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The Window of Opportunity
The election of David Dinkins has presented New York's gay
and lesbian community with a rare opportunity to take an active rolein shaping public policy around the issue of AIDS, Unfortunately,
we've neglected to take full advantage of that opportunity,
Numerous calls from Dinkins' transition team to prominent AIDS
workers and activists to seek help in searching for a new healthcommissioner apparently were ignored, As a result, a major error
almost occured in the selection of an unsympathetic, unqualified,
frightening candidate,
The selection process has been unusually open under Me.
Dinkins, His deputies have scoured the nation for the best possible
candidates and canvassed the city for input from a broad range ofgroups, How, then, did Mr, Dinkins' search team come up with
Woodrow AUgustus Myers, Jr" whose record in Indiana includes
support for mandatory name reporting, contact tracing and quarantining, and who seems almost universally reviled by the leaders ofIndiana's gay, AIDSand civil liberties groups?
Part of the answer can be found in New York's city charter,
which requires candidates for health commissioner to have eight
years' experience running a public health department in addition topossessing an MD and either an MBA or an MPH, Such stringent
requirements severely limit the field of candidates, and amending
those requirements should become a goal of AIDSactivists,
But there is no escaping the fact that there was a major failure
among gay and AIDS groups around the selection process, ACT UP,
GMHC and AmFar, among others, share blame for what still could
be a serious public policy fiasco, After all the agony and time wasted struggling against Stephen Joseph, what single more important
issue faced our community at the dawn of the Dinkins era than thenaming of a new health commissioner? Where were we? Why were
we not active in searching out candidates, investigating the ones
who emerged, building coalitions with people of color over thisissue and generally assisting in the process?
Some say such things are the job of the mayor's people, andthat they Simply should have done better, Others wish to scapegoat
the one gay man who was a member of the search team and who
didn't blow the whistle on Myers, But haven't we learned that policy
makers will never take our needs into full account unless we're all
there to make sure they do? Haven't we realized that no one gay
person, no. matter how well intentioned, can poSSiblyspeak for us
all? Haven't we learned that coalitions with other minorities don't
just happen, that we have to make them happen? And didn't westruggle to elect Mr, Dfnkins precisely so that we would be on theinside, making policy, instead of on the outside, fighting against it?
Perhaps the long twilight of exclusion gays felt under K9Chand
Joseph have left us feeling permanently outside, If so, let's get overit. Dinkins wants our input. He wants our help and advice, He fundamentally agrees with us on most public health issues, He offers a, way to build bridges on issues of importance between lesbians andgays, women and people of color, It's what we fought for, Let's takeadvantage of it. T

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LETTERS
Humm's Response
VictorMendolia,
attacking me for my open
criticism of the small segment of the Dec, 10 demonstrators who disrupted massat St, Pat's, calls me a
-traitor"and "extremely
dangerous," Yet Mendolia
himself appeared on WORTV news within a day of thedemonstration saying that
he was sorry for the actions
inside the cathedralandthat he would have preferred "a silent protest."
As host of "The Gay
Week in Review" on Gay
Cable Network, I did indeed
sponsor a debate on thedemo tactics prior to Dec,
10th, but ACT UP,Dignity and
WHAM! pulled out at the lastminute with Michael Petrelis
alone on the program. There
was public disagreement on
tactics prior to the demo,
How is this not an appropriate topic for a gay news'
analysis show? People planning on going to the demo
were entitled to know what
was planned and why,
Mendolia says that ACT
UP is committed to non-violence, Good, But there wasa meeting in the lafe springor early summer of 1988
when a divided
ACT UP
voted not to embrace total
non-violence,i.e" passive
resistance, It was felt that if
physicallyattacked,
weshould not be bound to a
non-violent response,
Mendolia characterizes
the Coalition of Lesbian and
Gay Rights, with whom I
work, as "ragtag"
andasserts that we claim "100member groups," We makeclaims to neither fashionableness nor 100 groups, But
CLGR is the only city organization sending a professional
lobbyist to Albany to work forgay and lesbian rights, We
also are spearheading thethe approval of the church,press or political establishment, I will not be silent,however, when the gay andlesbian movement is seen as
drive for domestic partners
endorsing abrogation of thelegislation in the city council
right to worship, That may be
and convene the Task Forcean abstract
principle
toon Homeless PWAs,
some, It is part of the set of
Ian Daniels Horst calls
rights to which we, have sucme -a backstabbing Uncle
cessfully appealed to make
Tom: "a 'good' gay: and a
the AIDScrisisa lot lessworse"collaborator,'
I made itthan it could have been, As
clear in all contacts with thethe AIDS crisis worsens-andpress on this issue that CLGR when it is over-we should all
was and is in full support of ' want that structure of rights
the goals of the ACT UP in place (plus some newdemo, (I said as much to theones such as universal healthTimes reporter who profiledcare, an end to anti-gay
ACT UP last week, They
and anti-lesbian discriminaweren't interested in anytion,full reproductive freething positive we had to say,dom and more),
however, so took an out-ofI have tremendous
context quote from anotheradmiration for the power,
newspaper from me,) We
energy and dedicati,on ofsponsored the first demo verACT UP and have neversus O'Connor
when hequestioned the motives ofcame to the city and regard
the people who demonstrate
him as a bigot, I do not seek
ed inside St, Patrick's, Can

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BY ANDREA

we not disagree on tactics
without degenerating
into
name-calling? Does ACT UP
wish to silence anyone who
questions its actions?
In the aftermath of Dec,
10, most of the debate has
centeredon
whoisworse-theCardinal or thedemonstrators? Yet no one in. the gay/lesbian community
criticizing the disruption ofmass has any sympathy for
the Cardinal. We need tomove on to a discussion ofwhat actions and tactics will
gain us what we all are united in seeking-a
swift andhumane end to the AIDS crisis,
Andy Humm
Manhattan
Grass Roots Religion
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auf Week's recent coverageof religious issues-particularly the debate over the ACT
UP/WHAM! demonstration at
St, Patrick's Cathedral andthe ordination of the openly

split I felt by dedicating
myself to what has always
been the key to religious survival: Grassrootschange,
No, it ain't necessarily
so-the traditions can andgay priest Reverend Robert
do change, They respond to
Williams by the Episcopal
pressures from within and
Diocese of Newark, I was
without, and reluctantly they
'glad to read your mostadapt to the demands ofrecent editorial "It Ain't Nectheir day, For example:
essarily So: and I would like Today, the role of women in
to add a few personal
Judaism is greater than everreflections regarding lesbian
before-weserve as rabbis
and gay participation in theand cantors, we are a movsynagogue and in all Jewish
ing force in congregationaland Christian communal setactivity and we are redefintings,
ingtheology
so that it
True-it ain't necessarily
enables people to live in a
" so that religion must conmore egalitarian world with, demn-homosexuality, ostraa more imminent God,cize lesbians and gay men
There is only one way
and forever transmit traditions
for lesbians and gay men towhich breed homophobia,
end religion's heinous treat-: However~ we cannot denyment of hom9sexuals-we• the fact that both Judaism
must be actively present andand Christianity have overinvolved, If we opt out, noththe'millenia used misogynist
ing will improve; yet, I have'texts to promote patriarchy
met so 'many who have\', and GHigidfettering of all sex- completely
rejected their~~. uality, ,especially, that ofreligious community
as a.: w.omen and gay men, When
result of their sense of out;- I b,egpl")the process of com,siderness,While this is under.' ing out. I began 0 painful,standable, we must remem--; wresfling with this asp~ct ofber: Opting out serves only:' my own Jewish tradition, How
the goals of our oppressors,.' co~ld I be a rabbi, embrac-'
In the Jewish community, in" ing Judaism-and"at theresponse to demands from~\ same'time be a self-affirming
the grassroots, the Reconlesbian, radicaUy rejectihg
structionist
and Reform
Judaism's system of sexual
movements are progressing.:. mores? Yet I have chosen to' ,loward
more welcoming.; be both, I have mended thepostures, Congregations

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which do outreach to thelesbian and gay community
are functioningin cities
throughout
the nation,
Homosexual as well as heterosexual clergy are speaking out on this previously taboo
subject,
Clearly the battle has
only just begun. andmany obstacles
still
block the road toacceptance,But
remember:
We whogrew up in synagogues
and churches are insiders; and as such, wehave every rightindeed we are obligated-to push for morechange, by being present and vocal andvisible, From within our
traditions, and not fromwithout, we must havethe courage to act up,
Sonia Tiller
Brooklyn, NY

stated that AIDSis W percent
gay and IV drug user, totally
unwilling to acknowledge thechanging infection pattern
Clld thus the risk to heterosexuals, Parents need to understClld that the Cathofic Church
is endCllgering the livesof theirsons and daughters, not gay
men and women, On the contrery, the gay corrmunity has agreat deal of knowtedge andskillsthat could be adopted by
the heterosexualcorrmunity toprevent the further spread of
AIDS,Ignorance and complacency are the enemies, We
need a lifelong commitment to
edJcation until a cure is available, Furthermore, given theincrease in the number ofcases n the heterosexud community, heterosexualsneed tounderstand that better treatments Clld a cure for AIDSisin
everyone's best interest, notjust the gay corrmunity,
In addition, the Catholic
Church effects the gay comCaution! Straights Ahead
munity in at least two addiAlthough I supported
tional ways, First,people who
the ACT UP/WHAM! protest
are in the process of "comingat St, Patrick's Cathedral I out" -especially
teenagers
don't feel the Catholicand young adults-areatChurch's unwillingness tohigh risk because they don'tendorse condom use or safe
have the necessary informasex is negatively effecting
tion, which is readily available
the gay community simply
to the gay community, that
because the vast majority of
can help them adopt safe
gays do not rely on thesex practices to protect themCatholic Church for safe sex from infection'of
the AIDS
education or support, The
virus, The Catholic Church
church's homophobia
has
has the ability to reach thesealienated the majority ofpeople, but has decided togays and thereforethe
do nothing, ',church doesn't influence
In addition; the' Catholic
their behavior,'
Church's homophobia helpSto
Unfortunately,the heterocreate Cll environmentin which
sexud comrrunity isn'tas lucky, families find it more difficult to'
Cardinal O'Comor's unwilling- openly dIscuss'sexual'choiceS
ness to respond to the risk ofClld practices 'especidly, wtiefi
AIDSby advocating the use of
they ere homoseXlid,Tragicd1y;condoms and safe sex rather , families, who' were uMb1e tothCll abstinence is a fer greatercommunicate honestly with a 'riskto heterosexuals by giving
gay son or dwghter, are' how,them a false seose of security, forced 'by AIDSto confrorit the
The latestfiguresfrom the cDcvery factors that divided'
prove this point-the rate ofthem- ·their fears andpre~'new AIDScases being report- judices of gays which ere rein,ed is increasingfor heterosexu- forced by the 'CclI:101ic'C~rClt 'als, Yet, Cardinal O'Connor at
Yet why should AIDS and the' ,the Vatican Conference on , threat of impending death 'AIDS last month inaccurately
have to force !~niifies to 'c~m- 'rrunicate \'A')en it is too late tostop the destnJclionof AIDS?
Lastly, In terms of the
ACT UP demonstration inside
St, Pat's Cathedral-it
wasunfortunate that everyone
focused on the extreme
behavior of a few people
and totally avoided the larger issue of the church's
homophobia and its effecton our community, Everyone
from Koch to D'inkins wasduped into believing Cardinal O'Connor's outrage at
the ACT UP demonstrationfor "violating the rights ofpeople to worship" when
Cardinal
O'Connorhasdenied this same right to thegay Catholic community forover two and a half years,
Dignity, the gay Catholicorganization,
has beendenied the right to worshipas a group in the Catholic
Church and instead must
use the Episcopalian Church,
the Gay Community Centeror the sidewalk outside St,
Pat's Cathedral where theCathedral
Project holds
monthly services in protest,
John N, Calve
Fishkill,NYHands"? Are you out of yourminds?
Alvin C, Trupp
Asimplefan
The Poverty Train
In response to your article, "Government Benefits
for PWAs";Your figures are misleading, As a PWA receiving 551
and DAS, let me explain the
program, The total combined benefits of DAS + SSI=
$312 per month, The $312
must cover food, ConEd,phone, car fare, vitamins
and anything you can't geton Medicaid, The program
does n9t include
food

stamps through DAS,
551 supplies $10 per
month in food stamps, period,
I have applied directly
to the Food Stamp office
twice
in 1989 and wasdenied on the grounds that
my DAS benefits included
my food allowance,
We are dealing with adisease that requires optimum
nutritional maintenance,
I am forced to choose
between ConEd or Pathmark,The issueof PWAsforced
to live below the poverty
level must be addressed,
APWA
Manhattan
Praise God andPassthe Wafers
The Church uses Holy
Communion as a weapon,and desecrates it more thanwhat the wafer smash~H at
St, Pat's has done, My loverand I were denied communion atter coming out to our,congregation, The pastor (ofSt, Matthews Lutheran Hastings-on-Hudson) told us thatas homosexuals we are out-side the grace of God and, that until we repented ofour homosexuality,
wewould have to withhold our-'selves from the communion
table, We went up to thefront of the church anyway,
to stand and pray and bepassed by with the Body
and Blood of Christ, On
other occasions we went to'the table, but turned ourbacks on the pastor before
he passed us by, Thiswas apowerful experience, notjust for us but for the congregation members who weknow and love, Some cried,some turned away, Politicizing the altar is not comfortable, but necessary, Much
more civil disobedienceneeds to be done atchurches,Jeffrey Halvorsen
Dobbs Ferry,NY

GLAAD To Do It
Regarding "Roseanne's'Faggy' Dilemma: GLAAO
lists several celebrities that
may be approachable
todo pro-gay public service

Who Really Wrote ThisLetter.
Mr. Ball?
;I have been hoping"from about the very first that
Mr, Bradley Ball would beallotted more space in yourmagazine-anotherpage atleast-andnow I read, inthat unattractive gray box(called, as I've learned from
Mr, Ball, an "insert box"; just
one small example of theamazing breadthof theman's knowledge-knowledge which he unflinchingly
shares with us his readers,
while you, you "editors" and"journalists:
continually!I
bombard us with mere opin- ,ion and attitude), and now I
read that you would wish totake (UJay more space fromdear Brad? And you think
we, his loyal readers, his followers, will support you inyour foolish desires'?
Less of "Out of myJanuary 21. 1990

OUT'YWEEK7

NY Dolls).Dr, Ruth Westheimer.
Chartes Busch. Nick Ashford.
Rex Reed. Alan Carr. Jim J,
Bullock. Chartes Nelson Reilly.
Jim Nabors. Cart Lewis. Tracy
Chapman. Melissa Etheridge.
the Manhattan Transfer andRichard Simmons,..,just a few that may be"approached?"
Kim Barget
Manhattan

Republican Decorum
announcements-may
I suggest a few more?
Liz Smith. Iris Love. Jerry
Zipkin. Halston. Freddie Mercury (of Queen). Rod McKuen. the Pet Shop Boys.Judd
Nelson. Stephen Sondheim.
Tommy Tune. Morton Gottlieb(B'way producer). Sigfried &Roy. Lou Reed. David Bowie.
Mid
Jagger.
David
Johannsen (Buster Poindexter.

It's simply amazing, Themayoral election is not evena faint memory and alreadyrevisionistshave emerged torewrite the facts, I am referring to Michael Flynn's letter
appearing in the OutWeek
of January 7,
Hidingbehindthedebate over ACT UP and
WHAM!'s action at St, Pat's.
Flvnn attempts to distort thefacts about Giuliani and azap that took place' at the
Liberal Party dinner, As a participoot in that zap I could not
let Rynn'stiesgo unanswered.
The facts are simple, At
the beginning of the campaign ACT UP attempted tomeet with both Dinkins andGiuliani. to explain our concerns over AIDS care in thecity, Rudy refused to meetwith us, Thisis the same man
who started off hisrelationshipwith our community by coming out against bereavement
rightsfor domestic partners,
As Rudy continued toparade his ignorance on ourissues things seemed to begetting only worse, At various protests we held. ACT UP
members were being verbally and physically attacked
by Rudy's overzealous supporters, Not a pretty siaht,

One wonders W Rynnevenread Giuliani's position paperthat he bragged about, Aftermany months of us hounding
him he finally released thispaper in the find weeks of the
carrpaign, It WC7. fun of sections
that had been lifted from ourfliers.word for word.
When word of the big
dinner arrived some of us
were prepared to protest byhanding' out fact sheets onwhat the city needs to do in
the fight against AIDS, As wearrived in the ballroom wewere set upon by a mob of
screaming enraged Rudyites,
I was attacked
frombehind with punches CJ'1dkicks,
One woman threw a glass ofwater at me. while anothergrabbed rn-; tie CJ'1dattempted to strangle me, All the time
we were screaming. "no violence. no violence" and tryin

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to make it to the door, The
injuryI feigned cs v.itnessedby
Rynnwcs done out of desperation to keep the crowds backfrom us so we could get out of
there in one piece,
I find it amazing that
Rynnwitnessed thismd dd
not atterrpt to come to ouraid, Even when we were
finallythrown out of the ballroom we were shoved by. the throng, I SON RogerAlles
grab one of the smallest
anongst us md put him ina strangle hold as heattempted to push him
down a flight of stairs,We
were only saved by themoo of hotel securitywno
kept the crowd back cs weescaped,'I'm sure the life of a gay
republican is not an easy
one, However the question
remains as to why Flynn felt
so obliaated to alter thefacts in this incident, Maybe
sour grapes or maybe a frantic attempt to clear a guilty
conscience, Whatever thecase, the one fact remains

XEROXED

Chill Factor
Mayor David Dinkins
City HallNew York,NY lCXXl7
Dear Mayor Dinkins:
It wcs with sense of relief
approaching on euphoriathat most of usin the communities affected by AIDS contemplated your election as
mayor, and an end to the. hostilityloosed upon our communities by ex-Mayor Kochand his Commissioner of
Health, stephen C, Joseph,
Therefore, it is with athat the violence directedsense of shock approaching
against us that night wasupon horror that we now
also meant for you, Mr, Flynn, react to the proposed hiring
Wake up before it's to late,of Dr,Woodrow Myers,Jr" MD,
Ira Manhoff
as Dr, Joseph's successor, in
Manhattan
liaht of alleaations by those inn.

Indiana who know of Dr,
Myers' unsavory record.
Dr. Myers' appears,
accorqing to those whohave worked with him in Indiana, to oppose your own
worthy legacy of support forthe confidentiality and civilrights of HIV-infected persons, and to oppose, as well,measures ensuring that HIVinfected persons are represented on all decision-making bodies concernedwith AIDS, The accounts of
those who have worked with
Dr, Myers in Indiana are chilling, No matter how adept
Dr, Myers may be at impressing p,eople on a national
level, it is those who haveseen hiswork close up whose

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9

views must weigh heaviest-andthey weigh very
negatively indeed, Specificallegations include:
Dr, Myers instituted
mandatory nane reporting of
HIV-infected persons to thestate of Indiana, As we point- ,ed out relentlessly to Dr.
Joseph (and successfully to
Mr, Koch), such measures
drive people away fromneeded health care services,
Dr, Myers favored legalizing a Quarantine, in certain
circumstances,for HIVinfected individuals,
Dr, Myers opposed PWA
Blocked conversion ofrepresentation on the Indipublic long-term care faciliana state AIDS Policy Group,
ties into AIDShospices,
despite its having requested
Attempted to selectivesuch representation,ly enforce anti-sex laws

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January 21, 1990

against gay and lesbian
establishments,
Atterrpted to close gay

bars,
We are confident that,as you take the time to consider these complex issues,
you will come to feel, as wedo, that filling so sensitive aposition as that of New York
City Commissioner of Heaith
in this time of crisis must
await the completion of athorough investigationofthese charges made concerning Dr. Myers by theGay, Lesbian and AIDS communities of Indiana, Considering the sensitive andcomplex nature of the allegations, the investigationmust be conductedbymembers of New York's own
Gay, Lesbian and AIDS communities,
Why are there suchgrave
disagreements
between public health professionals and the communities affected by AIDS? The
answer is fairly simple-the
publichealth model ofpaternalistic control advocated by persons such as
Drs, Joseph and Myers relies
on coercion to force people
into the health care system;in fact. of course. it drives
people away,
The public health control. model has failed for sexually transmitted diseases(witness skyrocketing syphilis
and gonorrhea rates). it has
failed for tuberculosis and it
can never work for such acomplex disease of longlatency like AIDS, Thus. wehope the Koch-Joseph legocy of attempted (and failed)paternalistic control will be
replaced.
in the Dinkins
administration • by measuresthat institutionalize a vigorous collaboration between 'health care consumers andthe city government,
We look forward to thisoutcome because everything in your own record.
Mayor Dinkins. attests to thecommon goals we share:
Empowermentof thecommunity of people withHIV and AIDS within decision
making bodies,
Protection of their civilrights. and rights to confiden-tiality and anonymity,
Fullequality of gays andlesbians, as well as people
with HIV-infection and AIDS,
These goals you andthe AIDS communitiesof
New York City have in common; Dr, Myers' record does
not appear to indicate thathe shares our common aims,
Hitherto, in your transition efforts, you have displayed an uncommon ability
to reach out and include
people from the diverse
communities that make up
New York City, Let us continue this process of inclusion,and avoid hasty decisions
whose consequences in ourcommunity could be so negative, painful and divisive,
Let us work together to provide new hope and services
for New Yorkers with AIDS or
HIV and those at risk,
Mark Harrington
Member, ACT UP/NY
Manhattan

nesseswho came forward toback up the claims against
her, Any attempt at retraction
on her part is too little too late,
The damage has been done,
So please, STOP PLAYING HER MUSIC and show
some support for the community that was also responsible for making the originalSaint a success, In case you
haven't noticed, many of
the old faces are gone,
They've died from AIDS,Saints or Sinners?
Saint at Large
New York, NY 1CXXl3
To Whom It May Concern,
I went to the ·Saint at
Large" party New Year's Eve
and was extremely distressedby two specific things,
First,for quite some time
the gay community
has
been boycotting the musicof Donna Summer becauseof her revolting 'remarks concerning AIDS being God's
retribution against gay people, And yet you continue toplay her music, Why?
OutWeek magazine, inwhich you advertise, has run,numerous pieces on the controversy, It is insulting anddemeaning f<;>r
you to continue to play her mu~ic, especially for a crowd that, i~almost 1~ percent gay, Having been her earliest supporters, many of us in the gay
community are furious that
she has turned on us in ourtime of need, Despite her
attempts at denying that sheeven made the offensive
remarks,there were many wit-

I also urge men to stop
dancing when her musiccomes on and boo the D,J.
instead.
My more serious concern is the unsafe sex goingon in the balcony, It was one
thing in the 70; before any ofus knew what was going onwith AIDS, However, In 1990,
to allow guys to fuck andsuck anonymously
andunprotected (no condoms)
isthe equivalent to being anaccomplice to murder as far
as I'm concerned.
Eithe.r monitor the balcony with your own staff forunsafe sexual practices, orclose it, or face the repercussion, Unlessthis is done by
your next dance party in
January I am contacting the
New York City Department ofI regret that you did notgive me the opportunity toanswer your letter of January
4 directly, but since'there
was no return address nor isthere a phone listing for you,
I am directing my response
to OutWeek.
On New Year's Eve thenight manager called in sick,as did several other scheduled employees, This shortage of personnel, lack ofexperienced supervision anda larger than anticipatedcrowd severely limited our, ability to patrol the balcony,
If there was a problem in thebalcony, I can assure youthat it will not re0CCUr.
We will have increased
lighting and personnel in thebalcony at all times during
events, and if these measures are not sufficient, thearea will be closed completely,
It is unfortunate, however, that ten years into theepidemic there are still somemembers of the gay com'munity
who need to bemonitored in a public facility,
With regard to Donna
Summer, 'we don't burnbooks nor do we breakrecords, If DJ's choose toplay her songs, and if gay
men who are informedchoose to dance to thatsex and yet we are not evenmusic, that is their choice, If
together enough, in 1990,
ten years into the AIDS crisis, you find it objectionable,
you should leave the donce
to take responsibility for our
floor and perhaps address
own actions and play safe,
your comments to.the DJs
Thisistrue among white, middirectly, We do not tf;lfl·themdle class men who have hdd
what to play,>
the most access to informaJack Stoddard, Direttor
tion, services and education
Saint-At~Large :from the beginning and who
Manhattan'.'
are the largest part of yourcrowd and who are participating in unsafe sex, in thebalcony, PLEASE,STOPTHISIMMEDIATELY AND SAVESOMELIVES,
We'll be watChing,Jacl<Hapscam
Manhattan

Health to get you closed
down, as well as bringing itto the attention of ACT UP
and other gay organizations
who have mounted successful protests and boycotts, as
you well know,
Tosee all of these beautiful men killing each otherup there is depressing andoutrageous beyond bGlief,
We talk so much in the community about educating the
public about AIDS and safet

Message Re,ceived
Mr,-Jack Hapscam
c/o OutWeek
Dear Mr, Hapscam:

January 21, 1990

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Furor Erupts Over Choice
For Top NYC Health Post
by Gabriel Rotello
NEW YORK-Mayor David Dinkins' top choice for New York City's
health commissioner ran into a stormof criticism and recriminations last
week after OutWeek disclosed information about the AIDS policy he has
established at his current post.
But Indiana State Health Commissioner Woodrow A, Myers is still reportedly close to being hired by Dinkins,
A routine check into Myers' background by OutWeek uncovered large
scale opposition to his positions on crucial gay. AIDS and civil liberties issues
in Indiana, Some local AIDS activists
now say Myers is unacceptable to New
York's large and vocal gay community,
The issue is particularly sensitive
for Dinkins. who won last November's
election with the overwhelming sup-I
port of lesbians and gays who had

abandoned their support for Mayor Ed
Koch, Dr, Stephen Joseph, Koch's
health commissioner, was under persistent fire from the gay community,
The allegations again:;t Dr, Myers
include his strong support for the passage of a 1988 Indiana law requiring
mandatory name reporting of HIV-positive people, That law, Senate Bill 9,
includes a controversial clause known
as the Recalcitrant Carrier Provision,
which provides for the indefinite incarceration of HIV carriers who practicewhat Indiana officials deem unsafe sex,
Of the estimated 700 people withAIDS (PWAs) in Indiana, two havebeen detained under the provision, andone remains in detention, The Indiana
definition of what constitutes unsafe
sex is informal and varies from jurisdiction to jurisdiction, but health officials
in at least one county confirm that
unprotected oral sex is included in,,~rs:Crelllg,de;~'RK .....A,~OutW;~k::en~ to Pti~~fridav;nighti
Or,
MaWildeKjfm endor.~ed theselectio!'lof Qr,Woodrov,/ Myers for healthcommissioner, and said she would recommend that Mayor David Dinkins.Il!'0,~,.?~...~. his nomiQ~.tio.n,',"'.',"""" ',""', pofAIDS li.ders, cQnvlmed by.Debr~;Fraser-Howz~, ellec:or..of the ,Black Leadership Commission on AIDS, also issued
t endorsing Myers, makilighis aPP9intmel1ta ,near certainty,
Itervlew 'f.Iitfl OutWee~ Krim,who wc!sclearly ill at ease, conmany of t~e aHeQatipos about Myers made by OutWeek
rate, Stledefended him, however, saying that many of his
iCies \\tete inevitable in a state as conservative as Indiana,
thehqp;lh~t he W941d';;odifyhis vi~~under Dillkl?~,
typical straight guy?'Kdm s~id, Nali'dhe's got to be;sensiconcerlis,:He's oot sensitive enough,N81)t ~in maintain,edthatNittakes alstrpng guy to make in it New Yo~k.
"He,ha!l.~iitbmon, He li~~!"publicity,The~e are not bad q!latities,- she said,\~!ir:~j1';ili~·d~~.~jt~~hewa~.unh~ppYwith the Way the mayo(~itran- ,sitiQOtiI'a.m,ofwtllch she I~ a member, had originallyresearched M\tins,-He"should have been investigated; Krimsaid, HThemayor should
h~y~~~ll!~~but it wa~~~one, I insisted to If)e m~yor's people, b~~they"itri~fuinn:;' ',., <?>::i;;;Y/,,....

Stie~;1hen proceedipg with a r~~ommeodaabs~~"'~~sic
infomiation, Krimresponded, HI ~on'tvi.intjhis is
ter and
WcOlYle a dividing
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their definition of a health code violation,
AIDS workers and gay rights
leaders in Indianapolis and across thestate also detailed a litany of complaints about Myers' record on numerous other issues, They painted abroad picture of a health commissioner indifferent to civil liberties for gays,
inactive in securing AIDS funding,hostile to gay-targeted safer sex education and opposed to PWAs serving
on AIDS policy-making boards,
Dr. Myers is reported to have
vocally advocated the closing of gay
bars and bookstores, as well as bathhouses, reasoning that bars and bookstores are meeting places where gays
make the social connections that ultimately lead to sex, He is also criticized for opposing the conversion ofnursing homes into AIDS hospices,And gay business owners claim

that underMyers
the healthdepartment targeted gay sex establishments for harassment, while leavingstraight sex establishments
alone,
Finally, Myers is blasted by top Indiana AIDS workers who allege that hehas allowed the virtual impoundmentof CDC-allocated funds for Indiana
AIDS programs by the State Budget
Office,Myers' record on AIDS is not,however, entirely one-sided, He is
credited with encouraging doctors inIndiana to treat AIDS patients and he
was instrumental in arranging schooling for Ryan White, a teenaged
hemophiliac whose case received
national attention when a local schoolboard refused to enroll him, He is
also credited for calling attention to
inadequacies in the President's Commission on HIV under Ronald Reagan
by resigning from it.
A graduate of both Harvard Medical School and Stanford's School ofBusiness, Myers, 35, is considered bymany to be a rising star in the national health establishment. He has been
the state health commissioner in Indiana for almost five years, surviving
both a Republican 'and a Democratic
state administration, Even his most
vocal critics call him articulate, per-suasive and politically deft,
Myers originally seemed willing to
speak with OutWeek, and made several
attempts to return calls, But after thestory of the developing opposition tohis appointment broke in New York's
mainstream media, Myers became inaccessible, Daily News AIDS beat reporter
Heidi Evans wrote that health department spokesperson
David McCarty'"said that Dinkins' office asked Myets
not to comment publicly until it had achance to look into the matter further,"
Out Week has, wherever possible,
counteredcharges made against
Myers with statements made by members of his own staff,
Myers was recommended to the
Dinkins transitionteam by Dr.
Mathilde Krim, founding co-chair of
AmFAR, Dr. Krim, who is widely
respected in New York's AIDS community, haS worked with Dr, ivfeyers, who
is on the board of directors of AmFAR.
Sources in the Dink;,ls admillis ..
tration said that the appointment wason hold while Myers' record was scrutinized, At a press conference last,
Wednesday, Mayor Dinkins indicatedthat Dr, ,Myers was only one of several candidates for health commissioner,
and assured reporters that questions
about Myers' AIDS and civil liberties

IS THE DOCTOR IN?

Dr. Woodrow Myers
record would be answered before theappointment was made,In an extrordinary move, Dinkins,told a reporter that he would not appoint
Myers ovei Dr, Ktim's objections,
But by week's end, gay and AIDS
advocates began expressing concernthat controversy over die appointinent
was dividing the AIDS community
along racial lines, Many of those most
vocal in their opposition of Dr, Myers,
who is Black, are white gay men,
Myers is highly regarded in com-

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munities of color, especially for his workon lowering the rate of infant mortality,
Many people of color had expressedhope that their concems would be sensitively addressed by a Black healthcommissioner [see sidebar],
On Friday night, most people
close to the situation felt that, with
Krim, Sweeney and others no longer
objecting, Myers' appointment would
probably go through [see box),

Broad Opposition in Indiana
Much of the Indiana opposition toMyers stems from his efforts to passand then enforce Senate Bill 9, a 1988
law which requires mandatory namereporting of anyone testing positive forHIV, The law also includes mechanisms for contact tracing and the quarantine of those people deemed a
menace to public health, Myers is
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passage of the legislation, which isamong the most stringent in the nation,
But complaints from AIDS andcivil liberties advocates in Indiana go
beyond the law itself, Kent Robinson,
the head of Justice Incorporated, Indiana's state-wide gay civil rights organization, asserts that the board ofhealth has ignored issues of privacy
when engaged in contact tracing,"Sometimes the tracing is done ina public place," Robinson said, "Healthworkers will approach someone attheir workplace or in a bar to say
they're being contact traced, And public health officials have misrepresented
themselves to gather information,"
Marla Stevens, chairwoman of the
Gay and Lesbian Task Force of the
Indiana Civil Liberties Union characterized state health workers' contact
tracing as "draconian harrassment of
PWAs," and said health workers areencouraged to "approach HIV positive
people in a heavily accusatory style toscare them into compliance" with thequarantine law, According to Stevens,a single anonymous tip to healthauthorities can initiate such harrassment. Subjects of such a "denouncement" can seek information on who
reported them only by bringing a"malicious reporting suit" to court, So
far, no such suits have been successful, according to Stevens,
Carmen Quintana, a lawyer who
works for the Board of Health and is incharge of the enforcement of the quarantine provisions, defended Myers'
record on privacy and enforcement.
"It's' not our intention
toapproach people in a heavy handed
way,· Quintana said, But she conceded that there have been complaints
about technique and added, "There's
always room for improvement in thecomplete access to the test subject's
way we do this,"
name, and the person would fall
Quintana maintains that only one
under the provisions of the contact
person has been detained under the
tracing and quarantine provisions ofquarantine provisions, However, othersources have told OutW~k that at least the law, It is Widely assumed thatstate health workers will begin advisone other person has been, anding otherwise poorly informed clientsremains, jailed under the quarantine law,
to opt for confidential testing,Indiana law provides for the state"We're very concerned that thisto order "carriers" to recieve mandatomay be an indication that Myersry counseling, but a major complaintplans to eliminate anonymous testamong AIDS workers is the complete
ing altogether in Indiana," Justiceabsence of state-funded AIDS counInc.'s Robinson said,
seling under Myers, Michael Shuff, theSeveral experts, noting that theexecutive director of the Damien Cenorder came while Myers is being
ter, Indiana's equivalent to the Gay
fOf the top New York
Men's Health Crisis, recounts how a considered
City health post, remarked that such
PWA recently appeared with a writtena directive contradicted the belief of
document from the state ordering him
some supporters that Myers would
to receive counseling at the Damien
facility,'
modify his strong pro-testing, protracing position in New York,
But no one from the State Board
Spokesperson McCarty maintains
of Health had ever requested that thethat the new directive is mandated by
Damien Center provide such a serCDC regulations,vice, nor had the Board of Healthoffered the Damien Center funds to
Gay Business Concerned
reimburse it for offering such counselNumerous sources told OutWeek
ing, according to Shuff,"Dr, Myers is not interested in , that upon taking office Myers spokeout strongly in favor of closing notgood counseling but rather in behavonly Indiana's gay bathhouses, but its
ioral control,· Shuff told OutWeek He
gay bOokstores and bars as well, Andadded that similar things had occured
in 1985, the state board of healthelsewhere in the state, notably inbegan inspecting bars and bookstores, Gary, where a private cenier refusedfor health code violations,a client who had been "ordered" toStanley Berg, publisher of thereceive counseling there, "The man
New Works News, an Indianapolishad no insurance, the place refused
based gay newspaper, recalls that "thehim, so where does that leave thefirst thing he tried to do was close all
person?" Shuff wondered,
the gay businesses in the state, Not
Myers' spokespersonDavidjust places where people had sex but
McCarty admits to'a "mix-up" on theplaces like bookstores and bars wherepart of the Board of Health in thethey didn't have sex," The apparent
Damien Center case, adding that therationale was that gays frequent such
error was being corrected,
places to make social contacts thateventually end in sexual activity,
Anonymous vs. Confidential
Berg credits Myers' "very vocal
Indiana currently permits theexistence of 14 anonymous HIV test- attempt" to shut all gay bars andbookstoreswith the passage of aing centers, which are exempt fromthe provisiOns of Senate Bill 9, Myers' "glass door rule" governing gay baths,
That rule, a local ordinance in Marion
defenders point to these centers as an
County, which includes Indianapolis,
indication that the commissioner is not
requires sex establishments to replace 'completely out of step with the testing
cubicle doors with glass, so thai sexu'policy preferred by AIDS advocates,
al activity can be monitored,
However, last December, a direcSources throughout
the state
tive went out from the Board ofreport that gay sex establishments are
Health requesting that those centersroutinely
Singled out by healthbegin offering "confidential" testing,authorities for harassment, while thein addition to "anonymous" testing,Confidential testing gives the state
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March on Georgia Capitol
Protests Sodomy Laws
Lawmakers Introduce Amendments and Repeal Measuresby Cliff O'Neill
ATI.ANTA-Over 300 gay and lesbian activists converged on the Georgia State House on the opening dayof the 1990 legislative session Jan, 8
to call for the repeal of that state's
sodomy law, Sixty-three demonstra-

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Act Up at Georgia Capital
tors were arrested as part of a civil
disobedience
action, nearly 30 of,whom were from New York City,
For over two hours, the protesters,
over half of whom were from out ofstate, chanted ~d heard speeches froma wide array of gay/lesbian, abortion,
prostitutes' and disability rights leaders,"Gay, straight, Black, white,
Sodomy's a basic right," the crowd
chanted as it made its way down
Peachtree Street in downtown Atlanta,
pushing a bed on wheels on which
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taneous oral sex, the dolls represented one of several sex acts made illegal by the Georgia sex statute,
Sodomy laws, as they are called,"prohibit" private consensual sex acts
between adults in 25 states and theDistrict of Columbia, In seven of theJanuary 21, 1990

Photo: Ellen B, Neipris
states, the laws are limited to same-sex
partners, Although the laws are notroutinely enforced, activists state, they
are regularly used by law enforcement
and politicians to harass and intimidate
lesbians and gay men, and are considered by gay legal advocates to be thebasis, for much of the institutionalized
homophobic in UIiscountry,
The Georgia 'law penalizes bothhomosexual and unmarried heterosexual adults for up to 20 years in jailfor any of a variety of sex acts,
As the demonstration took placeoutside, Georgia State Rep, Billy Mc-

Kinney CD-Atlanta) introduced a billto repeal the law only as it applies toheterosexuals, Ironically, his daughter,
Rep, Cynthia McKinney CD-Atlanta)
introduced another bill the same day
which would repeal the law entirely,
The Georgia statute was upheld in1986 in the landmark Hardwick v,
Bowers decision by the Supreme Court,
which cited a "millennia of moral
teaching" as grounds for its ruling,"Whose morality are they talking
about?" asked Sue Hyde, director of
the Privacy Project of the National Gay
and Lesbian Task Force at the day's
function, Quoting from Supreme Court
Justice Harry Blackmun's blistering dissent in the decision, Hyde said, -'The
freedom to differ is not limite:! tothings that do not matter much, thatwould be a mere shadow of freedom,
The real test of its subst«!lce is the
freedom to differ as to things thattouch the hearts of the existing order, '"Local residents' reactions throughout the day ran from supportive-as
evidenced by a handful of construction
workers cheering atop a nearby building-to
confused-as
seen on thefaces of most passers by,
Yet, what was most in evidence
throughout the Monday demonstration,
however, was the scarcity of 'Atlantans
attending the lunchtime rally,
Except for the membersofAtlanta's ACf UP, proportionately few
locals attended the event. Over 120
members travelled to Atlanta from the
New York chapter of the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power CACf UPINY)
and other contingents came from Los
Angeles, Chicago, Boston and Washington, D,C,
Prior to the gathering, a schism
had formed within the Atlanta gay
and lesbian community, with many

locals fearing the demonstration by"outsiders" would only serve to alienate otherwise friendly lawmakers, The
controversy was alluded to several
times throughout the demonstration,
There are lesbians and gay men
who disagree with this action," stated
Sabrina Sojourner, outgoing chair ofAtlanta's African-American Lesbianand Gay Alliance, "They believe thatthe publicity will cause those who
would otherwise be our friends andsupporters to abandon us, Well, letme tell them something as a Black
person, still fighting racial injustice:With friends like that you don't haveto worry about enemies 'cause they'reright in your own front yard, Humanrights-doing
what is right andjust-should
not be based on which
way the wind blows."
Still, the demonstrators did routinely break into chants unprintable inmainstream newspapers, much to thedismay of many of those entering theState House building, Also one New
York activist prominently displayed asign reading, "Man Boy Love Now,"featuring a close-up photo of an actof anal intercourse,"Hello all you sodomi,tes and all
you straight people who like a moreinteresting sex life," bellowed brash
lesbian comic/activist
Lee Delaria,
opening the day's rally, "If the people
in that state building are so interested
in what I do with my genitals," sheadded, "I'd like to tell them that I'm
not wearing any underwear,"
A block away, a group of about
12 anti-gay counter-demonstrators carrying signs reading, "Gay is Sad,"
were also made the object of ridicule
at the demonstration, "Racist, sexist,
anti-gay," the crowd chanted, "yoursouls will burn in hell one day,"Also attending
the rally was
Georgia State Rep, Jim Martin, whocommented on his discomfort at the
rally, but voiced his support regardless, "I don't know who feels moreout of place here [you or me)," hestated, "But isn't that the point? My
sexual orientation and my feelings
about morality are my own, And what
happensin our own bedrooms
among consenting adults, based on
our own sense of our own selves, is
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Arrests in AIDS Protest atCenters for Disease Control
Demo Demands Wider Definition of AIDSby Cliff O'Neill
ATLANTA-Forty-nine
AIDS
activists were arrested at the headquarters of the Centers for Disease
Control here Jan 9, part of a sizable
demonstration calling on the federal
agency to expand its definitions of
AIDS and AIDS-Related Complex to
i6c1ude a wider spectrum of people
affected by HIV-related illness,
Some demonstrators pounded on
the builaing's glass doors while others
ran a flag with AIDS-related messages
up the building's flagpole, Most of the

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arrested were charged with criminal
trespass or interfering with government
property and were released on $240
bond, According to police at the action,
CDC officials are seeking to press
charges against the demonstrators,
Approximately
300 protesters
seized control of the building's front
entrance for three hours, lambasting
the agency for tracking AIDS casesand deaths and not tracking HIV
infections and infection routes,
The CDC's definition of AIDS,
which has been expanded at least
once since 1981,
inci udes testing
HIV antibody positive and haVing atleast one of abouta dozen AIDSassociated opportunistic infections,Aerosol ized
pentamidineisnow being usedsuccessfully to prevent pneumocystis
carinii pnuemonia,
or PCP, the mostcommon cause ofdeath among people with AIDS, Butdue, in part, tosuch improvements
in prophylactic
care, many people
with HIV-infection
successfully avoid
coming down with
PCP and other opportunistic infec'tiqns, but who arenonetheless seriously ill,
And according

Photo: Ellen B, Neipris

to Judy Siff, aspokeswoman for

ACT UP/Atlanta, most of the opportunistic infections on the CDC's list areprimarily manifested by white gay men,
"But different groups, like IV-drugusers, come up with different infections
that are just not on the list,· she said,
also noting that women with HN often
get sick very differently than men ..
Siff also noted the disparity
between the CDC's figure of just over
100,000 AIDS cases nationwide, andAIDS advocate's estimate of two million people who are HIV positive,
The CDC's narrow definitions of
AIDS and ARC often make it difficultfor people with HIV-related illness togain access to publicly funded medical services earmarked for people
with AIDS, according to ACT UP,
In addition, activists claim that
because the scope of HIV-related disease goes well beyond the instances
defined by the CDC, federal underfunding for AIDS services results, And
because some HIV-related deaths
occur before a person has officiallycontracted AIDS, ACT UP claims thatthe government is undercounting thenumber of people diagnosed withAIDS in the United States,
Despite repeated requests from
reporters, the CDC would not comment on the demonstration,
CDC Gets New Moniker
Holding signs calling on theagency to widen investigations of
AIDS in children, women in generala:ld. lesbians in particular, the demonstrators rechristened the CDC "Careless Demographic Counting,·
After a two hour standoff withover 30 Dekalb County police officers--nearIy all of whom wore rubber
gloves--waves of demonstrators beganchallenging the law enforcement agentswith a series of actions designed to call

attention to their specific demands,
At one point, a group of six
women-severalof whom identified
themselves as HIV positive-took
tothe building's front entrance to place
blood-red palm prints and a large signreading "CDC Leaves Out Women" on
the walls and to speak about theirlack of access to drug trials based on
the CDC's narrow definition of AIDS,"Since I don't have their definition of AIDS," said one woman, "I
can't get treatment." By their side,
three male protesters chided the CDC
by covering their ears, eyes andmouths, mocking the agency's alleged
reluctance to count many HIV infected
women who have a variety of opportunistic infections which do not fall
into their definition of AIDS or ARC.
Lesbians and T-Cells"The CDC doesn't even want toconsider the possibility of woman towoman transmission of HIV," stated
Emily Nahmanson of ACT UP/NY,"CDC tell us why you sit back while
women die," the protesters shouted,
while a small group ran a large blackbanner up the flagpole in front of thebuilding which read: "Cunnilingus

counts, AIDS won't wait."
Among
the
demonstrators'
demands was that the CDC begin
classifying AIDS patients by transmission routes rather than "risk groups,"
which they insist would provide a~Iearer picture of how the disease isspread and how to educate against it.
Tossing handfuls of round card~board cards and plastic ping-po,ngballs marked as "T-cells," still otherdemonstrators sought to draw attention to their demand that the CDC also
alter the AIDS definition to include all
persons with less than 200 T-cells,
T-cells, key' indicators of a body's
immune system function, range inhealthy individuals from 800-1200,
Although the CDC has guidelines calling on all persons with under 200 Tcells to immediately begin taking
medications intended to stave off AIDSrelated infections, they do not classify
those with under 200 T-cells who have
not yet had those infections as h~ving
AIDS, That, the activists state, closes, out hundreds of thousands of HIVinfected people from the CDC's definition and, consequently,
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Chicago Lesbians Plot
Visibility Course
by Rex Wockner
CHICAGO-About
100 lesbians
met at the Paris Dance club here Jan, 9
to dic;cuss lesbian invisibility in gay/lesbian organizations, strategies for creatinga "lesbian agenda" and the possibility ofa new lesbian organization in the city,
The two-and-one-half-hour meeting was a free flowing exchange ofideas and opinions between about 20of the women and moderator Marie
Kuda, a long-time local activist.
Kuda said "there is a perceptionthat the active people [in gay/lesbian
groups) are male and maybe that'strue, So what do we do," she asked,"to make ourselves visible?"
Former New Yorker Joanne Trapani, co-chair of the Illinois Gay andLesbian Task Force, pointed out that lesbian invisibility "is just an extension of[societal] sexism," a statement that drew
nods of agreement around the room,
Activist Carole Powell, a board
member of IMPACf, a political action
committee, urged lesbians "to claim ourpower as females, To say that Gay

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Long-time activist Renee Hanover
responded that her 20 years of activism
have led to a "tremendous disappointment while working in mixed groups ....
It's much better to work with women,"Hanover said, "because what usually
happens [in mixed groups] is the women do all the shit work and the [men]get the credit and the visibility,"
Long-time activist Amy Maggio,
development director at the AIDS Foundation of Chicago (and also a former
New Yorker), countered that AFC has
seven lesbians in managerial positions,
including exerutive director MarciaLipetZ,"This is a good example of lesbian Visibility," Maggio said, "We can't
say there are no examples,"Powell then suggested that if lesbians take part in gay groups "innumbers large enough to represent
your viewpoint...you will affect thoseorganizations .... I think the time forseeing the enemy outside is gone,"
Powell said, "and we have to look at
our own responsibility [for lesbian
invisibility]."
Powell identified three crucial
issues: "How do we get money? Where
do we put it? And which organizations
do we concentrate on?" Cathy Halligan, a nominee-pending
for Mayor
Richard Daley's Committee on Lesbianand Gay Issues, agreed that economics
is a crucial factor,"When I was growing up," Halligan said, "all Catholics, no matter how
poor, gaVe ten percent of their grosssalary to the church, If Catholics can doit, so can we, Spend your money in theright places, It's economics,"
Activist Nancy Pakieser inte*cted that "it also comes down to beingout [of the closet], The people here
tonight are already active," she said,"This is not the right crowd."
Hanover responded that the assembled women, however, "were in a 'react'
position, That's [the only time] we gettogether," she said "We need an agenda

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Photo: Marcy Bairn/Chicago Outlines

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Tracy Bairn, managing editor of
Outlines, suggested that lesbians
adopt a tactic used by gay organizations several years ago and meet
directly with news reporters,"Reporters cal! the people theyknow," Bairn said,"Give us quotable women," added
activist Nancy Katz, "I'm tired of seeing
openly gay men speak for us,"
"We have to make our faces seen
where decisions involving us arebeing made," Kuda concurred,"So the first priority is getting ourname in the media," stressed Halligan,"We must share press lists,'
Linda Henderson, managing editor of Gay Cbicago, pointed out thatseveral women's organizations neversend press releases to the gay press
and added that large numbers of"out" lesbians are not necessarily thesecret to increased press coverage,'The March On Washington provedthat they can ignore numbers," Henderson said, "Send me press releases,"
The follOWingday, IGL1F'sTrapanicharll.cterized the gathering as "really, produCtive," adding, "Womet?-who in
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Doctor with AIDS Sues
"Negligent" City

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VeroniclI Prllgo (r) leaving court with Diane Wilner, one of her lawyers.

PROGNOSIS PREGO

by James Waller
BROOKLYN-The Supreme Court
building here was the scene, last
week, of opening arguments and testimony in the precedent-setting case ofArgentine~born Dr, Veronica Prego,' 32,
a person with AIDS who is suing New
York City's Health and Hospitals Corporation for $175 million,
Prego claims that she contractedHIV, the virus associated with AIDS,
as a result of gross negligence on
the part of Kings County Hospital in
Brooklyn and of Dr. Joyce Fogel,
one of two doctors also named in
the suit. Fogel was serving herinternship at Kings 'County in January 1983, when the incident Pregosays is responsible for her infection
with HIV took place,At that time, Prego, who had
recently moved to the United Statesfrom Buenos Aires after becoming
engaged to Brooklyn physician Dr,
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"extern" at the hospital. Prego's marriage to Goldberg began to deteriorate in 1985, after she learned she had
tested HIV-positive, and has since
ended in divorce,
Like many
graduates of foreign
medicalschools, Pregochose to perform a stint as an unpaid
extern in order to qualify for internship and, eventually, residency at an
American hospital. In her job as anextern, Prego took on many of theduties usually associated with nurses
and nurses' aides, She was assigned toassist Fogel, but was not herself
allowed to diagnose illnesses or prescribe treatment.
According to testimony Pregogave the court on Wednesday afternoon, it was late at night on January
12, 1983, that she walked into award at Kings County to find Fogel
in -the final stages of draWing bloodfrom an AIDS patient referred to in
the record as Mr, W,N, After finishing the procedure, Fogel instructed
Prego to clean up,
As Prego recounts it, she firstremoved two visible needles, which
she took to be, the only ones Fogel
had used to draw blood from thepatient, taking them immediately tothe needle-disposal box located in thenurses' station some distance from theward, She then returned to the ward
and began to gather together theother refuse-discarded
wrappings,
gauze and dirty linen- for disposal.
As she was doing this, she says,
she was pricked by a third contaminated needle that lay hidden within thispile of cloth and paper where Fogel
had allegedly carelessly discarded it.
The outcome of the case rests, inlarge measure, on Prego's lawyers'ability to convince the jury that thiswas indeed the avenue by which
Prego contracted the virus, Doing so
is likely to prove a difficult task for anumber of reasons,First, Prego, according to testimony she herself supplied, was the victim of asecond needle-stick, thisone occurring after she
had drawn blood from another AIDS
patient while serving her internshipat King's County in 1984, Andalthough Prego adamantly denies
ever having engaged in any high-risk
behavior, she does admit to having
had an affair, while still in Argentina,
with a man who is apparently unlocatable,
Prego's ex-husband,
who hadtaken the stand on Tuesday, tests negative for HIV antibodies and, during
questioning, vociferously denied everparticipatingin homosexual intercourse or other activities that might
have put him at risk for HIV infection,

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When she examined Prego on
Wednesday, Susan Karten-one
ofPrego's two attomeys--pursued a lineof questioning that seemed designed
to elicit a very dismal portrait of working conditions at Kings County Hospitalduringtheearly
1980s,
Precautionary measures to prevent thetransmission of infectious diseases
were, as Prego's tale related, inadequate, and even those regulations thatwere in effect imperfectly heeded,
Prego stated that she received
no training in how to deal withpatients with infectious
diseases
before beginningwork at KingsCounty; and that the hospital provided her with no manual or list ofhouse rules concerning safety procedures to be applied when working
on infectious-disease wards,
In addition,
her testimony
detailed the deplorable, dangerous
condition in which needle-disposal
boxes were kept. Describing thetwo-holed boxes in which needles
were cut and then discarded, Pregosaid, "Most of the time the scissors[for clltting needles] were so worn
they wouldn't
cut anything,andthe hole [into which cut syringes
were then put] was bristling withneedles,"'
Perhaps unfortunately for Prego'scase, however, many such "background"questions-and Prego's responses-werestruck from the record when presiding
Justice Aaron Bernstein sustained objections lodged by Stanley Friedman, chief
attorney for the defendants,
Prego's suit was described byseveral New York newspapers last
week as being the first in which an
AIDS-infected health care worker hasbrought such a civil action against ahealth-care institution, (To date, morethan 20 health-care workers in the
V,S, are thought to have contracted
AIDS in job-related accidents,)
The suit brings together a numberof complex issues, But although theseissues may justify the amount of media
attention the case is receiving here, they
are making few appearances in print
and television coverage of the trial,
So far, that coverage has had a
decidedly maudl in cast. Numerous
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Messinger
appoints
OutWeek

colUlDnist
NEW YORK-Out Week columnist
Sandor Katz is leaving the magazine tojoin the staff of newly-elected Manhattan Borough President Ruth Messinger,
Katz will be in Messinger's land use
unit, with responsibility for historic

Sandy Katz

Photo: Ellen B, Neipris

preservation, parks and waterfront planning, Katz's background in land uSe policy includes two years as executive
director of Westpride, a community groupfighting to &Op Donald Trump's "Trump
Qty" plan for the Upper ~Side,
Katz is also leaving his position
as Director of Development for theCommunity Health Project,"I am delighted that Sandy has
joined my staff," Messinger said in a
prepared statement. "His wide experience and expertise will 'serve the Borough President's office well,"Katz, who is also a member of ACf
UP, has worked as an activist with
Messinger on issues related to land use,city AIDS services and lesbian and gay
civil rights, "No elected official has been
as dedicated a friend to our community

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as Ruth," said Katz, "I am thrilled to beworking on her staff, "-Andrew Miller

Zsa-Zsa:read this
The American Civil Liberties
Union has filed suit in federal court
on behalf of a woman inmate at a
Pennsylvania county jail who wasdenied visitation with her female
lover,In a restricted visitation policy,
the Blair County Prison allows
inmates to be visited only by family
members and heterosexual boyfriends
and girlfriends, When the lesbian
inmate, referred to in court papers as
Jane Doe, wrote to Blair County's
warden, Gary Sparks, to request that
her lover be permitted to visit, herrequest was denied,In her plea to Sparks, "Doe"wrote, "I love her and she loves me
and I sure would like to see someone
I love, She is all I got." At a December
hearing, Sparks testified that hedenied the request
becausehebelieved homosexual conduct was
illegal in Pennsylvania,
The visitation at issue in the caseis non--contact visitation,-James Waller

Lesbianco-parentseeks rights
in court
NEW YORK-A state court heard
oral arguments January 8 on whether alesbian parent who raised a child withher former lover, who is the biologicalparent, should be allowed to seek visitation rights as a parent. Because thiscase, In the matter of Alison D" is thefirst in the nation to go to an appellate

court, it could establish important standards for the legal recognition of nonbiological lesbian parents,
The case-whichuses only firstnames and last initials to protect theinterests of the child-was
filed in
Poughkeepsie, NY by Lambda Legal
Defense and Education Fund nearly
two years ago on behalf of Alison D"a non-biological mother whose former
lover cut-off visitation with their son,
According to Lambda, Alison D,
and Virginia M, met in 1977, and had
been in a relationshipfor several
years when Virginia became pregnant
by donor insemination and gave birth
to their son in 1981. The couple
raised the child together, sharing
equally in their financial and emotional commitment to him, When theirson was two years old, Alison gavebirth to a daughter, who also wasconceived through donor insemination, Several months later, in November 1983, Virginia and Alison ended
their relationship, and Alison rpovedout ofthe family home,
The two women agreed that Alison
would have substantial visitation with
their son, But sometime in 1986, Virginia began to limit Alison's visitation,and in July 1987, she completely cut off
visitation when Alison moved out of thecountry to take a temporary position in
Dublin, Ireland, her new lover's native
country, according to Lambda,
Before considering the move, Alison had solicited Virginia's repeatedassurances that the relationship she
developed with their son would bemaintained through phone calls, cards
and visits, Immediately after Alison
and her partner left for Ireland, Virginia cut off all contact between A\.ison and their son despite her previous
promises, Virginia never tried to maintain a relationship with their daughter,a Lambda press release said,
After attempts at negotiation
failed, Alison sought Lambda's assistance and, in February 1988, filed apetition for visitation, which the court
refused, maintaining that, as a matterof law, a parent "is a biological parent
and not otherwise." On appeal, lambda has repudiated this narrow defini-~tion of parenthood and maintains thatmany lesbians who raise children with
their partners are parents who should
be given a right to seek visitation in
the event of the couples' separation,
Paula Ettelbrick, Lambda's legal
director and the attorney who represents Alison, told OutWeek, "In New
York, as in many states, courts havealready found that other non-biological adults, like step-parents,
haverights to visitation when they havefunctioned as a parent in the child'slife, We are simply urging the court toextend the law to non-biological lesbian mothers, It's time for the court torecognize that lesbians are having
children and that these relationships
must be legally protected,"
The opposing side chose not toappear at the oral argument. The
court will rule within the next few
months on whether the case can, in
fact, go forward,

New trial
for lesbian•
marineA lesbian corporal in the UnitedStates Marine Corps who was courtmartialed on sodomy charges in 1988
and spent six months in a militaryprison has been given the chance fora new trial and the possibility thatcharges against her may be dismissed,
According to a release issued by
the American Civil Liberties Union,
which filed a friend-of-the-court brief
on behalf of the corporal, Barbara
Baum, the Marine Corps has conceded thai Baum's conviction was constitutionally flawed and should therefore
be voided,
Baum was one of dozens of
women rounded up during a "witch
hunt" at the Corps' Parris Island,South Carolina base during late 1987
and early 1988, She and two others
were subjected to court martial. The
others, Cheryl Jameson and Glenda
Jones, served sentences of six months
and a year, respectively,
All threewomen are now out of jail.

In addition, several women military personnel who acted as character
witnesses for the defendants were subjected to disciplinary sanctions by theCorps, A total of 65 women were courtmartialed, discharged, forced to resign,
sanctioned or otherwise injured by theCorps' Parris Island investigation,,According
to Bill Rubenstein of
the ACLU's Lesbian and Gay Rights
project, which in a separate case is,also representing former staff sergea!)t
Christine Hilinski, one of the character
witnesses sanctioned by the Corps, thedecision to review Baum's case is an

important victory for the movement tosecure the rights of lesbians and gay
men who choose military service,"it shows them they can't getaway with the witch hunts they padback in the 40s and 50s," Rubensteinsaid, ''The case is interesting because
it's being fought so hard, If everyone
fought them like this, they'd bespending their whole budget just litigating these cases."TQe unconstitutionality of Baum's
convit:tion centers on the trial judge's
error in not excusing a juror who wastainted with prior knowledge of the

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Out Takes
case, The juror, had been present at
the hearing at which Baum had been
indicted, The ACLU's Rubenstein, who
believes that such breaches of constitutionality may be quite common in'courts martial against homosexuals,
quipped that Baum's case was a good
illustration "of the old joke that 'military justice is to justice as military
music is to music, ,.
Hilinski was demoted from her
position as drill sergeant after testifying to Baum's superior soldiership, Ina memorandum justifying the sanction, the Corps, according to Rubenstein, said that Hilinski had "shownpoor judgment because of her leniency on homosexuality,"
The Parris Island debacle served
as a major impetus to the founding of
the Military Freedom Project, a joint
enterprise of the National Gay andLesbian Task Force, the National
Organization for Women, the Human
Rights Campaign Fund and the ACLU.
According to NGLTFstaffer Robert
Bray, continuing witch hunts to purge
gay people from the military services-including a purge of gay men
now underway at Carswell Air Force
Base in Fort Worth, Texas- demonstrate that "next to immigration,the military is the last bastion of legal,
institutionalized discrimination against
lesbians and gays,» -James Waller

Belton (DFL-ward 8) council president and Brian Coyle (DFL-ward 6)
council vice president.
"I am thrilled that the council caucus didn't let issues of race and sexual

Sharon Sayles Belton
identitY prejudice their choices for city
council leadership," said Coyle, who
was the first openly gay man electedto the city council in 1983,
Their election is considered a triumph of DFL progressives over thecity's traditional Democrats, Belton
and Boyle promise aggressive advocacy on progressive
issues, such asneighborhood revitaliZation, civilian

Gay Dlan,
Black
WODlanlead
Twin City
council
MINNEAPOLIS-An
AfricanAmerican woman and a gay man took
the helm of the Minneapoliscity
council on January 2, The overwhelming Democratic Farmer Labor (DFL)
party majority elected Sharon Sayles

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Brian Coyle

Photo: Laurel Cazin

review of the police, environmental
questions, AIDS and domestic partner
legislation for unmarried straight andgay couples,
The DFL caucus, which includes
12 of the 13 council members, createda new Health, Environment
andHuman Development
Committee,"The new committee creates a home
in a policy committee for discussions
and implementation of programs forother people issues,'· said Sayles Belton, who was first elected in 1983,
Tim Campbell, Minneapolis gay
activist and GLe Voice publisher, wasreserved with his praise for Coyle,"Like two other elected officials in
Minnesota who are also gay, Representative Karen Clark and Senator
Alan Spear, Coyle shies away frombeing pigeonholed
as a one-issue
politician, »But Campbell added, "This does
not diminish the fact that the mereelection of an openly gay man to thisposition is a major mark of progressin the drive for gay acceptance,»-David Anger

Law schools
ban antigay bias
SAN FRANCISCO-The House ofRepresentatives of the Association ofAmerican Law Schools (AALS), meeting here January 6, voted to add a bylaws provision which would require
member law schools to adopt policies
forbidding discrimination on the basisof sexual orientation, handicap or disability and age, and to apply thosepolicies in the operation of law sc,hool 'placement offices, These classifications
were added to existing by-laws forbidding discrimination on the basis ofrace, color, religion or national origin,
Under AALS regulations,religiously-affiliatedschools may be
excused from complying with reqUirements which would violate the tenetsof their religion, The AALS Executive
Committee will meet in May to consider' whether the regulation should
be amended to end this exemption,
The vote followed a plenary ses-sion at which Craig Christensen, president of the Law School Admission
Services and former Dean of Syracuse
University Law School, told a rapt
audience about his experience ofbeing passed over for the poSition ofVice-Chancellorof the university
because he was an openly gay man,After the House of Representatives meeting, the Society of American
Law Teachers gave its Annual Teaching Award to Professor Rhonda R,
Rivera of Ohio State University, aprominent lesbian legal activist who
was co-founder of the AALS Section
on Gay and Lesbian Legal Issues andis a leading officer of several lesbian
and gay organizationsin Ohio, as
well as a member of the Board of
Directors of Lambda Legal Defense
and Education Fund,-'-Art Leonard

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Shawn, the show's
original
choreographer, charged that the producers fired him when they learnedof his HIV-positive status, The producers' motion t6 have Shawn's suitdismissed was overruled in New YorkState Supreme Court last September,and they were consequently
compelled to disclose memoranda revealing that thei,r decision to fire him
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Getting sacked by the Legs producers didn't sap Shawn's energy,
Since then, besides successfully fighting his former employers' action, he
has gone on to choreograph otherproductions, including a large-scalemusical that opened three months ago
in West Germany, -James Waller

800 gay
Danes Dlarryin first 20

days
COPENHAGEN, Denmark-As
Danish gay and lesbian activists anxiously await the release of officialstatisticson
the first four months of Denmark's ftrstin-the-world legal gay marriages, thenewspaper Berlingske Tidende did an
informal survey and found that 400 couples were married in the 20 days after
the law took effect Oct, 1.
Activists had been surprised when
only 11 couples turned up for an Oct,
1 mass wedding at the Coppenhagen
Town Hall and only later realized thatthe anticipated presence of hundredsof news reporters and scores of camera crews scared off most couples who
were ready to tie the knot,
Since then, anticipation has built
steadily in wait for the nation's triannual statistical report,
Berlingske Tidende, meanwhile,'
compiled its count of 400 about three
weeks after the first weddings byphoning the town halls in major cities
according to. Else Siange, president of il
the Danish National Association for'Gays and Lesbians (LBL),"Obviously the real' number after
three months now is .much greater,"
Siange said in a phone interview, "Wewill keep phoning the officials until we
get the statistics,"
In the meantime, LBL continues
to fight two deficiencies in the gay'marriage law that ban gay adoption
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to refuse to offer gay weddings,
The issue is being hotly debatedwithin the church and Siange says
LBLhas opted, for the moment, to let
theologians and pastors argue thematter our among themselves before
making its next move,"They' have to find their own legson the earth, as we say in Danish,"Siange said, "It's only a minority that
oppose it, but they shout so loud."
A recent national opinion poll of
1,200 Danes found that 64 percent support the gay marriage law, Among thoseunder age 50, the figure rises to 73-80
percent in various age brackets, Siangecalled those figures "really good,"
Elsewhere in Scandinavia,a gay marriage bill is set for introdu<tiooin the Nor-weigan parliament in February andshould see some action by June, aa:ording to the national gay group there,
And in Sweden, Prime Minister
Ingvar Carlsson and other officials
have publicly stated their support forgay marriage and legislation will be
introduced Jan, 25, The Swedish parliament, however, will likely notaddress the matter for several months,
according to RFSL,the Swedish Federation for Gay and Lesbian Rights,
The Danish law has sparked drives
for gay marriage throughout Western
Europe, with activists in France particularly desirous of catching up with theirneighbors to the North, according toreports in the Paris magazine Gai Pied
-Rex Wockner

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New York

Nathaniel Harris Pier, M.D.

Nathaniel H, Pier, M,D" age37, of New York City, died
December 17, 1989 of AIDS, Dr.
Pier was a tireless advocate forpeople with AIDS, He was one of
the earliest pioneers in AIDS treatmen~ to attempt to organize, thecommunity physicians and people
with AIDS, to develop information
networks to expand the knowledge of this disease,to createhumane and practical approaches
to AIDS, and to develop community-based organizations and structuresthat advocate
for andprovide treatments for the community of people with AIDS,
Dr, Pier graduated summa cum
laude from the University of California at Berkdey in 1974, He graduatedfrom the Albert Einstein College ofMedicine in 1977 and then trained at
The New York Hospital/Cornell Medical Center, in pediatrics through 1980,
Later, he also completed a fellowshipin neurological diseases at the Royal
Post Graduate Medical School, University of London, Hannersmith Hospital. Dr, Pier was a prominent activist
in the lesbian and gay community in
New York. He gave generously of histime to many of the community'sorganizations in the past decade,including being a founding board
member of the Gay and LesbianCommunity Center on 13th Street. He

was a vocal andfrequently quoted
critic of government and, on several occasions, heinduced federal
agenciesandpharmaceu ticalcompanies
tospeed up the testing of promisingtreatments,
He
was a member ofthe staff at St.
Mark'sClinicCommunity
HealthProject,
founding member
of
New
York
Physicians for Human Rights, member of the Board of Directors of theCommuniy ~PIejroand member of
the InstitutionalReviewBoard of theCommunity, Research Initiative, He
also maintained a general practice in
New York since 1984, as a physician
to hundreds of people with AIDS,
Dr. Pier is survived by hislover, Michael Hannaway, his mother Mollie Pier and two' brothers
Kenneth and Gerald Pier, A memorial service will be held at a later
date for members of the community
who have known and worked with
Dr. Pier during his career and in
this fight to eradicate AIDS, In addition, a memorial fund will be set up
in Dr, Pier's name to provide drugs
for people with AIDS who cannot
obtain them, For further information about the memorial service
and the memorial fund, call the
Community Research Initiative,,New York (212) 481-1050 or theoffice of Christopher Hoy (212)787-7820, -Frederick Nesetril

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what individual liberty is all about.
And the state has no right making that
determination for any of us,·
After nearly two hours of speeches, the throng moved to a nearby
intersection in attempts at blocking
traffic, only to be held back by a phalanx of police officers,
After a small group carrying bedclothes ran into the intersection in frontof moving cars, police arrested thegroup and stepped up their crowd control efforts, That caused the activists toscatter to no fewer than two other intersections to block the midday traffic,
Despite being mocked for thepractice in an earlier skit featuring
activists as the "sex police," at least fourarresting officers were seen wearing
rubber gloves. A handful of others werereported to have been seen wearing
them under their winter gloves,'As with most anti-sodomy law
demonstrations, which have become
her specialty, NGLTF's Hyde closed her
speech by urging event participants tobreak the lambasted state statute,adding that it is no kind of deterrent.
"Really,"she said. "How many of us
this weekend said, 'I'd love to, honey,
but there's a sexiomy law in Georgia'?"Those arrested each pleaded
guilty to disorderly conduct charges
and paid a fine, foreiting their right toa trial, and obviating the need toreturn to Atlanta for one, ...
CDC from paige 19

ed financial and housing assis~ce,
After police declined to arrest the"T-200· group once they lay down inthe street-as they had already closed
off the street to traffic-thegroupthen moved to an adjoining CDC
office building and took over a small
office where they then held acramped press conference,,Halfway into the demonstration,a group of eleven demonstrators
climbed a ladder to the roof of themain building to hang a banner reading "CDC Kills." As they had taken tbe
ladder up with them and had previously staked out the building, they
managed to leave the roof before
police could reach them by the stairs.
Causing mild consternation forsome of the protesters, three anti-gay'

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counter-demonstratorsstood in the
thick of the action carrying signs saying "Gay is Not O,K,· When one of
the men sought to place himself inthe line of sight of cameras shooting
the protesters, a group of activists surrounded him with their own signs,
following him up and down the street
as he tried to escape them, After abrief "kiss--in,· the group dispersed,
Earlier, one protester,
Marty
Robinson of ACf UP/NY, was reportedly arrested on battery charges forallegedly assaulting one of the antigay counter-demonstrators after a verbal altercation, ...
PREGOfrom p.... 23

courtroom appearances, as "frail" and"wan-looking." Though she is of slightbuild and could not be called robust,
Prego is a good-looking, high-cheekboned woman who does not, in fact,appear to be ill at the moment, The
media's sympathy-mongering seems
to be in accord with the strategy ofPrego's attorneys, who, among othertactics, brought Prego's mother forward as their first witness when testimony began on Monday,
Newspaper accounts have tended
to bolster misconceptions about AIDS,
such as that PWAs can be divided intothe "innocent· and the "non-innocent,·
that AIDS sufferers are continuously
sick and that someone who contracts
the disease 'is guaranteed a lifespan
that, from that point on, will necessarily be brief and unremittingly horrible,
No matter how the case is ultimately decided the conclusionislikely to carry some unsatisfactory
residue for both sides, If the jury
rules in Prego's favor, the decision
will imply that it is possible todetermine with reasonable certainty the precise route of HIV transmission even in cases where otherplausible avenues exist. If her lawsuit fails, that outcome may buttressthecarelessness
andunconcern
for their employees''welfare that continue to characterize the proceduresof too many
medical institutions,'The latter issue makes the case
one that is being closely followed by
officials at Local 1199 of the Drug,
Hospital and Health Care Union,

which represents thousands of New
York workers who daily perform
duties similar to those required ofPrego during her externship,
Commenting on the trial, Lenore
Colbert, 1199's director of safety andhealth, said, "Of course it's a terrible
thing that happened [to Pregol, but
the establishment seems to think it's
just doctors and nurses who need
protection,"We're hoping the trial brings to
the forefront just how desperately
standards are needed and that it helps
make sure OSHA [Occupational Safety
and Health Administration, a federal
agencyl regulations can be put into
place everywhere,· she said,
Colbert underlined the fact thatthe duties Prego performed as anextern were basically those ordinarily
done by housekeeping staff, "Evennow," she said, "vaccine for hepatitis
B, for example, is usually only offeredto doctors, nurses and some social
workers, What about housekeepers?
We're very concerned.·
Some discussion has been raised
concerning the impact of a Prego victory on the willingness of hospital
workers and other care-givers to workwith people with AIDS, But an OutWeek source, an AIDS educator who
has long monitored the health-carescene in this city, said she doubted thecase would have any effect whatsoever in this regard, "We didn't have thatmuch trouble even during the 'panic'
years of 1985 and 86," she saidThissource,who
prefers
anonymity, complemented, Prego and,her attorneys for making very clearthat they do not believe AIDS can becontracted through casual contact.
She also said that she though Prego'sargument was a strong one: "If ~hedoctor [Fogel) did what Prego said
she did, this goes against clinicalpractice dating back to the 1940s,
Hospital workers should be discouraged from working in hospitals that
don't take care of them."
Besides the Health and Hospitals
Corporation and Dr, Fogel, Prego has
also brought suit against Dr, Sheldon
Landesman, whom she charges with
haVing disregarded confidentiality andspread news of her HIV-positive status among hospital coworkers, ...

GLAADTIDINGSby Craig Davidson
In Texas, the grinch is alive andwell and stole Christmas,
Charitable d.fives to help the needy
are one of thestaples of theholidayseason- coats andtoys for kids,
food drives tohelp the poorand homeless,
Unobjectionable,
even praiseworthy, you would
think,
But not in
Texas, where theState Department
of Health has refused to help thefood pantry run
by the AIDS Resource
Centerproject of theDallas Gay Alliance, That project currently sup402 people
with AIDS who
are either too
sick or too poor
to provide forthemselves,
The Health
Department has
invoked a law that it says prohibits
them from supporting organizations
that advocate or promote conductthat violates state law, By their reasoning: homosexual acts are illegal in, Texas, the Dallas Gay Alliance works

for equal rights for gay people, thefood pantry project is associated with
the Alliance, hence state law prohibits the Department from providing
money to the Alliance so it can buy
food for people with AIDS,The logic here is non-existent, but
the bigotry is obvious, To protest thisinhumane decision, write to:Dr, Robert Bernstein
Commissioner of Health1100 W, 49th Street
Austin, TX 78756
We also urge you to show yoursupport for the Dallas Gay Alliance andits food pantry project by writing to:William Waybourne, Exec, Dir,
Dallas Gay Alliance
4012 Cedar Springs Rd,
Dallas, TX 75219

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In contrast to the narrow-mindedness of Texas Health officials, thecr.eators' of a network television
show have taken the small but sig-

nificant step from mere tolerance ofgay people .. ,to appreciation.
Ourphone rang off the hook during andafter a recent episode of the CBS sitcom, Doctor, Doctor, which has a recurring, positive gay character who
is the brother of the doctor of thetitle,In this episode, the doctor, introduces
his gay brotherto astraight friend, The friend's initial
discomfort subsides when he r~alizes that he has a lot in common
with the brother, but comes flooding back when the gay man gets
intimatein' a casual, non-sexual
sort of way,
'The straight friend proceeds to offend the gay brother by cancelling a
joint weekend trip to New York, As thebrother ieaves, he says "I look at you
and see a friend, You look at me andall you see IS a fag,"
In the next few scenes the doctor
helps his friend confront his stereotypes about gays-and his hypocrisy,
Interestingly, some of these scenes,
standing alone, could be problematicalfrom a defamation point of view, but
in context, we found them to be wellintended- even instructive,
When the gay brother returns
from his trip, a reconciliation occurs,
What is new and wonderful is thatthe straight man doesn't just say, "I
accept your being gay;" he says, "Iwant a gay friend,"
Just one of our regular correspondents
complained
about this
episode, He found the "I warit gay afriend" line patronizing, the equivalent of somebody saying "Some of
my best friends are Black or Jewish
or, whatever,", We agree that the dialogue walked a tightrope 'in t6=9his'
regard; we disagree that it ever fell
off,
To register your approval of Doctor, Doctor, the gay' character on theshow and this 'touching episode in particular (or; -ifyou wish, to express yourconcern) write to:Norman Steinberg
Executive Producer
Doctor, Doctor
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Political Science

Towards Perestro'ika In The USA
by Mark HarringtonL

ife is worth living, and thepossibility for change exists,-activist Gregg Bordowitz at an ACf UP civil diciobedience
training,February 1~

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It is a strange feeling, at the start ofthe 199Qs,to feel so much more solidarity with this sudden, worldwide, stunning
eruption of dissidence and activism thanwith the prevailing mood here in America-ignoble America- which has just,with shockingly little outcry, installed yet
another Latin American pupret state,
For some reason the holiday season makes Republicans bloodthirsty,
Remember,Nixon's'
Christmas bombing of Hanoi?
Before December 20, I was wondering how the US military industrial complex was going' todeal with the end of the Cold
War, I noted that pundits 'were
saying "it's too early to distributet~e peace dividend," I heard an
absurd comment on a radio
news showj a NATO officer was.
saying "Freedom is breaking out allover Eastern Europe, We've got tomaintain a vigorous defensive posture."
In the meantime, military cuts will be
used to cut the deficit, not to fund desperately needed initiatives here athome-housing, health care, education,
The right wingi!rs are using
drug dealers as scapegoats, '-William Burroughs, Drugstore Cowboy
There are basically two altematives
facing the USA in the 199Qs,The powersthat be, desperate at the prospect of losing their hold on elective office, themedia and the Federal budget, will labor
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to American well-being, and so they havedisease and cancer are killing morecooked up the ''War on Drugs," This en- Americans than AIDS (read more rich,tails as an ill-concealed subtext an all-out white, old Americans--though they kill
all kindsj they are not infectious diseases,
assault on drug users iri particular and on
people of color in general, The enOffilOUS they are not increasing exponentially),
And my friend, who lives ten minapparatus of death aimed against the Red
utes away, might as well be living in
Menace for the last 45 years will turn
Vietnam, Nixon made the, final fivesouthwards, menacing the emerging
democracies of Latin America abroad andyears of war domestically acceptablethrough the expedient of "Vietnamizaignoring the "plagues" of AIDS,crack andtion"-letting
the South Vietnamese
homeIessness at home in a punitive Waron the Poor,
fight the war (though we still paid)j
What is the other alternative? It is Bush is going to let the AIDS commuone embodied,' in microcosm, by ACfnity fight our war alone, a house on
UP since 1987 and by other newer disfire confused as one of the thousandsident movements since them-artists
points of "light." We are the Vietangry about censorship, women angry
namese now, and America is letting us
about the assault on abortion,fight the war it has unleashed-by
I was struck, when I visited mygenocidal indifference-upon
us in thefriend with AlDS and my family in San gay community and in communities ofcolor, if the word "community·
even applies, What "community"
is made up of tens of thousandsof people isolated in ill healthand kept in deliberate ignoranceof new treatment possibilities
which could keep them (us)alive? Where are the bus andsubway and radio ads about Tcell testing and PCP prophylaxis?
Where' is the massive nationwide
campaign to fund and dissemi-'
Francisco over Christmas 1989, at thenate information about new treatments
abysS that separates their lives, They live and the treatments themselves?
.ten minutes away from each other: my
They are nowhere, They are in ourfamily secure in their house on the hill, heads, We have the potential to makeendlessly dis(':ussing new restaurants
these dreams of life real, We will needwith their friends, Califomia has become
to analyze our history and critically is0obsessively, almost orgiastically culinary
late those actions which have been mostin the last ten years, In the meantime city successful, and emulate them and enofficials described the recent earthquake
hance whatever made them work.
(in which ten San Franciscans were
killed) as "the worst disaster since 1906,"
I think we are entering an era
ignoring the 4,000 who .have died there
when demonstrations and zaps mUstof AIDS in the last ten years, Bushbe even more carefully created torushed out to inspect the torn up Bay
arouse interest from a bored media,"
Bridge in a helicopter, Congress appro-Larry Kramer, December, 1989
priated $3,6 billion dollars in earthquake .
relief-twice the AIDS research budget
We are not alone, That fact, if
for 1990!And we are told that AIDS renothing else, the events of fall 1989
search funding has peaked, that heart
make clear, We are not alone, Th'e

meetings of Civic Forum at the Magic
Lantern Theater in Prague sound anawful lot like the meetings of the AIDS
Coalition to Unleash Power at the Lesbian and Gay Community Center in
Manhattan, There are differences, Most
obViously, the citizens of repressive
Czechoslovakia understood that theirgovernment routinely lied to them, thatit held their interests far from its heart,
It is an irony of repressive societiesthat their citizens have a higher political consciousness than members of aconsumer SOCiety,We could not call ageneral strike and have the entire nation stop working for two hours, But
there is a lot we can do, We can makescience accountable to its premises: rationality and social function, We canmake government live up to its constitutional obligations: "Provide for thecommon defense, Promote the general
welfare," In 1990, we shall do to the
National Institutes of Health (and theCenter for Disease Control) what we
did to the Food and Drug Administration in 1988, In 1990, President Bushand Governor Cuomo will hear thesame message Mayor Koch got, toolate, in 1989, Why can't we do what
we did on March 28, 1989 '(at City
Hall) and on December
10 (at St.
Patrick's) six, eight or 12 times in 1990?
Why can't we st<lge major, well conceived, strategically executed actions
every month? Why can't we do thesethings together, as ACT UP used to in
its earlier days, and tell everyone who
can to come-in February, to Albany(to the seat of State power andmoney), in March, to Bethesda (against
the murderous National Institutes of
Health research establishment),in
April, to Chicago (with ACT NOW
against the insurance industry), in
June, to San Francisco (the site of the
AIDS industry'S annual conclave-theInternational AIDS Conference),
ACT UP's goal is not only to savethe lives of people with AIDS and HIV,but also to create and 'embody a set of
new conditions in which to live-diverse, egalitarian, argumentative andlOVing, May we survive to join withother groups and stage a peaceful revolution in our corrupt and complacentAmerica, Let us go forth and seed theactivist movements of the 1990s, ~.9Lnnounci!!fl_tfte

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KRAMERVS ...
A monthly column by Larry Kramer

Our Gay ··Leaders"
The New York Native's politicalcolumnist, Thomas Jackson, a k a
Leonard Goldstein, recently printed his
guest list of the over 100 supposed
Who's Who of New York's gay politicalcommunity, and who were invited to
his Christmas party, With the exceptionof less than a dozen, I realized how
few were men and women 1) of quality, stature and integrity; or 2) I had
ever heard of; or 3) I trusted; or 4)
who actually fought for us,
As always, this realization-that
we have no leaders who are any
good--terrified me,
As always, I realize: no wonder
we have been in such trouble and forso long,
As always, I ask the question: howmuch longer can we go on and on andon pissing away so muchtime?
When Damien Martin, the founder of the
Hetrick-Martin Institute,
threatens the job of oneof his best teachers, Ann
Northrop, because she
participated in the recent
ACT UP-WHAM! protest
inside St. Patrick's Cathedral, we're in trouble,
When the board of Human Rights
Campaign Fund-acknowledging
that
we desperately need a first-rate leader
in Washington and that Lambda's Tom
Stoddard is (quite frankly) first on theirlist, instead elects for its executive director a weak, compromise candidate
who's been invisible since he was chosen, we're in trouble,
When one of our leading gay doctors, Ron Grossman, and one of ourleading p,r, men, Ethan Getto and oneof our leading health advocates, Jim
Foster (of San Francisco), sign on as,paid consultants to Lyphomed, thegreedy, profiteering manufacturers of36

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January 21, 1990

aerosolized
pentamidine,
which isavailable for $30 in England but costs,$200 here, and when these three gay
Uncle Toms defend the right of
Lyphomed to charge whatever theywant to, in effect bleeding to death
their own dying brothers and sisters,
we're in trouble,
When gay entertainment
giant,David Geffen (who is also on theboard of AmFar); 1) produces and/or
distributes through his own company,
Geffen Records and 2) produces
and/or distributes through WEA, thepowerful consortium in which he is a
giant shareholder and in which he has
a commanding voice, the recordings ofsuch supreme anti-gay bigots as Sam
Kinison and Guns 'n Roses and Skid
Rowand Ice T and Donna Summer

and Big Daddy Kane and moreover
defends their right to make international mincemeat of us, we're in trouble,
When AmFAR can allow not onlyDavid Geffen on its board but also ahorror show like Woody Myers, we'rein trouble,
When our leading openly gay
congressperson, Barney Frank, is so
desperate that he has to carry on withsuch a tacky hooker, knowing there's
no way someone's not going to findout eventually, and lets us down soterribly, we're in trouble,
When Jean O'Leary, who represents us OI:l the Democratic National
Commiuee, destroys an acutely neededorganization (National Gay Rights Advocates), summarily fires a talented
staff that has devoted years to fighting
for us, and all because of some egomaniacal selfishness, we're in trouble,
When the first movie is finallymade about AIDS and it turns out tobe as heartwrenching as writer Craig
Lucas' and director Norman Rene's
Lifetime Companion and this film,
which I spent two hours weeping
through, cannot find a distributor, evenfrom Fox's gay chairman, Barry Diller,
or Geffen Productions' David Geffen,or Orion'S president, Arthur (husbandof Dr. Mathilde) Krim, we're in trouble,
When it takes the board of GMHC(an organization that must perform
crucial tasks on a daily basis) almost ayear to decide upon a new executive
director,and three
years to get rid of his
tragically inept predecessor, we're in trouble,
When the Washington Blade refuses totake strong, crusading
stands against our political enemies and assume a desperately
needed inspirational
journalistic leadership in that blind,banal city of nincompoops, we're introuble,When organizations as vital to oursurvival as Community Research Initiative and AIDS Treatment Registry havedifficulty staying alive because ourcommunity refuses to support them financially, we're in trouble,
When it is the gay vote that elected a new mayor, and that new mayor
has been as rude and ignoble and insulting to us as David Dinkins ha;been sin'ce we elected him, and not
one of the over 100 "leaders' whowent to jackson's party says boo about
it, we're in trouble,

What wonderful role models,Is it any wonder that ACf UP is so
terrified of what's happened to every
previous gay organization that it refuses to let anyone lead it, or allow any
committee or individual to assume
anything remotely resembling responsibility-in so doing preferring to succumb (unfortunately, I think) to a lackof focus and a shirking of the responsibilitiesit must now assume? Because
no one else is assuming them,Yes, we're in trouble,
We are taking too long to get ouract together,
And yet I am told over and overthat "the movement" has made great
progress,
All I know is that we're in thetenth year of a seemingly ,endless epidemic, (which Dr, Samuel Broder of
the National Cancer Institute has said
publicly is curable) and that, if it were
happening to Jews, would be over by
now, Jews would have had their leaders in place by Year One, their organizations in place by Year Two, their
many financial resources at work pressuring and lobbying by Year Three, alltheir doctors and scientists supervising
the research by Year Four, and theirNobel Prizes for their successful resultsby Year Five,
And I, an HIV-positive Jew, would
live to a ripe old age,
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When Father Bruce Ritter, the head of Covenant House and to be published in the Village Voice, corresponds with many of
one of the city's most powerful and revered Catholic priests, was Kite's observations about Father Ritter in poignant detail.
publicly accused last December of taking sexual advantage of aDuring this investigative process, Kevin Kite called u,s andtroubled young man in a Covenant House program and using offered to grant autWeek a rare interview, We questioned him
Covenant House funds to pay for the man's apartment and pro- closely about his relationship with Father Ritter, his reasons forvide him with gifts, the New York press reacted with outrage, The going public and his hopes for the future, We found him to be
story blared from the tabloid covers for two days, follow-up arti- credible, articulate and sincere, and remarkably free of the kind ofcles streamed out of 1V and magazine news departments, and publicity-mongering that characterized the Steven Gobie/Barneycall-in radio shows had a field day, Ritter,whom President Reagan Frank case, Despite denials from Covenant House, we have found
had once praised during a State of the Union Address as a model the verifiable facts presented by Kite to be accurate, while hisof volunteerlsm, denied everything,unverifiable descriptions of life'with Father Ritter correspond with
The basic charges against him came from a former hustler the Nobile interview, which Kite could in no way have known
identified as Tim Warner but whom, it would later be revealed, about. Repeated calls from OutWeek to Covenant House-to
was really named Kevin Kite, A runaway originally from Dallas, speak with Father Ritter and/or to further verify facts about theKite had appeared at Covenant House in New Orleans in early organization-were not returned,
1989 asking for help and protection, As he told it, Father Ritter,
took a liking to him, brought him to New York, set him up in anapartment and provided him with access to a college education,
According to Kite, the price that he paid for these services was toproVide services of his own to Father Ritter - sexual services every
Sunday night for the duration of the arrangement.
An underlying but perhaps even more scandalous charge
centers around Kite's claim that, though the two did not use condoms together, Father Ritter urged Kite to practice safer sex withanyone else he might engage in sex with, This is in sharp contradiction with the church's stance on condom use and Covenant
House's strict forbiddance of any AIDS advocates giving out condoms to teenagers who live there,
When the Manhattan DA's office confirmed the fact that a
serious investigation was in progress regarding the alleged misuseof Covenant House funds, and that Kite had been moved into awitness program, many felt that Ritter's only choice was to reSign,
But then the unexpected happened, ,Covenant House has long had a policy of affording complete
privacy to its many young runaways, who frequently run afoul ofthe police, The strict rules of the House requires it to tum down
requests from the police even when serious crimes are alleged,
Yet in this case Covenant House suddenly forgot its grant ofanonymity and produced Kite's father, an anti-gay religious fundamentalist from Texas, who proceeded to denounce his homosexual son, In what has been described as a carefully orchestratedpress conference, the father asserted that young Kevin was not as COLLARED?-Father Bruce Riner
young as he claimed, that his name wasn't Warner and that hehad a history as a compulsive liar,
What follows is a transcript of autWeek's exclusive interview
The revelations that Kevin had indeed apparently lied about with Kevin Kite conducted just days before he entered a hospital,
his name and age had a sobering effect on the press, and the having expressed fears that the pressure he'd been under had him
story began to recede from view,contemplating suicide,
autWeek, however, has kept a careful eye on the case, Onesalient point that came to light is the fact that the youth's alias as
OutWeek: Tell us about yout involvement with Covenant House
19-year-old Tim Warner was an identity prOVided by Covenantand Bruce Ritter,
House itself. When they gave Kevin his new name and age they
provided him with a social security number, a drivers license and Kevin Kite: It started in New Orleans through Covenant Housea college scholarship all under the name Tim Warner, and told there, I was on vacation at Mardi Gras, I got my wallet picked, I
him never to reveal his original name to anyone for security rea- had been working for an outcall service for a number of years, I
sons, Their decision to expose his alias without revealing that they had decided, even before I'd gone to Mardi Gras, that I was readywere responsible for it, highlights the tension they must be feeling for a change of pace, a change of lifestyle, After all this happened,
as well as their determination to clear Ritter,
I went to Covenant House, I didn't even know who they were, I
Another fact soon to receive major play is the existence of a just thouglit I'd stay there until I could get money wired and goprior youth's charges against Ritter, charges now in possession of back home, Ritter was in town for some kind of meeting and he
the Village Voice, According to Voice writer Phillip Nobile, a was just wandering through the lobby of Covenant House one
young man approached him in the mid-70s with a story virtually day, And after that I was called upstairs by the executive director
identical to Kite's, That young man was subjected to a lie detector of Covenant House there who said Bruce was interested in taking
test, which he passed, and he granted an extensive interview with a special interest in my case, that he would like to take me backNobile, which we at autWeek have obtained, That interview, soon to New York with him, He took a liking to me and he said, "WhyJanuary 21, 1990

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don't you come back to New York? I can
get you into college, whatever you want.
I'll take care of you, This is what we do."OW: Were you already staying in Covenant
House as a client?
KK: I had stayed a couple of nights,
OW: What did Father Ritter say when you

ran into him in the lobby?
KK: We just talked, He said, "You seembright," and "What's your story?" and I told
him I was just here for Mardi Gras,
OW: Did he tell you who he was?
KK: The place was abuzz, Everybody
knew who he was by that point.
OW: Was he wearing a collar?
KK: At that point he was, But when we
flew back to New York, of course, he
wasn't. He doesn't wear it very often,
OW: But he was dressed as a priest when
you met him?
KK: Yes,OW: And what kind of things did he say toyou?
KK: Just "you're bright, intelligent, why
don't you come back to New York? Wehave more opportunities for you there,
Why don't you leave this life behind andjust forget it?Come back to New York."
OW: Did you sense any sexual interest
when you first met him?
KK: Yeah, but then I thought, you're being
stupid, this is a priest who has this hugeorganization, you're being weird,
OW: Did he try to pick you up?
KK: Looking back on it now I'd say yes,
but at the time, no, I didn't get the feeling
I was being picked up,
OW: So he said come back to New Yorkand live at Covenant House?
KK: Right. "We'll get you in our Rites ofPassage program, We'll get you in the college." So we flew back to New york thenext day, When we got back here we went
up to the old Astor Mansion in Rhinebeck,
and we went up there for the weekend
and that's when the whole thing started,OW: You didn't stay at Covenant House in

New York?
KK: I've never stayed at Covenapt Housein New York.
OW: So you got back to New York andyou immediately went up to this mansion?
KK: Right. It's the house you've seen from

Circlinghelicopters,
OW: Did you think it was odd that you
came back to New York with this priest
and you immediately went up to this manSUNDAY'S CHILD -40

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Kevin Kite
January 21, 1990

Photo: T.L, Litt

sion?
KK: I thought it was pretty bizarre, but I'm thinking weird about
this man, Here's this priest who's done all these great things andat that point I didn't know what I know now,
OW: What was going on at this mansion?
KK: Nothing, There was the mansion
stayed in the teahouse,

and the teahouse,We

OW: Did you stay in the same room?
KK: There was only one bedroom,

OW: Was there any explanationfrom him?

KK: He was afraid that people would come after me because it's
not good to leave the prostitution business, It's very unsafe, very
unwise, But what danger is there if you've flown someone thousands of miles away from everybody who could have been afteryou?
OW: Were you in danger?

OW: Did you sleep in the same bed?

KK: No,

KK: Yes,OW: Was it a problem that you were working as a prostitute
Dallas?

OW: Did you have sex with him?
KK: Mutual masturbation

KK: He put me in the guest bedroom right next to his, I stayed
there for little more than ,a week before he had an apartment
ready for me, Then he moved me into my own apartment.

and oral sex at some point later,

OW: He went down on you?
KK: Yes,OW: So can you describe how this happened?
KK: Well if you don't know by now [laughs], The first night nothing happened, really, I got even stranger feelings that something
was gonna happen, But then the second night I was there, there
was a fold away bed in the teahouse, a couch in the 1V room
becausethe house
was not meant to be
lived in, just for selVing tea, So he unfolded the couch,got
undressed
and went
to bed, I was laying
on the floor watching
1V and he said "Why'
don't yo'u get up in
bed so I can go to sleep'." So I got up in bed and started watching
1V and he started reaching over and getting really friendly,
OW: What do you mean getting really friendly?
KK: He started fondling me,in

KK: I didn't think so, I felt no danger, But after he had talked tome I began to think, well, maybe' there was a danger, He said,"They're all mob run, they'll come after you" and all this,OW: So he told you that, but you never told him that you were inany danger?
KK: No,OW: So there you were in this apartment.

How was that paid for?

KK: Covenant House owns the building,
OW: Are there otherclientsofCovenant
House living there?
KK: I was the only person who was a client ofCovenant House,
OW: So he was paying
your rent?
KK: Exactly, Furnished,,that this was all happeninginOW: Did you feel at this pointKK: That I was being kept?
OW: Was there an understanding
exchange for sex?

OW: How long did you stay in Rhinebeck?

KK: Exactly,

KK: We stayed there the entire weekend,

OW: And were you continuing

OW: Came back on Monday?

KK: Right, because I thought, how, the hell do I get out of this?
It's either sleep on the streets or-

KK: Right.
OW: How many times did you have sex while you were up there?
KK: Twice the first time, And then each time we went up there,

OW: Did he tell you if you stopped
you out?

sleeping with him he'd throw

KK: He's not that direct. He used very implied terms, like "If you
ever did anything to hurt Covenant House things would not be as
good for you as they are now."

OW: Did .you talk about it the next day?
KK: Oh, he apologized

to have sex with him?

profusely,

OW: Really? What did he say?

OW: What other things did he give you?

KK: "I'm sorry, I'm sorry, it will never happen again, I'm sorry thishappened, I don't want you to feel like you have to do this,"

KK: Two color 1Vs, shopping,clothes,OW: Did you feel like you had to do this?

OW: Did he seem to nave a lot of money?

KK: Yes,

KK: No, this .was Covenant,does,OW: How come?
KK: Because there was no other way out, there was no way
home, I'd been taken 2,000 miles away from home, in the middle
of a place I'd never been to before, didn't know anyone, I
thought, it will be over and he's gonna put me in Rites of Passage
and it will just be over,
OW: So you drove back from Rhinebeck,
pened?

and then what hap-whateverHouse,

I wanted,plus money,

Definitely, CovenantHouse

OW: But in your relationship did he seem pretty flush? I mean did
you go-Out to good restaraunts?
KK: Oh yeah, the bes~ he had a platinum American Express cardand he paid for everything with it. That was our usual Sunday ritual that developed, When he was in town we went to dinner, avery nice dinner and went back to his apartment and had sex andI went home,

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OW: When did he stop apologizing

after sex?

KK: It continued, And then fmally I said, "Stop, No more, I don't
want to do this anymore."
OW: When was that?
KK: This is right before I went to the DA and sought help,

power is tremendous so to cover all of my bases I thought, I'm
going to tell somebody who has no interest and I chose the Post
because they were the most anti-gay paper around that I had
read, And I thought, if they believed me and they would do this,then I thought...
OW: You thought you'd be protected?

OW: When did you seek help?

KK: Right.

KK: Right before Halloween,
OW: You went to the district attorney's office?

OW: How much time passed between
office and contacting the Post?

KK: I did not go to the district attorney's office, I went to theRape and Crime Victim's Services in St. Luke's,-Roosevelt Hospital.

KK: About two days,

OW: So you just went into St. Luke's ..,KK: I called an attorney, a prominent sex attorney I had foundout here in town, I thought, well, I'm gonna tell someone, He
wasn't in, but this lady said why don't you call this number, which
turned out to be the Crime Victims unit. A lady said come right in,Came to them, talked to them, and they in turn called Linda
Fairstein who was out of town and she flew in from Louisville,
And we started wiring conversations [with Ritter), I can't talk too
much about that, but they got what they wanted,
OW: How often did you wear a wire? A lot of times? A few?

the DA's

OW: How many days before the story ran?
KK: A month, maybe a little over a month, They sat on it very
tightly,
OW: But what happened

with the apartment and all that?

KK: The District Attorneyplace,

had me moved

out to my Riverdale

OW: Which Riverdale place?
KK: I went to school at Manhattan College,
OW: When did you start going to college out there?
KK: End of AUgust.

KK:Afew,
OW: But you didn't tell Bruce Ritter about this? You continued
ing in the apartment and sleeping with him?

you contacting

liv-

KK: Right. To get an ironclad case at that point I was willing to
do anything,

OW: So you weren't still living in that Manhattan apartment?
KK: Yeah, I had both,OW: Did you stay at school during the week and come back forweekends and have sex with him?
KK: Yes,OW: Did the DA's
office suggest that you
continue doing that?

OW: When did he findout that you were talking to the DA?

KK: They let me makethe decision, No, they
didn't say we want you
to do this this and this,
They said, it's up toyou,

KK: When the'calledhim inOrleans,

OW: Have you had any
more directcontactwith him at all?

OW: How much time was there between
the first time you went
to St. Luke's and when you talked to Linda Fairstein?

KK: I don't care to have any,

KK: Two days,

OW: When did the Post call him in New Orleans?

OWl Did they seem very attentive to this case?
KK: Very, J\nd still do, Very supportive, attentive,
them any way, I mean, they've been great.

I can't fault

OW: Who gave this story to the Post?
KK: I did, Because I heard on a radio talk show that once you
went public with it nobody could hurt you, I didn't just want to
disllppear, I mean if he had found out any of this was going on
he would have dumped me out on the street.
OW: You were afraid he was going to take your apartment away?
KK: That, and at that point I was being paranoid too, I was, like,taking on this huge institution, I would hate for anything to happen, Not that I thought anything would happen, I just didn't wantto take the chance,
OW: Did he ever threaten you with physical violence?

Post
New

KK: When they got permission from me to run the story, The day
before they ran the article,
OW: Had you moved out by this point?
KK: Right before the story ran, It happened bam bam bam, I got
out, the Post called Bruce, the story ran the next day,
OW: So they kept you there long enoughKK: I don't like the words "they kept me there," I decided tomake that because it was the only way I could prove my story,
Even though I don't think Linda Fairstein ever doubted me, Butmaking a court believe is different And I definitely decided if that
if I've done it this long, why just throw my hands up now and sayforget it? That's defeating every purpose, I still have no beef with
Covenant House, none at all, My beef is with Bruce Ritter, Misuseof trust.

OW: Did you get scared?

OW: What made you decide to get out of the situation? Why
would you want to accuse Bruce Ritter and leave, Why not goback to New Orleans?

KK: I think it was my own personal paranoia of telling these people and at that point I don't know if I trust the DA this much
, either, I didn't know who to trust because I know his political

KK: Because I didn't feel it was right what he was dOing, He did
it to me, I think it's horrible, after someone's made that huge decision to make a total change in lifestyle and to finally trust in

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somebody again and then have somebody do this to you, And
how many others had he done it to and who, was he going do it
to after I left? Instead of doing outcall selVice, now I was doing
inhouse selVice,OW: How did you feel about your life as a hustler before you met
Ritter?
KK: It was fine all along, Towards the end I was getting too old
to do it.
OW: Did you work as a hustler
apanrnrunent?

while you were living in his'

KK: No,OW: He contends

KK: Exactly,
OW: What would his reaction be?
KK: Well, the Catholic Church, It would not be Bruce Ritter talking, It would always be the Catholic Church, He always pulled
himself out of the picture,
OW: Did he use condoms?
KK: No,OW: Was it just blowjobs and mutual masturbations?
KK: Yes,OW: Would he go down on you without a condom?

that you did,

KK: Right.

KK: His new story did,OW: Do you think he was committing a crime?

OW: What did he say that you did?

KK: I was of age of consent. I think it was an abuse of trust.
Everybody calls it sexual misconduct. I think that's probably thebest teon I could fit to it. From what I understand he's always
very careful that they are of the age of consent.

KK: As far as I've ever heard he's been saying I've been bringing
tricks home to my apartment.
OW: Did you ever do that?
KK: No, Because the times he contends that I've done it and thepeople that I've been with, I would say all of them would comefOlWard to the DA and the DA has their names,
OW: Whose names?
KK: During the times he said I was bringing tricks to my apartment, people I was dating at that time, I mean the nights that hecould put somebody in my apartment, like people in that building
seeing me, that he's claiming were tricks, were people I was dating,

OW: When you talked with him about things in general, did heever talk about the problems of gay kids? Did he ever seem toshow any compassion or interest in them?
KK: I think he did have true compassion for'the people on thespecial needs floor that they have there, that houses people with
AIDS, I truly think he did, It's hard to say, He has two very different faces, a very public face and a very private face, But I would
say definitely the people who are HIV positive, people on thatfloor, that he',did feel definite compassion for,OW: How did your relationshipdevelopwith
him? Would you say that
you
eV,er
becameemotionally close to him,
intimate?

OW: What is the age
range of your dates?
KK: Twenty-eight,
25, I live on a fifth ,floor walku p, If I
was working,they
probably
couldn't
climb
that
many
stairs, Most of them
could afford to go to a decent hotel room, too,in, But then I thought,
ownPR.

OW: Have you ever be.en tempted to go back to hustling?

KK: In"a strange way I did
become, in the beginning,kind of attachedto thisperson who had taken me 'this is bullshit. It's like,' I'm believing his

KK: Tempted, yeah,

OW: Do you like him?

OW: Did you ever go to' Rounds?

KK: On one hand, yes, I like the things that he's done in thatarea, He definitely has filled a gap that nobody else has filled, We
can sit here all day and say, ye~ he's done it poorly, yes he's do;eit great. I mean, he did it, and it is good, On the other hand, to do
the things he does, I'd have no problem with him at all had hepaid for my selVices as a client with his own money, while I was
still working, I would have never told his name, I will never tell aclient's name, Never, I would never have had a problem with that.
But to run your own private little place to pick from ..,KK: I went into Rounds when I first came here, nothing happened, I was just interested in checking out the gay bars, At thatpoint I didn't know it was a hustler bar, The minute I walked in, I
realized,OW: Did you ever talk to Father Ritter about sex?
KK: He said "Twenty years ago i decided that if God didn't likeme the way I am and by what I do, that was his problem, notmine," That was probably all he ever said on the subject.
OW: I'm assuming that you're gay ..,KK: Yes, happily so,
OW: Did you ever goad him to make more statements like that?
KK: I'd just say things implying
some of his stands,

that he was hypocriticalabout

OW: Such as?

KK: I don't think anybody really knew, They knew he had a special interest in me, It may have crossed some people's minds,
OW: Other, peopleinterest in you?

at CovenantHouseknew he had a special

KK: Everyone knew,

KK: Condoms,
OW: You mean the fact that Covenant
counselors to give out condoms?

OW: Were you guys open about your relationship? You said you
went to parties, How many other people knew about your relationship?

House d~sn'tallow its..

OW: Did anyone else at Covenantyou?

House ever say anything

to,KK: One person finally did, I can't really give you her name,

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OW, What did she say?
KK: I can't say anything on that subject, because she is still in
Covenant House, You've got to understand, he has a totalitarian
rule, These people are true followers of this man, In a sense
they're employees, but they're also followers of this great man,
Oh they all knew who I was, I came by during office hours, Sure,
They knew we spent a lot of time together, They certainly neversaid it to me, or implied it to me, Nobody ever gave me a situation where I could say, I got the feeling this is somebody I cantell what's going on and they'll believe me, I never got that feelingfrom anybody, I know there are other gay employees of Covenant
House,

the things they're saying, They have control of such ..,a press conference he called, 100 reporters from seven countries,
OW, It's a big story,
KK: Evidently,
OW: Are you prepared for the media whirlwind?
KK: I've already had somewhat of a media whirlWind, but, no,I've been offered some great deals on stories,
OW: People offered you money for stories? Did the Post give you
money?
KK:,No,OW: Who offered you money?

OW: Priests?
KK: No, not that I'm aware of, Covenant House does employ gay
people in prominent positions there,
OW: Openly gay?

have made it known

that they would

OW: Why did you decide to come to OutWeek?
KK: 'Cause I like OutWeek and I thought it was very unfair thatno gay publication had the resources to cover this story, At leastfrom what I'd heard, they didn't have the ma~power to go out
and cover and investigate, I thought that was very unfair thatevery straight newspaper in town had this story, investigating likewildfire, yet no gay publication was able to cover it. I thought thatwas extremely unfair,

KK: Outside of work, openly,
OW: Outside of work, but not at work.
KK: Rumors, yes, Inside, no,
OW: Do you know who?
KK:Yes,OW, Will you tell us?
KK: No, Nobody should be forced out of the closet. If they wantto tell, that's their thing to tell,OW: Did you know that Ritter played a prominent role in trying toprevent New York from passing the gay rights bill?
KK: Not until I read it in Newsweek,
OW: Did you ever talk about gay politics?
KK: No, He didn't like me dating other people, I know that. He
would express those things to me, If he found out I was datingsomebody, he'd put a stop to it.

OW: Did you follow this past summer the Barney Frank/Stephen
Gobie story in Washington? You saw how Stephen Gobie got
treated in the newspapers, on Geraldo?
KK: But I also consider that a totally different thing, I feel sorryfor Barney Frank in that situation totally, I'm not going to criticize
anybody, It was Gobie's decision to make,OW: Do you think that people may, however, see you in somewhat the same light, as someone who's bringing down someone
big?
KK:Yes,OW: What do you think is the essential difference
Barney Frank story and the Bruce Ritter story?

OW: How would he put a stop to it?
KK: Tell me to stop seeing them,OW: And then you would?
KK: Yes,OW: Did you ever try to negotiate
ever say, we have to use condoms?

KK: Different magaZines
pay,

safer sex with him? Did you

KK: No, He would occasionally ask me if I had safe sex, and I
said yes, And he asked me if I'd ever been tested for AIDS, and I
said yes, He said what were the results, and I said negative, Questions like that.

betweenthe

KK: There was no misuse of trust [fn the Barney Frank case],
Everybodyknew going in what the rules were, He washiring ..,like I said, you hire me, I'll never release a client's name,
Nor will I any of the people I've slept with that were clients, I
think that's wrong, In my mind you don't do that. It's like talking
to your psychiatrist ..,OW: Or your priest.

OW: Are they going to be pissed off when they fmd out?

KK: Touche, It's a confidentiality that you don't break, and haveno reason to, I could have sold other stories, This is not the only
influential person I've slept with, So I consider that a totally different cast. But yes, I realize ...I've heard all the giddy jokes ~lreadyon the news and radio shows, Funny, I don't think I look like Jessica Hahn,

KK: Extremely,

OW: Did you like sleeping with him?

OW: Did the DA tell you not to talk to the media?

KK: No, It's a business transaction,

KK: Yeah, I'm in hiding right now,OW: It's a job, not an adventure?

OW: Does the DA know you're here at OutWeek?
KK: No,OW: Why did you decide to talk?
KK: 'Cause I was tired of taking a bashing from everyone,
truths and everything else being published,

half

OW: Have you been taking a bashing?

KK: Right. Enjoy, not to enjoy, Sometimes you do, sometimes
just work,

it's

OW: Was sex ever more intimate than what you described,
mutual masturbation and a blowjob occasionally?

than

KK: I think I've been, Have you not read? I think I've been taking
pretty much of a bashing in the press,

KK: No, Never more than that.

OW: You mean in the sense that people are doubting your story?

KK: It was always at his apartment, I never spent the night there,
but when we were away, those were overnight trips,

KK: Oh, just the things that are coming out of Covenant

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House,

OW: Did he ever spend the night afterwards?

OWl What are you living on?
K.K: I live on a $15 witness fee and that's it. Quite a cut in salary,
OWl What are your plans?
K.K: To go back to school. I plan to hold Manhattan College totheir Scholarship, Hopefully I can force them to honor the scholarship they gave me, If they don't I'll fmd a city college that I can
go to,OW: You're going to stay in New York?
K.K: I think so, I like New York. I enjoy it.
OW: Do you have friends here?
'K.K: Some, yes, Some don't speak to me anymore, Nobody reallywants to be that close to me right now, Some' people are not outof the closet, to their parents, things like that. If they were evercaught with me .. .! have been followed,
tracked by photographers,
I've found themin trashcans outside, bizarre places,

larly pretty way, What the mainstream media is mainly interested
in is confirming that homosexuals are child molesters, or that gay
people shouldri't work with children,
K.K: I realize there's a little paradox, and I'm sorry I've caused ...I
don't think I've caused that. I think he should have thought ofthat before he did it.
OW: But he's not exactly concerned

about the gay community,

KK: That's true, I'm not gonna look at it as my fault. I'm certainly, not gonna put the weight of that on my shoulders, whatsomebodyyelled at me the other day; what do I feel like
about all these poor people that are gonna be unemployedfrom Covenant House, I can worry about me right now, that's
about it. I know that sounds selfish, but I've gotta look out forme,

OW: Did somebody follow you here?
K.K: Who knows?
OW: What about
leave home?

your family? Why'dyou

K.K: My parents are very fundamentalist people, religious, I'll say one thing, they weren't
hypocrites, They believed in their religion
totally, They didn't drink, They didn't dance,
They didn't smoke, They didn't curse, which
was fme, If you're going to live that kind oflifestyle, definitely go with your own convictions, I smoked, drank, danced and was gay,
So it was pretty much four strikes,
OW: You said they weren't hypocrites,
you implying Bruce Ritter is?

Are, K.K: Oh, definitely,
OW: Doesanother?

he preach

one

thing

and doK.K: Exactly,

MI DONT FEEL VENGEFUL. NO MORE: -Kite

Photo: T.l. Littat OutWeek's offices.

OW: What did you think of the demonstration at St Patrick's Cathedral?

OW: How did you feel when you realized what was going on,that he wasn't bringing you up to New York for ..,KK: I wish I could have been there,

K.K: I should have known better, Betrayed,

OW: Inside or out?

OW: What did you think he wanted to bring you up here for?

KK:' Outside, My personal opinion is that everyone has the rightto demonstrate, Abortion, I believe it's a person's right to choose,
I believe everybody has the right to demonstrate, But those people inside, I felt, did inhibit people from their right to religious
services, I had no problem with them getting arrested outside on
the street, causing all the problems they wanted to, but where myrights begin, your rights stop, That's just my personal opinion, forwhat it's worth, which is nothing,

KK: A college education, put me in Rites of Passage,
whole life straightened out, counselling,

OW: How do you think Father Bruce felt about,it?
KK: I think he had a lot of other problems
think his mind was too in tune,

to think about. I don't

OW: If you could teU him something
would it be?

get mynow, face to face, what

KK: I have nothing to say to him, Not until I go to court, I think
I'U have plenty to say there, I don't feel vengeful. No more,
OW: Ritter says that he thinks you've been "prodded by gay
activists eager to embarrass their adversary, the Roman Catholic
Church", Do you have any connections with gay organizations?
KK: Darn, I can't come up with one, No,

OW: Why did you wait so long?

OW: No secret ACf UP meetings in your history?

KK: I didn't know who to tell, I've got the Bush's coming one
day, Reagan coming the next, to Covenant House, I mean the
man's political clout is unreal. Who do you tell that you know is
not gonna pick up the phone and say, "Bruce Ritter's office,please"?

KK: No, No, I thlllk they've changed, It used to be the mob thatput me up to)t. Then I think it was the Post who ,put me up to it.
And then it was the DA who wanted him, And now it's militants,

OW: This is not going to play for the gay community in a particu-

OW: "Militant homosexuals

who hate the church."

KK: Next week we'll find out who else put me up to it after thatstory didn't work, I think he's nailed himself, 'Y

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StreetSmart
Health Outreach to Teenagers
Offers Free Medical Attention
and Safer Sex Informationby Mark Chesnut

46' OUT~WEEK

January 21, 1990

It has been estimated that over
15,000 adolescents are currently livingon the streets of New York City, It's also
estimated that 1,500 of those adolescentsare gay or lesbian, While it's toughenough to be homeless, it's even worse
for the young lesbians and gays who
have been kicked out by their families
and are forced to hustle on the streets inorder to survive, in a dangerous andoften homophobic environment. Theseyouths are in desperate need of basics
including a home, And adequate healthcare is essential to this often-forgotten
segment of the lesbian and gay population, They are at high risk for HIV infection, as weIl as being frequent victims ofphysical and sexual ,abuse and drug
addiction, These teenagers have beenaccustomed to unsympathetic medical
attention, if any at all. But there is afamiliar van that parks three nights aweek near the streets where they live

and work, offering many gay and lesbian street youth an opportunity
toreceive don-jlidgmental medical attention, through a free medical outreachcalled Health Outreach To Te'enagers(HOm,

HOTT was initiated about a year
ago by the Community Health Project(CHP), and is run by full-time staffers
Barry Davidson and Richard ,Haymes, It
is currently the only medical outreachprogram for lesbian and gay youth that
goes out onto the streets,
CHP, a non-profit lesbian and gay
health organization, had long recognized
the medical needs of lesbian and gay
street youth, but it has taken time todevelop the program to its present form,
The organization first attempted to serve
these adolescents through an outreachprogram in their facility at the Lesbianand Gay Community Services Center
over a year ago, But they soon realizedthat these youths were not comfortablemaking a trek so deep into the adult gay
and lesbian community, "They have histories of physical, sexual and emotional
abuse from adults," says Haymes, pointing out that many of the people who
exploit them on the streets are older gay
men, "They don't have a very good viewof what the gay community is, so it'sunderstandable,"
The youth did nothave the coping mechanisms to deal
with the cljnic setting, and those who'did come in would often leave if they
had to wait for more than 15 minutes,
To make health care more accessible and to build trust with the youth, itbecame clear that the program would
have to meet them on their territory andon their terms, Davidson says that's
where medical outreach programs havefailed in the past. "Most programs
expect these kids to come into thembetween nine to five hours, WelI, thekids that we're dealing with have bought
into our bureaucracy, These kids are
hustling and they're on crack and we've
got to get them when it's convenient forthem,"
And so the HOTT van beganrolling, with Barry Davidson and Dr,
Rick O'Keefe venturing out to the areas
most frequented by street youths andhustlers: the West Side piers, 53rd Street.and 3rd Avenue and Times Square, Arid,
they began to see what life is like forthe thousandsof lesbian and gay
teenagers who call the streets theirhome,Davidson was surprised to find thatmost of the kids were not the stereotyped runaways from middle' America,
although they do represent a wide vari, ety of backgrounds: "A lot of them are
local kids, These are not kids who arerunning away from another state to be
here, The majority are local. They comefrom assorted backgrounds, I know one
kid whose father was a heart surgeon,
Some of them come from backgrounds
lof sexual molestationand physical1 abuse, Their parents are probably as bad
off as they are, It blows my mind how
parents can just throwaway kids,"
As a result of being thrown onto
the street, the adolescents take up prostitution as a means of survival and often
falI into a vicious cycle of crack addiction, according to Davidson, Many ofthem are women and some of them aretranssexual or crossdressers, Some of themale hustlers do not even identify them-selves as gay, but are gay on the street ing to Haymes: "It's very hard screening
because "that's what it takes, because
for volunteers to work with adolescents,
that's what their trade requires,· David- As much as we don't want to feed into
son continues, But their trade does not the image of gay people as pederasts,
provide a comfortable lifestyle for most we also can't ignore that there may beof these youth, with many living on the some people who want to volunteer' forsubways or in what they calI "no-frills· this because of that specificalIy, The
housing-abandonedbuildings,
screenings are going to be very rough,They'll go through the central registry,
It is in this atmosphere that Horr
attempts to administer accessible andfingerprinting and' psychological tests,"
non-judgmental
health care, HOlf
Haymes, who is administrator of theworks closely with the Hetrick-Martin 'program, would also like to smooth theInstitute, an organization that provides
way for youths to be referred to BelIeoutreach to lesbian and gay 'youth,
vue and St. Vincent's Hospitals for addiWhen the HOrr van is out in a neighborhood, Hetrick-Martin outreach workers on the street steer teenagers to thelocation for treatment or for medical
counseling,
Safer sex education is an obvious
part of their outreach, "They are probably more aware of AIDS and safe sex
condom use than the average heterosexual; says Davidson, "They alI tell methey use condoms," But he said the
problem comes when a john offers more,money if a condom is not used, Somehustlers will accept that offer,
Another danger arises when thehustler is on his or her own time, Manyof the adolescents have boyfriends with"A BAND-AID"
whom they do not practice safer sex,
Barry Davidson"There's a difference between having
sex and making love in their mind,"tional treatment. But he said the hospital
according to Davidson, "Having sex is staff needs to be better educated aboutsomething you do to make.a liVing, the kids so they can understand them
When you make love, it's with someone
and provide more appropriate treatment.
you want to be with, The sad part about"What we're doing is only a bandit is when they have sex, they'1I use a aid; says Davidson, "but it's more thancondom, When they make love, they
they've got. And it's more than anyone
don't think it's necessary,·else is going to give them, Eventually,
This is one area HOlf hopes to my ultimate goal would be for some kid
address more effectively through their
to say, 'Can yOu get me off the street?
outreach, Plans are underway for phase
Can you get me off crack? Can you makeIII of HOlf's development: They areme a real life?' I would love to see that."
awaiting delivery this summer of a 34
How do the kids respond to the ootfoot van, complete with HOlf's hip
ream? "You never know; Davidson cx>ntinnew logo, that will be equipped with a ues, "One of the ways I know I've
medical exam room, a screening
accomplished something, or that they appreroom!1aboratory, a counseling room,
ciate it, is if they show up the next week, orbathroom with shower and a waiting
if two weeks later they come back just toroom, They are also looking forward to see what's happening, And every once in a
expanding their outreach staff on the , while sometxxly will say 'thanks,'" T
van to include a physician, nurse, social
Health Outreach to Teenagers isworker/healtheducator and driver,"alwaysin need of funds, Donations may
HOrr will then be capable of provi~ingbesent
to Community Health Project,
STD and Hepatitis B screening, as well
as fulI AIDS assessments and a variety of earmarked for H91T to: CHP, 208 West
13th St" New York, New York 10011,
general medical needs,
Volunteers who would like to be budBut there are difficult factors to condies should call H,orr at (212) 255-1675,
sider when expanding the staff, accord-

January 21, 1990

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LOOKOUT

Som~onc wc know got this chccry holiday card from John Cardinal O'Connor, albcit vcry latc.
But thcrc is an cxplanation. According to Pagc Six at thc Hcw York Post "thcrc was a dclay this ycar at
thc Archdiocesc in gctting Cardinal O'Connor's Christmascards in thc mall•••bccausc thc card fcaturcs a
photo of St. Patrick's Cathcdrai with thc muscular art dcco backsidc of Atlas holding up thc world,
promincntly fcaturcd in thc forcground, and it apparcntly showcd too much of his crack, said a sourcc.
So at thc last minutc [O'Connor had to havc] it airbrushcd."
Moral of this story:
It takcs an ass to ccnsor onc.
-M.S.

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Photo: T. l. LittWe Just fell in love with Three Queens Fashions the minute we spotted it on 8th Street near 6th Ave.
(Though owner Noaman Abdulahad was quite perplexed by our amusement and interest when OutWeek's roving photographer T.L.Lltt began snapping pies outside the boutique.) _-M.S.

January 21, 1990

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Liaisons,) Since you know absolutely
everything, could you resolve thisissue once and for all?
-Damn Right

Dear Brad:
This argument has been raging
out of control for the past couple ofweeks and may come to violence if
something isn't done immediately, I
say that as of January 1st we are now
in the 90s, My stupid friend, Gerard,
on the other hand, claims that the
decade doesn't officially start until
1991 just like the 21st century doesn't
begin until the year 2001. Of course
he's as wrong about this as he was inlast year's Oscar predictions but herefuses to back down, (To give yousome idea exactly how stubborn
Gerard is, let me just tell you that he's
still going around saying Glenn Close
won Best Actress for Dangerous

Dear Right:
Personally, I can't for the life ofme imagine why anybody would care
to cling to a period as rotten as the
80s, Any decade that could start withsuch a miserable Christmas and end
with such a pathetic New Year's Eve
and give us such loathsome terms as"work space" is best put behind us, In
the spirit of fairness, however, (which
is, as you well know, the essence of
this column) and for the sake of saving an obviously worthwhile friendship, let's try this out: to say that these
are the 90s is not the same as sayingthat this is the last, or tenth, decade of
the 20th century, The former involves
the use of cardinal numbers and the50

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January 21, 1990

latter uses ordinal
numbering,
Therefore,
while one may safely
assert that "The 90s· is a set comprised of those years from 1990 to
1999, it is equally true that the decade(which, like the century, dates froman assumptive Year One A,D,) does
not begin until 1991, So you see, you
and Gerard are both right and canquit arguing for a while-at least until
the 1989 Academy Award nominations are announced, (Tip: the smart
money is still on Vanessa Redgravefor Patty Hearst,)
Confidential to Concerned:
First of all, permit me to suggestthat if the taste bothers you somuch, maybe you should consider
swallowing the tablet whole rather
than chewing it. As to your question,
though, put your mind at ease, My
experts assure me that it's quite
impossible to get drunk from mixing
Bactrim and Sprite, They did, ofcourse,cautionagainstmixingXanax with Beefeater but, for somereason, they're always telling me thatno matter what the question is, Just
between you, me and the fence
post, I'm beginning to think theirrecently acquired status as experts
has given them a distinctly unpleasant attitude of superiority, I don't
suppose they'd be nearly so cocky if
certain documents in my possession
were to be brought to light' (forexample, a report from the housedetective at the Chateau Frontenac)
but, then, the publication of privileged communications for the mere
purpose of character assassination is
the sort of action which must beeschewed if respect and credibility
are to be maintained,
Besides,experts are not indispensable, New, ones turn up practically 'every day
and most of them are willing towork for substantially reduced fees,
if you know what I mean, ...

TI

In a city with so many publications, arts critics are almost equal in
number to the rats running around, inthe sewers, Only in New York do somany people get paid so much money
to pass so much gas. But sadly, mostof them are the pits, espeCially whenit comes to lesbian -and -gay-issues, It
seems that criti~manyof whom arequeer themselves-feelthat there's atime and a place for fags and dykes, If
a production involving homosexuality
isn't deemed "tasteful· and/or "hip·for the viewing of the average hetero-yup
down atDean and DeLuca's, thenit's just not worth its weightin fresh spinach pasta, Plainand simple, many art critics,
are homophobic,
And inmany cases these critics are
self-loathing;
the kind ofqueers who say things like:"We shouldn't always flauntourselves and our lifestyles
in front of people,·It's ,therefore significant .when wefind one or two critics at the dailies
who do try to bring some semblanceof reality to what they do, DavidBianculli (New York Post) and John J.
O'Connor (New York Times) are perhaps the most enlightened and gaysensitive of the critics at the major city
dailes in New York, Ironically, but
most importantly, both critique thebarren wasteland of homophobia wecall television, Bianculli has consistently exposed myths and pointed out'misinformation in a clear and straightforward manner, O'Connor's analyses
are thought-provoking and impressive,
often focusing readers' attention on
the more subtle forms of queer-bashing that spew from the tube,
I write about them in light of last

week's dreadful, but somewhat revolutionary telefilm, Rock Hudson, Themovie was garbage in terms of quality
and yet it was importapt. fc;>r~erica
to see that kind of garl5ltg~i~whi~
two people of the same sex ar~ touching-sincemost of the time~theY're
only seeing heterosexual garbage, Of
course, in not one scene did two men
kiss, and the only homoerotic dialogue was an unintentional line when
Rock, trying to explain his homosexuality to his Wife, says, "It's as, if there's
a hole inside of me, It needs to be
filled."I'll say,,
In his critique, the very confused
1V reviewer Marvin Kitman (New York
Newsday) seemed like a child discovering something new about himself:"Two guys smoking in bed, You knowwhat that means, There are hugging
scenes and metaphorical swimming in
the pool scenes and scenes of men
opening each other's shirts, It's all
done in good taste, whatever 'thatmeans .. ,I am of two hands about
movies like this ...Is nothing sacred?...1
have the feeling Rock Hudson is an
important.1V movie,.a watershed." It's
almost as if you're seeing him 'writhe
while you read the review, And, ofcourse, in the end it's impossible to
make out what he means about anything, He, in fact, desperately seems
not to want us to know,
But both O'Connor and Bianculli
are not only unafraid to tackle theissues, they're also not content or sat-,
isfied merely because television' decided to portraygays, "Perhaps
inevitably, the film treads carefully,
almost solemnly,stumbling
into'unavoidable
distortions,"
writesO'Connor, "The more daring scenes of
Mr, Hudson's all male pool parties

convey the decidedly questionable
impression that all homosexuals aremodel-perfect types with magnificently toned muscles, Stereotypes arenotoriously persistent."'
And Bianculli discusses the film's
cowardice: "How, given Hudson's
long-rumored promiscuity, could ABC
dramatize. a 'qehind-the-scenes' storyof Hudson's gay encounters? The
answer is, with lots of fades, jumpcuts, close-ups of hand touching, and,
whenever the going gets tough, alonging gaze and a bear hug, That's
bear, not bare."This is aU in sharp contrast toFran Wood (Daily News), who not
only doesn't share Bianculli's viewthat there just wasn't enough skin and
raw energy, but also seems to feel that
there is absolutely no place for gayson television; a point she goes out of
her way to articulate in her review,
headlined, THE WORST SORT OF,SLEAZE,"Why resurrect all the sordid
details of Hudson's sex life?"
she asks, "If you insist on
watching this piece or' trash(and not even well-done
trash, at that), pick the kids
off to bed first, It contains
scenes which" will make you
cringe with embarrassment,
and its attempts at portraying sexual play between
adult, males are both sophomoric and distasteful.»
Fuck you, Fran! What '.
happened, huh, Fran? Did the film
burst your bubble? Huh? Did it bringin some TRUTH ABOUT YOUR,FAMOUS MOVIE IDOL? Yeah, I can
see you covering your ears as I say
this, WELL, HERE WE ARE, FRAN
BABY! AND ROCK WAS ONE OF' US!
AND SO IS ONE OF HIS FAMOUS
LEADING LADIES! AND SO WASTHAT GLITZY PIANIST!:AND SO ARESOME PRIESTS!AND SO ARE GOSSIPCOLUMNISTS, YES, IT COULD BE
PEOPLE AT YOUR OWN NEWSPAPER, FRAN!!!!
Oh my God!
And no, don't pack the kids off to bed, LET,!EM SEE US, Let 'em get a
glimpse of reality, 'cause, see, some ofthem could actually be some of us,
S.. GOSSIP WATCH on page 65,~.~::.

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MYERS from page 15"hot tub" establishments favored bystraight Hoosiers go unmolested,
The ACLO's Stevens recounted arecent raid on the gay Club Baths in
Indianapolis, reportedly for handing
out large towels or sheets to patrons,
The sheets or towels were allegedly
used to cover the glass doors that theClub Baths had been required to
install. Yet straight establishments
nearby which were required by law
to install similar glass doors havenever done so and are not raided,
Stevens alleges,
While Robinson confirms that Dr,
Myers made public statements about
closing gay businesses,"he neveractively attempted to do so," Robinson says, Nevertheless, he agrees that
Myers "singles out gay baths as
opposed to straight establishments."
Lack of AIDS Funding
A major complaint against Myers'
personal job performance as healthcommissioner concerns his alleged
indifference towards obtaining AIDS
funding from the state legislature, andhis unwillingness
to press for the
release of CDC funds already allocated,
Indiana's per-patient allocation
for AIDS is one of the lowest in thenation, a situation widely blamed on,
Myers, Jack Ryan, the head of the
AIDS Task Force in Fort Wayne, flatly
stated, "Dr, Myers simply doesn't
attempt to put state money into AIDSat all. He should, but he doesn't. As aresult," Ryan continued,"no statemoney is being spent to care for anybody with AIDS in Indiana, Period,"
Among more than a dozen AIDS
workers contacted
by OutWeek
throughout the state, not one could
recall a Single instance in which
Myers had attempted to persuade thelegislature to allocate funds for AIDS,
And the ACLO'sStevens contended
that individual legislators had evenattempted to secure funding on theirown but they were stymied by Myers'
refusal to provide neccessary statistics toback up funding requests, Without suchstatistics, which could only come fromthe board of health, the lawmakers wereunable to draw up funding legislation,
More frustrating for AIDS workers,
however, is his reported unwillingness

54

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January 21, 1990

to pry loose from the state budget
office funds already allocated for AIDS
programs by the federal Centers for
Disease Control (CDC) in Atlanta,
Much of the funding for AIDS programs in Indiana comes from the CDC,
which funnels its allocations throughthe State Budget Office, The Damien
Center's director Shuff remembers atypical incident in which the Board of
Health had approved a grant for an
AIDS program using CDC money,"The contract languished in theState Budget Office for almost a year,"
Shuff recalls, "and no one from Myers'
office ever tried to get it out of limbo,
We finally had to exert considerablepressure directly on the governor's
office to get the money released, We
never got anywhere with Myers so wejust bypassed him."
OutWeek obtained an August, 1989
letter from CDC Project Officer David
Forney to Myers citing "extensive
delays" in the releasing of CDC-allocated funds for Indiana AIDS programs,
The letter notes the "frustration" of state
AIDS workers over funding delays andconcludes, "Many of these obselVations
have been made in previous site visits..,Written plans to correct these deficiencies have been submitted [by theCDC) in the past; however, there is no
indication that proper corrective action
has been implemented,"
Myers' defenders say that suchbureaucratic snafus are not the fault of
the commissioner, Yet AIDS workers
note that Jeff Richardson, the acting
commissioner for the Department of
Human SelVices,has had no such problems with his department's allocations,Shuff also recalls that Richardson
was haVing a similar problem with CDC
funds in the state budget office,"Richardson just went right up there andhand-walked the papers through," Shuff
recounts, "He got the funds released
right away, and Myers could do that
too, anytime he wants, He just doesn't"
And an Indiana public healthofficial, who spoke on condition ofanonymity, told Out Week, "Indiana's
AIDS programs have lost literally hundreds of thousands of dollars because
they weren't expended, even though
they were allocated by the CDC,
Myers' inaction on this issue is unconscionable, It's literally costing lives,"

No Dice on Safer Sex
State AIDS workers also charge
Myers with attitudes ranging from indifference to hostility toward safer sex education, despite its being one of theBoard of Health's primary functions,Publisher Stanley Berg recounts, "Gaysin Indiana made a real effort to enlist Dr,
Myers to help with safer sex education,
We went to him, We really pleaded, He
said he had nq interest, no interest at all.
For that reason we've always assumed
that Myers can't stand gays."
But Dierdre Barrett, who works
for Myers as the director of the state's
HIV/ AIDS Program, has a different
perspective, She says it is "extremely
unlikely" that Myers is openly homophobic, but concedes that "he's beenheavily criticized for his stand on safer
sex education for gays," She contends
that "people criticize Dr, Myers, but it's
because of a lack of communication."
Others disagree, Michael Shuff said,"There isn't really any lack of communication, There simply have been absolutely no inititives from Dr, Myers for gay
related safer sex education, The best I
can say is that when other people comeup with programs he doesn't go out of
his way to oppose them. But then, hedoesn't really fund them either."Nursing Homes Blocked
According to critics, Myers has
routinely opposed the conversion ofnursing homes into AIDS-specificnursing homes or hospices, The casemost often cited is a recent request by
the Clover Leaf NurSing Home ofIndianapolis
to convert one of its
facilities, a 39-bed veterans nursing
home, to an AIDS nursing home,
According to Shuff, Myers maintains that the Marion County area wasalready overbuilt for nursing home
beds, "Medicaid turned down dover
Leaf's application
for conversion
based on Woody's statement that sucha home was unnecessary in Indiana,"
Marla Stevens of the ACLU told OutWeek, Yet AIDS workers in Indiana
strenuously dispute that the admitted
overabundance of nursing home beds
is relevant to AIDS patients,"We just recently had an AIDS
patient who was turned down by 27
nursing homes in this area," Damien
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Film

The Het Bet
by Bruce C. SteeleT

he War of the Roses gets all its black-comic energy from a fusion of materialism, sexuality andabsurdist violence, Oliver and Barbara Rose areso obsessed with conspicuous consumption that it has
drained their souls, and, when Barbara insists on a divorce,the couple's one-time eroticism mutates into a barbaric territorialism, There's quite a kick inherent in watching thewealthy self-destruct, although the movie takes simple

CAUGHT UP IN THE WRECKAGE
Barbara (Kathleen Turner) and Oliver (Michael DO!lglas)
destruction into the realm of deconstruction, As the Roses
gleefully and systematically demolish ,a mansion full of
expensive, useless junk, the film happily explodes the values of a society that associates all human pleasures with
progressively more costly purchases,
For the Roses, acquisition is pleasure; there is no substitute, They meet at an auction, hotly outbidding eachother for a porcelain figurine, The idea of acquiring eachother is soon the bigger turn-on, and they wind up having"multi-orgasmic" sex, Embarking on a shared life of stock-

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piling possessions-crystal
glassware, a British sportscar,
their museum-like house and, of course, children-theycome to fret over the quality of the star, on top of their
Christmas tree, When they're young, tinfoil isn't goodenough, and when Barbara tries to recapture a simpler
time by bringing out the foil star years later, the whole treeends up in flames,
The movie doesn't take sides, Domestic violence may
be intrinsically patriarchal and misogynistic, but at least thiswoman is always one step ahead of her husband, (Mylover and I spent the subway ride home arguing whether
Oliver or Barbara was more at fault. I said he was; he said
she was,) Each is equally aggressive and vicious in defenseof precious property, and the violence, though farcical, has
a hard edge to it, because Oliver and Barbara actually
bleed and bruise, The casting couldn't be better: both stars
have an undercurrent of vulnerability, yet there's no foxier,
more formidable screen vixen
than Kathleen Turner, no better embodiment of self-deluding greed and innate sexism
than Michael Douglas,
Like any good, dark comedy, The War of the Roses
achieves most of its humor by
exposing familiar, often antisocial feelings: those fleeting
moments when we'd like to"smash in" our lover's face, or
when we imagine what we'd
say to that one special person
if we suddenly thought wewere dying, And what if thelikelihood of our lover's death
suddenly strikes us as a relief?
The Roses spit the mostdreaded emotions into eachothers faces-often
literally-and
we laugh with theshock of recognition,
Danny DeVito's direction
thrives on distortioncamera angles even lower than his own eye level, countlessbizarre deep-focus shots, a point-of-view angle from a flying plate-so the best scenes are the most manic ones.
Gags involving the children and pets are also brought off
hilariously, In general, though, the less hectic moments
are somewhat less funny, and the pacing is erratic,
Playing Oliver's friend and the movie's narrator, DeVito
wimps out at the end, explaining the story as a pro-marriage parable, but his own character seems the fool in thistragiccomedy, and isn't to be taken too seriously, ?

FilmIndependence pazeby Peter Bowen

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same day-~ovic
absorbs everything, even the crippling
effect of the war's violence, so that ,he might recuperate
the myth of Ameri<;a as a space of assimilation, as the 'containment of paradoxical opinions,
In glorifying the difficult work of American politics,
Fourth of /uly mobilizes another profoundly American
trait: purit~nism, While Stone could hardly be called ahumorous, director, this film is not only oot funny, but
purposeft1lly unpleasant. Like Ron's mother (CarolineKava) wh6 shrieks in ecstatic revulsion at the, very soundof "erect fucking penis," the film takes pleasure in its
own denial. From the nauseatingly"nice" scenes of
MassapeCl/ua as a breeding ground for American imperialism and patriotic values to the painfully real images ofshit and vomit flowing beneath moaning, uncared forveterans at a V,A, hospital, the film takes itself very seriously, Only in Mexico, outside of American borders, canthe end of Oliver Stone's first trip to Vietnam,
Platoon, Charlie Sheen ascends to heaven withthe consoling thought that America was not really at war with the Vietnamese people, but with itself, In
Platoon's sequel, Born on the Fourth of july, not just indi, vidual citizens and their country are at civil war, but thefilm itself, At once radical and conservative, reaUstic andstylized, an autobiography and an historical drama, Fourthof july celebrates its own
patriotic title by rememberingtheparadoxical
Americantraditionofassimilating the very radical
forces which might tear thecountry asunder,
Based on Ron i<ovic's
nightmarish memoirs of a I.
patriot radicalized by hisparalyzing experienceinVietnam and at home, thisfilm marries the horrors ofVietnam and the country
which created them withthe promise of politicalchange, In the end, thisfil m emerges as a, great
Americanfilm,
not, because it is great, but
because; it embodies what
is most horrific and mostprofoundly
hopefulinAmerica,
HE'S MY YANKEE DOODLE SWEETHEARl..
As an e pie chron i- (I-r) Frank Whaley, Richard Panebianco, Rob Camillett. Jeny Levine, Tom Cruise, Stephen Baldwin
cling America's involvement in Vietnam, the film 'seems paralyzed veterans locate a nervous pleasure in recogless interested in the drama of conflict than in recordihg
nizing their physical inability and feel it. Even here, pleaconflicting opinions, As such, Kovic's personal odyssey sure is a delusion, a paid tourist event; Kovic and his
seems to be that of a pollster, registering and absorbing
maniacal friend, Charlie (Willem Dafoe), realize thisthe multiple voices he encounters,
Scored to Jbhn while wrestli.ng 'each other from their wheelchairs in theWilliams' Sickly-sweet soundtrack, the film drags ~ovic middle of the Mexican desert: pleasure makes no sense(Tom Cruise) from home to war to V,A, Hospital to without a cock,
Mexico to the 1972 Republican convention, so t~at he
The film's castration complex unmasks the very myths
might see and hear everything,
As an allegpry of of assimilation and puritanism it wants to promote, For
America itself-after
all, they were both born bn the
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,<",Music

Stand and Deliver
Censorship and the Music Industry
government money, the debate is often
centered around the influence pop culture has over the m~,particularly
the young masses, Which is why wehave groups like the Parents' Music
Resource Center, or PMRC (remember
Tipper Gore and the call to label rockalbums containing obscene language?),by Victoria StarrIln the next decade we needto bring about a change insocial and cultural values
which will correspondto thechange in political values wilnessed in the eighties,-Patrick BuchananjImmigrants
and faggots/They
make no sense to me/Ibey come toour country/And think they'll do as
they please/Like start some miniIran or spread some fuckin' disease,-Ax! Rose, Guns n' Roses
They stand at opposite ends ofthe spectrum, Pat' and AxI, ostensibly. the worst of enemies, AxI, with his lust
for wild women and a cheap high, is
I the quintessential
youth gone astray, aperfect living specimen of America's
future in peril. But if we consider theirhidden agendas, we find that they're';4 actually the best of enemies, Both are.
staunch patriots, America First-ers,t
who leave no room for diversity intheir dry White worlds, Which meansthat as the anti-censorshipdebaterages on, and we scramble to procure.
our own freedom of expression, wemust also be scrambling to secure our
freedom to exist. In this conteXt, what
do we do with the Axl Roses of theworld? Or better yet, acknowledging
that yes, this man is dangerous, how'can we'prevent him from influencing
America's youth, and at the same time
not engage in,censorship?
While the issue of censorship wasparticularly focused on the art world
last year, it has historically not been
applied with such fervor to the socalled "fine arts," Rather, the debate has
usually been concerned with pop culture, ranging from music to television
to the film industry's practice of rating
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DICK 'EM HARD
Ice-T promotes a strange fonn offreedom
And why we have such a vile, sexist
rap artist as Ice-T becoming a veritable
hero of the anti-censorship movement
for his song "Freedom of Speech,"
Here is a man who not only announces
to his audiences that "Everyone with
AIDS, keep quiet," but who, as keynote
speaker at a recent music convention,
explained that the reason Tipper andcompany were so uptight about rockmusic was because they needed someone to take them in the back room and"dick 'em hard a few times, Thenthey'll be shoutin' to tum it up,"
The fact that the pMRC has gone
after people like Ax! Rose, and Miami's
2 Nice Crew (authors of the rap song
"Treat her like a Prostitute") further confourids the issues, since it's not oftenthat anyone stands up for our right tobe respected, as women, as lesbians
and gay men, or as any other disenfranchised group, But we must again beclear of their agenda, As Anthony
DeCurtis points out in his article "Music's Mean Season" (Rolling Stone, December 28, 1989), the PMRC's Susanj Baker (wife of Secretary of State James
Baker) sits on theboard of Focus on
the Family, headed
by Reverend James
C. Dobson, a prominent right-wing antiabortionist.
And
that's just the tip of
the iceberg; connections between
the PMRC and thefun dam e n t a lis t
movement abound,
Which leads us
to the real problem
behind censorship:
while the ideas espoused by Ice-T'
and Axl Rose fall
far short of promoting freedomofexpression for anyone but themselves, we can hardly
count on a handful of politicians andbureaucrats
to do the right thing
either. Once a law is in place, its
application is out of our hands,
There is a more important point,
though, and that is that censorship; inthis context, refers to governmental or
institutional policing, It does not refer toan individual's right to actively object toparticular ideas or forms of expression(the key word here is active), Nor does
it refer to a private group's right to control what is expressed through them,whether it be a record company, aradio station, or your local record store,
In other words, private enterprise, and more specifically,
the
See CENSORSHIP

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MusicShocked Again
by Rachel PepperJ

when it seems that Michelle
Shocked fans know what toexpect, this multi-talented, leftok-enter foIkie fools us all by releasing
Captain Swing. an album of--believe it
or not-SWing tunes, Bearing only the
faintest resemblance to Shocked's previous album, the best-selling S,hort Sharp
Shocked, the new album contains no
Texas songs, no New York subway
songs, no Anchorage-type ballads andonly a trace of Shocked's customary confrontational politics, Yet despite all its differences, one thing is remarkably similar,
LikeShocked's previous albums, Captain
Swing is most decidedly a winner,
How could it fail to be? Shocked,
my favorite anarchist-squatter turned
media-darling, is one of today's mostcreative women in music, And if
swing seems a strange departure for amusician who set MTV on its ear withher politics, but coaxed even scepticallisteners into fans with rocking songs
like "If Love was a Train," consider
who we're talking about here, Afterall, this is Schocked, the yvoman who
gained critical attention by recording
her first album (as an unknown) on aSony cassette player at a folk festival
in Texas, and only a year later
appeared in the pages of Newsweek,
This is the Woman who once opened
for British folk activist Billy Bragg,
and less than a year later sold out her
own North American tour,
Over the past year, Shocked has
remained my favorite "is she or isn't
she,' winning lesbian hearts with her
great tunes, outright support of gay
rights and cute-as-a-button good looks,
Now she's apoJogizing for the "excesses"of her last album, A recent spin article
mentions at least five times that Shocked
is now living in LA with her true loveboyfriend It's all rather surprising, but, if
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it takes a straight, self-proclaimed"skatebOard punk rocker" to write
such a tender, woman-lOVing song I
as "Anchorage," it's easy to see why 1
the "women's music" business is 'undergOing such a serious shake'I
down,
If Captain Swing seems liketoo radical a departure for Shocked,1
consider that it must have been
Shocked herself who decided not tofollow up her now classic Sho1j
Sharp
Shockedwith anythil)i
remotely similar in style, Consid~that Shocked was recently quoted ~saying she's "shifting her emph~away from radical politics, Thnconsider that Shocked has ne~r'Isounded more mUSically at hore,
After all, it is Shocked herself wijlis
fond of saying that all good ~ic
swings, To get that swinging fe~g,she equipped herself with boq'ing
brass, saxophones, a man~lin,accordion, percussionist and~ckground vocals, and had som~old fashioned fun in the re9rding
studio,I
Fortunately for Shocl~4 andher followers, Captain Swifg really
does swing, It's not swinr in thepurely Glenn Miller or Benny
Goodman Big Band style,biowever,Instead, imagine 1940s sPIe northern New Orleans swingJvhich has
been whipped up wi~Shocked's
punk-folk sensibility, spt out in awild new format, and Hessed with SWING OUT SISTER'
Shocked's own parqiular funky Michelle Shocked changes gears (and clothes)brand of humor, The(I you'll havehoused in the ugliest outer cover you've
some sense of how YDon't You Messever seen, Imagine lyrics such as, "Send
Around with My LittI~Sister,"(originallyme a dozen long stem roses/! teil you
from ''Texas Campfir~Tapes") could bewhat I will do/I'll bend them into a-revamped from an underground folk
classic into a foot iagging, singable lit- crown of thorns/And send it right backto you, And imagine Shocked's slipperytle swing number, ;'little voice belting out surprisingly womBeller yet, trY to imagine who else
anly turns of phrase such as,
but Shocked COlla get away with pro-'
My love is like a wishing wellducing a shockptg pink compact _discYour love is like a clear blue sky
complete with ,60ngs like "Looks Like
Sometimes it tqkes a thunderstorm
Mona Lisa (SmfiIs Like Tuna FishY'and
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Performance

A Bore i Starred
by Jonn WasserD

ear Readers,
I am not, by nature, avindictive or vitriolic humanbeing, To my knowledge, I have no
enemies, although there are probably
one or two individuals who if posed "with the question, "Do you wish ill
upon Jonn Wasser?" would respond in
the affirmative-andfeel gUilty therest of their lives, And like all people
who earn their living through creative
endeavors, I dislike seeing my literary
efforts
criticized,
The
maxim
"Everyone's a critic" rings true much
too often, Still, I go placidly amidst
the haste, especially when venturing WRITTEN Alf OVER HIS FACE
to offbeat cabaret clubs or perfor- Performance artist Dudleymance art spaces, A mind may be a graph wh~~e I'm supposed to menterrible thing to waste, but an open
tion it; tease you, the reader into\
one-mine,that is--is my source of becoming excited about the perbread and butter,'formance, IVlUmbly apologize, but
Last week I went to the/Pyramid
I was unable to uncover a plot or
to see a new work entitled Second
any hint of cµaracterization, A borSleep, My friends, this is not a sequeling speech Goncerning an inane
to the First Sleep or heaven help us, car trip replete with groping hands
the Bogart/Bacall pictur.e, The [Jighardly constit\!tes Aristotle's threeSleep, No siree, Second Sleep is 45 unities, I defy anyone to tell me
minutes of self-indulgent claptrap, the this dribble's storyline,
worst
excusefor ('the phrase
At 9: 15 the lights went out and"Performance Art" since that no talent, that's where they should have
Impala, galloped
onto the Caferemained, Instea,ti, Dudley took to
Bustelo stage and asked us to pay for the stage resembi'i~g Jesus in a Bus
the privilege of seeing him wretch his and Truck tour of'lj{odspell all bones
guts out Second Sleep stars Dudley,
and flOWing hair iritent on preaching
who doesn't do right by a longs hot
to us mere mortals, Imagine, dear\,Who, I ask, encourages these people?
readers, Sitting on an uncomfortable
Are they Star Search rejects? The
metal chair and wat'~?ing a plotless
Pyramid cannot be that pressed for 2,700 second descet;lt into perfortalent Maybe it is,mance art hell. i adrciire this man's
You probably
want to know
chutzpah, He truly has.~o shame, As
about Second Sleep's plot. I cerDudl ey progressed
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avoid my first Luckily for you, but
unfortunately for me, I managed tostay awake, Counting the number ofpainted stars on the ceiling andwalls helped enormously,
The evening contained a fairamount of, dare I call those vibratingstrains, singing? Dudley also periodically plays the guitar, Yes, it's better
than his warbling, but that in itself is
not saying much, Watching Dudley do
the wrong thing on stage evokedmemories of my late grandmother,
Whenever she saw a bad performer,
my grandmother would invariably
ask, "What's he doing? Posing for animal crackers?" I wonder which animal
my grandmother would have in mind
if she were alive to see Second Sleep,
I dare not venture a guess,
You may ask, ''\Xoas there anything
memorable about Second Steep.' Well, I
did scribble one witticism on mynotepad, In the Gospel according toDudley, "once a dick has come, thatcome is gone,' Novel observation, I mustremind myself to send this information to
my friend Heloise, She's currently compiling her 195XJ Book if Helpful Hints, Of
course, Heloise will mail likely add her
own two cents ..,"Use a towel, wet on
one side, dry ,on the other as the best
possible stain remover, Deposit towel
immediately into laundry bag,"
Finally, dear readers, Mr, Dudley
had the courage to take a curtain call,No eggs flew across the room,
Instead, there was polite applause
which the star readily acknowledged
with a sly "Only Kidding,"
ONLY KIDDING! Was Dudleyspeaking about the recently departed Off-Broadway show or was this
his opportunity to tell us the previous 45 minutes were a total joke? If
he meant the latter, I could havesaved the trouble,
Welcome to 1990!
Sincerely,
Jonn Wasser

DancemoveMENt

by Otis Stuart

M

news of the 80s, followed by the fleet of young men whobegan to identify themselves as choreographers of intent
and imagination, Their particular language has become as 'identifiable as the signature of their predecessors, andManMack is a Berlitz course in 80s dance, The decade thatbroke the minimalist stronghold on musical alternatives, fot
example, is well represented by the Warshaw/Dendy program, with scores ranging from the jazz-influenced new
music of Belgium's Trio Bravo for Warshaw's Horizon to thealternation of Chopin and silence in Dendy's Movements 1
and 2, T,he decade that recomplicated dance technique,adding the arches and arrests of contact improvisation to thestandard modem dance vocabulary, is at its vigorous best in~i11 Young, a fierce and fearless virtuoso whose dances
stretch all physical possibilities,
The 80s also marked a big return to text, to dances that
not only took on the complexity of human emotion but' ourcomplicity in the state of the world, The decade's dismal
prospects for life on this planet were met with a myriad ofdance responses, from the resilient humor of Pilobolus grad-•anhattan's Joyce Theater is ringing in the
new decade with a two-week toast to aphenomenon of the 1980s: American malechoreographers who, for the fIrst time in the history of
our modern dance, are giving that redoubtable matriarchy a run for its collective money, This year, the theater's annual winter dance festival is called ManMack
and, through this Sunday, it will showcase the choreography of a dozen young men, Nine are with their own
companies-Mark Dendy, Alfred Gallman, Ralph Lemon,
Barry Martin, Stephen Petronio, Peter Pucci, Doug
Varone, Randy Warshaw and Bill Young--the remainder,
Greg O'Brien, Andy Horowitz and Paul Gordon, are thecollaborative trio who lead the Second Hand Dance
Company,
The choices all but synopSize the 80s, beginningwith the sheer quantity, The 80s were the decade whenmen began to mUltiply in dance, Until then, American
modern dance was dominated, if not defIned outright,
by its women, One reason for that, obviously, was theNative American incapacity to accept a man as a dancer,
It's only just become a respectable masculine career,
Another reason was the capacity of the founding mothers to hold sway, The men whose work and companies
lasted and had impact-Merce
Cunningham, Jose Dancer-choreographer Stephen Petronio
Photo Chris Callis
Limon, Paul Taylor, Alvin Ailey-were
the exceptions,uate Peter Pucci to the saw-edged aggressiveness of Stephen
Otherwise, the fort was female from the first. Ruth St, Denis Petronio, The one thing no one did was shy away, and themay have shared the stage with her sometime husband Ted commiunent of 80s choreographers to what they do is perShawn in their trailblazing troupe Denishawn, but she never haps their strongest suit and the 90s best bet. Alfred Gallman
relinqUished it to him, and Denishawn graduate Martha forged his Newark Dance Theater, school and all, out of New
Graham had had her own company for a decade before it Jersey's inner cities, and Barry Martin established his Deja Vu
saw a male member, Things began to change with the 60s company after ,being left paralyzed by an automobile acciand the Judson Church experiments, although even into the dent in South Africa, an incident. in which racial restriction
70s, when American modern dance was reaching its third led directly to a worst<ase scenario-Martin's spinal cordand fourth generations, women Widely outnumbered men in was severed during a 75-mile ride to a Black hospital, Thesethe vanguard of contemporary dance, As the Joyce Festival are people in dance for a reason, the reason why the Joyce
indicates, this is no more, Mark Morris was the single biggest Festival is so important. The stakes are high, T
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BooksGoodbye, ~Guppies
within the ranks of our own community, we saw the successful publication of Dennis Cooper's Closer, Sarah
Schulman's After Delores, Kevin Killian's Shy and Dorothy
Allison's Trash, These writers, sometimes called practiby Ira Silverberg
tioners of the New Narrative explore much grittier turf
than that rather suburban one tread upon by former golden boys and girls like David Leavitt, Gary Glickman andathy Acker recently suggested that, "",there will
Helen Eisenbach,be an upsurge in Maximalist writing in the 90s,
This proliferation of Maximalist or New Narrative ficMaximalist in the sense of feeling and structure,tion is being helped along by the newly formed Amethyst
where writers will create hybrid, multi-genre works of
Press, Specializing in a brand of post-Burroughs ian gay
prose, deriving their material from a larger pool of literary
male fiction, Amethyst is presently working with a newsources, Writers will be moving away from the throw-away
breed of writers, including Cooper, Killian, Mark Ameen,
minimalism which has r~cently been the bane of American
Patrick Moore and Bo Huston, whose Horse and Other
letters, "Stories is being published this month,This trend, along with a modicum of willingness from
Huston's collection of stories reads like latter-day
certain pUblishing houses, is allOWing the reader of conHubert Selby, Each story somehow manages to capture
temporary fiction a greater opportunity to hear voices fromthe essence of the underbelly of American society--evenpreviously underserved literary communities, Last year,
when set in the Upper East Side townhouses of the nouveau riche, "All gay writers are informed by disenfranchisement," Huston believes, "Even Leavitt is informed by
an 'otheroess'-as much as he tries to escape it."Like David Leavitt, Bo Huston was reared in the nondescript world of middle class America, The similarities
end there, however, A former heroin addict, Huston takes
the experiences of "others" and translates them in his
pOignant and expertly crafted stories, The title story,
Horse, is a fine example of Huston's ability to enlighten
the world of his reader to the needs of the undeserved,
In the form of a letter to his lawyer, the protagonist, afailed child star-cum-newly
clean junkie, touchingly
explains the spiritual bankruptcy that comes with addiction and hints at the still unknown hope that awaits him,
Telling the tales of reformed murderers turned irito
motel operators, drunken art-world intellectuals and their
exploits with amputees, and suburban husbands who
have, for the first time, tasted the forbidden fruit of male
hustlers, Huston gathers a fine collection of outsiders in
his protagonists, "Those who have experienced a life withdrugs-andas a gay person-havebeen informed bythose experiences," says Huston, "Most of the 20th century writers who've lived on have come out of that ex perienc!,!, like Genet and Burroughs, Our literary tradition is
overwhelmed by 'others, ...
Huston is careful, however, to point out exactly
which "others" his literary alliance is with, "I have noth,ing in common with Beat writers," claims Huston, ''They
were more concerned with documentation than they
were with story telling,My roots go back further to, say,
Flannery O'Connor," He is even slightly hesitant to alignhimself with New Narrative writers,K

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BooksA Matter of Tradition
wonder, But I think I know, If Gertrude Stein had beentaken to a lOnely road and shot, that would be a subjectof our women 'spoems, You bet it would, It is a matter ofhistory, and of experience,.It is a matter of tradition,

by John Preston

I

1936,
n
after they had captured his home city ofGranada in one of the opening campaigns of the
Spanish Civil War, Federico Garcia Lorca, then 38, wastaken prisoner by the Falangists, Along with a school teacher and two bullfighters whose politics had also offended the, ThB pOBt st 1B.

fascists, he was executed by firing squad,
Decades later, Judy Grahn was in the audience during
a performance of a musical work based on the poet's life,
She wrote:
Women around me whisper relentlessly, HWby are themen always so concerned with blood and violence?" they

Ian Gibson, who is, ironically, a straight man, hasadded immeasurably to the gay tradition with this biography, a book which every gay man who wants to understand art and politics and sexuality and their nexus
should read,
Before Gibson, the world had spent more than 50
years trying to hide the fact that Lorca was a homosexual,or, at minimum, dismissing the importance of sexuality in
his life, The men who killed him hadn't been so recalcitrant. After the first volleys were fired, one of the assassins
later confessed, he went up to the poet's corpse and fired"two bullets into his arse for being a queer,·
Garcia Lorca was one of the most talented artists in
the history of Spanish literature, his qlreer being comparable only to Cervantes', His remarkable oeuvre of poetry,song and essays also includes Blood Wedding, The Houseof Bernarda Alba and other classics of the stage,
He was born in the countrySIde, He grew up listening to and valuing the folk mu{>is:and tales of the people around him, His middle-classfamily eventually
moved into the city, but the sounds and words of thecommon folk stayed with him a,nd would become thefoundation of his work,
Garda
Lorca first began publishing in Granada,
where he was the leader of a gro.up of exuberant young
turks who challenged the narrowmindednessof theSpanish literary establish~ent with their own reviews andtheater production~, He eventually- went on to study in
Madrid where he met the man who may have been thefirst love of his life, Salvador Dali, We're not really sure
about the extent of their relationship because so many of ,.
Garcia Lorca's papers were lost during the Civil War or
destroyed and Dali, who later married, ,remained coy about
what went on, Many other people who had been close to
Garda Lorca refuse(j to talk aboUt his sexual behavior,
eVidently thinking they would slander his memory,
All through his ,book, biographer Gibson expresses
frustration and outrage at the way Garda LOrca's homosexual history has been erased, A friend, who was given
his most personal papers to hold-in case of the poet's
death, destroyed them after reading their contents, and,then refused to discuss them, taking their informationand confeSSions to his grave, Still, there's no doubt that
Garcia Lorca was not only gay" but that his sexuality
deeply informed his creations,
In the beginning of his ~reer, Garcia Lorca's closeted
homosexuality showed itself in ways many of us woulds.. LORCA on page 64
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HORSE from peg. 6Z

identify with our first coming out: hemade child-bearing into idolatry (barren women left without children form
the themes of many of his works),
and he confided to straight friends
that he loathed effeminate -queers,"
Often his confusion was framed in
misogyny; both he and Dall claimed a
deep revulsion to women's genitals intheir youth, But, as Garcia Lorca
grew comfortable with his sexuality,
the poet struck strong relationships
with many women in the Spanish theater, Increasingly he SOCialized withother "known" homosexuals, sharing
stories and adventures with them andusing his sexual gifts as a means ofidentifying with other people,
Garda Lorca travelled extensively to the Americas during his life, One
trip was to Manhattan; he wrote his
famous The Poet in New York about
his months here. He was swept up
with the music and folklore of Black
America. Like so many other whitehomosexuals of the time, he identified strongly and warmly with Blacks,
finding their oppressed position in awhite society parallel to the way he
was treated as a homosexual.
It was his role as an outsider, as ahomosexual,
which fueled Garcia
Lorca's later career, especially his politics, He became a passionate supporterof the Republican cause in Spain, A
world-renown playwright by then, he
formed a people's theater which toured
through the countryside. He understood his words would make a revolution and ignored manyto escape'the approachingconflict, to go toArgentina, Cuba or Mexico or any
number of other places where hewould have been safe, He stayed in
Spain, often within compapy of thelast, and quite probably truest, love of
his life, a man most others knew only
as his secretary, Rafael Rapun,
This bio'graphy, Gibson's life
work, is meant to be authoritative andhas at times an academic' weight, but
the power of the poet's story is compelling, the tragedy is classic.
In the end· the book takes on its
own narrative force and the reader isleft enmeshed in this remarkable life
which should be one of ltte great rolemodels for modem gay men, ~dffers64

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According to Huston, who is 30
and has just completed a new novel,"The older I get and the more I continue to write, the less interested I am
in experimenting and the more drawn
I am to story telling. I'm not evenquite sure what this New Narrative is.
Of course, if you picked apart one ofthese books and placed it against
mine, there is indeed a similarity,
None of us are working with traditional plot structures-we
do havethat in common. There are otherthings taking the place of plot structure--a narrative of tone, image andemotion prevail these days rather
than plot.·
Having grown up reading Carson
McCullers and Truman Capote while
also exploring
Hubert Selby andWilliam Burroughs, Huston has, perhaps, exacted his own hybrid, Aftertoying with experimental fiction earlyon, he found himself drawn back into
the world of Southern American writing. He points out that, "The Southern
writers also wrote about the disenfranchised, They just did it in a more,well, linear fashion,·
Huston backs up a bit, though,He admits that writers such as
Cooper,Allison,fellow
San
ipranciscans Robert Gluck and Steve
Abbott and himself share more thanjust a bit of common ground, "We all
have a renewed fascination with writing. That in itself informs us anddeparts from the 50s, 60s and 70s
writers, Many of us are indeed interested in the text itself, We havereturned to the writing as the art
form-notnecessarily the content
therein. Seventies writers were solely
concerned with 'gayness' as a principle, This is not the case today-at
least not with the writers we're talking
about.·In the case of Bo Huston's Horseand Other Stories, "gayness· is merely
a co-factor in the scheme of things,
Although certain gay elements or
episodes .appear throughout this collection, they in no .way connote thepoofiness of the writing that our community produced in the 70s nor are
they as concerned with the externals
which seem far too prevalent in the
guppie fiction of the 80s, Rather,~
Horse and Other Stories is thequintessential gay book of the 9Qs-abook which need not be gay to begood but certainly is a reflection of
the best writing coming out of the gay
community today,
Dennis Cooper, an old friend of
Huston's, used these words on the
book's jacket, "... sensitive, stately
prose [whichl translates
the gay
underclassexperience
with such
authenticity yet acumen that it seems
the work of a first rate double agent,
Horse brings to the front lines of contemporary fiction,.,tones of fascinating, even dangerous ripeness,'
Reflecting on Cooper's support
and that which he received fromother friends around the publishingbusiness, Huston remembers when "Ididn't try very hard for a career inwriting, I was too busy getting stoned
and being afraid, When I emerged outof addiction, I explored my writing,"
That exploration has created a ,bodyof work which deserves to be readand re-read, Horse and Other Stories
is a remarkable debut.
Eo Huston will read with Sarah
Schulman on Monday, January 22 at
8:30 pm at The Kitchen, 512 West
19th Street. Eo Huston will also readat A Different Light, 548 Hudson St,
January 25 at 8 pm. ~SHOCKED from page 59

To tell me when I'm dry,
Captain Swing is sure to be a surprise to established Shocked fans, who
may feel trepidation about her increasingly produced sound, Nevertheless,
Shocked's lyrics display some sense ofpolitical awareness in this largely "forfun" album, and she's still healthily waryof the system that's made her a star,
Although Captain Swing may not win .
Shocked many new followers, it 'also
shouldn't dissuade her earlier fans frommarveling at the many talents thiswoman possesses, What remains to be
seen is whether Shocked can stay a political and musical renegade even while
becoming-largely
againsther
will-more of a mainstream star, One
thing remains certain, Despite whateverchanges occur in Shocked's political ormusical outlook, whichever unexpected
ways she may tum, she's sure to findsuccess, ...

FOURTH from page 57

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GOSSIP WATCH from page 51

CENSORSHIP

from page 58'v,es, Fran, you'd better sit down forwhile, in the American spirit of voic- music industry, c;tn and does deter- "this one: YOUR CHILDREN COULD
ing opinion, the film pays lip service
mine what will and will not be h~ard l,'BE QUEER. In fact, Fran, it could beto the issues of race and gender, it by the masses, Gerard Cosloy (Home- 'even closer than that. You know
does so only through the experiencestead Records) made just such a what they say: The biggest fag bashof a straight white male who, paradetermination when he released the ers turn out to be ..,oh, goddess ..,youlyzed and impotent, will never realize
Frog's' fake-homosexualalbum "It's really do need some education, Fran,the pleasures his privilege would
Only Right and Natural" without the And that's what I 'think we'll give
grant him, By the film's phallocentric
cut from the demo tape entitledyou,logic, the only way to make sense of "Nigger Pile," While Cosley figured,.
I suggest that everyone givethe horrors of war, of racism, of sex- the parodies about gay men anddear dear Fran a caIl at her officeism, of perhaps even homophobia, is AIDS would be received with amuseand ~elI her or her machine just what
through the terrifying specter of cas- ment, he knew that songs about "nig- you think of her homophobia, The
tration, Nowhere is this fear moregers" would
not. This is notnumber is 212-210-1589, Hope you
clearly embodied-or
dis-embodied,censorship, but a simple case of suplearn a thing or two', Fran, T
as the case may be--than in the cast- ply and demand,ing of Tom Cruise, The film internalWhich explains how an allegedizes Cruise's acting career fromcloset case like David Geffen could
MYERS from page 54
beef-cake adolescent
to gung-ho
sign a band like Guns 'n' Roses in the~enter's Shuff said, "The number of
patriot within the film's plot, transfirst place, While Blacks in America
xcess beds is totally irrelevant if homes
forms him into a serious actor by are still not treated with the respect
on't take AIDS patients, And theymaking him at once handicapped and and equality they deserve, at least,pn't. And Myers is aware of this."ugly, Thus, evoking its seriousness,they have dared to fight back, notJack Ryan, in the Fort Wayne
the film incorporates one of America's only with civil disobedience, but witha,' agreed, "We [at Ft. Wayne's
sexiest stars by puritanically taking
organized economic power. In 1990
DS Task Force] had a patient who
away his sex appeal.
the Black community is recognized as,~ forced to travel 400 miles acrossSuch contradictions seem at thea major consumer segment, a fact
~K ntucky and Indiana before he'heart of the film's message andthat all urban radio stations, and, allc~~ld find a nursing home thatmedium,Using
unitsof themajor record labels understand,wpuld take him, And he never foundAmerican legion as extras, the film
The lesbian and gay community,oile,
We had to ' find one for him,I
creates some of the most a,ntitoo, represents a decent portion ofarid these tragedies happen. here all
Republican images of the last ten
the record buying population, not toth~ ~ime,"years, (For people who have seen
mention that many of us create music\,
Bob Huff and Adam Hussak's powas well. The problem (which is one
PW~s on State Policy Boards?
erful video, "We Are Not Repubsuffered by women in general), is ,The primary AIDS policy grouplicans," it is hard not to compare thethat we are far too complacent, ourin lndiana, the State AIDS Policy
real-life violence of Republicans
time spent ignoring (or accepting) the
Gro~p, ~hich advises the Board of'\against AIDS activists to Stone's fic- images society presents of us, Instead
He~I,~hon!\AIDS policy, has no selftional depictionof Republicans
of fighting back, we hide away,
des¢'\'ibed PWA, PWARC or HIV posiagainst protestingveterans,)Buteither in the passivity of "women's
tivdperson~ And the ACLD's Stevens
perhaps the most profound contramusic," or in the ecstasy of the discosgoe~1so far '~, to say that Myers has
diction occurs at the film's end,
(where we get so high that we'll lisactivrly thwa~ed attempts to appoint'
While once shoved to the very mar- ten to anything),
PW~ to thatpody by stating that itgins of American politics, Kovic
So how can we try to affect thiswould be too ta;ing for them to serve
finds himself in the end placed at its culture which we can barely tolerate aton sl!ch a group~
very center addressing
the 1976 times? One way is to put our money
pjeIdre ~director of the $Il:e's
Democratic
convention,
Kovic'son the table, If we want to support a
HIV/MDSProgram:"\iefendsMyers,saying
journey, which moved him fromband, we need to buy their material,that 'be doesn't ~~ appointmentSto the
stubborn patriot to heroic and radi- , and hound our local night clubs to
AIDSiPolicy Group:' Others, however,cal activist, comes full circle, Whenbook the act, Equally important, we
agreel withJI.lstireInc,'~~obinson, "IfMyers
need to get involved in the thought
he approaches
the podium andhad tWnted a PWA~,\that group, there
process behind music criticism, either' would have been a pwA';.\Xl that group." 'remembers
his mother's
voice
propheticallydescribing how one
by trying to get articles published in
In New York, wh~re basic policy
the mainstream press, or at least writ- organizations such as GMHC and ACf
day he would speak to a large
ing angry letters to editors, And wecrowd and "say great things," we
UP were essentially foun~d and have\-~1_
realize that at the heart of Kovic's
mustn't be afraid to get up in people's
been run by P~As, the c~ncept of aradical success is the stern, conserfaces, Despite the Griff gaff, imagine
health commissioner indiffe~nt or hosvative family which taught him the what the world would be like if wetile ~o PWA input on AIDS\policy is
discipline to succeed, T
had our own Public Enemy, T
chilling to many in the commu?ity, 'f:J

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MARTIN LUJ1IER KING, jR, DAY
CENTER SPORTS sees NY Knlcks
vs. Chicago
Bulls, basketballgame; at Madison Square Garden,
33rd St & 7th Ave; 1 pm; members$30/non-members $40; 620-7310
KAREN SMITIl
directs
Eric
Booth's Metamorphos1s: a sliceof black gay life, an original playabout a 60-year-old
black dragqueen, a 35-year-old ex-pimp andrehabilitated addict, and a 25-yearold Hispanic who loves the goodlife of sex, disco and drugs, andwho puts the other two throughchanges; at the Center, 208 W 13
St; today and TIJES, JAN 16 at 8pm; $8 advance/$10 door, reservations and info 893-9852

2

CALENDARIOUT IN TIlE '90s presentl/.!Talking With Parents, an inlerview
by Amy Ashworth (a founding
member of Parents & Friends of
Lesbians and Gays) witll a mother of two gay'chiidren; Ms, Ashworth will appear on' Out in the'90s tonight and ,every third
Thursday;
Man~htanandParagon Cable, C¥-ilnel c/16, 11
pm to midnight; 24~-1570

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COALITION 'lDR LESBIAN AND
GAY RIGI'fts Reception
honorIng B}!iIa Abzug and celeb rat-

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For more information or referrals, torap, or to volunteer, call the GLSB
daily, noon to midnight, 212-777-1800

I

Ing the J)omestlc Partnership
Legislation
beforethe NYC
Council; ~t congregation
BethSimchat r~rah,57 BethuneSt(btwn washington and West Sts,
up ramp ~n courtyard); 6:30-8:30
pm; rsvp,~27-1398
NEW YORl< ADVERTISING&COMMUNICATIONS NE1WORKFirst Me~tlng of the Gay 90's,
featuringauthorand Village
Voice ~Iumnist Michael Musto,
who will be autographinghisManha~an on the Rocks; at theCenter, <l08 W 13 St, in the Network RE' ,,3rd FI; 6:30-9:30 pm;
membe s $5/non-members$7(first d 't k free); 516-0380
BROOrtYN WOMEN'S MARTIAL
ARTS TWo-Week Defense Class,
today f~nd next Wednesday,
pointers on basic self-defensewith special attention to concernsof lesbians and gay men; at thecente~'~08 W 13 St, 7-9 pm' slidi~g fe: $5-$30; register 718n881775

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SBIAN HERSTORY ARCHIVES
Ideo' about the ResistanceConspiracy
case defendants,
who speak about their experience~ 'as political prisoners; twoof the women are lesbians active
inanti-imperialist movement;
Barbara Zeller and Eve Rosahn
teadlQiscussion; all women weicornel/at the Center, 208 W 13 St;
8 pm; ,$5 mor(')less if; 874-7232

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KAREN SMITIl
directs
B'tlc
Booth's Metamorphosis.: a ~1Iceof black gay life, see JAN 19

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GAY fMEN,S HEALTH CRISIS
Eroticizing
Safer Sex Workshop, to learn the how-to's ofplayirtg more safely while meeting o\.her men; at the Center, 208
W 13 1St;8-10:30 pm; free, no registration reqUired; 807-6655, TOD
645,7470!
TIlE 'GLINES presents
SidneyMorris's The Wind Beneath My
Wings, a new play, about two
gay men, a comic and an activist,and ltieir conflicting passions; at'the Oourtyard
Playhouse,
39
Grove St (at Bleecker);
8 pm;$12; 869-3530 (plays thru FEB 4;
WED-FRI at 8 pm, SAT at 7 and9:30 pin, SUN at 7 pm)
EAGLE BAR Movie

January 21, 1990\

Night:

Jim

Belushlln
K-9; 142 11th Ave (at21 St); 11 pm; 691-8451

IN OUR OWN WRITE Last Day
to Register for Jan. 25 Writing
Workshopwith Dorothy Randall
Gray; Ancesto1l' Within Us, workshop will focus on past life,
music imagery, time and place,and inanimate animation writing
exercises, for writers of all levels;
Ms, Gray teaches
writingatHunter College and is a poet andperformance artist, co-founder of
Gap-Tooth Girlfriends; at theCenter, 208 W 13 St; 6:30-9:30,
pm; $10; register 7181384-2234
GREATER GOTHAM BUSINESSCOUNCIL Programfor SmallBusiness
Owners,the first of
several monthly programs, with aseries of short workshops giving
an overview on small businessdevelopment,
legal issues in thestart-up, office size and location,
finding a "unique niche: insurance and benefits, taX opportunities and liabilities; at the Center,
208 W 13 St, in the Network
Room, 3rd floor; 6 pm socializing, 7 pm meeting; GGBC 3378700, Center 620-7310
TIlE GLINES presents
SidneyMorris's The Wind Beneath My
Wings, see JAN 17
INTERNATIONAL TIlEATER OF
POETRY AND PAIN presents
Annie
Sprinkle:
Post Porn
Modernist,
directed by Emilio
Cubeiro; "the work charts writer/performer
Annie Sprinkle's
personal
odyssey throughtheworlds of art and ideology, commerce and pornography,
a journey
which
leads
her
to
alternativemodelsof sexual
health and well-being"; this week
only; 1HU & SUN at 8 pm ($12),,FRI & SAT at 8 and 11 pm ($14);
255-5793 (Editor'S note: the artistand director say you should "feelfree to take photos")
JOHN YOHALEM presents All
My Avatars: The Pagan Soap
Opera, a staged reading investi-

gating, "the New Age, when natural
religionconquers
theworld ..,what soap operas we'll bewatching"; at the Center, 208 W
13 St; 8 pm; $3; 691-0862
TIlE PYRAMID presents Dudleyin his new performance
work
Second Sleep, a "homoerotic,
religio-sexual work-in-progress";
101 Avenue A (at 6 St); 9 pm;
info 473-5625 (presented this andevery Thursday in January)

FI///AJ'IDENTITY HOUSE Welcome
Social for men and women, tolearn more about ID House's rap
group
meetings
on personal
issues of concern to gay men andlesbians;
544 6th Ave (btwn
14/15 Sts); 6:30-8:30 pm; 2438181
TIlE
ANSWERIS LOVING
Women Talk1ng Women's Talk:
AIDS- A Women's Issue; "information enlightens not frightens·;
led by Ruth Berman and Connie
Kurtz; Sheepshead
Bay, Brooklyn; 7:45-10 pm; $8; 718/998-2305
CASTILLO CULTURAL CENTER
presents John S. Patterson
In
When the Colored Band Goes
Marchhl', a one-man show dramatizing the African American
struggle for freedom and democracy with writings by Patterson
and Paul Lawrence Dunbar, Frederick Douglass, Langston Hughes,
W,E,B, DuBois, Pat Parker, Alice
Walker, with music by Tevin
Thomas, direction by Amy Pivar;
500 Greenwich
Street (btwn
Spring/Canal); 8 pm; $10; tix 9415800, press 362-1818 (plays all
weekends in January; FRI & SAT
at 8, SUN at 3)
TIlE GLINES presents
SidneyMorris's The Wind Beneath My
Wings, see JAN 17
INTERNATIONAL THEATER OF
POETRY AND PAIN presents
Annie
Sprinkle:
Post Porn
Modernist, see JAN 18
BODY POSITIVE Friday

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SOclal for HlV+ people and theirfriends, 236 W 73 St (off B'way),
5th Floor; 9 pm to midnight; 7211619
SHESCAPE Closing Night Party
at Octagon,
with DJ Nancy B;
starting next Friday, Shescapewill be at the Roxy (515 W 18);
Octagon is at 555 W 33 St (btwn
10/11 Aves); doors open 10 pm;$5 before 11 pm/$7 after; info
645-6479

HOTEP PERFORMINGARTSCOMPANY Auditions
for lesbian
and gay actors of color who wish
to become part of a new acting
troupe; bring material and be
prepared to read; at the Center,
208 W 13 St; noon - 3 pm; 6521082
CENTER KIDS African-American Celebration,sponsored by
the mutli-culturalcommittee;
atthe Park Slope Methodist Church,
6th Ave and 8th St, Brooklyn; 1-4pm; leave message at the Center,
2121620-7310, for info
SAGE Gay Nineties Social, withfood, entertainment,
danCing,
friends; at the Gay Synagogue, 57
BethuneSt, in the WestbethComplex; 1-5 pm; 741-2247
CASTILLO CULTURAL CENTER
presents John S. Patterson
In
When the Colored Band Goes
Marchin', see JAN 19
THE GLINES presents
SidneyMorris's The Wind Beneath 'My
Wings, see JAN 17
INTERNATIONAL THEATER OF
POETRY AND PAIN presents
Annie Sprinkle:
Post Porn
Modernist, .see JAN 18

20th anniversary of the legalization of abortionin New York
Slate ("if you want to keep it thatway, join us in Albany"); buses
leave Union Square (14 SI/Bway)
and Columbia U, (116 SI/Bway)
at 9 am; $27 round-trip/$20 lowincome;NOW-NYC 807-0721(overnight buses for those whowant to attend both the rally andtomorrows Lobby Day will leave
Sunday morning and return Monday night; checks to NOW-NYC,
15 W 18 St, NYC 1(011)
CENTER KIDS Public Forum:
Alternative Insemination
101,
with speakers including a doctor,
lawyer, sperm bank representative, and parents who have conceived using A,I.; at the Center,
208 W 13 St; 1-5 pm; $5 (freechild care available); leave message at 620-7310 for info
SAGE Women's
Sunday DropIn Gala Re-openlng,
in theSAGE Room at the Center, 208 W
13 St; 2-5 pm; 741-2247
DANCE IV Tea Dance: to benefit
the Dance and Fireworks Display
on Pride Day '90 Oune 24); at theCenter, 208 W 13 St; 4-8 pm; $7;
620-7310
CASTILLO CULTURAL CENTER
presents John S. Patterson
InW1ie1,l the Colored Band Goes
Marchin', see JAN 19
THE GLINES presents
SidneyMorris's The Wind Beneath My
Wings, see JAN 17
INTERNATIONAL THEATER OF
POETRY AND PAIN presents the
final performanceof Annie
Sprinkle:
Post Porn Modernist, see JAN 18
GAY MAlE S/M ACTIVISTS 9th
Anniversary
Celebration,
7279878

ASIANS AND FRIENDS NEWYORK 3rd Saturday
Social at
the Center, 208 W 13 St; 8 pm;
673-2596
GIRTH AND MIRTH Welcome to
the Gay Nineties Social at theCente,r, 208 W 13 St; 8:30 pm;
620-7310

NOW-NYS, NYS-NARAL AND
PLANNED PARENTI-IOOD First-Statc;wlde
Abortion
RightsRally In Albany,
marking the

NOW-NYS, NYS-NARAL AND
PLANNED' PARENTHOOD Lobby• Your Legislators for ChOice, in,Albany;
buses
leave
Union
Square (14 SI/Bway) at 6:30 am;$27 round-trip/$20
low-income;NOW-NYC 807-0721 (checks to
NOW-NYC, 15 W 18 St, NYC
1(011)TIMES SQUARES Free Square
Dancing
Class for Lesbians
and Gay Men; at PS 3, 490 Hudson St (btwn Grove & Christo-pher); 7:30 pm; 873-3962, 7992492 (starting JAN 29 classes are$5 each and enrollment closes)
S,H,A,R,E, Free Introductory
Evening anticipating the Jan, 31- Feb, 4 program on self-healing,
Who Heals?, with Niro andAmitabh(RobertBirnbaum,
Ph,D, in clinical psychology, UC
Berkeley); 441 Lafayette St; 7:308:30 pm; 460-8074 (also WED,
Jan, 24)
THE KITCHEN presents Sarah
Schulmanreading
new andunpublished work; 512 W 19 St;
8:30 pm; $6; reservations
2555793''

the Courtyard
Playhouse,
32
Grove St (at Bleecker);
8 pm;.
$12; 869-3530 (plays thru FEB 4;
WED-FRI at 8 pm, SAT at 7 and9:30 pm, SUN at 7 pm)
SCRABBLE
PLAYERSCLUB
Game Night, newcomers should
bring a board; at the Center, 208
W 13 St; 8-p pm; 570-9369

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GAY MALE S/M ACTIVISTS
Meeting:
Hot Tales for Cold
Nights, with "dramatic readin8sof the best bits from a wide variety of slm-themed erotica and literature"; at the Center, 3rd Floor,
208 W 13 St; 8:30 pm (doors
open at 8);' $5; 727-9878
EAGLE BAR Movie Night: Jim
Belushl
In Ghostbusters
II;
142 11th Ave (at 21 St); 11' pm;" I •691-8451

GAY MEN'S HEALTH CRISIS
Workshop:
Keep It Up!, to"reaffirm the importance of safer
sex, and feel confident
aboutsaying yes, whether you're into
casual sex or serious elating, andno matter what your 'HlV statusis"; at ,the Center, 208 W 13 St;
noon - 6 pm; register 806-6655,
TDD 645-7470
THE CENTER Two-Week First
Aid Class, today and next Tuesday, to learn
about
rescuebreathing,bleeding,
shock,
burns, fractures, seizures; 208 W
13 St; 8-11 pm; $2; register with
Joan, 295-4265 (Fri 7-,10 pm,
Sal/Sun 11 am - 1 pm)

IN OUR OWN WRITE Writing
Workshopwith Dorothy Randall Gray: Ancestors
Wit,hi"'Us, focus on past life, qlu$ic,
imagery,time and place, andinanimateanimation
writing
exercises, for writers of all levels;
Ms, Gray teaches,
writingatHunter College and is a poet andperformance artist, co-founder of
Gap-Tooth Girlfriends; at theCenter, 208 W 13 St; 6:30-9:30
pm; $10; r,egister 718/384-7234
jUDITH·S ROOM BOOKSTORE
presents Kay Hagen, Internal
Affairs: A tjournal-Keeping
Workbook for Self-Intimacy,
discussing "journal-keeping
as arevolutionary act"; 681 Washington St (at Charles St); 7 pm; free,
but limited seating; 727-7330

BROOKLYN WOMEN'S MARTIAL
ARTS Two-Week Defense Class,the second of two classes, pointers on basic self-defense
with
BISEXUAL POLITICAL ACTION
special attention to concerns ofCOMMITTEE Meeting& Pot
lesbiansand gay men; at theat a member'sCenter, 208 W 13 St; 7-9 pm; slid- , ,Luck Dinner
home. 8 pm, 718/353-8245
ing fee $5-$30; register 711V7881775
THE GLINES presents
SidneyMorris's The Wind Bet(ealh My
S,H,A,R,E, Free Introductory
Wings. see JAN 24
i
Evening, see WED, jan, 22
CENTER STAGE sees The Tenth
Man, Paddy Chayefsky"s <;irama
about a man's crisis' of faith; atthe Vivian Beaumont Theater of
Lincoln Center; 8 pm; $45; 6207310

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

I "THE GLINES presents
SidneyMorris's The Wind Beneath My
Wings, a new play about two
gay men, a comic and an activist,and their conflicting passions; atjanuary 21. 1990

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OUTWEEK BEST BETS
MondayEvery Night

Private Ey•• (preppie; male strippers) 12 W 21 St, btwn 5th & 8th
Aves, 208-7772

Tuesday
Better Day. 318 W 49 St (8/9 Aves) 245·8925·Love Machine at Underground 880 Broadway, near 17th St; 254·
4005

Wednesday
Better Day. 316 W 49 St (8/9 Aves) 245-8925
Private Eye. (Jeffrey Sanker & Dallas's Club Bad) 12 W 21 St,
btwn 5th & 6th Aves, 206·7772·Pyramid (Dean Johnson's Rock & Roll Fag Bar) 101 Avenue A,
btwn 6th & 7th Streets, 420-1590
Silver Lining (2-4-1 drink) 175 Cherry La., Floral Pk, LI,518-354-9841
Spectrum (free admission all night) 802 84th Street, Brooklyn,
718-238·8213
Stutz (2-4-1 drinks) 202 Westchester Ave" Wh, Pins" 914-781-3100
Twentytrwenty (gay men after 10 pm) 20 West 20 Street (btwn 5th& 8th Aves), info 845-8479, club 255-6579

Thursday·Boybar (has a new wave drag show) 15 1/2 St Marks Place,btwn 2nd & 3rd Aves, 874-7959·Copacabana (last Thu. of the month has Susan Bartsch party) 10
E 60 St, at Fifth Ave, 755-8010·Pyramid 101 Avenue A, btwn 8th & 7th Streets, 420-1590,
Spectrum (free admission all night, 2-4-1 drinks) 802 64th Street,
Brooklyn, 718-238-8213

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·Boybar 151/2 St Marks PI., btwn 2nd & 3rd Aves, 674-7959·Carmelita's (Chip Duckett's Boy+Boy & Girl+Girl) 150 E 14 St
Columbia Dances (1st Friday of every month, except July) 116th
St & Bway, 854-3574 days.
Private Eyes (preppies and young professionals) 12 W 21 St, btwn
5th & 6th Aves, 206-7772
Spectrum (male and female strippers) 802 84th Street, Brooklyn,
718-238-8213, Saturday
Barefoot Boogie (smoke & alcohol free) 434 6th Ave (btwn 9/10
Sts); 832-6759·Boybar 151/2 St Marks Place, btwn 2nd & 3rd Aves, 674-7959
The Center Dances (2nd and 4th Saturdays) 208 W 13 St, btwn 7th& 8th Aves, 620-7310
Private Eyes (Jeffrey Sanker & Dallas's Club Bad) 12 W 21 St,
btwn 5th & 6th Aves, 206-7772
Saint at Large (alternate Saturdays since)Jan, 13) 105 2nd Ave" at
6th Street, 674-8541
ISound Factory (Acid House, no alcohol, doors open midnight) 530
W 27 St (btwn 10th & 11th Aves), 843-0728
Spectrum (guest performer night) 802 64th St, Bklyn., 718-238-8213

Sunday,Better I}ays 316 W 49 St (8/9 Aves); 245-8925·Mars (Chip Duckett's -Mars Needs Men- night) Westside Highway and 13th St, 691-6262·Pyramid (Hapi Pfiace and Drag + Variety Show) 101 Avenue A,
btwn 6th & 7th Stre ets, 420-1590
Spectrum (shoW; free admission 9-10 pm) 802 64th Street, Brooklyn, 718-238-8~13

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January21,1990

Grand Central (Rockville Centre, LI, closed Mon. & Tues) 210
Merrick Road, Rockville Centre, LI, 518-538-4800
Monster (West Village) 80 Grove St at Sheridan Sq., 924·3557

BEST BETSfor Women's Dancing
NOTE: Party events are subject to change. Always call first to
confirm.

Tuesday
Hatfield's 128-10 Queens Blvd., Kew Gardens, 718·281·8484

Wednesday
Bedrock 121 Woodfield Rd, W. Hempstead, LI; 518-486-9516
Spectrum 802 64th St. @8thAve, Bay Ridge, 718-238-8213
Twentytrwenty (Shescape, 5-10 pm) 20 West 20 Street (btwn 5th& 6th Aves), info 845-8479, club 255-6579

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

FridayBedr!lck 121 Woodfield Rd, W. Hempstead, LI; 516-486-9516·Cannelita's (Chip Duckett's Boy+Boy & Girl+Girl) 150 E 14 St
Cheeks 2000 Long Beach Road, Island Park, LI, 516-431-5700
Octagon (Shescape, end Jan, 19)555 West 33 Street, btwn 10th
& 11th Aves; 947-0400, 645-6479
Spectrum 802 64th St. @8th Ave, Bay Ridge, 718-238-8213
Roxy (Shescape, begins Jan. 26) 515 W, 18 St, info 845-6479,
club 645-5156
Visions 56-01 Queens Blvd, Woodside, info 718-846-7131, club
718-899-9031

SaturdayBedrock 121 Woodfield Rd, W. Hempstead, LI; 516-486-9516
The Center (1st Sat., & special events) 208 W 13 St, 620-7310
Silver Lining 175 Cherry Lane, Floral Park, LI, 516-354-9841
Spectrum 802 64th St. @8th Ave, Bay Ridge, 718-238-8213
StaR 836 Grand Boulevard, Deer Park, LI, 516-242-3857
Twentytrwenty (Shescape) 20 West 20 Street (btwn 5th & 6thAves), info 645-6479, club 255-6579

SundayBedrock 121 Woodfield Rd, W. He,rnpstead, LI; 516-486-9516
Cave Canem (Sandwich Sister Sundays, Dega Productions)Spectrum 802 64th St. @8th Ave, Bay Ridge, 718-238-8213

Every Night,

Cubby Hole 438 Hudson St @ Morton St., 243-9079
Duchess II Sheridan Sq. & 7th Ave South, 242-1408

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The Works, 428 Columbus Ave(at 81st), 799-7365, Cruisy westside crowd,'

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

EAST SIDE

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

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

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

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

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

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

Jason's, 23 W. 73rd St.

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

Sally's Hideaway, 264 W. 43rd St.,
221-9152'
Town & Country, 9th Ave at 46th St.,
307-1503
Trix\ 246 W. 48 St. (bet. Bdwy & 8thAve), 664-8331, Cash and carry,

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

WEST VILLAGE

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

The Annex Ito Cellblock 28), 673
Hudson St. bet. 13th & 14th), 6271140, J/O Cub,South Dakota, 405 3rd Ave" 684837t>

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

Sli:11oi:1µphire,400 E, 59th St., 6884710

Boots & Saddle, 76 Christopher St.,929-9684, Funky dive and juke joint.
Cellblock 28, 28 9th Ave, 733-3144,
J/O club.
The Cubbyhole, 438 Hudson (Morton
St), 243-9079, Neighborhood bar forgay women & men,
D.T.'s FatCat, 281 W. 12th St., 2439041, Piano bar, Mixed M/F.
Duchess 11,70Grove St (7th Ave,),242-1408, Women,
J's, 675 Hudson St., 242-9292, J/O
club,'
Julius, 159 W. 10th St., 929-9672,
Serving Coors, Coors Lite, & Coors
Draft,
Keller's, 384 West St. (at Christopher), 243-1907, Friendly neighborhood crowd,
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The Monster, 80 Grove St. (7thAve.), 924-3558, Piano bar &disco/dancing,'C~OS~1D
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Ninth Circle, 139 W. 10th St., 2439204, Younger crowd.
Ramrod, 185 Christopher St.
Sneakers, 392 West St., 242-9830.
Two Potato, 145 Christopher St.,242-9340.
Ty's, 114 Christopher St., 741-9641,
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255-8787, Huge video bar.

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ComlTIunity Directory
A.c.a.c.
AIDS CENTER OF QUEENS COUNTYSOCIAL SERVICES. EDUCATION· BUDDIES COUNSELING • SUPPORT GROUPS
Volunteer Opponunitias(718) 896-2SOO(voice)(718) 896-2985(TDD)ACT UP (AIDS CNlition
III Unleash Power)
496A Hudson Street, Suite G4 NYC 10014(212) 989 -1114
A diverse, non-partisan group of individuals united inanger and committed III direct action to end the AIDS
crisis, Gen, meetings Mon, nights 7:30,
at the Community Center 208 W,I3th,
ALDEC/APLN-NY(Asian Lesbians of the East Coast!
Asian Pacific Lasbian Network-New
York)
We are a political, social and supportive network of
Asian Pacific lesbians, Planning meetings on the 1st
Sunday and social events on the last Friday of eachmonth, Call (212) 517·5598 for more information,
ARCS (AIDS-Related
Community Services)for Dutchess, Orange, Putnam, Rockland, Sullivan,
Ulster and Westchester counties, AIDS education,clientservicas,
crisis intervention, support groups,
case management, buddy and hospital visitor program,
214CentraIIw.,W1itePiains.NYlcmi(914)~
838 Broadway ,Newburgh, NY 12250 (914) !i62-500S
AIDSline (914) 993-0607
BAR ASSDCIATION FOR HUMAN RIGHTS,
Lawyers Referral
Service for the Lasbian and Gay Community
Full Range of Legal Services(212) 459-4873

GLAAD
Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation
80 Varick Street, NYC 10013 (212) 966-1700
GlAAD combats homophobia in the medie and elsewhere by promo1ing visibility of the lesbian and gay
community and organizing grassroots response toanti·gay bigotry,

CIRCLE OF MORE UGHT
Spiritual support and sharing in a gay/lesbian affirmative group,
West· Park Presbyterian Church
165 West 86th Street
Wed: worship service 6:30 pm, program 7:30,
Marsha (212) 314-4373
Charlie (212) 691-7118,

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

COM MUNITY HEALTH PROJECT
208 West 13th Street, NYC, New York 10011
For Appointments and Information(212) 675·3559 (TTYNoice)
PROVIDING CARING, SENSITIVE ANO LOW COSTHEALTH CARE SERVICES TO THE LESBIAN AND GAYCOMMUNITYGAY & LESBIAN PSYCHOTHERAPY
Sliding scale fees
Insurance accepted,
Institute for Hum an Identity,(212) 799-9432

COMMUNITY RESEARCH INITIATIVE
PWAs, PWARCs & their physicians taking the initiative to seek promising intervention against AIDS in a
resp, manner, For more info or to volunteer please,call (212) 481·1050,
CONGREGATION BETH SIMCHAT TORAH
NY's Gay and Lesbian Synagogue Services
Friday at 8:30pm
57 Bethune Street
For info, call: (212) 929-9498,

BAR ASSOCIATION FOR HUMAN RIGHTSFree Walk-in Legal Clinic,
Tuesday 6-8 pm
Lesbien & Gay Community Centr, Ground Floor

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

BIDS (BISEXUAL DOMINANCE &SUBMISSION GROUP)
Share 81M experiences and fantasies with others ina positive, non-judgemental
atmosphere, First Sunday of the month, 4:45pm atthe Community Center
208 W, 13 Street, NYC, This group is part of the New
York Area Bisexual Network,

DIGNITY NEW YORK
lesbian and gay Catholics and friends
AIDS Ministry, Spiritual Development
The Cathedral Project
Worship Services & Social-Sun, Eves, 7:3Opm-St
John's Episcopal Church 218 West 11th Street C
Waverly-675·2179

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

EDGE
Education in I Disabled Gay Environment
Forthe physically disabled Lesbian and Gay, Community,(212)989-1921
P.O, Box 305 Village Station, New York, NY 10014

BIPAC (BISEXUAL POLITICALACTION COMMITTEE)
Political action on Issues of importance to the Bisex·
ual/lasbiarVGay
community, Monthly meeting/potluck
held 8:00pm on fourth Thursday of the month atmembers homes, Call NYABN for this month's location,(718) 853-8245
BISEXUAL YOUTH
Inform al social & support grou p for ,Bisexual
kidslyouth, Monthly meeting/potluck
lunch held
1:00pm on fourth Sunday of the month at members
homes, Call NY ABN for this month's location, This
group is partofthe
New York Area Bisexual NalWork,
BLUS-BRONX LESBIANS
UNITED 1M SISTERHOOD
Social, political and support networking grou p for
women and their friends, Regular social events andmeetings on the first and third Fridays of every month,
At The Community Center, ~ W, 13 Street, from 6:308pm, For more info call Us. at(212) 829·9817,

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

OUTTWEEK

January 21, 1990

FEMME SUPPORT GROUP
For lesbians who self iden1ify as Femme, For info andmee1ing 1imes call Usa at (212) 829-9817, No men please,
FRONT RUNNERS
A running club for lesbian and gay athletes
olall abilities, Fun Runs 0(1-6 miles ~eld every Sat at
lOam and Weds, at 7pm in Central Parkand every Tues, at 7pm in Prospect Park,
For information:
call (212) 724-9700,
THE FUND FOR HUMAN DIGNITY
National Gay and Lesbian Crisis Une'AIDS 8()()"--·1·800-S0S-GAYS
Educational Resour~e Center; Positive Images
Media Center; NY State Arts Program6668"way Suite 410 NYC,NY 10012 (212)529-1600
THE GAY AFRICAN AMERICANSOF WESTCHESTER(The G.A.A.)
is a community based support group formed in
Westchester County, Various activities are planned
for the coming months,
Please call 914-376-0727 for more info,

GAY MALE S/M ACTIVISTS
Dedicated to safe and responsible S/M since 1981.
Open meetings w/programs on S/M techniques,
lifestyle issues, political and social concerns, Also
special events, speakers bureau, workshops, demos,
affinity groups, newsletter, more, GMSMA -Dept 0,496A Hudson Street. Suite 023 ,NYC 10014,(212) 727·9878,
GMAD(GAY MEN OF AFRICAN DESCENT)
80 Varick Street. NYC 10013 a support group of Gay
Men of African Descent dedicated to consciousnessraising and the development of the Lesbian and Gay
Community, GMAD is inclusive of African, African·
American, Caribbean and Hispanic/latino
men ofcolor, M eetin gs are held, weekly, on Fridays, For
more information, call 718-802-0162,
GAY MEN'S HEALTH CRISIS HOTLINEFOR INFORMATION ON SAFER SEX AND HIV-RELAT·EO HEALTH SERVICES, AND FOR INFORMATION ON
ONE-TIME, WALK-IN AIDS COUNSELING SERVICES
212-807-6655
212-645-7470TDO (For the Hearing Impaired)Mon,-Fri. 10:30 a,m, to 9 p,m, Sat 12:00 to 3:00
HEAL (Health Education AIDS liaison), Weekly info, and support group for treatments for
AIDS which do not compromise the immune systemfurther, including alternative and holistic approaches,
Wed 8pm, 208 W, 13th St (212)674-HOPE,
HETRICK-MARTIN
INSTITUTE
for lesbian and gay youth, Counseling, drop-in center (M-F, 3·6pm), rap groups, Harvey Milk HighSchool, AIDS and safer sex information,referrals, professional education,(212) 633-8920(voice)(212) 633·8926 TTY for deaf
HISPANIC UNITED GAYS & LESBIANS
Educational services, poli1ical aclion, counseling andsocial ac1ivi1ies in Spanish and English by and for theLatino Lesbian and Gay Community,
General meetings 8:00 pm 4th Thursday of every
month at 208 West 13th Street
Call (212) 691-4181
or write H,U,G.L, P,O, Box 226 Canal Street Station,
New York, NY 10019,
LAM BDA LEGAL DEFENSEAND EDUCATION FUND
Precedent-setting
litigation nationwide forlesbians, gay men and people with AIDS, Member·ship ($35 and up) inc, newsletter and invitations to
special events, Volunteer night on Thursdays,lntake
calls: 2-4pm Mon thru Fri (212) 995-8585

LAVA (LESBIANS ABOUT VISUAL ART)
Call for slides for Lesbian Artists' Exhibition, Gay &Lesbian Community Center, NYC, For more information, send SASE to :Miriam Fougere
118 Fort Greene PlaceBrooklyn, NY 11217,
THE LESBIAN ANO GAY BIG APPLE CORPS
Get your instrument o lit of the closet and come playwith us, Sym,phonic, Marching, Jazz, Dixieland, Rock,
Aute Ensembles and Woodwinds,
123 West 44th St Suite 12L New York, NY 10036(212)869-2922,
LESBIAN.
GAYCOMMUNITY SERVICES CENTER
208 West 13th Street New York, NY 10011(212)620-7310
9am-llpm
everyday,A place for community organizing and networking,social services, cultural programs, and social events
sponsored by the Center and more than 150 community organizations,LESBIAN ANO GAY LABOR NETWORKAn organization of Lesbians and Gays who are activein their labor unions working on domestic partnershipbenefits and AIDS issues, For more information call(212)923-8690,
LESBIAN AND GAY RIGHTS PROJECT
of the Americln
Civil Uberties Union
KNOW YOUR RlGIfTS/WE'RE EXPANDING THEM
(212)944·9800,
ext 545LESBIANS AND GAYS OF FlATBUSH
Brooklyn's social organization
for both gay men andlesbians,
P.O, Box 106, Midwood Station
Brooklyn, NY 11230· (718) 859-9437
LONG ISLAND ACT-UP
p,O, Box 291, New Hyde Park, NY 11040
Support us for change on Long Island,(516)338-4662 (516)997-5238 Nassau(516)928·5530 Suffolk
MEN OF ALL COLORS TOGETHER NY
A multi-racial group of gay men against racism, Meetings every Friday night at 7:45 at the Lesbian and Gay
Community Services Center, 208 W. 13th Street For
more info, call: (212)245-6366 or (?12) 222-9794,

YORK ADVERTISINGAND COMMUNICATIONSNETWORKNYACN is the community's
largest gay and lesbian
professional group, welcoming
all incommunications--andtheir friends, Monthly meetings, 3rd Wed 6:30pm at the Community Center, Members' newsletter, job hotline, annual directory,
Phone(212)517-0380 for more info, Mention OutWeek for
one free newsletter,
NINTH STREET CENTER
Since 1973, a community dedicated to demonstratingthat a homosexual lifestyle is a rational, desirable
choice for individuals dissatisfied with the rewards ofconventional
living, Psychologically- focussed rap
grou ps, Tues" Sat, 8 to 10 pm, peer counselling available, 319 E, 9 Street, New York, NY 10003, for info call(212)228-5153,
NORTH AMERICAN MAN/BOY
LDVE ASSOCIATION (NAMBLA)
Dedicated to sexual freedom and especially intereted
in gay intergenerational
relationships,
Monthly Bul·letin and regular chapter meetings on the first Saturday of each month, Yearly membership Is $20; write
NAMBLA, PO Box 174, Midtown Station, New York,NY 10018 or call (212) 807-8578 for information,
NORTHERN LIGHTS ALTERNATIVES
Improving Quality of Life for People with AIDSIHIV,THE AIOS MASTERY WORKSHOP: Exploring the pos·sibilities of a powerful and creative life in the face ofAIDS, Call Jack Godby (212) 337·8747

PEOPLE WITH AIDS HEALTH GROUP
Underground buyer's club importing not-yet-approved
medications and nutritional supplements, 31 West26th
St 4th Aoor (212)532-021K1
PRIDE FOCUS GROUP
Topical discussions on issues of interest to the community in a congenial atmosphere, followed by an informal
dinner at a friendly local restilurant
Every Sunday, 3:00
• 4:30pm at the Community Centar 208 W. 13 Street,
NYC, Part of the New York Area Bisexual NelWOrIt
SAGE: (Senior Action in I Gay Environment)
Social Service Agency, providing care, ac1ivities, &educational services for gay & lesbian senior citizens,
Also serves C1'Jer160 homebound seniors & older PWA's,
208West13th St NYC 10011, (212)741-2247
SETHIAN GAYS, LESBIANS AND BISEXUALSFor all of us interested in reaching out to each otherwith exuberance to spontaneously
explore andexpand upon the Seth/Jane Roberts "philosophy"
as
it relates to our lives, personally, sexually and politically, Call AI (212)979-5104,
THE OUTREACH
USING COMMUNALHEALING (TOUCH)
Community voluntaers providing a weekly buffet supper
for the Brooklyn AIDS community, TOUCH meets Monday
eves, 5pm to 6~pm- atdowntown Brooklyn Friends
Meeting House (110 Schermerhorn St near Boerum
Place), Limited transportation may be arranged, Info: (118)622-2156, TOUCH welcomes contributions of fi!nds, foodand volunteers,'

NYC GAY. LESBIANANTI-VIOLENCEPROJECTCounseling, advocacy, and information for survivorsof anti-gay and anti-lesbian violence, sexual assault,
domestic violence, and other types of victimization,
All services free and confidential,
24 hour hotline (212)807-0197

ULSTER COUNTY GAY AND LESBIAN ALLIANCE
Meets first and third Monday of each month .
at 1:30 p,m, at the Unitarian Church on Sawkill Road
in Kingston,
For information,
call (914)626-3203,

PEOPLE WITH AIDS COAUTION(212)532·0290 / Hotline (212)532-0568
Monday thru Friday 10am-6pm
Meal programs, support groups, educationalandreferral services for PWA's and PWArc's,

WOMEN'S ALTERNATIVECOMMUNITY
CENTER (WACcl,
A non-profit, Lesbian community center serving
Queens, Nassau and Suffolk counties, Thurs night
weekly discussion grps, 8:30pm, for other activities
please contact us at(516) 483-2050,

METROPOUTAN TENNIS GROUP(MTG)
Our 200 member lesbian and gay tannis club includes, players from beginning to tournament level. Monthly
tennis parties, Wintar indoor league, Come play with usl
For information: MTG, POB 2135, New '!brk, NY 10025,(212)662-0695,
MOCA
Men of Color AIDS Prevenlion
Program,
Provides safer sex and AIDS education information
to gay and bisexual Men of Color; coordinatesa network of peer-support
groups for gay and bisexual
Men of Color in all 5 boroughs of New York City,
303 Ninth Ave, New York, Ny 10001
or call (212)239-1796,
NATIONAL GAY AND LESBIAN TASK FORCE
is the national grassroots political organizationforlesbians and gay men, Membershipis $lO/year,
Issue-oriented
projects address violence, sodomy
laws, AIDS, gay rights ordinances, families, media,
etc, through lobbying, education, organizing anddirect action,
NGLTF 1517 U Street NW, Washington,
DC 20009,(202)332-6483,

January 21, 1990

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share. Prefer downtown. Need
immediate, Call Raul days (212)685-8671
Eves (212)932-1496,

The New York City chapter of theUncircumcised Society of America(NYC-USA) seeks new male members(with or without foreskin) to join its, swelling ranks. Call for more clubinfonnation or to make reservations forthe new members party, (212) n7-4208,

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AIDS MINISTRYIN THE-SJ>IlUT OFFRANCIS OF ASSISl...serving
our brolhers and sisters affected by'S
SL Francis AIDS MinislJ)'
135 W, 31st Street Manhattan 10001
695-1500"ART SOURCE UNLIMITED-CHIROPRACTOR

We buy, sell, trade and locate artworks.
DR. CHARLES FRANCHINO
30 Fifth Avenue,
New York, NY 10011,
call for info (212) 673-4331,

ARTISTS AVAILABLE: Keith Haring.
Robert Longo, Ross Bleckner; James
Rizzi. Andy Warhol. Martine. and many
more .., For infonnation,
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Get together with a group of men to'give and receive massages, Taught by
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call (212) 463-9152.

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HELP WANTEDGENERAL MANAGER
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east side within 15 minutes, Send
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MARKETING DIRECTOR

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OutWeek seeks marketing director tocreate and implement all promotionaland marketing strategies, (Including:
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OutWeek is an equal Opportunity
employer, People of Color and womenare encouraged to apply,'

OUTWEEK'S MUSIC EDITOR
is looking for an intelligent. creative andexperienced writer to cover the -dancemusic scene- periodicallyfor themagazine,
Please send 2 writing
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Women and people of color are
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creative, and have some experience
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computer skills very helpful; legal
background helpful, but not necessary,
Send resum~, two writing samples, andreferences by Jan, 25, 1990to: Paula L
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PSYCHOTHERAPY
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Old Chelsea
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kinky sex at my placein the suburbs
oryours, Call btwn 710pm 914-528-1469
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Peekskill, NY 10566,

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GWM, 27, 6', 1601bs,
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PO Box 1157, Foreest
Hills, NY 11375,

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loves to give & receive
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10011,
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looking for a masculine, bright, sensitive,
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1990 MAN OF THEYEARIYOURS:
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St. Station, NYC, NY
10008,
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write Box 1248, Bowling Green Station,
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appreciated but notnecessary, PO Box
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