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demonstrates our need to elect open lesbian and gay leaders
to directly represent our community.
i ..The 'current redrawing of City Council district lines,
mandated by the new city charter, provides us with the best
opportunity in history for realizing that long-deferred goal.
By creating districts with a gay majority or a very large
minority, the city can finally assure that our leaders will
have a fighting chance to enter elective government.
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new districts designed to maintain the integrity of AfricanAfnerican, Latino, Chinese and other ethnic neighborhoods
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And these four scenarios each projected only one such district, despIte the fact that lesbians and gays, with at least 10~rcent of the City's population, deserve at least five.
"'1~;One'tnajor problem which confronts the commissioners
aii' the~igo about their work is the general lack of dataatrout.i*lf.iere we live. We're uncounted in the US Census,
arid' :aerrtographic information is based on less than traditional statistics.
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goes for the argument given by from those who increasingly
We never thought it would so many organizations that understand that all oppressions
come to this: Gay men and les- white men have to be in leader- are connected and single issue!
bians, dressed in activist garb, ship because they are the ones single oppressionapproacheswill
on one side of the street who have the greatest skills and neverbring lastingsocial change.
Maybe inadvertently you
protesting the actions of gay they are the ones who are mostmen and lesbians, dressed in respected and listened to by did a good thing. While, on the
one hand, it made us feel phySievening clothes, on the other other white men. Please.
We repeat our message to cally ill to have to shoutside of the street and between
us, a long line of pOlice officers you and all other groups where "Shame, shame" at our own
who clearly were there to control us and to protect the playSrONEIf'Att Rlors
BY ANDREA NATALIE
goers from us. The -presence Of
those police and their paddySAIIA·Tflflr"I"
wagons gave us the clearest
Tf~U
message of how far you were'. /,/•
willing to go on an issue that•
USB/Allhurts all of us. We were the
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enemy. When you made the,decision to carry on with the•Miss Saigon fund-raiser, despite,,,
the eloquent arguments of,Asian gay men and lesbians,
other anti-racist, anti-sexist
activists and people of conscience on your own staff, you','I.J......, J
created a ~enible split in lesbian..
and gay organizations aroundthe country.
Many of us have crossed
over a line that we once stood,behind, though painfully andreluctantly; we are no longer
willing to accept the politicalleadership of white male-dominated organizations. We are nolonger willing to put our lives,
our hopes and dreams into
activities or organizations that
do not have our issues clearly white men dominate: We can no people entering Miss Saigon, weand centrally on the agenda. For longer give our time and energy also felt an amazing sense ofus, those issues are not only and spirit and lives to those political community with thosesexual identity but also race, who support our oppression by who rallied to protest. We were
gender, class, disability and age. their racism and sexism. We clearly marching toward a new
You can keep your argu- want a movement where we can day, toward new hope, a better
ment that you had to support a bring our whole selves all of politiC. You are left with many
years of work ahead of you to
racist, sexist play in order to our concerns for freedom-to
try to figure out how to overhave the money necessary to the organizing table.
There is no tyranny of the come your current reputation formaintain services that don't
extend evenhandedly to us in oppressed; there is simply the upholding a white heterosexual
the first place. And the same strong call for justice and equalily male view of the world, while we
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are marching toward a new kindof organizing, a deep and true
movement of social change forall of us. Clearly, you are notready,not strong enough, to join
us at this moment, but we offerthat hope of change to you.
When you are ready to give up
your share of the oppressionthat hurts all of us, and, in giving it up, become ready to walkside by side with us, then we'll
create those open spaces toinclude you, too. Until that time,
we have a liberation movement
to build. Seeyou later, we ho~.
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8eth Richie
Suzanne Ph~"Val Kanuha
Chris Hansen
HelenZia
Rebecca Cole
Kelly Kuwabara
Sally Coop,'
Dion Thompson
Stephanie RO,thRobert Reid-Pha"
Rick O'Keefe,, Tony Glove,
Manuel Guzman
Ann Kochman,
MISS, AGAIN
Now that the Asian and·•
Pacific Islander lesbian and gay
community, Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund andthe Lesbian and Gay Commun~
Services Center of New York
have had their day in the sun, I
believeit is time to talk !1bout~real issues, i.e., white oppression and the bastardization ofpeople of color within the lesbian
and gay community at large.
As a first-generation USborn Philipina and a lesbian
who has been working with tbe
lesbian and gay community.
throughout the past 11 years,. I
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sion. I had occasion to discuss
this matter for a long period oftime with the only AlPI Lambda
board member, who happened
to come on board when thiscontroversy began, thus walking into an explosive blind spot.
I find it offensive that she has
been asked to "deal with thisproblem" because she is the
only AlPI board member andbecause other board members
and the executive director of
Lambda do not know how thehell to rectify this matter.
In my mind, there wasnothing to negotiate with Lambda. They have blatantly exercised
their rights to make money on
the racially prejudiced stereotypes of Pacific Islanders andAsians. They have refused to
publicly recognize that lesbian
and gay Pacific Islanders andAsians have the right to choose
how they wish to be viewed.
They have not been very inclu-.
. sive to the coalition dream.
The saddest part of thiswhole story is that the full
truth about the alleged coercive tactics by Asian Lesbiansof the East Coast and Gay
Asian and Pacific Islander
Men of New York is unknown.
What Tom Stoddard failed tomention is that he hid in his
office and refused to have any
sort of discussion with any
lesbian and gay Asians andPacific Island-ers. However,
do not let it be said that his
staff was not amenable to listening to the concerns of the
AlPI segment of the community Lambda serves.
It should be noted that
Lambda has done a lot of goodwork during the years of its existence. However,this incident only
proclaims one thing in my mind,
which is that Lambda has a very
long W8Jj togo when it comes tocoalition-building with its entire
constituency. I look forward to
the day when Tom Stoddard andthe Lambda board admit their
mistake, aPologize to the PacificIslander and Asian lesbian andgay community and can stand up,;zt..

to be counted on civil and humanrights for all people.
Joyce M. Aloober (a.k.a. JOMAL)
Human Rights Specialist for theCity of New Yorkyelling, the bad spirit and youreditorial ["Outspoken," no. 91,
March 27] I saw Miss Saigon.
And I would see it againl
You and the others wereconned. There is nothing sexist
STATEMENTor racist in this pop spectacle. It
FROM LAMBDA
is, however, anti-American. The
The board and staff of musical condemns what AmeriLambda deeply regret the pain, ca did to the Vietnamese peoanger and division that the Miss ple. The theatergoers who only
Saigon benefit has caused. We want entertainment get it inhave come to understand that Miss Saigon. Those with some
Lambda's association with this brains feel the pain and sufferplay, and the controversy it has ing the Vietnamese nation unengendered, have been extreme- derwent because of our imperily harmful and painful to many alistic plans.
people and communities: Asian
I will never allow anyone
and Pacific Islanders, other peo- else to tell me what to do. We
ple of color, women and all of us decry the Donald Wildmons ofcommitted to cMI rights.
the wor1d when they attempt to
We have leamed an impor- censor what we see and hear.
tant lesson on the need to think You, by your editorial stancemore carefully, do more re- against Miss Saigon, are practicsearch and be more sensitive ing the same nonsense. I'm surbefore embarking on fund-rais- prised you didn't see the musicaling and other programs. We will before passingjudgment.
apply that lesson from now on,
Ifs sad that such nonsense
and are committed to pursuing is tearing our community apart ina fund-raising strategy that a moment in which we must standreflects the diversity of our togethermore than everbefore.
communities, and that is in
Bohdan Zachary
keeping with our goal of incluLos Angeles
sive political work.
PS. Please report on the scam
We remain strongly com- called AMFAR, the American
mitted to serving lesbians, gay CancerSOCietyof HIV.
men and people with HIV in allof our communities, and to
AND NOW, FOR A
fighting for the rights and
TOTALLY DIFFERENT
equality of all of us.
PERSPECTIVE ...
We intend t~ work very
I would like to congratulate
hard over the next few months, Tom Stoddard and Lambda
and always, to create more dia- Legal Defense for going ahead
logue with and more opportuni- with the Miss Saigon benefit,'ties for the diverse people in all despite protests from selfof our communities, including appointed arbiters of all that is
Asian and Pacific Islander les- politically correct.
bians and gay men, other peoIt appears that the mainple-of-color communities and . objection that they have towomen. We will also strive with Miss Saigon is that its heroine
special vigor to heal the divi- is a prostittlte. They feel thatsions among us as we press for- that degrades Asian people.
ward toward our common goals. There isn't anything wrong, inBoard and Staff my opinion, with getting
Lambda Legal Defense and money for sex. I would have
Education Fund never been able to afford a gay
lifestyle if I had not done so as
SEE IT AGAIN,
a youth. I ronically, people
UNCLE SAM
putting down prostitution proAfter all the fuss, hype, the mote the laws that rob sex

•workers of power over the cated to research. Unlike Outindustry. They promote police Week, they have never evenviolence while deploring our reviewed the book that docu"degradation." Hypocritesl
ments the disaster that is AIDS
I've neverseen Miss Saigon, research in America-Bruce
so I can't tell you if it is racist or Nussbaum's Good Intentions.
sexist. But I have seen the insen. The paper's insensitivity tositive leaflet put out by its . prejudice against transvestites
protestors. Perhaps they should and transsexuals does not surhave consulted with the Asian prise me either. One of their ediprostitutes in Prostitutes of New tors (now gone), Erika Munk,York before writing it. Sex for was a closet homophobe who,money is a vital part of life and for example, believed that guys
should be portrayed in theater.
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Manhattan
WINKEN, BLiNKENAND NOD OUT
It was good to see lettersof support for Michelangelo
Signorile in his battle with the
Goliath of the gay establishment["Gossip Watch," no. 91, March27]; the Voice. (A voice maybe,
but of whom? The paper once
had a rapport with its audience;
now it seems increasingly isolated from it.)I began to notice its fossilization and inability to respondto the new when Larry Kramer's
The Nonnal Heart came out. The
Voice panned the most powerful
AIDS play we have, not once but
three times (Massa, Feingold,
Goldstein) and, among otherinfelicities, compared Kramer toJerry Falwe".
At best, the Voice has been
inconsistent on the most important issue facing the gay andlesbian community: AIDS. The
public has been told that AIr isthe answer to AIDS (now it's
supposed to prevent its onset in
HIV-positive people). Thus,
many people cannot understandwhat ACT UP is protesting. Aftera", they add, isn't a lot of money
being spent on research? The
Voice supposedly supports ACT
UP, but they have never challenged the value of ArT. They
have never pointed out that it is,
at best, a mediocre drug. They
have never pointed out the rigidly bureaucratic nature of a medical-industrial complex that has
wasted most of the millions a"o-•the Lower East Side but tha.t .
she nods out while writing for
the Voice.
Bob Chappetta
Manhattan

who dressed up as women hated[women]. Thus, she respondedwith irrational vehemence tothe use of drag in the lateCharles Ludlam's superb experimental production, Salammbo.
Still, I had hoped that the current editors like C. Carr would
have cared about the misuse of
the stereotype of transvestites
in The Silence of the Lambs. C.
Carr's problem is not that she_
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from Belfast, marched in solidarity with us. A friend and I sat
down afterward and penned theenclosed song about the controversy. For the infonnation ofyour Irish readers, it is sung to
the air of "James Larkin," anold Irish rebel song.
I.
In New York City, in'91,/Around the time of St.
Patrick's Day,
The AOH planned a big·paradeJAs to who could marchthey had the final say.
II.
Ireland to me means leprechauns/And green beer andgreen berets,
It doesn't mean jailed
Republicans/Or kids in wheelchairs or Irish Gays.
III.
•"We don't want no Joe
Doherty sashesJThey won't lookgood in our parade."
Then Frankie Beime and hisgang of fascists/Threw out thepiper who had wom Joe's name.
IV.
Then Steve MacDonald andkids disabledlWanted to marchin their wheelchairs.
The AOH said, "You are notwelcome/And we don't care if it
seems unfair."V.
"We have our rules andregulations./They're
cast instone, and we cannot sway.
If we let you in, Lord knows
who'll followJOh, God forbid,
we'll haveto let in gays•
VI.
Then Anne MacGuire andthe Irish gay group,/They'd filed
their pennit and made it clear.
I LGO demanded to be
included./The AOH said, "We
don't want no queers." ,VII.
, Bold Mayor Dinkins, hestood his groundJHe held hishead up with'dignity.

He said, "Gay people canmarch beside meJI won't bepart of this bigotry."
VIII.
Two miles we marched,
two miles of hatredlwith spittin',cursin', insults and jeers.
I've never heard oh-somany deaththreats;iWhile drunken eejits hu~ed cans of beer.
IX.
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The mayor stated it
brought back memories/Of Alabama back in the days,
When Dr. King, he faced
down the bigots/And the Ku
Klux Klan, they held their sway.

Irishwomen and Irishmen;
We're gay and Irish, we
won't be beaten./You bet yourlife we will march again.
Tarloch Mac Nial/ais
Eilis Heller
QueensBONE
OF CONTENTIONJohn Connolly's response
to my article on chiropractic["Letters," no. 92, April 3] is ashockingly reactionary att~ek
not just on chiropractic care but
on all alternative health care.
Referring to chiropractors as"abortionists" (a tenn right out
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Well, I've seen Paisleyites of Operation Rescue literature),
and National Frontiers/And UVF "ambulance-chasers," X-rayhappy, greedy and so on,isand UDA.
To tell the truth, I've rarely hardly evidence of your "daring"
seen hate/Uke
the hate I saw,on political stance, John. If any,
thing, your words illustrate how
Sl Patrick's Day.
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been. To insist that yoga andself-manipulation
are theanswers to the ailments thatafflict many people is to notunderstand the different ways
yoga and chiropractic manipulation can work (i.e., lumbar-vs.scroiliac adjustments), to overlook the many injuries causedby self-manipulation and yoga
and to create a false illusion thatchiropractic is merely quackery
driven by greed.
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The whole point of my,!! essay (and it was, for the~ record, a personal ,essayspecifi~ cally, assigned to a chiropractic~ patient, as opposed to the~ "investigative.iournalism"you~ rabidly crave) was that chiropractic has for years been con::i sidered by all but the most tuns nel-visioned members of the~ AMA to be ab9ve-board; is covered by all insurance policies;
and has been determined,
through years of legal battles, tobe SCientifically sound. The
countless patients who havebeen successfully
treatedthrough chiropracticcare,
including this "two-bit reporter,"will be surprised to hear thatthey've been taken for fools.
(And for your information,
osteopaths no longer do manipulation and haven't for years,
if you check the facts.)
As for the placement of
ads around the article, anyone
who's had such a prestigious
journalistic career as yourself(Fag Rag, indeed) surely understands that writers don't determine the lay-out of the publications they contribute to. While I
was dismayed that my essay
was surrounded with paid
advertisements from chiropractors, as it undermined my own
sincerity and allowed for conspiracy theorists like yourself tosalivate in righteous delight, I
understand the need for a
struggling magazine like OutWeek to solicit ads that tie into
its editorial content.
There are unethical chiropractors, just like there areInewer activists to check the .
HTMARfacts with the veterans instead
rewriting history." For some.
ek ofreason,
people want to use that .
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far a lope in the wall, a, san IduM or lingering in the,showe~of.thosetelltale signs ofPortland's tenunt at I
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of her lorna darI.... a helen) hooper,...... ~"to gel rid of the"We'd I,of us who spend time sortingand digging through lesbian andgay history know there is very
little that hasn't happened orexisted before, in some form or
another. It is a matter of
research and knowing how toread between the lines of sexist,
heterosexist and racist history.
Just flip through Jonathan Katz's
books or J.R. Roberts' annotat~
ed bibliography on Black lesbians if you doubt our rich,extensive past
And Allen is right It doesn'ttake any great effort to discover
the recent history of· gay
activism in New York City-aphone call to any of a number ofpeople could do it. Maybe if
more lesbian and gay people
knew their history, they would be
more sensitive to the possibility
that their event/idea/productmight not be a "firsr and thatsome acknowledgement
tothose who have come before
should be made.
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unethical people in wery profession, but your assertion that chiropractors are not "real doctors"
rings especially hollow in a community that has been busting its
collective ass to reclaim controlof their own bodies from thiscountry's stagnant medicalmonopoly. Perhaps you should
attend an ACT UP or WHAM I
meeting-you'd
discover that
there's a strong movement
working on gay, lesbian andwomen's health concerns, amovement that grew out of the
failings of "real doctors" to edu-

cate themselves or move at
more than a snail's pace aroundlife-and-death issues. A self-professed radical queer like yourself
might be able to make, someconnections with all this stuff.
Karl Soehnlein
Manhattan
KNOW YOUR,HIS AND HE" SONG

As a longtime volunteer ofthe Lesbian Herstory Archives, I
want to thank Allen Roskoff for
his gentle reminder that "once ina while, it would be good for the

GAB ASS'In "The Lavender and theGreen" [no. 92, April 3] (a truly
disgusting color combination, by
the way), Avril MacDonald wrotethat members of the' Irish Lesbianand Gay Organizationget together
for "ceo, caint agus crack," which
was loosely translated ~s "goodold Irish-style fun.'",.
The Irish (Gaelic) was
badly mashed, and irs not clear
whether the good old Irish-style
fun was supposed to be "coel,caint agus crait!' (Music, songand gab) or "coel, caint agus
crait!' (music, song and ass).
Stuart Frankel
Manhattan"

LETTER GRIPE
After reading OutWeek
faithfully for a year now, I feltthat I could no longer sit backand just ignore what some men
are having to say in your magazine. For starters, Eric M. Pollard ["Letters," no. 92, April 3]
is a disgrace to the psychological community, as well as ourcommunity. It is bad enoughthat Hinkley is now openly stating his hatred for Ms. Foster,
but Pollard felt that he had toegg Hinkley on. It is unethicalto play with a patient's mind insuch a way. I find it even moreunforgivable that he felt a needto inform the community ofwhat he had done.
Many of the letters in issue
no. 92 were written by white.men who accused Robert
Vasquez of being racist Racism
can only be practiced by thosein power, those with privilege.
When will white men learn, firstand foremost, that they are theones in this country with thepower? As a member of aminority community, Vasquez is
not in a position of authority
and therefore cannot impose
racism on a white male. Yes, hemay be prejudiced, but he will
never be able to be racist As for
Joshua Paul Devlin, if he was soclear in his understanding ofwhat racism is, he would know
this. Someone who is truly
aware of what racism is andtheir own inherent racism,
which comes from being raisedin this society, would know thatminorities have every right to be
angry and to feel anger andhatred toward their oppressors.
This argument was well documented in "I Hate Straights"[no. 59, Aug. 15]. .
OutWeek needs better coverage of events outside of the
New York area. By having suchan East Coast bias on reporting,your reporters will feel free toinsult anyone who does not
adapt to their culture. It is outrageous that OutWeek accepts
insults directed at people living
in other areas of the country as
responsible journalism.
Bystereotyping and name-calling,
you only perpetuate hatredtoward those not like yourselves.
Isn't that what the whole argument surrounding movies suchas The Silence of the Lambs isall about? Wakeup, OutWeekl
Stacy Homan
BostonACCURATE HISTORY
After reading "Oscar
Absences" by Bruce C. Steele
in issue no. 93 [April 10] of
OutWeek, I felt compelled topoint out some facts that Mr.
.Steele is obviously unaware of.
Historically, we, as Native
American people, have beenabsent from so much that we

generally
are more thanthrilled at the attention paid toDances With Wolves.
Kevin Costner came up
against a wall of negatives in
Hollywood when he had lunchwith "the moguls" Mr. Steele
refers to. Hollywood "powersthat be" felt that the publicwouldn't sit through a threehour film about Indians, andMr. Costner used his own
money and Europeaninvestors
to prove them wrong.
Dances With Wolves
ultilized Native American actors
and sonsultants in a precedentsetting way and is viewed bymany as a tribute to our cultures.
Michael Blake inviting Doris
LeaderCharge to translate his
acceptance speech for best original screenplay into Lakota was
not "cheap emotion" or exploitative, it was respectful. Many
Lakota people, as well as Native
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Thefilm Dances With Wolves
has already helped our "presentday woes" just by acknowledging
that we exist. There was no community in this country that scrutinized Dances With Wolves morethan the NativeAmerican community. This film was the closet yet
made to presenting history in an
accurate~. It has brought attention and interest to our cultures,
giving us the opportunity toenlighten many. Surely gay andlesbian people agree that the distortion of history is one of themost effective methodsof,oppressing a people. The historyof Hollywood and Indians has
beenone fraught with inaccuracies
and stereotypes, and Mr. Costnerhas the distinction of being thefirst "belegana" (Navajo for"white") to try and correct them.
, We, as Native Americans,have traditionally viewed ourgay and lesbian community
members as special and integral
to our cultures. We understandthat we all have roles to play inthe balance of things. Recognizing those roles is as importantas the roles themselves.
Writing for a community isa role and a responsibility thatshouldn't be taken lightly. Especially when the writer is probably presenting, in many cases,
the only information that thereader is receiving. Mr. Steeleshould be careful how he presents people he doesn't understand to his readers. Our history
books have been abused by
writers presenting their own
personal viewpoints as fact.
I understand that Mr. Steele
has his personal agenda. The
AIDS problem and gay and lesbian·issues are very important.
However, I don't feel it is necessary to ridicule something that hedoesn't understand in one breathand then refer to us as his "Native
American brothers and sisters" inthe other, especially when heclaims to be fighting prejudice
and apathy. Dances With Wolves
is a tribute to our fight against

prejudice and racism. Mr. Costnerrecognized the role he shouldplay by producing his film.
Mr. Steele should recognize
his role and not worry about competition for media attention.
Rudy Martin, Director
Public Relations
American Indian Community
House, Inc.
Manhattan
Bruce Steele responds: I don't
speak for a community. I speak
only for myself, and the article
was about the Dsears, not about

AIDS issues or Native American
issues. I admired the work of all
the Native Americans who
appeared in DancesWith Wolves,and I'm glad to hear some Native
Americans are happy with thefilm. Rectifying tOO-year-old
misconeptions is important, but
the present is less pliable I fear
the only life that will be significantly changed by Wolves is
Kevin Costner's. As for Michael
Blake's "gesture": Bruce Davison
never found it necessary to draga PWA to awards ceremonies toadvertise his solidarity with the

AIDS community. Cheap senti- .
ment translated into Lakota is
still cheap sentiment•

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bian activistS.That section of the city's
men and lesbians to the category
NEW YORK-The 15-member,new charter that created the Districting"other." And activists unsuccessfully
independent
body charged with
Commission and identified thosepressed Mayor David Dinkins toreshaping the city's 35 City
appoint an openly gay comCouncil districts into 51 smaller,
0l1SS1oner.
Scenario 6 formore representative ones, last
In Manhattan, as many as
Manhattan
week released 34 scenarios of
three of the possible eight scepossible districts. Several of thenarios present gay-winnable
computer-generated scenarios
districts. One scenario, numincluded Councilmanic districts
ber six, with one major exc~that gay and lesbian politicostion, closely resembles thehave pressed the commissionCouncil district that staff at theers to draw.
EmpireState Pride Agenda,
Weet 57111Street
But the scenario thought
the gay and lesbian statewide
to provide gay or lesbian canlobbying group, recently predidates with the best chance ofsented to the commission.
election draws its SQuthem borClinton"It seems like the best
der right through the heart ofscenario is number six," said
the West Village and even
, Dick Dadey, executive direcdivides the north and south
tor of the Pride Agenda.
Chelsea, sides of one part of Christo"What concerns me is [that itlpher Street.
cuts the West Village in half
Though the scenarios are
at Christopher Street. For
only tools to aid the Districting
New York City to have a gay- ,Weet Village
Broadway
Commission in formulating theand lesbian-winnable district
final map, gay and lesbianthat cuts the West Village inpoliticos are quickly responding
half is ludicrous."to the commission's work.
Christopher Street
The southern border of
Weet4th Street
The 34 scenarios represent
that district in scenario six
the rust fruits of analysis of theruns from the Hudson Rivertestimony presented to thealong Christopher Street toEast Village
commission since it began pubHudsolrstreet, down to Barlic hearings less than a year
row Street, across West Fourthago. The staff used a variety ofStreet and Waverly Place to$G .... NJwr... c:l!r1Jl n.".eadinformation, including federal
Broadway. But according tocensus data, election results
Dadey, even without theand mailing lists, to create
13,000 West Village votersthese scenarios.
underrepresented
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NEW YORK-In the continuing
demands but explicitly rejected theactivists' request for a special investigator.
effort to maneuver the city in the direc"Your refusal to appoint a civiliantion of restructuring how it scrutinizes its
investigator entirely independent of thepolice department, a working groupbiased parties involved (the Manhattan
within ACf UP is tracking investigations
DA and the NYPD) shows a lack of comof police violence, and a broad coalition
mitment on the part of the Dinkins
of attorneys is considering a range of• >0 to getting to the bottom of
legal actions against cops.
The Police VIOlence Working Groupthe NYPD's crimes in these instances," theactivists responded sharply, in their IOOStof ACf UPlNew York is seeking action
recent communication with Lynch. Curfrom City Hall on five demands the group
rently, the Manhattan DA's office is both
has issued. The group met early lastinvestigating the chaIges against the cops
month with Deputy Mayor Bill Lynch,
and prosecuting the activists who were
and while Lynch then briefed the mayor
injured prior to, and during, their arrests.
and several other top government offiIn an effort to comply with the final
cials, including Police Commissioner lee
demand listed above, Police
Brown, on the group's demands, to date
Deputy Commissioner for Public Inforthere has been no follow-up meeting.
mation S\ml1llle Trazoff met on April 11
The lethargic response of city offiwith· members of the gay and lesbiancials to calls for an investigation into thepress, including representatives fromevents of Feb. 5 and Feb. 11, both dates
on which gay activists were arrested and
OutWeek, Sappbo's Isle, a lesbian monthly
newspaper, and Impact VJSUa!s, a photoallegedly beaten while in police custody,
has raised the ire of Manhattan Boroughstock house that covers the lesbian andPresident Ruth Messinger.
gay connnunity closely.
Meanwhile, a group of lawyers has"1'00 much time has passed without
formed to explore the po5Sibility of filingan adequate explanation of [the Feb. III
a legal challenge to what they argue is aincident from the Police Department,"
Messinger said pointedly in a letter topattern of police misconduct.
David Walker, chief investigator for
Mayor David Dinkins. "These serious
charges merit a rigorous, speedy and
CUNY's Center for law and Social Justice,
independent investigation.»
said that the group of about 20 attorneys
The working group's demands,
from private, public and civil-rights fums
which Messinger has endorsed and reithave been meeting since early October toerated in her letter to Dinkins, call for: atalk about innovative legal means thatthorough investigation of the Feb. 5 andcould be used to combat police violence.
Feb. 11 incidents which resulted in theserious injury of two ACf UP members, I
and the establishment of an all-civilian
complaint review board; appointment ofa special counsel to investigate thoseincidents; a comprehensive study aimed
at improving how officers police demonstrations; immediate implementation ofmulticultural sensitivity training for all
officers and cadets; and enforcement ofexisting laws that allow members of thepress-particularly
the gay and lesbianpress--to cover events without interference and harassment from cops.
In a letter updating the working
group, Lynch revealed incremental move-

HARTFORD, Conn.-The Nutmeg
State has become the fourth in theunion to enact civil rights legislation forgay men and lesbians.
The bill, an Act Concerning Discrimination on the Basis of Sexual Orientation, passed the Connecticut Senate at 4:30 pm on Wednesday, March
18, by a 21-to-14 vote. The bill had previously passed the House 81-tcH)5.
"The governor will sign the bill withgreat enthusiasm," promised Avice Meehan, a spokesperson for Gov. Lowell
Weicker, the' new governor of Connecticut and a strong advocate of the bill. ""The victory comes on the heels of
the passage of similar legislation in
Hawaii last month, and as lawmakers in II
Maine and Califomia are gearing up forvotes on gay rights bills.
Check next week's OutWeek forcomplete details.
"--ca"ie WoHDrd/BOStOn"We're looking at a strategy aroundbringing a lawsuit against the city for pat-tern and practice of police discrimination
against minority people,· said Matt Foreman, an attorney and the director of the
New York City Gay and Lesbian,:Aoti-,
Violence Project, who recently; ds>ined,
Walker's coalition group.
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But, first the group must thoroughly':
document their cIahm,". esIaD: .,!ish a pattern and find plaintiffs willing to file ;&lit. Aanrding to Faeman, just:c:xxnp1eting
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Gay, lesbian and bisexual students~ trying to prove the myth of a national
gay student movement true.
On April 10, students on more than
80 campuses demonstrated against thepresence of the Reserve Officer Training

tions and educational fliers.
Some students added theatrics bydonning army fatigues and distributing
the famous mi1itary poster of Uncle Sam
pointing-but with new text about discrimination against gays and lesbians.

Corp5, or Rare, a scholarship program
which pays for students' college education in return for service as an officer inthe military and which openly excludes

They also zapped the White House withgay men and lesbians.
,
Critics, however, are charging thatStudents did not utilize their full power
because they feared "alienating" theircampuses. While students in QIlifomia,
New York and Massachusetts organizedmassive demonstrations and campus
shut-downs over tuition increases andcuts in financial aid, gay students
attempted to educate their campus Ixxiies with letters in campus newspapers,
letters to their college presidents, peti-

letters, faxes and phone c::a&.
"Rumor has it the phones in the
White House were going all day,"declared Glenn Magpantay, one of thethree student coordinators of the nationwide Day of Action. But no gay student
groups were able to engage their fellow
students in campuswide outrage.
Students targeted the Departmentof Defense's directive that declaresthat "homosexuality is incompatible
with military service," because thedirective is used to openly exclude
gays and lesbians from ROTC scholarships, which, they contend, contradicts university anti-discrimination
clauses (many of which now include
sexual orientation).
While organizers said that the
day was "fabulous" and "tremendously successful" because "so many campuses participated," other participantsquestioned the success, calling' thedemonstrations "sedate." Students at
the University of California at Berkeley, for instance, had threatened totake over the administration building
but never did.
"People were concerned anything
confrontational would blow up in our
face[sJ," explained Greg', thecoordinator of the protest at Berkeley,particularly because the campus newspapers depicted the university chancellor as
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NEW BILL WOULD PUNISH COLLEGES THAT BAR MILITARYWASHINGTON-A handful of US House members, in a
Eight years ago, Solomon gained notoriety for sponsoring
gesture· that could impact the movement to pressure the a measure which barred federal scholarship monies to college
Department of Defense to rescind its poliLY of excluding gay students who fail to sign up for the selective service.
. men and lesbians from the anned forces, unveiled on March 22
Although the figures are not complete, the most reliable
a bill which would bar federal funds from any schools, colleges estimates, supplied by the American Civil Liberties Union, oror universities that bar military recruiters from their campuses.
ACLU, show that as of April 3, six American universities had
The measure sponsored by Republican Rep. Gerald B. barred ROTC programs from their campuses already, andSolomon of New York was crafted in response to the actions another 16 had voted to eliminate their ROTC.programs if its, of a handful of high schools across the country that have anti-gay poliLY has not changed by some later date. Three
refused the Department of Defense access to student rosters colleges have opted not to bring back ROTC programs, andfor recruitment purposes, according to Dan Amon, a Solomon one other opted to not offer an ROTC program, based on the
spokesperson.
anti-gay policy. A total of 22 colleges and universities haveAmon acknowledged, however, that the same bill would . begun serious efforts to bar the ROTP from their campuses.
also "put at risk" federal funds to colleges and universities
One school-the
University of Virginia at Charthat prohibit military recruitment on their campuses based lottesville voted ear1ier this year to bar recruiting by anyon the military's policy of excluding gay men and lesbians entity which discriminates on the basis of sexual orientationfrom the service. What impact the measure would have on (including all military recruiting) but reversed itself laterschools that ban the Reserve Officers' Training Corps, or under pressure from the state Legislature.
ROTC, from their campuses is unclear.
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WASHINGTON-The White House on March 26 offi- officials for their careful review and consideration.
Studds. who is openly gay and a point person on the
cially issued a terse response to a letter from Democratic
Rep. Gerry Studds of Massachusetts and 39 other mem- efforts to change the anti-gay Pentagon policy, reported being
bers of Congress which called on the Department of "less than overwhelmed" by the White House response..
"Gays always have [served] and always will serve in the
Defense to drop its policy of barring gay men and lesbians
US military," said Studds in a prepared statement. "The only
from military service.
The succinct answer from the Bush administration was question is that they will be allowed to do so with dignity." .
signed by Frederick D. McClure, assistant to the president
Studds and 39 colleges on March 15 sent a joint let-'"for legislative affairs. Four sentences long. the letter thanked ter to President Bush urging him to issue an executive
Studds for his letter "regarding the treatment of gay and les- order rescinding the anti-gay policy. citing Pentagon estibian soldiers in the military."
mates that possibly as many as 50,000 ,gay men and les"We appreciate the interest which prompted you to bians served as part of the US military presence in thewrite." McClure wrote. "Please know that your correspon- . Persian Gulf war.
dence has been directed to the appropriate administration-&Ii" O'Neill
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Other students agreed, saying that afear of making enemies prevented themfrom making bolder moves against
ROTC. At UCLA, plans for a kiss-in by
students wearing anny fatigues and for ademand that Rarc be kicked off campus were dropped because students did
not want to "alienate students who are in
ROTC. particularly students of color.
who may need to rely on Rare scholarships, one student said"Nationwide. it's been a very conservative movement." declared Ted Com-II

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erford, ~erof the project's three student. A 26-year~ld senior at
San Jose State University and a founderof Queer Nation/South Bay. Comerford
was involved in the only.onin the nation which ended in arrests. He
and two ocher students wete atTeSted for
raising a gay and lesbian pride flag on
the Rare flagpole.
Comerford
believes that "theyounger students see that kind ofactivism as totally radical stuff from the'60s that won't wOlk today. They haven't
seen radical tactics being sUccessful...,and they see ACf UP and Queer Nationas vandalizing."
The presence of ROTC on college
campuses was also challenged in the 705,
when anti-war sentiment among students
spread to the military presence on campuses. Then, students utilized confrontational tactics, as they did in the '805, during the movement that led many schools

to drop their investments in companies
tied to South Africa, and during the more
recent struggles for racially diverse faw1ty

and courses of study.
\"In the beginning of the gay libera,"tion movement on campuses, we weren~
focused on reforming institutions [suchas ROTC]. We were ttying to overturnthem, explained Warren Blumenfeld, an
author, historian and early gay student, activist who founded the now-defunctNational Gay Student Q:nter in Washing~
ton, DC. Blumenfeld suggested that themore conservative tactics used by thestudent Rare movement arose because
the goal is more. conservative
andbecause "the movement is new. "I
Former Air Force Rare cadet Roq
Schwitz, who was dismissed on •March 6
after coming out to his advisors, foundstudents "very apathetic," according to
the Gay Communtty News. Students at
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CRUISING, PART 483-GLAAO's Hollie Conley with a script to Basic Instinct

by Allen WhiteSAN FRANCISCO-Vandalism
andprotests have been the angry response to
the filming here of BasIc InstInct, a newfilm reportedly about a lesbian murderer.
The Gay and Lesbilµ1 Alliance Against
Def'a1llatipn, or GIAAD, is desaibing thefilm as "the latest in a long series of recent
American movies that depict lesbians or
gay men' as stereotypes or as aiminaIs."
FollOwing an initial outcry earlier
this month,. the office of gay Supervisor
Hany Britt threatened to force the filming
outof San Francisco.
,only have the power to force
them, to·film somewhere else," said Rick
RQ~Q!Q:a. Britt aide. "The activists haveth~<~~.
and are resourceful enoughto (Iisrupt their proceedings and think
th~y'''a'i'C!_p-r'epared to do that if they
believe i:here ~ reason.»
111e film's producers were tyring toprevent the city from releasing the dleduleand Iocatm of the shOOlS, which the city
anomey has declared public .
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its producers issued a statement sayingthat the film "does not exploit or stereotype any characters; in fact, director Paul'....-,., j ..

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Verl10even and screenwriter Joe EszteIbas
have included fully developed non-stereotypical characters that reflect a mix of ethnic backgrounds and socio-economic
classes." The production company's
response also states, "Carolco and Tri~
Pictures, as well as the cast and crew of
BasIc InstInct, reject any form of discrimination, violation of civil rights or bigotry."
When filming began during the second week in April at the Rawhide IT, agay countty-and~westem dance bar, pickets from Queer Nation showed up, targeting the bats owner, Ray Chalker.
In the days that followed, the bar andChalker himself, who publishes the sentine/, one of the city's two weekly gay andlesbian, has been deluged byvandalism and threatening phone cills.
"There has been coostant haras&nent,"
Olalker said 1hey put glue in my locks,
and they put fliers all aver my place." Heeven chuges QJeer NatiooaIs with ringing
his dcxxbeIl in the middle cf the night andthen ronnin8 down the street
Queer Nation has in fact been distributing a flier that includes all his busines<;
telephone numbers, as well as his homephone. Olalker said that Queer Nation is

also called police and his lawyers to investigate anonymous, spray-painted threatsagainst his life.
Queer Nation has accused Olalker ofselling out his community, because of his
editorial position last year against the Miller
Beer boycott. and now because he rented
his gay bar to the production company
fihniog the allegedly homophobic film.
"This has been blown completely
out of proportion. They gave money, andthey rented my space," Chalker retorted,
adding: "Do you think I would take theirmoney if I knew they were doing ananti-gay movie? Not in a million years »lauren Strogoff, a spokesperson for
the film, told OutWeek that the production company is not releasing copies ofthe script, a major frustration for activists.
"We are really going only by rumor,
and I sti1l have not seen the script," Ruvolo said "The people making it claim that it
is not bad. But right now, we are operating in a vacuum; he admitted.
.But several members of GIAAD in San
Fmndsco have managed to 01xain copies.
H:>lIr Conley, a GIAAD SJX>kespeoon, saki:"Everyone who has read the script is pretty
outraged. It is yet another movie which portrays us in an unrealistic way.",
BasIc Instinct may be the film which
creates the defining confrontation
between the gay community and the film
industry, "the straw that broke the·camel's back; according to Conley.
Since the near-riotous protest against
the filming of Crntstng in New York in
1978, the gay and lesbian communities in
San Francisco, Loo Angeles and New YOlk
have protested the production of many
movies and 1V shows deemed to be antigay or that presented gay people instereotypical, negative ways.
"Our chief concern," Conley continued, "is the homophobia of Hollywood asa whole. They don't give us any charactersthat treat our community realistically."
Negotiations are reportedly underway among Robin Eickman, director of
the San Francisco F'tlm Commission, thelocal bureau that regulates film shoots inthe city, Britt's office, activists and representatives from the film,.
The script was reportedly sold for$3 million, making it one of the mostexpensive screenplays in motion picture
history. The movie stars Michael Douglas
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aside &an the blunt tille, was the gueri1Ia
P _ <:aJqlOign on the ... <£ts. AnyIhing
that is able to aftiool so dearly and quick,
Iv wiD hop<fully be an eye-opener. There's
something to please and disturbc.ay gay ewe in ~uaJ Acts,
a ooIlection of twelve shott plays,
eadl deftly dit"""" by Rich Rubin.
What could be a slipshod variel)'show instead be m>es a galle!)' of

all bets are given the go ahead to makerIlCI'e qucas.

While Robot Palrick's "The W2y We
the Iraq War, tt
comes off as a plain ... ted PSA, neverWar" is topical regarding

dM:rse talents and views &an writers willing to go beyood the us... 1"a=pt me, please" mmtality d too
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Familiar tbeDICS of violence
and abuse are given U1'1U9lal twists
in "IbaI AI Pacino Look" (How todisempower a mugger), DanielCurmn's "S II: M· (Where did it
start? Not at the Spike. Try
Jerusalem) and "One Man's Opinion" (Bogosian-otyIe 1IXXlOIogu. ofa PI-boober)·
Robert Pabick's three works
showcases his wit and divasity. In"Wagner and Ludwig" we get ataste d Ridiculous Theatre camp
between Richard Wagner and King
Ludwig as tbey flirt and woo
aboard a 1rairL "The Family Bar"pabaysa ICYOSC: sariIe of a society 1hat rep!" .. apple pie types.
The jokes fall flat, perhaps because
the tp4 Age is such a biller puncb in theface. What if llIEY 0.•., your grai>dma.
unde and .......... Iiule sister) had to rongregare in seedy bars and cruise spots?
"The F2mily Bar" is IDOl. than. axnedy;
it's a cruel indidl!"~of the limits d bar
culllUe in New '\IbId Order land
Carl MOISe brings joy and hope in
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At::ta Ted Senecal is bril1iant in thedivasity d roles, bcppiDs &an aorchc:ty
grandma to emmt faiJy to amivorous
closet case busiA Alpn in a single scenechange.
John Cerna shines in VICtOr
Bumbalo's "ShoW" as a manic
preis! locked up in a Catholic
sanitarium. His intense m0nologues are interspersed withreaxded va:al glorias, alIelujahs
and brief seo"al moo",,1IS withhunky asylum employee Joey
(Leslie Robeds). He reooo'nIS his
frusuatioD wlrh his search for
God as his Carposl's Sarcoma
Iesioos 1JC1W, IpWrins his superiors to impison him, lIOl.unlike

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made in a Sunset Park gay-bashing thattook place in mid-March, but yet anothergruesome anti-gayattack has been reported in the Brooklyn neighborhood.
The news came just as the New
York City Gay and Lesbian Anti-Violence Project, or AVP, announced thatthe first quarter of 1991 shows a 24
percent jump in anti-gay violence overlast year's statistics.
"I never thought that would be p0ssible," commented Matt Foreman, AVP's
director, noting that the arrival of warm
weather typically heralds an increase inviolent crimes. "Every month this year
has set a" record," Foreman disclosed.
"We had hoped that 1990 was an aberration, and it's dearly not."Two 19-year-olds were arrested inconnection with the March 19 beating ofEric Torres, and both were charged withassault in the third degree and fourthdegree grand larceny. The two men are:Gustavo Garcia, of 439 52nd St, Brooklyn, and Andres Liberato, of 456 52nd St.,
Brooklyn. Garcia was arrested on March
21, and Liberato was taken into custodyon April 13, according to Sgt. Peter Benyof the New York Police Department's
public information office.
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Americans that maniage, at least in the eyes of the govemment, isan economic institution. So what better place to demonstrate theirdispleasure at being excluded from such a profilable rite than on
the steps of the General Post Office on Eighth Avenue and West33rd S~at 11:30 pm.
~ hordes of last-minute filers rushed up the steps, searched
frantically for tax fonns and grabbed the packets of free Excedrin
being doled out as a PR stunt, members of Queer Nation werebusy getting hitched.
Chanting, 'We're herel We're queerl We're getting marriedl"
they exchanged vOws, publicly displayed affection, threw bird seed(rice, apparently, isn't so good for unsuspecting birds), drank
chamPagne and explained to a weary but receptive public about
yet another fonn of discrimination against gay men and lesbians.
A similar protest WcIS staged outside Internal Revenue Service headquarters in Washington, DC.
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But Torres himself expressed only
a half-heartedendorsementof the72nd Precinct's efforts, noting that hehad provided the officers with thenames and addresses of his alleged
attackers and had to pressure thepolice through the bias unit before thearrests were made.
"I'm glad that they arrested theguys," he said, "but if that's how they'regoing to continue, they should give metheir badges and their guns, and I'll dotheir job for [them]."In the other Sunset Park case,
Garro said that a recent emigre from
Poland was severely beaten, allegedly
by three young men who told theirarresting officers that they beat the vic-

tim because he had made a "homosexual gesture" at them.
The perpetrators, who were arrested by Transit Police officers who happened to be a half-block away when
the incident occurred, reportedly beat
the individual so severely that he may
have suffered permanent brain damage.
According to Garro, the incident happened at approximately 4 am, April 7,
on 25th Street near 4th Avenue in
Brooklyn, and the victim, who remains
in the hospital, has been in and out of acoma since that time.
A spokesperson
for the Transit
Police did not return OutWeek's calls
before press time.
The incident has received a bias
designation.

And in Staten Island, a retired police
officer who intervened in a gay-bashingon the boardwalk in South Beach, suffering serious head injuries for his effort, iscurrently listed in stable condition at St
Vmcent's Medical Center of Staten Island
The former cop is Jame:i McKee, 69, ofSouth Beach.
Altogether, four arrests have been
made in that caSe, which involved agang attack on two men, identified as
Jeff Tracy and Vincent Gatto. The
alleged perpetrators, all of whom live inStaten Island, are: William Gay, 17, ofAndrews Street; Charles McClean, 17, ofBell Street; Michael Garland, 23, who is
Gay's cousin and lives at the same
address as Gay; and Sheldon Willis, 19,
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stuff. last week.
Ear1ierin the evening, after a straw poll of the audience
produced no definitive consensus on the question "Do you••

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Reno pronounced herself "cross-cultural," although she
admitted that she doesn't much like kissing men.
Don't miss Reno's upcoming benefit show for the
Women, AIDS and Activism HandbooKs Spanish translation
project at sister performance-space, PS 122, just up theblock on First Avenue near East 9th Street. May 3 and May 4.
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SUCCESSBUTA PR DISASTER
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NEW YORK-The Lambda Legal
Defense and Education Fund raised

TOM STODDARD$140,000 from the sale of tickets to its
fund-raiser perfonnance of the Broadway
musical, Miss Satgon, equivalent to its
financial projections, though less than
Iambda could have raised if it had soldall of its tickets to the show, said
Executive Director Tom Stoddard.
, "It could have been $75,000 to$100,000 more, had we not turned in
300 tickets to the box office," hereported. "We sold over 800 tickets, but
we had 300 left which we decided not
to advertise in view of the controversy
surrounding the play. Two and three
weeks before our preview show, wesold them back."
Only 14 people acted on Lambda's
offer to buy back the tickets of anyone
who supported the concerns raised by
two gay Asian groups about racism andsexism in the musical.
. Many more people responded fromthe other side, Stoddard reported, accusing Lambda of capitulating to the Asiangroups so-called terrorist tactics and ofbeing held ransom by extremists.
Anonymous fliers accusing the Asiangroups of needlessly attacking Lambda
were "inappropriate," added Stoddard.
"This kind 9f thing does not promoteanyone's interests," he said.
Responding to accusations that
Lambda was in some way responsible
for alleged police violence at a protest

organized by Asian Lesbians of the East
Coast, or ALOEC, and Gay Asian andPacific Islander Men of New York, or
GAPMINY, outside the theater at
Lambda's fund-raiser, Stoddard told
OutWeek: "We called the police to prevent violence. The worse alternative
would have been to surprise the police.
We deplore the alleged police brutality."
Meanwhile, the city's Lesbian and
Gay Anti-Violence Project, or AVP,is the
only one of numerous community
groups asked by ALOECand GAPIMNY
to take a stand on Lambda's association
with Miss Satgon that actually did so.
"We are disappointed by Lambda's
decision not to withdraw from theirMtss Satgon fund-raising event," thegently worded statement from theboard read, in part. "We believe that theirrational hatred which motivates bias
crimes against lesbians and gay men isclosely akin to hatred based on race,
sex, religion and ethnicity. We are
fl11Iliyconunitted to uniting our struggle
against homophobia with the struggles
against racism, sexism and religious andethnic intolerance."
Matt Foreman, AVP's executive
director, said that he was SUIp~ that
his was the only cormnunity organization
to speak out. The Lesbian and Gay
Community Services Center cancelled its
own plans for a similar benefit at the urging of ALOECand GAPIMNYlast month.
Lambda has issued an apology for
its part in the controversy. "We havelearned an important lesson on the needto think more carefully, do more
research and be more sensitive before
embarking on fund-raising and otherprograms," the statement read, in part.
"We will apply that lesson from now on
and are conunitted to pursuing a fundraising strategy that reflects the diversityof our communities."-Avril McDonald

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AGREES TO
TRACK ABUSESOF GAYSWORLDE
WASHINGTON-The
man whowrites the State Department's report on

human-rights abuses around the world
has agreed to include anti-gay incidents
if activists worldwide provide confinnable information.
The agreement by Tom Williams,
director of the Country Human Rights
Reports Team, came at an April 9
meetingwith
three
Washington activists-Michael Petrel is of ACf
UP, Margaret Cantrell of Gay andLesbian Watch and Barrett Brick of theWorld Congress of Gay and Lesbian
Jewish Organizations.
Activists presented Williams with
14 months of Outltnes, a Chicago-based ~gay and lesbian newspaper with exten- ~sive coverage of international news, to ~document the extent of gay and lesbian .~human-rights abuses around the globe.
~"The only mention of gays and les- "Orbians in the 1990 report was a fYdl'agraph ~on Denmark's legalization of gay mar- :i:riage," Petrelis said. "I want them toimprove this report as it relates to gay i::iand AIDS issues."~"Williams was very receptive,·
Petrelis said. "He listened intendy andtold us what to do to get this information
included in the report."
Petrelis initially encountered opposition before locating Williams. "Theundersecretary for the division told me
the report could not include gays andlesbians without a congressional mandate," Petrelis said.
But Williams said that anti-gay
incidents merely need to fit into existing categories approved by Congress,
such as disappearance,
torture andarbitrary arrest
During the meeting, the three
activists highlighted the reported massexecutionsof gays in Iran, theextended police and judicial harassment of the Comunidad Homosexual,Argentina and the reported murders oftransvestites and gays by Maoist guerrillas in Peru.
"I rea11y feel we're going to get s0mewhere," Petrelis said, "if activists aroundthe world provide the infonnation."
Reports should be filed with thepolitical counselor at the US embassy inthe nation where the anti-gay incident
takes place and carbon-copied
toWilliams and the Washington "desk officer" for that particular country. The
address is: Bureau of Human Rights,
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his private college, Washington University in St. Louis, did not participate in
the Day of Action. "It was certainly to
our detriment that when the [uni"~ityadministration'sl report came ou., it
cited a 'lack of outcry' on campus,
Schwitz told GCN.
And if gaining larger student
support was one goal of the day,few student government or faculty
assemblies adopted resolutions condemning ROTC's presence. Most private colleges were also noticeably
absent from the list of participating
student groups.
But the Day of Action did demonstrate greater coordination among- all
the gay and lesbian organizations currently targeting ROTC. National Gay
Rights Advocates in San Francisco and
US Rep. Gerry Studds of Massachusetts sent letters to Bush objecting to the military's exclusion of gay
men and lesbians, and the National
Gay and Lesbian Task Force designed
the anti-military petitions to President
George Bush which were distributedon campuses.
In fact, the Day of Action resulted
from an ACLU-hosted conference on
ROTC hosted last November as part of
the recent focus on military discrimination by the country's gay and lesbianorganizations.
Gay and lesbian students have .
never been as coordinated as they
were during the past seven months ofphone calls and meetings. Efforts tocreate a national network of gay stu- .
dent groups over the past two years
have been only partly successfulj andgays, lesbians and bisexuals only last,year formed a caucus within the United States Student Association.
Still, while Blumenfeld
washopeful that the student anti-ROTC
movement at least "motivates students and engages them in activism,»
where they might otherwise neversee anti-gay discrimination as a personal issue, Drinkwater suggested
that the Day of Action might have_failed to motivate progressive straightstudents, who did not see ROTC as
their i&Sue and who demonstrated
instead against the fee hikes and thePersian Gulf war. T-ftkdfrom Boston
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OCKNERMEXICO-The
mayor of Guadalajara has denounced the 13th-annual conference of the International Lesbian and Gay Association, or ILGA, scheduled here
for June 3o-July 6. "It is an event we repudiate completely," Gabriel Cowrrubias
Ibarra told the newspaper Metropoli. 'We are not going to offer them the smallest
amount of support, given that this meeting contravenes public morals." But the
mayor added that local organizations have a right to host the conference and hesaid: "There will be no aggression against them. But neither will we permit aggression against the [general] community," Cowrrubias Ibarra threatened. If the delegates stage a march, he said, "they will be impeded by the authorities to make clearthat [our] society ... doesn't recognize all this that is unnatural."Reached by telephone, conference organizer Jorge Romero Mendoza of the
Homosexual Pride Uberation Group said that delegates should not be alarmed byhostile news reports of the mayor's ranting and raving. "This is one of ten hysterical articles on the conference that have appeared in this ultra-right-wing newspaper," Romero Mendoza said. "The bottom line is the authorities know we have aconstitutional right to stage the conference." To register, send $350 to cover all
expenses to ILGA Conference, Ana Isabel Lopez Garcia, rio Patricia Trujillo Avila.
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last year's rumors that he once promised to eliminate
POLAND--followings from society if elected president, L.ed1 WaJesa has belaledly responded toa questionnaire submitted by Wa1saw Gay News to the candidates in last fall's election.
Although WaJesa's answers seem to have been written before the election, they were
only now ~by KGN. Asked "What do you, as a candidate, think of homosexualivr WaIesa responded: "I will not speak on this issue. It does not interest me." Asked"Is there any truth to the rumors that you threatened homosexualsT Waiesa Slated,"That is not true." And asked "If you become president how will you treat these peopier WaIesa answered: "I don't know yet whether I will treat them as outcasts of society. It is hard for me to answer this question now. We'll see after the elections." We're

waiting, L.ed1.

NORWAY-following
ten years of division caused by disagreement overthe extent to which gay rights struggles should be merged with leftist politics, Norway's two main gay organizations are plotting a merger. Spokespeople for Oet
Norskl! Forbundet av 1948 and Fel/esradet for Homofile og Lesbiske Organisasjonsri Norge say the process could take two years, however.

SPAlN-Ministerof Social Affairs Daniel GaJan has agreed to fund seven major
projects of Spain's largest national gay organization, the Q)ordinalor of Gays and lesbians. The government will build three gay community centers On Barcelona, Madrid
and Valencia), establish the Pink Telephone line in Barcelona and foot the biD for two
new gay newspapers, one in Castillian and the other in Catalan, the language ofBarcelona and Catalonia. Spain has no gay press to speak of at present

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Butj\.lst who feels
empowered within
the structure of anorganization like
ACT UP? Womenand peopleof'color often feel.like we are not being heard. The con~encyaffected most directly by this aisis-HIV-positive
peopleand
PWAs--sometimes feel that their concerns'are not being addressed with the urgency
they deserve. And these various groups
are certainly not mutually exclusive.
, As someone who has fought hard for,ihclusion and sensitivity to diverse constituencies, I carmot very well sit back andpretend that I do not hear HIV-positive
people and PWAsasserting their profounddiscomfort with some of ACf UPs actions,phila;ophies, processes and agendas.
One of my dearest friends, an HIVpositive gay man, has told me repeatedly over the past several months that he~nd many other HIV-positive people
feel silenced by individuals and agendas within ACf UP. Still, he is an active
participant
who comes to meetings
every week, raises new ideas andreaches out to others in the group.
Now, I know what it's like to feelsilenced, to feel invisible. As a lesbian
and a woman of color, these are certainly not new concepts to me. But
recently, the meaning of the particularsense of exclusion felt by HIV-positive
individuals finally hit me hard on anemotional and political level.
Why now? I don't know for sure.
Part of it is the result of being the only
HIV-negative person in several infonna!
discussions, where HIV-positive people
and PWAs, all heavily involved with
ACT UP/Seattle, took on the topic of
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a homogeneous group of individuals.
limited pool of peaThere was, in this,pIe, diversity in age, gender, race, culture and sexual orientation.
No one was disputing the centralityof racism, classism, sexism or homophobia to the AIDS crisis. What was beingsaid--or at least what I heard-was thatthe different experiences, ideas and priorities of people living with HIV andpeople living with AIDS need to be con-

All of us
who are HIV-negativeand committed AIDS
activists tend todangerously blur the line
between advocacy andappropriation.
stantiy reasserted to keep the group in
focus. And that these very same people
must be at the forefront of the struggle
to save lives-their own lives and thelives of people who may never set footin an ACf UP meeting.
None of this is stuff we haven't allheard before. But hearing a politicalmessage and actually acting on what
we hear are two very different things. I
take seriously the proposition that many
HIV-negative people are not sensitive tothe fact that HN-positive people and
PWAs who want to participate
in agroup like ACf UP are feeling alienated, frustrated ~d shut out. Just as I
continue to take seriously that ACf UP
remains inaccessible and uncomfortableto many women and people of color
who want to participate.
I say "want to participate" because,

clearly, there are those people of all
persuasions
for whom direct-action~groups are anathema. I do not thinkthat it is ACf UP's task to make every- ';;tone, mY-positive or mY-negative, want :§.
to be an ACT UP activist (a scary ~thought indeed). But it's time to make ~certain practical political analogies in ffi
order to better understand some of the ~dilemmas we are facing within ACf UP. If
The analogy to sexism works wellhere. I do not tolerate men telling me
how women should conduct the battle
against sexism. And this does happen.
Yes, I want my gay male friends to confront sexism. In fact, I want them to takethe issues of women's social and economic oppression
as seriously as I
do-and to make a conunitment to fighting sexism in their own lives and in theworld around them. But I want them towork with me, alongside me-not for me
or ·on my behalf." I do not need theircharity: I need their support. More thananything, I need my male friends andcolleagues to understand that because I
experience sexism daily and directly, that
I am best equipped to define the agenda
which responds to sexism in my life. I
am the rightful leader of the struggle tosave my life.,
I, of course, want AIDS activists torecognizethat the struggle against
issue
racism and sexism is a lif~~th
for me. I need to bring this same philosophy to my AIDS activism as an HIVnegative woman of color. But all of us
who are HN-negative and committed
AIDS activists tend to dangerously blurthe line between advocacy and appro.priation. This is only natural: We have
all lost friends, lovers and family mem.bers to this disease. We are all witnessing the ongoing devastation of our communities. We feel a sense of urgency
and distress. We don't always have thetime or energy to sit back and calmly
evaluate what we are doing and how
we are doing it. But we must try and,.

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use the difference
between speaking for someone andspeaking with someone is a crucial one.
Just as I am not interested in seeing
men speak for women or in seeing white
people speak for people of color, I must
temper my own impulse to speatc for
PWAs. As queers, we do not invite hetero;exuals to speak for us and represent
our needs and experiences to the SIraightworld We are perfectly capable of speaking for ourselves. When I am spoken £or,I feel patronized. To be united in a struggle is to empower oppressed groups tospeak for themselves, to encourage that
expression of self~etermination and toeducate other people to do the same. To
achieve solidarity we must recognize ourlimits and acknowledge when we are
overstepping our boundaries.
An example of an organization
which successfully
negotiates
this
precarious political position is Pare,nts and Friends of Lesbians andGays. P-FLAG lobbies government
officials on legislation which we'in
the· gay and lesbian community suppdrt, educates other parents and relatives of gay and lesbian people andprovides support for gay men andlesbians struggling to come out inhomophobic families. A predominantly heteroseJC4al organization, by definition, it also takes its lead from thegay and lesbian community, not theother way around.
As an HIV-negative AIDS activist, I
am deeply invested in the struggle tofight this pandemic. I am proud of what
we· have all accomplished so far. There
are many things still to be done. Too
many. We can fight it out with ignorant
AIDS-phobic legislators and serviceproviders. We can research treatment
options and disseminate information.
We can refine and refocus our commitment to accessing services for underserved communities.
And we can act on what wehave heard from HIV-positive people
and PWAs within ACT UP-whichmeans that sometimes, out of mutual
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Gartner, set forthnumerous possible
mappings of new I.",
district lines for New York's City Council.
The new districts are supposed to make iteasier to elect minorities to the City Council, but observers were afraid that lesbians
and gays would be left out of the process
because our community, denied a seat on
the Districting Commission, had no one atthat table looking out for our interests.
But what we had instead was a sUccessful
effort by the Empire State Pride Agenda;
the Gay and Lesbian Independent
Democrats, or GUD; Lambda Independent Democrats, or LID, of Brooklyn; andQueer Nation to get our community recognized by that body.
As a result of their efforts, our comrp~nity is referred to as a minority in Gartner's memorandum
and recognized,
along with Blacks, Hispanics and Asians,
as deserving our own district. The daily
newspapers also referred to the lesbian
and gay community as a viable, established minority in their articles on the districting process. We hope that such consideration ultimately leads to at least one
district that is winnable by a candidatefrom our community. Right now, a West
Vlllage-Chelsea-Clinton
seat seems themost likely. Among the folks whose
efforts paid off SO far are Dick Dadey,
executive director of the Pride Agenda;
Lisa Panish, former acting director of thePride Agenda;. Bob Bailey, a political science professor at Columbia University;
and John Magisano, president of GLID.
,Oty Council
There is apparently one potential
candidate for that seat who is mullingover a decision to come out of the closet.
How does that expression go--"too little,
too late"?

This could be perceived as a grossexample of 0.
We may not be
inclined to trust candidates not proud
enough of their sexual orientation to leadan open life up to now-or one whose
decision to come out is based on whatworks best with the electorate. Nor do
we need another closet case on the City
Council. It's time for a real lesbian or gay
Council member, one who's out andproud. My suggestion to the potential

One potential
City Council candidate
is mulling overcoming out of the closet.
This may be
a gross example ofopportunism.

candidate is: Come out of the closet, andget involved 'in the struggle for the next
five to ten years, and then contemplate arun for office.
Dadey Do-Right
On Sunday, April 7, Nick Jones andDavid Strah held a brunch at their carriage house to bring folks from Queer
Nation together with the Empire State
Pride Agenda's Executive Director Dick
Dadey. Jones and Strah, who are active inboth organizations, introduced Dadey tosuch Queer Nationals as Jay Blotcher, lizPowers, Dave Reck and Drew Beaver.
Dadey spoke about how both groups canwork together and separately toward ourcommon goals. A seasoned professional,
Dadey seems to be progressive and may
be exactly what the Pride Agenda needs.
His fund-rasing backgroundat theHuman Rights Qunpaign Fund in Washington is extensive, and fund-raising is thename of the game in politics.
Stem and Orang
On wednesday, April 10, Henry
Stem, the president of Citizen's Union, or
CU, appeared before the GUO general.p to respond to GLID's concerns about his rnganization. GLID wanted to know, among other things, why
CU had never given a preferred rating toan openly gay or lesbian candidate forlegislative office. CU went thumbs doWn
on Jim Owles, Charles Larkin, David
Rothenberg, Tom Duane, David Taylor
and Deborah Glick.
Stem had no logical explanation forthis perceived anti-gay bias. He boasted
that his organization's 40 person board
has one openly (note the word openly)
gay member. Big deal, Henry. One out of
40 amounts to only 2.5 percent of themembership. This is New York City, notSalt lake City. And they call this organization a citizen's union?
There were some heated momentsin the meeting, like when Stem screamed
at Olivia Rodriguez that what he said
about people of color and their lack ofinvolvement in civic groups like his was
not meant to be racist or "insensitive.",
Stem also got hot when CU was criticized for sexism, as exemplified by its
negative assessment of Comptroller Liz
Holtzman as having an "abrasive personality." It was pointed out that while male
Ed Koch was abrasive, he was praisedfor saying what was on his mind. Yet
when female liz Holtzman did the samething, she was criticized for it sexist
double-standard, no? Stem deflected theanalogy by saying that at least Koch wasalways funny-an interesting assessment,
since I think that Koch's racism stood out
before his perceived humor.
Stern showed little logic in his
defense of CU. One certainly can understand why Ed "I-am-a-heterosexual"•Koch thinks highly of him.
Accompanying Stem at the GUD
meeting was openly gay CU staffer
Robert Bourguignon, a graduate student
at Columbia University. Bourguignon was
clearly pained by some of Stern's
responses and tried his best to repair'the
damage. Stem could learn a lot from
Bourguignon,
whose sensitivity far
exceeds his own. It's a bit mystifying
because CU was formed in 1897 as agood-government group in response tomachine-run City Hall. Today CU is certainly doing little about reform. After all,its president, Stem, and board chair,
Robert Wagner, came to the organization
fresh from serving in the most conupt
city administration in recent memory-Ed
Koch's. I believe that Stem and Wagner
are basically honest, but their support of
the racially polarizing, machine-run, politically bankrupt and right-wing Ed Kochshould have deemed them unfit for any
sort of leadership positions within CU. In
effect, CU has become the monster it
hoped to replace. GUO Will consider aplan of action against CU at its next general membership meeting. Stay tuned.
"Make an ApPoin II,' I 1"
Brooklyn
BoroughPresident
Howard Golden was honored by the
Brooklyn Demo<;ratic Party on Thursday,
April 11. The honor so incensed Brooklyn'S lesbian and gay community that
activists from UD and Queer Nationcrashed the cocktail hour to zap Golden.
The group mingled with party~
at the Sheraton Centre and handed out afactsheet outlining Golden's deplorable
record on gay and lesbian issues. Whenconfronted, Golden angrily told activists
that this was not an appropriate time to
discuss the matter, and they should"make an appointment"! He seems tohave forgotten that lID met with three of
his top aides in January to no avail. Golden's chief gay advisor, Ed Rogowsky,
ignored. the activists. Brooklyn deserves
better.
un plans to continue to pressure
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Empowerment must begin on themost personal level-that of our own
individual health care. We are not powerless. Those of us with AIDS must learn
from the women's health movements of
the last quarter of a century. We must. study the history of communities of color
during that same period and examine
how they set up alternative health clinics
to serve their communities. The mediCal
establishment is failing us; and, individually, the doctors do not have the answers
that we need to fight for our lives. We
should never forget that this is the same
medical establishment, the same systemof analysis and diagnosis, that not solong ago classified all lesbians and gay
men as mentally ill simply because of
our sexual preference. How can we continue to accept their theories on thecause and treatments of AIDS?
Already, as I write, the AZf model isbeginning to crumble. What further studies must be done tothat, inthe final analysis, those of us with AIDS
hold the key to our own health? That
what we mow intuitively about our bodies is more valid than what the doctors
have to tell us about our bodies?
For the PWA, self-empowerment
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upon which the presaiption is based If
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her authority questioned. Too bad. It isyour health that is at stake here, not adoctor's ego.
Read as many of the studies as you
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the conclusions of the studies without
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Learning how to treat yourself means
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right to trust one's own intuition andmowledge about one's body and oneself. There are remedies and treatments
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all it the Queer Curse. Believers say that itbrings rejection and obscurity upon any actor
who plays a lesbian or gay role. Nonbelievers,
however, maintain that it's a myth and offer
much in evidence. A few examples:
In 1972, a little-known actor played the
young male lover of a divorced father in a 1V
movie. Within a couple of years, he was playing lead roles, and he went on to become oneof the most recognizable faces (and voices) inmovies and television.
In 1978, an up-and-coming young actress chose to playa
lesbian as her second significant film role. Having won two
Oscars since then, she is now among the most powerfulactresses in Hollywood.
In the early '80s, a teenager made his Broadway debut
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Streep and Matthew Broderick, why does the myth of theQueer Curse persist?
The most recent demonstration of its fraudulence is
Bruce Davison's oScar nominatidn for Longtime Companion.
Playing a gay man who nurses his dying lover and later diesof AIDS himself, Davison returned to the national limelightfor ~e first time since 1971, when his relations with rats in
Willard both inaugurated and hobbled his career. So why do
Hollywood agents still tremble at the thought of their clients
playing fags or dykes?
The mainstream media reports the Queer Curse as fact.
"Hollywood still feels that homosexual roles spell trouble,'Time magazine recently announced. The inevitable example
that's dragged out in almost every such article is Patricia Nell
Wan-en's never-filmed novel, The Front Runner, the preAIDS gay love story of a coach and an Olympic-class longdistance runner. Paul Newman attempted to adapt the bookto film in the '70s but reportedly never got a satisfactory
script. The effort continued through the '80s, eventually
passing to producer Jerry B. Wheeler, who bought a fullpage ad in Variety to beg stars--.fruitlessly, as it happened-to consider taking part. 'More recently, roles in longtime
Companion were,!'turned down by ,almost every name actor in Hollywood," says the movie's author, Craig
LuCas. Tom Cruise, Michael J. Fox,
Tom Hanks, Holly Hunter, William
Hurt and other stars were either notavailable or not interested. The rejections were "a complicated matter;
Lucas added, because "it was a projectfor no money everybody was working for scale-and it was right on theeve of a [threatened] strike [by the
Screen Actors Guild] when it looked
like they might not work for a year or
two. So it wasn't all homophobia.
Nobody turned it down, saying, 'I
don't want to playa 'mo." Companion
director Norman Rene agreed: "I think
there were some actors who were hesitant about being seen in a film withgay characters, [but] it's very hard to say, because peoples'
reasons get very complicated, and what people tell you is
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The myth of the Queer Curse is particularly insidious-.-.
because, although generally believed, it's impossible toprove. Who can say what caused a certain performer's'
career to sink or soar? Furthermore, the line between dis- ,f., :; ~·,··f,>."~crimination against performers who have played lesbians or . '}~gays and performers who are lesbian or gay is very, very' '; ;1;
thin, perhaps nonexistent. When actors talk of the Queer
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Curse, it's often a thinly veiled way of talking about the fear " ,,[.
.of being known as a lesbian or gay in Hollywood. As thelate gay film-critic Vito Russo repeatedly observed, "In an
age in which nothing is unknown, this is the last taboo."Central to almost any mainstream media interview withan actor who has played a gay or lesbian role is an assertionof the performer's heterosexuality. Lawrence Luckinbill, who
appeared in stage and screen versions of '!be Boys In theBand, told Time how "we straight guys spent a lot of time
being photographed with agars in our mouths with our .v'
dogs, wives and children." (One wonders why he mentions",
dogs first.) In a 1976 interview with Chris Sarandon, g;ly~, 'Village Voice columnist noted that the actor ;ow;rcompensate[s] for his heterosexuality by making.!t·iclear before he sits down that what he did hDog
Day Afternoon was strictly 'acting. '" Jack Coleman, who played the occasionally bisexual Steve
Carrington on ABC's Dynasty, has blamed his virtual invisibility since the series ended on 1V
viewers' inability to distinguish the sexuality of
the character from the sexuality ofth~ actor.
Author and actress Jane Hallaren, whoplayed one of the two lesbian lovers at the center of John Sayles' Ltanna, told Outweek how she
first noticed the pervasive fear that queer projects
might imply a queer private life. At an awards
dinner honoring those who had contributed to"outstanding creations of gay and lesbian characters" during the previous year, Hallaren was present to accept an award for Sayles. "I noticed thatevery time somebody got up, they mentioned
their wife, their husband, their children, theirbabies it was as if they were saying, 'Just incase you didn't know yet, I'm straight.' So when I
got up, 1 thanked John, and I thanked [my costar] Linda Griffiths, 'who is terrillc to work withand great in bed.' And 1 stepped down."
Hallaren, who never felt compelled toassert her heterosexuality in the course of ourinterview, is clearly the exception. More typicalis Perry King, who played gay in A Different. Story, a movie almost no one remembers except
when King is complaining about ever having
made it. He told 7V Guide: "My goal in doing[the mmJ was to portray the character ...as simply
a person and his homosexuality as a sexual
Marla de Medeiros and Uma Thur.man ofHenry and June";j'f ,.

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proclivity and nothing more. It didn't meanthat he moved or spoke in a particular way.
Because of that, I think, I managed to beconvincing. But it worked against me ....A lotof people thought I was gay, which I'm not."King went on to describe how insulted hefelt when Hollywood co-workers or women
he hoped to date inquired if he were gay.
What King is angry about is not that hewas typecast as a homosexual-he wasn'tbut rather that people might dare think that heis homOsexual. The 7V Guide reporter who
recorded this homophobic lament did not, ofcourse, question King's implicit assertion thatthe attribution of gayness is an insult As usual,the mainstream media perpetuates homophobia-and the myth of the Queer Curse-by.neglecting to question it when it arises.
The fear of being seen as lesbian or gay
in Hollywood may be greatest among queer
performers. According to Craig Lucas, during
the casting of LongNme Companion, "thehomophobic element was most severely expressed by gay
actors who turned the movie down for fear that they would
be identified as gay. That saddened and angered me morethan anything else about the whole process."
Certainly the oppression of uncloseted lesbians and gay
men in Hollywood is strong and forbidding, as a recent Advocate cover story documented so frightfully well. But the backstage homophobia is not all-powerful. The impressive record

Certainly if accolades were the only
criteria by which actors decided whether
to take lesbian and gay roles, the Queer
Curse would have long ago been recognized as the Old Breeders' Tale that it really is. Although William Hurt is the only
performer to have received an Academy
Award for an openly gay or lesbian role,
Oscar nominations have been plentiful.
Estelle Parsons, Peter Finch, Valerie Perrine, Bette Mieller,Whoopi Goldberg, Margaret Avery, Robert Preston, Cher and Tom
Courtenay have all been nominated for
openly gay, lesbian or bisexual parts. If
we count closet-case characters, we canalso list Dustin Hoffman, Warren Beatty,
Anne Baxter, Peter O'Toole, Vanessa Redgrave, Jon Voight and Sal Mineo.
These lists reveal tWo important
things about the myth of the Queer Curse.
The flCSt is that it doesn't apply to established performers. Movie stars are, andalways have been, bigger than the roles
they play. In fact, playing a·lesbian or gay
man usually serves as further proof of aGreat Actor's talents, since no one would
imagine that he or she is really "that way."
And the Popular Actor is protected fromthe "danger" of being identified as homosexual by sheer star power. If Julia Roberts
wanted to playa lesbian or Tom Cruise agay man, only the crassest minority ofviewers would begin to question the performer's heterosexuality. Of course, performers like Roberts and Cruise who
depend so heavily on hetero sex-appea1(rather than acting ability) would probably
be reluctant to take on a lesbian or gay
role in any case, fearful of alienating theiradoring straight, homophobic fans.
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The second lesson to infer from looking at previous Oscar nominees is that
British actors at least the men seem
generally unconcerned about any theoretical Queer Curse. After Daniel Day Lewis
made his smashing debut on US screensas the gay punk in My Beautiful Laundrette (made, I might add, for British television), he told the Los Angeles TImes, "We all expect to playboth straight and gay sooner or later~cept
when wework in Hollywood."
The most notorious Brit to question the validity of theQueer Curse is Sir Ian McKellan, a gay actor who made abrief splash when he came out a few years ago. "I went to
Los Angeles for a screen test and asked the casting director if
1 should have a chance at the part if 1 were known to bea axpacl
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gay," he told the Boston Globe. "She said, 'Why not?' and I
said, 'What if the director knew?' and she said, 'So what?
He's gay-and so is his wife!' That's when I knew I would
have no more of this hypocrisy."
Other male British actors who mayor may not be gay
themselves-have
moved blithely in and out of gay roles
with barely a ripple in their public image, even in their early
careers. Multiple-Oscar nominee John Hurt appeared as
Quentin Crisp in the 1V biopic The Naked GMI Seroant years
before he started winning prominent movie roles, and lateron he easily survived a stereotypically degrading queer rolein Partners. Jeremy Irons' career-which was capped withan Oscar at last month's ceremony-began with 12 hours of
nostalgic homosexuality in PBS's Brldeshead Revfstted.
Michael York's budding career was only furthered by
Cabaret, and Gary Oldman boosted his fledgling status as a
top character actor by choosing to appear as Joe Orton in
Prick up Your Ears and in a bisexual role in We Think theWorld of You. The list goes on and on.
Unfortunately, the argument of British disbelief in theQueer Curse is more difficult to make for women performers. Susannah York seems to have been sufficiently comfortable with her lesbian tum in The Killing of Sister George
that she did a love scene with a woman in a second movie,
X, Y and Z. On the other hand, we have the example ofAngela Lansbury, who reportedly turned down the lead in
the Sister George film "because it
might spoil her image" (the woman
later played a homicidal Communist
spy in The Manchurian Candidate
and a cannibalistic pie-maker in
Sweeney Todd- "image" indeed!)
The actress who took Lansbury's
place, Beryl Reid, has certainly never
had another movie role as good as
the one she got because lansbury
didn't want it. But as far as I havebeen able to uncover, she has nevercomplained of a Queer Curse.

"BecauSe of that part, producers and casting directors in the
motion-picture industry didn't cast me in a lot of roles. I hada reasonable film career, and it began to stumble."
Of course, Making Love and A Different Story were boxoffice bombs, and Hollywood actors never profit from disaster. In contrast, Dog Day Afternoon was a major critical ahd
popular success. It looked like the role of a bank robber'stranssexual "wife" might be Chris Sarandon's big break. Yet,according to an article in Us magazine, "Susan Sarandon has
spoken of the typecasting difficulties her ex-husband
encountered after winning an Oscar nomination for histransvestite [sic) role."
Moving even further back in time, we inevitably cometo The Boys in the Band. The entire cast of that 1970 movie
was transposed from the New York stage version, and, notsurprisingly, none of them managed to parlay their film
debut into Hollywood stardom. Of the nine actors, perhaps
lawrence Luckinbill came closest, having appeared mostrecently in Cocktail and Star Trek V. But Luckinbill alsolaments the fame and fortune of which he was supposedly
cheated by playing gay. He likes to tell interviewers thestory of how he lost a $15,000 gig in a cigarette commercial
shortly after The BoyS release: "No fags smoke our fags," acasting director supposedly told him.
Why are women so infrequently interviewed on thissubject? In part, it's media bias--6tories on mm-industry

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Of course, American believers in
the Queer Curse can be found to bolster any mainstream article on thesubject with their sad or angry tales oftypecasting and rejection. Their comments may be intended
to help expose and crush the myth, but the inevitable echoof self-pity rings like a warning to any performers who
might dare follow in their footsteps.
"A guy can play an axe-murderer and still be consideredsexy and still get another role as a leading man, but if you
playa homosexual, suddenly you're not in contention anymore for the axe-murderers," Harry Hamlin quipped to the
Washington Post in 1986, four years after having bedded
down with Michael Ontkean in Making Love. Hamlin complained that his career was cast into a "gloom" by playing
gay, and his disappearance from feature films after 1983
seems, at ftrSt glance, to bear him out.
More blunt is the ever-homophobic Perry King. "Playing
a homosexual really hurt my career," he told 1VGutde.

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homophobia inevitably focus on men-and partly it's indica_tiveof the way the industry slights women at every tum.
Mariel Hemingway may pop up now and again (in last .
month's Movlel1ne, she chirps that, despite Personal Best,"Hollywood continues to see me as a wholesome, all-American kind of girl"), <but interviews with those actresses who
have apparently disappeared from major film roles after having played lesbians are not to be found. Nor are the actresses: Either completely unreachable or not willing to talk to
OutWeekwere Hemingway's Personal Best co-star, Patrice
Donnelly, Margaret Avery of The Color Purple, Patricia Charbonneau of Desert Hearts and Linda Griffiths of Ltanna.
So let's look at the male actors' complaints more closely.
I think that we can safely dismiss Luckinbill's lament as

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irrelevant-if anything, 1be Boys in the Band opened doors
for him in Hollywood, even if he never got more than a stepor two inside.
.
Harry Hamlin is now the beloved star of NBC's LA Law.
Short of turning into Jack Nicholson or Tom Hanks, he isn't
likely to fmd a more lucrative gig, and he gets constant
media exposure. Who can say for certain that Hamlin would
have had any more luck in those years between Making
Love and LA Law had he not played a queer? Certainly, theleads in King of the Mountain and Blue Skies Again weren't
going to make him the most sought-after actor in Hollywood. (As die-hard Love fans know, Hamlin's attractive Making Love co-star, Michael Ontkean, is also now working in
television-at least for now-playing Sheriff Harry Trumanin Twin Peaks.)
As for Peny King, his "reasonable ftlm career" before A
Different Story consisted of such timeless acting showcases as
1be Lords of Flatbush, Lipstick, 1be Choirboys and Mandlngo.
Could he honestly believe that those movies somehow
earned him a shot at stardom? Considering
his resume--including similar movies hemade after playing gay-he was damned
lucky to get the lead in NBC's Riptide and. enjoy a few years of hunkdom.
The tale of Chris Sarandon-anotherLtpsttck veteran-is harder to slough off,
simply because he was so effective in Dog
Day. He probably did encounter a lot of
producers and casting directors who wanted
him to play screaming faggots--and why
not? Dog Day was a hit-Hollywood loves
trying to recreate past successes. I canreport, however, that Sarandon's career is
now quite hetero and quite healthy, including lead roles in the hits Child's Play andFright Night as well as 1be Princess Brideand 1V projects. .

King, who focus themselves on constructing such an image.
This becomes clear when you talk to a few performers
who have played lesbian and gay roles without regrets,
and it becomes even clearer in the way other performers
refuse to talk.
"I told myself I came here to work more, but I think
really the truth is I came here to get out of the [acting] business," said Ltannds Jane Hallaren. A New Yorker, Hallaren
has spent more than a decade in Los Angeles doing television and mms. She has appeared in small but memorable
roles in Modem Romance ("I was the woman Albert Brooks
drives around the block") and Body Heat (as "the feisty dinerowner"). She just fmished a supporting part in My Girl, thelatest vehicle for 10-year-oid superstar Macauley Culkin. Did
playing a lesbian keep her from getting bigger parts? "I haveno idea," she said, "it never occurred to me."
It has occurred to her friends, however, one of whom
pointed out: "She's never played another leading role in afilm. Why do you think that is? But whether that's [because•."C_" bJAnJ'" la_But we learn more from the way thesemen express their concerns than we dofrom trying to disprove their grievances. Hamlin specificallyspeaks of "leading man" roles, King talks of his "reasonable
mm career," and Sarandon's problem was reportedly "typecasting." What these guys are all talking about, then, is not
some sort of blacklist. They aren't saying that they couldn't
get work, couldn't pay the bills, had to give up acting. What.they think they were cheated out of is not an acting career
but rather the acting career they had imagined for themselveS-in other words, their precious expectations.
I think it's safe to assume that most comely young
actors and actresses who arrive in Hollywood are hoping fornothing less than stardom. Not a mm "career," but immeasurable fame and wealth. They may speak of ~ow nice it would
be just to be "working," but once they've had a few roles,
they as:sume that the next step is into the limo and up to thebeach house in Malibu. Nothing less will do.
"If I playa queer, my career will be ruined" really means"Homosexuality is not something I want to use to construct
my star image"-and it only applies to those, like Hamlin and
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of homophobiaJ or not, I don't know," she continued. "I tend to think that Hollywood doesn't think enough for thatto be the case. And look what their standards are! This is a
moral cesspool out here what do they care? It's only aboutmoney-will [the performers] pull in the crowds?"
Another actor who has played gay-let's call him"Leonard"-had similar barbs to toss at network television.
("Leonard" played a sharp-witted swish on television but
asked that his real name not be used.) "The networks are,unfortunately, very cowardly," he said, "and I think that's
only because they're so dependent on advertising revenue.
If five people write to [a sponsorJ and say, 'You can't do thaton television!' they bland it right out. The networks would
have more gay characters on their shows if they didn't think
it would hurt them financially."
A similar observation might be made about the performers who have played lesbian and gay roles-if they don't•feel that it has hurt them fmancially, they
don't complain of a Queer Curse. Again, it'sa question of expectations. As Hallaren's
career illustrates, working steadily in Hollywood doesn't mean making $1 million per
movie, like her diminutive My Girlco.,star.
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Most regularly employed film actors are notstars, and most never will be. Steve Buscemi,
who played the PWA in Bill Sherwood's
Parting Glances- and whose face was visible allover New York for almost a year inads for the movie seems quite comfortable,
for the moment, taking roles of varying sizein whatever projects interest him. Since
Glances, he has appeared in choice supporting parts in Slaves of New York, Mystery
Train, New York Stories (he was the performance artist in the Scorsese segment), Tales
from the Dam Side: 1be Movie, and other'1I1'mNil a IIImlSllUll,
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Despite the considerable press that
their queer roles earned them, neither Hallaren nor Buscemi reports having ~typecast. Nor is "Leonard" complaining,
despite having been closely associated,with-in his words-a "Nellie queen.· Hesought the part an<;leven auditioned in,,""'I'.,~
character to impr~ the 1V shows producers. "I never thought about it in terms of
my career-'Is this'going to affect mycareer in a good way or a bad way?' The ,,.
only thing that crossed my mind was 'Is '- ,.
this character going to have dignity and .
integrity, or is he going to be a clown thatpeople are going to laugh at?' Right fromthe beginriing, [the character] always had ',integrity. He had a wonderful !;ense andcomfort and ease of who he was, and he
was a whole human being, and I thinkthat's why the audience took to [himl sofast. Nobody ever laughed at [himl, people
laughed with [him]."Well, some homophobes were no
doubt laughing at the "Nellie queen." Nevertheless, the actor said, "I never envisioned how overwhelmingly positive audience reaction would be--straight people,
gay people--{the character] had universal .
appeal. Other people had fears that I
would be typecast, but it never hurt me,
never hurt me at all. It was the best thingthat ever happened to me in my career. ".
Yet the fear of the Queer Curse mustbe palpable to some of the other young'performers contacted for this article. Amanda Donohoe, who plays C.]. Lamb on LA.
Law, made it clear through her publicist
that she wouldn't discuss the passionate.
William Hurt In 1(1_ 01 the SpIder Woman
woman-to-woman kiss broadcast a few
weeks ago. "It's not that she doesn't want to talk to you."said the publicist in the course of telling me exactly thefilms. He just fmished shooting the movie version of E.L.
opposite. "She doesn't want to misrepresent her character."
Doctorow's Billy Batbgate. And he credits Parting Glances
C.J. Lamb wasn't a lesbian or even a bisexual role whenwith launching his film career.
Donohoe took it, the publicist wants me to know, and the"Any time someone has seen my work in Parting
character .may be in line for a heterosexual romance next
Glances, it has always helped me," he saip. Before th~_ season. "It's premature" to talk about that kiss, she says~ .
movie, Buscemi was doing mostly experimental theater
NBC confirmed this a few days later, announcing that thework; the film brought him to the attention of moviemakshow would not pursue the "story line" implied by the kiss.
ers and 1V producers. He did a role on Mtami Vice andWhy couldn't Donohoe speak for herself? If her publicist's comments are any indication, she's apparently not anxwas seen in the immensely successful Lonesome Doveious to be known as the woman who played a queer onminiseries. "The press I got for Parting Glances was thebest I'll probably ever get,· said Buscemi. "It's still my
television. The same goes for at least one of the two actors
favorite role, and it's hard for me to imagine I'll ever play
who played gay men on thirtysomething. David Marshall
Grant could not be reached; Peter Frechette who is now
another part as good." Playing gay again, he adds, ishere in New York, playing straight roles onstage claimed
always a possibility. Indeed, although few outside the gay(through a publicist) that he would be too completely busy
press noticed it, Buscemi confirmed that his role in Mtller's
for two solid weeks to squeeze in one 15-minute telephone
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Between the three of them, these perfonners have racked up a total of about ahalf-hour of 1V screen time in queer'situations. Philip Charles Mackenzie played gay
on Showtlme's Brothers sitcom for five
years. His Donald was a breakthroughcharacter in the world of 1V sitco~uncloseted, effeminate gay man who wasportrayed as sympathetic, passionate,
funny, intelligent and successful. (By thefifth year, Donald was said to be the headof a Philadelphia publishing company.)
He was a far cry from the running gag that
Billy Crystal played in Soap a few years
earlier. (Unfortunately, Mackenzie
declined to cooperate in the publication ofthis article.) Without a doubt, Donald was
the most memorable and popular character in Brotbers, and the producers knew it.
As the series continued, they gave him
better billing, gave him center stage indozens of story lines and built him his
own apartment set~honor never accorded the oldest of
the three title characters.'When Brotbersended, Mackenzie
returned immediately to the straight 1V roles from whence
he had come. He appeared first in the short-lived Fox sit- ,cam DpenHOuse and is in the current ABC series Going
Places. So much for the Queer Curse in his case.

Batman; Ronee Blakley was unable to tum
her Nashvtlle tour de force into stardom;and Linda Blair was dispossessed in morethan one way after The Exorcist. The list isendless. When it comes to "Nellie" roles, thevictims may include most of the cast of The
Boys In tbe Band, as well as the actors whoplayed effeminate gay men in Streamers(Mitchell Lichenstein), Norman, Is That You?
(Dennis Dugan) and the remake of To Be or
Not to Be (James Haake).
"Leonard" agreed that a "Nellie" debut
might have been deadlier than his own
mid-career gay role. "If I had just comefrom Kansas or New York or some place,and no one ever knew me in 1V business,and the first thing I ever did was [that partl,
I might have been typed. But even though I
wasn't widely known to the public, within
the business I was known as a character
actor, and I still am. I think the fact that I
had a body of work prior to [the gay part]let people know that behind [that character]was [mel, the actor."
To blame a Queer Curse for careersthat may have been inhibited by flamboyant
debuts requires that we also invent a Radar
Curse, a Batman Curse and so forth. It's
impossible to generalize from the experiences of actors stifled after a single notableperformance. There's always the possibility
that the perfonner simply wasn't goodenough or lucky enough-to
movebeyond his or her debut. Maybe he lunchedwith the wrong person; maybe she didn't
eat at the right restaurant. In Hollywood, it's
anybody's guess. After all, Billy Crystal wentfrom Soap to become a movie star, andChris Sarandon is now a B-movie regular.
"Nellie" debuts, even in Hollywood, are notuniversally deadly.
Nor is a Queer Curse required to
explain the paucity of roles for women andpeople of color who have played lesbians 'and gays--and why even this article is weighted heavily
toward white males. Hollywood is a white male's town-theoverwhelming majority of studio executives, producers, writers and directors are white men, and most of the money
paid to perfonners is made by white males. There are ten
Ted Dansons for every Rosanne Barr, a dozen for every Bill
Cosby. In the movie business, star-power means white-malepower. Among the top-ten movie box-office draws of 1989,
calculated by Quigley Publications, there was only one person of color (Eddie Murphy, no. 7) and one woman (Kathleen Turner, no. 10). Bette Midler and Michelle Pfeiffer
squeezed into the next ten, but there were no other peopleof color in the top 25.
Since salaries and plans for future projects tend to reflect
past box-office success, it's no surprise that the money andthe number of vehicles Hollywood coughs up for women

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An actor who takes the part of a "Nellie" his first time in
the public eye, on the other hand, could well find such reentry into the straight film and 1V establishment an uphillbattle. No
Queer Curse need be constructed to explain that•sort of failure. Any big- or little-screen perfonner who has
initial success in a distinct but offbeat role has to fight hardto move on to other parts. Gary Burghoff never got overbeing Radar in M-A -SW, Adam West's career floundered after•and people of color is a fraction of what white male actors
get Julia Roberts and Jodie Foster may be counted among
the top draws of 1991, but when was the last time before lastmonth that the two hottest movies were both vehicles forleading actresses? One anomalous month is unlikely tochange things for most women performers in the near future.
It's probably easier to succeed as ~ closeted gay white man in
Hollywood than as a woman or a person of color, whatever
your sexual orientation. You don't need to invent any Queer
Curse to keep you down or to help you to disappear should
you happen to playa lesbian or gay role. Standard-issue West
Coast sexism and racism are quite enough.
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"The casting world was slightly hysterical" about AIDS in .
the mid-'80s, said Norman Rene, who is also a New York theater director. Actors particularly feared being accused of having the disease. "When An Early Frost was filmed [for televisioo]," Rene recalled, "and John Glover played someone dyingof AIDS, there were so many rumors running that John wa,sactually dying of AIDS. That was really difficult for him-and
not true," and it caused actors, especially men, to shy awayfrom any gay role. "But I think things are coming aroundagain," Rene added. (1he Glover rumor faded, of course, andhe is now a busy man, having recently had major film roles in
Scrooged and Gremlins 2.)
So does the myth of the Queer Curse affect current New
York stage actors? It can. The current off-Broadway hit, 1be
Sum of Us,had no trouble getting Ghost star Tony Goldwyn
to play the gay son-but he took the role before Ghost
became the top money-making movie of 1990. Neither Neil
Maffin nor Matthew Ryan-the two young actors who haveplayed the part since Goldwyn left the show-would speak
to OutWeek about the role. Both are married, the show's
publicist reminded me, as if apologizing for his charges.
These are handsome young (married) guys, and Ryan,
whom I saw in the role, was also quite talented and charismatic. The show has been heavily promoted in, and supported by, the gay community so what have these young(married) actors to lose by talking to the gay press? While
the publicist was telling me about his having approached the(married) twosome to ask if they'd talk to OutWeek-theyOn the East Coast, New York casting directors insist, no
one cites possible typecasting as a reason for rejecting gay
stage roles. "You get 'He doesn't respond to the material,'
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who summered there during the first halfof this century.
Today, Provincetown is a havenfor queers. Openly gay men and lesbians have bought property and businesses in Provincetown, and the place
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dykes and drag queens, along with a
few insecure heterosexuals. But tolerance appears to be the name of thegame in recent years. After all, thetown, like the rest of Cape Cod, survives on tourism. In Provincetown,
though, the almighty dollar takes on adelightful lavender hue every time apassenger boat from Boston unloads its
precious booty.
Some of the best gay and lesbianacts drop by P-town throughout the highseason and perform in the clubs,
cabarets, cafes, lounges and even the
Town Hall. Don't be surprised to see
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Near and Ferron~ On any given night inProvincetown, something's always cooking. There's even an ACf UP that meetson Monday nights.
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If you're planning your trip during
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visitors should know that not all proprietors sign on with these companies, since
guest houses can fill up quite readily
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Some people are under the impression that staying in P-town can cost a fortune, but a week for two can be had formuch less than one might expect. A
room with double bed and private bath
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During the fall, winter and spring, thesame rooms go for about $35 to $55, andapartments can be rented for about· $75
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Backstreet dub downstairs, whirlpool for
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Getting to Provincetown is relatively
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between Boston and P-town daily
throughout the sununer.
You can also fiy from New York to
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16, one-way fures range from $128 to $168
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Lower rates and fewer crowds areluring more visitors during the off~n
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The district in scenario six runs up
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When I protested, AI answered coolly, "It's nobody's fault-it's a genetic thing."
According to AI's theory, all the "beautiful people" came West to work in "pictures" during Hollywood's initial boom years, while all the "intellectuals" stayed on the East Coast. Each population
perpetuated its best trait, so today Los Angeles is full of blond but vacant beauties, while New
Yorkers compensate for their lackluster looks with smart, fast and witty conversation.
Well, it seemed like a theory worth checking out, and what better time than during the Nabisco

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Dinah Shore Ladies Professional Golf
Association Tournament? When it started 20 years ago, the Dinah Shore wasjust a women's pro golf tournament But
today, it has become the Michigan
Women's Music Festival without themusic. Every year, thousands of lesbians
gather in Palms Springs to party, dance,sun, swim, cruise and-oh,
yes catcha little golf.
Along with the women-andthecatering to them-comethe dances,
special events and pool parties. Manyof the city's hotels are almost entirely. lesbian that weekend. 1be Bottom Line,normally a Palm Springs gay 'men'smagazine, becomes Shore Patrol for the
weekend, with bios and photos of the"Shamu".zlng with the girls fromGirl Spot. Left: Dinah Sh_ withtournament·wlnner Amy Alcott

golfers so fans can pick and follow
favorites.
The Lesbian News, a Los
Angele~ea
newspaper, even runs a
special astrology guide with advice on
how to handle each type of lesbian one
might meet poolside. (A typical passage: "The Gemini is too busy talking
to get laid. She has the biggest phonebill at the hotel." And: "The Taurus has
no interest in watching the golf or playing the golf ....It distresses her to attend
Dinah. But she does because she likes
to get very dressed up.")As I approach the golf course on
Friday morning, I imagine that thecrowd is full of lesbians, but I'm a little
wary. Are they really lesbians, or is thisa trick location, like Minnesota andColorado, where all the women lookgay but aren't?
I ask a stem-looking female cop
where the press tent is. She waves mein the right direction and then, smilingbroadly, calls after me, "I really like thathaircut." Yes, I think, the dyke quotientis high. From the grounds to the galleries, 50-, ~ and 70-year-old straightcouples mingle (or at least co-exist)
with lesbians of every age, shape andcolor, whether perusing Dinah Shore's
new cookbook at the pro shop or waiting in hushed anticipation
for AmyAlcott (this year's winner) to sink her
final putt at the 18th hole.

But why do so many lesbians cometo thiS golf tournament? After inquiring
many times, the explanation I heard
ll105t often was that the dyke fans cometo see dyke golfers. For example, I ask agroup of lesbians watching a particularly
handsome golfer: "Right now, we're following this golfer all over the course
because our friend Susie is in love," says
Jocelyn Bennett, a decorative artist from
Laguna Beach. And why does Susie likethis particular golfer? "Well, on one ofher plays, she made a bad swing, andshe said, 'Shit,' and lit up a cigarette.
Susie fell in love."Though some fans may love it, such
"unladylike" behavior probably doesn't
impress tournament organizers. "TheLPGA Iladies' Professional Golf As;ociationl is really struggling now because
heterosexual golf fans don't want towatch lesbian golfers," says Heidi Isaac, a
San Frandsco carpenter and architecturaldesigner. "It's not like tennis, which promotes women in little skirts and headbands. The golfers wear baggy shorts or
pants and sun visors, and they just look
too dykey for the. Recently, the organizers have been tryiilg tochange the image of the tournament.
Hairstyles are getting longer, and there
are more lipstick lesbians."
Undaunted
by such changes instyle, thousands of lesbians continue tocome to watch golf and see strong,
beautiful women compete for top
prizes. But what about the thousands ofother lesbians who come to the Dinah
Shore weekend without stepping footon the golf course?
"Women bring women," explains
Jocelyn. "And women don't want to go
to bars all the time. They want to beable to get together in the sunshine
where they can be active instead ofbeing in a dark, little room. "Connie Thomas, another Laguna
Beach artist, says: "It's just so convenient. This event is extremely organized.
There are hotels that are hosting parties
and renting out all the rooms to gay
women so you can go right there without driving. There's pool parties during
the day and dancing at night.""The parties bring the women,"according to Trudi Aguilar, a banker
who lives in nearby Palm Desert and~ long studied the Dinah Shore scene.
"About ten years ago, party promotersfrom LA and San Francisco came in withparties for women, and everythingchanged. During the year, there's only
one club and one resort here forwomen. But this weekend,
there'ssomething like 13 giant dance parties.
1hat brings in women who don't !mow
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Grace Jones actually arrived on timeand performed for two hours for the
2,000 women in attendance.
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Los Angeles' Entre Nous, hated the deejay, reported that the place was too big
for the 1,500 dancers and WllS disa!,":pointed that the swimsuit competition
never took place. Other parties included
one for women over 35, one in a circus
tent and Valerie dark's Singlefest W,
where the women all wore name tags toindicate their availability.
Overwhelmedby fun, I nearlyskipped the Sunday afternoon Annual
Ladies' Whipped Cream Wrestling at
Daddy Warbucks, an established men'sbar. I've been to lesbian strip shows in
New York, and I expected this to bejust as bad a few semi-professional
sex-workers trying hard to entertain abunch of embarrassed, unenthusiastic
women who gave cheap tips. Wrong!
This was California, and these wrestlers
were the California Dreams, a team offour very professional strippers who
travel the country, mostly working
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parties,
attractmg
between
1,000 and 2,000 women:each--the equivalent of having six Saintparties for women on a single night.
1 started my evening at the Desert'Magic party, a $60 affair at the Ramada
that included dinner and dancing under,the stars. Billed as the party for "discreet, gay women," many attendees were overdressed and enjoyed dancing to the
Pointer Sisters and Natalie Cole. The
party Was so discreet that the promoter, did not want any publicty. "I have mylist, -and the women come back year
after year," she told me. "Moot are professionals-teachers,
lawyers, you know.
They don't need any hassles."~, 'Though otherwise dull, the Desert
Magic party did have the most original
entertainment of the night-an amazing'hypnotist who really hypnotized people.
He put a friend of mme under a spell•that had her talking for days. "It was areligious experience ..., the best orgasm,
I've ever had." The party also featured
Kareoke, a sort of Japanese "Sing-AlongWith-Mitch" machine that plays background music and videos to popularsongs, while audience volunteers get up
and vocalize in sync.
After dinner and a few dances, I
escaped to my car where I had a changeof clothes waiting something small andblack. I was off to the Museum party,
where 2,000 women were sweating to alive performance by Martha Wash (BlackBox, C+C Music Factory) and general1y
trashing the Palm Springs Public Museum, where the event was held. Now thiswas a party. Organized by Mariah Hanson of San Francisco's Girl Spot, it featured terrific House music, go-go girls,
hefty drinks and sexy women dancing
wildly, many without their shirts.
I never made it to the big Los
Angeles party, promoted by Caroline
done of Los Angeles' Code Blue, but

straight men's clubs.
I learned in an interview after theshow that all four of the Dreams are
straight, but no one would have guessed
it that night. Before the wrestling matches, each one danced through the aowµof about 400 very excited lesbians,
exchanging deep, open-mouthed tongue
kisses, tit- and butt-rubs and other very
sexual acts for $1 and $5 tips. The
evening's star, Kona the Barbarian, had afavorite trick of pulling an audience
member onto the floor, forcing her flat
onto her back and standing straddlelegged over her while splashing beer
. over her ample tits and into the waiting
woman's mouth.
Almost as entertaining as the perfonners were the enthusiastic audience
members, many of whom came prepared with thick wads of $1 bills. They
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audience is the wild response: "I like thescreaming. It's so loud it makes you feel
really accepted. Men are quieter, [and]when you're being really sexy, ¢.ey'rejust. sitting there, staring at you. Something like this-where they respond really well, and everyone's laughing andhaving a good time-you feel like a performer instead of some sleaze."
Audience members bid and pay bigmoney to win the privilege of applying
the whipped cream to a wrestler before
her match and washing her off afterward. Kona the Barbarian, always afavorite, went for a high of $350. later,
for $210, a woman in the audience won
the chance to get into a tiny bikini
wrestling suit herself and wrestle Kona.
By the end of the show, I was hoarse
and broke.

initely from Los Angeles." San Francisco
women, she explained; have more of anedge to their looks, but they're actuallyfriendlier. "If we approach Los Angeles
girls, that's fine, but they would neverapproach us. It's like the difference
between the Los Angeles and San Fran-Francisco women dance. "Well, a little
bit. San Francisco is a little more risque.
They'll take their tops off-they'll take. .
everything off. Los Angeles is more like,'I'll wear a bustier under my jacket, andmaybe you1l get to see it'"'
Observing the Saturday night danc-

cisco parties. San Francisco has Martha
Wash performing. She's high energy, agood time. Los Angeles has Grace
Jones. She's all attitude, a night ofchecking out who's who."
Karen's description and my own
observations gave me the impressionthat San Francisco women have a New
York sense of style and a California attitude, while Los Angeles women sport
California fashions and standard New
York snobbishness. Wendy Goodfriend,a psychologist from Oakland, had aclipped clinical summation of the differences between the two cities: "A San
Francisco girl's looks are less intenseshe has more intellect, less makeup. In
Los Angeles, the trend is blonder,
more stylized."_
Wendy herself was a perfect example of the San Francisco lesbian. She
was dressed in a downtown trendy way
but had a very sweet attitude. As a matter of fact, she actually approached me
to talk, and, when I asked her what was
the most fun she'd had that weekend,
she said, "We took our Bronco into aparking lot and did wheelies, kicking up
dust. It was great!"
I asked her if there was any difference in the way Los Angeles and Saning, I had to agree: The San Francisco
women seemed determined to shock.
There was lots of pseudo-butt-fucking,real stripping and true hominess. At therisk of sounding New York-centric, myimpression was that some San Franciscans had visited New York, been to theClit Club once, seen some women
dancing with their shirts off and comeback to San Francisco saying: "Takeyour clothes offi Everybody does it in
New York!" Or perhaps it's the otherway around.
So, was AI Grayson right? Are thedykes prettier on the West Coast? I cansay unequivocally that they are tannerand blonder. According to Karen
Bascin, a transplanted New Yorker who
has lived in San Diego for four years:"East Coast lesbians are not as physically oriented. They're not as concerned
about personal appearance, physicalcondition. The West Coast, because of
the year round sunshine, helps womenand men stay fit."
A laguna woman adds: "But East
Coast women have more to talkabout. I'd go to bed with a West Coastgirl, but I'd rather go out to dinnerwith an East Coast girl and have agood chat." ....

-I Imagine the 'airway crowd I. 'ullo'le.blana."

At the tournament one day, I spotted tpree terribly blond women who
helped fill me in on another phenomena:
The ~os Angeles-San Francisco style
wars. They were all in black, and, thinking theY must be New Yorkers, I introduced myself. It turned out that they
were San Franciscans in town to worktwo bartenders and a bouncer from theMuseum Party.
When they invited me to a private
pool party that afternoon, hosted andattended entirely by San Franciscan girls,
I felt that lowed it to my readers toattend, but I didn't have my swimsuitwith me. Tracy Cavaretta, a veteran bartender at San Francisco's Cafe San Mar- .
cos and the Girl Spot, spoke up. "No
problem," she assured me and, reaching
into her black-leather belt pack, pulled
out a tiny tiger-print G,string and held it
up for all the Dinah Shore fans to see.
"'Ibis one's brand-new," she said, "it's got
your name on it." I wondered how manyothers she had in there.
At the party that afternoon, Karen
Matyka, another Girl Spot bartender,
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Hollywood-rather
thanabating with the onslaughtof queer liberation-is
spreading at breakneck
speed, threatening to &nether, us. All of this is anamazing study in the stubborn determination 'of anindustry to ignore a revolution happening
all arolm:i it. And, as we've seen so manytimes in the past, the bomb will eventually explode in their grotesque and grimyfaces-probably sooner rather than later.
Plain and simple: Queers won't be
stepped on any longer.
Take this sCenario: Another grossly
anti-queer, potentially blockbuster film
is to be belched up for American consumption. Queers vigorously protest it,
pointing out that portraying gays andlesbianS as ki1ler5-without historicallyhaving shown us as an integral part of
the fabri~of America-is morally reprehensible. Says one of its "sensitiv:e"makers: "I'm a bit hurt by all of this ....I
don't want to be a part of anything that
lends itself to gay-bashing ...,lbutl minority groups of any kind have to accept
the possibility that among them is asociopath." The. project proceeds.
. No, this is' not Jonathan Demmemaking lame excuses about you-knowwhat. And it's 'not Paul Schrader discussing his current rpe Comfort ofStmngers (in which Christopher Walken
else?-il ~chopathic
gay
plays-what
killer). The sad troth is that· it could be
any number of writers and directors
talking about all of the vile shit andgarbage that they've produced and thenexcused over the past 40 years.
This time, though, the product inquestion makes all of the other recent
anti-queer vomit-fests pale in comparison. Hopefully, this will be the film thatgalvanizes the lesbian and gay community to finally take to the streets withrage. Personally, I'm praying 'that it will
motivate queers to rampage through
Hollywood, TEAR DOWN TIlE LOTS
AND TAKE mE 5I1JDIO HEADS INTO
THE STREETS AND FEED TIlEM TOPACKSOF HUNGRY PIT BUllS.
Here's what's going on: A film
is being shot in San. called BasIc Instinct•
Francisco, and Queer Nation has
already interrupted the ftlming,
especially since a gay publisher

ous issues) between the
director, Paul Verhoeven'and the screenwriter, Joe
Eszterhas, have resulted inmuch of the script goingback to its original form.
Besides, there's very little
that can be done to change
Basic Insttnct for the better;homophobia is the basis of
the plot. As GLAAD/SFs Hollie Conley
puts it, "Ibis saipt can't be saved."
The unsalvageable script in question is Es2terhas' record $3-million monster that you may have read about inspy and other publications. (Buying thescript tor such a high figure-thelargest-ever-themovie company mustbe certain that it has a megabit 'on its
hands, which it will no doubt heavily
promote when the time comes next
year.) Ezsterhas is the person quoted
above, saying'that he wouldn't be "apart of anything that lends itself to gaybashing." But this straight, white, liberalman, like Demme and all the rest, hasn't
done shit for queers in the past. And
yes, perhaps
lesbians and gays should•
accept that there may be "sociopaths"
among them, but when Hollywood
hasn't shown us anything but that, therationale begins to wear thin.
Carolco and Tri-Star's public-relations strategy IS perhaps even more
appalling than the plot of the film itself.
In addition to releasing statements deny•ing that there are "stereotypical" portrayals in the film, they are frantically trying
to convince us that Eszterhas is a "sensitive" screenwriter. They even quote theguy saying that he's "written movies
specifically about intolerance and injUStice done to minority groups."
NOW,I'd hardly call Music Box and
Betrayed immensely enlightened films,'
but that's beside the point. THE FACf
TIiAT ESZI'ERHAS MAY HAVE DONE
GOOD THINGS FOR OTHER SOCAllED MINORI1Y GROUPS, DOESN"fMEAN THAT HE'S NOT A HOMOPHOBE-IN-DENIAL, CAPABLE OF PRODUCING BIGOTED TRASH IN THE
GUISE OF ART.
It really pisses me off when I'm toldthat "liberals" are making these movies I-as if that is supposed to make me feelbetter. IT MAKES IT All THE WORSE.

and bar· owner is letting the producers
use his establishment for a scene [seenews story, page 16]. The movie stars
Michael Douglas as a hetero cqp whogets .involved' in a" love triangle
with-youguessed it! a bunch of
butchering
queers.
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she was 14 [and was then institutionalizedl." This, character, in a fit of jealous
homo rage, tries to kill the hero, Douglas, because he is involved with her
friend and roommate,a bisexual
woman. "The bisexual roommate [also]
kills men with an ice pick," GLAAD
reports. "And a third woman, who iseither lesbian or bisexual, is also apparentlya murderer."
The original saipt bears all of thisout However, the publicists at the production company, Ouolco, and the distributor, Tri-star, are doing headspins trying to convince us that the script haschanged considerably. But, according,tosever3l reP,ort$ inboth, Va~ and the LA
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they've done more than most directors
and thus don't care what that character
represents and what messages he or she
conveys. With regard to Basic Instinct,
part of the movie company's PR strategy
also includes telling us that the director,
Paul Verhoeven, made the Dutch film,
The Fourth Man, which included homosexuality and which, the Gtrolco/fri-Star
PR people claim, was "praised" by thegay community for an "honest" portrayal.
Well, I don't know who praised
Tbe Fourth Man when it was released
eight years ago (certainly it is sexy, and,at a time when there were even fewer
gay roles, perhaps the visibility alone .
was welcome), but looking at it now,
it's clear that the film is quite anti-gay;the queers, as usual, are demented
freaks who meet with death or are institutionalized. (Vito Russo made the sameassessment in The Celluloid Closet.)
What then are we to conclude? Thatboth the director and screenwriter ofBasic Instinct, rather than making films,
should be in therapy dealing with thehomo-hatred which they obviously-QS
good liberals
cannot admit to but
which bursts forth in their work.
All the worse, other films that haverecently attempted to serve up explicit
and positive queer portrayals have beenwatered down just before release, theirqueer scenes either completely censored or made ambiguous. According to
GLAAD,thisoccurred with regard to•
lesbian portrayals in Welcome Home,
Roxy Carmichael and LA Story. In ix>th
movies, explicit scenes were removed
so that the lesbian characters' sexuality
is made more ambiguous.
And in the upcoming Swttch, a c0medy about a male chauvinist who diesand comes back as a woman, played by
Ellen Barkin, two-thinls of Barkin's lovescene with actress Lorraine Bracco was
cut because test audiences were offended
by the lesbianism. (Barldn, by the way,
was quite disturbed by the cut andexpressed her desire to keep it in to c0mbat homophobia.) Director Blake VlctorlVictoria Edwards told newspapers
that he had to remove the scene so as
not to "lose the audience."
TInS IS WHAT WE'RE DEAUNG
WITH. In the midst of the AIDS crisis
and a gay-bashing epidemic exploding•,~.1ne Ti1n:e.
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visibility.

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I already know that. It's a vicious circle: Homophobia exists, so gay people
don't come out, so straight people
don't kn9w anything about gay people,
so there is homophobia.
Michael Musto argUed in the/age Voke last week that outing "hasgot to be considered a welcome upheaval that strives to make homosexuality something worth knowing about. ..
and the shake-up hasn't made thesestars gay, it's just revealing they are. It
aims to render 'She's a lesbian' as
upsetting as 'She's a blond.'"
Stories on famous dykes and fags
will make the straight world a bit more
comfortable in the same way that single
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talkabout AIDS. Farah Fawcett removed
some stigma from unmarried wo~er:i.
choosing children. And,. Naucy'p~
thirtysomethingraiseddiscu~sionabout ovarian cancer.
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Our job is to make thesee that they are living and workmg
with gay people everywhere. So, in
addition to outing celebrities, we needto continue to target television, the,most pervasive medium. We are losing
ground. An insightful piece in the Los,
Angeles Ttmestitled"Back. Into tlt;edoset" looked into why, "today, Dot'a,single network series sports a continu~'
ing character who is openly gay or l~bian." The last of them disappeared
when CBS pulled Doctor, Doctor: " ,Though the article c1aimedthat
threatened
boycotts rarely work, ,·sponsor pull-outs over content a,renow a reality of life, as are shrinking
audiences a{ld therecession, "so the
networks are-being
extra careful.
Last
when
thirtysomething aired
an episode, whichshowed two men in
bed, they estimate~a loss of $1.5 million
from sponsor pulloutS, and a Lf/estoTies episode about agay newsCaster V{itb'
AIDS lost about,$500,000 in unsold
commercials.
In place of recurring characte,rs
like Steven op,Dynasty and a qu~er
neighbor, cop, hnvyer and nurseo~
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Simpsons, Golden Girls, The Trimsof Rosie O'Neill, among o$ers.
But this cuts two ways. VIeWers am'ttune in weekly to sec gays and lesbians living their lives on a regular 00sis. When an
inCidental character shows up, her or his
sexuality is often the issue. Karlb
Schwartz at GIAAD says that this is good:"We're seeing a rather sophisticated andconcentrated pOl1rayal of gay and lesbian
issues and personalities on these epi&xIes."
Yes, a few shows go in-depth, but"incidental" gay characters also cause a
lot of problems. If they are not thecenter of attention in a show, the LA
Times reports that they can be
dropped because they are "distracting." In addition, their short tenureoften forces an "incidental" characterto become either a stereo~eor an~idea" a way for the show to deal
with AIDS, for example.
A bisexual writer told the IA 'limes,
1here is the sin of commission or oUtright ridicule, which is made worse by
the sin of omission," for example, whengay characters are either villains or sightgags, as on In Living Color. Moot of thetime, they aren't even there.
liz Smith had it right when she
quoted "a thirtysomethingphilosopher" about last week's episode' inwhich a minor character reveals that
he has HIV: "God forbid anybody
should write a gay character who
doesn't eventually have it." The ideais, if we are going to get a gay character, she or he is going to be the issue.
Now, this is not to say that the thirtysomething episode wasn't very good.
The character Peter was not a caricature.
He is a regular person, living and working as an openly gay ad man. And the
producers obviously worked hard toaccurately show Peter's reaction to his
lflV-positive test result. I had a lump in
my throat when I realized that Ihad seen
it before with friends. He was facing theexistential questions about his life (in amere three lines, as only thirtysomethingcan do) and bashed back against a
homophobic slur by his boss (something
about the fact that he wouldn't know
anything about team sports).
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World with Whoopi Goldberg took on the subject last week. The
Oscar winner did get in'the line "AIDS is not a moral judgment." ...
Channel 13 seems to be buckling under to the boycott, announcing
plans for a national show ''that could air weekly if underwriting support is found." ... A Closer LOOk on NBC interviewed Rock Hudlawyer
son's former lover" along with- Merv's, Brent Prott.·. Griffin's.
s~ys that he will subpoena Prince Charles, Diana, the head of the
FBI (Brent'S tennis partner at a benefit tournament), two secretaries
of state and, of course, Eva Gabor. It's going to be fun! ... One of
the winners in the Ladies' Home JoumalOprah Winfrey look-alike
contest turned out to be Jecquin Stitt, who is in the process of having a sex change. After some discussion, Stitt was not disqualified
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were In town last week to perform In thetr New Yom debut atRadio City Music Hall. Ambiva-"I WORRY THAT I'M

lent and lacking tickets, Liz andSydney did not attend the concert, which some revtewers caUed"self-tndulgent" and "cold," butdid go to the party held at the
Building tn the group's honor.
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the Pet Shop Boys, why are
there so many awful straightpeople here?
SYDNEY: They're"industry" people, they work forrecord comPanies. Call them what you like.
Liz: Do you think they have any clue as to what all theseyoung men in hot pants and T-shirts are doing here? ,Sydney:·No. Look at them dancing, though. People havesaid ignorance is bliss, and they look pretty blissed out
Liz: I think we should go look for the Pet Shop People.
Sydney: Lead the way.
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Liz: Oh, look, it's Larry Tee and Keoki ..and the same fivepeople we always see. I bet the Pet Shop Boys won't even show'J
up!
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Sydney: Remember the last time we were in this room? It
was the party for Wolf Remsenl last Thursda,y, and Quentin,
Crisp was sitting right under his own photograpb-in
the same
outfit, no less.
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Liz: Did you see the hatchet job he did on Paris Is Burningin the Sunday Times?
, Sydney: For someone who said he
didn't like the bitchiness of the House Balls,
he threw more s~de than anyone of the Ball
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liz: At least she wasn't lipsynching the theme song to a 1V
show
that
she
was
on
twentysomething
years ago like
Donna DougIas3 was.
Sydney: And I applauded forstacey' because I wanted to, notbecause an announcer made me
feel like I was at a Beverly HtI1bt1lies
pep rally.
Liz: I heard that she madeMichael Musto recite lines from an
episode with her during the dinner.
Sydney: I liked her- she waseerily sweet in this down-home sortof way. I got her to sign an autograph and she quoted Bible verses.
Liz: Just how close was she toMiss
5?
Sydn~: Isn't' that just the butch/femme couple from hell?
Liz: I don't know about hell, exactly. but the butch/fenµne
revival seems to have found a home on the west Side Highway.
Sydney: I hope you mean Stingray'sLun1ess there's an
open-air lesbian bazaar I don't !mow about Butch/femme couples were certainly in season for the girls. The boys were another story ...
Liz: Yes, well, considering the patronS were a little on theyoung side, I would just keep away from those girls, missy.
Unless you want to be called "Chicken little" for the rest of
your days.
Sydney: Takes one to !mow one ....Some of those girls had
the fiercest clothes.
Liz: ~ell, now that they've renovated, you can't just show
up in any old thing.
Sydney:Yeah, and it's not just at
Stingray's I mean, that girl who handed you
the invite at VISions7 looked fly! There's hopefor the future of the Lesbian Nation.
Uz: You know, these are the people that
all the "fabulous" clubs in New York are trying to keep out, and, in the end, the: only
people losing are the ones too stupid to see
past their prejudice.
Sydney: I know, I can only think of two
parties, S'More8 and Panty Girdles,9 that comeclose to being racially mixed.
Liz: Wait a minute. What about She1terlO
or Sound Factory?
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got read so hard she
probably bas bruises. And that's a feat, considering Escuelita's2 15 miles from her house in
New Jersey.

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jaded, that nothing will ever amuse me again,
and theµ..1 see a 300-pound drag queen in agold sequin dress iip-synch the "Desert
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by Patar Bowan
Venice, especially the Venice of Paul
Schrader's gruesome thriller, 1be Comfottof Strangers, never looks quite right. Its
discomfort no doubt stems from thestrain of always having to be in twoplaces at once. Both European and Middle Eastern, lushly romantic and sexually
dangerous, Venice, whose very streets
tum to water under your feet, is transformed in this film into the most dangerous tQurist trap of all a city in the closet,
a city that only· looks like a safe European
escape for heterosexual love.
Moping about Venice, Colin (Rupert
Everett;) and Mary (Natasha Richardson),rpe quintessential British yuppie couple,
bav.e misplaced the passion that had~tought them together years ago in
Venice. Mary, an ex-feminist actress,
han~out at the hotel trying to telephone
her kids. Colin, her wishy-washy
boyfriend, stands about modeling his
starched Amlani clothes and sculpted
torso, seemingly unable to decide what
to do next. And so they drift aimlessly
across the piazzas, down the narrow,unriamed streets, along the garbage-littered canals, all the time being secretively
watched, trailed and photographed. The
tourists who would tum this Italian town
into a po5teard spectade have been rendered by the city into a spectacle themselves, a fovely irony which, misguided
by Pin~s artsy script and mOOirected by
BELOW 1HE BELT-Colin (Rupert Everett)gets it from Robert (Christopher Walken).

Schrader's ovenealous camera, gets lostin the film's strained attempt to find suspense everywhere.
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Robert (Christopher
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and uncomfortably personalquestions, Robert reveals his
stranger personality by narrating lengthy and violent
family anecdotes. Finally
returned to the city's confusing streets from which they were rescued, the drunk and confused couple
again get lost and collapse on the street
In the morning, before they can make itback to the safety of their hotel, the couple is again rescued by the white--suited
Robert who insists on gondoliering themto his regal home.
As if in a dream (or nightmare), ourawkward couple find themselves naked
in a Byzantine apartment that offers too
many questions and too few clothes.
Greeted by Robert's enigmatic wife, 0Iroline (Helen Mitten), who proudly confesses her pleasure at having watched
their nude bodies in sleep, Colin andMary have a hard time figuring out
where hospitality ends and manipulation
begins. Refused their clothes until they
accept a dinner invitation, the two alternately find themselves seduced andattacked throughout the evening.
Unfolding like an inverted mysterynovel, this film's plot becomes more and,more bizarre, until itS penultimate aime
occurs as an utterly open and incompre-hensible act of violence. But while· thefilm provides few, if any, motives for its
characters' erratic behavior, it produces
an endless flow of suspicions. On
Robert's desk are a series of photos with
Colin as their subject. Why? Out of theblue, Robert punches Colin in the stomach. Why? Suggesting that all "perverts"
should be lined up and gunned down,
Robert nevertheless introduces Colin as
his lover. why? But the film's quirks are
not limited to Robert's or Caroline's odd
behavior. Built into the city's architecture,
rehearsed in a waiter's rudeness, stitched
into the very fabric of heavy drapes, asense of foreboding and secrecy pervades the entire film, until there seems to
be no mystery at all, just mysteriousness.
For the gay viewer, however, there
is something even more disturbing thansimply the film's diffuse atmospherics of:terror. At. the center of the film's fuscina~ tion is the beautiful and bewildered maleI ~ body of Colin. Sitting in a care, for exam~ pIe, Mary suddenly realizes that everylone
is looking not at her but at Colin.
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Mary, even strangers on thestreet-fixate
on Colin's
body, and, in the film's convoluted homophobic logic,
the feti$ization of the male,rather than the female, body serves asboth the source of, and excuse for, suspicion, violence and finally murder.
It might be easy to dismiss this film
as an overwrought and underdeveloped
thriller if it wasn't for the stunning modelo-ne-Me-.'.'of homophobia it presents. Nevero~eitly .
bashing queers indeed it invites u~. toside with Colin'sand Mary's appreciation..
of diver$esexualities
the film rather
stresses the phobia in homophobia. byfinding utter terror in otherness. Like. themother warning her little· boy alx5ut. the.
"comfort of strangers" waiting in Station
wagons outside his school, the film
incites a certain paranoia about anyone
or any place that is, for lack· of a better
word, queer. T',•

Remembering With Bo Huston
by Bruce Benderson
Bo Huston's new novel, Remember
Me, is a gentle and serene book about

AIDS, as well as an in-depth treatment ofan unconventional friendship. Through anarration that is both meditative andimagistic, it tells the story of an unnamed
gay man and his lifelong friend, Olarlotte,living together in sexless intimacy in a
shabby industrial river town. Most striking,',.... ,-

about this short novel is the way it subtly
integrates the nanator's I-fiV infection into
the everyday fabric of life. And the c~tra1 relationship in the book, between agay male and a female recluse, defies all
categories. Bo Huston and I met recently
to discuss his new novel.
Broce Henderson: The friendshipyou desaibe in your novel-between agay man and his housemate, Charlotte, al•

THIRTYNOTHING •••Contrary to the
pre-airing hoopla, last Tuesday's "AIDS
episode" of thirtysomething was a big, fat
Zero. While portrayals as sensitive as these
may be few and far between, for the initiated, the program was trifling. Sandwichedamid several story- lines about the manifOldpressures on Michael (Ken Olin), the tale welearn of Peter (Peter Frechette) taking "that test" amounts to a
strange footnote in the oblivious, spinning world that is
straight hegemony. Back to Nancy.
LET'S GET BUSY...I.ater that evening, while toothsome gals twirled the Clit Club, Arsenio Hall was engaged insome much-needed damage control. Hall's busy basher reputation may finally have piqued his conscience, even if only
after the vocal protest of Queer Nationals and the publicationin the Village Voice of our~~ers baring his likeness.
Last 1Uesday's bone took the human, kimono-wearing formof Hatvey Fierstein, whom Hall proceeded to sound out onvarious issues from the closet to outing and our belovedt

woman who never goes out-is very
unconventional. And all of the conventional families that are portrayed in thebook are disaste1s. In a strange way, thebook seems an indictment of the conventional family.
Bo Ruston: I feel outside of thenuclear family~t's
what I was trying
to let them express a little. He's gay, andshe's this insane recluse. The love thatthey have for each' other is so undefinable:. They're not brother and sister,
they're not husband and wife, they don't
have matching sexualities, and yet they
have chosen to stay together.
. BB: Typically~dperhaps pejoratively-theirfriendship
could bedescribed as a relationship between a fag
and a fag-hag. I've noticed that, in general, the males of such a dyad have wider
horizons; they often get to sleep with the-people they choose. The women areoften people who are not having much.sex and who put all of their libidinalenergy into their love of these men.
Charlotte doesn't seem to have sex. Is
she getting the short end of the stick?
BH: The word faghag never popped into
my he.ad. ·1 just don't
think in those terms.
And in this stolf, I don't
think she's the more
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Monsignor Signorile. Fierstein was, as ever,resonant and proud. Hall nodded his. head
ponderously and admitted to having learned
something. Don't hold your b~th.
CITY OF NIGHT ... New York's very
own Tbe Portable Lower East Side, long thepurveyorof rad, off-beatwork, hasannounced a special gay and lesbian editionof the journal entitled QUeer CIty. The editorial board is in hot
pursuit of poetry, fiction, perfonnance work, es>ays and memoirs that are no longer than 3,500 words in length and come"from a lesbian and gay perspective, deal with issues of concern to our various communities and relate to New YOlk City."
Get it off fast-the deadline is April 30. Manuscripts must be
double-spaced,
typewritten and include a self-addressed,
stamped envelope and a brief biographical note. Editors
accepting manuscripts include Jacqueline Woodson, at 390
Sixth Ave., Brooklyn, NY 11215 and Ira Silverberg, at 401 W.
Broadway, #2, New YOlk, NY 10012.
-comPiled by Sarah Pettit

dependent one at all.
BB:Why?
BB: If somebody is obsessed withsomebody in this stolf, it's he who is
ol:Rssed with her-with her approach tolife and with some kind of mystety that
she holds for him in term; of the past.
BB: But what about the fact that heseems to have a sex life and she doesn't?
BH: He has a lot of earthly things
that Charlotte doesn't have. He still hassome small ambitions that connect him
to the outside world. But in many ways
she's beyond him, and he's looking up
to her. The last thing 1could call her is a
fag-hag. I don't even believe in the concept She's very in control of her environment and herself. I've never reallyknown any woman whose whole life
was chasing around after gay men whothen left her at three in the morning togo get laid.
BB: Well, I'm not a woman, but
you've practically described me .
BB: Very funny.
BB: But I do get the feeling thatCharlotte lives vicariously through his
sex life. She gets blowby-blow descriptions of
all the sex he has.
BR: Everything isvicarious for her now.
As a teenager, she was awild kid, stealing things, smoking
cigarettes, a lot looser and attracted todanger. Then she got hurt, or she got
too afraid that she might get hurt.
,
BB: Both of them are squeamish
about life, retired from the world, but allof it seems based on a high sense ofidealism. The slightest human flaw
appalls them both.
BH: Yes. She accepts life as difficult,and her way to deal with it is to find asafe corner where she won't be too
unhappy. The narrator finds this attitude
very appealing but not entirely possible
for him.
BB: Right. The narrator has certain
impulses that compel him into theworld-likesex ... .1 love the bookts
courageous affirmation of anonymoussex---safer, of course-its healing powers and connecting powers. When hehad sex, it was almost better medicine
than he was getting from the hospital forhis disease.
BH: 1 like anonymous safer sex. It
is good, it serves a purpose. But he was
beginning to understand that there areother things in life that weren't getting
fulfilled by that. Anonymous sex helps a
lot of young gay males. It gets them out
there--they get to learn all the codes of
behavior. But it doesn't satisfy all theirneeds. One of the things he comes to•realize is that Charlotte fulfills a lot of hisneeds. She is the primary relationship in
his life, even though that relationshipdoesn't have a sexual component
DB: One of the most dramatic incidents in the book is a gay-bashing. And
here as well, a woman plays a principlerole, since she happens to be with thetwo gay men when they get bashed.
BB: It was very natural for me tohave a woman present during the bashing.
I guess that's how I see gay life. You feel
free to hang around with the ffi05t interesting people, and many of them are women.
DB: And Charlotte is interesting, yet
she can't deal with his HIV infection at atime when he most needs her. Isn't this a••real limitation to their relationship?
BH: It's something he has to learn toaccept. Charlotte does not change ormove she is just who she is. She's in
the center, and he's moving around her
in a circle. The book is partly about her
immobility, and he has to come to terms .
with it and with his loVe for her.
BB: Meanwhile, there's a kind of
ecstatic quality in the slow process of his
confrontation with AIDS. The illness
seems almost like an antidote to hisalienation from the world, but as he gets
more ill, his alienation decreases, thetown becomes beautiful, sensory images
that disturbed him before suddenly seemto glow with beauty.
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BH: Well, I think that's true, butit's'sort of shocking to hear about it.
BB: I'd go so far as to say that, atthe end of the book, the body and desire .
seem translated by the illness into a puremoment, a kind of...
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BH: Freedom?
DB: Exactly.

BH: I do think that what he sees is a
glimpse of freedom. As you must havenoticed, a part of him is very detached.
He's constantly listening to what otherpeople are saying. That's his role in life.
But the narrative of this book is the firstchance he's ever really had to tell a story.
This is his book. And that's the reason for
the title: Remember Me. T

The narrator
REMEMBER ME by Do Huston. Amethyst Press. $9.95 pb. 143 pp.

by John Preston
The namelessnarratorof Bo
Huston's new novel lives in a houseowned by Charlotte, his childhood
friend. He is adrift, withoutanincome or his own family (both his
and Charlotte's parents died when
they were young).
The narrator has AIDS. He is oneof the legions of young men with adiagnosis who have not yet foundtheir center. The specter of the lifethreatening disease can't be handled:
Even the simple task of taking his
medications is beyond him; he .frequently forgets to take his pills. Huston writes:
Will I be alive long enough to
be mature? I mean, long enough to~that generous kind of smilethat accepts the world a bit more?
At night, when Charlotte is
drinking her cocoa and reading, I
cannot sleep; voices chatter questions in each ear. At this time nextyear, how will I look and sound?
Will I be able to move, to see, tothink? Will a day come when I am
not even able to read? And about
sex-freedom and pleasure that I
have not yet really been able toknow, maybe I
will not know.
My expression
must be just likethat of a hungry child staring at
plates of food
The narrator has other relationships, and there are occasional sex
partners. But most of these connections fail in most fundamental ways
and never develop into anything
meaningful.
They can't
really,because, for the most part, the characters are conc~ived not as rounded figures but as statements. There is anaffair, of sorts, with one man who, itturns out, exists mainly to allow Huston to make a statement about gaybashing. An o1d man exists, really, toallow the author to draw a parallel
between life during AIDS and theHolocaust, and the old man's son provides the final, and totally unconvincing, attempt at a positive "solution":
While walking through the village, thenarrator comeS across this young man
swimming. His beauty alone is, apparently, the reason.
Until this last, epiphanic moment,
the narrator's only substantive reason
for being has been to have authored anovel circulating various publishinghouses. When the book is accepted by
a company called XXX Press, the narrator fmally flOds a bitof hope. Then the company goes bankrupt. It's
not the fault of thebook, the author isassured by one of thehas AIDS. He 'is'
one of the legio1J,sof young men
with a diagnosis.
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publisher's
employees: "It's just soawful that small publishing companies,
the ones who take risks, experiment,'
explore, we go out of business left andright, while the big guys with their silly
sex dramas and thrillers and horror
books .... God knows if Kafka would
ever see print in these times. n. This is an argumentthat many,
beginning authors experience. Theirlack of success must be the fault of aconspiracy against the productions,which they're sure is Art. There seems
little doubt that the narrator and theauthor believe that their work is art, butthey can't seem to cope with therequirements for a work that will meanmuch to their readers.
The story of a young man withAIDS who has no meaning in his life
has more than simple poignancy about
it. But there must be a story to bringthis drama into sharp relief. The one
great flaw that even :xxx Press foundin his narrator's manuscript was thelack of a plot-Qfter all, Kafka was amaster storyteller.
There's no question that Huston
is talented.
Many critics find him~mong the most talentedof theyounger generationof gay writers
today. If the streak of nihilism thatruns through this book is all that hecan see, then he will, in fact, be relegated forever to :xxx Press, unable to
make his vision comprehensible to hisreaders. He, just li~e his narrator, hasto• find a center ...

CHANNEL CROSSER-Kinny Gardner conies to Manhattan. .

••OUT AND OUT. Kinny Gardner~Eighty-Eight's. 228 W. 10th St.
(212) 924-0088. April 24 at 8 pm.
by Jonn Wasser
During the past few years, several
gay male artists have &taked their petformance claims by eschewing traditional

cabaret boundaries (i.e., masking one'sho. ~ and have evolved a moreradical performance style. Sometimes
flamboyant and often witty, these artists

D..I:David Padilla
CITY: iJria'l'ni Beach
CLUB: 'WarsaUJ-

1. -where Lov. Llv.s" by Alison Llmrlck
2. "Gypsy Wp.... n" by Crystal Wat.rs
3. '"Tonight" by Tho_

Guys

4. "Peopl. ~Stili Having S.x" by La Tour

5. "Superficial

Lov.... by T.n City

8. "Lock Up" by CR.I

7. '"Contributions" by Mica Paris•

8. "Let the World Dane." by BC Und.rground
9. "A Song of Lov." by Black TUlip

10. "Work It" by Lisa B.llamy

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Mr.
Gardner combines
campy characterizations and mannerisms with glimpsesof harsh reality. The

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There's a guy who still reflects
in bloodshot eyes, glasses and beermugs too lukewarm and fingered todrink froiD, though embossed with thenames of some places we auised.
fie was The Future, I tried hard tobelieve, out of sheer drunkenness,:'I guess, since he was obviously ahustler, and even a kind of in-jokeamong "friends." Oh, him. We're
only horny enough to see throughthings, not inside, take that guy
gradually nodding out over a beer
I'd paid a waiter to set before himwith my regards. My God. Too bad
he can't open his eyes wide enough" at this point to see who's hung,arOOnd, may not care by this stage
that I'm here being moved by his
stupor, as I was drawn to his beauty'once, in ways I couldn't actuallyshow, though he was touched by theeffort in some remote way, I !mow.

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Idols, The Tenderness of the" Wolves and Closer. His new,.~I' .
Frisk,
be published In'.

'nove~'.<iwtn

May by GrotH! wetdenfeld. He
cummtiy lives in Los Angeles.

. celebrate their sexuality, even embracing
it as a mark of distinction. One thinks ofBloolips' hysterical antics, Jay Rogers'
Broccoli Head impersonations' and John
Burke's grande dame of the airwaves,
Sybil Bruncheon. Their unbridled displayof camp and character have alarmed. cabaret pUrists, but there is no denyingthat these' .perfonners have carved out a
comfortable niche. Today's cult artist istomorrow's'

performer.

The latest to arrive on the scene isBritish-born Kinny Gardner. A spirited
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show, a]titled Out and Out,belongs to the Out-

Wew;ok crowd, but todescribe it as "gaycabaret" limits its
potential. 'Ibis show
might effectively bebilled as Camp 101
for the unsuspecting and open-mindedmasses.
Most of Mr.
Gardner's songs are
imaginative ditties
backed by either a
pre-recorded musical track or John
McMahon's effective piano-playing.
Singing in a hightenor, he often
slides into a headyfalsetto
whichmasks a tendency
toward nasalness.
The songs themselves are morecheek than chicand cover a wide array of subjects.
Following his rousing welcome as
our "in-flight homosexual"-auising
at analtitude of six feet of makeup-Gardner
dives into Sondheim and Rodgers' rarely
heard "Americans." Taking stabs at American culture may now be an international
pasttime, but the performer's off-center
approach and humorous facial expressions set the stage swirling. But in one
way or another, "Americans" represents
the patchwork of songs and sketches
which mark Mr. Gardner's US cabaret
debut. Cultural and sexual differences
abound, but our (hopefully) united front
against discrimination is the glue thatbinds us together.
This theme periodically appears inboth comic and serious fonns, often intandem. Following the opening number,
Mr. Gardner devotes
considerable time tohis youthful mem0ries, culminating in"Kay," a true songof woewhose

eponymously named heroine stole thesinger's boyfriend, a handsome chap
attracted to both sexes. Just when thesong verges on pop sentimentality, Mr.
Gardner plaintively inquires, "Kay, why?"
and immediately reverses direction.
It is to Mr. Gardner's immense credit that he possesses the innate ability toeasily segue from high comedy to neartragedy. Despite the show's manylaughs, the performer receives little support from director Alastair Macmillan.
Many sketches lack fluidity and could
have been funnier if properly channeled. At times, songs end without
rhyme or reason.
Nevertheless,this gay British
embryo has let himself loose in the Big
Apple, so let's show him that American
audiences are truly no different from anyone else. We too
can support andnurtureup-andcoming talent. All ittakes is a trip toEighty-Eight's. T

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mow that a colleague is gay.
Really, they don't mow anything
about our lives, nor do they reallythink about them. Peter knows that
Michael's best friend has just died, but
Michael probably doesn't know anything about the friends that Peter has
lost. Michael doesn't know muchabout Peter's lovers and his social circle, but Michael's wife brings the kidsby the office when he's working late,and his friends are always stopping by.'
. By
showing this gap, thtrtysome-'
tbtng may make people think about how
much they actually know about thequeer people in their lives. This mediarepresentation' thing is heating up, and,,.,'rc:»rn page56

that. ."AIDerlca
saw Peter reveal his HN..,~tus'.ih· {ront of the bathroom stalls,
the; {)oly: place many viewers thinkh<?m9'~a1ity exists I~ tearooms.
..:Most interesting in the show was~g' ~tryingto be his usuaJ sensitiveSelf;
He. tells Peter, "We're friends, .
here," iuxi"W;ints to help. Pet6- responds:"YOu . don~il¢ow my life. I ~'t mow
yours; We
our lives at thedooi. You
don't mow anything about me."-. And he's right. Michael and every~ eIse m the cool professions of advertising, media, movies and fashion thinkthat they have it down just because they
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nationwide, Hollywood refuses to portray us in any positive, visible way but
wtll show us as freaks and murderers.
And then they have the gall to tell us
it's OK because• there are "sociopaths"
among us, and thus they're actually
portraying reality. DO YOU BEllEVE•

TIllS SHIT?
It is time for us to take action. What
we want is positive
so thatthe negative stereotypes will be renderedhannless. We must begin protesting. WE

MUSf DFMAND TRUE, HONEST, GOOD
PORmAYAlS OF QUEERS IN HI1vfS. And
we also want them to IEI' US IN. Yes, theymust be fared to take oor proud and out
queer filmmakers, screenwriters,actas, etc.,
and give them a bigger pica! c:i the fucking
pie. GAY MEN RUN mAT DAMNED
1OWN-DAVID GEFFEN,BARRY DIlLER,
MERV GRIFFIN, ETC.-AND HEAD
1HOSE MOVIE OOMPANIES. There reallyshouldn't be a problem And the fact that

there is roe is appalling.
I propose a massive national actionin Hollywood. Tinseltown is a seat ofpower in America as big or biggerthan either Wdshington or New YOlk And
Hollywood's insidious depictions of thiscommunity are exactly what empowet:S
the legislators to vote the way they
do---as well as empowering the people
who bash us in the streets.
If we pIan fur in advanre and if all of
the nationwide Queer Nation chaptersand other gay groups around the oountry
work on it and send people out to IA fora major demo, we will create a huge,,
unprecedented and, of course, glitzy,
ruckus. The media will eat this thing up!
Everyooe~d go to theirlocal Queer Nation dlapter and begin the
Jetter-wriIing, the faxing and the pOOne<aIIing to the·. to the queetS
who run them- making our demands. heard and letting them !mow that we've
had it and that we're coming to get them.
And we've got to start organizing
this event. What will we do when we all
get there? Well, I'm sure people will
come up with lots of creative and zanyand powerful and magnificent ideas.

ccnren:m"

Queers Marching on Hollywood I

think this has the makings of a fabulous
movie.T•••

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patriotl8m and sponge rollers. $10 or
TDF. 164 Eleventh Ave" between 22ndand 23rd8 8tr88te. Re8ervatlon8: (212)206-1764. April 18-21 and 24-28.
THE WINGS THEATRE COMPANY presenti RIllfl6n,, __ 11, "a night In theorgy chamber of the teenage emperorof the Roman empire, Hellogabalu8,'
written and directed by Da,ld Mlchall
allligher.
Featuring "a 8pectaculardrag wedding In the palace." 154
Christopher
st. Tu-Fr at 8 pm.

Beginning April 13, Sa at 7 and 10 pm 'and Su at 3:30 and 7 pm. Reservations:(212) 627-2961. Through April 28.
PS 122 pre8ent8 Rlchlrd

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Send announcements and listings to: 159 w.
25th St., 7th floor, New York, NY 10001. Next
deadline: Monday, April 22, for issue #97,
available in New York on Monday, April 29.

THEATER FOR THE NEW CITY/BARTENIEFF-FIELD prelentl
Stephen LoU'1 Charlon, In Wond,r-Iand, -an AIDS allegory, "and the lecond Intallment In Lott'l trilogy which began with
Mac.,th In H,II. MUllcal direction and orlglnallongl:
Tom
Judlon. Dlrectad by Penny Rockwell and Sebastian Stuart. Set:
Jamie Leo and Catharine Dill. Choreography: Jenl Breen.
Costumes: Gen Rhlan. Ughtlng: Tom Barter. Stantng: cameron
Foord, Evan Heinemann, John HeYl, David Hirsh, John Jller,
Tom Judlon, Katie Krocodlle, Agolto Machado, Penny
Rockwell, Irene Shea, Chrll Tanner, Edward Weill and Mary
Lou WHlmer. $5 or TDF. 155 First Ave., at 10th Street. 11I-8u at
8 pm. Rellnatlons: (212) 254-1109. Through April 28.
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Lelblans, LatlR81 and more: INTAR HISPANICAMERICAN ARTSCENTER prelentl Carmellla Troplcana In an expanded latino
cinema performance, onc, Upon a TIm, by Ela Troyano. The
video allo features Spanglllh rap group latin Empire. and thenight allo Includei Ana_Marla Simo'l Th, Opium War, compOled by Zeena Partlnl and directed by Unda Chapman. $12.
INTAR lWo. 508 W. 53rd St April 26-28. 8 pm. Inro: (212) 2794200.
BrIng popcorn and dantal daml to THE CENTER,when H P/'8l8nt1
lesbian Movie Night TIllie vldeola,. Mby, about and of Interest
to lesbians. " Scheduled are ur, PlayPrllDnlrB bI Julie lando,
a -troubling Investigation Into female lubJectlvlty that MexamInll the relationships between power and love, dependency anddlHerentiatlon";
Lookln, for Lab,lI, by Jocelyn Taylor, ua
dellghHulluual romp"; FtIth" Know, .,,, by Jocalyn Taylor, In
which -the vldeomaker Interviews her father about hll views on
homOleJllalHy and what H'llIke having a lesbian daughter"; andTak, Your LBw, Off My 'ody by Catherine Saalflerd and Zoe
Leonard, which 8I1es, -Who controll our bodies anywa~" Taylor
and Saalfleld will dllCUll their worts alter the viewing. $8 donation. The Center. 208 W. 13th St. April 28. 8:30 pm. Info:
Stepanle Grant at (212) 820-7310.

The IIcond time around ...tlme around ... around: ABC NO RIO
p/'8llntl /lBrzl" und Echoand other Super 8 Ihortl by Michael

Written and performed by Elovlch.
Directed by Illmlr Kubo". The solo
play 18a love 8tory about actlvt8m anddeath In the age of AIDS. It IIIl1sthe etoi}'of Felix the Kat, a human cannonball
8hot out of Queen8 and Gordie
Ben/amln, a eland-Up epritzer who theori_ about everything: outlaw queerne.
In William S. Burrough8, assimilation in
The MunstfJrs and The Addame Family,
heroin, Jewish law and the Panoptlcon.
$10 or$5 plu81DF. 150 RretAve. Th-Su
at 9:30 pm. Re8ervatione: (212) 4775288. Through April 28.
bTHEATER
FOR
THE
NEW
CITY/BARTENIEFF-FIELD
prese,nts
Slephin Lotl'l Ch.rllltl. In Wont/.,..
I.nt/, "an AI DS allegory," and the escond Intallment In Lott'8 trilogy whichbegan with MacBeth in Hell. M u81cal
direction and original 80ng8: Tom
JudlOn. Directed by Penny Rockwlll
and Slbllllan
SllIart Set Jlmll Llo
and Catharlnl Dill. Choreography: .11111
Brain. Coetum.: Gift Rblln. Ughllng:
Tom Blltllr. Starring: Camlflln Foord,
Evan Heinemann, John HlYl, DI'III
Hirsh, John JUlr, Tom Judlon, Katla
Krocodlll, Agollo MIChdo, Plnny
Rockwlll, Irlnl Shll, Chrll rlnnlr,
EdWird Weill and Miry LOl WItbn~r.
$5 (!r TDF. 155 Rret Ave., at 10th Street
Th-8u at 8 pm. Reservation8: (212)254-1109. Through April 28.
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THE DUPLEX pre8ente C.I. B"lIn,
starring
Sybil Branchlon,
80b
Glllowllll, JlY Rogers, lbom .. Stoehr
and Jlffrey WIUlch. The Duplex. 59
Chri8topher
St. Fr at 10 pm.
Reservations: (212) 255-5438. ThroughAprll30.
LOVE CREEK PRODUCTIONS pr888nlB
Gay Ind Lesbian Plrspectlves, a seriesof at lea8t 12 one-act plays featuring
gay and/or le8bian character8 or"themes
related to 'alternative
IHes1¥les.· The "minI-festival" Ie part ofan ongoing playwrightlng competition
de8igned to provide a venue to quality
8cript8 dealing with gay and leeblan
theme8. $10. We8tbeth Theater. 151
Bank St Reservations: (212) 769-7973.
April 18 through May 6.
UPSTAIRS AT THE DUPLEX pre8eilte
Wlckldh Prodacllonl' B.t/tlm.
Itorl ... Join them for "more tale8' of
8hattered, 8pllntered, spit-upon love."
Written and performed bX ,Mlrfln
Goldlleln,
Scott King and Jlilon
Kordllo •• Directed by Simon Fill. $7
cover/2 drink minimum. 59 Chri8topher
St. Mo at 8 pm. Re8ervatlon8: (212)255-5438. Through May 6.

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J.""y Ellm,nn" ArllIlcl,' R,,"ty.

Accompanied by composerMlchul
John LIChlu'I, Essman will pr888nt aserle8 of sketchee featuring 8uch character8 a8 Stan, a recovering recovery
addict; Jean-Louis DeBris, a French
existentialist cabarst 8lnger; and Rays,.... " 11,11_11 OUTWBBK

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a woman with a lover who's literally out
cit this world. Directed by D.vld Wamn.
31 Perry St For reservations and showtimes, call (212) 279-4200. Through thefirst week In May.
ART IN G(:NERAL 'presents Out Loud:
AltlIII EngaH.d Alalllll War, a collaborative multl-msdla Installation whichaeeembies contributed works from artislll
and writers In oppo,sltion to the Gulf
War. Other artists's works are also featured In the show. 79 Walker St (212)219-0473. Through May 11.
THE LESBIAN HERSTORYARCHIVES and
THE CENTER present Kllpln'
On:
1m.... 01 Alrlcan-Am.rlcan
Lllbl.nl.
Opening Feb. 28. Wheelchair accessible.
The Centsr. 208 W. 13th St Houre: daily,
4-6 pm. For more Inlo, contact theArchives at (212) 874-7232. ThroughMay 11.
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THE BALLROOM presents Julian Clary,"a eeH-effaclng comedian who creatss aaurrealletlc
fantasy world with his
croeeed-dreesed Zlggy Stardust p8reona,fast-paced barbe and sly double entendrea" $15, plua a two-drink minimum.
253 W. 28th St Tu-Sa at 9 pm, Fr and Sa
at 11:15 pm, and Su at 3 pm.
R88ervatlone: (212) 244-3005. April 21
through May 12.
EIGHTY EIGHTS presents Rohn leyklll,
a linger currently appearing In LIlli
MI"rabltlll, In a cabaret engagement tobenefit Broadway Cares and Equity Rghlll
AIDS. $15. 228 W. 10th St Su at 10:30
pm. Reservations: (212) 924-0088.
AMUSICAL THEATRE WORKS prssents
lIrD M."~." Abll.t
by Tom Jon .. and HarYlY
Icllmldt The two parts focua on Colettees a young girl discovering her art and as
an old woman, looking back on her life,and does not cover up her lesbian affaire.
$20. The Theatre at St Peter's Church.
54th Strset and Le,arigton Av,enue.
Contact theater for show times: (212)688-6022. Through May 19.

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j,.t>BLUE ANGEL THEATER presents
nt, New York'e nightly, audience
participation, musical bsauty contest$40 and up. 323 W. 44th St. Tu-Fr at
8:30 pm, Sa at 7:30 and 10:30 pm andSu at.3:30 and 7:30 pm. Reservations:(212) 262-3333. Through May 26.

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THEATRE-AT-224-WAVERLY-PLACE preaents HIHII."u•• ' Am, a series of 12
ehort playa, Including seven world premier .. and three New York premieres.
They are: Robert Patrick's Ludwig and
Waq/let; The Family Bar and The Way We
W~ Daniel Curzon'e S&M. CtJlebrilie. in
HeDand One Man\! (]plnlOfT,Carl Moree's
AnnunCIation and Fairy Fuck-In, A Callto the Statell; Robert Chesley's
Somlbody\! Utile Boy, Victor Bumbalo's
Show, BII Wrighra Mothe, Fathe, Love,
Man; and Rich Rubin's That AI Paclno
Look. $20. We-fr at 8 pm, Sa at 7 and 10p,", Su at 3 and 7 pm. Tickets: (212)564-8038. Through May 26.
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THE GU NES preeent Evan Brldlnallnl"
QIII".( a comedy In which"DavId lovee Greg, Greg 1_ Sally, saily
loves Bruce and Bruce loves David."

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Out, We Go In." 21 Normandy Heights
Rd. Morristown, NJ. Info: GAAMC Gay
Helpline: (201) 285-1595.

Brynntrup. NIITZI/# und Eeho pllmlered In Ihe United Stain last
fall althe Lublan lind G.v Experimental Him festival. $5J$311udeniS, seniors and PWAI.158 Rlvlngton SI. April 27. 10 pm.
Info: (212) 254-3697.
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ACT UP Genii'll Meellng. Cooper Union.
Fourth Avenue at 7th Street. 7:30 pm.
Info: (212) 564.AlDS.

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Featulls Editor Vldorla Slarr pull her stamp of approval on Ihls
one: WILLIAM PATERSONCOLLEGECOALITION OF LESBIANS,GAYSAND FRIENDSpresenll an AIDS Benafll Concert and Tea
Dance. Fealurlng Ihe musIc of Sweet Convulsions, a queer
Industrial dance band described as a crols bahreen Yazand
Black Flag. Also on Ihe bill: Ihe Whirling Dervishes, ltie
Traveling Texans and No Secrals •.WIIIII, ... Palerson College.
Siudeni Cenler Ballroom. April 28. For complele delalls, cell(908) 595-2157.
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Ma, I have Ihls dance? DANCETHEATERWORKSHOPpIIsenll
HII/Hls and Hers/Hers. FIrst o!lthep(Ogl'llm: Du.1I, !I collaboralive duel b, Illne Hultman and VI,CItyShick.Then II's Sodomite
Warriors b,Cha~ Dean and Kurt.Fullon, a Mmlnl-eplc which
exploreslhe facelsllf contemporary ga, ma,le ~llure and'ihe
10 the stralghl'socle" ItllYes wRhln." $12
lenuoUi rel_lo~lp
or mF. DTW's BessIe Schonberg Theater. 219 W. 1.91hSI. 8 pm.
Reservallons: (21~) 924-0077.
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55 GROVE STREt:;T presents, C.'!I
Bl'llnard and Bob Kohl"'1 Btldda~.,""«D, performsre who both appeared i!l'Parting'Glances, their original come4ymaterialincluaes
twojocke who learn
they can vogue, retired Solid Gold
'Qancers, Amish rappere who put the"men back In Mennonite," en early SimOl)& Garfunkel, and the Rocky Mountain
Butt Boys who open at a gay rodeo inWest HoIIYWQod;videos serve as transition. between live routinse; at 55 Grove
St (west of 7th Ave South); $8 + 2-d rinkminimum. Fr at 8,pm. (2123) 366-5438.

Dire~
by L.. II. Ironl. Starring John
Carharllll,
Suunne Crylr, Danl Halland Mlrk Leydolf. $15. 39 Grove St, at
Bleecker. We-fr 1t8 pm, Sa at6 and 9
pm and Su at 7 pm. Reservations: (212)869-3530. Through June 9.
A THE CARNEGIE HALL MUSEUM pre~sents Its Inlalul'Il ElhlblUon. featuring
memorbilia of gay Ruselan composerPeter IlyIcII TchalkOYlky. Included )n the
exhibition are pages fromTchaikoveky's
original manuscripts, some ofhls diaries
and lettsre. and lettsre to him. 881 Seventh
Ave" at 57th Street. 11 am to 4 pm. Info:(212) 903-9750. Through June 31.

OUTMUSIC Glnll'll MeetIng. Outmusic
Is an organization of lesbian and gay compossre, lyricists and musical perfol1T!ere.
Tonight's meeting will feature performances in a wide range of musical styles
including r9Ck. pop, theater, jazz, folk andothere. $3. The Centsr. 208 W. 13th St 8
pm. Info: Dan Martin at (212) 533-0598.
CELLBLOCK 28 presents the Naw York
Strap and Paddla Allocl.tlon
Party.
"For all of you who like to bend over andtake it like a man." Cellbi6ck 28. 28 Ninth
Ave., between 13th and 14th etreets.
Doore open 8 pm. (212) 733-3144.

TUESDAY, 'APRIL 23
LONG ISLAND GAY MEN'S GROUP pre.. nts DIscrimInatIon: How it affects us.
Has It affected you? For complete details
on this bl-monthly discu88ion group,
contact LlGMGat (516) 694-2407.
MEN OF ALL COLORS TOGETHER PolIllcel Actloll/Madla Outrlach Commltta
Meetinl. For complete info, contact Chrieat (212) 601-Q806.'
PROFESSIONALS IN FILM AND VIDEO
present Carllr Nltworklng NIght. An
evening devoted to meeting people in
PfV who 1:;!11 provide the career opportunltes and services you are seeking. $7
nonmenbers/$5 members. The Centsr.
208 W. 13th St. 6:3D-9:30 pm. Reservations: (718) 667-6507 •.

CHERRY LANE THEATRE presents DaYld

at.VIIII' The '11m of U.. Starring "obe"Llnllng and NIII Mlffln. Directed by
KIYln Dowling. By the writsr of Bfflake,
MoWl~ this play Is about a father who
trlss to help with his eon's gay relationships .whlleiooklng for a new wife. 38
Commerce St $27.50-$32.50. TlH'r at II
pm, Sa at at 7 and 10 pm,'Su at 3 and7:31 pm. (212) 989-2020.

THE CASTILLO CULTURAL CENTER represents Jam .. Chapinan's Ollr YOlln,
Black M.n Are oyln, Inl Nllbllli' .. m, tD Ca.". a look at some of ,thoee
men whoee lives and deaths are reflectBd
In drug-abulI, crime, police-brutality,
alcoholism, poverty and AIDS statistics.
$20. 500 Greenwich St., suite 201. Th-Sa
at 8 pm and Su at 3 pm. Reservations:(212) 941-5800. Through Aug. 31.

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THE FRIENDS OF ALICE AUSTEN HOUSE
present Allc.' Aalt.n: Th. Larky Llfl.
From her,blo, Alice Austan eounda IiIte
the Gertrude Stsin of Staten hiland. Visit
her hOUle, now a museum, and see
pictures that she took of upper middle
class men and,women. 2 Hylan Blvd.
Staten Island. Th':"Su. 12-5 pm. Infp:(718) 8164506. Through December.

,UBU REPERTORY THEATER 'presents
Copl .. GranlRn.l .. Directed by Andrl
Ernatt •• Translated by Mlc .... feingold.
Starring Roblrt Carrl4:arl. D.lphl
Hlrrlngton,
Jack KOlnll,
Kllth
McDlrmott. DavId PUllliy and Marga
Iklnn.r. The play "may just be the fi ...tfarce written about AIDS, a' farce whichmixes path08 and wit, tsndemese and cruelty." $201$15 for etudenIB and 88niore. 15
W. 28th St. Tu--Saat 8 pm, Sa and Su at 3
pm. Reservations: (212) 679-7562.

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CONGREjY\TiONBETHSIMCHAT TORAH
preeentB a Jlwlah femInist Frlllay NIght
IhlbbatServlc., followed by Onil
.Shabb.t. Congregation Beth Simchat
Torah Is New York's leeblanand gay synagogue. 57 Bethune St 6:30 pm. (212)929;9498.

THE WPA THEATRE presente R.I Ba"
In ''Inllt, a new play by and starring
Chari .. Bllch. creator 01, Vampi"
Lflsbian. of Sodom and Pllycho Beach
Party. Directed by Kennlth Elliott.
Starrring Ralph BleIIley, Roy Cacknlm,
Anlly Hllllday,
Jull. Halaton, Mlrk
Hamilton,
JudIth HI,nlln,
Arnl.
Kalod",r. 519 W. 23rd St Tu-Th at 8 pm
and Su at 7:30 prn-422. Fr and Sa at 8pm and Su at 3 pm-f26. Reservations:(212) 206-0523.

GAY ACTIVIST ALLIANCE IN MORRISCOUN1Y presenIB Womyn's Naork andM.n'~ RIp Group at 7:30 pm, before
their G.nlr.1
Mlltlng
at 8:30 pm.
Tonight's
dlscu88lon features guests .
,Parents and Friends of L88blans andGays, talking about "Wh.en You Come,

AIDS CENTER OF QUEENS COUNTY presents an HIV Forum and discu88lon of
AIDS Issuee. ACQC. 97-45 Queene Blvd.,
suite 1220. Rego Park. 6:30-8:30 pm.
Info: (718) 896-2500 or (718) 896-2985 .
for the hearing Impaired.
GAY MEN'S HEALTH CRISIS presents
EroticIzIng Saf.r SIX. Their regularsafer-sex seminar and workshop happensin the Bronx tonight. 1 Fordham Plaza.
suits 800. 6--8 pm. For more Info, contact
Chris of Gay Men of the Bronx at (212)
601-0806. Also tonight, GMHC presentsa Haalth Samlnar: MadlcalTrlatmlnts.
129 W. 20th St, third and sixth floore. 7
pm. For more infonnation, call the GMHC
hotline at (212) 807-6655. TOD (212).645-7470 for the hearing Impaired.
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LESMOS G.nll'll
Milling for lesbian
mothers. Open to lesbian parents, coparents and Interested others. $3 euggested donation. 675 Woodfield Rd. West
Hempstead, !.ong Island. For complete
det3ils, call (516) 483-2050.
LESBIANS AND GAY MEN OF NEWBRUNSWICK Glnll'll MIlling. Tonlghfs
discussion: "Lesbian and Gay Parenting:
A panel of men and women will ahare
thelrexperiencee. Adoption, coming out
to kids, handling a break up, impreganting and other subjects will be covered.
Friends Meeting House. 109 Nichol Ave.
New Brunswick, NJ. 8 pm. (908) 2470515.
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TIjE NINTH STREET CENTER preeenteali. aulltlCllll, OuI.r Anlwall. a seriesof rap groups whoee focus ie defining
homosexuality for the 1990s. Tonight's
topic: "Polarity: In Same-Sex Relationehlps.
Opposlte8 Attract" 319 E. 9th St, basement &-10 pm. (2~2) 228-5153.
THE KITCHEN presents Dllmlndl Oalls
in excerpts from Plague MaBB (1984 to
the End of Epidemic): Selections Include"There Are No More Tickets to the
Funeral." $15 nonmembera/$10 members. 512 W. 19th st. 8:30 pm.
Reservatione: (212) 255-5743. [Sse also
April 19 and 21]

Seventh Avenue South. 8:30 pm. Info:(201) 641-8731.
THE EAGLE preeentB MovI. NIIId: ShIlL"Thi8 box-office blockbuetsr stare Patrick
Swayz8 a. a New York Inv88tmentbanker. When he Ie killed after uncoverIng a money-laundering
echeme. h8
returns In the afterlife to eave hl8 girlfriend (Oeml Moore) from the same fate."
The Eagle. 142 Elevenlh Ave,. at 21et
Street 11 pm. (212) 691-8451.

expanded Latino cinema performance.
Once Upon a Time by Ell Troyano. The
video also features Spanglieh rap group
LllIn Empire, and the night also includes
AnI Marlillmo','
11Ie Opium War, composed by ZlIna Pirtlna and directed by
L1ndl Chlpm.n. $12. INTAR Two. 508
W. 53rd'St 8 pm. Info: (212) 219-4200.
[See also April 27 and 28]

THE CENTER pr88ents Lasblln Movl.
NllhI. These v1deoe are "by, about am! ofinterest to lesblana." Scheduled are Let's
THURSDAY, APRIL 25 Play Prisons" by Jull. lindo, a '"troubling inveStigation into female 8ubjectivTHE LESBIAN AND GAY ANTI-VIOLENCE'
Ity" that "el\amlnee the relatlonehlp.
PROJECT presents Vollnt .. r Drl.nl.between power and love, dependency andlAY,APRIL 24 Uon. Join now. before the eummer case- differentiation"; Looking for Lablllle byload hill. The Center. 208 W. 13th St &-8
J.tlyn Taylor, ~adelightful sexual romp";
AIDS CENTER OF QUEENS COUNlY prepm. Info: (212) 807-6761 •.
Father Knows Beet by Jocelyn Taylor, In.,'. r-;sents 8lrln Mlna,.mlnt.
a workshop.
,
which "the vldeomaker interviewe heron m~dltatlon relaxation and other
AIDS C~NTER Of QUEENS COUNlY pre- . father about hie views on homqe8Xuality
etress-management activities. ACQC. 97,eenle C.r.llv...., Forum.
and what it'e like having a leeblan daugh,. focu8ingon
45 Queene Blvd.; eults 1220. Raga Pari<. partne ...!elatlonehlp
and HIV-relatedter"; and Take Your La .... Off My Body by
6:aG-8:30 pm. Info: (718) 896·~500 or
etreeeor,. ACQC. 97-45 Queene Blvd.,
C.lh.rln.
a.lllliid
and Zoe L.onlrd.
(718) 896-2985 for the hearing Impaired.
eulte 1220. Rego Park •.6:30-8:30 pm.
which aske. "Who controle our bodlee.
Info: (718) 896-2500 or (718) 896-2985
anyway?" Taylor and Sa;tlfleld will discuee
SlOPE ACTIVITIES FOR LESBIANS prefor the hearing impaired.
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their worD aftBr thiI viewing. $6 donation.
sente Pool NIIIII. Featuring free pool.
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Ing hoope at Brownetone Billiard. Sev8f1th
sents Mllllni
Nllhl. Join tIIeni at theAve. at Flatbueh. Afterwarde. ralax at the
Clubhouse for 80ine ~conitructlve fun":
MICHAEL JEFFRIES presents Th. Blt~h
Roosl at 9 pm. Seventh Avenul! at 8th
etapling, collating, licking. fold!ng. rubThin, /. Jan./From their flyer: "Thie
Street. The evening begins at t pm.
ber-8tamplng ... 7 pm; Please call 24
awful video. a reinterpretation of the film
Pleaee call 24 houraln advance to conhoure In advance to confirm all SAL
The Boys In thB Band, Ie certain to amuse.
firm all SAL activities: (718) 96~ 7578.
activities: (718) 965-7578.'.
delight. offend and embara88 you.",
Refreehmente served. $3. Downtown
INTEG RAL YOGA INSTITUTE preeentsIN OUR OWN WRITE presents a Wrll .....
Community Televi8ion. 87 Lafayette St..
PATH 8lmlnlrs:
Til. Bod,-Mlnlll
Worlllhop, aho ... s.; Featuring wrl~nge
two blocks eouth of ~.
8:30 pm.
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Comlellon. Tonlght'e topic: "The Slall!'efrom their bimonthly wrltlngworl<shop.
of Self-Healing. ~ SlIrnlnar leader: Peter$3. The Center. 208 W. 13th St 7:30 pm.
THE KITCHEN presente Klran Finlay.
Hendrickson. PhD, psychologist $7 per
Info: (212) 62~7310.
reading from her book. Shock T"atmentclase (acholarshlpe avallable). IVI. 227 W.
$8 nonmembere/$3 membere. 512.w.
13th St7:3Q-9 P.II1. (212) 929-0586.
ACOG presente Ol,m. Nllhl for lee19th St. 8:30 pm. Reservations: (212)•,blans. $3 donation, 675 Woodfield Rd•
255-5793. [See April 27] ,THE CENTER pre88nts Orl.nlillon,
II
West Hempetead, Long leland. 8 pm.
chance for lesbians and gay men Who ara
Info: (516) 483-2050.
WEBO PERFORMANCE GALLERY prenew to New Yorl<.City to lsam more about
sents KIII,r Spllken Worll 8.OIn •• a.
their community. ~rlng
speakera andHERITAGEOF P~IDE presente a MllIIIIIII
Hoeted by M!lH~.w Courln.,:With
titerature. $3. The Center. 208 W. 13th St
Dttrtacll aocl.1. 'If your interested In volDIYIIII Ch.I .... Pa.1~II, MI .. I. EIl.p.
7, pm. (212) 620-7310.
unteering to lT1!1rahallor ptherwles help
Kirl Holmqvlll. Mr. Implla. and JOII
out HOP on Gay Pride weekend. thle.
Padl •• $5. 317 ~. Houston., at Attomey
GAY MALE 81M ACTIVISTS present RIIII
meeting Ie for you. Free refreshments,
St 9:30 pm,.nll aplrlt: TIl. aIM P.III. A panel will
and a slide show· of past Gay Pride•
dlscU88 the role of'S/M pr!lctlces in.a.
paradee. The Celller. 208 W. 13th SI. 8
SATURD~Y, APRI", 27
spiritual quest, both historically apd In
pm. Info: (212) 691- 4. '.contemporary terine. $4 members/$6
WOMEN ABqur preeenle an E.. , Hlk.
non-membera. TlJe center. 2Q8 W.13th
FRIDAY,·APRIL26.
Inlll Picnic In the Black RockForest For,,
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plete Info, ep8ak t'o Paul. ACQC. 97-45
AIDS CENTER O~ QUEENS COUNlY preLlkI U•. 548 Hudson St. 8 pm. Info:
Queens.JlIvd.. 8uIt8122Q: Rego Park. &-8
sents Dlsclos.r,lIinll
HIV, focuelng on(212) 989-4850.
pm. InfC!: (718) 898-2500. or. (718) 896HIV-r8lated employee Ineurance and2985 for t11e hearing Impaired. "eoclaileeU88. ACQC. 97-45 Queene Blvd.,
BODY POSITIYE presents " .... on.1•
eults 1220. Rego Parl<.11 am to 1 pm •Flnanell ImI HIV, II montlJly "rlentatlon
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Info: (718) 896-2500 or (718) 898-2985
forum. ToplC8lnclu~e: Immediate stepea Y-MACT eonlClo .. nitll-R.I~nl
for the hearing Impalred.
you can take to protect.your . financiala,"lonat 7 pm, Tonl"ht'~ topic:.,,
future; getting and keeping life. med!caI"DomeeIk: Parlnel8hIpe." Then, at 8. a INTEGRAL YOGA INSTITUTE preeentsand disability insurance; seiling life lneura.I.1 !)p.1i Ho... Inll
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208 W. 13th St,(nfcr. (212) 222-979.4.
and breathing prabticee 'which revitalize
Vlncent'e Hospital. Cranln Building. Tenthand etrengthen lI!e body and calm thefloor auditorium. 170 W.'12111St &-10 pm;
SLOPE ACTIVITIES fOR LESBIANS premind. This cia.. Ie eepecially for those
Info: (212) 721-1619 or (212) 697-2589. eents aD-PII. PoUI!* .n. a.m. NllhI.
who are HIV-posltive. IYI. 227 W. 13th•
Bring sl!Breable food, ~rln~ and games.
St12-1:30 .pm. (212)929-0586.
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KELLY'S presents alzann. Wist.nllotf7:30 pm. PIae call 24 houll In advance to,f.r, performing comedy "for straights III
confirm d SAl.
acijvIUee:(718)
965-7578.
GAY MEN'S HEALTH CRISIS presente•a homosexual world" and entertaining.,. ,TIII,* Aboliit DecIding to Take the Test
"queerlee" on homosexual life. $5 plu.e a
INTAR HISPANIC AMERICAN ARTS CENFor those thinking of laking the HIV-antitwo-drink minimum. 46. Bedord' St. at
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1~ pm. Registration: (212) 807-6655 or(212) 645-7470 for the hearing impaired.
SLOPE ACTIVITIES FOR LESBIANS ! presents Arch Reopening and Park Walk at
12 noon. Then. at 7:30 pm. it'e a IInlles
Party. "Come meet the folk8 you didn't
get the chance to meel at the Extravaganza." Also at 7:30. it'8 Vldao Night In
Brookl,n Halghls. Call for title. Pleaee
call 24 houre in advance to confirm all
SAL activities: (718) 965-7578. .
LESBIANS AND GAY MEN OF NEWBRUNSWICK preeent a Potluck Dinner.
Join them at TaI'8 in Monmouth Junction.
Please call ah8ild to 1stthem what you'rebringing. 7 pm. For complete Info: (908)422-4915.
LATINO GAY MEN OF NEW YORK present
AID8 and Olhar H.allh Problems. For
Latino gay men only. The Center. 208 W.
13th St 8 pm.
INTAR HISPANIC AMERICAN ARTS CENTER preeents Clrmsllll Troplclnl in an
expanded Latino cinema performance.
Once Upon a Time by Ela Troyano. with
Spanglieh rap group Latin Empire, and thenight also includes Ana Marll IImo'e 1116
Opium War, composed by Zaalll Parkins
and directed by L1ndl Chlpmln. $12.
INTAR Two. 508 W. 53rd St 8 pm. Info:(212) 279-4200. [See aleo April 26 and 28]
SOUTHERNERS preeents a FourthSllardl, "!Wo-SI.p Dane •• Le880ns are
at 8 pm. and the dance starts at 9 andlast until 1 am. The Center. 208 W. 13th
St Info: (212) 674-8073.
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l'eJlding from her book, Shock Treatment$8 nonmember8/$3 members. 512 W.
19th SI. 8:30 pm. Reservatione: (212)255-5793, [See April 26]
ABC NO RIO presents Harzl .. und Et:hD
and other Super 8 shorte by Mlchlel
Brynntl1lp. NarziBB und Echo premiered in
the United Statee la.t fall at the Lesbianand Gay Experimental Film Fe8tival. Alsoon the program: ehort 16 mm film 8tudies
by Oliver H.nke. $51$3 students. senloll
and MAs. 156 Rlvington St 10 pm. Info:(212) 254-3697.

SUNDAY, APRIL 28
WOMEN ABOUT pre8ente a Comp .. sWorkshop. For complete details and toloin Women About, call (212) 642-5257.
SLOPE ACTIVITIES FOR LESBIANS pre-aente Dlvefllty Picnic. a social and 8porta
prcnle, eo bring equipment and friende.
SAL ie doing extra recruiting to attract
women of all colore to thie event 1 pm.
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Refreshments served. $5. donation. The
Center. 208 W. 13th St 3 pm. Info: (212)
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strippers; downtown crowd, students, pro~, fessionals. 2-4-1 drinks till midnight. .$7)12
W 21 St. (212)206-m2.
,bp,yramid (Michael T. presents New YorkNights, Alternative music with OJ Bad
Taste. $1) Pyramid. 101 Ave. A. (212)4201590.

Tuesday+Clit Club (Drink specials till midnight. Lesbianerotic videos and slides. $3 before midnightJ$5 after.) Pyramid. 101 Avenue A. (212)420-1590.
+1\-Club Edelweiss (TVs, TSs, gays, bi's, singles, couples; Tuesdays are especially for
lesbians, but everyone is welcome.) 167 W.
29th St. (212)868-6989.
Danceteria (Coming soon: Chip Duckett's gay
Tuesdays. Keep your eyes on this space for
opening.) 29 E. 29th St+ Grand Central (Women's night tonight. Mixed
We-8u.) 210 Merrick Rd. Rockville Centre,
LI. (516)536-4800.
Jack Officer'. Club (Cruising, Bruising, Drinking
and Carousing. Audio, Video and Manual
Manipulation by OJ Craig. $3)505 E. 6th St.,between avenues A and B.
Roxy (John Blair's 'Muscle on Wheels.' Gayrollerskating. Doors open at 8 pm. Varied
cover.)515 W 18 St (212)645-5156.

Wednesday,

1\-Channel69 (Drag Extravaganza, with Linda
Simpson. Go-go stars, OJ Dany Johnson.
Sexy, upbeat. East Village fag and dyke crowd.
$5.) Pyramid. 101Ave. A. (212)420-1590.
The Building (Dallas' The Boys' Room. House
music, downtown crowd, go-go boys and a
60-foot ceiling. $10/$7 with invite.) 51 W.
26th St. (212)576-1890.
bThe Bunkhou.e (Club Trash, a night of WDREalternative music, with Freddie and OJ
Kaml\kazie. No cover.) Montauk Highway.
Sayville. (516) 567-BUNK.
+ Excallbur (Ladies Night. $1 drinks.) 1OthStreet andJefferson behind football stadium. Hoboken, NJ. (201)795-1161.
1\-Limelight (Disco 2000, with Michael Alig and,Larry Tee. Doors open at 10 pm. $10.) Sixth
Avenue at 20th Street (212)807-78501\-Limelight (Queer U. DJs Andy Anderson andKeoki. $51$10) Sixth Avenue at 20th Street(212)807;7850.
+ Cadillac Bar (Gini DeSantis presents Pure
Party Production Dances for Women. Freebuffet from 6-8 pm. Renee Cooke, bartender. $5.) 16 W. 22nd St, between Fiftha nd Sixth avenues.
+Privete Ey.. (Shescape Afterwork Party from
5-10 pm. 2-4-1 drinks before 7. $5 before 7
pm!$7 a"'r.)12 W. 21st St Shescape: (212)645-6479. Privata Eyes: (212)20&-T172.
Private Eye. (YMVA Night. Students, professional and women. $7.)12 W. 21st St. (212)200-m2.
Silver Linh,g (2-4-1 drinks.) 175 Cherry Lane.
Roral Park, LI. (516)354-9641.
Stutz (2-4-1 drinks.) 202 Westchester Ave.
White Plains, NY.(914)761-3100.

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Street at Broadway. Daytime phone: (212)854-3574.
+ Hatfiald'. (Women's night) 126-10 Queens
Blvd. Kew Gardens, Queens. (718)261-8484.
b*Loony
Bin (Hosted by Page and Don. OJ
Patrick Butts. 'Deviant" crowd. $5.) Pyramid.
101Ave. A. (212)420-1590.
M .. Culpa (For men, with dancing, video andlive entartainment $7/$10.)47 W. 20th St(212)807-7840.
Meat on Friday (Xclusive performances at 1:30
am. OJ Nobody's Pussy. $5.) Pyramid. 101'
Avenue A. (212)420-1590.
+ Millennium (Ladies Night) 1770 New York
Ave. (Route 110) Huntington, LI. (516)351-

1402.
Parallel (Uncoln Palsgrove IV, Scott Currie andChauncy present Satyricon. Featuring
Matthew Kasten's beauties and Bold Soal
Sisters.DJ Johnny Dynell. $12.)229 W. 28th
St. (212)563-9292.
Private'Ey .. (YMVA Night. for students and professionals.)12 W. 21st St. (212)206- m2.
Stingray'. (Free before 10 pm. $7 after.)M1 W.
51st St. (212)664-8688..
+V1SiDnI56-O'I Queens Blvd, Woodside, Queens.
Info: (718)848-7131.Club: (718)899-9031.

Saturday,ess Hapi Phace, DJs Craig Spencer andVictor Anonymous? For dykes, it's Egg Bankin the Jodie Foster Lounge. Guest DJs andhot and sleazy girl action. $10/$7)225 E.
Houston St.~at Essex Street (212)505-5033.
1\-Copacabana (Susanne Bartsch. Last Th of themonth. Iffy door) 10 E. 60th St., at Fifth
Avenue. (212)755-6010.
bDanceteria (Coming May 2. Shes cape presents Every Thursday for Girls. Guest DJs.
Doors open 6-11 pm. $5 before 7/$7 after.)
29 E. 29th St.(212)645-6479.
Excalibur ($1 drinks.) Located at the corner of
10th Street andJefferson behind footballstadium. Hoboken, NJ. (2011795-1161.
Hatfield'. (2-4-1 drinks, female impersonators.)
126-10 Queens Blvd. Kew Gardens, Queens.
(718)281-8484.
Mora Men (Tony, Keith and Dominic present OJ
Tommy Richardson, go-go boys, videos, billiards. $101$7with invite.) 239 Eleventh Ave.
(212)518-3283.
b+ Pyramid (Dee's Dyke Bar for dykes anddyke hags. OJ Mike of Bensonhurst. $5)
Pyramid. 101 Ave. A. (212)420-1590.
Stingray'.
(New club, new sound system,
everything else is a surprise. No covertonight.)M1 W. 51stSt. (212)664-8668.

Friday.

ABC (Chip Duckett presents OJ Merritt anddancing in the ballroom and balcony. $101$7. w. invite.) 17 Irving Place at 15th Street
The Bank (Nightmare on Wax: Alternative music
hosted by Lee Chappell and Michael T. OJ
Ralph Duncan. Mixed crowd. $101$7.)225 E.
Houston St., at Essex Street (212)505-5033.
• Clit Club (Jocelyn &: Julie present Clit ClubWest With go-go girls and lesbo videos. $1
drinks between 8 and 9 pm. Doors open at 8pm. $5)432 W 14th St. (212)406-1114Columbia Dancas (Rrst Friday dances. 10 pm to2 am.) Columbia University Earl Hall. 116th

The Bank ( Controversy. OJ Patrick Butts. Dragqueens, drinking, dancing and scandal.
$15/$10/$7.)225 E. Houston St, at Essex
Street (212)505-5033.
Barefoot Boogie (A party for adults and kids.
2nd and 4th Saturdays of 1I1emonth. Smokeand alcohol-free. April 27 is themed 'AfroPop.' 8:30 pm to 12:30 am. $5Ikids free.)4M,
Sixth Ave., 4th floor, between Ninth andTenth avenues. (212)857-5152.
Center (2nd &: 4th Sat, 9 pm to 1 am, $8. OJ Peter
Arden.) 208 W. 13th St. (212)620-7310.
+ Center ('Women &: Friends.' Every first
Saturday. Next is April 6. OJ Gini DeSantis. 9
pm to 1 am.) 208 W 13 St. (212)620-7210.
+ Clit Club (Erotic lesbian videos, slides and gogo girls.) The Pyramid. 101 Ave. A. (212)4201590.
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Club Welt End (Michael Fesco's Saturdays.
12-9 am) 547 W. 21st St.
Columbia Dane .. (Third Saturday dances withOJ Karin Ward. 10 pm to 3 am. $5.) Columbia
University
Earl Hall. "6thStreet at
Broadway. (212)629-1989.
419419 N. Highway, Southampton, LI. (516)283-

5001;
Love Zone (dancing &: perfonners)70 peach St.
Staten Island. (718)442-5692. .
+Girl Saturdays (Shescape presents SaturdayNights for Women.With go-go girls and aguest OJ. $8 before 10:301$10aft8r.) 20120. 20
W. 20th St., between Fifth and Sixth
avenues. (212)645-6479.
Meat (OJ Aldo Hernandez, every Saturday; gogo boys, videos; opens 10 pm; $5)432 W 14
St.
Parallel (John Blair and The Athletic Complex
present New York's hottest go-go boys, OJ
Tommy Richardson. $15.)229 W. 28th St(212) ~9292.
1\-Roxy (Locomotion. Gay men, straight women,some lesbians.) 515 W. 18th St, between
Tenth and Eleventh avenues. (212)645-5156.
+Silver Unin. 175 Cherry Lane. Roral Park, LI.
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Serious House music. No' alcohol. Doors
open at 11 pm.) 530 W. 27th St., between
Tenth and Eleventh avenues. (212) ~28.
Sling .. y" ($8.) 641 W. 51stSt (212) 664-8668.
Thl World (Christina Vista and Junior Vazquez
present an after-hours party. Doors open at
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dancing and drinking. OJ Victor. Free fruit,.
free admission from 4-7 pm. $5 till 11.) 225 E.
Houston St., at Essex Street. (212) 505-5033.
Thl Blnk (Pump, hosted by David Leigh, withOJ Micheal Fierman. Free admission withChelsea Gym ID. $7/$10.) 225 E. Houston St,
at Essex Street. (212) 505-5033.
Thl Building (Dallas' The Men's Room. Students, professionals. Go-go boys and 60foot ceilings.) 51 W. 26th St (212) 576-1890.
b+Clit Club (Jocelyn and Julie's Tea Dance. 6
pm to 12 am. $5.) 432 W. 14thSt+c..Zy Nanny', (Sunday evening Tea Dance.
Free before 9 pm!$5 after.) 21 Seventh Ave.
South. (212) 366-6312.
-4-FUCII (DJs Craig and Victor spin industrial,house, bass, soul and twirly disco. Downstairs, the Lesbian Luv Lounge with OJ Lori
E. Seid and guest DJs. $5.) Pyramid. 101. Avenua,A. (212) 420-1590.
• lilly',("OJ Moaning Usa spins the records
lor dancing dykes. Doors open at 8 pm. $3.)
46 Bedford St (212) 929-9322.
Monster (Sunday Tea Dance at 4 pm.) 80 Grove
St at Sheridan Square. (212) 924-3557.
Pa .. nll (Michael Fesco presents Sunday Tea
Dance. Open bar 5-7 pm. Complimentaryhors d' at 7. Go-go boys. $6.) 229 W. 28th St(212) 563-9292.
.SOB, (Leticia Montalvo presents The Lust
House. First Sunday of the month. OJ
Marlow. $5.) 204 Varick St, at Houston. (212)

Barbary Coast. 64 Seventh Ave. (14th St) 675-0385
The Break, 232 Eighth Ave. (22nd St) 627-0072
Cellblock 28,28 Ninth Ave., 733-3144(M-W)
Chelsea Transfer, 131Eighth Ave. (bet 16th and17th) 929-7183
Eagle's Nest. 142 Eleventh Ave. (21st St) 691-8451
Lavender and Lace, etthe Vault, 28 Ninth Ave.,
255-6758 (Fr, 7-11 pm andSu, H pm, women)
Private Eyes, 12W. 21st St (bet Fifth and Sixth
avenues) 20&.7770
Rawhide, 212 Eighth Ave., (21st St.), unlisted
Spike, 120 Eleventh Ave., 243-9688

243-4940.

Every Night (or almost)• Bldrock (Lesbian club, closed Mo and Tu.)
121 Woodfield Rd. West Hempstead, LI. (516)486-9516.
-4-Club Edllwei .. (Tuesdays are for lesbians,
but it's open to all Tu-Su.) 167 W. 29th St.
(212) 868-6989.
419419 N. Highway (Rte 27). Southampton, LI.
(516) 283-5001.
nd Centrel 210 Merrick.Rd. Rockville Centre,
LI. (516) 536-4800.
Magic Touch (Anglo/Latin/Asian) 73-13 37th Rd.
Jackson Heights, Queens. (718) 429-8605.
MOllIter 80 Grove St, at Sheridan Square. (212).

West Village
Badlands, Christopher and West streets, 741-9236
Boots & Saddle, 76 Christopher St., 929-9684
Crazy Nanny's 21 Seventh Ave. S., 366-6312(women)D.l's Fat Cat 281W. 12th St,243-9041
Pandora's Box, 70 Grove St. (Seventh Ave.) 2421408(women)
Dugout, 185 Christopher St, 242-9113
Eighty-Eights, 228W. 10th St,924-0008

The Hangout (J's) 679 Hudson St,242-9272
Julius, 159W. 10th St,929-9672
Keller's, 384West St/Christopher, 243-19117
Kelly's Village West, 46 Bedford St, 929-9322
Marie's Crisis, 59 Grove St, 243-9323
The Monster, 80 Grove St (Seventh Ave.) 924-3558
New Jimmy's 53 Christopher St, 463-0950
Ninth Circle, 139W. 10th St,243-9204
Sneakers,392 West St, 242-98:11
Two Potato, 145Christopher St, 242-9340
Ty's, 114 Christopher St, 741-9641
Uncle Charne's, 5& Greenwich Ave., 255-8787

Tribeca
Altar, 161W. Broadway. 571-7272.
G-spot, 50 Warren St, 219-2588 (Fr and Sa, women)West Side
Candle Bar,D Amersterdam Ave., 874-9155
Cat's, 730 Eighth Ave., 221-7559
Don't Tell Mama, 343 W. 46th St.,757-0788
Gell1S,360 W. 42nd St, (Ninth Ave.)967-0659
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Bogart's. 320 E. 59th St, 688-8534
Brandy's Piano Bar, 7J!j E. 84th St. 650-1944
G.H. Club. 353 E. 53rd St. 223-9752
Johnny's Pub. 123 E. 47th St. 355-8714
NY Confidential, 3tJi E. 49th St. 308-8390
Rounds. 303 E. 53rd St. 593-0807
South Dakaota. 405 3rd Ave., (29th St) 684-8376
Star Sapphire. 400 E. 59th St, 688-4710
The Townhouse. 236 E. 58th St. 754-4649
Twenty-Nine Palms. 129 Lexington Ave ••686-8299

Staten Island(area code 718)
Sand castle. 86 Mills Ave •• 447-9365

Westchester(area code 914)
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Stutz, 202 Westl:hester Ave., Whits Plains, 761-3100

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The Bar. 68 2nd Ave •• (4th St) 674-9714
Pyramid. 101 Ave. A,420-1590
Tunnel Bar, 1161stAve., (7th St) 7n-9231.

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Bedrock, 121 Woodfield Rd., West HempStead. '486-9516 (women), • c,
Blanche, 47-2 Boundary Ave., Fal'mirigdale, 6946906
Grand Central, 210 Merrick Rd., Rockville Centre,

Brooklyn(area code 718)
After Rve Plus, 5 Front St, 852-0139
Spectrum, 80264th St, (Eighth Ave.), 745-9611
Sweet Sensations, 6322 20th St, 435-2580

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Hatfield'si 126-10 Queens Blvd.,Kew Gardens, 2618484
Hideaway. 87-36 Parsons Blvd ••Jamaica,657-4885
Love Boat. 77.qz Broadway. Elmhurst, 29-8670
Magic Touch. 73-13 37th Rd., Jackson Heights,
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StationHouse Pub,3547 Menick Rei..Seaford,785-!IDI,

Long IslandtBunkhouse; 192 N. Main St, 'Sayvili,. 561.2865'Cherry's. Bayview Walk, Cherry Grove. Rre Island. ' '.
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Club Swamp. Disco/Annex Restaurant, Montauk
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Crew's Quarters. 36 R Pines Blvd •• upstairs, Rre
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Ice Palace. Cherry Grove Beach Club, Rre Island.
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Kiss, 161 Farmardie Dr•• Lake Ronkonkoma. 467-9273
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Oppartumti.. (718) 88&-2500,(voice) (718)
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and church and upholding thecivil righta Of Le.bian and Gay
Atheista. Meetings the fir.ts
Sunday Community Canter, 1 to
3 P.M. Dial a Gay Atheiata(718)899-1737.24 hou ...
ARCS (AlDS-IIEI.ATEDACT UP (AIDS COAUTION TO
UNlEASH POWER)
498A Hudson Street, Suite G4
NYC 10014 (212) 584-2437, A
diverse, non-parti.an group ofindividuel. united in anger andcommitted'to direct a ction toend die AIDS crisis. Gen. meetingl Mon. night. 7:30, in The
Grelt Hall, Cooper Union, on
Cooper Square between Astorand St Marks Place's.
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for DutchelS, D.. nge. Putnam.
Rockland, Sullivan, Ulster andWeatchester
counti.s. AIDS
education. client services, crisis
intervention, suppon groupa,
C88e management. buddy andhospital visitor program. 214
Central Ave ••White Plains, NY
10808 (914)9lD-0808 838 Broadway, Newburgh, NY 12250 (914)582-5005 A1DSnna (114) tatII07

ADlIJ SURVIVORS OF,SEXUAL ABUSE(s,o.-d by SAGE)
Mondays, 7:00 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.
Sage Room at the Center
bparim.nt.1
Th.r.p, Groupfa'-W.,Nn (Ages 21 and up) to.uppon the recovery process
and fr.. you from the pain and• il.nc. of sexual abuse. In aaaf. aetting, we ahare feelings,
davelop relationships with innerchildren, and explora andrelene beliefa and petterns
that block
growth. This re-inter,. .
gratlve procus..... t. In
uncovering your self worth andinner Itrength. Psychotherapilta Joyce Z. Meyers, CSW .•and Robbye Stuan-Russell,
MA. facilitate the group.
AFRICAN AMERICAN
WIMMiN UNITED FOR
SOCIETAL ClfANGE
Laabian at GIY Community Center 208 WBIIt 13111Str8IIt. NY~NY
Meiting avery Thu .. day 8:00 P.M
AIDS REsoURCE CENTER (ARC)
Supportive housing for homelell PWAs (Bailey House and.partmenta). Non-judgmental
p.. toral care for PWAs andloved onea. Volunteer opportunities. (212)481-1270. 24 West
30th St., NYC10001
ALDECIAM-NY
L•• bi.n. of th. E.. t
Co•• t/Aai.n Pacific Lalbi.n
N.twork-N_
York) We are apolitical, social and supportive
network of Asian Pacific lesbians. Planning meetings on the
1.tSunday and .ocialeventson the last Friday of 88ch
month. Call (212)517-5598 formore infonnation.
(Alln

AMERICAN GAYIlDIIIAN ATHEISTS
AGA. Inc/701 7th Avenue, Suite
fW/NewYork. New York 10038
A ,non-profit, educational organization dedicated to preserving .. pa ration between state~

ASIANS at RlENDS- NY
A not-for-profit organization
which promotes friendships with
Asian/Pacific Islander, AaianAmerican, and non-Asian gay
man through social, cultu.. ~ educational, and 'service activities
and programs. Call our Holline:
212-674-5084,or writ81D: P.O.Bolt
8628. NY,NY10183-81123.
ATR (AIDS TREATMENTIESOIIIICES.IICJ

Publish. a qualt8lly DireC1Dryofclinical trials of experimental
AIDS/HIV treatmenta in NY/NJ.
and Philadelphia, and hIS educational materialr/aanins .. for trial
participantlL A1R also advocataa
for improveRl8nIB in the trial sylItem. 259 W. 30th St.. 9th fI~
NYC.
10001.(212)28&-4188.Publicationa
fnI"'donatioo reqU8lllld.
BAR ASSOCIATION FOR
HUMAN RICIIITS
Lawyers Referral Service forthe Laabian and Gay Community
Full Range of Legal Servicel(212) 459-4873 Free Walk-in
Legal Clinic. Tuesday 8-8 pm.
Lesbian at Gay Community
Centr. Ground Roor,
BIDS (BISEXUAL DOMINANCE
a SUBIISSION GROUP)
Share S/M experien'cea andfantaaies with others in a p.. itive, non-judgmental
atmosphere. First Sunday of themonth. 4:45pm at the Community
Center 208 W. 13 Strut. NYC.
This group is pan of the New
YolitArea Bisexual Network.
BUOUX (TIE BISEXUALJEWISH GATHERING)
Comel N.. hl Schmooze I Meetother Jewish biaexual (andallie.) and share your intel'8lta
at a "show- and-tell: Second
Friday of each month, 8pm at
The Community Center 208 WBIIt
13th 'Street, Pan of th. New
YolitArea Bisexual Network. formore info, Call (201)40-3902.

BISEXUAL INFORMAnON a
COUNSEUNG SERVICf.,INC.
A profeaaionilly ltaffed, nonprofit organization for bisexuala. their familiel and partne .. ,facing problems of a psychological or medical kind. We also
work with those in doubt about
their sexuality. Coofidentiality isprotected by law. For infonnalion phone: (212) 49&-9500

BISEXUAL PRIDEDISaJSSION GROUP
Topical discuaaions 00 iIIues ofinterest to the comm unity in acongenial atmospher.,followed by an infonnal dinner ata friendly local r8ltaurant.
Every Sunday, 3:00- 4:30pm at
the Community Center 208 W. 13
Street, NYC. Pan ofthe New
Yolit Area Biaexual Networlt.
BISEXUAL WOMEN'S
SUPPORT GROUP
Discuaaion a CR Group meeta
every 2nd &: 4th Wednesday,
8:30 - 8:00 pm at the Community
Center, 208 West 13th Street,Part of NYABN•BIWAYS NEW YORI
Monthly social events for the
Bi88XUalcommunity and friends.
Ca. NYABNfor datllila of upcoming BVIII'IIII. (212)41iH784
BlPAC (BISEXUAL POIJI1CAI.
AmON COIlMlJ1&)
Political action on iSlu81 ofimportlnce to'lIIe Bi88XUal/IMbian/Gay community. Monthly
mllllting/ 'potluck hald 8:00pm on
fourth Thu .. day of the month atmembers homel. Call NYABN
for this month·s location. ((212)459-4784

BISEXUAL YOUlll
Infonnal'soci.1 &: ,upport,groupfor Bis8Xli.1 kidalyouth. Monthly
ma.ting/poduck
lunch hald
1:00pm on fourth Sunday of themonth at m.mbers homel. C.II
NY ABN for thia month~ location.
This group is psrtoftha NawYolit
Area Bisexual NaIWork.

BWS-BRONX LESBIANSIJNIIB) II SIS1BHOODIs an .ctive. visible, multicultural membership organization
th.t ia addressing the social.nd politic. I need, of the Bronx
Lesbian community. Regularmeetings, the 3rd Fri, 8:30-8 pm
o 208 W. 13 th St and the 2ndWed, 8:30-8pm .t One Fordham
Pilla. Bronx. Call Lill 212-8299817 (Englilh) or Miriam 21240&-2892 (Spsnish))
BODYPOSITIVE
If you or your lover haa tested
HIV+, we offer luppon groups,.. min .... public forums. refarencelibrary, referrals, social

activities
and up-to-datenational monthly, "THE BODY
POSITIVE"($2!iIyear). (212) 7211348. 2085 Broadway, Suite 308,
NY,l0023
BROOKLYN'S LESBIAN AND
GAY POUJICAL CLUB lAMBDA
INDEPENDENT DEMOCRATS
Ll.D. endor .. s .nd works forcandidates in local, state andnaliooal alectiona.lobbiaa for lagislatioo, and conduclII community
outnlach through street fai.. andm.alings on spaci.1 topics. Join
us. 338 Ninth St.. Suits 135 Brooklyn, NY11215 (718)9111>-8482

CENIBI RIB ANTI-VlOlENCEEDUCAnOfMlROOIIIYNWOMEN'S MAII1W.ARTS
a non-profit orginization teaching saIf-dafanae and karate for 17
years. 5 week courses in selfdefense for women, Community
workshops in saIf-dafanae. Ongoing clasns in ka .. te &. fBi chi for
woman. Cou... &. workshops in
SO for lasbians &: gay man. Sliding fee scale according toincome. Call for more info. 718788-1775. 421 5th Ave~ Brooklyn,
NY 11215.
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CIRCLE OF MORE UGIfT
Spiritual support and sharing in agay/lesbian affirmative group.
West-Pallt Pl'8lbyterian Church
165 Wast 88th Street Wed: worship service 8:30 pm, program
7:». Maraha (212) 304-4373 Charlie (212)891-711B.
COMMUNITY COUNSEUNGCENIBIGay Affinnative Psychotherapy
for Individual., Coupl.s andGroups by licen .. d clinical.ocial workers and psychologists. Special experience e inaddictioos, strell management,
deprelSion, career counseling,
relationship concern., AIDS
anxiety and coming out isaues.
Sliding fee Icale. Insur.nce
accepted. Vill.ge location. For
immediate appoin1mant, call 212353-2888. A staff member will
retum your call within 24 hou ...

Teen HOTI-UNE for Healthl Call
Monday to Thursday, 711m to
9pm. At O1i)ertim.,le8Ve a maesage and we'll call you backl
COMMUNITY RESEARCH
INmATJVE. NY (CRI)
The Community R8Search Initiative of New Yolit ("CRI NY" isa not-for-profit,
communit.ybased center for AIDS and HIVrelated clinical research. Created in 1987 by people withAIDS and their physicians; CR,I
NYtests promising experimental treatments
which many
rastore or stabilize immune
unction, Ind treatments andpreventions for AIDS and HIVrelatad opportunistic
Infections.There is no change forparticipationin CRlstudies.
Many laboratory tasts andphysicals are provided free ofcharge to participants. Childcare can also be provided. All
Identifying information is kept
confidential. Call (212)481-1050
CONGREGAnON BETH
NY's Gay and Lasbian Synagogue Services Friday at 8:30pm~ Belllune Street For info. call:(212) 829-9498.
CONGREGAnONB'NAI JESIIJRUNMonthly Spiritual Gllllerings andfree catered fastiva luncheons ,forall People With AlDS,their love ..
and families. Program includes
music and disculSion led by our
Rabbis. CaD(212)m-7uJ,

DIGNITY-BIG APPLE
A community of Lasbian and Gay
Catholics. Activiti. include Litur~gies and sociala every Sat, 8:00
pm, at the Center, 208 W. 13
Street, NYC.Call(212)818-1309.
DIGNITY NEW YORK
Lesbian and gay Catholics andfriend, AIDS Ministry, Spiritual
Development The Cathedral Project Wo .. hip Services &. SocialSun. Eves. 7:3Opm-St.John's Epiecopal Dlurch 218Wast 11th Streeto Waverty-e75-2179

COMMUNITY HEALTH PROJECT
208 WBIIt13th Street. NYC,New

York 10011 For AppointmllnIB andInformetion(212) 875-3559(TIYNoice)PROVlDING CARING,SENSITIVE AND LOW COSTHEALTH'CARE SERVICESTO THE
LESBIAN AND GAY COMMUNnYCOMMUNITY HEALllI
PROJB:raIlEAll1lINRlRMAnoN UNE RIB TEENS
Do you h.,va questions about
your health? Your Body? Coming
Out? Safer Sex? Feel like you
have no one to talk to? Not any
morel Now you c.n call the
HOTI-LiNE. 212-255-1517The

DROP-IN COME our
RAP GROUPSFor La.biari. and Bil.xual
WDman. Fridays starting April
5th 8:30-8:30 p.m. For G.y a.nd
Bi.. xual MIn. Saturdays sterting April 8th 11:30 a.m.-l:30 pm'15.00 Donation R.p Group far
1Mbi.n .nd Bi-SUII.I Weman
onr 40 1st $ 3rd Saturday 8-8
p.m. "$5.00 Donation Rap Grvup
for .... bi.n and 8i-S.xllal
Wom.n Every Saturdiy 2:305:00 p.m. "$5:00 Donation R.p
Group for g.y .nd ,i-S.x ... 1
Man Every Sund.y 2:30 - 5:00
p.m. "$5:00 Donation

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, AIlED GAYENVIRONMENT
For the physically disa bled lesbian ~nll Gay Community. P.O.
Box 305 Village Station, New
York, NY 10014
THE FlFrllNEW YORK lBBIANAND GAYEXPERIMENTAL", RIM IUTlVAL
Will ~ held at Anthology Film in
September 1891. Submissions
will. be iccepted until Jun. 30.
Plea ... end your 18 or Super - 8
priirta or vide.o transfer {only film
Will be .how at the festival) with
,raturn postage to Jim Hubbar,
503'Broadway,
Rm 503, New
York, NY 10012 Early application. and premi.ree
will be,given priority. For further info
plealB call {212)925-5883.
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FRONT RUNNERS
A running club for lesbian and'gay athletes of all abilities. Fun
Runs of HI milea held every Sat
at 10am and Weds. at 7pm inCentral Park and eVllryTues. at
7pm in Prospect Park. For information: call {212)724-97I1il.
GAY AFRICAN AMERICANS OF
WESTCHEmR{1HE G.A.A.)'is a community baud support
group formed in Westchester
County. Various activities areplanned for1he coming months.
Call 1114-37&-0777 for more info.

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GAYFATHER'S
FORUM,
A support organization for gay
father's, their lovera, and otherain child-nurturing.ituations.
,Monthl.y'meetings
include a
potfuck-supper, aupport groups
on variid .pecialized
topics,'peakera, and .0cializing.Meetinils:'18t Friday each month, 7pm,
ilt The Center, 208 W. 13th St.,
Weat of 7th Ava. Contribution: $8.
Bring a'main coul1le for 4 people{or pay a $5 food charge.) For
information call: 212-97&-1541 or
212-288-3238,

GlAAD-UyalESBlAN
AWANCEAGAINST IIEfMW10N,
80
VariekStreet, NYC 10013 {212),118&-1700GLAAD combats hom~, phobia in the media end II.e· ,where by promoting visibility of· the le.bian and gay community'and : organizing,grassroots
relpon18to anti-gay bigotry. Do'you havi 30 minutes I month tof9rtliomophobia7JointheGLAAD
PhoneTr8llICal{212"1I8&-1700 for,information.
GUB-GAYAND lBBIAN. BII0ADCASTEJIS, .Gay and lesbian Independant, 'Brosd~8stal1l invites you to tune
• into OIlrLOOKS on WBAf-NY, 99.5
FM livery other Sunday, 7:30: 8:30Pm and join us every Tu88day
at 7:30pm to 9pm to become a, member of GLIB. No experienceneeded. 505 Eighth Avenue, NY,,NY 1001'8 Attn~OutLooka or , call
Mack, AlfiIn,{212)m-I889.
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GAyalBBIANHEALTHCONCBINSAn office of the NYC Dept. ofI
I

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Health, providea finkagea betwn
NYC Heaftfi & Human Svcs, andthe lesbian & Gay community,
focusing in All health concerns;
resource information for healthservicelconlumers
andprovidel1l. 125 Worth Street, Box
fIl, New York, NY 10013. For info ,caD (212)58&-48115.
GAYMAll 81M ACTlVlm
Dedicatad to safg and responsible
SIM since 1981. Open meetings
wlprograms on S/M techniquea,
fifeslyIe issUes, political and social
concerns. Also special events,
speakers bureau, worksh"ps,demDl, affinity groups, n8WIIsllar.
more. GMSMA - Dept. 0, 498A
Hudson Street, Suite D23 ,NYC
l00I4.(212)71J-fJf18.
. GMAD {GAYMENOFAFRICAN DESCENT)
80 Va rick Street, NYC 10013 a
support group of Gay Men of
African Descent dedicated toconsciousness-raisingand thedevelopment of the Lesbian and
Gay Community. GMAD is inclusive of African, African-American, Caribbean and Hispanicl
Latino men of color. Meetings
are held, weekly, on Fridays. For
information, call 71&-802-0182.

for meeting schedule or more
information.
208 West 13thStreet, NY, NY 10011.
INSI1TU1E FOR WBIAN ANDGAYVOUIII.
Counseling. drop-in C8IIIBr {M-F. 38pm), rap groups, Harvey Milk
High School, AIDS and safer 18X
i1formation, referrals, prufassional
education. {212) 833-8920 {voice)1212)83H828TTYforcfeaf.
HISPANIC UNnED GAYSalBBIANS
Educational services, politicalaction, counseling and social
activities in Sp8nish and English by
and for the Latino Lesbian and Gay
Conmunity. G8/I8rallTl8e1inga Il:OO
pm 4th Thursday Ii_ry month at
2IJl Wast 13th bet Ca1l201-&7824 orwrite IlU,G.L. P.O.Box 228
Canal Street Station, New York, NY
10019.
IDENTITYHOUSE
Now in our 20Ih yaar, we provide
peer counseling, therapy referrals and groups for theleabian,gay and bisexual community.
Csil u. at (212) 243-8181. VISit us
at 544 8th Ave., bet.ween 14th151hStreets, Manhattan.

INTERNAnONAL GAYalESBIAN HUMAN RIGHTSGAYMEN'S HEALTHCRISIS HOTUNECOMMISSION
works to focus the spotlight of
FOR INFORMATION ON SAFERSEX AND HIV-RELATEDHEALTH world opinion on the oppression
SERVICES, AND FOR INFORMAof gays and leabians throughout
TION ON ONE-TIME, WALK-IN
the world. Currentfy organizing
an Intf .ymposium on Gay and
AIDS COUNSELING SERVICES
212-807"'212~7470 TDD lesbian issues to be held in
Moscow an1l lenin-grad in July'{Forth8l1earing lmpeiNII) Mon.1891, in addition to msny otherFri. 1Q30 aJl\. to 9 pm. 12:IDtD3:00
exciting projects. For more info
write IGlHRC, 2978 Folsom
GAYSTAMP COUECJION
Street, SF CA 84110, or call
One of the collections on exhibit{415)847-0453.
will be Alternate lifestyles outof the Closet. This i. the only
INSTIIUTE FOR HUMAN
gayllesbian stamp collection of
IIIINI11Y INC.
its Rind. It has won 9 gold
New York's non-profit lesbianawards so far. For informationand gay psychotherapy center.
on GlHSC, send a SASE to:licen18d psychoiogisIB, psychiaGlHSC, P.O. Box 230940, HarttrisIB, and clinicilsocial workIIl1I.
ford, CT 08103-0840
Sliding scale fees. Insurance
accepted. Individual, couple, and
GIRTH a MIRTH
famnytherapy. Variety of Men's
CWB OF NEW YORK
and women's groups forming
Social club for heavy, chubby
continuously. 118 W. 72nd Street
gay men & their admirers.
212-789-9432
Monthly socials at the ·Center",weekly bar nights Thursdays at
INTEGRITYJNY
the ·Chelsea Transfer", monthly
lesbian and Gay Episcopalians
Fat Apple Review, bi-monthly
and friends. Eucharist and proFAR. penpals. For more informagram every Thul1lday, 7:30pm. St
tion cIIi Ernie at 914-89&-7735 or
luke's Church, Hudson andwrite: G&MINY.Dept 0, P.O. Box
Chriatopher Sta.INFO: P.O. Box
10, Pelham, NY 10801

raising. education, support andempowerment
for Latino gay
men. We are inclusive of Latino
gay men of all nationalitiea, colorsand agel. We meet weekly
and publiah a monthly calenderof events. ,For more information
call {718) 834-8785 or write to
P.O. Box 7108 Grand Central
Statiori N.Y~N.Y.10183.
lAMBDA LEGALDEHNSE
Aft) BIUCATION RNJ
Precedent-letting
litigation
nationwide for IBlbians, gay
men and people with AIDS.
Membership {$4O and up) inc.
newsletter and invitations to
special events. Volunteer nighton Thursdays. Intake cills: 24pm Mon thru Fri {212) 895-8585.
lAVA
lBBIANS AlOUT
VlSUALART
Call for slidea for Lesbisn ArtisIB'
Exhibition, Gay & lesbian COinmunity Center, NYC. For more
information, nnd SASE to :Miriam Fougere, 118 Fort Graene
Place, Brookfyn, NY 11217.
lBBIAN AND GAYHERITAGEOF PRIDE-INC.
Organizers of New York's le.bian and Gay Pride events: theMarch, the Rally and the Danceon the Pier. Call {212) 891-1774'.76 OU"IWEEK Maw1,1_1

ICLGO-(KOREAN lBBIANAND GAYORGANlZAnON)
Is a group of IBlbian and gay
Korean. who are committed to.upporting elch other, creating
positive visibility and confronting anti-IBlbian and gay
bias Within the Korean community. For more information call
Gene (212)477-8558
lAnNO GAYMEN OF NEWYORIC(LGMI NY)
Is dedicated to consciousness-lBBIANS AND GAYSOFRATBUSH
Brooklyn's social organization
for both gay men Ind lesbians.
P.O. Box 106, Midwood Ststion
Brklyn, NY 1123O,{718) 85&-9437
lBBIAN HERS1'ORYARCHIVES
P.O. Box 1258 New York, NewYork 10118212/874-7232Since
1974, the Archives hl8 inspired,shaped and reflected lesbian
lives everywhere.
Call toarrange a vilit or to volunteer
for,Thul1ldlyworknighlll.,'

ADULT mUCATORS

Meet with other IBlbians andgays who \'\(ork in adult education as tea chers, adminiatratol1l,
counselors, tutors, etc., to diacuss issuea auch as coming out
to stsff and atudents, materials
and curriculum, workshop andconference participation. We
m88t the first Friday of every
month at 8:00 pm at the Lesbian
and gay Community Center 208
Weat 13th Street Can Bryna Diamond at {212) 832-7802 {daya) for
information

UFEUNETHE NAnONAL lBBIAN ANDGAYTOu.-FREE SERVICE
1.a.l1R:.
LOST PEER SUPPORTSERVICES {LPSS)
lost Peer Support Services; a
new program to pl:ovida counseling and support to the lesbian,gay and bisexual commllnity ofGreater Weatcheatar. is plaooing
ita. first volunteerlraining. Thoseinterested in becoming groupfacnitstol1l and peer coun18lol1lshould csll the Lost switchboard
at {914) 948-4922 for further
deteils. Experience and beginning volunlilers wiilcomed.

THE lBBIAN AND GAY
BIGAPPLE CORPS
Get your inatrument out of thecloset and come play with ui.
Symphonic, Marching, Jazz. Dixieland, Rock, Rut. Ensembles
and WoodWinds. 123 Weat 44th
St Suite 12L New York, NY 10038(212) 98&-2822.

Ave. in Westbury, NY.Support us
for change on Longfafand. Mailinga GAY COMMUNITY

addresa: PO Box514, Wea1bury, NY
11!m 51&33&-4882.'

llSBIAN

1~lDNG ISlAND ACT-UP
M881STuesdl'p at8pm at 181 PostSERVICES CENTER

208 Weat 13th Street New York,NY 10011 {212) 820-7310 8am11pm everyday. A place forcommunity organizing and networking, socialservic88,
cultural programs,
and social
events sponsored by the Centerand more than 150 community••
orgamzations.

!i2lI2, NY NY 10185 (718)72O-3Ii4

HEAL-{Health Education
AlDSU.i_)
Weekly info. and support groupfor treatments for AIDS which do
not compromise the immune
aysIIIm further, including alternative and holistic approaches.
Wed 8pm. 208 W. 13th St.{212)fIl4-HOPE.

1iSB1AN a GAYTEACHERS
ASSOCIAnON-lNYC
The lGTA has been iii existancesinclI 1974. We promotll thllneeds and rights of'Gay/L8llbian
educator., studel1ts and parents. We re currently in active
negotiations with the B'oard of
Education concerning the multicultural curriculum, sensitivity
training of guidan"ce councllol1l,
social workers, and teachersand many other issuea. We also
have a friendly working relationship with the U;F:T. For more
information call {7,18)828-4899 (718)598-1884

lBBIAN AND GAY
WORNE1WORKAn organization of Lesbians andGays who are active in theirla bor union.
workingondomestic partnership benefits
and AIDS issues. For more
information call (212)923-8890.
1iSB1AN AND GAY
RIGHrS PROJECJof thll AnMriClin Civil Uhrti••
Union KNOW YOUR RIGHTSI
WE'RE EXPANDING THEM (212)944-8800, elCl545

LSM
is a support and infDrmation groupfor lubians and bill8xuII WOI118n
interastad in fantesy, role-playing.
bondage, diacipliriil, SIM, feliahas,alternlte gender identitiea, costumes and so forth. Membershipis available only to women 18
years and older. Actualexperience is not required but genuine
intBrest and an open mind lre.,fOr
information pleall8 Writ8: P.O:Box
1m, Murray HiDStation, New York,NY101!i1l

MARANATHA: RIYERSIDERS
FOR 1iSBlAN/GAY CONCERNSMonthly program'meetingon
88cond Sunday for gayllBlbiln
Christians Ind friands; Educational, poIiticIl, and IOci,1 activitiealcheduled, 12:30 p.m. Riverside Church, 490 Riverside Drive,
Sunday worship 10:45 a.m .• For
info.,call {212)222-5900 {ext 280)•

MEN OF All COLORSTOGETHERNY,
A m~rac,ial group of gay men
against raCism. Meetings evary
Friday night at 7:45 at the Leebian and Gay Community ServiC81Centsr,208 W. 13th Straet
For more info. call: (212)24583811 or (212)222-9794.
MmDPOUTANnNNISGROUptMTG)
Our 200 member lesbian andgay tennis club includes play.ra from beginning to tournament level. Monthly t.nnis
partie .. Wintsr indoor league.
Come play with usl For information: MTG, Suite K83, 488-A
Hudson St., New York, NY
10025. (718) 85H!i82.
MOCA IMEN OF COLOR AIDSPREVENTION PROGRAM.)
Provides aafer sex and AIDS
education infonnation to gey
and bisexual Men of Color;
coordinatesa network of
p.er-support groups for gay
and bi88xual Men of Color inall 5 boroughs of New YorkCitY 303 Ninth Ave, New York,NYl00010r call (212)239-1798:
NATIONAL GAY AND
lESBIAN TASK FORCE
is the national gra88l'OOl8political organization for lesbians
and gay men. Membership is$3CVyear. I.. ue-oriented projects
addre..
violence,
IOdomy law., AIDS, gay rights
ordinanc .. , famili .. , media,
etc. through lobbying, education, organizing and direct
Iction. NGLTF 1517 U Street
NW, W8Ihington, DC 20009.
(202)332-8483.

NEW YORKADVERlISINGAND COMMUNICATIONSNETWORKNYACN ia the community's
largeat g.yrand lesbian profesaional group, welcoming all
in communicationa-andtheirfriends. Monthly m88tinga, 3rd
Wed 8:30pm at the Community
Center. Membera' new.latter,job hotline, .nnu.1 directory.
Phone (212)517-113110for more
info. M.ntion OutW88k foron. fr88 nllWlllettar.

N.Y.~ES
Support and di.cu .. ion groupfor lesbiana who 88If idBll1ifyas
Femme Ind Ire primarily
altr. ctad to butch women. For
membenhip infonnation call
Lisa (212)829-9817.
N.Y. WOMEN'S somAll

aUlD
For experi.nc.d,serious
Softball PI.Ylra, Coachea andM.n.g.n.
We play mOd/faat
pitch we.kends in M.nh.ttan
and QUlen •• Try-outs begin
Feb. 11 thru April- or until
filled. (2121255-1379 Jan.t
NINTH STREET CENTER
Since 1973, • community d.dic.ted to d.monatrating that a
hOIllOl8Xll.llifaatyle il a ratio-nal, desirable choice for individuals diaaatisfied with therewards of cOl1Ventional6ving.
Paychologically - focU888d rap
groups, Tues., Sat, 8 to 10 pm.
peer counselling available. 319
E. 9 Street, New York,NY10003,
for info call (212)22&-5153.

PEOPLE wnH AIDSIEAIJII GROUP
Underground buyer's club
importing not-yet-approved
medications and nutrilional supplements, 31 Weat 28th St 4thRoor (212)532-G280
PINK PANnIER PATROLNOR11t AMERICAN
MMlBOY LOVE ASSOCIATION INAMllIAI
Dedicated to sexual freedom
and especially interaated in
gay intergenerational
relationships. Monthly Bulletin
and regular chapter m88tings
on the firat Saturday of eachmonth. Yearly membership is$20; write NAMBLA. PO Box
174, Midtown Station.- New
York, NY 10018 or call (212)807-8578 for infonnation.

Community street patrol in
Eaat and Waat Village dedicated to deterring violent
crime against gays and 1.. bians. For info and meetingtime for W .. t Village, call
212-475-4363. for Eaat Village
Patrol info, call 212-24H588.
70 A Greenwich Ave., Box107, NYC 10011
PROfHSJONALS IN

RlMMDEO
338 Canal Straet, 8th Roor, NYC

10013212-86-3351
NORTHERN UGHTSAIlBINmVB
Improving Quality of Life for
People with AIDS/HIV. THE
AIDS MASTERYWORKSHOP:
Exploring the pOllibili1i.. of apowerful and craaM In in theface of AIDS. CaI(212)255-85!i4

NYC GAya IHBIAN
ANTJ..VlOlENCE PROJECr
Counaaling, advocacy, andinformation for survivors ofanti-gay and anti-I .. bian violence,l8xual al88ult, dOlll88lic
violence, and other types ofvictimization. All .. rvic .. freeand confidential.24 hour hotline (212)111711197
PARENT$IFIIIENDS OF
lSIIlAN AND GAYS
L.t P/FlAG h.lp you and yourfamily deal with the uphesVlI of
your coming out Our mee1ingaar. fr •• : monthly on the 4th
Sunday, at 3:00 pm, in Duane
Church. 201 West 13th. Info? cal
Jesnne, 212.-.0&29

PEER COUNSBJNGFOR SURVIVORS OF BIAS ASSAULT,DOMESTIC VIOLENCE ANDSEXUAL ASSAULT
Thl Nlw York City Gay anda..•• i.n Anti-Viol.no. Proj.et IAVP) is offering freepeer coun .. ling for lesbi.ns
and gay men who are ,urvivora of bias a .. ault, domestic violenc.
.nd I8xual
aasault. Trained volunteer
peer coun .. lora will b•• vailable from. to 1PM Inry
W.dnaad.y and Thunday at
thl AVP offio .. , 201 WI.t
13th StrllL AVP offers freecounseling, advocacy andinform.tion and referrals tosurvivors of bi......
ult,
domestic violence .nd sexualal88 ult C.II /%12) 107.... 17 forIl10,. infannatiolL
PEOPLEwnH
AIDS COAUIION(212)532~I-aoo-82&-~
Hotline (212) 532-CIi88Monday
thru Friday lOam-8pm Meal programa, support groupe, educational and referral .. rvicaa for
PWA'. and PWArc's .

QUEER NATION
QU88r Nation is a multi-cultural direct action group dedicated to fighting homophobia,
queer inviaibility, and all fonnaof oppresaion that any qU88ramight face. Anyone can sugg .. t an a ction and shouldcome to meetings praparad toorganize and implement it ON,
208 W. 813th St, New York. NY
10011. Call 212-978-8720 for
mee1ing info.
SAGE:
ISENIORACI10N
IN A GAY ENVIRONMENT)Social Service Ag.ncy. providing care, activities, a .ducational a.rvices for gay &.
lesbian senior citiz.ns. Also
serv.s over 180 homeboundI8niora &. older PWA's .208
West 13th St NYC10011,(212)741-2247

SE1IIIAN GAYS,IESIIIANS AND BISEXUAI.S
For al of III intsreatad in raaching out to esch other in axuberance to spontsneoUlly exploraand expand upon the SetWJane
Roberts ·Philosophy·
as it
relates to our lives, personally,
I8xually and poli1ically. Call AI(212)725-1:l88,x2lI7

TASK FORCE
ANNOUNCEMENT
The legal Action Center
located .t 153 Waverly Place,
NY, NY 10014, has begun two
new programs. All their service •• re free. The HIV/AIDS
Leg.1 Sarvice Project provides
free legal servicel to people
with HIV/AIDS.Their scope of.. rvice is wide, encompessing
child care and cu.tody, di.crimination, ,housing. healthy
health planning, confidentiality.ndemploym.nt.
Th.
HIV/AIDSAgency Training andAllistance Project provides
technical a .. istance to public
and private .genciel about
legal .nd policy issuel on
HIV/AIDS and drug abuse.
They provide training, individual conlulte1ions, and model
policy guidelines, among otheritem .. If you have any further
qu.e1ion~, please contact Ms.
Catherine O'Neil .t (212)2431313. Th. A... ol.tion of
Nun .. in AIDS c.,. (ANAC)
hu monthly meetings withspilker.
and networking
opportuni1ies. For meeting info,
please contact Janet Vaccariello at (212)340-Sn4
THE OUTREACH USING COMMUNAL HEAUNG (TOUCH)
Community voluntaera providing • weakly bufhlt lupper for
the Brooklyn AIDS community. TOUCH meets Monday.v ... 5pmtoa3Op~.tdowntown Brooklyn Friendl Meeting Houl8(l10 Schennerhorn
St near Bo.rum PI.ce). Limit.d tran.portation
may be.rranged. Info: (718)822-2758.
TOUCH welcome. contribution. of fund., food and volunteer&.
UlSTER COUNTY GAY ANDlSBIAN AWANCE
Meets firat and third Monday
of ea ch month .t 7:30 pm at
tha Unitarian Church on
S.wkill Road in Kingaton. For
Infonnation, call 914-82&-3203

SUNDANCE OUTDOORADVENTURE SOCETY
A non-profit club offering Outdoor activities for every season including hiking, biking,.kiing, water .ctiviti •• andother outdoor activiti •• for the
Gay!lesbian community. For
infonnation or complimentery
Newslattar call (212)59&-4728.

IINrrYl4
NEEDS YOU to become. partof itl Org.niz.rs
for G.yG.me. IV,to be held in N.w
York in 1994. Olympic-Ityle.pom .nd cultural event illargest in world. Theme i.
INCLUSION,everyone
isnuded.
SUPPORT THE
GAMES by volunteering, joining or making a donation. Call
212-732-3812 or write UNITY'94, PO Box 2D2. NY,NY10038.

TASKFORCE
ANNOUNCEMENTS
Women'. HIVSupport Group .t
348 East 1481hStraat IIoom.B09.
on Thurad.ysll:OD-l2:3IL This
is .n on going clOl8d group for
women who ara HIVinfected.
2-3 individual conaolation. ara
required before admitt.nc.
into group. No fae. For furth.r
infonnation call Donn. Barachof Planned Parenthood/HUB at(212)58S-!mI

VISUAL ARTS PROJECJIn "III Artistic: Vision
EIf.-d IIy A.LO.s.
Th. Vi.ual Arta Projects ia.interested in documenting
and collecting
art work(.lide.)1Iy thOle people whohave AIDS or Arc. It is the
Project'. intention to not juat
focus on AIDS but on som.one' work .nd artistic vi.ion.
We an intsreatad in raceiving
raaponaa. from thOle people

in the following disciplinelp.inting, drawing, Iculpturing.
iIIuatration, architecture andenvironments I design, interiord.sign and graphic design.
Should be interested pleasecall Eric Straus. at (718)8558491,

WHAMI-WOMEN'S
HW.TH
AcrtON AND MOBIUZATION.
A direct action group committed to demanding.l8curing anddefending absolute reproductiv. fn.dom and quality healthcare for all women. W. meet
every Wed. at 8:30pm at 105, E
22nd Str.et, 4th floor. 212-7135988Mailing addrasa: WHAMI,PO Box 733, NYC10009
WOMENS ALTERNATIVECOMMON CEJmR (WACC)
A non-profit, Lesbian community cent.r serving Queens,
Na.. au and Suffolk Counties.
Thurs. night w.ekly discuslion group •• 8:30 pm, for otheractivities pl.... contsct us .t
518-483-2050.
AmNTIONWOMEN

SOFT-

BALL PlAYERS
Ther. is a Manhattan softballI.ague looking for playara;especiallyexjleri.nced
pitchel1l. If int.rested pless. callMary at (718) m-7T19 Hopeto h.ar from you lOon.
WRESTLING FOR GAYS
allSBIANS
W.tch the men of the knights
wrestling club inaction .very
Sunday at 7:30 PM .t the GAY
CENTER.The club also conduct tr.ining cia .... on alternate Saturdays afternoon (lat" 3rd Sstu rdays for men 2nd&. 4th Saturdays for women)
for more information please
call: 718-831Hi141••HOLLYWOOD Continued froftll p.......
each "supported" the other's refusal to talk, he said-I
could imagine them sitting in their dressing room, postersof Ghost on the wall, hoping that they would follow inGoldwyn's footsteps and flIld fame and fortune in Hollywood. And to hell with the audiences who helped launchthem in New York.

D.e....
Like Donohoe and Frechette (another actor recendyon the New York stage), the Sum of Us actors seem to beconstructing careers that have less to do with acting andmore to do with image-always
a tenuous, amorphousthing. It's as if the ghost of Fatty Arbuckle were still visiting
young actors in their beds, warning them that one tiny
mistake, one deviation from the Moral Majority line, andtheir future careers as 1V and film stars could be ruined
forever. Homophobia is not the only threat, although inthese cases it is the practical result. The real source of thefear is much deeper and broader-it's that all-pervasive
insecurity with which the ftIm and 1V industry has always
lived and worked.
Success in Hollywood can sometimes be repeated, but it
can never be consistently and accurately predicted. No one
ever knows for certain what suddenly turns an actor or
actress into a star (or a has-been) or a low-budget movie
into a breakaway hit, but everyone thinks that they havesome idea. Hollywood is run on 20/200 hindsight; in retrospect, everyone /mew that Havana would be a failure or that
Julia Roberts had "that certain something." The result of thiscounterfeit wisdom is a strict code that dictates, "Never try
anything that hasn't already succeeded." Because gay characters still raise eyebrows and hackles in a vocal minority ofviewers, homophobia is a corollary of that code, and gay
roles are a convenient scapegoat when a career takes a nose
dive. Young performers, fearful of breaking a rule that in fact
doesn't exist, shy away from being identified with queer
roles; movie studios, fearful of picketing in Peoria, generally
avoid even the best in queer drama.
"There was a point when it looked like LongNme Companion wasn't going to get a distributor," said screenwriter
Craig Lucas. "No one would touch it. Then, when the movie
was screened at Sundance last year--and it won the audience award and people were standing up, cheering-people
from [studios that had rejected the project) said, 'Why didn't
you send us this script? It's wonderful!'"
The ability of Lucas and Rene to find a way to maketheir movie also calls into question the long, sad tale of '!beFront Runner. Why has it been so completely impossible. to
get that movie made? Or has it simply been impossible to .
make it as a blockbuster with a big-name star? Might it havesucceeded as a low::,budget project outside the Hollywood
system? We may ne~r know.

TIll II ..
, Despite· the Advocates rather convincing argument tothe contrary, Hollywood fancies itself an open-minded town.
The standard Screen Actors Guild, or SAG, contract prohibits
discrimination against performers on the basis of sexual pref-

erence, and Mike Fenton, the president of the Casting Society of America, told the Los Angeles Times just last year thathe "has never encountered ...blatant discrimination" against
lesbian and gay performers. In clear cases of homophobia,
everyone always has someone else to blame. Fenton blamed
the lack of queer parts on "studio marketing executives." .
Performers and others blame the agents and publicists who
try to shape an actor's image. Craig Lucas, for example, told
how one of the actors in Longtime Companion was advisedby his agent-a gay man-not to appear in the movie. The
actor overruled his advisor.
1V executives blame skittish sponsors. Perry King
blames producers and casting directors. Casting directors
blame movie directors. "I've seen directors shy away from anactor because they think he or she is gay," one casting director told the LA Times calendar. Directors blame everybody:"There's a general feeling that homosexuality is a dangerous
subject," Marshall W. Mason, would-be director of '!be Front
Runner, told Time magazine. And in classic cannibalistic
form, critics blame other critics: "Heterosexual critics often
use homosexuality as a selective slander against artists they
happen not to like on other grounds," noted Andrew Sarrisin the Village Voice. Lucas agreed: john Simon is nice to me[when we meet face-to-face]' He even shakes my hand. He
can only call me a 'faggot' in print."
With all the accusations flying, it would be easy toreturn once again to lay all the blame on the altar of that evil
god of Hollywood--homophobia.
But homophobia doesn't
exist--and can't be defeated-in a vacuum. As the Advocate
suggests, and as writers for this magazine chantconstandy,
the myth of the Queer Curse will begin to collapse only
when all the lesbians and gays in the film, 1V and theater
industry begin to take responsibility· for their actions by promoting queer projects, rejecting homophobic projects andbeing more open about their sexuality.
Even that will not be enough. The Queer Curse myth caQ.
affect performers of any sexual orientation who play lesbian
and gay roles, so the ultimate responsibility for destroying themyth rests not just with queer performers, but with everyone
who has ever refused or complained about a lesbian or gay
role. Like any myth, when people stop believing in it-when
they stop acting as if it's gospel-it will pass into history.
Is there any hope? Maybe. Craig Lucas said that he got
fan letters from "straight boys and girls, [and) old people
who said, 'I never even thought gay people were human'before.'" Testosterone-marketer Oliver Stone, director of Platoon and '!be Doors, is trying to put together a biopic basedon the life of Harvey Milk. And teen dreams Keanu Reeves
and River Phoenix will be seen later this year in gay-tinged
roles in Gus Van Sant's My Dum Private Idaho.
And, after all, not every name actor in Hollywood•
refused to appear in Longtime Companion, Lucas noted.
Alec Baldwin, Elizabeth Perkins and Kevin Bacon were all at
one time scheduled to take part, but the threat of a SAG
strike drove them all to higher-paying projects. "In fact," hesaid, "Alec Baldwin asked me the other day if I would beinterested in writing a movie for him to playa gay person,
and I said, 'Sure.'" Therein lies the secret of vaporizing the
mythical curse-an
openly gay screenwriter, a Hollywood
star and one simple "Sure." Let's do it.T

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Training/Posing Videos,
Photos for sale
For info send SASE to:
PO Box 7495
Marietta, GA 30065

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whenever you wantand still keep yournatural shape?
Call Ross Jacobs(212)9~1,,

Extremely Personalized Attention,
Video Format Optional, Incredible Success Rate!
Call 212-869-0656 for free consultation, no obligatiQn!
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IEll TI PIIIICTI 'Associate Editor
Nat'l feminist newsjournal
seeks F.T. assoc. ed. Plan!
write/research news, copy-edit,
assist with production andpromo/fundraising.Exc.
writing/copyediting skills.
Fam. with communities of color
req'd. Prefer 1 yr. expowriting
news or features., $19-22K,
good benefits. Resume, shortwriting sample by 5/15/91 to:
Sojourner: The Women '8
Forum, 42G Seavems Ave.,
Boston, MA 02130. No calls.

Women of color strongly
encouraged to apply.

IElP IIITEIDial Out Corporation, a leader revolutionizing the telecommunications
information indusuY, seeks highly ,motivated, creativ,e individual toresearch, develop and implement
marketing plan. Our services include:
factual imormation,directory assistance, voice mail, entertainment, "teleconferencing, adult & dating services. MBA in Mark~ting requiredwith mastery of foll,owing' disciplines:
strategic ma~eting, services marketing, new product design, management, research, segmentati~n,pricing, advertising, Two yel!rs
experience plus ineritertain~ent orservice marketing requirea. EXc~lIent
benefits. Resume with cover letter(jnclu~e sl!lary requirements) to':Ms. Fjeld, Dial Our Cotporl!tion, 159
W.25th Street, 7th A"New York. NY79
10001.Dial ,out is a,lesbian and gay
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the leading membership organization,seeks a ,NATIONAL COORDINATOR.
The position requires strong communication skills with HIV + organizations,publications, health care providors. Exc:etlent pay and benefits. Headquarters
at 1750 New Highway. Farmingdale NY
11735. (516) 845-5300. FAX: (516)845-5310 ADIEL•HOUSEBOY

to help businessman in his homeand his office,Please call 212-242-4084'

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Word Processors/Secretaries
Wordperfect 5.0/5.1
Minimum 80 wpm/l yr. legal

G_zelle Per.onne'
68H22OLL STAR·Moving & Storage, Inc.
1bejfnest service available at the most reasonalJk rate

Local & Long Distance '. Modern Equipment, • 7 Day Service
Licensed Piano Movers. Experienced Courteous Personal
318 E. 11 St., NY, NY(212)254-2638

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ISLAND PINES

Housman wanted for beautiful home
in Fire Island Pines. Must be intelligent, Handsome, Charming and capable of maintaining a home (and Pool) ,for the summer. Must be willing towork for peanuts and room andboard. Job is ideal for people who are
Beach-Obsessed, or students, and/or
those who like to suffer. Work available immediatly.

The Introduction Service for Professionally-Orlented Gay Men
Serving the Tri-State Area Since 1985

Call for a free brochure Mon•• Fri. 7 pm • 11 pm
In NY, NJ & CT (212)'
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Telephone Jeanne or Lorna (212) 7996060 for Dr. Stuart Berger of Fax qualifICations and interest to:(212) 799-6437.

DEVELOPMENT ASSISTANT
Organized individual with ability tomeet deadlines, work under pressure,needed to provide clerical support,
handle data entry and acknowledgments, coordinate special events.
Must have excellent communications
and organizational skills,
writing ability.
Please submit resume and othermaterial~to: CRI, 31 West 26th Street,
New York, NY 10010. Indicate job
interest on outside of envelope_ NO
CALLS PlEASE.
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NEEDS-, Antiques·~Y8S,Piano.

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DISABIUTY INCOME.... RETIREMENT PLANS....
CHERYL LAPOW(212) 725-1220

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INVESTMENT MANAGEMENT .
AND PlANNINGHigh Net worth individuals Smaller
Retirement Plans $450,000 Minimum
Phone 212-713-5489

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WHOLE HEART BODYWORKSHIATSUDEEPTISSUE MASSAGETANTRIC MASSAGE
PROFESSIONAl UCENSEDTERRYWEISSER (212)463-9152
tREAT YOURSELfI·Sweet man with great hands· seeksclients for nude nonsexual vigorous
Swedish/Esalen massage. $50 anhour. CA certified.
Gary 212-228-2243. Serious onlyl
PROFESSIONAl. MASSAGE BY
RlNESS llIAINER
West45st
SwedishJDeep lissue
Sports Massage
IwOut (212) 586-6149

I'DOT 11221

TIRED OF HOMOPHOBIC MOVERS?
Try Brownstone Brothers instead.
Professional and reliable. Serving
the Gay Community 15years.
Sensitive, fun people who get the job
done right with no bullshit Ucensed
DOT 10166.Insured. Reasonable
storage rates. Pianos, ArtAntiques,
Moving Supplies. Mention Outweek
for Special Discount Free Estimates.
426 E. 91, Call289-1511.

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To edit and produce newsletter andpr()motional materials, draft press
releases and place articles, staff public forums and maintain library for
AIDS research center. Minimum of 'three years public relations or reporting experience, excellent writing,communications and organizational
skills and ability to meet deadlines
required. Knowledge of AIDS issues
deSirable. Please submit writing sample, resume and salary history.

I,-INSURANCEPUBUC AfFAIRS ASSOCIATE,IWOMAN AND VAN
NO job too small
Prompt and professional
Storage available
Last minute Jobs
201 434-5309
Beeper 212-461-2349

PAINT JOBIntelligent and skilled Brazilian
Painter with Exp. in Eletr. wiring andcarpentry is back in town and looking
for work. Fernando (212)594-2647
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11,1,1NUDE MODEL WANTED
For cover for Hot Magazine.
Bodybuilder or model with good
physique. Contact Studio Roma at
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PUBliCATIOISUVlNG A GOOD UFE WITH AIDS
Based on over 7 years of living.Send$9.95 to T.M. Publications P.O.Box
310743Tampa, Fl33680Allow 4-6
weeks for delivery.

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MOVING AND STORAGE
Household • Commercial
Piano • Antiques • Fine Art

PRIITIIG'

VISA &MASTERCARD

212·333·7337
718·275·9521
FIndu.ln ,Ite y.llow pag••Fax 212.265.1742

SITUATIOIS IAITED

stationery
newslettersbrochures
menus
postcards
forms
posters
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SECURITY PROFESSIONAL 'I am expoin access control, security
ADM, CCTV& Security operations. I
am also available to supervise yourprivate security needs.
Ivan Keith (718)692-2129

SUIIER REITAl
RRE ISLAND PINES
Spectacular Pool House. 4 bedrooms,
41/2 Bathrooms, Hot Tub, Pool,
Deluxe Kitchen, Fully equipped; Full &Half shares; May 3rd. to Oct 6th.
Bill (718) 855-2114

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May 18 to Sept 8Cute charming individual
cabins. Tastefully decorated. Air
Conditioned. Across from Gay
Restaurant and Disco
1 Mile to Ocean Beaches
ASK ABOUT A FREE

516-537-1160,

DISTINCTIVE DECO APARTMENTS
Fully renovated apartments in the art
deco district of Miami Beach. Perfectfull time residences or the best inaffordable second homes.VINTAGE
PROPERTIES,1601 Jefferson
Avenue, Miami Beach, Fl
33139. (305) 534-1424.
PHOTO SnJDIO SHAREWith easy-going guy. 2,000 sq. ft, 24 hour access in Photo District Nice
darkroom, small office. Good for stilllife, portrait or location.
Call (212)741-1711

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Tired of the Pines? Take a share in a
beautiful 3 bedroom, 2 bath bayfront
house with fireplace. (212) 242-5380

TRERAPY---WOMEN'S THERAPY/SUPPORT GROUP
The right group can be as empowering as private therapy. 4 women forming group want two more dynamic,
creative members. We'll hire our own
therapist I facilitator. For more information, call 212-535-1716
COMPASSIONATE, CARING
THERAPIST
Supportive individual & couple therapy by institute-trained licensed
psychotherapist Help with relationships, gay identity, dealing with yourfamily, and living in the age of AIDS.
Sliding fees. NY and NJ offices:(212)-769-8796or (201) 567-2445.
ARI FRIDKIS, C.S.W.
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DEPRESSEDGAY AND LESBIAN CONCERNS
Depression, Fears, A.A. Issues, Care
Partners Anxieties. I can help.
Ucensed for Insurance C.S.W.
Therapist. Upper West Side
212-362-7664-FeeI'1g-Looa "'

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MD - PSYCHIATRISTHelp with• Relationships• Self-Acceptance• Anxiety• Depression• AddiCliollS• Disorganization

724-5188
13iWest 70Ih S1reet(212) 746-3921

GERAID LEVINE, PHD.

Ucensed ClinicalPsychologist
Individual, Group,
Couples Therapy
Interactlona Men's
Group Forming

FAX that ad in today!

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West Village LocatIon
Fees based on sliding scale

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For Infonnatlon call

212-337-1220(201) 854-8161

•'HERIPI'HERAPIGAY MEN'S WORK SHOP
Assertiveness Training
Self - Esteem Improvement
J Monthly /4 session Low Fee.+ Psychotherapy Groups Wk/y
Union Sq. Office / Free Consult
Dr. Mark Williams 212 - 691-6161, . Certified /20 yrs experience.

David Lindsey Griffin,
C.S.W., C.A.C.
Gay AffilTTlative Therapy
FfE8 BASED ON THE ABILnY TO PAY
Member: NY State Federation of A1co. hollam Counselors. Inc.
Member: NY SIatII Society of ClinicalSocial Work Psychotherapists. Inc.

Gay & Lssblan
IndMduallCouplss- Stress and AnxIety, - Alcoholism & Drug Abuse- Sexual Compulsion, - ACOAand CODAIssues- Coming Out
LIceneed By Appl OnlyOfflcesln
Manhatlan, WoodetocklKing8ton

212/582-1881 914/338-6456

SUPPORTIVE GAYTHERAPISTMICHAEL A. PANTALEO••
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C.A.C.

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Personalized Self Hypnosis tape-customized for individual needsi.e. lose weight - boost immune
system - For info send SASE to:
Inner Workings, PO Box 323
Germantown, MD 20875

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TAKE CONTROL OF YOUR UFE

A supportive, gentle approach
to transformation. Hypnotherapy
helps you tap your deepest 1nnerresources to modify negative
habits, enhance self-esteem,
deal with problems andlive successfully.
CERTIFIED PSYCH01HERAPIST/HYPNOTHERAPIST

DR. BURT AARON SIEGEL(212) 570-9047.Exper/enced .Llcensed·Insurance Reimbursable•Chelsea Office

Pleasanl. camlorlable rooms
Singles/Doubles Irom $50
Privale and shared balh
TV in every room
Conhnenlal break10sl
Shari walk 1<1
Chllslopher Streel
Advance Reservohon~ SU99E'$led VIS" Mas1erCard Accepted

Chelsea Pines Inn
317WesI14IhStreel,NewYork.NY:-Women's Coming - Out Group- Men's 'Exploring Sexual Identity"
Group- Bereavement Group- Gay Male CoupJes' GroupINSTITUTE FOR HUMAN
IDENTIlY, INC.

New York's Non-Profit
Lesbian/Gay Psychotherapy Center
Groups forming: male
couples, men's, andwomen's
118 W. 72nd Street(212) 799-9432

sliding scale fee
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COUNTRY COUSINS BED &BREAKFAST, VERMONT1824 Greek Revival House, music
room, with Cathedral ceilings, Rumford
fireplace, outdoor hottub. A truly traditional B&B. Weekly and wk day specials. Contact At 1B Box 212Shaftsbury, VT05262 or call 802-375-6985.
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Private bath w/refrigerato[ OR shared bath •Color TV • Telephones • AIC • Continental
breakfast • Advance reservations suggested(212) 243-9669

FAX(212) 633-1612

Colonial House Inn
Competent & Compassionate
Psychotherapist
StewartM. Crane. ACSW

Individual,Couple,

Group Therapy* FEAR OF INTIMACY* AIDS ANXIETY
DEPRESSION* ACOA ISSUES* COMING OUT
New Men's Therapy Group Forming
Exp.rienced
Licensed
Insurance Reimbursable*

Offiw: Greenwich Village 212/645-0646
T.aneck. New Jel1ley 201/836-4206

Institute for Human Identity(212)799-9432

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GROUPS CURRENTLY FORMING:•'RIVElTherapy-Alcoholism-Substance Abuse-Self. Esteem-Anxiety-Depression-ACOA issues-Co·dependency-Anonymous Sex-Health (HIV)212·691·2312..

24-HOUR CRISIS UNE
Professional help is just aphone call away NOWI
Depression • Anxiety· AIDS-related
mentaVemotional problems • Other
psychological problems.
1-800-444-9999
THE OPEN QUEST INSTITUTE
In our community since 1978

CHELSEA 31B W. 22nd. 51., NYC 10011

MONTREAL • QUEBEC
Chasseur Guest H.ouse. Exclusively
Gay. Downtown Free Local Gay Map
serve - yourself breakfast till noon
Sunny open Air Terrace. Safe & Clean(514 521-2238IGTAAmex. Visa, MC
1567 ST-Andre Montreal H2L-315

DISCOUNTED AlRUNE TICKETS
Planning to go to Rio, Paris, Nairobi,
or anywhere else in the world?
We'll get you there for less. Contact
NUYU Adventures toll free at
1-800-9 BRASIL

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An Historic Greenwich Village Inn
All rooms with prival~.balhs
Most with fireplaces and kilchenelles
all aircondilioned$85,$100
Now available two bedroom
luxury suites $140{$160

ART DIRECTOR
OutWeek, the Lesbian and Gay News
Magazine, seeks full time art director
to oversee all design aspects of 116
page publication. Quark or Pagemaker experience; coverdesign experience and extensive magazine experience necessary. Women and peopleof color are encouraged to reply.
Send resume and letter to Mr.
Rotello,OutWeek,
159W. 25 St, NYC 10001,
or Fax (212) 337-1220.

INCENTRAVILLAGE HOUSE
32 EiGHTH AVE., NEW YORK, NY 10014
2121206-0007
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3051294-7730
A tucked away Inn and enchanting garden
villa In the heart of Old Town

KEVWESTAUNTIE EM'S FARM
Romantic Bed and Breakfast in theCatskills, especially for lesbians andgay men. Created for couples but also
well suited for groups. For info call914-439-4237; or write Rd.2, Box 455
Livingston Manor, NY 12758..

WATERSHIP INN
Central 10000tion one-halfblock from Harbor
Great oft -lIe8son speclall- . ....

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tennis, antiquing, summer theater.
HIGHLANDS INN, Box 1180k, Bethlehem NH 03574 (603) 869-3978_
Grace, Inkeeper_

Our finest amenity ...
the freedom- to be yourself.

• •The Center For Anti-Violence Education
SElF-DEFENSE • KAIlAl'B • TAl an•5 week self-defense course for women• self-defense classes ftr lesbians and gay JreI\• workshops throughout the NYC area
• karate and tai chi classes for women

free childcare available • sliding scale•Your all-season resort in
the Pennsylvania Poconos

For Reservations
Call 717-223-8484

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11/2 HOUR RUBDOWN
Deep and relaxing by good-looking .
guy. Also do couples. Reasonable. S50
In/Out$75 Marc (212)864-0091.
HOT TORSO,
Athletic bodywork from boyish 150#
5'9' 27 yo with very muscular build anda nice tan line. Clean cut and friendly.
Also available with Damon. Noon 1D4
am. CHRIS (212) 496-6710

I,SUPER MASSAGE
Full Body Professional Swedish
Massge by handsome Masseur.
Release stress and improve
body conciousness.
Rex (212) 366-07&1

MIDWESTERN BOY
5'10",150# 19 y-o college studentwith beautiful body and cuta face
available for bodywork. Very friendly.
Call for in/out appts.l0am-4am anyday. Also availa ble with Chris.
Damon (212) 496-6710
VOICE-MWI HOT MENIFREE 10-DAY ACCOUNTI BROWSEDETAILED QUESTIONAIRES FROM
l00'S OF GUYSI THE WORLDS MOSTAMAZING SYSTEM I TOUCH TONE
THE AUTH CODE: 6904(818) fJ)6-TIT1/(213) 370-2266, .... FOUR STAR MASSAGE
By attractive, sensitive, considerate,
and talented guy in mid-40's. For themassage you won't soon forget, inbeautiful surroundings in East Chelsea,
call 9:00 am -10:00 pm, 7 days a week.
$75 for 11/2 hrs. $90 for 2 hours.
MARC 212-255-8854

6 Fr BLONDE DANCER
Swedish or Tantric Massage
West 14th Street Area
Robert212-9~19.

EUROPEAN GUYS CRAVEAMERICANSICpMING TO NEWYORKI
Direct contacts. Free all-male list
with call. Call Euro-Guys
1-900-737-9333 ($Wmin.).

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gives stimluting massage &private hair design, your placeor mine. legit Onlyl(212) 969-8836•

SENSUOUS BODYRUB
By 22 year old latino Cute, Sexy,fun build, Out/ $90
Pedro-Dial517-0213
or page me at
458-4755 Enter your phone # after
beeps followed by pound #PLEASURING tHE HEART
Sensuous, deep, healing bodyworkby handsome young expert
Swedish/Tantric -In/Out
Paul (212) 228-18891
HOT CHOCOLATE
Experience bliss atthe hands of asexy black hunk. Sensuous bodyrub.
By Appt, In CalVOut Call. Call Clifton(212) 581-3907

SENSUOUS MASSAGE
Strong, safe Bodywork. Handsome
Italian. Ted (212)721-6718
MASSAGE
Young German Man gives Massage
call Mark beeper 212-713-9339
After you dial the number punch inyour number and I will call you back.
POErSTOUCH
Sensual Massage
Beyond Imagination
212-691-7934
EUROPEAN
EX FOOTBALl PLAYER
6'3" 220 lBS MUSCULARHUNG 9" + THICKBODYRUB AND MORE
CAll BRIAN (212) 988-1442
BODYBUILDER MASSEUR
Excellent masage with release, tall
sculptured German Italian, Big Balls
and feet I am very good, not like therestl Call Bruce (212) 922-9186
PROFESSIONAL MASSEUR~1" /~Yrs/WASP
Swedish Ins. Grad .. In / Out
Reasonable: Village location
Steve (212) m-1217
RELAX AND RECHARGEW/This tall dark handsome student
Swedish/Tantric - In/Out
live N. Brooklyn Call David - .
Beeper 212-380-0528
TIIS IS rrlll
The strongest. most incredibly
sensual massage you will DIL
get by a truly handsome, sweet,
exotic sensual massuerlll
Call Ariel 212-249-3047

IODElS/ESCOITS
COMP-MUSCLE-COP
Huge dominant BB 6'3", 53c, 2Oa,
32w, washboard abs, take charge
S&M attitude, pho1Ds,
Regionallitle Holder, 5'11·, 218#, 5Oc,
19a,32w blond deep blue eyes. Playwith Me. Matt & Kurt (212) 518-3214,

NEWYORirS HOmST TOP
Fully equiped mirrored playroom, Sling,rack suspension, elec enema, CBT, IT,
VA,WS, SM, BD. 6 tt. 212, very handsome, healthy, hung, 30yrs dominant
Clete, 212-249-8550. Call Nowl
HOT PUNK BOY
Hot, Young, shaved boy from Chicago
into domination, fantasies, bodyrubbing, J/O, and other safe stuff.
Call me and tell me what you like.
Vic1Dr 201-392-0514• NICK HARMON.
Sexy, hot greek bodybuilder withtanned smooth musculart body.Brown
hair, blue eyes. 5'6" 191 pds. 181/2 a,
48"c, 'lH'w, versatile. Outcalls only.
212-769-6913 NickBODYBUILDERCOMPETITIVE 28 yrs., 5'9',225lbs.,
huge pecs, monster legs XX hungItalian Kris 212-213-8657•

UNQUEBLACKESCORTNeatand Discrete
Handsome and Hung
Only 10 minutes from Manhattan
Call Neil201-~2252
BODYBUILDERCOMPETITIVE 28 yrs., 5'9',225lbs.,
huge pecs, monster legs XX hungItalian Kris 212-213-8657

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Peep Southerner w/athletic, well-det.
body. Very handsbme, versatile andwell-hung. Friendly and articulate.
6'2", 180lbs., 32 yrs.
(212) 721-3810

SItSENSU~ORPORALThis Young exec GQ Master will
initiate the novice or expand thehorizons of the experienced. Call luke:
10am-12pm only 212-772-1097
Scenes from $100 1N/135 Out

HOT BLOND SWIMMER
Clean Cut. All-American Young/Good
looking/Blue eyes smooth chest.
tight butt. Jason (212) 922-9186

CAUFORfIA • GIEG
24 year Old Pretty Boy 6' 170 Brown
Hair and Eyes 212-410-1590'

BIG BLOND BODYBUILDER
Sexy, Competitve BB 5' 10" 225#,
titleholder 53" c, 191/T a, 31" w, 26"th,Caveman or Adv. Men 3191, Torso,
Honcho, etc. XXHung, uncut
In NY 1 wk only Call Paul Becker.
(212) 469-7316.
HANDSOME HUNK
5'9", 155, smooth, 22yr. old gives great
bodywork and morel Versatile andhot Bodybuilder into hot funl
MATT 315-5097. OUT-CALLS ONLYLAS VEGAS BUDDIES
Awesome studs will show you VEGAS
from gaming to shows and MORE.
Porn stars I travel available Call (800)879-8069 ext #2
BISEXUAL sroD SVEN
Very handsome top 6' 185# S"
Blond, Blue Eyes Muscular Hardbody$200 IN/OUT
Absolutely no rushing
Beeper (212)314-8017
WANNA HORSE AROUND71
Hot Horse hung halian studwith a thick 10" tool, muscular, ripped.
Are you ready to ride??
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Call Vince 212-532-5768.,*lSRABJ sroDS2 Hunky Horny BB's:
Hung Big, X-thickll
Very Masculine, X-handsome watch
or join in.Visa I MC/ AMX Accepted.
Kobi or Tomer 212-356-7212 .

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Handsome/clean cut/great node massage, also into wrestling &sensuous
situations John 212-741-3282
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2B yo '1!JJ# 6' x handsome x I1\mg 54C
21A 31W big & thick DI~
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NICE GERMAN MASSEUR
Gives good massage well Hung pleasecall Mart at beeper 212-713-9339 Enter
your numer after beep.
HANDSOME 37 .
Masculine classy looks
Hung, big and pretty$80 Dave 212-242-7198
ONE HOT BOY
24,6'T, 1751bs hung B' and thick,clean-cutw/smooth swimmers build.
tops, Daddies and boys.
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SOME BODY·
BUILDERThe pvt. memoirs of the elite& discerning few, shall always
remember the voyeuristic
journey experienced In the privacy of my condo. A sensu. ous Swedish & hot towel tullbody rubdown, through thetouch of my aesthetically proportioned suntanned muscular Italian physique. 5'81/2,
1651bs. Clean, discreet, pri- .
vacy well-assured.
By apt.
11 am-1 Opm, 7 days. $10030min., $175-70 min. $265
up to 2 hrs. Out service avail.
TONY LANZA

212·677·7656
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friend/poss. rei.
Photo and phone amust for replyl Out\N8ek Box #4193
WISE MEN STOPHERE

GWM, 38 5'9" 150 br/ br moustache andtrim beard, hairy,
defined, muscularbuild, handsome,masc., intell., unpretentious. Enjoys
movies theater
photo., cooking bicycling nature.
Seeking other rarefind who Js goodlooking, masc., very
health-conscious,
intell., well-built w /musc., arms &peds, sense ofhumor, enjoys thearts, mature, honest, affectionate,
non-cig. smoker.
Let's exchange letter and photo. Outweek Box 3623

YOUNG ANDETHNIC5'9", 150lbs, 20yrs
young GBM, wholooks latino, College educated, insearch of a GBM or
latino man for afriendshi p or relationship intrests
should include
house music, clubbing, movies kissing and safe sex.
Include photo, I will
respond.
OutweekBox #4333
WRESTLE

Ex-college jock. lacks opponents
and floor space.
Slow and easy orrough and sweaty.
Ring, mat, or mattress. Or do you justlike to watch?
Photo, phone, and.fantasyto
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being confronted with a bunch of nightmares in a very long time. It's a good reason to stay up late on Saturday night.
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opemted, primarily Latin dance club.
7. Sunday night party at the warehouse(formerly Hot Rod) at 27th Street and 11th
Avenue. Features deejay Robert Owens, forwhose album the party is named. Mixed(gay/lesbian), mostly younger people of color.
. 8. Satutday night party at More with deejays Dmitry and Towa Towa of Deee-Lite.
Mixed (gay/straight) and racially diverse crowd. ,9. Yes, those crazy queens are back! You
can find Kenny Kenny, Bella Bolski and Sister
Dimension Thursdays at the Building.
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members-only club in the place that was most•recently Quick!. Modeled on the Paradise
Gar.lge and rumored to be the site of the postpremiere party for Madonna's film Truth or
Dare.

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