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S/M and the Testof Tolerance•

The treatment of sexual minorities is a litmus test of social tolerance. And it's a litmus test most societies and individuals fail, evenprogressive and otherwise enlightened ones. In part, this is because
sexual difference challenges not only people's irrational and deeply
held aversion to nonconfonnity, but often their ethical, moral or religious beliefs as well.
People who wish to rid themselves of the curse of bias should
therefore look long and hard at those prejudices which they feel arerati<;>naland "justified." It's important to detennine whether one is bas,ing one's b4ts on ethical, moral or political arguments, or merely
using such claims to support bigotry which is, in reality, deeply em0tional and irrational.
All this should seem patently obvious to queers, who as a pe0ple
have
endured centuries of irrational hatred based on supposedly•."rational" arguments. But although it should seem obvious, it frequently. is not. A case in point is the queer world's treatment of oneof its prirruuy sexual minorities, the S/M and leather community.
Th<;:reare many arguments used by lesbians and gay men todeny validity or access to leather people. One is that S!M and its
accoutrements. are an affront to survivors----particularly, in our community, lesbian sulVivors-of incest, violence and sexual abuse. Thisobjection has sometimes prompted the organizers of conferences
and musk: festivals to deny or limit access to S/M practicioners.
Another argument, advanced forcefully in the reactionary book
After tbe Ball, is that S/M gives all queers a ood image, and that for
lesbians and gay meri to achieve acceptance in society we must render S/M and its imagery invisible.
.As with mor<).l,ethical or political arguments against sexual
difference generally, .these contentions are not totally withoutbasis... Some sUlVivors of sexual violence are indeed made uncomfortable by S/M imagery, and straight America frequently equates
S/M with queers. But to use such arguements to silence or repress
S&M practioners is no different than to use similar arguments tosilence or repress lesbians, gays, bisexuals, transvestites or any
other sexual nonconformists.
Like other such maverick movements, S/M is often <tradical andliberating form of sexual self-<liscovery that's a positive force in many
lives. People in the leather world are deeply integrated into both lesbian and gay male culture, and are often leaders in politics, service
agencies and.AIDS activism.
But even if S/M culture were permeated with apathy, escapism
and negativity, even if there were nothing positive to say about it atall, that's still no excuse for its suppression within queer culture. It's
easy to, be tolerant ·of minor and superficial differences, or differences mitigated by acceptab!e traits. The true test of tolerance comeswhen there is indeed some rationale to bolster our bigotry, and we
nonetheless rise above it to embrace even uncomfortable diversity,
This is what we, as queers, are asking from society in general.
It's not too much to ask of ourselves.
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QUEEN AFFIRMATIVE"We are all in the gutter,but sorrie of us are looking at
the stars." -Oscar Wilde
In my opinion, James St.
James and his "Diary of a Mad
Queen" is a new star in OutWeeKs galaxy of fabulocity,
Debauched and proud of it, inthe gutter but looking glamorous for it; James puts thehigh camp, hilarious irony andfun self-mockery back into
being gay.
.
The Mad Queen's careening lifestyle may not be foreveryone, A pretty sight? No,
But a mad and fabulous spectacle? Yes! His "Diary" is.about what comedienne Kate
Clinton calls our Right toLaugh, including at our own
outrageous selves. And justignore all those offended byJames' exploits. They're justgrumpy gays-you know, "Forlove and for life, we're notgoing out."
Thanks to OutWeek forbeing so,jo your queen-affirmative face.
Robert Bray
Washington, D,C,

TIE A PINK RIBBON ...
. In a recent "Gaydar" article [no. 85, Feb. 13], MichaelGoff asked where were thePink Ribbons for the AIDS crisis? It got me thinking.
Where, indeed?
Everybody at work is
wearing a yellow ribbon for thesoldiers in the Middle East.
Ttiis past week I added a pinkribbon to my yellow ribbon.
- - Once or twice a day someone
asks me what the pink ribbon
is for. I tell them that its for theover 100,000 Americans who
have died of AIDS, as well as
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on fat people (that we're lazy,
selfish, greedy and lack selfcontrol) are unbelievably
painful. It's been known for
decades that people are fat for
genetic reasons more thananything else (see Anne
Beller's Fatand Thin: A Natural
History of·ObesitYJ. 2) While itis possible for people who areprone to being fat to lose
weight and look "normal"
BY ANDREA NATALIE
srONEWlIl.1. RIOrS("acceptable?"), it is hard work
lhat takes a lifetime commitment. It is comparable tobeing a bodybuilder, pro.fessional • dancer or artist: You
NAY
SPEAK rRANKL ~ RITA?
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always work or you lose your.. THE Rf IISON YOIJ DON'T HAvf
progress. What Jenny Craig,
SOI1£ONE IS BUAl/Sf
YOu, Nutri-System and Ultra Slim
LOOk
TOO HUNGRY
WilE tV
Fast won't talk about are the
YO(J C~(JISE.
studies that consistently show
95 percent to 98 percent ofdieters returning to their original weight within two years.
Fat people are easy targets forjudgement as negative social
models of health and looks,. 3) Ron, in the article, said
it best: "I still have a fat person's personality." Fat or thin,
the image issue is connectedwith growing up different andlonging for the external acceptance of that difference. It's
about wanting to feel OK about
ourselves, yet still having that .
childhood fear of not seeing
anyone like ourselves out there.
self-acceptance is a precious How different would we feel 'if
AIDS is still here, still killing.
I urge all my fellow Out- thing, and for many people we'd had gay and lesbial,1role
models and same-sex couples.
Week readers to start wearing hard to come by.
There are a few points I to look to growing up? Howa pink ribbon as they gothrough their day. We must would like to have seen made much more positive would wefeel if were were encouraged
more clear: 1) Being overnot let others forget!
weight does not imply the in our uniqueness? Wouldn't it
Michael Mondello
Midlile Island, N. Y. presence of an eating disorder, be nice to feel good about
Most obese people eat no ourselves without needing tomore than "normal" people, reinforce that feeling with negIMAGE ISSUE
ative judgements?
Thank you for the article Nor is being fat a moral
Thanks, OutWeek, for"A Matter of Gravity" [no. 82, issue the social projections

those men, womenandchildren living with AIDS, and that
I'm wearing it until a cure isfound~They are impressed andsympathetic. Invariably, people
have forgotten that this war isstill being waged.
I think we should all
remind the people we come incontact with each day that

Jan, 23]. Weight and image
issues in the lesbian and gay
communities could generate
volumes of written material,
and I think the pressure to"look good" is yet anotherform of oppression foisted
upon us by the majority cul-.
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helping us all toward the goalsof loving and accepting ourselves and others.
Mark Moody
San Francisco

their apologis~s claim thatthe current difficulties stemfrom a decision by activists
to stop giving police advance
information about the times
and locations of demonstraLAMB, BAM, THANK
tions," Who's kidding whom
YOU, MA'AM
here? The police in their
Having seen The Silence "undercover"drag are atof the Lambs, I can appreciate every ACT UP/NY meeting,the critical acclaim it is receiv- we know it, they know it and.'lIbWERI\NG~'ing even by your reviewer,
you know it. The police had,.
Monica Dorenkamp [no. 88, at least two hours notice
WE tWILL, GO •••March 13]. Her assessment is regarding the Feb, 11 demo
accurate but her conclusions and I'm sure knew pretty, So
tnPcll:.fOI'mytliolo:,jf.
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are, in my opinion, way off. much exactly what form that
True, the queerness of the demo would take, There is no,!~s"ha~~~n.ly&th.
killers may_seem "superfluhOmosexual maleexcuse wh-atsoever for the'ous"
and"inconsequential."
violent
actions the NYPD
·z"alous and.
.peeies~ ',J'
But that is exactly the point so took against a peaceful group..;{1\j~F";,finicg
akoilt"col'o,.,'/
eloquently and rightfully
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of. gay.' and AIDS
activists that..'
'libricsadd home:de~",'.
arguedby Michelangelo Sig- night, and no other minority[I:•
norile, and .,others who have group would' put up with• ,atlon.:Arecent arti~
been sqhool~d by the late, such bullshit:
Where is. ':I,!. t~,Th.,'fV.!,wr!'rIc!!;,
great Vito Russo.
Mayor
Dinl!ins?
When
I saw
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1iriJljiF.t1itlltd':C",. ','1JJi!
The danger in this film is in the cops raise their billy.
~-, the fact that it is,so good, Laud- clubs and charge us my first"Pf!.j~.ning ;8~~$~~se)l.
able for the skill, talent and thought went: to my own andDec~r to,J~Jess . ~,technique that went into it, it will . my·fdends' safety, My sec, definitely get someone an ond t'hought was to Kent
tllbl';., lJ~tero".bow.r
Oscar,And by those standards, State. Remember the Crosby,
birds~who, a_ide hom
and Nash song "Ohio"?
it will deserve at ·Ieast one Stills,
award. And the fact that audi-· Well, I s,ncerely hope I never'.n·glgi"g,~ihbUllyjng'¥,
ences, including Ms. Doren- have to hearJimmy~a~lng" rilu~'I', "",lso W
kamp and her gay male friend, Somerville singing about
drape' trails of orchids
come away from the movie full "four dead in NYC,"
Ron Parisi
of awe for its stars and director,
over:lhei'r: bo•• rs;"
only
shows
how
potentandsinManhattan.. .ill,repla~iftgfa"ing•~*tr W*A.W!'·~, ,~:~;; ,"'~."'71. ister are the forces of greed,flowers \'I(ithfresh
MOM, I'M BI
behindthis movie, Those superones.~ A scientist hot
With great personal interfluous details that identify andmystify the queerness of the est I read the article on bisexon
theb9wertrailn", 1!2,,,;&.14, ~~'8}", ?'llii''WAr;;;.""" cl0'-Ui@V;;i:,,.,':;:,,,,;?i11( ~,,', '. "killers are, nonetheless, major uality ["Bise~ual Revolution,""offered IiOwerbirds
contributors to the much-hyped no, 84, Feb, 6], After all,, ,,;:#poke.r. chips of several
eeriness. Absolutely unneces-' bisexual articles (and especialsary, as other details could have ly books!) are generally few
diH"r~n~~OI!!,s.£Hebeen usedthat would not betray and far between. You see, I
ttiT:tthe
birCis,any sexuality, but guaranteedto am a bisexual.
ha"e.definitecolor
work on account of the sureHold·on! I've been followprefe.ren~es.
They
ness
of
mainstream
America's
ing
the
letters column since, ,\W ,. "·"'FF ~:ff", . }''*; -""unbridled homophobia.
the article appeared. I knowWrnove,dth....,. cljips"
Signorile is totally right- that many of you think I'm.roun'd, ,Iacingcer.
onI Keep it up,
confused (after all, I'm young:tain colors inside theirTed Paigle 23) or copping out. In fact, I'm
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fig '_~,'
Philadelphia
bOwersand others in "so far in the closet I wouldn't
ik.. - .,darewrite an editorial letter to.Ihe,courtyard out,side.
CROSBY, STILLS AND a gay magazine, let alone holdSome threw all the,.-ASH?
a subscription to oneliF""colors'out~" ..:wI!
Your editorial [no. 88,
Sarcasm aside, let me
March 6] states, "Police and offer yet another apology for
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bisexuality. I am a Kinsey 3,
which means I feel equal
attraction for both sexes(actually, I am more physically attracted to men and more
emotionallyattracted
towomen, but that's just me),Before coming out I was
every bit as sexually activewith bOth sexes as I am today(though coming out has
allowed me to form relationships), I have a 'girlfriend of
six years, who I h~ve always
levelled with (even when I
was in the closet). I havenever "snuck out",pn her,and,•in fact, my lover'moved inwith us three years ago, As afamily, we are open to practically everyone and we'are
active in the gay' ,community
here (although, we expect toincrease our activism after wefinish our degrees).
A writer recently spoke
about the "growing acceptability" of bisexuality among college students and~how easy it
is for bisexuals to fit into the.general straight society, Boy,
have you got a lesson comingl, Sure, it's hard to comehome and say·, '''Mo:m., I'mgay," But have' you' eifer had
to say, "Mom, nofonlY' am I
breaking the 'gay' taboo,' but
I'm also breaking the 'bigamy
taboo.'"? Have you ever been
ostracized by straight society
because you're "gay" while
being ostracized by gay society for being "straight?" Howabout being the "token bisexual" everywhere you go? At
every rally, every bar, every
meeting? How'abo:ut thethought that if gay n:iarriage
becomes .Iegal you'll'still beon the outside because of theafore-mention'ed
bigamyissue? How about being fagbashed behind the loca,l bar(last summer) and having no
one in the 'gay community be
sym pathetic b'ecau.se "bis
don't get bashed?",
And all this just for a concurrent bisexual: In fact, mostbisexuals are serial, chi1nging

,back and forth between sexes
over their lifetime.
Yes, people, we do exist.
And yes, it's also true that somepeople adopt the bisexual title
for concealment or confusion.
But don't try to tell me how I
feel. I swing back and forth inmy general affections for him
or her (or both) relatively quickly (a matter of weeks, days oreven minutes) and not only is
Sexualdesire a factor here: I'mtalking about love. devotiollall those things that make arelationship work
So go on ahead and feelyour bigotry against bis likeme, I'll still march in themarches,'go to the meetings,
petition for changes for yourrights, But it would help if you
would consider mine,
Chris Rorence
Lexington, Ky.
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one in the eye and seen thelights that play there as it sits
up and extends a paw, Doubtless, they have not. How else
to explain the wanton andmean-spiritedstereotype,
Precious.
As someone who has
loved-and yes, lost;:-:-apoodie, I would like to tell thesecallous moviemakers that the
poodle-be he or she standard, miniature or toy-is anoble breed, bred for hunting,meant to sack quail and help
policemen track down fugitives
with the aid, I always like tothink, of psychics, An intensely
spiritual dog, sensitive yet
sprightly in movement, thepoodle remains one of themost maligned creatures in fiction and film, We find no Mimi,
Come Home. no Allouette: Dogof the Yukon. Instead, we areserved up, even in these timesof censorious political correctness, with the same old souldamaging characterization of
the poodle as just some hand
prop for one more cinematic
dress designer,;
I applaud OutWeek in its
mission as moral arbiter. A
thankless, never pleasant job,
too easily mocked and dismissed with a deadly roll of
the eyes, the job of critiquing
fictional conceits and the dead/

POODLE POWER

I am frankly dismayed at
how widely OufWeek missed
the mark in its recent attackon the film The Silence of theLambs, As far as the film's
alleged homophobia; I must
confess that I am of average
intelligence, yet I experienced
no confusion keeping thehomicidal maniac, Buffalo Bill,
distinct in my mind from gay
people in' general.
The bias in this film lies
elsewhere and I am saddened
that so astute a moral watchdog as OutWeek has missed
the real outrage here, .
. What did appall me about
this sickening film was its irresponsible depiction of french
poodles,
The character of Precious,
as played by the poodle Darla,
was a complete and total lie,
Another in a long and shameless line of yapping, brainlesscreatures with pom-poms forhair and no more sense thanto jump down a well in pursuitof a chicken bone. I wonder if
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Cathedral were scheduled to this matter. This was the firstmake their final court appear- . indication that Judge Kahn had
ance. Paul Scheckman, aka some difficulty with the case.
After some discussion it"chief hO(lcho," and I were
informed that Judge Kahn became clear that Jlldge Kahn
CALL ME
This is in response to the would like to meet with us, off would n~ed to take an active
letter. in the March 6, 1991 the record and outside the role in the plea-negotiation•
process, Since there wereedition [no, 88] of OutWeek presence of the defendants.
signed by Christopher Lynn. In Hence, the three of us and issues·which both ~ides could
his .letter, Mr. Lynn purported James Lin, the assigned pros- not agree upon, the judge indito know the contents of an ecutor, retired to the Judge's cated that, although she felt
s~e could be fair and impartial,
off-the-record conversation to robing room,
CHRIST ALMIGHTY
which he was not privy.
The conversation began "There were things in her life
JESUS
I am not a Christian nor do Instead of seeking an explana- with the judge informing tIS which may have bearing upon
I practice or believe in the tion, perhaps Mr, Lynn should that she only agreed to preside her decisiol1sin this case." The
Judaism in which I was raised. provide information about the over the cases ~ecause it was prosecutor asked the judge to
Yet I needto comment on"Stig- source of his knowledge,
her understanding that the explain this cryptic ·comment,and she refused. It was then
As Mr. ,.Lynn must be cases would be disposed
mata Department," the lead
item in Andrew. Miller's "Rim aware, I am the attorney he of-that no ,legal arguments th~t the prosecutor asked the
Shots" [no. 88, Mar. 13]. I also addresses as "t~e attorney for would be made, no legal rlll- judge to recuse herself.
, This entire conversation
have a list of gripes with the the ACT UP protestors,"
ings would' be required. She
Catholic Church, St. Patrick's (Surely, if he had personal
indicated that she .had previ- took place in a rQom where
Cathedral and Cardinal O'Con- knowledge of t~e information ously advised her supervisor only the four indiviQuals mentioned previously were prenor. However,to include "Christ he imparts he must be aware that she would be uncomfort.
Himself" on this list indicates of my name.) On the day in !lble either actively participat- sent. ~r. ~ynn was certainlythat Mr. Miller, like Cardinal question, the;'ifl~ivid4als. ing in plea negotiations or ren- notarnonQ them. !f Mr. Lynn
O'Connor, has no idea what arrested inside St. Patrick's dering any legal decisions in had the courtesy to telephone"Christ Himself" ,espoused.
Ross Jacobs
Manhattan.seriousness they so obviously
warrant is a labor you havecourageously elected yourself
to do: Thank you. Thank you
for all of us in tne community.
But please, OutWeek, get yourpriorities in order. Poodles
have feelings too,John Ca/endo. North Bergen, NJ

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me and ask for an explanation dent without any explanation, Day or march" indeed! I, as a
· ' of the off-the-record conver- How about mentioning that, lapsed Dubliner, experienced
sation, I certainly would have "Ireland's anachronistic legis- no amount of ruaile buaille• provided it.
lation criminalizing homosexu- agus reac sa tigh on reading
Once we went back into ality" was put on our statute this. The absurdity of senti· the coiJrtroom and on the books by the British. The state mentalizing the late '70s and. . r'ecord, the judge asked the of the entire nation has pro- early '80s we leave to theprosecutor if he was proffer- found historical al1dpolitical
New World; nonetheless, I
ing a motion for the judge to roots. To address.hom9phocan recall many a lavenderrecuse herself, Mr. Lynn is bia, or any repressive aspects tinged, Gay Pride Saturday, correct about one thing-Iof Irish society, one cannot afternoon in June in Baile
had no position on her ignore where those values Atha Cliath when many arecusal.The judge had already came from.
straight Dubliner, Southern
admitted her reluctance to
The report was mislead- or at least South for the day,handle any legal questions and ing when it stated that Ireland were also "gay for a day,"
had indicated that she might has never had a Gay Pride Day The Powerscourt Center feslie affected by some aspect of or march. I have been in sev- tooned with pink regalia, the. her personal life. Therefore, eral pride marches in Dublin. green surrounded by queers'she was,' in my opinion, obli- Having an Irish lesbian in New of varying
degrees ofgated 'to recuse herself. Sub- York tell me that they never fabulousness- those were,sequently, in a seperate but happened is very disturbing.
in fact, the days, and it
related case, Judge Kahn was Also, Dublin is not Ireland and wasn't always as dire as she,;asked to explain her reasons even though the article con- makes it sound.
fOr recusal and she refused to centrates on Dublin, there are
Notwithstanding the cur. offer any.
strong communities in Cork, rent paltriness of turnouts for. Judge Kahn, as presiding Belfast, Galway and Derry ACT UP/Dublih and candlejudge, certainly had the where there have' been light vigilS in honor of thosepower to refuse to recusemarches always promoting
who have died of AIDS,
herself if she felt she could visibility through fighting
Dublin had at that time (thepreside over the prceedings. homophobia,
period of my recollection is. What annoyed me most is from 1981, when I demurely~b~cho~e not to do so, Any~.Ialm; by anyone, .that the the notion that Irish lesbians shook off the dual confines
jU'ge
was "simply complying . an'd gays are being sweptof high school and the closet,•
wi a motion",, is a complete along by the tide of reform. If until 1986, when the ongoing~jortionof reality. Judge anything, I would find fault cultural strangulation superKa· n, and Judge Kahn alone, with the amount of energy that vised by the Roman Catholic~nows the precise reasons fo~ the gay community has always church proved to be, in theherx recusal.
put into social reform issues el1d, too trying for me) a.
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Next time, Mr. Lynn, because there has never been thriving if furtive gay culture,
instead" of seeking a public
much pOsitive feedback from marked by highly yisible&xplanaJion, call me ... my . straight activists.
resistance,
Doesn't Ms.
:number IS in the book.
FQryour readers' informa- McDonald remember theii
Lori Coben tion there is an Irish lesbianand Fairview Park murder and.' ,Manbattan gay organization here in New ensuing protests? Or the,.'York. For information call (212) National Gay Federation's~PLUCK OF THE IRISH
967-7711,ext. 3078. Or write to dogged efforts at media visi. , ; At the outset of reading PO Box 4276, Rockefeller Sta- bility, a tradition without
A il McDonald's article, "The tion, NewYork, NY 10185.
which
Senator
Norris',Ot,er Dublin," [no, 87, Feb.
Anne Maguire .- admirable
achievements'2 " " was very pleased, HowBrooklyn would never have been realever, there are a few questions
ized as triumphantly (I' hope)
i would like the author toas they have?
While it was certainly
address, and also I have some refreshing to hear a contemAside from its character· ...'.make.
porary gay voice from Ire- as jeremiad, Ms. McDonald's
pOIntsto
Without accepting, con- land, it would be doing many account was very welcome.
cerning or forgiving Ireland individuals ana organizations Much of the shameful truth ofand the Irish for their homo- a sad disservice to let many Irish small-mindednessisphobia, I think that it is far too of Ms, McDonald's inaccura- contained in her piece, and it
easy to lash the system of cies off the hook, "I reland is ruthless exposure of thissocial repression that is evi- has never had a Gay Pride sort that will one day, I hope
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Avril MacDonald responds: My essay was in noway intended as a history ofgay politics in the Republicof Ireland since the time of
British Occupation, but mereIyas a personal comment on
the prevailing state of affairs
based on my impressions
formed during 22 years living in Dublin and a two-weekvisit home at Christmas.
If I failed to address thehistorical and political roots of
Ireland's social repression orelaborate on the current
church and government politics and was consequently
misleading, I apologize.
However, to adequately
explain why things are as
they are would necessitate
an inquiry into the Irish mind
and its influences, and sucha study was beyond myambitions.
At any rate whatever thecausativefactors of the current
social and political climateand I take your point, Anne
Maguire-the Republichas had
ample time since independence
to right the wrongs inheritedfrom the British.
I did not suggest that
Irish gays are being swept
along by the tide of reform(which is still only in thepipeline), but expressed hopethat this would not be thecase, And I was not underestimating the achievements ofIrish gay activists, but merely
saying that homosexuality
remains unacceptable in Ireland in spite' of all their good.work. I realize that it takes
more than queer activism tochange people's attitudes.

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Peck, please? I'm sure allreaders have their fantasies
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Rubenstein has a trenchantgrip on topics ranging fromforeign affairs to Saturday
morning TV. She's also
developing a true voice andher column has a strident,
but even, sound. I know
this past issue was Peck's
first, but his psycho-social
approach to music review
makes real reading: He's
nobody's press agent. The
best writers are ones who
address wide audiences,and both Rubenstein andPeck seem to have us all in
mind. Unlike some OutWeek writers and columnists, they have references
outside their own lives, anunderstandingof other'worlds, and something to•)•say. These are the kind ofwriters you should be•
encouragmg.
Paul A.H. Babitts
Manhattan
GWM BASHING
Just when I thought thatgay direct-action groups had
peaked in their ever-growing
sport of bashing gay white
men as convenientscapegoatsfor everything they dislike inthis ugly, unfair world, I readmore garbage that stuns meevenmore.
Both the Toronto chapter of Queer Nation and ACT
UP/Seattle have passed newrules. As stated in no. 85 of
OutWeek [Feb, 13] the rulein Toronto "gives any membe r of a 'traditionally
oppressed minority' theright to interrupt discussion
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white men were exterminated in Nazi concentration
camps. This is in spite of thefact that many of us gay
white men were brought up
in poor families (myself
included), This is in spite of
the fact that many of us are
suffering the terror and painof HIV infection, the added
discrimination it brings andthe devastating losS' oflovers and friends to AIDS,
for more than a decade,The individualsinTorontoandSeattleresponsi ble for allowing
the new rules to pass areindeed pathetic characters.
If they truly buy into thesenotions. then they are
remarkably stupid and narrow-minded. If they did it
for pragmatic reasons,then they are fOols andhypocrites.
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finds offensive, The facilitator is then obliged to halt
discussion and move on toanother topic. Questions
about why the discussion isoffensive are not entertained, and people withquestions are encouraged toeducate themselves, rather
than actually asking a member of the offended group."
In Toronto, the rule hasapparently "driven awaysome of the group's mostactive members,"
The definition of "traditionally oppressed minority"
does not include gay men
who are white. This is in
spite of .the fact that gay
white men have sufferedthroughout history withbeing beaten up in school, in
the home and on the streets,as have gays and lesbians ofall backgrounds. This is in
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intimidated into codifying aform of double-standard
morality even as they sozealously preach their opposition to such behavior when
it is directed at other groups,
I have been to meetings
in New York City of directaction groups whose activities are so important andwhose members have somuch vital energy, I have seen
lesbians and gay men andwhites, Blacks, Latinos andAsians earnestly trying towork together to fight theinjustices that plague us
every day, But I have also witnessed a dark side to many ofthese same meetings: The
manipulation of all that energy by knee-jerk ideologues;
the know-nothing stereotyping that portrays gay whitemales as always power-hungry and financially comfortable; the irrational accusations and the tired left-wingrhetoric that renounces allevil in the world to one race
(white) and one sex (male).
Last year, some membersof S n Francisco's ACT UP,
whe . confronted with similar
ideo! gic'al in-fighting while
thousands continued to die of
AIDS, instead of limiting freespeech and codifying a new
double standard, chose anapproach' with more integrity.
They started a separate groupof ACT UP, which returned tot~e basics of what ACT UP
was formed to do fight AIDS
by getting the government andother institutions to. develop.
mor~ and better treatments
and [by fighting all forms of
discrimination against those
who are HIV-positive or perceived to be.
One of the individuals
who broke away is Daniel
Sotomayor, a PWA of Puerto
Rican background who is afrequent illustrator for OutWeek. 'Sotomayor has been
particularly
outspoken in
exposing the new breed of,•lunacyand, hypocrisy,
Although he may be the firstto claim a large dose of self,interest in his actions (heI. .
• La Mama 1beater's phone number is (212) 475-7710
wants to go on living), I
and not 775-7710, We regret the error.
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admire him tremendously. He
is especially courageous
because, being a. Latino, he
was vulnerable to even more bisexual relationships occurs being abused and require
criticism for joinil1gup with with probably the same level accountability from those who(perhaps leading') the new of incidence as in heterosexu- batter,
Lucy M, Notarogroup which has so-many of al relationships (which is estimated at around 40 percent).
Coordinator of Domestic
those villainous, power-hunViolence Services
gry gay white males. He was The actual incidenceof
Gay and Lesbianparticularly
effectivein domestic violence is most
Anti-Violence Project
responding in OutWeek to a likely much higher than the•current statistics indicate but,
Manhattan
very mean-spirited
letterdue
to,theisolation,
shame
about his actions by two middle-class HlV-negative fe- and self-blame that accompaGO GLOBAL
Just a point of information
males, co-authored by Sue nies and is caused by batterHyde, formerly of NGLTF.As if ing, survivors are less likely to on Duncan Osborne's article
they know what it's like to report its occurrence. In addi- about the International Lesbiantion to these factors, a further and Gay Association in, issue
have AIDS, Hang in there,
complication within the les- no, 86, Feb, 20., Heritage ofDaniel. You've got courage,
bian, gay and bisexual com- Pride, organizers of the Lesbiancommon sense and you're
nobody's tool. We need more munity regarding the underre- and Gay Pride Weekend Rally,
like you.
porting of battering is that March and Dance on the Pier,
Edward O'Toole domestic violence is an atroci- is, indeed, proud to add its
Manhattan ty that exists within the com- name to your list as anmunity and is perpetrated by active/paid-up member of'lLGA
community members; there is for more than a year. ThisFUNGUS OR WHAT?
Just a note concerning the no external oppressor to point brings the count to five forarticle, "PCP in Elderly has 'no a finger at. Given the difficulOutWeek's documentation(NGLTF, . Lambda
Legal
Implications' for HIV Commu- ties community members
nity" [no, 86, Feb,20].
must already face at the hands Defense, LGCSC, GMSMA andParagraph one states that and minds of homophobes,
HOP). If your organization is
PCPis a "fungus,"
this reality can be an ugly one not a member, hopefully Mr.
.
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PCP is not a fungus but a to meet.
Osborne's informative and weI/protoz-Oa.
, It is the unfortunate reali- written article will urge you to. With so much incorrect
ty that although our lesbian, join to further bridge any gap,
information these days con- ~gay and bisexual sisters and bringing the US representation
cerning AIDS and the oppor- brothers suffer the same closer to the rest of the world
tunistic infl!ctions secondary to abuses that the batteredin the constant struggle for aI/
the disease, I just thought it women's movement
has lesbian and gay rights.
Heritage of Pridenecessaryto point out the error, struggled against for the past
. Love your magazine!
Manhattan
ten years, there are still gaps
Jim de Lacerda in services to our community ,.
San Francisco when it comes to shelters, .,All letters to theedi,_ adequate counseling services
tor must includea
BATTER UP
and appropriate responses
name, '-address andCheers to OutWeek for from the criminal justice sys-,
daytime phone,. aIincluding articles on lesbian tem. Given these factors, I
though names maybattering in the two most would like to challenge thebe withheld
at therecent issues [no, 87, Feb. 27 lesbian, gay and bisexual
author's request .. Outand no, 88, March 6]! It was community
to begin theweek reserves
therefreshing to. have media painful process ofacknowlright to edit lettersacknowledgement of such a edging the incidence of batterfor clarity and space
ing within our community socloseted community issue.
considerations.
Domestic violence or bat- that together we can provide
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DesertStonn," said•
Barrett Brick, executive directorofthe World Congressof Gay and Lesbian
Jewish Organizations,
while
the
conflict was still
raging last month.
Citing the course"":1 of events that led up
to World War II,
Brick stated thatearly appeasementof Hitler by WeStern ';:>'
powers allowed the.
murder of 'millions .li
of Jews and tens of Jl
thousandsof gay ~men and lesbians ~, during the Holocaust :!.
For Brick, President
George Bush's anaI- ~ogy of Saddam Hus- ~sein with Hitler is ~quite real.
~"It is both my .
experience as a Jew
and a gay personthat moves me," states Brick. "The pink
triangle is more than just rhetoric,"
On Feb. 16, Brick led a contingentof gay and lesbian Desert Stonn supporters, dubbed Gays Against Isolationism and Appeasement, to a rally insupport of US involvement in the Middle East. The 20-member gay contingent, Brick said, was well received by
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seemed last, week to be winding down,
gave both nationalists and peaceniks
reason to take to the str~ts for a few
months, the War-That-Was-Not-WorIdWar III also provided lesbians and gay
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victions that exist in their community.
Nowhere was the sheer breadth ofthat • political spectrum more apparent
than among gay and lesbian Jews, whohave been both some of the most zealous
supporters of government policy andsome of the mo5I: ardent anti-war activW,"I am opposed to isolationism, I
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support of Desert Storm. "Nolxxly in theirright mind likes war," he told OutWrek
The World Congress, the organization Brick directs, bas not issued
any statement on the conflict, despite
Brick's position. "My sense is that support for Desert Storm ranges fromgrudging to enthusiastic," he noted. I
The World Congress has 33 member organizations in six countries, withan additional 18 slated to join. Brickestimatedindividual
membership
between 8,000 and 10,000. The officesof one member group, the Israeli AIDS
Task Force, sustained collateral damage in a SCUD attack on Tel Aviv.
But it is a Jewish lesbian who has
led a coalition
against American
involvement in the war in the Persian~-A WAR 11IAT DIDNT HAVETO HAPPEN-leslie Cagan at an anti-war meeting in Washington

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Gulf. Vehemently opposed to US intervention in the Persian Gulf is Leslie
Cagan, coordinator for the National
Campaign for Peace in the Middle Eastand a longtime New York gay politico.
The Campaign organized the Jan. 26
rally opposing the war in Washington
that drew 250,000 participants.
, "I am completely appalled and. horrified at the way our government executed
polk:y in the Middle East," said Cagan. She
dismissed the Hitler/Hussein analogy, andis even skeptical of the motives behind
American government support for Israel.
'The alliance with Israel is strategic'and not a part of ending anti-Semitism,"
she stated. In Glgan's view, the US is motivated by economic and political concerns,
it seeks to reassert superpower status.
Relating a nuanced stance typicalof opinion on this war, Cagan rejects
Hussein and the Iraqi invasion of
Kuwait, but added, "This is an exampleof ~ war that did not have to happen.
When the US turned down the Soviet
peace proposal, it was clear the US
was hell-bent on a military victory."
She spoke for many gay and lesbian Jews across the country who
involved themselves in one way or
another in the anti-war movement assoon as the conflict erupted. Jewish
gay men and lesbians marched in thestreets of New York and San Francisco,wrote essays in the Village Voice, andfocused the attention of groups like

was released from the military whensuperiors learned she was a lesbian.
"As a Jew, I remember the six million, as a gay Jew I think of the 500,000
pink triangles who died at Dachau," says
Shalom, who saw the US initiative to oust
Saddam Hussein from Kuwait as a necessity, and expressed compassion for the
Iraqi people.

ACf UP and Queer Nation on the war.
They sometimes encountered antiSemitism in the anti-war movement,
brought to the surface by Israel's
alliance with US foreign policy.
Those gay Jews on the other sideof the issue found that anti-war stanceincomprehensible.
Another Desert
Storm~suppOrter is Miriam Ben-Shalom,
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NEW YORK-After his frrst year at
the helm of the Department of Health,Dr. Woodrow Myers is drawing criticism from AIDS advocates and former
department employees that his administration lacks leadership, fails to establish any cohesive policy and avoids
debate on important issues. But high•level department appointees say thedepartment's
work has been con~strained by significant budget cuts, andthat Myers has opted for a style of lowkey advocacy, keeping him available toall sides on controversial issues.
"I see no health policy, no direction, and no effective use of existing
resources," said Richard Elovich, a" member of the AIDS Coalition to
Unleash Power and longtime advocate
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Myers to Stephen
Joseph, the health commissioner underformer Mayor Ed Koch who was frequently at odds with ACf UP, Elovich
added, "I did not agree with some ofStephen Joseph's ideas, but he washands-on. Joseph enjoyed public debate.
Myers is not interested in debate."
And the criticism comes fromother quarters as well. "I sense somereluctance on Myers' part to come out
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Health Crisis, whose organization
backed Myers' appointment a year ago.
While Hansell agrees that funding cuts'"
equal to ten percent of the agency's
total budget have hampered programs,
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more important to be an advocate."
Recognizing that Myers has had tomake a difficult transition from running
Indiana's Department of Health to a far
more complex agency in New York,
Hansell nevertheless faults the commissioner for a lack of leadership, andsays the department is possessed of an"ivory tower" quality .
"I don't have the sense that Myersis open to debate from outside theagency," said Hansell. "He is cut off
from outside organizations,"
Senior-level department appointees
do see a subdued style on Myers' part,but insist he remains a successful advocate, despite the lower profile,"I think the, main difference is that thestyle of this health department is a little
more subtle," said Ellen Lovitz, deputy
commissioner for health support '.sentices,,in contrasting Myers to his predecessor.
"Dr. Myers chooses the behind-thescenes, quiet, but nevertheless strong
approach in lobbying for his positions." •Severaladvocates
and former,
employees cited recent debate over thecondom distribution plan put forth by
Schools' Chancellor Joseph Fernandez
when faulting Myers on advocacy.
While Myers did testify before theBoard of Education at public hearings,
GMHC's Hansell wanted health department support for the plan to come lear- .
lier and more publicly. Health depart- ->cment officers say Myers' quiet advocacy ~was essential in passing the plan,~ ,"Myers did speak publicly, but he ~also did other things," said Dr. Ken- .§.
neth Ong, the health department's!
deputy commissioner for disease inter- j
vention. "Myers did speak to board ~ :_members and I think he played a piv- S
otal role in gerting the swing vote."
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Department appointees say Myers'
low profile kept him accessible to all,board members during the condom
debate and, according to publishedreports, it was a last minute phone callto Myers from school board member
Westina Matthews, who held the swing
vote, that convinced Matthews to votein favor of the plan,"I would have liked it if the commissioner had been more vocal,"
admitted Peggy Hamburg, deputy commissioner for family health services,
who nevertheless approves of Myers'
quiet profile. "Obviously his interventioI) with Westina Matthews was critical,~ she added.
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"Myers gave the health underpinning for that plan," said Ron Bogard,
the department's openly gay general
counsel. "He consistently, throughoutthat process, put forward the publichealth position."
But a similar complaint is made by
advocates when discussing Myers' participation in the debate over proposed
Centers for Disease Control guidelinesthat would have made lflV screening
for healthcare workers mandatory.
While numerous organizations, including the American Medical Association,
the American Dental Association and
the New York State Department of
Health, weighed in with public statemeats, both pro and con, New York
City's Department of Health did notappear to be in the fight.
Department appointees dispute
this ,characterization. Both Ong andMyets travelled to the CDC to testify
against such guidelines, and deputy
commissioner
Hamburg, a forrn,erel,Ilployee of the National Institutes of
Health under Anthony Fauci, claims
that action by Myers in late December
prevented the CDC guidelines frombeing published in the Federal Register, an initial step in making them law.
"Good politics is not always loud .
politics," said Dr. Richard Atkins,
deputy commissioner
for externalaffairs. "I think this commissioner isparticularly sensitive to the nuances ofpolitics, and able t6 use good politicalstrategy often to its most effective en~."
The harshest criticism of Myers'-f1fSt
year pertains to policy matters. &hoing
ACf UP's Elovjch, a number of former
employees, admittedly bitter and angry
about their departures from the department, say the department has failed to
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Richard
Daley's choice to fill the long-vacantpost of health commissioner is Sr.
SheilaLyne, a Roman Catholic nun,
from the Religious Sisters of Mercy.
But ~ a Catholic nun support thehealth department's pro-i:hoice, pro-gay,pro-<:ondom,pro-birth control policies?
Bishops, clergy and religious
leaders worldwide
have beensilenced by the Vatican for deviatingfrom the church line on these issues
in recent years.
But Sr. Lyne says these apparent
conflicts do not trouble her, and thatpeople should forget about them andlet her get to work. She has no plans
to alter health/department programswith New York's health problems.
"Where is the policy?"said one former employee, who spoke on condition of anonymity. "What is Woody
Myers' stance or policy? I don't think hehas any policy, either macro or micro."
To an extent, even current departmental appointees concede this point,
but insist that budget matters havedrawn much of the agency's attention
in its first year under Myers.
"It depends on what level you
define policy at," said Hamburg, citing
support for the condom plan as ain these areas, she said.
This response baffles ACT UP
spokesman Tim Miller, "The conservative Catholics in Chicago can cause'
her a lot of trouble and the Daley
administration is being naive if they
think that that's not a possibility,"
Miller explained.
Lyne, whose appointment to the$97,752 per year post must still be
confirmed by the City Council, hasbeen deputy director at the healthdepartment since last August.
The health department has been
without an acting commissioner sincelast August and without a permanentcommissioner since early 1989.
-Rex Wockner,form of policymaking.
"There has not been a strategicplan that has come out of the department," Hamburg continued. "Our critical policy issues have been· how toappro;lch enormous budget cuts in asetting of problems that have always
far outstripped resources."
Departmental
appointees also
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WHO'S IN CHARGE HERE?
WASHINGTON-Seven
AIDS vacant room of the office's chief.
The office, like the position, has
activists were arrested here Feb. 20
on Charges of illegal entry, after occu- been empty for two months. For one
year prior, the post was filled by apying the office of the DC commistemporary acting chief, who hassioner of public health for almost'
three hours. The demonstration was .since resigned.
DC Commissioner of Public Healthintended to call attention to what
protestors called-the "failure" of the Dr. Georges C. Benjamin explained to
DC Office of AIDS Activities to spend reporters that he has been unable toappropriated AIDS monies and launch permanently fill the position due to a
one-year hiring freeze and has only
HIV education programs.
With a small group of supporters recently been authorized. to begin
and reporters in tow, the seven mem- searching for a new chief.
The protestors also criticized Mayor
bers of Oppression Under. Target-(OUn, a local gay and lesbian activist Sharon Dixon for not having appointed agroup, marched through the suite of new chief of AIDS activities in the two
offices comprising the DC Office of months she has beenin office.
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On the local level, Mayor David
DWdns announced the launching of abias-crime documentation
project
designed to sway Republican state
senators, who have opposed state
hate-crimes legislation that would
increase penalties for perpetrators convicted of bias-motivated crimes. [Thedocumentation form is reprinted on
page 31,] .
"It is essential that we secure thispowerful new ammunition against all
hate crimes," Dinkins said last week,
before an audience of community-group••in our city," Dinkins stated. "But wecan work together to prove the severityof this problem-andto put toughnew laws on the books, to punish
those who would deny us our right tobe who we want to be, and to choose
whom we love."
Both the mayor's documentation
project, and the national campaign toencourage reporting of hate crimes
and to advocate for more vigorous official intervention, titled the Campaign
to Count and Counter Hate Crimes,
were developed in' response to sharp\

increases in anti-gay violence thro~iout the country.
last year's grim statistics,rolled from
reports made in six major cities, showedthat violence against gay men and lesbiansrose an average of 42 percent over incidents reported in 1989, while in Minneapolis/St. Paul, incidents leaped 133
percent over the previous year.
"The rise in documented anti-gay
incidents reflects a variety of factors,
including greater reporting by victims,"
observed Kevin Be(rill, director of the
National Gay and Lesbian Task Force's
Anti-Violence Project. "However, suchlarge increases, especially in the numberof physical assaults, indicate that .theseverity of the problems has gro~inthese communities over the past year,",One potential!y powerful tool that
activists hope to utilize with the .campaign is the Federal Hate Crime~ Statis- ~tics Act, which was enacted with much '5
fanfare last year. "We believe the FBI ~[which is charged with. collecting aI}d :~reporting crimes under the act] is mak- :z:a:>
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implement the law," Berrill noted.
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printed on if it is not fully funded."•In New York City, which recorded
the highest number of bias-motivatedassaults in the study, anti-gay assaults
rose 65 percent over 1989's figures.
Altogether, 507 bias-motivated anti-gay
assaults were reported here in 1990.
The police department classified 102
crimes as anti-gay, a 108 percent
increase over the previous year's total.
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leaders and religious leaders."
One of the more chilling statistics
that Foreman cited from last year's
blotter revealed that at least once aweek for 23 consecutive weeks, gangattacks on lesbians and gay men sent
victims into the hospital. Foreman also
disclosed that 80 percent of the hatecrime victims his agency dealt withrequired medical attention.
Altogether, 1,558 incidents wererepot'ted to anti-violence agencies in thesix cities represented in NGLTF's study.
San Francisco had the second highest
number of recorded incidents, with 425,
followed by Los Angeles which had 199,
Chicago with ~98, metropolitan Boston
with 147, and 112 reports of anti-queer
violence in MinneapolislSt Paul. Activists
emphasized that they believe the reported
incidents reflect only a fraction of theepisodes that actually occurred in thecities included in the study.
New York Attorney General
Robert Abrams, surrounded by local
and national gay anti-violence activists
and victims of hate-motivated crimes,
described hate crimes as "revolting,disgusting and intolerable."
Abrams also strongly urged hiscolleagues in the state legislature topass the proposed hate-crimes bill inthis legislative session, "It has beensuggested that by dropping gays andlesbians from this legislation, the senate might pass it," Abrams related, "I
reject this pernicious notion that we•afford protection to some victims ofprejudice while leaving others vulnerable, This is especially true of gays
and lesbians, who are now the number !,>netarget of the merchants of,hate in our society."
The Campaign to Count andCounter Hate Crimes, coordinatedby the Task Force in conjunction
with local gay and lesbian anti-violence agencies, and partially funded
by a grant from the Public Welfire
Foundation,
was introduced
lastweek simultaneously in cities acrossthe country,
With the $50,000 award to the
Task Force's Anti-Violence Project,
NGLTF became the first lesbian andgay organization to receive a grantfrom the Public Welfare Foundation, T

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NEW~YORK-The Irish Lesbian
has proposed a bill that would prohibit
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health insurance companies from denyapplicatiqn to march in this year's St.
ing premiums to HIV-positive,people. it
Patrick'sDay ,.. Parade, on
March
16,
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is an attempt to achieve legislatively
turned down by the parade commitwhat he tried and failed in p~ years totee, on the grounds of "municipal
do administratively: shift, the cost ofand physical restrictions."
health care for people with' HIV and
The parade committee, which is a
AIDS from the state to private industry.
sub-committee of the Ancient Order of
In December, the Court of Appeals
Hibernians, told the Irish gays that
overturned a 1987
state regulation that
there is a waiting list to march in the,would have prevented health insurers
parade and that they will have to waitfrom denying coverage on the basis oflike anyone else.
HIV-test results ..The court said that the. "The group is not being discrimistate was not empowered to promul- ,nated against," said parade chainnan
gate such a regulation.
Francis Beirne. "They are eligible to
The new bill, which in addition tomarch. Who are we to say that they
compelling health insurers to insure
can't? But not this year. The parade ispeople with HIV and AIDS, will also
already too long, and it has been
forbid them from testing applicants for
moved up half-an-hour this year."HIV, or enquiring if they have already
ILGO is having talks with the
been tested. It· is expected to meetparad~ committee to establish thatfierce opposition from the health insurthere is in fact a waiting list, andance industry and from within thethat they are being treated fairly.
Republican-controlled state senate.
Anne Maguire, a spokesperson' for
Steve Guttenburg, acting executive
the group said that "if the waiting
director of the People with AIDS Coalilist is legitimate
then that's fairtion in New York City welcomed theenough. If not, then we will fightbill, but cautioned that "Cuomo is notthem all the way."going
to have any success until we
JudyAnn
O'Riordan,
deputy,have a responsive state senate. The bill
directorof European-Americanis doomed before it begins, because
Affairs
at the mayor's
office,the insurance lobby is incredibly
which is. trying to facilitate diastrong and there is a lack of concern
logue between
the two parties,
by the legislature."
told OutWeek that she knew ofWayne Kawadler, a representative
other groups which had to wait 'of ACf UP's Insurance and Access subto march in the parade, such ascommittee also predicted that the bill
the Irish Immigration
Reformstood a "slim to none" chance of being
Movement.
passed, and he expressed fear that Mario"If,. however, they are being
Cuomo was only paying lip service todenied for no good reason then it will
PWAs in introducing the bill and would,
constitute unfair treatment. It's a sensinot put his political weight behind it.
tive issue," she concluded.
The Health AssOciation of America,-Avril McDonald~'1 a OUTWEEK
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which represents commercial insurers,
said that it would fight the bill toothand nail, because it is in the businessof underwriting risks. "In the case of
AIDS" patients, there isn't a premium
commisurate with their risks," accordI!
ing to Jude Payne, a senior policy pnalyst with HAA in Washington DC. ,"The burden on the state is notgoing to lessen because AIDS patients
can't get insurance," she told OutWeek"Opening up private insurance won't
make any difference to these people,
because if they couldn't afford to gethealth insurance when they were healthy,
they probably can't afford it now."
The insurance industry also argues
that if it is forced to insure HIV-positive people, it would be a great drainon its resources, and it would consequently have to raise premiums sohigh that health .insurance would
become unaffordable for all.
.
It also points out that other high-risk
diseases such as cancer, diabetes, andheart disease are uninsurable and. askswhy AIDSshould be treated differently.
But Guttenburg
claims)hatifinsurance companies are licensed toprovide a service, then the sta,te has aright to intervene if that service is not
being provided. "Health insurance is a•vital link to medical science and insurance companies have a duty to provide it," he said. And he disputes theindustry's, claim that it could not sustain the risk of insuring PWAs, pointing
to Blue Cross/Blue Shield, whiq has
an open enrollment, calling it a prototype that should be expanded,
Blue Cross/Blue Shield is given a .
13 percent hospital differential by thestate in return for ensuring everyone.
"The 13 percent does not cover[all costs], but we feel that we have asocial responsibility to provide healthinsurance
to everyone,"said its
spokesperson, John Kelly.
He believes that commercial insurers
should also offer insurance to everyone.
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OPPOSEGAYBIAS•..,NEW YORK-The American Psychoa:balytic Association, the largest andmost influential organization of its kindin the nation will adopt a position statement setting out its "opposition to any
public or private discrimination against
any homosexuaIly-oriented individuals,"
according to director Helen Fisher,
The Association is a professionalorganization of 3,000 psychoanaIysts thatsets and maintains standards for'the profession and for affiliated societies andtraining colleges,
The statement will be published'probably in the journal B)dJiatrIc New; inMay, in response to negative comments
published in the May 1989 issue of that
jOOmal cooaming the. A.ss>dation's SIance on. ,sI'X: said.
There the Association's reluctance toadopt a position statement condemning
discrimination against gay people on the
grounds that it was not within its
province to take a formal stand on social
issues, was roundly criticized. Dr, Judd
Marmor, a professor of psychiatry at
UQ.A Medical School, said that the APNs
stance was "an example of a subtle,
unjustified prejudice against homosexuals
that has characterized the psychoanalytic
profession for many years. "Althoughhomosexuality
was"depathologized" by the American Psychiairic Assodltion
in 1973, psychoanalytic
lit,.
eratui'e and speakers at natioruil meetin~
continue to refer to gay people as"deviants" and "perveI1S" and, in fact, contribute to the widespread discrimination
against lesbians and gay men said Dr.
Richard Isay, a µofesscr cf clinkal µ;yd)iatty
at ComeInJniversity, and a veteran cam•µligner against the APNs SIance.
"Within conventional psychoanalysis, there is still very much a feeling thathomosexuality is a fIXation at an early
developmental level," he said.
As part of their training, psych0analysts have themselves analyzed, but

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TRISKAIDEKAPHO·. BIA'REVISITED: Noth- which wprks on sodomy law reform, local gay rights legisla- .
ing like a good boycott to tion, and ending discrimination in the US military.
Drake is the former co-chair of the Illinois Gay and Lesmake the mayor skittish.
Channel 13 is starting up bian Task'Force and a founder of the Chicago Area Republiits beg-a-thon again and can Gay Orga'nization, and a tireless AIDS lobbyist who
the city's gay community is fought repressive 'AIDS-related legislation in the Illinois'tearing up its checkbooks. state house last year.
. And Sue Hyde, the Privacy Project's former director; told .
And the mayor?'.
"Channel 13 does a Outlines Wire Service, "I'm delighted this leftist lesbian
better job in covering these activist has been succeeded by a Republican legislative whiz." .
important issues than most,.
by ANDREW MILLER
THREE PEOPLE WHO FOUND JOBS DURING 4.
other television stations,"
RECESSION: Closer to home, the ACLU's national Les~.
he quoth, "While strong
efforts s'hould be made to increase the media's presentation bian and Gay Rights Project at lastof lesbian and gay issues to the general public, I do not has a new attorney. Ruth Harlow, who
believe a boycott of WNET's fund-raising drive is the 'right has joined projeCt director Bill Rubenstein's formidable staff from the ACLU
course of action a~this time.",
Considering all the airtime Dinkins gets on Channel 13, of New Jersey, will also be working on,
it's hard to figure why the mayor would care one way. or the AIDS' issues,
And Chris Babick has officiallyother, really, but Rim Shots is glad to see City Hall is on topof all the important issues.
become the executive director of thePeople With AIDS Coalition, after..
CAN YOU SAY CONDOM?: "By approving schools'
serving val'iously as its deputy direcchancellor Joseph A, Fernandez's HIV/AIDS initiative, the tor, director of publication and acting
RUTH HARLOW
Board of Education has cast its vote for the lives of New ED since 1987,
York's young people," said t~e statement released by David
Back in WaShington, Jeff Levi, who
Hansell, the deputy executive director for policy at the Gay preceded Urvashi Vaid as the executive director at the NGLTF,is
Men's Health Crisis.
the new director of government affairs at the AIDS Action
It continued: "In a city where the rat~ of HIV infection is Council, where he will lobby for federal AIDS appropriations
the highest in the nation, teenagers represent the next wave and drug development.
'\of the AIDS epidemic. It is the responsibi!jty of all New York.
,~ers to acknowledge that many of our adolescents have WON'T YOU GO HOME, BILL DANNEMEYER,
already begun to engage in sexual activities, and that we . WON'T YOU GO HOME?: So, Rep, William Danmust recognize the potential consequences. The Board of nemeyer was drooling over his copy of the Federal.Regi~et; ,Education has taken the first step, authorizing a plao that recently, when he discovered that the Department of t:touswill provide teenagers with both the information and the, ing and Urban Development had recently awarded a $2,25
means to safeguard their future.",million transitional housing grant to the Los Angeles Gay
Condom. C-O-N-D-O-M, Condom,.
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and Lesbian Community Services Center, which will use themoney to provide shelter to homeless adolescents,.
PEARLS BEFORE SWINE: This week's Dorothy Park"Spen~ing scarce federal tax dollars on such a program .,_er Memorial Quote of the Week award goes to Leather is debatable in and of itself, but giving federal dollars to an
Daddy titleholder Don Thompson, who lamented the dearth organization that derives its identity from a particular sex act
of participants in recent leather contests in "This Week in is absurd," the gentleman from California opined in an angry
Leather," the Feb. 28 installment of a regular column in the letter he dashed off Feb, 19 to HUD Secretary Jack Kemp, 7"Why would Gay and Lesbian Community Services be
San Francisco Sentinel.
\"Part of the problem may be confusion about what we providing this housing absent any federal funding?" he won- "•really mean by 'being into leather,''' he deduced. "There are dered in print. "The Salvation Army does all the time. One canServices does
people for whom Leather is a fashion statement. You know only guess what Gay and Lesbian Community"the type, Leather is black, therefore it goes with anything, ali the time."
Rim Shots found that the Secretary's office hadn't.
especially pearls."
cared to hazard a guess, "HUD is prohibited from denying
I GUESS THIS MEANS I HAVE TO STOP WRIT· funds to any qualified grant applicant, and the Center met all .
of the requirements," a spOkesperson for the agency told
ING NASTY THINGS ABOUT GAY REPUBLI·CANS: The National Gay and Lesbian Task Force made histo- Rim Shots.
It's bad when people on the right-wing of your own
ry again last month, when it hired its first openly Republican
staffer. Tim Drake, a longtime fixture in Chicago politics, is the party don't even want to listen to your gay-baiting.
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or risk being declated unfit, Isay added.
Isay says that he is the only openly gay
man who is certified by the.c.Association, although one gay man and one
lesbian have been accepted for training
within .the last five years. It was only once
he had established a su~
careerthat
Isay cure out "with disastrous effect.""I had served as president of the psychoanalYtic SOCiety and of a numDei df
other committees, and when 1 came out 1
simply stopped getting referrals from mycolleagues. Along with the CIA and themili~, the psychoanalytic professionis.
the most homophobic," he declared
Isay is welcoming the Association's
decision, although peremains
skeptical
of its potential impact, because it will not,effect the Psychoanalytic Assodati6n-affiliated inStitutes, suchas training collegeS.
"It will be up' to the affiliated bodies
to make their owrt pOlicies, and the fact
is that some of them are rejecting openly
gay men and lesbfuns on the grounds oftheir horiibsexualit}r."
Although anti'<liScriminatiori legisla·tion eXiSts in some cities and Stites, itdoes not effectiVely stop training colleges
from'discriminatlng, he said. The P~o:analytic Association~ FISher said that she
expected affiliated training colleges toendorse the official line.
The Boston Psychoanalytic Sod~iy
and Institute recently beat the APA to th~post by adding a statement of non-discrinlination on' the grounds of sexual 0rieniation
to its application materials last October.
The president:-'dect of Boston PsychO~ytic,
Dr. Elizabeth Reid, said that theInstitlite W:ls merely forrtlalizihg a poIi<y ofnon".
, that it haS followed for~. 'we were going through our applirntions 'inaterials', and it was suggested to us
the Arr.lerican Civil Liberties Union that
.we sfioulct make oUr policy explicit ri She
added that she fouhd it "a little amazing"that it was the only; college affiliated with
the As<;ocjation to adopt Such a statement
The director of the AD-Us national
Lesbian arid Gay Rights Project, Bill Rubenstein, welComed the InStitute's mOve
said that "Changing attitUdes in the psych~
analytic conununity is particularly impbttant because society has long based its
discriminatory attitude,s on the infonnation distributed by' analysts."'-:'Avrll McDonald•

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PEPTIDE LICENSE

MAY GO TOTWO FIRMSSPRINGFIELD,Va.-The Departmentof Commerce is proposing that two fums
get licenses to take over sralled government-sponsored clinical trials of Peptide
T, an· anti-HIV agent that its proponents
say improves neuropsychiatric symptoms
in people infected with the humanimmunodefidency virus.
The finns, Integra Institute and ~MacFadden, would assume clinical testing
responsibilities from the National Instituteof Mental Health, which holds the drug's
patent. If uncontested" the proposed
agreement will go into effect after a 6o-day
public comment period, which began witha notice in the Feb. 7 Federal Register.
Treatment activists say the NIMH
and the Food and Drug Administration
have hampere9 continuation of clinical
trials and have made it virtually impossible for those who feel they need thedrug to get it from the drug undergroundor on an IDA-approved,
compassionate.
use basis. Whether either of the potential
licensees will make access outside of aclinical trial easier, they say, is still
unknown, "One would hope so due tothe. fact that at least one.party flntegral is
known to be a friend of PWAs," John
Perry Ryan of the Provincetown Positive
PWA Coalition told OutWeek "But they're
only one piece of the pie."
Peptide T and Integra have intertwining histories. The institute wasformed. by Peptide T's co-inventor Dr.
Candace Pert and colleagues, after leav. ing positions at the NIMH It conducted
initial phase 1 clinical trials for safety until
Bristol-Myers Co. dropped its sponsorship, leaving the institute without any
funds to continue.
The synthetic peptide, a chain ·ofeight amino adds, is believed to inhibit
HN-replication by blocking a receptor,
CD4, on the vira1 envelope.
The proposed
licenses are coexclusive and limited to the "therapeutic"

treatment of HIV infections,» according to
the public notice. The proposed agreement stipulates that ongoing phase 1clinical safety trials, and initiating phase 2 and3 trials for efficacy, are to be carri~ onseparately by each firm toward the goal ofcommercial availability,.
Meanwhile, treatmen~ activists havebeen wrangling with NIMH officials over adelayed phase 2 trial at the University ofSouthern California, That trial will use aplacebo and will be double-blind---nCither
the investigators nor the subjects will

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known to be a friend of
PWAs. But they're only
one piece of the pie.

know who is getting the iDhaied agent.
The activis!s are objecting to a provisionthat the study participants receive thepl~cebo for six months after the study
ends, to allow a look at what happens
when someone on the drug is taken off it.
Although the phase 1 trials haveshown Peptide T to be safe, 'with notOxicity reported, the IDA has cut off
the sources that allowed users to get it
through buyers' clubs. It is available
through Community Research Initiative/New England, but only to thosecontinuing in a phase 1 study that·began at the Fenway ainic in Boston.
And CRI's contract with NIMH, which
supplies the drug, expires in September. A eRI spokesperson told OUtWeekthat she did not know whether thecontract would be extended, "It would
be nice to have a better handle on•
things," she said, "so our patients knowwhat to expect.»A coalition of activists from ACf
UP chapters along the East Coast arescheduled to meet with NIMH officials
in Washington on March 8,-P.RC!New York••,DRUG FOR INTES,ORGANISM AVAILABLEAGAINNEW YORK-A. drug that people
with HIV infection began taking recently
to combat a difficult-to-treat diarrheacausing organism is back in the phannades after supplies ran out this sununer,according to its manufacturer, .
The drug, paromomycin, marketed
under the brand name Humatln, is a prescription antibiotic indicated for intestinal
amebiasis, Last year, demand for theagent increased three-fold after people
with HN infection, a cryptosporidiosis
diagnosis and a physician's prescription
sought the drug, a spokesperson fOr the
manufacturer, New Jersey-based Warner,
lambert Co" told OutWwk
The drug is not indicated for cryptosporidiosis, but once appro~b}r theFood and Drug AdminisIration, it may bepresaibed for any off-label use. '"Here's a$Ig al?Proved, available and anecdotaI1y
effective, and then the supplies driel;!
up," said John Hatchett of the PWA Coalition in Manhattan.
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Humatin's unavailability coincidedwith the US military's troop build-Up in
the Gulf last sununer, prompting sojne in
the HIV-infected, community to 5pepllatethat all supplies were diverted to the Gulf.
The Warner-Lambert spokesperson, ,Peter Wolf, said, that this .was
untrue, He.
was only aware of the demand by people
with mv infection in the past month. He. explamed that Humatin is an old drug;
demand is so low that only one batch ismade every year, When demand tripled,
he said, the company
rrore, However, production was slowed when abatch failed to pass microbiologic testing,
Wolf said that the drug's price, $19
to $21 for a bottle of 16, is no different

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eeplngby Robert Vazquez
I grew up a skinny, dark-skinned,
gay, New York Puerto Rican boy who
was pushed into assimilation by myclub where I work
family's desire for the American Dream.
the door, my friend
Because I chose to move within theJose and I· decided
white world, racism in all of its insidito go hang out at aous manifestations became a daily
Latino club on the\ companion. Sometimes, I could ignoreWest Side. Whileit and go about my business. Other
we were' there
times, it was up in my face and I had
checking out theto smack it down.
cute Latino home.
. But I have reached the pointboys and fierce Latina banjy girls: thewhere I am tired of having to deal
only white (European-American) man
with racism. (No shit, honey.) My
in the entire club zeroed In on yours
sero-positive status (a true reality
truly, and tried to pick my up. As wecheck) makes me choose my battles
spoke, I realized that he was there
these days. The more I experience andbecause he wanted to sleep with alearn about racism in this country, in· Latino man.
this city, in the lesbian and gay comThere was a time when I mightmunity, the angrier and more frusnot have cared, and would even havetrated I get. And the angrier I get, thebrought him home. But I shook myless patience I have.
head and walked away.
There are some things I really
A couple of weeks ago, I went
don't want to put energy into anymore.
away on a weekend retreat for gay
I have no desire to sit down and edumen of color. A great weekend incate white people excuse me, Euroupstate New York'in a safe "white-freepean Americans--about racism anyzone." It is difficult for me to articulate
more. I really don't have the time. But
my feelings wqile being in that place.
as I write this, I realize that I must conA feeling of safety. Comunidad. A
tinue doing anti-racism work publicly,sense of being home. That feeling of
because it has to be done. It is always
rightness, the confirmation of somethe responsibility of the disenfranthing that had been formulating itself
chised to work for their own liberain my mind for a long time.
tion. Needless to say, my ange! andAs we talked about family andfrustration level keep increasing.
race and lovers, I knew that the weekBut you know something? I am
end was the start of a new phase in
not going to do it at home anymore.
· my life: achange that would affect not
No more sleeping with white boys.
only myself, but all of my friends andI talked with a friend about this· loved ones.
decision, and he told me that my deciI had been in the white world forsion not to date or sleep with white
too long. My grandmother, Providenmen anymore was racist, that I had to
cia,. has an expression, "Una mosca en
come from a place of love' and not of
un vaso de leche." A fly in a glass ofanger,
that Latinos are the fierce rulingmilk, For too long, I had lived surpeople and it is up to us to transformrounded by the white European andthe world.
American culture, with Euro-American•
Well...world transformation begins
friends and lovers, the dark face in a
at home, within one's own community.
sea of pale ones. It is now time to
Empowerment is being part of yourchange that.
fter

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own community. And I have made thedecision to be in my communitiY. To
try to work, play, live and emppwer
myself within my Latino communityand other communities
of color.
Honey, I don't wan~ to do the racism
work at home anymore.

I don't want to have to lie in mybed with some European-American
man teaching Racism 101. Nor do I
want to sit down with the cute whiteboy I've been dating and interpret
what the comment, "I love sleepingwith Puerto Ricans" really means. Iwant to nix the grueling explanation
between the movie and the restaurant
about why I thought the movie was
racist. I'm not being defensive, racist or
overreacting. I consider the change
self-empowerment. I can be prejudiced
about the issue of race, but I don't
have the power to enforce my prejudices. And prejudice plus power
equals racism.
It's interesting. My therapist tellsme that I just want to be understood. A,
lot of my white friends become very
defensive when I explain this decision.
Some of my friends who are Latinos,
Afritan Americans, Asians, Native
Americans, said, "Robert, I made thatdecision years ago."
I don't want to be fetishized andexoticized any more because of myskin color. My culture, my language
and my politics are things I would
like to share with the men who share
my life and my bed. I want thatbond, the sense of home that I canonly get from my people, from abrother, from my barrio or othercommunities of color.
Why? There are tense discussions
and stomach-churning confrontations
on racism that I don't want to havewithiboyfriends anymore. Not that thathas ~appened with all of them. But
there was always a moment when mystomach fell because of something hehad said.
.
I am not saying that racism
doesn't exist within the Latino community or other communities of color. I
know a lot of brothers and sisters out
there working that skin-color-privilege
thang. I grew up among family members who, as dark as they are, werevery proud to be Puerto Rican and not
Blac~, thank you very much, and don't
mi~e
us for Blacks because we are
Spaf1i1sh,That's the kind of bullshit I
want to work on, both in the lesbian
and gay community as well as among
straight Latinos.
Now, don't get me wrong. I publicly support interracial relationships.
Two people joining together and lov-'ing each other across the abyss .of
racial differences is a truly revolutionary act, and I support those brave individuals in that endeavor. But formyself, it's hasta fa vista, white boy.T
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heNationalofHealth, or NIH, andthe National Institute of Allergies andInfectious Diseases,
NIAID, hosted a
National
Conference on Womenand HIV Infection
on Dec. 13 and 14, 1990, at the Sheraton
Hotel in Washington, DC. Everyone
agreed that it was long overdue. But fOf
women, AIDS activists and women with
Hiv illneSs it wasn't good enough. It left
the bitter taste of being unacknowledged,
exploited,ripped off and marginalized.
NIH, NIAID, the Centers
for Disease Control and the
AIDS Clinical Trial Groups
have thoroughly
ignoredwomen
throughout
thedecade of AIDS. In parallel
fashion, the non-governmental AIDS establishment, service
organizations
andactivist groups have ignored•
women with AIDS, and the"workof womenAIDS. :';0.:--..
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activists. Women have been
exploited, called vectors andvessels of disease, tested
without
permission
andagainst their wishes, refusedor been forced to abort preg· nancies and denied access todrug trials and health care.
· And women activists, in
opposing this exploitation,
have been advised to wait,
to shut up, to take care of the people
and let the men take care of the politics.
I have my own personal heroes in
the AIDS crisis, and mo~t of them arelesbians. J can't begin to recount all
the work they've done, soundly proving the obvious: Women are at risk ofcontracting
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•been ignored in disastrous ways by the
medical establishm~nt and the government. Women are also at risk of dying
without adequate diagnoses, healthcare or entitlements.
Women have done research on
shoestring budgets and made sex workers,
lesbians, housewives and teenagers visible.
We have been talking, speaking in publicforums, demonstrating, writing medical
articles, political books, novels and poetry.
We have exposed the health-au-e systemstone by stone, and threatened to bring it
to its knees. We've uncovered the lesbian~es, the drug ~es for women, the lack..

every newspaper and magazine carried
stories on women and AIDS. ACf UP
held successful, well-attended demonstrations last fall that focused on womenand HIV one against discriminatory
practices in granting disability benefits
by the Social Security Administration in
October in Washington, and another at
the CDC in Atlanta in December, protesting the archaic and male-biased defmition of AIDS. And on Dec. 13 and 14,
the government big boys sponsored anational conference on women and IllY
infection. Shouldn't we be pleased? But, c:icourse, everything has a context.
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lawsuits and challenged the CDC's definition of AIDS in women. We've createdvideos, mms, photography and art. As
usual, we have had almost no resources
and little support for this work.
But it seems that lately our work. is
having an impact. Suddenly, in late 1990,

On July 27, 1990, seven lesbians
from ACf UP/NY and IDC squared off
with Anthony Fauci, director of NIAID,
and Dan Hoth, director at NIAID's
Division of AIDS, demanding a serious
conference on women and AIDS. This
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actions around the country, to highplenary session, HIV-positivewomen andCommittee of ACT UP/NY, who were,'light the need to see women as at risk
women working with them commanded
unbeknownst to us, headmg to a social
and to do something about it.
the attention of the audience for about
event , with these same dreaded govThe gist of our meeting with Fauci
emment bureaucrats.
two hours, with riveting stories aboutand Hoth was to demand that a conferhow life really is, completely disrupting
I don't expect the government orence happen immediately, planned by
the planned schedule. And the feds gladthe American Medical Association to•
women with HIV illness and women who
ly took credit for our work, looking good
notice, support, validate or give a damn
work directly with them. We challenged
about women's lives or women's work. I
off the sweat of our bodies.
S6, imagine our fury, when, liketheir knowledge of the issues, and their
do expect that they will steal ,our work,
willingness to learn. We left the meeting
exploit us and discredit activists. But inships irlthenight, three of the women
furious. Fauci told us that he preferred
who .h~d met with Fauci and Hoth in
the midst of this expected treachery,
dealing with "gay-male ACf UP."
July, collided in the lobby of the Sherawhich is clearly an attack on all activists,
By the time the conference occurred,
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activists justifiably wondered whether' it
members of the Treatment and Data
was worth attending. Linda Meredith of, (,""_ACT UP;DC, who had been involved inevery step of the struggle with NIAID,
had resigned from the steering conmittee
in dismay of the process. Terry McGovern, the activist.lawyer who designed thelawsuit against the Social Security Administration, was barred from speaking on
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And women with HN infection were
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personal perspectives at the end of theseeond morning's plenary session. Mem•
while, a Public H€3lth Service representative .was placed'on 28 of the 38 scheduIed panel presentations, and Fauci andHoth were feattu:ed;prominently.
We then had to fight over every
basic issue we have been working on
for years. Women with HIV illnessa.
should get gynecological evaluations andPap smears twice a year, no? Well, not•a&ording to Tedd Ellerbrook of the
CDC. And AZT acts the same in•
Women's bodies as it does in men's bodies, according to the representative fromBurroughs Wellcome, the company
which makes, and profits from, the drug. .
<;:ervicalcancer and pelvic inflarrunatory
disease in HIV-positive women are still
not considered AIDS, and won't ever be
if the CDC continues to call the shots.
Woman-to-womantransmission? Lesbians with HIV illness? Totally marginalized topics. Research? Well, everyone
agree$, that there hasn't been enough. ,,However, the government still seems tothink 'of this as a justification for doing
nothing. We were prepared to educate,
c::'hc.
but we were forced to debate.
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the Board of Edu.
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she would ask the board at a later time
to amend the plan to allow parents to
opt their children out of receiving condoms. This would gut the significance of.the plan and must be prevented. Kudos
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those who voted in the afflllllative. This
time right-wing zanies lost to common
sense. It was a great day for city students.
Many lives will be saved.

Raising Madonna
Get out your' checkbooks, we'regoing to dinner. On April 21 the Gay andLesbian Alliance• Against Defamation(GLAAD) will present its second-annual
Media Awards with events in both New
Yolk and Los Angeles. International! pop
suPerstar Madonna and an episode of !,heSimpsons' cartoon program featuring Harvey Fierstein are among those slated to behonored at the event, which will recognize the best and worst of print andbroadcast media representations of lesbian
and gay issues and people. In addition,
special notice will be made of the Fmpire
State Building's lavender illumination last
Gay Pride weekend, which was largely aresult of GIAAO's efforts. The New York
event will be held atop the World Trade
Center and the LA event will be at theBeverly, Hilton Hotel. Ttck~ prices range
from $175 to $500 and GLAAD wants
your support. GLAAD/NY's Executive
Director Stephen Beck promises an exciting and uplifting event. So write out yourcheck and be there. For information, or tojoin GLAAD and begin receiving theirnewsletter, call them at (212) 966-1700.
Remember, the only way to defeat
homophobia is to confront it.

Brooklyn's Gayest District
On Feb. 26, Kenneth Fisher, a 38year-old lawyer, was elected City
Council member in a special electionin Brooklyn's "gayest" Council district.
Fisher's victory over eight opponents
did not bring much joy to the lesbian
and gay community, which played amajor role in supporting runner-up
Joan Millman. Millman, 50, an educator
and Brooklyn Heights district leader,was supported by Lambda Independent Democrats of Brooklyn, whoshowed their political muscle by delivering their constituency to her.
The district is significant to our community because of its representatives' historic support for gay rights legislation.
Representing the district in the early 70s
was k'0nard Skulnick, who was one of
the four original sponsors of the Gay
Rights Bill when "mends" like the caustic
Carol Greitzer weren't. Skulnick was followed by Fred Richmond, who later
became a member of Congress, and thenby Abe Gerges. All three were steadfast
sponsors of our legislation. The newCouncil member ~oesnot promise to be
SO steadfast in his support.
Fisher ran with the support of the
Brooklyn Borough President Howard
Golden (no mend of our community) andanti-gay Council members
EnochWilliams and Priscilla Wooten. Fisher has
said that he would vote for the domestic
partnership bill but that he would probably not sponsor it He said, "I don't havea relationship over a long enough periodof time to be able to take a full pulpit on
the issue. I don't ideologically have aproblem with the concept, but it's a question of how we can accomodate the interests of the largest number of people,"
Fisher won because of overwhelming
support from the district's large Hasidic
community, and their spokespeople areagainst domestic partnership legislation.
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In addition to the defeated candidates, there were several others who lostwhen Fisher won. They include several
Millman supporters such as Assemblymember Eileen Dugan, Senator Martin
Connor and Assembly Speaker Mel
Miller. But perhaps the biggest loser was
the all-but-declared mayoral candidate,Council President Andrew Stein. Stein
played a high-profile role in the Millman
campaign and supplied pivotal troops in
the race. A Millman victory would haveadded significantly to his base in Brooklyn, Instead, not only did Stein's candidate lose, but in Fisher he faces the kindof player he doesn't want to have as his
enemy. Fisher can now serve as abeachhead for Dinkins' reelection, or for
another xpayoral candidate. And Fisher
has his own future to advance. He is
expected to be a viable citywide candidate in either '93 or '97.
As a postscript, it should be notedthat Millman lost SOme progressive votes
as a result of her support from ~ght~wing. Council member Noach Dear and nghtwing Assemblymember Dov Hikind,both of whom are notoriously anti-gay,-

Queens Boulevard
There will be a special election forthe 22nd Council district in Queens on
April 16. However, one of the two major
candidates has dropped out of the race
and another one has popped up. Jack
Chartier, an aide to Assembly mem~r
Alan Hevesi, told party leaders he had
decided not to run. That left Karen
Koslowitz in the race. Kosiowitz is a Forest Hills Districtleader and an aide to City
Council President Andrew Stein. Besides
Stein, Koslowitz is supported by anti-gay
Queens County leader and right-to-life
Congressmember Thomas Manton. ,-Manton and his county o~tionare.;challenging the new city charter rule that says
candidates in special dections can't run
on regular party lines. This is interesting inthat it was Manton and Vallone who quarterbacked the approval of the charter•change with this non-partisan provision init. Manton is Vallone's county leader. Is
Manton now trying to endorse Vallone?
The pUlpose of the charter rules was toprevent the party "bosses" from "appointing" the new Council members. Manton istrying to destroy that reform. The new
opponent is Seymour Friedman, who was
a Queens civil court judge who won
against the Queens County organization,and then resigned to go into a lucrativelaw practice. He then attempted to run for
Manhattan borough president in 1985 withthe backing of multi-millionaire and gadfly
Abe Hirschfield. Seymour Friedman is alsoa millionaire, and currently resides in the
Queens' Council district. The situation isvery fluid, but that is the way it is at thispoint in time. You will be kept posted.
The word around town is that both
Manton and City Council Speaker Peter
Vallone have already lined up in support
of a Stein mayoralty in '93. Chartier
resigned from running due to immensepressure from Manton to Hevesi. The
Koslowitz candidacy is vel)' important tothe all but announced
mayoralty ofAndrew Stein. This really isn't a surpriseas neither Manton or Vallone has shown
much support for issues confronting tenants, the middle class, those overly concerned with dvil rights and other suchconcerns. Don't look for progressive gays
to support Stein. Although he advocatesgay rights, he hasn't signed on to sponsor
the domestic partnership bill, and his
commitment is to landlords and developers rather than to the homeless and thepoor. Queens is a powerful prize in amayoralty and a lock on the boroughwould
give Stein's mayoral run a leg up.
,
Watch as death penalty advocate Steinin his troops.
The Chartier withdrawal is also a
defeat for the labor unions who werebehind his bid, including the Teamsters,
the United Federation of Teachers and .
the Health and Hospital Workers' Union.
Meanwhile in the VIllage, the land of
the free and the gay, it looks as though
Bella Abzug's youngest daughter will infact run for the City Council. The
youngest one was looking at a bid forFred Ohrenstein's senate seat, but with
the Ohrenstein trial put off indefinitely(maybe to never happen) the Abzug eyes
have 'wandered back to the City Council.
This could pair her off agaiDst the openlygay candidate Tom Duane. It's interesting
because in the past, Abzug has been supportive of a Duane candidacy.T

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Tom, also known as Yoko and Huh,born in the coal-mining region of Ohio(Barnesville, home of the annual Pumpkin
Festival and Pumpkin Queen), first ventured forth after high school to Ft. Lauderdale, where he supported himself as a
bag-boy at the local Kroger's grocery store
and studied art. On a plane trip to New
York to visit his brother (who also died of
AIDS), Tom met Patrick and thus began agreat friendship, which merely changed
with Tom's recent death. Soon Tom moved
to New York to be wild and fabulous andwas-and set out on a stage of his life thatwas to touch and inspire many people, To
say that he was a brave and Singular spirit
is to recognize the limitations of language,
He was an absolutely unique and unforgettable presence, forever enthralled by thebeauty of life, love, art and the divine mysteries, forever luxurious.
Tom J, Arick was born on Aug, 25,
1959, and he died on Feb. 17, 1991.
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CommentaryStar Trek
by Kirk-Evan Billet"What would you have us do, put pink triangles on them?
Have them sashay down the corridors?" These insensitive comments were made at the February Star Trek convention, Richard
Arnold of Paramount Studios was responding to complaints thatStar Trek: The Next Generation doesn't include any openly lesbian or gay characters.
One of the premises of this TV show is that it's the 24th
century and prejudice, bigotry and discrimination are all longforgotten. The diversity of the starship's crew is itself a subtle
attack on the racism and sexism of the present. But even Star
Trek still has one foot firmly planted in the 20th century, since
everyone still answers to a white male captain, and since thepoint of bigotry being dead is made without any reference tosexual minorities.

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Arnold's reference to characterizing gay starfleet officers bystereotypes is narrow, to say the least. Since this show alreadydelves into'the characters' personal lives to some degree oranother, and has included some romantic storylines, it's notunreasonable to expect to see someone lesbian or gay among
the crew. If you agree that this show is an obvious opportunity
for introducing positive lesbian and gay characters, encourage
the producer in this direction. Write to: Gene Roddenberry, Executive Producer, Star Trek: The Next Generation, Paramount Television, 5555 Melrose Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90038.
GlAAD Tidings is a program of the Gay and Lesbian Alliance
Against Defamation, For more information about the material
in this week's column, or about GlAAD, call (212) 966-1700.

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Reprinted as a community service in conjunction with the Mayor's Liaison to the Lesbian and Gay
Communities and the New York City Commission on Human Rights.
Dear New Yorker,

Dear Community Representative,

The New York State legislature is once again about
to consider passing the New York State bia&-reJatedviolencebill, which will provide stiff penalties for those col\victed ofhate crimes based on race, creed, color, national origin, sex,
disability, age, or sexual orientation. One obstacle to thebill's passage is the vocal opposition of those who believe
gay men and lesbians do not deserve the protections
afforded the other victims of hate crimes. The bill's opponents also state that gay men and lesbians do not suffer frombias and hate crimes in numbers similar to other groups. We
know that this is not true. On the reverse side of this letter isa form designed to allow you to document the anti-gay or
anti-lesbian bias you personally eXperienced or know of second-hand. Please take the time to document your experience(s) so that your voice can be included when I present
these forms to state legislators as evidence of the compellingneed to protect the gay and lesbian communities from violence. Thank you.

As the Commissioner/Chair
for the City's
Human Rights Commission, and the Mayor's Liaison to the
Gay and Lesbian Communities, we urge you to participate
in the Mayor's project to document violence against gay
men and lesbians. Everyone in our community must cometogether to rid our city of the blight of hate crimes, As you'll
see from the form, you need not include your name if you
prefer anonymity. The information you supply will be avital part of the presentation Mayor Dinkins makes in su}>'
port of the New York State bia&-reJatedviolence bill, As you
may know, the NYS Senate has refused to enact the bill
because it includes provisions directed at sexual-orientation-based violence. We hope this project will demonstrate
the need for such broad-based legislation. Please lend us
your whole-hearted support in the worthwhile project, sothat each of us can benefit from this attempt to ensure an
environment free from hate.

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On Jan. 30, the Task Force put out asix-page document opposing the war.
Predicting that the war would divert funds
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found .support for the war impossible,
given the military's policy of di5criminating· against gay men and lesbians.
Brick dismissed the Task ~orce paper
as "six pages of paciftst verbiage" andadded, "The idea that you have to choose
between gunS and butter sounds verymuch like Ronald Reagan." .
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Shalom. "What distressed me is the peculiar, naive leftism that controls many of
our national organizations.", J3rick' and Shalom rejected the view· that gay men and lesbians mw;t necessarily
reject the military and military action due tory policy ..
a"I care about the US," said Shalom.
· ''But I am not happy about the discrimination gays and lesbians suffer."
Here in New York, Mel Rosen, chairman of the board at Congregation BethSimchat Torah, the gay and lesbian synagogue, told OutWeekthat his congregation
largely, if not entirely, supported the US
intervention.
"I have the sense that a lot of people
were for the war.', When Israel ~ being
attacked we band together," said R~.
The, 18-year-old congregation, with a membership of 1,000, began the practice of
singing the American and Israeli national
anthems after the first Iraqi SCUD attacks
on Israel. Many members were moved tosupport the war effort by da;e ties to Israel.
But the experience Rosen relates by .
no means holds true at gay synagogues
across the country.
"I think it was fairly split between
people who thought President Bush was
right, and another half who thought thiswas an overreaction," said lesbian Rabbi•
Denise Eger, who selVes the nation's oldest gay synagogue, Congregation BethChayim Chadashim, in Los Angeles.
Rabbi Eger states that many in her 19year-old congregation felt ambivalent about
the war as well. While some of the 400 congregants reportedly feel a connection to 'Israel without suppol1ing JsrneIi pom, dbers objected to spending bi1lions on a war
when funding for critical issues, such as
AIDS, is never found•The strongest feelings at the synagogue came with the Iraqi SCUD attacks
on Tel Aviv,"'fbeJirst
night that Israel was
attackedl people were so honified that weheld aii',impromptu service," Rabbi Eger
reported "People wanted to be in temple.
They felt the need to be in a community
asJews, and as gays andlesbians."

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with Jews and Jewish religious leaders
around the , country was that opinions
on the war ran deeper than facile patri- .
otic demands that we must support our
troops. And for many gay Jews,' thewar served to bring them together,
Lesbian Rabbi Stacy Ofner; whoserves Congregation Shir Tikvah in St.
Paul, told Out Week, "My experienceduring the last month was obviously
horrible,
tragic and scary. And it
seIVed to unify my congregation." ...

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from pop music. After an hour's private session with her, we're
aroused but wearing condoms, mad at her for ripping us off,
but somehow thanking her for noticing us, legitimizing us,
pulling us by our bootstraps up out of hiding and into the public pleasuredome of scrutiny and success. As with no other star
before her, we've ceased to be just an audience watching, like
Bette Midier's higher being, from a distance (the distance Bette
herself has studiously maintained since her baths' days). Deliriously, we imagine we're sitting with her in the arena---notcheering from the bleachers, but laughing alon~ide her onstage
and sharing in the kudos from the thron~ who recognize that
we're a big part of her triumph--even if any real attempt to getnear our lady of the poses would have a bouncer dragging US
out by the neck as she sang "keep people together" with her
usual twisted sense of irony.
But Madonna has nothing, and everything, to do with realness. Aloof, prepackaged and encased in the heavy artillery ofsuperstar merchandising, she somehow pierces through themachinery to bare her intentions so frankly we feel intimate
with her, breaking down barriers between audience and perfonner as she brings her deepest secrets into our homes withdiary-like immediacy. She's both untouchable and alarmingly
accessible----the icon next door, the best friend in a glass
booth--illld all the contradictions feed into our burgeoning
interest, fueling the flames of fascination for someone who's
brought crass exploitation to new levels of art, and art to new
depths of entertaining debasement.
We don't even know this girl, but we spend more time talking about her than about our real friends, devote more hours toanalyzing every cut of her gowns than to our own personal
problems. She wears a man's suit and monocle and grabs her
crotch in the "Express Yourself' video, and suddenly that
becomes the most pressing issue of the week, surpassing anyscheduled root -canaI work, rent payments or international. skirmish. She says (jokingly?) on national television that she goes tothe lesbian bar The Cubby Hole, and that's all anyone of any
age group or walk of life can talk about-for two y~ now!
The obsession grows to scary, almost pathological heights, feeding on itself to become more and more ravenously consuming,
and we don't tty to curb it; this is the healthiest of our vices,
after all. However seemingly trivial, it helps us confront religious
guilt, purges us of libidinal inhibitions and forces us to rethinkthe limitations of gender, intercourse and responsibility all witha good beat that you can dance to.
By now, we finally Seem willing to release Judy Garlandfrom her afterlife responsibility of being our quintessential icon.
And in the land of the living, career stagnation has robbed
Diana, Lml and Barbra of their chances, while Donna thumped .
the bible on our heads in a way that made it bounce back into
her face. 1hat leaves Madonna as Queer Queen, and she merits
the title as someone who isn't afraid to offend straight America,
if it does the rest of us some good. She'd never use the bible
against queers, but she just might use queers against the qible.
And unlike past icons, she's not a vulnerable toy, but a m,aster '"of her own fate who's only chained to a bed when she cqains ~
herself, and who only cuts loose when some rich, powerful man ~decides to come up with a bauble to make it worth her while. ~oShe's not the Iip-quivering, tragic and overpowered figure MariIyn Monroe was-now and then she just pretends to be before£,Everything, adInits Madonna,
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It's all calculated, controlled, temporaty and autoerotic.
Madonna doesn't strip for anyone else, she uncorks herself forthe sheer pleasure she takes in her own physicality, enjoying thenuances of her own body even more than we do. Her pride,flamboyance and glamour reach out to gay guys as, much as herbutch/fern dichotomy and her refusal to be victimized strikes achord in lesbians. As a result, Madonna-the great leveller, abreath mint and a candy mint----4sthe first superstar to appeal
equally to both camps. It's not the divisive old Judy story, withguys weeping along with the diva as'She longs to go over the
rainbow and track down the man that got away, while womencringe. We aU cheer Madonna as she climbs barefoot over the
rainbow, grabs the pot of gold and forces that man to·trade it infor the world's largest diamond ring. The whole scenario is so ,appealing that, sick as it is, straights like it too.
Why do we all worship at this person's throne so devoutly,
even when we're fed up and want her to leave us alone with all
the old guilts and repressions? Because, like, you know, she's soarticulate? Because, like, you know, she's so underexposed?
Because she's the only singer/actress to juggle both nude centerfolds and Lincoln Center ("I'm not ashamed," she announced,
presumably about both career moves)?
No, as with everything else in the transparent world of pop,
it has to do with sex-the sex the star delivers, withholds andsells. Everything, admits Madonna, relates to sex-without it she
wouldn't be here in the ftrst place. And with her, the sex is rightthere on the surface, not in any withering, subliminal message
that we can subtly pick up between the lines. It's flagrant,
shameless and constant. And a lot of times, thank God-from a
distance it's gay.
She's unafraid to venture into gay temtory-not only not
fearing, but almost relishing the consequences the way no otherstraight star is clliring enough to do. Performers who are insecure about their own sexuality notoriously steer clear of gay andlesbian associations because they're nervous about what those
associations might say about themselves. But Madonna who
seems awesomely secure in her sexuality,and all the forms thatit may take is as far from the valley of Richard Simmons (whowon't allow gay humor on a talk show he's on because he has"an image problem") as you can get on the axis of People magazine 2elebs. Madonna wants an image problem Blatantly rubbing qer desires in the faces of the ~titbourgeoisie, she playswith gender roles in ways that any nuddle-of-the-road performer
would toss into the career-move trash heap (where ShelleyLong's decision to leave Cheers festers).
But-irony of ironies-Madonna's refusals to confonn

become career moves. With each controversy, she emerges morefamous and salable, allusions to lesbianism (to name one "scandal") serving only to make her even more desirable to her fans,
Reinventing herself constantly, in the way the rapidly aging M1V
generation seemingly requires, she's elevated ''What next?" to anart fonn. We collectively gasp over each new shock and braceourselves for the next, slightly larger one (until snuff looms as
the only remaining frontier). In her publicity-seeking quest for
thrills, isn't she just using us to advance her own notoriety?
Probably, but isn't that infmitely better than a star (Andrew Dice
Clay, for example) who uses homophobia to the same end? And
hasn't she accorded us our own share of good press, not justbilked us for her own good? With Madonna, you tend to answer
a lot of questions with a lot of other questions.
Madonna's gay images exploit us, but it's an exploitation
we enjoy. We want to be visible in videos, milked for eroticism,pandered to as an audience. We want representations of pop
music to have same-sex stuff going on, at least as much as goeson in rea1life (Since David Geffen has admitted to being bisexual, shouldn't his company's videos be half-straight and halfgay?). To leave that element out of human experience has
always been strangely unnatural, as though no thin people orchildren with blue eyes were allowed to penetrate the sanctumof music television.
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even (are we allowed to lust over him?) the hot, if brutally
abusive, dad of "Oh, Father." The woman who introduced
Herb Ritts to video is definitdy someone doing gay men afavor. And for the ladies, at the center of it all is
Madonna-twirlinghalf-nakedly and writhing endlessly ingondolas, on dirt roads, on altars-but shrewdly, not "like a"zombie. Her message, projected while twirling, is for women
to shamelessly use their wiles to get whatever respect andappliances they want from men. It's not exactly the mostadvanced brand of feminism, but it may be the most realistic;society puts women at a disadvantage, she's saying, and it's up
to them to use every trick imaginable to overcome that andmake men their slaves. Like gay activists who vow to get theirpoint across "by any means necessary," Madonna will do anything to get an edge over her male counterparts. She's notfighting for equality within the system, but for superiorityc:through deviousness and manipulation. You can almost see.c:'"her taking over Nightf{ne on the air a fa ACf UP; her mission:£lo
to force Ted Koppel to bark (or, worse, recite this line:"Shangbai Surprise was fur and away the best movie of the..
'80s"). But of course, she did take over Nightitne already.
There are problems with Madonna's somewhat stunted
agenda-yes, she chose to lick milk out of a bowl, but couldn't
she have chosen something else?-yet I'm pretty much sold. She
explains "Express YO\lrself' by giggling, "Pussy rules the world,"
and if having a pussy can get that many greased musclestuds
turning cartwheels around you, then I want one.
Beyond serving as a purveyor of fine hoef, Madonna
throws seemingly limitless other curves into the stasis of contemporary life. Several of the male suitors fawning over her inthe "MaterialGirl" video looked a lot more futerested in getting.
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if !to her red dress than into her. The courtesans in her Marie
Antoinette version of ~ogue" emitted enough gay resonances tomake the excitable Arsenio Hall extremely nervous (he cOuldn't
resist putting down their foppish outfits on his show,pres\imably forgetting that he himself has appeared in full drag). And
her even more outlandish male backup dancers prancing
around in full-figure Gaultier bras (on her "Blond Ambition"tour) were a busty touch that one probably wouldn't expect at a
Mariah Carey show.
But then you wouldn't expect Mariah to anonymously c0produce drag-perfomer Lypsinka's show, or to hang out at thedrag-rendezvous bar Edd,,:,eiss, either. The club----an atmospheric 10vtXiive set in a German restaurant where all threegenders compete for wiener schnitzd-wasrecently descended
upon by Madonna, Liza Minnelli and Naomi Uimpbell-together-in a priceless meeting of queen bees and wannabes. Mostof the transsexual regulars were atWitter, but not happy; they'd .
been upstaged in their own natural habitat by the very women
they were trying to become. I hear the place hasn't been thesame since.
lbe video equivalent of Edelweiss, "Justify My Love" shattered rules in the most self-aggrandizing--but ultimately liberating way. With its scenes of voyeurism, lesbianism and cross-,.
dressing, it may have been a typical night on the town for mostof us, but to M1V, it was a visit from another planet bearing
eveiything they fmd repugnant. Especially since a topless girl insuspenders wanders through the sexy murk, it was bound to be
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where at/hard-rock videos have to include fast-motor vehicles
and scantily clad girls jiggling around or striking dehumanized,
zombiesque poses. Songs like "Cheny Pie" and "Simply Irresistible" render females as furniture-like objects, alluring accessories for the pubescent straight male audience to whack their•puds over and dispose of. The format can hardly be described
as a parade of feminism (even Madonna's brand). Yet our selfrighteous queen of causes, Sinead O'Connor-who
recently
boycotted the Grammys because she refuses to be part of a"sexist" and "materialistic" business--gleefully accepted several
M1V awards last year, as if this were the highest accolact->froma world where women, gays and people of color run free.
M1V, my dears,
is a land that is just starting to wake up to•
gay issues (some of which were wdkovered in their "Sex in
the '90s" special). But it's got as fur to go ill that endeavor"as it
does in portraying women as independent of their bikinis. To
this day, anyone who is too eccentric (i.e., gay) doesn't cut it as
an on-air regular; an ACf UP "Read My Lips" T-shirt that showssame-sex kissing gets computer scrambled; and while 2 Live
Crew's controversial utterances are discussed endlessly, no mention of the grossly homophobic rap group Audio Two manages. to seep into airtime. Recently, a network' rep wouldn't even consider placing a picture of me in drag (as Madonna, of course) on. the air-though she desperately wanted to---as if cross-dressing
were somehow against FCC regulations.
MIVs sti1l so regimented in the way it clings to hoary, misguided values of decency and acceptab~ity that anyone whochallenges them seems revolutionary. While Sinead did tty toshake things up-with the boys dancing together in her videofrom Red Hot and B/ue-rpore than anyone it's Madonna who's
dissolved the network's prejudices, often by feeding right into
them, then throwing them a whammy.
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M1V's homophobia, hoping the product would offend themenough to be blacklisted, so she could then serve it up, for a
price, to a hungry public nursed on hype. And eventually, I've
heard, M1V win show it (maybe with a few cuts) so everybody ends up rich and happy, except for those who realize they
didn't have to buy it after all.
But what a product. dutching her throbbing head as she
shuffles through a dank conidor, Madonna has so many fantasies to stop in and visit on the way to the nipples at the end
that the video becomes a veritable shrimp-and-salad bar of
taboo thrills. Suggestions of S/M, sapphism (Madonna kisses a
male-looking female as boyfriend Tony Ward looks on intently),interracial sex (shades of "Like a Prayer") and androgyny pileup, and you wonder why she didn't have time to throw in awilling sheep or two, or at least a two-headed dildo. "I want tokiss you in Paris," she coos, but you know if she did, her
boyfriend would be watching with one hand on his crotch.
The video was the clearest proof that Tony Ward is the perfeet partner in Madonna's love crimes; she couldn't have auditioned a boyfriend to better serve her purposes of scandal andsensationalism. An alleged bisexual (the StaT'sJanet Charlton
told a talk-show host that Tony will sleep with apparently anything that's put in front of him-now if 1 could only get in frontof him), Tony's been both engaged and mamed to other~omen, but--not your typical spouse was known to dress as
Madonna, and also fantasize about the star watching him having.sex. He's always been obsessed with Madonna just like she's
always been obsessed with Madonna.
Supposedly, when they first combusted at a party (he'dbeen in her "Like a Prayer" video, but she'd hardly noticed),
Madonna put a cigarette out on Tony and it was love at firstbum. She quickly found that the publicity he generated--he
was a gay-porn magazine model, etc., etc.-created even moresteam in ways that the highest paid publicist couldn't havedreamed up. The ultimate freewheeling, pansexUai plaything,
he's the ideal human brooch for Madonna, who apparently
enjoys having a love slave a lot more than she enjoyed supposedly being tied to a chair by Sean Penn. Whether or not therelationship's still sizzling (we hear Tony's backing off a bit fromher ego), he appeals to all our fascination with Madonna's gaylove, as we sit and wonder endlessly who straps-what-on anddoes-what-to-whom. And we should thank Madonna for giving
us the chance to wonder. While most stars would have tried tosuppress such a boyfriend's gay/drag associations or dumpedi\ .

him completely, Madonna just basks in the bad-mouthing.'

And the controversies keep coming. This May expect aconcert documentary called T7Ulh or Dare, which in bootleg
versions making the rounds on both coasts has already caused
more tongue-wagging than even the version of Peter Pan (withJulia Roberts as Tinkerbell) turdballing our way. This is notanother Bring on the Night, where the biggest revelation is Sting
being a little snippy to a musician. It's a sensationally private
peek at a truly complex, outrageous creature who's always acting up in order to be the center of attehtion-a very real
glimpse at the startling games she plays, made all the moredelicious by her having approved every second of it. Out ofcontrol, doing things anyone else would have exercised theirpower to edit out (though she still might),. Madonna once again
questions our views of what is and isn't acceptable star, andhuman, behavior.
Growing up in a large fumily in which she competed forhe, father'S attention, Madonna must have -rehearsed her nastygirl act for years, because in the mID, as a bad seed trapped in !lwoman's body, she's got it down pat. The T7Ulh or Dare
Madonna is proud of her naughtiness, and exults in it so involuntarily that sometimes she even shocks herself Oike when she .
explains how as a girl she'd crawl into bed with Dad to sleep
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one point, she's seen deep-throating an Evian bottle justbecause she can ("And honey, she swallows," her backup singersays). She also plays Truth or Dare with her male dancers, asking truths like "Have you ever gotten butt-fucked?" and dares
like "Show me your dick." Has Whitney Houston ever made thatdemand of anyone?
As Warren Beatty skulks through the background of the ,film trying not to be noticed, Madonna takes center stage, horsing around with her dancers (all but one of whom are gay) trying to resolve the sexuality clashes that unexpectedly erupt The
token straight dancer, it seems, has never been exposed to gay
people before, and he's a bit freaked, especially since they'vebeen promising to nail his ass on the tour. A voguing fish out ofwater, he tells Madonna, "I'm not used to being around fags andstuff," and she tells him to get over it. Then, efficiently enough,she instructs the other backup dancers to lighten up because theguy hasn't been around long enough to build up the defense
mechanisms they have. Her handling of the whole mess seems
pretty intelligent for a superstar, though of course the ultimate
gay-positive thing to do would have been to say, "Ab, let themnail you. Maybe you'll like it."
In a scene where she's performing at a benefit for the Keith
Haring Foundation, Madonna fiustratedly announces that she's
trying to unite thousands against homophobia and bigotry'"'and I
can't even unify seven dancers." Her willingness to even try iskind of touching. More crassly, Madonna says in the ftlm, "i'd killfags who hate women .." (More likely, they'd kill her first.) But
then she's lovable again, making the lesbian revelation we've all
dreamed of, as she admits that an old girlfriend of hers-who's
now married with children--used to finger-fuck her when they
were kids (Justify my glove ...). This isn't a joke, either. In a crosscutting sequence, Madonna is sQown describing the episodedelightedly as the mend, who admits to having done a lot ofdrugs back then, tries to remember it, ultimately taking
Ma.don.
,na's word. No value judgement is made of the act-no firigers
are pointed, as it were
it's just another cute . admission served.
up to unnelVe the complacent public and exacerbate'Madonna's
reputation for opening her heart, her mouth, and our eyes. In its
nonchalance, it both shocks and satisfies.
Even Sandra Bemhard-who's not a dyke, yes she is, no
she's no't~ks
openly on
about her girlmend, making
one wonder if perhaps she's a dyke again. We also can't help
thinking that she's now decided to. be an acknowledged lesbian
because she's been pressured to be, or if she's only pulling thisas another filthy stunt to later deny. The sight of her brings backall that Letterman brouhaha, when Madonna and Sandra canied
on like girlfriends and confessed to being Cubby Hole regulars, .
only to then spend two years trying to live it down--as if itwere something they had to live down (it only made them thatmuch more famous and talked about). No one said, "I'm notgoing to see Without You I'm Nothing or Dick Tracy because
those girls are lesbians." And if Sandra or Madonna have convinced themselves that people did say that, then they're using
their own homophobia to rationalize their shortcomings.
Seemingly desperate to go from the fringe to mainstream---illld her rambunctious talent merits the leap--Sandra
hasn't been able to decide how to keep her gay audience while
amassing a larger one. Instead, she spites gays, then still fmds
that doesn't help advance her career. Like Boy George, who
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could have said, "Yes, Sandra and I dive•on each other nightly," w-hether or not.

they reallydo. But she reneged,'

and for..:lonce w-e did feel like we'd been had.
(kind of drug-abusing, hotel room-trashing rock star he soloathed, Sandra runs the risk of developing into what she once
made fun of. dothed in designer duds, lunching with Isaac
Mizrahi, changing her sexuality every five minutes, she's treacherously close to being the climbing vine she's not supposed torespect. Hopefully, she's learned from Madonna that keeping
your edge may be the best way to go forward,
The whole self-loathing Letterman episode continues toleave a foul taste, as if we'd been teased Into thinking thesewere .our friends, then repeatedly clubbed over the head by
their "aIann at being considered so. Still, it's important to remember tlpt it was Sandra, not Madonna, who later said they'd been
dragged into a "cesspool of degradation" by being labeled lesbians. It was Sandra, not Madonna, who told the inquisitive,
press to "kiss my fat butt." It was Sandra, not Madonna, whoannounced, "I'm not a lesbian and I'm sick of being called one."And besides, it somehow seems more acceptable for awoman who's not a lesbian (Madonna) to say, "We were justkidding. I'm not really," than a woman who is (Sandra) to do
the same. And yet-illl, the tangled thoughts while not asdamagingly as Sandra, Madonna did let us down. She could
have responded to queries with, "Well, maybe I do go to the
Cubby Hole and maybe I don't," and continued to act as if there
would be nothing wrong with that. She could have chosen thatmoment to bring up those misty finger-fucking memories. She

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we'd been had.
The using issue came up again last year when Madonna
released ''Vogue''--at a time when we jaded New York folk were
sure the trend was way over-and once again proved that her
timing was impeccable. Middle America was all primped andready for it, legs akimbo and arms in a fonnation. In accessorizing
herself with a Black/Hispanic, gay/drag art form for mass success,Madonna was doing her usual shtick of taking something bubbling under the surface and putting it over in a big way. She wasinviting public perception to a movement that seemed to havebecome slick enough to warrant a commercial venue. And she
was, quite blatantly, ripping it off. What Madonna does best is
exploit what she sees on the street, and since gay Blacks are at
the forefront of so much of that, it was probably inevitable thatthey'd end up being the targets of her co-opting frenzy. Whether
they should feel grateful or raped is another issue.
While most voguers struggle through their low-income
lives, becoming powerful real men and women only in the contrived world of thevoguing balls, Madonna approached thephenomenon from the opposite direction, as a well~ff, pampered celebrity sluriuning up in Harlem for effect. She's that rarevoguer who can both strike a pose and also strike a multi-million deal with a record and movie company. By saturating the
airwaves with voguing, she certainly helped it, and voguers ingeneral, become more visible, but that's like saying Vanilla Ice
did Blacks a favor by making rap more visible.
Of course, another argument is that Madonna did employ
gay people of color in her video and on her tour. But wasn't
that just to add authenticity to her well-researched attempt atcurrency? The questions don't quit, especially in light of rumorsthat the song's lyrics "It makes no difference if you're black orwhite, if you're a boy or a girl"-were supposed to include references to gays, but in the fmaJ whitewashed version, glaringly
didn't. Ultimately, we won and lost on the ''Voguing'' issue; it
was Madonna's nod to this creative underground and her subtle
stab in its back. As with many of her exploitative choices, she
ended up helping herself more than anybody.
Fortunately, she's proven herself to be a good friend to thegay and AIDS community, doing enough selfless things to perhaps ameliorate the memory of the debatable ones. Someone
who has kids chanting along with her, "Hey you, don't be silly,
put a rubber on your willy," is far more valuable an ally thansay, a Sebastian Bach, who asks his audience to chirp along
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OK, we've been through a lot of this before, We've
discussed queer self-abuse, queer obsession with asickeningly perfect body image, queer internalized
homophobia, queer rejection by our own kind, this·you-can't-be-too-thin society, 12-step programs, rampant anorexia and clubs like Girth and Mirth,, But we haven't talked about Eating Awareness Training, or EAT, and a
man named Ross Jacobs. Just as I was ballooning out of control last sUlIUller(once again), this wonderful, proud, gay man and his program shrunk meback down. How much weight did I lose? I have no idea. What can you eat?
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and living in the suburbs and eating hissorrows away. ''I'd come home every
night to a beautiful meal that was prepared for me," he recalls. "I sat down
and ate it, regardless of how I felt. I
was unhappy
and frustrated, and I was.
very repressed in terms of my homosexuality. I put on somewhere between
30 and 40 pounds."
Jacobs' coming-out process madehim more aware of his physical being. "Ilooked at myself and thought, I want totake care of myself," he says. It was in1982, while contemplating the inevitableend of his nianiage, that he discovered
EAT, via ·the book by the same name,written by Molly Groger. Based in LA,
Groger, now a consultant to Blue Cross
in Southern California, had by thenhelped hundreds of people overcome
weight problems.
"I read the bookstraight through," he says. "It helped withother parts of my life too. It pushed me alittle bit more out of the closet. A lot of
the training was about getting in touchwith yourself, trusting yourself."
Having successfully lost weight,
Jacobs eventually met Groger and, so
impressed by the program, decided that
he wanted to teach it. After spending
some time with Groger, learning how to
train people in EAT,Jacobs was awarded
a license to be an EAT instructor in New,
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you can see the splits in the annpits ofthat tired Williwear suit as you (makeyour debut on 48 Hours, it's titltle fordrastic measures.
At my first session (one-on-one,
although Jacobs does group trainingalso), I learned all about "experienciIig"
my food, eating without any distractions,,and "listening" to my body. At the end ofthat session, Jacobs handed me a plastic
mallet. I was supposed to go home, takeall of my clothes off and look at mybody in the mirror. I was to s'imply
observe it, feel it and accept it-not
judge it, not feel guilty about it and not
say to 'myself, "Ugh! You ugly piece ofshit." If I did lapse into that fypicalbehavior, I was to hit myself oV'er thehead with the mallet, which would makea hideous squeaking noise.
I told people about this at parties.
They thought that I was crazy. CIthoughtthat I was crazy.) It prompted Michael
Musto to write in the Village Voice tha~"hitting yourself over the head with aplastic mallet after looking in the mirror"
is one of the hot new trends;.in addition
to "Barbie house-hunting and co-dependency hospitals."
But the hammer thing is just one
aspect (albeit a sensationalistic one) of amuch more complex program that reallymakes a lot of sense. EAT teaches you
how to free yourself of guilt regarding
your body and food, and, through aseries of behavioral exercises, retrains
you to eat properly. EAT doesn't
promise that you'll necessarily be ultratbin-but, rather, that you'll melt into
your. natural body, whateverthat .
is and that you'll stay that way, moreor less, because you've learned how to
eat instead of dieting .
Over the six-week period, I learned
that my whole way of looking at food
had been problematic. I educated myself
about hunger levels, expectations, "sabotage," fears, inner strength and various
other concepts. And I reeducated myself
about wben to eat. Just as Jacobs foundthat coming out as gay and dealing withhis eating problem were related, I also
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Most remarkable about the process
is that I never had to willfully restrict myfood intake or stop eating any kind of'food. With EAT, you make all the decisions. You eat whatever you want, asmuch as you want. The difference is thatyou learn to listen to your body insteadof your mind (which has, for years, beenpolluted with all the wrong habits), andyou fmd that your body actually wants
different foods sometimes, and usually a
lot less of them.
I lost a lot of weight. I don't know
how much because, according to EAT
principles, scales are a no-no; they only
measure the symptom (pounds) and •have no bearing on the problem (theway you eat). I soon felt great and foundmyself doing a lot more things working
out, walking to and from work, dancing
all night. And this was all before the endof th~ program.
. ;The big question everyone wants
answered is, Can you keep the w~ightoft? Well, seeing as EAT is not a diet'but
rather a way of life, the weight, theoretically, should stay off because you've
realigned your eating habits. For themost part that has been true; since lastAugust, when I fmished the program I
certainly haven't gaiu,ed the weight back.
And yet, there are times when I've seen,
myself slipping back to the old way.of
thinking, eating the way I used to. Thatcan be frightening and frustrating. But
I've , found that it's easier to get back on
track with EAT; it begins to become asmuch of a habit as the old way of eating
once was.
Is EAT the magic bullet? Well, no.
The complexities surrounding weight
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you feel as if the world is a hopelessplace where all sorts of restrictions areplaced upon you, as do many .diets. To
the contrary, EAT is empowering on somany levels. It makes you realize, for thefust time perhaps, that you are in control.
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video. Or maybe it has
to do with the factthat the editors at
three of the top
women's fashion magazines are dykes.
Whatever the reason,
lezzie-fun is suddenly
bubbling over on theglossy pages of all
the glamour rags.

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Desk Calendar. (I didn't
buy it myself-I swear!a friend gave it to me formy birthday last December.) On each day, Liz
gives you some piece ofdrivel, a tidbit of American gossip from the pastthat's bound to make you go "Uggh!"
Oh, how I would love to create theQueer Scandal Desk Calendar. Eachday would recount some past scenario
in which we found ourselves spinning,
panting, ranting and raving. And we'dfind that, just as one scandal wounditself down, another would whirl into
our existence from the horizon likesome incredible tornado.
Take the current scene, for example. While a firestorm was raging
around The Silence of the Lambs, theMiss Saigon controversY---'.lctually, thesecond Miss Saigon controversy (or isit the third?)-was
fast picking up
steam. Now, it's past the boilingpoint. And
Lambda Legal Defense and,the Lesbian and Gay Community Services Center are finding themselves
embroiledin a hotter-than-hot
brouhaha which they are sleazily trying to talk their way out of. Ultimately, this is a much more well-defined
situation than that of The Stlence of,the Lambs, with the issues of racism
t and sexism cle:tr-cut and undeniable.
. And it's causing
an enormous
am.ount of distress in an already.
, overworked community.
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For several months, Asian-Ameri. can lesbian and gay groups have beenpressuring ,Lambda and the Center not
to use Cameron Mackintosh's Miss
Saigon for fundraisers which thos~organizations had. planned. Asian Lesbians of the East Coast and Gay Asianand Pacific Islander Men charged that,far beyond the Jonathan Pryce skir,mish, there. are lots of other problems, with this show, including "racist andsexist content, a trivialization
andromanticization of the Viet Nam War,.,and a tradition of white privilege toportray Asians."
A look at the script bears this out:
The heroine is described as a "slit,"
who exists strictly for the pleasure of the white man
who,abandons
her. But it really
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December, when Lambda
originally bought blocks of.. ~cc.D
tickets to sell for their<C: event in April. But the
Shubert Organization now
says that the groups cansell the tickets---'.lnd getout of this mess-up
until
two weeks before theshow. If they sold th<; tickets now, Lambda and the Cfnter
would lose none of the money theyshelled out, but would forgo $150,000
in net profits they stand to make.
Lambda's head honcho, Tom Stoddard,says they just can't do that---they can't
give up that kind of money. And theCenter, we hear, is being pressured
enormously by gay white male theater
queens who are also big donors to
the Center-not
to "cave in" tp the
Asian groups.
In other words, Lambda and the"Center are saying that they will tqlerate
racism and sexism for a price. TIIAT ISAPPALLING! AND WE MUST ,NOT
ALLOW IT TO HAPPEN. WE MUST
DEMAND,AS A UNIFIED COMMUNI1Y
TO WHICH LAMBDA AND TIlE CENTER MUST BE ACCOUNTABLE, TIIATTHE ORGANIZATIONS DROP THISFUNDRAISER. Stoddard, you're once
again putting yourself in a major bind.
Didn't you notice how quickly AmFAR
dropped Stlence of the Lambs as 'soon as
they smelled controversy?·ti)n'~ tou seethat this is only going to blow up into abigger thing? And when the ,mainstream
media gets a hold' of it, well, forget
about it! The idea of yet another scandal surrounding Miss Saigon is enoughto make them salivate ten times over.
Can't you just see those cameras
swooping down on the protestors canying the "Lambda is racist" signs in frontof the show?
Of course, I know what we'rebeing accused of by all this talk .
•We're being called "politically correct," a term that has now become
one of the most negative labels one
could possibly be branded with, allthanks to the mainstream
media'sincessant attacks on campus politics,
and the leftie press' desire to just stick
its head in the sand on this one (yes, I
mean the Village Voice), rather thanfight off the attackers.
It's now gotten to the point
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doesn't matter what the story is about
and whether or not Lambda and/or theCenter find it problematic. TIlE TRUTH
IS TIIAT MANY PEOPLE IN TIlE LESBIAN AND GAY COMMUNITY ARE
OFFENDED BY IT-PARTICULARLYLAMBDA AND
THE CENTERWILL TOLER•

ATE RACISM
AND SEXISMFORA PRICE.

ASIANS, WHO ARE THE VERY SUBJECf OF THE WORK. For that reason
alone, Lambda and the Center should
not be involved in fundraisers using
this show.
Trying to soften the attacks madeon the organization, Lamba is pinning
the rap on the Asian gay groups for
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New York and a slew of other publications---the more-hideous-by-the-month .
Details magazine has jumped on the
bandwagon. After we lambasted themincessantly, regarding their lack ofqueer coverage and their rampant heterosexism, DetailS response seems tobe this little dittie in their asinine "Eyewitness" column in the March issue:"Hello, I am politically correct. Have I
mentioned yet how gay I am? In spirit,at least, if not in actual practice. Whichis to say that my sympathy-no, 1ny
empathy with gay and lesbian orwait, my solidarit~with my gay andlesbian brothers and sisters is so profound as to make any distinction
between me and them a matter ofhairsplitting. I despise hairsplitting.
that's why I make sure I mention mypolitical position early and often."
HOW. DARE YOU MOCK US, YOU
BASTARDS! Especially after you
haven't done shit to serve this community dn the pages of your downwardspiraling rag. (Yes, everyone knows
how you lost Guess Jeans, yourbiggest advertiser--an eight pagerbecause they thought your editorial
content was lame.)
Hopefully, Joe Dolce, a gay writ~rand editor who's got the right zing andwho's recently been hired as a senior'
editor at Details, will be able to turnthings around a bit. And at least keep
the closet-case quotient down on the
mag's pages.
Speaking of closets and such, I do
have to tell everyone what the hell isgoing on with dearest Whitney. Ever
s'tnce we spoke about Ms. Houston
and her "personal assistant" Robin''crawford flying separately and eating
at different tables at dinner parties, thecalls from people who've worked with
her and and Arista Records' head Clive
Davis (both in the past and presently),
have come pouring in. Now we havelots of information to bargain with.
And we know, Mr. Davis, all about theplans to have Whitney linked to fouror five different men over the next six
months, all for bearding purposes. But it won't work, buster. And if I
were you, I'd cool it. You see, we'recoming closer and closer and closer
and closer. Yes, Mr. Davis. Things may
even come popping out of your own
storage space very shortly, if you
know what I mean."•u::rar Sto••

OS ANGELES---Soit's time for thatl cigarette. America finally got off.

Was it good for you, too? Despite performance anxiety and fears of impotence, we stroked. and posed andtalked dirty, had six months of foreplay and finally came. What a fantasy-forcing
a whole butch country
down on their -knees for our beautiful
young men. All you had to do waswatch report after report of Iraqi soldiers and our boys to know that,indeed, America wants to be a top.
I suppose Los Angeles was thebest place to be when the war ended.
Though the news was coming out of
New York or Atlanta, the inspiration
was here. If Spielberg hadn't doneStar Wars, we wouldn't have been as
awed by America's space-age weapons.
Every tape released by the Pentagon
became a direct hit, destroying the evil
Death Star. We got the high score on

illie

this Nintendo Gulf War toy, and no
one is going to top it soon. But you
know what happens to little boys whoplay with their joy sticks too much.
Everything is made easy in LA,
though I know it's been said before.
The LA Times distills each story to one
sentence, so you don't really have toread the articles, leaving more time for
the Calendar section.
The left coast Times did a great
job on the Cracker Barrel controversy(as did The New York Times). It
seems that a cheese shoppe, of allplaces, decided it would be inconsistent with the traditional American values "of our customer base to continue
to employ individuals ...whose sexual
preferences fail to demonstrate normal
heterosexual values which have been
the foundation of families in Ol\r society." Always back to those mythic
American families.
Though the company retracted thestatement the next· day, the Crackpot
Barrel chairman said they still wouldn't

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employ homosexuals if there was apotential for disrup~ion in rural co~munities. Fags and dykes are always
the ones causing disruptions. They just
can't stop beating up on rednecks.
The key to the LA Times piece,
however, was their discussion of how
this kind of thing can and does continue even without a stated policy. Robert
Bray of. the National Gay and Lesbian
Task Force says companies regularly
get rid of lesbians and gays. They simply "disguise the terminations."• ••But on to the Calendar section
and a huge feature, "Soap Tackles the
Ultimate Taboo: Father-son incest." Itseems that a character on the daytime

pretty-boy soap Bold and tbe Beautiful has accused his fathe~ of sexual
abuse, and it is doing wonderful things
for the ratings. LA Times reporter Irv
Letofsky quoted B&B's co-creator/
executive producer/writer, "Until we
did this, we· thought everything had
been exploited." I guess this was his
lucky day.
Not having seen the show, I
don't know how responsibly they've
dealt with the topic. But from the single line of dialogue Letofsky quotes,
I'm not optimistic. "All these years I
was tortured. Those nights, the darkness, your voice, your hands ...In mylittle boy's mind I thought it waslove ..." Father-son incest is obviously• • •LA Dish Edition

All the unconfirmed rumors that will fit ... Sly• • •Stallone and John Travolta havQrented a flat together in West Hollywood ...

In Travolta's next film he plays headmaster of a boy's

school. The film editors, who have nicknamed the film "Gay is Good"in their funny straight-man way, had to cut a number of scenes•

where Travolta looks too "sympathetically" at the boys. There's also,.

a great spanking scene.,.Meanwhile, Frank Stallone and Doll lundren's restaurant Black and, Bloo is the home to a new queer club,. Trade, on Tuesdays. Advocate editors, lance loud, wayward filmmakers, and activists galore make the scene .,. Dolf made a scene
at the Versace fashion show to benefit AIDS Project LA when hecame up to two (not one) beautiful male models at the end of theni.ght. All he said was, "You're coming with me." And they did ...
,Michelle Pfeiffer is working hard to set up an AIDS movie, in which
she gets the disease from an IVDU boyfriend. The script includes••

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something that happens, and it is fairgame for a soap opera., The problem
is that it plays very nicely into all
those great stereotypesof childmolesting homosexuals. The LA Times
doesn't mention that this type of. incest is no more prevalent thanfather/daughter, or the fact that childmolesting is not part-and-parcel ofhomosexual experiences.
Actually, the tone of the piece
implies that father-son incest is thebiggest problem since global warming.
Todd Mckee, who plays the molested
boy, says,' "It's surprising how many
people have these actual experiences,"and then goes on to share excerpts
from letters he's received.
While I'm sure the makers of B&B
and the LA Times think they're doing a
lot of good by bringing out this sensitive subject, as always, it must be done
responsibly. And that would include
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LA is often only so much dish. The
cable channel of choice is not CSpan, as in DC, or Public Access in
New York. Here it is the "P"
cbannel-'J. low budget Entertainment Tonight which just goes on andon. Two queens host. the show, andwhile the rest of the country:tuned,into Stormin' Norman this week, 14\
tuned into the Marion Bralldo testimony at his son's murder trial. Suchacting you have never seen. Following Brando, they did an in-depth story
on Bob Mackie and his glamrags forgirls. Backed with the predictable
Madonna soundtrack, Bob waxed on
disparagingly about young starlets
like Julia Roberts, who prefer aspare, "arty" black dress to one of his
glitzy gowns.
•
It's the fag channel-'J.ll the time.
Actually, it's quite a queer town,
from West Hollywood to Burbank's
executive offices. The universal
response to an upcoming Advocate
story on homophobia in Hollywood is"are there any straight people in themovie business at all?" David Geffengave them some great quotes for thestory, but they got one of those callsfrom his lawyers and couldn't use
some of them. T,,There are critical moments
in ones life meeting someone,or reading a book that changes
your life (as if this were possible),or a sudden realization which
reveals the trne nature of something to you. James Joyce called
these moments epiphanier-andvery often these moments arecaused by a particular person--in Ltzs case, her mother.
The occasion of her last phone
can galX!cause for a rather disturbing, yet sman, epiphan~r
an epiphanette, if you will.

Liz: You fool, if he is such amasochist then he was probably
happy to lose.
Sydney: OK, so I'm naive, but
I certainly didn't ask Sal Piro2 toeilter the competition and take off
his little Dr. Frankenfurter outfit.
Liz: I liked Shampoo3. There's
a nice, wholesome club.
Sydney: Wholesome? The
whole thing is like Pee Wee~
Playhouse on Add. You don't pack a
bag for that kind of trip. I probably
shouldn't admit this, but my ideaof a good time is sitting on theswing lip-synching"Gypsies,
LIZ: Sydney, I have toTramps and Thieves."
quit the column. My mother just
liz: Yeah, but the problem
started eying when she read thewith the club is simply that thepart about Madonna ma5turbatrooms are small and intimate
ing. She's afraid my grandmothenough that if you get there before
er will read it-since
we'reanyone else, no one will come innational. My aunt will buy it andwhile you're in there. And thenleave it on a table just to get me
you get mad when somebody
in trouble. I can't write this colcomes in and breaks the living
umn, I can't live this life...
room ambience you've created. Or
else they just think you're hosting a
SYDNEY: What? You told me'your mother used to party and start hitting you up for drink tickets.
make breakfast for your overnight tricks, the ones you brought
Sydney: I wish I was hosting the party. Then I could haveto your house, anyway. I don't see how she could be upset
walked through the door and into the library. Instead, I had toabout Madonna masturbating and besides, I would think that if go all the way down and into the main club through all those
Madonna can hold her head high at family reunions, then you
hairsprayed big-hair types to get to Chauncey and Mykul
have little to be afraid of. Let's face it: You haven't grabbed yourTronn's p~that was just in the next room.
"crotch on national 1V lately, have you? Surely we can think of
Liz: Oh, poor baby. I thought you liked those big-hairsomething other than Madonna to talk about. I'm getting reallytypes, Sydney.
tired of her.
Sydney: Anyway...at least you know they're girls. The real
Liz: The breakfast thing was a privateseal)' part is that everyone was talking aboutfamily matter. I wasn't writing about myhow obnoxious that security guard was. In
loose morals for everyone and their highfact, it was all anyone could talk about. I
school English teacher to read about then.
mean, he's a total star now and for what?
She just made me realize that we spend
Being .a nightmare.
•.our nights watching people whip each
liz: How novel. But that's how people
other, and themselves, to house music andbecome "celebrities" on the club scene themore people you annoy, the more theycall it entertainment.
remember you. Some people actually coast for
Sydney: Oh god, you mean the go-go
years on the skills they have developed forboy at Morel? He's the new club star. After •annoying peOple. You should actually last forthat bare-bottomed club kid spank~ him
during the Hunt Man competition, all anyever then.
,Sydney: I'm not annoying, I'm just misunone can talk about is how much he likes toderstood. Besides, there are many more
be whipped. And to think I voted for him
out of pity ...
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food lies in a serving tray,;
untouched, growing cold. People seem to favor the friedchicken wings, tearing into themwith gusto and wiping theirgreasy fingers on paper napkins, .
the closest thing to protective
cbvering that anybody has.
Welcome to a social event:'by Males Au Naturale (MAN),: the gay-male-nudist group:
It is a chilly Saturday
crvening on Christopher Street.
The moon seems frozen in theclear, black sky. People rushfrom the streets to escape thecold. In this second-story space,~Jhe only hint of winter weather
is a breeze that occasionallyslips in at floor-level. There arevariations on nudism here. Most
. are birthday-suit purists. Someadorn themselves with nipple
rings or cockrings. Others, more
pragmatic, w:ear white socks
against the cool wooden floors.
The only de rigueur garment this evening is a white nametag,! suspended
on a pink ribbon around the neck. Measuring two,.
, inches-by-four-inches, it offers little in the way of protection forthe skittish. But it provides a delicious charade. By straining toread the nametag of your neighbor, you take in a generous
view of his penis. Of course, most organs are flaccid. Some. men tug furtively at their sluggish members, in order to COOJ{ a.. more impressive dangle.
The truth is oppressively evident: We are guilty of being victims of a prudish society. The men of MAN gather, in the wordsof co-founder Murray, "to puncture some myths ....Everyone
thinks thin nudism equals lust equals sex," he says, his florid
complexion growing redder with agitation. "The misconception, is that everything that is done in the nude is sexual." As theroom fills with people, and the dlattering reaches a crescendo,
the initial thrill of comparing tallywhackers and muscle tone
pales. Even in the buff, talking about the weather becomes standard party conversation.
To join MAN's roster of 200 members is
relatively easy if you've gotten over the dress

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code. A steeringcommittee
approves referrals. Annual membership is $25. Special events
range from nude wrestlingdemonstrations
to last month's
Leather and Feathers costume
party. For the Christmas party,
gifts are donatedto Bailey
House, the Manhattan home for
PWAs. Organization rules are few
and simple. Excessive alcoholand drug use are forbidden. Sexual activity is also not tolerated.
Murray intones, "You more orless keep it cool. If you wannashake hands or hug, you ClIl do
that'. But don't start grabbing
someone's cock." Official policy 1;1
aside, one member confided,:g;summer events in the country ~often end with several people iij
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their clothes, people are shom of social class, occUpational trappings and the typical frosty barroom personae. The faces andbodies range, for the most part, from average to pleasing. Rick,
30, a regal Rastafarian with large dreadlocks, explains: "Whenpeople remove their clothing, you ClIl't judge any trappings thatwould put them in one little comer. You're gonna have to starttaking on everybody for just what they are, totally raw, Then you
find out if there's a level of substance you're interested in socially'or not. It's a good equalizer."AI, an elegant silver-haired man, resembles Picasso's Don
Quixote. A Cuban native, 67, he has visited naturist groups allover the country. He suggests that the lack of clothing is thedismissal of one final barrier between people. "Clothes makethe man, and we don't have any clothes, so you can get to[their personality] quicker." John, a short, boyish clone, is anaccountant from New Jersey and a naturist for six years. As an
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by Karl Soehnlein"It's a miracle a film like this evergot made in the first place," says director Jennie Livingston about her film,
Paris Is Burning, a documentary aboutthe House Balls at the center of much of
New York City's Black gay subculture .
•In.addition to being a first-time filmmaker who had to raise a couple hundred
thousand dollars, she had to surmountthe challenges of capturing, in a fair andnon-exploitative fashion, a world shecame to as an outsider.
Livingston discovered the Ballworld by chance, stumbling upon some
Voguers in Washington Square Park in. the summer of 1985. With their permission, she filmed them, conducted a few
interviews about what they were doing
and put it all together as an NYU Film
School project. However, she realizedthat the subject called for a much larger
exploration. She began ,going to Balls
that year, talking to participants and•

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filming them vogueing on the floor andtalking in their homes. 'The next winter,she edited a five-minute trailer whichbecame her vehicle to raise funds for afeature film.
Through a series of government
and foundation
grants, some bigmoney from WNYC and the BBC, aswell as smaller contributions fromfamily and friends, the film was funded. Having completed it last year, Livingston is finally reaping the rewards.
The Los Angeles Film Critics named
Paris Is Burning the best documentaryof 1990, and she took home top honors in the documentary category lastmonth at the prestigious SundanceFilm Festival. This week, it opens for
its first theatrical run at Film Forum.

Karl Soehnlein: You got into thisas someone who's not part of the culture. How did you build up the kind oftrust where people are so open to talk.ing about their personal experiences?
Jennie Livingston: First of all, I
went in as a photographer, and that wasappreciated because it's clearly a culturethat is about performance and being
given credit. These are people with starquality who aren't treated like stars. The
popping flashbulb is the ultimate entree
in a way. Then I was just there somuch. When you spend hours sitting inpeople's houses and taking them out tomeals and being at the balls you gain
credibility. You're not just there for thequick interview. I also targeted people
who were articulate, who had stuff theywanted to say and were very happy thatanyone wanted to listen.
KS: But didn't the fact that you're a<"white lesbian going into a world ofBlack queens and street kids make thatdifficult?
,
JL: If you know someone over a
period of two years, and they still
remain their sex and their race, you've
got to be a pretty sexist, racist person. I
ceased to be "that white girl" andbecame "Miss Jennie." I certainly cameof age as a gay person making this film.
I don't think I felt particularly gay orparticularly politicized when I started
doing this film. Making the film reallyhelped my process of coming to tenns
with who I am. It's been a great gift.
KS: What is the reaction to the film·
from people who are in it?
JL: When Ball people watch the

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film, you can hardly even hear it overmany aspects of the Ball life I wish I
people commenting on it. It's a bit like
could have left in. Jonathan [Oppenhome movies: "Look at Miss Octavia!"heim, Livingston's editor! and I were
Pepper [mother of the blouse of Labeijal
constantly joking about the mini-series
showed the film at her Ball. The feedwe could make with the outtakes.
back'I have gotten is that people really
KS: What was your experience at
liked it.
the Sundance Festival?
. ,KS: With Madonna's Vogue and In'JL: It was up and down, being in a
Living Colors "Men on ..." characters, it's
place with industry people who are talkclear that a crossover is happening,
ing about big money but treating you notwhere this culture is being repackaged
very nicely because you're a female filmfor the outside world. What do the peamaker. A man can come in with a fivepie in your fUmthink about all that?
minute film he's made that someone
JL: The reaction is mixed. People'. thinks is hot, and everyone's like ''Yeah
like Madcinna's video and are happy
son, let's get you a job," and a womanthat it's she who brought it to public ,comes in with a feature, and at eyeryattention. Some people have gotten
level they're finding excuses not to givejobs. Jose Extravaganza danced inher money. On the other hand, it was
Vogue and in Madonna's latest video.
also a place where I could talk to more
Willi Ninja is choreographing and dancwomen filmmakers than I had in my life.
ing allover the world. The Balls themI can't stress enough how valuable it wasselves have come downtown, and that's
to meet other filmmakers who've gone
likely how Madonna discovered it,
through the same struggles. It felt like a'cause I never saw Madonna in Harlem.
real rite of passage.
KS: The press coverage completely
A broader audience comes, people cancharge more money, people make moremarginalized your film. You split themoney, and that's only good. You canjury prize with Barbara Kopple's Ameristill walk a Ball, you still belong to acan Dream, which was described very
House, and maybe there's the hope that
admirably by The New York Times as aso~eone will see yo~. I'm sure there
filf!l "about labor struggles," whereas
are some people who resent it; MadonParis Is Burning was described as
na's making a lot more money on"highly wrought drag queens at theirvogueing than any of them ever did.
sewing machines."
KS: Are there lesbians
JL: And the only person at
in "the Ball world? They'rea sewing machine is not a dragnot shown in your film.
queen! Paris is about racism,
JL: There defmitely are,gender, American greed in the
but the women really are'80s. The reviewers just showed
peripheral. There were sono respect.. ..The coverage inMarch20, ~_~ou ••Ii7EEK 55

•The NYTImesand LA TImesis unabashedly.homophobic ..
KS: Do you think there's more ofthat ahead, the marginalization?
JL: I hope not. Tons of people whoare straight have seen the ftIm and have
liked it. The films I'm working on now
aren't gay films-not
like I'll nevermake a gay film again, but just because
the particular stories I'm obsessed withare not. But they very much have a gay
sensibility, in'spired by Fassbinder or
Waters. There are four projects, andwhichever one gets off the ground fll'St
will be the one I do ...
KS: In the context of this interview,is there anything you'd say to the gay
and lesbian community?
.
. JL: I just hope that People who arein a position of power to support gay
fimmakers and to support films about
gay subjects are more supportive. In
funding Paris, I felt very angered bysome of the restrictions that the gay
community places on people who represent it, like from the Chicago Resource
Center '[a gay and lesbian foundation!'
What hurt me was not so much thatthey didn't fund the fllm--because you
can never assume you'll be funded byanyone [but) I believe that they didn'tlike the idea of supporting a fllm about
gay people that were Black dragqueens. Some mainstream gay people

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by Joe Clark
Consume, consume, consume.
Isn't everything a commodity nowadays
even music? And what better
place to advertise these canned goods
than on television? That, I guess, is
why we have music videos. But even if
they're no more than brazen commercials for the latest trend in pre-digested
sound, music videos still merit scrutiny,
if for nothing other than their imagery's
sheer power.
New Kids on the Block, Games'(Paris Barclay and Lynn Goldsmith,directors): Don't sell these guys short.
With their earlier single "The Right Stuff,"
NKOTB showed that they actually arecapable of creating a recherche pop
tune that doesn't insult their intelligenceor ours. "Games" and its video are acrash course in hiphop----Qnd that may
be just what the quintet's shrieking
teenage audience needs. Donnie "DeepDown-l'm-Actua11y-Black"
Wahlberg,
opens the vid in a Malcolm X jacket
and gold chains (ahhh, nostalgia) thenraps about positivity. Lyrics are punctuated by a host of sung~and-sampled keywords(no sellout, word, sucker,
and that Flavor fave,
boyee) that lived fast anddied hard in the brief

history of rap. Thus brought up to date,formerly clueless Blockheads can start
listening to real rap.
LL Cool J, Around the Way Girl
(Paris Barclay, director): If this guy had
talent to match his looks, there wouldn't
be room in the public consciousness for
an MC Hammer, and think of how better
off we'd be then. It's a shame U's video
imagery has leaned consistently toward
the sexist and exploitative, a trend thistepid single can only prolong. The
meta-story line is LL's search for an"around the way girl" for his video. But
his handlers don't bring him what hewants: "All you give me is stuck-up
tuna," complains
the man whose
acronyms mean ladies Love Cool James.
Hmm. If they're so stuck up, U, why somany chest-level closeups of dancing
babes? Why the roving-camera shots of"chicks" sucking lollipops? And if you're
such a natural stud, LL, why do you
need to dance with your shirt off so
much? You may be attracting a crowdthat you can't handle-guys,that is.
"Stuck-up tuna," indeed.
George Michael,
Freedom '90 (David,
Fincher,
director):
George becomes kingand queen of the hill
for this ,concentrated.
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1.1"1 Don't Want to Lose Your Love" by The Emotions.2.! "Where Has Love Gone" (GTO Remix) by Holly dohnson
3. "Situation" (RemiX) by Yazoo
4. "Boogie on Reggae Woman" by Stevie Wonder
5. "Bow Down Mister"f"Love's Gonna Let You Down" by•

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6. "Back in Love Again" by LTD

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gems of detail you'll fmd in the series.
before our very eyes for lack of Itchymasses. Let's give him a round of
Two guys dance together here, you'll
and Scratchy T-shirts, those lovers or batapplause, first of all, for staying out of hisnote, and one of them likes it. A dog
terers or both blow each other up in acameo. Fun for the whole family-justvideos, which I hope will pound anotherruns by, its yelps calling bart!bart!bart!
don't buy the album ....
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as it retreats. While civilization crumbles
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their songs on camera. Instead, startlingly
beautiful women do the lip-synching forhim. The women largely sing alone, but
all sing the same tune, an alleg~
ofqueer existence if ever I saw one. And
despite appearances, the two Jrfmen.......
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their own, not each other's, distin8l\ishing this as the first video to feature safer
blood-sister rituals. (Welcome to )the'90s.) Meanwhile, a stud in a leatheriack•et, a long-haired boy in a tank top and alargely naked man swinging from gravity
boots add up to more than a few raised
eybrows in the Land of the Fag. If that
weren't dreamy enough, the word "ass"is embodied by a boy in boxer shorts.
Ooooh.
The Simpsons, Do' the Bartman(Matt Groening, director): Much less horrible than you may think, this video CO(1tains surprisingly good musicianship andthe same concentration of sly, surreal .;PlAYiN'THEIR GAME-New Kids on the Block,-.-, ,', -," -, -.'.-,--'-'-';-:.

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The Provincetown Playhouse. 133 MacDougal Street. (212) 477-5048.
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by Michael Paller
Mort is one of the few gay<;haracters in recent plays who is dying,•
but not of AIDS. He has bone cancer. It"upsets
him that, nevertheless, people•
will assume he has AIDS. "Gay plus
any illness," he says with some annoyance, "equals AIDS." This may be true,•
but one wonders why, in his situation,
he's so disturbed that people might
think he has AIDS rather than bone
cancer. As if to prove his point, evenMort's father believes his son died of
AIDS and skips the funeral. "Whatdoes it matter what he died ot?" Mort's
friends angrily ask. "His son died. Isn't
that the point?"
In a perfect world, it wouldn't
matter what disease kills us. In thisone, however, where a person withAIDS is treated rather differently than
one with bone cancer (not to mention

insured differently, if at all), it mattersa great deal. For starters, parents ofbone cancer victims come to the funeral, don't mind knowing the friends andprobably don't dispute wills. And then,of course, there is the range of ingenious horrors society inflicts on PWAs
while they're still alive .
However, one assumes that in his
new musical, An Unfinished Song,James J. Mellon, who wrote the book,music and lyrics, wants to concentrate
not on dying, but on grieving, growing-andliving. The point, after all,should be not merely that Mort died,but that Mort lived.
Mort (Ken Land)is' a free-spiritedcomposer who loves
life and encourages. his friends to explore it ever more•fearlessly. He speaks in aphorisms. The
smell of the night air, he says, "is pregnant with tomorrow." Upon presenting a
musical gift to Worth (Aloysius GigO, theconservative law student who becomes
his lover, Mort says, "For tomorrow, So
you 'never forget today."He and tlWorth come to New York
from .New Hampshire,
along with
Mort's friend Beth (Beth LeaveO. Bethloves Mort-but
learns to accept hi,Sbeing gay, Completing the circle offriends are Brad, an actor (Robert lambert), and his ditzy girlfriend, Debbie(Joanna Glushak). Why she must be. ditzy is another good question-apparentiy for comic relief.
Worth has a severe case of c1oset. itis. Beth is his date at all his law firm'sfunctions. Eventually, he accepts a transfer to Chicago; Mort remains in New
York. When Mort is diagnosed with cancer, he refuses to tellWorth. The ever-faithful Beth cares for him,
informing Worth only
after Mort dies. The
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the beach where the lovers met, torecall Mort and scatter his ashes ap-d
move on.
The performers are energetic,bright-eyed and eager to please.
They all acquit themselves as wellas the material allows; the reality
they represent is, however, of a very
narrow scope. Mellon employs themost conventional musical comedy
forms to shape his material. The

adds pace aod an uncluttered look to
whatever real feeling can be found in
the script.
Most of the smart lines belong toBeth. Besides having the best dialogue,
Leavel's engaging, dominating presence makes her the evening's mostmemorable performer. Indeed, thewomen generally have the better material-perhaps
because the very safe
form of An Unfinished Song is moresuitable for comic relief than for thetain and distill even a part of the emotional ravages unleashed by this epidemic.
It should be stated, however, thatthe opening-night audience seemedvery moved and appreciative for the
chance to grieve for their own losses.
Is providing such an opportunity,
even in a rather shopworn form, a
bad thing? Gathering an audience topublically share a painful experience,and to help purge its pain, is one of•\.. IS smart In. the wayJ
sCnpt
that snappy television sitcoms are smart; and,just as those shows do, Mellon's
script also includes a large , dose of
sentimentality.
(His portrayal ofWorth; however, contains an interesting twist. In order to make the trip
to scatter Mort's ashes, he has told
his bosses he is atteQding a wedding. He is not changed at all by
Mort's death.) Mellon is abetted iii
this by Simon Levy's direction, which
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exploration of authentic feeling.
Mellon's purpose-giving comfort
and meaning to events which seem
meaningless-is
important. But theform he has chosen sacrifices too
many of the ineffable qualities that
lend such a fate whatever significanceit may possess. His meanings are
more banal than authentic, less truly
moving than simply familiar, Perhaps
some form other than a conventionalmusical is required to effectively con-the theater's great purposes (and one'reason why a gay theater needs toexist now in New York). On the other
hand, to claim that it doesn't matter
what one dies of, and then to
exploit-however
gently or unintentionally-:-t:he grief of men and women
who have lost friends and lovers' to
AIDS, seems to be having it bothways. While others in the audience
were greatly moved, this musical, gave
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eas"AIDS IN AMERICA," Long Shot (vol. 10). Edited by Danny Shotand Mary Shanley. Long Shot Productions, Inc. $7.50 pb. 94 pp.
by David Trinidad"AIDS in America," a special issueof Long Shot magazine, adds a numberof valuable writings to the constantly
expanding body of AIDS literature. Coeditors Danny Shot and Mary Shanley
have put together an effective collection of poems, essays, stories and lyrics(including
Lou Reed's "Halloween
Parade") dealing with the devastating
impact that AIDS has had, and continues to have, on all of our lives. The
issue also contains paintings and photos by such artists as Lisa Genet, DavidJohnson and Denis O'Sullivan. There's
anger in these pieces, of course, andsadness, and sometimes joy (albeit thejoy of relief after much suffering).
What's lacking, primarily, is a senseof hope, which selVes to remind us that
there's not very much to hope for, especially now, in the midst of a needlesswar. A feeling of helplessness, of finality, permeates
this issue-emotions
expressed in a dark, dead-end alley. Yet'the need to express these powerfulemotions becomes a kind of hope, inand of itself. As Jim Fouratt writes in his
introduction, "You can, like I attempt todo, release your grief and anger by
putting your creativity into the fight forlife against the homophobia, racism andsexism that keeps the government playing ,politics with the health of each andevery one of us."
. Shortly before
his death last<'December, Tim Dlugos contributed oneof his poems, "Parachute," to Shot andShanley's project. "Parachute" shines
here; it is a direct, impeccably craftedstatement of a person with AIDS' concerns and fears. Jane DeLynn, in her
obituary of Dlugos (OutWeek no. 79-80,
Jan. 9, 1991), points out that "before
Tim's sickness he was a good poet, but
it may have been AIDS that made him
a great one." This greatness is evident
in "Parachute," which begins with anamazing depiction of AIDS as "an insatiable and prowling beast/with razor
teeth and a persistent/stink that sticks
to every/living
branch or flower/its
rank fur brushes/as it stalks its prey."
The poem ends on an equally amazing

note, conveying, in just a few expert
lines, Di4g0s''progression
from hope to. .
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sUlVivor'$ guilt to a brave, unflinching
acceptan~e of the inevitable.
Though none is as stunning as"Parachute," there are other impressive
poems in the magazine and, as one
might expect, many of them are elegies. Denise Duhamel's "Beauties Who
Live Only for· an Afternoon" is a fan's
tribute to actress/writer Cookie Mueller:"You read your stories in the dankness/of the Lower East Side's ABC No
Rio/ and I talked about you for weeks."
Mary Shanley's"for j.j. mitchell"
paints a more intimate picture of thepain of loss:,

days before he died i was trying
to comfort him with inspirational
wo,rds abQut how it helps to try
and accept the things we can't change.
"BULISHIT;' he barked ...

IDON'T ACCEPT TIllS.
WEYSHOULDIAC~THBn
i'm sorry i said that jj.
i don't accept it either...

In "Richard," an elegy to a co-worker,
Ronna Levy captures the initial shock of
encountering the disease, a memol)' that

I called him in]uly. He didn't know
who I was,couldn't fmish a sentence, slurred
his words, apologized.
It was 1985. I didn't understand AIDS,
how you got it, what it did.

In "Elegy for the Old Stud," DavidWest envisions "mostly dead" friends
moving like ghosts through a nowstraight, now-hip San Francisco bar.
West's poem haunts in more ways than
one whichone: Ari entire lifestyle
was based on compulsiveness,
perhaps, or naivete-trails
behind many
like a lost soul crying for eternal rest.
Overall, the quality of the poems in"AIDS in America" is uneven, yet all ofthem, due to the subject matter, aremoving. Even the seven poems by Raymond Roy LaRose, a cycle chronicling
the death of a beloved friend, which
may seem weak individually, have acumulative and, ultimately, stining effect.
Kevin Hayes' high-pressured"Dream
Boy Dream", Richard Treitner's "Lament",
Joseph Hargraves' Ginsberg-like litany
and Michael Klein's "After the Disease
Concept" are all fme poems. Among theprose pieces, Stuart Timmons' memoir ofa friend's funeral is particularly memorable. The editors are to be commended
for compiling this collection. It affirmsthat many of us are giving a voice to,. and trying to make sense of, our pain.
. Reason enough for hope ofsorts:'"

POSSESSION: A ROMANCE by A. S. Byatt. Random House. $22.95
d. 555 pp.
by Anne RubensteinTheenthusiastic
reviews
forPossession from mainstream papers like
Tbe New York Times,made the novel
sound homophobic. Critics saw Possession as a snide commental)' on academic dykes, in particular, and they loved it.
What a relief to discover that the Times
was wrong again. Yes, Possession is afine novel. No, Possession is not a fictionalized repudiation of
the last 20 years of lesbian-feminist scholarship.
Quite the' reverse. It is,on one of its many levels,a lesbian-feminist schol-ar's wish-fulftllment fantasy.
Possession tells two tales. It begins
with a literal)' detective stol)', in which
two British scholars help each other figure out the precise nature of a relationship between two 19th-century poets.
They begin as reluctant partners eachstudies one of the poets-andend aslovers. Meanwhile, their colleagues(including an American lesbian) aid orhinder their work,
motivated variously
by national
pride,
feminist solidarity,
academic jealousy,scholarly curiosity,

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SUPER·
STAR! ... Don't walk. Run, skip, mince orascend fabulously from the L train stopon First Avenue, but get your heinie tothe newly renovated Village East Cinemas on Second Avenue and East Twelfth
Street for a viewing of Superstar: The Lifeand Times of Andy Warhol. Chuck Workman's masterful paean to the man "whomade fame more famous" presents Warhol faithfuls likeFran Lebowitz, TJltra Violet, Dennis Hopper, Sylvia "wewere the beautiful people" Miles, Bobby Short ami Viva,
having their own 15 minutes all over again. At times hilariously funny and shockingly grim (Gerard Malanga's
recitation of the cause of death of half a dozen of his Factorymates comes to mind) the film is in the end a fine
tribute to Warhol's undeniable, if resisted, influence on Art
with a capital A.
Playing on a double bill with Workman's award-win-

That revievvers
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. ning short tribute to the movies, Superstar'is a must see. (And sneak upstairs to see
the stunning restoration job in the main
theater.)

HOLLYWOOD AREA, SUNNY,CELLULOIDSCREEN, LOTS OF
CLOSET SPACE ... We are very, very
confused by the ad we saw in this morning's Times. It advertises a film entitled Closet Land. In
copy superi!Jlposed over very mellifluous graphics, weread: "It could be about helplessness. It's about power. It
CQuid be about imprisonment. It's about freedom. It could
be about them. It could also be about you." Then again, it
could be a somebody's idea of a sick joke. The film, while"it deals with artistic freedom, political intolerance andabuse" (so say the press materials), ain't about the closet
you and I know.
-compiledby Andrew MiUer, Sarah Pettit

kindness and greed. Byatt, a respectable
literary theorist, understands the weird
blend of emotion~ that intersect to produce dry, academic fact, and portrays it
as well as Dorothy Sayers, Umberto
Eco, or Randell Jarrell
did. But she
also gives us a seconp story, the story
hidden at the heart of the 2Oth-century
detective work.
Through their love letters, theirpoetry and the letters and diaries of
their friends we track the unfolding
affair of Randolph Henry Ash, a
Robert Browning type, and Christabel
LaMotte, who is much more Christina
Rossetti than Elizabeth Barrett Browning. This story requires Byatt toinvent the voices of various imaginaryeminent Victorians. In an inspired bitof literary ventriloquism, she gives us
the poetry and prose, public and private, of Ash and LaMotte. (Byatt's
best joke is to invent a biography of
Ash called The Great Ventriloquist, a
title that suits Robert Browning andByatt equally.) But Byatt also imagines the diary of Mrs, Ash, a perfect
Victorian Angel of the House in all
her maddening omissions, as well asa precisely typical memoir of a London spiritualist and the journal of a
French teenager (who will grow up to
be a novelist herselO with a crush on
her cousin, LaMotte. LaMotte's firstlover, a painter named Blanche
Glover, gets her say as well, in lettersever

and a diary.
Byatt well knows the limits ofwhat such documents can tell us after
a century. Women's lack of words todescribe their sexual feelings andbehavior, our ignorance of what people meant when they wrote words
which were perfectly clear to them,
the pointlessnessof writing down
what "everyone knew" then, reticences, falsehoods and' the· tefldency
of unimportant pieces of paper to disappear over time: These· mark theedges of what we know for sure
about the past, especially the lesbian
past. The improbable way that PossessionS long-hidden letters, diaries andfortuitous relics reappear just as they
are needed
even in chronologicalorder!-hints at Byatt's construction ofa scholar's daydream, the fantasy thateverything could be known. As shesays, "There are things that happen•
and leave no discernible trace, are notspoken or written of, though it would
be very wrong to say that subsequent
events go on indifferently,
all thesame, as though such things had
never been." Byatt goes on to demonstrate that fiction satisfies us better
than fact could, by writing three chapters which straightforwardly tell the"truth" of crucial passages in the 19thcentury story, So, unlike any story that
real historians have been able to tell,Possession imagines crucial details of•

19th-century lesbian lives.
A,S. Byatt has written a generous
story, one which carefully does nothighlight the two heterosexual couples at its double-center by ridiculingthe othercharacters.
Instead,Byatt-in the great tradition of 19thcentury novelists-sets these couples
among other characters, gay andstraight, to whom they have serious
and conflicting responsibilities. That
reviewers managed to read the novel's
lesbians as ridiculous only shows how
badly their homophobia interfereswith their critical abilities. Byatt plays
games with readers' prejudices: First
we hear of Lenora Stern, the American
lesbian character, as a potential danger to the investigation, then we readthe cloyingly sentimental note Stern
has left on LaMotte's grave, so we areprimed to dislike her. When she fmalIy appears on the scene, though, herdevotion to truth, her sense of humor
and her capacity to forgive surpriseus. Best of all, her love of womenmakes her a better scholar, because
Byatt sees feminism as a serious critical practice.
Furthermore, because we glimpse
Blanche Glover only at her worst
moments, as Ash is breaking up her•
happy home with LaMotte, we missthe depth of the women's bond. It isonly in the last pages, when we read a
letter LaMotte sent to Ash at the end of
their lives, that we realize that much as
LaMotte pined for Ash all her life, shealso yearned for Glover. (The new information makes us reread LaMotte's
poems in earlier chapters, just as the
20th-century
scholars have had to reread,them.) The novelist forces us to face our
expectation-formedby reading too
many romantic novels that LaMotte's
heterosexual affair was the "serious"
one, and our tendency to forget the cJ.is..
carded lesbian relationship in the rush
to find out what happened next.
'
In describing the lesbian-positive
aspects of Possession, I have neglected
its other virtues. If you have ever wbn- .
dered how academics can bear tospend so much time in libraries, this,novel answers the question. If you
need a quick review of post-poststructuralist literary theory, it's here.
Possession is troubling funny, anddeeply pleasurable. With any luck, it
will be out in paperback just in time
for beach reading.'"

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I could ,see through my lover
each. night
until I poured beer into me...
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and I drank his drunkenness in.
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I used to be like you.
I used to be like you, could see
through the beer on the kitchen table••because I was on an earlier beer
trying to break the linethat connected
and its waves.

me to you, or earth

There used to be a ritual life had
when I used to be like youof never moving into me
and all I could imagine was bemoaning

life

or the crime-line of chalkaround the ravaged bodyso that what tried to leave
the wound through a gun or a knife
would stay in. And when I used
to be like you
I couldn't think. The drone
I thought was thinking clickedto the next empty barrel and never flew until I
stopped being like you
and became someone the risk, the stopped drink,saved.
All I can tell you is what comes back.
The waves!'T-billowed by their dream of wave!'T-S
come back.
•Michael Klein Is a current fellow at the Fine
Arts Work Center In Provincetown and theeditor of Poets For Life: ,Seventy-Six Poets
Respond to AIDS (Crown, 1989), which won
the 1990 Lambda Book Award in Poetry.T
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There are also people in the straightminority community, like this Latino guy
who said, 'Why do you want to make us
look so bad?' And 1 said, 'I don't thinkthat showing that gay people exist in the
cOIllID,unityis making you look bad, andI don't think that by enforcing homophobia in a minority community you'regoing to stave off racism,' 1 don't want ,tobe at odds; 1 want us to be a coalition.
KS: In terms of the gay community;
it seems more time is spent yelling at
straight filmmakers who are making
homophobic films than in putting ourenergy toward those in our community
who are making their own ftlms.
JL: 1 also feel, like: Leave people
alone who are in the closet, and letthem do their work, because they may
decide to come out. Why trash Jodie.Foster? It would be great if she cameout, but 1 don't want to expend myenergy worrying about people who areout and people who are in, because I
just don't think you're ever going to dragthose people out.
If you look at a lot of women perfonners who are in the closet, they haveit much harder than men. It's harder forme to be open than for Gus Van Sant
[Drugstore Cowboy and Mala Nochel
because, frankly, it's harder for me to bea director than .for him. This friend told
me she had a meeting with Brian De· Palma, and he told her, 'Male directors
get three films, women directors get
one,' So 1 can understand somebody like
Jodie or whomever, they already havethese strikes against them. I'm not willing t.o say, 'Give up your career for thesake of a political agenda.' That is a
decision I don't want to make for someone else's life. 1 don't think you should
never express frustration about it, but I
think it's more appropriate to express
frustration at the system.
KS: I have a lot of problems with· the hypocrisy of it. Jodie Foster has it a
lot better than most people I know,even someone like yourself who is taking much greater risks.
)L:.But/on the other hand, I'm in a•different position because I don't think
there's a kovie 1 want to make that fits
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I can't do them, then I don't want tomake movies at all; then you're freer,because you don't have to conform to asystem that never wanted your vision in
the first place. That's the big hope wehave for the future of queer film.'"
Paris Is Burning opens March 13 at
New York:S Film Forum and in cities
nationwide in April.

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with "AIDS Kills Fags Dead." Madonna's
assumed more than her share of responsiblity in the AIDS crisis, a crisis that's
divided the entertainment world into
moralists (Ax! Rose), self-aggrandizers(Dionne Watwick), people who'd like tohelp but feel it wouldn't be good for the
career (fill in the blank) and a handful ofoutspoken leaders. Madonna has a personal stake in the crisis; her old New
York roommate Martin Burgoyne died of
AIDS (and she quietly assumed a lot of
his expenses), and so did her danceteacher and mentor Christopher Flynn,
prompting the tabs to report, "Madonna
Heartbroken as Her • First Love Dies of
AIDS." Propelled by these losses (andKeith Haring's), she determined to makeit in vogue to fight an otherwise unpopular, unfabulous battle. Recently, she told
the BBC, "I have such a youthful following and a very large gay following thatsince 1 have that ear, it's very importantfor me to be a spokesperson."And for someone who clawed her
way to the top half-naked and made acareer eking glamour out of cold, grasping greed, she's been very generous.
While the organizers of one recent AIDS
drag ball complained that she withdrew
participation, it's hard to argue with what
she has done, and ridiculous to expe~
her to put her name on every charity
opportunity offered. To her credit, she
was the first star to put safer-sex information in her records, she's talked openly
against the church's AIDS policies and infavor of condoms and she's donated large
sums to AIDS charities, always keeping
the subject in the public eye despite thegovernment's attempts to render it invisible. Fortunately, as a role model and evocator of change, Madonna is right now
more powerful than the government.

One wants her, of course, to go farther-to break down even more boundaries
and help us to become more visible,
accepted, appreciated. We want to findchinks in her armor, pierce her steely determination and uncover larger parts ofwannth and vulnerability, in the same way
she longed for a pat on the back from her
father as a child. We want her to pull ushigher as she goes higher, make us as universally loved and talked about as herself.
But it's possible to expect too much from astar who, after all, doesn't just exist as aforum for our own political aspirations.
So this might be a good point at
which to stop analyzing and just enjoy theapplauSe. Beauty's where you find it ...

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The group's director, Derek Hodel,
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ADVANCE LISTINGSTHE NEW SCHOOL FOR SOCIALRESEARCH presents The State of
the City: A Gay and Lesbian
Perspective,
given in conjunction
with OufWeek magazine. "Gay men
and lesbians are vital participantsin the life of New York City," !!ays
the class description. "Despite this,many believe that the popular
media and mainstream arts communities either fail to represent or
actually misrepresent gay and lesbian concerns." Given in three sessions which focus on the arts, themedia and politics, respectively, theclasses will be led by Arts Editor
Sarah Pettit,
Features
EditorMichelangelo Signorile and News
Editor Andrew Miller. $15 for thecourse, $8 for a single session. The
first session is April 25. For more
info, contact the New School at(212) 741-5600 ..

Send announcements

25th St., 7th floor, New York, NY 10001. Next
deadline: Monday, March 11, for iSsue #91,
which hits the stands on Monday, March 17.

THE NEW SCHOOL FOR SOCIALRESEARCH
presents Gay andLesbianWriting:
From WorldWar II to Stonewall.
Instructor:
Joseph Cady. "The years afterWorld War II witnessed a significant. body of gay and lesbian literaturethat has tended to become overshadowed by the more open homosexual expressionof the postStonewall years of the '70s and'80s. But the relative burst in gay
and lesbian writing from the mid1940s through the 1960s contributed to the chan'ge in cultural
atmosphere that helped make possible the contemporary
gay andlesbian liberation movement and isan integral part of the backgroundof the present gay and lesbian situation. Among the authors we may
consdier are: Tennessee Williams,
Carson McCullers, Allen Ginsberg,
Sylvia Townsend Warner, James
Baldwin and Janet Flanner: The
six sessions begin on April 4. $130.
Info: Jim O'Connor
at the New
School at (212) 741-8778.

,-"For all of you who like to bend over and take It like aman" (they said that, not me), CELLBLOCK 28 helps·
the New York Strap and Paddle Association throw aparty. It's at the Cellblock. 28 Ninth Ave., between
13th and 14th streets. March 11. Doors open 8 pm.
(212) 733-3144.
Don't miss this: The PYRAMID presents Not Yet
Censored, a forty.woman, multimedia "forum on big
brOther, women and sex." 'the show was put together
by DARE, a newly forliie~ fou,...wornancollective. From
6-8 pm, it's open viewingof the Installed .pieces and.
videos, as well as the piercing and tattoo clinics. From
8-11 pm, live performances ara highlighted. AHer 11,
It's regular Cllt Club East action. $1 before 81$5 aHer.
The Pyramid. 101 Ave. A, between 6th and 7th streets.
March 12 from 6-11 pm. Info: (212) 807·8050.
Three great performers
that go great together:
COOPER UNION presents .Jessica Hagedom, Holly
Hughes and Karin Finley In Women Against AIDS, abenefit for the Women and AIDS Resource Network.
It's only 5 bucks and It's for a good cause, so go.
Cooper Union Great HaU. Marrch 12 at 8 pm. (212).353-4158.

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LIVELY ARTS

Also see the daily listings for showings of one or two days.

BAD

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presents'.

.Join the L~SBIAtf HERSTORYARCHIVESand the CEN·TER In c.·iebratlng
WO.men's History Mont .. with
Keepln' On: Images of Afrlcan.Amerlcan
Lesbians.
This photography exhibition Is wheelchair accessible,and can be seen at the Center daily from 4-6 pm. 208
W. 13th St. For more Info, contact the Archives at(212) 874·7232.
•',THE ANTI-VIOLENCEPROJECT
offers a Support
Group for gay
men and lesbians who are now or<' have been involved in abusive relationships. The 12-week groups,
which start in March, have professional leaders and are completely. Confidential. Info: (212) 807-0197.

N.EW YORK CITY GAY MEN'SCHORUS presents You're Gonna
Love Tomorrow,a Stephen
Sondheim revue. The revue features material spa.nning the lengthof Sondheim's
career. $20. The
Harold Clurman Theatre. 412 W.
42nd SI., between Ninth and Tenthavenues. March 6-8 and 13-15 at
8 pm, March 9 and 16 at 2 pm,
March 10 and 17 at 3 pm. TIckets:(212) 279-4200.

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In yet another exciting team-up, the PUBLISHING TRI.
ANGLE
presents
Queer
Moments
In Creat> Llterature-Craat
Moments in Queer Literature, a fund·raiser for the gay and lesbianlibrary
at theCommunity
Center. Featuring performancesby•

Madeleine Olnek's Three Storleli
High, a humorous play about theafterlife. Direcled by Deb Margolin.
The play tells the stories of those
Who were not able to "fully Inhabit"
their lives and are now forced torelive their experiences, detail by
excruciating detail., iri a grol!p situation. In particular, the play focuseson Francine, a young woman who
was never able to face her sexuality. $10. Feb. 21 through March 21.
Cooper Square Theatre. 50 E.
Seventh SI. Info: (212) 989-0788.
STAGE WORKS presents Bent, by
MartinShe.rman .. Directed byThomas D. Sentell.
With John
Blllylock,
Jerry
Ferris,Bob
Fucaloro, Paul Montagna, Chris
Quaranta and Hal Smith. $7 or
TDF. The Brownstone Gallery. 76
Seventh Ave. Brooklyn. Fridays andSaturdays at 8 pm through March
23. Reservations: (718) 636-8736.
PS 122 presents
Connecting
Lives, documents from the AIDS
crisis.
Photographs
by KarenCrumley, Tomas Gaspar,. ~tave
Hart, Tom McGovern, Jane Rosett,•Scott Thode and Charles Wemple.
Curated by Nan Goldin and Allen
Frame ..Opening Feb. 28 at 6 pm.
PS 122. 150 First Ave. Gallery
hours: Th-Su, 12- 6 pm. (212)228-4249. Through March 24.
JUDY'SRESTAURANTAND
CABARET
presents
Evan
Matthews, performing a blend of
popular tunes, jazz, blues and theater music. $8 coverl$10 minimum.
49 W. 44th SI. Wednesdays at 9
and 11 pm. Reservations:(212)
764-8930. March 6-27.
PS 122 presents Penny Arcade's
I,.a Mlserla ... The Misery, an emotionally charged look at growing up
Italian in America, which uses,
amont other things, nearly 40 minutes of a filmed ongoing argument
between Penny Arcade and her
immigrant mother. PS 122. 150
First Ave. Thursdays
through
Sundays at 9:30 pm. Reservations:(212) 477-5288. Through March 31.
MOSAIC BOOKS presents Prlnny
AlavI. The photographer'swork,mostly nudes, will be on display atthe bookstore. 167 Ave. B, at 10thStreet. 2-10 pm daily. (212) 4758623. Through April 6.
PS 122 presents Mabou Mines' The
Bribe, a poetic musical work inprogress which traces a day In thelife of Gill Clciut. Written by Terry
O'Reilly.
Directedby
Ruth
Maleczech. Music by John Zorn.
Performed by O'Reilly and BlackEyed Susan. $6. PS 122. 150 First
Ave. March 13, 20, 27 and April 24 at
8 pm. Reservations: (212) 4n-5288.
THE LESBIAN HERSTORY ARCHIVES and THE CENTER present Keepln'
On: ImagesofAfrican-American
Lesbians.
OpeningFeb. 28. Wheelchair

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•accessible. The Center. 208 W. 13th
. SI. Hours: daily, 4-6 pm. For more
info, contact the Archives at (212)874-7232 ..

. Olympia, Ivory, John Kelly, L1.a Kron, Quentin Crl.p,
Claire Mowed. Again, It'. Ju.t 5 buck •• The Limelight.
Sixth Avenue at 21.t Street.
March 13 at 7:30 pm.
Info: Michele
Karl.berg
at (212) 629·8140
or RobinHardy at (212) 254-4709.

55 GROVE STREET presents Cam
Brainard
and Bob Koherr's
Brlckface& Stucco, performers
who both appeared in Parting
Glances, their original comedy material includes two jocks who learn
they can vogue, retired Solid Gold
Dancers, Amish rappers who put the"men back in Mennonite," an early
Simon & Garlunkel, and the Rocky
Mountain Butt Boys who open at agay rodeo in West Hollywood; videos
serve as transitions between live
routines; at 55 Grove St (west of 7th
Ave South); $8 + 2-drink minimum;
FRI at 8 pm; 366-5438

CAVE CAN EM a.k., "Haven't You Alway. Been a Slave
to the Cave?· Here'. a chance-for
women only-to
pay obel.ance
to Cave Can em one la.t time.
DJ
Moaning L1.a. $5. Cave Canem. 24 FI... t Ave., between
1st and 2nd .treet •• March 14 at 8 pm.
CONTINENTAL
DIVIDE pre.ent.
The Scout.,
a queer·
led rock and roll band. Third Avenue
at St. Mark.
Place. March 14 at 10 pm. Info: (212) 929-6924.
Big men, express
yourselves!
It's the GIRTH AND
MIRTH CLUB'. always well.attended
Leather Men'.
Party, and It'. happening at The Center •.208 W. 13th St.
March 16. Call for copmplete details: (914) 699-7735.

AMERICAN PLACE THEATER presents I Stand Before You Naked by
Joyce Carol Oates, about ten
women dealing with life in today's
America; with Elizabeth
Alley,
Penny Templeton, Nancy Barrett,Annie McGreevey,
Marguerite•
Kuhn, Bronwen Booth; 111 W 46
St; $20; Wed-Sat at 8 pm, Wed &Sat at 2 pm, SUN at 3 pm; 840-3074

Sing, .Ing a .0ng .... COOPER UNION pre.ent.
The
Stonewall
Chorale with their gu.e.ts, The Lesbian and
Gay Chorus of Washington,
DC. Each chorus will per·form their own' program, and join together
in a com·bined ensemble of over 125 queer voices. The program
includesSamuel Barber, Johanes Brahms and Ralph
Vaughn Williams.
$13.50. The Great Hall at Cooper
Union. 7 East 7th St. March 16. Info: (212) 608-4504.

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You've got to live a little,
laugh a Iittle .... THEATER.
NADA gives you a chance with Shelly Mars In A Day In
Hollywood, a Night ot Sodom, "being an evening ofcommentaryon male Impersonation,
AIDS, dykedrama and a little SIM." $8. Theater
Nada (formerly
Theater Funambules).
167 Ludlow St. March 16 at 10
pm. (212) 420·1466.

CHARLES LUDLAM THEATRE presents Ludlam's Camille, starringand directed by Everett Quinton,with Cheryl Reeves, Ken Scullin,
Georg Osterman, Eureka, Bobb
Reed, Jim Lamb, Carl Claybourne,
H.M. Kououkas,
Jean-Claude
Vasseux, Steven Pell, 1 Sheridan
Square; $25; TUE-FRI at 8 pm, SAT&SUN at 7 pm; 691-2271
CHERRY LANE THEATRE presents
David Stevens' The Sum of Us, by
the writer of Breaker Morant, starring
Tony Goldwyn
and Richard
Venture,directedby Kevin
Dowling, about a father who tries tohelp with his son's• gay relationships
while he looks for a new wife; 38
Commerce St; $27;50-$32.50; TUEFRI at 8 pm, SAT at at 7 & 10 pm,
SUN at 3 & 7:30 pm; 989-2020
LUCILLE.LORTEL THEATER pre. sents Falsettoland,
the William
Finn/James Lapine musical. The thirdin Rnn's Marvin Trilogy, Falsettoland
examines the impact of AIDS on a gay
male couple, a lesbian couple, a heterosexual couple and a child. 121
Christopher st. $27.50-$35. Tu--F at
8 pm. Sa at 7 and 10 pm. Su at 3 pm.
(212) 924-a782.
RAPPTHEATRE COMPANY revives
Thomas M. Disch's The Cardinal
Detoxes, "a chilling look inside thehierarchy of the modern Catholic
Church exploring such issues as
AIDS, abortion, ties to organizedcrime and homosexuality'; directedby R. Jeffrey
Cohen, starring
George McGrath as the Cardinal;
220 E 4 St; $10 (TDK ok); FRI &SAT at to &11:30 pm, SUN at 2 pm
(RT= 35 min.); 529-6160..
MEN WITH WIGS, INC., presents
It's a Man's World: Ladles Sing theBlues, a fun,filled, gender-bender

Finally, for those of you who like to dress up, it's The
IMPERIAL COURT OF NEW YORK's fifth annual Nightof a Thousand
Gowns Charlt.y Ball. The $100 ticket
benefits
the Gay and Lesbian Community
Services
Center. The Roosevelt Hotel. March 16. For complete
information,
contact Ben Freeman at (212) 673-7633.

Censored, a forty-woman, multimedia 'forum on big brother, Womenand sex" put on by DARE, a newly
formed four-woman collective. From
6-8 pm, it's open viewing of theinstalled pieces and videos, as wellas the piercing and tattoo clinics.
From 8-11 pm, live performances
are highlighted. After 11, it's regular
Clit Club East action. $1 before 8/$5
after. The Pyramid. 101 Ave. A,
between 6th and 7th streets. 6-11
pm. Info: (212) 807-8050.
BISEXUAL WOMEN'S GROUP
General Meeting. Meets the secondand fourth Wednesday of eachmonth. The Center. 208 W. 13th SI.
6:3Q--8pm.
GAY MEN'S HEALTH CRISIS presents a Health Seminar: Insurance
Information. 129 W. 20th SI., third
floor. 7 pm. For more information,
call the GMHC hotline at (212) 8076655. TDD (212) 645-7470 for the
hearing impaired.
LESBIANS AND GAY MEN OF NEWBRUNSWICK
presents
Deb
Guston, attorney, discussing legal
issues that concern gay men andlesbians, including survivor benefits,
joint ownership and living wills.
Friends Meeting. House. 109 Nichol
Ave. New Brunswick, NJ. 8.pm.
(908) 247-0515.
COOPER UNION presents Women
Against AIDS, a benefit for the
Women and AIDS Resource
Network. This benefit features performance artists Jessica Hagedorn,
Holly Hughes and Karen Finley.
$5. Cooper Union Great Hall. 8 pm.
(212) 353-4158.
MEN OF ALL COlORS TOGETHERNY Political Action/Media
Outreach Meeting. The.Ceriter. 208 W.
13th St. 6:30 pm. (212) 222-9794.

fantasy, from the Cotton to Motown.
Men, with wigs, examine incandescent images of the blues' queens
and their descendants. $10. The
Producers Club. 358 W. 44th St.,
2nd floor, suite 7. Fridays atll pm.
(212) 971-9021.

21 Normandy Heights Rd. Monistown,
NJ. Info: GAAMC Gay Helpline: (201)285-1595.

MONDAY, MARCH 11

CELLBLOCK 28 presents the New
York
Strap
and
PaddleAssociation Party. "For ali of you
who like to bend over and take it likea man." Cellblock 28. 28 Ninth Ave.,
between 13th and 14th streets.
Doors open 8 pm. (212) 733-3144.

SAGE presents Adult Survivors of
Sexual Abuse, an experiential therapy group for women ages 21 andup to support the recover process
and free you from the pain andsilenceofsexual. abuse.
Psychotherapists: Joyce Z. Meyers,
CSW and Robbye Stuart-Russell,
MA. The Cent,er. 208 W. 13th St.
7-8:30 pm. (212) 741-2247.
GAY ACTIVIST ALLIANCE IN MORRIS COUNTY presents Womyn's
Network and Men's Rap Group at
7:30 pm, before their General
Meeting at 8:30 pm. Tonighfs topic" "If
Love is the Answer, I Want a Second
Opinion." Phil. McCabe will lead anexperiential workshop designed ·to
explore sexuality, interpersonal communications, and how to get what you
want. Monistown Unitarian Fellowship.

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ACT UP General Meeting. Cooper
Union. Fourth Avenue at 7th Street.
7:30 pm. Info: 564-AIDS.

TUESDAY, MARCH 12
LONG ISLAND GAY MEN'S GROUP
presents Gay Rage. No more Mr.
Nicegay. For complete details on thisbi-monthly discussion group, contact
LlGMG at (516) 694-2407.
GAY MEN OF THE BRONX General
Meeting. 1 Fordham Plaza, 8th floor.
6-8 pm. Info: Chris (212) 0806
(English) or Robert ,(212) 882-3404.
Meetings are 2nd and 4th Tuesdays;
next is Feb. 26.
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THE PYRAMID presents Not Yet

THE NEW YORK ADVERTISINGAND COMMUNICATIONSNETWORK presents an Open House atJohn Dowdell's post-production facility, the first in New York to use Rank
Cintel's totally digital URSA. 218 E.
45th 51. 6:3Q--8:30pm.
STEVE MCGRAW'S SUPPER CLUBpresents Jamie De Roy andFriends, an evening of cabaret featuring Ms. De Roy and La Vern
Baker (star of Black and Blue),
Marlo Cantone, Dolores Gray,
Rhonda Hansome, Jay Leonhart,•
Harold Rand and Bill Scheft. $15
cover/$8 minimum. Steve McGraw's.
158 W. 72nd St. 8 pm. Reservations:(212) 595-7400.
THE NINTH STREET CENTER presents Queer Questions,Queer
Answ.ers, a series of rap groups
whose focus is defining homosexuality for the 1990s. Tonight's facilitator:
Rich Kamencik. 319 E. 9th St., basement. 8-10 pm. (212) 228-5153.

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BRONX AIDS SERVICES offers a••Support Group for HIV-Posltlve
Women. Share your concerns, ideas
and feelings. Free and confidential.
The morning program is in Spanish,
the afternoon program is in English.
One Fordham Plaza, 8th floor. Bronx.
10-11 am and 1:30-2:30 pm. Info:
Edith Gutierrez at (212) 933-2400 or
lsa Martinez at (212) 295-5605.

GAY AND LESBIAN INDEPENDENTDEMOCRATS
presentaSymposium: ·Police Violence, Past
and Present, Against the Lesbianand Gay Community: What We Can
Do." Speakers include, Margarita
Lopez, Dr. Mini Lu, Bruce Bentley
and Bill Dobbs, among others. The
Center. 208 W. 13th St. 8 pm.
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AIDS AND ADOLESCENTS NETWORK OF NEW YORK Network
Monthly Meeting. 121 Sixth Ave.,
6th floor. 3-0 pm. (212) 925-6675.

A DIFFERENT liGHT p.resents
Sarah Schulman, re~dir1.g··fromher
book, People in Troubliil.548 Hudson
St. 8 pm. Info: (212) 989-4850.

THE GAY AND LESBIAN ANTI-VIOLENCE PROJECT Peer CounselIng for survivors of bias assault,
domestic violenceand sexualassault. Held every Wednesday andThursday from 6-8 pm. The Center.
208 W. 13th St. (212) 807-0197.

GAY MALE SIM ACTIVISTS presents End Games: Concluding an
SIM Scene. Ray Matienzo, a past
chair of GMSMA, will lead the discussion. $4 for members/$6 for nonmembers. The Center. 208 W. 13th
St. 8 pm. (212) 727~878.

BRONX LESBIANS UNITED IN SISTERHOOD
GeneralMeting.
Tonight's topic: 'Invisibility of LesbianMothers in the Lesbian and Gay
Community.' One Fordham Plaza,
suite 800. Bronx. 6:30-8 pm. Info:
Miriam at (212) 409-2692
inSpanish, and Lisa at (212) 829-9817
in English.

GAY MEN'S HEALTH CRISIS pres,ents Men Meeting Men. No registration required. The Center. 208 W..
13th SI. 8-19:30 pm.

BISEXUAL WOMEN'S SUPPORTGROUPDiscussion
andWorkshop. Tonight's topic: ·Why
Are We So Shy? How to Come on to
Women." Women only. $3. The
Center. 208 W. 13th St. 6:30-8 pm.
(212) 459-4784.
JUDITH'S ROOM presents Joy Harjo
reading with Nancy Krlcorlan, one offour winners of the 1990 Judith's
Room Emerging Talent Competition.
Judith's Room. 681 Washington St. 7
pm. (212) 727-7330.
SLOPE ACTIVITIES FOR LESBIANS presents
Pool Night.
Featuring free pool, ping pong, billiards, air hockey and shooting
hoops at Brownstone
Billiard.
SeventhAve.
at
Flatbush.
Afterwards, relax at the Roost at 9
pm. Seventh Avenue at 8th Street.
The evening begins at 7 pm. Please,call 24 hours in advance to confirm
all SAL activities: (718) 965-7578.
INTEGRAL YOGA INSTITUTE presents PATH Seminars: The Body'Mind Connection. Tonight's topic:
Visualization. Seminar leader: Peter
Hendrickson, PhD, psychologist. $7
per class (scholarships available).
IYI. 227 W. 13th St.7:30-9 pm. (212)929-0586.
THE PUBLISHING TRIANGLE presents a Queer Moments In Great
Literature-Great
Moments
In
Queer Literature, a fund-raiser forthe gay and lesbian library at theCommunity Center. Featuring performances by Olympia, Ivory, John
Kelly, Lisa Kron, Quentin Crips,
Claire Mowed. $5. The Limelight.
Sixth Avenue at 21st Street. 7:30
pm. Info: Michele Kar1sberg at (212)629-8140 or Robin Hardy at (212)254-4709.

THE EAGLE presents Movie Night:
Die Hard 2: Ole Harder. Talk about
deadly deja vul Everyone's favorite
beleaguered cop, John McClane(Bruce Willis), returns if! last summer's action-packed blockbuster.
The Eagle. 142 Eleventh Ave., at
21st Street. 11 pm. 691-8451.
CELLBLOCK ,28 Hot Ash Party. It's.the Cellblock's
own version of
Operation Desert Smoke. Uniforms
and fatigues are the order of thenight. Free cigars at the bar.
Cellblock 28. 28 Ninth Ave., between
13th and 14th streets. Doors open 8
pm. (212) 733-3144.

THURSDAY, MARCH 14

bian and gay community; Anne
Mackay, East End Women for theArts; and Nan DuBois, NOW-NYC.'
NOW-NYC Offices. 15 W. 18th St.,
9th floor. 6:30 pm. (212) 807-0721.
JUDITH'S ROOM presents Kay
Gardner, reading from her book,
Sounding the Inner Landscape:Music as Medicine. Judith's Room.

681 Washington St. 7 pm. (212) 7277330.
THE CENTER presents Orientation
for women only, in celebration of
women's history month. The program is wheelchair-accessible andwill by ASL interpreted. Spanishinterpretation is also available. $3.
The Center. 208 W. 13th St. 7 pm.
(212) 620-7310.
DIXON PLACE presents Oliver
Wadsworth, in Struggles in Daddy's
Dress, a solo performance where·Oscar Wilde, Marilyn Monroe and apack of red wolves struggle against
their adve·rsaries." Also on the bill:
Dan Hurlin and Victoria Marks,
saying 'No equals yes. Yes equals
no. What are we girls to do?" $6 or
TDF. Dixon Place. 37 E. 1st SI.,between First and Second avenues.
8 pm. (212) 673-6752.
CAVE CAN EM presents Slave to
the Cave, a chance for women only
to say goodbye to Cave Canem instyle. DJ Moaning Lisa. $5. Cave
Canem. 24 First Ave., between 1st
and 2nd streets. 8 pm.
WEBO SPACE presents Matthew
Courtney and Alchemy Poetry
Hour, featuring Robin GOldsmith,Karl HOlmquist, David Huberman,
Seth King, Tsaurah 'Utzky and
Gavin Moses. $4. Webo Space. 317
E. Houston SI., at Attorney SI. 9 pm.

BRONX AIDS SERVICES offers a
Support Group for HIV-Posltlve
Women. This is an ongoing, closed
group. Individual consultations are
required before admittance. Free.
349 E. 149th St., room 609. Bronx.
11 am to 12:30 pm. Info: Donna
Bersch at (212) 585-5001.

CONTINENTAL DIVIDE presents
The Scouts, a queer-led rock androll band. Third Avenue at SI. Marks
Place. 10 pm. Info: (212) 929-6924.

THE GAy AND LESBIAN ANTI-VIOLENCE PROJECT Peer Counselingfor survivors of bias assault, domestic violence and sexual assault. Heldevery Wednesday and Thursday
from 6-8 pm. The Center. 208 W.
13th St (212) 807-0197.

THE NEW YORK ADVERTISINGAND COMMUNICATIONSNETWORK
presentsa
CareerWorkshop With Kate Wendleton.
Wendleton is the direcotr of the New
School's Sunday Career Center andthe author of Job Changing

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Worl<book for Executives, Managers

BRONX LESBIANS UNITED IN SIS- - and Professionals(you'll need a
TERHOOD
GeneralMeting.
copy of the book'for the program).
Tonight's topic: ·Happy Women's
The morning session dea,ls with
History Month Social." Bring foodresume writing, obtaining interviews
and drink to share. One Fordham
and kiling off your competition. The
Plaza, suite 800. Bronx. 6:30-8 pm.
afternoon session deals with preparInfo: 'Miriam at (212) 409-2692 in
ing for interviews, handling toughSpaniSh, and Lisa at (212) 829-9811
questions and salary negotiation.
in English.
The Center. 208 W. 13th St. 10 am
and 2 pm. For pricing and registraTHE LESBIAN !=tIGHTS COMMITtion info: (212) 517-0380..
TEE OF NOW-NYC and the SERVICE FUND OF NOW-NYC present
SLOPE ACTIVITIES FOR LESa Panel Discussion and Forum.
BIANS takes a Field Trip: ThlrtyWith Susan T. Chasin, Visibilities,
Plus Potluck and Game Night. Jointhe lesbian magazine; Dr. Marjorie
them In the East Village for fun, foodHili, the mayor's office for the lesand games. Tonight's featured

game: Dyke Dilemma. 7 pm. Call 24hours in advance for confirmation ,address, directions and car-pooling.
(718) 965-7678.
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GAY MEN OF tHE BRONX presents
Drinks and Dinner at Montezuma
Mexicanrestaurant.
119. W.
Kingsbridge Rd. 7.:30 pm. Please
RSVP by March 13 to Ron at (212)519-8746.
MEN OF ALL COLORS TOGETHER
presents a Panel Discussion:"Women and HIV and AIDS:' DavidHousel and Joe Franco are the cochairs. The Center. 208 W. 13th SI.
7:45 pm. (212) 222-9794.
THE ANSWER IS LOVING Women
Talking Women's Talk: Womenand Success, 'How do we view ourselves? What is our frame of reference.What is our lot, our job, what is
expected of us, what do we expect,what is our sense of accompliShments?"; 1964 E 35 St, Bklyn; 7:4510 pm; $10; Ruth Berman & Connie
Kurtz, 718/998-2305.
BODY POSITIVE Friday Night
Social, for all HIV-positive individuals
and their friends, Fre. MiddleCollegiate
Church. 50 E. 7th St., off Second Ave.
8-10 pm. (212) 721-1346.
PS 122 presents Scratch 'n" Sniff
Avant-Garde-Arama, with host Ken
Bullock. Featuring Uzi Parnes (performance), Nurla Olive-Belies(dance), Brain Dewan (music), Hapl
Phace (performance), Alvin Eng(performance), Jim Browne (film),
Maestro Subgum and the Whole(music). Part two of the program
concludes tomorrow. $10 or TDF
plus $5. PS 122 150 First Ave. 8 pm.
(212) 477-5288.

SATURDAY, MARCH 16
INTEGRAL YOGA INSTITUE presents Hatha Yoga Class. Hatha
Yoga refers to the physical postures,deep relaxation and breathing practices which revitalize and strengthen
the body and calm the mind. This
class is especially for those who are
HIV-positive. IYI. 227 W. 13th St.
12-1 :30 pm. (212) 929-0586.
THE GIRTH AND MIRTH CLUB
Leather Men's Party. The Center.
208 W. 13th St. Call for time andother details: (914) 699-7735.
COOPER UNION presents The
Stonewall
Chorale with theirguests, The. Lesbian and Gay
Chorus of Washington, D.C.. Eachchorus will perform their own program, and join together in a combined ensemble of over 1.25voices.
The program includes Samuel
Barber, Johanees Brahms and Ralph
Vaughn Williams. $13.50. the GreatHall at Cooper Union. 7 East 7th SI.
Info: (212) 608-4504.
SLOPE ACTIVITIES FOR LESBIANS takes a Field Trip: Women's
Theater/Dlnner/Etc.1 Night at 7 pm-

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THURSDAY, MARCH 7
1:00 PM WBAI-FM This Way Out; the international gay/lesbian news magazine; 99.5 FM (:301
1:30 PM WBAI-FM An Afternoon Ouling: local news and information about
the gay and lesbian community with Larry Gutenburg; 99.5 FM (:301
6;00 PM WFOX- TV Golden Girls A female friend of Dorothy's falls for Rose,in what TV Guide calls "an apisode about lesbianism: CH 5.
10:00 PM GCN Be Our Guest entertainmentfor and aboutthe lesbian/gay
community; Manhattan Cable, CH 0/17 (:301
10:30 PMGMHC living W/IfJ AIDS'. health and politics; Manhattan Cable, CH
V/35 (:301
11:00 PM GCN Gay U.SA: news and entertainment from around the country; Manhattan Cable, CH V/35 (1:00)
Midnight GCN Men in Films. male erotica, interviews with adultfilmstars;
Manhattan Cable, CH V/35 (:301
12:30 AM RB PROD Men For Merr. Robin Byrd presents gay male pornostars; Manhattan Cable, CH V/35 (:301

MONDAY, MARCH 11
7:00 AM MAX Mommie DearestWholesome family entertainment.
9:00 AM WCBS- TV Geraldo Scheduled topic: rape.CH 210:00 AM WCBS- TV Sally Jessy Raphael Scheduled topic: seeking retribution after being physically or sexually abused, Make sure the G-man and
SJR know that there are queer aspects to these issues as well. CH 211:00 AM MAX Nuns on the Run As I recall, this is a movie about unattractive men in bad drag. Repeated at 11 pm and Friday at 2:40 am.
1:30 PM WUSa 90.1 FM The Word Is OutMarc Gu.nning hosts a weekly lesbian, gay and bisexual variety show.
2;00 PM WUSB 90.1 FM Lavender Wimmin News, songs and music produced by women forwomen.
2:30 PM WUSB 90.1 FM This Way Out More queer news.
8:30 PM Manhattan Cable The Brenda and Glennda Show CH 17
9:00 PM GBS Out in the 90's. community news, discussion, interviews. Ba
Cable, CH 56 (1:001
11:30 PM Tomorrow/Tonight live: entertainment; Manhattan and Paragon
Cable, CH 0/17 (1:001'
Midnight CCTV The Closet Case Show: KlosatKlips; Manhattan IParagon
Cable, CH C/16 (:301

TUESDAY, MARCH 12•.FRIDAY, MARCH 15
1:30AM WNBC-TV Bob CostBsScheduled: Harry Connick, Jr. I confess, I
don't know if he has any talent, but ..those eyes, thatfacel CH 4.
1:30 PM SHO Cry-Baby John Waters does-I mean, directs-Johnny
Depp. Forthose of us who work, it's repeated at 11 pm.
2:30 PM WBAI-FM Rompiendo el Silencio: todos los viernes, Gonzalo
Aburto con temas y noticias para la comunidad latina gay y lesbian a;
99.5 FM (:151
3:00 PM WNBC- TV Joan Rivers Joan hosts the Imperial Court of New York.
They promise a "fashion show format," and plan to 'tell the wol1d that weare not just a bunch of men in drag, but are concerned, aware and contributing members of the community: Say it, sister. CH 4,
4:00 PM WASC-TV Oprah WinfreyScheduled: hairstylists. The fur will be
f1ying,l'm sure. CH 7.
6:00 PM WFOX-TV 21 Jump StreetMcCann becomes involved with acheerleader who has AIDS, Ch 11.
6.110PM 1MC Torch Song Trilogy You're gonna have to tape 21 Jump Street,because here's your chance to see Harvey, our hero.
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7:00 PM WBAI-FM AIDS In Focus, Michael Alcalay, produc 1:00 AM RB
PROD The Robin Byrd Show: male and female strippers; Manhattan
Cable, CH V/35 (1:001>,

9:00 AM WCBS- TY Geraldo Scheduled topic: medical experimentation. CH 2
. 11:35 AM TNT TheGorgeous Hussy Joan Crawford is the title character.
8:00 PM WNET-TV Andre 's MotherThe mother of a man who died of AIDS
and his lover "deal differendy with their grief: CH 13,
8:00 PM HBO Dangerous liaisonsWrth Uma and Glenn and John and
Keanu, you don't need a plot, but this movie's got one to knock the false
eyelashes off even the most jaded queen, Repeated Monday at 3:40 am,
10:00 PM Desde Hollywood Invitada: la actriz Jodie .Foster. CH 41,
10:00 PM RB PROD The Robin Byrd Show: male and female strippers; .
Manhattan Cable, CH V/35 (1:001
11:00 PM AlfThe show I'm most looking forward to this week: Aif dreams of
becoming a Gilligan's Island castaway, Mary Ann, The Professor,
Gilligan and the Skipper have cameos. CH 20..
11:00 PM GBS Out in the 90's. news, informatioiland interviews;
Manhattan/paragon Cable, CH C/16 (1:001.

WEDNESDAY, MARCI:I 13~ATURDAY, MARCH 16
4.110AM USA The Ouling How could I resist listing that? (It is, by the way, athriller about a genie released from his bottle after 3,000 years.1
8:30 AM WBAI-FM Any Saturday with David Rothenberg; live call-in; 99.5
FM (2:001
7:00 PM GCN Gay U.SA: news and entertainment from around the country;
Sa. Unity, ACV Cable, CH 56 (1:00) (For Manhattan Cable, see THURSDAy)
8.110PM WNET- TV Bernstein at 701A salute to the late, gay conductor, CH
13.
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11:00 PM Gay TV: male porn; Manhattan Cable, CH V/35
1:30 AM RB PROD The Robin Byrd Show: male & female strippers;
Manhattan Cable; CH, V/35 (1:00).

1:30 AM ESPN Star Shot Scheduled: Celebrity clay-targ~shooting.
Gee,lcan think of lots of stars with feat of clay whom I'd like to see shot.
9:00 AM WCBS- TV Geraldo Scheduled topic: sexual harassment. CH 21:00 PM AMC The Gay Divorcee A gay title does not a gay movie make, but
this one has Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers at least Repeated at 5 pm,.4:00 PM WNBC-TV Phil Donahue Scheduled topic: sexually explicit home
videos. CH 4.
8:00 PM WNET- TV Big Bird's Birthday At press time, it was unknown if Bert
and Ernie would be appearing, or if they were at home in the bedroom
they've publically shared for years. CH 13.
9:00 PM WNET- TV The Rocky and Bullwinkle Storyyat another faous pair ofcartoon characters carrying on together CH 13..

SUNDAY, MARCH 17
7:30 PM WBAI-FM The Gay Show Bob Storm, Larry Gutenburg, Allan Rossand Marie Becker host (tentatively): Dicl( Dadey, executive director of
the Empire State Pride Agenda; Sam Ciccone and Peter Guardino of
GOAL; and Dan Martin and Michael Biello, creators of Homo Love Song,
Alternates with Out/oaks, 99.5 FM (1:001,
111'.30PM RB PROD Men For Merr. Robin Byrd presents gay male pornostars; Manhattan Cable, CH V/35 (:301
11:00 PM GBS Way Out( Mark Chesnut and Michelle VanVoomies host parttwo of Ann Northrup's recent lecture atthe Center. Rich Volo is the producer. CH C/16 (:30)
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ish. For non-smoking lesbians overage 35. Also tonight, at 7:30, it's
Diversity Night, SAL's first official
multicultural night. SAL encouranges
women of all colors to come. Bringsnacks, beverages, games and cassettes. Please call 24 hours inadvance to confirm all SAL events:(718) 965-7578.
LESBIANS AND GAY MEN OF NEWBRUNSWICK present a Potluck
Dim1er. Join them at Ray's in New
Brunswick. Please call ahead to letthem what you're bringing. 7 pm. For
complete info: (908) 247-0515.
PS 122 presents Scratch 'n' Sniff
Avant-Garde-Arama, with host Ken
Bullock. Featuring Brendan deValiance(performance),
Naaz
Hossei n i (dance/performance),
Dudley (monologue/music), Richard"Pookle" Winberg (performance),
Theresa
Haney (dance/performance). Rud.y Burckhardt(film)and Maestro Subgum and theWhole (music.) $10 or TDF plus $5.
PS 122 150 First Ave. 8 pm. (212)477-5288. [See March 15 for the firsthalf of this program.)
KMTM presents Fall Down, SpringUp, a movement concert featuring thechoreogrllphyof Carol Dilley,
MichaelFoley, Joy Kellman,
Michele Miller, Amy Pivar, Sarah
Pogostin and Sabatino Verlezza.
$10. Dance Space Inc. 622 Broadway,
6th floor, between !3leecker and
Houston streets. 8 pm. Reservations:(212) 777-8067.[See March 17.)
THE NINTH STREET CENTER presents Queer Questions,Queer
Answers, a series of rap groups
whose focus is defining homosexuality for the 1990s. Tonight's facilitator:
Bob Fink. 319 E. 9th St., basement.
8-10 pm. (212) 228-5153.
THEATER NADA presents Shelly
Mars in A Day in Hollywood, a Nightof Sodom, ·being an evening of comme,ntary on male impersonation,
AIDS, dyke~rama and a little S/M."$8. Theater Nada (formerly TheaterFµnambules). 167 Ludlow St. 10 pm.
(212) 420-1466. [See March 23.)JOCELYN AND JULIE present Clit
Club Saturdays. Now you can ·satisfy your urges all weekend." Theirfiyer says ·Coming soon. Maybe
March 16; so I call to make sure thisis opening weekend.· The Pyramid.
101 Ave. A: (212) 406-1114.
THE IMPERIAL COURT OF NEWYORK presents the fifth annual Nightof a Thousand Gowns Charity Ball,benefitting The Gay and LesbianCommunity Services Center. $100.
The Roosevelt Hotel. For tickets andcomplete information, contact Ben
Freeman at (212) 673-7633.

SUNDAY, MARCH 17
TOD'S WOMEN'S CLUB AND CAFE
presents a St. Patrick's Day Party,
featuring hot buffet, $2 house drinks,$1.50 green beers. $6 generaladmission. Tod's. 2 Georges Rd.
New Brunswick, NJ. (201) 545-8990.
GAY FATHER'S FORUM MarchSocial. Join them for brunch at the
Townhouse restaurant. 2 pm. Call forcomplete details: (212) 288-3236.
MEN OF ALL COLORS TOGETHER
present Rhythm Natlo'n 3 Tea
Dance. $5 in advance a'nd'for members/$7 at door.135 W:"14th St., 2ndfioor, between Sixth and. Seventh
avenues. 2-5 pm. (212) 222-9794.
LESBIAN FEMINIST LIBERATION
presents
Lesbians
In Latin
America, featuring Mariana RomoCarmona of Las Buenas Amlgas.
$4 donation includes refreshments.
TlJe Center. 208 W. 13th St. 3 pm.
Info: (212) 627-1398.
JUDITH'S ROOM presents bell
hooks, reading from her book, yearning: race, gender and cultural politics.
Judith's Room, 681 Washington St. 3
pm. (212).727-7330.
IN YOUR FACE PRODUCTIONS
presents Insignificant
Other, acomedy-by Lon Lowry about breaking up. Starring Vincent Caruso and
Rod C. Hayes III of the FreelanceActing Group (yes, that's FAG for
short). $5. The Center. 208 W. 13th
St. 5 and 8 pm. (212) 924-7602:
LAVENDER HEIGHTS presents its
Monthly Third-Sunday
Potluck.
Celebrate the third birthday of the lesbian and gay neighbors association of
Washington Heights and Inwood.
Bring a dish and enjoy socializing,
networking, games and volleyball. $2
suggested donation. Cornerstone
Center. 178 Bennett Ave., one blockwest of Broadway at 1891hStreet. 6
pm. Info: (212) 569-2023.
PEOPLE WITH AIDS COALITION
presentsa SundayEvening
Weekly Social fQr gay men and lesbians who are HIV-positive or have
AIDS, and their friends. PWAC
Living room. 6:30-9:30 pm. (212)889-2334.
SLOPE ACTIVITIES FOR LESBIANS presents St. Patrick's Day
Potluck. Wear green and bringgreen food, but please, no alcohol
tonight. 7:30 pm. Please call 24hours in advance to confirm all SAL
events: (718) 965-7578.
KMTM presents Fall Down, SpringUp, a movement concert featuring
the choreography of Carol Dilley,
MichaelFoley, Joy Kellman,
Michele Miller, Amy Plvar, Sarah
Pogostin and Sabatino Verlezza.
$10. Dance Space Inc. 622
Broadway, 6th floor, between
Bleecker and Housfon streets. 8 pm.
Reservations: (212) 777-8067. [SEleMarch 16.)

MONDAY, MARCH 18
THE ADOLESCENT

THEATRENETWORK in cooperation with the
ADOLESCENT AIDS NETWORKOF NEW YORK presents its Annual
Adolescent Theatre Festival. The
three day program includes, today,
the STAR Theatre, Family Life
Theatre and Dandelion Productions.
Free. Bruno Walter Auditorium at
Lincoln Center. 111Amsterdam Ave.,at 66th Street. 4-5:30 pm each day.
For reservatiPlls,
contact Ken
Hornbeck at (212) 794-3315. [SeeMarch 19 and 20.)
THE NEW YORK BAR ASSOCIATION presents Doctors and Other
Medical Workers With HIV: A
Policy Review. Speakers: Michael
Greco, MD, JD, Chief, Dividsionof
Allergy and Clinical ImmunologyInfectious Diseases and Epidemiology at St. Luke's-Roosevelt
Hospital Center; Kathryn C. Meyer,
Senior Vice President, Legal Affairs,
Beth Israel Medical Center; David
Rogers, MD, Walsh McDermottProfessor of Medicine, Cornell
Medical School and Vice-Chairman,
National Commission on AIDS; Lani
Sanjeck,Associ<lteExecutive Director,. New York StateWide S.enior Actoin
CounCil, New York City Patient's
Rights Hotline; Harvey F. Wachsman,
MD, JD. Co-sponsoredby the Ad Hoc
Committee on AIDS. NYC Bar
Association.42 W. 44th Sl 7 pm.
SAGE presents Adult Survivors of
Sexual Abuse, an experiential 'therapy group for women ages 21 andup to support the recover process
and free you from the pai nandsilenceofsexualabuse.
Psychotherapists: Joyce Z. Meyers,
CSW and Robbye S!uart-Russell,
MA. The Center. 208 W. 13th St.
7-8:30 pm. (212) 741-2247.
GAY AcflVIST
ALLIANCE OF
MORRIS
COUNTY 1 .presents
Womyn's Network and Men's Rap
Group at 7:30 pm, before their
General Meeting at 8:30 pm.
Tonight's topic" ·Play Safe Batteries Not Included." Sex educator
Steve Brown facilitates a workshop
on safe sex fun and games.
Morristown unitarian Fellowship. 21
Normandy Heights Rd. Morristown,
NJ. Info: GAAMC Gay Helpline:(201) 285-1595.
ACT UP General Meeting. Cooper
Union. Fourth Avenue at 7th StrElet.
7:30 pm. Info: 564-AIDS.

ILGA fund-raiser
in April.
Center. 208 W. 13th St. 8 pm.

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SOUTHERNERS
presentsa'
Potluck Dinner. If you attend,
please bring food according to thefollowing categories: Las.t names
beginning with A-E, bring deserts
and appetizers; F-J bring entrees;
K-O bring vegetables or salads; andP-Z bring potatoes, starches orbreads. Southerners will' provide iced
tea and soda. $5 members/$8 nonmembers. The Center. 208 W. 13th
St. 8 pm. (212) 674-8073.

TUESDAY,
MARCH 19•
THE BRONX AIDS EDUCATORSNETWORK General
Meeting.
Uncoln Hospital, conference room 3.
234 E. 1491hSt. Bronx. 9:30-11 am.
Info: Janet Goldberg at (212) 2932658 or Rosaline Morales at (212)295-5605.
THE ADOLESCENT
THEATRENETWORK in cooperation with the
ADOLESCENT AIDS NETWORKOF NEW YORK presents its Annual
Adolescent Theatre Festival. The
three day program includes, today,
Teatro Vida, the Greater Brownsville
Youth Council, SPARK Players andReflections. Free. Bruno Walter
Auditorium at Lincoln Center. 111
Amsterdam Ave., at 66th Street.
4-5:30 pm each day. For reservations, contact Ken Hornbeck at (212)794-3315. [See March 18 and 20.)GAY MEN'S HEALTH CRISIS presents a Health Seminar: Benefits
Information
and Nutritional
Issues. 129 W. 20th St., third andsixth floors. 7 pm. For more'information, call the GMHC hotline at (212)807-6655. TDD (212) 645-7470 for
the hearing impaired.
TWENTYSOMETHING presents a
Rap Group, addressing "HomophObia: Internal and External." $3.The
Center. 208 W. 13th St. 89:30 pm.
Info: Perry at (212) 242-3038.
THE COALITION FOR LESBIANAND GAY RIGHTS
GeneralMeeting. The Center. 208 W. 13th
St. 8 pm. (212) 627-1398.
MEN OF ALL COLORS TOGETHER
Newsletter Editing. 225 W. 34th St.,
#1500. 8 pm. Call Lidell before
attending: (212) 736-5295.
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IN OUR OWN WRITE Writer'sWorkshop for lesbian and gay writers. Workshops are held on the first
and third Mondays of the month.
Please bring work. The Center. 208. W. 13th St. 8-10 pm. (212) 620-7310.
THE INTERNATIONAL LESBIANAND GAY ASSOCIATION Center
LiaisonCommittee
Meeting.
Topics: upcoming world conferencein Guadalajara, Mexico; continuing
United Nations efforts; meeting wi.th
Amnesty International regarding their"mandate" being changed to include
oppression of lesbians and gay men;

STEVE MCGRAW'S SUPPER CLUBpresents Jamie De Roy andFriends, an evening of cabaret featuring Ms. De Roy and Doug
Bernstein, Denis Markel and thecast of Showing Off; Ellen Foley;
Caroline
Rhea;
JonathanSolomon; Stiller and Ash; and K.T.
Sullivan. $15 cover/$8 minimum.
Steve McGraw's. 158 W. 72nd SI. 8
pm. Reservations: (212) 595-7400.

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,Private Eyes (Marc Berkley's Kool Komra.ds;
strippers; downtown crowd, students, pro- .
fessionals. 2-4-1 drinks till midnight .$7) 12
W 21 St. (212) 206-7772.
Pyramid ( Ivory presents 'Gentle on My Mind."
Opening March 4. No cover, no hassles, no
kidding.) 101 Avenue A. (212) 473-7184.

Private Eyes ( YMVA Night; students, professionals, men) 12 W 21 St. 206-7772
Stingray's (New club, new sound system, Free
before 10 pm, $7 after,) 641 W. 51st St. (212)664-8668+ Visions (women's party) 56-01 Queens Blvd,
Woodside, Queens; info 718/846-7131, club
718/899-9031

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+ Clit Club (Drink specials till midnight Lesbianerotic videos and slides. $3 before midnight/$!! after.) Pyramid. 101 Avenue A. (212)473-7184.
+ ",Club Edelweiss ('lVs, TSs, gays, bi·s,.singles, couples'; TUES especially for lesbians;
but open to all TUE-SUN night) 167 W 29;
868-6989
Danceteria (Coming soon: Chip Duckett's gay
Tuesdays, Keep your eyes on this space for
opening.) 29 E. 29th St.
+ Grand Central (Women's nighttonight. Mixed
We-Su.) 210 Merrick Road, RockvilleCentre, U; (516) 536-4800.
Jack Officer's Club (Cruising, Bruising, Drinking
and Carousing. Audio, Video.and Manual
Manipulation by OJ Craig. $3) 505 E. 8th St 1
.Roxy (John Blair's 'Muscle on Wheels." Gayrollerskating. Doors open at 8 pm. Varied
cover.) 515 W 18 St; 645-5156.

Wednesday,.

",Channel 69 (Drag Extravaganza, with Tabbool
Go-go stars, OJ Dany Johnson. Sexy,
upbeat, East Village fag and dyke crowd.
$5.) Pyramid. 101 Avenue A. (212) 473-7184.
The Building (Dallas' The Boys' Room; House
music, downtown crowd, go-go boys and a
60-foot ceiling; $10/$7 with invite) 51 W 26
St; 576-1890, + Excalibur (Ladies Night, $1 drinks) corner
10th/Jefferson behind football stadium,
Hoboken, NJ; 201-795-1161",Limelight ('Queer U." DJs Andy Anderson andKeoki. $5/$10) Sixth Avenue at 20 Street.
(212) 807-7850.
+ Cadillac Bar (Gini DeSantis presents Pure
Party Production Dances for Women, every
Wed., $5, Free buffet 6-8 pm, Renee Cooke,
Bartender.) (Entrance on W. 22nd) 16W. 22. between 5/6+ Rrivate Eyes (Shescape Afterwork Party, 5-10
pm; $5 before 7 pm/$7 after; 2-4-1 drinks
before 7) 12 W 21 St; info 645-6479, club 2067772
Private Eyes (YMVA Night; students, profls,
women; performers; $7; door often benefits
a gay/lesbian organization) 12 W 21 St; 206. 7772
Silver Lining (2-4-1 drinks, also open Tues-Sun,.women SAT) 175 Cherry Lane, Roral Pk, U;
516/354-9641
Stutz (2-4-1 drinks, also open daily) 202
Westchester Ave, White Plains; 914[7613100

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Blai:glama (Celebrating gay men and women ot.
color. Bi-montly; next is Feb. 28.) Pyramid.
101 Ave, A. (212) 473-7184.
"'Copacabana (last Thu. of the month Susanne
Bartsch party; iffy door) 10 E 60 St, at Fifth
Ave; 755-6010
Excalibur ($1 drinks, also open Tues-Sun,I
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women WED) corner 10th/Jefferson behindfootball stadium, Hoboken, NJ; 201-795-1161
Hatfield's (2-4-1 drinks, female impersonators;
also open nightly, women on TUE & FRI) 12610 Queens Blvd, Kew Gardens, Queens;718/261-8484
More Men (Tony, Keith and Dominic present OJ
Tommy Richardson, go-go boys, videos, billiards. $10/$7 with invite.) 239 Eleventh. Ave,(212) 633-0701.
"'Roxy (Disco Interruptus. Dugwah's 30th birthday (again). Performances by Throbbers
and Shelly Mars. Decor by Hililebrando deCastro. OJ Sister Dimension. Featuring Lady
Bunny and Zaldy. $10) 515 W 18th St. 6455156.
Stingray's (New club, new sound system,
everything else is a surprise. No cover ,tonight) 641 W. 51st St. (212) 664-8668

FridayABC (Chip Duckett·s ABC Fridays, OJ Merritt;ballroom, balcony, boogying; $10/$7 w.
invite; opened Nov. 16) 17 Irving Place at 15
St+ Clit Club (Jocelyn & Julie, Every Friday Party;
go-go girls, lesbo videos; opens 8 pm, billiards & $1 drinks between 8 and 9 pm; $5)
432 W 14 St; 406-1114
Columbia Dances (1st Friday of every month,
Earl Hall, 10 pm-2 am.) 116th St &Broadway; 854-3574 days
+ Hatfield's (women's nights are TUE & FRI)
126-10 Queens Blvd., Kew Gardens, Queens;718/261-8484
The Limelight ('Mea Culpa; for men, with video'
and live entertainment $7/$10.) 47 W, 20thSt. (212) 807-7840.
Meat on Friday (Xclusive performances at 1:30
am. OJ Nobody's Pussy. $5.) Pyramid. 101
Avenue A. (212) 473-7184.
+ Millennium (Ladies' NigM 1770 NY Ave (Ate110), Huntington, U; 516/351-1402

Barefoot Boogie (2nd & 4th SAT; adults/kids,
smoke & alcohol free; 8:30 pm -12:30 am, $4;
next is Dec 8) 434 6th Ave (btwn 9/10 Sts),
4th Aoor; 832-6759
Center (2nd & 4th Sat, 9 pm to 1 am, $8. OJ Peter
Arden.) 208 W 13 St; 620-7310+ Center ('Women & Friends." Every first
Saturday, Next is April6. OJ Gini DeSantis. 9
pm to 1 am.) 208 W 13 St. (212) 620-7210.
+ Clit ClUb (Jocelyn and Julie expand to both
weekend nights. Look for opening night on
March 16.) The Pyramid. 101 Ave. A. (212)406-1114.
Club West End (Michael Fesco's Saturdays;
midnight - 9 am) 547 W 21 St
Columbie Dances (SamE BuT DifferenT. Third
Saturday dances. OJ Karin Ward, 10 pm - 3
am; $5) Earl Hall, 116 St/B'way; 629-1989"'Controversy (Drinking, dancing and scandal
with your host laHoma Van Zandt OJ's
Patrick Butts and Tennessee. $5.) Pyramid,
101 Avenue A. (212) 473-7184.
•
419 419 N. Highway, Southampton, U; 516{283-5001
Lava Zone (dancing & performers) 70 Beach St,
Staten Island; 718/442-5692
House House Girls (All new. $7.) Speed Limit 55.
154 W. 26th St. (212) 505-0232.
+Girl Saturdays/Cheap Thrills (Shescape andGirlgate host. OJ Dany Johnson. Go-go girls,
billiards. $5 before 11.) Irving Plaza. Irving
Place at 15th Street. (212) 645-6479,
Meat (OJ Aldo Hernandez, every Saturday; gogo boys, videos; opens 10 pm; $5)432 W 14
St.
.
,':'
",Roxy (Locomotion; gay boys, guys, men; nongay women, some lesbians; mix Depends on
party) 515 W 18 St (btwn 10/11 Aves); 6455156+ Silver Lining (women's Sat) 175 Cherry Lane,
Aoral Park, U; 516/354-9641
Sound Factory (mostly gay; serious House/Club
dancing, no alcohol, opens 11 pm) 530 W 27
St (lOth/11th Aves); 643-0728
Stingray's (Brand new club, brand new soundsystem, everything else is a surprise, $8.)
641 W. 51st St. (212) 664-8668

SundayThe Building (Dallas' The Men's Room, students, professionals, men; go-go boys & 6Oft. ceiling) 51 W 26 St; 576-1890"'FUCKI. (DJs Craig and Victor spin industrial,house, bass, soul and twirly disco.
Downstairs, the Lesbian Luv Lounge with OJ
Lori E. Seid and guest DJs. $5.) Pyramid. 101
Avenue A. (212) 473-7184.
Kelly's (OJ Moaning Lisa spins the records for
dancing dykes. Doors open at 8 pm. $3.) 46
Bedford St (212) 929-9322.
Monster (Sunday Tea Dance at 4 pm; dancing
also on other nights from 10 pm) 80 Grove St
at Sheridan Sq.; 924-3557
More (James St. James, Bella Bolski present)•

239 Eleventh Ave. 633-0701.
Safe Sundays (Kool Komrads' party at the
Cadillac Bar; go-go boys, $2 shots, $5 beer
bias from 5-8 pm.) 15 W. 21st St (212) 6457220
20/20 (Michael Fesco's Tea Dance, opens 4 pm;$6; free Mimosas & BMs from 4-6, buffet at7:30) 20 W 20 St; 727-8841.
The World (Christina Vista and Junior Vazquez
present an after-hours party. Doors open at
midnight) 254 E. 2nd St., at Avenue C.

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Chelsea
Barbary CoaSt,
64
Seventh Ave. (14th St) 675-0385,.
.
The Break;:J32 Eighth Ave. (22nd St) 627-0072
Cellblock 28,28Ninth Ave., 733-3144(M-W)
Chelsea Transfer, 131 Eighth Ave. (bet 16th and17th) 929-7183
Eagle's Nest, 142 Eleventh Ave; (21st St) 691-8451
Private Eyes, 12W. 21st St (bet Fifth and Sixth
Avenues) 206-7770
Rawhide, 212 Eighth Ave., (21st St), unlisted
Spike, 120 Eleventh Ave., 243-9688
The Vault, 28 Ninth Ave., 733-3144 (F,7-11 pm,
women) 255-6758."

Every Night (or almost)• Badrock (lesbian club, closed MON & TUE)
121 Woodfield Rd, W. Hempstead, LI;
516/486-9516""Club Edelweiss ('TVs, TSs, gays, bi's, singles,
couples all welcome'; TUE for lesbians, but
open to all TUE-SUN night) 167 W 29; 8686989
419 (nightly Gay House Party, opens Ii pm) 419
N. Highway (Rte 27), Southampton, LI;
516/283-5001
Grand Central (closed Mon, 2-4-1 drinks
Thursday) 210 Merrick Road, RockvilleCentre, LI; 516/536-4800
Magic Touch (ethnic mix: Anglo/Latin/Asian) 731337th Rd, Jackson Heights, Queens;718/429-8605
Monster (West Village) 80 Grove St at Sheridan, Sq.; 924-3557• Pandora's Box (formerly the Duchess)
Sheridan Square & 7th Avenue. (212) 2421408.
The Pyramid (Look under daily listings for individual parties and themes. Also check Going
Outfor special events.) 101 Ave. A. (212)473-7184.
Spectrum (good mix of gay men & lesbians;
closed Mon-Tue, WED free, THU free & 2-4-1
drinks, FRI male/temale strippers, SAT• recording stars, SUN variety show & freeadmission 9-10 pm; Coors served) 802 64th St@ 8th Ave, Bay Ridge, Bklyn; 718/238-8213.
• Tod's (Night club and restaurant Mostly. women, but men are OK.) 2 Georges Rd.
New Brunswick, NJ. (201) 545-8990.
From the people who brought you the allnew, all-queer Pyramid, it's:West Village
Badlands, Christopher and West streets, 741-9236
Boots & Saddle, 76 Christopher St, 929-9684
Crazy Nanny's 21 Seventh Ave. South 366312(women)D.T:s Fat Cat 281 W. 12th St, 243-9041
Pandora~ Box, 70 Grove St (Seventh Ave.) 2421408 (women)
Dugout, 185 Christopher St., 242-9113 (formerly the
Ramrod)Eighty-Eights, 228 W, 10th St, 924-0088
The Hangout (J's) 679 Hudson St, 242-9272
Julius, 159 W. fllth St, 929-9672
Keller's,384 West SVChristopher, 243-1907
Kelly's Village West. 46 Bedford St,929-9322
Marie's Crisis, 59 Grove St, (Seventh Ave.} 243-

9323
The Monster, 80 Grove St (Seventh Ave.) 924-3558
New Jimmy's 53 Christopher St, 463·0950
Ninth Circle, 139W. 10th St, 243-9204
Sneakers, 392 West St, 242-9830
Two Potato, 145 Christopher St, 242-9340
Ty's, 114 Christopher St, 741-9641
Uncle Charlie's, 56 Greenwich Ave., 255-8787

West Side
Candle Bar,:119Amersterdam Ave., 874-9155
Cat's, 730 Eighth Ave., 221-7559
Don't Tell Mama, 343 W. 46th St, 757-0788
Gents, 360 W. 42nd St, (Ninth Ave.)967-D659
Sally's Hideaway, 264 W. 43rd St, 221-9152
Town & Country, Ninth Ave. at 45th St,307-1503
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March 13: Grand opening night·Performances by John Kelly and Joey
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Bogart's, 320 E. 59th St, 688-8534
Brandy's Piano Bar, 235 E. 84th St.,650-1944
G.H. Club, 353 E. 53rd St, 223,9752
Johnny's Pub, 123 E. 47th St,355-8714
NY Confidential, 306 E. 49th St.,308-839O
Rounds, 303 E. 53rd St., 593-0807
South Dakaota, 405 3rd Ave., (29th St)684-8376
Star Sapphire, 400 E. 59th St.,688-4710
The Townhouse, 236 E. 58th St., 754-4649
Twenty·Nine Palms, 129 Lexington Ave., 686-8299

Eilst Village
The Bar, 68 2nd Ave., (4th St)674-9714
101 Avenue A, (formerly the Pyramid), 101 Avenue
A,420-1590
Tunnel Bar, 1161stAve., (7th St)7n-9'Bl

Brooklyn(area code 718)
After Five Plus, 5 Front St, 852-0139•
Spectrum, 802 64th St, (Eighth Ave.), 745-9611
Sweet Sensations, 6322 20th St, 435-2580

Queens(area code 718)
Breadstix, 113-24 Queens Blvd., Forest Hills,
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Friend's Tavern, 78"11 Roosevelt Ave., Jackson
Heights,397-7256
Hatfield's, 126-10 Queens Blvd.,Kew Gardens,
261-8484
Hideaway, 87-36 Parsons Blvd., Jamaica,657-4885
Love Boat, n-02 Broadway, Elmhurst, 29-8670
Magic Touch, 73-13 37th Rd., Jackson Heights,
429-8605

Staten Island(area code 718)
Sand castle, 86 Mills Ave., 447-9365

Westchester(area code 914)P)ayroom,590 Nepplirhan Ave., Yonkers, 965-6900
Stutz, 202 Westchester Ave., White Plains,761-3100

Long Island

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Bedrock, 121 Woodfield Rd., West Hempstead,
486-9516 (women)
Blanche, 47-2 Boundary Ave., Farmingdale, 694-

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Grand Central, 210 Merrick Rd., Rockville Centre,
536-4800
Pal Joey's, 2457 Jerusalem Ave., North Bellmore,
785-9301
Silver Lining, 175 Cherry Lane, New Hyde Park,354-9641
Station House Pub, 3547 Merrick Rd., Seaford, 7859808

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Suffolk·

area code 516)
419,419 North Highway (Rt. 27), Southampton,
283-5001
Bunkhouse, 192 N. Main St, Sayville, 567-2865
Cherry'S, Bayview Walk, Cherry Grove, Fire Island,597-6820
Club Swamp, Disco/Annex Restaurant, Montauk
Hwy, Wainscott, 537-3332
Ice Palace, Cherry Grove Beach Club, Fire Island,597-6600
Kiss, 161 Farmardie Dr., Lake Ronkonkoma, 467-9273
Club 6IMI, 6IMI Sunrise Highway, W. Babylon,
661-9580
Millennium, lnO New York Ave., Huntingdon,

351-1402
Starz,836 Grand Blvd., Deer Park, 242-3857
Thunders, 894 Jericho Turnpike, Smithtown, 864-1410

New Jersey(area code 201)
Charlie's West. 536 Main St., E. Orange, 678-5002
Feather's, n Kinderkamack Rd., River Edge,
342-6410
Friendly's Bar, 6310 Park Ave" West New York,854-9895
Excaliliur, 10th and Jefferson, Hoboken, 795-1023
Nite Lite, 509 22nd St., Union City,863-9515
Vibrations, 165 Cedar Lane, Teaneck, 836-5518
Yacht Club, 366 Berksire Valley Rd" Jefferson,697-9780

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A.C.Q.C. AIDS CENTER OFQUEENS COUNTY SOCIAL SERVICES EDUCATION - BUDDIESCOUNSEUNG-SUPPORGROUPS
Volunteer Opportunities (718) 8962500(voice) (718) B96-2985(TDD)ACT UP (AIDS Coalition to
Unleash Power)
496A Hudson Street, Suite G4
NYC 10014 (212) 564-2437 A
diverse, non-partisan group ofindividuals united in anger andcommitted to direct action toend the AIDS crisis. Gen. meetings Mon. nights 7:30, in The
Great Hall, Cooper Union, on
Cooper Square between Astorand St. Marks Place's.'
AIDS RESOURCECENTER (ARC)
Supportive housing for homeless PWAs IBailey House andapartments). Non-judgemental
pastoral care for PWAs andloved ones. Volunteer opportunities. (212) 481-1270, 24 West
30th St., NYC 10001
ALDEC/APlI<I-NY

IAsian L.. bians of the Eut
CouVAsianPacific Le.bian
Network-New York) We are apolitical, social and supportive
network of Asian Pacific les·. bians. Planning meetings on the
1st Sunday and social eventson the last Friday of eachmonth. Call (212) 517-5598 formore information.
AMERICAN GAY/LESBIANATHBSTS
AGA. Inc1701 7th Avenue, Suite
9W/New York, New York 10036
A non-profit. educational organization dedicated to preserving
separation between state andchurch and upholding the civilrights of Lesbian and Gay Atheists. Meetings the firsts Sunday
Community Centor, 1 t~ 3 P.M. Diala Gay Atheists (718)899-1737, 24
hours.
ARCS (AlDS-ReiataI. . Conwnunity Services)for Dutchess, Orange, Putnam,
Rockland, Sullivan,Ulster
andWestchester
counties. AIDS
education, client services, crisis
intervention,
support groups,
case management, buddy andhospital visitor program. 214
Central Ave., White Plains, NY
10606 (914) 993-0606 838 Broadway, Newburgh, NY 12250 (914)562-5005 AIDSline (914)9930607

ASIANS & FRIENDS- NEW YORK
A not,for-profit
organization
which promotes friendships with
Asian/PacificIslander, Asian,
American, and non,Asian gay'men through social, cultural, educational, and service activities
and programs. Call our HotUne:

212-674-5m4, or write to: P.O.Box
6628, NY,NY1016U023.
A11I (AIDS TREATMENTRESOURCES, IIIC.)
Publishes a quarterly Directory ofclinical trials of experimental
AIDS/HIV treatments in NY/NJ,
and Philadelphia, and has educational materials! seminars for trial
participants. A1R also advocates
for improvements in the trial system. 259 W. 30th st., 9th fl., NYC,
10001.(212) 268-4196. Publications
free,ld9nation requested.
BARASSOCIATIONFUR
IRlMAN RIGHTS
Lawyars Referral Service forthe Lesbian and Gay Community
Full Range of Legal Services(212) 459-4873 Free Walk-in
Legal Cl,inic. Tuesday 6-8 pm.
Lesbian & Gay Community
Centro Ground RoorBISEXUALYount
Informal social & support group. for Bisexual kids/youth. Monthly
meeting/potluck
lunch held
1:OOpm'on fourth Sunday of themonth at members homes. Call
NYABN for this month's location.
This group is part of the NewYorit
Area Bisexual Network.
BWS-BRONX LESBIANS
UNnEDINS~RHOOD
Social, political and support
networking group for womenand their friends. Regular social
events and meetin'gs on the first
and third Fridays of evety
month. At The Community Center, 208 W. 13 Street, from 6:308pm. For more info call Lisa at(212) 829-9817.

BODYPOSITlVE
If you or your lover has tested
HIV+, we offer support groups,
seminars, public forums, reference library, referrals, social
BIDS (BISEXUAL DOMINANCE &activities
and up-to-date
SUBMISSION GROUP)
national monthly, 'THE BODY
Share S/M experiences
andfantasies with others in a posi, .', POSITIVE" ($2!i{year). (212) 7211348.2095 Broadway, Suite 306,
tive, non-judgemental
atmoNY, 10023
sphere. First Sunday of themonth, 4:45pm at the CommuBROOKLYN'Sl£SB1AN AND GAY
nity Center 208 W. 13 Street,
POImCAL CWB lAMBDA
NYC. This group is part of the
INDEPENDENT DEMOCRATSNew York Area Bisexual NetLl.D. endorses and works forwork.
candidates in local, state andnational elections, lobbies for legBISEXUAL INFURMATION &islation, and conducts community
COUNSEUNG SERVICE, INC.
outreach through stnaet fairs and
A professionaly staffed, nonmeetings 01; special topics. Join
profit organization for bisexuus. 336 Ninth St, Suite 135 Brookals, their families and partners,
lyn, NY 11215 (718) 9flS.8482
fa cing problems of a psychological or medical kind. We also
CIIa..E OF MORE UGHT
work with those in doubt a bout
Spiritual support and sharing in atheir sexuality. Confidentiality is
gay/lesbian affirmative group.
protected by law. For informaWest-Park Presbyterian Churchtion phone: (212) ~9500
165 West 86th Street Wed: wor. BISEXUALPRIDE
ship service 6:30 pm, program
7:30: Marsha (212)304-4373 CharDISCUSSION GROUP
lie (212) 691-7118. .
Topical discussions ~n issues ofinterest to the community in a
COMMlJNITY IEAU1I
congenial
atmosphere,
folPROJECT
lowed by an informal dinner at
208 West 13th Street, NYC, Newa friendly local restaurant.
York
10011
f;lr
Appointments andEvery Sunday, 3:00-4:30pm atInformation(212) 675-3559
the Community Center 208 W. 13(TTYNoice)PROVIDING CARING,
Street, NYC. Part of the New
SENSITIVE AND _LOW COST
York Area Bisexual Network.
HEALTHCARE SERVICES TO THE
I£SBIAN AND GAYCOMMUNITY
BIWAYS NIWYORKMonthly social events for the
COMMlJNnY IEAU1I
Bisexual community and friends.
PROJECT's HEAllH INFURMACall NYABNfor details of upcomnON UNE FOR lIENS
ing events. (212).. 4S!)-47B4
Do you have questions about
yourhealth? Your Body? Com,
BIPAC (BISEXUAL pounCAI.
ing Out? Safer Sex? Feel like
ACTIONCOMMrmE)
you have no one to talk to? Not
Political action on issues ofany morel Now you can call theimportence to the Bisexual /LesHOn-LlNE.212-255-1517The
bian/Gay community. Monthly
Teen HOn-LiNE for Healthl Callmeeting! potluck held 8:00pm on
Monday to Thursday, 7pm tofourth Thursday of the month at
9pm. At other times, leave amembers homes. Call NYABNfor
message and we'll call you
this month's location. ((212) 459backl
4784;-

COMMlINnYRESEARat 1\III1AT1VE
CRI tests experimental drugs andtreatments
for AIDS and HIV
related illnesses. Monthly treatment and research group for HIV+
individuals.
Treatment
andresearch newsletter, forums andpublic seminars. Call Alice Spears
or Ken Fornataro at (212) 481-1«!iO
for info and ma~ing list.
CONGIIEGATIONBETHSIMCHATTORAH
NY's Gay and Lesbian Synagogue
Services Friday at 8:30pm 57
Bethune Street For info. call: (212)929-9498.

CONGIIEGATION
B'NAI JESHURUN
Monthly Spritual Gatherings andfree catered festiveluncheOl1S for
all People With AIDS, their lovers
and families. Program includes
music and discussion led by our
Rabbis. Call (212)767-71DJ
DIGMTYBIG APPlE
A community of Lesbian and Gay
Catholics. Activities include Uturgies and socials every Sa~, 8:00
pm, at the Center, 208 W. 13
Street, NYC.CaIl(212) 81&-1300.
DIGNnY NEW YORK
Lesbian and gay Catholics andfriends AIDS Ministry, Spiritual
Development The Cathedral Project Worship Services & SocialSun. Eves. 7:3Opm-St John's Epi&copal Church 218West 11th Stnaet
C Waverly-675-2179
BJGE Education in a Di_1ed.
'
Gay EmrihHI,*11I
For the physically disabled Lesbian and Gay Community. P.O.Box
305 Village Station, New York, NY
10014

FRONT RUNNBIS .
A running club for lesbian and gay
athletes of all abilities. Fun Runsof 1-6 miles held every Sat. at
1Dam and Weds. at 7pm in Central
Park and every Tues. at 7pm in
Prospect Park. For information:
call (212) n4-97oo.

Friday each month, 7pm, at'The
Center, 208 W. 13th St, Wellt of
7th Ave. Contribution: $6. Bring amain course for 4 people (or pay'a$5 food charge.) For information
call: 212-979-7541 or212-28&-3236
GlAAD -Gay & 1Mbian AlIi_
Apiiilt o.r.n.tion
80 Varick Street, NYC 10013 (212)966-1700 GlAAD combats homophobia in the media and els'lwhere by promoting visibility of
the lesbian and gay communityand organizing
grassroots
response to anti-gay bigotry. Do
you have 30 minutes a month tofight homophobia?Jointhe
GlAAD PhoneTreelCall (212~9661700for information.
GlII

Gay and Lesbian Independent
Broadcasters invites you to tun~
into OunOOKS on WBAI-NY, 99.5
FM every other Sunday, 7:308:30pm and join us every Tuesday
at 7:00pm to 9:00pm to become a. member of GLIB. No experienceneeded. 505 Eighth Avenue,. NY;
NY 10018 Attn: Outlooks or call(212)245-638&-ask for GUB.
GAY& l£SB1AN HEALJH
CONCERNS
An office of the NYC Dept. of
Health, provides linkages betwn
NYC Health & Human Svcs, andthe Lesbian & Gay community,
focusing in All health concerns;
resource information fo'r healthservices
consumers
andproviders. 125 Worth Street, Box
67, New York, NY 10013. For info
call (212)se&-4lm.
GAYMAU: 11M ACTMSTS
Dedicated to safe and responsible S/M since 1981. Open meetings w/programs on S/M techniques,lifestyie issues, politicaland social concerns. Also special
events, speakers bureau, workshops, demos, affinity groups,
newsletlllr, more. GMSMA - Dept.
0, 498A Hudson Street, Suite 023,NYC10014.(212)n7-!Jf18.
GMAD (GAYMEN OFAAIICANDESCINI)80 Varick Street, NYC10013 a sup"THE GAYAAlICAN
AMERICANS OF
WESTatESTER(The G.A.A.)
is a community baaed support
group formed in Westchester
County. Various activities areplanned for the coming months.
Call 914-376-0727 for more info.
GAYrATHBI'S FORUM
A support organization for gay
father's, thair lovers, and others inchild-nurturingsituations.
Monthly meetings include a
potluck supper, support groups on
varied specialized topics, speakers, and socializing.Meetings: 1st

port group of Gay Men Of African
Descent dedicated to consciou&nes&-rai8ing and the developmentof the Lesbian and Gay Community. GMAD is inclusive of African,
African-American, Caribbean and
Hispanic/ Latino men of color.
Meetings' are held, \.weldy, on fridays. For information, call 718802-0162.
GAYIlEN"S HEALJHCRISIS HOTUNEFOR INFORMATION ON SAFERSEX AND HIV-RELATEDHEALTHSERVICES, AND FOR INFORMATION ON ONE-TIME, WALK-IN

March 20, 1_1

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GIIITH" MIRTHCLUB OF NEW YORK
Social club for heavy, chubby gay
men & their admirers. Monthly
socials at the "Cants!', weekly bar
nights Thursdays at the 'Chelsea
Transfer', monthly Fat Apple
Review, bi-monthly FAR. penpals. For more information callErnie at 914-699-7735 or write:
G&M/NY, Dept. 0, P.O. Box 10,
Palham, NY 10803.
HEAL(1INIth Ed.-1ion AIDS LiailOll)

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Weekly info. and support groupfor traatments for AIDS which do
not compromise the immune systam further, including altemativeand holistic approaches. Wed
8pm. 208 W. 13th St. (212}674HOPE.
IERlTAGE OF PRIDE-INC.
Organizers of New Yor1(sLesbianand Gay Pride avants: the March,tha Rally and the Dance on thePier. Call (212) 691-1774 for meeting schadula or more infonnation.
208 Wast 13th Straat, NY, NY
10011.
HEI1IICK-MAIITIN
INSITTUJE
for lasbian a nd gay youth. Counseling, drop-in canter (M-F, 36pm), rap groups, Harvey Milk
High School, AIDS and safar sex
information, referrals, profassional education. (212) 633-8920(voice) (212) 633-8926 TIY fordaaf.
HISPANIC UNnEDGAYS" lESBIANS
Educational sarvicas, politicalaction, counsaling and social
activities in Spanish arid English
by and for the Letino Lesbian and,Gay Community. General meetings
8:00 pm 4th Thursday of every
month at 2IlI West 13th Street Call
201-853-7824or write H.U.G.L,P.O.
Box 226 Canal Street Station, New
yorX. NY 10019..

! ,IDENTnY HOUSE
Now in our 20th year, we provide
peer counseling, therapy referrals
and groups for the lasbian, gay
and bisaxual community. Call us
at (212) 243-8181. Visit us at 544
6th Ave., bat.waan 14th-15t~
Streats, Manhattan.
INI'EIINAnONAL GAY"
lESBIAN HUMANRIGHTSCOMMISSION
works to focus the spotlight ofworld opinion pn tha oppression of gays and lesbians
throughout the world. Currently
organizing an Inti symposium
on Gay and Lesbia n issues tobe held in Moscow and Leningrad in July 1991, in additon to'
many other exciting projects.
For more info writa IGLHRC,
2978 Folsom Steat, SF CA 94110,
or call (415}647-0453.

INSTTIUTE RIR IIJMAN

mENTTTYINc.

New Yorlt's non-profit lesbian andgay psychotherapy
center.
Ucensed psychologists, psychiatrists, and clinical social worltel'S.
Sliding scale fees. Insurance
accepted. Individual, couple, andfamily therapy. Variety of Men's
and women's groups forming
continuously. 118W. nnd Street
212-79&-9432
INTEGRlTYJNY .
Lesbiim and Gay Episcopalians
and friands. Eucharist and program avery Thursday, 7:30pm. St
Luke's Church, Hudson andChristopher Sts. INFO: P.O. Box5202, NY NY 10185(718) 720-31!i4
lAMBDA
LEGAl. DEHNSE
AND mUCATlON RJND
Precedent-setting
litigation
nationwide for lesbians, gay men
and people with AIDS. Membership ($40 and up) inc. newsletterand invitations to special events.
Volunteer night on Thursdays.
Intake calls: 2-4pm Mon thru Fri(212) 99!HI585.
IAVA-(l.E.SBlANSABOIlT
VlSUALAR1),Call for slides for Lesbian Artists'
Exhibition, Gay & Lesbian Community Center, NYC. For more
information, send SASE to :Miriam Fougere, 118 Fort Greene
Place, Brooklyn, NY 11217.
lESBIAN AND GAY
ADII.TEDUCATORS
Meet with other lesbians andgays who worlt in adult educationas teachers,
administrators,
counselors, b.rtors, etc., to discuss
issues such as coming out to staff
and students, materials and curriculum, workshop and conference participation. We meet thefirst Friday of every month at 8:00
pm at the Lesbian and gay Community Center 208 West 13th
Straat. Call Bryna Diamond at(212) 932-7902 (days) for infonnalion
THELUBIAN AMI GAY
BIG APPLE CORPS
Get your instrument out of theclosat and come play with us.
Symphonic, Marching, Jazz, Dixialand, Rock, Rute Ensemblas andWoodwinds. 123 West 44th St.
Suite 12L New York, NY 10036(212) 889-2922.
LUBIAN"GAYCO.,UNnYSERVICES CENIBI
208 Wast 13th Street New Yom,
NY 10011 (212) 620-7310 9am11pm everyday. A place for community organizing and net- worlting, social sarvices, cultural
program's, and social events
sponsored by tha Center andmore than 150 community organizations.
lESBIAN AND GAYlABOR NETWORKAn organization of Lesbians andGays who are active in their labor,

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unions working on domestic partnarship benafits and AIDS issues.
For more informationcall(212}923-8600.,
LUBIAN AMI GAYRIGHTSPROJECT
of tha American Civil Libertie.
Union KNOW YOUR RIGHTS/
WE'RE EXPANDINGTHEM (212)944-9800, axt 545
lESBIANS AMI GAYSOFRATBUSH
Brooklyn's social organization
for both gay men and lesbians. P.O. Box 106, Midwood
Station Brooklyn, NY 11230·(718) 859-9437
LUBIAN HERSTORYARCIIVES
P.O. Box 1258 New York, Naw
York 10116212/874-7232Since
1974, the Archives has inspired,shaped and reflected Lesbian
lives everywhere.
Call toarrange 8 visit or to voluntaer
for Thursday worltnights.
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ONGISlAND ACT-UP
Meets Tuesdays at 8pm at 181
Post Ave. in Westbury, NY. Support
us for change on Long Island.
Mailing address: PO Box 514,
WBstbury, NY 115!1l.51&-33&-4862.

gay tennis club includes players from beginning to tournament level. Monthly tennis partias. Winter indoor league.
Come play with usl For information: MTG, Suite K63, 498-A •Hudson St., New York, NY
10025. (718) 852-8582.
MOCA (MIn '" tolar AIDS
Prewntion 1'IogrIm.)
Provides safer sex and AIDS education information to gay andbisexual Men of Color; coordinates a networlt of peer-support
groups for gay and bisexual Man
of Color in all 5 boroughs of New
YorltCity 303 Ninth Ave, New YorX.
NY 10001 or can (21~)239-1796.
NATIONAl. GAYAMI LUBIANTASKFORCE
is the national grassroots poIi1ical
organization for lesbians and gay
men. Membership is $3O/year.
Issue-oriented projacts address
violence, sodomy laws, AlD~, gay
rights ordinances,families,
media, etc. through lobbying,education, organizing and direct
action. NGLlF 1517 U Street NW,
Washington, DC 20009. (202)332,
6483.

BLA PO Box 174, Midtown Station, New Yom, NY 10018 or call(212) 807-8578 for information.

NORTHERN UGHIS•

Improving auality of Life for Peopia with AIDS/HIV. THE AIDSMASTERY WORKSHOP: Exploringtha poasibili1ies fla powerful andcreativelita in the face Of AIDS.
C8n(212)~8554
NYC GAY" LESBIAN _ANTI-VlOliNCE PROJECJ
Counseling, advocacy, and information for survivors of anti-gay
and anti-lesbian violence, saxual
assault, domestic violence, andother types of victimization. All
services free and confidential.24
hour hotline (212) 807-0191•

OF
LESBIAN AND GAYS
Let P/FLAG help you and yourfamily deal with the upheaval ofyour coming out. Our meetings
are frae: monthly on the 4th Sunday, at 3:00 pm, in Duane Church,
201 Wast 13th. Info? call Jaanna,
212-483-0629

P£OPLEWIIH AIDSCOAlJl1ON(212)532-0290(1-8110-828-3280(~ICA11ONSNEtWORK
Hotline(212)
532-0588Monday
NYACN
is
the
community'sLSM
thru Friday lOam~pm Meal prolargest gay and lesbian profesis a support and inf,ormation
grams, support groups, aducasional group, walcoming all ingroup for lesbians and bisexualtional and referral servicas forcommunications-andthairwomen interested in fantaay, rolePWA's and PWArc'a.
friends. Monthly meetings, 3rd
playing, bindage, discipline, S/M,
Wad 6:30pm at tha Community
fetishes, altemate gender indentiPEOPI.f WIJII AIDS
Center. Members' newsletter,ties, costumes and so forth. MemHEAIlH GROUP
job hotline, annual directory.
bership is available only to
Undarground buyer's club importPhone (212) 517-0380 for more
women 18'/liars and older. Actualingn,*yat-apprClV8d
madications
info. Mention OutWeek for one
exparience is not required but
and nutritional supplemants. 31
frae newsletter.
genuina interest and an opan
West 28th St 4th Root (212) 532mind are. For infonnation plaase
0280
N.Y.RiMMES
write: P.O. Box 993, Murray Hill
Support and discusaion group for .
Station, New York,NY 10158
P1NK~
PllROl.
lesbians who self identify asCommunity straet patrol in East
Femma and are primarily
MAIIANImIA: RIVERSIDERS RlR
andWest
Vill~gadedi
cited toauractad to butch women. For
lES~YCONCBlNS
daterring viol8!,1t crime againat
mambership information call Lisa
Monthly program meating on
glY. and lesbians. For info and(212)829-9817.
second Sunday.for gay/lesbian
meeting time for West Village,
Christians and friends. EducacI1l212-475-4383. for East VilN.y. WOMEN'S SOFIBAl1GUILD
tional, political, and social
Ilge Patrol info, call 212-248For ,GXperienced, serious Softballactivities scheduled, 12:30 p.m.
6586.70 A GflIenwich Ave., Box
Players, Coaches and Managlll'S.
Riversida Church, 490 Riversida
107, NYC 10011
Wa play mo4'fast pitch week.,ws
Drive, Sunday worship 10:45
in Manhattan and Quaans. Trya.m .. For info.,call (212) 222-5900
PROFESSIONALS IN FUNVIDEO
outa begin Feb. 11 thru April- or(ext. 290)
338 Canal Straet, 8th Roor, NYC
untilfilled. (212)2!'O-1379Janet.
10013212-&15-3351
MARANMHA: RIVERSIDERS RlR
NlNIH STREET CENTBI
IES~YCONCBlNS
II1&II NATION
Since 1973, a community dediis a dues. supported group within
Queer Nation is a multi-culturalcated to demonstrating that a
the Rivarside Church. We are
direct action group dadicated tohomosexuallifastyte is 1\ rational,
unable to aflrot you standard rate
fighting homophobia,
quail,
dasirable choice fOJ individuals
of $400.00 per yaar at this tima,
invisibility, and all forma of
dissatisfied with the rewards of
but will be increasing our dues in
oppressionthat any quaers
conventional living. Psychologithe next fiscal year to include
might face. Anyon. can suggest
cally - focussed rap groups, Tuea.,
mora advertising funds.
anactionandshould come toSat., 8 to 10 pm. peer counselling
meetings prepared to organize
available. 319 E. 9 Street, Naw
MEN OFAl1C01.ORS
and implement it QN, Box 1524,
Yorlt, NY'I0003, for info call (212)TOGEIHBINY
Cooper Station, New York, NY
22&-5153.
A multi-racial group of g!ly men
10003. Call 212c483-7208 foragainst racism. Meetings every
meating info.
NORTHAMERICAN ~OY
Friday night at 7:45 at the Lesbian
LOVEASSOCIAnON (NAMatA)
and Gay Community Sarvices
SAGE: ---4Seni- Action in
Dedicated to sexual freedom
Center,208 W. 13th Street. Fora Gay Emill.lnl nil
and especially interested in gay
more info. call: (212) 2~
orSocialSarvice Agency. providing
intargenerational
relationships.
(212)222-9194.
care, activitias, & educational
Monthly Bulletin and regularservices for gay & lesbian I8nior
chapter maetings on the first
METROPOUfAN TENNIS
citizens. Also sarves ovar 180
Saturday of each month. Yearly
GROUP(MTG)
homebound saniors & older
membership is $20; write NAMOur 200 member lasbian and•

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SEtHIAN GAYS,
lESBIANS AND BISEXUALSFor all of us interested in reaching out to ea'ch other in
exuberance to spontaneously
explore and expand
upon the Seth/Jane Roberts 'Philosophy" as it realtes
to our lives, personally, sexually and politically. Call Al(212) 97&-5104

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TASK FORCEANNOUNCEMENT
The legal Action Center located at 153 Waverly Place,
NY,NY 10014, has begun two new programs. All theirservices are free. The HIV/AIDS'Legal Service Projectprovides free legal services to people with HIV/AIDS.
Their scope of serVice is• wide, encompassing childcare and custody, discrimination, hou, housing, health'(
health planning, confidentiality and employment. The
HIV/AIDSAgency Training and Assistance Project provides technical assistance to public and private agencies about legal and policy issues on HIV/AIDS anddrug abuse. They provide training, individual consultations, and model policy guidelines, among other items. If
you have any further questions, please contact Ms.
Catherine O'Neil at (212)2<U-1313. Th. Asloci.tion of
Nun •• in AIDS C.r. (ANAC) just received Chapter
Charter for the local Greater New York Chapter. They. have monthly meetings with speakers and networking
opportunities. Their next meeting is scheduled for January 9,1991,6-8 pm. at the AIDS Institute,S Penn Plaza,
4th floor, NY,NY. If you have any further questions,please contect Janet Vaccariello at (212)340-8n4
TIE OUTREACHUSINGCOMMUNALHEAUNG(TOUCH)
Community volunteers providing a weekly buffet supper for the Brooklyn AIDS community. TOUCH meetsMonday eves. 5pm to 6:30pm- at downtown Brooklyn
Friends Meeting House (110 Schennerhom SI. near
Boerum Place). Limited transportation
may bearranged. Info: (718) 622-2756. TOUCHwelcomes contributions of funds, food and volunteers.
UlSTER COlM'Y GAY AND lESBIAN AWANCE
Meets first and third Monday of each month at 7:30 pm
at the Unitarian Church on Sawkill Road in Kingston.
For Infonnation, call 91U26-3203 .

UNITY,.
NEEDS YOUto become a part of itl Organizers for Gay
G.ames IV, to be held in New York in 1994. Olympicstyle sports and cultural event is largest in world.
Theme is INCLUSION,everyone is needed. SUPPORT'THE GAMES by volunteering, joining or making a donation. Call 212-732-3612 or write UNllY '94, PO Box 202,
NY,NY 10038.

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people heading that list-can you believethat Michael AIig and Keoki celebrated
their fifth anniversaty as a couple.
Liz: A couple of ~hat?
Sydney: Now, now ... .! mean five
years' Qn.,the club scene is like a 50thv.;eddin,g anriiversary in real life.
LiZ: One club year is equal to sevenhuman years. No, wait, that's dog years.
Silly me. I hope if I am ever blessedenough, I will choose. to spend my.fifth
anniversaty as they did.
Sydney: You mean an intimate dinner for ZOO where social graces meansthat its OK to throw your lukewarm
french fries on the person sitting next toyou and a boy in five-inch heels walks
down the middle of the table pouring
wine into your glass and onto your plate?
Liz: Something like that. Maybe without the boy. But all of this forces me to
ask a question: When was the momentthat made you know that you belonged
in nightlife? That this was where you
were'happy?
Sydney: 'When Kitty Boots5, patentleather stil1ettos and all, walked on top ofa go-go boy, and I saw that the otherdancer was jealously flogging himself
with his studded leather belt, just waiting.for his tum with Miss Kitty.
liz: .1bat's Mistress Boots, if you're
nasty. I'm sure Doris Klosteri' was very
happy with her birthday. performance, .
don't you think?
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Sydney: Yes, but did her mothermake breakfast for them? T

SUNDANCE oumOOR
ADVENTURESOCIETY
A non-profit club offering Outdoor activities for every
season including hiking, biking, skiing, water activities
and other outdoor activities for the Gay/Lesbian community. For infonnation or complimentary Newsletter
call (212) 598-4n6.

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1. One of two gay nights-Thursday's"More Men" is beefcake night, where even
. the drag show has muscle; Sunday's
includes more lesbians, svelte drag queens
and the It Twins.
, .WllAMI...w-tI'. Health Action And Mobilization.
2. President of the ROCky Horror PicA direct action group commited to demanding, secur-.
ing and defending absolute reproductive freedom andture Show Fan Club and gets more press ,forquality health care for all women; We meet every Wed.
no reason,
at 6:30pm at 105, E 22nd Street, 4th floor. 212-713- .
3. Renovated baCk of Umelight consist'5966Mailing address: WHAMI, PO Box 733, NYC10009.
ing of nine rooms organized loosely on an
WOMENS ALTERNATIVE COMMUNITYCENTBI (WACCI"Alice in Wonderland" theme. Home to gay
A non-profit, Lesbian community center serving
Queens, Nassau and Suffolk Counties. Thurs. night
Friday night party "Mea Culpa" and a Thursweekly discussion groups. 8:30 pm, for other actiVities
day party called "The Altered States of Conplease contect us at 516-483-2050.
sciousness." Aldous Huxley would be proud.
WIIES1UNG FOR GAYS &lESBIANS
4. "Funk, Inc."•
Watch the men of the knights wrestling club inaction
5. Member of the House of Dominaevery Sunday at 7:30 PM at the GAYCENTER.The clubalso conduct training classes on alternate Saturdays
tion. Need we say more?
afternoon (lst & 3rd Saturdaysfor men 2nd & 4th Sat6. Editrix of Fad magazine.
urdays for women) for morelnfonnation please calh'

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Danny, a broad-shouldered go-go
dancer, 'l:l, with a boy's cartoonish face, is .
more succinct about the merits of naturism. "You get to see the goods up front."
Six months ago, he met his lover, Anthony, , at a MAN event. Next week, they're
flying to Brussels for a honeymoon.
Every party has its wiseacre. Given
the absence of a lampshade, Bruce has
festooned himself with nametags. Messages range from the titillating "Easy to
Be Hard" to the up-front "Touch My
Balls." Bruce, a short, dark-haired man
with mischievous eyes, explains that thelatter billboard receives divergent reactions. Either people oblige him rightaway, or they walk away quickly.
A little after 11 pm, innuendohangs heavily in the air. Both the everflowing beer and the dance music haverelaxed people. Members have huddledin small circles, leaning against each .
other and even stroking faces, shoulders, chests. Soon, erections are blooming. But intimacy goes no further.
Nudism for a cause is a relatively
new phenomenon. It originated in theearly part of this century in Germany andwas dubbed Nacktkultur (naked culture)
or Freikorperkultur (free body culture).
Its tenets were grounded in a fierce senseof nationalism and a back-to-nature crusade. It spread to the United States during the '30s. Nudists argue that clothing
fosters body-loathing and deprives thehuman form of air and sunlight. Nudism,
they say, promotes good health.
Bill, 33, an advertising account executive with a ready smile and hyena laugh,suIV:eys the room. Regarding health andnudity, he assures me: "You'll fmd no correlation. We have our share of meat-eaters
and alcoholics and smokers and drugabusers. We're just like DOnna! people,
but we like to take our clothes off'."
Nude idealism goes only so far. At
midnight, the lights come up, and people
90n their clothes again. With the clothes
come the extra baggage: body-shyness
and image-<ieception. In our lifetime, itappears, naturism is restricted to private
parties or tropical islands. ,In a perfectworld, would Murray be walking thestreets freely, his gonads to the wind? "I
don't know," he falters. "I would like to,but I know it's not gonna happen." T
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SIGN UP FOR SIGN-LANGUAGE~ome join our new semester. Day andevening classes available, N,Y. Schoolof American Sign Language, For more
information call 679-7446.

ANTHONY SANTONI
Attorney at law, Real Estate; cO-OPt
Condo Closings - Bankruptcy; Incorporations; Wills, 37 E. 28th Street, Suite
700,rlYC(212)447~

GAY & LESBIAN
Switchboard-of NY needs men andwomen to volunteer now. Training tostart soon. Ifyou can give at least 6
hours per in 0 nth cia I (212)m-1800.

COMPUTERSHORTICULTURISTS
Personal and Professional Networking for lesbian and gay Horticulturists,
Write Liatris International PO Box
1336, Davis, CA 95617•

Tbe Male Stop
A computer BaS.
Use your modem.
, (212)721-41111 Free!

COl TRACTORS
Ministry to
Persons
With
AIDS.
Call Tony or Bill at the
Church of St. Francis

212-695-1500

AUDITIOISNew A Capella Group
Seeks strong singers (tenors & a!1Ds)
who read music. Wide Variety of musical styles, commitmentto progressive
politics, feminism, gay liberation, For,
more information call Elliot718-624-m6

APARTMEIT'
CLEANINB
WORD IS OUT
for the best a partment cleaningCall..,WORD OF MOUTH APARTMENT
CLEANERS reliable/responsible/
efficient Tel. 212-645-9197

ARTHUR LOVEJOY
LICENSED ELECTRICAL CONTRACTOR
Repairs and New Installations. Commercial and Residential. Courteous, Professional Service. Available Eves. andWeekends. (718) 782-4735

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APARTMEIT
WANTED
2 BRaptin
PARK SLOPE
sought by 2 lesbians forApril 1st. Will pay up to$850. Call 212-941-0721

MPA

Counseling212-989-6006.

GAY MEN'S WORKSHOPS
Assertiveness Training
Self-Esteem Improvement
Monthly/4 Sessions Low Fee+ Psychotheraphy Groups wkly
Union Sq, Office/Free Consult
Dr. Mark Williams 212-691-6161
Certified/20 yrs experience•

READINGS TO 'GO
Brian performs sensitive psychic
readings in home, office, or by phone.
Serving the gay community withaccuracy, humor, and care. Forfree
information or appointment;
212 - 969-0843,':\".~.

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prr Lobby ReceptioniSt..

2 pit positions, weekday & weekend
evenings. requires excellent people
skills, good writing/phone skills for very
busy building. 15hours/wk. $7/hrtn start••

The Introduction Service for Professionally-Oriented
Serving the.Tri-State Area Since 1985

Gay MenResumes (indicate position desired)tn Robert Woodworth,lesbian & Gay Community Services,
208W. 13th., NYC loo11

Call for a free brochure Mon•• Fri. 7 pm • 11 pm
In NY, N.J & CT (212) 580-9595

SECRETARYDENTISTS

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IMPROVE YOUR SMILE
Bonding, Bleaching &•:Porcelain laminates. Call for details.
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What if you could eat .
whatever you want,whenever you wantand still keep yournatural shape?
Call Ross Jacobs(212) 929-0661

fOR SAlE
BOOKSTORE FOR SALE•

les/Fem/Gay Bookstore. 4 salewith good NYC Metro & Tri-State
Following since 1978. Center of U's
lesbian Community, liz Snow c/o
Alternatives Corner, 675 Woodfield
Rd., W. Hempstead, NY 11552

HElP WANTEDCLUB PROMOTION COMPANY
looking for well Groomed, reliable people to pass out flyers and promotion
materials, Must be available for latenight and weekend shifts, Contact
Tony Graziano at (212) 337-1204. Callbetween 10:00tn 5:00.

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AIDS Writers:

OutWeek has several freelance positions ,for talented
reporters who can explain
I AIDS-related
medical issues
and the politics behind themin "AP-objective" style for ageneral gay and lesbian
readership. Journalism experience a plus, NY based or
out-of-town is ok.
Interested reporters., should
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send a resuml1 and:non-returnable clips:(nq phone calls) to: ~ ,:P.R. Coleman/OutWeek:
159 W. 25 St. '.
:NY, NY 10001

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Word Perfect 5.0 and excellent phonemanner required. Send resume tn Erica
Bell, Esq., Weiss, Buell & Bell, Room
6918,Empire State Building, 350 Fifth
Avenue, New York, NY 10118

PROGRESSIVE AIDSSERVICE ORGANIZAlONNOW HIRING
for its intake and Scattered Site
Housing porgrams, including Scattered
Site Program Director, ResidenceManager, Clinical Social Workers,
Case Managers, Drug Counselor,
Entitlements Specialist. Mental HealthWorkers, Home Economist. Maintenance Worker, and Administrative
Assistant Wmen and Persons of Colorurged tn apply; Spanish a plus. For
information: Housing Works, Inc., Box
326,111 E. 14th St, NYC 10003or call(212) 206- n36. Housing Worts is an
Affirmative Action Employer.

INSTRUCTIONS~PHONE SEX MODERATORS
Must have friendly, out-going personality, Part-time, eight hour sifts.
Call Mr, ly.ons at 935-3440

MEN'S MASSAGE GRQUP
Get a massage & leam to give one tool
Every Sunday, 7 pm - 10'pm; Bring atnwel, Call Terry Weisser 463-9152.~.

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ASSISTANT COORDINATORMENTAL HEALTH TRAINING

Gay Men's Health Crisis is the largest community based organization
dedicated to the fight against AIDS. Our triple mission is to provide services to people with AIDS and their loved ones; to educate the public; andto advocate for fair and effective AIDS policies. Our services are provided
free of charge to 4,500 men, women and children with AIDS in the fiveboroughs of New York.
•The Assistant Coordinator assists in the development of HIV/AIDS. education programs for mental health professionals. Responsibilities
include marketing education programs to mental health agencies; training clinicians conductin,g programs; performing needs assessments foragencies. MSW or equivalent work experience required; employee
assistance program/hospital social work experience helpful. Strong com- .
mitment to promoting HIV/AIDS education programs for social service
agencies needed.
.
Our agency is~committed to staff development, support and growth andprovides a competitive salary/benefits package. Please send resume alongwith salary requirements, to: Donna DaSh, Human Resources
Department, Gay Men's Health Crisis, Inc., 129 West 20th Street, New
York, NY 10011, Women and minority candidates urged to apply. We arean equal opportunity employer M/F/HN.
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SWEDISH MASSAGE
Have you ever wanted to give someone a massage but didn't know how?
Terry Weisser, LMT offers introductory
weekend seminars in massage.
March 9-10 or April 3-14, •Call (212) 463-9152 for info.

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Personal & Business Taxes
Professional Computerized preparation at low cost Tax planning & Bookkeeping service available,(212) 675-6119

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Jewelry available in,gold or surgicalsteel all equipment sterilized in autoclave, By Appointment Only.
201-488-3881

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I am always most. disappointed when
activists can't provide support and validation for each other.
If the political debate is the theory,
how we actually treat each other is thepractice, Lack of validation and support are. the types of behavior thatcause lasting schisms within groups.
Women's AIDS' projects havefailed or foundered due to this lack ofsupport, Terry McGovern started the
HIV Project to provide legal assistanceto poor people 'with AIDS. This project can't get adequate funding to hirestaff or rent equipment. The lawsuit
against the Social Security Administration is being waged under these conditions, The New York Times asked the
Gay Men's Health Crisis to write an
editorial about the issue of discrimination against women and poor pebple,
trying to receive disability, and it ran
without mention of McGovern's project or its dire need for funds.
In fact, we often hear of men
attempting to address the issues ofwomen and AIDS, and doing so inadequately. Why can't they demand a place
for women to speak about our issues inimportant public forums? ACT UP's
Treatment and Data committee recently
began an impressive treatment campaign, "Countdown 18 Months," but did
not place a single woman-specificopportunistic infection on its agenda.
The lack of priority in incorporating theagendas of women, people of color and
IVDUs into the. work is all too apparent.
These are the kinds of experiencesthat allow mistrust to fester. Clearly
there should be room on our agendas
for all of our issues. A selective, singieissue focus creates discord among us,
while giving the establishment the ability to pit us against each other andundermine our movement. I believe. that the rhetoric that urgency alone
must guide our agendas and tactics fails
us repeatedly. I am not opposed toI'heeding our own sense of urgency. Far
from it. But urgency alone, acted uponby single-minded activists using eventhe most radical of tactics, is simply nota viable strategy for the long-haul
struggle' of building. meaningful,respectful coalitions that will, in tum,benefit all of us and radically change
the way in which we live.T
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Deep and relaxing by good-looking .
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HOT TORSO
A1hletic bodYwork from boyish 150#
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HUMAN RIGHTS CAMPAIGN FUND
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208 W 13th St., NY• Refreshments will be served .
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Send letter, Outweek Box 3776.
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PATIERNATBLOOMIE'S
GF, 35, 5'6", 135,
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SAPPHOWANTEDFor marriage in
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HAPPILY MARRIED LESBIAt!!
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who is white,
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SMOKE &DRINK
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anyway) 1his-26
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possible) orafter midnight(how did I get
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GWF, 29, Attractive, sincere,
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career-oriented
educated humorous out.:going
confident honest
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TIRED OFQUEENS
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VENICE IN THE
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Sweet kisses in. the dark. Sensuous, exceptionallypretty, zaftig (diet. jng), much pub'Iished author," femme, 40+,'. seeks accom. plished, attractive, (preferably
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large numbers oftiny, nasty
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message at 4594811 or write
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10108 SOrry, no
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WARM, SENSITIVE, HONEST,
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Honesty,nonsmoker, sober
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blue eyes, some- _what hairy. Seeks
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60th than answer
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New York, NY
10268
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into servicing,Box 1077 Ansonia Stn. NYC
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Gdlk Ex-Marine,Blue eyes
salt/pepper
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130# tightsmooth,. body, hairy legs.
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6'5", 225 Ibs, 30
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black male ofsimilar build whointerests include:
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response, To Outweek Box 3971
THINKING SERIOUSLY?
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1751bs,handsome, successful
health professional, interest:
music, theater,
travels, dinningout, intelligent
discussions, goodbooks, is seeking
similar for honest
relationship. No
drugs, Pleasewrite about yourinterests andhobbies I Include
telephone number and photo(only if you want),
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you can't often create sensational programs," said deputy commissioner
Atkins. "You can create good programs, you can create useful programs,
but you may not make the papers."~
Atkins cites the department's Real~ ity House program in Harlem as an~ example. That program provides:1[ numerous health services, among them
~ HIV education and substance-abuse~ treatment to pregnant women. The
ffi ~Reality House project has received litE tle play in the media.
oifRecently, the department fired up
initiatives dealing with gay men andlesbians. The health department's City
He-althInformation, a monthly newsletter, d{(voted its entire January issue tobias violence against gay men and lesbians. That newsletter, originating in
deputy commissioner Ong's office,
was distributed to 24,000 physicians
and 9,000 health-related institutions
citywide.
Following the initial brouhaha in
the press over Myers' appointment, .
which created the frrst high-level con,flict for the newly-electedmayor,
advocates and former employees alikeassert that Myers is isolated and avoids. debate on critical issues.
Contrasting Myers with former
health commissioner Stephen Joseph,one former employee said, "Joseph
made a lot of enemies, but at least he
was in the fight. Myers is just standing
on ,the sidelines.", .. Responding to charges that Myers
avoids debate, department appointees"
claimthat that complaint arises morefrom the sharply contrasting styles of• Myers and his predecessor, Stephen
Joseph.
That difference
couldn't
begreater. "For 12 years prior to thisadministration, New Yorkers became
used to a bully-pulpit way of dealing
with issues often spearheaded by themayor," said deputy commissiohe~
Atkins.
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advocates and drawing loud protests
from several communities.
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deputy commissioners, especially Ong,
more frequently represent the department when dealing with community
groups, Myers is reported to haveattende.d only one meeting of the HN
Planning Council, the body charged
with writing the city's application forfunds
made available under the Ryan,
White Act.
"Myers belief and his management style is to hire the best people
he can find as deputy, associate andassistant commissioners," counters
deputy commissioner Atkins. "It isappropriate to use his executive staff
to represent him."
In fact, citing scheduling conflicts, Myers declined, through a
spokesperson, an opportunity to beinterviewed for this article, preferring
to arrange interviews with_department
representatives.
While it is clear that Myers' distantstyle and his department's budget constraints have not won him manyfriends in a community that opposed
his appointment, his management
style is unlikely to embroil him in further controversies.
But will it win' him friends
among a community devastated by
AIDS and plagued by bias-related
physical attacks? That, say activists,
will -happen when the gay and lesbian community, long alienated fromthe city's health department, once
again feels that the DOH has its bestinterests in mind, and the resources
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5. "Dear"9., Word with ball or drink
13, Maple genus.

14, Some horses••,

16, Peter or Nicholas.
17. With 3 down, vitamin deficiency
18. Bikini, for one
19, "God's Little"
20. Famed expatriate
23, King topper
24. Actor Kevin25.
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30, Sell-out letters
32. Novel
33. In seventh heaven.35. Opposite of 33 across
37. Sight at 55 down•
40. Sun. sPeech
41. Need: abbr.
43. Sesame
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46, Pirate in Peter Pan
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54. Some math
56. Vicinities
57. Begin again
60. Singer Lopez
62. Business letter abbr,

59. Thffi:Sp,.
61. Ingrid in Casablanca, et aI.
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65. Olive and peanut66.
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67. Area in NW Yugoslavia.'
69. Vane letters,•

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68. Harrow's rival
70. Mountain pools

71. Prevaricator
72. Stitched

73. "... are I saw
75. A Gardner
76. Lyric works"

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5. Valuable violin
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