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Gays and the Church

The Roman catholic Church continues to raise the ante inits campaign against gays and lesbians, The 1986 Papal
encylical justifying violence against gays, the banning andharassment of the gay catholic group Dignity, the recent Vaticanconference on AIDS that an observer called "three days of gay
bashing," the Pope's declaration that AIDS is caused by "sexual
misconduct," all illustrate the church's role as a font of homophobia, Never friendly to our interests, it seems that the Vatican has
decided to declare open war on homosexuals, Many argue that
we're justified in declaring war right back.
Some gays, however, question the wisdom of open attacks on
the church, They argue that loyal catholics may become alienatedby the spectacle of homosexuals picketing cathedrals, blocking
church entrances or disrupting services, They worry that Catholics
who might be sympathetic to our cause will turn against us if we
appear to be engaged in an attack on sacred institutions and holy
beliefs,
Catholic condemnation of homosexuality is based on a supposedly "holy" belief that our love is a sin and that we are inherent
sinners, The moral influence of such a dogma causes immeasurable
harm to gays, From casual fag-bashings on the street to theSupreme Court's frightening Hardwick decision, which cited religious justification in denying equal rights to gays, the influence ofthe church's bigotry is pervasive and insidious,
The argument that we cannot confront the church's homophobia head-on for fear of alienating catholics is insupportable,
That same argument could be used against any pro-active battle
for gay liberation, Catholics so morally confused that they wouldinterpret an attack on the church as an attack on religion itself are
not our friends anyway, and probably never will be,
As long as the church continues its clerical fag-bashing, ourvery existence will alienate many devout catholics, The church's
antipathy is perhaps society's strongest pillar of homophobia,
Attempts to alter that antipathy from within have not o~ly been
unsuccessful, they seem to have strengthened the resolve of thechurch to oppress us,
The time has come for gays and lesbians to call catholicism
to account for the perverse misuse of its moral mandate, Recent
disturbing trends, like a california bishop'S denial of the sacrements to a pro-choice legislator, point to the dangers inherent inallowing a militant church to enforce its medievalisms on the
democratic process, Gays and lesbians may hesitate to challenge
the spitirual views of others, but when those spiritual views
oppress us we must challenge them, strongly and openly, And
while rapid success is unlikely, the ultimate prospects for reeducating an institution that once taught that the earth is flat and at
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LETTE·RS
Wise Wiesel
OutWeek's editorial on
the subject of gays who suffered at the hands of the
Nazis(Remembering the Gay
Holocaust, Nov, 19) gave an
informative insight into a subject that clearly needs to be
more widely known, However, in your reference to Nobel
Laureate
Elie
Wiesel's
remarks at the Human Rights
Campaign Fund dinner, yousuggest that Mr, Wiesel did
not acknowledge that gays
suffered during the holocaust, In fact, Mr, Wiesel didjust that,
After making a strong
plea for lesbian and gay civilrights, Mr, Wiesel went on tosay: "I have seen in my life-

time the consequences ofthe opposing views when
they dominated the scene, I
have seen Jews (naturally,
being always the first victims), and so many others,
includinggays, in those'places of darkness, silence
and fire,'
As you correctly noted,
those attending the dinnerweremesmerized
anddeeplymoved
by Mr.
Wiesel's remarks, If any ofyour readers are active inefforts to include gays in
Holocaust memorials, marches and museums being
planned around the country,
I hope you will encouragethem to contact
HRCF inWashington, Our phone num-

ber is 202-628-4160, I will behappy to send them a transcript of Mr, Wiesel's remarks,
which should prove useful inconvincing
organizers toinclude gays in their commemorations,
Again, your magazine isjust great, It is a real treat toread.
Gregory King
Communications Dir,
HRCF
Washington, D,C,
Who's on First?
Re: The 3 Dollar Bill Theater article (Playing Gay,
Nov, 19),
I'm sure you will receive
many letters reminding you of
New York's first openly gay
theater company, Doric Wilson'sT.O,$,O,$,(TheOther Sideof $ilence), founded in 1974,
and of the stonewall Repertory Company, stillfunctioning,

FIVE~ISTAKfS
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Mentionshouldbemade of the mysteriousand possibly still functioning- Lambda Theater Company, which according tolegend has been doing gay
plays privately for at least 40
years,In this 25th anniversary
year of gay theater, homage
should be paid also to the
Caffe Cino, La Mama E.T.C"
The Old Reliable Theater Tavern and the original w.P.A.
Theater Company, without
whom there simply would
not be gay theater,
Robert patrick
La MamaManhattan
leiter from Prison
Please excuse the informality of this hand-written
letter. I don't have access toa typewriter,Thank you for publish-ing Susie Day's article on
Linda Evans and me, inthe 11/5 issue of OutWeek.
Media
coverageisextremely important to us,
becausethegovernment's attempts to silence
us and pack us off to

o E to I t< fA
BED

AND

WH ~ Nprison for life depend on
being free to paint us asdangerous terrorists, Articles like the one you print- ,
ed
help
us to
communicate
withthemovements
we're part of. andto counter the government's lies,
Now I want to
ask you for anotheract of support, You
may already know
about the "Openletter to the Progressive
Community'that was written andcirculated
by supporters, We would.at appreciate it verymuch if Out Week would run
the "Open letter.'I love OutWeek, I hope
it is proving successful. I am

SV,RETE

constantly singing its praises to friends around thecountry, Good luck! And
thank you,laura Whitehorn
1220-858
D,C, Jail
Ball Crazy
Just wanted to thankyou for your most needed
publication,
Yes, we here in Washington love OutWeek. Finally,a publicationthat makes"glad to be gay' a current
and relevant statement forthe 90s! You've got courage,
power and style, Congratulations,Kissesto Michelangelo,
One question-is Bradley Ballstill a cutie pie? C'mon, let's
see a current photo!
Damn happy to be gay,

FAI/?£Y
I.fAD

HER

PE x/o0,Joseph Downton
Washington, DC
Bradley Ball Replies:
Bradley Ball. born July 3,
1960, is single and lives in
Manhattan,
He
last
appeared on the New Yorkstage two years ago in Jeffrey Essmann' s Circus of
Death,
Jilting the Quilt-Jilter
Re: Jilt the Quilt. OutWeek Letters, Nov, 12,
I had a good laughover Randy Barker's anti-quilt
letter, I disagreed with it allover the place, but his bad
attitude was well presented,
After the gay march on
Washington in 1987, one of
the hacks from the New York
Post wrote an editorial berating thousands of gays forspending money to attend
the march on Washington,when they should have put
all their money into AIDS
research and found a curefor the disease,
While I had more laughs
from Mr, Barker than from thePost, there is an unfortunate
similarity in attitudes,'He states, " ..,while wedie, vast numbers ..,choose
to sew and weave, Insteadof directing their grief, rage
and energy ..,they knit awaY
like immobilized inmates ofsanitaria, •This year I contributed
thre,e'panels to the Names
Project. For my best friend,and for my lover, and for

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another
person,Thesedeaths were close together,and put a final period on
three years of tending for first
one friend and then the
next. from May of 1986 toGood Friday 1989, when mylover died while a testpatient in a 001 trial.
I have been involved
with AIDS-relatedcausessince 1986, giving time, laborand moneyin varying
degrees, I have written letters, worried phone trees,
attended panels, went tomeetings, participatedindemonstrations
and beenarrested at several of them,
I laughed while reading
his letter, because I too felt
at first that to sit down andmake a quilt panel after allthat was like an athlete consigned to the shuffle board
court, But it turned out, that
was alii could do,
I know that while working
on the health crises, a person
may hold a very specificinvolvement in his area ofinterest; and in that strong
and narrow focus, there may
be no room to understandother areas of concern, If we
don'T honor these dead, whowill? Do you think the LinitedStates would erect a memori-

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al? Is a person to be ridiculed
for whatever effort one canmake to honor another?
It may be fun to spin out
phrases like "self-contemptuous..,travelling fair of pity andmasochism: but who is hedegrading? The dead, thedying? The survivorsfor loving?
There is no place for belittling
the actions of anyone who, in
hisopinion, isnot "directing hisrage and grief" in the same
way he himself does,
Respect death, Respect
life, Respect love,Three years ago, when
all of those people were alive,
I did as much shouting andstomping and outraging as
Mr, Barker displays in his letter,
I recognize his spirit, his anger
and his activist arrogance,
I've been that way before, I
will be that way again, For
now, I'm depressed a lot of
the time, and fall into despair
easily, That comes and goesas well. I just want to suggestthat in a quiet moment. hemay stop and consider what
he thinks about what hethinks, The hysteria such as heexhibits and grief such as I amliving are two sides of thesame coin,
There is a sad andbeautiful painting on a ceil-

December 3, 1989

ing at the Gay Community
Center on 13th Street thatbears the words "The Mystery
Of Love is Greater Than the
Mystery Of Death,"
The
Names Project is a powerfulexample of this, I urge him to
be still and listen,
RossMaclean
Manhattan
Blue Alliance Party
I read with interest theletter by Mr. Larry Gutenburg("letters to the Editor: Nov,
19), It seems that he also
found Adam Clayton Powell
IV to be supportive of the lesbian and gay community,
the lesbian and gay rights bill
and the ciyil rights of people
with AIDS, When a candidate requests the support of
the New Alliance Party, there
are always two conditions:
1) that he or she agrees
to run as an independent if
they do not win in a Democratic Party primary and2) that he or she supports the principles of the
New Alliance Party, to fightracism, sexism and homophobia, They must be prochoice
and be for theprotection of the rights of
PWAs, PWArcs and those
infected with HIV.

When Adam agreed to
run on the New AllianceParty ticket, he said that hehad
no problem
withaccepting these terms andwe had no reason not tobelieve him, Mr, Powellpulled out of the race
before the election and infact did not run as a New
Alliance Party candidate, If
he had, he would havebeen asked to respond to
OutWeek's allegations,EventhoughMr.
Gutenburg
agrees thatAdam Clayton Powell is not
anti-gay,andhe didacknowledge the fact that
the New Alliance Party ran
an openly gay candidate,he still contends that the
New Alliance Party is antigay because Minister Louis
Farrakhan supports and is
supported by NAP's chairperson, Lenora Fulani. Mr.
Gutenburg gives no credit
to Minister Farrakhan for his
support of the 1988 Presidential candidate, who was
the most adamant supporter of gay rights and therights of people with AIDS,
Fulani refuses to repudiate
Minister Farrakhan, whom
millions of African Americans-Muslims
and nonMuslims-respect
as aleader, because to do sowould be to repudiate her
people, We, in the lesbian
and gay community, would
never let the straight community, and rightly so, tell us
who our leaders can be andwhite Americans must learn
that they cannot tell Black

Americans who its leaderscan (and cannot) be, If Mr,
Gutenburg is concerned
about politicians schmoozing with anti-gay leaders, heshould have been alarmed
when David Dinkins and the>Democratic Party courted
the support of Arch Homophobe/ Arch Bishop (sic)
Cardinal O'Connor, No religious leader since stonewall
can be held responsible formore death and violenceagainst our community,
Even now, as I write this letter, he is leading a group of
U,S, bishops in formulating
anti-human AIDS policies,
Why aren't Mr, Gutenburg,
ACT UP and OutWeek
demanding that politicians
repudiateArch
BishopO'Connor? To call for the
repudiationof Farrakhan
and not O'Connor isracist,
In the 11th CD in theSouth Bronx Pedro Espada
Jr, ran against Rafael Castaneira Colon, Colon is anardent opponent of the lesbian and gay rights bill. Running on the NAP line was
Espada: an outspoken supporter of the lesbian andgay rights bill. Would OutWeek accuse David Dinkins
and the Democratic Partyof being anti-gay because
Colon ran on the Democratic Party line with David Dinkins? Mr, Espada received 42
percent of the vote andshould have received the
support of the gay press, Mr,
Gutenburg
could
have
helped get a pro-gay independent candidate elected, but it's easier to blame
the New Alliance Party for
not getting its candidates
elected, The New AllianceParty is building a progressive, pro-gay third party inthis country,
The New
Alliance Party started in theSouth Bronx in 1979 and ten
years later we ran Lenora
Fulani for president, She was
the first African American,
the first woman and the first
openly pro-gay candidate
ev~r to be on the ballot inall 50 states, The New
Alliance Party is now America's fourth largest party,
It appears that OutWeek has a vested interestin defending the Democratic Party and in attacking the
New Alliance Party and its
candidates, If The New YorkTimes had refused to cover
the campaign of Dave Taylor and Tom Duane, I'm sure
OutWeekwouldhave
accused them of beinganti-gayand rightly so,
What does it make themwhen they refuse to covermycampa~n?lmadeh~
tory when I became the first
openly gay candidatetorun for comptroller, a citywide office, I am a longtime
gay and AIDS activist, Thisisa very important time for ourcommunity because of therise in homophobia and theever increasing death tollfrom AIDS,We Med to havean open and honest dia-logue on all our political
options, Again I call on OutWeek to open up the political dialogue by covering
the independent
political
movement.
Steve Rose
New Alliance Party
Manhattan

headline and give the okay
to Newsday, calling it themore "Pc" tab with its" Jets
Defend O'Brien's Honor"
hed, In the macho world ofrock 'em sock 'em sports,"honor" reads "manhood:as if the gridiron was theplace where either could
be measured anyway, A
word against perpetual infuriation: Don't even startdeconstructing
the sports
pages,
R, Lurie
Manhattan~~I:I';,,;,i::;':'-;:=::....::;:'-::?-::-=i:=IIJ

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you rip into the Daily Newsfor its "Jets: Ken's No Barbie"

Nightmare_ of the Week

This week's monstr-osityis gross hypocrite "Reverend" AI Sharpton, who isquoted in Time magazine as saying. "Some things you do because you're not a
faggot but because you're a man." The enlightened civil rights hero, whoreportedly spends more time with his hairdresser than Zsa Zsa Gabor, hascopped Little Richard's queenly style in more ways than one.
Although ostensibly a Protestant, we suggest the Rev. AI might feel more athome in-the Roman Catholic Church, which shares his taste for fancy robes,
jewels and moral turpitude. We don't know why Tawana even talks to him.

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News

Lawyers Locked Out
at S.F. Gay Rights Firm
NGRA Head Under Fire as Staff Angrily Resigns

I'M IN CHARGE HERENGRA'sJean O'Leary and /1ichaql Whiteby Michele DeRanleau
SAN FRANCISCO-Thereare
new locks on the doors of the National Gay Rights Advocates, the westcoast legal organization specializing in
gay rights, but the law firm's two former staff attorneys don't have thekeys, Executive Director Jean O'Learyhas publicly blamed the two forrecent tension at the agency, andasked NGRA's Board to demand theirresignation,
The board, led by chairman
Richard White, voted at a meeting last
week to ask attorneys Ben Schatz andCynthia Goldstein to step down, andby Monday, the locks on the San
Francisco office were changed andtheir file drawers were removed andlocked away,
O'Leary has been accused by former staff and board members of perpetuating
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Photo: Alain McLaughlin/Reaction

which it is impossible to work, She
has also been blamed for the recent
resignation of nearly the entire staff inboth the legal office in San Francisco
and the administrative office in Los
Angeles, and some have also questioned
the proprietyof NGRAfinances under O'Leary,
And many in the community
were quick to point out the irony of arenowned civil rights law firm denying its own employees due processby allowing them to speak at thatboard meeting,
Schatz and Goldstein would notcomment
except to respondtoO'Leary's charge that they are at theheart of the NGRA's problems,"I bel ieve the facts speak forthemselves," Goldstein says, "Anyanalysis of the organization that ismore than casual will reflect where
the true problem lies,""All four employees in Los Ange-les resigned," Schatz said, "I don't
work in Los Angeles [where O'Learyis based], I think that says something."
O'Leary would say only that "it
was the lawyers who were the sourceof tension, so we asked the lawyers
to resign," repeatedly declining tocomment about the allegations andcomplaints against her,Nationally prominent legal director Leonard Graff resigned in September, and other recent resignations
include director of community affairs
Bill Eisentraut, director of administration Ron Ranum who was given a
choice between moving to Los Angeles or leaving, development director
Jim McDaniel, public affairs director
Ann Bradley, volunteer coordinator
Cindy Bologna and O'Leary's assistant, Debra White Christensen,
Fred Ponder, former chair of the
NGRA board, says he is resigningfrom the board, and encouraged thegay community to "withdraw its support from the organization"andinstead "direct its support to Lambda[Legal Defense and Education Fund],""I can no longer condone or support the board when they continue tosupport Jean O'Leary and not theorganization," Ponder said, He andother critics describe O'Leary as awoman of volatile moods who is lessinterested in the organization than in
her own career,"Jean O'Leary only has one interest, and that's Jean O'Leary," Ponder
said, O'Leary maintains that she isdedicated to the organization and its
work. Even critics describe her as a
hard worker.
"The thing that concerns me isthat the board doesn't see the resignations as a symptom of a much deeper
problem," said Bill Eisentraut, former

director of community affairs,
The NGRA and Lambda Legal
Services are the only national legalorganizations which regularly litigate
gay and lesbian civil rights cases, The
NGRA has been involved in many
prominent anti-discrimination
lawsuits, including a recent $3,2 million
discrimination suit against Pacific Bell
telephone company,
O'leary was recently appointed
to the resolutions committee of the
Democratic National Committee,
After voting out the attorneys at
the board
meeting,
the board
approved a nationwide expansion to
include an office in Washington, D,C.,
the initiation of a "national advisory
council" to increase the NGRA's profile across the country and the
expansion of the board of directors
from 15 to 25 people,
O'Leary backed all these measures, although her opponents felt
they detracted from the litigation
efforts of the organization, "You can't
have a legal organization
with nolegal staff," one board member who
did not want to be named said lastmonth, "I question why the legal staff
is corlsidered expendable,"
Former development
director
Eisentraut said, "At the heart of thecivil war is whether the NGRA is going
to be a 'public interest law firm specializing in litigation or take on other projects like National Coming Out Day,"
O'Leary co-founded
NCOD,
which used NGRA directed mail lists
and was subsidized by NGRA funds,
The NGRA lost between $35,000 and$50,000 on NCOD, O'Leary blames
Eisentraut for the firm's "less than successful" ventures,
O'leary said expansion into education and other projects is a logicalnext step for the organization, She alsoemphasized that NGRA's current cases
are being handled by attorneys who
work in conjunction with the NGRA,
Critics, who admit their aim wasto force O'Leary out of the organization, also felt that O'Leary would use
the opportunity of increasing the sizeof the board to sol idify her position
and make it impossible for the board
to fire her,
Others have questioned
the
NGRA's finances and direct mail tac-

tics under O'Leary's directorship,
Although the organization appears tosolicit contributions for specific projects, all the money goes into the general budget, and the organization
does not keep' separate
budgetrecords for various projects,
For example, one piece of direct
mail asked for funds to "fight a court
battle alongside Mitch Grobeson," agay Los Angeles police officer who was
harassed on the job, Grobeson's attorney is providing his services pro bono,
The NGRA filed as co-complaintants with Grobeson, but no one cansay how much money the mailer
raised nor where or how the money
was spent. Both O'Leary and board
chairman White said this is standardpractice for charitable organizations,
The NGRA also mailed a piececalling for funds to support a "Medical
Manhattan Project" for AIDS research,and gathered signatures on petitions
to send to the White House, Over,two
years later, there is still no "Medical
Manhattan Project," and according toseveral former employees, the petitions v.::ere never sent. O'Leary maintains they were, and White said hewould check.
Several sources outside of theorganization complained that O'Learytakes credit for successful cases orsolicits funds for legal efforts even if
the NGRA has taken only a minor role,"I'm aware, in the past they haveclaimed credit for work we've done,"said Paula Ettelbrick of the Lambda
Legal Defense and Education Fund,1l!;(fJjf;~"~

She said a recent fundraising appeal
touted NGRA efforts to speed FDA
AIDS drug approval but that NGRA
"was only nominally involved," Ettlebrick, who has worked closely withboth Goldstein and Schatz, described
the situation
at the NGRA as"appalling," adding, "My biggest concern is that they've left their clientsstranded," Many of the firm's cooperating attorneys have resigned as well,according to Ettelbrick.
The NGRA raised over $1.5 milIion last year, and' some charge that
too much of that money, over
$100,000 a year according to several
sources, goes into O'Leary's pocket.
O'Leary vehemently denies she makesthat much, and says she is underpaid,
Her salary this year is set at $60,000,
accordingto The San Francisco
Examiner, Her past compensation,
which she disclosed to Out Week off
the record, plus travel expenses,
could approach$100,000, Until
recently, O'Leary also received a percentage of the funds she raised,although she has discontinued that
arrangement with the firm,
In a statement released to the press
last week, newly-elected board president White announced "the beginningof a new era at NGRA," but made noreference to the current controversy,
And Lambda's Ettelbrick said,"We'll continue to work with them,but NGRA has seriously breached its
commitment to the community," T-Andrew

Miller contributed tothis article,.,

IQ.a November If,J,etter to NGJM board chairman Richard White obtait1.t!!~'by'~tweef' "'fe3,q%~';r fourJ<rs,bJan arid gay)egaI orgaoizations from a~J~;,}the;C8untry,~r9t~ r~,deccy~pe ~preemptory dismissal" of Ben .Schalz andCyni>thia(joldstein,. i;'f!yE" ••111!i "The,b~ic\tl}(airqesspf
a course of action runs c9ntrary,t6 the pre$~~ed goals ,of NORA apd,t9 \h~ principles for which we all staQd.in oui'daiW,
advpcacy :t~in~.~+\tr~iiti9Pflemploymentdecisions," the letter states, .;.·Nonek~~:~s·.woyld tQlera(e<su~h conduct in,the non-gay world, and we certainly ought:
not ac.cept itwi;hin 6.ur OWn organitations,""!#',, .Jhemjs~!ve?wassigned J>y Kevin Cathcart, executive director of tQ,¢
~9~9-based' Gay .apd Lesbia~Advocates and Defenders, Tom Stodda,rd.•.an~'J,'~laEttdbfick, executive director and legal director of Lambda Legal Defern;e~Q~;Educa~ion Fu!:d ip.New York City, Roberta Achte.nberg, execu~ivedire~}9r'<{fSan F,ra~cisc9;s,N~tional C$!n.terfor Lesbian, Rights and Urvashi Vaid, exeCU~
tivedireq~rof t~~ National Gay and Lesbian Task Force,- A.M..

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News

Gay/Lesbian
Officials
Strategize in Madison
to-the-editor writer who thought
his support for
legalizationofmarijuana would
somehow makemore young people homosexual.
St.
John,
however,whowent head-tohead with Albany's powerful
Democraticmachine, faced abarrage of antigay hatred prior
to both the primary and general elections,"He wants
to takeyourcouncil seat andturn it into a
stage that heand his activist
OUEERTIER
Photo: RexWockrier groups
can
Gay and lesbian politicos in Wisconsin State Capitol building prance aroundand stomp their slippers and say,
'We want gay rights!'" read one
by Rex Wockner
flyer. "Do you
MADISON, Wisconsin-The loose widely distributed
really want a man who finds sticknetwork of U.S, and Canadian openly
ing his penis in another mans [sic)gay/lesbian elected and appointed
officials welcomed the first Black and rear end religiously rewarding to
you on your council
the first Latino ever to join their ranks represent
seat????!!!!"
when they met here Nov, 17-19,
Although St. John won the priKeith St. John, a Black man, waselected to the Albany, NY City Coun- mary by only three of the 1,417 votes
cil Nov, 7 with 77 percent of the vote, cast, Democrats provided him withan overwhelming victory in the genHis victory followed by only sevenmonths the election of Cuban immi- eral election, Their loyalty to the
grant and bar owner Ricardo Gonza- party, he agreed, was more powerfulthan their homophobia,
les to the Madison City Council,
Gonzales told conferees that he has
Meeting on the Inside
only been publicly attacked once for his
There were about 60 openly gay
sexual orientation, by a confused letter-

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officials at the three-day conference,
which was held in the Wisconsin
State Capitol building, Other newcomers included Connecticut state Rep,
Joe Graybarz, Maine state Rep, Susan
Farnsworth and Vancouver City Councillor Gordon Price,
Graybarz, who was elected in
Nov, 1988 to represent his blue-collar
hometown, Bridgeport, spearheaded
Connecticut's
drive to pass a gay
rights law this year. The bill went
down to defeat in the 151-seat Houseof Representatives by only nine votes,"There's really no identifiable gay
community in Bridgeport and thepress doesn't label me as 'the gay
state representative,'" Graybarz said in
an interview,"My constituency
approves of the job I'm doing andthat is what ultimately matters."
Graybarz told his State House staff
that he is gay his first day in office,"And the first words out of my mouth
as an elected official were, 'My major
priority is gay and lesbian rights,'"
Unlike many at the Madison conference, Graybarz is not concerned
about being pegged as a single-issue
politician, Several other participants.reflected the sentiments of San MateoCounty, CA Supervisor Tom Nolan,
who said, "I don't want to be pigeonholed, Nobody is going to make me a'gay'supervisor,"
Richard Wagner of the Dane County, Wisconsin Board of Supervisors
agreed, "We're gay," he said, "but weare proficient at a variety of other tasks,
Most of us don't see fighting for gay
and lesbian rights as our only roles,"The Gayest City in America?
Madison was an appropriate
setting for this year's conference, as
the city boasts no fewer than seven
openly gay or lesbian elected officials-fouron the Dane County
Board, two on the Madison Common[City) Council and one village trustee
in Shorewood Hills, a "suburb" completely surrounded by Madison,"In Wisconsin, we have isolated
the Moral Majority as the lunaticfringe it is," explained Wisconsin State
See MADISON on page 51

News

Columbia Gay Group
Hosts AIDS Conference
Compound a, Womens Health Hot Topics
McGrath, who is director of AIDS
Immunobiology Research Laboratories
at San Francisco General Hospital andan assistant professor of medicine atthat city's branch of the University ofCalifornia, provided an overview ofthe puzzling aspects concerning therole of tiIV in AIDS, He thenexplained how Compound Q affects
the immune system, and in particular
cells called macrophages, which function in the protection of the bodyagainst infection,
Q IS FOR CUCUMBER

Photo: Ellen 8, Neipris

QClue"Macrophages can be infectedwith HIV without being killed,"by Lazaro Hernandez
McGrath explained, "Macrophages pass
NEW YORK-For the third consecthe virus to T-cells, which die, What I
utive year, a day-long conference sponam proposing then is a different
sored by the Columbia Gay Healthapproach to AIDS, I looked for a poiAdvocacy Project (CGHAP) was held
Saturday, Nov, 18 on tHe Cqlumbia Uni- son to feed the macrophage, to kill it."That poison in Compound Q,
versity campus in Morningside Heights,
which is derived from a Chinese plant
to provide the latest information on
treatment and health maintenance for 'of the cucumber family, McGrath jokedabout a patient's family asking if the Q
people with AIDS and HIV infection,
stood for "queer," explaining that it is
The impressive
assembly of
actually shorthand for cucumber,prominent scientists, clinicians andMartin Delaney, co-director of the
AIDS activists from around the nation
San Francisco-based Project Inform,
included two men who have recently
then presented a detailed account of
become the subject of intense attention
the clinical trials of Compound Q,
in the medical and AIDS communities
dividing the side effects observed inbecause of their work with Compound
Q, On hand with presentations were patients treated with the drug into two
categories, He said the first is characMichael McGrath, who first hypotheterized by flu-like symptoms, rashes
sized the use of the drug in connection
and muscle spasms, while the otherwith HIV, and Martin Delaney, theorganizer of the "underground" trials of more serious side effects range fromperiods of mental confusion and disCompound Q that recently gained
attention and notoriety when three trial orientation to coma and death,
Delaney warned about the danparticipants died while taking the drug,
And one presentation was angrily gers of self-administering Compound
Q, which has been used in t-he pracinterrupted by an audience member
tice of Chinese herbal medicine fordemanding better representation ofmany years, and encouraged people
women and more attention to women's
to get all of the facts available before
health issues at the conference,

Project Inform's Martin Delaney

making any decisions about the drug,"Q kills the infected cells, but not
the free virus in the blood," Delaneyadded, "so the virus is going to go on
infecting cells even after we havekilled the infected cells,"
Drug Slugs
Duringa presentation
byJonathan Gould, director of the microbiology laboratory at Memorial-Sloan
Kettering Cancer Center in New Yorkand an associate professor of clinicalmedicine at Cornell University Medical College, who spok'e about the different types of organisms that cancause opportunistic infections in people with AIDS, feelings of anger andfrustration were vented by the audience and by members of the panel.
Although the issues of access tohealth care, access to clinical trials anddrugs, and the representation of peopleof color in trials and protocols wereraised in most of the day's sessions, awoman from the audience yelled out toask why there were rio heads of pharmaceutical companies at the conference,
Delaney responded, "The heads of pharmaceutical companies are interested in
drugs that are going to make money,"Paul' Douglas, co-director of theColumbia Gay Health Advocacy Project and moderator of the conference,.answ~red the woman's question withan invitation, "If you can get them
here, you are more than welcome,"
He went on to say, "The anger has tobe directed to the right targets, andthey are not in this room,"

Women, AIDS and Politics
But aftersomequestionsprovidedby the audience
were
answered, 'and the morning session
See COLUMBIA on page 22,December 3, 1989

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13

News

Gay Sheep Dragged
From Closet by USDAARE THEY OR AREN'T THEY?

Photo: Ellen 8, Neipris

Sheep and baby sheep

by Rex Wockner
DUBOIS, Idaho-Eight percent of
the male sheep at the United States
Department of Agriculture's Sheep
Experimental- Station in Dubois, Idaho
are gay, officials confirmed Nov, 16,"These animals are homosexual.
They are responding physically to
how they are," explained
Anne
Perkins, a doctoral student at thestation who is completing her dissertation on "Reproductive Behavior
in Rams," Station officials deferred
to Perkins when asked for details on
the matter,"It's a very interesting model andwe can learn a great deal abouthomosexuality from it," Perkins said,"They are not morally or culturally or
ethically behaving like humans, These
sheep are just doing what their bodies
are telling them to do,"Homosexuality among animals is"nothing real unique," according to

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Perkins, who said gay sex has been
observed in 63 distinct mammalian
species, "It's not considered aberrantin farm animals at all," she said,
The gay sheep, like some gay
men, practiceanal intercourse,
according to Perkins, although someachieve orgasm simply by rubbing
their penis around another male
sheep'S tail.
There is, however, a serious
social problem currently in gay sheep
culture: Most gay sheep, Perkins said,
only want to be on top,
"The difficulty for homosexual
sheep is that it's difficult to findanother male who will stand still,"
Perkins explained, "If there is a ram
that is hurt or caught in a fence, thenthey can mount him, but otherwise
there are so few receivers that it
becomes difficult for homosexuals to
express themselves,"
Only two of the gay sheep in

Perkins' study population don't mind
being on the bottom, "They tolerateit," she said, "They may have been
the wimps that got beat up so muchthat it was easier to tolerate it thananything else,"
Lesbian sheep, meanwhile, areapparently wrestling with a major"invisibility" problem in the gay sheep
world, a difficulty that has plagued
human lesbians, too,"It's very difficult to look at thepossibility of lesbian sheep," Perkins
explained,"because if you are afemale sheep, what you do to solicit
sex is to stand still. You don't
mount. So, it's very rare that afemale sheep would mount anotherfemale sheep,""Maybe there is a female sheepout there really wanting anotherfemale," Perkins speculated,"butthere's no way for us to know it."
In addition to the rams who arepracticing
homosexuals,
anothereight percent of Perkins' ram population fail to express interest in any
kind of sex,
"They have a very low libido, "she explained,
Two percent of the gay sheep,
meanwhile, begin dabbling in bisexu-ality following one year of exclusive
homosexuality, Perkins said,
Researchers don't have many
theories yet about why some sheep
are gay, but Perkins said she is convinced that the animals are genuinely
homosexual.
"We're not embarrassedorashamed of this," she added, "But we
do hope it doesn't get twisted anddistorted in a way that could do harmto the United States Department ofAgriculture, "Perkins will receive her doctorate
from the University of California at
Davis later this year. T-filed from Chicago

NewsLandlord Lawsuit Delays
Housing Protections
by Art Leonard
ALBANY-The Rent Stabilization
Board (RSA), an organization of l;andlords whose buildings are governedby the state's Rent Stabilization Code,has won a court order delaying implementation of new regulations intended to protect family members oftenants, including gay domestic partners, from eviction after the death ordeparture of a tenant,
The regulations, announced by
the Division of Housing and Commu-

nity Renewal (DHCR) on November 9,were supposed
to go into effectimmediately on an "emergency" basis,arid would have required landlords togive surviving members of a tenant's
family in both rent-controlledandrent-stabilized apartments a renewal
lease without imposing a vacancy
increase in rent.
DHCR's decision was an expansion of a recent state court ruling that
extended the legal definition of ','family" to protect gay and lesbian lovers

Practice What You Teach

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December 3, 1989

in rent-controlled apartments.
Arguing that the regulations
were unconstitutional and not authorized by law, the landlords contended that they would be irreparably
injured if the changes were allowed
to go into effect before a court could
determine their validity. They persuaded Justice Daniel H, Prior, Jr" aState Su preme Court Justicein
Albany, to issue a temporary restraining order on November 13, forbidding'DHCR from implementing theregulations until a hearing can beheld on granting
an injunction
against the regulations,
Justice Prior scheduled the hearing for November 28, but the case has
been transferred to Manhattan andwill be held in December by Justice
Irma Vidal Santaella, to whom it has
been reassigned, It is likely that trial
judges in pending eviction proceedings that may be affected by theseregulations will delay ruling until theirvalidity has been fully litigated,
Perhaps the strongest argument
available to the landlords is that thedivision does not have the authority
to issue such "emergency" regulations
without going through the notice andhearing process, This was the winningargument in Two Associates the casein which the Appellate Division ruled
two years ago that "emergency" tenant protection
regulations
wereinvalid,
A direct attack on permanent regulations adopted after formal noticeand hearing procedures is less likely
to succeed, Just days after the decision in Two Associates, the division
issued a new rent stabilization code
which extended protection against
eviction to traditional family membersof tenants, The new code was adopted after notice and several public
hearings, The Appellate Divisions inboth the First Department (Manhattan
and Bronx) and the Second Department (the rest of New York City andsome suburban counties) have upheld
the validity of those regulations during 1989,
But according
to gay legal
observers when these decisions are
considered together with the Court ofAppeals' dec:ision in Braschi v, Stahl
Associates, the housing case that originally sparked the controversy thisyear, it seems that the division has fullauthority to adopt regulations protecting family members from eviction,and may define family members in amanner consistent with the Court ofAppeals' decision,
The division has scheduled public hearingson the permanent
amendments to the various regulatorycodes to take place in the auditorium
at One Police Plaza on the afternoon
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It's the law
BOSTON-The mood in the Massachusetts statehouse Wednesday could
not have been more different from theangry protest of January 4, 1988-whenthe last proposed gay rights bill went
down in defeat. This time, gay men andlesbians gathered to watch Governor
Michael S, Dukakis sign into law thelesbian and gay civil rights bill.
The gay and lesbian spectators
seemed ready to temporarily forgive
the governor for past disagreements,
like the state's anti-gay foster careplacement policy and lack of leadership in the fight against AIDS, The
crowd applauded
heartily when
Dukakis opened the signing ceremony,"This state ..,has always been in theforefront of efforts to extend civil rights
protections to all segments of the population," declared the governor of Massachusetts, which is only the second
state in the nation to enact gay and lesbian civil rights legislation, "Today
once again we lead," continued
Dukakis, "I'm sorry Wisconsin got there
first, but then they exercised great,
good judgments," The Massachusetts
bill will go into effect Feb, 13,
Joining Dukakis at the podium
were over a dozen current and former
legislators who have supported the

ACT UP at the Statehouse
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December 3, 1989

bill, as well as a lesbian and a gay
man who have lobbied for the legislation, Cordoned off the podium wereover 300 spectators, including members of ACT UP/Boston, who brought
their own message to the event.
"Gay rights don't raise the dead,""Gay rights can't cure the ill" and"Gay rights-yes!
AIDS complacency-no!" read some of the signs heldby ACT UP members,"I dedicate this bill to the thousands of our brothers who died of thetwin epidemics of AIDS and the government neglect," responded Steven
Tierney, co-chair of the Massachusetts
Gay and Lesbian Political Caucus,"We promise to use our ne:wfoundpolitical strength to ensure that the
government does what it should tofight this epidemic," he pledged,
adding: "Brothers and sisters andfriends, we are in this for the distance, Take heart, because this is a
Victory, and it is just the beginning,"
The presence of the ACf UP signs
at the ceremony was just one indication of struggles that have divided the
Boston lesbian and gay community
during this month of celebrations, The
latest intracommunity conflict centeredon the choice of speakers for the signing ceremony, Although spokespersons for the governor's office insisted
to OutWeek that "there was nothing

Photo: Nina Reyes

unusual about his signing,· the ceremony was preceded by an intense
behind-the-scenes struggle, In the end,
to the dismay of many activists, bothof the gay speakers at the event represented the same organization, one ofthe dozens of groups that worked topass the bill over the last 17 years,"Politicians are nice-well, someof us are-and sometimes even useful," joked Rep, Mark Roosevelt, a chiefsponsor of the bill, "but in the end thisis a victory for the gay and lesbiancommunity." While activists cheered
this attempt to hand the legislative ceremony over to the community, theyalso planned their own celebration,
during which gays and lesbians would
sign a giant copy of the bHl at Boston's
historic Faneuil Hall.
-Masha Gessen

No love lost
NEW YORK-Although the 11th
anniversary membership conferenceof the North American Man Boy Love
Association (NAMBLA) was held asscheduled November 10-12 in New
York City, the group's plan for a poetry reading with Allen Ginsberg in the
Lesbian and Gay Community Center
was nixed by a vote of the Center'sboard of directors, which denied useof the Center's facilities by the controversial group,"After spirited discussion andstrong positions delineated on bothsides, the Center's board of directors
r I determined that it was not in the bestinterest of the Center at this time,"
read a statement from the board,"I think in the end, the big losers
are the Center and the people thatmight have been able to attend thepoetry reading," said Chris Farrell, aspokesperson
for NAMBLA, "TheCommunity Center is not doing a service to the community by restricting
these types of events from being held
there,"
While the Center's board of
directors avoided giving specific decisions for the denial, it is a clear mes-

Out Takes

Allen Ginsberg

Photo: Bill Andriettesage that they do not support theactivities of NAMBLA, which bills
itself as "a political and educationalorganization for men and boys interested in consensual sexual and emotional relationships,"
Richard Burns, executive directorof the Center, was guarded in his discussion of the issue, "Any group thatmeets here at the Center is in effectreceiving a subsidy from us," he said,"Our board determined that it was notin the interest of the Center to makethat effective now,"
A formal request was first madein Septt:;mber for the poetry reading,According to Farrell, most organizations do not go through this process
of board approval for using space,"People that are somehow connectedto the government or beholden to thegovernment for money seem to spare
the government the trouble of discriminating by doing that work of discrimination themselves," he said,
The conf.erence took place at a
Fifth Avenue rehearsal studio insteadwith about 40 attendees, according toFarrell. He said he believed all thosepresent were above the age of consent.
Burns has since suggested that
NAMBLAwrite a letter to the board of
directors, explaining their position inorder to possibly influence future decisions regarding NAMBLA's use of theCenter,And in a statement released tothe press, Farrell stated, "The Center's
refusal to provide space couldn't stop
Ginsberg'S reading, but it does point

to a dangerous
tendency
for a selfappointedgay'elite' toundemocratically
excludeothers in
the gay
community, In
the wakeoftheMapplethorpe
controversy, I don't
think gays and lesbians want to be
told what kinds of poetry can be readin our Community Center."-Mark Chesnut

Gay life at
Rutgers U.
NEW BRUNSWICK,NJ-The mostcomprehensive study to date of lesbian and gay life on college campuses
was released by Rutgers University on
November 9, culminating an l8-montheffort by a group of faculty, staff, students and alumni of the New Jersey
state university to survey all university
employees on various issues impacting the lesbian and gay community,"This is a first," said James D,
Anderson, chairman of the committeethat produced the report, and associate dean and professor in the Schoolof Communications, Information andLibrary Studies, "We don't know of
any other institution that has surveyed
every single employee,"
Assistant
Dean of Students
Cheryl Clarke told Out Week, "This isa rich, historical document which
will serve as a model for other institutions to follow and develop theirown programs,"
Appointed in the spring ~f 1988
by Rutgers President
Edward J,
Bloustein, the select committee's work
is part of a larger effort begun in 1987

to fight bigotry and intolerance and toencourage a respect for diversity at
the university, President Bloustein
directed the group to study the needsof the gay community and to advisethe' administration on the full implementation of tne university's 1981
policy that bans discrimination basedon sexual orientation,
The survey explored such issues
as harassment and discrimination in
the work place and classroom, integration of the lesbian and gay experience in the academic life of theschool and included a survey of similar efforts underway at universities in
Massachusetts,
Pennsylvania
andMichigan,
The report, entitled "In Every
Classroom," states in part that "theuniversity must ensure an environment in which all members of thecommunity .. ,can participate
anddevelop intellectually and emotionally, free from fear, violence orharassment,"
and recommends
incentives for scholars to pursue
research on the contributions of lesbians and gays to science, history,
literature and the arts, sensitivity, workshops
to fight homophobia,. creating safe space where lesbians
and gay men may interact and providing the same personnel benefits
and services to domestic partners of
lesbian and gay employees as areoffered to the spousesof other
employees,"Some of the recommendations in
the report are already underway," continued Clarke, "and we have made a
difference ,if the repoit does no morethan make people aware of the gay
and lesbian community on campus,"
Rutgers University is home to thesecol}dcoldest active lesbian and gay
organization affiliated with an American university,
the Lesbian/Gay
Alliance, which was organized in 1969,
The full text of the report is available for $10 from the Rutgers University Office of Student life Policy andServices, Van Nest Hall, Room 301,
College Avenue, New Brunswick,
New Jersey 08903,-Keith Miller
December 3, 1989

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19

Out Takes

I
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GiDlDleSODle skin
WASHINGTON-Two
teenagemembers of a "skinhead" gang wereconvicted Nov, 17 of assault withintent to kill and armed robbery of agay man brutally attacked one yearago,
The victim, Rod johnson, a 37year-old waiter at a Georgetown
restaurant, said the decision reaffirmed his resolve to help activists
win passage of legislation in the City

Photo: Donna PaulBOSTON-The nation's first federally certified hospice for people with AIDS
opened its doors here last week, amid charges from the AIDS community that the hospice welcomes only Hbright and beautiful" people with AIDS, because of the hospice's
high costs,
The Hospice at Mission Hill, which is located in a residential neighborhood bordering the city's medical area, will offer a home, palliative health care, spiritual, emotional and psychologicalsupport to 18 people in the advanced stages of AIDS,
Admission requirements include a diagnosis with AIDS and a prognosis of no morethan six months, and all residents must sign a "do not resuscitate" statement.
Although the hospice's planners estimate the cost of caring for each resident at.
approximately $450 per day, by obtaining Medicare certification, the hospice has vastly
expanded the scope of PWAs it will be able to serve,
But while supporters of the project called the opening a historic moment in the
struggle to care for PWAs, pointing out the confluence of support from the state, thecity, Boston's AIDS service organization and AIDS activists, others-particularly
PWAs-':'felt distinctly excluded from the development of the Hospice at Mission Hill.
HThe night before their grand opening, they scrambled around the city to finda person with AIDS to cut their ribbon, They'd forgotten to include people with
AIDS," said Bill, a member of Boston's PWA Coalition, "That right there tells me
there's great insensitivity, If they can overlook them at the grand opening, what
are their lives going to be like there?" There were no open PWAs present at theceremony,
Jennifer Loft, director of marketing for Hospice West Inc" the Hospice at Mission
Hill's parent corporation, scoffed at that allegation, ascribing the last-minute shuffle atthe ribbon· cutting ceremony to the Hospice's concern about the physical well·being ofpeople with AIDS who were involved, "We worked very closely with the AIDS Action
Committee from the inception of this program," Loff said, "and from the beginning
we've had the guidance of people with AIDS."
Pictured above, clockwise from bottom left: David Mulligan, State Public
Health Commissioner; Jim McEvroy, exceutive director, Boston Living Center; Ray
Flynn, Mayor of Boston; Kelly Farquarhson, Mission Hill community activist; State
representative
Kevin Fitzgerald; Larry Kessler, executive director, AIDS Action
Committee; Bill Wallace, executive director, Hospice West, Inc; Rev, Joseph Kras·tel, Mission Hill church; Regina Rockefeller, chair of the board of directors of Hos·
pice West, Inc,
-Nina Reyes

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Rod Johnson

Photo: John Zeh

Council and the u.s, Congress to document hate-motivated violence,Mark Hyder, 18, or Southerland,Va" and David McCall, 19, of Dale
City, Va" could receive a maximum
term of life imprisonment when they
are sentenced as adults january 5 byjudge Robert M, Scott in D,C. Superior Court,
A third gang member, Richard"Craig" Grimes, 18, of Ridge, Md"
whom a government
prosecutor
accused of being the ringleader in atleast one other attack the same weekend, did not appear for trial. He issought as a fugitive in this case, andfor an earlier conviction for violence,"The couragethat Rod has
shown by confronting such a hatefulgroup of young people in a courtroom brings all lesbians and gay men
a step closer to justice, said Paula L.
Ettelbrick, legal director of Lambda
Legal Defense and Education Fund in
New York City, "Across the country,
skinheads are to the [gay) community

what the Ku Klux Klan was to theBlack community,"
The attack, considered one of theworst incidents of anti-gay violence
here, occurred about 5 am in a parking lot next to "P Street Beach," apopular cruising spot along Rock
Creek Park in Northwest. Johnson
was confronted by at least five youths I"".IQ\Au..-r'1
armed with baseball bats looking to ,.ItlIY,~"bash some fags" for rent money, twofriends of the attackers testified,
Grimes had suggested he and theother defendants go "fuck up somefaggots," fo( cash and credit cards,
according to testimony, One did a"martial arts movement" wielding abat overhead and then struck him"with all his strength," Johnson said,
During the assault, the skinheads
yelled, "die, faggot, die," according totestimony, Johnson was left bleeding
profusely with lung collapse and afractured skull, broken ribs and finger
and a splintered shoulder,
At a timely benefit organized by
the Lesbian and Gay Anti-violence
Task Force Saturday night, Johnson
said he fears many such "severe cases
are never reported or detected as gay- 1-'•
related," Legislative mandates such as
the ones now pending would help
b09st sensitivity by law-enforcement
officials and encourage citizens to filecharge'S, he said,
The Bias-Related Crime Act, set
for first reading in D,C, City Council
late in November, would provide forthe collection and publication of data

More Out Takes, page 54
about bias-related crimes, enhanced
penalties fot attackers and civil relief
for victims,
The Hate Crimes Statistics Act(H,R. 1048), passed overwhelmingly
by the U.S, House of Representatives,has 54 sponsors in the Senate, where
action is still awaited,
It would
require acquisition and disseminationof data on "crimes that manifest prejudice" based on race, religion, sexuality or ethnicity,
Two months ago, Johnson and aconsortium of gay, lesbian and antiviolence groups filed an unprecented
See OUT TAKES on page 54

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600 people in attendance,
mostlymen, left the room,
Kimi Nakata, HIV program coordinator at the Community Family Planning Council was in the audience, andlater told OutWeek that she felt theconference had "provided useful information for a lot of people," but addedthat "it was frustrating to see the question of medical care separated fromhealth care delivery and access,"When it comes to women's issues
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Panel Channel
Mathilde Krim, founding co-chairof the American Foundation for AIDS
Research, was scheduled to be on thepanel, but was unable to attend theconference, After the lunch break, Dr.
Suzanne Philips, a board member of
the Community Research Initiative
and a long-time AIDS advocate, wasincluded in the panel.
Also of note was an overview of
HIV infection and treatment by Jeffrey
Laurence, the director of the Laboratory for AIDS Research and an associate
professor of medicine at Cornell
Unviersity Medical College, who gavea detailed description of the complications and drawbacks of AZT therapy,
Susan Krown; associate memberof Memorial-Sloan Kettering Cancer
Center, provided
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'Obituaries
OeD/us Husband,
Composer and Businessman,
Dies at 30
Deolus Husband, a composer andManhattan businessman, died of
AIDS-related pneumonia Nov, 13 at
Cabrini Medical Center following abrief hospitalization, He was 30-yearsold, With his partner, Edwin Alexander, Mr, Husband was a co-owner ofUptown Cheese, a well known specialty foods store in Inwood, He was anative of Raleigh, Mississippi andreceived a bachelor's degree from the
University of Southern Mississippi in
1980, followed by graduate studies inmusic composition at the Manhattan
School of Music, where his principal
teacher was Ludmila Ulehla, His doctorate was awarded by the Manhattan
School in 1987, Mr. Husband's compositions, for voice, mixed instrumental
ensembles and orchestra, reflect thecomposer's wide-ranging interest inmodern dance, poetry and fiction, A
1987 work, "Why I Live at the P,O,,"

was inspired by a short story of Eudora Welty, Other recent commissions
include "Four Women" (1984) and"Milkweed and Summer" (1988), twoof five works written for the Fiati
Chamber Players, a New York-based
ensemble, Funeral services were held
Nov, 17 in Raleigh, Mississippi. A
memorial service at the Cornerstone
Center in Washington Heights is being
planned by friends and colleagues, Mr,
Husband, who was known as "Decie,"is survived by his longtime lover,
Edwin Alexander, as well as by his
parents, Friends wishing to honor his
memory are asked to contribute to
Bide-A-Wee, an animal adoption service in Manhattan, ....

Bartolo Hernandez de Jesus,
Gay Puerto Rican Independentista

1956-1989
by Bob Lederer
Bartolo Hernandez de Jesus, agay leader of a Puerto Rican pro-inde-

pendence organization in New York
City, died on July 20 of AIDS-related
complications, The 33-year-old independentista was also a poet, actor,
writer and youth counselor, Growing
up in EI Barrio (East Harlem), Hernandez overcame a period of drug
addiction and street life to earn adegree in Elementary Education from
Boricua College,
In 1985, he defied the prevailing
homophobia
in the independence
movement and joined the National
Committee to Free Puerto Rican Prisoners of War, Hernandez worked tirelessly to educate the Puerto Rican
community about the 15 members of
the U,S,-based underground
FLAN(Armed Forces of National Liberation)
serving lengthy prison sentences for"seditious conspiracy," He became
well-known for his eloquently angry
patriotic poetry and drama, which
often paid tribute to the various armed
clandestine independence groups,
See OBITUARIES on page 50

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San Francisco Journal

Back, Over and Out
by Dave FordW

e San Franciscans
are
now
known
nationwide for our
indomitable elan in the face of adversity, (We're also known for our tricks
with props, but that's another article,)
You've no doubt read about the "truegrit" we showed, digging out of theTuesday, 0ct. 17 earthquake, Perhaps
you saw f1annel-shirt-wearingCBS
news teleclone Dan "I am Not Ted
Baxter" Rather intoning at the quakesite,"Thepeopleof
San
Francisco--they'll be back,"
Yeah, yeah, I've gotcher "they'll

NO, IT AIN'T ARMAGEDDON
Post-quake Castro revelry

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be back"-hangin',
Message to Miss
Rather: Honey, I am over the fucking
quake! I've had it up to my sadly
unworked arse in rubble! And I amlight years beyond all this fulsome"they'll be back" nonsense,Go
home, you carpetbagging
newsthing-andtake your tired chest
hairs with you!
Snap!
At the outset, I didn't even think
the quake was that big a deal. Really,
When my critic friend Barry and I
showed up late to a 5:00 press
screening of Drugstore Cowboy (whatqueen wouldn't?), we stood in theaisle as our eyes adjusted to the dark,
Suddenly, Matt Dillon's face appeared
onscreen-andthe building started
shaking violently,
I like to say that when I saw Matt

Commentary
Dillon, the earth moved,
The lights blacked out, andsirens started screaming, So did we,
It was very Poseiden Adventure, very
Abyss, I didn't know whether to run
or to fetch a snorkel. I grabbed
Barry instead-knowingthat as a
New Yorker he might think this wasjust a tacky version of Sensurround-andran,
We returnedto the Castro,
where throngs milled on the street.
We sawthey'dclosedCafe
Flore-theCastro art-fag hub-and
finally understood something serious
had transpired, While the rest of thecity was juiced on post-quake
adrenaline,
Flore attitude queens
were already showing severe signs ofcaffe-laue withdrawal.
Experts warned we might feel apost-adrenal ine "crash," They wereright. By that Friday, I was ready toscratch some eyes and yank somewigs-onprinciple, My inner ear

Photo: Darleiie/Photographics

fritzed; for days the earth seemed to
shudder nonstop, Aftershocks exacerbated the feelings: they're God's wayof saying She wasn't kidding,
Serenity was not chief among myemotional reactions that week,
Nearly a month later we're still
having aftershocks. Worse, rumors
swirl that a bigger one may hit thismonth. Adding insult to injury, S,F,
voters just turned down Proposition S,
the domestic partners bill. And in theconservative suburb of Concord, citizens voted to repeal an AIDS discrimination ordinance passed by the city
council earlier this year, a move closely monitoredby suburban
towns
nationwide.
Is this Armageddon, or are wejust having a bad month?
That, as Time magazine hacks
like to conclude their news stories,
remains to be seen, The election
should have been postponed;no
one's talking politics now, But then,no one's talking quake either; it's soyesterday, The newsies' tired pedantry
notwithstanding, San Francisco, however, is standing tall. The domestic
partners legislation lost partly because"Yes On S" campaigners shifted theirfocus' and finances to aid quake relief
efforts,
The quake itself metaphoricallymirrored a year-long gay community
upheaval that fomented ~naamerital
shifts in local activism and art, The
domestic partners defeat may shakeus as badly as the quake did, Like the
7.1 tremblor, it smashed denial: it canhappen here, When East Coasters
used to ask if I was scared to live, in
quake-ready San Francisco, I'd chuckle arrogantly. Now I'm not so cavalier:
my house may crumble any time, I
told those Easterners I braved quakes
because the Bay Area is so fabulously
gay, Now I'm not'so offhand: each of
our gains, even here in queer Eden,
has to be hard fought to be hard won,Yet this hilly little city with its
mystical vistas beckons still, earthquakes and rednecks notwithstanding, As Mick Jagger said to 60,000 of
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GLAAD Tidings

Supporting
Newsweek
What's in a family? A Mommy, aDaddy, a couple of kids and maybe
Grandma, right? Well yes, but that's
not the whole picture anymore,
Newsweek has just published a
special edition devoted entirely to thecomposition of the family in the 21stCentury, One of the five main sections of the report is called "variations
on a theme," and explains how thedefinition of family is expanding toinclude a variety of new categories,
According to jean Seligmann, thewriter of the piece, gay and lesbian
couples are now commonplace, Seligmann goes on to explain how, inmany parts of the country, lawmakers
are finally catching up and validating
the legitimacy of "non-traditional"
families, She cites recent legal developments, among them the New YorkState Court of Appeals' decision thispast summer that a gay man whose
long-term lover had died qualified as
family in order to inherit the lease of
his partner's rent-controlled Manhattan apartment.
After a discussion of the statistics
on gay and lesbian families nationwide-the
census bureau counts 1.6
million same-sex couples living together-Seligmannzeroes in on specific gay families and their children,
There's a great photo of Michael
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urban Sacramento, "I didn't feel like awhole person without kids," says
jarnig, "I didn't feel it was right forgay people to be robbed of a sense offamily," We also learn about Cindy
and Margie who share a house near
Boston with their son, johan, who recently turned three,
At the end of the piece, Seligmann reports that some of the parents
acknowledge that they are not universally accepted, and that many of them
have experienced some form of rejection or discrimination,
The mainstream media is underattack by right-wing fundamentalists
for those few instances that it has
represented
gays and lesbians asanything less than totally perverse,
Articles like the Newsweek piecethat document the fact that we form
close, loving families of our own',. are particularly vulnerable to attack,
They expose the right wing lie thatgays and lesbians are anti-family,
which forms the basis of the rightwing's bigoted arguments against
us, You can be sure that the bigots
will be sending their hate letters,
We urge you to express your support to Newsweek,
To be heard, contact:
Richard M, Smith, Editor-in-Chief
Newsweek
444 Madison Ave,New York, NY 10022(212) 350-4000

Opposing the
VFW
When we're not breaking up
families, we're undermining law andorder, That, at least, has traditionallybeen the official viewpoint of thearmed services,
The armed services, and specifically the Pentagon, are increasingly
under attack for their homophobic
policies regarding the ability of gays
and lesbians to serve in the military,
In addition to a bevy of highly publi-

cized lawsuits being brought by gays
and lesbians to challenge existing
policies, a draft report issued by a
Pentagon research center in late October cited continuing manpower needs
and social pressures to remove barriers to homosexuals as reasons why
the Pentagon should change its policies, Needless to say, the Pentagon
has tried to squash this report,
In this context, it is unsurprisingthat Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW),
the largest veterans organization in
the U.S" passed Resolution 438 entitled, "Oppose Homosexual Acceptance in the Military," at its annual
convention in Las Vegas, The resolution a) expresses concerns for the
breakdown of the country's defense
mechanism; b) unequivocally opposes
efforts to force the Department of Defense to retain or accept homosexuals; c) seeks final judicial reaffirmationfrom the Supreme Court of the homosexual exclusion policy; and d) seeks
to rewrite codes to guarantee protection of civil rights based on moral, religious or ethical behavior,
As the facts pile up in favor ofending discrimination against homosexuals in the armed forces, as thestereotypes and misinformation thathave been used to exclude us fromserving break down, we're going to
see more attempts to shore up discriminatory policies, It is importantthat we counteract them as we spot
them,
Whether or not you ever were in
the military, or ever want to be, codified discrimination hurts you, Homophobes use discriminatory policies in
one area to justify instituting or keeping such policies elsewhere,
To protest the VFW's resolution,
contact:
Larry W, Rivers
Executive Director
Veterans of Foreign Wars
200 Maryland Ave, NE
Washington, DC 20002(202) 543-2239-Karen Schwartz
and Henry Yeager

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Commentary

Insulation, Window-Dressing
and Turning Up the Heat .

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1n recent years, most of.\
New York's major elected.. "officials have appointed Iiaisons to the lesbian and gay
community, We have heralded
these appointments as signs of
our increased access to elected
officials, our increased recognition as an electoral force and increased attention to the issues
important to us,
That's the theory. In practice, these liaisons 'are often
marginalized within the staff hierarchy, and rather than bringing
us access, in many cases they
pring the officials insulation andthe appearance of addressing ourconcerns,;:
I want to state clearly at theoutset that I have found these Ii- ACCESS:ABLE?
aisons to be important resources, Lancs Rmgel
as a journalist and as an activist. As Office of Lesbian and Gay Concerns,
individuals, they are generally people
has a long' and illustrious history of
who have been active in our commuworking for our community, No one
nity and who are earnestly trying to doubts that he's trying to advocate
educate their employers and trying to for our n~eds in state government.
get them to take strong and visible ac- But does he have the access to thetion on issues important to us,
governor's ear to really make a difThe danger arises when the offi- ference?
cials for whom they "liaise" think
ACT UP's David Z, Kirschenthat by simply hiring an openly les- baum charges that Ringel's office,bian or gay individual they havetouted as the first such state office inproven their commitment
to ourthe nation, is merely for show, "That'community, "It can be a form of to- office is nothing', It is propaganda to
kenism if the liaison doe~n't have ad- the gar:,~~~t: lesbian community to:equate backing to accomplish policy
lOOK;1.5')( they're doing something,changes," notes Karin Schwartz of And heJb\lomo] will use it as a tool,
GLAAD, the Gay and Lesbian AI- next year,"': ':'Iiance Against Defamation, When thisACT UP nas been trying for somehappens, liaisons are window dresstime to meet with Cuomo to discuss:
ing, pure and simple,
probtems 'with interagency coordinaTake Governor Cuomo: Lancetion ~{AIDS: programs, Kirschenbaum',Ringel, the director of the state's new
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cial charged with such coordination, "is afraid to risk his job bypointing out that some agencies
are not doing what they should',"
and that the problem requires thegovernor's personal attention,
The governor has said on two
occasions that he would meetwith ACT UP, but thus far has
failed to schedule an appointment.
The last time he said he would
meet, he instructed an ACT UP
representative
to go throughRingel's office, (A curious equation, that AIDS issues should necessarily go through the Office ofLesbian and Gay ~ncefns,)
After six months,' Ringel has
been unable to schedule the appointment.
"Zillions of people
want to meet with the governor,"he points out. "It's a question ofwhat is the most pressing matter,"
Certainly, in 1989, AIDS should beamong the governor'~ !TI0st pressing
matters, Has Cuomo met with any
AIDS activist, advocacy; empowerment or service-providing 'groups inthe past six: months? "To my knowledge he has not had a meeting ofthat sort in the J~ast 'si?, months,"
replied Ringel.
It is outrageous tha~ the governorof the state with the, largest AIDS
case load in the nation has not met
with ACT UP or. any other AIDS
groups in more than six months, He
is insulating him~~lf fr9m AIDS, andmaking himself 10,ok good with
Ringel's appointment. "Lance has noaccess to th,e governor or the governor's office," charges f5irschenbaum,"Even he says so,"Another example' is Manhattan
District Attorney Robert Morgenthau,
Lesbian and gay activists charge thatthe D,A, has botched all the major recent cases involving anti-gay and lesbian violence, including the cars driving into crowds of demonstrators on
the Stonewall anniversary and the attack this summer in carl Schurz Park.
After the sentencing in that most recent case, where even the judge
charged the D,A, with being "derelict
in his duties,· activists demanded ameeting with the D,A,
Morgethau's liaison to the lesbian
and gay community, Katie Doran,boasts that Manhattan is "the only district attorney office in the njition tohave a lesbian/gay liaison,· She describes her role as part educator, partadvocate and notes, "Often I'm easierto reach than an attorney,·But does her presence excuse thefact that not a single one out of Morgentbau's more than 350 assistant district attorneys are openly gay or lesbian? Does her presence excuse thefact that Morgenthau has not used hisleadership role as one of the state's
leading prosecutors to push for passage of the bias-related crimes bill?
Does her presence excuse the mishandling of queer-bashing prosecutions? Given this backdrop, is it any
wonder that she can't get us a meeting with the district attorney himself?
So, what do we want? We certainly don't want these liaison positions eliminated, Although I can easily
imagine a liaison who becomes anapologist to the point where weshould demand her or his resignation,
I agree with GLAAD's Schwartz, whosays, "the goal is to empower the liaison, not to get rid of her,·We empower the liaisons to advocate on our behalf only by advocating for ourselves, We can't allow
these officials to keep ignoring us,Call Cuomo and Morgenthau and letthem know that they can't insulatethemselves from us, Demand thatthey meet with the activists who
have been trying to meet with them,Make them understandthat we
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Living with AIDS,Louise Hay at Town Hall
by Charles BarberD

ressed in Peter Pan green,
Louise Hay sits on thestage of Town Hall, hands
clasped in her lap, swaying to themusic of a boy named Jerry Florence,
who stands nearby singing a song
about "letting go" and "flying away,"
At the song's conclusion, Louise asks
the sell-out crowd: "Do you wanna fly
tonight?" "YEAH!" they scream backdeliriously,
The woman who says, "We needevery disease we have," "All illness is
self-created" and "AIDS is a gift" is
not the person I expected; she is lessglamorous than her photos and not
terribly polished,In fact, there's
somethinggrandmotherly
about
her-thickankles, pigeon toes, aheavy walk, Not slick-no: a bit awkward; the jokes are tepid and she
wobbles in her high heels as if she'drather be at home in her fluffy slippers, I see how she has won the trustof millions: she's much too ordinary
to make it on TV, and her plainspeaking, common sense-filled flat
voice smacks of "down home,"
Tonight her topic is "Change andTransition," but what she launches
into is her standard appealing yet,somehow, slippery routine, Hay, theintroducer tells us, "cured herself ofcancer in 1978," Ah, she is One Of
Us; she, too, is a patientj she has
faced death in the prime of life aswe
do, To add to this impression, Hay
immediately demands that the spotlight on her be turned off and thehouse lights turned up, so that she
can see us, be one with us, The technician can't quite get it right and fumbles for too long, Why, unless the audience was to witness this act ofself-effacement on Hay's part, wasn't
this worked out beforehand? Louise
gets a little testy, Finally, the light

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December 3, 1989change is accomplished, Hay beams
and cries out, "She has spoken! Her
words have power!" (Thunderous applause from audience,)
Hay makes few NYC appearances
and the crowd tonight is hot for her.
The audience is, overwhelmingly,
womenj mostly young, mostly white,
Few references are made to what Hay
calls "the AIDS thing," Still, it seems
appallingly cruel to tell a room of New
Yorkers that "no negative conditions
can remain in our lives when we truly
love ourselves," and Hay's familiar re-?1$<;

joinder that "We always have choices"
is like a sick joke to those of us livingwith AIDS whose lives are utterlyrobbed of choice, But tonight the audience is loud, relaxed and seemingly
comfortable with the Hay mixture of
Ayn Rand-style individualism and Reagan-era capitalism (Hay says, "Our beliefs attract or repel money,")
The litany that follows is numbing: so vague, rambling, self-contradictory and disingenuous that insteadof being shocked by Hay, I am lulled,
and it's hard to stay awake, The
purring voice, the confidential tone,
the constant barrage.of "positive feelings" spread out before us Iike thevast field of poppies that lie between
Dorothy and Oz, "Don't listen to it,"her tapes say, "just play it over andover." HaySpeak can charm with its
recipe of Biblical paraphrase, snake
oil faith-healing, New Age gibberish,
traditional psychotherapy, old-time religion and motherly wisdom, I've long
been curious to see what the guru ofthe "self-healing" movement was allabout (Hay, of course, claims, "l'm noguru," but don't believe it), but I'dnever bought any of the tapes orbooks, I'd cleaned out too many
apartments of dead friends, sweeping
stacks of her expensively
priced,cheaply produced products into thegarbage-friends
who went to theirearly deaths with Hayisms drilled into
their'brains like, "You have the power
to heal yourself," a task which, by
dying, they had failed in doing-a
failure that tormented many of them,
The brightly colored hearts that dance
merrily across ,her books and tapes
had long ago begun to seem sinister,
The most cryptic message of
HaySpeak is its conviction that only.
we can change our lives, This is
Emersonian self-reliance carried to its
lunatic conclusion,in which selftransformation can only be negotiatedwith "the universe" (that thing withwhich Hay is on such familiar terms),
Here she borrows the A,A, "connection to a higher power," while also asserting "you have the power and you
need to know that." The murky connection is possible because "goodcomes to us by the right use of ourconsciousness, "If this seems like an enormous
personal burden, you can flip thechannel on HaySpeak and tune into
an astonishing passivity, which, likeeverything, is insinuated in the unmodulated,insistent
toneof
HaySpeak. Hence, on the one hand,"I am always safe and the universe
takes care of me," and "Everything I
need to know is revealed to me-I
don't need to struggle' for it," while on
the other hand, "You have within you

all that you need to accompiish this[healing]," and "We are each responsiI-irl It. l.T\fRlD
ble for every experience in our lives."
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veneer of self-protection: if you criticize Hay, it's because you don't loveyourself, "Don't be judgemental," saythe Hayites sternly, wagging a finger
in your face,
So the evening goes, repetitious,
meandering, elusive, Finally, during
the question and answer period, I see
Hay's genius most clearly at work:
what she does best is serve as a blank
page onto which desperate, frightened
and often lonely people can write
their life stories--and who of us are
not some of these things these days?
Standing at the microphones placedaround the theater, they tearfully tellthe very real horrors of their lives, Radiating out from Hay in return comesa moist, generalized flow of gracious
truisms, warming the troubled recipient in a haze of glowing homily, Wild
applause follows, and the next suffering soul moves forward,
Since self-sedation, as opposed
to "self-love," is the true project of
HaySpeak, we end the evening with a
meditation, We hold the hands of thestranger next to us, Hay throws herhead back, Jerry sings another eerie
song, we all shout "I love myself,» We
are standing, singing, swaying, Applause and ovations for Hay,
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In Our Own Hands

Guatemala on my Mind~
KAKCHIOUEL (MAYAN) WIDOW AND
HER CHILDREN
Photo: Ellen Shubby Kim Christensen
Those of us who worked on reproductive rights and AIDS know that
this government's policies have a profound impact on women's health here
in the U,S, From the Supreme Court's
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Medicaid eligibility, to laws about
toxic wastes and food irradiation, decisions made in Washington have a
lot to do with how well, or sick, all of
us feel. What's less obvious, but noless real, is the impact of U,S, government international and military policies on women's health, both here
and in other countries,
Minnie Brossman (not her realname), a 30-year-old New York City
dyke,
recently
returnedfrom
Guatemala, where she worked developing rural health materials, Minnie
and I discussed the impact on continuing U,S, military interventionin
Guatemala on women's health conditions there, Although the details are
unique to Guatemala, many of ·Minnie's conclusions about the impact of
U,S, military policy would be applicable to other third world nations in
Latin America and beyond with a history of u.s, intervention,
Guatemala is a country about thesize of Kentucky, with a population of
approximately 8,000,000, About 65
percent of these people are of indigenous, Mayan ancestry, composed of
22 separate ethnic groups and lan-

guages, The majority of this indigenous population lives in the rural
highlands, at unbelievably low standards of living, (For example, 75 percent of the people live in official
poverty, with the majority living in"extreme poverty," Half the population has no access to clean water, and75 percent have no sanitary facilities,
Ninety percent of rural women are illiterate,) The remaining 35 percent of
the people are lighter-skinned Mestizos ("mixed bloods"), who generally
have much higher standards of living,
Although the U,S, media spotlighthas been focused
primarilyon
Nicaragua and EI Salvador, Guatemala
has a larger population and more natural resources than either of thosecountries, It also has more multi-national corporations investing there
than any other country in Central
America, which is not irrelevant for
U,S, policy,
U,S, intervention has a long andbloody history in Guatemala, beginning with a 1954 U,S,-backed coupagainst Jacobo Arbenz, a liberal who
advocated trade unionism and land
reform, Arbenz's U,S,-chosen replace-all over Central America met inment, Colonel castio Armas, was ac- years-old.' I asked her daughter, who
Guatemala City, Their conclusion waswastranslating
for
me
from
her
Mayan
tually flown into Guatemala City tothat women have been the principal
dialect into Spanish, 'How old is yourreplace Arbenz in a V,S, Embassy
victims of V,S, policies in the region,
mother?' 'She is 77-years-old,'sheplane, Since 1954, a series of V,S,As displaced persons, refugees andreplied, The woman had a severely
supported military dictatorships has
widows, women have been left withprolapsed uterus, held up only by theruled the country, brutally crushingout traditional means of economic
pressure of a thick woven belt, drawn
most attempts at popular organizing.
Amnesty International and similar or- skintight, causing heat rashes and dis- ,support. "I visited villages where
women's he!ilth problems had beenganizations estimate that between
comfort to other organs, It was 100 degrees that day,"exacerbated by the murder of their
100,000 and 150,000 Guatemalanshusbands, loss of all forms of income
have been murdered or "disappeared"
This criminal lack of health careand the slaughter of their livestock byby their own government,
In reworkers is not the only impact the rethe army, In one village, a health prosponse to an upsurge of attempts at pression has had on women's health,See IN OUR OWN HANDS on page 50
popular organizing in the late 70s, theIn August 1989, women's groups from
repression has been particularly in- I ,tense since that time, Over 38,000
have been tortured or murdered sincethen, Simply stated, Guatemala is anation of terror, where people whowith Toshi Reagon • AnneHe A. Aguilar
attempt to organize to change theirliving conditions or government policies, are labelled "subversives," and liable to be killed,
The impact of this repression oncommunity
health, and women's
health in particular, is profound, For
one thing, "As promoters of public
well-being, health workers often advocate social change, and for this they
become prime targets for counter-insurgency
campaigns,"[Source:
Guatemala Health Rights Support Project; Report from Women's Delegation, August 1989]. T~e ~resu1't is anacute shortage of health care workers,
especially in the rural highlands:
Quoting Minnie:"We rode 12 hours by jeep, twohours on the back of a truck, thenhiked three and a half hours in ankledeep mud to Santa Cecilia [namechanged]. The village had not seen ahealth promoter since the army devastated the village, burnt down every
home and destroyed all the livestock
in a savage sweep of the area in theearly 80s, It took three days for the
A Benefit Concert forarmy to destroy what dedicated villagers had spent 11 years building
with their hands, When villagers
Saturday, December 16 at 8:00 P.M.
learned that a North American withhealth training had arrived, people
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The Music Men
Mark Chesnut Talks withThe Flirtationsas They Gear Up for Their
Symphony Space Concert"One of us claims to have never seen a porn film""One of us coached high school wrestling"
The Flirtations are sitting around a small table in jQn
Arterton's living room, Their energy is irresistable as they stage
an impromptu rendition of "Blue Moon" for the benefit of asmall tape recorder I placed before them, This is one of theirrehearsal nights, and even though they are all seated and not
on stage, their harmonies, hand motions and one liners seem
flawless, These five men look like they're having a ball being

Above: THFflIRTATIONSPhoto: Gene Bagnato(I. to r.) Aurelio Font, T. J. Myers, Mike Cal/en, Cliff
Townsend, Jon Arterton

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the only "politically correct" gay men's acapella group,
I first saw The Flirtations perform at a rally on West l03rd
Street last year, after there had been an anti-gay attack in theneighborhood, I had heard so much about them and was so
impressed with their vocal talents, I assumed they had been;iround a long time, But The Flirtations were actually formed
less than two years ago, by Jon Arterton and Elliot Pilshaw,
Heavily influenced by women's groups like Sweet Honey in the
Rock and Sister Boom, they wanted to bring that kind of energy
into New York's political scene by performing at rallies anddemonstrations, But as the group was to evolve, The Flirtations
have become much more than they had originally planned,
Assembling a musical group with a political consciencemeant finding people who were on the same wavelength bothmusically and politically, so everyone who called to audition
was questioned heavily about their political, as well as musical, background, What developed was an exciting group witha 50s do-wop name and a sound that ranges from light-hearted covers to strong original pieces dealing with a diverse
range of political and social concerns,"We try to strike a balance between being fun and serious," says Michael Callen, "We'll go from putting towels on
our heads and doing carmen Miranda, and then singing 'My
Buddy' [one of their more serious pieces], It makes a certain
queer sense because the times in which we live are so crazy,""One of us comes from a family where the gays outnumber the straights""One of us was straight until he was 37 years old."

political take, We try to be inclusive,"
Their female following is not limited to lesbians, either,
One straight woman who saw them perform was so enthralledthat she became their manager,"One of us looks fabulous in size 10 heels""One of us actually thinks size matters""And four of them are lying"
The Flirtations' talents have brought them to concerts andbenefits across the United States, including Washington D,C.,
San Francisco, Michigan and Ph,i1adelphia, Their benefit performances have helped ACf UP,Jesse Jackson, Gay Alumni ofPrinceton and the New York AIDS Walk, among others, One
recent appearance in Boston had them sharing the stage with
Cesar Chavez, the president of the United Farm Workers, in apolitical event to benefit the farm workers grape boycott.

This is not to say The Flirtations' serious songs are only
"queer" in nature, Topics vary from AIDS to abortion rights toapartheid to Puerto Rican national identity, "We have endless
The "Flirts" are rehearsing at least twice a week now, in
discussion about how you really form coalitions, how you
addition to rounding out a full month of Saturday night perforreach across different groups and work together," says callen,mances at Eighty Eights, Their attention is now focused on the
who has been an activist for several years, "Somehow we final concert of 1989, at Symphony Space on December 2,
manage to come together with what we bring from our own That performance will open with Michael callen performing
cultures and dump it in the melting pot."
some of his own solo work, with full instrumentation, from his
Very little of their music is original, an aspect Arterton
album Purple Heart The Flirtations are nearing the release ofsays they would like to work on more, but it's hard to find their first album as well, scheduled for early 1990,
time, Each of the songs they perform is subject to scrutiny,"We frequently question doing a song because of its content," Arterton comments, "If somebody in the group has
an objection to something, we either don't do the song or
we change.a lyric to make it work so that everyone is comfortable."
Breaking gay stereotypes, both for straight and gay
audiences, is high on The Flirtations' agenda, One of theways they do this is by emphasizing the diversity of theirbackgrounds, "We have Michael Callen, who is a PWA and
who is also part Native American," points out Aurelio Font,"I am a Latino man, and Clifford is African American, So
the myth that all gay males are white middle class, after
you come see us perform, you know that's not true,"
These gentlemen hate what they call "the myth of thehomogenous homosexual," and respond with a series ofanonymous descriptions highlighting their varied histories,
Some are hilarious, some show the painful side of being
Photo: Ellen 8, Neipris
gay, The disarming candor works extremely well with the FLIRTING WITH POLITICS
wild, campy humor, giving each performance a very sub- The Flirtations performing at a gay and lesbian rally for David Dinkins in September.
stantive, human depth to it.
"One ~f us smuggled AIDS drugs in to this country""One of us was physically abused by his father"
Arterton is quick to point out that they are more than justa gay man's group, and in fact at least half of their regular following is women, "Women who have seen us have seen that
we sing women's music and about those issues," he says,"One of the statements we are making by being an all malegroup is that men do support women in their struggle." Pieces
by artists like Holly Near and Cris Williamson are regular features at each Flirtations performance,"The cultural divide that separates gay men's music fromwomen's music has been historically unbridgeable," adds
Callen, "We sing a lot of women's music, We sing it mostly
because we think it's good music, We try to have a broad"One of us took his boyfriend to the high school
prom""One of us was entrapped, arrested, handcuffed andbeaten by the' police"
The fast track The Flirtations have taken has brought themmuch critical praise, if not financial wealth, But that doesn't
seem to be the biggest issue with them, "It is definitely healing
for all of us," Arterton says, "It is a joy when you are up there
performing openly gay material for a largely gay audience andthey are loving it and being moved by it and crying and laughing and cheering, It's exhil~rating, Every time we perform,
people come up and tell us how we have touched their lives
somehow, and that makes it all worth it." T

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stein:"But '. like boys very much."
Martina:"Your question was out of line."

Enquiring
Minds
Want to
Know
Selling Out
at theVirginia Slims
Championshipby Rachel Lurie36

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artinaNavratilova choked again in the final of a major tournament,
losing last Sunday to her nemesis Steffi Graf in the Virginia Slims
Championship, But this time I'm not so quick to feel sad or disappointed about the lesbian idol's missed opportunity, Thanks to an OutWeek press
pass I got to get real close to the women's tennis scene for the duration of the tournament last week, sitting courtside for the matches, drinking coffee with the cynicalpress pack and asking questions up close and personal at a pre-tournament press
conference, The sadness I feel after all this is not about Martina's waning days ofglory, but about lesbian invisibility in what should be our turf-women's sports-andthe open antagonism and homophobia perpetuated by one of the few pieces ofmainstream culture we belong to,
Of course there was plenty of excitement to be had all week long at Madison
Square Garden as the "richest" and biggest women's-only sporting event in the world
unfolded, For the first time ever, scalper's tickets were in demand for the sold-out
semi-finals on Saturday (where Martina made short order of the hot Spanish upstart,
17-year-old Aranxta Sanchez and Graf struggled against Gabriela Sabatini and a hostile crowd rooting' for Sabatini, last year's winner), The lines to the women's rooms(it seems like there are twice as many men's rooms than women's at the Garden)
were 15 minutes long allowing many an old college teammate to run into another. I
ran into a friend who said "This is a weird crowd: you've got the tennis nerds andthe dykes." Quite a few of those dykes skipped the lines and headed into the men's
rooms unnoticed,
And these dykes, not surprisingly, added our own dimension to the event.
Between matches on Saturday, outgoing Women's International Tennis Association
President Merritt Steierheim received a recognition award as the woman giving it tohim first described how utterly unqualified for the job Steierheim was when he took
it on four years ago, "But he took control of the WITA the way a patriarch takes contal of his family," she groped, completely unaware of how offensive this remark Was
and equally naive as to why the crowd of 18,000 greeted it with -an overwhelming
round of hisses and shouts of "Patriarchy Sucks," What planet do the people running these events live on? It is a fight for women to get any respect in the testosterone arena of sports, and as long as men and ass-kissing women are running theshow, we arep't going to get anywhere, Athlete/advocate Billie Jean King, who in
her entire career won as much money as Steffi Graf made in the last two years, saw
this fight for what it was and took it on, And it got her ostracized among the same
people who stand at center court and give awards out to the "great white fathers" fortheir "advancement" of women's sports. But it also worked, because now Graf, who
seems to have no sense of the history of the game she keeps winning in, rakes innearly $2 million a year.
'
It's, the sponsors of the sport which determine the size of the take, but they also
control rqe image, which is, afterall, what effects those _of us who work real jobs,
Back in 1~81, Avon stopped its sponsorship of women's tennis in the wake of thelesbian "scandals" of Billie Jean King's "palimony" suit (Marilyn Barnett wanted a
pay-off for a relationship that lasted seven years) and Martina's very public relationship with Rita Mae Brown, What's more likely is that Avon realized none of thedykes were using their products, but nevertheless, a clear signal went out to the only
profitable segment of women's sports that any acknowlegement of lesbians in their
midst was bad for business,
No matter that we're the ones who buy the tickets, Virginia Slims is owned byPhilip Morris Companies, number ten on the Fortune 500 list with annual revenues
rivalling the Pentagon budget, so the net from the tournament's 94,000 ticket sales
probably doesn't even cover their corporate lunches for the year,
Bill Goldstein, the tournament administrator and VP for Sports Etc" the promotion company for the tournament, balked at the idea of hitting the lesbian market
directly by advertising in the gay press because "it's too sensitive." "Obviously there
are some women who are lesbians and some who are not," he pointed out to me,"Making the connection [between lesbians and women's tennis] offends the athletes
and it reinforces their;,concerns to affirmatively advertise in a lesbian publication,"
Apparently, at last year's tournament, "people took notic:e" of a group of lesbians

who bought a block of choice seats and,gasp, were given the usual privileges
which come with such a purchase, So
Bill Goldstein, who was thanked profusely by everyone at the tournament
who ever got in front of a microphone,
thinks denial and invisibility is the best
way to handle this "sensitive" issue,
I cccided to go straight to the players themselves with the question: "Doeslesbian interest in women's tennis
offend you?" And I had my chance atthe pre-tournament
press conference
held at a sports bar on November 13th,"Oh, don't get me into this" Steffi Graf
mumbled, after I had to repeat the question, "People should stand up for what
they want" she managed to articulate,"but I like boys very much." Well, we allknow Steffi's depth does not extend
beyond the backcourt, so I can't say I
was too surprised,
Then it was Martina's turn, but thestaffperson standing guard was ready forme this time and shouted out "time's up"
as soon as I asked my question, "I'm soglad I don't have to answer that," Martina said out loud to herself, "It's notabout you, it's about the sport" I retorted, "It's not about the sport" she snarled,
Now, I know about Martina's struggles. with being out all these years as acelebrity, and how she feared being
publicly identified as a lesbian would
threaten her right to citizenship in the
U,S, And it's exactly her willingness tostand up to all that which h;lS made her
a lesbian hero, So why should she stopnow? When I cornered her to apologize
for seemingly putting her on the spot
she said "Your question was out of line."
But what's out of line is the denialof the lesbian force in women's sports,
among both athletes and fans, No, wehaven't come a long way baby, because
every time we agree that our lesbianidentity is something to keep hidden or
avoid talking about, we are chippingaway at our own survival, allowing our
oppressors to keep us locked in a closet
of shame, And Martina Navratilova did
thank her lover Judy Nelson in her postmatch speech (calling her "my friend"),This struggle is not about anyone athlete taking a stand, although every act todo so should be applauded
as thecourageous move it is, The place weneed to be is where this information
can't be used against us, where it isn't
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It was Christmas Day. We were In 'Vegas and mom was getting married again. "How, you kids be
good. And don't play the slotsl" she said before heading off to the chapel where Joan Collins once got
hitched. Here we were, my sister Becky and Ii a slx-year-old girl and a seven-year-old boy bored todeath ever since we'd come to this flashy town where It's really Christmas every day-but only If you're
twenty-one and can prove It.
Mom left us a new game to play, complete with curiously-shaped triangular game cards. It had all
started so innocently. Becky was supposed to answer the questions as If she were a boy. I was supposed to make-believe I was a girl. Fine.
But the game was mind-boggling and so competitive. We started sweating and getting really hot.
Then, things got crazy. I began ripping my clothes off and ran for the bathroom where mom's make-up
was. I soon was painting my face, laughing hideously as those neon and flashing lights from outside themotel kept casting strange and colorful shadows on my countenance. Becky was on the bed, wearing
my underwear, giving herself a tattoo on her chest with one hand and Chugging a beer with the other. I
put on her little pink dress.
That mad night went on and on and on, just as everything In 'Vegas does, until Mom opened thedoor with a look of horror on her face as Becky and I said, "Merry Chrlstmasl"
Today, Becky drives a tractor trail or back and forth down Interstate 49 from Reno to Carson City,
haulin' hay for the rodeo with her friend Ruth. And me? I work as a cocktail waitress over at the Glitter
Gultch casino on the Strip. And on the weekends I perform as Miss Christine down at Gypsy's on Sahara
Road.
This year, give the gift that will challenge the kids: Gender Bender. A game Jesse Helms willundoubtedly try to ban from toy and department stores throughout the United States this Jolly season.
-M.S.

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For many of us the scenario has been the same: We're walking down the street and a bus zooms by. We
glance quickly at what we think Is a Benetton ad on the side of the bus, but on second look we see dykes andfags kissing under the words, "Kissing Doesn't Kill: Greed and Indifference Do." As the bus zips away, we standthere with big smiles on our faces while people all around us are a bit stunned and perhaps a little unnerved atwhat they think they just saw.
In case It hasn't happened to you, you can see the work by the AIDS activist art collective, Gran 'Fury,
In the window of the Whitney Museum (above) at Madison Avenue and 75th Street. Or, keep waiting at thosebusy Intersections and maybe you'll be one of the lucky ones who will see one of the 40 buses throughout thefive boroughs on which Gran Fury has bought space.
-M.S.

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Dear Brad:
A few weeks ago some friends
and I went out for Chinese food after
seeingCall Me Madamat theBiograph, Kenny had all of us doubled up with his dead-on impressionof Merman as an ACT UP facilitator
and we were having a swell time until
the fortune cookies arrived, My fortune read, "A lost love will return toyou· and I felt. all the blood drainfrom my face, The only person I
could think of to whom that description might apply was that wretchedweasel, Marshall-the devil incarnate
only meaner-bµt the last I'd heard of
him he'd gone to california where I'dalways hoped he'd been shot execution-style by somebody with lessrespect for the law and more respectfor himself than I had, My friends told
me it was silly to be so unnerved by acookie, After all, Kenny's fortune said,"Your cheerful outlook sees you
through difficult situations," which
was clearly an outright falsehood,
Why, everybody remembered how
violently Kenny had behaved when
he couldn't get a ticket to Follies inConcert. Even so, I couldn't help feeling somehow chilly,
Two days later, at the 14th Street

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MV
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BRADLEYBALL
Station, I was just about to board the
uptown #1 when I saw Marshall getting into the adjoining car, I let thetrain leave without me and took thenext one but as we pulled out of thestation I realized that Marshall was sitting right next to me, pretending to
be engrossed in the Christian Science
Monitor, I sat quite still, hoping hewouldn't notice me (God knows, herarely did when we lived together),and I got off at 18th Street andgrabbed a taxi. When I went into themarket around the corner from where
I live, Marshall was selecting artichoke hearts from the salad bar and I
turned around and ran home, In theelevator, one of my neighbors, Doug,
asked if I'd met the new tenant who'djust moved into the apartment next tomine, I said I wasn't aware of any
new tenant and Doug said it wassome guy with the most piercing eyes
he'd ever seen in his life, I doublelocked my front door and put up thepolice bar but all night long I could
faintly hear the "Duet of the Cranes'from Mahogany coming through thewalls, Even the cats seemed unusually
restless and temperamental. At fouram the phone rang and nobody was
there when I answered,

The next morning when I left thebuilding I spotted Marshall driving thestreetcleaner down the alternate sideof the street and I went back insideand called in sick to work. I haven't
gone out since, Every night the telephone rings and every night no one isthere and every night, as soon as I
hang up, I hear the "Duet of the
Cranes' again, This morning mysupervisor called and said if I don't
show up for work tomorrow I can forget about showing up ever again, I've
run out of food and the cats a'ren't
particularly pleased but I just knowthat the minute I set foot outside mydoor Marshall will be there, ready toruin my life again, Is there some kindof exorcist or something I can use to
make him go away once and for all?
-Cornered
Dear Cornered:I know almost exactly what
you're experiencing, only worse! I
used to have this roommate whowent to F,J.T, and he honestly
believed that Mahogany was the storyof his life, Jesus, he used to play thathorrible Diana Ross song over andover again while he organized the. closet and rotated his shoe trees andgenerally plotted to make my life
insufferable, Finally I snapped andtold him precisely where he wasgoing to and it certainly wouldn't be
to Rome to be kept by Jean-Pierre
Aumont. He lashed back, saying it
wasn't likely that r d ever be required
to smuggle a hatful of money into
Berlin either, as though that would
put me in my place, but, let me tellyou, it will be a mighty cold day inhell when some dizzy little ragpicker
gets the best of me, Late one night I
took a pair of manicure scissors andun hemmed all of his trouser cuffs-allof them, Then he knew I meant business, And thats how one deals with atroublesome man, T

By Michelangelo Signorlle
Last week

wetalkedabout

Vanity Fair and its insidious, inherent

form of homophobia,
Since thenthere's been considerable discussion
and confusion among readers as towhy a magazine such as Vanity Fair,
where so many gay men work insenior editorial positions, could be so
obviously and blatantly homophobic
and have such an exclusionary policy regarding
uncloseted gays on its
pages-andwhy
itwould help disguise
those who are in thecloset by writing about
th(!m
being
some
woman's"boy toy,",That answer seems tolie in two areas: l)the
shar:nelessness
withwhich some people per"form their jobs-sellingout their own principles-so as not to cause any trouble'
as they move UP UP UP; 2)the selfserving manner of its megalomaniacin-chief, Tina Brown, who appears
only to hire people-andseems toonly write about people-who
fulfillzillion parties every night where she'dscream, rant, rave and get her name inevery gossip column the next day,
The
woman
is
a
walkingnightmare-loud,shrill, obnoxious
and suicide inducing, And in the New
York office, staffers were ready to dojust that from her constant whining,
complaining
and/or bragging, But
suddenly, just as co-workers wereready to split at the seams, word camefrom above: In the newly createdposition of "reporter," Angela wasbeing shipped out to L.A" a place
where there's lots of room and where
whining is de riguer,
Angela, you see, is a special person, A special, little, spoiled, rich girl.
Janklow's dad, of course, is literary superagent Mort Janklow, This is a
man most of the gnawing-c1awingclimbing-type writers would have an
arm chopped off for if it meant he'dphotographer Annie Leibovitz on two
pages (in a photo she took herself),
We are, also given a two page spreadof the editors of "the top 21" of the
2,500 magazines launched in the 80s,
And yet, what was VF's criteria forchoosing the "top 21" magazines? It
couldn't have been sales, since at least
half of these rags are bombs, one(Wigwag) just hit the stands as thephoto was taken and another (Egg)hasn't even come out yet! So is it the"top 21"- that Tina Brown decided
were being published or edited by the"top 21" friends of hers? Well, what I
see in this group are editors of other
Conde Nast publications including
Brown's own husband Harold Evans(Traveler),the editor of friend'
Malcolm Forbes' not-yet-out Egg andassorted other "discreet" types whoplay by the rules, and various otherpeople who are in positions to serve
Tina Brown and Vanity

Vanity Fair's Tina Brown

Fair,

Of course we've only tolook back a couple ofmonths to Newsday to learn
how things operate up at
the hallowed halls of VF.
Back when socialite Gayfryd
Steinberg had her nauseating million dollar party out
on Long Island, VF snappedlots of photos, According to
Newsday, Tina had Gayfryd
come in and choose whichphotos would be used for
VFs "Vanities" section. Full photo
represent
them, Certainly,VFs
approval. That's a way of insuring thatwhirling,
swirling,
desperatelydear, dear, Lady Big Bucks Steinberg
upwardly-mobile editors and writers
are not immune to this affliction and wouldn't be offended by any unflatterwould simply love to have good old ing photos or photos of the "wrong~
Mort represent them, of course Mort people and would actually LOVETINA FOREVER.Aw, how nice,could do much more for Tina andThis is, as we all know, not prop-,company than be their agent, He's
er journalism,
But who ever said
powerful and has bucks,
p,S,: Mortypoo, daddy of VFs L,A, Vanity Fair had, to stick to journalistic
ethics? It is a glamour magaZine, right?
"reporter," is also one of the people
profiled, heralded and revered in liv- A publication devoted ,to light, fun
ing color on two pages in the maga- , stuff, Well see, that's fine, And I'dactually buy it. Except, whenever wezine's Hall of Fame December issue,
But of course, the Hall of Fame accuse VF of ~ot taking a stand(Shame?) issue, which proposes to against a homophobe who is quoted
saying something horrific in the publidocument the people who "epitomized the electric power of the Media cation, they actually then go the otherway and give the old "we're just
Decade" is filled with <f lot of the
Vanity Fair "in crowd," In true media
reporting it" routine, thereby saying
whore fashion, VF put its own staff,
See GOSSIP WATCH on page 57

appears only to hirepeople~andseems only towrite about people-who
fulfill certain purposes.

certain p~rposes,

Angela Janklow
is VFs "LosAngeles reporter," A curious job title
since no one else at VF is called a"reporter," And an even more curious
title since VF already has a Los
Angeles bureau manager and two Los
Angeles editors, What does Angela
Janklow do? Not much, from what I
can see, Once every couple of months
this full-time paid staff "reporter" hassome little hundred word or so, terribly-written blurb in the "Fanfair" section, She used to work in the New
York office and used to go out to a

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Social Terrorism

COME AND GET IT
Endive at Mars

Photos by Erich Conrad

OH YOU PRETTYTHING
Ethel Eichelberger at the Pyramid

IFS, ANDS OR BUTTS
UFO'S at Love Machine

BUSTING OUT
Marta at Boy Bar

COSMIC THANGDIRTYDISH

Andie Wyland at Boy Bar

Hollywood gosslplst Janet Charleton at the Ritz Carlton

SUCKING ON A MINT? OR JUST HAPPY TO SEE ME?
Carmellta of Carmellta's at Boys + Boys

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YOUR PLACE OR MINE
Jimmy at Boy Bar

THURSDAYS
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The Comedy of Judy Sloane
and'
The Stonewall Chorale

Reviews of male erotica along withinterviews behind the scenes with film
stars

The legendary bodies continue with Reggie Graham
Clips from One Hot Day, Muscle Up, and
Hot Rods

Sybil Bruncheon hosts a panel
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Frankie Loves Johnny An original
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Sybil goes in the "wayback"

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machineFilm

Double Dou,bleToil and Trouble

by Robert Hiiferty

Every so often a film comesalong that is so finely composed and whose cinematography(by which I meancinematic thinking) is so brilliant that
it is impossible to ignore and pass off
as common. Martin Donovan has created such a film in Apartment Zero,
Although Donovan has worked as
Visconti's assistant on Ludwig andConversation Piece, and has fabricateda kaleidoscopic world of cinematic references, his compelling, bizarre anddarkly hilarious ftIm shares a lot morein common with a Hitchcock thriller
than any other kind of film,
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Buenos Aires apartment (which is really numbered ten, with the zero highlighted) of Adrian 'leDuc (Colin Firth),
cinephilic loner and revival houseowner, The opening scene shows him
viewing the last scene of Welles' Touchof Evil from the projection booth of histheater, As the lights go up, he sees anempty theater save for two women,
Adrian is having a dry season, so heplaces an ad in the newspaper for aroommate to help pay the rent. Thisnaturally goes against the grain of his
being, since he (like Psychds Norman
Bates) is pathologically protective of
his privacy, He detests his colorful,inquisitive neighbors, not wishing tobecome part of "one, big ugly happy
family," and rejects people who do notknow who Geraldine Page is, His
apartment is wall-to-wall with cinema
idols ranging from Montgomery Clift toAnna Magnani, his silent companions,
Adrian conducts his roommate
search more like an audition than aninterview, and finally, after going

through a few Almodovarian duds, inan unforgettablelove-at-first-sight
moment, discovers his future boarder,Jack carney (Hart Bochner}-a namewhich sinisterly intimates "carnage" and"Jack the Ripper"-who is every bit ascinegenic as James Dean, The privilegesof beauty are immense, so Jack, who
mistakes Clift for Brando, likes television) and smokes (the ad specifically
calls for a non-smoker)-otherwise cardinal sins by Adrian's harsh standarcIs-passes
the screen test. He is
invited to partake in the film which is
Adrian's life, a life full of loneliness,repressed desires and secrets, What
Adrian doesn't know, but perhaps
desires, is that Jack is also extending an
invitation into his own film, likewise
full of loneliness and secrets, In thiscase, however, no screen safely separates the two, and the consequences
are intimately murderous,
The murderous
possibility
isannounced early in the film as a radio
broadcast reports on a series of brutal
killings occurring all over Buenos
Aires, a melting-pot city where it takes
two to tango, That Jack is this killer isvirtually known to us from the start:
this film is not a whodunit. Rather it isabout the relationship between twomen, the unfolding of Adrian's discovery of Jack's other (if not "true") identity, What is fascinating about Jack's
unmasking is how the violence of thisrevelation also becomes Adrian's confrontation with his own identity, andits ultimate dissolution,
Donovan accomplishes this byestablishing Jack as a "double" (he's a
Gemini afterall) and reinforces thisidea, with its suggestion of duplicity
and complicity, by employing a wealthof narrative and cinematic strategies,'
For example, the first two murdersequences seem more like Adrian's
dream, than acts presumably committed by Jack in the real world, Perhaps
the single most striking episode iswhen Adrian confronts Jack after discovering that he lied about his place of
employment. When Adrian asks theterrifying question "Who are you?" Jack
replies, "I'm whatever you want me tobe," Donovan shoots this scene as a
See APARTMENT ZERO on page 50

Film

Ride The High Country

by Peter BowenI

the film begins with Bob being
rushed away in an ambulanceDrugstore Cowboy reviews the history of Bob's gang using image andvoice overs, The gang-which
includes Bob's wife, Dianne (Kelly
Lynch), his friend, Rick Qames Le
Gros) and Rick's rather lost girlfriend,
Nadine (Heather Graham)-works
for their pleasures by robbing various drugstores in the Portland area,
As Bob later logically explains tomembers of his methadone support
group: "If you want money, you go

ist unlikely that thecurrent"War onDrugs· will leave aslegacy a monumenttothe unknown addict. In
fact, as with abortion andlesbian/gay ,rights-conflicts where the rights ofindi\::iduals to control
their own bodies andpleasures are continuallyquestioned-thepresent
hysteria over drugs rarely
repres'ents
drug users,with any depth, nor does
it examine the specificand individual reasons for
drug usage, In fact, what
is most often dropped
from the drug debate is
the most obvious motive
for using drugs, that is,
the pleasure they produce, Forgoing the by
now tedious and banalanti-drug rhetoric, Gus
Van Sant's remarkablefilm, Drugstore Cowboy,
evokes this very questionof pleasure both narratively and stylistically, As
BobHughes(Matt HUNK~JUNKIE
Dillon), the leader of a Matt D.llon as Bob Hughes
gang of outlaw druggies emphaticallyto a bank, If you want drugs, you go
blurts out to a tired social worker,
to a drugstore,""Look, I'm a junkie, I like drugs, I like
LogiC, however, has little to do
the whole lifestyle,·
with the actual rules and superstitions
Structured as a long flashbackwhich guide the gang's operations

and the film's narrative, The gang's
departure from Portland is less theresult of intense police scrutiny, than
it is a fear of ihe supposedhex
evoked by Nadine bringing up the
subject of dogs, And transgressior) of
the ultimate 'taboo, placing a hat on abed, seems to bring forth not only
Nadine's overdose death and a convention of state patrolmen to theirmotel, but Bob's decision to get on
methadone and find a job,
In going "straight," however, Bob
in no way denounces drug usage; hehas simply chosen-at least~'.
for the moment-a
differ~ ~ l)) en. "ality. OpernHng n".'. ther as an ethnographic~.. film revealing the secrets of•.. some hidden sub-culture,
nor as a polemic for oragainst drugs, Drugstore
Cowboy imagines the very
real dangers and pleasures;r..volved in drug usage,The
sympathetic,,J;; depiction of lives rarely
represented
is no newenterprisefor Gus VanSant, whose first feature,
Malo Noche, was a stunning black and white lovestory between two men, a
Mexican immigrant and askid-row clerk, Beyond
being directed by an openly gay director and casting
the ultimate queer junkie,
William'S,
Burroughs,
Drugstore Cowboy stylistically quotes the homoerotic style of Warhol and
Morrissey's early films (i.e,Flesh, Trash, Heat), But
then the relation between
representing
drugs andsexuality is no coincidence,since the same right-wing
forces stirring up drug hysteria also
incite homophobia,
In response,
Drugstore Cowboy offers a deeply
moving ~nd profoundly beautiful filmthat says, "just say know!" T

f))

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BooksRequired Reading
duced remarkably different forms ofsexual expression,and drawing a
sharp distinction between same-sex
erotic attraction and a "gay. cultural
identity, If there is any clear conclusion that emerges from these pages
about the "essential" aspect of innate
human sexuality, it is that we are all
essentially bisexual, and that societies
which recognize that fact seem amazby Gabriel RoteUo
ingly able to produce ,bisexual humanbeings, In that sense, a disquietingconclusion
many may draw from
Hidden is that we are all, straight andvery so often a book is pubgay, the involuntary sexual viclished which permatims of a late 19th century psynently
alters thechologicalerror, If so, theway its readers look at theultimate goal of gay liberationworld, Hidden From History ,may be to abolish both homois such a book, A collection ofand heterosexuality and to tear
29 essays on the history ofdown the artificial Berlin Wallsame-sex love by many of thethat separates us from our true
top cultural historians of sexubisexual natures,
ality writing in English, it is an
Yet John Boswell's warneye-opening work of reclamaing that, "If the categories ...
tion which instantly becomes'gay/straight' are the inventions
the standard classic againstof particular societies rather
which future histories
ofhomosexualtiy will be judged,
than real aspects of the human
psyche, there is no gay histoIt's not an exaggeration to say
ry,. seems equally untrue, It's
that henceforth no educatedclear that even within the condiscussion of homosexuality
text of bisexuality, most people
will be possible without athave a primary attraction toleast a cursory knowledge of
one or the other sex, Paulthe issues raised in this book,
Gordon Schalow's essay about
If there ever were a "mustmale love in early modern
read" for gays and lesbians
seeking both historical andJapan, for example, shows thateven when society encourages
culturalself-awareness,
Duberman,Vicinusandbisexuality many nonethelesschoose to reject relations with
Chauncey's book is it.
one of the sexes, While the
The very fact that such
cultural forms that "gayness·essays have, by 1989, come tohave taken on in the modern
be written at all is one of the /decade's most hopeful signs of gay believe that gays and lesbians have West may be new, the impulses
progress, For centuries the cultural
always existed in history, and the which gave rise to homosexuality
legacy of same-sex eroticism was sup- "constructionists," who believe that seem universal, and many in the past,pressed, ignored and erased, and the sexuality is socially constructed and and presumably in a bisexual future,
modern gay movement was born in that, as David M, Halperin bluntly would nonethelesschoose to bean historical dark age lit by dim mem- .states, "Before 1892 there was no exclusively gay,ories of ancient Greece or renaissance .homosexuality,
only sexual inverOne of most refreshing aspects
italy, The appearance of works such sion," Many of the subsequent essays of this study is the amount of space
tend to support his startling thesis, given to lesbian history, Gay maleas Jonathan Katz's Gay American
showing how different societies proHistory in 1977 and John Boswell's
Saa REQUIRED READING on page 49
Christianity, Social Tolerance andHomosexuality in 1980 created a new
field of legitimate historiography,
albeit a male dominated one, In asense, Hidden From History marks
the end of the first phase of that new
discipline, giving lesbian inquiries anequal footing with those of gay males,and pointing the way for future historians of homosexuality,
In what will undoubtedly
become its most hotly debated section, Hidden begins with a debate
between the "essential ists," who

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BooksLulu in Hollywood
autobiography, Naked on my Goat,and essays that never made it into
print (among them a pre-Mommie
Dearest piece on Joan Crawford that
Macmillan wouldn't touch: "She is like
biting into a delectable piece of wedding cake and hitting the brass ring"),
The result is thorough, documented
and tangible,
Even better, Paris does Brooks
two services that propel his book wellpast for-addicts-only status, Paris issavvy enough to grasp that half of the

Brooks's subsequent
descent into
obscurity all the, more immediate: As
the backgroundcongeals
intoanonymity, we sense both the weightof loss and Brooks' defiant reemergence as a jiterary voice of power andprecision,
by Otis Stuart
Paris' wisest choice is his deference to Brooks' own voice, We hear
all the qualities, beginning with thesuccinctnessthat was hers as 14:"What females don't admire the con
man stuffi" The portrait that emerges'Whata swaggering,
tough little slut
is a woman who saw what she
she was,"saw, said it and paid the price, Her-LouiseBrooks on Shirley
hyperbolic conclusions may be
Templeopen to question, Paris, for example, goes a long way to dispel
Louise Brooks, actress, author
Brooks' most problematic theory
and self-confessed pain in the ass,
about 20s Hollywood, that the prowas the stuff of which addicts are
ducers drove Lillian Gish out in a
made, The story, from celebrity tofierce statement of supremacy
oblivion and back again, is potent,(although Gish herself tells Paris, "I
all eXtremity and enigma, During
always wondered where she washer performance heyday in the 20s,
and how she knew all those
Brooks' impact was apparently
things"),instantaneous,
Jobs came to
But Paris also lets Brooks'
ber-Ziegfeld,
Paramount,thelarger statements
about thelot-and G,W, Pabst, the director
human condition, her own andwho brought Brooks to icon status
otherwise, speak for themselves,
as Lulu in Pandord s Box, gave her
This was, after all, a woman forthe part without even having met
whom behavior was belief, leadher, The fall was as precipitous anding inevitably to conflict: Brooks'
absolute, Brooks died in poverty
closest female friends were (priand isolation in 1985, But for the
marily) lesbian, but her addiction
devoted cult that ha.> grown up
to men dominated her life; thearound Brooks, her Lulu and herhedonistic streak firing her acting
collections' of essays Lulu in
and writing climaxed in self-susHollywood, ~he remains an on-thetained isolation, Brooks' story is
Cinderella rewritten for the apocspot conversio.l, gen~rally geared LOUSE BROOKS CIRCA 1928
either to them there eyes-her'
Photo' ERR' halxpse, and Paris and Brooks tell
, , , Ie ee tt straig h"t, tWists inC Iµde,d Th e
most famous admirer, Kenneth
Tynan,
grew
pUi"ple on the
Brooks mythology is the setting, andhope they propose is as paradoxical,
subject-or the laser aim of her prose,
he gives it to us up-close and in theand addicting,as the voice of aBarry Paris, author of the newround, We go from Brooks' frigidly
silent actress:"And so I havebiography Louise Brooks, 1san addict,pioneer childhoodin Cherryvale,remained, in cruel pursuit of truthand his book is the one the faithful
Kansas (as playmate to another starand excellence, an inhumane execuhave been waiting for, The research is
to-be, Vivian Vance), to Denishawn
tioner of the bogus, an abomination
exhaustive, the details scrupulously
on tour to the 20s New York of rich
to all but those few people who
attended, and all enhanced by accessmen and big money, then on tohave overc()me their aversion toto Brooks' unpublishedwriting,silent-screen Hollywood and Weimar
truth in order to free whatever is
including her diaries, an incinerated
Berlin, The wealth of detail makes
good in ,them," T

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Music

Women Who Sweat

LOVELY LADIESAnd All Because the Lady Loves

by Madam XW

hat is this "women's
music" thing thaf lesbians are supposed
to love? How is it.that among all the lesbians I know
there isn't a single one who likes it?
What's wrong with this picture?
I've always felt utterly alienated by
the mere concept of women's music,
because it's supposed to concern me,
but it merely raises feelings of frustration, anger and boredom, This concept,
as represented by Olivia (hello, thousand dollar cruise!) or Redwood, isconservative both musically (anotheracoustic guitar and I join the Butthole
Surfers fan club) and, to a certain
extent, politically, Sure, it's "womanidentified," but it's like preaching to theconverted, Nothing here that we, les-48

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bians, don't want to hear, It's the auralequivalent of comfort food, Even when
Holly Near gets sort of angry andattacks the American politics in Central
America, she does it in the self-pitying
terms that the mainstream has come to
expect from "politically correct"
women, Needless to say, the mainstream doesn't give a shit anyway, andour voice gets silenced once again, Get
your guitar out, talk about meaningful
relationships and everybody's cliches
about women will be comforted, But"women's music" denies women/lesbians the right to be furious, to roll on
the floor and sweat. It is alienating forsome of us because it excludes all theother women who play music andrefuse to play by the rules, musical andotherwise, It is alienating because it
pretends to represent the woman's
voice, as if there was such a thing as a
unified female sensibility,
Where are the dykes when Tobi

Vail, from Seattle's
Go-Team, gets into arock 'n roll frenzyand jumps all around
the
stage
while
banging on her guitar? Where are you
when Cosey Fanni
Tutti, from England's
Chris and Cosey,
whispers
tales ofpower and sexuality
at the Pyramid Club?
How dare you missNorth
Carolina's
Black Girls when
they sing "A Visit to
the Behaviorist" to asmall but captive
audience? These women turn the malerock
conventions
upside down, theysubvert them fromwithin, and going to
see them in concert
Photo: Antior listening to theirrecords is also a way
to assert our desire for them, (Seeing
Siouxsie years ago was exhilarating; I
wanted her, I was damn proud of it.)If they're lesbians, fine, and if they'reout, great. If they are straight, so
what? They screw the conventions. that define
women as passive
groupies, manipulated
singers or
innocuous folkie types,
Kit, a four piece band fromEngland, is fronted by Lin Sangster
and Michelle Brown, open lesbians
who write all the band's material. "I
Love Her Like Mad," on their latest
import EP Cheatin' My Heart (PlayHard, import), is simply one of themost exhilarating
love songs I've
heard in a long time, and it helpedme through many night rides on the
Jersey Turnpike, Sangster's voice
burns its way right through you,
whooping and swirling, shivering andpassionate, At times she sounds like
Miaow's Cath Carroll, another dyke

fronting an otherwise male band, It's
kind of like early Smiths' tunes, ormaybe Throwing Muses, but lessdeliberately "weird," Plain wonderful,plain powerful, Kit is part of the
British alternative music scene, and is
acknowledged
as a great band inmusic journals, This strategy of being
just there, as lesbians, whether you
like it or not, can be efficient.
Nicky Rushton
and RachelCollins, who together are And All
Because The Lady Loves.., (AABTLL),
rely on acoustic guitars, light percussions and an occasionalcello tounwrap their melancholic tales oftreachery and deception. In a veinsimilar to Elvis Costello's or Billy
Bragg's, AABTLL also comments bitterly on the state of Thatcher's
England, Gender remains neutral all
throughout their debut Anything But
A Soft Centre.., (Paint it Red, import),
except on "I Never Believed": 7berds
this girVin the pub on the phone/she
kissed me/she touched me/while wewere alone ..,] want to catch her eye!]want to walk her home/] wantromantic songs/] want to be with heralone, Of course a (male) reviewer
said this was written from the man's
point of,view, but allow us to thinkotherwise.
From Vancouver, Canada, but onan American label, comes Mecca

REQUIRED READING from page 46
Normal, which is David Lester on
historians
frequently
begin theirelectric guitar and Jean Smith onbooks with the disclaimer that so
vocals. With bare yet intense arrangelittle documentationon lesbianism
ments, their LP Calico Kills the Cat(K) manages to be unsettling. A REAL- exists that they are forced to focus
almost exclusively on gay male hisLY pissed off Michelle Shocked if you
tory, The editors here were not sowill, In vignette-like songs, we get tocomplacent, Many of these essays
know people like Joelle, who throws
give equal time ~o male and femalea frying pan on the wall ("Joel Ie"),
experiences,
and a third of them
Richard, who "talks instead of thinkdeal exclusively
with women.
ing" and doesn't like unions or aborLesbianis~in Medieval Europe,tion ("Richard") and Kelly Green, whoamongst Native American cultures,shoves a knife in her boyfriend's
body ("12 Murders"). Violent? Dirty? in the expatriate Paris of the 20s,
and in early 20th century American
Yes, and a woman writes it and sings
culture are just some of the previit. ] ignore the comments that ] proously invisible areas illuminatedvoleelby being/not male/Smile baby,
here. There is a fascinating study ofI've never read anything about
women who passed as men in 19th
these people in any lesbian/feministand early 20th century America, andjournals, Why? It's high time we startanother about the effect of the New
seriQusly discussing the issues raised
Woman movement on modern lesby 'women playing rock, instead of
bianism, Thanks to these essays it isdismissing them as evolving in a
now possible both to trace the outmale-defined genre, And it's high timelines of a lesbian historiography
we. re-define the concept of "women's
and to show that enough sourcemusic," which has played a crucial
historical and political role, but is material does exist to build a solid
body of lesbian history, Henceforth
now in greatneedof being
no author who ignores lesbian
reasse~d. T
aspectsof gay history will go
Paint it Red, 13 North Terrace,
Claremont Rd" Newcastle- Upon-Tyne, unchallenged.
Among these illuminating essays
NE4AD England,
there is at least one which seems out
K, Box 7154, Olympia, WA 98507,
Play Hard, 48 Princess St" . of place, Robert Padgug's rambling, analysis of homosexuality stands out
Manchester; M16HR, England,as an unusually muddled attempt toaccomodate reality into the preconceptions of Marxism, It's odd that theeditors felt compelled
to offer a
Marxist critique in a book which otherwise questions so much discreditedlate 19th century philisophical detritus, More interesting by far is Simon
KarJinsky's revisioqist look at" theimpact of the Bolshevik revolution on
homosexuality in Russia, challenging
bur long-held view that the revolution liberated gays prior to the adventof Stalin,Suffice to say that Hidden From
History offers more to ponder, argue
over and meditate on than any bookon homosexual history yet published.
A lesbian and gay public eager toestablish the parameters of a cultural
heritage, or to argue over whether
such a heritage even exists, will beoccupied with this fascinating bookfor some time to come, T

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ZERO from page 44

cials as a "success story"j a "model"
for "low-intensity
warfare" to becopied in Central America and elsewhere,
In 1977, 1n response to reports ofthese and similar human rights violations, President carter technically halted all arms sales to the Guatemalan
S hgovernme n,t However, th e V "as'd t blI fu
I
con t lOue 0 atant y nne arms,
'I'
d '
d
h'
I
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ml Itary a vIce an tec Olca ass IStancetohh ththe Guatemala government't roug,e govern~ents of Argenttna" ChIle, Israel, TaIwan and South
Afflca, Congress has suspended, thearms embargo and 20,000 M-16 nfles
are now in the hands of the
Guatemalan troops, There were 90
political assassinations in the monthof September 1989 alone,
Virtual silence by the V,S, press,
and public ignorance of the situation,
have allowed these atrocities to continue, For further information, Minniesuggeststhat you contact
theGuatemalan Health Rights Support
Project. "The Health Project wasformed in 1985 to educate people inthe V,S, about the health situation in
IN OUR OWN HANDS from page 33
Guatemala, and to raise funds formoter had counted over 600 widows community-based health promotion
'
h
d'
"C,
'h
Ih
among th, e h, am I,e ts m t e surroun mg training, locusmg on pnmary ea t 'area," MlOOlesaId, ,care, women's health care and tradlIn a country whIch has never se- tional (Mayan) health care," The Proriously included women in its educa- ject can be reached at 1747 Connectitio~al or development plan~, thi~ ,loss cut Avenue NW, Washington DC
of mco~e a,nd resources IS cfltt~alj 20009, (202) 332-7678, T
malnutntlon ISnow the fourth leadmg
cause of death among Guatemalan"from page 23
Later Hernandez became a leaderof the Movimiento de Liberacion
Nacional
Puertorriqueno(MIN),
where he successfully advocated theinclusion in that gr?up's program of
the first condemnatton of homophobia by any Latin American liberation
organization, The program, adoptedh
at t e MIN's First Congress in 1987,'"
Included a lengthy analYSISof sexualtd't',ty, ecrYlOg any res fictIons
on I't s
free, non-exp IolIve't''Th
expreSSIon,eprogram also denounced AIDS discrimination and urged concrete support for people with AIDS (PWAs),
recognizing the epidemic as a growing Puerto Rican community problem,
Last year, he spearheadedtheMIN's efforts to launch an independentista community center in EI Barrio, But in December, three months
before the center opened, Hernandez
was diagnosed with AIDS, As hishealth permitted, he continued speaking publicly, identifying himself as agay PWA, urging other PWAs to fightfor their lives and castigating the V,S,
government's genocidal AIDS policies,
After many weeks of harrowing andpainful hospitalizations,
he diedpeacefully at home surrounded byfamily and friends, He is survived byh'IS parents SIX' b rot h ers f'Ive sIsters
,
d
h'
I
'I
0"
an
IS over, van telza,
At h'IS me mona, I servIce,'
a tten d e dby over 100 people including prominent independentistas, MIN First Secretary Jose Lopez gave the eulogy:"If Bartolo taught us something, itis that he knew how to struggle forwomen. STD .'md HIV infeotion m'e>
are also flSlOg rapIdly, as more
women a<e economically fm<ed in'osex work for the army to support
themselves and their children,
Another particularly horrible aspect of the repression has been thewidespreadrape of widows andwomen in general by the military, As
the Central American women's conference pointed out, this sexual terrorism has been crucial in maintaining
the general state of terror and repression throughout the country, This useof rape and sexual victimization as'bgovernment
po IICY ecomes even",more fnghtenlOg
when we realtze that,
Guatemala IS often seen by V,S, offi-

the homeland, love his family, hismother and all of his people, evenwhen they ,"<icized and didn' und,,·stand him .. ,I want to ask comrade
Bartolo to forgive us, the Puerto Rican
people,and criticize
ourselvesbecause for many years our struggle
rejected him even though he wanted
to be a part of it. Comrade Bartolo, I
promise you that we [the MIN] will
dedicate all our efforts, all that iswithin our reach, to put an end tohomophobia .... We will safeguard
wha,t you struggle? for-the total Itberatlobn of hluma OltYjSOdthat, womenf
may e tota yl ree,an so It cannot' mferior,be said that one IS
for being a'woman gay or Ies b'lan, " -...
'

series of shot/counter-shotsof theirhalved faces, each face eclipsed by theother's head-as if these men are but
halves of the same being, Adrian could
have posed the question to the mirror,
It is no accident, that Adrian's recognition of Jack as former death squad killer
and present psychopathic serial murderer
occurs during a "projection" in his theater,
The projected film, which documents
mercenary terrorists, contains a dose upof the mysterious code "CU 2" (sre you
double) Adrian remembers having seen ina puzzling photograph of Jack.
The operating
principle
inApartment Zero, a film bubbling overwith identity interchanges, doublings
and unmaskings, is that identity disclosure gives way to violence and viceversa, When Adrian's mother earlier inthe film asks her son "Who are you?"
Adrian rushes out of the room in terror, not because he believes that his
mother, in her senile insanity, is capable of recognizing him, but because
he, faced with the prospect of his own"zero" identity, cannot answer thequestion, T

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TEACHERS from page 16
Assembly
Speaker
Pro-Tempore
argued that the case should be disDavid Clarenbach, who has apparentmissed in its entirety,
On thisly never publicly stated that he is gay, motion-pending
for
over
a
"We have legalized and legitimized
year-Roberts told 0utWeek that, "Strictgay and lesbian relationships here,"ly, neither state statues nor federal tax
The conference's featured guest
law permit us [to grant such benefits),"
was openly gay canadian Member ofPrior to the opening arguments, aParliament Svend Robinson, who rep- rebriefing was ordered to expand theresents a suburb of Vancouver in the case by addressing relevant issues
national House of Commons,raised by Braschi v, Stahl Associates,
In a keynote address, Robinson
The landmark July 6 decision by thesaid he felt "strength and power in this New York State Court of Appeals heldroom," confiding that his knowledge
that a gay man seeking to remain inthat the group existed "gave me a great the home he had shared for ten years
deal of strength before I [publicly)with his life partner-who was the solecame out of the closet in Feb. 1988.named tenant on the lease-was entiAttention was also focused on tled to statutory protection against evicRobert Stipicevich, a Fremont, califor- tion under state and municipal laws
nia school board member who is fac- prohibiting discrimination on the basis
ing a recall election at the hands of of marital status and sexual orientation,
the Fremont Family Alliance,
In the rebriefing, the plaintiffs
Stipicevich came out earlier this argued that the Braschi decision andyear in an interview with the San Mayor Edward Koch's Executive OrderFrancisco Sentinel, a local gay news123-which
mandates bereavement
leave for city employees who are mempaper, and angry fundamentalists
have so far collected 4,000 of thebers of a domestic partnership-further
12,000 Signatures they need to force a strengthened their case for medical covo
new ballot.
erage of their domestic partners, T[Money to assist Stipicevich can beIsent to: Fremont Fund for Human Rights, i2994 Cheswycke, Fremont, CA94536,)
As the conference closed, planIIners announced the creation of a halftime staff position and a newsletter.
They also sent a letter of support to-Terry Kelleher, NY NEWSDAY
openly gay U,S, Rep, Barney Frank"CPULD[D-MAI,who is facing political fallout
ACCOMMODATE
from news reports that he hired maleprostitutes, one of whom later plied
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held in Boston, where delegates-Elliott Stein,VILLAGE
VOICE
expect to continue their discussion ofwhat to do about "openly closeted
gay and lesbian elected officials," Several delegates expressed distress that
more gay politicians are not "out" and. said they don't necessarily oppose thetactic of "helping them out."
The gathering closed with the ritual singing of "God Save Us Nellie
The underside of life Down Under
Queens,"Starrt"1l ARTHUR DIGNAM·
MARK LEE· HEATHER MITCHELL
An IFEX R~kas~
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Items to.
CONGREGATIONBETH SIMCHAT TORAH Jewish Education
Courses;tonight: Hebrew Language Reading Class at 7:30 pm,

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bUowlng 'lftek's

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Biblical Women: The Deborabs &Female Prophet-Priests in Antiquity at 8 pm; at 57 Bethune St;
info 929-9498
EAGLE

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Movie

Night.

after

no meeting of GMAD this Friday,
11/24)CENTER NATIONAL MUSEUM OFLESBIAN AND GAY HISTORY A
Day Without
Art, part of anationwide event to memorialize
and mourn artists from our com·munity who have died; Stephanie
Grant 620-7310

MEN OF All COLORS TOGE1HER/NEW YORK Video Nlte, withclips of members making appear·
ances on 1V shows such as Don-

ornament, for a memento,
New Year's Day)

Major League; 142 11th Ave (at21St); 11 pm; 691-8451
HOME
BRONX AIDS COMMUNIlY SERVICE PROJECT Clinical
TrialsWorkshop,665-4907

BOX OFFICE

presents

Rertoi" Rage and Rehab, a live
performanceoriginally taped at
PS 122, 11:40 pm; HBO info 5121208

CENTER STAGE sees ArtistJ)escending a Staircase, by

TIlE CLOSET CASE SHOW presents Jeffrey's Drug a"d Ue
Detector Test, an encore broadcast, by popular demand,of ashocking,
secretly
videotaped
interviewat which
our heroapplies for a job with the Kweerz
Beer Company; Manhattan Cable,
Channel C/16, midnight

PWA COALITION Forum:
Dr.
Jack Rosenberg,
Lambda Cen·
ter of Dental Health, discussing
dentaVoral health care for PWAs
and HIV+'s; at the Center, 208 W
13 St; 7:30 pm; free; 532-()290

IN OUR OWN WRITE presents
poet Mark Ameen
and writer
JacquleBishop;"this eclectic
pairing of white gay male andblack lesbian poets! performers!
actors/ singers/ dancers/
liars!
writers! producers! acitivi~ts!liars
is sure to produce good times
and bad attitudes," at the Center,
208 W 13 St; 7:30 pm; $3; 6207310
LA MAMA E,T,C, presents
theopening of Andertt Boys, JeanClaude van Italie's focus on theimpact of AIDS on American
artists; 74A E 4 St; 475-7710 (per·formances
THUR·SUN throughDec, 17)

FI///A.... ,...,...".'.

D£!E;,CENTER SPORTS sees Nabisco
Masters
Men's Tennis,
midweek matches; at Madison Square
Garden, 33rd St & 7th Ave; 5:30
pm; $30 members/$40 non-members; 620-7310
LESBIAN HERSTORY ARCHIVESAt Home With the Archives,
874-7232

OUTTWEEKMETRO NEW YORK NAMESPROJECT Displayof Panels
throughout
New York City at
New York Historical
Society,
Cooper-Hewitt
Museum, American Folk Art Museum, Museum of
Crafts, Bellevue
HospitalandMedical Center; info 459-4366
WOMEN ABOUT. Cut-off datefor Broadway Show, 874-2104

Tom Stop pard; at the Helen
Hayes Theatre; 8 pm; $45; 6207310

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daily, noon to midnight, 212-777·1800

CALENDAREVENTS

send calendar_ll_S__r

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International AIDS
Awareness Day
CENTER DANCE COMMITTEECut Off Date for DedicatingaBrass Heart Ornament
for the7ree of Life, a tribute to those
who have died of AIDS; ornaments engraved with their names
will be on display from December 10 (unveiled at the Center's
Winter Social) through December
26; 208 W 13 St; info 620-7310(sponsors
may pick up theirDecember 3, 1989

AMERICAN FOUNDATION FORAIDS RESEARCH Masquerade,
Elizabeth Taylor, honoree; withblack tie and masks; cocktails followed by entertainment,
dinnerand dancing; at the Wintergarden
World Financial Center; 265-8111
THE STUDIOMUSEUMIN
HARLEM Poetry/Prose
Reading,

Acquired Visions: Seeing Our·selves Through AIDS, withreadings by members of OtherCountries, a collective of Blackgay men; 144 W 125 St; 7 pm; $5;
864-4500 (all proceeds go to an
African·American
AIDS-relatedorganization)THE
ANSWERIS LOVING
Women TalkIng Women's Talk:
MA Matter of Life and Death:
How do we live it? How do we
accept the inevitable?"
led byRuth Berman and Connie Kurtz;
Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn; 7:4510 pm; $8; 7181998-2305
GAY
MEN
OF
AFRICANDESCENT Discussion:
MAre We
Winning the Fight?" in which a
representative of the Black Lead·ershlpCommission
on AIDS
will discuss the organizations's
objectives and role in the fightagainst AIDS in the African·American community;
at the Center,
1st floor, 208 W 13 St (620-7310);
8 pm; GMAD info 7181802-0162,
7181756-1548 (Note: there will beahue, The Flo Kennedy Show,
Tony Brown ~Journal, Out in the
80's, People Are Talking, popcorn
provided; at the Center, 208 W 13
St; 8 pm; 222-9794, 245-6366
COLUMBIA GAY AND LESBIANALLIANCE First Friday Dance,with DJ and dancing upstairs,social lounge downstairs; at Earl
Hall, Columbia U" 116 & B'way;
10 pm . 2 am; 854-3574
COOPER SQUARE 1HEA1RE pre·sents NOSEJOB: She Had 10
Model, a new musical comedy
by William Love, the story of"Tara Fe1chberger, a 17-year-old
Barbizon
graduatefrom Great
Neck, LI who happens to be 6'4"
with a nose like Karl Malden,
who is in considerable
denialabout being a model"; starring
William "Jasmine Allspice" Love
as Tara, with Debra Granieri(Women Behind Bars), Paul Phinney, Michael-Stewart Peters, Gerard "Mr, Fashion" Little, Kevin
Bain, and Michael T; 50 E 7 St;
10:30 pm; $5; 228-0811

NEW YORK CITY BUREAU OFFRANCHISES
PublicAccessForum:Your Message Goes
Cable, to learn how to put ashow on the free public accesscable channels in Manhattan; at
City College, North Academic
Center, Room 1202, 138 St &Convent Ave; 9 am - 3:30 pm;
free but RSVP 566.()545
PROjECf CONNECf TakIng the
Next Step: Career
Develop.
ment Workshop,
led by Sandy
Irizarry;for anyonechanging
job/careeror re·entering
theworkforce,with sectionsonhomophobia
in the workplaceand career-building
skills; at theCenter, 208 W 13 St; 1-3 I?m; pre-register with Stephanie
620-7310

Grant,CENTER SPORTS sees NabIsco
Masters
Men's TennIs,
semifinal matches; at Madison Square
Garden, 33rd St & 7th Ave; noon;$50 members/$70 non-members;
620-7310
GAY
OFFICERSACTIONLEAGUE Christmas
Party, with
hot and cold sit down buffet,
alcohol and juice bar, live Dj,
door prizes; at the Center, 208 W
13 St; 7:30 pm - 1 am; $25
advance/$30 door; all welcome,rsvp required 473-8474
MEN OF All COLORS TOGE1HER/NEW YORK PLAYERS present
Racism, Homophobia, Loss &Love: an eveningof poetry,narrative a: song; at the Center,
208 W 13 St; 8 pm sharp; $12.50;
245-6366, 562-3131
CONGREGATIONBETH SIM·CHAT TORAH Winter Fllm Festival: A Secret Space, at 57
Bethune St (near West St), 8 pm,$4 (includes
free popcorn&soda), 929·9498
SYMPHONY SPACE presents The
FUrtations, with special appearance 9Y Michael
Callenperforming songs from his album
Purple Heart; 2537 Broadway at
95 St; 8 pm; $15; tix 864-5400

DAVID HOCKNEY and ANNIELEIBOVITZ co-chair a Auction
for Action: Benefit Auction for
ACT UP, with works by Hockney, Leibovitz,
Rauschenberg,
Warhol, Scavullo, Hurrell, others;
890 Broadway (near 14 St); exhibition from noon to 3 pm; recep·
tion at 6 pm; auction at 7 pm; $5;
989-1114
CRYSTAL QUILT Panel Discussion: Shared Motherhood:

How We Do It, moderatedbyCheryl Pearlman, CSW; participants describe their experiences
as lesbian couples raising children; at the Center, 208 W 13 St,
2nd FI; 1-4 pm; $10; 529-7579
BISEXUAL PRIDE Focus Group:
Coming Out Bt, at the Center,
208 W 13 St, 3 pm, $5, 718/3538245
BISEXUAL DOMINANCE & SUBMISSION GROUP Share
S/M
Experiencesand FantasIes"ina positive, non-judgmental atmosphere"; at the Center, 208 W 13
St; 4:45 pm; $5; 718/353-8245
NEW YORK ADVERTISING&COMMUNICATIONS NE1WORK
HoUday Party, "bring a friend or
leave with one"; jn SoHo; 5-8pm; $20; 517-0380
INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN IDENTITY and HARVEY FIERSTEIN
Theater
Benefit:Songs for'Drella, a fiCtion and tributebased on Andy Warhol's Diary,
starring Lou Reed and john Cale;at BAM's Next Wave Festival, 30
Lafayette St, Brooklyn;
champagne reception at 6:30 pm, performance
at
8 pm;
$80
(performanceonly) - $1000(Sugar Daddy/Mommy);
7999432.
WOMEN ABOUT Potluck Plan·nlng Party, with slides of past
excursions and parties, and dancing; at the Center, 208 W 13 St; 711 pm; $5 + a dish to share;
874-2104GAY PERFORMANCES COMPANY Staged Reading: Pumpkins,
a comedy by john Crabtree; atthe Center, 208 W 13 St; 7 pm;$3; 595-1445
STUTZ 4th Anniversary
Partywith complimentary
buffet andchampagne, special performanceby Electra; 202 Westchester Ave,
White Plains; 914/761-3100 (twoforms of ID required,show
bridge toll receipt for free drink)

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OUT TAKES from page 21$20 million civil suit invoking the 100year-old Ku Klux Klan Act, The legal
action is believed to be the first civil
suit against members of the skinhead
movement, who are identified generally by shaved heads, heavy boots, suspenders, bomber jackets and neo-Nazior other white supremacist rhetoric,
The civil action marks the firsttime a victim of anti-gay violence hassued members of an organized hategroup for civil damages, said Ettelbrick, And it names three parents of
two defendants, charging they knew
about skinheads' violent activities and"encouraged or failed to discourage"
their children's association with thehate group,"
A 1988 survey by the D,C. Task
Force documented
more than 600
incidents of homophobic violence inthe capital area,-JohnZehsign that our church intends to keepfaith with our members who are living with AIDS!HIV..,"Johnson had previously madenews when, in 1970, he was the first
openly gay man ordained as a minister in a mainstream Protestant church,
He lives in New York City,-Rick Sugden

Whatever it
takes

CHICAGO-Amidst
continuing
controversy over the city's new antiAIDS advertising campaign, which has
been "completely rejected" by a long
list of gay and AIDS organizations,
Mayor Richard
Daley-standing
againsta backdropoftheads-unveiled Chicago'S long-awaited"AIDS Strategic Plan" Nov, 1.
Saying the "AIDS epidemic isreaching critical proportions in ourcity," Daley called the plan "anotherlandmark in healthcare planning forthe city of Chicago .... The planreflects the best of all our communities, including academics, medical
NEW YORK-In
firsts for two
major Protestant churches in the Unit- profeSSionals, Hispanics, Africaned States, two openly gay men have Americans, gays/lesbians," he said,
Chicago health commissioner
been elected to official positions in
Richard Krieg acknowledged that the
separate denominations,
The
Episcopal
Dioceseof plan is "seven years behind schedule"
Rochester, NY, elected Bruce Colburn as but said the city "is moving as fast as wethe first openly gay deputy to its 1991 can to get up to speed," He called theplan "an organic document-something
General Convention, The Convention,
convened every three years and com- that evolves over time, This is aposed of 1,000 deputies, is the highest blueprint, it's not in concrete," Kriegsaid,
Among many promises, Krieg
policy making body in that church,
andDaley insisted that the city will
According to Kim Byham, national president of Integrity, a 15-year-old never again return federal moneyorganization of lesbian and gay Epis- allocated for AIDS education and services, They said the previous adminiscopalians, Colburn is the first electedof some ten openly lesbian and gay tration gave back $800,000 that could
candidates nationwide, Queer candi~ have been used to help Chicagoans
dates are running in New York, New affected by the epidemic,
The plan also urges that the city
Jersey, Minnesota and California,
In Omaha, Nebraska, the United route more money toward communiChurch Board for Homeland Min- ty-based organizations; expand AIDS
programs in city clinics; work for
istries, a program of the United
more AIDS beds at the county hospiChurch of Christ, elected Bill Johnson
tal;' initiate outreach to gay bathhoussecretary of .its AIDS Programs andes,' sex shops and beaches; and fightMinistries Coordination,, According to Johnson, the newly for distribution of bleach to intraformed full-time position "is a clear venous drug users, among much else,

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But according to journalist Jennifer Robles, a staffer at the Chicago
Reporter and one of the city'S mostdedicated health department watchers, the 400-page plan, "in many
respects, primarily documents how
terrible a response Chicago has had
to AIDS, "It shows how severely thisnever happened before," she said,"Things were probably about as bad
as we always thought, if not worse,"
Praise for the plan in many sectors of the AIDS community, meanwhile, has been unexpectedly high,with individuals such as key AIDS doctor Renslow Sherer and Howard
Brown Memorial Clinic executive
director Judith Johns raving about boththe quality of the document and theunity that emerged in the AIDS community during the writing of the plan,Two days earlier, ACf UP/Chicago, Howard Brown Memorial Clinicand several other Chicago AIDSorganizations "completely rejected" the city'S
new $750,000 AIDS education campaign Oct. 30, calling it "trivial," "elitist"and "dangerous," All but $70,000 of thecampaign was donated by D,D,B,
Needham Worldwide Advertising,
The campaign utilizes print andTV advertisements where individuals
look directly into the camera and sayeither "I will not get AIDS" or "I will
do whatever it takes."
The AIDS organizations say the
campaign should have directly stressed
condom use and other safe sex techniques, as well as safe use of needles,"These ads say nothing about
how AIDS is transmitted or how toprotect yourself," said ACT UP'sDaniel Sotomayor. "We demand thatthe city get the campaign out of thehands of those who sell toilet paperand dog food and into the hands ofthe communities affected by AIDS,"-Rex Wockner

Next stop
CyprusNICOSIA, Cyprus-The Gay liberation Movement of Cyprus and theInternational Lesbian and Gay Association sent out an urgent call in mid-November for support in a new campaign for gay Cypriots to overturn theisland's sodomy law,
According to ILGA, activists have
filed a complaint with the European
Court of Human Rights, which bans discrimination against homosexuals among
nations that are signatories to the European Convention on Human Rights,
The activists are asking for immediate letters to: Michael E, Sierifis,
Cypriot Ambassador to the U.S" 2211
"R" Street NW, Washington, DC 20008;
and to: President George Vassiliou,
Presidential Palace, Nicosia, Cyprus,
Photocopies are requested to: A,D,
Modinos, Gay Liberation Movement of
Cyprus, P,Q, Box 1947, Nicosia; and to
ILGAAction Secretariat, c/o GLF K61n,
Schulz, Bismarckstrasse 17, D-5000
K61n 1, West Germany,
According to the Spartacus international gay guide, "gay sex, just as in
Greece and Turkey, plays an importantrole in daily life in Cyprus, but homosexuality is quite unacceptable as a person's defining identity characteristic,"
The guide shows that the country
has about ten gay bars, mostly near
tourist beaches,
Tlie Cypriot drive joins active
anti-sodomy
law campaigns
now
underway in Ireland, in the Australianstates of Queensland, Tasmania andWestern Australia; and in the Channel
Islands and on the Isle of Man, both
British dependencies,
The European Court has stuck
down the Irish law, but the govern~ae;~::ta,y:t ~~~c~~~Ii~~~n~~n:~r~~ment has come out in support of gay
law ref?rm, but a~tivists are figh~ing

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Community Directory
A,C,Q.C,
AIOS 'CENTER OF QUEENS COUNTYSOCIAL SERVICES. EOUCATION· BUODIES COUNSElING· SUPPORT GROUPS
Volunteer Opportunities(718) 896-2500(voice)(718) 896-2985(TDD)ACT UP (AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power)
496A Hudson Street, Suite G4 NYC 10014(212) 989 -1114
A diverse, non-partisan group of individuals united inanger and committed to direct action to end the AIDS
crisis, Gen, meetings Mon, nights 7:30, the Community Center 208 W,I3th,
ARCS (AIDS-Related Community Services)for Dutchess, Orange, Putnam, Rockland, Sullivan,
Ulster and Westchester
counties, AIOS education,client services, crisis intervention, support groups,
case management, buddy and hospital visitor program,
214 Cen1raIAlle. W1ite Plains, NYl!m)(914)~
838 Broadway ,Newburgh, NY 12250(914) 562-5005
AIDSline (914) 993·0607
BAR ASSOCIATION FOR HUMAN RIGHTS
lawyers Referral
Service for the Lesbian and Gay Community
Full Range of Legal Services(212) 459-4873

BODY POSITIVE
If you or your lover has tested HIV+, we offer support
groups, seminars, public forums, reference library,referrals, social activities and up-to- date national
monthly, ·THE BOOY POSITIVE· (SI5/year),(212) 633-1782,
2095 Broadway, Suite 306, NYC, NY 10023

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

CIRCLE OF MORE LIGHT
Spiritual support and sharing in a gay/lesbian affirmative group,West-Park Presbytarian Church
165 West 86th Street
Wed: worship service 6:30 p,m" program 7:30,
Marsha (212) 304-4373
Charlie (212) 691-7118,

GAY & LESBIAN PSYCHOTHERAPY
Sliding scale fees
Insurance accepted,
Institute for Human Identity,(212) 799·9432

COMMUNITY HEALTH PROJECT
208 West 13th Street, NYC, New York 1001~
For Appointments
and Information (212) 675-3559
PROVIOING CARING, SENSITIVE AND LOW COSTHEALTH CARE SERVICES TO THE LESBIAN ANO GAYCOMMUNITYCOMMUNITY RESEARCH INITIATIVE
PWA's, PWARC's & their physicians taking the initiative to seek promising intervention againstAIOS in a
resp, manner, For more info or to volunteer pleasecall (212) 481-1050,

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

CONGREGATION BETH SIMCHATTORAH
NY's Gay and Lesbian Synagogue Services
Friday at 8:30pm
57 Bethune Street
For info, call: (212) 929-9498,

PRIDE FOCUS GROUP
Topical discussions on issues of interest to the community in a congenial atmosphere, followed by an
informal dinner at a friendly local restaurant Every
Sunday, 3:00 - 4:30pm at the Community Center 208 W.
13 Street, NYC, Part of the New York Area Bisexual
Network,

DIGNITY NEW YORK
lesbian and gay Catholics and friends
AIOS Ministry, Spiritual Oevelopment.
The Cathedral Project
Worship Services & Social-Sun, Eves, 7:30pm,St
John's Episcopal Church 218 West 11th Street@
Waverly-675-2179

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

EOGE
For the physically disabled Lesbian and Gay
Community,(212) 989-1921
P.O, Box 305 Village Station, New York, NY 10014

BIWAYS NEW YORKMonthly (or more frequent) social events for the
Bisexual community and friends, Oates, times andlocations vary, Call NYABN for details of upcomming
events, Planning meetings held quaterly, This groupis part of the New York Area Bisexual Network,
BIPAC (BISEXUAL POLITICALACTION COMMITTEE)
Political action on issues of importance to the Bisexual/Lesbian/Gay community, Monthly meeting/potluck
held 8:00pm on fourth Thursday of the month at members homes, Call NYABN for this month's location,
This group is part of the New York Area Bisexual. Net,
work,

FEMME SUPPORT GROUP
For lesbians who self identify as Femme, For info andmeeting times call Lisa at (212) 829,9817, No men
plea.e,FRONT RUNNERS
A running club for lesbian and gay athletesof all abilities, Fun Runs of 1-6 miles held every Sat at
lOam and Weds, at 7pm in Central Parkand every Tues, at 7pm in Prospect Park,
For information: call (212) 724-9700,
THE FUND FOR HUMAN DIGNITY
National Gay and Lesbian Crisis Line'AIDS 800· 1-800-S0S-GAYS
Educational Resource Center; Positive Images
Media Center; NY State Arts Program
666 B'way Suite 410 NYC, NY 10012 (212)529-1600m

BISEXUAL YOUTH
Informal social & support group for Bisexual
kids/youth, Monthly meeting/potluck
lunch held
1:OOpmon fourth Sundayof the month at members
homes, Call NY ABN for this month's location, This
group is part of the New York Area Bisexual Network,

THE GAY AFRICAN AMERICANSOF WESTCHESTER(The G.A.A,)
is a community based support group formed in
Westchester County, Various activities are planned
for the coming months,
Please call 914-376-0727 for more info,

BLUS·BRONX LESBIANS
UNITED IN SISTERHOOD
Social, political and supportnetworking
group forwomen and their friends, Regular social events andmeetings on the first and third Friday's of every month,
At The Community Center, 208 W. 13 Street, from 6:308pm, For more info call Lisa at(212) 829-9817,

GlAAD
Gay & lesbian Alliance Against Defamation
80 Varick Street, NYC 10013 (212) 966-1700 GlAAD
combats homophobia in the media and elsewhere bypromoting visibility of the lesbian and gay communityand organizing grassroots response to anti'gay bigotry,

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GAY MALE S/M ACTIVISTS
Dedicated to safe and responsible SlM since 1981.
Open meetings w/programs on SlM techniques,
lifestyle issues, political and social concerns, Also
special events, speakers bureau, workshops, demos,
affinity groups, newsletter, more, GMSMA -Dept 0,496A Hudson Street. Suite 023 ,NYC 10014,(212) 727-9878,
GMAD(GAY MEN OF AFRICAN DESCENn
80 Varick Street. NYC 10013 a support group of Gay
Men of African Oescent dedicated to consciousnessraising and the development of the Lesbian and Gay
Community, GMAD is inclusive of African, AfricanAmerican, Carribean and Hispanic!Latino men ofcolor, Meetings are held, weekly, on Fridays, For
more information, call 718-802-0162,
GAY MEN'S HEALTH CRISIS HOTLINEFOR INFORMATION ON SAFER SEX AND HIV-RELATED HEALTH SERVICES, AND FOR INFORMATION ON
ONE- TIME, WALK-IN AIDS COUNSELING SERVICES
212·807-6655
212-645-7470 TOO (For the Hearing Impaired)Mon,-Fri. 10:30 a,m, to 9 p,m, Sat 12:00 to 3:00
HEAL (Health Education AIDS Liaison)
Weekly info, and support group for treatments for
AIOS which do not compromise the immune systemfurther, including alternative and holistic approaches,
Wed 8pm, 208 W, 13th St (212)674-HOPE,
HETRICK-MARTIN INSTITUTE
for lesbian and gay youth, Counseling, drop-in center (M-F, 3-6pm), rap groups, Harvey Milk HighSchool, AIOS and safer sex information,referrals, professional education,(212) 633-8920(voice)(212) 633-8926 TTY for deaf
HISPANIC UNITED GAYS & LESBIANS
Educational services, poli~cal action, counseling andsocial ac~vities in Spanish and English by and for theLatino Lesbian and Gay Community,
General meetings 8:00 p,m, 4th Thursday of every
month at 208 West 13th Street
Call (212) 691-4181
or write H,U,G.l., P,O, Box 226 Canal Street Station,
New York, NY 10019,
LAM BOA LEGAL DEFENSEAND EDUCATION FUND
Precedent-setting
litigation nationwide forlesbians, gay men and people with AIDS, Membership (S35 and up) inc, newsletter and invitations to
special events, Volunteer night on Thursdays, Intake
calls: 2-4pm Mon thru Fri (212) 995-8585
LAVA (LESBIANS ABOUT VISUAL ARn
Call for slides for Lesbian Artists' Exhibition, Gay &Lesbian Community Center, NYC, For more information, send SASE to:
Miriam Fougere
118 Fort Greene PlaceBrooklyn, NY 11217,

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THE LESBIAN AND GAY BIG APPLE CORPS
Get your instrument out of the closetand come playwith us, Symphonic, Marching, Jazz, Dixiel~nd, Rock,
Aute Ensembles and Woodwinds,
123West 44th St Suite12l New York, NY 10036(212) 869-2922,
LESBIAN a. GAY
COMMUNITY SERVICESCENTER
208 West 13th Street New York, NY 10011(212)620·7310
9am·ll pm everyday,
A place for community organizing and networking,social services, cultural programs, and social events
sponsored by the Center and more than 150 community organizations,LESBIAN AND GAY NETWORKAn organization of lesbians and Gays who are active
In their labor unions-working on domestic partnershipbenefits and AIDS issues, For more information call(212)923-8690,
LESBIAN AND GAY RIGHTS PROJECT
of the Americln Civil Uberties Union
KNOW YOURRIGHTS/WE'RE EXPANDINGTHEM(212) 944-9800, ext 545
LESBIANS ABOUT VISUAL ART (LAVA)
Call for slides for lesbian Artist's Exibition, Gay andlesbian Community Center, NYC,for more information
send SASE to Miriam Fougere, 118Ft Greene Place,
Brooklyn, NY 1217,
LESBIANS AND GAYS OF FLATBUSH
Brooklyn's social organization for both gay men andlesbians,
p,o, Box 106.Midwood Station
Brooklyn, NY 11230' (718) 859-9437
LONG ISLAND ACT·UP
p,o, Box 291. New Hyde Park, NY 11040
Support us for change on long Island,(516)338-4662(516) 997-5238 Nassau(516) 928-5530 Suffolk
MEN OFAU COLORSTOGETHERNY
A multi-racial group of gay men against racism, Meetings every Friday nightat7:45 atthelesbian and Gay
Community Services Center, 208 W, 13th Street For m
re info, ca!l: (212) 245-6166or (212)222-9794,
METROPOUTAN TENNIS GROUP(MTG)
Our 200 member lesbian 9nd gay-tannis club includes
players from beginning III t:lumome.nt level. Monthly
tennis parties, Wintar indror .league, Come play with usl
For information: MTG, POB2135,New 'mrk, NY 10025,(212) 662-0695,
MOCA
Men of Color AIDS.Prevention Program, Provides
safer sex and AIDS educ.tion information to gay andbisexual Men of Color; coordinates a network ofhealth education provid~rs and peer-support groups
for gay and bisexual 'Men of Color in ailS boroughs of
New York City, MOCA is located at 303 Ninth Ave,New York, Ny 10001,or call (212) 239-1796,
NATIONAL GAYAND LESBIAN TASK FORCE
is the national grassroots political organization for
lesbians and gay men, Membership is $30/year,
Issue-oriented projects address viOlence, sodomy
laws, AIDS, gay rights ordinances, families, media,
etc, through lobbying, education, organizing anddirect action,
NGLTF 1517U Street NW, Washington, DC 20009,(202)332-6483,

NEW YORKADVERTISINGAND COMMUNICATIONS NETWORKNYACN is the community's largest gay and lesbian
professional group, welcoming all in communicationsnadvertising, PR, marketing, media, graphic
design, illustration, photography, copywriting, journalism, publishing, radio, TV and film--and theirfriends, Monthly meetings, 3rd Wed 6:30pm at theCommunity Center, Members' newsletter, job hotline,
annual directory, Phone (212)517-0380for more info,
Mention OutWeek for one free newsletter,
NINTH STREETCENTER
Since 1973,a community dedicated to demonstratingthat a homosexual lifestyle is a rational, desirable
choice for individuals dissatisfied with the rewards ofconventional living, Psychologically· focussed rap
groups, Tues. Sat, 8 to 10 pm, peer counselling available, 319 E, 9 Street, New York, NY 10003,for info call(212) 228·5153,
NORTHAMERICAN MAN/BOY
LOVEASSOCIATION (NAMBLA)
Dedicated to sexual freedom and especially intereted
in gay intergenerational relationships, Monthly Bulletin and regular chapter meetings on the first Saturday of each month, Yearly membership is $20; write
NAMBLA, PO Box 174,Midtown Station, New York,NY 10018or call (212)807-8578for information,
NORTHERNLIGHTSALTERNATIVES
Improving Quality of Life for People with AIDS/HIV,
THEAIDS MASTERYWORKSHOP: Exploring the possibilities of a poweriul and creative life in the face of
AIOS, Call Jack Godby (212)337-8747
NYC GAY & LESBIANANTI·VIOLENCE PROJECT
Counseling, advocacy, and information for survivorsof anti-gay end anti-lesbian violence, sexual assault,
domestic violence, and other types of victimization,
All services free and confidential.
24 hour hotline (212) 807·0197
PEOPLEWITH AIDS COALITION(212)532-0290 / Hotline (212) 532,0568
Monday thru Friday 10am·6pm
Meal programs, support groups, educational andreferral services for PWA's and PWArc's,
PEOPLEWITH AIDS HEALTHGROUP
Underground buyer's club importing not,yet-approved
medications and nutritional supplements, 31West 26th
St 4th Roor (212)532·0280
SAGE:(Senior Action in a Gay Environment)
Social Service Agoncy providing care, activities, andeducational services for gay & lesbian senior citizens, Also serving over 160 homebound seniors andolder PWA's, 208 West 13th St. NYC 10011(212) 741-2247
THE OUTREACH
USING COMMUNAL HEALING (TOUCH)
8 program of Brooklyn community volunteers providing e weekly buffet supper for the BrOOklynAIDS
community, Occasional programs of information, education end entertainment TOUCHmeets Monday
eves, 5p,m, to 6:30p,m, at downtown Brooklyn Friends
Meeting House (110 Schermerhorn St near Boerum
Piece), limited transportation may be arranged,
Info: (718) 622-2756,TOUCHwelcomes contributionsof funds, food and volunteers,
ULSTERCOUNTY GAYAND LESBIAN ALLIANCE
Meets first and third Monday of each monthat 7:30 p,m, at the Unitarian Church on S-awkill Road
in Kingston,
For information, cali (914) 626-3203,

that they have to be responsible tosome sort of ethical code of journalistic objectivity, This is. what VF did
when Mark Kostabi was quoted in
the magazine
makinganti-gayremarks, The editors saw no reason
to have the writer comment one way
or 'another about what Kostabi said,
Similarly they did the same thing in
the Hall of Fame issue, quoting Roger
Ailes saying to George Bush, "Thereyou go with that fucking hand again.
You look like a fucking pansy!; AndVF will simply say that they're justreporting what he said and thatthey're exposing him by printing it
and that it "isn't right" or it's "notappropriate
for them to comment.
Bullshit, Tina! IF YOU'RE GOING TO
BE SO FUCKING ETIlICAL THEN AX
ANGELA JANKLOW, STOP JERKINGOFF ABOUT YOURSELFAND YOURFRIENDS AND YOUR OWN STAFF,
AND STOP SHAMELESSLYLICKING
STEINBERG'S ASS AS WELL AS THE
ASSES OF EVERY OTHER RICH
POWER MANIAC! Otherwise, you
can viciously attack homophobes! It's
. okay, honest. Had Ailes made a racist
remark instead, I surely doubt you'd
let it go, You'd probably not evenprint it.
We're sick of tpe double standards and the bullshit, not just of
Tina Brown but of all you gay editors at Vanity Fair, Some of you run
around telling everyone how "out"you are in the office and how everyone in the business knows you're
gay, Doesn't seem so from the trash
we've been reading in your magazine~ And all the more reason to beashamed of yourselves, Do you justlet everything offensive pass by yourdesks? Can't you complain to Tina
when something homophobic gets
in? Can't rock that boat, right? can't. do anything that might affect your
MOVING UP FAST. So, you don't
think about the fact that gays andlesbians are invisible in your mag,and you laugh it off when gay-bashing finds its way into the copy, Oh,
I'm sure it's a laugh-a-minute up at
the Vanity Fair offices every day.
You're probably even getting a few
giggles ou~ of this column,
Meanwhile, we die, T

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call for. info (212) 673·4331,

We buy, sell, locate and tradeartworks,

COMPUTER DATING
Services available: picture hanging
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COMPUTERIZED BY MAIL DATINGSERVICE
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Women andminorities encouraged to apply. Send
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HELP WANTEDFEATURES EDITOR
Available in January 1990: solicit andedit articles covering cultural andpolitical issues for the features section,
including monthly book supplements,
Provide overall dircetion for features
page, Please send resume and cover
letter to: GCN Job Search Committee,
62 Berkley Street, Boston, MA 02116,

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with diverse interests:
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Gay Fellowship, Looking for someone who
responds to the person I am: good senseof humor, romantic, interests outside of self,tall and attrac tve,
Write Outweek Box
1714

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GWM, We alike so far?
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who now needs a significant friend! buddyl
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BE MY GUESTHORNY ROO MATESHOT NJ ROMANCE

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Be WM, 25-30, gd Ik,
cln
shvn,
good
body/mind, Grad student of employed professional, readylable

One Black, 31, theother Puerto Rican,
24, Both 5'8", seek hot
young Puerto Rican
guys 18-24, for hot
throbbing Latin lust,
Ouick reply with photoand phone, Write Outweek Box 1730

Handsomeathletic
and healthy GWM, 38,
6', 180lbs, Br/BI, withsuccessful businesscareer and rewarding
life wants to meet a
special man to share
my life with, Like me,
you want more than a
hot body and need atrue partner who iswilling to work at agood relationship andovercome the fears of
intimacy, Your therapy
has helped you realize
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and
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with photo to Outweek
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need reply, Photol
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OutWeek Box 1722,

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games (sex is part ofthe "deal') no hustlers,
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loves our gay community, is honest & ago
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Prince Street Stn, New
York, NY 10012,

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Seeks GF 35-50 who
appreciates a loving
woman-loves dancing,

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6', 160lbs, 44yrs,
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guy, 25-45 (hairy a big+) for dates, safe sex,
eventual relationship,
Enjoy NYC, arts & culture, weekends away,
travel. Send letter,phone #, photo to: Box
2278, New York, NY
10008,ROMANTICARTIST

Lovingpassionate
artist/designer, 37yr,
Wm looking to meet asimilar guy who is sensitive, caring, loving,
intutitive, creative, witty, healthy, loving guy
forrelationship,
Please write with photo, PO Box 843, New
York, NY 10163,
SOMEONE

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and educated, Likes
all sports & music,
seeks a Latin lady, 2035 Lesbian, who likes'to share special moments & maybe a serious relationship,I
speak
Spanish,Please no drugs &Butches, Outweek Box
1723

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knowingly has nothing
to hide and doesn't
need to tell the world of
his sexual preference
simply because it's notnecessary, Someone
who's watched guys
give his handsome
mascimusc apprrance
the once-over: guys
who never imagined

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December 3, 1989

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Br/Br, seeks similarfor
safe sex & 'dose friend·ship, No hard drugs orobese please, Write
Outweek Box 1670

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WM, 5'11", 1881bs,38,
needs
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need to receive SS,
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LIFE'S A DANCE!

GM, 34, handsome, 6',
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idealist, professional
who loves the outdoors (hiking, skiing,
cycling,etc) and the indoors (movies, theatre, meditation, dinner at home) seeking
a similarly attractive,
financiallysecure,knowledge seeking
friend or more? late
20's - late 30's who is
comfortable
being
himself, Life's plea·sures are always awelcomesurprise I
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hair a must. YR pic
gets mine, Box 306,
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horror movies, andcreative
projects,
Seeks Asian male 2030 lor friendship, A
good sense 01 humor
a must. Write Box 697
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HUNGRY FOR LOVEGWM, Hispanic, 35,
5'10·,165#,
hairy chest, moustache, at·tractive, sincere, educated, witty, smart,
myriadinterests,
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sparkling, Iriendship with good100 king, neat, bright,
roman'tic, sensitive
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hair, nice smile, Both
01 us are affectionate,caring and love tolearn, laugh, kiss andenjoy life, Send detailed letterlfoto in conlidence, Let's meetand get started, Out·
week Box 16n

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Nice hot JM furry,
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and in your arms,
Drop
a
note
(photo/phone, plse,) It
may change our lives,
Outweek Box 1701
COLLEGE GUY
I'm an adventurous,
attractive, tall, blonde,
nice guy looking lor
fun, I'm 21,6'1·, anartist with a good trim
body, 160 Ib" top, whoseeks a new dating,sexual, or relationshipadventure (while playing sale) with a lun
guy who is in shape,
under 30, and has agood sense 01 humor,
A recent photo a must.
Outweek Box 167B
YOUR NAME IS ...
Jack, You are a GWM,
28, gym body, darkhair, 10 138, HIV neg,an Actor, recently
moved here Irom LA,
attend Unity, drink Ricard, do some writing,believe in ''Do It Now!"
I'm like you, handsome, warm, pining,seek love and support.
Lei's meet! Ph/Ph to
Box
7493,
NYC,
10163,INSATIABLE FR/A
Attr 40 yr bind, very
oral and HIV neg, sks
well-hung FRIP for hot
times, I'm talented,
O.. ,-educated, affectionate, Age and race
not as important as
dick & attitude, Photoa plus, Write Fox, P,O,
Box 20161, Midtown
Station, New York City
10129,GF-ARE YOU MY
TYPE?
20's, antiracist, long
curly hair, grn/br eyes,
ample, tough, broad,not tall, physical, good
hands, I want YOU, I
am 22, 5'7", 125 Ibs"
short blonde hair, blueeyes, sensitive, w/
good hands, Tell me alittle bit about yourself,
but keep some secrets,
please!
Photo/write to: Outweek Box 1706
CURIOUSLYSENSIBLE
yet crazed prolessional GM seeks dinnerdate or hot sex withsmart, hairy, absurd
GM between 5'3" and6'B", Unusual tablemanners, tendency tointerrupt OK; conversational enthusiasm,
good tongue tech-nique are pluses, P,O,
Box 270, BowlingGreen Station, NY NY
10274,
LOVING TOP
52,5'6", 135, HIV-, B",
gentle but masterfulseeks lB-35, slim,
passionate, devoted
boy who's eager toserve and please,
Write phone # and tellme why we together
could have the world,
Outweek Box 1708
GAYAND
INTERRACIAL
GJM, 40, 5'10", 155
Ibs" cute, blue eyes
and wise desires masculine black top man,
30 and older, Sensitive~nd mature to explore
who
we
are,
Foto/phone il possible,
P,O, Box 20, NYC, NY
10012,SPIRITUALLY
DEVOTED(not religious) Passionately feeling, GF,
musician with Day Gig
seeking emotionally
supportive, artisticallyromantic non-smok
GF who is emotionallyspiritually physicallyattuned, Write Outweek Box 1713
CHUBBY VILLIAN
OK, 'Rasslin' fans!
GWM, babyfaced 39,
5' 5", 200, cln shv,
hairy chest & gut, uncut, accepts challenges from well-built,
masculine studs under
40 to sweat out yourhottest,wildest,wrestling/combat fantasies in my Midtown
apt. day/nite, No 'real'
wrestling,
but our"match can be as fun,erotic and/or ·brutal"
as U want! In gear ornude; oil, "dirty" holds,
hot VIA tits, VA, SAFE
Fr/gr, Ph/Ph to TJ, box
112,
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SUITE, 330 West42nd St., NYC 10036,
Ethnic a plus,
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urgently sought bypaunchy,balding
GWM brat, 29, II you
are short on patienceand long on punishment-please respond
so on, I am truly obnoxious, Write Outweek Box 1660
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Looking for wintersweetheart to sharepassion for Shicoff &Schubert, Ofra Haza &the Hambo, 33, Br/Hzl
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Outweek Box 1187
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32,
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LOVE IS
Being close 2 eachother, a moon lit
beach, being snowedin, Mon Night FtBall,hot sex, pass/love,sharing & caring, Me:
GM, 27, 6" & 210,
Y:GM, 24-44, tall,dark,
We:both·Prof, and MN
based on 1st date, We
want 2 get to knoweach other and havelasting relationships,

Lets travel new roads
to enrich our love 4
each other, Love is also roses on Sunday,
dinner 4 2, a romantic
hideaway, finding thatspecial love & celebrating each day together, Outweek Box
1514
GENTLEMANPREFER
BLOND
Latin Male, 27, 5'9",150lbs, professional,
healthy,athletic, gym
body, aggressive but
loving, seeks attractive
affectionate , slenderand sexy guy (blondea +) 17-31 for a longterm monogamouslove affair, send let·ter/photo/phone#,
Outweek Box 1515
DANCE WITH ME
GWM,
attractive,
Br/Br, 33yrs, 5'6",
1431bs, hairy, musc
chest, warm, profl,
sense of humor, looking for relationshipwith attr masc man of
integrity and warmth,
under
35,
Hisp/
Mediterranean looks aplus, A relationship of
exploration, fun, andcloseness which joins
us together while mak·ing us each more ourselves-it's that special
chemistry I'm looking
for, Incl phone, photo
helpful, not essential.
Write Outweek Box
1529
HOPELESSROMANTICIN NEEDOFA MAN
21, tali, in-shape, fun,down-to-earth, different I/S/O agressive,
masc, domin
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