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Outspoken (Editorial)
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Stonewall Riots (Natalie)
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Systems Collapse
he pandemonium prevailing in New York's overcrowded hospital system has passed the point that demarcates
civilized health care from barbaric inQifference. The
most dire warnings of recent years have come to pass,and citizens with life-threatening illness routinely languish inemergency corridors for days on end. The triage system nOw in.
place in city hospitals has ended any semblance of decent healthcare in New York. We don't know when we will see a humane
system reemerge here, but when it does it will certainly be too .
late for thousands who must now encounter pain and death in'busy hallways, on dirty stretchers, administered by overworked
nurses and doctors. Additional thousands who needn't die at all
will die due to lack of emergency services, or indeed any reasonable lifesaving services at all.
As many New Yorkers watch with smug satisfaction the welcome collapse of tyrannies in the East, it's highly ironic that oneof life's most basic rights, the right to adequate health care, is
now less available here than in many Central European villages.
In addition to our disgraceful abandonment of the homeless, theelderly and the mentally ill, society must now inexplicably add
the abandonment of itself. For we are all only temporarily ablebodied, and anyone in New York can be caught in the horrificmaws of an evil, nightmarisb health care system at any moment.
Yet strangely, most political, academic and journalistic commentary seems to assume that the disaster is unavoidable andwill only get worse. Instead of adopting absolute crisis mentality
and then charting solutions, most politicans and writers shrug
their collective shoulders arid imply that the health care crisis issimply one of many that an enfeebled, ineffective governmentand society can do nothing about. The closing of numerous hospitals in the early 80s is viewed with the inevitability of theweather, instead of haVing been the result of insane, deliberate
decisions by irresponsible elected officials. Cuomo and Koch, thechief villians of this sorry tale, have repeatedly rejected blameand shifted the focus, but the blame is theirs and history will notjudge them kindly.
The' point for gays and lesbians, however, is not to fix
blame for past failures but to change the present situation. The
twin vehicles of hoPe are the new Dinkins Administration andthe presidential ambitions of Mario Cuomo .. Dinkins has taken
office with firm promises of change. But despite his good intentions and expansive rhetoric, AIDS workers and activists should
apply powerful, relentless and continuing pressure on him todevelop a sound strategy for change. We should further remind
Mr. "Family of New York" Cuomo that his family is dying andthat without substantive change we will follow him and embarrass him out of any hope of presidential glory. It would be theleast we could do. ~T

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LETTERS
Bad AdI was damed to see the
New York City Department of
Health ad, "Take This Simple
AIDSTest" in this week's OutWeek. Thisad does not provide
deer end accurate information
about the HIV antibody test
and viable treatment options.
The HIVmtibody test is not simple nor is it en AIDStest. The ad
makes the assumption that if
one does not take the test
she/he does not wmt a "fighting chmce." It also makes theOS$umptionthat all indMduals
have access to health careand the finances for the few
avcilct>letreatments.
Being an AIDS activist
and AIDS counselor I fee!
OutWeek was irresponsible byrunning this ad. When I
phoned your office for an

explanation, I was told thateven tough there was con.sensusthat the ad was possibly misleading, the ad was

TAKE

THIS
SIMPLE·AIDS
TEST:o I want a fighting chanceo I don't

run because itwas felt that,a) to refuse the ad would beconsidered censorship, b) it

was a paid ad, c) there has
been responsible coveragein OutWeek of the facts
around HIV antibody testingand new treatments and d)
the OutWeek readership iswell educatedon theseissues.These are weak justifications. OufWeek is also mistaken in assuming that this ad
was submitted only to advertise the AIDS Hotline number.
OutWeek could have played
an integral role in criticizingthe'inaccuracies
andrequestedan ad thatallowed individuals to makean informed decision. As AIDS
activists we have been fighting for so long to get governmental agencies to address
this crisiswith direct and honest information. For OutWeek
to accept misinformationfrom the govE;lrnmenfisunacceptable.
Anthony Viti
Brooklyn

More on St. Pat's
We are emploYEles, of
GMHC and members of ACT
UP.Workingfor a service agency md participating in a direct
action group, each on a dailybas~, we often feel conflicted
about different points of view
between the two organizations. For instance, while weappreciate and support the
militant stance taken by
GMHC Executive Director Jeff
Braff in hisopen letter to Cardinal· O'Connor(OutWeek,
December 24), we feel compelled to voice our concerns
regarding the "GMHC Statement on Action at st. Patrick's
Cathedral."
The statement says the"the action by ACT UP and
WHAM! inside St. Patrick's
Cathedral was a mistake"because "the action shiftedpublic attention from the realissues.'We feel that the action
did not shift public atte.ntion
from real issues;media manip-

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The statement mentions"the rage and pain that
motivated the protesters."
We say a bear with its pow ina trap has rage and pain;
but the determining impulse
behind the direct action of
ACT UP and WHAM! is a passionate, informed politicalstance and agenda.
The statement says, too,that O'Connor "no doubt isenjoying this divisive action"and "the only winner was
the Cardinal." We think that
this political conflict is not a
sport with clear cut winners
and losers; the long term
results remain to be seen.
And although the intentionof the statement was not todivide, it may have compounded the divisive atmosphere in the community.
It must be recognizedthat all the activists at thedemonstration were there as amatter of conscience. Toler-ance and respect for all people engaged in the struggle toend AIDS must be operative
prindples shered by everybody
comrritted to the struggle.
It is in this spirit that we
add our names to this document.
Greg Bordowitz
Jean Carlomusto
Steven Cordova
Wayne Kowadler
Robert McVey
Manhattan

So, Andy Humm thinks
ACT UP should disassociateitself from the people who
were rude to the cardinal?
Funny, Mr. Humm has never
had a problem with his association to our oppressors!
Humm would go on the "Morton Hitler Show' if it meantgetting his face or name in
the media, in my opinion.
Many of us are oldenough to remember his divisiveness of a decadeago-and he isstiRat it. Thereis a word that he should taketo heart: Quisling. People aredying! We won't go like sheep
to the slaughter!
Lyle Buckingham
I read you editorial("Outspoken")inthe
12/24/89 issue of OutWeek.
You reflect my sentimentcompletely.
When I readabout this demonstration on
Monday morning I was sorry I
was unable to attend it. I
thought it was an incredibly
effective demonstration. It is
about time that gay people
and women start standing
up to this world's outmoded,
obsolete and archaic religious institutions.
As we approach
this
new millennium in the years
from now, the religious foundations of western civilization
as well as other religious
foundations of non-western
civilizations will finally bechallenged by modern man.
Tom Keane, the ACT UP
member who crumbled thewafer at st. Patrick's at Sunday's demonstrationmaywell go down in modern history as the first person to
shake the foundationsoftoday's religious beliefs. The
violent reaction by the public to Mr. Keane's act ofprotest is pure proof that religious convictions and blind
faith and religious values
were shaken badly by him.
Unfortunately
all religious
institutions are anti-gay, antifemale
andthis mustchange in order for religion
as we know it today to sur-

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vive into the next millennia.
I say BRAVO!to ACT UP,
BRAVO! to Tom Keane and
BRAVOIto everyone that supported Sunday's demonstration.
Paul Guzzardo
What will ACT UP's next
action be? Judging fromtheir defense of the desecration Inside St. Patrick's, perhaps they could storm a
Hasidic
Synagogue
In
Williamsburg, rip open theTabernacle and throw the
Torahson the groundl
All progressive movements hove either learned toseparate themselves from outof-control extremists or gone
the way of the SDS/Weather
Underground. Denouncing
the spectacle
Inside St.
Patrick's may take courage,
but ~ Isthe only thing that cansave the gay movement fromitsown lunatic fringe.
Scott Craig
Manhattan
As a member of ACT
UP/LA,I feel compelled torespond to Andy Humm's misrepresentation of our organization's position regarding ACT
UP/NY'saction in and aroundSt. Patrick's. In the middle of
Humm's diatribe against ACT
UP/NY,he hassome kind words
to say about ACT UP/LA. He
statesthat ACT UP/LAhad the"decency" to dissociate itself
from the church "vandalism"that occurred prior to ourprotest against Archbishop
Mahoney. While technicallythat's true, there are several
false implications that comefrom thisstatement.
The first implicationisthat ACT UP/LA actually had
something to do with the incident in question. Thisis false.
Several Los Angeles Catholic
churches were splatteredwith red paint and wheat
pasted with posters calling
Mahoney a murderer for his
authoring of the bishops'
condom policy. A' groupcalled Greater
Religious
Responsiblity (GRR!) claimed

responsibility for the action.
our anger at this genocidal
ACT UP/LAplayed no role.
government and at those
The second implication
Who wish to continue theis that ACT UP/LA somehow
genocide. Those gay "leadcondemned the GRR!action.
ers" who don't share thisWe never did so. We simply
anger must step aside.
stated to whoever asked that
Remember, these peowe did not do the action.
ple hove a right to pray, but
The third and mostthey do not have a right todirectly damaging implicapray for our deaths. Thispope,tion of Humm's statement Is Cardinal O'Connor, Archbishthat ACT UP/LA would someop Mahoney and people
how oppose ACT UP/NY's
who think like them want toaction. Thisis not true. Whentake the condoms off ourasked, the overwhelming
dicks, spread violence against
majority of ACT UP/LA mem- . lesbian and gay people andber support the ,New York
force women Into back alley
action.
Hummshouldabortions, all to enforce theirremember that ACT UPs all
disgusting morality. From theirover the country have been
sermons and from all theirformed with the same philos- statements, these Catholic
ophy: that militant direct
leaders spew genocidal
action Is necessary In order
hatred. They are the moral
to end the AIDS crisis. Eachequivalents of Hitlers and
ACT UP challenges the local
Khomelnis. We have a right
reactionaries who, like Cardiand an obligation to defend
nal O'Connor, playa role inourselves in the war that.
murdering us. Humm's reacthey've started. Unlike Andytion to the St. Patrick's
Humm and other "maindemonstration can only be
stream gay I.eaders: ACT UP
seen as a desperate last
won't roll over and play dead.
attempt by a gay communiPete Sigal
ty "leader" who's lost touchWest Hollywood'with his own community. He
tries to weaken ACT UP by
Union Dues
dividing us. Well, Mr. Humm,
OutWeek readers inyou will not
succeedcommitted couple relationbecause we are united inships who were intrigued by

the Human Rights Campaign Fund's plan to establish a registry of lesbian andgay families(OutWeek,
December 24) should knowthat they need not walt totie the knot until HRCFfinishes Its plans. The National
Register of Lesbian and Gay
Unions, Inc. was Incorporated In New York in August.
1989. It is open for business,and began registering couples in November.
The National Register
is a bit different
from
HRCF's proposedfamilyregister. It's for those couples who are in two-person
relationships,
who would
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couples enjoy, and of their
willingness to accept theburdens of mutual support
In adversity that go withthat status. Couples sign a
Declarationof Civil Union
before witnesses, and submit it with a $35.00 registration fee. Not only are they
then registered in a publicrecord to which others canrefer, they also receive a
Certificate
of Civil Union,
suitable for framing.
The functionof theRegister will be not just to
educate.
We anticipate
that th~ signing of these
Declarations of Civil Unionand the availabilityof ameans to make a public;
statement
could
have
some real life effects. In asituation where your right tocontinueto live in yourlover's apartment after his
death or to visit her in thehospital while she is recuperating
depends
uponshowing that you were orare in a close and loving
relationship,
what better
proof than a statement
signed by both of you? And
if these declarationsofunion create.a little legal
chaos, what better argument for the government
finally to give our relationships equal recognition anda set of the clear sorts ofrules that come with marriage? This is a business thatwould not mind so muchgoing out of business underthose circumstances.
Readers who would likemore Information and/or theforms with which to registershould write to National RegIster of Lesbian and Gay
Unions, Inc., 125 Cedar St"
Penthouse, New York, NewYork 10006.
Mark Scherzer, President
Nat'l Register of Lesbian& Gay Unions, Inc.
Manhattan

X Marks the RockI am writing regarding
the article
on women's
music entitled "Women Who
Sweat" by Madam X. Thankyou, Madam X, for writing abrilliant criticism of what I see
as myopic and static: thewomen's music scene. I
havealwaysfound"women's music" even more
bland and unchanging.
I remember one Incident when I was a DJ at the
opening night of a women'sbar. Much to my chagrin,
women were complainingthat the musical selection
was too male-orlented. They
said we were not playing
enough women's
music.
Well, excuse me, but Isn't It alittle difficult to dance to a
Meg Christian tune? If I had
cued up one of my fave
Throwing Muses tracks, I
know the reaction would bejust as open-minded: "Whatisthis progressive music shit?"

It is definitely time for an
expansion in the scope of
women's music. Madam X's
descriptions of up and coming women In rock were very
intriguing. I'm going to run to
my nearest Tower Reco(dsimport section in search ofKit. I'm definitely open to
new music. Never did I think I
would find myself doing a
two-step In a pair of Tony
Lama boots. Thanks to k.d.
lang, I have found a genreof music which guarantees ahell of a good tlmel
By the way, who Is thismystery woman Madam X? I
love a good mystery.
Amy M. Anderson
Washington, DC
Let There be Roller
Thanks for publishing
Jay Blotcher's "Rolling Thunder: his piece on Rollerena,an old friend, who seems tohave been part of my life

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7 ,_:::;:::salways and not only for acouple of decades of myseven. Rollerena genuinely
likes older people and looks
forward to being old, so
going against another crue'land stupid taboo. Rollerena
the liberator! I always learn
so much from our chats
because there's always agiggle, dlways coming out ofluminous, vagrant. impudent
wit. I always learn so muchfrom the picket lines we'reon together, whether it's themassive ones aimed at St.
Patrick's Cathedral the otherweek focused on the mighty
issues of Church and State
and Abortion
Rights and
Gay Rights or smaller ones
contraland
lords andappearances at courts andadministrative
tribunals.
There'sno right/where
there's no fight. Life's a lie/if
you just die. Liberation's not
a gift/it's to the steadfast
and the swift. Seize thetime/No good to whine!
Rollerena's a Goddess
because she's created herself. Out of the void. Let there

be light. she said, and lightcame out of that dark, narrow little stretch of Christopher
StreetbetweenBleecker and Bedford where
the first ball gown camefrom. She gave birth to herself right there in the street.
breathed life into herself-it'scalled inspiration. Nobody
waved a magic wand overher, she created the wand tocreate light-filled life to dark
and heavy existence. Thanks.
John Stanley
Manhattan

Unbased Bias
I am writing in response
to Katherine Franke's article
in the November 26th issueof OutWeek. First off. congratulations to OutWeek, theAIDS Discrimination Unit andmembers of the Gay andLesbian community
who
aided in the reinstatement of·
Katy Taylor and Keith O'Connor.
However,
KatherineFranke's article charging
Katy and Keith with racism,even after this victory, hasleft a sour taste in my mouthand some unanswered questions I would like to clear up
in this letter.
I am a Black lesbian
feminist poet, actress, community activist who for abrief time was an intern in
the Human Rights Commission's AIDS Discrimination
Unit. Never did I at any time
experience the racism that
Katherine described in her
article. In fact I was overwhelmed with admiration forthe overall level of care,
commitment and effectiveness of the AIDS Unit. andthe leve'l of excellence andencouragement
Katy andKeith Inspired In their staff.
Kathryn Franke Is awhite woman; as far as I am
concerned her charges are
unfounded. I base this on myown observations: and thefact that some very prominent People of Color (Azi
Khalili, Charles Brack andRomeo Sanchez), who work
very extensively in the lesbian and gay community,
and are committedtoaddressing the issuesof theircommunities, also work in
the AIDS Unit. Some are insupervisory positions, and. were 100 percent behind thereinstatement of Katy and
Keith. If racism must be
charged, let it come fromthe People of Color, whowork within the AIDS Unit. orfrom the community
atlarge, who enlist the seNicesof the unit. and not from awhite woman.
Pamela Sneed
Manhattan

Oops
Key pieces of information in your news coverageof the uproar at National
Gay Rights Advocates (OutWeek, Dec. 17) should havebeen attributed not to the
Washington Blade but to the
Bay Area Reporter. We broke
significant portions of thestory
incopyrighted

accounts in our Nov. 30
issue. A copy of our coverage was faxed to the Blade,which picked up on some of
our information and gave us
attribution in its edition thenext day, Dec. 1.
The Blade is a fine andallthorltatlve
newspaper,
but on this story, the Bay
Area Reporter beat it to thepunch.
Brett Averill
Editor-in-Chlef
The Bay Area Reporter
San Francisco

Rnter and the Little Critters
We will likely neverknow. unless he decides totell us, If Father Bruce Ritter
had sex with teenage boys.
Police coercion of young
witnesses Is routine, andboth the media aM our systemof justice are incapableand uninterested in supplying useful. unbiased information in cases involving
man/boy-lovers. Ritter's sex
life may be as sensational as
the New York Post headlines
imply, but the power of themedia would be more usefully focused on Covenant
House itself. The institution
serves its teenage clients
poorly when it ignores theirneed for information about
sexuality, safe sex and abortion.
The homophobia of thePost, which laJnched thispublic inquiry into Ritter'sbehavior
is a matter of record. But the
motives of District Attorney
Robert Morgenthau's office,which includes no openly gay
or lesbian lawyers among its
more than 300 assistantDAs,issimilarlysuspect. Organizations
holding city contracts to provide housingto teenagers arelegally mandated to provide
information on birth control
and abortion to their clients.
Why doesn't Morgenthau
attack the open non-compli- ance with this req,Jirementby
Covenant House and other
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investigating the relationship ning discrimination in employbetween Ritter and a single ment against homosexuals.
client?
If Father Ritter is in an
Grent Ritterthe presump- impossible position now, it's
tion of Innocence.
on because he's fallen Into thewhatever fraud and sex trap he's laid for other men
charges might be laid against who love boys. Oncehim. The priest stillbears some accused, every act of com_.
personal responsibilityfor sexer r-'---'" .....
phobia at Covenant Houseand the hysteria aroundman/boy relationships. What
he's really guilty of Is telling lies
about men who love boys. For
years, he's used us as scapegoats for the problems of runaways while sucking up to
Reagan and other politicians
who slashed social programs
that might benefit those youth.
He claimed consenting sexual
relations are abusive while
passionfor a boy Is Interpreted
remaining silent about theas a signof deviance and perbeatings and killings of chil- version.Proofthat his relationdren In their own homes by ships werli! loving andtheir parents. And he helped consensual and sustainedlead the fight against Mayor oren't the defense they should
Koch's executive order ban- be, but more evidence In thecase against him. Now Ritter
saysthe charges against him
are "scurrilous"and "absurd:
but until now he's never challenged the assertionby hiscolleagues that children never lie
about sexwith adu~s.
ironically, boy-lovers
may be the best friends Ritter
has left. He should teil what
his work with children musthave taught him, whether
he's been sexually activewith teenagers or not. Rittershould admit that sexual
attraction to boys is not at
odds with love for them in theChristian sense of the word.
The priestshould explain that
freely chosen sexual relationships with men are often
enormously helpful to boys,
especially boys in trouble. He
should point out that men
who seek sex with boys are
far more likelyto rescue themthan exploit them, and that
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punishment
are bigger
threats to American children
than pornography or prostitution. Ritter should Join the
North American Man/Boy
Love Association (NAMBLA),
and tree himselfto love boys
more fully, more openly andmore honestly.
ChrisFarrell
NAMBLA
QueensNow Hear This .
There Is a form of terrorism that gays do notappear to have noticed.
Smail energy-beam transmitters (masers) can beused to cause strange
effects on a person's body.
Obviously energy-beamequipment could be used
to cause pain or to cause
a burn on a person's skin.
More subtle uses of energybeam equipment would beto slowly cause growths ina person's body, to cause
strange marks on a person's skin, or to secretly
transmit sounds to a person. Energy-beam equipment could cause all thesymptoms of cancer, AIDS
and schizophrenia. If one
set of terrorist energy-beamequipment is ever seized,
one might assume all thosediseases are frauds (areenergy-beamradiation
symptoms).
I have enclosed photocopies of two letter of minethat appeared in The Napa
Sentinel. The letter titled "TheReal Problem" was on pages
4 and 13 on April 11. !'TerrOrists" was on pages 4 and 25
on August 11. The letters discuss electronic terrorism atsome length.
If gays demanded that
the U.S. Government seize
terrorist energy-beam equipment· in New York City, perhaps tens of thousands ofgays might not be killed.
Forreasonsmentioned in
the letters, I do not want myname or addresspublished.
Manhattan

XEROXED
What Next?
also cold and drafty. While
Dr. David Axelrod,
visiting, one had to do a litCommissioner of Healthtie dance Ground Dr. LicaAlbany, New York 12223
ta's gurney because of theDear Dr.Axelrod:
amount of traffic coming
On Monday, December
through and the lack of
11, 1989, Dr. Sal Licata wasspace around H-Ol. Dr. Licaadmitted to New York Univer- ta was dirty and unshavensity Medical Center Hospitalwhen I visited him. On one
in serious condition sufferingoccasion I found food infrom MAl wasting syndrome
bed. with him and on him.
and other complications
He said to me, "I'm so glad
due to AIDS. There was nothat you came to visit me soroom available, and thereyou could witness this.'fore he was placed in the
The increased anxiety,hallway of the Emergency
stress and depression that
Room. He remained in thecame over Dr. Licata during
hallway of the Emergency
this nine day period wereRoom until he was finally sent
also marked by an increase
home nine days later, on
in his mental confusion and
December 20, 1989, after
mounting anger with condirefusing
to undergoations in the hospital.
colonoscopy and other tests
Dr. Licata is a former
in the hallway.
Department of Health coiI visited him several
league of mine from thetimes during those nine
AIDS Education and Outdays and found conditions
reach Department. and was
unbelievableand deplorinstr·umental in beginningable. There were gurneys.
the AIDS Training Institute of. lined up on both sides of . the New York City Departthe hallway end to end withment of Health. He wasjust enough room for one tonamed first Director of the
get through the aisle. Dr. Training Institute when he
Licata's location in the hallbecame seriously ill withway was hand-marked "HAIDS. He is also one of the01" in magic marker on afounders of the PWA Coalitorn scrap of pap~r Scotchtion of New York, and former
taped to the wall. Each
Northeast Director of the
spot was marked H-02, H-03, National Association of PWA
etc. I presume H stands for
Coalitions as well as a long
Hallway, and that these aretime volunteer of GMHC.
permanent
stations with
Here clearly is a man who
only. portable medical suphas devoted a major part ofply stands to separate
his life to caring for people
them. This triage area looks
with AIDS, himself afflicted
like a Mash Unit in wartime .. with AIDS, and now finally
It was dirty: there wereleft out in the hall like a bag
blood stains on the floorof garbage.
each time I visited, as well
. Dr. Licata is home now,
as food, utensils, garbage
and well attended by roundand bandages scattered
the clock nursing care andabout. Anyone visiting thisloving friends. He is totally
triage area walks right in off
exhausted from his ordeal.
the street(33rd Street
But what of the others left inentrance) with no security
the hallway? We were told it
guard check at the door.
was because NYU Medical
Since the hallway is directlyCenter has a policy of only
off the street entrance, it is having one AIDS patient perroom, and that it could be .
10-15 days or more before
Dr. Licata could get a room·in the hospital or in the Coop
Care Unit. Can such deplorable conditions be allowed to continue? And thisfrom a Medical Center thatprides itself on being one of
our premier University Hospital Centers. What will next·
year be like in that Emergency Room?
Ron Christopher
AIDSTraining Unit
NYC Dept. of Health
Manhattan
Holy Mother Newsday
New YorkNewsday
New York, NY 10017
Dear Newsday.
I wanted to thank you
for your fine coverage ofthat nasty business concerning our dear Father Ritter.
How fortunate
that
Newsdayalone realizes that
we must squash these insidious stories, which might otherwise c·ause people toquestion the hierarchy of ourHoly Mother Church. Thus it
was surely wise that Newsday decided not to cover
the early reports of sexualand financial misconduct byFather Ritter,and instead ran
a late story headlined "DA
Acts to Quell Furor Over Ritter Allegations.' Such a slant
istruly more beneficial to ourHoly Faith than coverage inthe Daily News, which presented the evidence, quoted both sides and left it toreaders to decide. Oh howeasily those of little faith canbe misled, especially thosehord to hide (and admitted)
shared hotel rooms between
the street lad and the dear
Father. Much wiser not tomention, as you so Wisely
determined.
And how goodof
Newsday not to question
what pressures our Enlightened Hierarchy has been
putting on the DA's officesince the story broke. Any
mention of the intensive
behind-the-scenes maneu-

vering and deal-cutting (notto mention outright threats)
would only weaken th.ealready besieged faith of our
Loyal Flock.
.
Newsday has shown it
truly understands what classof persons should be savaged when allegations ofsexual misconduct arise, andwhich must be protected.
I mustn't end without
also thanking Newsday for.
its wonderful coverage ofthe awfulst. Putrick's
demonstration. Painting theprotE1stersas savages out todestroy religious freedom (inthe lead, no less) certainly
serves the faith well. And
giving our Blessed Archbishop pages in which to state
his views, while limiting his
critics to a few quotes, wasinspired (although we suggest you consider the logical next step, and let the
diocese office of information itself write all stories involving the Mother Church).
But then, with the high levelof journalism at Newsday
these days, why bother the
Church?
.
Faithfully yours,
Mary Ignatious

Newsgeek?
Father Bruce Ritter's
allegation that gay activists
are behind the charges
made against him is itself avery serious and suspect,claim (Newsweek, Dec. 25),.
If Rev. Ritter can identify
individuals or organizations
within New York's lesbian
and gay community who
are supposedly spreading
falsehoods about Covenant
House, he should now sharethat information with the District Attorney and-given
Newsweek's publication ofRitter's claim-the press andpublic.
If Ritter has no suchinformation, he should stopmaking starements
thatdefame gay people.
. Ronald Najman
Brooklyn

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Bush Opposes Coerced
AIDS Testingby Arthur S. Leonard
WASHINGTON - The Bush
Administration has rejected the opinion of a federal district judge whoheld that a hospital was entitled tofire a gay man for refusing to reveal
the results of an HIV antibody test.
In an' opinion
announced
December 13, the Office of Civil
Rights (OCR) of the U.S. Department
of Health and. Human Services
demanded that Terrebone General
Medical Center in Louisiana offer reinstatement to Kevin Leckelt, a licensed
practical nurse who was discharged
on April 30, 1986.
Leckelt's roommate received treatment for AIDS at the hospital. Afterthe roommate died, hospital administrators asked about Leckelt's antibody
status. Leckelt said he was planning to
be tested, but refused to reveal his test
result. The hospital then discharged
him for "insubordination:
Leckelt complained to OCR and
filed a federal lawsuit against the hospital alleging handicap discriminationand violation of constitutional privacy
rights. In a March 1989 decision, U.S.
District judge Patrick Carr ruled that ahospital is entitled to reqUire HIV
antibody testing and to know the HIV
antibody status of all employees who
might engage in invasive medical procedures, since he believed that thehospital could not rely on its employees to observe all the precautions
specified by the Centers for Disease
Control at all times.
Carr also ruled that Leckelt was
not a "handicapped individual" under
the Rehabilitation Act or Louisiana
handicap discrimination law, and thus
not protected from employment discrimination. Leckelt has appealed thisdecision, which is out of step with allother federal court rulings on HIV status and discrimination, to the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans.

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Meanwhile, Leckelt's complaint
to the Office of Civil Rights (OCR) is
being investigated. In a letter to R.
james Kellogg of New Orleans, who
represents Leckelt together with theLambda Legal Defense and Education
Fund, OCR Regional Manager Davis
Sanders disagreed with every conclusion from judge Carr's decision.
Sanders asserted that the Reqabilitation Act forbids hospitals fromrequiring HIV antibody testing oflicensed practical nurses, since theirjob duties do not include any activities which would pose a substantial
risk of HIV transmission to patients orother staff.

Sanders also indicated that discrimination
against someone forrefusing to reveal their antibody statusis handicap discrimination under the
Act which includes protection for persons who are "regarded as having an
impairment" by their employers. He
found that Leckelt's discharge was notdue to "insubordination,· but rather
due to the perception of his antibody
status.
Under the Rehabilitation Act, afacility which receives federal financial assistance can lose its eligibility
for such assistance if it fails to remedy
violations of the Act. For a hospital,
See AIDS TESTING on page 63

Pres. Visits

Adults, Children
with AIDSby Cliff O'Neill
ROCKVILLE, Maryland-President George Bush held a discussion
with a group of adults infected withHIV at the National Institutes of
Health here Dec. 22. It was the firstsuch visit by a U.S. president in thenine years of the AIDS epidemic.
As part of a visit which included
touring of a ward for children withAIDS and meeting with a support
grou.p for families of people with
AIDS, Bush, his.wife Barbara and son,Marvin, together with Health andHuman Services Secretary. Louis W.
Sullivan and his wife, Ginger met fora half hour with seven openly gay
men with AIDS.

In a statement afterwards, Bushpraised the. work of the NIH, a federal
agency. "You're helping to improve
the health of millions of Americans,"
said Bush. "And even more, like thosesoldiers in Panama - those heroes-you're giving the greatest gift imaginable: the gift of life. And nowhere is
this gift more evident than in yourwork to combat AIDS:
Although his comments wereovershadowed by the overthrow of
Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceausescu,
which occurred during the visit, andthe continued American occupation of
Panama, Bush did devote the second
half of his statement to "HIV" and"persons with AIDS:

"Only together can we all wage
our war against this terrible killer," Bushsaid, adding that his meetings with thegroups reminded him "of the need forcompassion and understanding.
"And by that," he added, "1 mean
the compassion that moves us to care
for all those infected with the HIV."
Although this marks the first time
that, as president, Bush has met with.people with AIDS, as Vice-president,
Bush met with a handful of AIDS
patients two years ago in the samebuilding.
"This is definitely a positive sign,"
said Robert Bray, public information
officer for the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, of the pre-Christmas
Bush visit. "We hope that the president will be moved to take moreleadership and take the dramatic, personal testimonies he heard from these
adults and translate them into leadership and effective policy."
Among the adults taking part in
the visit was Len Jackson, an HIV
positive, asymptomatic Baltimore resi-.
dent. "We didn't
reallyknow
until
it wasunderway what
the president's
purpose was," said Jackson. "Andwith fill the breaking events Panama
and Rumania, we really didn't expect
it to happen."
The meeting followed a fiveminute photo session for the discussion participants and the president.
Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the
National Institutes for Allergies andInfectious Disease, moderated themeeting. Talk was limited to the
men's personal stories at Fauci's
request, according to Jackson.
"President Bµsh didn't have agreat deal to say," said Jackson, "buthe listened actively, and I think sincerely. Mrs. Bush particularly was visibly moved by some of the discussion
about discrimination."
Although the men with HIV wereasked to keep the short talk on a nonconfrontationalleveI, the discussion reportedly took a spirited turn when Bush asked aquestion about AIDS discrimination
termed as "naive" by Jackson.
"He asked why [discrimination

Former Medicare
Boss to Head CDC
by Cliff O'Neill
WASHI NGTON-Pres
ident
George Bush has appointed William
Roper, former head of the HealthCare Financing Administration,tohead up the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta, according to reports
published Jan. 3.
Roper's appointment, however,has garnered mixed reviews from
Washington AIDS lobbyists, who,
regarding CDC related issues, arelargely viewing the current Bush WhiteHouse aide as an "AIDSunknown.""We haven't been able to identify
any significant record of achievementon the dramatic AIDS issues facing
the CDC," stated Robert Bray,
spokesman for the National Gay andLesbian
Task
Force .. "However,
we do know thathe just inherited
an extremely formidable health crisis scenario. That
includes 1.5 million people infectedwith HIV, continued pressure against
explicit and effective preventive education programs by religious and rightwing organizations, ...increased AIDS
prevalence in the minority community
and, most importantly, a growing
complacency in the federal government on AIDS."
Roper is expected to take over
the CDC in March, ending a 13-month
period in which the Atlanta-based
agency has been without a director.
The last CDC chief, Dr. James O.
Mason, was named Undersecretary of
Health in January 1989.
Roper has gained high marks from
activists working on the Americans
with Disabilities Act (ADA), a pending
bill which would extend anti-discrimination protections to people with AIDS
and HIV. As White House adviser,
Roper was a focal Bush -Administration
aide working on the bill.
"I found him a reasonable person
who knew the [AIDS) issue and was

WASHINGTON

See PRES. VISIT on page 63

someone whom I was able to workwith," commented Chai Feldblum,
AIDS lobbyist for the American Civil
Liberties Union. "He was helpful inmoving the ADS forward. So in asense, he is going to leave a hole in
the White House in terms of someone
who knows health care and someone
who has done work on the ADA;"On the negative side, however, there
is little praise for Roper for his work as
director of the Health Care Financing
Administration (HCFA), the agency incharge of Medicare and Medicaid funding, under President Ronald Reagan.
"It's not nice to say nasty things
about people who have just been
given a new big job," stated Jeffrey
Levi, Washington lobbyist for the New
York-based Gay Men's Health Crisis,
tongue firmly in cheek. "Certainly therecord of the Reagan administration interms of expanding Medicaid eligibility [to people with .AIDS) was not as
positive as we would have liked."
What faces Roper is the ongoingchallenge of providing effective AIDS
education and an accurate but noninvasive accounting of the epidemic
nationwide. Part of that challenge will
be a pending court case the ACLUhas
filed on behalf of a series of AIDS service providers against the agency. .
The lawsuit challenges existing
CDC guidelines which ban the funding of AIDS' educationmaterials
which are deemed "objectionable to
the American public." The CDC
adopted the guidelines after the 1987
passage of the now-!nfamous Helms
AIDS education amendment, which
prohibited funding for AIDS education materials
that "promoteorencourage" homosexuality.
Although the Helms measure wasin subsequent years replaced by- aless restrictive Kennedy/Cranston
amendment, the CDC guidelines have'neve~ . changed
and,in someinstances, have led to AIDS education
See CDC HEAD on page 63

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ACI' UP shuts

BridgeLONDON-Members of London's
AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power(ACT UP) chained themselves acrossWestminster Bridge Dec. 1, WorldAIDS Day, to protest the British gov-

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ernment's alleged poor response to
the AIDS crisis.
According to Capital Gay, a london newspaper,and British correspondents,
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ACT UP members, accompanied by a filmcrew and journalists, leapt from a van on the bridgeand padlocked a chain decorated withcondoms and flowers across it.
They then' handcuffed themselvesto the chain and held up banners urging
that the government adopt theMontreal Manifesto, a list of AIDSrelated demands
read by activists
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ation vote'd to hold their 1991 regionMontreal.
al conference in Berlin.
Capital Gay said nine of the
Not in West Berlin. Not in East
protesters were arrested for blocking
the highway or obstructing police in Berlin. just Berlin.
the course of their duty.
ILGA regional conferences supplement the group's annual internaSimultaneous to the bridge blocktional conference, which attracted 260
ade, another 150 demonstrators planted white crosses on Parliamentdelegates from 33 nations to Vienna
Green, mourning the demise of the ·Iast summer and is set for Stockholm
Health Education Authority's AIDS this july.
Fifty-four delegates from 14 EuroDivision.
The government disbanded thepean countries rang in the new year
division in November
followingin Athens, according to ILGAco-secrenumerous mainstream media reports
tariat general Lisa Power of England.
that AIDS is not a threat to those who
engage in only heterosexual sex.
I
According to British activists; theSun, The Daily Mail and The Daily
Express published assurances that"straight sex is safe" and said that suggestions to the contrary are nothing
but gay propaganda.
British newspapers do not maintain a pretense of "objectivity," as is
the case with the U.S. media.
Key British AIDS activist Simon
Watney has called the move by the"A very funny book ....
British national health department "a .
Misery, squalor, and cruelty
genOcidal campaign orchestrated byare constantly at the edge of
viciousl y homophobic
politicians
our field of vision: Forster
plotting to b~ak up thescared that the Tory party is losing its
young marnage of a man
grip on power.".he fancied; Ackerley taking. ACT UP/London
is the mostpleasure in the unhappinessaggreSSive of the non-U.S. XIDS directof Siegfried Sassoon's
action groups, although ACT UP/Paris
estranged wife; his father'sand AIDS Action Now! in Toronto
wife and mistress bothhave also staged acts of civil disobedideclining into alcoholicence in recent months.
stupor ... Perhaps his
British pop music star jimmyepitaph should be takenfrom that other raddled
Somerville, formerly of the Commubohemian, Mehitabel thenards and Bronsk i Beat, is a key
cat: toujours gai."member of ACT UP/London and his- Richard Jenkvns
presence has reportedly added to the
The New RepUblic
group's already heavy press coverage.
-Rex Wockner"It has been a very successful conference in terms of the amount of work
we got through," Power said. "There
are a lot of new delegates, including
two women from East Berlin."'
The most important development
in Athens, according to Power, waspreliminary agreement on how European gay activists will lobby social
issues after. economic unification ofWestern European countries in 1992.
At the Vienna conference andelsewhere, gay activists from pro-gay
countries,
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Netherlands, have expressed gravefears over social unification, assumingthat any standardization of laws onsocial issues will necessarily moveprogressive nations backward.
The Netherlands
is generally
believed to be the least homophobic
nation in the world and last OctoberDenmark became the first country tolegalize gay marriage.
The fears are not without foundation since, on a simplistic level, it
appears that Denmark will have tostop marrying gays in 1992 or several
Catholic and otherwise homophobic
countries will have to start.
"The question seems to be whose
standard will [the unified Europe] take?"
explained ILGA informatioI) secretariat
David Murphy of Sweden. "Will theytake a middle one or the lowest one?
How qUickly will they implementchanges? It's problematic to impose theprogressive countries on top of theslower ones. The Netherlands andDenmark have been worried, but somecompromise has been reached."
In other actions, the conference
sent protest letters to Ireland, Cyprus,
Romania, the Channel Islands andBarcelona. In the case of Ireland,
Cyprus and the Channel Island of Jersey, local activists are struggling tooverturn sodomy laws.
In the case of Rumania, ILGA
activists expressed hope that the torture and intimidation of homosexuals
will cease uoder the new government.
Barcelona gays, meanwhile, are fighting a highly visible case with the city
government for gay spousal benefits.
The conference, which was hosted
by EOK, the Hellenic Homosexual Community, included speeches from various
Greek politiciansand received heavy coverage in the Athens daily newspapers.
Activists also visited the Acropolis
and met with Greece's ex-Minister ofCulture, actress Melina Merkouri, who
is more well known for her hit 1960s
pop song "Never on SunQay."
Eastern European ILGA member

groups--from
Czechoslov:;lkia, East
Germany,
Hungary,
Poland andYugoslavia-plan to meet again .April
20-22 in Leipzig, East Germany.
. Meanwhile, Britain's Stonewall
Group will host an October conference in London specifically to address
the European unification questions.
The summer international conference in Stockholm is set for July 1-7
while next winter's European regional
conference will be in Glasgow, Scotland.
For information, write ILGA, c/o
RFSL, Box 350, S-101 24 Stockholm,
Sweden.
-Rex Wockner

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olution, which has seen the ousting of
the "Communist Party and the execution of dictator Nicolas Ceausescu in
December, gay activists in neighboring Hungary say they now feel free toshare information on Ceausescu's
repression and torture of gay men.
Laszl6 Rusvai and Sandor Borsos,
members of the international committee of Hungary's HOMEROS Lambda
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December tQat Rumanian gays faced
horror to rival that of the world's mostviolent regimes.
"For example, there was a big
crackdown in the western part of thecountry two years ago and more than
100 were arrested and tortured. Someof them committed suicide by jumping out of the prison windows,· Borsos said.
"Three of the' people who werevictims of the crackdown escaped to

Hungary and they gave us an interview with all details but then decided
they didn't want it to be publishedand we destroyed our notes," Borsos
continued. "We've been unable tolocate them again in recent weeks."
The 1986 crackdown centeredaround the city of Arad, according to
Borsos and Rusvai. The captured gays
were forced to give out names andaddresses of other homosexuals, whowere then arrested in their apart-ments, the Hungarians said.
"First they went to known public
cruising places, a beach and a swimming pool, and they rounded them
1:JP,"Borsos said.
"Then in jail," Rusvai continued,"the police would tie two of the gays
together around a large stick, then.
place the stick on two desktops notvery far apart, and then rotate it I(ke abarbecue, all the time bea~ing them.
They called it 'the grill:"Besides the beatings and torture,they were made to have sex witheach other in the presence of theguards who took photographs of it,"
Rusvai said.
According to Borsos and Rusvai,
the men were held in prison for about
eight months and then released under ageneral amnesty "in connection with abirthday or anniversary or something."
When Borsos last visited the
Rumanian capital of Bucharest in 1987,
he said he found "people not as intimidated as they were supposed to be.
They were quite open 'and it was quite
easy to make acquaintances," he said ..
"Gays met each other at a facility[toilet] in 'the main post office andalso at a beach with a sunbathingarea and one particular steam 'bath,"
he said.
.
But the men Borsos met nevertalked about their lives as gay people.
"They were only concerned with thegeneral aspects of life," he sa.id.
"Everyone was compl~ining about 'thegeneral living conditions. The men I
met in public 'locations were only
looking for sex."
Borsos said he "cried in front of
the television watching the revolution
last week. There were live broadcastsin Hungary on 1V and radio all day.""r' had a special acquaintance and I
don't know what has happened tohim. He could be in prison or may
have been killed. He was very scaredwhen we were together in Bucharest.
but I am so extremely happy now for
the Rumanian people."
Officials of the new Rumanian
government say more than 60,000
Rumanians were murdered since thecrackdown and subsequent revolution
began on Dec. 17, but Western news
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Mapplethorpe"Artist of theYear"dramatic artistic conflict, leading many towrestle with que&ions of propriety andpublic responsibility.
"But Mapplethorpe's photographs," thenewspaper continued,"took debate out of
the realm of popular
CHICAGO-The
Chicago Trientertainment, dividbune Dec. 31 named the late gay
ing the community
photographer Robert Mapplethorpe
not on an issue of movie ratings or televi"Artist of the Year," saying he "sum- . sion programnling or rock-musiclyrics ormarized" and "epitomized
ideas
radio talk, but on what standards, if any,already in the public consciousness."should apply to the art shown in our
Mapplethorpe's "openness regard- largest and fme.st museums."
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decision of the Corcoran Gallery of Art
in Washington to cancel hIS federallyfunded, occasionally homoerotic traveling exhibit forfear of jeopardizing National
Endowment
for the Arts
[NEA) fundingin Congress.
The Corcoran's move followed amajor brouhaha in Congress that beganwith opposition to artist Andres Serrano's photograph "Piss Christ," whichfeatured a crucifix in a jar of urine, andeventually enveloped Mapplethorpe's
work and the travelling show.

NATIONWhen all the shouting was over,
NEA was docked $45,000 in its 1990
grant, the exact amount spent on the
Serrano and Mapplethorpe exhibits,
and ordered not to support "obscene"
art for one year in accordance with
Supreme Court standards.
Corcoran executive director Christine Orr-Cahall has since resigned.
. Mapplethorpe, who died of AIDS
~omplications in April, 1989, said of his
oontroversial photographs: '''They weretaken because I hadn't seen pictures
like that before. That's why one makes
what one makes, because you want tosee something you haven't seen before."
In naming Mapplethorpe "Artistof the Year," the Tribune did not print
any of the infamous homoerotic photographs. it also found itself unable toprint the name of Serrano's "PissChrist" photograph,referring to it
instead as "a 60-by-40 inch color
image of a crucifix submerged in agold liqUid that the work's title andcatalogue identified as urine."-Rex Wockner

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wide organizat~on repr~~ntin~ thou-Isands of Amencan families with gay
sons and lesbian daughters-has
recently instituted the Family AIDS
Project (FAP).
Individual and group support
counseling, referral assistance and thecreation and distribution of a "Family
Support Packet" will be the crux ofthis undertaking.
The project sees family members
as being "on the frontline in combatting AIDS." Conceived to provide
resources and options for HIV-affected families dealing with medical,
legal, political and emotional issues,
the project will help provide familiesof people with AIDS with the emotional support and technical information necessary
to give care andtreatment.
Peer support work is a major
aspect of the project, coordinator
Lenore Pomerance told OutWeek.
"That's what makes Parents FLAG
work. Some of the best people to help
you are your peers." She added that .
many families are finding out that their
loved ones are gay at the same timethat they're HIV positive - and thefear and confusion of such people isbringing many new people'to PFLAG.
Fifteen regional educators weretrained by the project at PFLAG's convention last year in Detroit. They, inturn, will provide gUidance for
nascent support groups, particularly
in rural and suburban areas. Robert
Benov, the Long -Island father of two
gay sons with AIDS, has been a vital
player in starting the project. "People
who are in the most pain are sharing
so much," Pomerance commented.
The "Family Support Packet" isavailable for $5 from PFLAG's Washington, D.C. office at P.O. Box 27605,
Washington, D.C. 20038-7605 , or one
can contact FAP's program coordinator, Laurie Coburn, at (202) 638-4200.
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the staff for its highly successful·Speak Out" program and added a
new member to its board of directors.
The Fund has hired two veteranorganizers as canvass managers for the
campaign, which generates messages
to Congress on important votes concerning AIDS and lesbian and gay
rights issues. Cathy Nelson, who will
canvass eastern states, has been an
active union organizer for ten years,
most recently coordinating support for
the Eastern Airlines machinists strike.
David Nicholas, responsible forwestern states, previously canvassed forthe lobbying arm of Greenpeace.
Together, NeIsonand Nicholas replace
National Canvass Manager Lee Bush,
who is retiring.
The Fund is also looking for area
canvass supervisors; who will identify

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network of supervisors who will canvass themselves, and train and supervise others to do so, setting their own
hours and remuneration.
Finally, Laura B. Altshcul, a longtime activist who has lived in Seattle
since 1985, was named to the HRCF's
board of directors at its November
meeting. She is presently a marketing
director at Northwest Strategies, apublic relations and government
affairs firm. Her clients have included

NEW YORK-The New York City
chapter of the National Organization
for Women is planning a demonstration in Albany to mark the 18th
anniversary of Roe v. Wade, the United States Supreme Court's decisionthat legalized abortion.
An indoor rally is planned for
Sunday, Jao. 21, to be followed by alobbying day on Monday.
In a High Court abortion-related
decision last July, many of the abortion rights originally set forth in Roe
were returned to the jurisdictions ofindividual state legislatures.
Since then, several states haveattempted to impose new restrictions onaccess to abortion through laws about
funding, consent and fetal viability.
Abortion itself remains a federally-protectedright, legal in all 50
states. New' York is generally considered one of the strongest abortionrights states in the country.
For information on transportation
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Out Takes

Talking itover withthe feds
WASHINGTON - The National
Institutes for Allergies and Infectious
Diseases (NIAID), headed by Dr.
Anthony Fauci, has published aneasy-to-read booklet about AIDS clinical trials called ''Talking It Over."Describing what clinical trials are
and how they work, the booklet
answers questions about the makeup, availability, benefits and risks, andethics of clinical drug trials.
The free publication is available
in a Spanish version called "Pruebas
Clinicas Para EI SIDA: Que Son y
C6mo Participar."As the research arm of the u.s.
Public Health Service, NIAID conducts
research on HIV-related disease andalso provides funding for similar nongovernment research. These researchstudies, which take place at hospitals
across the country in centers called
AIDS Clinical Trial Units, are calledclinical trials.
Individuals with various stages ofHIV-infection (with or without symptoms, or with Centers for Disease
Control-defined AIDS) can volunteer
to take part in these studies, and the
new booklet is designed to help thoseinterested make a decision about
whether or not to enter one, and justwhich one to select.
The pUblication provides a checklistof questions for persons to ask of their
medical services providers and themselves ("How will the study keep myname and records private?," "Will asocial worker provide support and help
me deal with problems?")It also provides
succinct explanations for commonly-usedterms, such as "controlled," "double
blind," "informed consent" and "Institutional Review Board." The 28-page booklet concludes with agencies and phone
numbers to call for more information.
To obtain a copy of "Talking it
Over," write to the NIAID Office of26

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New York
Communications/CT, National Institutes of H~alth, ~uilding 31, Room
7A32, Bethesda, MD 20892.

-Jon Nalley

Pride of theSouth
RALEIGH, North CarolinaHome of Senator Jesse Helms and
AZT manufacturer Burroughs-Wellcome, North Carolina will host the
15th annual Southeastern Conference
for Lesbians and Gay Men (SECLGM),
which is planned for March 22 to 25
at Raleigh's Plaza Hotel and Civic &Convention Center.
Raleigh, the capital of North Carolina, is one of only five southeasternmunicipalities with an antidiscrimination
ordinance covering sexual orientation.
Conference organizers see thisyear's theme-Working
together tostrengthen our southeastern communities"-as indicating ever-improving
qualities of life, involvement andcommunity strength for lesbians andgay men in this region.
"We want people to come with
the idea that our communities areimportant, and to make them better
places to live," conference co-chair
Willie Pilkington told OutWeek.
Special focus will be placed on
sodomy laws, which conference organizers consider a catalyst for much of
the continued discrimination, intolerance and fear that southeastern lesbian and gay communities face.
Of the 14 states (and the District ofColumbia) under the conference's
umbrella, only West Virginia does nothave some form of sodomy law.
There will also be 12 workshops
dealing with AIDS, several dealing withyouth issues and yet others on thedevelopment of lesbian and gay oriented businesses and services for that
region, according to Pilkington.
For more information, contact theSoutheastern Conference for Lesbians
and Gay Men at (919) 833-1209. Costfor participating in the conference is $~.

-Jon Nalley

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BRONX-The Bronx AIDS Community Service Project (CSP) is offering a series of
special trainings for people.interested
inbecoming AIDS
volunteersinthe Bronx.
The January training ~eries isdesigned to provide skills in AIDSrelated hotline and telephone work.
The CSP operates its own Bronx
AIDS/HIV Hotline, which proVides
Bronx residents with AIDS information and health care referrals.
The three-year-old Bronx AIDS
Community Service Project, which
operates in a county with one of thehighest concentrations of AIDS casesin the nation, is funded primarily by agrant from the AIDS Institute of the
New York State Department of Health.
It currently serves about 450
clients, most of whom are either
Black or Latino, and 25 percent ofwhom are women, according to Executive Director Richard StatelJ:nan.
The three-part training series is
on Monday evenings, January 8, 22
and 29, from 6 to 8 pm, at CSP's
offices, 529 Courlandt Avenue, 4thfloor, betweeen
148th and 149th
Streets. To register, call (212) 6654907.
. ,-Andrew Miller

which does exactly that-now serves
hundreds of clients each month. Currently, the group sells four such drugs
and assists clients with the personal
import of eight more.
Now the group has started a bimonthly newsletter, "Notes from theUnderground,
"
that
joins
the
growinglist ofpublications vitalfor thosewhowant to stay wellinformed on thelatest AIDS drug news.
The flJ'St issue, dated January 1, inclOOes
coverage of the drugs NAC, ddI andaercro\ized pentamidine, as well as a shatpieceby
PWA HealthGroup director Derek
Hodel on the"celebrity
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West 26th St., New York, NY 10010;(212) 532-0280.
-John Voelcker

undergro1Dld
AIDS drugS: Anti-violence
the ne\1VSletterproject goes
I fOlWard with
Forem.an
NEW YORK-AIDS
activismcomes in many forms. One is facilitating the importation of experimental,
unapproved or too-costly AIDS drugs
from other countries. From modest
beginnings less than two years ago,
the People with AIDS Health group-~with ten years' experience in law
enforcement,
as its new executive
director. Foreman replaces David
Wertheimer, who served as director
since 1985.
Foremansaid he popes toexpand the AVP's serviCes to victims of gay-related
bias crimes,
and to improve the effectivenessof prosecutions
against gay-bashers., Sources said he is also likely
to expand the AVP's private (nongovernmental)
fundraising, which
now accounts for only 23 percent
of its total budget of $255,000.
Foreman most recently oversaw a
324-bed jail for mediuml and minimum-security inmates at Rikers Island,.

NEW YORK-The Lesbian and
Gay Anti-Violence Project (AVP) has
appointed Matt Foreman, a lawyer

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the first civilian to do so. Earlier, heworked for the West Virginia prison
system. His law degree 'is from New
York University.
H~ has worked with Dignity/New
York, the organization of gay and lesbian Catholics, and initiated its successful three-year lawsui~ over the useof the sidewalk in front of St. Patrick's
Cathedral. He also organized Dignity's
first silent protest inside the cathedral.
Foremanis a cofounderof
Heritage of Pride, Inc. He is credited with several innO\iations in its
annuallesbianand gay pride
I
parade, held in June, including thelavender line down Fifth Avenue,the moment of silence commemorating those who have died of
AIDS and the dance on the Christopher Street pier.
-John Voelcker
January 14, 1990

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Obituary
Costa Pappas
Artist, Activist
The headline of the New York
Post two weeks ago could hardly
have been more appropriate. Just
paste Costa Pappas' picture over Billy

George Wittnµ1n (left) with Costa Pappa
Martin's and everything would havebeen right. (Though I know Costa
would have cringed to have been

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connected with New York's number
one gay bashing daily.) The headline
pulled itself off the pages and hit me
like a brick : "Death of a Legend."
Costa Pappas died at his parents'
home in Charlottesville, Virginia on
December 26th. His personal fightwith AIDS was short and brutal in rontrast to the frontline action he'd seen
over the last nine years of the healthcrisis. Costa brought me to my first
ACT UP meeting in December 1987
when we were trying to get Mayor
Koch to release the B-list of funds inthe city's budget. At city hall, he lay
down on the pavement and I chalked
around his body and he wrote thename of his lover, "Genarro Palermo
dead due to lack of AIDS funds."
In the last couple of years you'dsee Costa shOWing up at actions wearing the fiercest Vivienne Westwood, ora bright orange hunting jacket-always
with the coolest shoes and his video
camera. Costa became a member of
DIVA TV (Damned Interfering Video
Activists), and his contributions to thecollective were always sharp, pointed
and personal. He grabbed the essenceof our anger with his camera, neverafraid to get right into the faces of thecops dragging protesters away.

That's how he did everythingdirect and forthright. I knew he wasnervous about speaking on Tony
Brown:S Journal last year concerning
hate crimes against gays, but when hespoke, the anger and righteousness
flowed out in an articulate stream thatblew everyone away, "Being the victim of hate crimes three times, hospitalized twice, I know what it's like tobe met on the street with sticks andmetal pipes-or growing up as a gay
youth, I was a gay child, which sOme
people don't want to deal with, going
to Sunday school hearing sermonspreaching intolerance of homosexuality-in essence beating up gays."
Costa was the most spontaneously creative person many of us haveever met. Video, painting, dancing,
dollmaking; anything he touched hecould twist and turn in a unique,powerful fashion with uncanny brilliance and wit. He would want to beremembered as an artist and activist.
Someone who gave a shit about people, touching so many of our lives
with the courage that epitomizes thereal strength and pride it takes tohave a gay voice in the world- today.
A hero and a legend.
-George Wittman

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hen is the truth not
the truth? When it's
the truth for some,and not for others. Or when it states awi<l:elyheld opinion without acknowledging that there are other, equallyvalid, options.
The respected publishing houseof Houghton
Mifflinputs out a textbook,entitled Health, which
is widely used in juniorand high schools. The
problem of truth in thisbook, at least for gay
men
andlesbians,
comes, as you might
expect, in the section
called "Dating and Marriage," and especiallyin the sub-section, "Attraction to Other Peopie." It reads:"Some people develop an attraction toward members of their own
sex. [These people] are said to behomosexual. The cause of homosexuality is not fully understood. Some
psychologists believe homosexuality
is caused by confusion about sexualroles that develops early in childhood. Because homosexuality is notconsidered normal in our society,homosexuals often experience manydifficulties." [page 290, 1989 edition]
For the most part, the statement
seems to be true, at least on the surface. But examine the subtext for a
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tervene to change the "normal"
course of he,~erosexu.al development.
This way or'thinking leads people toassume that maybe there's a way tochange it back-say a good dose ofreligion, for <:xample. It's just as logical to discuss the "causes" of heterosexuality, but nobody does.
And then there's the canard of"confusion about sexual roles thatdevelops early in childhood." Mostof us were never confused;w'eknew from very early on to whom
we were attracted. Any confusion
we experience comes from society's
insistence on forcing us to be what
we are not.
Finally, the book states that homosexuality is not considered normal
in society. True enough, but it doesn't
have to be this way. Why doesn't thebook attempt to counter the notionthat public opinion is correct?
Why not write to the editors at
Houghton Mifflin about the textbook, and let them know what ourtruth is? Tell them what you would
tell a 12 or 13 year-old boy or girlsitting in a junior-high health classwondering desperately about theirown sexuality. Tell them to let thatkid know that being gay or lesbian
is.a perfectly normal variation ofhuman sexuality. Heterosexual society's opinion to the contrary is justnot the truth.
Write to Ms. Francis Needham,
Supervising Editor, Houghton Mifflin,
One Beacon Street, Boston, MA
02108, or call her at (617) 725-5694.

* * * * *The National Catholic Reporter
recently published an essay by thepriest, sociologist and novelist, Andrew Greeley, entitled "Bishops paralyzed over heavily gay priesthood."
It's a development of a column he didfor the Chicago Sun Times, and thethesis is that the priesthood in the
United States is being transformed
into a heavily homosexUal profession
without serious discussion or honesty
about the changes. Many of these gay
priests, claims Greeley, are sexuallyactive, and rather openly so.
The article is thought-provoking
and generally fair, in that it distingUishes between sexual orientationand lifestyle. He fumbles badly, however, in his statement about the sexual
abuse of children.
"It appears," writes
Greeley, "That manyhomosexual priests ordained' in the past two
decades are sexuallyactive and that some ofthem are pedophiles."In a paranthetical note,he says that some pedophiles are not homosexual, thereby implying that most childmolesters are indeed
gay. As a sociologist,
Greeleyshouldbeaware that most cases of sexual abuseof children are committed by heterosexuals.
Let the National Catholic Reporter and Andrew Gret:;ley know .
that heterosexuals, not gays, are responsible for the vast majority ofcases of child abuse. Discrimination
against gays is often based on thefalse notion that all gays are childmolesters, so it is important that wecounter this stereotype wheneverwe spot it.
Write: Tom Fox, Editor, National
Catholic Reporter, P.O. Box 419281,
Kansas City, Missouri 64141, or givethem a call: (816) 531-0538.
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New Steps Toward Scientific Data
by Bob LedererThe controversial
typhoidvaccine, an experimental
AIDS
treatment
bothpraised and damned by PWAs and
AIDS organizations,is now a step
closer towards scientific testing. Unity
Healthcare Holding Company, a firm
providing health care personnel to institutions, recently announced that
Salvatore Catapano, the Long Island
medical technologist
who holds
patent rights ,on the vaccine for AIDS
treatment, had granted them an exclusive license to administer the vaccine
and pursue clinical trials and Foodand Drug Administration (FDA) approval.
Over $15 million has reportedly been raised to finance the project,' which will
include specially-designed
clinics in several cities. On
December 4, Dr. Robert. Carson, a physician already administering Catapano's vaccine for over a year, opened
the first such Unity-managed
clinic in Manhattan.
The typhOid vaccine was originally developed for prevention of thesevere bacterial disease of that name.
But for decades it has also been an
accepted adjunct treatment for advanced syphilis" particularly neurosyphilis. Since 1971, Catapano, a retired Navy syphilogist, has researchedthe vaccine's other applications. In
1976, he convinced the National Cancer Institute to examine its possible
role in cancer treatment. Their preliminary study called the vaccine's immune-stimulating qualities "as goodor better" as controls. But the re-

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search went no further.
In the early 1980s, Catapano
began researching the possible role ofthe vaccine in treating AIDS. Working
with phYSicians, and based on documented major symptom improvements in a dozen PWAs, Catapano applied for a patent on use of thevaccine as an AIDS treatment. The
U.S. Patent Office granted this in
1987. Since then, about 30 phYSicians
nationwide have administered thevaccine to hundreds of PWAs under
Catapano's direction.
Results Hotly Contested
The results of this three-year experience have been hotly contested.
Catapano and some PWAs claim theimprovements have often been quickand dramatic, Ancluding several.full
remissions. And while they grant thata significant
percentage
are not
helped, they say the treatment is atleast nontoxic. But critics, including
some AIDS physicians and spokespeople for major AIDS service organizations, argue that relying on testimon'ials creates a self-selectionbias
which distorts the results. Martin Delaney, Director of San Francisco's Project Inform (an independent AIDS
treatment
information
center),charges, "Some PWAs who were
doing 'fine on existing therapie~ haveflat out died within 60 days of startingit." He questions whether any immune stimulation method is beneficial
in treating AIDS. Delaney and others
have also denounced Catapano for refusing to publish his results.
Indeed, the 72-year-old Catapano, widely viewed as an irascible
and dogmatic loner, has not pursued
formal studies and refuses even to
publish his protocol (dosage and sequence of treatment), thus preventing
verification. However, on March 30,
1989, the Medical Tribune (a newspaper, not a scientific journal), reported
that Dr. Valentine Birds, a Los Angeles
physician administering the vaccine
for over a year, stated that 60 of thefirst 100 treated patients showed "general improvements in all parameters,"
including increases in T4 cells in 2025 percent of patients. But
this was not a clinical trial
and the data were not published. Unity says four physicians using the vaccine with
,PWAs are now compilingrecords,
includingblood
work, of "a large patient sample" for an article to be submitted to a major medical
journal.
An AIDS-Syphilis Connecti.on?
The vaccine's critics' also angrily
reject 'Catapano's theory that many
PWAs have either undiagnosed or inadequately treated advanced syphilis
which may be contributing to-or
even directly caUSing-their
AIDS
symptoms. But Berkeley physiologist
Joan McKenna, director of the Biological Assessment of Syphilis and Immune Suppression(BASIS), hasreached similar conclusions
afteryears of research and clinical study,
She has an open .mind about the vaccine. "It's far less risky than AZT," shesays, urging further research.
McKenna is particularly interested
in Birds' finding that over 80 percent
of PWAs who had previously tested
negative for syphilis convert to positive following the vaccine administration. This fits with McKenna's complex theory that antibiotic or street
drug overuse, or other immune-sys.tern assaults, may impair a syphilitic's
ability to form antibodies (which
syphilis tests blood for), but that an
immune-stimulating
treatment may
begin to restore that ability. (For moredetails, see my column in Out Week,
June 26, 1989, issue one.)
McKenna has been working with
doctors (including some in New York)
treating PWAs with. a long-term courseof aqueous penicillin, which she calls
superior to the standard benzathene.
variety. She claims significant improvements in at least a minority of
those so treated, though the data remain unpublished. But McKenna emphasizes that by the time many'
PWAs--perhaps up to 50 percent-are
diagnosed, their immune systems are
too far gone to save with any treatment, though some life extension may
be possible. Meanwhile, in Birds' protocol for the vaccine, those PWAs
whose syphilis tests convert to positive are offered penicillin treatments,
which he claims sometimes produce
further improvements.
Ultimately, only a clinical trial
will give c1earcut information on effectiveness of the typhoid vaccine.
That's why Unity has applied for FDA
approval of IND (Investigational New
Drug) status for the typhoid vaccine.
Unity's trials will likely include various combination therapies.
The Typhoid vaccine treatment
and detailed documentation about it,
are available from Dr. Robert Carson,
215 Lexington Ave., 8th floor, New
York, NY 10016; phone (212) 8894460. His clinic bills Medicare, Medicaid and major insurance' carriers.
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have lived qUietly with your affliction
and just sold Taster's Choice? Alpo?
The Amana Radar Range? Don't you
know that everyone will be looking at
your culottes, trying to find the bulge?
What would Dick and Peter say?
You're risking rejection, June.
But I guess that's what life's allabout, isn't it? Risking rejection. loving yourself enough to take thoserisks. You, June Allyson, have bravely faced ridicule in order to upholdthe truth of your own existence.
And that existence is intricately conne~ted to our personal and political.
ecology. I'll explain.
Let Jun.e = Western Woman. Let
june's bladder = that still, small voiceof global feminist awareness. [Cut toflashback montage of girlhood. Music.]Once upon simpler times, little June
Allyson was· born a perfect, completethought you were wonderful-so
human being. She criesj she wetsj and,twinkly and buttermilk soft with Dick like every little girl of her socio-ecoPowellj so cuddly and kitty-cat cute nomic strata, she learns to play'with Peter Lawford. You used ferrii- delectable debutantes. Her toilet trainninity the way the MasterCharge Cor- /. ing is accomplished quickly, with little

Here's looking at you, June
Allyson. You're standing on a golfcourse in powder blue culottes withknee-socks to match, smiling into thecamera. In my formative years, I
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difficulty. As a youth, June urinates
blamelessly, with nary an accident. She
grows up, makes films, marries, hasbabies and continues to take discreet,feminine whizzes. Quietly, to itself,
however, june's bladder sighs.
But times change. [Cut to mapof the Southwest U.S.) Only a few
miles from june's golf course, increasing numbers of undergroundnuclear weapons tests are taking
place. june's bladder stirs. [Cut toJune at poolside, sipping tequila.)
June does not support the coal miners' strike in Appalachia, but this
isn't because she's afraid the ozone
layer will thin, due to coal dust
emissions. She just does the best she
can to eliminate her waste products
sensibly, demurely. Meanwhile, unbeknownst to June, her bladder isgetting tired of being controlled.
[Cut to wide angle shot of the
Earth. Monkey and parrot sounds.)
In the Brazilian rain forest, thousands of trees are toppled to clear
pasture land for Burger King. [Turnon wind machine.) While, in the
Northern Hampshire, toxic particulates are released into the air fromvarious military and industrial enterprises. One of these enterprises
is the Depend Undergarment Company. The Depend Company is located next to a fish farm that sells
its produce to Burger King. June
likes fish. At a cocktail
party,
June's bladder rumbles. June excuses herself.
. June gets divorced. The kids
grow up. Hollywood stops making
the wholesome, family movies thatfeatured June Allyson. [Cut to excerptof teen slasher epic.) june's bladdershudders and groans. Thousands ofpeople lose their jobsj are forced tolive and pee in the streets. Some big
Hollywood movie stars, in the privacyof their own homes, engage in golden
showers. june's bladder cries out, but
June does not hear.
On Thursday, the maid's day off,
june's bladder decides that it has hadenough. It bides its time while June
watches the acid rain, beating against
the Windowpanes of her Hollywood

bungalow. They are alone. Sighing,June applies some tested-on-animals
make-up and drives to the nearest
Burger King, where she eats a Whaler
and a large order of fries. To keep the
economy liquid. .
That night, june's bladder rises
up and throws off its shackles, while
June sleeps fitfully, dreaming of Peter.Lawford in a wetsuit. Peter is laughing
and pointing to a huge bulge inJune's culottes. When she awakens
the next morning, June discovers that
she has wet the bed. Her bladdersmiles. June must now rethink her
whole life.
She realizes that she has spent
her whole life denying her connection
to women and the Earth, in order tomarket Dick's and Peter's illusion of
the eternal Feminine. "Well, piss onthat," screams June. And does. "Atleast I love myself enough to admitthat Change is necessary." June practices positive affirmations.
When the Depend people call,'June accepts. They give her free culottes, maybe throw in a golf cart.
June has never felt so liberated.
Thanks to Depend undergarments,
her bladder can now run /ree, andso can June. Gradually, June begins
to link her uncontrollable
bladderto the world situation that engendered it. [Cut to June back on golfcourse.] "Hi. I'm June Allyson, and' I
have this bladder control problem
because I was forced into a consumerist, heterosexual role that allowed me to ignore the ruin of theecosystem. "Fifteen billion years ago, scholars
say,' the universe was formed. In justthe last decade, others scholars say,capitalism triumphed and communism
died. It's the end of history. Disposable undies are now a part of the CosmOSjthey have a right to be here'. But
so do we. And all of our little bodies
are simply teeming with organs whichhave a lot to say, if only we'd listen.
Oh, June. I have control problems,
too. Let me help you carry your golf
clubs, my darling. [Slow dissolve, as
June feels my biceps, and we stroll
Wistfully off into the sunset.] ~I'

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machineThe Healer Within
Claiming to have rid her body of HIV in the processl
Niro Asistent Markoff talks about
her expectations with SHARE1
meditation and "the dark side of the soul."
by Gabriel Rotello
The holistic movement has been both blessed andplagued by the large number of healers who have entered thefield since the advent of AIDS. Blessed because many of thesehealers and therapists are creating and disseminating valuable
new ways of viewing and dealing with disease, challenging
the mechanistic views of Western medicine and empowering
PWAs to seek their own salvation. Cursed because others who
have entered the holistic field are charlatans, seeking to
exploit the fears and hopes of PWAs for their own egotistic or
financial benefit. People with AIDS are continually advised toexercise as much caution in choosing a holistic plan of treatment as they would in choosing any traditional doctor or therapy.
Among the more interesting of the groups that haveappeared in recent years is SHARE, the Self-Healing, AIDS
Related Experiment. Founded by Niro Asistent Markoff, SHARE
holds workshops designed to bring the PWA into communication with the healer within. The unusual·combioation of Ms.

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Markoff's training in such fields as gestalt therapy, transformational therapy, breath therapy, energy balancing and Eastern
meditation, as well as traditional Western psychology, hashelped her create a program said to be unique in its ability tohelp those ill with serious disease.
.
But the primary reason for Niro's celebrity, for her frequent appearances on talk shows and her association with figures like Bernie Seigel, is her startling claim that she has cured
herself of AIDS. According to Niro, she became ill and tested
positive for HIV' several years ago, after her bisexual lover
came down with the disease. By accepting her diagnosis, completely embracing her imminent death and then "healing herlife," she says that she achieved the ultimate benefit of holistic
therapy: a complete medical cure. She now tests negative for
HIV antibodies.
.
The strangeness of her claim, in light of the fact that evensomeone who eliminated HIV from their system would presumably continue to test positive for HIV antibodies for life,makes some people dubious about
Niro's intentions. But even self-described
skeptics who have jOined her workshops
seem convinced that Niro has devised a
program of lasting benefit forPWAs andothers with serious health problems.
Niro has been closely associatedwith George Melton and Wil Garcia, twolovers, one a PWARC and one a PWA,
who co-authoredthe book Beyond
AIDS: A Journey Into Healing. Theirbook describes their ARC and AIDS
diagnosis, their journey into self-awareness and their subsequent remissions
from AIDS symptoms. Without making
the same "free from HIY" claims as Niro,
both George and Wil claimed to have"healed" themselves of AIDS, and wentout on the lecture circuit as "SHARE On
The Road." Because of the Widespreadhope and faith that their experience
engendered among PWAs, the healing
community was shaken by the news of
WiI's recent death from AIDS complications.
I interviewed Niro recently in New
York and discussed many of the issues
surrounding both her therapy and her
remarkable claims, as well as the effectthose claims may have on PWAs seeking
a physical cure for AIDS. Her comments
were quite unexpected, revealing a therapist of uncommon insight, unusual
views and an unexpected modesty about. the aim~ and goals of SHARE.

Gabriel Rotello: How did you becomea healer?
Niro Markoff: I've been trained at the
Rajneesh Meditatidn University in Oregon.
GR: Had you studied traditional therapies?
NM: I took the regular psychotherapy
courses, but when I approached thematerial. I realized that was absolutely
not the way. I like to work with energy.
I like to touch my clients, dialogue withthem. I'm' not interested with somebody
laying on a couch talking to me. Traditional therapy has a value, but it's
extremely slow. What's happening in
our world right now goes extremely fast.
You can accomplish great results withtraditional therapy, but we can accomplish in three weeks what they accomplish
in threeyears.
And forconsiderably less money.
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commune in Oregon was a huge news
story that many people feel totally discredited his whole approach. What isyour relationship with Rajneesh now?
NM: I think Bhagwan is a wonderful,enlightened dodo. His policy around
AIDS is totally ridiculous. It just shows aparanOia that's ridiculous. NObody who's
HIV positive can enter Rajneeshpuram,any commune or any center. It infuriatedme. Anything that's based on separation
will not heal the planet. When he firstdeclared that the centers were closed to
HIV positive people I could have spit in
his face. He's totally missing what AIDSis all about. But when you takesanyassin, it's for life. I'm still extremely
connected with him, I love him, hespeaks to my heart like nobody.
GR: Tell me about your ARC diagnosis.
NM: I got sick in 1984. A year later mylover took the test and he came backpositive. In a flash I understood I was
sick. I took the test, anonymously, in
Suffolk County. At that time, 1985, it was
the peak of the panic. When I found out
I was positive and I had ARC, my symptoms multiplied. In three weeks. Diarrhea, pain, cold, tremendous
mood
SWings, everything.
GR: What did your doctor say?
NM: My doctor was wonderful. He said
"There's nothing I can do. I don't know
anything about AIDS." It was the mosthonest and empowering
feedback I
could get. Literally. I think the base is
the acceptance that we will die fromthis. Not to put any energy into changing that.

about opportunistic diseases. I know thepower of my mind, and I know that if I
knew about symptoms I would start
looking for them. I probably would create them. I see so many people fOCUSingon symptoms, healing the symptoms,
trying to get rid of the symptoms. I think
it's a total waste of energy. Symptoms
are the reactions of something much
deeper, and we have to see what hascreated the symptoms, and heal THAT.
Then the symptoms will disappear.
GR: I've run into people who express
skepticism about your story. They say
it's impossible to test positive and thennegative. Do you have copies of yourtests?
NM: Yes. (She hands me test results from
Suffolk county. First positive then negative.) Skepticism is a proof of intelligence. But I never had my T-cells done.
GR: How many times did you test positive?
NM: Two times.
GR: Do you think HIV causes AIDS?
NM: I don't think the answer is really
important for the healing of people. But
in my guts I think they are very connected.
GR: Do you have any idea why HIV has
appeared?
NM: The people who are HIV positiveor have AIDS are people who havecome here to raise human consciousness. We're at a turning point in our
evolution. These people are here toserve human consciousness.

People with AIDS are masters whochose to reincarnate this time and are atThis isn't to say I didn't have emotion
the forefront of changing human con~about knowing that I would die. I had
sciousness. We are at the turning point.
tremendous anger and a sense of failure
We create change in the legal communiand gUilt. All of that. But I had alsoty, the insurance business, the medical
another voice that was telling me tocommunity. We are challenging
thefinally start liVing, to stop postponing. So
entire SOciety, we're the purich in .theI changed my life around, drastically.
face to wake up society to the nextNot in circumstances, because when I
level. It didn't happen with cancer, but it
say that to people they think they have
happened with AIDS. It's no accident
to take a white robe and a begging
that it happened
around sexuality,
bowl. It has nothing to do with that. It
because our society had totally slid into
has to do with the attitude and the conindulgence. We cannot bear any pain.
sciousness. Really being there in the
We cannot face any discomfort. So we. moment, instead of doing things autoare creating something that's pretty
matically.
extreme. What more could we create
GR: Did you continue medical treatment
than to destroy our own immune sysfor opportunistic infections?
. tem. How much further can we go? Also
NM: Not at all. Some people might call it what I see around AIDS is that nobody
is indifferent. Everybody has an opinion.
denial but it was a very conscious
Around cancer'it
was a big secret,choice for me. I didn't want to know

nobody wanted to talk about it. Around
AIDS you have people burning houses,
pointing fingers, going in the streets,
you have ACT UP, you have a variety ofthings that are happening. Everybody
resonates around this issue. AIDS is the
crystallization of what we have to learn.
If we see how much the disease isserving us, then some understanding cantake place. We can see the teaching.
AIDS is the most powerful teacher that
we have. The sooner we learn the lesson, the sooner the teacher can goaway.
GR: Do you think it's going away? How?
NM: Either we'll all die from it, or we'll
get what we need to get. We can compare AIDS to the life of an insect that's
sprayed with a new spray. Probably 10
generations are going to die and thenwe adapt ourselves to that.
GR: Why do you think that gay people

in this country were Singled out?
NM: Were Singled out? In SOCiety,being
conditioned by religion, everything thathas to do with sexuality has always
been a sin. People who have thecourage to stand up for their sexuality
are already being put in a difficult light.
I think that in SOCiety, in small towns,
you say "homosexuality," and, you get
judgement. People don'{ even see thehuman being who's there. When you
deal with people from the sense ofjudgement, there's a separation. There's
no communication. There's no community.
Gay people have the courage to say"that's who I am." And it backfired. It's
so easy for the other side to blame, topoint out, than to say, "Ah! who arethose people, who are those beings?"
The other side is that the backfire is in
gay people themselves. In basing an
identity on sexuality, it's a limitation.
And many people are not questioning
that. I'm not saying question the sexual
preference, just the social identity. That's
why with many people, when they get
HIV or AIDS it creates a new' identity
and they question everything again. It'sa dropping the limitation on their personality.

yeats old ...boom! ...the sexuality awakens, and it hits that conflict. And you
say: "What do you want to do?" You·
search for where your sensitivity is
accepted. Those men are in the forefrontof a change into what it means to be aman. But I think sexuality is such asmall thing. It needed to be liberated inthe 70s, but it's such a small thing compared to what we are.
GR: AIDS had pretty much saturated thegay population
before people evenknew what it was, that it existed. Do
you see a pur~n<:p inthat, from a healing,
point of view? Again I""
come back to my question, why were gays singl~d out?

NM: I return to myanswer before about
AIDS in general. These
people came here tochange world consciousness. They're extremely
sensitive people, very
high beings in the gay
community. That's my
only explanation.
It'salso like the swing of 'apendulum. In my private'sessions I hear people
have been self-destructive about their sexuality
toquite
horrifying
dimensions. And its sobeautiful to see in one
Iifetime they're on theother side and feel emotion of sex, and the factthat it could connect
with self-respectandself-love. It's magnificent
that in one lifetime one
can really go into a complete revolution. I think that's very honorable.
GR: Wouldn't it would be nicer if they
were able to do that in a full lifetime,
instead of 25 or 35 years.?

GR: What do you think that homosexuality is?

NM: I think the time is irrelevant. It's thequality. When you see sQmeone likeWil, that now, though he's dead, created
a whole questioning around healing.
The quality of his time, that's what mattered.
-

NM: These people are in the forefront ofchanging consciousness.
Having thatsense of not being allright, that conflictis there. And then suddenly at 11 or 12

GR: I'd like to talk to you about George
and Wi!. I'm confused about how
SHARE was founded. I've read that you
founded it. I've heard that you founded

it with George and Wil.
NM: I created SHAREat the same time I
met Wit and George. Wil took the firstcourse that I designed, two-and-a-halfyears ago. There were five participants.
And I have to say that' I didn't expect
Wit to be the first one to go. I remember
Wit coming into the course and having
the i~ea to share his remission, go out ina Winnebago, and he said, "Oh maybe
in a year." And I said, "What are you
waiting for? If you want to do it, do it!"Three months later they bought a Win-

nebago and they were out on the road.
They asked me if they could use thename SHARE on the Road and I said I'dbe honored. We ~elt very much like ateam. We connected. We were trying tochange the energy around AIDS, change
the energy from negative to positive.
When my lover was dying the energy
was so low, like there was nothing you
could do. I made a vow to try to-changethat around. And Wil and George madethe same vow. SHARE on the Road wasjust a· branch of an inspiration.
GR: What is the goal of SHARE?

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way and focus on healing their life. It's aforum, a get-together. I always put thefocus on people. Not so much on creating an office and things like that. So wehave been a gypsy foundation, literally.
My priority is still working with people
who are in the hospital, things like that,
so I didn't put my energy into creating alocation. It's wonderful. There's alreadythings like the Wellness Center and the
PWA Coalition has the Drop-In Center,so all of that is happening. The eventual
vision of SHARE is to create a residential
center, Hospitals are packed with people
that shouldn't be in hospitals, aren't sickenough to be in hospitals, but they haveno place to go. So they stay in hospitals.
I think we need to create a center where
people who are sick can be taken careof but when they are well, if they wantto bathe, if they want to garden, if theywant to do whatever, they can do it andbe supported and live in a positive, conscious energy. The vision of SHARE is a
residential center in the 90s.
GR: When you ~alk about self-healing

and creating a better quality of life forpeople with AIDS, and you talk about
your transversal from negative ~o positive, and George and Wil said that they
were in remission and at peace with thevirus, what does all that mean? Are you
saying you can cure the AIDS disease ofother people? Is that a major goal ofyour therapy?
NM: It would be wonderful if you could
create something that could cure people
but I think that we never serve people
to cure them.They have to learn what
their disease is teaching them. The healer is someone who's guiding' the way to
put the person back in touch with theirown healing power. It's such a misuse of
power to say to someone "I can healyou." Then they miss the lesson.
GR: That's a point that I don't think a lotof people get.
NM: I think that healing happens
because we are willing to stop being
separated. It happens because we arewilling to learn.
GR: I have a problem in this case withthe word 'heal ing' and what it means.
Most people with AIDS I know, when
they use the word "healing" they mean
getting rid of AIDS. They do not want todie. They may be very interested in theidea that if they have to die then theyshould die in a better way than they are
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NM: You can die in a beautiful way.
GR: Yes, but their main motivation is not

to die in a beautiful way. Their main
motivation is not to' die. Maybe 40 years
from now. But not now. Do you thinkthat many p'~bple ~fre confused when
you say that you' we'nt from negative topositive, and now you have an organization called the Self-Healing, Aids RelatedExperiment? And George and Wil said
that they were now healthy? Don't people think that if they follow your path,or George and Wil's path, that they will
be healed from AIDS?

comes, it'll come. But I am mec\itating
because that's how I reach my maximum
potential. Not because 'I'm afraid to die,but because that's how I've decided tolive my life.
That's what we do in the workshop.
People are coming because they areafraid of this disease. Who wouldn't be?
I think it's a sign of intelligence to beafraid ~f something as horrible as that.
Who's gonna say, unless
you'remqsochistic, "okay I'm ready to suffer?"
Who wants that? That's not why we're
here anyway. But it's through that that
we're learning. I wish it were different.
But it's confusing for people who are so. into fear, "I have to find a solution, let's
grab ~his,.I have to do thiS," but it's fromfear. It'1;iall tension, it's no expansion
there.

NM: Many people -approach us like thatat the beginning. That's what Wil andGeorge and myself, 'we are. very straightabout. Because eve -always said to people, it's not about what I did, it's about
what you choose to do. I see people are
GR: That's true. But in the case of
now living extremely well, more happy
SHARE it also is coming to a certain
than ever before. And that's priceless,that's priceless. It's the old part of our- extent from your story of having been
selves that's terrified, that wants to live positive and now being negative. People
forever. In the;::)Vorkthat I do we very say she did it, she meditated, she didwhatever she did, and one day she went
much acknowl~c\ge both parts. Insteadof pretending th~t the other part is not . for her test and the great miracle hapthere, we finally :decide to take care of pened, like the resurrection. The stonethat part. I see many people who fell was r911edaway.
head first in the Ney.r Age trap. As a little NM: I'm not sure I want to be associatedkid we were part of a society, and we with that.
compromised an.d embodied all those
GR: I think to people with AIDS it's not
rules just to be grop. And we repressed
too much different from that. And they
things just to crhte' a certain form of
want to know what you did.
neurosis. The New Age we have now all
NM: Then they're missing the point.
this awareness, a'lI this awakening, andnow we have to 'do it right in the New GR: Okay. But my question then is: why
Age too, so if we don't heal ourselves
do you emphasize that aspect of yourwe fail. It's missfng what's really avail- story? Why do you even tell people thatable. What's really available is who am I, you went from positive to negative? Are
I'm here to reach my maximum potenyou not confUSing people? And whential. Unfortunately it mjght be through a George and Wit sai~ they were cured'very horrible disease. And don't ever tell and healed, that they're beyond AIDS,
me that AIDS..<is',beautiful. I've seen so don't you think that that creates the very
many people die of it. Everytime someconfusion that you're talking about?
one goes you see me' hanging the phone
NM: What I find is that people in remisup and saying. "I hate this fucking dis- sion have an urge to share. We cannot
ease. I hate it!" Because that's true too.
keep that to ourselves. I know that what
It's our teacher. .And I bless this fucking
I did, I'm not that special, other people
disease. It's a paradox. And that's why can do it. I also know that I have someit's so difficult for people to get this.
thing to share. My experience is a cataI see so many people come to us lyst. It's what attracts people. In theand say, "let's'do the same thing you
introductory to my workshop I say, "Ifdid." But that's'coming from fear. "If I do you come here only for that, you're
enough meditation, I'll get healed." It's going to miss what I have to give you."like a trade-off. But no, you meditate
But I'll totally share my experience, what
because that's how you heal your life. If - I've done, and if it resonates in you thenthe healing's going to take place, it's it's yours. And what doesn't resonate
going to take place. If remission's going within you, let it go. It's a lie. Because
10 come, it's going to come. If death
you see that's only one level, to focus

only on the disease. And that's what I fortable.
something that happened to the emoalways take it beyond, like Wil andtional body. So I work with the emotionGR: That sounds like very many theraGeorge. We are part of a muc.h bigger
pies that people can go to. They all have al. We have excellent therapists to work
game. The trigger, what creates our conwith the physical.
the goal of self-knowledge
and selfnection, is my experience. And if myacceptance. In the groups you're talking
The goal of the workshop is forexperience creates an interest, then weabout, people have been challenged into people to discover the healer within. We
can work together. Now of course it crethis by the shock of AIDS. But what
all have that inner healer. Unfortunately
ates confusion. Of course. When we aredoes that have to do With healing from we have lost that trust in it. When wechallenged by things like that, searching,~DS?
are in connection with that you might
it's very confuSing. I always said everyheal your disease or your condition by
NM:
It
has
to
do
with
healing,
period.
thing in our universe is ruled by cycles.
eating dried apricot, and another person
GR: That kind of healing is the saine
And that cycle is expansion and concan heal the same condition by doing
traction. Winter and summer. Black and kind of healing that most therapies areyoga. Because you know you have totrying to accomplish. But most people I
white. Night and day. Inhale andlisten to what works for you. And
exhale. Trying not to live in that cycle, know who have AIDS and who are
it's impossible. When we were born we interested in you as ahealer for AIDS are
were pretty aligned, in harmony. Theninterested
in healing
we grow up, and we grow up with
their AIDS. So the quesunfinished business. We didn't understand what our parents wanted of us, or tion is, what does yourtherapy have to do with
our teacher. We couldn't express ourhealing AIDS or putting
anger, or our despair. Before you know
it into remission? Anyit you have a whole package that's
grown up inside, unfinished bUSiness, at thing, or not?
the level of energy. It demands a lot of NM: To answer the firstenergy to keep control. As young adults
part of the question,
we are already out of whack in terms of how come it's focused
expansion and contraction. We can'ton AIDS, it's because it
create expansion naturally, so we create
comes from my own
it artificially. We have sex with people
experience. That's thewe don't love. We use drugs and alco- people I feel connected
hol, we buy a Polo shirt, or a red
With, that's the people I
Porsche, anything to' give us that sense·1
feelcompassionate
of expansion. And then the wake-up
towards. I know exactly
call comes. First a little knock:'knock,what they go through,and we don't listen, then the big one.
since it's happened to
AIDS. And then ...wow ...we go in, weme. That createdastart to do the work. We start to work at bonding.
It made a
spiritual meditation. We instinctively.
place where they don't
find a way in the middle of confUSion, have to explain. Yes,
the middle of the "why me," the middle
ultimately all therapiesof the fear. And we start to do the work.
have the same goal. We I I';
People find a way to make the expanare all looking to realize
sion naturally. And then it's wonderful.
our maximum potential. ENLIGHTENED DODO?
It's beautiful. It's like a honeymoon.
I love that we are that BhBgwBn RBjneesh
Everything shines and it's beautiful. And aligned.
There's
no
b
I'
.
. ..
h
h AIDS f?
ecause every hea 109 IS totally custom
that's when the trouble starts. Because
opposItIon t ere. W y. or me.
made.
that little package that's been nicely
Because that's my own expenence. If
controlled
for years, that starts to you want to learn how to fly a plane
The best example: I have a client whose
expand too. The first thing that comes is you go to a pilot. If you want to learn inner voice was saying: AZT is not foranger. Despair. All the unfinished emohow to be a surgeon, you go to a sur- me. AZT is very toxic. He knew. He hadtional business. And then they put their geon. You don't go to a pilot to learn that inner voice. And his doctor reallyfoot on the brakes. Uh-oh, that was a how to open a body. It's just common
nearly blackmailed him and said, "if you
good idea but no thank you. And that's
sense. To me, AIDS has a certain vibra- don't take AZT I won't treat you anywhen they start to say, "I Wish I could
more." The guy lost his trust in what hetion that I just resonate to, we resonate
return to the way my life was before."
knew. So he took three doses of AZT,
together. And the principles of healing
But in the meantime, all that now has that I teach in the work th_at I do are and the next day he was rushed to thefound a way out. And that's why certain
applicable anywhere. Also I'm not focus- hospital, major reaction. He needed thatpeople really go into the dark side of ing so much on phYSical, I work very trust. We never forget our mistakes.
the soul. Healing is beautiful but it's much with emotional. Because as I said GR: This is very interesting. What I'm
uncomfortable. Healing is very uncomI think the symptoms are a byproduct of hearing you say does not agree with

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what many people think about New
Age healing, and about centering yourself and becoming more self-aware, andletting go of anger and so forth. What
many of these healers seem to say, andwhat I don't hear you saying, is if you
successfully do these things, if you takethis therapy, if you meditate in thisway, if you get rid of these toxins, if
you do these things right, then you're.
going to get better. Healing ,means
remission of the cancer. Healing meansthat the PCP won't come back. Healingmeans that you're 35-years-old, youwant to see your 40s and 50s and 60s.
That's what healing means to mostpeople, And they hear this message
from New Age healers which is, we
can heal your actual physical disease.
And I don't hear you saying that.
NM:No.
GR: You're not saying that.

NM:No.
GR: Do you have any idea that if peo-ple follow your therapy some of themwill be healed from AIDS, or just a tiny
percent, or none of them?
NM: I have no answer to that. The only
thing I can do is to share what I know,
to make them trust themselves;tochange their lives, to celebrate whothey are. I despise people who say,"You do 20 meditations
and you're
gonna feel better" or "You eat only macrobiotic and you'll feel better." Who are
we that we can predict? That's the false
mentality of the New Age. And that's
why people then get discouraged. They
do that from a place of fear. No. I meditate because that's .what made 'me r~alize who I am right now. I repeat, if
healing needs to happen in this lifetime
for me, I will heal. If I need to heal into
death, then I will die. If I have to learn
through suffering and go through mypassage through this, that's my path thislifetime. We wish we could avoid it.
I have a client. For four months
he's done incredibly well. Now he's getting contractions and going to anotherlevel of the dark side of the soul. Contraction, expansion. Those are necessary. But we're so hooked on expansion
in this life. We're so hooked into whatfeels good and what fits into our picturethat when something comes back that's
uncomfortable we resist, we say "no" toit, instead of, "okay, what can this teachme now?" And accept that. People doall those techniques to get rid of some-44

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thing. Our universe never gets rid ofanything. It transcends things. We haveevolution. We move from one stage toanother. But we never get rid of anything. So when we do certain meditations and change our diet to get rid of avirus, in truth we do;'i' know. We haveno control.

quered by things like pentamidine. The
government isn't doing much ...
i

NM: You're' generous p"y saying notvery much. They're not'doing anything.
GR: Most of the major drugs that have

GR: "We got rid of our symptoms.

becomeavailable
have done so
because of groups like ACT UP forcing
the government and the drug companies to release them more quickly, test
them more quickly. This happens
through ACT UP directing the incredible anger it has, and people's willingness ,to get ~rrested and even to be
criticized and ostracized by conservatives in the gay community. To fightand'scream and yell...

We're fine. It's great. Therefore, if you
do this you'll get better too." Now
they also say they got to know themselves better too. But I'm sure if you
ask most people with AIDS if they
have a choice of curing their body of
AIDS and not knOWing themselvesbetter, or knowing themselves betterand then dying;:of AIDS, they would
choose to cure 'their body of AIDS. For
people with AIDS, self knowledge
isn't the paramount thing, and it didn't
seem to be thep.aramountthing for
George and Wil·e.i,~her.The paramountthing 'was; "we did these techniques,
we meditated, we visual ized. and now
wC;!'re symp'torp-free.
Our AIDS has
gone away. We're 'beyond AIDS,"
Don't you think that's what they were
saying in their book?

NM: What a wonderful way to get allof that out of your system. Very healing.
GR: And you do something good forother people as well, not just for yourself.
NM: That's when anger becomes positive.
GR: But most of the people I know
who are in your program, and most of
the people in general who consider
themselves to be a part of the healing
community are not in ACT UP. In fact,
in 'the AIDS community there seems to
be a Berlin Wall between people who
are using their anger to fight the government agd the drug companies, andon the o~her side people who are healing and working for themselves.

GR: What do you think of George andWit's book? Weren't they saying the·opposite of what you're saying? The
clear message to me from the book was'This is what we qid. And we physically
got better."

NM: Yeah.

NM: I'm not saying that's not what they
NM: It's just a way to choose to use
were saying. I think that's a stage. Cer- your energy. I think it's the same comtain people are going to do that andmitmept., .it's the same purpose. The
maybe get better for awhile and things
purpose of ACT UP is healing, andlike that. Then something else is gonna
they use the live energy through their.
happen to bring them to the next level.
anger, and I think it's extremely healJust like what happened to Wil. I know
ing. It's wonderful. But the momentthat Wil died in a way that was really
we have to walk together in a parade,an ending of a conscious life. Though
we walk together. So for me I don't
it disturbed many many people, I havesee a Berlin Wall at all. 1 see' a teammany of my clients who have died in work. Some people choose to use theirincredible ways. I had a person who
eneig.y one way, and some the othercame to the first session whose energy
way.. Right now I work with Markwas so dark that you couldn:t even see
Fotopolous
who was a very strong
to get to him. Panic. That man was
activist in ACT UP, and he's in both. I
hurting so. When he died we asked
know I'm going to work with ACT UP
him "how are you doing?" he couldn't
sometime
too, because. on certain
even speak but he had a smile on his
issues, boy am I angry. It's wonderfulface. All the relatives and the family,that we have those two outlets. I don't
we all felt complete. He transcended.
. see it as a separation. It's wonderful
But he died.
when you own your anger. It's a life
force, it's juicy, it's passionate,
it's
GR: Many other diseases have beenwarm. When you grow Violent, then it's
cured by science. With AIDS, many
cold, it's different. T
opportunistic infections are being con-

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Deaf gays and lesbians face special barriers. Like hearing people, deaf gays
and lesbians enjoy watching TV and renting movies on videocassette, and may
have a special interest in items with gay or lesbian content, but they won't necessarily have access to that programming. In fact, so little gay and lesbian programming is accessible that to even try to gain access to such shows is an exercise in
frustration. And if you're deaf and gay or lesbian, it's hard to find people like yourself in TV and film to begin with.
Deaf gays and lesbians suffer the same sort of ostracism from deaf straightpeople as their hearing counte,rparts, yet have still made important cultural contributions. The presence of clubs for deaf gays and lesbians, usually named the Rainbow Alliance of the Deaf, is testimony to the well-developed organization of deafgays and lesbians. (However, New York's Rainbow Alliance has been dormaot
since the death of its president a few years ago.)
The Rainbow Alliance chapters throughout North America have a relatively
long and distinguished history, which took center stage at two sessions of the Deaf
Way, a mammoth "international conference and festival" of deaf people put on lastsummer by Gallaudet University in Washington, D.C. There, Thomas Kane of the
D.C. chapter of the Rainbow Alliance talked about his group and deaf culture to amixed (and packed) audience of deaf, hearing, gay, lesbian and straight people
from around the world.
Further away, the ground-breaking Deaf Outreach Project of the AIDS Committee of Toronto, unique in North America, unites deaf people, sign-language
interpreters and AIDS experts in a group of which the majority is deaf and comprises several gay and lesbian members. Through paid consulta'nts in the deaf
community, the Deaf. Outreach Project spreads the truth about AIDS and facilitatesaccess to the many services of the AIDS Committee of Toronto. Kim Upton, a deaf
member of the project, brought down the house at the "Minorities" [sic) session of
the V International Conference on AIDS in Montreal last June with her compellingspeech about her group.
But in the face of all this, deaf gays and lesbians have little access to TV,
As everyone

knows, gays and lesbians are at the very least underrepresented,
and at worst maliciously misrepresented, in TV and movies. That's true-and so
emerge two distinct problems for deaf gays and lesbians.
First, the problem of deaf invisibility. Deaf gay people (men particularly) are
more visible in movies than, say, gays and lesbians with mobility or vision impairments. Parting Glances contains a cameo of gay men signing at a disco, and Torch46

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Song Trilogy contains a passing reference to the n~rrator's former lover, who wasdeaf. Those are good first steps, but we need more.
One solution is aggreSSive affirmative action in gay and lesbian representation. If you're making a film or video, consider how you can incorporate deaf gay
men and lesbians into your project. It can be done naturally, and you needn't
think exclusively in terms of non-verbal roles-the roster of deaf actors represents
a massive resource of versatile talent. If your production doesn't feature deaf people, why not?
On TV, we can see gay and lesbian characters on captioned mainstream
shows like thirtysomething, cable shows like The Kids in The Hall and theoccasional documentary or PBS show. Captioned movies like Parting Glances,
My Beautiful Laundrette and Kiss of the Spider Woman tickle our gay and lesbian fancy. People fight tooth and nail for such toeholds of recognition, andwe owe it to the deaf members of our community to ensure that such productions are accessible.
The best way to make lV accessible is through closed-captioning. Captions
are subtitles (written words, not sign language) transmitted along with the picturein the form of a code. Because the captions are encrypted-nothing
more thancomputer signal~hey
stay out of sight unless you've connected a "decoder" toyour lV set. (That'S why they're called "closed" captions. "Open" captions are visible on every screen.) A lV with a decoder will display the picture and the captions, permitting deaf people to follow the dialogue with relative ease.
Closed-captions are somewhat ugly and not very legible, and the technology
is antiquated, but no one disputes the value of captioning in opening up the televised media to deaf people. Deaf gays and lesbians deserve equal access to infor-.
mation, which is currently Qot the case; of the many dozens of films with gay
themes released on videocassette since closed-captioning was developed, only a.
few are in fact captioned. (The titles mentioned above are nearly the complete
list!) lV shows broadcast by the networks are more likely to be captioned, but thatstill means a wide expanse of lV-land remains inaccessible.
From the perspective of simple fairness, we' need to arrange for the captioning of every program, every movie, every cable show, every video-in short, everything you can show on Tv. Tqat's the ultimate aim of everyone in the captionjng
biZ, and gay and lesbian program producers can do their part.
Our political and social responsibility to caption will have far reaching rippleeffects. For instance:• Safe sex Videos, if they contain .any sort of dialogue or narration, need tobe captioned in order to assure equal access.
• Cable newsmagaZine shows need captioning-andpeople probably won't
object to a delayed r~broadcast with captions if that will save money.
• Promotional videos need captions: I was disappointed to find the video
accompanying the Names Project Quilt uncaptioned, even through the Deaf Way
conference had mounted a special exhibit in the Quilt's honor.
• Bars should install decoders so that patrons can read along with the lVs
they commonly feature. (If anything, that would benefit hearing people more thanthe deaf, since bars are too noisy to hear a lV anyway.)• Commercials and public-service announcements
to gays and lesbians need captions.

about subjects important• We can caption in Spanish or other languages (albeit without accents),
simultaneously with English in some cases, and open-captioning is a cheap way of
SUbtitlinga program in a different language.
• Gay and lesbian musical acts-- Phranc, Communards, Erasure, Boy George,
Jimmy Somerville, Pet Shop Boys, are you Iistening?-have a responsibility to caption their music videos.
If used to facilitate communication among cultures, to open a world of information and understanding between peoples, and to bridge linguistic and social
gaps, captioning can become as central to gay and lesbian life as lV itself. ~January 14, 1990

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BY

Dear :Brad:
I'm not exactly sure what happened. The last thing I can remember
dearly was delivering the valedictoryat my high school graduation andthen 'going out with some friends tocele~rate.
Maybe somebody
putsomething in my beer, I don't know/
but t~e next thing I knew I was wearing glasses and a tie and sitting in acluttered office at a television networkin N~w York City. Some woman camein with a stack of contracts and said
she needed a summary of the profit
participants
for her three o'clock
meeting.
Then this guy from
California called up and asked who
heIdi the foreign and domestic basic
cabl~ rights to The Loretta Young
Show. I didn't have a clue what he
I

UT

OF

M'Y ''''HANDBRADLEYS

BALL•
was talking about and said I'd have tocall back. I started looking throughthe desk to figure out what was goingon but all I could find was an Air
Canada flight schedule, a chequebook, a few cologne samplers and a
copy of this magaZine. After checking
out the date on the magaZine I suddenly realized that somehow 11 years
had gone by without my knowledge!
That started to get me panicked but I
decided I'd better take this calmly one
step at a time.
One of the cheque stubs indicated that I'd made an enormous rent
payment the day before so I figured I
must be living at some pretty grandplace. I took a taxi to that address but
it turned out to be this dinky little
apartment that was even more c1ut-

tered than my office and there was ascary poster on the wall of somebody
screaming. I thought if I went to bed
I'd wake up and find out this was justbad dream but there wasn't even ateal bed in the place, just some weird
Kind of mattress on the floor. Even if
it had been a real bed I couldn't get
to sleep because all night long there
were sirens and alarms and fights out
on the street below. I finally decided
to read this magaZine and I saw yourcolumn and I thought you might beable to help me. I mean, I was supposed to be living somewhere great,
like Paris, and be a famous author
and have a beautiful, wealthy lover.
Instead I'm in this depressing apartment in this bad neighborhood anddoing some job I don't understand.
How did that happen? Where exactly
did those years go? Is there some way
to go back and fix things?
.

a

-IN

THE WRONG TIME IN'
THE WRONG PLACE

Dear Wrong:
All throughout life, you will find,everybody sooner or later becomesthe victim of at least one thoughtlessprank. For example, if somebody
hadn'tindulgedin. a bit ofbabyswitching at the hospital back in
1960, then John Kennedy, Jr. would
be responding to your letter insteadof me. What's important to understand is that the entir.e history of civilization is not so much what' hashappened to people but what people
have done about those things. In yourcase, I hope this experiencehastaught you the value of using discretion when choosing friends and,
believe me, real friends do not slip
something in your drink without yourknowledge or encourage you to partiCipate in an action like drinking
beer, which you know in your heart
is wrong. I should know. Once I had
this so-called friend who~

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TI

By Michelangelo 'Signorlle
What is the difference between
the assholes who I write about andthe assholes who most other columnists write about? Well, nothing, really
On. fact, most of the time they're thesame assholes). The difference lies in
the fact that most of the other columnists make believe they like their assholes (so that they can get favors fromthem), while I take a more down-toearth approach, and truthfully chronicle their activities. And what an active
holiday season it was formy little assholes!
Miles Chapman has left
Vanity Fair, giving us one
less self-hating sell-out to .
worry about at Conde, Nast.
(We've only got Sharon
Delano and about six dozen
other ass-kissers to go! Start
the countdown.)
Gettingeven more
publicity, designer Mary
McFadden-who,
in John
Fairchild's boOk, claims she cao't kissgay men because of AIDS--ended her
six month charade of a marriage to an
oh-so-sweet little boy (we knew it!).
How do you spell "bone marrow,disease?" A-I-D-S. Yes, yet anotherdesigner died and it was reported that
he had one of those rare blood orbone diseases that so many dancers
and designers seem to be afflictedwith these days. (What propels people
to stay closeted even in the coffin?)
Homophobic
Women's Wear
Daily publisher John Fairchild lashed
out at "walkers," saying he was tiredof them ("walkers" are single men,most or all of whom are gay, whoescort rich, plaster-faced women tobenefits when their husbands don't
want to go.)High SOCietysucker Billy Norwich(Daily News) dedicated his entire
Christmas column to "people who are
ill.» ( Here we go with the speakingin-codes routine agairi.)"·'!
On a rerun of a cable'TV show
from quite a few years ago, 'we got
to hear who gossipist
Liz Smith(Daily News) feels is the person
who has "most brought out her
inner thoughts": "I'd have to say
Bill Buckley. I think he's the mostthought-provoking
person I've met.
He makes me think about religion
and ethics and an ideological pointof view." .(We absolutely, positively
dare self-loathing
Liz to say thiscrumb-sucking stuff today and risk
haVing gay stampedes
at Live at
Five. Go ahead, Liz. Make ourdecade!)Details magaZine actually discovered AIDS for the first time in ten
years! In the January issue they did asmall piece-albeit
buried in 'theback-on various AIDS organizations.

The piece follows no less than threeobituaries about the mag'azine's art
critic Cookie Mueller, who recently
died. But Details editor Annie Flanders
seems to think that her readers are
psychics. Or else she simply forgot totell us in all three obits that Cookie
died from complications due to AIDS.
(What's happening
to everyone's
memory?)The queer-hater Ed· Kosner andhis New York magaZine did an entire
holiday issue on "downtown," andomitted any reference or allusion to
the fact that fags and dykes rule thescene and run the entire fucking city
below 14th Street. (Who do you thinkmakes those hip clothes, spins those
hot discs and fills those trendy nightclubs, shithead? (Not your tired New

York writer wife Julie Baumgold, that's
for sure.)And, in the most fruitful, wonderful, fabulous, magical spirit of theYuletide season, Pat Buckley got. ..nopublicity! (She must .have ,left town.
I'm sure the columnists' will soon be
giving us gratuitous items about her
lost luggage at the airpOrt.)
But actually, the most fun we had
during the holidays was examining
the media fallout regarding ACf UP's
St. Patrick's Cathedral action and listening to all of those paranOid, petrified people saying that the crumbling'of some Jesus bread was going tocause the ruination of the entire
Queer Nation (I think they reallythought they were going to be struckby lightning or something).
There was Andy Humm telling
the New York Post that there would be
gay bashings as repercussions (gee,Andy, why not give the ignorant Post
readers some ideas, huh?). And there
was all this talk of "alienating the public." Is it really conceivablethat any people who were
pro-choice, or in favor of
condom use have changed
their minds because of that
action?
A preposterous
notion. But I do think wescared the shit out of our,enemies, sending out a clear
message that we mean busi.ness; that ~his situation isurgent and we're not to befuck~d with.
There was also so much said
about how this ac.tion was going tom(ike the media and the public turnQn gays. But instead we saw a full two
weeks in whic~ gays were in thepress everyday, the media so interested in what we were planning at every
moment, thereby giving activists
immense power in the eyes of the
public. There were: fags on the radio.
Dykes on TV. Queers in the magazines. Homosexuals at the inauguration. Pansies in Albany. And thenthere came a huge front page story
last week in the Times Metro section
with the headline:
RUDE, RASH,
EFFECTIVE, 'ACT UP SHIFTS AIDSPOLICY.
. I say we all storm anotherbUilding. ~January 14,1990

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It's late. Really late. Barring an
episode like last Thursday at 5am, it doesn't look like I'll behaving anyone Joining me. I pickup Out Week. I know what I'mlooking for. I turn towards theback, around the personals. 1900, 550, 540, 970. Pagesof ads:
HARD, HOT, the LEATHERLINE,
HUNK, MEET. For those of you. who are confused, there's a diala-guide to party lines. And then I
find it. Two little ads. I pick thecheaper line first.
After selecting "3" on mytouchtone phone (for gay andbisexual women), I am listening to
women giving out their bra sizes,
sexual predlle.ctions and phone
numbers. A lot of them are looking for relationships. This isn't
doing me a lot of good. I startsmoking, walking around theapartment,
listening to what
seemsto be an inordinate numberof men who have the same problem a certain Don Juan movie star
does-they need two girls to go.
I'm fast forwarding,. I'm hanging
up. I am not happy; I dial theother number. It's a recording.
Here'sthe story:
The woman goes to' her
boss' Christmas party. She'sbored by the prospect. She
goes upstairs to check her coatand meets the boss' daughter,
who Is "really stacked." Thedaughter takes her hand andputs It somewhere. I rarely dowhen saying "Pleased to meetyou." They have passionate
sex, not very graphicallydescribed,
and the woman
dec/des she's Into women. "Iwant women! Yes!" She leaves
her husband.
I am laughing. I'm stili not
happy.
I dig out this number a friend'gave me one night. We had called

It repeatedly and no one ever"Yeah? What are you wearanswered. It was a party line.
Ing?"
Someone must have been on. It .
And so on.
picked up. I was In that crackly
I'Ve decided the best way to
expectant .white noise of phone get lesbians to have phone sex Is
sex. It's broken by a voice.
to start a celibacy line. This will
"HI. Are there any horny
make It easier to discuss sex. A
ladles out tonight? I'm Davefrom typical encounter:
Manhattan. If you're horny, I'll
"Hlthls IsJenny.Anybody on?"give you my number. You Just
"HI. Denise. How long has It
have to ask•••". been?"He would walt, and then"Three months. It's reallyrepeat It at one minute Intervals. hard."
After the fourth time, I finally"Yeah. I know. The last timespoke: .
was unbelievable.'""Looklt, asshole, there are"Really...even If It wasn't thatfive million places for you to good, It seemsso wonderful."work your wanger.Will you please"Tell me about it."get off my lind!""We were In San Francisco•••"Silence.
Jenny keeps talking. They're"Hey baby, what's your name? both excited now. Their breathYou sound so cute•••"Ing gets harder. One' thing leads"I am." Click.
to another. A half an hour later:
I'm so stressed out~
"God, does this mean I'm notcelibate anymore?"
For some reason, phone sex"I don't think s·o. We didn't
has not caught oil among les- touch."blans. Gay men have lines for"But It felt so good. What's
every Imaginable permutation of your phone .,umber?'sexual activity.
But my first
So now they'll call each otherInstinct when I thought of this once a week" and stili explore
was to submit two blank pages. their spiritual selves.
Once, I actually heard two women
We could have a lavender
doing it over the phone. It was bytes line, for those computer
very hot until one of them asked dykes who get so heated up overfor the clitoris size of the other. I systems analysis. And a dramarahad never really thought about
ma nne for actresses who love
dyke size queens, and when I did stage hands, and the dykes who
I thought It would be a breast love both.
fetish. I had to hang up. So I
Essentially, what I want Is the
didn't ruin their evening with sar- opportunity to take responslb1l1casm:ty for my own orgasm, day or"Yes, bay-bee, It's so big and night, without. the compl1catJons
hard, and I want you to suck it for of things like toothbrushes, what
me. Suck It hard.".
movie to see, arguing over dllActually, I would prefer that to does, explaining to someone why
someof the other thingsI'Veheard.
I think a particular act is the con"Hi. Does anyone want to summate life experience and dishave dinner and play with my cussing ,seriously the prospect of
cats?"
monogamy. It's the 90s. 550-GIRL"Yeah. I do. What do you
and 550-LISA are two veryeat?"
underutilized party lines. Girls,"Macro."let your fingers do the walking. ~* * * * *January 14, 1990

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Film

Still Stranger than Paradiseby Peter BowenW

hat is perhaps most strange about Eric de
Kuyper's and Paul Verstraten's A Strange
Love Affair is how conventional it really is.
This is not to say that a Dutch drama about a film professor's triangular relationship with a hunky blond student
and the boy's father, an qld (and soon to be re-ignited)flame, is standard Hollywood fare. Nor is Henri Alekan's
formally elegant and brilliantly shot black and white cinematography a common sight. Rather, what makes the film
so conventional are the countless cinematic and culturalconventions which it unabashedly appropriates and recycles to confess a love that is at once unimaginably realand inescapably contrived. Played out on a landscapeconstructed as much from Hollywood melodramas andclassical operas as from Dutch interiors, the film's "gay"story thus appears no more strange, or natural, than its
straight counterparts.
.
While the film takes the conventions of melodrama so
seriously that it at moments comes off as perfectly comic, italso subtly re-works the convention of autobiography to giveit an almost anonymous feel. The main character, Michael

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(Howard Hensel), is a film professor publishing awork on love in American cinema. But then so too
is the director, Eric de Kuyper. But rather thansponsoring a morbid fascination with the private
details of any amorous character, the film focuseson the equally fascinating character of love itself.
Taking as its premise that the beginning of
any love story is by structural necessity also an
ending, the film stages its story by an endlessseries of arrivals and departures. The fact that the
opening scene of Michael reading a farewell noteat a train station is also the final scene hardly matters in a film where characters are not only picking up where they left off, but continually leaving'before things get started. At the film's beginning
Chris (Sep Van Kampen) leaves his girlfriend forhis professor, Michael, who in turn drops Chrisjust as easily. En route to a Nicholas Ray film festival, while staying with Chris' family, Michael discovers that Chris' father, Jim (Karl Scheydt), wasthe man he loved 15 years ago. With the two older lovers
reunited, the father not only replaces his son in the eyes ofMichael, but equally takes his son's spot next to Michael on
the train the follOWingday.
From then on, the characters seem to come together,break apart and reunite in an endless and elegant waltz of
hotel rooms, train stations and ferry boats. Lost in an
amorous nostalgia for what might be, the characters areequally lost in a classic Hollywood melodrama that neverwas, and, because of the open and unapologetic gay subject matter, never could have been. Characters easily
appropriate lines from films like Johnny Guitar and Now
Voyager for their own romantic purposes, just as the film
itself internalizes the discrete codes of sexuality that governsuch melodrama. So while sex is almost never shown, theexcessive sentimentality of the soundtrack and of the characters chastely turns every action into sex. In the eroticized
moment when Chris clumsily attempts to seduce Michael,for example, sex occurs 'only in the invisible space of a cut
from which Chris mysteriously emerges in different.clothes.
When this strange love affair turns to narrate the relationship between Michael and Jim, the cinematic codes
are subtly supplanted by operatic ones. The irony of suchappropriation, however, remains. While recuperating heterosexual narratives for a gay story, the film has nevertheless chosen genres (melodramaand opera) which
historically have been suspiciously considered gay to
begin with. In the end, the affair has really neither begun
nor ended; it simply continues in the fragmented discourse of love through which each of us finds ourselves
saying the same things we have said before and wiII no
doubt say again. ~FilmDeviled Hamrich mistress (Streep) battling for one worthless, unlikeable man (Ed Begley, Jr.) does not in itself comprise a"feminist perspective" (to quote New York's worst parttime film critle, Uz Smith, the world's only defender ofTough Guys Don't Dance). Beginning with its opening
by Bruce Steele
shot, She-Devil exploits as many glossy, dehumanized
women as any good beach flick, including a young girlusan Seidelman is the hardest working woman who is alternately a painted Lolita and an innocent
director in Hollywood, and she hasn't a whisp cherub. (Inconsistency is a Seidelman trademark. )of talent. Her moves have grown progresSively Women in this movie are portrayed as either stupid ormore horrendous. Her first, Smithereens, was graceless petty and vile.
The casting is a disaster. Barr gives her usual
but had a low budget quirkiness and a somewhat intriguing anti-heroine; Desperately Seeking Susan was a weak, one-note performance without the sitcom support ofcontriveq comedy that made a small splash only because a loving family to make her seem adorable, and'Streep proves that even she can be destroyed by bad
the Madonna persona was still fresh and impish.
Then the sheer stupidity of Making Mr. Right direction: the shrill cartoonishness she's been given
destroyed any chance downtowner Ann Magnuson had to play falls flat in scene after scene. She. manages tofor a film career and embarrassed even the implacable inject a little feeling into one quick moment at her
John Malkovich; Cookie was, by all reports, simply a mirror and into the scene on her big pink bed thatclunker. Seidelman's latest, She-Devil, is an inept, offen- follows, but the rest of the film is cold and shallow
sive mess of a comedy. Its inability to draw in even a and unengaging.
The wife's revenge on the mistress is neither cleverly
fraction of Rosanne Barr's and Meryl Streep's combined
followings ought to cause Hollywood to send Seidelman nor credibly accomplished, and the meticulous dissection ofback to the unemployment lines--or back to NYU, so middle-class domestic ideals achieved in the Fay Weldon
she can unlearn some of her film-schoolish bad habits novel and the BBC miniseries is completely lost here. In its
place is a paean to bad taste and exploitation. ~that seem only to worse!).with time.
loud, grating.'.
music, for exam'"d_pie, does not makea movie funnier.
Shock c\ose-u ps
are not inherently
witty. Nor can you
make bad dialogue
good by having theactors say it LOUD-..
,,,ER, even if the
speaker is Sylvia ~Miles. Old people
playing soccer is
not a laff-riot. The
gift of a box ofpastries is not motivation enough for
one character (Linda Hunt, sadly
wasted, then forgotten) to handover $55,000.
Most importantly, a spurned
MERYLIN PERIL
wife (Barr) and
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TheaterTales of Hoffman
by Michael PallerT

he main charge leveledagainst The Merchant of
Venice-that
it is anti-

Christians
are insensitive
brutesand Shylock a figure of tragic proportions.
The critics
rush todeclarethat this is the only
approach to the play, and everyone is pleased with their own rectitude. The only thing that suffers
is the play.
An attentive reading of the text
makes
abundantly
clear
that
Merchant is not antisemitic.
But

THE LAYING ON OF HANDSPhoto: John Haynes
left to right: Geraldine James, leigh lawson, Dustin Hoffman.
semitic-has
been repeatedsooften and so vociferously that, likeother big lies, it has come to be
regarded as the truth. Therefore,
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when the scenes in which Shylock
appears (which' number five out of20) are staged so seriously,
andShylock is raised to tragic dimension, how can we then laugh at theChristians' merry romps in Belmont?

After Portia, through a legal loophole, denies Shylock his bond, his
principal and finally his Jewish identity, are we actually supposed tolike the light-hearted fifth act, where
all's well that, for the Christians,
ends well?
The problem is resolved somewhat in the current Peter Hall
Company production. In three hours,
more rheum is voided on Shylock's
beard than is spat on the Shea Stadium
infield in three weeks. But because
Dustin Hoffman does not make
Shylock into a towering figure oftragedy, the play isn't as seriously
unbalanced as it usually is. Still, we'releft troubled.
Unlike other movie stars, whenever
Hoffman returns to the theater, hedemonstrates that he has not forgotten
how to act. His Shylock isn't entirely ofa piece, but it is an admirable performance. In his first scene, he is a qUick,clever fellow, one step ahead of his
brutish Christian tormentors. Later, hebecomes a thoughtful, serious, entirely
logical gent who acquires a dignity as
the play proceeds. Hoffman takes "Hathnot a Jew eyeS(' not as an opportunity
to declaim, but as an occasion to ponder an old conundrum. Hoffman's acting is humble; he is a company
member, not a star.
As Portia, Geraldine James iscold at first; but then, the early
Belmont scenes are so over-produced as to swamp any actor on thestage. Electronic music and soundeffects, so effectively employed byHall in Orpheus Descending, arehere distracting
and pretentious;
there is a gratuitous pageantry to thecasket scenes. Once she is past the
courtroom, however, where she is as
cunning
as any Shylock; James
exhibits a warmth and a command
which wash away her legal excesses.
Bassanio, whose need for a loan
gets Antonio into trouble in the firstplace, is less guilty than the others of
prejudice. Nathaniel Parker makes
See HOFFMAN on page 63

Theater

Molten Brava
by Rick Sugden

Rgiven that they are prisoners of Foreman's obsessions, theactors are surprisingly evocative. Like rebellious thoughts
in the mind of an obsessive, they disobey. Contradicted by
the Voice, Matthew calls it an "asshole." Kyle runs aroundsaying "Oops" as if she knows something we don't; maybe
she sees some fault in the neurotic's monologue.
The Voice clarifies the tliree categories for perceiving
life: Category One, the material; Category Two, the etherial; Categ6ry Three, Fbreman's transcendental, deranged
performance as a state of being. This is the topsy-turvy
world where words lose their strangle-hold on reality,
where incongruities are congruous. For Foreman, language-and by extension, writing and theater-is a faulty
system of symbols with its own perverse agenda. Words
are sloppy approximates for what we experience.
Pretty dry stuff, one might say, but here again words
cannot convey the exhilaration of a Foreman performance.
The jokes are hilarious but don't survive outside their habi:
tat. The actors are intriguing, but they have no "reason" forichard Foreman knew he was going to have difficulties with lA~, his latest performance. The program notes carry a sincere apologia, explaining
Foreman's operating premise 'and warning that the play
"may seem even a bit more perplexing than the 'unbalancing acts' that are performed in my other plays." lAVA is one
brilliant and funny man's dizzily obsessive car trip throughideas on the self, reality and theater.
Foreman's Ontological-Hysteric Theater is
not concerned with characters and situations as
the average Broadway play might be. Foremanis a progenitor of the now old-school avantgarde theater which came out of the 60s. Its
modernist concerns with breaking the rules oftheater and questioning
the boundaries
between the. "text" and the "play" leave· theaudience little to steady itself with. One feels
thrown into an anthropoIporphic essay.
The technical set-up is typical of his work:
more of the stage lights are pointing at theaudience than at the stage; wires run from theset into the audience, creating a visual pun onsight lines. Over the sound system, cymbal
Ciashes and booming music punctuate themonologue.
This time, though, there is something sinister. The walls are draped in funereal black; thewires look like concentration camp barbed
w~re. The:e is a hu.ge table partially covered BUBBLING OVER.
Photo: Paul Court
With furniture movmg pads and black tape.
.
.
.
0 .
. I kId
h' C hhLeft to right: Kyle deCamp, Nell Bradley, Matthew Courtney, Peter aVIs
B ac ace an w Ite leat ers are everyw ere.
.
The effect is a cubist's rendition of a messy apartment or a doing what they are doing. "Try to live in a world that isn't
prison cell inside someone's brain.
as fallen as this [world we live in)." challenges Foreman.
A Voice (taped and controlled from the soundboard bylA~ seeks to unbalance, to jar th~ concept of sense
Foreman) booms from above, an oscilloscope embodies it. of self. And when Foreman asks, "Have' you been practicA barrage of tyrannical pensees subdues the three hunch- ing your balancing act?" one clearly feels the desperate,backs (Matthew Courtney, Neil Bradley and Peter Davis) uphillbattle.
In Foreman'samphetamine-likeand a wily-eyed woman (Kyle deCamp), while anotherBeckett/Sartre universe, the prison house of language iswoman (Heidi Tradewell) dutifully transcribes pieces of the inescapable .. Only in a state of transcendence can rest be
text onto blackboards.
found (which for Foreman occurred while throwing a hissy
As the name Ontological-Hysteric suggests, Foreman is fit after having a row, presumably with a girlfriend).
possessed with grasping the nature of being and slapstick.
"Can one 'stage' a text that limits itself to the strateThe actors run around like Mack Sennet cops in a silent film gies, alternately, of philosophy and poetry?" asks Foremanbased on a Heidegger text, thoughts as court jesters. But
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TheaterHell's Bellewrapped devil dogs $5.00 and ice cold coca-cola $5.00."
While the playwright and her director sit on one side of thespace, the Ritz brothers goof off on a scaffold across thestage Oike sinister Three Stooges alternately transmogrifying
into Nazis themselves), Mephisto and Faustus preside overby Maria Maggenti
their dominion on a scaffold at the front of the space andKing David intones Hebrew prayers on a scaffold to theright. Scattered throughout the audience are some "devils,"
et in the rowdy cabaret hall of hell, Else Lasker- men and women dressed in glittery red outfits that seem
Schuler's 1 & 1 at the Living Theater is a raging the height of campy hell wear. The action, if one could use
and fantastical exploration of good and evil, such a conventional term for the propulsive force of thisheaven and hell and art and politics in wartime. Moored in narrative, is alternately centered on Mephisto's banquet for
Goethe's Faust legend, it Simultaneously frames the con- the Nazis, the suggestion that Mephisto seek redemption
texts of Nazi Germany, early Palestine and the eternal
and a return to the gates of heaven and Lasker-Schuler's
inferno of hell to re-examine the legend through the eyes own struggle with the forces of good and evil in her soul.
of a German Jewish woman poet living in exile in
Directed by the legendary Judith Malina, herself aJerusalem in 1941. This incendiary piece of theater is refugee of NaZi Germany, the production sometimes seems
expertly controlled by the Living Theater in a production
ready to explode with the sheer force of Lasker-Schuler'sthat attempts to force the irrationality of evil into an anar- desperate language of wit and pain but it is expertly manchistic and expressionistic howl.
aged throughout with an ensemble of actors who maintainboth their stamina and pacing to a degree
that is extraordinary. Michael Saint Clair's
Mephisto,
Elena Jandova's
MarthaScherdtlein and Alan Arenius's Joseph
Goebbels are especially compelling. As awhole, the cast shapes this phantasmagoricalexpression of one woman's tormented vision
into a veritable banquet of sin, redemption,
politics and wickedness. In doing so it elevates the specificity of Nazi atrocities to theuniversal level, where innocence is betrayedand a world is forever changed by the banality of evil. It is a spectacle that is riveting andimpossible to ignore, well worth the trip to
East 3rd Street.
Though Elsa Lasker-Schuler held aseminal place in the German Expressionist
movement of the 1920s and was honored
in 1932 with the most prestigious literaryprize in Germany, she died in obscufity
Photo:Ira Cohen and poverty in Jerusalem in 1945, after
Faust (TomWalker), The Poet (Sheila Dabney),Mephisto (Michael Saint Clair)long periods of desperate wandering. In
Walking director Max Reinhardt through the small streets the final stages of her life she created some of her mostof Jerusalem to attend a rehearsal of her play, the poet visionary work, most notably 1& 1and as the dramaturg's(beautifully portrayed by Sheila Dabney) opens with the notes explain, "I & 1 is an astounding spectacle of faith inproclamation that "the devil has surrendered." 1& 1works on· the midst of hell." An untameable woman artist unfetthree levels to utilize every possible square inch of physical tered by convention and yet destroyed by it, Laskerand intellectual space creating a scenario that is part specta- Schuler was never at home nor at peace. This productioncle, part cerebral drama, part lurid musical. The audience is does great justice to the wild voice of this woman poet
seated at small tables to remind them they are guests at the who was trapped in a ruthless moment of history andgates of hell and a small sign on the table advertises the whose salvation came only in the violent contradictory
Gehenna Cafe "featuring devilishly high prices--cellophane
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MusicMusician or Star
sing, soft-shoe and patter through his
performance, one gets the feeling that
there is very little beyond his reach.
Musically, the scope of styles andartists who have influenced him is, by
his own admission, quite large. Of
by Julian Fleisher
those performers whom he sights as
crucial to his development-amongt a mere 22 years old, Harry them Art Tatum, Fats Waller and Duke
Ellington-none
is more apparent
Connick, Jr. stands perchedon the brink of bona-fide
than Thelonious
Monk. What thestardom. Only four years into his solo Cubists were to even the most radical
career and seeking to capitalize on . representational artists of their day,more than just his virtuosity as a jazz Monk was to the fashionable andpianist, he and his management are well-entrenched Be-Bop Movement ofworking hard to position him as a lat- the 50s. He turned the jazz world on
ter day Frank Sinatra. Connick himself its ear by dismantling conventional
seems genuinely committed to breathrhythmic and melodic structures;
reassembling them in anti-traditional
ing new life into the big band sound.
If the ecstatic crowd at apackedAvery
FisherHall-where
Connick
made a stop on his When
Harry Met Sally tour-is
any barometer, then he is
the right man for the job. .
There is no arguingthat Connick is immensely
gifted. An almost impossible combination of charisma, good
looks
and
superior talent, he is a
jazzy amalga'mof ArtTatum, Billy Ekstine andJerry Lee Lewis. Anyone
who has seen him perform
alone, or with his likewise
young and gifted bass
player Ben Wolfe, knows
the heights
to which
Connick can ascend, bothmusically and as a presence on the stage. He
moves with astonishingease and facility from style
to style, from keyboard to
microphone, from focusedmusician to fast-talking andcapricious master of his
own ceremonies.
Indeed,watching
Harry Connick, Jr. play,A~

configurations and revealing anew themechanics of their relationships allwhile maintaining the music's fundamental integrity.
.'
In similar fashion, and with a virtuosity that easily recalls that of his
late predecessor, Connick's approachto the songs-invariably standards by
the likes of Gershwin, Ellington andPorter-is
to put them to the test.
Typically, he will begin by mercilessly
exposing the melody, methodicallypounding it out in the piano's upper
register while the left hand strides ahandy counterpoint. Even at this earlystage one can hear how Connick tests
the very fabric of the tune, stretching
it over the rack of its own rhythmiC
possibilities,
yet bumessing
theoperation with his rock-steady senseof tempo. Then, after one fairly naked
go-ro und, the tune is off on a whirlwind tour of Connick's countlessidioms, colloquialisms, jokes and tributes to pianists past.
While the concert left no doubtthat Connick is, quite ,rightly,
bound for stardom, the very
idea of the tour and its undeniable success place's him
squarely at the vortex of adifficult cro.ssroad. By associating himself with the likes ofMonk, Connick places himself
in a tradition which is specificallycounter-traditional.
Monk may weIl be a jazz legend, but the erudite demands
he placed on his listeners
necessarily
excludedhimfrom the popular Iimelig~t
enjoyed by other more glamOr01.1S,less confrontational
artists. 'Connick's musical· gifts
fairly demand that he carryon Monk's legacy of transformation, but his other qualities
such as charm, a playful energy, white bread good looks
and a rich, unaffected voice,open all sorts of tempting
doors to fame and popularity
which rarely accommodate
the complex, challenging andoften beautiful landscapes heis c;apable of creating.
With its glitzy Hollywood
appeal, self-congratulatory
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MusicHowling for the Masses?
ton to Time. Batman-like sound effects are cut into The
Shrowded Stranger. In total there are 16 cuts on the cassette,
17 on the compact disc. CD listeners get the bonus of the
one dirty poem, Come on Jack ("Beat me, fuck me, whipby Ira Silverberg
me," etc.).
For all the diversity of the musical styles on The Lionfor Rea4 there is no corresponding diversity in terms ofatching up with Allen Ginsberg is no easy task.
the Ginsberg content. The poems are for the most part
The Howlmeister of the international poetry world
humdrum-lacking
in both political and gay content.
uses a computerized schedule, which runs well
Ginsberg explains, "The musicians chose the poems, notinto the summer of 1990, to keep a handle on his dailyme." He also points out that the one gay poem, Come on
activities. There are stage versions of Kaddish (in collaboraJack, which appears only on the CD, was chosen by ation with Eric Fischl) to be worried about, operas withheterosexual. Kral Majales, the only poem with a blatantPhilip Glass to be rehearsed, AIDS fundraisers to read at, political message, is the standard Ginsberg rant, "And the
major lawsuits against the FCC to keep up with and sittings
Communists have nothing to offer but fat cheeks andwith Francesco Clemente to be still for.
eyeglasses and lying policemen/ and the Capitalists profClemente and his co-publisher at Haunuman Books, Ray- fer Napalm and money in green suitcases to the Naked."
mond Foye, recently hosted a brunch for their authors. The
The relegation of Come on Jack to the CD format
guest of honor, their printer in from Madras, India, was easily only causes further worry about Ginsberg'S commitment
and expectedly upstaged by the late arrival of Ginsberg. Before to spreading any kind of gay message. "I'm already paying
settling in comfortably at the table, Ginsberg managed to pull for a major lawsuit against the FCC," says Ginsberg. He
from his purse arecapitulates
therandom sample ofstory of the banning
his newest prodof
Howl
from
ucts: Reality SandNational
Publicwiches, his newRadio and how furphoto book fromther FCC regulations
a German press,
have made other
The Lion for RealGinsberg classics(Great Jones/ Issuch as Sunflowerland), a recently
Sutra and Kaddish
released spoken
inaccessible to radio
word/music
relisteners.
Furthercording on casprovocation,hesette and The Lion
believes, will not
for Realon compact disc.
help his cause. He does, however, whip out a letter sent
One gains a certain perspective upon entering theto members of the Senate railing against arts censorship:
world of Allen Ginsberg-a poet does not get famous and"This arts censorship rot gut originated in thestay famous by just sitting around and writing poetry. Evenbeer-soaked bucks of Joseph Coors, was moonshined
a poet has to hustle.
in Heritage Foundation think-tanks, & [sic) is' ped- .
The most recent manifestation of the Glnsberg hustle,dIed nationwide by notorious tobacco-cult Senator
The Lion for Real, is an impressive selection of works from Jesse Helms.
COlleClfJdPoems. 1947-1980 (Harper and Row, 1984) set to"These alcohol-nicotine kingpins have the insolencemusic with the aid of the masterful producer Hal Willner. to appoint themselves as arbiters of Public Morality.
Comprised primarily of earlier work, poems from the late
"Legal narcotics pushers wrapped in the flag, they
1940s and early 1950s, The Lion for Real brings to life Gins- threaten to give the needle to any politician opposing
berg's written words.
their takeover of culturally free turf in America."
Working with a wide array of muSicians including Art
The letter goes on to specifically cite the 1988 banLindsay, G.E. Smith, Rob Wasserman and others too numerous
ning of Howl and asks, "How long will the Congress,
to list, Willner creates a sampler of sorts. The musical styles of the Public & Arts be held hostage to this cultural
the pieces range from the Weillesque strains in the first cut, mafia?"; Signed "Allen Ginsberg, Member, American
Scribble, to the post-mariachi sounds of Complaint of the Sleele- Institute of Arts & Letters; Executive Board, AmericanC

Ginsberg appears to be chafing
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P.E.N. Center; Member,
Freedom to Write Committee; Distinguished
Professor of English,
Brooklyn College" anddated August 14, 1989.
August 14, 1989
came not all that longafter the early problems
surrounding exhibitions
by Andres Serrano andRobert Mapplethorpe.
They, however, are notmentioned in this tiradeof Ginsbergspeak. Ginsberg responds,"The
record was being put
together as Jesse Helms
waslaunchinghisattack."But
Ginsberg
appears to be chafing
under the contradictions
posed by this sneaking
form of self-censorship.
He plods along in his personal battle against theHelms offensive, a battle
which seems to focus
specifically on the Howlban, while forsaking themore press-worthy Serrano/Mapplethorpe
incidents. He refers to the
Right Wing's concentration on "the emotional
destabilization of America
which allows them toshift the blame to thearts, although he recently
changed the title of his
collaboration with Glassfrom The Fall of America
to the less suggestive
Hydrogen Jukebox. The
Sp6ledo Festival, where
the opera will premiere in
May, received extensive
funding from the National ALLEN GINSBERG
Endowment for the Arts.
It is very easy for Allen Ginsberg to speak of arts censorship in general terms and in specific when his own
work is under attack. Championing the causes of thoseinternational writers that PEf\Tis forever trying to free froma prison somewhere behind what used to be the Iron Curtain, Ginsberg even refers to, "The shift in cold war anxiety
being concentrated here, in the arts." But which side of thecold war is he on here, in the arts?
If Tbe Lion for Real is to be used as a litmus test in
H

Photo:. George Dubose
answering this question, then Allen Ginsberg has failed us.
He is not howling about anything of real concern to a
public which once looked to him as the poetic spokesperson for· a preViously politicized generation. In an increasingly politicized environment in both the gay and lesbiancommunity and in the arts community, The Lion for Realis .really quite. the letdown. Howt:;ver, for listeners ofimportant spoken word poetry set to well-produced musical backdrops, The Lion for Real works. So much for alternative culture. ~January 14, 1990

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BooksThe Year in Calendars
over time. Take that into account when yOlJ
shop for calendars. It's like tricking, some of.the hottest looking numbers qUickly becomeboring, some of the wall flowers you fall inlove with over time.
The Body Black ($10; The Body Black,Box 4628, Los Angeles, CA 90050) proves thatsexual exploitation is grounds for racial equality. Handsome .Black men coyly dressed in fur
coats open only so far, g-strings, open flies, all
the usual paraphernalia, are the objects here. A
fine calendar, but with only one shot for every
two months, some people will feel cheated.
Men of color are often the theme in Boys of
Hawaii ($5.00 plus $1.35 postage; Xenex
Publishing, Box 1600, Kailua, Hawaii 96734).
Some white boys have been slipped in, but mostof the models are from native Pacific stock. Cute,a little too vanilla, but it will have its fans.
Focus 'on the Male Nude ($9.00 plus $2.00
shipping, 1990 AIDS Benefit Calendar, Box34012, San Diego, CA 92103) makes you feel
good about buying one of these calendars. The
proceeds are going to AIDS organizations.
Artsy, often grainy photographs usually let
shadows do the work of covering up the1990 AIDS BENEFIT CALENDAR
Photo: Jeff Palmer offending genitals.
Focus on the Male Nude
1990 Colt Calendar and 1990 Colt
Leather Calendar ($10.00 each $2.25 for postage and-by John Preston
handling; Colt Studio, Box 1608, Studio City, CA 91604)
aren't about to hide anything. These classics of the gay
pornographic imagination are just what you want them
have a wall of beefcake calendars in my office.
to be. Not only are the dicks exposed, but they're usualThey're my constant, if always changing, companly erect and flaunted. Colt calendars are a real statement.
ions. One of their pleasures comes on the first of
If you want the same bright colors and the mythicallyevery month. I methodically change the page and themuscled models of the Colt calendars, but need to have aentire landscape of the room is altered. A month's worth
bit more discretion, 1990 Annual Man (same company,of new visual erotic delights becomes mine. There's nosame price) gives them to you with no dicks, just little
way really to justify these calendars as anything other thanpeeks at testic;Ies and only a few bare buttocks.
politically incorrect enjoyment. They're often crass, always
More mythic images come from the illustrations of .
commercial, and depend on a deep and abiding objectifiTom of Finland. ($8.50 plus $2.00 shipping; Tom ofcation of the sexual image. They're also great fun.
Finland, Box 26716, Los Angles, CA 90026). Tom's black
As a collector of these things, I know the problematics
and white draWings of pornographic icons haven't changeof reviewing them. First impressions of what constitutes adin years. This calendar gives you the security of thegood calendar might not stand the test of time. I know that
expected, without losing its heat.
the 1989 calendars included some surprises for me. Rear
Chippendales ($9.95; Chippendales, 929 Pico Blvd.,
View, one of the many calendars produced by Landm;trk,
Santa Monica, CA 90405) is the one calendar I've looked
most of them on sale even at your straight bookstore or gift
at that isn't specifically gay-oriented. In fact, it's a marshop, seemed insipid at first. But there were some shots,
keter's image of what teenage girls would like to have on
Mr. March comes to mind, which grew on me over a
their walls. Nice enough, awfully bland and the g-strings
month. What seemed a coarse commercial appeal when I
the guys usually wear are so suspiciously smooth that one
first looked at it, became a remarkably warm companion
suspects an airbrush has been at work here. T

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LAVA from page 57

HOFFMAN from page 56

him the most' sympatheticof thein the program
notes. LAVA is
Venetians. On the other hand, Michael
Foreman's affirmative,
successful
Siberry's Gratiano fancies himself theanswer. Can it be "entertaining?" onemight ask. Again, the answer is "yes."leader of the Jew-baiting pack, andit's difficult to forgive him later on.
The Voice's oscillating line quivers,"How's the language machine workAs for Antonio himself, Leighing? Is the language machine working .. Lawton is muted, his relationship withgood?" In the hands of a demented
Bassanio murky. It may be that hepoet like Foreman, the language
and Hall decided that no specificmachine works very good. ~explanation is needed for his ,"love"
for Bassanio. Strictly speaking, they
HARRY from page 59
are right, but overall, we remember
tone and harried musical presentathis Antonio less for any specific chartion, the When Harry Met Sally tour is acteristic than for the fact that he isclearly designed to further the conthe Merchant of the title.
struct of Harry Connick, Jr. as marWalter Kerr once wrote a longketable phenomenon, as opposed to essay called Shylock in which he
Harry Connick, Jr. as wunderkind of argued persuasively that Merchant is
the jazz world. And while Connicka thorough-going comedy, and that
himself is clearly· an eager accomplice
Shakespeare's model for Shylock wasto the process of his own commodifiPantalone. The stock character fromthe Italian commedia del! arte was a
cation-plugging
his upcoming
wealthy, greedy merchant who wore
movie, alluding to Sinatra, modelinga long black cloak and cap, a large
his newest Armani ensemble andpurse and dagger. He had i hookedmatching coif, impetuously seducing
nose, a servant he starved and aevery man, woman and child in thedaughter who ran away with his
hall-hewas clearly aware of the
ducats. All his calamities were viewed
compromises involved.
with delight by his enemies. In short,
Away from the piano, he strughe' was a prototypical Shylock, which
gled under the inexperienced baton
Shakespeare transformed-not
necesof arranger Marc Shaiman and thea Jew (Jews
inexcusably slip-shod performance of sarily admirably-into
had become a topical subject, due tohis nonchalant, freelance orchestra,
the execution
for treason of thejobbed in for the night. His anxiety
Queen's Jewish physician).
Kerr
was clear when, after a disastrous
points out that Shylock was probably
orchestral rendition of Gershwin's But
Not For Me, he blurted out "I wish I first played by Thomas Pope, who
also played the first Falstaff and Toby
had six hours so we could just dosome trio work." Only when he was Belch, and 'suggests that Shylock was
originallyconceivedin thosealone with his trio counting his own
terms--as a comic figure, not a tragiCtime and calling his own shots did
one, nor a caricature.
Connick's
gifts
truly
emerge.
It would be interesting to see The
Confident and at ease he tore up ver1?ionsof "It's Alright With Me, Sweet Merchant produced as an out-and-out
Lorraine" and a truly inspired "Do comedy, not as a comedy with a
You Know What it Means to Miss come-lately social conscience. This
wouldn't solve all the play's problems;
New Orleans?"
no doubt the Venetians would still
Not to say that Connick is not up
emerge as a slightly unsavory lot. Suchto fronting a full orchestra .. On thea production would require more
contrary. But he would be well served
courage than is generally available into avoid haphazarQ PR events like thethe theater; howls from all sides would
When Harry Met Sally tour and takedescend on the head of the director
time to pull each concert together
and producer. In the meantime, we
individually. By carefully organizing
have to settle for what's become thethe format and avoiding the easy-outof Hollywood theatrics, he might stay modern interpretation of the play. As
an example, Hall's Merchant is certaintrue to the promise of his extraordily as good as any. ~nary talents. ~AID S TESTING from page 12

this could mean loss.of eligibility for
Medicare reimbursement
and payments under other federal health careprograms. Sanders ordered the hospital to offer Leckelt reinstatement withback pay and full benefits, to adopt
an appropriate policy on AIDS and
HIV infec~ion, to provide an appropriate grievance procedure for protection of employees
under
the
Rehabilitation Act and to revise its
employment
application
forms toeliminate unlawful questions about
handicaps which were discovered
during the investigation. ~-Filed from New York
PRES. VISITfrom

page 13

exists)," said Jackson. "He asked if
maybe there are people out there
who still don't understandabout
transmission [of AIDS]and are afraid.
"We told Bush how insidious that
discrimination is, and that it comeseven from 'the most educated people,
even from those inside the medical
establishment," Jackson adqed. "Thatwas the first opportunity in which wewere able to say, 'Be a leader. Set an
example for the world.'"
Jackson continued, "While we all
avoided articulating indictment for his
taking so long to meet with us, thenumber of times and ways he wasthanked got across a lot. This meeting
was on sort of a diplomatic level.
However, I feel that slowly somewheel will turn because of it."Coming at the same moment as
the continuing upheavals in Panama
and Rumania, the visit garnered Jfttle
attention in the press. ~CDC HEAD from page 13

grants being withheld.
On Dec. 14, New York U.S. Dist~Coort~d~~~~Kramd~.
missed the ACLD's :case against theHelms Amendment challenge against
the existing CDC guidelines.
A huge demonstration by AIDS
activists at the CDC's Atlantaheadquarters is scheduled for Jan. 9. Protesters
are demanding that the agency provide more explicit AIDS education tominority populations and expand its
defiriition of AIDS to include a wider
range of HIV-related illnesses. ~January 14, 1990

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ACT UP/ATLANTA
and ACT
UP/NEW YORK National Action
to Repeal
all Sodomy
Laws,
rally and march to the state capi-'
tol in Atlanta, Georgia, a state
which allows 20 years in prison
for oral or anal sex (more thanfor armed assault); info 404/8731097,212/989-1114
TIMES SQUARES Free Square
Dancing
Class for Lesbians
and Gay Men; at· PS 3, 490 Hudson St (btwn Grove & Christopher);
7:30
pm;
873-3962,
799-2492 (another free class is on
JAN 22; starting JAN 29 classes
are $5 each and enrollment closes that night)
WNET-TV/13
Stop AIDS, thebest student-produced
videosenteredin last spring's
High
School AIDS Education
Video
Contest are featured; 10-10:30 pm(repeats late-night FRI, JAN 12,
12:30 am)
WNET-TV/13,Keith Haring:
Drawing
the Line, profilingthe artist's work, world view,
and artistic influence; 10:30 - 11
pm (repeats early SUN, JAN 14,
5:30 am)POSITIVEACTION OF NEWYORK Public Forum:
Strate-'gies of Passive Immunotherapy in the Treatment
of HIV
Infection,with speakerDr.
Susan Zolla-Pazner(NYU Medica! School); information regarding
free
immunologicalevaluation for HIV+ individuals
will be available; at St. Joseph's
School, 111 Washington
Place(two blocks south of 8th St off
6th Ave); 7:30 pm; $3; 727-7768
2ND TUESDAYS AT TIm CEN1ER
presents Pollee Officer Vanessa
Ferro, the first New York Police
Department liaison to the lesbian
and gay community,
who willshow a police training video,
AnU-Gay Violence; at 208 W 13
St; 8 pm; $3; Center 620-7310,
Ferro 374-5370
CONGREGATIONBETH SIMCHAT TORAH Tuesday
NightVideo Film Festival:
BeforeStonewall, also a Dorumentaryon SAGE; 57 Bethune St (Westbeth Complex, up center courtyard ramp); 8 pm; free; 989-9498
WNET-1V/13 Moyers: A Gathering of Men, in which "BillMoyers and poet Robert Bly
explore how men think and feel.about themselves,
their role insociety, and the relationships
betweenfathers and sons"; 910:30 pm

ACT UP/ATLANTA
and ACT
UP/NEW YORK National Action
to Change
the CDC's Definition of AIDS and ARC, legal
picket and civil disobedienceatthe Centers for Disease Control,to "abolish the outmoded
andunscientificdefinitions of AIDS
and ARC, revise the epidemiological methods, and provide services and treatment to all people

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ity to negotiate
safer sex withpotential partners; at The Center,
208 W 13 St; 8-10:30 pm; free; no
pre-registration,
807-6655 (TOO645-7470)
TIlE GLINES presents
SidneyMorris's The Wind Beneath My
Wings, a new play about two
gay men, a comic and an activist,and their conflicting passions; at
the Courtyard
Playhouse,
39
Grove St (at Bleecker);
8 pm;$12; 869-3530 (plays thru FEB 4;
WED-FRI at 8 pm, SAT at 7 and9:30 pm, SUN at 7 pm)
GAY MALE S/M ACTIVISTS Meeting: The DistantCaress:Whips and Cats, with tips from
whipmasters; at The Center, 3rd
Floor, 208 W 13 St; 8:30 pm(doors open at 8); $5; 727-9878
M.K. presents John
Simone's
Gryphon Stew, "the talent showof Gothic Proportions" with firstprize of $150; 204 Fifth Ave (at25 St); doors open 10 pm, showtime at midnight;
935-8372 toenter contest, club 779-1340
EAGLE BAR Movie Night: Three
Fugitives; 142 11th Ave (at 21
St); 11 pm; 691-8451

SAGE Afternoon
at the Brooklyn Public Library, Kings Highway Branch, 2115 Ocean Ave at
Kings
Hwy;
1-4 pm;info
212/741-2247
NATIONAL LESBIAN CONFERENCE Metro Area Information
Meeting, for the Atlanta meeting
APR 24-28; at The Center, 208 W
13 St (lst floor, ASL interpreted);
6:30-8:30 pm~.Ii.:.·"·"·.·,".",,,.·:!P' ~'N". llry"I,{ <I.CY~

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For more information or referrals, torap, or to volunteer, call the GLSB
daily, noon to midnight, 212·777-1800

CONGREGATIONBETH SIMCHAT TORAH JeWish
Education
Courses;tonight:
Mel
Rosen's Workshop/Discussion
onIssues that Confront Us as lesbianand Gay Jews at 7:30 pm; at 57
Bethune St; info 929-9498

OPEN CIRCLE gatherson theFull Moon to CelebratetheGod/dess, at The Center, 208 W
13 St; 7-7:30 sharp; $1 (Box 4538,
Sunnyside, NY 11104-4538)

GAY MEN'S HEALTIl CRISIS Men
Meeting
Men Workshop,toenhance self-confidence and abil-

CEN1ER STAGE sees The Merchant of Venice, with Dustin
Hoffman as Shylock; at the 46th
Street Theatre; 8 pm; $70; 620-7310

January 14, 1990

THE GLINES presents
SidneyMorris's The Wind Beneath My
Wings, see JAN 10
INTERNATIONAL THEATER OF
POETRY AND PAIN presents
Annie
Sprinkle:
Post Porn
Modernist,
directed by Emilio
Cubeiro; "the work charts writer/performer
Annie Sprinkle's
personal
odyssey throughtheworlds of art and ideology, commerce and pornography,
a journey
which
leads
her
to
alternativemodelsof sexual
health and well-being"; this andnext week only; TIlU & SUN at 8
pm ($12), FRI & SAT at 8 and 11
pm ($14); 255-5793(Editor'S
note: the artist and director say
you should "feel free to takephotos")mE PYRAMID presents Dudleyin his new performance
work
Second Sleep, a "homoerotic,
religio-sexual work-in-progress";
101 Avenue A (at 6 St); 9 pm;
info 473-5625 (presented this andevery Thursday in January)

FI///A'~"~~,_"'_"::o=-_"JI~IAlI~rGAY
MEN
OF
AFRICANDESCENT Discussion:
He's
Gotta Have It!, dealing with thecontroversial
topic of "sexual
addiction," with Dr. Arthur Clymer and two recovering"sex
addicts," who will discuss clinicalfindings and treatments;
in theCharles Angel/Peopleof Color
Room at The Center, 208 W 13 St;
8 pm; 620-7310
CASTILLO CULTURAL CENTER
presents John S. Patterson
In
When the Colored Band Goes
Marcbin', a one-man show dramatizing the African American struggle
for freedom and democracy withwritings by Patterson and Paul
Lawrence Dunbar, Frederick Douglass, Langston Hughes, W.E.B.
DuBois, Pat Parker, Alice Walker,
with music by Tevin Thomas,
direction by Amy Pivar; 500 Greenwich Street {bcwn Spring/Canal}, 8pm; $10; tix 941-5800, press 3621818 (plays all weekends in January; fRI & SAT at 8, SUN at 3)

THE GLINES presents
SIdneyMorrIs's The Wind Beneath My
Wings, see JAN 10
INTERNATIONAL 1HEATER OF
POETRY AND PAIN presents
Annie Sprinkle:
Post Porn
Modernist, see JAN 11
WNET-TV/13
JAN 8

Stop AIDS,see

BIWAYS NY (of the NY Area
Bisexual Network) Eveningof
Dinner, Film and Dancing Till
Dawn; 718/353-8245

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CENTER KIDS Get-Together
for
SIngle Parents and their Kids,
1 pm; leave m(:ssage at The Center, 620-7310, for info
BORrCUA GAY AND LESBIANFORUM Orientation
Night, followed by social gathering withrefreshments; at The Center, 208
W 13 St; 7 pm sharp; $2; 2930833 (BGLF, Box 7108, NYC
10163)CASTILLO CULTURAL CENTER
presents John S. Patterson
In
When the Colored Band Goes
Marchln', see JAN 12
KAREN SMITH directs
Eric
Booth's
Metamorphosis:
aslice of black gay life, anoriginal play about a 60-yearold black drag queen,
a 35year-old
ex-pimpandrehabilitatedaddict, and a 25year-old
Hispanic
who loves
the good life of sex, disco anddrugs, and who puts the othertwo throughchanges;
at TheCenter, 208 W 13 St; five performances: today, SUN, MON and
TUES at 8 pm plus an extra 2
pm matinee
SUN, JAN 14; $8
advance/$10
door; reservations
and info 893-9852
1HE GLINES presents
SidneyMorris's The Wind Beneath My
Wings, see JAN 10
INTERNATIONAL 1HEATER OF
POETRY AND PAIN presents
Annie Sprinkle:
Post Porn
Modernist, see JAN 11

KAREN SMITH directs
Eric
Booth's
Metamorphosis:
aslice of black gay life, see JAN
15.

y .. "

WNET-TV/13
Keith Haring:
Drawing the Line, see JAN 8
KAREN SMITH directs
ErIc
Booth's
Metamorphosis:
aslice of black gay life, see JAN
13

GAY MEN'S HEALTH CRISIS
Workshop:
Keep It Up!, to"reaffirm the importance of safer
sex, and feel confident
aboutsaying yes, whether you're into
casual sex or serious dating, andno matter what your HIV statusis"; at The Center, 208 W 13 St;
noon - 6 pm; register 806-6655,
TDD 645-7470

Tr

2181722-2781 (MPD, 206 W 4 St,
Duluth, MN 55806)

CASTILLO CULTURAL CENTER
presents John S. Patterson
In
When the Colored Band 'Goes
Marchln', see JAN 12
JAMAICA ARTS CEN1ER presents
Sweet Honey In the Rock at
Colden Center for the Performing
Arts, Queens College, Kissena
Blvd and LI Expressway; 3 pm;$16-$19; 718/793-8080
THE GLINES presents
SIdneyMorris's The Wind Beneath My
Wings, see JAN 10
INTERNATIONAL THEATER OF
POETRY AND PAIN presents
Annie
Sprinkle:
Post Porn
Modernist, see"]AN 11~~Z'&llA;;liyt*;'8Jlr~
MARTIN LCf/HER KING, JR. DAY
CENTER
SPORTS
sees
NY
KniCks vs. Chicago BUlls, bas·ketball game; at Madison Square
Garden, 33rd St & 7th Ave; 1 pm;
members $30/non-members$40;
620-7310
KAREN SMITH directs
Eric
Booth's
Metamorphosis:
aslice of black gay life, an original play about a 60-year-old
black drag queen, a 35-year-old
ex-pimp and rehabilitated addict ..
and a 25-year-old Hispanic wholoves the good life of sex, disco
and drugs, and who puts the-other two through changes; at
The Center, 208 W 13 St; today
and TUES, JAN 16 at8 pm; $8
advance/$10
door; reservations
and info 893-9852

COAIlnON
FOR LESBIAN .ANDGAY RIGHTS Reception
honorIng Bella Abzug and celebratIng the Domestic Partnership
Leglslat/on
before the NYC
Council; at Congregation
BethSimchat Torah, 57 Bethune St(btwn Washington and West Sts,
up ramp in courtyard); 6:30-8:30
pm; rsvp 627-1398
NEW YORK ADVERTISING&COMMUNICATIONS NE1WORKFirst Meeting of the Gay 90's,
at The Center, 208 W 13 St, in
the Network Room, 3rd Fl; 6:309:30 pm; members $5/non-members$7 (first
drinkfree);
516-0380
GAY MEN'S HEALTH ,CRISIS
Eroticizing
Safer Sex Workshop, to learn the how-to's ofplaying more safely while meeting other men; at The Center, 208
W 13 St; 8-10:30 pm; free, noregistration required; 807-6655,
TDD 645-7470
THE GLINES presents
SidneyMorris's The Wind Beneath My
Wings, a new play about two
gay men, a comic and an activist,and their conflicting passions; at
the Courtyard
Playhouse,
39
Grove St (at Bleecker),; 8 pm;$12; 869-3530 (plays thru FEB 4;
WED-FRI at 8 pm, SAT at 7 and9:30 pm, SUN at 7 pm)
EAGLE BAR MovIe NIght: Jim
Belushl In K-9; 142 11th Ave (at21 St); 11 pm; 691-8451

GREATER G01HAM BUSINESSCOUNCIL Programfor SmallBusiness
Owners,the first of
several monthly programs, with aseries of short workshops giving
an overview on small businessdevelopment,
legal issues in the.start-up, office size and location,
finding a "unique niche," insurance and benefits, tax opportunities and liabilities; at The Center,
208 W 13 St, in the Network
Room, 3rd floor; 6 pm socializing, 7 pm meeting; GGBC 3378700, Center 620-7310
THE GLINES presents
SidneyMorris's The Wind Benealh My
Wings, see JAN 17
INTERNATIONAL 1HEATER OF.
POETRY AND PAIN presents
AnnIe Sprinkle:
Post Porn
Modernist,
directed by Emilio
Cubeiro; "the work charts writer/performer
Annie Sprinkle's
personal
odyssey throughtheworlds of art and ideology, commerce and pornography,
a journey
which
leads
her
to
alternativemodels 'of sexual
health and well-being"; this week
only; 1HU & SUN at 8 pm ($12),
FRI & SAT at 8 and 11 pm ($14);
255-5793 (Editor'S note: the artistand director say you should "feelfree to take photos")
1HE PYRAMID presents Dudleyin his new performance
work
Second Sleep, a "homoerotic,
religio-sexual work-in-progress";
101 Avenue A (at 6 St); 9 pm;
info 473-5625 (presented this andevery Thursday in January)

FI/'A')lR!B1~T:R'I~

THE" ANSWER
IS LOVING
Women ,Talking Women's Talk:
AIDS- A Women's Issue; "information enlightens not frightens·;
led by Ruth Berman and Connie
Kurtz; Sheep6head Bay, Brooklyn; 7:45-10 pm; $8; 718/9982305
THE GLINES presents
SidneyMorris's The Wind Benealh My
Wings, see JAN 17
INTERNATIONAL 1HEATER OF
POETRY AND PAIN presents.
Annie
Sprinkle:
Post Porn
Modernist, see JAN IS

January 14, 1990

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oUTWEEK BEST BETS
MondayBEST BETS for Women's Dancing

Private Eyes (preppie; male strippers, 2-4-1 'til midnight) 12 W 21
St, btwn 5th & 6th Aves, 206-7772

Tuesday
Better Days 316 W 49 St (8/9 Aves) 245-8925*Love Machine at Underground 860 Broadway, near 17th St; 2544005

WednesdayThursday*Boybar (has a new wave drag show) 15 1/2 St Marks Place,btwn 2nd & 3rd Aves, 674-7959*Copacabana (last Thu. ofthe month has Susan Bartsch party) 10
E 60 St, at Fifth Ave, 755-6010*Pyramid 101 Avenue A, btwn 6th & 7th Streets, 420-1590
Spectrum(free admission all night, 2-4-1 drinks) 802 64th Street,
Brooklyn, 718-238-8213. Friday*Boybar 15 1/2 St Marks PI., btwn 2nd & 3rd Aves, 674-7959*Carmelita's (Chip Duckett's Boy+Boy & Girl+Girl) 150 E 14 St
Columbia Dances (1st Friday of every month, except July) 116th
St & Bway, 854-3574 days
Private Eyes (preppies and young professionals) 12 W 21 St, btwn
5th & 6th Aves, 206-7772
Spectrum (male and female strippers) 802 64th Street, Brooklyn,
718-238-8213

Saturday
Barefoot Boogie (smoke & alcohol free) 434 6th Ave (btwn 9/10
Sts); 832-6759*Boybar 151/2 St Marks Place, btwn 2nd & 3rd Aves, 674-7959
The Center Dances (2nd and 4th Sa.turdays) 208 W 13 St, btwn 7th& 8th Aves, 620-7310
Private Eyes (Jeffrey Sanker & Dallas's Club Bad) 12 W 21 St,
btwn 5th & 6th Aves, 206-7772
Sound Factory (Acid House, no alcohol, doors open midnight) 530
W 27 St (btwn 10th & 11th Aves), 643-0728
Spectrum (guest performer night) 802 64th St., Bklyn., 718·238-8213

SundayBetter Days 316 W 49 St (8/9 Aves); 245-8925*Mars (Chip Duckett's "Mars Needs Men" night) Westside Highway and 13th St, 691-6262*Pyramid (Hapi Phac~ and Drag + Variety Show) 101 Avenue A,
btwn 6th & 7th Streets, 420-1590
Spectrum (show; free admission 9-10 pm) 802 64th Street, BrookIyn, 718-238-8213

Every Night
Grand Central (Rockville Centre, LI, closed Mon. & Tues) 210
Merrick Road, Rockville Centre, LI, 516-536-4800
Monster (West Village) 80 Grove St. at Sheridan Sq., 924-3557
Nimbus (West Village) 22 7th Ave South (at Leroy, 2 blks above W
Houston),691-4826.
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change. Always call first toTuesday
Hatfield's 126-10 Queens Blvd., Kew Gardens, 718-261-8484

Wednesday

Better Days 316 W 49 St (8/9 Aves) 245-8925
Private Eyes (Jeffrey Sanker & Dallas's Club Bad) 12 W 21 St,
btwn 5th & 6th Aves, 206-7772*Pyramid (Dean Johnson's Rock & Roll Fag Bar) 101 Avenue A,
btwn 6th & 7th Stre ets, 420-1590
Silver Lining (2-4-1 drink) 175 Cherry La., Floral Pk, LI,516-354-9641
Spectrum (free admission all night) 802 64th Street, Brooklyn,
718-238-8213
Stutz (2-4-1 drinks) 202 Westchester Ave., Who Pins., 914-761-3100

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NOTE: Party events are subjectto
confirm.

January 14, 1990

Bedrock 121 Woodfield Rd, W. Hempstead, LI;516-486-9516
Spectrum 802 64th St. @ 8th Ave, Bay Ridge, 718-238-8213
Twenty/Twenty (Shescape after work party) 20 West 20 Street(btwn 5th & 6th Aves), info 645-6479, club 255-6579

ThursdayBedrock 121 Woodfield Rd, W. Hempstead, LI;516-486-9516
Spectrum 802 64th St. @ 8th Ave, Bay Ridge, 718-238-8213

FridayBedrock 121 Woodfield Rd, W. Hempstead, LI;516-486-9516*Carmelita's (Chip Duckett's Boy+Boy & Girl+Girl) 150 E 14 St
Cheeks 2'000 Long Beach Road, Island Park, LI, 516-431-5700
Octagon (Shescape) 555 West 33 Street, btwn 10th & 11th Aves;
947-0400,645-6479 .
Spectrum 802 64th St. @8th Ave, Bay Ridge, 718-238-8213
Visions 56-01 Queens Blvd, Woodside, info 718-846-7131, club
718-899-9031

SaturdayBedrock 121 Woodfield Rd, W. Hempstead, LI;516-486-9516
The Center (2nd and 4th Saturdays, & special events)
Silver Lining 175 Cherry Lane, Floral Park, LI, 516-354-9641
Spectrum 802 64th St. @8th Ave, Bay Ridge, 718-238-8213
Starz 836 Grand Boulevard, Deer Park, LI, 516-242-3857
Twenty/Twenty (Shescape) 20 West 20 Street (btwn 5th & 6thAves), info 645-6479, club 255-6579

SundayBedrock 121 Woodfield Rd, W. Hempstead, LI;516-486-9516
Cave Canem (Sandwich Sister Sundays, Dega Productions)
Lads 130 West Post Road (Rte 22), White Plains, 914-683-5353
Spectrum 802 64th St. @8th Ave, Bay Ridge, 718-238-8213

Every Night
Cubby Hole 438 Hudson St. @ Morton St., 243-9079 .
Duchess" Sheridan Sq. & 7th Ave South, 242-1408

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RequiredOUTWEEK BAR GUIDEWEST SIDE
Bike Stop West, 230 W. 75th St.,874-9014, Neighborhood bar, occasional entertainment.

The Works, 428 Columbus Ave(at 81st), 799-7365, Cruisy westside crowd.

EAST SIDE

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

Candle Bar, 309 Amsterdam Ave.,
874-9155, Friendly leather/westernbar.

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

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

G.H. Club, 353 E. 53rd St., 223-9752,
Piano bar, mature croWd.

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

Johnny's Pub, 123 E. 47th St., 3558714, Neighborhood restaurant andbar.

Jason's, 23 W. 73rd St.

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

WEST VILLAGE

Rounds, 303 E. 53rd St. 593-0807,
Friendly guys, checkbook romance,. The Annex Ito Cellblock 28),673
Hudson St. bet. 13th & 14th), 6271140, J/O Cub.

South Dakota, 405 3rd Ave., 6848376

Badlands, Christopher & West st. ,741-9236, Cruisy waterfront bar.

Star Sapphire, 400 E. 59th St., 6884710

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

Sally's Hideaway, 264 W. 43rd S1:,
221-9152
Town & Country, 9th Ave at 46th St.,
307-1503
Trix, 246 W. 48 st. (bet. Bdwy & 8thAve), 664-8331, Cash and carry.

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Boy Bar, 15 St. Mark's Pl., 674-7959,
Dancing I Drag shows.
The Pyramid, 101 Avenue A, 4201590, Dancing I Drag shows.
Tunnel Bar, 1161st Ave (7th St.),
777-9232 W. Village crowd in the E.
Village.

Cellblock 28, 28 9th Ave, 733-3144,

J/O club.

The Cubbyhole, 438 Hudson (Morton
St), 243-9079, Neighborhood bar forgay women & men.
D.T.'s Fat Cat, 281 W. 12th St., 2439041, Piano bar. Mixed M/F.
Duchess II, 70 Grove St (7th Ave.),242-1408, Women.
J's, 675 Hudson St., 242-9292, J/O
club.
.
Julius, 159 W. 10th St., 929-9672,
Serving Coors, Coors Lite, & Coors
Draft.
Keller's, 384 West St. (at Christopher), 243-1907, Friendly neighborhood crowd.
Kelly's Village West, 46 Bedford St.,929-9322, Piano bar.
The Locker Room, 400 W. 14th St.
(9th Ave), 459-4299, J/O dub.

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Marie's Crisis, 59 Grove St. (7thAve), 243-9323, Sing-along pianobar.

438 Hudson Street
at Morton

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

(~12) 243-9079
A neighborhood

Nimbus 22, 22 7th Ave. South, 6914826, Dancing, pinball, pool,lounge.

bar forboth gay men & women

Ninth Circle, 139 W, 10th St., 2439204, Younger crowd.
Ramrod, 185 Christopher St.
Sneakers, 392 WestSt., 242-9830.
Two Potato, 145 Christopher St.,242-9340.

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A PARTY FOR WOMEN CELEBRATING

Ty's, 114 Christopher St., 741-9641,
Cruisy neighborhood bar.
Uncle Charlie's, 56 Greenwich Ave.,
255-8787, Huge video bar.

CHELSEA
Barbary Coast, 64 7th Ave. (14th St.),
675-0385, Friendly, neighborhoodbar.
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The Break, 232 8th Ave. (22nd St.),
627-0072.
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Chelsea Transfer, 131 8th Ave. (bet.
16th & 17th). 929-7183, Neighborhood English pub.

$SHPERPERSON"":;::iEagle's Nest, 14211th Ave (21st St.),691-8451, Leather / Levi's.
Private Eyes, 12 W. 21st St. (bet. 5th& 6th), 206-7770, Dancing, VideoClub.
Rawhide, 212 8th Ave., (21st St.),
Leather / Levi's.
Spike, 120 11th Ave., 243-9688,
Leather & Uniforms.
Tracks, 19th S1. & 11th Ave.,
Dancing.

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Community Directory
A.C.D-C.
AIDS CENTER OF QUEENS COUNTYSOCIAL SERVICES. EDUCATION' BUDDIES COUN·
SELING' SUPPORT GROUPS
Volunteer Opportunities(718) 896-2500(voice)(718) 896·2985(TDD)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 inanger and committed to direct action to end the AIDS
crisis. Gen. meetings Mon. nights 7:30,
at the Community Center 208 W.13th.
ARCS (AIDS-Related
Community Services)for Dutchess, Orange, Putnam, Rockland, Sullivan,
Ulster and Westchester
counties. AIDS education,client services, crisis intervention, support groups,
case management, buddy and hospital visitor program.
214 Central Ave. Wlite Plains, NY 1000;(914) ~838 Broadway ,Newburgh, NY 12250 (914) 562·5005
AIDSline(914) 993-0607
BAR ASSOCIATION FOR HUMAN RIGHTS
Lawyers Referral
Service for the Lesbian and Gay Community
Full Range of Legal Services(212) 459-4873

CIRCLE OF MORE LIGHT
support and sharing in a gay/lesbian affir·
mative group.
West·Park Presbyterian Church
165 West 86th Sire et
Wed: worship service 6:30 pm, program 7:30.
Marsha (212) :1)4-4373
Charlie (212) 691·7118.

GAY & LESBIAN HEALTH CONCERNS
An office of the NYC Dept of Health, provides link·
ages betwn NYC Health & Human Svcs, and the Les·bian & Gay community, focusing in ALL healthconcerns; resource information for health services
consumers and providers. 125 Worth Street, Box 67,
New York, NY 10013. For info call (212) 566·4995.

COMMUNITY HEALTH PROJECT
208 West 13th Street, NYC, New York 10011
For Appointments
and Information(212) 675-3559 (TTYNoice)
PROVIDING CARING, SENSITIVE AND LOW COSTHEALTH CARE SERVICES TO THE LESBIAN AND GAYCOMMUNITYGAY & LESBIAN PSYCHOTHERAPY
Sliding scale fees
Insurance accepted.
InstiMe for Human Identity.
(212) 799-9432

Spiriwal

COMMUNITY RESEARCH INITIATIVE
PWAs, PWARCs & their physicians taking the initia'
tive to seek promising intervention against AIDS in a
resp. manner. For more info or to volunteer pleasecall (212) 481-1050.
CONGREGATION BETH SIMCHAT TORAH
NY's Gay and Lesbian Synagogue Services
Friday at 8:30pm
57 Bethune Street
For info. call: (212) 929·9498.

BAR ASSOCIATION FOR HUMAN RIGHTSFree Walk·in Legal Clinic.
Tuesday 6·8 pm
Lesbian & Gay Community Centro Ground Floor

DIGNITY/BIG APPLE
A community of Lesbian and Gay Catholics. Activities
include Uwrgies and socials every Sat, 8:00 pm, at
the Center, 208 W. 13 Street, NYC.
Call (212) 818·1309.

BIDS (BISEXUAL DOMINANCE &SUBMISSION GROUP)
Share S/M experiehces
and fantasies with others ina positive, non-judgemental
atmosphere. First Sun·
day of the month, 4:45pm at the Community Center
208 W. 13 Street, NYC. This group is part of the New
York Area Bisexual Network.

DIGNITY NEW YORK
lesbian and gay Catholics and friends
AIDS Ministry, Spiritual Development.
The Cathedral Project
Worship Services & Social-Sun. Eves. 7:30pm·St
John's Episcopal Church 218 West 11th Street C
Waverly·675·2179

BIWAYS NEW YORKMonthly social events for the Bisexual communityand friends. Call NYABN for details of upcoming
events. (718) 853·8245

EDGE
Education in a Disabled Gay Environment
For the physically disabled Lesbian and Gay
Community.
(212) 989·1921
P.O. Box 305 Village Station, New York, NY 10014

BIPAC (BISEXUAL POLITICALACTION COMMITTEE)
Political action on issues of importance to the Bisex·
ual/Lesbian/Gay
community. Monthly meeting/po~uckheld 8:00pm on fourth Thursday of the month at memo
bers homes. Call NYABN for this month·s location.
(718) 853·8245
BISEXUAL YOUTH
Informal social & support group for Bisexual
kidS/youth. Monthly meeting/po~uck
lunch held
1:00pm on fourth Sunday of the month at members
homes. Call NY ABN for this month's location. This
group is part of the New York Area Bisexual Network.
BLUS·BRONX LESBIANS
UNITED IN SISTERHOOD
Social, political and support networking group for
women and their friends. Regular social events andmeetings on the first and third Fridays of every month.
At The Community Center, 208 W. 13 Street, from 6:308pm. For more info call Usa at(212) 829·9817.
BODY POSITIVE
If you or your lover has tested HIV+, we offer support
groups, seminars, public forums, reference library,referrals, social activities and up·to·date national
monthly, 'THE BODY POSITIVE' (SIS/year).
(212) 633·1782.
2095 Broadway,
Suite 306, NYC, NY 10023

FEMME SUPPORT GROUP
For lesbians who self identify as Femme. For info andmeeting times call Usa at (212) 829·9817. No men please.
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.
THE FUND FOR HUMAN DIGNITY
National Gay and Lesbian Crisis Une'AIDS 800· ... 1·800·S0S-GAYS
Educational Resource Center; Positive Images
Media Center; NY State Arts Program
666 B'way Suite410 NYC, NY 10012 (212) 529·1600

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January 14, 1990

GMAD(GAY MEN OF AFRICAN OESCENn
80 Varick Street, NYC 10013 a support group of Gay
Men of African Descent dedicated to consciousness·raising and the developmentof
the Lesbian and Gay
Community. GMAD is inclusive of African, African·
American, Caribbean and Hispanic/Latino
men ofcolor. Meetings are held, weekly, on Fridays. For
more information, call 718-802-0162.
GAY MEN'S HEALTH CRISIS HOTliNE
FOR INFORMATION ON SAFER SEX AND HIV·RELAT·ED HEALTH SERVICES, AND FOR INFORMATION ON
ONE· TIME, WALK·IN AIDS COUNSELING SERVICES
212-807-6655
212·645-7470 TOO (For the Hearing Impaired)Mon.·Fri. 10:30 a.m. to 9 p.m. Sat 12:00 to 3:00
HEAL (Health Education AIDS Liaison)
Weekly info. and support group for treatments for
AIDS which do not compromise the immune systemfurther, including alternative and holistic approaches.
Wed 8pm. 208 W. 13th St (212)674·HOPE.
HETRICK-MARTIN
INSTITUTE
for lesbian and gay youth. Counseling, drop·in cen·ter (M-F, 3·6pm), rap groups, Harvey Milk HighSchool, AIDS and safer sex information,referrals, professional education.
(212) 633·8920(voice)(212) 633·8926 TTY for deaf
HISPANIC UNITED GAYS & LESBIANS
Educational services, political action, counseling andsocial activities in Spanish and English by and for theLatino Lesbian and Gay Community.
General meetings 8:00 pm 4th Thursday of every
month at 208 West 13th Street
Call (212)691·4181
or write H.U.G.L, P.O. Box 226 Canal Street Siation,
New York, NY 10019.

THE GAY AFRICAN AMERICANSOF WESTCHESTER(The GA.A.)
is a community based support group formed in
Westchester
County. Various activities are planned
for the coming months.
Please call 914·376·0727 for more info.

LAMBDA LEGAL DEFENSEAND EDUCATION FUND
Precedent·setting
litigation nationwide forlesbians, gay men and people with AIDS. Member·ship ($35 and up) inc. newsletter and invitations to
special events. Volunteer night on Thursdays. Intake
calls: 2-4pm Mon thru Fri (212) 995-8585

GlAAD
Gay & lesbian Alliance Against Defamation
80 Varick Street, NYC 10013 (212) 966·1700
GLAAD combats homophobia in the media and elsewhere by promoting visibility of the lesbian and gay
community and organizing grassroots response toanti-gay bigotry.

LAVA (LESBIANS ABOUT VISUAL ART)
Call for slides for Lesbian Artists' Exhibition, Gay &Lesbian Community Center, NYC. For more informa·tion, send SASE to:.
Miriam Fougere
118 Fort Greene PlaceBrooklyn, NY 11217 .

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GAY MALE SIM ACTIVISTS
Dedicated to safe and responsible S/M since 1981.
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 0,496A Hudson Street, Suite 023 ,NYC 10014.
(212) 727·9878.

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THE LESBIAN AND GAY BIG APPLE CDRPS
Get your instrument out of the closetand come playwith us. Symphonic, Marching, Jall, Dixieland, Rock,Rute Ensem bles and Woodwinds.
123 West 44th St Suite12L New York, NY 10036(212) 869·2922.
LESBIAN & GAY
COMMUNITYSERVICES CENTER
208 West 13th Street New York, NY 10011(212) 620·7310
9am-ll pm everyday.
A place for community organizing and networking,social services, cultural programs, and social events
sponsored by the Center and more than lSO commu·
nity organizations.
LESBIAN AND GAY LABOR NETWORKAn organization of Lesbians and Gays who are activein their labor unions working on domestic partnershipbenefits and AIDS issues. For more information call(212)923-8690.
LESBIAN AND GAY RIGHTS PROJECT
of the American Civil Uberties Union
KNOW YOUR RIGHTS /WE'RE EXPANOING THEM
(212) 944'·9800, ext 545.
LESBIANS AND GAYS OF FlATBUSH
Brooklyn's social organization for both gay men and. lesbians.
P.O. Box 106, 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
MEN OF ALL COLORS TOGETHER NY
A multi·racial
group of gay men against racism. Meet·ings every Friday nightat7:45
at1l1e Lesbian and Gay
Community Services Center, 200 W. 13th Street For
more info. call: (212) 245-6366 or (?12) 222-9794.
METROPOLITAN TENNIS GROUP(MTG)
Our 200 mem ber lesbian and gay tannis club includes
players from beginning to tournament level. Monthly
tennis parties. Winter indoor league. Come play with us!
For information: MTG, POB 2135, New '!brk, NY 10025.
(212) 662-0695.
MOCA
Men of Color AIDS Prevention Program.
Provides safer sex and AIDS education information
to gay and bisexual Men of Color; coordinates a net·
work of peer·support
groups for gay and bisexual
Men of Color in ailS boroughs of New York City.
303 Ninth Ave, New York, Ny 10001
or call (212) 239·1796.
NATIONAL GAY AND LESBIAN TASK FORCE
is the national grassroots political organization for
lesbians and gay men. Membershipis $3O/year.
Issue-oriented
projects address violence, sodomy
laws, AIDS, gay rights ordinances, families, media,
etc. through lobbying, education, organizing anddirect action.
NGLTF 1517 U Street NW, Washington, DC 20009.
(202)332·6483.
NEW YORK ADVERTISINGAND COMMUNICATIONSNETWORKNYACN is the community's
largest gay and lesbian
professional group, welcoming
all incommunications··andtheir friends. Monthly meet·ings, 3rd Wed 6:30pm atthe Community Center. Mem·bers' newsletter, job hotline, annual directory.
Phone(212) 517·0380 for more info. Mention OutWeek for
one free newsletter.

NINTH STREET CENTER
Since 1973, a community dedicated to demonstratingthat a homosexual lifestyle is a rational, desirable
choice for individuals dissatisfied with the rewards ofconventional
living. PsYchologically- focussed rap
groups, Tues., Sat, 8 to 10 pm. peer counselling avail·able. 319 E. 9 Street, New York, NY 10003, for info call(212) 228-5153.
NORTH AMERICAN MAN/BOY
LOVE ASSOCIATION (NAMBLA).
Dedicated to sexual freedom and especially intereted
in gay intergenerational
relationships. Monthly Bul·letin and regular chapter meetings on the firstSatur·
day of each month. Yearly membership is $20; write
NAMBLA. PO Box 174, Midtown Station, New York,NY 10018 or call (212) 807·8578 for information.
NORTHERN UGHTS ALTERNATIVES
Improving Quality ofUfe for People with AIDSIHIV.
THE AIDS MASTERY WORKSHOP: Exploring the pos·sibilities of a powerful and creative life in the face of
AIDS. Call Jack Godby (212) 337·8747
NYC GAY & LESBIANANTI-VIOLENCE PROJECT
Counseling, advocacy, and information for survivorsof ,anti-gay and anti-lesbian violence, sexual assault,
domestic violence, and other types of victimization .
All services free and confidential.
24 hour hotline (212) 807-0197
PEOPLE WITH AIDS COAUTION(212) 532·0290 / Hotline (212) 532-0568
Monday thru Friday 10am-6pm
Meal programs, support groups, educational andreferral services for PWA's and PWArc's.
PEOPLE WITH AIDS HEALTH GROUP
Underground buyer's club imponing not-yet·approved
medications and nutritional supplements. 31 West 26th
St 4th Aoor (212) 532.()280
PRIDE FOCUS GROUP
Topical discussions on issues of interest 111 the commu·
nity in a congenial atmosphere, followed by an informal
dinner at a friendly locat restaurant Every Sunday, 3:00
- 4:30pm atthe Community Center 2(8 W. 13 Street,
NYC. Pa rt of the New York Area Bisexual Network.
SAGE: (Senior Action in I Gay Environmlnt)
Social Service Agency. providing care, activitias, &educational services for gay & lesbian senior citizens.
Also serves over 160 homebound seniors & older
PWA's.
208 West 13th St NYC 10011, (212) 741·2247
THE OUTREACH
USING COMMUNAL HEAUNG (TOUCH)
Communityvolunteers
providing a weekly bulfetsupper
for the Brooklyn AIDS community. TOUCH meets Monday
eves. 5pm to 6:30pm' atdownIDWn Brooklyn Friends
Meeting House (110 Schermerhorn St near Boerum
Place). Umited transportation may be arranged. Info: (718)622·2756. TOUCH welcomes contributions of funds, foodand volunteers.
ULSTER COUNTY GAY AND LESBIAN AWANCE
Meets first and third Monday of each monthat 7:30 p.m. at tl)e Unitarian Church on Sawkill Road
in Kingston.
.
For information, call (914) 626:3203.
WOMEN'S ALTERNATIVECOMMUNITY CENTER (WACC),
A non'profit, Lesbian community center serving
Queens, Nassau and Suffolk counties. Thurs night. weekly discussion grps. 8:30pm, for other activities
please contact us at(516) 483·20SO.

A public serviceof the National

InstituteonDrug Ab~se and the Office for Substance
Abuse

Prevention.

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immediate. Call Raul days (212) 685-8671
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AIDS MINISTRYIN THE SPIRIT OF
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our brothers and sisters affected by:AIDS.
St. Francis A,IDS Ministry
135 W. 31st Street Manhattan 10001
695-1500

ART BUY/SELL"ART SOURCE UNLIMITED'"CLUBSEROTIC BONDAGE AT NYBC
New - 1st Sat. Eves @ 8pm - monthly
starting Feb3 - also 2nd & 4th Tues.
swap experiences and fantasies. Watch
ortake part in demonstrations. Talk to. experts/n~vices. Write for info to'John Strong,
PO Box 457, Midtown Station
New York, NY 10018.
Get details on Mee'tings and Roster.

FORESKIN.LOVERSThe New York City chapter of theUncircumcised Society of America(NYC-USA) seeks new male members(with or without foreskin) to join its .
swelling ranks. Call formore clubinfonnation or to make reservations forthe new members party. (212) 777-4208.

We buy. sell, trade and locate artworks.
ARTISTS AVAILABLE: Keith Haring,
Robert Longo. Ross Bleckner, James'
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more.:. For information,
call Dan at 255-6680.

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Mon. and Sat. 10:30 am to 5:00 pm
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ATTORNEYSMICHAEL ALAN DVM, ESO.
Attorney At Law
Artists' Rights Issues.
Landlordrrenant Disputes.
Real Estate Closings.
Business Partnerships &Incorporations.
Wills & Estates.

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

COMPUTERSTHE MALE STOP
A computer BBS,
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MICROCOMPUTER SERVICES
Sales and Leasing
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Phone 254-8033
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CONTRACTORSFINANCIALHELP WANTEDPERSON WITH AIDS?
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COUNSELING
COMING OUTAGAIN
8 week group for' Gay & Bi men
exploring coming out to meet individual
needs. Led by Profl group leader. Call(212) 533-0047.

DENTISTSQUALITYPERSONAL DENTISTRY
William De Bonis DDS.
Suite 704,
200 West 57 Street,
New York, NY10019,: Office hours by appointment only call
212-333-2650.

ELECTROLYSIS'" LAMBDAELECTROLYSIS'". Pe'nnanent Hair Removal
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BGR (Beat the Grim Reaper)
International pays up to 80% cash ofyour life insurance policy's face value
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Call: (718) 854-0362/24 hourtape.

GROUPSFRIENDSHIP:an 8 week group for gay
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GROUP MASSAGE
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GROUP.SURGEON
General surgeon or colorectal, BC.,BE
dynamic anorectal practice in NYC.
Resume to: J. Lavigne, Laser Medical, 7
East 68th Street, New York, NY 10021. 1800-MD-TUSCH.

GASTROENTEROLOGISTBC/BE, dynamic anorectal practice in
NYC. Resume to J. Lavigne, Laser
Medical, 7 East 68th Street, NYC, NY
10021. 1-800-MD-TUSCH.

BRAVE NEW COMPUTERCONSULTANT
This job requires heavy. programming of
database applications mo.stly in dBase
III, Foxbase and Clipper. Generalknowledge of PCs essential, the moreexperience, the better. Also helpful aregood communication/interpersonal
skills and good writing skills. You will be
integral to the growth of a company
committed to radical success. Pleasecall (212) 614-9567.

Gettogetherwith a group of men to
give and receive massages. Taught by
PUBLIC EDUCATION
Terry Weisser, Uscensed Masseur and
COORDINATOR
teacher attha Swedish Institute.
Lambda Legal Defense and Education
Sundays, 7-10pm, $15.00,. Fund is looking for a staff person tocall (212) 463-9152.
oversee educational publications andevents. Must be excellent writer,
creative, and have some experience
working for lesbian and gay rights;
HEALTH
computer skills very helpful; legal
background helpful, but not necessary.
EATINGAWARENESS TRAINING:
Send resume, two writing samples, andThe answer to the puzzle about eating.
references by Jan. 25, 1990 to: Paula L
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Ettelbrick, Legal Director, LLDEF.Inc.,
forever. (2.12)929-0661.
666 Broadway, New York, NY10012.
Women and people of color
encouraged to apply.

HELP WANTEDMARKETING

DIRECTOR

OutWeek seeks marketing director tocreate and impleme.nt all promotionaland marketing strategies. (Including:
direct mail, telemarketing, televisionand print media.) BA required. No
smoking office. Salary plus benefits.
Equal Opportunity Employer. Call Mr.
Rotello (212) 685-6398.

FUNDRAISINGASSIST:

OUTREACHITRAINERCOORDINATOR
New York Women Against Rape, a nonprofit Anti-violence
organizationislooking for a pit Outreach{Trainer
Coordinator. Resp. include: recruiting
volunteers to do speaking on the Lower
East Side on sexual assaUlt, cofacilitating
counselortrainings,
organizing bi-monthly orientations for
new volunteers, crisis counseling, andaiding the development of outreach,publicity, and literature to disseminate
throughout the community.

Lambda Legal Defense and Education
Fund, the country's largest lesbian andgay legal organization,seeks self- Qual. should include: 1 yr counselingstarter to assist director of development
exp., 1 yr community organizing exp.,
with all aspects of fund raising from working knowledge of the Lower East
individuals and foundations. Excellent Side and Chinatown helpful, Bilingual
wd proc and communication skis req. (Span/Eng) preferred. If interested send
Salary from $25,000; exc benefits. Send resume and cover letter to Search
resume by Jan 15 to Assoc Dit; LLDEF. Committee, NYWAR, 666 Broadway,
666 Broadway, NYC10012.
New York, NY 10003. Woman of Color
Women and people of colorand Lesbians encouraged to apply.
encouraged to apply.

HELP WANTEDADVERTISING SALES
OutWeek, New York's #1 lesbian and
Gay weekly, seeks an energetic,
motivated, articulate individual to join
our display advertising sales team.
Previous ad sales experience helpful.
Salary & commission & benefits. Please
send resume & cover letter to:
OutWeek, Attn: Mr. Kit Winter, 77
lexington Avenue, New York, NY 10010.
OutWeek is an equal Opportunity
employer, People of Color and womenare encouraged to apply.

YOUTH/COMMUNITYEDUCATION COORDINATOR
NYWAR, a non-profit anti-violence
organization, seeks a Youth/Community
Education Coordinator. Resp. include: cofacilitating weekly teen theater group, cofacilitating
wee kly support group,
individual counseling,educationalpresentations,in-service trainings,
networking. and community organizing.
Qual. include: 1 yr counseling youth, 1 yr
commnunity organizing, exp in trainging
facilitation and bilingual (Span/Eng) a
plus. To apply send a resume to NYWAR,
666 Broadway, New York, NY 10003.
Women of Color and lesbians
encouraged to apply.

HELP WANTED
CLASSIFIED SALES REP.
OutWeek, New York's #1 lesbian and
Gay weekly, seeks a Classified Sales
Rep to join our growing dept. Must be
responsible, articulate, and motivated.
Previous sales experience helpful but
not required. $18K. Send resume andcover letter to: OutWeek, Attn: Mr.
Winter, 77 lexington Avenue, New York,NY 10010. OutWeek is an equal
opportunity employer. People of Colorand women are encouraged to apply.

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Ever dream of having a nude phototaken of yourself or your lover; but didn't
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PHYSICIANSCHP - COMMUNITY HEALTH PROJECT
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for info call (2121675-3559.
ANAL WARTS, ASSURES,HEMORRHOIDS
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Pulmonary Diseases
305 Avenue,
New York, NY 10011
for info call (2121505-7730.

REAL ESTATEWASHINGTON D.C,
8 Bedroom renovated Victorian guest
house, well-established business, gay
clientele. Located in prestigious DuPont
Circle, metro-accessible. $750,000
includes mostfurnishings. No brokers.
(2021462-0709.

LUCRATIVE BARSCHENECTADY, NY
1 of 2 in town I Extremely profitable 43
year old operating business wlloyal
following. Exc. condition. 2 living
quarters above the bar. Entire building& lotfoe sale. Inquiries to: PO Box 620,
Schenectady, NY 12301-0621.
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At last there's an understanding,qualified real estate professional who
will help you buy or sell your Manhattan
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Please call Phillip (2121308-0870.
Leave message.
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Fully renovated apartments in the art
deco district of Miami Beach. Perfectfull-time residences or the best inaffordable second homes .
. VINTAGE Properties,·1520 Euclid Avenue
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SITUATIONS WANTEDTV STAGE MANAGER
DGA, lots of studio and remoteexperience. Responsible, reliable
professional individual with the ability
to lead and take charge. Exceptional
resume. Wouldn't you rather let a
lesbian stage your show?
K. MILLER (7181638-8202.

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KEY WESTREDISCOVERA MAN'S RESORTIsland House 1129 Fleming Street, Key'West, FL33040,
for info call 800-526-3559.

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CHANDLER INN, Bed &" Breakfast
Your are inn-vited to experience ourstyle of small-hotel hospitality.
Where strangers become friends andfriends become closer.
Ask us for the Boston inn-sider rate of$69/single--$19/double .
Advance reservations suggested,call 7-800-842-3450.
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26 Chandler at Berkeley
Boston, MA 02116(617) 482-3450.

THE CHELSEA HOUSE
A private guest house for women,
elegant accomodation including air
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Truman Ave, Key West, FL, 33040,(800)526-3559.

Experienced-Licensed-Insurance
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Specializing in alcoholism/substanceabuse, A.C.O.A. and co-dependency
issues as well as gay male identity,
relationships, coming out, AIDS, anxiety
and depression.
Chelsea office(212) 691-2312~

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COLONIAL HOUSE INNCHELSEA,Charming, Newly RenovatedBrownstone Conveniently Located in
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Suggested.
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318 West 22nd Street
New York, NY 10011(212)243-9669
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Bed and Breakfast just 90 minutes from
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Box 556
Rock Hill, NY 12775(914) 791-9474

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Members agree that the information they provide is complete and accurate. As well, that
any information they receive from us is confidential,/or their personal use onll·. in accor. dance with the objectives of the service.
We reserve the right to decline applications for any reason. if an application is declined afull refund will be issued. We also reserve the right to terminate any membership without
refund if the information provided is found to be deliberately incomplete. untrue or
deceptive.

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How do I fill out the Application

Who are we?
Fonned in 1986, Buddie.
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is a computer dating service. Our
goal is to help you meet someone capatible, both socially and sexually, as a frierid or alover:How does your service work?

STE PI: Fill in the section entitled Membership Information (For office use only). Enter
your name, full mailing address, ZiP code, phone number. (We will contact you by phone
only if you include a phone number here). A mailing address is required for sending
match lists.

When your application is received it is entered into our computer system, the computerassigns you a client number. It then compares each of your attributes to those of all theother clients currently in our data base, eliminating those members having too many traits
you have classed as undesirable and retaining those that meet your requirements.

STEP 2: Complete the Contact I nformation section and sign the disclaimer. The contact
information you provide here will be given to m'embers who match with you. The contact
information should include your iirst name and phone number or a cor.tact address. Use
this section to tell members somethIng about yourself. InfOnnaliOn that would not non'nallybe included in the mini-profile. The use of this section isentirely upto you. However. giving
out work phone numbers or home address is strongly discouraged! .

The repon you receive will contain the following infonnation about your matches: A c1iellt
identity number, a mini-profile listing all the attributes the client used to describe himself,
as well as the authorized contact infonnation provided by the client Our double screening
process ensures that you meet the other clients' requirements.
Your client number is used to allow us to verify your identity when you call our office. you
an! the only one who should know this code.

How much does it cost?

STEP 3: The Boxes on the left hand side of each column are used .·hell the indicatedattribute applies to you. Check at least one box per section. only one box in sections which
are mutually exclusive (Le.. Age, Height Hail. Locallon)

Our service fee is currently $35, which includes a one time processing charge and yourprint-out of the top 15 matches from our current data base. As well, you automaticallyreceive &six month membership during which other members may be matched with you;they will receive the authorized c\lntact infonnation you have provided. You can know ofthese matches onZv when they contact YOIL

STEP4: The words YES. OK and NO to the left ofth. attribute name describe the typeof person you woul9 lIke to meet Circle YES when the attribute is strongly desin!d in amatch. Indicating a YES w.ill never disqua;ify a potent .. 1 match. Circle OK if it doesn't
matter one wJiYor the other. Circle NO if you would not like this attribute in a match. A
NO acts as a vote against the person. it does not automatically disqualify them.

You may also order our MatchPlus
service for $55.00. This fee includes 30 client
matches and a 6 month membership for MatchPlus service customers. You' may update
your contact infonnation at any time without charge.

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Application

Dear Buddy: Please read the instructions carefully so that your match list is not delayed
due to errors on your application. Your application must be'complete or it will be returned
to you for correction. For best,results, please indicate at least one of your own traits in eachof the main sections of the application form (ie. Age ..Build, Race).
Membersliip Information.
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Fill out the form completely and mail, along with a check or money order for $35 payable to Buddies'n' Pals 'n' Partners,
P.O. Box i3326 Baltimore, Maryland

By slgrllnll agree that neither the computer dating servlct! nor Its agents has any liability and cannot be held responsible for any actions of its members as a result of the release of the authorized contact Infannalion indicatedabove. I also state that I am of lelal age.

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LAUREN-WOWI
FIVE YEARS!!
Imagine that we're
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Photo/phone to Outweek Box 1912
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seeks similar wonderful male. You: under
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CUDDLE BUDDY
Gdlkngclean cutbookish spirit! andsensual Anglo-Hisp M,
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10163.

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HAIRY, MUSCULAR
CHEST
Desperately looking to
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camping, hiking, andcandlelight dinners. If
you're 35 or younger
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New York, NY 10014.
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soon forget. DT assured. Serious calls
only. No J/O no fats.
Duke (212) 691-3601.
WHO READS ADS?
I don't either, butthought I'd try something different. GWM,
successful, seeking
best friend and lover.
Financial Executive
with diverse interests:
Gay Men's Chorus,
counseling, Co·Chairman of my church's
Gay Fellowship. Looking for someone who
responds to the per-HANDSOME NYU
STUDENT
Jock, 25, Italian, 811m,
athletic,
clean-cut,
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to service me off.
Campus alter work·outs/classes PO Box
20015, NYC, 10028.
ACTIVIST
Politically progressive
GM in 40's, attractive,
seeking male 40 to SO.
Any race to date. Involved in HIV-related
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Also volunteer. Love
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No drugs/alcohol.
Write Outweek Box
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(18-25). Ph/ph # POB
278, NY, NY 11368.

LOST HORIZONSHave reached a majorcrossroads In my life.
Would like to relocate
to a saner, quieter
place with stable lovIng man. Professionally successful but tireof needleaa 8tressand pointless compe1lllon. Long for. slm·pier, les8 compllcaled
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guys 181040. Hunguncut a+. Write 10
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St. Box #469, NY, NY
10014
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