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Contents
OUTTWEEK
August 7, 1989

NEWS

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HEALTH
Political Science (Harrington)
Positive Alternatives (Lederer)

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THE ARTS
Film Do The Right Thing
Music The New Music Seminar
Theater The Lady In Question
Theater The Quintessential Image
Books The Pursuit Of Sodomy

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DEPARTMENTS
Outspoken (Editorial)
Letters
Sotomayor
Nightmare of the Week
XeroxedDykes To Watch Out For (Bechdel)
Out Of Control (Susie Day)Out Of My Hands (Ball)
Gossip Watch (SignOrile)
Look Out
Social Terrorism (Conrad)
Community Directory
Personals
Going Out Calendar
Best Bets
Sports (Hamlin)
Crossword
Hot Shot

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LEMMETAKEVAPIC-CHA!
April helps Erich Conrad chronicle the opening of Funk,
Inc., the Outlaw Party and other hot spots. (Social
Terrorism, page 44.)FEATURESHOW GAY NEWSDAY?

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Chris Bull on the lesbian and gay newspaperof record.
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WHIRLING, FLYING, POUNDING

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Charles Barber talks to dancer/choreographer Stephen Petronio about love, life and the
new work.
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PEEK-A-BOO

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Are you on the list?

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WORD OF THE MINUTE
Get OVERit! (snap!)

page 47

AT LONG LAST. ..GESBIANS!
Liz Tracey charts the phenomenon.
ON THE COVER:ACT UP ACTING UP AT ARTHUR
SULZBERGER'S HOME LAST WEEK ..
PHOTO BY T.l. UTI.

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HOW TO GET LAID
Alison Camper with lesbian sex tips.

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Outspoken
Publisher

The Times And Our Lives

Associate Publisher
Editor In Chief
Art Director

f all the organs of society that richly deserve blame forthe tragedies of the AIDS era, perhaps none is as surprising or disappointing
as The New York Times. This"liberal" paper, onetime supporter of good causes andchampion of enlightened public policy, has failed soconspicuously in enlightened AIDS reporting that it's already madejournalistic history.
For the critical first 19 months of the epidemic, while the number of reported cases reached 958 and tens of thousands more
became infected, the Times published a total of seven articles about
AIDS. During the same period, the Tylenol tampering claimed seven
lives and got 54 Times articles, many of them on the front page.
Writers such as Larry Kramer and Randy Shilts have painstakingly
traced the remarkable, homophobic decisions of the Times' editorial
staff to ignore AIDS. Other historians are at work documenting thishistoric conspiracy. And no, conspiracy is not too strong a word.
But what concerns us here, and what concerned the activists
who led a raucous and daring anti- Times protest this week, are not
the paper's past failings, but its present ones. Because the sins of
The New York Times did not end when it belatedly discovered AIDS.
Some may question why the policies of the New York Times are
so important to our community. The answer is that the Times is thenation's most influential newspaper, the supreme journalistic courtthat legitimizes trends, events and people in our society. Presidents
and senators, scientists and philanthropists, editors and opinion makers all read it, and then often act on what they read. Sadly, if it isn't
in the Times, then it isn't actually real to many in power. And what
hasn't been in the Times for years now is good, in-depth, aggressive
reporting about the decade's biggest health story.
Once second to none in scientific reporting, it's now taken for
granted in research and scientific circles that the Times' coverage ofadvances in AIDS research is sloppy, spotty and unreliable. The
Times has no full-time AIDS reporter, and has no AIDS reporter at allin Washington, where public policy on AIDS is made every day. It
lags behind even a local tabloid such as Newsday, which sent fivereporters to the Montreal AIDS conference (to the Times' one), or afinancial paper such as The Wall Street Journal, which publishedtwice as many Montreal articles as the Times. Reporter Gina Kolata's
articles are the one bright spot in an otherwise dim selection of lazily
reported, often insensitive articles on AIDS.
Now, more ominously, what had at least been a fairly acceptable stance on the Op-Ed page has turned damaging. The Times
stood virtually alone in supporting Health Commissioner Stephen
Joseph's now totally-discredited plan for contact tracing. And in its
notorious June 29 editorial, the Times, in telling us to ignore the pessimistic results of a federal study, callously assured its readers that
AIDS is under control now that the newly infected will merely
replace the dead.
Why is the Times doing this? We wish we knew. The respecteddaily San Francisco Examiner, in a special report on gay bashing,linked former Times chief Abe Rosenthal with Anita Bryant, Morton
Downey, Jr. and Lyndon laRouche as a "key vocal opponent ofgays," but Rosenthal retired in 1986. Obviously his spirit, at least its
homophobic shade, still lives on at the paper.
ACT UP, which has sometimes erred in its choice of targets, wasright on target when it took aim at The New York Times. It shouldplan to go back again and again until it achieves visible results.
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Letters To The Editor
OutWeek NEEDS WOMEN
We'reconcerned
that
theOutWeek structure of managementand decision-making
is interferingwith OutWeek's being accessible,
informative and enjoyable to all segments of the lesbian and gay community in the New York area.
Although the contributing writers,
reporters and photographers include
many women and some people of color,the entire management of OutWeek,
with the exception of one contributing
editor, is all male and all white.
It is clear that the editors havemade a significant effort to include
material of interest to women andpeople of color. Ray Navarro's commentaries, the extensive space devoted to the Webster case and articles on
medical apartheidand "minority"
involvement in community trials areexamples. Additionally, Craig Harris'article on the Mount Morris baths andSarah Pettit's analysis about lesbians
and sex clubs were welcome.
Nonetheless, we're concerned thatwithout the presence of women and

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people of color at editorial decisionmaking meetings, issues of concern toour communities will not be covered
and that our perspective will not be
included on issues of concern to thewhite gay male community. For example, the article on Compound Q, while
noting that its derivative has been used
for abortion in China for centuries, did
not raise the questions that occur immediately to women. Will women PWAsbe
excluded
form these trials? If
Compound Q turns out to be the "cure,"
what will the impact be on women's
reproductive organs? Will women beforced to choose between treatment andchildbearing?
If Outweek is going to truly represent NY's lesbian and gay communities, we need to have input at allstages of the writing, editing ~nd publication process. Selection of images
that include women and people ofcolor, captions, headlines and readouts that highlight women and peopleof color's contributions to our community are often overlooked when only
white men are making the decisions.

Some suggestions for remedying
this situation include the following:
Given the amount of work
which publication of a weekly magazine entails, we recommend hiring atleast 2-3 additional editors and thatthese people be women and/or people of color. If finances don't allow
hiring 3 more editors, we recommend
co-editing for the major sections of themagazine, namely news and features.
• We recommend that several
segments of material be solicited on aregular basis from contributing editors
who are women and people of color.
Possibilities include book review sections, a section on lesbian and gay
prisoners, and a segment on issues ofconcern to gay communities of color
in the New York area. A regular column by the Lesbian Herstory Archives
would increase lesbian participation in
the magazine.
• We recommend that advertising,sales and business positions also be
open to women and people of color as
attrition or co-holding of current positions allow. This would help put

OutWeek on a more secure financial
footing as it would demonstrate agreater affirmative action commitment,
and could open up advertising revenues
from many lesbians and people of color
who are more inclined to advertise inpublications they know are being readby their clientele.
If OutWeek doesn't implement
affirmative action hiring policies very
soon, it is likely that women and people of color will dismiss it, like theNative, as a gay white boy's rag. We'drather that not happen.
Kim Christensen
Marion Banzhaf
Risa Denenberg
Rachel Lurie
Debbie Levine
Kathryn Williams
Catherine Saalfield

MAN HANDLED
Michelangelo Signorile's Look Out feature profiling Clayton (OutWeek,
7/24/89, No.5) explains that Clayton
is "manning his video camera."
I thought you might like to knowthat the word "manning" is consideredsexist and quite out of vogue.
In the future, it might be wise to
substitute another word such as "operating," "staffing" or any other genderneutral term.
Sincerely,
Thomas F. Hickey
New York, NY

FEnNER

the news. Feltner's journalism, however, is no different. She has forgottenthat when we deal with AIDS, we are
dealing with lives, and instead, she
has given herself over to what I canonly call a self-indulgent smear. I feelthat such an article has no place in
Out Week, and I hope there will neverbe another.
Yours truly,
Charles Brand
New York, NY

GENDER CONFUSION
Can anyone beside myself offer
the suggestion that "lesbians" themselves are sacred cows?
Gay people come in two styles,
men and women; definitions beyond
that are sub-phyla. That's the story.
Yes, I am aware that many gay
women contribute to many primarily
gay men's issue. I don't care fordetails; a gay person is fine with me.
I find I must use additional
patience to endure the constant andincreasingly annoying reminder that
there are male and female gay people,
with that currently prominpnt dllttprf'n
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catch-phrase, "Gay. people and lesbians." Think about it. It shouldn't
take any time. Are there heterosexual
lesbians? Or are lesbians not people?
"No, no," I picture twelve angry
dykes stomping their feet and shouting. "Homo" is the latin prefix for"man" [Male-ugh! Bad!] and We muststress our WO.!!lI!lan-ness."
Ok, so the language has given
women an extra adjective. Fine. But if
that's the meaning behind homosexualand lesbian, then what about Homosapiens? Do women, then, not walkon two legs? Most I've seen do.
Anyways, I'm getting a little silly
over petty terminology. Lesbians cancall themselves what they like. I do.
But to me, the phrase "Gay andLesbian" clangs with the same
redundancy were a farmer to talkabout" All barnyard animals, andchickens."
Sacred cows. Separate but equal!
Carry on!
Ross Maclean
Male Lesbianp.s. Great magazine-keep
it up.
Thanks.
....

ightmare of the Week

FOE

I cannot object too strongly to
Ann Giudici Fettner's article, "Goingfor the Gold," in your July 17th issue.
The article is wholly given over toumbrage taken against the publisherof the Native, who, for whatever reasons, fired her. Her own opinions
concerning various theories about the
AIDS crisis are as arrogantly couchedas those she decries. As presented
here, they are simply unsubstantiated,
and therefore of little help to any who
are trying to sort through masses ofconfusing AIDS data and make decisions about what to think and do.
. I do not. object to a journalismthat is clever, acid, or angry. But for
too long, New York gays have had
only the Natives one-sided, arrogant
and contemptuous ways of presenting

publisher Arthur NPunchN Sulzberger, whose
prudish paper seems to think that gay and lesbian news is almost never fit toprint (unless, of course, it's a quiche recipe in the Home Section). You can takeyour quiche and shove it. Punch.

New York Times'shadowy

August 7, 1989

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TI

XeroxedA lmER SENT TO THE NEWYORK NATIVE FROM LARRYKRAMERMr. Tom Steele & Mr. Charles Ortleb
Tbe New York Native
Dear Tom and Chuck,
I want to try and put down a few
thoughts that have saddened me.
I thought that Tom's recent article
in the Native-some sort of plea, really, I thought, in behalf of Chuck-was
infinitely sad-that he felt he had towrite it, that it had to appear, that, so
to speak, events have come to this.
And even sadder, having written
it, I think Tom missed the point
entirely. I don't think that anyone isagainst the Native, or Chuck, or Tom,
presenting any theories, no matter
how off-the-wall. I think what people
are fed-up with is that the Native has
become a mean-spirited,heartlessnewspaper, without compassion.
I think what many have come tofind intolerable is the Natives altitude
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this dissident is the enemy. A few ofthem perhaps are, or have been against
us. I've certainly had my own publicdisagreements with the likes of Drs.
Gallo, Young, Fauci, and Mr. Koch.
But I do not think that (to cite
only a few on your remarkably long
Hit List) the heroic Dr. Mathilde Krim
works for the CIA, or the equally
heroic Martin Delaney (of San
Francisco's Project Inform) is a Hitler,
or Dr. Don Francis (of the CDC) is anenemy agent responsible for killing us
all. I don't think that the gay men andlesbians who work so hard in ourcommunity'S many political arenas
and who are paraded weekly throughthe minefields that are the columns
written by "Thomas jackson" are worthy of the hateful prose "jackson"
spews out against them. I don't thinkthat Randy ShillS is out to destroy us.
I don't think that Harvey Fierstein andDavid Leavitt - two of our most distinguished writers - deserve to bevilified, and with huge pictures andon your front page. All of these people are guilty of nothing but working
passionately in their own distinctive
ways to bring about a vision of gay
life that includes a future. And I am

not the biggest enemy the gay community must now contend with, as
Chuck has recently called me.
Now ACT UP is coming under
your hatchet. With growing intensity,
the Native is taking an obsessive interest in parading the most trivial of items
and attempting to blow them up outof all proportion, a true smear campaign that finally resulted in ACf UP's
boycotting the Native. Most of yoursmear campaign is aimed at a young
PWArc, Peter Staley, ACf UP's directorof fund raising, someone who devotes
his entire life and all his energy working to fight AIDS, and who had theguts to publicly criticize Chuck at a
recent AIDS Forum. Do you remember
what that lawyer, joseph Welch, so
passionately cried out against Sen.
joseph McCarthy when that witchhunter went after one of his young
associates? "Have you no shame, sir?"
ACf UP is one of the most wonderful things that has ever happened in
the gay world. In two years, its growthand its accomplishments have been little short _of miraculous. These past six
months have been particularly rewarding: for the first time in the nine years
continued on page 78

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News

ACTUPSlams
NY Times AIDS Reporting
Demo at Sulzberger's Charges Anti-Les/Gay Biasby Mark Chesnut
NEW YORK-Nearly
150 ACT UP
members gathered in 9O-degree heaton Tuesday, July 26, in front of thehome of New fork Times publisher
Arthur Sulzberger, to protest what
ACT UP calls "ineffective and morally
reprehensible" reporting of the AIDS
epidemic in that paper. The protest
began at 83rd Street and Fifth
Avenue, and grew to nearly 200 people by the time it ended in front of
the New York Times office buildingon West 43rd Street two and a half
hours later. It included a march down
Fifth Avenue and the burning of apile of New York Times in the street.
There were no arrests, but
activists reported numerous run-ins

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with police, who nearly equalled theprotestors in number. Some are claiming the lack of mainstream media coverage of the well-publicized event isevidence of collusion on the part ofstraight media.
Eric Sawyer, one of the organizers of the protest, accused the New
York Times of "irresponsible journalism" for not addressing the governme nt's inadequate attention to AIDS
research, patient care, vaccine development, or hOUSing.He also said theTimes is not aggressive enough in its
reporting on new drug treatments.
"They have consistently publishededitorials that try to downplay the significance of the AIDS crisis," Sawyer
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medical authority or public healthauthority is saying that this is absolutely the most horrendous health crisis of the century."
This is not the first time the New
York Times has been targeted by thelesbian and gay community. The Gay
and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) has been monitoring
the daily for over two years, and has
been keeping a list of instances ofbiased, inaccurate or omitted information about the lesbian and gay community. Members of GLAAD met witheditors from the Times in New Yorkand Washington earlier this year, but
Steven Miller of GLAADstill characterized the paper as the very worst in
New York City in its coverage of les-l /~Photo: T.L. Litl

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Bonfire on inanities at the limes.
bian and gay issues [see sidebarsl.
As an example of the Times'
incomplete
reporting,
ACT UP's
Sawyer cited public hearings held lastThursday by RepresentativeHenry
Waxman (D-CA) regarding revised
federal regulations that could haveprofound effects on the distribution ofexperimental AIDS treatments. The
New York Times did not cover thestory, according to Sawyer.
A letter from ACT UP to Max
Frankel, executive editor of the Times,
requesting a meeting, went unanswered. ACT UP did receive a phone
call on the day before the protest
from Jack Rosenthal of the Times editorial department, who attempted toavert the demonstration.

The protest outside Sulzberger's
home actually began on Sundaynight, July 23, when several individuals spraypainted "New York Times: All
the news that's fit to kill," along withoutlines of bodies on the pavement
near Fifth Avenue and 83rd Street. But
the anger and frustration of ACf UP
and the AIDS activist community
became even more visible when
protestors gathered in sweltering heatat 5:00 pm on Tuesday, carrying signs
and chanting, "New York Times lying
still. All the news that's fit to kill."
Flyers distributed at the demonstration accused the Times of minimizing the importance of AIDS. One
example noted that while Newsday
sent five reporters to the Fifth Interna-

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While most activists
seemed pleased with theoutcome of the protest,
some were disturbed that.~ .~.
there was an obvious lack-"'>.
of mainstream
media
reporting the event. "Wehave never had a demonstration this big where weweren't covered," said ACf
UP's Jim Eigo. "It's almost
as if the old boys decided
to protect one another."Press releases had been
mailed out several days
before and phone calls
were made the day of thedemonstration
to mainstream media, according to
Eigo.
When telephoned by
OutWeek on Wednesday,
Photo:
Litt July 26 for comment,
TAKING TEA WITH PUNCH
spokespeoplefor
ACT UP Bt Sulzberger's 5th Avenue BpBrtment
Sulzberger and Frankel
tional Conference on AIDS in Montre- officers followed behind, along withclaimed that both were out of town.
al this year, the New York Times only three police vans and two officers
Repeated calls to the corporate comsent one, and the Wall Street Journal
who carried both a video and a stillmunications office were not returned.
filed twice the number of stories on camera.
Velez was optimistic that the New
the Conference
as the New York
Despite attempts to intervene byYork Times will change its outlook
Times. "The Times is like any otherthe police, the protesters eventually
because of ACf UP's actions. But hepropaganda
piece that you would
arrived at Broadway and West 43rd
pointedout it won't
happenfind in any Iron Curtain country," said Street near the Times office. Marchers
overnight. "[The New York Times] is
ACf UP's Neil Broome. "[It]selectively found a blockade made up of police
like the British Empire," he told Outeliminates information and puts in vehicles and several officers, closing
Week, "it collapsed very slowly." ....
what it feels is its own viewpoint and off 43rd Street, backed up by an estiperspective. "mated 150 police officers. Chants of
GLAAO's Gay Times from previous page
After approximately one hour,"Free assembly!" and "We won't move
paid attention to our issues, but
protesters moved into the middle of Fifth 'til you do!" rose from the crowd as
they've said all the wrong things."
Avenue, where aoout 25 people staged a several people tried to wriggle
He said one of GLAAD's main
"die-in" by lying down in the street, sur- through the blockade between thefocuses is now the editorial page.
rounded by the rest of the group. The vehicles and on the sidewalk. They
Miller said there has been limpolice threatened to arrest those lying were met by a fast-moving wall of
ited improvement in national covdown, but the participants got up by police that once again physicallyerage, but that local New Yorkthemselves after a few minutes.
coverage is still the worst in thepushed protestors back. Protestors
At 6:15 pm, the protesters began called out "No violence!" and folcity. The New York Times "is not amoving south on Fifth Avenue. Police lowed with chants of the badge nummonolith. There are some editors
officers rushed at the protesters whenthat are very good." He said that
ber of one officer
who wasthey began marching in the streets
the problem essentially comes
particularly rough in trying to remove
and physically pushed some onto the a demonstrator from 43rd Street. Thatfrom the publisher. "You don't see
sidewalk.
Some protesters
werecommitment at the top."officer soon disappeared from theshoved to the ground.
front of the line-up of police.
GLAAD continues to collect
Nevertheless, the procession conProtesters
were
eventually
information and communicate withtinued at a quick pace down Fifth allowed to assemble in front of thethe New York Times, but in line
Avenue. Although the police original- building itself, where several copies ofwith ACf UP's demonstration lastly attempted to cut off the demonstrathe New York Times were tossed into aweek, Davidson also said, "it istors, they eventually found themselves
pile and set on fire. The crowd distime for more direct action."....
walking in front, while more than 20 persed soon after 7:30 pm.
-Mark Chesnut

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GLAAD CAL't:S TIME OUT)',.'

For two years, GL.Ai\D has been mQnitoring the content of The New

York Times for homophobia and lacJ{of coverage of lesbian and gay issues.
Here's just a sample of what GLAADuncovered about the Times in 1988.

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• did an exten;;ive profile of Jesse.f!~lms" stand on social issqes without
mentioning his total obstruction of AID~andgay~positive legislation• did a major feature on hate gr<5'ops and violence but spoke only ofanti-Semitic and racist violence, ignoring,~ttl!-cks on lesbians and gay men• wrote a m~jor article on '\iiom~n"lri.the l!Iilitary withoµtroentionipg
the military'Sof les~ia~~'{mi@Kfjl~l;ij!"..,~~~~::!~n.

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, ,. wrote a long~rticle about the ~ij,nY;{IS$uessupported by.~e ACLU b\1t
forgot to mention lhCk Gay and LesbianJUghts Projeq,'"• somehow overlooked the torching of tWQAIDS residences in Dallas• apparently didn'Lnotice Harry 13t;jtt"Selection as the first openly gay
president of th~ S~Frandsco
B?ard .oJ,;~~~~isors..',• carriedno>r~Wrt:ionH~r:i';Fr~~$~Q~s;~a9dlelig~t !,?,arch<by25,00000.
"the 10th ao.niversary:pf Harvey MiI~I~~~'~.Wation
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• missed the cour\"decision ~no~ifiii::iKaren Thompson to Visit Sharon;"!<owa)ski.y
The Foreign Desk:• wrote a long article on civil right:> iOc,}lba ~t forgot to mention 30
years of anti-gay oppression or the it1(er9.~ent 'Of aU HIV positive Cubans• wrote many articles about Is~el.:bVLmi$5ed the, one about Israel abol.
".ishing itS sodomy la'\ii,<.
..~;1';\t;i1r).'i.~\~*:.h'.;""':"';!;• somehow didn't n9tice that the'¥ifrermalb of Britian'senactment ofClause 28 (which prohibited state funding of groups "promoting homosexuality") was a huge increase in police harassment and gay bashing in Britian.
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Bush Makes
AIDS COlnlnission
Appointlnents

By mid-spring, the House had
made its appointments,
and, after
haggling with ranking conservatives,
the Senate made its final appointments by early May. Although heartened by the nominees' firm AIDS
records, activists and congressmembers criticized Bush for not moving
more quickly on his appointments.
Sixty-three anxious House memby Cliff O'Neillbers issued a joint letter to the White
Rights Campaign Fund CommunicaWASHINGTON-Over seven months
House May 25 urging Bush to maketions D'irector Robert Bray, "particularafter they were due, the White House
his nominations. At that point, Whitely in implementing the President's
announced the appointments of theHouse sources confirmed that the
HIV Commission report's 500 pages,
final two members of the congresadministration's nominees had alreadywhich have been gathering dust for
sionally-mandated National Commis- the last year.
been made, but were awaiting clearsion on AIDS on july 20th. The
ance, raising the suspicions that con"Choosing a person with AIDS
appointments
include the commisservative White House staff members
has granted recognition to the unususion's first self-acknowledged PWA, or al level of involvement of persons
were holding up the nominations.
person with AIDS.
affected by this crisis in its resolution.
Those charg!,!s were denied by theAfter lengthy
delays,Bush administration.
attributed to security clearance
The, commission members
complications by White House
have scheduled a press confersources,
the Bush adminence for the last week of july andistration named Belinda Mason,
will soon go about naming apresident of the National Assocommission chair and beginning
ciation of People with AIDS,
their work.
and Dr. David Rogers, a CorCongressional appointees tonell University Medical College
the Commission are Rep. J. Roy
professor and former president
Rowland (D-GA); Diane Ahrens,of the Robert Wood johnson
chairperson of the Ramsey CounFoundation, to the commission.
ty, Minnesota, board of commisThe National Commission
sioners and head of the National
on AIDS was mandated by the
Association of Counties' Task
federal AIDS omnibus bill
Force on AIDS; Rev. Scott Allen,
passed by Congress in NovemBaptist minister who served on
ber 1988. Its purpose is to act
the Texas State Task Force on
upon the now year-old recomAIDS; Dr. Don C. Des jarlais,
mendations of the President's
coordinator, AIDS research at theCommission on HIV, left largely
New York State Substance Abuse
unaddressedby the Reagan
Services Division; and Donald S.
administration.
The new 15Goldman, former president of the
ANXIOUS TO GET TO WORK
Photo: Patsy Lynch
member panel will be composed
National Hemophilia Foundation.
National Association of People with AIDSpresident
of five members appointed byCommission
SenateBelinda Mason.
the House, five by the Senate
appointees are Eunice Diaz, forand five by the White House. Three of I think this shows that in somemer public health official in Los Angerespects Bush is 'kinder and gentler,'"
the
five
White
House
les Cou nty; Larry Kessler, founder of
appointees-Healthand Human Ser- said National Gay & Lesbian Task
the Boston AIDS Action Committee,
vices Secretary Dr. Louis W. Sullivan, Force's Executive Director jeff Levi.
and the commission's only openly gay
Neither AIDS activists nor governDefense Secretary Richard B. Cheney
member; Dr. june Osborn, dean ofand Veteran's Affairs Secretary Edward ment officials expected the Congress
the School of Public Health at theJ. Derwinski-are preordained by the and the White House to make their
University of Michigan; Harlan Dalton,
appointments in early january. But
bill.
Yale Law School professor; and Dr.
AIDS activists' concerns were raised as.
"We're pleased that the commisCharles Konigsberg,head of thesion is now complete, but anxious for months passed and the appointments
Kansas Department of Health and. Environment's health division.
T
had still not been made.
it to get to work," stated Human

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News

Anti-Gay Violence Near Gracie
Mansion and in Village
Activists Link Attacks with Stalled State Bias Billby Mark Chesnut
NEW YORK-Five men were injured
in two separate anti-gay attacks earlyon Sunday, July 23. Two or'the men
were hospitalized, one with serious
injuries.
Police have arrested seven youths
suspected of participating in the unrelated attacks, which took place on theUpper East Side and in Greenwich Village. Some in the community are
blaming the state legislature's refusal
to pass a bill increasing the penalties
for anti-lesbian and gay attacks for the
recent violence,and took theirgrievance to Senate Majority LeaderRalph Marino's Long Island office.
"Faggots Get Out"According to New York City
Police Captain Maurice Col1ins of theBias Incident Investigation Unit, Bruce
Ellerin, 29, and Stewart Elliott, 37,
were sitting on a bench in Carl Schurz
Park, near Gracie Mansion, just after
midnight, when a 12-year-old boy
bicycled past them and shouted, "Faggots, get out of the park.""I swore at him," El1erin, a graduate student, told Newsday in an interview. "Then, before I knew it, agroup of people who had been sitting
a little way away came up to me andstarted ramming me with their fists. I
couldn't get up. I couldn't even protect myself. It was just a shower ofblows raining down on me," hereportedly said.
Ellerin underwent
surgery at
nearby Doctors Hospital for numerous
facial wounds. Elliott, a reporter for
USA Today, was treated for cuts andbruises and received stitches to closea gash on his lip.
Although most of the benches in
the park were reportedly filled withonlookers, only one man attempted tohelp the two. Ronald Mayer, who was
sitting nearby, was punched in thestomach and mouth when he began
yelling at the youths. He later compared the brutality of the attack withthe beating and rape of an investmentbanker by a gang of youths in Central
Park last April.
On Monday night, July 24, policearrested 19-year-old Richard Arce ofEast 92nd and charged him withassault and possession of a deadly
weapon, a hammer, in connection
with the attack. Arce was identified by
the police as the leader of a youth
gang cal1ed the Four Horsemen. On
Wednesday night police arrested
Joseph Fedora, 19, of 1930 First
Avenue, and Robert Watson, 18, of
405 East 92nd Street and charged
them with assault and possession of adeadly weapon. They also arrested
two other youths, aged 14 and 15,
whose names were withheld becauseof their age.
The case is being investigated bypolice as a bias-related
attack.
Sergeant Phil Banks of the Bias Incident Investigation Unit told OutWeekthat it is currently interviewing' witnesses and canvassing the area near
the park.
Separate Incident

In a separate incident, at approximately 3:15 a.m. the same day, two
gay men were harassed by up to 10
males 'in Greenwich Village. According to Banks, the group assaulted thetwo men verbal1y while kicking andpushing them and throwing bottles.
Richard Jam, 18, and Michael
Castagna, 19, both of Staten Island,
have been arrested and charged withharassment and reckless endangerment in connection with the incident.
The two attacks last week add toa growing trend of violence against

lesbians and gay men in New York
City. Anti-gay violence has increased
18 percent from 1987 to 1988, according to the Gay and Lesbian Anti-Violence Project. Sergeant Banks said
that therehave
been 21 anti-gay
attacks reported so far this year. This
compares with 19 reported to police
during the same period in 1988.
Teenagers Polled

A statement from the Anti-Violence Project condemned not only theindividuals
responsible
for suchattacks, but also "the system that not
only encourages and condones hateviolence but also fosters violence
among differently oppressed groups."
A statewide survey conducted by theGovernor's Task Force on Bias recently reported that teenagers polled
about their biases reacted most negatively to gay people, sometimes
threatening violence.
Many lesbian and gay activists
blame local, state and federal governments for fostering acceptance of violent acts againsts lesbians and gay
men by not passing laws that would
stiffen penalties against convictedattackers.
ACf UP's Neil Broome told OutWeek that by omitting gays and lesbians from the bias bill currently
before the State Legislature, the government would send a message that"people who beat on people that they
perceive to be gay or lesbian ... cando that with impunity."
The anti-bias bill, which would
increase criminal penalties for al1 biasrelated crimes, passed the State
Assembly by a wide margin last year
and has the strong support of Governor Mario Cuomo, who was the bill's
original sponsor. But the bill is now
facing strong opposition from Repub-

August 7, 1989

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on page 56

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News

INS Wavers on
Waiver Policy
30 Day Limit on HIV+ Not Enforced
policy was changed after the INS wasinternationallyembarrassed when
SAN FRANCISCO-In
an apparent
Hans Paul Verhoef, a Dutch PWA, wasdeparturefrom its own recentlyjailed in Minneapolis by the INS. Veradopted policy of allowing some for- hoef was on his way to a lesbian andeign visitors with AIDS or HIV gay health conference in San Francisinfection 3<Hiay visas, the U.S. Immi- co last April.
gration and Naturalization Service
Josephsen was detained for two(INS) has allowed Danish social workhours on June 2 by INS officials at
er Knud ]osephsen to remain in the
Boston's Logan Airport when theycountry three weeks beyond the 30- learned that he was en route to the
day limit.
Fifth International
Conference on. Previous INS policy prohibited
AIDS in Montreal. Upon learning his
people with AIDS or the HIV positive
destination, the officials asked Josephfrom entering the country at all. That sen, who is HIV positive, his antibody
status. After releasing
him from custody, INS
officials told Josephsen
he had been granted a
30-daywaiver,but
would have to leave thecountry by July 1.
Josephsen, who isin charge of professional development services
for the Danish National
Union of Social Workers, was scheduled totour U.S. AIDS agencies
following the Montreal
conference as part of aseven-weekresearch
project for the Danish
National
Board
ofHealth. He reentered
the United States from
Canada on June 11 after
the conference.
National Gay Rights
Advocates (NGRA) andattorney
RhondaBerkower of the Boston
law firm of Fron, Ross
TESTING THE LIMITS
Photo: Rink Foto and Berkower petitioned
Danish social worker Knud Josephsen.
INS district director Ben-by Keith Clark

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August 7, 1989

jamin Ferro's office in Buffalo on June
22 for permission for Josephsen toremain in the country until July 22.
The petition was supported by theDanish Embassy in Washington, DoC.
as well as by the Sixth International
Conference on AIDS, which is planned
for June 1990 in San Francisco.
According to a letter dated July
17 from INS district director Ferro,
Josephsen's stay in this country until
July 22 "will be satisfactory." Ferro's
letter g~s on, however, to state that
"temporary admission of non-immigrant
alienswho
areHIVpositive ...will continue to be made inaccordancewith outstandingINS
instructions and guidelines."
Following the Verhoef incident,
political pressure in the U.S. and fromaround the world forced Attorney
General Richard Thornburgh, whose
departmento~ersees the INS, tochange the immigration rules. The
new regulations allow waivers for foreign visitors who are HIV-positive or
who have AIDS to remain up to 30
days if they are in this country toattend health conferences, visit relatives, receive medical care or makebusiness trips. The new policy specifically did not extend to tourists, who
are still denied entry to the U.S. The
policy is, or has been until now, presumably restricted to the maximum
3O-day period.
"An important precedent has been
set," said Benjamin Schatz of NGRA, at
a press conference
here July 20
announcing the INS approval. 'The 30day limit that INS allows for people
with HIV infection is indeed flexible.
The INS has been forced to admit, I
think reluctantly, that their guidelines
are arbitrary. I sympathize with INS officials for the difficult decision of trying
to make sense of a senseless policy."
INS officials, however, were lessclear on the issue. Assistant Commissioner James Puelo in Washington
said, "There hasn't been a policychange [on extensions], but INS policy
is decided on a case-by-case basis
anyway." Puelo added, "Whether or
not you want to call this a 'precedent'
continued on page 56

Maloney Callsfor Domestic Partnership
Resolution Ready for Council Vote
by Jim Whelan
NEW YORK-City Council members have prepared a resolution that would create a joint task force to examine theways and means of extending health benefits to domestic
partners of city employees. The effort to introduce the resolution to the full Council was spearheaded by Councilmember Carolyn B. Maloney, who was aided by Councilmembers
Ruth Messinger, Miriam Friedlander and Carol Greitzer, all of
Manhattan. The resolution will be introduced when the City

During a meeting at Maloney's office, Friedlander said
that during the upcoming election, the domestic partnership issue must be put out in the public arena to force
those running for office in New York City to take a standon the issue. Friendlander predicted that the resolution, if
adopted, would be referred to the General Welfare Committee for public hearings.
Rick Schwartz, a spokesperson for Carol Greitzer, said
the resolution and any possible legislation regarding
domestic partnership benefits is especially important at
this time because of the upcoming election. The resolution, if adopted, will ensure that the next mayor, whoever
he or she is, will have to take up the issue, said Schwartz.
Schwartz predicted the debate on the topic will surround the issues of how to define what a domestic partner
is and how legislation extending them rights impacts on
the fiscal health of the city, the municipal labor unions
and other sectors of society.
John St. Croix, Maloney's chief of staff, said his officehas studied the domestic partnership laws of San Francisco, Madison, Wisconsin and a New York version drawn up
by the Coalition for Lesbian and Gay Rights.
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West Coast Doctor
Demands ''AIDSFree Zone"
lobby" for what he called "a conspiraby Keith Clark
GRANTS PASS, OR-According to Dr. cy of silence" on the disease.
HIVE organizers claim O'Connor
William O'Connor, U.S. citizens have a
IS a nationally recognized AIDS
one-in-5,000 chance of contracting
expert. Oregon public health officials
AIDS through the nation's bloodbanks, and San Franciscans have as said O'Connor has no medical ormuch as a one-in-500 chance of con- research background in the epidemic
tracting the disease that way. O'Con- at all. Advertising for the physician's
appearance at the conference also said
nor also says HIV, which is widelybelieved to cause AIDS, can be trans- he was an assistant clinical professor
at the University of California at Davis.
mitted by insect-bites or by kissing,that people diagnosed with AIDS However UC-Davis administration officials said O'Connor is not on the facdon't change their sexual behavior
ulty there but simply does volunteer
and continue to infect others, thatwork at the University's Department ofcondoms aren't effective in stopping
the virus, and that as many as 200 mil- Family Practice Medicine.
lion people worldwide will die from
O'Connor, who said he refuses tothe epidemic over the next ten years.
eat in restaurants in San Francisco
O'Connor, a general practitioner
because he fears HIV exposure fromat the Vacaville Community Clinic in the large number of gay men working
California, was in josephine County,
in restaurants there, is the author of a
Oregon, to preside over a four-hourbooklet, AIDS: The Alarming Reality,
AIDS Awareness Conference sponwhich is full of O'Connor's medicalsored by the local chapter of O'Con- claims about the epidemic, claims that
nor's non-profit organization, Humanmost public health officials involved
Immunodeficiency Virus Eradicationin fighting the epidemic sharply disagree with.
Foundation (HIVE). The conference"It's unfortunate that groups suchitself is part of a continuing campaign
as this [HIVE) try to fan the fire byin josephine County by HIVE to enact
legislation declaring the county an making outrageous claims," said Dr.
"AIDS-free zone." County health offi- David Fleming, Oregon Health Divicials here became so concerned that sion deputy state epidemiologist.
State senator Ron Grensky (Rthe public might misperceive the conMedford), after withdrawing fromference as being officially sponsored,
the HIVE conference at which hethey formally disassociatedthemwas originally scheduled to introselves from the O'Connor conference
duce O'Connor,
said, "I am notand are holding their own seminar,
interested
in anything that will
"Am I At Risk For AIDS?",on july 25.
inflame people or cause paranoia."
At the HIVE conference, O'ConGrensky
added that he would
nor assailed mainstream medical,
be participatingin thepublic health and media handling of instead
josephineCounty Health DepartAIDS information. O'Connor attacked
ment's july 25 conference.
. U.S. Surgeon General C. Everett
Dr. Lester Wright, public healthKoop, the Centers for Disease Control(CDC) in Atlanta and the "gay ACLU officer from the state's Health Division,
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after reading O'Connor's book said,"The draconian measures he [O'Connor) is proposing wouldn't accomplish
what anybody wants. It would justdestroy our society in the process. n
But O'Connor's
book, and avideotape based on the book's arguments, aren't just abstract medicalarguing over clinical data. Aside fromwhat the Oregon Daily Courrier
described as "paranoicd and medicallyunfounded recommendations" at the
HIVE conference which the paper
said "should be avoided like - well
- the plague," O'Connor and HIVE
are actively involved in working toenact a ballot initiative declaring
josephine county an "AIDS-free zone"that would require forced testing ofcounty residents for the AIDS virus
and enforced quarantine or possible
expulsion for anyone testing positive.
"Oregon is isolated, n O'Connor
told the more than 400 people attending the HIVE conference. "Hopefully
you'll stay that way, but not unless you
do something to prevent that because
everybody has to have sex. You canmake your own county an island."
O'Connor was interruptedbyapplause during the HIVE conference
when he told the audience to "takethe initiative to ensure that you're
allowed to discriminate" against people with AIDS.
Only one person at the conference criticized O'Connor, describing
as "nazi-like" his proposals to use oldmilitary bases or remote, uninhabitedislands to quarantine people infectedwith HIV. O'Connor responded by citing the leper colony, Kalaupapa, on
the Hawaiian island of Molokai, as an
example of successful medical quarantine. Kalaupapa is a voluntary treatment facility, and its leper population
over the past 35 years has neverexceeded 120 people.
But aside from this single challenge from the audience, most of
those attending the HIVE conference
appeared supportive of O'Connor's
presentation, and most prefaced theircomments or questions to him bythanking him for coming.
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SenateBans"Obscene" Art FlUlding
Attack on Mappiethorpe Photos Continues
by Cliff O'Neill
WASHINGTON- In the latest andmost drastic volley in the ongoingdebate over the federal funding ofcontroversial art, the Senate pasSed anamendment proposed by Sen. Jesse
Helms (R-NC) banning funding for art
deemed to be "obscene" on July 26.
The amendment prohibits the useof federal funds to ·promote, disseminate, or produce obscene or indecent
materials, including, but not limited to
depictions of sadomasochism, homo-

ART TERRORIST
Robert Mapplethorpe

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20

eroticism, the exploitation of children,
or individuals engaged in sex acts; ormaterials which denigrates the objects
or beliefs of the adherents of a particular religion or non-religion; or material
which denigrates, debases, or reviles aperson on the basis of race, creed, sex,
handicap, age, or national origin."
The action comes as the latest ina string of actions that began withmotions by Helms and Sen. AlphonseD'Amato (R-NY) criticizing two lowlevel grants by the National Endow-

ment for the Arts for works by artists
Andres Serrano and Robert Mapplethorpe [see sidebar].
Earlier in the week, the Senate
Appropriations Committee gave unanimous approval to an amendment to
the Interior Appropriations Bill which
would ban funding to the two agencies for a five year period and fund a$100,000 study of NEA procedures.
In proposing his amendment,
Helms praised the five year funding
ban on the two agencies, but statedthat he felt it did not go far enough.
"I have a catalog of the show andsenators need to see it to believe it,"Helms stated, waving the catalog of
the Mapplethorpe display in the air.
"However, the catalog is only a survey, not a complete inventory, ofwhat was in the Endowment's show.
If senators are interested, I have a list
and description of the photographs
appearing in the show, but [some are]not [included in] the catalog becauseeven the catalog'S publishers knew
they were far too vulgar to be included-as sick as that book is."Speaking
afterwards,
Helms
revealed that he had shown selected
images from the catalog to Appropriations Committee Chair Sen. Robert
Byrd (D-WV) immediately before
introducing his amendment.
Byrd
granted his immediate support to theHelms proposal.
Byrd will be one of the handfulof senators who will seek to reconcile
the Senate version of the appropriations bill with the House's version of
the bill, which only includes a$45,000 cut in NEA funds as a "slapon the wrists" of the agency for funding the displays.
After the amendment was agreed
upon by a voice vote of the few senators present, Sen. Howard Metzenbaum (D-OH) expressed "concern"
with, but did not specifically oppose,the measure.
Speaking out against the measure
was Sen. John Chafee (R-RI), the sole
Republican Senate co-sponsor of thefederal gay and lesbian civil rights
bill. "I suppose if you had material
that debases or reviles Hitler, forI WASHINGTON - Members of OUT!, (Oppression Under Target), conduct an -AIDS Watch" on July 25 at the office of District Health Commissioner Reed Tuckson, following a meeting with Tuckson during which the commissioner screamed,swore, and stormed out of the room at least twice. Tuckson reportedly took offense at the accusatory tone of OUT members,
who nevertheless managed to behave more diplomatically.
.
The meeting followed a demonstration at D.C:s government building, when the g.roupprotested what they claim is
D.C:s mishandling of its AIDS budget The local government has not allocated as much as half of the money it has set aside
for AIDS services this year. Due to local regulations, all monies not contracted for by the end of the fiscal year must be
returned to the govermenl- Andrew Miller and Cliff O'Neill
Photo: Patsy lynch
example, that would be prohibited
under this amendment," he stated. UJshare the views expressed that we arein a slippery area here. I think it isunfortunate that the Congress tries todo this, and will attempt to do this in
the Senate. I am not in favor of it."Sen. Dan Coates CR-JN) thenspoke out in support of the Helms
measure as weB as the funding ban
on the two agencies, stating of theMapplethorpe display, "They reminda balanced mind of nothing so muchas snapshots of a tourist in hell."Afterwards,
Senators Edward
Kennedy CD-MA),Tim Wirth CD-CO),Daniel Patrick Moynihan CD-NY) andJohn Heinz CR-PA)spoke out against
the funding ban and urged Senate
conferees to strike the measure incontinued on page 56~ust
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'';Continuing a summer-long,.de~ate·'($i~~:.Jede~I:·Wnding of controversialf

artwork, the Senate Appropriations c()mmi~~ee!§n July is' unanimously
approved a 5:year funding ban on twoli~.groups·whic;hfunded exhibits ofcontroversial and erotic art. the propo~"~~'Igranted
final approval July 26
when the full Senate passed the Interior ABpropriatioilS Bill fot Fiscal '(ear1990.

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The dispute surrounds two lower leve)·NEA grants: a $75,000 endowment
to the. Southeastern Center fOf,Contempofiu;y l\~.J~..Winston-Salem, NC, ofwhich'$15,QOO went to ~ dispfay by artl?!-.b-q~res ..•.
~rrano, which included a
photograph of a crucifix submerg~djn a'ooty~;pf~he artist's urine, titled "PissChrist"; and another $30,000 grant to the ••.
P~il~~e\Phi~InstihJte of Contempo':
racy Art to !:und a national tour of wo~~~·15Y;t\gay·~9PtoraPb~r Robert ~ap- ..
ptethorpe,' ._.which included
sever~~i?~;§~~_~.i:;~~itl'(itho~oerotiC •.andsadomasochistic themes. Theco~troVf;rsy'~qatqrs aqd anOther
group of 109 House members earlier th~"~l:!lir::t?pwrit~'i9il1t lett~rs to NEA
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by Cliff O'Neill
WASHINGTON-The National Republican Congressional Committee CNRCC)
has launched a campaign to discredit
Democratic
members of the U.S.
House who were unwilling to punish
the National endowment for the Ans
for funding projects which it calls"offensive to millions of Americans."
The NRCC is sending press
releases to the home districts of 86
House members in response to a July
12 vote in which 332 House members
voted to strip $45,000 from the NEA
budget, the exact amount spent by
the NEA on two controversial projects
which have recently been the subjectof congressional debate.
The amendment, introduced by
Rep. Richard Armey CR-TX), passed
by a 332-94 margin,
with 86
Democrats and eight Republicans voting against the budget cut.
The projects under attack were a
grant to artist Andres Serrano, who
created a depiction of a crucifix in abottle of the anist's urine, titled "PissChrist," and another grant to a
Philadelphia museum allowing for anational tour of the work of criticallyacclaimed gay photographer Robert
Mapplethorpe, which included several
explicithomo<;:rotic and sadomasochistic
images among many
more traditional photographs.
Rep. Jack Brooks CD-TX), a conservative Democriu, was one of thefirst House members targeted by the
campaign, which involved a letter
headlined
in all capital letters:"Brooks votes in favor of federally
subsidized obscenity.". "Congressman Jack Brooks letdown the people of Texas when hevoted in to have Congress support
sexually explicit and anti-religious
works of an that are offensive to mil-lions of Americans, NRCC Co-Chairman Ed Rollins charged today," theletter stated.
.
"Perhaps the people of the 9thDistrict of Texas will ask Congressman
Brooks why he thinks they should pay
for an artist to defile a Christ-image
with urine," stated Rollins in the press
release. "Perhaps it's time for him totell the people of his District why theyshould subsidize what The Washington Post called 'homoerotic and sadomasochistic pictures.'''None of the eight Republican
House members voting against cutting
the funding were on the NRCC"hit list."
Coming one month after the illfated Republican National Committee
memo insinuating that House SpeakerThomas Foley CD-Wash.) might begay, lesbian and gay activists railed at
this latest volley from the Republicans.
"They seem hell-bent on trashingmembers of Congress for their suppon--not for outrageously offensive artwork-- but rather for their suppon for
the First Amendment," stated National
Gay and Lesbian Task Force Privacy
Project Director Sue Hyde."
An NRCC spokesperson contacted July 19 defended the memos andexplained that the only reason press
releases were not issued to all 86
members' districts simultaneously was
the time it takes to change the nameson the releases, fold the memos andstuff the envelopes.
"We'vestill got a lot of work to do,"the spokesperson said. "We have awhole lot more of these things to getout."Members of Congress from New
York City voting against the NEA budget cut were Gary Ackerman CDFlushing), Eliot L. Engel CD-Bronx),
Major Owens CD-Brooklyn), James H.
Scheuer
CD-Flushing),
Charles
continued on page 56

"Homosexual Panic"
Blamed for Iowa Disaster
NBC Reveals Details of Navy's Reportby Cliff O'Neill
WASHINGTON-The
United States
Navy's investigation into the fatal explosion aboard the battleship USS Iowa,
expected to be released in one week,
will suggest that the accident was the
product of a suicide attempt by sailor
Clayton Hartwig, who the Navy has
characterized as a "troubled homosexual," NBC News revealed July 18.
The report, leaked by Navysources to NBC, will show that the
Navy has built up a case based on"circumstantial evidence" which they
say will show that Hartwig, despondent over two sailors having rejected
his sexual advances, allegedly triggered the April explosion
whichkilled 47 sailors. Hartwig was among
those killed.
Stating that they have found notechnical cause for the explosion, thesources, which went unnamed byNBC, have targeted Hartwig as theprobably cause, based on a psychological profile drawn up by the Federal Bureau of Investigation and over
200 other "exhibits."
NBC stated that the FBI reportpaints HartWig as a disturbed young
man who had difficulty venting anger
and frustration, and who felt he wasunder a great deal of stress.
Weeks earlier, Navy sources
revealed to ABC News that the Navy's
investigation into Hartwig'S alleged"special relationship"with sailor
Kendall TrUitt, the beneficiary ofHartwig's $100,000 life insurance policy, had turned up no evidence of asexual relationship between the men.
NBC also revealed that the Naval
Investigative Service has secured thethree-hour videotaped testimony of an
Iowa sailor identified as David Smith, in'WhichSmith states that he and HartWig,
on more than one occasion, discussed
explosive devices and how they could
be used to blow up the ship.
Smith also alleged that Hartwig

had showed him what appeared to bea timing mechanism
intended tocause the explosion and that, on thenight before the explosion, ·Hartwig
made sexual advances towards him,
according to NBC.
In the interview, Smith reportedly
states that he had not wanted toreveal Hartwig's sexual advance previously because he did not want all of
American thinking that the explosion
was caused by "two gays who got in afight," adding that he did not want tobe identified incorrectly as a gay man.
Pentagon officials have refused
to comment on the NBC report, andhave only stated that they will release
the investigation's
findings in one
week after final review.
Gay and lesbian military activists,
meanwhile, are skeptical of the NBC
report and the NIS investigation. SueHyde, director of the National Gay &Lesbian Task Force's Military Freedom
Project, took issue with the NIS's efforts
to "pin the blame on a dead man.""What NBC has revealed ...is that
the NIS is grasping again at the straw
of Clayton Hartwig's alleged homosexual tendencies," stated Hyde.
"Given the NIS's history in using
only evidence which supports only
their initial assumption, selecting frombodies of evidence to create guilt
where there is only suspicion, I am
highly skeptical that NIS has conducted any kind of thorough investigation," Hyde continued.
Hyde said she believes that the
NIS is seeking to make gay men andlesbians appear to be risks to thenational security.
"We may never know what happened on the USS Iowa. But there arethousands and thousands of gay men
and lesbians in the military who perform their duties successfully [and]honorably and complete their tours of
duty without any disruption to the military mission," Hyde told OutWeek. T

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Kennedy Unveils
IDS
BattlePlan
Anti-Discrimination Measure,through a bill called the Low Income
Treatment
Assistance
Program(LlTAP), which would provide matching federal funds to states and cities
to provide AIDS drugs to indigent
AIDS patients through state assistanceprograms.
The bill, which is crafted to solve
the recurring problem of several
states' annual depletion of drug subsidy funds, passed out of the Senate
Labor and Human Resources Committee July 20 as part of the Budget Recmembers of his administration haveby Cliff O'Neill
expressed concerns with several details
WASHINGTON-In the week which
onciliation process.
To answer the ongOing calls forof the bill which may delay its
saw the nation's l00,OOOthdiagnosed
wider access to non-approved drugs,
American case of AIDS, Sen. Edward
approval. Kennedy said that he had
Kennedy pledged to continue to press
Kennedy (D-MA) officially unveiled a met with White House Chief of Staff, the Food and Drug Adminisdetailed lO-point plan to
tration and the National Instiaddress the epidemic whichtutes for Health to make morecenters on anti-discriminaexperimental drugs widelytion protections and health-available.
care financing issues.
"People with AIDS andAt a July 2S press contheir advocates deserve theference at Washington,real credit for getting ComD.C. 's Whitman Walker
missioner Frank Young ofClinic, the area's communithe FDA and Dr. [Anthony] .
ty-based gay!lesbian and
Fauci of NIH to expedite
AIDS treatment and counrelease of new treatments,"
seling center, Kennedy
Kennedy 'itated. "I will conoutlined his agenda totinue to press these agencies
help bring the American
for a clearer definition of
epidemic under control.
who will qualify for 'com"I believe we must
passionate
use' of drugs
immediately develop a unisuch as [experimental antified strategy for combatting
HIV drug] ddI, and under
the twin epidemics of AIDS
what circumstances."and drugs which plagueKennedy also outlined
our inner cities. Success infive new legislative initiath is effort will depend
tives-aliwith unspecified
entirely on our ability to
price tags-which
wouldmobilize community supaddress issues of compreport and community leadhensive health care, homeership-particulary
withinless people
with AIDS,
minority populations."
coverage extensions of priThelinchpinofvate health insurance, treatKennedy's
plan is thement for IV drug users with
Americans with Disabilities FIGHTING THE lWlN EPIDEMICS
Photo: Patsy Lynch
AIDS and federal assistance
Act, a broad-based
bill Senator Edward Kennedy.
to areas particularly hit hardwhich would ban discrimiby AIDS.
nation against persons with disabili- John Sununu and Attorney General
Also present at the press conferties, including
AIDS and HIV Richard Thornburgh and now has theence was Belinda Mason, president of
infection. The bill is expected to administration's full support on the bill.
the National Association of People
To address the problem of lowreach the Senate floor in earlyWith AIDS, and one of President
income AIDS patients access to AIDS
September.
George Bush's two nominations to the
Although President George Bush treatments, most of which are exorbiNational Commission on AIDS. ...
tantly priced, Kennedy has pushed
has publicly supported the measure,

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~Center Receives
Witches' Blessings

Reverend Light, a tall, dashingwoman with piercing grey eyes, told
OutWrek, "After I became a witch, I did
my masters work in religious studies
and contemporary Goddess worship. I
create ceremonies for people--any typeof blessing anyone wants." When asked
what called her to this particular brandof religion, her eyes twinkled and she
replied, "for the same reason one is a
minister in any other religion. In some

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Not-so-wick~d witches of the West Village Deborah Ann Light and Michael Thorn

by Keith MiIIJr
NEW YORK-:The Reverends MichaelThorn and Deborah Ann Light, Clergyof the Covenant of the Goddess, performed a magickal ceremony on
Tuesday evening, July 18, 1989, tobless the Ga~den of the Lesbian &Gay Community Center.
The Garden, an airy, flowerbedecked outdoor space located on
the west side of the Center, played
host to 25 onlookers as the Reverends Thorn and Light called upon
the God and Goddess of the north,south, east and west to bring good
fortune upon the Garden, the Centerbuilding and its organizations, and all
who had congregated there. The Rev-

erends, dressed in flowing caftans
and standing with arms outstretchedin the warm afternoon
sunlight,
burned sage and distributed flowers
as they conducted their ceremony
from behind an altar of yellow andwhite daisies.
The Covenant of the Goddess isa national federationof Wiccangroups. Wicca, or "The Craft," is apolytheistic, Neo-Pagan, nature religion, with its organized beginnings in
Paleolithic times. To most Wiccans,everything in nature is a true aspectof Deity. The aspects most often celebrated ~n the <;:raft,however, are the
Triple Goddess of the Moon and theHorned God of the Wilds.

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Photo: Rich Wandelways, one has no choice."
Lesbian & Gay Community Center Director Dave Nimmons told OutWeek that many religious groups werebeing scheduled to come into theCenter and, in a continuing series,
bless the various parts of the building.
"The idea is to create a space where
wonderful things can happen. No
matter who you are, you have a place
and you can invest some of your own
energy and your own faith."
As theceremony
ended,
applause burst forth above, fromanother of many meetings going on in
the Center's upstairs rooms. For the
moment, it seemed the God and Goddess were pleased.
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Political Science

The ABCs of AZT
by Mark HarringtonNowhere on the small white
for marketing, subsequent trials took
bottle will you see the namea long time to finish. Many are continAZT. The label says RETRO- uIng even now. We still don't know
VIR, and then, in letters half as high,the most effective, least toxic dose.
ZIDOVUDINE. The bottle is 100 capsules
full of little white capsuleswith blue bands around the(ZIDOVUDINE)
middle. Each capsule contains
F..ach capsule contains
100 mgof 2'3'-azido100 mg
dideoxythymidine, a.k.a. azidothymidine, a.k.a. AZT. The
brand name is Retrovir. (Since
Burroughs- Wellcome has amonopoly on the drug, there
is only one brand). The generic nameis zidovudine.
I3ecause scientists like to pretend that commercial concerns
don't affect research, papers
published in the scientific literature most often refcr to thedrug by its gencric. name.
AZT was originally approved after a 24-week trial
which was cut short after 19
patients receiving placebo
died, while only 1 patient on
AZT died. The disparity wasso dramatic that some people
feel those receiving placebo
received worse medical carethan those receiving AZT. Although the
The original approach to AZT
trial was supposed to be double-blind,
was to try and get as much of it intomeaning neither doctors nor patients
knew who was getting what, AZT's side
effects were wellknown enough eventhen that some doctors may have suspected who was getting what.
the body as possible. This resulted inI3ecause the original trial was cut , a recommended dose so high half theshort, and AZT was rapidly approved
people with AIDS couldn't tolerate it.

RETROVIR$ Capsules

They got fatigue, headaches and depressed blood counts. Some stopped
taking AZT altogether. Others received
frequent blood transfusions to restore
depleted blood cells. Still others reduced their daily dose of AZT.
The dose approved by the FDA
is 1200 or 1500 milligrams a day. AZTis quickly washed out of the bloodstream, so it was common to take 2
pills every 4 hours. People carried little beepers around withthem, and even set their alarm
clocks for the middle of thenight so they wouldn't miss that
nocturnal pill popping. Many
people now feel it is unnecessary to take AZT in the middleof the night, and that the stressof interrupted sleep more thanoffsets any possible benefit.
In the first week of July,Dr. Margaret Fischl of Miami,
who co-authoredthe paper
about the original double-blind,placebo-controlled
AZT trial,
released the results from an 18month study of full-dose AZTvs. half-dose (600 mglday). The
data showed that half-dose AZT
was just as effective as full-doseand less toxic. Although patients still got anemia (depressed red blood cells), the incidenceofleukopen ia(depressed white blood cells)
decreased.
Fischl's results confirmed a trial
published last December by a Frenchteam, which showedthat in 365 patientstreatedwith AZT,
half-dose produced
better gains in blood
cells and less toxicity
than full dose. These
two large studies
should influence researchers, primarycare physicians, and people withAIDS to make 600 mg/day the stan-

Because the original trial was cut
short, we still don't know th~ mosteffective, least toxic dose.

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dard dose of AZT.
It is shocking that it has taken solong to find out what the best dose of
AZT might be. Many people
have
probably suffered from infections because AZT depleted their white blood
cells to dangerous levels.
It is conceivablethat a quarter
dose, 300 mg/day, might be just as
beneficial as 600 mg. I know someone who has been on 300 mg fornine months,
and his T -cells haverisen from 100 to SOO and stayed
there. The next step should be a comparison of 300 to 600 mg/day.
There is another ray of hope for
AZT takers. Anemia seems to occur atmany dose levels. In June, the FDA
approved
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failure. At the same time, it approveda Treatment IND (investigational
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anemia. EPO is an expensive drug. It is injected subcutaneously (under the skin) daily, andproducesrises in red blood counts
without major side effects.
Treatment
IND is basicallyan
FDA public relations scam which provides the illusion of activity on the
AIDS front. Treatment IND drugs aresupposed to provide wide availability
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Positive Alternatives

FDA and Health Food Industry
Need Community Pressure
by hob LedererI

nmy last column (7/17/89), I
wrote about the war by the
Food and Drug Administration(FDA) against nutritional supplements,
including some used by People withAIDS (PWAs). It turns outthat I passed on some inaccurate scientific information
which affects the relevantlaw. I also now see clearer
the AIDS community's needfor independent analysis andpressure on both the FDA
and the health food industry. ~_.
My column focused on,! _the supplements Coenzyme
Q 10 (CoQlO) and germanium (Ge-132). For months,
the FDA has been seizing
supplies of these and othersubstances
for allegedly
being "unsafe (i.e., not yet
proven safe) food additives"
and, in some cases, carrying
labels with medical claims.
My first mistake was describing Ge-132 as plant-derived; while the mineral is found insome plants in tiny quantities, the supplements are synthetic. My secondand more important error was calling
germanium a "trace mineral" (like zincor selenium), which implies essentiality for human nutrition-not
established so far. (These facts are courtesyof biomedical consultant Dr. Parris M.
Kidd of Berkeley, California, an expert
on supplements.) The result: unlike'the other supplements
seized, the
FDA may technically have the legal

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power to reclassify Ge-143 as a"drug," forcing it through the long, expensive drug approval process, meanwhile denying consumer
access.
Given the numerous Japanese studies

permissible, and are another "trigger"
for reclassification as a drug.
What are the implications of thesefacts? First, my position remains that
we should fight FDA efforts to stop
. consumer access to supplements - whether "essential
nutrients" or not-whicharenon-toxic at normal dosage
levels. Second, the FDA should
adopt the 1988 proposal of the
Presidential AIDS Commission(just one of the 300 recommendations virtually ignored)
for "fast track approval" of nutritional supplements showing
promise in AIDS treatment.
Third, the FDA must consider
other countries' studies of "unproven" vitamins and minerals
in det~rmining their nutritional( and dIsease-treatment
value,and if needed, call upon the
National Institl,ltes of Health(NIH) to do supplemental research.
Finally, let's rememberthat the health food industry, like thepharmaceutical industry, is profit-driven and just as prone to exaggerate anddeceive. Thus, we should demand that
supplement manufacturers stop making unwarranted health benefit claims.
And consumers, particularly PWAs,
should approach "health foods" (likedrugs) with caution and solid research.
Anecdotal reports and small studies show that several nutritional supplements are bringing varying degrees
of improvement to some PWAs. But...,~SUMA"

UM-=showing this substance to be a nontoxic and effective complementarytreatment of several illnesses (and an
immune system stimulant), this would
be a travesty.
Another complicating factor isthat health claims have indeed been
made on the labels of some (not all)brands of Ge-132 and other supplements. And some of those claims are
exaggerated or deceptive. FDA regulations are now in flux, but so far any
claims of health benefits remain im-there are, problems in sifting throughthe options--chemical analyses haveshown some products have lower potencies than their labels, others are
adulterated. And thanks to the NIH's
entrenched bias towards drugs and its
down playing of nutrition, almost no
supplements
have been rigorously
studied as complementary AIDS treatments to determine effective andtoxic dosage levels.
What the AIDS community
needs, long-term, are our own teamsof microbiologists, chemists and nutritionists to analyze and evaluate thepanoply of nutritional supplements
promoted as AIDS treatments. A few
PWA buyers clubs have occasionally
had such work done for the items
they sell, but this should expand tocover more substances,more frequently, and in more cities. Some manufacturers could probably be pressured
to fund this program, since they would
benefit if their products lived up to
their labels. The key would be keeping
the hiring and direction of the scientists
entirely in community hands. AIDS activists should support buyers clubs insuch efforts.
To determine effectiveness as
AIDS treatments, we should call upon
the various community-based researchclinics (PWA-directed scientific institutions which run clinical trials primarilyon drugs) to add studies of nutritional
supplements, now only rarely included. Such studies should be especiallyextended to women, people of colorand IV-drug users who have thefewest treatment options.
Meanwhile, the informal sharingof experience via newsletters, support
groups and grapevines, which PWAs
and HIV+ people have done so well,continues to provide the backbone of
our knowledge on treatments-andthe information base from which I
draw these columns. Thank you foryour heroic self-experimentation andself-empowerment.
Please write me
c/o OutWeek with comments, criticisms or questions on this topic andsuggestions for future columns.
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Commentary by Susie Day
Dear Peace Diary,
MondayI'm sure we're going to be greatfriends. H was such a good idea of
my women's affinity group to keep
daily records of our thoughts onpeace. I love peace, don't you?
Now, here are some facts about
me: I am a lesbian activist; I just got
laid off my job; my girlfriend and I

ed that, since we all seemed to havebidden agendas, we might as wellrelax and take turns at guessing what
each of us was not saying. You
know-sort of a fun, nonviolent way
to build trust? Some pacifist threw anashtray at me and, as I ducked, I remembered that old 60s song:
To every thing, turnturnturn
There is a Season, turnturnturn
And I said to myself silently:"What's it all forr I don't know: Wouldworld peace make me bappy"
I wonder if I am becoming selfish. After all, who is more important-me or the Earth? And when will
I get a new girlfriend?
Wednesday
Wow. I think I've just learned areal important spiritual lesson about
forgiveness or letting go or something
that's too big to grasp in just one incarnation. I mean, Oliver North just

.11I1111111~:or:~~~~gla:yM;:~tmy;;;:IO~:
came Into my apartment to get ~rid of the cockroaches
andended up spraying my menstrual sponge. I can't even afford tohave my next period. PLUS,
today I found out that anotherone of my lesbian separatist
friends is getting married-to a

Dear Peace Diary You Pukehead,
ThursdayWho was that pervert that said
"Nothing human disgusts me?" Allright. I admit it. I am in a real bad
mood. Maybe this is just P.M.S., but I
am very, very worried that the world
will not last long enough for me tobecome a whole person. I know weshould all try to get along because
we're all just people, and all. Yet, dear
Diary, I can't help-wishing that mytherapist's ass would grow together. I
have been seeing her for elevenmonths now, and she has yet togive me one word of positive
feedback about my personality.
So today, I took a risk. I
asked her, "How come you
never tell me anything niceabout myself?" She replied,"When are you going to stop
projecting your self-hatred ontome and start being your own
best friend?" So I made a little.;.~":'u;d,:kI~~~mn:!;"~~~II•I1IIIman.

But at the prospect of imminent nuclear annihilation,
dear Diary, my problems seemto melt away. Or down. I mean,
when you think that the world
spends $1.5 million per minuteon military build-up; the U.S.
alone assembles five nuclear weapons .got sentenced to two years parole andper daYi and the extinction of life as 1,200 hours of community service forwe know it is now possible many
being really criminally naughty. Nottimes over-well, you sort of want to to be judgemental, but he's admitted
grab George Bush and shake him to transporting arms, destroying docuuntil his guts fall out. In a gentle, nur- ments and whatnot. To paraphrase aturing way, of course.
line from Watergate: he could have
Tuesday
gotten his pee-pee tail caught in a
Just back from this week's affinity great big shredder. But Judge Gesell
group. Depressed.
Alienated. We chose to deal with him leniently, in aspent the entire meeting arguing
highly-evolved way.
a!x>ut whether to have an agenda. For
I mean, if somebody like Oliver
tbat meeting. At one point, I suggest- North, who's played a major role in30

thedeathsof thousandsofNicaraguans, is not sentenced to a
day in prison, surely somebody like
Nelson Mandela, who's been in
prison since 1962 for "advocating violence" could at least get a color TV in
his cell. Miracles do happen ... Perhaps
Mandela's big mistake was not being
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I Jill.

~~:She knows my name Isn't

FACT: Did you know thatenough uranium has been lost in thelast few years to make ten nuclear
bombs? And did you know thatenough lives have been lost to AIDSin the last few years to make 7.9 million Revolutionaries?
I hope theAquarian Conspiracy knows what it's
doing.
Well, gotta go. The wedding of
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Same

York
Sex

Newsday'sLove

Affairby Chris Bull
Out at Shea Stadium New York Newsday advertises its sports coverage on the scoreboard:"Yanks Trade Pags for TerrelL" In the Village,
the paper promotes its recent feature story
about lesbian mothering on newsstand placards: "And Baby Makes Three: The LesbianBaby Boom is On." Newsday, the mostrecent addition to the city's colorful market of daily papers, has managed toretain its middle-class readership whileproviding sensitive and provocative
coverage of AIDS and the lesbian andgay community.
Finally, a tabloid
that reports on baseball and lesbian
mothering.
Since it began publishing a
Manhattan edition in March of
1985, Newsday has quietly established itself as the lesbian andgay community's mainstream
paper of record. Not only has
the paper devoted consider'"\\ able coverage to the community, but its editorials havebeen consistently progressive, often lambasting thecity for its slow responseto the AIDS epidemic.
Newsday editorials havelobbied for more funding and for anti-discrimination measuresfor PWAs. They've
supported community-based
projects, such as theCommunity
Research
Initiative, long32

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August 7, 1989

before they became fash ion able.
Stories on lesbians and gay men regularly appear on pages two and three.
And an announcementof the Gay
and Lesbian Community Center'sannual Garden Party appeared in thepaper's society pages.
Newsday is also the only daily inthe city to consistently report on AIDS
activism. The paper's coverage of ACI"
UP's spring City Hall demonstration
was so extensive it even included astory about the provocative anti-Koch"granite and marble" advertisements
the organization placed in several
papers - before the ads themselvesappeared.
The tabloid recently ran a fivepart series, "Life After Stonewall," byfeatures writer Jonathan Mandell. It
included profiles of Vito Russo,
Virginia Apuzzo, Bobby O'Malley of
ACI"UP, Black gay psychologist Philip
Spivey and an article about lesbianparenting.
Half- and quarter-page photos ofgay men and lesbians regularly grace
the pages of Newsday. It lists lesbian
and gay events on the "Manhattan
Neighborhoods" page, and its columnists discuss My Comrade/Sister.', theflamboyant gay and lesbian magazine.
The arts section even ran a list recently of gay and lesbian bestsellers. "Myfirst thought about the paper was thatthey must either have gay people
working in the editorial department or
people with close friends who aregay," said Allen Roskoff of Gay andLesbian Independent Democrats. "But

Photo: T.L. Lit!

FINDING THE VOICE OF ACTIVISTS
Newsday AIDS reporter Catherine Woodard.
on second thought, it's possible itcomes from a real commitment to ourissues.""Newsday s'eems to have a lot of
young, hungry people working for it,
unlike the self-satisfied paper thatposes as the best news organizationin the country," says Jay Blotcher of
ACI" UP's media committee. He cites
Newsday's coverage of AIDS demonstrations, the city's health care crisis,
and the role of pharmacuetical companies in denying drugs to PWAs. "Farand away the best paper in the city
on our issues," says Craig Davidson,executive director of the Gay andLesbian Alliance Against Defamation(GLAAD).
Meanwhile, the supposedly liberal Times continues either to ignore,
misrepresent or bash the lesbian andgay community. In a front page article
on Lesbian and Gay Pride Day, theTimes incorrectly identified a photograph of the current "Stonewall" signon Christopher St. as "a gay bar" (it'sa clothing store).

Newsdayeasily outstrips theTimes on most issues. Its coverage of

lesbian mothering compared favorably with a story on the same topic
by Times reporter Gina Kolata. While
Kolata originally wrote a positivepiece, an editor added several paragraphs imputing that lesbian mothers
bring up troubled children, touching
off a confrontation between the Timesand the National Gay and Lesbian
Task Force. The Times eventually ran
a lengthy retraction. "This is part ofthe problem with the Times," says
Davidson. "They have such a large
bureaucracy that an anonymous night
editor can cause a lot of damage. You
can get specific results on some stories, but to get systematic change isvery difficult. They have improved
over the last few years, but they still
don't have reporters that know muchabout the community."
GLAADhas compiled a four-page
memorandum discussing homophobia
at the Times. "One of the best things
about Newsday is that it has done all
August 7. 1989

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33

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this voluntarily. With the Times wehave to fight for everything we get."While many have criticized theTimes for failing to hire a full-time
AIDS reporter, Newsday has two Laurie
GarrettandCatherine
Woodard.
(The
Times' Lawrence
Altman,who
often writes on

TO AFRICA AND BACK. Newsday medical reporter Laurie Garren.

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paper in the city, we don't cater tothe status quo," explains Mandell. "We
need to cultivate a new readersh:pwhich includes gay people, Blacks,
Hispanics and people from the boroughs.
We havemore of a maverick
attitude."Garrett,
who

It becomes clearer
th at th epa per has a
SO I.- d ta rg et-- th e
pro g re ss •vemar k e t _medical issu~s, isnothIghlyregarded by the
AIDS community,
althoughparttime
AIDS
reporter Kolata often provides theTimes only hard-hitting, investigative
AIDS reporting.) Newsdayalso has theubiquitousJames Revson, who
appears every Tuesday and Thursday.
In a highly unorthodox
move,
Revson, a society columnist, wasallowed to be arrested at ACf UP's

34

City Hall demo and go public about
it. Not only did Revson publicize theaction before it occurred (one of fourpre-demo plugs in Newsday thatweek), but he devoted an entire col-August 7, 1989

umn to his experiences in jail.

T T T T T
So what makes Newsday soqueer? I went to the source, interviewing Newsday staffers about lesbian/gay
and AIDS reporting at the paper.
"Because we are the newest

Photo: T.l. Liltcame to Newsday
from National PublicRadio, ag.ree~. "We
may be dISgUIsedasa tabloid, but wedon't have a tabloid
mentality. The staff
has a greater concern for a broader range of the population. We are committed to all residents
of New York, not just middle-classwhite people."
Garrett says she believes most of
the New York media either sensationalize or ignore AIDS. "Some people
are hysterical and do a disservice toeveryone by screaming that HIV is
not the cause of AIDS, while others
are· so complacent they don't evensee AIDS as an important issue. Bothviews are very destructive." Last year,
Newsday sent Garrett to Africa toreport on the epidemic there, resulting in a series of articles on the topic.
She is also planning a pull-out guideto medical and advocacy services forpeople who have recently discovered
they are HIV positive.
Most of the media fail to cover theintersection between the political andmedical aspects of AIDS, according to
NewsdaJls Woodard. "We tend to combine the two and that helps our reporting, it allows us to get the voice ofactivists in the story." She cites
Newsdays
coverage of the Fifth
International
AIDS ConferenceinMontreal, to which the paper sent fivereporters. The Times, she says, inreports filed by Altman, only made apassing reference to ACf UP, while
Newsday titled one of its many stories
on the conference "Science Takes a
Back Seat to Activism.· "They were thestory of the conference,· she says. "Butbecause of the Times biases, they didn't
find the voice of activists credible."
Woodard, the author of the series

of articles, "City on the Brink: HealthCare Under
Seige," adds that
Newsdajs management and editorial
staff have been very supportive of her
AIDS coverage. diller papers still lacksuch a commitment,
she says.
"Recently we topped 100,000 cases
during the eight years of the epidemic.
In the next eighteen months alone wewill see another 100,000. The h<::althcare system is already collapsing. Yetat the same time the perception is thatthe worst is over. The reality and perception are contradictory. I just hopepeople catch on," she says.

as I can tell, we
just
have
ah
unusualconfluence of humanbeings who are
sensitive to a variety of issues," shesays. "We have ayoung staff and agenerally liberal
editorial department. We also ran
several long series
about being Blackin New York.
Minorities
areimportant and a
big part of themarket in New
York, but they are
not part of any
predeterminedstrategy." She does
admit, however,that the paper is
not above giving
itselfa plug.
"When ACT UP
used the Newsday
headline quoting
Koch saying 'I'm
Heterosexual' weused the photo for-the cover."

Of course there are those who
would say that Newsdajs interest in
the lesbian and gay community may
be more about business than about
good politics. The gay and lesbiancommunity is a huge market in New
York and is certainly not to be dismissed, as is evidenced by the attention currently paid it by the mayoral
candidates. Coupled with the paper's
inclusive and extensive coverage ofwomen and communities of people of"color (News day offers its reporters
free Spanish classes to aid their coverage of the Latino community),itbecomes clearer that the paper has(whether deliberately or not) a solid
target: the progressive market.
Woodard says MAVERICK ATTITUDE
Photo: Scott Morgan
That market is decidedly unenshe'
doesnot. Newsday features writer. Jonalh an Mande II .
bel leve coverage IS
thuiasic about New York's other daily
encourage and subsidize them, just as
dictated by marketing strategy. "If anytabloids, Tbe New York Post and Tbe
it does heterosexual
couples. San
thing it probably would work the
Daily News, which are Newsday's
Francisco has taken the first stepother way. You can sell papers by senmore conservative competition: But
toward complying. It is also the firstsationalizing AIDs or by bashing theone can even see a huge difference
gay community."leg kicked out from under the family."between the news coverage in Long
Charen, second only to the Post's
GLAAD's Davidson adds, "TheyIsland Newsday-whichis read by aobviously recognize that we make up
Patrick Buchanan in gay bashing, ismore white, middle-class, suburban
the target of a protest by GLAAD.
a large slice of the market-as muchaudience-andthat in New Yorkas fifteen percent. Every paper has toNewsday. Much of the coverage of lesPatricia Cohen, who has written many
have a direction to survive ..It's probabian and gay issues, whether in theof Newsday's most progressive AIDS
news section or the Part II section,
editorials, defended Charen's presbly some combination of personal
viewpoint and marketing strategy." .
does not appear in the Long. Islandence in the paper: "We took her on tocomplement our other woman columBut Newsday is hardly perfect. A
edition.
nist, Mary McGory, who is liberal. She"City issues usually don't make it July 10 column by Mona Charen,is the only conservative columnist weto Long Island. We have a different . "Gay Couples Put Knife to Idea ofrun. I'm sure toe Young Americans for
Family," argued. against domestic partreadership," explains Chiara Coletti,
Freedom would argue that we are 'notcommunity affairs director fOf th~-'. nership legislation currently underfair to their position. We do have
paper. But she denies that the lesbian
discussion in the city. "The homosexsome responsibility to run a variety ofuals are asking for more than tolerand gay coverage in New York is a
opinions."...,
ance. They are asking that society
deliberate marketing strategy. "As far

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is moving fast thesedays fordancer/choreographer Stephen Petronio,
so it's a good thing he's used to whirling,
pounding, flying movement. A Seattle
newspaper wrote of his 1988 tour there:"His dances are so red hot, so full ofkinetic energy, they seem to threaten thevery edges of the space where they live.
The physicality is fractured and fast,
explosive and compelling. If life imitatesart, much the same could be said forPetronio's recent life: his company is justback from a successful tour of Berlin,
Glasgow and Portugal. they're featured in
the Lincoln Center festival Serious Fun!
at Alice Tully Hall on August 2nd and 3rd,and he's in love. And he has a new haircut. This is one busy boy.
Petronio danced with Trisha Brown
for seven years and formed his own company in 1984. Since then, they've
appeared all over the world, won many
awards and created commissioned
works for Ballet Hispanico, Frankfurt
Opera Ballet and Rotterdam Dance
Company. The Petronio repertory, utilizing works by contemporary composers
such as Peter Gordon, David Linton andLenny Pickett, is justly famous for its
sharp flavor, bold dynamics and deathdefying rhythms.
So it's no surprise that on a recent
hot July afternoon Petronio is ready tocollapse after a day of. rehearsal, have a
shower and a cigarette and snuggle up to
his new boyfriend, British choreographer
Michael Clark. But first, a few questions.
What about the new work, a full-length
piece called Surrender, which he beganin Rotterdam, and which will eventually
have "possibly five sections ?
New
Yorkers got a tantalizing preview of it at a
Movement Research benefit in June.

If Petronio's earlier pieces wereensemble works, Surrender is, in his
words, "smaller, shorter, more concise
and specific." The new work is also more
explicitly male-to-male and female-tofemale, featuring a male duet for Frey
Faust and Jeremy Nelson and a trio forthree women. Petronio attributes thispartially to "my politicization in the last
two years:"The sexuality in my work has
always been there, but now the critics
are becoming aware of the homosexualityr he says. "After all, it's a queer brain
putting these things together. I'm separating the sexes to see how they juice

together:Petronio wanted in the new work to
do something as exclusively sexy for
women as for men, "and this is thetoughest thing I've ever done-it's taken
the most thought. I understand men's
bodies-I've done a lot of research!"
The trio for three women arousedmuch audience response on the company's recent tour to Berlin, Glasgow andPortugal. Whereas Berlin audiences liked
the women's section, and Glasgow audiences the men's duet, in Portugal,
Petronio reports, "you could hear a pin
drop when the women danced. They'd beon their feet for the men, but thenw

Wphoto left

Whirling Petronio in AnAmnesia
Photo: Wolfgang Kirchner

Photo: John Elbers
August 7, 1989

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Portugal seems like a much more macho
adorable as Petronio-a fascinating con- together in a joint work. Do not expect,culture."vergence. Although long familiar with one however, a MBrahms/Hander a la Jerome
Petronio muses on the reasons
another's work, they met in Glasgow this Robbins and Twyla Tharp. As Petronio
behind this: "There's a public context in spring when both their companies werepoints out, MPeople in Britain compare oursports, especially on TV,
work a lot, but I could
for men showing physicaltalk more about the difcontact, but there's no"The critics are becomferences.
group activities in a public
One thing that Clark
ing avvare of thecontext for women thatand Petronio have inare equally accepted."common is a sense of
sexuality! After all, it's a
The trio in Surrender
outrage at the sickening
queer brain putting theseaddresses this imbalance,
atmosphere of bigotry
and judging from the preand homophobia sweepthings together."view in June, does so in a
ing both their nations. In
thoughtful,
sexy, comBaltimore this month,appearing in the city's May Fest festival of they had the unpleasant task of doing
pelling way, especially when articulatedby the strong women dancers
in new dance.
some organizing-this time not of bodies
MIt'sunusual to have two choreograon a stage, but of bodies in the street
Petronio's company. And there's a newtenderness, too.
phers together: says Petronio. MWe're Petronio relates how they were thrownsupposed to compete but there's none of out of a restaurant there for kissing in
The company is enjoying the benethat between us. The potential is exciting public. MThefirst time we went there [Mtfits of working together for a long time,
as opposed to frightening or whatever it's Vernon Rib House) no one said anything.
although two dancers, Mia Lawrence
The second time, a 'hostand Rebecca Hilton, arenew. MThisgroup of people
ess' came over and said,
knows my work by now,"'Look, we tolerated thissays Petronio. "They have
behavior last time but not
more time to think while
this time. This is a FAMILY
they're dancing-but
it's
RESTAURANT.The kids will
not something
I could
complain to their parents.
teach them:This is NOT THE WEST VILOn view at the Serious
li LAGE! Stop
kissing or
you're out!'"
Fun! festival will be sections of Surrender. "This is
Displaying some of thea big touching phase forsame strength, tenacity andme: he says of the piece.
boldness that make these"I'm looking at how these
two boys the hottest perbodies work together andformers on at least two conwrap around each other,tinents, Petronio and Clark
how they perform these
did not stop kissing, andactivities together:Andwere promptly ejected.
MWe went home andthe title?
MThe title refers tomade a flyer and organized aboycott. We passed out 300
giving up your expectacopies at all the clubs intions to someone, making
Baltimore and had a massive
yourself blank for someone
phone zap of the restaurant,"
so they can work next toyou, on you, with you-sosays Petronio calmly, as if
the distance between the
you can go new places
together:·'11 so-called personal and politi'i cal was only so far as you
Petronioa nd newlover Clark are just backwished it to be. Surrender tofrom a weekendin;1 each other, definitely. To theBaltimore where the comi1 world? Never.
"Ypany performed. Clark, ,Per- THE NEW BOYFRIEND
Photo: Gene Bagnato
haps most often deSCribed..
.
.
Sections of Surrenderf t t Obi"f BTltlsh choreographer Michael Clark.
as teenan ern eo.
hwill be performed at Lincoln
Center's Serious Fun! festival, August 2nd
British ballet. also has his own company,
supposed to be!" Next year in Glasgow
and 3rd, billed as Megadance II. Tickets:. is famous for uncompromising and indi- they'll put their companies (each has(212)362-1911.
vidual pieces, and is as handsome andseven members) on the same stage

hotno-M

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HANDS

BY- BRADLEYDear Brad:
In a publication such as OutWeek,
there is no place for a column such as
yours. This magazine space would bebetter served by a writer who would
deal with the legitimate concerns facing lesbians and gay men rather thanby your arch and frivolous mockery.
(In a recent column you wrote about
elves, for Christ's sake, as though that
had relevance to anybody's experience!) In case you don't know, there'sa crisis going on. You should break out
from your lonely little world of makebelieve and come down to an ACT UP
meeting where you'd find out what's
really happening to us. Maybe then
you wouldn't be so flip and might
actually write something worth reading.
-MICHAEL
Dear Michael
My previous columns were written by a considerably younger per-BALL

son. Your letter, however, had mademe see just how callow I've been and
I pledge that henceforth this column
will be dedicated to addressing theserious problems which confront ourcommunity.
Dear Brad:
Please help settle a bet. My bestfriend says that Jill Clayburgh played
Sally Field's younger sister in Maybe/'// Come Home in the Spring but I'mabsolutely certain that it was Tuesday
Weld. There's a substantial
cash
amount riding on this.
-CONFUcnNG

IN QUEENS

Dear Conflicting:That role was, in fact, played by
Lane Bradbury whose riveting performance was criminally overlooked bythat year's
Emmy voters.
Jill
Clayburgh, despite her admirable"Peek-A-Boo ... "Illinois Gov. Jim TholT!Pson Traev Chapman
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Mike Tyson
Tony Perkins
Brian Boitano
Greg;.Louganist}~qn'(~.R~gpall.Burt Reyhblds
Bruce J,enner
Robert Downey, Jr.
Ed KochGeorge Michael
Helen Reddy
Carbl ~~llamy'Su~p~en Saban",
Reno> hK~'itlff{el'ni;,d ez *;1(:'
Don Johnson
Fran Tati<enton .•". W
Jim Revson
Ron Reagan, Jr.
Calvin Klein
Eddie Murphy
ISil1y No.r;wich
OqrisDayK D Lallg .....
Storm Field
Michelle Shocked
Brett Easton Ellis
Gordon Thompson
Maureen McGovern

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Stephen Sondheim
James levine .
Gian Carlo Menotti
Samuel Barber
luther Vandros~
Richard SimmonsPaul Reubens
Malcolm Forbes
Whoopi Goldberg
C~astity Bono
Sylvester Stallone
Brigitte Nielsen
Olivia Newton John
JQhn Travolta,.
%([iSmith'>"Iris love
Richard Carpenter
Kaye Ballard
Tatiana Troyanos
Jym J. Bullock(Sa-sa-sa) Samantha Fox(Downtown) Julie Brown

work in An Unmarried Woman, lostthe 1978 Academy Award for Best
Actress to Jane Fonda in Coming
Home. Ms. Fonda should have' won
the Oscar in 1977 for her heartfelt
portrayal of Lillian Hellman in Julia
the title role of which was playedsuperbly
as usual by Vanessa
Redgrave who won as that year's Best
Supporting Actress over Tuesday
Weld's wonderful performanceas
Diane Ke'aton's sister in Looking for
Mr. Goodbar (it was Ms. Keaton, inci~entally, who won the 1977 Best
Actress award for Annie Hall). Sally
Field picked up the first of her two
Oscars in 1979 for her feisty NormaRae and Ms. Bradbury is between
projects at the moment.
Dear Brad:
I've been seeing this guy for acouple of weeks now and I like him
well enough but I'm not entirely sureat this point if I want this to become
anything serious, like boyfriends orsomething. The trouble is, his birthday
is next week and he's having this big
party. I ought to give him a present
but I don't want the gift to send any
wrong messages--you know, not too
little, not too much. Any suggestions?
-BE1WIXT

Dear Betwixt:
The important thing to keep inmind is that your gift will be openedin front of all his friends who will bewatching to see what you give him sothey can discuss it among themselves
afterwards. You, therefore, don't want
to give them any fodder. I, myself,
prefer to receive a simple birthday
card (i.e. no fat drag queens, no jokes
involving bodily functions, no beefcake) containing a personal chequefor a thoughtful but not ostentatious
amount (in fact, I would cheerfullyeven accept a cheque sans card frommy employers at this magazine).
....

TI
on the second floor has a bunch of
swastikas, kind of an SS macho Nazi
iconography,' claimed one. A second
unidentified woman confirmed thepresence of Third Reich memorabilia. "..... David Hinckley was right on
track in his "Short Cuts" column in the
Daily News where he attacked the sexist band 2 Live Crew and slammed
Felipe Luciano for using the verb "faggotizing."
Wrote Hinckley: "Artists
from rap to Guns N' Roses haveexpressed similar ideas - 'we're better than gays,' in effect - and this is aparticular problem now for the same
reason men sneering at women is aproblem: Gays and women are getting attacked and even killed in
America these days, by people whoshare that fear and loathing." ...Alas,you are what you write! Cindy Adams
has spent the past 10 years writing
about her good friend, Imelda Marcos,
and, from her brand new photo at the
top of her column, it seems she's been'transformed into the shoe-happy exdictator's wife.....
T

one seems to love the show. Perhaps
Nelson, unlike Barnes, simply can't
get over an "abnormal prejudiceagainst drag."

TT ......
I"ILM

By: Michelangelo'The Magic
Toyshop,' asinister, sexual
fairy tale.
Page C17.

SlgnorlleT

he Times fucked up again!
They can't get the AIDS
reporting on target, but you'dthink they'd at least be able
to keep things in check on the social
pages and in Tbe Living Section, right?
Oh no, because that's exactly where
the really insidious, subtle form of
hatred rears its head. Last Wednesday
the paper of record put Charles
Busch's "Lady in Question" photo next
to the wrong show description on thefront page of that oh-so-cutting-edgearts section. In what appeared to be
yet another Freudian production
department slip, next to Busch's photo
the caption read, "Tbe Magic Toyshop,
a sinister, sexual fairy tale. Page C17."
Sinster, sexualfairy. Hmmmm.
While on Busch, I'd like to pointout some weirdness in the various
reviews of "The Lady in Question.»
On Wednesday, the TimeS Frank Richwrote a glowing review of the show,
as did Newsdays.Joseph
Koenenn.
Also raving was the New York Posts
Clive Barnes, and yet, his homophobia still cannot be contained.
Hewrites: "A cross-dressed man trying tolook like Norma Shearer trying to play
Joan Crawford ...What kind of show is
this? You may well ask." Barnes goeson to admit, "I have an abnormal prejudice against drag, but when the performance is as mistressful as this, myprejudice simply fades into wonder."(Oh, thanks Clive - so you won't kill
us as long as we keep playing the
piano well, right?) The New York
Daily News, however, waited a day
before running its review and then, on
Thursday, Don Nelson ripped Busch
to shreds, using captions such as"She's No Lady." Funny how every-

I...The Post's Page Six, in the old"they-all-look-alike" vein, displayed its
racism and anti-semitism with this correction: "Ooops, that wasn't Seymour
Hersh who moved over to Newsday- it was Sydney Schanberg. We feeleven worse than the time we mixed
up Rita Moreno and Chita Rivera."...Of course, Page Six, which revels inreporting about celebrities with AIDS,
last week acted like a child given a
new toy, when it led with, "Rumorsthat painter Keith Haring has AIDS
have been confirmed." ... But we dothank Page Six for letting us know
more about George Bush's secret college group, Yale's Skull and Bones
Society: "Several women managed topenetrate the male bastion. 'One room

aNDY ..
ADAMS!
I...Uu'

August 7, 1989

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Social Terrorism

Photos by Erich Conrad(OUR LIBEL LAWYER CENSORED THIS CAPTION)
Michael Musto, Dianne Brill and Stephen Sprouse at Funk, Inc.
MUG SHOT
Keoki at the Outlaw
Party.
OUTLAW IN-LAW
Sukreet Gabel at the Outlaw Party.

EVEN COWGIRLS GET CONFUSEDDeb Parksr and pal at Funk, Inc.
BEND OVER,
I'll DRIVE VA
HOME
Cody Ravioli and
Attilla at Funk, Inc.

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Social Terrorism

WOMEN'S SECRETREGRESSIONS
Wendy Wild (I.) end Aprilet Funk. Inc.

PAGING MADAME TOUSSAUD
Miss Perfidie wa. ,/emorou. et Ma"

THE SHADY BUNCH(I to r) LlfHome VanZlfndt. Hedda looklflike,
My Comrade.' Les Simpson and Rome'. Geo"e Wayne

Photos by Erich Conrad

T!

-I'M SORRYI RAN THATHORRIBLEPICTUREOFYOU_Photogrpaher John Simone and Gossipi.t Kiki MIlSon.

YOI WHO'S FUCKIN' MADONNA?
NatuM Vooch lIS Sandra at Funk. Inc.

DEVIATES
DV-Bpubli.he" Christopher and Jonathan B
at the Outlaw PeTty

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Charting the Gesbian
by Liz Tracey
up and down the east and west coasts, rumors have been flying about a "new kind" of lesbian-not

necessarily better; but vel)' dif-ferentIt seems that what had started as small clusters of girls getting together and behaving most incorrectly, has turned into a full-fledged
trend. Not knowing what to call themselves, they clung together amid the stares and reprobation of the women's community-at-Iarge.
Then, on Pride Day, they stood on the Great Lawn and heard a voice from the podium:"This is a day when gesbians ...uh, gay men and lesbians ..."
That was itl The "gesbian" was born.
Seeing as "gesbianism" is so young, it is a difficult sub-subculture to theorize about. In general, a gesbian is a post-modern, postStonewall sort of girl who's decided that she can have some of what the boys have without being" co-opted by the patriarchy." So, for theconvenience of the uninitiated, bewildered and deadly curious, here is an at-a-glance guide to the gesbian in comparison to the community as it stands.

LESBIAN
Dress:

dresses

for comfort,

not style:Polo shirts, birken-

stocks, back packs, hip pouches,that are painful to look at

Reeboks,

haircuts

Martina

Houston,

JoanneIdols:
Navratilova,

Whitney

Loulan, Virginia Woolf, Gertrude Stein, her spinster
Aunt Martha ·who had. to be a dyke"

Sex:sees penetration
as "heterosexist";
prefers mostly
mutual masturbation and oral sex (only if there is acommitment); thinks gay male porn is sleazy

Music:

women's,

classical,

Nighttime:

Jobs:~1W~~;'?\·'%hw'.~f':::~:?' '?'f ::}{
drinks"llt CUbby

ltIole,?;he~l¥achjpe,"'~eekehds,Bar; dubbing on wee~,ig~ts(Mars,~e
Pyramid,)Sound
iPacto& );" h0l!iet o';;:~he'with th~y:CRlg1r1(riend(s),:J'alriner In the, East Village/Chelsea;

bartending,deejaying,:J~tn8,catering,

1:;l~inobile)
Vocations:
Marital Status:

student,

waitress/ng
A .

retail, free1ance '''izny(very rarely'-,

upW~t?JY?!
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home early to get.up

for work orhome with VCR ;mcVor girlfriend; political meetings;
weekend pot lucks
systems analyst, consultant, lawyer, political(paid), therapist, professor (you get the idea)

probablya steady

girlfriend;

every lover she ever had;activist

wild.

If unattached,is still in contact
sometimes

withlongs to get

she is hanging out at the CUbby

Hole on the notorious Wednesday, >,-\t;.~»,.'>..

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in West Village; drinks at Cubby Hole/D.T.'s

Fat CatlDuchess;(see Jobs)

she:s·dati~g'iO

with") three or four,frieods
;>:

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"'t>

~~~.i~a ~tcady girlfriendl you know ,thetc's ~rne.
'dose

throwingw

tlpoUtl9-1 activ(st (unpl!1d), writer, adist, actresso,fiilrking

dinnerearly 80s pop when

into new wave if it's played at apany; will venture
women's dancepick-up night
MM,'

hi

AND
THANK lOu

SO MUCH

1L..

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MORE WORDS ON
THE LEE JOINT
by Sarah Schulman

CRYING WHILE THE MEN RIOT
Ruby Dee 8S Mother Sister.

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pike Lee's Do the Right Thingis important because it ismade by Black people anddepicts Black people. For thisreason it is different from 99
percent of the films made in
the world. However, there areserious problems with its conception.
Art by and about minorities such as Blacks or gays should present a variety of perspectives that can
expand the generally accepted definition of what is human. It should also
provide ignored people with a validation of their own experiences and concerns.
A perspective is a complicatedthing to describe. It involves how aperson feels about him or herself, hisor her community and his or her
world. It is not simply a series ofobjects and gestures.
Spike Lee
depicts poor Black people and working-class Italians not by how they feelbut by buzz words and brand nameswith which they are associated. A
Black person is more than Nikes,
Tawana Brawley and Public Enemy.
These are cultural symbols and cultural realities but they do not comprisecomplete human beings and cannot
be used as shorthand for a world
view. Lee's simplifications mimic the
typical white. Hollywood style ofdepicting white poor people where
someone like Dustin Hoffman' grows
three days worth of beard, grunts andthinks that means he's working class.
Middle-class ways of speech andstance dominate Lee's characters andturn them into handshakes, hairstyles
and nicknames while ignoring thedepth of real experience that make up
a personality.
Secondly, I found Do the Right
Thing to be politically liberal which
was surprising considering how muchrhetoric is floating around about how
challenging the film is and all the
media exposure posing Lee as a Black
radical. In New York City there areconstant racist incidents in which
gangs of whites murder and assault
Black people. This film depicts anevent in which the motivations andresponsibilities
are deliberately
ambiguous and can be evaluatedbased on each individual viewer's
standard for acceptablebehavior.
Howard Beach, on the other hand,
has no moral ambiguity. A white person can come away from Do the Right
Thing believing that racial murder inthis city is the result of mutual responsibility or vague origin. The film reinforces a lot of white stereotypes
about Blacks. There are no male characters who are admirable or worthy ofrespect. The protagonist,
Mookie(played by Lee himselO mooches off
his sister, uses his girlfriend andignores his child. Mookie is irresponsible on the job, but resents being told
so. Yet he identifies with his whitebosses to such an extent that he acts
as their bouncer, removing his own
friends from his boss' restaurant. The
entire film is predicated on Mookie's
evolution from a complacent, selfish
man to an angry fighter seeking somepersonal form of justice. Yet nothing
in the script, performance or dynamicof the film indicates an authentic
empowerment or transformation, so
his actions are ultimately meaningless.
The only complicated and true-to-life
relationship in the film is between
Mookie and his sister Jade, played by
Lee's real sister, joie Lee. There Lee
obviously knows the subject he isinvestigating. The other Black males in
the film are depicted as oddballs, bullies, idiots or passive drunks. No wonder this film was so praised by the
New York Times.
Finally, Spike has proven beyond
a doubt that he is an uncritical,
unevolving sexist. All the women in

PASSIVE DRUNK.

Ozzie Davis as Da Mayor.

this film are complainers or stay in the
background and cry while the men
riot. Do the Right Thing avoids Lee'ssignature homophobia by ignoringgay people altogether as though there'
are no Black gay people in poor
neighborhoods.
Do the Right Thing is the Black
middle-class version of what white.r--------------.:..----------------.-!--------.,
middle-class people
have been doing forever; speaking
forsomeone they don't
know in a languagethat is unauthentic
and coming up with
depictions so watered down they become acceptable tothe very people theyclaim to challenge.
Even Sal's Pizzeria
looks like a gentrified
invention direct from
Brooklyn
Heights.
Where's the greasy
wax paper on thefloor and the spilled
Orange Crush on theplastic seats? Do the
Right Thing is a sanitized effort by Spike
Lee, who has now
become a mainstream•
filmmaker, providing
WHERE'S THE GREASY WAX PAPER?

' only a new twist on
old values.
'Y

Richard Edson, Danny Aiello, John Turturro.
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NEVV
MUSIC
SEMI-NAR:
The Revolution Won't Be Televised
by Victoria Starr
The tenth annual New Music Seminar (NMS) has left me
in a deep funk. Not that I didn't know what I was getting
into, mind you. Anyone who's been even slightly following
this event over the years knows that what started as a "beatthe system" conference to counter the
stuffy old-boy networkof the music industry
has, over the past
decade, become its
own antithesis. Afterall, where else could
you attend a workshop entitled "Does.
Radio Suck" to find that the panel is composed of four record
company executives and four music directors from some of
the most commercial stations in the country. (Of course radio
sucks. And this is precisely who makes it suck!)
Sure, the NMS has become its own best enemy: lotsof balding, overweight (or coked-up) white men telling

lots of starving artists how to "make it" in the industry.
Only now they throw a white woman and a black man
onto every panel, lest some wise-ass college kid tries calling them all bigots. But what's scary is when there are no
wise-ass college kids
brave
enough(orbright enough) to callthe bigots out. As one
well-heeledpanelist
happily commented,"The workshops used
to be the forum for an
audienceof scruffy
punks to insult thepanelists. Now the crowd is too busy taking notes." Inshort, it's not the NMS that has been bought off. It's thewhole of rock and roll.
I, of course, was there to agitate: Instead I was agitated, as
I was painfully reminded what eight years of Reagan had done
to America's youth, some of which was present Witness day
one: As a member of the Pop Critics panel,
Nelson George of the Village Voice made acomment that while rap music had forced
the world of pop criticism to give more
attention to Black music, the "ghetto style"
had eclipsed the more mainstream (and perhaps middle-class) styles of artists like Anita
Baker and Luther Vandross. When it cametime for questions, someone in the audience
begged to differ with George. As far as thedissenter was concerned, artists like theSupremes and Aretha Franklin had received
plenty of attention, while mainstream whiteartists like LizaMinelli and Dolly Parton had
been given the shaft. Dolly Panaril Liza
Minnellt? You figure it out.
The Drugs and Rock workshop was
more an exercise in mind aerobics thaneven the heaviest acid trip. As the panelists filed one testimonial after anotherabout how drugs had nearly ruined theirlives, only writer and manager Jim
Fouratt was willing to say, "Don't do

Misogyny is hip. George Clinton stood and roared, ··We
gonna get us some PUSSY!"

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them," stating that "safe sex is a better high anyday." Moderator Tony Wilson (Factory Records),
while down on coke, felt that the only thing
missing in the New York club scene was that
there wasn't enough Extasy going around. And
while Rudolf Pieper (Mars) smelled a swastika
in the campaign to "just say no," many of thepanelists wanted to leave politics out of the discussion entirely.
It must be said that Drugs and Rock had
only one Black on the panel (Jenny Matthias of
the London-based Belle Stars) and no AmericanBlacks, a particularly glaring foul-up given the
demographics of the War on Drugs. But the realpisser was that the audience was also predominantly white, since the workshop took place atthe same time as the Rap Summit round up. Oneof the few people of color who were in the audience, a Puerto Rican musician named Jorge,stood up to announce that he had supported hisband for years by pushing drugs, and that hehoped to raise his children to have equal drug
saavy. Too bad KRS-l (Boogie Down ProducI
tions) or Daddy 0 (Stetsasonic) weren't there to
bum-rush the show.
Of the sixty or more odd workshops taking
place over a four-day period, few were of social
import. Those that pretended to be "issues"-oriented were usually a farce, panels stacked withsuited executives,or simply left to thelobotomized. The sexism panel was the mostdisappointing, composed of four white women'
who had "made it," three white men (Cristine
Lavine's "sensitive, new age" types?), and Luke
Skyewalker, producer of Miami's Two Live
Crew, a rap group whose claim to fame aresongs like "Treat Her Like a Prostitute." Asidefrom mentioning that the difference between
sex and sexism should be explored (which it
wasn't), very little light was shed on anything.
As the one woman who could have really
worked this topic, Millie Jackson cancelled,leaving Bob Guccioni Jr. having the most inter- MARKETING THE REVOLUTION
esting things to say.
Spike Lee sat on the Africentricity panel.
The one saving grace of this year's NMS
was a workshop entitled Africentricity. The Revolution
The bottom line is that 1989 has been a scary year inMust Be Marketed. With a roster that included Spike Lee, the world of pop music. With yet another tour of The Who
Chuck D (Public Enemy), and Vernon Reid (Living Color), (the wha), rock and roll has rolled over. Now if we could
the panelists delivered a hard-line program of Black eco- just get it to play dead. Instead we have bands like thenomic power and cultural self-determinism, the likes of Frogs (Homestead label), two straight boys cashing in on
which should put the fear of God into the industry's cur- the gay buck by printing a pink triangle on the cover of
their album and writing offensive songs about drugs andrent power structure. The panel drew a large and varied
crowd, if for no other reason than the storm of publicity anal sex. And now more than ever, misogyny is hip, as I
swirling around both Spike's film and Chuck's band. But experienced all too closely at the recent George Clinton
while the workshop was an encouraging discussion of show. Three chords into the third song the band began tochant, as Clinton stood and roared, "We gonna get us some"where do we go from here,· the eight-to-one male/female
PUSSY!"Feeling like a hamburger at a truck-stop diner, me
ratio left a few of us wondering. Are these men talking
about some alternative future, or do they simply want their and my girl-gang split. But most of the crowd, male andfemale alike, just kept on smilin', kept on groovin'.
~
own share of the same rotten pie?
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Theater

The Lady Vanquishes
by Michael PaUer
The Lady ,~nQ'riestion. A play by Charles
Busch. "Pirect<1d,bYJ<en~ .
nelh Efliott. Presented atlh~;9~heuml~~ter!
!f6,:
Ayenue.,''" ',,' <',SecondC

harles Busch is thelady. The questionis, can she overcome her native selfishness
and risk her life for fryedom?
As for the answer,' well,where exactly on Second
Avenue would you expect the
Nazis to win?
Busch and his Theater-inLimbo company are back,fighting the Nazis and all theevil they represent, in The
Lady in Question at theOrpheum
Theater.
Buschplays Gertrude Garnet ("That's
Gar-nay," she corrects newacquaintances),the worldrenowned pianist. Arriving in
Ba varia to give a series ofconcerts, she finds the placeinconveniently overrun with
Nazis and the concierge of her
hotel shot dead ("It's Oktoberfest," she complains,"andwe'll never get another reservation."). In tow is her travelling companion,
Kitty, theCountess de Borgia Qulie Halston), whose sensible advice
is, "Give 'em their money
back and let's beat it."
Instead, Gertrude accepts
the invitation of the decadent I
but smitten Baron Wilhelm LADY KILLER
Von Weisner (Kenneth Elliott), Busch Bnd Kenneth Elliot.
the local Nazi baron, to bunk

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~
down at his ancient schloss on the hill.
There she must decide, in true Norma
Shearer fashion (with a dash of Barbara Stanwyk), whether to stick to her
dubious "I live for my art" stance, or
throw in her lot with the Resistance,
and attempt to rescue famous actress
Raina Aldric (Meghan Robinson), held
captive in Von Elsner's dungeon.
Gertrude and Kitty are surrounded by the usual band of film Nazi
sickies. The demand for filial obedience, not to mention the smoking
habits, of Von Elsner's mother Augusta(Robinson), would cause Oedipus toreconsider. The Count's pig-tailed
niece Lotte (Andy Halliday) is a visionof Pippi Longstocking as SS member.
The members of Busch's company
are varied in their abilities; not all are
up to the high style that Busch's low
parodies demand. Kenneth Elliott's
direction, while not as resourceful as
Busch's script, covers, up to a degree,
weaknesses in the cast.
I'd hate to be the one to tell Julie
Halston that Busch has the better legs,
but she's the better Joan Blondell, forever ready with a wise-crack, earthy
advice and Walter Winchell's phone
number. Arnie Kolodner, as Aldric's
American son Maxwell, is an appealing, if befuddled, love interest, withthe stalwart chin and personal integrity of Joel McCrea.
Nothing new need be said about
Meghan Robinson as either the goodRaina or the evil Augusta; she's simply
one of the finest actresses in New
York. She doesn't
even require
Busch's words: just give her a staircase
with four newel posts and dare therest of the cast to keep up with her.
The only complaint
one canmake about the casting is Theresa
Marlowe, as Heidi Mittlehoffer. She isfine as the pure young Resistance soldier, part-Heidi, part-Tasmanian Devil;
one only wishes Busch would write arole in which this talented actresscould do something new.
As for Busch himself, there's adanger of taking him for granted. Whotakes a throwaway line and, with several bats of an eyelash, reduces anaudience to jelly? Who summons up
lewd images at the mere mention of
Schumann's
Fantasiestucke?
Whowrites genre parodies that stand sowell on their own that they don't
require intimate familiarity with theoriginal to be hilarious? Who looks
better in a dress?
Tbe Lady in Question is terrific.

How can one resist, after all, thespontaneity of a piano player who
snarls at the Nazis, "You may take theMaginot line, but you'll never take theCanarsie line!"...

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SMelLING

THE POLYESTER:

Rochelle du Boff and Ruth Kulerman.

TheaterIn Her Own Image
by Veneita PorterT

he Glines, the non-profit
organization for gay arts, produced the late Jane Chambers' best-known work, "Last Summer
at Bluefish Cove" in 1980. It has now
produced an evening which includes
a multi-character biographical portraitof the playwright titled "In Her Own
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act, "The Quintessential
Image.""In Her Own Words"
is a collage piece which
openswith the fiveactresses passing throughthe audience onto thestage, singing in a funeralprocession. For the nexthour or so, we are treated
to snapshot scenarios ofChambers' life and work.
Chambers is played by
Mary Kay Adams, whose
rendering of the author isbright and energetic, yetstrangely one-dimensionaland distinctly un-Southern. When the characterof Jane speaks of being
raised by a succession of"Negro maids who locked
her on the sun porch"(while they entertained
their "guests"), one foundoneself suppressing
anurge to clap.
We learn of the conflicts of a small South Carolina girl fighting thebattles of childhood:adrunken,loony-tunes
father, whose view of Janeconsisted of taking her tothe Gator Bar and Grilland saying, "The kid ain't
much to look at, but you
should see her mother!";
and a saint-like mother, an untouchable woman who shared a vision,
with Jane's Grandma, of a heaven
where bodily functions and external
male genitalia were banned.
"In Her Own Words" tries to cramthe wealth of Chambers' life andworks into a very small box. What weare left with is a travelogue with a"this-is-your-Iife" affect. Somewhere
between language, drama and transition, we miss something.
The actresses, with the notable
exceptions of Judy Tate and Ruth
Kulerman, are brittle and colorless(Tate was one of the few who cameacross comfortable and self-possessedon stage), often giving the impressii' nmore of a girl scout troop than a s rrogate lesbian family.
continued on page nBooksThe Dark
Gay Agesby Gabriel RoteUoInthe age of AIDS, as violenceagainst gays and lesbians rises
alarmingly, iL's sobering to realize that for centuries violence against
us was primarily official, sanctionedby law and inflicted by the state. Mostof us have only a dim awareness of
this, but our European ancestors paida heavy price for same sex love.
Those today who suffer the consequences of bigotry, anti-gay violence
and the social neglect of AIDS havetheir counterparts in those predecessors who suffered burning at the

stake, garroting, drowning, execution
or enduring 20, 30, or 50 years of solitary confinement for a single act oflove. These are the prices of homosexuality
outlinedand brought
depressingly to life in The Pursuit oj
Sodomy, Kent Gerard and Gert
Hekma's outstanding collection of
papers and monographs
on malehomosexuality
in Renaissance andEnlightenment Europe.
The bases of most of these studies are court records, which necessari'Iy mean
that
men
are
as
overrepresented as they were onesidedly prosecuted during the period inquestion,
1400-1850.
Despite thescantiness of juridicial records theauthors have uncovered some notable. lesbian voices.
There is Theo van der Meer's
account of Anna Grabout, a "passionate" Dutch lesbian of the 179Qs, convicted in court not for sexual acts but
for propositioning a woman neighbor.

"If I just see you I come already," anindignant housewife testified that
Anna had said, "If you have me
whipped tomorrow and branded the
day after, I shall yet love you for it."For this declaration Anna recievedyears in prison.
Van der Meer describes anotherDutch lesbian, Christina Kip, who wastried for "raping a 14 year old girl withan artificial penis. At the trial, womenof the neighborhood
testified that
Christina had long been considered tobe out of her mind. One of thewomen gave an example of Christina's
supposed madness. She told that once
she had asked Christina, 'Chris, itamazes me that you don't marry.'
Christina's answer: 'Just to fuck? If
that's all I'm missing I can do it
myself.'" This was in 1797.
As the title implies, however,most of the book concerns society's
reaction to male homosexuality.
Michael Rocke's chapter on the antigay hysteria of St. Bernardino of Sienna, the Jerry Falwell of Renaissance
Tuscany, describes how the angry
saint's sermons in Florence spurred
the creation of "special civic magistracies whose sole task ...was to prosecute" sodomy. Called the Officers of
the Night (Ufficiali di Notte), this court"adjudicated cases involving 10,OOO
men and boys, and convicted 2,OOO
for homosexual relations." between
1432 and 1502. By one estimate, one
in every 12 Florentine boys came tothe attention of the court during theheight of the Florentine Renaissance,
when society had just reinvented themale nude and was rediscovering theconcept of Soc.ratic love and thehomoeroticism of ancient Greece.
A central portion of the book concerns the great anti-gay trials of 1730 in
Holland, whose reputation for tolerance
makes it a strange site for the worst
persecutions of gays prior to Hitler. The
complex, ambiguous reasons for these
pogroms are discussed, if not settled,
by the various authors here.
The facts are that in early 1730
the Custodian of the Cathedral at
Utrecht complained that two soldierscontinued on page 72

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ART BIGOT
Mapplethorpe

INS continued from page 16

is a little like splitting a hair that
doesn't exist."
Nevertheless, Schatz said NGRA
would encourage other foreign visitors to the U.S. who have AIDS or
who are HIV-positive also to apply
for extensions beyond the 30-day
limit.The U.S. does not require tourists
to take an HIV test before entering thecountry. But it does require visitors tofill out a questionnaire which includes
a statement of the purpose for thevisit. Travellers to AIDS or gay and lesbian conferences are routinely asked ifthey are HIV positive or have AIDS.
The limitations on tourists andvisitors to the U.S. who are HIV positive or who have AIDS are thestrictest of their kind among the Western nations.
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Photo: Jim Marks
supporters at Washington's Corcoran Gallery.

SENATE BAN continued from page 21

JUST SAY NO contiAued from page 21

joint conference.
Gay/lesbian activists responded
to the Helms amendment to the NEA
budget with shock and anger. "This isgoing to have a chillin& effect on
those artists that do cutting edge
work," stated Robert Bray, communications director for the Human Rights
Campaign Fund. "And lost in the
clamor and controversy of censorshipof the arts is the fact that the Senate is
responding to art that is homoerotic.
Apparently the 'love that dare notspeak its name' is also the image that'dare not be allowed on American
museum walls,''''Y

Washington,
DoG. 'subsequently
opted to cancel a sch~duled displayof the Mapplethorpe Retrospective.
The Mapplethorpe display iscurrenlly being shown at the Washington Project for the Arts to criticalacclaim and record crowds.
Ina related move, the North
carolina state Legislature banned allstate funding of the SECCA in
response to the Serrano display on
July 26, following the example of ;the Illinois Legislature
whichbanned funding to the Art Instituteof Chicago for its display of an
American flag on a museum floor.
The National Gay and Lesbian
Task Force began support lobbying
work on the NEA funding matter
July 26, joining lobbying efforts
from the American Arts Alliance, tbe
Ainerican Assodation of Museums,
People for the American Way,
Actors' EqUIty of New York and theAmerican Council on the Arts.
"We fr'ankly had hoped the[House] recession of the $45,600
might make the issue go away,·stated American Civil Liberties
Union lobbyist Barry Lynn. "Unfortunately it does not look like that's
going to be the case ... It is veryclear we cannot allow the UnitedStates Congress to become art criticS."-Cliff O'Neill'Y

GOP TARGET continued form page 22

Scheuer
CD-Flushing),
CharlesSchumer CD-Brooklyn),
StephenSolarz CD-13rooklyn),Edolphus Towns
CD-13rooklyn), Ted Weiss CD-Manhattan), and 13i1lGreen CR-Manhattan).
Voting for the budget cut wereFloyd H. Flake CD-Queens), Guy V.
Molinari CR-Staten Island), Charles
Rangel CD-Manhattan) and Robert
Garcia CD-13ronx).
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F//ES//AJ'
COALITION FOR LESBIAN AND
GAY RIGHTS Monthly Meeting,at the Center, 208 W 13 St; 8 pm;
627-1398
WPA THEATRE presents Buzzsaw Berkeley;a musical with
Ethel Eichelberger,
where "in aworld without music, they were
just kids, full of pluck andmoxie, ready to face the final
curtain. Then Buzzsaw came totown and now they are singing
and dancing
for their lives;"
opening tonight at the WPA Theatre, 519 W 23 St; throughAugust 27; Tues-Fri at 8 pm, Sat
at 6 & 10 pm, Sun at 3 pm; $20;
206-0523

BODY POSITIVE
Soclalfor
HIV+ people and their friends; atMiddle Collegiate Church, 50 E 7
St (at 2nd Ave); for time and info
call 633-1782
GAY AND LESBIAN ALLIANCE
AGAINST DEFAMATION Monthly MeetIng at the Center, 208 W
13 St; 8 pm; 966-1700
EAGLE BAR Movie Nlte: A...!d:yIn the Dark; 1/2 price drinks
from 10-11 pm; free popcorn;
movie at 11 pm; 142 11th Ave at
21st St; 691-8451

MAGDA SADE presents Sex-APoppln,'a festival of fun-filth,naughtyand nasty ... a little
something for every perversion,for open minds only ... • with
Josey Duval, Gina La Toure, Gaylord, Sheba Woods, Matthew
Paris, Felix the Flasher, FredKuhn, Magda Sade, Tony Mansfield, Scott Baker; at Harmony
Burlesque Theatre, 279 Church St(btwn Franklin & White); doors
open 8 pm, show at 9 pm; $10;
reservations a must at 633-8341(nightly thru 8/6)

FI///AJ'WOMEN ABOUT Fire Island
Camping;
through August 6;
353-0073,201/481-0440
SAGE presents
Tom Duane,
Candidate for City Council in the
2nd District; at the Center, 208 W
13 St; 3:30 pm; 727-8150
GAY
MEN
OF
AFRICANDESCENT Meeting and Discussion:
MEnoughof AIDS,
Already!"
where gay men ofcolor can respond with their own
views regarding
Darrell Yates
Rist's piece in The Nation,'AIDS as Apocalypse: The Deadly Costs of an Obsession,'whether or not the gay community is focusing too much energy
and capital on the AIDS front
while failing to support otheraspects of gay and lesbian liberation; in Lower Level C, Gay
Men's Health Crisis, 129 W 20 St(807-6664); 6:30 sharp - 9 pm;
info 718/802-0162, 718/756-1548
MEN OF All COLORS TOGE1HER ConscIousness-Raising
Session: Powerand Control
In
Lesbian/Gay
Organizations;atthe Center, 208 W 13 St; 7:45 pm;
222-9745
MAGDA SADE presents Sex-APoppln,
see Thurs, 8/3, fordescription;
at Harmony
Burlesque Theatre,
279 Church St(btwn Franklin & White); doors

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of New YorkFor more information or referrals, to rap, or to volunteer,call the GlSB daily, noon to midnight, 212-777-1800

COLUMBIA GAY AND LESBIANALLIANCE First Friday Dancein Earl Hall, Columbia University,
116 & B'way (#1 train to 116thSt); 10 pm - 2 am; photo IDs todrink; info 854-3574, 854-4118

cia, International
Chrysis, Amy
Coleman,Mark Hannay,
Tom
Judson, Ron Jones; benefit for
their European tour; 343 W 46 St(btwn 8th & 9th Aves); 10 pm;$10 + two-drink
min.; reservations 757-0788 (also August 12)

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WOMEN ABOUT
Palisades
Hike; 353-0073, 201/481-0440

WOMEN ABOUT BeachingatRobert Moses State Park; 3530073, 201/481-0440
SAGE Day on Fire Island,in
Cherry Grove, with lunch at the
Monster; leaves Center, 208 W 13
St, at 9:30 am; $40; 741-2247
CENTER STAGE takes a Vacation
to Israel, thru August 16; $2229;
255-0198
BROOKLYN LESBIANS TOGE1HER Fishing Trip, BYO food andbeverages;
leavesfrom
Sheepshead Bay, Pier 8; boards
6:30 am, returns 3:30 pm; $15;
718/439-7173,718/857-8274
CENTER KIDS Pool
home In southern
212/669-7390, days

party at a
NJ; noon;

FRIENDS OF TOM DUANE HighTea at Rabbit Hm, benefit for
Duane's candidacy in NYC's 3rd
Council District (Village, Chelsea,
Grammercy,
Murray Hill, Peter
Cooper Village, Waterside, partsof Turtle Bay, Midtown, Theater
District); in East Hampton,
6-8
pm; 212/727-8150
CENTER SPORTS goes to Mets
vs. Montreal
Expos, plus pregame cocktail party; 7:05 pm;$16 & $21; 620-7310 for membership
MAGDA SADE presents Sex-APoppln,
see Thursday, 8/3, fordescription;
at Harmony
Burlesque Theatre, 279 Church St(btwn Franklin & White); doors
open 8 pm, shows at 9 pm &midnight;$10; reservationsamust at 633-8341 (thru 8/6)
DON'T TELL MAMA presents
Hot Peaches, with Jimmy Cami-

SAGE Sunday Drop-In, for conversation, games, refreshments;
at the Center, 208 W 13 St; 2-5pm; 741-2247
EIGHTY-EIGHT'S
presents Mr.
Ruby Rims, female impersonator; 228 W 10 St; 8 pm; 9240088
MAGDA SADE presents Sex-APoppln,
see Thursday, 8/3, fordescription;
at Harmony
Burlesque Theatre, 279 Church St(btwn Franklin & White); doors
open 8 pm, show at 9 pm;
Magda's birthday and cast party
with cake and champagne
atmidnight;$10; reservationsamust at 633-8341
MARS NEEDS MEN presents Fellcia and the Hotheads(12:45am, latenight), and 11le Connie
Girl (1:30 am, latenight); 13th St& Westside Highway; 691-6262

WOMEN ABOUT Philharmonic
In Central
Park;
353-0073,
201/481-0440
ZONE OK Men's S/M Night,
with full alcohol bar; 7:30; 7998275

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Best BetsDANCING FOR MEN & WOMENWOMEN-PREFERRED DANCINGMONDAYPrivate Eyes (preppie; male strippers, 2-4-1 till midnight)
Mars (mixed crowd, Monday nights began this summer)

MONDAYTUESDAY·Love Machine (at the Underground)
The Monster

MK (Deb Parker's women'snight)TUESDAY
Hatfield's

WEDNESDAY
Club Lafayette
Private Eyes (Dallas and Sanker's CLUB BAD)
Spectrum (free admissio!l all night)(Kew Gardens,

Qns)

WEDNESDAY
Bedrock (West Hempstea~, LI)
Bedrox (NYC, M&M Productions

event)THURSDAY·Boybae (has a new wave drag show)·Copacabana (last Thu. of the month has Susan Bartsch party)·Mars (mixed gay/straight; Thursdays gayer than Fri & Sat)
Spectrum (free admission all night)

THURSDAY
Bedrock (West Hempstead, LI)
Club Lafayette (Shes cape, "Downtown

FRIDAYFRIDAY·Boybaecolumbia Dances (1st Friday of every month)·Mars (mixed gay/straight)
Private Eyes (preppies and young professionals)
Spectrum (male and female strippers)

Bedrock (West Hempstead, LI)
Tracks (last Friday of month)
Cheeks (Island Park)
Octagon (Shescape)Visions (Woodside)

Girls")SATURDAY·Boybae·Mars (mixed gay/straight)
Private Eyes (Club Chicago for Men, preppies)
Spectrum (guest per(ormer night)

SATURDAY
Bedrock (West Hempstead, 11)
The Center (2nd and 4th Saturdays,
Lafayette (Shescape event, ·Summer.Silver Ilning (Floral Park)

SUNDAYStarz (Deer Park, L.!.)·Mars (Chip Duckett's "Mars Needs Men" night)
Pyramid (Hapi Phace and Drag + Variety Show)
Spectrum (show; free admission 9-10 pm)
Tunnel (gay Sundays on special nights; call first)

West 610

EVERY NIGHT
Monster, Spectrum (mixed G&L), Tracks (exc. MON)SUNDAYEVERY NIGHT
Cubby Hole, Duchess

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Club

Saturdays")

Bedrock (West Hempstead, LI)"Hers & Hers" at Downtown (every other Sunday
Lads (White Plains)
Paradise (a.k.a. "Club Paradise")* (TVs welcome)70& special events)

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were having sex in the building.
Arrested, the soldiers implicated one
Z.ocharias Wilsma, a former soldier
who travelled extensively around HoIland and was connected to a national
gay subculture
with branchesinalmost every Dutch city. Confined andtortured, Wilsma in turn implicatedmembers of the subculture, and theauthorities quickly unravelled theentire national network, sendingscores to the gallows or fleeing into
exile. Those convictedof lesser
offenses than intercourse, like mutual
masturbation, were not killed but sent
to the dungeons for life. One Jan
Jansz, for example, sentenced at age
17, spent the next 57 years in solitaryconfinement.

;JANE
from pip
walkways, .parks and molly houses(inns in which the almost exclusively"In Her:own Words" c1ea~ly
fers from being overly polite. It is giff"j.
male subculture was tolerated)."The 20 essays in this collection'cult to speak ill of the dead, especiallywhen they
as revered and beloved
are uniformly interesting for the lightthey shed on previously unexamined . as Jane S~rn~~' Yet it is nece~fy
subjects of gay history, which in addi- :7to'haY~,~~J1ie bitterness and"..
tion to those mentioned above include I ness'O'fa:lif@Ab/taSte
its
full
flay,
::,'i':,.. :-,»~/~:{·(.A::the gay court of Louis IV's brotherto cqlv«y it"f,Oanaudience.
Phillipe, the lesbianism of Queen
1':~~,
like many of her S0uthAnne, the royal gay couple William
ern conte"9po~ries, had a love~ate
relationsliip 'with Blacks, both a~ ':lU4:ij.!}and Mary, each of whom had close
enc.e and as characters, Ms. Tate dP'es
circles of gay and lesbian favorites,
and many other previously unexa,n a?miraql~ job as a bag lady in1~
plored subjects. There is a particularly
s~01,I';iec.~;il~~~.fle,"but the .•.. ,facinating analysis by Hekma of theitself refl~lI)oreof an em~.
feminist pe~§'pective than ihat\oMarquise de Sade, whom he claims as
poverty-stricken woman of color:an unacknowledged "gay emancipaChambers' own t.alent is'.more
tor" who was so far ahead of his timereadily accessible in the latter ~ofthat "he still cannot be acclaimed" by
the evenin~with "The QuinteSs<;:ptial}tllage." l!~f';'!'Igrk comes to life j~ thl.i\
short 2ne~c~'/ whose premise.isl,!pterviewer;:S'nightmare: after ye~~~8f/rejectioo;+Margaret
Foy(Roch~lle}
DuBoff) finally gets the famous pfiQ:.,
tographer Lacy Lanier (Ruth Kulerman)-theobjectof heroin~
worshi~9;~ppear
on her talk sht>V$,
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These cases are interesting
because they confirm the existence ofsuch networks of gays in primarily
small towns which had previously
been thought un conducive to open
homosexuality. There is other evidence that in the same era large cities
like London and Paris had openly gay
subcultures. Rubini reports that "by
1700 there had developed in London
a reasonably well-developed sodomitical subculture replete with special

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Ab, yes/Lacy .is at fjrst entrance.tl
by the monit<?r, bored by the l,nter"viewer, and ~more than a little dis,..
plea§ed' by 'the enormous bl:ow-up5 9.~
her work. Aqcr; oh yes, Lacy is a: dyed:in-the-cotton, poor-white-trashJ~~b~n.
. We wat£~<~? fa,~cina~lon a.S,i "~,~}h~li!g{~nted\FQY'{lp';',of\;-cameratIn~~,~e~Cit least*hat's left of it after' fue:TckdltSand bleeps), she blithely stripsber ~f
all her tightly held preconceptionS.
this densely packed work \s a:.
credjt to~!rector
Peg M?rr~Y:;1"Tp~timing, thejnovement are broad~jlh-:,.()ut~iQg;;t~. obvious; DUB"off,~~~"
rel<cled iqper role as tbe amQiiio~,
closeted and mildly neurotic talk'!
the modern gay movement.
show hostess. Kulerman's pigeob;.
If I have one major complaint
faced plumpness and pink blazer 'areagainst many of these authors it isjust about perfect for Lacy; you cantheir consistent use of words likealmost smeH' the polyester. The con'sodomite' and 'sodomitical subculture'
instead of 'gay,' 'lesbian,' and> other.flict betY'~? the tv.('ocharacte~,is,anice blend' 6f.'C\ilSS differencesj~a:Ra
modern usages. Their argument, thatcattiness: th~ concept of photograpber
the concept of homosexuality as an
as voyeur is an apt metaphor. "Theinbred condition, a permanent state of
Quintesse.ntial Image is Chambers at
mind, is a product of 19th century
her best-honest,
brash and larger
thought and thus cannot be retroaccontinued on next plge 74
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Sports

Gay Womens' Athletic

Club Takes Off byBrianHamlin
The number of gay and lesbian sports organizations
continues to grow as more and more members of thecommunity realize both the health benefits and the social
enjoyment of participating in competetive and non-competetive sports.
/'

GAY WOMEN'S ATHLETIC CLUBNEEDS YOU.

A new addition to that confederation is the Gay
Women's Athletic Club (GWAC). It began life as a spinoff
organization formed by several women athletes fromTeam New York, the umbrella group that helps arrange
participation in the international Gay Games. GWAC's primary purpose is to send women athletes from the tri-statearea to the 1990 Gay Games III in Vancouver, Canada.
GWAC is working with Team New York to help achieve
the goal of a strong representation by area athletes in the

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games, which are the international lesbian and gay community's largest and most ambitious gatherings. Anyone iswelcome to join Team New York for Gay Games III even
if you aren't presently participating in organized sports.
Volunteers are also needed for the Games in various
areas.
GWAC's president, Karen Marbaum, who also happens to be vice-president of Team New York, informedme that "the club is absolutely a members-supported cluboffering to its members an alternative to the bar scene."
Because GWAC is a new organization, and intends toserve the needs of its membership on both a sports and asocial level, suggestions are encouraged by all participants. GWAC's popularity is spreading, not only by formal publicity by also by word of mouth.
The club offers a variety of sports and sports information for women, from soccer to billiards to softball, among
other activities. All are welcome to watch the games andevents if they don't wish to personally participate.
After Gay Games III, GWAC will then focus on amore social level, arranging events like parties, dances,picnics and baseball games. Currently the club has over
60 members. GWAC's next major social event will takeplace at Cave Canem, located at 24 First Avenue, on
October 15th at 9pm.
Anyone interested
in either the Gay Women's
Athletic Club or the Gay Games should contact Karen
Merbaum for further information at 718/857-1793.
...

-!(•.These objections aside, the essays
jnk~t? Pursuit of Sodomy are fascioat~,~d'f:~doJX;~;d?Ors on rl}aoy subje<;tsw~rct! should be further explored arid
papu!arized. They show the tremendgljs'social forces which oppressed
les~ians and gays in·Western culture
for'Centuries, and from which weare
cory
the ,last 20 years emerging,tha;fl'~s to the bravery of Stonewall.
i'ij1it "the oppressioo was not u09onsiems but deliberate, planned 'an<;lofteµ direCted from above, is iIlustrated;pya quote.from the French abbot
Th~tu in 1724, that "If one spares(gays) toO much ...there will be great
disor~ers ...because all kinds of people,v,:iU",
fake of:ttheir masks,beliey;ing
tHai'everything is permitted them,and
thet will organize leagues and societies, which will be disastrous.·
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USE A CONDOM WHEN FUCKING. Avoid oil-based
lubricants such as baby oil, Vaseline, Crisco etc., as they
can cause condoms to break. Instead use water-based
lubes like KY. The older a condom, the less reliable, sofind condoms whose manufacturers' dates are less than
three months old.
2.

USE A CONDOM DURING ORAL SEX. If you don't,
avoid placing the head of your partner's cock in yourmouth. HIV-infected cum or precum can enter your bloodstream through cuts, tears or ulcers in your mouth.

3.

USE DENTAL DAMS DURING ORAL-VAGINAL SEX.
HIV is present in some amounts in vaginal secretions,urine, menstrual blood, and infection-related

vaginal dis-charge.
4.

NEVER SHARE WORKS. This includes needles,
syringes, droppers, spoons, cottons or cookers. If you mustreuse works, clean them after each use with bleach, or in

ALL-MALEMINI THEATER(lower level)

Mon.-Sat.: 11am-11pm I Sun.: 10am-7pm

Ann Street
Adult Entertainment Center
21 Ann Street (btwn. Broadway & Nassau St.)New York City I (212) 267-9760
Mon.-Fri.: 7am-11pm I Sat.: 10am-11pm
Sun.: 10am-7pm

an emergency with rubbing alcohol or vodka, by drawing
the solution into the needle three times and then drawing
clean water into the needle three times.
5.

AVOID FISTING, RIMMING,

OR SHARING

UNCLEANED SEX TOYS.
6.

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XEROXED continued,.,

from page 8of this awful epidemic, the AIDS
activist community has finally beenable to 'present our demands to thesystem and have them acted upon. In
the past weeks, this AIDS activist community, which includes many otherorganizations and individuals you also
have disparaged, has been responsible
for extracting from the FDA the releaseof five treatments that we would nothave had otherwise.
To have achieved all this just at
the moment that the Native is beginning its smear campaign is yet one
more episode, like Tom's plea, that I
find infinitely sad.
It is all very sad. That we shouldhave come to this. That the Native
should now be held in such disreputeby so many. That Tom should have towrite such a plea. That I should be
writing this letter to the publisher ofthe newspaper in which some of mywriting I am most proud of appeared.
We have so much more to be sadabout than these petty community
squabbles.
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different path.
It is all of this, Tom and Chuck, that
I think Tom's defense has failed to see.
So what happens? Do you continue your vindictive determination todestroy ACf UP, insinuation by innuendo? Will you continue to pick at
Peter Staley by disparaging our treasury, our fund-raising letters, our merchandising? Where do we go fromhere? I cannot in all honesty at this latedate say that I don't want the Native todisappear. I want the Native that now
comes out each week to disappear. I
want the old Native back. But I knowhow hard it is to go back to what once
was. I know that we all grow at different rates, in different ways, and, as wegrow older (those of us still lucky
enough to be alive), we often go ourseparate ways. That, too, can be sad.
What more can I say in conclusion? Perhaps our new New York gay
publication, OutWeek, will take theplace in our lives that the Native once
so forcefully held. Perhaps the Native
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in the real world, about Iife anddeath-we don't have the strength tofight against your mean-spiritedness.
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fights to try and win.
Against our real enemies.
Yes, the Native has become meanspirited. And it has become mean-spirited just at the precise moment when ahuge segment of our community has
finally found a way to organize and tofight successfully. It is as if you havemissed the boat--that this importantmilestone has· been achieved, a newchapter begun in our history, and you
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Hot Shotby E";ch Com'nd
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MICHAEL CLARK, dancer extraordinaire,says that at age 13 he lost his virginity to his mother, "and I've been gay eversince." Clark, who has been described as "sex symbol, agent provacateur, catalyst and wunderkind of British dance" by
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