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Contents

Denizen's of the night (above) returned to the Copa for
Susanne Bartsch's monthly event More pix of that andother happenings start on page 52. Photo: Erich Conrad

FEATURES
Going for the GoldAnn Giudici Fettner puts Charles Ortleb
Under the Microscope
page 31

Genre Queen
Terry Helbing seeks answers from thelady in Question: Charles Buschpag"e 34

ON TH~ COVER:

A computer generated image qf the HIVvirus,
courtesy NIAID.

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Outspoken
The War Escalates'
he handwriting's on the wall written in blood.
,,Within a period of ten days, theSupreme Court of the United States sharply curtailed civil rights legislation, forced itself into
women'suteruses, and gave the go-ahead to
execute mentally-impaired
individuals - all, forbodingly, at the time of the third anniversary of
the Hardwick sodomy decision.
Using deflections such as the flag-burning ruling, the court
feeds us crumbs while stripping
us of basic
human' rights. It is no exaggeration to say that
we are entering a dangerous era. We are living-in a crumbling empire, and we know all too wellfrom history that insecure governments resort, indesperation,
to de'sperate tactics. The fact thatthe lesbian and gay community is experiencing arenaissance in activism shouldn't give us a false
sense of security: The largest pre,Stonewall gay
and lesbian movement peaked in Germany
shortly before Hitler took charge.
The fight ahead is going to be brutaL For the'90s the battleground is our bodies, and the war
is over who owns them:' us or the government.
Coalitions
are
now
being
bliilt.
Homelessness, and the right to put one's body ina' public space - or to demand the government
provide a space for that body -. must be andwiU be bridged with the abortion rights movement, the AIDS movement, the iesbian and gay
mQvement and the health-care movement.
Our'bodies are on the line. And -we must demand
not only the right to do with them what we
please, but the right to adequate, proper medicalcare and housing.
One chant was screamed
aloud at various demos in the last two weeks, be·they pro-choice rallys, AIDS demonstrationsorhomelessness protests: "Keep your laws off mybody!" This much we must fight for, T
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Letters To The Editor
To the Editor,
I was put off by the CandeJight
Vigil on June 23rd for a number ofreasons, The mean-spirited introductory ,remarks by Red Maloney ("Lookaround! This is the gay community,
not ACf UP!") nipped in the bud any
comfort I might have taken from thi~ritual. Even if I did not respect thework of ACf UP, I don't want to be a
captive audience for divisive rhetoric
when I attend an event hoping to feelsolidarity
with other LavenderAmericans and our friends,
The release of the, balloons
reflected a callousness on the part of\fie organizers of the event. One of
the great qualities of our community
theSe last 20 years has been the will,ingness to learn from each other, I
didn't know that the balloons areingested by sea turtles and othermarine life and kill them, Now I
know, Now I am not moved by thebeauty of the, spectacle of lofting col,orful balloons, Instead, I am angry

and ashamed to be associated with To The Editor,folks who don't share my respect forHearty congratulations on the firstnature,The· parade
committee
two issues of OutWee*!You're off to achanged its plans to release the bal- great start, I'm switching from The
loons, The vigil was run by the same
Native ... the writing in OutWeek is sofolks! They knew the facts, but didn't
much better.
\care,
I was especially impressed withSo I shouldn't have been suryour, coverage on the AlDS!HIV virus
prised when the candles (with cups!) and the Phyllis Diller review/interwere tossed into the Hudson as a view. Nicely written ..,again, sO much
finale,better than the Diller article in The
Native,We do not honor to the memories
Keep up the good work,of our loved 9nes when we create
Sincerely,inspiring visual effects with no con- ,peter I.aune ,cern for the consequences, You want
eXciti,ngeffects? Make it audio, instead
New~rkof visual. Pop all the balloons at agiven signal. Blowout the candles in
unison, There are yet other ways to
OutWeekwelcomes letters from its
feel connected to each other at comreaders. Please mail all corresponmunity rituals without doing damage
dence to:to the environment and to the bodypolitic,
Letters to the Editor
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News

High Court Curtails Abortion Rights'
Lancimark Decision Stops Short of Complete Reversal of Roe
by Victoria A. Brownworthand Andrew Miller
WASHINGTON - The much-awaited
Supreme Court decision in the'case of
Webster' v, Rep1loductive
HealthServices came down on July 3rd, thelast day of the Court's 1988-89 term,
While the Court did not overturn Roe,some of the rights estaqlished in that
_ , case have been seriously damaged by
the new ruling,'
In a splintered 5-4 decision inwhich almost' none of the justices
agreed completely with each other,
the Court upheld two of the threepoints of the Mis,souri law, anddeclined to comment on the third,
The decision effectively returned
some of the power over abortion
rights to the individual states - theprecisesituationthat Roe wasdesigned to avoid,
Missouri State Attorney General
William Webster argued for his state'slaw, the preamble to which states that"life begins at conceptiorr," complicating the issue of abortioqs within thefirst three months of pregnancy, The
law also restricts puqlicly-funded hospi\als and health facilities from performing abortions, even if a client
pays for the procedure herself, In
addition, it requires the performanceof viability tests on fetuses over 19
weeks old to determine the pqssibility.
of their survival outside of the womb,
The Court did not hand down a
simple decision on these issues, Only
Chief Justice Rehnquist, who wrote
the majority opinion, Justice Byron

White (authorof the Hardwick
sodomyruling),andReaganappointee Justice Anthony Kennedy
were in agreement on all points' of
the majority ruling, That majority
voted to uphold all aspects of theMissouri construct except the' statmentthat life begins at conception, But the
Court did not vote to strike that statement from the law, implying that sucha statement could be a~opted by thestates, without 'an explicit opinion
from the Court,
Justices
Antonin Scalia andSandra Day O'Connor, both Reagan
appointees, agreed with the majority
opinion in part, But Scalia criticized
the Court in an accompanying decision for,not overturning Roe vs, Wadeoutright, . "It thus appears that the

Photo: Patsy.Lynch

ABORTING WOMEN'S RIGHTS
Anti-abortion and pro-choice foes at the Supreme Court.

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mansion of sonstitutionalized abortion
law, constructed overnight in Roe v,
Wade, must be disassembled doorjamb by doorjamb, and never entirely
brought down, no matter now wrong
it may be,· Scalia wrote.
"Of the four courses we might
have cho.sen today - to reaffirm Roe,to overrule it explicitly, to overrule it
sub silentio, or to avoid the question- the last is the least responsible,." hecontinued,
directlyattacking
O'Connor's
own decision, whichreads in reference to Roe, "When theconstitutional invalidity of a state's
abortion statute actually turns on theconstitutional validity of Roe v, Wade,'
there will be time enough to re-examine Roe, And to do so carefully,"
Abortion remains a constitutionalright in all 50 states, But individualstates may now make their own abortion laws, Because the new decisionpermits states to decide under whatcircumstances it isl allowable, it can be
successfully restricted by state laws,
For example, the Missouri law's
bjln on abortion (including abortion
referrals and counseling) in ,publiclyfunded institutions has a Wide-ranging
impact, because most health-care facilities, even private ones, receive somekind of government funding, Women
most affected by this aspect of the law
will 'be those who cannot afford to
obtain an abortion in a private facili~,
According to abortion-rights advocates, the law will essentially prohibit
poor and low-income women fromobtaining abortions,
Justice Harry Blackmun, authorof the original 1973 Roe v, Wade deci- ,sion, wrote a scathing dissent joined
by Justices
William
Brennan,Thurgood Marshall and John Paul
Stevens, '''For today, at least, the lawof abortion stands undisturbed, For
today, the women of this Nation stillretain the liberty to contr91 their destinies, But the signs are evident andvery ominous,
and a chill windblows," B1ackmun wrote.
B1ackmun also wrote that there is.no legal justification for the ,Court's
decision to permit states to tamper
with Roe, "This 'it's-so-because-wesay-so' jurisprudence constitutes noth-

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ing other than an attempted exerciseof brute force; reason, much less persuasion, has no place, I fear for the
future, I fear for the liberty of millions
of women, I fear for the Court,· hewrote in his decision, which he readangrily from the Bench, in a breakwith tradition,
Blackmun, who has been ode of
the Court's strongest proponents of
the right to privacy for women, andfor gay men and lesbians(heauthored the Clissent in the Hardwickcase), was echoed by dire predictions
froer abortion rights advocates,
Judith Widdicombe, founder ofReproductive
Health Services, theclinic involved in the litigation, said,"This is a serious, serious setback for
women and families in this country,
This is an outrage, There's a movement in this country that will not tol-

IT AINT NECESSARILY SO
Anti-abortionist kneels in front of
the High Court
Photo: Patsy Lynch
erate this, It will become our Vietnamof the 1990s,·
Anti-choiceactivists,
while
unhappy that Roe had not actually
been overturned, were otherwise jubilant. Randall. Terry, leaderofOperation Rescue, a group whichblockades women's health centers inan effort to shut them down, said,"The writing's on the wall, folks, Roe
is going to go down, [Until then] wewill blockade these killing centers andwe will stop the slaughter."Aflne Carmichael,executive'
director of Misso~ri Citizen's for Life,the organization which sponsored theoriginal legislation that led to the
Court case, said, "States can now atleast strive:to protE:ct innocent human
lives by regulating the practice ofabortion, The Court appears to be
showing a readiness to recognize thathuman life begins at conception, andthat the. unborn have some rights tothat life,·
And the war did 'appear to moveswiftly, In Pennsylvania, considered bymany to have the strongest anti-abortion lobby in the nation, the move toblock. abortions came just hours after
the Webster decision was handed
down, State Representative Stephen
Freind called for a special conveningof the legislature to add an abortion
control rider to the state law,
In New York, where state laws
passed before tbe 1973 Roe decision
legalized abortion, all four democratic
mayoral candidates said they would
oppose any attempt by the state legislature to limit a woman's access to an
abortion, Bl,ltRudolph Giuliani, who isseeking both the RepublicanandLiberal Party nominations,said, "Iwould not take a leadership role, supporting or opposing abortion, 1 am
running for mayor, not governor,·according to the New York Times.
Giuliani was almost - immediately
attackedby Mayor Koch., "Rudy
Giuliani has made it clear that he
opposes freedom of choice," Koch
told the Times,'
In a strongly worded statement
delivered on July 5, Governor Mario
Cuomo said that he would reject any
legislation that attempted to limit awoman's access to an abortion in New
York State, He also reaffirmed his support-for the use of public funds andfacilities for the abortions of lowincome women. "Let them come with'a law that says you can't use Queens
General Hospital, that you ~n't use apublic hospital. That law will bedefeated for the same reason that we
put Medicaid funding in the budget,·he said, according
to the Times,
Cuomo has said in the past that he, ispersonally opposed to abortion, but
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The Battleof the Courthouse Steps
Opposing Activists Clash After Ruling'by Cliff O'Neill
WASHINGTON-Afterthe Supreme
Court handed down its benchmark
decision to limit abortion rights in thecase of Webster v, Reproductive
lJealth Services July 3, the battle overthose rights was tossed back to thestates, But on that morning, the battle
was already raging on the courthousesteps,
Hundreds of demonstrators, on" both sides of the issue, shouted nowfamiliar slogans at the press, eachother, and anyone else who would
listen,Molly Yard, presidentof theNational Organization
for Women(NOW) was the first to speak at apress conference on the Courthousesteps,In her angry address, the feminist
leader vowed to lead the pro-abortion
rights majority of the nation to theballot box, saying, "We will takethis fight to the people ..,because'obViously the Justices cannot be
trusted."After several other statementsfrom pr~cabortion rights activists,
Randall Terry, founder of the militant anti-abortion group Operation
Rescue lauded the court's decisionin guarded terms,"Roe has been modified, but
children are still going to die,' heproclaimed, Discussing his organization's future plans to continue
blockading abortion cliniCS,which
he' called "killing centers," Terryvowed to continue his fight to"make child-killing illegal again.""We are confident tb.t Roe
will be overturned by the end of
the [Bush) Adml'nistration,~hestated, characterizing the July 3
court decision as "a faltering steppoor women who could not be able
to receive public funds for their abortions,, That sentiment
was further
expressed by Eleanor Smeal, founderand president of the Fund for the
Feminist, Majority, who stated thedecision "is dangerous, divisive andcould be deadly." She also pledged topush for, what she called a "women'sconstitutional amendment" protecting
abortion rights, which she contrasted
with President Bush's proposed antiflag desecration amendment.
"We're worried about peopleburning up the American flag, andhere we have people burning up theConstitution,"chimed in .former
House member Bella Abzug,
For the most part, pro- and antiabortion rights leaders were civil witheach other at the microphones, while
across the court steps shouting andshoving matches took place continuously throughout the day amidst theblue and white "Keep Abortion Legal".signs and placards bearing pictures ofaborted fetuses,
By 11 a,m, the court steps were
littered with hundreds of wire coathangers with attached signs that read,"Never again," a symbolic reference tothe unsafe abortions which werecommonplace before the 1973 Roedecision,
One confrontation at the microphones came as Planned Parenthood
preSident Faye Wattleton extended
her comments while staffers of theanti-abortion Right to Life Committee, att'empted to take the microphonefrom her,Dr. John c. Willke, president of
the national Right to Life Committee,
tried to shove Wattleton out of theway during the press conferen<;:e on
the Courthouse steps,"I'm Dr, Jack Willke," he began,"I'm not through," interjected
Wattleton, "And please, just be courteous, at least, Don't 'try to push me
aside," she hissed angrily,"I'm sorry," Willke responded, "Ithought it was my turn,"....

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Ripping Off the Left
Operation Rescue's Big Shamby Sarah Pettit
A recent newspaper photo portrays apowerful
scene,
A long-haired
woman, her eyes closed and her
entire frame listless, is propped up off
the pavement by two police officers,
Before her face, a small, black placard
is held, It details her arrest-no name,the date, the city, Seabrook, one ~uspects, or Greenham
Commqn, A
glance at the caption reveals quite theopposite, This near-supine figure is
one of a score of Operation Rescue
devotees arrested in front of abortion
clinics over the past months, "One can be pardoned this initial

News Focus
misperception, On a purely superficial
level, the anti-abortion protest move. ment has adopted a bewildering number of tactics( and guises traditionallybelonging to the Left and its causes:
the mass· pickets, the endless bus convoys, the sit-ins, and th~ grouparrests, Turn down the sound, takeaway the poster, and one is rJomentarily put off mark, A frightening
prospect, indeed, for seasoned CDers
who feel so profoundly at odds withthe political and 'moral' agenda of theanti-abortionists,
So, what of this wolf in sheep's
clothing? Why has the Right chosen to
appropriate a form of activism that on
the surface so nearly resembles thatof their political. counterparts? More
importantly, what does it stand to
gain by usurping lefty tactics for its
moral/evangelical agenda?
The anti-abortion movement conceives of itself as-the displaced, thefringe in search of vindication, evenas our nation hurtles ever closer toconsolidating a conservative politicalprogram, ,As Roe v, Wade is held up
for target practice, and we brace ourselves for another setback a fa Bowers
v, Hardwick and the recent attacks onequal opportunity employment, canthese zealots possibly overlook thefact that their ideology is so closely
allied with this Administration's statedideals? It seems not.

WOLVES IN SHEEP'S CLOTHING
Operation Rescue at Planned Parenthood, NYC.

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Photo: Peter LeVasseur

In fact, it is precisely the underlying accord between anti-abortionists
arid the last decade, of Republican
office-holders which shows up thesiege mentality and CD (civil disobedience) activism for what it is: a big
sham, Overlooking the fineties, their
movemen,t is no more in 'opposition'
to the current Administration than a
red neck at a pig roast,/
It is important, then, to focus on
the facetious nature of Operation
Rescue's activism. While it may bearsome of the visible signs of traditional
lefty resistance, at its core is a militantsense of its powerful position vis-a-vis
the status quo and its henchmen,
What results is a frighteningly symbiotic tango with the powers that be:
cast into'the role of the "lunatic"
fringe, right wing action movements
such as the Right to Life andOperation Rescue set into relief theultimately right wing and moralistic
tone of the current administration,
George Bush thus appears by turns
evenhanded and measured, while, infact, syllable by syllable endorsing aplatform in tandem with that of antiabortionists,
But this forces the truly facetious
nature of the "pro-life" Operation
Resuce mission into the open,
Propelled forward as they are on acurrent of conservative sentiment and\1 legislation, their half-hearted aping of
CD tactics serves as a further injusticeto the very action groups who must,by neceSSity, employ such tactics,
Anti-abortionists conjure the conturesof CD and force them to their own
ends, They empty the action of its
specific political echoes (the Civil,Rights movement,
Vietnam)/ andignore its non-violence guidelines bymaking and carrying out bombthreats, and by harassing clinic clients,
Instead they choose to cull from CD asense of' "moral" righteousness,
Having gutted one oCthe primary, if
not only, means of-political redress....

left to the displaced, they further bolster the right wing initiative: they
abuse and lend a bad name to fringe
political efforts, yet sacrifice nothingof their own political agenda,
Lit~e wonder then tbat ~hesightof resisting Operation Rescuers evokes
such anger and frustration, Their aims
are not only, "Our [ownl pro-life
President, pro-life Congress, pro-life
Supreme Court, pro-life attorney general, pro-life legislators, pro-life county
commissionersj" they hit at the verylegacy of rebellion remaining for thoseof us truly on the outside,
If one examines another protest
movement that has evolved simultaneously with the current battle overabortion rights, one sees exactly howreal dissent is regarded, qualified andcontained at the present time, I speak,of course, of the on-going efforts of
ACT UP, The "imminent danger"
posed to our community, to that of
the nation's health as a whole, by
AIDS, is inarguably as apparent as thedanger'posed to "life" by abortion,
One profound difference worth
noting, however, is that while life is

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for ACf UP the issue of people alive tbat we are all under siege, This they
achieve by the neat trick of inscribing
and dying-members of our communithemselves within the abortion debate
ties---(as it is for the abortion rights
Bymovement, which regards the life of as the fetus' spokespersons,the mother as well as that of the child), assuming the fetus' voice, they
manipulate the debate by themselves"life" is for the anti-abortionists theissue of the fetus-the as yet unborn, I becoming, on some level, the victims,
point this out not for the sake of com- With a: political arena crammed withpare and contrast, but because it illus- groups in need, how can the system
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willing to accede, No stone will be left UP, and issues such as AIDS, can thus
conveniently be lost in a frenzy of
unturned in the abortion issue, The
morepalatable,
conservative
Supreme Court, the administration's
puppet theater, and now our state leg- demands, Another way for the administration to appear evenhanded andislatures, will expend endless hours
measured, as opposed to chock fulland enormous political energies overof racist, sexist, homophobic cracker- ..
the fundamentally philosophical issue
barrels? You bet.
of "life," while in every state 'lives are
Right wing action groups haveravaged by a disease that few know,
everything to gain and nothing to loseenough about to discuss,by co-opting left-wing tactics and by
For right wing action groups
visiting the fringej the former is but
such as Operation Rescue to behave
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Th~Judicial Body War

the Court, we have to question onwhat that w~1 be founded,
Given the range of issues thatabortion involves, the response bymainstream women's organizations
such as the National Organization forent and also has ominous implications
Women (NOW) and the National
by Catherine Saalfield
for poor women to resist involuntary'Abortion
Rights Action League
Although the Supreme Court, in judgsterilization, "(NARAL) has been inexcusably weak.
ing Webster v, Reproductive Health,Our rights ItS lesbians and gay
In 1979, when the right wing started
Services, didn't establish that "lifemen always get tied up in issues ofattacking, sometimes bombing, abor" begins at conception: it did its best
bodily control, sexuality and sex.
tion clinics, groups like NOW andto deny women any control over their
Witness the miserable 1986 decision
NARAL played into its imposition ofown bodies and lives,of Bowers v, Hardwick where theshame and regret. In the same way
In deciding that the fertilized egg"unbroken tradition of condemnation
the anti-abortionists separate the fetus
is more important than a woman, theof homosexuality" is not only permitfrom the wQrnan's body in the ideoCourt has completely, undermined ated, but affirmatively protected, The
logical representations of pregnancy,
w~man's right to be sexual, and her
court wrongly interprets the history of
the abortion apologists (NOW andsodomy laws as an "unbroken tradiNARAL) separate abortion from thetion" in 6rder to criminalize homosexlives of the women having them.;,
uality; when in fact, as Copelon
Planned Parenth~,a similar organilegal ability to make decisions for her-'points out, "the 'tradition' of sodomy.
zation, is funded by forces like theself, The nuclear family is quickly
laws is really a condemnation of sex,
Rockefeller foundation, which also
becoming legally entrenched, 'gay or straight." In a similar vein, thehave population control agendas,
But the cultural phenomenon of
debate over abortion rights has taken
Recognized as a question of selfpregnancy affects lesbians differently
up a rhetoric of "life" and "lives"
determination, an abortion is about athan other women, because the prewhen in fact the issue at hand is one
woman taking control of her own life.
sumption is that we won't be
NOW and NARALfail in.their sobe.~ring children, We are thus
Power over one's own body' called "feminism," because ofoften left out of the dialogue,-f··'h-d'd I
their reluctance to focus on theThis predicament raises other -I It Isn tWite,mle " reproductive rights as a wholeissues related to reproductiveclass, straight and male -and see how their "single issue"
rights, Criminalizationof the__ _Itouches the diverse lives of all
boc!y is all too familiar to lesbians IS crimina.
women,and gay men, If we define ourIn the AIDS crisis we have
~elves, even partially, by the kind ofof sex-haVing sex outside of marwitnessed
the influential uses ofsex we have, then our very existence
riage, between people of the same"innocence" and "murder,· The "innois against the law in many states,
gender, and homo or hetero, with nocent victims" in this day ,and age are
Clearly, the entire conservative
intention of reproduction:
the fetus, the ,hemophiliac, the child,agenda reeks of discrimination and
In Michael H, v, Gerald D"
The "non-innocents,· and by not-sorepression, but what we're specificall¥another recent Supreme Court case,subtle extension, the "murderers· arebattling in the reproductive
rightsthe Court used the Constitution to
women, men who have sex witharena is the Court's success in rereassert the privilege of the patriarchalmen, iptravenoUs drug users, In thisempowering the patriarchal family, As
family, The case pits an unmarried
syntax, women having abortions,
Rhonda Copelon, a professor
atbiological father against a non-father
drug-using mothers, HIV-positive
CUNY Law School and a volunteer
husband and finds that the unmarriedmothers:lesbian mothers, are aU murattorney
for theCenterfor
man has absolutely no constitutionaf
derers,\.
Constitutional Rights, says, "The careright to his relationship with his child,
NOW and NARAL will always
lessneSs with which the Court treats a
He has no parental claim as a single
lobby, Their members will always
woman's right to have a safe andman over the marital unit. The deciwrite letters to government officials,
legal abortion opens the door to othersion not only suggests that "liberty· inthe enemies of choice, It is our job, asbases for asserting
control over
the Constitution protects the most trafeminists, as lesbians, as gay men, as
women's reproduction, whether it beditional concept of family, but also
radicals, to make "pro-chOice" look
the absence of marriage or the presthat procreative rights for lesbians andmoderate, We want more because, as
ence of conditions viewed as detrigay men are in greater danger than,
things stand, power over one's own
mental to children, This affects theever. And, even though there is an
body-if it isn't white, middle class,right of lesbians and gay men to par"affirmative tradition of protection" instraight and male-is criminal.
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News Commentary

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I

NY Reacts toCourt Decision
by Rachel Lurie 'NEW' YORK-The
Supreme Court's
Monday abortion decision led abortion right activists to call for an all-out
war in the streets, and the first angry
rumblings of the battle began to stir
Wednesday afternoon
when over
5,000 demonstrators
descended on
Foley Square to voice their outrage,
With dark storm clouds still hanging
low in the sky after a day of torrential
downpours, over 5,000 demonstrators,
including many men, descended on
Foley Square to show their anger,
The
Reproductive,Rights
Coalition organized the rally in frontof the Federal Courthouse, and thesubsequent march wound through
Chinatown and the Lower East Side
ending with another rally at Union
Square, The demonstration was thelargest abortion rights mobilization in
New York City since 1975,
Dozens of candidates and legislators lined up to' speak, or had theirnames mentioned from the podium,
Among politicians present were mayoral candidate
David Dinkins,
Brooklyn District Attorney Elizabeth
Holtzman and City,Council candidates
Tom Duane and Ronnie Eldridge,"We have to make the issue of
choice an issue in every election on
every level,· Ruth Messinger, City
Council member and candidate for
Manhattan Borough President told thecrowd, "This decision introduceschaos into our lives, and into the 50
state legislatures,·
Vernie Miller, of the Center for
Constitutional Rights, the afternoon's
moderatqr, declared "After the asskicking we took on Monday, we'reout here be'cause we're not gonnatake this shit anymore,·
Karen Ramspacher, a demonstrator, said she was arrested arqong 25
people on Monday during a si~i1arprotest immediately following the ruling, "This is just the beginning of ourfighting' back; she said, "We're notgoing to stand for a ruling which says,
essentially, that women in this country have no rights."
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Victoryfor Sharon Kowalski
National Committee Shuts Down Operation
by Rachel Lurieof a national network of supporters
SharonKowalski,neitherof
WASHINGTON-The National Comwho widely publicized the case andKowalski's parents have attended any'mittee to Free, Sharon Kowalski,pressured St. Louis County Districtlegal or medical IT!eetings regarding
formed in 1987, is closing down operCourt Judge Robert Campbell, who
her care since the release of the mediation, "having substantially completed
presided over the case, In January ofcal report in March, (Donald andthe agenda around which we orga,thiS year, Campbell ordered Kowalski
Della Kowalski have refused to speak
nized," according to Committee comoved to a better facility in Duluth,
to the press since last AUgust, whenchair'Tacie Dejanikus, Sharon
their lawyer left the case,)
Kowalski, a lesbian left parSue Wilson, Thompson's
tially paralyzed and brain
attorney,
said
Donaldinjured following a 1983 car
Kowalskihas
asked
accident, appears to be finallyCampbell to terminate his
receiving adequate rehabilitaguardianship of his daughter,tive care, and visitors of her"because if he can't do it his
choice, including her 'lover
way, he doesn't want to do
Karen Thompson, Kowalski"sit." Campbell has specified
father>-Donald, has requested
that he will not appointthat he be removedasThompson as guardian, His
Sharon's legal guardian,selection of a third party
The Kowalski' case has
guardian is pending,come to symbolize the rights>'
Caroline Foty, media
of gay and lesbian, couples
coordinator for the National
and the rights of the disabled
Committee, told OutWeek
following years of work bythat while "Donald is out ofThompson,In 1985, after
the picture, the judge is still
Donald Kowalski became
bending over backWards forlegal guardian of his daughthe Kowalskis [Sharon's parter, he effectively cut offents),
Thompson's access to Sharon
Eventhoughthedue, to the couple's lesbian
Kowalskis haven't had arelationship,
But Donald
lawyer since last summer, theKowalski also refused to pro.
judge has tried to avoid doing
vide adequate
care for COMING HOME
anything to irritate them,·
Sharon, placing her in a nurs- Sharon Ko~a/ski fr.) and Karen Thompson several years ago. Foty said,
ing home in a rem'ote area of
Minnesota where competency tests
On June 12th, Kowalski was
Minnesota which offered no real reha,could be performed.
moved to Trevilla of Robbinsdale, anbilitation facilities, He also fought off
A medical team at the Milterextendedcarefacilitynearlegally-requiredcompetency
tests
Dwan Medical Center in Duluth
Minneapolis, with a rehabiljtati,\e prothrough court appeals, keeping a. offered its report to Campbell ingram that includes independent living
stronghold on his position as courtMarch sthting, "We believe Sharonskills and the ultimate goal of allowappointed
guardianand leaving
Kowalski has shpwn areas of potening Kowalski to return to her St.
Sharon unable to assert her voice
tial and ability to make rational choicCloudhornewith - Thompson,
regarding her own care, and carees in many areas ,of her life, She hasThom'pson and Kowalski we're reunitgivers unable to assess her progress.
consistently
indicated a desire to
ed on February 2nd and now are able
Karen 'Thompson began a legal
return home, and by that means to St.
to have, visits inside the facility withbattle in 1984 to gain both recognition
Cloud to live with Karen Thompson
out restriction. Short-term releasesof the couple's relationsh-ip and toagain," Kowalski can communieate
from the facility remain an undecided, fight for Sharon's rights to have conusing an' alphabet board and is able
legal issue,'
trol 'Over decisions affecting her life,
to whisper with the aid of a speech
Thompson told OutWeek that
Thompson's
efforts included hunsynthesizer,
Sharon has "paid a high price" in thedreds of speaking
engagements
According to a press release from,extended struggle to secure her rights,
around the country, and the creation
the National Committee to Free
explaining that her motivation in
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.

rehabilitation is "inconsistent" because
Sharon "doesn't really see a future."
But for Thompson, the end of
the legal battle appears to be in sight•Any further areas of question in
Sharon's future can be hammered out
by my lawyer in court," she said,"This nightmare is almost over andSharon and I can be free to determine
what the future holds for us," ,•Whatever the future holds for
Kowalski and Thompson, important
precedents have been set in the battles for domestic partnership rights,
the rights of the disabled and people
with AIDS. In the work of the national and local committees, issues larger
than the couple's struggle havealways been visible, ·You can't talkabout domestic partnership without
mentioning Sharon Kowalski," said
Foty, Indeed, a recent flyer for adomestic partnership rally sponsoredby the Coalition for the Lesbian and
Gay Rights had Me reference in bOld
letters: "No More Sharon Kowalskis,"
In
her
many
speeches,
Thompson always noted that gay andlesbian couples needed to make provisions to protect their rights' by
obtaining Durable Power of Attomies
in their relationships, "Just because' itworked out positively for Sharon andKaren doesn't mean it will work out
for other people in similar situations,"
said Judy Lindquist, the chairperson
and founder of the New Yo(kCommittee to Free Sharon Kowalski,
Lindquist told OutWeek that the
New York Committee will not be disbanding but instead will continue towork on the larger issues. "None of us
expected to win this so quickly," shesaid, adding that the Issues of antiquat- ,ed and prejudicial guardian laws,
domestic partnerhsip rights and therights of 9isabled people to 'makechoices about their lives still call forstrong political pressure.
Many-of the local rommillees willremain aaive and ThomPson said she
encouraged the "decentralization" of the. work through shutting down the National
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News
Washington Times Alleges··Nest of Homosexuals" in White House
National Les/Gay Groups Blas{Paper, Investigation Continues
by'Cliff'O'Neill
WASHINGTON-In a front page story
with two-inch-highheadlines, theWashington Times on June 29
revealed the names of a number ofWhite House officials as clients of ahomosexual escort service, incurring
sharp criticism from national gay andlesbian groups who charged thepaper with anti-gay reporting,' andpromptinganti~gay Congressman
William Dannemeyer to pen a letterto the President.
The Times story was initiated by
the closure by law
enforcement officials of a D.C. gay
male escort service operated outof a local funeral
home on May 18,
That
week,
the Washington
Blade, a local gay
and lesbian weekly, reported that at
the escort service's
eviction, reportersfrom local news
outlets were seenrummagingthrough the escort
service's files fornames of prominent
Washingtonians.
The
Times''
alleged that credit
card receipts theyacquired from theagency revealed
the names of anumber of highly
placed Reagan and Bush administra~tion officials among the agency's
clients, In the story, the newspaper
generously quoted its own editors
who explained that they only would
reveal the names of "those found to
be in sensitive government positionsof influence,"
To back up their alleged need to
expose those who are in such ·sensitive positions," the Times quoted aformer top-level Pentagon official
who said he had long been aware ofa "nest of homosexuals"
in theReagan White House, adding that the"nest" may have been penetrated by
Soviet spies,"We have known for many, many
years that there is a department of the
KGB [Soviet spies) whose job it is·toprey on sexual deviants," Ret, U, Gen,J.

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July 17, 1989

That statement
was directly,attacked in a statement released thesame day by the Human Rights
Campaign Fund, the nation's largest
lesbian and gay political action committee, which said the Times story·points out the fear and repression
many gays and lesbians must live
under because of their sexual orientation,~"The argument that gays in thegovernment and the U,S. military are
targets of potential 'blackmail' is without merit," the statement read, "TheU.S.
government,
since World ,War II,~ has never substantialIy proven that open
j gays and lesbians are
more of a security risk
than heterosexuals, ,, .If a person is 'out of
the closet,' he or shecannotbe blackmailed. To report that'known homosexuals'
are not worthy ofreceiVing classified
information .. , is topropagate homophobia and anti-gay prejudice,·
The National Gay
and Lesbian
Task
Force
(NGLTF)
chimed in willi its
own statement blastLing the Times investigation as ·petty gay
baiting· and "homophobic sensationalism,'"The Washington
Times story is a rank attempt to sensationaliZe a fact that should come asno surprise to anybody: that there aregay people in the Republican administration,· the NGLTF statement read,"We challenge as baseless ' the Times'
implication that the presence of gay

fDaniel Graham told the Times, He
added that the Soviets have easily"turned""closethomosexuals·
through blackmail efforts and, hence,"we have always in intelligence tried
very hard not to be giving classified
information to known homosexuals,"people in political office represents a
threat to national security."
On June 29 Dannemeyer wrote
to President Bush, "the integrity ofyour administration ... can ill-afford
even the perception of..,perverse sexual behavior."
Dannemeyeralsolinked the "homosexual prostitution
ring," to among other th ings, theNational Endqwment for the Arts'funding of photographer
RobertMapplethorpe's retrospective, the U,S,
Post Office's stamp cancellation in
New York celebrating
the 20th
anniversaryof theStonewall
Rebellion, an-d Bush's support of a"hate crimes" bill which would protect gay men and lesbians (see sidebar],
A June 29 NBC report stated thatWhite House spokesperson
MarlinFitzwater has expressed "no knowl- ,edge" of any investigation into gay
White House aides, NBC also reported that federal agents confirmed thatthey are investigating the escort service, but only on charges of credit
card fraud, not prostitution.
In their June 30 edition, theTimes reported that a Republican
National Committee spokesperson
saw "no reason for cleaning anyone
out of office" based on the Times'revelations, but in the same edition
wrote a lengthy editorial supporting
their investigatiol),''Those who know about the possible compromising of people in powerful br responsible posts have a duty
to inform sec~rity officers, even at therisk of being called prudes or homophobes," the editorial read,,Although none of the five figuresnamed in the Times story were highly
visible administration agents, centrally
placed in the June 29 story was Craig
J. Spence, a conservative Washingtonsocialite and fundraiser who was thesole subject of a follow-up story in
the newspaper's June 30 edition,
The newspaper is alleged to havetestimony and evidence that" Spence,
who is ,highly
placedin theRepublican Party, spent up to $20,000
a year on male prostitutes through theagency; offered cocaine to friends andclients; videotaped 'U,S, and foreign
officials in compromising positions
with male escorts through a one-way

mirror; and in one instance, gave twomale prostitutes a 1 a,m, tour of theWhite House,
In one paragraph of the June 29
story, the Times reported that theoperators of the "homosexual ring"
told them that "videotapes, audio
tapes and still photographs
weremade of sex acts performed by clientsand the call boys, including perverted
acts," The Times did not reveal whichp'articular sex acts they 'considered"perverted, ..
In a. sidebar to that story, theTimes stated that "gay clubs" are often
used by' the e&Cortservices to recruit"call boys," and immediately listed thenames of seven area gay nightclubs,
Only in the paper's June 30 story
on Spence's alleged Illegal activities
did the newspaper quote anybody
who was identified as openly gay, An
unnamedformer'Reaganaide
expressed concern with Spence's making passes at his own "bodyguards,""I'm openly gay myself," the aide
told the Times, "Most gays find thattype of behavior reprehensible,"~

We~re Everywhere'¢W?zsbi~gton Times article led?anti-gay Congressman William Dannemeyer
to' write in outrage ,to President Bush, The letter, which was 'leaked 'to; Out U?'et;k, read in 'part:.'"\,.1 "~e~haps tlie greatest misuse of governmeo't funds In promotion
thei!1omoSexual lifestyle in your administration, as that of your predecessor, isthe creation of oui federal AIDS industry,. i"Public health' is .founded on the notion of accountability, \Y-h}lebomo-,
sexuality is founded on the pathology of anonymity, The war agaiost AIDS,)lS with,aU other communicable diseases, demands accountability~onfiden':~ja~,teporting and contact tracing, National leaders,hip has only of,fered ~s t~f1
!pa,thology of anonymity, a testament to homoseXual influence in the policy
aking process,''T!)e publ.ic mig~t ask how two coose'cutivelconservative administrations*' n'do more to advance the' influence of the homosexual movement in pub"lie policy than'-overtly sympathetic administrations might have?, One answer:4im<lY tUfn up in the current investigations, This would explain much.
"@'''l'he American people deserve to know-you'deserve
to know,Mr,
1;;~Pr~sid~.nt,..~when subjective cbnsiderati~ns are used to determine public poli1iB~"y;jWOUld,it
m~tter,'\\speaking' hypothetically, whethe(or nqt regal counsel"'Who drafted the AIDS anti-discrimination
regulation'S for the Office of
Personnel Management are homosexual?' I thfnk it y.rouid,,x'"t\believethe
public does oot care who'in the federal governmerit ,is...
,homosexuaL But I do believe they care '",hen this sexual path?logy'subjec.~tiveIYbiases ot~erwise rational thought or in some way compromises thel~patlonal interest or national security, This is the concern, w,"I respectfully urge.. you to immediately enact an Executive Order that>~ifl se~e as a standard Within tbeJederal g~)Vernment il) affirmation of the
4hiditiqnal family and tbe heterosexual ethic, t·One stroke of th« pen prohibiting the direct or indirect prqmotion or
encouragement of homosexuality, bisexuahty, bestiality and pedophilia can::put a stop to such nonsense as using tax doU;rs to promote homoerotic .art,,suspect sex studies, and other such publicly-funded accolades to the homosexual lifestyle, It v.;ilI aJso send a strong message to "sexual scandals in the'trmaking? that criminal' behavior will not be tolerated."
The letter also alleged a conspiracy-like connection among the National;Endowmeot fOF.the Arts, The United States Post Office, The National!t~institut~ of Jiealth, The Nati~nal Research Council and'the, President's own
sUpPOQ.of a hate crimes bHl currently under consideration in Congress, All ofjthe above organizatiop,s have allegedly been infiItr~ted by a pro-gay agenda,>according to Dapnemeyer.
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July 17,1989

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News,D.C. Demo Hono~sMapplethorpe
Activists FIQut Gallery Censorshipby Cliff O'Neill
WASHINGTON-Projecting
huge
reproductionsof Robert Mappletnorpe's photographs on the wall of
the Corcoran Gallery of Art, nearly
1,000 artists and gay and lesbian
actlYists continued
to protest themu:;eum's decision to cancel a retrospective of the artist's work.
A wide range of speakers derided
the gallery's decision not to show
"Robert Mapplethorpe: The Perfect
Moment" at the June 30th evening
demonstration,
Corcoran Director
Christina Orr-Cahill announced thecancellation of the show ea;lier in themonth, which was to have opened
July 1, citing an ongoing congressional controversy surrounding the publicfunding of the National Endowment
for the Arts,

Mapplethorpe,
who was gay,died of AIDS-related complications inMarch at the age of 42, The retrospec:
tive, widely praisedby critics,
includes several startling images ofBlack male nudes, nude children, asadomasochistic self-portrait as wellas other homoerotic subjects and seve.1almore traditional photographs,
Rallying. on the museum steps,
demonstrators held aloft posters bearing samples of Mapplethorpe's workand condemnations of Helms, including signs reading: "What would
Congress know about decency?","Helms: Art Bigot" and "Nobody
would photograph Jesse Helms,·
In June, Sens, Alphonse D'Arnato(R-NY) and Jesse Helms (R-NC)
expressed their sharp concern with the
NEA's fundin$ of work by artist Andres

Photo: Jim Marks

PROJECTING AN AmTUDE

Mapplethorpe portrait on the wall of the Corcoran G~lIery.
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July 17, 1989

Serrano, whose work includes a depiction of the crucifIX in a bottle of theartist's urine, titled "Piss Christ", and an
NEA grant to a Philadelphia museum
which made the Mapplethorpe tour
possible. Shortly iliereafter, the senators were joined by 106 House members who penned a joint letter to the
NEA threatening future funding to theagency should they continue to fundcontroversial projects,
Speaking for the Washington
Coalition of Artists, the demonstration's sponsors, Jay W, Mahoney lambasted the "censorship" of the art,
calling Congress's actions the "latest
blatant
exampleofcultural
McCarthyism,","Jesse Helms finds art offensive,·
Derek Guthrie, publisher of the New
Art Examiner, bellowed at the crowd,"I find Jesse Helms offensiveL.If Jesse
Helms doesn't like Mapplethorpe, it's
very simple: he doesn't have to go to
the Corcoran!"After the applau~e died down,'~

laser artist Rockne Krebs showed ten
slides of Mapplethorpe's work on themassive (lmtside wall of the museum,,Of the slides, shown for approximately, two minutes each, only two
were nudes, neither of which were of
the controversial lot that inspired thefracas, In the front of the crowd wereseveral lesbian members of the local
lesbian/gay direct action group our!
(Oppression
Under Target), who,
noticing that most of the artist's malenudes were missing from the slide'show, briefly began chanting halfhearted (ounds of "Show the dick!~
One image of a male nude andanother 'portrait of two men embracing drew applause from the crowd,
Sources suggested that only thetamest of slides were shown since'
those were the only ones available,
Critics, however, were skeptical of theargument, since the demonstration
had been planned for several weeks,
Mer the slide show's anticlimactic ending, the majority of those present were shuttled onto waiting tour
buses and were driven back to theCollection Gallery for a post-demonstration ~iree and an evening of art

shOWings at area galleries,
The Washington Project for theArts, a museum known with a more
avant garde reputation than the normally staid Corcoran, voted earlier inthe week to show the Mapplethorpe
exhibit from July 21 through August
13,-According to The Washington
Post, the two museums share a number of board members, although OrrCahill' has stated that the vote of theCorcoran board to cancel the exhibit
was unanimous, 'In the almost daily exchapge inthe city's two dailies on the Corcorancancellation, the Post has skewered
the Corcoran, not for the alleged"censorship" for which it has been
charged, but for ignorance in accepting the show without knowing its
contents in the first place and forpolitical cowardice in the cancellationin the second place, The smaller, conservative Washington Times has onlyoffered opinion pieces by the ultraconservative Patrick Buchanan and afreelance art writer, both of whom
praised the museum's decision, largelyon grounds of the homoerotic
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House Okays Hate Crimes Bill
Landslide Margin Huge Defeat for Dannemeyer
by Cliff O'Neill
WASHINGTON-After an afternoon oflargely one-sided debate, the V,S,House of Representatives passed theHate Crimes Statistics Act by a landslide 368-47 margin June 27, over the
loud protests of anti-gay Rep, WilliamDannemeyer (R-CA),The hate crimes Statistics Act(H.R. 1048) would order the JusticeDepartment to collect statistics on
crimes motivated by race, religion,
ethnicityor sexual orientation,
Although the landmark bill was~
passed last year by the House by anequally wide margin, a last minutetactic from Sen, Jesse Helms (R-NC)
kept the bill from the Senate floor,
effectively killing it for that session ofCongress,

In
the
House
Judiciary
Committee, Dannemeyer's
amend'ments to limit the scope of the bill
and the spending allowed under itwere defeated by nearly one sided
margins, with only Dannemeyer voting for the riders,,Before the bill cadle to the floor,
Dannemeyer took the House floor todenounce the bill's inclusion of sexual
orientation as an attempt to "derail. the freedom train" launched by the
Civil Rights Act of 1964.
Dannemeyer argued that the billwould "elevate homosexuality above
gender, age, mental capacity and economic circumstance as a legitimate
category of redress under our civilrights laws," although the bill contains
a disclaimer which states that the bill
does not provide
anti-discrimination
protections for lesbians and gay men,Once the bill
was taken up by theHouse, Republicans
andDemocrats
lined up to praise
the bill without
reservations,
Stepping up to
speak
was Rep,
George Gekas (RPA) who in the lastsession introducedanamendment
striking the bill's"sexual orientation". provisions, but thisyear introduced anamendment
tobroapen the scopeof the bill instead,"I, too, like [Mr,Dannemeyer], had
felt in the last session of Congress
and the previousthat weFIRST STEP TO A DREAM
Phato: Cliff O:Neili session
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gerous waters when we were attempting to raise the homosexuals to a constitutionally protected class which was
not already in accord with race, creed
and color, as was already articulated
in the Civil Rights Act of 1964," statedGekas, He explained that since hisamendment would now also allow
other possible targets of hate 'crimes
to be counted, he could now support
the bill and urged Dannemeyer to do
the same,
Afterwards, Rep, Craig James (REL) again brought up his amendment
to include union and anti-union violence in. the bill, which had previOUSly been defeated,
Dannemeyer then used up hisallotted time to rail against the bill's
inclusion of "homosexuality or heterosexuality," as one of the items on thegay "agenda,"
Interruptingthe' California
Republican, Rep, Charles Schumer (DNY) asked
if the amendment
Dannemeyer wanted to introduce was"the one [amendment) that was voted'
down in the full committee 33 'to 1, isthat the one?" Schumer asked,"The gentleman has counted correctly," Dannemeyer curtly replied,and continued his speech,
After lashing out against the Hate
Crimes bill, a federal survey into adultsexual patterns now under review by
the Department of Health and Human
Services and the Americans with
Disabilities Act (which would ban
AIDS discrimination
nationally),
Dannemeyer began his now-standard
speech on the "heterosexual ethic,"
Barney Frank (D-Mass,), one of thetwo openly
gay membersofCongress, interrupted Dannemeyer
and began a loud exchange with theanti-gay House member over several
statements made in his speech,
After Dannemeyer used up his
floor time, the list of supportive members continued to praise the bill,"We had the entire House and/[then we had] a handful of people
who were just plain o{nery," statedNational Gay and Lesbian Task Forcelobbyist Peri Jude Radecic, "The vote
was a clear signal that people justwanted to [pass this bill], It's a wonderful thing, It signals the non-controversial nature of this bill.""In our lifetime lesbians and gays
will be able to walk down the street
holding the hands of [their] 10Jers
without fear of getting beat up by
anti-gay bigots/' stated a philosophical Robert Bray, communications
director
for the Human Rights
Campaign Fl,lnd, "The vote on_ thefloor
qf the' U.S, Houseofhepresehtatives
is the first step tothan not being just a dream, but areality,"'
Now attention is turning to the
Senate where gay and lesbian activists
are pulling out all the stops to pass
the bill and defeat an expected
amendment from Sen, Helms which
would declare the "homosexual'
movement" a "threat to the American
family"; order states to enforce
sodomy laws; put the Senate onrecord as being against ever passing
gay anti-discrimination legislation; andban fundirig to schools which "promote" homosexuality as an "acceptable alternate lifestyle."'To help beat back the amendment, the National Gay and Lesbian
Task Force has extended its June
National Lobby Days through themonth of July and the Human Rights
Campaign Fund is continuing theirunprecedented
effort to sign up
Americans for their "Speak Out" preauthorized congressional
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Kiss.;.lnMarks Hardwick Anniversary
Demo Garners National Attention\II

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statutes on the books,
A far cry from the thousands of
WASHINGTON-Approximately
50
protes'ters from throughout the D:C, protesters present on the courthousearea gathered at the steps of thesteps a day ''earlier in anticipation ofSupreme Court June 30 to mark the the key abortion decision in the casethird anniversary of the landmarkof Webster v, Reproductive HealthServices, the protesters only took up adecision upholding
state sodomy
laws, and to announce challenges to small portion of the vast space infront of the court, But despite thestate laws all across the nation,
small size of the-demonstration, flocks
Cha!1ting rounds of "Hey, hey,ho, ho, ' homophobia's
got to go," of reporters and cameramen buzzed
about the protest, several' of whom
members of the National Gay andLesbian Task Force, D,C's Gay and had been assigned to cover the aborLesbian Activists Alliance and OUT! lion demonstrators,
While D.C. visitors in tour buses(Oppression Under Target) expressed
their anger at the court's 1986 deci- passed in front of the picket to takesnapshots,
the protesters
circledsion in the case Bowers v, Hardwick,carrying
signs
reading
In that decision, the Court, by a about,"Sodomites Unite," "Lick Sodomy
5-4 margin, upheld the Georgia
Laws Now," and "D,C. Sucks and So
sodomy sta~ute, giving the individualstates the right to declare private sex Do We," referr,ing to the D,C, sodomy
acts illegal. Currently 25 states and the statute,
A bill. repealing the D,C. sodomy
District of Columbia have sodomy

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statute was itself repealed by a congressional mandate in 1981, after
immense right wing pressure cameupon Congress to reinstate
the ,.
sodomy law,
"We have a lot of w<;>rkto do to
undo the damage that was done here
three years ago,· Sue Hyde, directorof the National Gay and Lesbian T2.sk
Force's Privacy Project, said,
After several brief speeches, theprotesters staged" an act of guerrillatheater, One demonstrator dressed ina graduation robe (playing the role ofa Justice) read aloud the majority
opinion in the case while same-sex
couples heckled and were wrappedin plastic chains,
The actor then read Justice Harry
A, Blackmun's dissenting opinion, andthe crowd burst into cheers and'applause and staged a round-robin"kiss-in" to the amusement
andcuriosity of passersby,
"We
all
live
in
Maryland,
Virginia and
D,C, under sodomy laws,"
Hyde shouted through amegaphone at the demonstration's close, "It's yourpolitical responsibility t~
break those laws tonight,"
There are currently legal
challenges to state sodomy
laws pending in Minnesota,
Texas andMichigan,according to Hyde,
Similar demonstrations
against state sodomy laws
were held simultaneouslyin
COVington,
KY,
Fayetteville, AK, Asheville,
NC and Atlanta, GA as part
" of the National Day ofMourning for the Right toPrivacy, a national effort'coordinated by NGLTF andCRY OUT!, a Pittsburgh'J' M kbased gay and lesbian_
Pho t 0, 1m ar s 'hng ts group,
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Open Lesbian .
"to Become 'U.S. Citizen
II~S: "Not Expressly Forbidden.""",'ing for citizenship remains distinct :,by Rex Wocknerfrom entering the country as a visitor
BOSTON-In a move that surprisedor permanent resident.
. 1many observers, the U.S, Immigration
Frank has introduced legislation
and Naturalization Service June 14
said it will grant citizenship to Masha . in Congress to amend the "sexualdeviancy" clause which, he said, canGessen, a ,23-year-old Soviet immistill be legally used against gay visi- .
grant who repeatedly emphasized thattors and residency applicants, The
she is a lesbian while applying formeasure is expected to pass this year,
naturalization,
jervis, of the INS, challenged theWhen questioned
about theirneed for Frank's bill, saying gay men
decision, INS officials added thatand lesbians are "not expressly forthere is nothing in U,S, law t<?prevent
bidden by law from entering thegay men and lesbians from becoming
country and never have been, It's not
citizens,
something that can be 'easily detectHistorically, the INS has denieded,· he said, "There's no medical
visas, permanc;:nt residency and citiexam that detects that.· ,zenship to homosexuals by classifying
them as "not of good moral characAfter repeated'
questioning"
however, jervis acknowledged that
ter," possessed of a "psychopathic
in the past some homosexuals were'personality," or as "sexual deviants,"
classified by the INS as having "psy_According to openly gay U,S,
chopathic pers'onalities,· Frank's bill
Congressman Barney Frank (D-MA),
would protect gays and lesbians
who has fought the immigrationfrom such harassment in tqe future,
restrictionsin theHouseofGessen is the editor of Next, aRepresentatives, the latter two cateBoston-based gay and lesbian news
gories have been inv<;>kedagainst visimagazine. She came to the p.S, at
tors and applicantsfor residency
age 14 as a Jewish political refugee
while the "moral character" clauseand felt that the circumstances of her
was utilized against those :;eeking citiemigration
made, her citizenshipzenship,
application an ideal test case,In a letter accompanying her citi"I came out aft~r I was granted
zenship application, Gessen taunted
permanent reSidency, which means
the INS by writing, "I....believe mySelf
that I could not be deported for,to be a person of good moral characlying on my entry, application, norter, despite the fact that I know that
could I have my permanent residenthe INS has in the past stated thatcy taken away," she said, "In addihomosexuals are not people of goodtion, I have no citiienship in any
moral character."country,which would make it
According to Gessen; INS Boston
impractical for deportation to be cardistrict officials ignored the letter and,ried out."
when asked about it directly by her, Gessen said she is disappointed
lawyer, said it presented no problem
whatsoever. INS assistant public infor- ' her challenge didn't end up in court
and vowed to pressure Boston INS
mation director
Verne jervis in
district officials "to obligate themWashington, D,C. said district officials
selves to give citizenship to gay peowere correct.
ple in the future,"...
"If they say they've changed their-Filed from Cbicago
policy, then we should believe them,"
said Frank, who stressed that apply-

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Do The fliot Thing

motoristS. They honked .in rhythm toour chants of "hey, ho, homophobia's
got to go,· Others reached out toshake the hands of these strange creatures filling the streets with no disby Chris Bull
the act? Along with the excitement I
cernable purpose in mind, And iJ
NEW YORK-The night was cool andsensed fear in the air, Our ranks werewasn't even Halloween,
clear and our faggot spirits were high,swelling, energy was building and no
As we approached
the Sixth
just like I imagined the night of the. one had planned beyond the next
Precinct building on West 10th Street,
Stonewall Rebellion might have been,hour,
things quickly turned ugly, Several of
Hundreds of us-an odd assortment
Suddenly,out of nowhere,
the more militant among us ignited anof ACT UPers, Radical Faeries, gay
dozens of styrofoam bricks landed in
American flag and demanded 'that the. punks, bar-goers and a smattering of our midst. Charging out of thepolice address the recent murders ofStonewall Inn-turned-clothing store,
two Black men on the piers, An offithe Faeries were in hot pursuit ofcial looking policewoman assured us
some rather frightening imitations ofthat an investigation was ongoing andN~ws Commentary
New York's Finest. The Faeries lookedthat the murders were not "bias relatfin~ in their patented camouflageed,· ~Lies, no more lies,· we shouted
back,. Several panes ofglass were smashed. Ot's"
amaZing what an angry
faggot can do with a styrofoam brick,)
We reached a stand'off with the police andour exuberance was dissipating, Someone suggested a more productive
outlet for our anger; taking over the West Side
Highway, ,All night themood swung between
anger and joy so quickly
we seemed to be on ,thebrink of losing control'.
\One minute we would
stage a kiss-in, the ne?(twe were ripping apartpolice barricades',Around midnight we
ended
up
back
in
PRANCING IN THE STREETS
Photo: Peter LeVasseur Sheridan
Square,We
Revellers on ,iot night.
formed a circle while agorgeousdrag queen
fabulous drag queens-sang,dancedskirts, frilly blouses and floppy wigs
preenedto the tune of "Age ofand protested in that magical way
as they beat the "cops· with fluoresAquarius," We did a stunning rendionly queers can, Those who stillcent purses, It was all great fun; wetioo of "Over the Rainbow,' An infabelieve'there
is no such thing as aspent as much time pelting each othermous AIDS activist offered his ass to agay sensibility were not at Sheridan
with the mock-bricks as we did thebleach blond punk; everyone cheered
cops,
Square on Saturday, June 24,
the impromptu display of sleaze, AStanding
outsidetheold"Let's take Seventh Avenue,"big-breasted lesbian bared her all.
Stonewall Inn at around 9 pm wesomeone demanded immediately after
Joining hands, we skipped in cirwaited for the 'street theater to begin,
the theater had ceased to amuse,cles until we collapsed from exhausThe Faeries were about to reenact theSoon we were marching up Seventhtion on the warm cement. A beautiful
original uprising and we were giddy , to Greenwich Avenue, snarling traffic
boy with high cheek bones laid out awith anticipation, A fire truck barreled
for blocks, But nobody seemed, tocontinued on page 26.
by, sirens blasting, Was this part ofmind, not even the usually impatient~ Night With The Radical Faeries

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ACT UPmembers grsphicslly demonstrste the plight of the homeless outside the offices of the city's Depsrtment of
Housing PreselVstion snd Development on Wednesdsy, June 28th. About 50 activists gsthered st Bs.m. to protest whst
they clsim is the depsrtment's insdequs,e response snd Isck of assistance to homeless people with AIDS.Eight people
were arrested for blocking access to the building, two of whom hsd hsndcuffed themselves to chsirs, sccording to ACT
UPsources.
-Andrew Miller
Photo: Peter LeVasseur

RADICAL FAERIES c~ntinued from page 24,

beach towel n~ to me and sat down,
His left leg sported a Keith Haringstyle black-ink drawing of a large
penis, "Very nice," I sai~, running myfinger around its outline, "It justseemed right for tonight," he said, giving me a sly grin,
Predictably, our erotic hijinks did
not sit well witp motorists who
couldn't make it through the intersection, Several people who had linked
arms to stap the traffic, including astraight kid with his girlfriend, wererammed by angry drivers, ~veral ofus chased one of the offending cars, a
red Ford,' down Christopher Street,smashing its windows and lights as
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refused to ~rrest the man until thecrowd left them little choice, An exfling of mine, David, told me he had
been carried down the street on thehood of a car While the cops did nothing,
At the Monday ACf UP meeting
following the weekend I had hoped
would never end, one man actually
said we should apologize to the police
department for the broken windows,
Another wanted the group to deny
any involvement in the happenings ofthe night. A third berated
theprotesters for demanding that bar
patrons in Ty's on Christopher Street
join the march, The group eventuallycame to a consensus
that theprotesters had done the right thing,
The cops should apologize to us,

someone said,.
Later, over cheeseburgers
atTiff;iny's, we tried to make sense of
the night to no avail. I'm still not quite
sure what happened or why, Besides
everything
we have to be angry
about-theseemingly endless streamof death and violence in our commun ity-we were overcome with ragethat during our weekend, the anniversary of the most important date in lesbian and gay history, the police andthe city still don't give a shit whether
we live or die, We were "bashingback," as the front page headline of
the Sunday Post blared, Others simply
wanted to strut their stuff and sharewith the world the breathtaking joy ofbeing gay' and proud just like thoserevolting queers of 20 years ago, •, 1-';

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also featured the contributions of others, Movement in Black is an exampleof the latter, in which Parker read the
Pat Parker, Black Lesbian Poetrhythmic poem!chant/song in concert
with several Black women from each
OAKLAND, CA-Black lesbian femicommunity in, which she performed,
nist poet and health care w,orker Pat
She also often appeared in concert
Parker died of cancer here Jupe 17,
She was 45,
with her friend, the Black gay male
, Singer Blackberri.
Parker was also known for hercommitment to women's health andreproductive concerns, For ten years
beginning in 1978 she was the executive directorof the Oakland
Feminist Women's Health Center,
which among other things was oneof the first women's abortion clinics
in the country, According to one ofher co-workers,
Debbie Gregg,
Parker "was one of the people on
the forefront of the self-help andfeminist health movements, nSeveral of Parker's friends, political comrades and acquaintances all
spoke of the deep loss Parker's deathbrings to the communities
she'touched and inspired, Black lesbian,
Pat Norman, whose connection with
Parker "goes back 18 years,· said thememorial service held June 21 inConcord, California, was an amaZing
gathering of the mary people who
worked with and loved Parker. ,~lt
was incredible to see all the people
she had worked with over the years,·said Norman,
Parker leaves her lover, Marty
Dunham: and her two children,
Cassidy and Anastasia DunhamParker.
-Jennie MCKnight(reprinted from Gay Community News)

Nelson Sullivan,
41,Downtown VideoI Artist,
Photo: Marilyn Humphries

Beginning to write about her lesbia,nism in the early 1970s when few
others dared to do so, Parker
emerged as one of the first contemporary openly lesbian poets, Her pioneering work appears in several
volumes of poetry' and in othergroundbreaking
anthologies,
Herbooks of poetry include Jonestown
and Other Madness (Firebrand Books,
1985) and MoVement in Black (Diana
Press, 1978 and Crossing Press, 1983),
Womanslaughter (Diana Press, 1978),and Pit Stop (Women's
Press
Collective, 1974), and Child of Myself(Shameless Hussy Press, 1971), Her
work' also appeared in I Never Told
Anyone (Harper and Row, 1983),
Home Girls (Kitchen Table: Women ofColor Press 1983), This Bridge Called
My Back (Persephone Press, 1981),
Lesbian Poetry (Persephone
Press,
1981), and The Lesbian Path (Angel
Press, 1980), among others,
Parker's contribution to feminist,
I3lack and lesbian literatur~ extended
beyond her writings, She was also an
early participant in the women andprint movement, and contributed to
the Women's PF€SSCollective,.
In addition to her publishedwork, Parker was alsb known for her
public readings, Her performances
included reading her work solo and

If there was an open bar, a loud dance
beat, and some cross-dressers, Nelson
Sullivan was there, his video camera acumbersome yet essential extension of
his bOdy,-Nelson was the videographerof the downtown stars, voraciously
trailing the scene queens who rougedthemselves into Munsterhood, highIheeled themsc;:lves in Dr, Scholl's land"

too much and homo not enough,Southern gent Nelson, 41, diedof a heart attack on the morning of
Tuesday, July 4th, He'd just quit his,clerical job of many years and decided to concentrate on hosting a cableshow in which to showcase the fabulous oddities he lived for, But there
was somethingelse on Nelson's
mind, One of his best friends, theepigrammaticdrag diva C'hristina-Smith, had just died, and Nelson wasobsessively cataloguing her belongings while his last, brilliant tapes ofher playe~ in the background, Somesay she clutched him from beyond,but I prefer to think he willingly
joined her in order to keep on making those videos,-Michael Musto~~ri

Photo :LizzardSouffle

and carried on for his camera with theloud sense of privilege of those who
knew their excesses were finally being
appreciated, Thanks to his scrupulous
attention, Nelson's left behind a treasure
trove of late-night videos that, even,more than the Warhol diaries, trenchantly capture the party years in all theirgleeful, deCadent fun, If you're not in
one of these Videos, you've been home

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COlnlnentary

Liberte,Variete, Egalit~

stowing that name 'on City, Hall PIaza
instead,) Nor can I believe the ap·plause Koch got at the garden party,How, is he or the rest of our commuuly 14th marks the 200th an- lesbians and gays on the basis of nity or the rest of the wOfld to know
niversary of the stor.ming of "moral turpitude"; a Dallas judge gives how atrocious he has been if we~re so
the Bastille in p'aris, whichmurderers a light sentence because
cordial? I am all for trying to work
kicked off the French Revolution,
the man they killed was "just a fag- within the system, lobbying, establishFittingly, French intellectuals havegot"; the last regularly-appearing les- ing working relationships, and being
spent the greater part of the pastbian and gay" characters disappear
as effective as we possibly can, ,But
decade pondering the question: "How from the network TV airwaves; not to we've got to let it be known publicly
can one celebrate a revolution?" For in mention that the mayor, the governor,and directly when we're pissed off,
truth, to fully celebrate a revolutionary
Flattery will get us nowhere, _two preSidents, the "health" bureauspirit is to reinvent it.
cracy and the pharmaceutical industry
During the Gay Pride march, our
Heritage of Pride, Inc, obviously
continue to find it easier to let us die meg~lomaniacal mayor spoke to teledid not dwell on such matters, It than to wage a serious war. on AIDS,
vision reporters claiming credit for thebegan the Pddecelebration on June 1
The only thing we have to cele- whole event, asserting that the marchwith a mayoral photo opportunity and, brate is ourselves and each other andwould not exist if not for him, beended it on Gay Pride Day at Danceour strength against' the adversity wecause parade permits are granted at
III with "God Bless America," But (for- face, Coming out and being out are,his discretion,
tunately) there was never any possibilstill in 1989, defiant political acts, Our
No mayor or anyone else gave us
ity that fl Stonewall celebration
gay pride marches, We took
could remain so orderly andthe streets ourselves-withcomplacent.
out permits until 1985, eightThe Year 20 P,S, (Postyears into Ed Koch's mayStonewall) in Review: 200,000,oralty,
gay men mysteriously vanish
Like:vise, nobody gave•from New York by a stroke ofus gay rights legislation. We
Health Commissioner Stephen
fought harder and longer
Joseph's pen; a string of anti, than we should have had togay attacks (nothing unusual)for it-only
to have theis punctuatedby cops on
mayor exempt small homeChristopher Street comforting
owners, the Catholic church
one victim with "What do you 'and the Salvation Army fromexpect to happen when you~;W'
its requirements.
walk around looking like tbat?" Here,
pride is a defiant pride, If we are
Nobody gave us Pentar;nidin~ orwhere we have the greatest concentragoing to celebrate Stonewall, we'dGancyclovir, two drugs kno.wn fortion of lesbians and gays on the plan- better be ready to reinvent it.
several years to be effective treatments
et, we are still denied legal recogAnd so on Saturday night of Gay for people with AIDS, which the Foodnition of our relationships; the first Pride weekend, on the 20th anniverand Drug Administration has finallyCity-sponsored safer sex ads aimed at sary of the Stonewall riots, a "re-enactreleased. We have those drugs thanks
gay men appear ..,nine years into thement" transformed into a riot. As one
only to the dogged determination of
epidemic; a statement from Governor
participant in the riot noted, ''The only AIDS activists,
Mario Cuomo,' the living embodiment
miracle is that the city didn't burn
. Somewhere over the rainbow lies
down."of compassion,' understandingandthe day when Stonewall Day can be ahope, calls AIDS a "syndrome that deThere wet.e other notable eruphappy municipal celebration, Until
veloped out of people's choices"; the tions of rage and pride, I can't quite
then I'm all for celebrating, but let'sState Senate blocks (again) a bill in- ,believe that so many gay people are , celebrate-every
single day-withcreasing penalties for hate crimes ex- whining about ACf UP's disruption of enough pride to insist loudly andpressly because it covers anti-gay vio- the Mayor's Stonewall Place proclamaclearly on our rights to be whateverlence; U,S, borders are closed to the tion, (Given the years of Koch
we are and to love whomever we
HIV-infected, and are still closed to stonewalling, I myself advocate be- want.

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Political Science
Blinded by Scienceby Mark Harrington"I got the drug right here
It's called Acyclovir ...
My doc says the drug can do,If she says the drug can do
Can do can do"-"Fugue for Drug Trials"
Music-Frank Loesser
Lyc1~Ron Goldberg

Inthe early 1980s, when thestraight media was busy ignoring
the initial signs of the AIDS epidemic, Time-magazine ran a coverstory showing a bloody "H" with thewords '''Today's Scarlet Letter." A
young heterosexual couple wearing
all the trappings of wnat was about tostart being referred to as the Y-word
was shown torn between the mutual
attraction only money ca~ buy andfear of the H-word, Today such a
picture would conjure up a caption
like "He's got herpes ..,and he drinks
Johnny Walker Red!" Those of us
who knew another, deadlier virus
might possibly be loose, wondered
what Time was getting all worked
up over,
Just as the media worked itself
into a frenzy over the suddenly rampant herpes virus, a hitherto lowprofile pharmaceuticalcompany
called Burroughs- Well come introduced the first antiherpes treatment,
an expensive, non-toxic drug called
Acyclovir. Marketed und~r the brandname Zovirax, and available either inan oral pill or a topical ointment form,
Acyclovir lessens the intensity andshortens the length Hme of herpes. outbreaks, The scare tactics of Time etal. provided Burroughs-Wellcome,which was to show itself adept indeed
at turning viral epidemics into exorbitant profits, with invaluablefree
advertising:
Several viruses make up the herpes family, There are herpes simplex
viruses (HSV) 1 and 2, HSV-1 is on thelips, HSV-2 is below the hips, Then
there's herpes zoster (a.k.a, shingles),taken with AZT, because both suppress bone marrow, So some people
with AIDS have to make a cruelchoice between saving their eyesight,
or fighting their HIV, DHPG must be
taken intravenously every day for life,
so the person has to have a tube
inserted in his or her chest (a catheter)
to inject the drug,, Th~re is a new experimental drug
which treats CMV and does not havethe same toxicity as AZT, It is called
Foscarnet. But the company whichmakes Foscarnet does not want to distribute it free of charge to all the people who need it. And it, too, must be
injected daily for life, Sometimes
Foscarnet is toxic to the kidneys,,Although Acyclovir is not effective when CMV is already sightthreatening, some doctors feel it is a~----r-----.......'./ good prophylaxis (preventive treat'/;"...~. ment) against CMV, At the Fifth'.,::!:IiI"I,,~;j,ij,.J",'/'!!Iil/lldill! I~ternational Conference on AIDS in
Montreal last month, Dr. Craig
Metrokaof New York's
St.
I Luke's/Roosevelt
Hospital presented
a paper which showed that all of hispatients treated with 4800 mg of
Acyclovir a day (four pills every fourhours) were protected against disseminated CMV, Three out of ninepatients who didn't take' high-dose
Acylcovir got CMV infections,
Prevention is easier than'treatAdministration(FDA) and AIDS ment. One in four people with AIDS
activists, the FDA finafIy approved a eventually gets CMV, People with lessthan 200 T4-cells should consider taktreatment for CMV called ganciclovir
ing Acyclovir to control their herpes(DHPG), This was the first time sinceand shingles' infections and, possibly,
1962 that a new drug was approved
without 'undergoing extensive clinical to prevent CMY. Acyclovir is alreadytrials which compared it to an inactive approved for marketing, so any doctor
can prescribe it. And it's more convesubstance(a placebo),
This wasnient (a pill, not an injection) and
impossible
beql,use doctors were
unwilling to sign up' their patients for safer than the toxic, intravenous drugs
a trial in which half of them go blind available to treat CMY.And community-based research groups like New
just to prove the drug worked,
DHPG is far from a perfect drug, York's commuriity Research Initiative
It is very toxic to the bone marrow, It (CRI) should consider a trial of highlowers white blood cell counts, mak- dose Acyclovir to prevent CMV and,ing some people vulnerable to bacteri- hopefully, confirm the results of Dr,...
al infections, It usually cannot be Metroka's small study,

which starts out as the polka dot pattern called chicken pox and reappears
decades later when older people's. immune systems begin breaking down
as painful inflammation along the nervous pathways of the skin, In theearly 1980s, herpes zoster first showed
up on younger people too, often as
an early sign of the immune breakdown which leads to AIDS, Finally
there's a virus called cytomegalovirus(CMV), which usually coexists inconspicuously in the human body. In
people with fewer than 100 T4-cells,
however, CMVcan grow rapidly in theeye, the lungs and the gut, leading toblindnesd, pneumonia or diarrhea,
In 1989, after a titantic struggle
betweenthe Food
and Drug..

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Positive Alternative~
The ,FDA's War Dn Food Supplements,

I

by Bob Lederer
germ oils and certain nuts and seeds,
Studies show that' CoQ/10 can dramatically increase production of effector
cells, including macrophages
andmonocytes, which are key to fighting
off microbes and are depletedin
PWAs, CoQ/10 is also an antioxidant-attacking
by-productsof
immune reactions which damage
effector cells, Phase I trials (tests for
toxic effects), conducted under FDA
rules, have shown no toxicity,. C~0/10
Coenzyme-Q/10
is one of several
nutrients related to vitamins E and K,
It is found in soy, corn and wheat

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Germanium (GE-132)
Germanium is a trace mineral foundin high concentrations
in-amongother plants-garlic,aloe vera,,chiorella (a sea: algae), ginseng, watercress and shiitake
mushrooms.
Germanium has been shown to stimulate prodUction _of gamma interferon,an important immune component.
Twenty years ,of researcb (especiallyin Japan) have increasingly shown its
value in cancer treatment as an antitumor agent, and studies are underway with PWAs in Japan, No toxicity
has ever been found,

Besides health food stores, several
AIDS ,buyers clubs are selling bothsupplements (only some brands wereaffected by the seizures), Preliminary
reports show some PWAs taking them
are experiencing energy increases andsome symptom alleviations, The FDA
calls both substances "unsafe foodaddictives" and accuses the tnanufac-,turers of making "unsubstantiatedmedical claims," A typical example(among the few products that carryany claims at all) is that germanium"stimulates
thebody's immune system," But"unsafe" turns out to mean
"not yet proven to be safe."and "unsubstantiated" means"thereare no federally.~: approved studies that support.' such claims," according to Dr.
Forrest Nielson, director oftheAgriculture
Dept.'s
Research Service,
But "federal approval"
has almost
never
been
bestowed on studies of nutritional supplements, because~f the FDA's anti-supplement
bias, This, stems, from whatmany independent obs<;!rvers,
call the agency's' entrenclledrole as defender of the giant
pharmaceutical corporations,To accept evidence that supplements can play a role indi~ease treatment could seriously
undermine the highly-lucrative drug
market.
Nationaily,
groupsof AIDS
activists, health 'advocates, and supplement manufacturers are planning legal
action, lobbying and grassroots pressure to change FDA policy, To makeyour voice heard, write or call:Commissioner
Frank Young, FDA,
5600 Fishers lane, Rockville, MD
20857, (301) 443-2410, For more information (including medical references),
call the ACT UP Alternative
andHolistic Treatment Subcommittee at(212) 533-8888,'Y

The New York Native's Personal Agenda
by Ann Giudici Fettner

EDITOR'SNOTE: Lauded and praised for its extensive and accurate AIDS coveragein the first years of the epidemic (while much of the mainstream media was stillsilent), the New York Native began to come under attack - both from within thegay and lesbian community and from the scientific community - in the mid-80s
when the newspaper vigorously began espousing various, theories about thecause(s) of AIOS while, angrily rejecting HIV as the causative. factor (HIV, or humanimmunodeficiency virus, is the virus be!ieved by most researchers to cause AIDS), ,Soon, the Native was rejecting the entire _premise of AIDS asa disease, (Indeed,
AIDS is often put in quotation marks when printed in the Native, as a gesture of disbelief,) The newspaper has also rejected ,and stopped reporting about various'
treatments for AIDS, and has vehemently attacked some, such as AZT therapy.
Instead, the Native has promoted Typhoid vaccine (a treatment based on the belief
that AIDS is really syphilis) and various other'unproven therapies. Many in the gay
and lesbian community have become outraged, going' so far as to accuse theNative of murdering people with misinformation, These critics view the newspaper
as an opportunistic infection itself, feeding off of the desperate, Some, however,though they ~ay criticize the Native's politicization of the cause(si of AIDS, havecommended the paper for focusing on alternative causative factors and treatments.
Writer and reporter Ann Giudici Fettner wrote one of the first books on the cri·sis, The Truth About AIDS: Evolution of an Epidemic (Holt, Rinehart & Winston), in
1984. She covered the AIDS crisis for the New York Native from 1985through mid·
1986, Fettner has since written for the Village Voice, Redbook and National
G,eographic, Her second book" Virus: Agents of Change (McGraw-Hili), will be
published next spring,W

hile
far-right-wing
looney-tuners
chooseto explain the AIDS
pandemic as God's punishment, at theother extreme - so far around that .it
has come full circle to take an evenmore disingenuous position '- areCharles Ortleb and his subsidized
newspaper, the New York Native,
I've said nothing much about
Ortleb since he fired me in the summer of 1986 for refusing to follow his
fantasies, thinking that he'd run out ofsteam or venom or whatever 41 is thatdrives him, And since those whowrite for and about him have been
ca'r~ful to avoid any attribution to myalmost two years of reporting on AIDS
for the Native (shades of Shilts), I
thought: Well, hell, let sleeping dogs
lie. But on a recent panel, whencharged by a man with AIDS that his
paper was killing people, Ortleb
snide\y replied, "Maybe you'd just better start your own paper, n I realized it
July 17, 198931

was time to open my mouth, If he
isn't concerned with the affects of his
rag oli its readers, then what's heafter?
He said it himself from the, stage:"I'm going for the gold," Again, Withyet another contrived theory, this one
revolving around a "virus-like particle"
first described in 19~6 which, like virtually all else that crosses his line-of, ,view, is merely another disguise for
his African swine fever virus, which
only infects pigs, Like a piece ofboiled ham, the longer Ortleb chews
on his pig virus, the bigger it becodtes
in his mouth,'

Insistence on irrational connections
Once Ortleb decided that his role wasto be the AIDS messiah ("you shouldtape my calls as an historic document," he used to urge me) with thenotion that an obscure animal virus
would turn out to be the cause, he, began to perceive himself as larger
than life, free to transcend all rules of-AIDS MESSIAH ?
The N.Y. Native's Charles Ortleb
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as-carriers of ASFV (or IllY), has longdecent behavior. "What!" he screams
since
fallen by the wayside, Ortleb
wheri call'ed to account for yet anoth,had
once
assigned the massive deaths
er broken guarantee, a bit of rudeness
of
seals
over
the past several\years toor his lack of concern for a balanced
ASFV(caninedistemper was eventualview of important issues, "What! You
ly
found
to
be the cause of the
expect me to worry about that? Don't
deaths),Thenthere was the dolphin
you understand that we're in the midstory (don't ask!).
And AIDS-asdle of an epidemic and that I can't
syphilis, also an Ortleb claim, except
worry about ethics!"
Critics speak and write th,at for enriching its principai proponents,
Ortleb "believes" this or that about the II is still syphilis,
The desperate, the adventitious,
cause(s) of AIDS, but the use' of thethose
who ;Were behind the door
word "believes" - which implies
when
AIDS
became the big fundingauthenticity - is suspect in the face
teat,
and
the
scientifically uninformed,of the revolving "causes" of AIDS hehaveallfollowed
Ortleb's lead, allowhas espoused, His original legitimateing
hisbizarrebids
for attention toquestioning of various aspects of the
skew
their
judgment.
Inthe hope' thatdisease has degenerated into an insissomeone
important
wouldtake thetence on irrational
connections
bait
and
sue
him
for
libel,
therebygetbetween African swine fever virus
tinghim
noticed(healwayssaid
to(ASFV) and AIDS as one after the
me,
"This
will
get
their
attention!"),inother of his propositions and claims
have failed to pan out. After five the fantasy tha~ the hall,S of scienCe
wait trembling for his next demand or
years, this pig virus theory has gone
pronouncement, Ortleb has slopped
nowhere,causedno, epizootic,
his theories over the very people he
Another Native brainstorm, mosquitosclaims to be championing,
But if there is no belief involved,
what makes this Sammy run? Personal
ambition, of course, and his need tobe' in the limelight. But, h is theme
also seems always to be based on his
strange identification
with Robert
Gallo, M,D" chief of the Laboratory ofTumor Cell Biology of the National
Cancer Institute, who for years has
been the un<;ierlying focus of Ortleb's
angst. No matter where, a story comesfrom or where it goes, it always seems
to revolve around Gallo, ,Examples ofthis are legion, as in the recent compilation of Ortleb's "powerful me" jlrticles concerning
Army pathologist
Shyh-Ching Lo's "virus-like particle,"
Ortleb thought he'd struck goldwhen he said that Lo's virus causes
AIDS, Swell: What is it and who's.
seen it? Almost three years ago the
New York Times' Lawrence Altman ran
a froot pag~ story about the most preliminary kind of b~sic research on a"virus-like particle" (VLP) found, inpeople with AIDS, What could ,.thePhoto: Phil Zwickler
Native do with that? Claim it's African

Swine Fever Virus (ASFV) and that
Surgeon General C, Everett Koop
"hand-carried" the paper about it to
the most hard-nosed of publishers,
Arthur Reiman of the New England
Journal of Medicine, When the journal
didn't print this most basic piece' of
research, Qrtleb pr~dictably claimed
that Gallo's influence prevented publication, This ignores the fact that thejournal publishes ,only ciinical studies.
Not molecular biology or virology or
chemistry: clinical studies, perIod,
Even Lo's supporters criticize his.
refusal to. share information about
whatever it is he's found which,before last year's International AIDS
Conference,
the Native headlined
would
cause
a "ShowdowninStockholm," Lo's two posters (sections of meetings at the conference
devoted to scientists wno present theirmaterials in the form of wall posters)
attracted little ,attention; those wholooked were indifferent,
Maybe Lohas something important. No one yetknows, The most that Lo has everclaimed to have is a yirus-like agent
that "may represent a new opportunistic 'infectionin these sev,erelythat the National
Cancer Institute(NCr) wanted thereagents:
At myurging to Gallo,John
Beldekes(one of the three
original ASFV proponents) had been
invited to bring
ASFV materials to
Gallo's lab where
he spent the better
part of the day inserious conference -HAND CARRIED- PAPERS AND STRANGE IDENTIFICATIONS
with the five NCI National Cancer Institute's Robert Gallo
Photo: NCI
researchers,' I had
set up the Beldekes-Nq meeting to . -Gay misbehavior diseasehelp clarify whether or not ASFVcould The Native has heralded the "work" ofbe playing a role in AIDS, Now, if a Peter Duesberg, a microbiologist atnegative comparjson of one virus to the Universityof California
atanother represents "findings" thatBerkeley, who contends that HIV isrequire publicatIon, we'd need more
not the cause of AIDS, As recently asthan the, present world glut o( 40,~a ,few weeks ago on Tony Brown's
science journals, Plain and simple, the Journal he was still blathering aboutdata was irrelevant. There was nothing"life-styles" and making snide alluto pUblish, Muddying the waters with sions to prodlgious numbers of sexual
specious juxtapositions of fantasies andcontacts of gay men who are infectedgossip attributed to his always-anony- to the amusement of his straight,
mous "Washington
sources"fitsBlack studio audience,
Ortleb's agenda, which he's'
One could be charitable and saystated many times: tGallo is a that Duesberg doesn't know enoughThe
thief,"
about diseases in human systems to'Commonsensically,the
avoid his flagrant inaccuracies,Oradventitious, and,idea that some giant decepone could, be uncharitable,
as I
the uninformed
tion or global mistake is being
became after several conversations
have all follovved
made about tHe identification
with him and watching him p~omulof HIV as the prime mover in ,gate the "gay misbehavior disease~'
Ortleb's lead.
AIDS is ludicrous, The infer- syndrome by deliberately ignoring theence is that the thousands of situa~ion in Africa, transfusions,,immuncx:omprom,iSed patients, or aninternational scientists working onhemophiliacs, infants and ~ven theagent which plays a more fundamenAIDS are covering for Gallo, far from tra.nsmission in Australia of HIV bytal role as a cofactor in the process
the most popular of researchers,
artificial insemination of 'semen ftom
"aSSOCiatedwith infection with HIV,"
Given the animosity between Gallo
an infected donor,~sing Gallo's name to~end an and 'many at the Pasteur Institute in
Duesberg's
Simplistic caveats I~
inferred credibility to his ASFV theoParis - one o( the foremost AIDS about complex issues are almost ludiries again and again, last year the
research facilities in the world - is it crous, For instance, one of his stan-Native stated that "Gallo has requested
conceivable that even they would pro- dard "proofs" against HIV is that nomaterials from the U,S. Department of mulgate such a deception if it existed? one has yet been able to show the
Agriculture to determine whether his The Pasteur Institute depe~ds on themechanisms by which the virus does
DNA virus is African swine fever
income generated from its patients- to such extensive dam~ge, Today, 100
virus" and that "Gillo has yet to pubsurvive - they're deliberately workyears after Pasteur devised the firstlish the results of his findings." What ing on the wrong virus? Good grief!
vaccine against rabies, no one has
Ortleb ignored was the real reason
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Genre Queen:
I,Charles Busch Battles the Nazis
by Terry Helbing

Brace yourself, New York:,
actor-playwrightCharlesBusch is about to jolt you'out of your summ~r doldrums with'another of his clever genre parodies,and many people think this one is his
funniest yet. The Lady in Question, asatire of those melodramatic WorldWar II anti-Nazi films, begins previews
this week at the Orpheum Theater,
after a successful showcase last winterat the WPA, Theater, Just as in theearly days of Busch's Theater-m-Limbo
company, whe,n shows were done ona shoestring - or perhaps g-string budget at the Limbo Lounge, Buschwrote this play recognizing the exigencies of this particular prOduction
situation, a sort of :all the news thatfits to print" scavenger-hunt approacb
to, playwriting, •, For the play in question, Buschincorporated a once-used ball gown,
another playwright's leftover set, andsome promiseS he owed to his regular
troupe of actors, After working at
Goodspeed Opera House fast year
writing a new book for the vintage
musical, Ankles Aweigh, the first project Busch had written and not actedin, he discovered "that I identified
more with being a performer than a'writer," and he wanted to do a showwith his company again, "just for thepleasure of it." But "the Limbo Lounge
had gone back to being a garage
again and we needed a place ,to put
on play.\'." A dinner with Kyle Renick,artistic director of WPATheater, solvedthat problemj a big fan of Busch's, hewanted him to dq a show at his the-34

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THE LADY IN QUESTIONBusch as Gertrude Gamet

Photo: IL. Boston

and homophobiC, You could corner
1985, I really paid thosethe market playing drag queen slashdues, doing my one-man
ers or cabaret owners or boutiqueshow, traveling aroundowners or drug addicts, I didn't want
the country,
playingthese bizarre places, The to do that. I'd rather not be on 1V at
low point was trying to all, I'm not just desperate for footage,
Theater is my first love, so to playearn a livingj I nevermade enough money to some' humiliating bit doesn't mean
last during the lean peri- that much to me, Sometimes whencasting directors call me in, having'ods, I was an office
seen me or heard about me, I'm not at
temp, a qUick-sketch
all what they imagined, but I'm justportrait artist for years,
the boy next door who happens toworking tent shows,
put on a dress, I look younger andrenaissance fairs, I did
psychic portraits for a, less decadent and less peculiar thanwhile where I'd go to they imagine, If I do ever get into
work, it would be a dream of mine toparties and have to draw
you as you were in your :Write something that I could ad in,and do it on my own terms,"•
previous
life-I
just
Having come to prominence.
made them up, I did
doing ~ series of genre-parody. shows,
portraits at bar mitzvahs,
Busch is well aware of being comHalloween parties, weddings, I worked in a pared to another Charles, the 'latejeans store, I sold encyl- 'Charles Ludlam: "Last time, withSTRIKING A UBIDINOUS POSE
Photo: Il. Boston cope d'las, I so Id hot ty pe- Psycho Beach Party, it was twomonths after Ludlam died, and sinceater, "I had gone to this big drag ball, writer ribbons on the. telephone-I
continuld on PIIGI 56
Night of 1,000 Gowns, and I had this did it all. I worked lunches atfabulous 1940s gown made, I paid a Schrafft's for three days, and that was
LOW PRICED PREVIEWS
Jortune .for it, and it bugged me that I the worst."
BEGIN fRI, JU~Y \4 AT arM
wasn't going to get any more mileage
Things are better for Busch now,
ALL SEATS $15.00!
[OPENS JUIl' 2S1
out of it. I always thought the dress
but he is remarkably unchanged byscreamed Barbara Stanwyck, With that his success, He no longer needs toin mind, I said to Kyle, 'What do you have a roommate to help pay the rent,
think about a 1940s anti-Nazi war
but he continues to ,liv.e in his same
melodrama?' and he loved that geQre, West Village apartment, though he has
too,"fixed it up a little bit." He's still a
1St"When we went to look at the
funny, friendly, unassuming individu., ,f
WPA, they were doing Larry Kramer's ai, who, in some ways, wasn't pre+Just Say No, and there was this fabu- pared for the changes that successlous set: a staircase" a second level,
brought to his professional life: "Myseven doors, and this' portrait with a dream was not to win the Oscar, butsafe behind it, and I said, 'Don't tear it just to earn a living in theater, When
down, we'll use it.' I rewrote the play
Vampires opened, I found I could
around the setj it's integral to the plot make a living in 'the show business,' .
now,".
I got an agent."Busch
enjoysthis "recipe"
His agent handles Busch both as
approach to playwriting: "In a way, it a writer and as an actor, "but I got
makes it easier: I never havr to face very grand when I signed with themthis blank page," But things were not and said that I didn~t ever, ever wantalways that easy for Busch, who lived to be submitted for any role involving
hand-to-mouth
prior to his successdrag because almost everything I've
with Vampire Lesbians of Sodom in ever seen on TV and in movies
1985: "I had such a hard time from involving drag-unless it's Tootsie for
1976, when I graduated college, to Dustin' Hoffman-is totally degrading

film,._t.""'~

CHAm~
BuSCH
.

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GAYSEll
..

.

•

OF

MY

HANDS

O

UT

BY BRADLEY

BAI~L

Dear Brad,
Like so many other people, I
never thought I'd be writing to you
but, quite frankly, my psychiatrist has
been next to useless on this particularmatter. For the past yearTve been sortof seeing "Harry" on an irregularbasis, Every four weeks or so, when
his work schedule allows, he calls me
up and we go out to dinner, That's all
perfectly fine and I truly enjoy hiscompany but after a year of this I had'kind of hoped we would have progressed beyond dinner, if you knowwhat I mean, But "Harry" seems comfortable with this arrangement and I'mafraid of raising the issue for fear of
risking' humiliation in a pUblic setting
and losing his company altogether, On
the .other hand, my 29th birthday is ina couple of weeks ,and I ~on't know
how many good years I have left onme, My psychiatrist says that as longas I continue to evade the subject itwill remain at a stanpstill, What doyou say?
STA~LED ON FREEWAY ~F LOVE

By Michelangelo

Signorile

Things were different back then,Of course, I'd probably been to
800 events previous to that night.
But I'd had nothing else to do, andwhen a party had a free din'ner
attached to it, you simply didn't missit regardless of how jaded you were,
Besides, I needed copy for my nightclub column.
What had begun as so,mething
fun and sOrt-of-part-time, had become

38 'July 17, 1989

Dear Stalled,
Well, of course your p~ychiatrist
is paid to say things like that. I would
probably say the same thing if I wereever paid anything, Since, however, I
am not paid, my advice is as follows:
You and "Harry" need to, change some
aspect of this routine into which you
both have settled, comfortably or otherwise, and the easiest thing tochange is your choice of restaurants,
Let me suggest, Le Moulin de Mougins
in Mougins, France (a mere 8 kilome-'ters outside of Cannes), It's a sure bet, that as you dine on the splepdid
Provencal Cuisine offered there
particularly recommend the fricasee of
spiny lobster with pink peppercorns)
and gaze at the stunning Muhl paintings on the walls, you'll find_the conversation turning more, shall we say,intime especially if conductedin
French, (Vraiment, even a shopping
list sounds more romantic in /a bette
langeI)! Should everything
go as
hoped, you'll be delighted to knowthat Le Moulin also serves as an inn,with five ,charming rooms overlooking
the gardens. Book well) in advanceand give my regards to Roger andDenise!

amy entire life and livlihood at thelime, Oh, it wasn't entirely, because
I'd blown some thick-dicked editor in
the back of a cab. I had known mystuff, too. I had been a publicist. And
then I was given my own pa'rty column, where I could blow poison on
anyone who got in my way,
This is a tru<;! story,
I was seated next to Him, And
actually, I was quite amazed at how
everyonewanted ~o know Him
because He had one of those society
names, I, quite frankly, abhored thissort, But hey, He was sweet.
I told Him He should become a gossip
columnist Himself. He glared at me
and then winked.
<:Who would know that he'd go,on to be that year's columnist.), We laughed abQut the dinner,both of us. thinking the host, Peter
Stringfellow, to be one, of the tackiest
people in New York City, , And; ofcourse, all of my columnist friends
were chattering, giggling and pointin~

Dear Brad,
You think you know a person
and then you realize that you don't
know her at all, My lover, Willie, ist!,!rrific, She's smart and funny andenormously talented but last week,
when we were playing Parcheesi, I
caught her cheating, She denied it andjust said she'd made a mistake counting the spaces, but after that I kept aclose eye on her and she kept dOing
it. Now I wonder if she's been cheating all along (she frequently wins),
Suddenly it's, as though she's becomea stranger to me. What else has she
been hiding? Might a woman who
cheats at Parcheesi also cheat on me?
DUBIOUS

Dear Dubious,, Nonsense! The issue here is not
Willie's cheating at Parcheesi but thefact that she let you catch her cheating, This is so obViously a desperate
cry for help, Let her know you understand, Show her, in a non-judgmental
way, that if it is possible to win at thegame with an effective strategy (forinstance, a well-placed blockade cankeep your opponent stymied longcontinued on page 58

at me, I was that bleached blonde
one, again doing bleached-blonde
kind of things,
I asked Him if he wanted to go
dancing,
We sat on a couch at Savage, thepulsating rhythm and flOWIng champagne forcing our bodies to gyrate,
our mouths to become stuck,
There was a columnist from San
Francisco's Bay Area Reporter lurking
in t.he shadows, But who could careless in those moments of passion,
Besides, I was drunk (why dse
would I even be doing this?),The next week in the Bay Area
, Reporter'S gossip column, I read that
I (in boldface, no less!) was having"bridge-and-tongue work performedon the couch by a tall, dark stranger,"Yes, it's a sleazy business, One
mome'nt of indiscretion and you're
gloriously smeared across the front
pages.
,And how ironic that I should be
dished, and He remain a "stranger, TnFilmWorking the Cliche
by Tim AUis,.

LETHAL WEAPON II. Directed by
Richard Donner, Written by Jeffrey
Boam, Producedby Richard
Donner and Joel Silver, Released byWarner Brothers"Unlike th: first go round, inLethalWeapon II Mel
Gibson doesn't show his
ass, For those of you who are stillreading-;-both, of you-I can't offer'
any explanation, just commiseration,
His parading his posterior in Lethal
one, was, after all, a highlight. Veryhigh, Very light. Oh, never mind,
Maybe Mel's shy,
Bringing up the rear isn't easy
.and Le/hal Weapon II isn't quite as
good as its o'riginal, even if you(somehow) manage to forget about
Mel's ass, But it's damn close, andthat's saying a lot. If you shun action'films and didn't see it, the beauty of
Lethal Weapon was its near-perfect
blend of bash 'em, smash 'em, chase'em, waste 'em and sharp, funny characterizations, It was an action filmwith soul, swear to God, swear toGod, Danny Glover played a familyman cop who plays by the book, Mel
Gibson was a heavy drinking, maniacal renegade cop, depressedandcrazed because his wife was offed by'bad guys, Of course they became
reluctant partners. In the hands ofGI?ver and Gibson,
this cliche
worked. They beat the buddy film
odds, with great thanks to a crisp , MORE CHEMISTRY THAN MOST SCREEN 'COUPLES
script and clever, funny dialogue by (I-r) Danny Glover and Mel Gibson.
Jeffrey Boam (who wrote Indiana
possesses more chemistry than most no longer seems poised to kill himJones and the ,Last Crusade),
self-juste,veryone else, Glover's
romantic screen couples, Gibson's
Superman director Richard Donner
Roger Murtaugh looks constantly
character Martin Riggs has stopped
made every frame count.
late 80s-and has shift- pained, the only person I can think of
The team is back to good effect, drinking-thecontinued on page 58
and the pairing of Gibson and Glover ed from scary crazy to wild crazy, He
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TheaterJudas'
Betrayalby Michael PallerRobert Patrick is one of ourmost fiercely intelligent playwrights,
His,learningembraces almost every sort of exegesis from the Bible t9 Hollywood musicals; at the same time, he feels deeply
about, his subjects and characters, His'dialogue, at its best, is highly polishedand carries a powerful emotionalcharge, At the top of his form, he pro. ,duces plays like Kennedy's Children,which is sharp and poignant, andcycles ,such as the recent Untold
Decades, a virtuoso exercise which portrays, inseven different theatricalstyles, the gay experiencein America throughout
most of this century,
Judas, currently playing at the Bouwerie Lane
Theater' as part of the
Dramatic Risks Company's
Downtown
SummerTheater Festival, demonstrates that while most
plays suffer from a paucityof good ideas, a play withtoo many of them is equally problematic, Some ofPatrick's good qualities areon display; what is missing,
however, is that necessary
inner voice which, when it
senses that the playwrightis ,straying from his theme,
cries out, "Enough!"
Judas is a revisionist
version of the events leading up to the crucifixion,
Jesus (Steve Cea) is a troubled young
man not'
entirely certain he's up to
the burdens placed on
him by the followers of-'John the Baptist and by
his mother, an anti-Romanzealot (Carol Nelson), On
the' other hand, he is

Photo: Cheung Ching Ming
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shrewd enough to moldhis actions and words to-the old messianic prophecies and tomanipulate his supporters and opponents into fitting them, too, Judas
Iscariot ~LaurenceAddeo)'is animpressionable'student
being
groomed by Pontius Pilate, for service
in the Roman bureaucracy, A tolerant, 'sophisticated Roman, Pilate (played byPatrick himselO wishes people wouldstop separating themselves into class-'
es, races and religions and become,one and all, happy citizens of the
Empire: Rome, after all, represents
rationality and order,
The problem is that the play has
no focus: Patrick overloads it with too
many ideas, At the outset, it seems as
if the play wants to be about its title
character's struggle to choose between
power in this life and salvation in the
next. Along the way, however, Patrick
detours into several other areas ofinterest to him, A measure of theplay's uncertainty lies in the fact thatwhile it is called Judas, the character
Patrick is really in'terested in" and theone with all the best speeches, isPilate. Judas himself is a passive char-'acter, pulled first this way by Pilate,then that way by Jesus, We n~ver
learn what it is that causes him to dowhat he eventually does,
If there's such a thing as a play ofideas (a dubious proposition), thenthis may be the one. Judas offers
detailed explanations not only of religion, 'but also of politics and economics, Unfortunately, a play filledwith ideas has little room left over forcharacters who exist independently of
the philosophy the playwright preaches, and Judas r;eveals Patrick in apreaching'vein,
As a result, the play consists of long,shapeless scenes, the points of which arelost in dialogue which is far from Patrick's
best, sounding at times like Hollywood
epic talk, Often, it is too complex for theactors to speak dearly, or for the audience
to understand the ftrSt and only time they
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OperaS'Natchez on
the Ni,leby George HeymontO

ne of the wonderful things
about being a writer is that,every now and then, an
opportunity presents itself which is
too -good to ignore, Last fall, I accompanied the Houston Grand Opera's
production of Nixon in China to the
Edinburgh Festival. Come September,
I'll be participating in a white-waterrafting excursion down the Colorado
River, ,wn:lt makes Tag-A-Long Tours'
whitewater trip different from anyother? In 1988, as part of a benefit
excursion for the Portland Opera, theynoat~d down the Colorado River witha group of opera singers and a
Stein way piano, Soprano Pamela
South tells me th~t singing under thestars in Canyonlands National Park
(and hearing her voice ricqchet off thecanyon walls) was enough to makeher skin crawl.
This year Miss South (a graduateof the Merola Program and a former
Affiliate Artist with the San Francisco
Opera) will head down the Colorado
River again, accompanied by J~rome
Hines, myself and several others
whose idea of roughing it usually
goes no further than a Hilton, If
you're interested in joining us, caB(800) 45~-3292 for further information,

50n to accompany Show Boat to Egypt
tures of goodwill) most of the nations
with consulates or embassies in Egypt was to see how the arts can serve as ahave been sending representative arts bridge between two cultures,
Traveling with an opera compagroups from their countries to Cairony puts a special tint' on things,
during the theater's first year in operaBecause the Ramses Exhibit was
tion,
opening at the Dallas Art Museum
When the United States Infortwo nights after Show Boat premiered
mation Agency heard about HGO's
impending revival of Show Boat, gov- in Cairo, HGO's visit was officially,dubbed "Texas in Egypt Week," As aernment
personnel
decided that
Jerome Kern's clasSic Broadway musi- result, the Cairo Marriott (which was
cal would be the perfect piece of , hosting the company) went wild withhospitality, The hotel's catering staff'Americana to' represent the United
built a mock Shpw Boat boarding
States: After endless negotiations,ramp in'front of Omar's 24-hour cafe,
HGO's personnel
left Texas onturned one of its restaurants into a'
February 22nd aboard an Egyptair
747, That same day, I used a TWA "Texas Longhorn Steakhouse" andFrequent Flyer award to fly from San offered Tex-Mex buffets-completetheFrancisco to Cairo so that I could join with blue-corn tortilla chips-in
hotel's ·branch of the Roy Rogers
the company on its international
odyssey, Ironically, Houston's music 'restaurant, If it all sounds crazy, try
to imagine what it's like to order acritics expressed no desire to accom"South of the Border Burger" whilepany Show Boa~ to Cairo, claimingth'at since th~y had already seen the ,wading through a ten-hour time difference and looking up at a waiter
production at th~ Wortham Center,
there was nothing else they needed to who's dressed in a red gingham shirt,
write about it. What these ,critics failed blue jeans and cowboy hat while
sporting a name tag that says "Hi, I'm
to realize was that ,the performanceT
itself was not the story---:-thereal rea- Mohammed'"o PATRIA MIO!
Of all the oddball opeljltic excursions
I've ever embarked on, 1989's trip to
Egypt with the Houston
Grand
Opera's productionof Show Boatranks as the most amaZing by far, To
replace Cairo's original opera house(which burned down during the mid1970s), Japan donated, designed andbuilt a brand new, $65-million performance facility for the Arab Republic of
Egypt. As a result, this season (as ges-

"TEXAS IN EGYPT WEEK"

Left to Right White, Lambert. Bracken, firestone and Hope in Show BoBt.
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Cabaret
Heidi
Mollenhauer',and Barbara
Lea

and Harold Arlen's "Accentuate thePositive,"
Poignancy enters with "Corner ofHeartache and Loneliness," an obscur~tune by Dennis Andropolis, It is herethat Mollenhauer, who seems most
vocally comfortable in her lower register, catches fire, Backed by RickJensen on keyboards, she caresses
each lyric tenderly, sparing her pain
by Jonn Wasser
and bringing her audience closer to
her tortured soul. It's an amazing feat.
Mollenhauer's is not a huge voice
e:di Mollenhauer, already a like Liza Minnelli :or even Leslie
Uggams, but she possesses a striking
cabaret veteran' at the ripe
vibrato which works well in the stillage of twenty-two,hasreturned to Eighty-Eights for a series to-be expanded .upper register, Sheparallels "Puttin' on the Ritz" withof Wednesday evening performances,"Money Money" from the film Cabaret
Looking quite the high class chanteuse'to great results, "Makin' Whoopee"
in a sleek charcoal outfit, Mollenhauer
finds her thin frame slinking atop theoften dazzles during her 60 minutepiano arching her eyebrows and smilact.
ing seductively,The
singer,who
recently
Stephen Sondheim's "Steps of theappeared
Off-Broadway
in AMAS
Palace" demonstrates there's a solid
Repertory's Prizes, easily demonstrates
why s,he has developed such a loyal musical comedy actress awaiting discovery, Evo~ing a ,regal presence via afollowingamong
thecabaretcognoscenti. She opens "{ith.a vividly crown placed squarely atop her head,
Mollenha'uer
maneuvers
herself.' dramaticinterpretationof Carly
through the complicated lyrics, while
Simon's "Give Me All Night" andqUickly switches gears, giving us a creating a character equally at home at
Buckingham Palace or on stage at theplayful rendition of Johnny Mercer
Martin Beck :rbeater where the song isheard e.ight times per week.
She excels in quiet, sweet songs,
ones which make excellent use of her
dramatic abilities, Rick Crom's wistfulballad, "To Love an Artist," received a1 bittersweetinterpretation, as did the
Heyman/Levant standard, "Blame It
On My Youth," I just wished
Mollenhauer would hold back the
final tears, They detracted from thefinal result. Rick Jensen's lyrical "After
All Those Love Songs" closed the set.
Jensen's contributions should not
be casually ignored, Besides providing
two exceptional songs (which some~one, most likely Mollenhauer, should
record), he's a deft piano player and
A SOLID MUSICAL ACTRESS AWAITING
background singer. Mollenhauer is
DISCOVERY.
lucky
to have him by her side
Heidi Mollenhauer
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Jan Wallman, the doyenne of thecabaret scene, has been loyal toBarbara Lea for good reason, The
smokey-voiced
jazz singer knows
how to put' over a song, She has built
a, steady follOWing and can be seen
Saturdays
throughout
Julyat
Wallm,an's eponymous
West 44th
Street baite,
One never knows what to expectfrom Lea, Often, she'll devote her set to
the works of one composer; George
Gershwin one evening, Alec Wilder, thenext The night I caught het: act, she had
engaged j;izz trumpeter Richard Sudhalter
as her musical sidekick alongside regular
accompanist, the wondeJfuI vces McAfee,
The trio wound their way through amelange of standards to varying results.
Lea opened with smooth andtender renditions of "Building Up toan Awful Letdown" and "Love's Got
Me in a Lazy Mood," setting theevening's relaxed atmosphere, Hermaterial is ripe with melancholicpaeans to love or time gone by, The
best of these is "September Song,",
Kurt Weill's homage to aging gracefully, Lea eloquently captures the
song's combinationof pathos andhope with a fine storytelling sense,
She imparts a sexiness to "I Got,a Right to Sing the Blues." The juxtaposition works well but, unfortunately, it's marred by Sudhalter's muchtooshrilltrumpetsolos,"Summertime" is another song whichveers out of control when Sudhalter's
trumpet joins the fold, In the future,
he'd be best to limit his solos,
While there are moments ofsheer enjoyment, the act's major flaw
is its predictability, One waits patiently for Lea to let loose but the
moment never arrives, One would
welcome several up-tempo numbers
to create some balance, Nevertheless,her fans didn't mind, Upon my
departure, I overheard some say 'they
would be staying for the late show,
How often can a Singer claim such
devotion?
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open-ended run, at Counyard
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topics to be addressed atpresents'a Forum: "AIDS: A
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from page 33

been able to determine h<;>wthat
virus kills virtua.lly everyone infected, given its relatively minor effects
on the nervous system,
Another of Duesberg's favorite
smokescreens is his statement that,since HIV-infected people haveantibodies, they should be protected, While the lay public connects
the presence of antibodies withprotection,
any scientist should'
know that many viral infections
produce high levels of inactive or
inefficient antibodies, By no means
is everything
known about theeffects of the ~any slow and persistent viruses on the individual:
autoirmune'phenomenon, sometimes toxic effects of the antibodies
themselves and, 'in, HIV, probably
the impact of apparently poisonousenvelope protein, all contribute to__________________

Gallo as is Ortleb,
Why was Duesberg's
paper
ignored for so long? Because the lackof knowledge about AIDS and HIV it
displayed is so monumental that it's
like the Peanuts cartoon, in ,which
Lucy is explaining to Li,?us that thereason leaves fall from trees is "to getaway from the squirrels,·Charlie
Brown stands to,one side bent over inpain: "Auuuugh! That makes my stomach hurt!"
Despite the multitude of grossinaccuracies,
and in the face ofDuesberg's continuing indictment of
the gay community, he's been ferociously championed by the Native's
venemous "Pulitzer Prize-quality" ego,lottn Lauritson,
This positions
Duesberg as a Native hero on a parwith Mark Whiteside, the mosquito
champ of Belle Glade, Florida, andwriter for Lyndon laRouche's

publications,Year's after
They're deliber- , Whiteside's
claim of AIDS
,ately v,iC?rkingon being caused by somearbovirus (insect-transmitted
the \Nrong virus? ,virus) was shown to' be a
non-issue - if only because'
Good Grief!
,

the progression of di,sease in thisand many similar animal infections,
Then there:s Duesberg's proposition that, with so few cells found'to be infected in people with AIDS,, it's impossible for such a scanty'virus to cause the disease. But it is, ,a 'general observation in chronicviral infections, such as visna andmeasles, that only 0,1 to 1.0 percent
of cells in any tissue contain viral
genetic information,
Duesberg's much-touted original paper included AIDS only
because "they told me you have to
put AIDS into any paper about cancer today," Actually, he has yet to
do any work with HIV~ and has
instead spent his time generating
publicity for himself, Once respected for his work on cancer-causing
viruses, Duesberg apparently is as, fixated on getting a response out of50

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July 17,1989I

the children of migrant workers and African 6-12-yearolds aren't infected - and despite hiscooperation with flagrantly homophobic forces, Ortleb has refused to
expose Whiteside as a third-rate headline grabber, And he's certainly neverrevealed that Whiteside's "Institute ofTropical Research" is merely a onestory concrete block clinic occupied,in pro bono exchange for services rendered, to the osteopathic hospItal next'
door,
','.

<

Chronic Fatigu~ Syndrome
Ortleb and' the' Native have contended' for quite some time now thatAZT kills everyone who takes it. Not
true, As lousy a drug as it is, holding,no more promise of lasting remissions
than chemotherapies do for cancer,
AZT is the only big game in town, No
one considers it more than a paltrystop-gap, a template against which theeffects of other drugs can be mea-

sured, But it is definitely helping
many who are taking it. The Native
ignores thos<; who have benefitted
from it, and instead characterizes AZTas "Draino." Is that catchy phrase
caUSing people to die earlier, preventing them from gaining critical time
while other more effective drug therapies are being developed? Many feel
this is the case,And now he's chasing another,chimera, that of Chronic Fatigue
Syndrome, a still obscure disease
entity likely encompassing many disparate underlying conditions, and as
yet without a finn etiology, This syndrome has cropped up in the medical
literature for almost 100 years as postviral neurologiC syndrome, as chronicmononucleosis
and, in 1948" as awell-recognized,
epidemicof"Akureyri Disease" in a small town innorthern Iceland, wher~ 476 people
fell ill and few fully recovered,Thousands of people are sufferingfrom this mysteriOUS condition, but
for the Native's purposes, they are
merely more fuel for the conspiracy
mill, Of course, according to the
Native, we don't know much about
this disease because there is some
sort of government cover up, With
another murky allusion to a National
Institutes of Health conspiracy, Ortleb
ties Chronic Fatigue Syndrome to
AIDS and some U.S, government plot.
*' ......'*"*" .....

What began as an informative
and useful alternative viewpoint has
degenerated into a dangerous twistingof facts to satisfy an agenda that has,little to do with the well-being ofwhatever readers' are left. ACT UP(AIDS Coalition 'fo Unleash Power)
has recently voted to boycott all publications published by Ortleb's company, That New MagaZine, Inc, (NewYork Native, Christopher
Street,1beaterWeek, Opera Monthly), becauseof the potentially destructive impact
on worried, readers, Those who arestill attached to the tail of the New
York Native's tattered kite are riding
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I'm wQrking in a similar theatrical genre, naturally I'd becompared to him. I think the critics really felt compelled tocompare me, and unfortunately, it's usually to my detriment. .I knew Charles ~udlam and he was helpful to me
early in my career; he couldn't have been nicer to f!1e,
When I was doing my act, he let me do Hollywood
ConfJdentia4 my firSt show, at his theater as a late show,
which was a great break for me, When.I was doing another piece at the Performing Garage, Everett [QuintonJ ran
the lights for me for free, Charles came a lot of times andwas very encouraging, He certainly was an influence onme and a whole generation of performers, I think anyone
who does drag or genre parodies was influenced by
Warhol,fiIms and Ludlam plays."'While he may not have a stockpile of plays in his
trunk, Busch is keeping busy developing future projects.
He's waiting for the go-ahead on a cable-1V show that hewould write and act in, he's collaborating on a 'SCreenplay,and h~has "blueprints for a dozen plays" in his head, He's
also contributed to a special project commissioned by the
National Theater of the Handicapped designed to create
more roles for haildicapped actors, Several playwrights
have contributed scenes for a theatrical evening to be performed on Theater row in the fall, "It was awfully nicecompany to be in-Marsha Norman, Wendy Wasserstein,
Beth Henley-I
was f1at~ered to be asked, 'I sort of~ssumed that they wanted something funny and sort ofzany, so I thought that handicapped actresses probably
never get a chance to be glamorous bitches, so I wrote thispiesze called 'All About Me,' It's for the,se two actresses inwheelchairs; it's very short, about seven minutes long, The
first line of dialogue is, 'Get to the Point, bitch, Qr wheel
your ass out of my kitchen!' So it's a bitch fight for these
two actresses, The company liked it, I just hope they havetwo very articulate, glamorous gals in chairs; they're not
eaSy f0les, they're like Bette Davis and Anne Baxter,".Busch's plays, especially The Lady in Question, reflect
his extensive knowledge of, and fascination with, oldmovies, similar to Ludlam's knowledge of theatrical literature, He recently discovered a possible explanation for his
fascination, when Hollywood costume designer Adrian'sbook of famous actresses' measurements went on the auction block at Christie's--Busch has the same measurements
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hear itname of peace, and the preaching ofhate to uphold a gospel of love, Howmore powerfully Patrick's vision might
be expressed, were it relieved of its 'burden of unneeded
words, and,
amplified by a pioduction where themessage could shine through,Tfrom page 40

lfTHAL WEAPON continued from page 39

who makes that charming.
The bad guys this time are
Many of JutJaSs problems, how.ever, lay in the production, The acting
hyper-blond
South African drug
loras, which' allows for running critiis very poor. It is often a struggle simcism of apartheid (that word is hopeply to understand the words because
lessly polite), In one pointed andthe Rerformances are so distracting,
Most of this is the responsibility of the I
I hilarious scene, Glover, who isblack, goes into a South African trav-'
director, Stanley A, Waren, Aga~nst OUT OF MY HANDS continued from page J8
eI office and pretends he wants to
Patrick's formidable array of words,
enough to get most of your pieces
immigrate,
Warep senqs his actors armed with' around the board) rather that tricks and,So why can't these enlightenedalmost as much fun, Perhaps if youneither through-lines, actions nor even
Hollywood
folk stop making jokes
the most rudimentary aspects of char- were a more gracious loser she would
about
fags?
When
an exploding toilet
acterization, The actors lose, Whateversee by your example that defeat isn't aforcesGloverandGibson to shareshape good direction might have lent reflection of character and she would
space
in
a
bathtub,with Glover on
the play is lost.
feel less compelled to win at any cost.
T
top,
Gibsonsays
somethingabout
One wishes that Waren had been
,notwanting
to
be
found
in
this
posiable to look his playwright in the eye,
tion,
No,
of
coursenot,dear.
and tell him that Judas would be far
Granted it's one joke" a small joke,
more 'compelling following a liberal
seemingly
harmless---in other words,
application of the pruning hook, The
the
worst
kind,
pray c,?mes to life in its last scene,
My only other beef is the viowhere Pilate pleads with Jesus to forlence,
which is inventive, COl9ssai
sake his Messianic dreams, The longandthick.
A thousand and one uses
speech is passionat€, filled with outfor a pneumatic carpenter's gun? A
rage' and common sense, predicting,thousand and two.
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Mets/ Astr.os; the 31st,
Yanks/Blue
Jays; andAugust,the'5th,Mets/Expos;
the 9tp,
YankslIndians;
the 29th,
Yanks/A's, If you wantmore information
you
can call (212) 620-7310,
at the Center, for il reservation form, Tell them
you saw it in OutWeek,
Filed by Paul Kaplan

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FRONT RUNNERS NY
The annual Gay PrideRun was a major successthis year, A total of 300
men and 164 womencompletedthe event in

GAY PRIDE RUN: WINNER SALAH aOaAlCHE REACHING Central
THEcl'·"SH U'·'E
Ph t . Pt"
K h'somewhat
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(
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Park,
down
fr6m last yeardtL
pro a y ue 0 eggs 'preemptionof the Saturday of Gay
Pride Weekend) .... Those wishing to
run in Gay Games III are urged to register early as the course
be limited to'
600 ruriners, Registration began on July
1. Frontrunners will buy a,block of $20
tickets for the New York Games, featuring world-classrunners such as Carl
Lewis and Mary Decker Slaney, to beheld at Columbia's Baker Field on Sat.,
July 22, The annual FRNY B~nefit Run
will be held on Sat" August 26, It's
theme will be "The Heart and SOul of
Front Runners,· Summer running classes
will begin July 13 and continue for six
consecutive
Thursdays
at 6:45 pm,
Classes are availa/:>le for beginning toadvanced runners, For further info, call
Guy, 718/278-8280,

KEY WEST WOMEN'S WEEKTheKeyWest ,Business'
Guildannounced
its third annual Women in
P~radise week of events for women to
be helc!. September 11 through 17, The
week will include sailing, snorkeling,boating, scuba, windsurfing and, basketball, as well as dances and othef events
designed
for wometl
participants,
Anyone desiring registration information
should write to, the Key West Business
Guild, Women's Week, PO Box 1208,
Key West, FL, 33041, 9r call 305/2962211,

WOMEN ABOUT ANNOUNCES EVENTSThe following
events sponsoredby
Women About will be held this week,'July 12-Boatride,and dancewith
Brooklyn Women's Martial Arts, ''July 13 to 17- Camping on Fire island,
CENTER SPORTS'July 15- Hike to Pine Meadow Lake inHarriman Park.
'On Friday, June 23, Center Sports, thesporting event group of the Lesbian and'July 15- Shakespearein the Park,
Gay Community
Center, visited Shea
Twelfth Night,
Stadium for the Mets/Phillies game, The'July 16- Atlantic City gambling andbeaching,.
day is significant as it was the first trip
to a sporting event du~ing Gay'July
22/23Canoe
Pride weekend,' Being the 20th
camping
on Mullica
anniversary of Stonewall, it wasRiver,NJ,
yet another milestone in the hisFor more informatory of the gay and lesbian movelion on all of the above
ment.
call 212/353-0073
orFifty-one people attended
201/ 481- 0440,
the event, which was won by the
In addition, Women
Mets 9-3, The group cheeredAboutisholdi'ng
when the Center's name was listMonday night billiards
ed on the electronic
messageevery Monday at Society
board for the 44,000+ fans to see,Billiards, 10 E 21st St.
The message board operator disIt's $5 for two hours,
played the Center's
name an,four women to a table,
un precedented two times during
call for reservations andthe evening,
say h>u're with Women
A good time was had by all
About\Everyone
is welas the group toasted (with muchcome, The number
isbeer) Ston~wall's anniversary and GAY PRIDE RUN: WOMEN'S WINNER SUE FOSTER.
212/52~,~
Photo: Patricia Kuharicwill.,.---------,~~.

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July 17, 1989

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