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Gays and the Military
In a society where overt homophobia is slowly becoming lessacceptable, the American military remains one of the final frontiersof blatant, official discrimination. Without disguise or apology, thegovernment continues to argue that gays and lesbians are freaks
whose presence would inevitably contaminate the purity of theservice, destroy morale, eompromise security and e'rode thenation's defenses.
It's an argument that even the military's own think tanks can't
muster evidence to support. In one celebrated case, the Pentagon
commissioned a study to prove that gays and lesbians are unacceptable security risks because we're supposedly more subject to blackmail than straights. When the report instead showed that gays are no
greater security risks than others and actually make excellent soldiers,
the report was suppressed. It took action by openly gay Congressman
Gerry Studds to finally force the release of the document.
.
TUne after time, the military's policy of exclusion has beenshown to be narrow-minded, archaic and mean-spirited, But
believe it or not, things are getting worse.
Until recently gays were discharged from the military only
when they were accused of or admitted to actually engaging inhomosexual conduct. Recently, however, the mere admission ofa homosexual orientation has becpme enough to warrant discharge. This new policy has crea~ed what never existed in suchcases before; a whole class of individuals excludable on thebasis of exercising free speech. In essence, free speech is now
denied even to celibate gays in the military; merely saying that
one is gay or lesbian can lead to discharge, often with less thanhonorable status.
This crass denial of basic rights Americans supposedly holddear is starting to engender ever more cruel and unusual punishments. Recently, for example, not only was a top ROTC scholarship student denied a commission when he voluntarily revealed
his gay orientation, it was also recommended that he be forced to
pay back his scholarship.
.
Some members of our community argue that the military, as avehicle of oppression and violence, is not a proper place for gays
and lesbians in the first' place, They maintain that we could allocate our efforts toward goals other than gaining the equal right tokill, maim and destroy innocent people. They have a point.
But equality is not divisible, If gays and lesbians begin to pickand choose which rights we want and which we don't, we only
feed into the concept that we aren't really equal after all. Even
those of us who oppose the concept of the military, or o,f marriage, should think twice before allowing our opposition to beinstitutionally imposed on all of our brothers and sisters. Part offreedom is the freedom to make mistakes or take unpopular
stands, Gays and lesbians should have those rights too,
What we then do with those rights, and whether wechoose to exercise them or not, should be a matter for eachindividual to decide, ..

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Sin and Bear "In a March 2, New Yorl<
Times article,. Earnest
Reaugh, Manfred Ohrenstein's liaison to the lesbianandgaycommunity,referred to' John Cardinal
O'Connor as "monster' and"Hitler: The Issue being discussed was whether thestate should fund Catholic
hospitals who care for people with AIDS In the face ofthe hierarchy's "expressed
outward and overt homophobia'
and continued
negation of us, "I view the
Cardinal as a monster comparable only to Hitler: hesaid. Apparently, many pe0ple In the "straight· community
objectedtothiscomparison and called for
Mr. Reaugh's dismissal. Gays
expressing their point of view
can make the "het's' violently uncomfortable .
. Hitler considered Jews
less than human. Today the
Roman Catholic
Churchhierarchy categorizes us asless than human, opening
the door for our holocaust
through Indiscriminate beatIngs and murders as wehave witnessed growing In
the last few years as well as
denying our rights, alongwith women's, In a democratic society,John Cardinal O'Connor, who .PUrports to be lovIng yet supports negative
church teaching, supposedly divinely Inspired, statesthat his way of ministering topeople with AIDS Is to hove
them "get In touch with theirgult: I don't want my brothers and sisters to be victimIzed by this "monste( either,In 1987, the Vatican
Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (the original
office of the Inquisition)
Issued a letter on the "Pastoral Cqre of Homosexual
Persons' that was anything

but caring, In It, Cardinal
Ratzlnger referred to ourcommunlty'as"an Intrinsic
evil' and "a moral disorder'
end goes on to state that It Is
understandable
that violence should OCCU' when we
fight for our rights (civil andhuman), Rights to which we
hOve "no conceivable right:
When lesbian and gay
people are misnamed as"sin' and "evil: the churchsubliminallycalls for our"eradication'
the some as
Hitler did when he named
the Jews as lessthan human.
It Is a sad comment on
our society that none ofthese people who call for Mr.
Reaugh's dismissal, In allprobability, ever called for
the Cardinal's or Pope's dismissal when lesbian and gay
people of faith within Dignity

Chapters across this country
were thrown out of their
Roman Catholic houses of
WOrship.
As a Roman Catholicgay religious
activist,I
applaud Mr. Reaugh for his
frankness and dedication to
speaking the truth.
Robert Pusllo
President
Dignity/New Yorl<
Frogs Bog
Concemlng the 1/21/90
IssLle of OutWeek ("Standand Deliver: Censorship andthe Music Industry,' no 30)...
This Is the ninth or tenthtime I hove told this story, The
Frogs second LP, It's Only

RIght and Nah.Jral,was produced and sequenced by(the Frogs themselves), At notime did I suggest whichsOngs would or wouldri't beappropriate for the album(nor have I ever bugged aHomesfeadband about
what not to Include), nor did

srON£W'AU RIOrSI suggest editing "Nigger
Pile' from the LP, especiallybecause I had not yet heard .
It. (If I had heard the song, I
would not hove forced themto take It off the LP)...
Had the Frogs selected"Nigger Pile' for Inclusion on
their upcoming second LP,I
would not have rejected It.
However, with such a backlog of unreleased material,
their concerns
are moreartistic than racial ...
While I will not try anddeny anyone's right to be
offended by the Frogs LP, I
will continue to defend thecontent of their music andlyrics, something you and Jim(Fouratt) have been loathe
to discuss, save for the occasional song title (merely using
the words "nigger' In a song
title Is not a racist act, per se,
and If It were, Jo~'ln Lennon
and Patti Smith would havesomething to answer for).
"This Is not censorship,
but a simple case of supply

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and demand"
and whatmakes you so sure I give adamn about supply' anddemand? I put the recordout because I liked It, Not
because Isaw a commercial
gold mine, Not because I
wanted to reinforce negative attitudes towards gays.
But because
I liked therecord. Reality doesn't evencome close to your printed
suspicions, which conveniently attempt to further
you own political agenda.
I'm fascinated by yourcharacterizationof David
Geffen as "00 aJeged closet
case," I don't know the guy,
and I don't particularly likethe records on his label (orGuns 'n' Roses), but I'm notso sure It's fair to label thesigning of GNR as a confirmation of Geffen's Inability todeal with his own sexuality.
He wasn't the person whQ
signed them (Tom Zuatatwas), and It's quite possiblethat he never even head the
Qro\.P U'ltll they'd sold a few
million records. While there's
no excuse for his silence on
the sWject, dd you attempt
to contact DavId Geffen, or

anyone at Geffen? I'm Just
curious, 'cause I'd assume
that If he's an Intelligent

adUt, DavId Geffen Is pro!»bIy qUte embarassed by thestatements (and some lyrics)
of Ald...why he <J'ld the IcbeI
have not chose to repuclate
them, however, Is a question I
coonot ooswer,
Perhaps It's time forevery recording artist who
draws a WEA royalty checkto disassociate themselvesfrom Guns 'n' Roses ar:'ld
show the world where theystand on the Issues of h0mophobia and racism. I lookforward to Madonna, Morrisey <J'ld Erasure'leavIng Sire,
Husker DO retrieving theirback catalog from Waners,
Billy Bragg and Tracy Chapman splitting with Elektra,
How's that for "organizedeconomic power?"
By the way, the Miamigroup you mention, 2 Nice
Crew, are called the 2 Uve
Crew, The rap song "Treat
Her Like a Prostitute" waswritten and performed by
the New York rapper Slick
Rick, ''
Gerard Cosioy$effing 'Dte Rocker Straight
In my fist article for thismagazine("Rockingthe

Gay Nerve: no. 37, Mar. 11),mne,

Ave Mike
let the hiding and self
hatred cease. Hall the great

SIgnorJlel

a quotation of
In referAlan Aelshmanence to myself, was InapproBrooklyn
priately used as a caption
for a photo of Cha Cha FerHall Heal
ncJ'ldez In such a way that It
After reading your articould be easily misinterpretcle on Marrlanne WlUlamson
ed asa quote from him, A
and The Manhattan Center
consequent misunderstandfor LMng, I really wanted toIng had him labeled as awrite and say that I think Its"gay rocker" without anyone
wonderful that OutWeek Is
asking him. To my knowlprinting articles on different
edge, Cha Cha has neveraspects of the healing promade (Xly PlbIIc statement
cess, I also enjoyed youror, In my presence, even pit- Interview with Nlro a few
vate statement concerning
weeks back. Iam a client- at
his private life. Any assumpManhattan Center as weD as
tions on the pat of the read- a volunteer, The experience I
er would be pure conhave at the center either as
jecture.
a volunteer or being part of
For the record, no one
the Wednesday and Monpressured or, for that matter,
day HIV groups Is such a lovasked me to write this letter. I
Ingandsupporting
asked my editor If I could
experience that I truly hopewrite It the Instant I spottedthat those In our corrm.n/ty
the erroneous
caption.
. having to deal with a Ufe
Unfortunately,
It was too
threatening Illness will comelate; the magazine
wasby to see what the Center
already on the stands,
has to offer.
My sincere apologies toMarrlanne- Is a great
Mr. Fernandez.
lady and has done so much .
Zecca
for OU' community and helps
us to unite as brothers andsisters In this battle with AIDS.
I believe the Earth Is
screaming for a healing andonly we as a collective
group can ~eepthis process
going. We need to band
together to heal this planet
and to heal ourselves, We
need places Ake Manhattan
Center for LMng and GMHC
and the committed wonderful men and women at ACTUP,
let the healing contlnuel
Patrick Cognetta
Manhattan

UrvCurve?
I was very pleased tosee the cover story about
NGlTF's Executive Director, .
Urvashl \bId. I was quite distresse~t however, by thetone of OutWeeK s InfrQductlon to Cliff O'Neill's Interview,

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DescrIbIng Vald as abearing on her assignment
tendency In OutWeek not to"yeRer," a "screamer" and aconsider how In speclflc conto such a position and mightorad" because she Is a seri- texts flIppancy dangerously
therefore,
In this society,ous actIvist, commItted toreInforces racIst and sexIst
make her one of "the last
grassroots organizing, Is trlvIpeople" considered, As I
perceptions.
allzlng, InsUtlng and left-baltBarbara SmIthhope we 01/ realize, evenIng. Remarking that "political,
Albany, NY
our enlightened, liberated
Inslders~ thought that she
lesbian and gay organlzo"would be the last person"
Features Editor Michelangetlons are not above racism
lo Slgnorl/e repl/es: ,to be appoIntedto headand sexism. (Although, In
NGLTFIn the artlde's flrst senI wol.id hope that peo- , all honesty, that was nottence conveys the racIst
ple reading that Introducwhat we were trying to pointtion would real/ze that It
and sexist message that only
out with regard to NGLTFIn
white males need apply.
that Instance,)
was printed In' OutWeek
I have known Urvashl
and would therefore know
since the early 80s and shethat most ofus-at /east the
Bull Bull
has always worked tirelessly
last time I checked-consldCraIg DavIdson, dIrec"yellers,"
and with Integrl1y, She Is not , er ourselves
tor of Gay and LesbIan
Involved In "radIcal postur,AllIance Against Defama"screamers"and "rads"
Ing" and she does not "Just and are quite proud of that,tIon, overlooks a key pIece
get thIngs: Of course It's not
We said that Vald wasof evidence In his peculiarly
uncommon when people of "the last person" who might lukewarm analysIs of thecolor and women succeed
Andy Rooney aftermath
have been considered
for some to believe It Is strictly based on her poI/tics("GLAAD TIdIngs: no. 36,
because of a magIcal fluke
Mar. 4),and not her race or gender,
or even "reverse dIscrimInaStates DavIdson: "DId,May I suggest, however,tion" (sic.),
that the fact that someone Is he or dIdn't he? Only AndyYour attempt to be cutea woman and a person of Rooney and reporter ChrIs
fell flat. It also exemplifies acolor certainly does have a' Bull know for sure ... , (I)fliL I SEE1dE _Rooney made the racIst
remark attrIbuted
to hIm,and,,,we think he probably
dId ... " then a suspensIon
should have been warranted. (emphasis added)Davidson needn't havehedged In makIng a flndlngof who's lyIng and who's
telling the truth, He sImply
should have asked to see a
copy of Bull's notes, Accord-,
Ing to Advocate publisher
Niles Merton, wrItIng In an
op-ed piece In the Wamlngton Post, Bull's notes, complied durIng hIs phone
conversatIon wIth Rooney,clearly documented
theoffendIng remarks.
DavIdson seems to be
playIng right Into the, handsof the consIderable numberof medIa comme'ntators
who decry that Bull dIdn't
tape record the IntervIew(when standard JournalistIc
practIce
Is not to record
routIne IntervIews), OtherAN~

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evidence existsto back up
Bull, The commentators, by
Implying falsehoods on
Bull's part, dig so shallowly
when the question Is gay
vs, straight Integrity. Davidson too should have dug
deeper.
Carl Goodman
Washington,D.C.

what Its mandate andagenda are. In particular,
what Its responsibility to Its
readership and the gay
public at large Is, In the sensltlvearea of collective selfImage.
With so few positiverole models available toyoung gays In the generalmedia, It Is a shame, I feel,
Gay PressPhoneHomethat gay publications willThe relationship be- Ingly allow de-humanizing
tween the gay press and and sex-obJectlfylngImages
advertisers such as the and copy to overwhelm
phone sexIndustryIs,for me, their pages, simply for theoften an uncomfortablepurposes of financial surand unsavory one ("Does vival. I, for one, would
the End of PhoneSexMean rather receive my newsand
the End of the Gay Press?.- views through a cleanlyno, 35, Feb, 25), The pros- designed, non-sexuallypect of the phone sexIndus- abrasive newsletter than In
try's demise or restructurlng the midst ofthe melange ofdoes not sadden me or sex ads and sex-productcause me alarm, In fact, I adds that constitute much
would hope that It mightof the ad-half of the major
provide an unexpected
gay publications In theopportunity for the gay country. I fell the harmpressto stop and reconsider done In betraying editorial

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politics and Intentions with lines altogether. Helms'
advertising content Is Ines- new desire. os expressed In
timable,his new legislation. Is -to
Yes,It Is difficult to sus-, outlaw- all -obscenetaln a goy publication
communication and -indewhen many advertisers are cent- communication that
reluctant to advertise In Is available to any person
one, but that Is not reason under the age of 18,'- This
enough to see one's read- Isnot all that unreasonable
ers to the nearest degradof a request.
Ing-In-Image advertiser.
The Helms amendeven one within the com- ment Is not a.threat to themunity. The goy medla's
goy press. or even to the
publiC Includes
manysafe-sex
phenomenon
young and future, gays.
known a~ phone sex. It Is
and If I were a person rais- not couse to re-dlrect andIng a family. I would not to dis-placevaluablerush to give my children.
political
energies thatstraight or goy. a guided
might better be used elsetour through either thewhere, Remember. when
you are entreated to -Dial
Pussycat Theater-or theAdonis,Now- Guys are Waltlngl-.
The new Helms legisla- guys are not the only peotion representsa significant ple waiting. The owners ofbargalnlng-down and por- ' the party lines and theirtlal loss on the port of wallets are waiting as
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AIDS in the 90s:

The Care Crisis
by Mark Schoofs .
"For the last nine years," says Rodger
Mcfarlane, "the AIDS movement has been
prIndpa1ly reactive. It was, as you know, onenightmare after another."
McFarlane certainly knows. He set up~-=.==:----r-.

faggots arxl junkies?" -but in the early days eX
the epidemic the general health care system
could absorb them all, grandmothers withcancer and people with AIDS alike. As the
epidemic spread, gay conununlty-based o~izations (CBOs) quickly developed to fill the-------1,',Iigaps that Inexorably developed. Suchorganizations,, says McFarlane,"took the heat off
the system, But
CBOs cannot continue to grow at therate of the epidemic."
Which brings up the main
problem: raw numbers. People keep
coming down with AIDS, and thesystem--public, private and communIty-based-Is
simply reaching its
breaking point
Last month Pat Christen, ex~tive
director of the San Francisco AIDSFoundation, testified before Congressthat her city of 750,000 people isexpecting its AIDS caseload to top-ONE NIGHTMARE AFTER ANOTHER,
17,000 by 1993, By that same year, San"..., 1It:h".., 1rHmerly'" GMHC Photo: Bill Bytsura Francisco's cost of caring for people

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',·,.",1"It's Irriposslble to get comprehehslve
care In there," says Cunningham, who tells of
yet a third GMHC client who contracted
pneumonia while lying for days on an
emergency room cot. "lbat's not what the
emergency room is for."Still, those who get an emergency room
bed, for however long, may actually be New
York's lucky ones, George Bellinger, Jr. of
New York's Minority Task Force on AIDS tellsof patients "waiting as long as 11 hours In an
emergency [waiting] room, only to get seen
for fen minutes and shuffied out"
Hit harder and earlier by AIDS, San
Francisco arxl New York are crystal balls. Most
AIDS activists believethat what's happening
In those cities now will
happen elsewhere in
the future, and they may well be right
In :l.ddition to the raw numbers, "Theface of AIDS Is changing,' says Mervyn
Silverman, another AIDS veteran who
currently setVes as president of the New Yorkbased American Foundation
for AIDS
Research (AmFAlO, AIDS is becomirlg less a
disease that afflicts middle ..dass 'men andmore one which strikes people in theunderclass, often women. Typically, sueh
people do not have personal physicians or
health insurance. Indeed" says Be1linger, It's

NEWS FOCUS

the first AIDS hotline on his personalanswering service, way back In 1982. Morethan 100 calls poured In the first day. He,
helped found New York's Gay Men's HealthCdsls (GMHC) along with Lany Kramer and a
few others, and then served for two years as
Its first executive director before leaving tooversee New York City'S AIDS service
contracts. McFarlane now serves as theexecutive director of an AIDS fundraisingfoundation ca11ed Broadway Cares,
He sees the AIDS movement-asheca11s the jumble eX service agencies, 10bbyists
and stree.t protest groups--gettlng less reactive
and more proactive. But like virtually
everyone else in the movement, he sees
another nightmare ahead: caring for those
who are already sick.
AIDScare has never been a high government prk>rity-McParl remembers one highaHcial tel1ing him, "I've got grandmothers dyfng
d cancer, so row do you expect me to fight for

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with AIDS is projected to reach $377
milliOll--Q figure that amounts to a staggering
eight-ninths of its total current health budget
New York, where the health care system
was In trouble before AIDS hit, is farir1g little
better, CarIsa Cunningham, a spokeswoman
for GMHC; points to the emergency room
backlog as the best Indicator of New YOlK'S
crisis, and says that her agency has had two
clients die while languishing In hospitalemergency rooms, One patient had been
there for eight days when he died; the other, had been there for nine.
Emergency rooms a~en't supposed tohandle patients for that long; as the nameimplies, they're supposed to staunch inunediateproblems arxl then transfer the patient Into aregular hospital bed, where full care can beadministered, But In New York, AIDS has'sooverwhelmed the system that stays routinely
last for three days or more, because there are<iten no hospital beds avallable,/-CHOOSING BE1WEEN HEALTH CARE AND A
HOME""- MiJarty 7lIaIr Fon:e~ GMpJ
BelliIIfIIr,.If.
Ptllto: Ellen B. NeiJJis

not uncommon for poor people stricken withthe disease to "choose between going to adoctor and having a place to live."
Moreover,such people
are often
geographk:ally or culturally distant from most
AIDS service oxganizations, which sprang outof the mostly white, micidl(Xlass gay malecommunity. So the new AIDS Caces, if they go
anywhere at all, go to public hospitals andclinics that in many cities w~re close tocapadty even before the AIDS onslaught
All of t:his--the fact that government hashistorically shortchanged
AIDS care, therelentlessly lncreaslng caseload, and the Cactthat an ever-latger' proportion of that caseload
depends on an already~erburdened
publichealth system-:-allof this leads to what
McFarlane
calls a nightmare
and whatsnverman calls "a very critical situation. ""The <mis in AIDS at the moment," sums
up a succlnct Tom Sheridan, director of public
policy for the Washington,
D.C.-based
lobbying group AIDS Action Council, "is care,"*****
The federal government has done little
to help the situation, and some of what it hasdone may actually have backfired,The
govenunern's emergency subsidies for AIDS
dro~, espedally for the super-expenslve An,
may have added fuel to what AIDS journalist,
Randy
Shilts, nicknamed
ARC-AIDS,Resentment Complex.
"What I'm sensing is an antagonism,"observes Silverman, who says that the attitude
am:mg advocates for other diseases often is,•AIDS came along and doesn't kill half as
many people as cancer, but it's getting all themoney." In Cact, giving money eannarked forany special interest group incites resentment
ahnost automatically, backing lawmakers into
the tough question, "Why them instead of us?"
When "them" refers to groups who are
already unpopular, as in the case of AIDS, thequestion becomes that much tougher,
When .AIbs activists pressed for the ,first
AZT subsidy three years ago, they werereacting to one of the nlghtmares-the Cact thatthe only fully-approved anti-AIDS dn!g costmore than $10,000 per year, And the subsidy
was never expected to last as long as it has; it
was intended as a stop-gap tne;ISUI'e until otheranti-AIDS dro~, which activists hoped woold
be less expensive, got full approval. None
have. So the special subsidies have beeI,lrenewed, but each time with a harder fightReflecting on the "resentment complex"
and its potential
to incite a backlash,Silverman concludes' simply, "I think themoqey [for AIDS care) is gOing to diminish,"

Ironically, hope may lie in the sheer
enollllity of the cwrent crisis. Silverman saysthat AIDS has put "pressures on, the healthcare system that affect people who don't have
AID~you
might not get a bed in New Yorkety for your heart attack because of AIDS." Inother words, fighting for the faggots now
means fighting for the grandmothers as well.
Sheridan's AIDS Action Coundl steers a
coalition of 150 ,groups called National
Organizations Responding to AIDS (NORA),
and it is far and away the most successful
natiqnal effort to unite AIDS with theconcerns of other groups, In addition to a'multitude of AIDS groups, the coalition
Includes such organizations as the National
Nurses Association,
the United States
Conferenceof Mayors,
the American
Federation of Teachers, the National Urban
League and the American Bar Association.
Currently Sheridan is using NORA towork on CARE, the Comprehensive
AIDS
Resource Emergency Act of 1990. Sponsoredby Senators Edward Kermedy (D-Mass.) , andOrrin Hatch (R-Utah), the bill is designed toprovide "disaster relief' to the hardest hit dties
such as New York and San Francisco . .In
essence, CARE is another stop-gap measure,but unlike 'the AZT subSidy, it is gaining
support from non-AIDS groups in the hopethat it will relieve the pressure on the healthcare system overall.
AmFAR, in tune with a chorus of other
AIDS groups, is making the bill its top
legislative priority. But the measure "would bea mistake if we weren't also working to
expandMedicaid, " cautions
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Wdshington lobbyist Jeff Levi.
"For [CARE] to succeed, it wlll needhundreds of millions of dollars," Levi
continues, "and we will ~ve to go back andfight for it next year and the year after and theyear after that. But once you create anentitlement program lsuch as one under
Medicaid], you never have to ask for themoney again. It's a hard fight, but once it's
there, it's there for good,"
Sheridan's NORA is also working to securesuch progcuns, For example, Sheridan says hisgroup is pushing for Medicaid to more readily
reimOOrse home-l:x!sed care. The provision, stillon the <hawing boord, coukl be written to be
InV-spedfic or to cover people with a wide
variety of ailments, according to Sheridan.
Support from non-AIDS groups would be~est to attain if it were general in scope, of
COUISe. But if the provision turns out to be InVspecific, Sheridan believes it would still enjoy
support from non-AIDS groups because, again,
it would free up valuable clinic and hospital
space for any patient with any disease,And such a poliey, even if it's tailored topeople with AIDS, might help people withother diseases in the long run. Traditionally,
American health care--QIld especially publicly
financed care-was adamantly institutional.
Home-based care, early intervention andpreventative
therapies
were the rare
exception. But AIDS advocates are fighting forways to make these kinds of strategies tlie
rule, and are breaking paths as they do so. As
Sheridan puts it, "AIDS is being used to set
some precedents on how care is delivered."*****
Even if CARE passes and even if
adjustments are made in Medicaid, American
health care-Q1ld hence care for people with
AIDS--would remain a catch-as-catch-cansystem. Sheridan deScribes it as "the Swisscheese approach to health care--Iots of holes,"Those holes are gaping ever wider,
Medicaid covers only the poorest of the poor,
fOrcing middle- or even low-istcome citizens
to "spend down" into poverty. And thedefinition of P9verty, left up to individualstates, can sink pretty low, In Alabama, asingle person is ineligible for Medicaid if he or
she earns more than $708,00 per year, and afamily of three is allowed only twice thatmuch, In New York City, the situation is betterbut sti11 tough: the cutoff for a single person
here is $47S per month; for a famiJy of three,$709, But however cruel, cutting back to theseincome leveIs is often the only way people
without private insurance can cope with major
medical bills,

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March 28, 1990

And such folks-Americans
without
insurance-number
between 31 and 37
million. More than half of those people areworking full-time or are dependents ofsomeone who is, And their ranks are likely to
sweJJ, Insurance rates soared 20.4 percent in
1989, a fact that many industry analysts
believe will cause-andhas alreadycaused-businesses to cut back on insurance,or to drop it altogether.
Although insurance companies haveraised their rates, they are neverthelessgrowing ever-more reluctant to insure many
AIrericans, especially those who need it most.
A recent front-page story in the New YorkTimes reported
that many insurancecompanies are "red-lining" professions which
they see as posing extra health risks, The
article cited numerous "ineligible" businesses
including lumberyards, convenience stores
and, ironically, health care agencies, But mostominously for AIDS, the article suggested that
insurers exclude professiOns which believe-NO CONSENSUS ON HEALTH CARe
they attract a disproportionatelyhigh
HHS Sec. Louis Sulli"anpercentage of gay men.
But even many of those who do havebottom line: "Industry is losing its goddamned
insurance don't feel secure. Nearly a quarterass due to skyrocketing insurance,"of all Americans-insured
or not-put
off
The economic incentive may be what's
medicai treatment last year for fear they could
needed to push some kind of comprehensive
not afford it, according to a nationwide Los
national health care policy over the top.
Angeles Tunes poll. And that same poll foundWithout
an extremely
broad-basedthat nearly half of all Americans believe theycoalition-one
that includes
at least
would be unable to afford good care if they
substantial business support-thepolitical
became Criticallyill,weight of health care refonn may simply be
Once again, the crisis itself may be thetoo heavy, So far, American Airlines andbest hope for its cure, In order for America to
Chrysler remain the only two major
guarantee quality health care for all its citizens,companies supporting Kennedy's proposal,
says Sheridan, "enough ,people have to get
and their testimony was logged in 1987, Thedisgusted from enough different perspectives,"
bill, reintroduced in slightly modified forms
That may be happening.
Senatoreach year thereafter, has yet to pass,Kennedy has introduced a bill requiring all
Kennedy's is not the only proposal,
companies to provide insurance t() thieralthough his has the distinction of having made it
workers, The usual lineup of labor, health andinto the rough and tumble of legislativepoJitia;,
poverty groups testified on its behalf, but
And it may not be the best. AIDS groups
representatives from American Airlines andapprooch it with caution because it would not
Chrysler also chimed in with support.
cover prescription costs---a fact which would
The concerns of the two corporations
leave AZf and other expensive AIDS drug; aswere heavily economic, "Today," testified
unattainable as ever for many PWAs,
Robe!t L, Crandall, Chainnan and President of
Yet another popular idea was released this, American Airlines, "companies like ours pay
month by the Pepper Commission, a bipartisan
for health care twice-oncefor our own
panel headed by SenatorJohn D, Rockefeller IV
employees and 'then again, via taxes and '(D-W. Va.) and named after the late
Representative Claude Pepper (D-Aa,). Its mostinflated health insurance premiums, for thecontroversial section, favored only eight toemployees of those businesses which don't
seven by the IS-member commission, wasprovide benefits for their own people," Thesimilar to the Kermedy bill in that it mandated
representative from Chrysler voiced sirn1larthat businesses provide insurance to theirconcerns, noting that the companY's healthemployees or pay into a national health care
care costs were approaching half a billion
fund, But it would still require the federal
dollars a year, or more than $300 per car,government to chip in $23.4 billion to the
McFar1ane,eschewing niceties, <haws theinsuraoce pot, and it offered no specific plans tofinance that expenditure, nor the $42,8 billion it
recommended sepaIlIteIy for expanded nursing
home care for the elderly, For that reason
President Bush, who has promised to review
the nation's health care system but has also
stuck fast to his policy of no new taxes,pressured the Republicans on the commission
to vote a~
the Insurance recommendations,
The commission's split vote caused Health 'and Human Services Secretary louis Sullivan
to observe that "there is no consensus in thiscounlIy today on how to achieve the kind ofhealth care system we ~t,or how the costof improvement in our system should beborne."
Sheridan agrees !hat "ifs hard to come toa consensus," but like many , he senses awidening concern about health care thatmight-andhe emphasizes
that lastword-leadto comprehensive reform, "Aaitiql! mass has started to fonn," he says.
"I could imagine a coalition on universal
health care," says AmFAR's Silverman,
speaking slowly as if mulling over his words,"I could pbsstbly see that"In the face of the AIDS care crisis, such a
coalition might represent the best hope forpeople with AIDS, AIDS groups joined one
such coalition before-the consensus which
gathered to pass the landmark Americans with
DisabilitiesAct (ADA).A civil rights bill for thedisabled, the act includes discrimination
protection for people with mv infection.
Silverman calls the effort to pass it, which
included a vast array ,of interest groups, "$,eperfect example of joining forces,"
Sheridan, who co-cllaired the lobbyingtask force for the ADA effort, agrees, But, hesays, rallying around a specific bill andrallying around the general issue of healthS•• AIDS IN THE !lOa on page 39

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NYSCourt Extends
Eviction Protection to Gay
Partners in, Stabilized Units
by Arthurs.

Leonard.'particularly
categories
of family
NEW YORK-The
Appellatemembers to be protected, all of which
Division of State Supreme Court inare blood or marital relatives ofManhattan ruled Tuesday that "gay-life
tenants. Last fall, the State Division ofpartners"
should have the same
Housing and Community Renewal
protection against eviction that otherannounced(afterextendedfamily members have in rent stabilized
negotiations with gay community andapartments.
According to attorneytenant advocacy groups) its plans toJames Briscoe West, who argued theamend the code to adopt the concept
case last fall on behalf of Robert Wells,of "functional families" and issued athe surviving
partnerof Stuart"temporary emergency regulation"
Goldstein,"It's another
Brascbt
intended to go into effect immediately.
decision." Goldstein died from AIDS in
The division held a public hearing in
1987, and the landlord tried to evict
January
on its proPQsal,
andWells from the apartment they had
permanent regulations are due to beshared for 12 years.
issued soon.
Last summer's decision in Brascbt
In the meantime, landlord groupsv, Stabl Assoctates by the Court of 'brought a lawsuit challenging the
Appeals in Albany (the state's highest
authority of the Division to extend thecourt) applied only to the fewer than
Brascbt ruling to rent stabilized
100,000 rent controlled apartments inapartments and to issue the temporary
the state. The rent control regulations
regulation. The landlords obtained aprotect "family members" of the tenant,without specificallydefining who
qualifies as such. A majority of the
Court of Appeals found that it was
inappropriate to exclude gay families
from protection,
holding that thedefinition of family "should not be
rigidly restricted to those people whohave formalized their relationship byobtaining, for instance, a marriage$:ertificate or an adoption order.""Many of, our clients
whoyesterday faced the threat of eviction
can today' rest assured that, they can
by Rex Wockner 'stay in their homes," said David
Seattle quietly became the largest
Hansell, director of legal services forcity in America to provide healththe Gay Men's lIealth Crisis. "Nowinsurance and other benefits to gay
they can fight their illness instead ofcity employees
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About
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regulation
by mentioningthat thedivision has concluded from Braschi
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to reinterpi~tthe rent
stabilization
rules to protect gay
SN EVlenON on palle 21

Gay/LesbianPartners Benefits
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The process began last April when
the city's Human Rights Department
determined that the absence of such
benefits for married partners violated
the city's Fair Employment Ordinance.
In response, the city council inAugust granted city employees withdomestic' partners
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About 300 employees are .expected
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Woman to Lead

Italian Gay Movement
by Rex Wockner
To the consternation of lesbian
separatists and the cheers of "gaye"
women, a woman has been electednational secretary of Arci Gay, Italy's
10,OOO-member national gay/lesbiantask force,
Graziella
Bertozzo,
35, waschosen by an almost unanimous voteof the group's membershipat theannual Arci Gay convention, held in
Bologna Feb. 9-11. Two-thirds of thegroup's members are men.
The Italian
Lesbian
Leaguepromptly denounced the development,
writing: "The recognitionof ourdifferences and our oppression has led
us to reject identification with men,even gays, and to understand that men
and women are never equal, even if
they are all 'different.'"
In direct reference to Bertozzo,
the League said" "When you put aflower in your lapel, it usually justwithers faster there."
Bertozzo, the first woman officer in
Arci Gay's ten-year history, is considereda key leader of a new movement tq
bring "gaye" women "out of the ghetto
lesbian separatists have forced us into,"
Although not standard Itaiian, theaddition of an 'e' to the word 'gay'
serves to feminize it, according to
movement spokeswomen.
The changes are exciting to Arci
Gay president Franco Grillini, who led asuccessful push at the convention torequire that 50 percent of the group's
officers be female.
"This may well represent the endof all the old ideological divisions,"
Grillini said. "The presence of large
numbers of women in Arci Gay,
especially in leadership
positions, isan opportunity not to be missed to.overcome our own sexism."
Reporting on the events, thenational news magazine L 'Esj>resso called

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Bertozzo's election "a new historicalstage in the Italian lesbian movement.
"A whole new generation of gaye,
the term they use for themselves, arelining up behind Bertozzo," the magazine
wrote. "Most of them are about 30 oryounger. They are combative activists,
given more to pragmatic action than totheorizing. They have a strong sense of'group feeling and the will to create ahomosexuality of their own. "Anotherleader of the gaye
movement,
Genova schoolteacher
Monica, hopes to push lesbians beyond"their lazy attitude that 'private is
beautifuL.' Enclosing oneself in a warmand cozy nest is just a new form ofsocial isolation," she told L 'Espresso. ~Project lriform toMerge with Drug
Trial GroupADVOCACY MEETS RESEARCH Photo: Rink
Project Infonn's Marlin Delaneyby Nina Reyes
SAN FRANCISCO-Onlydays
before the Food and Drug Administration
disclosed that Project Inform will beallowed to continue its clinical trial of
ComPound Q, the San Francisc<rbased

informational clearinghouse announced
that it would merge with the city's
Community Research Alliance. The
consolidation enhances Project Inform's
scientific credibility at a time when theorganization is under intense ethical andregulatory scrutiny, and provides theresearch group with an administrative
structure that will enable it to concentrateon its scientific investigations.
"For Project Inform, the advantages
are that they [now] have an inhouseresearch organization that is Structured
in such a way so that they can abide byfederal regulations," said Terry Beswick,
the Research Alliance's former director.
"For me, it facilitates communication, between both of our groups and allows
us to be very responsive to what's
going on in the community, both the
medical and the patient communities:"
Beswick says that he approached
Martin Delaney,
Project Inform's
executive director, last December about
consolidating 'the two organizations, andfound Delaney very receptive to hisidea. "Marty was interested in continuing
to do research," Beswick explained,
pointing out that Project Inform, which
was founded in 1985, was originallyconceived
as a community-based
research organization, Delaney's groupturned to informational and advocacy
work, Beswick says, because that waswhat was needed at the time.
"We are embarking on a new' era,"
Delaney confinned. 'We have made great
progress in expediting access to treatments
by focusing on IDA regulatory problems.
Now we must shift our attentions to theresearch arena, while continuing' ourinformation and advocacy work. "Project Inform garnered national
attention last year when news leaked thatthe organization was conducting an
undergroundclinical trial of anexperimental antiviral, Compound Q. The
IDA halted that study after three people
with AIDSenrolled in the trial died.
Although data gathered from theoriginal Project Inform study wasdeemed inconclusive, and disclosureof the unauthorized experiment lastyear provoked a storm of public andscientific controversy, the FDA recently
decided to allow Project Inform tocontinue where the previous trial leftoff, albeit with a new protocol andincrea.sed regulation. And despite thefact that Project Inform's merger with
the Community Research Allianceequips
the
group
with
an
independently
operating scientificreview process, criticism of the group's
professionalism remains intense,
The
Community
Research
Alliance, on the other hand, hasrecently reported results from its firstcommunity-based
trial. The organization studied hypericin, an antiviralthat has shown efficacy in vitro, overthe course of four months in a small
observational
trial. Results werereleased in AIDS Treatment News lastmonth, at least a year ahead of reports ,from academic groups conducting aphase I trial of the drug,
The merger provides Project,Informwith its own scientificadvisory
committee and Institutional Review
Board, two key componentsof aresearch organiztion that the groupformerly lacked, The Community
Research Alliance, in addition to gaining
an able administrative staff, will, berelieved of its need to raise money,

although Beswick 'says that he willcontinue
to solicit grants frompharmaceuticalcompanies and theAmerican Foundation for AIDS Research.
When the two organizations are fully
integrated, the new corporation will
have a budget in excess of $1 million.
While
it appears
that theCommunity Research Alliance, which
was formed in 1988, is ,being subsumed
into Project Inform, Beswick said thatwhen he approached his organizations's
board wi,th the idea of a merger,"nobody cared." He will relinqUish his
title of executive director, taking on the

new position of research director for
Project Inform/Community
Research
Alliance, and approximately half of hisorganization's board will join the Project
Inform directors.
'"My only concern was maintaining
our credibility as a research organization
when we are mergedwith anorganization that is heavily involved withadvocacy work," Beswick elaborated.
"But CRA is also involved with advocacy
and we have enough enemies [already! ,in the traditional research network justbeal,use we are who we are."
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Ne\",su.s. Reps.Trounce Army
On Gay Cadet's Scholarshipby Cliff O'Namand Andrew Mmar
WASHINGTON-A
group of 2&'
House members sent a letter March 7
to a ROTC commander insisting thatthe military abandon its attempts torecover a college scholarship from agay recruit.
Led by openly gay Rep. Gerry
Studds (D-Mass.), the letter protests theReserve Officers Training Corps'
decision to request the return of a$25,000 scholarship awarded to JamesM. Holobaugh; a highly commended
ROTC recruit who last year told his
commanding officer that he is gay.
The Army was set to award
Holobaugh his commission when hedisclosed his homosexuality last May.
After a preliminary hearing, the Army
decided to ask Holobaugh to return his ,scholarship last December. Holobaugh,
who is set to graduate
from
Washington University in St. Louis thisspring, has refused to return the

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scholarship and is suing the ROTC for
his commission.
Washington University has vocallycome out in support of the gay recruit
opposing
the military's
anti-gaypolicies.
Standing military policy contends
that homosexuality is "incompatible
with military service." Recently, theSupreme Court refused to hear two
court challenges of the policy.
"We believe that to compel him to
pay would not only be fundamentally
unfair; it would also reflect anappalling mean-spiritedness which has
no place in the ROTC," read the letter
sent to the commander of the Second .
Division of the u.s. Army ROTC Cadet
Command.
"I feel really good to be getting
support in Congress," Holobaugh told
OutWeek. "I think they realize, like
Washington University, that the army
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stances on abortion, AIDS education condom use and homosexuaIity. The organizers also hope to rally some support
among worshipers attending the mass. To
that end, they will distribute leaflets
explaining the reasons for the demon~on
and will hand out "offertory-bills"
to those entering the church.
The offertory bills will provide people
attending mass with a chance to express
solidarity with demonstrators outside.
Churchgoers will be urged to forego
making their ordinary Sunday offering andinstead to place one of these bilJs in thecollection plate as it is passed around.
The planned action will also include
a "die-in" in which demonstrators'
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outlines. And in, a gesture designed toreca1l Martin Luther's famous hammeringof his "95 Theses" on the door of thecastle churCh in Wittenberg, Germany, in
1517 - an act that challenged Catholic
doctrine and ushered in the Protestant
Reformation-a
number of demonstrators intend to post written statements
opposing church policy on the Kansas
City cathedral's door.
David Weeda, of ACf UP/Kansas
City, told OutWeek that his group has
made repeated attempts to arrange ameeting with John Sullivan, bishop of
the Diocese of St. Joseph and Kansas
City, in order to explain the upcoming
protest.
Sullivanhas
beenunresponsive.
In fact, said Weeda,"When we first called, it seemed hehad never even heard of ACf UP. He

thought it was some _Central American
protest group!"
Bishop Sullivan's misapprehension
is certain to be rectified come Sunday.

-James WaDer

WOlllen's,lIlusic fest
iIIlplelllents"favorable
balan~ing"
BLOOMINGTON, IN-Noting thatwhite, middle-classlesbians often

dominate
women'sculture,the
National Women's Music Festival thisyear has implemented a project whichorganizers
hope will eventually
increase diversity among festival
participants. The project, entitled theAlliance Between All Women, reflects agrowing sense of commitment on thepart of.women who shape women's
culture to celebrating and ~bracing.difference.
"In women's culture, the domiriani'
culture is white, middle-class lesbian,"asserted festival board member Ouistina
Springer. Accordingly, the Alliance
Between All Women project pri>po5es toprovide increased opportunities
for"non~ominant~ women, and lesbians
are not Singled out for "favorable
balancing," as Springer calls the project's
affirmative action goal.
"I think women who are mostactively participating in women's culture
are lesbians," Springer explained,
pointing out that the festival's entire
board of directors, all of its staff, and thebulk of its participants, are lesbians.
The project's primary goals are toreflect accurately the artistic and culturalcontributions' of women from a diversityof ethnic, racial and socio-economic
backgrounds, to increase recognition ofthese women~s artistic achievements inthe community of women who develop,
produce and appreciate women's music,
and to make the National Women'sMusic Festival econOmically accessible 'to all women.
"It's a plan that intends to attack theroot of the problem in our community,~
stated Springer, who will coordinate thefestival's conference for women of color.
The National Women's Music
Festival, which was founded in 1976, isthe oldest women's music festiVal in the
country.' Last year, more than 3,000
women attended the festival and its
conferences.
This year the Alliance Between All
Women will work to bring women ,ofcolor onto the festival's main stage and'into the festival's eight conferences. Next
year, the project will highlight ,the artistic
achievements of women with disabilities.
In the following years, older women,
women with children and blue-collar
women will be the focus of the project.
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()ut r-rakes
the festival with an attitude of actively
supporting women's culture as it isdefined by women', he might findhimself feeling a little uncomfortable."
The National Women's Music
Festival will take place this year fromMay 31 to June 3 in Bloomington,
Indiana.
~ina
Reyes

the same rights regardless of
their sexual orientation."
Supporters, who haveorganized
undertheCampaign 90 banner, areenthusiastic
about
the
prospect of human rights
protection for lesbian andgay people.
"It is very
difficult to do anything abOut
discrimination
toward.'.' lesbians and gay men in St.
MICHAEL PALLER
Photo, T.L. Lltt Paul because recourse is not
pro-choice groups, environmentalists
there and resources are limited," said
and progressive labor unions. "Not
Ann DeGroot, executive director of
everybody will agree on everything, of
the Gay and Lesbian Community
course," Piel said, "but at least we'll be
Action Council.
talking. "In the past, anti-gay voters in St.
FAIRPAC was founded in 1984,
Paul have organizedunder theNEW YORK-FAIRPAC, or Friends
and distributed
over $30,000 to"Citizens ,Alert" banner. St. Paul,and Advocates of Individual Rights,
candidates
in state and municipal
separated from Minneapolis by the
New York's gay and lesbian politicalelections last year. Paller replaced
Mississippi River, differs from its larger
action committee, may merge with the
Anthony Salerno, whose term had
twin city in that it is more Catholicstate's lesbian and gay lobby, disclosed
expired, as chair of FAiRPAC's ninethan Protestant,more Irish thanMichaelPidler, the PAC's newmember 'board.
~ina
Reyes
Scandinavian
and more labor thanchairman. "We have had a couple ofhigh tech.
exploratory conversations
with thePhil Sackett, a spokesperson for
New York State Gay and Lesbian Lobby
the Berean League, a fundamentalist
discussing a merger," Paller said. &1
group, said they have not taken awould like to see those talks continue."
stand against city issues related toJennifer Rich, executive director ofhomosexuality. However, Sacket said
the New York State Lesbian and Gay
many Berean League -members have
Lobby, confinned that her organization
been active in the "Citizens Alert"
is considering a merger with FAIRPAC.
group.
,,"We are discussing it and it is in the
ST. PAUL, MirinesotaCouncil"I personally don't believe themember David Thune introduced anworks," Rich said, calling it "probable"
ordinance would be useful because it
amendment to the city's Human Rightsthat the two groups will become one:encourages young people to think it's
"It would give us a defmite advantage
Charter for lesbian, gay, bisexual andokay to go into the homosexual,transgender rights March 13,which
as far as lobbying
is concerned
lifestyle,"
said Larry Putham,awould also prohibit discrimination
because they do contribute so heavily
fundamentalist Christian and Citizen
to campaigns."
against people who are perceived toAlert organizer. "I think a gay rights
be sexual minorities. The ordinance isIn the meantime, according toordinance would be very divisive for
expected to be referred to committee
Paller, his organization will focus on
the city and I think people would
where a public hearing devoted to thethis year's senate races. "What'sorganize against it."issues will take place.
particularly important in this election
St. Paul's human rights charter
On Aug. 8, 1989, passage of theyear is that whoever controls the stateincluded gay rights protection fromordinance was unanimously recomsenate will control the redistricting in
1974 to 1978. 'In 1978, 50 straightmended to the city council by the St.
couples from St. Paul's Temple Baptist
1991," Paller pointed out. FAIRPACis
Paul Human Rights Commission. The
Church went door-to-door
gainingalso seeking to build up its board ofissue did not surface within the city ,signatures challenging the city's gay
directors by actively soliciting a newcouncil until after the 1989 mayoral
rights language in an initiative andmembers.
election and city council elections ..
referendum campaign. "Citizens Alert
Candida Scott Piel, FAIRPAC's"Dave Thune has decided to takefor Morality" led an angry and bitter
executive director, added that her
leadership on this because it's right,"
campaign that successfully repealedorganization is working to expand its
said Chuck Remkey, Thune's assistant.
equal rights for lesbians and gay men
iilfluence, both in Albany and on thein St. Paul.
-David Anger"It is clear that everyone should have
local level, by building coalitions withNew
FAIRPAChead plots
merger

St. Paul tries
for gay rights
again,

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NEW YORK,IS AN AIDS DISASTER AREA.
WE'RE COMING.

MASSIVE PROTEST. ALBANY. MARCH 28, 1990.
We need the 1,000 acute care beds you promised in 1989. You gave us 100. People still
have to wait for days in emergency rooms all over the city.
There are 10,000 homeless people with AIDS (PWA's) in New York. This year you gave us
75 new housing units. Shelters are not medically appropriate housing for PWA's. Yourhousing makes us sick. 'Community based clinics are the only healthcare available for the 2.5 million uninsured
New Yorkers. They are so full they are turning people away, yet you did not increase theirfunds in 1990.
For drug treatm~nt to be effective in stopping the spread ,of HIV infection, it needs to beavailable for 250,000 intravenous drug users and over 450,000 crack and cocaine users.
40,000 treatment slots are not enough. Criminalizing, needle possession spr~ads AIDS.
.
,Buses will leave from Manhattan and Brooklyn, Tickets $10, sold now, Monday Nights at ACT UP,
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Drug Trials~Court Trials, T,ials and Tribulations

The Week'In AIDS
byR.Sugdln. NEW YORK-Amidst news storiesof the dismantling of governments,
various murders and suicides, the mixup at the sperm bank, the continuingsaga of Pather Ritter and Dan Quayle's
purchase of a big-<iicked male doll inChile, recent developments in AIDS
nonetheless held theheadlines.
The $175 million AIDS negligencesuit filed by Dr: Veronica Prego against
the New York City Health andHospitals CotpOration was settled outof court for a reported $1.5 million.
Prego contended
that grossnegligence at King's County Hospital,
where she worked as a volunteer
intern, caused her to stick herself witha discarded needle used to collectblood from a patient with AIDS,
infecting her with HIV. She also'
charged that a state researcher leaked
her HN status to fellow workers.
The trial became a soap opera
when the defense attorneys questionedheron
her sexual history to raisequestions about how she was actuallyinfected. The "AIDS doctor," as, she
was dubbed by the mainstream press, 'broke down on the stand when her
personal
physicianmadethecontroversial statement in court thatshe probably had a year or less to live.
After the end of the trial, Prego
claimed she took her case, to court inorder to draw attention to the dangers
facedby h_ealth care workers
throughout the city.
In an unrelated even~, New York
City Mayor David Dinkins appointed
Dr. J. Emilio Carrillo, a former Harvard
classmateof embattled
HealthCommissioner
Woodrow Myers, aspresident of the Health and Hospital
Corporation, which is in charge of thecity's hospital system.
In being appointed
the most
powerful position for health care in thecity, Dr. Carrillo said he would work to
improve the problems of low birthweight, infant mortality, heart disease,asthma, alcohol abuse, and AIDS, He
also stated that he would makeunannoucedvisitsto hospitalemergency rooms, one of the services
most in need of repair.
Also
last
week,
The New
York Times carried
twofront-page
articles on community-based tri:µs forexperimental AIDS drugs.
The Compound Q trial, run by
San Francisco's Project Inform, washalted last year when the Federal Drug

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March 28. 1990

Administration, (FI?A) learned of thedeaths of three participants.
Afterworking with Project Inform, the FD,A
approved a new trial of the drug using
the very same pool of participants,
Two days after the Compound Q
story, ,the Times' Gina Kolata reported

on the "odd surge" in deaths among
patients in a trial of the experimental
anti-viral drug ddI. Quoting BristolMyers, the U.S. mar'tufacturers of thedrug, the article said that patients in the
expanded access trial are "dying at morethan ten times [the rate ot] those who
are taking the drug in standard tests."
The expanded trial, known asparallel track, was a hard-fought
concession recently won from the FDA
by AIDS activists demanding better
access to experimental treatments forpeople with AIDS.
In an article the following day in
The Wall Street Journal, AIDS reporter
Marilyn Chase wrote that Kolata's piece
had caused panic
among some patientsin the trial. But otherphysicians, scientists
and statisticians "denied that there has
been a surge in ,dealth related to the
drug's- toxicity," according to the Journal.
Chase's
story
attributed the higher
death rate to "the factthat a high percentage of the patients who received'the drug [on theparallel track] wereamong
the verysickest," and therefore
more likely to die.
Meanwhile, in'Los Angeles, theRoman
Catholic
Archbishop
there
sent out a letter to some 3,000 nuns
and priests asking for their participationin an AIDS vaccine test. Archbishop
Roger Mahoney said he was assisting
the researchers
for the recently
developed vaccine by Dr. Jonas Salk,, S.. THE WEEK IN AIDS on .. I.&ZROTC from PI.' 18

He added confidently, "It's goingpolicy is prejudiced and wrong."
to ehange eventually:
The Army has suggested that thisThe congressional letter was signed
may be the first case of its kind as it
by 21 Democrats and two Republicans,usually does not ask recruits to returnmost of which are longtime backers ofscholarships unless they have evidence
gay and lesbian dvil rights.
of deceit. That would mean that theIn addition to Studds, the follOwing
Army would have to prove that
House members also signed the letter:
Holobaughintentionallykept his
Patricia Schroeder (D-Colo,), Ronald
homosexuality
secret' in order to
Dellums (~Iif.),
Alan Wheat (D-Mo,),
receive his scholarshipand only
Gary Ackerman (D-N.Y.). Les AuCoin
revealed it when he did in order to(D-Ore.), Anthony C. Bellenson (0avoid having to serve.
Calif.), Howard L. Berman (D-Calif,),
Holobaugh has contended that heJohn Conyers (D-Mieh.), Don Edwards
dated women while in college and'(D-Callf.), Barney Frank (D-Miss,), Sam
only revealed he was gay when he
Gejdenson (D-Conn.), Bill Green (Rrealized it himself. Besides, he adds,
N.Y.), Robert Kastenmeier (D-Wisc.),he does want to serve.
Peter H. Kostmayer (D-Penn.), Robert T.
To complicate matters, an officer
Matsui (D-Callf.), Jim McDermott (0investigating the case has concluded
Wash.), Nancy Pelosi (D-Callf.), Jamesthat "there was no willful evasion that
Scheuer (D-N,Y.), Christopher Shays (Rcan be proven" on Holobaugh's part.
Conn.), Stephen S. Solarz (D-N.Y.),"It is to Mr. Holobaugh's credit
Jolene Unsoeld (D-Wash.), Ted Weissthat he conducted
himself in an(D-N.Y.) and Lane Evans (D-m.) ...
open and forthright manner, directly
MERGE from pa•• 17
informing his commanding officer assoon as he realized he was gay," theProject Inform will continue toMembers letter added. "We believe
operate its treatment hotline after thethe Army has cheated itself out ofmerger is complete, and both the hotline
the future services of a qualified
and its informational services will be
officer."
expanding in the upcoming months.
Gay and lesbian activists reacted-ftledfrom Boston'with equal outrage to the Army's
EVICTIONfrom PI.' 14
decision to ask Holobaugh for his
scholarship back.
f~milies. Asch said that extending
eviction protection to rent stabilized"The ROTC's position is akin toapartments
was less onerous
toasking a man to pay for the gasoline
used by the arsonist who's burnt his
landlords than extendfug protection torent controlled apartments, because
home to the ground,· quipped Gregory
landlords are entitled to a much larger
King, communications director for therent increase accompanying decontrol
Human Rights Campaign Fund.
of an apartment than they can get for a
Holobaugh,
who
plans
to
graduate from college this May, is ' change of tenants in a stabilized
awaiting a final decision from the army , apartment.
"This
torpedoesthelegal"
on his commission and his payback. "Ifchallenge by the landlords to thethey have any understanding of thepending regulations,· commented asituation at all, they won't ask me forjubilant Jim West, who has handled
the pay back. They're denying me adozens of eviction cases on behalf ofcommission and also asking me tosurviving gay life partners over the
payback the scholarship. It's adding
past several years. "I think they're on
insult to injury," he said.
the razor's edge of equal protection,"
Asked how he felt to be the focus
he added, referring to arguments thatof attention of one of the world's mostthe constitution
may require thepowerful militias, the model cadet,. whogovernment to recognize gay families
has already landed a job, to begin infor eertain purposes.
June, as a structural engineer with a"Friends of the court"' briefs were
Manhattan firm, said, "It feels good to
filed by Lambda Legal Defense andthink that I might make some difference.
If the army doesn't change with me, it Education Fund (with the partidpationof Gay Men's Health Crisis and the Bar
will change with someone else:

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Associationfor Human Rights ofGreater New York), and the American
Civil Liberties Union and its New YorkState affiliate (with the participation of
the Metropolitan Council on Housing
and the New York State Tenant andNeighborhood Coalition).
Steven A. Rosen, an attorney who
worked on Lambda's brief, said, "It'sextremely gratifying that the cc;mrtsare
fmally recognizing the very real kindsof relationships in which gay people
live their lives:
William B. Rubenstein, an ACLU
staff attorney who argued the Brascbt
case last year and worked on the
ACLU brief in this case, said, "Thecourt's, decision acknowledges that afamily is a family, whether a rent
controlled or rent stabilized apartment
is at issue:
The other judges joining thedecision were Ernst H. Rosenberger,
Bentley Kassal and Presiding JusticeFrancis T. Murphy ....

Corrections:
The first lines of paragraph two in
Joe E. Jeffreys' "Lions and Tigers andBears" (Issue 37) should read as
follows: "Crowbar exorcises the ghostsof the Victory Theater, Times Square's
oldest existing theater. Presented by
En Garde Arts, a site specific theatercompany, the play's text is adaptedfrom newspaper obituaries, fire reports
and articles centering around the 28thof September 1900."
RobertHilferty's
reviewof"Moving Pictures" (Issue 31) failed tomention that Tom Smith curated thenationally
travelling, show in his
capacity as an assistant director of theAmerican Federation of Arts Media Arts
Program. For more information catl
(2i 2)988-7700.

THUR8DAY8
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11:00 pm

• Gay Week in Review• Act-Up• GCN Close-Up• Sports• Lavender HealthDennis Deleon, new openly ga~'
Commissioner of Human Rights, with Jim
levin, Joyce Hunter, Phil Reed, and former
Human Rights Commissioners. Hosted byAndy Humm.

The Right StuN
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Rebecca Lewin and lesbian Art at The
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The Ms. Southeast leather Competition
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SUNDAY8

11:30 pm

Reviews of male erotica along with. interviews behind the scenes with film
stars

Interview with Guy Baldwin, Mr.
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new video Breaker Blue; absolutely
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MONDAYS

10:00 pm

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game sho~ with surprise guests.

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Celebrat.ng our 8th yeal:

New York Journal

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Coalitions Make History
at Harlem Hospital,by Craig G. Harris"Who is this sister, and why is she so
Bonnie Harrison, Candice Boyce, Don
damned concerned about our issues?"
Reed, Sandra Lowe, Jonmichael HerFlorant probably read my mind andrington, Dionne Freeney and on and on.
, offered that the issues of the AfricanUnfortunately, the event drew anthef white gay community missed
American lesbian and gay communities
audience of less than a hundred whoanything in the mire of the Myers are the issues of all African-Americans. were mostly lesbian or gay themselves.
controversy, it was the message that They are one in the same.
As often happens, several of us felt
Mayor David Dinkins sent the AfricanIt didn't take more than a beat forourselves preaching to the proverbial
Americancommunitywiththeme to launch into a diatribe about thechoir, and realized that nine out of ten
simultaneous appointment of Dr. Billy fact that, indeed, our issues are quiteof the choir members could deliver justE. Jones,a Black,
openly-gay
different, thank you, and that does not
as compelling a sermon. But that's
administrator,
to the positionofdetract from the fact that we are andokay, really, because you have to startCommissioner of Mental Health of thealways have been a part of the larger
somewhere
and the planning, theCity of New York. It was acoming'together,was 'the truemessage of coalition-building
value of this endeavor anyway.
within the African-American
The most important factor
community-a signal that wehere is that the project was
can and need to work
initiated by genuinely concerned
together on our common
heterosexuals asking to come toissues, and that no one
the table as equals, rather thanneeds to hide any part ofto gawk at the spectacles before
themselves to contribute to the struggle.
Black community. What we need, I
them.
Generally,
it takes
theGwendolynFlorant,aBlack , explained, is a safe space in which toconcerted efforts of lesbians and gay, heterosexual sex educator and social
dialog-to establish a critical analysis
men banging
on the doors ofworker with the AIDS Initiative Programof the interactions between African
traditional African-American
institof Harlem Hospital didn't miss that
Americanlesbians,gaymen,utions demanding to be let in before
message. She heard and reached out.
heterosexuals
and all points ineven slight acknowledgementisF10rant saw the need for members
between, 'keeping in mind the social
given.
of the African-American community to construct which pelVades ....
Maybe it's a sign that even during
address the issues of homosexuality,
F10rant looked at me very calmly
a period when Martin Luther King, III
and sexual diversity within the African and said simply, "Cool. Show me how
publicly
acknowledges
his bediaspora from the perspective of theto do that."wildennent and disdain for lesbian and
African-American
lesbian and gay
It was one of the most productive
gay relationships, Eddie Murphy andcommunites.
She envisionedthatmeetings I've ever had. No cireuitous
Spike Lee persist iii using the terms
proeess beginning with a one-day
chatter. No processing. F10rant laid out"faggot"
and"punk"
in theirconference at Harlem Hospital entitled
her ideas, objectives and needs and myscreenplays, Daniel Patrick Moynihan
co-worker at GMHC, Gary Paul Wright, -responds to an inquiry regarding"Forging Together in the 90s... Unity
and SUlVival.»F1orant's next step was
and I responded with suggestions ofracism in the United States by
program structure, appropriate speakers,
to start networking with educationalsuggesting that the Caribbean wife of a
mailing lists and reading materials. All Vassar professor
staff of the Gay Men's Health Crisis-return to her
and the Minority Task Force on AIDS the while, F10rant took copious notes.
homeland if she finds the racial climate
As the planning process continued,
to get a sense of an Afrocentric gay
here too, chilly, and Andy Rooney can
the line-up of presenters became aperspective, and to identify resources.
rega~ premature airplay, some of us
cavalcade of Black lesbian and gay divas: in African American communities----at a
It immediately became clear that
Ron Johnson, George Bellinger, Jr. andvery grassroots level-arelearning
there was a: mutUal willingness to work
Rory Buchanan (with son Jason) from,thehow to live and work together
together, despite the mild level of
Minority Task Force on AIDS, Joyce
respecting
the diversitiesof ourdistrust on the part of the lesbians andlifestyles and, bonding around ourgay men involved. When I fl1'St met with Hunter and Pamela Sneed from thecommon struggles. T, F1orant,'I remember thinking to myself, Hetrick-Martin Institute, Dr. Marjorie Hill,

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OK
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NO
NO
NO
NO
NO
NO
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Brooklyn
Queen.
Bronx
Staten Island
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DYES
DYES
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DYES
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DYES
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OK
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NO
NO
NO
NO
NO
NO
NO
NO
NO
NO
NO
NO
NO
NO

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Parties
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TravelCamping hiking
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CyclingMusic
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NO
NO
NO
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NO
NO
NO
NO
NO
NO

Lover (monogamous)
Lover (nonmonogamous)
Buddy (sexual)
Buddy (platonic)
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DYES
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DYES
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DYES
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OK
OK
OK
OK
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NO
NO
NO
NO
NO
NO

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21-25
25-30
30-35
35-40
40-50
50+

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NO
NO
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NO
NO
NO
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NO
NO
NO
NO
NO
NO

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DYES
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DYES
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DYES
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NO
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Attractive
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Below average
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DYES
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DYES
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NO
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NO
NO
NO
NO
NO
NO
NO
NO
NO
NO

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OK
OK
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OK
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OK
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NO
NO
NO
NO
NO
NO
NO
NO
NO
NO
NO
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NO
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Working out
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TV video
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o
o

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OK
OK
OK

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NO
NO
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DYES
OK
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I

4.

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Dr. Charles Franchino
30 Fifth Avenue
New York, New York 10011
212.673.4331
oRics hours by appointment

A memorial concert for Deolus(Decie) Husband will be held at Wave
Hill'in Riverdale, the Bronx, on Sunday
afternoon, March 25, at 3:00 p.m. Mr.
Husbanddiedof AIDS-related
pneumonia on November 13 at Cabrini
Medical Center in Manhattan.
Mr. Husband was a composer andco-ownerof Uptown Cheese, aspeciality food shop in Inwood, A nativeof Mississippi, he moved to New York
City in 1981 to pursue graduate studies
at the Manhattan School of ¥usic,
where he received both his masters anddoctoral degrees the latter in 1987.
The program will feature threeworks by Mr. Husband, including thepremiere of a movement he completed
last spring for voice, clarinet, viola andpiano titled "This Life."
Wave Hill is located at 675 W.
252nd Street in the Bronx. For further
information
regarding the coneert
please eall (212) 30+1689. ~

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Political Science

Gina Kolata singsthe dd-IBlues (Again)
pancreatitis. "In truth, only a small fraction of the deaths associated withby Mark Harrington
ddI can be attributed to delI. The expanded access program wasdesigned for several groups-people
who were too sick toenroll in the clinical tria.ls, who had outlived AZrs usefulness,dI has now been in human trials for over a year. who could not tolerate AZf or who lived too far away from the
About 800 people have taken it in two Phase I trial sites. The first two groups, especia1Iy,make up a population(safety) trials, which began in late 1988, and three with advanced AIDS for whom ddI may have been the lastPhase II (efficacy) trials, which began last October. chance. You could give 8,000 people with advanced AIDS
aspirin and three percent of them might die----and it would be
In addition, 8,000 people have taken ddI on the expanded
access program fought for by ACf UP and approved by the from AIDS, not from aspirin.
The same thing is true of the ddl expanded accessFood & Drug Administration (FDA) last September.
program. In fact, only three
Fifteen people havepercent of the deaths. weredied in ddl clinical trials.
associated with pancreatitis.
Gina Kolata 'of the New Yom
In '1986-87,
Burroughs7Jmestold me this when she
Wellcome distributed AZT
called me on Sunday, March
free to almost 5,000 people
11 for a quote in her moston a "Treatment
IND"
recent hatchet piece, which[Investigational New Drug)appeared the next day. Yet
beforethedrug
wasin her story she wrote, "Butapproved. After 44 weeks,
only two of 700 taking it
27 percent (over 1,200) had[ddI) in the clinical trials ...
died. Perhaps some of thehave died."l She told me
deathswereduetothat the 15 deaths were theexcessive doses of AZT, or
total since the first person
to less advanced medical
took ddl in late 1988. In
care. But the fact remains
addition, 290 people havethat 27 percent of people receiving AZf on early access died
died in the expanded access program.
Why didn't Gina tell the full truth in her article? Did she after 44 weeks, while less than four percent of thosereceiving ddl on expanded access have died. (see chartskew the numbers in order to exaggerate the difference
between the clinical trials andexparided access? What ts her below)
The real danger now is that a small minority ofagenda?
Other reporters were more objective. Marilyn Chase, of researchers, jealous of their eroding power, will seize upon
the Wall Street Journal, spent more time discussing the the news about delI to limit all present and future expanded
access programs, including Parallel Track.' In last November's
implications of the pancreatitis-inflamedpancre~whichaccess, Kolata quoted several
occurred in seven of those who died on ddI. Chase quoted assault on expanded
disgruntled AIDS researchers. This time, the only people she
unnamed researchers
speculating that "heavy alcohol
could persuade to go on the record opposing any form of
consumption
may provoke or aggravate AIDS-related
expanded access were academic "experts"
who, know little or nothing of AIDS. This
included Thomas Charmers of Harvard,
who disapprovesof all Phase I trials
because they don't compare two drugs.
Chalmers claimed the high death
rates in expanded
access were "adisgrace." They are a disgrace caused by
AIDS, Dr. Chalmers, not by ddI. The
second "expert" Kolata quoted was Dr.
Paul Meier of Chicago, who designed astatistical tool called the "Kaplan-Meierd34

OUT~EEKMarch 28,1990

Survival Curve" used in evaluating
clinical trials. Dr. Meier was quoted the
day before in ·shock" at Larry Kramer's"threatening" remarks to the FDA AntiInfective Advisory Committee lastAugust. Powerful figures' in American
biomedicine are not used to being
confronted by the people whose lives
they have hitherto controlled. Neither,seemingly,arereporters
like
Kolata-whosejobs were far easier '
when
they
involved
merelyparaphrasingpress releases fromindustry and government.

In fact, tbe ddI trials are gotng
quite well. Enrollment is twice as fast'

good and bad---Qbout ddl. The latest
furor only underlines the need forbetter communication.
People with AIDS must' have theopportunity
to make treatment
decisionsbased not on hype or
hYsteria, but on informed cbolce.'Y

Notes:
1. "Odd Surge in Deaths Found in
Those Taking AIDS Drug." Gina Kolata,!be New Yom TImes, 3.12.90, p.l.
, 2. Gina Kolata told me Sundaythat a total of 15 people had died inas the AZT trials of two years ago.
According to Dan Hath, directQl' of the
AIDS Clinical Trials Group, we may
know within a year how ddl differsfrom AIr, and whether it should beapproved.

enzyme).
Peripberal neuropatby: Pain orlack of sensation in the feet and legs.
Can be caused by mv itself or' by ddl'
or' ddC. Reversible if caught early. Also
caused by Amphotericin-B, Isoniazid(INH) , Antabuse, Bactrim and othersulfa drugs.
'
Dtq"bea: Bristol-Myers packages
ddl With an antacid buffer so the drug
isn't broken down in the stomach.
Unfortunately, this buffer turned out to'
be a laxative, and many people
developed diarrhea-caused
not byddl but. by the buffer. Bristol-Myers is
supposed to change jts formula.
Informed consent: Some doctors,
including Jeffrey Laurence of New
York, cOmplained to the Ttme.s thatthey were kept "in the dark" about
new ddl information. ACT UP andothers have ~variably demanded that
Bristol-Myers provide doctors and
PWAs with the latest information-

3."Survival Experience Among
Patients
witlll.' AIDS Receiving
Zidovudine: Followup of Patients, in a
Compassionate Plea Program." CreaghKirk T., Doi P., Andr.ews E et al.;JAMA,
11.25.88, pp. 3009-3015.

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So wbat sbould we expect fromddI? At best, it will be a less toxic
alternative to AIr. At. worst, it will be
an alternative with less antiviral activity
and unpleasant side effects. It will
never be a magic bullet.
Pancreattlts: Inflammation of thep~creas. The most serious problem
seen so far. Can also be caused byother drugs used in AIDS, such as
Bactrim or IV pentamidine,bycorticosteroids or by other sulfa drugs.
Do their interactions with ddl increase ,the risk? We don't yet know. Monitor:levels of amylase (a pancreatic

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theybegan-butin her story she reported
on only two of these deaths, in themost recent trials opening last October.
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Ms. Understanding,Sensitive Advice for the Sexually Marginal
UNo Question is too stupid."over and over again that this wholemess is Jesse Helms' fault.
Now it is time to demand an end
to the madness. Insist that North
Carolina hold special elections. DOn't
forget to call in an international team of
impartial ,observers to insure fairness. If
you're stumped for an opposition
candidate,
you might try Daniel
Ortega-be's not busy these days. But,
no matter whom you choose, Jesse
Helms will become a thing of the past.
This
processiscalled"democracy." You'll fmd it is a pleasant
break from outright invasions--and solegal, too! In short, dear: stop wearing
your Nikes out on the picketline-thisis America, not The Wanderground.
Stop mourning and organize.

Dear Ms. Understanding,
Recently my lover and I were
married in what I can only call an
Commentary by Susie Day"uncivil ceremony." There we were,am losing my ability to
Roy and I, elegant in our new tuxedos,
visualize World Peace. .
the cut-glass punchbowl reflecting the
In Stnlggle,
light of a perfect June day, orchestra
Angstwomon
I!,lusic wafting strains of "Oh Promise
Me"-whensuddenly our "friends"
Dear Angstwomon,
burst into the room, singing crude
Wake up and smell thesongs and wearing everything fromcoffee, bub: It's, the end of
bowling outfits to Mardi Gras gear. The
History,
and you needminister resembled nothing so much asprofessional help. If social
Tmkerbell in heat, and read to us out of
injustice is getting you down,a Betty Crocker cookbook. My parents
why not ask yourself what thewere there, after weeks of my pleading
federal government would do
for them to come, but they pretended
in your place? All you need
to be Swedish caterers, and wouldn't
do is adhere firmly to the
speak a word of English the entire time.
moral principles that have
Worst of all, the only gift we received
made this country Numero , was a gold lame whoopee cushion.
Uno in jobs, peace 'n justice.
Is this someone's idea of a joke? I
For instance, let's say that you
have never been so embarrassed.
want to get rid of Jesse Helms
Signed,and fancy yourself too highBlushing Groomminded to actually kill him.
Simply acquire several
Dear Blushings,
Three lashes with a wet whip for
P.hoto: Ben Thornberry battalionsof mercenary
soldiers (gays and lesbians
your friends and family. Marriage is a
Dear Ms. Understanding,expelled from the military will dosacred institution, and should be treated
I am a macro-radical
lesbiannicely), and arm them with millions ofas such. Your guests should have shown
feminist who is currently into heavy
dollars of illegal weapons. Now, ask
more respect. Don't they realize that,
despair. My problem is that I careyour mercenaries to 'surround the entire
since openly gay people aren't allowed
deeply about social justice, but there
state of North Carolina and destabilize
on quiz shows, a traditional wedding isisn't any, you know? I mean, what
the civilian population. Reward yourabout the only way gays have ofkind of world is this where Jesse
troops for their bravery by giving themobtaining all those blenders, toasters,
I;Jelms can effectively
censor gay
permission to blow up hospitals, power- , . microwaves and modem appliances thatpublications by making phone sex ads
stations and day care centers. Just' forstraight people are given as a matter ofcourse? How insensitive! The next timeillegal?-whererecent elections infun, declare an economic embargo andyou get married, don't settle forplant mines in North Carolina harbors.
'NiaU-agua resembled nothing so muchanything less. T.
Be sure and tell the major news media
asa leveraged bu~-out? Help, quick! I

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which is, after all, nothing more thanreported on the status and goals of
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new wave of our movement.
Finally, Mr. Alter's column is fullenter the 199Os. It was pretty much
In a special commentary followingof implicit charges that gays arecorrect about our political goals, suchthe news article on The Future of Gay
inherently exhibitionistic about theiras repeal of sodomy laws, passage ofAmerica,
Newsweek
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homosexuality,
and that's what
anti-discrimination
laws, efforts to
Jonathan Alter asks "Is homophobia
people object to. What he fails tocombat anti-gay violence and an end
eqivalent to racism?" The question wasnote, of course, are the double
to official anti-gay policies in the , raised by the Andy Rooney affair, instandards involved in this judgment.
military. Regarding AIDS, it was goodwhich this organization argued that if it Take the simplestcas~: Straightto see an acknowledgmentof bothis proper
to suspend
televisionpeople can talk publicly about their
AIDS political activism and social
personalities for making racist remarks,
upcoming marriages or anniversaries
activism-how we have taken care of
it is also proper to suspend them forfor months
without
ever being
each other in the face of government
making homophobic remarks. We also' accusedofflauntingtheiriridifference. The high priority we arepointed out that one disputed racist
homosexuality.
Gays have been in
putting on having our families legally,remark by Mr. Rooney got instantthe closet so long-and
sufferedrecognized was properly stressed.
nationwide media attention while ainvisibility in the media so long-that
And the key role of lesbian activists
series of undisputed
homophobic
any positive or neutral reference to us
in all of the above waS highlighted.
remarks by him were overwhelmingly
is notable. That makes it seem to
But there was a glaring omission
ignored- more evidence of the media's
some that we're talked about a lot. In
in the article, which is the failure to
an it-gay double standards. Mr. Alter
fact, looking
at the line-upofacknowledge that one of the biggest
makes two arguments: that it is OK tocharacters on television, columnists
problems we face as a community isobject to homosexuality as long as you 'on the national op-ed pages andbias against
us in the, media.
don't treat homosexuals badly and thatelsewhere, we're still overwhelmingly
Nowhere is it ackpowledged that one
one can object to certain behavior byunderrepresented.
of the reasons that government
homosexuals without being anti-gay.
At one level Mr. Alter is right.
responded
so slowly to the AIDS
,If you'd like to ask for more selfepidemic
'is
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Private objections to homosexuality,
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Newsweek, write to:'report on it for the first four years
primary worry. But public anti-gay
Eloise Salholz, General Editor or
because it seemed to be affecting
conduct is wrong and harmful. What
Jonathan Alter, Media Columnist
only the gay community. The article
we have to keep in mind is that when
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care reform are two "very different" thln~,
The "campaign mentality" that animated
ADA's coalition doesn't exist for any particularpiece of health care reform legislation.
MCFarlane agrees. "Youll see more andmore of us pulled into the same room," hesays, but "this Is all embryonic."
Building sueh a health care reform
coalition would be no easy task. Businesseswhich by and large did not support' ADA
because of Its expensive mandates to provide
access to the dlsabled-may come around if
the costs of hea1th care CQntinue to soar. But
business will almost certaiilly back off fromany proposal which requires It to shell out
more than It currently' does, And one
powerful lobbying grou~eInsuranceindustry-wilI fight tooth andany healthcare reforms which Jeopardize its profits.
Already, the Insurance lobby Is pushing hard
to strip the Kennedy bill of Its requirement for
insurers to accept employees regardless of
pre-existing conditions,
But business Is not the only group slow
to jump In. By and large, advocacy groups forthe poor and people of color have not throwntheir (ull weight behind changes in health carefinancing. The reason lies not in any lack of

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and teenage pregnancy
topping the list of inunediate COIlCeIIlS--QJld
with lobbyists often struggling just to hold theline against Reagan-era cutbacks that havecontinued under President Bush-all-out
health care reform has received something ofa short shrift.
The shrift gets still shorter when healthcare Is tied to AIDS. "A lot of denial" of the
impact of AIDS in conununities of color has,according ,to Robinson, left those communities"three or four years behind" in recognizing
the seriousnessof AIDS and Its larger,
overarching care ramifications. "The only
reality check," says Robinson, "will be
hundreds of thousands of deaths, and thenwell have to scramble."
But it's precisely not having toscramble-notalways having to react tonlghtmares-that, is the goal of joining in aneffort to overhaul American health care, In
many respects, AIDS groups have hadtremendous success against tremendous odds.
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coalitions strong enough to avert the nextnightmare, the crisis in care? GMHC's' Levithlnks they've "been broad enough based forthe issues we've faced. Until now." ,7bis article agJea,s courtesy of Cbtc:aso's
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The AIDS Insurance Wars,and Other Follies
by Arthur S. LeonardA

recent decision by a New
York appeals court holdingthat the state's Superintendent of Insurance lacked authority
to ban HN antibody testing by healthinsurers has thrown the issue back into
the legislative arena. Superintendent
James P. Corcoran had issued aregulation
banningsuchtesting in 1987, at thedirection of Governor Mario
Cuomo, who had seen his bill
to deal with the problem
come to noughtin theRepublican-controlled
New
York State Senate.
The insurance industry
promptly challenged
the,regulation in court, arguingthat existing state insurance
laws did not give thesuperintendent any authority
to tamper with underwriting
decisions, and insisting that because the
HIV antibody test was "actuariallysound," they were entitled to use it.
Indeed, the insurers argued, they had a'
responsibility to their customers who
were not HIV antibody positive toout the seropositives in order tokeep the cost of health insurance down
for everybody else. Justice Daniel H.
Prior, Jr., of State Supreme Court inAlbany County, ruled in 1988 that theregulations were invalid and five judgesof the AppelJate Division unanimously
agreed with him in their February 15,
1990 ruling.
The health insurance industry has
been fighting astutely ever since the
EUSAtest was licensed by the Food andDrug Administration early in 1985 for, the unimpeded right to test individual,health insurance. applicants for HIV
infe<;tionand to deny th~ applications oftho~who test positive. Although mostscreen40

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health insurance coverage is sold on agroup basis through workplaces orprofessional associations, individual
policies are still a significant proportionof the total, and industry spokespeople
stated fears that large, unanticipated
AIDS claims under such policies would
seriously damage the industry's viability.
In some cases, they have even tried to
cut losses under group policies by
putting absurdly low "caps" on, AIDSrelated claims or arguing that priortreatments for sexually transmittedcompetent laboratory. That does notmean the tests are 100 percent reliablefor diagnostic purposes, but merelythat as a statisticalmatter the
proportion of positive-testing persons
whowilldevelopsymptoms
generating claims for health insurance
benefits is wen enough established to
be a factor in determining insurability
as a matter of customary underwriting
practices. That is all that is required for
insurance underwriting purposes under
existing laws. Any argument that
insurance companies should
not be allowed
to testbecausethe test is notcompletely accurate will not
get very far, since such anargument goes against thevery nature of insurance
underwriting, which is based
entirelyonpredictive
statistics.
Secondly, knowledge
about HN infection and thenature of the epidemic havebeen evolving in ways thathave changed our views
diseases were "pre-existing conditions"about the significance of a positive
for AIDS, justifying denial of benefits,
antibody test. When the test was first(New York law forbids the capping
licensed, opponents of testing argued
practice.)that a positive test was essentially
Althougha few jurisdictions
meaninglessand should not belegislated against use of HN tests for ' confused with an AIDS diagnosis. Five
health insuran~e underwriting in theyears later, we h,ave' come ,to
mid-1980s, all such bans have now beenemphasize
the continuumof HIV
overturned ,by the courts of New York infection, the necessity for prophylacticand Massachusetts. HIV antibody testing tr~atment to prevent HIV replication
by insurancecompanies
is legaland the onset of opportunistic
throughout
the United States, andinfections, and the formal line drawn
seropositive people are effectively
by the Centers for Disease Control
barred from purchasing individual
between HN infection and AIDS has
policies except through open enrollment
come' under heavy criticism forperiods offered from time to ,time by the' ignoring reality. The argument that
not-for-profit Blue Cros~/Blue Shieldinsurance companies should not makeinsurability decisions based on mereorganizations in some states.
The reasons for these losses areseropositivity has a hollow ring in thischanged climate.
easy to understand. First, the sequence
Finally, as a matter of politicalof ELISA test plus Western blot
reality, it is obvious that insurance
confirmatory test is actuarially soundcompanies have a Significant edge inwhen carefully
performedby aassistant district attorneys are crawlingplan. The -report seemed dead on
financial contributions and sophisticatedback into the closet or contemplating
lobbying when it comes to statearrival in Congress, but as things getother lines of work. Some of those inlegislatures. A complete ban on testingworse on the individual
healththe Sex Crimes Unit report old, preinsurance market, pressure may mountby the industry
does not seem
Holtzman biases on prosecutions arefor the states to take action and fill thepolitically feasible, although every effort
also surfacing:' charges are pressed
gaps. In QUifornia, repeal of the ban on
should be made to make sure thatagainst men picked up for patronizing
HIV testing was accompaniedbytesting by insurance companies is done
young male hustlers, but not against
to a, high quality standard, underserious proposals to establish a riskmen picked up patronizing young
poolingsystemunderwhich
circumstances of infonned consent withappropriate counseling, and, with f1I'IIl
women on the borough's mean streets,
uninsurable people could purchaseand refusals by some assistant district
insurance from the pool, much asconfidentiality requirements for test
attorneys to push these cases is causing
results.
uninsurable drivers can buy liability
The HN Confidentiality Law which
problems.
•
insurance from state insurance pools,
A word to Brooklyn gay activists:
and a state task force reeently
took effect in New York in 1989 goes
eternal vigilanceis the price ofrecommended that the, state require
only part of .the way. New legislation or
freedom.
employers' to provide health insurance
regulations are needed to make sureto their employees.
that the industry does not use sexual*****
Risk pools already exist in many
orientation as a surrogate marker for
A lawsuit filed earlier this monthstates, and the establishment of such a
HIV-infection,and minimizes theby the Legal Aid Society against thepool in New York, coupled with adamages caused by inappropriate HN
State DepartmeQtof Correctional
systemof expanded
workplace
testing practices.
Services (DOCS) exposes outrageouscoverage, should be a high priority. At
What seems increasingly feasible
conditions in New York State Prisons
the
same
time,
the
Pepperis that the industry will find itself at
for persons with HN infection. As one
Commission's
suggestionthat theleast partially supplanted by some sort-parolee said at the press conference
Medicaid system be changed to allowof public health insurance system, andcalled by the ,society to .announce theindividuals to keep mOre of their assets
this is where our community should be
lawsuit, there seems to be a tacit policy
and still qµalify for Medicaid should
turping its attention. By insisting onof letting these people die without
receive serious attention.
maintaining exclusionary practices andadequate treatment. Fora prison
We need' to be alert to newoffering insurance only to those least
sentence of a few years, usually for aopportunities and seek out alliances
likely to need it, the industry is
minor drug rap, turns into a deathwith other concerned communities socreating a growing pool of uninsurablein' confinement.
that we can play a role in shaping the 'sentence'people whose needs must be met in
Accompanying data from Prisoners
legislative solutions to a problem whichsome way, and the pressureisLegal Services showed that close to ten
affects many in the gay and lesbian
mounting on politicians to do somepercent of the prisoners with AIDS 'community.
thing about it.
were gay men.
This was recently emphasized for*****
In light of this, a recent state court
me when the New York State Bar
decision rejecting a· plea from a convict
I've heard disturbing news from
Association announced it was changing
with AIDS for some rethinking of his
gay attorneys in the Brooklyn District, its group health insurance plan to asentence is particularly offensive. Acting
Attorney's office: things have started
new company which would offer less
Judge Vtncent Quattrochi, N.Y. Supremegoing sour under new D.A. Charles
coverage at a lower premium. I heard
Court, Bronx County, ruled in Poop/e v.
Hynes, who campaignedwith thequickly from several gay male attorneys
Escobales that a man with AIDS who
support of gay Democrats 'in the
who are now insured through the;!State
has rec'eived a two to four year
borough du,ring his contested primary.
Bar's plan, and who fear that the new
sentence on drug charges was 'not
While the office was no paradiseinsurer will reject their applications due
entitled to have his sentence set aside
under former'D.A.
Liz Holtzman,
to HIV seropositivty.
One of themon "cruel and unusual punsishment"
infamous as a hard boss for whom topointed out that the State Bai's action
grounds, despite the likelihood that hemay give us some powerful allies, if work, the word was that openly gay
would die in prison if forced to serve
and lesbian attorneys were hired andolder attorneys who find themselves
the minimum sentence. Quattrochi,
promoted without discrimination, andrejected by the new insurer due to a
who found that the prisoner's current
that the Sex Crimes Unit had anvariety of health problems are suddenly
medical prognosis is "grim," said the,evenhanded
prosecution
policy"out in the cold as well.
prisoner should apply for demency
Indeed, Holtzman's office was ,the only
Congress' Pepper Commission
within the prison system,aIthough theprosecution office in the state with aReport, named for Florida Rep. Claude
system has not been known to besignificant number of openly gay and
Pepper,'calledfor the federal
lesbian attorneys, some i~ supervisory . particularly responsive to such pleas.
government to establish a national
At the Legal Aid Society press
positions.
health system under which large
conference,
it was asserted
thatlfyneshasreportedly
swept
out
employers
would be required toGovernor Cuomo has yet to grant a
the Holtzman
bureau chiefs andprovide l:tealth insurance and others
clemency petition by any prisoner. with
who were not covered' at work would , instiilled a politi<;ally-connected crew of
AIDS. T<'
old-timers: Fag jokes are back, and gay
get coverage through a publicly-fundedsome,March 28. 1990

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A Top Closeted Day Official At Covenant
House Is Implicated In The Murder Of A
Youn·g Male Client. And Secret Files
Obtained By ButWeek Indicate That Agency Officials Have Been Covering It' Up.

"In late November,"writes Covenant
House counselor Paul Bates, "three private
detectives just showed up at my office. How
they got into the building is still a mystery to
me. The head investigator named Michael IJpowski showed me a picture of Sean I)ussem and asked if I knew him. I said I did and ...I proceeded tq tell the three gentlemen what I knew about Sean's death.·Thus begins the first official reference in a secret Covenant
House me to a baffling and bloody murder whose impUcations now
threaten to bring down the agency.
The confidential file says no more about the case until Pebruary
1st, when the private eye again phoned Bates. According to thememos, IJpowski said he was still investigating tl\e death of Sean Russell, a handsome, popular 24-year-old Covenant House client who
had been brutally stabbed to death in New York last October. Lipowski now began virtually harassing Covenant House' workers, including
Bates, trying to learn all he could about Sean's short life and tragic
death, saying he needed this infonnation to complete his private
investigation for Sean's grief stricken parents.
IJpowski knew that Bates had been Sean Russell's counselor fora year, and probably could provide valuable background infonnation
on ,the youth's life that might lead to information on his death. But
this time, instead of simply trying to collect 'information, the private
eye told Bates a few things as well, a few things that could, in thewords of one of the secret' mes, "blow Covenant House out of thehy Gaht'kl

titution ring, the relationshipwith official
X-Russell would have told him about it Afterall, hadn't he been the boy's counselor andhadn't Russell connded to him most of thedetalls of his life? Still, the idea was troubling.
What, Bates finally asked the private eye, did he think all of thisi{otcllo

meant?

According to ,l1e secret mentO, one of a complete dossier ofsecret Covenant HoUse memos OutWeek has obtained, Lipowskl's
exact words to Bates were, "I believe that Sean IlWssellJ was set up
and killed because he knew too much about someone at Covenant
House."
IJpowski strongly hinted that the someone was Official X, whosename OutWeek has obtained but for legal reasons cannot print. And,
IJpowski added darkly, it was his feeling that other Covenant House'officials also knew about the real reason for the muroer, and werecovering it up.
Later that day Bates took this startling tale to Karen Staller ofCovenant House's legal department. According to the same confidential memo, Bates told Staller that Lipowski "was very manipulative andhe assumed the whole time that I was hiding infonnation from him. •But in telling this story to Staller, Bates would quickly discoverthat he had an additional problem. As a counselor he knew that
Covenant House provides its young clients strict, total confidentiallty. But in this case Bates felt he had been able to speak freely towater."
Lipowski about Russell because the youth waS dead and his confiIJpowski began by asking Bates if he knew any offida1s at thedentiality was no longer in force. Or ~ Bates thought But he wasagency who had ever slept with Russell. Bates, taken aback by thesoon informed that in the case of Sean Russell, Covenant ,House
question, said no. Lipowski then ask~ if Bates knew Official X, who
had decided to extend that confidentiallty right into the grave.
was one of Covenant House's highest paid employees. Bates said thatIn the secret memo he wrote to Staller after their discussion,of course he knew the man. IJpowski infoniled Bates that he had eviBates says, "I stressed to (lJpowsld) that any information a,bout anydence that Official X and Russell had been lovers.
'
one but Sean had to go through (Co~tHouse's legal department],
Bates didn't believe it, but he listened. He listened and his eyes
and that I would not tell him anything about anyone else. 7ben 1
probably widened as the investigator hinted of a' prostitution ring , learned from you that 1 couldn't even tell him things about Sean. I
being run out of Covenant House, and of how Sean Russell had
had assumed ...that since Sean was dead his confidentiallty was nolonger a factor, of course now limow different." !my italicsl
known about it, and of how Russell had known other shady things, Apparently Staller had made it very clear to Bates that mum wasabout Covenant House as well. And he certainly listened as Lipowski
hinted strongly that Official X, in addition to being involved with Rusdefinitely ~ word when it came to Sean Russell. The fact Staller andothers sought to JmpoSe a veil of silence around Sean Russell, even to'sell sexually, was a1so involved in Russell's murder.
people trying to solve his baffling murder, would lead newspapers to
The idea that someone at Covenant House was implicated incharge, as Newsdqy dk:\,last week, that Covenant House has "stymied'Russell's murder made Bates, who had worked with Russell and conprivate and internal probes" of the case. 'sidered, ~lfclose to the troubled boy, very nervous. But he wasalso very skeptical. He figured that if any of this were true--the pros- ' This was not ~e first time, nor would it be the last, that

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ICovenant's legal department had heard that there was more to the
Sean Russell murder cue than the police or the pUblic were aware.
But they never went to the police or to any law enforcement authorities with thls Infonnation.
Cover ups seem to have become a fact of life at Covenant
House, where the closeted ,gay sexualltyof Its founder, Father Bnwe
Ritter, was the starting point for a series of scandals that have brought
the once mighty agency to Its knees. But of all the Implied, hinted at,and now open secrets that have rocked the organization In the pastfew months, none Is as potentlally explosive as the mu!der of Sean
Russe11.If Covenant House does eventually melt down, It may well bethis coverop that brings the reaction to aitlca1 mass.

The epidemic of homelessness

apparently not about to contribute to It by taking all of thls Sean Russell stuff too seriously, It would take Prank Macchlarola to force theflrst cracks Into the offidal wall of silence surrounding the lncreasIngly mysterious murder of Sean Russell.

When Father Ritter was "temporarily· replaced as head of
Covenant House by fonner Schools Chancellor Prank Macchlarola In
early Pebroary, a lot of people breathed easler. Macchiarola, despite
his reputation for being a bit self-promoting, Is also widely considered
to be honest and competent A respected administrator as well as aboard member of Covenant House, he seemed Ideal for the job ofcleaning up the $87 milllon-a-year agency. Macchlarola was preparedfor dealing with allegations that Ritter was a pedophile who slept withthe boys he supposedly served. But Macchiarola wasn't really prepared for the widespread Irregularities and Improbable allegations heand despair among teenagers
served by Covenant House has spawned a hideous subculture ofcrack and hustling that's focused on The Port AuthOrity Bus~nninal In Manhattan. The epicenter of this sad and sleazy
world Is the Ice Cream Chalet, on the second floor of the south
wing of the bullding. In a quick walk through the area aroundthe Ice Cream Chalet a traveller might not, notice much morethan a number of shady-looking people lOitering alone or In little groups. But on closer examination, It becomes clear thatsomething serious Is going down.
1he scene reminds a comic book junkie of the Blzarro
World, an entire fractured planet of hustlers, undercover cops,
addicts, older men. These loiterers are waiting for something,but It's not the bus to Jersey. A messed-up drag queen lounges
like a busted Cleopatra on the broken shelf of a New York LotteIy window. A very fat white man, eyes swollen, grubby, leers
at a group of Black youths In blue and green sweat pants. A
mI~eoQged Fire'Island regular saunters by, well dressed, hands
c1asped behind his back, Innocently strolling way too slow.
It was from thls twilight world of crack and crime and tearoom sex that Covenant House was contacted by the second
person to connect the charity with Sean Russell's murder, astreet youth, ex-Covenant House resident and police lnfonnant"cat", [not his real name) was anxious to warn Staller about atenible conspiracy he had heard about at the Port, as the bus
tennlnalls known, In the area around the Ice Cream Chalet
According to cat, a young Port regular named Patrick had
been hired by an older man named Hollywood to go to thepolice and make certain allegations about the Sean Russell murder. The essence of the allegations, Staller wrote In the, secre,tdOSSier, was that "a Covenant House employee had been
Involved In the Sean Russell murder." But then, as If she were,as nervous about a security breach as she was,about the allegations themselves, Staller wrote In the' secret dOSSier, "It Is
unclear which police, If any, Patrick approached."
This was essentially the same coiulectlon Staller had heard ,from private eye Upowski, but this time the source, Catlwas
from a totally different world.
(cat, however, told Staller he didn't believe the story. Por
reasons that are sti11 unclear, It was cat's theory that the real force
behind the murder was HollywoOd himself" and the murder was
dNg related, According to cat, Hollywood Is a major cocaine
dealer who had a score to' settle with Russell and an ax to grind
apnst Covenant House. Having "sunk" Russell, Hollywood was
now trying to Implic:ateCovenant House as well, thereby conveniently sinking two birds with one stone. It's a mystery why
Staller didn't recognize that thls theory alone, which absolves
Covenant House but raises serious questions about the murder,
deserved police investigation.)
The memos show that Staller was troubled by cat's story.
But not troubled enough to go to the police, or apparently
Photo:MichaelWakefieldeven to launch- a serious Internal Investigation Into Official X's DEATH'SDOORWAY
aciivltles. The Ritter scandal was reaching critical mass at the TIHIhal/WlY omi,. VII,na Scullino" .patlm,n' wh,,,, S,an R.... I/'
time: 'the "meltdown" of Covenant had begun. Stallt:r was wa, $lBbb,d by Donald Holden"Father Ritter, still calling, theshots'from behind thescenes, had become alarmed
that Macchiarola was treading too close to secrets no
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was stabbed to death atunearthed almost immediately at Covenant Houle.
Amcns the most troubUna allegations were tboee concernlns the 301 \Vest 53rd Street In
the 13th floor hallway.
Sean Russell cue. RumOl'l about Ruaaell's sexual relationship withsomeone high up In the orpnlzaUoo had long dmJIated on the streets, He was stabbed by
Donald Holden,
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but by the lime Macx:hlarola arrived the nunors were more than rumors.
who then committed"nleywere
In the process of beIns consoUdated by Covenant ,Houle
Iega1 offidals Into a top.eecret conRdentlal cbsler ~ consfsted of cir- suicide by cutting his
cumstantial but serious charges from several sources that Official X was own throa,t with a razor,"Our Investigation
somehow fmpUcated In the murder.
revealed that on the
11le dossJer c:onslsts of 11 pages of slnB1Hpaced melllOl, writtenby Staller to Jim Harnett, Staller to Joe Borgo (the head of the Under night prior to the murder, a female resident of
21 PrograuO, Jay Sullivan of ~ legal staff to Staller, counselor Paulthe building reported
Bates to Staller and Bates to Sullivan.
.
that Holden, whom she
Prank Macchlarola wanted to know why the remarkable charges
knew, accosted her outhlnted at In these documents had not sparked a formal lnvestf8ation.
side
thebuilding,
Charges this serious, legal experts and the pollee agree, should havesprayed her with Macecaused the reIewnt Iega1 scaff at the charity to leap Into action. 1hough
and fotCed her upstairs
only days on the jOb, MacchIaroIa'lmmedlately
launched hls own inquiry.
to her apartment, where
Accordlng to Macchfarola aide Maureen Connelly, "There were
he raped 'her. At somenumerous allegations that Prank became' aware of when he was attime In the early mornCovenant House. That's why he turned to Pat Murphy.· Murphy, ,anIng, while Holden, was THE MEETING PLACE - 1.11,.. Hid.·old friend and former first deputy pollee commissioner who Is currently director of security for Merrill Lynch, was fonnally hired tostil. there, the woman
th. tf••• "•• tlt. hf,lI. Ufd
investigate the embattled agency.
received a phone call
V.... lculll.",., DoIt.d"Prank reached out to Pat to begin an investigation,· says Confrom Sean Russell, who H,Ilde.
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had been staying, with,
nelly. "The Sean Russell allegationS and others were turned over tohim. But as you know, two or three days later Prank hi!nself was out her, saying he was coming over, Holden waited In the apartment andof there. H~ was never able to determine more about these or other, confronted Russell at the door. It's unknown If they knew each other.
An argument ensued, and Holden stabbed Sean Russell to death In
allegations, •,the hallway. Holden then took out a single razor and cut his own
Pather Ritter, still calling the shots from behind the scenes
throat. ThIs Was witnessed by a male resident of the buUdIng and p0sdespite his "temporary leave of absence,· had apparently becomeaIanned that Prank Maccblarola was treading too close to secrets no sibly by the wOman. The case Is considered a murder-sulclde.·
The case as presented by the Mijee Is at worst baft1Irig, at best
one should disturb. Accordlng to Connelly, Prank Macchlarola andMurphy met and dIscusSed Sean Russell's murder "on Saturday, PebN- , Incomplete. Yet the pollce co~der It a closed case.~ry closed.
ary 24, and Prank was to present hls whole program of investigation
At anywith juSt a bit of rodlmentary snooping, a whole new
to the board on the night of the 26. But,· says Connelly, "at the
picture of the murder emerges, a pictUre jarringly ,at odds with therequest of Pather Ritter, the board meeting was cancelled and Prank
pollee report.
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was told he wasn't wanted there,·
Por starters, Donald Holden does, not exactly fit the standard
In essence, Covenant Houle directors sJded with Ritter and rejectdescription of your garden variety rapist. Holden was a prtH)perativeed Macchlarola's attempts to investigate numerous matters, including
the Russell murder, ThIs would later contribute to the suspicion that' transsexual, llYing In a brave new World between male and female.
Described as an enonnous person, "not fat, just enonnous· says one
Covenant House was Involved In a coverop at the highest level.
According to Connelly, the only thing she can say about the Sean Rus- witness, he/she had breast Implants, took female honnones, looked
Uke, acted Uke and was considered to be a woman, bUt had neversell case Is that, "Prank was aware of these allegations. He didn't know
had the final operation that would complete his transformation to
If they were tnJe or not
female.
"Pat Mwphy, the ex-<lOphired by MacchIaroIa, has a slightly differWhat follows Is probably a fairly accurate reconstnJctlo~ of theent story, At first he told 0Ut~
"I don't know anything about l:Rusaell'ssequence of events leading to the murder, reconstrocted
from
mwded. I n&MI' heard of It I wasn't aware that there was such a case,·accounts by several eyewitnesses as :well as a friend of Russell's.
But when presented with OUtWHNs extensive knowiedge of theTwenty-four-year-old
Sean Russell was staying with Vesna
crime, Murphy's recollection seemed to Improve. "Prank had'menSculUn, a 27-year-old divorcee, In apartment 13A of the building.
tioned this ~to me,· Murphy flnally admitted. But he indicated"
ScullIn, desaibed as looking Uke "a Hungarian gypsy", was not well
oddly, that the Russell case "was not something that ~was going
llked by her neighbors, who considered her unfriendly, spacey andto ask me to look Into because It was a pollee matter,·prone to bringing "undesirables· Into the building. Neighbors were
This, of course, doesn't mesh with the fact that no one from
Impressed, however, when ScullIn began telling friends that the handCovenant House had, gone to the pollee with the infonnation theysome Sean Russell, several years her junior, was her laver.
possessed on Russell's murder. Why were these charges a pollee matRussell and ScullIn may have been lovers, but ScullIn ran someter If the pollee we~'teven aware of them? It also doesn't mesh withpretty interesting scenes on the side. One was a predilection for hav- ,the fact that Murphy, an ex-cop, was brought In for the very purpose
Ins sex with transvestites and transsexUals, a habit she told friends sheof investigating whether or ~ot things being kept secret at Covenant
picked up when she wandered Into a drag bar on the west slcie one
House sbould become "pollce matters.· But Murphy was finn,
time. That bar, Sally's Hideaway on 43rd Street right aCross the street"Prank said that he had enquired from the pollee department,. Murfrom 71Je New Ymi 7Jmes, Is an exotic dive mixing 1Vs, transsexUals,
phy insists, "arid the Russell case had ~classlfied a murder-sulcide.·
prostitu~, hustlers and people attracted'to their world
That first night at Sally's may have been the night that ScullIn
To understand the weirdness of the case, you have to start
originally met the transsexual Hol~nj took him home and be~ thewith the basic pollee report on the murder, as unlikely as t1!atreport Is.
on~galn, off-again relationship that would last until the murder; 11leA pollee spokesman teUs It this way:,building's staff had often seen her come and go with Hol~"On October 19, 1989, at'approxlmately 12:00 noon, Sean Russell.w."
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always in drag-andthey had always his head out into the hallway and saw the two has been victimized by a venomous. homoassumed Holden was a woman.
men struggllng. slammed the door shut and sexual. drug-taking hustler named Sean. I
Sean 'Russell. for his part. was also calledthe cops and the buUding'ssecurity.
maced her uP. took her to her apartment.
involved with a number of other people.
Hector. the building's superintendent. forcibly raped her. and I forced her to keep
including ·Marcus" [not his real namel. a well- arrived first and saw Holden ·on top of Sean" sUent and to sit and wait for Sean...so I canknown TV Cthat'stelevision) adveItlsing per- at the far end of the hall. plunging a knife crush hlm."
sonality.and. accordingto the secret Covenant into the boy. Hector pulled Holden 'off RusAnd Scullin. contradicting the police
House memos. with OfficialX from Covenant sell. Somehow. Sean managed to pull out the report. told friends that Holden neither
House. In addition. according to the charity's krlife imbedded in his body and threw it to maced her nor raped her. Police have officialsecret dossier.Russellwas a ·favorite ellent of the super. At that pivotal moment. Holden. ly denied the existence of a suJdde note andthe [CovenantHousel staff."but one who was
who was far larger than, the super. was not say they have no motive for the $Ulclde.
"deeply involved in a hard core street life wounded and could have made an easy getwhich included hustling as well as cocaine away. But instead. he pulled out a straight Sean Russell may well have been
use to the point of obsession."razor and slit his tluoat from ear to ear.
killed because of his involvement with theRussellwas also in the habit of hanging
Hector. horrified. staggered away in world of hustlers and drugs. Such murders
out at places like Rounds. the mock ritzy shock. screaming for Russell to try to make are sadly common among heavy crack
piano bar slash hustler Joint on East 53rd' his way to the elevator. Russell fatally addicts who hustle to maintain their obsesStreet where his very slim. sinewy body and ' wounded. began to pull himself towards the sive drug use. What would be uncommon.
handsome punk rockJsh look commanded a elevator and stairwell. But Holden. despite, however. is a police report that falls to menhigh price from the horny bUSinessmen-Johns his own now fatal neck wound. somehow tion such connections. one that maintains athat frequent the place.
followed Russell,to the stairwell and contin- totally different story. A police report "soOn the night before the murder Russell ued the struggle, Ten minutes later the police secretive." according to one police source.
didn't stay with Scullin because they had a found the two men on top of eaeh other. stUl that it amounts to ~noone talking at all. "fight. Russell left. taking his backpack and alive. Holden still feebly struggllngin a murRussell's circle was Sutton Place. 8th
drumsticks up to the apartment of Marcus. derous rage. They both died later at Bellevue. Avenue. rich older men. hustler bars. The
his advertisingboyfriend. Late that night theAfter the cops arrived. a female neigh- Port and sometimes Covenant House itself.
buUdingconcierge saw Vasnacoming in with bor looked out into the hall and heard Vesna He moved in a world inhabited by drug
Holden in full drag on her arm.
Scullin'say to the police who were recovering money and danger. by'kids bereft of all
But during the night something must Holden's knife "Take care of that ,knife.That hope. ,by men preying on young guys andhave happened. By the next morning Scullln knife has killed 30 people."young guys "getting over" on older men. frewas convinced that Holden was a maniac
According to a neighbor,. Scullin later quently drug-wealthy pedophiles who seduce
who had an odd little habit of his own: mur- told friends that Holden had ,admitted to her boys with drug binges and money in return
dering gay men in New York.
that night that he was responsible for numer- for excitement and sex,,
When Sean Russell arrived back at ous unsolved stabbing murders of gay men
One such man was Marcus. the TV
Scullin'spl2ce at noon the next day. Holden in New York.
advertising personality, A closeted gay withwas waiting. Neighi>9rsheard a fight going
Confidential sources inside the police , access to large amounts of drugs. his poshon in the hall. and then heard Sean scream- department say a suicide note from Holden East Side apartment was a prime lure foring "He's got a knife!He's gOta knife!"
was found in Scullin's,apartment. In it. he boys like Russell,'One of the secret memos
A' neighbor. a friend of Russell's.poked supposedly wrote: •...Vasna. whom I love., indicates that Russell had been living with
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"[Official X's] name was used on
one occasion in a reference to asexual relationship with a resident. The publicity could 'blow
Covenant House out of the water:"Marcus as his lover until two weeks before he
was murdered.
The memo says that Marcus and Russell
had fought, it's unknown over what, and Marcus
had exercised his power and' kicked Russellbaek out into the mean streets. Russell would
survive there only another two weeks before hisdate with death on October 19.
Marcus is a key player iri events that thenbrought the Russell case to the attention of theCovenant House legal staff. Because, according--K~nln Staller 01 Covenant House's legai depal1ment in ato the memos it was Marcus, not Sean,Russell's
confidential memo to then Ritter aide Jim Hamett
parents, who hired Upowski to iilvestigat~' themurder.
According to Jay Sullivan's memo to Karen
Staller, Marcus was conVinced that Covenant House was hiding a key
about sending Baccharardi to Arizona. Instead, he now 'maintained,
witness to the mufder, a 31 year old named Tony Baccharardi. The
he had'been bribed by Marcus to lie about that.
memos say that Bacchara.rdi had' "told people he was present whenFred revealed to Sullivan the purpose of the rose: To extract
Sean Russell was killed." Marcus was sure that Covenant House offiinformation from Covenant House officials about Baccharardi's
cials had sent Baccharardi out of state to keep him from testifYi!lg involvement in the Sean Russell murder.
about the murder, and from spilling, the beans about CovenantFred said he was sorry that he had lied. But he had another reaHouse's involvement.
son ,to be sorry as well.
'This apparently is the essence of Marcus' coverup theory as outFred claimed that he had now fullen afoul of Marcus over drugs
lined in the file: 1) 111atSean's murder was connected in some way toand was in fear of his life, But despite all the revision, the central fact
Official X of Covenant House; 2) 111at Tony Baccharardi knew too
remained unaltered: Marcus was looking for Tony to find out the truemuch about the involvement of OfficJal X in the Sean Russell murder,facts about the murder of Sean Russell. Marcus believed Covenapt
and that because of this; 3) Certain Covenant House officials had ' House was responsible for the murder and was covering it up. 1bat
Tony shipped out of state, and are hiding him somewhere in Arizona,fact stlll stood despite Fred's revision.
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It was this theory that prompted Marcus to action to find Tony,
According to the memos, Su1livan wrote that he' "advised Wred]and the truth about the murder. And it would be this scenario that, that his options were to go to the DEA [Drug Enforcement Administrawould give Covenant House officials most cause for alarm that one oftion] to be a witness against [Marcus] or to go into hiding and stay out
their own was somehow implicated in the bloody horror show onof [Marcus'] way."West 53rd.
Fred left Sullivan's office that day and disappeared, Vanished.
According to the dOSSier,Marcus deviSed a stratagem for extractWhen 1 contacted his sister in the Midwest, she sounded frantie.
ing Information about Sean from Covenant House employ~es. He"I wouldn't be surprised if 'he's dead," she told me convincingly.
hired a young man named "Fred" [not his real name], a coke addict
According to the sister, Fred was in'the habit of calling her three·and troubled kid who was a Covenant House client, to help "strontimes a week, regardless of what he, was doing or how much trouble
garm" the agency into giving him Information on Baccharardi's wherehe was in. Yet, she said, since he called 'to say he was in fear of hisabouts in Arizona.
life from Marcus, she hasn't heard from him at all. When 1 told her I
According to the dOSSier, Fred and Upowski appeared together
stlll wasn't sure what his real name was, she sighed. "It doesn't matterat the Covenant House office of Jay Sullivan on February 9, Theybeeause 1 don't think he's around anymore anfW!lY'" she said.
asked to confront a Covenant House employee named Katherine
Lundy, in Sullivan's presence, to see if she would remember telling
On Febroary 16, Staller collected all the Sean Russell memos andFred that she had sent Bacchara.rdi to a drug rehabilitation center insent them along to Jim Harnett, Father Ritter's righthand man. Her
Arizona, Their plan was to intimidate Lundy, somehow forcing her or
accompanying memo said:
Sullivan or someone, anyone, at Covenant House to divulge Informa"Enclosed please find an accumulation of memOs from assortedtion about Baccharardi's whereabouts.
staff members regarding ...Sean Russell's murder.
If that indeed was the plan, it didn't work. Lundy said she didn't"...paranoia reigns supreme and the number and variety ofremember telling Fred anything about Baccharardi and that was that.
sources has led me to report them to you.
After the private eye and the youth had gone, Sullivan Informed Karen ' .
"In essence, there are allegations that Covenant House is engaging
Staller about' the strange meeting. This was at least the third timein a 'cover up' in which staff members are involved, [OfficJalX's] name
Staller had heard about the connection between Sean Russell's inurder
was used on one occasion in a reference to a sexual relationship with aand Covenant House. But it wouldn't be the last.
resident. "The following Monday, Sullivan got a call from Fred's sister in the
Staller went on to state that the resultant "publi<;ity could blow
Midwest, who sounded frightened. The sister was calling to get inforCovenant House out of the water" and said that fact "has led me tomation on her brother Fred who was in trouble, she said, with a "bigtake this all somewhat seriously."
time drug dealer,'
Maybe. But not seriously enough to take the information to the
According to the memos, the sister said that Fred "called her Fri- police, According to Ueutenant Cecilia of the Midtown North Precinct,
day night saying he was in trouble and needed help. He said he was
who has been' in charge of the original murder investigation, no one
being paid by someone to say that he was told by a Covenant House
from Covenant House had come forward with additional evidence on
employee that Covenant House was covering up a' murder investigaSean RUssell's death.
tion. He told her that something had gone'wrong, that he was in over
- Whep asked if pOssession of this information by Covenant
his head and that he wanted out. "House without their making it available to the police would amountA few hours after the call, Fred himself appeared at Sullivan's
to a coverup, even if tbe stories ended up being untrue, Lt. Cecilia
office, this time without private eye Lipowski and with a story quite
responded, "I would think so, Yes."
different from his previous tale; Fred now claimed that Marcus had
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Communique to the Readershipof OutWeek:
For all his brave talk last week
inviting assassination, the coward Ball
has finally displayed his true colors
and fled to an undisclosed location.
We, the experts regard this flight as
an obvious admission of the tyrant's
guilt and hereby declare the liberation of this column in the name of
freedom-loving people everywhere.
Our first official act is to commence
publication of Mr. Ball's personal correspondence so that you may judge
for yourselves
his questionable
motives and extenSive treachery. It istruly out of his hands now.

-The Experts
Dear Hugh:My darling, I love you. I love you.
I love you, I love you so much thatevery-day I remain separated from youis another day I gladly risk certain deathby recklessly combining Gordon's gin
with Xanax tablets in order to erase thepain of our not togetherness., I know
this is wrong because I've been told so 'but what care I for right and wrong
when you are not here to show me thedifference?
How can I convince you toanswer my pleas and meet me once
again? I will pay for everything.
Money is no object now that I havehitched my opportunistic wagon to alucrative gay and lesbian newsmagazine. Those gullible chumps pay
me exorbitant sums which I keep all
for myself while nobody knows thatthe real work is being performed by aloyal panel of dedicated experts uponwhom I can rely on to do my capricious bidding just as long as they're
tossed an occasional scrap,
Oh, I know you might call this
exploitation and repudiate me as avain, self-centered, foolish, ignominious dog whose consciousness
isinformed by the oppressive dominant social order just as you did on
our first 'and last night together. How
those words stung me as well as
your claim that I regularly
mix
Beefeater gin with Halcyon and offer
myself up to any man who will haveme. If I could only see you one
more time I know I could convince
you as I have convinced others that I
was only trying to survive in somemeasure of excessive comfort duringharsh, extreme times no matter
whose cause I had to reject orwhose faith I had to betray. Can't
you understand, oh my darling, that
I have done all these things for us asmuch as for myself? Can't you
understand that the more I am elevated in glory the more glory can bereflected on you?
Please break this unbearable
silence and answer me because without you I am only a miserable, pathetic imitation of a human being whosesole reason for living is to perpetuate
the misery of those who remainaround me. Love forever and everand ever.
-Bradley A. Ball
Next week:

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By Michelangelo SignorUe
Last w~k, when I so viciously but
deservedly attacked "that 7 Days writer,' I
didn't mean to cast a shad!Jw upon theentire publication.
While I find 7 Days to be, on many
levels, a sOmewhat perverse andbaftling magazine, it should bepointed out that editor Adam
Moss is certainly more progressive on important gay issues
than many other editors in thistown. And that's saying a lot fora publication which seems to begeared toward people who buy
up immense amounts of New
York City real estate (not exactly
what I'd callt!te leftist, placardwaving, civil disobedience-loving crowd).
In the past few weeks 7,
Days has had some well-written
and thoughtful pieces, namely
Jeffrey Goodell's
fast-paced
cover story about the Woody
Myers controversy and the moving saga of two gay men, theirlove for babies who are HIV
positive, and their wrangle withthe crumbling health care system, beautifully done by Jesse
Green.
And it was 7 Days 'l'fhich
was the first publication to put
Keith Ha$g on its cover since
the artist's death from AIDS (in a forthrighttribute by James Servin). I had thought
New York magazine might have featured
Keith first, but they, alas, were ,too busy
rehashing old Leona Helmsley shit.
But New
York publisher
Ed
Kosner-withwhom, if you remember, I
had an interesting conversation concerninga homophobic, AIDS phobic piece he'dpublished fOl,lrweeks ago--did send me a
one-and-a-half-inch-thick stack of clippings
after I'd given a him a thrashing in this coluJIUlregarding his magazine's under-coverage of AIDS and. of the gay and lesbiancommunity, 'The stack consisted of articles about

AIDS, including the first one ever done into represent gay and lesbian coverage too?
1982, But the bulk were about how at risk
I mean, I wouldn't put it past Kosner toheterosexuals are (or aren't) and about
assume that gays and AIDS are one in the
how the poor' heteros may have to changesame, I did complain to him about the fact
their dating patterns (although" in all fairthat in a city with hundreds of thousands~'rf'.-H.
~;of gays and lesbians I rarely if ever see
ness, there were a few great ~ieces about
AI'os in the gay community and about this one on the cover of his magazine, And
city's faltering hospital system, But thesewhen there are stories about gays, they
were very few and far between),
usually involve confused, crazed queers
Anyway, Kosner sent a note along
who are so ultimately
unhappy theybasically saying !hat this stack of clippings
destroy themselves and others.
proves that he's done "more than most
And that is, of course, the Vanity Fair
other publications'and that he's very
school of homosexality-murder,
mayhemproud of this stack,and maniacal bisexuals,, I guess I was supposed
to be
But this month Vanity Fair actuallyimpr~dor something,
had a fairly good piece; an interview by
ED, DO ,YOU KNOW HOW SHAME- Kevin Sessums with, of course, Madonna. I
FUL IT IS TO SEND ME A ONE~AND-A- found it inspiring that Sessums engaged
HAIP-INCH-TInCK STACK OF CUPPINGS Ms. Ciccone in a discussion of homosexuWInCH IS SUPPOSED TO REP,RESENT, ality and AIDS (certainly not many otherwriters would find it important todo so) and I was impressed with
Madonna's
vitriol about the
Catholic Church ,and AIDS: "I
think [the church isldisgusting. I
think it's hypocritical. And it's
unloving, It's not what God andChristianity are all about.·
But Sessums opens himself
up for attack by describing his
and Madonna's friend, record
company honcho David Geffen,,as "an importantbehind-thescenes 'fund-raiser
for AIDS
ch;uities, •SPAREME TIlE BULLSmTIDavid Geffen is like Pat andBill Buckley in one person: He
slits our throats with one handand helps dead~n the pain with
theother,
Self-loathing
Geffen-obviously
seeing thatdollars are more important thanprotecting his own people fromvicious monsters who affect public opinion negatively and inspire
violence and hatred-is the man
who promoted Guns 'n' Roses
and has condoned ,their outraTHE AIDS COVERAGE IN A WEEKLY
geous, homophobic diatribes, (He has :µso
"GENERAL IN1EREST" MAGAZINE IN TIlE
signed Andrew Dice Clay and others.)
AIDS CAPITAL OF 1HE WORLD OVER A
And now we read in a front page
TEN YEAR PERIOD?! THAT STACK story in The New York Times that he has
SHOULD HAVE BEEN FIVE FEET
sold his company and become "one of the
InGH-AND IT WOULD BE IF TInS DIS- nation's richest individuals,· Perhaps then,
EASE WERE RAPIDLY KILLING OFF
maybe greed can take a backseat, and, to
UPPER-MIDDLE CLASS, HETEROSEX!.JAL, make it up to this community he will pubWHITE LAWYERSAND BUSINESSPEOPLE, licly take a stand against homophobes-In fact, if this disease were, killing thelike his own Guns 'n' Roses, Perhaps he'll
right people, you would probably even
even do something that Malcolm Forbes
have a weekly coluJIUl all about how tonever did - which would help make us'
juggle AIDS, mQtherhood and a career,
all more visible.
When will you people wake up?
If not, I 'suppose we'll just go fullAnd, what I'd really like to know is: speed ahead with our TRUIH IN REPORTWas this stack of AIDS clippings supposed
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Oul on Ihe Town
Sydney: Liz and I got real tired of the New York City scenery.
Variety being the spice of life and all, we decided we needed a vacation. Being excluded from the Madonnathon at that club on 54th
Street (I shall never utter its name again) because I wasn't "dressed likea girl" was the last straw. The almighty "VIP" ropesman and "renowned
arbiter of good taste" told me Iwas "too casual", while he let several
boys in ripped jeans and girls in dresses pass through to the "hallowed and sacred second floor" a k a the Lincoln Lounge. So the nextmorning we jumped aboard the express train to sophisticated andglamorous Atlantic City.
Once we arrived, we realized that there wasn't a wtloIe hell of a
lot to do besides gamble. Most of the showrooms were dark and our
choices were limited to boxing, Jackie Mason or a La Cage show in
our own hotel. Since we would be more likely to protest against MI.
Mason, we chose "An Evening at La Cage: With multi-colored,
sequined body suits and feathered head caps, it seemed more like an

SIN CITY - The Rendez-voul Club
expensive combination plate-half Boy Bar,half Copa and a one drink
minimum. Our one stroke of luck occured when the regular hostess, a
J~n Rivers impersonator, can!=elled because of a rare drag queen
problem, "laryngitis" (don't most drag queens get lip-synchitis?) The
replacement ho~ess, the queen-sited Jimmy Emerson, possessed a
seemingly endless supply of sequined mumus. '¥/hile introducing one
drag act, she remarked about her silver-beaded and pink-feathered
dress, "like it? I found this hanging in the closet right next to Jimmy
Baker."The cavalcade of stars included such novel luminaries as: Judy
Garland, Peggy Lee, Cher, Bette Midler and Patti laBelle. The highlight,
came when the hostess dressed as a cowgirl named Tammy
Spraynette lip-synched '"YouLight Up My Life" while holding a light-up
vibrator as if it were the torch of liberty. The audience and the threestraight couples seated at out table ate up the show as if it were cher, riesjubilee,
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Wilh Liz and Sydney-The BrassRail-The first bar we went to after our evening at La
Cage-was welcoming if only for the lack of sequins, mauve andclanging slot machines, We played pinball on a machine where one
flipper was broken-but we didn't mind. This was the only place inAtlantic City where we SltN real live lesbians--{excepting the seCllity
guards at the casinos, who, stopped us PNerY single time we walked in,asking for 10, birthplace, weight-and one even asked Sydney whatsign she was). The Brass Rail was well mixed, gender and ethnicitywise, and warm. It's also open 24 hours, as are a lot of clubs in A.c.
We stayed for an hour or two, killing time and playing "Guess the Exgirlfriend" before Studio Six, the gay disco upstairs, opened.
-The Rendezvous (see photoHrom
the outside it's not unlike
many bars in the U.S. But inside, dear, is a v-ilole other kettle of fish.
Having been greeted at the smoked-glass door by a very laGe man insweats, we entered to find ourselves the bnly women in a dimly lit,
vaguely circular bar decorated with old Chippendale's posters, andnewer Safe Sex ones. When one goes to a bar like this, it is always safeto order beers, as it isn't served in a glaSSjSydney found this out thehard way. We spent an uncomfortable 20 minutes reading the gay
papers for Philadelphia, and wondering how long it would take to getthere. We left:for the Entertainer's Oub.
-The Entertainer's Club is in an alley, sl.lTOlllded by burnt out
clapboard houses and tWo "Fnrtemity Houses," Kappa Something and
Kappa Something Else. We could find no college affiJiation listed forthem, and they seemed to recruit from off-campus, as their phbne
number was displayed prominently on their signs._
The Entertainer's Club is listed as a piano bar. We heard the pianoj
we couldn't find it though. The young man playing pool ~ been at
the BrassRailthe night before. As a matter of fact, the bar scene in A.c.
can be summed up with the same people in rotation from bar to bar,and the lesbians all in one place.
Sydney: There are three discos in Atlantic Cityj two of whichgreeted us by amouncing "no jeans." The third, the gay disco, Studio
Six, was anon-stop glitzathon. With an endless display of chrome,
mirrored walls and one of every disco light made since 1976, it iseverything you'd expect in an Atlantic City Club. Playing the latest in
Hot 97 hits, the favored song was the Latin hip-hop remix of Diana
Ross'"Love Child.",
liz: People will ask-did you gamble? Well, yes we did, a little.
Being girls on tight budgets and all, we gambled out of desperation.
After the barMdeo experience, we went with copious pocket change
to the 25-cent slot machines. After a string of wins, we were both so
intoxicated, we just kept shoving more quarters frantically in themachine, our breath coming in short gaspSj of course, the machine
would only take three quarters at a time, so all of the other ones just
kept coming bacl<...it took us five minutes to realize that we weren't
winning-it was just the coin retum. Eventually, we lost everything weplanned to and not more, which is to SlI'f we bet with our heads, notover them,Uz and Sydney: Otx next trip is to Albany to protest with ACT
UP on March 28 against this state govemment's (non)response to the
AIDS crisis. Be there. T

BIIOICEN COVENANT .........

But this is more

1fI

than Just another
Covenant House coverup. After bits of thisstory broke in Newsday last week, the charity
released a statement which indicated thatthey had contacted First Deputy Police Commissioner Ray Kelly with this information.
This ~ms to fit in with what sources had
told OutW'eek about "high police officials"
being informed of crucial aspects of thecoverup during Macchiarola's brief tenure ashead of the charity. Those sources say that
Covenant House may have been lax in delivering the information, but deliver it they
eventually did, thus freeing themselves frompotential charges of a coverup.
But Lt. Cecllla, in charge of the casefrom the beginning, disagrees.
"If Covenant HOuse went to higher'level
police with this information," she maintains,"those high level pollce officials would have
had to come to me. Absolutely. This is' mysquad At the very least they would have had
to go Over the files with me and ask me any
questions they had. "Was Lt. Cecilia aware that Covenant
House had additional information on Sean
Russell's murder?
"We 'never got any kind of information
to connect Covenant House at all."Was she aware of Sean's relationshipwith "Marcus?""We're not aware of that either."Was Donald Holden a suspect in any
other gay murders?
"No. He was a suspect in the murder of
his aunt, an elderly woman in the 19th
Precinct."
Why did he commit suidde, especiallyin such a painful way?
Shepa~.
"Yeah," she finally says. "That's a goodone. 1 don't know. 1 guess he was very troubled. 1 really don't know. "at the west side piers. In September a 53year-old gay male had his throat slit in
Brooklyn.
And there were two moreunsolved fatal knifings of gays that year aswell, a Black man found in Prospect Parkand a Hispanic man in Manhattan.
Interestingly, there have been no reportsof unsOlved knifing murders of known gays
since Donald Holden sllt his own' throat that
October afternoon on 53rd Street.
Yet the police maintain that Holden wasnever a suspect In a string of unsolved gay, mui"Ciers.Period.

He's screaming now, really screaming.
"Don't you drag my friend Into the goddamn thing, cause you people are going to
be libelous! Or drag me down for being aqueer. Cause I'm hot! And that's sick! All you
people are sick!"'And he hangs up. When 1 call his homelater, his young lover answers, pretending,transparently, to be his "son". 1 can hearclicks, buzzes and beeps, a primitive attempt
to let me know I'm being taped.

On the morning that I'm finishing thisstory the phone rings. It's a man who says he
is Fred, obviously still alive, calling from a
pay phone. He is furious, and terrified.
"How'd you get my sister's number?" hedemands to know. When 1 explain ~t thesource of the dossier is confidential, he gets
threatening.
'"If 1 don't get that fucking information,
you're going to be the sorriest fucking person that walked this earth, let me tell' you.
And you can put that in yout: fucking fag
magazine, you fag. "'If Marcus, the closeted advertising personality, with whom Russell spent the lastnight of his life, knows anything about themurder, he isn't happy about talking. Whenconfronted on the phone at work with thisreporter's knowledge of his Involvement with
Russell, his denials became almost hysterical.
"You 'thinkwe were lo.vers?" hesqueaked. "How very strange. Sean was at myhome the night before his death but the factthat we were lovers is totally astray, I'm an
old man. He was a young tot And Sean was
not gay. He was with women constantly."
The Covenant House memos leave
What about Russell's reputed involve- . an inv~stigator with a tantalizing trail ofment with ,Official X? It was Marcus, after all, questions. 'who sent Upowski to Covenant House with
Why was Russell murdered? Did he mve
the story of Russell's involvement with Offi- a relationship with Official X, and if so, wascial X In the first place.
official X In some way Involved in the mUlde!?
"I haven't 'heard shit like that," he says.
Was Donald Holden i'esponsIble for a string of"But," he unexpectedly volunteers, "Covenantgay 5tabblngmurders In New York? If police
House makes my stomach tum.",have reason to think,so, why hasQ't that p0ssiWhat about Fred, the young man whobility been investigated? Did someone who
visited Covenant House with Upowski at Marknew of Holden's psychotic past hire him tocus' instructions, came back by himself later
murder Seari? Why did Holden conunit suidde?
with a tale about running afoul of Marcus andWas there a prUstituliOn ring operating out offearing for his life, and then vanished?
Covenant House? Was Baccharardi a witness to
There is a long, long pause. 1 can hear
the murclet? Were there others in ScullIn's apartMarcus breathing heavily over the phone.
ment that day? Why was Marcus, trying' to find"Fred?" he finally says, using the youth's
Baccharardi? Why is Fred in ~Who wasreal name. Then another long pause before
Hollywood and why did he pay someone tohe pulls himself together and musters a pert
Implicate Covenant House in Sean's murdet?
One thing is certain. When Vasna denial. "No, don't know the name. Unless
These are only some of the questions
Scullin told police that her transsexual
he's a business associate or something, butthat have not been answered "because
boyfriend Donald Holden had admitted .to ,the name doesn't strike a bell."Covenant House failed to supply the pollce
being an anti-gay serial killer whose "knife
1 ask him about his current lover, a youth
with their confidential files or conduct a credhad killed 30 people," the police tJad reason
who was a friend of Sean's, and he becomesible intemallnvestigation.
to take the charge seriously. He had, ~er all,abrasive. He denies that the'lover is a lover,But the biggest question hanging over thejust murdered Sean Russell in an incredibly
denies that the boy is even in New York,entire tangled story is why did Covenant
brutal way. He had also murdered his elderly"Yes, yes, he was a dear friend of , House keep this information quiet? With soaunt, pollce now say. And indeed there has
Sean's. 1 think he's In Dayton, Ohio."
many mysterious and dangerous Implications
been a string of unsolved stabbing mul:ders(I had spoken
to the young man
contained in the memos, why didn't theof gay men in New York over the past year. • moments before ,on the phone at Marcus'
embattled leadership of the agency immediate,
According to Matt Foreman of the les- home.)
ly go to the police with these charges? By notbian and Gay Anti-Violence ProJect, a group
Finally, after a few more questions, Mar- doing so they have created at least the appear, thatmorlItors bias violence against giys, there
cus breaks, screaming,
ance of Impropriety, the appearance that they ,were at least six unsolved knifing murders of"I have nothing to add, nothing! All of a
had something truly nightmarish to hide.
gay men and transsexuals in 1989 alone.
Sudden you reporters are very interested in
Whether or not that's the case, a coverIn February of that year, a 52-year-old . Sean's death! When he did die" his demiseup o( the information contained in the secret
Hispanic gay man was stabbed to death inwas swept under the carpet Why! Because
files certainly took place. Only a complete
Manhattan. In March, a male transvestite was
he wasn't a Kennedy or a Rockefeller?
and thorough professional investigation willfound stabbed to death in a trash bin in the"All of a sudden you find yourself with abe able to deterniine if the serious charges
Bronx. Three months later in June, a 16-yearstory? What kind of story? Because Covenant
outlined In the memos are true.
old transvestite was found stabbed to deathHouse had queers working there? It's sick!"If they are, God help CovenanrHouse. ...
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Film

Lowe, Expectations
by Karl SoehnleinR

ob Lowe, last seen gracing VCRs across America with his revealing pom-formance in-Robbie Does Atianta, makes his big-screen comeback this week in Bad Irifluence.
This film could be called sex, lies and more videotape, it stars James Spader, theaward-Winning lead in that film, along with Lowe and an elaborate home video set-up whichgets quite a workout.
Michael (Spader) is a yuppie in trouble. He's outpaced at work by a conniving comrade andburdened with 'an uptight fianeee ~o says things like "You're sucCessful for God's sake--try torelax and enjoy it.",He can't even finish his imported beer at the local bar without getting his faceslamined by a bully (the urban equivalent, perhaps, of having sand kicked in your face).
Ertter i\1ex, just the guy to loosen Michael's tie and set him free. A drifter and a mysteryman, Alei (Lowe) befriends Michae~ and begins exerting his influence on him, at first for the
better but later for the worse. The relationship escalates, moving them from the undergroundclub scene to street-level robbery sprees and beyond The premise is familiar: Alex unleashes
Michael's c4rker side, sending him over the line. Can he cross back without losing his soul tothis suptanned Mephistopheles? As Michael's brother tells him, ·You get in bed with the devil,
sooner or later you have to fuck."'. Before becoµling heavy handed, Bad Influence is almo5t worth rooting for. What's exciting
here is not simply Michael's seduction by,eVil, but by an evil man. The first half of the film ischarged with a tension that borders on the homoerotic. It's not much of a stretch to imagine Lowe,'the consummate California pretty boy, as the wild queer luring Spader-wbo has the mannerismsof an uptight closet case--into a "lifestyle"far more exciting than the one he's been living. Lowe's

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Alex uses lines that would
be come-ons in any gay
bar C-Just tell me what you
want,. he says to MiChael,gazing out of his deep,
intense eyes). He evenvideotapes Michael humping a pick-up and thenlater watches it, tellinghim, "You make a funny
face when you come ..
But pushing a gay
subtext is, of course, a
setup for disappointment
Bad Influence conforms
to recent Hollywood standards, where the daily
allowance of moral fiber
isn't too far from the old
Production
Code. Like
Glenn Close's Alex in

Fatal Atractton---anothertale of a yuppie lured
into, darkness-lowe's
character must be punished for his promiscuity.
He gradually moves fromuninhibited to unhinged,
thereby tainting Michael's
newfound freedom withhis own psychosis.
Approaching the filmwith Lowe expectations isthe best bet. From his first
moment on screen, thebrat pack beauty elicits
laughs; never completely
convincing as the devilishfigure he's supposed to be,
he comes off more like abored L.A. stud with toomuch time on his hands.
There's no sign of the"growth" that Lowe's beenpromising in the promotional interview for the film("I couldn't have given theperformance that I did
without everything that
happened to me" ... blah,
blah, blah). His stabs atseveral foreign accents are
all the more awkward
when placed alongside
Spader's
considerable
talent. Spader manages to
See LOWE on pig. 12

VideoNo Fabric Softener

MY VISUAL LAUNDERETTE--Ihu'
H

by Catherine Saaffielde said, 'You're not right for the part.' later someone
suggested that he had said, 'You're not wbite for thepart." During Color SchemeS fourth laundry cycle,
the "spin" cycle, a petformer recounts this story of being at anaudition.
The video loops begin with the description,"America's
Washloadin Four Cyc1es
preparingtheviewer/participant for some airing of dirty laundry, But whose
dirty laundry? Utimateiy, the installation engenders an analysis
of ethnicity and racism much more' specifie and complicatedthan the usual mediatized "Black/white" representations.
Shu Lea Clleang's new installation includes three, big,' oldwashing machines from the 50s with round windows. Insidecorresponding video monitors are situated, but not static, on
the horizontal axis. At points the tapes depict clothes beingl"

III Chllng', CDIDf Schema
tossed around, soaked, sudsed up and rinsed out. At othermoments,
Asians, African-Americans,
Native Americans,
Latinos and Latinas make a variety of statements
about
assimilation, margina1i2ation and the, "melting pot of the USA"(or is it one?).
,
The metaphors Cheang uses here may not be common
or easy, but the jUxtapositions both create the installation's
accessible charm and betray its rigorous' intellectual mandate.
While metaphorS provide a foundation,
Cheang works to
explode the layers which weigh down her inquiry, She quite
literally disrupts the bright and energetic laundry metaphor,
pointing olit, "When you wash, you saturate color. The colors
are separated
apart from white. You never separate thecolors." She continues, "Because of the racial mixture in thiscountry, you have a lot of conflict among minorities. ~ areall dumped into one category, 'people c:i color' and it's notnecessari1y_ comfortable.".
'
Although the space is not cluttered, the show is saturated 'with both overlaps and metonomies in media representations c:ipeople of color. In order to unpack these subtle relationships,
often homogenized by the dominant media, Cleang employs
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TheaterThreeandTwo
relationships and lesbian existence. The two plays differ In
focus and scope, but both are part of the continuing
exploration that lesbian writers are undertaking, moving outof the 1980s and Into the ·oh so quick" 1990s,
SuIcIde and Otber Lovers Is a one woman piece In
by Marla Maggentl.
which a character named Molly Wmters (Carolyn Patlemo)
relates the'story of her coming out, her first relations~p witha woman and their subsequent breakup. In self-revelatory
here is ·something really astonishing and quite language that sometimes veers dangerously toward the self-'
mlraeulous about the survival of WOW Cafe indulgent, Molly speaks'directly to the audience, alternately
throughout the past decade. Even in the greasy, addressing her ex-lover, herself and a series of former malegreedy climate of corporate mergers, gentrification, increasing lovers. The story is f.uniliar-Molly always wanted a woman,cultural repression and an overwhelming qearth of alternative but spent years denying it by having sex with men, shecultural production geared towards women, WOW cafe has 'ftnally found a woman and her heart opened up, she was, ofremained a collective theater space run by and for women and course, treated like a dog and found she had lost herself
supported: without corporate grants or public funding. Though completely in her lover,the quality of its productions have varied, its finn conunitment
It Is one dassic dyke tale and while some of the references
to theater by and for women makes it a haven In hard times.
and situations resonate with truth,and hum:or,("lesbians never
Claire Olivia Moed's two receilt plays SuIcIde and really break-up, they just renegotiate their space" elicited a
Otber Lovers and Love Slapped Me Boom Boom f4J.stde tbe sympathetic laugh from the audience) ffiCl5t of the piece Is saggy
Head, now at WOW,Cafe, deal explicitly with lesbian... THllEEAND1WOOll,,.,,,,,'T

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March 2B, 1990

Photo: Morgan Gwenwald

Performance, THE -.IOCK·n:.TO·ME - BIRL-Judy Cam.

Photo: Carol Fry

Punch and JudyI

by Jonn Wasserwhatn
Is billed as "The UltImate ~backl",
Judy Omle sings a couple oftunes and shares numerous anecdotes, Including tales of Ryan O'Neal's bedroom proclivities and her falling asleep on Hollywood Squares. For this ~year-<>Idactress, the stage conveniently serves as confessional, her comblnati~n ofvu1nerability and sasw sense of humor elevating this work-In-progress to what willprobably De the first cult ~baret of the 1990s,.
Known to mlllions as the "Sock-It-To-Me"girl from the classic television show
Laugh-In, Omle's personal and professional lives took a nosedive follOwing theshow's cancellation. She experhnented with drugs and suffered domestic violenceat the hands of then-husband, Burt ReYnolds.A well-public:izednear-faiaI accident
proved to be her nadir. In the early 198:>'s,Omle began to rebuild her shatteredcareer, The first step, "Laughing on the Outside, Qying on the Inside", a tell-all
biography, ~nicled
her peripatetic existence and run-ins with Hollywood's

seamier residents. She also wrote candidly of two well-known women withwhom she had had- affairs, although she
did not name them.
As a performer, Came remains
totally upbeat, plucky and winning.
Part vaudevlllian clC)wn, part raconteur, she possesses an innate comic
timing reminiscent of her halcyon
days in television. Perky and quickwitted, she infuses a lighthearted
touch Into two obscure ditties-"Peter
Parsons" and "Peel Me A Grape." TheBillie Holliday standard, "That Old
Devil Called Love" and her final l,lumber, "Laugh Clown Laugh," are bothdelivered with an ironic twist. One
story is told with the music and lyriCs,
the other is permanentiy etched on
Came's face. Here is a clown who has
experienced too many tears and she
gladly shares with her audience.
It' is difficult to ,watch Omle conduct her open forums and not be'
struck by her desparate need to exorcise demons coupled with a sensationalistic urge to share in her misfortune,
Recounting incident upon incident,
Came. never chooses to place blame,
thus stopping short of pointing aheavy finger' at the true culprit-herself. Omle alsO takes an odd pleasure
In her role as life's major traffic accident. She has accepted this supreme
fate, but offers little in return. I foundmyself laughing at the jokes' but questioning the motivation. There is a builtin , lurid sensationalism working here
which borders on exploitation.
Omle's sexuality is one area· which
she could have offered as malicious
gossip, but instead chooses to handle
with the sensitivity and grace it
deserves. Seated on a bar stool, her
hyper-kinetic movements temporarilysuspended, she appears content andhappy recounting her two female loves,
Errol Flynn's daughter, Dierdre, andlana Cantrell, a sultry-voiced chanteuse
who
to a certain prominence in the70s, Came, the penultimate survivor,
found solace and comfort in the anns ofthese two diverse women, affection she
readlly' admits she rafely receives frommen. It is an honest and moving
moment for a performer sti1l in searchof the meaning of her own life, T

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Top of the WorldAn Interview with Two Nice Girlsemotions and reality of their experience
as lesbians. It is amazing that this issuch new ground for women artists; all
the subterfuge is taking a back seat to
Phranc's bold statements, and theby Noelle Hanrahan
schism is starting to be noted. Howlong will it be before we ask thequestions, "What impact does it haveheer "we are taking ourselvesthat often the most difficult and healing
very seriously" determination
self-realization in a woman's life, theand down-home magnetism
acknowledgmentof her lesbian
has brought Two Nice Girls to theattention of everyone who has an ear sexuality, is left totally untapped as ato the cutting edge. Born and raised on source for lyrical inspiration? How can
the fertile Austin, Texas 1980s hardcore an artist say that what is in her heart,the most loving energy she has known,
punk music scene and the folk-infusedher lesbianism, and her self love does
women's cultural community, Two
not matter?" I wonder how any artists
Nice Girls are founders Gretchen
Phillips and Kathy ~orniloff on can afford to deny this spirit. Kathy
acoustic and electric guitars, with Pam Korniloff comments, "I have thisunflappable optimism about the world
Bargar on drums, and Meg Hentges
rounding out the band on bass. Like a right now, I am doing this because it isimportant to me to take a lot of risks
Verston, their six-song EP which
consists of five covers and a remix of and come out. To talk honestly about
their rousing anthem "Last Tf?n my life and the lives of people I know.
Dollars," will hit the record stores this To not shy away from it and cave in toany any sort of notion of peing
week, This is their second recording, palatable in .order to be successful."withindependent
distribution
We ,live in a world that spawned
powerhouse Rough Trade Records.
Take heed of my warning. If you and created John Denver, M.D.C.
know anything about this band, avoid (Millions of Dead Childrerl/Millions of
the creeping temptation to label what Dead Cops), Cris Williamson and Patti
Smith at the same time. Rarely are
they do. Originality, daring" courageand lesbian sentiments on vinyl often artists able to straddle these enormous
get labeled when frustrated critics' contradictions. Stripping traditions andlyrical content bare of embellishment
who are really high on heavy dosesof homophobia don't get where the and adding choice speed rockelements, Two Nice Girls are able tomusic is coming from.
capture such diverse outgrowths of, Two Nice Girls are exploring
They use thepowerful terrain. They are the vanguard their generation.
abandon and intensity of hardcoreof ·out" lesbians who, along withwithout
lettingits
inherent
Phranc (lsland), and to a lesser extent
Melissa Etheridge (also on Island), are consumptive energy dissolve the moreacoustic emotional dynamic range.
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This band also holds fast to the punkmanifesto, "Get up on stage and let theaudience revel in the consequences."
These four women have an
unusual sensibility, It's Austin country
mixed with a defiant charisma and anadolescent flair, hippie because of theacoustic
instruments,
includingmandolin, and punk because of thechutzpah and dedicated arrogancethat demands their work be taken
seriously. Raw honesty is injectedwith defining and indulgent speed
and sprinkled with whisps of sardonic
humor. Two Nice Girls transcend the
OZzie and Harriet backyard bArbecue
version of American reality, where
our musical leaders are bought off by,
the highest bidder, ap.d miles andmiles of prefabricatedplasticine
bands ftIl the airwaves. This band is amarked difference.
"In punk, people are used tosaying what they think. Punk thinking
has been a lot more embarrassing ofdifference, including differences ofsexuality," noted Gretchen Phillips.
When I askec!. the group where theirhybrid sound comes from the answer
was one of extremes, "The country
comes from deep inside of Gretchen'Ssoul" remarks Korniloff.True, Phillip's
affinity for the mandolin keeps the
songs grounded in bluegrass andcountry. Yet the sound draws on'other influences as well. "My heart
Crawls Off" (from the flfSt LP) is pure
Carpenters and Partridge Family pop,
As Phillips explains, "I also like thescreaming eleCtric guitar sound and it
is represented
in my music. The
combination of acoustic guitar andelectric guitar is such a cool sound."laced with a very serious and dry lunch and sugar for dinner-thosehumor, Like ~ Vemon is a psychedelicamazingly empty calories that wereworking of five cover tunes and grew up on.
their original composition "Last Ten
The flrst cut on the EP is "I Feel
Dollars." Four of the songs selected
Like Makin' Love" (Bad Company)
were originallymade into goldand "I Feel Love" (Donna Summer)
records by the 1970s AOR radio
done as a medley. Two Nice Girls are~J.ation machinery that spit out the adept at riding the mix successfully~es of REO Speedwagon, 'roto and combining these songs. The music
Foreigner. This "sound" ,was ever- , uses euro-rhythms, combinirig a disco, present and created a monolithic
sound with mandolinparts that
consciousness for a generation who, ground the song in a cow punk
for the most part, ended
up romp.
wallowing in post-Vietnam apathy. As"Top of the World," by 'Karena peer group we are forever' bound
Carpenter, gets covered in the "tiu~toand indelibly marked by songs that the original" spirit. The sheer feat ofwhen recreated or sampled, trigger a pulling off the quintessential straight
Junior High School flashbackof version of this song is a sure-flre way
mammoth proportions. Like a Vemon
to expose and bring to the surface allfinds something meaningful in these of this song's inherent incongruities. I
memories. The effort to revive this can't help recalling Karen and Richardmaterial that was vapid and almost
Carpenter on the White House lawndead on arrival the first time throughwith Richard Nixon betraying theiractually works in a strange andpeers. I will not forget that Karen
perverse way. This collection of songs Carpenter was a pioneer. a drummer
either transcends or is a tribute to when few w6inen were behind a kit. ,Wonderbread, Swanson's Hungry Man Karen Carpenter is, also an everDinners, Meatloaf (the band or the present remfuder of patriarchy's selfmeal), sugar for breakfast, sugar for inflicted deaths, having died of~anorexia nervosa. Pam Bargar's lead
vocals on this able cover has a freshand naive vulnerability that echoes
the famous string section that backed
the original. Nostalgia smashes into
broken dreams of a gorgeous voicethat just did not make it beyond aculturally described self-hatred.
"Speed Racer" is a cover of the
cartoon theme song revised to havethe main character drop some speed(the drug) and tow the karmic line,
an appreciateddose of reality
superimposedover the cartoon
character. In the end speed racer
cracks up, which is a nice ideolOgicaltwist, yet another effort at making
iriconsistencies more apparent. Reality
is never quite the picture that Walt
Disney's legacy paitits.
"Cotton Crown," written .by Sonic
Youth, betrays Phillip's reverence forscreaming electric guitar parts, as wellas the fact that both, band members
Phillips and Hentges kicked around 'with social and musical dynamite for awhile as members of Meat Joy (AustiD)
and Neo-Boys (portland) respectively.
'S.. 1WO NICE BIRLS on .... a

SERIOUS£Y FOLXS...-four fine dykes are lWo Nice Girls

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BooksP

Part of Borrowed Times power
Gunther's Death Be Not Proud ,and
aul Monette' became famouscame from the fact that Monette- who
Michael Herr's nighttparish vision of
in 1988, with the publication
is HIV-positive-wrote it in the white
the Vietnam War, Dispatches, as modof Borrowed
Time, hisheat of his own fears of the illness. "I els for what he wanted to write.
account of the death by AIDS of his
don't know if I will live to finish this
It is Herr's book which probably"beloved friend" Roger Horwitz, withbook," Monette began the book. "All 1 accolints for Monette's frequent use ofwhom he had lived
for 12 years. The 1,-----------------------------------"
book won numerous
awards, sold over
25,000 copies
in
hardcoverandMonette was granted
the highest honor
our country offers its
writers-four
min~
utes
on
Good
Morning America.
He became, as heputs- it, "the $eropositive poster child",by John Wing
for an illness that
had largely been afaceless calamity to I,
military metaphors in Borrowed Time:millions of people.
know is this: The virus ticks in me."At the Park Avenue Regency
AIDS'is a "battle", the virus, "theBorrowed Time also chronicled
Hotel where he is staying while inenemy." Susan Sontag in AIDS and its
Monette's surging anger at governMetaphors, while not naming Monette,
ment inaction on AIDS, what he calls
New York to promote his lat~ novel,
Afterlife (Crown), Monette appears to ,"the passive genocide inflicted' on us
argued that linking war images to thediscourse on AIDS encourages authoriby the Reagan and Bush administrabe a man of almost unbridgeable eontarian poJ'itical responses, creates ations." And in the book, he wrote:
trasts. He has the intellectual polish of
repressive social climate and tends to"The story I want to tell is about herosomeone who went from An~over tostigmatize those who are ill. Monette
ism and sacrifice and love, but I will
Yale, and became, in his mid-20s, a
admits that he was "sort of pissed off'
not be avoiding the anger." By pesterfledgling poet in Boston. Yet in theby her book. "I think she got AIDS
ing doctors and researchers, Monette
late 19705, he moved to Los Angeles,
wrong," he says. "But then again, forhelped Horwitz become the first perwhere he still lives, to escape "theme, her book is irrelevant because it
son west of th ~ Mississippi to receivesnootyliterary
traditionofnever addresses the gay and lesbian
AZf. But evel this fact gives Monette
Cambridge." Monette's charm. is soexperience."sQme pause for thought, as he ponpervasive,that even when he is• Afterlife, his fourth novel to date,, ders some of the unsavory truths
attacking homophobic politiciansis a fictionalized sequel to Borrowed
about, who is receiving AZT. "Onlywhich he frequently does-it seems
Time, dealing' with the growing
the top two percent of people with
as if he has just complimented them.
legions of.AIDS "war widowers."
AIDS are getting AZT. The Blacks andAt 44, his tanned face, athletically trim
"My novel," he says, "is' my parLatinos in this country are not going
body, European-cut jeans and lapis
ticular way of talking about theto get it. It's a major issue, but as far
silk shirt give him a sensual, almost
incredible number of survivors ofsybaritic air, But when he s~,
it is as the media are concerned, it's a
AiDs-thelovers, mothers, fathers,with grainy New England tones, and ' dead story," says Monette.
cousins,
friends and neighbors.
Monette still can't fathom whybeneath his quick ~umor can be
Borrowed Time struck such a deep , These are survivors who are horrified
sensed a bedrock of good old Yankee
cord with the public. "I had written it by what they've seen.
moral earnestness,"I always figure," he continues,
for the future as ,a record of what my
Monette laughs when discussing"that around 50 percent of the public
people went through; I never imagthe 'success of Borrowed Time, as heis homophobic. What I'm hoping toined that anyone going through theserecalls how publishers had turned
do with this novel is to reach at least
horrible times would want to readdown the proposal for the book whenpart of the other people who yearn toabout it. 1 was wrong."
it was drculated. "They thought everyknow mQre about AIDS. There is an
When composing
the book,'one was goirig to be doing books likeenormous wellspring in people to be
Monette says that he took John
mine. But no one has," Monette says.

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educated about AIDS issues."
For Monette, Afterlife, Is a transitional novel, combining the humor of
his early works with a new awarenessof his mortality.
"My time Is limited," he says without any bitterness. "And I want to do
as full a treatment as possible about
the hOlTors of these years. There areso many aspects to this illness thatneed to be addressed. When Roger
died, I didn't know how much time I
had left. But I haven't become sick,and because of that, I feel
if I'vebeen given a new lease on life-a
new window to look out of. And I
p~ to continue to write as long as I
have the strength to do so." Monette Is
already on the eighth chapter ofanother novel about two brothers, oneof whom has AIDS.
"I particularly love talking about
AIDS and relationships,"
says
Monette, who Is himself involved inas-.;novel, there is a 4O-page sequence inwhich a character can't get it up, andthat Is something I know all about,"says Monette, smiling. "And let metell you it wasn't fun to experienceor to write about.""It took Stephen and I," says
Monette, "three months before we felt
able to have a full relationship. We
had flown to Washington, D.C. to see
the unfoldins of the Names Project
qUilts and to participate in the candlelight vigil. It was such a profoundexperience for us both that, afterwards, we decided to go with our
feelings and become involved."
Some reviewerS of Afterlife have
had a difficult time dealing with its
sex scenes. In Publishers Weekly, forinstance, the reviewer gave the novela glowing review, but then, in a
spasm of squeamishness, felt obliged
to warn about certain scenes "whose'details may put off straight' readers."

A SELF-PROCLAIMED -SEROPOSI11VE POSTER CHILD. --Author Paul Mon.tt.
(Have gays and lesbians in a maina new relationship,with Stephen
Kolzak, a former senior vice-presistream review ever been warned
dent of Columbia Television, and about possible distress from a sex
straights?)
But
now an AIDS a.ctivist, who is HN- . scene involving
Monette is happy, he says, that so
positive. "There is a highly sexualside to the novel which I felt was many reviewers at:e struggling with
important to write. Because of AIDS, their preconceptions about gay sexuthere is a great ,deal of sexual dys- ality because of his book.
These days, when not writing,function in our community. In my

Monette enjoys touring the country to
promote his books because it gives
him a chance to "bat some ideas
aroundin public
and to pin
Americans down aJx>ut AIDS." While
political barnstorming clearly agrees
with him, he Is slightly anxious about
not compromising his health with his
exhausting a-city-a-day promotionalschedule. But his concerns about
America's future get the best of him,
and he has been speaking out lately
about the difficult times gays and lesbians will be facirig.
"Our country is in terrible, terrible trouble," Monette believes, "Themedia do not address the pitch of thecrisis today. They give the illusionthat AIDS is a manageable
situation-but it's not. There is a holocaustof AIDS going on, and the media areplaying l~e it's business as usual. And
all of this is part of the larger drift into
rot because we have allowed thiscountry to be led
by barbaric dogs.
There are toughtimes coming whenhundreds of thousands of people
will be dying and,when
the healthcare system will
have
collapsed
under such weight.
Rich people livingin their barricaded
mansions might bespared, but the restof us are going tosuffer enormously.
"My role,' hecontinues,"is tohelp see that gays
and lesbians survive
this eoming crisis.
The white heterosexual power struc-

Photo: Star Black ture.in this country

has Its back to thewall now, just like the Mrikaners, And
they're scared of us--there's no telling
what they'll try to do.'One. of Monette's ,main concerns
Is promoting gay and lesbian literacy.
"Gays and lesbians have different adolescences from straights. You know
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LOWE from palll 54.

capture something likeable in a mundane character, making Michael's initialsteps out of blandness engaging. As theplot bogs down ,in its nightmarish finale,
he's reduced to a .slightly more expressive version of his ~ lies and videotape character. His twitchy delivery andpensive glances (not to mention thelook of .Middle America) may make him
the Wtlltam Hurt of the 90s.
Bad Influence is a thriller, often a
successful one, with moments of suspense and at least one really good
scream; it's frequently obvious and silly,
too. It has the feel of the Miami Vice'd
mid-l980s: shadows cast through venetian blinds, cars peeling out on wet
streets lined with hazy traffic lights, synthesized music pulsing on the soundtrack. It's a style that feels out of datealready. Ftlms like this will someday be
put to rest with the deeade thatspawned them. But for now the fonnuIa is box office SUCCes5-50 just "try to, relax and enjoy it." T

MONETTE from palll 61

lesbians have to be readers-to learn
about our culture. You have to be
educated, which is difficult for young
gays and lesbians who have to dropout of school because of homophobia.
"Our enemies," Monette continues, "are profoundly skilled. I hope
there will be some way to sit downwith monsters like Cardinal O'Connor
and the Pope, but right now, they are
just foaming with hatred. Frankly,' I'drather have a dialogue with them- ofcourse, it will be a messy dialogue!"
When Monette speaks of theCatholic Church's homophobia, hisanger is exuberant. "'The Pope shouldbe put on trial for his crimes against
gays and lesbians, like what they did
with the Nazis at Nuremberg. The only
thing this Pope is interested in is flying
first class and churning out evil." On
Afterlife, a rabid evangelist named
Mother Evangeline likes to tell her
flock that AIDS is God's blessing togays.)"You know, I feel deeply for themen and women in Dignity," says
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a passIve way."
Monette is highly supportive of
ACf UP, characterizing them as the"healthiest and most energetic group
working on the front lines of AIDS."Andhe hopes their "passion and clarity" willcontinue to expand "forever and ever."If Monette seems energized by thechallenges of AIDS,it is perhaps becausehe ~ learned to ~onnhis rage into
practical uses. But III a deeper sense,
having in his lifetime found that elusive
ideal, the beloved friend, Monette fights,
to insure that the birthright of gays andlesbians to pursue their own beloved
friends remains protected.
"I was talking to a friend who is
HN-positive, and I said to him, 'So
many people have AIDS before
they've even come out of the closet.
Many are only in their 20s. At least
we have had a chance to be gay forour adult lives. AIDS can't take thataway from us.'" T
TWO NICE GIRLS from palll 59"Last Ten Dollars" is a remix of a Two
Nice Girls hit of last spring, Given allof the "lesbians are going back tomen" hype of this past year, this song
crystallizes the humorous ~ntimentsthat poke fun at stale and inflexible
definitions, turning it all into comicreflection with lines like "I spent mylast ten dollars on birth control andbeer, my life was SC? much easier when
I was sober and queer.", Two Nice Girls have been living
off of inspiration for a long time, withthe work as a business just starting tocome together. Yet for all of 1989, themembers were holding down fulltime jobs, as well as practicing andgiging' at every possible opportunity,"I can't practice enough when I haveto work eight hours a day," says
Korniloff, to which Phillips remarked,"From the beginning we have nevermade money off of this band.
Everything has gone into a band fundthat we use, to buy, more strings andpay for a rehearsal space. We don't·
ever pay ourselves. We need a vanreally badly so ·that we can tour, andif everybody who read this sent us adollar we could do it. We h,ope to sella lot of records and do well in that,way, not because we are money
hungry sluts, but so we can keep~

doing it. We want this to be our job."
The vanguard just does not get
any better than Two Nice Girls. Get
out there and give the women who
are taking patriarchy by storm some
support. You can write to the band
Two Nice Girls at P.O. Box 4600,
Austin, Texas 78765. T
THE WEEK IN AIDS from

12&
pall

discoverer of the commercial polio
vaccine. Salk said he would be thefirst to take the new vaccine,
The controversial Archbishop of
New York, John Cardinal O'Connor,
also considered volunteering, but was
told by Salk a day later that thenecessary volunteers had alreadybeen found.
And in the ever-convoluted life
New jersey's AIDS reporting law, astate senate committee in Trenton
approved legislation to repeal part ofrecently-signed mandatory reporting
legislation. The original bill, sponsored by Sen, Wynona Lipman (DEssex) was designed to protect theconfidentialityof people who are
HN positive. But it was amended byother lawmakers
to require thereporting of the name, address andsocial security
numberof HIV
positive people to the New Jersey
state health department.
With Lipman's support, it was
signedinto law by lame-duck
Governor Thomas Kean earlier thisyear. Now, Lipman, at the urging of
ACf UP, has sponsered a modificationof the law that would make HIV
testing anonymous.
Finally, the New York Post,
leading with the screaming headline"The Butler Has It!," reported that
Tony Deleu, a 47 year-old PWA, issuing his former boss, socialite,
millionaireand AIDS fundraiser
Frannie Scaife, for $1.7 million, Deleu,
who worked .for Scaife for sevenyears, is charging that his one-time
employer fired him after she foundout that he has AIDS,
Last week, Ernest Reaugh, an
openly gay top aide to state Sen.
Manfred Ohrenstein CD-Manhattan)
was censured
by his boss forcomparing John Cardinal O'Connor to
Adolf Hitler at a New York State AIDS
Advisory Council Meeting, T

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and unfocused. What should elevate itfrom its rather banal subject matter is theforce of Moed's language, but Molly's
lyrical path is strewn with unneCessary
poeticism, unrelated metaphors and a
confusing attempt at swreaIism Though
Patiemo is bright and mendly, as Molly,
she seems artificial as she moves about
the stage randomly lighting candles andleaning on a stool. It is as though she
has all the right moves and none of theright substance. Patiemo's amateurish
theatricality combined with Moed's highblown writing make the piece uncomfortable and, ultimately, unsuccessful.
Love Slapped Me Boom Boom,
upside My Head is a different kind ofpiece that cleverly uses baseballmetaphors to describe a communication crisis in the relationship of two
women, Gwendolyn and Cecily. On
a set designed to look like a funky
little East Village apartment, the twolovers start the piece by standing
reverently before their dinner table
ehanting "Daryl, Daryl, Daryl!" (as in
Strawberry) and then saying "Let's Go
Mets!" before sitting down to eat. Thissurprising and delightful opening sets
the tone for a piece in which the characters struggle with their grO'\yinginability to communicate effectively.
Gwendolyn'S roving eye has caused an"upset" in their "game" and Moed uses
baseball metaphors throughout thework as a strategy for coaxing a typicalstory with not so typical details out of
the two women.
Cecily (Emily Woo Yamasaki) is notjust a lesbian but an "alien" dropped off
on the planet, to human parents who
have no idea of her origin. "You think I
am a Chinese dyke, a chink lesbian, but I
am an alien," she says at one point, hertiny body and beautiful face giving her
an ethereal quality perfectly suited, to heralien status but not suited to thedemands' of live performance. Gwendolyn (Maureen Angelos) is, on the other
hand, a more forceful "player." Herflights of fancy circle around the many
girls she sees while playing the gameand her inability to tell Cecilyhow much
she really loves her. Using food, baseballand aliens in language that is lyrical but
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clever.
Both of these works do, unfortunately, seem embryonic and notquite ftnished. The pacing is a bit off,
the actors not always up to thedemands of the language, the language not always well suited to acting. The best one can hope for isthat Moed test her hand not just as
stage drama, but at prose for the
printed page. The words sound goodto the ear, but for a theater piece, it
isn't exactly clear what we are listening to and why. T
FABRIC SOFTENER from pegl 55"the classical white male representation"of the last Supper. In her scenario theimage is given a twist. Facing the laundrymachine/video monitors is a table, longenough for 12 people, and the places are
set mirroring thooe in the tape. The dinnerware is that funcy, up<lass stuff andfood, that ugly, 'ifXX!Y and repetitive 1V
dinner mush. Slapped on top of thepricey dinnerware and complemented by
crystal wine glasses, the 1V foods (to be
mistaken with "cheese food") remain in
their cheap, utilitarian setving containers
safe for oven and microwave use.
Deceptively edible, these objects are
credited to the nimble fingers of Mary
Feaster. Chatty voices are intercut withetiquette training, choreographed duringthe "wash" cycle, ("stab, stab, folk down,wine up, one, two, napkins, fork up,
stab, stab, stab").
A small video monitor hangs overthe long table. For six hours the needleof a color wheel Oike the second handon a clock) ticks around non-stop. The
proportioned color wheel pi~ up fromthe clothing color dial on top of thewashing machines. The wheel reminds
Cheang of the Wheel of Fortune, of thepie diagrams dividing a percentage of
one thing or another to one "special
interest group" or another. "'The needle
can &top anywhere," she offers, and inthat way the unmarked sections and theunaffiliated, needle represent, "the atbitrary choice people make in racialstereotyping. "This detail starts a thread thatweaves throughout the room. A slide ofa neon sign "Hand Wash" is projectedon the back waII-one caD. really start
anywhere and draw out the connectionsin any direction. For Clleang herself, it
all started with an article in the Voice
about non-traditional casting which was
illustrated by a photograph of 12 people
sitting at a table having a seemingly very
important conversation. Obsessed withpanels (since they do have an annoying
habit of popping up everywhere),
Clleang wanted to create one with 12
people, everyone talking about theirown thing and (surprise, surprise) no
one getting heard. On hers, the performers speak about certain encounters,
subtle and not-so-subtle racist comments from agents and other actors.
They relay comments from agents dur'ing tty-outs, "You look like you could
knife someone in the dark," and coworkers in the theater, "So, you're an
Indian and a cowboy. Be careful you
don't shoot yourself," One diner directly' addresses the function of ethnicity incasting when the spinning machinestops and as his face settles inside thelittle window he says, "Non-traditional
casting? ..Give me a break."
When all four cycles are completed
the'machines tum off. As vi~ers, weglance around, go back to the table, discretely poke the food to see if it's real,chat infonnally with others, tty out thechairs for guests, stare at the ceiling.
Then the guard comes over to say you
have to put 50 cents into the machines
to make them go, "just like a regularwashing machine." _Color Schemes isimpressive in a lot of ways, but thetechnical achievement, in particular,
should not go unnoticed. The piece ~resents an organized and successful coliaboration and the talent culled for therecorded part is matched by the smarts
it took to realize the technical feats. The
monitors in the washers actually spin
and the image is synched up across theboord. One phrase, "Can you identify
the model minority?"crawls across fromthe left window, through the middle, tothe right. Plants then slide back acrossthe screens in the opposite direction.
The only drawback of such an elaborate
scheme is that you may have to wait foryour tum in the central seat, so that you
can ~ all three video loops at once.
Like the message of the video loop, theroomful of puzzle pieces finally congeals, strong and clean. Cheang says,"After all, I wanted it to be a piece
about solidarity." ...

DANCING OUT
ftlonday,Private Eye, (Marc Berkley's Kool Komrads; male strippers) 12 W 21 St,
club206-m2

Tuesday
Better Days 316 W 49 St (11/9 Aves); 245-8925*Love Machine at Underground, a60 Bway, near 17th St; 254-4005
llQuick (Chip Duckett's 1st Tuesday ofthe month, AIDS benefit) 6 Hubert
St (on Hudson, 5 blocks below Canal); 925-2442

VVednesday,

Better Days 316 W 49 St (11/9 Aves); 245-8925
Private Eyes (Jeffrey Sanker & Dallas's Club Bad) 12 W 21 St, btwn
5t1V6th Aves; 206-7n2'-Pyramid (n'9w -Fag Bar-; Dean Johnson has moved to Woody's; see
SUNDAY) 101 Avenue A, btwn 6tN7th Streets; 420-1590
Silver Uning (2-4-1 drinks, also open Toes·Sun, women SAT) 175 CherryLa., Roral Pk, LI; 516/354-9641 ,Stutz (2-4-1drinks, also open daily) 202Westchester Ave, White Plains;914{761-3100
1Wenty/lWenty (Marc Berkley's Kool Komrads, gay men after 10 pm) 20
W 20 St; club 727-8841

Thursday*Boybar (has a new wave drag show) 151/2 St Marks Place, btwn
2ndl3rd Aves; 674-7959'*Copacabana (last Thu. of the month has Susanne Bartsch party) 10 E 60
St, at fifth Ave; 755-6010
Excalib ... ($1 drinks, also open Tues·Sun, women WED) comer IOth/Jef.
ferson behind football stadium, Hoboken, NJ; 201.795-1161
Grand Central (2-4-1 drinks, also open Wed·Sun) 210 Merrick Road,
Rockville Centre, LI; 5161536-4800
Hatf18k1's (2-4- 1 drinks, female impersonators; also open nightly, women on
ruE & FRII 126-10 Queens Blvd, Kew Gardens, Queens; 7181261-8484
llQuickl (Chip Duckett Thursdays) 6 Hubert St (on Hudson, 5 blocks
below Canal); 925-2442

Friday*Boybar 151/2 St Marks PI., btwn 2nd/3rd Aves; 674-7959*Cannelita', (Chip Duckett's Boy+Boyll50 E 14 St; club 673.9015
Columllia Dance, (1st Friday of every month) 116th St & Bway; 854-3574days
Private Eyes (preppies and young professionals) 12 W 21 St, btwn 5th/6th
Aves; 2OO-7n2
llQuickl (Scott Currie + Panty Girdles party) 6 Hubert St (on Hudson, 5
blocks below Canal); 925-2442
1Wenty/lWenty (Marc Berkley's Professional Happy Hour, 2-4-1 drinks)
20 W 20 St, 4-8 pm; club 727-8841,

Saturday
Barafoot BoOgie (smoke & alcohol free) 434 6th Ave (btwn 9110Sts); 832-6759*Boybar 15 1/2 St Marks Place, btwn 2ndl3rd Aves; 674-7959
The Center Dances (2nd and 4th Saturdays) 208 W 13 Sf, btwn 7th/8th
Aves; 620-7310,
Girth and Mirth Club attha Center (3rd Saturdays, heavy men & theiradmire'rs) 208 W 13 St; 620-7310
Columllia Dances (3rd Saturdays, Same But Different Dance, throughJune 16) 116 & B'way, 10 pm· 3 am; info 629-1989
Private Eyes (Jeffrey Sanker & Dallas's Club Bad) 12 W 21 Sf, btwn
5tMith Aves; 200-m2
Red Zone (John Simone's Talent Show, mixed gay/straight) 440 W 54 St,
btwn 10/11 Aves; 582-2222"Roxy (mixed gay/straight/TVs/clubI<ids) 515 W 18 St (btwn 10/11 Aves);
645-5156
Saint At Large (ad hoc parties at different locations); 674-8541
Sound Factory (mixed gay/straight, Acid House, no alcohol) 530 W 27 St(btwn 10th/11th Aves); 643-0728

Hot Rod (Marc Berkley's Sinful Sundays; Father Ritte(s friend, Kevin
Kite, on the door) 270 11th Ave (btwn 27/2B Sts); club 244-1963
1Wenty/l'wenly (T·Dance, 4 pm • 2 am) 20 W 20 St (516 Aves); 727-8841
Woody's (Dean Johnson's original Rock & Roll Fag Bar, in its 9th change
of venue) 4th St at 2nd Ave; 982.3686'

Every Night (or almost)
Monster (West Village) 80 Grove St at Sheridan Sq.; 924-3557
Spectrum (closed Mon & Tue, WED free, THU he & 2-4-1 drinks, FRI
rrVf strippers, SAT guest star show, SUN live show & free 9-10 pm)
802 64th St@8thAve,'BayRidge,
Bklyn; 7181238-8213

DANCING OUT for Women
Tuesday
Hatfield's 1~6-10 Queens Blvd., Kew Gardens; 718/261-8484

VVednesday,

Bedrock 121 Woodfield Rd, W. Hempstead, LI; 516/486-9516
Excalibur (Ladies Night, $1 drinks) comer 10th/Jefferson behind footballstadium, Hoboken; NJ; 201- 795-1161,
Twentyrrwenly (Shescape After Work, 5-10 pm) 20 W 20 St (btwn
5th/6th Aves); info 645-6479, club 727-8841

Thursday,Bedrock 121 Woodfield Rd, W. Hempstead, LI; 516/486-9516
Big Hunt Club (Her Plane~ 8 pm • 2 am; begins 3129) 804 Washington,
4 blocksbelciw 14 St; info '127-7616

Fri,day"St,,

Bedrock 121 Woodfield Rd, W. Hempstead, LI; 516/486-9516-Cannelita's (Chip Duckett's Girl+Gir~ 150 E 14 St; club 673-9015 'Ch.. ks 2000 Long Beach Road, Island Park, LI; 516/431.5700
Hatf18ld's 126-10 Queens Blvd., Kew Gardens; 7181261-8484
RoXy (Shescape party) 515 W 18 St, btwn'lOth/llth
Aves; info 645-6479,
club 645-5156'',
Visions 56"()1 Queens Blvd, Wo'odside; info 718/846-7131 , club 718,1899-

9031

Saturday,,Bedrock 121Woodfield Rd, W. Hempstead,'LI; 516/486-9516
The Center (Women & Friends 1st Saturdays, Feb. thru May) 208 W 13
St; 620-7310'
Mars (last Saturdays, Her Planet, 3/24 this month) 13 St & West Side
Hwy, 691-6262'
Silver Uninll175 Cherry Lane, Floral Park, LI; 516/354-9641
Starz 836 Grand Boulevard, Deer Park, LI; 516/242-3857
Twentyrrwenty (Shescape party) 20 West 20 Street (btwn 5th/6th Aves);
info 645-6479, club 727-8841

SundayBedrock 1~1 Woodfield Rd, W. Hempstead, LI; 516/486-9516
Cave Canem (Sandwich Sister Sundays) 24 1st Ave at 1st St; 529-9665
Hot'Rod (Our PartieS/Ourselves, Tea Dance 2nd Sundays) 270 11th Ave(btwn 27/28 Sts), 5-10 pm; info 245-1786, club 244-1963
Mars (Girl Sunday, Tea Dance 1st Sundays) Westside Highway and 13thSt, 5-9 pm; 691-6262

Every Night (or almost),

Cubby f'tole (tIny dance floor) 438 Hudson St @ Morton St; 243.9079
Duchess II Sheridan Sq. & 7th Ave South; 242.1408
Spectrum (closed Mon & Tues; good gay/lesbian mix, see Every Nigh~above, for details) 80264th St, Bklyn.; 718/238.8213

SundayBetter Days 316 W 49 St (11/9 Aves); 245-8925"Mars (Chip Duckett's Mars Needs Men) Westside Highway and 13th St;
691-6262'
ttpyramid (Hapi Phace's,Bac'kdoor Cabaret) 101 Avenue A, btwn 6f1
Stre~ts; 420-1590

March 28, 1.990

OUTTWEEK

65

prepared by Rick X
with addltlonallnformlltlon
from
The Gil'( at l.eabilln Switchboard of
N_YortEVENTS
Seod c:aIt:Ddar Ilems to:lUck x, GolDa Out
1kD;790
New York, NY 10108
Items must be rectelftd by
Monday to be Jncluded Inthe £01-

lowIna week'. issue.
Sincerest apologies for
my SNAFU that d.leted Sunday fromthe calendar last week. A simple error
In calculating
ratios of lines tocolumns led to the loss of a full day.
Center KId, had an Important forum on
gay/lesbian
adoptions.
a deletion
which was particularly egregious, but I
trust the forum will be repeated in tha
future. Belated a pologles also go to
GMHC and Judith., Room for my
putting the wrong times, in for a wort.hop and a reading, To err is human,
but really annoying,On the brighter side, rliJw YorkMagazln, and WPW have created amovie information line. m-3456 (m·RLM). that allows you to punch in thefirst three lettera of a current film title,
and your zlpcode. upon which a computerlzed voice gives you the nearest
theater playing it. along with address
and .howtimes, Quite a boon to perIOnity,
Ufto( .....

ONGOING
MAYOR'S OFFICE FOR THE LESBIANAND GAY COMMUNITY Solicits 1_·"'011
011J.. Ev.ts to place on ,the1990 Pride Month Poster Calendar.
which will be widelydistributed
throughout NYC; for any gay/lesbian
evema taking place In June; Lee Hud- 'son or Jan Carl Park, 566-7385 (deadnne ,xtend,d till Merch 31)
BIG APPLE SOFTBALL LEAGUE NY
announces SoMI"
W. sponsored by
COO" Light. Th, Silver Bullet; ~Playwith the boy.1 Get out in the.un ...Meet new friends·; with toumaments in 23 cities, awards. banquet.
boat ride. follies; practice sessions
Tuesdays. High School of the HLlmanities, 351 W 18 St. 7th Roor Gym; 7-10
pm; Info 71111186-2467 (BASI.., Box 475.
NYC 10150)
GAY GAMES III offers F.... Brochure
about the August competitions in VancOINer; 1I00I828-1109
TOWER PRESS "".
Se/. !III Deedni •• are Marcil 23 for organization
listings. and April 20 for calendar of,66

OUTTWEEK

For more information or referr.la, torap, or to volunt8er, call the 'GlSB
daily, noon to-midnight, 212-777-1800

CALENDAR
June evema listings; 966-7722
Ithesi basic listings are provided free)
10% OF THOSE WE SERVE !lOW ,..11'
terlll fur April 6 CoIIfer8llCe 011 Les.I •• /G.y Alcoholl..
..dOt .. rAddictiOll •• Patrice Morhart 399-6901,
Ron Vachon 566-4995 (register
by
MARCH 23)CONGREGATIONBETH SIMCHATTORAH announces Jewi .. ElhlcetlOII
COIIrHs for Spri ... March 6- June 18;
info 929-9498
LESBIANS ABOUT VISUAL ART (LAVA)ArtI .... the art wortof over twenty women; at the Centar.
208 W 13 St; MON-FRI. 9 am - 6 pm;
SUN. 9 am - noon and 8:30-11 pm; info
620-7310 (weekdays), 620-8120 (weekends) (thru MARCH 22)

Works .y LeUI.

PRIVATE EYES .,.
TOfU: a ,,,.,,.
"'ow.
of works by Michael,Huhn; 12 W 21 Sf; 2Oft.7772 (MARCH 16
thru MARCH 23)ra,'"

COOPER UNION HOUGHTON GALlERY
Paid ... Sc.I,.. .. , PIIoIDgre.". withsoma works ·relevant to some contemporary Issues in the gay community.; b'l Mark Palkoski, Unn Meyars,
Marc Blaustein. John Biebel; Astor
Place at 3rd Ave. 2nd Floor; MON-FRI.
noon - 7 pm (thru MARCH 23)
NY FEMINIST ART INSTITUTE .....
ry/R.III ty. with works by elevenartists; at Ceres Gallery. 91 Franklin Sf;
TUE-SAT, noon - 6 pm (thru MARCH 24)

29TH STREET THEATER presema LI.
FIfIII ofJ.,y. 212 W 29 Sf;
WED~SAT at 8 pm. SUN at 3 pm; $8;465-m75 (thru MARCH 25)

ford WlI ....

THEATRE ENSEMBLE AT FASHION
INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY Uttl.
SIlo, '" Horron. the must-learn hit
for any piano-bar fan; Katie Murphy
Amphitheatre.
227 W 27 St (7th/8thAves); FRI at SAT at 8 pm. also extra
shows THUR. 3/29, at 8 pm. andSAT, 3/24, at 3 pm; 760-7710(MARCH 23-31)
NEW YORK CITY GAY MEN·S, CHORUS M .. lc.1 Re""e:A.".I.,Col.,
at the Sanford Maisner Theatre. 164
11th Ave (22123 Sts); $15 (except $25
Fridays. which Include a champagne
receptionwith the cast atter theshow); THUR-SUN. 3/22-3/25; andWED-SAT. 3J28-a/31; at 8 pm. except
SAT at 7:30 at 10:30; llcket Central
279-4200 (thru MARCH 31)
BAD NEIGHBORS presema 7h_1t,
at the Cooper Square Theatre, 50 E 7
St (near 2nd Ave); THUR-SUN. 8 pm;$10; reservations/lnfo
989-0788 (thru
APRIL 1)CIRCLE IN THE SQUARE presents
Spa,."'"" 159 Bleecker Sf; $22-$28;
TUE-FRI at 8 pm, SAT at 7 at 10 pm,
SUN at 3 at 7 pm; tix 254-6330. Info 6457744 (open run)
THE NEW DUPLEX presents F••• y
GlY Mlle.,
Jaffe Cohen. Danny
McWilliams.
Bob Smith; 61 Christopher S1;FRI and SAT at 10 pm; $10 + 2drink min.; reservations
255-5438(open run)

COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY POSTCRYPTART GALLERY houses R,adl.,th.
AIDS ,,,,,,,,,,111011
la .. ,.tlle
Eye. a decade-long look at media porThe Ha.dlli;lid'.
Tal,. reviewed
intrayal of AIDS, the com.mendable andIssue #38 (N,w York/WPW movieline,
m-3456)the destructive. curatad by The Artist's
House and friends; In St Paul's Chapel
basement. 116 at B'way (#1/19 train); • L,,,,I'" fII, Rill (the American ver,
TUE-FRI. 2-6 pm; FRI-SAT, 9 pm - mldsion) a cautionary
movie about anight; free; 854-1953lthru MARCH 31)
bunch of young min who, when facedwith a natural disaster, and nobody to
IN:r'L CENTER OF PHOTOGRAPHY
help them out of it, start beating eachother up (New York/WPW movieline.
MIDTOWN T". l.do.I,dl.
S,lrI,.
m-3456)
works by 100 artists
createdinresponse to the AIDS crisis; 033 6th
Ave (at 43 St); TU-SUN, 11-6, except
lllllelto Oa,,",- reviewed in Issue #38,
lino Brocka·s movie a bout the ecoTHU till 8; 788-4680 (thru APR 7)
nomics and politics of l'(Iale prostituPS 122 presema Ell ... MyI.. i. 1M,..
tlon in Manila; at the Bleecker Streat
In, N,w York ("Th, Show·). 150 1st
Cinema. west of laGuardia Place; 2,
Ave (at 9 St); $8; FRI-SAT, 11 pm; 4774:30. 7, 9:30; 674-2560
5288 (thru MARCH 24)"",.",.1•• '" ,he Moo •• reviewed in
Issue #38 (New York/WPW movieline.
PS 122 presents DlCer Wilde'. Saiolne,
m-3456)150 lstAve (at9 St); $10; THU-SUN, 9'.30
pm; 477-5288 (thru MARCH 25)u...:March 2B. 1990

MONDAY, MAR. 19
MARC BERKLEY'S KOOL KOMRADS
presents Electr. It. Jill .t PrI".teEye., performing as Lucy end Bette
Midler; video et 9 pm. followed by
performanca. then mele strippera; 12
W 21 Sf; doora open 8 pm; 208-7772

rtve

TUESDAY, MAR. 20
FfrsI Dey fIIS,rI ..
GAY MEN'S HEALTH CRISIS HIV
IIMItII ......
r: .......
1........
and NmftlOIIl1.....
; 129 W 20 St;
3rd at 8th Roora; 7 pm; frOll; 807-8U1,
TOO 645-7470 (this and every 3rd
TUES)
LESBIAN AND GAY lABOR NETWORKFonJ.: How to 0,...1z,• l8UIIe •GlY C••
luel I. r••r U.lo., with.peakera from the lAG Issues Cmte ofOC 37 (NYC municipal workers) andlAG Caucus of the Assoc, of legal AId
AttyS/Dlstrict 65-UAW; at the Center.
208 W 13 Sf; ,8 pm; 923-8690 (LGLN, Box1159, NYC 10009)

WEDNESDAY, MAR. 21
GAY WOMEN'S ATHlETIC CLUB and
SHESCAPE Gey G....
III Fa...._
at 1WeIIty/1Wellly, with a perc.ntaglof the door between 5-6 pm going to
GWAC; videos of Gay Games" and In
Info table will be on hand; 2-4-1 drinks
from 5-7 pm; 20 W 20 St; 5-10 pm; SI6;
Shescape 645-6479. club 727-8641(Men are welcome at this apeclal
event; women may Jtay paat 10 pm fur
Kool Kom;,d&)ASIANS AND FRIENDS NY ........
1
Meet _..... at a, bar/restaurant In
the Village, 6-8 pm; member Info 6745064
NY ADVERTISING at COMMUNICATIONS NETWORK .........
~:
Sa,.. ProMItI_, ·expectto learn a lot
and laugh a lot.· with John Gallagherand Brad Haan. u-Saetchi at Saetchl
sales promotion pros; at the Center,
208 W 13 St; 6:30-9:30 pm; $5 memberS/S7 non-membera; info 5174t1O
ACT UP ltet.
I .....
r.lcll-I.,
In
preparation for the Mere. 21 AI •• y ,Protist; with discussion of housing.
social services, drug treatment programs. AIDS education, prisons, con-

dom distribution, clinics, women andchildren, and executive leadershipfrom the Governor; at the Center, 208
W 13 St; 7-10 pm; 989-1114
JUDITH'S ROOM BOOKSTORE presents Me., Voice,: Reedl.,. e.d
Dle/Of" e61H1t U"., III
wftII
DI.e6I11tle.;681 Washington St (atCharles Stl; 7 pm; free, but limited
seating; 7Z1-7330 (wheelchair accessiblelw....

CENTERSPORTSsees NY ..... an VI.
Toronto Mlple Leafs, hockey match; at
Madison Square Garden, 33rd St &. 7th
Ave; 7:30 pm; members $25Inon-members $35; 620-7310 (Editor's Query:
Shouldn't it be Maple LBlv~s?1
PATH: POSITIVE APPROACHESTOWARD HEAUNG Se.. llar: LDvl.,
tte "e,,011 I AlIITode" 'led by Peter
Hendrickson, Ph,D., for anyone concerned about HIV infection; Integral
Yoga Institute, 227 W 13 St; 7:30-9 pm;$5; 929-O!i86
GAY MEN'S HEALTH CRISIS EroticlzII, Sifer Sex Workshop, to "helpmake safer sex erotic, creative andsatisfying"; at the Center, 208 W 13 St;
8-10:30 pm; free; no pre-registration;
info 807-6655, TOO645-7470

Tuning In: A TV/Radio Guide for OutWeek Readers(Editor's Nota: We solicit entries from radio and Tv. Including talk shows, news programs, movies, txtrIVlgallZls,
cable series and specials, and any other electronic media events that might interest our lublcribers. Informetlon
must be rec,iv,d by Monday to be includad in the following weak's issue. Send hams to Rick X. Tuning In. Box 790,
NY. NY 10108.1',

ME IArts & Entertainment, 555 Fifth Avft, 10th FI, NYC 10017; 661-45(0)Cm'lRick X, Box 790, NYC 10108)
GISIGay Broadcasting System, Butch Peaston, 178 7th Ave, Ste. A.!J, NYC 10011; 243:1570)
GCN IGay Cable Network, Lou Maletta, 32 Union Square East, Suite 1217; 4n-4220)
GMHC IGay Men's Health Crisis, Jean Carlomusto, 129 W 20 St, NYC 10011; 807-7517)
HID IHoll)e Box Office Prods., 1100 Ave/ Ams, NYC 10036; 512-1000)
HI PROD IRobin Byrd Productions, Box ~05, NYC 10021; 988-2973)
WAlC"TV 17 Lincoln Square, NYC 10023; 456-7m)
WIAI-FM 1505 8th Ave, 19th FI, NYC 10018; 279-0707)
WNET-TV 1356W 58 St, NYC 10019; 560-3000)
WPlX-TV 111WPIX Plaza,'NYC 10017; 949-1100)

MONDAY, MARCH 19

BCN Prid, a Progre$l'. news, health, SP0r1l; Manhattan
Cable, CHJ/23; 10'.3G-11:OO
pm 'BCN B, My Gu,st, Sybil Bruncheon hosts a penel gameshow; Manhattan Cable, CHJ/'l3; l0:Q0.l0:30 pm

SCN Th, Right Stuff: media, entertainment, acivlce; Manhattan Cable, CHJ/'l3; 11:111-11:30pm

Tomorrow's TV Tonight entertalnme/l1; Manha~n andParagon Cable, CH 0/17; 11:30pm - 12:30am

RB PlOD M,n For Me" Robin Byrd presents gay maleporno stirs; Manhattan Cable, CH J/'l3; 11:30pm - mld~lght

cm Th, Closet CIs, Show.tonight, Chip Duckett CI"II$FRIDAY. MARCH 23

A DIFFERENT UGHT Reldln. Sarles:
JoII, GII.un, Music I Ne""r DI8IIIIIId
Of; 548 Hudson (btwn CharfesJPerryl; 8pm; free but limited seating; 989-4850

tha middle of the dance floor; Manhattan Cable, CH rJ16;
midnight - 12:30am (This show will be repaated ~Oscar
NightlEAGLE BAR Movie NI.ht: bthelw..ptHIlt, 142 11th Ave (at 21 Stl; 11
pm; 691-8451

Gey TV, gay male porno clipS; Paragon Cable, CH J/'l3; 11:30am (MONfTUEI

THURSDAY, MAR. 22
NATIONAL MUSEUM OF LESBIANAND GAY HISTORYFinll Day of LAVA
(Lelltll .. Allout VI .. II Arts) Groep
SIIow, see ONGOINGIN OUR OWN WRITE presents PoetsElIII' Mylel I,d Jacque"ee Wood101; at the Center, 208 W 13 St; 7:30
pm; $3; 620-7310
CENTERSTAGE'sees c.t 011 e Hot 71.
Roof, with Kathleen Turner and Charfes
Durning, 8 pm, $60, 620-7310
LAVENDER HEIGHTS Lectere Series:
Derek' Hodel, executive director of
People With AIDS Health Group, thecountry's largast buyers' club assisting
PWAs in obtaining not-yet-FDA, approved medications; at Cornerstone
Center, 178 Bennett Ave (one blockWest of B'way, take A Train to 1!10Stl; 8pm; $7; John Mugge 603-4665 (daysl,
304-2471(evesl

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TUESDAY, MARCH 20
Hao Whet IUm Gey?,"Tom plays on tha high school soccertaam and has a steady girffriend ...butwhy is he confused?" 4-4:45 pm
Gas Out in th, 90's: live news coverage, discussion andinterviews; Manhattan and Paragon Cable, CH rJ16; 11pm
to midnight

WAlC-TV Hom", a tour oJ a BostOn AIDS hOlplce; CH 7, 11
am - noon
Th, G,y D'ting G,m, Show, Manhattan Cable, CH
7:30-8:00pm.m

WAlC-TV Club Med. a 19861V movie, probably awfu~ but
sae it for Ixtapa, Mexlco'l 10ca1ions,and maybe lome ofClub Med's gentils org,nluteurs; a good choice If you havethe flu; CH 7,8-10 pm
WHET·TV G",t p,tformenc,8. Solti conducts the Chicago
Symphony In a new Interpretation of Beethoven' I Symphorry No. 51n C Minor; CH 13,9-10 pm (simulcast on WNCNFM,104.3)

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 21

G,y TV, male porno cOpe;Manhattan Cable, CH Jf1Ji 1111:30pm

WPlX-TV Op,n Mind. Martin Bauml Dubennan discussu
the life of social activist Paul Robuon; CH 11, ~i30 am

RB PRODRobin Byrd Show. male and female strippers;
Manhattan and Paragon Cable, CH .J/'l3; 1-2 1m (FRVSAT)

ME A Sm;1ICircl, of Fri,nds, with Brad Davis, Jamuon
Parker; and Karan Allen as alate 60s collegiata threelome;featu~ing an army induction physical that remind. u. how
gay men can't evade the military during wartime, but can't
join during peacetime; 11am - 1:30pm

ME Di!dn, M,dntIU (19801: the Divine Mill M In her second movie (The R08ewall979I, this time playing heraelf; 46 am (late FRV.. rty SAT)RB PROD Th, RobinByrdShow. male and female strippers;
Manhattan and Paragon Cable, CH J(J3; midnight - 1 am

RB PlOD Th, Eerly Byrd. Robin Byrd presents malt/fem!lll
strIppera; Manhattan Cable, CH.1I23; ll-mldnlght

THURSDAY, MARCH 22

SUNDAY, MARCH 25

WAlC-TV Hamil: one segment is on AIDS and children; CH7, 11am - noon

WBAl-Rlil Out/DOles. tonight, Sex. Intim,cy,nd ReletJonships, moving beyond fear and doubt, embracing courage;
with Nick Cimorell~ 99.5 FM, 7:30-8:30 pm (every other Sunday, alllrnating with Th, G,y ShtlMlt

GMHC Living With AIDS: health and politics; Manhattan
C8~le, CH J/'l3, 9'.30-10:00pm; Parigon Cable, CH J!23; 11:30
pm - midnight

SATURDAY, MARCH,24

8CN M,n a Films: male erotica; Manhattan Cable, CH.J/'l3;
11:30pm - midnight

March 28, 1990

O~EK

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NEW YORKCITY GAY MEN'S CHORUS Eucharistic celebration"; for people \ HIItIIry, Independence Mall East, 65 N
open•• ".1., Col"s.. ONGOING
from all denomination.; St Francll Cen- 5th St; 929-9498
tar, 129W 31 S1;10am - 4 pm;895-1500
TUNNEL BAR S•• day Art ExIIlllldoll:
CEllBLOCK 28 Hot Ash PIIly, free sodaof Nllblrel HI.. Ga, All dI. Wa" "fun, erotic lit .ub· WAle-TV Ac,demy Awerdl Show, CH
bar;clothes check and clplS; 28 9th Ave CENTERKIDS M...
tort RIId Tit,. with lunch In the cafete- lime" painting•• photos. drawings. col- 7.9pm·??
I1W14SIs); 9 pmsharp; $10;733-3144
rii and groups splitting up to .. e the lage., IIch Sunday thru April 1; today.
museum.followed by play time In Cen- Joseph Dunn. Jo.. ph Kamln.kl. Ken CC1V Th, C/o6at C." Show will rep.attral Park,weather permitting; at 79 St &. Thompson. Paul Laroy Gehres; 116 1st the March 19 .how (boys bathing at
Qulckl). In deference to Th. Acad,my
C.P.W.; 11 am start; for member Info. Ave {at 7 St); noon - 9 pm; m-9232
Award, (next weak'. April 2 .how will
leave massagaat 820-7310
DIGNITY/QUEENS S,rl.1I Br ••at feature ACT UP membars Pater Staley
SAGE Wo ••• '. Flfty+
Gro.,:•• lldl., """.111, alHl .. ,fIOIt at the ACT UP State I.....
T.acll-I •• In Cly~.· •• In the Village; 1 pm; $8-$12; and Blane Mo.ley In a v.ry .. f.-IIx
Centar,208 W 13 St; 7:30 pm; limited preparation for the Mlrell 21 Ailla.ymember Info. 71111565-2171
video produced by GMHC; Manhattan
registration 741-2247(This IIthe fourth ProIIIt; at the Center.2111W 13St; noon
Cable ha. b.. n warn.d not to c.n.orof a five-week series.)
AIDS CENTER OF QUEENS COUNTY It); MCTV.CH Cll&; midnight- 3 pm {see MARCH21)
B•• eflt Bowl·A·Tllo •• at the Amerl·
GAYMEN OFAFRICANDESCENT".."GAYMEN'S HEALTHCRISISWorbIIop: cana Lanea. 98-18 Rockaway Blvd.
Me IfI,1ItA C:O" •• IcIdOl WotbIIop,
Dacldlllll til Tlka ... HIV T'1l; at the Ozone Park, NY; 1:30,pm check-In; $5emphasizing the Importance of non· Center.3rd Floor; 208 W 13 St; 1-4:30 f.. ; raglater"oward Goldberg at
verbal communication, especially body pm; registration required at 807-6655. 711!1896-2500
language; group exarcises and rola TOD645-7470 {open to all. male.female.
GAYMEN'S HEALTHCRISISHIV ......
plays will be used; at the Center,208 W gay. non-gay)
ASIANS AND FRIENDSNY 10. Sbd ..
s-Iar. Medical nu-..; 129W 20
13St; 8 pm;820-7310
at WoII.a. RI.1e,Central Park, ent.r St. 3rd Floor; 7 pm; frea; 807.-&, TOO
59 St at 5th or 8th Ave. go north of the 845-7470fthll and lV.ry 4th TUES)GAYMEN'S HEALTHCRISISErodclzl..
MEN OFALL COLORSTOGETHERTWo Saf.r S.X Worksho,. to "help make laka; 4 pm; $5 {$2.50 rental); member
D.ys of eo- ••Ity Crosa-CuItIrIl Ed .. safer .. x erotic. creatlva and satisfy- Info 674-5064
GAYMEN'S HEALTHCRISIS......,:
cltlo.,
Sen.ltlvlty
lit Aw.r ..... , ing"; at AIDS Center of Qu.. n. County.
K.., It U,I,to "r.afl1rm the Importancl
focusing on Asil. AnI.ltCI .. lit Pacific 97·45 Queens Blvd. Rego Park; 1·3:30 JUDITH'S ROOM BOOKSTORE pre· of IIf.r IIX, and f.. 1 confld.nt about
Islalld.rs; discussion on Allan Ameri- pm; fr .. ; no pr•• r.glstratlon; Info 807- •• nt. Dilla Bro ....
reading with saying VII. wheth.r you're Into cllull
can history, slldeshows on Asian le.- 6655. TDD845-7470
Dorotlly Barr .. I' In the S.co.d of .. x or .. rlou. dating. Ind no mltter
blans and violence against Asians,
EII.rlllllll Tal.llt C_,.ddo.
Sari .. ; what your HIV statu. 11-; at the Cantlr.
panel discussion, videos, food, music; HEAL Fon.: 71, HIV 1IlH" aad til, 681 Washington St {at Chari .. St); 4 208 W 13 St; 7-10:30 pm; rlglstratlon
at the Center, 208 W 13 St; Friday, 8- C... til AlDI. with Dr. Peter Duaaberg pm;free. but limited .eating; 727·7330 n.c .... ry. 807-8855.TOD845-7470
10:30pm; Saturday, 11 am - 6 pm; frae and Dr. Joseph Sanna bend; PS #41{due to a grant from the North Star Auditorium. 123W 11 St {at 8th Ave); 7 WOMEN OF NY ADVERTISING lit RIDICULOUSTHEATRICALCOMPANY'Fund);info 245-6366,222-9794
ravivas CllaalII .........
"., III., ..
pm; $7 suggested donation; 674-4673 COMMUNICATIONSNETWORKS,rI ..
S.,.., I. SQHO;4-7 pm; $15; mem~er ,.,./oa/et: a .~which won
{674-HOPE),JUDSONMEMORIALCHURCHpresents
Info 517-0380{MAR 19deadline)
an Oble In 1977.a "magnum opu.ln the
J.n. K.rnln, of whose cabaret act DIGNITY/BIG APPLE U.. rgy aid DI.·spirit of Wagner's Ring Cycle. but In far
Gene Shallt said, "You will laugh your- c... lon of Dignity/USA's Sexual Ethics ZIPPERFLYPRODUCTIONSTWo DI ..
less time"; directed by Everett Quinton
self silly. Very sophisticated stuff and Statement; at the Center,2111W 13St; 8 Act PI.ys lIy Lo. Lowry: Family Mat- wItI1 a new score by Mark Bennet andgreat fun"; a benefit for Judson's year- pm;818-1309
costumes by Susan Young; 1 Sh.ridan
ters. ". benign look at a father
struggling to deal with his son's homo- Square;tlx 691-2271.info 989-6524{prelong Centennial Celebration; 55 Washington Square South; 8 pm; $10; JUDSONMEMORIALCHURCHpresents sexual relationship"; and Pay Backs. views till APR 12 opening; runs thru
reservations 777-0033 {also SAT, J.11a KDnltr, 8 pm.see MARCH23"in which the seething passions of MAY6;TU-FRat 8, SAT-SUNat 7)
frustration towards the AIDS epidemic
MARCH24.8 pm) {Editor:The Flirtations
sing APRIL6 &. 7)
MEDICINESHOWWonIIPley, 8 pm {see explode in desperation and rage in ahorrible but not impossible turn of
MAR 23)
events"; at the Center. 208 W 13 St;
MEDICINE SHOW Word/Play staged
readings directed by Andrew Mellen; CENTERSTAGEsees NEW YORKCITY the double-bill at both 5 and 8 pm; $5
ACT UPAI.. ., ......... to declare New
tonight, Joe Keenan's Greif Lengths and GAY MEN'S CHORUSM•• lc.1 R.YI.:
Ed Vega's The True Story Behind the Aa,'"I", Col•• $28. 620-7310 {see SHESCAPEpresents A S,aclll Party York State a health care dllaater area.
for WoInaI .. FoxII, the New Jersey and to demand ho.pital bed•• commuWriting of The Conquest of Fructifflfi
ONGOING)dance club; 396 St. Paul's Avenue. nity based cliniCS. housing for hom.Soto {with music by Ralph Affoumado);
353B'way {3 blocks below Canal);8 pm; CENTERp,. NIIlId II at C.1Iter HIIIII. Jersey City. NJ; 7 pm - 2 am; $8; less PWAs. drug treatment for addic1s;
buses leave at 7 am from the C.nt.r.
$6; 431-9545{also MAR 24 &. MAR25)
the 4th Saturday dance; with Hostless) Shescape 217/645-6479.club 201/963208 W 13 St; B'way at 96 St; andElectra St Jill. King &. aueen crowning 6206
Atlantic Ave at Brooklyn Academy of
STONEWALL CHORALE COIC.rt; Bill at 11 pm. formal driss optional; 208W
ptlugradt conducts Mozart's Requiem 13 St; 9 pm - 1 am; $8/$6 members. MEDICINE SHOW Word/Play, 8 pm 'Music; $10 RT. available at ACT UP
meetings. 7:30 pm. Mondays, at the{see MAR 23)
MISS in D Minor; K. 626 and Faure's seniros. students; 620-7310
Center; allo Judith·s Room {681WashRequiem. Op. 4t at the Church of the
MARC BERKLEY'SSINFUL SUNDAYS ington. 727-7330). Different Ught {548Ascension, 5th Ave &. 10 St;,8 pm; $12 SPECTRUM prlSents Pia Zidora.
Hudson, 989-4850). and Oscar Wilde{at the door); info 721-2924
singing H.artbllt
of Love; 802 64th presents an AdvoClte lIl.a ,Irty at
Bookstore {l5 Christopher. 255-8097);
Hot
Rod
with
a
specialR....
nStreet, Brooklyn {N Train to 8th Ave
MlYllOr ,lIoto .xllllllt; photos on the ACTUPlnfo •• ,114
SAGE Dlscuuloll: O.r If,/atlOlll with stop, Bay Ridge);71&/238-8213
2nd floor from 8-10 pm; main party
fit. Pol/cl, with v'nllSl Ferro, lia isonto the NYC Police Dept.; in the SAGE WANTED PRODUCTIONS opens H.r starts at 10 pm, with Advocate Men PATH: POSITIVE APPROACHES
Progra,moffice, Center 2nd Floor.2111W Pia... et MeIS. tonight and then eveiy videos being raffled off and shown in TOWARDHEAUNG s-Iar. "....
I., IfeIIIa .. Ie G.-.t.led by Paler
13St; 8:30pm;741-2247
last SatUrday of the month; female oil the Classic Car DriVe-In; with go go Hendrickson. Ph.D.• for anyone co'll·
wrestling. guest appearance by YoYo; boys, free buffet, $2 draft bear, DJ cerned about HIV Infection; Int.gral
13 St &. West Side Hwy; 10pm;891.Q62 Michael Wilson; 270 11th Ave {27/28 Yoga Institute. 227 W 13,St; 7:30-9 pm;
Sts); $6; 244-1963

MONDAY&MAR. 26

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TUESDjt MAR. 21

WEDNESDAY, MAR. 28

SATURDAY, MAR. 24

SUNQAt MAR. 25

ST. FRANCIS AIDS MINISTRY DIY crt
Racolleedol, "for all persons with HIV
infection. The day will include a pre- CONGREGATION BETH SIMCHAT
sentation with some discussion and TORAH NY Trl, to PIIII.d.I,lIla·.
sharing, We will end the day with a Nldonal M..... um crt Alilarlc.n Jewish

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OUTWEEK BAR GUIDEWESTSIDE

The Pyramid, 101 Avenue A. 420-1590, Dancing /Drag shows.

Bike ~top West, 230 W. ~5th St., 87~-9014,
NeIghborhood bar, occasIonal entertatnment.

Tunnel Bar, 116 1st Ave (7th St.), 777-9232 W.
Village crowd in the E. Village.

Uncle Charlie's, 56 Greenwich Ave., 255-8787,
Huge video bar.

Candle Bar, 309 Amstetdam Ave., 874-9155,
Friendly leatherjwestem bar.

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CHELSEA

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

Older men,

The Annex (to Cellblock 28), 673 Hudson St. (bet.
13th & 14th), 627-1140, J/O Club.

Barbary Coast, 64 7th Ave. (14th St.), 675-0385,
Friendly, neighborhood bar.

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

Badlands, Christopher & West St. , 741-9236,
Cruisy waterfront bar. 'The Break, 232 8th Ave. (22nd St.), 627-0072.

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

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

Town & Country, 9th Ave at 46th St., 307-1503
Trix. 246 W. 48 St. (bet. Bdwy & 8th Ave), 6648331, Cash and cany.
The Works, 428 Columbus Ave (at 81st), 7997365, Cruisy west side crowd.

EASTSIDE

Ty's, 114 Christopher.741-9641, Cruisy neighborhood bar.
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Cellblock 28,28 9th Ave, 733-3144, J/O club.
The Cubbyhole, 438 Hudson (Morton St), 2439079, Neighborhood bar for gay women &men.
D.T.'s Fat Cat, 281 W. 12th St., 243-9041, Pianobar. Mixed M/F.

Chelsea Transfer, 131 8th Ave. (bet. 16th & 17th).
929-7183, Neighborhood English pub.
£agle's Nest, 142 11th Ave (21st St.), 691-8451,
Leather / Levi's.
Private Eyes, 12 W. 21st St. (bet. 5th & 6th), 2067770, Dancing, Video Club.
Rawhide, 212 8th Ave., (21 st St.), Leather /Levi's.

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

Duchess II, 70 GroveSt (7th Ave.l.242-1408,Women,

Spike, 120 11th Ave., 243-9688, Leather & Uniforms.

J's, 675 Hudson St., 242-9292, J/O club.

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

Julius, 159 W. 10th St.,929-9672, Serving Coors,
Coors Lite, & Coors Draft.

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

Keller's, 384 West St. (at Christopher), 243-1907,
Friendly neighborhood crowd.
, Sweet Sensations, 6322 20th St., 435-2580

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

Kelly's ,Village West, 46 8edford St., 929-9322,
Piano bar.

QUEENS (718)

The Locker Room, 400 W. 14th St. (9th Ave), 4594299, J/O club.

Breadstix, 113-24 Queens Blvd., Forest Hills,
236-0300

Marie's Crisis, 59 Grove St. (7th Ave), 243-9323,
Sing-along piano bar.

Hatfield's, 126-10 Queens Blvd., Kew Gardens;
261-8484

The Monster, 80 Grove St. (7th Ave.), 924-3558,
Piano bar & disco/dancing.

Hideaway, 87-36 ParsonsBlvd., Jamaica, 657-4585

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

FriendlySouth Dakota, 405 3rd Ave., 684-8376
Star Sapphire, ~O E. 59th St., 688-4710
The Townhouse, 236 E. 58th St.
Twenty-Nine Palms, 129 Lexinton Ave., 686-8299

EAST VILlAGE

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

The Bar. 68 2nd Ave. (at 4th St.), 674-9714, East
Villagers and ACT UPers.

Ramrod, 185 Christopher St.

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After Five Plus, 5 Front St., 852-0139'
Spectrum, 802 64th St. (at 8th Ave). 745-9611

Love Boat, 77-02 Broadway, Elmhurst, 429-8670
Magic Touch, 73-13 37th Rd, Jackson Hgts, 4298605

STATEN ISLAND

Sneakers, 392 West St., 242-9830.
Boy Bar, 15 St. Mark's PI., 674-7959, Dancing /Drag shows.

Sandcastle, 86 Mills Ave., (718) 447-9365
Two Potato, 145 Christopher St., 242-9340.

For advertisinginformation or rates,
call212/337.1200
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March 28, 1gg(]

WESTCHESTER {m)_Addie's Secret Garden, 359 Mamaroneck Ave.,
White Plains, 997-7768
Lads, 130 W. Post Road, White Plains, ~83-5353
Playroom, 590 Nepperhan Ave., Yonkers, 9656900
Stutz, 202 Westchester Ave, White Plains, 761-

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Bedrock, 121 Woodfield Rd., West Hempstead,
486-9516

The Cubbyhole
438 Hudson Street

Blanche, 47-2 Boundary Ave., Farmingdale, 6946006

at Morton(212) 243-9079

Cheeks, 2000 long Beach Rd, Island Park, 4315700'

A neighborhood bar for

Different Strokes, 596 Merrick Rd., Baldwin, 8679635

both gay men & womenGrand Central. 210 Merrick Rd, Rockville Centre,
536-4800

H.IM

Pal Joey's, 2457 Jerusalem Ave., North Bellmore,785-5031
Silver Uning, 175 Cherry Lane, New Hyde Parle,
354-9641

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76581h Avenue
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Bunkhouse, 192 N. Main St. Sayville, 567-9834
Club Swamp, Sizes, 8 E. Main St., Bay Shore,665-5175
Kiss, 161 Farmardie Dr., Lake Ronkonkoma, 4679273

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Mr.'s, 608 Sunrise Hwy., W. Babylon., 661-9580

Starz, 836 Grand Boulevard, Deer Park, 242-3857
Thunders, 894 W. Jericho Tpke., Smithtown,
864-1410

NEW JERSEY fmll....

_Buddy's, 751 Washington Ave, Belleville, 7510527
Charlie's West, 536 Main St., E. Orange, 6785002

The Den, 12-16 Hiram St, New Brunsw'ick, 5457329

1M-CASTLECARE INC.

Saturday, March 24th, 7:00 pm
p. S. #41 Auditorium, 123 W 11th St.
Corner of Sixth Avenue, Manhattan

APARTMENT CLEANING
67-69 MORTON ST#4E
NEW YORK, NY 10014(212) 475~2955

Ouestions will be entertained
Sug9....ested oonation to HEAL is $7.00
For more information call.
212-674HOPE.

Feather's, n Kinderleamack Rd., River Edge, 342- .
6410

EVERY BUNDA Y

Fraternity, 251 Broad Ave., Fairview, 943-1211'

HAPI~,SBACK'DOOR'CABARET

Friendly's Bar, 6310 ParleAve., West New York,854-9895

Le Mannequin, 67 Orchard St, Elizabeth, 3539694

The Station, 308 Watchung Ave., Plainfield, 7554000'

Excalibur, 10th & Jefferson, Hoboken, NJ, 7951023

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Directorv

A.C.Q.c.
,
AIDS CENTER OF QUEENS COUNTYSOCIAL SERVICES - EOUCATION - BUDDIESCOUNSaJNG - SUPPORT GROUPS
Volunteer Opportunitiea(7181 89&-25OO(voicel (7181 888-2985(TDDIACJ UP (AIDS CoaiitiDn .. Unl_h
Po_r!
498A Hudson Street, Suite G-4 NYC 10014(212)989 -1114
A diverse, non-partiaan group of individuals united inanger and committed to direct action to end 1IIe AIDS
crilia. Gen. meetinga Mon. nighta 7:30,
at 1IIe Community Center 208 W.I3th.

ALOEClAPLN-NY(Alian LNbians of 1IIe East COIat/
Alian Pacific LNbian Netwot1t-New Yot1t)
We are a political, locialand supportive netwot1t of
Alian Plcific INbiana. Planning meetings on 1IIelst
Sunday and social events on 1IIeiast Friday of eachmon1ll. Call (212)517-5598 for more information.
ARCS (AlDI-RelatH Connun1tr s.mc .. )for Dutche .. , Orange, Putnam, Rockland, Sullivan,
Ul,ster and Westchester counties. AIDS education,client "MCN, criaia intalVention, IUpport groUPI,
CI" management, buddy and hOlpitel visitor program.
214 CarIIraI Ala., 'MitII PIaiw, tlf llD(914)~
8.11BroacMly,Newburgh. tlf 122S1(914)!ilI2-!ml
AlDSline (114)..,.."ATR (AIDS TllEATMENT REGISTRY. INC.) ,Publilhei a bi-mon1llly Directory of clinical triala ofexperimental AIDSIHIV treatments in NY/NJ, and ha.
educational materiall/ .. minalll for trial participanlB.
ATR al.o advocate. for improvement. in 1IIe trial system. P.O. Box 30234, NY, NY 1011-0102. (212)288-4198.
Publication. free/donation requested.
BAR ASSOClAnON FOR HUMAN RIGHJS
Lawyera Referral
SeMce for 1IIeLNbian and Gay Community
Full Range of legal SeMces , (212)45&-4873
I'AR ASSOClAnON FOR HUMAN RIGHTSFree Walk-in Legal Clinic, Tuesday 8-8 pm
LNbian &: Gay Community Centr, Ground Aoor

BIDS (BISEj(UAL DOMINANCE &SUBMISSION GROUP)
Share SIM experiences and fantasies wi1ll o!hers ina positive, nOl'!-judgementalatmOlphere.
First Sunday of 1IIe mon1ll, 4:45pm at 1IIe Community Center
208 W, 13 Street, NYC. Thi. group' is part of1lle New
Yot1t Area Bisexual Netwot1t.

BISEXUAL PRIDE DISCUSsiON GROUP
Topical discussions on issll8l of interest to 1IIe community in a congenialatmOlphere,
followed by sn informal
dinner at a friendly local restaurant Every Sund.y, 3:00
- 4:30pm at 1IIe CommunitY Center 208 W, 13 Street,NYc. Part of 1IIe New Yot1tArea Biaexual Network.

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BlWAYS NEW YORK
Mon1llly social evenlB for 1IIe Bi.. xual communityand friend •. C.II NYABN for det.ila of upcoming
events. (718)353-8245

BIPAC (BISEXUAL POUTICALACTION CO"'1T1EE)
Political action on issuN of importance to 1IIe BilexuaVlNbia.yGay
community. Mon1ll1y meetinwpot!uck
held 8:00pm on fourth Thursday of \I1e month at members homN. Call NYABN for 1IIia m'On1ll'.location.
(718)353-8245

BISEXUAL YOUlll
Informal loci. I &: support group for Bi.. xu.1
kidl/youth. Mon1ll1y meetinwpotluck lunch held
1:00pm on fourth Sunday of 1IIe month at members
homes. Call NY ABN for 1IIi. month's location. Thilgroup is part of1lle NewYot1tAr .. Bi.. xual Network.
BWS-BRONX LESBIANS
UNITED IN SISTUHOOD
Social, political and support networlting group for
women and 1IIeir friend .. Regular social events andmeeting. on 1IIe first and 1IIird Frida.,. of every mon1ll.
At The Community Center, 208 W. 13 Street, from II:»&pm. For more info call1i .. at (212) m.:9817.

BODY POSITIVE
If you or your loverh .. talted HIV+, we offer support
group., aemina,., public forutnl, reference library,referrala, socialactivitie.
and up-tcHIate national
mon1llly, "THE BODY POSmVF ($1!i/y11ar).
(212)833-1782.
2085 Broadway, Suite 308, NYC, NY ,10023
CIRCLE OF MORE UGHr
Spiritualaupportand sharing in s gay/1 .. bian affirmative group. West-Pat1t Prelbyte".nChurch
185 West 88th Street
Wed: worship .. Mce 8:30 pm, program 7:30.
Marsha (212)304-4373
Charlie (2121891-7118.
CO... UMTY HEAL11I PROJECJ
208 West 13th Street, NYC, New Yot1t 10011
For Appointment. and Information(212)875-3559 IT1YNoice), PROVIDING CARING, SENSITIVE AND LOW COSTHEALTH CARE SERVICES TO THE LESBIAN AND GAYCOMMUNITY

DtIlNlTY/B1l APPI1
A commUl'lity of LNbiln Ind alY Call1olioa. Activiti ..
includeliturgi"
and socii. Ivery Sat, a:oo pm, It
1IIe Cenlllr, 208 W. 13 Street, NYc.
CI1(212) 818-1308.

DIGNITY NaV YORl(
I.. biln Ind gly CatholiCi Ind friendl
AIDS Miniatry, Spiritual D_lopmenl
Th. Clthedrll Project
Worship SeMC .. &: Socill-Sun. Evea. 7:3Opm-St.
John'l Epilcopal Church 218 Wilt 11111StnIetO
W_rty-f7S-2179
EDGE&lunIi.n i••Dt..w • .., &Ii ......
For 1IIe phy.iclily eIi.. bled 1MbiIn Ind alY
Community.
(212)81&-1821
P.O. Box 305 Villille Stltion, New York, NY 10014
fBllIE SUPPOI1' GROtI'For I_ana
who RIf identify al Fenme. For info II1d
meeting timea calu..at(212)!IZH817. No II18I'I piea!,,-FIONI'RUNNEIIS
A rurming club for leabiln and g.., 11IIlatalof InabilitilL Fun Run. of 1-8 mil •• held every Sat. It
101m .nd Wed .. at 7pm in Centrel Pat1t
Ind every Tu ... at 7pm in Proapect Plrk.
For informltion: call (212)724-8700.

THE RIND FOR HOlIAN DtlNITY
N.tional GIy.nd LNbiln Crilil line
·AlDS 800"-I-"S05-GAYS
Education.1 Raource Center; Poaitive 1II1II",,
Medii Center; NY Stlte Alta Progl'llm
8IIIIB'wIY SIiIII 410 NYC,tlf 111112 (212)_,.

TIE GAYARIICM AMERICANSOFWESTCHEITEII{lhIUA)
iI I community b... d 8Upportgroup form.d in
Westchelt8r
County. VlriOU' Ictivitiea are pllnned,for 1IIe coming months.
Pie ... call914-~
for mol'll info.

GLAAD
Gay. LMIIian AlIi_
Api_ o.r-tIH
80 Vlrick Street, NYC 10013 (212)9811-1700
GlAAD combllB homophobia in the mediI.nd ... 'wh.re by promoting llilibility of the I.. !iln and g..,community and org.nizing gra.RICIIB reaponM to
Inti-gay bigotly.

COMMUNITY RESEARCH INITIATIVE
f'WA4, PWARCs &: 1IIeir phyaiciana t.king 1IIe initiative to seek promising intelVention against AIDS in a
,rNp. ml!nner. For more info or to VOlunteer pl••••call (212)481-1050,'

CONGREGAnON BETH SlIICIIAT TORAH
NY'. Gay and Lilsbian Synagogue SeMcN
Frid.y.t
8:30pm!iT B.1IIun. Street: For info. call: (212)929-9498.

Do you h.V1I30 minutes. month
to fight homophobia?
Join 1IIe GLAAD PhoneTr .. 1
CIII (;l121-.'7OO
for information.

"GAY & LESBIAN HEAL1H CONcaNS
An office of1lle NYC Dept of He.lth, provide.linkIgN betwn NYC Hellth a. Human $vOl, .nd the Lnbi.n a. G.y community, focUling in ALl h .. 1thconcerns; resource inform.tion for h .. 1th .. MC ..
consumers and providers. 125 Worth Street, Box ffI,
New York, NY 10013. For info c.II (212)518-4895.
GAY & LESBIAN PSYCHOlHEllAPY
Sliding IClle feel -Inaurlnc.
Icc.pllld.
Inllitute for Humin Identity.
(212)799-9432
GAYMAlE 11M ACI'MSTS
Dedicated to life Ind responsible SIM lince 1911.
Open meatinga wfprograma on SIM IIIchniqUN,
lifestyle iaau •• , political and social concern •• Also
special events, speak.rs burelu, worItahopl, d.lIIOI,.ffinity group., n_letter,more. GMSMA -Dept 0,
48IIA Hudson Str .. t, Suite 023 ,NYC 10014(212)727-9178.

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GMAD(GAY MEN OF AFRICAN DESCENT)
group of G.y
Men of Afric.n D.. cent dedic.ted to con.ciou.n ....
r.ising .nd the development of the Lesbi.n .nd G.yCommunity. GMAD is inclusive of ~rican, Afric.nAmeric.n, C.ribbean .nd Hi.p.nic/lllino
men ofcolor. M.. ling •• re held, weekly, on Frid.ys. For
mllre infonnalion, call 718-802-0182.

eo V.rick Street, NYC 10013 a .upportGAY MEWS HEALTH CRISIS HonJNE,,
FOR INFORMATION ON SAFER SEX AND HIV·REIAT:ED HEALTHSERVICES, AND FOR INFORMATION ON
ONE·TIME. WALK·IN AIDS COUNSalNG SERVICES
212__ .212'-'7470 lOD (nr the H.. ring Impllired)Mon.·Fri. 10-.30,a.m. to 9 p.m. Sat 12:00 to 3;00
GIRTH. MIITH CWB OF NEW YORK
Soci.1 club for heavy, chubby g.y men & their .dmir·ere. Monthly socials at the ·Center", weekly bar
nighte Thured.ys .tthe "Chel.e. Tr.neter", monthly
Fit Apple Review, bi·monthly F.AR. penpal •. For moreinfonn.lion c.II El'l)ie.t 914-698-7735 or write:
GaM/NY, Dept 0, P.O. Box 10, Pelh.m, NY 10803.
HW (.... ,th Ed_don
AIDS U.'lOn)
W .. kly info .• nd .upport group for traatmenta for
AIDS which do not compromiSl the immune ayatem
further, including .lternalive and holi.lic .ppro.ch ...
Wed 8pm. 208 W. 13th St (2121874-HOPE.
HETRICIC-MARTlN INSTITUI'E
for le.bi.n and g.y youth. Coun.eling, dro~in cen·ter (M·F, 3-8pm), rap groups, Harvey M~k High
Sohool, AIDS and •• fer SIX infonn.lion,
ref.rr.i., profelllion.1 educ.lion.
(212) 833-892O(voice)(212)833-8928 mfor de.f
HISPANIC UNlTm GAYS • WBIANS
Educalional .. rvic .. , poIitical.clion, counlOling and.0cial.ctiviti81 in Spsnish .nd English by and for the
Lalino Le.bi.n .nd G.y Community.
General meeling. 8;00 pm 4th Thureday of every
month .t 208 W .. t 13th Str .. t
C.II (212)891-4181
or write H.U,G,L, P.O. Box 228 C.nal Street Stalion,
New York, NY 10019.
lAMBDA I.RAI. DEFENSE
AND mUCATION RIM»,
Precedent·letting
liligalion nalionwide forI.. bi.n., g.y men .nd people with AIDS. Member·ship ($35 and up) inc. newsletter and invitalion. to.pecialeventa.
Volunteer night on Thuredays. Inteke
call.: 2-4pm Mon thru Fri (212)995-8585
lAVA (LESBIANS ABOUT VISUAL ART)
can for .lid .. for Lnbi.n Artitltll' Exhibition, G.y &L.. bian Community Center, NYC. For more infonn.·
lion, .end SASE to :Miri.m Fougere
118 Fort Greene PI.ce
Brooklyn, NY 11217.
THE WBIAN AND GAY BIG APPLE CORPS
Get your illltrument out of the cl088t.nd come pl.ywith u.. Symphonio, M.rching, Jazz, Dixieland, Rock,Rute En.emblea .nd Woodwind ••123 Weat 44th St Suite 121. New York, NY 10038(212)888-2922.
LESBIAN.
GAYCOMMUNITY SERVICES CENTER
208 Wnt 13th Street New York, NY 10011(212)82~7310
91m-l1pm everyday.
A pI.ce for community organizing and networking,
IOcial .ervic .. , cultur.1 p!ogr.m., .nd soci.1 events
spon.ored by the C~nter .nd more th.n 150 commu·
nity organizalion..
.

WBIAN AND GAY WOR
NETWORKAn org.niz.lion of Lnbi.n •• nd G.ys who are aclivein th~r I.bor unions working on domestic p.rtnershipbenefits .nd AIDS illlu". For more infonnalion c.II(212)923-8890.
WBIAN AND GAY RIGIfl'S PROJECT
of the American CiYil Ubertie. Union

ICNOWYOURIIIGIIlS/WE'RE(212)944-9800,

EXPAft)WG THEM

ext 545LESBIANS AND GAYS OF RATBUSH
Brooklyn' •• 0ci.1 organiz.lion for both gay men andlasbian •. P.O. Box 108, Midwood Stelion
Brooklyn, NY 11230. (718)859-8437

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NORTH AMERICAN MANlBOY
LOVE ASSOCIAnON (rw.W
Dedic.ted to slIXual freedom and IIpecidy i,ntereted
in g.y intergeneralion.1
relalionships. Monthly Bul·lelin .nd regular ch'pter meelings on the fim S.tur·
d.y of each month. Yearly memberehip is $20; write
NAMBLA PO Box 174, Midtown Stalion, New York,NY 10018 or c.1I (212)807-8578 for infonn.don.
NORTHERN UGHTS ALTERNAnYES
Improving Qu.'ity of Life for People with AlDS/HIV.
THE AIDS MASTERY WORKSHOP: Exploring the 'POI.ib~ilie. of. p0W8rfuland creative lit. in the face of
AIDS. Can (212)255-8554

LONG ISlAND ACT·UP
P.O. Box 291, New Hyde Park, NY 11040
Support u. for ch.nge on Long 1.I.nd.
(518)338-4882 (518)997-5238 N.... u(518)928-5530 Suffolk 'NYC GAY • WBIAN
ANTI-YlOLENCE PROJECTCounSlling, advoc.cy, .nd infonnalion for .urvivoreof anli·gay .nd .nli·le.bian violence, .exu.I .... ult,
domestic violence, and other type. of viclimizalion.
AlI .. rvic .. free and confidenlial.
24 hour hotline (212)807-0197

MEN OF All COLORS TOGrnlEli NY
A multi·r.lli.1 group of gay men again.t raci.m. Meet·
ing. every Friday night at 7:45 at thel.aabian and Gay
Community Service. Center, 208 W. 13th Straat For
more info. call: (212)245-8386 or(212) 222-9794.

PEOPLE WITH AIDS COAlJT10N(212) 532-029QI1-800-828-328CVHotIini l212)532-0se8
Monday thru Frid.y 10'lTh-8pm
Me.1 progr.m., .upport groups, educalional .nd
referral services for PWA's and PWArc's.

METROPOUTAN TENNIS GROUP(MrG)
Our 200 member le.bian and gay,tenni. club includn
pI.yare from beginning to tourn.ment level. Monthly
tennis p.rtie .. Winter indoor league. Come pI.ywith uil
For infonnalion: MTG, Suite K&3,498-A Hudson St, New
York, NY 10025. (718)852-8582.
MOCA (Men of Color AIDS Prevention Progrem.)
Provide ... fer 18X and AIDS educalion infonnalion
to g.y and bisexu.1 Men of Color; coordinate •• net·wort of peer·.upport group. for g.y .nd bisexu.1
Men of Color in all 5 boroughs of New Yort City.
303 Ninth Ave, New York, Ny 10001
or c.n (212)239-1798.
NAnONAL GAY AND WBIAN TASK FORCEi. the nalion.1 gr ... roote polilic.1 organizalion forle.bi.n. and gay men. Memberehip i"~.r.
I.. ue·oriented,projects.ddre .. violence, IOdomy
IIWS, AIDS, gay rights ordin.nces, families, media,
etc. through lobbying, educ.lion, org.nizing .nd
diract .clion.
NGLTF 1517 U Street NW, Wa.hington, DC 20009,(202)332-8483.
NEW YORK ADVERTISINGAND COMMUNICAnONSNETWORKNYACN i. the community"'.rgeat
gay .nd Inbi.n
profelllional group, welcoming .11 incommunicalion.··andtheir friend •• Monthly meet·ing', 3rd Wed 8:30pm at the Community Center. Mem·
bere' newslettar, job hotline, .nnu.1 directory. Phone(212)517-0380 for more info. Menlion OutWeek for
one free newsletter.
N.Y. WOMEN"S SOFTBAll aUlD
For experienced, .. rioua Softball Playare, Coache.
and Man.gere. We play mod/faat pitch weekend. in
M.nh.ttan .nd Queen •. Try-outs begin Feb. 11 thru
April· or unlil filled. (212)255-1379 Janet
NINTH STREET CENTER
Since 1973,' community dedic.ted to demonatralingthat a homo18xuallifeatylei. a ralional, desirable
choice for individu.ls di... li.fied with the rewards ofconvenlion."iving.
Pcychologically· focussed rap
group., Tue •. , S.t., 8to 10 pm. peer counselling avail·able. 319 E. 9 Street, New Yort, NY 10003, for info call,(212)228-5153.

PEOPLE WITH AIDS HEALTH GIiOUP
Underground buyer's club importing n~·yet·.pproved
medic.lion. lind nutritional,upplementa.
31 Walt 28th
St 4th Roor (212)532-tl28O
SAGE: (Senior Action in • Gay EnYiNlllMllt)
Soci.1 Service Agency. providing care, activities, &educ.lional.ervicn
for g.y & I"bi.n senior citizelll.
Also 88M1S ovar 18Ohorriebound 88niora & older FWA'••
208 West 13th St. NYC 10011, (212)741-2247
SETHIAN GAYS, WBIANS
AND BISEXUALSFor all of us intereated in're.ching out to each otherwith exuber.nce to 'pontaneously
explore .nd
exp.nd upon the Se!IVJane Rober1ll"philoaophy'" II
it rel.te. to our lives, personally, .exu.lly .nd politic.lly, C.II AI (212)978-5104.
THE OurREACH
USING COMMUNAl HEAUNG (TOUCH)
CollYllunityvolunteere providing. waakly buIfat.upper
for the Brooklyn AIDS community. TOUCH 1118811 Monday
8V8I. 5pm 1D Itl\lprTt- .t downtoiNn Brooklyn Frienda'
Mealing House (110 Schennemom St nnr IJoenm
Place~ Lini1Bdtnm.por1lllion may be 'Il'Ingad, Info: (718)822-2758. TOUCHwelcOlll8l Contn'bu1iOlll offunda, foodand voItmeare.
ULSTER COUNTY GAY AND LESBIAN AllIANCE
Meets fim and third Monday of IIIch month.t 7:30 p.m. at the Uniteri.n Church on S.wkill Road
in Kingaton. For infonnalion, c.1I (914)828-3203.
WHAMI IW_n'a
He.lth Action Mobilization)
A non·p.rtiaan coalition committed to demanding,securing and defending .b.oIute reproductive freedom end quality he.lth c.re for all women. We meat
every Wed .• 18:30 pm .t the Village Independent
Democrets, 224 Wnt Fourth Str .. t (off Sherid.n Sq.).
We .re not .ffili.ted with VID. (212)713-59118. M.mng.ddre .. : WHAMI, P.O. Box 733, NYC 10009
WOMEN'S ALTERNATIVECOMMUNITY CENTER IWACC),
A non-profit, Lesbi.n community center .. rving
Queens, Nass.u and Suffolk counlies. Thure night
weekly discussion grp8. 8:30pm, for other .ctivitie.
please contsct us .t (518)483-2050.

March 28, 1990

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APARTMENT SHAREDIPLOMATIC ROOMMATE
Young GM seeks very responsible
roommate to share 1 bedroom nearTimes Square .. Prefer GM Who wortsnights or travels, or doe. not iP.e)ld
much time at home. Non-sm'oier.
S42S/mo. negotiable Vann (2121255-4053

ACCOUNTlr~G
TAX,~ISBUDGETWISEBOOKKEEPING TIME
LImIted Appointments AvaDable
Please call early, (718) 726-3847
10* dllcount with ad.AIDS Mlr~ISTRYIN THE SPIRIT OF
FRANCIS OF ASSISl...serving
our brothers and sisters affected byAIDS
St Francis AIDS Ministry
135 W, 31st Street Manhattan 10001
695-1500ANSWERING SERVICES
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A Cl£ANl':n CLEANINGCASTLE CARE,lNC.
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AN~JOUNCEMENTSGAY MALES WANTED'Gay males wanted to participate inresearch to create a national public
service campaign. Fee will be paid for
1/2 hour interview. Confidentiality
assured. Call collect 919-544-5448 3PM
to 7PM M-E Ask for Mike.

Apartment & Office Cleaning.
Gay Owned. Reliable.
We are available 7 days.
CALL (212) 475-2955 ,REUABLE hOUSE WORKS
Cleaning or AssistanceCall and Ask for Details(212) 884-2801
Serious Inquiries Only

THIS MR. CLEAN
WILL DO A TOP JOB
AND LEAVE YOUR HOUSE SPIC & SPAN
FASTER THAN A WHITE TORNADO I
727-2858 JIM

SAGE INVITES ALL WOMENTO THE 6TH'ANNUAL ALMOST SPRINGDANCE, APRIL " 1990, AT THE RED
ZONE, 440 WEST 54TH STREET, 5:0010:00. $15.00 IN ADVANCE, $20.00 AT
THE DOOR. SEND CHECKS TO SAGE,
DEPT. 0, 208 WEST 13TH STREET, NYC,
10011. (2121741-2247.

own bedroom in airy, cozy aptroachfree bldg n,r buses, 24 hr sprmltt
I'm BiF, ACT-UPer, work at home on
fantasyline, do SIM with my friehds. No
perfume/tobacco in apt (allergy).
Leave message wlbest times:459-481'.

-THE PROFESSIONAL CLEANER-WITH A MIDWEST FLAIR
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WITH BRIGHT RED HAIRWEEKLY AND BIWEEKLY LEGIT ONLYRATES $40.00 AND UP
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beautiful2BR/2 bath apartment withextremely private terrace. GM seeks
reliable, professional person to share.
Safe neighborhood, transportation andshopping. Minutes to Manhattan. Cable
TV, $45OImo. and share util.
Astoria (718) 204-0440.

RTMENT RENTAL
23RD STREET WEST AND 7TH AVENUENo fee. Available 4/01/90. 6 rooms.
$1200. (2121627-4956. Eves.

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

ART BUYISElL-ART SOURCE UNUMITEDWe buy, sell, trade and locate artworks.
ARTISTS AVAILABLE: Keith Haring,
Robert Longo, Ross Bleckner, JamesRiui, Andy Warhol, Martine, and many
more_. For information,
call Dan at 255-6680.

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Dr. Steven Swaya
166 East 35th St. (near 3rd Ave.)
212-683-4550
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The New York City chapter of theUncircumcised Society of America(NYC-USA) seeks new male members(with or without foreskin) to join its
swelling ranks. Call for more clubinformation or to make reservations forthe new members party. (212) 777-4208.

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William De Bonis DDS.
Suite 704,
200 West 57 Street,
New York, NY 10019,
Office hours by appointment only call
212-333-2650. 'ELECTROLYSIS '1.. LAMBDA ELECTROLYSIS 1..

DR. CHARLES FRANCHINO
30 Fifth Avenue,
New York, NY 10011,
call for info (212) 673-4331.

COMPUTERSCOMPUTER HELP
Expert in IBM and Macintosh
computers provides in-home or officeconsulting evenings and weekends:
Special help for new computer users.
Call Kevin at 582-8532.

THE MALE STOP
A computer BBS.
Use your modem,

Permanent Hair Removal
Men/Womene NITS's ° All Methods
Computer Aided· Sterile Conditions
By PhYSicians' Aid
14 Years Experience.
Sliding Scale Fee
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New York, NY 10014
Lower Level, By Appointment Only,(212) 727-1850 "Certified Electrologist
Member I.G.P.E.

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Helping
Our Community
Buy and Sell Real Estate
Since 1980
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One-on-One Weight Training
Bodysculpting
Paul Simpson(212) 772-3656
by appointment

FOR SALESHOCK 'EM, MAKE 'EM SMILf
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GAY MARRIAGEEUROPEAN GWM STUDENT
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your willing accomplice: profeSSionallyand socially. If interested, please write
Outweek Box 2291

GROUPS
MEN'S GROUP
Ongoing group dealing withproblems related to positive
self-esteem and male intimacy
Licensed psychotherapist
Call for consultation.
(212) 941-9830

GROUP MASSAGE
MEN'S MASSAGE GROUP
Get together with a group of men to
give and reeeive massages. Taught by
Terry Weisse!, Licensed Masseur andteacher at the Swedish Institute.
Sundays, 7-10pm, $20.00,
call (212) 463-9152.

HEALTHHELP WANTEDCONDOMS STOP AIDS
SS? Participate in the National Condom
Study, a confidential mail survey fundedby the U.S. Public Health Service. Callcollect 203{744.7474 M-F, 9am-3pm EST.

HELP WANTEDSTREET VENDORS
for gay, travel· related material. F{T, P{T,wkends-Greenwich,Village. Great
payand fun people. Start
immediately.(212)982-5420. Ask for
Mr.Tom,COMPC)SBI WANTEDPASTORAL SEARCH
Faith Temple, a nondenomrnatlonal,
Evangelicalchurch with a special ministry to adiverse population Is seeking aqualified candidate, supportive of
our special outreach to the gay
and lesbian community, to serveas pastor. 'Please forward resumes on or
before April 1st to:
Pastoral Search
5521 5th Street, N.E.
Washington, D.C. 20011.

friendlyand personable. Fun work, flexible
hours. V Call Mr.Goldstein at 935-3440

ALCOHOUSM PROGRAM ASSISTANT

for gay travel-related promotions. Goodbase pay plus commissions and bonuses.
Friendly phone room. Start immediately.

RECEPTIONIST}FILE CLBIK
Busy private practice; must type withcomputerknowledge;
full-time
w/benefits
after 90 days; good,
personality to handle pressure, callFrank after lpm M-F. 212-787-7820.
,"
STAFF REPORTER
Energetic news-hound/excellent
writer needed to work long hours
covering both NYC and national
lesbian and'gay news scene.
Strong journalism background andfacility with AP-style news format
essential. Should be experienced
working quickly and-accurately
ontight deadlines.
Competitive salary plus excell~nt
benefits. Non-smo~ng
office.
Send resume, cover letter and at
least 6 recent news clips to:
Andrew Miller

DUTWEEX ",.pzine '159 West 25th Street, 7th Floor
New'york, NY 10001.
No phone calls.
EOEI Women and people of color
encoutaged to apply.

PHONE SEX MODBIATORS
Must have friendly, out-going
personality. Eight hour shifts. Gay owned
company.Call Mr.Lyons at 935-3440

DUTOOOR DlmlBUTION
Several people needed to distribute
flyers advertising phone sex lines.
Flexiblehours. Call Mr.Davis at 935-3440

Ir~SURANCE
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OUTGOING SOCIAL PEOPLE
needed to distribute flyers advertisingphone sex lines with gay bars. Must be·BATS·, a play with music, needs
composer to work with produced
playwright/lyricist. Three songs withstrong gay politicaVsatirical edge. Playto be produced this year. Compensation
negotiable. Call 212-242-3167.
Gay Community Center
Crisis intervention & addictions
counseling skills, Word-processing
essential. CAC training/experience
preferred. Salary low/mid 20's. Resumes
to Personnel, Lesbian & Gay Community
Services Center, 208 West 13th Street,
NYC 10011. Women and people of color
encouraged to apply.

HELP WANTED

Bernard Granville(212)581).9724

MOVERS, LICENSED,TELfMARKETING REPS

(212)-982·5420
Ask for Mr.-Tom

I.£GALSECRETARY
for small labor law finn in Penn Station
area. WordPerfect + dicta phone expo a
MUST. Typing, filing, tel. & gen'l officeduties. $26K-$28K, dep. on expo (212)268-1000. Ask for Bill.

CO-DIRECTOR
SAGE: Senior Action in a Gay Environment, Inc. a non-profit organization, isseeking an individual who will have fulltime financial responsibility for this social
service agency caring for gay and lesbian
seniors in the NY metropolitan area. This
person must have three years or morework
experiencein fund-raisingstrategies, public relations activities andpreparationof grant proposals forfoundations and governmental agencies.
This person must 'have previous
experience in financial management andbudgat preparation ,for business and/or
non-profit organizations. SAGE, Inc. is anequal opportunity employer.
Please direct all inquiries and resumes to:
Chair, Search Committee, SAGE, Inc., 208West 13th Street, New York, NY 10011.
Confidentiality respected.
'

VOWNTEER COORDINATOR
for social service agency for gay amd
lesbian youth. Develop and implement
agency-wide
volunteerprogram;recruitment, screenings, trainings andcoordinationof volunteer activities.Experience preferred. Send resume to
HMI,401 West Street, NY 10014. EOE.

llREO OF HOMOPHOBIC MOVERS?
Try Brownstone Brothers instead.
, Profe ssional and Reliable.
Serving the Gay Community 15 years.
Sensitive, fun people who get the job, done right with no bullshit.
Ucensed DOT 10166. Insured.
Reasonable storage rates.
Pianos-Art-Antiques
Packing. Moving Supplies. 426 E91
Cal.l289-151'.
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• TIS FULLY INSURED
Serving the Gay Community

calli (212\ 447·5555, '1.lei4rl.

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Body Electric at (415) 653·1594 or Bob
with
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Yohn at (212) 929-4019.
will help you discover yo'urdeepest
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Our innovative approach includes role
Joseph Kramer arid Annie Sprinkle will
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host their rOPular Tantric Group Rebirth
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Mlchl.1 Rosenberg, MA,. M.Ed.
Erotic Massage- a clothed evening with(212)52113
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Place: 135West 14th. For brochure or
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information, call Body Electric School
Supportive individual fa .couple(415)853-1594or Bob at (212)929-4019.
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References available upon request
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NYand NJ offices:(212)724-7205 (2011567-2445.
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relationships, coming out, AIDS, anxiety
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Chelsea office(2121691-2312

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PSYCHOTHERAPYFor all Lesbia,yGay issues
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Insurance accepted·slidlng fees
MTTN/BX OFFICES (2121933-2788

March 28, 1990

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THERAPYDAVID UNDSEY GRIFFIN, caw, CAe
Psychotherepist and Alcoholism
CounselorTo the Gay and Lesbian Community
Individuals and Couples

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Call Robert
929-4019

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Quality bodywork by strong handsome
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WOMEN'S PERSONAlSJ:XTRAORDINARYWOMAN IYou could be aink/ng

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NY, NY1 0156.
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11. French article
i2. Be secretive
14. Comedian Johnson
16. Gains
17. Egyptian king
18. Swiss capitol
19. Company, perhaps
20. Performed "Need a Man Blues"
22. Gun club USA
24. Wrll- __,25. French region," said after saying 22
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29. Female pejorative
30. Kingly era
31. Obtain
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45. 50s prez
46. Performed "Glad to be Gay"
51. Nimbus
54. ReI. of etc.
55. Japanese volcano
56. The Kingstons, e.g.
57. Impossible plan
58. Not once
59. Selves
60. Soak flax
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7. Wrestling need
8. Warren dweller
9. Birches or Beeches
10. Belt
12. Title of respect
13. Angolan tribe
15. Tolkein creatures
20. After rock or wedding
21. Sound of victory
23. Ocean sound
25. Ct. event
26. 'Wrath, Latin (Dies __dayof ...)
27. Bruises
28: Coconut or palm product30. Remainder
31. Performed "Karma
Chameleon"
32. Skin ointment
33. Actress Teri
35. The Tempest role
36. Singer Williams
38. Surrealist of reno~
39. Primary
40. Meretrix
42. Sun disk
43. Moving part
44. ' After public or mental
47. Words of understanding
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