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Do The Right ThingO

ne hundred thousand people. Over half are dead.
It's astounding. Somehow, deep down, we thought- or hoped - that AIDS would never be associatedwith so many digits.
Think about the first few cases in the early part of thedecade and think about what went through your mind: ·Oh, it's
nothing major.· "Oh, I'll never get it.· Amazingly, many people,
including many in the gay and lesbian community, are still insuch a state of denial, of ignorance, of disinterest. And we wonder just what it will take for them to do something beyond simply
reading this and going on with business as usual.
What will it take for some people to act; to get angry about
the fact that the rich, straight, white men who run this country
would prefer to see us all dead?

The disease carries on. at lightening speed. The ftrst 100,000
cases took over 10 years to emerge. The next 100,000 are expected to surface within 15 months. 15 months! No, AIDS has not"peaked.·It has not "saturated.·
It has not "run its course.·
Instead, it continues to ravage the gay community and other disenfranchised, "disposable" communities. Many of the ftrst 100,000
people with AIDS are - and the great majority of the next
100,000 will be - Blacks, Latinos, women, children, prisoners,
and IV drug users. But for Mayor Koch, for Governor Cuomo, for
President Bush, for Jesse Helms and the rest of the U.S. Senate, forWilliam Dannemeyer and the House of Representatives, for theSupreme Court, for Arthur Sulzberger and The New York Times, forJerry Falwell, for Donna Summer, for Pat Robertson, for cOOrs
Beer, and for much of the vast, straight, white populace, AIDS
simply has not affected "real" people yet
Our only alternative is to show them we're real. To show
them we're angry, to show them we're strong. All of us - all of
the communities affected by AIDS, and, for that matter, all of thecommunities now without health care and the right to control
their own reproductive lives - must join together and ftght.
Subject your local, state and federal government representatives to relentless, unyielding pressure. Get into the streets andyell, scream, block traffic and disrupt others' lives the way ours
have been disrupted. March on City ,Hall, Albany, the WhiteHouse, the house of any public figure who is not doing as muchas he or she should be to end this crisis. Rebel against governmental neglect, racism, sexism and homophobia. Fight the powers that be.
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THE FORCE BEWITH YOU
I was delighted to purchase a copy of your fifth
issue when recently visiting
Greenwich Village. I warmly
and wholeheartedly
welcome your publication,I
hope OutWeek will faithfully
serve its readers in an intelligent. professional. rod conscientious manner.
Since the departure of
Brett Averill from the New
York Native some six (6!)
years ago, and the subsequent (and regrettable)
demise of The Connection,
Manhattan has not had an
ethical publication capableof serving its gay community.
Virtually the entire gay press
knows of-andis appalledby-theanile and disreputable nature of Native pub--by Daniel Sotomayor

buy it! It will burn your asshole!' At that moment I
wished I had a camera,
PS. When you write anarticle that you are looking
for a lubricant. the malereaders may be anxious toknow how much you use perday, per week.
Ben Schmidgall
Manhattan

lisher Charles L. Ortleb, andhis increasingly
decrepitfamily 9f rag sheets.
As Spock might say.
-Live long and prosper!'Rich Grzesiak
Philadelphia.SMUT SPAT
LUBE TALE
Regarding Michelangelo Signoriie's
lube story(Looking For Lube tJ All The
Wrong Places. No.6, July 31):
I rememberthat several
years ago when I got a haircut in my hometown of Amsterdam in the Netherlands, agay American tourist (to me
he looked like a gay college
professor from the Midwest)
walked into the barber shop
cum cosmetics store andasked for KY.

"What is it for?' asked
the salesman.
-It is a lubricant for thehealth,' answered the American tourist.
-I have something similar: answered the salesman,and showed a Dutch product that has the same effectas Ben-Gay, I saw it in mymirror while I was getting myhaircut and yelled, "Don't

I'm familiar enough withmyopic, knee-jerk defensesof the sexist pornography
trade by propornography
gay-liberationists
such asJack Nichols, which is why I
wrqte the essay he inveighsagainst to begin with. Nevertheless, his would-be review
of my book, Refusing To Be A
Man (OutWeek, No 6, July31), confounds me on two
counts,
One: can anybody
even dimly aware of AI

Goldstein's rabidly anti-lesbian and misogynist publicotion really take seriously
Nichol's paean to him? (Iguess they can. It's a freely
pornographized country.)
And two: Why didn't
Nichols deal at all with mybook? The essay that hefreaks out about at suchlength - ·You Can't Fight
Homophobia
and Protect
the Pornographersat theSame Time" - isn't even in
the book. But there's a lot
else that is that he ignores: aradical new look at the relationship of homophObia to
the sex-class system, forinstance, the role of fatherson eroticism in the family
and in warfare, how sex films
manipulate our experienceof "good sex: the functionof phallic eroticism in theantiabortion
crusade ... all
topics rather worth discussion, I should think, in a news
journal with OutWeek's aspirations to relevance.
But
Nichols grinds an ax all his
own: The only evidence hegives of actually having read
anything in Refusing to be a
Man is his passing reference
to its footnotes. Can otherauthors expect such probity
in your pages as well, or do I
get to be the only one?
John stoltenberg
Brooklyn
Jack Nichols replies:
I've got plentyofempathy with Stoltenberg's
attempt to cover important
issues, but he sadly shoots
himself in the foot by aggressively recommending legal
witch-hunts against publishers and persons who distribute what he defines as
pornogr~hy.
Hislarger contribution suffers while heremains an exitable ideologue who- fudges on freedom of expression. He's no
Voltaire who'd defend withhis life a person's right to his
or her say. He ignores a second reference to his book in
my review, his quoted sentence precicting a definitive

upcoming
history for his"influential" cause, a future
glory I do not forsee.

doesn't protect an unrelated
individual who may haveresided for years with the tenant of record, if the tenantdies or is permanently hospiOVER ACT UP
talized. For exanple, a friend
Re "Giuliani Picketed ator relative IMng with a senior
Face-Off With Les/Gay Leadcitizen who dies or a gay
ers" issue of July 31. I quote:mCTIwhose partner has died
"Manhoff said that merrbersof AIDS could be evicted.
of ACT UP had been denied
Such incividuals have just sufaccess to breakfast forums infered a tremendous personal
the past, and that there may
loss and it would, in my judgbe some form of protest
ment. be unconscioncble toagainst the forum taken by
add to their burdens the posACT UPin the Mure: A numsibility that they might lose
ber of paragraphs later wetheir apartment:
read, "Do you regard homoThe Mayor has been asexuality as not a preference,
supporter of domestic partnot a choice, but naturalnerships long before Mr. Ka1z
and normal' as a variation on
KOCH ON KATZ
would lead his readers to
the spectrum of human sexuAs the mayor stated on
believe-if
anything
theMayor gave the bandwagGay Cable Network in June,
he will soon issue an Execuon wheels.
The Mayor was nottive Order establishing a process for city employees tobeing deceitful when he said
that he cannot unilaterally
register their dor:nestic partfor union
ners
coupledwith'a . alter benefits
bereavement leave benefit
employees. The Taylor law
provision - an important stepwhich governs city/union
forward for our community.
negotiations states that benefits m.JStbe considered "terms
We would like to respond toand conditions of employSandor Katz' inn accuratecommentary("Koch'sment" CTld are consequently
a mCTIdatory subject of colDomestic Deceit: OutWeek,
lective bargaining, The Mayor
July 31) about this forthcomhas made it clea that he SLping Executive Order.
Contrary to Mr. Katz'
ports bereavement leave fora domestic portner of a city
Photo: n. lin . statement that the Mayor"jumped on the (domestic
employee, but his benefit
al orientation?" asked Ann
partner) bandwagon" after
must be collectively
barNorthrop of ACT UP.
the State Court of Appeals
gained with the unions.
So, which is it? Was ACT decision in the Miguel Braschi
Mr. Katz says that the
UP invited into the Forum? Ifcase, the Mayor's legal staff
Mayor favors domestic part- •they were not, how did
submitted a friend-of-thenerships but his "negotiators
Northrop ask her question?
court brief on behalf of Mr. keep saying no" when the
Please Clarify.
Braschi that helped shapeissue is put on the bargaining
Also, you babble on rethe court's favorable decitable. What Mr. Ka1zdoesn't
the so-called biased viewsion. In that brief, the city
say is that what was put on
point that The New York
urged an expansion of thethe table was bereavement
Native has in reporting thedefinition of fanily to include
leave affecting
domestic
news, However, in your issue a domestic partner in lease
partners combined with aof July 31, reference to, or
succession rights for rent stobereavement
leave proviquotes from members ofbilizedapartments.
Thesion forgrandparents.
ACT UP appear no less than
Mayor wrote:
Bereavement
leave
for
ten times in your news sec"I strongly support thisdomestic portners alone wastion, Check it out.
bill (A. 9545), which is based
not considered. 'David Felsteinupon the existing Rent stabiWhat Mr. Katz' comAstoria
lization Code, and believe it
mentary attempted
to .dois an appropriate place towas cast a shadow over the(In the July 31 issue,
begin debate on succession
good news coming from CityACT UP members are quotHall. Art Leonard, former Presrights. However, this billed in two out of 13news artiident of the Bar Association
doesn't go far enough. It
cles. One·dea" with the GiufCTIiOreakfast, the other with
Bristol-Myers' release of ddl,
a new AIDS treatment 'forwhich ACT UP had a great
deal of responsibility. Not toelicit comment from a groupwhich was a pat of the story
would have. been journalistically unfair.
As to the GiuHanibreakfast, the article' could havemore clearly indicated that
ACT UP's.presence at thatmeeting was the result ofpressure from ACT UP, anddid not represent a stancing
invitation. -Editor)<.

for Human Rights of Greater
New York, framed the significance of the domestic partner issue so well when hesaid, "but it seems clear thathaving attained decriminalization and nondiscrimination, the next step for ourcommunity is to seek equal
treatment in the sphere offamily life," The Mayor's Executive Order will be an important step in this direction.
Lee Hudson
Jan Carl Park
Mayor's Office for the
Lesbian and Gay Community
Sandor !<afzReplies:
On June 23rd I sat in Lee
Hudson's office and she told
me that, yes, the mayor supports the idea of extending
benefits to domestic partners,
CTldyes, the city had submitted a brief in the Braschicase. But she said beyond
that the Mayor's hands weretied, there was no action hecould take to advance thelegal recognition of lesbian
and gay and other nonspousd relationships.
What makes this executive order possible today
where it was impossible amonth ago or a year ago?
Nothing outside the mayor's
control has changed. state
law didn't change. Union
position didn't change. Ed
Koch decided that it waspoliticallyadvantageous,that's all that changed.
Frankly I'm thrilled that hedid. But why did it take so·long, until just months before

the primary? Why did themayor's office block the
Law Department
when itsaid the city could legallyextend bereavement leaverights more than a year
ago? And why is the mayor
opposing the Gay Teachers
Union in its suit against theBoard of Educationfordomestic partner benefits? Is
the mayor with us, or is heagainst us?
We should get support
and action from City Hall,and hopefully after the election we" get some.

BECHDEL BUTCHERS
Please stop butchering
6echdel! Dykes To Watch
Out For was clearly drawn
for a larger format, As she

gay and lesbian newspapers
and magazines from the U.S.
and 10 other' countries
awaiting my perusal.
I resolved to tackle thisPile From Hell with intense
abandon,wildly flipping
through pages, maniacly
flinging the pride and joy ofRochester CTld Seattle in the
direction of the overflowing
garbage sack from Jewel (aChicago grocery chain),Translation: I planned to readthe first word of every aticle
and skip 99 percent of them.
Imagine, then, my horror and anger upon discovering that the first sentence
in more than half of the articles in the four back issuesof
OutWeek pulled
me in,
grabbed me by the cojones
and demanded slow digestion all the way through tothe very last word,
Just who do you think
you are anyway? And does
this mean I'm gonna end up
living in New York some day,paying $1.500 a month for astudio apartment with bugs?
RexWockner
Chicago,IL

SYPHILLIS ATTACK
appears in your magazine,
reduced to half the intended size, it looks cramped,
crowded, claustrophobic.
The fine lines in the drawing
disappear as often as not.
I'm sure that most of
your readers who aren't
already familiar with this finework think, "Ugh! Some niceideas, but what a hideous,
cramped, crowded, claustrophobic strip!"End the reductionofmajor lesbian cartoonists
now! Liberate Bechdel!
John Wagenhauser
Washington Heights

MAD AT MAGAZINE
I just returned
fromalmost three weeks in Vienna and Budapest and-as areporter
for
the
gay
press-foundprecisely 217

I must respond to theoutrageous
letterfrom
author Robert Ben Mitchell,published in the July 31 issue,
condemning
OutWeek's
unwillingness to serialize hisbook on AIDS and syphilis.
Although it is hard to imagine from Mitchell's diatribe,
he has actually written atemperate,
meticulously
researched book. It documents the numerous connections between AIDS andlate-stage
syphillis, andshows how widespread
medical inadequaciesinsyphillis testing and treatment (now acknowledgedby several leading medical
experts) may have inadvertently spawned a new epidemic. After Mitchell told methat 20 publishers rejected
his manuscript, I agreed to
become his literary agent.

I believe the AIDS community vitally needs accessto his detailed presentation
offering
new treatment
options to consider. This isespecially necessay to undo
the trivialization of these theories by Charles Ortleb's sensational,
conspiratorialpresentations in the Native.
Ortleb's crackpot joumalism
has done more to close
minds thCTIany propaganda
for the medical establishment.
Unfortunately, however,like so mCTIYalternative AIDS
theorists,
Mitchellhas
responded to the gay/AIDS
community's closed-mindedness with hysteria andabusiveness. I have no quarrel with OutWeek's decision
not to serialize a book thatwas previously serialized by
the Native. And I know that
OutWeef(s editors are openminded about alternative
theories, as shown by theiruncensored publishing of myalternative/holistic treatment
column every three weeks(including a brief presentation of the AIDS~yphilis theory in Issue # 1). Mitchell's
unwarranted, vicious attack
on OutWeek and on editor
Andrew Miller offends me
deeply, and I have informed
Mitchell that I cCTInot continue as his agent if he continues such behavior,
I believe
OutWeekshould devote more space
to serious, well-documented
unorthodox theories on AIDS
causes, co-factors and treatments, It is vital-a matter oflife and death-to keep the
dialogue open. But I completely agree with Andrew
Miller's comment that letterssuch as Mitchell'shave
absolutely no place in that
dialogue, and do more thCFI
anything else to kill it.
Sincerely,
Bob Lederer
T
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News

P-Town In Furor
Over Pride March
Shooting of PWA Ignored In Clamor Over Sign
by Andrew Miller
PROVINCETOWN - When Walter
Minister Fired
Armstrong decided to carry a placard
Reverend Keithin the Provincetown Gay & LesbianBoyles, a gay minPride March that boldly stated -legalister who was oneize butt fucking" and "legalize clitof the parade's
licking" on frorlt and back, respectiveorganizers,
hasly, he never expected the brouhahabeenpubliclythat has since resulted.
denounced
and
The July 23 incident sparked a was fired by Interflurry of local newspaper articles andfaith, a coalition ofscores of letters to the editors, resultProvincetown
ed in a special meeting of town
churches that sponSelectmen(Provincetown's
town
sors
the yearlycouncil) and angered both straight
event.
and gay residents of this usually
Other paradesleepy resort town at the tip of Cape organizers
took
Cod in Massachusetts.
pains to publicly
James J. Meads, the Provinceseparate themselvestown fire chief, said that the sign had
from the group car"set gay and straight relations back 40 rying the signs,
years or more,· according to the Capesomeof whom
Cod Times, a local paper.
were from ACT
But others have charged that the
UP/Provincetown
incident has merely served as a cata- and at least ten oflyst to unleash latent homophobia in whom were fromthe town that has been a popular gay ACT UP!New York.
and lesbian vacation spot for decades.
In a letter
And some of the march participants . (which was printed
said they were angry that the signin local papers) to SIGN OF THE TIMES
Photo: Tina L. Browne
received more attention from the
ACT UP from the Conlrov.rsiaJ pos'.",P-Town march
town than the shooting ofa parade
Provincetown Busiparticipant with a BB gun. No one
ness Guild, the city's lesbian and gay
are hardly profound, or worth sustainhas been arrested in the incident.
business association,. the Guild wrote,ing" (see sidebar).
Usually a quiet candlelight march "We now face great hositility as we try
John DiMestico, one of the orgafor 200, this year's parade was larger, to rebuild trust, to apologize for yournizers, told The Cape Codder, anotherlouder, and more political than everexcess, and to do so while maintainlocal newspaper, "Those actions were
before. That led the police chief toing pride in who and what we are.»not sanctioned by the board and myrequest from the Selectmen parade reg- ACT UP's angry response, also sent tofeeling is of shock. We were put in aulations that would include a code of area newspapers, countered, "If a sindangerous situation and I feel it was a
ethics. Tensions also developed on
gle sign in a march has the power tocomplete violation of respect for the
Sunday afternoon when marchers tried upset this 'balance' so completely,
police," he said.
to spontaneously reroute the parade
then relations between the gay and
Local Gays Angry
past Provincetown's Town Hall.
straight communities in Provincetown
And local gay and lesbian busi-

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August 14. 1989

ness owners lined up to denounce
the day's events. "We regret that
extremists have managed to alienate
the very people they had hoped towin over,· said Robert Vettrick, amember of the Provincetown Business Guild, in The Cape Codder.
For others, simply the unwonted
exuberance of the demonstration wasoffensive. "It isn't just the signs,·
Police Chief James J. Meads told The
Cape Codder. "But when you take thesigns, the chanting, and the threat ofviolence together, it was an act ofdefiance."

Provincetown business. Summoned to
the August 3 meeting were the town
manager, the chief of police, theBoard of Selectmen, and representatives from the Business Guild andACf UP. Sources inACf UP/Pro~ncetown said 'that the group will attend
the meeting only to listen, and will
decide how it will participate in the
AUgust parade afterwards.
'
ACf UP members said they were
surprised, disappointed and angeredby the lack of support they received
from members of Provincetown's lesbian and gay community, many ofwhomaccusedthem of being ·outside
agitators,"
despite the fact thatmany are yearround or regularsummer residentsof Provincetown.

"UncleTom
Reaction""Our goal wasto put AIDS on thetable, because it's
been hidden on
the side streets,·
said Paul deRenzis,a member of ACf
UP /Provincetown
who was also on
the Gay and Lesbian Pride Planning
Committee.
"I'm
surprisedby thedegree of homphobia, and the gay
community's Uncle
Tom reaction. The
gay leaders in Ptown
are moreinterested
in
GENDER PARITY,Photo: Tina L. Brownemoney than their
Rejecting the ·'lIngullg. 'of th,ir oppressors, •brothers and sisters,orAIDS,"
hetold Out Week.
The day's only physical violence
DeRenzis a 35-year-old year-roundcame when Chris Alvarez, a person
resident who runs an art gallery, said
,with AIDS marching in the parade,he and his lover, Eric Kendricks,
was hit by BB-gun shot that originatreceived a telephone death threat
ed in the crowd of spectators.
As OutWeek went to press, a after their names appeared in local
papers in connection with the week'sclosed-door meeting had been called
incidents.
by the Business Guild to discuss ACf"This is the mecca of gay
UP's participation in the August 16
tourism, and it's touted that gay peoCarnival Parade, a raucous annual
ple are welcome, but they're really
event sponsoredby the Business
not," deRenzis continued. "That sign
Guild that functions as booster forAn~~toAGT'"W YO,ur c;'rganb:ation, has do;!
ours a great disservice: Por twelVeyean the Provincetown" BUline,"
Guild has operated to' prom~~etoU,:risl1lIDout' ~wn. pre<jom\~nt1y,
thqpgbpotexclusively, gay ~~¥'Moat of our l1l~bers are 'Siy d'd~l~b~he:~~~/;t:~!aand worked Ml'~fot de<:a~.~e,!l~ actIVe, contributing Ci~.

'.J.

,5ut:h, we havekenjQy-ed • lieater'tde~ree of ~reedol1l, not {>lIt Jol:rlOce, th2n 15 afforded to ,ga.y pc6p~!.n".mo&t.iplaces
1p this (X)Ijqpy;µy'~$
I.n this town, we don't otten fciel ~rrights are violated.
11!\;
Pot the past three, years, W-e'ha~'e held a Lesbian and Gay"PI$e~rch,,;,not '"to ma~~ a ~~,~~
kX:aI people, but sytnpatijy
the National Cay Rights MO~~l1lejit
In,that way, our statement 'bad a"na..t1onaJimpact, preciSe'ly because"'9f~.have been ·a place."...he~liVe arid ~'brkartd'c6lit1'iand be.;val~
tf! /0"W..: This year, on JuIy 23, at a'rna
lai8~r than ever before, a·me&1bef!l6tt

inc~~ro1n~~ll!~Z'~~:it".
Appearing;; near the Jrpntbf ~h~~.~%parade, it had the effect of cbarac:tei~iZing the entire ~rch, ap(i it ~nrag'ed~:;e:~r~w;;
~~ *
'~f

t9tpe lIJfronted'~nd inSulted, P:lariger have blamed the Guild, 'as, VJ~
asdo~r Qsganizations al'fillated with*r~citi:i(~~{'a~h:g~:,>,~,ali~,nate9 our Jriend& an<,l gbigots a focus for their hatred.
'what you' have done to us and to thett~ ~~~:~~~~r;e~,ks ,$0 shift e111phasl.s"away'frg<~
sexual behavior and toward humanrights, That sign did more to m(icYe~ emphas'lS ~ck ~n,,!Ily':f!1~i9!
fundamentallstsEodld do:'" wv&m'
We now f~ce great h?Stilio/t8 "we try to rebuild trust, to apololize
for yoµr ex~. anQ to do SO wAJletn:inta~~pri~ i£1 w~ ~weare. You have 'done· Us'. vetyw
great ~rVice.
'. I• Philippe D'Auteull, president '" PfOvincetown ,BusineSS G\Jildv.:naAugust 14. 1989

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HIKE ON BIKE

Photo: Steve Crouch / Roberta RaeburnGrand Marshall Rollerena is hoisted onto ·float· by Movin, Violations members,

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Ali Opentetter fromArrr UP/ ~rovincetoWll
In response to the recent controtime of unjustified oppression. ACf
ve~~verthe Lesbian and Gay Pride HUP may not condone every actloo of
M~fChl~ere on JQlyn,~~; AC;r:, UPyevery individual in our movement, but
Ptbyio:c'etown (AIDS Coalition t-o + weu-nderstand why someone might
Unleash,Power) would like to present
feel it necessary to hit back at those
our position.
who have oppressed us for so long.
First and foremost, we are not
And that is what happened on·o~tside agitators.· ASX'UP Provin~e~ ,July 23. That is exactly what such a
town'i:slargely
composed of year-!/'''vulgar"
and "disgusting" sign was
round town residents.,', 'intended to do. Its main target was
The only outside agitator present
the tourists who line the streets of the,at the march was the person, whotown. It demanded that they confront
shot at the crowd with a BB gun andthe language and anger so often usedinjured a marcher. That person came .against gay men and lesbians; that forwith the intent of harming someone
ohce, they make the accommodation,
regardless of any signs, and regardnot us.
less ,of whether the march was a canCan a single sign or a single
die light vigil or a proudce\ebrationgroup in a march have the power toof lesbian and gay pride.,
upset so completely relations between
to~'see the local lesbian and gay;; the gay and straight communities incommunity fall all over themselves
Provincetown?
We find it hard todenouncing fel\ow gays and lesbians
believe this is the case.
for militancy completely ignores histoThis being the 20th anniversary of
ry, including that of the Stonewall
the Stonewall Riots (the origin of gay
Riots ~at we celebrate each year. All,,, pride across America), it was moreof us carry suppressed .rage over a life-k' ,-than appropriate to include elements

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did not create homophobia.
[Thebusiness guild) act[s) like we createdthese problems, but all we did was
expose them."
But Philippe D'Auteuil, presidentof the Provincetown Business Guild,had a different perspective. "We have
no issue with ACf UP: we 'have anissue with signs that were carried,· hetold Out Week, in a conversation thatwas not meant to characterize theposition of the Guild. D'Auteuil, who
has AIDS, added, "For AIDS activists
to talk about legalizing buttfucking'and not use the word condom in thesame line really upset me.·Speaking for the Guild, he continued, ·Our main concern is dollars,
and we would never deny that. The
ftre dept puts out ftres. The Business
Guild promotes tourism. But we'revery aware of gay issues. We're all
for human rights. We've all done ouractivism. That is not the place of theguild." D'Auteuil said that Guild
bylaws prohibit the endorsement ofany political statement.

of our community tbatwant, m~>Iethan just a celebration. The ~tofJuly 23 provide a sobering retninc:I6:. of
how far we have to go in achieVing
real, equal ity and civil rights fa( lesbians and gay men across the Jand.
,On this anniversary, an in~&s:
ingly militant and pOlitical sentiment
was visible in every gay and lesbian
pride march in the country. To expect
this militancy to be temperedin
Provincetown because some in ,thelocal gay community are intere~dsolely ,In profit shows just how far out
of touch those people are with thefightfor gay rights today.
1'0 say that tile fight is not inProvincetown but ·out there ignor~
the movement as' a whole and v-hhewashes the overt and covert homophobia that exists in this town today.
If the local lesbian and gay corpmunity actually feels they have attained
real acceptance, rather than just tolerance or financial convenience, they
are sadly deluding themselves.
It seems, in fact, what we arebeing told is this: when it comes toyour dollars, youa~ fllore than welcome, but when it comeS to your ;J>!?liWContrast With Past Years
Provincetown'S first parade washeld only two years ago, when participants silently walked along Commercial Street at dusk, carrying candles.
Local papers estimated that this year's
march was twice the size of last year'swith nearly 1,000 people participating.
Adding to the contra,st, this year's
march was led by a contingent of
tweqty dykes on bikes, The Moving
Violations, from Boston. Following
them was the grand marshall, RolIerena, who led the parade wearing her
signature wedding dress, granny
glasses, and roller skates, and carrying
her magic wand.
In an interview with Next, a gay
and lesbian publication
based in
Provincetown, one local resident had
a very different take on the whole situation. Vera Whistman, a sociologist,
said she thought it was hypocritical toreact so strongly to the sign. "My own
opinions about the sign aside, n she
told Next, "those same words can beseen everyday in Provin~town ..

tics, stay out.
Sorry, folks. You can't have it
both ways.
As for the offICial reaction to themarch, we strongly protest all references to threats of violence, intolerance and censorship. Chief of Police
James Meads must take responsibility
for his reactionary and potentiallythreatening statements to the Selectmen, the Provincetown
Business
Guild, the press and especially tomembers of ACJ' UP Provincetown.
Let the chief of police-and
everyone else who prefers only
silent,respectful
candlelight
vigils-know one fact: We will not besilent, now or at any time in the
future. Activism is a legitimate
expression of any struggle for,civilrights. Attempts to suppress it 90ly
strengthen the cause,
ACJ' UP Provincetown's objective
is AIDS activism. Like other ACJ' UP
chapters worldwide, we see this strug~. gle as intertwined with the ftght for gay
civil rights. We will continue to pursue
this agenda vigorously in Provincetown
until the need has ended.
~-ACf UP Provincetown~

and it's hard for me to believe there's
anyone here unaware of that. "Whistman was referring to Shop
Therapy, a novelty store and head
shop on Commercial Street that sells
t-shirts and buttons with sexual, scatological, and generally vulgar expressions and slogans.
While all of the local straight
papers carried in-depth stories about
the march, and the sign, with headlines like "Vulgar sign angers townspeople·(The[Provincetown)
Advocate), none explicitly reported
what the sign in question actually said.
And while a reticent Walter
Armstrong said that he felt somewhat responsible
for the hostility

being expressed against deRenzis
and Kendricks, he said that he did
not regret his decision to carry thesignthrough
Provincetown's
streets.
"Gays and lesbians are outlawed
in 25 states, and I wanted to draw
attention to the sodomy laws, but theword sodomy is the language of ouroppressors,· Armstrong said. •And I
wanted to confront people with theirown homophobia. It's very honest to
use those words, and not just gays
and lesbians use them. One of thebasic principles of coming out is taking our fantasy lives out of the private
realm and making them J>ublic.•~- filedjromNew Ym

HAM SANDWICH?

Photo: Steve Crouch / Roberta Raeburn

RollerenB nesdtlSlesbianbikers in P-Town,
August 14. 1989

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13

News

Les/Gay Advocates
Strike Back at Military
Victories in Discrimination Cases
by Catherine Saalfield
In two separate cases last month,advocates for lesbians and gay men in
the military prevailed in court when
they challenged the military's longstanding policy of dismissing men andwomen who are, or are suspected ofbeing, gay or lesbian. The Marine
Corps Board of Review reversed its
own previous recommendation to discharge Marine Corps Captain Judy

Meade, who was charged with associating with "known lesbians.· And
Lambda Legal Defense and Education
Fund won an initial battle in its suitagainst the Naval Academy regarding
the forced resignation of gay midshipman Joseph Steffan.
The Gay and Lesbian Military
Freedom Project reported that the
Marine Corps Board reinstated Captain Judy Meade on July 6 because"the evidence against her was insufficient to justify an involuntary separation from the Marine Corps." Meade,
who was stationed at Camp leJeune,
North Carolina, was charged with"conduct unbecoming
an officer,·having a "longterm personal relationship with a know lesbian," and on
one occasion sleeping "in the same
bed with a known lesbian:Sue Hyde of the National Gay

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Photo: Patsy Lynchand Lesbian Task Force (NGLTF)
characterized
Meade'scase as"another example of the Naval Investigative Service's (NIS) obsession withhomosexuality .•Meade was court-martialed after
a grueling, year-long investigation
which involved many women at the
Parris Island, South Carolina Marine
base. The NIS led investigations into
the lives of several women based on
their alleged lesbian activities. At ameeting in April of the Defense Advisory Committee on Women in the Service (DACOWITS),
four of thewomen, including Meade, testified
that the investigations had constituted
sexual harrassment, and called fortheir abolition. DACOWITS is a groupof civilian men and women appointed
by the secretary of defense to advise
him on issues relating to women in
the military.
DACOWITS recommended thatthe Department of Defense "recogniZe
lesbian baiting as a form of sexual
harassment and include material tothat effect in its training program~.·Meade, who is not a lesbian, wasDave Taylor: He's out for you.
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review panel recommended
tbe
honorable discharge ,of Petty Offacer
Ricardo Huertas
here July 19'
becauseof his self~proc\aimed
homosexua1ity. Although the review
board recommended that the Coast
Guard re~ine
its discharge p0licies concerned with sexual orienta- flion, the board said it could not defy I'
CXi$tingpolicy.
Huertas voluntarily
told his~perior offteerS in January that he
was gay. At the"time he was ,st~tio(led aboard the Coast Guard cUtter Rush. "It was getting moredifficult for me to' serve with 130
men,· Huertas told the review~ard. "All th~y talked about was
sex,and e~entUany the words ;tagand queer' would surface, and I
found it inaeasingly offensive.·
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Since JanuarY he has bee,ntransferred from ship duty to thecOast Guard base here. The reconi'mended discharge would' com~tinder what Coast Guard regulations
refer to as a "Class Three Homosexual" which applies to anyone wllb
-exhibits', professes or admits,tohomosexual
tendencies·
eventhough there is rio evidence of any
homosexual acts while on duty.
Huertas told the review"panelthat he has not had sex with men
during the almost four years he's
been in ~he Coast Guard. "lamhomosexual,· Huertas said. "I am no(practicing honlosexuat ho~ever.·'
Ten former shipmates and c0workers testified in Huertas' behalf
at the board 'hearing, including ~era! yorho gave, telephone teStimony
from ships on the East Coast.
Huertas told the three-member
panel of offtcers that he wanted tocomplete his sefYice in the Coast
Guard and go on to medical school
to, become an Army physician.
, The ~ewboard recOmmendation will now go to (;past .Guard~cc:>romandantAdrnirat Paul Yost Jr.
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reinstated, in an NIS decision whichappeared to acknowledge that it hadoverstepped the boundaries of discrimination. "Withchhunts like thisproduce a chilling effect on female
friendship,« said Sandra Lowe, theLambda staff attorney who worked on
the case. "This partiCular case ended
favorably, but the psychological terrorism against gays in the military,
particularly lesbians, 'continues."
NGLTFs Hyde cited two reasonsfor the NIS' decision. "The NIS bungled their initial investigation,·
according to Hyde. In fact, an NIS
agent lied in the original report statingthat Meade had been identifted as alesbian by another woman at Parris
Island. That woman had actually said
the opposite.
The unusual amount of media
coverage of the event also embarrassed the Marines, according toHyde. "The lesson here is, never shutup,« she told OutWeek.

-It's Not Over VetOutWeek contacted Meade shortly after her recent transfer to a Marine
Corps base in Quantico, Virginia. Thebase is coincidentally the sight of the
Marine Corps brig where three
women from the Parris Island basewere recently incarcerated, basicallyfor being lesbians. The three served
jail sentences following their convictions for violations of military justicestatutes prohibitng certain sexual acts.
Meade's transfer is seen by many as adirect result of her recent court case.
"I still have to keep fighting,"
Meade said "It's not over yet.· According to OutWeek sources, the personnel
records which followed her to her new
base are far from complementary, andmay prevent future promotions. In
what has already become a military
appeal, Meade says she wants "the badthings taken off my performance eval-a-Ketth Clark
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OllT OF THE CLOSET AND INTO THE COURTS
Midshipman Joseph SteHan

uations and records."
Although she says she is completley exhausted from the continuous
harassment, she expressed appreciation for the involvement of lawyers
and political activists in her case. "If it
wasn't for people like Lambda,
nobody would have cared. I would
have been swept under the rug."
She said she likes her job andintends to stay in the Marines, but
looks towards the future less than optimistically. "If they continue to pressure
me, I want my severance pay. I've
served 13 years, and they at least oweme that. They won't get me out without a fight; she told OutWeek"Voluntary- Resignation
In the case of Joseph Steffan, amidshipman held in high esteem byhis peers and his teachers, the heartof the military'S policy on homosexuality is being challenged in court.
Represented by Lambda, Steffan issuing the u.s. Naval Academy forforcing him to resign because he isgay, two months before his graduation from the Academy.
The Navy responded by filing a I
motion to dismiss on the grounds that
Steffan'S resignation was voluntary. In
fact, Steffan had been told to choose
between voluntary resignation and adishonorable
discharge,
after his
superiors discovered that he is gay.
Historically,
the courts havedeferred to the military, and refusedto hear such cases. But in Steffan'S
case, Judge Oliver Gasch of the Federal District Court in Washington, D.C.
has declared the case viable. This preliminary achievement is already being
viewed as a victory by Steffan'S
lawyers, because
it removes theappeals process from the military's
jurisdiction. "The smoke screen of'voluntary' resignation precludes judicial review of the constitutionality of
the regulations," said Lambda's Lowe.
"It is a victory for Joe Steffan that the
court has declared its intention to
examine the constitutional issues atstake in the case:
Steffan could not be reached forcomment. His lawyer said that because
his case is still viable, he is not making
any statements to the press.

Community Challeges
The Gay and Lesbian Military Free-dom project has been instrumental in the
success of these cases. Created in
November, 1)68, it is a collaboration of
the National Gay and Lesbian Task
Force, the National Lawyers Guild Military Law Task Force, the' American Civil
Liberties Union's Lesbian and Gay Rights
Project, Citizen Soldier, The Women's
Equity Action League, Lambda Legal
Defense and Education Fund, and others.
The Military Freedom Project isworking to end discrimination andharassment on the basis of sexual orientation and "perceived sexual orientation" in the U.S. Armed Forces,
through various policy and statutorychanges. These include the repeal of
the policy which states that "homosexuality is incompatible with military
service," which remains in place
despite a recent Ninth Circuit Court ofAppeals decision to reinstate openly
gay Sergeant Perry Watkins as a member in good standing in the Army.
Watkins had been removed from duty
after years of service, despite having
been open about his sexuality fromthe time he entered the military.
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CORRECTIONS'~,n 0t.t!Week ,l'J'o. 6 Qµly 31,1989) an unfortunate
production
error affected Karl Sohnlein's filmcommentarY titled, "Lost in La-La
Land," a review of Gregg Araki's
TheLk:ng
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In OutWeek No.7 (}..ugust\bt1989), in a features story titledYork Ne.wsday's Same Sex Love
Affair;" (as w<;l1as in that issue's edi~
toria\), it was stated that The New
York Times has no full-time AIDS
repOrter. The Times does,'jn fa4t;;ihavei'Bruce Lambert, who covers themunicipal AIDS situation on a fu,lltime baSis.

"New.f:.:n a9a1ysis oCSpike ~e~~ 7~.
The <Right Thing," '\vritten bySar.i6'
Scbulman; lnadverJantly appear~?
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Community News.
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News·

Gays Caucus at
Global Conference
Americp's New Alliance Party
Banned From Vienna Parley
by Rex Wockner
VIENNA-As the 11th World Conference of the International Lesbian and
Gay Association came to a close July
22, organizers proclaimed the week-

u-

",'.
&

long gathering successful beyond
their highest expectations. Bouquetsand potted plants were given toalmost everyone, and the thank you's
delayed lunch by an hour.
The reasons for the success weremany, according to ILGA officers andHomosexual Initiative [HOSI) Vienna,'which organized this year's gathering.

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But they said a few statistics demanded particular notice.
It was the largest ILGA conference ever-260 participants. Delegatesfrom 33 countries-morethan everbefore - attended the conference.
Activistsfrom some of theworld's poorest
gay/lesbian rights
groupscamefrom five Latin
American nations[see story]. And
five East Block
European nations
were represented
by a total of 20
activists.
Also of note
1 ,,:,as the participatIOnof
21
activists from the
U.S. Although
Americans haveoverlooked ILGA
in the past, several observers predicted that the
National Gay &Lesbian
Task
Force, the human
Photo: RexWockner Rights Campaign
Fund and similar'groups will finally take the plunge at next year's conference in Stockholm.

Notable Decisions
Among the notable decisions ofconference plenary sessions was thesending of a telegram to Nicaraguan
president Daniel Ortega on the occasion of the 10th anniversary of the
Nicaraguan revolution.

"The brave people of Nicaragua
and the Sandinista government haveundertaken great sacriftce and shown
tremendous bravery in fighting forbasic human rights for all their peopIe," the conference said. "We hopethat these rights will be fully extended
to lesbian and gay citizens."
In another action, conferees unanimously rejected the membership
application of the U.S.-based New
Alliance Party. While the NAP purports
to be militantly pro-gay, Americans in
Vienna charged that NAP is really apolitical cult which has ties to theright-wing and which is "mining" thegay and lesbian community for money.
New official ILGA protests were
undertaken to combat sodomy laws in
the Australian states of Queensland
and Tasmania. Other protests will target human rights abuses and harassment of gays in Argentina[seeseparate story) and the Canary Islands.
The embassies and governmentsof Bulgaria, Rumania and Czechoslovakia were also put on the ILGA
action list. Member groups intend tobombard officials of the three countries with inquiries about HIV antibody testing and about the social
status of gays and lesbians.
Activists from Barcelona, Spain's
Catalunya
Gay Liberation
Front[FAGC) drafted and saw passed a"Charter of Rights for the Expressionof Homosexual Practice." Irish participants, meanwhile, received a .pledgeof international support in their battle
to force Ireland to honor a recent
European Court for Human Rights
decision overturning the country's
sodomy law.
England's Lisa Power and West
Germany's Jean-Claude Letist were reelected ILGA secretaries general while
Sweden's David Murphy will takeover as information
secretary.
Guadalajara, Mexico was chosen tohost the 1991 conference; the 1992
gathering will be in Brussels, Belgium. A European regional conference is scheduled for late December
in Athens, Greece, and an Asian
regional conference will be held in
August 1990 in Bangkok, Thailand ....

Latin American Groups:

Many Ideas. No Cashby Rex Wockner
VIENNA-Latin American activists attending
the international Lesbianand Gay Association 11th
World Conference July
17-22 all told an identicalstory: They have hundreds of ideas for bringing gay liberation to theircountries, but no moneyfor only but the smallest ';,"!Ii"
of projects.
Gay and lesbian
groups came to Vienna
from Argentina, Brazil,
Chile, Mexico and Peru.
At the first Latin American workshop,
they
detailed the importantundertakings that havebeen put on hold:newsletters, newspapers,
hotlines, AIDS services,
offjc~ space-eventelephone calls and stamps
to stay in touch with LESBIANAS UNIDAS JAMAS SERAN VENCIDAS
each other.
ILGA delegates from Peru's Homosexual Uberation
Jorge Romero Men- Pride Movement
Photo: Rex Wocknerdoza, from Guadalajara,
Mexico's Homosexual Pride Liberation
port to the gay male population of theGroup (GOHL), said his organizationworld's largest city.
has yet to recover from a bomb
Ca/amo, too, is broke, and has
which destroyed the facade of thesuspended plans to open "an alternaGOHL community center last March.
tive space," publish a magazine and
The bomb was most likely planted by
add a "human rights defense wing" tohomophobes
who believe
gays
the organization, according to Hernandez.
brought AIDS to Mexico, Romero
said. Since the explosion, GOHL has
Co/ectivo 50/ works on AIDS
been unable to pay its rent or phoneissues in 'Mexico City and was represented at the conference by Raphaelbill, and the group's disco has closed.
Still, Romero said GOHL members
Manrique-Soto.
are hopeful and are moving forward"What we're doing now," Manwith plans to host ILGA's 1991 conferrique-Soto said, "is putting emphasis
ence. "I think we can do it," he said.
in resqling the positive side of sex for'The governor of the province promised
gay men, because we think the reachis help, as well as the mayor.ntion against AIDS has replaced the
Mexico City was represented bywhole idea of feeling guilty about
Carlos Hernandezof the groupsex. AIDS has created a climate where
Ca/amo, which provides legal, psyhomosexuality
is discussed in thechological, cultural and medical supcontinued on plge nAugust14, 1989 OUTTWEEK

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House Kills Sex Survey
Committee Bill Also Threatens AIDS Funds
by Cliff O'Neill

This kind of research is entirely appropriate for the federal government tosupport: he added.
Funds for a preliminary survey,
which have been previously approved
by Congress, have been undergoing
review for several months by Dr. LouisW. Sullivan of the Department of
Health and Human Services (HHS).
Sullivan agreed to review the survey in
mid-spring. He took responsibility forthe survey to divert.7:
attention from Office ofManagement and Budget
Richard Darman, who
had
come
under
immense pressure fromright-wing members ofCongress
Sen. Jesse
Helms (R-NC) and Rep.
William Dannemeyer (RCA), vociferous opponents of the survey.
Broad Federal Support
The study, whichwas ~o have been conducted by the f:-Iational
Institute on Cllild Healthand Human Development, has been praisedby the General Accounting Office, the President's
Commission on the HIV
TAKING THE HEAT FROM HELMS Photo: Tom DiMaria
Epidemic and a host of
NGLTF Director J,ff Levi
other federal healthpublic funds," and added that the Pub- . agencies as vital to determining thelic Health Service "is directed not to course of the AIDS epidemic, and precise measures to control it. While priproceed with the study." The study
was intended to gauge the pattems of vately public health officials arereported as supp~rting the survey,
AIDS transmissions on a national scale.
political pressure from right wing advoThe vote surprised the survey's
cates has led most of them to decline tobackers, and the language with which
it was rebuked stunned even the most be identified in their support.
Dannemeyerand Helms havepessimistic of the study'S proponents.
"I guess I cannot say that I am maintained that the survey is a ruse byshocked that the money [for the sur- the "militant homosexual lobby" tofalsely inflate the numbers of gay andvey] was taken out,· stated National
lesbian Americans, since, they contend,
Gay & Lesbian Task Force Executive
Director Jeff Levi, "but the manner [in non-gay Americans would steadfastly
refuse to answer questions about their
which] it was taken out was appalling.

WASHINGTON-The House Appropriations Committee killed aU funding fora federal survey on the sexual practices of Americans, and eliminated allfunds speciftcally earmarked for AIDS
research in their final committee
report, released July 25.
In particularly harsh words, thereport stated that the survey "does notappear to be an appropriate use of

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August 14, 1989

sex lives. Other critics of the survey
have suggested that the results of thesurvey would be the opposite, withmost gay and lesbian people declining
to answer the survey truthfully.
Pro-survey
forces have now
turned their attention to lobbying
members of the Senate Labor, Healthand Human Services Appropriations
Subcommittee to have them reinstate
the funds for the survey, or at leasteliminate the harsh report languag~,which they contend would have farreaching impact on any government
funded resea~ch involving sexuality.
AIDS Research Funding
For the first time, the bill's funding proposals for the National InStituteof Health does not specifically set
aside any funds for AIDS research.
The bill instead allows all researchfunding to be decided upon by officials at the National Institutes for
Health, who could opt to use thefunds for research on diseases otherthan AIDS.
"The exact amount that is spent
on AIDS will depend on how we\1
grant proposals will do in the competitive process;" stated Human Rights
Campaign Fund lobbyist Steve Smith.
"It has set up a strong competition fordollars that previously had been earmarked for AIDS."
NIH normally spends most of its
budget through grants to researchers,
mostly from universities. Grants are
generally awarded aft~r a peer review
process, judged on their scientificmerit. Earmarking certain dollars for
AIDS research has guaranteed that a
specific amount of those NIH dollars
are spent on AIDS research. With theHouse's action, there would now be
no such guarantee.
"The researchers who get the best
grades in this process may be people
who have submitted proposals to do
AIDS research, and maybe not," added
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House Democrat
Threatens Dannemeyer
with Censure
Matter Pending Before House Ethics Committeeby Cliff O'Neillto release the correspondence, statingthat the matter is "currently pending
before the ethics panel."
In accordance with House rules,
the ethics panel will not release thetext of the letter.
The comments in question werepart of a lengthy diatribe offered by the
California Republican, which describedin detail what he called the "tactics ofthe homosexual movement in their
desire to gain social legitimacy.•
Citing the San Francisco AIDSFoundation safe sex brochure "CanWe Talk?· as his source,
Dannemeyer described"[A]ctivities peculiar tohomosexuality,·
including "rimming, or one
man using his tongue tolick the rectum of another man; golden showers,
having one man or men
urinate on another man
or men; fisting or handba\1ing, which has one
man insert his hand
and/or part of his arm
into another man's rectum; and using what are
euphemisticallycalled'toys' such as one manusing dildoes, certain
vegetables, or lightbulbs
up another man's rectum,·
In a three-page
RIMMING, FISTING AND ... UGHTBULBS?
response
to Jacobs'
Rep. Seme, Frankcharges,Dannemeyer
pointed out that - using a 1921
ten by Dannemeyer
be reviewed,
precedent - Jacobs would have tocharging that they violated House
rules against inserting obscene materi- offer what is ca\1ed a "privileged
al in the Record.
motion" on the floor to instruct the
ethics panel to conduct the inquiry.
Jacob's offtce has confirmed theDannemeyer's
office has now
existence of the letter, but has refused

WASHINGTON-A Democratic House
member has sent an official letter ofcomplaint to a House ethics committee asking that Rep. William Dannemeyer (R-CA) be censured and that
his written comments about homosexuality made in June be stricken fromthe Congressional
Record on the
grounds of obscenity.
In his July 26 letter to the House
Committee on Standards and Official
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seized upon the precedent to ask thatthe ethics charges be made' on theHouse floor, instead of the closed
committee, as is common practice,according to Paul Mero, a Dannemeyer spokesperson.
.
"Mr. Dannemeyer welcomes theopportunity to talk about the substantive issue of how homosexuality
relates to public policy," stated Mero.
"We'\1do it any way ijacobsJ wants to
do it, but we would prefer doing it on
the House floor. I think the viewers of
C-SPANwould enjoy that and beneftt
from that."
Openly gay Rep. Barney Frank(D-MA), a frequent critic of Dannemeyer, expressed concem with the inquiry.
"I am reluctant myself to exercise censorship, but I do think it is worth noting that Mr. Dannemeyer is becoming
increasingly bizarre," Frank said.
"People ought to understand not
only the inappropriateness of what heput in the Record but the inaccuracies[included in itJ," Frank added. "Fantasies about lightbulbs? It's bizarre. I
think the few slender threads thatconnected Mr. Dannemeyer to reality
appear to be fraying very rapidly. And
we continue to be lucky he is ourleading opponent, because he is not
one of the 430 most respected members of the [435-memberJ House ofRepresentatives. ""I've been around a couple oftimes and there are a couple of thethings in this list that I'm not evenaware of: added Human Rights Campaign Fund Communications Director
Robert Bray. "This is a classic example of Dannemeyer out of control."
Other gay and lesbian activists,
however, expressed mixed emotions
about the inquiry, citing concerns withsiding with an effort to declare description of certain sexual acts "obscene.""I think that any time a memberof the House can file a complaint
against Dannemeyer, the [National
Gay and LesbianJ Task Force would
applaud that," added NGLTF lobbyist
Peri Jude Radecic. "Still, it seems kindof strange in that House members aresquabbling with each other over what
is obscene and indecent."
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WASHING'FON-The
U,S.
House of Representatives on Aug. 2
syccessfQlly scuttled an effort byahti-gay Rep. William Dannemeyet~-CA) to ban the federal funding of
Sf9ool$ with gay and lesbian y~outreach progr~ms by a 279-134
vote on a tactical maneuver;
Early in floor debate on thetabor, Health and Human Services
and Education Appropriations Bill
JorFiscai Year 1990, Dannerneylr
expressed his intention to introduce
an amendment which would ban
dle use of any federal fuflC:ls underthe bill to ·promote" homosexuality
C?,;f "instruct" chjldren about t~e!I:tivitjes of homosexuals," 6nly':to'have it defeated when .,It was not
aI.lowed to be introduced on the

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against the episode last.yearfor.,theiradvice 00 the script
Midnight Caller executive producer Bob Singer said". "'W~ wanted
their assistance because~hercr~~, a lotof knowld'dge [about AIDS) tH~y can"'.
{ pass Ron to us .that we don't have.", At a mid-July meeting with reptesentatives of the three AIDS groups
and one of tbe seri~s' wrii(!'f,$.,theNOS actiVi~l$),?rged ,t~at th~,ltoJ:Y'sjiicharacter d~;I7with th'~obY~ins ofover the script, which'ihey said would,
getting an experimental'g for an
AIDS-related illness. Such
SCript,enco};lrage violence against people" activists said, would put the TV.' 1W
with ~ disease.
in a position o( advocating Jot£eas t,.tl~rs~tjpt
for th,~ upcoming
eplsod.~" concerns another 'Womant a~ess to treatment.
'.'.
Paul, Boneberg of M<)biI:~ation
jnfecte<:!.
the same bisexual man.
Against AIDS, one of the activists
As l'nitfally outlined, the episode willattending the meeting, said; "TreatfoIlow'the woman's' struggle to cope
with,tbe' advance of the disease. Senment access is .the most impprtant
sitiv,ethe possibility of another"issue in AIDS'loday. An epiS<)d.edeaI~
topr'1erli'toJirnar StudlOsiofftCials c~-,~! ing with thaLissufhW()Ul~ ~~eput. j,t actoss [0,. tn1l1ions o!~opletact.edthe' three San Frandsco orgamacross the country jn a way tffat onlyza~Jon,",ACT UP/SF; Saok Francisco'IV et1tertain~tcan.·%Arj)S~1!9undation and Mobilization
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Challenge in Court
by Keith Clark
SAN FRANCISCO-Cindy Bologna and Sydney Erskine hadplanned to be among the first lesbian and gay couples toregister July 5 when the city's new domestic partners legislation was to have gone into effect. Their plans to turntheir three-year relationship into a formal partnership, however, were thwarted when Phyllis Schlafly and other religious opponents of the law filed repeal petitions thatsuspended the ordinance until after a November vote. Not
so easily thwarted, the two women have gone to court in
an attempt to void the repeal petitions that stymied theirregistration plans.
Alleging flaws in the petitions themselves and possible
fraud in how signatures were gathered, the two filed an
appeal with the San Francisco Superior Court July 24,
demanding the decertification of the repeal petitions,which would void the repeal move. It is unclear, however,what effect such a court order would have on the legislation itself.
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repeal petition forms claim that the domestic partners bill
establishes "the registering of certain city benefits" forunmarried heterosexual or homosexual couples, Bologna
and Erskine, however, note that the domestic partners billitself does not provide for any city benefits, but merely forregistration. A separate Board of Supervisors resolution at
the time also established a city task force to develop plansfor extending benefits to city employees, But neither bill
actually establishes these benefits, which can only be initiated by the city's Health Service System Board, which oversees employee insurance programs.
Chinese Version MMisleadingW
In addition, I3ologna and Erskine presented a translator's rendering into English of the Chinese-language
description of the repeal petitions. According to that rendering, the Chinese-language petitions state the domestic
partners bill's "main goal is to have the government recognize that homosexuals can enjoy all the rights and benefitsof the family just like normal married couples." Bologna
continued

on page 74

NEWYORK-In response to anincreased threat to federal fundingof controversial and .rotic art. members and supporters of the arts community staged
a proteit
on A
Wednesday evening, August 2 infront of the Metropolitan Museum ofArt. The two-hour demonstration
was arranged by Art Positive, anorganization which fights homophobia and censo~hip of the arts. The
protest included a makeshift rally infront of the.museum, and was followed by a meeting to discuss fur-"ther actions.
Demonstrators expressed outrage at an amendment proposed by
Sen. Jesse Helms (R-Nt), passed by.
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Photo: Desi Del Valle
support obscene or IAdecent mate,rials.· The amendment came just two weeks after the House .f Representatives cut the budget of the National Endowment
for the Arts, which had supported controversial exhibits by Andres Serrano and the late gay photographer Robert Mapplethorpe,
Afterwards, demonstrators adjourned to the Dia Foundation for a planning meeting, where they found polic. waiting
for them outside of the building, at 155 Mercer Street Art Positive's Bill Dobbs said that the police tried to enter the meeting to find out who was in charge.
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BI.. cker Str .. t in the West Village on Wednesday
evening. August 2nd to picket a store-front church where
the New York chapter of Operation Rescue holds its regular m.. tings. Protesters, responding to a call by the
Reproductive Rights Coalition, then marched up Sixth
Avenue and Across Eigth Str.. t to the Domino's Pizza on
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Five church members a'pparently followed thedemonstrators e .. t, and were permitted through thepolice barricades in front of the pina shop in order topurchase dinner. Afterwards, they co.uld be seen on the
sidewalk in front of the store, munching pizza while
simultaneously fondling their rosaries.
- Andrew Miller and T.L Litt

Photo: IL. LittKoch Presents Gay-BashVictims with 'Magical' Ties
by David Kirby
NEW YORK - Two victims of thebrutal, anti-gay attack July 22 in Carl
Schurz Park attended a brief, publicized meeting with Mayor Edward
Koch in his City Hal1 offtce, at which
the mayor praised the two for theirbravery and gave each an official
New York City tie with "magical pow-,
ers.· Koch routinely meets with victims of any bias-related violence inthe city.
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more dramatic hearing it directly fromthe victim, and I think it has an impact
on the public," Koch explained to thehalf-dozen reporters present:
On the warm Saturday night inquestion, Stuart El1iot, a 37-year-old
reporter for USA T-oday, was sitting ona bench talking with Bruce El1erin,
when 11 teenage boys and one girlapproached them and began callingthem"faggots.·
When
Ellerin
respondedwith obscenities,- 'thegroup attacked the two men, sending
them both to the hospital.

"It was a terrifying experienceand it all happened so quickly. They
just beat the hel1 out of us. It was avery, very scary thing," said, Elliot,
who needed 18 stitches above one
eye and on his nose. El1erin, who was
not at the City Hal1 meeting, sustained
a fractured cheekbone.
of the three or four dozen people who reportedly filled nearby park
benches,
only one person,
Ron
Meyer, a 48-year-old
industrial
researcher from the Upper East Side,
came to the aid of Ellerin and Elliot.

Koch, while praising Meyer for
his quick action, called the complacency of the other parkgoers "outrageous and shameful." Meyer was also
beaten during the attack, and required
hospitalization.
Six of the alleged
attackers have so far been arrested.
"If the anti-bias legislation in
Albany had been passed already, thepenalties would 'be much greater,"said Koch, restating his support forthe derailed bill which sought stiffer
sanctions for those found guilty ofhate crimes.

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Out of Our Hands

Why Dykes Need to Take on tbe
Insurance Industry
by Desma Holcomb
The AIDS epidemic has further
exposed the hardships of illness without health in~rance. As a result, gay
men have been following closely the
progress of proposals for domestic
partner health benefits. But lesbians
also have a special stake in this fight.
And we'll need to take on the insurance industry to win it.

Why Lesbians Lack Insurance
As women, lesbians are less likely tohave health insurance than men (iQ~cluding gay men). Women in m:ihy
predominantly-female jobs don't get
health benefits. This includes many
waitresses, garment workers, sales
clerks, home health care workers,
child care providers and office clericals. And more than 75 percent of
women work in traditionally female
job categories like these.
Part-time workers---90 percent ofwhom are female-areroutinely excluded from coverage even in companies that provide health insurance forfull-time staff. Lesbians who have gotten jobs with movement organizations
or wornen-owned businesses often fmd
that their employers ·can't afford"
health coverage for employees. And alesbian who is lucky enough to have a
job and insurance through that job mayvery well have a lover who does not.
Historically, lesbians have been
more likely than gay men to settle into
long-term relationships. They are also
more likely to have responsibility forchildren, whether from divorce, adoption or alternative insemination. For
many lesbians, insurance coverage forour lovers' children will be just as important as coverage for our lovers.
Finally, as women, lesbians earn

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an average of one-third less thanmen. With low incomes and highhealth care costs, we literally cannot
afford notto have insurance.
("

Taking on the Insuranc.-tndustry
Unions and the lesbian and gay movement are challenging employers andpoliticians to provide domestic partner
health benefits. But even when an employer or a city is willing, most insurance companies simply refuse to write
policies that include domestic partners.
This refusal derailed contract negotiations for insurance by District 65/UAW
at the Museum of Modem Art in 1987,
and has stalled implementation of a city
council resolution on benefits in Seattle.
We should not be surprised. Thisis the industry that for decades madepremiums for Blacks more expensive
than those for whites. This is an industry that still charges women an average of $100 more a month than it
charges men for individual policies.
And this is the industry that has beenusing every means possible, both
legal and illegal, to keep people with
AIDS, and gay men in general, off
their policies.
Insurance companies have assumed that "domestic partners" are all
gay men and that all gay men have
AIDS. When they make theseassumptions, they are making lesbians
invisible. They are being homophobic
because many straight couples will
apply as domestic partners, and they
are being AIDS-ignorant because not
all gay men get AIDS and not all people with AIDS are gay.
But even' before the AIDS epidemic, insurance companies resisted
the concept of domestic partner coverage. "Adverse selection" is the tech-nical excuse the industry has raised(and still raises) for not providing domestic partner coverage. What is "adverse selection-?
Since insurance companies operate for profit using the law of averages, they want to be sure that they
don't get an above-average number ofsick people on their policies. Anytime "too many- sick individuals become eligible for an insurance policy,
it throws off the average and is considered adverse selection.
Insurance companies assume thatpeople marry for reasons other thangetting spousal health beneftts. As aresult, spouses as a group will havean average amount of good healthand illnesses. On the other hand, insurance companies assume, that, given
the chance, many people will designate a non-lover as a "domestic partner" because they have a roommate
or friend who is ill and needs coverage. So they assume that domestic
partners as a group wi11 include an
above-average number of sick people,
many of whom are not really domestic partners at all. That's why they
think domestic partner coverage
would lead to adverse selection. The
prejudices that lie behind these assumptions are that domestic partner
relationships are not as legitimate as
marriages, and that the kind of people
who would openly claim to have alover (straight, lesbian or gay) arelikely to be liars.
Two solutions have been developing to the so-called, problem of adverse selection. At
Village Voice,couplesregisteras co-habiting"spousal equivalents" with an afftdavit,
and get covered one year later. So it's
impossible to get qUick coverage for athesick friend, and word is likely to get
out if you're not really lovers. During
the seven years the policy has been in
effect, there have been zero cases offraud at the Voice.
In the city of Berkeley, California,
and its Unified School District, whichhave had coverage for five years, couples swear out an afftdavit that they
are co-habiting and sharing the necessities of life. They are legally liable torefund to the employer any benefits
received if the relationship is a fraud.
Under either system domestic partners
have to put up with stricter rules thanmarried couples, but tbe insurancecompany is protected from potential
cheaters. Under either system, domestic partners as a group would tend tohave the same amounts of good andbad health as spouses.
Since these time-tested solutions

to the problem of adverse selection
exist, the continuing refusal by the insurance industry to cover domestic
partners is primarily a problem of discrimination. Lesbians have a special
stake in bringing that discrimination
to an end.
Until we achieve the goal of national health insurance, domestic partnership is an interim measure worth
struggling for.
...

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pdI emerged
from "the June
Montreal AIDS conferencewith;1 wide,spread professional
consensusthat it is the most important new AIDS,
antiviral at this time. The drug ap,I pears to be much less toxic than AZT,and the toxicities it does have are different-opening
doors to more effectivf};doses, as well >as compination, 4*'
therapies.
Like AZT, ddI is not a cure, andwilt bave to be used as a maintenancetreatment It can be taken less frequently than AZT, probably twice a day.
J\\though the drug is in the samegeneJ;a1 class as AZT, there does notappear to be cross resistance:-meaningthat strains of the virus which have,. become resistant to AZf are not automatically resistant to ddI. Therefore,
ddI may be effective for people forwhom AZf no longer works well. DdI
may also be synergistic with AZT,
meaning that the combination may
work even better than would be expected by adding the efficacies of thetwo separate drugs together. But noone knows for sure, because as far as
we know there have been no humantests of the combination.
Eventually AIDS virus strains will,probably develop resistance to ddI, aswith AZf. But the new drug should atleast work for some time for people

who cannot use AZT, or for whom
to go throug~ a two-year ,ritual in
AZT·is no longer effective. And labowhich a statiStiCallysignif.lcantnumber
ratory tests have suggested that whenof deaths and serious infections
accumulate jnthose in a control groupdifferent drugs attack the virus in dif,ferent ways (as suggested here bY' not receiving' the treatment. -Trials to"lack of cross resistance), it may takelook directly at which patients do o~much longer for the virus to develop
do hot improxe while usm,g the qrug
resistance to the combination than to
could be co~ducted much
rapid~
any of the drugs separately.
ly, and would provide exactly the in,~
Some scientists also suspect thatfo~tionpal:,ientsand physicians wantbone-marrow toxicity from Prolonged
to know-but such trialS would not be
use of AZT might make it more diffiaccepted for drug approval, because it
cult for the immune system to recovis hard to meaSure patient improveer, even jf the virus causing the imment SCientifICally.·mune deficiency can be stopped. DdI,Since importantantivirals
willtake' years to go through the approvat'
may provide 'evidence of whether or
not this theory is true, by allowing
process, and patients cannot wait for
AZT to be compared with an antiviralrefonp of th~.current unproductive rewhich has no bone-marrow toxicity. It
search system a.nd the entrenched inwill be important to see whether Tterests behind il, immediate discushelp<;r cells (for example) recoversion has focused on programs tofastest with ddI alone, AZT alone, ormake drugs available before full apa combination of the two.
proval to those who need them.
In short, ddI wiU be most impor- \ most-after
the drugs have passed
tant for those who' cannot use AZT.
safety tests and shown some evidence
But also it may open doors to athat they work. The basic fact shaping
whole range of new treatment possithis discussion is the conflict between
bilities, making possible creative rethe ir!terests of patients, who want tosearch which can advance HIV manhave more and better treatment opagement for the benefit of everyone.
tions available, and'the interest of in11tese potential benefits, however,_ stitutions which, for differing reasons,may be slow~ or blocked by the inefwant to restrict access.
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Add'I'Directoryby Mark HarringtonL

ast year, the u.s. government
held a baby auction. They
were selling
licensesto"Broder's babies"-<irugs whose antiHIV activity was discovered in the
National Cancer Institutelabs of Dr. Sam Broder. It
was Broder who discovered
the test-tube anti-HIV activity of AZT, ddC (dideoxycytidine) and ddI (dideoxyinosine). Although these drugs
qualify as orphans under
the u.s. Orphan Drug Act(which give the licensee tax
breaksanda limitedmonopoly), there was noshortage of would-be sponsors. In the end, giant pharmaceuticals got the orphans:
Hoffman-LaRoche got ddC
and Bristol Myers (aided, no
doubt, by an executive'srole as a top Bush fundraiser) got ddI.
All these drugs (which
are called nucleoside analogues) work in a similar manner.
They attach to the DNA of cells thatare dividing, and cause "premature
chain termination." This means thatthe DNA breaks off before HIV cancopy itself onto the cellular DNA,
bringing new viral
replication to a halt.
This doesn't affectcells that are alreadyinfected, where HIV
has already copied itself onto host cellDNA, but only in
newly infected cells. So nucleosideanalogues aren't cures, but only treatments, for HIV infection.

Blood cells and nerve cells arevery sensitive to nucleoside analogues. AZT suppresses the bonemarrow where all blood cells originate. DdC causes peripheral neuropa-

thy, or pain in the extremities (hands,
feet, legs). DdI seems, so far, to be
the least toxic of the nucleoside analogues. Some toxicity has beenfound-mainly
buildup of uric acid(which causes gout but is easily treat-

toxicities are far less dramatic anddangerous than AZT-linked toxicity.
DdI is half as "active" as AZT, but
ten times less toxic. ThIS means alarger effective dose can be taken.
Phase I safety studies are continuingwith subjects receiving up to 2000 mg(2 grams) a day. Some people in the
Phase I study have experienced increases in T4-cells and decreases in amarker of viral activity called p24
antigen. Some have reported
increased feelings of wel\being as well.
Like AZT, ddI will betaken orally. It will be packaged in a sachet. People willtear open the package andpour the powder into a glassof water twice a day. The
powder contains ddI and anantacid buffer. (DdI is acidsensitive and would be degraded in the stomach if itwere taken
without
anantacid). DdI has a longer
half-life in the blood thanAZT (10 hours vs. one hour)and so needs to be taken lessoften.
Right now, ddI's manufacturer, Bristol-Myers Co., is
working with the National
Institute of Al\ergy and Infectious
Disease (NIAID), which conductsFederal AIDS drug trials, with theFood & Drug Administration (FDA),
which regulates drug trials in humans,
and with ACT UP to design several
ddl trials. The mostimportant of these trials (all of whichshouldbegin
in
September) will compare ddI to AZT in
people with low T4cel\ counts
whohaven't been on AZT before. This trial
will be carried out through NIAID's
AIDS CLinical Trials Group (ACTG)

Ddl is half as 'active' as
AZT, but 10 times less toxic.

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August 14, 1989ed), some peripheral neuropathy at
the higher doses tested, and inflammation of the pancreas. But all theseIsystem. The ACTG has been a notable
failure in providing new AIDS therapies, despite half a billion dollars infunds over the last three years.
Other trials may be conducted
through commun4ty-based researchgroupssuch
as New
York'sCommunity Research Initiative (CRI).
Because potential subjects already receive health care from CRI doctors,
these trials may enroll subjects fasterand get results quicker than the
ACTG. CRI trials may compare different doses of ddI in people who areunable to take full-dose AZT becauseof its toxicity (such people are called
AZT-intolerant).
There may be another trial of ddI
in people who have been on AZTover a year, and in whom AZT may
no longer be working. Some people
will be randomly assigned to receive
ddI, while others get Azr.
Finally, there may be another nationwide program for people who areunable to enroll in a controlled clinical
trial of ddI, and who have no othertherapeutic option. This has been called"Treatment IND· by FDA Commissioner
Frank Young, "Parallel Track" by NIAID
Director
Anthony
Fauci,
and"Emergency or Compassionate Drug
Program" by Bristol-Myers. Whatever its
final name, for this program to succeed,
it must provide access to ddI to people
who need an alternative to AZf.
Previous
efforts like FDA's
Treatment INDs for trimetrexate orerythropoietin (EPO) have failed to
distribute Treatment IND drugs to
people who need them. But times
have changed. In June and July, 1989,
ACT UP representatives met with thescientists from Bristol-Myers who aredesigning the ddI trials. It was probably the first time in history that a drug
company met with people living witha disease to plan together trials of adrug to treat that disease. If the pharmaceutical industry starts to workwith people with AIDS, rather thanbeing their",ntagonist, the crisis may
be over sooner.
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COlnlllentary

Provincetown JournalHome is Anywhere They Bash Your Pride
By Sunday evening, July 23, with
ACT UP NYers on hand to supply
chants, posters and volume, and withthe evening's honorary guest, New
York's own Fairy Goddess-sister, Rollerena, in ful\ skating regalia as theparade's grand marshall, it seemed that
Provincetown's lesbian and gay community, residents and visitors alike, wasfinally prepared to bid a proud, raucous
farewell to the funereal candlelight processions which have replaced-not
accompanied-gay pride marches here
in the past few years.

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Provincetowne,.

Photo: Steve Crouch I Roberta Raeburn

On Parade

For the parade's diligent organizers, the sheer volume of people andvoices, the combination of jubilation
and rage in the face of an ever-present enemy, represented a sma\1 victory. Paul deRenzis and his lover Eric
Kendrick, two young native New
Yorkers who a year ago transferred toProvincetown, had assumed the rollof parade organizers after it became
clear that few if any of their queer
peers were interested in the responsibility. Inspired by a desire to illuminate the plethora of fJDS issues still
unaddressed in the community, andto emphasize lesbian/gay pride andstrength, the two men, accompanied32

by P-town summer resident Steve
Crouch and a handful of others, hadspent the previous week tirelesslyplanning for the event.
As the march surged onto Commercial Street, Provincetown's main
thoroughfare,the predominantly
straight onlookers (thousands, said
the local press) were treated toposter-carrying queers who had taken
to this unexpected infusion of rowdiness as natura\1y as they'd taken to
the dance floor at the A-Bar Saturdaynight. While the swarm screamed

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chants compiled the night before,
some of us distributed flyers detailingthe government's
negligencein
responding to the AIDS crisis andtossed into eager hands the party
favor of the gay nineties, the condom.
There could be no question on thepart of the crowd as to why we werescreaming our queer little guts out.
For our rights. And for our lives.
As I looked at the stunned facesof tourist families and tourist queers I
decided it was well worth the timespent leafletting on the beach, hammering out plans and posters insmoky living rooms. Fueled by theexamples of self-sacrifice on the partsof P-town's own vox clamanti, I
decided it was high time I'd taken
action on my duty as a young fag
activist away from home: AIDS doesn'ttake a vacation (though P-town's treatment access system, which requires atrip to Boston for certain treatments,suggests that some in the medical
community must think otherwise).
Nor does homophobia. (As ACT
UP/NY's Walter Armstrong said upon
returning to NYc, "Between the rent-acops and the internalized homophobia[in Provincetownl, there is about an inchof freedom there." Examining the
crescendo of negative sentiment preceding and following the march, Armstrong's words seem an understatement)
Witness the rumors that'd been
spread around town by our own
brothers and sisters that those radical
parade organizers had gone and invited "outside agitators· to disturb thepeace. Witness the verbal assault onan ACT UP/NYer Sunday night by anirate lesbian who has "lived in thistown for 30 years and never seensuch filth," referring to his sign
demanding that buttfucking and clit
licking be legalized in a\1 fifty states.
Okay, sister, the wording'S a bit harshperhaps, but is not a patriarchal heterosexist court's Hitler~ue
intrusion
into our bedroom not infinitely morevulgar? Witness the homophobia of agay bar-owner as Rollerena sought toinform its young clientele of themarch. The owner of the Boatslip,
which is the only place where queers
can t-dance nightly (and the joint
most drastica\1y in need of politicalnourishment), refused Rolla and herescorts entrance, citing a club policy
forbidding leaflet distribution. Whenchallenged by the sword-tongued
ACT UP boys of the political importof their gesture, the owner concocteda convenient club policy barring persons on roIler skates from entering
the establishment.
Considering these relatively tameexamples of homophobia-fears,
really, of those brands of queerness
which disturb the peace-in Provincetown, it became increasingly clear tome why Paul and Eric and their com-rades had abdicated their comfortablecouches of quiet citizenry to screamfor life and rights.
It was only a matter of time,
however, before homophobia's tame
growl turned violent. As he marched,
Provincetown's Chris Alvarez was hit
by a shot from a BB gun.
Reporting on the march, an inaccurate local press set the tone for an
ensuing week of offtcially sanctioned
queer-bashing. "The police reported
no violence at the orderly march,· ran
the story. ·However,· it continued,
Provincetown resident Chris Alvarez
suffered a small injury to his chestfrom an unidentifted [?)object he said
was hurled [?) into the crowd.· No
violence, huh? Were the queers merely getting what they deserved?
In a town selectman's meeting on
Tuesday night, it seemed most residents thought just that. If we activist·punks,· as a lesbian business leader
called us, were shocked by the vituperations of one of our sisters against
u~all over a silly old sign?--none of
us was ready for Tuesday night'S
bashing. PrefaCing their remarks withsuch disclaimers as ·We've lived here
all our lives and have always been
accepting,· the townspeople-about
23 of thern-listed
maligning stereotypes of gay behavior as defense for
their anger. When her turn came to
add to the crowd's invectives, one
parent shamelessly revealed that thescope of the vitriol transcended a sign
(which enjoyed more attention than
did the BB or AIDS). Implicitly sanctioning, as a result of "that sign,· her
three sons' homicidal rage against all
gays, she said she had to "leash themup," to prevent them from ·going out
and beating you people up.· Whenhuman beings are raised as dogs, it'sa wonder they don't gnash the bonesof those they're taught to hate ..
By week's end some had taken
Mom's cue. Kendrick and deRenzis,
publicly dubbed sole riot-inciters on
Thursday by a fellow organizer eager
to clear his name, received their ftrst
threatening phone call on Friday.
Despite long-term plans to return
to family in Brooklyn, deRenzis now
says, "We have to stick around. We
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Business as Usual as the Numbers Swell to Six Figures
Angeles; they are 84 people in steel town Allentown, PA,
122 residents of the New West's Tulsa, OK, 76 in the breadThe nation recently passed through a somber threshold.
basket's Omaha NE, 105 lives in Old New England's
With little attention, the American population has witnessed
Springfield MA and an overwhelming 1,564 souls in thethe achievement of a morbid milestone.
Caribbean's San Juan, Puerto Rico.
On July 1, 1989 the l00,OOth case of Acquired Immune"But the devastating meaning of this [100,000) number
Deficiency Syndrome was reported to the Centers for reaches far beyond the stark reality of lives lost and lives
Disease Control (CDC). With an average of 189 AIDS cases now at risk," states Jean McGUire, executive director of thereported to the CDC every day, AIDSAIDS Action Council. "The real
has hit a new and grim landmark: six
news today is that what took eight
digits.
years to happen so far will sadly
With eight years of mounting
be repeated within fifteen months
caseloads and gruesome predictions,when the next 100,000 cases aremany in the gay and lesbian communireported."ty have become desensitized to the
One of the first 100,000 is
ever-risingnumbers. Which often
Mike Meridian. As executive direcmakes it difficult to understand, or
tor of the National Association ofeven to accept them. So, what does
People 'with AIDS he has acted as
100,000 represent?
advocate, as lobbyist, as media
One hundred-thousand represents
spokesperson and as AIDS advothe entire population of Alexandria,
cate. But at a recently-staged press
VA; of Fullerton, CA; of Davenport IA.
conference called 'by the coalition
One hundred-thousand represents the
National Organizations Respondtotal number of people employed bying to AIDS (NORA), he was one
McDonnel Douglas, Exxon or Xerox.
thing above all else: the face ofOne hundred-thousand represents the CumN"G RED TAPE?
AIDS.
entire nu~ber of den~ists i? America, Dr. Anthony Fsuci, Nstionsllnstitute of Allergies
7he projection of human ec~all the actIve duty offICers tn the U.S. snd Infectious oisesse
nomIc costs, the need for a bIll
Army or the Air Force, or the totalsuch as the Americans
withamount of pediatricians and general practitioners in the U.S" Disabilities Act [which would ban AIDS discrimination on a
combined.
national level) and the urgency of reform needed is overAnd of those 100,000, there have already been overwhelming," said Meridian. "The numbing statistics and pro60,000 deaths, well over the total number of American
posals must not mask the real issue-men,
women anddeaths in either the Vietnam or Korean Wars.
children, rich and poor, white, Black and Hispanic, from all
Today, the figures represent not only the staggering
walks of life are living with HIV, and in too many cases
numbers in cities like New York, San Francisco and Los dying from it."byaw O'NeiU

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Civil Rights
In recent months, the issue of
AIDS has undergone a marked decline
in newspaper coverage and has seemingly evaporated from national news
broadcasts. While the numbers of cases
have continued
to mount,theAmerican population has largely beenbrought to the conclusion that theadvancements made in AIDS policymaking and research
have beenbrought "under control." Columnists inthe nation's leading daily newspapers
have expressed confusion as to how
the media can now cover AIDS issues.
Callers into radio talk shows are echoing complaints
buzzing within the
medical community that there is now
too much attention placed on AIDS.
Which ~~sto what AIDS advo- 'OEVASTAllNG MEANING'
Photo: Doug Hinckle I Washington Bladecb~tes are bVllew~n~ aSheprobably thde Jean McGuire, executi"e director of AIDS Action Council
Iggest pro em lacmg t ever-expan - -1IJII!I----!IIII---I!II-IIII!I!!IIIII!IIIIII!II!III~!JIII!II--- ...- ... I1!111... !!!IIII!II.
ing epidemic: complacency. And that complacency makes
But while President Bush even endorsed the bill duraddressing the vital issues of civil rights and health care in ing his 1988 election campaign, it is currently undergoing
the epidemic all the more diffICUlt.
strict review by the White House and leading Senate
Over eight years and 60,000 deaths into the epidemic', Republicans on several details, including employment antiactivists, scientists, physicians, health commissions anddiscrimination provisrons pertaining to small businesses.
politicians have singled out the guarantee of civil rights as[Mark-up of the ADA by the Senate labor and Humana vital step in bringing this national health problem underResources Committee is tentatively scheduled for AUgust2. The
control. And while a handful of states, counties and cities U.S.House has already begun holding hearings on the bill.}have passed AIDS anti-discrimination measures, to date, inmost parts of the U.S., people with AIDS and HIV infection
The Health Cire Crisis
are only free from discrimination in employment within the
In no other area have the failures of the nation'sfederal government and in housing.
health care delivery system been displayed than in the"Every single report or commission that has addressedcountry's addressing the myriad of such problems aroundthe AIDS epidemic has called for anti-discrimination pro- the AIDS crisis. And nowhere else in the portrait of AIDS in
tection as a means of helping to stop the spread of AIDS," the final months of the 1980s does the picture offer a moresays American Civil Liberties Union AIDS lobbyist Chai bleak outlook.
Feldblum. "Public offtcials have consistently and vigorously
Mayors, hospitals, nurses' and doctors' groups andstated that, in order to encourage voluntary HIV antibody
researchers have joined AIDS advocates in pointing out thetesting, individuals must feel that they may undergo suchseemingly insurmountable problems of nursing shortages,
patient dumping, homeless people with AIDS and staggertesting without fear of subsequent discrimination.·
While anti-discrimination protections were the centering health care costs facing the nation. Over and overpiece of the June 1988 report of the Presidential
again panels and advocacy groups have predicted that
Commission on the HIV Epidemic, then-President Ronald AIDS may soon completely bankrupt the nation's healthReagan brusbed aside the proposal and left the issue to be care system. Experts are predicting that costs of AIDS careaddressed by incoming President George Bush and the
may result in increased hospital charges up to 20 percent a
U.S. Congress.
year for the next two years for all services. One New YorkAnd in November 1988, when Congress sat poised to City hospital alone recently reported 1,700 AIDS patientson its daily census.
pass the nation's first comprehensive AIDS bill including
such anti-discrimination measures, a last-minute delaying
One doesn't have to look far to see the effects thattactic by arch-conservative Sen. Jesse Helms (R-NC) effec- "hospital grid-lock" is having on care for the entire range of
the 'nation'S ills.
tively extracted the anti-discrimination measures, leaving
them to be deall with by the 101st Congress.
"Where will the second 100,000 go for care?" asks
Currently all hopes are being pinned on the compreDonna Richardson of the American Nurses Association.
hensive Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) which"With the Public Health Service estimating 1 to 1.5 million
would-after 25 years-extend
to all people with disabili- infected Americans, hospitals and communities whichties the anti-discrimintation protections of the Civil Rights believe they have been untouched wi11share the cost of
Act of 1964.
care, even if they have not identified any HIV infected indi-

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at $32 billion. By 1991, estimates put that number at close
to $141 billion.

Meanwhile, Congress is considering a fiscal 1990 AIDS
budget of $1.6 billion, $300 million short of what the U.S.
Health and Human Services Department predicted would
be needed for 1990.

UCKING THE GAY LOBBY
Seliatol Mae He/",. (R-North Calolina)

Photo: Jim Marksviduals as of yet... It has been said that homelessness in
New York is an AIDS Calcutta. The ~cond 100,000 could
be as devastating in its death toll and citizens' morale as
the Civil War was to this nation.·
Neither are easy solutions forthcoming. While federal
AIDS program director Dr. Anthony Fauci has publicly stated that the National Institutes of Health-a
medicalresearch institution-will seek to do its part in addressing
the nationwide problem, and Sen. Edward Kennedy (DMA) has stated he will add five new health care ftnancing
proposals to his already-pending
measures addressing
some of the health care delivery problems head-on, in anage of city, state and federal budget constraints I things are
expected to get inftnitely worse before they get any better.
Consider the following statistics:• With cost estimates averaging $60,000 per AIDS
patient, already the 100,000 American AIDS cases to datehave compromised much of the nation's health care system. The next 100,000 are expected in 15 months.
• Of the l00,ro> cases row repcxted, 2,ro> d those havebeen infants, dtidren and teenagers. Three thousand ilfants will
be born wkh AIDS annually, beginning thr; year.
• HIY infection, rates are 'dimbing among women
faster than in any other population.
• Since AIDS disproportionately strikes those below
40, the disease already ranks as the seventh leading causeof ·Years of Potential Life Lost"-a measure devised bystaticians. By 1991 it is expected to be ranked third. By
1995 it may possibly be ftrst.
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The future
The chief challenges in facing the morbid predictions
appear to be twofold: money and complacency. .
And with a growing complacency gripping the public
consciousness and a heightened sense of competition
between AIDS activists and those pushing for research andattention for diseases other than AIDS, the money problems are expected to worsen.
Case in point: the federal AIDS budget. In approving
the Labor, Health and Human Services Budget for Fiscal
Year 1990 in late July, the U.S. House Appropriations
Committee for the first time left AIDS research funding to
the competitive process of the National Institutes for
Health. While AIDS lobbyists are promising to push the
Senate to earmark funding for AIDS research, they areclearly stating that the creeping competition between
researcbers--a competition AIDS activists want no partof-is beginning to make its effects felt
"There should be funding for AIDS research mQ cancer research,· stated outgoing National Gay and Lesbian
Task Force Executive Director Jeff Levi. "It shouldn't becancer research at the expense of AIDS research."
Government complacency is perhaps taking an evengreater toll on people of color who are being hit disproportionately
by AIDS. Just as homophobia
has been
responsible for government's scandalous neglect of people
with AIDS, so too has racism and a basic lack of caring forthe poor and disenfranchized caused a lack of even themost basic of prevention and epidemiology studies intended to slow the spread of AIDS among those populations.
But if there is a bright spot in the portrait of AIDS
100,000 cases into the epidemic it is in the arena of AIDS
research efforts, where, thanks largely to the work of AIDS
activists, unprecedented gains have been made.
Now four drugs are on the market to treat AIDS and
AIDS-related disorders; one other is available through theFood and Drug Administration's"Treatment
IND[Investigational New Drug)" program. By September, ddI, a
new and promising anti-HIY drug is expected to begin
broad human trials, both in strictly controlled university
studies and in another far-reaching program called a "parallel track" system, intended to help patients not qualifying
for university studies to receive the drug free of charge.
But to continu~ to make advances, all agree: the complacency around the epidemic must be shattered.
"Our coalition effort here today marking this tragic
event is evidence of a stronger, more powerful, morediverse AIDS advocacy community," stated M~ridian. ·We
are hopeful that our works and proposals will be heard
and acted upon.
"For me and 99,999 others, it is a matter of life anddeath."...

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Photo: IL. LittIn March 1983 I wrote an essay,"1,112 and Counting."
And inOctober of 1983 I wrote one, "2,339
and Counting.·
What am I thinking now that
100,000 has been reached? Prettymuch the same things I railed against
when I wrote those first two diatribes. I hesitate to list them, lest I be
known as such a one-note wailer.
But the same situations, the same
deficiences, the same denials exist.

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Too many of us are still dying andstill too little is being done by ourgovernments, by our elected officials
and by us.
Of course, there is no way, whena tragedy like AIDS gets out ofhand-andit is out of control wherein enough can ever be done.

But as I witness how few on-the-line
fighters there are in the gay and lesbian population, as we\1 as in theBlack, Latino and IV-drug user populations, I try hard to fight against
despair. I try hard to look at the morepositive aspects. At last we have ACT
UP, a growing nationwide contingentof effective scrappers. At last we
have, in John James' AIDS Treatment
News, a superb means of networking
regular and reliable information onAnd
C"ounting ...
the latest treatments. At last we have,in Martin Delaney, a gay spokesperson who has been able to get previously
inaccessible
government
officials like the Food and Drug
Administration's(FDA) Dr, Frank
Young and the National institutes of
Health's Dr. Anthony Fauci to talkwith us on a regular basis. These areno small accomplishments,
thoughthey come ten years into an epidemic
that still has the power to kill off
many, many more of us.
We still live in a city run by a
Mayor and a state by a Governor anda country by a President all of whom,along with just about every otherelected official, consider those suffering from, or susceptible to, AIDS disposable. We still have no national gay
and lesbian organization with any
power. We still have a stingy numberof lobbyists in Washington. We still
have no national leaders. We still
have a lesbian and gay populationthat lives mostly in the closet. We still
have huge AIDS organizations thatspend most of their energies helping
people to die rather than ftghting for
us to live.
It is hard to feel good about very
much, even though, I suppose, it's
possible to be grateful that it is"100,000 and Counting·and not"1,000,000 and Counting.- I suppose,as well, that there are now many gay
men and lesbians who think the worst
is over, because they aren't HIV positive, or because at last we're hearing
about new treatments that appear
most promising. For those of us who
are HIV positive, or in various more
active stages of AIDS, we certainly
must try to wring hope from whatever
we can, and try not to feel desolately

abandoned by those who selfishly
think only of their lucky escape.
Ten years into an epidemic andso few have had so little effect in
ch:mging the mind-set of so many.
And yet, I do think some sort of corner has been turned; it's certainly better to get sick today than a few years
ago. It's certainly possible that manyof us are going to live through thisafter all. That's a wonderful gift.
But we're not going to live
through it without somehow finding
the energy within our many lesbian
and gay communities--andwithout
building coalitions with the otherThe samesituations, thesame deficiences,
the same denials
exist.
AIDS-affected communities--tofuelthis burst to the finish line. And thefinish line, though it appears to becoming closer each day, may yet tum
out to be a mirage. I worry that we're
so tired we may not find this energy,
and die because of it. This new chapter of the epidemic, I think, can be
categorized
as one in which thedelays we must attack are not somuch scientific ones as bureaucratic
ones. Drug companies and researchers
are at last uniting with us against thehateful Food and Drug Administration(FDA), a system of civil servants thatthrives on red tape and punishes us
for criticizing them as we beg for themercy of swifter action.
This new chapter requires morethan ever just what we have lacked
from the beginning:
coordinatedaction, particularly in Washington.
More than ever we need power displayed consistently and continuously
and constantly in that city of power.
We need a Human Rights Campaign
Fund, a National Gay and Lesbian
Task Force, an AIDS Action Council, a
National AIDS Network, a Gay Men's
Health Crisis, that are stronger thanthey have ever showed us they canbe. We need them to network andtalk to each other, which they don't
do. We need them to choose the mostpowerful leaders available, which
they don't do. We need their boardsof directors to be courageous andgutsy, which they aren't. We need
communities across this nation tofinance the hiring of hundreds of lobbyists in Washington, which we stilllack. 'Oh, I have said all of this somany times and for so long.
But I have no choice but to say allof it again. So, for those of you who
have been reading my words overthese past long years, now that wehave reached that awful and awe-fullnumber of 100,000, there is nothing
new I can bring to solemnize its arrival.
I am still the one-note wailer. I'm grateful I'm still able to be here screaming,and I'm grateful I'm joined by many
more screamers than were aroundwhen I started my caterwauling another lifetime ago. But I sure wish, as I've
prayed from the beginning, everybody
else was screaming too.
We're heading
for the lastroundup, boys and girls. How many
men and women are willing to standup and be counted, at last?
...

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Scenes,roma

Lesbian Love
Lireby Maria Maggenti

Photo: n. Litt".
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I am trying to be agood lover. I am
trying not to give into the hatred closing
in on us.

myfiBt lOVe<and I ",e 'itting on a blanket on the floor of our dilapidated, almost empty and allour-own-apartment. There is a bOttle of wine between us,
an ashtray fun of cigarette butts, candles because wehaven't any lightbulbs yet. We have been passionately inlove for almost eight months-unable
to breathe without
the soft flesh of the other nearby, living in a state of neardelirium, a constant tender fever. I imagine that this sudden
clarity of mind and feeling that has broken open before me
is something unique, brilliant and new on the historicallandscape of human emotion. I am exultant, mad, swollen
with joy. I am the only one in the world who has ever felt
like this.
Perhaps it is the wine. Or the flickering candles making
shadows on the walls of peeling paint. Or it is my embarrassing innocence. For the fact is that at the moment I cannot say, cannot accept, cannot truly comprehend that mylover, the love of my life, is a woman-a
woman likemyself. I turn and hold her angular, soft-skinned, slightly
lopsided face in my hands. "You,· I say grinning, gingerly
pausing between each word. "You-are-a-lesbian.· Her mouth
is a small coy smile, her eyes are two arcs shining above hercheekbones. •And you,· she says in a husky voice, ·Youare-too," I smile, but I do not believe her. It is 1982.
•All women are my sisters, all women are my love, mylove is the love of all women.· Reagan has been in officefor only two years, and we are at a Take Back the Night
March where we have our arms linked with a whole row
of swaying, angry, singing women. I cannot remember
anything except that at the end when Sweet Honey in the
Rock begins to croon, my lover and I are weeping in eachother's arms. Omigod, we are saying, women have been

through so much, we are so oppressed and so beautiful
and so strong. When we walk home later that night we areswaggering with feminist bravado, daring any man to stepin our way. We'll show him, we'll show him. We kiss on
the street and shock the yuppies. I return to my elite
women's college nestled far away in Massachusetts andstay up all night with my best friends (all brilliant, gorgeous girls) decoding phallocentric thought in the texts ofPlato and Aristotle. We defile pictures of male nudes inbooks in the art history library and put woman symbols on
every page of Freud's Interpretation of Dreams. My bestfriend, who I am also in love with, writes, "What about
suppression of the seduction theory, you misogynist pig?"on the front page of Freud's Essays on Sexuality. We laughour heads off about castration and all get A's in philosophy, Classical Greek and Latin. Being smart seemed likethe best revenge
My lover asks me if I will let her tie up my arms during sex, and I am shocked. What?! Just joking, she says,
and we are horrified when we find our gay male roommate's dildo. God, who would ever want to use that ugly
thing, we ask. I am afraid of the women at my school who~alk around in leather and snap small riding crops. I'm notsure what it's all about, but I'm sure it's got something to
do with internalized, patriarchal values. That's what I've
heard, at least. It has been two years since the infamous
Barnard conference on the politics of sexuality and I avert
my eyes when big tough women try to flirt with me.
We are fighting again. I can't stand her. Every time I
look at her I feel like throwing up or smacking her or
telling her to shut up. We have been lovers for three years
now, and we can't stop fighting-she isn't listening to me,
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Photo: lL. littthe time and think I like them andfind out they are straight. I can't
believe it. I could have sworn wewere flirting and having a romantic
evening. They tell me they 'areshocked to find out I'm "gay."
I go to Girl Bar and lean against
the wall. How come everyone here
seems to know everyone else here? I
think to myself. I try to read Mary
Daly'S new book and throw it acrossthe room. Shut up, I scream. Since
when have you tried to live in New
York City by yourself as a radical lesbian feminist? One of my two bestfriends comes to visit me in New Yorkand we go to Bloomingdale's because
she needs a dress for her job interviews. We are riding up the escalator
on a Tuesday afternoon and the store
is jammed with female shoppers. She
looks at me and says dryly, "I have afeeling the revolution might not happen in our lifetime."

why dqes she have to act so godbathtub, the empty office down thedamned macho all the time, she's not hall where I am a lowly temp-anycommunicating, she can't analyze the where we can find space to spreadsituation and intelligently discuss it, out naked and unadorned to fascinate,
we're all wrong for each other andtantalize and thrill each other. I say
My best friend, who I was reallyhave been from the beginning, how"my girlfriend, my lo~er, lesbian"in love with, is hooked up with somedid we let it go on this long anyway?
dyke" real loud in restaurants andone else now-a girl with a mustache.
Last week the big debate was onknow that soon this relationship will They are completely in love andbeing out if you're famous. I said that be over.
happy. I am so angry I could spit.
when I win my Academy Award I
My mother says I will ,be forced to Some sister, I think, as I practice mywould proudly announce her. name as live in the demimonde of freaks andtyping at night. During the day I walkmy lover. She wavers. When she gets queers, like an ugly and mean circus. I around the city and pretend I am on
her Grammy, well, she's not so sure. I tell her to shut up and go to a workvacation, though I realize that thismean, it's a difficult situation, one
shop on homophobia.
vacation is going to last forever so I
does have to consider one's career,
I am the first of my friends tobetter figure out what I am doing
and whose business is it anyway? I graduate, and I move to New York soon., I haven't had sex in eightrun into the bathroom and cry. You alone. My lover has someone living in months, and my mouth is aching totraitor, I say. I've given
kiss someone. Anyone.
up everything for you.
I meet a man. He is
Then I wonder, what
Even though I once had a gay male rooman older Jewish intellectuhave I given up? And
h
II
GO I
'
al who is in analysis four
what choice· did I havemate, e was a mystery to me. Ir $ weredays a week. He hasn't
in the first place?
., the only thing in life.
been with a woman in________________________
five years. I tell him he's
But I can't live
got a serious problem,.without her. Whenever we suggest a our old apartment, and my mother has and it could probably all be traced
trial separation, one of us wimps out all my things in boxes in her baseback to the misogyny of Freudian
and gives in, and then we're backment. She says not to worry, I'll get analysis. He tells me I have a problem
together again barely holding on,over it. In New York no one cares that
if I keep falling for straight women,
walking on a tightrope, a long, thin
I was a straight-A student or the editor
perhaps a bit of internalized homopiece of string high up above theof the literary magazine where I wIote
phobia in there? r suggest that heground. If I lose her how will I ftnd blistering articles about the psyspend· some of his time helping others
another girlfriend? What happens if chopathology of post-feminism in theinstead of talking about himself on ashe sleeps with someone else while
Reagan Era. I fail typing tests and cry couch four times a week. He tells me
we're not speaking? Didn't we say we all night in my hell-hole apartment
I should put some of that lesbian femwould love each other forever? We wondering if'my now ex-lover will
inist theory into practice if I'm sohate each· other. Then it's back to bed,call and tell me to wake up, she wasdamn committed to changing theor the kitchen floor, the couch, thejust joking anyways. I meet women all world.

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I become a volunteer at the battered women's shelter in Harlem, In
the "library" there, which consists of
two bookshelves, every single book is
a Harlequin romance novel. I tell my
new male friend that everything
wrong with the world is the fault ofmen.
I call my best friend, who I am
really in love with, and confess thateven though I hate him, I want to fuck
this man. She tells me I am a traitor
and hangs up. I stare at my bookshelf
at night and wonder what literature
can help me get through this. Theory
is proving to be a fragile friend. For
the first time in my life I begin to readnovels. I read anything I can get myhands on as long as it is fiction. I
recall that "library" of two bookshelves. I think of it and nod my head.
I have begun to hang out at the
Gay and Lesbian Community Center
hoping to catch a glimpse of somekind of lesbian life that is exciting andinteresting and meaningful. All thewomen I meet are "professionals· andseem to be looking over the top of myheads when I speak. All the men I
meet are "in business· and invite meout for coffee so we can talk about
their love lives and how difficult it allis what with AIDS and everything. I
haven't ever really thought about AIDS
before. I've certainly never reallythought about gay men before. Even
though I had once had a gay maleroommate, he was all mystery to me.
Girls were the only real thing in life
anyway. But soon I find myself volunteering to be a buddy at GMHC.
My firstclient is W years old He andhis lover have been together for 28 years,
most of them clandestine, sinre my client
was married with children. Now he fi a sixfoot, four-inch bag of bones who yells atme when I try to cook him something toeat. Only hfi lover can do anythilg rigti I
am an inaxnpetent, according to him, but
who cares, let's just sit and talk anyway.
And he tells me about his 28-year loveaffair with Anthony, about the flashinglights bouncing off all the gorgeous hunks
at the Saint and the time they did acid
together and then he had to go home andtalk to his wife. And how he would taketrips for his ph and call Anthony up andsay, "Get on a plane now, I'm in HongKong." And what is my sory anyway? Henever talked to a lesbian. When he dies,
Anthony sellstheir apartment and moves to
Key West.
After my second client dies, I
decide I am a terrible buddy. I am
impatient and easily frightened by theenormity of the situation. I can't holdanyone's hand anymore. I miss beingaround lesbians but want to continue
doing AIDS work. Every time I try to
do something "lesbian-oriented" I findmyself feeling alienated and angry. The
smell of patchouli makes me nauseated, and I do not want to talk about
feminism anymore. I want to be withhappy, smart, beautiful, right-on girls,
but I don't know where to find them. I
haven't kissed a woman in one year. I
spend my time reading articles about
AIDS and HIV-illness. What I readbetween the lines in the pages of thosejournals is some kind of deep longing
and despair that I cannot name. It is as
though in AIDS I will find the rightplace to scream-about
the world,
about my life, about loss. And I am
strangely comforted by the fact that if I
do scream, no one will be able to hearme above the din of so many others.
I try to convince my one gooddyke friend that what I am doing isinteresting and important. "Just takecare of the boys, like you're supposed
to," she snorts.
I start using the words "lesbian
and gay.· I read gay male magazinesand look at gay male porn. I go dancing at Boy Bar with some of my gay
male friends and listen in on the"dish." One night I am at anotherpanel discussion on AIDS when ahandsome and hip-looking young
man gets up at the end and says a
new group has just formed, a direct
action protest group called ACT
UP-the AIDS Coalition to Unleash
Power. I really laugh at that one.
Unleashing power is an ancient tenetof feminism; where did these boys getthat language? It is 1987 and the AIDS
crisis is in its sixth year.
My lover and I are sitting in acafe drinking Rol1ing Rock and recovering from our latest conflict. I am trying to be close to her. I am trying to
be a good lover. I am trying not togive in to the hatred that I see closing
in on us every day. I am trying to tel1
her that I love her, but the words
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Look Out

Photo: ll. LittThe owners of Emkay
Appliances on Essex
Street are getting an
unusual amountof Monday nightbusiness from lesbians dressedto-kill and looking to get down.
What was a once-in-a-while
phenomenon has turned into acommon, annoying mistake
amongwomen trying to find Deb
Parker's weekly fete at the club

MK. And, as usual, it's New York
Telephone which is at the bottom of all the co~fusion. Whencallers dial directory assistanceand ask for MK, operators are
spelling it out as it sounds - em-k-a-y and giving thead'dress of the Essex Street
appliance store. And womenare arriving to find a different
kind of bunwarmer entirely.
-Michelangelo

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Signorile

Photo: IL. Littnce one of the busiest
banks in Manhattan,
The Provident Loan
Society of New York on Houston
Street closed it doors over 10
years ago and the impressive,
granite building was bought byartist Jasper Johns who used it
as his studio. Now, again, thelandmark Lower East Side edifice has changed hands, and,from what Look Out hears, will
become a nightclub, following
in the vault steps of MK (seeLook Out.opposite page),which
too was once a money trading

center. Our spies have alreadyseen the huge bar, and thedance floor sadly replaces theoriginal interior which Johns
had left intact. Still, we'd muchrather see a bank become adisco than the other way
around. B Squared, a yuppie
club in Tribeca, last year
installed Ii bank machine off its
dance floor. And we all remember Octogon, the nightclub
designed for the "after WallStreet" crowd which featured
an electronic ticker tape foranxious patrons.
-Michelangelo

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BY BRADLEY

Dear Brad:
Don't you think it's more than alittle peculiar that Jacqueline Onassis'
mother, Janet Auchincloss, died on
the very same day that Rose Kennedy
celebrated her birthday?
-Nobody's Fool
Dear Fool:
The Kennedy Family has always
had more than its share of strange
coincidences.
Did you know, forinstance, that the names Kennedy andLincoln each contain seven letters andthat both preSidents, having died ofgunshot wounds, were succeeded byvice-presidents named Johnson? Did
you know that Kennedy had a secretary named Lincoln and Lincoln had asecretary named Kennedy? Did you
know that Rose Kennedy turned 99
years old on July 15th and Janet
Auchincloss was 81 years old at thetime of her death? Both ages are mulli-

BALL

pies if nine! Did you know that John
Kennedy, Jr. was born in 1960 and I
was born in 196O?~ were both raisedby single mothers and people are often
confusing the two of us with eachother. What does all of this tell you?
Mere coincidence? Proof of the existence of darker forces too sinister andcomplicated for any of us to understand? Perhaps one day we will know
the truth. Until then you are wise notto accept these matters at face value.
Dear Brad:

Have you seen my lover? I could
have ,sworn that I told him to meet
me after work at Marvin Gardens
restaurant on Broadway but maybe I
wasn't thinking and said Marvin's
Place restaurant on Ninth Avenue by
mistake. I waited almost two hours
and then went back to our apartment
anp I haven't seen him since. That

This wHk's nigh1marl, Stata Sinator John Man:hi of Stall. Island, wants toamlnd qlllirs out of thl NIW YorkStatl Constitution. It IIIIDS the Craaturl FromThl
Garbagl landfill WallO outragld at till State Supreml Court's ruling tIIat gays arl
family and can inhlrit tIIllr matis' apartmlnts, that hi wants to rawrite thl state chartlr to splcifically radlfinl!amily as straight only.
H Statln Islandlrs kllp rullcting tills cralp, wI'd likl to III tIIlm lleadl altar
aU.Fromthl United Statesl

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was, in April. He's never done anything like this before except formaybe that time when we were firstdating and he said he was going see
A Dolls Life and I tried calling him allnight and he didn't pick up the phone
until 10:38 in the morning two days
later. I promised him then that I
would get over being so insecure but
this time I'm kind of beginning toworry, especiaUy since I've had totake on a second job to make the rent
payments.
~RANTIC
Dear Frantic:
Frankly, many of us were unable
to speak to people, even our loved
ones, for a considerable period oftime after seeing A Dol/'s Life. I
remember that my best friend and I
could only stare helplessly at eachother after that curtain rang down
and we still had the prospect of Liv
UUman's Ghosts looming before us.
Ever since that fateful autumn I've
mentioned this to other fellow survivors and have discoveredthat
every singl~ person continues toexperience periodic nightmares andextended episodes of severe withdrawal. I know of one extreme
instance where a talented young manchanged his name, left the country
and was last seen operating a grain
elevator
in
Moss
Bank,
Saskatchewan. Experts have called
this the "Season- They-MurderedIbsen Syndrome· and it can be alleviated (though, unfortunately,notcured) with some mighty intensetherapy. Your lover will almost certainly return and you will have to be
as sUPF0rtive and understanding as
possible in helping him to deal withthe effects of this trauma.
Confidential to Nellie F.:
You could say life is just a bowlof Jello but you would not, however
appear more intelligent and smart. 'Y

TI. By Michelangelo

S

Slgnorlleorne of you might want me to.
leave Liz Smith (New York
Daily News), alone (you've
even told me as much). But I simply
can't resist. And besides, her sins aremuch too numerous for me to quit now.
As you cam imagine, I never did
receive that letter from Liz (the one
which she'd had someone can to say
she was sending) which was to besome sort of response to something I'dwritten about her in this very column
which seeks to balance the scales ofjustice tipped by all-powerful gOSSip
columnists in their own favor, and alsoseeks to' combat the blatant homophobia which gossip columnists dabble in,though many of them are gay or lesbian (got that?). I don't know what Liz
could've been mad about.
Anyway, it's now day 30 and noletter. Either the mail is slow, or it's
something else. I do know that Liz
has been away for a while, as can beevidenced at the bottom of her column where it says, "Liz Smith is on
vacation. This column is a collaboration with St. Clair Pugh and Denis
Ferrara." (It has said this for a couple
of weeks now.) These two guys are
Liz's assistant's who are obviously
watching the fortress while she's gone
- and of course they must be writing
the column. See, I'm trying to understand why it says ·collaboration·atthe bottom. It just doesn't se.em conceivable that Liz would be cruising theNile, or touring Paris or lying by apool in Palm Springs while simultaneously barking orders on a telephone
about what's going in the column.
And even more peculiar is the factthat the writing style of the column isthe same as usual, which makes me
wonder how much of the column Liz
actually writes when she is in town.
Anyway, Liz's two assistants, who
seem to have an enormous crush on"handsome Hal Rubenstein ...who will
become the editor of Malcolm Forbe's
upcoming magazine, EGG," (they evenran his photo), quoted TheaterWeekmagazine last week, something which
struck me as funny considering that aboycott has been called of The Native
and all other Charles Ortleb publications, which include TbeaterWeek.
And I would have thought that Liz (orher assistants), of an people, would
join in on the boycott. Then again, it
was Liz, whom I thought would not be
worried about having children at thisstage of the game (she and her goodfriend, the archaeologist Iris Love, areboth in their sixties), who recently told
Mirabella magaZine, "You can't attack
people in New York and survive. Or
you might survive but you're nevergoing to be part of the inside group.
You have a baby. You're going toh••••••••••••••••••

want that child accepted In a good private New York school. ~ll once you
go to the board and they ftnd out thatyou're this person who's made a lot ofimportant people suffer, they're goingto say forget it. You can't get away
doing that kind of stuff.Fuck you, Liz! Fuck you! Puck
you! Puck you! Puck you!
Anyway, now that I got that outof my system, I should tell you moreof what Liz said in the interview with
her a.nd supermodel
Jerry Hall
(together over dinner) in the August
Mirabella. In one part of the interview she says of Spy magaZine, "Theywrite mean, nasty things about people
they don't like." Then, in another partof the interview, she calls Oprah
Winfrey a ·cockroach. - But the careful reader will revel at the part whenLiz says to Jerry Hall, "I want you toshow off your bathing suit" (Jerry
strips down).
And later when Liz
hands Hall her telephone number,saying, "Just in case you ever want toget some news out in a hurry."~iiiii•• ii••••• i1
Things that peopk-w(Jo'fJe-SUCcessjiit_i:b'-fompleted-psycbotberapy-b,:,t-stl~;:,Ulatcb-too-mucb-da:nm-televislOO say: "-'I
"I was always I$olated, alone, separate from the family.
The Brady Bunch.
II:ti,"I'd cbfue to the realization that most of my relationships had a l.ucy-Ri<:lcy
pattern - classic, sexist and sadly o~rshadowedby failure and low self~
esteem. I knew I'd wanted something dse (and ,not an Ethel-Fred re1atiodship sjnce that was simply a mote refmed, subtle version of the Lucy-Ipcky
model). No, wh:tt I wanted Was much moleradicaJ,O)uth nlOfe cuttingedge. I wanted a Lucy-Elbel relationship and wanted it to include genital
contact and - dare 1 say - Ii!e-partner-bonding which excluded ,Ricky andFred, but which may or may not have included Mrs. Trumble.""In my family I was made to feel unneeded, unloved and ugly! Yes, tbe.ywere The Munster'S and I was the niece Marilyn."It could never work. He was so Flintstones. [was ultimately very Jetson's,·*1was very abrasive. In any sort of group Interaction, be it a pc>t luck dinneror a lesbian affmity group meeting, I was consistently playing the role of Mr,
Wilson on Dennis the Menace, or Dr. Smith on Lost in space or, worse yet,Alexandra on Josie and the Pussycats ...

'-I'm a softee. I always took on too, toO many tasks at once. I was a veritable
Hazel ...
"You've 00 idea what it's like to be the Ted Baxter of your class'-

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Social Terrorism

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PSUCK:emme:
d almost solely by other girls about eachther, either teasing them about their poor liptick application ("Cut the femme act, Olive"), or,s use #1 for butch: "She's so femme, you just'ant her to take you home and make Betty
rocker ....

aywoman:related term: "glamour lesbian"; as if the others weren't) what once
'as a fairly adventurous thing to call yourself has now become thepscaIe, Y-girl term for women who identify more with theirreersltheir gender more than what they're doing with their girliends (and the implications thereon.

hese women are the femmes of theOs, with a little less roleplaying andore fashion consciousness. Because
f the stupidity of some straight people,
ey are often mistaken as members of,e breeder nation. They are fun toate, if only for the jungle red theyeave on your t-shirt collar.

esel dYke:
relative of truckdriver and build agger, this particular epithet issually used by middle aged men. Deep in our heart of hearts,'e truly love diesel dykes as the first women who were out
verywhere (along with butclVfemme couples pre-Stonewall)is exchange (overheard) may epitomize this phenomenon:
Irst Dyke (upon seeing a cute girl): Hey, chickee, baby ...
cond Dyke: Oh man, I'd like to get me some of that.
Irst Dyke: Yeah, boy, she was hung like a doughnut.
omosexual:
ormerly a term denoting gay men and lesians. The only people who currently still
se it this way are deranged psychiatrists
nd right-wing homophobes, ex~pting Govrnor Tom Kean, who remembers that we're
esbians in the same sentence as Satan'orshippers and lunatics

yKe:
word which has gone from hated to loved to despised to liked to loved.
hese four little letters are so nuanced that gay men are afraid to say it to,eir friends because they might say it the wrong way. Lesbian activists
se it gleefully in the company of straights. Two things: 1) straight men
hould never use this word, 2) gay men in the company of lesbians, should'ait and see what word they're using,girl:
Not all women are girls, not all girls aremen, some are wombin, wimmin,~. When lesbians are discussing girls,
ou can be sure they are discussing
ther lesbians for the most part (ormen they wish were lesbians). Thisrd is usually prefaced by the wordute", or suffixed by ''with a bad attitude
he couldn't afford."ana:
uld be the girl you're sharing your days, nights and sex toys with, or the girls
u spend time with trying to hunt down someone to play with. Friends or lovers,
rs obviously adopted from the boys (thank you), and can be used in all its varia~ons in everyday conversation.

Fag Baitingby Micbelallgelo Sigllorile

Everywhere you go men are talking about - what else? - how to meet other men.
•Well, we all know this is a complex process which we sometimes, naively, try to explain in nine words or less. Firstand foremost, before discussing how to actually meet men, we have to figure out what kind of men we're talking about.
New York City is a diverse metropolis, the World capital, as we're told. Although we couldn't describe every kind ofman in the city, OutWeek has outlined some of the more popular types who proudly glide down the streets of New York,back packs in tow, every day - and how to nab one. (Note: Making things even more complicated, most men occupy twoor even three of these categories. Some are virtual Sybils, and occupy all categories.)

The Health Food Fag
You can find him in any restaurant that serves Miso soup or in any unattractive grocery that has lots of barrels. Sometimes he's a fake (says he eats this stuff, but sneaks Skippy peanut butter when you're not looking). Always full of surprises,
he can whip out some sort of crunchy, nutty food and add yogurt to it at a moment's notice. He has a tendency to drink
everything out of the carton. (Also, has weird things growing in the refigerator).
Bait: Wear crystals, carry Louise Hay books and eat unpeeled carrots on the street.

The Upper East Side Fag
Likes stripes for clothing and furniture. Doesn't know the name of the subway that runs up Lexington Avenue. Always
takes cabs. Likes humilation and loves to suck dick. Always has a cat. $250 phone sex bills are his way of feeling downtown.
Bait: Stand ne,ar any corner where you see them hailing cabs in the direction of uptown. Grab your crotch.

Fag de la Terminally Trendy
Sideburns. Doo rags. The Bar. Boy Bar. 19 earrings. Ripped jeans or cut-off, folded-at-the-knee jeans. This sort ofspecimen, frequently tasty, is omnipresent at ACf UP meetings, in the East Village or at Mars on Sunday nights.
Bait: Offer a few hits of Extasy and a place to stay for the night. Expect anything to happen.

The Doublemints
This is actually two fags. They are lovers and they simply refuse to separate - many times a sleeping arrangement with
one means you will get the other by default. The doublemints can be annoying. Sometimes they even speak in unison andwear similar outfits.
Bait: Engage one in stimulating conversation, while looking at the other's crotch the whole time.

Fag on the Far Left
Ultimately his politics are more important than what he plans to wear, what he plans to do, who he plans to sleep withand where he plans to go on any particular night. Reads INCESSANTLY. Does lots of public speaking. Has two goals:
1) to liberate the masses; 2) to become a lesbian.
'
Bait: If you are Black, Latino, or - strangely enough - a lesbian, you have better chances. Otherwise, talk a lot about
Blacks, Latinos, lesbians, liberation, Marxism and leftist scholars.

The Faggot Republican,

Says he's proud of his politics, which are just like Daddy'S. Joined Gay Republicans under a pseudonym. Doesn't think
there is any contradiction between being gay and having -traditional" politics. Believes every disagreement should be solved
in 'meetings, while wearing a suit. Sleeps with congressmen, senators and administration people.
Bait: Ride Metroliner to Washington. Look for men traveling alone, wearing conservative suits and that just-a-bit-toosplashy tie (a dead giveaway), Tell them you want to be a page on capitol Hill.
~

Film

Adventurous DuoFour AdventuieSof
Rdnette and MJrabeIle, produced, directed and written by
Eric Rohmer. Qistributed by New
Yorker Fdms. Playing at Lincoln
Plaza Cinema.

by Peter Bowen

H

alfwaythrough the firstadventure of Eric Rohmer's
Four Adventures of Reinette
and Mirabelle, the two heroines---and the audience-receivealesson from a local farmer on how togrow endive. Shot in a straight-forward manner with direct sunlight andlooking more like a farming documentary than a French narrative ftIm, theendive lesson seems at first oddly
inappropriate. Yet the nature of learning, of how one learns to grow endive
or to live in this world, becomes one

lfSSON IN FLAT FIXING
Joille !tfique/.nd Jessie. FDrde

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lessons of this ftIm.
Appropriately, then, both the ftIm
and the main characters' friendshipbegin' with a lesson. Bicycling in the
country, Mirabelle (Jessica Forde), an
ethnography student from Paris, has
no idea how, to fix a flat tire until thecountrynative, Reinette Qoelle
Miquel), guides her, step by step, on
the craft of tire patching. Curious
about a world so different from either
Paris or her parents' ·country- home,
Mirabelle accepts Reinette's seductive
invitation
to experiencenature's
grand secret, the "Blue Hour,· thatmomentary
and invisible border
between night and day when, as
Reinette says, "nature holds its breath·and the night chorus of frogs andowls silently gives way to the clanging of daylight.
We soon learn, however, that
one's intentions are not necessarily

one's experience. When the women do
drag themselves out before dawn withnightgowns on to experience the celebrated "Blue Hour," their perfectsilence is ruined by the loud grumblingof a distant tractor. And when Reinette
suddenly becomes hysterically angry at
the disruption of her "moment," claiming "friends always ruin everything,"
the women's budding friendship seems
also near ruin. But their friendship, as
the ftIm necessarily demands, continues, based now as much on disagreements as on shared moments. On adifferent night, the two women, independent of each other, venture out
again to experience this moment ofsilence successfully{ and afterwards
embrace each other in the blue morning light with the same gracious silence
that they have just experienced.
Shot on an extraordinarily low
budget and as a working vacation from
Summer (Rohmer'S own film aboutvacations), the film thus
proceeds
not by anenthralling narrative or an
engrossing plot, but by aseries of adventures, of
simple interventions withthe world, and-as with all
Rohmer films---by subsequent discussions about
the events which havetranspired. In the second
adventure, "The Waiter,"Reinette, who has moved
to Paris to share an apartment with Mirabelle inorder to pursue art studies,
becomes terrorized at acafe by the most terrifying
element of French society,a Parisian waiter. In thethird adventure,"The
Beggar, The Kleptomaniac,
The Hustler,· each woman
must confront her feelings
continued on pag8 57

Performance..
by John Wasser

A

ttention
Students of the
Mind! It's Thursday evening
and you're pooped. What
was once "work" is now "slavery."
You and your boss constantly fight,
further jeopardizing your already tenuous employment status. Mr./Ms. Right
has yet to materialize, leaving you
slightly depressed. To compensate,
you plop your butt squarely in frontof the boob tube and watch yet another Knot's Landing rerun. You and Val
are becoming old friends.
Get up! Don your best black outfit (black is de rigeur; wear white andyou'll immediately find yourself at
Don't Tell Mama), grab a taxi and haul
ass to King Tut's Wah Wah Hut. Every
Thursdayevening
at 10 pm is"Speaker Nightn-and this is no ordinary lecture forum.
Eclecticism is the name of thegame. For example, five hundred people waited patiently to hear Sukhreet
Gabel extol about the virtues of family
connections and the job market. Ultra
Violet recounted several episodes
deleted from her best seller (drinking
Salvador Dali's urine was one freeflowing thought.)
Hosted by Professor Fashion(a.k.a. "Mr. Fashion" or Gerard Little toresidents north of Fourteenth Street)and Wah Wah Hut owner Dug Wah(ne Landau), the Speaker Series has
already gained a cachet among thetrendy down~own
crowd. "Whatbegan as an idea, has t"ruly blossomed,·stated Wah, grabbing acigarette.
The duo first booked downtown
artistes ... Taboo, Sister Demention.

Hapi Face and Ethyl
Eichelberger
notexactly names you'll
find on a Stage Deli
sandwich, but Wah andProfessor
Fashiondidn't care.
"We were a hit:chimesProfessor
Fashion. TaIl and thinhipped,
Professor
Fashion is a naturalcharmer. Decked out ina full-length
black
sequined outfit, he's theperfect hostess, flittingfrom table to table, smiling warmly and welcoming freshmen andalumni alike to theevening's
festivities.
He's a diva on parade, av~ritable combinati~ of
TlPTOE'ING THROUGH THE WAH WAH HUT
Diana Ross and Little Ti Ti
Richard. School was
my 1mbeen downtown for twelve years, An
never this much fun.
Soon, Wah and Professor Fashion hour before he was set to speak, heinvited more recognizable faces to calls me up and cancels. I was pissed!
So I hired a limo which we now use
speak. ·Persona is important: offers
Wah, lighting another cigarette "We for everyone-makes them feel imporhe spoke. The audience
want truly autobiographical moments." tant-and
Tiny Tim harangued them about money loved him."(he wanted much more that the $75
Franklin's case was not unusual.
Most often, the crowd is appreciative,
honorarium) but eventual\y relented.
He held two lectures and sang "The although hostility sometimes festers.
Beat Goes On" playing both Sonny and Take Sukhreet Gabel, at the time,embroiled in a huge public trial, her
Cher. "People were shouting 'Tiny
Lane Bryant physique plastered acrossTim. Tiny Tim: It was amazing."
Tiny Tim's initial reluctance could
the media. Wah lights yet anothercigarette and moves forward in his
not compare to Channel Nine's JoeFranklin. The self-proclaimed"Mr. seat. "The audience was ready topounce, but she deflected each andNostalgia" kept putting off the duo,using his secretaries as buffers. "I every one of them. As a matter of fact,
finally got a hold of him, n related
she also did two shows."
Of course, not everyone wishes
Wah, "and he agreed to speak. You
contiriued on page 57
have to remember, this guy had not
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Poetry

Women
by Eva Yaa Asantewaa"...one iron silence broken ...
-AlJdrey Lorde (from "CaU·)
N

W

hen
I was a kid, mymother warned me
about many things,
some quite justifiably alarming. But
the strangest had to be this-women
who read poetry to you. Translation:
lesbians. It's still twisted around in myhead. Was it their own poetry, written
especiaUy to lure shy. lonely, unsuspecting, West Indian, Catholic girls?
Was it tried-and-true lyrical seduction
from lesbians past? What, exactly, was .
the connection between lips emitting
poetry and lips that might find lesssavory things to do? And did my mom
suspect that she harbored a poetllesbian beneath her own, proper roof?
Nuns read poetry to us in school,especially if the poems were tame,
patriotic,
religious,
written by arenowned male poet, or written by awoman with a safe or sanitized life
story (e.g., Emily Dickinson). Should I
have feared the nuns
did-but only
because they did unspeakable things
with heavy rulers supplied by theCIA)? Meanwhile, writing copious
poetry-and satires, ghost stories, andfantasies with revealing gay andpagan themes-quickly
became myway of surviving in a family too
caught up in its problems to notice
the distinct presence and needs of achild.
Through the years, my skills
developed, and, in my senior year, I
took the annual prize for ftction at mya

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WORKSHOPFOR 'WIMMINHattie Gossett

Photo: Alan Kikudni

university. I graduated, became
depressed and shut down mycreative writing for nearly fifteen years. Fifteen years ofsilence which I filled by writing
about other people's art.
As an arts journalist,
I
could use my sensitivities toabsorb, dissect, interpret, andsometimes champion.
Yet I
could not touch my own creative core. That door appeared
to be sealed forever, and theworst of it was my attitude of
defeat, the times when I ful\yaccepted that I would neverwrite creatively again.
About two years ago, I
began to try to ftgure out how I
got derailed in relationships
with women as unloving as themen I'd hooked up with in earlier years. I started to readsome popular books and eventually fell in with a "badcrowd,· people my mother MARCHING ORDERS
surely wouldn't approve of, but Audrey Lorde
whom I grew to respect andlove. They'd get together in groups and talk about their
damaged childhoods and how they were doing today.
Some of them would even talk about how they'd gone on
to abuse themselves with chemicals or food or sex or selfmutilation. I knew that, despite my avoidance of drugs andalcohol, in my love-hungry soul I had more in common
with them than not. They opened their mouths and spoke
the plain and painful truth. I saw that it was okay-andhealing-to do so.
Poetry began to explode all over my life, and it had
everything to do with women. (Lesbian, straight, or as yet
unidentified: It doesn't seem to matter. They're al\ renegades from the land of silence, where, for security reasons,
it is best to keep the state secrets,) I first noticed it when I
got this strange craving to have women read poetry not
only to me but to people all over New York (through aseries of programs on WBAI co-produced with Jennifer
Bernet). The research took me to the library to find more
women poets-the ones I'd forgotten, the ones I'd missed
over the years. This is a progressive disease, and I soon
found myself squeezed into a hot room with hundreds of
excited women, all eager to have Audre Lorde read her
fierce poetry to them. And Lorde, when she was finishedwith us, said it was not enough for us to admire her. Herpoems are not diversions: They are marching orders.
Something was stirring, so I slipped into Hattie
Gossett's writing workshop for "wimmin" where that bad
girl of poetry advised us to "sweep the goblins off ourtypewriters.· It is people-pleasing, the need for approval,
that feeds the silence. She offered a dozen suggestions forwriting exercises, little things like, "dialogue: between par-Photo: Marilyn Humphries
ent & son; son claims writing is for girls and fags· and "editorial: why does the media give more attention to white
women rape victims than it does to women of color rape
victims.· Goblins, fuck off!
On a steamy afternoon in Chinatown, Genny Lim, like
Lorde, spoke of writing poetry as an act of naming andempowerment. Men outnumbered women in her smal\
workshop. Her background in theater and journalism, ofcourse, delighted me. She nurtured our experiments, and I
discovered how few words were necessary to make an
incendiary device.
And then, in June, Pat Parker died. She made a goodlife of poetry and healing and activism. At the massive
march for lesbian/gay rights in Washington, she had
reminded us that whether we remained silent or shouted
our love from the rooftops, the forces of oppression would
come for us--so, why not speak? Years before, she wrote(for her daughter, for us):Each generation improves the world
for the next ...
I give you a world incomplete
a world
where
women still
are property and chattel
wherecolor still
shuts doors
where
sexual choice still

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55

TI
womanliness (and her autonomy) that nothing could militate against it. She is the one who wrote in the 70s:
ifound god in myself& i loved ber/i loved her fwrceiyfrom "I Sat Up One Night· in For Colored Girls Who
Have Considered Suicide/ When The Rainbow is Enuf

For Colored Girls scared one of my boyfriends into
helpless anger. It was the first time I saw up close and fully
understoodthe impact on a man when an AfricanAmerican woman unplugged the self-hatred machine. I
needed ner message so much, and need it again today forthe sake of my self-determination-my
say over what I callmyself, how I present myself, how I direct my power.
There will always be people-someof them of my own
color, gender and/or sexuality-trying to tell me how to do
my life and trying to "make off with alia my stuff; as
Shange would say. Thank you, 'zake, ftery sun goddess.
At SummerStage, a friend of a friend asked, "What do
you think started you writing poetry again?" Startled by thequestion I never stopped to ask myself, I muttered some-

RIDING THE RUMBLE
Jayne Cortez
threatens
but I give youa legacyof doersof people who take risks
10 chisel the crack wider.
from "Legacy"
At a SummerStage show on July 7th, another ftghter
poet charged onto the Central Park bandshe11. Jayne Cortez
rode the rumble of her Firespitter Ensemble, keeping therumble in the clouds at bay. If Gaia (mother planet Earth)
were to sing the blues, it would be in Cortez's voice, ranging from soft melisma to sirens slicing the dark.
They will try to exploit you
absorb you confine youor killyou
And you will disappear into your own rage
into your own insanity
into your own poverty
into a word a phrase a slogan a cartoon
and then asbes ...
And we are programmed to self destructtofragment ...
from ''There It Is"
Cortez's bracing performance energized us. Then she
delivered us into the hands of a dancing, near-singing
Ntozake Shange (also aided and abetted by jazz musicians--Jean-Paul Bourelly and John Purcell on guitar andreeds, respectively). Shange radiated such pleasure in her

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POETRY, HfAUNG, ACnVISM

Photo: Barbara Rabey

The late Pat Parker
thing about being healthier. And that is true. Being in lovewith a woman who can write me a poem when she is inpain, and not being afraid to write her a frank, poetic
reply, helps, too. Women reading to me in crowded rooms,
in recording studios, or under the stars may not be the precise thing my mother worried about. But it is proving to be
every bit as deliciously dangerous.
YRLM collli.. ed fIHI ,. ... 52

l!SBIAN LOVE COII1IIIHd .... pap ahatred. I fear that someday I will lookabout individuals who, for any number
back and feel as though some Of Q1Yof reasons, are reduced to begging, wpn't come out of my mouth. We
youth 'Yas stolen from .me,.,~ ...wil,i,Ie.i
stealing, or misleading others for haye been together for ten months"hmy lesbian peers have gone off to 'tty ,money. And finally in the fourth through every kind of protest, from'to find stability, I have instead'foundadventure, "Selling the Picture,· the jaHs to safer sex forums to intermyself caught up in the tumult 0{ awomen return to silence as Reinette, minable, committee' meetings andvery demanding
and merciless
who talks incessantly about her art, is fights with. comrades, to exultant'moment of history. I want to stay In
required by a wager with Mirabelle to ' moments of erripowerrnent'as we takethe~eiof
the storm and try to tu,mkeep perfectly silent about it when she ' over some street or ..?ffice or·disrupt
my"ideals
into
actions. It is a very
attempts to sell a painting.
some political soiree.
hard road.g "The film ends as inconclusively 1
She is younger than I, and femiMy
lover
and
I
are
walking
Po!flland haphazardly as it begins, but, as nism, though an interestiOg and somethe'Stll?~ arrn-in-aqn as we often~(i!
in any adventure,
it never reallytimes meaningful abstractioD, has not
and a young teenage boy comes tip'
intended to go anywhere, just to been her life force. I doubt she has
and starts to talk to us. "Hey, "lieexplore the terrain. Rohmer surveys ever spent time' laughing about castr:aleers, ;y~ gi~s gay?" ·~sbian i$ the"here the quotidian terrain of life (pay- tion. Sbe sees gay men as her cornlight.wOld for female homosexualstI
ing rent, dealing with obnoxious wai~- rades and buddies, her sisters andiay.'·I wanna get t6 know you gu~.'
ers, etc.) and rarely strays into such brothers all at once. I \earn much fromhe says cheerily. "r mean r~ly. I want,;
grand narrative subjects as love or her, though I don't always understandto be YQurfriends." .~ start laughing."
death. As such, the women (thankwhere she is coming from. She takes·Oh,· please," I say;'''leave us alone':!;God!) almost never mention boys. my hand in hers and lovingly looks
There
are pl~ty of other lesbians'rio,
Occupied instead with the complexi- into my ~yes. "How the hell did In;!he v<~l~ for rou to be.friends ;wkj~"
ties of learning how to live, individu- meet someone like you?" she says
He startS to walk away and then turDs
ally and together, their lives, the smiling. I feel a vortex swirling about'1 ~ck:.
He is smiling, ~Y~u girls have;awomen struggle, as if by accident, to ' me; ideals and passions spinning~
time ..J10v.r." he says, ",andmake adventures out of the necessary loose in a time out of space. "Theforga to wearCon<iorns. oj",',
moments of their days.
.... AIDS crisis," I answer. Since we've&1
I stand on'ihe'edgeof the"¢tb
met 18,000 more people in the United
witblmy girlfriend as the boy,,~urns,
t--------------+States
have died from AIDS.
WAH-T continued fro.. , .... 53
It is 1989 and Bush is the presiJnto a s~l1 dot of~fJc~
to bare their fragile egos and brave dent, though God knows we tried to ",Aven':!e.I am thinl£ing of what h~s:~the, unknown. For every Reno and .stop him. My house is filled with arti- f; gone wrong. wgic "that careensgff;i<:"urse turns into somethiQg ~~~.
~
Quentin Crisp who agree, there's
cles and flies
and books on AIDS and
But I get it now: gays get AIDS, gays ,those like the MS" contingent-Sue
HIV infection. Every spare inch of wall
have to wear condorns,because' gays
Simmons and Soupy Sales--who've
space is covered \1'{ithsome sign left
,gaYIlg~.
sent their regrets. Simmons pleaded ,over from some demonstration.
I w ge~,~DS, l~sbians~e,gay,an 11 pm newscast
while Sales know what reverse transcriptase,,' AIDS, gays"have to\wear condorrl$;
lesbians are gay, lesbians get AIDS;~
demanded
two thousand dollars. ' means and,} argue about the signifl1esbiansh;lVe to w~ condoms, gays¥,
Upcoming bookings
include the c;ance of macrophages on T~ll develg~t AIDS, lesbians are gay, lesb~ns
obscure (Les Simpson, Editor of My opment. I walk miles with groups of<'aregay, lesbiirns are gay.
'0,
Comrade) to the more familiar (AI men and we debate issuesof gen<kr.
I think of the eye of the storm •.!}
Lewis, "Grandpa Munster").
sexuality, the different relationships of[eel myself spinning and resting, spinAnd then there's the Wish List. lesbians and gay men. I am 00' longer
ning and resting. I dream that ·my
Wah pulls out his trusty filofax and: afraid to meet the eyes of big strong'!overand I are walking west across ,a ?
beginsreading ... Author
Xavier' women, nor am I shocked at any varl- If:,2esert.• 1,imagine we will be sOQn
Hollander, filmmaker John Waters, ,ance of sexual expression. It is asreaching the horizon where somemonologist Eric Bogosian, cable host- though I have been submerged in thething wonderful is waiting for u~,
ess Robyn Byrd. The list seems end- ' coldest water, like the water where
thoQgh ,( do not kn~w what it,i~;~eless, but we students of the mind do people get baptized and the whole~eep walking until! realiz~ that ~e
not care. The learning process is family yells their approval and weeps
enigma Of the horizon is that thOU8hnever complete; the lecture hall will with joy afterwards. It is as though I
you are alv.rays walklng40wards
it,always remain open. No grades are ' have been subrperged in the coldest
the closer ydu get the farther it (Il()y~given, but questions are thoroughly
water but I have spent most of my.
encouraged.
.
time slowly trying to swim to the top. " ,away. When.I wake up t tell my lover
that·I love her. I realize· th~ there isKing Tut's Wah Wah Hut is locatI have \Vorked at odd jobs forno reason for waiting.
....
ed at 112 Avenue A, at the corner of two years so as to support myself as?;.~:
East Seventh Street. Phone number: ' an activist, and I have ranted andThis 'article originally I:I/JpPared"(212) 254-7772.
.... raved publicly against what feels like, X'
i1J C;bicago~/Wind~Citynmes.;!
a world of ever increasing greed a"nd'

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Build of a dancer,
heart in the lines,
GWM, 34, 5'8·, 135,
HIV+, brown hair andeyes, glasses, seeks
GWM dancel theatrel
arts/poetry aware andhimself arts driven.
Outweek Box 1009

MUST HAVE MANI
WIM, 5'11·, 180, 4O's,
sensuous,
healthy,stache, masculine,
muscular, well-built.
Need hot sex, physicalaffection, fun, friendshipllover wiman 3555. Hurry, get satisfied
and much,much
morel OUIWeek Box
1010

GWF,28,BARBARIAN
Romantic
Rocker,Pagan, Slim, 5'3 112·,
with wild sense ofhumor and deep blueeyes seeks feminine
GWF, slim 18-25, intelligent & sensitive,
under 5'2· who likes
rock,
NYC, Bugs
Bunny and Metaphysics. I like to leadbut I don't like to push.
Foto
optional.
OutWeelc Box 1013

KEEP ME
23 year old NYU student is looking to besponsored by wellbuilt, well-hung, wellfinanced Daddy inexchange for a hungry
mind with an insatiableappetite for new sexual experiences. Send
photo. OUIWeek Box
1014

PUERTO RICAN
WANTED
Must be professional,
masculine, between
ages 20-40; relation· 'ship desired. I'm 35,
6', 180, All-American
looks, dominant, nonsmoker, ready to settle
down. Photo, phone
appreciated. P.O. Box
8197 JAF Station NYC
10116.

ROCKA~ROLL
FAG
Growing tired of clubs.
Me: GWM, 24, blonde,gOOd-lOOking, good
shape. Likes: 70's
rock, ~
Comrade,ACTUP, guys withdark hair, R & R Fag
Bar,
Robin
Byrd.
Looking for movie anddinner dates, friends,
romance, relationship,or just plain old hot
sex.
Send
letter,phone and photo(amust). No cokeheads.
OulWeelc Box 1018

"DRUMMER" MAN
Attradive, affectionate
GWM,
32, 5'10·,
170, chunky, moustache seeks buddy(20-45) for dinner, theatrel moviesldancing
and safe, sweaty
leathersex.
Moustache/beard,
beefy, hairy a plus.
Outweelc Box 1019

PLAYMATESWANTED
Butch-fem couple in
Manhattan, ages 40 &35, seeks lesbian singles or couples forwild fun and adventure. Join us for' fantasies, erotic games,
light bondage.
No
drugs,nopain.
OulWeelc Box 1020

DEFINITION
Progressive
hunk(34,6' ,175) with postmodern affectations
seeks supple articulations of body andthought--or at least
former--with brawny
frlend(s).
I enjoydancing, activism, safe
hot sex, cycling, sun,beauty, grace & all theusual
stuff.
Send
photo and the rest to
P.O. Box 1366, NY, NY
10025.
Photo
returned, if requested.

MILDLY KINKY
GWM, 52, attractive,
5'10·, 145, versatile,seeks hot sex, fun,relationship, friends,
enjoys politics, activism, conversation,
walks, travel, movies,
much more. P.O. Box
173, NYC 10023.

SEEKING GREATTOP
Tall(6'4·), goodlooking
bottom seeking tall top
for fun times, definite
adventure and passion! Me:30's, cleanshaven, brown hair-green eyes,185,gym
shape, prof. You:30's40's, in shape, attractive, non-smoker, andpassionate I Zip yourletter, photo, phone to:
Outweek Box 1045

CUTE YOUNG GWM
Attractive GWM 26,
5'11·, 150, seeking
ship. Interests include
top-40 pop music,
beach, movies, tennis,
romance, cuddling.
Write to P.O. Box 171
Bloomfield, NJ 07003.

MIRA
Very hot, 43 year-old,
6'1·, 170, BIIBI, studying Spanish seeks
Puerto Rican man toteach him some newwords.
Photo andphone please. P.O.
Box 1256, NYC, NY
10159.

LOOKS& BRAINSGWM, 30, 6'1·, 170.
Good-looking and intelligent.
Baseball,politics, arts, books,
pubs,
safe
sex.
Interested? P.O. Box
1521 Cooper Station,
NYC, NY 10276

WHITE MALE
COUPLE
seeks to expand social
horizons and meetother male couples.
We are 31 and 46,
enjoy movies, theatre,
museums, bridge, andfriendship.
Pleasewrite to us at P.O. Box
541 New York, NY
10034.

ClGARS!
Cigar-smoking
men
who love leather, uniforms, s/m, write H.
Ash, P.O. Box 20147
LondonTerrace
Station, NYC 10011.

HIV POSITIVE
27, glasses, intellectual, tall, blondish,like stocky or darkmen (Jewish or Latin).
Turn ons: nipples,
black boots, hairylegs. good attitudes,
patience, sincerity.
Write with photo to:
P.O. Box 79 Chelsea
Station. NYC 10011.

TEN GAY/BI MALES
seek like, trim, masculine, health·conscious,
gregarious for monthly
meetings in midtown
hotel suite. Send noteand SASE: P.O. Box6653 FDR, NY, NY
10150

PREPPIE TOP
Boyish and Charming,
cleancut 37, baby blueeyes. Likes: tennis,
puppies, Upper West
Side. Seeks cute bottoms for safe fun.
Send photo to: P.O.
Box 172, White Plains,
New York 10605.

BIWM, MUSCULAR
36, 5'6·, 142, hot, hardmuscularbody,healthy, discreet seeks
beefy muscle buddy,
160-260 for safe time.
Box 783 Church Street
Station, New York, NY
10008. Prefer 25-55.

BIIFEMALE SOUGHT
for alliance wi paraplegic single parent of
5 year-old. DWM, 30,
computergraphics
artist with a touch ofoffbeatmadnessseeks Bilfemale compliment to live rentfree
inCarroll
Gardens,Bklyn
exchange for helping
hand. Replies: K.D.
King,
370
Court
Street,Suite
15,
Carroll Gardens, Bklyn
11231. Send photoand phone •.

UNCUT LOVER
wanted by steamy,
dreamy,creamyblonde 28, 6', 150 Ibs.,
endowed. Jeff, P.O.
Box 8309, New York,NY 10116-8309. This
stud's for you.

BARK LIKE A DOG
GWM, 24 year-olc1BIB
wants a dog to walk.
If you like to get downon all fours to barkand eat from a person-Tallzed dog bowl,
write and send photo.
I'll treat you like thedog that you are.
Outweelc Box 1061

LEAN ON ME
and I will lean on you.
Irs a tough world out
there. GWM, 190#,
BrIBr, 10000ngfor supportive relationshipwith a GM 25-40, prefer smooth, moustache okay. Answer
with current photo andphone # to L.T.S.
20053 New York, NY
10011.

AFFECTIONATE
GWM, 31, 5'9·, 175
Ibs., stocky,
nonsmoker, a little Shy,seeks a tender, stableguy to 35 who is cute,slim, to enjoy movies,
explore NY, hopefullyromance. Write P.O.
Box 523, New York,NY 10040.

. WMPUSSY
Submissive
BiWM
slut, 38, 6', 2051bs.,
Exp. mild bid seeks to
be used as a crossdressed bound pussy
and slut by dominant
people 1-1 or by duos,
trios, etc. Call Sandy,
212-978-3415, leavemessage.

FRIENDLY BUTCH
GWM, 28, Br/Gr, 5'8·,
155, cleancut, muscular, very smart, HIV
positive but healthy,
seeks like-minded guy
with a good attitude. I
bicycle, work out, playjazz
piano,
likemovies, history, politics, cuddling. If you're
smart, in shape andlooking for someone
special write Jim willl
photo/phone.
OulWeek Box 1066.

GWM,28,145,
5'10·, swimmer's body,
Capricorn, mystical
Jewish artist! activist.

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I want mor., I wantIov., I wait for you andyour magic. rve got no.type., but pl.ase be
young and •• xy. I'll
r.ciprocate.af.ly.
Photo and I.n.r getsmine. Boxholder, P.O.
Box 401157, Brooklyn,
NY 11240.

ALL AMERICAN
wanted by m.. I am
Hispanic, 30 Y.IIIII old,
160 Ibs., 5'7·, hand• ome
andhot.
Interested In a real
friend and lov.r for
Spol'ts, movies, dancing and mor..
No
phoni •• 1 Pictur. andletter a must P.O. Box8430 JHA, N_ YorkNY 10116.

STUDENT NEEDS
HELPI
Ivy league .tud.nt,
gay activist, writer,r.ally nic. guy--may
not b. abl. to afford
IUition. Ideas, patrons,.ugg •• tlon .... wrlte.oon to: AMR, 76
Undercliff, Millburn, NJ
07041.

DADDY ENEMASII
All-play
tool Saf.,
g.ntl.,
s.nsual and.roticl' I cat.r to shy,
Qlrious guy. & beginn.rs too. G.t r.ady
for the red, bl.!lging
bag, hose and nozzlebriefs down, bonoms
upl All qu.stions
answeredl Ph/ph. Rick
P.O. Box 45 Caldwell,
NJ 07006. Cum on, try
one soon I

TOPGUNBoy wanted 18-25 by
GWM-170 lb•• , 5'11·,
Br/Br, clean-shaven,smooth, Italian. I havemost .verythingI
could want .xcept
you. Enjoy NYC, trav• 1, gym, dining out
andfunIf youare young and hot,write to .Joey, P.O. Box

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1040, Bloomfield, NJ
07003. Photo andphon.
please.
No
games andnoone over 30.

LONELYINNJ
good-looking
GWM, 6', 168, friendly,.asy to be with, seeks
GWM, 18-30, slim andfrl.ndly who is also
lon.ly· and needs afriend. rm very attractive so write for myphoto.
Box 8316,
Saddlebrook, NJ
07662.

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GWF, 40's, 5'3"
110,
professional,
looking for a good
fri.nd to enjoy NYC.
No drug.,h.avy
drinkers, butch or fat
Note/phon./photo.
Fr.nch sp.aking
aplus. Sense of humor
a must Prefer 30-45.
Manhattan.
Basketcases abstain.

HEY MATT AND
BARTl
GWM, 34, 5'10·, 175,
musQllar, very handsome, looking for w.lId.lined gymnast types
or BB's for afternoon
get-tog.thers.
let's
have a hot, safe time.
Reply to' Box 306,
Bklyn, NY 11217.

NEW FRIEND
and confidante soughtby easy-going GWM,
32,
who
enjoysBroadway, home cook, ing, movies and light
FM and is ready tome.t someone new.
Box 140 c/o 4712
Av.nu. N, Brooklyn,
NY 11234.

SUBMIT TO ME
let me take you where
your fantasi.s will consum. you and I.av.
you in a Whimpering,quivering pile of tresh.
l.t's
explore yourne.d to submit to ahot,sadisticallyd.praved 24 year old

the fantasies
that
you've only reachedalone at night... craving to submit to me
and become my slave.
Send photo/phone.
Ou/Week Box 1076.

GWTPHEF
Techno-Pagan,
Hedonistic, Eclectic
Dyke seeks the unusual. Write what you will,
say what you must,just tell me one thing--is there life after
lust???
All womyn.ncouraged
torespond.
OutweekBox 1077.

GWF, 29,
looking for friends. I
love
books
and
movies,walkingaround the Village andtalking to interesting
peopl•. If it sounds like
I am a bor., I assure
you that I'm not. It'sdiffiQllt to sound excitIng in an ad but I
promise to be uplifting
when we m.et. Give ita try. Outweek Box
1078

MASCULINE MEN(25-55)GWM .eeks dominant
hunk. No hassles. SS
only. No drugs, pot,
heavy drinkers, hustlers. S. Westchester
vicinity/parking. LSA
147 W. 42 St. Room
603, NYC 10036.

GWM 30 S'l"slim, cl~an~sha~en,light br. hr., bright,
affectionate and possesses a unique blendof dry humor in social
service profession,
enjoys Art, Freud, leftpolitics, movies, jazz
vocalists, long walks
and romantic times,
seeks sim. non-smoking GM for friendshipand possibly more.
letter/phototoOutweek Box 1080

GWM, 25, 6', 145,
BrownlBlue, creative,
handsome and affectionate seeks darkhaired hirsute man 2535 for fri.ndship/relationship. Body in prop.
to height letter/photo(if poss.)/phone : P.O.
Box 910, NY, NY
10014-0910.

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FAT AND FlNEI
Handsome, romantic
GWM 28,5'11", 260,
beard, has truck driver
looks, Rimbaud mind.
Sks a funny, creativeand hot man, 25,35 forsome safe sex andintense conversation.
Please send letter,phone, and photo (ifpossible) to P.O. Box
1584, Cooper Station,
NY, NY 10276. This
could be it.

TWO HOT GUYSIGoodlooking white top,
33, Big cut tool andbottom, 29, smoothwild ass. looking for 2
or more guys for hot
sex in various combinations.
Short onwords, long on action.
State your preference
and lets get it on .
Photo/phone a must.
Tom, Box 950, NY, NY
10021.

SUMO
37 year old, muscularwhite male looking tostart a relationshipwith older GWM over
50, with sumo build:large nipples and tits(not hairy). Sefid photoand description of self
to Box 123 Exec.
Suite, 330 West 42ndStreet, NY, NY 10036.

CULTURED TRADE
I love to be tied up
withoperasandwhippedintoaBroadway play, oreven lashed to Ii goodmovie. I must beforcedtodrink
Margaritas and submit
to fine cuisine. I needsomeone to discipline
me with love andfriendship and bringout the best in me. I
will willingly reciprocate. I'm a good-looking GWM, 38, 6',1901bs.,brown/brown;
moustache, seeking asimilar GWM. Sendme your photo, phone
number and a letter
telling me about yourself,and outlining yourmaster plan to makeme really singl Reply
to JNP, P.O. Box 39,
Planetarium Station,
NY, NY 10024.

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Sets Us Off and How We
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208 W 13 St; 7:45 pm; 2229745
GAYMEN OF AFRICANDESCENTMeeting andDiscussIon: ASOs & BGMsin NYC, A Consumer
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Service Organizations andtheir treatment (or neglect)
of Black Gay Men and othergay men of color; representatives of nearly all NYC's
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Angel/People of Color
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info 718/802-0162
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Camp, anewly revised production of
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media without negativeness for the
ftrst time,· Hernandez said
Other Mexican groups in attendance included the AIDS organizations Voz Humana' (Human Voice)and Mexicans Against AIDS, as well
as Guerrilla Cay, an organization
which, according to representative
Marco Osorio, "tries to raise the consistencies of those who go to bars
via ...workshops on sexology, homosexuality and lust.·
From Peru came MOHL, theHomosexual Pride Liberation Movement. Spokeswoman "Rebeca· told
conferees that social pressure in Peru
forces many gay men and lesbians
CAYING FOR ARGENTINA,"Photo: R'ex)Vockner
into heterosexua1 marriages.
ILGAprotatin, kid".pp;",
men by Arge"tinecpo/;ce'..
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spondenceup," ~~'t~the"~and lesbians in Argentine cities bas cW' crisis ~ ~e "':15 uriab\e to answer"and the sensationalism and disinforOnly cornplicated the severe economic ' because.~theprire~~:
mation of AIDS has created a hugeand social problems facing CHA andOu~ ~tuatioois &sperate,·
panic so that gay and lesbian people
the country's homosexual movement
contin~<t" ~e:r~ ftigll~~ed to,have, for example, been expelled
CHA is u.s. $600 behind on its rent,' the' streets",thcf bacs.;uld disc~s ..!,refrom hdspitals.·
electricity aQd taxes; and a dramatical- being pennanently' cl~'and it's
Still, there are 12 gay discos in
Iy soaring inflation rate has placed
safe for us to protest'on ,our own
Lima, Rebeca said, one of them excluoondomsout of reach for more thanbeh.a1f.,..
Y*',~sively for women, and MOHL is an
99% of the cpuntry's citizens.
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official, registeredorganization.
"¥.owever,· she added, "it's only regRepresenting Brazil was Antonio
mation center.
i~tered under its initials and theLuizof the group Atoha. Although the
Chile
was
representedby"Lilian"abthorities don't know what the 'H'
organizations is multi-faceted, Luizstands for.· The group offers medical , of the lesbian-feminist group Ayugue'said he" was proudest of the group'slen. She said there are no gay maleand legal assistance, HIV and other
distribution of condoms in gay men's
medical testing, and operates an infor- activists in Chile because men arebars and cruising places.
afraid to come out of the closet.
Brazil has more than 100 gay and"We work underground," Lilian
lesbian organizations which hold ansaid, "workshops on consciousness,annual conference every January inlesbian sports clubs. Thanks to
Rio de Janeiro.
[money froml ILGA, our bulletin is
Finally, Argentina's Comunidad
almost ready to come out. it will be
Homosexual Argentina [CHAIwas repcalled Corrientes de aire [Air Curresented
by Emmanuel
Valido.
rentsl."Although the socia-political climate for
There is no public treatment
gays 'and lesbians
is repressive
available in Chile for persons withthroughout Latin America, the horror
AIDS, according to Ayuquelen. "Ifstories told by Valido led to the conferthey are among the few who haveence's only demonstration [see storyl.
money, they go to a private hospiAccording to activists, police reg- 'tal," Lilian said. "Otherwise, theyularly arrest patrons of gay bars andgo home."'{:'harass gay men on the street.
Still, Lilian said AIDS at least..Jtr'
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gay men, "but only purely aroundand taxes, and desperately needs conmedical issues."Udoms which, he said, are so expenSantiago has one gay bar thatsive that less than one percent of gay
has not yet been closed by
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and Erskine maintain this Chinese-language version of the repeal petitions "misstated the effect of the ordinance" and is "false and misleading."
According to declarations filed with their court appeal, signature-gatherers
also told voters that the law would lead to higher taxes to pay for health benefits for partners and would be "the ftrst step to allowing homosexuals to adopt
children.· The city control1er's office, however, has declared the legislation
would not cost taxpayers anything because any increased insurance costs
would be the responsibility of city employees. The ordinance makes no reference to adoption.
•
While ballot initiatives and repeal petitions are often the target of charges
of improper signature gathering, it is unusual for critics to seek legal sanctions
as Bologna and Erskine have. Because the repeal petitions were aimed at legislation that had already been enacted, the city attorney's office was unable tosay at this time what effect a court order to decertify the petitions would have.
One of two things seems likely: either the law would immediately take effectand would not therefore be subject to another repeal move, or a 3Q-day waiting
period would go into effect during which new repeal petitions could be filed. 'Y

Smith. "There is no control as to what
researchers are going to research."
As with the sex survey funds,
hopes for speciftc AIDS research funding are now being pinned on the Senate appropriations
subcommittee
where, now knowing what is in thebill, AIDS activists will battle for funds
specificallyearmarked
for AIDS
researr.h.
The Labor HHS Appropriations
Bill is set to be voted on in the housein early August. Serious Senate action
is not scheduled
to begin until
September.
The decision to cut the funding
was made by members of the House
Appropriations
Labor, Health andHuman Services and Education Subcommittee and approved by the ful1
House Appropriations Committee.
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The members of the subcommit- 1,~'1
tee are Reps. William H. Natcher (D-"Bowling Green, KY) [Chair), Neal
Smith (D-Des Moines, IA), David R.
Obey (D-Wausau, WI), Edward R.
Roybal (D-Los Angeles, CA), Louis
Stokes (D-Cleveland, OH), Joseph D.
Early (D-Worcester, MA), Bernard J.
Dwyer (D-Perth Amboy, NJ), Steny' 'I
Hoyer (D-Landover, MD), Silvio Conte(R-Pittsfjeld, MA), Carl D. Pursel1 (R- 'I
Ann Arbor, MI), John E. Porter (RDeerfteld, IL), C.W. "Bill" Young (R-St.
Petersburg, FL) and Vjn Weber (R-New
Ulm,MN).
As the subcommittee hearings areclosed, there is no record as to theactions, motions or votes of any of thesubcommittee members on the bill.
Historically, in the House, whatevercomes out of the Appropriations subcommittees is agreed to in ful1 committee and on the House floor.
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vegetables" and "lightbulbs· in eachother's rectums-Frank
asked Dannemeyer a rhetorical question.
"I just wonder," asked a smirking
Frank, "having read the material thegentleman from California put in theCongressional Record on June 26th,
whether the material he put in the
Record would be illegal under his
own amendment?"'Y-by Cliff O'Neill74

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sports I scene in New York is Metropolitan Tennis Group(MTG~, a group of avid tennis buffs of all levels of skill.
Orgarljized in 1985, the group has grown to the point
where it now boasts over 200 merpbers and belongs to
the United States Tennis Associationl~A, which is open to anyone to join, has three levels of play: A-advanced, B-intermedjate and, for those juststarting out, C-beginners. Quentin Welch, a member since
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33. Desires
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44. Giovanni's
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46. Mel47. Braces
48. Cowboy events
49. Actor Knowles
52. Fetish item for some
53. Restoration
56. Open
58. Nautilus captain
61. Actor Alejandro
62. Decay
63. Faced
64. Austral native
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Quentin Crisp, the grandfather of camp, revolutionized gay sensibilities with his classic autobiography The Naked Civil
SewaRt It's been translated into eight languages, three movies and countless fashion statements, scarves and floppy
hats. This queen of England moved to New York several years ago because -in America everybody's your friend.· lately
he's been working on a book full of juicy tidbits about those very same friends, and we hear its very crisp indeed.
Currently Quentin can be seen in the Art Against AIDS video (look for the flaming blue hair), and he keeps busy in projects ranging from underground films to college lectures. Carry on, Quentin.

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