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Support Barney FrankScenario: You're a popular congressperson, a visible figure on
Capitol Hill, an influential, engaging, successful leader, and you're acloseted gay. You realize that a lack of sexual companionship isaffecting your balance and ruining whatever satisfaction you should
be deriving from life. You decide to do something about it.
If you were straight there would probably be plenty of eligible
people to date, You could even enhance your career by dating theright person. Then again, if you were straig)1t the issue probably
wouldn't even come up because you'd already be married, openly
and publicly.
But as a secret fag, what can you do? Stop by the local gay or
lesbian bar and cruise? Go to the local park or pick-up zone and hangout? Take out a personal ad saying "Queer Congressman seeks hot
date?" This may seem ridiculous to some, but think about it.
Obviously Frank felt, and history would seem to agree, that if he
had 'come out' and developed an openly gay sOcial life his career
would have been terminated. If you're gay and in Congress you're
simply not supposed to have sex. Or if you do have sex, you aren't
supposed to get caught. Or maybe gays aren't supposed to be in
Congress in the first place, This is the same kind of unfair, demeaning, hypocritical double standard that has oppressed gays and lesbians for centuries.
Some people say that if Barney were straight he'd be quickly
forced from office. Aside from the fact that this isn't historically true, it
ignores the peculiar situation gays find themselves in, Unlike straights,
we're denied the right to sexually exist in open, public ways and arethen punished for seeking sexual outlets secretly. Seen in this light,
Barney Frank is the ultimate symbol of the unfairness and oppressionof the gay predicament in straight society, where you're damned if
you do, damned if you don't and damned in between.
As part of his oppression the media has concentrated on andblown up secondary aspects of the story. The angle concerning Mr.
Gobie's running a prostitution service out of Frank's house is wildly
exaggerated. Gobie apparently had a phone service that was call-forwarded to wherever he was. As he was sometimes at Frank's, calls
were sometimes forwarded there. This is a far cry from visions of him
operating a major 'prostitution ring' from Frank's townhouse.
The parking ticket angle has similarly been blown out of all proportion. Show us a congressperson who hasn't squashed parking tickets and we'll show you a congressperson who doesn't own a car.
The point here is that Barney Frank, a good, decent, brilliant andhonorable man, is being crucified on the altar of homophobia in thesame disgusting, demeaning, rotten way that generations of gays havebeen disgraced and destroyed. Our community should realize that his
predicament is our predicament and unite behind him. We can startby urging him not to resign or retire after this term, but to hang toughfor us all.
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LETTERS
WlchWmchgay male Witches. As proper
My sincere thanks fornames referring to a religion,
your literate, political, lively,
Witch aid Witchcraft should
humorous and visual magabe capitalized.
zine. I read several of theAlso, Witchcraft
andmajor lesbian/gay
news
Satanism are not the same.
magazines. OutWeek ranks
Satan ism is a religion thatat the top of the list.
presumes a belief in Christian
Actually I'm responding
concepts of God and Devil.
to your -Nightmare of the
It is anti-Christian, Witchcraft
Week·, Issue 15 (10/1/89).
is (] life-affirming religion that
Governor Keal has certainly . works for the growth andsaid some bizarre fhi)gs link- development of the com-'
Ing lesbians, satanlsts andmunity, the earth and each
Witches. As readers do know
individual. pur primary deity
from OutWeek's coverage
is a Goddess. Witches and(Issue 7, -Center Receives
Satanists are no more alike
Witches' Blessing·) of thethan Hindus and Jews.
lesbian and Gay CommuniAs marchers under thety Services Center-sponsored -Witches and pagans ofWitches' blessing, there are
Gay Rights· banner eachlesbian Witches as well as year at Gay Pride and meet-

Ing monthly at Open Circle
at the Center, lesbians andgay men are c;:elebrating theGoddess and learning theCraftof theWise or
Witchcraft.
Rev. Michael Thorn
N.V.S.Public Info. Officer

Covenalt of the Goddess
Founder, Open Cirde

All the Newslhat's Fit...
I'm tired of redding letters to the editor or hearing
comments about your magazine in which people saythat OutWeek issome kind offront for ACT UP. For the twoand a half years between
the time ACT UP was found-'ed until OutWeek began
publishing, there was little
mention of ACT UP In thepress, gay or straight. Huge
demos were regularly held,
and the list of accomplishments generated
by ACT

UP's actions grew and grew, 'but YOU'd never hove knowthat reading the NY papers.·
The New York frnes, the' Post
and the Daily News ignored
demos that, If they had
been held by virtually anyother group, would have.
often made the front page.
What's worse, the New York
Native had an editorial policy which banned the printIng of the very words -ACTUP· under any circum7
stances. Even on reporting
the vast City Hall demo inwhich thousands participated, the Native writers could
only say the words -AIDS
actMsts: never ACT UP.
Vet I never remember
anyone complaining about
this. The fact Is that a lot of
old-time activists are uncomfortable with the new generation represented by ACT UP,
and are jealousof theDAHlIN& I I baNI KNO" VOl

1 VAS SO VOR~\E~ABOOT!
I SINK r AAVE. FINALLY
FOOND SOMEONE WOO CAN'Thckr ~ UKEARfAL~!

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remarkable successes thesekids are generating. They
didn't seem to mind the muzzling of what, in any other circumstance,
wouldbeconsidered legitimate news.
Now along comes OutWeek, which reports about
GLAAD and Falrpac andgay crtd lesbioo politics andhealth and NGLTF and
GMHC and ... gaspl. ..horrorL..ACT UP,If it seems as if
they report about ACT UP alot, maybe it's because ACT
UP makes a lot of news, The
fact Is that until there's acure, AIDS is going to dominate gay and lesbian ne~,and unless 0 more effective
organization comes along,
ACT UPis going to dominate
a lot of AIDS reporting. It's
where the action is.
Not reporting consls-,
tently about ACT UP would
be like publishing a civil rights
newspaper In the early sixties;. 'and not mentioning Martin
Luther KIng Jr.. or an anti-war
paper In the late sixties andomitting the Marches on
Washington.
'Those who despise ACT
UPso much ·that they werecomfortable when its very
existence was censored in
the gay press, and are now
upset that it's being aqequately Govered in OutWeek, should look closely attheir own priorities, Don't
blame OutWeek for creating
the news. Theyjust report it.
Dave Hampton
Manhattan

excited that night. Even In
the thick of it, he talked
about and thanked his gay
and lesbian supporters, justas he does at every event,to every audience all overtown. He's not the sort ofleader who plays to his audience: he takes wise stands
based on the good adviceof a diverse staff and adds
to that his own wisdom. The
result is that Hispanic andAfrican-American and iabor
and handicapped (etc ...)
audiences all know thatDavid stands strong for theliberation of gay people.

cize him for perceived
slights.Let's wait until he wins
to start carping. Then, atleast, we'll know that wehave a mayor who is interested in our opinions.
RosemaryL. Kuropat
Manhattanaincitedriot and would
have greatly empowered
those very few people in thepark who wanted us out. I
think Lady Bunny handled
the situation perfectly. The
people who only leave theirhomes for a news story, likethose of you who've tried totwist the reality of Wigst~_
for a gay-bashing headline,
have not only acted irresponsibly as journalists but
have given our enemies further incentives to bash
us-not only will you givethem publicity in your headlines, but you'll also give theirphotographs a better showing than those of us. And is
Donna Summer so good thatyou can't leave her alone?
With the picture of her In
your publication she's never
had such good publicityl As
far as homophobia Is concerned, I don't see how
pouncing on homophobes
with tubs of butter would
effect ooy generally positivechange or why a worthwhilejournal would bother reporting on such ci stupid waste.
In . short, OutWeek
seems to be, like the Native,
a publication more for individual purposes of its writers
than for accurate r~porting
to its readers. Like everythingelse these days in New York,
its only objective isto sell.
Peter Wild
Manhattan

Sal, Sen, San
Many gay people anxiously awaited a newspaperthat would be more representative of them than the
New York Native. Hopefully it
would be lessdirected by its
publisher to generally voice
only one seemingly flippant
point of view. It would be a
responsiblegay weekly.
Since OutWeek has
been around, I feel as
though I have an alternative
to the Native, which is a
publication equally flippant
with a different point of view.
The main differences being
In your view on AIDS andyour support of ACT UP in
almost everything they do.
Your reportingon
Provlr:'lcetown dUflng carniSo some whiny foliesthink val week was extremelythat he didn't talk about us inaccurate and unfair, Youearly enough. Early enough .did not care that the gay
for what? The television audi- summer resident and gay
ence? Or to please our own tourist sometimes gives generously to various causes
petty selfcentered desires?
And so, too, he didn't
such as ACT UP and thespecifically talk about AIDS. Community Research Initiative. It seemsthat your writers
He did talk about adequate
rarely leave New York, sohealth care on demand,
they might not know this, but
drug treatment on demand,
housing for all homeless peo- in places such as ProvinceDisco Infemo?
ple, all of which are the issues town the Mafia does notcontrol gay businesses, andI feel I must respond to
key to solving the lack ofDavid L. Cameron's letter toadequate care provided by gay business persons there
TelHly Rage,the outgoing administration. I are also sometimes generous the editor (OutWeek, Sept.
24, 1989). C:mon Davel It is
Rosemary, and Whine
have to tell you, I was more contributors to our causes.
I am hearing post-Victo- offended by the fact that all
It's interesting how you not enough that Donnary (Dinkins, that is) rumors the speakers at the Sheridan have decided to emphasize Summer's songs have a beat .
that your editors (among
the one or two alleged inci- and you -can dance to it. Life·
Square rally t.alked aboutothers) did not find Mr. solving the narrower problem
dents of violence (not bad
isnot American Bandstcrtdl
I am not an unforgiving
Dinkin's comments at the pri- of homeless PWAs,while all for New York these days)
person. Speaking personally,mary night victory celebraaround usshuffled the run-of- rather than the overwhelmtion sufficientor early
ingly enjoyable wig-out love- . I would certainly be willing tothe-mill homeless who had
enough on the agenda, I been displaced by our rally.
fest in TompklinsSquare Park forgive Ms. Summer if she
was there and I can't help
GIVETHEGUY A BREAK! on Labor Day, You expressed simply actnitted that she wasbut differ, ood strenuously,
He's on our side like no politI- the sentiment that the Wig- wrong and sought forgiveness. As it is, she denies that
One has to guess that
cian before him. During this stock Festival should have
she has made any homothe creation of history is campaign to defeat Gullioni, been halted for the alleged
phobic remarks ever. (ThIsIs
heady. stuff, and that Dinkins we must aggressively sup- -violence" which occurred.
.might well have been a little port David Dinkins-not criti7 This definitely could havethe same woman I saw a

October 8, 1989.

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7

few years back tell Johnny
Carson on his show that
she's never sung about
sex-only love),
Mr. Cameron says thisissue is just a matter of musical taste. It is not. It's noteven to ·slmply feed apathetic
appetiteforvengeance" as he Implies. It
is a matter of caring about
what people who willingly
take our money say about
us.To forgive Donna Summer
at this polnt'feeds right Intothe self-hatred society teaches us asyoung homosexuals.
Mr. Cameron is rightwhen he says protesting
against the disco-evangelist
won't find a cure for AIDS
nor will it promote gay rights
legislation, Buying Donna
Summer records, however,says that public people cansay what they like about us
and It's okay because we're
so mindless and self-loathlngthat we'll stili worship themwith cultlsh devotion. Get
real, Dovel Pat Robertson isa dynamic speaker and canreally move a lot of peopl6-but that doesn't mean
you have to send him adonation I
BillChafin
Manhattan
Bash Rehash
I'd like to respond to
Tom Rubnltz's letter to ACT
UP,which you printed In OutWeek's Oct. 1 issue.
Dear Tom:Your letter to ACT UP
Infuriated me, but in hopesof maybe making you think,
I'll keep my anger to a minimum (except to say thatyour remark that ·It was arotten shame some hooligans attacked gay people
at Wlgstock but..: totally
pissesme off. How do you, aPWA, feel when hypocrites
say ·AIDS is a rotten shame,
but ..:? Gaybashing kills lesbians and gay men! How
dare you be so condescending?)
Ukeyou, Tom, I too went
to Wigstock to ·celebrate in a

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the same reason you were:
to have a loving, joyous,,sexy, silly, queer afternoon.
, But when men with lacrosse.'sticksstarted beating on fag; gots, and when the cops all
but joined in with the bashers, we had to deal withwhat was happening, We
did not create the situation,,we responded to it, Many

fantasy of Peace, love andWigs: I bought my first wig,
my first lipsticksand eyeshadow. I came to Tompkins
Square Parkthat day to havea really good time,
Then I heard someone
announce from the stage
that some gay men had
been bashed at the otherend of the park. I tried toignore the news, not let it'spoll my day.'But soon someone else
grabbed the microphone
and repeated the news
about the bashing, addingthat the cops had arrested
a gay bystander Still, I hesitated, and then my brain
switched on: Ignoring the situation wouldn't make it goaway; Ignoring it would only
leave that gay bystander tothe mercy of the cops, thesame cops who've raided
lesbian and gay bars, whoshoot unarmed Black children, who rioted in Tompkins
Square Park last year.
It's a good thing otherpeople responded fasterthan I did, The cops were letting the bashers go-aI/owing them to just walk away
scot free--until a crowd ofangry gay people surrounded both cops and bashers.
Tom,we must stop living
in denial! You understandthat about AIDS,you appreciate ACT UP for fighting foryou, me and everyone else
devastated by AIDS. Why
can't you understand thatdenial about gay bashingmust also be overcome? You
ask, "What were (ACT UP)in
TompkinsSquare Park for? A
riot?' Tom, we were there for

October 8, 1989

could do the gay community a great deal of harm.
Calling for others tocome out of the closet is aneasy way to be provocative.
Calling for celebrities to doso is even more titillating.
And describing someone asa cross-dressinglesbian who
is laughed at by the rich andfamous is not a service to
our community, It is just dish.
Namingnames
ischeap and bitchy. n looking
at people Signorile should
weigh the importance of
their contributions to ourcommunity, not their persondlives.
Malcolm Forbes canaulse ChristopherStreetin Bob
Mackie CJ1d a beehive for cj I
care, aslong ashe keepsintroducing Elizc:t>eth
Taylorto fatcats with money for AmFar.
And If liz Smith is spendng hertime Jerking-off Dondd Trurrp,
so what? It keeps her other
hand right where we want
it-on his wallet.
BillBerry
Manhattan

people at Wigstock did not
respond. Or rather, they
responded by clinging totheir denial so fiercely thatthey blamed ACT UP and
the other people who calledon the crowd for help rather
than blaming the bashers
and cops,
When I arrived at thescene of the bashing, I foundthat my boyfriend was one ofthe victims of the attack I It
wasn't just ·some gay person: it was someone I love.
And I wouldn't have known If
I'd continued to Ignore theincident.
Any of us could havebeen gay bashed that day.
Many of us will be In days tocome. That's the reality of
being gay in a violently
Trialsand Trivializations
homophobic society. Hiding
I can't believe that we
our heads in the sand gives are going thrpugh the scethe gay bashers (including
narlo of putting ourselvestheuniformed
ones
into "boxes' again. Didn't
employed by the city) free
we learn from toe "PI/PC',
reign. To protect ourselves"vanilla/chocolate'
we must protect each other,debates that those cateThose Wigstockers (Wig- 90rles don't represent thestockings?) who tried t,o.'> -diversity of our communities.
ignore the bashing (myself
I'm 48, I'm Into sex, bars,
included) were not so much
cruising and potlucks, and I
narcissistic-a charge you
don't have any problems
find so offensive-as cowardwith phone sex ads. I also
Iy,selfIShand stupid for giving have a sense of humor but
more importance to a persnide comments
don'tformance then to the safety
make me laugh. I know gay
of gay people attacked less men who don't cruise, don't
than a hundred from where
like j/o clubs, are vegetariwe stood. I'm all for partying
ans, like potlucks and w,ear
and celebrating-Goddess
leather, earrings, drag or allknows we need it! But whenthree, Where do we fit into
shit happens, we just have tothe responses OutWeek edideal with it.
tors and writers give to critiDavid Robinson
cisms from some lesbians·In
Hoboken, NJ
this community?
Closet WatchYour editorial ("Vive la
In many of his recent
Difference')
is a cas'e incolumns, Michelangelo Sig- point. You condense all thenorile plays a game thatcriticism you have gptten'-'

from lesbians Into -somenewspaper" condemningphone
ads. That's Ilk,equating the women's IIQeratlon movement with HOW
and then knocking It down.
It doesn't reflect the rangeof criticism In the letters
you'veprintedor thatyou've heard from lesbians,
myself Included. And, a gay
man saying he doesn't want
to read ci:>out lesbians cannot be equated with lesbians who are saying themagazine has a white maleperspective. The fact Is thetwo are not equal. Whitegay men hove owned anddo own mCJ"lYmagazines on
a local and national levelsupposedly geared to thediversify of our communities
but which, In reality, aretotally white male oriented.
White lesbians and lesbians
and gay men of color don't.
You are talking
about-equal opportunity." We aretalking about -affirmative
action." And, given the historic state of affairs In thiscommunity,
the move Is
yours, not ours.
As
Victoria
Starr
Implied, the lesbians who
don't care are not the ones
writing to you. The ones writIng, Including myself, want
to see OutWeek make It asa magazine which reflects
the diversify of this community. TO do that you don't
have to be -PC", -vanilla"
or boring and you don't
have to put down otherpeople. So the choice Is
yours. I hope you can makeit work for all of us.
Maxine Wolfe
Brooklyn

Mayoral candidate David
Dinkins.
Primaryday
also
brought about an historic
victory for the Independent.
people-Instead-of-proflts,
New Alliance. Party. Morethan a quarter of a million
votes were cast for New
Alliance Party candidates
with Rafael Mendez gathering 193,842votes in his challenge to the super-rich,super-white Andrew Steinand Barbara Taylor gathered 31,968 votes in her
challenge to phoney liberal
Ruth Messinger. I received
more votes than the othertwo openly gay candidates
combines.
The New Alliance Party
was founded
In 1979 toaddress the failure of the
Democratic Party machine
to provide for the needs ofpoor and working people
In New York and nationally.
This has never been truer
for the lesbian and gay
community.
AIDS has-dogged" him. This means
claimed the lives of over
we followed his every step
12.000 people In this city,
demanding that he speak
the majority of them gay
out on the issuesthat are ofmen, over 3.000 PWAs
critical Importance to ourhomeless with only a tinycommunities, full recogninumber of shelter beds totion of lesbian and gay
accommodate them Oeavrelationships and full proIng aside that It's Inhumantectionfor people with
to force people with a posAIDS. We will continue tosibly fatal Immune disfunc-dog" Dinkins and use ourtion Into shelters),
andindependent campaigns tohomophobic
violence on
the rise. The Koch adminis- , raise the lesbian and gay
agenda.
tration did pitifully little to
One troubling aspect
address these Issues, with
only lip service and hiredof my campaign was thelack of coverage by the lesgay apologists
to hold
bian and gay press. Outback
our community's
Week had been contacted
anger. It was OutWeek. lessby my campaign
staffthan a week after David
Dinkins' stunning victory In
numerous times but failed toreport on my historic camthe September 12th primapaign. So I cdl on OutWeelcry, that reported the anger
to open up Its pages to myof some lesbian and gay
campaign so we can hove
activists at the silence on
AIDS/lesblan and gay Issues an honest and open dialogue on the presslng Issues
after his victory. This Is thethat face our community,
very reason that Dr, Fulanl
Stephen Roseand the New Alliance
New A1l1oocePafy
Party, while supporting
ca-ddcte for Corrptroler
David
100
percent,

Cui Jam?
My nane is Steve Roseand I was proud and hon-,ored to run and represent
the lesbian CJ"ldgay comm.rnity In this historic election
when the people of New
York overwhelmingly dumped the racist ood homophobic Ed Koch ood elected thefirst Black Democratic Party

Thi. week'. nighbnare i. the form.rly ~and.ome, burnt out. drug-Wr.cked
pimp, Steph.n Gobie. Th. d.finition of I pr... whore, Gobie .old out 01H' high.st gay elected official for I few minut .. on Geraldo. Sony, Steve. But a. yourhero, Sidney Biddle-Barr~w. will tell you, not all pre •• i. plea.a~ pr•••.
Don't fuck with U', a•• hole. We're too .mart and you're too ugly.

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News

Gallo: Many With HIV
May Never Get AIDS
Cites Variant Viruses, Co-factors
by Rex Wockner
BETHESDA,
Maryland-Dr.
Robert Gallo, chief U.S. AIDS
researcher and head of the National
Institutes of Health, recently confirmed that he told a British newspaper in late June that many of those
who test positive for the antibodies tohuman
immunodeficiency
virus(HIV-I) may not develop AIDS.
Gallo said that his statements
were based on a belief that the many
existing variants of HIV-I are notequally deadly, and on emerging evidence-someof it presented at thisyear's International Conference on

AIDS in Montreal-that other viruses
influence immune-system decline inthose infected with HIV-l.
Gallo, who along with Luc Montagnier of Paris' Pasteur Institute iscredited with the co-discovery of HIV,CUNGING TO HIV
Robert.GallO'
was o;rgf~a))y quoted in the July 1
issue of The Pink Paper, a Londonbased gay publication, where he criticized a British ad campaign that states"the only difference between HIV and
AIDS is time.·"We have no way of predicting
how many people who are infected
are going to develop AIDS," Gallo
told The Pink Paper. "The best d,ata
today argues for about one-third, bµt
there are so many variants out there.
Don't start projecting that you know
the future."

Variants of HIV.\'.;.

In a telephoneinterview thismonth, Gallo termed the report in the
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saying, "There are so many variants[of HIV] that it is impossible to saythat a hundred percent of them aregoing to lead to lethality. In fact, I'dbe very surprised if every variant
caused AIDS in an individual's normal
lifetime. Very few bugs do lead to ahundred percent lethality.
MLookat HIV-2," Gallo continued,
referring to a second human immunodeficiency virus found most often inWest Africa. ·Of the thousands ofpeople HIV-2 infected, you can counton a few fingers the ones that havedeveloped any kind of immune deficiency ... And you can look at HIV-2
as just an extreme variant of HIV-l.
So, if ffiV-2 is so much less efficient[at causing disease], what about othervariants that are less variable than the

prototype HIV-1?"
Gallo added, UIdon't want everybody who is antibody positive tothink, 'Holy shit, it's hopeless.' It
could be a third, a half [who develop
AIDS}-the point is that no one canpredict what every variant of this isgoing to do.·While reliable tests for antibodies
to HIV-1 and HIV-2 exist, there are
currently no generally available tests
that can distinguishamong otherpotential variants of the viruses.

Implications for AIr
Gallo also responded to questions about the treatment implicationsof recent government studies showing'that AZT slows HIV activity. (AZT, adrug with sometimes serious side~
effects, is currenlty the only federally-approved anti-viral treatment for
HIV infection.) The studies did nottake into account the pos$ibility thatvarious strains of HIV might cause
varying degrees of illness.
Gallo was asked if all cases of
HIV infection should be treatedequally, given the possibility thatsome variants may theoretically notlead to life-threatening illness.
"That's an extremely good question,· Gallo responded. "I wouldbase it on odds. If I were antibody
positive, I would take AZf the day I
learned I was infected, if I could
afford it. Too high a percentage aresufferirtg too much from this vims. I
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by Gabriel Rotello.. NEW YORK - Five top government scientists blasted Burroughs
Wellcome chief T. E. Haigler Thursday
for asserting that his company discovered and developed the anti-AIQS
drug AZf.
In a letter to The New York Times,
the scientists termed Haigler's recent
claim that AZf was essentially discovered and developed by Burroughs
Mastonishing,· and claimed that Burroughs actually obstructed
AZT'sdevelopment
MOne of the key obstacles to thedevelopment of AZT was that Burroughs Wellcome did not work withlive AIDS virus nor wish to receive
samples from AIDS patients," the letter said.
Haigler also made his statements
in a letter to the Times, protesting a
recent editorial accusing the company
of price gouging.' ,The drug giant has been underattack by AIDS advocates, who claimthat AZT's price is exorbitant. Burrough,s executives, who recently lowered the price of AZf by 20 percent,attribute its high cost to, the expense

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NC'" Dr. Samue' Broderof research and development.
The letter's authors, including Dr.
Samuel Broder, Director of the
National Cancer Institute, also madethe following points:• Burroughs did not invent AZT.
It was created in 1964 by Jerome
Horowitz, using a government grant.
• The first demonstration
that
AZT would work against retroviruses
was made in Germany in 1974 by
Wolfgang Ostertag.

• It was the National Cancer Institute, working with scientists at Duke
University, that developed the ideathat AZf would work against AIDS
and first administered Atr to people
with AIDS, not Burroughs Wellcome.
The letter writers were co-authorsof the first medical papers describing
AZT as a treatment for AIDS, published in 1985 and 1986. In addition
to Broder, they are Hiroaki Bitsuya,
Kent Weinhold, R9bert Yarchoan andDani Bolognesi. i
Kathy Bartlett,' a spokeswoman
for Burroughs, claimed that the letter
was the result of a misunderstanding,adding that Burroughs haS Manexcellent relationship with the scientists
involved."
Bartlett told OutWeek that Haigler·never said that Burroughs didn't get
help from the government,· in developing AZf, labelling the company's
relationship with the feds Mamodel ofcooperation.· Bartlett did not dispute
specific charges made by the scientists' letter.
·Very early on we did not havethe facilities to handle the AIDS virus,·
Bartlett added. MButwe do now." 'Y

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lIThe Bone Heals, But Your Heart Doesn't"\

Lesbian Battering:
An Interview
victim of the syndrome.
In June, a West Palm Beach,
Florida woman was brought to trial
for murdering her lesbian lover. Her
defense was the battered spouse syndrome-thefirst time that defense
had been used in the trial of a lesbian
by Victoria A. Brownworth
or gay man.
Annette Green was found guilty
Spousal abuse is pandemic inmurder in theAmerica. Over half the women in the of second-degreeu.s. have suffered some form of vio- shooting death of her lover of 11lence from their husbands or lovers in years, Ivonne Julio, on August 31. The
the course of their relationships. Over defense argued that Green was a victim of the syndrome, charging that85 percent of all women who are
murdered in the u.s. are killed by Julio had battered her for the entire
length of their relationship.
domestic violence.
Lesbian battering has only come
Until a decade ago the extent ofout of the closthis violence
remained
hidden.
etrecently.
Women did not talk about it, and thelegal structure left women with little Domestic viojudicial recourse. Even today it is esti- lence has long
mated that the number of batteredbeen assumed to be a heterosexual'
women's shelters nationwide can only .woman's problem because womenhandle one percent of the actual
were believed to be "equal" (that is,number of women whose lives are
non-dominantlsubmissive) partners inthreatened by domestic violence.
a relationship. Others believed that if
A decade ago, under the scrutiny sucH violence did exist between
women, it could be neither extensiveof feminism and the women's movement,' the legal system began to or serious, because women are morechange in the area of domestic vio- likely to be of equal physicallence. A pattern also began to emerge
strengths: .
But writings, research and caseof women killing their abusers. Whenhistories have proved otherwise.
a Michigan woman burned her husThough the levels of severity may difband to death in his bed, the defense
argued that she did so because of "bat- fer, preliminary reports indicate that
tered spouse syndrome," a term devel- over i5 percent of lesbians are or
oped by psychologists and experts in have been in a battering relationship ..
Battering is defined as extremes
the field of domestic violence toof violence. It begins with shoving
describe what happened to women
after a prolonged period of being- bat- a9d pushing, slapping, kicking, armtered. Such women, it was ~rgued, lost' twisting and biting, and can escalate
all perspective on their situations, felt to severe beatings with broken bones,
lacerations, stabbings and even death.
in danger of being killed (a notunfounded fear) and often believedthat the only recourse was to murder*****
Kimberly and Diana are both protheir abusers. Hedda Nussbaum is perfessional women in their early thirties.
haps New York City'S most celebrated

They were involved in a live-in relationship for nearly eight years. They
dissolved that relationship a year ago
when Diana left Kimberly for another
woman. For the entire length of theirrelationship - even their courtship Diana battered Kimberly.
The women no longer speak,though they have many mutual
friends in their small lesbian community in New EnglllOd. Their friends
were unaware of the battering according to both women, though Kimberly
has told many of her friends since therelationshipended. The womenagreed to be interviewed for this article provided their real names were
not
used
nor
the
name of thetowninwhich they live.
Both women cqme from backgrounds where alcohol led to various
forms of abuse. Kimberly describes
her family as "the typical upper-middle class hJ;!llhole. It was a small family ~{ld-I was the candidate for theviolence. My father never hit mymother but he made up for it withme. My mother was also violent
toward me but because she wassmaller than I was I never felt that I
could hit her back."
Diana also describes her family
as alcoholic and dysfunctional. "I wasabused by a lot of the men in myfamily. But in the sort of working
class family I grew up in, drinking' is a'part of life-it isn't considered a problem at all. And a certain amount ofphysical violence is accepted too: All
my mother's friends got slappedaround, so it seemed normal (~~at mymother and I did too:
The women both spoke o(a verystrong physical attraction between

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them when they met. "Our relationship was always very physical. We
touched each other a lot, we wrestledand played rough together. There wasnothing negative in that,· said Diana.
But Kimberly remembers a party theyattended early on in their relationship.
"I'm quite well-known in our community and at parties I tend to get a lotof attention and asked a lot of questions about my work. At the first party
we'd gone to together as a couple,
Diana got angry and said I was ignoring her. We had this huge fight outside afterwards and she hit me in theface. I hit her back. She hit me again.
It stopped there but it was a signalthat this was something that could
happen between us. And it was a signal I ignored.·
Kimberly blames alcohol for a lotof the abuse between
the two
women. She says that Diana has a
Efoblem that she refuses to acknowledge, and that her drinking makes herviolent. Kimberly said that many of
the serious fights they had in theirrelationshipwere precipitatedbyarguments over Diana's drinking or
when Diana had been drinking or
when they both had been.
Diana sees it differently.
She
acknowledges that she has had problems with drinking but that most ofthem were "brought on by Kimberly's
behavior. I drank because of things
that happened between us and I hit
her because of how she treated me.
Kimberly is a mistress of the nasty
comment and that really can be inciting when you're already angry.·Diana blames Kimberly for theviolence. "I never hit any of my otherlovers before her. She would push me
to acknowledge issues I wasn't readyto face and then be hurt when I didn't
compliment her on her insight but
instead got angry. She als9 reallyenjoyed making me jealous. She had
numerous "fans· and she would play
a lot of games with other women to
get my attention. And though I did hit
her she often hit back."
Kimberly agrees that there were
instances in which she may have precipitated Diana's anger but doesn't
feel the violence was warranted.
·We'd have these terrible fights thatyou could hear down the block. It

Photo: The Weekly NewsBATTERED BRIDE

Annette Green on trisl for murdering her lover.
was awful. And then she'd smack meor throw me up against a wall or adoorway. She was always threatening
to leave me and then I'd beg her not
to and she'd hit me again. When I
look back on it now it really sickens
me to think about it but then it almost
seemed normal. You'd reach a pointin the fight where you'd say to yourself, 'It's almost over now, she's hit
me X times.' I don't know what theneighbors
thought. No one evercalled the police. It wasn!t like wewere women who didn't know
enough to keep this from happening.
But we just didn't know how to stop
it. And you always think you're theonly one in this kind of a situation.·
Kimberly says that there were
things she tried to do to stop it. She'dtry to make her lover think about
what she was doing at the time.
Sometimes it would work but othertimes it had no effect. "You neverwant to bring the subject up when
you aren't having a fight. But you getscared and you wonder when it will
happen again, and if next time will be
the time she really ·hurts you in somekind of permanent way."•••••

Kimberly doesn't uqderstandwhat went wrong in the relationship,
but Diana blames Kimberly, claimingthat she never thought Diana was"good enough ,or smart enough" forher. Kimberly says that isn'~_\rue, that
she loved-st\ll loves-Diana deeply.
Both still fed a lot of anger about
what happened between them.
"I feel that I've been pegged as abatterer and that that isn't fair. One of
the reasons I agreed to talk about thisis because I think there is more than
one side to this issue' and it isn't necessarily that because.! am the strongerof the two of us and because I drink
and come from a working class background that I'm like an abusive man.
But Kimberly brought a lot of what
happenedon herself.
She· wasextremely verbally abusive to me andthat's part of abuse. And from what
I've read 'and heard about lesbian battering, this is a pattern. One woman isverbally abusive and the other hitsback physically. I frankly think thatwhat someone can say to you can be
far more damaging than a slap oreven a broken bone. The bone heals
but your heart or psyche doesn't.~
Kimberly responds by saying that
she thinks there is no excuse for

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phy,sical violen€e. "Yes I have anawful talent for saying nasty things ina fight. But Diana has said her shareof nasty things to me as well and I
reall¥_d~n't think that you can justify
throwing
or slamming someone
against a wall so hard they pass out
and you pave to call the rescue
squad. I used to ask myself why I was
putting up with this and then she'dapologize and' we'd be very loving
and it would ~em to be fine. Then it
would begip' a~ain weeks later.
"I don't I see myself as a
victim-that certainly isn't how I act
in the rest of my life and yet Diana isright when she says I've been hit
before, by my husband and by twoother women. And there is a point
where you start to wonder if you infact are to blame. I just want Diana
to ackn<?wledge what she did and saythat she's sorry and that she won't
ever do this to another woman. I
really want to hear that from her.·
But Diana has no intentions ofapologizing to Kimberly or making
her promises. "I never hit another
woman other than Kim and I don't
think I ever: will. I don't blame myself
for this problem. We were both toblame. I'm sorry I hit her and hurt her
but I'm not sorry for doing it when I

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did-I think I had good reason and I
think basically it is her fault, not mine.
Think about it: She's been hit before
by other people, and I've never hit
another woman, except for her. Who's
the problem here? Me or her?"Both women agree t~at there is a
lot of covering up that goes with thepatterns of abuse-lying
to doctors
and friends and family about the
inju.ries, even if they are minor,
becomes a habit. Kimberly once hadsuch bad bruises on her arms and'back from a fight with Diana that she
told her doctor she'd been raped
rather than tell the truth.
Kimberly wants other women in
her situation to know that they're notalone. Diana wants other women in
her situation to know that they're not
to blame.
Kimberly says: "I think that what
happened
to Annette Green andIvonne Julio could happen to any
women in that situation. You can't
control the way things go. At first it'sslaps, then punches, then you getthrown down stairs and then I guess
it's knives and guns, broken bones.
Violence feeds on itself. And there isa rage that is unleashed in these situations that the women themselves can't
control. It's almost self-perpetnating,that kind of violence."•••••
Statistically a woman who is battered by one person goes on to bebattered by others in other relationships. Acknowledging the problem
and seeking outside help seems to be
the only way to stop the pattern.
Batterers, on the other hand,continue to batter as well but may
not do so in every relationship. However, if they do, the violence tends toescalate dramatically in each successive relationship. The result is often
murder, though there are fewer
recorded cases by far among lesbians
in battering situations than there arein heterosexual relationships.
There are many services for
women who are victims of domestic
violence, but there aren't very many
that address lesbian battering issues.
Many shelters question if the lesbian
victim might herself be a batterer,
and few shelters or services areequipped to deal with the special
needs of lesbian victim/survivors, orwith lesbian batterers themselves
who also seek help.
There is little help that has beenoffered by the lesbian community towomen in these situations, and thecommunity has .found the issue a
problematic one in other areas as well.
This reporter and several friends
assisted a woman being battered byher lover at a recent women's festival, but were told by the otherwomeiHfl her cabin that they had
not intervened when she had asked
for help because they thought it wasa "lover's quarrel.' The festival's
security refused to expel the batterer
and the mental health workers
removed that battered woman fromher cabin rather than the woman
who hit her. One festival coordinatorsaid that there were far more serious
problems to be dealt with at the site.
This kind of response within qur
own community helps to isolate both
the woman being battered and her
victimizer. Programs and groups
addressing the issue-which is clearlyon the rise-needto be fo'rmed.
And the problem itself needs to beaddressed in an ongoing manper inthe lesbian and gay press.
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In its last issue, OutWeek inadvertently printed three photographs
without attribUtiO~' T
photos on
pages 22 (St. Vincen Hospital) arid
27 (Bob Rafsky)
re taken by T.L.
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ARTISTS SHOLD BE OBSCENE AND NOT HEARD?
Lady Ub.rty .nd fri.nds z.p c.lJSorship .t F.d".1 PI.z., NYC, August 29, 1989.

The Corcoran Gallery:
Beyond Christina's World
Artists Paint the Museum out of the PiCture
by Catherine Saalfield
and Cliff O'Neill
When the director of the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.
decided to cancel its June exhibit ofphotographs by Robert Mapplethorpe,
she never expected artists, arts benefactors, the lesbian and, gay community and members of Congress to
respond the way they did. But after
her lukewarm attempt at neutrality
exploded in her face, she and themuseum are mired in a nationwide
uproar about censorship and the First
Amendment.
At the time, museum head

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Christina Orr-Cahall claimed that she
had halted the gallery's plans in order
to avoid political controversy. The retrospective of the late gay photographer's work was cancelled over aweekend, just two weeks prior to its'
opening, without the prior knowledgeof the shows curator.

NEWS FOCUS
Seeking to mend fences after arash of negative press, demonstrations, protests, letters,' Congressional
lobbying efforts and a boycott of themuseum by several artists who were

to exhibit their work, the museum
issued a statement Sept. 18, expressing its regret for the decision.
"By withdrawing from the Mapplethorpe exhibition, we, the Boardof Trustees and the Director, have
inadvertently offended many members of the arts community, which we
deeply regret,· the tersely worded
statement read, "Our course in the
future will be to support art, artists
and artistic freedom of expression.·
Just prior to the statement, ,issued
months after the cancellation ~f thecontroversial display, which featured
Se, CORCORAN onp,~1.

The Move to Outlaw SIM Art

S/M Activists Debate

Meaning of Censorshipby Jon Nalley
NEW YORK-Overlqokedin thedebate over the cancellation of Robert
Mapplethorpe's exhibition have been
S/M issues surroundingthat gayartist's work and Senator Helm's specific attack on SIM, say gay S/M
activists. to this end approximately
two hundred packed Gay Male S/M
Activists' (GMSMA) September 27
forum at the Lesbian and Gay Community
Services
Centerwhich
explored the noted photographer'st~s t~ and the Helm's Amendment's
ilnpact on the S/M community.
The first artist to make S!M a legitimate subject for art and to elevate S/Mbeyond pornography and documentation, they viewed slides of Mapplethorpe's work-some.
from the private
collection of a GMSMA member. Different perspectives on Mapplethorpeand Helms were offered by Village
Voice arts editor Richard Goldstein,
writer Gary Indiana, and National Gay
and Lesbian Task Force (NGLTF) Privacy Project director Sue Hyde.
Grimacing as he apologized forhis written remarks-prepared"for avery straight group of museum people in Chicago"-:-Indiana
put into
context Mapplethorpe's career whichstarted with doing Polaroid work in
the early 1970s. He also noted theimportance of the artist's lover andpatron Sam Wagstaff, a noted curatorof Modern Art at the Detroit Instituteof Art. Viewing art instituJions as
having the responsibility to take risks
and be confrontational,
Indiana
noted that Mapplethorpe's S/M photos were never shown until last
year's groundbreaking
show at theWhiting Museum-which
he doubted
would, hav.e been done had the artist
not been dying.
"Robert took a lot of shit fromthe gay community" when he wasalive, Indiana reminded the audience.

of Mapplethorpe's work which chal"The worst press he eVer received
lenged "the sexually crippled andwas from the gay press." He rememrepressed" who see pornography asbered attacks on Mapplethorpe for"ipso facto evil." The writer
being "politically incorrect" and reprebemoaned official culture's "vocabusenting images which made certain
lary of shock," in which' thin~ familsectors of the gay community uncomfortable. Indiana credited the artist for , iar to people in the late eighties arecalled shocking. "To be shocked bybringing the various parts of the se~ality spectrum into view and cited, as
things we know is brutality."
S.. SIM on page 19
redeeming, the pornographic aspect

Photo: Jim Marks

THE ARTIST BEHIND THE UPROAR

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reversed itself and voted 62
severalhomoeroticandto 35 to strike the amendsadomasochistic
imagesment from the military approamong other more traditionpriations bill to which it was
al still Iifes and portraits,
attached. The bill is now
realist painter Lowell Nesbitt
headed for a House/Senate
conference committee.
wrote the Corcoran out of.JLJ:'
his will, depriving the gallery.
Meanwhile, the Corcoof an estimated $1 million.
ran, in more attempts toredeemits
reputation,
The funding controversy,
J "began last spring when con- ..J " J ,i,approached Group Material,
servative
membersofan artists' collective, to curate
Congress railed against two
a Corcoran show about censmall NEA grants used tosorship, not knowing that afinance a tour of the Mapmember of the collective,
pIethorpe retrospective and a
Julie Ault, is married towork by ~Andres Serrano,
Andres Serrano. Groul' Matewhich portrayed a crucifix
rial refused.
submerged in a jar of urine.
Calling the Corcoran "awishy-washy liberal instituSen. Jesse Helms (RN.C.) seized the opportunity
tion,· Group Material mem- I.
created by the controversy
ber Felix Gonzalez-Torres
over the Corcoran's decisionsaid, "They don't really want
to 'cancel the show to proto address or create a dispose an amendment to thecourse on the issue of cenappropriations bill coveringsorship and the right-wing
the NEA's fundingthatattack on culture. They justwould ban the organization
want to save ·face, and fix
from funding art which istheir reputation.··obscene,
indecent,or S & EMBARRASSMENT
And many artists feel that
Photo:Jim Marks
homoerotic.the Corcoran's statement is
Anti-c.nsDrship d.mD at th.CDrcDran,Jun. 6, 1989.
As part of the gallery's
inadequate. Some have called
conciliatory gestures towards the arts voice vote, it lost a key round Sept.
for Orr-Cahall's resignation. Annette
community, Orr-Cahall has since spo- 13 when the U.S. House of RepresenLemieux, a painter who cancelled her
ken publicly against the Helms
tatives voted 264 to 153 on a technicalone-woman Corcoran show, told The ,amendment, and the gallery has' sent maneuver preempting a vote on it,
New York Times, "It was not the kindout a mailing opposing the measure.
after Rep. Sidney Yates (D-I1I.)
of apology I was looking for. The only
Although the Helms amendment
dubbed the amendment itself "pornoword I heard was 'regret'; everyone'originally passed the Sena~e on a graphic.· On September 29 the Senate
regrets th'e -situation:..
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Indiana asserted that straight society and the art world saw the artist's
death from AIDS as a parable on thewages of sin and a way to close thebook on supposed sexual excesses of
the 70s that he captured on film. The
Voice columnist felt the artist had successfullyaccomplished "what he wanted to do with photography [which)
was more startling and ambitious thanwhat was done" before.
Richard Goldstein challenged
the view that Mapplethorpe's work
was a promotion of the values of
S/M, pornography and sexual heterodoxy. Rather than seeing the powerof the artist's work in terms of
pornography-which
he viewed as
stylized representations in which noone is ever sick, ages or sneezes,
Goldsteinfelt the core of Mapplethorpe's
talent lay in capturing
images "fraught with anxiety as well
as arousal.· Citing the famous workin which a man wearing a polyester,
three-piecesuit has a large cocksticking out, Goldstein felt that theartist challenged the racist ideology
which would lead a white man livingin 20th century America to see the"effusion of primitive into civilized"
as arousing.
The true power of Mapplethorpe's work, Goldstein believed, washis ability to confront such images
through distressing voyeurism which"forces the realizationthat theseimages are universal whether we sublimate them or not.· The writer dismissed comparisons of Mapplethorpe
to Nazi propagandist Leni Riefenstahl,asserting the former's humanistic andorganic images of people as they arevaried immensely form the "idealized"
studies of the latter.
He also believed that homophobia and the representation of male onmale images, couched in S/M byHelms, was the true crux of the Mapplethorpe/NEA controversy. Calling
Helms the virulent ringleader of official homophobia, Goldstein told theaudience that the North Carolina Senator is "the McCarthy of the eighties,. and we are his enemies.·
A founder of the Cambridge
Feminist Anti-Censorship Task Force(FACT) which, in 1985, successfully

fended-off the first ballot initiative to
ap~rove an ~drea Dworkin-inspired
anti-porn ordmance, Sue Hyde cautioned GMSMA members not to view
the NEA funding controversy-thefirst time a proposed Federal law has
mentioned sado-masochism-asan"esoteric D.C. fight between ivory
tower artists" and mean-spirited conservatives. Rather, they must see theHelms amendment as a direct assault
on those groups most readily seen as
sexual and, a way to hide the ex istence of our community by denying it
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Anti-Gay/Lesbian
Record Level

Crime at·'Anti-Vio/ence Project Swamped;
De/uge of Court Cases
by John Umlaut
NEW YORK-"Thlspast July was our busiest
month In history,·
saidDavid Wertheimer, reflectIng on a summer that saw
an explosionof antlgay C.
bias crime. ·We had 85.
new cases In July alone, of"i_~;,;.,;;

attempts to Intimidate thelesbian and gay community wUl fail utterly.·

Video For All Cop.

This spring, all New
York City police wereshown a video, Anti-Gay-VIolence, that discussed
examplesof crimes basedwhich 59 were classified as _'fI;;'li;1fIiIIIIII&
on sexual orientation orbias-related violence.· More·1
perceived sexual orientathan
half the victims
tion. Wertheimer said that
required medical treatment;, while police response stillseveral were hospitalized.
variesgreatly
fromAs executive director
preclnct to preclnct, theof the, New York Gay andattitude of a preclnct's
Lesbian Anti-Violence Pro- -,commanding officer canject, headquartered in the .
make a great difference.
Lesbian and Gay CommuniHe cited the example
ty Services Center at 208
of a man who was gayWest ,13th Street, Wert- ~..
bashedinmidtown
heimer said more cases are,around
10:30 pm on
being reported, more are
September 20 and thenbeing prosecutedand a
cal1ed the police. The first
few notable victories haveofficer to arrive asked him
been scored [see sidebar).
whether he was gay, andThe. response of thewhether his attackers had
NYC Police Department toused anti-gay language,
bias incidents is improving"because,· he said, "if it's
gradually,
he
said,
.
identified as a bias-related"although we still have. a "WE ARE ALL RESPONSIBLr
Photo: lL. Lltt case, it's more serious.·long way to go.· The BIas.
rth.
Incident Investigating Unit D.vld W. 11m"
The officer was then able
to arrest two perpetrators, who were
has nearly doubled the number of les- rise in antlgay bias crimes indicatesstill in the area.
blan and gay cases they investigatedthat our community is increasing in
Wertheimer said that the 10th
every year since 1985.
strength. The goal of bias-related via-:
preclnct(Chelsea)
has recently
Wertheimer also complimented
lence is to intimidate us and make us
improved its historically poor attitude to
the Manhattan District Attorney's
invisible, by scaring US 'back into thegay bias crimes, and he also cited theoffice for maintaining a full-time liai- closet,' just as Yusuf Hawkins was a
1st preclnct (City Hall areaY ~s' very
son to the gay and lesbian communivisible African-American in a commuresponsive. The 6th precinct (Greenty-Katie Doran-to track bias-relatednity-Bensonhurst-that
didn't want
wich VJllage) he said diplornatia\lly, cancrime cases.
to see that.
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Gay Activists Fight

Australian Sodomy Law
by Rex Wockner
HOBART, Australia-The
renegade corps of gay and lesbian activists
on the small Australian island state of
Tasmania, who have stunned gay andstraight Australia and grabbed theattention of gay a~ivists worldwide in
the past twelve months, are calling foran anniversary international day ofprotest Oct. 22 as they continue theirrelentless fight to overturn the state's
sodomy law.
Gay activism here, previously
nonexistent, was sparked last year
when authorities in the capital city of
Hobart (pop. 150,(00) banned a small
booth set up by the Tasmanian Gay/

and Lesbian Rights Group [TGLRG)atthe Saturday morning outdoor Salamanca Market.
In the two months that followed,
hundreds of gay and straight Tasmanians protested the ban and, beginning
Oct. 22, 1988, 130 persons committed
civil disobedience by continuing tostaff the booth.
By early December public opinion nationwide had turned against theincreasingly aggressive rhetoric andtactics of the Hobart city council andpolice force, and authorities surrendered completely, paying TGLRG's$10,000 in legal costs and renouncing
their previous actions.

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Salamanca Market as it would any city
street, Wthe city council conceded.
Activists were elated. But thefight had only begun.
As politicians struggled for powerin Tasmania's multi-party system, lesbian and gay rights escalated into themost important social and politicalissue in the state. Right-wingers
scheduled anti-gay rallies in small
towns and attracted
thousands.
Crowds were incited to frenzy withlurid details of gay sex acts andpromises that an international homosexual conspiracy was plotting tooverthrow all the world's governments.
This led more Tasmanian homosexuals to come out of the closet andjoin the TGLRG.
A confrontation
at one of thehuge rallies, for which 900 farmers
and 60 pro-gay activists turned out inthe smalI,city of Ulverstone (pop.
10,@',-was indicative of the charged
climate blowing across the island.
TGLRG took to the streets with a"Talk To Us Not About UsWcampaign.
All the national 1V networks were on
hand.
"I was absolutely terrified,w said
TGLRG founder Rodney Croome in a
Sept. 25 telephoneinterview. "Itremindedme of the 1950s in
Atlanta-something you'd see on television.
"They talked about this inter~ational conspiracy,w Croome continued,',"and said the aims of our movement
were to genetically engineer perfectmen for our personal pleasur~i ~nd topervert all men for our purposes.
They talked about some horr~pdous
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sexual practices of gay men."
The crowd reacted by chanting,"Kill 'em, kill 'em.·
And then something happened
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A young man walked up to an
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And the batde continued to escalate. State Attorney General John
"Bullbars· Bennett told the press,
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Newspapers printed scores of artiTHE PANEL
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Jonathan W.M. Gold, M.D.
Barbara StarreH, M.D.
front pages.
Memorial Sloan-Kettering
St. Vincenti,s Medical"There was just no other issue,'
Croome said. "The three major daily
Cancer Center
Centernewspapers were stuffed with homoJeffrey Laurence, M.D.
Fred Valentine, M.D.
sexuality.·
Cornell
University
Medical;,
New York.University
By late summer (winter in TasCollege
Medical.Center
mania), the state elections were overand the shouting, ·protests and calls
Daniel ,William, M.D.
for murder were on hoM' for the
St. Luke's / Roosevelt Medi.cal Center
moment. The conservative Liberals.
THE MODERATOR
had been knocked out of power by a
new Labour and Green parties coali.
Bernard Bihari, M.D.
tion, and newspaper polls showed
DirectorofResearch / Medical Director
that 43 percent of Tasmanians wanted
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Research Initiative (CRI)
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Tuesday, October 10, 1989 - 7:30 P.M.
supported' the sodomy law. TGLRG
began weekly candlelight vigils outSt. Joseph's School, 111 Washington Place(Off Sixth Avenue Near IJIIcNert'I Place)side Parliament
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USoutofnc
WASHINGTON - A 1989 congressional amendment to the District of Columbia's budget, ordering
the District Council to limit its lesbian and gay rights law, is unconstitutional on the grounds it violates
the Council's First Amendment rightto free speech, a federal appeals
court ruled September 26.
The amendment, sponsored by
Sen. William Armstrong -(R-Colo.),commanded the Council to vote tochange its lesbian and gay rights
ordinance to exclude religious institutions from its provisions, or forfeit
all its funds for the 1989 fiscal year.
"The votes of [District Council
members), like the votes of any
other legislator, constitute 'speech'
protected by the First Amendment,"
said the ruling.
Congressroutinely
tries tosway the voting in state legislatures by linking federal funds tocertain legislative decisions. For
example, Congress recently forced
most states to raise thier legal
drinking age by tying the decision
to the availability of federal highway funds.
The District's position is unique,however, because its entire budget isadministered by Congress, and theArmstrong amendment threatenedall, not just a part, of it's funding.
Rather than change its law, the D.C.
Council challenged the amendment
in court.
Armstrong's amendment was
inspired by a 1987 court decision
forcing Catholic-run Georgetown
University to fund two campus gay
and lesbian organizations.
This year, suspecting that his
previous rider would be foundunconstitutional, Armstrong succesfully amended the 1990 appropriations bill to directly change D.C.'s
gay rights law by Congtessional
mandate.
That bill will now be debatedin a House/Senate
conference
committee.
- Cliff O'Neill

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week, he attended an opening for a
documentary film on the Names Project's AIDS Quilt at the Parsons
School of Design.
-Andrew Miller

More beer,right now
DAVID DINKINS

Photo: Scott Morgan

Brave DaveNEW YORK-David
Dinkins,
Democratic candidate for mayor,gave -a brief lesson in gay anti-bias
legislation to a group of elementary
school students at P.S. 7 in theKingsbridge section of the Bronx on
Wednesday, September 27.
According to sources in the
Dinkins campaign, the candidate, on
hand for School District 10's AntiDrug Day, spoke to the children
about the perils of drugs, but thenaddressed the subject of a New YorkState hate crimes bill that would
include lesbians and gay men in its
protections. The bill has been stalledin the Albany legislature for a number of years.
Dinkins reportedly explained tothe students that the bill would help
victims of violent attacks "based onthings like race, color, or sexual orientation." He then looked directly at thestudents and asked, "Do you knowwhat sexual orientation is? Do you
know what lesbians and gays are?"Some savvy Bronx residents nodded knowingly; others only giggled.
After being criticized for not
mentioning the lesbian and gay community's support or directly addressing the AIDS crisis in his victory
speech on election night, Dinkins hasoften spoken about issues of concern
to the gay community in public. Last

The Adolf Coors Company, makers of Coors beer and target of one of
the longest and most bitter boycotts
in history, acquired most of thebrands and breweries of competitor
Stroh Brewing Company on September 25, according to The New YorkTimes.
Coors now controls 18.7 percent of the American beer market,
and owns products marketed underthe brand names Stroh, Signature,
Schlitz and Old Milwaukee, and willcontrol the licensing rights to Piels
and Augsburger brands.
Since the official end of thelabor boycott agains~ Coors, thecompany has been aggressively
courting markets that, previously
eschewed its products, including thelesbian and gay community. Whilesome gay bars now carry Coors andsome gay and lesbian publications
accept the cQrnpany's advertising,others in.the community have called
for a continuation of the boycott,pointing to financial and philosophical company ties to right-wing organizations
likethe
HeritageFoundation.
-Andrew Miller

Movin' onup (x 3)"WASHINGTON - The Human·
RightsCampaign
Fundhasannounced the hiring of three veteran grassroots organizers to sr.earhead
the organization's
mailpressure program. The new full-time
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Dittman most recently worked on
the successful campaign to pass
Chicago's lesbian and gay humanrights ordinance. Woolard is thepresident of the lesbian and gay
rights chapter of the Ge01gia American Civil Uberties Union, and coordinated the Atlanta committee of the1987 March on Washington.
"The right wing has badly out~
done us on this front for years andyears," said Endean. "We're in theprocess of turning that situation
around."--Andrew Miller

Koop reads

ReaganWASHINGTON-The National
Commission on AIDS held its first
substantive meeting here Sept. 18
and 19, hearing testimony from people with AIDS, government officials
and AIDS activists in attempts toplot o~t a course of action:
The bipartisan panel, createdby congressional
mandate, wasformed to develop a governrn~nt
consensus on AIDS and implement
the recommendations of the Presidential Commission on the HIV
Epidemic, which were left largely
unaddressed by the administrationof President Ronald Reagan, during whose tenure the Commission
was created.
Speaking about that lack of
response, former Surgeon General
C. Everett Koop said, "I know it; youknow it; we all know it: Nothing' hashappened."
Calling AIDS a disease which
has enonnous potential to "polarize"
factions of society, Koop warned
that as the disease is quickly becoming a "disease of poverty," society's
factions may polarize further.
"People say, 'It's their problem,
not ours," Koop said. "It used to bethat 'their meant homosexuals; now
it's been expanded to mean Blacks
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Frank•
IncenseWASHINGTON-Adding
theirvoices to the peal of support echoing across the nation's gay and lesbian communities, the National Gay
and Lesbian Task Force and the
Human Rights Campaign Fundjoined forces September 21 to support Massachusetts Congressman
Barney Frank during a House ethics
panel's investigation of him.
Frank, one of only two openly
gay members of Congress, cameunder intense scrutiny after Stephen
Gobie, a former employee, madepublic that Frank had originally hired
him for sex. Gobie also alleged that
he had run a prostitution service outof Frank's Washington home with
the Congressman's
knowledge.
Frank has denied the charge.
"Barney Frank is a crucial advocate for lesbian and gay causes, aswell as many ot.her important
issues," said NGLTFexecutive director Urvashi Vaid, naming anns control, elderly concerns, hornelessness
and child welfare. "We need him tostay in office for a long, long time."
The organizations' announcement
came amidst reports that Frank is considering submitting his resignation.
Although the Boston Globe called forFrank to step down, many otherpapers, including the \Vashington Post
and The New Yon\! TImes, have comeout in support of the Massachusetts
Democrat.
-Andrew Miller

Navy blues .
WASHINGTON- After an earlier victory in his lawsuit against the
U.S. Naval Academy, former midshipman Joseph Steffan'S case suffered a setback in September when
Federal Court Judge Oliver Gasch
forced him into a five-hour grillng
by federal prosecutors, who questioned him about his sex life.

Because homosexual sex is aviolation of Military Code, Steffan'S
testimony is potentially incriminating.
Paula Ettelbrick, legal director
for the Lambda Legal Defense and
Education Fund, which is representing Steffan, maintains that Steffan'S
sexual history is irrelevant, claiming,"The reason he was forced to resign
was not because of gay conduct, but
was based solely on his admission
he was a gay man."
Steffan filed suit in Federal
District Court last year, charging
that the U.S. Naval Academy withdiscrimination for forcing him toleave less than two months before
his graduation.
The court's agreement to hear

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the case was seen as a victory bylesbian and gay military rights advocates, after the court rejected theAcademy'S arguments that the caseshould not be viable because Steffan
had resigned voluntarily.
Steffan said that one lawyer
asked him, "If you knew you were
homosexual
when you were asophomore, why didn't ,you resign
then and save the government allthat money?"
Steffan and his lawyers are concerned that the case may now be
dismissed before going to I 'trial. But
Steffan promised that he would takethe case to the Supreme ,Court, if
necessary.
-John Zeh

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Compound Q & A
by Mark Harrington
Few drugs have aroused such a
furor as Compound Q. No one knows
yet whether Q will be an eJfective treatmentfor AIDS, but we do know that Q's

side effects are someNmes severe, perhaps even fataL Project Inform, which

vestigators released a 13-page summary of their results, along with 39
pages of data on individual patientsand charts of changes in p24 antigen
and T4 cells-blood markers used tomeasure chan
V's activity andthe imtember
19, P ...
eetin'
edrecently completed an unofficial studyof Q in people with AIDS, stated on
September 19 that it ·conNnues to d:courage self-prescriptton and selfication with Compound Q andthat buyers' clubs refrain from dis.
bution or importatton. "Derived from the root of thenese cucumber trichosanthes kirili
the purified protein trichosanthin
HIV-infected macrophages in the
tube and spares uninfected cells.
has been used in China for very d'
ent purposes. Injected into the uti
it causes spontaneous abortions.
jected into the blood, it attacks cecancer tumors.
~
Clinical trials were delayed
two years while the discoverers of Q
anti-HIV activity waited to secur
their patent and sold licensing rights
to Swiss pharmaceutical giant Sandoz.
Two trials of Compound Q in
people with AIDS began in April. One
is still underway.
It is a traditional
Phase I safety study-small, slow andstarting with very low doses. The second study, now complete, was sponsored by Project Inform, the San Francisco AIDS treatment information
clearinghouse.
Doctors in four centers-New
York, San Francisco, Los
Angeles and Florida-tested
for evidence of safety, toxicity and possible
anti-HI V activity in about 60 people
with AIDS. Project Inform's study started at the lowest dOse used to induce
abortion in China. Both official andunofficial studies infused Q once
weekly for three weeks.
On September 5, the Florida in-

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slowness of speech andT.
headache, dizziness and slowness ofspeech, severe and radiating pain andnumbness in their shoulders and cluster type headaches, severe hives,
vomiting and nausea, severe andoverwhelming pain at the injection
site and tissue necrosis, phlebitis,swelling of the legs and fever."In Florida, Q "exacerbated Kaposi's
sarcoma in our two patients who were
presented with this syndrome. By their
third infusion of trichosanthin, both reported the appearance of new lesions
on their lower extremities at a pace thatfor them was unprecedented·'Side effects, according to Martin
Delaney, occurred at all dose levels.
After taking Q, some people had
ymptoms ranging from mild confuion to seizures and coma. Thesemptoms often occurred three days
.er infusion and lasted less than one
y. Treatment with' Decadron, aroid, sometimes helped reduce
rological symptoms.
After the neurological symptoms
n to occur, Project Inform recomnded that investigators screen pats for pre-existing neurologicalblems. This screeQing lowered,
did not eliminate, the headaches,
izures and the one reported coma.

I turbance,is active in the body-VI
t is hard to separate reports
icity from reports about its
leyseem to be closely Iinlm
lood levels used to assee system, like T4 cells,viral activity, like the p2
m HIV's core, changed sl
er the changes were staU
nt remains to be seen.
nts rising from 33 toto 101 (as happeneI) really help improvi.em of a person w.
her antivirals,,rtional to i
fthe.
What about
We have
were in the
protocol did not
pation. Considefects on a woman'stern(it induces
abortion), women in particu
be aware that no one knows about
using Q in women with HIY.
What about Q's side effects?
FloriCla researchers reported side
effects including "gait ataXia, severe
neuropathy, confusion, balance dis-.t about the chance of death?
Three people (out of 51) diedafter participating in the Q study .
One had a coma, then revived,
breatheat~ vomit and died. A second
had Kaposi's sarcoma (KS) in his
lungs. He committed suicide after Q
failed to arrest the course of his KS. A
third, in New York, had a temporary
paralysis, seizure and dementia, whichreversed without Decadron. Later heunderwent a progressiveper!pheral
neuropathy, diarrhea, wast:ing and. ~weeks after taking Q. Projectis attempting to appoint an impartial board of New York physicians,
possibly including a community mem:
ber, to examine the circumstances surrounding the third death.
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Can Q be used without unacceptableside effects and unnecessary defiths?
We don't yet know. It is diffiCUlt

to evaluate the information available
from Project Inform's study. It appears that the study was conducteddifferently at all four sites.
Most AIDS clinical studies arepoorly designed and executed. Rather
than nitpick Project Inform's study todeath, we should explore the issues it
raises to focus attention on designingbetter AIDS trials in the future.
How can drug trials guarantee
good patient care?
People put their bodies on theline in clinical trials-people
withAIDS. People who put their bodies,and sometimes their lives, on the line
for research deserve the very best·
medical care during the trial and follow-up. We have to make guidelines,
soon, to ensure that people in trials
are treated well. We should also insist-that these standards of care are applied whenever any person with AIDSor HIV infection receives medical care.
Patient care is the greatest vari~able in clinical trials. Can AIDS trials
be designed to guarantee state-of-theart medical care to all participants
during both the treatment period andthe follow-up? If they cannot, trial' results are suspect, since survival often
depends more on patient care thanon the drug being tested.
How can good data be obtained intreatment protocols?
Can treatment protocols provide
desperate patients with unproven treatments and gather useful scientific data?
This is far from clear. An unscient'study is unethical: it exposes people toneedless risk, while no one can benefit
from the resulting lost or confused data.
The Project Inform Q program
was described both as a safety study
and as a treatment protocol The two
aims were in conflict, and were further
confounded by the secrecy with which
Project Inform's study was conducted.
Variations in executing the study in thefour centers added to the confusion.
Recently, activists succeeded in
making the government promise to
distribute certain experimental substances outside of controlled trials
through the Parallel Track program.

will drugs available on Parallel Track
have unnoticed side effects which will
do more harm than good? How will
data be gathered on Parallel Track(which is essentially a treatment protocollike the Q study)?
How can organizers assure thatmulti-center trials are consistent?
How can results be generalized if
every study center implements thestudy plan in a di". ent way? In the
Phase II AZf stud" ( New York patients on placebo ·:"'0' . Yet nineteen
di~d e1sewhere>,J;",/\country .. Was~~~e';~li~:A'llJtp~~~;~:;How shoul,viewed?
Shouldview of un
can the e
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month"
pointsdesignunity reHow else's develpeopleof theT
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most poor peopl/e of color. Does th
Id be dispensed wi
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eal needs of PWAs?
re unoffi
cantil.
Many people fear that controversy surrounding the Project Informstudy may stifle future unofficial ~cials.
How can these trials protect subjects
from unforeseen events?' How canthey be structured to avoid fear of
legal sanctions if something goes
wrong? How should investigators report possible drug-related effects if aparticipant requires hospitalization?
What contingency plans should bemade for un'foreseen
disasters?
Should there be stopping rules if too
many adverse
reactionsoccur?
Should unofficial studies start before adrug has ever been used in HIV-infected people? If so, at what doses?
can unofficial studies provide access to underrepresented groups?
Most of the participants in boththe official and the unofficial Q studies
appear to have been white gay men.
The Project Infonn protocol could not
recruit subjects, since that would havemade it a "study," not a "treatment protocol." Most subjects, therefore, accessed the. trial through the practices ofparticipating physicians. If future unofficial studies are conducted, thought
must be given to ways of widening access, or we will only find out how to
use the drug' in white gay men.
What standards should community based trials, official or unofficial, meet?
Should studies conducted within
the community be held to lower standards than studies conducted by the
AIDS establishment?
Communitystudies, whether official or underground, should be more aware of
problems with ,previous trials.. They
should be more aware of the need forgood patient care. And they shouldbe held to high standards of scientificinquiry, because if they don't answer
the question they ask, we'll have tostart all over again.
Where do we go from here?
We have to acknowledge
theheroism of all the ,PWAs who volunteered for the unofficial Q study. Evone who was ..involved deserves
ognition for thei~ courage and initiative. Even if mistakes were in Project Inform's study, they are dwarfed
by the unethical procedures routinely
found in official clinical trials. Considering the scope of their task, it isimpressivethat so few disasters
occurred.
No one should be punished for their role in the unofficial
study. Criticisms of the study, likeany other, should be focused on how
to improve future studies, and on
how to reinforce the unity of thecommunities affected by AIDS so that
we can go on together to find, test
and distribute better treatments.
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Sandor Katz

Conllnentary

What's in a speech?

T

he one time I can remember
being moved to tears by apolitical speech was in 1988
when Jesse Jackson addressed the
Democratic National Convention and the nation. He mentioned lesbians and gays andit was the first time I'd everbeen spoken to as a gay person-except
as a deviant
agent of disease---on national
television or by a national p0litical leader.
.
Now we all know speeches don't transform reality.
Rhetoric is the easiest thing in
the world But for lesbians andgays, the simple act of recognition is significant. This is because our oppression stems
from invisibility, ignorance andfear. For us, simple recognition
is a. rare thing. It is far from
sufficient, but it is a necessary
first step.
This .is why it was so
painful for so many lesbians
and gay men when David
Dinkins failed to mention us
in his speech proclaiming victory in the Democratic primary. Our community played acentral role in that victory.
Published Daily News exit
polls indicated the 58 percent of voters who identified themselves as lesbians or gay men voted for Dinkins. A
CBS News/New York Times exit pollsuggests an even bigger gay vote, 71
percent for Dinkins. (Pollsters warnthat the samples were small and thatthe possible margin of error is high)Dinkins' campaign manager apologized for the omission the next day,and said it wouldn't happen again. So
far it hasn'tj at a major speech to
Democratic bigwigs, Dinkins madetwo different references to the lesbian
and gay community and one to peo-

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pIe with AIDS.
Clearly Dinkins is aware that hemade a big mistake and is repenting.
He has the potential to be a powerfuladvocate for people with AIDS and forlesbians and gays. Indeed, as BoroughPresident, Dinkins aggressively fought
for increased funding for AIDSservices,and was a reliable supporter of lesbianand' 'gay rights issues. On the Friday
night before the primary he even campaigned in lesbian and gay bars.
The question is not whether or
not Dinkins supports us. He clearly
does and his opponent, Reaganite homophobe Giuliani, clearly does not.
The real question is when we electDinkins-which
we had better-towhat degree will he be willing to takeon the battles important to us? Politicians as a rule do not take risks if

they can be avoided. Things likechanneling funds to rebuild the city's
health care system and offer treatment on demand to intravenous
drug users, and broadening domestic
partnership rights, are enormous p0litical risks. Dinkins will select his
challenges to the status quo carefully. Will he be willing to put his fullweight behind our battles?
A related question is: Will
Dinkins be bolder than Kochin appointing open lesbians
and gays to visible non-token
positions in government? By,.. this I mean not just on thehuman rights commission andthe ·Office for the Lesbianand Gay Community." Howabout something
like theChild Welfare Administration,
to explode a few myths? Howabout a publicly HIY antibody
positive health commissioner
here in the city with the greatest concentrationof AIDScases in the world? What astrong message that wouldsend! Obvi~usly for any ofthese jobs we want Dinkins toappoint top people, but there
are talented gays and lesbians(and HIV+ people, some gay,some not) in every field.
J
Our community may well:find itself in a new role. We
have traditionally been an oppositional force, by definitionaBd by necessity. Under Dinkins, we may have more access andinfluence. Koch has been an enemy
in recent years. With rare exceptions,
he has not sought input from lesbian, gay or AIDS activists. When
our opinions have been offered, they
have largely been ignored. The mayors who preceded him ignored uscompletely.
How will a Dinkins administration deal with activists, specifically,
but not limited to, ACT UP? And how
will ACT UP and other activist groups
deal with a Dinkins administration?
See SANDOR KATZ o~ paoa 33

New York Journal

COlnmentary

Emergency Room Gamesby Randy Wicker
5:00 a.m.
As I write this, David Combs,

my lifemate, lays strapped to an IV on aportable stretcher a few feet away in
N.Y.U. Medical Center's Emergency
Room's corridor for the fifth consecutive night.
We got ·primo" space
our first night here-an
alcove at one end of thecrowded hallway "privatized" by a flimsy threepanel screen.
David arrived severely- . dehydrated. Moments after
being processed, placed ona stretcher and attached toan LV., his pulse dropped
to 70. over zero.
"He's very weak," thesupervisingnurseannounced
solemnly,"hischances of surviving thenight are slim.""This is the best spot in
the hall," she explained, .
jostling ~everal stretchers
around, maneuvering us inand placing the screen. "It'smore private here.""Why is he sweating
so?" I asked.
"He's probably going
into shock. The sweating isa sign his body's systems
are beginning to shut down."
Fifty days warehoused in Hoboken's St. Mary's Hospital dealing with
PCP and a partially collapsed lung, followed by five days of uncontrolled
diarrhea at home had brought us to
our last gateway of hope-N.Y.U.
Medical Center-which,according tothose we thought should know, wassimply "without equal."
Despite a million dollars worth ofprivate medical insurance, and even a
couple of contacts with well-placed, big-name docs, we found the inn was full.
Yuppie Truth. Thousands of dollars spent on insurance the last three
years and here we were sharing a florescent-lit hallway with two drug users
rapping about jail experiences; a chubby middle-aged executive with a walrus moustache screaming in pain from~,a back injury; a pale, groaning, elderly
woman attached to a bubbling" beeping cardiac monitor; a handsome suaveyoung clone tended by his lover; anhispanic PWA fouling his new wraps
and bedding almost as quickly as theharried nurses' aides changed them;and a half dozen others.
Reality sandwich-too many people, not enough room. Upper class,
middle class, lower class; drug heads,
fag heads, executives-all human flotsam and jetsam floating around thehospital hallway, all waiting for thosealready-filled rooms. Neither money,
nor insurance, nor need could get aroom that wasn't.
Politics of life and death. Social
worker games-OWe can get you aroom at another hospital-St. Clares,
Beth Israel, Bellevue, Doctor's Hospital." A few faces disappear.
Politics of life and death,
Nurses' games-OWe can arrange nursing care at bo~e.
Take him home. You can doalmost as much for him at
home as we can do here."More faces disappear.
A rotund woman in herlate 'Sixties sits in a chair.
Sleeps upright all through thenight. Nerve <4mage up anddown her left side. Ten days
sitting,and sleeping in the chair
waiting for a bed upstairs.
''Those rich folks upstairs
have beds," she pi.ins, "richfol'ks with insurance." I say
nothing but silently cheer
when she gets a bed the following day.
~"Every AIDS patient must
~ , have their own private room.
:5 I Hospital policy!" the medics-! explain'.' "No telling when'I-'
I0 you'll finally get in-<iays and'0da ys, wee k s."..c:~"Of course you can leave
any time, A.M.A.-AgainstMedical-Advice. We can arrange anambulance home and nursing care.
Your .insurance will pay for it.""Oh no, you can't go into Co-op
care here. You're too sick for that. No
LV.'s allowed in Co-op care.""Well enough to go home," I
puzzled. "But not well enough to go
into Co-op care?""Oh no! Sir. I didn't say that.""You must sign out A.M.A.Against Medical Advice," the social
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Positive Alternatives

Holistic Treatments:
Where's the Research, Where's the Proof?
by Bob LedererW

ith the medical establishment's
failure to
make available lifesaving drugs against HIV and AIDS, an
explosion of self-experimentation has
taken place. Underground networks
and independent clinics have helped
make available not only neglecteddrugs, but also holistic treatments
ranging from acupuncture to herbs tonutritional
supplements
to dietchangesto spiritu;llhealing.
Some-though certainly not alI-practitioners and users (people with HIV+and AIDS) have reported positive results, from mild symptom improvements to dramatic returns to health.
Most long-term AIDS survivors saythey have used some combination ofsuch alternative approaches.
Confronted with this, many doctors (among those who'll even discuss
unapproved treatments) counter thatthese are merely "anecdotal reports,"
insufficient to justify trying a treatment. They say the treatments must
be proven through clinical trials toprovide scientific evidence of effectiveness. The AIDS movement has responded-appropriately-by
pressuring government to accelerate suchtrials and working to establish community-controlled
clinical research
programs (like New York's Community Research Initiative) to generate thenecessary evidence.
But inevitably the emphasis has
been on drugs, not holistic treatments.
Some AIDS activists have even joined
orthodox doctors in dismissing holistic
advocates as non-believers in the scientific method or, more darkly, accusing
them of fearing negative study results.
While some holistic advocates are
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ods designed for drugs, and others
hold vested financial interests in treatments (vitamin manufacturers, for instance), .there are also legitimate, scientific objections to the standard,
double-blind clinical trial techniques.
Serious questions have been raised
about viewing all people in a "diseasecategory- as having the same characteristics and give each identical treatments in order to gather "clean- data.
I will return to this controversy in a
future column.
But what about those willing to
put aside any objections and risk thepossible negative results? Most holistic
health practitioners run individual practices or small clinics, often on
shoestring budgets. Manufacturers ofherbs, vitamins, nutritional supplements, etc. are usually small companies
with tiny research budgets. In spite of. these obstacles, a few treatments have
had very small clinical trials, someshowing preliminary positive results.
Without the resources of a major
pharmaceutical company, the key toshowing the effectiveness of a holistic
treatment-andthus gaining public
acceptance-is getting a major university research center or the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to run a c1ini.cal trial. But according to Oxford
University physiologist Clive Wood,"the catch-22
is that orthodox
medicine will listen to [holistic] claims
only when it has some 'hard' data to
substantiate them. But such hard data,
by definition, can be obtained only
from clinical trials carried out in a
medical environment and involving atleast some medicallyqualifiedstaff-just the people who are not interested until they are able to seesome hard data.'
Why such a systematic lack of interest? In the case of AIDS, it goes beyond the racism, sexism and heterosexism which have for so longrelegated AIDS research to an unimportant priority. As Dr. Cesar Caceres,a former NIH lab director and now an
AIDS specialist in private practice, explains; "Many [university] research
projects are done to benefit the drug
manufacturers, not patients or science.· The driving force, he says, isadvancing personal and institutional
power, clout and salaries. University
researchers "get a percentage of additional research money they bring infrom drug companies.'
Similarly, the NIH's nationwide
research priorities for all diseases reflect an entrenched bias towards treatments developed by the most powerful pharmaceutical and medical-technology corporations, who have strong
political clout in Washington. Lost in
the shuffle, indeed purposely ignored,
are drugs, herbs and vitamins produced by smaller companies--not tomention alternative ~pproaches likeacupuncture and homeopathy which
could undermine the market of thepowerful medical profession and hospital industry.
"The one common factor behindvir~~.aLly/every treatment attempt
receiving serious research attentionAZT, vaccines, interferons, CD4...anda few others-is
hot prospects forcommercial gain. - So says John James,
the San Francisco gay researcher who
founded and edits AIDS Treatment
News. His biweekly publication, now
in its fourth year, has been a trailblazer in uncovering and documenting
the effectiveness of potential newtreatments ignored by the medical establishment. James' continue~, "Nomajor institution, government as. wellas private, will seriously c<>.~s.id~ratreatment solely on its medical andscientific (as opposed to commercial)
merit. If it's a plant that anyone could
pick, a food in general use; 'a ,~ommon industrial chemical, or a health-~with other drugs. Respected doctors
food product, it won't be considered,have made numerous requests forno matter what the evidence.·
In 1987, James wrote, "The com- NIH to test nutritional supplements
for AIDS, such as megadoses of Vitamercial forces driving AIDS treatment
min C, and lentinan, an extract fromresearch favor high-tech, patentable
the Japanese shiitake mushroom.
options--thevery ones which takethe longest to develop. Simple, avail- Both have shown promising results inclinical practice; in both cases NIH ofable, off-the-shelf treatments, alreadywell known in human use, could be ficials refused or interminably delayed
repeated proposals for clinical trials.
applied much more quickly; but thesekinds of treatments have little com- As James notes, "U.S. government remercial potential.· James' words still search agencies have licensing arrangements whereby they will receive
ring true today; the fact that several
fancy new drug~dl,
ddC and Com- royalties from the sale of some AIDS
pound Q-are getting ac;celerated re- anti-virals [such as AZTJ, but not othsearch and may be nearing release is ers. Naturally these agencies are likely
only due to the militant activism of to champion the drugs in which theyseriousthe various ACf UPs (AIDS Coalitions have a financial interest-a
conflict
when
the
same
agenciesalso
to Unleash Power) around the country. But these advances are still Iimit- •ed to potentially high-profit drugs.~
manufactured by major corporations .
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To what extent will Dinkins be willingto take the Political risks which are inherent in the dramatic reorientation ofpriorities which activists demand?
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How much patience wUl Dinkins haveto remain accessible to activists whowill in all likelihood be criticizing him
publicly and constantly?
These are exciting questions.
There is no question in my.mind thatDavid Dinkins offers us hope andthe possibility that we will be prominent partners in the coalition governing the city.
Let's support him and give him a·chance. But if he leaves us out of his
administration as he left us out of his
acceptancespeech, we owe him·nothing. In the immortal words ofEmma Goldman, "If I can't ~nce thenit's not my revolution.·...

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by George De Stefano/~~/:f;;"No homos in Bensonhurst!"
Last month gay men and lesbians_joined Blacks and other anti-racists for amarch through a predominantly ItalianAmerican Brooklyn neighborhood
toprotest the slaying there of Yusuf
Hawkins, a Black teenager from East
New York. As they marched through thestreets of Bensonhurst, they braved abarrage of homophobic abuse whichrivaled in ferocity the racism directed at
the Black protestors,
The gay-baiting came mainly fromgroups of loud and pugnacious youngmen, the kind Pete Hamill likes to call
"guidos" (among themselves they're"cugeens,"
from cugini, Italian for"cousins"). You know, the same louts
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have made them irresistible to the·media, and no doubt, fascinatingly
repellant to decent white folks who of
course would never engage in su~h vulgar displays of bigotry.
The young hatemongers cursed thegay marchers and screamed sexual
taunts ("Wanna suck my dick, faggot?"),while others, according to a friend ofmine who marched, "simulated assfucking and made jerk-off motions with
their hands."
Startling though that impromptu
street theater must have been, it's thechant of "No homos in Bensonhurst!"
which intrigues with its ambiguity. Did
the cugeens mean "Homos get out of
Bensonhurst" or ''There are no homos in
Bensonhurst"?
The former interpretation
seems'more apt. But the latter reading works,
too. It's not true, of course. Though notfrom Bensonhurst myself, I'm gay, Italian-American, and have met and hungout with omosessuali from the nabe.
One visit to Spectrum, the popular disco
in nearby Bay Ridge, will dispel any
notions that Bensonhurst is barren ofsame-sexers. Those boys and girls withthe unmistakably Sicilian or Calabrianfaces (and the fierce coiffures) don't
drive in from Great Neck.
"No homos in Bensonhurst" deni€sreality, but it's that very denial which characterizes the prevailing at,titude towards
homosexuality in that Brooklyn community, and, indeed in most Italian-American
enclaves. There are no homos here, andthere shouldn't be any homos qere.
The source of that attitude is theculture of Southern Italy and Sicily. The Spike Lee hit on
most important element in la via vec- Southern Italian anxichia, the traditional
way of life, is ety about being too
close to Africa whenlordine della famiglia, which sociologist
his Mookie points out
Richard Gambino defines as "the unwritten but all-demanding and complex sys- that Pino, the racist
pizza boy, has kinks
tem of rules governing one's relations
within, and responsibilities to, his [sic] in his hair, too.
In an urban vilown family, and' his posture towards
lage like Bensonhurst,
those outside the family.".
wherela famigiia
Southern Italians and Sicilians
forged la via vecchia in response to the rules and your family
unique conditions they faced. Civil soci- knows my family andknows
ety was virtually non-existent, and the everybody
state, based in distant Rome, was at best each other (or so it
seems), homosexualiirrelevant, but more often, oppressive.
The family-based cultUre was hostile to ty, like racial difference, makes one an"outsiders" because outsiders, whether
foreign invaders or agents of the Italian outsider-scomunicato. The gay man orstate, were indeed threatening.
lesbian flouts the famiThe Italian immigrants transplanted
ly system and hence
this traditional way of life to America,
the community.
where WASP hostility (which included
police brutality and even lynchings in* * * *" parts of tµe South) reinforced their
Virginia Apuzzo,'".?unique cultural porms. In the decades
since the peak years of immigration, ital- who grew up in alargely Italian commuians have assimilated to varying degrees.
But while la via vecchia has been modi- nity in the Bronx simified in America, the family system born
lar to Bensonhurst,-ISOlATED FROM POWERPhoto: n. Littin the old world remains the dominantsays "if you're gay or Virginia Apuzzo
lesbian and Italian,social institution among Italian-Amerispend New Year's Eve with my 18-yearcans. This is especially true in an insular, you just don't fit in, you don't meet theold lover, but where could two women
virtually homogeneous enclave like Ben- expectations that when you grow up
go to be together? ·So the two of us
you'llmarry
SalorAngela,andthefamisonhurst, where, moreover, many resimade reservations at a restaurant but welies will know' each other. It's very saddents are tmmigrants.
went there wearing black dresses, prethat the Italian community has been
The fear and mistrust of outsiders
a repertoire"of tending we'd just come from a funeral!"
who are perceived as threats to la via slow to recognize
Apuzzo says she had to escape hervecchia is all too often manifested as human possibility.
community to be herself-a not uncomApuzzo, formerly executive directoranti-Black racism. Many Bensonhurst
mon experience for gays and lesbians ofof the National Gay and Lesbian Task
Italians associate Blacks with crime,
any ethnic bacl;cground.
Force and currently assistant deputy
drugs, and social disorganization, which"I had tri be so idiosyncratic thatmakes them the most threatening of out- commissioner for Consumer Affairs in
is a people stopped expecting me to considers. There's also an element of intra- Mario Cuomo's administration,
form. So I did tlre really atypical thing fornationally known and widely respectedclass conflict in the relations between
an Italian woman in 1959-1 went away
leader of the gay and lesbian movement.
Italians and Blacks, as members of these~ut when she was young she felt "isolat- to college, tQ get away from my family.·
two groups compete for increasingly
Though of mixed ancestry, Apuzzo
ed from power by the fact of being italscarce blue-collar jobs in manufacturingconsiders herself "a devout Italian." "Iian, a woman, and a lesbian."and the trades.
"The Italian community,' she says, love Italian culture,· she says. ''There's so
Yet another aspect· underlying Ital"at least when I was growing up in the much that's good in it. And now I feel
ian anti-Black feeling is touchiness aboutthat being Italian illuminates rather thancolor (and features and hair) among Ital- 40s and 50s, put women on pedestals,
ians themselves. Northern Italians like to but when you're on a pedestal your feet conflicts with who I am as a lesbianactivist.· But attaining that wholeness, shesay, "Everything
south of Rome is are in cement, you can't move, I think
Africa." Over the years I've heard some the only women who face worse pres- says, requires Italian-American gays andlesbians to come out to their families:of my paesani insist they're "white" Sicil- sure to conform to a rigid female role''We can't disavow who we are to them."are Hasidic and Muslim women."ians. When I was a child, my paternal
The constraints imposed by her
grandmother once warned my mother to*****keep me and my brother out of the sun community frustrated the teenage Apuzzo's attempts to come out.
In 1989, Jim, a gay man in his midbecause "they'll look li~e melanzane"I remember wanting ~o badly to twenties "born and bred in the heart of(eggplants)." In Do the' Right Thing,*

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Bensonhurst, 86th Street and Bay Parkway,· faces some of the same struggles
Virginia Apuzzo confronted in the 1950s.
And like her, he feels he has to escapefrom his community.
"You just can't be yourself here,· hesays. "You have to live two Iive5-<)nebehind closed doors, and the other is
your public face. Suppose you got a
wiggle to your walk, or you do a hand
movement or say something in a different way from the guys on thecomer-you're
fucked.·Jim works as a salesman in a men's
clothing shop in Bensonhurst. "I getguys coming in the store and they say,'don't give me anything with pink in it.'Why not, I say. 'Cause it's faggy,' theysay. I say, 'whaddya mean? What's faggy
about pink? I wear pink, do you think
I'm faggy?' Then they usually get defen"ill

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Ang.'s Christofid.s
sive and don't know what to say."
Not that anyone would consider Jim"faggy." Six-feet tall, and muscular, withdark Southern Italian good looks, heconforms perfectly to the masculine
image prized in his community. Or so it
appears. But recently he decided he'd
had enough of conforming to expectations, and he came out to his family.
"Knowwhat happened?"herelates. "My father said, 'you got fiveminutes to pack your stuff and get outof here.' So I did."
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with his friend Annette, a lesbian and apolicewoman who lives in the neighborhood. A week later he found himself anapartment not far from his parents' home.
Although 'he lives nearby, he feels
thoroughly alienated from his family.
"My father says he can't look at me. My
mother thinks it's her fault. 'You need
help,' she told me. I said, 'No, you need
help. I can deal with it, it's you who
can't.' My brother said, 'If I catch you
with another man I'll kick his ass andthen yours,' I don't know, maybe in timethey'll realize I'm still their blood."
Asked to compare Bensonhurst racial
attitudes and its homophobia, Jim says,"some of these kids here will see a Black
man and wanna fuck him up. I thinkthat's wrong." But he believes his community is more homophobic than racist.
"Look," he says, "you go to 86th

this neighborhood,· he continues. "Youwalk the streets and see familiar faces
from Spectrum. But everybody's scaredand covering up.".
Several days after I spoke with Jim
he left for a week's vacation in San Francisco. If he likes it there, he plans toleave Bensonhurst for good and move tothe city "where most of the people aregay or at least bisexual."*****

Mike and Earl are two lovers who live
together in an apartment in Bensonhurst.
Mike, who grew up in the neighborhood,
is Italian; Earl, from the Bronx, is Black.
Mike and Earl (not their real names) live ina mixed residential and commercial areathat is more ethnically diverse than most of
Bensonhurst. Their neighbors include Italians, Asians, and Hispanics. But Earl is the
only Black on the block.
Earl has lived with Mike for four'months, and so far he hasn't been hassled. In fact, he "comes and goes at all
hours of the night.· But since the murder of Yusuf Hawkins, he sometimes
worries that he'll find himself "in thewrong place at the wrong time.·
Mike likes to point out that "Bensonhurst is safe. My grandmother neverhas to worry that she'll be mugged, andyou can't say that about Bed-S~uy.·
Mike's attitudes, about race, racism,and his community are confused, evencontradictory, revealirig a divided self. His
sexuality and his relationship make him an
outsider in Bensonhurst, a fact he seems
dimly to recognize. But out of loyalty to
his community of origin he defends its vail ues, the good and bad ones alike.
i .'One minute he lauds the Italians of
Bensonhurst as "hard-working, decent,family-oriented people" only to say inthe next breath that they're "some of themost prejudiced people there are."Blacks, he says, "can walk around
Street and you'll see Blacks and whites
here and not be hassled." Then hewalking together. Black people come in admits to warning Earl "not to go to cermy store all the time." "What happened
tain places at night." He says Bensonto that kid [the murder of Yusuf
hurst's housing is off-limits even to
Hawkins) was an isolated thing that's' affluent Blacks: "You could be a doctor
being blown out of proportion."or a lawyer and not get within a !.nile of"But if you see two gay guys
a house here if you're Black." Isn't thatwalkin' on 86th Street," he argues, "you unjust? "That's the way it is .in theknow they're gonna get harassed. Peopleboros,· he shrugs. "It's very sectioned
here will freak out."
off, with different groups of People livWould the gay guys be attacked?
ing by themselves.""If they were holdin' hands or being
Mike claims he's "learned a lot"obvious, they probably would be."from Earl about "the indignities Black"Hey there's lots of gay people in people go through every day.';' Onemorning, while running to catch the
subway, Earl was stopped and questioned by a transit cop. Another time hewas waiting on line to use an outdoor
ATM machine at a Manhattan bankwhen a cop demanded his identification.
He was the only Black on the line.
Mike accepts that Earl was harrassed
simply because of his race, but he resists
seeing his lover's experiences as racist
injustices. He argues that because a disproportionate number of Blacks commit
crimes, it's logical, if un(ortunate, thatthey attract more attention from cops
than ,do whites. "It's a shame that thegood Blacks have to suffer for theactions of the others," he says.
Mike says neither he nor Earl has
encountered any overt homophobia in
Bensonhurst. They both keep a low profile and never act in what he calIs an"overt" manner.
"Neither of us looks gay,. he says.
"And two men sharing an apartment
over a store don't attract much attention.
We'q,draw a lot more attention to ourselves if we lived in a more residential
area and owned a home. Then people
would be very interested in knowing
who's living next door to them.·
Mike says that several years ago "righton my grandmother's block" residents
harassed an interracial married couple outof the neighborhood, smashing the windows in their apartment and scrawlingobscene racist graffiti on their driveway.
"If they could do that to a straightinterracial couple," he says, "I can imagine what they'd do to a gay one."*****

When she was in her early twenties,
Angela Christofides, who grew up in
and around Bensonhurst, moved withanother lesbian into an apartment located on 18th Avenue and nnd Street, inthe center of Bensonhurst. Before long,
her landlady, an immigrant from Italy,
realized that her two tenants and their
many friends weren't the sort,·of nice
Italian girls she wanted in her building.
After a few months of harassment,
which included having their heat turnedoff, Christo fides and her roommate
moved out.
~It was a pretty horrible experience,· she recalls.
Now 31, Christo fides is a lesbianactivist and founder of Brooklyn Lesbians Together, a year-old organizationth~t has sponsored several dances andas well as an envirorunent of casual vioIenoe
potluck dinners. BLT claims a mailinglist of nearly 1,000 women, most of and a profound sense of alienation from sowhom reside in the boro. According to called mainstream society.
Christofides agrees. "When the ItalChristofides, approximately 150 are Italian community realizes it has commonalian-Americans from Bensonhurst andities with the Black and Puerto Rican
Bay Ridge.
"The Italian women are difficult to communities ...you have to acknowledgeorganize,· she says. "I know lots of and respect differences, but the commonalities are where we'll build."
them--they go to Spectrum-but they're
Ethnicity in America, notes Richard
not very out. Being famiiiar with theirGambino, has two possibilities. Jt can be
upbringing, I know they face certain"tribalistic or chauvinistic" or "creative.·taboos against being politically active.
The're are some Ital••
ian lesbian organizers, but they don't
live in Bensonhurst.·
Christofides
says she "became
aware
o(
race
before I knew about
gender or sexuality." Her GreekAmerican father, a
policeman in Bensonhurst, "believed
Blacks and Puerto
Ricans ruined New
York.· Influenced
by her Italian grandmother,a devout
woman who maintained that racism
was un-Christian,she began to challenge her father'S
racistand reactionary views.
"When I went tocollege," she says, "I
studied psychology
and sociology and HOUSE OF TRAVOLTA .
.
Photo: Ellen 8. Neipris
began to understand Formerly 2001(where Saturday Night Fever was filmed), Speca lot more about trum is packed on weekends with a mixed jrowd of gay men
race and ethnicity. and lesbians.
"
Growing up in a racist community' you On~ sets "us" agai~st-"them"i the otherhave to work hard not to become a draws upon the best in one's backracist, and part of that work is becoming
ground, providing "identity, energy andeducated."
direction" while respecting and appreciAfter earning a master's in social
ating difference.
work from Hunter College, Christofjdes
I'd like to think that gay and lesbian'
was hired as a human rights specialist by Italians,
could
use our unique
the New York City Human Rights Com- insider/outside perspective to help foster
mission. Her work includes conducting
creativity and weaken the kind of tribalanti-bias programs in New York public
ism poisoning the soul of places likeschools. She observes that New York's Bensonhurst. First we may h~ve to Iiberrace problem "is also a problem of ate ourselves by getting some psychic
youth."and physical distance from our commuI mention that 'many working-classnities of origin. But wherever we are, weyoung Italians face some of the same socioe- should do the right thing and challenge
conomic problems as poor Black youths: the chauvinists when they presume tohigh dropout rates and limitedjob prospects, speak for tutta fa famig/ia.
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Stanlsy Papio and his sculptures.

A Thousand and One Nights in Key Westby Jack Nichols
Key West. Its name conjures the tropic
outpost that it is, a gentle quaintness
against an endless sky, one last sounding of laughter and festivity before
descending westward to the sea.
Key West is the creation of earthy
souls: bawdy pirates, ghosts and legends, treasure-seekers, lovers. It is theKingdom of Conch, symbolized by the
wayward sound of its sea-shell horn.
Key West is the stench of rum, the scentof coconut, a magic stage where eachsplendorous
sunset bows towardevening.
On the spacious waterfront gather
those who keep alive a legendary outdoor theater. Here, troops of dancers,
singers, actors, gymnasts, jugglers, artists
and even fire-eaters vie with the setting
sun for your attention. Here a photographer captures a newcomer's
profileetched against the pageantry of theheavens while an ancient parrot sits
astride his arm. Here the bewitchmentsof the street performers succeed. Eachtries his or her hand at beguiling thecrowds, collects coins and disappears
with the sun into Key West night.
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a real promenade. See decorative talents
in store windows without commercial
convention to hold them in check. It isgay creativity run amok in sleek, exciting color.
Along Duval Street there are several
picturesque restaurants. Saunter throughtrellises into a courtyard twinkling after
dark. Hear Broadway tunes mix with theprattle of waiters and the incessant chatter of those being served. An old 'world
gra<;,.tQusnesscasts its spell over goodsmeflrng cookery. A patron sips his
Black Russian at the bar, thumbing
through a generous advance menu.
He'd changed flights in Miami,
arriving at Key West International, a terminal straight out of Casablanca with
one short runway and one gate. Stairs
were wheeled to the door of his plane.
Before taxiing to Old Town hestopped at East Martello Museum, adjacent to the airport, an historic Civil War
fort and art galleries. Originally constructed in 1862, the old fort was turned,
in 1949, into the home of the Key West
Art and Historical Society. He's told ofexhibits celebrating Key West's manychanges through the century, including
artifacts from days when spongedi'ving
and cigar-making fueled th-e i!lland's
economy before the tourist trade began.

The works of Stanley Papio, a folk
sculptor, are part of the East Martello
Museum's permanent collection. Papio is
acknowledged as important, not only tothe folk art of the Florida Keys but toAmerican culture itself. The one-timewelder-turned-sculptor
created distinctive metalworks, ·creatures" with satirical resemblances
to humans which
origin~lIy populated Papio's own Folk~;
Art Museum, a roadside junkyard framed
by a fence built of ramshackle upright
bed springs. In 1984 the National
Endowment for the Arts recognized
Papio's creations as a national treasure
and assured their preservation with agrant.
/
Key's West's renaissance sparkles in •the hands of those to whom the making SIZE QUEENS?
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Tand straight alike, lives the spirit of Tennessee Williams who labored throughthe decades in his Key West Cottage,
now a landmark. It was at a Key Westbar in the mid-50s that a reporter fromthe infamous Conftdential magazine sat
next to Williams and had the effrontery
to ask, •Are you queer?" The author,
reportedly, turned on his inquisitor andscreamed, ·Of course I am, but it isn't
any of your damn business."
The best spot from which to see abreathtaking panorama of Old Key Westat night is from the bar on the roof of La
Concha Hotel (Holiday Inn) a tall,
restored pink deco building also on
Duval. A good way to see the wholeisland (in 1 1/2 hours) is by Key West
Conch Tour Train, at $10 that's worth it.
But don't forget to ride on Fireball, theglass-bottomed sight-seeing boat, where
you can be your own Jacques-Cousteau.
See Key West's great architectural
landmarks,
the Curry Mansion, theBahama House, the Southernmost
House. There are varied museums too:
the Shipwreck Museum, Ernest Hemingway's home and museum, the Audubon
House and Gardens, the Lighthouse
Museum, the treasure exhibit, the oldest
house (1829), and of course, Tennessee
Williams' cottage.
On this urban island the best beachis, in the opinion of one fussy native, Ft.
Zachery Taylor. "Yes, it's near thedumps, but it's clean because the water
goes the other way." East, on Bahia
Honda Key, 30 miles distant, is Bahia
Honda Beach, a wondrous stretch. ofinle~ and coves, gently lapping waves
and:'ciystal clear waters. If you're into
snorkling, there are no shortages ofopportunity to descend into the clearest
seawater depths.
The fast season, says a hotelman, is
between February 14th and Easter.
Jammed. Any three-<lay weekend or h~liday is jammed. Weekdays, as on Fire
Island, are fun. The slow season is fall
until Fantasyfest. New Year's Eve is Key
West's busiest night. But even on a busy
night, rife with honking horns, revelry,bawdy laughter, it is easy to ;>ee why
Key West is the oddly-placed flower ofFlorida culture, appearing at tpe bottomof the peninsula and of America itself,
yet offering the gay traveller tops inpride in community-a tribe pride-thatcrosses genders and classes wif,h genuine ease, toasting all to enjoy tonight's
hospitality.
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GALLO from page 11

combine it with something and gamble on that, rather than gambling on
having a relatively innocuous strain of
the virus,· Gallo told Out Week.
Co-Factors and HIV
Another increasingly prominent
development in Gallo's thinking is thetheory that secondary viruses can
speed HIV's ability to damage theimmune system.
Gallo said that cytomegalovirus
and HTIV-l have been shown in thelab to increase
immune systemdecline "two- to four-fold" in the HlVinfected. He also said that human herpes virus-six (HHV-6) may be an
important AIDS co-factor, although he
has not yet produced any data toback up this theory.
According to Gallo, studies measuring the effects of drugs such as
AZT on immune system decline
should ideally examine the co-factorsthat may also be involved.
..
- filed from Chicago
CRIME from page 2tI

be good, but it also has some problems.

\

Review Board Slammed
Most critically, Wertheimer said,
the procedures for reviewing civilian
complaints about police misconduct
and bias must be made accessible tothe community. While the Civilian
Complaint Review Board is made up
of six police and six civilian representatives, its investigators are almost
exclusively police officers.
"This significantly erodes theconfidence of the community thatcomplaints will be treated fairly,· hesaid. Democratic Mayoral candidate
David Dinkins favors civilian controlof the review board, he added.
Wbne the Manhattan DA's df'tre gas
ku:bs fran ~,he'Siid that a \iai9:)0 to the <nmlmly i<; badly needed in thedher fi:u baough DA df'r::es. The assistant D.A.s n thale otIh:s whm are designated bias-am:: cmtads ha~ full caseIcOOs
and are ;.s \e$ aocesstie, he said.
A full 53 percent of the project's
cases' for the first half of the year
were from Manhattan, but Wertheimer
said that doesn't reflect the reality of
gay-related' bias crime.,(The remain-ing figures are: Brooklyn--20 percent,
Queens-8
percent, Bronx-6
percent, and Staten Island-4 percent.)"The project just isn't reachinglesbians and gay men in the outerboroughs yet," he said, although some
precincts in areas perceived to havelarge gay populations do respond
appropriately to bias incidents. Amongthem, Wertheimer cited the 78th in
Brooklyn's Park Slope area, and tWO
in Queens: the 102nd (Kew Gardens)
and 115th (Jackson Heights).
Kids and Courts
The main problem, he said, iscrowding and a lack of appropriate
responses in the court system--especially family court. "The system wasnever designed to deal with theunprecedented violence we see today
in juveniles," he said. Gay-bashingsuspects under 18 without prior convictions almost never receive morethan a lecture from the family court
judge, and their records are sealed
and destroyed when they become
legal adults.
One solution is the New YorkState ,Bias Crimes Bill-held up again
last year by Republican State Senators.
It would raise the charges for bias
crimes one level: for example, from
3rd to 2nQ.~degree assault, whichchanges the crime from a misdemeanor to a felony-andmakes itmore likely that a convicted gay-basher will actually go to prison.
"Our community also needs toexamine its own response to these incidents," he said. "One of the most troubling things about the recent Carl Schurz
Park incident was that there were plentyof people in that park-many of themgay men--but only one man went tohelp the two people being attacked by adozen teenagers.
"We also need to promofe basic
attention to safety,· he continued,"especiallyamong gay men whobring home a stranger or spend time
cruising in the parks. Those are bothvery risky things to do."Outreach
Like many gay social-services
groups, the Anti-Violence Project's
dreams of expansion are limited by its
resources. In five years, it has quintupled~ budget, to $250,00>, of which roughly
8J percent is provided by the state.
"We need to reach out to theouter boroughs,· Wertheimer sighed,"and to gay men and lesbians of color.
To that end, all of our literature is now
available in Spanish, and we hope tohire a Spanish-speaking staffperson .•Following a long, hot summer inwhich its services were called on
more than ever before, the projectcontinues to work with its clients,
advocate pursuit of various cases tothe police and prosecutors and to
publicize the existence of anti-gay
and -lesbian bias crimes. It promotes
such causes as the Anti-Bias. Bill, its
staff speak in many forums, andWertheimer himself is constantly quoted on the issue by those news media
willing to cover the subject.
"All of us are responsibleforworking toward the creation of anenvironment in New York in which
every lesbian and gay man lives life
free from the threat df violence,"
Wertheimer said.
..
AUSTRAUA from page 23

two months now. But with extensive
actions planned for the Oct. 22
anniversary, Tasmania rests precariously on the precipice of anotheranti-gay frenzy.
•
Extensive activities are planned
not only in Hobart-where a plague
will be dedicated at Salamanca Market-but also in Perth, Western Australia and Brisbane, Queenslandcapital cities of the other two Australian states with sodomy laws.
In recent months, Queensland
police have jailed homosexuals who
were found to have had sex in theirown bedrooms, gleaning their information in one instance from a diary
they picked up during a bedroom raid.
"Not only will we see the end of
sodomy laws forever,· Croome said,"but' we hope in the long term to create a new sense of purpose and identity for lesbian and gay Australians.
Until last year, gay rights action had
really been at a low ebb."
Apart from Tasmania, Queensland
and Western Australia,25 U.S. states andIsrael are the only Western democracies
that ban lesbian and gay love-making."-filed fromOiicago

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In these frightening times of The Monster Helms and his deadly, censoring bite. it's no real surprise that
artist Michael Perelman created a huge brouhaha when he put his installation in a gallery space open to all students at his school, Hunter College. Placing it under a window and away from all the other art in the room, Perelman created three sections: 1) gay pornography laid on the floor as if it were being sold on the street. with the word
-homoerotic· written on the wall; 2) a rope on the floor, with the word ·sadomasochistic· written on the wall; 3) aplastic maraschino cherry on the floor, with the word ·fruit· written on the wall.
But 24 hours didn't even pass before other artists whose work was already in the room immediately
pulled their hard-edged abstract paintings down in protest, replacing them with a sign stating that Perelman's
work was -an act of violence which attacked the lack of content· in their work. And now a group of students is
meeting with faculty so as to implement a system which will prevent anyone from putting up his or her art without
getting consent.
Says Perelman: "They said my work was calling them fascists. I just thought there was sO(llething missing in the space; work about the body and our lives:
-M.S.

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Connie left her office at the travel agency early on Friday afternoon,pick~d up Maxine in front of the townhouse on East 74th Street and checked her lipstick in th, rearview
mirror. When they crossed the border of Suffolk CountY,Connie put the top down. '"Just managing to beat the traffic on the LI.E.,they were on that stretch of the Montauk Highway between the Hamptons and Amagansett in less than two hours. .
They were so excited they barely spoke the whole way out, but their knees sometimes pressed together when Connie accelerated, and when she downshifted at the stoplights-her hand would lightly brush Maxine's thigh. 'The salty breeze swept through their hair. Maxine leaned over, turned up the Jackson Browne tape and rustled through the Balducci's bag for another chocolate truffle...

\The New Yorhr art director looked up from his drafting table. Madonna on the
cover of Vanity Fair is one thing. Lesbian activists in Glamour are one thing, he thought But
this was, after all, the New Yorhr. Things were going just a little too far.
- Andrew Miller

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BY

Dear Brad:
You seem like somebody who's
fairly knowledgeable
about thesethings so maybe you can tell me
what's going on. Tonight, for mybirthday, my ex-lover, Chad, 'took me
to Sweeney Todd at Circle in the
Square. Maybe I should get out more,
I don't know, but I could swear that I
already saw Sweeney Todd in thatbuilding except that it had something
to do with the Industrial Revolution
and everything was much bigger andthe theater was called the Uris. Chadassured me that the theater has always
been called Circle in the Squarethough I somehow thought that was
down on Bleecker. Anyway, after theshow, I suggested we go over to 45thStreet and have a drink at Charlie's
but Chad said Charlie's had moved toEighth Avenue where the Barking Fish
Cafe used to be. I didn't remember
any Barking Fish Cafe and he reminded me that it was the old Downey's
before that. So we walked to Eighthand 45th and, much to Chad's surprise, that place was Downey's! Now
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the exact same people were still
singing "On the Street Where You
Live." Chad and I both drank a lot of
gin and somehow started fighting
again about that time he tried to pickup one of the associate trainees at myoffice Christmas party (Chad, ofcourse, still maintains that they were
only swapping stories about theirrespective college days at Dartmouth).
Anyway, he wound up storming off
somewhere and left me to cover thebar tab. I managed to get home as
quickly as I could and now I'm writing you because this whole night hasme freaked out. Could it be pOssiblethat instead of having a birthday I've
slipped into some kind of time warp?
And, if so, does that mean Chad and I
are still dating? It sure feels like it
and, frankly, I'd rather be staked toan ant hill th'an have to live throughall of that one more time, especiallythe quaaludes.
-Barry.
Dear Barry:
I'm not seeing Sweeney Todd
until this Friday so I can't quite speak
to this matter with. absolute authority.

Last week, however, I did go to the
Neil Simon Theater, formerly the
Alvin, to see Vanessa Redgrave inOrpbeus Descending, formerly Battleof Angels, subsequently Tbe Fugitive
Kind. You know, to have the opportunity to see Ms. Redgrave perform
live on stage has been a dream ofmine since I was a small child andheard about something called Tbe
Prime of Miss Jean Brodie. I was, tobe quite honest with you, so dizzywith ·the anticipation I didn't think I'd
be able to contain myself. Fortunately,
during intermission,
I spotted mytherapist in the lobby. Imagine, thetheater management has gone so far
as to provide psychiatric aid to theaudience! Just the idea of that kind ofhelp being immediately available ifneeded, allowed me to participate
fully, if vicariously, in the emotionallyharrowing
and often exuberant
moments to come in the latter part ofthe evening. Ms. Redgrave gave arobust and visceral perfo~ance quite
unlike anything I had seen her give
before (being familiar only with her
film work which tends to be, for themost part, intensely cerebral). We
won't have another chance to see
such con~~.f!lmate acting until later inthe winte'r when Maggie Smith(speaking of Jean Brodie) arrives torecreate her London triumph in
Lettice and Leavage. By the way, I
can't help but notice that Jane Fonda
has been receiving a great deal of
publicity of late. Perhaps the renewedinterest
in both her and Ms.
Redgrave's
careers
might spur
Hollywood to consider making Julia
II I'd be most willing to help expedite such an enterprise and, in fact, I I
have a first draft screenplay in my.
desk drawer. In the meanwhile, I suggest that you keep away from the gin.
My experts inform me that it can produce certain disruptions in the fourth
dimension. Happy birthday!
...

TI
everyone-in
both the straight world
andthelesbianandgaycommunity~is now screaming at eachother and debating this issue 'til kingdom come. After all, that's what we'refor, aren't we?

* * * *by Michelangelo Signorlle

But sadly, none of this reallyseems to have changed things yet,dear friends. William Norwich (Daily
News) hasn't learned from all of youreducational phone calls, as can beseen by the current mini-interviews heWell, the shit hit the fan.
It's probably
notnecessary for us to recap
what happened last week when the
New York Posts Amy Pagnozzi interviewed us and then the paper ran astory headlined: MAGAZINE DRAGSGAYS OUT OF THE CLOSET. Of
course not, since you all probably,read it (and I just explained it, anyway). As usual, the "mainstream"
media distorted the entire situation,
blowing it up and likening us to
Senator joseph McCarthy. We findthis pretty ridiculous considering that
McCarthy was a right-winger trying to"expose"communists(with Roy
Cohn-A CLOSETED GAY MAN!-by
his side, I might add) in an attempt tosquash their movement, while we areradical fags trying to get a message
through to our own kind in power sothat we can stop an epidemic and fur-AllY
MGNOIII

ther a movement. But, what can we
expect from a kriee:-jerk liberal
reporter, especially one whose editors
are reactionary right-wingers (it's quitea bizarre scene nowadays at the Post)?
Anyway, the Post story did cause
quite a stir. We were contacted by\every slime ball media outlet in town
from the National Enquirer to The
Phil Donohue Show. Of course, theirmotives are completely different fromours, but I suppose it's Qealthy that

did with-you guessed it-homophobic artist Mark Kostobi and that monstrous wife of the fascist, Pat Buckley,in the current
issueof HG.
Meanwhile, in the Daily News, William
F. Buckley made another horrificattack on fags and dykes regarding
censorship and the Helms amendement while Norwich, just a few pages
later, wrote glowing things about his
spouse Pat. A few days later, Norwich
wrote all about a party thrown by Pat
and Bill in a column headlined: IT
WAS SAMBA ENCHANTED EVENING
A LA BUCKLEY.
Is it me, dear friends? Or is thisjust plain sick shit?
I do think, however, that we are
getting a rise out of Liz Smith ~Daily
News). In last Sunday'S column she
writes another puff piece about New
York magazine's julie Baumgold andends her fawning with this: "It is writer Baumgold's overview, her satiricaleye and her genial humor and understanding of human nature that put her
head and shoulders above so many of
today's suddenly quite vicious members of the Fourth Estate. There's anasty new breed out there operatingwith no restraint. They only want the
blood and guts of anybody in the
public arena." Well, dear Liz, if it isme you are referring to, you should
know that it's not your blood and guts

I wantj it would be enough for me ifyou simply stopped fucking us over.
And just to point out that it is not
merely I-or The Queer Nation, forthat matter-who
is upset with thesetwo columnists, pick up a copy of
New York Press which can be found ina gross green dispenser on any cornerin the city. In their Best of Downtown
1989 issue, the "Best Reason To Be
Embarrassed About NYC journalism"
Award goes t~you got it!-Liz Smith.
New York Press explained: "The damage that Liz Smith inflicts on all NYC
journalists can't be overstated.
Six
days a week Smith, or her ghostwriters, fill a half page in the News withpress releases, paybacks, favors forfriends, shameless plugs' for upcoming
magazine articles, thinly veiled pleas
for acceptance from the rich and powerful, paens to over-publicized creeps
like Donald Trump and roars ofapproval for everyone and everythingthat comprises the status quo. That
she's apparently teaching her younger
colleague Billy Norwich that it pays tokiss ass all over NYC bodes ill for the
future of gossip columnists in this city,
And because she's taken seriously,
unlike the Posts Suzy, who's so deep
into a weird fantasy society world that
her ravings seem almost quaint, herclout is everi more dangerous: This is,after all, the woman who allegedly
cautioned Vanity Fairs Tina Brown totread lightly on New York's ruling elite
lest her child be denied admission to

the right public school, advice Brown
seems to have taken to heart. Liz
Smith's brand of journalism is so
fawning, so obsequious, so provincial,that you'd swear she was a scribe for
the Mayberry Herald and not theproud Daily News, a paper with a circulation of over one million. The reputation of every New York journalist issullied each day her column appears."
Need we say more about these
two jerks, dear friends?
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kes
on
Paradeby Liz Tracey--------------,46

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..

October 8, 1989

Contrary to popular belief, I do attend potluck
dinners. On many a Friday night, I find myself hauling my butt and a salad on the subway to Brooklyn.
Why, only a few weeks ago, I was at a Miss America
potluck-yes, a dinner held around that most American of traditions with competition based on purely
subjective objectification: beauty, hair, talent (m moreon this), and the ability to answer questions of greatsocial import asked by the stupidest "television personalities· in America, Mary Ann Mobley and Gary-I
want to say Coleman or Hart--{to be quite honestwith you, I thought that woman was Phyllis George
until fifteen minutes ago).
I think the real talent of any Miss America contestant is the capability not to laugh uproariously in
Ms. George/Mobley's
face when asked about the
problems facing the communities of America regarding waste disposal. I was kneeling in front of the television, praying. Not for the souls of the contestants,for Gary and Mary Ann, or for the "celebrity·
judges ...no, I was praying for Miss Colorado to say"sewage.· It's the~e'Jittje episodes of real humanembarrassment that make these spectacles worth
cooking for (She never said it).
We all know why lesbians don't have Ms. America pageants, There is a Ms. Leather or something like
that; women who I am alternately frightened of anddesirous to be, who I always end up confusing with
Mr. Drummer 1989. While some lesbians would bewont to tell you firmly (very firmly), that the reason
S/M girls have these pageants is because they're too
male-identified to begin with, I would think it more
likely that it's to 'meeteach other and have wild ·sex
before, during and after the dungeonwear category.
Not a thought to be dismissed l:mtltlywhen planning
your next trip to San Francisco. .
Now sit down. Close your eyes and think. Can
you see it yet?? I hear the music fading in already. I
can see that coffeehousestage flooding withlight...Yes it's true ...it's ...

... mE MS LESBIAN NATION

USA PAGEANT
This nightmare fantasy immediately splinters into two separate shows:1) The Politically Correct (PC): •An Evening With Other lesbians From Around The Country, To Share Talents And Hopes
With, in the Swggle to Form Community Nationwide...". 2) The Wlldly.Incorrect (WI): (competition would be divided
into butch/femme ...): "100 DYKESFrom All Over the Nation Converge to Get Laid and Win Sex Toys!!!"(This would alternately
take place in New York and San Francisco.)
The sh;)ws would obviously be sponsored' by some greatly
differing institutions. th~ PC version by Olivia Records, Edensoy(this is soymooj think about a soy bean mooing ...), Birkenstock
International, L.L. Bean and Fruit of the Loom. The WI show
would have backers like: Sebastian Hair Products, Victoria's
Secret, Good VibrationslEve's Garden, Levi's SOls, Schott Motorcycle Jackets and Chane!.

YOUR HOSTS:
PC

Kate Clinton (the funniest lesbian in recent memoryj you
only have to have seen two in twenty to know the full depth ofher comic repetroire) and Rita Mae Brown (ex-Martina casuality,
famous lesbian writer who doesn't seem to write about lesbians
anymore, fancy that...)
WI

Madonna and Sandra Bernhardt (yeah, right, who else???)THE JUDGES:PC
Lee Lynch (famous author of The Bul/..Dyke and The...Lady,among other works), Ja~e Rule (without whom there would be no"Desert Hearts"), Lily Tomlin, Sophia Collier (of Soho Soda fame),
Urvashi Vaid (head honcha for the National Gay and Lesbian Task
Force), Alix DoPkin and Chris Williamson.
WI. Pat Ca1ifia, Deb Parker, Betty (Alison, Amy and Bitzi), Fran
Leibowitz, Phranc, k.d: lang and Susie Bright.

CATEGORIES FORCOMPETITION/SHARING:
PC
Poetry Reading: This being a time honored lesbian tradition
spanning thousands, of years, Adrienne Rich will be guest judging
the reading of her wo'rks, as well as those of the contestants.
Painful coming out poems will be worth bonus points, as well as
those using the words "patriarchy,' ·woman-identified" and "clitoris,· but only if a rhyming scheme is employed.
Comfortable Clothing: The real meaning behind this is how
comfortable you look in these clothesj no fashion consultants andextra .points are given for how little time is spent on fIxing y.ourhair right out of the shower. Birkenstocks are provided ·free ofcharge.
Casserole Preparation: Areas of expertise include: How tomanage macrobiotic/vegetarian members of your party without
sacrificing taste, ability to travel well on mass transit and weight ofleftovers after dinner. Special consideration will be given to cre·
ative tofu preparations, excluding such pre-made products such ali
tofu franks.
Relating to Your Ex-lovers at Parties/Gatherings: Is there life
after lesbian breakups? This category seeks to explore the sist,r·hood in all of us, even between you and your ex-lover's newlover, who is odds on your (former) best friend. This "role-play" ~held in a cramped space somewhere in Park Slope.
Question (to be asked of all contestants): "What role do you
see the lesbians of the future playing in the subversion of thepatriarchy, considering the fact that they seem to be the mosl
embracing of stereotypic female imagery at the moment???(30 sec,
onds to answer)
WI

Cruising/Flirting: Seeing as this is a slowly reviving art form
judging will be done on a free form basis. Guidelines, however
will consist of:a) time spent before talking...
b) time spent after first words .
c) time to get phone number .
Advanced competition will include amount of time spenfrom leaving place of meeting to bed.
Butch/Femme Drag (contestants choose one, bonus points iyou can do both equally well...)Avoiding Your Ex-girlfriends
at Parties: Suddenly ragin!
thirsts, a need for pigs in a blanket; spotting your college room
mate (who owes you quite a bit of money), and grabbing thenearest girl, sticking your tongue down her throat and whisperin!
(loudly) "Where have you been sweetie? I was looking all over fo
you ..." all will earn points at this party.
"/ Enjoy Being a Dykeu; a multi-media performance art piece
which must be conceived and executed by each contestant sepa
ratelY:S/M Negotiation:
Two women, upon 1heir first sexua
encounter, must decide "will.we or won't we?" And if so, how fa
can we go???The lesbian equivalent of high school sex.

As with all pageant shows, there will be a ~grand finale before the "moment we've all beer
waiting for_."PC,
Ii. satellite link-up with women's peace encampments all ove

the world for a multi-lingual rendition of the medley "We Are j
Gentle Angry People/Lean On Me (I Am Your Sister)."
WI.

Our gracious hosts Sandy and Madonna do a medley of "Lik.
a Prayer/Virgin/Express Yourselr' clad in suits and lingerie, whil,molesting each other on international television, finally givinl
positive confirmation to' what we already knew was true.

AND NOW THE

WINNER IS ... !!!

PC: There are no winners. It would destroy the sisterhoo<and sense of community created by the very sharing of space WIhave experienced on this night.
.
WI: A scandal ensues when Sister Codie, a drag queen, win
on write-in votes sent from a single address in the East Village...

October 8. 1989

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Reigns of Terror
W

J

I

,~

by Peter BowenAsa child of the nuclear
age-moreso than mostsince my birthday falls
between the anniversaries
of Hiroshima and Nagasaki- nuclear
holocaust haunted my childhood.
Night after night, I would see on thehorizon of my dreams the same greypink cloud rise up and hover inconspicuously at the edge of a dried-out
cornfield, in a friend's bathroom window, between the slats of New Yorkskyscrapers. Although the nightmares
ended, a fear persisted until about
seven years ago when it was usurped
by a new and different fear: the fearof HIV infection. I no longer watched.

XENOPHOBIC FALLOUT
Michael Douglas and Andy Garcia in Ridley Scott's Black Rainout of the corner of my eye for a sudden flash from behind; instead, I studied my body for symptoms to appear.
Although that fear too gave way to asense of'taking control, I have neverforgotten the shape and power of fear.
Such personal fears, however, arequite different than those publicly
constructed fears which, as in thecase of AIDS and HIV infection, arepromoted and exploited by such gaybashing politicians as New Jersey
Republican Jim Courter. Personal andt:~.,.,~- -.! 7

PERSONAL FEARS
Etsuko Ichihara, Yoshiko Tanaka and Kazuo Kitamura in Shohei Imamura's Black Rain

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public fear are equally the forces thatlink and differentiate these two films
which seem to share nothing except
the same name and the same
Japanese locale. More than just the
tar-like radioactive sludge that fell
from the sky in the days after thebombing of Hiroshima, Black Rain
evokes a hovering historiCal legacy (adismantled Japan, an imperialistic
America, the new and harrowing
threat of atomic war). In Shohei
Imamura's film are the personal fears
of individuals whose bodies-now
poisoned:"with radiation sicknessthreaten at any moment to re-enact
the destruction they thought they had
escaped. In the other film, Ridley
Scott's rather xenophobic
tale of
American cops fighting Japanesecrime, is the odd publi~ fear thatJapanese economic superiority
isrevenge for Hiroshima.
Like other Ridley Scott films(Alien, Blade Runner), his Black Rainseems almost like two films. The first
film, a virtuoso performance of cine-'
matic technique-startIing
cinematog-.
raphy, complex sound recording,slickly stylized art direction-is lookly attached to another movie narratinga rather mundane police story. 'tn theSe, BLACK RAIN on page 80 .,ArtBattling Bigotry
by Jon Nalley

Curated by Rick Barnett, The
First (Amendment)Show
which includes painting,sculpture, photographs and video ispart of the art community's
fight
against the Helm's Amendment on-. funding for the National Endowment
for the Arts (NEA). Thus, the included
works can be seen in context of

opposition to that amendment's attack
on artistic freedom and U.S. public
arts funding.
Greeting viewers, an installation by
the Coalition Opposed to Censorship in
the Arts (C.O.C.A.) includes leaflets,
placards and posters of this summer'svarious actions organized by that groupand ART+ in the wake of the Right's
attack on art-of which the Helms
Amendment is only a part. Notable inthis are demonstration placards "PissD'Amato" and "Piss Helms"-which
criticize the anti-arts stance of those twoconservative, Republican senators andare takeoffs of Andres Serrano's embattled "Piss Christ"
First (Amendment)'s diversity canbe seen either as strength or a lack of
direction. In this case, the variety of

textures, color and media should beobserved in terms of a coalition
effort-of which asymmetry is part andparcel, whether for art or people. Sure,the work thrown together in First(Amendment) may seem incongruous,
but have you seen the kinds of people
thrown together at pro-choice demos
or other large coalition efforts andwhat they look like together?
Internationally notorious for his
recent installation at a Chicago gallery
which utilized
a U.S, flag andrequired people to walk on it-Dred
Scott Tyler's silver print We Serve andProtect explores issues of fascism andtyranny within our own society. Lee
Brozgold's 1985 Hidden America
series--North
Carolina, New Jersey
S8e BATTlING

JEFF AND FRED, Neil Pole~. 1989

BIGOTRY on page 61© Neil Polen. 1989

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Theaterby Michael PallerOn the map, Laguna Beach isabout halfway between
Newport Beach and San
Juan Capistrano, where the swallows
corne back every year. In the musicalMidsummer
Nights producedby

FRIGHTENINGLY FAMIUAR
The cast of Midsummer Night
Musical Theater Works at St. Peter's
Church, Laguna Beach is a place located in the sixties (the script says 1965;
it seems more like'1962 or 1963)
where there are as yet no ~eatles,
Rolling Stones, recreational drugs(except for the occasional Love Potion
Number Nine), Viet Nam, or, for thatmatter, gay boys or lesbians on thebeach. This Laguna Beach is a far and

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Demetrius (Howard Samuelsohn), thepointy-headed nerd who has a pocket
full of pens even in his tee shirt. But
he loves Hermia, who loves Lysander,etc., etc. It all gets sorted out, ofcourse, no thanks to Puck (Harold
Perrineau, Jr.), who in his spare timeworks for two left-over beats, Oberon(Eric Kornfeld) and Titania (TraceyBerg). Perrineau is charming and personable;
unfortunately,
Puck isreduced to serving as a narrator andpurveyor of potions.
The course of these true loves
runs pretty smooth; the knots tied in
Act I are easily and almost instantly
unravelledin Act II. pirectedbyDavid Saint and ingeniously designed
by James Noone, theevening flows by with anumber of genial, if notmemorable, songs, all ofwhich are energetically
performed by a talented
and attractive cast. Judith
Moore,
as Penelope
Quince, about to embark
on an affair' with car
salesman and community
theater star Fred Bottom(George Merritt) has aparticularly sensitive, per.:,sPnalway with a ballad;in a song describing his
rock-and-roll
image ofhimself, SamueIsohn conjures a frenetic Elvis outof the body of Ed
Grimley. However, when
Lysandermistakenly
thinks tbat Demetrius ismakingamorousadvances-horrors!-it's
who wears a sweater on the' beach cause for an old joke bigots will love.
when the temperature is 95. This mis- Such stuff belongs in the trash.
When the Laguna Beach coll}matched love is apparently thwarted
when their widowed parents Theseus munity theater is rehearsing its version(Wally Dunn) the gym instructor and of Pyramus and 1bisbe, we're told, "Of
Hippolyta (Kristine Nevins) the English course this is unreal. It's theater.'teacher announce their engagement, People go to the theater to escape.·
Straight visitors will have a pleasantwhich makes the lovers siblings.
escape to this place where the emoMeanwhile,
Helena (Brenda
Braxton), the local bad girl, loves
Saa MIDSUMMER NIGHTS on INIlla .'relentlessly straight walk from Charles
Busch's Psycho Beach. It is just about
everything a heterosexual audience
will like, brought to you by the sensibility that gave us white bread.
Which isn't to say this Laguna
Beach isn't a pleasant place. Or afamiliar one. Anyone w:ho's been to
Grease and the sixties-genre musicals
it spawned will recognize the territory.
Librettist and lyricist Bryan D.
Leys and composer Kevin Kuhn taketheir text, or pretext,
from A
Midsummer Night's Dream and breezily transport it to southern California.
Lysander (Peter Marc) is a beach bum
in love with the girl genius Hermia(rraci Lyn Thomas), who is the sort

Theaterby Maria MaggentiT\hings that go wrong, systems that fail, "social problems· the political..architecture of the last decade has
been a veritable body count of thosepeople lost to the ever-increasing gap
between the haves and have-nots.
Few New Yorkers can avoid theresults of this rapid unraveling of thesocial fabric. It is omnipresent, obvious and relentless. Art has a way of
being either wedged into these situations or pushed out of them, depending on where both the artist and theconsumer of art locate the meaningand purpose of artistic expression indesperate times. Should theater divert
our eyes from the wailing masses thatsurround us or should theater put ussquarely in front of what we try todeny about the world that we live in?
Those artists who attempt to free us
from what seems like our necessary
though often selective blindness are
wrestling with an artistic tension thatis centuries old but not always wellrealized. Thus it was with a certain
amount of wariness that I attended anevening of performance and music
devoted to the lives and voices ofpeople who lived in one of the mostnefarious of New York City'S welfare
hotels, The Hotel Martinique.
Hotel Martinique is a drama withmusic that, in a free-floating assemblage of satirical, angry, funny andlyrical scenes, portrays the various
experiences of homc:.less families who

ended up in one of
New York's worst
welfare hotels. Closed
in December of 1988
by the city, the hotel
wasneverthelesswell-documented
byJonathan Kozol in hispiece "The Homeless
and Their Children,·which appearedin
The New Yorker andwassubsequently
published as a book.
Playwright/ director
Kevin Maloney was
inspired by Kozol's
work and developed
the play around thereal and often plaintive voices that Kozol
chronicled.
The
reSult is both disturbing and moving-ahighly charged andurgent evening that ispart agitprop,
parthuman drama andpart musical indictUNRAVEUNG SOCIAL FABRIC
ment of government
DeBorah Banks (top), Marissa A/tamura (e), Chery/
ineptitude.
The show opens Reeves (b) and Tyrone Daviswith an almost Fellini-esque This Is with a bunch of guys, the surly guardYour Life sequence in which a Black
at the door rj the hotel and then the
single mother is presented with theplethora or: "experts·, government
characters and circumstances that led
officials and~to.urnalists all of whom
her to the Hotel Martinique. They
trot out with wild masks and headrange from the obnoxious social
gear on that turns them into garish,
worker to the evil doctor to her for- LSD-inspirea cartoon characters.
mer husband who has been commitThe whole piece is propelled by
ted to a home for the "bewildered"
the imaginative and original score by
and appears in a bright, polka-dottedFrank Jump and Anne Pope and thestraitjacket. The piece then unfolds tomusic also serves to keep the often
reveal the stories of the other residark and upsetting nature of the stodents in the hotel-the Latina single
ries afloat. When Tyrone Davismother who can't speak a word oflaments the state of life in GrandEnglish and doesn't know what she's
Central Terminal, he does it to asupposed to do, the man who has
hardcore funk beat that is a perfect
lost his job, his wife and his kids, themarriage of political and aesthetic
Black woman who finds her teenage
sensibilities. The music also transdaughter shooting up in the hallways
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MusicTaking Care of Business
which business
was conducted.
Vibrant and celebratory, the danceby Victoria Starr
floor was the classroom, the artist was
the teacher and the music was the
Word As the church began to fill up,
the mix of skin, colors, ages and haire were warnedtodo's dispelled the last chill from myexpect strange weather.
When I awoke, halfbones.
I was ready for some
expectingto hear hailexchange.
The role of the artist
against the window pane,
I was quite taken by thein politics is a topic ofblue of the sky. Oh well,much debate in the EuroI thought, slipping into
centric world. Long-windmy shorts and sandals.
ed arguments bandying
Chalk one up for motherrhetorical phrases likenature, who had eluded"art for art's sake" andthe meteorologists once
"commodity fetish" are-,familiar to many who
again. Yet by three in theengage in the cultural
afternoon,
when
wepulled up in front of thescene with any enthusiWillis Avenue Methodist
asm. Suffice it to say that
Churchin the South
many of us find the sepaBronx, the folks in tbe
ration of the artist fromnabe must have thought I
thecommonalityofeveryday life to be an
looked quite foolish next
to the B-boys in their fur
illusion, or wishful thinkcoats
andcorduroying. Not only is cultural
trousers. The temperature
activity a natural derivahad dropped a good 20
tive of the larger social
environment,
but it isdegreesin two shortalso a very, powerful tool,
hours, and I could do
nothing but huddle underable to be used by botha borrowed sweatshirt.
)he oppressor and theLucky for me that the
oppressed.
The artists who parfolks in the South Bronx
had a little more foreticipate in the Biko Livessight; they were deterFestival year after year
mined that unlike theappreciate this as a simprevious weekend (whenple truth, and in factmany are common faces
the rain had prevented a ."full day of music and-polin the arts-as-activism
itics from taking place inscene, both locally andSt. Mary's Park), theinternationally.
We'rerescheduled "Biko Lives IMAGES OF INSPIRATION
Photo: Ana De Orbegoso talking about people like
Festival" would happen Felice of Faith
Jamaica'S
Mutabaru~adespite the weather. In fact, for the
oppressed, and we are here to teachand Judy Mowatt,poet Alle'nfourth year in a row, the festival
the young (and to remind ourselves)
Ginsberg,
rappers MC Lyte andwhose radical slogan cries ",Free that the oppressed take care of their
Chuck D of Public Enemy, samba
South Africa, Free South Bronx" took
own business." Such was the message
band Pe De Poi and the East Village~splace despite a number of adverse
from the stage, and for this gay
anti-folk hero Roger Manning. Noneconditions (conditions like the local activist, it was a familiar sentiment.
of these folks could make the.police warning the neighborhood
Perhaps less familiar was the way in rescheduled event, but most sent letchildren that they had better not beseen at the show).
The "Biko Lives Festival" is, ofcourse, to honor Steven Biko, theSouth African activist slain in police
custody in 1977. But the festival is alsomuch more. "We are here because weare taking care of business. We are theW

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we are invited to come play at one of
the events up here, I always worry thatthe people won't understand our music,
or that they won't believe Black people
can do anything but rap and reggae.
But, as it turns out, they always welcome us and get into it, and it means
a10t to me. I miss being a part of thiscrowd, and those children who wereout there dancing to our music touched
me like I haven't been touched in along time. Faith's presence was important to the festival, particularly for the
little girls, who seldom see adult versions of themselves on stage.
The only thing missing at the "Biko Lives
Festival" was not being
able to see our own lesbian and gay images
sharingsome of thestage. If there was any
gay presence,
it waslocked in the closet, 'as is
usually the case at theseotherwise empowering
events. In fact, homophobia (which seems
particularly strong in theBlack community) prevented even the crucial
topic of AIDS from being
one of the many issues
that
-were
linkedthroughout the day. Thisis a shame, not only
because of the high incidence of AIDS in theBlack community,but
because the fight against
AIDS could be a starting
point for building more
durable bridges between
he lesbian and gay community
and
other
oppressed
groups.
Instead, most of the people involved in the festival chose to ignore the.
intensity of the AIDS crione ~~a~es t~tt~:r°th%:st
BREAKING DOWN THE SOUND BARRIERS
Photo: Ana De Orbegosq sis, and in doing so
impressive aspect of the Stephen of Fa/se Prophets
defied the whole point of"Biko Lives Festival" was the cross-cul- to the white-dominated rock scene that the event, which was to expose alltural experience, exemplified by the Black musician~ can and do play good, the various ways and means with
exerciseaudience's reaction to the eccentric
hard rock and roll. But this fOcus on the which the powers-that-be''East Village rock band False Prophets.
rock scene can be difficult and alienat- their control over our lives. As a matTheirs is a style of music (white,
ing for the band itself.·Cutting a strong ter of fact, I was quite surprised to see
punk/hard-core
influenced) that isn't and energized feminine figure on stage, Mark Kostabi's name amongst the..
listened to much)n the South Bronx, Felice later confided in me, "Every time lengthy list of festival endorsers.
ters of solidarity, leaving the artists to be sure. But the honest and unprewho were available ready and willing tentious way in which the band relates
to pick up the slack. Folks like rapper to those around them, coupled with
their vital lyrics and the singer's captiFab Five Freddy,
South African
folksinger Tony Bird and a "township vating stage theatrics, insures them arousing response from audiences of all
jive" band known as Spiritland.
The strongest focus of the "Biko cultural persuasions.
This sharing affects both artist andLives Festival" is the youth, which iswhy both artists and MC's took special audience alike, as Felice, the lead singer
band Faithcare to fully explain what was going of the reggae/funk/rockdown. Young rapper Jesse West, while confirmed. Another band who has risenbending over to nearly eye level with from the East Village, Faith is a promithe tots, related his own personal bat- nent member of the growing Black
Rock Coalition (BRC), a group whose
tle with crack, thievery, mistreating
women and the like, concluding that 'biggest emphasis seems to be proving
none of this behavior
improved his situatjon.
"Power does not comefrom friends, and power'
does
n-ot come frommoney. Power, as you willlearn, comes from knowledge." Fab Five Freddy
took the concept a stepfurther by recanting thesocial history of rap music.
"Rap music started out asfun, hanging in the streetsand making rhymes. Pretty
soon it developed a competitive edge, and you
have the boasting. But rap
is also a science, and likeall science, it is evolving.
More and more, we arelearning that rap is a powerful tool, and some of us,
like
Stetsasonic,
like
Boogie Down Productions,like Public Enemy, we arelearning how to use ourpower. That's why it's
importantthat all you
young people are here,
becauseyou need tounderstand what hip hop'is about. Just like youneed to understand about
Steven Biko, and how the\

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Performance

Cafe OlebYJonn WasserT

he languid autumn sun has
already set as we descend
the rickety iron staircase
leading into "Taller Latinamericano." We move in a rhythm of
our own oblivious to the crowd.
Suddenly, I hear a resounding thud. I
quickly turn around, careful not tolose my balance. Although I cannot
see clearly, it appears my companion
has misjudged one step and temporarily lost his bearings. Emitting a loudgrunt, he hoists himself up and angrilybrushes the dirt off his trousers.
Resuming our descent, we navigate
the remaining steps without incident.
Once inside, a thin, hyperkinetic
man with mousy hair takes our moneyand effusively ·announces, "Welcome
to Cafe Bustelo in Exile!" I peer at the

HYPERKINrnc

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Dudley Saunders
54

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Place/Gusto House/P.S. 122 circuit.
While alumni include Reno, FrankMaya and Just Desserts, the twice
monthly cabaret is best known foroffering a healthy dosage of New
surroundings--secondhand
furniture,
York's more esoteric artists.
a makeshift stage, two caged paraCafe Bustelo has never prided itself
keets pecking
at their evening
meal-quite an appropriate setting for as a chic cabaret haven for the Charivari
set or those individuals seeking fleeting
this peripatetic East Village perforrecognition via a gossip column menmance art space.
Organized in 1987 by former go- tion. People ritually flock to their 'perforgo dancer Heather Woodbury, a tiny mances to be jolted into a heightened
Avenue B storefront space served as sense of reality. Anti-government slogans and non-conformist themes reocthe Cafe's initial home. When the
cur throughout the evening.
landlord demanded a rent increase,
Master of ceremonies
DudleyWoodbury took refuge in an abanSaunders
delivers the evening'S
doned synagogue on East Houston
preamble in his soft-spoken Kentucky
Street. Hefty legal trouble ensued andWoodbury again found herself a prQ- . accent. The make-believe curtain rises
to reveal "avant-vaudevillian" Helen
prietress without an establishment.
Shumaker. Best known for her electriFinally, six months ago, she secured
fying performance as Mona Rogers,
her current East Second Street haven.
It is difficult to categorize "Cafe the witty ex-burlesque queen (currently playing at Eighty-Eights, Thursday
Bustelo in Exile." During its brief
tenure, the club has presented funky evenings at 10:30pm), Shumakerfolk musicians, monologists and per- unveils another piece by "Mona"
author Philip Dmitri-Galas.
fort:ning artists making the Dixon
Slovenly attired in an imitation
Bob Mackie gown and flashy red wig,
Shumaker commences at a high pitch,rarely pausing for breath. 'Her tale ofMuriel, the monologue's heroine, is asurreal trip into the superego, a voyage into the character's rarely exploreddimensions. A nightclub singer ofsome rep!lt~,. Muriel/Helen is brazen,.~'~~
witty ancl;-al5Oundingwith rage.
Shumaker does her professional
best to instill life into Muriel qut,
invariably, the material fails her. It isanother woman harboring delusionsof fame and grandeur. We've alreadywitnessed these unfortunate tales of
woe and remembrance.
Tennessee
Williams was a master of highlighting
his characters' vulnerability which
often led to their demise. Dmitri-Galas
takes the opposite tact. Emphasizing:
anger, he slowly peels away each pe~sonality layer. In this case, the core is.
rotten and unappealing.
Next up is Impala resembling a
Casualties of War extra; c1oselycropped hair and long-limbed withjust enough muscle-tone to prevent,
Photo: lilian Caruana

October 8, 1989

BooksOne Singular Sensation
conceiver-andtraces his path toachieving that goal from shows like
Seesaw and Follies to the first time heaccomplished the feat in A ChorusLine. Since Mandlebaums' original
intention for his book, altered by
Bennett's death, was to do an extensive analysis of the genesis and develby Terry Helbing
opment of this landmark musical, hiswork in this section of the book is
extremely detailed, and makes fascinating reading. He follows the showhose who did not have thethrough its several workshops, disopportunityof working
cussing many of the elements
withMichael'that were discarded along the[Bennett] should feel cheatway, throughto opening
ed," says Marvin A. Krauss,night. Because of the shift ingeneral manager on several of
focus in the book, muclt.more
Bennett's shows, and one ofmaterial on the shpw's longnumerous
peopleKenrun is included in/an equally
Mandlebaum interviewed forinteresting, lengthy appendix:.
his book that amply demonMandlebaum continues
strates why it was an incredifollowing Bennett's career
ble experience for those who
through Ballroom ("anything
did. A Cborus Line... is filled
after A Chorus Line wouldwith theatrical anecdotes andhave failed"), Dre~mgirls, theinside informations, but it isrestaging of the record-setting
not a tell-all
biography;
3,389th performanceof A
instead, it_is an assessment of
Chorus Line, and through theBennett's professional accomlast major work Bennett
plishments.
Infact,
I undertook,
Scandal, which
Mandlebaum
spends only.' was almost complete when heabout 14 pages on Bennett's
cancelled the production, most
adult personal life, and given
likely bec~use he learned hehow many people mention
bad AID~i You come acrosshis drive and ambition in the
many juiH anecdotes along
book, his personal and prothe way, nk~: the dancers who
fessional life may have beenpoured out their life stories forvirtually synonymous.
the tapes that we(e used to
The musical theater willdevelop' A CboruS Line later
never die if Ken Mandlebaum
had to audition for the show,
has anything to say about it,
and sometimes were not cast,and he has already 4emonPhoto: Martha Swopefor their own stories; many ofstrated his comprehensive
EXT~EMELY DETAILED
those who were cast develknowledge of the subject in Ken Mandlebaum
oped severe psychological problems
his regular columns in TbeaterWeek
has a vivid sense of what the shows
and couldn't return to the chorus, orand other publications. What better
were like. Some readers may be botheven stay in show business; and, at
person to take on such a book, con- ered, however, that he offers his opinone point in the developmentofcerning undoubtedly the most influen- ions of the shows as if they wereDreamgirls, Effie, the role originally
tia:l person in the field in the last 20 given historical facts.
years. Mandlebaum brings that knowlIt's Mandlebaum's contention th;tt played by Jennifer Holliday, became aedge to bear in his opening chapter,
Bennett was a control freak, striving to nurse and was employed by a charac~
ter played by Estelle Getty!
establishing a 20th-century historicalbecome the ultimate creative hyphenSee SENSATION oa Pllll8 71
context for the musical; emphasizing
ate-author-director-choreographer-·1

the growing importance of dance. Hisdetailing of Bennett's professional life
pre-A Chorus Line includes Bennett's
jobs as a Broadway show gypsy andthe immediate attention he garneredfor his choreography (he received a
Tony nomination for his first show asa choreographer,
A joyful Noise).
Because Mandlebaum sawall thoseearly works, he is particularly adept at
describing the shows-particularly
Fol/ies, which Bennett co-directed--sothat the reader who has not seen them

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with information fromThe Gay 8< Lesbian Switchboard of
New York.
For more information or referrals, torap, or to volunteer, call the GlSB
daily, noon to midnight, 212-777-1800

Send calendar

items to.
SCRABBLE-PLAYERSCLUB GameNight, newcomers should bring aboard; at the Center, 208 W 13 St;
8-11 pm; 570-9369

Rick X, Going Out
Box 790
New York, NY 10108
Items must be received by Monday to be includedin the fOllow-

ingweek'slssue.

NEW YORK AIDS COALITIONDeadUne to register for October18, 19 Two-Day
Conference:
The Community
Based Service
System: An Answer
to AIDS,
highlighting the key role of community-based efforts in the struggle against mv/ AIDS; to be held
in Albany; write Susan Stamler,
NY AIDS Coalition, 132 Nassau
St, 2nd Fl, NY, NY 10038

r//ES//A}'
Washington, DC
NATIONAL ASSOCIATIONOFPEOPLE
WITH
AIDS
Conference,
throughFriday,10/6; 202/429-2856
New York
COALITION FOR LESBIAN AND
GAY RIGHTS Meeting,prior tothe 10/7 Housing NOW! March in
Washington; at the center, 208 W
13 St; 8 pm; 627-1398

WMY#dl4i'41
Ow.'C '.y

EAGLE BAR Movie Night: (Disney's) Bambi; 142 11th Ave (at21 St); 11 pm; 691-8451

GAY AND LESBIAN ALLIANCE
AGAINST DEFAMATION Monthly Meeting; at the Center, 2~ W
'13 St; 8 pm; 966-1700

OUTTWEEKVIRGINIA GIORDANO presents
Cris wUllamsona Teresa Trollin concert with special guest Ferron, at Town Hall, 123 W 43 St; 8
pm; $18 & $20; info 929-1585, tix
947-5850, Town Hall 840-2824
GAY WOMEN'S ALTERNATIVE
presents Clare Coss, CSW psychotherapist and playwright, discussing the single lesbian andintimacy, with active audience
participation encouraged;
at theUniversalist Church, Central ParkWest at 76 St; 8 pm; $5 (forwomen only, meets every first
Thursday)FI///A

Washington, DC
LAMBDA RISING BOOKSTOREBook signing:
Epitaphsforthe Living,by Billy Howard;
1625 Connecticut
Ave, NW; 7-9pm; SMU Press 214/520-3666
New York
WOMEN ABOUT Cut-off date
. for Batsto River canoe Trip, in
New Jersey; 201/481-0440
JUDITH'S ROOM BOOKSTORE
presents Karla Jar reading fromThe AmaZON{;, The Page:
Natalie Clifford Barrtey arid
Rertee Vlvlert; 681 Washington St.
(btwn W 10 & Charles St); 7 pm;
free, but seating is limited; 7277330

0' B 'E ',R, ii"

NEW YORK SPORTS AND CULTURAL ASSOCIATION
Open
Meeting, to enlist volunteers andmedia in the preparationof
NYSCA's bid to bring the Gay
Games 1994 to New York as partof the Stonewall 25th Anniversarycelebration; at the Center, 208 W
13 St; 7 pm; 732-3612

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STEPHEN HOLT SHOW presents
Jim Trne, hunky younger brother AI Joad in Broadway's upcoming Grapes of Wrath, opening in
April, and in which Mr. Joad has
a brief swimming
hole nude
scene, which is discussed;on
Manhattan
Cable TV Channel
17D; 9 pm (repeats on Manhattan
and Paragon
Cable, Saturday,
1017)

who were there; at the Center,
208 W 13 St; 8 pm; $2; 718/9650013

YOU11I ENRICHMENT SERVICES
Alternate Vision Improv workshop,
a performancepiece
focusing
on family, religion,
death and relationships,
createdby the lesbian and gay youths,
18-21, participatingin the YES
program; at the Center, 208 W 13
St; 7:30; adults $5/21 & under
free, 620-7310 (repeats FRI, SAT,
SUN, same time)
1HE NATIJRAL HISTORY GROUP(LESBIAN & GAY NA1URAl1STS)
SUde Presentationon the Pernvlan Amazon
River region,
recounted
by the three women

October 8, 1989

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Washington, DC
NAMES PROJECT displays The
AIDS Memorial
Quilt, the final
display of the quilt in its entirety,
with over 10,000 panels; at the
Ellipse, behind the White House;
unfolding begins at 10 am withreading of the names continuing
through
6 pm when quilt isrefolded; display will repeat during the same hours on Saturday

EAST COAST COCAINE ANONYMOUS Fall Convention
Weekend, through Oct. 8; with tennis,
swimming, hiking, softball, fellowship, meetings, speakers, banquet Halloween Dance (costumeoptional); at Holiday Hills Conference Center, Pawling, NY; $150$170 (double occupancyonly);
914/476-8346
YOU11I ENRICHMENT SERVICES
Alternate Vision Improv Workshop, see Thursday, 10/5
THE
ANSWERIS LOVING
Women Talking Women's Talk:
MP_R_I.D.E. (pompous,
ridiculous, Independent,
dignity,excessive)";the motivator andthe downfall and how we use it
and abuse it; led by Ruth Berman
and Connie Kurtz; Sheepshead
Bay, Brooklyn; 7:45-10 pm; $8;
71&1998-2305
SAGE lesbian
Couples Group,
formation night; at the Center,
208 W 13 St; ,8:30 pm; 741-2247
COLUMBIA GAY AND LESBIANALLIANCE First Friday Dance,
with, DJ and dancing upstairs,social lounge downstairs; at Earl
Hall, Columbia U., 116 & B'way;
10 pm - 2 am; 854-3574::~::::;:~~:::l~~~~W
I-""LO:;''';::~_:''';';':''.:-'~;:::'.//;.b;''::-:''''-=-'::.'"''-_:..II''TASK FORCE Town Meeting!
MAIDS a Politics: Transformations of Our Movement",
discussing the impact of AIDS ont~ gay & lesbian civil rights
m vement; at George Washington
Un versity, Ross Hall, Room 101;
7:30 pm; 2021332-6483

TIiE AD CLUB presents Life of
the Party,
a play by Theater
Rhinoceros, to benefit the NAMES
Project and local AIDS organizations; at the Kennedy Center; 8
pm; $75; 3011656-2582
New York
WOMEN ABOUT Cut-off datefor International
Centerof
Photography
art walk; 8742104

Washington, DC
NAMES PROJECT displays The
AIDS Memorial
Quilt, see Friday, October 6
HOUSINGNOW!
National
March for Housing
Now, toend homelessness,
fund the creation of affordable
housing,
restore funds for federal housing
programs; 10 am; 212/316-0188,
202/347-2405
NAMES PROJECT candlelJght
March Against AIDS from the
Ellipse (6:30 pm) to the' Lincoln
Memorial, where a Candlelight
Program will be held at 8 pm
(bring candles); 202/797-35~
NATIONAL ASSOCIATION'OF
PEOPLE
WITH AIDS Sixth

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Annual Gala Dinner, to benefit
the Human Rights Campaign
Fund; 8 pm; $150; 2021628-4160

EAGLE BAR 19th Anniversary
Party, ·snack all night," at 142
11th Ave (at 21 St); 691-8451

N6WY~

HAPI'S BACKDOOR CABARET
presents The Lady Bunny and
Clark Render as Maraaret
Thatcher; at the Pyramid, 101
Avenue A (btwn 6th & 7th Aves);
midnight and 1 am show, dancing till 4 am; $5; 420-1590

ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS
lesbian and Gay recovery proaram In DuchessCountybegins today through subsequent
Saturdays; Beacon, NY; 10:30 am;
Susan 914/265-2414,
Ernest914/831-9312

Kdl.PAJ'

YOUlH ENRICHMENI'SERVICES
Alternate
VisionImprov(;}- \~fi;--;:T.
'
Workshop, see Thursday, 10/5
COLUMBUS DAY HOLIDAYSTEPHEN HOLT SHOW presents
Jim True; on Manhattan andWashington, DC
Paragon Cable 1V Channel 16c; HUMAN RIGHTS CAMPAIGN
11:30 am (see WED, 10/4)
FUND and NATIONALGAYANDLESBIAN TASK FORCE "Con·SAGE
Brunchproaramgresslonal Update: The Status
resumes, beginning Its new seaof Federal AIDS Legislation";son at CJ Blanda's, at 7th Ave 202/332-6483
and 22 St; noon or 2 pm seating;$10; RSVP 741·2247
NewY~
GAYFRIENDSAND NEIGHBORSIDEN1TIY HOUSE "It's Magic" apresent Frankie's Boys In ConWomen's Dance at the Center, cert, performing
Gershwin,with DJ Glni DeSantis; 208 W 13 Sondheim and Porter at aSt; 9:30 pm - 1 am; $8; Center
Cabaret Monday; 415 7th St(btwn 6th & 7th Aves), Park
620-7310,10 House 243-8181
Slope, Brooklyn; 8 pm; 71Bn89SPECfRUMDISCO presents Kon
2513
Kan, singing I Beg Your Pardon;
802 64th St, Bay Ridge, Brooklyn(N Train to 8th Ave stop);
718/238-8213
WOMEN ABOUT Cut-off ,datefor Flat Rock Brook Nature
Sanctuary trip; 2011481-0440
YOM KIPPUR
NlDRE)EVENING(KOL

Washington, DC

NAMES PROJECT displays The
AIDS Memorial Qullt, see Friday, October 6
AUGUSTANALUTHERAN
CHURCH AIDS Healing Service,1511 V St, NW; 11 am; 20212345315

DOWNTOWNCOMMUNITYTELEVISION Gay A Lesbian
VIdeo FestIval '89, with shortpieces by Julie Zando, Tom Rubnitz, Barbara Lipp, Tom Koken,
Joan Braderman, John Greyson,
Tom Kalin, Marc Paradis, Isaac
Julien; 87 Lafayette St; 7 pm; $5;
966-4510 (also 10/13, different
selections)

POSITIVE ACTION OF NEWYORKForum: Slowing the Progression of HIV Infection, discussion on medical treatment
strategies with Drs. JonathanGold, Jeffrey Laurence, Barbara
Starrett, Fred Valentine, DanielWilliam, moderated
by Dr.
N6WY~
Bernard Bihari, Medical Director
WOMEN ABOUT Cut-off datefor "Dinosaurs AlJvel" trip, in of the Community Research Initiative; at St. Joseph's School, 111
conjunction with Center Kids;
Washington Place (off 6th Ave,874-2104near Waverly PI); 7:30 pm; $3;
YOUlH ENRICHMENTSERVICFS 727-7768
Alternate
VisionImprov
SECOND TUESDAYS AT TIlE
Workshop, see Thursday, 10/5
CENTER presents Brad Gooch,

NATIONALGAY RIGHI'S ADVOCATES and TIlE NAMES .PROJECT Dancing for Freedom,
community dance, at the Pension
Building; $35; 213/650-6200

author of Jail Bait and Other Stories, reading with actors Carlos
Jimenez, Michael Milan, Will
Robinson and Afton Smith fromhis new novel, Scary Kisses,
208 W 13 St, 8 pm, $3, 620-7310

WOMEN ABOUT Cut-off datefor Night BarbequeandHayride In l\U; 2011481-0440
NATIONALCOMING OUT DAY"a day to be truthful, powerfuland liberated. It is a day for eachof us, and each of our organizations, to take our next step in theprocess of coming out" (Editor's
suggestions: Wear a button.
Come out to a friend, enemy orrelative. Write an honest entry inyour diary. Design a gay/lesbian
history or literature course. Ask apolitician about partnershiprights. Fly a rainbow flag. Read
OUTWEEKon the subway. Kiss
your lover at the airport. Display
his/her picture on your desk atwork. Tell your 6th-grade teacher
to stop saying, ·When you get
married ...") InfO: 505/982-2558,
National Coming Out Day, Box15524, Santa Fe, NM87506

SIECUSTraining Workshop for
HealthProfessionalsonHIV / AIDS and Sexuality,. through Saturday; HIV/ AIDS
update, sexual concerns/attitudes, homophobia, cross-cultural concerns, IV drug users andsafer sex, counseling, pregnancy
issues, safer sex education techniques, sexual issues for hospitals/hospices, taking a sexual
history; at NYU Loeb Center,laGuardia Place and Wash. Sq.
South; 9 am - 4 pm TIl & F, 9 am
- 1 pm SA;$15; 673-3850
JUDITIl'S ROOM BOOKSTORE
presents Carmen de Montetlores
presenting
SI"gl"gSoJt'y/Ca,da"do Bajlto; 681
Washington St (btwn W 10 &Charles St); 7 pm; free, but seating is limited; 727-7330
LAMBDAINDEPENDENTDEMOCRATS presents
NYS
Assembly Speaker Mel Miller,
who will discuss David Dinkins'
mayoral race; at Park Slope
Methodist Church, 6th Ave & 8th
St, Park Slope" Brooklyn; 7:30
pm; 718n68-6187.

WOMEN ABOUT Cut-off date
GAYMEN'SHEALTIlCRISISMenfor Beginning Kyack Clinic;
Meeting Men Workshop, "an2011481-0440
evening to enhance self-confidence and increase the ability tonegotiate safer sex with potential . SIECUSTrainIng Workshop forProfessionals
onpartners,' at the Center, 208 W 13 Health
HIV/AIDS and Sexuality, see
St; 8-10 pm; free, no pre-registraThursday, October 12tion required; 807-6655, TDD
645-7470
THE OUTREACH INSTITUTE
throughGAY MALE S/M ACTIVISTS presents
Oct. 22; in Provincetown, esp.
Meeting: ExquIsItely Excrucifor those of alternative genderating Experiences,with Bob
lifestytes; including seminars on
Buckley of Australia discussing
law, health, sociological, lifestyle,sensuous abrasion "trips"; at theCenter, 3rd Floor, 208 W 13 St; partner' issues; 1;'own and Gown
supper, Fantasy Ball, Awards
8:30 pm; $5; 727-9878
Banquet, Fashion Show; workshops for couples, personal
EAGLEBAR Movie NIght: The
development, beauty, fashion,
Nailed Gu"; 142 11th Ave (at 21
color imaging, speech improveSt); 11 pm; 691-8451
ment; activities including whale
watch, kite flying picnic; houseparties, church, video party,
brunches; write Fantasia Fair, Lincolnia Stn., POB 11254; Alexandria, VA
22312
Washington, DC

NATIONAL ORGANIZATION
FOR WOMEN March on Wa<ihIngton
New York

WOMEN ABOUT Cut-off datefor Millbrook Mt_ Hike; 8742104

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OUIWEEK BAR GUIDEWEST SIDE
Bike Stop West230 W. 75th St.
874-9014
Candle Bar
309 Amsterdam Avenue.
874-9155
Cat's
730 8th Ave.
221-7559

Regent East
204 E. 58th St
355-9465
Rounds303 E. 53rdSt
593-0807

Jason's
23 W. 73rd St.
874-8091
North Northwest
215 W. 76th St. 2nd Floor
787-9256
Sal1y's Hideaway
264 W. 43rd St
221-9152
Town and Country
9th Ave at 46th St
307-1503
Trix
234 W. 50th St.
(bet. Broadway & 8th Ave.)
664-810)
The Works
428 Columbus Ave (at 81st)
799-7365

EAST SIDE
Brandy's Piano Bar
235 E. 84th St.
650-1944
Chaps
1558 3rd Ave.
427-8300
G.H. Club
353 E. 53rd St.
223-9752
Johnny's Pub
123 E. 47th St.
355-8714

Duchess II
70 Grove St Oth Ave.)242-1408
WomenSouth Dakota
405 3rd Ave.
684-8376

EAST VILLAGE
The Bar
68 2nd Ave. (at 4th St)
674-9714
Boy Bar15 St Mark's Place
674-7959
Dancing / Drag
The Pyramid
101 Avenue A
420-1590
Dancing / Drag
Tunnel Bar
116 1st Ave Oth St.)
777-9232

WEST VILLAGE,

The Annex (to Cel1block 28)
673 Hudson St(bet 13th & 14th)
627-1140yoBadlands
Christopher
741-9236

Ty's
114 Christopher
741-9641

St.

Uncle Charlie's
56 Greenwich Ave.
255-8787
Video BarCHELSEAStar Sapphire
400 E. 59th St.
688-4710

Don't Tel1 Mama
343 West 46th St
757-0788
Piano Bar

D.T.'s Fat Cat
281 W. 12th St
243-9041
Piano Bar. Mixed MIF& West St.

Boots & Saddle
76 Christopher Street
929-9684
Cellblock 28
28 9th Ave
733-3144]'S
675 Hudson St
242-9292

yoBarbary Coast
64 7th Ave. (l4th St)
675-0385

Julius159 W. 10th St
929-9672
Serving Coors, Coors lite, & Coors Draft

The Break
232 8th Ave. (22nd St)
62H1J72

Kel1er's
384 West St (at Christopher)243-1907

Chelsea Transfer
131 8th Ave. (bet. 16th & 17th)
929-7183

Kelly's Vil1age West46 Bedford St.
929-9322
Piano Bar

Eagle's Nest
142 11th Ave (21st St)
691-8451
Leather / Levi's

The locker Room
400 W. 14th St (9th Ave)459-4299

Private Eyes
12 W. 21st St. (bet 5th & 6th)

2rirmoyoDancing, Video ClubMarie's Crisis
59 Grove St ath Ave)
243-9323
Piano Bar

Rawhide212 8th Ave(21st St)
Leather / Levi's

The Monster
80 Grove St ath Ave.)924-3558
Piano Bar / Dancing

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

Nimbus 22
22 7th Ave. South
691-4826

Tracks19th St & 11th Ave.
Dancing

Ninth Circle
139 W. 10th St
243-9204
Ramrod185 Christopher St.

yo

Sneakers
392 WestSt
242-9830

The Cubbyhole
438 Hudson (Morton St)
243-9079
Women

Two Potato
145 Christopher St.
242-9340

COMING SOON:

Entirely bias,ed repoi'lfrom a bunch of Dutll
staffers as:they crawl
through the dens of tlnight(for finding other gays and lesbians to dance with)

WOMEN

MEN&WOMENTUESDAYMONDAY
Ume1ight &h Ave &: 20 St 807-7850 (Marc Berkley's Salvation)
Private Eyes 12 W 21 St. 206-mo (preppie; male strippers, 2-4-1 till

Hatfield's
126-10 Queens
718/261-8484

Blvd,

Kew Gardens,

Queensmidnight)

TUESDAY"Love Machine
TracksBroadwayat 17 St. 254-4005 (at the Underground)

531 W 19 St. 627-2333

WEDNESDAY
Bedrock 121 Woodfield Road, West Hempstead, U 516/486-9516
Twenty/l'wenty 20 W 20 St, 5-10 pm (Shes cape, 645-6479)
Venus Flytrap 6 Bond St (btwn B'way-Lafayette) 979-6565 (PTProduaions)

WEDNESDAY
Club lafayette 428 Lafayette St. (Scott Currie &: R. Couri Hay)
Private Eyes 12 W. 21 206-mo (Dallas &: Sanker's Boys After Dark)

THURSDAY
Bedrock 121 Woodfield Road, West Hempstead, U 516/486-9516

Red Zone 440 W. 54 St 582-2221 (Keoki &: Sister Dimension)
Spectrum

FRIDAY

802 64 St. Brooklyn 718/238-8213 (free admission all night)

Bedrock (West Hempstead,

THURSDAY"Boybar151/2 St Marks PI 674-7959 (has a new wave drag show)·Copacabana 10 E 60 St 75~061O Oast Thu. of the month has Susanne
Bartsch party)·Pyramld

101 Ave A 420-1590 (Queer-Amid)

Spectrum802 64 St Brooklyn.

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718/238-8213/

2000 Long Beach Rd. IslandPark,U 516-431-5700

555 W 33 St 947-0400 (Shescape,645 ..64'79)

Tracks531 W 19 St. 627-2333 Oast Friday of month)

Visions

5.6-01 Queens Blvd. Woodside

718/846-7131

SATURDAY/FRIDAY
14 W. 22 St. 534-9824

Bedrock 121 Woodfield Rd., West Hempstead 516,:fB6-9516
Sllver Unlng
175 Cherry Lane, Floral Pk, U'516/354-9641"The Lining")
Stan

15 V2 St Marks PI. 674-7959"BoybarCheeksOctagon(free admission all night);

Basement

Ii)

Columbia Dances Earl Hall, 116 St &: B'way 854-3574 (1st Friday of(a.k.a.

836 Grand Blvd., Deer Park, L.I. 516/242-3857

Twenty/l'wenty 20 W 20 St, 5-10 pm (Shescape,645-6479)

every month) ,Funk., Inc. 428 Lafayette St.
Private Eyes 12 W 21 St. 206- mo(preppies

Bedrock

Spectrum 802 64 St Brooklyn 718/238-8213 (m/f strippers)
Tracks"Boybar 15 V2 St Marks PI. 674-7959
The Center 208 W 13 St 620-7310 (2nd and 4th Saturdays)
Private Eyes 12 W 21, 206- mo (Dallas and Sanker's Boys After Dark)
Sound Factory

530 W. 27 St; 043-0728 (non-alcohol,

House music)

SpectnJm 802 64 St Brooklyn 718/238-8213 (guest performer

night)SUNDAY·Mars Westside Highway
Needs Men" night)U)at 13 St. 691-6262(Chip Duckett's"Mars

EVERY NIGHT
cave caoem ..24 1st Ave, at 1st St (Sarxiwich Sister Sunday, 5~9(65)CUbby Hole, 438 Hudson Street 213-9079
Duchess n, Sheridan Square 242-1408

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NOTE:
All Phone numbers are area code 212 unless otherwise indicated.
Party events are subject to change.
• (TVs welcome)

Earth 316 W. 49 245-8925.epframld

101 Ave A 420-1590(Hapi Phace and Drag + Variety Show)

Spectrum 802 64 St. 718/238-8213(show; free admission from 9-10)

EVERY NIGHT
Monster(West Hempstead,

531 W 19 St. 627-2333

SATURDAY

PlanetSUNDAYand young profeSSionals)

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COlll111unityDirectory
To list your non-profit
organization in our community directory, call Tom
Eubanks at 212/685-5277.

EDGE.
For the physically disabled Lesbian and Gay
Community.
(212) 989-1921
P.O.Box 305 Village Station, New York, NY
10014. A.C.Q.C.
AIDS CENTER OF QUEENS COUNTYSOCIAL SERVICES· EDUCATION· BUDDIESCOUNSELING· SUPPORT GROUPS
Volunteer 0ppor1llnities(718) 896-25OO(voice) (718) 8!16-2985(TDD)

FRONT RUNNERS
A running club for lesbian and gay athletesof all abilities. Fun Runs of 1-6 miles held every
Sat at lOam and Weds. at 7pm in Central Parkand every Tues. at 7pm in Prospect Park.
For information: call (212) 724-9700.

ACT UP (AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power)
496A Hudson Street, Suite G4 NYC 10014 .
(212) 989 -1114
A diverse, non-partisan group of individuals
united in anger and committed to direct action
to end the AIDS crisis. Gen. meetings Mon.
nights 7:30, the Community Center 208 W.13th.

THE FUND FORHUMAN DIGNITY
National Gay and Lesbilln Crisis Une"AIDS 800" --+SOO-SOS-GAYS
Educational Resource Center; Positive Images
Media Center; NY State Arts Program
666 B'way Suite 410NYC,NY10012 (212)529-1600

ARCS (AIDS-Ralated Community Services)for Dutchess, Orange, Putnam, Rockland, Sullivan, Ulster and Westchester counties. AIDS
education, client services, crisis intervention,
support groups, case management, buddy andhospital visitor program.
214Cen1raI /Iw. W1iIB PIails. NY lam (914)~
DI Broadway ,Newburgh, NY 122!i1(914)562-5005
AlDSlina (914) 993-11i07
BAR ASSOCIATION FORHUMAN RIGHTS
Lawyers Referral
Service for the Lesbian and Gav Community
Full Range of Legal Services (212) 459-4873
BAR ASSOCIATION FORHUMAN RIGHTSFree Walk-in Legal Clinic. Tuesdav 6-8 pm
Lesbian & Gav Community Centro Ground Aoor
BODY POSITIVE
If you or your lover has tested HIV+, we offer
support groups, seminars, public forums, reference library, referrals, social activities andup-to- date national monthly, 'THE BODY POSITIVE" ($lS/year).
(212) 633-1782.
2095 Broadway, Suite 306, NYC, NY 10023
CIRCLE OF MORE UGHT
Spiritual support and sharing in a gay/lesbian
affirmative group.
West-Park Presbytarian Church
165West 86th Street
Wed: worship service 6:30 p.m., program 7:30.
Marsha (212) 304-~73
Charlie (212)691-7118.
COMMUNITY HEALTH PROJECT
208 West 13th Street, NYC, New York 10011
For Appointments and Information (212) 6753559 PROVIDING CARING, SENSITIVE AND
LOW COST HEALTH CARE SERVICESTO THE
LESBIAN AND GAY COMMUNITYCONGREGATION BETH SIMCHATTORAH
NY's Gay and Lesbian Synagogue Services
Friday at 8:30pm
57 Bethune Street
For info. call: (212) 929-9498.

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GLAAD
Gay & Lasbian Alliance Against Defamatioa
80 Varick Street, NYC 10013 (212) 966-1700
GLAAD combats homophobia in the media andelsewhere by promoting visibility of the lesbian
and gay community and organizing grassroots
response to ahti-gay bigotry.
GAY MALE SIM ACTIVISTS
Dedicated to safe and responsible S/M since1981. Open meetings w/programs on S/M techniques, lifestyle issues, political and social
concerns. Also special events, speakers
bureau, workshops, demos, affinity groups,
newsletter, more. GMSMA -Dept O,496A Hudson Street, Suite 023 ,NYC 10014.
(212) 727-9878.
GAY MEN'S HEALTH CRISIS HOTLINEFORINFORMATION ON SAFERSEX AND HIVRELATEDHEALTH SERVICES,AND FOR INFORMATION ON ONE-TIME, WALK-IN AIDSCOUNSELING SERVICES
212-1D7~
212-645-7470 11)D (For the Hearing Impaired)Mon.-Fri. 10:30a.m. to 9 p.m. Sat 12:00to 3:00
HEAL (Health Education AIDS Uaison)
Weekly info. and support group for treatments
for AIDS which do not compromise theimmune system further, including alternativeand holistic approaches.
Wed 8pm. 208West 13th Street (212)674HOPE.
HETRICK-MARTIN INSTITUTE
for lesbian and gay youth. Counseling, drop-in·
center (M-F. 3-6pm), rap groups, Harvey Milk
High School, AIDS and safer sex information,referrals, professional education.
(212) 633-892O(voice)(212) 633-8926 m for deaf
LAMBDA LEGAl DEF£NSE
AND EDUCATIONRJND
Precedent-setting litigation nationwide forlesbians, gay men and people with AIDS.
Membership ($35 and up) includes newsletterand invitations to special events. Volunteer
night on Thursdays. intake calls: 2-4pm Mon
thru Fri(212) 995-8585
THE LESBIAN AND GAY BIG APPlE CORPS
Get your instrument out of the closet and comeplay with us. Symphonic, Marching, Jau, Dix- .
ieland, Rock, Aute Ensembles and Woodwinds.
123West 44th St Suite 12L New York, NY
10036 (212) 869-2922.
LESBIAN & GAY
COMMUNITY SERVICESCENTER
208 West 13th Street New York, NY 10011(212) 620-7310
9am-llpm everyday.
A place for community organizing and net.working, social services, cultural programs,
and social events sponsored by the Center andmore than 150community organizations.
LESBIAN AND GAY RIGHTS PROJECT
of the America. Civil Uberties Unioa
KNOW YOURRIGHTSI WE'RE EXPANDINGllIEM(212) 944-9800, ext 545
LESBIANS AND GAYS OF FlATBUSH
Brooklyn's social organization for both gay
men and lesbians.
P.O.Box 100, Midwood Station
Brooklyn, NY 11230(718) 859-9437
LONG ISLAND ACT-UP
P.O.Box 291. New Hyde Park, NY 11040
Support us for change on Long Island.
(516)338-4662 (516) 997-5238 Nassau(516) 928-5530 Suffolk
NATIONAL GAY AND LESBIAN TASK FORCE
is the national grassroots politic;al organization for lesbians and gay men. Membership is .
~ear.
Issue-oriented projects addressviolence, sodomy laws, AIDS, gay rights ordinances, families, media, etc. through lobbying,ed,\lf.~ph, organizing and direct action.
NGtrt 1517 U Street mi, Washington, DC
20009. (202)332-6483.
NORTHERN UGHTS AlTERNATIVES
Improving Quality of Ufe for People with
AIDS/HIV.
THEAIDS MASTERY WORKSHOP: Exploring
the possibilities of a powerful and creative lifein the face of AIDS. Call Jack Godby(212) 337-8747
NYC GAY& LESBIANANTI-VIOLENCE PROJECT
Counseling, advocacy, and information for survivors of anti-gay and anti-lesbian violence ...
sexual assault, domestic violencel and other'types of victimization. All services free and'confidential.
24 hour hotline (212) 807-0197'
PEOPLEWITH AIDS COALinON(212) 532-0290 I Hotline (212) 532-0568
Monday thru Friday 10am-6pm

~BAffilNG

Meal programs, support groups, educationaland referral services for PWA's and F¥lArc's.
PEOPlE WITH AIDS HEALTH GROUP
Underground buyer's club importing not-yetapproved medications and nutritional supplements. 31West 26lh St 4th Roor (212)532-0280
SAGE: (Senior Action in I Gay Environment)
Social Service Agency providing care, activities, and educational services for gay & lesbian senior citizens. Also serving over 160
homebound seniors and older F¥lA's . 208
West 13lh St NYC 10011 (212)741-2247.ULSTER COUNTY GAY AND LESBIANAWANCE
Meets first and lhird Monday of each monlh
at 7:30 p.m. at lhe Unitarian Church on Sawkill
Road in Kingston. .
For information, call (914)626-3203.

PUT YOUR
10NEY

YOUR
10UTH IS.
SUPPORT THE
BUS-INESSESTHAT'SUPPORT THE
LESBIAN AND
GAY
COMMUNITYBIGOTRY from page 49

and Washington D.C.-is notable for
its frank treatment of phone sex, fellatio, bisexuality, tatooing and freedomof the press.
Outlaws, a 1989 work by Zoe
Leonard and Catherine Saalfield, is an
ensemble of a video monitor repeating Keep Your Laws Off My Body anda bed-uponwhose oil silkscreened
sheets are emblaze ned such governmental intrusions into the bedroom as
1987's Helms Amendment (nixing
explicit, sex-positive
educational
materials for safer sex educatio~),
1986's draconian Hardwick decisionand 1989's Webster v. Reproductive
Health Services,
Originally filmed on super 8, KeepYour Laws must be viewed on different levels. Leonard and Saalfield havebrilliantly captured the fragile nature of
personal freedom and sexual expression when seen against the power ofthe state. It intersperses
carefreedomestic scenes of the filmmakers
brushing their teeth, playing with a cat
and lovemaking with footage of ACT
UP's March 28 City Hall demonstration-particularly
the massive police
presence. Paddywagons, mounted officers and Central Booking forms represent the same f0rce which, at any time,
could be mQ.bilized to snatch "wimmio-loving-wi-;nmin (not to mention"myn-loving-myn") from their warm
beds and bathtubs and shove theminto boxcars. "Protectors of law andorder," amassed behind blue policelines are shown as the living face ofthe patriarchy.
Wonderful is the texture of theblack and white film which brings tomind 1960's TV news reports of civilrights and anti-war demonstrations
while actually viewing 1989 arrests of
AIDS activists. (We finally got ourcolor TV in 1968, just in time, for the
Tet Offensive.) Previously exhibited inJune's installation at the Lesbian and
Gay Community Services Center, KeepYour Laws strikes a small blow
against the invisibility of lesbian loveand everyday lives.
Adrian Kellard's 1982 Nightstand, a handpainted box with erotic and sexual scenes is outrageous
in its whimsy! Inside are storedvaseline and such menis skin mags

as Honcho and Numbers while on
the outside hang a cum rag andcopies of Daily Word (the devotional booklets read by my Methodist
grandmotherin Iowa.) Working
often with this medium, doing shutter objects and furniture, Kellard's
piece is a must-see.
Part of a 1989 series including
images of Harvey Milk and a dragqueen, Hunter Reynolds captures thedissonanceof state power andoppressionin BatteredStudent
Protester Columbia University. Hand
painted and polyurethane~ on a table
top, Reynolds (whose poster for ART+of .l.esse Helms fucking NEA up theass created a furor at the Lesbian and
Gay Experimental
Film Festival's
panel on Activism and Complacency
in Experimental
Media) depicts ascarred veteran of 1968's Low Libraryoccupation.
Of special interest are Neil
Polen's refreshing silver prints communicating the dynamics -and dimensions of S/M experience-particulary,jeff and Fred, which captures amasked.-bottom bound on a woodcross being dragged by a leathervested daddy ,~hrough autumn leaves
on a motorcycle. Neither should one,
miss Susan Strande's Beach Party
fresco, Krzysztof Wodiczko's ominous
pri'flt of South
Africa's
beswastikahed London embassy or
the opportunity for participation in
Richard Merle's A Cleaner New Yorkis up to You. Keith Haring's two 1984
subway panels must be seen against
the backdrop of Michael Stewart's
gruesome 1983j'murder. Stewart, ayoung gay Afri~~n-American graffiti
artist and a regu't'llr at the Pyramid
was killed by transit police whoarrested him spray-painting in the 1st
Avenue L station.
BeforeleavingthiS-Sally
Hawkins Gallery'S first-exhibition,
the . viewer
shouldnote Fred
Tomaselli's Age of Enlightenment. A
sculpture of steel, lights, mirror and achamber-holed
chair " it conveys
most effectively that which the First
Amendment and the bill of rights
shouldprotect
us from-everincreasing
scrutinizationof andincursive power over the individual
by the State.
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Reasonable Fees. YEAHI
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D.C BUS OCT 6-9$42.50Round trip to Quilt. G & L Masters
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leaves NYC at 6:30 p.m. 10/6, returns
from D.C. 6:00 p.m. 10/9. (212)226-1573.

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APARTMENTS FOR RENT
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Artists' Rights Issues.
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Real Estate Closings.
Business Partnerships &Incorporations.
Wills & Estates.
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718;631.3008

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BONDAGE & PLEASURE
Swap experiences and fantasies.
Watch ortake part in demos, Learn
with experts and novices. Write for
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Midtown Station, NY, NY 10018.

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Defamation, Inj:. (GLAAD) seeks aDevelopmeiJt Assistant to help the
Executive Director and Board withfundraising and national GlAAD network
development. Salarv low 20's plus
benefits. Women and persons of color
encouraged to apply. Resume and cover
letter to:
GLAAD,80 Varick St, 13E, NY,NY 10013
bl!fore October 6th.
For more information, call (212)966·1700.

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Z AGENCY

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Allow 14 days for delivery or add S10 for Express Mall
(State that you are over 21)(418 palm B.H,ineeded for imall entertainment/labor law
firm. Good salary, company benefits. Hrs.
9 am - 5 pm, Monday·Friday. Call Bob
Mitchell at 212-944·1501 for appointment,...:5,._' •rm

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HATEBROKERS? .
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he'p you buy 0' .. " your
Manhattan co-op or condo. I have
1000'. of .p.rtmento ond 1000'. ofcustomers.
Please call Phillip (212) ~-0870.
Leave message.

THINKING ABOUT PLAYING
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All levels taught by patient,experienced professional. Beginners
welcome. Convenient West End
Avenue location. Reasonable rates.
(212)799-3747.
(Message answered promptly)

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Must have patience,
you are tired of bars
pretty eyes, and a
and looking for new
friends or more, write
steady job. See alsowith photo and phoneparts one and two.
OutWeek Box 1271.
to: Outweek Box 1270
PART 1 OF3
GWF, 22, seeks matesfor self and best friend(also roomie), GWM,
24: Both Taurus (andstubborn), ·out· since
early teens, long timefriends. Frequently
lazy,
sometimes
bitchy, and always lotsof fun.Looking espe-

GWM 36, 5'10", 150

LBS.,
handsome,
green
eyes,
moustacheseeks attractive, inshape
guys
into
music, movies andhanging out lor Iriend·ship and/or relationship.
NYC/AREA-BKLYN PREFERRED.
Ph/Ph please. David,
P.O. Box 30221, NYC,
NY 10011.
BARE BUTT SPANK
by small guy, 5'5·, 115#, 32. Bend over theback 01 my couch. Rollaround on, my carpet.
Straddle across myknee. Beg for more.
Now tell me why you
need it. Box 20079,
NYC 10009. E. Village.
LONDON ENGLAND
Handsome Irishmanjust returned fromvacation in New York
City. Would like verymuch to keep in touchwith some friendly
New Yorkers interested in long distancecorrespondence. Who
knows whatmaydevelopI An uncomplicated, fun Iriendship is
all I ask. Write withphoto to: Joe Kelly,
Flat '24, Grosvenor
Court, 75 Christchurch
Avenue, London England, N.w.6. 7NXSEEK UFEMATE
WM, 31, attr, 155, br.
hr., hazel eyes, seekshusky, bulky, possessive guy lor old-Iashioned romantic 1 to 1
sex only. I crave
humping and erotic<
talk, ,my interests
indude photog., video,
sci-Ii Iilms and t.V.
(avid trekker). DCH,
P.O. Box 1401 Cooper
Station,NY,NY10276.
HOT ITAL BB BTM
Just learning to take itand I love to give it.
How about you? Helpme teach him how
much he can take.
We're mid-30's-hot. 1/
you're hung, attr and
under
40,
send
photo/phone to P.O.
Box 150, Prince Street
Station, NYC 10012.

Box #'_
77 Lexington Avenue, Suite 200
New York NY 10010
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October 8, 1989

FUN/BRIGHTIPASSIONATE,
GWM, 42, handsome
and fit looking to meetsimilar attractive guys
who understand that
tenderness and laughter are the keys to loveand sex. You are playful and stable lor thelong run. Phlph to P.O.
Box 20141,
NYC,
10028-9991.
HISPANIC GWII
Goodlooking 22, 5'5·,
13SIbs, lean, youthful,carefree,mature.
Healthy outlook on life.
Love to dance, bike,skate, touch, learn.
Am artist, masculine,
non-smoker. Looking
for for others with similar interests and more.
Outweek Box 1286
VINTAGE lM8
Handsome GWM, hlthprof, 5'8·, 150 #, BVbr,native NY sks ma1lllto
give quality loving
when rm home from ahard day at the hospital. I love Aretha, Bach,theatre and film. I do
have wonderful friends
and family but lack ahusband. What's life
without
caring forsomeone special andletting them care foryou? Left politics andsense of humor essential... Please send
photo (if possible),phone. WriteOutweek
Box 1287
BEASTMASTER
Feel like an animal
during sex? Hypnosismay let you feel as if
you are reall~.tr:ansformingt~(
goodlooking oroetter. Send
letter and photo(face)to DH, P.O. Box 350148, Brooklyn, NY
11235-0003.

24 YEAR-OLD GRADSTUDENT
into Shakespeare,music and politics
seeks friend for weekend bike trips Send
'letter and phone to
Outweek Box 1·133
GWM,26, 5'10·, 160
Fairlyhandsome,brown hair, greeneyes, buzz-cut, moustache, very thin beard,
slender build. rm interested in computers,
tennis, work-outs, thearts, travel, politics. A
little shy, quiet, rd liketo meet men 22-40,
mature and straightacting, fairly or very

handsome, moustaches/ beards a plus , forsafe sex relationship.
Letter and photo to:
Outweek Box 1104
A FINE CATatand still not hooked.
Cleancut GWM, 32,
5'10·, 145, developed
mi9nd and body, lusty
and lustful yet warm
. and caring, masculine
but not closeted,seeks lasting companionship. Photo/phone
to Outweek Box 1134
GWII, WASP,26
180 Ibs., 5'11·, BIIBI,
healthy, masculine,
well-built, looking lor
young, muscular (1828) guys for hot safesex (condoms). I liketo be both dominantand submissive. Facefucking, rOle-playing,butt- fucking. Lers get
it onl Also into threesomes, light bondage,
trying new things. No
drugs, no pain. Send ,.
note about yoursel/:photo appreciated.
Outweek Box 1135
SUBMISSIVEHEALTHY,GWII
170 Ibs., 6'. I want tobe your pussy. Especially big musc. men.
Age + looks unimportant.'pO 1075, Cooper
Station NYC 10276.
WORK MY BOTTOMOVER WITH ME
in long, slow sessions.
He's hot Italian BB,
30's. I'm 30's. lanky
and hung. If you're
attractive, hung, verbal
and ready.
Sendphotolphone to P.O.B.
150, Prince Station,
NYC 10012.
NIPPLES & PEes
GWM,
40,
5'8·,
2001bs., extremely
oral, loves to suck onnips, pecs, and tits. I
worship
the malechest. Send photo andphone: Box 20446
London Terrace Station, NY, NY 10011.
My hot wet mouth is.
waiting for you.
~WOODSTOCK'
changed my life. Itm'45, 6', 185, professional, warm, intelli
gent and like blues
and biCYCling, rockand reading, movies
and theatre. Looking
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P.O. Box 325-0, NYC
10108.
CULTURED GWM.
26, European seeking
GF for friendship andpossible
marriage.
Both can be mutuallyconvenient. Outweek
Box 1144
BUILD A NEST?
GWM, 43, 5'10", 160
Ibs., generally considered intelligent andhumorous with wide
range of skills andinterests, reasonably
successful,lots ofgood friends but currently without the capstone, that special
someone. Seeking apartner interested in
the slow ex- plorations,joys and agonies ofbuilding a nest. Let's
start communicating
and see where it leads.
Outweek Box 1145
BARK LIKE A DOG
GWM, 34, who barks
like a dogon all fours
and eats from a dog's
dish. Send phone
number, P.O. Box 266
NYC 10002.

FANTASY?
I want 2 B crazy inlove. I'm tall,dark,handsome,
smart,'
good gym body. So
what's the problem?
I'm 52 in an ancient
dry relationship andhave a fetish for very
attractive men with nofacial hair. If you're 2540, into SS·sans poppers
andyou'vealways wanted a PIT
Daddy, send photo/phone to Box 3114
Old Chelsea Station,
New York, NY 10011.
MUTUAL BENEFITS
Companionshipsought for physicaland intellectual stimulation by attr WIM, 44,
6'1", cosmopolitan
Show-biz executive.
Seek W/M, 23-29(tallerthan 5'8").
clean-shaven, goodbody/mind. Graduate
students, actors, professionals-offer din·ners,
Broadwayshows, theatre. Expect
truth. Sex(safe). Travel possible. Ph/ph,P.O. Box 8324, New
York, Ny 10150-1918.

STUCK LIKE A PIG
Let this 24 yr old hot
farm boy use his farmtools to work you intoa frenzy so I can hear
you squeal. Send letter witha gooddescription of yourself
and describe how you
would like to be breeded. Outweek Box 1149
NEED A SPANKING?
Attractive guy, 43, 6',
160 Ibs., will put you
across his knee, pull
down your pants--andunderpants--andspank your bare bottom till you promise to
behave. Am into fantasy-- not pain. Good
with beginners. Box1316 FOR Station,
NYC 10150. Seek trim
guys only.
QUIRKY LESBIAN
GWF, 27, would like tomeet very bright,
funny woman who
possesses
naturalfemininity.
Older
women, please don't
be shy. Please send
photo, not because I'm
picky but because I
thorOughly enjoy fotosof folks I don't know.

I'm not being facetious. I'm fascinatedby that which is traditionally consideredboring, i.e. staring at
the ceiling, reading
phone books, calling
pre-recorded
messages and dialing
international operators. Loathed When
Harry Met Sally... OutWeek Box 1151
GUPPIE
26 year old GWM
attempting to live theyuppie lifestyle. 6'2",
175, blondish hair,
beard and moustache.
Non-smoker, healthy,
in·shape. Considered
to be good- looking,romantic, stable, pro-,fessiona!.
Seeking
GM, 28-40 with similar
qualitiesfor quiet dinners, movies, etc ...
Please send letter'including photo andphone number. Outweek Box 1152
WANTS
PATRON/CHUM
A9in9 ,writer, hairy,
irascible,seeks warmhearted, brainy, nonsmoking amanuensis

and/orpatron/provider/ slut in exchange for grudging
affection, kinky vanillasex, and glimpses ofimmortality. P.O. Box
1251 Canal St. Station, New York 10013.
PATIENTLY
waiting for a GWM,
35-49, attractive,educated professional!
executive,
seriousabout commitment,
introspective but funloving with a good
sense of humor, and
who actually has timein his schedule tomeet new people andpossibly develop a
relationship.
I'm a
GWM, 43, br/haz,
5'10", 150, glasses,
gd-Iking, intelligent,
professional, HIV neg,
Midwestern values.
Try not to take myself
too seriously. Write
with ph/ph to Box
1858, Madison Square
Station, NYC 10159.
VERY HDSM & MASC
30, 6', 160, blond,straight-acting/appearing, successful proll,warm and verbal,

Yuppy-type (w/out theattitude) with AlI-American looks and an irresistible smile. Enjoys
the moreruggedaspects of life-hiking,camping, skiing, gymas well as the city.
Seek similar proll,
hdsm
and masc,
together guy for f(iendship and fun and sensuous times. POB
20489, NYC 10025
NEW TO NYC AREA
GM Puerto Rican, 27,
5'11", 210lbs.,enjoys
music, quiet evenings
and cuddling. Looking
for friend to show me
NYC, send photo, andphone number to Outweek Box 1156
G/BIJF IS SOUGHT
by a BUWM, 27, intelligent, good-looking,successful for a serious relationship. P.O.
Box 1157, Forest Hills,
NY 11375.
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and eat some more. I'll
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youto
your
hearts delight. We will
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make It happen. I havealot of experience In
this area Answer
today with photo andphone and detailed
letter. You have werything to gain. Serious
replies OI1ly.P.O. Box
London Terrace Station 20053, New YorkNY 10011.
SUPERHUNG W,
35, good looks, average build,looking forguys hung super longor thick for safe fun.
rm in midtown and amvery discreet. Scott,Box 6559, NYC, NY
10163.
DHB-DECENT HUMAN
BEING
wants to share happy
times andnot so happy,
ones with another
DHB. Not Into drugs!
smoking. I've been
told I'm handsome,caring, sensitive, sensual and hot. I'm
6'/172/LtBr/LtBr,
33,
trim, smooth, muscularbuild. Prefer GWM,
20-26, "boyish" andcute andwants
togrow. Enjoy oonversalion, museums, beach,work-outs at gym, OffBroadway plays andsafe hot love-making.Send detailed letter w/ photo/age/phone: Box 5432,
Flushing, NY 11354.
This may be ourchance for a great
future together.
REGULAR GUY
GWM, 38, seeks similar for relationship.
Avg
looks/build,
decent, stable, Shy.
Uke theatre, classicalmusic, blonds. Closet
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turned on by chest
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11386.
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I'LL TAKE MANHATTANI
Californian, GM, 25,
bllbl, sensual,moustached, intellectual,mature, non-attitudirious, romantic fordays, self-aware but
notself-absorbed
seeks Manhattanite,25-35, with similar
qualities for whateverdevelops. Any race orhealth status. No clos-

LITTLE BROTHER
Write homel GW ooupie 30 (6', blonde,160)& 34 (6'1", hairy, 185)
both very handsome,loving, fun, & HIVseek youngerkid
brother for fun andsensuous nights alhome and on thetown.We can offer
emotional support (no$), hot times, affection,& some "home cook-ing". You are hugg~ble, hot, healthy.
handsome (& together).
Photo/phone(Don't tell Moml) to:
POB
1955,
NYC
10025.

as you're told. Your
stats are unimportant
to me-your attitude
Isn't. If willing to
explore,write
toPOBox 292, NYC
10024.

UNIQUEOPPORTUNfTY
How would you like tostrip, kneelbefore me,
and place yourself
under my direction?
Am looking for someone who knows hisplace, (bottom) and
who is obedient. You
must be willing to do

SERIOUS FUN
w/ GWM, 32, 5'10",
very slim, long brown
hair.
Reasonably
attractive, reasonably
intelUgent, outrageous
sense of humor. Passions'include
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books, dramatic landscapes, spicy food,lively conversation,
long kisses. Seeking
facsimile of soulmate,28-40, ideally slim,
clean-shavenandsexy (I know it's subjective, but we can
explore the matter.)
Ph/ph to: Outweek
Box 1172LESBIAN WANTED
Tall, good looking,healthy, straightWM,
35, seeks lesbian or
lesbian couple foradventurous sex. Will
do whatever to please.
Interested? Outweek
Box 1174
BROADWAY BABY
Attractive, furry, cuddly, GWM, 41,5'9·,
170Ibs.,
Br/Br,
w/stache, seeks special, affectionate guy,
3Oish-50ish, for friendship/possible relationship to take in the new
Broadway, Off B'way
seasons together. Youlove musicals (maybe
even collect original
cast albums),
andenjoy comedy, drama,
cabaret, too. Also likecountry walks, brunch,music, film, etc. Ifinterested
write
w/phone and photo (ifpossible)o to: P.O. Box
2509, Times Square
Station New York, NY
10108.
PASSIONATE
about great literature,ballet,classical music,
safe sex, theatre, film,
intellectual chat. GWM,
29,5'9·,155 #, BI/grey,
seeking that sincere
someone who can be
added to the list ofpassions. Letter withdescription of yourself
and your reasons forbeing should elicit a
response.
Pleaseindude a phone number. Photo optional.
Outweek Box 1176
GF, 39, SEEKS
mail order bride. Must
becultured, intelligent,
with a good sense ofhumor. No Holly Nearfans. Outweek Box
1178
MALEIMAIL ART
exchange. Your hot
male images(drawings, collages, etc.)
get a fistful from P.O.
.Box 447, New YorkNY 10012. let's havefun, guysl

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OUTTWEEKWOODSIDE PUSSY
57·,210 Ibs., 45 years
old, GM,loves to suckcock and get fuckedwith bags by black andwhite guys 30-60. Not
necessary to be handsome or slim/trim. Bi,
married o.k. I'm HIV
negative/safe. Write
desires to: P.O. Box4547, 1.1. City, NY,
11104.
NIHON
Japanese boyfriend
wanted by GWM-27,
tall,
dark,
slim,
smooth, soft-spoken
individual, long-haired,creativemusicianlearning Japanese.
Aimasho Ka? Outweek Box 1181
GWM,38, RUNNER,
VEGETARIAN
loves art, music, outdoors,travel, HIV(-).
Seeks GBM, 25-35,
healthy, with similarinterests to seek andshare mutual physical,
emotional, and spiritual
growth.
No
drugslbooze/cigarettes. Photo! letter please.
Outweek Box 1182
SINCEREGM
PROFESSIONAL
healthy 20- sought byhandsomeGMKyotoite, 35, 5'11·,
160 for monogamous
relationship, any race.
Ph/ph to P.O. Box1502, New York, NY
10185.
LOOK NO FURTHER
GWM, experienced
friend and loverseeking same. 1'r!J easygoing,
sensitive,
romantic, intelligent
and witty. 44 years
young, 5T, 142 Ibs.
Beautiful blue eyes,
curly
brown
hair,
moustache. rm sensual, sexually versatileand into safer sex.
Interested in perf. arts,
film, /letter gets mine.
Box
2004,
NYC
10009.
HNDSM HUNG GBM
Top, seeks affectionate bottom,preferably
Hispanic or Italian forfriendship. Goodlooking Intelligent, clean
and honest a must,
40-60 years. Photo, if
possible, will return.
Outweek Box 1187
6', 165, WM, 31
prof, Mid Eastern good
looks, musc,masc,

October 8, 1989

teaser, submissive.
Like science politics,
nature. Us: smart,atheiSV agnostic, progressive, unpretentious, non-smoker,
vers., affectionate.
You: 29-45,' dominant,in good shape, looks.
P.O. Box 41, Eaton·
town, NJ on24.
EDUCATORlWRITER
Lesbian professional:
35, 5'3·, slimnice looking,immaculate.
Maturerational,
strong, responsible,
yet affectionate, warm,compassionate. Wouldlove to meet a feminine gay professional:"" ....e, 27-36, who isalso attractive, very
slim, healthy, graceful,intelligent (a mustl),
responsible, honest,
loving,sensitive,
romantic and sentimental. Outweek Box
1189 qualities to reply.
Honesty is sacred.
Note/phone/photo.
ATT: HAIRY MEN
GWM, 40,5'8·, 200,very oral seekshirsute
man to worship fromhead to toe. Send
photo/phone to P.O.
Box 20446 london
Terrace Station NYC,
NY 10011. My tongue
is waiting to taste yourfurry body.
LET'S MAKE LOVEFifyish GWM-6', 175
into classicalmusic,
sensuous sexualityroving fingers andtongue, intense nipples. PhI, pis. P.O.
Box 387, Old Chelsea
Station, NY NY 10011.
DONNY
We met driving acrossthe bridgewhen myship came in, youwere disappointed. I
was wrong. Pleasewrite. Jeffrey, POB
3222, NYC 10185
GBM+U=LOVE39, 5'11·, 215 seeks
top for relshp.Theatre,
music, arts, NYC,
love, hand holding,kisses, cuddles. No
drugs/smoke. U over
35 all races big andstache a +. Ph/Ph if
possible.
PO Box
400073, Brooklyn, NY
11240-0073.
NARCISSIST?
Me, too. Send hot
photosforhotswaps.GPO
Box

022301, Brooklyn, NY
11202-0049

etc. OutWeek
1202.

DO YOU SPEAK
sofdy and carry a big
stick?Me/GWM,
handsome, 28, Br/Grn,gym bodY,5'9·, 150
and tired of bars. You!
young, hunky andhung into movies, dinners and great healthysex (maybe more).
Write to ·CO· andsend photo to Outweek Box 1195

DEJAVUseems this 33, 5'9·,
handsome,
healthy,GJM and you(25-40,smart/allr)
have stood and talked(about books andplays and movies andmusic) like this before.
The clothes you're
wearingaretheclothes you wore.
(Don't you ever dolaundry?) Was thesmile you're smilingthis sexy then? Let's
get together and meetagain and laugh again
and love again. let meknow where and Outweek Box 1203

GWF,36seeks non-couch pota·
to GWF 30+.1 like: foreign/obscurefilms,
new wave and rockmusic, Monty Python,
The Far Side, foreign
travel, reading, theShore, and gourmet
cooking. I am petite,
feminine, and not religious. If you like:dancing, art museums,
and maybe hot air balloon rides, send me anote with your phone
numberandaphoto.Outweek Box
1199
OUTGOING GWM, SO,
seeks friend(s) for fun
visits tolocal museums, galleries, theatre,
dance, music, movies,
sports, and weekend
excursions. Pleasant,sincere personality
and inquisitive/adventurous attitude more
important than height,
weigh.t, build, looks,
hair, colQr,occupation,
race, sex, brains, religion,politics or age.
Note with interests &phone to Hank. Outweek Box 1200
ROMANCE
GWM, 38, 5'8·, 145, Br
Hr, BI eyes,moust.,
looking for romancel
EnjoysBroadway,films, travel, dining out,
quiet times at home.
Seeks GWM, 25-45
w/similar interests forfriendship and possible
relationship.
Good
health, no smokers,
drugs, or one night
stands. Let's inspire
each other. Photolltr/
phone # vital. Outweek
Box 1201
INTO SHIT
from big, hairy asses.
NOT intohumiliation,
just want to worK yourbutt and watch. I'm W
big, bit, 28, xtremely
gdlkg. Into all-u-caneat specials, coffee,Box

GAYRFDPOET
34, 5'8·, 135, HIV+,brown
hair/eyes,
glasses, seeks conversation with gay
men about their lives.
I'd go for a lover or adeeper understandingof gay diversity in mypoetry. Outweek Box
1204
GWM,34,5'1a',1501bs.
slim, young-looking,
Br/Gr. I likemovies,
music, theatre anddinner out would liketo meet other GWM
for above for relaxing
evenings and safe fun.
No drugs. Write to AT
with phone/photo. Outweek Box 1205
GWM, 26, 6',170,
brown
hair/eyes,
attractive (I guess).
East Village part-time
activist,p--erformer(kin~t}',lliumorous,sarc«1ticin a funnyway, somewhat offbeat, not too serious,very sincere, undaunted, native New YorKer,
seeking similar niceguys, 20-30, for friendship and who knows
what. Send letter,phone,
photo(orrecent drawing). Outweek Box 1206
LESBIAN,33
tall, slim, creative,
sober,quiet yet spirited. I'm honest andconsiderate. A senseof humor has always
gotten me through difficult times. The ability
to laugh at myself has
been my salvation. I
love and am moved bybooks, birds, beaches,rubberstamps,movies, swimming,

hard worK, music, conversation, and sushi.
Outweek Box 1207
SHOES AND SOCKS
Hot, handsome guy
with intensefoot fetish
wants to meet similarmen
formutualscenes. Wall Street
types a plusl Serious
replies only, please.
OutWeek Box 1208
PROUST ADDICT, 27
Into kayaking, hiking,weightlifting,delaSoul, Nietzsche andwell-rounded,
nonmoney-oriented peo·pie. I'm looking forsomebody around myage with whom toshare a thousand andone mornings of posttussle coffee and talk.
Outweek Box 1209
ROMANTIC TOP
seeks slim bottom, 1839. l'm36, 6', 145, inshape, attr, creative,
political.
P.O. Box
1251, Canal St. Station, NY, NY 10013.
ULSTER COUNTY
Straight-acting, 37year
old, single,white maleseeks GWM for friendship and sex. Sincere
only. P.O. Box 275,
Highland, NY 12528.
, MASSAGE WANTEDGWM, retired gentleman,
135
Ibs.,
5'T,slim & trim seeks
regular weekly massage by experienced
male. Daytime. Mid·
Manhattan.
Pleasewrite to: Box 6095,
Grand Central Station,
NY, NY 10163-6018.
BE MY HORSEI
If you're well-built andlikebeing straddled,
feel my bare thighs
astride you as I mountyour shoulders, chicken-fight style, riding
the back of your neck,and ride your bareback with you on all
fours. Hot, experienced BWM, 47, 6',175.lbs., consideredattractive. Rider: Box176, 70-A Greenwich
Avenue, New YorK..NY
10011.
~.:;CHUBBY ,VILLAIN
GWM, 39, 5'5·, ~OO,
cln. shv, hry chst,u/cseeks wI. bit. masc.,
imaginative studs tosweat out our hottest,
wildest combat fantasyl No real ·rasslin'·,but our match can be
as fun, erotic, and/or·brutal· as U desirel
Costumes, nude, oil,tits, hot talk, ·dirty·
holds, jlo, 88, midtown,
day/night. Ph/ph 2 T J,
Box 112, executive
Suite, 330 W. 42ndStreet, NYC, 10036.
Ethnic a +.

stration than at a retro
Saint-at-Iarge party.
We R GWM's BIIBI,
Br/Br, with good proportions everywhere.
No clones. Your photo& phone get~ ours.
Play
safel
70-A
Greenwich
AvenueBox 387, New York,NY 10011.

BLACKMANhairy hole, sweaty pits,
healthy tongue seekssame (over 30) for
mutual·no holds
barred· private Mt.
Morrissessions.
Occupant, P.O. Box263, New York, NY
10003.

INTELLECTUAL
TYPE
Slim, boyish, intellectual WM, 32,swimmer,brown/green with varied interests seeks
brainy, muscular guy
next door, any race,
25-40, for possible
relationship.
Box
1220,
NYC,
NY
10026.

LOOKS & BRAIN
GWM, 30, 170, 6'1·,
goodlooking andintelligent. Baseball, art,
politics, books, pubs,
safe sex. Interested?
P.O.
Box
1005,
Stuyvesant Station,
NY, NY 10009.
PENETRATE THIS
ultra-hot,hairless
PRIMO-BUTT.Me: 29,
Ital-Irish masculine
LA/NY HANDSOME
jock type stud. You:
100% masculine, nonwimp, in-shape, alert
WM "w/a PRIMOCOCK & emotional
PENETRATIoN. Mike
(212) 439-.1191 (24hour voice-mail) LETS
GET BUSY.
GWM ISO BLKGM
Lonely GWM ISO gay
black man forlover andsex buddy on regularbasis.
Photo
andphone a must. Be over
25-professlonallyemployed and able totravel on vacations,etc. Boxholder, P.O.
Box 4543, Trenton, NJ
08611.
YOUNG GWM, 24
88.,5'11·, masculine,
hot,ready, seeks NY'shottest, most photographable.
Sendphone, hot photo. P.O.
Box 430, ViI;lage Station, New York, NY
10014,YOI READ THIS
2 hot guys looking tocreetsingles or couPles interested in playing. 'We prefer the
Pyramid to the Boy
Bar. Would rather
dance to the Curethan Donna Summer(yuch) and would
rather be at a demon-

LIKE A VIRGIN••
O.K., Material Girl ismore like itGWM, 19,slim, brunette sexbunny sks hot muscledads. Photo a mustl
847-A
SecondAvenue, Box #285
NYC, 10017. Nicearms a plus-the bigger
the betterI
ASKING FOR THE
MOON
Are you 18-26, 5'8·-6',
intell.,hndsm, masc,smooth, vry well def. &hung huge? Do you'want someone
toappreciate your physical attrib as well as
what's inside? I'm apubl auth and cmposr,
(mid
30's,
5'10·,
170);hlthy, gd-Ikg, sincere, witty and talented; I'm Ikg for aromantic,
monog,&
mutually supportive
rltnshp w/ someone
special. If you meet
my criteriapls send
photo and phone toBox 20061, London
Terrace Station, NYC,
10011. NO DRUGSICOLUM. GRAD STUDENTGWM, 5'11·, 160 Ibs.,
br/br, fit asa fiddle.
Enjoy' - marches,demos and dinner.
Seek in-shape GM,
any race for possible
relationship.
. Letter/photol phone toRB, Box 790, NYC,
NY 101008.
LESBIANIFEMINIST
I'm vegetarianbutallergic to cats.Love toread, eat out and go to
movies. Live in Woodstock ar.ea. Please
send photo and letterto P.O. Box 684,
Bearsville, NY 12409.
GWF-SEEKING TO
form friendship, networklsocialgroup. Allboroughs welcome. 2xmonthlymeetings.
Butcheslfemmes particularly
welcome.
Let'shave good,clean, womanly fun.
Join in time for the holidays. (718) 961-6236.
GWF31,
seeks friends to shareinterests that include
country living, gardening, R&B music, oldmoviesand most
important, polishingthe inner soul. rm gregarious, interesting
and creative. I have 55
acres upstate I wish tostart a business on. I
need people withideas
and strongarms. Outweek Box
1233
GAY ASIAN
MANHATTANITE
5'10·, 160#, athletictanned body, attractive
Calif-born Ivy League
investment professional seeks intelligent,
fun-loving
men forfriendship, companionship and possibly
more. Likes: Tennis,
skiing, theatre, alltypes of music, good
food, intelligent conversation, travel, honesty,maturity and sincerity.
Dislikes:
cigarettes, drugs, apathy, pretension andignorance.
Pleasesend letter, photo andphone # to: Outweek
Box 1235

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21 Ann Street (btwn.·Broadway & Nassau St.)New York City ./ (212) 267-9760
Mon.-Fri.: 7am-11pm I Sat.: 10am-llpm
Sun.: 10am-7pm

P-TOWN WINTER
Hot blond facing lonely
winter seeks stimulation. I am 29, BVBI,6',160 Ibs. of lean, hard.l1)uscle, Spiritual, sen·sual smart and fun,Open to anything fromphone sex to serious
relationship. Send me
your thoughts, hopes,
dreams, fantasies-I
will respond In kind.
Outweek Box 1237
FRAT SCENES
Butch little blondeseeks other hot young
top guys into initiations
and other fun group
scenes. Make yourfantasy into reality.
Photo/phone to Box

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PLANS

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478, 498 LaGuardia
Place, NYC 10012.
GWF TOGETHER
30 somethin'g, smart,easygoing,
Italian/Scorpio, feminist, healthy, happy,
cool/warm/hot,oldfashioned
valuesmixed w/ wide streakof bohemianism seeksemot. healthy, softhearted, hot-blooded
woman for life partnershipspicedwithbeaches, brunches,
friends,
media(bookslmagslfiimsleve
n t.v.i), all performing
arts ( rm a prof. stage
manager), changes,
choices,
hystericallaughter, wild sex,
etc.--I.e.,
the right
stuffi The real thing:trust, lust, lovel Write
OutWeek Box 1241
FLOWEROF THE
MOUNTAIN
Yes, when I put therose in my hair likethe Andalusian girls
used to or shall I
wear a red. Yes, andhow he kissed meunder the Moorish
Wall and I thought,·Well, as well it's him
as another ... • andthen I asked him
with my eyes to ask
again and then heasked me would I
say yes, my Mountain Flower ... GWM,
28, mystical, smart,
has Ideals,
openheart, sure voice.
Photo/phone to PO
Box 401157, Brooklyn, NY 11240.
GWF,30, VERYPRETTYfunny, faithful, complex, moody, mature,sarcastic, selective.
I'm semi-normal, notinto gay scene, dubs,
roles, or men. Searching for a goodlooking,unpretentious, older(30-42) woman withvalues and an off thewall sense of humour,
who Isn'tdykey, tali, bi,easy, or a funlovlng
partier.
Redheads,
dark-eyed brunettes,
accents, kids, and big
breasts are a plus.
Recent photo and letter if you're for real,'cause I am. P.O. Box3092, Clifton,
NJ
07012. Manhattan or
Jersey preferred.
ASIAN STUDS
Chubby GWM, baby-

72

OU~WEEK

faced, 39, 5'5·, 200,
clean-shaven, hairychest and belly, br/br,
utc, seeks wl.blt., masculine GOM, ·South
Asians· 4 safe, hot
action I
Midtown,
day/night. Ph/ph 2 TJ,
Box 112, Executive
Suite, 330 West 42ndStreet,
NYC,
NY
10036.
CONNECTICUT
GWM,
28, seeksfriends for my occassional business trips to
New York or yours toHartford. 5'8·, 135
Ibs., light brown hair,
attractive. Race unimportant. Photo appreciated.
P.O. Box31434,
Old State
House Station, Hartford, CT 06103. .'TALL TOPMAN-NYC
GWM, 6'2·, 195 Ibs.,
40's, hunk, butch,smooth, sensitive, dis·
creet, easy-going, into
the arts. Safe sex only.
Seeks caring relationship with bottom, tall,hunk. ·NO· to smoking, drugs, drinking.
·YES· to romance,
sense of humor, funtimes, sincere, good·looking, up attitude,
hot
safe
muscleaction, dancing, theatre, cinema, travel,
art shows, mutual nurturing, and loving environment. Write: ·W·,
P.O. Box 325, WallStreet Station, NYC,
10268. Photo a help if
possible. Thanks.
TRUST TRAINING
GWM, 39, 6', 180,
attractive, masculine,
seeks similar professional to help unwind
in 9 1/2 Weeks-typegames of control.Discipline, teasing andtrust. Safe, hot, erotic
scenes Involving fantasy, bondage, blindfolds, toys, but mainly
my very creative mind
(and yours?). I'm usually dominant, can besubmissive depending
on my partner. Let's
explore and expand
our limits of sensuality:
letter, phone, photo (ifpossible) to: P.O. Box
B20386, Columbus
Circle Station NYC,
NY 10023.
MUSCULARTOPMAN
Sexy BB, 44, 6'1·,
200#, 16· arms, 45·
chest, 32· waist, SIP
beard
and
hair,

October 8, 1989

healthy, imaginative &sane, prefers long,steamy, Intense oral
service from equally
butch guys. Hairy,
short, thick-built Jewish and ltals a special
turn-on, but if you're a
hot bottom & would
love to give great headto this beefy, masculine guy, write me.
Photos exchanged,
returned: C.J., P.O.
Box 20616, Col. Clr.
Sta. NYC 10023.
INTELLIGENCE
Very intelligent, very
handsome W/M, 35,
135, 5'8·, Br/81, masculine with no affectations. Looking foranother bright, natural
guy. Mark, Box 703,
FOR Station, NYC NY
10150.
MUSCULARSLAVE
GWM, 37,190# wants
you for his slave.
Friendly Master wants
to dominate you for his
pleasure and possibly
yours. You should bevery muscular. Largeendowment a plus but
notnecessary.
Responses
withexplicit photo and letter, phone # answered
first. London Terrace
Station #20276, NYC,
10011.
SUBMISSIVE WM.
40, 5'9", 145, dancer's
body, will wearpanties,
nylons, high heels,etc., for doniant hungmen. Discreet, kinky
dates at your place,
NYC only. Lee, POB
146, Prince SI. Station, NYC 10012.
GWM,'Z7, BANKER,
5'10·,
155
Ibs.,
bm/grn, friendly, handsome,Intelligent,
healthy, Interested In
friends and/or relationship with someone
5'11· or over with similar qualitles.For fun
with friends I likerestaurants, movies,
theatre, clubs, beach,travelling overseas,etc. I am fairly careeroriented and serious
but into having fun
whenever possible,
and most of the time
my job doesn't get in
the way of my persona1life. I would describe
myself as caring, supportive and fun. Pleasewrite and tell me about
yourself.
PK, Box1622, NYC 10025.

INTIMACY
Always need to beworkingon It. At
32,5'5·, 115 Ibs., br. h& e, I am firmly
establishedin myappearance, yet not
set in mjy ways.
Intermittent
ACTUPer, wholikes
tosing and when on my
own watches latenight & Sunday morning t.v., seeks guy
who also enjoys thearts and pOlitics.
Want to meet, go out,
and-only if we're both
into It-havesex.
Greater commitment
desirable,
but notwith anyone and only
with
some
time.
Reply to P.O. Box
20079, NYC, 10009.
II WHITE MALE
Good-looking,verywell-built. muscular,
straight-acting/appearing guy, 36, 6', 170
Ibs.
Professional,
healthy and discreet
seeks similar professional well-built masculine guy for friendship and safe goodtimes. Can be free
weekdays. Box 2479,
NY, NY 10185.
COCKSUCKER
Hot, horny handsome
GWM, 37, 5'7·, 165
Ibs., brnlbrn brd wants
to suck men, 18-40.
Let me wet your dick.
496-A Hudson St. F48, NY, NY 10014.
SEEKS FRIENDSWhite male couple,
early 40's, healthynonsmokers looking to
expand social circles,
seeks other couples.
Enjoy theatre, restaurants, day trips, homeentertaining. Pleasewrite to: P.O. Box
1636, New York, NY
10185-0014.
KRAZY KAT SEZ:
01, yol, yol, what aiJnheppy ket I am
these·brlckliss·dazelll Monogamous
hermaphrodite
haslost her Ignatz end Iz
done cryin' about it.
I'm seekin' en attractive, caring gesbian
who can love an
unusualgirlfriend.
Thrill-seekers,
genderlsts, lust monsters
and wierdos need not
apply... I get enuff uhthet shit on thuh
street.
Send
yer
resumaze en pix to :P.O. Box 20801. NYC
10009. Attn: K.U.A.
CAT WANTS A DOG
Beautifulboyish
GWM-301l00ks
20.
S'7·/120/brn/hzlsleek, sensual, sensuous
cat, seeks
extra
handsome
champion pedigree
dog-GWM,
25-35.
Muscles, sideburns,
sexy eyes hidden
behind glasses, andhairy and/or bow legs
a plus. Must haveshots,
no worms.
Send photo / phone/papers to OutWeek
Box 1258. Boxers,
Bull Terriers, German
Shepherds,
andGreat Danes welcome. No Huskies orPoodles, please. Outweek Box 1258
HIV+
Attractive Med Student, 30 yo, 5'9·, 155,
seeks masc M toshare quality time. I
love the Mets, walks inthe park, cuddiing,cats, quiet eves athome, walking acrossthe Brooklyn Bridge,
theatre, cooking andgoodbooks.
You
should be content withquality over quantity,
Romantic and supportive. Bklyn res. or Italian/Latin a plus. T.P.
Box 7047, FOR Station, NYC, 10150. Will
answer all so please
include photo If you
have one. I will reciprocate.
RSVP
I'm a. SUC!'-II,ssful,secure, •.~~ittediyshy, GWM, 42, 5'8·,
144, and fit. Bornwith good looks,
acquiredtenderness, self-awareness and a romafltic
outlook; request the
response of attractive monogamy- oriented guys for aquality life of playfulness and sensuality. Will exchange
photos.
P.O. Box
20141, NYC 100289991.

1TOl
relationship desired.
WM, bl/bl, 29, 5'4·,
135, good-iooking,warm, sensitive, caring, real I Looking forsomeone special, 2535, who is honest,
energetic, Intelligent,
romantic, etc. to build

meaningful monogamous relationship.
Please send a letterand photo (If possible)
to P.O. Box 7166, FOR
Station,
NYC, NY
10150.
GBII,2O, NYU
Attractive, earthy student seeks similar
masculine, witty guy
for warmth and special
friendship.
Latins,Europeans(French), Carribeansa big +. Genuine
replies only. Box 996,
New Rochelle,NY10801.
FRIEND/LOVER
GWM, 29, 5'4·, 135,
BI/bl, good-looking,Intelligent,
shy,
healthy-not Into bar
scene because I'm
shy-I find it hardmeeting people. My
tastes are variedmusic, film, theatre,
parties,dancing,reading,
country
drives, antiques, quiet
evenings. I seek a
long
term
friendship/relationshipw/someone
I cancount on to be there.
If U R 28-36, trim,
good-looking, intelligent, m~sculine, sensitive and easy-going,
ple,aserespondw/photo and phoneand detailed letter toP.O: Box 7166, FOR
Station, New York,NY 10150. Thanks.
GWM,ITAUAN
42, 5'9·, 145 Ibs.,
Br/Br,
moustache,good-looking, malC.,
many interests seeks
similar men for friendship & safe sex relationship, staches andhairy a +. photo/phone.
Box 831,
Grand Central Station,
NYC,10163.
.1 NEED A IIAN
who'l take a chance ...
on being open, aware,close, safely Intimate,a friend. Possible r.elationshipllove
i:~ndevelop w/tlme-work.
Sure, we all have pr4ferences; but, life'l too
short to get hung.,up
on absoluteslattitudes
that are unreali~c. I'ma non-perfecf,J,o,;cretin, nice· bottom
GWM, 45, 5'7", 210
who seeks a basically
top similar
male.
Write: P.O. Box 454"7,
L.I.City, NY 11104.

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ARIES

3/20-4/19

Girlfiend, this week not only has'~-oyou so uptight you could kill, but it's also going to
put a major dent in your purse. The new moo~ on, '. , . , .:the 29th last week made you confront many things.'..
that you didn't like. Mars aspectlng your sun, along..
;~,~: with all those cardinale planetary transits, are bound- c'.. ,)~~.- to put a bee in your bonnet
Mercury goes direct on
the 4th which should clarify and resolye a lovers'
quarrel. Watch that temper!

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1III!"I'IIIiIIIIIIIIIIIiIIIIIIIIIIIiIIIIIIIIIIIiIIIIIIII!II!!ITAURUS 4/20-5/19

Your wardrobe

is exaaly

that, aWAR-Roo.. So go "",pplng "'" w<ek. The """""'f."ts' ' , ""moon on the 2nd-3rd has you paranoid and touchy ,so don't get depressed and pig out. Drama can be.',,: -'.
fun but you may just be in search of more rolls,;, '_. ". ~_;oi instead of roles. Unless you're really into serious:\'~::'.. . ,_~'"'~'" ' chubby chasers then you better cool it with the mudliiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii .. pie and beer. Remember, cellulite looks deadlier on
celluloid, especially when you take up half the frame darling!

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P.!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!I GEMINI,,".,t· ",f.,.,:":,]

5/20-6120 Stop acting like such a slut! Big"'evening., ~ youan""""phon< n_1n "'"than all those 540 lines put together. You're

1

, ;.
""
.' ) , '.'too afraid of emotions and wlnerability. Mars trining':i iyour sun sign will help you slide In and out of exeu&, ',: i. :;:,~. es this month.
You can not only be a snake, but
you're also a snake charmer. No wonder why Gemini,' .. ,.
rates so high statistically In petty thievery. I guess agirl could get desperate.
'

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LIBRA 9/23-10/22 There's something fishy going,down
at the office. Perhaps you should spend.
some time in contemplation. You're really getting... 'the shaft since Mars is conjunct your sun sign.
This further complicatesthe fact that Jupiter.
n "I.;: opposes Uranus, Neptune and Saturn all square_:'~~J.?§ your sun with Mars. I know the star jargon reallylI;;;;liiiiiiiii===:I floors you plebes out there so I'll put it in layman's/woman's
terms. You're acting like an ambitious, power seeker
from a' night time soap. This really pisses your co-workers off andmakes you moose dung in ~e popularity department.
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S<DRPIO 10/23-1)/22
You are the perf~ person
for someone else's 10Yer to have an al&ir with. The

planets are in such a great position that-we should
call this ·National Dominatrix ~ek"
You're the

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reluctant celebrity on. t?e 2nd ~d '3rd with the-, ,,~: Venus-Moon, Pluto actMty. This IS a bad week to. . ".' .:-;'f::¥get drunk on a first date. A perversely humoroos:.iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiil partner may take advantage of your horizontal
unconaciousness and pose you for some regretable sleazy poIaroids.
..

cold, insensitive honesty. You also make Ii lousy
liar so don't further complicate maners by exaggerating a story meant to help a friend. The 4th
through 6th gives you a chance to reap rewards.."'~5.

-;;;;;;';;;;'1 Jupiter
CANCER 6/21-7/22 Look honey, just because lucky
is conjunct In your sun sign, don't foolishly

iV'"'· *""",;:':500'11'

for p~or efforts. You are very lucky though. S~.
plannmg your Halloween costume early. Venus IS
about to enter your sun sign which brings a fleeting bout of popularity.

IIblow your wad. Jupiter gives you more money
opportunities but it also fanens up your needs. Mercury goes direct on the 4th so you can clear up thatpretty head. Last month's s.n.aJ.u.'s
in mechanicalfailures and mail room screw-ups will leave a lot of
l:i;iiiiiiiiiiiiiii=::'unattended business to clean up at the work place.
You're having tons of l..\nexpected shake ups.
•

lous makeover• LEO 7/23-8/22 Pluto is squaring your sun sign forsome time now. Madonna, the world's most famous
Leo, has changed her image and remarketed herself
every other week because of this important planetarytransit. So what have you done for that tired old doo
lately? Remember, if it weren't for peroxide, enamel,silicone and, as of req:ntly, retin-A, we wouldn't
have a LEO in HOLLYWOOD. Best days. for a fabuare the 4th-6th.

i.,. .

i VIRGO 8/23-9/22

With that triple conjunction of Saturn, Neptune and Uranus in Capricorn, trining yoursun sign, life should be a Roman holiday. Unfortunately, it's not. You can't make a decision so all you
seem to be attracting are lechers. Virgo drag queens
are going to get spooked this week, while Virgo lesbians will get bored with long walks, carrot cake andpoetry. Gay boys should avoid crowded cruise bars
where their bound to get goosed by some drunkin' perv with Roman
hands and Russian fingers. The 7th and 8th will be' a more harmonious
part of the week. There's a raise in salary coming your way. Watch thatsmart mouth of yours or you'll blow the whole thing.

_0r;::";Y;:>~":=:"=:'~'.,C;';"':;l:::=~,:I~~~:~~~~~9f::~~~~~~~~~sthough. A change of hair color works';'c.
miracles for autumn doldrums. Avoid foul weather
friends. :ou do?'t need negative energy around'.
' ':<; you so Simply ditch any mother who doesn't supc:(",.:,:,'. :::'iS~~.•;"i: port your program. The 6th-8th brings joyful ener,
gy. It's your weekend to party and be treated likea queen if that's your proclivity. I~ iyisn't then break out the Budwei.sers(not Coors), have a beer bl~;~lChout.

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AQU~RIUS
1/20-2/19
Being such a gifted,.It!!S8!!t!''''S..... slavedriver you'd better deliver promises withthose co-workers of yours. If you're trying to jUst
talk bullshit they'll eventually spook your ass out.
On the other hand romance at the office will bevery prevalent on the 4th-6th. Trying to remain
professional is such a bitch when mother natu.re
has one set of glands screaming to another.

".E.~,iFor personal astrology and tarot card readings mail your name andtelephone number to Esoterica Porcelana de Zodlaca, c/o Out~ek
Magazine, 77 Lexington Ave., Suite 200, New York, N.Y. 10010.

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October 8, 1989

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.1 PIISCES. 2 /20-3119 Be.ing aalned~ess fan~,c w.0nl't
fa evlate I the state
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emaciation. Smoking incessantly, hismonologue bristles with anti-authority mottos and numerous
sexualexpletives, This non-talent had thenerve to hog the stage for 15 painful
minutes.
Oh the agony! Impala
should immediately gallop across the
Hudson, revert to his given name andlive a quiet but anxiety-ridden life far
from the madding crowd (apologies
to Thomas Hardy).
If Impala disappoints, Woodbury's
short interlude is a breath of fresh air.
Blond-maned with twinkling blueeyes, she innocently offers a funnytakeoff on the "Just Say No" anti-drug
campaign. Woodbury scrunches her
body and demurely crosses her legs
while relating the tale of 16-year-old
Ann, Speaking to us from the grave, aremorseful Ann relates her crime.
Once she was a thriving teenager
intent on performing some good. Now
she is dead, an unfortunate occurrence
due to her drinking too much (whatelse?) Cafe Bustelo,Show business tradition demands a strong finale and Carrnelita
Tropicana,
Loisaida's answer toCarmen Miranda, makes the Muses
proud. For years, Tropicana has conducted her unique teachings at various venues. Since I do not "hablo
espaiiol", her humorous and lopsided"Spanish Lesson" is always a welcome treat. Tropicana squeezes every
ounce of heavenly pulp out of each
student. We learn consonants and"bowels", why Spanish's bisexual
words hold the key to comprehension and how "Speaking in Tongues"
is synonymous with fluency.
Dud,ley Saunders closed theeveni9g leading the audience in aheartfelt
renditionof "Amazing
Grace", a Cafe Bustelo tradition. Fifty
voices united together, some females
giving Judy Collins a run for her
money. Outside, the night was still
young. Impalas would soon make abeeline to the Lincoln Tunnel and I
would practice my MSpanglish"on thefirst available cabdriver.
~("Cafe Bustelo

in Exile" performs

every otber Sunday evening at 8 pm.
Address is 62 East Second Street. For
information call 212-969-0805)

78

OUT~WEEKSENSATION from plge 55

NEW YORK JOURNAL from page 31

It's a recurring theme in the bookthat many people had love/hate relationships with Bennett: he could bemanipulative and calculating, often
using personal information to get agood performance, and was inept at
firing people (particularly
LainieKazan in Seesaw), but he could also
be incredibly generous, voluntarily
restructuring the A Cborus Line royalties 'so that the original participants
shared in the wealth, and could be
especially loving, creati~g a specialbond with people he cared about.
And his professional accomplishments
are staggering;
Bennett had anunerring instinct for the theatrical. In
the words of Tommy Tune, "Michael
Bennett knew how to make a number'come' better than anybody."
Ken Mandlebaum has done asuperior job of recording and appraising Bennett's place in American theater: I have this image of Mandlebaum
sitting down to write this book surrounded by stacks of tapes, piles oftranscripts and index cards loadedwith notes and cross-references. Fromhis plethora of material, he has synthesized an informative and immensely
readable book, About the only area inwhich I can find fault with his analysis
is in his discussion of the gay themesin A Cborus Line. He says that "making the gay element an integral part of
the action" made the subject "acceptable to a broad public, probably forthe first time." He seems to forget thatTbe Boys in tbe Band played 1,000
performances Off-Brqadway beginningin 1969, and that much of the gay
material in A Cborus Line is of thesame self-pitying, self-hating variety
that appears in Boys. He quotes coauthor Nicholas Dante as saying hethinks that it "paved the way for Torcb
Song Trilogy and other gay material
that reached Broadway," but Danteflatters himself with this assessment.
It's especially appropriate and pertinent to be reading A Chorus Line... as
the new theatrical season begins, giventhat it is being heralded as one of thebusiest for musicals in recent years.
Mandlebaum's book is an excellent
reminder of how the work and vision~f one man affected what we will beseeing for years to come.
~worker, the nurse, the attending
physician, all explain.
And when p-essed, they add, "A.MA
means you really shouldn't go home.""I'm going nuts! I can't stand thisplace anymore! Get me out of thisdamn corridor!" Those words echo
day after day, bouncing stretcher tostretcher down the hall. A few more
faces disappear.
"He really wants to be at home,"an overseeing physician counsels
when he phones me in Jersey. I'd·been relieved after 36 hours by afriend. "And a patient's
wishes,they're very important to me."
"I've been talking to David about
going home. He very much wants to
be at home with you," the social
worker confides when she calls a few
minutes later. "What are the chancesof that happening?""David's not coming ,home to shit.
himself to death without medical attention on my couch," I respond.
flfmly. "You're better equipped to deal
with his medical problems than lam."I'd actually been wavering.
MOh take him home," friends
good-heartedly counseled.
"Please! Please! Please I" David
himself begged.
It was hard to say "no." David
would have to come to my apartment
where I and others could care forhim.
'I

I hel4lower
of Attorney. David
told ~tohave me sign the "DoNot.-Resucitate"order that flfst evening,
Care partner games. Patientgames. Life and death games. Why somany calls from the hospital as soon
as I came home?
R;:ilization earthquake. A giant "crack had opened in the middfe of
the road-a sharp, clear dividing line.
There I was on one side" at .,home-andon the other side wete
the medical folks doing what they
had been trained to do, albeit almoi
unwillingly-caring for David.
.;;..
The social worker game~Hhenurse games, the doctor games 'had
failed. We'd wait to get that room. Our
faces were not going to disappear. ~C{"

October 8, 1989f

....

HOTEL MAJmNIQUEfrom paga 51

lates the play into a form that is
especially meaningful for young people and co-producer
Tim Stadard
often sets aside seats at each showfor young people who live or have
lived in the shelters.
The multi-racial
ensemble ofactors, who take on many roles
throughout
the evening, are verystrong, though Lisa Carballo is particularly notable in her versatility anddepth. The set is simple and unobtrusive as it should be and the lighting isadequate for both the needs of theactors and the audience. The only
technical glitch seemed to be with thesound system which in some cases
overpowered the singers and made it
impossible for the audien,ce to understand the lyrics. Because the lyrics are
so crucial to the development of thestories, this is a significant but easily
rectified problem.
Artistically there could be somestreamlining - in toto, the work has
a rollercoaster feel to it, and although

this seems inherent in the topic, a bitof directorial editing could help. The
range of experiences and feelings thatare portrayed through the many characters in addition to the appalling
facts about homelessness that buttressso mu'ch of the material elicited a
responsive and appreciative chord in
the audience.
Delmore Schwartz once said, "Ionce was good but became t:vil
because I believed too much in otherhuman beings" and this would seem tobe one of the net results of a systemthat fails its supposed recipients. But
there is very little about how humanbeings become cruel after cruelty has
been exacted upon them and instead
we are left with a sense of the amazing strength of the human spirit in direcircumstances. Hotel Martinique is anurgent and well thought-out call toaction for all who see it. Its message
and method make it an evening of theater that is more than well spent andwhose effect lasts long after the fmal
curtain call.
~.public spaces spaciously cramped.
BLACK RAIN from page 41
Even the faces of suspects in the'second tale, a slightly corrupt but notpolice photo book are "identicalcorruptible
cop, Nick Conklin
strangers." What stands out as unique,(Michael Douglas), and his partner,
and therefore dangerous, are the eleCharlie Vincent (Andy Garcia) arements of japanese culture-its
ecoordered to return to Osaka an infanomic superiority; the disrespectful
mous japanese gangster, Sato (Yusaka
Yakuza, Sato; the criminal plot to
Matsuda), who they had previously
counterfeit American money-whicharrested for murder in New York.
are, in the ftIm's eyes, the legacies of
Their troubles really begin, however,the American "black rain." Thus, thewhen they mistakenly hand him over
object for which Sato murders andto his own men, mistaking a japanesewith which another Yakuza tells
insurance certificate for a prisoner
Conklin, "I will pay you back forrelease form, Losing his partner to a
Hiroshima," is the perfect $100 printing
knife-swinging japanese motorcycle
plate which would flood the Americangang, and forced to take on amarket and demonstrate
how thejapanese partner (Ken Takakura),
japanese
literally make American
Conklin nevertheless tears throughmoney better than Americans.
the 'incomprehensible japanese landOpposed to Scott's paranoid
scape of velvet-lit geisha houses andAmerican view of japan, Shohei
factory-stacked apartment' buildings to
Imamura's reviews the legacy of
re-capture the prisoner he had so
incomprehensibly lost.
Hiroshima and the black rain it creathi the ftIm's xenophobic imagina- , ed from the perspective of those mostaffected, the community of japanesetion, japan's incomprehensibility-or,in the more racist term, inscrutabilitysurvivors who carry that day not only
stems less from its complex andwithin their memories, but even moreunique culture, as from its failure to beimportantly, within their bodies. The
American. japan is thus constructed asfilm focuses on the fragile lives of aan empire of contradictory cliches: thecouple, Shigematsu (Kazuo Kitamura)police are methodically inefficient, theand Shigeko (Etsuko Ichihara}-both
criminals honorably dangerous, thewho directly experienced the blast-80

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October 8. 1989

and their niece, Yasuko (Yoshiko
Tanaka), who, while not present tothe actual blast, was splashed withthe black rain. This family, along withthe community about them, is formed
less by heredity or custom, as by theirshared past and possibly shared fate;a fate which marks them off as outcasts within japanesesociety.
Although the japanese government
compensates them for their radiation
sickness, it cannot alter the public
fear that surrounds
them. While
Yasuko, for example, is both beautiful
and of manying age, no one will have
her when they discover her past, eventhough her uncle almost comically.
collects medical certificate after medical certificate attesting to her health.
Following a narrative tradition
established by Mizoguchi and Ozu, thecharacters move unanxiously throughthe story as if they knew that theirlives and the film must end at thesame time. While they remember inhorrific detail that day-the
charredbodies littering the streets, the corpses
clogging the rivers, the mutated bodies
which can now only be recognized by'
the shape of the belt buckle-theynevertheless attend each other withprotective tenderness and an unspoken identification. As such, they fear
for their own lives through their concern for others. All around them,friends who appear healthy become
nauseous, grow dizzy and without
warning, die. And what is mostpoignant in this historic narrative ishow.:~f~undly it echoes a crisis currently happening all about us. Without
constructing a grandiose and undoubtedly false historic analogy, I found it
nevertheless difficult to watch this ftIm
without reading the current AIDS crisisin the acutely personal fear each character experienced and the even moremoving community these charactersconstructed for each other.
~
MIDSUMMER NIGHTS from page 50'.

tions are of the most easily availaple
and soothing sort, where all is done
well even if it's been done several
times before, where the sand has been
trod and trod and trod. PIeasa'iit'aS' it
is, it's a shame that the creators of
Midsummer Nights have worked so
hard on keeping such familiar mak:{ialso relentlessly familiar.
~

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by PhnGteco
Edited by Gabriel Rotello

SOLUTION IN NEXT WEEK'S OUTWEEK ON SALE MONDAYACROSS

1. Biblical masturbator
5. Prison slang: fresh __9. Author Vidal
13. Star in Orion
15. Lesbian artist Bonheur
16. Imitated
17. Song about fellatio?
20. Catch
21. Yankee Steve
22. Cuckoo
23.Bobby __26. Leak
28. _' _ Fields
30. Musical about a lesbian's marital
breakup?
34. Rend
35. Gem w~ght,36, Poet Te:lsdale
37. Italian poet
39. GWfW, e.g.
'43.Ruth's mother-in-law
45. L.:rurner

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9. Scot: gall
10..... __of the masses."
11.Michael
12. See 46 Across
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18. None
19. More
23. Mel et al
24. Ostrich·25. __
end
27. Outings
29. Pieces for 8
31. Rio __32. Tub
33. Crude metal
37. Note of the scale
38. Soul, to Gide
40. Pasolini
41. With regard to
42. Players
44. Heart chambers
46. African country
47. ·You __Me"
48. Impetuously
49. Wavy
50. Iranian's foe
51. Eddas
56. Braun and Gabor
57. Nevada city
59. Gymnast Thomas
61. Understand62. Get color
63. Auricle /64. Gi~& letter
65. Gay composer Rorem

46. (With 12 down) Film about gayson Christopher?
51. Scoff
52. Subject to approval no risk (abbr.)
53. Dye
54. Mature
55. Suffix: person connected with
58. State abbr.
SOLUTION TO LAST WEEK'S PUZZLE
60. Plea for a transvestite?
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66. Toward shelter
ISSUE 15 SOLUTION
TO BE PRINTED IN ISSUE 16
67. Uptight

68. Angry
69. Marquis de __70. E,1ectronicsco.
71. Tradition (abbr.)
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