lnword (subtext:. Ask latifah if she's a lesbian). And I wondered: Would I have
any less respect for latifah and h~ work
if she weren't a lesbian?
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and can have that unique kind of New
room service (courtesy of Pantheon, ofYork expression that grins and frowns atcourse), and the wind rattled the huge
the same time, She tells me that withwindows, I asked her
how she feels about
her first book, SomeDo (1978), she was
the response from lesnaive: She didn't think about money orbians to her new
career. It seems to me that today; she is'book. "Some lesbians· anything but naive, This is a woman
have walked out ofwith some bones to pick, and she cando it in a delicious, funny way.
my readings or bebn
DeLynn is, perhaps, an unusual .. very critical, saYing I
kind of lesbian novelist in that notI all . don't present a posi",tive image of lesof her work has been about lesbian'bians. That I wascharacters; and she has published not
calling lesbians fat
by the small women's-presses, but by
and things like that,"mainstream houses. Though her work
she replied, I asked.is generally reviewed broadly andI
her to talk about her' /fairly well in the gay press, there isunderstanding of thatsome tension betw~en DeLynn and. brand of criticism:
the lesbian community: "I get trashed"Well there are some· more by dykes. I guess I have a chip
fat 'lesbians. You proon my shoulder,".
.
bablY'don't believe
Her latest novel, Don Juan in tbe
that, but it's true, I'm
vtJlage, concerns lesbian character---a
not out to trash les- .
cynical woman, driven to extremes ofbians or the commuself-consciousness and paranoia-andnity or anything likeher experiences with dyke bars, onethat. I just speak thenight (and one-hour) stands, cocaine
truth. To tell the truth
and pot and booze, among other
does not diminish
things, "I begged my parents not toanybody. Lying. is,read the book," DeLynn remarks. "My
what tears us down. I
father agreed, but my mother will probcan see the utilitarian
ably read it. I said, 'If you read it, I'mvalue of a politically.not going to discuss it.'''correct line, especialWe met in her room on the 14th
ly early on in a movefloor of the once-elegant, now rather
ment. But, that's not· gaudy Sir Francis Drake Hotel in downwhat literatureis·town San FranciSco. She hated her room•
about. This whole(there was no remote control for the lV,
concept, among writfor one thing) and was hot feeling too
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ers and publishers, of feel-good lesbian
books and positive images is justgarbage. To pretend that lesbians don't
judge each other onlooks and style and that
we're not an incredibly
cliquish and unpleasantgroup of people is justridiculous. And lesbian
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may have given him AIDS.Whether Bragg
Qomeboys Neil Robinson and Freddie
is gay or s.tralght(rumors confirm th!=lat,Alva .re offering, a new outlet 'for yourter); It is one ·of the few times a pop artist
Saturday' afternoon bursts of energy, a
has dealt not only with AIDS but with its
way loget har~ without being hard-ass:
impact on a gay relationship.
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Hard-core matinees at Loisaida's .ABC
, IT'•• HOW TIME... Get Smart,
No Rio, 156 Rivington:St., (212)254the ad hOCartists group, will keep hav3697. Labeled ~ wimpy scene by a reading to get smarter if It's to outwit theer of the cultish fanzlne Maximum, general pinheadedness rampant in thisroc/mr()/4 these. shows are not open totown, The group wrote and produced a.
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bands ~hat p~rtake in :writilJgsexist,
30-second commercial challenging con.
.. ,racist or homophobic lyrics. If wimpy means not appealing ~ stralntS 9n expression in the arts bu~ had quite a time plac~
to macho.boneheads, then that's the way (uh~huh, uh-huh)
Ing it on local TV. WCBS turned down the self-pr.bclaimed
we like itl .<., :,""recipe for repression,· admitting that they do not care' to, TRU.T ,ur...'While AIDS- and homophobia go . run "advocacy sPots.· P«:irhapsnarration by, the Ridiculous
unchecked ~ the name of "frf!(dom of speech,· true revoluTheatrical Company's Everett Quln~on pales next to the: tionafies
hard to caPle, by. During his recent tou~ ofusual 55.0phone fare available in this late time s[ot.WNBC .
America,pop-folk sociologist Billy Bragg has been dedicating . has, however, cast a little beneficence and allowed thea new 'song, ""Trust,·
to "the most radical group -I've met since . spot's airing, Look for It twice this week. after Later, the.
coming to the States, ACf up.~The song, which will appear . ·bargaln-basement- post.Letterman chat show,.
.on his nexugdas-yet-untitled albUm, Is a shlver-up-the-spine·1ballad,
told
from
the
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of
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gay
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It's not,source or all ,equally attracti~to me, But
surprising that the Don's patroniZing',,,:even when obtuse; stubborn, remote,". cruel, unhappy or threat~ed by selfloathing, theY;. ~m\wdrthy of redemp- . I .cross ,the street, . tion. ButtheDon,' as I began'to think' of
to'avoid this 1'. ">.the tn;lin character in this bOOk,,~only,. dislikes
hersetf but ~.... . to ~pise alL type of person.
.' wpmen relentleSsly.'·1 .~,the str:eetto .
'", avOid this. type.of..I~rsOn-fe~aleorfemaleor·,,"male so spending time w.ith her In a.'.',
book' is difficult to take. .
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ana see movies about characters we'd "spe.rtding, never invite into our homes: Who .
among uS woul.9 stand for the insuffer- , time'with her,,aqle suffering of The W.ell o/Loneli,in a bookness's Stephe,n tfor more thaQ a dayJ. (OK-a night)? The Dop, true to herisdifficult ,.
, c1as,sic literary precursor is callow,,
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, ignorant and deliberately, superfluous\• ' to ,the mundane affairs of the world,
The Don observes the unattractiveness_cool manifests itself as racism, as in her,of women"and her own presumed
attempts to seduce the. "natives· when... superiority endlesSly, as, if her, djsgust . vis~iilg :PuertoRicp and Ibiza. But the,Were a mantra: "She was so ugly I
problem with the book is related more
, found h~r attractjve, though of course I
to Its "post~post-post· style than to the'. . didn't wantany\ii04y, tc!.see ~e:wlttt ' •teplilS'ive'nature of,.,the main character,. .' her. When I left the bad made her
When presentin.g the manners andwalk several, Jeet, behind me like Chi-'mores of a .disaffected generation or.
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stuck,insldethe Don's rather dulhwitfed
obserVations without a tactile sense ol'~
the delightfully serisu~1 reality aroundnero .N.elther opUlence nor prlvation.
stand In counterPoint to the Don's'posltion" There is none of the ,sensory experience ,Of. 'lyricism In this particular styleof wri~ing that might offer a reader personal involvement. There's n<;>opportunity to revel in any of the pleasures wetlirn to literature to provide: either lushatmosphere or witty character. .
The other problem is that when I
do get glimpses of the life of othercharacters. (Anita ,al)d Lulsa--neverlovers, always friends; Cherry, who simply recognizes, the \Don .asa waste. of.
time; Linda and Jack, the suburban coupl~ into SIM y,ohoseson has a bed-wetting problem), they have so mucll wit
and wisdom, that I wish the Don would
quit bellyaching about- her inability tosCore and give the .others a"'chance on
the page. I like unsentimental, hardassed characters, Porothy Allison writes
them in her fktion, and' Cheryl Clarke'in her poetry. But the Don is too much
like an over-indulged adolescent tocarry the weight'of her name."
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of Sexual Identity," the conferees
addressed the complexitY of intersecting ideQtities. Tomas Almaguer defmed
for the Chicano and non-Chicano communities the role of sexuality as it
affects th~ Chic1no tradition. Juanita
Ramqs spoke to, ''The Dangers oj Priori, tizing Oppressions." For me, as a Latinoin the US, their insights v:a1idated andfurthered not only my academic musings but my own identity~This opPQrtunit}' to affirm and explore traditions isthepossibility activated by this confer,ence at its best.· These panels under-

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Whose conference is it? Who is includ. ed ~nd thereby allowed to speak) at alesbian and gay studies conference?
Who is excluded? Should' or can thelanguage of the conference be accessiI,
ble to anyone, anywhere, no matter, what her or his preparation? What do- we mean when we say "lesbian,""gay," "bisexual"? Ne~ year's Rutgers/
Princeton
Lesbian,Bisexual and Gay.
,, Studies Confere'nce (the fifth), with its• title, "Untitled (1991)," promises a multiplication of these. questions. Perhaps
we may even venture to hope for
improvement in our abilities to pose ,the questions 'and avoid the simple
answers, to imagine a conference
where all "our" differences might begin
to be represented without imaginingthat we have achieved it.
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to be surrounded by lesbian/gay/queer•
people(s) doing some of the things I. am doing in my .life thinking, reading, writing, teaching, hearing one·
, . another as we revise histories and herstories, as we imagine new possibilities. But who is this "we," who is this"I"?'When I talk about my experience
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Gabriel Gomez is a PhD student infilm at Northlfestern. He delivered apaper on "Postcolonialism: Desire,Power and the Macho [deal in Apartment Zero" at the Haroard conference.

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Iscore, not only _the complexity of thesecultures in and of themselves but also.their interactions with each other.
Multiculturalism cannot be a homogenizing. process, for that duplicates thehegemony we all abhor. Calls for
greater minmity representation. are as
inevitable as they are necessary. Rutgers 1991 must have even more repre-.
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talk about our experience,
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r~We"-and then "our" problems multiply, Mainstream American politic;almythology has it that ~verybody canbe included in a political structure
Oike a conference?) merely by including everybody-makea panel, get aroom, list it in the program, Politicalpluralism asserts that inclusion (andpolitica1.empowerment) is a matter ofadding to the list, accurilUlatihg thebodies that presumably represent different groups and tha~ add up to"everybody," to the "us" we mean
when we say, "We.",s••unaer·thein luenceby Michelle Park~rsonthose moments
you enter meunannounced
i dial a few airlines
then come to my senses
perched ona transatlantic leap
for love
if some brighton 'mornings
bring serenading,
beneath your balcony
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WWter and filmmaker Michelle
Parkerson is the author of two
books of poetry and fiction, Waiting
Rooms (Common Ground Press,
1984) and Public Love (manuscrlpt-in-progress). She is currently
at work on a film about lesbian
poet/activist.Aulir..eLorrie....

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dykes packed into New BrunsWick, NJ;
After attend,ing the Fourth Annual
for a weekend would be something of
Lesbian, Bisexual and Gay Studies
a dream come true, thoughtS of where
Conference at Harvard University, I
to put them all threatened to make itbegan to worry about my involvement· . more like .a nightmare,with the planning and organizing of
Even more confounding though,next year's conference, sponsored bywere the difficulties to be faced in the
Princeton and Rutgers universities andtheoretical framing of the conference,
to be ,held at Rutgers. There were, firstNot everyone was happy with the wayof· all, the' always-:unanticipatedthings happened this year. Throughout
practical difficulties; for example,, the weekend, there were conversations
where it 'had beenl estimated that 800(and arguments) about representation
people 'would attend this year's(or the lack of it), attacks on the use ofconference, 1,500 actually registered.
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in No_btlr.). fhI Mond</yI.

PINK:PANTHERPATROlNlEST VILLAGE GIn·
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.al M... lnil.nd New M.IIIII.OrI.nllllon;
at!he center. 208 W 13,St; lI)eeting 7-8 pm.
orien)ation B-9pm; 475-4363 (NIIW members-.aryl~atViliage tomorrow,).

CLUB AT tA MAMA presents All ~"""" Willi.film ".lill. to celebratll the authorlcompos·~s 3Q1h birthday; With 1CIn..1y Flynn, Dorl
~Iplock, LI•• Kron, C.rol Llpnlk, GIOII
O,"rllllll,
1I1r1ll1.. , Cltrilloph. T.n·n~, Gayle. T,!dll. ac;companled by I;IIrlllophlr"rl c;onductlng an 18.·plece big band; etaged
by WII!llm Fleel Uve,,; 74A ~ 4 St; 8 pm,;'$12;'475'7710.
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M... lnl,
Cave C~nem, 241 at Ave (blwn 112
Sta; Frrain tD.2nd Ave. uae 1at Ave exit); 7
pm; 529-5204 (New members -.a.ry!)

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PLAYWBI~HTS'ACTIVE CdOPERATIVE THE· .' '71IITd".11. about a gay profeaalonal foot~TER pr... nt,
TdSkill .,C., ball" playerWilo ia'writing hlil autoblograp~; at'. and ShI4DWPI.,. on8-a~sby JueIWIe ... to ,-St Peter', Church. Citl¢OrpCenter; 8 pm~$35;
benelit N~twork Room rano~\lon'and ,the 62D-731 0
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, ,PWA Coalition; at the Center. 208 W 13 SI; 8
pm; $5; 242-5888 (also tomorrOw
LESBIANS AND GAY MEN OF NEW. •.same time),
BRUNSWICK Pr... nlaUon'by Gay Mal. SIM.' POETRY'PROJECT presentll An. Mill. limo.,
Actlvl.i. of ·N.w York; at Friends Meeting.. playwright and author (How to Kill Her, a les- l:Iouae. 109'Nichol A~. New Brun~wick. NJ; 8,~ bian adventure nOvel); and Zophla Burr. poet. pm;.908I247-0515 (alternate Tuesdaya,)I.
and, critic (Blu, Unicorn. Banyan): at SI.
,. .
Mark', Church·ln-the·Bowery. 2nd Ave al 10 NEW' SCHOOL
Amerlc.nf!IIu.lcll Th,.'re.
,St; 8 pm: $5; 674-0910.0'lu,ad.,awith CrellOll 01 Mual,.la with,
Andlew VI"z. tonight .. guest Adolph Ora...
SOUTHERNERS Soullllln 'GALA ... " ior gay co·author (with Betty Comden) of On th,&,Iesbian alumni/ai
olsouthem , schoOie. With Town, &/Is ATe Ringing, APP/iiuae. Singin'in.,~wine: eli8ese &.• nacks;, at the Centllr. ·208 W !'" ~ain,The Band Wagon; 66 W 12 St; 8·•
13 St.3rd Floor; 8 pm; $10 augg\lltB!! (bene- 9:30 pm; $15; 741-5690,
Iii.' ascholarahip'program for southern college studenls writing 'on leagay ihemee);
NINTH STREET CEN.TER RIP Gioup:'~Queer
David Gilbert. 674-8073
Questions. Q~eer Anewera"' with the focus on,
defining hom088XUalilY. 'for the '9Os; tonight's
GAY A'CTIIlIST' ALLIANCE IN MORRIS
facilitator ia RlcII!Callllllc!k; 319 E 9SI. b@ae·
COUNTY, NJ' preSents lbe Fllrlallon. In Con· ment; 8-10 pm; 22f5153
1\cIII; at MornstoWn Un~arian Fello~hip: ,21 .
Normandy Heights Rd., Morrlatown NJ; 8:30 PLAYWRIGHT-S',ACTlVE COOPERATIVE.THEpm; $10 advancel$12 door; 2011285-1595
ATER presents ',np,ctl",: Til Skin. C,'
and IhItiow
ona-acts by Ju.1 WI.... toTHE
MONSTER
2nd.Annull
Turn",oullllow:
benefit NetwOrk Room renovation, and the..' .?'..
M,In"Ir FIIII/,', in which employees do "a PWA Coalition; aJ the Center. ~08 W 13 St;' 8lush. if not lavish. drag revue"; With EIec~.II.
pm; $5; 242·5888 ..•.
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Jill Imperaonailng'Robln ."d In TIll 71If!ll..
'till' Rpblll:."rl 'hIU/(the .'." Byrd has THE CHELSEA TRANSFER Body P~.ltlVI
to be in the audience); Glorg.lardl .
NlaIIl lor HIV+s and their frienda; 131 8th Ave.promised,and ~hll!lY PIIO.Ihave,also said they'd come; (16117 Sta); all' ~ight; bar .929-7183. Body". 80.Grove St at Sheridan Square; ~ pm; no Poaitive 721,1346' (Editor's note:, Body Posi-,
cover; 924-3557
tive will meet at The,Chelsea Transfer tonight'.'and every Tu8sday,).
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WED.N ESDAY, NOV. 1'4.
NYC DlSTRlCTlNG COMMISSION holda a'AlDi;'AND'ADOlESCENTS NETWORK O(NEW
Public Hearing on how·.to'draw new linea for
YORlfMo..lI" Milling: s.re,,,menllllue"
51 City Council districts by June~. 1991; at
EdWlrd ~. Mµrrow High•.1600 Ave L, Bklyni.'Te'n~atYWCAofNY,610Le~ington~~
5:30
sig",in.
hearingfrom
6-10pm'(NYCDC.
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at 53,~t (#6 to 50 SI, ElF to 53 St). 3-5 pm,
11 Park Place. #1'6.16. NYC 1'0007) .
Cathenne Lynch, 925-6675(.
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lesbian cily adminiatratora discuaeing Mayor
Dinkins' plans to aaeiat small busin88888; with,
ROllmery ICurop.' (Chief ol'Staif,.Office of
PUBLIC HEAlTH RESEARCH INSTITUTE AlDI , Economic Development). Tom Du.n,(Man·.... 111.1
120 W 43 St; 7-11:30
hattan Coordinator, Comptrofler's Office ofpm (cocktail reception. ~inner and dancing);
Community Relationa). and' Or: Marjorl, HilibU8ineae attire; $85 advancel$100 door;ravp(Mayor'a liaiaon to the Gay and Le8~ian
With Gaill'drian 578-0809
Community);·in the Center Network Room.
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208 W 13 St; SOCializingat 6 pm. meeting andA DIFFERENTLIGHT BOOKSTORE presents
panel at 7 pm; $5; GGBC337-8700
Flil18110 Reading .. " .. : M.dI~"I'"lI""lIll.
Palrlck Moor" of Am,1IIy11 Prell;
SAGE Men',lupper
Club eata at AIII.do·.
54B Hadson St (btwn CharleeIPerry Sta); 8
R.. Ia.. ant. Citicorp Atrium; and 8888 the Offpm; free.(but limited seating. arrive sarly!);SI.
Broadway comedy Life 011 /h, 3Td
989.-4850
Peter's Church Theatre. Citicorp Bldg; $42.50
for show & dinner; ravplinfo 741-2247•
PUBLISHING TRIANGLE Monthly M... lng. fOrgays and lesbians In the publishing Industry
NOW-NYC LESBIAN RIGHTS COMMITTEE
who want to further the growth and diaaemiMon.hly M.mbellhlp/New
M.mblri· M... •. nationlof lesblaillgay literatura; establish a ,Ing; 15 W 1851, 9th Floor; 6:30 pm; 807.()721
gayl1eabian library at the'Center; fonn a writers' caucus for I_bian and gay writers,of
JUDITH'S ROOM BOOKSTORE presents Edith
color; ~ght homophobli and censorsh.ip; Info
Koneclty,
fM
681 Wa,hlng·
from Michele. 966-8400 (Meets every aecond
ton St (at Charles); 7 pm; free·&WC aCC888i·
Wednesday: next II DEC 12.) .'ble. but seating 18limited; 727·7330

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1 Fordham Pla~. 6-8 pm. info from' Ro;n.
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R,I,·'1o~1fI'
EIIII.
,. led by WlIIDlxon-GrllY; at theCenter. 208 W 13 SI; 6:30-8 pm; 62Q-731P,.

CENTERSTAGE 8888111,tIow,.nd,. abo III
C.S. Lewis' marriage to Joy Davldm~n; at lhe
Brooks Atkinson T,*tra; 8 pm; $53; 62D7310 .

SLOPE ACTIVITIES FOR LESBIANS Dining It
LIlia',. cheap. friendly·Middle, E,8!em; 440
7th Ave/15 SI. Park Slope. Bkln;7 pm; SAL
info/rsvp 7181965-7578

GAY MAlE.8IM ACTIVISTS.lmall Group 01.·
RIII".- including maeters andcu*,lonl:slavea, daddiee aryd boys. animals, and traif\era. role-awitch.ing. fantaaies; at the Center.
208 W 13 SI, 3rd Floor; socializing at 8 pm;
program at 8:30 pm; $4 membersl$6 nonmembers; 727-9878 .
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GAY ASIAN & PACIFIC ISLANDER MEN OF NY
G.neral M.. Ung. at ~roject Reach. l' Orchard
5t ~t Division. 2nd Floor (F train 10 E~st B·way.
Chinatown); 7:30; free; 966-4227

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M'II Worklholi. a two and a half hour Interac·tlve workshop to enhance ael,-confidence andincreaae ability to negotiate saler sex withpotential partnsra; althe Center. 208 W 13 St;
8 p'm; free; no ravp -.ary;
info 807-6655(TOO 645-1470)
SLOPE IACTIVITIES FOR LESBIANS Pool I
Ping Piing Nlghl: billiard. at 7thIFIatbush
Aves. Park Slope, Bklyn; 8 pm; thendrlnkll1oc!allzlng ~t The Roost, .7th Ave/8th
St. 10 pmclsh; SAlmfo/rsvp 7181965-7578
DAN MARTIN and MICHAEL BIElLO praaent
their HomllLII" 'onll: A Cone,,' IIf LII".
I""/DII ,nl LI,M with MIlII. Mar!ln'-and.Biliio. "an evening of theate~ and song thatunabashedly speaks of the love between men from first love. through aexual exploration.
long-tel'll) ralationshi~s, aeparation. and healing"; at the Centllr. 208 W13 SI; 8:30 pm; $5;
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NOW-NYC ,LESBIAN RIGHTS COMMITTEE
ahow (MCTV, Cf16, Sundays. 11 pm); with go·
Monlhly Mlltlnl; 15 ,W 18 St. 9th Floor; ,.,6:30
go boys and girls. performance by. Michael T,pm;,~07'0721'",
PIERPONT MORGAN LIBRARY presents"
singing
Tr.nsvestite from Transylvania; with
. "Robe,' P.rIIl. Robert H. Taylor Curator of.
,MC
luz .... W.... nh.. n.r, others; 12 W 21
GAY MEN'S HEAlTH CRISIS HIV Hllllllem·
Alitograph Manvscript8, the Morgan library: .
St; open810 pm; 206-7n2
In II: In.urance In.lor.mltlon.- tonight and ·CUrIoUl'ulo,": TIll P/CbJfI IIf Dot/",
every ?nd Tuesday; 129 W 20 St. 3rd Floor; 7 ",1fM, 'UD~
Mr. Parks will discu88 the hisEAGLE BAR Movl, Night: Walt DllnIY'.
· pm; free; 807-6655. TOO 645-7470
tory of and diflerancee between varioua verwith TInkerB.II; 1.4211th'Ave (atsions of Wilde's 10D-year-old book; the. 21 ,St);011 pm; 691-8451. MOSAIC BOOKS'flll R.adlng 8111.. : Hatti.
autograph manuscript and the i88uli cif Lippin· GO"ln, readivg from new writing; 167 Ave B ,cott's Magazine where the work first appB;lred• at 10 St; 7 pm;lI75-B623
THURSDAY, NOV. 15 °are on display from NOV 6 thru DEC 2; 29 E
36 St; 6 pm;.$4
Gay American Smokl·CUI
SLOPE ACTIVITIES, FOR LESBIANS Manhal·,
A DIFFERENTLIGHT BOOKSTORE preaents a •lin Nlghl: Dining .1 'Cowglrl HIli' 01 F.me.
SLOPE ACTIVITIES FOR,LESBIANS Dining al Boote.lgnlng with Clvls Gla.. r. Cllmlng •519 Hudaon St at 10 St. 7 pm; allio. Tak.
Snooky·•• "American·slyle cuisine with flatter- Home;548 Hudson S,t(btwn Charl88ll'erry
B~clrll. CUbby Nighi. at the Cubby Hole. 438 ing lighting~; 140 7th Ave at Garfield and Car- Sts); noon, 1 pm; 989·4850. ,, Hudson at Morton. 8:30 pm;, SAl info!rsvp
roll. Park Slope. Bkln; '6:30 pm; SAl info/rsvp
7181965-7578
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Monlhly M.. tlng with guest speaker,lir •.
Marjorl, Hili. the MaYor'a'community liaison; Warner·employeea eapecially welcome; social begina ~t 6 pm; HBO Building
Conference Center. 15th Floor. 1100 6th
Ave; info from 522-3551 or 512-5909 (Iwonder if we'" read about this mllflting in
People Magazirie. -RX)

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fIII,,.tI,.,, with high-Ii!nking. openly gay andLI"'."/~•CENTEA 2nd l"qlldaya: Davtd lIavta (Family
Dancing, Equll A~n.)readslrom his,newcollectionof ahort atorl ... A PIIce I .... Nevir,
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QUEER NATION.M.. Ung at the Center. 208 W
13 St; 7:30 pm. 463-7208 (alternate Thur.·days: NOV 29. DEC 13, DEC 27),/
GAYMEN & LESBIANS IN BROOKHAVEN
Wom.n·. Group Thlnksglvlnl
P.r'y; Old
South Haven Church (S" Countryl'deaverdam
Rda).Brookhaven, lI; 8 pm; 516n51-2901(meets 1at & 3rd Thursdays)
AFRICAN· AMERICAN WOMEN UN!TED FOR
SOCIETAL CHANGE DI'.cunlon: An Explo·
IIlIon 01 Womanhood·Body. Mind IIId Spirit;at the Center, 208 W 13 St, 8' pm; $3; 6207310,
WOMEN'S AlTERN.ATlVES COMMUNITY CEN·
TER Weekly Discuilion and Social Group for
Lesbians. tonight's topic: DDI' beln, II I,,·
b/'II mun I hu, '11 b, , '.mlnllt,., 675
Woodfield Rd. Weet Hempstead, U; 8 pm; $3
more iflleae it, 516/483-2050
MICHAEL ROSENBERG and DR. JOHN HEISS·ER THOMAS AlEXANDER lIcture: GIy Lllte,
Iniultllln, "XU. Illy, ,nd till F,mlnln,. "todevelop aelf-awareness. meet one'8 sexuality,
understand wlnerability/power within expression of that aexua\ity";in advan~ of an all-day
workshop Sunday (888 NOV'18); at the Center,
208 W13 St; 8 pm; $8; 255-2831,
LESBIANS. BISEXUAlS AND GAYS AT TEACH·ERS COLLE~E 511 AMIVlr.ary Celebrallon.
with gueat speakers Tom CUan. (City Council
Candidate) and L,url MOllilOn (Queer
Nation); Grace Dodge Roo'm 1159, Dodge
Hall. Main Building. TC, 120 St btwn
B'way/Amsterdam; 8:30 pm; 865-{)361
DISCO INTERRUPTUS preaents 1"111/111 with
MC Richard MOVl, performance interruptions
by Marlllll. Minard, V.IVlI Johnson. II, GIIY
Home ShopplllQ Club, OJs SI,"r & Pltlck,
OJ Jonalhaillenderin the VIP Room. hostess hhoma Van llndl; decor by Danl,1
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,SLOPE ACTIVITIESFOR LESBIANS8888 Toshl
Rlagon In PrO';'cl Park,, Bklyn,. in the Picnic
HOU88;3 pm; $5; SAL info/rsyP 7181965-7578
BISEXUAl!PRIDE DISCUllloIi Group: GlttlIII
ournN'" IIISI with both ,.mlI«, at the Center, 208 W 13 St; 3-4:30 pm; 459-4784,)

JUDITH'S ROOM BOOKSTORE presents~tI"lNewman,681 Washington St(at Charles); 3 pm;:free &WC accessible, but, seating is limited; 727-7330.

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DR. JUDITH MEYEROWITZpresents a lIclurl
and Dllcualon for men and women on 18"
Eltllm and Love Addlcllon, origins, stages,, symptoms of love addiction and how to get
help;,at th~ Center, 208 W 13 St; 3:30-5 pm;$2; 675-1079
SLOPE ACTlVITJESFOR LESBIANS TV TIMIa
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Men', Group Dilcualon: B,,. BIX, with representatives of GMHC invited to attend; Old
South Haven Church (S. Countryl8eaverdam
Rds), Brookhaven, LI; 6 pm; 516n51-2901(meets 3rd Sundays)
CENTER'STAGE8888 F,/IIIIDI.ntI at the
Lucille Lortel Theatre, 121 Christopher St near
Hudson; 7 pm; $45; 620-7310.
MOSAICBOOKSFall Reading 18rlea: Sllve
Call1lon',JOhn Farrll, Arl Marcopoulol, reading and video; 167 Ave B at 10 St; 7 pm; 4758623 .
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Will""'"and Tr.1 F.... In Conc.. ;RamajllD'HighSchool, 400 Viola Rd, Spring
Valley,NY;7:30
seat. pm; $25 & $15 advance,ing; 914!J52-2689 (checks lor Rddrlllld
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South, F.ml/y,'. Main St, Spring Valley, NY10977)
SLOPE ACTIVITIES FOR LESBIANS Thlrly·
PIUI Somelhing Polluck, at the' Clubhouse,
Park Slope, Bkln; 7:30 pm; SAL inlolrsvp
7181965-7578•
OM and ANN present Gill Bull al Pyramid,
with OJ Ma;Io,;o-:go dancers; 101 AVeA (617Sts); $7; 420-1590

MONDAY, NOV. 19
BRONXAIDS TASKFORCEVolunlllr Recognilion Night; at Bronx AIDS CommunitY Ser·
viCeProject, 1 Fordham Plaza, Suite 800;
5:30-8 pm; 295-5605
NYADVERTISINGANDCOMMUNICATIONS. NETWORKMe.ling and Forum: Diborah
Glick (NYSAssembly candidate) and Sean
Sirubb (US Congressional candidacy nomi- .'nee), and moderator Candida Piel (Exec, Oir.
I 01 FAlRPAC): 71I,lrIalk8linll of II Candida". '9tI, at the Center,, 208 W 13 St; 6:30-9:30 pm. (socializing before 8); $5 membersl$8 nonmembers (first drink Iree);517-0380',

ACTUPINY Weekly ""Iling tonight at Coop·- Ir Union, E 7 SV 3rd PIle, 7:30 pm; ACT UP
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ME (Arts & Eft, 555 Fifth Ave, 10th R, NYC 10017;661-45(0),•Betsy Lenke; 99.5 FM (:1:00).
CC1V (Rick X, Box 7iKl, NYC10llJ1)
7:1!i PM MSG Virginia Slims Tennis Toumamentquarterfinals
GBS (Gay Broadcasting System, Butch Peaston, 178 7th. Ave,', 7:30 PM WCBS-TV Entertainment Tonight Whitney Houston;Sle. A-3, NYC 10011; 243-1570),
CH2(~.
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GCN (Gay Cable Network, Lou Maletta, 32 Union Square East,
8:00 PM 77Ie Gay Dating Game Showwith Tomrnv Saeli andSuite 1217; 4n·4220)_.
Lahoma Van Zandt; Manhattan Cable, CH C/16 (:30)
GMHC (Gay Men's Health Crisis, Jean Cariomusto, 129 W 20 St, 10:00 PM WNBC-TV LA Law. the parents and lover of a termNYC lIXlll; 1117-7517),
nally ill man must stand by him as he pursues a gay rights
RB PROD (Robin Byrd Prod., Box 305, NYC 10021; 988-2973)
case; Benny gets faken in by a religious cult; CH 4 (1:00)
WABC- TV (7] W 63 St, NYC 10023; 456· m7)
10:30 PM GMHC Living With AID$. health and politics;
WBAJ-FM (505 8th Ave, 19th R, NYC j 0018; 279·0707)
Manhattan Cable, CH V/35 (:30)WCBS-TV (51 W 52 St St, NYC 10019; 975-4321)
11;00 PM GCN Gay U.S.A: news and entertainment from
WNBC-TV (30 Rockefeller Plaza, NYC 10112; 664-4444). around the country; Manhattan Cable, CH V/35 (1:00)
WNET-TV (356W58 St, NYC 10019; 560-:ml)
midnight' GCN Men in Films: male erotica, interviews with
WNVW-TV (Fox, 1211 AV/AM, NYC 10036; 556·2400)
adult filmstars; Manhattan Cable, CH V/35 (:30)
WPIX- TV (220 E 42 S1; NYC 10017;949-1100)
12:30 PM RB PROD Men For Mell Robin Byrd presents gay
male porno stars; Manhattan f;able, CH V/35 (:30)
MONDAY. NOVEMBER 12
1:00 AM WABC-TV 77Ie 77Ilee Faclt!, of Eve (1957): Joanne
7:00 AM WCB§-TV 77IisMoming: every day this week will 'Woodward got an Oscar for playing a sexpot, shy girl, andhave a segment on pediatric AIDS; CH 2 (2:00),
normal wilman in this riveting PSVl\nodrama; CH 7 (2:00)
9:00 PM GBS Out in the !lJs. community news, discussion,.2:1!i AM TBS 77Ie auiet Man (1952): Director John Ford andinterviews; (tape or last Tuesday's MCTV/Paragon show)
photographers Hoch & Stout got Oso,ars for their valentine
BO Cable, CH 56 (1:00)
to the Irish and the Irish countryside ~45)
10:00 PM ESPN Women's Bodybl!ilding, NPC U.S. Championships, taped 7/27 in Raleigh "(1 :00)
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 16
10:00 PM WCBS-TV Honeymooners Ann;Yelsary. hosted by
1·:00 PM CNN Sonya Live: Michael Callen's Surviving AIDS
Audrey Meadows, includes two Ion g-Iost sketches, '1.ost. (Burroughs-WeI/come stockholdels beware! -RX) (1:00)
Baby· and "Quiz Show"; CH 2 (1:00).
2:30 PM WBAI-FM fiompiendo el Silencio: todos los
11:30 PM Tomo"ow/Tonight Live!. entertainment; Manhattan
viernes, Gonzalo Aburto con temas y noticias parala.. and Paragon !!able, CH 0/17 (1:00)
corrlunidad latina gay y lesbiana; 99.5 FM (:15).11:30 PM WNET-TV Bob Fosse: Steam Heat movie clips and6:00 PM MSG Virginia Slims Tennis Toumamentquarterfinals
interviews with his friends & performers; CH 13 (1:00)
6:00PM Showtimil Enemy Among Us. a teenager contracts
midnight CCTV 77Ie Closet Csse ShOW.tonight, A Wake for
AIDS from a,transfusion and faces the community (1:00)
Harvey & Mary; Manhattan /Paragon Cable, CH C/16 (:30)
7:00 PM WBAI-FM AIDS In Focus, Michael Alcaley, produc1:00 AM RB PROD Men fOI Merr. Robin Byrd presents gay
er; politic~culture of the AIDS pandemic; 99.5 FM (:15)
male pomo stars; Manhattan Cable, CH V/35 (:30)
8:00 PM A&E Mein Kampf(1961): the rise of Hitler andNazism in a documentary with rare footage; a must, at
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 13
least once (2:30) (repeats at midnight)
12 noon A&E O5pal Wilde (1961i): Ro.bert Morley brings out
9:00 PM. WNET-TV Greal Performances. "Sir Norbert Smith: A
the humor, hubris and pathos in our tragic hero (2:00)
Life·: a ·mockumentary· about the distinguished life of an(repeats at 4 AM late tonight)
lIl-year-old British stage and screen legend whose films
4:00 PM Lifetime The Littlest Victims (1989): Dr. Tim
include "Rebel Without a Tie· and a Hamlet with additional'Matheson crusades for ltie AIDS babies (2:00)
material by Noel Coward; CH 13 (1:00).
4:00 PM WCBS-TV Gelaldo: Satanism; CH 2 (1:00)'1:00 AM RB PROD 77Ie Robin Byrd Show. male and f&male ,10:00 PM RB PROD The Robin Byrd Show. male and feinale
strippers; Manhattan Cable, CH V/35 (1 :00)
strippers; Manhattan Cable, CH V/35 (1:00)
11:00 PM GBS Out in the 90s: news,information
and'.SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 17
interviews; with live call-in; Manhattan/Paragon
8:30 AM WBAL-FM Any Satulday with David RothenCable, CH C/16 (1 :00) berg; live call-in;
99.5 FM (2:00).
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11:30 PM WNET-TV Seasons of Life: ·Middle Adulthood·:
1.00 PM GCN Gay U.S.A.: news and entertainment from .
issues ·take prece·ages 40·60, when psychological. ar\lund ,the counlry; BQ, Unity, ACV Cable, CH 56 (1 :(0)dence over the biological clock·; QH 13 (1:00)(For. Manhattan Cable, see THURSDAY)
11:00 PM Gay 7ltmale porn; Manhattan Cable, CH V/35
'WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER'14 '.
midnight Naked Eye Cinema: Jack Waters: 77Ie Ring MY
9:30.AM WBAI·FM Ghosts in the Machine. women in pop,
Way (an epic film work 'based on Wagner's), Part 2: FOIwith VIctoria lllarr; 99.5 FM (2:30)
est Mummers and Retum to Brunhilde's Rock, Manhattan
10:00 AM WABC-TV Sally Jessy. Lingerie fashions; CH 7 (1:00)'.
Cable, CH 0/17
4:00 PM WABC-TV Oprah: makeovers for men; CH 7 (1:00)
1:00 AM RB PROD 77Ie Robin Byrd Show. male & female
7:30 PM WCBS· TV Entertainment Tonight swimwear fash·
strippers; P-aragon Cable, CH C/16 (1:00). ions preview; CH 2 (:30)
1:30 AM RB PROD 77Ie Robin BYld Show: male & female
9:00 PM USA Dead Reckoning (1990): Rick Springfield, Cliff
strippers; Manhattan Cable, CH V/35 (1 :(0) ,Robertson, Susan Blakely as a desert island triengle (2:00)
midnight RB PROD 77Ie Robin BYld Show. male and female
SUNDAY,NOVEMBER 18
strippers,live call-in show; Manhattan. Cable, CH V/35
6:30 PM 77Ie Brenda and Glennda Show. Part 1 6fThe Drag
THURSDAY NOVEMBER 15
Queen Murder Mystery"; also The Queer Fashion Army
8:30 AM Naked EYe Cinema: Jack Waters: 77Ie Ring MY Way
invades EI.I; Manhattan Cable, CH C/16 (:30)•(an epic film work based on Wagner's!. Part 1: Brun1:30 PM WBAI-FM Outl..t:iOks. with host Sue McCoooeIl-teli, ahilde's Rock, and Die Valkyrie; Manhattan Cable, CH
teacher of20v.ears; exploring positNe lesbiart'gay role models. C/16in today's schools; with Joyce HUnter, Hetrick-Martin lnst;
1:00 PM WBAI-FM This Way Out, the international gaylles·
Wayne fischer, Gay Teachers Assoc; John Gish. first NJ edu·
bian news magazine; 99.5 FM (:30)
cator- to win a gay-related lawsuit; Janet Pollack, an open les1:30 PM WBAI-FM An Aftemoon Outing:. local news andbian professor, otherlesgay studerts and educators; aiernates
information about the gayllesbian community with Larry. Gutenburg; 99.5 FM (:30)
with The Gay Show, !B.5 FM (I !Xl)
2:00 PM ESPN Women's Bodybuilding, NPC U.S. Champi10:30 PM RB PROD Milll ForMerr. Robin Byrd presents gay
onships, taped 7/27 in Raleigh (t:OO)
male porno stars; Manhattan Cable, CH V/35 (:30)
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11:00 PM GBS' Way Duff, Rich Volo, producer, 254-7685; Man- "2:30 PM WBAI·FM AIDS: Paths to Self·Empowelmen~ treathatten Cable, CH C/16 (:30)
ment and health issues with Bob Lederer, Nick Cimorelli,
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Llgal Clinic.
Tues.day 6·8 pmLe.llian &. Gay
Community Centr.
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BIDS jBISEXUAL DOMINANCE& SUBMISSION GROUPI
Share'S(M IICparllnces.and fan·, 1I1iaslNii1 ofIars in apo$ldVe, nQI1,
j~dglmental' .trnosphere.
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COUNSBJNG SERV1CE.I~.- AIDS RESOURCECtNT~
A proflSlionaly IIIIfflll. nqr;·profit".aRC!'" organlzationfC!r bls~uals. flair.. .
'"- '. ,.,:,;''SUppOri!ve holising forhiiinelassfarnHies ind par1ners. faCing probP'W1u (Baney'Housa ,and .part··Iemsofa psyehological or medical. kind. Wi also work With thoSe iri•man1s)"Non'ludgam~~~ralciraflii' FWAa.nd.loved ones. \10.
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If you or your lover has tested.
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seminars. public forums. reference 'library. referrals. sociai..activities
and up'lD;date n.ational monthly.
"JttE BODY POSITIVE' (S2!irYaar)•.

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3I!Ii Broadway. Suite:116. NY. 10023
BROOKLYN'S LESBIAN AND
GAY POUTICAL CWB'lAMBDA IND.EPENDENTDEMOCRATS
LID. endorses and \WIbfor canci·.
daIIS in kx:8I... and nrilnaI aec·
1!ons. Iolib/ill for legislation. andanb:IBCOIIII1IIiVClJIr88Ch fIa91
SIr8IrtiIis ariI rneeIi1gs on S!l8CiaItlpics. Join us.1I6 Ninth St, Suitel:li
BnioIctANYl1215(7f8) 965-8482
CIRCLE OF MORE UGHT
SpiriUJaI supPort and sharing' in agay/lesbian affirmative group .
Wast-Park Presbyterian Church ll1i
Wasf86lh S1reat Wad: Wlllship ser·vice 6:31 pm. program 7::11.Marsha(212)314-4373 Dlariie (212)!ill· 7118.

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AIDS.
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support group ••. c ... !IIanagament, bud~y an.d .
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838 Broadway. Newburgh. NY, , 122511 (914) !iB2.!mi. ,.AIDSlina (114)1S3-118G7.
ASIANS & FRIENDS- NEWYOIIK
A not·for·profit
org,!lnization
which promotlll friendships with
Asil.n/PacificIslander. Asian:Am.rlcan.
Ind' non·luia"gay
man 1I1r1iughaocial. cultural. edU·
·cational. a~d,s"rvlc'
activiti ..
and programs. Call our HolLine:
212-874·5064. or write to: P.O.Box.8628. NY. NY 101~.

BISEXUAL PRIDEDISCUSSION.GROUP
Tqpical diSj:ossions on issues ofintarast~ 1I1ecommuni\v in a con·geniallllmOSphere. fIliiowad'by an. InfDl'!"al dinner.at a frief1d1y local~estaurant EVery Sunday. 3:00·
4:31pm 'at 1I1eCommunity Center
2111 W. 13 Street, NYC. Pirt of fle
Nwi'tbrk Area Bisa~al Ne1lMlrk.
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Monthly iocial events f(lr the
Bisexual community and friends •Cali NYABN for details'of upcom·
ing wenis. • (212) 45H784•

BIPAC (BISEXUAL POLITICALACTION COMMITTEE!
Political adon on issues af impor·tlncelD the Bisexual/lesbiarVGavcanmun .... MontIy, meeling'paiJckheld 8:00pm on foul1h Thursday af
fle momh at membeni homes. Cal
NYABN forfls monfl's IocaIiln.
((212)459-4784
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BISEXUAl; YOUTH
Informal sociil &. support groupfor .BiseXual kidl!/yolJ1h. Monthly
meeting/potluck
lunch' held
1:00pm o~ fourth Sunday of llie
. mon1l1 at members homes. Call
NY ABN for 111is month's location.
This group is part of the New
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Publ/sl:las. bI'lnon1hiyDi(ac:lory afclinical tri.l. of txp.rimentel
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advocatIs for impr:iMrn1l1lll in fie
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UNITED IN SISTERHOOD
Soci,l. political and support net·
1MJi1IinggrOup for women and 1heir
friends. ReQlller social avll1lll and. m88liogs on flefirst and Ihird'Fri·
days of "t8I'Y monJh. At The Com·, muriitt eeltt.r.2111 W. 13S1raet,from
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The Ca1hecia1 Project WlrsIipSer·
viC!lS &. Social-Sun. Eves. 7:llpm-st
John's Episcopal Dlurch 218 WestGAY & LESBIAN HEALTH. CONCERNS
An office, of the NYC Dept of .
Heal1h. provides linkages batwn
NYC Heal1l1 &. Human Svc.; and1I1e Lesliian &. Gay commli~ity.
focusing
in ALL health con·cerns; resource informationfor,",health services conSUlI)ers aryd
providers.
125 Worth Street •Box 111. New York, NY 10013: For
info ca11-(212) 566-4995.

1WiSlraat OWaveittz61S-2179•'EDGE Education In I Di ... bled
GIy Envirollll8nt'
For 1h'ephysiclilly disabled Lesbian. and Gay Comm!l)i1v.
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TO PARENTS?
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W1hflis u~I.PARENTSANO!RENDS (I' lESBIANS ANj:) GAYS
rrieaIs monfit{ 00 1he 4f1 &nlav. 3111
pm;ln Duane Church. 201 W: 13th
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BIG APPLE,
Gay and. Lesbian Independe~t
A community.oHesbian,andBroadcasters invites.you 10 ~ne
Gay Ca1holics.Activities
includeinti OUTlOOKS on WBAI-NX 995
Liturgies and SOcials eve~ S.at.,· fM.
oth~r ,Sunday. 7:30·
8:31pm and join us avery Tuesday' .,8:00 pm •.at 1he Center. 2OIIW; 13
Street. NYC.Call .
• I at 7:00pm to 9:00pm to becom e a(2121818·1309.,. 'member of GLIB. No experienceneeded. sa; Eighth Avenue. NY..'NY. DIGNITY,NEW YORK
10018 Attn: OU1l..ooksor call (212)
I..asIian and gay CallDics and friends
245-&366- ask br GUB.

FRONT RUNNERS
A'run~ing club for lesbian'and gay,i1hlatasafallab!ities.Fun IlJnsaf 16
heid avfl:'( Sat at lOan andWads. at 7pm in een.. al Park and.
8V8IYTuas.at7pm.in Prospect Park.
Forinbnnation: call (212) 724-9700.

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THE FUND FOR HUMANDIGNITY.
National Gay and Lesbian Crisis
Une "AIDS lOI'-l·!m-SOS,GAYS
Educational Resource Center;
Positive ImageS Media Canter; NY
State Arts Program IBi B'way SUte
410 NVC, NY 11112 (212)!i29-1001

COMM.UNITY HEALTH
PROJECT/THE GAY AFRICAN AMERICANS
311 West 13th Street. NYC. New
OF WESTCHESTER(The GAA)York 10011 For Appoin1mems andis a community based support
Informatio~(2121 675·3559(
groupbrmed in Wastchaster Coun'(TTY/Voice)PROVIOING CARING.
ty. Various activities are planned for
SENSITIVE AND LOW COST
the (:OI!Ing months. Please call 914, HEALTH CARE SERVICES TO THE
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GAY MALE SIM ACTIVjm
Dedicated to safe and responsi·
ble 81M since 1981. Open meet·ings. w/programson S/M
techniques.
lifestyle issues •political and social conc'erns.
Also special events. speakers
bureau. workshops.
demos.
affinity
g·roups. newsletter,more. GMSMA ·Oept 0.496A
Hudson Street. Suite 023 .NYC
. 10014.(212) 727·9878 .• '••GMAO (GAY MEN OF AFRI.CAN

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IKI Varick S1reet, NYC 10013 a support group af Gay Men af African
Descent dedicated ID conscious·
ness·raising and the development .
of1l1e Lesbian and Gay Communi1\': 'GMAO is inclusive of African.
African·American. Caribbean and
Hispanic/Latino
men of color.
Mea1ings are heid. weekly. ~n Fri·
days. For more information,
call 718-1KI2-G162.

GAY FATHER'S FORUM 'COMMUNITY.
A support organizatiOn for gay
RESEARCH INITIATIVE
fa1l1ar's.
1I1eirlovers. and .others in.,•
CAl tests ",parimentel drugs andchild·nunuring situa1ions. Month·'GAY MEN'S HEALTH CRISIS.. 881menls for AIDS and HIV rala1Id
HOTUNE .
Iy
mea1ings
includea
poUucksupillnesses. Monthly treatment andper. support groups on varied
Fat INFOOMATION ON SAF£R SEX, research group for HIV+ incMluais;
topics. speakers. andAND HIV-RELATED HEALTH, SER·
Treatnent and research nlMlSie1mr. • specialized•socializing.Meetings:
1~ Friday
VICES. AM) Fat INFOIfMTION ON
forums and public seminars. CaH
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receiving 97,551 votes, or 11.4 percent of . 105t her bid for off"\CCii.
from Oregon who has beert. the target of'
the total, and became the first AfricanIn M~,
lesbiaO Representative
an outing campaign by gay and leSbianAmerican president of the board. That
Karen Oarle and gay Senator Allan Spear,
activists, cpmfortably kept his seat in theposition had;been held by Hany Britt.
both five-term DFL incumbents, Were',reUS Senate,. aild Mario. O1omo, New York's
turned to their offices in the capital, as • . 'popul!lr Democratic governor and perenSupervisors, all of whom are electwas Washington, state'{i gay Democratic.,nial Possible presid~ntiaI caqdi~e, did,~ ',;: ed citywide, serve stag~~red four-year'
not win the landSlide victory that pUndits' ,legislatOr Calvin Aiide~.
, terms, earn $24;ooq per ye~r and work
Conriecticut'scontribution
to thehad predicted was necessary to give him awith the city's mayor on setting city polislate af openly gay candidates, .incum- . ;:,shot at the White HoUse in 1992.
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handily won reelection.
Of the many ballot il)itiatives V{hichin"furiated AIDS activists by. slashing the\.
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state AIDS budget by 40 percent.
San Francisco voters had a say on this,men struggled to gain State office, only
year, the most closely watched in .theIn responSe, large contingents from
one triumphed. Ron Squires will repregay community was Proposition K or, as
both ACf UP and Queer Nation, compris- 'sent Brattleboro in the state Legislature,
it was called by locals, "Domestic Parting nearly 300 enraged activists in all,becoming perhaps the first openly gay~ers,· Having no legal or financial teeth,
stormed Cuomo's victory party at themember of that .state's 'governing body,the propositon baSically· just gives unSheraton, carrying signs that featured awhile openly gay candidate HoWard Rus- , picture of Cuomo embhlZ~
married partners, straight or gay, frorµwith th~ ti.,. .,'.'.. ~,. Killer. • .• . ,,",.
'anyWhere jQ"'the US- the right to regis-·'sell of Olittenden lqst his bid for a seat intle "Serial
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visor~ in another form in 1981, the meacU,was :,.Isodefeated . .
elbows with Cuomo volunteers. and, fasu~ was vetoed by then-Mayor Dianne, Mike Duffy, reportedly the only
v01ed patrons of the incumbent goverFeinstein because of pressure from the,
openly gay Republican running.for offICe
nor's campaign.
Catholic c14hurch and because shein the country, gave his Democratic opAfter vvaiting for more than two andfound the bill, whi~h would have given
ponent a hard ron, but voters in the
one-haIf ~ours for the govel1)or to comehealth benefits to the partners of ciW
Boston diStrict ultimately denied
Duffy ain and thank his supporters, the activists··
workers, too expensive. Last year the,
had the opportunity to convey their mesidea was revived by Supervisor Britt with . seat in the Iigislature, ~owever, with aliberal Republican who ,haS opc:nly eillits legislative core essentia,lly gutted, butsage to Cuomo himself for little morebraced lesbian and gay voters taking ofthan 60 seconds,
an extremely low voter turnout andfice as the commonwealth's new gover"I'm .only staying one minute,' 010- J
strong conservative backlash narrowly
nor, Duffy's political emcer is undoubted·
rno mouthed to the assembled men anddefeated it. This ye~r, organizers o,f t~ely just beginning,~ .> ,- .
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tance of a microphone, inaudible aOove· aro~nd t1;lcissue, registered 10,000 pri7
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in 1988, declined to seek reelection.
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Richards' defeat of former state treasurer'. the governor's campaign signs, effectively.. percent margin, or 109,629 votes to· 92',785-just'about
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Elmhurst, NY 1-1370
Box 480507, L~,.' 533154, Ortando FL
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P.O. Box 6140,
34,5'7"being around
ASIAN SEEKS WM
33 & 35,seeks
Whitneyville, CT
138 Ibs, moustache.
people. If you do
BU.DDYsimilar singles,
06517; I'm 45, 6',
Enjoys working out,
send photo/tel gets.r for cozy tal!<coolcouples, trtos, or
hot Italian. All
dancing, gqod
mine POB 23.1•
walks film theatre
any combination for letters answered.
conversation, .
Glenville Station,museums somemutual fyn,movies, music, 'Greenwich, CT
music art maybe
friendship, and
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travel and mature
fantasy - fulfill~nt.
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laugh and cuddle•
dis~reet tender,
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seeking man 3Q-.w
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150lbs. want a hotsimilar interests for
LIGHTS
cool good looks
to Box 540 NYC
top to keep me
fun and possible
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nice build would be10159-0540
wann. You: all
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relationship.
plus since eye have
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Fulton, OA QS439·
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relocation. Ohuck,
BI/W/M mid 40's,
I'm 6'11" '170
Erudite passive,6539 Heather
180f bus man,athletic, 23 yre etS,with HIV, AFlC, or
etaillon. tum on this' Court, Harrisburg,
MUlt be compu.acting, vrygdlklng.
athletlo, Lociklng for
AIDS wh,o II liberal,very hot BM (6',elonate; .. nslUve,-Penna. 17112
Brlbr. Not- top to teach me' BIaffectionate, homy , 1751bs, 30's)
and open~mlndtd. . In s••
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D, slave mstr,lea.,and .. unafraid of
100kln9for
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SEEKS MASSIVE
Lqoklng for
dildos, etc. Must be
AIDS as I am. Let's
stimulating
OutWeekBox 3565
CALVES,
muScular GWM fOr
discreet. P.O. Box
cuddle, make love,encounters with
Seel< GWM withvery discreet nil.
1535, Levittown, PA
and watch "Twin, CUDDLERS
homy smartasses.
massive calves.
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19058.
,WANTED'
Peaks" togeth~r. If
P.O. Box 786 NY
Age and body type1~, Rosemead
Inter,sted In
10026 Photo!
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unimportant. POB." (HOT COLLEGE
CA91770.
phone.
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possibilities, write tomature guy, 25-46,
ton, NY 11968.
, BEEFY BOY
wants GWM under
NATIONWIDE
Michael Drennon,
wllll,ng t9 ,developI
25 for safe fun.
Spmewhere, there's
lasting f!1endshlp or 26 years old 17Ofbs. 1330 BUfjh St. #7F,
Very good looking- SF CA 94109-5660.
Xpllclt letter & .
a young (18-28)
relationship; Hairy
phone to BW P.O.
matl!re gay guy
chest a piLlS.C~ " Dark hair & eyes
GWM 48 5'9", 155'
smooth bodyBox 368; Bkyln, NY
see(ijng a permaGWM, 28, SANDY
707-553-9242 or
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nent, monOgamous
HAlf', ,looks, enjoys arts,
to the bars & I work
swered, thoSe With
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962 EI Cerrito, CA
theatre, 'natureout at home. rm
photo first.
1251bs, seeking
Seeure, older white
94530 safe sel(friendship!
looking for muscular . attractive uninfectedmale who will give .
only.
relationship. POB
latin men well hung
SLlMTEENI
guy for a waRn,
him the love and1248, Union, NJ
forr hot safe
sex.
WANTED , ,,honest, and sincere
security he wants
ATTENZIONI
070,83-9998
Photo a must.
18-19, slim, any
RAGAZZI.
relationship. Photoand not be dumped
Outweek Box.3534
race OK by nicehelpful bilt not
at eh drop of the
Cerco:un ragazzo,
TAKE A CHANCEI.
GWM,5O'5'7" 150
next pair of jockey
required. Please19-28 annl,.
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GWM, 47, ITAL,
write to : Richard,
shorts the comes
Are you hungry forglasses, looks like a
simpatico, maschlo. 5'10"; 170#,
P.O box 4642, East
down the pike. Am
more than one night
friendly teacher. '~ non troppo, unprof, stg~ appearLansing, MI 48826.
tired of playing
of desire? Greatl
rag8ZZ0 chi ama
lng, sensitive, sks
Mall current photobulls hit with a seri~s
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and detailed letter
cinema, Ie.
ynger to share qual.
HEY WESTof con artists who
GWM 255,10"150
to P~O. Box 22181
COAST BEARSIrI~torante, le caserei. Must bee
think their heaQ\..
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San Francisco, CA
belle, e!~sso
putgolng, sincere,
6'1", 215Ibs., 4:5 yr. games are original
In shape male 1894122. Live-In.
seeuro. Sona unmature with sense
and their cock Is theold enema.bear will
33, any race OK for
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key to financial
clean out your butt
'something real.
possible for rightseenante, 5'7",38 I, 131-1.Country Club
security. Am gay,with waf1T1soapy
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deserving boy. .
water from my49, 6'1 1/2";220.,
Outweek Box 351 0\
sturdy, red rubber
brnlbm, average
QCchlmarrone,
07083. "GAY AND
enemabag.
. looks, hairy, husky,
sono ltalo,HEY LITTLE,GBM
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mustache, selfYeah ...stand there
Amerlcano. Ablto a ,BROTHER
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owner. Am kind, .
35, goodlooklng
skI malc GMbtm,
eyes and wiseand I'll rub It .
understanding,
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18-25, slim ordesires maSCUline
slow'n'easy. Hoser,
Phlla., PA 19103
honest, sincere,seeks little brothermedlu m. bit., avg
BI or-Gay black
POBox 421791,and value a true re18-35 for fun safe
San Francisco, CA,lationship. Lost my
BIG DADDY TOP I Ikng'orbetter:tor. times, massages, , , man sensitive andsafe, discreet times
94142-1791
lover In an auto
biker's tights, eet. .. mature to explore. GBM~, 5'11", 'bOn w friendship •.
whO we are,. Fotol
accident a few
205Ibs., seeks Ii
Fulflll.the fantasy
phone If possible toHIV-, FURRY , years back so, so
Big Daddy Top. No' Snd photo/ph to J.
and play with my
Scott, 217 E 86th,
P.O. Box 20, NYC,
PANDA
although alone, notdrugs, smokers.
sculptured tool and.,Suite 205, NY Ny
NY1oof2
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lonely, Just looking
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be retiJrnec:I.
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fun, exCIting, high(if possible) and
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old fashioned
business, and ME.
standards &note gets mine.
QUALITY MAN
27 yrs,old, 6'2", 150
touching, playing,
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SEEKS SAME
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druggles, stlY;l8t
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Rock Center Sta.
for friendship & lots.
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NY 10185-0009
SS. Ego's &parents disowned
furry bears,
Bklyn,. NY 11240college types. I'd
Hamptons. Masc,
me when they . .
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,ripe, affect. Bx ~71
found out I was gay
Southem Califomia,
school drop out
MOUTH•about 4 months '.,' HOME FOR 10". Sag Harbor, NY
to nibble, cuddle,
than an egg!1ead,
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ago. I will know in "and be affectionate
someone who
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homyHIVneg
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appreciates alittle chicken 18!19
white males age 50
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we are. If
chance at love andwith x-big, uncut
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wants
to. be treated . some, articulate.
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94114
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Ons, NY11312~.
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BIG DADDY TOP
inellectual equal,
GeM 40, 5'11", .
25-50. I'in a writerwhereby women would be recognized. MUSCULAR,, 205Ibs.; seeks a ,(c!Jltu~ activism),\
Hdsm prof Asian,to speak before men and wor~shops
THE REAL THING
Big Daddy Tap. No
scholar (German,· 20s , 5'6", , 140 , sks
Very handsome
on "unlearning sexism" for men} may
drugs,
smo~ers. 'Dutch,
Russian
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not be practicable or palatable for: all IiStachea+.
RaceLlt.),Intobooks,,
Latino 22-45 for
2151bs. ~8 Inchunimportant.
I
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film,bondage,safe times. Ph/Ph aarnlS 32 waist .
fun, exciting, I)lgh
ideas, travel. I
ies and politics ignore the;: fact that,:must. POB 20268,
great abs, seeks
standards &. remand my
London Terrane,
despite efforts at pluralistic indusion; ,same 6'1" hung
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NYC NY 10011.
banker Wr1teMCJ
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women felt excluded" then "aur"
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400073,Bklyn, NY
NEW FRIENDS
St. Thomas, Virgin
11240-0073
opportunity to coastruct a qu~soli~.-.
WM,35, 6'1", 185,
Islands 00830 .
, handsqme,
clarity that faces the pOlitical realities ofmascull ne,'works
JUST MOVED·TO~alpolitics.
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out, and sincere:NYC
A related problem that threatens
Care,er-oriented
GWM, 30 YI"$. old.
eventually
to silence those included 'is
b4siness profes: I looklQgfoCnew
the category you inhabit once
you arefriends. I'm into .. · sional, but hot &.
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include,d in the pluralistic ~ainbow~
spiritual beings,
problng,and
I I and turned off.by
fOf' example, gay "men." I remember~uppOrtive.SEI,eks
clg,smoklng andthe shock I experienced years ag~ (the'drugs. HC!lpet~ . · similar very tall guy
end of the '70s),after having come out
for explosive action,
meet quality gµy~
Intense friendship,
into a queer community, on discover':for, sincere .
and/or caring, longfriendship &,.
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possible dating.
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experience any difficulty in identifYing
f2mld, at (21"2)
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Box
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NYC
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reminders that gender is rtot an obvi-.
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made gay papers unsuitable for major advertisers. To test thishypothesis, OutWeek has removed its phone-sex ads. Whether or
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There isa troubling side. to this experiment,with its
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elimination---Q1"eattractive.
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support community boycotts of their products. We recently rejected aseries of full-page ads for Philip Morris' cynical "Bill of Rights"
campaign because of that corporation's gross hypoaisyin supporting
Jesse Helms'reelection. Such decisions are painfully costly andcannot be taken lightly, yet we make them surprisingly often.
There is, however, no principle stating that all advertisingmust conform rigidly to our editorial opinions. Accordingly, we
sometimes accept ads that raise troubling questions. Personals
seeking HIV-negatives only or partners of a particular race fall into
this category, and sometimes larger ads do as well.
Recently, we ran a controversial ad for an HIV information
service sponsOred by several AIDS groups but paid for primarily
by Burroughs Wellcome, even though we had some reservations
about WellcQme's motives in ftnancing the ad. We accepted the adbeca"lise it's consistent with our policy of encouraging people toget tested, it violates no community boycott against Wellcome, andthe educational service it promotes Seems useful, if self-serving ..
There are always gray areas in such' cases. Decisions about
seeking or rejectiflg ads can only bC made case by case. Our basic .
rule of thumb is to avoid financial hypocrisy by rejecting ads
which would cause us to violate boycotts. But there's no rule thatadvertising, or any other form of speech, must be totally "correct".to appear in' this' magazine. Except in extreme cases, our ad pages
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has always been fun gossip,
but we should also be discussing the ideas in her books
rather than dismissing her until
she reveals the "truth" to thelarger world that so many of us
LET US HAVE
have long known. Sontag is
LEDERER
Though a lot gets written under no obligation to be aabout many aspects of the spokesperson or mouthpiece
for a particular community; aAIDS crisis, it's sometimes
hard to get information and theme that has run through her
work has been to examine theanalysis about noncorporate
words a society uses to
medicine (a.k.a. "alternative"or "holistic" treatments). Bob describe cultural phenomena
Lederer's column is invaluable (in the case of disease, we utilize a militaristic vocabulary).
to those of us who believe
chemotherapy is not the only In outing we resort to using
upper-cased words reminisway to treat AIDS.
The problem is that "Pos- cent of schoolyard insults. Peritive Alternatives" does not run haps Mr. Signorile should thinkoften enough. Couldn't you again before he brands sometalk Bob into doing a column one (a someone who has succeeded in introdUCing difficult
every other week?
Paul Feldman concepts into the popular marSeattle, Wash. ketplace of ideas) a disgusting
fake and a victim of their own
SONG OF SONTAG
argument. Children used to
In issue no. 72, ·Mr. Sig- say, "I know you are, but what
norile ["Gossip Watch," Nov. am I?" when faced with similar
14] reprimands Susan Sontag unfounded criticism ..
Ned Miller
for not being out [as a lesManhattanbian] in the media world aswell as for not prefacing AIDS Signorile responds: Susan
and Its Metaphors with an Sontag and the intelligentsia-much as many ofadmission and proclamation
them and people like yourself
that she is a lesbian.
There is a notable tenden- might try to convince us withcy among "minorities" to con- elitist notions ("Think again
tinually begin a statement by before brandling] someone
confessing to its purported
who has succeeded in intropoint of origin. In this mode, I ducing difficult concepts into
would have begun my letter by the popular marketplace")should not be afforded any
stating that, "As a JewisMrish
gay artist who has been fag- Godlike respect that others
bashed and denied funding by aren't. What self-serving popgovernmental agencies due to pycock/
Sontag is a prominent
peer-panel cronyism, I think ...."
Yes, in some instances, it is public figure whose hiding andimportant to speak of "where cowardice robs us of visibillyou are coming from." But isn't ty-though she has capitalized
it also important "where you on her observations of this'are at" and where your argu- community again and again.
And her staying in the closet isments are going to?
Sontag has a choice to a gross hypocrisy, especiallysince her lesbianism is relevant
speak openly of her sexual
identity: As a nonadversary of to the subject matter she tackthe "gay community,"
we /es. Someone's got to tell her
should respect that choice and this, and why can't it be me,her constitutional right to pri- right here on these pages?

and Eve, I know the "us" I
stand with. I stand with myown, the men and women
who are living and dying ,with
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praise OutWeek and say how and see "Dreamboat of thew.onderful I think your maga- Week" about Pete Townsend
zine is, but it's when you do coming out, and you totallysomething ''wrong'' that I actu- . neglected that he's bisexual.
ally sit down and write.
You leave bisexuals.invisible.
Let me say, first· off, that I
I am a very out and open
think OutWeekis wonderful, the bisexual activist. I am an AIDS
and have been
. best newspaper or magazine in activist
the queer press that I have read. involved with ACT UP in two
In fact, I just subscribed recent- cities-Washington,
DC, andly. I eagerly tum to Michelange- (unfortunately to a much lIisslo Signorile's "Gossip Watch" er extent at this time) Boston.
each week to see what closet- I am an outspoken queer
case hypocrite or supposed
activist involved with Queer''friend'' of the community who Nation/Boston. I am loud andis heterosexist he~s going to proud and on the front line.
expose and trash. He's beauti- Can't OutWeek recognize thatful. I think your advocacy is bi's are Queer,too?
great. I think your coverage of
Drew Lewis
almost everything is great.
Cambridge, MA
I was very, very happy to
see the interview with Susie
FAERIE FLAK
Bright recently. And to see in
Jay Blotcher's cover artiprint the "B" word. It made me cle, "That 01' Lavender Magic!"
feel included in the people Out- in the Oct. 31 issue of OutWeek writes about. And then I Week [no. 70] includes a
open issue no. 73 [Nov. 21] description of the Radical•!\OW DOWE END TJIE
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Faeries which disturbed me
greatly. On page 43, Mr.
Blotcher writes: "[Radical
Faerie] rituals stress rebirthand growth. Drawing on cultpractices of transcendentalis'!1, pharmaceutical hallucinogens often are part of the ritual. And so is sex. 'It's absolutely at the core,' Birman says,'and we often don't acknowledge it. I wouldn't say thateveryone comes there to get
laid, but in a fairy [sic] context,
spirituality is sexual, and being
sexual is spirituality.'"
I have been active in the
Faeries since 1983 and neveronce have I observed [others],
or been encouraged myself, totake "pharmaceutical hallucinogens" for any ritual purpose.
While I realize that some may
privately in~ulge in the chemical construction of "transcendentalism," it is not a cOmmon
practice of the Faeries to do--

this publicly for ritual purposes,
and our rituals have not, in myexperience, centered on thispractice in any way.
Again, the connection
between spirituality and sexuality is, indeed, an intimate
one. But to assume that overtly physical sexual activity in aritual context is required
before sex becomes a "part"of the ritual indicates a grossly
superficial understanding of
this connection. Being sexualin a ritual context has little to
do with "getting laid"; it may
take a number of different
expressive forms from dancing naked in mud to ritualabstinence in order to increase
psychic or spiritual potency.
My frustration with Mr.
Blotcher's description of the
Radical Faeries, however, hasmore to do with discretion thanwith noting these two factual
errors. Why would anybody, in

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phobic media has createdcan be made, most included
JesseHelms, the "moral" ass- .
community will come up withabove. (The above are suggeshole of this nation of homoa list of pro-homosexualtions and are used as examphobic morons. The time hasples.) These demands wu. be
media demands. For examPle:
come for us to rise up, seize(.1 ),a positive pro-gay news
presented to the media. If thestory I" every newspaper , demands are' not, .met within " the time and declare war on
the media. We~vegot absoacross the nation every d,ay of
30 ~,.thenwe refer to alterlutely nothing to lose, but athe week (not on page 56 ornative no. 3.
next to obituaries); (2) Inter3. We will work ou.t!llde few miserly crumbs.
PaulGumrdo
views with prominent and notthe system. We will then meet
Forest Hills, NY
our demands by force. We
so-prominent homosexuals;(3) positive, pro-gay sitcoms,
can bomb television studios,.RO... KOFF
\ disrupt all live shows, espedramas, mysterles,sclence
It Ie reprehenajble of Alltn:
cially newa broadcasts. We
fiction on 1V and cable during
prime time, three times per
can deatroy media corporate Roskoff [no. 73, Nov. 21] toattack party promoter Dallas'
headquarters, am.h came~week mlnlmuni; (4) advertlsBoelandahl , over what
ere' must use the homosexual and ,other media equipment,
lifestyle. a valid alternative toamounta to i templlt In aburn down media office.,
teapot. To mla.leadlngly paradestroy prlntlng,prt8ses, vanthe other valid lifestyles cur, rently In falhlon; (6) 20 perphrase Boeaandahl'aal'1luably
d.lI~e delivery trucks., havema.. lYe demonstration., .~- . pragma~o deolslon not to let
oent of all national, regional
Deborah Glick canval. hi.
and loCal inagazlnee and otherIn., zap" until our demand". space must 'be dMted-to the are ,"et. We muat be unre- Men'e Room venue Into the"He claimed that the people
lenting and fight until we win.
~omoeeicUalllfe8tyle. (20 perThe media has Intensified who come to his parti88 don'tcent of the population): (8)other poaltlv.lmagery.
Pro-.., 'clur currflnt atmosphere ofcare .bout POI~IC8"Is rldlcu, .
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hardly to 8flj i1S denizens don't
care about politics. To dredge
up Ule memory of Egli Vestlls

beyond appalling.

Dallas'efforts were crucial In keeping

this heinous murder (-killed,during an 81M episode"
IndeedI) from being swept Intoa closet. A relentless fund-raiser for gay C8U888, Boesandahl
Is an up-standlng member ofthe gay communitY and an
Impeccable human btlng. To
Inter he II 1881 than eupportlveof gay rightl Ie mallolou,. If
Mr. Roekoff Is eQ "politically
weJl-connect8d,"why do8a theeelf-loathlng maniac \\110 Instigated Egli Veatl'l mu~r freely
prosper today? "Community
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NEW YORK-Police have made athird arrest in the murder case in
Queens that has galvanized co~unity
anger pver anti-gay attacks here, but
the long-sought tag of "bias motivated"remains elusive.
Esat Bid of 90-11 51st Ave., an 18year-old resident. of Elmhurst, Queens,surrendered to officers from the 115th
Precinct on Nov. 19, at the office of his
attorney, Bany Rhodes. He was arraignedon Nov. 20 and charged with seconddegree murder and crimina1 possession ofa deadly weapon in Connection with theJuly 2 murder of Julio Riv~.
,Rivera,29, was stabbed repeatedly,
and bludgeoned to death with the claw
end of a hammer near a schoolyard inJackson Heights known ;IS "Vaseline
Alley" because it is popular with gay.
men looking for sex.
Rhodes declined to conunent on thearrest of his client. "I can' only tell youthat he insists on his innocence," said
Rhodes,who
added that Bid has no
crimiilal record.
'The Queens County District Attorney's office was sCheduled to take thecase' before a grand jury on Friday, Nov.
23. At press time, sources close to theinvestigation expressed confidence thatBid would be indicted on the chatges.
Bid's arrest followed the indictments
last week of Erik Brown and Daniel.. Doyle, 20-year-Old residents of. the same
Jackson Heights neighborhood. Doyleand Brown, who last week were indicted
on second-degree murder charges and,for criminal possession of a deadly
weapon, continue to be held without bail.
The grand jury proceedings in their cases
remained sealed,and
the DA's officedeclined to divulge, details.
According to Detective Michael
Sackman, who heads the investigationof Rivera's slaying, Bid's surrender cameas a result of the arrests and indictmentsof Brown and Doyle, "He reached out
to us through his attorney, and detectives went to his attorney's office andpicked him up."
. Detectives at the 115th Precinct havesuspected the three men since late lastsummer, when they learned that all three
had attended a party in the neighborhoodon the night of the murder.

Cops working on the case have ~spent the past three months building a ~case against the three, which Sackman ~bas described as "very strong."c
Police are in possession of a c0nfession from Doyle, although his lawyer bas
disputed its legality. According to
Sackman, cops on the case wili continue
to reselVe judgment on the motive forRivera's killing, waiting for a corroborating statement from Bid.
But under the guidance of theirattorneys, neither Bid nor Brown, whohave also said nothing to police, arelikely to talk. And while anti-violenceadvocates have expressed satisfaction
with the current pace of the investigation,
they are nonetheless impatient for a declaration of bias motivation.
"We continue to feel that without
evidence to the contrary that this should
be classified as a bias aime," said David
Kirschenbaum, a spokesperson for the
New York Gay and Lesbian Anti-Violence
Project. "It should be treated as seriously
by the police and the press as bias murders against any other community."
Vaseline Alley, located near 77th
Street and 37th Avenue in Jackson
Heights, is not fur from several neighborhood gay bars. InJuly, neighborhood re&idents told OUtWeek that drug sales occur
openly along nearby Roosevelt Avenue,
between 79th and 8Ist streets, and police
originally suggested that the slaying
might be drug-reIated.
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The new president-elect of Ireland,
Mary Robinson, is the antithesis of every
man to hold the office before her.
Robinson, ~e first woman ever electedto the presidency, is a radically liberal
human-rights activist and feminist. And. she is outspoken on issues of birth control, abortion rights-both of which are
illegal in Irelanti--and on the deaiminali7ation of homosexuality.
"It's about the most exciting thing tohappen to women and gays here ever,"said Anne' Galligan, a lesbian-ferilinist
from Dublin. "The election of Robinson
was a total swprise--really a reaction tosentiment against Brian Lenihan (one ofher opponents), bu~ it could have areally brilliant effect on us here. It's notgoing to change anything tomolTOw, of
ROCKTHE HOUSE-Mary Robinson. course, but it will make the kind of agitation that could radically alter the position
to say about rights fur gays in Ireland: "Iof gays and women in this oountry."
do now and have always felt that
According to Galligan and other gay
homosexuality should be decriminaland feminist activists in Ireland, the picized. I say it now and will say it in ature there is bleak, and Robinson's outpersonal capacity later." Consensual
spokenness on issues such as gay rights,
abortion rights and birth control havemade more than headlines-they havebolstered. grass-roots organizers who see
her election as an inevitably positive step
toward establishing equal rights forhomosexual acts are illegal under. thewomen and gays.
Irish Constitution.
According to
The president of Ireland is, as in
Galligan, political figures ignore the gay. rights Issue.
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other European countries, a head ofstate rather than of government. But
Moira Flynn, another activist, told
while the position is primarily a cereOutWeek that "the politicians just ignoremonial ope, it Is not without influence.
these issues. They don't think of homo- .
And· Robinson has repeatedly statedsexuals as having a voting bloc like inthat she wants the position to carry , the States, or even in Britain, So it justmore political weight, a position she
tends not to even be addressed, except
made clear during her qunpalgn.
in somewhat negative ways. It's more
Robinson, who will be inaugurated
likely that an issue such as divorce
on Dec. 3, is, like nearly 90 percent of(RobiIison favors legalizing it) or even
. the Republic of Ireland, a. Roman
birth control and abortion get raised by
Catholic. She is married to a Protestantpoliticians because there's a strong femand is a lawyer and a mother of two. In
inist movement here. But, for example,
the course of her caInJ:Yaign,she had thisthe illegality of condoms makes the••

AIDS problem even more alarming
here, because there just isn't available
protection. And it's all due to the powerof the church and their stand on gays
and women.
Robinson is also outspoken on therole of the church as regards to the state.
She believes strongly that the church has
put women in the position of secondcIass citizenship and that gays have beenclassed "right below them." In an interview with a local news magazine, Hot
Press, she said, "I agree that the whole
patriarchal male-dominated presence of
the Catholic Church is probably theworst aspect of the establishment
forces that have sought to do down
women over the years. n Part ofRobinson's job will be to attend religious functions as president. "It's not
the aspect of the job that most excites
me," she told the magazine.
Robinson's election came as a surprise to many. Although she had campaigned hard for the position and holds
an impressive political record prior to theelection, Brian Lenihan, her prime 0pponent and member of the dominant
Flanna Fail party, was expected to win.
Her victory is attributed to reaction
against Lenihan when he was exposed in
the local press as having lied about apolitical scandal eight years earlier.
Robinson trailed behind Lenihan by 5
percent in the first round of balloting, butneither obtained the outright majority
required to win. The second choice ballots for third-place finisher Austin Cunie
put Robinson over the top.
One Irish male politiCian, who
asked not to be named, said that theoountry is ron by and for men and thatthe election of a woman in a position
with as much "obviousness" as that ofpresident "can only mean to stand themen on their heads. It matters very little
that there's no real power here. The
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TACOMA, Wash.-After nine years
bf battling the US Anny, victory tasteS
especiillly sweet to 42-y~ar-old gay
sergeant Peny Watkins.
"Nine or ten years is a long time, but
it's been worth it," said Watkins in a telephone interview. "I would do it againand I would do it exactly the same way."
On Nov. 5, the US Supreme Court
refused to hear an appeal brought. by the
Department of Defense which would
have kept the. exemplary soldier out of
the setVice.
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"My.mother was vetystrict about lying,"
said·Watkins. Over 20 years ago, when
he saw the question on the Anny application which asked if he was gay, his firstthought was of her.
"I thought that if I lie anq get thrownout, my mother would kill me. She
wouldn't mind atall thatJ'm gay, but she
would ~lutely
die if I lied to get in the
Anny and then got thrown· out."
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"Considering how conservative this court
is--and being Black -and gay and fighting
the government-I
had three strikes
against me," he explained. "But it shows
how far off base the government is with
their argument, and how blatantly wrong
they are."
Watkins had vowed to fight till theend, even though
he didn't initially see,
himself as a gay crusader. He has said
repeatedly that he only fought to get what
was his-the pension he had earned.
But his ethics are such that he,couldn't bring himself to lie, even about
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resulted in the article's erroneous suggestion that a proposal by the ACLI,Jwas'~eant to serve as a comp,romise between
a 'more toothsome measure supported by
gay advocates and a city administrationthat some perceive 10 be increasinglys,kittish about the subject .
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and is supported by most of the new legiSlation's backers. The ACLU's propol!alwould have the mayor establish a registryfor domestic partners open to anyone, inorder to track the demand , for domestic
partnership legislation, and is similar to a'
new law recently proposed by voters in
San Francisco.
While the p.roposal, as set forth by
Nan Hunter and Bill Rubenstein, former
and current directors 0.1. the ACLU'sl~sblan and Gay Rights Project, could
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An EKG performedon Frank
showed that the oongressman had block- ~age of a major coronary artery, Mter- ~"wards, when it appeared that the bloodclot in the artery was not responding totreatment, Frank underwent a balloon
angioplasty---« nonsurgical procedure to
restore the blood flow early Sunday•
monung,"I appreciate the care I'm getting andmany of the expressions of concern," said
Frank in a statement released by the hostime
pital on Monday. "There's no' ~for something like this to happen, but atleast Congress is now out. That meansthat I'll be back at work when Congress isback in session.""Congressman Frank has been inexcellent health prior to this incident,"
said Dr. William Grossman, Beth Israel's
cardiologist -in-cilief. "His quick action ingoing to the hospital to seek medical
treatment prevented a more serious incident I'm pleased to say treatment seems
to be working, He has no other medical
problems."
Grossman predicted that if Frank's
rate of progress continues, he expects theoongressman's oomplete recovery.
Frank, who was handily reelected toa sixth term on Nov. 6, has long been
one of Congress' most visible and effective supporters of gay and lesbian rights,
most recently having sponsoredaremoval of the federal ban on gay and
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Doctors are expecting the openly
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Berliners marched through the city centeron Oct. T7 protesting Paragraph 175 of theWest German legal code, which sets ahigher age of consent for gay men to have
sex than for hor lesbians,
East GellJ:lany repealed its version of
Paragraph 175 two years ago, and gay
campaigners fear that the unified German•parliament is preparing to adopt West
Gennany's jawS wholesaIe.
If that happens, gay East German
sexually active boys between ages 14
and 18 will effectively become criminals
overnight.
Since reunification, Paragraph 175
has moved to the forefront of theGerman gay agenda,. "We have to show our opposition to
any attempt to extend this unjust andanachronistic Jaw into the territory which
was fonnerly East Gennany," said protest
organizer Karsten Friedel,
The demonstration began at East
Berlin's central Alexanderplatz
andwound through the heart of the city,
catching the attention of tens of thousands of Saturday shoppers.

Protestors finished with a rally at the
Brandenburg
Gate, where speakers
demanded "completely equal legal andsocial rights for lesbians and gay men.". Meanwhile, a new Washingtonbased human rights gro~ps, Gay andLesbian Watch, recently wrote Chancellor
Helmut Kohl complaining about the discrepancy between the two Germanies' .
age-of-consent laws, They received a
response that said that Kohl "understands
your desire to have this issue reopened."
The return letter added that until the
new German parliament finds time toaddress "numerous complex issues," thelegal age for gay sex in the five Eastern.
states will remain at 14.
Paragraph" 175 was enacted in
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It has been targeted by homosexual
rights campaigners for almost 100 years,
since groundbreaking gay activist Magnus
Hirschfeld fIrSt petitioned the Reichstag
for its repeal in 1897,-Rex Wockner.iChicago

ASIAN GAYGROUPSORKIN
BANGKOK-As the gay liberation
movement continues its spread intodeveloping nations, more than 30 Asian
activists gathered in late August in
Bangkok to share ideas and plot international strategy.
The conference was hosted by the
Fraternity for AIDS Cessation in Thailand---ml oJBanization known as much for its
gay rights WOlk as AIDS activism.
. Delegates attended from Guam,Japan and Malaysia, and gay groups inmany other Asian nations, including
Hong Kong, South Korea and Taiwan,
sent letters regretting that they did nothave any travel funds. Several absent
organizations sent papers detailing thestate of their lc:x:algay movements.
As the conference opened, key Thai
activistNatee Teerarojjanapongs told delegates, "Over the past decade, we haveseen a dramatic shift in acceptance of gay
identity and lifestyles in Bangkok, as theresult of the development of a Significant
gay business community, ii vigorous gay
press and the role of good gay men presented in the media."
Japanese delegates described a new
spirit of gay liberation in their nation.
Asian Wind editor Seiichi Madon said that"the single lifestyle" (dokushtn shug{J has
become trendy in the past five years andhas created a niche for gay men whowant to eschew marriage and parenthood.
"Let us speak up courageously
without being afraid of disputes," added
Teishiri Minami of the JapaneseInternational Lesbian and Gay Association•
Support Group. "We must stand up
now-not for someone else but for ourselves so we can live faithfully andtruthfully."
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deteriorating fof. two years. At first,
overt harassment
came only frompolice, who arbitrarily arrest gaysnightly in the streets to "check" theirurecords" or because they are prone to"sexual promiscuity in public."
Five laws are used in the ongoingcrackdown. The laws pennit detainmentof "suspicious persons," suspected prostitutes, persons who permit same-sex
dancing, wear "improper clothes" oroperate an establishment where "homo-sexua1s gather ,for immoral pur.poses.". In August,the crackdown
received de facto official approval
when a federal appeals court denied
CHA any legal status in Argentine society-forcing
the shutqown of gayrights and AIDS work'lfiftionwide andpreventing the group from renting an
office or collecting money.
The court said: "Homosexuality
injures the principles of morality andgood customs of our society. The pub-lie acceptance or legalized promotionof a third hybrid gender would contravene not only the principles of naturallaw, but also Catholic morality is challenged by all these currents that pursue the glorification of homosexual
behavior," the court wrote,
CHA is appealing the ruling to theSupreme Court. If that fails, the groupwill move to the InterAmerican' Courtof Human Rights in Costa Rica."-Rex

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AIDS-related issues at New
York's Lambda Legal Defense••
Fund. A Lambda-affiliated attorIrish Echo, New York's •ney since 1985, Isbell, aright-wing Irish weekly, •Harvard grad previously at the
we re all set to loan •white-shoe law firm of Hughes
AdWeek a photo of ••Hubbard and Reed, will replace
Mary Robinson, the •David Barr, who left Lambda to
new left-wing president •join
the staff of GMHC earlierof Ireland, until they •
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year.
found
that
they'dheard
Michael Isbell
Gay journalist
Carrieall wrong. When they ••Wofford and George Washlearned that the photo •ington University graduateb ANDREW MILLER~as actually for a story •Stuart Campbell are the newy
In OutWeek, New Yolk's ••youth representatives on theleft-wing gay and lesbian weekly, the Echds Jennifer Grimes said •board of the Human Rightsthat the Echds photos were in limbo at the printer and were not •Campaign
Fund. They replace
available after all. Grimes was quick to assure OutWeekthat the •••Bobbi Bernstein and Tad
snafu had nothing to do with this magazine's audience.
Gardocki, who recently comNow, community newspapers in New York regular1y share ••pleted their one-year terms.
photographs, since few of them can afford the Associated Press's •Meanwhile, GMHC's deputy
pricey fees. In fact, fI Diarids friendly photo editor has saved the •director for policy, David
day many a time for OutWeek news. But when a pro-Irish lesbian • Carrie Wofford•iiiiiiiiiiiiill' Hansell, has been appointed tois elected the head of the Queer Nation, the Irish Echo had better •New York state's AIDS Advisory••
send its own shutterbug.
Council by state Assembly•
Speaker Mel Miller. The council
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clone of the new radical direct-action group was born in
Minneapolis on Nov. 7 and, impatient to get underway, held its firstpublic display of affection that week. The noon-time kiss-in in frontof the University of Minnesota Armory was meant to protest
ROTC's anti-gay stance and coincided with the ACLU's conferenceon combating ROTC, held nearby on campus on Nov. 9.

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advises state health commissioner David Axelrod on AIDS
issues and policies.
And 8ay Area reporter
Dennis McMillan was elected to
the national board of the Gay
and Lesbian Press Association.
Stuart Campbell
Also known as Sister Dana Van
Iquity of the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, McMillan was chosen
at GLPA's Los Angeles board meeting in October.

A 19th-centur
Czechoslovakian Torah recovered from the Holocaust found a newhome at Congregation Beth Simchat Torah, New York's gay andlesbian synagogue. Plundered by the Nazis, the sacred scroll wasrecovered by the Westminster Synagogue of London, which intum placed it with the gay synagogue. In keeping with Jewish tradition, congregants carried the Torah in a joyful procession fromthe CommunitY Center on West 13th Street to the synagogue on
nearby Bethune Street•••••••• MAPS TO THE STARS: "As a visible public figure, youhave a tremendous ability to promote civil rights for lesbians and•• gaymen."••
So begins the preprinted postcards provided by ACT
UPlPortland,
urging alleged famous closet-cases to come out and• be counted. ACT
UP calculates that over 500 have gone out to "over•HEAD SHOTS: Michael Isbell is the new staff attomey for:•

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and researchers are saying that a meetingfor federal AIDS investigators here theweek of Nov. ·12 was more informative
than the international AIDS conference in
San Francisco last June.
The meeting of the AIDS Clinical
Trials Group, or ACfG, brought together
researchers from 47 medical centers
across the country who are testing antiAIDS drugs for the National Institute ofAllergy and Infectious Diseases.
For the first time, activists wereinvited to participate both as registeredparticipants and as members of the newly
fonned Community Constituent Group.
Activists on this committee will SetVe on
all major ACfG committees, induding theexecutive committee, according to NIAID.
By contrast, one year ago, activists were
not welcome; four members of ACf UP
barged into dosed meetings, demanding
indusion.
The Community Constituent Group
used its new powers to keep ACf UP
from speaking at a pleruuy session. ACf
UP, planning to point out bureaucratic
problems within the ACfG, charged theCommunity Constituent Group with joining the ACfG bureaucracy and no longer
representing the community's interests,
In a one-page sheet entitled"What We Have Learned," ACT UP
members outlined their belief that communication among ACfG committees ispoor,' and statements made in different
sessions were contradictory. Some of
their concerns:• Drug trials have data backlogs up
to nine months. (Ibis sUlprised membersof the Data Management Commettee.).Principal
investigators,' or PIs(researchers who run specific trials), gavedifferent reports in hallway discussions
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from those they gave in the committee
meetings.
·One PI thought that the number ofparticipants in a trial he was supervising
was so low that the trial had been cancelled. He made this statement minutes
after the ACfG committee overseeing
the trial had reported in another session
how high the participation rate was.

~~Nobody
talks
to each other,"the FDA's Ellen
Cooper told
activists.

According to ACf UP, ACfG committee
members do not discuss trials among
themselves. For example, no PIs sit on
the protocol committee, although site
representatives do .
·Members of a subgroup of thePrimary Infection Committee did notunderstand the the basic rules of theFood and Drug Administration, believingthat any PI could request a drug be put
immediately into phase-one trials--trials
that determine dose and safety of anagent before it is tested in hundreds ofpatients. Actually, it could take three toten years to get a drug placed into theapproval process.
•ACfG trial 076 is a study of AZf in
pregnant women. Both the FDA and ACf
UP have called this trial unethical.
Researchers continue to ignore women's
infections. Pregnant women are given
treatments primarily for their fetuses. For
example, there are no studies of treatments for vaginal candidiasis, eventhough fluconazole was originally developed in England specially for candidiasis.
Perhaps the most important revelation about bureaucracy came from highranking government officials, who say
publidy that they do not cooperate well.
"Nobody talks to each other," the FDA's
Ellen Cooper, in charge of approving
antiviral drugs, told activists.
Rochelle Rollins, research director of
Boston's Multicultural AIDS Coalition anda Community Constituent Group member,spoke at the opening plenary session of
the need for activists and researchers towork together despite the bureaucracy.
She drew an analogy to the movie, The
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1 by Annanda C. Squadrilli
I sat in the fIrSt•
SSlon
instinctively began
trying to identify thestatistical 10 percentof the audience who
would be gay.
As a businessperson whose liveJi,w,,,.", hood has depended on networking, I havespent a lot of time attending professional
conferences and meetings. r always findmyse1f trying to figure out who is and who
isn't. Since less than 10 percent of manygroups is made up of women, the probability was always that there wouldn't be
many leSbian$ at all.
I had to suspend this reaction at the
National Gay and Lesbian Task Force's
third annual Creating Change conference,
which took place on Nov. 9-12 in
Minneapolis. 'There were many lesbians,
and there were many gay men: 700 in
totaL But it took a while for the realiza-•tion to sink in that everybody present not
only was family, but also shared a commitment to creating change.
The initial "invocation" was in thefonn of a wonderful Native American ritual. It expressed the diverSity of our community and our roots and heritage and,on a painful note, underscored the disenfranchisement we all feel at many levels,
The woman who performed this ceremony shared a prayer called "FromBalance Come All Blessings," a sentimentthat settled over the participants and carried on throughout the weekend
Another instinctive reaction had tobe suspended early on, In the first plenary session, the discussion centered on
the diversity of the audience, As I looked
around, I was aware of what this diversity
means: women and men, people of color
and white people, differently challenged
people. Diversity of people and diversityof needs were recognized and addressed.
For a while, I kept waiting for the
inclusion of "sexual orientation" in the
panoply of individual group recognitions.
It soon hit me that we were the "in" onesat this conference, and that we werecommitted to none being excluded. The
co~ortumearooodbeingagay~
seemed to climb to the next quantum
level of self-acceptance and -approval,
which in turn re-energized the commitment to create our own reality, It felt rightto be in the majority.
The themes of anger and pride
reverberated in the speeches, the selfsearching and honest workshops and thecasual conversations, with the emphasis
not on acceptance but on affinnation andon change, The speakers brought to us
were inspiring and moving: comedian .
Kate Clinton, performance artist Holly
Hughes, New York Community Center
director Richard Burns, author Sabrina
Sojourner, New York mayoral liaison
Marjorie Hill and Lisa Power from theInternational
Lesbianand
Gay
Association, among others. They spoke ofnot being so hard on each other-not
exercising blind acceptance, but of showing kindness and tolerance.
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special appearance
was made by Roman in Kalinin, founder ofthe Moscow Gay and Lesbian Union, who is.on a nationwide tour to gamer support for
the emerging Soviet gay movement.
Kalinin said that 800 men are imprisoned each year under the Soviet Union's
sodomy law, and that the govemment prodoces and imports only enough condoms
for each sexually active male to buy four
per year.
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Resource tables in the long hallway
adjacent to the meeting rooms featured
businesses and organizations-gay
andlesbian, local and national, activist andsocial. The conference was the first to beheld outside of Washington, DC.
The workshops addressed many
specit1c needs of our community, which
tended to cause scheduling conflicts. I

Students Gather for

Anti-ROTC
Conference
MINNEAPOLlS~orethan 165 gay andlesbian students from universities aroundthe nation gathered in Minneapolis on Nov.
9 to swap strategies in their ongoing batHes
against the Reserve Officers' Training
Corps, which bans homosexuals fromenrollment in accord with Department of
Defense policy.
The conference, sponsored by theAmerican Civil Liberties Union, rode thecrest of the aggressive anti-ROTC activism
that has sprung up on campuses fromcoast to coast in recent months.
According to ACLU documents, students at 53 universities and colleges havelaunched anti-military campaigns-mostoften focused on removing the ROTC from
campus for violating university anti-discrimination policies. The new activism has led toa re-emergence of gay kiss-ins, sit-ins andspirited debate on gay issues in campus
newspapers.
The conference featured several stars
in the mushrooming anti-military movement, including Miriam Ben-Shalom, who
has fought a 16-year battle for reinstatement in the Arrrrr. James Holobaugh, a former ROTC poster boy who was .booted
from the Corps after he told his superiors
that he had realized that he was gay; andMassachusetts Democratic Rep. Gerry
Stu dds, the gay congressman who hastaken on the DOD'santi1Jay policies.
"This project, when considered byrational human beings, falls of its own
weight," Studds told the student leaders.
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by Susie Day
ear Neil Bush,addiction to food andshelter. Wanting what
they can't have, poor
people find it difficult toleave their abusive situation. Isn't co-dependency
a horrible thing?
In any other country, this state of affairs
would promote danger- .
ous social unrest. But
thanks to our commitment to democracy, ourHigher Power allows
rich people to buy up
major news media, sothat they can produce
sensitive re-ports on the .
poor: "OR, 700 BADI/I

DI am a lesbian co-dependent who is attracted to crisis situations. I forgive you.
I forgive you foryour role in the collapseof the Silverado Savin~and Loan, whose losses
By DEBORAH ORIN
are, after all, only a fracWashington Bureau Chief
Federal bank regulators yeltertion of the $500 billion
d~y ordered President Bush's son,N.I~ to appear at a public hearing
deficit incurred in theon confilct-of·lnterest chargeo for~ role In a savlngs-and-loan colloaned Bush money, '"thus removnational 5&L scandal. I
I~ that I.expeeted to cost tax·
Ing or decreasing
reapondentpayers $1billion.
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Bwoh'. penonal obligation.'"forgive you for the fact
he public hearing will come be·
Accordln, to another char,e.
f<*e a Denver admlniatrative law
Buah voted to approve morethat I, like !pillions ofthan $100 million In· Silveradoj~Sept. 26 - just sa the fall•
Ion campaign is heating up,
10&IIIIand deals to another bust·other US reSidents, will
. oter outrage over the SAL
ne •• partner. Publilhed reports
84andalnow
expectedtocoat
say the partner later defaulted
have to pay upwards ofe'ery American $2.000 - la"exon loana totaling $31 million.
to be a key laaue in
The bank regulators are seek2,500 tax dollars to com- pected
November.
-'Ing a cease-and·deltst order bar- At issue is Nell Bush'J role all aring BUlh trom further conflicts.
pensate .for this defidt. I
director of the SUverado SIeL In
of interest, but aren't seeking thesecuring loans for two men who
more severe penalty of barring
am even prepared to forThousands more poor
lllVested heavily In his all-and·him from banking for life .
gas exploration buslnell.
Five other Sliver ado officers. give you all over again, if
women die of breastBush, 34. the third of the presiand directors have voluntartly
dent's four Ions. has denied any
agreed to a l1feU~e ban fromyou become involved incancer eacb year tban
wrongdong_banking.
rBut. according to one of the
BUlh was a director at the Den"another
morally dewell-off women! OH,
clarge., he "breached hlB fiduclver SIeL from August 1916 to Au,q-y duty to Silverado'" by failinggult 1988 - rellgnlng jUlt after
ranged "breach of finanHearing set 'for Sept. liS.
700 BAD!!!One~uarterto disclolehi.
perlonal
interelthisfatherwon.
theGOP
presl·. . . . .
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cial duty." I bave to forof African-American
give you, Neil-you set:,men are eltber in prison
I have deep Control issues.
neurotic thanmen who loan too, much.
or on parole! OR, TOO BAD!!! Hun.
I can't help wanting things to be
I'm a wreck, Neil. But, please, don't
dreds of poor people, women, drug
better, I guess. I w.orry about ozone
worry about me I'll get better. I've
users and cbildren suffer wttbout govdepletion and a world war brewing inalready' joined the Program. Herewith,ernment benefits from diseases tbat tbe
the Pe~ian Gulf. I worry that I have a
I take the First Step:.
CDC does 1Wtrecognize as AIDS-relat. lump in my breast and no health insurI admit tbat I am powerless over.
ed!" Then, at election time, everybody
ance. I also worry that the personal is
my addiction to effect social cbange;
gets together and votes for anotherpolit.ical and that I am personallytbat my life bas become unmanageable.
rich person to be the Higher Power.
responsible for being part of the socioThere. I feel release and whole(But don't you fret, Neil; if any memeconomic climate that allowed you toness. Now it is time for the Second
ber of that Higher Power's family hap- .
do what you did.
Step, when I recognize a Higher
pens to expropriate millions of dollars'To tell you the truth, Neil, thisPower. Your father ..
in public funds, I'll make damn surewhole mess is probably my fault. If
Oooh, Ne-e-e-e-e-ei-l. I think I'm
that all of us co-dependents out here
only I'd done more, been a better perhaving a Peak EXperience. Yes. My
forgive him.)son, maybe you wouldn't have lentHigher Power is allowing me to realize
Oh, Neil, isn't life beautiful whenmillions of dollars to businessmenthat there is a Great Scheme of Thin~. you're in the upper reaches of the finanwho invested in your own oil compaSee up there? See all the enterprising,dal food chain? Seen from our Higher
ny, then defaulted on their loans. I
freedom-loving rich people? See themPower's vantage point, everything isguess I need to work on having moreenjoying high self-esteem because ofhealing and simple: If it breaks, don't fix.'boundaries, huh? But ,then,. so does
their vast amounts of money andit. All we have to do is to let go and let
Saudi Arabia.
power? Oh, ick--look at the poor pe0George, take one day at a time and get
I don't know-maybe
women
ple down there. See them suffer fromready for all those other Steps. I hear
who love too much are even more
low self-esteem, due to their pathetic
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a1w1f' ploe·to IcC .elc'ted offie-lal.
reeo8rUzl~B)ar ;nd lClbla:n ,clubs, I
think thatWI pinS t9 take rnore thlm.
Ihow!n8' up at'. fqnd·~~for Stein to'
set GUO's endof§ement in '93. ';".N.Qt tbat~there ar~ri!t lome ~ar§and le~bian§jumping to IUPport Stein.,
Word ha:s. it that the group who•

bro\:lght us 12 years of Ed Koch andhis race-~itin8· and p~greed polici~shav~ rallied around-Stein as their nektgreat hppe; Thls'crew, shatterecll?y the'89 elecdons;are",I,QOking 'to coalesee
their power 'around a Son cl>f
Koch-;Stein. Stein certainly 10()ks.thepatt. While . people such as liz
Holtzman and Rudf Messinger are
trying to work with David Dinkins so
his admihistration can fulfill the goals
and objectives of New York City's fll"st.' Black mayor, Stein's ambition is. standing in the way of what would be.
the best interests of the city.
And now that tHe elections·are over,
let's look at what's going on here in New'.

•.York vis-a-vis the lesbian and gay
coinmunitY and our state Legislature. 'As you may mow, FAlRPAC,which
has beeh '.New York City's lesbian an4
gay political action committee since
1984, and the New York State Lesbianand Gay LoQby,which has been' thegay community'S statewide lobbyingf()rce-'in Albany sinCe 1981, havemerged. The two groups have become
the Empire State Prld~ Agenda. Libby
Post from the Lobby and Mark D'Allesi
from FAIRPACare the co-chalrs, andlohgtlme les~lan political activist Lisa
P~:1s
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majority, responsive to t4e rieed~ ofour communities, to the state Senatein.
November.' All the 'Coalltion-endorsed
candidates were pro-choice' and pro~gay; All of their incumbent opponents
voted against the bias bill last year.
Eight of the'ten Coalition-endorsed
candida~es were women. All of their' iopponents were men. Each member d!
organization of the Coalition put fortha tremendous effort. FAiRPACalone 'contributed amounts of $5.00 tQ $1,750
to' each candidate.
But ,all the
Coalition-supported candidates lost. It'sa sobering loss for progressives allover New York state.
Six of the raCes the 'Coalition was
Involved in were!n_ Long Xsland, but
the best, 1V commercial by a Coalition;.
endorsed candidate belonged to Anita
Ma~wel1 from \,lp~tate New York .
MQ:well 15a farmer and a pr9oCholee
mother of 11 children,' In the
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igoing to run for
mayor. "Stein madean appearanceon Nov. 13 afthe
Gay and Lesbian
Indepen,d.cl'lt t>~moctats' fall fundraiser honoririg fontler GWO p~ident,
Assembly member-elect:
J;>ebora:hGllck. Stein, you may recall, ran,u~oppoSed in the DemocraUc primary
last year. for City Council· president, 'yetdespite his lack of opposition, he did
not receive GLID's endors.ement.
Though Stein ,has been adequate on
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legislative lobbying
agenda while a search is underway fora full-time lobbyist and an executive
director. The merger took effect after
FAIRPAC made its 1990 campaign
contributions .
Before the merger, FAiRPACjoinedwith other progressive organizations'to
become part of the Coalition for a New
Majority. The Coalition, the brainchildof politically astute Eric Schneiderman,•that .there waa mPfC IoHlll in her
p~poneQt'$ egmmerQi3Jf than OD her
farm, .It. el~ver, cl~ar"'ijt gQmmerct31,
but not enoygh tg win !he !'ace, .
. Orf MQnday, Dee.
10, from 6...10,

pm, Empire State Pride Agenda will' beroasting former FAIRPAC Executive
Director Candida Scott Piel. The cost Is$75, and it will be held at Private Eyes
at 12 W. 21st .St. It should be notedthat the owner of Private Eyes, Robert
Shalom, believes in supporting ourcommunity. The Agenda needs thedollars, and the roast"will be a riot. FOr
more information, call (212) 727-1291.
On Nov. 13, Gay Men's HealthCdsis took out a full-page ad in The
New York Times, It asked people to callthe. governor to demand that his
proposed cuts in spending for AIDS
programs and his freeze on 30 percentof the state Health Department AIDS
budget be stopped. Geoffrey Knox. of
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Over 750 people gathered earlier
this month in San Francisco's Grace
Cathedral to .honor Jim Foster, a pioneer of the· contemporary gay rights
movement. Foster died of complica-'
tions related to AIDS on Oct. 31, at his
home in San Francisco.
The funeral, with the Bishop ofCalifornia officiating, was a testament
not only to Foster but to a movement
he helped create. Del Martin and Phyllis Lyon, two of the women who created the lesbian rights organizaiton
Daughter of Bilitis, were among thepallbearers,
Hal Call, one of thefounders of the Mattachine Society, sat
in the audience. Scattered throughout
the building were many of the gay andlesbian commissioners and elected
officeholders that have served theircommunity because of doors opened
by Foster.
The eulogy was the speech Foster
delivered at the 1972 Democratic Convention. It was this speech that had,for • the first time, defined the issues ofgay and lesbian rights before a national political convention.
. Mayor Art Agnos stood with his. two sons at his side as he praised Foster. He openly spoke of his highesteem for the man. "Foster," Agnos
said, "was one of the first people toteach us· what it meant to be gay andproud, anti he had both courage andheart. The changes he brought us
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Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi andCalifornia Assembly Speaker Willie
Brown also participated in the service.
A member of the health commission, Foster was the highest-ranking
San Francisco city official to die of
AIDS. For over 20 years, he had beenin the forefront of liberation for gay
men and lesbians and in his honor
flags were ordered flown at half-staff
across San Francisco .
,Foster was one of a small groupof people who emerged in the San
Francisco area as leaders in a growing
gay community, He was one of thefounding members of SIR, the Society
for Individual Rights, which many
credit as the first group in the city toeffectively advocate for gay rights inthe political arena.
Foster was also the founder of the
San Francisco-based Alice B, Toklas
Lesbian and Gay Democratic Club.
Organized in 1972, it was the first gay
Democratic political club in the nation.
It continues to be one of the largest
Democratic Party clubs in the country.
In 1980, Foster was the Northern
California manager for Sen. Edward
Kennedy's Democratic presidential
nomination bid, Kennedy said, "He
had a vision of a better America and aroad map to get us there." He praised
Foster as a "tireless champion of awiser, more compassionate and more
effective national policy to combat thisdread disease and end the intolerance
that too often still accompanies it."

Kevin Smith
Kevin-a photographer, an AIDS
activist, a gay and lesbian civil rights
activist and an artist with a beautiful
vision-died of AIDS on Nov. 11 in his
parents~ home in California. He neversurrendered. Until the end of his life,
he fought the disease and raged
against the injustices that allow thistragedy to continue. In his final days
he was still on the telephone managing
his health care and expressing hisanger and frustration. One of his lastpolitical acts was a letter, "An Open
Letter to My Warrior Friends," pu b-

lished in the September issue of the
PWA Coalition Newsline. He wrote:uThousands of years ago there
was a warrior race in Greece in aplace called Sparta. When they went
into battle they were an army qf
lovers. An army of lovers can never
be defeated. We still chaot that when
we go into battle against the federal
government, the NIH and FDA, theDinkins administration,
President
Bush and all the other disinterested
people in positions of power who
don't help us in our struggle to survive. Some are helping, but notenough to make me. think I won't dieof this monster that is inside of me;
this monster virus that floats throughmy blood and makes me suffer somuch and has killed so many of myfriends and 10vers....Keep on fighting.
Fight for me. Fight for yourselves.
Fight for all our lives. Act UP. FIGHT
BACK. FIGHT AIDS."
In the end, when he could nolonger agitate and advocate, his mother withstood the blows of his rage,
never deserting him, making him as
comfortable as she could. For that weall thank you, Evelyn. Kevin died as
he Wished: at home, with his family,
in his sleep. Born in 1954, he leaves
behind his parents, brothers, sister,compatriots from activist organizations
including ACT UP, Body Positive, PWA
Coalition, Northern Lights, HEAL,
GMHC-and a legion of loved ones
and friends. A memorial service will
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from the start. In the face ofcorporate greed and theusual prejudice,can an .

AIDS fund-raiser also raise
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been in the vanguard of addreSSing social issues. Aside fromthe anti-war movement of the late '60s, people in the higWy
commercialized pop music industry have for the most part
shied away from any sort of political stance. But this past
decade has witnessed the "we" generation in the music world,with artists taking up causes ranging from Live Aid to Farm
Aid, from "Save the Rain Forest" to "Free Nelson Mandela."With all this philanthropic fervor in the air, where on earth is AIDS awareness?
Fade back to last july's New Music Seminar held in New York City. It was the first afternoon of the four-day event, and the scheduled panel of speakers were discussing AIDS andthe music industry, a topic which drew an audience of about 30 people, That's rougWy afive to one ratio of attendees to panelists, out of a registered NMS crowd of about 8,000. So
much for AIDS and the music industry.
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The panel, which included Dionne Warwick, British journalist Ian Cranna, Sire records
president Howie Klein and New York writer and activist Jim Fouratt, touched on a variety of
aspects of AIDS organizing, fromL .- -.A. • .A. S.A.A. Fa cultural trends to fund-raising, But
in some vague way, and for morethan obvious reasons, the discussion often focused on the obstacles to doing cultural workaround AIDS.
In the center of all of this was the softspoken Jon Carlin, co-producer of a new AIDS
fund-raising project, Red Hot and Blue, Meek but assured, and tragically un-hip in his thirtysomething attire, Carlin spoke of an album that would be a tribute to Cole Porter. Lots of big

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a
lot
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journalists.nave
proved much stronger than they anticipated and not so
attacked the actual record, saying that Cole P9rter would
easily ,..veiled. .'
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tum in his grave," explains Watney. "How th!'! hell do they
. For starters, despite many months of m~g'with
CEOs
know
what Cole Porter would think? I, think Cole 'Porterof over 75 majOr international corporations, Red Hot and•would cheer.
As a man (acing an epidemiC and thinking thatBlue .never found a sPollJiOf to help them defray the costs of,
his music could help raise some money and win'over somep.toduction. Even after Chrysalis signed 011 as the record
minds, I think he'd. be absolutely cheering. How can they~ybatidling the project, not a single corporation cJare9
say that you can't tamper with something a$ sacred as Cole,.to breiak with the pack by lending even token support to thePorter? It's like saying that you can't paint a picture [a cer· , .fight against AIDS. Only Entertainment Weekly stepped for\Vard, sponsoring a dinner party for Red Hot and Bi~ in Los tain] way because the Sistine Chapel will decompOse. That's
so absurd., It's just lightly veiled homophobia, spoken by·.
. ~geIes that garnered a 19t of press. It was an exercise that..':.....
left; Blake quite astounded.
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poiDt--l'dJike to get into names, on Dec, " though-because,,whoknows?
I've still got this.
,op~mism that maybe· someone
Will come. out of the woodwork,
what with all thepress.B~t.'essentially
we were turned•,:;,;:,'" . !iown py eyeryone: sneaker'. ,companies, Soft drink comiYanies
and eV~r:Yone for whom t4ese
artists' . images were images
yOu!d assume' that they'd wantto i~tify
with. '.,".
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to them,'You. ,know, .
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wit? HIV and AIDS.'
wear jeans; They wear sneakerli. They:, do e:verythingthat
evetfbOdy else does~No't:ruinks
to you, though.' Their excuses
were things like, ':That's not ourprime focus for 1990:' Well,
their prime focus is bullshit,quite honestly.",'.
At ABC-TV, which had
male' rock critics who are just Jbcious little &hits, really.
. bou8ht the rights to air the video, Above: Era......
They'reonly revealing th~ depthS of their own ignorance,
program in America, network
Video, directed
and they contribute to the' ignorance, sadly, because they
execs were saying no to a numby Adelle Lutz
are the gate-k~
to mass culture."ber 9,f'the more provocative . and Sandy McLeod,. Overall, the album is a wonderful presentation of Cole.
(and effective) videos, cutting,may)_t·Porter" with styles ranging from Sinead O'Coniler's spine-tinlarge portions of the original
prove to be
81ing rendition of "You Do Something to Me" to the apoca~
and niIiog in the gaps,"'1'00 Darn Hot."lyptic spoof of "Well Did You Evah!" interpreted by Debbie
with their.oWn script. As we go
Optioalte, left: David .
Harry and Iggy Pop. The videos are breathtakingly beautiful, ....:"
to press, nobody working on the,with Jean-Baptiste Mondino's ~onof Neneh Cherry in.
Byrne. directed hi.,project seems able or will"I've Got You Under My,Skin" settlDg new standards. On the .• ,.:own video of "Don't
ing .....to'say just how similar·••
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ASC's shoW will be to the originalFence Me In.''
Songs in this package could be' manipulated to give a bla[~e
story
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Pop,
ta.(ltly· AIDS-related message, the:videos offered a perfectriobody'isharboring any illusions.
and DebbleHany
oppo~unity to contextualize the music with thoughtful
Nor have BritiSh music crit- . pelr off In
imagery that would have carried .the 'theme·a little further.
, ics helped matters any, accOrd... e •••Did You .vahl"
S?ffieof the artists jumped at the opportunity by Including
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it's becoming obvious to both producers and Supporters. of the project that due to entrenched homophobia
coupled with a fear of right-wing pressure groups ABC isn't
going to air the program that was originally produced.
The most honifying of the rumors suggests that the ABC
version, stripped of most references to sex, drugs and'any sort of politics, would no longer be an AIDS awareness program at all, and that
ABC is planning to present it simply as "a tribute to Cole Porter."As OutWeek goes to press, the questions remain unanswered: Will the video
program Red Hot and Blue, sold to more than 30 countries around the globe andscheduled to be aired on Dec. 1 in thiscountry (AIDS Awareness Day) be a different program in the US than what is seenaround the world? Arid if so, how different?
Will the American public see the erotic
images of two men embracing in Jimmy
Somerville's video, or hear NenehCherry
advising viewers not to "share the needle"?
And what will happen to the same-sex couples who are dancing while Sinead O'Conner sings "You Do Something To Me"?
Speculation on this topic was so greatthat it inspired a full half-hour discussion ona recent airing of the weekly British 1V program The Medta Sbow. Leaving no, rock
untumed, the production crew of 1be Media
Sbow went straight to the source. They interviewed three top ABC executives about
their perceptions of what Red Hot and Blue represented. The result is a very frightening picture of network 1V and the,death grip that it has on our culture.
ABC executives were quite frank
about their intentions in airing theshow. As one exec confumed: "[Whatinterested us] was the fact that wewere going to honor a great Americancomposer but do it in a rather uniqueway. I would not have been able to go
forward and recommend that we dothis special if I thought that the singular pwpose of this event was a fund-raiser for
AIDS. That's not what this is about."
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The question, from another angle, is: What would happen if ABC did air the program iri its entirety? Whatwould happen if a Black
woman (Neneh
Cherry)appeared on network 1V
advising
peopleto not"share the needle"?
"Frankly, 1 think nothing would happen,"
responds Watney. "I think thatthe majorityof people
watching
AmericanTVwould be very grateful toknow that they're watchinga TV channel which takes
the epidemic seriously. But
the fantasy is, of course,that they are going to beburned. down by irate fundementalists.
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•"The terror of offending
seems to be largely one ofprojection. Doubtless there
are many hundreds of thousands of upright fundamenBoth artists andtalist Christians in the US, butthey can tum the channel."
activists walt
Ernest Hardy, a musicwith baited breath
critic based in Los Angeles,
for the ABC show
disagrees. "ABC is in almost a
to a Ir. "If It'.
na:-win situation, because nobeing censored."matter what they do, they are
predicts Simon
going to infuriate a very large
Watney. "I hopenU'mber of people. On thethe roof will
one hand, if they present thegooff. I hopepackage as intended, with a
ACTUP/LA willvery high level of information
be thereon AIDS, the right wing isgoing to sw.ooP down onsmashing
them with all claws extended.
windows."
If they don't do this, then gay
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this is presumablythewhole point."
The struggle
withABC to retain the artistic
and political integrity of
Red Hot and Blue has
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one then some people would have expected, partiCularly
those who' are not American. For British co-producer Leigh
Blake, the difference in ciin1ate between even Thatcherite England and here has been shocking, "fAlmostl the entire projectis being run out of Great Britain," she says, "where what you
can say and how you can be and the stances you can .portrayare infmite1Y'more real. I'm not saying that it's perfect overthere, but certairily, as an artist you can say much, much more.
So then 1 [camel to America, and 1 see the unbelievable prejudice that goes on in a coUntry where the epidemic is so unbelievablyoutrageous. And 1still can't seem to get a grip on it."
But most Americans are not a bit surprised about the
problems ABC has had with Red Hot and Blue. After all, thisis the country where rape and murder are nightly 1V fare, butwhere it is forbidden to show, or even to mention, a condom.
So which aspects of Red Hot and Blue will never see
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you if YOl,lask. This is the perfect .
with magaZine's and comics.inferior quality, and the profit goes
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~My solution last year was to jlimit my shopping to catalogs that Q
had begun to clutter my dining
room table in mid-October. I foundeverything I needed for my niece
and nephew in the Discovery Toys
catalog, flannel shirts for mybrothers in Eddie Bauer and othergoodies in LL Bean and Land's
End for the rest of my clan. The
question is, where can gay folk
find those intimate gifts for our
loved ones, snuggle bunnies andsignificant others?
This year, I found the ultimate incatalogs, a sexy shopping spree at
my fingertips. Victoria's Secret
Christmas Gift Treasury. In it, lingerie
is available for any able-minded andfinanciallysolvent dyke'; fag,femme/butch, butch/femme, womon,
lesbian, gay man or anything else
you call yourself.
My first look at the catalog
remindedme of straightgirl
flirtation~youknow, the way
straight-looking women seem tolove flirting with lesbians and gay
men. Is Victorias Secret marketingfor lesbians, for people .who like tolook at women or for people whowant to look like these women?
Whatever the case, this catalog is
beautifully
designed with thesexiest holiday fare,
The cover has a crimson-red
silk nightgown with lace work
barely covering the breasts of
the woman wearing it. For theholidays, I recommend the Cambridge robe for cozy winterevenings at home. And for thatspecial butch in your life, you'"just love the sandwashedsilkpajamas. They are elegant andpositively
delicious.
As apersonal favorite, I've chosen
the camisole and thong bikini
made out of a puckered, winecolored fabric. I love the feelingof thongs!
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the charge
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call theQarden at (21;2)757-8651.'
As for thE!products af Eve's, allofth:e~ m'erchancHse is carefully
selected for its value to women's" heaithand,sexuality. A wide rangeof" thingS can oe fouhd on thoseseemingly' sp~rse shelves. From
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videos to lotion's and,,.. .'.
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asl stqod t~er~·blushing"
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basis of all my rock 'n' rollrhythm guitar playing. Besides,
it's a fun record.

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6) Funkedelic, "Maggot Brain"
They were mixin' the funk with therock 'n' roll/folk thing early on
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Virtuoso singing for anyone ofany age, but the fact thatWith
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migration blues guitarists and singers)
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catalog
Why? Shit, she's a tremendous
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pop•
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1) ''lickin','' EltonJohn, Caribou
Despite the tackiest album cover of alltime (6-inch platform shoes), thisalbum contains a number of qUE;lerclassics. ''lickin':' is about a repressed
Catholic who commits mass murderbecause he can't suck dick.
2) "Down to You," Joni Mitchell,

Court and Spark. A song about the baths.
3)''Tattoo Me," Tom Robbinson, Still
Loving You
He's my favorite living gay artist,and I recommend any album thatyou can lay your hands on (try thermport bin).
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B Movie,"Rough. TradeAny song with lyrics like "Youtear my sheath," has to be a gay
classic.
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Changer and the Changed
This is a life-changing album. She
has the most beautiful voice I've
ever heard .
6) "Rise Up," the Parachute Club,. from a coupl~ of different albums
Look for the original version (not theremix) of this feminist call-to-arms.
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Midler turns this boring Dylan
song into a gut-wrenching feminist cri de coeur.

QUID.

by Jade and Sarsaparilla
A lesbian love duet that will
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I a Woman?"by
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red or black, for $98. I was just about
through with Columbus Avenue by then. I
got on my bicycle and cruised the remaining blocks, catching here and there a
glimpse of the neighborhoods pre-'80s
stores like Supreme Hardware andFrank's Hairstyling, an old barbershop
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he charged. He had a big wall clock, amarble counter and a fun floral curtain at: the back, but he didn't find me as charming as.! found him, and he stared at mypatented ACT UP crew cut and said suspiciously, "Ten dollars 'n' up," and pointed
at the clock. It was 5 pm. I bicycled hometo the East Village through the midtown
rush-hour traffic. .
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the afternoon, with the sun melting slowly
into Jersey and casting shadows on thebrownstone and red brick facades of theWest Village. I started at the foot of
Christopher;Street at the Hudson River,..where aline.Of wqterfront graffiti, "Uve to
Be Legendary,~. is sprayed in yellow, blue
and red across a concrete barrier. At the
Spy Shop, next to Bailey House, I contemplated surveillanCe and coonter-surveillance equipment useful accessories forthe activist llano who lives in fear of FBI
infiltration, Storeowner frank Jones carries
everything fran beer cans with secrethideaway compartments ($25) to a bean
. box that conceals a closeckircuit television camera ($5,000). Dressed for espionage in a black. turtleneck, Jones demonstrated an electronic debugger, a small
black box that vibtates warningly when
saneone else is carrying a concealed
tape recorder. "Wear it under your shirt,"
he said, winking. .
Shrugging my shoulders as if flipping up the collar of a trench coat, I
walked two desolate, waterfront blocks,•'.past a rusted sign advertising Marine
Repair, and stopped to answer a ringing
publictelephone.in front of the Silver 001. lar Restaurant. The caller hung up. I
brusbed my lips existentially, like JeanPaul Belmondo in Breathless, into AII-• •squirt gun with a pink penile attachment.
But the man behind the counter said it
didn't have a price tag, and anyway, it
was broken. Cresfallen, I went immediately to U Lac Candies, where I considereddrowning my sorrows in fudge squares($1.25 each), mint-green and chocolatebrown marzipan acorns ($23 per pound),a chocolate credit card ($2.50) or achocolate lV remote control ($8).
But I'm off sugar. I fled the candy
store and crossed the street to the
Leatherman, where, if I felt like it, I could

America Boy. The wanan working
behind the counter, grinning with a caus.tic New York affability, explained the difference between All-Ameri~
Boy and
New York Man--"New York Man is much
fUrther up the street," she said-andwatched me as I fondled a rack of silkboxer shorts, $38 per pair. I liked the yellow ones, which they call "citrus"; theboxers also come in peach, which theycall "ginger";blue, which they call "plum";,and black, which they call "black."
Crossing Hudson Street I stopped in
the Christopher Street Bookstore, where
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blowing whatever meager financial surplus, if any, you've managed to tuck away all year, or sit
the season out like Scrooge, bahhumbuggering the call to capitalist consumption and reminding
your friends that you "don't do"
the holidays, just in case they get
any crazy ideas.
But the choices don't reallyhave to be that stark. Whether theholiday is Kwaanza, Christmas,
Chanukah or Winter's Solstice,
New York offers a huge number ofalternative shopping venues thatboth spare the purse and satisfy
the activist spirit. It's easy to spend
less than $25 on gifts and dosome social good at the sametime.
Great places to spend yourgay gift dollars are the burgeoning
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Sisterhoo4 (BLUS, pronoU'nce4· ' to part with those h0liday bucks. '"blueS'), is a mu1ti-racial group ofOscar Wilde, the citY's ol'dest
women of'. all ages, committed
to.
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with, aI;l.dgreat selection of boqks',' bl,Jtit's ' •.
opening a~enues ,of communication '· also particularly well-stopke.d with', •.
among lesbians fu ,the Bronx, and the .
gay odds, and ends.$mall)te.ms'other outer'boroughs;":of jewelry
pink triangle pins';
We began in, 1988. in .response tolambdas,dyke symbols,peh,\
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The grOl,lp is dedieated to outreach,,. s,election ,of rainbow flags ,.foreducation, and the identifipttion ofunder $2;;, queer posters at$5 t6,."theunique needs oflesbian.
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h'as fewer odds'and enos thanabout ~ingservices
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stronger and . more .visible ·presence..
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who provided me with instructions which
could not be followed in order to receive amessage of unstated importance to the community which was not obtained from a person
who was not any of the many things heclaimed to be (not the least of which was myfriendJ. And from the moment the connection .
failed, I ceased to be known even as "Mr
Julian's friend". at that hotel in the West. Fromthe moment the connection failed (wasdoomed, one might contend, to fail), I ceased,. in fact,. to be a guest at that hotel in the West.
Before the day was out, my bags were collected, and I was peremptorily dispatched on a
nonstop, eastbo,und flight to laGuardia.
Stated differently, a claim of friendshipwas made and was used to induce me to make a trip whichmayor may not have cost me a great deal of my time. But
the claim was never in any way substantiated, and the time
was not in any way compensated. There was, as far as I wasable to tell, no Julian, no message.
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I would, of course, be satisfied, I think, to dismiss theentire experience as yet another peculiar lacuna in a life
increasingly marked by memory lapses and inexplicable dislocatiqns. I would, of course, be satisfied, I know, to attribute
my recollection of the journey just past to a synergism of several medications, none of which has been heretofore noted
for hallucinogenic
ptoperties. (Now that would be some,swell thing: the first documented "Prozac trip"! Unfortunately,
recent medical findings indicate as more likely the possible
occurreQce of a Prozac-induced 'homicidal episode whichshould further open up that discussion about the wisdom of,and necessity for, taking up arms. Of course, the potential"Prozac defense" might present a snappy, contemporary
alternative to the infamous uTwinkie defense." That discussion, however, belongs to another column-probably
Art
Leonard's.) If a facile, though not altogether satisfactory,
explanation sufficed-QOd for a great many people it apparently would-I could, as I once hoped, simply sit down at
my desk and resume my activities right from that point
where they were strangely suspended.
. Like lines on a discrete graph, however, the points just
don't match up, and no matter how much one might wish,
the formula forbids it. This was not just a bad dream. Something did, in .fact, happen out there at that hotel in the West,some affable message was tacitly imparted, and I was.. touched in .some indefinable, .irreversible way,
"The quality and depth of the politics evolving from agroup," wrote Adrienne Rich, "depends in very large part on
their understanding of honor." At every step along theway-Gboard the train, in my room in the hotel, even at theboarding gate of the aitport-the hoperemained alive. A friend would meet me.
An important message would be impart.... ,ed. Right up until that last frightful
moment when the final boarding call"
was given, it was still possible tobeliev~d
I wanted so desperately tobelieve. Immediately afterwards, thatpossibility was gone.
The subsequent feeling extends far
beyond mere disappointment. There
were people quite willing to makeclaims that engaged expectations, tospend somebody else's good faith andtime (the most precious and least renewable of our resources) with no real
intention of delivering on those promises. Julian's underlying message, delivered by negative example, would seem to be this: Deceit remains the coin of therealm, so all good faith is misplaced and the instructions
should not be followed. I'm hard-pressed to fmd a counterexample which would refute the conclusion. Frankly, I'dhave preferred to receive this knowledge more directly andat less cost, but then again, I come from a people who weredestined to buy retail....

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this week, supporttng their
all over. It's like trying toGreatest Hits collecNon. Nursslam dance on the Lawering crushes on each member,ence Welk Show.
Liz and Sydney went to theirconcert at the Ritz.
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Slope Acttvlttes for Les[Having stood for 3 hours
bians2 had listed "Take Backalready'scrunchedup
the Cubby Hole''-a former
against p.eople that you
dyke bar whicb has now
would no sooner be faced.become a boys' bar-as anwith asa firing squad, Liz
event for Brooklyn dykes .
asserts herself.]
Our vigilant columnists went
Liz: Pardon me, could
to watch the (fake) fur andyou move up a little?You have(real)flannelfly.
your HAND IN MYPANTS.
Sydney: Liz? Can you
Boy: You're too close to us. .
hear me over the pinballI got my arm around my girl- .
machine? Did you notice that
there are no lesbians here?
friend [repeatsthis afew NmeSl.
Liz: I'm very happy for the
There's nobody here.
two of you, but YOU HAVE
Liz: I never knew it was
YOURHANDIN MYPANTS.
this big. I like it. Good pinGirl: I don't think so....
ball machine.
[Boy looks doum,]
Sydney: You never knew
Boy: Oh my God, I'm
it was so big because it was
totally sony, I didn't even real- .
never this empty when it wasize [theymoved away, quickl~.
a women's bar. Maybe all the[A groupof young
lesbians are home watching
girls scream, "We love thethe Virginia Slims Tennis
Go Gos!'1.
Championship, wishing that
Sydney: I wonder if their
Martina were playing.~
parents worry about their
Liz: Maybe they chickteenage daughters" obsession
ened out.
with female rock stars?
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Liz: Maybe the listing
Liz: First, it's Madonna, WHICH ONE S THE QUEEN?-James St James and Codle RaVioli
then it's the Go Gos, next
was wrong, Wait--here comething you know they're at a Tret Fure concert wearing
two women. Yeah!
patchouli.
Sydney: Those aren't them. I know them, Can we go now?
Sydney: I guess I am a case of arrested
development-I never made it past the Go
A recent evening had all the trappings
is incredible
GO$, Belinda Carlisleof one that would make even the most jaded
tonight-between
working her cleavage,or unschooled person appreciate nigbt life:
lifting her skirts, flashing the drummerl anda Middle Eastern dinner party at the Ntle
acting like a queen bitch. What more could
restaurant for a book release3 ftl/ed wttb
you ask for in a woman?
both "downtown" and "real" celebrities,folLiz: Oh please, she can't even rememlowed by the eagerly awaited (by some). ber .the words to the songs.
coronation of tbe new King and Queen of
Sydney:' So what. This is like a giant
Manhattan (nigbt life, that is!),. sing-along. I <;an barely hear the Go Gos
Liz: Sydney, look. No, don't turn that far,over all theSe people screeching the lyrics.
you look like Linda Blair in The Exorcist.
There's Tama}anowitz. Isn't she your idol?
Liz: The guy to my left is trying to slam
Sydney: Oh, thank you for throwing thatdance to ''We Got the Beat."in my face. No, that was for a brief moment,. Sydney: That's really stupid, especially

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(212) 477·5288. Nov. 29-30, Dec 2.

by Eileen Myles
Kate Bornstein-actor, playwright,
journalist, father of one, lesbian transsexual, gender explorer and founding
member of Outlaw Productions willsoon be appearing at PS 122 in her own
three~woman play, Hidden: Agenda. A
big smash at San Francisco's Theater
Rhinoceros, Kate's show will be touring
Europe follOwing the PS gig. I met withKate Bornstein one bdght October afternoon at the Cafe La Strada on East 4thStreet. Actually, I first crashed into her
and Lori Seid walking down Second
Avenue. At La Strada, after much delil>- .
eration, we both ordered cafe mocha,
which seemed completely queer: We
laughed. Women from 4th Street's
WOW Theater kept filing in, greeting
Kate and myself, then explaining their. presence at the cafe by saying, "It's ouroffice.» Kate and I spoke about everything, including her upcoming show,'.'",·mi' ,:Eileen Myles: So have you performed in New York before?
Kate Bornstein: No, never, actually-nothing, not then, not now. It's,
kind of like a' reverse Oz in a way. It's,
like, it's where I've always wanted toperform, and I'm scared.
EM: I thought San Francisco was agreat audience at, urn, at the Outwrite
Conference. They had a lesbian readingat the beginning of it, and I just felt terrific-it was so open.
KB: Is that what it's like here?
EM: Well, what is it like here? Well,
like any show I've done, Friday night is

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.avant-garde does matIn May of this year, Pranklin. ters like it did in
Furnace became the first real casualtY .Eastern Europe. They
In: the battle, over. government funding, weren't allowed to do,'for the' arts. WhUe this vet~space
anythlOg :because thetal art in NeW York City government knew thatfor.
Will continue to. do vis~alart exhibi... artists can embody dis- " !
tiona on i\"SgrQund'the inysteri-· sent, and ..that's theirous black hole of abasement where
job,and the .governmany performers first stepped on ament didn't want thatstage is aosed",(orever. As the fickle' dissent, Well, if this,inedia loses interest in the country is now clampNEA (:rlsis,:one.is left'to wonder if theing dbwn on the artlst,
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a performance, .one need only
get aired.
wait a week ~ see the I!IU.De performers
On theothercome around again and ~gain. Yet
hand, publicity is not
Pranklin Furna~e booked without regard" the same as money.
to gender, race or sexual preference long
Somebody in the press
before any:.of these categories' became
conferenceat the'flavor of the inonth; The simple fac;t ~Public Theater asked
that the Furnace didn't care If pnly two Karen Pinley, "Why do
you need grant money
people came to sit on the, wildly uncomfolding chairs in die forbidding
when The New York
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MARTHA WILSON OF THE FRANKUN RJRNACE
basement painted black. Simply being
7Ymes is writing articles(WAllPAPER BY DOUG KENNY)
there ~tuted
a success. .
about you?" And, of. Martha Wilson, the founder andcourSe, you can't pay.
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connection between
what the artists did
director of the Fumace, 'is one of th~
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she cantinPranklin Purnace is on the samein ~• '60s and what the artiSts are doing
ues to fight for a space below Canal
ephemeral financial basis that it's
now. So I still think that while Jessealways been. It depends on grants',
Street where ",othemess" is a. fact ofHelms is my worst enemy, he's also. mybest friend,.
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life. On this day, her wild r~ hair bobs
which are not yery 'plentiful, the good
'PM: Does it matter in a decisive
about as sh~ digs thro,ugh piles ofWill of artists arid a lot of spit
way that the programing has to .move
aeepy letters from the NEA, the Gener. OUr basement performapce ~,aceto a diff~t
location?
al Accounting Office and the beast hlm- is closed so we've started to look
self, Jesse. Helms.' ~ .
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pledge thing. I've always maintained
tent ~~s of Pranklin Furnace,? ,Olurch, which Is where the artists of thethat I would be happy to sign the..MarthaIt's like Charles. '60s performed nude all thoSe years ago;
pledge; get 'the money and give it to
DickenS said, "It's .the best of times
All in all, this 'is good. To have•and the worst of times." There's all thisour' space- publldty, all this focus' on Pianklhl PUr- closedisDace as theincarnate becaUse it'sbad,
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was a whole range of things I wanted to'Last year, David Wojnarowicz wrote
deal with in that.
an essay for the catalog of the Artist's
There's also a lot of connections toSpace show Witnesses: Against Our
childhood and what I grew up in-these
Vanishing that was critical of Cardinalsemirural areas in New Jersey where I
John O'Connor. This mix of politics andspent all my time, which was, again,
3rt was the impetus for the cancellation,of the exhibition's funding by the NEA. pretty isolated. Out in the woods was
the only respite from a violent childT4eensuing
uproar galvanized the art. world. On the night of the show's openhood, so [this workl was a chance toing, the street outside the gallery was
examine all those things in the past andalso deal with the feelings of mortality,
clogged with protestors and the curious.
. . Though the grant was restored, thedeal with things about illness and loss.
The show is about very quiet, simdeb-ate continues. This controversy wasple human things that are at times, . followed by Wojnarowicz's copyrightfufringement suit against the Rev, Wild- almost funny or silly. I wanted to let myhumor come through. It may be a darkmo~ of the AmerIcan Family Associahumor, but I do have it.
tion, :who mutilated the catalog ,of his
John Donahue: Like the Jesse.'" ,., r~tr6spective, Tongues of Flame, in his
Helms bug.
the funding of allegedly",'~"a:ttack"i'~';hbs&neartby the NEA. While the suit
DW: Absolutely. I'd like to do awhole encyclopedia of politicians or
was successful,
Wojnarowicz
waspeople who have been responsible forawarded only $1 in damages,
the AIDS crisis. It wouldn't be hard.
... two days after Jesse Helms won
JD: Though never-ending.
Senate reelection, I met with David WojDW: A 20-volume set.
nal-,owiczJn his loft, We sat at a table
JD: Many of the photographs in the,with papers and surrounded" .·~.'?1bY'electrl.c,healers (the landlord had not show are of specimen jars containing
small reptiles. In the lower comers of the
fumed on the heat)'. We talked aboutphotos are a few lines of text that
his ,current show at PPQW, which conobliquely refer to the image.
sists of photographs and four large paintDW: I wanted to deal with death onings of flowers inset with black anda whole variety of levels. What it is forwhite images and patches of text. This
somebody to look at a biology specinew work has a lean, pared-down feel,men--all these things about echoes ofcovering. a range of themes and emoscience or medicine but re-ally, essentions, anger being just one.
, .David Wojnarowicz: The work is tially, looking at a dead animal and,whatever people's reaction to death on
ki!ld
of stripped
down, more introspec.
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any level--whether it is human, animal
tive, mOre about the subvocal voice or
voice in isolaHon. Even though it or whatever-io allow that to open up,
like it was a public year in telTIlS and then when they read that little. . . of things that were going on in my life, I statement, that slips in. I don't know if
people close down in front of images of
was pretty isolated, and part of that wasdeath, or certain parts of their minds
just to try to deal with everything that. was going on as well as to go throughopen up.
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. my personal life.
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I wanted to do work for this show•that didn't immediately go toward whatgruesome, the way some of•them floated upside down in
wa's 'expected of me in terms of this.dpublic" role: Ana also deal with sometheir jar.
DW: I thought the specithing that's pretty taboo in both themens were really beautiful
art~nd; at times, the activist-world.
when I first saw them. I was
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when that retrospective opened up. I
had a hard time getting permission tophotograph them. Basically, they had to,
make me swear I wasn't doing it for an
animal activist group.
I want to examine various forms ofevidence or death or life that's contained in something. You know there
are echoes of metaphors, like birth,
something that contains a life or something that has a possibility of life, something in a liquid, something contained.
And there are things from travels. The
rare times I've just been "in the country," I always start doing what I did as akid, which was to look for signs of lifeand document it.
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always been like journals. I've tons ofnegatives of things that are comforting tohave or to have the evidence of them,but there's never been a place to use
them. In the show, I felt I could fmally
start looking at these things.
JD: The title of the show In the
Garden made me think of Eden, and thework appeared like fragments of it.
DW: I always have the feeling when
I'm in a quiet place like the forest that I
never believe it or trust it. Yeah, I know
I'm there, and I can look at this landscape, but just over the hill is the city,and in the city are all these things that
I've witnessed or know exist there. That's
why I never painted things like that, or if
I did, they had to be in total chaos,'cause they had to involve what's aroundthem In the flower pictures I was trying
to paint these totally seductive things. I
was trying to create an image that on firstreading for people was, like', "Oh, what abeautiful thing," and as they got closer
the photographs become more evident,
and as they got closer the words become
more evident, and it speaks
about a whole variety of things.
The thing I've always tried
to do in my writing and everything else is to lay it all on thetable and look at it, I mean
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Saturday, Dec. 1; 1990, is Day
Without Art, organized by Visual AIDS,a cooperative day of mourning andaction by arts organizations and AIDS
service providers nationwide. The central aim of this event is to educate andengage the support and conunitmentof the arts public. Day Without Art
1990 marks the second time the arts
community has pooled its resources toraise awareness about the AIDS crisisto the public. The scope of the event
has grown enormously for 1990. It
now reaches beyond the visual arts
scene to performance presenters, literary organizations, craft galleries, mm
and video collectives across the UnitedStates.
Arts organizations were encouraged to buddy up this year with acommunity-based AIDS service 'organization, which has proven to be enor-

mously successful. For example, thecoordinating efforts between the Taft
Museum in Cincinnati and AVOC
(AIDS Volunteers of Cincinnati) will
enlist the interest and support of theCincinnati arts community and, hopefully, be the catalyst for year-round
AIDS advocacy and grass-roots volunteerism-much needed in a conservative community such as Cincinnati.
Night Without Light, .organized bymembers of VIsual AIDS, will tum off
the Manhattan skyline for 15 minutes,
from 7:45 to 8:00 pm on.
Dec. 1. The AIG Building,
AT&T, Bayonne Bridge,
Cathedral of st. John the
Divine, Citicorp Center,
Con Edison, Empire State
Building, George Washington Bridge,
Helmsley Building, Metropolitan Life,Pan Am, Plaza Hotel, Rockefeller Center, Throgs Neck Bridge, Triborough

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porate leaders, and one could say that
this reflects the driving force of New
York: activism, New York is no longer
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Turning your back, you button your blouse, That's new.
You redirect the conversation. A man_has entered it. Your therapist has given you
permission to discuss this with me, the word
you've been looking fqr in desire.
You can now say "heterosexual" with me. We mean

after word for how normal looks, each word
cutting like scissors a profile of desir'e-ea man facing a woman, nothing particularly new
or interesting to me. I've wanted only to face you
and the world Simultaneously, say what I mean
with my body, my choice to Bot be a man,different things when we say it. I mean
the life I left behind forever. For you, it's a new
beginning, a stab at being normal again, a desire
to enter the world with a man
instead of a woman, and of course, there's the word
you won't claim for yourself anymore, you

to be a woman with you, forget the man's
part or how his body is the word
for what touch can contain, what love means.
If this were only about desire,you say, I'd still desire you.
But it isn't passion we're defming, new

who have children to think of, you
who have put me in line behind them and mean
to keep the order clear, It's really my word
against yours anymore in this new
language, in this battle over how a man.is about to enter this closed room of desire

consequences emerge when a man and desire
are part of the words we hurl, youchanging how you mean loving-this terrible, final news.

we've gingerly exchanged keys to, and desire
isn't what's at issue anyway, you
say to me. Instead I learn a man
can protect you in a way a woman only means
to but never can, and this world is too newwhen there's real life out there, word

Elotse KleIn Healy has
publtshed three booksof poetry: Building••

Bridge, Trump Parc, Trump Tower,
United Nations, Verrazano-Narrows
Bridge, Woolworth Building, World
Financial Center, World Trade Center,
Worldwide Plaza and Zeckendorf
Towers will turn off their decorative
lighting in "memory of the tragic losses due to the AIDS crisis." This is an
unprecedented
event. It will be theftrst time in New York history that the
skyline will be completely altered inrecognition of an issue. No holiday
gets this much participation from cor-•,
Some Changes, A Packet Beating Like a Heart and Ordinary
Wisdom. Her latest collection, Artemis in Echo Park, ts
fOrlhcomingjrom Firebrand Books in AprlI1991.lf

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41h Tuesday; 129 W 20 St, 3rd Floor; 7 pm;
fl18; 807-6655, TOD 645-7470
MOSAIC BOOKS fill Rlldlng Serl .. : Quincy
TrOUPl, reading proseaMe! poetry; 167 Ave B
at 10 St; 7 pm; 475-8623

Club at PrlYlIII Ey•• to help .upport the Gay
G,m •• In NYC In '04; with I M,rtlll Art,
demon.tratlon at 0 pm with two Gay Gam..
medal·wln",,,; 2... ·j drlnka from 6-7 pm; •portion of door prooeed. oollected before 7
pm 0011 to GWACj 12 W 21 SI; 5-10 pm (butyou may Itay for YMVA party afterward); $5
before 71S7 thereafter; 646-6479
CENTERYolunl"r Plac.menl Nlgh~ "to learn
about opportunltlea for Joining the team thatkespe the Center running; choose from a hoatof commltteea or find a special project"; 208
W 13 St, 6-7:30 pm; 620-731 0
COLUMBIA DRAMATISTS presenta a readlno
of Alan Conllnl's Po.lI/r./N'II.t/r.,
about
two HIV+ men who "find hope, belonging and,above all, love for each olher and thoae
around them"; at the Weat End Gate, 2911
B'way (btwn 113/114 Sta, 11119 to1161B'way); 6 pm; frae; Info from Jay Amari,932-2865
COLLECTIVE FOR LIVING CINEMA preaent
LOOKOUT: Q" • L~.III'n FUm F.. t/r,'
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Ryan', TOfI6ther. Not TOfIIIther, and K1ucylll
Brook. and Jane Conl.'s Dry KI_ Only. 41
White St (btwn B'way/Church); 7 pm; $6(membere frea); 925-2111
SLOPE ACTIVITIES FOR LESBIANS 888 SlIIln
Marahlill
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LESBIANS AND GAY MEN ,OF NEWBRUNSWICK Discu .. lan: Dom.ltlc V/Ollnc,
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Mee"!lng Hou .. , 109 Nichol Ave, New
Brunswick, NJ; 8 pm; 9081247'()515 (LGMNB
mae\a alternale Tuesdays,)

BODY POSITIVE Forum: Financial PIaMlng,
to learn about l8Curing financial resources,
medical and disability insurance; at the Center,
208 W 13 St;8 pm; free; 721-161819

THE BOTTOM LINE presents BETTY In Con·cerl, W 4 St at Mercar; 8 & 11 pm shows;
228-6300'
THE NEW THEATRE COMPANY OF NEW YORK
1I111,/on
present. LDUI. M, Pondero,,',",II"MC., I ·za~ comedy, ..to dispel gloom
and replaca It with laughter and a sense of therldlculou," performed by a company made up
mo,tIy of GMHC clientl; at the Center, 208 W
13 SI; 8 pm; $10; 620-7310•

CENTERSTAGEsees John Guare'. Six
SIp."t/Dn at the Lincoln Center
Theatre, 8_pm, $55; 620-7310

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curated by Rick Sugd.n; tonight with Gayalrl

Post-Colonial Critic and'ln Oth8r
0' Splva\c,Kbrlds: Essays In Cultural Politic" and Peter
Lamborn Wilson, Scandal: Essays in Islamic
Hemy, 37 E 1at St (btwn 1stl2nd Awa); 8 pm
(come early); $4.98 generall$2.49 seniol1l &atudentalfl18 for PWAs; no I1IVP,info 673-6752

THE OPEN DOOR THEATRE ENSEMBLE presenta Edwlrd Albe. 'I TIl, Ame,lclll Dr"mand Chrl.lopher During'. TIl. H,tu" ,ndPurpo" of III. Unlr.m; see LIVELY ARTS
(thru DEC 2)

A DIFFERENTLIGHT BOOKSTORE presents
Fall 19110Readl"", Serle.: John Champagne:
WII,n II,l1li, S/IIII&.548 Hudson St(btwn CharleelPerry Sts); 8 pm; frea (but limited seating,arrive early!); 989-4850.

TWENTYSOMETHING WIn. Ind Chilli for
Wom.n Ind Th,lr Frl.nds, a social groupfor lesbians and gay men In ·their 20B andearly 30., to maet new friends in Ii relaxed
atmo,phere; at the Center, ;108 W 13 St; 8·10 pm; $5 donation; 2121967-7711 x3163,

GAY MEN'S HEALTH CRISIS EIoticlzlnIlS""Su Workshop, a workshop for gay men to
help make eafer sex more erotic, creative andsatietying; at the Center, 208 W 13 St; 8-10:30
pm; free, no r.vp required; Info ,807-6655(TOO 645-7470)

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WOMEN'S ALTERNATIVES COMMU~ITY CENTER Dllcunlon and SUpport Group lor LII'
bin Molhln;
675 Woodfield Rd, Weat
Hemp.tsed, L1; 8:30' pm; $3 more Iflleas if;
516/483-2050

WEDNESDAY, NOV. 28
SHESCAPE 1Ien,1It lor Gay Women's AllleUc

GAY MALE 81M ACTIVISTS Bond'II' Will'. I
praclicil demon.lra.llon Ind dllcu .. lon of
restrictive leather, canvaa and rubber garmenta for inside and outside the dungeon; a'Iook at hoods, collal1l, head hameasee, strattjackets; chaatity be~s, a complete bondage
suit; at the Center, 208 W 13 St, 3rdFloor;
80Cializing at 8 pm; program at 8:30 pm; $4
members1$6 nonmembel1l; 727-9878'

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guest appearances; also .DJ Dlny John .... andgo-go .tare; 101 Avenue A (btwn 617 Sts); club
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opens 10 pm, .howat 1 am; $5; 420-1590
I Fr.k Mayl; 888 LIVELY ARTS (thru DEC 8)PYRAM ID Pl'IIenlll Uncllllrnpeon end ....
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. THURSDAY, NOV. 29
AIDS RESOURCE CENTER S.rvlc. DI Hope
Ind RemembrlllCf, with membere of over 70
churches, .ynagogues and community organizations; with the Rev. JaIll8l ForIIlI, Senior
Mlnlater at The Rivel1lide Church; singing by
the Slonewall Chorale; at the Church of SI.
Paul the Apostle, Columbus (9th) Ave & 59
St; 7 pm; all welcome; 481-1270•

COLLECTIVE FOR LIVING CINEMA present
LOOKOUT: Q" • LIIIII'II Film F.. I/r,'
Rlprl" with tonight'. selections curated byJerry Tlrllglll
and Cllh.,ln.
S.. mlld;
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coll.cllon I. II 7 pm with Jim
Hubbard'. Valentine ~r Nelson, Divld Limbl.·, Mike" Film, Jull, Buller'. I Got ThisWay From Kissing Girls, Tom Chomonl's Lather, Larry BrOil'. Everb88t Virgil, Peler
Black and Whitl/ Study, Aarln
Crlmer'.
Burch's
Dreams,PlSsion,
Lornl
Bo,chmln's BurcM'emme in ParadiSll, Jame.
Carman'. Claw Your Eys, and Isabelle Hegn.r'. Eye 10 Eye; Saa"leld'. collecUon Is al 0pm with Carol A.hley Ind Kalhy Clarki'.
Bathroom Gender, Un Ginsberg and MleIll
Gural,kal'. Joystick Blues, Marlon Rlgg.'
Affirmation., Richard FlUlg's Steam Clean andFighting Change, Gerry Albarllll and Buzanne
Wright'. Who Ha. the Power, Houll 01
Color'. Probe, and Raul Flrrera·Balanquel
Ind Enrlqu. NOVlllo C.scant.'. Merida Proscrit" 41 White St (btwn B'waylChurch); 7
pm; $6 (membere free); 925-2111

0'GAY MEN'S HEALTH CRISIS HIV Pr"enllve
Heallh Slmlnar, wilh latest information on
immune system monitoring, prevention andtreatment of PCP and other Infections, antivi·
ral and Immune-modulating
drugs, healthinsurance, doctore; with guest speakel1l Laura
Pinsky and Plul Harding Dougl .. , The
E8SIlntiai AIDS Facts Book, at the Centsr, Wsst
Wing 2, 208 W 13 St; 7 pm; Ires; Info 8076655 (TOO 645-7470)
JUDITH'S ROOM BOOKSTORE presents
Rulhann Robson. E,. of, HUfflun,.. 681
Washington St (at Charles); 7 pm; fres &We
accessible, but seating Is limited; 727-7330
IN OUR OWN WRITE preaents A POllry
Evening, with Minnie Bruce Prall (Crime
Against Nature), performance artist/poet
Plmela Sneed and Michael lI..ell (lJfIcade
Dance); at the Center, 208 W 13 St; 7:30 pm;$3; 620-7310
QUEER NATION M.. llng at the Center, 208 W
13 St, 7:30 pm, 463-7208 (a~ernate Thul1ldays: DEC 13, DEC 27),0. ''I",

FRIDAY, NOV. 30
TEACHERS COLLEGE OfFICE OF CONTINUINGEDUCATION presents TIP"'" o.IP" Root.:
ProInt'If,II",'"~ SplrltJ" DlmM.1D1l,,,./on.'PrICIIIII willi L"bl,n. ,nd Q"
Min, 'a conferenca for counselors, therapists,
health care practitionere, edutatOI1l and clergy; with John J. McNeill (Taking a Chance on
God and The Church and the Homo88xua~
and KIm Crlwford Hlrvle (Senior Miniater,
Arlington Street Unitarian Univerealiat Church,
BOBton); with workshops on how apiritual values have an impact on AIDS, gayllesbian pe0ple of color, feminism, Judaism, dysfunctionalfamilies, social workers; workshops include
Father McNeill's 12-Step Spiritual Program;conlerenca ends with a closing lecturelperformance by Hugh Morgan Hili, Findinll Our
Healing SlOries; at Teachere College, ColumbiaU" 525 W 120 St (btwn B'way/Amsterdam;
11/19 to 116 St/B'way); 9 am - 4:30 pm; $85;
info from Ken, 989-3723""0

COMMISSION FOR RESPONSIVE DEMOCRACY Public Helrlng on "how 10 achieve true
democr·.cy representing the needs of all
Am ericans, a system In which YOtel1lcould be
proud to participate"; witnBlses will Include
Curlle GaRl (Cmte for the Study of the American Electorate). Philip Slern (The B"tCongms that Money Can Buy), elected officials, economists, youth, pOlitical scholars,
national & local activists from Ihe Black, His·
panic, Asian, Native American, labor, IBlbian
and gay communities; at City Hall, 2nd Floor
Board of Estimate Chambere; 9:30 am preae
conference, 10:30 am- 5 pm hearinga; Info
from NOW, 2021331.()066 (also tomorrow al
NYU Law School)
WBAI opens Ite Annual Holiday WBAI Crans
fair; 888 LIVELY ARTS (thru DEC 16)
IDENTITY HOUSE Women's Friday DI.cua·.Ion Group: CDmlnllOut,Pili II, a wsekly rap
g rou p, all women welcome; 544 6th Ave(14115 SIS); 6:30-8:30 pm; $7; 929-7178
SLOPE ACTIVITIES FOR LESBIANS Anal Fri·
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SAGE Woman's 50+ Rap Group: P".lIl1nll
Ou,,,',,, Md 011 Lo"n, at the Center, 208
W 13 St; 7:30 pm; 741-2247

Invited; Park Slope, Bklyn; 7:30 pm; SAL
info/l1Ivp 7181965-7578

THE ANSWER IS LOVING Women TalkIng
Women'. Talk: S,(., "From what, Irom
whom?
Cautious .. ,why?
LesBons
learned-intimacy, smart to be careful, don~trusr; 1964 E 35 SI, Bklyn; 7:45-10 pm; $10;
Ruth Berman & Connie Kurtz, 7181999-2305

AFRICAN AMERICAN WOMEN UNITED FOR
SOCIETAL CHANGE Dlacualon: WOIIIIII FICInll AIDS, ,n Intim,t.
willi ou, ./It,,,whD "., HIV+; at the Center, 208 W 13 St; 8
pm; $3; 620-7310

MEN OF ALL COLORS TOGETHER Bo~lal 'OPIII HoUII and Dllllmb. NeW1l1n. MillIna, bring muchies and beve to ahare so you
can no8h, dish, dance and stuff. at the Cenlllr,
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Cabli .nd hi. alao tannlnated theC4b1. Guklelh.t told you where tofind convnunlty prGgramining on
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Ste. A-3, NYC 10011;243-1570),, .
GCN (Gay Cable Network. Lou Maletta 32 Union Square East.
Suite 1217;4n-422D),
GMHC (Gay Men's Health Crisis, Jean Carlomusto, 129W 2D St.
NYC 10011;1KJ7-7517)
RB PROD (Robin Byrd Prod. Box 305 NYC 10021'988-2973)
WABC-TVW 63 St. NYC'I0023; 45&-n11l'
WBAJ-FM (505 8th Ave 19th R NYC 10018' 279-0707)
WcaS-TV (51W 52 St St. NYC'loo19: 975-4:rll) .
WNBC-TV (30 Rockefeller Plaza, NYC 10112;664-4444)
WNET-TV (356 W 58 St, NYC 10019;560-:nxl)
WNYW-TV (Fox, 1211AV/AM, NYC 10036;556-24(0)WPIX.TV (220 E42ST. NYC 10017'949-11(0)"strippers live call-in show' Manhattan Cable CH VI35

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1:00 ~M WBAI-FM f!tis Wsy Out; the international gay/lea-

1:00 PM WNET-TV The AIDS auart~rly. Peter Jennings looks
at AIDS in Eastern Europe, especially Poland; Edmund
White dicusses his own battle with AIDS' CH 13 (1:00)!tOOPMESPN IFBB North Americsn Bodychilding eh~mpionships. from July 28 in Las Vegas (1:00)!tOOPM GBS Out in the 00's: community news discussion
intelViews; (tape of last Tuesday's MCTV/P~ragon sh~)BO Cable, CH 5& (1:00)!tOOPM Vf'N~R.TV Nationsl G.ographic: "Mystery of Animal. BehaVIOr" Includes a look at how Konrad Lorenz discovered "imprinting," instinct mixed with learning; CH 9 (1:00)
11:30 PM Tomon-owlTonight Liv.f. entertainment; Manhattan
and Paragon Cable, CH 0/11(1:00)
midnillht CCTV Th. Closet esss Show. Kloset Klips; Manhattan/Paragon Cable, CH Cl16 (:30)
1:00 AM RB PROD M.n fOr M.rr. Robin Byrd presents gay
male pomo stars; Manhattan Cable, CH VI35 (::J))

blan news magazine; 99.5 FM (:30)
1~ PM W~AI-FM An Aftsrnoon !Juting: local. ~s andInformation about the gay/lesblan community with Lany.
Gutenburg; 99.5 FM (:30)
2:30 PM WBAI.fM AIDS: Paths to S.If.fmpow.rment
treatment and health issuea with Bob Ladere!; Nick Cimorelli .. •Betsy Lanke; 99.5 FM (:1:00)
4:00 PM Ufetime S.cond S6tV. (IV movie, 1986):VaneS$ll
Redgrave is transsexual tennis pro Renee RiclJanls.l2:lXl)
8:00 P~ TNT Gon. ~Iththe Wind (1939):the claSSIC,finishea
tOllght after starting yesterd~y (2:45).
8:00 PM ~YV:'-TV (Fox) The Simpsons: a repeat of Harvey
RerstelA'llnstallment as Karl the male secratary; CH 5 (:30)
8:00PM WPIX-TVNightofthB.F~CH11(2:00!(seeNOV2S)
8:00 PM ~OR-TV
The BU"!lng Be~ CTy meNle, 19114):Fa~h
Fawcettls t'!e Ili!ttered wlfe~o Incll18ratea her9 sleeping
ex-husband In thIS much-acclaimed drama; CH (2:00)
8:00 PM The Gsy Osting Gsm. Showwith TOI11llTf Saeli and
Lahoma Van Zandt; Manhattan Cable, C~ C/16 (:30) .
9:00 PM ME Orang.s Are Not the Only Fruit: a teenage girldeals with her awakening sexuality (repeata at 1 AM) (3:00)
10:00 P",! GCN B. Our G~.st entertaill1lent for and about the• lesblarVgay c0":l":lunily;. Manhattan Cable, CH D/.l! (:30)
10.30 PM GMHC LIVing Wl.th AIDS. health and pohtlcs;• Manhattan Cable, CHV/35 (:30).
11.00 PM GCN Gsy U.S.A: news and .entertalnment from
. a!ound the coun~ry; ~anhattan Ca~le, ~H V~ (1:00)
mldmght GCN M.n In Films: male erotica, Interv.lews withadult filmstars; Manhattan Cable, ~H VI35 (:30)
12:30 AM RB PROD M.n For MelT. RobIA Byrd preaents gay
male porno stars; Manhattan Cable, CH VI35 (:30)

TUESDAY. NOVEMBER 27

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 30m

MONDAY, NOVEMBER 26

10:00 AM WABC-TV Sally J.ssy Rsphael. incest; CH 7 (1:00)
4:00 PM WCBS-TV G.f1ldu. polygamy; CH 2 (1:00)
5:30 PM ~.TV(Fox) Mr. B.lvedere. "when Kevinannounces his plans to be a nurse and not a doctor, his
parents go ape"; CH 5 (:30)!tOOPM WNET.TV Frontline. "High Crimes and Misdemeanors" is another look at the Iran-Contra mess, delving
deepar into those White House meetings; CH 13 (1:30)!t30 PM ME Art in the Third Reich Hitler wanted art to contribute to a family values and racial purity campaign (2:00)
10:00 PM WNBC.TV Law & Ord.r. tonight's episode deals
with child abuse on the UpperWeat Side; CH 4 (1:00)
10:00 PM RB PROD The Robin BYrd Show. male and female
strippars; Manhattan Cabla, tH VI35 (1:1X11
11:00 PM GBS Out in the 90's: news, infe;; ...~1ion andinterviews; ManhattarVParagon Cable, CH C/16 (1:00)

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4:00 PM .WCBS-TV G.erIJldo;songs about women, With Anll"
Bowla and Fra~k!' Valli; CH 2 (!:OO)."
4:45 PM w;::rv CristlnS: el tema es sadom.asoqulS/11o; maybe• good chance to pract!ce your S~anish; UHF 41 (1:00)
1'.30 PM WCBS- TV EntBrt/Jmment Torrght Rob Lowe; CH 2 (:30)
1:00PM TNT Gons Withth~ Wind (1939):the classic, finishea
tomorrow at the same time (2:1~today, 2:45tomorrow)
8:OO!'M WCB~ TV 48 ~OUI'$.~mllySecrar looks at alterna!iva trends In adoption (Iesblall'qay?); CH2 (1:!XI) •1:00 PM ~PIX-ry Ntghtofth. Fox ISHarry MlI1!lI8au I WN.II
spy thnHer with George Peppard as the Amencan hero
agent and Michael Yolt as Rommel; CH 11(2:00)(concludeatomorrow.sametime)!tOIl PM Ufeti~ SbcLadi.& Laughing includes Andlll Martin
and Victoril Jackson; MCTV CH 14, Paragon CH 23 (1:00)
10:00 PM WABC-TV Tub. T.st a TV trivia test with classic
episodes, Iota of stars with recollections; CH 7 (1:00)
10:30 PM WNET-TV Int.rcom Prime Time. "AIDS in Africa"
looks at the spread of AIDS there, high risk groups, pre·• v!lntive measurea.l..educatjon and economics; CH 13 (1:00)
RI/bln Byrd Show. mal9lnd female
II1Idnlght RB PROD

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2:30 ~M WBAI-FM Rompiendo.1 SiI.nciu. t~d.os losvlerne~, ao~lo
Aburtoco~ temas y notlclas parala
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comunlda~ latina gay y lesblana; 99.5 FM .1: )
3:00 PM A&E Blu,,!: Th. F~urth Msn (TV mOVie, 1986):
homosexual Bntl~h tr.altors Blunt 8. Burgess (2:00)
7:00 PM "Y.BAI-FM AIDS In Focus, Micha~1 Alcalay, producer; politics/culture of'the AIDS pandemiC; 99.5.FM (:.15).
9:00 PM WNET-TV Gr~at Performances- ~ Evening W!thAlan Jay Lerner" with JU!le Andrews. Richard Hams,
RudoH Nurayav: Len Canou, Roba~ Goulet and the late,• Leonard Bameln a~d Sammy DII!IS; ~H 13 (1:30)
11:30 PM WNET-TY G~lOg Hom~: AMn Ailey Rem.mb'f1d:. ,.
• last December s tributet~ hIS choreography; CH 13 (1:00)
1.00 A~ RB_PROD Th. Robin Byrd Show. male and female ,.
stnppers; Manh~ttan Cabla, CH V/35 (1:00)

SATURDAY, DECEMBER 1-

1:30 AM WBAI-FM Any Ssturdaywith
David Rothen·barg; live call-in; 99.5 FM (2:00)
7:00 PM GCN Garll·SA.: hewsand entertainment fromaround the country; BIi, Unity, ACV Cable, CH 5& (1:00)•(For Manhattan Cable, see THURSDAY)
8:00 PM WNET- TV Th. World of Jewish Humorfrom Sholem
Alaicham to Joan Rive,. and Jackia Mason; CH 13 (2.110).
1:30 PM WABC- TV R.d Hot and Blu. (see story)' CH 7 (1'30)
10:00PM WNET-TV BBttBMkfler. M or Bus( (1!E3)CH 13(1:31)'
11:00 PM Gsy Tv. male porn; Manhattan Cable, CH V/35
1:00 AM RB PROD lhe"8l/bin Byrd Show. male & female
strippers; Paragon Cable, CH Cl16 (1:00)
1:30 AM RB PROD ~', 8o~in Byrd Show. male & female,strippers; Manhattan Cable CH V/35 (1'00)

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7:30 PM WBAI.fM OutLoo/cs,vith host Aurelio Hovell \Wh four
lesbian 91tr8pra\'18uisdiScussinghcJNto be the boss in yourown business; alternatea with The Gsy Show, 99.5 FM (100)
10:30 PM RB PROD Men For M.IT. Robin Byrd presents gay
male porno stars; Manhattan Cable, CH V/35 (:30)
11:00 PM GBS Way Outf. entertainment for and about the leabiarVgay community; Rich Volo, producer, 754-7685; Manhattan Cable, CHC{16 (::J))

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Shire SIM experiences ana fan1a8i1!S v..11h o1heIs in a posiIiw, nonjudgemental atmosphere. Firat
Sunday of 1I1emonth. 4:45pm at 1ha
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AIDS RESOURCE CE~,
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~•\I1III8r CJIlIICIItIrd8S. (2121481-1270,
24 Welt3Jlh St., NYC llD11

A prof8aionaly sblffed, non-profit
organization for bisexuals, theirfamilies and partners, facing prob18111Sof.a psyI:holQ9ical or mecflCal. kind. VIe also wor1t with 1I1ose in,.doubt about their S8lCIJality.Confidentiality. is prOtscted by layv. Far,: infonnatian phlll\8: (212) &4784

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seminars, public forums, refarence
library, referrals, social activitiea
and .up-to-date national mon1hiy,"THE BODY POSITIVF ISWvear~{2121121-1348.
2IlI5 Broaa.wy, Sa
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GAY POUTICAl CLUB, lAMBDA INDEPENDENTDEMOCRATS
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tions, lobbies far legisletion, andccnb:IB caTI11lri.yotnachf1rad1
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Spiritual support and sharing in a
gay!lesbian affinnative group.
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ALOEClAPlN-NY
BISEXUAL PRIDETOPARENTS7
la-ian .... bien. of tb. b.t
DISCUSSION GROUP
l.at us help \OJ and yru fImy deal~_n
PeciIic a.bien ~. TC!pical discussians on issues of
IM1htiS upheaval PAI9lTS AND-'r-Nllw YorIi:I We are a poIiti-.
in1Drastto1ha con.llunityin a concil _iallnd.uppor1ive natwor1c.
genial atmosphere, foIlCIIN8dby an . mlENDS OF LESBIANS AND GAYS
mealS rnnHylll1ha 4f1 &nIa¥3ID
II ;\;ian Pacific I.biens. Planninginfannal dinner at a friendly local
meetinga on 1I1ilat Sunilay andrestaurant Every Sunday, 3:~ pm, in Duane Dlurch, 201 W. 13th
Sbaal kiD calJIIIrnB,(2121 4IMI29
Iocial _nIIIan1ha
laat Friday of
4:30pm at 1I1e Community Cen1Dr
each month. Cal (212) 517-!i!i98 for
2IiI W. 13 Street, NYC. Part of 1I1e
COMMUNITY HWTH
men infillTnltion.
New York Area Bisexual Network.
PROJECJ
2DI West 13th Street, NYC, New
ARCS .(AlDS-R.lated
BIWAYS NEW YORK
Yolk loon Far Appointments andCcwiillunity Sanri':'.)
Monthly social events for the
Information.
(212) 875-3559'
for Dutchess, Orange, Putnam,
Bisexual community and friends.
(TTYNoice)PROVIDING CARING,
Rockland,Sullivan,
Ulsfer andCilil NYABN for detais of upcomSENSITIVE AND LOW COST
Wllltchaltar
counties.'
AIDS
ing even1s. (212) 459-4784
HEALTH CARE SERVICES TO THE.dubation, cliant seMces, criLESBIAN AND GfJIfCOMr.tJNI1Y
sis intervantion, support groups, .
BIPAC (BISEXllAL POUTICAlclla management,
buddy andACJION COMMmEEICOMMUNITY
hospital visitor program. 'Political action on issues II imporRESEARCH INmATIVE
214 Central /IW. 'MJitB Plails, NY
tance to 1110BisexuaVLaslia!VGay
CRI
tests experimental drugs and101D1(914111l&OD
c:cmTU"iIy. MIx11Ny mee1i1g'poduck
tnIainen1s for AIDS and HIVrela1Bd
838 Broadway, Newburgh,, NY
held 8;OOpm on fourth Thur1day ofillneSses.
Mon1l11ytreatment and12250 (914) !iliUm
the month at members homas. Callresearch group for HIII+incividuals.
AlD$li... Itl41183-a'7
NVABNfor1hismollthlltocatim.
Treatmant and research n_attar..
1(212)46&-4784
forums and public seminal&. Call
.ASIANS .FRENDS- NEW YORK
Alice Spears or Ken Fomataro at
A riot-for-profit
organization
BISEXUAL YOUTH(212)481-1IBlfor ~ and maiing ist, which promolBs.friandships with
Infonnal social & support group
IAaian/Pricific Isl,oder,. Asi~nfor Bisexual kidslyou1l1. Mon1l11y
CONGREGATION BETII
American, and non-Asfan gay
meeting/potluck
lunch held
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man 1I1rough social, cultural, edu1:00pm on fourth Sunday of 1I1e
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cational .. and service actiilities. mon1l1 at members homes: CallNY's Gay and Leslian Synagogue
and programs. Call our Holtine:
NY ABN for this month's location.
Services Friday at 8:30pm 57. 212-874-!i084, or writs to: P.O. Box
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JESHURUN- AlDS,IHlVtreatrnents"inwormg ~"OOpforWlll118l1and their
NY/NJ, andMonthly Spritual Ga1l1erings andfriends. i\9gular social ewms andhas educational matilriahs/semifree catered fastivelunchellllS for
meetings on the first and 1I1irdFrinal8 for 1ria1pal1icipanbl. ATR aJao
sl/ People With AIDS. 1I1eir1000ers
days 01 ewry month. At The Comadwcat118 for improwmer)lS in 1I1e mooity Cen1D~2IlI W 13 StriIet, franand families. Program includes
1ria1syetam. P.O. Box 30234,NY. NY
music and discussion led .by oure::»81X11. For more info call1.isa at
101Hn02. (2121288-4198. PublicaRabbis. Call (212) 78HI'JXJ(212)829-91117.
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AIDS crisis. Gen. meetings Man.
righIa 1.31, i11hf1 GriIat HaM, Cooper\non, an Cooper Sqlllreb8tween
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Lawyers Raferral SeMce for 1I1e
Lasbian and Gay Community FqII
Range of Lagal SaNicas (2121 &4873 Free Walk~in Legal Clinic.
Tuesday 8-8 pmlesbian & Gay
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BIGAPPli.A community of lesbian and
Gay C11I101icl. Activitiea inclu~e
Liturgies and socials every Sat,
8:00 pm, at the Center, 201 W. 13
Street. NYC.Call(212) 818-1309.
DIGNITY NEW YORK
lJI8I:ian nIW'Y Cafdcs ani! friandII
AIDS t.tiIIJy, SpiItuaI DawIopnart
The Cd1edreI Prqect. WcnIip Servic8a &. Social-Slll. Ewa,~
Jdm's EPscopal Dlurch 218 West1'" 9reat O\Nawitf8l5"2179
EDGE Educalion in I DiIebI8d
Gay &MiUi_nt'.Far 1I1e plTfsically disabled !MiliannIGay CUll InlritvPD. Bax3l5\t1age Station, New
York. NY10014
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A rumilgdub for leslian and gay
athIaIIis of aOabiitias. fill RIllS II 18 mles held fNBfII Sat at lOam andWeda. at 7pm i1 CenInII Pellt and
IMIryTla. at 7pm inProspact Park.
For irlurmetion: call2121124-8lOJ.
THE FUND FOR HUMAN .
DIGNITY
National Gay and Lesbian Crisis
Line "AIDS 800'-I-800-SOs-GAY$
Educational Resource Center;
Positive Images Media Centsr; NY
StateArta Progremf!88B'way S!iIB
410NYC,NV11D12 (21215&1l1li .
THE GAY AFRICAN AMERICANSOFWESTCHESTER(1hI G.AA.)is a community based support
group formed i1 WastchestBr Coli}~ Various activities are plamed for1ha coming months. Please call 914:rJfHf1'I1 for more irfo.
GAY FATHER'S FORUM
A support organization for gay
fa1l1er's,1I1eir lovel8, and others inchild-nurturing situatians. MonthIymeetings include a potluck supper, support groups onvaried
specialized topics, speakers, andsocializing.Meetings:
1st Friday
each mon1l1, 7pm, at The Center,
208 W. 13th St., Wast of 7th lINe.
Contribution: $8. Bring a maincuurse for 4 people {or pay. $5
food charge.) Far infonnauan call:
212-979-7541 01212-288-3238
GlAAB.
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80 Variek Street, NYC 10013 (212)988-1700 GlAAD comba1s homophollia in1ha mecia and elsewhere
by Pllll1loting visiblity II 1ha lesbian
and gay cQllnl.ll~f and organizing
grassroots response to anti-gay
bigotry. Do you have 30 minutes amonth til figrthomophobia?Joil the
GLAAD PhaneTreeICall(212~9881700 for infonnation.

GUB
GlY and leabian Independent. Broadcasblrs invites you to tuna .
into ounOOKS on IJVBAHI( 885
FM every ather Sunday, 7:308:30pm end join 1/8 8V8l'f TlI88day
at 7:00pm to 9:00pm to become I
member of GUB. No experienceneeded.5IIi Ei§1th Awnll8, NY. NY
10018 A1In: OU1laoks or call (212126«!11&- askfor GlIB.
GAY .LUBIAN
HWTHCONCERNS.
An office of 1I1e NYC Dept of
Health, provideslinkagea
betwn
NYC Health & Humin Sves, and1I1e lesbian & Gay community,
focusing in Al( health concems; resource infonnltion flir
health laMces cOl18utriel8·end.
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prOViders, 125 Wofth Street,Box 87, New York, NY 10013. For
info call (212) 588-4995.
GAY MALE SJM AcrMSTS
Dedicated to safe and responaible S1M sinca 1981. Opan meetings w/programs
an S/M
techniques,
lifestyle issues,
political and social con carns.
Also special events, speakers
bureau, workshops,
damos,
affinity groups, newsletter,more. GMSMA -Dept 0, 498A
Hudson Street, Suite D23 ,NYC
10014.(2121 727-9lf18.
GMAD (GAYMEN OFAFRICANOESCENTI.

80 Variek Street, NYC 10013 a 8IIpport group of Gay Men of African
Descent dedicated to consciousnas&-reising and 1I1edevelopmentof 1I1eLasbian and Gay Con.nl.llity.
GMAD is inclusive of African,
African-American, Canbbean and .
Hispanic/latino
men of color.
Meetings are hald, weekly. m fridays. For more infonnatim,
caD 718-8Q2-G162.
GAY MEN'S HWTH CRISISHOTUNEFOR IM'URMAllON ON SARR SEX
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212-807.a155212~7470
TDD(Far the Hearing ..... radl
Mon..fri. lQ30 a.In til 9 pm.
12:00 til 3:00

GIRTH &. MIRTHCLUB OF NEW YORK
Social club for heavy, chubby
gay men & their admirers.
Monthly socials at the "Center', weekly bar nights Thursdays at the "Chelsea Transfer",monthly Fat Apple Review, bimonU,ly F.A.R. pen pals.
For more information
call
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G&M/NY, Dept 0, P.O. Box 10,
Pelham, NY 10803.

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Duchess II, 70.GroveSt (7th Ave.),242-1408(Women) .. Don't Tell Mama, 343 W. 46th St., 757-0.788 .

Barbary Coast, 64 7th Ave. (14th St.); 675-0385'DU9~~\~~ro~~ristoPher

The Brea/cj,232:8th-Ave, (~2nd St.), 627-0.0.72.

Eighty Eights, 228 W 10. St., 924-0.0.88

Ave. (bet. 16th & 17th),

Che~~e;J,~sfer",a.l8th

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

Town & Country, 9th Ave at 46th St., 30.7-1503

The Hangout (J's), 675 Hudson St., 242-9292. Trix. 246 W. 48 St. (B'way/8th Ave), 664-8331- -~Eagle's~est, ,42 lith Ave (21st St.), 691-8451

rz:w. 21 st St. (bet. 5th & 6th),

JUlius, 159 W. 10th St., 929-9672.

Keller's, 384 West St. (at Christopher), 243-1907
Kelly's Village ~st, 46 Bedford St., 929-9322

Rawhide; 212 8th Ave" (21st St.), unlisted.

Marie's Crisis, 59 Grove St. (7th Avel, 243-9323

Private EYIiIS,
2n6-J 110.

Gents, 360.W 42 St. (9th Ave), 967-0659 .

••The Works, 428 Columbus
799-7365

Ave (at 81stl.

EASTSIDE
Bogart's, 320. E. 59th St., 688-8534 .

Spike, 120. 11th Ave., 243.9688

The Monster, 80 Grove St. (7th Ave.), 924-3558

WESl VILlAGE

New Jimmy's, 53 Christopher, 463-0.950,
Badlands,Christophilr

Ninth Circle, 139 W. 10th St., 243-9204

E. 53rd St., . 223-9752
G.H. Club, 353.

Sneakers, 392 West St.,242-983D.

Johnny's Pub, 123 E. 47th St., 355-8714

Two Potato, 145 Christopher St., 242-9340.

NY Confidential, 306 E 49 St, 308-8390

Ty's, 114 Christopher.741-9641.

Rounds, 303 E. 53rd St., 593-0807.Uncle Charlie's, 56 Greenwich Ave., 255-8787

South Dakota, 405 3rd Ave (at 29 Stl., 684&76.

& West St., 741-9236.,.

Boots "& Saddle, 76 Christopher St" 929-9684 .
Cellblock 28~,28 9th Ave, 733-3144 (j.o, club,
open . ona 1imited bas'is,call for info).
The Cubbyhole, . .438 . Hudson (Morton
243:9079,.

St).·

Crazy Nanny's, 21Zth Avenue South. 366.-6312(Woment
D,t'"fat Cat,~81.W. 12th~:St.,243-9041

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Star Sapphire, 400. E. 59thSt, 688-471 0.

WESTSIDE

The Townhouse, 236 E. 58th St, 754-4649•

Candle Bar, 309 Amsterdam Ave., 874-9155

lWenty-Nine Palms, 129 lexington Ave., 686-8299

Cat's, 730. 8th Ave., 221-7559.,

EASTVIUAGE..

The Bar, 68 2nd Ave. (at 4th St.),674-9714
The Pyramid, 10.1Avenue A, 420-1590
Tunnel Bar, 1161stAve(7thSt.), m-9'l32 .

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Spectrum, 802 64th St. (at 8th Ave), 745-9611
SWeet Sensations, 6322 20th St., 435-2580

QUEENS (718)_Breadstix,
113-24 Queens Blvd., Forest
Hills,.
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236-0300
Friend's Tavern, 76-11 Roosevelt Ave., Jackson
Hgts,397·7256•••

Hatfield's, 126·10 Queens Blvd., Kew Gardens,. 261-8484
HideaWay, 87·36 Parsons Blvd., Jamaica, 657-4585

love Boat, n-02 Broadway, Elmhurst, 429-8670
Magic Touch, 73-13 37th Rd, Jackson Hgts,429-8605
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Sandcastle, 86 Mills Ave" (718)447~9365

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TREAT YOURSELFI"Sweet man with great hands" seeksclients for nude nonsexual vigorous
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212-691-7934
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448, NYC 10010
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letter to Outweek
Box 3618
ROMANnC
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This handsome,healthy 37yr old
Italian man Is
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man who Is In touchwith his feelingsand not afraid toexpress them I'mshort 5'2" stocky
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Outweek Box 3616
ATHLETIC, BLOND
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2984, La Habra, CA
90832-2984
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life's pain andwonder, willing towork towardpennanence when
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Am 35, professional, tall, slim,
and attractive.
Enjoy world travel,
nature, people
watching, film,
beautiful music andcreating goodkanna. Are you akindred spirit?
Outweek Box 3606
REGULAR GUY37

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understanding,Intelligent, recoverIng reflection to
support explorationof big Issues:
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Helps If you canlaugh and cry, likecats and theatre,
have some sense of
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box # Outweek Box
3603
FURRY BEARDED
BLOND OR
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some, articulate
bruin (37, 5'9",
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25-50. I'm a writer(cultural activism),
scholar (German,
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film, bonc!age,
Ideas, travel. I
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Nicholas II. Reply
with photo: Cody
Adams Box 14278,
San Francisco, CA
94114

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Photos welcomed
but not necessary.
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photo optional toSuite #426-R, 496
laGuardia Place
NYC 10012
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travel, beach, arts,
photog & cooking.
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Outweek Box 3587
SPANK YOURBUTTII
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Outweek Box 3586
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Maspeth, NY 11378
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reading write
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NY 10014.
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husky build, rnasc,loves sex, fun androle playing looking
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POB304 VIII
Station, NYC 10014
LUST lOVING
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Outweek Box 35n
GWM, BRN/Bl,
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Uke to meet 35-40
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lie about how wemet. No fats, fems
or freeloaders.
Photo and phone
number appreciated. P.O. Box
057515. West Palm
Beach, FL 334057515.
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energized by creative arts i.e., painting, Broadway, music-but rather byactivismcurrently, AIDS activism.
Corporate leaders know it and are on
the brink of becoming activists.
Night Without Light is a subtle
form of activism on the part of thesebuilding owners: It is not a charity ballthat they independently attend to raise
funds for an organization but, rather, acooperative statement which will beheard across the country and by theircorporate peers. This event will be acatalyst for the corporate communities
to start lobbying, pressuring federal
offices and making larger donations to
AIDS service providers. Let's not forget,that Leona is going to turn off the red,white and blue of the Empire State
Building .for 15 minutes for the men,
women and children who are dying
because of government inaction, thesame lights that she vowed to keep on
until the hostages are freed.
Due to the' enormous growth of
Day Without Art over the past year,
next year we can expect a tremendous
response for Day Without Art 1991.
We can expect the scale and impact ofNight Without Light to extend beyond
Manhattan to the rest of America,
where AIDS education is desperately
needed through the cooperation ofcreative and corporate leaders, Day
Without Art has the potential
tobecome a national grass-roots event ofsorts Oike Earth Day?), a way of educating the public and forcing them toaddress the classism, 'racism, sexism'
and homophobia that have propelled
this disease into a social crisis. This
event will not remain a one-day event
If ther~ is involvement from the community; Arm yourself with informationand participate in events around thecountry on Dec. 1. Tell the organizations ·involvedthat cooperation
between artists, arts organizations and
AIDS service organizations will continue. to take place throughout the year.
'We must not let this nationwide. activism tum Into a movie of the weekor flavor of the month. ~•,•ContlriLied

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Alexander Gray is an administra. .tor for Visual. AIDS. He. is also active
In the National Campaign for Freedom of Expresston and its efforts concerning the National Endowment for
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way for them to deal with it. On theother hand, the artist will eventually get
inflamed, but the bureaucrats neverwill. That's why I'm glad to bean artist
who's running a place, so that I canidentify with both sides.
PM: Is the NEA itself worth saving?
MW: We'll see how the destructionof the peer panel goes. I've spoken tosome of the lay people they've put on
the panels, and they're, all wonderful.
I'm worried, though, because the job of
the artist is to break: molds, and the jobof the lay people in that situation is topreserve the status quo.
PM: You know a lot of artists at all
different points' in their careers. I've
always found artists remarkably apolitical.
MW: I've never admired the artists
who are apolitical. The media of publishing, installation art, perfonnance art
are media that engage with the realworld, and even If it never changes thereal world, it tries. Whereas painting
and sculpture are often the choice ofthe more introspective artists. You don't.
have to talk to anyone but the canvas.
At the same time, I've come acrossmany, many painters and sculptors whoare politically engaged, so I think it
comes down to the individual.
PM: Do you think perfonnance isstill a vital art form?
MW: My answer to that is, "Look atwhich fonns are under attack-the newforms of photography
and perfor-.
mance." David Salle is not under attack,and he's doing stuff that's just as erotic,
but it's a painting. Painting's beenaround for 30,000 years. People areunnerved by the fad ti~at there's an:actual body which is being smeared,
with chocolate, and that it's real urine.
on that crucifix. It's too real somehow.
Performance is not at all dead. It's justgetting started,
PM: Also performancedoesn't.
have a market. David S~e doesn't givea shit If he gets a grant.
MW: Yes, but there also wasn't amarket for Jenny Holzer when Franklin
Furnace showed her ten years ago;" .
That's our job-to launch ideas thatwill later become successful. We alsopresented Barbara Kruger and Eric
Bogosian, and now all these people areon the board. Luckily they're still interested in Franklin Furnace and whether
the next generation gets a chance, I try
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PM: When perlorIDance got a litde less media attention and happened
in rawer spaces, it was more exciting
for me.
MW: You're absolutely right. But
the goal of all performance artists is toplay BAM. It's just the way it is. The
goal of all painters is to show at Castelli.
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There has to be some kind of hierarchical Zeitgeist in every field. Perfonnance'" .
is never better· in a huge place, andthat's why-if performers are driven backto smaller spaces by this whole thing, it '~,won't . hurt thefield.
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PM: Franklin
Furnaceis so '"
important because you give complete',,unknowns a chance. Why has performance. become so cliquish in who.,gets boOked?
MW: It's a real problem. When
you're trying to start, who is going to',give you a gig? You're never going to 'get a huge audience for an unknown .
artist, but they need to Perform to growand get the' next booking, even if it's for
one person. There are a lot of reasons
why it's hard to get booked. There's a , 'lot of sexism. Some people also let their,marketing plans and goals for the insti.,,,.'tution determine who they show.
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PM: Do you want to talk a~ all•about
the Guerilla -,Girls? [The Guerilla.
""~'iGirls are an anonymous ,group of••
women whose mission is to expose ."~,:.~
sexism, racism .and homophobia in the .. ".•. ,'~art world. Their primary mode of opera."tion is street postering and appearances' " . '; •in their trademark guerilla masks.}"':.
MW: Yes, even though I'm not a
Guerilla Girl. They're an anonymous' '.' ,~,group which has used me as their pub-' . . ':lic contact. I understand that Mary .'. ' ",Boone hates my guts because of my , .,involvement with them, but that's OK.
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It's an important political comitment. '. . ,.. ' ,. PM: How can people support··'. "!'
Franklin Furnace?
MW: People can offer their services ... ,. and ·skills.' P~ople can offer whatever:..
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