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Letters .................•...... 5
Stonewall Riots ............. 5
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Dykes to Watch Out For .... 8
Nightmare of the Week ..... 9
Milestones ................... 30
GLAAD Tidings ............. 30, Gossip Watch ............... 50
Gaydar.......................
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Diary of a Mad Queen ..... 54
lifestyles .................... 55
Going OUt.. ................. .69
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Bar Guide .................... 75, . Community Directory ...... 77
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ARTS
THEATER:.Chartes BushJoe E. Jeffreys talks to the actor
abo ut the fire, flamtng
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LIP SERVICE

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ART: Ross Bleckner
John Donahue•

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MUSIC: Consumer Guide
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MUSIC: Scouts
Dale Peck pays to see the boys. .62

SIT AND SPIN
Chicago's "Sktppy" Belanger •• 63

BOOKS: Vanishing Rooms
John Preston on Melvin Dixon's
brilliant reappearance ••••••• 64

FILM: Oscars
Bruce Steele turns out the stars. .65

POETRY:August
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Dishing to Be Clever
Boy Grorge ga#Js with ErtteSt Hardy ••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••The Lavender UndergroundLiz 'n' Sydney talk to Chip Duckett

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THE PAST
It's sadly ironic that for thecover story on S/M [no. 89,
March 13], which was occasioned. by the tenth anniversaries of New York's premiergay SIM organizations, GMSMA[Gay Male S/M Activists] andLSM [Lesbian Sex Mafia], OutWeek should run an essay by
Michael Bronski complainingthat a decade of openness
about S/M has ruined thescene. Mr. Bronski dismisses
the achievementsof theseorganizations and others (without mentioning them by name)in less than a sentence. The
rest of his engagingly written
but incoherent piece is a diatribe against "the leather
lifestyle," which he says "hastaken the bite out of S/M."
While Mr. Bronski makessome valid points about thecommercialism and superficialityof much of today's popularleather scene (which' is muchlarger than the S/M scene assuch), he misses the elementary
point that defining yourself intenns of a lack of acceptance by
the majority culture is as parasitic on that culture as redefining
yourself in order to be acceptedby it (which he falsely accuses
S/M organizations of doing).
"One of the reasons I havealways been so drawn to SIM isthat it didn't seem to have a positive side," he says. Well, excuse
us for trying to present SIM-to
our own community, as well as
outsiders-as a positive; lifeenhancing, self-actualizing formof human sexual expression. We
thought that was the way torecover our sexual selves fromthe clutches of psychiatrists andpoliticians and religious fanatics

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whose dogmas made so manyof us feel tom in two as we tried
to reconcile desire with conscience. Because Michael Bronski gets off on being an outcast,
all the rest of us should justcrawl back into the closet and let
a sexophobic [sic], heterosexist
culture that equates S/M withbattery, rape and murder deter-

to practice SIM without risking
their lives, health, ,sanity, careers
or friendships, and most willprobably prefer dre$sing up in
brand-new designer leathers andcheering on their favorites at aMr. Drummer cpntest
Organizations
Iike'GMSMA..
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and LSM have helped make S/M
acceptable to much of the broad-srON£W'Att R/OrS

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~"old-guard." It's interrialj~ed
homophobia~e thinks we don't
deserve better. Well, he's wrong.
For ten years, GMSMA and LSM
have educated, explained, published, networked, caucused andmarched to convey the message
that safe,' sane, consensuai S1M
is something to cherish and support, not fear. And to a great
extent, we have succeeded. We
have brought S/M out o'f thecloseLA magazin-e called OutWeekshould celebrate~hottrash,-\,"such an achievement·,...
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Fortunately, 'a 'different,,more positive view of the,"mainstre.a,ming" o! SIM is pr,rivided by the artiQ!lfon ,"S/M
Girls" by Wickie Stamps in thesame issue, which very acutely
credits SIM dykes with revitalizing le,sbiansexuality and raising
cpnsciousness about s~fety an'dhealth issues for a'il their'sisters. And the editorial "'SIM andth~Test of Tolerance" [no. 90,, March 201 is another s!ep in tHe
right direction. Let Mr, Broriski-.
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mine who we are and what we er gay and lesbian community
not by changing it "to fit thiscan do and wear and say?
Sorry, MiChael, it won't year's fashions," as Mr. Bronski
wash. Liberation isn't just for the charges, but by being honest andprivileged few who can afford to open about it. we' have shined
play at being outlaws. Complain- light into places that many peoing that broader acceptance of ple, our enemies as well as
SIM takes the fun out of it is like friends like Mr Bronski, would
prefer to leave Ina discreet darkcomplaining that universal
literacy debases literature or that ness. His defence of the old
democracy debases governance. equation of S/M with danger,
Allow everyone who's interested sleaze and shadows isn't even

Michael Sronski responds: At
no point qid I suggest that 8M.
was better whenit, was. more.
"closeted" or that people in 'theorganfzatipns shoull!: Ilcraf¥tb4~kinto the closet and let a sexopnobic [sic], heterosexist ,£ultu,[e,~utell [us] what we can 'do. alldwear and say." Nor do I accept
the idea that "defining yourself interms of lack of acceptance by
the majority culture is as par8~
sitic on that culture as redefining
yourself in order to be acceptedby it"-i1ny "redefining" which
occurs to promote acceptability•got the Women and HIV Confer'ence (distorted as <it was) and a
Women's Committee' at" theAc:rGs 'as a'result of the work we
did: "Support and validation"
doesn't, 'mean"Other people ,having to 'do 'what you want And,ma~ufa.c~Liring a'male/female'split to explain differences about
strateg{and tactics is asimplification'andmakesa lot cif women
and, men invisible on' both sidesof the issue, something 'Denenberg accuses men' of doing toviomen. So, to 'Risa; I say, do, what you need to do loend the
AIDS crisis; butp6ttii'fg'
out,your',-,message tIlis way,(foes not sup'p'ort orVaiidate 'my experience.
. , ;',--Maxine
Wolfe" ' ,;"':. .'Brooklyn

to a mainstream culture that
hates queersis going to diminish
our senseof self.
The fact that this "acceptance" is inextricably bound up
with the consumer aspects of
the new leather scene is, to me,a sign that something else
besides sexual liberation isgoing on. I don't think that, inthe absence of all oppression,"most would pr.obably preferdressing up in brand-new
designer leathers and cheering
their favorites at a Mr. Drummer contest." I would rather
Imagine that. we "'{ould spend
our time discovering and

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I'd have to engage in an' activity I"utter1y'loath~ritinga
s-elf-dis.::hlosing"lettet,to tile 'media taking
r' heated eiGeptiOn to-:-how do I ~this ,witHout adding fuel to thefire?~Dene'nberg's inaccurate"statements. Ifs not the inaccura, cies I'm trying to address--{)enen'~berg herself 'could have avoided[them] with a; ridiculously small
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aGtiviSm:iI do~a lot of work with'the IJ'reatmenf'and"Data (T&D),committee: :I am a Woman,' I've'~managedto continue prOducing'despite 'the extremely sexist cli"mate 'iIi' ACT UP'in general, and,in 1&0, in particular. I'm'too
busy' trying ~to;'chah'ge the way, AIDS research is done in thiseountry to spend a lot of time'.doing ~PRwithin ACT UP about,fhii work I do, apart trom concise verbal and, sometimes,, w-ritten:'reports to T&D and to,fhe Floori of ACT UP. Things arestill tucked for women with HIV
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Risa Denenberg's depictionof lesbians/womenin AIDS
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which we've worked so hard for,are modest. In the face of AIDS,
any of ACT UP's gains are modest. Still, I take exception to
Denenberg's pointed ignoranceof the work of T&D womenaround women and HIV. Some(not all) of the work that I andothers I work with in T&Dhave
done wit~ respect to womenand HIV includes:• Getting access for women
to an HIV drug trial of a drug
developedfor women; from Whichwomen [had been].excluded.
• Getting copies of ACTG
data collection fonns for a number of trials. Finding out thatgynecological exams were notincluded. Alerting the Floor of
ACT UP and diverse committees
that this was the case. ~epeatedly. demanding that GYN
exams be included,,• Getting infonnation about
ACTG trial 076. The factsheets
used in the recent 076 demo
relied heavily on information
gathered by T&D members.
• Finding out exactly how
many -(actually, how few)
women were enrolled in ACTG
clinical trials. Finding out thatmost of them were asymptomatic. Making this information widely available including
through co-authorship of an
abstract presented in San Francisco in June '90.
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numerous-researchers to develop a trial ofprophylaxis for vaginal candidiasis. Thetrial was finally developedl
This work has been hard,
We did not get a lot of support
from anyone when we reported
each of these things to the
Floor. However, even the mostmisogynist among us did little
more than ignore our work-wewere not attacked or belittled
directly, until now, for doing it.
Until recently, I'd depended
on the good faith of fellow ACT
UP members, such as Risa
Denenberg,to speak with [me] orwith another highly visible woman
in T&D about our activities,
should there ever be questions or,concerns about what we were
doing with respectto women andHIv, or what our experienceswith
sexism as an obstacle to getting
our work done were. Even if
somebody is stupid enough toconstruct other committees in
ACT UP as "the enemy" or "theopposition," nobody has anything
to lose by hearing what "theopposition" has to say.
I would certainly neverattack another ACT UP mem-question I think ACT UP should
be considering right now:
Whafs the point of criticizing the,work of other actiVists? It had
better not be just to vent ion•
another person because yoU{refrustrated. It had better not ,bepower-tripping, or trying to ,~ut
other people down so you or
your committee look better. It
shouldn't be personalized. If you
do it in a heated or abusive way,
you'd better be accountable, tober's work either in the media orin public without speaking withthem and making an effort tosee that I had heard what they
had to say first. Even when I've
confirmed that something
fucked up is going on, I'm careful about how I criticize otherpeople's work. I'm not that goodat it; I can be unnecessarily
harsh and make it difficult forpeople to hear my suggestions.
Which brings me to the

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stupidly heaped on them thatmade jt even more difficult tohear what you'd had to say.
.. It had better be to improve
the qqality of the work that's
being done,
Otherwise, how the fuck areyou supposed to work together?
Risa Dennenberg's "criticism" , of the work of T&D
women is what prompted me towrite this letter. I am so angry
about it-and about having towaste valuable time-which
could be spent fighting
AIDS-dealing
with fighting
among ourselves. But "criticism" such as Denenberg's article will destroy ACT UP fasterthan any FBI infiltrator could.
The' '()nly activities Risa
attackedlspecifically were initiated and overseen by T&D
women. She did not make theeffort to v(lrify or check her
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Indulging those impulses would
mean becoming
what I
hate-responding to fucked-up
stuff with more fucked-up stuff,
I have more (much worse, infact) to say about Denenberg's
article. But I should save it for a
direct conversation. I should try
to learn her side of the story,
and try to understand what's
going on. I should give her achance to respond. And I
should do my best to listen andtry to understand what drove
her to this bullshit I should try
to understand and be accountable to her for ways I might
unwittingly have contributed.
I am not looking forward
to talking directly with Ms.
Denenberg. I think all I'll get isdumped on for my efforts. If
Denenberg doesn't even read
the work of another woman
activist before trashing it-what
am I getting into here? Asking
for more abuse? Still-because

did not do either of them thecourtesy of a "Heads upl I'm
about to attack you in a national
publication" call.
She "criticized"the"Countdown 18 Months" project on page 82: "[They] did notplace a single woman-specificopportunistic infection on theiragenda." It's quite obvious thatshe didn't read the document.
Look at page 14, Risa. Is
vaginal candidiasis a womanspecific opportunistic infection?
Becauseshe put this out inthe press, I think she should becalled on it in the press. I've
hated doing this. But reading
her article-realizing she wasso eager to trash the work of
T&D's women that she didn't
even bother to read the document she was trashing made itnecessary to respond.
I've tried to edit out thereally damaging stuff I wanted
to unleash in this letter.

I don't know-I sho.uld be braveenough to try. I have nothing tolose by listening to her-maybe
I'll learn something. If I reallycare as much as I profess about
these issues, I can handle a little
abuse. If it gets ridiculous, I canalways leave.
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Maybe t~is doesn't fit inthis letter-but Risa used to bea real hero of mine. At the ACT
UP meeting Fauci att.ended, shecalled him on his ignorance ofthe fact of women's existence
like I've never seen anybody
called on anything.
Since the commencementof serious harassment-including, but not limited to, threats ofphysical violence and threatsagainst my life coinciding withthe bflginning of my public dissent against the tactics used
toward other ACT UP members
by members otthe 076 working
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is a favorite of mine, so I was
surprised and saddened toread the March 20 [no. 90]
installment, "Women, AIDS,
Lesbians a.nd Politics." A "fact"that is central to her argument
is incorrect, and a fact thatthrows the argument into
doubt has been left out.
(I should make a bias
statement. In October 1987, I
joined Iris Long's clinical trials
study group, part of the old
Issues Committeeof ACT
UP/NY. In early 1988, it became
the Treatment & Data Subcommittee, later a full committee. I
remained a mer:nber until fall1990 when I shifted my focus
from investigational drugs to.
the federal AIDS budget.)Like Gregor Samsa, the famous functionary Denenberg states that none
The Metamorphosis,
In Franz Kafka'sof the (statistically most devasEdward
I.
Koch
awoke
one morning totating) opportunistic infections
discover
that
he
had
been
transfonned into
which ACT UP has targeted fora huge crawling doodle bug. No longer theelimination in its "Countdown 18
droll object of our objections as a city
Months" campaign is an infecemployee, Koch has descended rungs lower
tion particular to women with
HIV. But in fact, vaginal candidion, the food chain, now biding his time as an
asis is on the list.
AM·radio commentator. His recent offenses
Along with "Countdown 18
include comparing efforts .by Irish gays andMonths," Denenberg cites alesbians to march in the St. Pat's parade tomeeting, arranged by a member
Palestinians wanting to rally with Israelis.
of the Treatment & Data ComThis may just be the case that gets us out
mittee, with Anthony Fauci(head of the AIDS Program of • in favor of FCC censorship.
the National Institutes of Health)
as evidence of that Committee's been rendered invisible in the tion on Feb. 25, 1991 at GMHC
process? If I didn't respect[no. 89, March 13]. The demo
failure to take issues affecting
Denenberg's work more, it was designed to make public
women and AIDS seriously.
would begin to look like a willGMHC's lack of commitment toYet both these actions,lesbian health issues, and your"Countdown 18 Mpnths" and ful suppression of fact.
Jim Eigo coveragehelped us do thatthe meeting with Fauci, have
Manhattan
At the same ~ime,webeen conceived, and in large,
would also like to rectify sQme
part executed, by two ACT UP
inconsistencies in that coverRe: Risa Denenberg's,
women, Garance Franke-Ruta
and Rebecca Smith. This fact "Women, AIDS, Lesbians and age, such as:
1. The issues as presented[no. 90, Marchalone would not guarantee the Politics"
were overSimplified. D-AM!'s
actions' correctness. But to 20]-right on!
Marea Murray point of contention with GMHC
fail to mention it in a column
Boston is that the organization has
deSigned in part to prove
failed to provide lesbian-specificTreatment & Data's failure toprograming,i.e., safer-sex
GM(&W)HC
heed women's input is more
DAM! would like to thank workshops and counseling,
than curious. Why have theseyou for covering our demonstra- community outreach and proviwomen (one a proud lesbian)sion of absolutely necessary
safer-sex materials, Our action
was targeted at more than the
mission statement.
2. OutWeek must acknowledge the work of other concerned
lesbian groups working on theseissues. Lesbians Working in AIDS
has been negotiating with GMHC
for several months on Similarly
related concerns. They laid thegroundworkfor .changing
GMHC's mission statement andmust be duly acknowledged fortheir efforts.
We would like to encourage OutWeekto continue covering in all necessary detail thestory of GMHC and the lesbiancommunity. Although, GMHC's
initial response to our demands
was positive, it certainly had
neglected to make public its
plans to address most of ourissues, let alone how they
intend to carry through with theimplementation of their adjusted mission statement.
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GMHC's commitment to the lesbian community. The mostunfortunate aspect of this error
is that in crediting the DAM!
demo as the reason for the
GMHC board response, Reyes
overlooks-no,
ignores-thereal process, which I went togreat lengths to explain to her.
A group of lesbians with awide range and many years ofexperience working in ~DS organizations came to G.MHC in
November with a num.ber of criticisms, suggestions and program
possibilities and have been meeting with us ever since then. At the•January board meeting, theimpact of the work of this group
had already been felt; board'members agreed to change themission statementthen, requesting that liinSweeney, [GMHC's], executive director, and I review~the goa,lsand mission and pro,'pose appropriate changes at the
February bo~rd meeting. With
the solidarity of the board on thisissue, the outcome of the vote at~'the'Feb. 25 meeting was antici.pated. The board was unani)mous in its desireto haveGMHC
jimprove existing services and~expandthem to areas that will.;include
the lesbian community"'I.
{affected by the HIV epidemic.
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I am angry and frustrated\tofind that an OutWeek jour,nalist has done the very thing:we are all fighting against. By!, discounting the efforts of thei women who came to GMHC
; months ago and worked with'the agency's administration
carefully and diligently, she
has made these women invisiwe respect,: ble. Although
I DAMI, the hard work of those
who do not demonstrate, wave
banners or demand media;attention must also be recog:nized, valued and applauded.
'These lesbian AIDS profes,sionals have done .an impor'tant service to GMHC and the:,Ie'sbiancommunity.
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I am proud that some!members'of the lesbian com,:,munity have stood up andcalled for action and am equalJy proud that GMHC is
responding responsibly. While
we respect the right to demonstrate and the value of demonstrations, let's give credit
where credit is due.
Joy A. Tomchin
President, Board of Directors
Gay Men's Health Crisis
Manhattan,

Staff Reporter Nina Reyes
responds: I thoroughly regret
having' implied a causal connection between the DAM!
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in regard to lesbians and AlDS~
As ,Tomchin rightly points out,
the article failed to,.credif theefforts of lesbians who havefought this, fight with GMHC
for months.•
My error was not, 'however, motivated by the malice
Tomchin implies in statingthat I ignored the "real process." In fact, I did not knowthat the group of women whobegan pressing GMHC ineamest on lesbians and AIDS
in November had continued
meeting with members of
GMHC's board after their initial contact, which I wrote
about back in December.
Unfortunately, because of adispute with the magazineover a related matter, several
representatives of that groupmade it very clear to me inearly December that theywould not talk to OutWeekabout their work with GMHC.
That is to say, though I am
guilty of a lack of reflection,I did
not intentionally elidethe facts.
Meanwhile, for the record,
I have never had the pleasureof speaking with Tomchin.

America. Should we expect
calls t() boycott perforrh,ances
Butterfly because ofof.Madame,
the similar plot? Or how about
O'Neill's Anna Christie? She
was a prostitute too, you know.
Lambda and the Community Centerare so vilal to our community. Doesn't OutWeek haveanything' better to .do (like helping to fight AIDS and gay-bashing) than'to attack benefit performancesof Broadwaymusicals?
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Rights and the New York
Physicians for Human Rights,
I was particularly distressed byhis letter in support of themusical Miss Saigon.
I" the letter he assumes
that because many of us have, not seen the play in London,
we cannot comment on Miss
Saigon's racism and sexi'sm.
However, most of us who are
involve~ with the Miss Saigon
protesthave heard
and read",.
the lyrics provided• in the twocompact disc cast recor~ing
from London.
, What Dr. Cohen fails toappreciate are the racist and,, sexist themes that inform the,play. Although he believes
that the ,abuse of women andAsians ,in the plaY "is neverglorified and is always presented as ugly and horrifi9,"
he does not. understand th,att~e musical encourages andperpetuates the Westernwhite-roale-Madame-Butterfly
fantasy-a
fantasy that is
damning Asian women andmen. In the Miss Saigon
mythology, ASian women are
exotic, excessively naive,
inscrutable, passive creatures
who will kill themselves sothat their children can cometo America.
One of Dr. Cohen's arguments centers on the song
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THE FALL OF(MISS) SAIGON
OutWeek has accom-·plished so many wonderfultasks that it dismays me tQ see
the editors jump.ing on the
bandwagon to bash Miss
Saigon [no. 88, March 6].
Have any of the show's critics
who are calling for a boycott of
the Lambda and the Community Center benefit performancestaken the trouble to see theshow or study the libretto?
To say Miss Saigon
demeans Asians is ludicrous.
The bulk of the show takes
place during the fall of Saigon
and focuses on Kim, a young
Asian prostitute who bears thechild of an American soldier. In
many ways, Kim is the most
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nonracist. During this pro-American/anti-communist (i.e., Vietnamese) song, a white p,erson(Jonathan Pryce), playing aself-hating Asian role in yellow
face and prosthetic, eyeli~s,condemns other ASia'ns bycalling them "chinks" andextols blond American women(presumably
over Asian
women) because they can earnmore money for him: "Greasy
chinks make life so sle~zyiln
the states I'll build a club that's
four"starred/Men like me there
have.things easy{fhey. have alawyer 'and a body-guard/To
the johns there ,I'll sell bl,onds
thereffhat they can charge on
a card." Even though the pimp,
who is quite racist, sings thesewords, they retain their power
to degrade and demean Asianmen and women, who areseen 'as self-loathing oppprtunists who will do anything tosteal the American Dream.
, On a more encouraging
note, the Lesbian and Gay
Community Services Centerhad decided to cancel its benefit, and I hope toat many ofyou will become members of
the Center (their address is in
the community directory). In
addition, I hope, that ,peqple
will join us outside the th,eaterat the protest of Larritida;sbenefit on April 6.
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association with' Miss Saigon
is happening within a contimium of my life experiences
which has taught me ,that I
cannot trust others, ,usuallywhite men, to represent me as
the full human being that I am.
I have grown up with imagesof Asians as exotic Geisha
girls; villainous Fu Manchus;bungling,
buck-toothed,cross-eyed houseboys; suicidal Madame Butterflies; thickly accented, "Confucius-say"detectives; asexual. and sexu.
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Katharine Hepburn, Mickey
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Wake up from your Ameriinany other white actors andI,'I
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had to be polite to businessmen
shockedby how well she dying of opportunistic infections,
speaks English. My sister the masquerading as plays having
ophthalmologist
has had to "sensitivity," as'decrying racism
defend herself against male and sexism and as being sympadoctors who dqubt her ability to thetic and understanding graphic
pictures of these problems.
practice medicine. My motherI will not closet my Korean
has to "fudge the books" forh'er white bosses so theY"can 'heritage for the benefit of whiteevade taxes." My father has had gay men and lesbians. Enought9 be the pOlite, quiet and coop- is enough. Silence equals invisierative employee in places con- bility and disempowerment.
trolled' by white men. My par- Action equals life.,
James Jaewhan Lee
ents have both had to sublimate,
Jersey City
their dreams to assure that mysisters and I c'ould go to "good"
It truly sa~dens me to readcolleges and have a shot at theof the dispute between Lambda"American Dream.",
Now I am being asked to and the Center on one side andaccept the choice of two lesbian Asian Lesbians of the East Coastand gay service organizations to [ALOEC] and Gay and Pacificmeet their need for money 'by Islander Men of New Yorkjumping on the profiteering band [GAPIMNy] on the other. It saddens me because this wholewagon of this record-breaking
dramatic monument to hetero- incident is another example ofsexual/sexist
lover Now I must various groups within the· gay.
hear the executive director of and lesbian community fighting
Lambda' calf me coercive and one another instead of fighting
are most guilty ofimmoral .. and tell me that I had those who•
better go read Martin Lutheroppressing us. ,I have never seen'Miss
King! Among people who don't
oppress me for my sexuality, I Saigon, so I am not in a position to judge itS'content.
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because of my race?1 Among
people who understand the phys- Center nor Lambda was aware
ical consequences of anti-lesbian that. the content .''of the ,show
and -gay defamation, I have to would so deeply offend many
cajole and explain the legacy I members of our community.
I am grateful that the gay
have the "honor" to bear as a
Korean Americanl 00'1 have to and lesbian Asian 'groups havesPend a minimum of $60 to wit- brought this issue up so· as tothe'Cellfer
ness a show whose libretto I have educate and sensitize.'
read, oh, too many times, before I and Lambda as well as manyothers in our community about
havethe right to my feelings?
Are you taken aback by the anti-Asian racism that isprevalent in both the straight
my anger? Did you not thinkand gay communities. However,that Asians
and PacificIslanders are oppressed, eco- I see little net gain in having
both the .Center and Lambda
nomically
and culturally
exploited and used as a group cancel their benefits, Whichwould result in significant finanagainst other minorities?
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Lambda Legal Defense and Education .
I theFund. Saturday, April 6, and Thursday, AprU I'
11, at the Broadway Theater at 53rd Street
I andBroadway. For more info: (212) 925- I
7.
I5290 or ,(718) ,.IACT UP protests against Gov. Mario '·1
I .Cuomo's murderous budget cuts, which will.
impact on the lives of all people affected by I
IHIV and AIDS.TUesday, April 2, at 7:~ ~am't the World Trade Center (Church $!~t I
aISide). Info: (212) 564-AlDS.
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Lambda provide essential ser- could offer to help fUrid-raise
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bian community. AS'8 person
who ,has been active in the gay certain length of time;
I encourage GAPIMNY andand lesbian rights struggle, I
know that every dollar is needed ALOEC to continue their fight0 against racism, 'But perhaps
to help figpt homophobia.
On tile other hand, as an instead of accosting Tom .stod~
Asian person, I know that. anti- dard, who has inarg:uablydone
Asian racism is ali issue which much for the entire comiT1u~ity,is to'o' often ignored. I dan the Asian, groups sh.olild be
empathize wifp my,'Asian both- zapping CamerOn Mackintosh
ers andsisters who feel , out- ahd leading protest outside the.
raged that \\yo 'prominent, sup- theater where Miss SaIgon wiil,
pose,dlY.racially inclusive, organ- be showing.,
Eric Tsuchidaization~ in our community would
Los Angeles
give their support to an arguably
anti-ASian, racist show.
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tor must include a
Ce'nter< 'and lambda' have
name, add·ress andlearned valuable lessons fromdaytime phone, althis whole episode. To makethough names may
amends with the gay and lesbe withheld at thebian Asian community, I proauthor's request. Outpose that Lambda offer to divert
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severely beat a gay man who wasthen arrested and charged with spraypainting on the sidewalk outside therectory at St. Patrick's Cathedral. Less
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charges stemming from either of those, incidents, and anti-violence activists
have no faith in the body charged withinvestigating allegations of police misconduct,
the Civilian Complaint
Review Board, or CCRB.
However, with the nation still reeling from the impact of a video showing
Los Angeles police viciously beating an
African-American man, municipalities allover the country, including New York,are again taking a hard look at who
enforces the law against the law enforcers,
and some activists think that a more
. effective police oversight agency may be
within reach.

NIGHT CLUBBING-Many cities have seen
recent gay protests against police violence,
including New Yolk Montreal, Boston, Los
Angeles and San Francisco, where a police
riot at an Oct '89 demo felled Michael
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"We think that there should be an allcivilian, non-police body that can investigate and disciplule [the police]," statedDavid Kirschenbaum, deputy director of
the New York City Gay and Lesbian AntiViolence Project. "Right now, people
don't feel it's worth ruing a complaint.
Nobody thinks that the system works."
That claim can be tentatively substantiated by figures: According to several
reports, the number of complaints rued
with the CCRB has steadily decreased
since 1985. And while CCRB statements
attribute that decline to an overall reduction in police misconduct, the'on thestreet is that the CCRB's unofficial agenda
is protecting the cops at any expense.
As it is currently structured, the CCRB
is a 12-member body consisting of six
people appointed by the mayor and six
high-ranking civilian members of thepolice department selected by the police
commissioner. The board, which is directed by a police department deputy commissioner, Sandra Marsh, reviews allegations of police misconduct, which are theninvestigated by a separate arm of the
CCRB, the Civilian Complaint Investigation
Bureau, or CaB. Ultimately, if an accusation is substantiated by CaB's investigation, the board recommends disciplinary
measures to the police commissioner.
The COB is staffed by 51 investigators. Of those, only 12 are civilians.
This system, critics charge, is inherendy biased by the fact that the entire
process takes place within the police
department, and, in fact, the CCRB itself
admitted in a report issued last year:"The use of the term 'civilian' in thename of the board may create the false
impression that the process of handlingcomplaints of civilians against membersof the New York City Police Department
is external to the department and freefrom influence of police officers andpolice executives. It is obvious ...that thepolice officers and the police department
executives are the major influences overthe processing of complaints."
And according to a report published
Tbe New York Times last week, fewer
than 3 percent of the complaints filed in
1989 were substantiated.
'The CCRB is a sham," charges Bill
Dobbs, a longtime gay activist and attorney who has been cop-watching for years.
Anti-violence activists tend to agreewith Dobbs' assessment. Matt Foreman,wOrd

executive director of the New York City
Gay and Lesbian Anti-Violence Project,says that he advises his clients to mecomplaints with the CCRB primarily toinsure that the complaint is registered
and will go into the officer's personnel
file. "We are very forthright about advising people not to expect that there will
be any disciplinary action," he explained.
Furthermore, Foreman continued,
even if a complaint is substantiated, the
CCRB does not tell the complainant precisely what the investigation turned up.

"They shnply state that they have recommended to the police commissioner thatcharges be brought against the officer,"he stated. "So when the police co~sioner does or does not initiate charges,
you don't know if the police c0Illlllir
sioner is carrying out the actual recQmmendation of the CCRB or not."Meanwhile, the police departmenfs
Deputy Commissioner for Public Information, or DCPI, insists that the CCRB,
on average, processes complaints within
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gay man who came to the aid of two
BOSTON-Two recent incidents
here involving clashes between gay gay men allegedly being harassed bypeople and the police have prompted police. Peter Kelly was hit across thegllY and lesbian activists to join those face, arrested and held overnight bycalling for the establishment of a civil- police after he wrote down the .licerise. ian review board for the Boston Police number of a police car. According to
Department. The campaign to create Queer Nation, Kelly became involved insuch a board was renewed here last the skirmish when he heard police outyear,.folloWing
aHegationsof side a gay bar call two men "fucking
wi~espread police abuse of Black faggots." Kelly stayed to witness thecommunity members in the wake of incident even after police ordered him
the murder of a white woman, alleged- to leave. Police held Kelly overnight,
ly by her husband, Which was original- then declined to press charges.
ly falsely blamed on a Black man.
Demonstration organizers said thatthey were also protesting police actions
Local lesbian and gay activists
held a demonstration on March 15 at an August Queer Nation action, whenagainst "Bashers with Badges" out- officers from the same precinct disruptside a downtown police station. The . ed a kiss-in at a predominantly straight
more than 50 demonstrators then club. Police reportedly separated a kissmarched to the City Hall offices of ing couple, telling them, "You can't do
Mayor Raymond Flynn, where they that in here." Officers also threw a numblew whistles and chanted, "Wake up ber of Queer Nation members out of theRay, your.cops beat gays."bar. Activists currently have a laws uit
The action, sponsored by Queer pending against police involved in the
Nation/Boston, came in response to incident.
the Feb. 20 berating and arrest of a
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entirely on the level when it comes todiscl<>.$lg jnformatiqn about the cam ..
For instance, DQ>I has vacillated on disclQsing just how many complaints the
CCRB is reviewing that have arisen fromthe . Feb.,l1 demonstration
outside the,Midtown North preCinct: Several weeks
a~, !:h~claimed there were a numberof complaints, but last week, when
queried, ~ey said that only one claim
had been filed.
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One method of creating increased
public trust of the police fOrce that some
activists are supporting is the call for an allcivilian CCRB. This idea, which is not new,is currendy being actively pursued by abroad coolition, spearheaded by the New
York Civil liberties Union, or NYau.
,"7f1t; wanted to create a citywide~roots , campaign where we would
eventually,go to the City Council [with abilll; disclosed NOIman Siegel, director~f NYa.U, who, since October 1990, has
slowly working his way throughthe City's 59 community boards in aneffort to build a broad base of support
for ;Ill all-civilian cam.
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on, opposition to the proposal from thepolice force, and from certain elements ofthe populace, has been vehement'The police claim they're held moreaccountable than any agency," asserted
Siegel, who has publicly debated the headof the police officers' union, the Policemen's Benevolent Association, or PBA.
"They are very h05tile toward the idea.·
Indeed, the last time control overthe body that polices the police wasfought, in 1966, the PBA resorted to racebaiting tactics that ultimately helped thepolice officers' union prevail.
That PBA campaign came after thenMayor John Lindsay established a review
board comprising four civilians heappointed and three ranking civilian
members of the police department,
according to a report on police abuse
issued last year by Siegel's organization.
The PBA, supported by all its caucusessave the Black officers' fi-dternai organization, opposed civilian review, challenging
Lindsay's move by initiating a referendum
repeal campaign that it ultimately won.
"I think there are a lot of people inthe city who remember how ugly [the1966 campaign] was, and they are afraidthat if we push this issue, it will openthat back up," Siegel speculated.
Even this early in Siegel's effort,
however, the polarizing effect of propos-ing an alkivilian cam is clear: Most of
the community
boards that haveendorsed his proposal represent predominandy Black and latino neighborhoods,
while the single board that rejected itpresides over an almost exclusively
white-ethnic neighborhood. In anotherarea of the city, also largely white, one
citizen told Siegel that he didn't mind if
cops routinely beat up criminals.
Even in the gay and lesbian community, the issue of an all-civilian review
board is not universally embraced.
Sam Ciccone, director of the Gay
Officers' Action League, does not believethat an all-civilian board will provide asolution to police abuse. "I think that isn't
the primary change that needs to be
made,· he remarked, qualifying his statement by noting that he does think that the
CCRB should be assisted by an alkivilian
investigative body. "Ihe real violence thatexists in this society is not a police officer
hitting someone over the head with a gun,but it is someone like Cardinal o'Connor.

THREE COPS ARRESTED IN ANTI-GAY ATTACKNEW YORK-Three cops from the Midtown North precinct
Werearrested on March 21 for allegedly beating and pistol-whipping three men last December. But while the police officers
all,egedly hurled a stream of anti-gay invective at their victims as
they beat them, the case has not been classified as bias-related.
., News of the three arrests came just a month after lesbian and gay activists charged the Midtown North precinfs
command with insensitivity and brutality following the arrest,a,ndbeating of two gay men.
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The incident occurred in the early morning hours of Dec.
22, when two off-duty police officers who were on their way
home from a precinct holiday party approached a taxi occupied by two men and, uttering anti-gay epithets, demanded toknow if the men were getting out of the cab, according to the
Manhattan district attorney's investigation.
The police officer then grabbed one of the two men andattempted to drag him out of the cab, and a fight ensued. Whenone of the officers drew his gun, the men, joined by their companion who had been inside a nearby deli, fled, according to the DA
A third officer, also off-duty, happened to drive by, and,having spotted the men running, stopped and identified himself as a police officer. When the other two officers arrived
on the scene, the three policemen puched, kicked, pistolwhipped and threatened the men, who at this point were
face down on the ground, the DA said.
All three victims ultimately ended up in the hospital, andone sustained a laceration on his face and head that required
40 stitches to close. Another was diagnosed with a broken rib.
According to one report, the officers were identified andarrested because of the testimony of a fourth officer; who witnessed the assault and was conscience-stricken.
"We were disappointed that the case was not classified
as a bias crime by the bias unit," commented David
Kirschenbaum, deputy director of the New York City Gay andLesbian Anti-Violence Project. "They specifically told us that
this was an argument over a cab."
The three men who were beaten in the Dec. 22 incident
have not identified themselves as gay, according to Colleen
Roche, a spOkesperson for the Manhattan district attorney, andhave been described publicly simply as Albanian nationals.
But Kirschenbaum also said that lis agency is disappointed that the DA's office did not independently classify
the assault as bias-related, following the example of both the
Queens and the Brooklyn DAs.
"We have never~independentof the police-done
that," responded Roche. "I don't know what practical purpose that would serve, and it could conceivably pin a prosecutor into having to prove a particular motive."
The police officers, Daniel McCormick, Brian Carter andJohn Talt, have been suspended without pay, according topolice department spokesperson Sgt. Grace Ridley.

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would be to increase supervision by higher-ups. "I think the example that's set by
the top command, and having supervisionthat permeates the entire department," heexplained, "I think those are more effective ways [than discipline] to protect thepuqlic from abuse by police officers."

ARRESTED DEVELOPMENTAttorney/activist Bill Dobbs, speaking at apress conference after a memorial for gay
murder victim James Zappalorti last year

He causes that kind of violence."
As a more effective strategy to curb
police abuse of power, Ciccone suggested that the city set up a program wherein
applicants would serve a contractual period as police officers in exchange for anundergraduate education, for instance,with emphasis on non-criminal-justicedegrees. "That will have an effective
change on the police force," Ciccone, aretired police officer, asserted, adding thatas part of that program, he believes
sworn officers ought to be required toserve one day of their week's work in acommunity-service type occupation.
Dan Johnston, who served on New
York's CCRB as an openly gay civilian
appointee of former Mayor Ed Koch, also
thinks that an ail-civilian CCRB is thewrong approach to correcting misconduct
on the part of police officers, and heagrees with Ciccone that increasing civilian
investigation would be a more effective
antidote than creating an all-dvilian cam.
"Almost all of the decisions that I
made while I was on the board weredictated by the investigation," Johnston,
who now lives in Washington, DC,·remembered. "So in my judgment, thequality of the investigation is at least as
important as the makeup of the board,"
Johnston also claims that moot complaints made against police officers occur
in the first few years of an individual officer's service, and that a simple way toeliminate many complaints, therefore,

Mayon and Other Players
Perhaps the single most compelling
reason that an all-civilian CCRB is not
currently in place is that the politicians
who could see to the implementation ofsuch a drastic change in review are leetyof approaching the issue head-on.
'Mayor ~vidDinkins, for example,
who has publicly asserted his philosophical support of the idea, and who reportedly promised during his campaign tomake the issue a priority, has recently
skirted the issue. At a press conference
last month, Dinkins stated that the issue
was up to the legislature.
Victor Kovner, counsel to the city, disagrees. "Without authori2ation fiom the city,
the legislaturecan't o::mr in and dlange thecity charter," he ~ in a telephone interview. "I can't find anything [in the city charter] that would require anything other thana city cowx:il anrndment "The mayor's liaison to the lesbian andgay community, Dr. Ma!jorie Hill, affirm:xl
the mayor's position, disclQ5ing simply thatthe mayor is currently examining a legislative package that includes a number of
item;. On the matter c:i an all-civilian cam,Hill said only, "We're philosophically infavor of it, whi<h is the mayor's position~
Other observers point out that
opposing the police officers' union on
the issue of an all-civilian CCRB, as apolitician, is a sauy business. "This is notjust a Dinkins issue," stated the AVP's
Foreman. "It's a lindsay, Beame, Kochand Dinkins issue.".. tThat is to say that the PEA has baa
enormous political influence with thiscit1,smayors and in ~,and that taking theunion on may well be politicalsuicide,
For instance,. right now, as thebu~getary axe chops away at other city
agencies, the police department' isexpanding. Another example is thatwhen the Safe Streets/Safe City program
was set up, even though whispers of discontent swept through the city over thefact that no residency requh'emerit for
new officers was included in the proposal, the program was adopted withoutchanges to reflect that concern.
"Out on the Street to Fight"
Even though lesbians and gay men
have achieved tremendous influence under
the current city ad-ministratioo---bOth within and outside the city govemliient-thequestion of whether or not civiliaris Willat this juncture gain oversight of thepolice rests largely with the willingnesSof activists within affected communities
to engage iD. what would ineyitably bea long, hard strµggie.
,"We just haven't coalesced behirid
this common issue that we share,"observed Matt Foreman, noting how grea,ta portion of the city's popul~ce, quite;aside from the lesbian and gay community, this quest for an all-civilian CCRB
could conceivably encoffiPiilSS, "Ibis issue
is no different than so many other issues."
And as a 8rim reminder of how POlitical fights are won, activistBill Dobbs
cluded: "Every inch of territory we've got
has been fought for. And even if we get ;lcivilian complaint board, ~1l&1ill have tofight. The queer community is always
going to have to be out on the street tofight for our lives."T
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NEW YORK-As the trial for Julio
Rivera's
allegedkillers
quicklyapproaches, additional details of thebrutal slaying have emerged that painta terrifying and graphic picture of thegay man's murder.
And while the Queens district
attorney's office declines to characterize the strength of its case, winning a
guilty verdict hinges almost entirely on la single incriminating statement given ~to police by one of the defendants.
~'A videotaped statement made by :~Daniel Doyle, 20, on Nov. 13, the. night ~of his arrest in connection with Rivera's ~murder on July 2, was presented at Eij
Doyle's pre-trial hearing by the prosecu- ~tor, Executive Assistant District Attorney 5:
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demo last month.
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tence had been pronounced.
NEW YORK-Another ugly chapter"The legal system has a responsibilin the community's attempt to fight antiity to treat these cases as part of a larger
gay violence through the judicii,il systemsocial problem that needs to be dealt
concluaed two weeks ago with the senwith in a larger context, not just as one
tencing of a youth who was convicte~ onisolated act," commented Karl Soehnlein,a felony assault charge.
one of two gay men who was beaten by
Jose Suarez was given five years proSuarez and his alleged accomplice. Last
bation as punishmentfor his 1989 atlackon
fall, a jury dismissed all charges against
a gay man attending the Wigstock festival in
the youth who was accused of joining
Tompkins Square Park. The assis1ant dis,",',
Suarez in the attack, which was carried
trict attorney handling the case had asked
out with lacrosse sticks, and Suarez wasthat Suarez be sentencedto time in prison.
ultimately convicted on only one count of"When a defendant commits a bias
second-degree assault.
act and is convicted of a gay-bashing,
Added David Kirschenbaum,a[that individual] must be punished, inIspokesperson for the New York City Gay
part to deter others from committing
JOSE SUAREZ
and Lesbian Anti-Violence Project, "Thesimilar crimes," ADA Daniel Parker said
unfortunate message that it sends to theat the sentencing.
The decision to put Suarez back on the streets shows community is that it may not be worth it to pursue a case throughthe lack of conviction with which the legal system pursues the criminal justice system."-Nina Reyes
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strongest piece of evidence in the case.
Out Week obtained an unofficialtranscript of Doyle's statement and confinned its contents with other sources
who had seen it played in court. It
allegedly implicates Eric Brown, 20, andEsat Bici, 19. All three men are currently
under indictment, each charged withtwo counts of second-degree murder
and two counts of criminal possessionof a deadly weapon. Bici and Doyleremain jailed on Rikers Island; Brown isout of jail on a $100,000 bond.
Claiming that his client's civil rights
were violated when it was recorded,
Doyle's attorney has made a motion tohave the videotape removed as evidence from the case,
The statement places all three at thethe scene of Rivera's killing, a schoolyard
in the Jackson Heights section of Queens.
According to Doyle, he had gone to purchase beer, leaving Brown and Bici at theschoolyard. Doyle returned to find
Brown and Bici in a fight with Rivera. He
recounts watching Bici take a hammer
from his lower back and allegedly bludgeon Rivera at least 4 times,
According to Doyle, Brown was
holding a knife taken from Doyle's
home, and both Brown and Bici had
blood on their hands. Brown handeq
the knife to Doyle, who allegedly
stabbed Rivera in the back. Rivera diedseveral hours later at a nearby hospital.
According to Doyle and his attorney, Jeffrey Schlanger, Doyle attempted to break up the fight. Schlanger
also insists that anti-gay bias was not a
motivation in this crime.
Both Brown and Bici surrendered
to police last fall, accompanied 'by
their attorneys. Neither has given any
statement to the police.
New York City's medical examiner
has detennined the cause of death tobe a single stab wound to the chestthat punctured Rivera's right lung. But
Schlanger says that he will present awitness who will testify that' Rivera
died from cardiac arrest brought on bya cocaine overdose, And sources havedescribed
Rivera as being "full ofdrugs" near the time of his death.
In the one-hour-and-20-minute-longstatement, Doyle describes not only thegrisly murder scene but also the events
leading up to the schoolyard fight.
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nation laws on race years before the1964 Civil Rights Act just became thethird state iti the country to offer gay
men and lesbians full civil rights,
On March 21, Gov. John Waikeeof Hawaii signed into law legislation
ensuring gay. men and I~bians accessto employment without discriminationand to civil rights protections in housing and public services. The legislation
adds sexual orientation to the list of
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Academy Awards party, where all the waiters were all dressed up as their favorite movie stars.
, ,Asked why he chose to come as the chiseled statue itself, Tim (a.k.a. Oscar, to whom he bore
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long, long effort of 16 years."Those 16 years paid off inastounding support from state legislators and even from religious leaders
who are traditional opponents of gay
rights. Even the Catholic Archdioceseof Honolulu offered its backing for thelegislation. Tim Drake, Director of Civil
Rights Project for the National Gay andLesbian Task Force, or NGLTF lauded
their ,work: "They did a great job of lining up religious support. Perhaps thatwas the key."
The ,bill passed the state Senate
on March 19 by a majority and passed
the Senate 34 to 17. Of 76 legislators,
only seven are Republicans.
Woods attributed the victory to
the lobbying of Leon Rouse, who
donated three months of full-time lobbying to the gay and lesbian rights bill.
"We had somebody' [at the state'Housel all the time ....[Rousel champithe bill," Woods said. Rouse also
. oned.
,led the lobbying effort in Wisconsin
four years ago..
An "excited but tired" Rouse
explained that key lobbying strategy:
The choice of state Senate Employment
Committee over the Senate Judiciary
Committee, even though that choicemeant a law focused on employment.
Rouse decided to "sidestep the Judiciary Committee"
which normally assesses.,"
non-discrimination
legislation andwhich had overseen the gay arid lesbian rights· bill in previous years
because :"Every single one of the four
really hard-core senators against thebill sits on the Judiciary Committee;"Rouse said.
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Rouse "streamlined" the bill, which
originally amended every Hawaiian
statute relating to non-discrimination in
employment.
In doing so, Rouseenabled the bill to be sent to the
Employment Committee, a conunittee ofsenators who supported the legislation.
Gay activists say that they wereable to maintain the bill's broad focus
by adding an amendment
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the legislation offers stronger protecI
I tion in employment, Rouse believes
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I Civil Rights Commission ...if there wereI a case of discrimination in housing, we
I would be protected." Prior to the pasI sage of Hawaii's gay and lesbian rights
I bill, gay men and lesbians could not~~~±~~~ijREXWOCKNERI seek protection through the state Civil
I Rights Commission.
Gay activists in Hawaii hope toIamend all state statutes pertaining to
I non-discrimination over the next two.JAPAN: When is a queer worth saving"and when is she not? If you,
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ask Amnesty International, they'll tell you that if she's in jail just for being ayears in order to ,ensure gay access toIdyke, she ain't worth saving. But if she's in there for exercising her right of
I housing and public services, Woods
free speech or some other noble infraction, then she'll be considered for
I and Roust! said. And, to secure domesadoption as a "prisoner of conscience." Amnesty will again reconsider thistic partnership rights, Woods and otherpolicy in September at a high-level meeting in Yokohama, Japan. Someone at I activists are f1iing a lawsuit next weekI
the International Lesbian and Gay Association heard a rumor that a comprothe marriage licensing board.
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mise will be proposed under which Amnesty promises to be more "tolerant"
In asserting this "mind-boggling"
I victory, Drake says that 1991 "is lookof queer prisoners without going so far as to adopt them.
I ing very good for civil rights legislation
I on the state level." According to him,
CANADA: Mayor William Norris of Winnipeg is in the news again.
I NGLTF "expects" further civil rights
He's always refused to proclaim Gay Pride Day, and now he's declined, for thesecond year, to proclaim Pink Triangle Day, to honor gay men exterminated by I victories in California, Connecticut, andI Maine within the year.
the Nazis, Gay Winnipeg City Councilman Glen Murray finally said that enoughI
was enough and refused, in protest, to go to work for two days. Norris
Maine activists point optimistically
I to the recent election of three lesbians
responded by telling reporters: "The subject of homosexuality is not a subject
I to state-level jobs, and to support fromfor civil proclamation. I won't change my mind." Last year, Norris mindlesslyIproclaimed McHappy Day, Golden Rule Day, Chocolate Day and German
the Portland chief of police. Because
I Connecticut activists lost their gay
Shepherd Dog Week. How about Assholes in High Places Year?
I rights last year by just a tie vote in the
I Senate, Drake says that "it looks very,
FINLAND: Cohabitating homosexuals in happening Helsinki now
I very good" for a victory this year. And
have the same access to city-housing loans as childless hetero couples,
I with the new governor, Pete Wison,
thanks to the City Council. The bill passed 56 to 23 and was fully supported
I and an endorsement from the San.
by the Social De,mocrats, the Left Wing Alliance and the Green Party. Gay couI Francisco Examiner last, week, Califorples had previously been granted equal access to public-housing units owned
I nia activists are "very confident." Inby the city of Helsinki, Finland's capital.
I 1989, California's Legislature passed a
I gay and lesbian rights bill, but Gov.
HUNGARY: The beleaguered Hungarian gay and lesbian movement
I George Deukmajian vetoed it.
has resurfaced after a year of chaos and angSt that followed the explosion ofI
Homeros Lambda-the country's 'only gay organization, Several key former-Carrie Wofford/LOS Angeles
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Homeros members have formed Lambda Budapest and announced the resurI
rection of Masok, Hungary's iII:fated gay newspaper. The new reincarnationIwill be printed rather than photocopied, with a minimum press run of 1,000,
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I MISS SAIGON
the paper will be,able to help itself financially, and we won't have to play the,Irole of 'poor East European cousin' any longer," Rusavai said in an interview.
I BENEFIT
I.. . UK: The .United Kingdom branch of Texaco tests all job applicants forI
HIV and blows off those who test HIV-positive. ACT UP/London has a problem
NEW YORK - The Lesbian andIwith that and has called a boycott and taken to piCketing what they insist on
Gay Community Services Center has
I withdrawn its participation from Miss
calling "petrol stations." You say, "Petrol," I say, "Gas," but Texaco stillI
deserves a kick in the assl
Saigon, the contentious
Broadway
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CePter~s·director, Richard Burns, has:Um9llIlced.
~" The board of directors of the Center met last week and voted unanimously to withdraw the Oct. 2 performanceof Miss Saigon
from its theaterf·,.~program benefit.
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\, "Their. d'ecision stemmed bothfrom their concerns over racism and~smin Miss Saigon, and the damag,iriS and disruptive effects that the Cent$!t"s sponsorship of the play would
J:1a:ve on community
organizing
efforts," he said.
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decision
wasapplaudedby the members of Asian.
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Lesbians of the EaSt Coast, or ALOEC,
and Gay Asian and Pacific Islander Menof Ne,wYork, or·GAPIMNY,two groups
that·have contested. the Center's, and,theLambdaLegal Defense Fund's ass<>•
qiationwithMiss
Saigon .
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filetand decided to continue with its
i•~pril 6 Miss Saigon fund-raiser, in theface ,<?t widespread opposition fromboth withih and without, for fmancialt~ns.
However, it agreed to convey
the c.oncerns of the protesting Asiangr,ou'f>s to ticket-holders and offer
tlie.-m'... a' full refund .
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Apiil6 and'opening night on April 11.
During the meeting, fliers were anonymously left at the Center, which
decried the actions of the Asian gay
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Iy attacking Lambda.
of AZT, which .originally had cost as"Lambda is now being attacked
much' as $:14,000per year-but whichand picketed. Its offices, its staff andstill costs thousands of dollars per year.
volunteers threatened," the flier read.
Last week, a new player joined"Why have these 'queer activists'
the fight against Burroughs Wellcome.
attacked only the two lesbian and gay
On March 18, lawyers from the publicgroups? Two hundred and fifty groupsinterest litigation group founded byin NYC now have Miss Saigon benefits.
Ralph Nader, Public Citizen, teamed up
Only two are queer groups--the onlywith a New York drug-buyers group,
two they have attacked. There may be
the People With AIDS Health Group,
racism and sexism here.", in. a legal Challenge to Burroughs WellApart from spreading downrightcome's 1988'patent on AZf.
untruths, the flier pointed to the
The suit, flIed ion the US District
cowardice of its authors who did not
Court for the District of Columbia, seeks
have the courage to identify themto strip Burroughs WeilcoIne of its rightselves, said Milyong Cho, a member
to a monopoly in t>roducingand sellingof ALOEC. "We have been criticizedRetrovir, Burroughs Wellcome's brandas being divisive, whereas we arename for AZT, by challenging Burtrying to address these problems inroughs Wellcome's claim of invention.
our community."
The suit claims government scien,
New York City Commissioner oftists ,at the National Cancer Institute
Human Rights Dennis deleon, and thewere the ones who actually conceived,
director of the mayor's office for' the 'developed and demonstrated the efficalesbian and gay community, Dr. Mar-'cy of AZ'f,in fighting HN. Furthermore,jorie Hill, were both at the meeting to .. . it claims the patent was obtained
offer,their support to the protesters. .
through misinformation because Bur- Avril McDonaldroughs Wellcome "knowingly failed to.d~lose to the US Patent Office" thegovernment's role as inventors.
". "Burroughs Wellcome has taken
gross advantage of an ill-gotten market
monopoly to profit off the backs ofpeople with AIDS/ said Derek Hodel,
executive director of the People With
AIDS' Health Group, in a' statement
released March 19. "The price of AZf
is killing us." .
Burroughs Wellcome posted salesof close to $350 million for AZT last.
year and is expected to reach $450
WASHINGTON-AIDS activists
million this year,'·the Washington Post
have been screaming." AIDS Profiteer"reported last week.
at Burroughs Wellcome, the pharmaA victory' would mean that AZT
ceutical company which holds the.
could be produced and sold by othermonopoly on azidothymidine, or AZf,
companies in addition to Burroughsever since AIDS activism began. For
Wellcome, thus lowering the costyears, activists hilVe been disrupting
through competition.
The Healthtraffic on Wall Street, chaining themGroup already has found a company
selves inside Burroughs Wellcome's
abroad willing to develop AZf at half
headquarters in North Carolina andchallenging Burroughs Wellcome
the coSt Burroughs Wellcome ~ges.
employees at AIDS forums-alltoCurrently the government is named
as a defendant in the lawsuit, "so that itbring down the price of AZT, the only
government-approved, anti-HN ~g.
will have an opportunity to assert its
In 1987, members of ACf UPINY
rights in this lawsuit," the suit explains.
caught the public's attention when they
Public Qtizen lawyers hope that theunfurled a banner inside the New Yorkgovernment will clloooe to become plainStock Exchange calling for stockbrotiffs in the suit against:Burroughs Wel1kers to "sell Wellcome, free AZ11"Pubcome. "There's a lot of evidence [thad thelic pressure eventually led Burroughs
government will end up joining us andWellcome to substanruilly cut the pricereasserting their control as co-inventors;if

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HIVl,"asSerted Bob- Dreyfuss, spokesperson for' Publi c Citizen·.' ...,. ., ". .
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from the Nat'iona!'Institute, or NO; havepubli~ly' objecte&, ta: Burroughs 'WeHcome's claim as the sole inventor. In thelawsuit; they include:the text of a letterNO scientists sent to 1beNew Yom 'PImes
in September 1989' claiming to be thetrue inventors of AZTand laying thesame facts and charges which the lawsuit
now lays against Burroughs Wellcome.
Officials at the Nationa!,'Institute ,of
Health, or NIH, told the' Washington
Post laSt week that they had. been negotiating since January' with Burroughs
Wellcome to be named as co-inventors
of AZr. ,They have not -yet' announced
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March 1f) ,tuling in~Monroe County,
where Key West is located. The .rulingby Judge M. Ignatius Lester in the' 'case'of Ed Sidbold, a 5y.year"Old" man who
applied to adopt a special needs child,declarea 'unconstitutional
the 1977
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announced last week that it is extending.spousalfringe benefits
YOU CAL L ME to the domestic partners of its lesbianand gay staff members.
NAMES: "The moveWith 9,000 employees, the Bronx hospital becomes thement to 'replaim' loathlargest private business in the country to recognize gay andsome ~pithels for hoino~ lesbian relationships, according to the ACLU, which negotiatsexuals seems to Havehad ed the lTlove.
one happy effect," pro- ..
Spokespersons cited the recent Braschi ruling in the
nounced the anonymously New York State Court of Appeals, similar policies at otherauthored "Media Watch". organizations and in other municipalities and wanting to becolumn in last week's New ..just plain fair as the impetus behind the decision.
York Native. "New York
Post columnist and resi- HISTORY, HERSTORY, MY STORY,, by ANDREW MILLER
dent homophobe
Pat YOUR STORY: March was Women's History Month,. .
Buchanan seems to be and honors were doled out everywhereyou looked.
utterly at a loss to find an 'offensive ~erm that will never give
Assemblywoman Deborah Glick was one of six women
aid and comfort, now or in the future, to any faction of thelauded by Comptroller Elizabeth
gay community." .,Holtzman. Vanessa Ferro, theMeanwhile, in San Francisco, Jay Lyon complained' in a
NYPD's lesbian and gay liaison,lett~r to the Bay Area Reporter. "How can anyone demonwas promoted to detective special.strating in Sacramento under the banner 'Queer Nation,' andist. Manhattan Borough President
probably wearing tne ,word 'faggot' stitched on his jacket,
Ruth Messinger kicked off hercomplain whenaddressed by police as a 'homo'?""Women's Herstory Month Exhibit", \'And~in a full-page edict complete with analysis of hisby bestowing honors upon 20
toricalprecedent, Tim Campbell, editor and publisher of thewomen who have "contributed sigMinneapolis~based,GLC Voice, has set forth all the reasons. . ..
nificantly to the life of the borwhy it is ~BSOLUTELY ESSENTIALfor the gay and lesbian "VANESSA FERRO,
ough," including lesbian poet Jewpressto abandori the term "homosexual" once and for all.
,., " , "elle Gomez, the Hispanic AIDS
"Call me 'gay'j call me 'lesbian'; you can even call me Forum's Miguelina Maldonado, Deborah Fraser-Howze of'queer.' Just don~tcall me 'a homosexual,' please. I don't get the Black Leadership Commission on AIDS, National AIDS-,}~ t~atm~~h ~~~':l1r::r.:i.";',' ~ :--' " .', ,,~0J11n1issioner J.uneJacks~~ Christmas, Famil¥ Health ~ro, , ~1,-;;:_ 'Campbell IS so seriOUs,.about tus campaign that he has. Ject on AIDS Director Sukl Ports and the ASian-American. , t.,c;an*elled ,his subscription to Rex -Wockner's ,news wire, a Legal Defense and Education Fund's Margaret Fung. ', J"J!~~le, of'~lesbian ~lJdigaY'papers,;peca~!!Et VVo~kn~rwould
Lesbian Cartoonists,Lenore Chinn, Roxxie, CheelaSmith,
not agree to the ban, even though individual editors are free JoanHilty and OutWee/(s own Kris Kovick celebrated"the existe;>a.lterthe wire copy as they see fit.
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tence of women" with an exhibit of their work at the church Street,f},':',', ,Galleryin 5anFrcincisco,which runs through April 1O."Fuck The"~PYANNIVERSARY TO YOU: Speaking Well of Loneliness;" commentedRoxxie,"we're hereto havefun.". o'fth:~',-BAR; on April' 2, theipaper, one of the community's,'< I\nd the'Los Angeles-based Vanguard reported that thelarg~,st and finest, celebrates its 20th anniversary with a Southern. Califorl'\ia Women for Understanding's 15th Lesbenefit perlormance by)he American Ballet·Theater.
bian-I;lights Award Ba,nquetannounced kudos for some ofHere at OutWeek, which celebrates its second anniver'; thecQrnmunity's literary luminaries: May Sarton, Adrienne
saIY;this June, the idea of publishing for 20 years in a row is Rich; Rita Mae Brown, Charlotte Bunch, Katherine Forrest,
c!aµn~ingindeed.,Congratulations.
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SPOON: A Superior Court judge in San Fran- DEPARTMENT: An article in the Lancet by a doctor.• ~(~i:fcO imposed a $2,000 s.anctiw]~n a lawyer ~nd cli~~t who who claims that his patient became infected with HIV when"\;'~t[)ed to have the opposmg male c,ounsel disqualified by "he used to go out with colleagues in the New York/New"I.,.~!:Jn,e,gingthat he was having sex wifh:his':male client, accord- . Jersey area to systematically beat up gay men~'has caused
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Phone sex, the Federal courts, the FCC and you, by Arthur S. Leonard

telephone company to handle billing
A three-judge panel of the federal
for their message services, the phone
Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in San
company must block access from any
Francisco ruled on .March 21 that
telephone except for individuals who
restrictions on phone sex spearheaded
write to the telephone company asking
by Republican Sen. Jesse Helms ofthat their phone be unblocked.
North Carolina and passed by
Congress in 1989 are constitutional.
The court also
upheld enforcement regulations issued last year by theFederalCommunications
Commission, or FCC. But the.. decision conflicts with an,Augµst ruling in a lower-levelcourt
by federal District Judge,•.Robert P. Patterson Jr, in New'York, which is currently on,,appeal to the Second Circuit.
Apd because the lesbian
I,
I,and gay press is heavily, dependent on revenues fromphone-sex advertising, theissue is one that affects the, 'entire community nationwide,()l'(~
not just the phone-sex afil, ~cionados. An article in OutITtt
JfS~E
Week last year found that in
the absence of phone-sex;tdvertisers, many of the community's
The FCC regulations state that to,newspapers
andmagazines
would
avoid
prosecution,
both gay and.
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--,simplygo out of business.
straight phone-sex companies must
inform telephone companies about theThe 1989 law reacted to the,natureof their messages and certify
SupremeCourt'sruling
in
Sable
Com,
that they have adopted an approved
mpnfcattons v. FCC that Congress canb;m, "obscene" telephone messages, but
way to prevent minors' access, includ'~y .orily regulate "indecent" messages
ing either billing customers directly
through credit-card accounts, scramto the ~ent necessary to prevent pe0ple under 18 from hearing them. The
bling messages electronically or requirHelms Amendment imposes fmes anding customers to write in advance for
prison terms for transmitting indecent
special-access codes. The telephone, messages to minors or nonconsenting
companies must also
identify "adult,.
: 'adults. The amendment also provides
telephone-message
service" calls onthat if a phone-sex company wants thecustomer bills to inform parents when

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HElMS.II~l~their children are calling phone-sex
lines. If a phone-sex company wants to
use telephone company billing services, the telephone company must
block access for any customer who has
not requested access in writing.
But the phone-sex companies saythat these restrictions .go beyond what
the Supreme Court allowed in Sable,
and they argue that it would be sufficient for telephone companies to block
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request of customers. They claim thatmost calls are made impulsively bypeople who would be deterred bycomplicated access rules, with so many
lost calls that the restrictions would put
them out of business.
New York's Judge Patterson
enjoined the Justice Department fromenforcing the regulations until the Second Cir<:;uitcould determine whether
they are constitutional, ruling that there
was a strong likelihood that theywould be found unconstitutional andthat phone-sex companies and theircustomers would suffer irreparable
injury if the government was allowed
to enforce the rules. But the Ninth Circuit decision upholds both the Helms
Amendment and the FCC's regulations:
If the Second Circuit sides with Judge
Patterson, the Supreme Court willprobably agree to consider the phonesex companies' challenge in order toresolve the disagreement.

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of exceptions to this absolute prohibition. 'Speech advocating criminal actsor posing a direct danger to national
security may be prosecuted, for example, ' Chief Justice Earl Warren once
wrote that the Constitution is' not a"suicide pact~; the nation may takestet's, to protect itself.
Government regulation of sexually explicit speech has long been controv·ersial. Some members of theSupreme Court, most notably Hugo
Black, William O. Douglas and William
J. Brennan Jr., argued that no exception to First Amendment protection
should be made for sexually explicit
speech, but a, majority of the Court has
rul.ed that "obscene" speech is not pro~ected. Once again quoting Chief Jus,.
tice Warren, the Court-found that there
is a "right of the nation and of thestates to maintain a decent society."
The Court struggled to frame an
adequate defmition of obscenity so as
not to destroy other rights of individual
liberty and freedom from arbitrary law
enforcement. The Fifth Amendment,
which guarantees "due process of law,"requires· that.
.laws and regulationS not
be written in vague terms that lendthe~lv@s' to arbitrary enforcement. A
law so vague that .a :person of average
inteUigen'Ce would be in doubt
whether !his or her actions were prohibited woold be unconstitutional.
Iil 1913, the Court held in Milkr v.
Galifornta that speech would be conside~ed obscene if, taken as a whole, itappealed to "prurient interest," lacked
seriouS scientific, artistic, literary or
political value and would be considered offe~ive by the average 'adult in
the community. To pass constitutional
muster, a law banning or regulating
obscene speech would have to specify
the words or images that were banned.
Are phone-sex
conversations
obscene? If, in a particular community,
the average adult would not considera phone-sex message offensive, itwould not be considered obscene. (Itseems dear· that phone sex messages
appeal to prurient interest and lackscientific, artistic, literary or politicalvalue, as those terms are used bycourts.) But even assuming that a federal jury in New York, San Francisco
or Los Angeles would not consider
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coritefl:pthat the few complaints theyre(:eive compared to their total volume
ind~cat'i.';'that very few children are~ctiially'accesSingtheir services. Based
on'tIlls kitld of "expertise," the Meese
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indecent m~ages, The key paragraphin Ju~ice Byron White's opinion sets
out the constitutional limits:,Sexual~xpr:ession
which is. indecent but not obscene isprotected by the First Amendment; and the government
does not submit that the saleof such materials to adults
could be criminalized solely, because they are indecent.
The government may, however, regulate the content of constitutionally protected speechin order to promote a com,pelling interest if it chooses
the least restrictive means to;further the articulated interest.
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cut . off just because the message'rould be harmful to chil~en. JusticeWhite also' states that a total ban*ould
nQt. bejustified just because a,.
selective
blocking system might be,.
qefeated by "a few of the most enterprising and disobedient young peaI
pie," Congress can go only as far as
Qece5sary to make it extremely difficult
for m:iilo~sto gain access; a particular~gulation may not be justified as necessary to prevent all minors from
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advocated by phone-sex companies-a less restrictive alternative would
be adequate. There can be little doubtthat the Helms approach is both more
effective and more restrictive than thephone-sex companies' approach.
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interference to adults' rights. The Helms
Amendment was adopted the way
Helms' amendments usually are adopted: through last-minute introduction ofhastily drafted language during floor
consideration of unrelated legislation,with little time for thoughtful debate andconsideration. There is no evidence
Congress gave ;my serious thought tostriking a careful balance of rights.
Although the FCC held hearings
before issuing its regulations, Patterson
found the hearing record full of speculation but lacking hard evidence. For
example, the record provided no support for the government's contention•

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blocking system at the request of individual consumers would not be adequately effective in deterring access byminors. Indeed, the New York PublicService Commission, which regulates
New York Telephone, held hearings
last year and concluded that voluntary
blocking was a sufficient restriction.
The Commission found that few complaints were received from parents
about their children having access tothe messages.
Patterson also found the use of
the term "indecent" to be unconstitutionally vague. The government argued
that "indecent" acquired a reasonably
precise meaning in the Supreme
Court's Pacifica Radio decision
upholding regulation of indecent language in radio broadcasting, but in
Sable the Supreme Court rejected theidea that rules governing radio could
be applied without modification totelephones, because radio is moreinvasive and less controllable.
Finally, Patterson found that theHelms Amendment constituted
anunconstitutional prior restraint on protected speech. Under long-establishedprecedents,
courts have held thatspeech which might constitutionally bepunished may nonetheless not be prohibited before it is eyen spoken.
Because it "calls for the [telephonecompanies] to impose restrictions on [aphone-sex company's] communication
before that communication has been
expressed," Patterson nixed it, Its sole
purpose is "to have certain conditions
placed on speech that is to be communicated in the future, and to havethose conditions put in place before
that speech is communiCated."
But the only kind of prior restraint
forbidden under the First Amendment
is a restraint imposed by the government. The government argues-thatbecause the Helms Amendment puts
the burden on phone companies todecide which speech to restrict, theFirst Amendment is not violated. Patterson rejected this argument, findingthat any restrictive actions would betaken at the instigation of the government. The Supreme Court has held in
the past that any requirement to restrict
speech demands that there be a
speedy mechanism for judicial determination whether the speech is subject tothe regulation, and that the burdenmust be on the government to invoke
the judicial process to block the
speech. The Helms Amendment in factturns this requirement on its head, by
requiring the phone-sex company toinitiate the process .

••••The Ninth Circuit opinion differsfrom Judge Patterson's on virtually
every point. The Ninth Circuit foundthat the FCC hearing record showed
evidence that the blocking plan advocated by the phone-sex companies"would not be an effective means oflimiting minors' access to dial-a-pornservices." This was based on evidence
that some children had accessed diala-porn· by placing long-distance calls
to numbers
outside their local
exchanges.
This finding misses the point of
Sable, where the Supreme Court clearly stated that a goal of totally preventing access by minors was not compatible with preserving the constitutionalrights of adults. Although the court
makes passing reference to this concern, it makes no attempt to apply it
seriously to its review of the FCC's
rule-making procedure,
The Ninth Circuit also rejected theargument that the r€;:gulations would
have such an adverse' impact. onphone-sex , companies that they would
be forced out of business. Rejecting
the "impulse call" rationale, the court
found that phone-sex companies desiring to avoid blocking could requirecallers to give their credit-card numbers and discounted the phone-sex
companies' argument that this system
would deterinany adult callers.
The Ninth Circuit found thatchronic problems defining the term"indecent" were addressed when the
FCC adopted a defmition of "indecent"•as "the description or depiction of sexual or excrc:/toryactivities or organs ina patently offensive manner as measured by contemporary standards forthe telephone medium." (Isn't that perfectly clear?) The Ninth Circuit also
asserted that the radio-broadcasting
standard provided a model for defming the speech to be regulated, statingthat it was "significant that in Sable the
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often the term 'people of color' ,is misused- in terms of being 'very monolithic."
In addition to' its other high points;
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assertion. From arguments over whether
or not people of color should take theanti-viral
AIDS treatment
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The discussion on upcoming federally sponsored regional conferences on
AIDS for people of color, for instance,
showed the complexities of dissension
among participants. Whereas one delegate strongly argued that holding regional conferences was a tactic the government has adopted to keep people fromexchanging experiences, contacts andextremely important information, another conference participant pointed outthat to attempt to attack the epidemic asa national problem would ensure continued failure on the local level.
On that issue as on others consensus from the assembly was notsought. In fact, organizers said, at theconclusion of the conference, no statement of goals or resolutions was issued.
"I think we've achieved what we wanted to achieve," Ma commented.
While most of the activists camefrom ACT UP chapters, there werealso attendees from organizations andcommunities that have sharply criticized ACT UP's tactics and actions.
That balance, participants said, created an opportunity for activists fromboth ·sides of the ACT UP line ofdemarcation to study their activism onpolitical, cultural and social levels.

And as the conference was styled
after an ACf UP meeting, it allowed
people of color a unique chance to
see their direct-action organization oforigin as it would be with a predominantly dark complexion.
But even the structure of theevent did not please everyone. "Basi-'cally, the whole way the conference
was set up was in the way ACf UP
usually functions, and that in itself
excludes people," observed Lei Chou,a member of ACT UP/New York's,~,

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Randal (Randy) Myers of New York
passed on ,Feb. 25, 1991, at Roosevelt
Hospital.from complications due to AIDS.
Brought up in Iowa, he moved to New
York City iii 19n, where he met Jim Mello,
who became his lover of 14 years.
Randy was one of those special people with so many talents. He graduatedfrom New York University with a degree incomputer programing, which he put to use
frequently, helping to create the data basefor Living With AIDS, a resource manual
now widely used in New York. He was also
data manager for the gay singing group the
Flirtations
and performer/costumedesigner/roadmanager for LeClique, arepertoire performance comp,any that produces theatrical events around the country,
An avid photographer, he had a show in thelobby of the Saint.
All through his illness Randy nevergave up: Right to the end, he was in controlof his treatment, knowing and trying all of•

the new medications available. His strengthand courage to fight on were incredible, He
will be missed by many who knew him as a
blazing spirit freely giving of himself to others, no questions asked-if he could help, he
was there, He leaves behind his mother,
Shirley; three sisters; one brother, a grandfather in Iowa; and his lover, Jimmy, and theircat, Phoenix.
I know he's up there watching over us,
but it's nothing like having him here withme everyday. I love you and miss you so.
-Jimmy Mello
RONALD WOGAMAN

Ronald Wogaman, former director of
education at the South Street Seaport
Museum, died on March 23 at New York
University Medical Center, He was a residentof Manhattan. The cause of death was AIDS.
Wogaman was born on May 5, 1950,
in West Alexandria, Ohio. He received,among other degrees, a master's inMuseum Education from George Washing-

ton University in 1982,
In 1980, Wogaman joined the staff of
the Oakland Museum, Oakland, Calif., ashead of education for the museum's history
division. While there, he introduced a variety
of innovative programs and was responsible
for creating a small but symbolic exhibit featuring gay and lesbian artifacts. It was thefirst such permanent exhibit in a major
museum. In 1986, Wogaman joined the staffof the South Street Seaport Museum, which
he left, due to illness, in 1988. Wogaman
was also active in the Ame2Can Associationof Museums' EducationiCommittee
andserved as an officer from 1Q86 to 1987.
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Wogaman's companion was David M.
Kahn, executive director of the Brooklyn Historical Society. Wogaman is survived by his
mother, Bernice, his sister, Joyce Utsinger,
both of West Alexandria; and a brother,
Robert, of Albuquerque.
A memorial service will be held at the
Oakland Museum on a date to be announced.
-David M. Kahn

Commentary
US District Judge Oliver Gasch
by Henry Yeager

Unfortunately, a great many lesbians and gay men have had tobecome inured to the epithet "homo" snarled by street punks oryelled from a passing car or just muttered by "respectable"-Iooking
men and women in business suits. But what about when it comesfrom the presiding judge in a case before a US District Court?
US District Judge Oliver Gasch, presiding in the case of for. "ler midshipman Joseph Steffan, who is challenging the constitutionality of his dismissal from the Naval Academy for being homo, sexual, twice referred to the plaintiff as a "homo" during a recent
hearing. As first reported in the Washington Post, Judge Gasch- indicated that he was inclined to deny Steffan's motion seeking
access to Pentagon studies about homosexuals in the military.
~e most I would allow," Gasch said, "is what relates to this plaintiff, [$teffan), n,ot every homo that may be walking the face of the." earth." A few minutes later, commenting on the contents of Stef. fan's affidavit, Gasch remarked, "He's a homo and knows otherhomos-is that it?"
These statements by Judge Gasch are equivalent to directing

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racist slurs at a plaintiff in a case alleging racial discrimination.
They also appear to violate a recently adopted change in the Codeof Judicial Conduct of the American Bar Association, which prohibits judges from making statem~nts that "manifest bias or prejudice" based on a number of factors, including sexual orientation.
The scary irony is that Judge Gasch is a former president of thatvery same American Bar Association. Who will judge the judges?
To protest Judge Oliver Gasch's blatant and unprofessional
bigotry, and to ask for his removal from the case, write to: Chief
Justice Aubrey E. Johnson, Jr., US District Court, Third and Consti.
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tution Avenue NW, WaShington, DC 20001.
Use the same address to direct comments to Judge Gaschhimselt You can call the US District Court in Washington at(202) 535-3513.

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suddenly ruled Ihe pop music charts.
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HARDY

t's been. nearly ten years since Boy George andCulture Club were part of-then suddenly,
momentarily and brilliantly leaders of---{lrevolution in music. It was tagged "the second
British invasion," and many reasons for its
appeal were offered, but what really gave thismini-movement such a kick was its handling of
sexuality. Never had androgyny and crossdressing been so gloriously at the forefront of
pop music; the dalliances and experiments ofDavid Bowie, Lou Reed and Mick Jagger
looked positively tame next to the watershed of artists
who gave weight to the phrase "gender-bender." BoyGeorge, Annie Lennox, Pete Bums (of Dead or Alive),
Marilyn, Haysi Faritaysee and countless others dominatedthe charts, dictated fashion and ruled MTV. Having
sloughed through the narrow-mindedness and bigony of
pop's shameful recent years, it's sometimes hard toremember the rush of hearing Culture dub on the radi6
or seeing a suit-and-tie-garbed Annie Lennox glaring out
from the TV screen.
If not all the artists were queer (or willing to 'fess
up to it), their obvious empathy 'with queer culture andsensibilities seemed to mark a defmite changing of the•times. They were taking .
homo- and bisexuality out of
the confines of big cities,
trendy clubs and gossip
columns and selling it to
middle America. Then an
AIDS-fueled burst of homophobia, ironically nurtured
and exploited by the entertainment industry, saw manyof these artists hastily
dismissed by critics and ascornful public who, in lieu
of a challenge, wanted "real"men (take center-stage, Ax!
Rose) and easily defined,unchallenging women (anyMadonna clone you canthink 00.
Boy George, easily oneof the two or three most talented members of the onetime vanguard, unwittingly
played right into the hands of
his detractors. His gorgeous,soulful voice had propelled
Culture Club to international
superstardom with two classic albums, Kissing to Be
Clever and Colour by Num. bers. Unfortunately,thegroup's third album, Waking
Up With the House on Fire,
was an unevenly produced
effort whose poorly chosen
singles he! ped derail thegroup's career. Then came awell-publicized battle withdrugs on which George now
declines to comment. A musician associate died of an
overdose in Boy George's
home, and the deceased
man's parents went to the
press
with
accusations
against the Boy. Though thesinger had played no part in
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twist in a snow-balling media
frenzy. Photos of a gaunt andhaggard Boy George werepu,blished around the world,
while the more cynical members of the music industry
started a countdown till Boy
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but seemed proof that the,!?and had gone too far off course':,
to really recover. The band broke,
lip, and Mr. George O'Dowd'began the process of defining
hhnself as solo, artist.
No longer "hip," Boy George
soon found himself struggling to
get I:adio play in England. The
eagerly l1:waiteqfirst alb~m, Sold,te,leased at the height of rumors
and bad press, didn't live up to
artistic or commercial expecta·tions 1;>Ut
did produce an intema·J1.oq~1hit,"Everything I Own.;',,
Thei~~cqnd effort, Higb Hat,
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Jt$ 9Yf~,flaws as the singer wasforcedto contend
with ill-suited,,
ne:w-jack constraints foisted ontum.•, . ,!'levertheless,the Boy's interest in the music coming from thestreets and the clubs was growing. He formed his own record.la,\:>el,
More
Protein,. and created a-.
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"group," Jesus Loves You, that
3lI0wed him to work with a vari~ty of.~usicians and styles withq1,lthaviilg to deal with the pre-,cOnceptions and expectations associated with ."Boy George."
Jesus Loves You has gone on to release several suc'cessful
dance singles,;-establishingoh-so-important club credibility andgarnering the radio play that hadprovep. elusive to Boy
George. ;Thpse,~singl(lS,,along with new' materi3J, are, featured
on the albthi, ,The Martyr.Mantras, a disC"thittflrids the siriger
doing his best" . work r.~ince peak. Culture"Club. The spiritual,.,
happiness hc:# ~()µn~,ip,Jljs personal lifespills~ over onto thealbum, makiilg it a confident and inspired 'trip through scite-:ofthe'@'!:daAc~/P9P
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and artists can be very volatile and moody and demanding.
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two years ago, I started ch3nting Buddhist chants. I·, guess
Mantras is just a kind of follow-up , from that. The songs
are like the mantras of love,the lament of the human race.

When listening to your recordS, it becomes obvious that noone can work beartbreak or melancboly the way you dO.. (He'.

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muSic nowadays, which ts really ironic, becal.lSe when you
look qack at some of the classic dance and r&b tracks from tbe
70s, the records and songs that are influencing today's music,
there was a real strain of melancholy in tbem.
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last' two or three years ...I've called that period the producer's revenge,. where the technical side of making music hastaken over. For dance music to actually progress, people
are going to have to start writing songs again, and that's
kind of where I see my place with More Protein, to sort ofbring back melody. As far as when it comes to me writing
sad songs, I do find that very easy. I don't really know
why, I just do. Maybe some past-life experiences havebeen really bad or something.
'spoke to [producer}Jellybean a few days ago and asked
bim about dance music being a forum for politics. He
said tbat wben people go dancing, tbey're trying toescape all of thaI-that tbere's a time and place foreverytbing, but when people dance, they just want tohave a good time and not think about issues or polities. On "No Clause 28" and "Generations of Love,. you've addressed political and SPiritual issues. Was
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somebody like Stevie Wonder, there's somebody who's managed to make many a political point very eloquently, very
soulfully. Look at somebody like Marvin Gaye with "What's
Goirig On," Look at the songs from the '60s. Music definitely
has a part to play in social issues. You can't deny that1 m~, not only on a social level, but on a political level, on
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with your music. Democracy within a band is very difficult'tO
maintain. Compromise is not sweet within any band, I thilik
that's, in a way, what destroys most bands. Everybody ~ts
to be in control, and people don't really accept their roles. And
why should they? We're all creative people, and as yc;ubecome more successful, you become more confident Thiiigs
change. You want your own situation. You want to be able tosay what you want to say.
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work. I'd like to hear how you feel about some of your previous
work, How do you feel about Kissing to Be Clever?
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music and, for all of us, I think, it was a real spiritual albuql.
We had so much energy and so many ideas. I thirik'th;inll
spilled over onto [the second album] Colour By l'{JiftJilJ1S'~'i'"T·~t.'··-ilwell. We spent a long time working on them, writing sohgs forboth those albums, so they were special because we weren't. .'working to a schedule. Once you become successful, yoP
begin working to a schedule. Being creative on a schedule Isvery difficult.
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speak, to Jon now-we're good friends, and we get on very
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just write some songs for the album, and they'll be fine." Insome ways, we became lazy by the time we made the thirdalbum, And LUXUry to Heartache was kind of like the fire
petering out at the end of the night.
Do you think a Boy George, with the makeup and androgynous look and all, could be a hit today? Not you specifically ...
BG: It's difficult to say: You always have people in music
who have a distinctive styl~Go back to Jimi Hendrix: He may
not have been considered as eccentric as I was, but he had alook, and you remember it. So, I don't think it could be ruled
out, but I think it would be more difficult. Definitely.

How rampant would you say homophobia is in the musicindustry?
BG: Rampant? Is that the right word? (Laughs.) I don't
know really. I think that human beings,
sexuality, color or whatever, arevery cruel to one another. If
somebooy's fat, and you havean argument with them, you're
gonna call them "a fat pig,"
People always go for the
obvious. As far as the industry
is concerned, I don't feel particularly victimized. I don't\;>elongto any kind of group. I
don't belong to the rock-&-roll
section of the industry. I don't
really belong to the Jimmy
SomelVilie section of the industry. I'm kind of on my own. I'm
not obsessed with lPY sexuality.
It's not the most important thing
in my life. If you look at somebody like Jimmy SomelVille,for•
instance-do
you know who
I;m talking about?

Definitely.
BG: I don't think he's really happy with what he is.

regardlessof/wanted toask'you has to do with gaY,and lesbian artists whohide their sexuality and make their work ambiguous or theirpersonas androgynous but feel that to own up to their sexualtty is toforfeit their private lives. It seems that you can say you
are gay or lesbian and still have your private life. I mean, yes,
people will make assumptions, but they do that anyway.
BG: I think it's really down to personal choice. It's not foranyone to tell someone else to come out of the closet. It's apersonal thing, and it's not for you or I or anyone else to say,"You should speak out." In a way, that's hypocritical. People
like Jimmy Somerville have said how difficult it is to be gay,and yet they don't tolerate other people who won't come outof the closet, stand up and be counted. They know full well
how difficult it is one part of them is saying, "It's difficult, it'shard." And yet they want to put otBer. people through thesame torture. I don't hold with gay groups going out and 'provoking people. I don't believe in outing. I think it's really
offensive. First of all, I don't think' you can really challenge thestructure of society: "Boy meets girl, it keeps the world spinning. It's beeq that way from the very beginning." There's
nothing anyone Can do about that. That is how the world
works. Yeah, I think gay people
have a right to a voice, but I
don't think you have any rightgoing around telling other pee>;
pie what to do .. It's hypocritical,
to start with. I think it's wrong.
Do you know what I'm saying?

I understand what you'resaying, and I agree with much ofit. I think we should still encourage people to come out. It's an
old argument, but if a famous orrespected person's coming out
provides some hope or inspiration
for some teenager who is feelingafraid or isolated ...
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makes it easier for that person toaccept himself on a personallevel, but it doesn't make thecommunity any better.

not happy with that. It's not•~eally an important thing forme, There are always going tobe people who dislike me, andthey'll find various reasons forthat. If I was straight, I'm sure~ere'd be reasons they'd find.
It doesn't make any difference
to me.

Tbat's certainly true, but if
those teenagers do accept themselves on a personal level becauseof being inspired by someone else,
doesn't that help them deal withthe community
at large in amuch better or more effective
way? You've got to find someinner strength to deal w.ith thefact that the community aroundyou is not going to treat you as itshould. A positive role model
could be invaluable in that sense.

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and what you have to do is find them. Sometimes you have totravel around a bit, but, sooner or later, you'll fmd them, 1
don!t think it's necessarily a bad thing if someone comes out
and says, "I'm gay." It really just depends on how they feelabo}lt themselves and what they're trying to achieve.
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io;justtjy outing, a practice I personally dtsagree with, somfJ+h as expose the more specious arguments used to justify
stayjng in the closet. It seemed that Boy George was reacting
from'the very understandable position of someone who has
had incredibly painful and private elements of his life
dragged onto the front pages by a media insensitive to his feelings or the personal outcome. We both agreed that this disregard for consequences was why we opposed outing; I was alittle surprised and disappointed, however, at his seeming resignation in the face of society's bigotry and how much that
resignation seemed to factor into his defense of the closet. We
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BG: 1 went to a Buddhist meeting about four years ago.
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I'm not a Buddhist, but I think that Buddha had a lot of interesting things to say. 1 guess my coming from a sort of Catholicbackground, filled with brimstone and fire artistic people, 1think, question everything. We just question things. 1 found a
lot of answers in Buddhism, in Krishna consciousness. I'm nota member of any group. I just feel those belief systems have alot. to offer us, 1 mean, Buddha was ~ch a logical one. You
don't have to jump headfirst into the pool, but you certainly
can learn from those people. One of the things that changed
in my life is the fact that 1 became a vegetarian. I started torealize that if you kill animals, it's wrong. If you allow slaughter of any kind to go on, then people are going to get slaughtered, too. If you look at what's going on in the Gulf, that's our
kanna in the West-our kanna because we sold them guns.
It's instant kanna, if you like, We've been selling guns to pe0ple like Hussein for a long time. All of us.

have a voice, but we don't
have any right tellingothers what to do.
You seem to be contradicting the questioning nature you
said all artists have.
BG: What I mean when I say, "I believe most things," isthat my mind is open, I'm not one of those people who sits
there and says, "I believe in this, and whatever you say won'tchange my point of view." There's a few things about Krishna
consciousness I don't agree with, but on the whole it's very
healthy. It's saying that if you're going to be obsessed with~terial things and physical things, you're gonna bring yourself misery. That's proven to us day by day. If you look at a
relationship, most of us a(e always looking at the grass on theother side. Most of us don't try in a relationship. Where I'm atin mylife is to try to be with someone I care about. A lot of
people say to me that it's such a cliche for me to have gotten
into this spiritual thing. [Butl unless you've been hit by a couple of trucks; you can't really judge your life. You can't reallystep outside your life and look at yourself and say what it is
you want. From the beginning of Culture dub and through totoday, what I've wanted was to be liked by people. My career
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publicized dispute occUrred when a proftle by New Y0r1iJrfagazine
spurred a letter-\vriting campaign by GLAAD, asking that gay andlesbian readers protest the gross stereotyping of gay qllwre as the
simpJistic male'pursuit of drugs, disco
and sex. Throughout his.,.
career, D:u'ckett.has seen many lesS-serious attacks made by. oth~t:,, ,promoters, disgruntled patrons and even some friends. yet he has
overco~e most' skirmishes. Perhaps his cultivation of the press, a kqack forsound-bite discourse and his experience as a publicist in his "former" life have, assisted him in remaining untarnished in the face of accusations. No doubt, ~eseskills will once again shift into high gear when he takeJ his talents to his next
venue, the new Danceteria, later thjs month,I. .
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a New York publicist, mostly in the cook-booksection cif a large publishing company. He promoted his first party by ac<;ident: As
he tells· it: "I· was dQing a birth<iay party for myself, and it got too big for myaparttnent. lnioved it to the Crystal Room [at the World]. That. snowballed, and 1
started doing [p~ies] once a month."
He tQi:ewa series of parties called, collectively, the Seven DeadlySins; ,which
includeda ,.giant bed full of go-go boys, an ACf UP for Anger benefit party and.
some sort of food frenzy involving Hostess Sno-Balls. Soon, Ducketts;tys:. "'IheWorld became an unpleasant place to work. 1 decided to quit night' life." But
Rudolf (the German creative force behind the fll'st Danceteria and the Tunnel)
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covering six Manhattan nightclubs,
and Duckett. is but, weeks awayfrom his seventh, atthe l newDanceteria .
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(without RudolO. As "a veteran of, such ..
clubs' as Quick!,
Carmelita's, the Palladium and I.rving ,•Plaza (where ABC is"
now ..ini.ts, .. fifthmonth), DU(l~efth~:shown' remarkable••staytng
power, man•areo"a where a "hot" 'night" is made or. ;.,broken in a one'~·, ..,month period. The' -':>
Saturday night "Mars
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year,- was a "dino-" 'sauro in the nightclub world by thetime Mars was closed
in spring 1990.
What Mars didfor gay night life
was somewhat similar to what Duckett
did with the World,
and as Dean Johnson's Rock & Roll
Fag Bar had done
before him, except
on a, cirywide scale.
As· he tells 'it, "We
ha.rl succeeded inghettoizing
ourselves to this point:
East Village, West
Village,
Chelsea
and no lesbians."
He envisionedaclub where everyone gay would go
and be fabulous,and all those fabulous people could
just simply be their gay selves.' This
time-frame witnessed "the rise of
ACT UP" as a political and social
force, and Duckett's alliance with thegroup helped him build up a clientele of political queer boys, cOnversely affecting the club's weekly

activities. One week, after the boycott of Burroughs Wellcome wascalled (in response to profiteeringfrom AZT), Chip placed Sudafed and

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while Duckett stood with a microphone -reading product names andending with "Fuck Burroughs Well'

come." The connection between sexual politics and gay night life had ~everbeen as fully explored as it , was at
Mars; this may also have accounted
for the extremely• •sex-posluve
atmosphere that liter.ally oozed fromthe walls. "Nothing," Chip com~ments, "has replaced Mars in its
feeling of freedom"
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Mars, Duckett has
not showcased
many performers.
However, he saysthat will changewith Danceteria,
where he plans tobook"unusualacts." Already he, has plans to feature a drag-queen,I clown and "·Queer"donna,· a 350pound drag-queen
Madonna impersonator. Danceteria will, he hopes;"bring a little glitter and glamour
back to' night
life,""Today there
are too many old
clubs and too
many bad clubs,"
he says.
"I might get
20 invites in one
night, most ofwhich won't be
good." With D.ulceteria
opening,
Duckett has assured himself' ofcontinuing
towork at a job he describes as a "9 pm
to 5 am." And where does he seehimself in 10 years? "I'd like to end
up like Carmelita [the 65-year-old
propreitress of Carmelita's on 14t,hStreet] in a disco at 4 am full of cute', .
boys, falling asleep over the cash reg~ister, giggling inanely."T,• "'1'''

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down the Boulevard of Broken Dreams
reveals itself as a veritable connoisseur's cakewalk. Between Greenwich
Avenue and Bleecker Street, Christopher Street has enough boutiques
chock-full of mad, mod '60s-style
clothes to keep the Lady Miss Kier herself busy for weeks.
Begin at 1 Christopher, where theVillage Square proves that its merchandise is anything but. Derek, thehandsome salesboy, will show you anassortment of polka-dot and tie-dye
mid-calf Capri pants from Charles
Goodnight ($20). Or check out La Frip's"antique" blue jeans with flower-print
velvet strips stitched into the seams
from waist to bell bottom ($56). And
the store window offers the world aview of their own overalls spray painted with a billiard ball motif, for thosebutch pool-hall nights out with the girls
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down the front:Just like the Jetsons! Similarly, all cotton versions in teal, purple,
ochre and olive stripes, geometries andprints right off the cover of a Janis Joplin
album are available for about $10 less.
Next stop is across the street atJohnny B. Goode, 18 Christopher, forthe genuine articles: Antique clothes
from the '60s that would make Peggy
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King Man)i sleeveless trapeze dresses
with or without zippers ($125 from Carol
Donawa)i and, for the muscle-boys (orgirls) among us, see-through silk chiffon
chemises in navy or burgundy ($160from Artichoke Design) are all here forthe asking, at a store where Cheryl Lynn
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Leathermen and leatherwomenneed not feel left out .on our Outta-Sight
Odyssey. Red, electric-blue, tan, darkgreen and, of course, basic black-leather/'
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Don't miss the sparkly spandex($28) and potent patent-leather ($38)
club shorts ("They were very big for theBlack Party"), the flower-print bicycle ,shorts or the plush shiny long-sleeverayon and velvet pullovers, reduced forwinter clearance to an irresistible $20,
The store also sports its own fauxtattoo parlor, where for $2 to $10 you
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suede shirt, $155 fr?mMonTee Style,"It's anything you want it to be,"commented Reggie,: the man in the
fabulous turban presiding over Man n
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stiped cotton one-piece
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wear it out .... " Obviously, he's neverbeen to the Clit Club on a Friday night.
And for the one-of-a-kind crowd,
Naresh at MinuMinu (45 Christopher)promises that, for about $60, they will
sew you the best-fitting pair of custommade bell-bottoms you've ever owned.
Now, stop in at New Jimmy's, put
your packages down, order a Tequila
Sunrise or a ita• Maria and Cream andget ready to blast off into nostalgia nirvana, for the best is yet to come.
Go directly to 1be Loft, just acrossSeventh Avenue South at 89 Christopher
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one-piece jumpsuits in black and purple
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this truly is the glittermecca of the world. It's
that deliriously dazzling
dream-place where ...
OK, I'm not really
here or there, rather. I
mean, I'm in dirty, sooty,
shitty New York. But every
mud-slinger on this planet has her column datelined "Hollywood" the week
after the Academy Awards. So why
should I be any different?
Besides, I was in LA a few weeks
ago--part of a hectic and quite dishyjourney that took me from New York to
Miami to LA to San Francisco and back.
And I did want to write all about it. But
then, just as I arrived home again, thewar broke out (not the imperialistic Gulf
War, but the Village Voiai Silence of theLambs/Jodie Foster War). Once again, I
found myself called to battle. And suddenly all of the frivolous pleasures in life
were cast aside sO' that we could try tofigure out whether the nipple ring on a
supposed wanna-be transsexual was really a homo signifier, or if the entire ghastly
exhibition was just pure "fool's gold"
These are the times that try persons
souls.
But really, I did want to tell you allabout the journey: The unsafe-sex bathhouse scandal that rocked Miami; thenear-<ieadly lightening bolt that struck
my plane (a botched. plot by C. Carr andDavid Geffen, perhaps?); the brouhahasurrounding West Hollywood's Sports
Connection gym, where men are now
required to wear bathing suits at all times
in the wet areas; the pro-outing, mindbogglingly PC law students of UCLA(One married couple was particularlyinteresting: Hes bisexual, shes "theoretically" so, and they don't touch in public
because they refuse to take advantage of"heterosexual
privilege"); and the weird,
San Francisco Tavern Guild member(who is also the publisher of 1be Sentinel) who told all of the dty's gay-bar
owners that they shouldn't keep freecopies of Hunt (which is produc~ by
the publishers of OutWeek) in the bars
because the phone-sex
ads would
induce peop!e to stay home and jerk off
rather than patronize their establishments
O'm not kidding).
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including-dare
I say it?-the lusciously
lurid and lustful spectacles that became
the defining moments for much of thistrip. But just as a lot of the crazinessregarding that movie died down, theother war broke out (no, not the Gulf
War-theSt. Patrick's Day/Cardinal
O'Connor/Patrick Buchanan War). And I
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AT THESCARS/
those now-old travel tales suddenly
seemed, well, quixotic and chimerical sort of lik-e when people use pretentious, silly, fluffy adjectives. And withall of the hullabaloo, the very thought ofgoing back to the roast to soak up thequeer action at the Academy Awards
became an effort in and of itself and areality that no mere mortal queen could
ever possibly pursue.
Why am Italking this way?
Oh, I don't know. Maybe I got sunstroke in LA (even though it was raining).
That place does weird things to people, I
ran into the brilliant AIDS activist, singer
and songwriter (the Flirtations), author(Surviving AIDS) and PWA Michael
Callen, now retired and relocated fromNew York. His tan was something out ofa Hawaiian Tropics ad, and he was carry-,ing a little gym bag,~entering
the aforementio~ed pectoral
factory, Sports Connection
on Santa Monica Boulevard,"Michael,"
I said,stretching my arms out overthe city, "this place justdoesn't seem, well, it justdoesn't seem you."
He looked me in theeye and, with just the faintest smile,answered, "Well, I'm trying to become
more it." He then took his little gym bagand scunied--ex~me,"strode" off.
,
But enough of these trivialities, andback to the important issue of the day: theAcademy Awards. I spent this years Nightof a ,Thousand Bad Hairdos at the fabulous Manhattan penthotJSe of Dr. Barbara
Starrett, who hosted a benefit for Community Health Project, or 0iP. We all drank,
ate ~ey,
watched the awards on threetelevision sets and stopped breathing as
Madonna vamped across the screen.
later, it was down to the Pyramid
for a continuation of the CHP benefit,
where Les/Linda Simpson handed out
the Queer Academy Awards. Though thefavorites for best actor were Richard Simmons in Homo Alone and Arsenio Hall in
Enemas: A Love Story, the winner was
perforRichard Gere for his challen~mance in Dances With Gerbils. Of course
the hands-down favorite for best actress,
Jodie Foster in 1be Silence ofJ04ieFoster:Part V, took the award, even though wewere all rooting for ChastitY. Bono in
Teenage Dyke Ninja Lesbian. (Secretly
though, I was hoping Sanqra Bet:nlwd
would get it for Reversal of FOreplay.) , ,But LA was where the rc;al, queer
stuff was happening. Prior tq the awards,
ACf l:lP/LA had sent about 1,000 Academy members a well-written, friendly letter,havingobtained the list from sympathetic,
types inside one of the stu<liai. The letter
asked members to discuss ,AlPS issues on
dilfiera during the awards--if they got theopportunity---QOd provided them with lotsof facts, figures and statistics (but, ofcourse, no one did speak to the i,ssue).
The group also sen~the Academy members "Silence=Death" buttons. (Only Bruce
Davison, nominated for Best Supporting
Actor for Longtime Companion, was seen
on camera wearing his button).
According to activists, about 50 members of ACfUP/LA then protested
outside the Academy Awards'.
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thre\v up a }junch of fliers and chanted,'"lights, Camera, AIDS Action Now!" creating' a ruckus and hamming it up for photographers.
Meanwhile, Susan Sarandon, always
immensely
supportiveof ACT UP,
approached the demonstrators after exiting her limousine, cheered them on andtook a "Silence-Death" button.
Inside, one protester, David Lacaillade, got as far as the orchestra in his
attempts to take the stage. (He'd gained
entrance by using tickets donated by awell-known gay Academy member). He
chanted: "102,000 Dead from AIDS!Whatare you doing?!" All heads turned, as hewas hauled out by security and arrested
by police (but his disturbance wasn't
heard on camera).
Later, about 100 people, membersof ACf UP and Queer Nation, surrounded Spago, the Beverly Hills restaurant
where the famous literary agent lIVing"Swifty" Lazar tosses his annual postOscar, star-studded bash.
The activists say that they weredivided into three groups: Two groups
were at different parts of the street, facing stars as their limousines came todrop them off at the restaurant, and thethird group was stationed at the front
door. They held seIVeral huge banners
and signs: "Come Out Queer Hollywood,
Come Out of the Qoset"; "Come Out of
the Celluloid Ooset, 'The Truth Shall Set
You Free'-Vito Russo"; and "Gay Stars
Shine Brightest When They Are Out"As the limos turned onto the block,and as the celebrities-people
like
Dustin Hoffman, Michael Jackson, Kevin
Costner, Madonna, Gene Hackman, Tom
Cruise, Arsenio Hall, Glenn Oose, Debra
Winger and scores of othersexitedthem, the demonstrators simply chanted
a litany of names: "Tom Selleck, Merv
Griffin, Jodie Foster, Bany Diller, John
TraVolta..." They also urged celebrities totalk about AIDS and homophobia. And,of course, as Newsdays newest $300,000per-year embarrassment,
Liz Smith,arrived, activists yelled, "Come out of thecloset Liz. Come out!"
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s I wrote last week, Pete Hamill'sA col umn on the parade was pretty
silly, totally avoiding the subject ofhomophobia. But, from the letters to theeditor, and a clarifying column from
Hamill, it seems that Post readers think
he is our biggest supporter.
Defending himself against Cardinalo'Connor's PR blitz, Hamill said that his
ftrst column was not Catholic- or Irishbashing but directed at "the rude oafs
who run the parade. If that clique ofsuburban ushers truly believes that an
attack on them is an attack on the
Catholic church ...that is just additional
evidence of their self-absorbed stupidity."
He went on to say that O'Connor's"counsel on religious issues is between
him and the tlock ....But whenever any
clergyman enters secular politics andseems to be advocating the imposition of
his religious beliefs upon non-believers,
then we can expect a grand and open
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which remains a nation without a state
religion ....If they tried to use the powerof their church to make their opinions
into law, I would, as an American,
oppose them."
Who is this' writing? It sounds a lot
like what we at Outweek have been saying for nearly 2 years.
1bat parade was something important. The world saw some in-your-faceviolence, and it seems to have changed
Mayor Dave, honest. His opinion piece
for the Times was not about politics. It
was about what's right. He "was deeply
saddened and, quite frankly,· surprisedby the outbursts at the parade," andagain compared
the crowd's "mobhatred" to that faced in the South
decades ago. At the en(j, he renewed
calls for Albany to pass the bias-related
crime bill which Senate Republicans
have stalled.
The Times noticed the new mayol'
and, in a cover story on "A Resolute
Dinkins," said that the parade showed
his "growing
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alliance with theNAA<P,B'o:alB'rlthasks, "Should the Israeli Day parade be
and NOW against syndicated columnist
forced to make room for a PLO continPatrick Buchanan It's time to tum him
gent? Should the 'organiZers of the Martin
into the Anita Bryant of the '90s arid
Luther King Day Parade have to open its
send him packing.,
ranks to· David Duke, the former Ku
Klux Klan leader, and his followers? And
The second wave of St. Pat's pressshould skinheads with banners be
Came in last week from the writers who
allowed in the Gay Pride parade?"
waited to see what everyone else would
Please, Ed. The members of n.GO
say. Their reactionary rantings read like a
are proudly Irish. It's in their name, andprimer of homophobic myths for the '90s.
they want to celebrate it. The other"ST. PATRICK'S DAY IS HOLY,"
groups shQuld not be welcome. They
writes Bill Reel in Newsday. "Disdon't accept the right of parade orga••
senters from the teaching [of theruzersto even exiSt.,churchl-homosexuals
or others--haveThis is not the first alert that someno business imposing themselves on athing is happening
to our former
parade in honor of the evangelist who ismayor. He has either totally lost it...or
credited with cOI).verting Ireland to thehe is thinking of running for office with
Catholic faith."a Rudy Giuliani voter base. His. comAs if this were such a reverential
ment that ILGO only Wanted to be incrowd. When gays and lesbians want
the parade to "advance their claim thatto march, the day's theme changes
homosexual conduct is morally acceptfrom "the day when everyone in New
able" led a friend to suggest that theYork is Irish." to some kind of sacredmayor may actually be straight andprocessional.
brings us to another myth.
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TO TO PROMOIE A POLITICALAGEN•
TIlE CA1ROIlC CIWRCH: In his New
DA: Koch says, "If homosexuals and IesYork Post column, former mayor Ed
bians were in the parade only as IrishKoch asked, "Can you be compelled tomen and woman [sicl...no one would
march with those whose views are anti- ' have denied the,$ entry." Koch and the .
thetical to the very pµrpose of theothers can't deal with the fact that ILGO
parade?" Koch was joined by Ray Ker~and 'others have.:no problem aclmowlrison (Posf), the Po~tEditQrial Board,
edging that they are both gay and Irish
and countless others who tied Irish(or Jewish, Protestant, AA members,
homophobia to ACf UP's'Campaign towhatever). It's not a "political agenda"
balance Cardinal O'Conno~s forays into
to proudly identify yourself as what you
dty politicS.'"'""',
are. By the ·end of \Pis column, Koch
Kerrison weighed in for the third.,calls hiniself 3; "proud Jew, born in thetime on the issue with some incompre- ,.,.' Bronx, marching with the Holy Name
hensible bile that puts him fumly in theSociety of the police department."
17th century along with the c:u:dinal.
. There are people in the church"HomoseXuality is the fad of the day,"
who recOgnlZe that things must change.
he writes, dismissing the rights. of 24 ,They cb~.tJi~mayor at the para~
million Aq'lerican lesbians and gays as
and think thatthey can work within thethis year's "chic" cause.
organization. 'Among them is Rev.
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So be it. However, Catholidsm--wl
AndreW Greeley who defended Irish
the vogue for· a few hundred years too
catholics a~what he called Jimmy
long-is starting to look a whole 191: like
Breslin~s:·iwisted
self-hatred on thethose thin ties with piano keys, which
subject of Irish, 'Catholicism." (Breslin
certain people used to think were so
wrote in, N;ewsday that the parade
cool.
should be abolished, and that Irish
Seriously though, gays don't hat~
Catholics can't deaI with sex as well as
Oltholics; some of whom have figured
Italian Catholics.)
out that the cardinal's attempts to keep,
Greeley tells us about internationalsafer-6eX infonnation out of the hands ofresearch that shows Irish Catholics to
New Yorkers is morally reprehensible.
be "more tolerant of homosexuality and,premarital sex."
But in Cardinal
O'Connor's'
church, they :u:e not welc,bme if theycome out of the closet with these
beliefs Oet alone actions). ,iro him andall "devout" Catholics, their abortions,premarital sex and birth control are
just as sinful as an AIDS activist crumbling a communion wafer.
In his Lent column for Catholic
New York, O'Connor ignored the violence at the parade and chose instead
to attack the presS, "This Lent, Catholicbashing has really been the in thing ...ltsuggests y/e must be doing somethings riwit."
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t was a dark and rainy Monday
hasn't gotten to that point yet. It
when I fell backwill, trust me. And do you stare
down the rabbit hole. I closed the~umbly at your scrapbook full of
shades, double-locked the door andyellowing pictures of yourself at
crawled back into my cupboard"
pkty after party,lsmilinga little,
beneath the kitchen sink. I stayed
too confidently, and wonder
there for almost three days, drifting ,who ts that happy girl? Is thatin and out of reality. Occasionally,~ really me?
one of my 12 alleged roommates
Are you living in your memwould toss in a slice of pizza or aories now, girls? Db you call each,piece of date-nut bread--they care 'other at three o'clock in theabout me, they really do.
morning to reminisce about theI was really down there,time Nan got so drunk she peed
dreaming my little dreams-all ofon the coatcheck floor at Morthem variations on a theme. I'm at atimers? Or the time you caught
slumber party over at Pat Buckley's
Jackie shooting up in the bathhouse. There are other girls
room sta1l of the Met? And then
,there-Nancy
Reagan,Betsy~
you hang up and start to cry
Bloomingdale-you
know, the....
because you wish it was you still
crowd. We sit around doing simple,
out there peeing on floors andgirlish things like painting eachshooting up.
other's toes and giggling about
Do you curse the gods?
boys. Of course I know you don't
Do you rail against your forapprove. You have something
mer friends, the ones still on top?
against Pat. Lord knows what it"Fuck you, Ivana," you must
could be she's a perfectly lovely
hiss bitterly behind her back. "Wehuman being. Just a bit misundernever really liked you anyway,stood. If it helps any, try thinking of the Buckleys as the Archie You can keep your tacky publishing deal and your sportswear
and Edith Bunker of the '80s. Sure, William is a fat bigot and acollection. You're only this year's Vanna White. We'll keep our
bit of a jerk. But she loves him. She doesn't always agree withdrooping jowels and withering breasts and frumpy helmet hairdos.
what he says, but she stifles herself. And remember, when \ We'll stand by our men even when they seem bigoted and inconArchie wasn't around, Edith would run off and play with hertinent. Because that's where the money is."'Black friends like Weezy Jefferson. And you just know Pat does
And: "A toast!" you say, "A toast to the '80s. To Dynasty andthe same, The minute Billy leaves for work, Pat invites all her
hair mousse. To Gorden .G~cko, Malcom Forbes and Ivan
faggot friends, like Jeny Zipkin, over to play with her wigs.
Boesky, our fallen gods. To better days than this...."
You poor dears.
Unfortunately, the '90s have not been kind to Pat and her
ilk. They· were once pretty high on the hog, yes indeed, but that
But, ladies, before you throw on the tattered old Galanos, was before the recession hit and conspicuous consumption was
and retire to the attic like some latter-day Miss Havisham, before
made to seem vulgar, This was· before the nouveaux pauvres
you crawl into a cupboard of your own come, let's have awere all the rage. Before the Ftrst Lady started wearing polyester
slumber party! Mrs. Buckley, you old dingbat, Nancy darling, letcircus tents to fonnal affairs, and the first dog had embarked (ha- me tell you what inspirations you are to all the little Marlaha) on a literary career.
Maples and Dianne Brills out ,there to all the future helmetI can see Nancy now, desperately clutching Pat's arm,headed, pearl-twirlers of America. Let's put curlers in our hairscreeching:, "What about us? Remember?" Oh, ladies, I feel for and drink Tab and eat lots of cheese doodles. Let's have a party.
you. It's a horrible thing to wake up one day and find yourself
I crawl unsteadily out of my cramped little tomb and stumble
no longer in. I've been down that road a few times myself.
to the 00thr00m mirror. I pile on pound after pound of clown-white
Do you sit up nights, Pat, wonderingfoundation to hide the 25 years of hardIIliving that stares back at me. Frustrated
where it all went to? Why Billy and SuzyI
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lower back. Although the phrase "placebo effect" springs
to mind, she follows this advice because it's so muchcheaper than another course of not-covered-by-Blue-Cross
adjustments. Madame X, whose spine is robust, is simply
a fool for raspbeny-flavored seltzer. Now that it's warm,
all New York seems to be imbibing Frescas a/fresco, but
those who drink must eventually do something else.
Therefore, all New York women have a common problem. No, we don't mean just returning the cans.
Locating clean bathrooms in New York can be a harrowing experience, but sometimes a girl's just got to finda place fast. If it's a particularly nice day, you may fmd
yourself in Central Park; the obvious choice would thenbe the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Since the entrance
fee is a "suggested donation," feel free to hand them aquarter for access to their convenient facilities. If you feelguilty, give more and spend a couple of hours in the
Temple of Dendur.
Traveling south, we hit another temple, this one dedicat<;:dto the conspicuous wealth of the vulgar bourgeoisie:
the Plaza Hotel. You know what they say about New York
life: Act as if you own the place. March past the front
desk, wave aside porters and head straight toward the"Ladies'" sign. Madame X, a frequent qser, likes the golden plumbing and· shiny marble; most of all, she loves tothink that a mere dozen floors above, Ivana resides. This
thought makes it so piquant when Madame X whips anindelible black marker out of her bright yellow messenger
bag to leave a rude message in the stall.
The same advice-no,
not about the illegal
graffiti--applies to would-be borrowers of any other midtown hotel'sfacilities: Act as if you belong. If you
can cope with the inevitable
restroom lines, you can eavesdrop at .
conventions. It's a sterling opportunity to obsetve the bonding behaviorof female travel agents, dentists, historians,romancenovelistsorwhomever. Romance novelists' gossip is the best, but all women basically talk about the same thing at conventions: money.
Gay men and lesbians don't
share the same bathroom experiences; to us, they've never beenso ... special. Still, there are someinteresting anecdotes about ladies' rooms. Anne has seen
more than one pair of shoes in a single stall--admittediy, it
was in the bathroom at the Gay and Lesbian Community
Center. (The Center has by far the most aesthetically pleasing bathroom in New York, by the way.) Madame X fondly
recalls brief glances exchanged in the third-floor bathroomsof the public library's main branch; she wasted two hours
following.one woman out to Queens and back. Alas, thedesired one was oblivious, and even in Queens, the MfAkeeps the subway bathrooms tightly locked. Not thatMadame X would set foot in a subway john, even for thesake of important research.
On a more practical note, we recommend the l,ibrary's
bathrooms, most notably the ones on the lower floor of the
42nd Street entrance. They are free, clean and provide
unparalleled opportunities to check out the latest scholarship. (Ahem.) The NYU library, on the other hand, is noplace for cruising. NYU students don't seem ,to be diligent
readers, so the whole place is usually empty, bathrooms andall. The catch is, you need an up-to-date college ID to get
into this useful downtown comfort station,
In its small but pressing way, the women's-room problem reflects larger issues. Bathrooms are the only places(including recent lesbians' meetings at the Center) which(our whole society agrees) must be sex-segregated,Itdoesn't hav~ "''to' be that way: In the small-town punk clubwhere Ann~ spent her high-school nights, the two bathrooms were-unofficially dubbed "light" and "dark." "Dark"
was for drugs and sex and its lightbulb was always
smashed; light was for makeup and, in it, straight girls struggled with hustlers of both sexes for mirror space. If you had
to pee, a friend stood in front of you as a shield.
That was then; this is now.
New York men have the privilegeof pissing anyplace the impulse
strikes. If they had to wait until
there was a clU'ied door in front ofthem (or behind them as the
may be), you can bet there woul,
be a lot more public toilets. As it is,, we console ourselves by hecklingguys urinating in the streets. Pointing and laughing work well,' as docomments on accuracy ("Look atthat! He got it all over his shoe!")and size. We figure, What the hell?
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A fire bur:nedin the apartment
upstairs. Undisturbed, Charles Busch andJulie HalstOD single-mindedly continued
discuss and rehearse a scene fromBusch's latest play. It was only when
Busch noticed a firefighter's ladder passoutside his third-story living room window that he. even suspected somethingout of the ordinary. Halston ran to the
kitchen of the railroad apartment only to
discover it swinuning in smoke. "Suddenly I was so thrilled with myself,' Busch
recalls, "all the warnings that I had gotten
from 1V or reading about it came back.
And I was saying, :Julie, don't open thedoorl Don't open the door! The wall offire!' You know, 'Don't touch the door
knob!' I was going to throw a rug on her
head' Halston bolted downstairs, despite
Busch's composed warnings.
Busch had, in his composure, prepared for just such a moment. "So often.I~vesat here watching 1V or something
and thought, 'If there was a fire, what
would I ta~e?" His preparation was
about to payoff. Busch scrambled for his
credit cards, so he could book a night at
the Ritz if need be and grabbed his mostrare and prized possession-his
collection of Honey Girl 350 wigs.
These, Honey Girl 350 wigs are
Busch's' trademark a discontinued red-

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Mary Dale in Red Scare on Sunset. And"the dynell is just so versatile" that, even
if Busch no longer played these roles,
losing such fine wigs would be a shame.
West 12th Street had quite a scareover the Honey Girl 350s, and-the theatrical community might equally braceitself for Busch's latest fright, Red Scareon Sunset. The author of Off-Broadway's
longest-running comedy (2,024 performances), Vampire Lesbians of Sodom,
Busch is now directing his attention
toward the House Un-American Activities
Committee. As if guilty by suspicion,
Busch indicts his last play, Tbe Lady in
Question, set in Nazi Germany in theearly '408 as a possible impetus for this,his latest: "I said to Arnie Kolodner, myleading man, backstage one night: 'If weever did the sequel to this set in the '50s,
you'd be facing the House Un-American
Activities Conunittee. And where would I
fit in? I would denounce you, eventhough you were my husband.'" In thisway, a play is born, and, as the wigs aresafe, it must go on.
"They Are Everywhere" trumpets a
newspaper headline on the poster for
Red Scare on Sunset. And so they are.
Busch's take on the events surrounding
the '50s Red Scare focuses on a Communist's attempt to promote the party
line by infiltrating Hollywood's continuous flow of technicolor extravaganzas
with actors trained in gritty black-andwhite method technique.
. "Can They Be Stopped?" queriesanother headline from the poster. For theanswer to this, you will have to see theplay. The questions raised by Busch during our interview seemed far more pressing. "I'm prepared to start getting the letters and phone calls," Busch readily
admits. In Red Scare, Busch's character, agay dramatist and actor who appeals to alarge gay audience, is involved in a sulr
plot with a blacklisted gay actor, The
actor jumps out of a fifth-floor hospital
window and kills himself, "I'm satirizingthat sort of thing. I hope people areintelligent enough to see that it's tongue
in cheek," Busch remarks.
Vito Russo's "Necrology," which concludes Tbe Celluloid C/oset, his study ofh'ty in the movies, serves as achilling reminder of Hollywood's homophobia, especially of those movies madein the '50s, Busch's inclusion of suchdetail in Red Scare can be seen as reflective of its parodic medium But it can also."i>'be spun from the other side---9s reflecting
the values of these '50s,Hollywood horrors. "I'm really so unpolitical. I wish I
could tell you that I was passionate about
those sort of things," Busch answers.
This is not the first time Busch's politics have been called on the mat Writingin the VtlJage Voice, Michael Feingold stated that his Lady in Question "very lightly
skate£d] over any serious matter inherent
in the work," adding that this "knowing
lightness is the essence of good entertainment," yet that it leads one to ask, "Is it
possible that he [Busch], too, believes theold show-biz com of which he's createdsuch sly, devastating parodies?"
Busch embraces Feingold's commentary: "Very interesting piec~ eventhough he was being aitical, I thought
he probably understood me better thananybody else ....l'm a popular entertainer.
That's where I'm coming from. I'm not
the type to do a blue-sting indictment ofsociety. I believe in conventions of thewell-made play. I believe in conventionsof melodrama.":
While believing in these conventions, Busch is also willing to disrupt andsubvert them. Busch specializes in femaleroles, and for the actor this drag "other" isin no way an "issue." He has rejected
several opportunities to appear on such,national telecasts as Donahue or oprah.
To Busch's mind, these shows are issueoriented venues: "I never thought what I
did was an issue ...:n:ey're just trying to
make an issue out of something·that's
popular entertainment."(Be warned
Andrew Ross.)
Although
Busch has In factappeared on Donahue once ("I still wish
I hadn't done Donahue now. I regret it...,but I was desperately trying to save twoshows one on each coast---that wereabout to close, so I would do anything
to publicize them"), his fear was grounded in a notion that the audiences would
conflate lifestyle--transvestism or transsexualism-with
his actor's role. The
audience obliged
his-fear,.
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Like all female impersonators,
Busch does not wear his drag off-stage.
It is merely an actor's role put on andtaken off. Yet as Michael Moon and Eve
Sedgwick jointly theorize in the current
issue of Discourse,
female impersonation
should not be separated from homosexuality. In Moon andSedgwick's opinion,

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comes out in all
her' 50s glory,'

Honey Girl 350
wig appropriately
styled, ready to•hunt down thoseCommies. "I
think that just by
who I am, it's
political," Buschallows, "but I do
tend to tread,lightly.",female impersonation
is a hot topic
among giit-crits, as it allows them to flirt
with the issue of homosexuality without
ever having to directly name the love thatdare not speak its name.
Although Busch admits to being evasive on the issue of his homosexuality on
Donahueso as not to conflatetransvestism or trassexuality with homosexuality or female impersonation, he has
publicly come out elsewhere and agrees
with Moon and Sedgwick's conclusion.
Red Scare on Sunset, along withBusch's other plays for his Theatre in
Limbo company, further disrupts standards of the melodrama and well-madeplay through his use of drag. Bus~h's(emale roles, unlike those of maiilstream
drag plays such as Charlie's Aunt, present
him from start to finish as a woman. At.no point do the characters go· throughridiculous machinations t()'putthe malelead in a dress, for. him then only to act·~awkwardly
in it.
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The extreme structural disruption ofthis 'approach is evidenced through aglance at the history of drag plays. Prior
to Charlie's Aunt, drag plays were constructed along the continuum Busch
employs. The drag character was introduced in a dress and remained sothroughout the play, with all charactersassuming him to be female, Slippage ofthis false recognition was admissible only
for brief, winking comic asides. As the
19th century began to roll over into the20th, the notion of the invert was introduced by medical science and quickly
rooted in public consciousness.
Inversion, as first defined, referred
to a man who desired to be a woman§ and would often dress as such to obtain~ his sexual end---another man, Drag plays~ reflecting the public awareness of inver~ sion surfaced, starting with Cbarlie's~ Aunt in 1892, and created a chasm
between the man and the dress. The
man now had literally to be forced bylife-threatening circumstances to don adress. Such shenanigans assured theaudience that the object onstage had noperverse desires in mind, This structural
holdover continues in taday's drag cIas'sics. Think • of Some Like It Hot or Tootsfe,
and what about that all-but-forgotten 'IV
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Busch's plays cut against thismainstream
tendency. Mary Dale
comes out in all her '50s glory, HoneyGirl 350 wig appropriately
styled,ready to hunt down those Commies.
"I think that just by who I am, it's
political," Busch allows, "but I do tend
to tread lightly."
The Red Scare of the '50s is apossible parallel to the political-cor-

SPRING BLOOM... It's almost summer,
and things are heating up. And just in time,
Alycee J. Lane and BLK Publishing Company,
the corporation behind the national lesbian
and gay newsmagazine BLK, have brought
out the first issue of an erotic quarterly forBlack lesbians. Entitled Black Lace, it featuresa range of bold, smoldering copy, including
corrunentary, poetry and short stories, as wellas "Dyke Horoscopes" and "Hot Lace Letters." Subsaibe today,and be up to speed by summertime. Black Lace, BLK Publishing Co1p., PO Box 83912, Los Angeles, CA 90083.
- THE HUNGER ... If you're still hungry, the soon-to-be~launched lezzie bi-monthly (that refers to its frequency),
Deneuve, is fonning as we speak, "Dedicated to lesbian news
and politics, arts and entertainment, love and even sex," it hails
from San Francisco and promises, among other lures, to deliver•
an article on lesbian firefighters. Get out your hose, girls.
. OUT OF HER MIND.. .And if you're still not spent,
Madwoman Press is accepting manuscripts "by, for and about
lesbians.", Novel-length fiction, cartoons and, collies are all
welcome. These folks want "the upbeat, the tale of triumph

rectness scare of today. Busch may.have the last word after all: "It's notenough that a guy in drag can just be
funny and an entertainer. It's safer ifthey can put you in an intellectual orpolitical context. They can't just say:-'See? Isn't he great, and isn't thatfunny? We enjoyed that show.' I think
its more fun to be Bette Davis thanGeorge Brett." Tover adversity, the story of pride in being lesbian," so leave your sob stories at home.
They even promise to respond to queries ineight weeks. Could this account for the madness? Madwoman Press, PO Box 690, Northboro, MA 01532.

AVERSION THERAPY REVISIT·
ED... Richard Schmiechen, he of Harvey
Milk fame, is winding up work on a documentary about mental health professional
Dr. Evelyn
Hooker, Hooker's study of gay men is widely believed tohave been instrumental in the declassification of homosexuality as an 'illness by the APA in 1973. Producer Dr.
James Harrison is still in search of home movies, photos
and memorabilia about queer life in the '40s, '50s and'60S, individuals who were acquainted with Hooker or
who may have been ,subjects of abuse or injury at thehands of lesser professionals during that time, Harrison
can be contacted at the Foundation for Integrative Studies,
123 W. 44th St., Garden Level, New York, NY 10036, or at(212) 580-4826,- compiled by SarafJ Pettit,

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studio, the exposed back of a new painting by Ross Bleckner revealed scores ofbum marks, For his new exhibition opening on April 6 at the Mary Boone Gallery,
Ross Bleckner has used the torch as abrush. Images were painted, then scraped
off or burnt, woven under and over his
homemade 'varnish in work that mixes
painting with alchemy. The resultant
paintings have a rawness that is new in
Bleckner's wolk.
The afternoon I visited his studio,with its striped surfaces and austere beauty, several paintings for the show werehung or in the process of completion.
Renny, his dog, lay on the wooden floor,
the fur exactly between her eyes goinggray. On a side table, a double row ofenamel pots contained his brew of paints.
We sat and talked at his work table.
The collective name for this body ofwork, painted almost exclusively in black
and white, is Examined Life, a phrasetaken from this quotation: "An unexamined life is not worth living, and theunlived life is not worth examining." The
ftrst half is Freud, the second a recent
jokey addition.
Bleckner is no stranger to paintings
that examine and reveal his psyche, His
rise to international fame in the '80s was
based on two distinct bodies of work.
One group consist:ed of striped paintingsmodeled loosely on '60s Op art, though
Bleckner fuzzed Op's hard-edged line
and added personal imagery. He also
produced brooding, elegiac paintings, .
with titles such as "8122 and Counting,""Knights Not Nights" and "Recover" thatwere the opposite of his cool abstract
work and referred to the mounting lossesof the AIDS crisis. His paintings seduced
the viewer with either optics or kneebuckling beauty. This is his ftrst New
York show in two years.
According to Bleckner, these paintings examine different sites a place inthe studio, a place in a laboratory, aplace in the body. "All these paintings
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and transformation,»heexplained. Bleckner's work has alwa,ys
contained recognizable objeCts ranging
from urns and shields to chandeliers
and birds. In his new paintings, theseicons have been shredded; he's man~aged to represent these images even
without their appearing. "I wanted aburnt image,» he continued, "I wanted
images achieved by, destroying the,image. The paintings are kind of elaborate
in what's .in them-but
it's like, , 'r.
nothing is in them, 'cause I've taken it
all away." .
The· most unconveqtional painting
in the F..xamined Life series consists of agrid of smaller canvases butted one
against the other, each containing a cellular portrait. He described the paintings, initially constructed il!5 studies, as"anonymous blood portraits.» Somecell's centers were burned and look likedried blood. He wapted to explore
mutation, he said: "1bat's what scienceis, what disease is really. Mutation
within a structure.», A self-proclaimed
workaholic,
Bleckner has worked on and off for
two years on Examined Life. The show
will contain seven or eight works. "It'sbeen very difficult, this group of paintings," he:allowed. "They make me very
anxious. I wanted these paintings to becolor paintings, and they ended up
being the most reserved paintings I've
done. Since I've been working onthem, I've used four tubes of paint.
They are very thinly painted, like
unpainted paintings.» Bleckner· has
always excelled in producing beautiful
images without sentimentality. His work
has a stillness to it, a mystery, and frequently evokes loss and pain. The newwork is no exception.
, Apparently, Bleckner has thought
deeply about the effect of AIDS on thegay community: "I think a lot of gay~en think. abOut what is important inlife t;ight now," he explained. "Gaypeople, more than anyone else rightnow, have had to deal with mortality.
The things that made people happy 10
years ago don't make people happy
now. They want more. They want toinquire deeper. I think that's
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the community."
Bleckner finds similarities between
the process of painting and that ofthinking, an equation only possible toail artist in full control of her or his
medium, Yet as the burn marks indicate, Bleckner frequently experiments
and sees his studio as a laboratory
investigating the physics of paintings. It
also offers a clue to understanding his
work: "Painting is very dispersed, in theway it contains meaning, especially in atime that's very difficult. Painting seems
to be mote irrelevant, the more difficult
times are. I think that's why younger
artists a lot of the time choose not tomake paintings," he said, adding, "I
think the opposite."
Bleckner's paintings are sought bymuseums and collectors worldwide,,, and' I'll confess my own bias that he's
one of the top painters working today,
anywhere. His sensibility speaks directly to mine, or more specifically, hiswork avoids the pose many of his contemporaries indulge. Of all the '80s art
stars, he's the sole gay representative,
besides Keith Haring, on an international level.
"In the art world, I see a big
movement of young gay artists," heobserved, "They're becoming much
more prominent. My generation ofartists, I think, is dominated by heterosexual worldviews. It was always
a litde bit hard for me to relate. Oncein a' while, you get a Jasper Johns,
but I think it's an illusion that the art
world is exempt from the codes ofregular social life. It'sj!l.st as homophobic and racist as the world everywhere, and sexist.",Bleckner's paintings probe, question and problematize. If, as Bleclmer
suggests, the role of an artist is to try
and make sense of the world, hispaintings, which. he calls "dark fairy
tales," chart a singular course: "Ialways thought-when I was younger,
which is why I became such a workaholic type-thatthe only thing thatwas going to get me over my insecurity, or the only thing that was going tomatter, was my relationship to myart-not my relationship to my., b.qyfritinds. You have to have
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a big movementof young
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becomingmuch more
prominent. My
generation ofartists, I think,is dominated byheterosexual
worldviews. It

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Consumer Guide
by Ernest Hardy
STRANGE FREE WORLD.
Kitchens of Distinction (A&M).
Kitchens of Distinction is what Morrissey would be if he'd stop wearing his
thr~adbare cleverness on his sleeves,really put himself on the line andshowed true vulnerability-andtheensuring rewards and consequences of it
The group ,istwhat Ox:teau Twins would
be if Elizabeth Fraser's gorgeous ramblings made sense in any language. Cribbing lyrics from my. diary (to read the
lyric sheet is to have your heart piercedwith recognition) and drenching them ina wall of sound that ranges from a blurof frenzied guitar .to a soothing sparseness (sometimes in the space of onesong), Kitchens of Distiction createsmusical short stories that haunt, provoke
and move. Lead singer (and bassist/lyricist) Patrick Fitzgerald, who is the only
gay member of the trio, writes lyrics thatare both specifically gay and universally
appealing: for example, from the track"Gorgeous Love": "I can feel the wavesof your gorgeous love,. and it hurts tothink that this is wrongII can take yourpain, anything, to overcome our fear, andwe're strong, strqng enough to prove it."And from the track "Within the D.ke ofPassion": 'This good, I swear, I'm staying
lurking in your arrns/So good in sin, I'm
staying with you in bi~er senses." Evensongs that depict hetero relationships("Quick as Rainbows") show a decidedlyqu~ quaJity; it's doubtful that a straight
man could so brilliantly capture the myri"'ad emotions that arise from giving ofYOurself physically and emotionally andthen realizing how little i~has meant to
the other person-because
he had theupper hand to begin with and never had
as much at stake. (Fitzgerald has said that
his ·songs 'all have origins in his own
experiences
and the "she"s he singsabout have been changed from "he.")"Rainbo;ws"hooes in on an inequality inrelationships that most straight men just

TALKIN' BOUT A CONTRIBUTION-Diva-in- Training Mica Paris
don't have to-and
therefore rarely
do--think about. There is sadness in thestrange free world of Kitchens of Distinction, but there is also strength, beauty,
poetry and more than a glimmer of brilliance. VISitsoon.

THE MARTYR MANTRAS.
Boy George (Virgin).
Boy George's solo career has beenspotty at best, putting fans in the sometimes-uncomfortable position of watchinga major talent stretch and grow-andmake the inevitable fuck-ups that are partof the process. A calmness and assurance
permeate The Martyr Mantras, putting an
end to the creative searching that marredefforts such as 1989's High Hat with its illadvised new-jack experimentation. The
new disc is a subtle but powerful saluteto the Boy's much-publicized spiritualconversion (a salute given a more obvious nod on the Krishna tribute, "Bow
Down, Mister"). His voice is better thanit's ever been, swinging from silk-andhoney tones to a grayed falsetto, all thewhile brimming with emotion. Highlights
are the melancholy "I Specialize in loneliness" ("I know these are dangerous
times for love/Shouldn't
we stick together?"), theclub hit "Generations ofLove" and the blatantly'70s disco/r&b track"Love Hurts." This isalso the most homo

work he's ever done (the track "One on
One" creates a love triangle that's either
two-thirds gay or two-thirds lesbian),though oblivious Top-40 whores will
never pick up on half of it. Not quite
solid enough to be called his masterpiece (the pedantic "No dause 28" andfiller like "Too Much Love" are theflaws), Mantras offers ample evidence
that Mr. ODowd is not to be written off
as yesterday's news.

CONTRIBUTION.
Mica Paris (Island).
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The diva-in-training returns witha disc that confirms what her debut,
So Good, only hinted at: Paris isgoing to be a major musical force inthis decade. Her talent lies in the tension created between a smooth exterior (say, Sade) and a core seethingwith passion.
Contributions
from
Prince (the song, "If I Love JJ 2
Nite") and a great rap by Rakim (ofEI:ic B. and Rakim fame}-as well as
hip hop- and House-flavored
production-in
a no way overshadow
Paris' talent. A definitive version of
Smokey Robinson's "More Love" andthe impossibly
sexy
songs "Truth and Honesty," "You Can Make a
Wish" and the aforementioned "If I Love U
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Malcolm McIMen (ISland).
,. Mixing, matching and sampling froma variety of Si:>urces,pop's premier multilevel swindler returns with a wOrk that has
its moments (namely the remixes of past
hits "Buffalo Gals". and "World's Famous
Supreme Team")· but none that approach
the brilliance of his classic album, Fans, or
its glittering centerpiece, "Madam Butterfly." Rap dominates here with a too-aude"Romeq and Juliet" (despite the Seamless
blend of samples, it's short on real inspiration but perfect for horny teens who also
despise the bard) and an on-the-mark "IIlk. or Not n Be," from Hamlet's famous
soliloquy. This is one of those releases!hat seemS great initially, but increasingly
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gles could reach the potential that is hint- .
ed at on the album,"IT'S A SHAME."
Monie Love (Warner Bros.).
The follow-up single to the disappointing, high-school-crush-themed"Monie in the Middle" is what we were
all craving based on Love's output with
Queen latifah and the Jungle Bros. Sassy
and wise advice to a sister whose man istreating her badly, "Shame" is a cleverode to sisterhood that absolutely sizzles
in the "Cool As..." House mix. Essential.

'~ESCUE~
Madonna (Warn~ Bros.).
Both one of the best and one of theworse things she's done, A simple-minded chorus and bridge ("Love is under-

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standing"-please!) undennines the otherwise very- cool lyrics, while the wholething basks in the glory- of "Vogue." The"Alternative Mix" is best mainly because
it dares to shake off the shadow of thefamiliar. She gets to belt out the chorus
and weave all the dramatic verse withthe spoken verse, proving once and for
all that she is an actress. A near gem.
''CLOUD 8."
Frazier Chorns (Charisma).
The title says it all. This one
threatens to float right off your player
with fea~ery- vocals and sparse Soul n
So~-style production that will have your
toes tapping and body swaying. Nancy
Reagan and William Bennett beware:
1his is as close to an aural drug as you've
heard in a long time. T

free passes. But I've seen them twice
now-first at the Bitter End a couple ofmonths ago, then at Continental Dividea few weeks ago---and I've enjoyedboth shows,
Like qJ.ost struggling bands, the~outs' stage props weren't elaborate: At
the Bitter ,End, they taped
to the wall a,neon green poster that read, in black let;ters,"Scouts."
At Continental Divide,,,
they taped up two. Six people shared•by Dale Peck
. I'm a skeptic when it comes to live
music in New York, and it's rare that I'll
go hear an unsigned band.
It always ends up costing
too much, and, of the few
bands I bave seen, mosthave been pretty .bad. I
mean, who wants to drop
$25 to see four or fiveguys doing: a) their rendition of the Sex Pistols on
heroin, b) their renditionof REM on Quaaludes orc) "our own thing, man,like, our own thing." To
top it off, there are noqueer venues for live rock'n'·roll in New York that I,
know of, which means
putting up with a bunchof straight people who
usually can't. dance, can't
dress and whose big hairkeeps getting in the way.
Going to see Scouts,
then, was a ,risk, but a riskthat I'm 'glad I took. I con-.. A MISERABLY GOOD

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fess that I went mostly because a friend
vouched for them, and because he eliminated the money problem by producing

,the stage with the posters, four guys on
instruments (drums, bass, guitar, keyboards), a female backup singer and amale lead singer, David Driver, who took
the stage at the first: show wearing yourbasic thrift-store suit with a twist: It was
fringed up and down the legs and under
the arms with thick gold tassels that
reminded me of the border on my stepmother's kitchen curtains. (David, I
should mention to OutWeek readers, isthe gay one, and he's cute too.)
By the fU'st songs of both shows,the element of kitsch in the suit was
amplified almost to the level of camp. At

the Bitter End, they
opened with a rock 'n'roll cover of Wayne
Newton's ~Daddy, Don't
You Walk So Fast" that
had Lisanne Paulin, thebackup vocalist, singing the part of
Daddy, and David singing the part of thelittle girl. At Continental Divide, they
opened with a version of "Last Night I
Didn't Get to Sleep at· All" which was sogood that I almost didn't notice that it
was a cover. These songs worked well as
audience hooks, immediately establishing that the band both knew how to play•

Dd=Jin-z ~~Skippy"
Belanger
CITY: Chicago
CLUBS: Roscoes (Tuesday, Friday
and Sunday,), Europia (W'ednesday
and Saturday,)

1. -What Time Is Love?" by KLF
2. "Replay" by Tom Tom (Import)
3. "Dangerous on the Dance Floor" by Musto and Bones
4. "Move Your Body (Elevate)" by Xpanslons (Import)•

5. "Me the Mailman" by Six Bells All (Import)
6. "Kraken" by N-dol (Import)
7. "Here We Go" (Dub Mix) by C and C Music Factory
8. "People Are Stili Having Sex" by LaTour
9. "Subsonic Trance" Beltram (Import)
10. "Move Any Mountain" (Pro-Gen) by the Shamen (Import)

their instruments andhad a sense of humor:
They also estab:'lished David as a focal
point. A lot of leadsingers get attention
just because they're lead singers, but
David earns his. He worked the microphone and the stage and his silly I>uit,
and he especially worked his hair, which,at the beginning of the night, was neatly
combed and then, with a shake,· fell
1around his' head and covered his face,ending up pulled back in a short ponytaila fa Jack Nicholson in Witcbes of Eastwick. Someone suggested to me thatDavid seemed theatrically ~ined, andwhen I asked after the show, this turned
out to be the case. It's a training he puts
to good use, creating a stage presence
that, on one level-that of pursed lips
and swinging hip.s--«ems to be parodying macho male lead singers but,because he's so sexy, doesn't deny you
the pleasure of staring at those hips as
they swing,
Musically, everything is fast-tempo
rock 'n' roll. David, who writes nearly allof Scouts' songs with drummer Marty
Beller,told me that his main objective is tokeep things fun and danceable. Lyrically,
he's more serious. He told me that he tries
to write songs which say that, despite thefact that the world is "really shitty,'" it's still
possible to feel OK and have some fun.
Song titles like "Happy the Hard Way,"
which is the title cut from their four-song
cassette, and "We Said OK" point to that
opp05ition. He's successful in his mission:
Both shows left me feeling that he waskind of miserable but having a good time 'anyway (as opposed to someone like
Morrissey, who seems to have a goodtime because he's miserable).
Queer viewers who see ScoutS
shouldn't
expect a political manifesto--David's the only gay member ofthe band, and there's nothing overtly gay
about their music. But there's nothing
overtly straight about it either, and as hedOesn't write love songs, he doesn't fall
into the pit of unconsciously promoting
heterosexuality. All in all, Scouts are agood time, which is, when it comes
down to it, exactly what they want to be,
and something we all need evety oncein a while.
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For your very own Scouts cassette"
send a check for $5.95 (payable to M.
Beller) toP.a. Box 1694, NYNY 10009."" ,April ..0,

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,VANISHING ROOMS by Melvin Dixon. Dutton. $18.95 d. 211 pp.

by John Preston
One of the purposes of the Men on
Men series, edited by George Stambolian and published by NALlPlume, is totalent-search. While many of the contributors alr~dy have a place in the lit. erary world, the anthologies are an
opportunity for newcomers to show
their work to editors and for previously, published authors to display their works
in progress.
Melvin Dixon's new novel, Vanish,,tng Rooms (his first novel, Trouble theWater, won the 1989 Nilon Award for
Excellence in Minority Fiction) is the fulfillment of a shorter piece, "Red Leaves,'
which originally appeared as a story in
Men on Men 2.

The plot: It's 1976, and Jesse is thesurvivor of a gay couple whose move
to New York takes a catastrophic tum
when one of them, Metro, is killed bya gang of gay-bashers. Jesse is Black;
his lover was white. Entranced by thepower of the subterranean landscapethat gave him his nickname (he is a
man who moves underground, under
everythingin his life), Metro was
beginning to explore the docks andother anonymous-sex spots in the city
and was also beginning to objectify
Jesse, calling out to his "nigger,' offering to become Jesse's sexual "nigger"
during sex, stripping Jesse of his mostvital and most hard-won identities as.man and beloved.
With Metro murdered just as their
racial conflicts were coming to the fore,
Jesse has been left with unresolved
emotions, He flOds himself alone in thecity, without his anchor. By profession adancer, he teams up with Ruella, aBlack woman in his dance workshop:
Just before he learns of Metro's death,m. a moment neither can forget, Jesseand Ruella dance a duet by means ofwhich each of them defines a self.
Dance is their redemption, their individual expression.
When he learns of Metro's death,
Jesse Can't stand living in their old apartment, sO he turns to Ruella, who takes
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"Rooms," in this way doing to her pre.
cisely what Metro had done tohim-viewing
her as something heneeds, not as her own person.
Formally, Vanishing Rooms has
three voices: Besides Jesse and Ruella,
there's Lonny, the Italian-American
teenager who was involved in Metro's
death. The tides and torrents of threepeople trying to create themselves in the
midst of urban violence and anti-individual hatred
at the core of this novel.
Vanishing Rooms is about spaces, thespaces that we're given by society, andour ability and need to create, defme
and defend our own spaces against society's assaults.
The collision of
Jesse and Ruella allows
them to find what theyeach need in themselves,
even when it becomes
painfully clear that whatarethey need is not one anf>tl1er~Lonny
firlds neither his own spact not the tools
to discover one for himself. He ends up
a hustler, which marks a tragic role-rever,,sal of the self whose insecurities led tb
Metro's death.
The metaphors and themes ofdance are woven throughout this novelof emotional movement and passionate
spacial-definition. Large parts of Vanishing Rooms are written with lyricism So
perfect that any distinction between
poetry and prose is besi2le the point.
There is, in these pages, the piling beatof the city, the drums of AfricanAmerican experience, the soft lullabies
of affection and even the cry of a lover's. hurt. Though his plot may be too structured, with coincidence overwhelming
chance, Dixon's novel,' is a majorachievement. Its direct look at interracial
gay relations, its Virtuoso voice and its
expression' of hope in
the face of ' njusticecombine to roduce
what's sure t be amuch-talked a ut andmuch-loved book. ~

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Exactly ten years ago, Martin
Scorsese lost the Best Director Oscar toan actor directing his first picture
when Robert Redford's Ordinary People beat out Raging Bull Cue Twilight
Zone music: It happened all overagain last week. Scorsese earned theaward with the bravura craftsmanshipof GoodFe1las, but Kevin Costner won
it for mooning the camera and stuffing the wide screen with bison,
integrity and sentiment in Dances
With Wolves-.
At least actor Joe Pesci-nominated for Raging BulJ-tumed things
around for himself by winning GoodFellas' only Oscar. But for the gay
men gathered in my living room,
Pesci's win was the nadir of theevening, because that meant that
Bruce Davison had been shut out forLongtime Companion. We didn't get
the chance to hear the "Fight AIDS,
not war!" speech he has dutifully andpassionately delivered at every otherceremony where he picked up a Best
Supporting Actor award, Unlike lastyear, when Common Threads won
the Best Documentary Oscar, there
was no moment of gay and lesbianvisibility at this year's Academy
Awards-justthe usual parade ofhomophobes and closet cases, generally
indistinguishable one from the other, allcompeting to see whose hair could lookleast combed and whose dress could
expose breasts most provocatively.
Except for Costner's stiff nod to "myNative American brothers and sisters" inpicking up his Best Picture award---does
he really think that the nostalgic Wo~
will do a thing to help their present day
woes?-no celebrity. , grippedthe placid surface of scripted insincerity.
The makers of the winning documentaries plugged their ftlms' subject matter-laborrights and the fight against
anti-Asian racism-but
you had to bequick to catch the politics dropped inamidst the "thank you"s. I know that I
won't ever see the blacklisted Vanessa
Redgrave again on Oscar night, but I
never thought that I'd find myself mourning the absente of Jane Fonda.
CertainI}5 the Gulf War is in part tolblame for the ceremony's somnambulism-

this year. Hollywood remains in some
sort of patriotic fugue state: Norman
Schwarzkopf got more mentions thanGone With the Wind. (Sally "You-reaIlylike-me" Field outdid even herself thisyear with one Scarlett O'Hara-like quote:"Let's face it," she said in a taped montage, "it was about me." Right, Sally. Now
it's time for your medication, dear.)
Cheap emotion was not limited to
jingoism, however, Costner and friends
found a way to both sensationalize anddegrade even their movie's thin symbolic
importance to present-:day Native Americans. Screenwriter Michael Blake trotted a
141k0ta-Siouxwoman up to the podiumwith him to use as a sort of ventriloquist's
doll in translating his boot-~trap aphorisms into a Native American language:
Exploiration? Me? Let's do lunch,'Thank God for Madonna;· who was
visibly
nervousbut,.\, •.
nobody's
dummy. Reba <McEntire may have out-war':· ,bled her, but Madonna outwiggled everyone in sight.
She had to wrestle a bit•with that uncooperative boa-it refused to .
hit the downbeats as she whipped it
around-but
she still wrapped her voice
and body seductively around the soon-tobe-Oscar-winning song, "Sooner or Later(l Always Get My Man)," from-Dick Trac.J!.
At least her Schwartzkopf reference,
to~sed in amidst the Stephen Sondheim lyrics, was tinged with saralSIIl.
But where was Sondhdm? Or
Meryl Streep? Or Joanne Woodward?
,
Not to mention Warren Beatty andJack Nicholson-lastyear's twin
space-cadets, (poor Kim Basinger had
to represent the outer planets all byherself.) Practically every top boxoffice star was absent. Sure, Tom
Cruise was there, but who's he thesedays comparedto Home Alone's
Macauley Culkin? Did the in-crowd,
know that, except for Kathy Bates'satisfying surprise win for Best Actress,
this was the year to miss?
The celebrities who showed up
did provide the occasionally surreal
moment. The shot of Madonna andMichael Jackson seated side. by side,both in full regalia, during the Special Visual Effects presentation wasparticularly apropos. More down-toearth was Jessica Tandy, whose
noble hairlessness put to shame thefuzzy rugs worn by Pesci, Burt
Reynolds and others.
One important historical note:
Denzel Washington's presentation of
the Best Supporting Actres~ Oscar to
Whoopi Goldberg marked the first con,secutive victories for African-American
actorseven though Whoopi squandered the moment with her me-me-me,
up-from-the-projects acceptance speech.
But don't think that Oscar is getting
more sensitive
about race issues:
Whoopi won for Ghost, don't forget,
while Spike Lee's Do the Right Thing
was included among the clips of war
mms. An outsider is an outsider is an
outsider, and even the most highly
acclaimed New York ftlms---like Do the
Right Thing last year, or this year's
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,Metropolitan---are bound to suffer when
pitted against that invincible Hollywood
machine, the Vehicle, movies created for
Box Office Heroes in deals
made at chic LA restaurants.
Sure, Kevin Costner danceswith wolves, but what's
important is that he LunChes
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on East 4th Street andwe went over to the
Duchess in Sheridan Squareto have a drinkshe was fat andcouldn't dance andthe next morning
I couldn't evenstomach a bowl of
Rice Crispies

when I was growing up
on Long Island we lived
on waterfront property
and in August thewater turned green
with algae andthe boats would
empty their bilges
Into the Soundyou'd be swimming
through this murk
tl1at smelled likerotting fish andall of a sudden
a human turd would
float across yourline of vision

the dyke (her namewas Edie) was convinced
I had eating disorders
I think eating disorders
were the in lesbian-feminist
problem that year
Edie said she neededsomeone she could explore
her sexuality with andgot mad at me when
I bit herthe summers in New York
were too hot to stayout of the water so
you braved the seaweed
and the shit and thejellyfish and went inanywaywe spent thenext few hours
drawing naked womenon my bedsheets andafter she left I
poured myself a cup
of Drano and staredout the window down
theairshaft

it was worse in
the city because
there was nowhereto swim unless you 'belonged to a clubor feit like taking
an hour ride on the
Btrain to Coney Island
to essentially cool off
in a toilet•

that night I went backto the Duchess where
this six-foot-tall
black fashion model
told me she wanted us
to get together witha mend of hers andtake bondage pictures

the summer Jean and I
broke up it was always
98 degrees and humid
and I used to gethead rushes going
up !he stairs to
my apartmentwe were fighting
all the time and I
wasn't eating anyway

her name was Tiffany
and she had an elaborate
theory of existence she
was trying to explain to me
in an incomprehensible
Jamaican accent, something
about how she was in contact
with benevolent aliens andthat her husband didn't
mind if she fucked girls

one night I ,picked up some dyke
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we staggered over to a
French restaurant on
the East Side where I
ended up ditching her
between vodkas andcalling Jean from the
subway to brag about all
the pussy I was getting
Jean said she hadn't
thought it would
take me long (wewere experimenting
with non-monogamy)I•there was a man
wandering around theplatfonn shouting at
the top of his lungs
so we hung up
the man had fastened
his pants with a .
\strip of cardboard
they had slipped doWl\around his buttocks\
people were sneaking
glances at his penis
he looked like hehad forgotten hehad oneDanielJe Willis was kicked out of Barnard
in 1986 and bas since worked as ananny, poodle groomer, stripper and...,adominatriX. Her books include Dogs in
Lingerie (Zeitgeist Press, 1990). She

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blood onto my pretty, new panty-girdle
and dance around the apartment like theguy fr9m Tbe Silence of the Lambs.
Always an appropriate look for us madqueens.
I go to a dub where the promoter,
painted purple and green, offers a bottle 'full of vomit to his guests, who drink it
gratefully. Later on, he JX.'CS on the crowd
gathered outside, and nolxxly seems to
mind,Next Stop: Creem-a-torium, where
the go-go boys become so aroused
they fuck each other on the pool table
while the whole dub watches.
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I run into a room full of coke
fiends picking $40 boogers from theirnoses. They eye me hungrily for moredrugs, so I leave and hide in a comer.
People often ask me if rm jaded.
How on earth could I ever get used tothings like this? The wonder and spectade of New iyork night life is too great I
don't think Iiwill ever crawl back into thecupboard again, I wouldn't want to missanything. ....
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. ,...-,ADVANCE LISTINGS ',THE NEW' SCHOOL FOR SOCIALRESEARCH'presents The State lif t~e
City: A Olly·~nll. L.. blan Perspective,
given in conjunction with OutW86k magazine. "Gay'lnl\" and lesbians are vital
participants In tl!e life 01 New York City,·says the cla88 description. "Despite this,many believe that the popular media andmainstream. aits communities either failto represent or ,actually misrepresent
gay and lesbian concerns." Given inthres se88lqns which focus on the arts,
the media and PQlitlcs, respectively, thec!asses will lie led by Arts Editor Sarah
Pettit, Features Editor Michelangelo
Sianorile' and News Editor Andrew
Miller. $15 (pr the course, $8 for a single session. The.first s888ion is April 25.
·For more Inlo, contact the New Schoolat (212) 741"8178,

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Send iJnnouncements and listings to: 159 W.
25th St_, 7th floor, New York, NY 10001_ Next"
deadline: Monday, April 1, for issue #94, 'available in New York on MondlilY, April 8.

,.6YALE BGLAD presents BI.81ual Gay
and La.blan Awarene .. Day •. With
Rep. Barney Frank of Massachusetts;
performance artists Tim Miller of ACTUPILA; cartoonist Alison Bechdel, creator of Dyke. to Watch Out For, andmany lesbian and gay activists andartlsta. April 4-14. Yale University. New
Haven, CT.'For complete details, contact
Sam at (203) 772-1695,
Martha at(203) 436-0422 or Eva at (203) 7731732.

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THEATRE-AT-224-WAVERLY-PLACE
presents Hama,uu.1 At:fI, a eeriee of
12 short plays, Including seven world
premieres and three New York 'premieres, They are: Robert Patrlck'l\
Ludwig and Wagner, The Family Bar,.
and The Way We War, Daniel. Curzon',
S&M, Celebrities in Hell and. One Man~
Opiniorr. Carl Morse's Annunciation and,Fairy Fuck-In, or A Call to ;the State.,
Robert Chesley's SOl11ebody'. Little
Boy; Victor Bumbalo's ShoW;' BII
Wrighfa Mother Father LOV{lr Marr, arid
Rich Rubin's That AI Pacino LrJok. $20.
We-Fr at 8 pm, Sa at 7 and 10, pm, SU
at 3 and 7 pm, Ticke1B: (212) 564-8038.
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laughing: Join the CLUB AT LA MAMA as It
presents The Allen Comic's All-Comedy April Fool's Day Show.
Included on the bill: Paul Zaloom, LIsa ICron, HaplPhace andAllen Comic Tom Murrin. 74A E. 4th St. April 1. 8 pm. (212)475-7710.
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Rlsle. There will be a publication party after the reading. The
Kitchen. 512 W. 19th $t. April 1. (212) 255-5793.

Read last week's cover story on rich dyklls and wondering how
you can be one too? Join WOMEN ENTREPRENEURSIN BUSI·NESS for their Monthly Meeting. WE8 Is a networking and support group for lesbians of all colors, cultures and lifestyles who
own or are planning businesses. Tonight's toplc:MFlndlng theBusiness That SuUs You." $5. The Clinter. 208 W. 13th St. April
2. 6:3D-8 pm. Info: (718) 237-2399.
Last time we had half a million, If you think we can do beHer,
join now in planning a 1992 Lesbian and Gay March on
Washington. This newly formed ad hoc group Is open to allmembers of the lesbian and gay community. The Center. 208 W.
13th St; April 2. 7 pm. Info: Andrew Beaver at (212) 353-2438.
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BROOKLYN WOMEN'S MARTIAL ARTS
offers Karate Cla.lI.
for Women in
Goju karate. Beginners may start theweek of April 2. Sliding fee 01 $5-$115
based on monthly income, Free childcare offered; 421 Fifth Ave. Park Slope,
Brooklyn, (718) 788-1775,

PS 122 presents Mabou Min •• ' Th.
musical work In
progress which traces aday In the 'life
01 Gill Clout Written by Terry O'Reilly.
Directed by Ruth Maleczecl1. Music ;byJohn Zorn. Performed by O'Reilly andBlack-Eyed Susan. $6, PS 122'.150
Fil8t Ave. March 13, 20, 27 and April 24
at 8 pm. R888rvations: (212)477-5288.

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SENIOR ACTION IN A GAY ENVIRO,NMENT takes you on a Cruln Around
Manhattan. Join, SAGE on the Spirit of
New York-they've
reserved all threedecks, and qlfer a gourmet brunch, aB(oadway revile, dancing and views 01 the
New Yolk aI!YIine. $45 for onel$8O lor two.
Prepayment required by April!. Cruise
data Is May 5. Boarding time is 11:30 am
at Pier 1.1,near Wall Street For more info
and reeervatiOI)8: (212) 741-2247.

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MOSAIC BOOKS pr888nts Prlnny AlaVi.
The photographer's work, all nud~, win
be on display at the bookstore, 161'Ave.
B, at 10th Street 2-10 pm dally. (212)475-8623. Through April 6.
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THE NEW SCHOOL FOR SOCIAL.RESEARCH presents Gay and Lllbllin
Wrltlng: • .From World War II to~tonewall,lnstructor:
Joseph Cady,"The years after World War II witnesseda signifiCant body of gay and lesbian literature that has tended to become overshadowed, by the mors 'open homosexual. expre!l8!ori of the post-Stonewall
yearsof, the ·70s and '80a. But the rela,tlve burst--l!1gay and lesbian writingfrom the, mld;1940s th rough the 1960s
contributed to the change in culturalabnosphere that helped make possiblethe' contamporary gay and lesbian liberation movement and i80an integral part
01 the backgrQund of the present gay
and lesbian situation,
Among theauthors
we may consdierare:TennesseeWi!liams, Carson McCullers,
Allen Ginsberg,
Sylvia Townsen~
Warner, James Baldwin and Janet
Flanner.· The six sessions begin on
April 4. $130. For more info, contact
Jim O'Connor at the New School at(212) 741-8778.

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Now queer this: STONEWALL DEMOCRATICCLUB, THE COALITION FOR LESBIAN AND GAY RIGHTS, LOG CABIN CLUB, and
THE GAY AND LESBIAN ALLIANCE AGAINST DEFAMATION present Do You Like to Be Called Queer? Invited speakers Include:
Warren Johannsen, editor, Enqclopdla of Homosexuality; representatives from Lesbian Feminists!Radical Lesbians; Donna
Minkowitz, lesbian journalist for the Vlllale Voice; representatives from Queer Nation; and Dr, Campion Reed, a member of
the Stonewall Democratic Club. The Center. 208 W. 13th
St.Aprli 2, 8 pm. Info: (212) 969-8854.
A good thing gets a lIH1e beHer: CHANNEL 69 presents The Ru

THE NEW YORK OPEN CENlER P.ta
SUlln Bannell's Shlp.,hm.,." an ~Ibition 01 painters. The New York Open
Center. 83 Spring Sl Mo, Th, Fr from ;1~
pm. (212) 219-2527. Through April 3.,.6AMOS ENO GALLERY presents
Jo.eph A. Kamln":I'.
Olt:kDick is a series of seven large paintings,
each of which focuees on the penis assubject matter, and came about ae'a
direct result of the censol8hlp curr.ently
spreading throughout the art world. Me
Is the result of an ongoing photography
project in which the artista focu.e8(!Rhimself to explore issues such lIB' soxual orientation, repression, acceptanceand censol8hip, both personal and psy.
chological. 594 Broadway, at Houst~n.
Tu-Sa, 11 am to 6 pm. Artist's .reception: April 6 Irom2-4 pm. (212) 2265342. Through April 18.

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THE PUERTO RICAN TRAVELING THEATRE presents Alberto Ad.lllc~"
Sabin •• nd Lut:"t:I •. The play is about"two women lugitives from an asylum
whose views 01 reality clash with cine
another in a series of oddballsequences which ultimately end In a .
serious resolution.The'
play , was.'inspired by a true incident which wasreported in the Argentinian newspapel8." With Cor.daUa Gonllllll, Marilyn
Romero and Nancy Wal.h. Dlrect~r:
Alba Om •. Design: Edward GlanfrancalCo. Ughting: Rick Butl.r. Coetumso:
Mary Mar.lcano.
$10/$121$15. The
Puerto Rican Traveling Theatre. 304 W.
47th St., at Eighth Avenue. Opening
March 21. Englis~ ,schedule: W!:-Fr !It 8
pm. SpaniSh sohedule:,~a~Su~t
2130
pm and 8,pm. Re.servaticins: (212) ~1293. Through April 21.
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THE, WINGS THEATRE COMPANY pressnts Rllm.n "'1:'.1:1,, "a night In theorgy chamber of the teenage emperor of
the Roman empire, Heliogabalus," written and directed by David Michael
Gall •• her. Featuring "a spectacular dragwedding In the palace." 154 Christopher
St Tll-fr at 8 pm. Beginning April 13, Sa
at 7 and 10 pm and Su at 3:30 and 7 pm,
Reservations: (212) 627-2961. ThroughApril 28.
THE DUPLEX preeents elf, B,rlln, starring• Sybil Bruncheon, Bob Gutowski, Jay
Ro.erl, Thom .. Stoehr and Jsffrey
W.II.ch. The Duplex. 59 Christopher Sl
Fr at 10 pm. Reservations: (212) 2555438. Through April 30.
bEIGHTY
EIGHTS presents Rohn
Sepell, a singer currently appearing in
LB. Mieerab/ee, in a cabaret engagement
to benefit Broadway Cares and Equity
Fights AIDS. $15. 228 W. 10th St. Su at
10:30 pm.Reeervations: (212) 924-0088,
bTHE GLINES present Evan BrldenIIlne', HI,.Stmn, Qu.tt,~ a comedy inwhich "David loves Greg, Greg loves
Sally, Sally loves Bruce and Bruce lovee
David." D1reclBd by Lillie Ironl, Starring
John C.rh.rt III, Suzanne Cryer, DaneHan and M.I'II Leydllrt, $15. 39 Grove
St, at Bleecker. We-Fr at 8 pm, Sa at 6
and 9 pm and Su at 7 pm, Reservations:(212) 869-3530. April 3 through June 9.
bTHE CASTILLO CULTURAL CENlER represents J.mes Chapman', OurYllun,
Bluk M,n Are oyln, .nd Nllblldye.re, a look at some of thosemen whose lives and deaths are reflected
in drug-abuse, crime, police-brutality,
alcoholism, poverty and AIDS statistics,$20. 500 Greenwich St, suite 201. Th-Sa
at 8- pm and Su at 3 pm. Reservations:(212) 941-5800. April 5 through Aug, 31.

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THE WPA THEATRE presents R,d '1:."
In 'un,,', a new play by and starring
Chlrl .. Bu,ch, creator 'of Vampire
Le.blan. of Sodom and P.ycho Beach
Party. Directed by Kenneth Elliott.
Starrring Ralph Buckl.y, Roy Cockrum,
Andy Hallld.y,
Julie Hal,ton, Mark
Hamilton,
JudithHanlin,Arnie
Kolodn.l'. 519 W. 23rd Sl Tu-Th at 8 pm
and Su·at 7:30 pm-$22. Fr and Sa at 8pm and Su at 3 pm-$26. Reeer:vations:(212) 206-0523.
THE LESBIAN HERSTORYARCHIVES and
THE CENTER present K88pln' On:
1m.... of Afrlc.n-Amerlcan
L.. blan,.
Opening Feb. 28, Wheelchair accessible.
The Centsr. 208 W, 13th St Hours: daily,
4-6 pm. For more Info, contact theArchivesat (212) 874-7232.
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55 GROVE STREET presents Cam
Brllnlrd and Bob Koherr', Brll:ld.I:'..
""I:t:II, perfonnere who both appeared inParting Glance., their original comedy
material includes two jocks who learn
they can vogue, retired Solid Gold
Dancers, Amieh rappers who put the·men back In MeMonllB," an early Simon& Garfunkel, and the Rocky Mountain
Butt Boys who open at a gay rodeo inWest Hollywood; videos serve as transitions between live routines; at 55 Grove
St (west of 7th Ave South); $8 + 2-drink
minimum; Fr at 8 pm; 366-5438,

I•Paul Film Fellival, featuring .such films as Cupcake, Mahogany
II, and American Pom Star. Ru Paul will be on hand to perfprm
his new single, Kl've Got That Feeling." Hapl Pbace will also be
performing. Fierce, darling, just fierce. $5. Th.e Pyramid. 101
Ave, A. April 3. The movies start at 10 pm. (212) 473-7184.
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Wondering where Ru Paul got all those gorgeous outfits? Now
you too can be fabulous, just by Joining ACT UP'S OUTREACH
COMMITTEE at Fashion For Action, a benefit auction to send a
representativeof the Outreach Committee to the SeventhInternallonal AIDS Conference In Florence, Haly. A partial list ofcontributors Includes: Andy Valentin, David Spada Design, Lee
Chappell, Living Doll by Amanda Uprlchards, and Michael Kors.
$5 admission. Visa, MasterCard and American Express acceptedat the auction, so, get out the plastic and go. The Center. 208 W.
13th St. AprJl4. 7 pm. Info: Andy Valentin at (2:12) 564-2437.
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This just In: Brian Butterlck and Jeannette and Victor
Anonymous? present a benefit for Rolf Rombschick, longllme
downtown soundman, who was severely Injured.!n a hH and IUn.
Rolf will be on hand, as will John Kelly, Tabbool, Wendy Wild,
Allen Comic, Mr. Fashion, Carmellta Troplcana, Penny Arcade,Kota Malu and Madam EkathrimaSobechanskaya. Also expect
films by Jack Waters, Carl George, Peter Kramer and Samoa.
and Kembra Pfahler. A print of Ethyl Elchelbergher will be auctioned. Lady Bunny will be your emcee. At pressllme, otherartists were stili coming aboard, so consider this a partial list.
NOW,get out your $10 and go (If there's any room for guests).
The Pyramid. 101 Ave. A. April 4. 11 pm.
Because life (and adMSln) doesn't stop at 30: SAGEpresents GayIa
Weekend for lesbians. The three-day event expeds to draw 1,000
from across the country. The schedule of events Includes a GetAcquainted Social tonight, a women's conference tHled KDo the
Rights Thlngl" o!, Saturday, the Women's Drop-In on Sundayafternoon, and the KAlmost Spring Dance" on Sunday evening. April
5-7. complete Into, conlad SAGEaI (212) 741-2247.
Get a IIHle religion: MEN OF ALL COLORS TOGETHER present
their Seventh Annual Passover Seder, The Center. 208 W. 13th
SI. April 5, 7 pm sharp, (212).222-9794. For th'e women's version, Join THE ANSWER IS LOVING as II presents Women.
Talking Wom'en's Talk: Women's Passover Seder. They offer
dinner and a ,substance-free, sugar-free, smoke-free evening
with women of all backgrou!l~s and a reading from a Hagadah
for women abput women. $15. 1964 E. 35th St. Brooklyn. April
5. 7 pm. Info: Rut~ Berman and Connie Kurtz at (718) 998-2305.
Someone else likes to be called queer: DIXON PLACE presents
Richard Elovlch In Someone Else From Queens Is Queer, a newsolo play wrllten and performed by Eiovlch and directed byHamar Kubovy. Also on the bill for tonight, Eileen Myles "doesverflallmprov or else talks." $8 or TDF. 37 E. 1st SI., between
First and Second avenues. April 5. 8 pm. (212) 673-8752.

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KNew York City, 1988/Raglng homophobia/A killer on theloose/Disco dancing 1111 dawn/performers struggling to survive/Delllah seduces Samson In song/Gender illusionists go
shopping." All this at THE KITCHEN when II premieres SOil of. Samson and Delilah by Charles Alias. Starring John Kelly andHapl Phace with Brian Bullerlck, Almon Grlmsted, Anne lobst,
Anna Levine-Thompson, Casey MacDonald and Lucy Sexton.
Director of photography: Paul Gibson. Art director: Scott
Llfshultz. $8. 512 W. 19th SI., between Tenth and Eleventh
avenues. April 6. 8 pm. (212) 255-5793.
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Only a PATH ride away: MAXWELL'S presents Two Nice Girls,
live In concert. Other bands will also be playing tonight. In
between bands, OulWeelt'sown Madam X will be spinning
records "for your non-dancing educallon." Maxwell's. 1039
Washington SI. Hoboken,' NJ. April 6. (201) 798-4084.

MEN WITH WIGS, INC., presents 11', I
Man's World: Ladl .. Sing the BlulI, a
fun-filled, gender-bender fantasy, fromthe Cotton to Motown. Men, with wigs,
examine incandescent images of theblues' queens and thelJ descendants.
$10. The Producers Club. 358 W. 44thSt, 2nd floor, suite 7. Fridays at 11 pm.
(212) 971-9021.

MONDAY, APRIL 1
THE MOMENTUM PROJECT presents
Volunt .. r Orientation •.Momentum provides communal meals, clothing and groceries to people living with HIVand AIDS.
19 W. 36th st. 6:15-7:45 pm. Info:
Sandra Levine at (212) 268-2610.
NEW YORK ADVERTISING AND COMMUNICATIONS NETWORK pnesents the first
NYACN/PFV R.. , NI.ht, directed by Dan
Berkowitz. PFV screens the best of theirbest for NYACN members. Downtown
Community TV Center. 87 Lafayette St
6:30 pm. Info: (212) 517.0380.
SAGE presents Adult Survlvon of Slxual
Abuse, an experiential therapy group for
women ages 21 and up to support therecovery p .
d free you from the pain
and silence of sexuause. Psychotherapists: Joyce Z. Meyers, CSW and Robbye
Stuart-Russell, MA. The CenlBr.208 W. 13th
St 7-a:30 pm. (212) 741-2247.
ACT UP Glnlrll Mletlng. Cooper Union.
Fourth Avenue at 7th Street. 7:30 pm.
Info: 564-AlDS.
IN OUR OWN WRllE Writer', Worl\,hop
for lesbian and gay writers. Workshops
are held on the first and third Mondays ofthe month. Please bring work. The
Center, 208 W. 13th St. S-10 pm. (212)620-7310.
THE CLUB AT LA MAMA presents Thl
AllIn Comic', All-Comedy April Feol',
Day Show. Included on the bill: Paul
Zaloom, Lin Kron, Hapl Phace andAllen Comic Tom Murrin. 74A E. 4th St
8 pm. (212) 475-7710.
HIGH RISK READINGS present Bob
Flanagan, Mary Galt,klll, Ana Mlrll
Slmo, David Trinidad
and David
WoJlllrowlcL The writers will be readingfrom their work, which appears in theanthology, High Risk. There will be a publication party after the reading. The
Kitchen. 512 W, 19th St (212) 255-5793.

TUESDAY, APRIL 2,

If you've nevah, then now It's time: CARNEGIE HALL presents
The New York CHy Gay Men~sChorus In Anything Colel, featurIng guest stars Chlta Rivera, Stockard Channing, David Carroll
and others. Directed by Gary Miller. Featuring an amy of Cole
Porter songs. Tickets range from $10-$50. 57th Street atSeventh Ave. April 7. 8 pm. Reservations: (212) 247-7800.

GAY MEN OF THE BRONX General
M.. Ung, 1 Fordham Plaza, 8th floor. 6-8
pm, Info: Chris (212) 0806 (English) or
Robert (212) 882-3404,
TWENTYSOMETHING St.. rln. Commltt .. Milling from 6:30-8 pm. Nominations for officers begin and continue until/

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CHERRY LANE THEATR~ presents David
Stevlns' 771. 'um 01 U" by the wrilBr of
Breaker Morane starring ,Nell Millin andRichard Venture, directed by Klvln
Dowling, about a father who tries to help
with his son's gay relationships while helooks for a new wife; 38 Commerce St;$27.50-$32.50; TUE-FRI at 8 pm, SATat at
7 & 10 pm, SUN at 3 & 7:30 pm; 989-2020

April 16, when the election will be held.
Iillo: Scott Hummell at (212) 242-4881.
Also tonight, from 8-9:30 pm, they present a Rap Group, addressing "Body
Image." Twentysomething is a socialgroup for lesbians and gay men in their
20s and early 30,s. $3, Both events happen at the Center. 208 W. 13th st. Info:
Perry at (212) 242-3038.
WOMEN ENTREPRENEURSIN BUSINESSMonthly Meeting. WEB Is a networking
and support group for le'8bians of all colors, cultures and lifestyles who own orare planning busineeses, Tonight's topic:"Finding the Business That Suits You."$5. The Center. '~08 W. 13th Sl 6:30-8.
pm, Info: (718) 237-2399.
GAY MEN'S HEALTH CRIS)S presents a
Health Seminar: Benellls Inlormatlon.
129 W. 20th St., third floor. 7 pm. For
more information; call the GMHC hotlineat (212) 807-6655. TOO (212) 645-7470
for the hearing Impaired.
Join now in planning a 1992 March on
Washington, This ad hoc group is open to
all members 01 the lesbian and gay community. The Center, 208 W. 13th Sl 7 pm.
Info: Andrew Beaver at (212) 353-2438.
THE COALITION FOR LESBIAN AND GAYRIGHTS General Meellng. The Center.
208 W. 13th Sl8 pm. (212) 627-1398,
PINK PANTHER PATROL General
Milling. The Center. 2011W. 13th Sl 8
pm. Info: (212) 475-5363.
THE NI NTH STREET CENTER presents
Queer QU8l1l0ns, QUllr Answers, a"series of rap groups whose focus Is
defining homosexuality for the 1990s,
Tonight's topic: "lired of the Bars? I Just
Don't Fit Inl" Facilitated by Larry
Wheelock. 319 E, 9th St., basement.
. 8-10 pm. (212) 228-5153.
STONEWALL DEMOCRATIC CLUB, THE
COALITION FOR LESBIAN AND GAYRIGHTS, LOG CABIN CLUB, and THE GAY
AND LESBIAN ALLIANCE AGAINSTDEFAMATIONpreesnt Do You Like to Be
Called Queer? Invited speakers Include:
Warren Johannaen, editor, Encyclopdia
of Homosexuality, representatives from
Lelblan FemlnlstslRadlcal
L8Iblanl;Donna Mlnkowllz, lesbian journalist for
the Village Voice; representatives fromQueer Nation; and Dr. Campion R.. d, am"ember of the Stonewall Democratic
Club. The Center. 208 W. 13th Sl 8 pm.
Info: (212) 969-8854.
CELLBLOCK 28 preesnte Spring Loaded,
a J/O group party sponsored by Michael
Mitchell and Hands On, 28 Ninth Ave"downstairs, between 13th and 14th
streete. 8 pm to 3 am. (212) 733-3144.

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 3
BRONXAIDS SERVICES offers a Supporl
Group for HIV-Polltlve Women, Shareyour concems, ideas and feelings, Freeand confidential, The morning program isin Spanish, the afternoon program is in
English. 'One Fordham Plaza, 8th floor.
Bronx. 10-11 am and 1:30-2:30 pm,
Info: Edith Gutierrez at (212) 933-2400 orlea Martinez at (212) 295-5605.

THE GAY AND LESBIAN ANTI-VIOLENCEPROJECTP.. r Coullleling for survivorsof bias assault, domestic violence andsexual assault. Held every Wednesday
and Thursday from 6-8 pm. The Center.
208 W. 13th Sl (212) 807-0197.
JUDITH'S ROOM presente Claire McNab,
reading from her book, Cop Out, thefourth Detective Inspector Carol Ashton
mystery. 681 Washington Sl 7 pm. (212)727-7330.
SLOPE ACTIVITIES FOR LESBIANS presents Pool Night. Featuring free pool,ping pong, billiards, air hockey and shooting hoops at Brownstone Billiard. Seventh
Ave. at Ratbush. Afterwards, relax at theRoolt at 9 pm. Seventh Avenue at 8thStreet. The evening begins at 7 pm.
Please call 24 hours in advance to confirm all SAL activities: (718) 965-7578,
GAYAND LESBIAN ALLIANCE AGAINSTDEFAMATION presente • Th. SII.n,;. 01
the Lambs: Why No One II SlIlnt." Thepanel includes Stephen Harvey, film
curator, MOMA; Marcia Pally, film critic,
Penthouse; aeott "Shennan of the GLAADMedia Committee; and is moderated by
Karen Schwartz of GLAAD. The Center,
208 W. 13m Sl8 pm. (212) 966-1700.
THE LESBIAN AND GAY TEACHERS
ASSOCIATION BUlln8l1 Meeting, The
Center. 208 W. 13th Sl8 pm. Info: (718)258-4102 or (718) 626-4699.
ORGANIZATION FOR GAY AWARENESS
presents Dr. Richard Plant, author of The
Pink Triangle, speaking about Nazi persecution of lesbians and gay men. The
evening will include information from Dr.
Plant's recent inspection of newly opened
archives in what was formerly East
Germany. Sl George's Church. The comerof Ridgewood and Woodland roads.
Maplewood, NJ. 8:30 pm. (201) 743-5322.
CHANNEL69 presen18The Ru Paul Aim
Festival, featuring such films as Cupcake,
Mahogany II, and American Pom Star. Ru
Paul will be on hand to perform his new
single, 'I've Got That Feeling.' Hapl PhaCI
will also be perfonning, $5. The Pyramid.
101 Ave, A. The movies start at 10 pm.
(212) 473-7184.

and Thursday from IH! pm. The Center.
208 W. 13th Sl (212) 807-0197, ,ACT UP OUTREACH COMMIITEE presen18 fashion For Action, a benefit auction to send a representative of theOutreach Committee to the SeventhInternational
AIDS Conference inRorence, Italy, A partial list of contributors include.s: Andy Valentin, David
Spada Dealgn, Lea Chappell, Living Dollby Amanda Uprlchardl, and Michael
Kors, $5 admiesion. Visa, MasterCard andAmerican Express accepted at the auction. The Center, 208 W. 13th st. 7 pm.
Info: Andy Valentin at (212), 564-2437.
TOWER BOOKS presents Bo HUllon,
Mark Ameen, Patrick Moore and Stan
Leventhal, reading from their most recent
works. Lafayette at Fourth Street. 8 pm.
GAY WOMEN'S ALTERNATIVE presents
Robin Morgan, political activist and editor
in chief of the' new Ms. magazine, in
Another Around the World in 80 Minuteswith Robin Morgan, For women only. $5,
The Universalist Chuich. Central Park Westat 76th Street. 8 pm, (212) 595-8410.

FRIDAY, APRIL 5
SAGE presents Gayla Week and for lesbians, The three-day event expects todraw 1,000 from across the country, The
schedule 'of events includes a GetAcquainted Soci3Jtonight, a women's conference titled '00 the Rights Thing!" on
Saturday, the Women's Drop-In on
Sunday aftemoon, and the "Almost Spring
Dance' on Sunday evening. For complete
info, contact SAGEat (212) 741-2247.
MEN OF ALL COLORS TOGETHER present their Seventh Annual PalloVlr
Seder. The Center. 208 W. 13th Sl 7 pm
sharp. (212) 222-9794.
THE ANSWERI$"LOVING
presents
Women Talking
Women'l
Talk:
Women'l Pallover Seder, dinner and a
eubstance-free, sugar-free, smoke-freeevening with women o~all backgrounds;
reading from a Hagadah for women
about women. $15. 1964 E. 35th St.
Brooklyn, 7 pm, Info: Ruth Berman andConnie Kurtz at (718) 998-2305.

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THE EAGLE presents Movie Nlghl:
Ent.t1a/nlng Mr. Sloan, The Eagle. 142
Eleventh Ave., at 21st Street. 11 pm.
(212) 691-8451,

THURSDAY, APRIL 4
LONG ISLAND GAY MEN'S GROUP presents Bar Night at Grand Central. For
complete details, contael L1GMGat (516)694-2407.
BRONXAIDS SERVICESoffers a Support
Group lor HIV-PosltlVl Women. This isan ongoing, closed group. Individual consultations ars required before admittance,
Free. 349 E, 149th St, room 609. Bronx.
11 am to 12:30 pm. Info: Donna Berschat (212) 585-5001.
THE GAY AND LESBIAN ANTI-VIOLENCEPROJECTPllr Coullleling for survivorsof bias assault, domestic violence andsexual assault. Held every Wednesday

GAY FATHER'S FORUM General
Mailing. The Center. 208 W. 13th Sl 7
pm. (212) 288-3236.
SLOPE ACTIVITIES FOR LESBIANS presents Flrsl TImers April Fool'l Party andGame Night Speciallydesigned for women
who've never been to a SAL event before.
Bring snacks, drinks and games. 7:30 pm.
Pleasecall 24 hours in advance to confirm
all SAL ~ee:(718) 965-7578. ,DIXON PLACE presents Richard Elovlch
in ,Someone Else From QUlJ8ns Is Queer,
a new solo play written and performed by
Elovich and directed by Ilamar Kubovy.
Also on the bill for tonight, Eileen Myles"does verbal improv or else talks.' $6 or
TOE 37'E. 1st SI., between First andSecond avenues, 8 pm, (212) 673-6752.

SATURDAY, APRIL 6
HYACINTH FOUNDATION presents an

Attorney Training Program on AIDS
Legalilluea, including insurance, confidentiality, discrimination, legal documents, financial matters and the psychosocial aspects of th'e "disease.
Hyacinth Foundation is New Jersey's
leading AIDS esrvice and education organization. The day-Ion'g seminar .isdree.
Breakfast and lunch are provided to participants, For complete details, contact
Michael Fannon at (908) 246':0204.
LAMBDA LEGALDEFENSE AND EDUCATION FUNDgoes to see MIn Saigon. Callfor complete details: (212) 995-8585:
INTEGRAL YOGA I NSTITUE presents
Hatha Yoga CIIII, Hatha Yoga refers to
the physical postures, deep relaxation
and breathing practices which revitalize
and strengthen the body and calm themind, This class is especially for those
who are HIV-positive, IYI. 227 W, 13th
Sl 12-1:30 pm, (212) 929-0586.
TRIMUSICANGLE, INC. presents the Big
Apple Corps Auxiliary Troupe in an exhibition of flag and dance baton twirling, The
Avant Garde Rag and Drill Corps will perform to the "Overture to Candide" as Ii
tribute to Leonard Bernstein and Chuck
Mangione's ·Legend of a One7Eyed
Sailor." Thomas Holt will perform Erik
Satie's "Three GYmnopedies." A production number to Michael Jackson's'Thriller" will feature the baton twirlers
and the finale will involve the entire
ensemble and will be set to an Armed
Forces medley honoring 'our men andwomen in ths Persian Gulf." $5 or TOE
PWAs admitted free. Washington Square
United Methodist Church. 135 W.4th Sl3
pm. Info: Thomas Holt at (212) 598-4527
or David Maxwell at (718) 979-3732,
PEOPLEWITH AIDS COALITION preesn18
Ripped Jeanl, a single's tea and contest,with prizes for best ripped jeans In various categories, Offering good refresh,mants, good company and good fun. For
gay men and lesbians who are HIV-p08itive or have AIDS, and their friends. 222
W. 11th st. 3-5:30 pm. (212) 532-0568.
DIXON PLACE presents Matthew
Courtney in a new poetry performilOce
that works with 'found conversations,rhymes and rhythms of speech." Also on
the bill, Jasmine, who brings you"impressions of the abysmal drudgery
which passes for life today" while accompanying herself on the accordion. $6 or
TOE 37 E. 1st St., between First andSecond avenues, 8 pm. (212) 673-6752.
THE NINTH STREET GENTER presents
Quaer QUlltionl,
Qu.. r Answars, aseries of rap groups whose focus hldefining homosexuality
for the 1990s.
Tonight's topic: "20-, 30-, 40-, 50-,60something: Gay Ageism." 319 E, 9thSl, baesmenl8-10 pm. (212) 228-5153.
THE KITCHEN presents Son 01 Samson
and O.II/ah by Charlel Atlal, From theflyer: "New York City, 1988/Raginli"
homophobia/A killer on the loose/Disco
dancing till dawn/Performers struggling
to survive/Delilah seduces Samson insong/Gender illusionists go shopping.'
Starring John Kelly and Hapl Phace with
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CallY ,.Stockard Channing, David Carroll and
MacDonald and Lucy Sexton, Direct9r.,of . others, ·Directed' by Gar,y Miller.
Featuring an arraY of Cole Porter songs,
photography: Paul Glblon. Art director:
Scoll LlIshullz, $8, 512 W, 19th St.,
including "Where .Are the Men?," "Most
Gentlemen Don't Love," "Find Me a
between Tenth and Eleventh avenues, 8
Primitive Man" and' others. Tickel5 range
pm. (212) 255-5793,,$10-$50, 57th Street at Seventh Ave, 8
pm: ReserVations: (212) 247-7800.
MAXWELL'S presents TWo Nice Glrla,
live in concert. Other bands will also be
MOVEMENT RESEARCH presenl5 Threeplaying tonight. In between bands,
Day Pile-Up, featuring performances and
OutWeek's own Madam X will be spindiscussion
by i:Laurle Carlos, Teraning records "for your non-dancing edu0'&011101', DANCENOISE,JalllHer MollSOn,
cation." Maxwell's. 1039 Washington St
Kate StaHord an~ EII.. n Myles, $5, 179,Hoboken, NJ, (201) 798-4064,,'
Variek St8:3O pm. (212) 691~5788,

SUNDAY, APRIL 7
SOBs presenl5 Tha lUll HOUse, an exotic
affair lor women. Featuring hot dancing on
THE GIRTH AND MIRTH CLUB presents
Brunch at the Dugout Christopher Street , a large dance floor, Irozen drinks and DJ
at Weehawkin Street .. 12 pm, Info: (914) , Marlow, $5, 204 Varick St., at Houston.
Doors open at 9 pm,(212) 243-4940.
699-7735., .
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Gallery and Brunch, Bronx Museum of
the Arts. 1040 Grand Concourse" at165th St. Bronx. 12 pm, Info: Ron at(212) 519-8746.
AMERICAN GAY AND LESBIAN ATHEISTS Monthly Meeting. AGLA is a nonprofit, educational organization dedicatedto preserving separation between state,and church and upholding the civil rights,.of lesbian and gay atheists, The Center.
,208 W. 13th St 1-3 pm, Info: Dial-A-Gay~Atheist at (718) 899-1737.

MONDAY, APRIL
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UNllY '94 Cllfb fund-Ral.ars Commlttea Meeting, Unity :94 is the theme of
the 1994 Gay Games IV. The Dugout.
Christopher Street at Weehawken Street
6:30 pm. Inlo: Wolfgang Busch at (212)989-4605,.

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Drake's Th. NIght !.any,Kramer /(/".dMe. The performance is .1!C~eduledlor an
LATINO GAY MEN OF NEW YORK present
Off-Broadway opening in the summer ofViolence
AgainstL8Iblans
andHomosexuals, For Latino gay men only. . 1991. The play, directed by Maryroll
Wood, uses poetry and performance toRobert Vazquez's home, 145 Attomey St,
explore issues raised by the AIDS
#6C, 2 pm.~(212) 598-2342. 'activism, Tonighfs showing is a benefit for
Equity Rghts AIDS, $10. 158,w, 72nd; St
BROOKLYN CENTER FOR THE PER10:30 pm, ReserV,iltipns: (212) 595-7400,
FORMING ARTS AT BROOKLYN COL, LEGE presents The New Yortl FIIUval 01.
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Song in Leonard , Bernst.ein:.From
CELLBLOCK 28 p.r~l,Ients1he N'W'X9rk.' ,,Strap and paddhr~noclallonP~1ty.
Concert Stag~ to Broadway. Featu~ed are"For all 01 you wh(i,l~e to bend over andsingers Stephen Bogardus, Katharine
take it like a man." Gellblock'28,
28'Nin1l1
Bullaloe, William Sharp and Louise
"-..
Ave.,
between 13th and 14th streets,
Edelken, and pianists Michael Barret
Doors open 8 pm. (212) 733-3144.
and Steven Bllar, The prOgram includes
the complete Arias and Barcarolles andselections
from West Sid,e Story,
TUESDAY, APRIL 9
Wonderful Town, Candide, Mass, On the
LONG ISLAND GAY MEN'S GROUP pre,Town, Trouble in Tahiti and Peter Pan,
sents a ~u .. t Speakar, For c~mplete,George Gershwin Theater, 2 PI)1. Info:
details on this bi-monthly discussion:Mindi Rayner at (718) 377-4720 and'group, contact LlGMG at (516) 694-2407,
Angela M. Potter at (718) 780-5006.

A DIFFERENT LIGHT presents Paul
Rilllell, reading from his book, The Salt
Point, 548 .Hud~on St 8 pm, Info: (212)989-4850.
THE LESBIAN AND GAY TEACHERS
ASSOCIATION Plannlng,Meetlng.
The
Center. 208 W. 13th Slo8 pm. Info: (718)258-4102 or (718) 626-4699 .
GAY MALE SIM'ACTIVISTS present On
Pins and Needl8l:
playing
Wllh
Piercing, This discussion of the techniques and mindset lor safe and satisfying piercing play features master piercer
Jim Ward from' Gauntlet in San
Francisco. $4 members/$6 non-members. The Center, 208 W, 13th St. 8 pm.
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GAY MEN'S HEALTH CRISiS presents a
Health Se!lllnllr: Insurance Infonnal/on,,and contributors, reading from Differenl
Mothers: pons and Daugthers of
129,W, 20th St.. third,floor. 7 pm. For
Lesbians Talk About Their Lives. 681
more infor,mation,. caU the GMH,C ~otljn~
Washington St 3 pm. (212) 727;7330,
at (212) 807-6655. TOD (212) ~-?~70," foc.the, he~ring i/Tlpaired,'"y..,~,PEOPLE WITH AIDS COALITION presents:,~'Ih, •.••
THE NINTH STREET CENTER presents
a Sunday Evening Weekly Social for gay
Quear OU8l11 ons, Ouear Answers, a
men and lesbians who are HIV-positive ,orseries of rap groupe whose, focus is'dafin.have AIDS, and their friends, FWAC Uving,ipg homosexuality for the 1~,
T9nighfs
room. 6:30-9:30 pm, (212) 532-0568.
facilitator: Rich Kamenl:ik. 319 E. 9th St,.
,
basement:8-1d pili. (212) 22S:5153;
DIXON PLACE presents Marti Ameen and,.".",'.-"',,, ..
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Paula Martlnac, reading in the poetry and
LAVENDER HEIGHTS'SpeaJ<erSirles'prefiction series curated by Cathy Taylor,owner of mosaicBooks. $6 or TOF. Dixon . sents Gabriel Rotallo,editor in chief of
OutWeek magazine (yes/tHe oiley-au'fe'Place, 37 E. 1st St., between First and'Second avenues. 8 pm, (212) 673-6752, . reading). $7. The Comerstone,Cen~r, 178~nnett Ave., one block w8l!t,of BfQadwaY
at 189th St(eet 8.pm. (212) 304-2~71.
,CARNEGIE HALL presents The Naw Yortl-'.
City Gay Man's Chorus in Anythi'ng Colei,
LESBIANS AND GAY MEN OF NEW'teaturing guest stars Chlla Rivera,
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Fourth Avenue at 7th Street. 7:30 pm.
Info: 564-AIDS.
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couple of Videos in Park Slope: 7 pm.
BRUNSWICK pr'esent New Jersey
Please call 24 hours in advance to conLesbian and Gay Coaltion President Dr.
lion Gellman,· Gellman will snare ·some , firm all SAL activities: (718) 965-7578.
of the exciting advan~ which have been
ORGANIZATION FOR GAY AWARENESS
made in oUr etate with lesbian and gay
presents a Holocaust Memorial Sarvlce,
rights." Friends Meeting Hou·se, '109
The evening begins with a march to the
Nichol Ave, New Brunswick, NJ. 8 pm.
Rrst Presbyterian and Trinity Church. The(908) 247-0515.
service is at 8 pm, and· featurs David
Beaty, OGA's president, as a speaker, and
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 10
Julie Lee, a lesbian activist and Holocaust
survivor, as a candle lighter. Meet in
BRONX LESBIANS UNITED IN SISTERGrove Park, on the north side of South
HOOD Ganeral Meeting. Tonighfs topic:
Orange Avenue, east of SHU. 7 pm, Info:"Sell-Awareness and the Coming-Out(201) 743-5322.
Process." !here will.be an invited speakerfrom Identity House to join in this discusGAY MEN OF THE BRONX present
sion. Refreshments served. One Fordham
Rollarskallng.
Featuring a live DJ, $3
Plaza, suite 800. Bronx. 6:3fHI pm. Info:
entry plus $1 for skate rental. 8 pm to
Miriam at (212) 409-2692 in Spanish,midnight. For complete details, contact
and Lisa at (212) 829-9817 in English,
Jimmy at (212) 365-6239.
SLOPE ACTIVITIES FOR LESBIANS preFRIDAY, APRIL 12
sents Pool Night. Featuring free pool,>ping pong, billiards, air hockey and shootSLOPE ACTIVITIES FOR LESBIANS preing hoope at Brownstone Billiard, Seventh
sents Under-3D Party, This is SAL's onceAve. at Flatbush. Afterwards, relax at thea-month get-together lor the "younger
Roolt at9 pm. Seventh Avenue at 8th
crowd." 7:30 pm. Please call 24 houre in
Street. The evenin'g begins at i pm.
advance to confirm all SAL actiyities:
Please call 24 hours in a,dvance to con(718) 965-7578.
firm all SAL activities: (718) 965-7578.
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Men Mealing Men. N·o registration
required.The Center, 20,8 W., 13th St.
8-10:3O:pm, (212) 807~6664.
THE EAG~E presents Movle,NJ.ght-Wlidat H'lIrt. "Winner of the f99() Cannes
Film Festival for Best Picture, this film isa bizarre, seductive'and rowdy retelling of
the Wizard of Oz." The Eagle: 142
Eleventh Ave" at 21st Street. 11 pm.
(212) 691.-8451.
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RUTGERS LAW SCHOOL LESBIAN AND
GAY stODENT CAUCUS' and GALA OF
RUTGERS present Jonathan Ned Katz,
speaking
on "The Inventionof
Heterosexuality" in celebration of World
Week. Refreshments served. Rutgers
Law SchooL 15 Washington St., r,oom
113, Newark. NJ. 4 pm.

NATIONAL
ORGANIZATIO'N
OF
WOMEN-LESBIAN RIGHTS TASK FORCE
Caneral Milling. Tod's. 2 Georges Rd.
New Brunswick, NJ, 7:30 pm, Please
RSVP at (609) 393-0156. Tod's: {201)545-8990.
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INT~GRAL YOGA INSTITUE presents
Hatha Yoga Clall. Hatha Yoga raters to
the physical postures, deep relaxation
and breathing practices Which revitalize
and strengthen the 'body and calm themind, This class is especially for those
who are HIV-positive. IYI. 227 W, 13th
St 12-1:30 pm. (212) 929-0586.
SLOPE ACTIVITIES FOR LESBIANS presents Hackers, Hitters and Hoops at 2
pm. Join SAL for goof indoor sports at abrand new place in Chelsea. Games
include batting cages, computerized andminiature golf, basketball, ping pong andOrbit ron. Then, at 7:30, it's 4D-PI us
Pol/lick and. Game Night, SAL's monthly
get-tOg~her for furt, food and games.
Please c II 24 hours in advance to confirm all SA activities: (718) 965-7518.
DIXON PLAC~ presents Rano,workshopping bri!lld-new material, Reno is a wellknown comedian who has "shocked audiences" everywhere, from PS 122 to
uptown comedy clubs, $6 or TDF. 37 E,
1st St., between First and Second
avenues, 8 pm, (212) 673-6752,

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reading from the book, Women, AIDS
and Activisim; 681 Washington St 7 pm.
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Information must be received by Monday to be included in the following week's issue. Send items to,Compiled by Dale Peck.
OutWeek listings, 159W. 25th St, NY, NY 10001.
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ME (Arts & Ent. 555 Frith Ave, 10th A, NYC 10017;661-45001

cm (Rick X. Box 790, NYC 101081
GBS (Gay Broadcasting System, Butch Peaston, 178 7th Ave, Ste, A-3, NYC 10011;
243-15701
GCN (Gay Cable Network. Lou Maletta, 32 Union Square East. Suite 1217;47142201
GUB (Gay and Lesbian Independent Broadcastel'S- (2121473-1689.1
GMHC (Gay Men's Health Crisis, Jean Carlomusto, 129W20 Sf, NYC 10011;80775171
RB PROD (Roll,in Byrd Prod., Box 305, NYC 10021;988-29731
WABC-TV (T1 W 63 Sf, NYC 10023;456-7T171
WBAI-FM (505 8th Ave, 19th A, NYC 10018;279-07071
WCBS-lV(51 W52StSf, NYC 10019;975-43211
WNBC-TV (30 Rockefeller Plaza, NYC 10112;664-44441
WHET-lV (356 W 58 Sf, NYC 10019;560-30001
WNYW-TV(Fox.1211 AV/AM, NYC 10036;556-24001
WPlX-TV (220 E 42 ST, NYC 10017;949-11001
MONDAY, APRIL 1
9:00 AM WIND-1V Best Talk Scheduled topic: gay-bashing. CH 11.
10:00 AM HBO Mahogany Sterring Diana Ross and Billy Dee Williams. Do
you know where you're going to?
1:30 PM WUSB 90.1 FM The Word Is Out Marc Gunning hosts a weekly lesbian, gay and bisexual variety show.
2:00 PM WUSB 90.1 FM Lavender Wimmin News, songs and music produced bywomenforwomen.
2:30 PM WUSB 90.1 FM This Way Out More queer news.
8:30 PM Manhattan Cable The Brenda and Glennda Show Brenda andGlennda smash the heterosexist honeymoon paradigm of Niagara
Falls. CH 17
9:00 PM GBS Outin the 90's community news, discussion, interviews. BQ
Cable, CH 56(1:00)
9:00 PM GCN Gay USA CH C!16 (:30)
8:00 PM TBS Wonder Woman Who can resist a supemuman woman who
comes from an island called Paradise, where they don't allOW men?
11:30 PM Tomorrow/T'onight live: entertainment; Manhattan and Paragon
Cable, CH Dm (1:00)
Midnight CC1V The Closet Case Show: K10sat K1ips; Manhattan IParagon
Cable, CH C!16 (:30)

TUESDAY, APRIL 2
2:00 AM WIND-1V The World According to Garp Robin Williams has thelead, but John Uthgow staals the show as a tight end (or was that wide
receiver) turned transsexual. CH 11.
10:00 AM WABC-1V Sally Jessy Raphael Scehduled topic: physical andsexual abuse and the clergy. CH 7.
8:00 PM TBS Tarzan, the Ape Man It's super (read: bare-chested) heroes
week on TBS. In tonight's installment. Tarzan, Jane, played by Bo Derek,is the real star.
9:00 PM LlF My Two Loves From TV Guide: 'A recent widow (Marietta
Hartley) is involved'with a man, but finds herself increasingly drawn toanother woman (Lynn Redgrave).' It's a 1V moVie, so don't expect miracles.
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10:00 PM RB PROD The Robin Byrd Show: male and female strippers;
Manhattan Cable, CH V/35 (1:00),
11:00 PM GBS Out in the 90's news, informa1ion and interviews;
Manhattan/Paragon
Cable, CH C/16 (1:00)
2:30 AM HBO The Josephine Baker Story TV Guide promises 'sexual situations; but it doesn't say what kind. Repeated Saturday at 4:55am.

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 3
9:00 AM WIND-1V Best Talk Scheduled: New York City sheriff Phillip
Crimaldi, Call-in and ask him a few tough questions about police bias
violencea'gainstqueers
and people of color. CH 11.

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the movjethat made a star out of Arnold Schwarzenegger.
Midnight RB PROD The Robin Byrd Show: male and ,female strippers, live
call-in shOW; Manhattan
Cable, CH V/35,

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9:00 AM WCBS.1V Geraldo Scheduled topic: daring women.,CH 2.
1:00 PM WBAI-ft:JIThis Way Out; the international gay/1esbian news magazine; 99.5 FM (:30),
1:30 PM WBAI-FM An Afternoon Outing: local news and informa1ion about
the gay and lesbian community with "'''Y Gutenblirg; 99.5 FM (:30)
3:30 PM MAX Hush ...Hush, Sweet Charlotte Go, Batta, go.
5:45 PM MAX Diel aiel My Darling Tallulah Bankhead traps her dead son's
fiancee and torments her. That's what you get for being heterosexuall.
8:00 PM TBS Red Sonja Tonight's bare chest belongs to Brigitte Nielsen.
10:00 PM GCN Be Our Guest: entertainment for and aboutthelesbiarVgay
community; Manhattan Cable, CH D/17 (:30)
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.311 PM GMHC living With AIDS:heal1h and politics; Manhattan Cable, CH
V/35 (:30)
t....311 PM WNET-1V After Hours Discrimina1ion, sexual harassment. status
and on-the-job gender relations are the scheduled topics. CH 13.
11:OOPM GCN GayU.SA: news and entertainment from around the country; Manhattan Cable, CH V/35 (1:00)
11:30 PM WIND-1V Arsenio Hal/Arsenio goes at it with Whitney again. If
you're still up, you might as well see what stories they have to tell. CH 9.
Midnight GCN Men in RIms male erotica, interviews with adult fill1)stars;
Manhattan Cable, GH V/35 (:30)
12:30 AM RB PROD Men For MeTr Robin Byrd presents gay male pornostars; Manhattan Cable, CH V/35 (:30),

FRIDAY, APRIL 5
8:30 AM SHO Cry-Baby John Water's latest. with Johnny Depp. Repeatedat 6:30 tonight
2:30 PM WBAI-FM Rompiendo el Silenciu. todos los viernes, Gonzalo
Aburto con temas y noticias para la comunidad latina gay y lesbian a;, 99.5 FM (:15)
7:cJ11PM WBAI-Ffv1 AIDS In Focus, Michael Alcalay, produc 1:00 AM RB, j)ROD The Robin Byrd Show. male and female strippers; Manhattan, Cable, CH V/35 (1:00) .
'8:00 PM TBS The Beastmaster Surely one of the stupidest movies ever
made, starring Tanya Roberts (one of the last Charlie's AngelS,)
10:00 PM WNET-1V Outl/Women~s lives A program on lesbians, discussing
hOw 'gay family values are values they understand very well.' CH 11

SATURDAY, APRIL 6·
4:211 AM MAX Deliverance One of the most homophobic nightmares evermade. Burt Reynolds and Jon Voight star.
8:30 AM WBAI-FM'Any Saturday with David Rothenberg; live call-in; 99.5
FM (2:00)
7:00 PM GCN Gay'U.S.A: news and entertainment from around the country;, Bo. Unity, ACN Cable, CH 5& (1:00) (For Manhattan Cable, see THURSDAy)
11:00 PM Gay 1Y. male porn; Manhattan Cable, CH V/35
1:30 AM RB PROD The Robin Byrd Show: male & female strippers;
Manhattan Cable, CH V/35 (1:00)" SUNDAY, APRIL 7
7:30 PM WBAI-FMThe Gay Show Host Mark Allen discusss the politics
andrela1ions be1ween couples in which one person is HIV-positive andone is HIV-nag8live. Interview, discussi,on and call-ins. Alternates with
Outlooks. 99.5 FM (1:00).
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10:30 PM RB .PROD Men .For Men: Robin Byrd presents gay male pornostars; Manhattan Cable, CH V/35 (:30)
11:00 PM GBS Way Outl Mark Chesnut and Michelle VanVoomies hostRich Volo is the producer. CH C/16 (:30)
11. PM WNET-1V Frida 'An impressionistic drama about the painter Frida
Kahlo and her encounters with the personalities of her time.' CH 13.

8:00 PM TBS Conan the Barbarian Bare-chested bonanza continues with

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MondayPrivata Eyas (Marc Berkley's Kool Komrads;
strippers; downtown crowd, students, professionals. 2-4-1 drinks till midnight .$7) 12
W 21 St (212) 206-nn.
Pyramid ( Ivory presents 'Gentle on My Mind"
Opening March 4. No cover, no hassles, no
kidding.) 101 Avenue A. (212) 473-7184.

Tuesday+ Clit Club (Drink specials till midnight lesbianerotic videos and slides. $3 before midnight/$5 after.) Pyramid. 101 Avenue A. (21,2)
473-7184.
+ <\oClubEdalwaiss (TVs, TSs, gays, bi's, singles, couples; Tuesdays are especially for
lesbians, but everyone is we,lcome.) 167 W.
29th St (212) 868-6989.
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Dancstaria (Coming soori: Chip Duckett's gay
Tuesdays. Keep your eyes on this space for
opening.) 29 E. 29th St+ Grand Central (Women's night tonight Mixed
We-Su.) 210 Merrick Rd. Rockville Centre,
LI. (516) 536-4800.
Jack Officer's Club (Cruising, Bruising, Drinking
and Carousing. Audio, Video and Manual
Manipulation by OJ Craig. $3) 505 E. 6ttl.St,
between avenues A and B.
Roxy (John Blair's 'Muscle on Whe'els" GayrOllerskating. Doors op'en at 8 pm, Varied
cover.) 515 W 18 St (212) 645-5156.

Send Information,corrections, and complaints
to OutWeek Listings, 159 W
25 St, NY, NY 10001. You. may also fax the listings
editor at (212) 337-1220.

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stairs, Egg,Bank for Dykes features guest
DJs an.d hot and sleazy Girl Action. $10/$7)
Wednesday'
225 E. Houston St., at Essex Street. (212)<\oChannal 69 (Drag Extravaganza, with Linda
505-5033. [Please note: The Bank is closed
Simpson. Go-go stars, OJ Dany Johnson.
until March 30.]
Sexy, upbeat, East Village 'fag and dyke
Blacgl!lme (Celebrating gay men and women of
crowd, $5.) Pyramid. 101 AvenueA. (212), color. Bi-montlv.) Pyramid. 101 Ave. A. (212)473-7184.
The Building (Dallas' The Boys' .Room. House
473-7184.
music, downtown crowd, go-go boys and a<\oCopacabana (Susanne Bartsch. Last Th of the
60-f90t ceiling-. $10/$7 with invite.) 51 W.
month. Iffy door) 10 E. 60th St., at Fifth
26th St (212) 576-1890.
Aven,ue. (212) :755-601O.
+ Excalibur (Ladies Night. $1 drinks.) LocatedEx\lalibur,($1 drinks.) Located at th" corner ofat the corner of 10th Street andJefferson
1'Oth Strellt amjJefferson behind footballbehind football Stadium. Hoboken, NJ: (201)
stadium. Hoboken, NJ. (201)795-1161.
, -795-1161.
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~Limelight (Disco 2000,.with Michael. Alig andLarry'lee. Doors open at 10 pm. $10.) S.ixth, (718) 261-8484.
, Avenue at 20th Street (212) 807-7850.'
Mora Men (Tony, ~eith and'Domi-nic ,present OJ<\oLimelight (Queer U. OJs Andy Anderson' and 'Tommy Richardson, go-go boys. videos, bil.
., Keo.ki. -$5/$10)
Sixth Aven,ue at 20th Street.
. liards. $10i'$7 with invite.I239,Eleventh Ave.
,,(212) 807-7850.
(212) 578s-3283.
Sti/lgray's'(~ew'c'lub, new sound_ system,+ Cadillac Bar IGini DeSantis present$,Pure. everything else is a surprise. No ,cover
Party Production Dances for Women. Freebuffet from 6-8 pm. Renee Cooke, bartonight)
641 W. 51st St (212) 664-8668.
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tender. $5.) 16 W. 22nd St., between Fifth.
. and Sixth avenues.
FridayABC ,,(,Chip Duc,kett presents OJ Merritt and+Private Eyes (Shescape Afterwork Partyfrom, dancing in the ,ballroom and balcony. Dinah
5-10 pm. 2-4-1 drinks bafore 7. $5 before 7
pm/$7 after.) 12 W. 21st St Shescape: (212)in the upstairs 'lounge. $10/$7 w. invite.) 17
Irving Piace at 15th Street
645-6479. Private Eyes: (212) 206-7772.
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Private Eyes (YMVA Night. Students, profesThe Bank (Alternative Music Night, hosted by lee
Chappell, David teigh and Michael T. OJ Ralph
sional arid women. Door often benefits agay/lesbian o{ganization. $7.) 12 W. 21st St
Duncan. Mixed crowd. $101$7,) 225 E. Houston(212) 206-7712.
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St,at Essex Street. (212) 505-5033 [Please
Silver Lininfl (2-4-1 drinks.) 175 Cherry Lane.
note: The Bank is closed until March 30.]
. Roral ParR; LI. (516) 354-9641. ,,+ Clit Qlub (Joce'lyn & Julie present Clit Club
Stutz (2-4-1 drinlis.) 202 Westchester Ave.
West. With go-go girls and lesbo videos. $1_ drinks between ,8 and 9 pm. Doors open at 8
White Plains,NY. (914)761-3100.
,_ pm. $5) 432W 14th St (212)406-1114.
'Columbia Dancas (First Friday dances. ,10 pm toThursday
2 am.,) 'Co'lumbia University Earl Hall. 116th
The Bank (Upstairs it's Sperm Bank for Fags,
Street atB,roadway. Daytime phone: (212)with hostess Hapi Phace, DJs Craig
854-3574.
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Blvd. Kew Gardens, Queens. ('l18) 261-8484, ,,Mea Culpa (For men, with dancing, video an~> .'live entertainment. $7/$10.) 47 W. 20th St.
•,(~12) 801-7840.
Maat on Friday (Xclusive performances at 1:30,
. am. OJ Nobody's Pussy. $5.),Pyramid. 101
Avenue A. (212)473-7184.
+ Millennium (Ladies Night.) 1770 New York
Ave. (Route 110) Huntington, LI. (516) 35;~
1402.
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before 10 pm. $7 after.) 641 W. 5rst St (~12)--

664-8668.
+ Visions 56-01 Queens, BllId, Woodside,
Queens. Info: (718) 846-7131. Club: (718) 899-

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$15/$107$7.) 225,E. Houston St., at Enex
Street. (212) 505-5033. [Please no~e: theBank is closed until March 30.].
Barefoot Boogia (A party for adults and kids.
2nd and 4th Saturdays of the month. Smokeand alcohol-free. April 13 is themed 'Island
Night· 8:30 pm to 12:30 am. $5jkiils free.) ~ .
Sixth Ave., 4th floor, between Ninth a'nd
Tenth avenues. (212)857-5152. •,Cantar (2nd & 4th Sat. 9 pm to 1 am, $8. OJ Peter
Arden.) 208 W. 13th St (212) 620-7310., .
+ Canter (·Women & Friends: Every first
Saturday. Next is April 6. OJ Gini DeSllntis. 9
pm to 1 am.) 208 W 13 St. (212) 620-7210.-. Clit Club (Jocelyn and Julie expand-to' both
weekend nights.) The' Pyramid: 101'Ave. A:'(212) 406-1114.
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Club West End (Michael Fesco's Saturdays;
midnight - 9 am) 547 W. 21st St
Columbia Dancas(Third Saturday dances with'OJ Karin Ward. 10 pm to 3 am. $5.) Columbia
University
Earl Hall. 116th Street at, Broadway. (212) 629-1989.
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Staten Island. (718)442-5692.
.,+Girl Saturdays ( escape p~esents Sat4rday
Nights for Womn,With go-go girls and- a.
guest OJ. $8 befo 10:30/$10 after.) 20120.2Q
W. 20th St., be een Fifth and Sixth'
avenues. (212)645-6479.'·, ::-""
Mest (OJ Aldo Hernandez, every Saturday; gogo boys, videos; opens 10 pm; $5) 432 W 14
St<\oRoxy (Locomotion. Gay boys, men; straightwomen, some lesbians.) 515 W. 1,8th St.,, between Tenth and Eleventh avenues. (212)645-5156.
+Silver Lining 175 Cherry Lane. Roral Park, LI.
(516) 354-9641.
Sound Factory (Mixed crowd but mostly gay.
Serious House music offered. No alcohol .
Doors open at 11 pm.) 530 W. 27th St.,between Tenth and Eleventh avenues. (212)643-0728.
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Stingray'S (Brand new club, 'brand, new soundsystem, everything else is ~ surprise. $8.)
641 W. 51st St. (212) 664-8668.
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Go-go boys and 60foot ceilings,) 51 W. 26th St (212) 576-1890.
rlzy Ninny's (Sunday evening Tea Dance.
Free before 9 pm/$5 after.) 21 Seventh Ave.
South. (212) 366-6312.
JCKI (DJs Craig and Victor spin industrial,house, bass, soul and twirly
disco.
Downstairs, the Lesbian Luv Lounge with OJ
Lori E. Seid and guest DJs. $5.) Pyramid. 101
Avenue A. (212) 473-7184.
[Illy's (OJ Moaning Usa spins the records for
dancing dykes. Doors open at 8 pm. $3.) 46
Bedford St (212) 929-9322.
Monster (Sunday Tea Dance at 4 pm; dancing
also on other nights from 10 pm) 80 Grove St
at Sheridan Sq.; 924-3557.
I bPll'llIel(Michael Fesco presents Sunday Tea
Dance. Open bar 5-7 pm. Go-go boys. $6.)
229 W. 28th St (212) 563-9292.
Sife SundlYs (Kool Komrads' party at the
Cadillac Bar; go-go boys, $2 shots, $.5 beer
bias from 5-8 pm.) 15 W. 21st St (212) 6457220.
+ SOBs (Leticia Montalvo presents The Lust
House, First Sunday of the month only,
Grand opening April 7, with OJ Marlow. $5.)
204 Varick St, at Houston. (212) 243-4940.
20/20 (Michael Fesco's Tea Dance, opens 4 pm;$6; free Mimosas & BMs from 4-6, buffet at7:30) 20 W 20 St; 727-8841.

Every Night (or almost), + Bedrock (Lesbian club, closed Mo and Tu.)

Chelsea
Barbary Coast, 64 Seventh Ave. (14th St) 675-0385
The Break, 232 Eighth Ave. (22nd St) 627-0072
Cellblock 28,28 Ninth Ave., 733-3144(M-WI
Chelsea Transfer, 131Eighth Ave. (bet 16th and17th) 929-7183
Eagle's Nest, 142 Eleventh Ave. (21st St) 691-8451
Private Eyes, 12W. 21st St (bet Fifth and Sixth
avenues) 206-7770
Rawhide, 212 Eighth Ave" (21st St), unlisted
Spike, 120 Eleventh Ave., 243-9688
The Vault, 28 Ninth Ave" 733-3144 (F,7-11 pm,
women) 255-6758

West Village
Badlands, Christopherand West streets, 741-9236
Boots & Saddle, 76 Christopher St, 929-9684
Crazy Nanny's 21 Seventh Ave. S., 366-6312(women)D.T.'s Fat Cat 281 W. 12th St, 243-9041
Pandora's Box, 70 Grove St (Seventh Ave.) 2421408(women)
Dugout, 185 Christopher St, 242-9113
Eighty-Eights, 228 W. 10th St, 924-0088

The Hangout (J's) 679 Hudson St, 242-9272
Julius, 159W. 10th St,929-9672
Keller's, 384 West St/Christopher, 243-1907
Kelly's Village West, 46 Bedford St,929-9322
Marie's Crisis, 59 Grove St, 243-9323
The Monster, 80 Grove St (Seventh Ave.) 924-3558
New Jimmy's 53 Christopher St, 463-0950
Ninth Circle, 139W. 10th St, 243-9204
Sneakers, 392 West St, 242-9830
Two Potato, 145 Christopher St, 242-9340
Ty's, 114 Christopher St, 741-9641
Uncle Charlie's, 56 Greenwich Ave., 255-8787

Tribeca
Altar, 161W. Broadway, 571-7272.

West Side
Candle Bar, 309 Amersterdam Ave., 874-9155
Cat's,73O Eighth Ave., 221-1559,
Don't Tell Mama, 343 W. 46th St,757-0788
Gents, 360 W. 42nd St, (Ninth Ave.)967-0659
Sally's Hideaway, 264 W. 43rd St,221-9152
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""Club Edelweiss (Tuesdays are for lesbians, 'but it's open to all Tu-Su,) 167 W. 29th St,(212) 868-6989.
419 (Opens 6 pm.) 419 N. Highway (Rte 27).
Southampton, L1.(516) 283-5001.
Gl'lnd Centl'll 210 Merrick Rd. Rockville Centre,
L1.(516) 536-4800.
Mlgic Touch (Anglo/Latin/Asian) 73-13 3~th Rd.
Jackson Heights, Queens. (718) 429-8605.
Monster 80 Grove St, at Sheridan Square. (212)924-3557.
+ Plndorl's Box (formerly the Duchess)
Sheridan Square & 7th Avenue. (212) 242-

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The Pyramid (Look under daily listings for individual parties and themes. Also check Going
Out for special events.) 101 Ave. A. (212)473-7184.
Spectrum (Look under daily listings for individual
parties and themes. Coors served.) 802 64th
St, at Eighth avenue. Bay Ridge, Brooklyn.
(718) 238-8213.
+ Tod's (Night club and restaurant. Mostly
women, but men are OK.) 2 Georges Rd.
New Brunswick, NJ. (201) 545-8990.

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pastoral care for PWAs andlove'd ones. Volunteer opportunities. (212)481-1270, 24 West
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Share S/M experiences
andfantasies with others in a positive, non-judgemental
atmosphere. First Sunday of themonth, 4:45pm at the Community Center 208 W, 13 'Street,
NYC, This group is part of the
New York Area Bisexual Network.
BISEXUAL INAIRMATION &COUNSEUNGS~~IN~
A professionaly staffed, nonprofit organization for bisexuals, their families and partnenl,facing problems of a psychological or medical kind. We also
work with those in doubt about
their sexuality. Confidentiality isprotected by law. For information phone: (212)496-9500

BISEXUAl. PRIDEDISCUSSION GROUP
Topicil discu88ions on isaues ofinterest to the community in acong.enial atmosphere,
followed by an infonnal dinner ata friendly local restaurant.
Every Sunday, 3:110- 4:30pm at
the Community Center 208 W. 13
Street, NYC. Part of the ,New
York Area Bisexual Network.
BIWAYSNBNYOIIKMonthly social evants for the
Bisexual community and friends.
Call NYABNfor dete~s of upcoming!MInta. (212)459-4784
BPAC (BISEXUAL POU1ICAI.
ACTION COIoMmEIPolitical action on issulls ofimportance to the Bisexual /l8&bian/Gay community. Monthly
meeting{ poduck held 8:00pm on
fourth Thursday of the month atmembenlhomes, Call NYABNfor
this month's location. ((212)4594784

BISEXUAl. YOUTH
Infonnal social & ~upport groupfor Bisexual kids/youth. Monthly
meeting/potluck
lunch held
1:OOpmon fourth Sunday of themonth at members homes. Call
NYABN for this month's location. 'This group is psrtofthe New YorkArea Bisexual Network.
BWS-llRONX lESBIANS

UNnm IN SISTERHOOD
Social, political and support
networking group for lesbiansin the Bronx; Ragular meetings
3rd Fri at 208 W. 13 Street, from
8:3D-8pm. and the 2nd Wed at
One Fordham Plaza, Ste. 1100,
Bx; Call Lisa at (212829-9817 or
Miriam 212/409-2892 (Spanish),
BClDYPOSmvE
If you or your lover has tested
HIV+, we offer support groups,
saminars, public forums, reference library, referrals, social
activities
and up-to-datenati.onal monthly, ·THE BODY
POSITIVE" ($2!O'ear). (212)7211348, 2095 Broadway, Solte 308,
NY,I0023.

COMIoIIINTY
RESfAllCllIIITIATIVECRI teats experimental drugs arid
trea!l1)ents for AIDS and HIV
related illnesses. Monthly treatment and r8search grouP. for,HIV+
individuals.
Treatment
indresearch newsiettBr, forums andpub6c seminars. Call A6ce Spears
or Ken Fomatero at (212)481-11&1
for info and mamng list
CONGREGAnON BEDI
SIMCHAlTORAH
NY's Gay and Lesbian Synagogue
Services Friday at 8:30pm 57
Bethune Struet For info. calt (212)929-9498.
CONGREGAnON',:B'NAI JESHURUN
Monthly Spritual Gatherings andfree catered fastive luncheons for. all P-eople With AIDS, their lovers .
and families. Program includes
music' and discussion led by our
Rabbis. Call (212)NI-7tDJ

DIGMTYBIG APPLE
A cDl1'imunityof Lesbian and Gay
Catholics. Activities include LiturBIIOOIILYN'SI£SllIAN AND GAY gies and socials every Sal, 8:00
POUI1CAI.CUJB LAlllJDA
pm, at the Center, 208 W. 13
IIDB'EMJENT DEMOCRATS
Straat, NYC.CaD(212) 818-13111.
l.I,D. endorlles ina',works for---.:'~'..:'.:.'--:----".'-'---~candidates in l~c8~,:sta'te 'and· :" \;',NEWYORK
national elections, loIibj8s for I8g--U~bia,nand gay Catholics andillation,and condUc1!l~commUnity, , frj,nda AIDS Ministry, Spiritual
outraach through~et
feirS irid "!;D~~loprrienl The Cathedral Promeetings onilp8cia'Ypt~s; JOin , L~Worship
Services & ~ocialus. 33& Ninth St, Sultef1:!5 B~- ..;$,~;
Ev8l1- 7:3Ojlrn-St John's Epi.
..""NY11215 (718)-~
copsl Churcli218Wastllth Streeto Wmr1y--675-2179
CllCLE OF MORE UGHr
mGE &Iucation in a Dilllbled
Spiritual support and sharing in a!
Gay Emriillll.N.1l' .'gay/lesbian affirmative,gro,up.
For the physically disabled lesWest-Park Presbyterian Churchbian and Gay Community, P.O.Box
185 Wefrt 88th Street Wed: wor30s Village Station, New York.:NY
ship servica 6:30 pm, program
10014
7:30. Marsha (21~)304-4373 Char-.
lie (212)891-7118.
'
FRONT RUNNBISCOMMUNrtY JEAI1H
A running club for lesbian and lIay
PROJECI'
athletes of III abilities. F~n Runs
208 Wast 13th Street, NYC,New
of 1-8 miles held every Sal at
York 10011 For Appointments
lOam and Weds, at7pm in Central
and Information (212)875-3559
Park and every Tues. at 7pm in(TTYNoice)PROVlDlNG CARING,
Prospect Park. For information:
SENSITIVE AND lO,yV COST " call (212)724-9700.
HEALTH CARE SERVICES TO
ntE GAYAFRICAN
THE LESBIAN AND GAV COM- .
MUNI1Y.
,", AMERICANS OF
WESTCHESTER(The G.A.A.)~1IE4Il1I
is a community based support
PRO.Ecri HEAllIf'i4RHfMA- ' , , g'roilp formed in Westchester
TION UNERIR~1EENS,' :: ... , County. Various activities are
Do you ~ave quel,tio,ns, ab9,ut
planned for the coming months.
your health? Your B'ody?'Com-' . Call 914-37&-07Z7for mOIll info.
ing Out? Safer Sex? F8ellike
you have no one to talk,to? Not \GAYFAntBl'S,RlRUM
any morel Now you can'call the
A support organization for gay
HOn-LlNE.212-255-1517The
father'S, their lovers, and otheiB in
Teen HOlT-UNE forHealthl Gailchild-nurturingsituations.
Monday to Thursday, 7pm t9' Monthly meetings include a
9pm. At other times,leave'a'
poducksupper,supportgroupson
message and we'll-cill' yo'u' - variedspecialized'topics,
speakbackl
ers, and socializing.Meetings: lfrt

DI!lNn:v

Friday ea ch month, 7pm, at The
Center, 208 W, 13th Sl,West of
7th Ava. Contribl'liQn: ,$8. Bring amain COUiBefor 4 people (or ps,/, aIS food ·charge.) For infonnatiOncall: 212-979-7541 or212-288-3238,,

GlAAD-Qay&lAiIbian Alr_
Agai'" DaIimItian
80 Varick Street, NYC10013 (212)988-1700 GlAAO combats homophobia in the media and elsewhere by promoting visibility of
the lesbian and gay communityand organizing
gra,ssroots
response to anti-gay bigotry, Do
you have 30 minutes a month tofight homophobia?Jointhe
GLAADPhoneTllIelCaIl (212)-9881700for infonnation.

GlII
Gay and Lesbian Independent
Broadcasters invites you to tune
into OUTlOOKS on WBAI-NY, 99.5
FM every other Suhday, 7:308:30pm and join us eyary Juesday
at 7:30pm to 9:00pm to become amember of GLIB. N.o experienceneedad. 505 Eighth Aven.ue, NY,
NY 10018 Atth: Outlooks or call(212)473-1889. Ask for GUB~
GAY&I£SIIIAN HEAllH
CONCERNS
An office ilfthe,NYC Dept. of
Health;'provides linkages batWn
NYC Health & Human Svcs, andthe Lesbian & Gay community,
focusing in AU. haalth, concern!';resource information fo'r healthservices'·consumers'
andproviders. 125Worth Street, Box
87, New York. NY 10013. For infocaU(212)~"GAY MAJlSIM ACTIVISTS
Dadicate4 to'safe and IlIsponsible S/M since 1981; Open meetings w/progr8m~ on S/M techniques,lifestyie iSlUes, politicaland social con~ems. Also special, everitS, speabrs bureau, workshops, demos, affinity groups,
neWs/Utter, mOIlI.GMSMA - Dept0, 496A Hudson Street, Suite D23,NYC10014.(2121127-9878.
GMAD (GAYMEN OF ARIICANDESCENT)
80 Varick Street, NYC10013a support group of Gay Men of African
Descent dedicated to consciollltn8s&-raising and the developmentof the Lesbian and Gay Community.GMAD is inclusive of African,
African-American, Caribbean and
Hispanicl Latino men of color.
Meetings a III held, weaidy, on fridays. For infonnation, call 718802~162.
GAYMENS HEAIJHCRISIS HonJNE
FOR INFORMATION ON SAFERSEX AND HIV-RELATEDHEALTHSERVICES, AND FOR INFORMATION ON ONE-TIME, WALK-IN
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AIDS COUNSELING SERVICES
212.aG7.Qi55 212-645-7470 TDD(For',,", Hearing Impaintd) Mon.Fri.l0:30a.m.to9pm.I2:00103:00,

GIR11I" MIR11I
CUll OfNMYORK
Social club for heavy, chubby
gay men " their admirers.
Monthly socials at the ·Center",weekly bar nights Thursdayaat
the ·Chelsea Transfer·, monthly
Fat Apple Review, bi-monthly
FAR. pen pals, For more information call Ernie at 91~7735
or write: G"M/NY, Dept 0, P.O,
Box 10, Pelham, NY 10803.
HEAL(HeaJth Educalion AIDS UailOll)
Weekly info. and support groupfor treatments for AIDS which
do not compromise the immune
system further, including alternative and holistic approaches.
Wed 8pm. 208 W, 13th St.
(212)874-HOPE.
IlERfTAGEOFPRIDE-INC.
Organizers of New York's Lesbian and Gay Pride events: theMarch, the Rally and the Danceon the Pier. Call (212)691-1774
for meeting schedule or more
information.
208 West 13thStreet, NY,NY 10011.
HETJIICK-MARTIN

INSTTME. for lesbian and gay youth. Counseling, drop-in center (M-F, 36pm), rap groups, Harvey Milk
High School, AIDS and safer
sex infonnation, referrals, professional education, (212)833·
8920 (voice) (212)833-8928 m
for deaf.
HISPANIC UNITED
GAYS" lESBIANS
Educational services, politicalaction, counseling and social
activities in Spanish and English
by and for the Latino Lasbian and
Gay Community, General meetings
8:00 pm 4th Thursday of every
month at 2QI Weat 13th Street Call201-(153,7824orwri1B H,U,Gl., P.O,
Box 226 Canal Street Station, New
York,NY10019.
IIENTnY HOUSE
Now in our 20th year, we provide
peer counseling, therapy referrals and groups for the lesbian,gay and bisexual community.
Call us at (212)243-8181. Visit us
at 544 6th Ave" bet.ween 14th15th Streets, Manhattan.
MBlNAnONAL GAY"'. lESBIAN HUMAN RICIITS
COIllolSSJON
work. to focus the spotlight ofworld opinion on the oppression of gays and lesbians
throughout the world. Currently
organizing an Inti symposium
on Gay and Lesbian issues tobe held in Moscow and Leningrad in July 1891, in additon to
many other exciting projects.
For more info writ'! IGLHRC,
2978 Folsom Steet, SF CA 94110,
or call (415)647-0453.

78 OUTWEEK

April

INSmUTE RlllIIJMAN
IDBmTYWc.
New York's non-profit lesbian
and gay psychotherapy center.
Licensed psychologists, psychiatrists, and clinical social workers. Sliding scale fees. Insurance accepted.
Individual,
couple, and family tl)erapy. Variety of Men's and women'sgroupa fonning continuously, 118
W.72nd Street 212-79S-9432

MEGRlJYJNY
Lesbian and Gay Episcopalians
and friends. Eucharist and program every Thursday, 7:30pm. St
Luke's Church, Hudson andChristopher Sts.INFO: P.O. Box5202. NYNY10185(718)720-31!i4

lAMBDALEGAL DEfENSE
AND EDIICAIlON RIM»
Precedent-setting
litigation
nationwide for lesbians, gay
men and people with AIDS.
Membership ($40 and up) inc.
newsletter and invitations to
special events. Volunteer nighton Thursdays. Intake calls: 24pm Mon thru Fri (212) 99>8585.
lAVA-(lE.SBIANS ABOUT
VISUAL ART)
Call for slides for Lesbian Artists'
Exhibition, Gay" Lesbian Community Center, NYC. For more
information, send SASE to :Miriam Fouge18, 118 Fort Greene
Place, Brooklyn, NY 11217,
WBJANANDGAYADIUEDUCATORS
Meet with other lesbians andgays who work in adult education as teachers, administrators,
counselor., tutors, etc., to discuss issues such as coming out
to staff and students, materials
and curriculum, workshop andconference participation. We
meet the first Friday of every
month at 8:00 pm at the Lesbian
and gay Community Centar 20B
West 13th Street. Call Bryna
Diamond at (212) 932-7902(days) for infonnation
THEIf.S81AN AM) GAY
BIGAPPLE CORPS
Get your instrument out of thecloset and come play with us.
Symphonic, Marching, Jazz,
Dixieland, Rock, Rute Ensembles and Woodwinds. 123 West44th Sl Suite 12L New York, NY
l0036(212)~~

uniOns worlcing on domestic partnership benefita and AIDS issues.
For more informationcall(212)923-8690.

Come play with usl For infonnation: MTG, Suite K63, 496-A
Hudson St., New York, NY
10025. (718)852-8562.

If.S81AN AM) GAY
RIIIITS PROJECT
of the American Civil Uberties
Union KNOW YOUR RIGHTS/
WE'RE EXPANDINGDIEM (212)

MOCA (Man of Color AIDS
Pnwention Pl1Ignun.)
Provides safer sex and AIDS
education information to gay
and bisexual Men of Color;
coordinates a network of peersupport groups for gay andbisexual Men of Color in all 5
boroughs of New York City 303
Ninth' Ave, New York, NY
10001or call (212)239-1796.

944-9800, ax!.. 545

lESBIANS AM) GAYSOFRATBUSH
Brooklyn's social o~ganization
for both gay men and lesbians. P.O. Box 106, Midwood
Station Brooklyn, NY 11230.
(718)859-9437
If.S81AN HERSTOJIYARCIIVESP.O.. Box 1258 New York, NewYork 10116212/874-7232Since
1974, the Archives has inspired,shaped and reflected Lesbian
lives everywhere.
Call toarrange a visit or to volunteer
for Thursday worknigh1S,---------------LJJBJNEThe National Le,bian and Gay
Toll-Ifte Service
1-11JO..1.1R: 16--------------~LLDNGISlAND ACl'oU'
Meets Tuesdays at 8pm at 181
Post !we, in Westbury, NY. Support
us for change on Long Island.
Mailing address: PO Box 514,
Westbury, NYll!i9l. 51&-338-4882.
LSM

is a support and informationgroup for lesbians and bisexual
women intarestsd in fantasy, roleplaying. bindage, discipline, SlM,
futishes, altamata gender indentities, costumes and so forth. Membership is available only towomen 18yuars and older. Ac1ual
experience is not required but
genuine interest and an open
mind are. For information pleasewrite: P.O. Box 993, Murray Hill
Station, New York,NY10156

MAllANATHA:RMRSIDERS FURlESB~Y
CONCERNS
Monthly program meeting on
second Sunday for gay/lesbian
Christians and friends. Educational, political, and social
activities scheduled, 12:30 p.m.
Riverside Church, 490 Riverside Drive, Sunday worship
10:45 a.m .. For info.,call (212)222-5900 (ext 290)•

If.S81AN''GAY
COI!WUNnv
SERVICES CENJBI
208 West 13th Street New York,NY 10011 (212)620-7310 9amllpm everyday, A place forcommunity organizing and networking, social services, cultural programs,
and social
events sponsored by the Cantar
and more than 150 comm unity
organizations.
If.SBIANAND GAYlABOR NEtWORKAn organiz.tion of Lesbians andGays who a18 ac1ive in their labor

110,11_11

lEN OF AU. COLORSTOGElHBI NY
A multi-racial group of gay men
against racism, Meetings every
Friday night at 7:45 at the Lesbianand Gay Community Services
Center,2OB W, 13th, Street For
more info. call: (212)245-6366 or(212)222-9794.
MElROPOUfAN TENNISGROUP(MTG)
Our 200 member lesbian andgay tennis club includes players from beginning to tournament level. Monthly tannis parties. Winter indoor league.

NA1IONALGAYAND lESBIANTASKFORCE
is the national grassroots political organization for lesbians andgay men. Membershipis$3IVyear. Issue-orientad projec1S
address violence, sodomy laws,
AIDS, gay rights ordinances,families, media, etc. through lobbying, education, organizing anddirect action, NGLTF 1517 U
Street NW, Washington,DC
20009. (202)332-6483.

(212)807-8578 for infonnalion.
NORDIBIN UGHTSAIlBINATIVES
Improving Quality of Life for People with AIDS/HIV. THE AIDSMASTERYWORKSHOP: Exploring
the possibilities of a powurful arid
creative life in the face of AIDS.
Call (212)2$-8554
NYC GAY" lESBIANANTI-V10LENCEPROJECT
Counseling, advocacy, and information for survivors of anti~gay
and anti-Iesbiim violence, sexualassault, dom8,"stic violence, andothe r types of victimization. All
services f18e and confidential.24
hour hotline (212)807-0197
PAIIENTSJFRIENDSOF
lESBIAN AND GAYS
Let P/FLAG Iiolp you and yourfamily deal with the upheavil ofyour coming out. Our meetings
a18 f18e: monthly on the 4th Sunday, at 3:00 pm, in Duane Church,
201 West 13th. Info? call Jeanne,212~,

NBNYORKAD~NGAND
COMMUNICATIONSNEtWORKNYACN is the. community's
largest gay and lesbian professional group, welcoming all incommunications-andtheirfriends, Monthly meetings, 3rd
Wed 6:30pm at the Community
Center, Members' newsletter,job hotline, annual directory.
Phone (2121.517-03&0 for more
info. Mention OutWeek for one
free newsletter.

N.Y. fBllMES
Support and discussion group for
lesbians who self identify as
Femme and are primarily
attracted to butch women. For
membership infonnation call Lisa
(212)829-9817.
N.Y. WOMEN'S SOfIBAIL GlJIlD
For experienced, serious Softball Players, Coaches and Managers. We play mod/fast pitch
weekends
in Manhattan and,Queens, Try-outs begin Feb. 11
thru April- or until filled. (212)255-1379 Janel
NINTH STREET CBVTBI
Since 1973, a community dedicated to demonstrating that ahomosexual lifestyle is a rational, desirable choice for individuals dissatisfied
with therewards of conventional Jiving.
Psychologically - focussed rap
groups, Tues" Sat., 8 to 10 pm,
peer counselling available. 319 E.
9 Street, New York, NY 10003,forinfo call (212) 22&-5153.
NORTHAMERICAN MAN/BOY
LDVEASSOClAnON (NAMBlA)
Dedicated to sexual freedom
and especially interested in gay
intergenerational relationships.
Monthly Bulletin and regular
chapter meetings on the first
Saturday of each month. Yea rly
membership is $20; write NAMBLA PO Box 174, Midtown Station, New York, NY 10018 or call

PEOPLEwmtAiDS
COAlJT1ON(212)532-0290/1-800-828-3280/
Hotline (212) 532-0568Monday
thru Friday 10am-6pm Meal programs, support groups, educational and referral services for
PWA's and PWArc's.

,

PEOPLEwmtAiDS .
HEAIiH GROUP
Underground buyer's club importing not-yat-approved lJ1edicatioris
and nutritional supplements, 31West 26th St 4th Roor (212)5320280..... KPANTHBI PA1R~
Community st~eet patrol in Eastand West Village dedicated todeterring violent crime again~
gays and lesbians. For info andmeeting time for West Village,call 212-475-4363, for East Village Patrol info, call 212-2468566.70 A Greenwich Ave.; Box107, NYC 10011

PROFESSIONALS IN RIt\'VIDEO
336 Canal Street, 8th Roor, NYC
10013212-645-3351. QUEER NAT10N
Queertion is a multi-cultural
direct ac 'on group dedicated tofighting
omophobia,
queer
invisibili ,and all forms of
oppreSSIon that any queers
might face. Anyone can suggeat
an action and should·come tomeetings prepared to organize
and implement il ON, Box 1524,
Cooper Station, New York, NY
10003. Call 212-463-7208 formeeting info.
SAGE:---{Senior Action ina Gay EnviI1ll1lllllltj
Social Service Agency. providing care, activities, " educational services for gay" lesbian
senior citizens. Also serves over
180 homebound seniors & older
PWA's .208 West 13th Sl NYC
10011, (212)741-2247•

SEIIIIAN GAYS,
lESBIANS AND BISEXUALSFor all of us interested in reaching out to each other in
exuberance to spontaneously
explore and expand
upon the Seth/Jane Roberts 'Phil060phy" as it realtes
to our livea, personally, sexually and politically. Call AI1212)979-5104
SUNDANCE OUIDOORADVENlURESOam
A non-profit club offering Outdoor activities for every
laa80n including hiking, biking, skiing, water activities
and other outdoor activities for the Gay/Lesbian community. For infonnation or complimentary Newsletter
01111212)588-4728.

,

TASKIVRCE ANNOUNCEMENT
The legal Action Center located at 153 Waverly Place,
NY, NY 10014, has begun two new programs. All their.arvicea are frea. The HIV/AIDS Legal Sarvice Projectprovides free legal services to people with HIV/AIDS.
Their Icope of .. rvice is wide, encompusing
childcare and custody, discrimination, hou, housing, healthy
health pllnning, confidentiality and employment- The
HIV/AIDS Agency Trlining and Aniatance Project.provides technicalalliatanceto public and private Igeoci .. about legal and policy issue8 on HIV/AIDS anddrug abu8e. They provide training, individual consultetionl,and model policy guidelines, among other items. If
you have any further queltions, pleue contact Ma.
C.therine O'Neil at 1212)243-1313. Th. A.lociation of
Nun •• in AIDS C.r.IANAC) jUlt received Chapter
Charter for the locil Greater New York Chlpter. They
have monthly meetings with speakers and networiting
opportunitiea. Their naxt meeting i8 schedulad for January 9, 1991, «HI pm. at the AIDS Institute, 5 Penn Plaza,
4th floor, NY,NY. If you have any further questions,plelae contact Janet Vaccariello at 1212j340-8n4
TIE 0U11IEACII USING COMMUNALHEAUNG ITOUCH)
Community volunteers providing a weekly buffet supper for the Brooklyn AIDS community. TOUCH meetsMonday evea. 5pm to 8:30pm- at downtown Brooklyn
Friends Meeting House 1110 Schennerhorn St. near
Boerum Place). Limited transportation
may bearranged. Info: 1718) 822-2756. TOUCH welcomes contributions of funds, food and volunteers.
ULSTER COUNlY GAYAND ISBIAN AllIANCE
Meete first and third Monday of each month at 7:30 pm
at the Unitarian Church on Sawkill Road in Kingston.
For Infonnation, call 914-82&-3203

UNnYl4
NEEDS YOU to become a part of itl Organizers for Gay
almes IV, to be held in New York in 1994. OlympicItyle sporta Ind cultural event is largest in world.
Theme is INCLUSION,everyone is needed, SUPPORTTHE GAMES by volunteering, joining or making a donation. Call 212-732-3812 or write UNITY '94, PO Box202,

NY, NY 10038.
WIIAMI-Wlnen'11IMIth Action And MobilizatiolL
A direct action group commited to demanding, securing and defending absolute reproductive freedom andquslity health care for all woman. We maet evaryWed.
at 8:30pm at 105, E 22nd Street, 4th floor. 212-713!i8ll6Mailing addraaa: WHAMI, PO Box 733, NYC10009
WOMENS AL1BINATIVE COMMON nY CENTBlIWACC)
A non-profit, Leabian community canter serving. Queens, Nassau and Suffolk Counties. Thurs. night
weekly discullion groups. 8:30 pm, for other activities
please contect us at 518-483-2050,
WIIES1UNG IVR GAYSaLESBIANS
Watch the men of the knights wrestling club inaction
evary Sunday at 7:30 PM at the GAYCENTER.The cluballo conduct training claases on alternate Saturdays
aftemoon list &. 3rd Saturday.for men 2nd &. 4th Saturdays for wollien) for morelnfonnation pleue call:
718-839-5141•

BOVGEORGE
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39

Culture Club went to pieces. If I'd been
professional,
I would have held it
together. But it wasn't what I wanted at
the time.

What do you want out of yourcareer at thisPOint?
BG: When I started Culture dub,
we never set out to become what wedid. We just became that by accident.
We never set out to be the biggest thing
in the world. You can't predict thesethings. But certainly, I wouldn't like togo through what I went through with
Culture Club again.

EArlier, we were talktng about sadness and melancholy in your music. Do
you find that you're more creative when
you're depressed or ina funk? Or is that
too much of a stereotype?
BG: If my life was as miserable as
my songs, I'd be in big trouble. I
always have days where I feel-not
miserable or depressed-but
confused. Insecure. Those days are certainly very fruitful in regards to writing
songs. If you take the song, "I Specialize in Loneliness"[from the newalbum], it's about a part of my person~
ality or any human being's persoruµity.
It's about when things are going reallywell, that sense of pinic that, appears'.
in some people. I do, believe that ultimately we're on our own. If you liSten
to the backing vocalist, he says, "You _know you're born into this world
alone." And I guess that's the theme of .
that song. There is a part of me that isvery lonely.

Yeah. 1bat part of you that, evenwhen you're in a relationship, is neverquite satisfied. •BG: Exactly,· (Laughs.) That's definitely true. I think m~t people in relationships spend the whole relationshipwondering why the other person iswith them: Why are -you with me?
What have I got that YQU want? I think
it's even worse for celebrities. I don't
think any two people are in "a relationship for the same reason. It starts off asa sexual thing most of the time, thendevelops into other things. Or it canstart off as a very calculated
career,,move in some cases. Humap beingsare very bizarre creatures.

What have you leamed from past
relationships that help your current one?
What do you bring to your relationshipnow that you couldn't have five or ten
years ago?
,

BG: I think the ultimate kind oflove you can have is when you're prepared to set someone free. I think mosthuman beings would find that impossible. The fact is that if you really love
somebody, you'd want the best forthem and let them go into another relationship. Most of us would find thatvery difficult to do me included. But
I'd like to think I've become less selfISh,that I listen more, that I'm not so selfobsessed. I want to be able to befriends with that person as well as
sleeping with them, To actually likethem as people. When you're friends
with someone you love, it's a rare andbeautiful thing. You really have to workat that, though. I think that what happens is: When you meet someone,
you'r~ attracted to them~for various reasons. And then you spend the wholetime trying to destroy a side of their personality because of your own insecurity
or because you think other people aregoing to_find him attractive, Ninety-nine, percent of the problems in relationships
are projection. You end up destroying it
for the very reason you want it somuch. I think it's a lifelong battle.

But to even be aware of an of thatwould take a kind of self-knowledge andself-awareness that most people don'thave. Or they avoid it because it's too
pairiful to admit those sorts of things
about yourself.
BG: I think a really good thing
would be if they had counseling at
school where you could actually learn alittle bit more about yourself. If we were
taught more about human nature, if we
could learn at a young age about how
much of a role you play in your own
destiny, that would be a great thing ..
,Would you ever want to ratse achild?
BG: Uh, well, yeah. I'd like toadopt children, but not now. Maybe
when I'm aoout 45. I think children are
great. It's a really powerful thing to havea child because you can either poison itor make it a really beautiful person. I
have thought about that. Yeah. Don't
make that your headline. (Laughs.)Y

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and Weekends.(718) 782-4735

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releases and place articles, staff public forums and maintain library for
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skills and ability to meet deadlines
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TERRY (JAPANESE)
Formerly of 57th and 2nd Avenue andHotel Sutton. Please contact Bill in Ft.
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APT. TO SHARE
GW seeks GW roomate to share 2Brpark Slope Apt $5OO/mo. + $500 Dep.
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Ministry to
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Organized individual with ability tomeet deadlines, work under pressure,needed to provide clerical support.
handle data entry and acknowledgments, coordinate special events.
Must have excellent communications
and organizational skills,
writing ability.
Please submit resume and othermaterials to: CRI,31 West 26th
Street, New York, NY 10010. Indicate
job interest on outside of envelope.
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Pel pie with AIDS, women and peopleof color are encoraged to apply.

TYPIST / RECEPnONIST
OutWeek seeks fast-thinking, patient
person with a sense of humor toanswer busy front desk phone, greet
visitors and type,articles for magazine.
Must type 6O+wpm. Send Resume,
including salary requirement, to Outweek. 159 Wilst 25th St,7th Roor,
New York, NY 10001, Attention Darla
Fjeld. Peopl~ of Color are encoraged
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Cook; clean, Diverse duties. "Gay magazine seeks sales person for
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experience required. Computer experience a plus, typing 45-50 WPM.
Will train. Women and People ofColor encoraged. Contact Rogelio
at(212) 337- 1200.,

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PAINT JOBIntelligent and skilled Brazilian
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for work. Fernando (212)594-02647

INVESTMENTIINVESTMENT MANAGEMENT AND
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High Net worth individuals Smaller
Retirement Plans $450,000 Minimum
Phone 212-713-5489

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NO job too small
Prompt and professional
Storage available
Last minute Jobs

201 434-5309

PHOTOGRAPHY
NUDE MODEL WANTED
For cover for Hot Magazine.
Bodybuilder or model with good
physique. Contact Studio Roma at
212-989-7709

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Based on over 7 years of living.Send$9.95 to T.M. PublicationsP.O. Box
310743Tampa, FL 33680Allow 4-6
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Try Brownstone Brothers instead. Pro~
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Reasonable storage rates. Pianos, Art
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COZY CABINSStudio Units Fr. $2995
Full season Rentals foim
May 18 to Sept 8Cute channing individual
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Fees based on sliding scale
For Information call(201) 854-8161",

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According to Doyle, he, Brown
and Biei had been at a party at Doyle's
home earlier that evening and had left
at 1:30 am to buy beer and drink at
the schoolyard. The statement does
not explain how the fight began.
Past reports of weapons used in
the fight included only a knife and ahammer, but, according to Doyle's
statement, other weapons included
fists and a wrench.
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Because the statement is admissible
as evidence only against Doyle, prosecutors will begin by seeking to convict
Doyle. Should they succeed, the DA
will put Doyle on the stand at a trial for
Brown and Biei, who will most probably be tried together, and require Doyleto repeat his statement.
.Should Doyle recant, prosecutors
can then play the videotape for thejury in an attempt to impeach his testimony. And Bici's defense attorney,
Barry RhOdes, is already planning for avigorous cross-examination of Doyle.
Rhodesbelieves that the DA will,attempt to convict Doyle and turn him
into a witrtess for the state.
To obtain a conviction for seconddegree murder, the DA need not provethat all three caused Rivera's death, but
only that the defendants acted in concert. And even if a jury decides that
only one defendant caused Rivera's
death by stabbing him, any accomplices can be found guilty of murder inthe second degree as well.
For a conviction
on a secondc~unt,
the
DA
must
show
that the••defendants acted with "depraved indifference to human life" and "recklessly
engaged in conduct which created agrave risk of death." A source at the
Queens DA's office has confirmed that
Doyle is being targeted as Rivera's
alleged killer, and Brown and Bici as
his accomplices.
OIher evidence includes a police lineup identification of Doyle by an unidentified witness, which has also been challenged by Doyle's lawyer. The night of themurder, three men were seen runningfrom the schoolyard by this witnes;, proserotors say. And the witnes; has reportedly
identified Doyle as one of those three men.
Police have also recovered thehammer which Doyle claims in his
statement belonged to Bid. Police have

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not recovered the knife .
According to police, a second witness claims that Doyle spoke to her
about his involvement in what hebelieved to be a fight that haci resulted
in the victim's being hospitalized andperhaps killed. The same witness reported that all three defendants belong to agroup called DMS, or the Doc Martin
Skinheads, and that all three hated gay
men, according to police.
The case will be tried before Judge
Ralph Sherman, who was elected to
Civil Court in 1975 and Supreme Court
in 1978. The next hearing date is set for
April 10, in Supreme Court of Queens
County, located in Kew Gardens.
Julio Rivera's murder galvanizedanti-violence advocates last summer,
when bias crimes against gay men andlesbians hit record numbers. T

FOR
AIDS
REGIS1RY~
YORK-"As much as I hate tosay it, it's AIDS in the '90s," said Steve
Mach9n, president of the board of the
AIDS Treatment Registry, or ATR,
bemoanirig the financial woes that haveforced ATR's board to eliminate theorganization's five salaried positions.
"Like many smaller organizations,
we're having funding problems," said
Machon. "A number of resources are
drying up, and there are diminishingexpectations about finding new sourcesof money."
Although ATR-which since 1989
has published the quarterly Directory of
AIDS Clinical Trials in New Y01'A;New Jer-

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recommended
that the statute berepealed-asuggestion the Legislature
is now considering in committee.
Under that 1977 statute, a question
appears on every adoption application
asking if the applicant is homosexual.
Siebold, the Director of AIDS Help,
Inc., and a 20-year resident of Key
West, answered affirmatively on his
application last Spring. HRS rejected his
application.
Waxman argued that the statute
was unconstitutional because it violated
Siebold's right to privacy under the
FloridaConstitution,
as well as
Siebold's state and federal Rights to due
process and equal protection. Florida's
sodomy law was repealed a number ofyears ago.
"The statute suffers from the trite
notions of homosexuals unsuitability as
fit parents and evidences discrimination
through archaic· stereotypes associatedwith homosexuals," Judge Lester told anews service.·)
The legal argument was in partbased on an Ohio Supreme Court
decision last year in which a gay
social worker was allowed to adopt
a special-needs
child. New Hampshire is the only other state with alaw explieityly prohibiting gay adoption, although many states have antigay policies.

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not ceased operations, its staff continues
to work on a purely volunteer basis, andA1R is delaying distribution of the ~est
issue of the Directory until it can find
anOther organization willing to shoulder
the substantial cost of mailing the 150plus page publication. The Directory, theQlost complete regional guide available
to free clinical trials of treatments for HIV
and associated opportunistic infections,currently reaches some 6,000 subscribers.
ATR has also stopped accepting new
subscriptions ord¢rs.
Machon told OUtWeek that ATR's
board is now engaged in negotiations
with the board of a large AIDS service
organization and that prospects for
A1R's rescue look good. He declined toname the larger organization, but hesaid thathe expects a decision will bereached within the next few weeks.
The AIDS Treatment Registry wasestablished in 1988 as a spinoff ventureof ACf UP. Besides the Directory,' it has
published brochures-in English, Spanish and Kreyol-to inform people living with HIV about the numerous
issues they should consider before opting to enter a clinical trial. ATR had
also recently begun producing a seriesof single-page, reader-friendly "information sheets" on the range of treatments currently available for each of
the major opportunistic infections ass0ciated with HIV. That project, too, hasbeen put on hold.
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for the telephone medium but deliberately chose not to do so."But most bizarre is the Ninth Circuit's ruling that the regulations do not
impose a prior restraint anyway. Notingthat normaHy "prior restraint" refers to, government action to enjoin speech or
require advance approval, censorship or·
licensing for speech, the appeals court
said that these regulations did not involve
the government in any of those activities.
Instead, the regulations give telephonecompanies· (private, non-governmental
actors) an incentive to restrain the speechby subjecting them to penalties if they donot. According to the Ninth Circuit, since
the telephone company may decide on
its own not to provide billing services forphone sex, it is not unconstitutional to..give the telephone company a strong
incentive(fines, andprison terms) to.,' ".
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&:sides, the Ninth Circuit found that, the regulations did not impose any
restraint on speech. "Receipt of utteredI;!xpression is provided .immediately
upon request," the court asserted.
"Speech is transmitted according to standard commercial practice: If a subscriber
desires to receive dial-a-porn material, heor she requests it and pays for it." The. court. draws a disingenuous analogy to
paying admission before entering a theater or paying for a qook or videotape.
A better analogy would be that. a.
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bookstore may not sell a book to justany. customer who wanders in, butinstead the publisher must designate
which of its producfs are "indecent,"
and a customer could only purchase adesignated book if he or she wrote to. 'the bookseller in advahce providing
documentation that he was over 18. Inan even more twisted analogy, thecourt compares the FCC's regulations to
the movie"rating system restricting
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strange reading after Judge Patterson's,
partly because the courts seem to havevery different understandings of thefacts. this ':My be partly due to thedifferent roles of the two· courts. Patterson heard witnesses during six daysof Qea~ings. By contrast, appeals
courts reviewing agency regulations

do not hear live witnesses, but instead
are left to read through the hearing
records and listen to the arguments by
the lawyers for both sides.
Another reason for the differences
between the tWo opiriions has to dowith" the Ninth Circuit's inadequate
con.
sideration of the constitutionality of theHelms Amendment. Although it indicates that its constitutionality and thevalidity of the regulations are both
before the court, the opinion is devoted
mostly to the latter. The court lacked
the kind of factual record that would benecessary for an appropriate determination of the Helms Amendment's constitutionality. These failings make theopinion vulnerable".- .to Serious attack onreconsideration by a larger Ninth Circuit
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Judge
Patterson's
injunction
remains in effect against the JusticeDepartment,
although there is no
injunction against the FCC. But the
FCC's ability to initiate proceedings
against telephonecompanies
andphone-sex companies is doubtful aslong as the injunction is in effect. The
phone-sex companies could ask theNinth Circuit for a rehearing before an
expanded panel (which is rarely granted) and eventually
petition' theSupreme· Court for review.
In the meantime, if the Second
Circuit agrees with Judge Patterson, thelikelihood of Supreme Court review toresolve the conflict would be greatly
enhanced. If the Second Circuit agrees
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Justice Department coulCl be free tobegin enforcement activities.
It is hard to predict how theHelms Amendment and the FCC regulations would stand up to Supreme
Court review. In Sable, five other justices joined Justice White's opinion.
The partial dissenters, Justices Brehnan,
Marshall and Stevens, agreed that a ban
on indecent telephone messages was
unconstitutional but would have gone
further to declare unconstitutional theban on obscene messages. The crux ofthe argument, whether the FCC's blocking system is the "least restrictive alternative" toward achieving the goal that
the Sable court identified as legitimate,is, at bottom, a question of fact, andthe quality of evidence is not all that
good, since it consists mainly of speculation rather than hard data .
The best a{:>proach to resolving
the issues would be a study of theexperience in 'New York and California under existing systems (which arethose advocated by the phone-sex
companies).
Do many minors get
through to hear phone-sex messages,
and is there any evidence that thosesophisticated enough to do so are seriously harmed? Without a reliableanswer to these questions, any resolution of this dispute;nay depend moreon the political sympathies of thejudges than on the Constitution.
And a favorite means of entertainment, self-expression and informationexchange for millions of gay men, apotentially precedent-setting interpretation of the extent of the First
Amendment and the fate of much of
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