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Beating The Bashers
words to the old song about racism are also true
about homophobia:"You have to be carefully!,"taught."
One wonders, then, what twisted strain of miseducation is responsible for the ignorant, macho, brain•dead scourge of anti-gay and anti-lesbian violence
that seems to rise and rise with every year. Who is teaching thesepinhead teens to hate, and to act out their hatreds in ever more
cowardly attacks on us? Who is sending these gestapo thugs into
Park Slope and onto Christopher Street to attack lesbians and gaysin the few places we thought were safe havens from the sea ofhate that surrounds us?
The answer, sadly, is practically everybody: Congress, theschools, the media, the advertising industry, the police, the president, the church, the entertainment industry everyone who supports or accepts the insidious blight of homophobia. As oursociety careens toward greater expressions of violence and intolerence, the rising generation has learned its lesson well.
Reagan's kids were taught that fags and dykes are fair game.
There's really nothing new in that. But the not so subtle equationthat gays are to, blame for the invention and spread of AIDS has•
added fuel to the. traditional fires of hatred. Straight teenage boys
often feel that their sex lives have been restricted by the atmosphereof sexual fear AIDS has generated, and they're looking for scapegOats. Gays and lesbians are the obvious and convenient targets.
There's a dual nature to such victimization. Every time a gay
person is attacked, that person is, of course, the prinµuy target andthe primary victim. But in a. larger sense, there is always a second
target to these outrages: the entire lesbian and gay community.
. With every report of a new bashing incident, each of us has tothink more carefully about whether to wear that SilenceaDeath button, or that earring or some other open expression of who we are .
. At bottom, the goal of the bashers is to frighten us into invisibility again, to drive us back into the collective closet, to force us
to conform. And every time a gay man or lesbian decides not towear that button or haircut or article of clothing, the bashers win
a second victory, and a far more powerful one.
Therefore, while it's incumbent on every one of us to support
the legislative effoitS of our community to combat bias crime, weeach have a deeper, more personal responsibility. That is to fightthe bashers by not giving in, by being ourselves, by being proud
and being out.
Men, if you want to wear that earring or that dress, put it 6n .
Women, if you feel good iri Doc Martens, wear them. Every time
you do, the gay and lesbian community gains a little more visibility. The Rebecca. Whites and the James Zappalortis are avenged .
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Strange Bedfellows

Paging Pandora.

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full range of the gay and lesObviously the term "outbian community, which conIng' doesn't do justlce to the sists of a social world notrighteous. complex marketlimited to the hlp dub scene,
Ing ploy OutWeek has creat- and a great variety ofed to sell Itself to the mass activists groups, many ofmedia. I humbly suggest a which are rarely mentioned,
gayer, more lesblonlc term:
If at all. Instead of being the
Pandora boxingI It gives this TIme and Newsweek of theconcept of shattering priva- lesbian and gay community.
cy a sort of built-In warning you've chosen to be thelabel. In my opinion, If any- . VanIty FaIr cum National
one wants to stay In any dos- Enquirer.
et, nail the door shutl
Nor have you ever perBill weaver
mitted a diversityof editorial
Manhattan
views to be expressedbeyond the letterspages.
Rip That Rag
It's 21 years since
What's the difference
Stonewall, and New York Is
NatIve's
betweenthesllilwithout a responsiblegay
Stonewall Jackson (akaand lesbian paper. andLeonard.Goldsteln)and Outthat's an ongoing tragedy
Week's Michelangelo Slgno- for our community.
rile?1hereain't none.
Scott Petersen
Manhattan
When OutWeek madeIts debut, hopes were highthat, at last, New York
would have a weekly cov.SrONEWAttering Its lesbian and gay
community In a responsIble, Inclusive manner. Less
than a year later, Out- .
Week has become the mirror Image of the Native.
Both are publications
In
which a single. handpicked commentator has
been given an opinion
column devoted to the
distortion of fact. assasslnat.lon of character andpromotion of bitterness·withinthe gay and lesbian..
community.
In Signorlle's black/whiteview of the world. any disagreement with his royalsmugness Is a treasonable•offense. His repetitious
attacks dismissany pretenseof reason In favor of verbal•
abuse, dished out at an everI\~
shrillerpitch.
Making Signorile yourmajor columnist Is representative of how disappointing
OutWeek Is overall. Sadly,
you have never cove,red the-In the controversy
over "outing:
It Is
enlightening to notethat the group with
whose
convictions
about privacy rights
Mr. Signorile et 01
seems most clearly
allied Is the right-to-life
movement.
For right-to-lifers,
privacyrights (thebasis of Roe v. Wade)must be sacrificed toprotect the right ofwhat they perceive asa human life to exist.
For Mr. Signorlle, privacy rights are subordinated to his right to turn asexual orientation Into an
Ideology
andthendemand public obeisanceto It by homosexual
celebrities. Of the two. I
think that right-to-lifers
make the less capricious
argument.
A person'sright to privacy

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does not dependonwhether he or she agreest.
with me or with Mr. Slgnorlle.
As the gay movementcareens toward a mObocracy fueled by the sort of righteous Indignation (whatnovelist Denton Welch called"the cheapest emotion")that Mr. Signorileand his Ilk
exude, I guess It's too much

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Whoever Is In a posIHon toto hoP$ that the fUndamental principle of every person's -out: THEREIS NO TIME TO"
right to privacy will reassert . WASTEIAJFahnItself as a given of gay discourse.
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Manhaffon
Tim Dlugos
New
Haven, CT
The Voice of Reason•
You're a Jerkto have such
No nme Uke the Present , a Jack-oss on your stoff. Yes,
Outtrg Is cIeOIIy sorne1hIrO It's Michelangelo and I'm
to be done wtIh
appalled you cannot see
wealthy congressmen andhis approach Is fucked. I'm
congresswomen and otherIn motton pictures and I'mfamous statesmen who are goy but It's none of yourcloseted while sitting on their fUcking business or anyone
asses when It comes to com- else. You've seen me on TV
plete tp( CI"Id 1esbIal1nckSon.
and stage and 10m
It Isalso ttme fo, whenevshocked you would jeopaer possible, bring out of the dlze my livelihood for acloset-they'dprobablyquick buck.
WeI, you lost rrr.t busness haveto be dragged
out-famous
actors' andand many of my friends.
actresses and professional
You've mode being goy ood
athletes, who are reaping
hthe pWIc life a witch hu'lt.
salaries that most people litConcentrate
on -goyerally would toke ten lives to rights- not -gay exposure:earn. Hiding their homosexMy permonshlp Is so bod QSuolltylS Inhumane, a betrayI am livid at that Idiot YO'I;I
al of themselves and their
have on stoff I've watchedon Geroldo.
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contempororles
and Intellectually outrageous andYeahll might sign this.
emottonally sterile.
-OuHng- In all these cases
P.S. What I thought was
Is desperately needeQ. . 'going to be a good publico1

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publlcattons oport from their

COll'lterports from the -malnstream- gay press-such as
Missing the Punk
outWeek.
I was happily surprised,
Homocore and Rock.
but also quite frustrated, by AQdnst Se*", to men1Ion the
Sarah Schulman's article on ones I'm the most fa'nIIa' wtIt!,
gay fanzJnes (no. 44, May 2). CI9 a-.athIst ood pI.I'Ik as wellSure, she put out a handy list as tp(. h CJ'l ecttortoI, ~of nanes ood odctesses, butcore's editor wrote that hedidn't give a shit about goy
cops ex tp( lawyers, because
he didn't give a shit aboutcops ex lawyers, period. 1heIe
fanzlnes don't buy Into theconsumerfst, -ossImllatlonlstciecrn the - tp(
press condones. They don't
want gays to be accepted
Into aocJe1y as It Is, they WCJ'lt 'to chCJ'lge society Itself. Sc:hJ.
,mal'S ~of the pe0ple who make these fcI"atBS
mode them look RkeI~ous dtemaIfve types who CI9able 10 p..rt out their PlbJIco, 1Ions becouse they happen tohave a friend who works In a~~',oxerox store. Another aspect
she totally missed Is the rrusIher article was also very
decepflve. She neglected to
col one. Most of these peopJe
analyze th9 content of these ae seIf-cJescrl:)ed pu"Ms. 1h6y
goy fanzlnes, and It's thatfeel Isolated ·both from thecontent which truly sets these goy caTlI"I'lrlIy ood from 'thepunk one. There Is somethinggong on there. J.D. 's ~ outa -Homocore Top Ten- topeof songs with a goy conIent ex
by goy cJrtJsts, but Schulman
dct'I't bother to check It out. It
reaIy looks Ike she discovered'this whole scene a ~ofmonths ago, and, In a fit ofenthusiasm, wrote about It
CJ'ld rrissed the whole poItIcd
and cultural contents. It's
good
that
she-and,the e1rOrtto
check Into something mostgays CJ'ld IesbIals Iglore, but
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That Dlnk-Ing feelingac:tnIrabIe, but I'd Ike to pose
Politics as usual? In New
her a COl.pIe of ,,,York, politics can be not onlysPecuattve qJeSI1ons:
dirty but down right filthy.
. 1) How proud and out will
New York's Mayor David
you be In a few years, when
Dinkins reached out to the(as Is likely. to Judge fromgay and lesbian Community
your picture) you appearwhen he needed them asance IS' unambiguously
part of an electorial coalition
female and you're no Io~ of minorities to push him overserved up dally reminders of the top during his primary
being a freak?
and general election bids.
2) How comfortable will
It's well-known that without
you then be with an openly
the gay and lesbian vote,'_I~V1rwII

Dinkins wouldn't be mayor
the gay community with his
today. As part of the coaliappoln1ment. above protests
tion that brought Dinkins to from not Just the gay and lasfinal victory, gays and les- , blan communities but civil
bians were promised a num- rights activists as well, of Dr.
ber of things. Put simply, that Woodrow Myers, Jr. as health
After theMayor DInkinswould be gen- commissioner.
uinely sympathetic to theirMyers appointment fiasco,
cause. He promised a lot, but DInkinsthen failed to respondafter four months as mayor, to the blaH"elated nuder ofhe has failed to follow
a gay Staten Island man, 'through on any of thoseusing the eX,cuse that hepromises.
wasn't Invited to either the
Dinkins started to turn on funeral or S\.bsequent marchIgay~u ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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recall Identification
the hostility andasmlsunderstand you got from les- .
blans and gay men?
A dozen or more years

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however comfortable I might
be with winding up as a lesbian, to everyone else I
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ersatz-straightwoman Is belatedly coming
out at fhe age of 35 wHh aI fhe
dfIIdence of a 2Oyea-<>ld.
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I hope Kathryn Otter will
have an easier ttme of It. (By
the way, K.O.,you write reallywell.)
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against anti-gay ~Iolence.
grant equal benefits to gays
Then the mayor failed toand lesbians) would beoffer a timely reward for Infor- made only after his counsel
motion leading to the killer's ' studied the economic consequences of such action.
arrest, something routinely
done with hate. crimes In When asked If we could only
have cheap justice, If gay
New YorkCHy;,
The mayor proceeded to Justice wasn't worth thedowngrade the Office of the same price as that of otherlesbian and Gay CommunHy minority groups, he said noth- ;::(a cHy-wide liaison office for Ing. When asked If similar ~gay concerns), putting It considerations should have t:":under the control of ot.her been applied to Black civil ~minority groups and closing rights In the 60s, he again if
said nothing. He then failed
It Is now doubtful that gays
off the one direct port for
to Offer any' plan to answer and lesbians will be cqnsldInput to and from his officequestions concerning hous- ered when these districtsare
which the community had
used during the Koch admin- Ing for people with AIDS. a redrawn, even though thestrategic promise he had
redistrictingwill be taking Into
Istration In Its' efforts tomade to the communHy dur- consideration the empowerempower Itself.
Ing of other minority groups.
At that meeting In Febru- Ing hiselection campaign.
The latest blow-to the gay
Gays and lesbians won't beary, concerning the historicand lesbian community has considered a true minority.
case the New York Citybee", the mayor's failure to
At least not one that mattersschool teachers have In theappoint any gay or lesbian or deservesa political voice.
State courts requesting equal
members to the city's redlsWhat have local gay andspousal benefits, the mayor
trlctlng committee which will lesbian 'Political leaders said
said that his decision (heto all of this?Surprisinglylittle.
could simply make on exec- redraw district lines for the. utlve order which would
upcoming counsel elections. Comments range from, 'He's

the only mayor we've got:,'We hove to work with who's
there" to 'I stili think It was
the best thing for New Yorkto
elect David Dinkins." Thepresident of one local gay
political group stated In.an
Interview that If we couldn't
get representation on theredistricting committee If$elf,perhaps a gay or lesbianwould be hired for the staffl
What·s wrong with thisstory?
The response of the New'lork gay communlty:"'-glve

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the only mayor we've got,
we have to work with him-showsdearly what the greatest problem confronting us Is:
We lack self-respect. That's
where we have to start. By
repossElSSlng
ourselves.By not
being afraid to show our ciutrage at outrageous behavior.' ,If any other commll'llty weretreated this way by any othermayor all hell would havebroken lose by now. The only
solution to powerlessness Is
power. Plainand simple.
aI trade association based In
When we try to decide
Los Angeles, already sponwhat steps to take letssors an annual competition'
remember, we don't have to tor the lesbian and gay press.
be satisfied with anything less We respect the GLPA andbelieve It woUld be the worst
than equality, fairness andkind of New Vork-centrlsmfor
Justice. Anything less Is an
outrage that we won't
us to reinvent their wheel.
accept, whether those In
In any case, we dlq not
pow~r like It or not. The big- Ignore the lesbian and gay
press,as your piece suggests.
ots of this world only kickarolJ'ld those who they think Thisyear, we presented spathey can get away with kick- dal achievement awards to
Ing. The New Vork gay and
Goy Cable Nefwork and Out
lesbian community needs toIn the 90s, New Vork'spremierstop groveling and stand up producers of lesbian andtor Hse/t, ald for what's right.
gay cable television proRev. Jan Roche
gramming, both of which
Brooklyn
have a long and Impressive
track record of providing
Now GLAAD's Mad
cable programming to our
Regarding your unsigned community. Next year, who
piece (no. 44 May 2) comknows...
plaining that GLAAD's 1990
Bottom line, your anonyMediaAwardsunfairly
mous writer thinks OutWeek
Ignored the lesbian and gay
should have gotten anpress, we disagree,
as award. It would have been
explained below. But we'll
more honest to say so, rather
meet you half way; just let us than unfairly denigrate ourknow whether you want theentire event.
Cheap Shot Award or the
Craig J. Davidson
Soli' Grapes Award.
Executtve Director
GLAAD's mission Is to'GlAAD
Improve nol1iJOYmedia coverage of our community. We
Features editor Michelanmonitor, protest and edugelo Signorile responds: With
cate representatives of the
all due respect to the ImpresnorliPY preSl!.ThisImportant sive and much-needed work
effort demands the fullthat GLAAD performs, theattention of our small staff
organization must realize
and many volunteers. Is It that when It attempts to put
really surprisingor objectiontogether a major, multiable that 'our awards would
media event, It takes on areflect our expertise and thelarger responsibility, one that
focus of, o,ur day-to-day
concerns lesbian and gay
work?
visibilityald representaffon.
The Gay and Lesbian
Thegay and lesbian press
PressAssoCIatIon,the nation- are, too, understaffed,

the box In the features section, It many times goes
unsigned because It Is writ..
ten by a number of people.
.'~:,<:Your awards certainly were', the topic of many gay journalists' conversationS. We In
the leatures department fillspace with Irreverent, funny,cute comments. And that's
what I thought It was. Certainly GlAAD has a sense ofhumor, doesn't It?
And, regarding
yourclaim that the wrffer(s) "thinks
underpaid and work long
OufWeek should have gothours. And yet, Individuals at
ten an award" and Is, therethese publications toll endfore, "sour grapes, " I'd like tolessly and produce some of
say that I-who participatedthe best
writtenandIn the writingof theresearched articles' on AIDS box~tua/Iyfeel theoppoand other Issuespertinent tosite. Since GLAAD has a colthis community that journalumn In Ou1Week,I think yourIsm has ever produced. All
presenting us with an awarr;t
too often, the mainstream
wOllld be a major conflict.
medla-many of whom you
We were refiectlng the feelgraced with awards-rip off
Ing that the 'gay press In genthese people ~sIdeas withouteral was Ignored, based. on
acknowledgment. And yet,the·many comments thatthese mainstream media , reporters from around thepeople C/onot consider us ascountry made to us. And
part of the media; to themagain, I reiterate, GlAAD Is a
we have no credlblflty
vital organization that. gets
because we' are the gay
things done and shouldpress.
always be commended
We realize that GLAAD's (and perhaps we're guilt){ ofmandate Is to educate the
not doing that enough". I
mainstream, straight media.
would just hope that a group
But when you take on thewhich concerns Itself withresponsibility of an awards
defamationand fighting
ceremony and call It "TheInvisibility would be especldGlAAD Media Awards" andIy sensitive to such Issues
don't Include the gay andwhen planning this kind of
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achievement" awards) you
Weight Watch
are telling the mainstream
As a person who has
media just what they've
struggled all my life with abeen saying al/ along: that
serious compulsive
eatwe are not part of the
Ing/weight problem, I canmedia. The awards were aonly wonder how and why
chance to highlight the gay
you chose the "Personal ofpress, to stick us In thosethe Week" for your Issue
Idiots' faces and show them
dated May 9 (no. 45). I meanthat we are real and credito say nothing to the man
ble voices. If you really do
who placed the ad, or tofeel, however, that Incluslvity any who respond-I hopethat they have a good time, .
Is a big hassle, perhaps you
should change the name ofand that they continue tothe ceremony
to "Thefind partners with whom to
GLAAD Mainstream, Straightenjoy safe sex.
Media Awards."
However,
I reacted
As for the "anonymity" of strongly and negatively to1990 GLAAD
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the week. Compulsive eating
pulsive eaters and that they There, Is a comfortable myth
Is a serious problem-not
have toward themselves. For among gay politicos that
only Is the addict's healtha magazine that screams so homophobia
Is the lastendangered. but she or he Is loud about the Importanceacceptable prejudice In ourvery Oke/yto be rejected by of self Image, you showedsociety. Some of us know
mainstream society, Includtotal lack of understanding
better. Get with It, and do
Ing what you like to refer to of what It means. (This Is not . better.
as the gay -community."
the first time OutWeek has
DavId Nadvomey
Prejudice against overweight
made fun of overweight
Manhattan
people Is rampant. The mes- people. In a cartoon thatsage Is clear In every way
appeared several months
that we are not acceptable.
ago, a very heavy man was
A Gay In the ute
Our weight affects ourshown speaking on, a teleOn the night of AprIl 27th,
chances of getting jobs
phone chat line-he was
Uncle Charlie's (a gay estab(Indeed, It disqualifies us for telling the other person that lishment) was plpebombed.
those that require a -good
he, too, was In shape,
As I live on Long Island, I did
appearance). meeting peo- worked out, etc. What Is the not
know
about
the
ple, finding lovers, etc. There message? Why Is It funny?)
plpebomb until the night of
Is no aspect In our lives that It
I wonder If you would
April 28th, when I chanced
does not touch. Speak toconsider an ad asking for a upon an ACT UP demonstraoverweight people and you drug addict to -stretch out tion. I was In town the night
will hear that most compulhis arms, so I could fill you of the 28th to see a play In
sive eating Is done along, In with crack until you are so theVlUage.
secret, and In many cases, Is stoned you can't move" suitOn the atternoon of theaccompanied by feelings of able as ad of the week. Does 28th, I drove Into the Village,great shame. The reference ,the editor think that s/he Is on andporked my car. My car
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has ACT UPsflckerson It, as I
are· Indicates the attitude
acceptanceof a hitherto
am a member of ACT

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paked. Atter participating In
the ACT UP demo over the
Uncle Charlie's bombing. I
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where mine had been.
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Police Department,
whoclaimedto be overworked..
because of the ACT tUP
demo, I was Informed that I
had to bring $150 cash to apier (where my car was
taken). The city deliberately
Inflicted substantial damage
to my car when they tow9d .
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report. The city has erected
every conceivable'legalobstacle to my fI"ng a claim
for the damage •the city
Inflicted
on my legallyparked car.
I find It hard to believethat a plpebomb, an ACT UP
demo, ACT UPstickerson mycar and my car being towed
when parked In a gay neighborhood are a" colncldentd.
It appears that due process
and being safe from unreasonable search ar'ld seizure
have no place In a citywhere political oppositiongroups are subject to harassment.
Gary Konecky
New Hyde Park, NY

the New YorkState Assemblyas the representative from

District 61.
Nan DuBois
Public Information Vice PresIdent
NOW-NYC
You're Either With Us...

It Is a grievance to me
and many other gay males,that a large number of our"brothers" stili perpetuate
their own brand of homophobia within the gay community ...In a time when It Is
more Important than everbefore,that we band
together In order to eradicate (for once and for all)heterosexual bigotry. Thisparticular brand of homoNOW Thenphobia (of gay brotherYour article "Two Gay
against gay brother) I coin"affection-phobia,"
for ItContenders Vie for Village
Assembly Seat" (no. 44, May arisesnot from fear of male2) omitted reference to 1wo to-male sex, but from fear ofof Deborah Glick's earliest
brotherly affection (which
endorsers.
demands compassion, loyThe New York City Chapalty and mutual respect). It
ter of the National Organlza- . Is obvious that many guys
who claim to be.'. part of the gay
community,
perceive"gay"
as
nothing more than aquick "dick fix" withanotherboy orman ...wlthout any
dedication whatsoever to the greater
Ideal of gay rights(whose fulfillment In
the 19905 will benefit
01/. aspectsofhuman rights).
As ourrage
against homophobiai•tlon for Women was the first.organization
to endorse
Glick's candidacy, followedby NOW-NewYorkState.
We at NOW-NYC arepleased that one of our longtime activist leaders Is seekIng state office. We believethat Glick will be an asset to••

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the cause of gayc
If rightswith their petty,
male-ego
power
games. We wl" soon reach acrossroad, where the gay
community wl" split be1ween
the "turncoats" and the true
revolutlonarles ...ln order tofulfill the doctrine so clearlylaid down by our founding
fathers In the Declaration of
Independence. We alreadyMay 23, 1990

see this In Issuessuch
as "outing: and pressuring ou(hesltant"brothers" to participate In boycotts (suchas the current attack
againstMarlboro
Cigarettes) and elections (at least whenrelevant to gay "beratlon). These turncoats
can be Identified bytheir discouraging
statements such as:"There's really nosuch thing as gay
rights: "It's dangerous to come out; better tolay low: "I'm glad I'm over
40; the world can only getworse" and (I love this one)
"History repeats Itself, herecome
the gas ovens
again:
Turncoats do whatever
they can to deter any
brother who believes (and
actively participatesIn )gay rights; through gamesof moc,kery,
Isolation,
reJectlon,and
any other
forms of persecution that
occur to them. Because of
their uncontrollable
jealousy, turncoats also suppress the talents of theirartistic brothers, whose
work, If acknowledged
and encouraged,
could
contribute In a big way to
gay rights. (There are
numerous turncoats In the"art world" with the money
and power to back theserevolutionary
artists; but
they do not.) I wonder: Just
how many of our d~centbrothers have committed
suicide-not from the slings
and arrows of hetero brutality-bl.Jt from betrayal(of the most vicious kind)from their own gay "brothe.rs"?
In closing, I address theturncoats:
My so-called
brothers, you have had
ample time to clean up youract and prove your loyalty.
Step aside or be counted as
the enemy.

Gene catalano

Son Franc/sco, CA•

Remembering Reality
I have just come backfrom the memorial for Keith
Haring, and can't get overthe fact that no one mentioned that he was gayl WI:lowould have thought that
there were closets In St. John
the DMne? .
One could hardly, fault
th'e beautifully wrought tributes singing Keith's artistic
praises, Including one thatcompared him to Michelangelo and Leonardo. But as
the 1wo-hour event evolved,
apprehension
began tomount In antlclpatl\>n ofsomething, anything, gayaffirming. To his credit, Mr.
Dinkins mentioned Keith'scontribution to ACT UP.And,
1wo of Keith's friends did adelightful routine about his
senseof the outrageous.
But, no mention of the"Go word. Even If Haring's
activism weren't well-known,
you'dknow something
about his orientation just bylooking at his work. If everthere was an artist/gay
activist, It was Haring.That he
was gay Isan Integral part ofthat description, not something Incidental.
Staying OUTfor posterity
shoUd be less of a problem for
Haring than for Michelangelo
or Leonardo. But it may takesome vtgR<J'lC8, and is worth tis
corner of the debates arolnClouting. The subject can't be
trusted to art hlstor1ans.
Those of us who experienced conclousness-ralslng

••groups In the 70s know that
Off the List
It's messy and emotionally
1homas Stodddrd, Esq.
wrenching,but that we
Executive Dl!ector
were forever changed: It
Lambda legal Defense andwas actually possible to
EdJcatIon Fundfeel good about ourselves
Unsure of You
Dear Tom,
being gay or lesbian Is much
In spite of church, state
ThomasB. Stoddad, Exec. Dir. more than that-Ws an open,
I am 10Id you consider L.ary
and cultural bias. SomeLambda Legal Defense ald
Kramer and OutWeek magahonest, balanced life that
how C-R groups became
EducatIon Fund, Inc.
zine to be the biggest probdeserves the same respect
out-of-date,possibly
Dear Tom:and attenllon as my non-gay lems In ire gay cormuily. ,because of the distraction
Please remove our names life. This means Insisting that
Please remove my nameof so many terrible crises
from yoU' mailing list.We canfrom Larrtxia's rroIUng list. My
the mainstream ri1ed1a applythat had to be addre~ed
no longer supPort an organi- the same standards of report- financial contributions toand stili do. When the dust zation that purports to eduLambda, which have noting to both heterosexual andsettles, one effect of outing . cate the American public
been Inconsiderable, hereby
homosexud celebrItIeS.
will have been a stupenabout homosexuality, thenBecause the two of us cease. 'dous conclousness-ralslng
sends Hs executive director to have opened up our lives to
It Is Incomprehensible toprocess.
appear on na1ional television show the world that gay
me how someone of yourPaul Ramsler
to help Institutionalizecensor- people are more than a sex Intelligence, and In yoU' posit.
Manhattan
S'llpand homophobia.
act-that we are everywhere tlon, can allow friendships
Your recent, comments In and that our existence Is no (and mine Is not ire orvy one),
Up Shoot?
Newsweek and on Geraldo
and, wtich once
more or less scandalous thanIn the article concerning
have only served to reinforce anyone else's your position Is were so strorg and supportive,
the recent plpe-bomblng at the widespread notion thatutterly contrary to what we to be destroyed-so quickly
Uncle Charlie's (no. 46, May
homosexuality Is some dirty, consider our contribution to
and with such ease.
16), Andrew Miller and DunUbeloussecret that Is best left eMl rights for lesbians and gay
I hope you will come to
can Osborne Identified the
lI'lITlerllloned. lmerent In your men.
your senses before too long.
protest organizers as -theposition Is ire Idea that a perMay I suggest you try someTerry Anderson,
Queer Nation, an offshoot of son Is only homosexual In the
ArmIstead Maupin
therc:fJy?
ACT UP dedicated to gay. ,Larry Krqmer, Manhattm
bedroom. For many of us,
Sen francisco, CA
and lesbian visibility:
While '-The
Queer
Nation" seems to be a pop.-..
ular moniker for the newlyformed lesbian and gay.:"If.,"::::,:,:,",';::'
organization, It Is merely ail.:;.
i
casual reference
to theL--','. -:proud
and angry
gay
women and men In this city"<wn,
who have banded together to fight Invisibility andhomophobia. We are not aformally established organization and, while our polltl,cal Ideologies and tactics
may mirror those of ACT UP,
we are certainly NOT -an
offshoot of ACT UP." Pleasekeep In mind that ACT UP IsI
not a lesbian- and gay.
Sailing off into an orangey blaze of glory this week are Saturday Night Liveorganization; It Is a diverse,
veteran Nora Dunn and Irish crooner Sinead O'Connor. Both women put their, non-partisan group of Indimouths where their money was when they refused to take part in a Saturday
viduals united In anger andNight Live show that included appearances by comedian vulgaire extraordinairecommitted to direct action
to end the AIDS crisis.
Andrew Dice Clay. Dunn commented, "I don't want to be part of providing an'
As one of the voices forarena for him to make himself legitimate because I don't think he is." She also
our community, It Is Imporreferred specifically to the "hateful" nature of Clay's humor. Seconding that emotant that OufWeek recognize
tion, O'Connor remarked that it would conflict directly with her beliefS to appear
this distinction, so that we allon the same bill as such a misogynist creep. Sisters are sure doing it for themknow who's doing what andselves this week.
why.
.
Earth to David Geffen: Ale you losing money yet? Over and out.
Woody Enolcaras•
Manhattan,

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Hatfield campaign billboard in Port/and; re-done by ACT UP

by Rex Wockner

POR11.AND,' err uP! Portland, has turned up the heat in, its yearandJ(l-halfcampaign ~.eging that U.S. Sen.
Mark Jiatfield [D-ORl is a closetedhom~alwho votes against the gay,and lesbian community in Congress.
Previously, the group had limited
itself to distributing
flyers outside
Hatfield events, claiming that the
senator is gay and charging him with.~blatant hypocrisy" and "collaborationin the AIDS genocide."
But in' the early morning of April
25, activists carefully altered a Hatfieldreelection
billboard
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Living a Lie ' Voting to Oppress." The
group
also
affixedalarge"Silence-Death" logo to die display.
Hatfield is running against only token
opposition in the Republican primaryelection slated for May 15.
According to ACT UP, the doctored
billboard "was view:ed by thousands inthe morning commute and by hundredsof thousands when KATU-lV 'ran thestory on the evening news.""Hatfield was on notice that ACT
UP would act if he continued to gay
bash with his votes in the Senate," said
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Hatfieldis a,hypocrite," said ACf UP's Lori Kohler.
"He's a closeted gay public official
who ...supports enemies of the gay andlesbian community like [Sen. Jesse]
Helms[R-NCl,[Rep.
William]Dannemeyer [R-CA]and [Rep. William]
Armstrong [R-CO]."ACT UP said it took on thebillboard project after Hatfield voted
with Armstrong in March of this year
to change the District of Columbia
Human Rights Ordinance. to allow the
local Big Brothers organizatiop. to bar
gay men from participating
in anyprogram that "educates, coaches ortrains any minor" or "holds out [a gayman] as a role model, , mentor orcompanion to any minor."
Human Rights Campaign Fund
spokesman Greg King has called theArmstrong amendment "a legislative
hate crime.", , "It's contemptible for a closeted
gay man as powerful as Mark Hatfield
to perpetuate the lie that all gay men
are child molesters who prey on
innocent youth," said Schloeder. "We
don't object to Hatfield being in thecloset, but we won't remain silent andlet him gay bash."
Asked about ACT UP's charges,
Hatfield's Washington press spokesman,Bill Calder, said: "If they have someevidence, let's see it. I mean, I want toknow. The senator has said publicly
and to others within our office that this,is absolutely false. If somebody canconvince me otherwise, bring it,on. Let
me see it. I'll take it to the senator andsay, 'I think you're lying.'"C~lder also lamented the media'srole in ACf UP's attack on the senator.
"The perpetuation by the media ofthese totally unfounded charges ... isvery, very unfortunate .... Senator
Hatfield is personally upset at thispoint, and frankly, I am surprised that
we do not have the kind of outrage
that this attack on a decent ,humanbeing should bring." ..
Calder continued, "This could ruinsomebody's life. It's totally unfounded,totally unsubstantiatedno basis infact, a vicious, vicious lie."•-Andrew 'Miller contributed tothis report. Which was filed from
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NEW YORK-When
Jane or Joe
Politician is trying to set his or her
political position on an issue, theinextricable link between money, power
and politics 'creates a labyrinth fraught
with familiar pitfalls: Do the Right Thingvs. Do the, Smart Thing, for example.
.
In current electoral politics, forbetter or worse, a barometerofconstituent
supportis campaign
donations. And today, with the growth ofboth national and local lesbiarl
and gay,.
political action committees (PACs), a
politician can do both the right and smart
thing, 'and" feeL more, comfortablesupporting queer causes.
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.',"'Elect our friends"and ,defeat ourenemies;'" says Eric'Rosenthal, political,
director of the Human Rights Campaign
Fund ~C:F]" quoting ,the often-used m;~son , d'etre of PACs. "[That's'. how] we've-ELECT OUR FRIENDS, DEFEAT OUR, ENEMIES· -HRCPs £ric Rosenthal

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national lesbian and gay political organization, HRCF recently
announced that itc,intends to do just that, to the tune of$500,000 in 1990 federal campaign contri- .
butions.
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That amount ofmoneycurrently
makes HRCF. one of
the wealthiest PACs in the country, and it
will probably bypass its 1988 ninthranked position. Other high-ranking
national PACs are The Congressional
Club, which supports Jesse Helms, thepolitical action committee of the National
Abortion Rights Action League, N~tional
PAC, one of the largest Jewish
community contributors to political
campaigns and those of various labor
unions. In total, there are some 5,000
federal PACsacross the country.
With all this money being thrownaround, a concern that has recently
appeared in ~he national press is that
PACs are effectively offering bribes: thatvotes are being bought. "I wish it wereso," jokes Bevin Dufy, co-chair of the Los
Angeles committee MECLA.Establishedin 1977, it is the nation's oldest
lesbian/gay political action committee. "If
it buys you anything, it is access. It says
to a politician [that] your issues havesupport, support than can use to get reelected.
But this support has not always
been as appetizing as it is in the 1990s.
Dufy says one of the biggest hurdles increating MECLA was the fear thatpoliticians would not accept "gaymoney."
Dufy tells the story of an earlygroup of MECLArepresentatives meetingwith a local politician. Afterwards, thebefuddled council member called his
teenage daughter in to help clarify the
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year MECIA will contribute $125,000 tovarious California campaigns.
HRCF's Rosenthal sees a shift toacceptance of gay and lesbian political·support. "It used to be if you were goingto support
gay andlesbian issues, it wasconsideredpolitical
suicide. I don't think--thisis true today. At worst, it's a neutral
issue," Rosenthal told OutWeek. "People
on the Hill started paying attention [toHRCF] when. we reached a quarter of amillion dollars. Now, we have politicians
dropping by begging us for our money."
PACsare limited by federal and statelaws as to the amount of money they cancontribute to a candidate per election.
The federal limit is usually $5,000 per
campaign, while for New York' state it is$2,000. But PACs are not stopped fromcontributing in other ways, such as
taking out advertisements in candidates'names, or sending out letters suggesting
personal
donationsto a favored
politician.
While the growth of the size andpower of brge gay PACs like HRCF and
MECIA has made them major politicalplayers, the swell in the sheer number of
local- and state-level PACs has been
increasingly important in pushing along
the lesbian and gay agenda, sometimes
in areas of politics that are neglected.
Currently, there are over 50 local andstate PACSthroughout the country, withat least one in most major cities.
"The community is very unplugged
with the political process," says Candida
Scott Piel, executive director of New
York's FAIRPAC. "And because of thecommittee
structure[in the statelegislaturel, you don't have a clue as towhat is really going on in Albany unless
you've got some inside information."

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Founded in 1984, FAIRPACcame outof the Greater Gotham Business Council,
a gay chamber of commerce based in
New York City. In its first state assembly
race, it donated a mere $5,000 tocampaigns. While it suffered a fmancial
setback in 1987 when it was without an
executive director, it currently gives out
up to $30,000 in both state and city
elections.
But while national-level PACs focus
their energy, money and the clout thatcomes with it on affecting federal
legislation, PACscloser to home can help
the voting population. affect change withthe governing structure. While Pieladmits that when choosing a candidate
to support, "half the time it's hold yournose and pick the one that stinks theless," she quickly adds that she believes"that PACs are an instrument for social
chaqge."In Chicago, a relatively neworganization, IMPACT, sees politicalaction committees as just one option in
the political arena. "The world situation
for gays and lesbians is not good and weare about changing that," says IMPACT's
executive director, Robert ]. Adams.
"While we support and need radical
action like ACT UP, we're not about therevolution that some gays and lesbians
talk about. In the 20 years since
StonewalI, though, I have seen a
revolution of sorts come through thehalls of Congress and t!u'ough local citycoun~i1s. I guess I'm an incrementalist,"
he adds.

With the realization that money is
not necessarily the sole source of power,
the political scope of PACs on a local,
level is shifting away from their being anelite money raising organization. Both .
MECLAand FAIRPACtold OutWeek thatthey are broadening
their reach toinclude the larger community. In Los
Angeles, MECLArecently held a benefit
for Vuginia Uribe, the founder of Project
Ten, a school program for gay-identified
teenagers.
For Piel, FAIRPAC's goals include
building grassroots coalitions. "In thisda} md age, I hope the gay community
will realize that we can't go it alone. Do
we fight only for our rights or for the
rig 5 of all people?" Piel told OutWeek.
"[The fight] isn't just about sodomy orabortion,
it's about keeping, [thegovernment's] hands off my body."
This grassroots approach has led
these local and state PACs to sponsor
public forums for candidates and 'Voter
registration drives in the gay community.
IMPACf boasts of having registered over
21,000 people in the Chicago area alone.
The PACs then use this record of voters .
to impress candidates with the power of
lesbian and gay votes or as an inspiration
to Poter .'11 lesbians and gays candidates.
To this .{d, the nationwide GALAPAC,
based in West HolIywood, California,
uses its funds exclusively to support"out" lesbian' and gay candidates
throughout the country.
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COLUMBUS, Ohio-Mike
Gelpi, acandidate for U.S. Congress from Ohio's
12th district, won the Democratic primaryelection May 8, defeating two challengers
and capturing 55 percent of the vote. It is
the first time an openly gay candidate
who is not an incumbent has won a
congressional election. '"I'm exhilarated
and exhausted,·
Gelpi said May 9, speaking from his
campaign headquart~rs
in Columbus.
"Campaigning fries you, mentally andphysically. But the r~ction this morning
has been great., The first call was frommy priest and the second call from a
PWA who wanted to know how he could
help. Those calls gave me nice warmof ammunition."
Asked what Ohio voters thought of
his homosexual
orientation,
Gelpi
commented: "Well, most people don'tcare. They say, 'Well, we've got a gay tovote for," and then they stop and think
about that because it's new---it's not bad,It's just different-andthen they say,'Well, is he a good gay?' and then theysay, 'OK, fine, where is he on theissues?"Gelpi is seeking fmancial support fromthe gay and lesbilm cooununity nationwide
for the NoveriJber general election.
"Money does come flfSt,· he said. "It
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Gelpi faced two opponents, bothby Kathy Hoke~'
attorney from the state's rural southeast,
anti-gay, ,one of whom was sponsored by
the fundamentalist-based
Christian Civil
said he would seek a nmoff June 5. A few
RALEIGH, N.C. - Arguing a runoff
hours later, Gantt urged him to reconsider.
, primary would hurt Democratic chances
Liberties Union.
Despite the threat of a rU(loff,The
media,
however,neverto unseat U.S. Senator Jesse Helms (RGantt's victory was cheered by thousands
sensationalized, Gelpi's homosexuality, soNC) this fall, Harvey Gantt, the top voteof Democrats. In Gree~boro, a group of
the anti-gay attacks did not go further
getter in the May 8 primary, has urgedBlack Baptist ministers raised $3,038 forthan some Christian churches and insidecandidate Mike Easley to call off his bid
Gantt in an impromptu fundraiser the
Democratic circles.
for a runoff.
day after the primary.
Gantt, a businessman and former
In November's
general election"
Carter, whose coalition group was
Gelpi faces conservativeim;umbent
Mayor of Charlotte, led a crowded
Republican
Rep. John Kasich, who
Democratic slate, of primary candidates byinitiated by lesbians and gay men, says theGelpi'S campaign literature describes aspolitical action committee will endorse
winning 37 percent of the vote, followed"far right-wing.·
Gantt in a runoff. Noting Gantt's strongby ,Easley with 30 percent. In state
Gelpi is strongly supportiveofstatements about privacy lights and attacks
primaries, a candidate needs at least 40
percent of the vote to avoid a nmoff.
on gay people,
the Human Rights
abortion rights and plans to "go heavily
Supporters of Gantt, who is African·after the women's vote.
Campaign Fund gave $5,000 to the Gantt
American, fear a runoff could divide the , campaign about a Week before the primary .
"Kasich has never had a strong•
enough challenger to tell women how
Slate Democrats along racial lines.
Unlike Easley, Gantt has encouraged
he's voted against them,· Gelpi said. "My"There's no way It doesn't comenational attention to the helms race. He
down to skin color,· says Mandy Carter,
strategy is to connect with women andclaims to be the candidate most likely toseniors and working men and women ....! coordinator of an anti-Helms group, N.C.
generate money and excitement to defeat
Senate Vote '90. "How does the Demohave to raise an obscene
amount ofHelms.
,
money for media and then I have tocratic Party in North Carolina handle thisCandidates eliminated in the primary.
finely target backyard issues that people
little hot potato? It will be interesting towere former insurance commissioner
care about.
.
see how this all shakes out, because
John Ingram, who had 17 percent of the"But I'm' not just going to target
there's not much of a difference in thevote; former State Senator R.P. "Bo·
women on the choice issue,· Gelpi
Thomas, with 12 percent of the vote; andcandidates on their positions.·
continued, "b\lt on a broad spectrum of
A day after the primary, Easley, a
two minor candidates, lloyd Gamer andissues and kasich has given me all sorts
moderate white Democrat and district
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MONrPEUER, Vt-By a vote of 25 to5, the Vennont Senate passed the state's
hate crimes bill April 26, making \Uinont
the seventh U.S. state to impose extra
penalties for crimes based on hatred ofhomosexuality.
The measure passed the state Housea month earlier by a vote of tK) to 51; Gov.
Madeleine Kunin is expected to sign it into
law shortly.
ActiviSts believe the bill finally moved
in the Senate because of publicity
surrounding a violent Easter Sunday gaybashing. ,, In that attack, 27-year-old Roger
Macomber of Burlington was severely
beaten about the head.
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Police arrested 32-year-old Kevin
Murray in connection with the Incident.
Macomber remains hospitalized withmultiple skull fractures and may end up
blind, according to doctors.
Following the attack, Gov. Kuniri
fonnally spoke in favor of the hate aimes
measure at a large public hearing.
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Six other states impa;e stiffer penalties
on those who commit hate crimes:
Califomla, Iowa, Minnesota, Nevada, New
Hampshire and Oregon. The District of----==
Columbia also has such a law.
COOnecticut is expected to be the next
state to pass a hate crimes law, with
Individual
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The new Vermont measure also
increases punishment for Crimes based on
Gothambias against age, ancestry, disability,
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Passage came just days after President
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Crimes Statistics Act, which orders law
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SAN FRANCISCO - While some
activists are burning the flag, San Francisco
AIDS educators are using it to promote
safer sex. A new campaign created by the
San Francisco AIDS Foundation (SFAF)and
the Haight-Ashbury Free Clinic (HAFC),and funded in part by the city of San
Francisco, depicts two bare<hested youngmen, one Native American-Latino and one
white, holding both a condom and theAmerican flag.
The text of the ad reads, "Life,liberty,
and the pursuit of happiness," making theads the first ever to equate patriotism withAIDS prevention.
The poster will appear for about two~
on 31 bus shelters in San Francisco.
Although most of the funds for the ads arefrom a private foundation, some city funds
were used to pay for the municipallysanctioned ads, which have already been'
the focus of local media attention.
·Condoms are as American as apple

pie, and gay men are
included in America,"
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not identify
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previous generations of gay men do notintercourse without a condom, and 71
feel affected by mv, and therefore do not
percent said they would not bother withprotect themselves from its transmission.
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ClflCAGO-In what may be a first,
the federal government has funded a
Chicago project designed to keep gay men
practicing safer sex.
The Alliance of Services for AIDS
Prevention, or ASAP, a coalition of fourcommunity-based, AIDS organizations, hasreceived $260,000 from the Centers for,Disease Control (CDC) to launch the
project. Organizers held a kickoff reception
May 4 at'Ann Sather restaurant.
ASAP will target ·the gay- and nongay-identified men-who-have-sex-with-men
community" with videos, posters, ·palm
cards," coul'lseling, support and prevention
education, according to John Copeland of,Stop AIDS Chicago.
The Reimer Foundation, one member'. of ,the coalition,
has expanded
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AIDS is using the money to fund intensive
discussion groups on risk reduction andcommunity development.
The Test Positive Aware Network isoffering support groups, weekly forum~
and a monthly newsletter. And Horizons
Community Services has created a newworkshop, "Men, Intimacy and Sex,. which
is directed at m~ who may relapse into
high-risk behavior."
ASAP is receiving technical assistancefrom the Illinois Department of Public
Health and the Chicago Department of
Health.
Representatives of the federal 'agencies
were on-hand at the kickoff, along with
IDPH head Dr. Bernard Turnock.
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IDPH's GaryMonachino said: "lhere was some concern
and the CDC set up a community review
here in Chicago and the ads wereapproved. The review panel ruled the ads
were not offensive.·
In fact, the print and video materials are
explicitly gay in flaVor and tone, but neveractually show two men together or direct1ysay, "gay sex.. If necessary, the ads could beconstrued as referring to tnen and"If he's too big to wear one, he's
wrong. He's just too smal1 to care," states
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treading water, Lambda's making a
NGRA from holding on to a legal
move," she told Out Week. Osborn ,isdirector. According to gay leaders insupportive,in part, citing lesbian
L.A., there's a sudden vacuum incivil rights. "You couldn't find a gay
California surrounding
gay legalrights attorney in the country who
issues that Lambda is apparently
would not giver her the highest
ready to fill-.
marks."
Newcombe
was1989
But Lambda Legal Director Paulapresidentof Lawyers for Human
L. Ettelbrick says there's absolutely "no, competition in our opening an office
Rights, the lesbian and gay b~r
association of Los Angeles.
in L.A." She denies any strategizing at
According to Jon ,W. Davidson,the expense of NGRA, although admits
staff attorney for lesbian and gay rights"there is a gap" in California. "Becausewith the ACLU of Southern California,
of our broad base of support, we feel
we're in a position to provide a service . Newcombe turned her organizationfrom a social group into an activist one.
to the community. We are ovcrl9aded
in New York, and California is.:-the It also seems promising to both Osborn
and Davidson thatlargest state in the'Lambda is beginning. country, with L.A. being
humbly. "They are
its largest city. There's a
lot of work to do, andnot renting ~litzy
enough to go fuound."offices as NGRA did, or objectifying gay
BRIDGE OVER TROUBLED WATER?
L.A. as a fund-raisin~ money market,
She adds that Lambda is already
New Lambda/LA. attorneyanationalgroup,
with50
percentofwhich
is what NGRAseemed to do, but
Mary Newcombe
its cases outside of New York, and aare having a strong program first," saysby Doug Sadownicklarge donor base in L.A. "There has
Osborn.
been talk for the last three years of
LOS ANGELES-In a move sure
But Osborn finds it troubling that
opening an office in L.A.," she says,
to have major ramifications for the
few local, gay service and legal groups
adding that Lambda is involved withnational agenda of gay and lesbian
were consulted
before Lambda's
legal reform, the New York-based
m'any California cases, one of theannouncement. "This is exactly whatmore significant
being Pruttt vs. Jean
LambdaLegal
Defenseand[O'Leary]
wascriticized
Cheney [Secretary of Defense], theEducation Fund is opening its firstfor-having
strong ideas but notregional office in Los Angeles on
gay military case that L.A. attorneyworking· with other groups." (Lambda
September 1.
.
Mary Newcombe is working on.
' even approached 'NGRA last fall about
The plans for expansion come as
In fact, Newcombe
has been
merging. NGRA didn't accept that offer
the community's only other national
hired as Lambda's
fourth staff
at the vulnerable time, says William
public-interest law firm, National Gay
attorney. She will work out of thePratt, NGRA's newly named director of
Rights A-dvocates, is reeling fromnew L.A. office, with a salary in theadministration.)recent upheavals
and a tarnishedhigh 30s. According to Ettelbrick, theThough the ACLUs Davidson says
reputation. The resignation of high- .new office will in no way try to takehe's "thrilled Lambda's coming," heprofiled
executive
director Jean
the place of NGRA.
adds that "there was no mention of
O'Leary, to.gether with the storm of
But local leaders in L.A. aren't soLambda's intentions at the last national
national protest that followed theconvinced. Torie Osborn, executive
meeting." And Osborne said that if she
NGRA board's abrupt firing of two
director of L.A.'s Gay and Lesbian
were running the show, she would
staff attorneys, has eroded publicServices
Center, sees Lambda's
encourage annual conference calls andsupport for the group and has kept
announcement
as timely. "NGRA's
strategic planning meetings between
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national organizations whereinformation wasn't withheld - "if that had
happened NGRAwouldn't be in sucha mess."
It is this lack of coordination thatelicited Osborn's criticism of Lambda
last winter. When the NGRA board
fired attorneys Ben Schatz andCynthia Goldstein-thetwo staffers
O''Leary had public disagreements
with-leadersof four leading gay
legal organizations attacked NGRA ina letter to NGRA board president
Richard White that was leaked to thepress. Lambda's executive director,'Tom Stoddard, was one of the theauthors of the letter. At the time,
Osborn assailed Stoddard for putting
loyalties to la.wyers over the need toreact in a "unified movement manner
to a national legal crisis."
It was that letter and the storm
of articles in the gay press it elicited,that finally eroded tolerance for
O'Leary
as well as for theorganization; membership dropped
from 27,000 to 21,000 and NGRAwas
unable to meet its fund-raising goal
, this March of $1.66 million.
Still, both Osborn and Ettelbricksays that trouble between NGRA and
Lambda is water under the bridge.
Most agree that it was time for
O'Leary to, move on, including
NGRA's Pratt. In fact, Paul A. Di
Donato, NGRA's newly appointed
staff attorney, believes that there isplenty to learn form Lambda's
ambitiousness.
"It will provide
incentive for us to keep on a clear
track," he says.
,
Di Donato is aware of thecriticism that plagued NGRA under
O'Leary's regime: that a greater
portion of NGRA's yearly budget, wasallocated to nonlegal agendas, placing
more attention on Hollywood fundraising, education and public relation
ploys, and not enough on litigation.
"In a departure from the past,' thebusiness of NGRA will be law reformand our job is to convince the publicof that." Even Pratt confeSses that theannual National Coming Out Day,
one of O'Leary's pet projects, may
not have been terribly successful:"We are now realizing that it is only
by achieving equal rights that people
will feel comfortable coming out," hesaid. ...
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press to learn if a particular spot has
become a target for gaybashings.
eIf you feel threatened or unsafe,
trust your instincts and leave! Remove
yourself. from the situation as quickly as
possible;make noise; run; banggarbage cans and call 911 for police
assistance as soon as possible .
• Carry a whistle; if you feelthreatened-or
witness a threat tosomeone else-blow
it, loudly andrepeatedly, until help arrives.
• Consider taking a self-defense
class. Brooklyn Women's Martial'Arts
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people, preferably friends. Atta(tkers(from left): dir. Matt Foreman; client services; dir. Naomi lichtenstein; outreach and volunteer
sometimes wait outside places wherecoordinator Robert Vazquez; domestic violence program director Alan Zaretzky; and dir. of
lesbians and gay men meet.
finance David Kirschenbaum. Not pictured is Jessica Morris, the administrative asst
eWomen: Be especially wary of
by John Voelcker
without changing social habits or
taxis that wait, outside lesbian and gay
cutting down on what used to be calledbars and clubs.
"public displays of
NEW YORK - "The thing about
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affection."
gaybashing," says Matt Foreman, "is thatof men in "mixed" bars
Foreman pointed
it's completely random, and almost
who claim to be gay andalways unprovoked."out that no one caninvite women to their
Foreman is executive director of· ensure he or shehomes .
. the New York Gay and Lesbian Anti- won't become a target for gaybashers,'. If.you leave a bar or club withand that no victim or survivor is ever toViolence Project, or AVP-a group that's
someone you've just met, introduce him
blame for the crime. But, he said, thebeen in the news a lot recently. Oneor her to a friend, another acquaintancefollowing tips (adapted from Stop thehighly-pu blicizedbashing,onor even the bartender. Make sure that
Christopher Street, outside Ty's, plus
Violence, the AVP's newsletter) may
person knows you've told other people
several other attacks in the last few
prove helpful:that you're leaving together.
• Most importantly, be alert andweeks, hilve contributed to a hugeeIf you're unsure about leaving.
increase in reported bias crimes against
aware of your 'surroundings.
Usewith someone, mention that you're not
gay men and lesbians this spring, andcommon sense: Where possible, walk
sure whether your roommate is homeraised the general awarenessof
on well-lighted streets with people and(even if you haven't got one). This may
gaybashing.,
traffic on them.
deter a person intending to rob you, But the fears of lesbians and gay
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once you. reach your home ..
men have also been raised. Out Week
in neighborhoods you frequent, andPotentially dangerous areas whereinterviewed Foreman to find out how
aVOid them especially when you're
attacks have occurred in Manhattan,
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gay assistant DAs on staff this summer,
marldng the first time in several years
that the staff will have openly gay
assistants.
Thomas F. Hickey, a 27-year-old
Queens native, and Elizabeth lambert,
a 26-year-old native Texan, will join thestaff of DA Robert Morgenthau thissummer as assistant district attorneys
according to Steven Fishner, the DA's•

director of hiring. ,'"We ~e' very glad to have themjoining us," said Fishner, "We view thisas a recruiting success. We hope tobuild on it and bring other openly gay
assistants into the office." The DA's
office has conducted a calculated
recruitment drive in the lesbian andgay community for several months.
Pursuant to a policy in the DA's
office that does not allow assistants totalk to the press, infamation on Iambertand Hickey was supplied by F'1Shner andthe DA's liaiscn to the lesbian and gay
conununity, Katie Doom. 'According to Fishner, Hickey
will join the DA's staff on May 29th.
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Specialprosecutions
handles ,consumer fraud,economic
crimes and housing issues. Hickey
will also receive assignments fromother areas that will gain him
experience in trial matters. Hickey
will
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crime
prosecutions.
Fishner stated tl\ese
cases are too serious to be assigned
to entry level assistants.
Hickey, currently a litigation
associate at Kenyon & Kenyon in thepatent and trademark litigation area,
received his B.A. in computer scienceand his J.D.
from New York
University
in 1984 and 1988,
respectively.
Hickey was the co-chair of NYU's
Gay and
LesbianUnionandparticipated in the effort to bar the FBI
and the CIA from recruiting on the
NYU campus due to their hiring
policies that discriminate
againstlesbians and gay men. Hickey has also
been active with the Bar Associationfor Human Rights, ACf UP, the Gay ,and .Lesbian
Alliance
Against·Defamation and the Family Diversity
Coalition, according to Doran.
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20th. As lambert will be a member
be able to access the services. Theof the 65-70 person class of newcase,
Fabulous Associates v.
assistants,
no decision has been
Pennsylvania
PublicUttlitymade on her assignment. Typically,
Comm~sion,was decided Feb. 16.
however, assistants are assigned to
Affirming findings by Judgeoneof fourdivisions:trial,
Clifford Scott Green of the U.S.
investigations, appeals or narcotics.
District Court for the Eastern District
Lambert has been a member of , of Pennsylvania, Judge Sloviter noted
the Students for Gay and Lesbian , that the access code requirement had
Concerns while at UT law school,
threefaultsof constitutionaland she has researched AIDS anddimensions: the requirementof ainsurance
issues for the Texas
self-identification
process to the
Human Rights Foundation
andphone sex company, which would
developeda pamphlet. for thatfoundation on those issues.
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lambert was an organizer of the
Lesbians and the law section of the1988 national conference on Womenand the law held at lIT/Austin.
Lambert was also a summer
intern at the lambda Legal Defense
and Education Fund in 1989, where
she dealt with issues involving AIDS
confidentiality laws. She received her
B.A. in humanities from lIT in 1985.

deter subscribers from requesting thecodes; the Imposition of substantial
additional capital and operating costs
on providers of the services, who
would
have
to expandtheiroperations to deal with subscriber
requests and alter their equipment todeal with the codes; and, theimposition of extra costs on ownersof rotary phones who' would have to
pay more for touch-tone service or
acquire extra equipment to generate
the appropriate signals.
A key factual fl'ndin8 by the
court was that the imposition of such••o-Duncan Osborne

Pennsylvania's
phone sex'
law nixed"•

PHILADELPHIA- Pennsylvania's
restrictions on access to dial-a-pornservices violate the First Amendment,
according to a recent decision by a
U.S. court.
The opinion by Judge Delores
SlovHer of the U.S. Court of Appeals
for the Third Circuit for a unanimous
three-judge panel held that to theextent the access rules applied tenon-obscene, "indecent" speech, thecourt must apply strict scrutiny to
the government's justifications forthe rules.
Pennsylvania'slaw
required "that adults who wish tolisten to sexually explicit recorded
telephonemessages apply for anine-digit access code to receive
such messages."
Under current
technology,
only'
telephone•-1"hE ISLAWd it'Ad'~N'(OMPA"Y
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a system re'duced patronage of theservice practicallyto' zero, thus
accomplishingin effect what theSupreme Court ruled last year in
Sable Communications v. FCC could
not be accomplisheddirectly:outlawing clial-a-porn.
Afteracknowledging'
thecompelling state interest in shieldjng
minors from access .to sexuallyexplicit telephone message services,
the court held that less restrictive
alternatives might be available to thestate,
such as requiringthetelephone company to block off thegeneral exchange for such services
unless requested by a subscriber tolift the exchange block for thesubscriber's phone. Without taking a
firm
position
regardingtheconstitutionalityof such blocking
schemes (such as the similar scheme
imposedby the 1989 Helms
Amendment
to the Communications,
Act, now under challenge in federal
courts in New York, Texas andGalifornia), the court found theywould be less restrictive than accesscode requirements, thus rendering
the accesscode
requirement.
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my region who asked me questions in State Supreme Court, New York
about our newspaper [Tema] and ILGA. County. The April 19 settlement
He promised me that I will have concludes one of the first lawsuits
problems with the KGB. I need your over whether HN infection is a "preexisting
condition"
underanmoral and fmancial support now."
Packages of material were mailed insurance policy, according to Markto MULGMfrom ILGA and from this Scherzer, a Manhattan attorney
representing
Wendroff
who
reporter three months ago.
in AIDS insurance
Kalinin also told ILGA that, specializes
contrary to more than a year of news litigation.
Wendroff learned he was HIVreports, Soviet officials have now
announced that the country's sodomy antibody positive early in 1988, but
law will not be deleted from the had no symptoms or illness at thattime and received
no medical
revised Criminal Code.
Article 121.1 of the Code allows ,treatment for HIV infection thathomosexuals to be punished' with up year. On May 12, Wendroff had an
appointment
with his personal
to five-years banishment to Siberia.
"The inhuman character of this physician which did not involve
article is an affront not only against any treatment for IiIV infection.
those who would be accused under Wendroff was hired a few months
the law, but also against all the later, and became' covered by aprogressive
tr,ends which havedisability insurance policy effe<;tivebeen advertisedin the Soviet press August 1, 1988. In May 1989,,
during the reform period," Kalinin Wendroff became ill with ARC,
said.
which progressed to AIDS, and had
Kalinin appealed to actiy--ists to stop working. He submitted aworldwide"to organize pro~est claim under the disability policy inmeasures against, this infringement of July, 1989, which was denied byhuman rights\ ....Send protest letters the insurance company.
to Gorbetjov,[sic] from yourConnecticut General clai~edorganizations,,'\Kalinin
urged.
"Wethat
Wendroffs HIV infection was a.
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need your help very much!"'"pre-existing
condition" under aProtest letters should be sent to: provisionof the policy which
President
Mikbail
Gorbachev,
stated that there was no coverage
Moscow,
USSR. .
for any "sickness or injury for,
Copies can,be sent to MULGMat which
you received
medicaltheir new' addres,s, c/o Roman Kaiinin, treatment,
consultation,
care or•Poste Restante, SU-103009 Moskva K- services
including
diagnostic
9, USSRmeasures, or had prescribed drugs,,
or medicine in the three months
prior to your effective
date,"
handing its argument on the May. .. . .:;, 12 consultation. Wenoroff argued
in his lawsuit that asymptomatic
HIV infection is not a "pre-existing
condition. " ,Although a settlement does not
result in a binding legal precedent,
Connecticut General's agreement to'NEW
YORK-Connecticut
settle the case on terms entirely
General Life Insurance Company has favorable to Wendroff may prove
agreed to pay over $25,000 in .back important in other lawsuits overbenefits and $7,500 in legal fees, and this issue.
to n:iake future disability benefit-Arthur S. Leonard
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"gayunion faces'
KGB threats,

MOSCOW-The newly-founded
Moscow Union of Lesbians and Gay
Men (MULGM)has
not received any of,.
. its mail and is being threatened !>y the
KGB.
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the West via a fax from MULGMto the.
Intemational Lesbian & Gay Association
information secretariat in Stockholm,
and was confirmed by this rePorter in a
May 3 telephone conversation with
MULGM,
member
Eugenia
Debranskagya.. ,In the fax, key MULGM activist
you
Roman Kalinixi stated: "I have sent,
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incl:ude(but~r-e not " insiders' ffi6v~t" lack of furiding seems ,, seen w~t w~ hare accomplishep ':Withlimited to):such
minimal.funding
from' th~to be keeping the smaller PACs from-,-,.
• the largely deserted streets from
-Jlavin8 more ofa visible effect on races. 'conununity."'"West '15th to West 19th Streets near theThis, in tum, keeps thcln unknown, but
SAFER SEX from pa•• '20',
Hudson River. Several assaults have,
not without hopes. '1 think we are doing,
condoms when having sex'with steadyoccurred on gay men returning fromincredibly ~cientthings with the money,".
,such bars as The Spike add'TheEagle.
says IMPACf's Adam' whose organization,•
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as at ~ for AIDS, a~
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arid also at the corner ofvolunteer time. and borrowed/ office.,~."
Seventh Avenue.,',mv in the ad came after discuSsions with
supplies; I am amazed. ...[Ilf it were better, In Queens,' Foreman identified themany younger,gay men around the city.":,funded, I know we could dramatically'~ftkd fr,oth New fom . parts of Queens Boulevard tl,lat houseincrease the 'kind of political action we do,,....... ,gay bars as areas where' attacks and,("

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, "Rambles" or other wooded areasin public parks are also dangerous,
Foreman noted. Wfiile attacks in Central
Park were down 22 percent oyerall lasty!!ar, he said" th~ number of gay-related
attacks reported in the Ramble area rose
, 3'3, percent. And the statistic': "grossly
underrepresents" the problem,:
Foreman,said;. .'he feels the actual number
is farhigher. His advice? "Cruising in parks isdangerous," he sail;!,, "especially at night,
Wear'a Whistle."' ,Women 'are alWays more vulnerable
to attack than men, Foreman said, and. while sexual assault affects all women 'diSproportionat~ly, itis'espedally
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identified
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Currently .only 25 percent of the bias
crimes reported to the AVP are against
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If you~restop .meeting'people.
perceived to be gay or lesbian: you're'perceived to be a target. But don't, beparanoid. Just USf;
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somebody
has 'politica1 skills and' they,want- to come.to
Columbus for thesumnier, we'll fmd someplace to dorm
them:and will be very happy. to h~ve
their help."
Gelpi ,silid ius victory in the priI)1ary"sends a signal to the DemoCratic
leadership in Washington: "Gays andlesbians are coming through th,e front
door, folks, and other~ are going to ,becomingthrough.the' front
door
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Drug ~dministration (FDA)- also apthough approved for prescription use;
proved interferon as a treatnient for Alferon N Inje<;tionis not yet ,generally
Kaposi'ssarc9ma (KS); it had previousavailable because it is new and sup.',.
tartling claims; preSs reports'
ly been used to treat hairy cell
pies are still limited. At this time it has
and rumors have turned aleukemia, a~g genital warts'. The drug
been made available to physiciaQs who
proposed AIDS treatment into
is norinally given by injection:;,as it is treat genital' Warts, to' familiariZe them!the latest "miracle cure."
believed that it would be digel!ted in with the product. The Japanese prodMeanwhile, almost all' AIDS the stomach and destroyed if taken
uct is not available in the United
exJ?<!rtswh~ have looked into thiS matorallr, Typical~doses range from hunStates, apP!lrently not even for a forter are deeply skeptical, and often disdreds of thousands to millions of inter- mal clinical trial intended, to replicate
tressed, at 40w it has been handled.
national units. ',the Kenya Studies.)
This article tells what i~,happening,'Most interferon used in the UnitedSome experts doubt that it makes
and o~tlines some unari~ered quesStates is, prod~.ced by genetically-engi- any difference whether interferon istions and reasons for iskeptkism.
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neered microorganisms(the -twb"natural" or recombinant. This issue, is,"brands available are "Roferon-a" and ·an example of the broader fa~t.
that•
Histo..,andBackground,"Intron.
a"). In ~ovewbe.r 1989, the' there is much confusion and disagreeOn February 7 of 'this year, re-' FDA also approved a "natufal" interfer- . ment among 'eXpertS'about interferons,..
searchers in Kenya: reported success in . on (produced by cultured human cells " in general.
treatin"g AIDS with "KeII?-ron," theirdeliberately injected. with a virus) to' ,,name fora treatment consisting ofTreatment Used.s .... 11Dosesvery lc;>vI.(doses
o~a kind of alpha in" The treatment tested in Kenya
terferon, held in the mouth but notI<
GaI\O"
consisted of. ~treinely small doses
sw~llowed. AIDS Treatment Newsof alp~ interferon, about 100.10 150
publiShed a· short, article' (issue #97;,' ~\~.,91 .'international units, thousan4$ ofFebruary, 16); as far as I know, no.::times less than the doses routinely,
other news outlet in the United'given by injection. The 8featly dilutStates mention,ed 'the development
iCIi.
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drug was held' in the, mouth but
for 'the next'monthand a, half., The',."'notswallow~d. Possibly the drug'.
sileilqe 'w~'broken this month, after.
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could be absorbed in the mc1uth(some ,conventional drugs are, given
Dr. Koech spoke in Japan, with arti~
cles in: the newsletter Biotechnology
under the tongue)., but no ,oneNewswqtch (~Oral IFN vS.' AIDS
knows how so small a dose would
ScoreS in Kenya: U.S.'Trla:isNext,"
have any effect. (Somewhat larger
April 2); in 1'be New YO,rk Times
doses were found to cause nausea,("N~w AIDS Experil!!ents Stir flope,,\'
im<;lthe experimenters suspect that
MiXed 'with Wariness,"' April 4);' in'-, " A ..
,,the dose must be within a criticaf
7be Associated Press (~Medical Ex--,range, with too. much of the drug
perts Skeptical"ofInterferon
Results.
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being ,less . effective than the correct ,~'0.
in AIDS Patie,nts," April?); and in' amount.) Because the dose is so
the New Yorlz Native' ("Thesmall, the cost of the drug is only
Cure?"-in two.-inch-high letters on""
pennies per do~e,' even lQ.Qugh"IS Oral, treat".gen.i~aCwarfs.
This preduce,interferon is very
expensive 'in its narthe cover-withthe subtitle,
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14 variationsof the interferon\ Where did the idea come from tocalled ,7be,Weekly RevfeW published amolecule, whereas each of the recQm- .. try using alpha interferon in such an
cov~r ,artideFebruary 9, ,titled "KEM--, binant,(genetically engineered) ,prod- unusual and s'eemingly implausible
RON~A'MiracieDrug Against AIDS At
ucts contains oruy one "ThiS natural in- way-less' than a thousandth of the
Last!"). ",~,terferon is the variety approved in the usual dose, and held in the mouth; not .
, ,Interferons, produced by the body ,United Stat<;sthat is closest to the in- injected? The idea came from v:eteriduring vifal infections, hav.e been studterferon used 'in Kenya; the latter is nary experiments. Interferon has been
ied for abOut"3Pyears., Alpha intetfer- ,'prod\lced by Hayashibara Biochemicai tried for treating vifal diseases of agrion has been available ~ _a prescription
laboratories in Japari by a different' cell. cultural \ animals and also for feline
drug in:the Utifted States:siflce 1986. Inlin~ and contains at least nine varia- leukemia in cats. ,Some veterinarians" " November of ]988, the U:S. Foocr-and tioris of the interferon molecule. (Al- have tried administeriflg interferon by
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M. Cummins, a veterinarian and president of Amarillo Cell Culture Co., Inc.
in Amarillo, Texas, is working with the
Kenyan researchers and suggested thelow-dose, oral route, of administration
based on this animal experience.
In Kenya, the leading spokesman
for the treatment is Davy K. Koech,
Ph.D., a well-respected
medical researcher with dozens of published paperS, mostly on tropical diseases suchas malaria and schistosomiasis. The
other principal investigator in Kenya is
Arthur O. Obel, M.D.; he also has published dozens of papers. Very few ofthese articles concern AIDS.
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The Claims
Two claims have most caught theattention of the AIDS community:• Every U.S. press report we havebeen able to fmd has quoted the claimthat 99 out of 101 (some say 99 out of100, or 99 out of 99) AIDS patientstreated with Kemron had all their AIDS
symptoms disappear within several
weeks .
• Equally astounding is the claimthat eight out of 40 patients "serodeconverted"changed from HIV-positive to HIV-negative during four to
six weeks of treatment.
T-helper coµnt increases were also
reported, especially in those who had
low counts to begin with (contrary toconventional experience with alpha interferon, which usually works best for
those with higher counts).
Dr. Koech announced results of"
the 101 patients in late March at a conference in Okayama, Japan. A scientificpaper about a more detailed study ofthe 40 patients mentioned above has
been- accepted for publication in Junein Molecular Btotberapy, a journal published in the U.S. Some of the resultsof this 4o-patient study appeared in the
New York Native, April 16. According
to Dr. Koech, the British journal Lancet
rejected the paper because there wasno control group (which in this casewould probably have received a placebo).

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tongue, or there might be interferon
publications since 1983. But the only
AIDS-related, and that in any case a
receptors in the mouth; some kind of
one we found on AIDS was a single
group of patients selected only forcascade of effects must be produced.
case report published in 1984.
being HIV-positive and having nonBut so far these are only speculations,
Jun Minowada, M.D., D.M.S., of
specific symptoms would, if followed
not supported by evidence ..
Hayashibara Biochemical Laboratories,-The scientific study of 40 pafor a few weeks, be expected to show
Inc. in Okayarna, Japan, was listed as 'tients includes a table showing Tmany cases of recovery even withoutauthor or co-author of 126 publications
helper cell improvemen'ts. When we
any treatment-has
not been ansince 1983. We only found two conswered.
examined this table, we found that thecerning AIDS; both of them are highly
initial T-helper' counts, before treat• A literature search conducted byment, had a median over 500; 33 of
AIDS Treatment News found no evi- technical studies of blood cells.
Joseph M. Cummins, D.V.M.,
the 40 patients had T-helper counts
dence that anyone associated with the
Ph.D., of Amarillo Cell Culture Compaover 270, with 18 being over 700. The
Kemron studies, in Kenya or elseny, Inc., Amarillo, Texas, was listed asmean T-helper count for these 18 pawhere, had much experience withauthor or co-author of 26 publications.
tients almost half the total patients in
AIDS. Lack of solid AIDS experience
Only one concerns AIDS, however: athe study-was
over 1, 000 before
might have allowed errors to remain
1987 letter on low-dose oral interferon
treatment began. Many if not most of
uncorrected.
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one patient.
the 40 patients would be expected to
The other U.S" author of the 40by asymptomatic.
patient study, Val A. Hutchinson, M.D.,
But patients were accepted for theof Amarillo Vlfology Research, was costudy if they were HIV-positive andauthor with Cummins of the low-dose
had certain symptoms which might beinterferon letter in 1987. Our search
AIDS-related. The symptoms were: apfound one other published article, no,!
petite loss or weight loss; fatigue or
involving AIDS.,
weakness; mouth sores or ulcers or
The fact that AIDS• was not a
candidiasis; fever; diarrhea; respiratory
major field of anyone involved in the
tract infection; night sweats; lymstudy does not• mean that the results
phadenopathy; and skin rash. (The avare wrong. But people are making deerage patient had 5.2 of these sympcisions now on the basis of the Kenya
toms. Two in this study were
results, which are completely different
HIV~positive but asymptomatic; thefrom what all other AIDS researchothers did have symptoms.)
would lead us to expect. The relative
It is possible that some of these,
inexperience in AIDS of everybody insymptomatic patients in fact had no I
volved might reasonably be consid<ied
AIDS-related symptoms, but instead .
We used Medline, a computerin deciding how much practical weight
had ordinary, minor infections which
database main~ined by the U.S. Na, caused the fever, diarrhea, appetite.
tional Library of Medicine, to look for to give these claims ~fore they havebeen confirmed by at ,least one otherloss, rash, night sweats, etc. Being
medical articles published during the
research team.
HIV-positive and having symptoms
last seven years (1983 through 1990) by-There was no control group. In
which can be AIDS-related, they wereany of the five authors of the scientificincluded in the study and started on
paper on the results of 40 patients in other contexts this writer has argued
Kenya. Not all articles are included in that good science is possible without
oral interferon treatment. Then they replacebos. But in this case a randomcovered-justas they would have if the database, but it is usually complete
ized controlled trial would be very imenough to show the major fields inthey had had not reacted at all---andportant (for example, to answer ourwere counted as having all their AIDS which a medical scientist has worked.
questions above, about whether these
Davy K. Koech, Ph.D., of the, symptoms go away after the treatment. 'patients would have improyed anyway
Kenya Medical Research Institute in
We called Dr. Koech in Kenya andNairobi, was listed as author or co-au- ,without treatment). AIJ.d a placebo
asked him about this possib!lity. He
study could be ethical, since many pasaid that the molecular spectrum was·' thor of 52 articles or other scientifictients had high T-helper counts andpublications. Most concerned tropical
not directly relat~d to clinical sympwould not be endangered by going
toms, and that he was not trying to rediseases such as malaria and schistosowithout treatment for six to eightmiasis. We found only two which menlate the U.S. and African diagnostic
weeks (the 'time required to see alltioned AIDS, immunodeficiency or lllV
systems. He also noted that the disease
symptoms vanish in 99 of 101 pa-.
in the title, descriptors or abstract.
itself and the (esults of testing are notdirectly comparable between Africa
tients). Not everyone would have to
These concerned false positives in lllVand the U.S. The scientific report of therisk getting a placebo---only a small
testing in Kenya (published in 1988),
40 patients mentions that "Patients innumber of volunteers healthy ~noughand AIDS in Nairobi prostitutes (1986).
Kenya were not staged by CDC or WalArthur O. abel, M.D., F.R. C.P., to not face serious risk by remaining
ter Reed systems as might be expectedalso of the Kenya Medical Research in- untreated for a few weeks. Most of the.in the USA." But the ,concern we raised
40 patients had over 500 T-cells, andstitute, is the only other study author
above-that the syrriptoms observed inlocated in Kenya:. He is author or co- would not receive any AIDS-specific

Every U.S. press report has quoted theclaim that 99 out of
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-What about the completely unprecedented claim that eight of the 40
patients went from HIV-positive tonegative after a few weeks of oral interferon? The two obvious pOssibilities
are (1) that what Koech has called"serodeconversion"
did in fact takeplace, or (2) that there were errors in
the tests. Dr. Koech has published several papers on immunologic tests; his
expertise in the area gives greater
weight to the test results. ELISA tests
were confirmed by Western blot.
On the other hand, note that if
any errors did occur either false positives letting uninfected patients into
the study, or false negatives when theyleft-all the errors would be cumulative, with no tendency to cancel eachother out. Of the 80 tests (40 before
treatment, and 40 after), a total of eighterrors of either kind would be necessary to account for the reported result.
It makes sense to wait for confumation
before accepting the unprecendented
claim that this treatment can causesome patients to become seronegative.
-A great increase in T-<:ell countsi-averaging over 500 for the 40 patientsduring six weeks of treatmen~-was also
reported. Again we would like to see
confirmation by another study. T-cellcounts vary greatly, for many reasons. All
but two of the 40 patients were selected
and entered into the study at a time
when they were ill (showing non-specific
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the counts, leading to a spontaneous me
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IH [National Immutes of
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and priorities ... FDA battles
focus on known, extstingtreatments; it ~ harder to organize ~around deaths caused by dmgs which do
n9t exist and perhaps never will, butshould.
-John S.Jamest,,

A pervasive pessimism has settled
over the landscape of AIDS.
People are grasping at straws.
There
are rumors of revived interestinI"
discarded drugs from the mid-1980s.
Powerful test tube compounds are
years away from wide-scale humantesting. Mired in scientific dogma, bureaucracy, careerism and corporate
co'nfHcts of interest, the U.S. AIDS
Clinical Trials Group (ACTG) will
begin no Phase I trials of new antiviral
drugS iq 1990. A year from now, theonly new additions to ouranti-HIV arsenal will be more ddl and, possibly,
dqC: .drugs that' work like, AZT, withdifferent toxiCities.
, Back in 1988, it all seemed so simpie. ,The': drugs were out there.
Aerosolized,:pentamidine(AP) , ddl,
OHPG, EPC, Fluconazole ... We knew
they worked. The FDA, which.controis
access, to experimental drugs in the
U.S., knew they worked too. Even
though sometimes the data "just wasn't
there." Getting them released was asimple matter of humiliating the bureilUcrats with evidence of their own,obtuseness and inhumanity.
It worked. Eighteen months later,
all of the drugs listed above are available either fully:approved for sale (AP,PHPG, Fluconazole) or on expanded
access (delI, EPO). But what, new treatments are 'in the pipeline, soon to enter
clinical practice? Very few-possibly
Foscarnet for CMV infections, and thewhite-cell growth factors G-CSF and
GM-CSF.2And nothing for HIV.
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avoided. It was allowed to happen.
enough to penetrate the blood-brain
The leaders of the ACfG-particularly, barrier. At least five pharmaceuticals.Dan Hoth, director of NIAID's Divi- are competing in an intensive search tosion of AIDS3-recognizedback in fmd the best compound, but the gov1988 that their data analysis center,ernment has shown no interest in coorResearch Triangle Institute (RTl) of dinating their efforts so far.
North Carolina, was overburdened by
Intravenous byperlcin, developed
all the data produced by the ACfG's by scientists from New York University,
101 clinical trials. Rather than solving offers the chance to deliver hypericin dithe problem then, they let it fester for rectly to the bloodstream, where it might
two more 'years. Data analysis won't block HIV and herpes viruses from causbe transferred to Harvard until June of ' ing damage. While oral hypericin
this year, slowing down new trials to showed no apparent antiviral effects ina standstill.
, an Arizona study, this new, more conMore seriously, the ACfG and its centrated formulation may enter Phase I
trials at NYUthis summer.
Rihozymes
like trichosanthin''("Compound Q") seem to target HIV.t'lilfected cells while sparing uninfected, ","ones.5 The discoverer of Q's activity
waited to announce his fmding for two','
years until his-patent was secured;' suchdelays will continue to disfigure AIDS'
research as long as there is no scientificcoordination and leadership.
=.::..:;.=., .=::;..;:::;.:.-------New drugs for opportunistic
leaders hav~ no early detection system infections. Reports of many powerfulto plan quick Phase I trials of new com- compounds, often seemingly less toxic
pounds as they emerge from laborato- than existing agents, continue to'filterries around the world. Thus, when there out from pharmaceuticalindustry
are more potential treatments than ever newsletters and scientific journals.
before, they are unable to translate lab Some of the most intriguing are, mendiscoveries into clinical trials.
tioned below:'
Once again, the AIDS community
566C80 is a new Burroughs-Wellmust serve as the early detection sys- come antibiotic being tested in imtem. Following are some of the many munosuppressed mice with pneumopotential treatments which deserve
cystis pneumonia (PCP). The drug
rapid testing in Phase I trials:
worked as both prophylaxis and treatAnH-HIV drugs. Several classes of ment. Following treatment, the mice redrugs offer new approaches to the dis- mained immunosuppressed,
but didease. Although there are many nucleoside not develop recurrent PCP suggesting
analogues already (AZf, ddI, ddQ, they, that this drug, unlike Bactrim or pendo not penetrate into the macrophage, the tamidine, killed PCP, rather than merely
cells where HIV remains latent for years, suppressing
it.6 Also being tested
and which transport it into the bmin. Pack- against toxoplasm~is and malaria. .
aging these drugs into liposomes-fatty
DIMP is a pentamidine metabolite
molecules which are devoured by discovered at Duke University and limacrophages---<::ouldallow for a broader censed to LyphoMed, which has so far
anti-viral effect, with less toxicity, than been unable to produce enough fora. g the drugs alone.4,
large scale human testing. While penProtease inbtbUors interfere with tamidine can cause nausea and pancreHIV at a later stage of its life cycle than atitis, so far DIMPhas shown no toxicity.
AZT and its cousins. They are small
HPMPC is a new oral anti-CMV,

Several classes ofdrugsoffer,new
approaches to thedisease.

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It could be the oral anti~CMV breakthrough dnig. Other candidates for thisare FlAC, now ill Phase I trials in Cali'fornia, and oral DHPG, which, willsoon be tested in New York.
Although the FDA recently approved Fluconazole to treat serious
fungal infections, including thrush (candidial1is), histoplasmc;>sisapd ciyptococcal,mehingitis,Jts cost-$4,OOO a ye~ at, the dose PWAsneed-makes the dt;vel-'.opment- of ~lternativ.es imperative.
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abroad and at some PWA buyers' clubs.
Another new compound is ScheringPlough's SCH 39304, which entered asmall Phase I ACfG study this year.
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chapter I wrote for the. first AIDS Legaleferences to AIDS in medical
was focused on AIDS as a result of
Guide, ",as, that the symptoms 'a(!co~~ite'p~~rebegan in 1981, )Vhen Rock Hu,Clson's,illness in tile su~erpanying, AIDS were 'the' sorts of physi- -...
the Centers for Dise,ase Con- 'of 1985, Lam~'sf!aTly efforts, togethcalor, mental, impairme,nts sugges~ed ,.1'01 published their first reer with the work c;f pro bono attorneys' by 'the disability discrimination .laws,,
portS 'ori Strange ilifections in gay men. in' f'lew York and. gay rights organiza- and. due to the early but persu~iye ev."
WitI:tiQ."two years, itbecanie _clear that· tions fu,other stat~, had laid the foun- "idenc;e that whatever causc;:dAIDSwas, therriedicalepidemic'would
spawn andation for aJegal theory to protect
not ,casually transmitted, people withepidemiC 'in the 'law, a:s civil I:ights'~people with' AIDS from-discrimination.
AIDS whose physical or mental impairments 'did QQt prevent them' fromagenciesand' ':'-"
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considered.;l han<iicap,\,ande~cori!plail'ifS early)n .1983, as they
panded that thepry ,as new isprov.i<l~'ll'assistan,ce,to -pets9~s'sue~ arose to, c()ver HIV-mfected/ ' with{:AWS,mak~g,wills apdsign-'~ple
who did not have CDCiDg:~~rs of attqmey.'· ':"" '.
defined AIDS, and gays' or fan\ily,,
menil:>f'!rsof people, ,with AIDS,, :~~La~Ma, Lega:l qefense & , ,':~'
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persons, an approach
who encountered discrimination due,at the'New
Y'ork City Human Rights ,sugge&ted by Lambda's legal Coimmt- to fear of the· "disease,even though·.
Co~id'Q,and ,the ,Office of Federal
te~ Cha,ir Alan K:!Jral,an experienced
they were not..themselves infected. In
Contra¢!: Cpmpliance Programs .duriri.$ employment lawyer, and developed \ October 1983",~ New York st:at,ejudge,.thesm;nmer of'·1983, and'went to sta~e with the assistartce of cooperating
validated the, theory by issuing ~ncoµit'~it~' Attofll~y 'General Jl~be,rt' attol1}eysrepresehting individuals with, order barring, Uie co-op board from
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by.~ cc:K>Poo,ard" :which w,as denyingtIn 1973, Congress passed the Re- th~ City fluman Rights Commission
Dr. Joseph Sonriabend,a lease renewal
habilitation Act, which required the
had announced settlement of Lambda's
on 'his ,office tX;eause of. his , growing
fecle'ralgovemm¢nt and tho~,.who 'do fIrst 'AIDS discriininationcharge, :With
AJtis;Wtj~t'
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with it to take affiro,.ative
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ously rejected,job applicIDit.with ARC.
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The theory got i~ first legal v~idation
tion requirement on the govel'nment, :from a Florida federal trial court in
tra~ink,>$eSsiqns 'qn ~DS ,discri~n:atiop. for' the agency's investigators.'
its contra<;tors, and any'otl?-,er entity
1985.
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tance, a broad category that includes
was published, I went back to the law
most local govei~ents, schools, hos-library,t() sµrvey the handicap laws ofmanaging ~ttorney, as the first AIDS
Legal' Gutde in. 1984. Also in 1984,
pit~i1s'and so.cial service agencies,
all the states and wrote a taw review
Lambda filed tl;te first AIDS discrimina- .whether public or private.,
article ,on AIDS discrimination whid}, /tion charges with the Office of Civil. Many $tates followed the federal
was published in the slimmer of 19S5.
Riglits. ~ft,he 'p~S. Department oflead by amending their' ciVilrights laws Whentlje Rock Hudson incident stimHealth and tfuinan ,Services, alleging 'to'extend protection to qualified handi- ulated wide interest in the legal com- ,cappec! people, while other~ passed
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which lawyers began to debate AIDS
issues. At the fIrst major AIDS legal
conference, organized by the New YorkLaw Journal and held at the Association of the Bar of the City of New Yorklate in 1985, all the speakers, including
management labor lawyers, agreed thathandicap discrimination law was relevant 'and people with AIDS would be
legally protected from discrimination.
In 1987, the Supreme Court decided for the fIrst time that a person witha contagious condition could be protected by handicap discrimination law
when it decided School Board v.
Arltne, a case involving an elementary
school teacher with tuberculosis. According to the Court, the critical question was whether the contagious condition presented a substantial risk toothers in the workplace.
Although the Arltne case did not involve AIDS, the Court's careful analysisof handicap law theory (in an opinion
by Justice William J. Brennan, Jr.) validated Lambda's approach, and directly
invalidated the approach advocated by
the Reagan Administration, which hadargued that employers and others
should be allowed to discriminate if
they were genuinely afraid that AIDS
would spread in their workplace. Since
1987, federal and state courts have inmost instarices followed the Supreme
Court's lead and extended disability law
protection to people with AIDS.
There have been several importantdevelopments since the Arltne casewhich contribute to the wide degree oflegal protection against discrimination
now accorded people with IDV infection in most parts of the United States.
First, the federal governmentchangec;l its tune after Arltne. Congre~
amended the Rehabilitation Act earlyin 1988 (over a veto by President Reagan) making the Court's approach in
Arline a permanent part of the statute .
Reagan's AIDS Commission urged afederal non-discrimination policy in thespring of 1988 and by that summer, thefederal Office of Personnel Management had issued a strong non-discrimination policy on HIV infection and
AIDS for the federal government. The
Justice Department then issued a memorandum interpreting the Rehabilitation
Act to provide strong protection
against ~iscriIliination by private, em- ,,,ployers subject to the Act.
Second, several cities and states
adopted laws specifIcally protecting
people who are HIV-infected, or liberalized existing handicap law to provide
more protection.
Most of the large
cities in 'California passed such laws, atleast partly motivated by a series ofvetos of state AIDS discrimination laws
by Governor George Deukmejian. The
local laws in California are now of
doubtful validity, since an appeals
court ruled last year that the existingstate handicap discrimination law covers AIDS discrimination, and California

cities do not have authority to legislateon employment and housing discrimination matters already covered by statelaw.
Finally, as indicated above, state
courts have begun to issue some strong
rulings imposing liability for AIDS discrimination. In addition to the California appellate court, the West Virginia
Supreme Court recently, issued a strong
statement on protection for IDV-infected people under state law, and lower
level courts in New York, New Jersey
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Dt:arJ~se Helms,"

I've been hearing quite a lot about
you lately. In the papers, on television,
at museum closings. You, Jesse Helms,
have become a household word, notunlike "flyswatter." Some people haveattributed your success and power tQ. your stature as a Deep-South Caucasoid; others to your strategic politicalemphasis on wholesome, family values. Me, I think it is because you haveopened your heart to Jesus and let him
into your life.
I respect you for this decision,
Jesse Helms. I bet it took a lot of gutSfor you, a revered leader of the hetero~Xualdefense movement, to admit tohaving:a lifelpng,-primary relationshipwith ,~ Jewish' carp~tlter wQo~s been'dead 1?v~r 2,000 year,s. Kinky. Doesn't
anyone.ipyour parish object to the differenciUn your religions?
, Serkn.isly,Jesse,sometiines I talk to
Jesus. Oh, don't get me wrong; we're
not really that· close. But we do, get together from time to time at, the 92nd
Sfreet Y for a little raquetball. We gossip.
For in~tance, did Y04 know that
God is really a p~n-sexual, multi-ethniC, ,racially-mixed, non-hierarchicalcollective? Which should prove, once
, and fQr'all, that God is not a God of
Revenge, arid that our ea~ly misfortunes are simply the result of shoddy
processing. .
'': Jesus also tells me things about
your relationship with him. About yourinability to express vulnerable emotions; your lurid positions on nuclear
weapons and other war-like projectiles;
about that "art incident," when you
made him feel,'"so cheap." You know,'Jesus really liked it in that little jar ofurine, Jesse., He said he felt liberated,
and whole in -exploring his psycho-sexual"hang-ups"; that it was fun to see• 38 'OUTTWEEK, May 23,1990•••

protection in various directions. A federal trial court in Pennsylvania, applying
state law, recently awarded compensatory and punitive damages of morethan $150,000 to an attorney who wasfired from his job because he has AIDS.
Important questions still remain to
be settled, however. A recent Texas
appellate decision indicates that somestate laws provide no help for uninfeeted people who encounter discrimination because of their association withpeople who are infected (such as famihow long he could hold his breath.
Jesus says that he wishes you would ly members of mY-infected people, or"loosen up, fer Chrlssakes"; that he feels volunteers at AIDS organizations).
he's giving a lot more to this relation- New York appellate courts are split on
ship than he's getting back; that-Oh,
whether doctors and dentists may disdear. Maybe I've said too much.
criminate against mY-infected people
in their private practices. And a federal-';:~i}~H~h,;;,_",_
court in Louisiana has broken ranks;';) .:\;',,-~<,.: - --,-~.;~-:.
with the general run of AIDS discrimi~
nation caselaw by holding that a hospital could fire an employee who refused
to reveal his HIV antibody status; the
ACLUis appealing this ~to the Fifth
Circuit Court of Appeals.
, The biggest discrimination law de. velopment, eagerly awaited, would be
passage of a federal law extending protection from disability-related discrimination throughout the country, without
regard to variations in local law andpractice. This was partially achieved in
1989 when Congress amended t4e Fair
Housing Act to forbid housing discrimination against persons with physical ormental impairments. 'The next step will be passage of
the Americans With Disabilities Act(ADA),which cleared the Senate last faJland is rapidly advancing in the House .
It's just thllt
ADA will extend' protection from dis, Jesus is pretty fed up;
Jesse. So I thought the Truth might set crimination in employment, public aChim free. On my suggestion, he's been cortunodations and public transportation
writing his memoirs about his life with to qualified, people with disabilities, in~u.
Pissed Christ or, Even Saviors Get cluding those with HIV infection andthe,Blues. Warner has offered us a gen-, AIDS, regardless whether they work inerous contract and movie rights, once the public or private sectors.
it's finished. We got Karen Finley to
President Bush has called for paswrite the preface.
sage of ADA, which seems to have
Please, Jesse. It's never too late if overwhelming
bipartisan support.
you love someone. Jesus doesn't
Wrangling about remedies and procewant to write those painful things. dures has yet to be settled, however.
Won't you give him something nice to Also, last minute maneuvering by Jesse
say about you-while
there's still Helms or William Dannemeyer could
time? Hurry, Jesse. We're proofing the delay enactment or weaken the law.
galleys.
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Unfortunately, the employment pr0visions passed by the Senate included along phase-in period, with coverage of
workplaces with 25 or more employees
beginning two years after passage, andextending to workplaces of ftfteen or
more employees after another two years
have gone by. A major advance overexisting federal law will be provision&
explicitly requiring employers to makeaccommodations for persons with disabilities, even though accommodations
may generate increased costs.
Disability discrimination law has
its limits, however. Most, significantly,
only those who are qualified to, continue participating in a particular activity
can benefit from its protection.
Although employers are supposed tomake reasonable accommodations to
help disabled people, those whose illness precludes reasonable attendance
and productivity will not be protected,
because the basic concept of disability
law is to protect those who can work
despite their disabilities. In my next
column on AIDS Law, I'll discuss someof the other federal and state laws thatare being used to assist HN-infected
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pie with AIDS. See you at the National
Institutes of Health (NIH) in Bethesda
on Monday, May 21. ...
NOTES:

1. "ACI' UP Cal1s for Nlli Demonstmtion May
21." AIDS Treatment News 101, 4.20.90, p.5:
2. Foscarnet is made by the uncooperative
Swedish pharmaceutical Astmj G-CSF (grany1ocyte.rnacrophage colony stimulating factor) by
Scherlng-Ploogh an:l Sandoz Phanmceulbls.

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Infectious Diseases, one of the Naltonal Institutes of Health (NIH).
4. K.Y. Hostetler, et (:II, "Synthesis and An- ,tiretroviral Activity of Phospholipid Analogsof AzIdothymidine and Other Antiviral Nucleoside Analogues." Jour. Etol. Chern. 265(11):6112-6117, 4.15.90.
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5. N. SalVer, "Ribosomes as Potential AnltHIV-l Therapeutic
Agents."Science247(4947): 1222-1225, 3.9.90.

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nly you as an individual
know why you contracted
AIDS.... The point is that you
felt the need to be punished."
The Bible thumpers of the religious
right scream that AIDS is a punishmentfrom God. Now along comes a New Ageguru, Brenda Hoffman, whose ideas on
the issue are summarized by the above
quote from her "self-help" book, A
Glimpse of Your Future. In effect she isstating that AIDS is indeed a punishmentnot from God-but from ourselves.
Hoffman, a Midwestern variation
on Louise Haye, also speculates" "maybe AIDS is a cry of the belief system of many that homosexuality is unnatural or wrong." She bases her statements on a chain of reasoning-no,
make that a chain of gratuitous assertions-that goes something like this: 1)
You cannot contact any disease unless
you wish to, and 2) dise~e was created by humanity as a whole to "movethe planet in a particular direction." Behind the pseudo-science, of course, is astrong anti-sex, anti-homosexual bias.
If you would like to let Ms. Hoffman know that AIDS is caused by avirus, that no one willfully contracts thedisease and that homosexuality is neither unnatural nor wrong, write to her
in care of her publisher: Life Tapestry
Press, 1624,Harmon Place, Minneapolis,

cious resource air time as it sees fit.
Never mind that no one ever suggested
that Rooney be silenced, but just be prevented from preaching his bigotry and ignorance from one specific pulpit where it
could doa lot of hann (and remember,
GLAAD appealed to CBS to resolve ourcomplaints, not the government, which
would have been an attempt at true cep.sorship). Never mind that the gay andlesbian community's viewpoint is rarely
represented on CBS, or any other network or mainstream media outlet, a silence that is every bit as devastating as
true censorship.
What GLAADwould like to know is,where is the censorship sensibility hidingin the current brouhaha involving Newsday columnist Jimmy Breslin? To give alittle background, about two years ago

Breslin used the, word "fag" five times in
two sentences while describing the stateof the New York theater. In a totally separate incident that took place recently, hereferred to a Newsday reporter, ]i-Yeon
Mary Yuh, as a "yellow cur" and "slanteyed cunt," after she challenged him on
sexism in his columns.
According to The New York 'Pimes,··no less than three Asian-American organizations have asked for ,Breslin's dismissal;
another 51 (as of May 7) Newsday reporters and. photographers have signed apetition asking Newsday management to"respond with action." Petitions are being
circulated in the Asian-American community demanding that Breslin be fired. It
should be noted that Ms. Yuh has declined to call for Breslin's dismissal.
It will be interesting to s¥ if thesame journalists
who condemned. GLAAD for requesting Rooney's suspension (which we did only after our
initial attempts at dialogue with CBS
yielded nothing) will criticize thesegroups and individuals, too.
Let there be no mistake: GLAAD
condemns Breslin's racism and sexism,
just as we once condemned his homophobia. But we also believe that the
charges of censorship we experienced
during the Rooney affair were in actuality homophobia masquerading as political correctness. The lack of similar response, so far, to the groups now
demanding Breslin's firing, suggeststhat our interpretation was on target.
We encourage you to write to yourfavorite daily newspaper
and raisesome of these issues for thought.
Should you wish to raise them with
Newsday, write: Anthony Marro, Editor,
Newsday, 2 Park Ave., New York, NY
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When Andy Rooney was suspended,liberal and conservative journalists alikejumped over each other to yell "censorship" at GLAAD and CBS. Never mind
that CBS has a right to decide what goeson its airwaves, and to allocate its pre-May 23,1990

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elusive rights. (According to the April 4Interferon
Sciences press' release,
Hayashibara owns 24 percent of theequity of Amarillo Cell Culture.) Under
the new licensing agreement, Interferon
Sciences acquired three percent of equity of Amarillo Cell Culture.
Interferon Sciences is an 82-percent-controlled subsidiary of National
Patent Development Corp.
Dr. Cummins is president of Amarillo Cell Culture. Dun and Bradstreet
lists this company, incorporated in 1984,
as having seven employees and net
worth of $309, 351. Its current value
would appear to depend heavily on
how the world regards oral interferon.
In the U.S., a small study is plannedat Mount Sinai Medical Center in New
York. Joseph M. Hassett, MD. heard Dr.
Koech in Japan; he told Biotechnology
Newswatch that, "If even one-half ofwhat Koech reports in his uncontrolled
study is correct, it's important to repeat
the studies. If he is generally correct; wewill know in a matter of weeks." This
study plans to use the U.S. "natural" interferon product (Alferon N Injection). It
would be better to replicate the Kenya
trial with the same medication used
there, but apparently there was someproblem in obtaining it for this study.
The Mount Sinai. trial still needs Institutional Revi!'!WBoard and IDA approvals.
Another trial studied some patientsin Amarillo and Lubbock, Texas, treatedorally with Roferon, one of the recombi-, ,nanJ interferons available in, the United.. States. In a preliminary analysis, some,blood improvements were seen. Now
this study is being ended, and a new one
will begin with a different dosing schedule and with the Alferon natural interfer~
on, which was not previously available.
An informal monitoring study is
being organized in Ft. Lauderdale,
Florida. For information call Lenny at 'the PWA Health Alliance, (305) 763- ,

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General Reception - Tickets $50 each
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Internationally, a number of trials
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Beige wool QOu-•ble-breasted vintage 40s suit andvintage pin...
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individual. It's very
'me,' and it's exactIy what I'm feelingon any given day."Black rubber
shorts, Patricia
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can do anything in
my outfits thatanyone else cando in a pair of,jeans. I don't consider myself
dressed up, butthen again, life is aformal occasion."
Black rayon highwaisted skirt withbuilt-in cummerbund,109St
Mark's; vintage 50s
white cotton
blouse, Mary's on
1st Avenue; 1985
melon Stephen
Sprouse jacket;
vintage acid green
evening gloves,
upstate thrift store;
hat, Comme desGarljons; vintage,

sunglasses fromthe 26th Streetflea
market; fan from

Forced into

Madrid; plastic•

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varioull flea mar-positions. wekets.

scream and,yell and fightback. That
scarf! That
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they are finished, we re-claim our creations, rummaging
through society's back lots, back alleys and back woods,
re-inventing, re-working and re-wearing.
Michael,lyricist/designer. "1
can never find anything that I like. I
want things that aresoft yet are cut
masculine. I findtypical men's
clothes boring,,

plain and awful.
I like to make myown things and I
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"My clothes say,'Hello, I'm a Sagittarius. Would you
climb into mysugar walls?' For
summer, my outfits
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yard sale inAtlanta; multicolor cotton/polyblend top from
Andy's CheePee's, St Mark's
Place; 60s brownsuede vest, flea
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that perhaps I have been a bit tle room that, I believe, used to serve as are distributed,)
too hasty and it bit too skeptical the executive washroom before the sixth
At any rate, 'I'd rather hoped toin my assessment of the new medication. floor renovations were completed. Truth induce my friend, who asks to remain
Admittedly, I'm still hearing those voices to tell, I'm secretly hoping they'll name it anonymous, to join me in Dining Outlin my telephone but, on the other hand, for me one day since I seem to be just but he said he had just begun dusting hislast Thursday on my way to lunch in the about the only person who uses it on a refrigerator coils and, as it's a delicate
legendary OutWeek Commissary (and if regular basis, particularly in the wake of operation, he couldn't even· begin to estiyou ever come through on one of the this Phillip Morris boycott) and came mate when he'd be done and, please, tobuilding tours, I highly recommend the back t6 my office where I put on a tape . go ahead without him. In one of thoseGabriel Rotello chicken soup) I caught of The Berlin Requiem to sustain the freak coincidences too biiarre not to bemyself jauntily whistling the "Corday mood and began planning this week'strue, everybody else in my Rolodex was
Waltz" from Marat/Sade. That surely sig- Dining Out! adventure, A friend whotrying to tal<e care of last minute errands
nifies something though, of course, a knows about such things recently
before flying off, apparently en 1'nI1SSe, tohappy tune is on everybody's
lips infooned me of the opening of a new the Gay Games in VaQcouver.
around here these days, stemming from French-Trojan restaurant, The Judgment
It seemed a shame not to be ablethat rumor that management will be sub- of Paris, down in TriBeCa which sOunds to share this newfoundebullience' with•
Sidizing health club memberships for all tailor-made for the community. (ErnSt, at ,somebody but the column does comeof us as a first anniversary bonus (why the copy desk, says that, hencefol1h, the first, so I set out for TriBeCa alone, butelse would a meeting of the contributors preferred term is gemelnscbajt, denoting openly gay and proud of it. First, howhave been called for tomorrow night as it does the inclusion of the is6lated ever, I stopped for an aperitif .at theafter working hours?) and the mood is individual within the collective actf6n of ,revolving cocktail lounge of the Marriott
fairly infectious.
' the political people. I guess I was in Marquis Hotel. The pianist was playing
In these high' spirits, no less valid Manitoba when they held that meeting.
"It Only Takes A Moment" and I IJruckup a conversation with a gentleman
who was visiting here from Munich. We
got to talking about this gemetnschajt
business, about which he had somenovel and provocative opinions, andbefore I knew it the bartender was asking us to settle what amounted to a sizable tab. The gentleman, whose name I
forget, joked that the bill looked likethe reparations
demandedby theTreaty of Versailles and asked if I knewof another place where we could continue our discussion .. When he mentioned Versailles I suddenly realizedthat i'd entirely forgotten about The
Judgement of Paris. I thanked my new
friend for a stimulating evening-he'dreally given me a lot to think
about!-andI raced downtown in a•
taxicab only to discover the restaurant
was shut up tighter than a drum. Well, I
think perhaps an establishment withsuchan early closing time isn't tailormade for our gemetnschaft after all. T
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I'd ripped New Yom editor and publisher Ed Kosner to pieces and viciously
criticized his magazine 5everal times. But
rather than set me up with a hatchetjob, he seems to have taken my criticisms somewhat seriously. Coverageof gays at New Yom has increased a
bit in the past month. And Jeanie
Kassindorf's piece about me and "outing" offered me a forum to speak mypoint of view through 90 percent ofher story.
But the experiences of the highly
respected Dr. Lawrence Mass lead me
to believe that any improvement at New'Yom may be short-lived. A while ago,
Mass sent me a lot of correspondence
from a few years back between himself
and Ed Kosner and various other editors, ,writers and columnists at New Yom
regarding homophobia and gay invisibility at the magazine. And it seems that aband-aid approach was always taken:
People were reprimanded,<;overage
increased slightly for a little while, andthen it all went back to the same old way.
PROVE US WRONG TInS TIME, ED.
Keep increasing the coverage of gays
, and lesbians
yes, lesbians and notjust in stories regarding nightlife or AIDS
or "outing" but in all facets of life likedating and having babies and lots of'other things that homosexuals do. As
your magazine stated in an article a few
weeks ago, we account for alm9st a mil- 'lion people in µUs city. (We're certainly
10 percent or more of your readership.)
Root out the homophobia
there andrealize what is insenstive to this community. Address people like, Dorothy
Rabinowitz and John Simon if they
indeed offend whole groups of people.
There is still a despet;ate need, ten
years into this epidemic, for a mainstream publication to have regular, inci-

sive and feisty reporting on AIDS and all
the political issues surrounding it. As
your magazine also pointed out recently,
when people who run the media feelthey are not affected by AIDS, the coverage dissipates. Prove to us that that kindof callous insensitivity is not at New
Yqrk. And, if it might be, put people
affected by AIDS in positions on yourmagazine that will allow them to' write
about the disease. Have one of your gay
writers or editors become a regular AIDS
sleuth to write about the injustices surrounding the epidemic. Believe me,there is so much bigotry, mismanagement and corruption surrounding thiscrisis that you'd not only be doing ahumane thing, but-if you got the right
person to cover the beat-you'd' also be

It was ten years ago
when the inspiring
Vito Russo wasurging celebrities
to come out

the outside world. The really brave pe0ple are my friends and loved ones andeveryone else who are out of the closet and living and working in heterosexual environments.,It is they who have tolisten to the gay jokes in the office andwho have to fight back daily. It is they
who' have to constantly feel 'outnumbered, under attack and sometimes fearful. And it is they who have to take the
heat
from
homophobic
heterosexuals as well as from closeted andreactionary gays regarding my "terrible" behavior.
,
Just as fearless are those individuals
in this community 'who pioneered thisway of thinking, for it certainly did notstart here at Out Week. In 1974, two gay
men fro.m England, Andrew Hodges
withand David Hutter wrote
Downcast Gays, a pamphlet which
was sent to me by James, Woods at
the Unversity of Pennsylvania. i3hese '.
two guys had all of this stuff carefully
thought out and down pat before I
even knew I was gay. And it was ten
years ago when the inspiring Vito
Russo was urging celebrities in person to come out 'of the closet andwas writing letters to people in the
media attacking them for covering forpeople they knew to be gay by pairing them off in heterosexual relationwas the one who was'ships.
saying the "wrong thing at the wrong
time" and being ,chastised and suppressed by our gay leaders.
,San Francisco writer Steve Beery
first took Liz Smith to task years ago
about the hypocrisy of her position, pro-,fession and very life. And Harvey'Fierstein gave it to her himself when she
said
it was "distasteful" of him to thank"his lover when he won a Tony Award.
They and others were screaming
long before there was the comfort of thegroundswell of support that I now have.
This was all before me, and before thewonderous author Armistead Maupin
spoke frankly - naming names about famous gay people at his speaking engagements. It was all before Ian
McKell an came out in London andbegan speaking out strongly about theridiculousness of the closet. It wasall•••before ACT UPs across the country
began exposing the hypocrisy of closeted gay politicians who vore antigay.
And it was a long time before I beganwriting TIlE TRUfH
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providing riveting and fascinating reading. Ed, you could become one of ourheroes.
But enough about Ed.
I'd like to make some clarifications
regarding the misconceptions that haveswirled in the media about the outing
issues. For many readers, outing is seen
as something that originated here. And
many have sent notes or called to tellme that I'm brave for doing it.,The truthis that I'm not brave at all; for me, all of
this is fairly easy to do,
I have been lucky enough to set up
my life so that I am completely surrounded by gay people. I work in acompletely gay and lesbian environment. And I spend my more active off
hours in gay nightclubs, bars and meetings and my, more quiet times with thegay friends I love,
The only heterosexuals I deal withregularly are my landlord, cab drivers
and my mother. Such a life, where one
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At the premiere of Longtime Comsexism, anti-Semitism and homophobia
by asking me one simple questionpanion, a benefit for the Hetrick-Martin"Do You Wanna Funkr Positing "a low Institute for lesbian and gay youth, Sandown funky beat" as a political mani- dra showed up with a woman-they
festo, 'Without You I'm Nothing is noth- wore matching suits with different ting short of brilliant.
The World shirts--at five minutes before start timewith a sold-out house. She stood directaccording to Sandra is a schizophrenic
conversation between Karl Marx and ly in front of me; looked across the theSammy Davis, Jr. This film proves that ater and simply said "Son of a, bitch."anyone so compulsively obsessed with She then traipsed up and down thefame and celebrity as Ms. Bernhard ' aisles looking for seats, and judging fromshould understand how she, herself, is the numbers of "Jesus Christl"s coming
considered a role model in the dyke from her direction, I suspect that she•
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community.
Later at the party, Robi, the premiereliz: This was only proved by theattendance at the premiere (a benefit for TV bartender, shocked a few atten~AR);largely lesbian (I had the great dees-they had just seen her in the film
good fortune of running into two former, an hour ago. Timothy Hutton won
how shall I say it, liaisons, with their 'young men's hearts by offering a bite of
new interests), almost all of who loved his cake-and, Sandy, whose -outtakes
the film. During the "Do You Wanna were being shown at Quick! that
Funk?" sequence, the audience, well- night-never quite made it there.;dressed and well-heeled, was cheeriQg
Both Sydney and I would like toand screaming. Good for me since I has commend Nora Dunn of Saturday
felt conspicuously
under-heeled on Night Live for boycotting the Andrew
arrival.
Dice Clay episode. If more actors had
The party afterward at Time Cafe the strength and courage (let's face it,
was divided by those who ate and those putting your job in jeopardy requires
who drank. The men working the din- both), we might simply have better perner were dressed as harem boys, and the formers come to the forefront, leaving
women in a close approximation of sul- Qay, and David Geffen for that matter,in the dust.
, tans (or Akbar and JefO. During dinner,
Girls Night Out: Remember Jenny
Sandra go-go danced, was spun aroundby Michael Musto (perhaps trying to and Nancy' of the ill-fated Girl Bar
make her come clean about some of the revival? ' They have parted ways, and areissues which "are no longer to be dis- now doing competing Thursday nights.
cussed with her"?), and then set upon by Jenny's Girl Bar is at Pyramid ( a place
two women who were trying to remove that still has not issued an apology to
her dress. She kept her clothes,on, we those slandered, fired and assaulted injust kept on.
the Fag Bar/new manager fiasco; and for
At one point, all the lesbians gath- those who think it was hype, there are
ered by accident in the basement dis- people out of work and still trailed bycotheque, with murals of large-breasted lies who you can ask about it), andgirl-gangs playing pools. It was at this Nancy's Doll Bar is at Limelight (in the
point that aside from the Hot Boys of Chapel).
AmFAR( A,yner, George and John), I
We'll have more on them soon .....
knew none of the people here; a lot of,models who couldn't get into Handle
WITHOUT YOU I'M NOTHING
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Sandra Bernhard
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On Creating Prelude to a Kiss and,tongtime Companion•"ballsily wrote a card to Stephen
Sondheim and he was very encouraging. He had acutely insightful. things to say about the play I
showed him, character-wise andstructUre-wise. Basically, he told methat I was an OK performer but agood writer and that I should stick toby Otis Stuart

h, no, I don't mind smoke. I
used to smoke. I likesmoke."
Craig Lucas is momentarily
relaXed against a banquette. Dark,
lean, the 38-year-old writer is freshout of replacement rehearsals for his
Prelude to a Kiss, ticket of the
moment. Oscar-winner
Timothy
Hutton is taking over Alec Baldwin's
role for a week of performances at
the Circle Repertory Company on
Sheridan Square before the playheads uptown to the Helen Hayes
Theater, the Broadway house thatgave you Torch Song Trilogy. Prelude CLOSEUP
hits Broadway less than two weeks Playwright/screenwriter Craig Lucas,
before Lucas" first film script, forLongtime Companion" introduces
are wonderful professionally, and I'mmainstream American flIm audiences trying to enjoy them. But it's a harq
to a subject that has flooded print and time to be happy."
television but has missed the big, Professionally
speaking,itsaeen, the AIDSepidemic.
shouldn't be. The runaway success ofLucas is understandably distract- Prelude to a Kiss kisses goodbye toed, but the reason is extraprofession- Lucas' apprenticeship as a writer an~
al. A friend is being hassled by an , does so in the sweetest terms: his siginsurance corttpany. For a writer dis- nature at the bottom of :iseven-figure
contract for the flIm rights. It took atinguished among his peers as'the
decade to write. In 1980, after five
one who isn't autobiographical,: Lu~,is also the frontrunner among the years in chorus roles of Broadway
post- Torch Song playwrights who musicals from Shenandoah to the firsthave no need to explain being gay. meat, pie in Sweeney Todd, Lucas
The facts are obvious, making Lucas packed in performing for a typewriter.
and his generation, by definition, a "I have a big, brash tenor voice," hegroup for whom the real world can explains. "It's not a great voice, but
resist abstraction, even in an inter- Broadway choruses just need you toview. The details get too jagged: "I be loud. I was a closet writer theguess you could say that I'm the fla- whole time."
He'd been encouraged in thatvor of the second. I'm sure that willchange quickly, and I keep looking direction from some lofty heights.
up to see if,a building is going to fall Lucas' first mentor was his poetry
on me. But so many people in my life teacher at Boston University, Anne
right now are either sick or have just Sexton, who backed up her advice todied that I'm almost afraid to feel give New York a shot with a recomhappy. If I let that feeling in, then all mendation to her New York agent.
of the grief will come, too. Yes, things While in Sweeney Todd, Lucas says, he

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the form of director Norman Rene,
who gave Lucas the most precious
kind of encouragement a stage forhis plays at Rene Production
Company in Chelsea. "Basically,"
Lucas remembers, "the real struggle
for me was just getting to finish any- 1..thing. I was such a perfectionist that
I couldn't get past a, certain point
without junking the whole thing andstarting a new, one. Norman set
rehearsal dates, and I had to ftnish aplay." Their association continued'through the 19808 and all of Lucas'
subsequentwork,
includingLongtime Companion
The early circle of admirers did
not necessarily include the press: "~once watched a critic write in big letters across his notebook-witless.
You have to get angry and be upset
and disappointed. My first play got
creamed. No one would review mysecond play. My third play got
creamed again-'a trivial waste of
the actors' time.' It was liberating.
When I started back to work, I
thought, 'Puck it. I'll do whatever I
want.' ~ was forced back on my own
instincts. Short of calling it arrogance, if I wasn't happy_with it, it
wasn't going onstage. That was thebottom line-tofind what it is I
stand behind."
The emergent voice, obviously,
was sharp, ambitious and acutely
aware of the encroaching edge.
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Companion underlines the unthink"The film," Lucas says, "focusesable juxtapositions of the 80s theon the purely personal aspects of thecommunal heat, sexual and othercharacters' experience. It is not, In its
wise, of Fire Island against icy isolacontent, political, although I would
tion of an iron lung, the splendid
hope that it's effect would be political.
superfitiality of party time run smack"It's also very vulnerable because
Into the fmality of hard facts, the disit is the only movie on the subject.
tance from a Speedo to a soiled diaCaryn James in The New York Ttmes,I per. The characters are presented withsaid that it was a conventional TV
varying degrees of familiarity somemovie-this wasn't a review but a litup close, others' from a distance andtle slight she decided to give in her,keep you at the eye of the storm
coverageofthe,Sundance,
husband with a contract on her. Blue through the people you know, those
SII WCAS on,pa.1 7Z, Window shuffled its characters like a you've heard about, those you sud~deck of cards, dealing an evening at
dinner out of running monologues
that continuously collided into conversation. Sexuality was as ambiguous
as it was objective, a ubiquitous outlet. However heterosexual its format,
FUNNY, TOUCHING, AND VITALI"•- PII. T,,,,", ROLLINGSTONEMil".'
Prelude to a Kiss is the play that got
both Alec "Butch" Baldwin and"BEAUTIFUllY WRITTEN AND DIRECTED, A FIRST-RATE CASTI"- GuyFlII~y, COSMOPOLITANM"" ••Timothy "Together" Hutton to kiss.-.
Barnard Hughes. On the lips.
( WINNER! 1990 AUDIENCE AWARD UNITED STATES FILM FESTIVAL"If you're at all in touch with.. '"·"''''''0.'\, ~:<1'
yourself;" Lucas says, "every part ofyou has to feed what you write, theportrait you paint. You make yourself
naked when you put a work out inpublic. I would like to be free to write
only about gay people if that's what I
chose. I sort of feel like August
Wilson, who, when asked by Bill
Moyers if he's ever felt hemmed in by
only writing about Black characters---tf'
you can imagine asking August Wilson
that said there is not a human experience that cannot be contained in a
Black context.
"But I would like to write about
everyone, everything. I'm not interested in seeing another play or movie
that says it's OK to be gay. That'sfrom another generation. Being gay isriot innately more interesting thanbeing anything else. Any generalization you make in either direction isdangerous. Politically, the greatest
place we could aspire to, as gay people, is a place where we could be•
IHf SAMUfl GOlDWIN COMPAI! ,,' AMfRICAN PlAYHOUSf' IHfAIRICAl fllMs",,,,,"lOIGIIMf
COMPANION",
banal. As banal as anyone else. No
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knew this. Even if we (shamefully)
missed the off-Broadway smash hit ofWithout You, we had seen Bernhard
other places; in Scorcese's King of
Comedy or Roeg's Track 29 or, ofcourse, on Late Nigbt. Bernhard's brilliance comes out in all of these places
because it's the kind that is not easy
to hide. Unlike her more famous mayhave-been bedmate who so self-consciously (and successfully) constructs
her image and plays off the idea of
the need to do so, Bernhard simply is(only) her image; one feels she is naturally like this. The genius is in theawareness that this is "natural' ("reallife") and that it is so bizarre.
All of this comesout inBernhard's film. From its opening shot
we know to expect the unexpected;
an 18th century costumed and wigged
man plays Bach on the, harpsichord,personifyir.ei' <l strong and oppressive
Euro-centered tradition that the 'rest-of
the film critiques. And yet what we
get is not really so unexpected after
all; or so unknown. Instead, we recognize ourselves all too frequently as
Bernhard explores our desires toalways be what we're not and ourfears of being what we are. The film
unrelentingly and radically explores
issues of race, gender, sexual orientation and ethnocentricity.
For her purposes, Bernhard creates a series of frighteningly familiar
personas, One of the best of these is alounge singer dressed in an orange
satin jumpsuit with very, very long fmgernails. In this guise, Bernhard doesa brilliant rendition of Me and Mrs.
Jones, Each persona, in fact, performsa musical number, allowing Bernhard
to play more explicitly with her roleas performer, as well as with performance roles. (Her Diana Ross is aboutdrag and very good drag.) From her"Chane! Lady" to her "Cosmo Girl,'
Bernhard keeps you not so muchlaughing as enraptured.
What she does is funny, but notin any stand-up-comic sense of the,

CHANEL CROSSING"/ have one of those amazing faces"by Monica Dorenkamp

ay too many of us
probably know Sandra
Bernhard first as thewoman
who did it with Madonna,(well, who probably did it anyway,
despite the latter's Vanity-let's-be-Fairdenials), and only second as the
genius she is. Though Bernhard
wouldn't say no to an I-did-it-withMadonna-claim-to-fame (would anyone?), the film release of Witbout You
I'm Notbing will show a wider audience that grounds for such a claim
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beautiful, you just want more andmore. The writing-by Bernhard andher director, John Boskovich-is,
ultimately, what mesmerizes. A visit
to the 1978 gay bar scene has one of
my favorite lines: "Suddenly someone gives you a tambourine." To cite
it by itself is not so effective; in thisfilm, context is everything.
Unlike other comedians whocreate "characters," Bernhard always
remains herself; that is, she is always -,Sandra Bernhard playing someone
who is Sandra Bernhard· (something,she might argue, she always does
anyway). In doing so, she effectively
locates the world within herself,
explicitly pointing to how what is
outside makes what is inside. And inBernhard's case that world is specifi- 'cally not the Euro-philed' space ofthe ruling elite, but very much one ofAmerica with all its homegroWCl
diversity. Bernhard is a product ofAmerica (specifically of. the electric
mix of Flint, Michigan and Scottsdale,
Arizona, with Los Angeles and New
York city thrown in), exposing how
America has produced her and, byextension, how it has produced/is
producing all of us. Implicit, and often
explicit, throughout is a rigorous critique of these facts.
1he time of the film is right now;that is, some time after Bernhard's off~roadway success in her one-woman
show of the same name. Bernhard's
fame has gone to her head, and her
manager (well played by Lu Leonard)
has sent her back to her humble
beginnings in Los Angeles where sheplays to a mostly Black, very unresponsive audience in the "ParisianRoom.' Before her show begins, we
see Bernhard in her dressing room,
getting ready before her mirror. The
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to sort through its many connected layers: a laundry list of despair set against
industrial imagery; an account of apregnant woman waiting impatiently
by Karl Soehnlein
and near hysterically for an abortion;
and a "love letter" seeking an emotional
connection in a relationship whichlacks one. Reworking found footagen the underfunded
and over- from industrial ftIms, Snider pulls meanlooked world of independent
ing from the mundane through herfilm, the experimental ftImmaker soundtrack's vivid language: "When.
stands as a minority within a minority. you say, 'I love you too' it feels like
Experimental ftIms are often ignored you're scraping me with a fork." Sheby high proftle film festivals because links the horrors of her social, biologithey're too "unprofessional" looking cal' and psychological realities to exam(Super8 or 16mm), or too short (usu- ine the futility of it all.
ally less than 30 minutes). Small (andLesbianfilmmaker
Barbaraequally underfunded) venues like the Hammer's latest work, Still POint, isCollective for Living' Cinema' and the also one of the festival's highlights.
Millenium Film Workshop feature
Hammer interacts with her lover onsuch films regularly, but often not camera, sharing an apple, putting on
Chapstick and hiking
through rocky terrain.
Their relationshipisframed by a fragmented,
questioning voiceover
alternating
betweenthoughts of "domestic
bliss" and "domestic
boredom." This search
for the relationship's
boundaries is a foil forthe film's other theme,
homelessness. Footageof beggars on the street,holding up a cup or.• ,GOTHIC tORMENT,
rummagingthrough
Crossing The Atlantik by Robin Guarino
garbage, runs amidst
voices of documentariuntil an artist has established' a body ans "defining" the plight of the homeless with detachment. Hammer splits
of work-wh1ch
can take ,years.
Conspiracies '90 is a remedy to this the screen into four images mirroringplight, Now in its third year, and/or contrasting each other. Still
Conspiracies brings together about 40 Point finds its focus at the intersecion
short films linked by their commit- 'to home and homeless ness by quesment to experimentation in form as tioning what constitutes "space," bothwell as content, and their refusal to public and private, inner and outer,emotional and physical.
be categorized or defined neatly,
Two other lesbian ftIms in this festiHigh on the list of must-sees thisyear is Greta Snider's Futility. This is a val center on romantic fantasy rather
dense film, both visually and emo- than social reality, In Crossing theAt/anttk, Robin Guarino creates a dark
world haunted by both the sacred andthe profane. A beautiful woman
ambles through her Gothic apartment,
tormented by visions brightly colored "home movie,s" of a family onvacation-that may be fantasies of her
current state of mind or remem- 'brances of a sunnier past. Her lpver,
dressed in butch drag and smoking apipe, enters the room unnoticed andwatches as
the first woman descends,
into madness, her mind filled Y:"ithvisions of the Madonna. Against"thebackground of cliched "suspense
music" and exaggerated sound effects,
Crasslng the At/antik shapes UP' as anunresolved ftlm noir, but a lush journey worth taking nOl'!-etheless.
Ana Maria Simo's How to Kill
Her is a funkier' version Of lesbian
love lost,
more
angry
than
anguished.
Femme fatale Maura
divides her time between sleepingon park benches, concocting methods to murder her ex and' visiting ,her skeptical and 'slightly off-balanr;e 'therapist,
Dr. Stern. Ultimately,
Maura gets no satisfaction,
jµst
another night on the bench. The
film's revenge theme begs comparisons with Sarah Schulman's After
Delores, exhibiting a first-handknowledge of the violence beneathpassion's surface.
In addition
to these films,
Conspiracies dips heavily into a
growing pool of gay and lesbian
experimental
filmmakers. Other
work showcased
includes Jim
Hubbard's
Elegy in the Streets,
Jennifer
Montgomery'sHome
Avenue, Monica Treut's Annie andJerry Tartaglia's Ecce Homo.' Also ofEUt, anote is Tanya Cipriano's ~compelling personal documentary
about Brazilian artist and PWA
Wilton Braga. In addition to being an
indIspensable forum for all experi,mental illmmakers, Conspiracies is atestament to' the strong and steadysignificance of queer ftIm. T,,'

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think poets make the best art writers," Eileen Myles was saying. We
were sitting over coffee, talking
about the upcoming premiere of her
new play, Modern An. "We're born todescribe."
Like a lot of what Eileen says,,that's probably true. But who elseknows it? Though familiar to the gay
community, to listeners and literati inthe general populace, she is still an
obscure poet. The play's opening canchange all that, following closely as it
does the success of her solo effort,
Leaving New York, which she recently
took from New York to San FranciscoandL.A.
She has chosen the theatrici1 arena
first for its access to a wider audience,but also because it gives a wider audience access to Eileen-an
outridernegotiating clever turns in the loops ofhuman interchange.
She declares herself to be a lesbian, who writes, rather than a lesbian writer.
While acknowledging that ,being gay isinherently a part of her work, it is, shesays, never the point of the work. In
her play, for instance, what her characters say about art is the art; whether or
not they are gay is anyone's
guess---their own, included.
Eileen'S poetry and stories--or sto-"ried poems, as it were are criticalwithout being confrontational, smart
but not patronizing. Her unusuaHy
direct style of address, in person or on
the page, enables her to plumb depths
of internal conflict not often spoken of
in polite society: It disarms some pe0ple, while completely alarming others.
As she has many times demonstrated, she is unafraid to place herself in
American history. A classic example isin the opening bit of Leaving New Yo~
first she reminisces about the image ofthe Kennedy clan she grew up watching, and then coolly superimposes her
own personality over it, wryly connecting her own screwy life to the undercurrent events of our time.
"I feel like a junk collectof,'~shesays, when I ask her to comment on
her choices. "I think things attract you
and it could be a conversation or apiece of green glass on the ground, or
it could be a movie you saw. You don't
know why, but all these things seem
charged .... It's like meeting people. You
don't know why you have to meet that
person across the room, but you gotta •get there. And you do. Your life is an
assemblage of such moments. A poem
is too."From a working-class backgroundin Boston, in whose circles making any
kind of art was taken less than seriously-in fact, undervalued-Eileen Came
to New York in 1974 and almost imme- ,diate1y joined the writing community
inhabiting the St. Mark's Poetry Project,
Some time later, she became theProject's director. Over the years she
has many times published work in its
newsletter.
As a legatee of the New York
School poets, who included FrankO'Hara, John Ashberry, James Schulyer
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urban and influenced by modernism
art. Eileen's earliest creative efforts
were, in fact, in drawing and painting,and today she is a regular contributor
to An in America.
She started performing in 1985,
and in the last couple of years has
published two books with Hanuman
Press Bread and Water and 1969. In
1988 she wrote, directed and starred inher first play, Feeling Blue, Parts I, n fir
m. In October, Semtotext(e) will bringout her latest collection, The Real
Drive.

The day we met for this interview,
Eileen arrived late. That made me' a little testy, and she got a little flustered,
but after a few minutes I was remindedof something of Gertrude Stein's:"Anything is an autobiography, but thiswas a conversation."

Are yoq on time for yourrehearsals?
,
Yes, I'm on time. I have to be. I'm
sorry. I had to go to ~e cash machine
and then make a copy of the script foryou,
You didn't have to do that.
Well, what should I have done? I
figured it was much better to do it
now ...

OK, well now you have to sit
there and look at me whlle I read it.
" No, really? Let me put it in orderfor you. Bear in mind it's going to be
rewritten.
.,
It is?
Oh, yeah! Rehearsal is the best
time to rewrite I think ...when you get
the voices there.

How many in the cast?
There's two in the first part,..
Well, how many in the play all
together?
It's either 12 or 13. There's somany dancers in the second part I
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theater pieces for entertainment
incourt, etc., etc.
A kind of occasional poetry.
,Yeah. Which again, the New York
School poets wrote you know, "forJoan Mitchell's birthday"-that would
be a Frank O'Hara poem...and incidentally, all those poets wrote plays.
Mayakovsky, one of my heroes, wrote
plays.
,
Is your play in any way politi-

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Photo: Dona Ann McAdams

are. Can you accept that answer or do
you really want to know exactly?
No.
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I don't think it's that important.

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Oh yeah, yeah. Mostly in terms offeminism and the art world ...
So do you think of yourself as asort of "message poet"?
I think everybody is.

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But you've been writing poetry

all your life.
Yeah, I think writing plays is just a
normal extension of being a' poet and,
historically, it always has been, Brecht
was a poet, Shakespeare was a poet.. ..
I got very interested in a Mexican
woman, a poet, of the Baroque era,
Sor Juana del la Cruz, she's great,,Your work is generally very
personal. but you say this play ismore politically intended. That's
mote than personal.

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It involves people as a group. It's
not a personal.voice, it's many. I mean
There's two people in the fl!'St parta play is just a poem with many voicIt's divided into two acts?
Three. There's two male charac- es. Like in this dance scene, it's sort ofters in the first part, and then there's, a sendup, it's a state-funded bad femisay, nine dancers in the second part, nist theater group is what it is, andso that's 11, and then there's two main they're wearing Roman dress.
This is the situation?
actors, and then there are seven
Yeah. I mean, I had the picture
dancers. 'first. I didn't know what these women, Seven dancers.
were doing but I knew I wanted a lot
Yeah. I'll check my figures later.
of women in Roman Legionnaire outAD right. Is it a musical?
No, it's ah ...er, yes, I guess it's sort fits-this is how I write and then I
of influenced by musicals. I mean, it'~had to figure out, what could they bea collaboration, like I'm working with doing? And I thought, well, they're
this choreographer, Ellen Fisher, and making a play!, As it goes along it getsshe comes from a visual art back- to be a kind of "Maedchen in Uniform"
ground, but what she really does is or a Catholic school, which is where I
mean, I'm completely
dance. I sat down and wrote the play grew up-I": with, you know, spots where dance influenced by that, and 50s 'IV: YourShow of Shows, Btlko, Jackie Gleason.
could fit in.
You just "sat down and wrote That stuff was great.

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ALMODOVAR..,•,, You're very open about who
you are and where you're at, sexually, politically, artistically ...etc. po
you think you limit your audiencethat way? By exposing so much ofyourself in your work?
No, no, no. At some point along
the way I just felt that I had to lookfor where the energy was, anc! often,
to me, it's the place where I'm most,See MYLES on pagen

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pulled sOme scarves out of her packsack and tied me-to the Christiandecor."
Another short piece, called "In
Harmony," allows wigs, hair extensions and stretch marks from too many
babies to take center stage. Playing all
five characters in the dressing room,
our hero relates her usually glamorlessexperiel?-ce of stripping last year at the 'Harmony
Burlesque
TheaterinTribeca. "Sex," she told me, "is thethread in everything I've done over thelast few years. And stripping has given
me courage to be open and accepting." Initially, she performed as a stripper to explore the sex industry,but
now she enjoys the financial indepe1idence it gives her. Sheuses the money
to create her art, and to bop from NY
to SF and back again with her loverand collaborator Tracy.
Diviana sees performance--stripping or experimental theateras a
way to empower herself and other Ies
bians, as well as straight women, gay
boys and, yes, straight boys too. She
says, "The thing that feels best to me iscoming out on stage." Whetherastraight club, at a gallery, or on a lesbo
stage, she claims, "Ultimately sexuality
is an expression of women's powerand strength." For the girls, she "letsher guard down, so it's very much likesex, an idyllic orgy ...It feels so fucking
good." For the mainstream, she's "notpreaching to the converted, but exp0sing lesbian sexuality in an informativeand empowering way." Appearing as aself-proclaimed "lesbian saint," Diviana
demands and, receives respect andappreciation from thoSe boys for her
confidence, humor and courage; "Ihave my fantasies, they can havetheirs."Her other two pieces, "Memoirs
Of An Adult Woman," and "Story ofcO," reflect a process of dependency;of obsession, of struggle and, ultimately, self-acceptance. On the stage for"Memoirs·(designedby Andrea
Stanley), a blow-up plastic sex doll,ou will go home wanting tofuck your girlfriend," promises
Diviana Ingravallo about theeffect of her upcoming performance at
PS 122 called Gone Bad. For the recovering Catholics among us, she, offers in
her most sultry, ltalianate accent, "You'll
want to find the first church, climb
through the windows to do it there."
Hailing from a_small, town in Southern
Italy, and more recently from the sexfriendly coastal haven of San Francisco,
Diviana graces us with succulent niblitsof her past and present lustfulness.
Diviana's
who your motherwarned you about and she puts it allout there on stage, Combining heavily
accented monologues with slides andphoto murals by Tracy Mostovoy, sheuses sensuous intonations, hints andobsessions to tease her audience along.
Whether she's making herself cum
while watching a couple of dykes go at
it in the next bathroom stall, or following her girlfriend to the "store" for some'drugs, she's honest, serious, funny andsexy as hell. When obvious inquiries tothe autobiographicalquality of her
work arise, she says, "I use my art as aform of exorcism without having to beliteral." Since, only she knows where
her art and life converge,' she says, "Iwant people to take the suggestive
road, not the enquirer road."
In "Hello Fucia" and "Ex-Catholics
Do It aetter," Diviana's erotic communication transcends the usual frill andflower metaphors in "womyn-lovingwomyn erotic writing," Because she's
tired of linear, predictable and boring
lesbo symbols, you won't find any
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about girls' panties and how things taste.
"Hello Fucia" is a sex-callin the dark,from one woman-who
can see theother undress, sleep, move about herapartment-to
another requesting thatshe keep her curtain open.
And Diviana's not above self-criticism, or as she calls it, "the self-humorous lesbian thing," where we become
the brunt of our own jokes. "I just might
break my heart open and let you in," thewoman whispers to Fucla, "what a lesbian thing to do."In "Ex-Catholics,"
she credits
oppressive religion and hours in catechism with her relish for performing
exorcisms beneath the watchful gaze ofa seven-foot Jesus. "Sins, guilt, punishment, saaifice, prohibition, they all haveadded a great deal of intrigue and kinkiness to my sex life." Maybe it's the frankincense, the drippy, sputtering candles,
or creeping Catholic guilt, or maybe it's
simply the seductive
Diviana who
inspires: "This time she looked up at
Jesus and driven by a sacrilegious
impulse, instead of falling into a postorgasmic lazy high, she undressed me,

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felt to hear so many different gay voices
gathered within four walls. The characters you will ftnd inhabiting the Sandy
by Dominique DibbeU Moss Room are as diverse as they come.
They are female, male, Black, white,latin, vanilla, into bondage, well-to-do,
working class, activists, in the closet,
he Cartoon Sbow at the Lesbian sober, using, bisexual, young, old,the Gay Community Center is 'urban-professional, earth-worshipping,
proof of the affinity between
you name it!
The beauty and punch of this showqueers and cartoons. It's no wonder, as
historically cartoons have lent them- is in part due to the particularity of eachselves to the musings of the iconoclast, artist's work and credit for this must go to
the introvert, the weirdo, the otherwise- the curatorial vision of Jennifer Camper,
silenced individual. The result of queers Burton Clarke, Howard Cruse and Mark
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Music,•Making Sense of Censorshipby Ernest Hardy'

he issue of censorship is one
that has otherwise sensible pe0ple talking in circles. It's not justright-wing fanatics who are urging
labeling or outright censorship; fromthe confusion and anger of those underattack come voices saying "well,maybe ..." And this is what is mostfrightening: that artists will now start
voluntarily censoring themselves, thatthey won't fight for freedom of expression for other artists if the politics or
beliefs in question don't tow a certain
line, or that they'll get so caught up in
their own double-talk and confusionthat they'll be virtually ineffective whenpush comes to shove comes to kicksome ass.
An example is the following
excerpt from an interview with Salt of
the rap group Salt-N-Pepa. A variety of
topics were discussed, but what wasmost surprising, and alarming, were her
conflicting and often backward views
on censorship. ', Did you know Salt-N-Pepa havebeen targeted by censorship forces
as one of the groups to label? The
song "Push It" is high on their Hst ofoffensive songs.
"Are you serious? That's very igno-

a hard time and I don't think that's fairbecause everybody has a right toexpress their opinion on whatever orwhomever, you know? This is the•United States of America, and we're
supposed to have freedom of speech.
If that's the way they [PE] feel, about
things, then I don't think theyshould; ..I don't know if they're trying
to discredit them or what, but themedia is, the media and wherever
there is confusion or controversy, themedia is there, so there's really not too
WHOSE SIDE ARE YOU ON?
much you can say about them."
Female Rappers Salt-N-Pepa
Whoa. Where to begin? FlI'St off,of those lyrics."
this is not an attempt to either ridicule r
How do you respond, then, toor slag off Salt. I think she reflects thethe argument that rap contributes to confused and baffled , takeon the,society's ills rather than reflecting
whole situation that a lot of people
them?
'have. What is morethan a little fright•"Some rap does. Not all rap; youening, though, is her not being morecannot categorize. The rap that g<;>es, informed on the matter, not even'yeah suck it, feel it, touch it, fuCk me,"knowing that her group has been tarexcuse my language, [but] I think it's
geted. It's this kind of obliviousness 'detrimental with problems like teen-age
that gives the other side' so much'pregnancy, AIDS and so on and sopower. The real kicker, though is, it
forth."
depends on what they're censoring..." UWith the rap community underthat doesn't send chills, it should.
attack from conservative forces, is What we all have to realize is that nothere anything they are doing toidea or thought, no matter how repugprotect themselves? Are they coming
nant we may find it, should be denied
together to form any organi7ations
a forum. This is on principle. If weor take any initiatives to offset cen- fmd what has been said, shown, (or,sorship tactics?
yes, even photographed) offensive,"Well, I think there are mixed views
then we counter with another idea,
on it. You know, everybody in the rap
express an opposing thought. To
induStry is not for censorship and everyallow any narrowly determined andbody is not against censorship either. I defined group who are in favor ofhaven't heard about anything like that [a censorship even a sliver of concession,
rap community effort to combat censorsuch as "it deperids," is_to open a,ship tactics]. I wouldn't join...It depends
doorway to danger.
on what they're censoring, to me. That
There can be little doubt that thewould be something that would be hard
homophobia or misogyny or racism of
to do because everybody has their own
an Ax! Rose, Big Daddy Kane, Skididea of what should be censored, 'cause , Row or Ice-Tis morally and sociallyI'm sure there would be some things onirresponsible-and
reprehensible.
the list, like Salt-N-Pepa, that I don't
What we must all bum into our heads,
agree with. {laughs}Maybe I would join; though, is that even if we as women
I don't know."
and/or gays and/or an ethnic minority
Do you think Public Enemy has find these people and their "art" sickgotten a fair shake from the media?
ening, we have to fight fOr their right to
The media has given Public Enemy
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rant."[She goes on to inform me,though, that she wouldn't' make arecord like "Push It" today because
she feels, it is not in the best interests of young fans and isn't a positive statement for those fans, andthen elaborates on rap in general]'There are so many groups I haveseen and heard that, the things they talkabout, I think, add to the problems wehave with teenagers: the promiscuity,teen-age pregnancy and the whole nine'yards. I think it's very disturbing, some,68

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n performance, the three women
who make up Scrawl radiate
warmth and good humor, which israre on stage these days. During
their last New York concert
Pyramid,
May 2) bass player Sue Harshe's mike
stubbornly refused to function during the
II!!"/'
first couple of son~. Instead of getting....
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MIDWESTERN DREAMGIRLS
with big, throbbing egos would have
Marcy Mays, Sue Harshe and Carolyn
done Sue and guitarist Marcy Mays
Photo: ehas Krider
O'Leary are SCRAWL
joked and pretended to go on a strike.
The three women frequently look at each one, He's Dtunk, on one ronvenient mother, obviously enjoy playing with each (Rough Trade). These two albums are twoother and, even better, they smile at each sides of a same coin, the women banging
other. Many female performers, especially on their instruments with an enelID' fueled"
ones, look only at the listen- by their technical limitations (except for
er/spectator, who is always assumed to be Carolyn, but more on her later). Marcy andmale. Check out a Bangles video: The Sue traded harmonies with the guts ofattitude is a big, inviting "come on," and those who don't have anything to lose,
they never look at each other. Their mes- least of all a musical reputation. These firstsage could have been inscribed on coffee two albums were critically well-received,
cups ("we are here to serve you") and I'm and Scrawl were compared to everybody
actually quite surprised their record c0m- from the Slits to early WIre to the Fall. Butpany never thought of it. Anyway, my mainly, they sound like themselves and,point, before this tangent (is this sweat I after hearing them once, you too would
can see pouring down on the keyboard?) recognize them anywhere.
was how tight-knit Scrawl looked last
Marcy rasps like a woman, not like a
Wednesday, and all the previous times I'd little girl pleading for attention. The lyrics
seen them live. They try to be more than she sin~ may reflect her confusions, insejust cute and harmless. Seeing them being curities or doubts, but she sure won't letthemselves---three friends
is the great- you forget that she's in a rock band,~ reward anyone could get from, going Scrawl doesn't feel the need to bury their
to a concert. On top of that they also Songs under a ton of "meaningful meanrocked and rolled and laughed and dls- ing"; they bare their emotions without
played some emotion, all in one Perfect frills, and without calling attention to it. For
hour of, er, yes, entertatnment.
,
instance, "Slut," a song from the first, Marcy, Sue and Carolyn "devil album, has lyrics that begin with self~epdrummer" O'leary have been playing recation ("Sometimes I think I'm turning
together in Columbus, Ohio since 1985, into a slut") but end up with defiance andMarcy and Sue readily admit they had to a' warning ("To look at me would scarestart working on theii instruments after you half to death.'')Carolyn, a better musician, joined. To be
Scrawl's
brand
new
album,
frank, this didn't really show on the SmaJ/mouth (Rough Trade) is produced byband's debut album, Plus, Also, Too, Gary "Mr. Slick" Smith, who also worked
which was issued on a small label in with Throwing Muses, the Pixies and the1987 and then coupied with the second Chills, in an avowed attempt to get a better

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production and, maybe, a bit more airplay. I'm not sure it'll work, but even if
the album isn't nearly as gripping as theprevious ones, it still has enough anger,
pain and joy to make you respond to it.
Sure, Marcy singing "I Need You" insteadof Eurythmics' Annie Lennox may surprise at first, but think again... Lennox
sin~ this song, with her impeccable technique, as an enormously successful
woman, a woman who could have anything or anybody she wants, but whosays she'd dQ anything for that particular 'person, because, gee, guess what, ~cess isn't everything. When Marcy Mays,
from Ohio, guitarist with a band that sold4,000 copies of their second album, sings
this song, it's literally about being readyto lose everything for someone. It's about
being a real life, vulnerable, human being,
not an unattainable ice queen. It comesfrom the guts, not an exercise 'itl'Slngmg
technique, and it's a hundred times more
touching than Annie Lennox's flawle$S
voice, But then, I'm the one who finds
k.d. lang boring because she's so perfect,
so rehearsed, that she leaves no room forreal emotion,
When all is said and done, the bestthing about scrawl is their drummer.
Most female drummers belong to theminimalist tradition established by the
Velvet Underground's Mo Tucker: a simple beat, enough to sustain the band's ,drive,but no extra frills, Later on, bands
like the Slits, the Blake Babies, 11th
Dream Day, the A-Bones, even the
Carpenters, all had women handling thedrums with economy. But not Carolyn"Animal" O'leary, The woman is a pleasure to observe during a performance
because she sustains a mean, complex
beat, uses cymbals a lot, stares at theceiling and shakes her dark han:, as if
thinking "Metallica here I come!" I loveit, I love it, I love it!
Scrawl: They are the girls-next-door
you knew all your life and who thenstarted .playing m~sic. They even got
good at it, much to your surprise, and,maybe, ~eir own. Now is the time toaitch up with them, while they can sti11

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who organized the Fully Erect! Fully
Aroused! reading series this year. The last
program for In Our Own Write this season, a reading on April 26 by four contributors to the anthology Poets for Life:

byJohn Wing

Seventy-Six

Poets Respond to AIDS

(crown), represented a changing of theguards, with Martinac humorously tellingthe audience, "Andrew takes over effective now." She was clearly looking forward to her new freedom.
This transition was a moment for
Martinac to look back on what the series
had accomplished, and what new directions Mellen will take. It was also a fitting occasion
to remember
thecontributions of Gregory Kolovakos,

participated, it was the first time they
had been paid to read their work.
"Gregory's idea," said Martinac,"was that our thrust shouldn't be devoted to the stars for the literary world, but
to the emerging stars. The people whoare not known, especially focusing on
women and people of color, whose
voices are often discouraged in manyreading series."
Most importantly, Kolovakos was
Martinac's mentor. "He helped me tothink the series all the way through.
Gregory was a one-man advisory committee." Kolovakos had been the one
to suggest having a program around
Poets for Life, and before the reading
took place, Martinac spoke to the audience about his influence, and finished
off by saying, "I want to express my
deep sadness that Gregory can't behere tonight." It was inmany ways' symbolic that
Martinac should finish ,off
her tour of duty wi~h a
program so meaDingful to
Kolovakos. "It gives me afeeling of closure to leave
now since G~gory died,"she said.

On a fall evening in 1988,
Paula Martinac was apprehensive about the turnout of thefirst event in the new literary reading
series In Our Own Write which she wascoordinating. The program---scheduled
to begin at 7:30 pm-was a poetry, fiction and dramatic readingby members, of Otber
Countries, a Bla,ck gay
mens' writing group. By
7:15, the capacious auditorium at The Center wasembarrassingly empty.
"I was terrified,· said
Martinac recently. "Myreputation
was on the
In Our Own Writeline." It was slightly comalso functions as an obtforting when at 7:30, areach program to bringsmall group wandered in,more diverse audiences towhich meant, at least, that
The Center. In the (mt, thethe audience would now
series has advertised in
not onlyconsistofBlack and latino newspaMartinac and her staff.
pers to publicize their readJust then, when failure
It is perhaps
ings.
Photo: Morgan Gwenwald
PASSING THE TORCH
seemed evident, a strange
Martinac's greatest legacy
thing began to happen. A Paula Martinac and Andrew Mellenthat bridges have beensteady stream of people started trailing
who conceived of the series, and who
built between various sectors of the gayin; soon there was even a long line waitdied of AIDS on April 16. The director ofand lesbian comrilunity through the love,ing to pay. By 8:00, 75 had been seated,
the literature program of the N.Y:S.
of writing.
Council on the Arts, and a translator of'and In Our Own Write was launched"In two years this has happened,"with the first of its many triumphs. It was latin American writing, Kolovakos spent
said Martinac. "We have drawn in so
also the first importantlesson that
his career nurturing poets and fiction
many women and people of color to
Martinac would learn about literary readwriters. His idea was for a series at The
our series-andyoung people, too."ings in New York: They never begin on
Center that would spotlight emerging talThe last reference is to one of the seatime.
'ent
and would have a multicultural person's biggest successes, a performance
After two seasons with the series,
spective.
It was Kolovakos
whoby a group of gay and lesbian students
Martinac-a
writer, editor of a literary
approached Martinac about organizing
from the Harvey Milk High School.
jouma! and staff member of the Feminist the series, and it was he who wrote theIn addition to readings, In Our Own
Press-bas resigned from her volunteer
first grant proposal to the Cultural
Write sponsored two writing workshops,
position in order to concentrate on her
Council Foundation, which has continthis season for the first time, and plans to
own writing projects. Her replacement is ued to support the series to the present
increase the number next season. The
Andrew Mellen, an actor and director,
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"Our woIkshops are a safe place towork on your craft," said Mellen.
, "Sexuality is sometimes, used to invalidate
your work. It's a relief to be with othergay and lesbian writers, where you aresupported socially and with your craft."
Martinac agreed, and told of Qow,
at some workshops she had attended,
she had been asked why all of her characters were lesbians. "I would reply,'Why are all your characters straight?' In
our workshops, we can deal explicitlywith every type of relationship."Since the series' mandate is to showcase the broadest array of writers, it is necessary for Martinac and Mellen to depend
on a committee of volunteer advisors.
Sometimes a writer has submitted work to
Martinac in order to be considered as areader, but mainly she has relied on thecommittee and her own judgment.
While it would seem that Mellen
has a tough act to follow, he is clearly
more excited than intimidated by what
the future holds for the series. "Paula
has created such a good foundation
for me," Mellen said. "She has handed
me something to work for; the series issomething that has been entrusted tome. Nothing will be changed in theserie~, only expanded. I hope I can
open the series up to all voices in thecommunity. I don't want this to , be myseries. Everyone is going to be included, and I defmitely encourage people
to volunteer and to participate.""
A committee for the series will meetonce a month under Mellen's coordination, and by the end of June he plans tohave next season's roster of events in.place. Mellen also plans to have the first
benefit for In Our Own Write.
Though Martinac had said that
she was leaving the series because"it,was time for new energy," her last program found her in high spirits, without
the slightest trace of fatigue.
Michael Klein, a poet and the edithe
tor of Poets for Life,. opened
evening by reading Adrienne Rich's
poem about the loss of a friend to
AIDS, In Memoriam. "...If I could takethe hour/death moved into you undeclared, unnamed!
even if sweet, if I
could take that hour!between my for•ceps tear at it like a monster.". Later, Klein spoke about how~,

necessary In Our Own Write is for
emerging writers as a way of coming
out. Another poet, Maureen Seaton,
said, , "It's such a relief to be here. At
other readings
my poems to mylover just wouldn't go over. It's notthat the audience is hostile, it's morethat the subject matter of my poems
is ignored."
And Honor Moore,
whose ftrst book of poems, Memoir(Chicory Blue Press), was publishedlast year, said of the series, "It's just awonderfulexperience
being herereading in front of my community.

As a poet, 1 have a totally base line
connection with. the audience that 1
never feel anywhere else."
For Martinac,
the evening
endedwith her in her office,preparing
it for its new tenant,Andrew Mellen, Most likely, shewill be assisting Mellen for awhilewith the upcoming
series. "I had
been feeling guilty thinking that I
had to stay on as coordinator or theseries when I felt that I should be
moving on. I'm so thankful I got
Andrew!" ...

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Festival-thattakes the position that
AIDS is a gay disease. I say, 'Where'
does this movie say it speaks for ,theAIDS epidemic?' I carne to feel that themovie could not take on the burden of
all those responsibilities and remainhonest. It could have been great propaganda and had a Black, a Jew, apoor person, a hemophiliac
withAIDS, or it could have been about areal world I really knew and that reallyexisted. As far as I'm concerned, thebasis of that kind of criticism is homophobia, as if it is not sufficient to tell
the story of gay men who are dying.
"I decided to tell the truth about aworld that I knew, and part of the .,tory
was that this was hermetically-sealed
community. You think that's changed?
Have you been to Fire Island lately? Iknow gay men, who, if they volunteer towork with AIDS cases, don't want to go
to Harlem Hospital. It's fear, the same
fear that keeps the rest of the country
from wanting to shake your hand or
mine. Gay men have found out what
they have in common with people inHarlem Hospital, and, if the people
there don't see gay men as their allies,
we're all sunk. Because the truth is that
George l3ush and all the .people who
helped elect him would just as soon w~
all die. George "No New Taxes" Bush,he of the kinder, gentler America, is still
not spending any money on social services.
"I feel very vulnerable, and, if ourfilnl makes people angry, I hope thosepeople make a movie. Show what has
to be shown, I was angry enough tosay, 'Why the fucl:chasn't there been amovie about AIDS with gay people atthe center of it?' In the, ten years of thisepidemic, there have been 55 novels
and stories and lV movies about every, one else affected by AIDS. Why hasn't
there been a movie about gay men andthe effect of AIDS on their lives anda,world?
"In the film, Willy taking Sean's
hand after he's died and holding
it-that's
something our generation
would never have known before
AIDS. Some people fmd the film lightening ultimately, and they come away
, feeling less fearful. One of the things
that's happened in the wake of AIDS
is that the word homosexual is on the,news every night. That was not true ten
years ago. It is the only consistently
good thing I can find in this wholemess. If another writer does anothermovie dealing with AIDS, I'll be happy.
It's the not talking about it-all of
it-that drives me crazy. Covering yourearS is not a solution to anything." 'Y
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shot sets the tone for the film as it puts
us in the position of literally watching
Bernhard watch herself. Any voyeuristic
pleasure we may have in doing so isimmediately called into question as she
directly turns to look at us, making her
and 'us self-consciously aware of eachother's, and our own, roles. And when
she addressed us, she eerily (but not
surprisingly) says exactly what we havebeen sitting there thinking: "I have oneof those amazing faces."
If the time of the film is right now,
the time in the fIlm--or more specifically,
in ,the show within
thefilm-moves
in and out of the past
three decades, a time seemingly determined (like everything else in the film)by Bernhard's own life. The film is 'political autobiography that shows that
all autobiography(the personal) is
political. This is all further reinforced,
and complicated, by images and interviews that connect Bernhard's numbers.
These
includeinterviews
withBernhard's
managerandanactor/friend, Steve Antin, as well as the"real" star of the Parisian Room,
Shoshanna (Denise Vlasia), a stripper
who looks and moves like (none otherthan) Madonna (and this is not the only
allusion to her-even
Warren getsreferred to). Shots of one other character, Roxanne (Cynthia Bailey), connect
different scenes. Never speaking, she
acts as something of an alter ego forBernhard, as a bond between them isestablished both visually and themati~
cally. All of this helps expose what
Sandra Bernhard is and is not andmight be.
Without You I'm Nothing is allabout looking. It challenges what wesee by exposing all that we might not
be seeing. It also challenges how we
present ourselves as often with' an ideaof who is looking as without When
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up; "Without me" she says first, andboth-as she has made clear throughout the film-ate equally true. In the
production notes, Bernhard is quoted:"My whole career is about creating false
mythology .. .I like the idea of people
thinking things about me that are completely untrue." One of the effects of her
ftlm is to question and confuse ideas of"true" and "false." It is, like much of thebest visual, film and performance art
being done today, entertaining on amass-appeallevel and radical, subversiveand challenging. So go see it. 'Y
MYLES from plill 65,

embarrassed.
If I say the thing I
shouldn't say ...that's what I'm attracted
to.
Taboo stuff.
Yeah. I think at the core of anything I write there's .always one thing
I'm not talking about, so it looks, likeit's about this but really it's about drat. I
think there's just a sea of repression to
be activated! There' are so many things
you're not supposed to say, and, they
always turn ·me on.
Are you saying your writing is aform of mischief.
Yeah, I like thatl
You feel an underlying need to
be bad?
Yeah. Yeah. 'Y

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and a jungle of smaUer dolls on sticks
populate Diviana's surreal field of vision.
As she recalls the exhilaration of lusting
after her older sister, she faces the poisonof homophobia and conformity. "My sister," (who is traditionally married withchildren now), "has always had full lips. I
wanted those Iips...never understood if I
wanted them to be on my face or if I
wanted to kiss them." She attends to thegirl, soothing, for example, the pain andvulnerability of her-secret abortion,"admiring her fragility because it makes
me feel strong." Her sister, however,
betrays the affections: "She never confesses her own sins but always prays for theredemption of mine.", Left to her own resources, having left
Italy and come out simultaneously at 19,
Diviana has fought the relics of her home
life, the need to care for others, "thesearch for and loss of a love source."
Involved with this pain, the new piece,•~"Story,of cO," is in some ways her mastdaring yet Posed tall and naked on a six
foot chair, Diviana recounts in fragments
the story of a dependent: needles, drugs,
sex, love and insult "The craving of the, things you brought into my life. The
absence, abuse, hostility ...Bring me into
your life. I want to be what you crave, I
want to spill out of your veins. I never,want to be enough." She is turned on:"The first time you tied up your arm 'with
the phone cord, unplugging it from the, phone machine, I laughed. I found it
amusing like a child's bravery." Then she
is turned off: "The fourth time I was disgusted and left the room." She ends with alove letter to a love removed; crying andjonesing, while actually craving to have
her old (dean) baby back. The piece takes
a minimalist approach, but as with all ofher work, the impact is substantial. Expose
yourself to Diviana at PS 122....
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D&F from peg_ fi1style. His delicate lines and dramatic use ofcontrast are nicely wedded to his frequently serious and sometimes chilling themes.
An excerpt from his unforgettable
Satyr-in which a long-haired fairy is
chased by doset-ase fag bashers only totransform himself into an invincible
hooved hunk at the crucial moment-is
happily on exhibit here.
Robert Triptow's work reflects his
knowledge of comic strip history and clev- ,erly reworks it from a queer perspective.
The hilarious Yag Thlgb; which originallyappeared as the cover for an issue of ,Gay
,O>mb; is a delightful spoof of "The Par.illel
World" from Supennan Cornia;--« bizarre,
planet in which everything runs backwatds.
Marvel's version has an ugly twin ofSuperman who speaks in a backward
tongue and is as evil and amoral as
Superman is good. Triptow's version showsheterosexuals Supennan and Lois Lane inan embrace, surrounded by those mussyhaired Parallel World inhabitants who taunt
them with questions like, "Hey, honey!
Why not you be feminine bulldyke?"
The traditiOil of erotic comics for gay
men possibly predates any other fonn ofgay cartoon. The curators of this show
made an interesting choice in showing only
one sample of a well-known erotic artist,even a passing affection for cartoons tohuny and see.
The drawing styles represented are asdiverse as the cultural perspectives.
Howard Cruse is pedtaps one of the mostwidely recognized gay artists whose strip,
Wende~ ran in 1be Adwcatefor years. His"professional" style is a wonderful subver- Sean, while showing several works from asion of Arr:bie comics, with its dean-lined,
pamphlet on safe sex, all of which explicitly
wholesome, turned-up nose look, which
depict safe-sex techniques. (This is the very
he uses to eloquently decoristruct institu- painphlet, incidentally, which was cited bytional homophobia.
anti-sex: homophobe Senator J<:S5e Helms
Alison Bechdel is our foremost les- as evidence of the depravity and 'promobian cartoonist Her Dykes to Watch Out tion offound in AIDS eduFor books and strip are inunensely popu- , cation Iitemture.) Had the curators wanted,
lar. While there are foremothers from the the show could have contained more samunderground scene, women like Mary pIes from the erotic cartoon tradition, as
Wmgs and Roberta Gregory, Bechdel has there is plenty of it (for men, anyway), andushered in a new em of accessible, witty some d it is quite good (though inky bodicommermuy on the post-women's studies ly fluids are exchanged by the bucketful).
I~:lesbian existence. Along with other les- The safe..sex: cartoons were interesting prjbians who've followed this postmodem' marily from a historical and political pertrend, Bechdel unapologetically employs a spe<:tive, while not necessarily from a
popular fonn (the soap opera-style cartoon cartoon history perspective.
Dykes, sadly, are lagging in the area
strip) with an inlplicit lesbian, ~of erotic cartoons. J.E. Randall, whE>sefeminist, worldview, a maneuver previous
genemtions of gay and women's libbers ~have appeared in On Our Bocks,
have cons~dered contrad!-ctory ,or simply is one of the few whose work consistently
impossible. Her graphic style is something , includes some erotic element.
I find myself wanting to call "dykey," butA very wise faiIy once <bietved to me
probably owes much to the utilitarian,that when a person says, "fm gay," it's likea rxxm. because of the depths that person
semi-naturalistic lines of Doonesbury. ,had to plurpb within themselves before
In tenns of craft, the work of Bulton
being able to make the statement. By that
Clarke stands out. Clarke, a self-taught
artist, draws in a realistic and cinematic
token, I find even the mast col1lIIleltially-

oriented of these strips beautiful. U!onanJ
and Larry follows the sitcom-like antics ofan upper middle-class West Hollywood
couple, and is draWn by Tun Barela with agraphic artist-like polish. While my own
indinations might run more toward the ra~ical lesbo andstyle of Alison
BechdeI, there's still something touching in
U!onanJ and Larry that Apartment 3-G will

never approach.
It should be noted that not all of thesecomics are comic. Several of the strips I.
touch on serious themes. Two of the works
are autobiographical sketches by aJtisIs whoare ill with AIDS. Robef1ll Gregory and N.
Leigh Dunlap both have strips which deal
with alcoholism and drug abuse. Ivan\elez, an artist from the South Broox, deals
with the problems of teenagers, both gay
and straight, in his Tales of the CIoset~. .'In visiting this thoroughly enjoyableexhibition, make sure to give yourself agood hour to read every strip. I guarantee
youll wish you could take home a catalogue....
The cartoon Stv::Jw--isfreeifcharge.1be.sandy Moss Room is also used for rneetin&S so
it's best to call ahead to make sUre you can
get in (212) 620-7310. Convenient times are
Monday through Friday, 9 am to 5pm, ,and,
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express it-then exert every ounce ofpower to ensure that an opposing view is,
given the same amount of exposure andcoverage. We learn from having the workof people 'like those mentioned above out
in the open: how deeply entrenched bigoily and ignorance is, how much work
there is to be done, who our real &iends
and allies are, based on the reception given
this work (notice the kid glove treatment
given Public Enemy from the so-called
alternative press concerning the horooph<r
hie track "Meet the G That Killed Me" fromtheir new album Fear of a Black Planet, andof the nature of hypocrisy....o...()Uf
own aswell as that of others.
What we must remember is that allart functions as (or at least sets the frame..
work for) dialogue. And we are frightening1ydose to a monologue ....
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Square; $25; TUE-FRI at 8, SAT-SUN at
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lowing the lives of eight gay men in
New York during the AIDS crisis;
Carnegie Hall Cinema, 7th Ave at fj1 St.
265-2520; Angelika Film Center, Houston& Mercer Sts, 995-2000,HERITAGE OF PRIDE Jun. 23 Rally: Our
Vllices,in Union Square
Park(N,R,4,5,6,L trains); with MCs Knt Clht- THE CENTER NATIONAL MUSEUM OF
ton an,d Everett Quinton; special greetLESBIAN & GAY HIST.oRY Cartoon
ing from Ov. Carlsen and Ivan Larsen, Show, showcasing the work of 40 car'one of the first six gay married couples toonists who deal with the lesbian and HERITAGE OF PRIDE G.n .... 1 _berin Denmark; speeches by UlYaslli Vaid , gay experience; with work by Jennifer
ship meeting, at the Center, 208 W 13
(National Gay and Lesbian Task Force); Camper, Howard Cruse, Mark Johnson,
St, 8 pm, 691-1774 (also JUNE 11)
Joseph C. Steffan, gay ex-Naval
Burton Clarke, Jerry Mills, OutWeeKs
GAY MEN'~ HEALTH CRI'SIS May 2,0 Academy Midshipman; Paula Etlelbrick
Bechdel; 208 W 13 St; daily, 4-6 pm; 620- ISLANDERS' CLUB sees Aspects lit
AIDS Walk New Yo,*- over 12,000 have (Lambda Legal Defense & Education
Lllve, by Andrew Lloyd Webber; $60
7310 (thru MAY 25)
already signed up for th'e 100kilometer
Fund); C... ig Lucas, author, and Nonnan
memberS/$70 nonmembers; 633-8898
fund raising ,walkathon,starting and Ren., director, of Longtime Companion; RAPP ARTS CENTER presents She WIllI,
ending !!tUncoln Center, B'way & 65 St; Joan N.stle(Lesbian
Herstory
SAG E Workshop for M.n and Women:
W.Oncellle Helmet Milker's Be.utisign-in 9 am, 'opening ceremony 9:30 Archives); husband-a nd-wife' performful Wife, with Peter Halasz, who plays his Reaching Out Reaching In, pit ~ "cream, walk begins ,10 am; sponsors and ers Ruby Dee and Olli. Davis" five lot- own grandmother in her final hours; with ative arid fun exercises to help you
walkers call80~-6310,
tery-selected
membersof, the Agnes Santha, Cora Fisher, Lazlo Nady; relate sp!lntaneously and to develop,
community; entertainment by Charles
22D E 4 SI; MAY 17-19 at 8 pm, MAY 20 at , skills for becoming aware of your own
ACT UP/NY Mity 21 Smming lit the Busch, Batacuda Bells, Funny Gay 2:30 & 8 pm; MAY 23-24at 8 pm; MAY 25 at inner experi!,nces"; at the Center, 208
fUdfJII I"..""". ot .Hedin
Bethesda, Males, vocalist Cathy Curtis, comedian
W 13 St; 8'-10 pm; call Phillip, 741-2247,
8 & 1~ pm; 529-5921(thru MAY 25)
MD; to protest federal AIDS treatment
Sara Cytron, Lav.nderLight
Gospelfor last-minute openings ,research: ",let the record show ...ten Choir, Toshi Regan &. her band, Lesbian
PAUL ROBESON THEATRE presents
yaari~oneljjlliiin d~lIar~_.onedrug"; 9B9- .. Gay Big Appl. Corps marching band; G.org. Joshua's Acrllss the Pllnd,
1114for bus InfO
(see MAY 12forteach~in)
2-6 pm; 691-1774"homosexuality, seduction, & blackmail,,,•in the Vietnam'War"; 40 Greene Ave,,
URBAN SCRAWl Call tor AIDS-related
HERITAGE .oF PRIDE Sunday, Jun. 24 Brooklyn (C train to Lafayette); $15 genstreet alt to displ,ay "in urban locations March down Fifth Avenll., starts 12:30 erill/$10 seniD£s;FRI & SAT at 8 pm, SUN THE NEW SCHOOL li'-Week Am.rican
throughout ~an ,Francisco" during the pm; line-up at Columbus Citcle & lower at3 pm; tix 718{783-97!H'(thru MAY 27)
MusicalTbeatie Course, taught by pub6th Internatiohal
AIDS Conference in, 60s off Central Park West; 691-1714
lisher Andrew Velez; tonight, week 5: TBA;,.' ' ,
June; non-ret'urnable
art solicited
MUSEUM .oFM.oDERNART Paso/ini Ret- 66 W 12 St; 6-7:30 pm; .$15; New School
includes posters, stickers, faxes, sten- GAY GAMES III In Vancouv.r, Aug\.lst 4- rospective, his entire body of work, newly 741-5600,Mr, Velez (days) !f:9..o169
cils, handbills, booklets, Other "non-tra11, 1990 offers a Free Info/Accommodarestored and r8tii1ed: Attacone, Mamma
ditional'formsof visual expression"
tions Brochure: 1IOIIIII2JI.-1109
Roma, La Ricottli, G'ospel According to GAY & LE:>BIAN ALLIANCE AGAINST
which will catch the eye Of the 5,000,
MBtlhew, Oedipus Rex. Teorema, Pig Pen, DEFAMATI.oN Volunteer Op.n House,
news media representatives and, 12,000
Oecameron, Arabian Nights, Salo, Can- to recruit and encourage new volunparticipants; anonymous and/or collecterbury Tales; 708-9490 (recording), 708- teers in GlAAD's struggle to oller cometivework encoura'ged, especially by!I!iOO (office) (thru MAY 29)
stereotypes and misinformation about, those who "do not regard themselves(Also see the daily listingsforlesbians and gay men; refreshments
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THE NEW FESTIVAL 1990 (NY INTER- will be served; SO Varick St, Suite 3E;
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PlIsitivtJ; C.nter B.nefit featuring Vito RUllO'S a coalition of 37 New York lesbian orgaSilence=Deatir. TUE-SUN at 8 pm; Positve: Im.ges , tram the Eighties, Biograph.
nizations committed to lesbian visibility;
THE CENTER Jun. 11 Garden Party is TUE-SUN at 10 pm, plus SAT & SUN at 4 Cinema, 225 W fj1 St; box office opens illI, women welcome; at the Center, 208
now a\!ceptingsponsors($100-$I'iJoo) pm; box office, 598-7150 (after 1 pm); noon ,for each day's screenings; $7 gen- W 13 St; 6:30-8:00 pm; 719/693-8458
and advertis.ments
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recording. 598-7171(MAY 4thru MAY 17)
eraV$6students and seniors 60+; five..
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weekday passes (for films M-F, noon - GAY MEN'S'HEALTH CRISIS HIV H.. 11b,5pm) for $25; five general passes (any Seminar: Benefits Information
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Mile, a, musical the8ter fairy tale with program info (starting MAY 26) 966- 6th Floors; 7 pm; free; 807-6655, TOD'du. JULY 1); 741-2247,
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queens, kings, witches, princes, dwarfs
645-7470 (this and every 3rd TUES)(E~itor's note: for specific showings ofand animals, exploring the "adult
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RIGHTS presents Hon. Dennis ".Leon,groupsieontig.nts, v.hicles, floats, bal- Washington Square South; $10; THU-.
.NYC's new and first openly gay Commisloons (to, be held, not released), and SUN at 8 pm; 777-0033 (thru MAY 20)
THE NEW DUPLEX presents Funny Gay, sioner of Human Rights, leading a spe,
Community Lottery for Five SPeakers
Milles,
Jaffe
Cohen,Danny
cia I ,Forum: He.ling Divisions in the(who get 3 minutes to add'ress any RIDICULOUS THEATRICAL C.oMPANY McWilliams, Bob Smith; 61 Christopher
AIDS Community; at the Center, 208 W
gay/lesbian topic they wish); 691-1774 revives Charles Ludlam's Der Ring Gott St; FRI and ,SAT at 10 pm; $10 t 2-drink
13 St; 8 pm; $4; 627-1398 (Editor's note: .
(all forms due by JUNE 1)
F.rblonjet: • m.stelWllr#t, wh ic h wo n min.; reserva1jons 255-5438 (open run)
CLGR meets the first Tuesday of the, 8n Obie in 1977, a "magnum opus in themonth and holds forums on the third
HERITAGE OF PRIDE Sal.s &. Infonnaspirit of Wagner's Ringey.:le, but in far Longtime Companion, a feature film fol- Tuesday.),

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Depth and Uniquene •• of Gay Lo"e,and -ways of expressing your deepest
self and opening the core of that self to MEN OF ALL COLORS TOGETHER/NY
Sesslo.:this profound love experience-; at the Consciousness-Ralslag
Center. 208 W 13 St; 8 pm; $8; 255-2813 YOIInr Illy Bolland Chain? A Foen 00
Couple.; at the Center. 208 W 13 St;(Editor's note: The presenters -deal
with mythology. Jungian dream inter- 7:45 pm sharp; 222-9794.245-6366
GRfATER GOTHAM BUSINESS COUN- pretation. a,~iIlove/sexuality- in their
BODY POSITIVE Frld.y Nlgllt Socl.l:
CIL presents A Preview of Oh SIIppho. lectures and workshops.)
IIIix 'n' IIIatch or Tbe Douil/e-BlIlJd
Oh Wilde .nd S,.,... two Pride Week"'acello DIJfiIJ, G_e. a safe. fun. volLAVENDER HEIGHTS Lacture Series:
productions of the Village Playwrights;
1
untary. to-minute activity which -hasVito
Russo.
journalist.
long-time
advowith cash bar and free snacks; at the
been known to lead to ro'mance-; forcate
forlesbian/gay
rights(foundingCenter. 2011W,13 Sf, 3rd Floor Network
NY ADVERTISING & COMMUNICAHIV+'s and friends; at Rutgers Church.
member
of
GM
GLAAD
and
ACT
UP).
Room; 6'-9pm; $5; Center 620-7310 (EdiTIONS NETWORK Meeting & Discus236 W 73 St (off B'way); 9 pm - midtor's nOl8: part of the proceeds benefrt AIDS activist. author of The Celluloid
sion: OutWeei's Top Br.ss. withnight; free; info 721-1346 (Editor: Body
the Center; the GGBC. the Chamber of Closet: Homosexuality in the Movies; atPublisher Kend.1I Morrison. AdvertisCornerstone Center. 178 Bennett Ave Positive has a social event at theCommerce of gay/lesbian professioning Director lOt Winter. Editor-in-Chief
als. meets third Thursdays. same (one block west of B'way. take A Train church every 1st & 3rd, Friday of theG.llrlelRotella. Features Editor,
Mlc ......... o Slgaorlle; at the Center. time/place. except no meeting in June.) to 190 St); 8 pm; $7; John Mugge 603- month.) ,4665 (days). 304~2471(e.ves) (This lec, 208 W 13 St, 3rd Aoor Network Room;
6:30-9'.30 pm; $5 members1$7 non-mem- CONNECTING GROUPS starts a Six- ture caps the spring series.) ,Week Connecting Group for Transexubers,(first drink free); 517-0380
als. -for men and women who are GAY MEN'S HfALTH ,CRISIS HIY Pre'ventiv. Healtll Seminar. with informa'UNCIRCUMCISED SOClffi/NYC Rush gender conflicted and/or transexual:
Night; in the East Village; 7:30 pm; $8; pre-op. post-op and non-op-; at the tion on immune system monitoring.
Center. ,208W 13 St; 6:30-8 pm. tonight prevention!treatment of PCP and other
Genem-4208
opportunistic infections. anti-viral andand fIVe more Thursdays; register/interCONGREGATIONBETH SIMCHAT TORAH view early with Barbara Warren. 620- immune modulating drugs. health insur- WOMEN ABOUT C.bln Trl, to Lake
S.... go. Harriman State plik, NY; hikance. dealing with doctors. otherpresents Rims on Video: Too UtIle. Too 7310 (all races. genders and sexualissues; with L.ura Pinsky .nd Paul ing. communal meals; thru MAY 20; $10;,.. a story of pain and frustration in car- orientations welcome)
Harding Dougl.s. The Essential AIDS ' Dolores 7111(339-2721
ing for a loved one with AIDS; and I/IIaIIJ,
Fact Book; at GMHC. 129 W 20 St, 3rdlit; IIrJfhr, a short documentary about a , QUEER NATION Strategy M .. ting. at
young man with AIDS and his estranged the Center. 208 W 13 St; 7:30 pm; info Floor Classroom; 9 pm; 807-6655. TOO WOMEN ABOUT P.litIdes 11'1I1MIl"
Rance & Picnic. to help maintain the trail
mother; a discussi.onfollows. led by Mel from Alan. 995-2440 (Editor's note: The 645-7470
on the shore path; Joya 217J511O-8648
ROlin. former Director of GMHC; 57 name is subfectto change. or there may\
Bethune St lWestbeth Housing Complex, be no name. or you may be allowed to CHIP DUCKETT presents Homoerotic
up centar courtyard ramp); 8 pm sharp; call this new direct action group what- Art It Quickl. tonight featuring the col- ALL PEOPLE'S CONGRESS Ru..... g.
of JosephDunn;plus S.le. of clothing. housewares. books.
ever you wish, Whatever their name. lages
free; 929-9498
they responded to the Uncle Charlie's dancing/partying with DJs John Suliga records. toys. games, collectibles; at thepipe bomb. and visited Greg Louganis at and Dinah; 6 Hubert St (off Hudson. 5 Centar,208W 13St; 10am-5 pm; 741.otm
A DIFFERENT LIGHT Re.ding Series:
blocks below Canal); from 10 pm; $10/$7 ,Macy*s with their Wheati8s boxes.
Do.gl.s Turnb.agh. I'ri"a". Duncan
with invite; 925-2442'"METROPOLITANCOMMUNITY
Next maating is slated for MAY 29,)
Grant's Erotic Art; 548 Hudson (btwn
CHURCH Sidew.lk S.le. of clothing.
Charles/Perry); 8 pm; free but limited
bric-a-brac. household items. records.
JUDITH'S ROOM BOOKSTOREpresents
seating;!I89-485O
books. toys. baked goods; outside theAndrea DwoItdn, NI1w KtJmail~ Btr1Icen
Center. 208 W 13 St; info/donationS/VolIIetD1.It:e IIIJII Riff, 681Washington St (atGAY MEN'S HfALTH CRISIS Workshop:
unteers 242-1212(also next SAT)
ErotIc/z/u, Safer Sex. -learn how to Charles St); 7 pm; free. but limited seatTHE NAMES PROJECTQuilt on Displ.y
play safely while meeting other men-; ing; 727-7DJ (wheelchair accessible).t Rutgers Gold Dome. Newark. NJ; THE ANSWER IS LOVING Women T.lkno pre-registration
required; at theing Wom.n's T.lk: R.newed Wom.a;thru MAY 20
Center. 208 W 13 St; 8-10:30 pm; 807- ASIANS AND FRIENDS/NY Monthly-Money matters. Health matters. Ufe
Discussion Group. at a member's home6655. TOO645-7470
matters. Sex matters. From a place ofin the Village; 7:30-9 pm; George 924- VOYAGERS announces N.w Soci.1
used. abused. confused. refused ...toGroup for Peopl. Who Love AdventurSCRABBLE PLAYERS CLUB G... e 1287(rsvp early)
ous Travel. -come join us as we share the promise of freshness. assertiveNIgbt. newcomers should bring aness. self-directed. accepted. - Manboard; at the Center. 208 W 13 St; 8-11 , SHE-BOPS AND SCATS DANCE COM- our experiences and plans for future
hattan location; 9:45 am - 4 pm; $55;
PANY present ThIJf Good Ni,ht, a con- adventures-; 7 pm; info from Jackpm; 570-9369(also MAY 30)
rsvp 7181998-2305(beforel0,pm).242-6456
cert jazz dance piece. -an emotional
SPECTRUM presents 3rd Ann •• 1 Spring journey depicting the loss of a loved~DS Benefit/for Hale House, AmFAR. one-; also. Laari. DeYItO's The Riller(a SAGE Wom.n's !iO+ R.p Group: Alii.", AIDS CENTER OF QUEENS COUNTY
Youtb Grou,; topics (- How It AlftH:ts Us; at the Center. 208 Gay/Bi/Leslli.n
GOd'sLove We Deliver; with an -all-star ,work in progress); tonight is a b.nefit
include sexuality. making friends. coming lfor Bro.dw.y C.res, the AIDS sup- W 13 St; 7:30 pm; 741-2247
line-up of the finest entertainment-;
out, family issues. AIDSlHrv. safe sell; in
porVresearch organization for the thevolunteers needed; 802 64th Street.
UNCIRCUMCISED SOCIETY/NYCUncut Queens; 11 am - 1 pm; free (and confiBrooklyn (N Train to 8th Ave stop. Bay ater community; at Pace Downtown•'Theater. 1 Pace Plaza (below the Man- Only Party; in the East Village; 7:30 pm; dential); 7181896-2500(also JUNE 9)
Ridge); 7181238-8213,$8; Gene 777-4208 (Editor's note: Thishattan side of the Brooklyn Bridge,
EAGLE BAR Movie Night: Honey, I lIcross from City Hall); 7:30 pm;,$12; tix could be construed as religious dis- NINTH STREET CENTER ARnu.1 Gal.
,lhNnt the Kids, 142 11th Ave (at 21 St); 628-0425.theater 346-1715(also MAY 18 crimination wefe it not for:the large Rea Mlrket, with clothes. jewelry. appliances. collectibles; books. records.
at 8 pm. MAY 19 $20 Gala Performance number of circumcised Catholics.)
11 pm; 691-8451-incredible bargainsl-; 319 E9 St; noon at 7:30 pm. MAY20at3 &8 pm)•
6 pm; for info or to make donations. call
DIXON PLACE presents Dominique
DIXON PLACE presents Bina Sharif: , Dibb.II's The Redhead.in which a -les- 228-5153"
Empty file CltniJfS H You Want No Fire. bian plays a gay man playing a straightwoman wishing she had a dick"; also SAGE Door C.nteen Soci.l. with -livepoetry performance; and Betsy W.lton:
new word. and SIIJC in the cou,..e of the female duo Girls' Ranch, Nancy, music. ilancing.,food, refreshmems, good
BODY POSITIVE Mich •• 1 Hirsch
Aw.rds with appearances by Bobby an,in6, 37 E 1 St (btwn 1st/2nd Aves); 8 , and Emma~Elizabeth from the group friends and company"; at the Gay Synl!gogue. 57 Bethune (at West. Sd. inside theLambs Eat Ivy. playing -country west"
Short. B
r. Cook. Dorothy Loudon. pm; $6 or TDF;673-6752
ern from the island of Lesbos-; 37 E 1st Westbeth Complell; 1-5 pm; advance: $6
Roa. AHo
do. Pho.b.
C.t.s.
DR. JOHN-THOMAS ALEXANDER and St (btwn 1st/2nd Aves); 8 pm; $6 or TDF; members/$8 non-members. door: $8
ColI .. n D.whurst. Jlidith Pe.body.
membersJ$10non-members; 741-2247
Kenny Schlrf. Gedile Wlfln.be.
Miss MICHAEL ROSENBERG explore The info 673-6752 (Editor: no reservations
HERITAGEOF PRIOE Inde, __M.r_I o..... c.. IZ for commmunity volunt .. rs interested in working at ~h..
June 23 R.11y and/or June 24 March;
free refreshments; at the Center. 2011W
13 St; 8 pm; 691-1n4Y\,onn.; honoring Keitll H.ring, P.ul
K.w.t •• L.rry Kr ... er. Rodger P.ttyjo"n. Joe P.". M.rle St. Cyr; withawards presentations. hors d!oeuvres.
dancing; at the Limelight, 20 St at 6th
Ave; time?; $65 at the door; 721-1619

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info,leave message with 620-7310

join a Loltor T_ for AIDS Welk New dos' A 0.1. Em/,starring Lonny Price,
York, to benefit AIDS service organize·with Jordon Matt. Philip Coccioletti,' Paul Milikin, Rob Gomes; directed bytions; 923-8890,,,
Tony Giordano, about four Manhattan
CONGREGATION B'NAI JESHURUN
CENTER Wo •• a's Circle, Liai lad
men with AIDS who have lost their jobs
AIDS OUTREACH PROGRAM SeMce ~ , Squre Dlace, with rIVe musicians and and families; 224 Waverly Place; $20Ho,. I.d Co.fort for persons withan instructor calling the moves; 208 W $23:50; MON·FRI at 8 pm, SAT at 7 &. 10
AIDS and their loved ones;conversa13 St; 2-5 pm; $10; 212/567-2636,
pm, dark SUN; 279-4200 (thru JUNE 111
71817114-2554",,
tion and refreshments follOW; 'J51 W 88
St; 4 pm; 787-7600
HOT PEACHES presents L. ODic.
SAGE Wo.el'lDro,·IR Ceater, "to"••d.,:
Splitt.colo It.,I.bo,
ASIANS AND FRIENDS/NY 3rd Sltllrenjoy coffee and cake, meet new"cabaret calda e intemationale" featur·day SocIII: ./#p.... "",. '-tWill, with women, say Hi to old friends"; at the ing a pot pourri of classic Hot Peaches
Japanese food, music, poetry, art,
Center, 208 W 13 St; 2-5 pm; 741-2247 songs, numbers from Concentrated
entertalnmem; at the Center, '208 W 13 (Editor's note: The SAGE Women'sCamp and The Fall of the Wall Revue,St; 8 pm; for info, or to display your art, Drop·ln is held every third Sunday,and "their own inimitable versions ofprints, Netsuke, sculpture, bizen, car· including JUNE 17.1
classic Italian cabaret and folk songs";
toons, or dolls, contact Dan, 674-5064
at Don't Tell Mama, 343 W 46 St; 10 pm;(Editor', note: AFNY explains that
JUDITH'S ROOM BOOKSTOREpresents $10 + 2-drink minimum; rsvp 757-0788
Kodomo No Hi i, an official holiday,
ICete Millett. 1h to., Bi. Trip,Ryi.,
Children's Day, in Japan, which centers(In e re·llluel; 681 Washington St (at PYRAMID Rick Stiletto crOWDI Se,
around boys; the Doll Festival, aka Charles StI; 3 pm; free, but limited seat·eab.ret's New o.een, the winner ofPe.ch Festival. in March, is for girls.1
ing; n7-7330 (wheelchair accessiblel
last week's contest (Hapi Phace has
abdicated and will depart for Province·
DIXON PlACE presents the female duo HERITAGE OF PRIDE Doace IV Tel
townl; 101 Avenue A (btwn 6/7 Stsl; $5;
Girl" Roacb, following "st!lamy st~·Dlnce, a fundraiser for the Pride Dance 420-1590
ries" performed by David Cal.; 8 pm and Fireworks on June 24; at the Cen·(see MAY 181
ter, 208 W 13 St; 4-8 pm; $7; 891~1n4
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NEW YORK IN '94 and HERITAGE OF
PRIDE Goy Ga... IV/25tII AnaivelSlllYof Stoaewol
CN" yo., FI.,e"
Fadre_
Doliee, to help bring the gay
games til NYC in 1994;'with free buffet
and S2 draft beer; at Ch~s, Xl W 20
St; 5 pm; $111;HOP 891-1n4

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St, 3rd Floor; 7 pm; free; 8OHI655, TDD
645-7410 (this and eyery 4th TUESIlesBIAN AND GAY lABOR NETWORKFor ... :Do.eltic
Plrta.r
BeDefits-Le.lllltioD• Collective
Bar,II.ln.,
with speakers from the
NYC Council, NYS Legislature, and an
insurance company that covers domes·
tic partners; at the Center, 208 W 13 St;
8 pm; 923-8690 (LGLN, Box 1159, NYC

10009)ME Maurice (19871: James Wilby and
Rupert Graves as the aristocrat and theaffectionate gardner; 9 pm - midnight.
repeets at 1 am

WEDNESDAY, MAY 23
ME The Fox:. Keir Dullea tries to steal
Sandy Dennis' girlfriend at her seclud·
ed farmhouse; 4-6:30 pm
ASIANS AND FRIENDS/NY Me.ben
Meet _ben,a multi·course meal ina sky·lit private dining room; at Tatany
Village Restaurant, 62 Greenwich Ave(off 7th Ave, 675-61951;6-8 pm, George924-1287~',,-.

ACT UP/NY Stonnl tile National Inltl·
tetes of Heallb with I D_outrat'lon'
and Civil DJIDbedleRceat 9000 BODY POSITVE/NY for •• :l
Rockville Pike, Bethesda, MD; to R•• ",.pd-lfIV, moderated by David
demand 'immediate tes1ing of all poten- Petersen,PWA,"for
HIV+ people lind
COLUMBIA PEP BOYS PRODUCTION
tial treatments; expanded study of the their loved ones to plan for the financial....
8et 0...... Dllllee, tonight and NY AVERTISING AND COMMUNICA·
disease, to treat secondary infections
health that is the necessary underpin·
every third Saturday, except JULY &. TIONS NETWORK Supper on tbe
and cancers, and to restore thening for physical health: including
AUG, for gay men and lesbians and 8ayo., with jambalaya,
red beanimmune system; opening of meetings
medical insurance, disability insurance,
their friends; OJ Karin Ward; Earl Hall, casserole, Louisiana salads, drinks,and committees to PWAs and theirother sources of funding; at the Center,
116 St &. B'way (#1/19 trainl; 10 pm -3
ambrosia; 482 Broome St (at Woosterl;advocates; imm,diate release of test 208 W 13 St; 8-9'.30 pm; donation; 897am; $5; 829-1989 (Editor's note: There 5-8 pm; $2!iIS2O each additional guest; data, as soon as, It becomes available;
2580•, will be'an extra Same But Different
517-0380 for Illst minute availability
ending "medical ipartheid~ and provid·
Pride Dance Friday, June 22. in addition(checks to NYACN, Box 149, 4~ Hud· ing services for all communities affect·
A DIFFERENT UGHT Readla .. Series:
to Saturday, JUNE 16.1
son St, NYC 10011),
ed by AIDS; "AZT is no cure ...let the ' Carole MaIO, An Lover. new novel byrecord show ...ten years ...one billion
the author of Ghost Danc/1;~ Hudson
SPECTRUM presents Nayo", singing
AIDS CENTEROFQUEENS COUNTY 2nd dollars ...one drug"; for more informa(btwn CharleS/Perryl; 8 pm; free but Om·
Second Chance for Love and Please Sunset CnJ .. , on the Circle Une, with tion on these issues, call Mark Harring·
Ited seating; 989-4850•
Don't Go; with Toay Moria, singing
music, dancing, refreshments,
and ton or Garance Franke-Rute at ACT UP.
D.nce With Me; 802 64th Street, Brook· views; from Pier 83, 42nd St &. 12th Ave; 989-1114 (Editor's note: ACT UP asks us GAY MALE S/M ACTIVISTS Medicil
Iyn (N Train to 8th Ave stop, Bay Ridge); 5:30 (sharpl • 9'.30pm; S20 (RT bus tick· stay·at-homlll
to call NIH with our Instrmaents, erotic uses for catheters,
7111I238-8213
ets from Rego Park available for $101; demands, 301/496-2283, or fax them to sounds, speculums,
enema bags,for tix, or to sponsor a ticket, David 301/496-5349, while the demo is taking
Bardexes, forceps, hemostats, and how
718,11I96-2500
place.1,to have fun with them safely; atthe,
Center, 208 W 13 St; 8 pm (program at
THE 'STATIONS COLLECTIVE presents
BRONX AIDS TASK FORCE Moatbly
8:301; 53 members/$5 non-members;
C.eryl 80yce· Taylor: Blnh So•• d" Meetln .., with a workshop on social
n7-9878•
WOMEN ABOUT 8rl'lntiae
Wildlife
Rhyt/tm" e.d Otbe, C".treedo.,; at work issues in pediatric AIDS; presen·
Rafe •• 8lrdla. TrIp, ,7 am departure;
the Center, 208 W 13 St; 6 pm; $10; tations on demographics,
medicalVILLAGE BOWLING LEAGUE S••• er
Joya 212J580-8648
7111/596-4389
issues, family issues, service issues,
Seri .. 1990: 4-Penoll T.... I; at Bowl·..
casepresentation,community
mor Lanes, 110 University Place; 8:30
ACT UP/DC "Stone tile NIH" Pre-Actioa
ASIANS AND FRIENDS/NYsee DIII'RI", resources, networking; at Bronx AIDS pm; Gutter George, h>873-0154, w>546MI.dn.
at NY Avenue Presbyterian
Sotl Fet6Itmj. at the Ridiculous Theater CSP. One Fordham Plaza, Suite 800; 2- 2384Church, 1313 New York Avenue NW,' Company (see UVELYARTSI; 7 pm; 674- 4:30 pm; 295-5605
Washington, DC; issues info from Mark 5064 (call now til see if anytix are left)
or Garance, 212/989-1 ~14; action ,info
from Bria,n 212/973-6753, Charlie
DIXON PlACE presents a Benefit for21~(see MAY 21)
Cilits Ind Tarts, hosted by Laurie
Uprichard, with performancesby
1:GO PM WBAI·FM This Way Out inter·
GAY MEN'S HEALTH CRISIS AIDS Walk
Meredith Monk and Bob Een, others; :r1 THE NEW SCHOOLS-Week Merica .. national magazine for and about the
N.w York, a 10·kilometer fundraising
E 1st St (btwn lst/2nd Avesl; 8 pm;
MUlical naatre
Courle, taught by lesbian and gay community; 99.5 FM
walkathon, starting and ending at lindonation; info 673-6752 (Editor: get publisher Andrew Velez; tonight. week(:301
coln Center, 8'way &. 65St; sign·in 9 there by 7:30; Chats and Tans is a cake, 6: Tony win .. r ElII .. StrItch; 66 W 12 1:30 PM WBAI-FM
Breaking theam, opening ceremony 9:30 am, walkcoffee and company service for PWAs St; 6-7:30 pm; $15; New School 741- Silence: 'local gay and lesbian news
begins 10 am; sponsors and walkers
and their visitors at St Vincent's Hospi· 5600, Mr. Velez (~aysl929-0189
and information with Larry Gutenburg;
call 8OH31 0
tall
99.5 FM (:301
GAY MEN'S HEALTH CRISIS HIV Healtb
LESBIAN AND GAY'lABOR NETWORK THEATER OFF PARK opens Robin Swa·
Seminar: Medical T....... ants; 129W20
STONEWALL DEMOCRATIC CLUBGIRTH, AND MIRTH and AFFILIATEDBIGMEN'S CLUBS Elltera Re.lonll
eo.r...ceo.. PIJ1Y;620-7310".no••~,,SUNDAY, MAllO

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honoring'
Assemblyman Richard Gottfried (Chair,
NY Assembly Health Cmte), Ken Dawson (former Exec. Dir. of SAGE), Peter
Smilh (Exec. Dir., Partnership for theHomeless), Ganga Stone (Exec. Dir"
God's Love We Deliver), lim Sweeney(Deputy Exec. Dir. of Policy, GMHC);$50-$150; 969-8854
JUDITH'S ROOM BOOKSTORE presents
Joyce Berlonan, TIle HfllJling Imegl".tion 01 Olin Schreiner. Beyond South
AftiCIIR Co/onleli.m; 681 Washington St(at Charles St); 7 pm; free, but limited
seating; n7-7330 (wheelchair accessible)
BDDY POSITIVE/NY Forum: HIV Medicellnformet/on;
Howard Grossman,MD, moderates a discussion of recent
research results and clinical exp'erience by physicians treating HIV; at theCenter, 208 W 13 St; 7:30 pm; donation;
nl-1619POSITIVE ACTION OF NEW YORKForum: Steying Heahhy - Prolpects for
People With HIV Infection WIlD 00 Not
Hen AIDS, with Anlhony Fauci, Director, NIAID; moderated
by Jeffrey
Greene, Infectious Diseases, NYU Medical Center; panel with Kevin Armington(GMHC), Jim Eigo (ACT UP), Kenneth
Fornataro (CRI), Derek Hodel (PWA
Health Group), Ronald Johnson (Minority Task Force on AIDS), Iris Long (AIDS
Treatment Registry), Miguelina Meldonado (Hispanic AIDS Forum), laura Pin·sky (Columbia Gay Health Advocacy
Project); one-hour question and answer
period; in the Haft Auditorium of FIT. 227
W 27 S1; 7:30; $5; n7- n68
DIXON
PLACE presents
ShellyMalT/Kety !Crocodile, on the subject offear Ii sex; also Andrew Mellen's solo
perfonnance, My lHrIe. Kim NOVllk, on
gender, fame, and fishnets; '!1 E 1st St(btwn 1st/2nd Aves); 8 pm; $6 or TDF;
info 673-6752 (Editor. get there by 7:30;
no reservations accepted)•

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HBO (Home Box Office Prods" 1100 Ave/Ams, NYC 10036;
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4:00 PM WABC-TV Opralr. religious fanatacism; CH 7 (1:00)
WBAI-FM (5058th Ave, 19th FI, NYC 10018; 279-(1707)
9:00 PM WABC-TV Twin Peaks; CH 7 (1:00) (Editor's comWCBB-TV (524 W 57 St. NYC 10019; 975-4321),
ment Notice that Michael Ontkean is still working after
WNBC-TV (30 Rockefeller Plaza, NYC 10112; 664-4444)''Making Loveto !larry Hamlin in the 1982 film that The
WNET-TV (356 W.58 St, NYC 10019; 560-3000)
New Festival will show June 16.1
9:00 PM WNET-TV Wonts and Music (1948t. CH 13(2:051
MONDAY, MAY 14!1:311 PM GMHC Living With AIDS, health and politics; Man4:00 PM WNBC-TV ';;Ph;-;i1;-;D;;-o-n~ah;:-u~e:-;U-;-'p~syn-:-:c-;:-ha-,-;;C:;-ha-rTle-s-hattan Cable, CH J/23 (:30)
Busch, others; CH 4 (1:00)
10:30 PM GCN Pride & Progress: news, health, spor*:
9:00 PM WNBC-TV People Uke Us (conclusion): a richManhattan Cable, CH J/'l3 (:30)
bashing TV movie, in which the privileged end up in jail
1UIO PM GCN The Right Stuff. media, entertainment,
or contract AIDS; CH 4 (2:00)
advice; Manhattan Cable, CH J/23 (:30)
10:00 PM GCN Be My Guest Longtime Companion party at
11:30 PM RB PROD Men For Merr. Robin Byrd presents gay
Quickl with Steve Broadway's art, Sandra Bernhard's
male porno stars; Manhattan Cable, CH J(l:J (:30)
hot clips; Manhattan Cable, CH J(l:J (:30)
11:30 PM GMHC Living With AIDS, health and politics;
11:311PM Tomorrow's TV Tonight entertainment; Manhattan
Paragon Cable, CH J(l:J (:30)
and Paragon Cable, CH D/17 (1:001
3:00 AM Talk to Go: The Wigstock Special. Manhattan
Midnight CCTV The Closet Case Show. Club Warsl With
Cable, CH C/16 (1:00) (see TUES)
go-go boys at Roxy, strippers at Mars, terrorists andfiremen at Quickl, Jack Lofton at The Break; Manhattan
FRIDAY, MAY 18
Cable, CH C/16 (:30)
2:30 PM WBAI-FM Rompiendo el Si/enciu. todos los
1:00 AM Gay w. gay male porno clips; Paragon Cable, CHviernes, Gonzalo A~urto con temas y noticias para la
J(l:J (:30)
comunidad latina gay y lesbiana; 99.5 FM (:15)
7:30 PM The Gay Dating Game Show; Manhattan Cable, CH
TUESDAY, MAY 15'
J/23 (:30)
10:00 AM WASC-TV SallyJessy Raphael tabloids; CH 7 (1:00)
11:00 PM Gay W. male porno clips; Manhattan Cable, CH
J/23 (:30)
11:00 AM WABrrTV Homsfooddel'MllYseM:es1DPWAs;CH7(11111
4:00 PM WABrrTV OpnIh reIa1ionshipswilhsex&)'lTlbols;CH7 (1111) 12:45 AM WCBS-TV The Littfest Victims (1989 TV-movie):
kids with AIDS and lim Matheson as an immunologist;
4:00 PM WCBS-TV Geraldu. exorcism; CH 2 (1:00)
CH 2 (2:05) ,10:00 PM WNET-TV Frontline: ·Seven Days in Benson1:00 AM RB PROD Robin Byrd Show. male and female striphurst," highlighting the way media and politicians
pers; Manhattan and Paragon Cable, CH J/23 (1:00)
exploited the Yusuf Hawkins murder; CH 13 (1:00)
1:50 AM TBS Rock 'n' Roll High School (1979): the Ramones ,11:00 PM GBS Out in the 90's: community news, discussion,
help P.J"Soles get even with the new fascist principal, 'interviews; 1Dnight Part 2 of 3 segments with a closeted
MaryWoronow (2:00)
gay priest (with his back to the camera) discussing
Catholic theology, politics, safer sex, his own sex life
SATURDAY, MAY 19
and why he remains in the closet; ManhattarVParagon
11:30 AM Stephen Holt Show/Onstage Americal: see
Cable, CH C/16 (1:00)
WED; Paragon/Manhattan
Cable, CH C/16 (:301
2:00 AM WPIX-TV Shark's Paradise (1986 TV-movie): extor11:00 PM RB PROD The Early Byrd: Robin Byrd pretionists threaten to turn a bunch of sharks loose on ansents male/female strippers; Manhattan Cable, CH
Australian beach resort; CH 11 (2:00) (Editor's rationale:
J/'l3 (1:00)
Even if the movie is dumb, there'lI have to be those Australian bathing suits.1
3:00 AM Talk to Go: 171eWigstock Special highlights from the
SUNDA~~M=A~Y~2~O_, 5th Annual Labor Day spectacular in Tompkins Square
Park. with hosts Ivan, Glenda, and Brenda Sexual; Man. 10:311AM My Craft Show with Mark Heskirr.,Mark talks
hattan Cable, CH D/17 (1:00) (repeats THURS on et16)
about boys who play with dolls and how parents
should be supportive, plus comments on bad child,WEDNESDAY, MAY 16
actors, soap stars, and what happens to old.Mrs.
9:30 AM WBAI-FM Ghosts in the Machine: women in pop,
Fields cookies; Manhattan and Paragon Cable, CHwith Victoria Sta rr; 99,5 FM (2:30), Dm (:301
9:00 PM Stephen Holt Show/Onstage America I: tonightcontinues Holt's "Hunk Month" with Peter Phelps
7:311PM WB!I-FM OutLooks: P,riscilla Ehly and Lisa Winof Baywatch; Manhattan Cable, CH D/17 (:30) (for _ters host a labor month special: women In non-tradiParagon, see SAT),
tional work; 99.5 FM (1:00)
10:00 PM AliE Living Dangerously: Transatlantic Diary. "a,group of teens fight against fear and the elements ...on a 11:311PM GCN Men & Films: male erotica; Manhattan
Cable, CH J/23 (:30)
treacherous journey from Quebec to Uverpool in a historic tall ship" (1:00, repeats at 2 am) (Editor's note: wet,

RAPP ARTS THEATER starts previewing Thomes M. Disch's black
comedyone-act,
The Cerdinel
Detoxe., starring George McGrath;"a c;hilling look inside the hierarchyof Jhe modern Catholic
Churchexploringsuch issues as AIDS,
abortion, ties to organizedcrime,and homosexuality";
also Disch's"hair-raising"curtain-raiser,
The
Audition;
official
opening is MAY
31; THU Ii FRI at 8 pm, SAT at 8 Ii 10
pm; $10; 529-5921 (open run)
VILLAGE BOWLING LEAGUE Summer Series 1990: Singles; at Bowlmor Lanes, 110 University
Pla'ce;8:30 pm; Gutter George, h>P73-0154,
w>546-2384

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The Right Stuff• Naming Names '• All About Women• Media Watch• Staying Out• Around the Country• Razor Sharp•,

A New Step in Gay History; Is it forward or
backward? An interview with RobertBrading, Exec. Dir. Fund for Human Dignity.
Hosted by Andy Humm.
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11:30 pm,

Reviews of male erotica along withinterviews behind the scenes with film
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Interview with Joey Stefano; Shows
it All: Clips from "Snowbound,""Best of Blacks" and "Obsession."•,,

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10:00 pm

Sybil Bruncheon hosts a panel
game show with surprise guests.
Secret Passions An original gay
soap opera.

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Gay Cable Network
32 Union Square East, Suite 1217
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Private Eyes (fJlarc Berkley's Kool Komrads; male strippers) 12 W 21 St,
club 200-7772

TUesday"*Love Machine at Underground, 860 Bway, near 17th St; 254-4005

Wednesday,,*Better Days (primarily gay men of color) 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
Silver Uning (2-4-1 drinks, also open Tues-Sun, women SAT) 175 CherryLa., Roral Pk, LI; 516/354-9641
Stutz (2-4-1 drinks, also open dafly) 202 Westchester Ave, White Plains;
914/761-3100

Thursday,*Boybar (has a new wave drag show) 151/2 St Marks Place, btwn
2nd/3rd Aves; 674-7959*Copacabana (last Thu. ofthe month Susanne Bartsch party, next is May
31; iffy door) 10 E 60 St, at Fifth Ave; 755-6010
Excalibur ($1 drinks, also open Tues-Sun, women WED) corner 10th/Jefferson behind fOotball stadium, Hoboken, NJ; 201-795-1161
Grand Central (2-4-1 drinks, also open Wed-Sun) 210 Merrick Road,
Rockville Centre, LI; 516/536-4800
HIllfI8Id's (2-4-1 drinks, female impersonators; also open nightly, women on
TUE & FRII 126-10 Queens Blvd, Kew Gardens, Queens; 718/261-8484 ,*Mars (mixed gay/straight; OJ Patrick's Wonderland, 3rd Floor) Westside
Highway and 13th St; 691-6262
4IQuick1 (e. DuckettTIllndays) 6 Hubert St(Hudson, 5 blocks below Canal);~2442

Friday"*Boybar 15'"1/2 St Marks PI., btwn 2nd/3rd Aves; 674-7959
Columbia Dances (1st Friday of every month) 116th St & Bway; 854-3574days
419419 N. Highway, Southampton, LI; 516/283-5001*La Palace de Beaute Larry Tee at Underground (starts 5/18),860 Bway,
near 17th St; 254-4005
PriwII Eves(preppies and~ngprofessionals) 12W21 St. bMm OOVBhA~ 'JJ.J}TT72*Quickl (mixed gay/straight/TVs; Scott Currie/ Panty Girdles) 6 Hubert St(on Hudson, 5 blocks below Canal); 925-2442

Saturday,

Berafool Boogie (Smoke & alcohol free) 434 6th Ave (btwn Qll0 Sts); 832-6759*Boybar 151/2 St Marks Place, btwn 2nd/3rd Aves; 674-7959
1118CenIer Dances (2nd and 4th Saturdays) are on hiatus until nextfall; 620-7310
Columbia Dances (3rd Saturdays, Same But Different Dance, throughJune 16) 116 & B'way, 10 pm - 3 am; info 629-1989
419419 N. Highway, Southampton, LI; 516/283-5001
Girtbllnd Mirtbtlub atthe Center (3rd Saturdays, heavy men & theiradmirers) 208 W 13 St; 620-7310*La Palace de Beaute (Larry Tee at Underground, started 5/12) 860
Bway, near 17th St; 254-4005
Private Eyes (Jeffrey Slinker & Dallas's Club Bad) 12 W 21 St, btwn
5th/6th Aves; 206-7772'.... xy(mixed gay/straightllVslclub kids) 515W 18St(btwn llVll Aves); 645-5156
Sound Facto" (mixed gay/straight, Acid House, no alcohol) 530 W 27 St(btwn 10th/11th Aves); 643-0728'.
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Sunday,*Better Days fprimarily gay'men of color) 316 W 49 St (8/9 Aves); 245-8925*La Palace de Beaute Larry Tee at Underground (started 5/13), 860
Bway, near 17th St; 254-4005(Chip Duckett's Mars Needs Mem Westside Higl'Nvayand 131hSt; 001~."...(JlriJ(sT Dance6-10,GayCaball1taftar) 101Ave.A, blwWl Slreels;4<D- 1!m"Roxy (Sunday at Roxy) 5.15W 18 St (btwn 10/11 Aves); 645-5156"rs

Every Night (or almostl'*Club 43 (promises John laFleur, TVs, Rock & itoll Fag Bar, It Twins,

K",oki; call for opening info) 108 W 43 St; 354-7348
Monster (West Village) 80 Grove St at Sheridan Sq.; 924-3557
Spectrum (closed Mon & Tue, WED free, THU free & 2-4-1 drinks, FRI
nv'fstrippers, SAT guest star show, SUN live show & free 9-10 pm)
80264th St@8thAve, Bay Ridge, Bklyn; 718/238-8213

DANCING OUT for Women
Tuesday•

Hatfield's 126-1'11,
Queens Blvd., Kew Gardens; 718/261-8484
Grand Central (women's night, also open Wed-Sun) 210 Merrick Road,
Rockville Centre, LI; 516/536-4800

Wednesday
Bedrock 121 Woodfiela Rd, W. Hempstead, LI; 516/486-9516
Excalibur (Ladies Night, $1 drinks) corner 10th/Jefferson behind football, stadium, Hoboken, NJ; 201-795-1161"

ThursdayBedrock 121 Woodfield Rd, W. Hempstead, LI; 516/486-9516
Big Hunt Club (Her Planet, 8 pm - 2 am) 804 Washington St, 4 blocks
below 14 St; info 727-7616
Mike Todd Room (Nancy's Doll Bar, started May 10; 8pm - 2 am) 123 E
13 St; club (Palladium) 473-7171
Pyramid (Jenny's Girl Bar, started May 3; 8 pm - 2 am) 101 Avenue A(btwn 6!7 Sts); $5; 475-3538

Friday,,',Bedrock lfi Woodfield Rd, W. Hempstead, LI; 516/486-9516
0IapeI8I ~(Shescapeparty, started May l1)49W31 St at6lh Ave;645-6479
Cheeks 2000 Long Beach Road, Island Park, LI; 516/431-5700
Hatfield's 126-10 Queens Blvd., Kew Gardens; 718/261-8484
Visions 56-01 Queens Blvd, Woodside; info 7181846-7131, club 7181899-!Kl31

Saturday,'Bedrock 121 Woodfield Rd, W. Hempstead, LI; 516/486-9516
0IapeI8I ~(Shescapeparty,
started May 12)49W31St at6lh Ave;645-6479
Reds (women's party, buffet, burlesque show) 6096 Jericho Tpke, Commack, LI; 516/543-4740
Silver Uning 175 Cherry Lane, Floral Park, LI; 516/354-9641
Starz 836 Grand Boulevard, Deer Park, LI; 516/242-3857

Sunday,'Bedrock 121 QVoodfield Rd, W. Hempstead, LI; 516/486-951Q
Cave Canem (Sandwich Sister Sundays) 241st Ave at 1st St; 529-9665

Every Night (or almostl

Cubby Hor. (tiny dance floor) 438 Hudson St @ ~orton St; 243-9079
Duchess IISheridan Sq. & 7th Ave South; 242-1408
Spectrum (closed Mon & Tues; good gay/lesbian mix, ~ee Every Night,
above, for details) 802 64th St, Bklyn.; 718/238-8213

Editor's tips for tourists:

The NYC club scene is volatile. Call first to confinn parties. ,Recent
openings have dates noted, and can be blasts or busts.
Admissions range from $5 to $15. Invites offer discounts.
A (*) denotes a club that attracts TVs.·
Some clubs, such asCopacabana (the most notorious), Roxy, Quickl,
Mars, and Underground have door policies in which ,you are admitted by being· chosen: The humiliation is part ofthe mystique.
Arriving before midnight helps, Dress erotic, exotic or rich. Look
fun. IDs are a must. Mixed gay/straig~t parties tendto have the nastiest doors. These parties often getgayedater.
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Send additions, corrections and dish to Rick X, Box 790, NYC 10108.

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AIDS CENlER OF QUEENS COUNTYSOCIAL SERVICES. EDUCATION. BUDDIESCOUNSEUNG.SUPPORT~ROUPS
Volunteer Opportunities(718188&-25OO(voicel (7181 88&-2985(TDDI, BISEXUAL YO!ll1l..
Informal social & support group for Bisexual
kidstyou1h. Monthly meetinwpo!luck lunch held
1:00pm on fourth Sunday of1he month at members
homes. Call NYABN for 1his month~ location. This
group is psrt of 1he New '(orlt Area Bisexual Network.

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ACJ UP (AIDS Coali1ion ID Unl_h Po_rI
488A Hudson Street, Suite G4 NYC 10014(2121989-1114
A diverse, non-partisan group of individuals united inInger and committed to direct action to end 1he AIDS
criai •• Gan. meatings Mon. nights 7:30,
at 1ha Community Center 208 W.I3th.
ALOEClAPI.lH4Y(Asian Lesbians of 1he Eest CoasV
Asian Pacific Lesbian Networlt-New '(orltl
Wa are a political, social and supportive networlt ofAsiln Pacific lesbians. Planning !!'Ieeting. on 1he 1st
Sunday and social eventa on 1he last Friday of eachmonth. Call (2121517-55118 for more information.
ARCS (AlDS-R.I ... d Community S.mc .. 1for Dutche88, Orange, Putnam, Rockland, Sullivan,
Ulster and Westchester counties. AIDS education,client seMces, crisis intervention, support groups,
case management, buddy end hospital visitor program.
214Can1ra1fJw.. WiIB Plans. NYllm1(914111HD1
838Broa6Nay ,Newburgh, NY 12250(9141582-!miAlDSli... 1114'IlIWIOl

ATII (AlD$ TREATMENT REGlmy.INC.1
Publishes a bi-mon1hly Directory of clinical triala ofexperimental AIDS/HIY treatmenta in NY/NJ, and has
educational materials/seminars for trial participants.
ATR also advocates for improvementa in 1he trial system. P.O. Box 30234, NY,NY 1011-0102. (2121268-4196,
Publications' free/donation raquested.
BAR ASSOCIATION FOR IRJMAN RIGHTS
Lawyers Referral
SeMce for 1he Lesbian and Gay Community
Full Range of Legal SeMces (2121459-4873•

BAR ASSOCIATION FOR HUMAN RIGHTSFree Walk-in Legal Clinic. Tuesday &-8pm
Lesbian & Gay Community Cantr. Ground Roor
BIDS IBISEXUAL DOMINANCE.
SUBMISSION GROUPI
Share SIM experiences and fantasies wi1h othera in 'a positive, non-judgementalatmosphere.
First Sunday of1he mon1h, 4:45pm at 1he Community Centar
Z08 W. 13 Street, NYC . This group is part of 1he New
Yorlt Area Bisexual Networlt.
BISEXUAL PRIDE DISCUSSION GROUP
Topioal diacu .. ions on iaaues of interest to 1he community in a congenial atmosphere, followed by an informal
dinner It a friendly local restaurant Every Sunday, 3:00
- 4:30pm It 1ha Community Center Z08 W, 13,Street,
NYC.Part of 1he New YorltArea Bisexual Network.
BIWAYS NEW YORK
Mon1hly socialaventa for 1he Bisexual communityand frienda. Call NYABN for details of upcoming
eventa, (7181353-8245
BIMC IBISEXUAL POUTICALACTION COMMrnEEI
Political action on iaaues of importance to 1he Bisexull/l.esbia.vGay community. Mon1hly meetinwpoduck
held 8:00pm on fourth Thuraday of 1he mon1h at membere homes. Call NYABN for 1his mon1h'slocation.
11181353-8245•

BROOKLYN'S LESBIAN AND GAYPOUTICAL CUlBlAMBDA INDEPENDENT DEMOCRATS
Ll.D. andorses and worlts for cindidalas in local,
state and national elections, lobbies for legislation,and conducts community outreach 1hrough street
fairs and meetings on special topics. Join us.
338 Nin1h St., Suite 135
Brooklyn, NY 11215(7181985-8482,
CIRCLEOF MORE UGtrr,
Spiritual support and sharing in a gayllesbian affir- ,mative group. West-Parlt Presbyterian Church~
185 West 88th Street
Wed: worship seMce 8:30 pm, program 7:30.
, Mareha (2121304-4373 CharlieI2121891-7118.
COMMUNITY HEALTHPROJECJ
208 West 13th Street, NYC, New Yorlt 10011
For Appointments and Information
12121875-3559 ITIYNoicel
PROVIDING CARING, SENSITIVE AND LOW COSTHEALTHCARE SERVICES TO THE LESBIAN AND GAYCOMMUNITYCOMMUNITY RESEARCH INITIATIVE
PWAa, PWARCs & 1heir physicians taking 1he initiative to seek promising intervention against AIDS in a
resp, manner. For more info or to volunteer ple88e
call 12121481-1050.
CONGREGAnON BETH SIMCHAT TORAH
NY's Gay and Lesbian Synagogue SeMces
Friday at 8:30pm'
57 Be1hune Street
For info. call: (212182&-9498.

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A running club for I"bian and gay a1hletesof all abilities. Fun Runs of 1-8 maea held every Sat at
lOam and W.ds. at 7pm in Central Parlt
and every Tues. at7pm in Proapect Park.
For information: call 12121n4-9700.
THE RIND FOR HUMAN DIGNITY
National Gay and Lesbian Crisis Line'AIDS 800'--1-8IJO.S08-GAYS
Educational Resource Canter; Poaitivelmages
Media Center; NY State Arts Program
888 B'way SuitB410 NYC,NY1111121212152&-111I0
THE GAYARlICAN AMERICANSOFWESTCHESTER{Tha G.A.A.I
is a community bilsed support group formed in
Westchester County. Vlrious activities are plannadfor 1he coming mon1hs.. .
Please call 914-378-0727formor8 info.

GLAAD"
Against DeI_tiDn
80 Varick Street, NYC 10013 1212198&-1700
GI.AAD combats homophobia in 1he media and elaewhere by prom01ing visibility of 1helesbian and gay
community and organizing gre88roots responae toanti-gay bigotry.

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to fight homophobia?
Join 1he GLAAD PhoneTreel
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GUB
Gay and Lesbian Independent Broadcastere invite.
you to tune into OunOOKS on WBAI-NY, 99.5 FM
every o1her Sunday, 7;30-8:3Opm and join u. every
o1her Tuesday at 7:3CJ11mto bacome a member of
GUB. No experience needed.
505 Eigh1h Avenue, 19th floor. 12121748-0405.
GAY. LESBIAN HEALTHCONCERNS
An office of 1h6 NYC Dept of Heal1h, provides linkages betwn NYC Health & Human Svcs, and 1he Le...
bian & Gay community, focusing in ALl heal1h
concerns; resource information for health .. MCII
consumers and providers. 125 Worth Streat, Box WI,
New Yorlt, NY 10013., For info call 1212158&-4995.
GAY. LESBIAN PSYCHOTHERAPY
Sliding acale fees • Insurance accepted.
Institute for Human tdentity.
12121799-8432

DIGNITY NEW YORK
lesbian and gay Ca1holics and friends
AIDS Ministry, Spiritual Development
The Ca1hedral ProjectWor.hip SeMces & Social-Sun, Eves. 7:30pm-St.
John's Episcopal Church 218 West 111h Street 0
Waverly-875-2178

GAY MALE 11M ACJMSTS
Dedicated to 8afa and responsible S/M since 1981.
Open meetings w/programi on SIM techniques,
lifestyle issues, political and social concerns. Also
specialeventa, 8peakers bureau, worltshops, demos,
affinity groups, newsletter, more. GMSMA -Dept 0,
488A Hudson Street, Suita D23 ,NYC 10014.
,(2121727-9678.

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FEMIE SUPPORT GROUP
For lesbians who .. 1f identify as Femme. For info andmeeting ti/l188call Li.. atI212182&-8817. No man pies ...

DIGNITYIBIG APPLE
A community of Lesbian and Gay Catholics. Activities
include Liturgies and socials every Sat, 8:00 pm, at
1he Center, Z08 W. 13 Street, NYC.
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If you Dr your lover has tested HIY+, we offer support
groups, seminars, public forums, raferencelibrsry,
referrals, social activities and up-to-data nations I
mon1hly, 'THE BODY POSITIVF l$2!Wearl.
{2121nl-1348,
208 W. 13th St, NYC, NY 10011

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BLUS-BRONX LESBIANS
UNITED IN SISTERHOOD
Social, political and support netwooong group for
women and, 1heir friends. Regular social events andmeetings on 1he first and 1hird Fridays of every mon1h.
At The Community Centar, 208 W. 13 Street, from 8;308pm. For more info call Lisa at 1212182&-9617. 'mGE
Edilcation inl Di.. blad Gay ERviN_lit
For 1he phyiically disabled Lesbian and Gay
Community.
12121889-1821
PoD, Box 305 Village Station, NewYorlt, , NY 10014

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Weekly in",. and support group for treatments fDr
AIDS which dO'not cDmprDmise1l1e immune systemfurther, including alternative and holistic approaches,
Wed 8pm. ' 208 W. 13th St (212)674-HOPE.
,, HEfRlCK-MARTlN lNSTII'urE
for lasbian and gay youth: CDuns8ling~ drDp-in center (M-F; 3-6pm); rapgrDlips, Harvey Milk High,- S'chool, AIDS and safer sex informatiDn, '" , 'referrals,
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Educationals8rvices,
political action; cDunseling and~cial activiti .. in Spanish and English by and for1l1e'." "latinO' bsbian ind Gay Community. ', Generlll meetings 8:00 pm 4111Thursday Df eilel'{'mDnth at208Wast,l3thStreet Call (212)691-4181
Dr write H.U.G.L, P.O. BDX226 Canal Street StatiDn,,'New YDrl<,NY 10019.'
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peer cDunseling,1I1erapY
referrals
ard groups.
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for 1I1elesbian, gay and biSexual community,
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litigatiDn natiqnWide forI.. bians, gay mari and paoplawith AIDS. Mamber, ship ($35 and up) inc. newsletter 'and invitatiDns to
special events. Volunteer night on 'Thursdays. Intake/,calls: 2-4pmMon
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LAVA(I;E$BlANS ABOUT VlSU~AIIT).-'Call for slides for lesbian Artists' Exhibition, Gay &lesbian CDmmunity Cel!ter,' NYC. For more informatiDn, send SASE to: Miriam Fougere, 118 Fort Greene
Place, Br!lDkIyn, NY,11217.
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Get YDur instrument DUtDf1I1i1closet and come,play
wi1l1 u8.'Symphonic, Marching, Jazz, Dixialand, Rock,Rute Ensembles' and WDDdwinds.
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BroDkIyn's !lDcial Drganization for bD1I1gay men andlasbians. P.O. Box 108, Midwood Station
Brooklyn, NY 11230' (718)85&-9437
lESBIAN HERSTORY AIICHIVES
P.O. Box 1258,,New Yorl<,New York 10118". 211/874-7232,, 'Since 1974,1I1e Archives has inspired, shaped anifreflected Lesbian lives everyW(Jare.,Call to arrange avisit or to' volunteer fDr Thursday worknights. 'NYC GAY &l£SBIAN",
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, All sarvic .. free and cDi1fidential.
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Monday 1I1ru Friday 10a"!n'Meal programs, support grDUps, educationil andreferral' services fDr PWA's and PWArc's.

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P,O. Box 291, New Hyde Park, NY 11040
Support us for change on long Isl,nd,\ (516)338-48!I2(516)99H238N~sssu(518)928-~
Suffolk ,,,NORTH AMERICAN MMlBOY "," ,l~
ASSOClATiON,(NAtoIIlAI'"
Dedicated to sexual freedom and especially iOtere~din gay intergenerstional
relationshiP.. Mciiltlily Bul;letin and 'regular chapter meetings on 1I1e-first SaM'day ohach mon1l1. Yea~ l'(Iembershjp i~$2O; wiita'
NAMBlA PO BDX 174, Midtown Station"New,YDI'ki
NY 10018 Dr call (212)807-8578 for infDrmation.
NORTHERN UGHTS ALTERNATIVES
Improving Quality of Ufe,for ,People' with AlDS/HIV. ,THE AIDS MA~
WORKSHOP:' ExpIDring 1I1e possibaitie8 of a powerful and creativ.lifii in 1I1efac. of
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PrOvides safer sex and AIDS edu.catiDn informatiDn
to' gay and bisexual Men of CDIDr;,coordinates a netWDrk Df peer-suppDrt groups fDr gay and bisexual
Men of Color in all 5 bDrDughs ,pt New YDrk City.
303 Nin1l1'Ave, New Yorl<,Ny 10001
Dr call (212)239-1790,,

NATIONAl. GAY AND l£S1I1AN TASK FORCE."
is 1I1enational grassrciqts political organizatiDn for
lestHans and gay men, Membership is $3IVyear,
Issue-oriented projectS add",ss violence, sDdDmy, laws, AIDS, gay rights ordinances, families, media,
etc. 1I1rough lobbying, education, organizing anddirect action,•
NGlTF 1517 U Stre9t NW, Washington, DC 20009.
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AND COMMUNICATIONS NETWORKNYACN is 111&community',slargest
gay and IQJbian
profassiDnal grDup, welcoming all in c"mmunicatiDns--and their, friends, MDnthly mee6ng8,
3rd Wed_.
6:30pm at 1I1e Community Center, ~embers' newslettar, jDb hotline, annual directol'{. PhDne (212)517038!1 fDr mDre infO', MentiDn OutW8ok fDr one free
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Our 2(Xl'member lesbian and gaytannis club includes
playsrs from beginning ~ tournamel1lleval. Mon1l11y
tennis psrties. Win~r indpor league. Come play with u~1 'For infurmation: MTG, Suits K83,498-A Hudson St, NeW
York, NY l0iJ2S. (718)852-8582.

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A multi-racial group of gay men against racism. Meetings eyel'{ Friday night-a~ 7:4!i at 1I1eLesbian and Gay
Community Services Centar, 2118W. 13th Street For
more info. call: (,212)245-6368 or (212) 222-9794.

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Forexparienced,
serious Softball Players, Coachea
and Managers. We play mod/fast pitch weekends in
Manhattan and Queens. TI'{-Duts'begin Feb. ll111ru
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SDcial club fDr heavy, chubby gay man & 1I1air admire'rs. MDnthly sDcials at 1I1e'Cente(, waekly bar
nights Thursdays at 1I1e'Chelsea Transfer', mDn1l11y
Fat Apple Review, !Ii-mon1l1ly FAR. penpals. For mDre
infDrmatiDn call Ernie at 914-069&-7735 Dr write:
G&M/NY, Dapt 0, P.O. BDX10,
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ONE-TIME, WALK-IN AIDS COUNSalNG SERVICES
212-8117__ ' .
212~7470roD (For the H.. rinllimpairad), , MDn~-Fri. 111'.30a.m. to' 9 p.m. Sal 12:00 to' 3:00 '

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Lellblanand Gay"13.' :'Comniuni!¥. GMAD ia in~lusive'Df,African,AfricinJ'i;(~eric"n,C~ribbean8~d HiapanicJµtin6",enof, colDr. Meetings are, held, weekly, on Fridays. For
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Since 1973, a community dedicat8'd to' demonstrating
1I1ata homosexuallifastyleis a rational, desirable
choice for individuals dissatisfied with 1I1erewards ofconventionallivingi PsycholDgically- focussed rap
grDups, tues" Sat, 8 to 10 pm. paer cDunselling avail, able, 319 E. 9 Street, New YDrk, NY 10003, fDr info call(212)228-5153,

PEOPLE WITH AIDS HEALTH GRIIlIP
Underground buyer's club importing not-Yat~approved
me,dications and nytritionalsupplemants.~1
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SDcial Sarvice Agani:~ providing care, activiti .. , &educationalservicas
for gay &'18Ibian senior citizelll.
Also servas avar 1811homebound .laniors & older PWA's. ,208 Wast 13th St. NYC.10011, (21~)741-2247,,

SETHIAN GAYS,l£SBIANS AND BlSEXUAJ.S 'For all. of us interested in reaching Dut to' each other,with exuberahi:e to SpDnta,neDualy,expiDra andilxpanCl upon the ,~tI1fJane !\Ober1li "philosOph.,.'.s
it relates to' Dur InIes, perSDnally; saxually and politically. Call AI (212) 919-5104,.

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USING COMMUNAl. HEAUNG (lqUCH),
Comnunityvoluntears providing a weakly bUffetauppar
for the Brooklyn AIDS community .•TOUCH /RiI81II Mond.yevos, Spin to 6:3op.... st downtown BroOklyOFrienda,Meeting House (110 Schermemom ,St near BoeIllR
Place~ United tralllportltion msy be arranged. Info: (718)622-2756.TOU~H welcQ11188 cO(ltributiona of,funds, food,and voIunteers.;,
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Meets first and 1I1ird Monday Df each monjh
at 7:30 p.m. at1l1,e Unitarian Churc~ on SiwkUl RDad 'in KingstOn: . For infDrmation, call j1i14) 628-3203. ,UPPER MANHATTAN TASK FORCEON AIDS,
EducatiDn, Hotline, SuppDrtiye I=ase Ma_nagel!ll!nt,
and VDlunteer Recruitment and Referral.
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A nDn-partisan cDalition cDmmitted to' demanding,securing and defending absDlute reproductive f!'aedom and quality heal1l1 care for all Women,We
evel'{ Wed. at ",.30 pm at 1I1eVillage Independent
Democrats, 224 Wast Fourth Street (off SileridaR Sq.).
We are not affiliated wi1l1VID. (212) 713-5966. ¥aaing', address: WHAMI, P.O. BDX73$, NYC 10009 ' '

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A non-profit, Lesbian community center serving:
Queens, Nassau and Suffolk cDunties. Thurs night
weekly discussion grps. 8:30pm, for Dther activitiea
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Town & Country, 9th Ave at 46th St., 307-1503,'.
Barbaly COast, 64 7th Ave. (14th St.), 67~03:85
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965-6900

Stutz, 202 Westchester Ave, White Plains,761-3100LONG ISLANDNASSAU (516)

Bedrock, 121 Woodfield Rd., West Hempstead,
486-9516,,,

Blanche, 47-2 Boundary Ave., Fanningdale, "694-6906
Cheeks, 2000 long Beach Rd, Island Park,431-5700
Grand Central, 210 Merrick Rd, Rockville Centre,

536-4800'

Pal Joey's, 2457 Jerusalem Ave., North Bellmore,785-5031
Silver Lining, 175 Cherry lane, New Hyde Park,354-9641

LONG ISLAND

SUFFOLK(516)419, 419,North Highway (At. 27), Southampton,, 283-5001

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Club Swamp, Sizes, 8 E. Main St., Bay Shore,665-5175
Kiss, 161 Fannardie Dr., lake Ronkonkoma,
467-9273.$

Mr:s, 608 Sunrise Hwy., W. Babylon., 661-9580,,

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FRANCIS.oF ASSISl...serving
our brolhers and sisters affected by
AIDS
St. F~ancis AIDS Ministty
135 W, 31st Street Manhattan 10001
695,1500

DR. CHARLES FRANCHINO

KEITH HARINGBSPECIAUST

305Avenue, New York, NY 10011,callfor
info (212)673-4331.

lARGEST SELECTION
BI,IY-SellTrade-:-Locate
Warhol, Wesselman, Lichtenstein, Crash,
Hockney, Kostabi and others
DanielAcosta
ARTSOURCE,lnc.
212.255.6680 FAX212.255.6680

FORESKIN WYERS
The NewYorkCitychapteroftheUncircumcised SocietyofAmerica (NYCUSA) seeks new male members (with orwithoutforeskin)to join its swellingranks. Call for more club infonnation orto
make reservations forthe newmembelJ,, party.(212)m-4208',,

APARTMENTSHARE ',, NYC's fiNEST .-.

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all gay brownstone. Clean, working FP,
high ceilings.$350 per month plus utilities.
Call David at718-398-61t8

CO-OPSICONDOS
Helping
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The Corcoran Group,,", ' '(212)645-3535

ISTHISAMISTAKE7?7,
Fabulous 1BR condo plus terrace below$180KI Sunny S&W exposures new&
kitchen + bath/bleachedwoodflrs
terrific layout Terrific W-Village loc. &.
very low monthly. Contact lARRYCAVENDISH 924-9316. THESILVERMANGROUP212-260-3900.

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Apartmentwantedfor
June 1st (share or
subletOK)bygaymalenonsmoker.
Call Joe 633-1730.

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Apartment&offi,ce cleaning
Gayowned Reliable
We are available 7 dayscaU(212) 475-2955.

ACLEANERCLEANINGWITH A M lOWEST FlAIR
DONEBYAGUY, WITH ,BRIGHT RED HAIR,WEEKLY AND BIWEEKLYLEGITONLYRATES$40.00ANDUP
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A computer BBS.
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pm. Reply withphoto/phone:
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24076, Jersey
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Outweek Box 2549
ATT'N K-Y
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140lbs. into music;
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Politically andspiritually aware
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IntelligEmt, into
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VERYMASCULINE TOP
37, 5'11", Italian, in
shape, healthy, U/
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rent, Chelsea apt.

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Daddy 30's BIM .._wants willing son
SS onlyl No phonesex. You must be
over 21 single andstable. Write nowl
PH/PH All ser. rep.
ans. P. O. Box314, New York, NY
10009.
,,,•BENCH'BOMB; Hot WM, 29 seeks
muscular,handsome,cleanshaven,topheavy guy withoverdeveloped,rock-hard gladiatorpees, thick wellshaped muscle
bellies and deepcleavage for safe
col1l>any/possible
workout partner.
Reply withrequired photo &phone for reply.
P.O. Box 1699
Old Chelsea
Station, NYC
10011.

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GWM, 34, 5'11-,
170, professional,
straight-looking (w/style, eg I shave
my head), top,'seeks GWM fornights of sex,
cuddling, w~ng
up in same bed
and days ofworking out, thebeach, cook-outs,
performing arts.
You must be
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CHUNKYHARD AND CUTE
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225, receding hair,
bit of a gut, masc,
preppy but funky;
silly, passion fortheatre, film,
looking'tor GWM,
secure, 26-36,
healthy, masc,.
quirky sense ofhumor. NoBallerinas or Momma's
Boys. Send ph/ph
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big brawny guys
with big imagination. Gym body
NOT necessary . _Cock size
unimportant.
Prefer handsome,hairy, versatile ltal.
All others send
foto. Me: Attr, 36,
5'11-,190, brlhz,
hot. PON 2520
Times Sq. Sta.
NYC 10108.

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