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As the sony facts about Father Bruce Ritter emerge, it's use-

ful to reflect on what this talented man could have achieved
had his life'not been blighted by internalized homophobia.
Challenged in 1968 to live up to his idealistic sennons,
Ritter embarked on the difficult, lonely task of trying to rescue
runaway teens. He founded a unique organization that grewfrom a couple of tenement apartments on the Lower East Side
into a series of huge, heavily-funded centers across the nation.
Under Ritter's guidance, Covenant House has made an enormous positive difference in countless lives. Whatever one
thinks of Ritter's alleged sexual or fiscal misconduct, there will
always be thousands of people who have him to thank for rescuing them at a crucial moment of their lives.
Unfortunately, Father Ritter failed to rescue himself. As acloseted gay man he apparently internalized the insidious
homophobia of the Catholic Church. Such self-repression isbad for every individual. But in Ritter's case it also proved to
be bad for the thousands of gay and lesbian kids who sought
shelter in his sanctuaries. Under Ritter's direction, Covenant
House had a long record of callousness and abuse toward gay
teens which it has only recently begun to address, thanks tothe pioneering work of the Hetrick-Martin Institute.
Ritter.
the classic dictum that the worst enemy c:igays is a da;eted homa>exual in a pa5ition of power. Seeking todeflect suspicions, such people frequently adopt excessively homophobic stmces. In Ritter's case this led an apparently compassionate man to tolerate overt homophobia among his staff, preachtestify against gay civil rights legislation
against gay self.
and deny the validity of safer-sex education at the height of the
AIDS epidemic. It also apparently led to the covert seduction ofunderJdged teens, some of whom now charge sexual abuse.
Contrast this sorry record with the life-affmning, gay-positfve influence Ritter could have had were he more at ease withhis nature. Catholic priests need not risk expulsion by openly
confronting
the teachings of homophobes
like Cardinal
O'Connor. Many unsung heroes and heroines toil quietly but
effectively wi~
the church, gently challenging homophobia
and assisting gays and lesbians. Had Ritter been graced with anempowering self-lmowledge he would be a hero to our comml,lnity and an example to all. We would be defending him,
not applauding his downfall. Instead, a long and useful life
destined to end in shame and disgrace.
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Is It 1he latest 1tend In g<:1(joumal-chlc to feat\xe cover•storieswHh splashy headlines
and sexually~uggestlve pictl.res procIc:tTing that IesbIcJ'lS
sleep with men? Your article
IIseIf hclIded materId of hterest, but your sensationalized
presentation evoked anger
when I saw the Issueon the
newsstands, and for the first
tme ever Iwas
toread Out\M;ekon 1he s.bNot.
W'rr(l Beca.Ise such headlines evoke the old folk wisdom that there Is no suchthing CIS a -real· 1esbIcrt, orw
a woman who has not yet
fciu1d 1he right men. Is this 1he
Idea we ae trying to perpetuate In the straight world, via
OU' own mecIa? I CO"I'tImagIne that a female editorial
staff would have allowed
such a garish presentation to
get by. If you won't hire awoman as editor, perhaps
you CO"Iemploy one to teachyou some sensItMty.
Forthe most part, I enjoy
OutWeek, and find It a vital
source of community news
CJ'ld opinion. I read It publicly. and with pride. Please don't
make me feel assaUted by It
Instead.
Mlclde Zacuto .
Manhattan

seem to remember the -GO(90s. Issue (no. 28, Jan. 7) as
having Interracial col.ples on
the cover (as wen as at least
one other Issue In the past).
The men also mention
PIcture thisThIs letter Is In response to that AIDS among lesbians
one printed In Issue 35 (Feb. _has been Ignored. Well, I. "",j25) by Servalan Erik know I have read several
articles In OutWeek on thcit
and Dan Hunter.
very
topic.
However,',.
I was rather pissed
although AIDS Is a tragedy'~''il~j,
off to read the letter
under any circumstance, the.'~! from these two men
fact that It has spread like
(I'm assuming theyboth as men). I c0m- wildfire' through the gay
pletely disagree with male community may betheir belief that Out- the reason It merited a
WeeKs aAre GO( Men cover.
Also, did these men see
Having Safe Sex?· (no.
34, Feb. 18) cover was the cover story which preceded aAre Gay Men ....? It
ashameful.· Granted,
was aLesblansWho Sleep
the cover shows two
WIth Men"(no. 33,Feb. 11) I
white males at play.
So what?1 It's not like didn't read any mention
1he magazine Is trying from these two In their letter
objecting to the fact thatto make some abrathe ,two women and one
sive political statemale on the cover werement by placing
twoaHractlve men on Its cover. I white, nor did they cite thatsrON£WAtI. RIOrS

there should be a cover story·
devoted to aGO( Men Who
Sleep With Women.· Giveme a fuckIn' break.
I think OutWeek has donea very thorough and responsible job In the past In coverIng topics of sex, creed,
race, color, etc. (Including
the types of people they
portray on their covers.) And
I think It's too bad that thesetwo can't just enjoy looking
at two hot men without ringIng the alarm on preJucIce.
JeffreyE.
Manhattan ,Pushing Ihe Envelope
It's time for OutWeek tocome out of the cIos9tl How
can New York's most visible
and credible gay and lesbian newsweekly be considered In the closet? Simple. To
those who subscribe, themagazine Is delivered In aplain brown envelope, like sOmuch pornographyl This Is

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come beyond the day whensuch treatment Is necessary.
GETRIDOFTHEENVELOPEIYou' ecltorlal staid of "seIfhaters· Is very cIea. aid I'TlCI'¥of the more visible get raked
over the coals each wee~.
Yet, out of faa of scxmg YOI.I
SlbIc:rIJers (aid scxmg a.NC1(
their dollars), you pander tothem. 1he time hds come tostop. stop the hypocrisy. Stop
the double standard In thenane of the ak'nI(tl1y doIla.
GET RID OFTHEENVELOPEI
Those afraid to get OutWeek with Just a mailinglabel don't deserve thismagazine. And, really, yourmessage Is lost on them,
anyway. It's time to challenge them to face thefacts. I hope you have theguts to do so. Please place
your Integrity ahead of thealmighty dollar. GET RID OF
THEENVELOPE.
Rodney BlackJock
Montclair, NJ

Tune In, Tum On, Get PIssed
Craig Davidson and
GlAAD are doing vital. longoverdue media watch andeducation. But have media
expectations sunk so lowthat we now find ourselves
asked to endorse the likesof
The Star, the Inept TV series"Doctor Doctor" and waiting
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befOre calling for homophobe Andy Rooney's dismissal?In contrast, the Black
community
demanded-and recelved--hls removal
before Rooney's BIack-bashIng remarksIn The Advocate
had even hit the newsstanclsl Now DavIdson, who
hds whiled away an this time
71hoping to "educate·year-old Rooney (In vain),has Invited him to upstage
and slander gays further at
GLAAD's first annual media
awards dlnnerl
Though CBS's recentlycancelled "Doctor Doctor·
hds an encouraging premise(physician with a gay brother),1t (lIke Showtlme's "Brothers·) freely Indulges In every
stereotype going for laughs
and then simply tacks on a"live and let live· ending.
RIchard (the gay character)sports a prominent liSp.
Richard Is not a regular, but
appears sporadically for an
AIDS or "gay problem·
episode only-probably
sothat his expendable presence could be terminatedby CBS at the flick of theAmerican Family Association's brow. Another character, the depressing, foppish
British broadcaster mopes
about referring to himself asa "tired old fairy.· The
episodes with Richard are
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other characters' homOphobic behavior.
Stereotypes
and homOphobia manage tobe presented
as routine and"understandable· and are
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~ateenln
the early 70s, I
smiled watchIng
ArchieBunker, Mary
Tyler Moore,
Hawkeye
Pierce and themass sitcom
audienceeach
meettheir first gay
person, sensing
the power of
TV comedy togentlybuteffectively put
across social
Issuesandchange.
It's
disturbing tonote that It's
been almost
20 years Since
Archie got alesson In homophobia andten years since Jerry Falwell
got ABC to axe "Soap·

because, It contained TV's
first gay regular character.
With "Doctor Doctor" gone,
there are no gays or lesbians
In prlmetlme. What validation and encouragement\%il are gay and lesbian teenscurrently getting from TV?
We have yet to see a series
premise about a gay or lesbian lead character andhls/her life.
Perhaps The Star Initiallypresented Chastity Bono's
lesbianism (which she hasdenied In The Enquirer) sympathetically. But their extensive January 23rd quoting ofsome unidentified "close
source· that trashed ChastI"ty, her girlfriend, their relationship, their "man-Ish·clothing. their Intentions. theirprivacy. their gay pride and

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media who dally endeavor
sympathettc or encouraging.
to keep us Invisible or negaI support the good Inten- , tlvely portrayed. As Harvey
Milk believed (and the Black
tions of Craig Davidson,
GLAAD and even "Doctor
rights movement learned),
Doctor: But I'm asking what we'd do better to concern
Bette Mldler once asked the ourselves less with being
gay community: "Don't you liked and more with being'respected because we arepeople ever ttre of conttnualIy being slapped around?· .
strong.
Even the most shut-In
Davtd Perry
Amertcan,1t seems, watches
Manhattan
TV{ and reads newspapert=-and fI'lese media are
RoHen to the Coorseno[mously effectiveIn
I support the Coors boyshaping perceptions. Gays cott, so I'm glad that you
are' ten percent of AmerIca. note that JuliussellsCoors In
We buy newspapers. We buy your bar guide.
However, I think you
the 'products. that keep
sponsors, networks and TV should tell your readers
shows In business. However. about all the gay bars andthe press and Hollywood
clubs that sell Coors. For
don't yet feel that gays
example, Spectrum, the gay
deserve ten percent repre- dub In Brooklyn listed undersentation. And most gays. It OufWeek's Best Bets, also
seems. are not yet Interested sells Coors. (And there are
In really combating
theprobably others.)
destruotlveAmerican family
Kevin O'Connor
Association (lIke Playboy Is, In
Manhattan
court), the tabloids and
P.S.And by the way, why

don't'you listthe "outer· boroughs In your bar guide?

See What the Activists In the
Back Room Will Have
I thought your "Reporter's
Notebook· piece on the
ACT UP action In Atlanta
raised an Important and reasonable Issue: that of theapparent source ,of tension
between people In the community who feel that direct
actionIs diametrically
opposed to back room poll,.tICking(and vice versd). The
potential for this tension tothreaten the effectiveness ofthe movement Is reason
enough for concem.
After your exposition of
the problem I thought you
would elaborate and elucidate the nature of the pro~lem. Instead. your analysis
read to me like just so much
more bashing. The only
cause you seemed to beable to attribute to the pro~lem was regionalism: cos-

mopolltan New Yorkers vs.
parochial""' ..." ...., ""'...
The truth. of the mQtter Is
that direct action and backroom politicking go hand-lnhand. Look at what welearned from the women's
movement and the civilrights movement. Consult
Saul Allnsky (Reveille for RadIcals) on the utility of directconfrontation for the disenfranchised to assert theirpower. A false dichotomy
exists. What Is the source of
this tension? It could be mliltlvarlate. What IS the potenttal for this misunderstanding
to divide the community?
Teasing out the relatl\le VOrlabies Is tough but Importantwork.
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Personally, I lost two
Important allies In Georgia
because they got mad atme for ACT UPhaving a dieIn In front of the Georgia
governor's mansion In 1988
to protest state Inaction forpeople with HIV/AIDS.

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I Hketo see OutWeek and and I think It's Important.you addressing Issues Impor- ,And she said "OK.tant to ttle effectiveness andAnd so I said "Greatl
survival of the lesbian andThanksa loti- Nary cheerfulgay, rights movement. I,am ly, not sarcastiC.) And I Just
sure you don't believe' there thought I'd send you thisIs such a thing as "value-freenote.
Journalism- anymore than
Sorry I didn't mention
there Is "value-free science:
which "article- I read, but I
I only urge you to strive for think that they'll get the mesexcellence, bracket your
Judgments when ~y standIn the way of your vision, andgo for the truth, don't settle, for the ear( out for a piece.
Afl analysis of the Importance and relevance of thetwo modes of working toeffect change would _be
worthwhile. An exposition of sage. I hope I'm not the only
the Ideologies that drive
one who called.
people apart on this Issue
Anthony Arena
would also be of particular
Manhattan
utility. Basically, I think you
raised a very Important Issue
Where's that Face?
and copped out In the analAs a girl's girl and freysis.
quenter of night time lezzle
DavId Knapp Whittiersocial events, I have been
Brooldyncompelled to get out of mysticky chair and comment
unsmooth Operator
on the Out on the Town with
I called PMK at 3:55 am LJz and Sydney column.
on2/l5/90.
Arst of an~columns of thisA gravely voiced ladysort, In which Impresarios ofsaid "PMK: And I said: "TELL their own celebrltyhood,
CHA9'1TYSHEDOESN'TNEED engage In a who-what-whoA BEARD.AND THATWE LOVE where discourse can be
HERImomentarily entertaining
The gravely voiced lady
provided they cover Interestsaid, "Who's call1ng?Ing oddities and gossip In a
After a looonng sllence...1 manner which amuses thesaid very cheerfully, "Oh this audience.
Is Tony:
ThIs ,Is where LJz and SydThen she said, "Well I'm ney fall short. The name
Justan anSwering service. I'm dropping In bold face Is fine,not In the same bUldlng.but let's try and drop some, So I said, "Yeah so...? Just worthwhile names. Clubr>ass on the message.owners are generally busiAnd she said, "Wen ,this Is nessmen In suits who enjoy~rt of a weird message to money and Investments
caR them for at four o'clock
which serve as toys likeIn,the momlng.dlbs. Unlessthey appear on, So I said "Well give It to the stages ofthelrclub
Inthem whenever ..:drag and do a great Llza
And she said something , Minelli or Elvis, Itls beyond
else Idon't remember about
me why they would warrant
not being In the same buDd- special a1ten1l0n.A$ for pe0Ing-:-and I think she said
ple that run these dlJbs, un1l1
what building she was In. they do something wildly, And should she pass on this sexy or socIaRy slgnlftcant It's
message.
obvious there Is nothing to
So I said "Well I think It's really say about them.
ImportantStanding at a door In a well
. ...1read the ortlde

made suit and being In
charge of a mailing nst reallydoesn't seem worthy ofboldface or type. Susanne
Bartsch In Bangkok Is as interesting as my great aunt's
winters In Sarasota. H for your pubRcIty of La
Escuellta·, unless you can
Salsa .1IJs.La.!r~' Latlna/o,•Rex Hex'
When I r8ad the artlde ofJan. 28 (no. 31) regdrdlng
gay men filing complaints
againstwomyn-only
events/spaces, I was out-,

With Liz and SJ,dn,eJ

Dul on Ibe Town,

where.
A. Girl
Manhattan

raged. I was so angry that I
whether you're a gawkIng,~e heterosexual couple or wasn't Immediately able toa gawking, white lesbian or respond, to deconstruct thegay couple scarcely mdkes ridiculous "ghetto- coma difference. For this reason, ments made by Rex Wock'you have publicized La nero 'As time passed. myEscueIlta In the same vein as
thoughts coalesced and I
Paper.
One major drawback I began to organize mysight for lesbians lately'ls an attack not only on the subInability to expoun~ on a stance, but on the editing ofcertain lesbian erotiCa. We the artlc;le as well. Why
are clearly past the point of wasn't It men1loned that Rex
caring about how the' hetero Wockner often contributed
world views us, but It seems to OufWeek? Why was theas If the gay male opinion Is article edited so that theof great Importance, particapparently rotIondl crI1Iques
ularly for Liz and Sydney.
of single-sex events were
Given the foct that no one rebutted only by clearlyelse Is writing a column of emotional responses, thus
this sort, It's a bit distressing contributing further to thethat what "Ie get Is a tired
devaluation of womyn's sepview of the "scene- by two
aroHstreasoning.
But never, never In a milgay-male-wannabes. LJz andSydney's alignment with gay lion years did, I suspect thatmen strikes me asa bit too
the truth was as horrible as,homo. After all, they are
the Insightful Alison Bechdel
boy's boys and we are girl's revealed-thatthe article
girls and we both should
was dCtually written by one
enjoy the differences. notof Its main subjects. I havemesh beyond distinction.
never witnessed such a disAnd as one small aside I play of journalistic dishonesty
must mention that dental
as that article represents.
dams are as much a part of Your response. that "wemy life as taking the pili.
never get away with any, In any event, LJz and ,Syd- thlng,- Is so Inadequate, thatney, I think that lots of lezzles It Is even more lI'lthlnkable,lf
out there want to hear excit- that Is possible.
Ing gossip. be Informed on'
The responslblllfy of OutIntelligent controversy Qnd Week Is to filter news andread tremendous chronicles
present It from a gay andof the luscious tlts-ond-ass
lesbIan perspective; I am
evening we missed while our certainly
sophisticatedlovely faces were ...elseenough to recognize that an,

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publications' edItortal biases
are reflected In their reportIng, but this lapse Is truly
astonishing. OuMgelc, at 1hevery Ieast,has a responsibility
not to pit members of thecommunity against one
ano1her, but to deal with all
members of the community
with equal respect. Perhaps
calling us one ·communltyIs 1he mistake In my analysis.
Lesbians rnust be ever vigilantof sexism, even from'people 1hey wish 1hey could.

trust.
The editor responsible forpassing that article should
resign Immediately.
The
statement In your m(lSIhead
that the ·oplnlons of OutWeek are represented only
In our edltortals- has cleadybeen violated. Again, I am
so angry that I find myself
unable to address the substance of Wockner's arguments. Perhaps with theseobjections out of the way,

one of my sisterswill take up

Humm, Stoddard, Gallo, NIH,

that, challenge. Unfortunate- COC. the NatIve and Outly, that Is a battle I will ml$S, Week; through near lynch

because It will be a cold day
In hell before I buy this publication again.
Annette L. Hurst
Brooldyn-That Wockner's story ran
wtthout his byline was unfortunate. ,And while OutWeek's response to Bechdel's letter was perhaps
overly glib, It nonethelessackr:t0wledged the error.
which OutWeek regrefs.-Ed.

mob hysterics, community
disorganization and lack of
unified, organized communIty representation. someone
has finally stepped back,taken a look at 1he reigningchaos and made a call toarms.

Oesplte our anger, confusion, finger-pointing, fears
and differences. we must
organize all' of these things,
along with our collective
power, Intelligence and passion, and start throwing the.
stones at our real adverPraise Larry and Pass thesarles-Bush, Cuomo, MoynIAmmunition
HALLELUJAH
I That hosan- han, 0'Amato,Helms,
na Is In response to Larry Oannemeyer, O'Connor andKramer's column In OutOlnklns(before he truly does
Week (no. 34, Feb. 18). become our enemy.)
Through all of 1he recent turAt this time we cannot
moil surrounding1hesubjects offord to become enemies
of Myers, Sweeney, Krlm, to ourselveswhen so much Is
Dinkins,Braff, GMHC, ACT UP, at stake. We are always
St. ,Patrick's,
O'Connor,going to have our dlffer-

ltAVE YOUMET
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ences; we are never goingto agree on every matter ofconcern to 1hegay commu,
nlty. Face It. Accept It. And
let's move on-toge1her.
Robert Allan,
Manhattan
Blasting "Boroughlsm" 'What Is clear In reading
your publication Is that so.
many people care only
about themselves and theircareers.
It seems to be true ofGMHC. Its workers of all colors are more'lnterested In
playing ball with 1hegovernment than fighting a quar~
antlne.
It's true of the·s<x:Olled•All-Peoples Congress, - agroup that pretends tospeak for the working doss
and will sell us out at every
fum.
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show a contempt for thoseof us who can't afford to live
In the trendy vtllage. Yes,gay
people live In the BrQnx,too,and some of us choose to.
Having a downtown address
doesn't make you better.
ACT UP's "Stop KIllingQueers
or We'll Move Here- chantreflects this bias.
It's true of O~ekwhen
you label Koch-appointee
Joyce Hunter a "gay leader
on youth Issues.- Gay youth
have not elected her or the
H$trlck- Martin Institute tospeak for us.They don't,
Now you know why somany gay people
areturned off by the politicalmovement.
Paul Sanchez
Bronx

the number of plcture4.
Two of the congregattons
pages and ads In your andIn the city have recently
other magazines. He ceragreed to celebrate gay
marriages In the same ways 'talnly packs them In at Mars
they do straight ones. Anoth- on SUnday nights, and now
er meeting has been In the at two other spots everyweek. And he packed a lot
throes of discussions andof kinds Into Mars last sumworries about this for nine
years. (What has taken so mer for a supposed beneflt
for GLYNY at "Mars Needs
long Is we Insiston ail agreeIng to, rather than voting on, Klds.- GLYNYwas supposedto get a percentage of theour decisions, and to getthere, we have to persuade, door, yet somehow GLYNY
rather than lobby, line up never got a dime.
On Gay Quakers
sides or maneuver. We're stili .
It was also packed New
In the midst of muchYear's Eve at Cuando. So
trying to persuade.)more Important things peoOur worship and prayer
packed In fact, that theple have wrHten about In let- together Is meant to be a coat check line was two st0ters In these columns, there way to listen to God wlthln
ries long. Chip remedied thehave occaslonal,ly been
and amongst us, to our car- situation by offering a freemention of religious groups
Ing natures, our humor andcoat check. Unfortunately,
and, once or twice, thethen to begin to do some- at the end of the evening,
Quakers.
thing about them. We aremany people had to leave
At least our reputatton Is adults: we have no hierarchy without their coats because
DIstInction with a DHference
positive I People know thatand we have to thinkother people had left withIn Gabriel Rotello's article we have among our mem- through and make our own them. We were some of
on Father Ritter's forced
bers gay men and lesbians decisions.
those people. I myself went
leave of absence fromand don't think much about
We welcome
people, Into the coatroom to find theCovenant House (no. 34, It. Some feel that we are
who think that this kind of coats that were left strewn
Feb. 18), Craig Davidson,
cautious to the point of get- discipline might meet theirabout the floor, as, accordexecutive director of theting little done to relieve the Inward needs.
Ing to the attendants, there
Gay and Lesbian Alilance
oppression within and withJohn Maynard
had never been nearly
Against Defamatton Is quotout us. We may appear
Clerk of the 15th St. enough hangers. According
ed as saying, "The Issuehere rather more Intellectual than Friends' Meeting
to other employees of CuanIs pedophilia, not homosexu- emotional, and there are
Manhattan
do and Mars (hired by Chip),allty.. If Bruce Ritter's rela- doubts as to whether we aremany people lost their coats
tionship with 24-year-old
religiousIn any usual sense ofChip, Which?
that night. Chip personally
Kevtn KIte Is pedophilia, then the word. Someone wrote In
I found It Ironic that your promised us compensation,GLAAD's employment of the these pages that we havecover story In the Feb .. 18 on two occasions, yet weable and energetic Karin ordained openly gay pastors. Issue(no. 34) was devoted to have had to pursue legal
Schwartz as Its assistantEverything but the last Is safer sex, while the backaction; as we had neverdirector Is a vtolatton of child true, Most Friends' meetings page sported a picture of received a dime.
labor laws.
have pastors. I'd be quite"notorious sex kitten- Chip
Chip Duckett knows how
Mr. Davidson goes on to surprisedIf any of them were Duckett. ThisIs 1YPlcalof the to throw a party. He Justsay, "pedophilia Is a much
openly gay. Though we wel- contradictionthat exists doesn't know how to keep
bigger problem with straights come all kinds of peOple to between Chip Duckett's
hisword.
than with gays. - This Is true, our meetings, a gay pastor Image and realHy.
Yale Alexander
but not In the way Davidson would be more than any
Chip's roots as a publicist
Marc Borders
appears to believe. Sexual pastoral Friends' meetingare certainly obvious from
Manhattan
abuse of children Is Indeed a I've heard of woud swallow.
"much bigger problem with This Is because there Is astraights than with gays: as strong biblical base to most
most sexual abuse takes
FrIends' religion, and most ofplace ,within the family When our groups Interpret thatmen molest their daughters,base more conservatively
nieces and other female rel- than not.
attves. VIctIms of such abuse
A dozen of us gay andsuffer a scQndalous lack of Iesblan Frtendsalso meet for
legal protectlol'\ and psy- worship and a pot-lUck supchological support services. per the third SUndciyof each
But gay men who have con- month at the meeting house, ,sensual, loving relationships
In East 15th Street between, with boys face greater legal 2nd and3rd Avenues.
trouble than do straight men
who rape girls. I hope that In
the future Mr. Davidson and
GLAAD will be less muddled
In their thinking and become
more sensitive to the legal
and social difficulties facedby men and boys who loveeach other
Bob Rhodes
Spokesperson
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tine, especIaly when government does so IHIe to help. For
our own self
, weresist any attempt to drive awedge be1ween lB. We haveseen the enemy ald It Is noteach other, It Is AIDS.
Joy A. Tomchln
President, Board of Dlr.
Gay Men's Health Crisis.

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which often manifests Itself
violently, such as In recent
murder on Staten Island?
Even the U.S. Congress hasrecognized,
In Its overwhelming support of the hate crimes bill, that antlgay bigotry Is a serious andsystematic problem In our
culture. Mr. Rooney yelled-Flrel· In an unfortunately
crowded theater. Sometimes,
this bigotryIs
expressed more sub1ly,as In
the Times Hself.which In theKeith Haring obituary thesame day managed
toovoid even mentioning thatthe artist was openly gay.
CBS News apparently
understands what Mr. Baker
and others at the Times do
not: That gay people are nolonger willing to be, nor do
we deserve to be, thebigot's last socially acceptable target.
'
Peter Frl9ciman'
Manhattan

Truce
ments and demand more
7 Daysgovernment flncIng for AIDSNew York, NY 10003
services. And Just last week
There Is no -AIDS cMl warGMHC and ACT UP demonas your sensationalist coverstrated together In Staten
lastTargat(February 14) would have ' Island agahst the blas-related
1he New YorlcTimes
your readers believe; In thekilling of a gay man. In add!New York, NY 10036
wa against AIDS,GMHC and 100, merrt>ers of ACT UPwork
To the Editor:
ACT UP use definitely dlsHnct
CIS vokJnteers ald paid staff at
Russell Baker seems toand complementary tactics.
GMHC while many others- think that his fellow satirist
As In any wa, It Is wise to use receive services here as Andy Rooney's six-figure Job
multiplestrategies.
Our
GMHC Clients. GMHC staff
at CBS Is somehow a -right·
means may be different but members are equally as which has been taken away
our end Is the same stopactive In ACT UP meetings
by a repressive regime atping the epidemic. The conald
0I.r work CBS. Obvlolisly Mr. Baker
troversy generated by the
together has never stopped
sees nothing wrong wtth verselection of Dr. Woodrow
ald won't U'1IIIAIDS Is ended.
bal assaults made on netMyers as health commlsslon-As In at( hedthy COITV'NJ- work television
againster was painful for all AIDS nlty, there are often open,
oppressed minorities. Or
organizations. ,There arewcol disagreements. We ae
against certain mlnor1tles.So
wounds to heal but GMHC
people fighting for our lives. what If the attack was partand ACT UP will continue to
NoflTtg we do Is easy 'or rou- of a large chorus of bigotry
fight on the same side In thebaffle against AIDS.
As you do acknowledge,
both GMHC and ACT UP
chose not to support Mayor
Dinkins' choice of Dr. Myers.
We saw GMHC's role In the
ca'l1rovEllSY CIS keeping lines ofcommunications
open
crnong the vatous AIDS 0Ig0nIzaHons h the dIy. In that role
Jeff Braff had the full supportof GMHC's Boad of DIrectors,
as he has Since the board
selected him by an overwheinhg rnc:ptIy (not by one. vote CIS you report). We foU'ld
Jack up the rates. Treat your workers so badly they go on strike. After
In Jeff (J'l actMst's passion ald.;!11aking them wait two and half months for a phone, keep people trapped ina manager's expertise, and,their apartments for three days while they wait for the phone installer tohe exercised those quaUtles In
come. Then refuse to repair the equipment. Take gay men and lesbians to
the past month, keeping a
to fight their request to be included in The Yellow Pages.
court
calm voice In a heateddebate. Rather than not
Then pull the plug on phone sex lines, which net you nearly 62.5 million-kroi.iAng who were the c0wdollars a year, because you think thst's what's ruining your image. ,boys Cnd Irdans,· Jeff tr1ed toshow there don't have to be
In the gospel words of Anita Ward, you can ring my bell, you shit-wipes.
good guys and bad guys
On second thought, I'll ring it myself.
when AIDS actMsts disagree.
GMHC and ACT UP work
together h coa8tIon with other..... ---.1... ,.
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AIDS OI'ga'llzatlons on a local
and national level to speed
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a Police Officer Irizarry, says the men's brown
Pontiac was parked "in violation of posted sign."
Signs in that particular lot, however, say clearly that the lot closes at midnight and that permit
parking is in effect only during the summer
months. Thus neither sign applied at 11:30 pm inFebruary. On noting this, Fellner said he would
have to question Irizarry about this part of his
report.
The report continues, "Upon approachingvehicle I observed two male naked subjects kissing and fondeling [sic) each others [sic) exposed
erect penis's[sic]." Here, the two men say fladythat the officer is lying, although they cheerfully
admit they were ~petting" with their shirts off.
But, Ferina said, they were below the cars,.
window line, invisible from the outside---and, he
HilS PIECE •••Photo: T. L Lltt said, the windows were fogged up as well. Still,
Vincent FenlUl, near whe", he and hIS boyfriend wtI", ami_II.
when they saw the headlights, Joey jumped fromby John Voelcker
the back seat into the front.
NEW YORK-Two Brooklyn men arrested in Jacob Riis
As for the statement they were naked, Ferina justPark in Queens early this month on charges of public lewd- laughed. His jeans were tight enough that it would haveness have decided to fight the charges. They allege not been almost impossible, he said, in the cramped back seat
only that the excuses used by a U.S. Park Police Officer to of the car. "Anyway," he said, "I didn't go to have sex in aapproach them was false, but that the officer lied about car," but that he had just wanted to spend so~e time with
their conduct in his report and while interrogating each of Joey.
them. And, they say, the whole case would not have
It is this part of Irizarry's report-which
they say conoccured in the first place if they had riot been gay.
rains flat-out lies that made the two men so determined to
According to Vmcent Ferina, 22,' of Bensonhurst, he press their case. "I've never had any criminal charges everand his boyfriend Joey, 21, who ~ives in Gravesend, just in my life," said an angry Ferina, "and I'm not about to start
wanted a little "romantic" time at the beach after visiting now just because I was making out with my boyfriend,"
with friends earlier on the night of Monday, Feb. 5. ' At
11:38 pm (according to the police report), Ferina said he
Separate questioning
and Joey saw a set of headlights approaching their car,
Once the officer opened the door and ordered them out,parked in Lot 3 at Riis Park, which faces the sea on the he frisked them, handcuffed them and called for a second
Rockaway Peninsula, south of Brooklyn.
officer, who also frisked them Joey wasn't allowed to put on
his shirt despite the freezing weather, Ferina said, although ,• ...kissing and fondling ...·,
Ferina himself was. At no time did either officer read them
From that point on, the events described in the police their rights, he said, altl)ough Lt. Fellner countered that thisreport diverge considerably from the story told by the two would not be unusual in a lewdness case where "extensive
men-and also from the standard police procedure in such investigation isn't required" and there is no intent to questiona case, as presented to autWeek by Lt. Michael Fellner, who the suspects.
is patrollieutenailt for the U.S. Park Police at Riis Park.
After being taken, to the station house, Ferina, said,
According to Fellner, it is standard procedure for park Irizarry did read them their rights, and then questioned
police officers . on patrol to inspect any cars in the "very each of them separately. Ferina alleges that Irizarry told
deserted" area during the winter, However, the report, by each that the other had admitted th,ey were having oral
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sex, in an attempt to force a confession. "He told
Joey, 'I assume you were having oral sex,' and hetold me, 'I thought you wercr in the 69 position,'"
Perina said.
Fellner said, however, that "for a misdemeanor offense, normally we wouldn't question, an arrestee about the incident." Told thatthe twomen say they were questioned repeateClly, he said
he would have to ask Irizarry about that, too .
.During the interrogation,
Ferina said, heaccused Irizarry of antigay bias, saying that theywouldn't have been arrested if they'd been astraight couple. While Irizarry denied that charge,
later comments by the officer convinced Ferina,that in fact antigay bias had contributed to theirarrest.
As the two men were being released, Ferina
Photo: T. L.litt
SEASON'S GREmNGS
said, Irizarry casually advised them they should have
Sign in patlcing lot wIIa,. Februa" arrasts took plat:.
gone to another part of ·the beach which he named,
Planning to fightwhich was better knoWn for gay sex. "He told us he had
The pair plan to contest the charge of publicarrested one corrections officer giving a blowjob to anotherone then;:," Ferina said incredulously. "And he said if we'd lewdness levied against each of them. Neither has paid
been out in the bushes there, it would have been a complete- the $100 fine, which would constitute 3n admission of
guilt, and each is still waiting to be assigned a date for aly different story."
Released after more than an hour, the pair had to call a hearing in U.S. District Court. ,They decided to fight, Ferina said, after talking to sevcar service to take them from the station· house back to theircar. There, Ferina said, they began arguing-until they real- eral friends, who were uniformly outraged at their story andized that each was accusing the other of the same thing. the treatment they got. Several friends, bOth straight andgay,
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gay workers and attract a large gay
remote, rural section of Georgia.
Employers and insurance compaclientele. He said that Peasant Corpo, On a third case, Lambda Legalnies that reduce health care benefits
ration's Atlanta location would enable
Defensehas filed a complaint
for illnesses resulting from HIV-infec- ACt UP to conduct "much moreagainst H&H Music, a Houston,tion are beginning to suffer pressure
intensive actions" against the compaTexas-based music store chain andapplied by AIDS activists and gay- ny than had been possible in the case,music publisher,on behalf of arights organizationscommitted to of Galaxy, which is located in a rather
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A telephone action orchestrated" by 21 ACT UP chapters last monthagainst Galaxy Carpet Mills of.,. Chatsworth, Georgia, resulted in that
c9mpany's agreeing to eliminate aclause in its employee health insurance policy that discriminated against
people with AIDS.
ACT UP/Atlanta
is currently
involved in negotiations
with themaAagement of the Peasant Corporation, which runs a chain of restaurants
by David Angarcer, conlqlits no other crimes, spends,
in the Atlanta area, to remove a cap
MINNEAPOLIS-Madeline'six days in ,a Hennepin County Adulton tlle amount of money its insurance Rodriquez, a 37-year-old native New
Detention Cenler, verifies outpatientpolicy will pay toward covering medi- York woman living with AIDS, wasmethadone treatment and verifies
cal expenses for treatment of AIDS- found guilty of second degree assault
additi0nal mental health counseling
related sicknesses.
by Hennepin County District Judgewith tp.e court.
Peasant Corporation, which, like Kevin Burke on Feb. 12. Her case wasRodriquez was explicitly told that
Galaxy, is a self-insurer that does not championed by ACT ~ (AIDS Coalishe must either continue
withuse an outside carrier, has imposed a tion to Unleash Power), which held amethadone
treatment or enter an'. cap of $10,000 on medical treatment
demonstration outside Minneapolis'
inpatient treatment center. Judge, for AIDS-related conditions.
" City Hall on her behalf.
BQrke s~id, "I don't want you to I:
According to Chip Rowen of ~CT
Prior to ACT UP's Dec. 8 protest,' , decide that youjre going to chuck the" UP/Atlanta, ACT UP has threatened
Rodriquez was charged with attemptwhole thing, or that you could."
actions against Peasant Corporation
ed murder on Dec. 5 after allegedly'
J~Peterson, Rodriquez's attor, unless their discriminatory policy is spitting saliva and blood on a Minney, said she stjll maintains her inno, changed by Feb. 28. He said that neapolis police officer during a discenq~.
, ACT UP has rejected statements made pute in her apartment.
On Dec. 1 Rodriquez was hit by
by the company executives that the
In a plea bargaining agreementa Minneapolis police officer who was
cap was imposed only as a matter of with the court, charges of first andattempting to restrain her son. After, expediency after the company was third degree assault were dropped.
being strUck in the jaw, she began to, dropped by a major insurance compa- Rodriquez waived her right to a jury , bJeed. Accorcijng to the original court
i ny and that Peasant
fully intends to trial and pleaded guilty to assault incomplaint flied by attorneys for the\ "take care of" any of its workers who the second degree. The negotiation
state, ,Rodriquez screamed, "I havefall ill from HIV-related causes.
resulted' in imprisonment
being
AIDS and I hope you get it and die,Rowen said that Peasant's dis- waived, and Rodriquez was placed on,motherfucker. "'criminatory
plan was particularly
five years probation.
Rodriquez disputed the police
offensive because the company was,Judge Burke agreed to probation
officer's story. At a Dec. 5 court hearuntil recently, gay-owned, and that on condition that Rodriquez remains
ing, Rodriquez, said, "Ynur Honor, I. P~asailt's restaurants employ many under su~rvision of a probation
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Bellevue shelter as a 925-bed "special
network, will put an unfair additional
needs" facility that will house physiburden on GMHC and other private
NEW YORK-Ina joint press
AIDS service agencies.
conference held on the steps of city cally and mentally disabled persons.
According to Dinkins' statement, theV'u-ginia Shubert, who directs thehall last Tuesday morning, representaspecial needs program's opening will
AIDS Project of the Coalition for thetives of 23 AIDS service and homelessbe delayed for f(.)ur mopths until renHomeless and who spoke at Tuesadvocacy organizations
expressed
day's gathering, told OutWeekthat her
their dismay over what they see as a ovation is complete.
According to some press-confergroup has sent a letter to the mayor's
dramatic and troubling about-face onence participants, the Bellevue unit has
office containing several alternate
the part of Mayor David Dinkins.
remedies to provide some immediate
Their outrage focuses on the imple- already begun operation, though only
two HIV-ill people have been assigned
relief of the growing problem posed
mentation of a plan, similar to one
by homeless PWAs.
developed during the Koch administra- to it. Norbert Bissinger, a member ofthe shelter's advisory council, said thatFirst, said Shubert, "we want thetion and opposed by then-Manhattan
Borough President Dinkins, to place
70 beds are currently being held empty
city's Department of AIDS Services tofor eventual occupancy by HIV-ill peo- 'expand its case management services
HIV-ill homeless people who do not
pIe and that, in the meantime, the shel. meet strict criteria for other housing into all HIV-infected homeless people.
•. "special care units" of city shelters.
ter is being forced to tum away about
This is required to get them the advoDinkins announced late on Tu~ 50 men each night, directing them tocacy they need,"
Shubert said that homeless PWAs
J day that he intends to move ahead with other city-run shelters. The shelter'S. the implementation of the program. In advisory council is among the groups
need ~o1lru!-tion and help in expedit. letters written to then-mayor Koch in opposing the mayor's plan.
ing their application for the rental 'assis- '1988"andParticipants in the press confertance funds provided by the city and in.''.1989 Dinkins 'had exp ressed
ence argued that consigning homelesssearching for the market housing' that, objections to the earlier shelterPWAs to city shelters endangers thosethat assistance makes possible. The",ba~dplan,saying that "any facility
accommodating more than 50 PWAs persons' health, safety and privacy, is
Coalition for the Homeless also wantS; would be hannful to [their] physical and more expensive than alternative plansthe city, to guarantee reOt, of'psychologicalhealth" and that "noinvolving scattered-site housing forthe renta1 "bridge" loans now offered byamount of offsetting social services
PWAs, and sets a disturbing precedent
several advocacy groups to homeless,could overcome" this.
that betrays Dinkins' stated commitPWAs who need immediate financial
In the statement released last
ment to provide adequate services for 'assistance when signing leases.
homeless people who are HIV-ill.
Most importantly, all of the groups
week, Dinkins said the pilot prop
Advocates estimate that there are now
represented at Tuesday's press conferhe ,supports represents a "substantilil
10,000 homeless people with HIV-relatence are pressing the city to immediate:revl$iQn"of the Koch proposal and that, it incorporates "special safeguards ...to ed illness in New York City - a figure
ly issue requests for proposals for
ensure,enhanced
care
for
those
who
they
expecttorise
to30,000by
1992.
unlimited
scattered-site housing pro. ,Jeffrey Braff, executive director ofwill be participating in the program."
grams for hom~less PWAs. These RFPs,
the Gay Men's Health Crisis, enumeratThe first special care unit has been
according to Shubert, have been onplanned for the Bellevue Men's Shelter ed the many complaints about condihold for more than a year"
tions in city shelters that homeless
Shubert said that the Coalition for
at First Avenue and East 29th Street,the Homeless already runs one suchwhere a segregated wing has been set PWAs have brought to GMHC. Echoing'
other participants' contention that mostprogram, which has been very sucaside to accommodate 560 medicallyhomeless PWAs will opt to live on the ,<?essful. She said that she has foundfrail people. One hundred beds in thatstreets and in subway stations if citythat landlords are very eager to rent
wing are designated for HIV-infected
to tQe not-for-profit
agencies thatmen who do not meet the Centers for shelters ,are their only alternative, Braff
would administer the city- and stateDisease Control definition of AIDS said that it was unclear "what accessfunded scattered site programs.
and/or who are not so sick that they HIV-infected people will have to social
service programs" if they refuse place- "Joining the others gathered on city"cannot bathe or toilet themselves.
The Dinkins plan calls for thement in shelters and that the plan, by
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HERE'SSOMETHING·
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by Jamas Wallar
NEW YORK-The
AmericanFoundation
for AIDS Research(AmFAR) has announced the appointment of William Flanagan, formerly alaw professor at Montreal's McGill
University, to serve as the organization's new director of public policy.

outrageous

the pharmaceutical companies must
help us build the aitica1 mass necessary
to perform research properly. AmFAR
can't do it alone," Flanagan said. 'During his first month with
AmFAR, Flanagan worked with acoalition of gay and other civil-rights
groups to put together what he calls a=~~,iw ose ann---=~"consensus document "h'.,is to change the way HIV-infected'~11''. . travelers are treated by the U.S.
",L Immigration and Naturalization=*::,ih".[,' Service (INS) .
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Federal law currently forbids
foreigners
with HIV infection
from, travel in the United States
unless their passports carry a special stamp identifying their HNpositive status.

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GAYft"',"~;..%,:.;~COMMUNITY-BASED POUCYDIRECTOR 4%1@Franciscodu~glate J~ne of ~isyear. A long list ~f foreIgn ~~cal'9and AIDS-serVIce orgaOlzatlOn
Flanagan, who is gay, has been on
have announced
their intention tothe, job with AmFAR for about fiveboycott the conference unless these.weeks. In a telephone interview withtravel restrictions are lifted.
OuIWeek, he listed his goals in the new
Changing the law under which
position as being, first, to build up andthe INS operates will require an act ofgive direction to AmFAR's public policy
Congress. AmFAR, 'says Flanagan, isdepartment, which, he says, has beenworking with a number of Washingwithout a director for a long time.
ton, D.C.-based lobbying groups toSecondly, Flanagan said, he sees
get Congress to remove HIV infection
the need for AmFAR to press morefrom the INS list of "dangerous contastrongly for adequate federal and pri-, gious" diseases. But, he said, that willvate funding for the nationwide: netinvolve a long, hard fight.
workof themore
than
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In the meantime, AmFAR is hopcommunity-based clinical trial groups
ing th~t the coalition-drafted
docu(CBCfGs) with which AmFAR is assoment, which has been sent to the INS,ciated. CBCfGs provid~ venues forwill alter the way in which INS agents
testing experimental therapies for HIV deal with travelers they suspect may
infection and AIDS-related illnesses.
be HIV~infected. Although the regula"We need to get the message totion requiring travelers who apply for
NIAID [the NationaI Institute, for Allergy U.S. visas to state their HIV status willand Infectious Diseases] that they and I
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A three-judge panel of the Ninth.Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco ruled unanimously Feb. 2 that the
U.S. Defense Industrial Security Clearance Office (DISCO) may single out
gay security clearance applicants for
special investigations.
The ruling
reversed a 1987 decision by District
Judge Thelton Henderson, which heldthat the special investigation process
violated the Constitution by unjustifiably discriminating on the basis of sexual orientation.
The lawsuit was brought by HighTech Gays, an organization of gays
employed in high teChnology occupations, and three individuals who had
been subjected to the special investigation procedure.
DISCO claims that gays with accessto sensitive infunnation may be vulnerable to blackmail by foreign agents, sothat a special 'investigationof theirlifestyle is necessary to determine
whether they should be given suchaccess.
High Tech Gays asserts that an
applicant's sexual orientation is not a
sufficient ground for initiating such aninvestigation, and condemns DISCO's'
practice of relying on memberships ingay orgaruzations as a basis for determining whom to investigate.
In his 1987 decision, Judge Henderson found that government policies
which discriminate against gay people
require a high burden of justificationfrom the government When treatment is
unequal based on classifications which
are considered suspect, such as race, thegovernment policy receives strict scrutiny. Some classifications, such as sex,
have been held to be "quasi-suspect" by
the Supreme Court, meaning that the
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is re1atively light.

The Supreme Court has never ruled
on whether h'ty is a "suspect"
clasSification. But Judge Henderson
ruled in 1987 that homosexuality is atleast a "quasi-suspect" classification, andthat the reasons DISCO gave for singlingout gay applicants for security dearances
did not meet the burden of justification.
The Nmtb Circuit panel disagreed.
Writing for the panel, Judge Melvin
Brunetti, who was appointed by President Ronald Reagan, said that the 1986
Supreme Court decision in the Bowers
us. Hardwick Georgia sodomy case,made dear that gays are entided to no
special protection from discrimination.
Traditionally, courts have determined whether a classification is "suspect" by looking for indications thatprejudice is at work. Judge Brunetti
focused on a three-part test that is frequendy used: has the classification traditionally been used to . ..
~j isthe classification based on an innate or
iIIunutable characteristic (such as color
or sex)?j and are the people banned by
the classification unable to participate
effectively in the legislative process?
The Ninth Circuit concluded that,

only the first test was met, but that gays
flunked the omer two tests:"Homosexuality is not an iIIunutablecharacteristicj it is behavioral and hence
is fundamentally different from traits suchas race, gender, or alienage, which definealready existing suspect and quasi-suspect classes," he wrote.
"Moreover,legislatures
have
addressed and continue to address thediscrimination suffered by homosexuals
on account of meir sexual orientation
through the passage of antidiscrimination legislation, Thus, homosexuals are
not without political power."
Richard Gayer, the attorney forHigh Tech Gays, has already filed apetition to have me full Ninth Circuitreconsider this decision.
"The court's opinion, although it
reads well to me uninitiated, is really aresult-oriented decision," Gayer chalges.
"'They decided mey were going to rulein favor of the Defense Department, andthey had to bend over backwards to doit."'One of the fallacies he points out isthat the court misapplied the third test.
While it is true that many cities and two
See ANTI-GAY FEDS on page fi1

~said Shalala regarding formulating a
concerted lobbying effort. "Afterweeks of consultation on this issue
with those in our campus community,
state leaders, alumni and supporters
across the country, we have been persuaded that a vote on whether or not
to sever this campus' ROTC contracts
would, in the end, hinder our effectiveness in working with Congress and themilitary on this issue.·Faculty and students working forchange were disappointed
by' theadministration's
decision.
JordanMarsh, 'a Madison student, said thebottom line for Shalala was money.
Democrats and Republicans in the
WISCOnsinlegislature as well as Republican Governor Tommy Thompsonpressured Shalala to keep ROTC on
campus despite the presence of astatewide lesbian and gay rights bill.
DWeBoll~,~cW~nsinstate Representative and chair od theveterans and Military Affairs, sent a letterto Shalala threatening to mandate theuniversity to keep ROTC on campus.
Conservative Republican State Senator
Michael Ellis wrote a letter to Shalalacomplaining that kicking RarC off campus because of lesbian and gay discrimination would make Madison the "SanFrancisco of the midwest.·
And according to Brian Elliot, aresearch analyst for the Congressional
Veterans and Military Affairs Committee,
legislators were afraid that affinning thefaculty's action would endanger future
defenSe contracts and military posts in
WISCOnsin. Flliot said Wisconsin policymakers are Vigorously lobbying.Congress and the Department
ofDefense to build a Joint Readiness TrainIng Center in Wisconsin, which could
bring a great deal of money to the state.
University and legislative officials
were careful not to appear homophobic. Joseph Elder, a Madison faculty
member who Introduced the original
motion, said that If officials were
homophobic they did a good job In
disguising any anti-gay sentiments.
But Jim McParland, an openly gay
Republican member of. Madlson's city
councll, said homophobic attitudes
within ROTC fueled recruits' opposl." tlon to termination. Capttal 7Ym",
Madison's dally newspaper, quoted
ROTC students opposed to lesbian•

and gay inclusion.
"Homophobia is present in oursociety given that there is a muchgreater disgust with discrimination on
the basis of race or religion rather thansexual orientation,· said Elder.
On the national scene, Sue Hyde,director of the National Gay and lesbian
Task Force's Militmy Freedan Project, said
the university's reluctance to go forwardwith establishing a deadline indicates that
it is still a~leto . ..
againstlesbians and gay men.
"Since Shaw and Shalala recom-

mended that the University of WlSCOOSln
coordinate a program to change military
discrimination, we extend to them ahearty welcome to the gay and lesbian
military freedom lobby,· said Hyde.
As in the past, University of Wlsconsin-Madison has been at the forefront of social change.
Campusesthroughout the United States, from
Northwestern to Harvard, are debating ROTC's discriminatory
policy.
Universityof Iowa's law school
recently voted to ban Rarc programsfrom meeting at the law school. T,

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The "lesbian" sea gull phenomenon has been studied extensively in the past 15 years by several
California academics,
including
George Hunt afthe.' University of California at Irvine and Michael Fry at theDavis campus Clf:thCisame university.
"It shows up in newly-foundedcolonies or in places where there is a
lot of agriculture," Hunt explained.
"Wrth new colonies the ,situation is thatfemales tend" to disperse more thanmales and there
be excess females
in a new colony. For want of a better
partner, they pair offtogether."can

The female-paired gulls "have thefreedom to go elsewhere, but for
whatever, reason they don't,· Huntsaid. "They are not forced to stay at aparticular island to breed there, butthey do."A major study of lesbian gulls
was conducted on Santa Barbara
Island,in the Channel Islands off,
Southern California. Researchers
found, that 15 percent of female western gulls had same-sex mates, laying
eggs fnthe same nest and defending
the nest as a couple.
"It's impossible for a single guU to
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SO they can switch off in incubation.
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The females defend the nest as normal State.
gulls would. They are smaller but
fairly aggressive."
Hunt says the female pairs retain
female behaviOrs, including "sOlidting
courtship feeding with the [characteristic] head-tossing directed at eachother. ", Male gulls regurgitate food tohelp females in egg production.
, "Neither partner in the femalep~irs consistently shows masculine
behavior," Hunt said. "Both resemble
females in intruder issues and are sigWASHINGTON-The
Gay' andnificantly different from males. We
Lesbian Arabic Society (GLAS) of therejected the hypothesis that femalefirst such group in ~hefemale pairing is the adoption of a U.S.-themale role by either partner Or an world, including the Middle East-is
looking for members and other peoextreme female role by one member."Researchers have observed a ple interested in gay Arab issues.
Formed in the nation's capitalsm~ll amount of femalelllounting~vior,
but accourding to Hunt, it is more than a year ago, GLAScurrently
uncommon .. "The female gets on the reports dozens of members aroundback of the other bird arid they go the country. The group is open togays and lesbians of Arabic origin or
through all the behavior you'd expectTo
a male to, except they seem misori- descent, and their supporters.
accomoda~e increasing West Coast
ented and, instead of facing forward
they might stand facing siqeways or interest, GLAS has recently opened a
San Francisco chapter.
S?mething," he said.
"GLAS provides Arab men and
The female-paired gulls "obviouswomen with a support network andly" breed, with Plales, researchers
point out, "but we don't know much vehicle for gay Arab Visibility," said
about where they get fertilized," Hunt Ramzi Zakharia, GLAS founder andco-leader, in a prepared press statesaid. "Sometimes nests are close
together and there can be one male ment. "We reach out to gay Arabs
and build a group identity that, forwith several females."Although the most common envi- the most part, does not exist."ronment for female pairing ,is newlyBut perhaps most important, said
fourided colonies, the phenomenon
Zakharia, is the work GLASundertakes
also occurs in established colonies
to dispel
about Arabs.
"We advocate a positive image of
where males have been "feminized"
by chemical pollutants.
Arabs in the gay and lesbian commuSuch scenarios
were most com- nity," said Zakhatia, a Palestinian,born and raised in 'lebanon.
"We'mon in the 1960s and 70s, researcherssay, and may well be the result .of attempt to 'change negative stereotypes, such as the 'sultan' image, that
PCB, DOE and the pesticide Mirex.
"There are pieces of evidencesome people have of us. We alsothat DOE gets transformed by one
educate the straight Arab community
organism to another as it goes , about gay and lesbian issues."
through the biochemical cycles of the
GLAS will partidpate in the Secanimal......-QIld
some of those are estro- ond Annual Arab AIDS Conference In
gen analogs---and this can lead to a
Cairo this March. Most recently;
GLAShaS worked with Al ]a-dwal, thefeminization of male tissue," Huntnewsletter of the American Ardb Antiexplained.
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Discrimination Committee, to publish, The phenomenon
has beenobserved among gulls in Lake
information about fighting AIDS in
Ontario, Puget Sound and elsewhere.
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Those tariff changes must be
NEW YORK-In
response to approved by the Public Service Comattempts by New York Telephone to mission (PSC) before they take effect.
restrict access to adult phone services, If approved in their present form,
commonly known as the phone sex many phone sex lines would ceaselines, SAFE CALL,an organization of operations on March 21.
,
Th~ tariffs were inspired by a
new federal law, sponsored by Sen.
Jesse Helms (R-N.C.) and passed lastNovember, severely restricting accessto phone sex and making it a crime toprovide the means for obscene conversations on the telephone for profit.
Groups and individuals involvedin forming SAFE CALL had several,
reasons for opposing the ban onphone sex. AIDS advocates are concerned because phone sex is widely
viewed in the AIDS community as aform of safe sex. It is feared that aban on that fonn of sexual expression~M:::~:'"7W:~:''
could lead, in some cases, to a rise inunsafe~.
Civil libertarians view the ban as
an assault on First Amendment right
FOR WHOM THE BELL TOLLS
of free speech. Gay and lesbian rights
D,mo at th, phon, company
groups were angered at what theymembers of many of the state's top 'view as an attack on a vital fonn ofAIDS, gay and civil liberties groups,
communication
and assembly for
has fonned. On Wednesday, the day gays. And gay and lesbian journalists,
after it was constituted. SAFE CALL editors and publishers were conheld a demonstration
outside thecerned about the future of their publioffices of New York Telephone, dis- cations, many of which are heavily
tributing infonnation on the proposed
dependent on advertising revenues
ban to phone company workers
from the phone sex c0nlpanies.
entering the building.
Lawyers for SAFE CALLstressed
A second demonstrationis that the first line of defense against
planned for Thursday, March 1 at 12 the ban was to convince the PSC tonoon outside the building at 1095 tum down the new tariff proposals,
Sixth Avenue near 42nd Street.
and many gay, AIDS and civil liberties
The group was fonned in reaction groups sent letters and briefs to theto a proposal by New York Telephone
PSC outlining their reasons for opposto change its tariffs, or rules, concern- ing the ban.
"ing access to and billing for the InforRon Vachon, Director of the New
mation Providers (IPs), as the adultYork City Office of Gay and Lesbianphone service operators are called.
Health Concerns, wrote to the PSC
Industry analysts contend that the pro- that, "One of the most severe obstaposed tariff changes would drive the cles faced by AIDS educators is reachIPs out of business in New York.
ing men who have sex with men, but

do not affIliate with the gay community, and consequently, frequently
deny that they are at risk for AIDS.
For that group, telephone sex is a
way to connect with other men ...without the risk of contracting AIDS."
Additional letters were sent by
Gay Men's Health Crisis, ACT UP,
Lambda Legal Defense and Education
Fund, The New York Civil Liberties·
Union, Gay and Lesbian, Alliance
Against Defamation (GLAAD), HEAL(a holistic healing group) and numerous other groups.
Mark Barnes, head of the New
York State Department of Health AIDS
Policy Board, issued a statement saying, in part, "I fear that to put up bars
to safer sex will result in the unnecessary spread of HIV in New York State,
and if that is the result it would beappalling; It would be particularly
appalling if this occurs because ofactions taken by New York State itself."'
Lawyers for SAFE CALLare also
preparing a challenge to the banshould the PSC approve the new tariffs.
A further legal challenge is being
discussed nationally by lawyers' for abroad consortium of groups opposedto the Helms law on constitutional
grounds. A similar law passed in,1988,
which mandated an outright ban onphone sex, was declared unconstitutiona! by the Supreme Court last fall.
The new Helms law was designed toovercome the Court's objections byregulating phone sex out of businessbut not banning it outright.
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SAFE CALL was endorsed byLambda, the New York Civil Liberties
Union, GLAAD, the Gay and Lesbian
Anti-Violence Project, Northern Lights
Alternative, FAIRPAC, the Minority
AIDS Task Force, HEAL, Body Positive, the AIDS Center of Queens
County, the Gay Cable Network, the
New York Native, OutWeek magazine
and Dial Information Services. T

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Poor Nat Hentoff. Imagine starting
off life as a respected lefty writer andcommentator, and then degenerating intoa two-faced right wing creep, a poor
man's William F. Buckley. Ending up an
embarrassing fag J:r.asher.
, Fonnerly loyal readers now writhe
as Nat tries to cultivate a pseudo-progressive persona while dishing out drek Anita
Bryant and Jesse Helms would serve up
themselves. In this respect he mimics former Mayor Ed Koch, who also claimed to
be a liberal even as he defended policemurder and incited racism. Bothmen seem to think that their
twisted contradictions lift themHI
intellectual miles above col,leagues who are mired in a dogmatism which they pretend tohave surpassed.
But the truth is that both areessentially right wing sexists and~omophobes
without
thecourage of their convictions,emotionally weckled to neo-conservative schlock while apparently ruing the freedom andrebellion of their long lost youth.
Hentoff is now a full-fledged
embarrassment
at the Village
VOice. The latest sad chapter in
his protracted decline was last week'scolumn, "Silence - Black and Hispanic
Deaths." In it he decries the detestable~tendency of the mainstream press,
including the V~ to ignore the spreadof AIDS in communities of color. So fur,great But homo-hating Nat couldn't stop
there, because homophobes are nevercontent to discuss society's bankrupt
approach to AIDS without pointing theirfinger at the inevitable super-villians of
the crisis, namely gays. Or"in Nat's loaded, coded phrase, "gay white males."Social hatred of gays has always
marginalized us whatever our 'color orsex, but that rnatginalization is taking on
new dimensions in the hands of fake 1iberals like Hentoff. With overt homophobia no longer acceptable in liberal cin:les,Hentoff links "gay" with the oppressive

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larecent segment of PBS's The 11th Hour.
Explaining to Tom Stoddard and me that
she had "compassion" for gays with
AIDS, she nevertheless felt compelled to
explain the vital difference between gays
and Blacks with the disease. "We haveto say," she had to say, "that when we
look at this disease [among Blacks], thisdiseaSe affects women, children, therefore families and the propagation of generations for our community." Such a
point, that there is a vital differetl\.'e in
AIDS in the Black community because
there it affects real people who have real 'code "white male" and bingo, he has a
new legitimate target of liberal hatred.
Now, if queers of any color or sex
participate in a demonstration against
contact tracing, they are all selfish "whitemen" ignoring the priorities of people ofcolor. If fags or ~kes clare to protest
some asshole putting us in concentration
camps, bingo, we're insensitive "whitemale" racists failing to do our duty to
advocate for tha;e "hardest hit" by AIDS,
namely anybody but us. Ot would probably surprise my dozens of dead "gaywhite male" friends that they were not
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The unspoken
assumptionofHentoffian homophobes is that gay priorities and gay lives are not valuable lives,
and that if gays want respect we haVe an
obligation to place our priorities, and ourlives, below tha;e of people more "legitimate" than we. We've always been
expected to feel guilty being gay. Now, if,
we refuse to cringe and accept that guilt
because of traditional reasons like oldfashioned homophobia, we must learn tofeel guilty becauSe we're white or male, .
(even though many in the forefront of
grouPs like ACf up, or GMHC are neither, a fact homophobic Hentoff conveniently ignores.),,
Debra Fraser-Howze, executive
director of the Black Leadership Coalition
on AIDS, put it very succinctly on achildren and 17uIJdreal families, is thevery definition of homophobia.
It.'s
lUlSpeakably insulting to our community.
It presupposes the inherent worthlessness of homosexuals because we (suppn5edly) don't reproduce.
Now add to that Nat's concept that
we're all additionally guilty because of
the myth that we're all "white males,'and you have a potent emotional brew
for nea-homophobes like Hentoff, who
can't get away with traditional homophobia (it isn't cool) but have no trouble
bashing gays if you attach to us the
oppressor-code "white males."Hentoff made some incredible sta~ments that could only be expected fromsomeone who failed to interview a single"gay" for his inflammatory piece. (WhywouldanYQne want to interview those

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fiasco she never saw "in the'ges of
OutWeek any aclmowledgement
theBlack community has a role to plfLywith
regards 19 AIDS." She obvioUSlf didn't
read this magazine during tile ~inquemon. But it's also wO~'Yhil~ topoint out,that throughout th~,¥days,
editas and reporters at Outw~ desper,ately attempted to intervi~~IFraser:Howze tc;> get her views on ,verymate that we called her ofIicetimes.
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the Majority Mien'.
of
ACf UP, Which consists ". of pea..
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pie' 'ofrolor and was at the,ofthe fight againSt Myers. Wltho mentioning ,groups like GMHC and the PWA
Coalition~s outreach to peopl~ of color
and, their pioneering efforts it coalition
bulldirig, ~which' were.~ysetback When people ,like F~er-Ho~ze
brushed f1Sidegay outrage dYer Myers'
homophobia. Without men,iOning thefact that every single piece f>f .!jteratureprinted bY ACf UP is now' ~bY
ACf UP's constitution to betranslatedI
into S~, in an effort toloutreach toth05e in the latino communi~ who don't
read English. Without mebtioning the.nunler~
articles about ~inority community ~and women's health in journals like OutWeM.
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WitHout questioningr people like
Fraser-H~
as to why Ifley don't join
their sisters and brothers! in the AIDS
ac;tivist m~ent
and start! marching anddemonstmting,insteadof complaining,-!
that their 'activities get ~by th05e
willing to, put their bodies, on the line tofight ~.
Without qu~oning
peoplelike Fraser-Howze as to why so few
members:of their. I.
are pea-,pie ac.tua1W, infected with IHIV, or people
with ARC or AIDS, a ~dpation
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Yet Hentoff, is his transparently
disingenuous way, states, "It's not only
much of the press and gay white males,of course, Who 1atgely ignore the dying
people of color .. So [does] the goVernment ..." Gee, thanks, Nat: FIrst yoU tQtally.'igt10reeverything - our conununity has~.
done to bUild bridges with arid assist
other affected groups, and then, ~ened thinker that you are, yoo allow thatdoing nothing is,not only the fauk of gay
wblte males. How big and liberal of you.
Everything about Hentoff reeks ofthis homophobic bias, a bias that should
be out of place in a paper that cJaiins ahuge gay and lesbian readership. Hentoff:wiites of "grim" ACf UP demos, of gays
who "claimed to be speaking on behalfof everyone" with AIDS, of "ACf UP
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different about her AIDS priOrities,changes the subject and starts to talkabout lead paint. But then why would hequestion it? The point-isn't to be rational.
The point is to bash queers. Or rather,excuse me, "gay white inales."Nat Hentoff is a menace to the truth
about AIDS. His incendia11 homophobia
is designed for no other purpose than tofind a new way to blame the veri people
most trying to win the fight against AIDS.
His is the goal of Jeny Falwell and Jesse ,Helms in disguise. Gay and' lesbian readers of the Village Voice should keep thisin mind as they plunk dCJWIltheir ~dollar, Musto, Goldstein, Minkowilz, ~land, Solomon, Indiana, et a~notwithstanding. y\"

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Scott Robert Johnson
Scott Robert JOhnson, born in 1958,
died in San Fran~on January 17. Scott'iiKi!;!!!

grew .up in MasHe had!:wr beautiful
deep
brown eyes and an"·W\.'·_"-......
ous 0'-"
nrln Scott"",'l!'"..,,uu"""'u'l!illNIttW/<,' " lived
San F.
'ij\~~l1~jYiJ:Mt.'
inranosoo"'d:iF ,." co in the early"
1980s, and in New
York from 1984 to
1988. I met Scott thenight of the harmonic convergence" "in August 1987 and__1ff;! :.we rapidly becameclose friends. Scott was impulsive, bold,
generous and fun to be around. He wasan artist, self-taught and on the verge of
becoming very good. In fall 1987 a previously asymptomatic HIV infection became
serious. New York City had very little tooffer Scott in the winter of 1988. He survived two boUIS of PCP in Massachusetts(living with his parenlS) and drove acrossthe country in summer 1988 with Dan
Kane, his lover from earlier in the 1980s.
They lived together in San Francisco forthe next year and a half. Scott was stable
for a time. He had trouble penetrating
S.F.'s overburdened health care system
until he got MAl. Later he a1sO got CMV,
but It stabllized with DHPG. He sti1l painted at times. In fall 1989, he developed a
wasting syndrome. On New Year's Eve of1990 he framed a painting. I saw him laston January 3. He said, "I hope I see you
again.' The next day I flew back east, andhe died two weeks later. I have a lot of
powerful memories of Scott. One is when
he dropped in on a very cold Februarynight in 1988. He unfurled his paintings
like maps. They were covered with lines
and color; like Paul Klee's or Kandinsky's,
his simple designs trembled between at;stractlon and suggestions of dreams orparables. I am sony Scott won't be able toexplore the tenitory he was beginning to
map out in his work. I loved Scott. He
was the reason I became an AIDS activist.
Thanks to Dan Kane, who provided
Scott with boundless love and suppolt inthe last two years. -Mark BarrIngtoniii)!", sachusetts.

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Parting Glances Director
Bill Sherwood, screenwriter and filmmaker, died February 10 from complications related to AIDS. He was 37. Sherwood was writer and director of the 1986
-independent feature, Parttng Glances,perhaps the best and certainly the mostwidely seen moVie about the lives of New
YOrk gay men in the 1980s.
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. D.C., and srew up in Battle Creek, Mich. terlands, was a tremendous political andaesthetic victory. Parttng Glances cerAfter receiving his high school degree
tainly made Sherwood's talents known tofrom the renowned Interlochen
Arts
Academy, he came to New York in 1970 the mainstream film industry. In recent
years, he took on a number of saipt-deon a scholarship from the Julliard School,
velopment, rewriting and directing assignwhere he studied composition under the
menlS, including work for Columbia Pictutelage of Elliot Carter.
Unhappy with the limited world of tures and the Samuel Goldwyn Company.
He struggled to get his own project off theacademic composition, Sherwood left Julground, an original screenplay called
liard in 1972 and soon found a new pasSounds Ltke 'Ibis, which he had taken to asion in the film program at Hunter ColSundance Institute workshop in 1988, butlege. He began making short films,
a deal never materialized. That and Sherearned a degree in film production inwood'sotherremaining screenplays are
1978, attended u.s.C.'s graduate fJlm program and began working at a series of sti1l in ~ch of producers.
Whatever legacy may yet emerge
jobs on the fringes of the entertainment
from the work he left unfinished, Sherbusiness, including editing trailers and diwood set a high standard for gay malerecting music videos.
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He continued to make his own films narrative filmmaking, now or in the future. His vision will be deeply missed; hisand work on original, feature -length
masterpiece will be long cherished.
screenplays.
In 1982, his short, avant-Bruce C. Steele
garde Variations on a Sentence by Proust
was selected for WNET's Independent
F<><;usseries and won awards at the lonClarke Taylor
don International and other film festivals.
One of his two completed screenplays
1943-1990
was optioned but never produced. SherClarke Taylor, director of The Names
wood then conceived Parting Glances as ProjectlNew York and founding member
an independent project he, could himselfof AmFAR, died of AIDS in New York City
direct, raising the necessary, funds largely
on January, 5, after a long and courageousfrom friends. The film:~pened the New
struggle.
York Gay Film Festival in early 1986 andClarke was a man of tremendous acstarted ilS long theatrical run shortly therecomplislunents and high ideals. His life
after. Most reviewers lauded the film, andand work wereit found an immediate audience, speaking
guided by a social
directly to many New York gay men in aand political conway previously unheard of in commercial,sciousness that wascinema. It was a sharp, funny, deeply felt.'formed' early on,movie with an impliCit awareness of theunder the influence"issues" coming out, separatism, monoof the Religious S0gorny, AIDS but not tied to a politicalciety of Friends, or,,-,,:-:-.
agenda. Sherwood made it clear he wasn't"CH'·,
Quak ers. He was a~}VJNr... .
. ,,"painting a grand panorama of all gay life~t:J\itt~:'.. ~'w.-,..::;.
t.
b:f.:tKW~@Wf1MJWit.)hfuWMi' < ~onsclentOUS 0 in New York, nor making a sweepingrstatement on the AIDS epidemiC, and he1!!i1~I{llg!(i!llil!W~';II!Jtthl.:,' JaectiV<:°ist·
alJl·ndthaentli~" "~'_""".,:;,;,:';:;~,,,,,.,~.. _',"'"",'"'-"""
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intentionally set limitations on his story.
':4itJ,w~$'
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andcontinued
1.:>"
The movie takes place in one 24-hour peworking on behalf
riod and depicts only those people whoseof nuclear disarmament, racial and sexual
lives are interwoven with the three rriain equality and gay rights through the next
characters young, Upper West Side gay two decades.
men, one with AIDS.
Clarke was also a teacher of English"The way I work as a filmmaker is and drama, a distinguished journalist,that the gayness is assumed," Sherwood
with over 2,000 interviews, features andsaid in an interview published in the renews stories on New York theater, film
vised edition of VitO Russo's The Celluloid
and television for the Los Angeles TImes,
Closet. "Instead of starting out with some
San Francisco Chrontcle, PhtJadelphta
passionate cause or wanting to make a Inqutrer and New York's Datly News. In
noble' gay fJlm, I just wanted to make a 1977, he wrote a New York magaZinefilm. Period. " According to a friend,
cover story on 'gay power' that marked a, Sherwood didn't know he was HIV-posimedia breakthrough on the subject.
tive white he was making the film, "but he'Clarke was already diagnosed with
was afraid he might be. Making the film
AIDS himself when he served as the diwas one way of dealing with his fear.·rector of The Names ProjectlNew York in
The fact that Sherwood was able to' , 1988. He was also a conunitted and proraise the money to make the lllovie at all
ductive member of ACf UP, as well as a
was a tremendous act of artisitic determiwriter and adviser for The AIDS Quarternation. And that such a celebration of gay
ly, a television'series produced by WGBH
lives was well reCeived, even in the hin,;<::~%.",,~w..,.".'>

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Having recited Clarke's resume, I
want to say that I cared a great deal
about him, as did his many other loyal
and caring friends. Although he and I
met through Joe Sonnabend three years
ago and had worked together in ACT
UP, it was during the PWA Coalition's fiscal crisis in December, 1988 that we became dose. In response to my appeal tohelp at an ACT UP meeting, Clarke put
the coalition in touch with DIFFA, intime for us to receive a sizable grantfrom them. Although he wasn't feelingwell and was actually developing toxoplasmosis through that Christmas, he put
serious thought into what the coalition
could do to improve its financial status.
Following the toxo illness, Clarke
developed CMV retinitis and cryptococcal meningitis in rapid succession. His
K.S. also progressed.
In between, hecame to an ACT UP meeting with flowers for my birthday and shared champagne with me when I passed myboards. I ran over to his apartment
often, to check his blood pressure or reassure hiffi about some new symptom.
Stephen and Clinton cooked for him
and drove him to the doctor; other goodfriends took him to the country, to dinner, to the movies. And lifelong friend,
Lynn, talked to him on the phone late in
the lonely night.
Clarke got tired.
In many ways, he chose a life ofsolitude. As Clarke's friends try now topiece together a total picture of himfrom our individual fragments, we findourselves learning more about him fromeach other than we could have fromhim directly. But in spite of his seemingly solitary struggle, we did not let
him die alone.
It was impossible to discuss feelings
with Clarke; there was simply no entree.
But I did once laughingly tell him I loved
him when he was being exasperating
about some medical issue. Just for a, m0ment, he smiled. And I'm very glad forthat now.
A memorial service will be held on
March 3, 1990 at the Friends Meeting
House, 15 Rutherford Place, at 3 pm.
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capitalism: "Every year 30
million children die of hunger worldwide as aof ourcurrent system. ":'bY.,DOUI Sadownick, He had biceps and the inner light-QIld the kind of punk•,<100 that makes our LA gay boys look like Axl Rose fans. He
wanted to chat with me about the difficulties of "being cool andJewish in the 90s.. I said I'd do my best to help out. I know aeuphemlsm when I see one.
11Us f;atf;ful meeting took place on Jan, 20 at UCLA, wherea progressive Jewish conference was in high gear, It was organized by an alternative mag called Tlkizun, a neurotic-Jewish~orthern-Califomian cross between Mother Jones and October. I
didn't come to this lefty conference, or to L.A. for that matter,,expecting such juxtapositions, But here they were, as oddly L.A.
, as the wet-suited HUter Youths and refugee vatos from EI Salvador found hanging-ten on the same Venice surf,, 'You laugh. But It takes a ceIta:in native New Yorker to feellikea native in LA No one follows any real rules of protocol in•this megacrackpolis anci that makes enormous sense to anyone
raised on a bad block in New York City, Even the 1,~OOliberal
Hebes gathered at UCLA to assail Israeli Occupation and create a
POlitical alternative to the American Jewish right knew they had
feW styles In common.
, ' So I felt at home debating with the Splnozas-for-the-90s while
Ciuising for the latest In Jewish white trash, happy that, for once,
being
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and profoundly gay and Jewish was not so'?glcally Inconsistent. I always resented Judaism for taking mybody awayfrom me and honored my homodom for giving it back.
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Angered by the Left's reckless attacks on itself and its condescension to the masses, jcilous of the Right's monopoly on patrlotic
symbolism and family values, Lerner proposed a political alternativethat was based on the English translation of his magazine's tide-to
mend, repair and Ir.jJlSform the world It's a vision that relies on
Judaism's prophetic traditions rather than its power-hungry 80s
legacy (represented by arcl1-enemy Commentaty). It's an outlook
that's shaped by the irifusion of women Rabbis into progressive
Judaism as well as the way In which feminism has moved secularand religious thinking away from its emphasis on macho-man transcendence to goddess-like immanence and compassion.
Lerner, Betty Friedan,' Peter Gabel and RabbI Laura Geller all
dared Jews to once again take a leading role In multicultural paJtid.pation. "It is the refusal to accept the world as given; articulated In
the prophetic call for transformation that has fueled the radical
underpinning of Jewish Ufe. The great idol smashers, Karl MaIxand Sigmund Freud, articulated a fundamentally Jewish sensibility
a,t the velY moment that they developed a universalistic perspective," said Lerner. He added: "It is impossible to stay troe to Jewish
tradition without working to repair and transform the situation for
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gay and lesbian and AIDS issues In their calls for such a "neocompasslonism. " "Freedom from slavery means freedom to help
the oppressed, Including those fighting AIDS," said Rabbi Geller.
But actioIll! speak louder than words. No openly gay or lesbian speaker addressed the general body. And although there
were two panels germane to gays and lesb~'
AIDS and \heJewish World" and "Lesbian and Gay Identity and the Jewish'«Qrld"-there was no openly gay or lesbian Jewish speaker on the
AIDS panel No access was given to people with AIDS. Tedd
Siegel, 'Iikkun associate publisher and an openly gay man, foundhimself "appalled at yet another instance of progressive Jewish
homophobia." He had wrested control of these panels from Lernera few weeks earlier, But It was too late to radically transform them,as it were,
To hear straight Ws Angeles City Attomey David Schulman
moderate the discussion on AIDS and claim that there was "no con~effort on the part of the Jews to fight AIDS,· was not only
ignorant as far as Siegal, was concerned, but insulting. I made it
clear that if the point at this conference was to RMve the so-called"prophetic tradition" inJewish thinking, then gays and lesbians wereleading the way. ~ had our own contemporary reb in the figureof Larry Kramer as well as in the women and men of ACf UP.
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But this heated discussion
tookplace sc;parate from the general body plenaries.
The same ghettoization
took
place the next day when L.A, lesbian
Rabbi Derinis Elger moderated a discussion on gay Jews being "twice blessed" as
opposed to being "twice oppressed." As
the only openly lesbian rabbi ordained by
the reform movement, and one of threefemale rabbis in Southern California, why
wasn't she given an opportunity to speak
to non-gays and lesbians?
"The hypocrisyof the Tikkun
framers Is evident,' said Siegal. "We haveto Bght il"
Oppression Is ugly stuff, but it cansometimes inspire, too. ' Our numbers grewto nearly 100 during the weekend as word
sot arOOnd that pissed-off Ja!p and dykes
were hanging out for meals, drafting angry
letters to 7tkkun, ploµing ways to threaten
the nkkuners to make good on their calls
for plwalism, intenupdng panels-to makeour point, cornering Lerner in the 'hallway
to make our anger known to him. Yes,•
ootraged lesbian and gay Jews valued the
poUtics of 7tkkun too much to walk out of
the conference, But writer Robin Podolsky
sttuck a chord when she said that "Lerner's
fetish for family values needed some
WOJk. • Our Involvement In
ACf UP had taught us that gay people. , aren't just responsible for ourselves, butalso for the world Such musing not only
segues Into Lerner's, but could also teachhim a thing or two.
At the last meeting, I saw Ald. He
was eager to contribute to the actions
planned against synagogues not addressing
AIDS, but made nervous by the predictable
ogling he attracted.
He sUpped me his
number, before sUpping out of the meeting, forgetting to take his Peace Now button. I smiled. Martin Buber speaks of
knOwing one's ]ewishness by sensi!lg a
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last one I attended was for, ' the purpose of defining and eroticizing"safer sex." It was organized by the
Gay Men's Health Crisis (GMHC) andtook place at The Lesbian and Gay
Community Services Center.
" . ,'. For several
hours, I was one of,about 80 gay men, of every type andpersuasion, who were asked to express feelings about sex and to playgames designed to reorient us to safer
practices. Besides giving the grimly assembled an opportunity to giggle a bit(something of inestimable value, thesedays), I didn't feel much else was accomplished.
What I did come awaywith was the shocking impression thatstereotypical attitudes continue to prevail to the detriment of us all.
Despite the diversity of people present, the evening was geared exclusively
towards anonymous, promiscuous "gay~male-sex-as-usual" illustrating that, despite all the horror that's taken place,there has been no serious attenlpt to rethink the gay-defining "party-line." We
gaYs are still seen to acquire our identities by being' other than the classic heterosexual model, i.e. romantically in loveand manied, something useful to manyin the early 1970s, but of highly questionable value today.
In an age in which' the pleasurepririciple and casual sex with multiple
partners should be disaedited as the reasonHIV has advanced throughout thecommunity, the leader of the safer sex
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selling, sex with condoms, required no ,cators is fonnidable, to be sure. I haveradical alteration of one's sexual habits,
grave personal doubt about the effechowever many men they involved.
tiveness of HIV education among cerPractices now described as "safer" tainpeople,
whatever form it takes.
were, a while ago, called "safe." I wonThese doubts stem from more than an
der what the next qualifying term will
acknowledgementof the consuming
be? And, can we afford this sexual newnature of the sex drive in men. The
speak at a time of crisis? The fact is thatabove-mentioned
litany of cretinous
much of what is referred to as "safer
failings will account for why there willsex" comprises conunon sense. A conalways be some who won't give up
cIom is, after all, merely a micro- I"""'<""'1
thin piece of highly destructible
plastic, a hell-of-a-thing to hang
one's very life on. It's only horny
desperation in us that lends any
credence to a belief that you can,..
have intercourse with it on, andbe safe-pardon
me-"safer."
Much of what's advocated isn't, at
all, safer but highly dangerous to,at least, the uninfected and, probably, everybody.
At the core of this deception is the patronizing feeling,I
among health strategists, that The OfItIndlng Item? ,gay men are too weak-willed, childish,risky sexual practices. For others, thestupid or sick-in-the-head to be exexpediency inherent in closeted sex
pected to act senSibly after sharing all
will be the reason (i.e. doing it on thethe known facts, as brutal as they are.
sly, where and when putting a rubber
Fear of alienating people with the trauon isn't always practicable).
matizing'truth has kept the discussion
Other factors make it difficult conof HIV much lower-key than one
vincing people to do the right thing.
might expect when dealing with a lifeDanger iIi pursuit of sex isn't exactly
threatening disease. Logic alone dicnew to gay men. Many of us have altates that until we have more informaways taken risks, not only to our reputation, there are practices, like anal sex,
tions but to life and limb itself, to get-itthat should be entirely abandoned. If on with our fellow man. For some, risk
the people responsible for disseminat- ,fulfills either self-destructive tendencies
ing information about HIV to high riskor, for complex: r~ns,
constitutes angroups believe that anything usefulimportant part of the thrill. There is
will be accomplished by cajoling us
sadly, in spite of a feeling of conununity
into doing something "safer" rather
that's developed out of the HIV emerthan nothing, they are, themselves, in a gency, hardly a consensus of caring
state of denial. Both incomplete preamong men (not all "gay") who have sex
cautions and no precautions at all canwith ,other men. Many stigma-centeredlead down the road to HIV.
devils inhabit our psyches-under-siege.
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4,1990'I•characterized past generations seems tohave resurfaced, if it eyer truly disapam we realistically hope thatconcern for the, safety of a stranger, forwhom we may feel ambivalence, will
significantly motivate "safer sex?' I, forone, can't forget that, over the years, alarge part of my gay-life experience included encounters with men who either
wanted to hurt me, or used me appliance-like. There will always be deaf
ears to truths and calls for caution, no
matter how forthright.
But the people who showed up atthat seminar the other night, and the majority of gays, are intelligent, motivatedand possessing the sober maturity that
only terror creates. We needed tothe truth with which to make informed
decisions about how to live pur lives, as
fully as possible, uncler circumstancesthat pwmise to be with us for the forseeable future. There was no place thatevening for misinformatiOn,
half truths,,
denial and wishful thinking., That's what
we chose to leave behind 'when we ventured out of our houses. ' 'When these experts talked about
the safety of deep and prolonged"French" kissing, for instance (a formof exchanging bodily fluids), they citedthe "fact" that there iSn't evidence of
one case of transmission of mv by thismethod. The aSsertion ignores the reality that the whole study is still in its
infancy and subject to frequent revision. They went on to insist that thesmall amount of HIV found in saliva
would, require swallowing anywhere, from a large beaker to a swimming
pool full of it to infect anyone. Even if
I could forget that we're talking about
microbes, and that one needn't be exposed to more than a few or, theoretically, one in order to become infected,
I would have to remind us that saliva
is only the largest part of what inhabits
our mouths. One needn't suffer fromchronically bleeding gums for there tobe small amounts of blood present at
any given time, particularly
whenthere's sucking and thrusting going on
between two impassioned mouths.
Credentials, truckloads of expensive
printed pamphlets and the best inteqtioos
in the world do not, alone, create credibility and trust. The professionals advising us have the obligation to go beyond'Pearedthe latest "data" and employ some com-" us, without apology"tP,err On the'side'9f
moo sense. The ~minute
life'span of ' EXTREME, caution?: No 'French ~,HIV, out of solution, may be a codort
no an3i-gemtal or oral/genital/anal! ~with regard to casual contact,but it is a with or without a condom, fellas, until
substantial length of time when the 'further notice! When one's life~' athuman tongue is licking the body during stake, no pill can be too'bi8 or toO bittersex. The advice, "on me, not in me," to swallow. Until there's an HIV: vaccine
may not always be as safe as it's made to and a cure, the good old days of unlhliit,
sound. And if fonns of "safer sex" are ed sexual practices must be relegiltedto
potentially ~gerous,
engaging in them fond memory.
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with many men will endanger many men.
Now is the time to fulfill the
When will the-powers-that-be feel promise ~f liheration---4o open up ,thewe are sufficiently gr<;>wn-upto appreci- definition of what' is a man. With, thisate the seriousness of the situation we must come a nurturing of the many 'as..
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Allover the world new drugs are
emerging with novel and powerful activity against HIV in the test tube. Almost nowhere in the world are they
being
tested in humans; , Before these,
new ,drugs can enter clinical trials,
groups like the U.S. AIDS Clinical Trials Group, which is backed up formonths with drugs from 1987 and1988, will have to decide how to prioritize new drugs along ,with older ones,
it has not yet tested.
One group of drugs showing laboratory promise, but yet to be tested on
PWAs, are protease inhibitors.
And,
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taking a different avenue of attack thanAn, they may prove highly effective.
IDV's genetic sequence programs
host ceUs to makeseveral proteins.
Each protein is,vital for viral
replication.
Reverse transcriptase eRn is theprotein
which
An, dciC and ddI
inhibit:When
HIV invadesacell, RT copies
the viral RNA intoa DNA copy andinserts this DNA into the host cell.
• Thus the effectiveness of An andall simUar nucleoside analogues is limited'to an early stage of the virus' inter,action !lith the host cell-before thevirus is integrated into DNA AZT inhibits new infection"of cells,' but has
no impact on virus production fromceUs that aI:e already infected. And by
the tinie a person becomes symptomatic, millions of, ceUs in the body alreadycontain HIV's genetic instru~tions.
This explains why An can only'slow,
but not stop, IDV's progression.
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act on HIV's life cycle after it has already commandeered host cell operations. What happens first is that, whenstimulated by certain chemical signals,
HIV in the cell nucleus makes new
copies of its core RNA, and the key
viral proteins
reverse transcriptase
and protease and the other particles
which make up the viral core and envelope. Protease is essential for HIV tomature. It slices protein precursors into
their flOal form. If it cannot, slice theprotein precursors, virus particles areproduced, but they are not infectious.
Because protease, is smaller than•reverse transcriptase, its structure iseasier for molecular biologists to deter,mine. , Since the genetic sequence ofthe protease gene is known, researchers could determine the amino,tional pieces. Luckily for the drug
seekers, protease is very similar to ahuman protein called renin, which is
involved in causing high blood pressure. The two proteins have similar
structure and work in similar ways.
Researchers at companies ,like Upjohn, Merck and Smith-Kline Beecham
have spent years looking for renin inhibitors, and what they learned helped
them discover substances that, in thetest tube, inhibit IDV's protease. These
substances are small molecules Mlled

peptldes.
There has been some confusion
about peptides. For example, at a hearing last month in Washington, someone was overheard saying "Candace
Pert discovered that peptides are active
against HIV." A peptide is any protetn
with less than 50

aminoacids .

Candace Pert disone
coveredmolecule, Peptide
T, which showed
possible anti-HIV
activity in the test
tube. There arebillions of possible peptides, andonly a tiny fraction of them will
be useful as antiacid sequence of protease. All proteins
HIV agents.
are composed of up to 20 amino acids.
In Nature' on January 4, 1990, reHow they are attached in sequence desearchers from Smith-Kline and French
tenDines their structure, which, in tum,Laboratories in Pennsylvania publisheddetermines their function. Using X-ray a paper showing that they had foundcrystallography and supercomputers,
four compounds which inhibited HIV
researchers at several pharmaceuticalprotease in test tube cultures.1 Threecompanies and the National Cancer In- weeks later, a rival team from Upjohn
stitute (NCO discovered, the three-dipublished their fmdings in Science. amensional structure of protease.
small molecule called U-81749 inhibitProteaseis a small symmetrical , . ed HIV replication in cell cultures.2 UIprotein. It looks like two open hands
81749 is only eight amino acids longjoined at the wrist. When the tips of (by contrast, recombinant CD4 is about
the fingers come together, they snip
400 amino acids long-much too large
virus precursor proteins into their functo penetrate the blood-brain barrier) .
,But there are two potential prob-

leIm. F'1l'St of all, small peptide chains like
D-81749 and the Smith-Kline compounds

niost likely are rapidly degraded in the
body. 'Ibis may limit or eliminate theiractivity. Secondly, if the protease inhibitors are not specific to HIV, they may
inhibit renin, leading to a loss of bloodpressure and subsequent death.
Therefore, to be successful, ananti-protease drug has to have a long
half-life in the body, to penetrate infected cells and cross the blood-brain
barrier, and inhibit only HIV protease,and not human molecules.
There may be such a specfic compound available. Two weeks ago, ACf
UP's Jim Eigo met with Waijan Soo,
M.D., Director of Anti-Vmtl Research at
Hoffman-laRoche. According to Soo,
who is deeply involved in researchwith ddC and other anti-HIV drugs,
Hoffman-LaRoche
has developed agroup of protease inhibitors whichblock mY infectivity but leave humanprotease enzymes alone.3 Dr. Soo told
Eigo that one protease inhibitor may
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id he or didn't he?, Only
Andy Rooneyand re.porter Chris Bull know forsure. But virtually everybody's missing the point.
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By now you . surely know that
Andy Rooney has been suspended forthree months by CBS for making bigoted public ,comments. What you may not
mow, particularly if you live outside of
Los Ang~es and New York, where themedia did a marginally better job of reporting the story, is that he was suspended .just as much for his recent
string of anti-gay remarks as for his reported racist remark. CBS officials confirm that it was the cumulative impactof the remarks that forced CBS's hand.
The biggest issue to come from thisseries of events-aside
from theRooney suspension itself-is how dra~
matically biased against gays media
coverage of the story was. Bottom line:
One racist remark by Rooney, which hedenies making, was covered immediately by virtually every media outlet in
the country. A series of completely
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media yawn (except, to be fair, in theLos Angeles Times, m'A Today and 7V
Guide and on Entertainment Tonight).
This is a dramatic double standard.
I and GLAAD want to make it veryclear: if Rooney made the racist remark
attributed to him, and, for various reasons, we think he probably did, thenhe would have properly been suspended for that remark alone. As The
New York Times phrased the point in
its intimitable style, the remark went
beyond the limit of civil public
discourse. To put it bluntly, the remark
was disgusting.
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But we also think that Rooneyshould have been suspended several
weeks earlier for his anti-gay remarks
alone. Some outlets have repeated themalicious and medically inCOlTectcomment made by Rooney on his 1V specia1
that AIDS is caused by homosexual
tiniorur--rather than transmitted but unsafe sex, straight or gay. Most have completely failed to report that he also saidin his syndicatedcolumn that hewouldn't want to spend much time in asmall room with a homoSexua1, and inso-called letters of apology that he believes that homosexuals are sufferingfrom a trauma disorder and that their
sex acts are repugnant Going a step further, he has proudly proclaimed that he
Simply doesn't care what experts likethe American Psychiatric Association
think about homosexuality-hemowswhat he thinks and that's good enough.
When the racist remark finally got
the media's attention, this organization spentdays informing
reporters-or
remindingthem-that
there was a gay context to the suspension. Some of them included the, information in' their stories; others, likethe UPI reporter, said that it was ilTelevant and unimportant.
It was clearly not irrelevant. Many
people are understandably mystified
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the basis of a single comment that is indispute. But, of course, if they mew
the facts-that
he wasn't suspended
for that remark alone--they wouldn't
be so confused.
.
Calling the gay element of the story
unimportant
is worse, and reveals
what's really going on here. The media
and society at large do not think thatpublic insults of lesbians and gay men
are important because they do not thinkthat lesbians and gay men are important They do not care that an environment where homophobic insults are
considered acceptable is an environment that causes psycholOgical damage
and physical damage to gay , people.
They refuse to see the connection between the public acceptability of homophobia and the epidemic of violenceagainst lesbians and gay men that is occurring as I write and you read this column. They refuse to see the connection
between the public acceptability of homophobia and the fact that lesbian andgay teenagers are two to three times
more likely than other adolescents toattempt suicide.
The connections are real and indisputable
and horrible.
And themedia-particularly
when they are not
only ignorant about gay issues, but militantly and proudly ignorant-bearalarge share of the blame.
There are so many people to write
to on this issue, it's hard to choose. But
we suggest two.
First, write to United Press International and tell them what you think of
their staff person's opinion that public
insults directed at lesbians and gay
men by a major television personality
are not news. 'Write to: Nina Baker, Editor, Financial and Media News, United Press In•
ternational, New York, NY 10001.
Please note that Ms.
Baker is not•
the only person we spoke to, but is incharge of the relevant department
Then write to CBS, which is receiving, a lot of negative response to thesuspension. Tell them you support thesuspension, but also that it should have
happened weeks earlier.
Write to: David Burke, President,
CBS News, 524 West 57th Street, New
York, NY 10019. Or call CBS: (212)975-3247.
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and Lesbian Task Force (NGLTF) in D.C. At the
How then did Vaid, with all of her wonderfully
time it was no small secret that NGLTFwas a slick, resistant, deftant and radical posturing, get picked
shirt-and-tie act. Jeff Levi, thought by many to be a by the board of ditectors of NGLTF, which, likecomparatively conservative operator, was running most boards of directors acts like ...well ...a board
the show.
' of directors?
And Vaid?Well, she was a hard-core activist. A
Perhaps it was because she had brought ascreamer. A yeller. An organizer. A ,rad,much needed sense of urgency and an intensity of
Even as media director at the task force, under thought to NGLTFduring her years as media direcLevi, she immersed herself in publicity work for tor. Or maybe 'they got attached to her relaxed,
Acr UP's and Acr NOW's massive Food and Drug accessible style. Of course, she had also learned
Administration civil disobedience. She had even how to play the politician during a brief stint prachelped organize the Supreme Court action in 1987 tieing laW'at the ACLUin Washington before jOinon the weekend of the gay pride march, and had ing NGLTF.Whatever the reasons, not long after
been involved in countless other D.C. actions.
Levi announced his plans to leave the organization
A few years before, Vaid was in Boston getting (he soon became a lobbyist for Gay Men's Healthher law degree from Northeastern, writing for Gay Crisis), Vaid was named executive director lastCommunity News and marching, screaming and August. Though it surprised many, others had
waving banners for over a dozen organizations
expected that she'd get the job. Irv, as friends callfrom Lesbian anel Gay Pride to Boston's Take Ba~ her, just gets things.
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the Night to Lesbians United in Non-Nuclear
And now, after a full and eventful eight
Action. And in college, at Vassar, ,she had been months as director, OutWeek's Washington correftghting for women's rights and orgarnzing in the spondent, CLIFF O'NEIll, talks with Vaid about
South African divestment movement.,"' NGLTF,gay and lesbian politics and what we canAt one point she even played bass in a rock expect iii the future.
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the the country. It's a <;hallengeto us because organization, but too few .... I think the
new executive director at the National , we' have to brOaden people's definition
Hardwick decision [upholding state
Gay and Lesbian Task Force [NGTLF], 'of what it means'to be political.
sodomy laws] and [the] Webster decision
one wag half~jokingly asked, "Is s~eas"Politics isn't about lobbying alone," [allowing increased restrictions to aborintense as she looks in her pictures?"
Vaid emphasizes, using both hands for tion rights] changed that landscape,When told abput the comment, Vaid emp~is. "Certainly that: is part of it, but because it made people realize, 'Whoa,
laughs, but qUickly gets back to the busi- to be gay in this society today is to be it's connected.' The right of a person toness at hand. Intensely.
political. And that's a message people
lead out their sexuality or live free from"I kleOtify the most as a community
need to take in: that they can make their government intervention, free"from theorganizer," 'she comments offhandedly, , contribution in a wide range of ways."dictates of the state, are the same if you~
4efinirlg Qer yiew of political work
As an example of how people con- are a gay man or straight woman seeking
iQ two ~;And from her history as an tribute to change, she bringS up the "bril- an abortion. We're talking about individadiWJt and her vision fortbe' future c:i the liant" work the gay' and, lesbian
ual control over sexual choice, overgroup she has run Since August, it shows.
community has done around AIDS poll- reproductive choice .... Certainly, legally,
the right to privacy for us as gay people
1NGJ.TP.\work[s] in a lot c:i communi- , cy, adding, "Even though the government
ties wh~"ttiere ,at(: nota lot of politically is still not doing enough."derives from the same source as the right"You're not going to get anything
to privacy [in regards to] who mak~the'out' l>eOPleand stroIl8 gay organiZations,"
she explains. "Ar)done c:i the things we're but that kind of line from me. I do decision about an abortion.trying to db is to actually organize
believe that the Reagan administration
Yet, she is equally aware of the resisstatewide gay and lesbian organizations.
was criminally negligent and the Bush tance among some in the gay and lesbian
It's the ~link in QUI' movement: the administration continues to be alanningly community and to including abortion
lack c:i a strong statewide organization that silent on some key issues, or has taken rights on the gay and lesbian "agenda."
is, in essence" a mini version of the task
the wrong position on some other issues. '"And whatever people who are readforce in every single state."
But that said, the gay and lesbian com- ing this piece think about abortion, whatAnd without that sort of cooperation
munity deserves a tremendous amount of ever decision they might make in theirbetween the Washington-based task force credit for [its]work.
lives, that's not the issue," she emphasizes
and gay and lesbian activists on the local"I think that the community-based
With her standard fierce look. "We're notlevel, victory on a federal level will be response [to the epideJDic] by AIDS ser- trying to dictate that decision. What we'rethat much more difficult. "We're saying vice organizations [is] a testament to the dictating is the choice to make that cleci'We can't operate in Washington without
ability of the gay and lesbian community sion. And saying that the choice shouldyou. We can't go to the delegation from to pull together to take care of [its]own... be made by those individuals.
Alabama and lobby effectively if we can't We had to do it, and we've done it.
' "I think there are too many gay peaback up that lobbying with 50 folks who"And to some extent AIDS is not the pIe who still get confused. ...I think you
will go ~t, in their home district offices same issue as gay and lesbian rights," she have to strip it down to the essential eleor 1,000 letters from those constituents
cautions, "but to another extent, the ment of state control over individual free..
that will COmein and back up what we're whole way the health crisis has been
dom and 'sexual and reproductive
talking aQout.
treated is a by-product of anti-gay preju- freedom. And if you can get indignant•And we can't even identify thosedice. So when I see institutions that come about the government's ability to regulate
constituents until there are functioning ,out of the gay community surviving and' an artist and the content of [her or his]gay and lesbian organizations, politicalgrowing, and I see advocates, whether
art, you should get just as indignant
clubs, whatever they might be social, they're from ACf UP or whether they're about a government's ability to regulate
clubs [on the state and local levels]. We frOm the Gay Men's Health Qisis or the the wombs of women. "have to work with what we've got."" AIDS foundations or anywhere, and I see'In her demeanor and speech, one
But the biggest problem towardS
those people being respected and lis- , can only get the impression that here is aachieving'those ends, she says, is that tened to at thefederaI level, I see' us all person with a deep personal commitmost lesbians and gay men just don't see , winning as a gay community; because
ment to her issues. And from what shethemselves as political. "People still have [although] AIDS health policy ~es aren't says, it becomes clear that it is because
today a very narrow definition of politics, i~tical to gay and lesbianJreedom, they she lives them every day. "My vision of[and] what it means to be. political," she ~sureare a big part of rpat agenda."
gay liberation incorporates 'some othersays,. drawing out the vision of what she
And, as tlie'first lesbian, of color to key issues that I cannot separate out forsees as a 'major nemesis of the gay and' lead a national non-ethnically definedmyself because I am a woman and I am alesbian community nationwide. "I think gay and lesbian organization, she points woman of color," she says. "I can't sepathat's an obstacle to organizing around 'out that she is particularly aware of how rate 'out racism and sexism from being
the country .. lThe idea that] the personthat "agenda" has changed in response to gay. They are integrated in a very immewho is nmnirig a M~politan
Communi- AIDS and, more recently, the threat to diate way for me. And I hope that I canty Church in some rural community in the abortion rights nationwide. ',articulate that better as I go along, so that
Southwest ddesn't view themselves as"If you look to the past," she says, people can understand that I think thesetied to a political movement I think is the "lesbians and gay men have functioned connectionS ..,are real."
challenge,thatfm trying to address in this as two separate camps that had very little
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She pauses. "I don't mean follow,"
she mentions. "I guess I'm using tradi- , with other movements that will overcome
tional frameworks, and I'm trying to get the "negative climate" in Washington,away from some of that. But what 1 mean says Vaid. "But, even though it's such anegative climate," she adds, "I feelis that there are other things operatingwhen people say we don't have any lead- incredibly optimistic and positive about
ers than the fact that we don't have pe0- our community and our movement. Sure,
we're going to see a lot of setbacks.
ple out there who are qualified."
Remember, it took the women's suffrage
To prove it, she lists at least threemovement 100 years to get women thedozen people from D.C. to Tennessee
she says would be glad to call her lead- right to vote. We have to remember thaters. Then she breaks the pace, prefacing these things take a long time. And ourultimate acceptance in society will notcome in my lifetime. It may not come inany of our lifetimes. 1 hope many of us
will live to see victories that are evenmore significant than the ones that we've
achieved right now, but I have kind of an 'abiding faith that our time will come.»
But how will that happen? '!
"I can't stress the importance enoughof people signing up, being countedl,,standing up for our own institutionS and, our own political movement," she insists.
="There's a huge middle ground between.~ coming out and copping out.
,b"Coming out is not an end poiJ:!.t,it is
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It goes on and on and on. I'mu'o the head of this organization," she notes;"[and] I'm still coming out each time 1 sit
Il.. down next to somebody on a plane andthey say, 'What do you do?' I'm still comanother issue which stiCks in her craw.
"I'm going to say something else that ing out to mainstream media [and] toingleague.
is going to sound controversial or stupid," politicians every time 1 express what I do
"I think we have to de-mystify Deader- she begins, "but 1think coalition as a form and who 1am. But that's one extreme.
$p]," saying that what really is the prob- is a dead-end What I'm looking for i$ not"The other extreme is copping out"lbn is that roost gay and lesbian leadership coalition, but the recognition that we're 'Oh, 1 can't make a difference anyway.'goes unrewarded and unrecognized.
part of the same movement. It's not the'Oh, these political people bore me, I'm"One of the things that I think about women's movement over here, and the not going to a meeting. I'm just going toleadership is [that] so much of what soci- Black civil rights movement over here
lead, my life.' 'Oh, she's too radical,' or
ety recognizes to be leadership is in fact and the gay movement over there, but 'He's too conservative.' That's where we
moral and political cowardice. Look at that the three are linked in an integrated cop out. We write off people. 'We write
the people on [Capitol] Hill!" she adds. kind of way, ...the issues that are of con- off our own people and we write off our"DO we want to call them leaders whencern to those advocating for civil rights own ability to win. So, what I'm putting
they are in effect cowardly on so many are the same issues.;.our movement
out...[is] that there's this huge middle
issues and won't take a stand. Is thatseeks. Whether it's the reform of Medicaid ground where each person's individual
what we mean by leadership? ..Is Peter so that more people get access, whether
initiative and donations and contributions
Jennings a leader because he's on 1V it's national health insurance, or whether as a volunteer matters a great deal."
every night? What do we mean by leader- it's reproductive choice, they are the same
And with a membership now num,ship? The fact is that most of our leaders issues increasingly. There is a common
bering over 17,000, she intends forare not only unacknowledged by us as . agenda developing.
NGLTF to be a big part of that. "I'll tellleaders, they are unrecognized,
they"What I've seen ...is that coalitions
you that 17,000 as a numerical base is
don't get the coverage, they don't get the don't mean that your allies will standmuch more than we've had in a long time
visibility [so] that the folks in New York with you beyond the coalition. What' 1 and we're going up," Vaid says. "But I
could actually see that we've got some want to work towards is not just the want to push it, I hope by the time I
dynamite people in, say, the Black gay coalition around housing, -or around fam- leave, we'll be well into the hundredcommunity in Atlanta.
ily, or around hate crimes, but a broader
thousands
in terms of membership"I think different people have differ- 'We stand together' kind of framework. 1 because that's the direction we need to go
ent visions of who they would follow as
don't have a word for it yet.... [But] it is in to truly-" she pauses, again to cona leader. Some men would probably
something beyond the coalition politics template, and again to retort concisely.
never 'follow' me because I'm a woman."as we've known them in the 1980s.""To win." ....
bians in the movement. "I hope that myvisibility in this role as a lesbian, and avery outspoken one, will be an invitation
to women [who] thought that organizations like this one [weren't] places forthem," she says. "I hope that they will
now see ~t they are, and what we're
about is issues that have direct relevance
to women and men."
It's all about leadership, she says.
Assuming it and recognizing it.
"I've heard for a number M years
people bemoaning the fact that there are
not leaders," adding in her most often
heard complaint, "'Where are all of ournational leaders?' they ask. Well I'm sickof hearing it. I think it's a bunch of crap. I
think people who say that have a problem acknowledging leadership would
never bestow the mantle of leadership if
it was staring them in the face. I say it's
crap quite bluntly, because I travel allover the country and I see people whoare my leaders at the grassroots level allover the country.
"Leadership to me is about several
qualities," she explains. "It's about qualities like individual initiative, vision andcourage. Those are three elements thatmany people working in the gay and lesbian movement have, whether they'rethe pastor ofa religious church, orwhether they're the head of a gay bowl-

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on this subject Williamson is h~andspace opened just south of Astor Place,
Williamson began giving lectures
optimistic. She asserts that .~ as'.~embodying the culminated efforts of sev- on the course in L.A.where She current- is no longer a death sentence, a positive
ly resides, and in November of '87 she mv ~tus is "a manageable cOndition.eral unique members of the conmunity.
The Manhattan center For living is a ,founded the LOsAngeles Center for liv- She maintains; "We need to remember
space that was created to provide free ing, inspired after a friend was diag- why we are here, we need to lea'rn how
non-medical support services for people
nosed with breast cancer. The friend
to live and live fully.· ,j'"'.,;•
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The center is open to an~e with aties of life-threatening illness' and grief. It six months to live. She told Williamson life-threatening illnesS, IHlYlo,vecl-oneof,is a conmunity~based, non-profit organi- that she wanted someone to help her someone ill, any caretaker to an ill perzation whose services and programs are die. It was through this experie'nce that , son and anyone feeling grief due ',to the
all conceived and put forth by volunteers Williamson was guided to oversee the loss of a loved one. Its services include,
offering th~mselves in, an effort to give formation of the L.A.Center. In the three classes in: living, healing and dying; spirsupport and encouragement.
years since, she took several trips to itual and psycholOgical counseling; art
Accqrding to Bob Taylor, administra- New York to lecture about the course.
and music; bodywork; nutritio~ contive director of the Center, roughly 50 On one such trip a thought flashedsultation; childr:en~s programs; support
percent of those served there are lesbian through her mind while walking down groups; communal meals and homeor gay. In addition, there is a, volunteer the street that Manhattan should also bound services. To help cover the cost of•
staff of about 400 individuals of which have a center. It was with this brain- operation, a modest contribut~on is
Taylor estimates 70 percent are members storm-anda subsequent matchingasked of everyone using the" center's ,of the lesbian and gay conmunity. It is grant of $50,000 from gay record compa- activities and facilities. '.The suggested
Taylor's hope and vision that the future ny president David Geffen-thatthe donations range from five dollars forwill allow for other centers to be formed seeds were planted for what is now the groups to $15 for individual coUIlliclingaround the city along with an upstate
Manhattan Center for Living.
, and bodywork. Services, howeVer, are"country place" extension for 9le ManWilliamson sees the gay and lesbian free for anyone who cannot afford tohattan Center. He also views the center as conmunity as being in a state of crisis make a contribution and no one will bea space that will lend itself to ongoing and on the cutting edge of social change. ,turned away for lade, of funds. The cennetworking and interfacing with the She says she has found gay people to be ter is open seven days a' week frompther service organizations in our com- in the forefront and believes that "you morning until everung. Wifrnn its weekly
munity such as Gay Men's Health Crisis, deal with what is in front of you."program of events are: slliatsu, Swedish
God's Love We Deliver, The New YorkShe describes the center as a "church message, 'Tebirthing, physic:µ thetapy,
Healing Circle, S.H.A.RE., etc.
in the most profound sense-a gathering grief support groups, Reiki, reflexology,
The center was founded by, Mari- of souls" and a fellowship that was acupressure
massage, chiropractic,
anne Wtlliamson, a bi<Oastal teacher and founded in A Course In Miracles. The Hatha yoga, HIV + support groups, nutrilecturer on a philosophical thought sys- center, however, is nondenominational in tion and AIDS, MariE! h~ing, T'ai chi,tem internationally known as -A Course scope, as is the course, and welcomes the Alexander Technique and' Cooking Thatin Miracles, The course, the goal of participation of individuals from diverse Heals. Every Sunday from 6:00 to 7:00 ,which is the attainmentof iimer peace, is walks of life. Williamson's vision of the pm_there is a HEAL Meal (Health Educa,
a self-study system of spiritual psy- purpose of the center is for it to offer a tion AIDS Liaison) serving natural dinchotherapY' that is contained in three
profound experience of giving' andners~-.' . ($10suggested,
donation;•books. Williamson teaches the basic
receiving love, and a healing of hearts. reserVations limited to 50 people). ~priciples of the course anditsapplicaShecontends
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inmediately curious and eager to ask crowning ~perience ...It is not a dirty located at ,704 Broadway, 1bird Floor,
why Williamson, a heterosexual woman word. Accepting death is not resignation, New
NY 10003. For further Inforof Texas origin in' her mid-30s, would
it helps us to relax."'
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fmd herself so intimately engaged with
The Manhattan Center currently
would like to become a rXHUnteer, please
the challenges of the lesbian and gay holds weekly mv support groups, and call (212) 533-3550.
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splendorous in your ball gown. You havecocktails, admire the other attendees'
attire, chat with friends and revel in theatmosphere of elegance surroundingyou. At the chosen time, the members of
the court are presented, each with theircourt titles. Lady-in-waiting,
Lord,
Princess. At midnight, the Emperor andEmpress of the Imperial Court of New
York are announced, inducted and presented to the ball. From then on, it's dining, dancing, entertainment. Except there
are a few things you should know. A lotof those fabulously beautiful women aremen, Some of those in full formal
menswear aren't men and the regal
nature of the ball is not just for show; it's
to raise money for gay and lesbian community organizations. This is the Night ofa Thousand Gowns.
Always a benefit, the colorful bash isheld annually by the Imperial Court of
New York, one court in an entire systemfounded in 1965 by Jose Sarria in San
Francisco, lbat name may not be wholly
unfamiliar
to you. Jose was thetransvestite who was one of the pioneersof the gay liberation movement as weknow it. She ran for San Francisco Super, visor, and while not winning, certainly
did well for a drag queen's first time running for office. She also performed invarious clubs, leading the patrons inwhat would now be considered self-loveworkshops, all in a celebration of ourcommunity. She then founded the Imperial Court System which now has 50
branches in the South, East Coast, West
Coast, Canada and the Midwest. In fact,
the Idaho AIDS Foundation was foundedby the Boise Court.
The events held by the different-- courts around the country serve a number of purposes, First and foremost, theyraise money for different gay and lesbiancommunity organizations. Recipients inthe past have included Gay and Lesbian, Alliance Against Defamation, the Community Health Project, Heritage of Prideand the Lesbian and Gay Com~unity
Center. Secondly, they provide an opportunity for the gay and lesbian community
to play out,and suDvert the heterosexualfunction of a royal ball; and last, but notleast, it's a good excuse to get that dressout of the closet (and into the streets).
The New York Imperial Court was
founded on June 23rd, 1986 by Vivian
Shapiro and George Dudley as a philanthropic organization.
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While the perception held by manyis that Night of a Thousand Gowns, aswell as the court system as a whole, isan exclUSively male enclave, in fact, anumber of women in addition to Ms.
Shapiro are involved at all levels of theevent. Indeed, this year, the first woman
Emperor, Shelley Shusteroff, will becrowned, along with a male empress.
Bany Davidson, outgoing emperor andPresident of the Board of the Imperial,Court of New York, takes pride in having "pushed" for a woman this year. "It's
not about drag, it's about fantasy," hesays, According to Davidson, more
women will be attending this year than'
before, perhaps motivated by the inclusion of women in the more visible rolesof the court and Ms. Shusteroff's
appointment.
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OJ;le way that the court outreaches
to the community is through bar runs
(outreach in bars and nightclubs), done
this year by the outgoing Empress,
Chene, and Julie, an unbelievably voluptuous blonde bombshell dragster andmember of the court. As Davidson tells it, 'when they entered the Cubby Hole bar,
the women "went wild over Julie." For alesbian community that still finds itself
deeply divided over issues ~ound drag,gender identification and what it allmeans to women (assuming, of course,that women don't do drag), it may signal
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warm, and, well, almost ...hot. ,While'it's not all about drag, 'if illunber of transvestites (those men·v.::eo live
in women's clothing) willl?c; joiPirigtheb~ll ,this year. What ~yhaV'ebeen ,astressed relation between those, who
dress once a year, and those~who, do this.
every morning seems to ~ver~.
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The court raises its funds by' ticket
sales to the ball, and the, sale of titles in
the court. The money faised by the event
goes to the benefiCiary agency, to pay
costs, and there's "$30.00 left over in thebank account," according to Davidson.
This year, the money will, be raised for
the Hetrick Martin Institute.
The court has begun to gain visibility in its mission: Its presence at the
AmFAR masquerade, benefit had mainstream gossip columnists falling allover
themse1ves. And, as in' the past, the court 'hosts the 96th water station (as nurses
and doctors) during the AIDS Walk,
attends the Garden Party in full Regalia
and has a float in the Gay Pride Parade(winning Most Beautiful last year).
The Imperial Court has also opened
up the nomination process. For the firsttime,the Emperor and Empress of 1991
will be chosen among members of thecourt by members. A virtual talent
search will be undertaken, with members attending bar contests, beauty
pageants, and other events to glean possible candidates. This is the process bywhich other courts have run in the past.
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music louder and the figure became
Like so many people I nevermore distinct until I was finally able
thought I'd be writing to you but theto see that the source of the glow
strangest thing has been happening
was a pale, ghostly collie dog hoverlately. I can't figure it out on my own
ing a few feet above the floor. She
nor can I afford a professional so I was so beautiful I wanted to pet her
thought maybe you might be able to but when I reached out she barked
help since strange things are kind of out in alarm and vanished. For the
your specialty. This all started latenext week she didn't come back andone night about a month or so ago. I although I wanted to see her again I
was almost asleep when suddenly
figured it might be for the best since
the bedroom was fllied with a blindmy super doesn~t allow. pets in theing white light. I thought at first thatbuilding. Then earlier this week she
it was the glare from a passing car
returned only this time she seemed
but this light was different. It had anagitated and kept barking as thougheerie, almost other-worldly quality. It she urgently wanted to tell me somelasted for several minutes and thenthing. The harp music mysteriously
the toom was plunged back into
grew quiet and the oeautiful collie
darkness. The next night at exactly
said to me, in a voice not unlike
the same time the light returned only
Maureen Stapleton's, that she had an
it lasted longer and was accompaniedurgent message to deliver. She said,by soothing harp music and I could
and I'll never forget this, "Timmy's in'vaguely make out a hazy figure in trouble. Timmy's in trouble." She
the center of the light. The figure
barked once more and leapt out theseemed to be beckoning to me but
window, disappearing into the night
then the darkness returned. Thisand that was the last I've seen of her.
went on every night afterwards. Each, Her message has me troubled and I
time the light grew brighter and thefeel I should do something about it
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Dear Bernadette:
You wouldn't believe the commotion your letter stirred up around here.
I showed it to my experts and theycame back with their same old warning against mixing anti-depressantswith gin. When I suggested that I
expected a response that was a little
more substantial and a little lesstedious they dug in their heels andsaid they planned to keep repeatingthat message until somebody paid
attention and said that nobody wasgoing to get paid anything unless theysmartened up and started behaving
like real experts again and now they'rerefusing to take my calls. In retrospect,
I can see that this confrontation has
been building up for quite some time.
Before I convinced my editors (withno small risk to my reputation) to takethese people on and agreed to pay
them at my oum expense nobody had
heard of them but ever since thenthey've grown mighty big for theirbritches. Many's the time I've gotten
reports th;lt they've been trying to use
their dubious prestige to gain access tonightclubs or wheedle complimentarydrinks in hotel bars and I guess I bearsome responsibility for making theirexcuses for them and, more often thannot, paying the damages. I just kept
hoping against hope that once they
got these high 'jinks out of their systems they'd settle down and do somereal work. But this time they've left me
holding the bag just once too often
and I'm all out of excuses. Look, thebest thing I can tell you at the moment
about this Timmy thing, Bernadette, is
to avoid mixing anti-depressants withgin. As for me, I'm going to take acouple of days off and figure out the, best way to implement some of thedrastic changes that, I assure you, aregoing to be made around here. T

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these times. It fit right in in the selfabsorbed, excess-ridden
80s, butseems to have no bearing on the 90s,
much like Malcolm Forbes' Egg. The
ins and outs of nightclubland just aren't
where it's at right now as' more ,political, important pursuits---finally- takecenter stage. "'.
Uke Saban, Forbes and his puppet
editor at Egg; Hal Rubenstein, seem tothink they can run away from reality
forever.
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FU<XING, TInS,
COl'v1MUNITY CONTINUES TO BE
DECIMATEDBY A VIRUS, DIRECI1.Y
DUE TO GOVERNMENT NEGLECTAND HOMOPHOBA. Some people saythat Forbes has done a lot for the gay
community and for the battle against
AIDSbecause he has given Liz Taylor a
few fat checks for the coffers at AmPAR.
But that's all bullshit-thekind that

into the streets and screaming, or goingfrom house to house, from hospital tohospital as sources of support for peopIe with AIDS: No, the most that
Malcolm Forbes can do is not write afat check. What he can do, in addition,
is P,!fhaps ~op motorcycling with ~hunky, leatheredfriends for, onedamned minute and look around and,see what's happening. What he can do
is kick ass at Forbes magazine, andBy Michelangelo Signorile
make his writers and editors more
responsible and more proactive in the
I was rather upset last week tofight against AIDS. What he,do isread on Page Six (New York Post) that,scream at his friends in WashiJ:!gton
becausesales were lagging, Si
and in the media that TInS FUCKING
Newhouse canned Annie Flanders, ediGOVERNMENT ISN'T DOING SHIT
tor-in-chief of Detatls. Though she had
about an epidemic that has killed thoulet the magazine degenerate into asands of people, instead of kissing theasses of the murderous Kissingers andghastly product while she clumsily
Buckleys and having them over toattempted to mount the social climbing
Morocco for a nice friendly dinnerladder, I was hoping he'd swat the '.
real culprit at that mind-numbing,, for 500. What he can do is create a
80s-esque rag: associate editor
magazine with backbone
andStephen Saban. This loathsome,, ';)';< if:iI strong politics that points out the
self-hating, do-nothing columnist....... ", chilling hypocrisy of the times wespends his nights groveling from/',"
are living in and attacks the, homoi" ~,'phobessuch as Jesse Helms whoclub to club in search of drink tick-,ets and other amenities which club FAS'f~\ 'are now even trying to kill the gay?wners p~o~ide, and th~n addingCa...'.,. ", press, ra~er than produce this ludi.,,'.
','\ , .,.',crous, mindless Egg crap. WHAT
~sult to InJ~ry chromcl~s these" ','. MALCOLM FORBES CAN DQ
escapades In the magazine and ;shoves it ail down readers' throats. .
....>it. MOST IS STOP LMNG UES AT. A
Ashamed of his sexuality, he tries to","<if• "\"TIMEWHENlRUIHISULTIMATE,.,.".,., "".,
parade humor columnist Cynthia tit· ",,LY THE MOST POWERFULHeime! (Village Voice) around as his J!":' ,WEAPON.
. ,girlfriend, while his boyfriend lags "But lies seem to be the orderten steps behind (one item he prob, of things. Last week New York mag- "ably won't address in his narcolep,i. azine printed an inflammatory,
sy-inducing
column).
So',i homophobic, misguided and mi$in-'
out-ta-Iunch is this weirdo that he\{~\:,",.
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Homosexual
Husband's
Death
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' From AIDS." The story was written
have ever seen. Last week Chris ~ ,~,:.,:u;.t._Chase (Daily News) even wrote, "Don't gives you lots of photo opportunities
by Dorothy Rabinowitz-the
Cindy
you believe I did right to throwaway a and gossip column write-ups. It's, abso- Adams of the feature-writing circuitletter from somebody named Stephen
lutely nothing for Forbes to write a,for her slimy, sleazy, sensationSaban who wrote, 'Dear Potential
check for a couple of million. For hlm al sort of journalism, usually about sex
Subscriber (or whatever you're calling it's bus fare--and an easy ticket out.
and always couched in moralistic
yourself): I understand you're not readOther people in this community,
tones. "Before the eighties, marryihg a
ing my column every month in Details. 'affected by this epidemiC, have done
man who turned out to be a closeted
Which is why I'm writing this letter
everything that they as individuals can but Sexually active homosexual would
instead of sleeping, which I'd rather be possibly do to save lives. For some that, be, for most women, a heartbreaking,doing.' Steve, you old sleepyhead,has mea~t giving up careers for a prospect at worst. Today, it is .also,adon't stay awake on my account." (1because, even relocating and uprooting 'possible death warrant," she writes incolumn obviously even induces nar- their entire lives. For _others i! has
her lead So', getting involved withcolepsy in Saban himself).
meant coming out of the closet andis "a possible death warrant?" Right,
Of course, the larger problem at confronting the homophobes. For still Dorothy? Isn't that what you're saying?
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WlftS to IMke Uz ~nd Sydney scream:
and cRlWled into bed. Believe me, I didn't wait up for Sydney.
1. Ask us why there aren't more gay/lesbian/cultumll nightlifel(fill in
Sydncyl A Slumber Party was held inside the Gay and Lesbian
the bI~nk)events in our column.
Community Services Center to benefit Aa UP. I arrived after the per2. Whene'-m you see (or cell) one of us without the other, csk repeatformances were over and just before everyone paired up to go toedly where the other is, what she's doing ~nd why she's not there.
(uh, hmm ...) ·sleep:
Boys dressed in sweats or boxers danced
3. Play ·Pump Up the Jam.·around to •Angie Baby· while another ACT UPer showed me
4. (ilil Sydney "Tracey,· (ilil Sydney ·Cindy.· (ilil Uz ·Sydney," C~II Polaroids of all the boys pulling each other's privates out of their
Uz ·Chastity." (ilil Uz "Thot blond boy:respective sweats or boxers. I left:just as the backroom action start5. Spend ~II night telling us how much sex you had at the Aa UP ed, being a girl and all, With all the ·Iove" that was shared that
Slumber P8rty,when we had none.
evening, you would never know some of these boys were hardened
The 18test trend in nightlife is revival. Not as in ~ religious revival, , criminals with arrest records as long as their arm.
but more along the lines of a revival house. You see, the new clubs
Speaking of arrest, the police broke up the First o.rt:Iaw Party of
aren't mIIly new at all; they are old spec:es where old scenes are still
1990 at Nathan's Hot Dogs in Times Squore by threatening each andreIUl and remade to become-prestol
magicl---new fun! We visited
every person there with arrest Reportedly, some of the happy parno less than three reruns Area (retitled, re-edited and re-released ' ticipants were also jostled and and pushed by the police. Since theas Quick), the restored Roxy and the lerseJy unedited GirllW.
word was that the event orgcmizer, MIchael AIiS, did not infoon
am CNp Duckett opened his Thursdays at the multi-national Nathan's employees of the party, the police were expected around
Quick, where the 8\IeRIge patron (or petroness) is overwhelmed by
12:30. Uz and I, deciding to save our arrest for a more timely event,the beer selection: Kirin or Kirin Ught: The Thursdays will feature
went to the Lesbian Herstory Archives Benefit
echibits by different homoerotic artists---the Opening
exhibit was by
am Unfortunately, we arrived past a lot of lesbian bedtimes (as,Lola Flub, a photograPher whose work now adorns the weekly
we always do) but the hale, hearty party women left: were still dancburnber sticker-sized invitation, suitllble for framing. Other objets
ing tSWay, along with ~ heart-warming number of men who put theird'art include statues and mannequ'ins of half-naked women--whichmoney -Mlere their politics are and didn't regret it. The main topic of
I'm sure were of great: interest to all the attractive, perspiring young
conversation: the Aa UP 'Slumber Party, Boys talked about sex.
men CRlmming the dance floor. An innovative touch was having theGirts talked about how they all chickened out of going, or showed
go-go boys not go-go-ing, but masSaging, hugging and humping
up too late to catch the girts who came early on, Aldo Hcrnanda,
e8Ch other on platforms above the dance floor. Moving so slowly in a member of Art Positive, also proved himself as a dj, especiallycontnsst to those dancing Quick-Iy, they m~de us very dizzy, and, in -Mlen you consider he used a tumtllble, I:lIpe player and CD pI~, a IT1CNe to a'Ycid pessing out on the dance floor, I instead went home
Later,we went to Roxy for Locomotion, where the crowd was a,
crowd, the music was loud and I had a very goodtime.
Uz and Sydncyt Girl Bar is back with a changeof location and personnel as duely noted on the dj's
t-shirt (His t-shirt featured the Girl Bar logo, but thesmall print which used to read -Jenny and Debhas been amended via black magic mar1<er to state-Jcnny and Hancy") . .Held at Handle Bar, a space 'obviously too small for the outpouring of enthusiasm, the party was raided by the Fire Marshalls,
Once again, adding to the growing number of clubs
harassed on a gay or lesbian night.
'am What publisher of a l-eggy new magazine
came to LmyTcc's I.oIe Machine with a beefy capitlIIist
tool, pc.rdlased with the profits ci his other periodiais?
Sydncys In the hard-up-for-fun department,
Uz and I wandered into Choice, the Lower East Side
after-hours house club inexplicably featured in Egg, .
at 6 am Monday morning, only to discover it filled
DYKES10 WATCH OUT FOR,!
Photo:Lizand Sydney with equal parts dancers and sleepers. We have
(I. til r.) Cath.tin. laam.,t/, 0•• 0•• Fa/com,Polly Thi,tI.waitrl, J.an Car- dubbed Choice, ·the most disquietingly bizarre..,.",
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So, women should stay away fromthem? Right? In fact, everyone should
stay away from diem. Right? Isn't thatwhat you're really saying, Dorothy?
MAN, I AM SO FUCKING SICK OFTInS SHIT! IT MAKES ME WANT TORIP YOUR FACE OFF, DOROTHY!
(But, of course, I'm into non-violence.)
The story goes on to tell us how
this woman-who
never became mv
infected-is
totally bummed out that
her husband turned out to be gay andhow angry she is at him for this. (Ahh,poor, poor baby.) It doesn't matter ofcourse, that be actually had AIDS, thatbe was tormented, that be died. All of
the sympathy in the story is given to little Ms. Yuppie and her baby yu~
not mv infected. The AIDS Husband(which is how staffers at New Yorkreferred to the story itself when I called
there), is instead guilty of bringing thisterrible plague home because he's anuncontrollable fag. By printing thiS,
New York magazine's rationale seems
to be : "So what if mom and baby
didn't. get infectecl--they could havebeen infected with the virus and,besides, now they will be traumatizedfor their entire lives by this tragedy andof course they definitely warrant nineslick, glossy pages in our magazine
because our readership will eat up thestory of a marriage wrecked by someevil, AIDS-cursed faggot rather than astory about gays desperately trying todeal with this crisis or entire poor,
black families being infected with HIV
because, hell, that doesn't sell." And
Dorothy Rabinowitz is saying: LOOK
AT nus, ALL YOU WHITE, UPPERMIDDLE a.ASS WOMEN READERSOFNEW YORK. THIS CAN HAPPEN TO
YOU. AN EVIL HOMOSEXUAL CAN
COME IN AND RUIN YOUR
LIFE,
TOO-AND
THEN THE BASTARD
WIll EVENDIE ON YOU!
I called New York to speak tosomeone about the story. Editor andpublisher Ed Kosner returned my call.
"We had one of the first cover stories about AIDS. We had a huge story
last year about AIDS in New York City.
We cover the AIDS crisis a lot," he said.
"This was just another story, about thisparticular woman. It's a decent story." I
told him that there were lots of problems with it~thatRabinowitz had

mimimal quotes from psychologists
about controversial issues (though,grant it, the one shrink she used wasrecommended by GMHO and that sheshould have contacted
far moresources. I told him that the story had adefinite agenda. And I told him that thestory dealt not in the slightest with theissue of safer sex, We're told that thisman went around town and to thebaths having sex and yet the ignorant,
white, straight reader-who
normally
doesn't give a damn about AIDS and
therefore is misinformed-isn't
told
whether the man was having safe orunsafe sex. Presumably he's having
unsafe sex, but, again, the yuppie reader is not told that and is led to believethat all homOsexual sex is darigerous,
That the sex itself causes AIDS. Thatgays themselves cause AIDS.
"It's not about all of that," replied

white. And normal, white people just
don't get AIDS,right Dorothy?
Dorothy engaged me for over half
an hour, trying to convince me--us~gquite
a few different,
indirect,tactics--that she is not a homophobe,
which tells me that she definitelY is. And
she's the worst kind: the kind ,that truJy
believes they aren't really homophobiC;
the kind that would be immensely
embarrassed to be called a homophobe.
These are worse than the Jesse
Helmses. They are phOnies, fakes andcharlatans who hide behind facades.
"Look, Jewish people get upset
when people say, 'I have lots of frierids
who are Jewish,'" she told me. "So I
know how this sounds, but I want you
to know I've seen'many men caniedout of this building. I don't like it."
Spare me, Dorothy! Spare me yourbullshit, okay? When I, pointed out toyou that you used to write homophobic columns for the New York, Post,
your reply was: "Not, really." Well, you
can't get half pregnant, hon.
Ultimately the real problem withstories like Rabinowitz's
lies not so,much in what was written but in what
hasn't been covered in the particularpublication in question. New Yorir, like
Vanit,y Fair, when it comes to hODlOSeltuality, only seem to go for these sensational
STORIESTHAT
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S~ories
about tormented, Crazed
evil homosexuals ruining their own lives
and trying to ruin others. But rarely do
we see stories about the real heroes inth~ community; the real people who are
doing incredible things. Rarely do we,see stories at all about gays unless it isabout some sort of special interest....,-Qrt,
interior design, fashion, etc. ' And so, thewhite, upper-middle class yuppie New
Yorker only gets one picture of thequeer--{Uld it ain't a pretty one.
"We have gay people on staff
here," said Kosner. "And have many
gay writers who work for us." Oh
please, Mr. Kosner. Yeah, and Dorothy
has lots of gay friends too. When I
asked you-..:.me editor and publisher df
magazine called New York which
purports to cover the most diverse cityin the world and a city with hundreds ,.
of thousands of gays and lesbianswhen was the last time you put an
openly gay or lesbian person from thiscommunity
on your cover, you
couldn't come up with an answer. 'Y
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Kosner. "It's about a man, a woman
and a child." (Gee, thanks for clearingthat up, Ed). And about the issue of
whether this woman herself should'have been thinking of safer sex,
Kosner replies: "Why should she? She
had no idea he .was gay." Again, we
come to the old bigoted, misguided
notion that it's only gays who have toworry about practicing safer sex,
Rabinowitz, who later called meafter Kosner told her about my complaints, was on the same kick, telling methat people who get manied just don't
think of that and defending this woman's
not thinking about practicing safer sex.
Meanwhile, thousands of straight people
with AIDS have ~dydied and countless more are battling this disease. Oh,
but I forgot.' They are people of color,
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longtime employee of the company whose health c'are benefits
were suddenly
and dramaticallyreduced when it was revealed that
he had AIDS.
A motion to dismiss the case, filed
by attorneys for H&H, is currently
pending. According to David Barr, aLambda staff attorney, the decision
whether or not to dismiss will rest onwhether federal law regulating employee benefit plans is interpreted as protecting HIV-infected persons from
benefits reduction. Barr said lambda's
attorneys feel confident that H&H will
make a satisfactory settlement if the
motion to dismiss is denied.
In the action against Galaxy
Carpet Mills, ACT UP members fromaround the country flooded thecompany's switchboard on Jan. 25.
Participantsin the action placed
calls to executives
and workers
throughout the company, informing
them of the discriminatory
policyand attempting to explain the dangerous precedent set by illness-specific denials of health care benefits.
Gal~,
whose health care planis administered by Allied Benefit Systems, Inc., ha~ set a lifetime cap of$10,000 on reimbursements for medical expenses incurred for treatment
of HIV and other seXually transmitted diseases unless the affected
employee could prove that the illness was "involuntarily acquired."
Allied denied having played any rolein establishing the benefit structureof Galaxy's health plan.
Anthony Bennett of ACf UP/New
York ,fold OutWeek that Galaxy had
been forced to rescind its discriminatory policy before any HIV-related
claims had been made. "We were
lucky with Galaxy: he said. "It only
took two weeks for them to change
their minds, and the contingency
plans we'd made [for further actions]weren't necessary."
In a letter to ACT UP, Galaxy
Director of Human Resources Jack M.
Pounds promised that the company
would amend its policy by Feb. 15.
ACT UP's Bennett said that thegroup pIaOned other such actions in the'. near future. "We're looking at anothercompany right now: he said ~

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prJvent a traveler's entry in the unlikehave never been in trouble in my life.
ly.-tasethat he or she.or
I was holding my, oldest [chUd]. He
h~r homosexuality while crossing a
opened the door to [sobbing] and I
bqrder or going throughcustdms.
! Fla?aga~, w?o studie? law ~ttried to get hiQlciway from my son
and he punched me in my lip and I
C9lumbla Umverslty and at,the UOlscreamed and I §id, 'I'm sick and I
versity of Toronto, has been, involved
have AIDS.'"AIDS issues for more than fiveIn ~tedlitigation matters acro.~.sf ars, and was an active memberof
C1UP before moving to Canada to
the United stai~,several people withAIDS have been prosecuted for similar
tFach at McG:ill. He has writte~ ~offenses. Gregory Scroggins of Smyrdumber of articles on legal ,and ovilna, Georgia, was sentenced to tentights aspects of the AIDS/HIV epiyears in prison for allegedly biting a~emic. ~,police officer. In Kansas, a man who'''LEWDNESS'" from13
told two officers he had AIDS and'pall·,
then spit at them was charged with six
told them that the usual practice infelonies, including "making a tenorist
I such cases-even
if actual intercourse
threat." And in Texas, an HIV-positiveis discovered-is "to shine a light oninmate was sentenced to life in prison' and embarrass those involved, but not
for allegedly spitting at a guard.
. to arrest or prosecute them."_
A spokesperson from the NationI
According to Lt. Fellner, 20 to 30
al AIDS Hotline said there is a very
arrests for public lewdness are madelow chance of infection through coneach year in Riis Park, almost all oftact with saliva, but the risk of infec- ! them among homosexuals. However,tion is increased slightly if the saliva is 'the incidence of such arrests has
mixed with blood. The spokesperson- declined considerably, he said, since
said there are no documented cases 'Dude bathing was outlawed five yearsof AIDS spreading through saliva. HIV
ago in a section where it had,previousis transmitted through blood, semen
ly been allowed,
and vaginal fluids. T:
Any complaints of antigay bias
PWA SHRTERS from pall. 1&
against the park police oc¢Urred. as' much as ten years ago, s~emmmg
New York City Councilwoman Ronnie:
from concerns that police werefocus,
Eldridge. Speaking to reporters, Eldridge,
ing on homosexuals in tha~area ofsaid, "We can't stand by and watch 'm-, the beach,
Fellnersa.d.
"Wesis management' become the govern- , explained it wasn't our policy to conment that we thought would use careful ' centrate only on homosexilals, but
and long-term planning."'
only on lewdness or publ1c sexual
Eldridge said that the implemen-,
activity." And, he said, the park
tation of the shelter plan would "sendpolice have worked with ~he Newa chilling cynicism tbr?ugh the city:;
York City Lesbian and Gay 'Anti-Vioand she appealed to Mayor Dink~
lence project in the past on gay-relatnot to go ahead with the program. ~ I
ed violence crimes in the park.
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Still, the two friends froIn BrookAMFARfrom pa,.n,
lyn say they will persevere. They planremain in force, the coalition's objecto consult with a lawyer through the
pro bono legal services offered at thetive is to persuade· the INS that its'agents should simply accept a "negaLesbian and Gay CommunitY Services
tive" response and not subject foreign
Center in Manhattan. And if the charges
travelers, to further scrutiny.!
, 'arethrown out, they are at lciast suing,This recommended laissez-fafe
for harassment.,,
attitude toward enforcement of the"I just don't think it's right," said
regulation would be equivalent, F13lila- Ferina, who is out to his family but has
gan said, to the attitude the INS npw
not told all of them about the, incident.
adopts toward ~omosexual travelers.
"No one has ever discriminated against
Although it remains technically illegal
me before, especially the police. I
for the INS to admit gay visitors into
didn't do anything wrong, but now I'm
the U.S., the agency will only a~, topaying." ~PWA CONVIcTm from pall.;14

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All of these workswhether autobiographicalor not-involve women ofcolor looking at women ofcolor; a re-focusing of thewhite, male camera eye.
As such, this series is
not only a long overdue. ,one, but a rare opportunity
to see works
which,
because they explicitly
challenge
conventional
representations of womenand specifically of womenof color, are simply nevershown.
Although the specificfocus shifts frop} work towork-emphasizing the dif, ferences between theseworks, each of which
focuses on differenceconsistent throughout themis the strong presence of--,_., ,,women's
voices telling sto(Clockwise) S&mo YlaIlZllld. Tomolco Mabbe and Midi Onodara in .",. DirpllIi:tId w.w Photo: Michaelle Mclean ries of marginal existence.
This is the case even when it is the difficulty of speaking,after so many years of silence, that is being addressed; for allof these works, as works by women, are themselves examples of women speaking. And many of them have createdthe necessary new spaces from which to do so. 'Among the "Re-VlSions"offerings from Great Britain is
by Monica Dorenkamp
the United States premiere of Flesh & Paper, a film by
Kenya-born, British filmmaker Pratibha Pannar. Originallymade for British tC!levision's Channel 4 "Out on Tuesday"omen Make Movies is all about just that. The series, Parmar's film is a portrait of Suniti Namjoshi, anlargest (because the only) national, non-prof- Indian lesbian poet and writer. The film is visually very
it feminist media arts organization, Women beautiful, though in an elegant and understated way. Most
Make Movies is in its 18th year of collecting, promoting
striking about it is the overwhelming respect with whichand distributing independently produced films and videos Parmar has filmed her subject, allowing her to speak herby and about women. For "Changing the Subject," they self, often directly to the camera which does not attempt tohave selected 18 films and videos from their growing and appropriate her words or her image. With the exceptions ofincreasingly diverse collection (including a substantial hold- brief intelViews with other Asian lesbians living in Britain
ingof works by and about lesbians). Ranging from 11 to and with Namjoshi's lover, the film is entirely in Namjoshi's
108 minutes in length, the works are from Australia,
own voiCe, as she alternately discusses her life and work
Canada, Great Britain and the United States, and will be and reads from her writings. Interested in how "language
shown over a series of four evenings.
inveI?-tsworlds," it is appropriate that Namjoshi be allowed
The exhibition is, appropriately enough, entitledto (re-)create as much of her own world as is possible in"Changing the Subject," a task shared by all of these works. this film (she, at one point, discusses the difficulties inherProduced by women of color, the films and videos are ent in her speaking and writing at all in English, the lanoften (semi-) autobiographical, changing the subject in guage, for her, of British imperialism).
terms of content and in terms of subjective point of view.
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itself-Parmar's
fllm also raises difficult questions about
of women whose experiences are not our own (whether
women of color's complex relations to their own culture
we are white, Black, Asian, Latin) but also about the sort of(further complicated for Namjoshi by her lesbianism) as
work wOlllen 'of color are doing in fllm and video. These
well as to a dominant white' culture. Namjoshi effectively
are ,not only social-issue documentaries. Though some areconveys what must have been (must be) a shared experidocumentary-like, some almost conventionally narrative,
ence of women of color when, talking about her classmates
they succeed in offering new ways of seeing; new ways ofafter she moved to the United States, she says "I realized
seeing women as well as new ways for women to see.
they were trying to civilize me where I thought they were .' 'In addition to its large distribution services, Women
barbaric. "Make Movies is a membership organization that sponsors
Issues of colonialization are effectively, and explicitly,
various workshops for women interested in the production
addressed in Tracey Moffatt's Nice Colored Girls, one of theand pre-production stages of fum and video. For further
films from Australia. Moffat is one of the first Aboriginal
information regarding these, or any of their activities, write
filmmakers, and Nice Colored Girls is a brilliant look at theto them. Women Make Movies, 225 Lafayette St., New York,historical bases of contemporary
relations between
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Aboriginal women and white men. Oneof the few films in the program which
does not have an explicit female voiceover (the women's thoughts and words
are titled on the screen
rather than spa,
ken aloud), Moffatt nevertheless succeeds in conveying the perspectives ofthe silenced and oppressed Aboriginal
women. She does so by voicing-over,against the contemporary setting of thefilm, 18th century, narratives of the firstwhite and male colonizers of New South
Wales, The effect is a startling juxtaposition of present and past histories of
exploitation, made all, the more' powerful because it is shown from the perspective of one of the exploited.
Moffatt's presence behind the cameracontinually undermines the seeming
impossibility of escaping 200 years ofcolonial exploitation.
But Moffatt and Parmar (whose
Sari Red is also being shown) are only.
two of the many Black, Asian and Latin
women whose works are being shownpart of this exhibition. Many others, deserve more attention than space here
will allow. Among them are Palestinianborn performance and video artist Mona
Hatoum's
powerful
MeasuresofDistance which superimposes Arabic
script-like barbed-wire over images ofher body; Chilean exile Marilu Mallet's'"
Unftntshed Dtary which explicitly ..{("Aiiaddresses gender differences as Mallet .,.:;""and her husband, also a filmmaker, cit!;; <w' !i/XS"'i"fl.
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players starring in that year's big piCture, preferably a historical epic like
Patton or Ghandl or Ben Hur or
Born on the Fourth of July (whichmight have been titled The Worst
Years afOur Lives).
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of its way to nominate all available
deviations from the straight, white,healthy American ideal. Oscar often
picks out the handicappeo,
thedeformed, the queer-you Imow; thedifficult roles. Depravity and physicaldefect, Academy voters figure, is hardto get right. For 1989, they selected a
p:!.raplegic crom Cruise), a man withcerebral palsy (Daniel Day Lewis), a
woman driven mad Osabel Adjani), a
terminal diabetic (Julie Roberts); a
couple of Blacks and quite numberof Jews. Oscar is egalitarian, after all,and does not value 'one kind of aberration over another. niere may not be
any homosexual rQles' nominated thishe earliest openly homosexual movie role I can find thatearned an actor an Oscar
nomination was Estelle Parson's lesbijln turn in Rache4 Rachel in 1968.
She didn't win.
Nor did Peter Pinch win for
Sunday, Bloody Sunday. Nor Cher for
Stlkwood. Nor AI Pacino nor Chris
Sarandon for Dog Day Afteonly movie in which the candid portrayal of two gay lovers earned both
performers nominations. Of course,
Pacino and Sarandon never got closer
to each other than the opposite ends
of a telephone line, and their characters were both clearly nut cases, butthey were gay. For what it's worth.
Since 1986, when William Hurt
won the only Oscar ever awarded fora flagrantly gay role (in Kiss of theSpider Woman), no performer in ahomosexual part has even been nominated. But don't think the Academy
is being any more homophobic thanusual. The first criterion has neverbeen whether the character is gay or
straight, but whether the picture is ,;..,,-.
appropriate for the Oscar: a movie
that oozes with integrity,' social
import, traditional sentiment and"American" values. This year's big
nominees-Driving Miss Daisy, Bornon the Fourth of July, Dead Poets
Soctety and My Left Fool---Qreall highIyapproprlate. They just didn't happen to have any gay charactersaboard. ('The absence of lesbians andgay men from most Hollywood films
is an endless topic, of course see,
(CROSS) DRESS YOU UP IN MY LOVEfor example, Richard Natale's insight-.
-Kia of lb. Spld.r
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ful article on AIDS movies in a recent
Village Votce.)
year, but there aren't any drug addicts
Of course, the first concern of or flying nuns, either.
Academy members who nominate in
For the typical Acadc:my voter, a
the acting categories is to honor aging "stunning" performance is simply' a
icons they fear might die unrewarded.
credible portrayal of a character from
Then they look for any well-known
far outside their comfortable frame of•areference. Larger-than-life historicalfigures do nicely, as does any rolewith lots of struggling and yelling andsuffering. That's where the gay parts
often figure in.
Before Rachel, Rachel, closeted
homosexual characters were sometimes among the nominees,
like
Warren Beatty's sexually ambivalent
Clyde Barrow in Bonnie and Clyde,Peter O'Toole's Lawrence of Arabia or
Sal Mineo's James-Dean-obsessed
teenager in Rebel Without a Cause.
But in the last 21 years, more openly
gay roles have been nominated (andhave lost) with some frequency.
Inevitably, the gay parts that earn
Oscar bids are most often played forpathos or as serpents in the garden,
as in Rache4 Rachel Best picture winner Midnight Cowboy garnered nominations for Jon Voight, as a reluctant
hustler of homosexuals, and Dustin
Hoffman, as his not-quite-Iover. They
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journalistin Timberlake
Wertenbaker's New Anatomies. That is the dilemmaof anyone at odds with a society's need to set boundaries On
behavior, expression and self-identity. It is the story of Isabelle
Eberllardt, who, at the turn of the century, left her staid life asa young Swiss woman on the verge of marriage and ran off toAlgeria to live, dressed as a man, among the Arabs.
Early on, her mother sings, "I'd rather be a rich man's darling than a young man's slave." Isabelle would rather be no
man's, woman's or society's anything unless it's on her own
terms. She rarely found that ideal state, In Algeria, the Frenchlooked down on her for speaking to the native setVants in 'their own language; the women disapproved of her dressing
as a man, Some Arabs were sufficiently outraged at a woman
in their midst participating in male rituals that they attempted
to kill her (although others accepted her immediately). One
might imagine that lesbians, whose company, at least, sheoccasionally shared, looked askance at her insistence that she

Awash as we are in singers devoting entire sets to one composer, lyricist
or lyric-writing
team (witness Jeff
Harnar's swift ascent with the Camden
and Green-inspired"Carried Away"),rarely do composers venture before thespotlight to display their musical wares,
Craig Carnelia who has contributed
songs to Woming, DIamonds and wrote
the score to the 1982 Broadway flop, Is!here Life After High School? has decided
to test the waters. Joined by singer
Maureen Silliman, their show, PIctureson the Wall, offers a potpourri of.'Carnelia-penned
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"liked boys" and slept with them (although whether the boys
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cholic view of life. The results are amixed bag that won't set anyone's ears
asunder but offer a unique viewpoint onlife.
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fellow with a penchant for melodic
self-reflection.
His songs seemedsteeped in minor keYs and offer the listener little opportunity to soar with a
melodic line. Tunes with offbeat titles
like "The First 40 years" and "A Kid
Inside" chronicle life's ups and downs
from various viewpoints, but Carnelia
fails to provide that ftnal punch which
inhabits "I Dreamed a Dream" or even
Paul Anka's "My Way." His two mostnoble efforts, "Just a Housewife" and"Diary of a Homecoming
Queen"
sounded grim and heavy-handed andbordered on sameness. I desperately
exhilarating high spirited
waited foranblast that would transcend both themusic and lyric but it never airived.
Silliman, a Broadway veteran witha' strong belt voice carried most of theshow, By no means a slick perfonner,
she has a homespun quirkiness thatworked especially well on two perky
numbers; "Avocado," a ditty concerning
one's similarity to that distinguished vegetable and "Old Movies," a jazzy spoofof famed motion picture duos. Silliman's
forceful vibrato blended, well with
Carnelia's light tenor arid she perfonned
her various solos with industrious
aplomb,Given the paucity of theatrical composers today, we should be happy tohave Craig Carnelia with us. Next time,a broader and more, varied repetoire
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ecord hunting isn't a pasttime for some it's a
way of life. My happiest afternoons are spent at aused record store, going through every bin, one
by one, preferably in alphabetical order. Needless to say, I
have trouble dating. There aren~t that many women willingto spend hours crunched over filthy piles of singles looking
for Liliput's elusive "Eisige Wmd." To save you the inconvenience of getting your fmgernails dirty, br worse, spending
hard cash on worthless vinyl, the following shol11dallow
you to spend your mus~c dollars wisely.
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Marc Almond/Jacques/(Some•Marc Almond never had to prove his gay credentials;
he never pretended to be something he wasn't, and suchhonesty isn't that widespread. For most of the American
public, A4nond is Soft Cell's voice, and Soft Cell is "Tainted
Love." Few know that Almond has had a busy solo career
since the early 80s, and that he has made some of the mostbrilliant albums to ever grace this shameless industry. If Opal/Ear{y Recordlngs/(RoughTrade)
you don't have a copy of Torment and Toreros, you're
Once you've got your adrenaline level in the red, Opal
missing out 'on something.
is about the only thing likely to calm you down. Revolving
Contributing to the re-birth of a certain cabaret sensi- around David Roback (ex-Rain Parade) and Kendra Smithbility during the 1980s (One of his most accomplished(ex-Dream Syndicate), Opal made one album in 1987,
albums, Mother Fist, featured -a tribute 'to Judy Garland,
Happy Nightmare Baby (SST), which I had mixed feelings,"Saint Judy."), he never forgot its camp spirit, but he also about. Sure, Ken.dra has a beautiful VOice,but it was buried
managed to give the genre a renewed dignity. After landing
behinc;l guitars that were way too loud and needlessly
a British chart-topperwith a cover of Gene Pitney's
aggressive. Fortunately, this present album collects tracks
recorded between 1984 and 1987, some of them previously"Something Gotta Hold of My Heart" last year, Almondcould have butchered a coaimercial follow-up. Instead, he unreleased, and we get the songs alid the voice without thechose to recorda whole album of songs by Jacques BreI. heavy arrangements. This is everything the soft side of
These songs, translated in English from the origiria! French, psychedelic should be, and if Syd Barrett (original Pink
have always been a' staple of his show, but he fJilally got Floyd percussionist and rumored subject of the film The
around to putting all of them onto one album. The result is Wall) were still alive, he'd love it. Take the opening track,'quite depressing, yet enthralling, Brei's desperate cynicism "Empty Box Blues." Smith's voice is floating sweedy over a
being given a new life by Almond, who plays the game to ' sorta f61ky background, and you think that it can't get betthe hilt. Don't expect anything pop around here, but the ter than that, until it does: a piano comes along to counteralbum is rewarding once you get to listen to it carefully.
point the vocals. Pure bliSs, they repeat this feat 12 times(13 if you get the CD). This is the perfect soundtrack when
blackgirls/Procedure/(Mammotb)
you happen to be' on the turnpike on a rainy night, withblackgirls are Eugenia Lee, Hollis Brown and Dana your sleepy significant other in the passenger seat. (This
Kletter, three white women from North Carolina. They do album should also be quite good on a Sunday morning,
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wear black clothes, though, and when they played in New
York, Lee was wearing black lipstick and a black bow in
her hair. You see, Lee is a very intense person: when she
looks at you, her very pale blue eyes pierce easily throughyour jaded I-live-in-New- York-I've-seen-it-all
attitude(speaking of which, I went to a Lydia Lunchreading
recendy, what a hoot, though maybe I shouldn't have wornmy blue parka). In their spare time, she and Dana put out
a fanzine tided Eat My Shit, remarkable for its anti-authoritarian, semi-anarchist attitude.
blackgirls produce their unique sound with only an
acoustic guitar, a piano and a violin (adding a mandolin on"A VISit to the Behaviorist"). Produced by Joe Boyd (10,000,Maniacs, REM, Fairport Convention) this album is slick andcrisp, without sounding overproduced. The songs can be as
quiet as a lmce's surface, or they can twist and raise theirugly heads, especially when Lee is handling the vocals. The
opening track is typical of their stance. Dana starts singing
softly (about love, arrggghhhh) until, after a brief pause,
you hear Lee snarling, "Yeah, right," before adding her own
version of the story to Dana's.
This band deserves your attention, because it's original, uncompromising and adventurous. And on stage theykick ass!

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ZEtrospective/Hope Springs Eternal and(Wax Traxl). It's the same track appearing 01"l bOt1i,~ideSft
Dancing in tbe Face of Adversity /(ZElIslaod)
with two different production teams. Alain "Ministtyf'j:
This two-CD compilation is the most indispensable
and Revolting Cocks are on side A,~(r:thing to have hit the stands ih, oh, about ten years. Thanks Jourgensen
sµns,:,
to its nutty boss, Michael Zilkha, the now-defunct ZE they're unusually subdued, the vocals sortshouted. Side B is produced by Cabaret Voltaire,: 'AA~'J~f~_record label once had one of the most diverse and exciting
roster of artists of the time. Now all the fabulous artists to terrific. It ,sounds more "techno," as in early 8Qs, as';Iij.:
have graced this label are gathered on one, or actually , processed vocals, as in Kraftwerk. Clocking, in at ~fn~:minutes,
this goes on and on and on; ReQe$adcF
two, silver slices. A blast from the past, yes indeed. Where
else now could you get Lydia Lunch right next to Was (not Soundwave's Biting my Nalls (Mute!Enigma):1$ a bit lµc¢,th~:(1Was)? All my faves from the late 70s/early 80s 'are there, in Meat Beat Manifesto, only slower. This is the side.
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British invasion you .don't hear often"u~e~:rou're~to.,;
their splendid, delirious extravagance.
.As far as moving your feet go, Danctng In tbe Face of this whole "~d aCid" scene. MeanderlOg fra~ents .;bfl .
Adve1stty rules supreme. Kid Creole and the Coconuts (whom I melody, sampllOg and vocals sound as if tqey w<>D:~'admit I saw at least seven times between 1982 and 1985, and what they were doing there. On the B side,·C~iP~;:.
not only because of the Coconuts) gives us "I'm a ~derful Sex" has the most evil bass line since "P\,lmp ,J]p\the, : ,Thing, Baby," which was alone enough to send me, in a fit of Volume." Finally, Boxcar's Insect (Arista) is'
nostalgia, back to listening to the complete works of Mr. disco O'en years later and it's still there. Oooooof, I krl~,
August Darnell. In the same Latin vein, Don Armando's Second I was right all along. I'll go and dust off my: Sat,irtlilj.I,
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with the 1imeS Arts and Entertainment section and a solid
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Waitresses doing the best
Christmas
song
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'"Christmas Wrapping.· And
Christina again, this time inher pseudo-serious mood,for even when they were
trying really hard, nobody
on ZE could
keep' astraight face for long. Jeez,
even Lydia Lunch was funny, sort of-her
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by Victoria Starr
don't cheat. So why
is it that these articles,
To dance is human, ..But to Polka of temptation makeis divine.
-k,d. langsuch good country/
western songs." "It'sa living," shouted mys. k.d. lang is quite an girlfriend. "Yeah, it's
anomaly. Dressed froma living," sighed k.d.
head to toe in a purple
Yet while lang's
zoot suit, gold blouse with matching
charm is clearly whatsocks and purple patent leather buckle pushes her over the
shoes, she looks more like a big band top (who else could
leader than a CountrylWestern crooner. havelookedso, Hailing from "the rolling hills" of naively earnest as :Alberta, Canada, this big-boned gal, she politely
told'along with her (indeed) big, band, the Connie Chung to
Reclines, is the most likely Country/
mind her own busiWestern crossover act since the Everly ness on national teleBrothers. And k.d.'s got the biggest
vision), there'savoice north of Nashville.
minor contradiction
Surely you've heard of k.d. Often
in her approach--«touted as the new Patsy Cline (a com- contradictionthatparison that proves truer of the band's
will likely work itself
sound than hers), she is particularly
out as she becomes
known in our circle for an even more
more settled in her
desperate reason: the unsubstantiatednew-found fame. In
rumor that she is "one of the girls." A concert she seems tolittle bit country, a little bit blues, and encourage a casual, 'a whole lotta swing, k.d. lang is more intimate rela- OUR KIND OF WOMAN
refreshingly accessible, daring a wId 'tionshipwith the k.d. lang and company
new approach
to one of Northaudience, which the audience, in tum,whether she's performing the sultry
America's more traditional genres of reciprocates. But in this case, both
blues number, "I'll Be Gone," or belting
music. Shining with self-confidence
singer and audience lost sight of theout the honky-tonk of "Heart Likeand oozing with charm, her vitality on boundaries,
and the more vocallyMine." Such virtuosity has garnered herstage captures even the non-fan of responsive was the audience, the moremuch attention over the last few years,
country/western music, as she shakes,
annoyed she ,seemed to become, It may
not the least of which was the invitation
rattles and rolls like a female Elvis.
be that k.d. simply suffers a mild disto work with the legendary Roy
Moreover, k.d. is a tease. On stage dain towards her celebrity status, More
Orbison, To this day, Orbison's "Crying"
she loves that we love her, and coyly likely she finds it hard playing bothis one of lang's strongest works.
toys with the fantasies of whicheversides of the fence.
But the country/westernscene
gender is wanting it. Immediately folIn wth her recordings and her live, . offers no easy entry to a young andlowing her opening number, "Big Big performances, k,d. lang makes it clear
uncompromising upstart like k.d. It's
Love," she provocatively declared, "this that she is thoroughly committed to her
bad enough that she's a woman,next song is for all the women in the craft, bound and determined to beworse still that she may not be theaudience ...(pregnant pause) ...who con- accepted as a formidable CIW artist. , right kind of woman, She jokingly
sider themselves ...(pause as our pulses Her versatility
as a vocalist is
makes the point as she tells the story
qUicken) ...big-wned gals." Later, she unmatched in such a young artist,
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in composition but not in intention. This
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show so varied in content, it is difficult for a"cUrator,,,.'dik"'tM>:::\,"l'kk4!:··':':l,,'~~,::&t,t;;,wil:,.F,,·./ig"-,,''''''.~ ".... -·C.·.-',,,;·?:_ ·-:~::.:;:mto synthesize ideas. To display the works collectiv~ly '<1""''1 ,_~ ;TV! t ",,>!,:'", .,,'" "ii',wnw"::.
under the pretense of work donated for auction to ,,'.','Rosalind Solomon. SaTbara Smce, Medical Doctor (Altllcked by araise money for AIDS would have made m~reand would have allowed the viewer)o gain claritY sharlc in 1963), South Africa, 1988.
based on personal insights and interpretations., Instead" we decor in leather bars, or the desire of some people withreceive a kind of handholding. The faux pas of this show AIDS to own a horse.
was attempting to ftnd a common thread of the artists' work
Certain works in "The Indomitable Spirit" are related inand their visual relationship to the AIDS crisis. Perhaps the content and emotion. David Moffett and Barbara Kruger's
ultimate curatorial no-no is the, explaining of what a work verbally confrontational pieces are not unlike each other's,means to the audience. Beside' <:ach piece, in addition to nor are Herb Ritts' and Robert Mapplethorpe's silver gelatin
the title, name of artist and ~edium is an explanation of prints of beautiful bodies.
''what it means, either literally or metaphorically to life and
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dochic for art as it relates to life in general.
very interested and dedicated to helping infants with AIDSThis is well illustrated by the 'cowboy photograph by is a notable aside, but on the whole, is not crucial toRichard Prince, a photographer whose acclaim came from appreciate or understand his work.
romantic images for 70s cigarette ads. Here we have thisOverall, the quality of the works in the show is
grainy, softly lit image of a cowboy and a horse crossing a exceptionally high. Some of the finest chroniclers of
stream; an image typically embellished' to romanticize the SOciety and culture of this era are represented under one
American West. Its relationship to an afftrmation of life roof and can be experienced at one time. This in and ofseems as reasonable as anything else; after all, you could itself is life-affirming and shows and enduranc!,! of
depict a will to live by showing an absence of life and still humanity in the face of societal and political obstacles.·make a case for it. Our given script seems to think this And if "life is but the theater," we, as an audience ofrelates to AIDS and to life in that "we are pioneers, we these times, certainly do not require direction of how tohave conquered nature and we are in control." I suppose respond emotionally to a time of crisis and a need for
it is so if you think so. It seems one could have made' a hope. If you ignore the attempt to, curate the concern ofconnection from this to the popularity of country-western a community, you will capture hope in person ....

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rules for writing book reviews:(1) I will not review a book that
I do not like, for not only does noone look sillier than when being
bitchy in print, but the review mightalso be interpreted as sour grapes on
my part for some arcane reason or
another; (2) I will not write an
unqualified rave, for fawning in print
looks even sillier than being bitchy;and (3) I will not review books written by writers who have reviewed mybooks, for reasons that should be
obvious. (I do admit to being oncevery tempted to break rules one andthree simultaneously, but my motives
were not pure and eventually reason
won and the rules remained unbroken.) I am about to come very close
to breaking rule two, I loved Some
Dance to Remember, all 562 pages of.
it. When page proofs arrived I readthrough them in one day, unable tostop, then I reread them more slowly
over the next week, and now I haveread them again, and still my opinion
has not changed:
Some Dance toRemember is the best gay novel sinceDancer From the Dance, which I
doubt will ever be equalled-QOotherwriter might come along with thesame skill, but the feeling of the 70s
that pervades Dancer and makes it so
exciting can never be recaptured.
At the heart of Some Dance toRemember is a love affair between
Ryan, a Castro resident who has always
idolized bodybuilders, and Kick (as in"that's not a dick, that's a kickstand"),"

who is the archetypal California
Golden Man. Kick is even more than
that: He's the blond super muscle hunkon the cover of bodybuilding magazines; he's fantasy sex incarnate. In
Ryan, who worships him, he finds
something he needs. I mow, it sounds
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great care to develop the characters,
and the reader becomes very involvedin their relationship.
One' of the stre,ngths of thisnovel, which helps sustain its length,
is that the author draws the minor
characters as carefully as the major,
ones. Ryan's family is extremely
Catholic, and when they meet theteenage girl, who dropped out of her

sophomore year in high school andsoon thereafter marries Ryan's brOther, Thom, their mother asks,'You have such a lovely dark
complex1on. What ~tionalily
are.
you, dear?','Protestant, ' Sandy answered
To say that this marriage was not
successful would be exaggerated understatement,
although, with three very
offensive children, it was
fertile.
, So, there is a strong
plot and interesting characters, but what gives thisbook its greatest strengthis its setting in the Castro
over 20 years, from themid-60s to the mid-80s.
Historical events are• treated, for the most part, accurately but are seen throughthe characters, and real
historical figures ~akebrief appearances-for
example; Divine, a "twoton act person," Pat Califia,
who, according to the ,.
author is truly a macho"slut, Robert Mapplethotj>e, I ,in the beginning of his
S&M period. The sense ofliving history is strong.
Mr. Fritscher, as others
have, attributes the start of
the Castro' to an article in
the June 26, 1964, Lifemagazine about the emerging gay culture., "'An engraved invitation to every
faggot in America wouldn't havecaused more of a sensation. Reading
Lifes expose in Iowa was like discovering a travel agent's
dream
brochure .. .' Not since Sutter's
MilL. has any proclamation started
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ous. Why she chose the desert-thatmost romantic of locales in western
patriarchal m~
the setting for her~d~~v~,mdthena~of her sexuality, are two of the larger,
unanswered questions. If the play were
not so centered on ideas and discussions and more concerned
withEberhardt's story rather than what it"means"--thesequestions might not
matter SO much. After all, less need berevealed in a story than in an analysis,but once a play takes on the analytic
mode, an audience feels it's entitled toknow everything.
Wertenbaker even glosses overEberhardt's own feelings and opinions,choosing to make Isabelle either inebriated or incoherent for long stretches,
while the others around her discuss theissues her "case" represents: sexual andcultural chauvinism, political correctness(the lesbians at a Paris salon are somewhat aghast to hear that Isabelle doesn't
sleep with women). Colette Kilroy has
to work v~ hard to overcome the voidat the center of this Isabelle, and it's not
to her discredit that she doesn't always
succeed. Indeed, the characters surrounding her are generally more palpable, more tangible---more hi
Isabelle.' It may be that Wertenbakerbecame more interested in Isabelle assymbol than Isabelle as a specific person caught ina concrete dilemma.
Often, Isabelle is merely an occasion forthe dissection of ideas. Certainly, she ismore dissected than fleshed out. Yet
Wertenbaker can't quite let go of her
central character's humanness, or thehuman desire to simply tell a story.
The production, directed by, Melia
Bensussen, tries to make the most of
SHfJHE from pege 59
minimal 'means. The set, by Connie
er, Isabelle herself fell victim to a natural
Singer, is draped in sheets; all the action
anomaly: she died, at 27, in a flash
occurs on this basically empty space.
flood in the desert.
Ali empty stage requires sharper, more
This is raw material from which
specific acting than a realistic set does.
Wertenbaker .fushions her piece. It canWith their own imaginative work,
be compelling, but often loses its power , actresses must fill in what isn't physicalin a confusion of form. It wants to bely apparent to ,the audience. When an
bothan example
of didactic
actress i$ playing multiple roles, the task
theater-where the ideas come first andis that much more difficult. Of the fivethe story and characters
tricklewomen playing 17 'parts, Ching Valdes!
down-and
anecdotal theater-where
Aran and Alison Stair Neet are mostthe ideas and themes emerge out ofconsistendy the actresses we want tocharacter and action.
watch before they say a word
Much of what one would like to
There are moments that work quite. know about Eberllardt remains mysteri- well. Isabelle dons her turban for theof one of her early trips to Nashville,
when she was approached in the, train
station by a man passing Ol,1tpamphlets entided "How to Become a C/W
Superstar" (he ~'tsure whether togive her the pink pamphlet or the blue
one, so she saved him the embarrassment by snatching up the pink one).
As she rushed off to her hotel room,
ready to be schooled, lesson one
taught her what she had feared allalong: "'The higher the hair," read thepamphlet, "the closer, to god." Not
only is k.d.'s coiff of the short, wash
and wear style, but to some she's averitable cross-dresser.
So, against all odds, and in fact,
because of them, an aura of irreverence
seems to envelop k.d's work. While she
takes both the C/W genre and her rolein it very seriously, she is clearly notready to stuff herself into a pair of spikeheels and a Dolly Parton wig. Instead
she walks the fine line, challenging pe0ple without threatening them. She may
not be changing the pronouns in her
songs (are we assuming too much?), but
she could be the biggest gender-benderto grace middle-America's 1V screens, since Boy George.
The world may not yet know thereal k.d. lang, but hopefully that willchange in time. Even Connie Chungwould like for k.d. to be "one of thegirls," but as she allegedly explained to
Chung after the cameras stopped
rolling, at this point it would get her
nowhere. Instead, she challenges the
C/W industry as much as she thinks sh~can, believing that too much too soon
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first time, and everything onstage
changes. The world becomes alive withfreedom and possibilities; the stag~ itse1f
seems to get brighter and larger. It's
shortly cut down to size, however, byreams of talk. This simply reminds usthat simple theatrical images, cha1ged
with all sorts of ut15jJOken meaning, aremore memorable (and meaningfuO than
the intellectualization which explainsand explains and explains.
However, a critic ought not bury,
the good of a production under a pileof his own words. New Anatomies,
w/:latever its flaws, is one of those , rareplays: it is actually abou~ something.
The struggle to live an authentic life is asubject that never loses its importance,
its "relevance." T
SOME DANCE from pege 64
At first, life in the G!stro was heaven on earth for a gay man. Beauty was
everywhere, sex was plentiful, healthy
and available in variety, and everyone
from geeks to gods found satisfaction
somewhere.
But as more and morecame,' and as "attitude" became a noun
that did not need a modifier, the G!stro
disintegrated and it is only now beginning to heal, although it will never be
the same. As Mr. Fritscher writes,"Attitude assassinated characters, reputations, and motives with more venom
than Dan White ever knew ... The
Attitude Game was great sport, andgreat hurt; it would take years, and,
finally, political and medical terror,
before the perverse-rainbow bandana
flag of intra-gay separatism [becamel thereal Rainbow Ftag of Gay and Lesbianunity pulling the fussing, feuding dissidents together in true community."
AIDS enters this novel in the 80s, ofcourse, for without it, the book would
be an unbelievable' fairy tale. But AIDS
enters only histOrically; it is not of central importance.
'
I wrote at the beginning that thiswas going to be an almost unqualifiedrave.
It would have been totallyunqualified if Mr. Fritscher had not
introduced what seems to me to be arather nasty and elitist concept: homo-,
masculinity-thesuper men, thosewith great, muscular bodies and strong
minds who would never be caught indrag or own any pet that wasn't asnarling brute. Mr. Fritscher writes the

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earned Robert Preston his only Oscar As her sometimes lover, Michael Yorkappropriate words that say that all
nomination. Tom Courtenay's perfor- played one of the first nonflaming,
kinds of gay men and lesbians aremance in The Dresser (1983) was also largely self-accepting
gay men inequal members of what I shall call
sympathetic, but still fey and frantic, Hollywood cinema, yet his perfor"our community" for simplicity, but it
is obvious that, at least in this novel,
enough to earn a nomination, and it mance went unmentionedby theset the stage for Hurt's victory two Academy, which gave Oscars to boththe author clearly thinks the "homoyears later.
Minnelli and Joel Grey. Perhaps it
masculinists," the "manly homosexuals," are superior.
My notes
It's not surprising that the only seemed too easy to playa rather norsummarize my opinion about thisopenly gay character to win an actor mal fellow who was gay-or maybe
point; I wrote "BulIshit! Fritscher takes
an Oscar was drag queen. Cross- York's strong portrayal of relative norhimself too seriously here." However,dressing has earned nominations for maUty was distasteful or threatening
and this is a big "however," the novel , .llimost as many actors as has frank to the average Academy voter.
is lalge enough and complex enoughhomosexuality. Jack Lemmon got a
Publicly closeted gays may win
so that the politics, right or wrong, domention for Some Like It Hot, Dustin Academy A~ikelast year-but
not interrupt it, and, in fact, give the
Hoffman for Tootste, Julie Andrews for the same reason actors stay closetreader something to think about.
for VictorMctoria and Jeff Bridges for ed, the number of openly gay roles inJacket blurbs are often irrelevant orThunderbolt and, Ltgbtfoo~
movie acceptable movies remains small.
silly, but there is one on this book that
popular with those who like to dig can't think of a single significant gay .
comes pretty close. "Some Dance toout gay subtexts in supposedly het- characterin a:' mainstream
film
Remember is the Gone With tbe Wind
erosexual "buddy" pictures.
released in 1989.) The kind of movies
of sexual liberation." I would say it is
Roles with drag bits have actually that win Oscar nominations these
the Gone Witb tbe Wind of the Castro,
won Oscars for three actors: Joel Grey days are simply not the kind of
but the point is almost the same ....
in Cabaret; Richard Dreyfuss, who movies that feature gay characters.
camped it up as Queen Richard IIi in Hollywood can try now to handle
The Goodbye Gtrl; and Linda Hunt, racism, teenage suicide and the
OSCAR from pIII8 58
who did "deep drag" for The Year of Vietnam War, but it has trouble withdecadence, and Bette Midler's sameUvtng Dangerously
she played a homosexuality. But I mustn't get startsex affair' in The Rose seemed merelyman, start, to finish. Brilliantly cast and ed on tbat subject again. ~a drug-induced thing. On the otherpowerfully played, gender-switched,
hand, the homosexuality in Steven
performances like Hunt's and John I
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Spielberg'S The Color Purple was so
Lithgow's Oscar-nominated transsexu- states have adopted gay rights laws, thedelicately understated that Whoopi
al part in The World Accordtng to relevant legislative forum for judging
Goldberg and Margaret Avery's Oscar
Garp are surefire attention-gettersfederal policies is Congress, which has
nominations may well have been forwith the smoking-jacket voters of the never enacted affirmative prttection for
the aplomb with which they dtdn't
Academy. But Hollywood only rarely gays, and frequently passes laws against
make love.
dares such roles.
gays (such as ovenu1ing the District ofThe first major Oscar breakIn fact, it's more likely for the Columbia's sodomy law repeal about
through for vaguely positive gay roles
Academy to honor the performer who ten years ago).
was Sunday, Bloody Sunday (1971).
plays a straight character traumatized
And aside from the questionable
Peter Finch's character was a mess,by or involved with a homosexualaccuracy of the court's assertion thatbut he was largely sympathetic. So
than it is to recognize someone for a homosexuality
is not innateor',
was the title character in ]ulta, forgay role. Just think of all thoseimmutable, Gayer told OutWeek that thewhich Vanessa Redgrave won a Bestactresses nominatedfor playing
court's legal argument "misused theSupporting Actress award. Julia waswomen with gay male lovers in Bowers tIS, Hardwick decision, because
apparently a lesbian, but of course
screen versions of Tennessee Williams it assumes that all gay people engage inher sexuality was suppressed in. theplays: Geraldine Page, Elizabeth
sodomy as it is defined in that decision."movie. The same goes for Redgrave's
Taylor, Geraldine Page. And thenThis decision could lead to a series
nominated role in The Bostontans andthere were Joanne Woodward in of other negative decisions ~ cases
for the asexual Emma Goldman part
Racbel, Racbel, Glenda Jackson in pending on the West Coast, iilcludingthat won Maureen Stapleton an Oscar
Sunday, Bloody Sunday and Oscar- the prum case, a challenge to thefor Reds.
winners Maggie Smith, who suffered a Navy's antigay policies, and the Dubbs
Gay people who were neither
gay husband in Californta Sutte, a,nd case, which takes on the homophobia
closeted nor incredibly anguished first Jessica, Lange, who fended off what of the QA. IroniC3lly, internal Defense
began to appear as Oscar contenders
she thought were lesbian advances instudies leaked to membersin the 80s, both in dramas, likeTootsie.
of Congress last fall indicated that
Stlkwood, and in comedies, like theMy favorite example in this cate- experts hired by the department have ..
cliche-ridden
but likable Vtctor/
gory is Oscar winnerLiza Minnelli for concluded that ,the present policies lack
Victoria. A campy, yet endearing, role
Cabaret, whose character sleeps with substantial justification. ...
as an aging queen in, the ,latter film
a fictionalized Christopher Isherwood.

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first Thursday)
B'way, 3n1 Roor; TU-SA, 11-6; 226Antibody Test; at the Center, 208W
MEDICINE SHOW Word/Pia,5440 Ithru FEB 28)
13 S1; 6-10 pm; free; register 807series of readings; tonight, MelinNEW YORKCITY GAYMEN'S CHO6655,TDD 645-7470
da Goodman and James Purdy,
RUS Rha".""" with special guest
THEATRE WORKS EMERGING/
poetry and fiction; 353 B'way (3 Marilyn Homa, and a full symphoEXPERIMENTAL DIRECTIONS 8& GAY MEN'S HEALTH CRISIS HIV
blocks below Canalt 8 pm; $6; 431ny orchestra performing Brahms'
JUSTIN ROSS present EI.,I. forHealth Seminar: Medical Treat9545 (gay!lesbian/AIDS organizaAlto Rhapsody, several Rossini
arias, Only in the Dream by John"-Ii.,a..... ment.; 129 W 20 St, 3rd Floor; 7 tions will have tables in the lobby)
fM AIDS AmIIo/o,,}, written and pm; free; 807-6655, TDD 645-7470
David Earnest, and a new work bydirected by Bill Russell, music by(this and every 4th TUES)GAY MALE SIM ACTIVISTS MaetJohn Corigliano; a benefit for the
Janat Hood, with 'a cast of 33 men
ing: Wat.r Sports anll "a"nch,Chorus' AIDS Outreach Fund; atand women; at RAPP Arts Center, THE ANSWER IS LOVING Women
with Mawat and wild talk on piss, Carnegie Hall, 57 St 8&7th Ave; 8220 E 4 St (btwn Aves AlBt $15 ($3 in Diacovary: Married Women
scat and other bodily secr~ons·;
pm; $15-$100; info 691-7590, tix
goes to Equity Fights AIDS); tix
Loving Women, a counselingat the Center, 3rd Floor, 208 W 13 247-7800
529-8180 (thru March 4; WED-FRI
S1; 8:30 pm (doors open at 8); $5;
group begins Tuesday sessions',
at 8 pm, SAT at 7 8&10 pm, SUN at tonight, in Brooklyn; 8-10 pm; $15 727-9878
MEDICINE SHOW Word/Pia,
38&7pm)per session; 7181998-2305
series of readings; tonight, MarkEAGLE BAR Movia Night: Inlliana Ameen presents Monologues of
VILlAGE THEATRECOMPANY preTUNNEL BAR Mardi Graa Party, . Jon .. : D. Lall Crusad.. 142 11th an Anonymogamist or, Seven Pilslints the first New York revival of with MBloody Marys, Planter'sAve (at 21 St); 11 pm; 691-8451, lars of Wicca-Dic/c, and Andrew
Leny Ire.... D. N""".I H.. ",Punch, Tequila Sunrises, prize forMellen performs My Ufe as Kim

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Novak, or, There's Only Two
Things I Don't Uke About YoU;353
B'way (3 blocks below Canal); 8
pm; $6; 431-9545 (gay/lesbian/
AIDS organizations will have info
tabl,s in the lobby)

Tuning In: A TV/Radio Guide for 01

reek Readers(Editor's Note: We solicit entries from radio and Tv, including talk shows, news programs, movies, extravaganzas, cable series and specials, and any other electronic media events that might interest our subscribers. Information must be w.md by Monday to be included in,"'-the following week's issue. Send items to Rick X. Tuning
In, Box 790, NY, NY 10108.),,CCTV (Rick X. Box 790, NYC 10108)
GAY AND LESBIAN SWITCHBOARD/NY Volunteer Interviews,
for those who wish to work atleast two 3-hour shifts per month;
6:30 pm; 7n-1800 (those chosen
will be required to attend a training tomorrow afternoon, March 3)
WOMEN MAKE MOVIES Chenging the Subject, an international
exhibition of work by Black, Asianand Latin women from Australia,
Britain, Canada and the US;
tonight at 7 pm: Trinh t Minh-ha'sSurname Viet Given Name Nam; at
9 pm: Zeinabu Davis' Cycles,
Hiroko Yamazaki's Juxta, Pam
Tom's Two Ues, Julie Dash's Illusions, at Anthology Film Archives,
32-34 2nd Ave (at 2nd St); $5; 4n2714; press 925-0606 (9 pm show
repeats MAR 8 at!i pm),-

THE ANSWER IS LOVING Women. Talking Women's Talk: Relatively
Speaking; "We are family. Traditional. Cultural. What happened to
choice?-; led by Ruth Bennan andConnie Kurtz; Sheepshead Bay,
Brooklyn; 7:45-10 pm; $8; 71819982305
MEN OF ALL COLORS TOGETHER/NY Educational Forum/Safer
Sex Worbhop: Keep h Up; at theCenter, 208 W 13 St; 7:45 pm; 222-

9794, 245-6366
MEDICINE SHOW WOJd/Play
series of,readings directed/curated' by Andrew Mellen; tonight,
David B. Feinberg's Snap Out of It,
Larry Kramer's Selected Essays,
John Weir's The Irreversible
Decline of Eddie Socket; 353
B'way (3 blocks below Canal); 8
pm; $6; 431-9545 (gay/lesbian/
AIDS organizations will have info
tables in the lobby; the event
repeats MAR 3 and MAR 4)

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LISTINGS
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GBS (Gay Broadcasting System, Butch Peaston, 178 7th Ave, Sta. A-3, NYC 10011; 243-1570)
GCN (Gay Cable Network, Lou Maletta, 32 Union Square East. Suite 1217; 4n-4220)
GMHC (Gay Men's Health Crisis, Jean Cariomusto, 129 W 20 St, NYC 10011; 807-7517)
RB PROD (Robin Byrd Productions, Box 305, NYC 10021; 988-2973)
WBAI-FM (279-0707)
WNET-TV (356 W 58 St, NYC 10019; 560-3000)

MONDAY, FEBRUARY 26

FRIDAY, MARCH 2

GCN Be My Guest, Sybil Bruncheon hosts a panel
game show
Manhattan Cable, Channel Jt13; 10:00-10:30 pm, The Gay Dating Game Show
Manhattan Cable, Cham1,1 J/'l3; 7::m:8:oo pm

Tomorrow's 1V Tonight entertainment
Manhattan and Paragon Cable, Channel D/17; 11:30
pm -12:3Oam

cm The Closet Case Show. tonight, Chip Duckett's
masseurs at his Quickl opening; Dean Johnson's Deli
Boywith Perry and Staven, and Danny as Cupid at
Rock &. Roll Fag Bar at the Pyramid
Manhattan Cable, Channel C/16, midnight -12:30 am
Gay Tv. gay male porno clips
Paragon Cable, Channel J/'l3; 1-1:30 am (MON/TUE)

Gay Tv. male poi'!lO ciips
Manhattan Cable, Channel J/'l3, 11-11:30 pm
RB PROD Robin Byrd Show. male ,and female strippers, Manhattan and Paragon Cable, Channel J/'l3; 1-2 am(FRI/SAT),"

SATURDAY, MARCH 3,
WNET-TVThe Musicals: Shill I We Dllnce, with Fredand Ginger and the music of Gershwin,
Channel 13, 9-11 pm'

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 21

RB PROD Thll Ellrly Byrd. Robin Byrd presents
male/female strippers..
Manhattan Cable, Channel J(b; ll-inidnight

GBS Out in theWs: live news coverage, discussion
and interviews
Manhattan and Paragon Cable, Channel C/16, 11 pm
to midnight

SUNDAY, MAIICH 4

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 28

WBAl-FM The GIlY Show(GayMen's Radio Collective ~ disc ussion
99.5 FM, 7:30-8:30 pm (every other Sunday, alternating with Outlooks)

RB PROD The Robin Byrd Show. male and female
strippers
Manhattan and Paragon Cable, Channel J/'l3, mid·night-l am

GCN Men & Rim$. male erotica
Manhattan Cable, Channel J/'l3, 11:30 pm - midnight

THURSDAY, MARCH 1
WNET- TV The Musicals: Shall We DancB, with Fredand Ginger and the music of Gershwin
Channel 13, 9-11 pm (also SAT, 2/3, 2 pm)
GMHC Uving With AIDS. health and politics
Manhattan Cable, Channel JI'I3, 9:30-10:00 pm
Paragon Cable, Channel J/'l3, 11:30 pm • midnightGCN Pride & Progress: news, health, sports ,Manhattan Cable, Channel J/'I3, 10:30-11:00 pm
GCN The Right Stuff: media, entertainment, advice
Manhattan Cable, Channel J/'I3, 11:00·11:30 pm
RB PROD Men For Men: Robin Byrd presen1S gay
male porno stars
Manhattan Cable, Channel JI'I3, 11:30 pm • midnight

MONDAY, MARCH 5,

GCN Be My Guest Sybil Bruncheon's game show andentertainment
Manhattan Cable, Channel J/'l3, 10:00-10:30 pm

cm The Closet CIISII Show. tonight, go-go boys at
Marc Berkley's Sinful Sundllysat Hot Rod; also, thecontinuing saga of Frankie and Jake covered inmarshmallow fluff at Mars'
Manhattan Cable, Channel C/18, midnight -12:30 am
WNET- TV Dahce in America: Bob Fosse: Stellm Hellt.
with selections from his works, interviews with Fosse
and Gwen Verdon
Channel 13, 11:30 pm -12:30 am
WNET-TV Going Home: Alvin AiIIlY Rem,mbllflld,
taped atthe December memorial atthll Cathedral of
St John the Divine
Channel 13, 12:30-1:30 am, (follows Bob foSSil)

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BODY POSITIVE FrldlY Nightloellll,for HIV Positivls andfriends; every ht It 3rd Friday;
Rutger's Church, 238 W 73 St(offBway); 9 pm - midnight; fr'8e; info721-1348 (Note: the next sociel,
FEB 18, will be a special Valentina's Day Dance),

SPECTRUM
presents
2001
Odpuy, a llvanties party featuring Thl Trimpi singing DiscoInferno, other surprises; 802 84th
Street, Brooklyn (N Train to 8th
Ave stop, Bay Ridget 7181238-8213

COLUMBIA LESBIAN, BISEXUAL,GAY COALITION Firat FrldlY
Dlnel, in Earl Hall, Columbia U.,
118 St It Bway (#1/#9 train); 10 pm- 21m; photo 10 to drink; 854-3574,

If'...IDBJiBJi!ll

854-1488

GAY MEN'S HEALTH CRISIS lax.
Dating Ind IntlmlCY Worlelhop,
where -gay Ind bisexuII men will
explore the many ways that men
are loving men in the age of AIDS-;
10 am - 8 pm; free; registration
reqlired,80H855, TD.D846-7470
SAGE Brunch at• Coldwata .. , withfish, chicken, burger, omeletl8, orbacon It eggs entree, fries, salador slaw, and libations: 988 2nd Ave(btwn 52/53 SuI; ,noon or 2 pm
seating; $9.50; rsvp 741-2247(check for It to SAGE, 208 W 13 Sf,
NYC 10011)
MEDICINE SHOW WoriI/PllY,pm (see MAR 2)

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THE IMPERIAL COURT OF NEWYORK and Their
Imperial
Majesties EMPRESS CHENE LA
ROCHELLE It EMPEROR BARRYDAVIDSON cordially request tha
honor of your presence at Night ofI Thonend Gownl, featuring thecoronltionof Empress Camille
Beauchamps(The Forbidden
Emprass IV of New York) andEmperor Shelley (The First Lady
Emperor of New Yorkt with Mari., Iyn Sokol, Lypsinka, Sybil Bruncheon, Princess Chucky, Razor
Sharp, Gay Men's Chorus members, many others; in the Empire
State Ballroom of the Grand Hyatt
Hotel, East 42 Street (btwn
Park/Lax); cocktails It 9 pm, ball
begins at 11 pm; $100/person,$l000/table of ten; TicketMaster:m-7171, info 233-0059
WOMEN AND FRIENDS Dlnce at
thl Clntlr, this and every first
Saturday through May; 208 W 13
St; 9 pm - 1 am; $81$8 members,seniors and students; 620-7310

GIRTH AND MIRTH lundlY
Brunch at Le Cllcedl, featuring
eggs, omelets, salads, or burgers,
with two drinks; 9th Ave btwn
17/18 Sts; noon; $6-$8; rsvp with
Ed,914135H)563
JUDITH'S ROOM BOOKSTOREpresents -Aile I Jlml'
Aftlmoonwith ..... loomis. J .. n Vllrinla NDnI Mltchlll; 681 Washington
St (It Charlis St); 3 pm; free, but
limited seating; 727-7330

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LAVENDER HEIGHTS Llcture
Sirill:LI. Hudlon, Mayor's
Office for the Lesbian and Gay
Community; at Cornerstone Center, 178 Bennett Ave (one blockwest of B'way, 1aka A Train to 190
St); 8 pm; $7; John Mugge 6034665 (days), 304-2471 (eves) (Editor: this series promises Derek
Hodel on 3/22, Virginia Apuzzo on
4/3, Richard Plant on 4/24, Vito
Russo on 5/17)
MEDICINE SHOW Word/Play
series of readings; tonight. Marcel
Christian, Kenyon Gordon, Paula
Martinac and Usa Vice, poetry
and fiction; 353 B'way (3 blocks
below Canal); 8 pm; $8; 431-9545(gayllesbian/AIDS organizations
will have info 1ables in the lobby)•

VILlAGE THEATRECOMPANY presents the finll perfonnance of the
New York revival of Leny Kremer'1
7hN",., H.-",see ONGOING
LIZ TRACEY and SYDNEY POKORNY present GI,I S."de,s Til
Dlnc .. for Womln at Mars, thisand every first Sundey of themonth; DJ Karin Ward, go-go girls,
6 pm show with Filicia March(Apollo Amateur Night winner); 13
St and the West Side Highway; 5-9
pm (participants may stay on forMars Needs Men); $7; info 2281240,Mars 691-8282
MEDICINE SHOW Word/PIIY,
pm (see MAR 2)

PATH: POSITIVE APPROACHESTOWARD HEALING Siminlr:
EmbMciII, O""._,ledby PaterHendrickson, Ph.D., for anyone
concerned about HIV infection;
Integral Yoga Institute, 227 W 13
~ 7:30-9 pm; $5; 929-0586
EAGLEBAR MaviI Night Eddie II1II
tile Cruis.,.. II: Eddie Lillnl; 142
11111Ave (at21 St); 11 pm; 691-8451

Intametional Woman'l Dey,

MEDICINE SHOW WonlIPIay seriesof readings; 1Dnight, Joan Larlcinand
Honor Moore, ,poetry; 353 B'way (3blocks below Canalt 8 pm; $6; 4319545 (gay/lesbian/ AIDS organaa1ions wil have info 1ablaSin 1ha IOblJv)

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GAY MEN'S HEALTH CRISIS HIV
H.. 1Ib SlIIIiDlr: BIllIIfiIa Infonnetion; 129 W 20 Sf, 3rd Roor;, 7 pm;
646-7470 (thisfree; 807-8655,

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WOMEN MAKE MOVIES Chlnging thl SubJlct, an international
exhibition of work by Black. Asianand Latin women from Australia,
Britain, Canada and the US;
tonight at 7 pm: Midi Onodera's
The Displlce Vie~, Marilu Mallet's Unfinished Dilry, It 9 pm:
Zeinabu Davis' Cycles, Hiroko
Yamazaki's JuxtII, Pam Tom's Two
Lies, Julie Dash's Illusions; at
Anthology Film Archives, 32-34
2nd Ave (at 2nd St); $5; 477-2714,
press 925-0608
NEW SCHOOL FOR SOCIALRESEARCH 0... Mill.. A seriesof lectures infonned by the lesbian, gay and bisexual experience,-Communiti .. in Criala: ACT UP',reapllllll to thl AIDS Crial., with
Robert Ge1So, Columbia graduate
student in sociology; 65 Rfth Ave,
Room 308; 8 pm; 741-5600
DESIGN INDUSTRY FOUNDATIONFOR AIDS (DIFFA) presents
Sfrin,., a two-act musical benefit
to raise money for, and awarenessabout. HIV and AIDS; at the Beacon Theatre, B'way at 74 St; 7:30
pm; $50-$75; with pre-show cocktail party, $150; with party It postperformance dinner, $300; DIFFA
727-3100 (Editor's note: this is the
NYC stop along a 3O-city tour)

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NY COUNTY LAWYER'S ASSOCIATION CMTE. ON WOMEN'S
RIGHTS Forum: Women .nd AIDS:
A Le,.' end Ethic.1 Cris/.., with
Stephen Joseph, former NYC
Health Commissioner;
Ravinia
Hayes Cozier, Bureau of AIDS
Educ., NYC Dept of Health; Nancy
Dubler, Law It Ethics PrOgram,
Dept of Social Medicine, Montefiore Hospital; ModeratedbySusan Jacobs, Legal Services
Project for Women with AIDS; 14
Vesey St, 2nd Floor (btwn
Church/B'way); 5:45 pm; info 267-

6646

,NATIONAL LESBIAN CONFERENCE Mitro Ar .. In'oJ:mltion" Meeting, for the Atlanta meeting
APR 24-28; at the Center, 208 W 13
St (1st floor, ASLinterpratedt
6-8pm; info 7181520-0964

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II-.
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learn about the metro-area lesbian community, with speakers
and ,printed matter; 208 W 13 St; 7
pm; $3 donation; 620-7310 •8

KOOL KOMRADS SinfullundlYS
presents Nikki Nicoll, MI .. Boy'
Blr
1990, with $2 draft, $3.50,
drinks; ,fr.. buffet from 10 pm tomidnight, go-go boys, drive-in
porn theater (make out in classiccars); 270 11th Ave (at 28 St);
doors open 10 pm; 244- t 950..

YOUNG MEN OF ALL COLORSTOGETHER 38-And-Und ... ClueUl
3rd Annlv ..... ry Dlnel, 135 W 14
Sf, 9 pm - 2am, info 7181591-5493

and everylstTUES)LESBIANS UNITED and THE CENTER Women', Night at thl Center,a -lesbians only" orientation to

MARC BERKLEY'S KOOL KOMRADS opens Prof ... ional HIPPY
Hour, at Twenty/Twenty, with 2-4-1
drinks, free buffet, dancing; thisand every Friday; 20 W 20 St; 4-8pm; $5
OPEN CIRCLE gath.,.. on the Full
Moon to Celeb,.,. tile God/d....
it the Center, 208 W 13 St; 7-7:30
sharp; $1 (Box 4538, Sunnysid,l,NY 11104-4538)
WOMEN MAKE MOVIES Changing the Subjlct, an international
exhibition of work by Black. Asianand Latin women from Australia,
Britain, Canada and the US;
tonight at 7 pm: Mona Hatount's
Mllsures of Distlnce, Pratib~a,
Pannar's Seri Red and Resh end
Piper, P. Diaz and M. Mcintosh's
The Hit/den Wisdom, Ngozi Onwurah's Coffee Colored Children; at
Anthology Film Archives, 32-34
2nd Ave (at 2nd St); $5; 477-2714,
press 925-0608

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Monday

Hot Rod (Marc Berkley's Sinful Sundays; Father Ritte(s friend, Kevin
Kite, on the door) 270 11th Ave (btwn '21/28 Sts), club 244-1963
lWentyl1'wenly IT-Dance, 4 pm - 2 am) 20 W 20 St (!i16 Aves), 727-8841

Private Eyes (Marc Berkley's Kool Komrads; male strippers) 12 W 21 St,
club 'llYd-m2

Tuesday

Every Night (or almost),WednesdayDANCING OUT for Women*

Better D.ys 316 49 St (819 Aves) 245-8925
Private Eyes (Jeffrey Sanker & Dallas's Club Badl12 W 21 St, btwn
5th/6th Aves, 206-7n2-Pyramid (Dean Johnson's Rock & Roll Fag Ban 101 Avenue A, btwn
6th/7th Streets, 420-1590
Silver Uning (2-4-1 drinks, also open Tuell-Sun) 175 Cherry La., Aoral Pk,
U,516/354-9641
Stutz (2-4-1 drinks, also open daily) 202 Westchester Ave, White Plains,'
914/761-3100'
Twenty/1\Nenty (Marc Berkley's Kool Komrads, gay men after 10 pm) 20
W 20 St, club 727-8841, NOTE: Party events are subject to change. Always call first to confirm.

Tuesday

Friday, ',Saturday10 Queens Blvd., Kew Gardens, 718/261-8484

Wednesday.

Bedrock 121 Woodfield Rd, W. Hempstead, U; 516{486-9516
Exc.libur (Ladies Night, $1 drinks) corner 10th/Jefferson behind footballstadium, Hoboken, NJ, 201-795-1161,
Twenty/1\Nenty (Shescape After Work, 5-10 pm) 20 W,20 St (btwn
5th/8th Aves), info 645-6479, club 7'21-8841-Bop.r

"Bop.r 151/2 St Marks PI., btwn 2ndl3rd Aves, 674-7959"Cennelite's (Chip Duckett's Boy+Boy) 150 E 14 St, club 673-9015, COI.... i. D.nces (lst Friday of every month) 116th St & Bway, 854-3574 days
Private Eyes (preppies and young professionals) 12 W 21 St, btwn Sth/6th
Aves,200-n72
Twentyl1'wenty (Marc Berkley's Professional Happy Hour starts MAR 9)
20 W 20 St, 4-8 pm; club 727-8841,

Hldfield'sl~Thursday(has a new wave drag show) 151/2 St Marks Place, btwn
2ndl3rd Aves, 674-7959-Cop.cab.n.
(last Thu. of the month has Susanne Bartsch party) 10 E 60
St, at Fifth Ave, 755-6010
Excalibur ($1 drinks, also open Tues-Sun) corner 10th/Jefferson behindfootball stadium, Hoboken, NJ, 201-795-1161.
Gr.nd Central (2-4-1 drinks, also open Wed-Sun) 210 Merrick Road,
Rockville Centre, U, 516/536-4800*Quiekl (Chip Duckett Thursdays started Feb. 15) 6 Hubert St, 925-2442.

Monster (West Village) 80 Grove St at Sheridan Sq., 924-3557
Spectrum (closed MON & TUE, WED free, THU free & 2-4-1 drinks,FRI
mlf strippers, SAT guest star show, SUN live show & free 9-10pm) 802 64th St@ 8th Ava, Bay Ridge, Bklyn, 718/238-8213

Better D.ys 316 W 49 St (819 Aves) 245-8925-Love M.ehine at Underground, 860 Bway, near 17th St; 254-4005*Quick (Chip Duckett's 1st Tuesday ofthe month, AIDS benefit) 6 Hubert
St; 925-2442,-

Thursday','Bedrock 121 Woodfield Rd, W. Hempstead, U; 516{486-9516, ,Friday,

Bedroci121 Woodfield Rd, W. Hempstead, U; 516{486-9516 ,-Cannelite·s (Chip Duckett's Girl+Girfl 150 E 14 St, club 673-9015
Cheeks 2000 Long Beach Road, Island Park, U, 516/431-5700
Roxy (Shescape party) 515 W 18 St, btwn 10th/11th Av~s; info 645-6479,
club 645-5156
Visio .. 56-01 Queens Blvd, Woodside, info 71111846-7131, club 71&'899-9031

Saturday,Bedrock 12fWoodfieid Rd, W. Hempstead, U; 516/486-9516
The Center (Women & Friends 1st Saturdays, Feb. thru May) 208 W 13
St, 620-7310
Silver Uning 175 Cherry Lane, Floral Park, U, 516/354-9641
Starz 836 Grand Boulevard, Deer Park, U, 516{242-3857
Twenty/1\Nenly (Shescape party) 20 West 20 Street (btwnStI\l6th Aves),
info 645-6479, club 727-8841

Barefoot Boogie (smoke & alcohol free) 434 6th Ave (btwn 9/10 Sts); 8326759
Sunday''-Boyb.r 151/2 St Marks Place, btwn 2ndl3rd Aves, 674-7959
Bedrock 1~1 Woodfield Rd, W. Hempstead, U; 516{486-9516
lbe Center D.nces (2nd and 4th Saturdays) 208 W 13 St, btwn 7th/8th
Cave Canem (Sandwich Sister Sundays) 241stAve at 1st St. 529-9665
Aves, 620-7310
H.nele Bar (Jenny & Nancy's Girl Ban 232 E 9 St (2/3 Aves), 6 pm - midnight
Girth .nd Mirth Club .ttha Center (heavy men & their admirers, 3rd SatHe.rtImt.k(Nasty Girl Prods. Party for Women) 179 Varick St (7th Ave),urdays) 208 W 13 St, 620-7310,,
below Houston, 5-11 pm, info 353-0227, club 691-2388
Pep Boys.t COI ...... i. (3rd Saturdays, through June 16) 116 & B'way, 10
Hot Rod (Our Parties/Ourselves, Tea Dance 2nd Sundays) 270 11th Ave
pm - 3 am; info 629-1989(btwn 27/28 Sts), 5-10 pm; info 245-1786, club 244-1963
Private Eyes (Jeffrey Sanker & Dallas's Club Badl12 W 21 St, btwn
M.rs (Girl Sunday, Tea.Dance 1st Sundays) Westside Highway and 13th
5th/6th Aves; 200-n72
St, 5-9 pm; 691-6262,
Red Zone (mixed gay/straight) 440 W 54 St, btwn 10111Aves; 582-2222
Every Night (or almost)
Roxy (mixed gay/straight) 515 W 18 St (btwn 10111Aves); 645-5156
Cubby Role 4!s Hudson St@ Morton St, 243-9079
Saint At Large (Saturdays discontinued; March 17 Black Party will be
Duchess II Sheridan Sq. &. 7th Ave South, 242-1408
the last party at 105 2nd Ave) 674-8541
Spectrum (closed Mon & Tues; good gay/lesbian mix, see Every Night
Sound F.ctory (Acid House, no alcohol, doors open midnight) 530 W 27
above, for details) 802 64th St, Bklyn., 7181238-8213
St (btwn 10th/11th Aves), 643-0728

Sunday,'Better D.ys 316 W 49 St (8/9 Aves); 245-8925*M.rs (Chip Duckett's Mars Needs Men night) Westside Highway and13th St, 691-6262-Pyramid (Hapi Phace and Drag ~ Variety Show) 101 Avenue A, btwn 6!7
Streets, 420-1590'

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All phJlllenumbers .re .rea code 212. unle. ot!Iarwiu natad.
• = lVl welcome.
Send correctionl/.dditionl to:
Rick X. P.O.Box 790, New Yorte, NY 101.
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WESTSIDE

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

mature cl"Qwd.

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

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

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

Candle Bar, 309 Amsterdam Ave., 874-9155 ,Friendly leather!westem bar:,Cat's, 730 8th Ave" 221-7559,
younger guys

Older men,

Don't Tell Mama, 343 W. 46th St., 757-0788,
Sing-along piano bar and cabaret.
Jason's, 23

tt9SED

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

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

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

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

EASTSIDE

South Dakota, 405 3rd Ave" 684-8376

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

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

Friendly

EAST VILLAGE
G.H. Club, 353 E, 53rd St., 223-9752, Piano bar,

~ LARRY KRAMER • JAMES PURDY • DAVID B. FEINBERG"llce.
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NewYOIt<, N.Y.10036(212) 9560100•

Readings. Performances
and Videos
Feb 25·Mar 25 • 8.00 pm
Medicine Show
353 Broadway(212) 431·9545
llckete $4.$8

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Task F()rce ()n AII)SThe Bar, 68 2nd Ave. (at 4th St.), 674-9714, East
Villagers and ACT UPers.

~ Boy Bar, 15 St. Mark's PI" 674-7959, Dancing I~ Drag shows,~ The Pyramid, 101 Avenue A, 420-1590, Dancing I~ Drag shows.
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5 Tunnel
Village crowd in the E.Vi lIage.

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13th & 14th), 627-1140, J/O Club.
Badlands, Christopher & West St. , 741-9236,
Cruisy waterfront bar.

IN A88OClAnON WITH•

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

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A Fund RaiMr 'or the .. Inorlty Tau Force on AIDS

Cellblock 28,28 9th Ave, 733-3144, J/O club.
The Cubbyhole, 438 Hudson (Morton St), 2439079, Neighborhood bar for gay women & men.

ATthe ()cta,()ntititi W llrd st.,(bet 10th & 11th
Avenues)()1IIiD.t's Fat Cat, 281 W. 12th St., 243-9041, Pianobar. Mixed M/F.
Duchess II, 70 Grove St (7th Ave.), 242-1408,
Women.
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J's, 675 Hudson St., 242-9292,
J/O club.
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Julius, 159 W. 10th St., 929-9672, Serving Coors,
Coors Lite, & Coors Draft.

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10:30 P... , ~Keller's, 384 West St. (at Christopher), 243-1907,
Friendly neighborhood crowd.

D()natl()n Sti
Kelly's Village West, 46 Bedford St., 929-9322,
Piano bar,()ne Cate,()rY - M()st Fabul()us C()uple!

72~est Male - Tr()phY~est Female - Tr()phY,~est C()uple - Cash t;rand Prize
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The Locker Room, 400 W. 14th St. (9th Ave), 4594299, J/O club.

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Marie's CrisIs, 59 Grove St. (7th Ave),243-9323,
Sing-along piano bar.
The Monster, BO Grove St. (7th Ave.), 924-3558,
Piano bar &. disco/dancing.
Nimbus 22, 22 7th
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68 SECOND AVE. AT FOURTH ST.
674-9714
OPEN 1 P.M. -4 A.M.

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

".(in East Village
Tradition"

Ramrod, 185 Christopher St.
Sneakers, 392 West St., 242-9830.
Two Potato, 145 Christopher St., 242-9340.
Ty's, 114 Christopher,741-9641, Cruisy neighborhood bar.
Uncle Charlie's, 56 Greenwich Ave., 255-8787,
Huge-video bar.

CHELSEA
Barbary Coast, 64 7th Ave. (14th St.), 675-0385,
Friendly, neighborhood bar.
The Break, 232 8th Ave. (22nd St.), 627-0072.
Chelsea Transfer, 131 8th Ave. (bet. 16th &. 17th),
929-7183, Neighborhood English pub.
Eagle's Nest, 142 11th Ave (21st St,l. 691-8451,
Leather / Levi's.
Private Eyes, 12 W. 21st St. (bet. 5th &. 6th), 206-

mo, Dancing, Video Club.

Rawhide, 212 8th Ave., (21st St.),leather
Levi's.

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AIDS CENTER OF QUEENS COUNTYSOCIAL SERVICES - EDUCATION - BuDDIES, COUNSElING - SUPPORT GROUPS,
VolUntlllr Opportunities(718) 88&-25OO(voice) (718) aa&-2985(TDC),ACT UP (AIDS Co.ilion III Unl_h Po_rI
488A Hudlon Street, Suite G4 NYC 10014(212)989-1114
A diverse, non-partilan group of individuMla united inanger and committed to direct action to end the AIDS
crisis. Gen. meatings Mon. nights 7:30,
at the Community
Center
208 W.I3th.
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ALOErlAPLN-NY(Asian Lesbians of the East Coast!
Asian Pacific Lesbjan Netwolk-New Yolk)
We area political, aocial and supportive netwolk of
Asian Pacific lesbians. Planning meetings on theIst
Sunday and socialevente on the last Friday of eachmonth, Call (212) 517-5598 for more infonnation.
ARCS (AiDS-Ralated Community Sa"')for Dutchess, Orange,Putnam, Rockland, Sullivan,
UlltlIr and Westchaatar counties. AIDS education,client servi c.. , crisia intlrvention, support groups,
ca" management, buddy and hospital visitor progrsm.
214Ca11ra1It1a., 'Mi1& Plans. NY111111(9141SIHD
838 Broadway ,Newburgh, NY 12250(914)582.aDi
AlDSlina (914)-...07

AIR (AIDS TREATMENT REGISTRY,INC.)
Publishea a bi-monthly Directory of clinical triala ofexperimentel AIDS/HIV treatments in NY/NJ, and haa
educational materialll(seminars for trial participanlls,
ATHalso advocates for improvements in the trial system. P.O. Box 30234, NY;NY 1011-0102. (212) 288-4198.
Publicationa free/donation requ .. ted.
BAR ASSOClAnON FOR HUMAN RIGHTS
Lawyers Referral
Sarvice for the L.. bian and Gay Community
Full Range of Legal Servicel (212) 458-4873

BAR ASSOClAnON FOR HUMAN RIGHTSFree Walk-in Legal Clinic. Tuesday &-8 pm
Lesbian & Gay Community Centro Ground Roor------------_.------BIDS (BISEXUAL DOMINANCE &SUBMISSION GROUP)
Share S/M experienc .. and fantasies with others ina positive, non-judgemental atmosphere. First Sunday of the month, 4:45pm at the Community Cenlllr
208 W. 13 Street, NYC. Thil group ia part 01 the New
Yolk Area Bilexual Netwolk.
BISEXUAL PRIDE DISCUSSION GROUP
Topical discu88ions on i88U88 or interaatto the community in a congenial atmosphere, followed by an infonnal
dinner at a friendly local reataursnt Ewry Sunday, 3:00
- 4:30pm it the Community Center 208 W. 13 Straat,
NYC. Part of the New Yolk Are. Bilexual Network.

BlWAft NEWYORK'Monthly IOc[aleventll for the Bi18xual communityand friend .. Call NYABN for deteil' of upcoming
eventa. (718) 353-8245
BIPAC (BISEXUAL POlITICAL
AmON COMMITTEE)
Political action on issu .. of importance to the BiaexuaVL.. bia~Gay community. Monthly meetinwpoduck
held 8:00pm on fourth Thursday of the month at members hom ... CaU NYABN for thia month'alocation.
(718)353-8245
BISEXUAL YOtml
InfonnallOcial & aupport group for Bisexualkida/youth. Monthly meetinwpotluck lunch held
1:GOpmon fourth Sunday of the month at members
homes. Call NY ABN for thia month'llocation. Thia
group ia part of "'e New Yolk Area Bisaxual Network.

BLUS-BRONX lESBIANS
UNII'ED .. SISTERHOOD
Social, political and aUPP9rt netwolidng group for
women andtheirfrienda. Regular'lOcial'events andmeetinga on tha first and third Fridaya of ewry month.
At The Community Contlr, 208 W. 13 Street, from ~8pm. For more info Cia Lisa at (212) 829-9817.
BODY POSITIVE
If you or your lover hal taa18d HIV+, we offerlupport
groups, leminars, public foruma,referencelibrsry,
referrels,lOcialactiviti.. and up-to-da18 national
monthly, "THE BODY POSmVF ($1!Vyaar).
(212) 833-1782.
2085 Broadway, Sui18 308, NYC, NY 10023

CIRCii OF MORE UGIIF
Spiritual ,upport and sharing in a glylleabian affirmative group. West-Palk Pre8byt8rian Church
185 West 98th Street
Wed: worship .. rvice 8:30 pm, program 7:30. ,Marsha (212) 304-4373 Charlia (212) 881-7118.

DlGNITY/Bla APPll.
A community of Leabian and Gay Cetholica. Activitilll
includa Liturgilll and locills awry Sat, 8:00 pm, at
the Clllltar, 208 W. 13 Street, NYc.
Call (212) 818-1309.
DMlNnY NEW YO.
IlIIbian and gay Cathoficaand friencla
AIDS Ministry. Spiritual Devalopmant
The Cathedral Projact
Worship SarviCIII & Socill-Sun. Eva.. 7:311pm-St
John's Episcopal Church 218 West 11th Street 0
Waverly-875.2179

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EdllNlion in a Di_lad Gay £mi...... nt
For tha phyaically disabled Lesbian and GIY
Community.
(212)9119-1921
P.O. Box305Viliage Station, Ne~Yolk, NY 10014

fBllIE SUPPOII' aRO ..
For lesbilns lI'Iho siIIf identify II Femma. For info andmeeting till1lll clllliaa at(212) 82H817. No man pllII ...
FRONT RUI\IIERS
A running club for lalbian Ind gay athlatea
of aU abilities. Fun Runa of 1-8 nulea held evary Sat at
lOam and Wed .. at 7pm in Contral Palk
and avaryTulII. at 7pm in Proapect Park.
For infonnltion: call (212) 724-9700.
THE RIND FOR HUMAN DIGNnY
National Gay and Lesbian Crisis Line'AIDS 8OI1'-I-BOO-SOS-GAYS
Educational RelOurca Conter; Positive Imaglll, Media Center; NY State Arta Program
1198B'way Sa 410 NYC, NY lCD12 (212)528-1U1
THE GAYAfRICAN AMERICANSOF WESl'CHESTER(Tha G.A.A.)
ia I community baled IUPPOrt group fonnad in
Westcheltllr County., Varioul activitiea a re planned
for the coming months.
Plea .. ca1l91~
for more info.

COMMUMTY HEAL1II PROJECf
208 West 13th Street, NYC, New Yolk 10011, For Appointmants and Imonnation(212) 875-3559 ITIYNoice)
PROVIDING CARING, SENSITIVE AND LOW COSTHEALTH CARE SERVICES TO THE LESBIAN AND GAYCOMMUNITY
COMMuNITY RBEARCIIINI11ATIVE
PWAs, PWARCe & their phyaicians teking the initiative to leek promiling intervention against AIDS in a
rlllp. manner. For more info or to voluntear pi....
call (212) 481-1050.
CONGREGATION BETH SlMCHAT TORAH
NY'I,Gay and Llllbian Synagogue Sarvic ..
Fridayat 8:30pm
51 Bethuna Street
For info. call: (212) 829-8488. '

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III.AADGay & Latllian Alii .... Apilllt ...... tion
80 Varick Street, NYC 10013 (212) 98&-1700
GLAAD comballs homophobia in tha madia and eI_
lI'Ihara by promoting llilibility of thal .. bian and gay
community and organizing gra.rooIIIl1IIpoIII8 toanti-gay bigotry.
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Do you have 30 minutlll a month
to fight homophobia?
Join the GlAAD PhonaTreel
Call (212)-98&-1700 for infonnation.

GAY 6 lESBIAN HEAL1II CONCERNS
An offica Ciftha NYC Dapt of H.. Ith, providea 6nkaglll betwn NYC Health & Human Svca, and tha Lnbian & Gay community, focusing in ALL healthconcerns; resource infonnation for health .. rvic ..
consumers and providers. 125 Worth Street, Box ffl,
New Yolk, NY 10013. FOr info call (212) 58&-4895.

GAY & lESBIAN PSYCHOTHERAPY
Sliding Icale feea -Insurance Icceptacl.
Inetitute for Hllman Identity.
(212) 799-9432 .
,GAYMAl.U,IIACIMSTS
Dedicated to 'ata and I1IIponlibiali/M linca 1981.
OPIIII meetings w/programa on Ii/M tlichniqUlII,
lifestyla iaauea, political and IOcial con cerna. AlIO
lpecialevents,
lpaakers bureau, workshopa, damos,
affinity groups, n_letlllr,
mora. GMSMA -Dept 0,
488A Hudson Street, Suite D23 ,NYC 10014,(212) 727-9878.

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GMADIGAY MEN ,OFAFRICAN DESCENT)
80 Va rick Streat, NYC 10013 a support group of Gay
Men of African Descent dedicated to, consciousnas8rsising and the development of the Lesbian and Gay
Community. GMAD is inclusive of African, AfricanAmerican, Caribbean and Hispanic/Latino men ofcolor. Meetings are held, weekly, on Fridays. For
more infoimation, call 718-802-0182.
GAY MEN'S HEALTH CRISIS HOTUNEFOR INFORMATION ON SAFER SEX AND HIV-RELATED HEALTH SERVICES, AND FOR INFORMATION ON
ONE-TIME, WALK-IN AIDS COUNSELING SERVICES
212-807'212.... 7470 TOD IFor the Haaring Impaired)Mon,-Fri. 111'.30a.m. to 9 p.m. Sat 12:00 to 3:00

GIII11I& MIRTH CWB OF NEW YORI
Social club for heavy, chubby gay men & their admirers. Monthly socials at the 'Center'; waaldy bar
nights Thursdays attha 'Chailla Transfar', monthly
Fat Appla Review, bi-monthly FAR. penpals. For more
informalion call Ernie at 914-89&-7735 or write:
G¥NNY. Dept 0, P.O. Box 10, Pelham, NY 10B03.
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HW IHaaith EduClition AIDS Li,ilOn)
Weekly info. and support group for treatments for
AIDS which do not compromiae the immune systemfurther, including altemalive and holistic approach ...
Wed 8pm, 2118 W. 13th St 1212)B74-HOPE.
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lImICK-MAIITIN
INSTITUTE
for IlIbian and gay youth. Counseling, drop-in centerlM-F, 3-8pm), rap groupa, Harvey Milk HighSchOol, AIDS and safer IIX information,raferrala, profe .. ional education.
1212) 833-892OIvoice)1212)833-8928 m for dlaf
HISPANIC UNlTm GAYS & WBIANS
Eduoalionalaervic .. , politicalaclion, counlliing andsocialaclivitiaa in Spanish and English by and for the
Lalino Lasbian and Gay Community.
Glneral mellinga 8:00 pm 4th Thursday of every
month at208Wllt,l3thStreetCall 1212)891-4181
or write H.U.G.L, P.O. Box 228 Canal Street Stalion,
New York. NY 10019.

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LAMBDAWW-DEFENSE
AND mUCATION RIND
Pracedent-lItting
litigation nalionwide forlaabiana, gay men and people with AIDS. Membership 1$35 and up) inc, newsletter and invitalions tospacialevants.
Volunteer night on Thursdaya,lntake
calls: 2-4pm Mon thru Fri 1212)99508585
LAVAIWBIANS ABOUT VlSUALAIITI
Call for slides for L.. bian Artists' Exhibition, Gay &Lesbian Community Center, NYC. For more information, send SASE to :Miriam Fougere
118 Fort Greene PlaceBrooklyn, NY 11217,

WBIAN AMD GAY LABOR. NElWORKof Lasbians and Gaya who are activein their labor uniol18 working on domelllic partnershipbenefita and AIDS issuaa. For more information call1212)923-8890.
Ail organizalion

WBIAN AND GAY RIGIITS PROJECT
of the AmeriClin Civil Liberti,. Union
ICNOWYOIJRIIGIIIS /WFPIE. EXPAMJIIG 11IEM
1212)944-9800, ext 545
LESBIANS AND GAYS OF RATIUSH
Brooklyn's locial organization for both gay men andlasbianl. P.O. Box 108, Midwood Station
Brooklyn; NY 11230 °1718)859-9437 '•WBIAN & GAY
COMMUNnv SERVICES CENTER
2118 West 13th Street New York. NY 10011
1212)820-7310
9am-l1pm everyday.
A placa for community organizing and networking,socialllrvicaa,
cultural programs, and locialeventa
sponsored by the Center and mora than 150 commu,"
nlty
organizations,

NORTHERN UGIITS ALTERNATIVES
Improving Quality of Ufe for People with AlDS/HIV.
THE AIDS MASTERY WORKSHOP: Exploring the po8libmliBl of a powerful and creativelifa in the face of
AIDS. C~II 1212)255-8554

LONG ISLAND ACT-UP
P.O. Box 291, New Hyde Park. NY 11040
Support us for change on Long Island.
1518)338-48821518)997-5238 Naa .. u1518)928-5530 Suffolk

NYC GAY & LESBIANANTI-VlOLENCE PROJECT
Coul18a1ing, advocacy, and information for IUrvivorsof anti-gay and anti-Iasbian violence, nxull a ... ult,
domalllic violence, and other.typel of victimization.
Aliservicas fr.e and confidenlial. '24 hour hotlineI212)807-0197

MEN OF AlL COLORS TOGETHER NY
A multi-racial group of gay men against raciam. Maatings every Friday night at 7:45 at the Lasbian and Gay
Community Servicel Center, 208 W. 13th Street For
more info. call: 1212)24!H1388 or 1212)222-9794.,

PEOPLE WITH AIDS COAUTION
1212)532-!l29CVHIOo-828-328WHotIineI212)532-D5&8
Monday thru Friday 101m-8pm
Meal programa, aupport IlroUpa, edu'cationallnd
referralnrvicasfor
PWA'a Ind PWArC'L

MmOPOUTAN TENNIS GROUPIMTG)
Our200 memblrlasbian and gaytennia club includaa
playars from beginning to toumamlnt lival. Monthly
tannia partiel. Wintsr indoor Ilague. Come play with ual
For informalion: MfG, Suite K83,488-A HudlOl1 St.. New
York. NY 10025. 1718)852-8582.
MOCA IM,n IIf Color AIDS Prevention ProgrenL)
Provid .. aafar SIX and AIDS educalion informalion
to gay and biaexual Men of Color; coordinatea a network of p88r-aupport groupa for gay and bialXual
Min of Color in all 5 borougha of New York City.
303 Ninth Ave, New York. Ny 10001
or call 1212)238-1788.
NATIONAL GAY AND WBIAN TASK FORCE
is the nalional grallroota polilical organization for
Illbiana and gay man. Membership i. m'yaar.
Issul-orilntad
projecta addre .. violence,_domy
laws, AIDS, gay righta ordinancea, fammas, media,
etc. through lobbying, education, organizing anddirect action.
NGLTF 1517 U Street NW, Washington, DC 20008.
(202)332-8483,,

NEW YORK ADVERTISINGAND COMMUNICAnONS NElWORKNYACN is the community"s'largest gay and IlIbian
professional group, welcoming all incommunications-andtheir friends. Monthly maatings, 3rd Wed 8:30pm althe Community Center. Members' newslettar, job hotline, annual directory. Phone(212)517-0380 for'" more info, Mention OutWeek for
one free newsletter.
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THE WBIAN AND GAY BIG APPLE CORPS
Get your instrument out of the closet and come playwith us. Symphonic, Marching, Jazz, Dixieland, Rock,
Aute Ensembles and Woodwinds.
123 Wast 44th St Suite 12L New York. NY 10038
1212)88&-2922.

NOIl11l AMERICAN MANlBOY
LOVE ASSOCIAnON INAMBLA)
Dedicated to llxual freedom and especilUy interetadin gay interganerational
relationshipa. Monthly Bulletin and regular chapter meetinga on the first SI~rdayofaach month. Year!ymemberahip iaS2O;writa
NAMBLA. PO Box 174, Midtown Stalion, New York.
NY 10018 or cIIl1212)807-8578 for information.

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N.V. WOMEN'S SOmAlL GUILDFor experienced, serious Softball Players, Coach ..
and Managers. We play mod/fast pitch weekenda in
Manhattan and Quaans. Try-outs begin,Feb, 11 thru
April- or until filled, 1212) 25s-1379 Jenet
NINTH STREET CENTER
Since 1973, a community dedlcatad to del1lonstralingthat a homosexuallifesty!e
is a ralional, desirable
choice for individuals dissatisfied with the rewards ofconvenlionalliving. Psychologically- focussed rap
groupa, TUBl., Sat, 8 to 10 pm, peer counselling available. 318 E. 8 Street, New York. NY 10003, for info call(212)228-5153.

PEOPLE WITH AIDS HEALTH GROUP
Undlrground buyer's club impolling not-yat-approved
medicationa arid nutritionllsupplementl.
31 Wast 28th
St 4th Roor 1212)!i.12-D280
SAGE: llenior ActIon In I Gay EnvI_ntI
Socill Service Agenc): providing eara, aclivitiaa, & 'eduoltional"rvic.. for gey & I.. bill) aenior oitize ...
AlIO .. 1V8ICMlrleD homebound .. niora & older FWA' ••2118 Wast 13th St NYC 10011, 1212)741-2247
SETHIAN GAYS, WBIANS AND BISEXUALSFor III of UI intal'llt8d in ralchinll out to each otherwith lxuberlnce to apontanlously explore Ind
expand upon thl SIWJlne Roblrta 'philosophy" aa
it relatea to our IivlI, personally, aexually Ind politically. CIII AI 1212)979-5104.
THE OIlTREACH
USING COMMUNAL HEAUNG croUCH)!;ommunityvoluntaers providing I WIeldy buffetaupper
for the Brooklyn AIDS community. TOUCH 1118811 Monday
8VI8. 5pm to 8:30pm- st downtown BrocJ!dyn Friends'
Mallling HOUI81110 Schermerhorn St. nBar Boanrn
Place~ Urritad tral18POr1Btion may be arranged. Info: 1718)
822-2758. TOUCH welcomes contnbutiOl'll offunda, foodand voIuntaera.
ULSTER COUNTY GAY AND WBIAN AWANCE
Maate first and third Monday of elch monthat 7:30 p.m. at the Unitarian Church on SawlcJll Road
in Kingston.
For informalion, call (814) ~.

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WHAMIIW_n'1
Haalth ActIon Mobiliation
A non-partilan coalition committed to demanding.
iecuring and defending absolute reproductive fraedom and quality health clre for all women. We meet
every Wed. at 8:30 pm at the Village Independant
Democrats, 224 Wilt Fourth Street loft Sheridan Sq.).
We are not affiliated with VlD.1212)713-!i888.

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WOMEN'S ALTERNATIVECOMMUNnv CENTER IWACC),
A non-profit, Leabian community center .. rving
Quaans,Na8l8u
and Suffolk counties. Thurs night
waakly discussion grps. 8:30pm, for other activiti ..
please contact Ullt 1518) q3-2050.

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APARTMENT CLEANING. TAXnMEISREUABLE HOUSE WORKS
Cleaning or AssistanceCall and Ask for Details(212) 884-2801
Serious Inquiries Only

BUIJ!;ETWISEiJOOKKBEPINGTlME
LbDIted Appointments AvaHable
Pleasec:aIl..-."(718) 726-3847
10. dIIcouaJ with ad

AIDS MINISTRYIN THE SPIRIT OF, ,ANCIS OF ASSISl...serving

WITH A MmWEST FlAIR
DONE BY A GUY, WITH BRIGHT RED HAIRWEEKLY AND BIWEEKLY LEGIT ONLY
, RATES $40.00 AND UP, CALLPAUL941-0603

CASTLE CARE. INC.

our'brolhen and sisters affected by

Apartment & Office Cleaning.
Gay Owned. Reliable.
'l:'e are available} days.
CALL (212) 475-2955

AIDS,

OutWeek staff person seeks sublet or
share. Prefer downtown. Need
immediate. Call Raul days (212) 337-1232
Eves (212) 932-1496.

," A CLEANER CLEANING,•

APARTMENT WANTED'SL Francis AIDS Ministry
135 W, 31st Stteet Manhattan 10001
695-1500

APARTMENT RENTAL

ART BUY/SEll-ART SOURCE UNUMITEDWe buy, .. I~trade end locite artworks.
ARTISTS AVAILABLE: Keith Haring,
Robert Longo, Ross Bleckner, James
Rizzi, Andy Warhol, Martine, and many
more ... For information,
call Dan at 255-6680.

ASTROLOGYPROSPECT-LEFFERTS, BROOKLYN
Large, sunny, 1-2 bedroom floor-throughapartment with yard. 1 block fromsubway and shopping.
Flexible lease, available immediately.
(718) 941-1204 or (718) 469-0782.

RENT MY PARIS APARTMENT

ANNOUNCEMENTS..

GAY MALES WANTED
Gay males wanted to participate inresearch to create a national public lervice campaign. Fee will be paid for
1/2 hour interview. Confidentiality
assured. Call collect 919-544-5448 3PM
to7PM M-F. Ask for Mike.

,GAY ARTIStS WANTEDQUICKI is laeking gay artists to exhibit. homoerotic art on its Thursday nights.
Both gay male and lesbian eroticism
sought ill any medium. Contact Chip
Duckett at Q25-2442to set up an ~'. 'appointment.

ANSWERING SERVICES,

NYC'S RNEST, CALL FORWARDANSWERING SBlVICEIS
GAY-OWNEDPROTOCOL(212) 645-3535

Furnished modern studios near bars,
metro, sleeps 2 non-smokers. Next f
Notre Dame $6OOIwk or Place desVosges $700/Wk. Quiet kitchen linens
phone etc. included.

DONNA
E.S.P. Psychic-Professor of SpiritualismReader and AdvisopPalm and Card
Readings",..con-/,
1IIIArwI'~,..,..,.,.
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.,...,,..,I CANAND Will. Hap YOU.
, Reunite the Separated-Restore Lost
Nature-Unfold the Mystery of the Past.
Present and Future.
(212) .. 1•
Sa Habla Espanol

APARTMENT SHARE
7mI AND YORK-CLEAN AND GUiEr
own bedroom in airy, cozy aptroachfree bldg nr buses, 24hr sprmkt.
I'm BiF. ACT-UPer, work at home on, fantasyline, do SIM with my friends. No
perfume/tobacco in apt (allergy). Leave
message w/best times:459-4811.

HOSME, HEALTHY, MASC
Top, 5'''',170, good phys shape, bVbr,
beard, looking for loyal stableroommate to share bargain apt in
Chelsea. Must not be fat or a Tom, Dickand Harry. Jim, Box 3n OMS, 132 West,
24th, NY 10011.
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FORESKIN LOVERSThe New York City chapter of theUncircumcised Society of America(NYC-USA) seeks new male members(with or without foreskin) to join its
swelling ranks. Call for more clubinformation or to make reservations forthe new members party. (212) m-4208.

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30 Fifth Avenue,
New York, NY ,00",-call for info (212) 673-4331.

AFFORDABLE ELECTROLYSISOUTDOOR DlmIBU'nON
Several people needed to distribute
flyers part time, advertising phone sex
lines. Flexible hours. Call Mr. Davis at935-3440.

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Technique with I.B. ProbeCOMPLIMENTARY CONSULTATIONPROFESSIONALLY OPERATEDGREENWICH VILlAGEQUIET, PRIVATE OFFICE
KennethHa,
226 West 4th Street
New York, NY 10014
Lower Level, By Appointment Only.
(212)m-1850'
CertHied Electrologist, Member I.G.P.E.

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A computer BBS.
Use your modem.

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Research Initiativeislooking for a full-time secretary. Skills
must include typing 60-80 wpm,
computer skills, and experience dealing
with phones. PWlis, women and peopleof color are encouraged to apply. CRI is
an equal oppurtunity employer. Send
resumes
to: MARVIN
PALMER,
CRI/SECRETARY,31 WEST 26TH STREET,
NYC, NY 10010.

FINANCIALCONDOS / CO OPS

ART DIRECTOR" PERSON WITH AIDS?

OUTWEEK Magazine

Terminally ill? Need cash?

CO-Ops/coNDOS
Helping
Our Community
Buy and Sell Real Estate
Since 1980

BGR (Beat the Grim Reaper)
International pays up to 80% cash ofyour life insurance policy's face value
nowl
Personal, Confidential Service
Call: (718) 854-0362/24 hour tape.

Andrew Weiser (212) 721-4475
The Corcoran Group,,CONTRACTORSRAT r. LAM:!:!!\:!d::~f:ftMf,II:mRN!!~rtli!i:i:1H:\:,tl!!:!,M~. . ...
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All jah .... 011., 10,,0ea"on., f • Elect,iul • Sho""'ck •Aposeeks a full-time person tosupervise all art-related aspectsof the publication Including
covers. logo deSigns. layouts.
ad designs. promotional
materials,etc. Must haveexperience working on
publications, dealing with, printers and working underdeadline. Salary plus benefits,.
Call Mr. Rotello212-337-1200.

GROUP MASSAGE
MEN'S MASSAGE GROUP
Get together with a group of men to
give and receive massages. Taught by
Terry Weisser, Liscensed Masseur andteacher at the Swedish Institute.
Sundays, 7-10pm, $15.00,
call (212) 463-9152.

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People of color and womenencouraged to apply.

BOOMING PHYSICIAN'S PRAcnCE
Private physician serving St. Louis gay
community is seeking qualified partnerwith HIV experience and interest. Veryhigh salary and fab benefits in very lowcost city. Call Billene, (314) 776-4444••

DENTISTS

EAnNG AWARENESS TRAINING:
The answer to the puzzle about eating.
Eliminate your weight/eating problem
forever. (212) 929-0661.

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

HElP WANTEDElECTROLYSIS
A. lAMBDA ELECTROLYSIS A.
Permanent Hair Removal
MerVWomen-1V/TS's - All Methods
Computer Aided - Sterile Conditions
By PhysiCians' Aid
14 Years Experience - Sliding Scale Fee
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required. Gay Treasures, 546 Hudson. Street. (212) 255-5756, ask for Don.
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Must
have friendly,
out-going
personality. Part-time, eight hour shifts.
Call Mr. Lyons at 935-3440.
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Progressive, and aggressive firm seeks'print-media buyer who knows whatmagazine to buy from various pfoducts
from blow-dryers to phone sex. Two years
New York corporate advllrtising experiencedesired. We pay all moving expenses. Send
resume and cover letter to Cindy
McDoWell, P.O.Box 1029,Soquel, CA!&l73.

PUBUC EDUCATION
COORDINATOR
Lambda Legal Defense and Education
Fund is looking for a staff person to
oversee educational publicatio,ns andevents. Must be excellent writer,
creative, and have some experience
working for lesbian and gay rights;
computer skills very helpful; lega.l .
background helpful, but not necessary.
Send resume, two writing samples, andreferences by Jan. 25, 1990 to: Paula L
Ettelbrick, Legal Director, LLDEF, Inc.,
666 Broadway, New York, NY 10012.
Women and people of color
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$22!iIwk.' start, $27!Wwk. atter 2 months,
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required. GIlY Treasures, 546 Hudson
Street. (212) 255-5756, ask for Don.

CO-DIRECTOR

MOVERS, LICENSEDA REAL CAREER
Excellent presentation skills combined,with a moderate amount of travel are
your ticket to a definite lucrative career
path with a dynamic, major and growing
gay-owned and operated financial firm.
Some typing, good phone manner andcomputer literacy required. For more on
this exciting oppurtunity call Jeff at(516) 764-2300 or (212) 593-4200.

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OUTWEEK'S MUSIC EDITOR
seMce agency caring for gay and lesbian is looking for an intelligent, creative anlt
seniors in the NY metropolitan area. This experienced writar to cover the -dance
person must have three years or more music scene- periodicallyfor thework experiencein fund-raisingmagazine. Please send 2 writing samples
strategies, public relalions activities and and cover latter to the attention of Victoria
preparationof grant proposals for Starr, OutWeek Magazine, 159W. 25th St.,
foundalions and governmental agencies. 7th Roor, New York, N.V. 10001.No phone
This parson must have previous
calls will be acceptedl Women andexperience in financial management and people of color are encouraged to apply.
budget preparalion for business and/or
non-profit organizations. SAGE, Inc. is an
INSURANCE
equal opportunity employer.
Please direct all inquiries and resumes to:
Chair, Search Committee, SAGE, Inc., 208
INSURANC£ ..
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Confidentiality respected.
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11RED OF HOMOPHOBIC MOYalS?
Try Brownstone Brothers instead.
Profe ssional and Reliable.
Serving the Gay Community 15years.
Sensitive, fun people who get the job
done right with no bullshit.
Ucensed DOT 10166. Insured.
Reasonable storage rates.
Pianos-Art-Antiques
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Call 289-1511.
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All levels taught by patient. experienced
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Convenient West End Avenue location.
Reas,onable rates.
(212) 799-3747.
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PUBLICATIONSFOR ALL
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PAINTING

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achieve responsive, fair schooling. New
study discloses 25 ways gay andlesbian taens can get bettertre8tment
from peers and adults at school. Send
$5 to Students, 1455 Chapin Street NW,
Washington, DC 20009-4510.

BOUND & GAGGED
Bi-monthly magazine features true
accounts of male bondage plus hot
personals. Sample $5.50. SubSCription$24.00. State you're over 21 and wantmagazine for personal use. Payments to
Outbound Press Suit 167 Dept 0 496-A, Hudson Street NYC, NY 10014~-

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PHONE SERVICES

PHOTOGRAPHYREAL ESTATEPHOTOGRAPHY/ MICHAEL HUHNHATE BROKBlS?
At last there's an understanding,qualified real estate professional who
will help you buy or sell your Manhattan
co-op or condo. 'I have 1000's ofapartments and 11m's of customers.
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Fully renovated apartments in the ilrt
deco district of Miami Beach. Perfectfull-time residences or the best inaffordable second homes.
YlNTAGEProparlias.
1520 Euclid
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(305) 534-1424.
Gay couple selling well-loved home in
comfortable, safe neighborhood inStaten Island. 9 room Colonial, chestnut
trim, beautifully decorated,
fenced/landscaped yard with fish pond.
(C-1) Commercial zone permits in-homebusiness. Perfect for lawyer,
accountant. therapist. 10 minutes toferry and Snug Harbor Cultural Center •$198,000. (718) 816-6867.

PHYSICIANSSERVING THE GAYCOMMUNITY OF MANHAnAN

eHP· COMMUNITY HEALTH PROJECT
208 W. 13 Street, New York, NY 10011,

Buying, Selling Real Estatecall Tony Czebatul(212)460-9999
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for info call (212) 675-3559.
ANAL WARTS, FISSURES,HEMORRHOIDS
treated in minutes with lasers call for a
free consultation. Laser Medical
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8 Bedroom renovated Victorian guest
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THE STERLING ARMS
OurIWwriouscooperativeapartmentsinclude:• spacious and airy layouts• unique design'• fabulous imported Italian marble In allbathrooms end lobby
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TI;I,e,Sterling Arms
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call (718t 851-1571
Sales office, open: Tuel/Thurs 11am5pm,S~Sun12p~5pm, Sales by BlARE REALTY CORP.Offering.
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host ~eir rOp,Ulal' Tal)tric Group Rebirth(clothed on April 6 at 8pm. Cost $20.
- -Healing with EmpowermentthroughSelf Erotic Massage- a clothed evening
with Joseph Kramer, April 10, 8pm. $15.
No reservations necessary for either
event Place: 135West 14th. For
brochure or iriformatioh, call Body
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InsuranCe accepted-sliding fees
MTIN/BX OFFICES (212t li3-2786,,

COMPASSIONATE, CARlN8111ERAP1ST
Suppol1ive individual &. coupleth"rapy byinstituta-trained
licensed psychotherapist Helpwith relationships, gav identity,
dealing with your family, and lifein the age of AIDS. Sliding fees.
NY and NJ offices:(212172~ 7205 (2011567-2445.
ARI FRIDKIS,C.S.W.

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Joseph Kramer and Matthew Simmons
invite you to a sacred sex seminar. (Nolecture.t Celebrate our tribal'joy witheremc rituals based on Tantrit, Taoist.
and Native Ainarican traditions. Learn
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non-compulsive and non-stop. April 7, 8(212J.KtZ
or 14, 15 9am.6p~. Cost·$19&.You are,invited to a day of,Taoist Erotic'
Non-Profit lesbian/Gay
massage on April 16, 9am-8pm. Learn toPsycholherapy Center
give and receive a 11/2hour,transformative genital massage. Cost
Sliding Scale Fees
_ For brochure and registration, call ..
Body Electric at (415t 653-1594 or Bob
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Your are inn-vited to experience ourstyle of small-hotel hospitality.
Where strangers become friends andfriends become closer.
'Ask us for the Boston inn-sider rate of$69!single--$79!double.
Advance reservations suggested,call 7-800-842-3450.
Chandler Inn
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Boston, MA 02116(6171482-3450.

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Celebrate your sexuality.
Proudly. Joyously. M.Eve's
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We grcm pleasurable things
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BED & BREAKFAST
1824 Greek Revival house, music rm,
w/Cathedral ceilings, Rumford fireplace, outdoor hot tub. A truly, traditional B&B. Weekly and wkday
specials. Contact Rt 10 Box 212
Shaftsbury, VT 05262,
or call 802-375-6985.

Bed and Breakfast just 90 minutes'from
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your body what it-needs. Let me give
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CAUFORNIA SURFRAT
Maximal massage from strong dark
athletic San Oiegan DUDE.
Call evenings to early mornings.
Monday-Saturday.
Ask for Bill. 212-475-0906.

-AU MUSCLE MASSEUR-Brhim- Film SteP,'

5"" 1101Z1w 44c 11iBBodybuilder
Gordon Bore, "-11... ,e. from $100
p.,er' 212-5118-5316enter ph.,COMPlETE SENSUOUS BODYRUB
by well-built bi male 6'3-, 1951bs.,
clean-cut and discreet Married andmature men are welcome. Into erotic
safe fantasies. Call Peter (212) 580-9401.

20 YR ADONIS
With swimmers build will give
you a complete rub down.
$75 Call 12 to 7 pm.
CHARLES(212) 581-3179.

HOT TORSO
Athletic bodywork from boyish 145# 5'927 yo with very muscular build and anice tan line. Clean cut and friendly.
Noonto4am.
CHRIS (212) 254-4570

ATHlE11C BODY RUBDOWN
Cleancut, Masculine
College Student
Gives Deep Muscle Body Work
Chris (212) 633-1197

HOT BLOND JOCK
Body-rub by young stud 24 hrs.
Call Scott at 969-0232.

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BLOND HUNK '-COLT-, model type "C,omplete body rub
Call Joey(212)627-1884

HOT MUSCUlAR SnJD
Rubdown by Haodso.me, Young Ath,leteCall Stevli, at(212) 268-953!I'"' .

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Well-built 6'3- 1951bs.
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COMPlETE SENSUOUS BODYRU8
by well-built bi male'6'3-, 1951bs.,
clean-cut and discreet Married andmature men are )'Velcp,me.lnto erotic
safe fantasies. Can Peter(2121580-9401.

F,, .M1NlJTE SWEIJISH

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Professionally trained in
Swedish.

Rick Cabe (212) 989-9548ln/Out
Valentine Gift Certificates,Available

ITAUANBOY
Gives best rub
Complete satisfaction
Vinnie(2121255-2303.
MUSCLE MAGIC
Strong deep sensual massage byhandsome muscular nude athlete.
BRAD (212)876-6014

Latin Min for Mature People
Relaxing Body Tone
Competent, Cleancut, and Safe
Fernando(2121831-3580
SENSUOUS .MINUTE
SWEDISH RUB
By Handsome WASP
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SENSUOUS BODY RUB
Relaxing, experienced.
Safe & setisfying. STAN (2121243-5519.
SENSUOUS BODY RUB
By tall, goodlooking 25 year old.
In/out 24 hours. Phillip.
(2121645-9107
ATHlE11C MASSEUR
Handsome, Clean Cut
Into Wrestling and Sensuous Situations'
JOHN(212) 741-3282 ," '",HOTTORSO.
Athletic bod,YWOlkfroin boyish 145# 5'927·yo with very'ml!scular build and 8!lice tan,lin!l. Cillan cut and friendly.
, ' 'No,on to 4 am.
CHRIS (212),2~4570

BODY RUB BY GUY
Have YO\Jrbody rub the French, Canadian way. AI~qbody Clipping.
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goo~lookirig guy. Reasonable; In/Out.
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SWIM COACH,
6'r, 185lb, gives great rubdown
CHRIS (212)427-3210
BUSINESSMEN-WAU. mEET
Very Discreet Massage
Out-of-towners welcome
WHITEY 924-2253
ATHLETIC MASSEUR, Handsome, Clean Cut
Into Wrestling and Sensuous Situations
JOHN(212) 741-3282
BODYRUB RELEASE
Serious pro-nude w/oil Swede,
Accupressure, Refle)!:ology, Trager, very
sensual, fluid, deep tissue massage byhandsome young expert. Lower East
Side. $55 in, out negotiable. Call John
(212)475-6550.
SENSUAL MASSAGE
No phone sex No calls 12am-8am
DEREK(212) 727-2842
BODY TUNER
Lends sacred and profane knowledge
to every zone. 529-2765

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HERE I GO AGAIN
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CUTE BLONDEWRITER,(top) se.ks hot wom.n (girls, -ate.) for sex.
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GWM prof •• llonalwith similar Int.r.lts
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tal, fantasl.s (foto a +)to POB 2520, TIme.
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likes animals, beach,lifting, mal. conlact'poi'ts, movies, art.
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1121", 155 Ibs. I lov.
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ONCE UPON A nME
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READY FOR
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SELF-REUANT
WM, 45, 6'2', 18,5,
rdIbiIstache, works out(46c, 33w), masculine
attitude, seeks similarsort for occasslonalsocializing and whatever, Am the Independent minded type--my
philosophy of life Is
somewhat out of Stimer-Nletzche-CrowleyRand-with a wry senseof humor and a nose
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GWM, 40, wants hot,safe action. Photo!
phone Box 126, 70A
Greenwich Avenue,
NYC, NY 10011.
MUSCULARJOCK DADDYBB Trainer and promasseur, BrlBr, 40's,
6', 185, ute, 61, Scand,College Grad, nonsmoker, travel, sports,
arts. Seeks young jockbottom, Box 1706,
2109 B'way NYC,
10023. Wann, friendly
nice guy.
ATTRACTIVE
Prof'l GWM, 26, 175,
6'2'. Dark blond withbeard and stache.
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GWM, 26, 5'8",
140, BIG
seeks younger strt, bI,or gay male to entertain, spoil and help
through school. I'mcute and fun to be wHh
and I care about you.
You don't need towrite your life story or
send a photo. Serious
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Heights, NY 11372.
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10159.

Vi/dark h11irand eyes,
someone who enjoy!!
living life to Its fullest:gym M body and
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good sense of humor
for someone to sharesks similar man for fun
the excitement of lifeand love. I like movies,
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times on cool nights.
10602.
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HOT FOR BOXING?
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If, boxing ,tumB you on,
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green
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presently In prison, but
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for a v/KY serious relationship. I am 29, 5'10
lI2J", 155 Ibs. I love
watching Video Soul
on BET, Hlp Hop, New
Jack Swing, Rap,
R&B, Jazz, stereo
equipment, art, photography, computers,
movies, plays, performances and healthfood stores. Please

PHONE SEX IS
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10108.
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ATIRACTIVE GWM

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sports, movies, art.
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who wants a romantic/monogamous relationship. Non-smoker.
Send letter/ photo/,,', phone. Outweek Box

2165
GWM SUCCESSFUL

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summer renovating
old stone farm houseI~..upstate NY. I likeanimals,
flowers,
walks In the woods. I
am' also very horny
and would like to ravage the. body of ayoung model type or
dancer (18-28). I'll
photograph you nude
In my bam or under anearby waterfall, and
111 lick your butt clean
every night. ,I'm .agood-looking
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Box 2167.
ONCE UPON A TIME
In a land caned Northem NJ, lived a 26; 6'.
185 vry strt acting
GWM professional
who looked for a truefriend & lover. Let's
work out and enjoy thegreatest pleasure of
our private kingdom. If
you'rte my discreet
Prince Charming Into
all aspects,
send
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Outwekk Box 2169

UGHTBEAMSGWM 39 seeks artistic
spiritual travellers forfun, clarity, serenity
and awareness. Explore paths of awakeness In spirit of creation. Outweek Box

2172
BIBMCCNYSTUDENT
seeks Blk, PR or D0minican, dude,s 18-22
for some clean oversexed boy to boy fun.
I'm a cute Carrlbeanguy, smooth honeycolored body and I

can't get enough. I will
make your fantasies
cum to life. Write:
Homeboy,
POB
20983, Midtown Station 10129.

4 SKIN LOVERQUEENSGWM 6'2' 175 Ibs.
blond/blueyng 46seeks uncut European or Latino guy.
Must be masc between 18and 40. I am
cut but restoring myforeskin. Write P.O.
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20, slim, handsome,Blkllrlsh mix, poetlwriter, brutally honest, difficult to deceive, perceptive, bright, serious
yet child-like and trusting, fragile in love yetaloof for fear or reaction by my overwhelming emotional Intensity.
I'm passionate, sensitive, given to dark fitsofsilentanger
damned moody focused, Spiritual but
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18-45, secure in ,who
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w/equalliquid sensitivity and above a11;·true
to yourself. I preferbind, blue eyes but
this isn't vital. I enjoy
German, sign language, psychology/astrology, intensity andintegrity, honesty and~f course, sex. If youcanhandlethis,please write: P.O. Box
66, 196th Street Station, St. Alban's, NY
11412,MISPLACEDCAUFORNIAN 'seeks kindred spirit for
quiet times,
easylaughs 8Ild adventure.
You are tail, straightactlngllooklng, smoke,
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BATS AND BALLS
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GWM, 33, blond" brd,
looking for a man who

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RICAN, 5'11",
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average, 33, looking
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Rican or GWM. I lovethe beach, long walks,
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THE OLDER AND
THE YOUNG
GJM, late soth, European background, Romantic and kind person, Opera and classical music lover. Nonsmoker dislikes heavy
drinking. Looking for
relationship with GM,
20's into 40's. Write in
all conflidence withphoto If possible, to:P,O. Box 52H, New
York, NY 10268.
HUNG HUGE-EXHIB.
Like to show off that
big bulge, stroke thatextra big meat. Underwear, jocks, cockrings,
GWM, 40, wants hot,safe action. Photol
phone Box 126, 70A
Greenwich Avenue,
NYC, NY 10011.
MUSCULAR JOCKDADDYBB Trainer and promasseur, Br/Br, 40's,
6', 185, u/c, Bi, Scand,College Grad, nonsmoker, travel, sports,
arts. Seeks young jockbottom, Box 1706,
2109 B'way NYC,
10023. Wann, friendly
nice guy.
ATTRACTIVE
Prof'l GWM, 26, 175,
6'2'. Dark blond withbeard and stache.
Looking for Mr. Tall:
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prof'l, stabl., fit, masculln. and .nJo'y thearts and s.nsual .. f•..
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phon.
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GW, 26, 5'8",
140, BIGs.. ks younger strt, bI,or gay male to entertain, spall and h.lp
through school. I'mcut. and fun to be withand I care about you.
You don't n.ed towrit. your IIf. story ors.nd a photo. Serious
r.pll.. answ.red withphoto. Serious repll.s
answ.r.d with photo.
Box 1365" Jack.on
Heights, NY 11372.
NAIVE CYNICIADULT KID
GWM, 23, 6'2' withmulti-faceted personality seeks fascinatingGM, 20-30, to enjoy
all sides.
Buttondown professional byday, bon vivant by
night; beach bum Insummer, playgoer In
winter. I seek a man
to compliment
myvaried tastes with his
own style. If you wanta strong, steady relationship that won't
grow old, send yourph/ph to Outweek
Box 2105
BODYBUILDER
GWM 37, 190#, brownhair and eyes, 5'11'.
I'm looking for a GM
with muscles to spare.
A take charge type ofman, for dating, romance, safe sex, possible relationship. Reply with current photo,
letter, tel.# to LTS
20053, NYC 100119993,
YOUNG
PROFESSIONAL
living in Westchester
and working in NYC,
tired of the bars andlooking for someone
who Is honest ,andsincere. I am a mature 25, interested In
someonewho enjoys living life to Its
fullest.
If you aresearching for someone to share the excitement of life with,look no further. You
may have found him.
P.O. Box 183, White
Plains, NY 10602.

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