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It Ain't Necessarily SoT

he recent ordination of Reverend Robert Williams, an openly gay priest, by Bishop John Shelby Spong of the
Episcopal Diocese of Newark should be a cause for celebration not only for Episcopalian gays and lesbians, but for everyone who values justice and compassion. Coming on the heels of the
ACf UP and WHAM! civil disobedience at St Patrick's Cathedral, theEpiscopal
ordination
served to underscore
the true spirit ofChristianity.
The contrast between Bishop Spong's loving stance of support
and the rigid hatred and condemnation of Jerry Falwell, Noach Dearand John O'Connor could not be sharper. For gays waging an uphill
struggle against religious anti-gay bigotry, Bishop Spong's action is abeacon of hope.
Gays have long labored under the incorrect impression that
Judaism and Christianity in and of themselves condemn homosexuality. This fallacy, nurtured for centuries by deliberate mistranslationsof biblical texts, has been one of the chief pillars of homophobia.
But starting in the late 1970s, and reaching a peak with the publication of John Boswell's masterful Christianity, Social Tolerance andHomosexuality in 1980, the myth of inherent biblical anti-gay bigotry
was demolished. Modern historians and religious scholars, accurately
and objectively retranslating original biblical texts, have surprisingly
shown that the Bible is often merely indifferent toward homosexuality,and frequently tolerant of gays.
The story of Sodom, for example, wasn't mistakenly interpreted
as a story about homosexuality until millennia after it was written.
Even the proSCription in Leviticus that gay sex is an "abomination"
occurs in a passage stating that the eating of pork, rabbit and shellfish, the wearing of certain fabrics and even the cutting of the beard
and hair are abominations as welL And although he lived in the gaytolerant Greco-Roman world, Jesus, it need hardly be noted, nevermentioned homosexuality at ali.
As absurdly archaic as these points may seem to some, they are
crucial in separating the otherwise expansive Western religious heritage from the narrowness of homophobic hatred. The discovery of
the biblical acceptance of gays opens up a new world of spiritual tolerence in which homophobes like Falwell, Dear and O'Connor are
denied the moral cornerstone of their hatred.
Unfortunately, truth often travels slowly in ecclesiastical circles.
The work of modern biblical scholars will take tirne to be absorbedby the more hide-bound traditions of Christianity and Judaism, justas the discovery of evolution or heliocentrism
took time to be
accepted.
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The groundbreaking
ordination in New Jersey is a part of thatslow but steady process. As the Episcopal Church joins others likethe United Church of Christ which have already ordained gays, afundamental pillar of homophobia
crumbles. Actions like Bishop
Spong's ensure that future generations of even pious Christians andJews will look upon homo-hatred with the same sorrow and pitythat we look upon witch burning and slavery. T

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LETTERS
MissionsAccomplishedFirst.as one of the organizersof the demonstration at
St. Patrick's I want to commend you on the brilliant andon-target~Outspoken"
inyour last issue,and your accurate and insightful coverageof the events of 10 December
1989. OutWeek has again cut
through the bullshit of thestraight media to arrive at thereal reasons for this demonstration (of course I wouldn't
expect lessof you). There areseveral issuesconcerning thedemonstration I would like toaddress.
Andy Humm is a traitor
and is extremely dangerous.
Prior to the demonstration,
Mr. Humm tried, unsuccessfully, to have a "debate" on
his cable show between

members of Dignity andmembers of WHAM! andACT UP. He went about trying to invite individuals withradically different opinions inorder to have, in his words,~sparks fly." In my opinion,
this was a direct attempt toderide the unity and coalition which had been built. In
addition, because of the
injunction against Dignity'"
and the Cathedral Project,
any tape showing cooperation between Dignity andthe demonstrators
whochose to go inside, could
have been used by theauthorities
to prosecute
those people under the
injunction with more severe
penalties. I believe that Mr.
Humm purposely tried to set
this up. This also ended our.

working relationship with Digcompletely false, like whennity for the action because
he stated in a radio interview
of the possible application ·of that he had been a member
the injunction. His quotationsof ACT UP but left when ACT
in the media were at the
UPhad voted to abandon its..... non-violent
agenda: Can
someone please tell me
when that vote was taken?
Were we all on vacation? Is
Mr. Humm trying to incite
more
policeviolence
against us? Mr. Humm claims
to speak for the Coalition for
Lesbian and Gay Rights, a", coalition of 100 groups (of,which ACT UP is a member).
We in the community know
th·at CLGR is really nothing
but a ragtag group of a few
members who speak for no
one but themselves.
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Dignity and its leader Robertleast inflammatory and at
Pusillo. Never have I been
worst possible catalysts formore proud of Dignity, than as
violence against members of
I read the storiesin the papers
ACT UP and the entire lesin the days that followed thedemonstration. Bob artiCUlatbian and gay communities.
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stration impeccably
andmade it clear. while they did
not approve of the action
inside the cathedral, they supported the reasons for theaction inside the cathedral. I
salute the brave women andmen of the Cathedral Projectand Dignity who for almost
three years have opposed,
through direct action, the hypocritical hierarchy that says all
people are ·sinners" but some·sinners" don't deserve thesupport of the church. Dignity
issurely a friend in the struggle
to stop church interference in
our lives.
Our elected
officials
should be ashamed of themselves. Where was Mario
Cuomo's outrage when on
October 1st,Cardinal O'Condom proclaimed "I'd like togo out on a rescue" and shut
down a women's hea~h dnic.
Where wcr, David Dinkins'outrage when the statistics werereleased on the increase inteen AIDS cases, an increasecaused because there were
no condoms in schools,thanks
to the archdiocese. And as for
Ed Koch, the greatest outra(ileof dL Hisreprehensible behavior at the cathedral was the
final FUCKYOU to the lesbian
and gay community from the
genocidal monster himself.
Freeat last indeed.
In ending Iwant to reflect
on the demonstration. Am I
proud of what we did? Absolutely! Never in the recent past
have people stood up to thechurch in such a powerfulway. We have stood up to.
save livesand to allow women
to choose by their own morality. We have stood up to say
Right to Life is a farce. We
have stood up to a churchthat respects a cluster of cells
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Freedom From Religion
I am disappointed but
not surprised at the editorialsof the major N.Y. daily newspapers condemning ACT UP
and WHAM!'s protest at St.
Patrick's Cathedral last Sunday as being sacrilegious
and disgraceful behavior.
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gious community, which is
killingus with their fake morality, but also the political community. The message is NO
MOREBUSINESSAS USUAl!Our
elected officiaL and evil religious leaders should runscared. We will never be silent.
There are no boundaries wewill not cross (barring violence). As we move into thesecond decade of AIDS wewill escalate the fight. We will
because we must.
Victor Mendolia
ACT UP

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fact that tens of thousandsof young men and women
who have died and are
dying horrible deaths while in
the prime of their lives for the
past ten years and this society just plain doesn't give adamn! And that especially
includes the religious community, our so called moral
leaders. It's because thismaterialistic
society has
absolutely no sanctity for life
whatsoever but only a reverence for money and powerthat this sad state of affairs
has come to being. AIDS is
still largely perceived
asbeing a gay disease andsince homosexuals are considered "intrinsically evil" by
the churches we are simply
an expendable segment of
the population.
I say it's too bad that
Cardinal O'Connor had his
feathers ruffled because we
disrupted his sermon of hateand bigotry last Sunday. ~waslong overdue! And if he's
offended by our actions Sunday, we are offended by his
spearheading the church's
campaign of condemnationof our very existence! Who is
Cardinal O'Connor and the
Catholic Church to judge anyone with their bloody 2,000
year history of violent repression, censorship, bigotry,
hypocrisy, racism. torture andmurder? (One historian calculated over 100 million humanbeings met with violent deaths
directly because of thischurchover the centuries-the 400year Inquisition,the Crusades,.the burning of witches, etc.,etc.) The Catholic Church was
the single biggest obstacle tothe development of scientificknowledge in the history ofwestern civilization, a tradition
it continues in the subject ofsexuality. It has effectively
reduced itsmembership to thestatus of superstitious,primitive
savages. How dare this vile
institution preach morality toanyone with the incredible
amount of human sufferingthat can be laid at its
doorstep? How many unwant-ed, unloved and economicaltdime. fwe stthillhavde to buy
ly-deprived children haverugs rom e un ergro.und
been born into this world
to help prolong our lives
because of the church's idiot- because the federal governic stand on birth control andment. the NIH, the FDA andabortion? Wherever you findthe pharmaceutical compathe Catholic Church ennies select drug testing
trenched you'll find ignorance
based upon profit potential,
and poverty in 1hesurrounding not saving human lives.
communities. The first amendWhat should we do? Throw
ment provides for the separaflowers at the church andtion of church and state as thethank them for persecuting
foundation of our democracy.
us so thoroughly for 2,000
The Catholic Church makes ayears? For once we stood up
mockery of this provisionto the church and now it
despite the generous tax
hides behind its robes and ri~exempt status it enjoys upon its uals and feigns injury.
prolific wealth-which
we as
Peacef~1 demonstrataxpayers are subsidizing.
tions are lost against our
The media
laments
oppressors. The only real
about how we attocked
gains we have enjoyed havefreedomof religion-I'm
come from less than polite
much more concerned withconfrontations as we enter
freedom FROM religion. It the second decade of thehas consistently intruded its AIDS genocide. If nothingmorbid and guilt-ridden
else, we communicated ourmoral teachings in our lives
outrage at society's indifferbecause it enjoys so muchence to this epidemic bypower in influencing
thegoing into a very major
public, our politicians andsource of hatred and ignothe media. Where were therance against gays-theeditorials of outrage whenchurch. As far ds I'm conO'Connor publicly statedcern ed, disrupting a Catholic. that he wanted to get arrest"
ed with Operation Rescue, .
an organization that violates
thelaw. byblocking
entrances to abortion clinics
thus interfering with women's
health care, not to mention
the violent verbal abuse
these women are subjected
to by these fanatics. Whatabout the 30-plus abortion
clinics that were bombed
because of the hate campaign engineeredby thechufch? We have the rightto prevent this monstrous
organization from continuing
to interfere with our lives.
Demagogues like O'Connor
have made substantial contributions to creatinganatmosphere of intolerance
and hatred toward gays ingeneral and therefore theresultin~;l·we-don't care'attitude of society towards
people dying of AIDS. We
lost sympathy by this demonstration? We never had any
sympathy by society at any~;":aI""~
mass is like diS-' .~'.."..•.
':;;}};:r';~:~:'..:'!I._.' ,rupting a Nazi i !.i'~~::;::'1-'" .
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rally. Theirstupid- iT'
ity and sourness...~
has killed and iscontinuing to kill IV,' ¢ ::.:.
our community.
;,.-ch.O
0' Con nor
Iserved on the
President's Commission on AIDS·
for a full year. He
knows what's
going on. He
commands the
medra like noone I know. Has
he ever spoken
out once on the
Photo: Ellen B. Neipris
criminal lack oftesting of drugs for AIDS? No,
and straight people dying,
he hasn't! But he incessantly
then we should continue torambled on about how gays
disrupt their organizationare moral degenerates (evenwhatever form it takes.
though homosexuality is ramAccording to Christianpant among the church's
mythology,
Jesus Christclergy). The Catholic Church
walked into the temple ofdoesn't show any resped
God with a whip and drove
towards
us as humanthe money-changers out! I
think we did something combeings-why
shouldn't wereturn the favor, as we did
parable last Sunday when we
entered and protested at thelast Sunday? When their policathedral. ACT UPis becomcies and dogma result in gay

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ing increasingly isolated fromsociety as our voices growlouder and our tactics escalate in intensity. But·there canbe no doubt of the righteousnessot our cause. I'm proud of
ACT UP's involvement at St.
Patrick's and I salute thecourageous activists that got
arrested there that day. We
wmnot die quietly!
Tom Shultz
Brooklyn
No Regrets
I just finished readingsome of the. coverage in yourDecember 24 issue.As always
I am impressed WIThyour ability to report a story from somany different aspects, accurately reporting conflicting
views of controversial subjects.
.
That said, I feel it appropriate to throw in some comments to th e controversy
around the ACT UP/WHAM!
protest at St. Patrick's.
Let's face IT:the Catholic

Church hates us. They actively would prefer if we were notaround. They and all other
Christian sects have proved
this over a period of nearlyi~!

Photo: Lee Snider/Photo Images
2,000 years. And the Jewish
religion has hated us foryears. (Alas the Muslims run
behind with only 1.400 yearsof homo hating and faggot
genocide under their belts.)

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I can respect that there
are those among us whochose to pick and choose
what of these religions they
can follow, and stressinstead
all that love, peace andbrotherhood stuff; ignoring
those explicit calls for our murder in their religiousbooks andoverlooking centuries of brutality that makes AIDSlook likea picnic. But Cardinal O'Connor is not one of these. His
words mean our death. His
active intervention in theaffairs of state 'offer us nochoice but our active opposition. I applaud the demonstration inside of st. Patrick's by
whatever portions of ACT UP
might have been involved
Those who got arrested are
our heroes. We've
hadenough martyrs.
We've also had enoughback-stabbing Uncle Toms.
Andy Humm has been runningaround pretending to represent ffi organizations for years.

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Now he's run to the homo-hating daily rags to present himself as a spokesperson for the"good" gays. Andy Hummshould examine the fact that
he has received something noother gay "leader" has evergotten-positive coverage in
the New York Post The rest of
us should examine that too. In
my book that makes Andy
Humm a collaborator-and in
the worst sense of the word.
It's high time the rest of us
make it known that we havenothing to be ashamed of.
Nothing to be forgiven for. No
sins, no repentance and norespect for an institution thatquite literally drips with ourblood
Ian Daniels Horst
Brooklyn

Slop ACT UP
On December
9, I
received a phone call froman ACT UPer reminding meof the "Stop the Church"demonstration
held at St.
Patrick's the following day. I
have had extremely ambivalent feelings about ACT UP
over the past few years.
Last October I attended
the Liberal Party dinner andwitnessed their deliberate
provocation of Rudy Giuliani.
I saw the feigned injury andhysterics of the demonstrator
who refused to leave the hall.
I suspect the injuries allegedly
caused by Roger Ailes are
exaggerated.
I wouldn't
know. Thisinsult was hurled at
a man who, for weeks, had
an extensive position paper
on AIDS,ten pages in depth,
covering every aspect of thecity'sresponse
to thistragedy.
Includedin thepaper were creative methods to finance the city's services for HIVs and PWAs. His
opponent. to my knowledge,
did not have such a paper
despite the fact only two
weeks remained to the campaign and he had received
blind support from many ofus.ACT UPleft him alone.
Since I felt the planned"Stop the Church" demonstration to be pointless andsince I have seen plair:1
unchristian hatred directed at
O'Connor, I told the Saturday
caller I would not participate.
Sunday's antics shouldbe the last straw! True,
O'Connor is no friend of ours.
He's authoritarian, rigid andremote. Yet as a' Christian, I
believe he deserves to betreated in the same way wedemand to be treated-withrespect and dignity. I also
believe that a church service should never be aplace to vent hatred. To see
unbalanced
miscreants
ridicule the faithful's beliefs,
mock the churchgoers feelings and desecrate the mostsacred element of Catholic
worship-a
consecrated
host-is sickening and repulsive. I resent their being portrayed as "gay and lesbian"to the larger NYC community. That's a category about
which I have worked hard tofeel pride and dignity. I don't
like seeing despicable idiots
like Sunday's demonstratorsplaced in the same category. So intense are my feelings
about this incident. that I'mchagrined
to find myself
agreeingwith much of
homophObic Ray Kerrison's
New York Post column of
Monday, December 11th.
The Community Center
recently showed integrity andbackbone in refusing. space
to a NAMBLA-sponsored
event. Many times before~nday's offenses, the Center
provided
space
to thedemonstrators to organizeand plan their conduct. The
Board of Directors needs toknow that many of us willreconsider keeping a paid

membership in such an organization if it continues to facilitate hatred, malice andeventually violence. Government funding, of course, may
likely be jeopardized as well.
Michael Flynn
Brooklyn
Ban ACT UP
I deplore the actions
inside of st. PGltrick's CathedraL The desecration of thehost during communion wasa real offense to God.
It is one thing to attack
O'Connor and another thing
to attack JesusChrist!
ACT UP is responsible
and they should try to undo
the damage to the gay
community ..
The gay community

center should rethink letting
ACT UP have meetings
there.
Bob Johnston
Manhattan
Drawing the LineYour argument in favorof NAMBLA's use of theCommunity
Center for apoetry reading is seriously
flawed. We do not have a
responsibility to support theactivities of all groups representing different factions of
our community.
And theCenter is correct in weighing
the needs of a small groupwithinourcommunity
against the needs of ourcommunity as a whole.
What if an organization
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Man/Infant Love Association,
representation of our issues community representatives
where members had sexual
within government.
(including ACT UP and therelations with male infants,
It is a testimony to the
PWA Coalition) to discusscalled for us to recognize its effectiveness of community
the issues of contact-tracright to exist? Or how about
activism that this office wasing and improved
early
an organization advocating
established in March, and it is intervention treatments forsex between
men anda credit to the mayor that he the HIV-ill; we took the iniretarded boys? According toinstituted it. Some say there is tiative to produce lesson
your argument, we should
no need for this office, or forplans addressing lesbian
provide our support for suchthatmatterany office
and gay history and cultureorganizations as well.
addressing a "special interest and continue to lobby for
The question is, wheregroup: becClJSEltrue integratheir inclusion in the city's
do we draw the line? As ation of openly gay and lesbieJl"l multicultural
educationcommunity, we also have apeople in city government will plan; we were instrumental
responsibility to our common
address our issues in all conin the issuance of Executive
goals. We need not behave
texts. But given the history ofOrder 123 establishingain ways that lawmakers andexclusion our community has registration
processforothers would force us toexperienced (e.g. the NYC domestic partners and probehave, simply because they
Gay Rights Law is not yet fiveviding for bereavement
say so. But we should show
years old), the need for inter- leave benefits. Our officethat gay sexual relations aregovernmental advocacy andstaff attends community
based in the same awareness responsivenessisapparent.
meetings and forums as
and natural desires as heteroThe issuehere is not only
participants and listeners tosexual relations. The foundaone of presence but also
keep informed
and totion of our position is that we
one of participation.
How
inform in return-wearecomprehend our own decioften can an openly gay
outside St. Patrick's Cathesionsto be gay and have gay
Assistant Commissioner of· dral and inside the Comsex. Any claim that young
Sanitation or a lesbian Public
munity Center, we read theboys or girls can make andInformation Officer for the
Native and write letters tocomprehend such a decision
Office of Management an9
OutWeek, some of us haveisdubious.
Budget advance issues oflovers, and all of us have
In addition,
NAMBLAparticular concern to ourfriends with AIDS-we areshould recognize the damcommunity? Just because
not fooled by tokenism but
age it does to our communian executive assistant in theare conditioned by realism.
ty when its activities and
Health and Hospitals CorpoTo learn more about theopinions are assumed (incor-' ration is gay doesn't mean
Office for the Lesbian andrectly) to be endorsed by thethat he will be able or willing
Gay Community call for ourgay community.
NAMBLA
to assist your organization innewsletter, Outfront-(212)puts its own agenda ahead
applying for a city service
566-7385.:...orwrite: Mayor'sof the efforts of our commucontract, or for that matter
Office for the Lesbian andnity as a whole, and should
lobbying for more hospital
Gay Community, 52 Chamrealize that many. of us resent , beds for PWAs or improved
bers Street, Room 31 L New
it and applaud the Commu- . services for the HIV-ill.
York,NY 1(0)7. We vallie yournity Center's decision.
We need people who
opinions and encourage you
To say that sexual relaare responsible to the comto call or write.
tions between adults andmunity, with access to govJan Carl Park
children does not exist is ernment officials at all levels
Assistant Director
obviously faulty. But to sup(the director of the Office for
Office for the Lesbian
port an activity or opinion
the Lesbian and Gay Comand Gay Community
simply BECAUSEmany conmunity is also an assistant toManhattan
sider it illegal and immoral is the mayor) to be specificallynot solidarity, it is lunacy.
employed to address comWhere's Pat?
BillBerry
OutWeek's"Nightmunity iss.ues-in
policymares' listswere fun to readmeetings, on task forces, at
Out Front
but why didn't you include
conferences, in the media
In response to Sandor
New York's Senior Senator,and on the streets.
Katz' commentary ("InsulaDaniel Patrick Moynihan?
Since March; this officetion, Window-Dressing andhas accompiished much to· Sure they guy votes right,
Turning Up the Heat: Outaddress some of our comlends his name to AIDS andWeek, December 3), we wish munity's many needs. For lesbian and gay causes andto outline a few reasons whyeven was the honored
example, we assisted with aan office for the lesbian andspeaker at a Human Rights
meeting at .Gracie Mansion
gay community is vital to theCampaign Fund dinner. Big
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deal! Where is his leadershipin ·loudly
and publicly
denouncing
gay bashingand the government's halfhearted efforts in fighting the
AIDS epidemic?
Other sacred cows who
ne·e·d to be exposed are
New York Times columnists
Anthony
Lewis and Tom
Wicker. While they write eloquently and passionately
about such issues as thehomeless and apartheid
they are murderously silent
about AIDS. I nominate themfor OutWeek's next "Nightmares' listing.
Hal Bramson
Manhattan
Bitter Over Ritter
As a former teenaged
street prostitute, I'm happy to
see the scandal come out
about Father Bruce Ritter andhis Covenant House.They are
the biggest pimps in the city as
they rake in millions of dollars
using prostitutes.The price thatgay and lesbian youth arecharged for shelter amounts
to control by the Catholic
Church with itswarped morality. Were it not for the teachings of this church, so many
would not have to leave
home to begin with.
Gay youth does not.
need sexual guidance fromself-professed virgins who areoften anything but virgins!
I'm glad that I worked as aprostitute:it brought memoney and a chance towork in an all gay environment. Problems surrounding
prostitution result from its illegality not from any.thing
intrinsic about rental sex.
ACT UP and WHAM! didsexual liberation a great service by taking a demonstration inside St. Patrick's. Let
the Catholic
Church bewarned: we are answering
all attacks on our lives andliberties. A bunch of self-hating pederastic men in dragwill not be making the laws
for gay men and women!
Robert·Chakassi
Manhattan

XEROXEDACT DOWN
vinced ·the hierarchs arS
ACT UP/New Yorkwrong. Most Catholic heteroBrothersand sisters:
sexual couples practice birth
I write to you today tocontrol, the Pope's admoniexpress my profounddistions notwithstanding. Many,
agreement with the behavperhaps most Catholic electior of ACT UP and its allies at
ed officials, follow Governor
the demonstration
at St.
Cuomo's lead in distinguishing
Patrick's Cathedral on Sun- between the church's position
day, December
10. I amon abortion and what mbkes
convinced that as a result ofgood sense as public policy inyour actions safe sex educaa pluralisticsociety.
tion and practicewill beThere is another area in
dealt a severe setback.
which your anti-Catholicism isI write to you as a gay
evident: the presence of men
man who, as a proudlyin nun drag at the demonstralapsed Catholic and longtion. While much drag celetime secular humanist, hasbrates women or subverts
very little good will toward
gender categories, there is a
the Roman Catholic hierarsub-category of drag whichchy or Cardinal O'Connor in
belittles or demeans women:
particular. But I also write as
Nun drag, a 10 the Sistersof
a person who through long
Perpetud Indulgence, increasyears of political activity has
ingly falls into thiscategory.
become convinced of the
Nun drag demeansneed for patient. long-term
what is today the single mostcoalition-builing as the sine
progressive bloc within thequa· non of progressive
Catholic Church. Religious
social transformation.
communities
of women
I am conVincedthat
have been key actors withinyour actions last Sunday
liberation struggles in Centralreflected considerable antiand South America. A nun·
Catholic prejudice. The des- today is as likely to be runecration of the Eucharist byning a shelter for homelessthose of your members who
women or a drop-in center
were inside the cathedral is for street prostitutes as she is
the most dramatic example
to be teaching parochialof this attitude. You may notschool. There is something
believe that the Eucharist is peculiarly sexist about gay
the body of Christ, and I
men who feel the need to
don't believe the Eucharist is travesty a group of womenthe body of Christ, but pracwho have consciously choticing Catholics obviously do
sen to live their lives in combelieve the Eucharist is themunities of women. And tobody of Christ-and
if youshow up in nun drag at a
desecrate the communion
demonstration at the cathehost ·you display tremendous ··dral shows that you're notcontempt for those believreally interested in commuers-and you write them off
nicatingwith practicing
as potential political allies.
Catholics; you only wish to
This is foolish, because
display your contempt forpracticing Catholics in thethem-andonce again thisUnited States have a demonwrites them off as potential
strated track record of ignorpolitical allies.
ing the church hierarchyI harp on this point
especially on issuesrelated tobecause, given the church's
sexuality-when they are consecular power and O'Con-

nor's political skills,
only a protracted
process of coalitionbuildin(;jamong communities
withotherwise
diverseinterests and agendas will achieve success. The church's
power
is. strong
enough that it is not
now capableof ".
being defeated by
frontal assault-and afrontal assault is what
Sunday's demonstration attempted to be.
The church's anticondom,anti-sex
education position
will only be defeatedby a strategy of subversion or
outflanking. subversion in thesense that Catholic lay people and low level. clergy will
eventually be persuaded of
the foolishnessof the church's
official position and will act
accordingly (as they do withrespect to birth control); outflanking in the sensethat otherreligiOUSand secular institutions will eventually be persuaded of the need to
criticize the Catholic Church's
position and to prevent it fromadversely affecting public
policy. ACT UPshould be able
to understand outflanking:you've repeatedly used it withsuccess on the issue of
mandatory testing.
But while this coalitionbuilding is desirable, evennecessary, I sincerely doubt
whether ACT UP,in the wakeof Sunday's demonstration,
will be able to find many
coalition partners. The question is: How sensitive is ACT
UP to people of different
lifestyles and subcultures?
Jewishcongregations. forexample, will ask: How different is the desecration of the
Eucharisrfrom the desecrationof synagogues? African-American communities may ask: If
ACT UP, an overwhelmingly
white organization, disrespects
white churchgoers, what are
they likely to do in Blackchurches, which are not only

Photo: EllenB.Neipris
religious institutions but major
conduits of political organization within the community? A
progressive union such as
Local 1199 may ask: Whyshould we ally with ACT UPtodenounce O'Connor when
the contract we signed with
the Catholic hospitals he controls was the key to winning a
breakthrough contract with all
hospitals?
I fearthat in the future
ACT UPwill only be able to findallies among those who shareits overwhelming commitment
to what, for lack of a better
term, may be described assexual radicalism. Thiswould behighly unfortunate, because
ACT UP'sachievements, particularlywith regard to AIDStreatment issues and to goading
government bureaucracies,
are tremendous lessonsfor allpolitical organizers.
ACT UP must decide
which it wants to be: amovement of AIDS militants.
or the vangu9rd of gay sexual liberation. ·It can be eithersome of the time, but it cannot be both all of the time.
ACT UP must decide
which ismore important: venting its rage against sexual
reactionaries, or building thecoalition that will defeat AIDS
and transform the politics ofhea~h care in thiscountry.
James E. Keenan
Brooklyn

January 7, 1990

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Times Blasted for
AIDS "Cure" Report
Coverage Criticized By Feds, Doctors and Activists

ACCURACY UNKNOWN

Dr. Anthony Fauci

by Gabriel Rotello
NEW YORK-When
The New
York Times reported Dec. 19 that doctors at Johns Hopkins School. of
Medicine had completely eliminatedHIV from the body of an AIDS patientin an experimentalbone marrow
operation, the front-page story sent a
whirlwind of hope and recriminations
through the AIDS community.
Although the patient ..'lbsequentIy died of AIDS related Iywphoma,
the articl.e, by AIDS-beat rei ')rter
Gina Kolata, marked the first tim<.. hatscientists had made such a sweeping
claim about eliminating HIV from aliving patient and effecting a "cure"for AIDS.
But many in the AIDS community
immediately raised questions about
the report's techniques, urged caution
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the Times for
sensationaland misleading reporting.
And in a
article the following day in
the Washington Post,. NIAID director
Dr. Anthony
Fauci characterized theTimes reportas "blown outof proportion" and stated that, "Toin any way
construe thisashavingcured this paPhoto: Jim Marks
tient of HIV
infectionis
not warranted by the data.· The Times
itself ran another article on Dec. 21,
also by Kolata, reporting Fauci's objections and more or less recanting muchof its original story.
Cure or lure?
The original Times article, which
ran under the headline "Physicians rid
a man's body of AIDS virus in experiment" reported on a paper appearing
in the December issue of the Annals
of Internal Medicine. In that paper,
scientists
from Johns
Hopkins
describe the experimental treatmentof a 41-year-old man who had AIDS
and ah advanced lymphoma.
According to. the Times article,
the scientists removed the man's
entire bone marrow through a combination of radiation and chemotherapy.
Bone marrow produces the body's

immune system cells, which become
infected and impaired in people withAIDS.
The scientists
attempted
todestroy the man's entire immune system, and thus his HIV infection,
replacing it with healthy bone marrow transplanted from a donor. Thisnew bone marrow would then produce a new immune system free fromHIV. During the procedure,
thepatient was suffused with high dosage
AZT, to prevent any lingering HIVfrom reinfecting his cells.
According to the scientists, thetransplanted bone marrow grew toreplace the man's old marrow. He
continued to show lingering signs of
HIV infection for 32 days, but afterthat all HIV tests were negative. The
man died 47 days after the operation,
reportedly from the lymphoma, which
remained uncured by the procedure.
FollOWing his death, scientists
conducted an extensive autopsy tosearch for remaining HIV, but reportedly found none. They employed atechnique called polymerase chain
reaction (PCR), which can detect viralgenes, in examining his brain, heart,lungs,
liver,
spleen,kidneys,intestines, lymph nodes and tumor.
'Within the limits" or Out of Bounds?
The Times article was careful tomention that the HIV had been eliminated "within the limits of detection:
And NIAlD's Fauci told the Washington Post that "the accuracy of PCR for
detecting the virus in the tissues of
AIDS patients after death is not known.
It's a big, big gap in this study."
Dr. Bernard Bihari, the executive
director of New York's Community
Research Initiative, called the reportnaive. "We don't know how PCR

works even in living tissue, so claiming HIV was eliminated based on a
PCR done after death, that's a big
claim to make," he told Out Week
Mark Harrington, of ACf UP's
Treatment and Data Committee, concurred, saying "It's hard to believe theprocedure got rid of every HIV cell."
Others,however,
were
intrigued by the scientists' claims.
Jim Eigo, also of ACf UP, called thetechnology "a promising matter toexplore."And Gina Kolata, in a
telephone interview, expressed concern that the AIDS activist community was discounting
the story
simply because she had written it
for the Times. "I first heard of thisstory from an ACT UP member,"
Kolata told Out Week. "It's a treatment that AIDS activists had beencalling for. There's a funny reactionthat when it finally shows up on
page one of the New York Times,
people say that it's no good, thatit's stupid."
Headlines and Deadlines
Nonetheless, many in the AIDS
community
who have previously
blasted the pa~r for what they called
its .inattention to the epidemic· criticized the Times for raising false hopeabout an extremely tentative andunproven experiment.
Doctors and members .of AIDS
service organizations were particularly
critical of the headlines accompanying
the story, which included one stating"Doctors eradicate AIDS in patient."
Dr. Bihari called such headlines, "Ethically highly questionable" and "irresponsible."
Derek Hodel of the PWA HealthGroup said, "I question those headlines, and why it's a front page story
at all. We suffer from these articles
because the front page of the Times
has intense political ramifications."
Dr. Gabriel Torres, a medical
consultant with the Gay Men's Health
Crisis said, "My main problems were
the headlines, and the fact that relevance of the story to the community
is not really addressed."
As a rule, it is editors, rather thanreporters, who write headlines for theTimes.
Assuming that there may eventu-·ally be some therapeutic benefit for atleast some patients, the transplant
procedure nevertheless costs between$100,000 and $200,000 per patient,according to Torres, who said thegovernment provides no funding forpatients seeking this form of therapy.
"We at GMHC heard about this awhile back,· Dr. Torres said. ·We
investigatedto see if one of ourclients would be eligible. But there
are no agencies who provide funding
for this, insurance companies won't
fund it, and the cost is exorbitant".
In addition to these hurdles, Torres pointed out that access to "marrow banks" is· extremely limited evenfor those few patients, mostly people
with leukemia, who presently could
benefit from such a procedure. Many
leukemia patients die while awaitinga marrow donor, according to Torres.
ACf UP's Eigo noted that findinga suitable marrow donor is easier
when fetal tissue can be used. How-.
ever, he pointed out that the Bush
Administration's recent ban on theuse of fetal tissue obtained throughabortions would complicate researchin this area. "It's a shame that wewould be proscribedin this area
because fetal tissue was unavailable,"
Eigo said. "It raises enormous social
problems."
About 25 percent of bone marrow
recipients die from the procedure
itself, according to the Times article,
adding another obstacle to widespreaduse of this therapy. Those along withthe fundamental unanswered questionof whether it even worked in this firstexperiment, raised questions of why
the word "cure" appeared prominently
in the Times article.
"I never said the man· wascured,"
reporter
Kolatatold
Out Week. "I went nuts pointing outthat the guy died. No one wants toraise false hopes. But I disagree
when people say we were giving
false hope to people with AIDS. I'm
not an ACT UP member. I don't say
to myself, 'What would ACf· UP say'every time I write a story. But they
don't understand how a stqiy is written." Kolata added that 1!hehad been
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ACTUP/Boston Slams
HIV Test Stance ofMajor AIDS Groupby Masha Gessen
BOSTON-In a rare public display of
discord within the community,
ACT
UPlBoston staged a day-long picket at theoffices of the AIDS Action Committee of
Massachusetts on Dec. 1, World AIDS Day.
At issue, activists said, was the AIDS-service organization's lack of a policy encouraging voluntary HN testing.
The successful use of aerosolized
pentamidine
to prevent pneumocystis
carinii pneumonia, the leading cause ofdeath among people with AIDS, has
prompted many AIDS organizations' tofrenounce their neutral stands of HIV testing in favor of pro-active policies. Other
groups followed suit last summer, when
the government publicized the putatively
impressive results of a study of AZT in
asymptomatic HIV-positives. AZT is currently the only government-approved
treatment for HIV-infection.
Among institutions that have taken astand in favor of voluntary testing andearly-intervention treatment are the San
Francisco AIDS Foundation, the WhitmanWalker Clinic in Washington, D.C., New
York's Gay Men's Health Crisis and even

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his organization is not"against testing." Rather,said Kessler,
the AAC board
feels that "pe0ple who consid
e rthemselves atrisk, and feel
that
they
should be tested, should betested at an
anonymous
testingsite
with counseling."
But ACT
UP/Bostonmembers criti-

cized this philosophy, arguing that the
AAC should actively use its resources andinfluence to encourage people at risk for
HN infection to be tested. "Early testingsaves lives--period!" proclaimed one ofthe placards at the picket, while anothercharged that the AAC "fails the HIV test."

Timing is Everything
Even participantsin the ACT UP
protest acknowledged that members of the
AAC staff had indicated that the organization was preparing to change its policy.
Kessler confirmed that the AAC board is"committed to making a statement in January," that will herald a change in policy.
But ACf UP members still decried the service organization's lack of urgency in taking what other groups have seen as a
critical step.
"We are confident that they're going tocome out with a policy, but they're taking
longer than the Department of Public HealtJi."
exclaimed Ed Boyce, one of the protesters.
"Their bureaucracy interferes," added
John laBella, an ACT UP/Boston member
who also serves as an AAC "buddy." "It's
sad that they would come out with a policy
the same time or later than a state agency."
The Massachusetts Department of
Public Health announced in Novemberthat it would launch a campaign toencourage widespread voluntary mv testing. Within weeks, however, the state
health commissioner told the Boston Globe
that he had decided to delay the campaign
for at least a month, because Kessler and
AAC board members had "pleaded formore time" to prepare the organization forthe onslaught of new clients.
The head of the state AIDS planning
office explained that AAC representatives"v,rere afraid they would get swamped."
And an article in an AAC newsletter
distributed to staff members and volunteers

also warned that a campaign encouraging
testing would create increased demand for
AAC services. "A kind of service gridlock
results," stated the author of the article,
describing the changes precipitated by the
San Francisco AIDS Foundation's change intesting policy. "Worse, AIDS service organizations ...are perceived to be unresponsive
to HIV-positive people,· the writer continued. ·Volurueers, staff and donors struggle
and become demoralized."Interpreting the article as a statemeru
that the AAC does not encourage testing
because it cannot afford to serve the people who test positive, ACT UP members
decided to lend a helping hand to the
AAC's fund-raising auction two days after
the protest. Several members of the activist
organization greeted auction attendees withleaflets that urged them to "bid high tonight[for] HIV testing-the stakes are high!"
But when questioned
about thenewsletter anicle, Kessler acknowledgedthat the AAC has never served HIV-positive
individuals who have not been diagnosed
as having AIDS, and that the organization
has no plans to offer new services.
Kessler also expressed concern that if .
AIDS Action began encouraging voluntary
testing, Boston "might see what happenec!
in New York: everybody rushed out for six
weeks, ...and it flooded the market in away, contributing to the collapse of thesystem of care." Kessler later acknowledged, however, that the state of healthcare institutions in the greater Boston area
is already as bad as that of the New York
City health-care system.

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A [Not So,)Simple Issue
The executive director also raised
objections based on what he called "thepsychology of testing.""The thing that bothers me is thekind of calls we get on the [MC) hotline
two to three times a day, from people
who tested positive and think that they are
fIne, or in the opposite case, from people
who test negative but are convinced thatthey are infected and get tested every twomonths," offered Kessler, suggesting that achange in the AAC's testing policy may
not encourage the right people to get the
test. "The 'worried well' have been a problem since the beginning of this epidemic,"
Kessler added.
Further narrowing the definition ofsuitable candidates
for the HIV test,
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A TOUCH OF EVil?
ACT UP flyer blasting AAC
people who have insurance to rush out toan alternative [anonymous) testing site andthen go to their primary-care physician
and get their T-cells and bill it to· theirinsurance." Since a T-cell count-a measure of immune-system health--'serves as
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policyholder is
HIV-positive,
Kessler proposed that at
least
some
anonymous
testingsites
add
T-cellcounts to theirmenu.
Currently
Massachusetts has
approximately

27 state-run
anonymous
testing sites,
which
are
required by law to offer pre- and post-testing counseling.
Duane Draper, director of the AIDS
Office at the state health department, confirmed that public health officials and
AIDS advocates "are discussing adding thecapacity to monitor T-cells." But even if

the health department's already-squeezedbudget allows for this addition, the earliest
point at which the state can offer T-cellmonitoring will be August of 1990, according to Draper.
Kessler pointed to the T-cell counts
as just one issue that makes the questionof testing policy "not simple at all," contrary to what he hears ACT UP representatives saying. "We're going to urge people
to get tested, but we are going to havesome qualifiers," Kessler promised.
ACT UPIBoston members responded
that they did not object to caveats in
AAC's policy. "Most of the organizations
that have a policy do have exceptions intheir policies," acknowledged ACT UP'sDaniel Pitcher, who wrote a staterpent
ACT.UP offered to the AACas a prototype
for its new policy. The proposal simply
stated that "personal circumstances should
be a determinant in when and how to get
tested, not whether to be tested."
Draper of the health department

seemed to favor ACT UP's approach. "You
don't just need T-cell mOnitoring," Draper
stated. "You need mental-health services,
you need better access to health care. But
at the same time, people who know theyare HIV-infected have a chance to get
medical help, and people who do notknow they are HIV-infected have nochance to get medical help."

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To further justify his organization'S
choice to step slowly and carefully, Kessler
suggested that a new AAC philosophy
would lend credibility to increasing calls forcontact tracing. "I don't want to make it too
easy for the right wing to say, 'Look, even
AIDS Action is in favor of contact tracing'
because we're saying that now there is reason to get tested," Kessler stated.
Although Massachusetts has one of
the strictest HIV-confidentiality laws in thenation, a bill now pending in the state legislature would institute contact tracing inthe state. The legislation started out as acurrent-partner-notification
enabling bill,
but was amended to extend to past partners and other deemed unknowingly at
risk. When the bill was flrst introduced in
the state House of Representatives, Kessler
testified in favor of it.
"Partner notification is not contact
tracing," Kessler offered in defense of his
support for the bill. "Primarily' the reason
we supported that bill [as it was drafted]
was to prevent contact tracing." After
Kessler'S testimony in favor of the bill
became public knowledge
earlier thisyear, he faced severe criticism from ACT
UP and other corrupunity organizations.
The majority of members of the
AAC's own Government Relations Committee had recommended that the organization oppose the bill, and the board had
voted to take no position. When Kessler
testified in favor of the legislation, however, he created the impreSSion that the AAC
favored the bill. As the executive directorof the AAC since the group's inception,
and a member of the I5-person National
AIDS Commission, Kessler is widely considered
the most influential
AIDS
spokesperson in the state.
"Another thing we need to acknowledge is that confldentiality, on a certain
level, is a myth," Kessler elaborated. "I see
it violated all the time, most of the time bypeople with AIDS themselves, talking
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1989's Top Lesbian/Gay News Items from Washington

Up on the HiU:JustWhere
DoWeStand?
by Cliff O·Neili
WASHINGTON-While earth-shatteringchanges ~>nthe political landscape anddevastating natural disasters on the physical one made 1989 a memorable news
year, events in gay and lesbian news
throughout the year were also quite conspicuous.
But from inside the Capital Beltway,
where wins and losses on the gay and lesbian agenda were felt on a daily basis,. none stood out as clearly as others had inyears past.
Unlike 1987, there was no National
March on Washington on which to focus.

Unlike 1988, 'thei-~ was no landmark pieceof legislation passed ·to compare with thefederal AIDS omnibus bill,
And in the tradit~on of scandal as thechief focus, ··of the pu blic attention, in
1989, one of Rur .own, openly gay Rep.
Barney Frank' (D"MA.) found himself
caught in the downpour of bad press that
accompanied many, other 1989 congressional deba~~s.., ~But while It ~y 3,ppear that the Barney Prank mess overshadowed
otherdevelopments ip A;fO~ and gay and lesbian issues, appearances can be deceiving.
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gay community seemed to draw as muchattention as did the revelations,
firstreported in late August by the conservative Washington Times, that openly gay
Rep. Barney Frank had employed a maleprostitute as a personal aide after initiallypaying him for sex.
While the right-wing newspaper
made no secret about its career expectations for the tough-talking, liberal standard
bearer, a month after the revelations were
made, even some of his supporters began
to doubt he would survive the deluge.
But while a handful of Prank supporters-mostnotably
the Boston
Globe-called
on Prank to resign andspare himself and his party continued bad
publicity, the leaders of ·the gay and lesbian movement, nearly in unison, supported the cigar-smoking congressman.
And in the wake of the scandal-which
now promises to continue through into
199O-up from the headlines came a newcelebrity destined to rank alongside the Jessica Halms and Donna Rices of history: maleprostitute and pimp Steven Gobie.
The man who would be the gay"Mayflower Madame," but who describes
himself as a heterosexual,
has since
invoked the Pifth Amendment in testiinony
before the House ethics committee investigating the fracas, and has sold his ·tale toPenthouse magazine, where it is said hewill name up to four other Congressmen
in his tales.
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In investigating another of what had
become a series of legal challenges to themilitary's policy of excluding lesbians andgay men, staffers at the Lambda Legal
Defense and Education Pund came acrossa "smoking gun." Armed with the cover
page of an undisclosed Pentagon reporton homosexuality and the military, they
employed the aid of openly gay Rep.
Gerry Studds (D-MA) to uncover the complete document.

For months, the Pentagon balked.
And even after its existence became publicknowledge, the report was so politically"hot" that Pentagon officials still would not,make it available.
The paper, a Department of Defensecommissioned study into homosexuality
and security risks, was never officiallyreleased, but it leaked into Studd's officethrough an anonymous source.
Once it was made public, however, thereport, "Nonconforming Sexual Orientations
and Military Suitability," and the defense
department memos rebuking it, shook the.
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NEWS ANALYSIS
ity of the movement to have the militaryrescind its exclusionary policy-a move-·ment that had both wins and losses in 1989.
Short of the passage of a congressional gay and .Iesbian rights bill, thereversal of the military's policy is the mostdramatic affIrmation of fede.ral gay andlesbian rights on the horizon.
AIDS Activists Shake Federal Bureaucracies
Massive, persistent demonstrations
across the country led the war against
AIDS in an unprecedented direction lastyear, as activists were ushered through thevery. doors at which they had protested so
loudly and long.
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News

Police Admit Errors,
Re-Open Abuse Probe
by John Voelcker
NEW YORK-In an unusual reversal of a previous decision, a police
bureau that investigates allegations ofpolice misconduct agreed to re-open a
Civilian Complaint Review Board(CCRB) investigation
into alleged
police violence at an ACf UP demonstration on Wall Street in March 1988.
And the head of the investigative
unit, Sandra Marsh, admitted that theinvestigation was done in ways thatt

Matters came to a head on Thursday, Nov. 30, at the last meeting of
the current Mayor's Police Council.
More than two dozen gay men andlesbians attended, according to participant Gerri Wells, as well as Police
Chief Robert Johnston and other highranking officers. Gay community
members unanimously and vocallycondemned the board for its complete
lack of credibility.
"I was very surprised," Wells said.
"Everybody was outraged and in total
agreement that the whole investigation was done incorrectly.
We
demanded that they re-open the case,and that they do· the job right thistime. It's what we pay them for.·Questioners who asked the CCRB
for details of its investigation were told,
Wells said, that the results were confidential and could not be released.
Attorney Joan Gibbs, of the Center for
Constitutional Rights, is now preparing
to subpoena the CCRB's full report on
the results of the investigation.

Statements "Troubling"
The most heated disagreement,
Wells said, came when Sandra Marshtold questioners that not enough credible witnesses to the alleged violenceI"~ existed.
OUTRAGED,OUTSPOKEN
Wells responded angrily that she
Gil"; Wells
Photo: Ellen B. Neipris
had statements in her· hand from 13"wouldn't happen today," and that the demonstratorsand four witnesses,
board in general probably lacks credi- including herself. "They all told thebility with New York's lesbian andsame story,· she said. "On the bus, aftergay community. "People who are vic- we were arrested, we all saw one
tims rightly believe the system doesn't
sergeant [whom Wells identified bywork in their interest," she said.
name and shield number) hitting and
The CCRB investigates allegations
kicking people at random. I evenby citizens of violence and misconleaned out the window to tell anotherduct by members of the New York officer what he was doing. And they say
City Pollee Department. It is made up all 17 of those reports aren't credible?"of six police officers and six civilians.
In an interview with Out Week,
The bureau that investigates such alle- Marsh said she had found it "troubling"
gations is staffed by both police and that all the statements alleged misbecivilians.
havior by a single officer. "Usually,"

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she said, "if people are making up a
story, they do it about everybody."
She also noted that several people who attended the meeting said
they had information that had notbeen requested by CCRB investigators. She called the lead investigatorfrom the meeting, Marsh said, asked
him about the new points that had
been raised and then instructed him
to prepare to re-open the case.
Things That "Wouldn't Happen Today"
Based on issues raised by theAnti-Violence Project after the casewas closed, she said, she told investigators to prepare a matrix that correlated the different
allegations,complainants, witnesses and officers.
The goal was to try to "get a common
thread" among the varying reports
and statements.
The matrix is now a standard toolfor CCRB investigators. But it was not
used when the complaint was firstinvestigated,
Marsh said. "Lots ofthings happened in that investigationthat wouldn't happen today,· she said.
The CCRB has done a postmortem on the demonstration,shesaid, and "we know the mistakes
were made. We should have been
faster, more thorough and dealt betterwith the issues raised."
Credibility MA Difficult Question~
Asked if she thought the CCRB
had credibility in the New York gay
and lesbian community, Marsh said,"That's difficult. I do understand theperspectives of individuals from outside the system, based on the results[produced by investigations)."
She cautioned that while only 12
percent of allegations of misconduct
are substantiated-up
from ten percent before she arrived in March
1988-afinding that charges areunsubstantiated does not exoneratethe officers involved.
Investigations can result in various outcomes: substantiated, unsubstantiated,unfounded,
officer(s)exonerated, or complainants or witnesses unavailable or uncooperative.
In this case, she said, "I don't
want to raise anyone's expectations.
I'm hoping that we will get good andsolid evidence that will move us·toward a just resolution. Whatever theoutcome is, we want to be satisfied
that we did everything we could do."At least one complainant, however, will no longer answer questions
from the CCRB. Lewis Holman, 30, an
ACf UP member who was at the WallStreet demonstration, told OutWeek
he felt that cooperating with the newinvestigation would simply validate"the pretense that [the CCRB] is afunctioning body."
Holman complained to the CCRB
in 1985 about press statements by
uniformed officers who said that lesbians and gays should not be part ofsociety, much less on the police force.
He told the board, he said, that he did
not feel the police would protect him
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said. The board told him that the officers' right to free speech under theFirst Amendment took precedence,and that only if their words incited ariot could they be disciplined. Holman says he has'now given up on the
CCRB, and doesn't intend to "wastetime" giving them information beyond
what was in his initial affidavit.
"It's a laughably
ineffective
body," he shrugged.
Wells voiced a similar skepticism.
She cautioned that a new investigation is no guarantee that the CCRB's
findings will change. "The system isn't
designed to work for gay people," shesaid. "They just laugh at us."Anyone who has information on
any improper police actions at the ACT
UP demonstration on Wall Street on
March 24, 1988, can contact either Gerr;
Wells, at (212) 475-4363; the NY Lesbiar
and Gay AntiNiolence Project, at (212)807-6761; or the Civilian Complaint
Review Board at (212) 323-8750. 'Y
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21

Out Takes
Rosanne's"faggy"dilelDlDa
LOS ANGELES-Movie actress andtelevision comedian Roseanne Barr on
Dec. 20 responded to critics in the gay
and lesbian community regarding published comments in which she referred toa film competingwith her own newrelease as being "faggy.""I will continue to work against
racism, sexism, class ism and homophobia,· stated Barr through a spokesperson.
"I will add 'faggy' to my list of unsayable,
hateful words.·
Barr, star of ABC television's
Roseanne, made her controversial statements in the Dec. 7 Washington Post,
speaking about her new film She-Devil.
"Our movie is not like Steel Magnolias,· said Barr. "That was a faggy movie
where all the women were men. Our
movie depicts strong, bitchy women who
don't just sit around. And no, I don't thinkthey are too bitchy. Women can never be
too bitchy ..."
But those reacting to Barr's originalstatement are now only marginally satisfied with the comedian's succinct responseto their concerns.
"Ms. Barr's statement is a good firststep in that it acknowledges that the word
'fag' is not appropriate for common use,"reported Karin Schwartz, assistant directorof the New York-based Gay and Lesbian
Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD).
"However, it doesn't begin to go far
enough when you consider the millions ofpeople-particularly
straight people-who
heard about the first quote, but will neverhear the statement.·
Shortly after being apprised of thecomments,
GLAAD began a series ofnegotiations with Barr's openly lesbian sis-.
ter Geraldine Barr to secure a commitment
from the entertainer fo~ an apology and,possibly, a videotaped
public service
ann01,lncement condemning anti-gay and:j.nti-Iesbian discrimination and violence.
According to Schwartz, Geraldine
Barr expressed that Roseanne's comments
were made in the context of speaking

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against Hollywood'ss~ereotypingof
women in rums and was not made out ofbigotry. Geraldine reportedly
further
expressed that Roseanne was very receptive to the idea of creating the public service announcements.
However, after the week of telephone
conversations,described
bySchwartz as "highly productive," personal
problems on Roseanne Barr's part led to a
postponement of further negotiations.
Soon thereafter,
the matter wasreferred to Roseanne Barr'S public relations agents who released the comedian's
Dec. 7 statement, one week after the lastcontact between GLAAD and Geraldine
Barr.
Still, GLAAD is disappointed at what
they are characterizing as the "smokescreen" which has been put up· between
her and the Barrs by the public relations
agents.
"Evidently,· Schwartz contends, "Ms.
Barr's public relations experts didn't likethe direction in which the negotiations
were heading, and have interceded. Consequently, pure public relations interests
may prevent Ms. Barr from doing something truly decent at this time, somethingthat we think we honestly believe in. The
bollom line is, that in the homophobic
world in which we live, it is beuer textbook public relations to alienate the gay
and lesbian community rather than run therisk of angering bigots in the straight community."
Since receiving Roseanne Barr's tersestatement, Schwartz's attempts to contact
Geraldine Barr directly and through herpress agent have been unsuccessfuL•A week ago I was talking the language of commitment with Geraldine
Barr," Schwartz added. "So this all is
unfortunate. "Schwartz said that even before being
apprised of Barr's controversial statement,
had contemplated approachirlg Barr for a
pro-gay public service announcement,
based on her history of feminism and her
public acknowledgmentof having gay
family members.
And in the ·meantime, GLAAD willconcentrate on other candidates it considers approachable, includirig Tony Danza,
Beatrice Arthur, Clint Eastwood, Madonna,. Whoopi Goldberg, Jay ieno, Bette Midler,

Roseanne Barr
Robin Williams, Lily Tomlin, Bill Cosby,
Billy Crystal and Malcolm Jamal-Warner, in
an attempt to generate other pro-gay ads.
Uist year, Schwarlz negotiated a widely
publicized public selViceannouncement fromcomedian Bob Hope after he casually used
the word "fag" on an episode of the TonightShow.
-CllffO'Nelll

WOlDen and
AIDS inNYC
NEW YORK-More than a third of
New York City women at highest risk for
AIDS incorrectly believe that the diseaseaffects only homosexuals and that HN canbe transmitted by mosquito bites, according to the findings of a major citywide survey on women and AIDS by ~he healthdepartment here.
Citing the large number of lowincome, minority women who are statistically at risk for AIDS, the Department of
Health interviewed
1,850 women in
Brooklyn, the Bronx, Queens and Manhattan, most of whom were Puerto Ricans orAfrican-Americans living below the federal
poverty line.
While almost all women knew thatHIV can be transmitted via semen and that"condom use is effective in preventingHIV transmission,· only 32 percent havebegun using, or increased their use of,
condoms.
Some 14 percent cited their partners'
refusal to use condoms as the reason they·occasionally· or ·never" used condoms.
Fifteen percent stopped having sex all
together.
More than half of the women mistakenly thought transmission of the virus
associated with AIDS impossible by sharing food utensils and by giving blood. In
New York City, AIDS is the leading causeof death in women aged 25 to 39, and ofchildren aged one to four.
Although the health department said
that this is the largest survey of its kind toever have been done here, the results did
not tally significant statistical informationon lesbians. The questionnaire did ask
about sex partners: 1.2 percent of the
respondents said they had sex exclusively
with other women, while one percent said
they had sex with both men and women.
Dr. Stephen Joseph, the city's outgoing health commissioner and a frequent
proponent of large-scale, confidential HIV
testing, stated that the survey confirmed
some of his department's
working
hypotheses: Of the women planning totake the HN antibody test, 25 percent said
they would be tested only if the results
were' kept anonymous, but 75.percent said
they would be tested ·confidentially." Currently, all public HN testing in New YorkState is done anonymously.
Of the total women surveyed, 42 percent were Hispanic, 31 percent were
African-American and 27 percent wer'e
white. All were between ages 25 and 39.
-Rick SugdenHigh school
gets gayrightsOAK PARK, Illinois-A
suburban
Chicago high school board has passed discrimination protections for gay and lesbianstudents following a seven-month fightwith fundamentalist Christians.
The Oak Park-River Forest HighSchool Board voted unanimously Dec. 13
to add the phrase ·sexual orientation" toits Human Dignity and Diversit.ypolicy.
Board president Alexander Schmidt
told reporters, "Frankly, I was· a little surprised at the vehemence of the opposition
and the distortions."
Christians had faced off against a
coalition of school groups, church leaders,
government officials and community
activists in opposing the gay protections.
The Christians blanketed the citywith anti-gay leaflets and took out large
ads in newspapers, charging the bO<lrdwith endorsing homosexuality and opening the door for gay proms, gay curriculaand gay awareness month.

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They also said the policy would
encourage students to turn gay and bringhomosexual teachers to the district.
At one public hearing in November,more than 400 people argued abou.t thepolicy for four hours. Many said they had
come only because of their anger over the
Christian "hate mail."
According to Mel Wilson of the Oak
Park Lesbian .and Gay Organization, thelengthy public debate "has been the bestthing .ever to happen to Oak Park gays
[because] awareness of sexual orientation
is now at an all-time high."
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population and passed a city gay rights
law earlier this year.
The new school board policy isbelieved to be the first of its kind in Illinois, and Robert Bray, spokesman for the

National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, said
it may be the first in the nation.
Bray added that ·whenever we winin the suburbs, we know we are making
formidable progress. It's gratifying," hesaid, "to know that to some degree theright-wing religious arch-conservatives
sealed their own fate on this. People will
respond negatively to hate mail because
they believe in the truth."-RexWockner

AIDS•
Insurance
down under
SYDNEY,Australia-An Austr:ilian airline has agreed to give a sizable lump sum
payout to employees who have AIDS ifthey become too ill to continue working.
Australia'S national carrier included
the new provision in its superannuation
scheme, Australia'S version of Social Security, following lobbying efforts by theflight attendant's union on behalf of threeflight attendants who have AIDS.
Previously, people who could notcontinue working because of illness or
disability had only two options. They
could resign and take a modest payout
based on the·ir superannuation contributions, or they could remain with the company which would pay them a small
weekly disability pension. If they diedwhile on the pension, they would still becovered by the superannuation scheme's
life insurance policy, and their estates
would receive a considerable death benefit. For some PWAs this means they will
receive up to three times the payout they
could have expected if they resigned
under the old conditions.
One of the three flight attendants
who first approached the AFAAfor help ingetting
the improved
entitlements
described the deciSion as a major victoryfor PWAs in an area where to date they
have received "a pretty raw deaL""Superannuation and insurance are
the two areas where people with AIDS
and HIV infection have suffered major
civil rights defeats," he said. "Decisions
like this go a long way to recovering someof the ground we have lost."-Terrence
Bell

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AIDS

housingrightsupheldCHICAGO-The American Civil Liberties Union of Illinois (ACLU) announced
today it has reached a settlement in thefederal lawsuit it Hied on behalf of Charles
Baxter against the City of Belleville, Illinois.
The city had tried to prevent Baxter
from opening a home for people withAIDS or HIV infection.
According to John Hammell, Directorof the ACLU's AIDS and Civil Liberties Project, the suit was the first in the nation
flied under the federal Fair Housing Act toprotect people with AIDS.
According to the settlement agreement, the city of Belleville will pay Baxter$29,000, plus his attorney's fees and costs
connected with bringing suit. The city also·
guarantees that Baxter and persons working with him will be allowed to operate
the home for persons with HIV infection
or AIDS. And the city has promi~ed torefrain from any interference' with Baxter.
"The resolution of this case should
help stop housing discrimination based on
AIDS," Hammel said. "It makes clear there
is a federal legal remedy for such discrimination, and anyone who commits suchdiscrimination-including
government
bodies-will have to pay for their actions."

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PRAGUE-As Czechoslovakia, alongwith much of Eastern Europe, races
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community is equally dizzying.
"I'm surprised you even got throughon the telephone," said Jan Lany, founderof Lambda Prague, now called Lambda
Czechoslovakia. "Many evenings I am on
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Lany's home phone doubles as
Prague's gay switchboard.
The most obvious impact of what
Lany called "the November 17th Revolution"-the day police violently broke up a
student demonstration
and unwittingly
toppled the government-is
the race toform gay groups throughout the country.
Every day 1 receive news from another city ready to set up a group," Lany said.
"There are three independent groups in
Prague now and organizations on the way
in Ostrava, Brno, Bratislava, throughout
the country."
Starting this month, a new youth
magazine will feature two "gay pages"
every issue. This follows several positive
newspaper reports on Lambda and theCzech gay community in the months following Lany and his lover Richard's returnfrom July's International Lesbian and Gay
Association world conference in Vienna.
But Lambda does have a thorny
media relations problem.
"I can't fmd anybody who is openly
gay and can appear in front of TV cameras," Lany said. "Perhaps it's going tohave to be me to talk for TV
Lany does not think his job as a highschool teacher would be imperiled if hebecame Czechoslovakia's first televised
homosexuaL
At the moment, Lambda hosts a
weekly gay community social at theVinarna U Petra Voka Wine Cellar. And
along with Prague's other gay groups, theyarrange bimonthly trips to the country andvarious evenings of speakers or entertainment.
Lambda has about 80 members,
although the bulk of the work is done by
12 people, Lany said.
AIDS is consu ming more of thegroup's energy each month b.ecause,
accordingto Lany, the majority ofCzechoslovak gays don't yet feel threatened by the disease.
At last count, three persons had died,
20 were sick and 150 had tested positivefor HIV antibodies.
"The majority of [men having sex
with each other) still think that AIDS simply hasn't appeared in Czechoslovakia,"
Lany said. "They go for outside cruising in
the park and so on and have sex withanybody. We try our best to give educa-

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CHICAGO-Two gay journalists who
unsuccessfully tried 'to obtain a marriage
license have lost their appeal to the lllinois Human Relations Commission.
Paul Varnell and Out Week nationalcorrespondent Rex Wockner fLIed a complaint with the state Departmentof
Human Rights last spring after Wockner
was encouraged to do so by bureaucrats
he was interviewing regarding Chicago's
new f1uman Rights Ordinance.
In rejecting the appeal, the Commission said the state Human Rights Act,
which outlaws discrimination based on·gender, was not meant to overturn thestate marriage act, which specifies thatmarriage partners must be of opposite
sexes.
Wockner and Varnell had claimed
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Boston Journal

Lesbian Allegiancesby Masha Gessen

all four of us accumulated enough residence time to become eligible for u.s.
Nothing happened. At least that's
citizenship.
what the newspaper
reportersaid,
My parents and my brother applied
when I called to tell her about the apand were naturalized, and my motherproval of my application for U.S. citiand father registered to vote as Republizenship. What she meant is that noth- cans, like everyone else who lived ining out of the ordinary happened: I the neighborhood
into which my faapplied for naturalization, and, like any
ther's by-then six-figure income had
other legal refugee who has lived intaken them. I stalled, because I am athis country
long enoughand canprocrastinator,and because for fourdemonstrate proficiency in U.S. history
years already I had been quite publicly
and the English language, I was grantout as a lesbian, which most likely
made me a person of insufficiently
ed citizenship-despite
my insistence
on mentioning at every juncture that I good moral character in the eyes of theam a lesbian.
Immigration and Naturalization Service.
The reporter was right. The seOver the next two and a half years,
quence of events briefly known as myI updated my application for naturalizatest case would make for a terrible artition three times-eachtime filing thecle: a drawn-out tedious beginning, a completed
form
in
my
desk
drawer-wrote.
half adozen articles about
the immigration
laws
pertaining to gays andlesbians, and continuously
performedamentalrisk-benefit
analysiS of applying fornaturalization
as anopen lesbian. In Augustof 1988 I finally called
a gay immigration
lawyer and told him I
THE AUTHOR BECOMES A lESBIAN-AMERICAN
wanted to challenge
Photo: Nina Reyes
the INS policy of disshort and shallow middle part and a criminating against homosexuals.
I felt breathtakingly liberated, like I
completely predictable ending. No tension whatsoever. A flop.
had felt the day we received the exit
visa. I knew it wouldn't be easy, but I
It all began
in Decemberofactually looked forward to the hurdles
1978-precisely
11 years, or half of mylife ago-when
my father took our apof the next five or eight years: the hearplication for an exit visa to the Office ofings, the appeals, the fundraisingto
Visas and International
Travel incover the astronomical legal fees, theMoscow. A trying two and a half years
demonstrations in front of the INS andlater, my mother, my father, my six-yearthe Supreme Court, the endless phone
old brother Konstantin and I landed at calls from reporters,
the fame, theBoston's Logan Airport. Over the next
glory ...Even my new lawyer seemed exfive years, my brother changed
hiscited, in a lawyerly sort of way.
name to Keith, I tried in vain to keep
We filed my papers with some faneveryone from calling me Marsha andfare in February. My application con-28

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tained at least three instances of thewords gay and lesbian, and a special
cover letter declared war.
An uneventful
ten months later, I
received an invitation to appear in thecafeteria of Boston Latin High Schoolfor the swearing-in ceremony. Despite
my attorney's insistence that she would
be breaking INS policy, the INS official
who interviewed me had approved myapplication. And the agency processed
my papers about four months ahead ofschedule.
The morning of the ceremonyI
was filled with dread. Joking with mylover about the possibility that the INS
notice was a trap, and that I would be
put on a plane to Moscow instead ofgetting sworn in, I suddenly developed
an uncomfortably heightened awarenessof my surroundings
and of the easewith which my condominium-owning,
Levi's-wearing,
Japanese-car-driving,two-kinds-of-computers-using
lifestylecould be destroyed.
I was suddenly
conscious
not only of being in theshower with my lover, but of all the improbabilityof such a setting in the
country where I grew up.
With my right hand raised as
though I were taking an oath, I modeled several outfits in front of the mirror. I checked the amount of cash in mypocket and mentally assessed its buying
power in Moscow. On some not-sodeep level, the possibility of being sent
back to the Soviet Union seemed no
more unrealistic than the possibility of
becoming an American citizen.
The flag was the first thing I saw
when we entered the oldest high schoolin the country (founded in 1635, a 'year
before Harvard University). There werealready several hundred people in theschool cafeteria, most of them still wearing their coats, jammed together on uncomfortable benches, Ellis Island-style, I
sat down on a nearly empty bench, but
was immediately joined by people on
both sides. A woman and her teenage
son sat down to my right, speaking English to each other. The woman's accent
identified her as Soviet-born. A young
man squeezed in to my left. He waswearing a tiny gold hoop in his left ear,
and was laughing and flailing his hands
the way so many of my acquaintances
do. I laughed at myself for thinking that
here, of all places, I would be the onlyone.
To my surprise, everyone aroundme Was speaking English, joking anddiscoursing with ease. I realized that I
had expected a bunch of immigrants
and instead was confronted with Americans a lot like me. A number of people
were wearing American-flag buttons intheir lapels. Mine was an American flagwith a pink triangle.
Three hours later, we were finallyushered into a beautiful old auditorium,
where the walls were decorated with
the names of the high school's famous
alumni-Adams,
Emerson, Kennedy. My
lover and I sat down in the front row
just as INS officials were placing a flagon the stage--a brand new one, with ashiny gold fringe.
As the judge began speaking,I
wondered if I would be allowed a final
momentof truth---'some
sort of a.
"speak-now-or-forever-hold-your.-peace"
op·portunity, when I could get up in
front of the 381 applicants and as many
guests and declare that I was still a lesbian. I began to sweat as I imagined themoment. But then the court clerk directed us to stand up and recite the oath ofallegiance, and I realize9 it was all over.
Then the judge began a speech, directed at all of us from Vietnam, Korea
and the Soviet Union, about the American tradition of democracy, the Americans' tradition of apathy and our duty toparticipate in the political process evenas those for whom it is a birthright neglect to do so. To my surprise and embarrassment,
I felt close to crying infront of the 381 people who would un~
derstand, and about as many who probably wouldn't.
After almost nine years in thiscountry, I felt mature and healthily cynical. It had taken me a few years to feelsecure enough to acknowledge that thiscountry is not perfect. It was some time
before I decided that Ayn Rand was
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able to look to television for (misinformed) "reasons" to beat us up.
We suggest you write to WABC
and encourage them to cover some of
the real stories relating jointly to gay
issues and the homeless. Such as how
the gay and lesbian teenage homelessare forced out onto the streets by homophobic violence in the shelters andinadequate social programs tailoredspecifically for them. And such as how
the government's inadequate responseto the AIDS crisis, as well as homo-.
phobic insurance company policies,
have forced many people with AIDS
in~o poverty and out of their homes.
Write to: Mr. William Applegate,
News Director, WABC-TV, 77 West

ABC-lV in New Yorkhas blamed gays andlesbians for the factthat some homeless people are forced
to sleep out in the cold, on the streets.
In late November,
WABC-TV's
Tappy
Phillips did a report on
hOl1)eless people, andhow the violence andtheft in New York City
shelters is forcing many
to sleep in the street.
Her report centered on a comment by
one homeless personthat the reason heprefers to sleep in thestreet is because homosexuals are attacking
homeless people inshelters and raping
them. The homelessman then pointed to a homeless youth, 66th St., New York, NY 10023.
A GLAAD member in Clevelandand stated that he was "violated" lasthas written to us about a regular
week.
columnist for the Cleveland Plain
There was no attempt to place
Dealer, which is Ohio's largest newsthis man's comments in the generalcontext of the general high level of vi- paper with over 350,000 readers statewide. The columnist, Michael Heaton,
olence and crime on the streets andalso goes by a self-appointed title ofin shelters. And there was no attempt"Minister of Culture." As his columns
to coun·teract the premise that thethreat of violence and physical assault bear out, the "culture" that he ministers
to is a homophobic one .
derives entirely from homosexuals.
. A column he wrote earlier thisViewers could not help but beleft with the impression that WABC- . Fall, entitled "Earthquake shakes one
lV believes that gays are largely to flaky place," was supposed to beabout how proud San Francisco
blame for the plight of homeless peoshould be of its cultural richness,ple. The people who hate us alreadydo not need to be told by WABC-lV· specifically as the home town of sevthat they are justified in continuing to eral famous rock music groups. A rundo so. And gay-bashers shouldn't be riing pun was the very physical rock-30

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ing and rolling that hit San Francisco
in the form of the recent earthquake.
A seemingly innocuous enoughsubject, one would think. Yet Heaton
managed to throw in a gratuitousparagraph about San Francisco dedicated to slamming the gays who live
there. He wrote:'There's also the homosexual stigma. I lived there for three years and remember telling people on airplanes orother places where people from allover the map are forced to gather andchat, that I was an S.F.resident... There
was always a bit of a pause and you
could see the subconscious eyebrowsbeing raised. Then you felt like you had
to make a joke or talk about yournonexistent experiences
in 'Nam so they wouldn't
think you were a nancyboy."According to the
GLAADmember, Heaton
has been writing similarmaterial ever since he
was hired. He has labelled clothes worn by
Europeanpolicemen"nancy boy" uniforms,
and has editorialized onwhat he feels was RockHudson's questionablestatus as a "real man."
These are the kindof statements made by
one who is insecure about his.or her
own sexual orientation,
and whowants to affirm at all costs the he is"not that way." They certainly
shouldn't be confused as sophisticated social commentary and they surely
don't deserve regular column space ina legitimate newspaper.
Write to Michael Heaton's editor,
Julie Washington. Let her know that
Heaton's insecurity-ridden and stereotype-filled gay material belongs in a
psychiatrist'S office, and not in a
newspaper.
Write: Julie E. Washington, Editor,
Friday MagaZine, Cleveland Plain
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wrong on many subjects besides homosexuality. It took even longer to stop
equating political progress with the retardation of world communism. I could
now bitch and p;otest with the rest of
gay and lesbian activists without feelingslightly traitorous.
But there was at least one bit of
Ayn Rand-ism, described in some outof-print book, that held meaning forme even after the age of 17. It seems
that that other Jewish woman who fled
the Soviet Union was standing on a
New York street corner one day, handing out political leaflets. Some passerby
noted her accent and questionedherright to be proselytizing on an American street corner. To which Rand respondedwith something
like this:"That's right! I chose to be an American. What did you ever do, besides
being born here?"So, standing in a high school auditorium, listening to a federal judge givea speech he probably repeats weekly, I
felt fiercely proud to have chosen thiscountry, whose institutions discriminate
against membersof my community,
whose highest court·rules that we haveno right to privacy and whose· politicalleaders often exhibit the same kind of
intolerance that I fled when I left theSoviet Union. I still cannot name acountry where I would rather become
a citizen. At home, I told my lover
about my fruitless wait for a final opportunity to ask the INS why a lesbian
was being sworn in as a citiZen. "You
could have said something when thejudge said, 'Speak now or forever holdyou peace,'" she responded. It appears
that in .my anxious state I blanked out
my opportunity.
So, nothing happened. Except thatone person with few rights anywhere in
the world-my
official designation until
the ceremony was "stateless"-issued.
achallenge, and a huge government institution did not even rise to defend
decades of homophobic
practice. As
battles go, it was downright boring. But
then again, perhaps most battles are notthat exciting-whichmakes me wonder
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Political Science

Drug of the Monthby Mark Harrington

For far too long, mainstream
AIDS research has focused
most of its attention on the
behavior of HIV in the test tube. How
HIV interacts within the human bodyremains poorly understood. There is
still no concise explanation of how
HIV causes such immune devastation
while remaining difficult to isolate.
With tests like PCR (polymerase chain
reaction), which detects viral DNA incells where the virus is not active,
HIV can be detected in only 1/1,000
T4 cells from people with advanced
disease.
Clearly, many pieces
are missing from the puzzle of the pathogenesis of
AIDS. This fall, much publicity followed
reports
from Stanford and the National Institutes of Health(NIH) about the possible
role of NAC (n-acetylcysteine) as an immune-enhancing or antiretroviral treatment.
NAC is available in the U.S. in anoral form for Tylenol overdoses andas an aerosolized liquid to alleviate
symptoms of bronchitis ..It is available
in Europe as an effervescent tablet.
The major toxicities reported by the
U.S. sponsor include "nausea, vomiting, other gastrointestinal symptoms"
and sometimes rash and fever, as side
effects of high-dose oral NAC.
NAC is the pharmaceutical formof the amino acid,. cysteine. Cysteineis the crucial middle amino acid in athree-peptide
chain called glutathione. According to Robert Bohinski in Modern Concepts in Biochemistry (4th edition, Allen and Bacon,1983) glutathione is the most common
biologically active peptide. It exists in
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and oxidized (two three-peptide
chains linked by a disulfide bond).
Glutathione roams through theblood scavenging harmful oxidizing
agents (free radicals) which mightotherwise oxidize vital proteins, destroying their function. It also helps
transport amino acids across cell
membranes and helps maintain the
iron
atom
insidehemoglobin
molecules (which carry oxygen fromthe lungs to other tissue around thebody) in its reduced state.
In 1985, Dr. Wedner and othersat the National Jewish Hospital in
Denver demonstrated that glutathione
was crucial for activation of lymphocytes (immune T cells and B cells).

The next year, German researcher
Wulf Droge showed that glutathione
augments the activation of cytotoxic(cell-killing) T cells in animals.
Earlier this year, Wulf Droge andhis colleagues at the Institute for Immunology and Genetics in the German Cancer Research Center in Heidelberg, West Germany, published aset of papers demonstratingthatblood from HIV infected persons contains decreased proportions of glutathione. With AZT therapy, plasma(blood) glutathione levels rise, but intracellular levels remain low.
Since cysteine is a precursor ofglutatione,. Stanford researchers
Leonard and Leonore Herzenberg
added NAC to a cell culture in which
HIV proteins were active. The test
tube study showed that NAC blocked
the elevated tumor necrosis factor(TNF) levels produced by HIV activated cells. TNF has been shown tocause anemia, wasting syndrome,
fevers and other symptoms associatedwith HIV infection and other conditions in which the immune system ischronically activated. Other work fromthe laboratory of Anthony S. Fauci at
the National Institute of Allergy and
Infectious
Diseases (NIAID) has
shown that herpes, cytomegalovirus(CMV) and Epstein-Barr Virus (EBV)
infected cells also produce TNF, andmay be cofactors in AIDS.
The most recent confirmation of
the role of lowered glutathione in thepathogenesis of AIDS came from the
National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, where Roland Buhl, Ronald
Crystal et al. showed that glutathionelevels were depressed in the lungs ofpeople infected with HIV long before
symptoms appeared. Glutathione levels are deficiency throughout the bloodstream of HIV infected
asymptomatics, according
to their report.
Total and reduced glutathione concentrations in
the plasma of the HIV infecten subjects were about 90
percent of those in the normal individuals. Since glutathione enhances immune
function, glutathione deficiency may
contribute to the progressive immune
dysfunction of HIV infection.
The NIH team is conSidering administration of an aerosolized form ofglutathione, through a nebulizer. Thisis similar to how aerosolized pentami- .
dine is taken. It is thought that perhaps delivering glutathione directly tothe lungs, where its levels are depressed (and the most common AIDS
related infection, PCP, appears mostoften) might assist pulmonary immune defenses.
The researchers noted that HIV
infection is, to our knowledge, theonly known condition in which thereis ageneralized deficiency in extracellular glutathione levels.
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HIV infection could lower glutathionelevels. 1) Glutathione synthesis may
be depressedby some unknown
mechanism. 2) Chronically activated,/.

~~~~~~~10~e.c~~so~~~~t p~~~e: ~~;~TNF) involved in HIV infection mightuse up glutathone.
In addition,
NAC has beenshown to increase T cell formation;
perhaps the lowered T cell formation
characteristic of HIV infection might,
be ~elat~d .to the deficiency of glutathlone In unmune cells.
The NIH team reported that it is
not yet clear whether the abnormalities in ~mmu~e function r~late. toglutathIone In ~e meta?oltsm of Immune cells, or Its function as an antioxidant. If glutathione influences
metabolism,
treatmentwith glutathione or a close analogue might beuseful, whereas if it is the antioxidant
function tha~ is relevant, a variety ofmolecules mIght be useful.
Depending on which mechanism
is biologically significant, taking NAC
mayor may not help people with HIV
infection. One New York physician
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year, and no clinical effects hav.e bee~reported. Anecdotal reports from Flonda and California indicate that some
PWAs feel they are benefiting fromNAC Some people with HIV alreadytake anti-oxidant agents like the overthe-counter supplement CoQ-10 tothose taking NAC. The PWA HealthGroup (212/532-0280) will soon begin
selling NAC tablets from Europe, since
the American form is dispensed in aliqUid form which can cause vomiting.
Jon Engbretson from ACf UP's Treatment and Data Committee has organized a monitoring survey, which will
be available at the Health Group, tocollect information from people taking
NAC There will be a baseline questionnaire and three monthly follow-up
surveys. In this fashion, it may be possible to determine, long before resultsfrom a controlled clinical trial areavailable, whether the doses of NAC

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Living with AIDS

Government
Benefits for PWAs.
and PWARCs.

by Robert GetsoM

any people ~nd thatwork is the added burden which causes theirhealth to decline, while those with severe disabilities due to HIV-ciiseaseare
simply un~ble to manage a job. In cases
where continuing work is an option but
meeting financial obligations is a real
obstacle because of thehigh cost of medical careand therapies such as
AZT and pentamidine,government relief programs can provide financial assistance. If you
have been diagnosed
with AIDS or AIDS-related complex you may
not have to· continue
working. This article isan introduction to various government entitlement programs, or relief '"agencies, available to
PWAsand PWARCs.
Government entitlements through relief agencies, suchas New York State Disability, Social
Security and New York City's Divisionof AIDS Services are nOl easy to get,even if you meet their qualjfications
for disability due to AIDS or ARC.
What needs to be understood is 'hatrelief is not readily conceded to a. vone, no matter how severe the disability. The relief agencies are whipping boys; they make visible thedependent poor and thus take muchof the blame for the poor. That thosewith HIV-disease
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this discrimination.
Relief agencies, in order to protect their organization and their budget (most agencies under-budget tosave the agency as much money as·possible), make it very difficult forpeople to get on· these programs,
even though they may meet the agencies' requirement for disability due toAIDS/ARC. Termination of· benefits,
for example, is sometimes the resultof errors in systems already overloaded with paperwork and haphazard
procedures. Other cases are closed as.........

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a means of disciplining the obstreperous. The administrative practices ofscreening people out of the systembecause of, say, an error in paperwork or conflicting statements during
interrogation are not merely the consequence of inaccuracy in a cumbersome bureaucracy. Rather, secrecy, intimidation and red tape are adaptive
patterns designed to inhibit completion of the ~pplication for relief andfacilitate arbitrary rejections and terminations.
Anyone in the HIV community
who has applied for relief through So-

cial Security or NYC's Division of
AIDS Services must surely recognize
the tactic of extending waiting periods
for financial relief. These waiting periods create backlogs which weary
people and discourage applicants. Social Security is expert at making a
PWA or PWARCfeel like a worthless,destitute piece of shit; they degrade
people with HIV-disease so they
won't come back for the government
money.
While many of the agencies require in-person interviews, they may
actually require several
appointments to complete
the paperwork. Social Security, while maintaining
a teleclaim system, is notorious
for requ iring
PWAs and PWARCsto return home to retrieve
documents,
such as alease, which they failed tomention would be needed at the initial interview,and this can delay approval of the case by several weeks. Failure tocomplete any documentfor Social Security, or
documents not received
by Social Security because they were"lost in the mail," may result in a termination of the case. Believe me, the.
nightmare scenarios for dealing withSocial Security are legion.
Government relief programs are
worst for those without patience andsome financial means. The city, stateand federal programs are most unfair
to the poorest of the poor. It takes
about three months to receive a "presumptive" disability check from Social
Security, and then three more months
to begin receiving checks on a monthly basis. NYC's Division of AIDS Ser-vices also takes about three months to
get financial assistance to those who
apply. In both cases it's usually because of either a "backlog" or bureaucratic bungling. A poor person withAIDS with no financial resources will
have a difficult time holding out forthree months without shelter, without
medical attention, without regularmeals, etc. while the government tries
to get the paperwork together. It's
criminal that many people die before
they get the financial assistance towhich they are entitled.
A person with AIDS or ARC who
wishes to quit their job and live on a
supplemental budget of about $1,000
to $1,800 per month, can do so ifthey meet the relief agencies' requirements for disability due to AIDS/ARC.
In order to avoid the problems of negotiating with the relief agency, personnel or caseworkers help can beobtained from Gay Men's Health Crisis, if you have registered, or throughCommunity Health Project's Financial
Advocate, if you are a CHP client.
GMHC will give clients a package of
information with telephone numbersof aJI of the agencies available topeople with AIDS/ARC, ·a,nd someforms to complete, and this packageof information is free. The Financial
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the government entitlement programs
well and can provide valuable information for those Who wish to apply.
These programs can make life alot easier for people who successfully negotiate their way through thesystem. It takes about six months to
get settled down with checks arriving monthly. Giving up a job isn't sobad, either. Many people return toschool or work part-time, others devote much of their time to working
with activist organizations such as
ACT UP, or helping out GMHC,
Body Positive or PWA Coalition.
But, these programs are not for everyone, so consultation with someone who knows them well, and cangive good financial advice to PWAs
and PWARCs, is very important before applying.

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have HIV-disease. Armed with an
ADAP card you can receive AZT,
bactrim, pentamidine and alpha interferon free of charge at participating
pharmaCies in New York Stat~.· It
takes about two weeks to get thecard, and GMHC should have applications, or can tell you how to get one.
The Metropolitan Transportation
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which we were all hit by a steam locomotive. We didn't even see it coming,busy were we bouncing to the disco beatand exercising the sexual· freedom wethought we'd won. But reality raced in andsmashed our glitter ball. Soon, we found ourselves living in hell.
Yet, something else occurred. We discovered.
each other in ways we hadn't before. We got ourselves together, thought things out and realized what
was actually going on around us. For the first time inyears, many of us began making collective decisions about.
.
our own fates. And things would never be the same.
~~
As we enter the 90s there is much to look forward to. Communities have organized and, to some degree, joined forces. We'restronger, louder, morevisible. And we're not going away.
On the following pages, a handful of people from within the lesbian and gay community talk about what they think will tlappen i~e 90s or at least what they'd like to see. Some give an analysis of themechanics of the movement in the next decade. Others simply toss off afunny line. But what they all have in common is the fact that each of them~will be doing much of the work that's to be done in the 90s, whether thatmeans being an openly gay stand-up comic or founding a lesbian and gay
research center.
.
The people represented here.are only the tip of the iceberg in a community~~
oyerflowlng with diYersetalents and capabilities. If we at OutWeek had to pick"'"yen one ""rson from "yery fj"ld that gay men and lesbians contribute to, w,,'dhave to publish a book. The men and women on the following pages are simply a few
individuals; a tiny fraction of a "varied and great people.

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"I think the battle between family, religion and respectability
and homoerotica
will become even more fierce. For that reason we have to have more celebratory gay
cultural work with the erotic image as thecenter; and this is as true for women as formen.
The 90s is going to be the decade ofgay and lesbian research centers, both atuniversities and in grassroots archives andmuseums. The importance of these are seen
not just by our own communities, but we'realso being seen by the rest of the world asvalid intellectual communities. That can bea double-edged sword because grassroots
contact could be lost. Therefore we have tokeep supporting our own projects."-Joan Hestle, historian and cofounder of the Lesbian Herstory Archives"Jimmy Somerville's new LP, Read My
Lips (which recently went gold in England),and the title track-insplJedby his U.K.
ACT UP commitments-promises
to be ahuge international
hit. Unlike the dreari- ,ness of Tracy Chapman and all the otherearnest folkies so overrated in the 80s, it
combines a right-on message with a righton beat. In fact, disco looks set to return in. ,he 90s, as delirious as it ever was. Chic,
Lolita Holloway and Dan Hartman are all
working on new projects after a long hia. tus. In England, indi bands like Happy Mondays (today's equivalent of the Smiths) aretrading in their jangly guitars and puttingout twisted acid-disco records. The 90s aregoing to be a new. age, but ins.tead ofbeing earnest and granola they're going to
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Fabulous Pop Tarts,
musicians/performers

HMy great ambition Is to have Lucy'stime slot Monday's at 8:00.• I just look at
the TV set and visualize: Monday's at 8.
Maybe by 1995. You know Lucy didn't
become Lucy until she was 42, so I have acouple of years to be a great lady of TV. I
just hope the public of the 90s will accept
that the new Lucy Is a man. If they could
swallow a TV show such as Aif where thestar Is a ·puppet, what's so hard about havIng a leading lady with a dick?".
-CharlesBusch, tl1eatrlcal producer,
director, writer, actor"I think I've done all I can to participate with the gay and lesbian communities,
and now It's time to go to those organizations that are traditionallyheterosexual.
~or instance, there is a lack of Black lesbian
and gay presence In organizations like the
NAACP. Once we establish those necessary
bonds within our own communities we'll
then start to make Inroads into the larger
communities outside the gay and lesbiancommunities. It's part of my personal agenda."-Essex Hemphill, poet

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"Activism. As a wholc wc arc arisingout of our apathy and complaccncy as wc
cntcr thc 90s. Thcrc's thc militant right, thc
pro-lifcrs, thc gay-bashcrs, thc Asian-bashcrs and peoplc likc Jcssc Hclms tclling us
what is art. It's coming closer and closcr tocach of us. Wc must movc. Wc must all
bccomc activists. And I think wc will.
In thc body-building world, onc of thc
biggcst forms of activism rcccntly wasworld class body buildcr Bob Paris coming
out. Hc did this at thc hcight of his carccr.
And it was nccdcd. Young pcoplc must
havc thc rolc modcls. Thcy nccd to sccthat thcrc arc athletcs who arc gay, politicians who arc gay, pcoplc in thc arts who
arc gay. Hopefully, many morc profcssional
pcoplc will comc out in thc 90s. I think it's
part of thc activism I'm talking about."-Kitty Tsui, author; cditor;bronzc mcdalist, women's physique,
Gay Gamcs ""RcClaiming
thc gay past holds
immcnsc potcntial importancc for eye~y- .
one, not just for gay pcoplc. Wc nccd torccapturc
our antccedcnts
in as muchdetail as possiblc bccausc wc nccd to bettcr undcrstand what definitions wcrc oncc
cmploycd to 'cxplain' our cxistcncc, what
forccs wcrc brought to bcar to control ourbchavior and what stratcgics our prcdcccssors uscd to copc with those forccs andprocced with thcir livcs. Wc also nccd torccognizc not mcrcly that samc-gcndcr
scxuality has cxistcd through timc andacross culturcs, but that it has ·bccn unccrtainly visiblc, cnormously varicd, invcstcd
in diffcrcnt cultures with diffcrcnt symbolic
meanings. Wc nccd to learn that nothing
conncctcd with human sexual bchavior orits catcgorization, has rcmaincd static."-Martin Duberman, author;
Distinguishcd Professor of Historyat Lchman Collcgc;
founder of thc Center
for Lesbian and Gay Studies

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"Lesbian theater will become the hotticket. Tour buses from the flat states willroll into NYC to see blockbuster musicals
about behlnd-the-scenes power struggles
at the Michigan Women's Music Fe.stlval.
WOW will finally be able to pay their Con
Ed bill."-WOW Theater (counter-clockwise.from bottom center): Nancy Swartz, Claire
Olivia Mo~d, Babs Davy, Diana McWilliams,
Lois Weaver, Mo Angelos

PUblicitY-starved
slap herself.

-MiChael

Zsa Zsa Gabor Will

MUsto, ViI/age Voice- -COlumnist, author"In the 90s, gay women and men, and. our allies, having put an end to AIDS, won't
stop there. We've always known that what's
best about us Is directly attributable to ourdifference. Having taken real power, we'll
use It as the brokers would never Imagine.
So after the cure? Universal healthcare,shelter, fill In the blanks. We'll have learned
that It's .not enough that a society tolerate
difference: You have to actively support It.
And-we will."-Jim

Elgo, writer and AIDS activist

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"There are a lot of difficult
battlesahead around AIDS as the extent of theepidemic becomes evident. We'll organize
a stronger movement, not just among gays
and lesbians but among all people affectedby AIDS-IV drug users, people of color,
African-Americans, Latinos.
Some people see domestic partnershipas the big issue In the gay and lesbian community but I think [the concept] must be
far more expanded. The state should not
be sanctioning any relationships, straightor gay. All the trappings of heterosexismthe nuclear family and traditional Ideas oflove, marriage and sex-must be smashed.
Bdore AIDS I think the lesbian and gay
movement and the women's movement
were bringing into question the nature of
traditional relationships. We have to continue that.
H•-Joan Gibbs, staff attorney, Center for
Constitutional Rights

Michael Wakefield"I think gay literature will finally beunder the control of gay writers. Many of us
are now out and not making any bones
about it. We're expecting the literary establishment not to be homophobic. We confront them. And with our own lesbian, gay .
and feminist presses they can't shew us off •.
I bought a shotgun for the 90s_ I love
shotguns. It's a self-affirming thing. In my
family the men got shotguns and thewomen got dishes. I believe In selfdefense. I don't let anyone fuck with me. If
I could have had the gun in the 80s, I'dhave used It. Imagine it: dykes with guns.
That'll scare 'em.
H

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Allison, author

"In the 19905 the AIDS crisis Is going
to Impact globally and we're going to finally realize the extent -of the epidemic. At
the same time the Latino gay and lesbiancommunity Is going to finally come forward
and cease being Invisible, both within Latino society and U.S. society. The crisis Is
now making them come out and assume avoice and take leadership. They're saying'We are here. You have to listen to us!' It's agood by-product of a very bad situation.
And It's already beginning to happen."-Emesto de la Vega, Director of AIDSIn the Americas at The PanosInstituteMichael Wakefield'" think doors are opening up for us In
Hollywood. "m doing what. want to do: bigbudget films about marginal subjects andlow budget films about mainstream subjects. , hope that will continue."-Gus Van %ant,director of Drugstore
Cowboy and Mala Hache". do believe the 90s are going to be
more femlnlnc. Earth Is a woman andshc's
going to bc ruling again. Thc 90s arc justthc start of It. The cntlre next ccntury Is
thc agc of .thc Goddess again. Thcre was atlmc, you know, when goddesscs werc running things, and we're coming back to that.
This Is going to be an agc whcre scn$ltlvlt~
intultlvcness and spirituality are more powcrful than braun or brute force."-RuPaul, pcrfonncr

Michael Wakefield"Already there's a slew of feminist lesbian singers coming through and hitting
the top 40. I don't think homosexuality will
be such a no-no In music as we enter the
90s. Music has always led people in different directions, and It lends them to experimentation.
I think straightmen, forinstance, want to have gay men to bounce
things off of, to get ideas from. A lot of gay
music transcends gay/straight stereotypes.
I'm hoping· we'll see more wild, colorful ads
and lots of experimentation, without any
sort of categories or boundaries. I hopepeople will be less uptight."-larryTee, deejay

Michael Wakefield"In the 90s we'll work toward expanded recognitionof our families and ourrelationships through domestic partnershipordinances and judicial decisions, as well as
toward more widespread recognition of ourcivil rights. Our cause has a mor~1 force toit which the legal system cannot forever
ignore. We must push it and mold it and.
shape it."
-Bill Rubenstein, staff couns~I,
American Civil Liberties Union,
Lesbian and Gay Rights Project

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January 7. 1990

"I'm very excited. We've got a new
mayor. We've elected a lot of liberal andprogressive politicians to other positions.
It's a new team with a new agenda. One of
the things I'm looking forward to and I
know 15going to happen 15that we'll see
appointments of lesbians and gay men tovisible positions throughout the administration. That's key to everything else."-Barbara Turk, senior advisor toDavid Dinkins and a member of themayoral transition team"We're going to start talking about
what we do instead of who we supposedlyare. Don't say 'I'm an S/M lesbian, when
you could be saying, 'I fimtasize eating out
my manicurist on the bathroom .floor withher mouth gagged by a rubber ball,' or, 'I
pinch my nipples when I masturbate until
they're hard as points,' 0li 'Fist me until thesweat drips off my lips.' Isn't that much
more enlightening?"
H-Susie Bright, autholi
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"Stars of TV and film will continue
crawling back to Broadway. John Travolta
and Sylvester Stallone wlJl star in the revivalof La Cage Aux Folies. Also Jack Lord from
HawaII Flve-O wlJl play Papa Rose in the all
male version of Gypsy.
"An extra-terrestrial will contact Earthvia the party Jines. His first question to us
will be, 'HI, what are you wearing?' We'llthen ask him, 'How big Is your penis?' andhe'll reply, 'Which ond'
Bowing to popular demand, a 97-yearold Bob Hope will ask us to replace Brooke
Shields on his annual Christmas Special."-Funny Gay Males, comedians (I. to r.)
Jaffe Cohen, Danny McWilliams, Bob Smith

Michael Wakefield"I see us growing Into a movement thathas fully-staffedorganizations
In everystate. There are going to be some real big
battles on local referendums and gay rights
bills. These traditional values coalitions willkeep springing up to battle us and we'll
have to fight. But I also see lots of non-gay
support for the gay movement. I think that
this next decade Is going to be much likethe 60s: tumultous and exciting. A lot's·
going to happen. By the end of the decade
I'm hopeful that we'll have a federal gay.rights blJl."-Urvashl Vald, Executive Director,
National Gayand Lesbian Task Force\

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Billing itself as "the psychology behind the news," New Dimensions is a far-right glossy knockoff of Time and Newsweek. Obsessed with gays, guns and the government, the editors of thi~ newsmonthly see Americans as victims of leftist "Pavlovianconditioning.""Militant homosexuals" have gained control of the country and are dictating public policy.
Queers are "human evil," AIDS is "an inescapable biological indictment" of homosexuality, and theinclusion of HIV-positive people in the Americans Disabilities Act will force them to hire" AIDS-infectedhomosexual[s] with bleeding sores."
In what they call true Christian compassion, they say: "Of all the cruelties directed at homosexuals by 'straight' society ...the· greatest cruelty is to accept homosexuality as a normal, alternative
lifestyle. ".
Aren't you glad someone is setting us straight?
-Rick Sugden

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LOOKOUT·,;t:"I originally came up with the idea a few years ago when I got a really crummy calendar," says Aldo
Hernandez, one of the members of the activist group ART + , w;hlchfights homophobiaj AlDSphobia and censorship in the arts. The group collaborated to produce MILITANT EROTICISM (ART +), a calendar for 1990.
Featuring twelve artists, the calendar depicts various ·sexual images, and a blurb in the back explainsthat "militant eroticism is a philosophy of action exploring. our gay and lesbian sexuality thru art, politics andmost importantly our personal lives. But Hernandez puts it all in simpler terms: "The calen~r is something.
Informative, interesting, entertaining and sexy to look at."And, of course, the calendar is also a wealth of all that extremely pertinent Information that the 90s
queer will want to know, such as: the day ACT UP/SanFranciscQshut down the Golden Gate Bridge (January 31,1989), The Connie Girl's birthday (July 27, 1967)and the day.MUton Berle first flashed his dick (July 12,1903).
MILITANT EROTICISM (ART +) is available at A Different light and most other bookstores, or by mallorder: check or money order for $13 to ART+Positive, 429 W~st 44th St., #2B, NY,NY 10036.
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BY

DearBrad:Like so many people I neverthought I'd be writing to you but
things have really gotten out of handaround here. One night a few weeks
ago my manager and .her lover weregoing to see a show in my neighborhood so I invited them to stop by our.place beforehand for cocktails. WhenI showed them into the living room I
realized with horror that, once again,
my lover, Avery, had left his runningshoes in the middle of the floor eventhough I've asked him time and timeagain not to do so. Nobody said anything but I know they both noticed.
(How could they not? Avery has size
12 feet and those shoes could transport an entire village of refugees
through rough waters.) I was so furious I couldn't think of anything elseand after they left, a full 27 minutes
before they had to, I asked Avery if he
was trying to destroy my career. He
swore it was just an accident andp~omised to phone my manager .and
explain everything if that would help
the situation. I told him not to do me
any favors, just to keep his damnshoes in the closet from now on.
The next morning, while Avery
was taking his shower, I went ·to makebreakfast and saw that he had left allof the dishes in the sink. from thenight before, knowing full well that I
hate to face a messy kitchen first thing
in the morning.
Grudgingly, I loaded up the dishwasher and turned it on and Avery start-

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OF

MY

HANDS

BRADLEY

BALL

ed screaming from the bathroom that I
was scalding him. I replied that if hehadn't neglected his chores in the flfSt
place this wouldn't have happened andI decided to get breakfast downtown.
That night, after work, I trippedover his running shoes and crashedinto the glass panel of our wall unit
which shattered into a million pieces.
I swept up the broken glass and put afew shards in his shoes. Avery
claimed that I deliberately set out tocripple him which is, of course, nonsense. I explained that I just wanted
to teach him a good lesson about theimportanceof tidiness and had
assumed that he, like everybody else,always shook out his shoes before
putting them on in case brownrecluse spiders had gotten inside during the night. He said that was themost ridiculous thing he'd ever heard
but I told him he wouldn't think it
was so ridiculous if he'd ever seen
what happens to people who get bitten by those spiders and he said that
it wasn't spiders he was afraid of.
Then he limped out of the house andwent to stay with his sister and herhusband. I thought .she'd get fed up
with his sloppy habits in a couple ofdays and send him back to me but so
far that hasn't happened. Last night I
swallowed my pride and called him
up and told him how wretched andlonely I've been without him. I said if
he'd just come home I'd be willing toaccept his apology. He slammed thereceiver down in my ear. Brad, I can't

help it but I still love that man, in
spite of the way he's treating me. Do
you think I should make anotherattempt to get him back or have I lost
him for good?
-Wretched and Lonely
Without Him
Dear Wretch:
I don't know if it's your letter orjust the season itself but I can't help
but be remindedof the Ash
Wednesday of 1986. Oh well, that is, I
suppose, another story. Or maybe it's
not...entirely. We all of us come together, in one way or another, and we allof us eventually come apart, in one
way or another, and in between a lotof promises get made and a lot of
expectations get raised and sooner orlater they all result in a lot of broken
glass and tearful telephone calls. And
maybe you have lost him for good.
And maybe nobody else will evercome along and you'll be alone for the
rest of your life. And maybe that's not
so bad. Maybe you can attempt to sublimate the loneliness by working late or
getting involved in community activities or taking a course at night schoolor, I don't know, maybe writing a column for a magaZine. Of course you'dstill have to come back to an empty
home at the end of the day but maybe
you can fill that home with books, withshelves and shelves of books. Maybe
you can read books about people
whose lives are even more arid anddesolate than your own. You know,
Day of the Locust is being reissued forits 50th anniversary of publication. I'dlet you borrow my copy of Play it as itlays but I've been forced to institute astrict policy against loaning ou~ Joan
Didion books ever since somebody lost
my copy of Miami on the subway. I
guess the point is that with books aswell as with lovers, you can't expea tokeep them around for too long. Happy
New Year! ...

TI

By Michelangelo Signorile
I vividly remember the story about
the lesbian columnist and the glossy
magazine
which, for years, she hadloyally plugged.
About two years ago, the magazine
hired a writer from a major daily whosomehow had a reputation for being afierce upstart, thoUgh he wasn't all thatvicious, really. Anyway, he wrote a story
profiling the lives of various colunmists
at the dailies, and for weeks he let onthat he'd be revealing lots of facts. One
thing he was going to talk about was
this certain columnist's
lesbianism; her home life, herlover, etc. After all, he waswriting about the personal
lives-the
WIves, the husbands, the families-oftheother colunmists, all of wnom
are public figures, and he feltthat he should be able to write
about this particular columnist's life.
But when fact-checkers
from themagaZine called the columnist's office
to make sure everything was correct,
she blew a fuse that almost sent her tothat Goddess in the sky. She hung up
on them, then picked the phone up anddialed the magazine'S
publisher.
It
wasn't the first time she'd done such athing. In fact, she'd spent most of herlife having stories that mentioned her
sexuality killed. You'd think she'd justcome out, brave the storm and deal
with it rather than live such a nightmare
where she had to spend so much timecovering her tracks. But, apparently, it's
more important to her to stay in hiding,even though she's now pushing 70 andsits in a seat of power.
Anyway, the columnist
told thepublisher to take out all references inthe story alluding to her lover and herhome life. And he-rememberingallthose almost weekly mentions she gave

his publication-took
his pen and cut it.
I tell this story to illustrate the art ofstory cutting and killing; an art which, in
New York City publishing, is more fascinating, more intriguing and ultimately
more telling than the writing itself.
Of course, it's not the actual act of
cutting, but rather the reason behind it,that is most interesting. In New York,stories are cut and killed every ·day.
The reasons are varied (no space, badstory, etc.), but much of the time it has
to to do with the power-hungry editor's
own personal, social and/or professional agenda, and the favors he/she owes
to friends, business aSsociates and others he/she needs to kiss up to.
Around the time of ACf UP's highly-controversial
action at St. Patrick's
Cathedral(which the group took apress beating for), two major magazine"
pieces about the activist group were
killed. One, at the homophobic
VanityFair, the other at the dreary, patroniZing and equally queer-hating New York.
In both cases the writers had beenworking on the stories for quite sometime.
When I called editor Ed Kosner's
office at New York I was told, "We don't
discuss internal decisions."
Editor-inchief Tina Brown's PR people at Vanity
Fair neverreturned
my calls.
Meanwhile, I'd heard many unsubstantiated and unconfirmed
stories andrumors about why the stories were
killed: .1) That the infamous lesbiancolumnist
mentioned
above, herself
upset with ACT UP (she even later
expressed
her anger at the church
action in her column), made one of her
kill-a-story calls to have the piece cut
from VF; 2) that New York. wanted astory about "yuppie gay activists" andthat the piece handed in by the writerjust didn't fit the bill; 3) that New York's
Kosrier, who spent the entire decade
kissing up to Ed Koch (an enemy of
ACf UP), was furious about the cathedral action, and thought it offended theCardinal and Catholics too much for
him to run a story on the group; 4) that
Kosner just felt the story was too "gay"for New York. (The interesting
thing
about New York was that the story,
which I'm told was quite sympathetic
to the group, was killed after it washanded in.)Word filtering down from inside
Vanity Fair, however, suggests that
Brown killed the piece after learningthat New York and Rolling Stone wereplanning stories (New York, too, could
very well have killed the piece after
they found out that it was being done
elsewhere). This is common practice inthe mag biz, and, of course, even in
publishing, it's business as usual whenit comes to the AIDS crisis. Perhaps if
Tina Brown weren't so busy licking·Gayfryd Steinberg'S ass, she'd have discovered this story a long time ago. But
this isn't even the issue. The fact is that
this is a life or death situation. The fact
is that this story should be everywhere.
The fact is that if it were hundreds ofthousands of straight, middle
and upper class, white people dyingof a disease,
Vanity Fair and New York
would have attended to theissue a lot sooner and many
. times over, NO MATTER
WHO THE FUCK ELSE WASWRITING ABOUT IT. The
fact is that all of the media, so blindand bigoted, have ignored the AIDS crisis for the past ten years. But all ofthese facts aren't good enough reasonsfor EDITORS SO CAUGHT UP IN
THEIR NAUSEATING SOCIAL Sl-JIT
THAT THEY'RE AFRAID OF "BEINGSCOOPED" WHEN IT COMES TO A
STORY ABOUT ANGRY QUEERS WHO
TAKE TO THE STREETS AND JUSTWON'T DIE WHILE FIGHTING AN EPIDEMIC OF IMMENSE PROPORTIONS!
It's amaZing the way. these idiots playwith our lives, making us some sort ofspecial interest story that's not worthy
after it's been somewhere before. And
it's all bullshit! There are a million different ways to write this story, a million
different approaches to it.
But no. We die, and Tina Brown
and her kind ·worry about getting"scooped" on our horrific tragedy andthe ways we're fighting back trying tosave our lives. T

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LIVING WITH AIDS from page 37

GAY
It's a poweriul tool. And
one that should be
excercised judiciously.
So please, patronize
lesbian and gay
businesses.
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NYSD, complete and mail it as instructed. It takes longer to get a reply
than they tell you. Most employers in
New York State are required to have
Disability!Workers Compensation insurance,but some
insurancecompanies,
most notably Zurich
American, tend to jerk people around.
NYSD is there to enforce the rules
and require the insurance carrier topay, if you qualify.
The Human Resources Administration of New York City, Division of
AIDS Services, 11 West 13th Street,provides assistance with rent, utilities,
food and more, and they are moregenerous than most other programs
proViding cash benefits. Despite theinefficiency and mismanagement of
DAS, and complex rules for qualifying
for financial assistance (for example,
you should ask for "Home Care"
whether you really need it or not),most of the caseworkers there aresensitive to PWAs and PWARCs. No
matter how sensitive and nice they
are, it's still going to take three., months to get a dime from these people. Screening at DAS is pretty simple,
just ask for "Home Care" and return
the MllQ document detailing your
AIDS related illnesses which you andyour doctor will complete. You'll alsoneed a copy of your lease, a Social
Security Card or something semi-official with your SS number on it and acouple of other documents (like rent
delinquency notices). Financial needmust be demonstrated-but
that'seasy for most people. Again, threemonths is a long time for most people
burdened with high medical costs andcosts of living. GMHC or the Financial
Advocate at CHP can help.
Medicaid is cru'cial for people
without health insurance. It's the ticket to some treatment, but Medicaid ishard to get these days. The typicaljerk around is to invite an applicant to
the Medicaid office on West 34th
Street and then send them home because they "didn't have an appointment." In other cases Medicaid insiststhat the card be issued by Social Security or DAS. SS and DAS usually
never produce more than a Tempo-

rary Medicaid Card (good for two
weeks), thus the applicant must pad
downtown to the SS office at Federal
Plaza or to the DAS office every two
weeks for the new Temp. Card.
Social Security claims can bemade by telephone, but for faster service masochists can get an interview
at the SS office at 26 Fed. Plaza. There
are two programs at SS to which one
can apply: Social Security Disability
and Supplemental Security Income.
Either way, it's a minefield. The requirements for both programs arestrict, and SS people are really nosy.
The wait for financial assistance, a"presumptive
payment,"
is threemonths and final approval or rejectionof the case is made about threemonths later. If it's approved, the applicant begins to receive monthly Social Security checks from either SSD
or SSI based on previous income,until the case is reviewed again (usually in about three years), or until
they find a reason to stop the payments. This business with SS is tricky
so counseling from GMHC or CHP isvery important. ....

OUT TAKES from page 27

discrimination based on their sex, arguingthat had either of them been a woman,the license would have been issued.
According to the Chicago Sun Times,
gay activists responded to the commission's rulingby vowing to get legislation
introduced in the General Assembly thisyear that would grant gay and lesbian
partnerships the same benefits as marriage.
Other activists have said they may
challenge the state in court.
"I find it ironic that the commission appointed to address issues of discrimination in Illinois is avoiding
them," said Tim Drake, legislative
director of the Illinois Gay and Lesbian
Task Force.
Wockner and Varnell, who are notlovers, say they will not appeal their caseinto the courts because they believe a"committed couple" should pursue theissue.
They also said it had complicatedtheir lives as journalists to Simultaneously
be newsmakers.....

Film

A Blaze so Hoary
Blaze. Produced by Gil Friesen and Dale Pollock.
Written and directed by Ron Shelton. Touchstone.

~cby Bruce C Steele

redibility is inversely related to a movie's
budget-of
this I am increasingly con·vinced. The more filmmakers spend, theless I buy. Take for example Blaze, a slick, big-budget biopic about the affair between crackpot
Louisiana Governor Earl K. Long and stripper Blaze
Starr during 1959-60.
Earl was Huey P.'s little brother, and he took
Huey's populism and cronyism to dizzying newheights of audaCity and decadence. He was the epitome of that bayou-state phenomenon now best represented by David Duke: the openly c,?rrupt politician
who captures the imagination of the common voter
by loudly embracing common ignorance.
In one scene based on a real incident, the governor runs amok in the state legislature, and thefilm briefly evokes the mesmerizing madness thatthe real Earl embodied. But Blaze, believe it or not,is a love story. Writer-director Ron Shelton's interest
lies not in the committee room, but in the bedroom.
The creator of Bull Durham, Shelton is an old-fash- \See BLAZE on page 69

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Film

A Real Dog

by Karl SoebnleinT

he only thing worse than the holiday season are
holiday movies. These films bombard us with theseasonal myths of forced cheer and sociallysanctioned celebrations. My ideal holiday film is The
Poseidon Adventure, where a New Year's bash literally
gets turned upside down and the "morning after" is one
not .to be forgotten.
Bloodhounds of Broadway is a film set on New Year's
Eve, 1929, "the last big party," the film's narrator tells us.
Alluding to the oncoming Depression and setting up what
I thought would be an apocalyptic metaphor for today,these hints at meaning unfortunately fade as quickly as
bubbles in a champagne glass, although with considerably
less exc·itement.
.
Based on the stories of Damon Runyon, the mind
behind Guys and Dolls, Bloodhounds travels atmosphericallybetweenuptownmansions,·
downtown
speakeasies
and Hell's Ki·tchengamblingde·ns.
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sharp-tongued
Broadway-beatcolumnist
Waldo
Winchester (Josef Sommer), the plot weaves through theadventures of a long list of characters with all the complexity of a Love Boat episode.
Matt Dillon plays Regret, a womanizing hood who
spends the film running from the cops and pursuingLovely Lou, a cabaret star who spends more time whining and pouting than singing (an attitude heightened by
Jennifer Grey's performance, which is more suited to ahigh school drama club than a prohibition nightclub).
At the same time, Feet Samuels (Randy Quaid), a compulsive gambler named for "feet as big as violin cases,"is doggedly chasing down riches in poker and crap
games, hoping to buy the affectionsof Hortense
Hathaway (played by Madonna, who gets to rejectmaterial-girl status for true-blue love). Then there's
Handsome Jack (Esai Morales), a vaguely shady character who, when he isn't trying to worm his way into thearms of socialite Harriet MacKyle (Jule Haggerty), tries
to score with one flapper after another. His failed
attempts provoke the film's bitchiest retort ("I wouldn't'talk to you with someone else's mouth"), and the top
shock-value event (which I won't reveal, seeing as thefilm has so few surprises).
We're also treated to the demise of The Brain (Rutger
Hauer), the "biggest gambling operator on Broadway,"
Who spends mos~ of the movie bleeding to death in theback of a taxi. The Brain is, in his final hours, tended toby a poor, angelic flower girl (yes, it's that kind of a film),
and a grandfatherly Black doctor. One of three AfricanAmerican faces in the 'film (the other two are a gaudy
street preacher and a slinky mistress), the doctor's presence only serves to reveal just how very white bread thisfilm is. It also calls to mind The Cotton Club, a film that,by contrast, acknowledged the cultural diversity of prohibition nightlife,
Given that Bloodhounds of Broadway is not about
documenting an era realistically, and that as fantasy it tows
the straight, white party line, I'm not sure what to make ofit all. It has no sense of irony, or even foreboding, merely
diluted nostalgia. Director Howard Brookner, whose former efforts include a dOCumentary of William Burroughs,
died of AIDS before the film was finished. Perhaps thiscontributes to the overall feeling of incompleteness.
Ultimately, it doesn't explain the film's resolute heterosexuality: sending all the little couples into the newyear on the road to marriage; off to "their little pieces ofparadise," as the narrator tells us. For a film directed bya gay man (and acted by so many full and part-timequeers), this amounts to another case of the vigilance ofthe heterosexist Hollywood machine. At least those Gap
ads leave their potential for homoerotica intact, morethan I can say for this disappointing film....

Art

Diminished Utopias
Although he markets himself as
the successor to Andy Warhol, Kostabi
is really' Thomas Hart Be.nton's pintsized heir. Their paintings have aneerie similarity. Kostabi uses the saqle
ovoid shapes, the same generic
mythology, though his Everyman has
a blank face, a more banal existence.
The plow has been replaced by acredit card. He could be Benton
launched into outer space.
homas Hart Benton's paintThere is, however,.Iittie real comings are easy toparison between the statlire
like. Swirling landof the two artists. The crea~
scapes of saturated color
tures in Kostabi's paintings
capture and seduce the eye.
have no energy, the compoThe paintings seem simultasitions lack complexity.
neously jewelike and edible.
Kostabi's
paintings
areNarrative and mythological,
drained of life, tha"t's thethey are easy to understand.
point, but they barely qualiHis paintings containfy as cartoons. As a painter,very few straight lines andKostabi's a hack. .
.
looking at them might make
Besides being racist,
you a little .seasick. I've
sexist and 'melod~amatic,
never seen a corn plant
Benton's
work can bequite as curvaceous as' the
dynamic. Americans loved-it
one in the "Wreck of thefor a while. After World War
Ole '97," 1947. Benton.
II, the art world discovered
worked from structural
Abstract Expression.
Asmodels; he'd mold the scene
Benton's popularity waned
in clay before painting.
he painted commissions for
Many of the paintings lookdepartment stores and social
like stills taken. from a c1ayclubs. It's hard to believe hemation feature. Everyone
lived until 1975.
has enormous hands.
Bootleggers, from the mural series The American Historical Epic.
In many ways -theMost popular between 1927, by Thomas Hat1 Benton
Thomas Hart Benton exhibithe wars, Benton was herald- Egg Tempera with resin oil glazes on canvas mounted on cradledtion is as timely as any ined as a true American masonite
Photo: Whitney Museum of American Art town. Today no discussion ofpainter, uniquely capturing the land andlicity-seeking Benton had been creat- art can avoid the issue of censorship.
its people. Time magazine put him on
ing and expecting uproars for years.
Benton gives us a look at one possible
its cover in 1934 and he became an art
His outburst brings to mind
acceptable art. Harry Truman called him
star. Benton spent a lot of time travelinganother self-promoting
artist. In the "best damned painter in America."·around the country finding the inspiraMarch, 1989 Vanity Fair quoted the These paintings of mythic Americation for his paintings through direct
painter Mark Kostabi as saying:
populated with settlers, farmers and aexperience. Scenes from his folktale"These. museum curators, that are for few smashing nudes set in a lush landAmerica are varied. In "Struggle for thethe most p-art homosexuals, have (:on- scape display an American ideal. Yet,
Wilderness," 1924-26,half naked Indians
trolled the art world in the 80s. Now they are cropped, diminished utopias.
are slaughtered by. the settlers. Blacks
they'reall dying of "i-.IDS, andAn earthy regionalist, Benton never capwork the land in "Cotton Pickers,· 1928although I think it's _sad, I know. it's tured the total picture. Like the sculp29. BillOWingblack smoke becomes afor the better because homosexual
tural models he painted from, thesesign of vitality in "Boontown,· 1927-28.
men are not actively participating in all-American paintings are staged. They
Benton was also an outspoken
the perpetuation of human life."
are made of clay. ~Thomophobe. In 1935, fed up with New
York, he abandoned it for the heartland saying the city had lost its mascuiinity. He described his feelings
about museums in the New YorkWorld Telegram: "Do you want toknow what's the matter with the art
business in America? ..lt's the third sex
and the museums. The typical museurn is run by a pretty boy with delicate
wrists and a swing in his gait.· These
remarks caused an uproar but the pub-a

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Music

Women on the Urban Edge
Nightbreak. Every Wednesday night, in a weekly live
music ritual, the club transforms itself into Female
Trouble. Playing host to the farthest reaches ofwomen's dreams and screaming electric guitar runs,
rock scene
women here live out their aspirations and feed theirappetite for ferocious, unrelenting music. The crowd ismixed: buzz blondes in leather studs, band members,
black-clad NY art school types sporting straight cut
b.' Noelle Hanrahan
henna laced hair, generic suburban dykes on the prowl,a few land women in hiking boots and shorts and thepunk in John
I'm dancing barefoot heading for a spin, some strange best hip hop dancer I've ever seen-a
Lennon specs with pink two tone fuzz for hair. Out ofmusic draws me in, makes come on like some heroine
this cathartic rehearsal induced frenzy has developed a-Patti Smith, Dancing Barefootnew generation of underground women's bands, bands
Our inspirations are the goddesses of amperage,
like Mermaid Tattoo, Linda Perry (and the recently
wattage and voltage
formed 4 Non-Blondes) and Jai Jai Noire. Each band
-MUDWIMMIN
has a story, but first let me tell you about their foremothers.
Post-punk Patti Smith changed the world. In 1979 S.F.'s
very bruising and raucous band of women in San The Contradictions emerged as the leaders of the first wave
Francisco and probably the world over has disap- of San Francisco based women post-punk bands. The
peared like flashpaper under the weight of Contradictions had stamina, profeSSional ability and wereanonymity. Sometimes we are lucky and they leave an LP visionaries screaming bloody murder for the entire courseor 45 in their wake that makes a lifelong impact on some of their existence, blazing the way for today's bands. Other
soon to be rock 'n roll musician's braiil.
bands included Wilma (radical feminist who set Monique
For at least a decade San FranCisco has cultivated one Wittig to music), G.OD. and Kathrine and the Varve. Theof the most vibrant electric fueled underground women's women who survived and those who didn't are easily the
post-punk rock 'n roll scenes.
stuff of legend, laboring· in obscurity and in the shadow of
At the end of Haight St. in the famed Haight-Ashbury
the Dead Kennedy's, Flipper, The Mutants, Tuxedo Moon
district is an eclectic neighborhood leather bar called and The Nuns. Traces of stories, photographs and graffiti"'__-~
document the impact of women converging~"",,,~.',",;Mm__
to upset convention. Patti Smith set the stage'._.~'-"W0_"~
and these women expanded on it, their work
becoming their lives. In order to create.~,'-'"'''''aggressive electric music, living on an urban;J~'"'~'~_
edge was a necessity, the politics crucial andimplicit. Some women turned tricks as dominatrixes to get by, others lived off borrowed
money and some lived off borrowed time.
These are the legends which literaUyand figuratively gave birth to a scene.
Some bands working today's scene
deserve mention. Industrial Rainforest, featuring Slade's dramatic tom-based Cadences,evokes mystical and spiritual images lacedwith challenging political analysis. The She
Devils are a tight and aggressive rock bandthat transcends the self immolating aspectsof punk. And MUDWIMMIN,who appear at
the base of a controlled population sedated
SHOW US YOUR THIGHS
Photo: Robert D.
by 1V blue light, stir anarchy in the face ofVictoria Schwartz, Tracy Oaklahoma, Nancy Kravitz and Cathy Curphey
social convention, unwilling to fold into

Jai Jai Noire, Mermaid Tattoo and Linda
Perry. of San Francisco's underground women's

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prefabricated society.
These are women who live on the outskirts ofdecorum and they push limits. By day they are packing and shipping clerks for Crown Books, living on
year-old disability checks, working at Radio Shack's
customer service counter and waitressing at Spaghetti
Western. By night they live at rehearsals and occasionally burst on to a stage in a dimly lit bar.
Three bands currently in actiori and carrying on
the tradition deserve special attention-as
well asmajor label cash and distribution. Jai Jai Noire is
persistent, dedicated and one hell of a songwriterand guitarist. Constantly on the move she forms
bands, cuts demos and halks her product all thewhile living off the beaten track in Concord, CA,home to some of the most oppressive laws in theland. Noire is known for her political activism challenging the insidious right wing at every turn. Her
sound recalls the Police when they were still ascruffy punk band emerging in the wake of the Sex
Pistols. Mixed .into a wildly driving energy is justenough reality to wake anyone out of a total coma.
Noire's lyrics are not suffocated by the enormity ofpolitical repression. Wrapped in reggae rhythms andgrowling vocal treatment, her music takes Buddy
Holly on a ride into the 90s.
Mermaid Tattoo, named in honor of the nine-inch
tattoo that graces bassist Nancy Kravitz'S thigh, isfronted by Victoria Schwartz who plays lead guitar
and pulls in and out of great psychedelic effects, creating a great groove out of a minimum· number ofstrums and notes. The band includes Tracy OklahQma
on banjo, the aforementioned Nancy Kravitz (whodoubles as the promoter of the club that is the cre- PRODUCT OF HER OWN IMA GINA nON
ative force behind the whole scene), and the former Singer/songwriter linda Perry
Photo: Jessica Tanzer
drummer for the She Devils, Cathy Curphey.
.
Displaying ambitious reach, the band is likely to cover ju·st by an immensely powerful voice. Perry is the sole prodabout anything including Charlie Rich. Mermaid Tattoo is uct of her own imaginatio·n and her own creativeat their best when launching into an original, composed
genius. Brazilian-born, with dreadlocks and a completeand played a~ break-neck speed. A relatively new band,ly deviant approach to anything resembling convention,
they are combining the best of the scene and creating a
Linda:· Perry would be the perfect reality check for a
distinctive sound.
world that is·immersed in its all too pretty imagination.
With a still-growling, disenchanted whisper backed
These bands and. this scene keeps me haunting
only by acoustic guitar and reverb, Linda Perry has theNightbreak for Female Trouble on Wednesday nights.
best pure raw voice in San Francisco. Recently appearJust feeling the sound bounce off of my ch~st, justing with the newly formed group 4 Non-Blondes, Perry's
giving in to complete anger at the world, gives metalent, if left undisCovered, will be a testament to what
the courage to pick myself up and begin the battle
total bullshit the music industry really is. In the springagain each day against a litany of ills created by capi'88 issue of Puncture, Terry Sutton hit upon a truism
talist patriarchy. The women who iohabit this club·with her comment, "The worst form of discouragement
are the anti-thesis to the prescription,and in theiris silence ... biased critics aren't music reviewing. They
behavior lies one of the keys to freedom: Anarchy inare doing police work." This scene has suffered fromthe U.S.A. is certainly one place where the revolution.
this activity for too long. Linda Perry's range of emotion
ferments. ~peaks in a musical place that harbors aggressive postNightbreak is located at 1821 Haight St., in San
punk rock steeped in counter culture angst, a part of the
Fran·cisco.
rock world that most music does not even begin to
To contact:.
approach in terms of sheer intensity. With her cryptic
Nancy Kravitz/MerrYUlid Tattoo; 3025 Army St.; Sa·ri
and lyrical outpouring of frustration, Perry is creating
Francisco, C4 94110
screaming thunder over an acoustic guitar style carried
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Video.

Speaking ill Tongues
lover, author Minnie Bruce Pratt, actually choose to stage their interview
cuddled in bed-the only place theirhectic lives dovetail. One old timebutch, complete with shades, cig andby Wickie. deep throat twang, reveled in her preStonewall lust when she revealed. th~erotic "scams" she used to orchestrateeshian Tongues, a glimpse
for her partner; 'sexual scenes in.
into the lives of strong andextraordinary women, was an which she'd fern out with garters andopportunity
for co-producer
Lil
Pitcaithly to progress beyond the"it's OK to be gay" films of 15 years
ago and create a work that says, "weare more than okay-we are flourishing." In the 90 minute Video, cameras slip into the lives of 13 u.s.
lesbians meeting such diverse subjects as Barbara Grier, Jewelle
Gomez and lesbian dairy goat farmers from the land of "brogans andoveralls." All of these' women lead
poignant lives, some more publicthan others. The filming of this Pop
Video production (a Washington,
D.C. based video company), inc1u9ed a trek to a South Carolinian lesbian goat farm-an excursion which
filled Lil with trepidation.
"Quitefrankly, I was not looking forward totramping out to a goat farm. But, I
was pleasantly surprised. The goats
were charming, they come when
they're called and better behaved
than most people!".
Viewing Lesbian Tongues is likeputting a buttercup of lesbian sexuality under one's chin. Who weheels and seduce her lover. Her partare-our
sensuality and our histoner, who had listened attentively to
ry-shines
warmly back at us.
this time-worn tale, bawdily jokedAffirmations of lesbian passion ripples
throughout the video. In front of the that her butch was so good at oral sex
camera five couples, most older and she should "get her mouth insured by
Lloyd's of London!"in decade long dyads, perform theSexpert Jo Ann Loulan andcherished lesbian ritual of sharing
their delicious how-we-met sagas. As author/activist Joan Nestle plucked
they spin their intimate sexual histo- sensuality from the abandoned lot of
lesbian passion and held it out to theries, their bond as lovers becomes·
apparent: they frequently kiss, tug at viewers as key·to our survival as sexeach other'S sleeves t9 interject a rel- ual beings. With the flair of a standished detail or chide their more bash- up comedienne, Loulan wryly comful partner. Photographer JEB and her mented that, if the truth be known,

Lesbian Tongues.

Production.
Washington,

A Pop Video
P.o. Box 60862,
DC, 20039. $29.95.

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most of us came out not for highfaluting political reasons, but simply"because lesbian sex is hot!" (Howdare she!) With a similar message, but
a divergent style, Joan Nestle, whose
voice and demeanor throbbed with
sensuality, lured us into our own sensuality. She dug deep into her personal eroticism and, by comments like "Ihave always enjoyed being made love
to with a dildo ...and unstrapping mylover from her dildo and going
down on her," Nestle unveiled thedepth of our eroticism.
The Jewelle Gomez interview
offers us all a sprig of hope.
Through her coming out story, we
grasp that our lesbianism need notalways collide with the heterosexual
world of our biological families.
Beginning with a snapshot of her
with her grandmother, she guides us
through a feisty coming-out-to-myfamily tale. It occurred in a Times
Square theater bathroom (which
Gomez felt was an apt locale for
their opposing worlds to coalesce)
where her mom took it upon herself
to point out some eye catching graffiti-"dykes unite"-to her daughter.
Gomez lassoed this opening by
casually retorting that, if she foundthat graffiti engaging, then perhaps
the rubber stamp that Gomez had athome might also strike her mother'S
fancy. It was then that her grandmother chose to bat back a humorous acknowledgmentof her
granddaughter's
sexual preference.
From the nearby stall, her granny's
voice piped up, "I already saw it! It"says lesbian money!"
But, Lesbian Tongues' power isdiluted by some shortcomings. Due towaffling technical expertise someinterviews are off focus, others havemuffled voices and, due to choppy
editing, some segments ate jarring. A
wider range of types of relationships
and forms of sexual e.xpressions
would have strengthened the piece.
See LESBIAN TONGUES on page 69

Book

How the Other Half Livesby Christopher DavisI

admit my qual ificationsforreviewing a work of lesbian erotic fiction are meager, but I am
interested in work being written bylesbians and I read Roslyn Dane's
novel, The Assistance of Vice, carefully. Unlike Pat Cali·fia's great collectionof short erotic fiction, Macho Sluts,
which is worth purchasing for thethoughtful introduction on lesbian
pornography
and S/M alone, The
Assistance of Vice threads the erotic
content through one story, a story thatis understandable equally to lesbians
and gay men: the destructive powerof a severely one-sided relationship.
The narrator's lover, Margaret, isselfish, demanding, critical and nonsexuaL "If there were something on
television She wanted to watch, getinto, Margaret would start a harangue
about how She was always watchingsomething instead of talking to her ...
But if She came home and Margaret
were watching something, well, thenthat was all right, inviolate." The.
author succeeds
well in making
Margaret a thoroughly dislikable person. A tiny scene when they are at aclub and Margaret won't danceMargaret will never dance-tells
much, and when Margaret complains
when her lover. who is a photographer, gets up at five in .the morning
to work in her home studio so she
can later visit her. cousin who isdying of AIDS, Margaret seems absolutely hatefuL
The worst thing about Margaret,
though, is that she has lost all interestin sex, at least with her lover. "They
could pop pimples on each others
backs,· She could trim their twat hairs,
they shared the worries over money,

career, and sick friends with AIDS,
but they did not fuck. When She
tried, Margaret would never kiss, andwhen She moved on her she would
never respond."
When Margaret
arrives home after a six-week absence
she at first turns away. and thenrelents and allows one chaste kiss; it
is not the proper time for more, thereis never a proper time for Margaret.
I go into this much detail so thatthe reader of this review will ask: So
why do they stay together; why notbreak up with the bitch [I quote the

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book on "bitch"] and get it over with?
Ms. Dane's answer to that question is
the strongest part of the noveL She
does an admira,ble job of making it
seem right, or at least understandablewhich is not the same as
explaining it-that someone would
stay in such a destructive, unfulfilling
relationship. It's not a big part of thebook at all, but the reader gets a
sense of the power of the habit of ashared life. of fond memories, of
non erotic intimacy.
The erotic content of the novel
must be considered too. ·r am notgoing to get into a discussion of erotic
writing versus pornographic writing(and in any case, I do not consider"pornographic" pejorative). Instead, I

offer three quotes from Macho Slut~~"The task of creating high-quality
pornography is a challenge worthy of
any talented writer. It just isn't thateasy to get a reader hopelessly andunforgettably aroused." And "Sadly, a
lot of the new lesbian porn (brave as
it is) flunks what Dorothy Allison calls'the wet test.''' And '''Feminist erotica'that presents a simplistic view of lesbian sex as two women in love in a
bed who embody all the good things
the patriarchy is trying 'to destroy is
not very sexy. This stuff reads as if itwere written by dutiful daughters
who are trying to persuade Mom thatlesbian sex isn't dirty, and we reallyare good girls after alL".
Using Califia's comments
asguidelines, I can report that for themost part, the erotic portions of The
Assistance of Vice succeed .. Much· of
it is certainly not something to send
your mother to convince her thatlesbians are really good girls after
all, unless your mother is a great
deal more enlightened than most, or
has an exceptionallystrong heart
and a physician nearby just in case.
And as for the wet test: Well, I'll
pass on that, although I can reportthat when I discussed this bookwith a lesbian friend she said I
would know it was good if it gaveme an erection. "But I'm gay!". I
said .. "I'm a gay ·man," I added, incase she had missed the point. "So?"she answered.
I'm still thjnking
about that.
This book does have some problems. The writing is sometimes rough,transitions sometimes .abrupt, some of
it should have been cut and I do not
like stream-of-consciousness passages
in italics. However, Ms. Dane did an
excellent job of mixing the erotica
with the plot, mostly to the detrimentof neither. I enjoyed it, and half way
through I couldn't wait to find out if
Margaret got what she deserved, so I
turneq to the end to see, and no, I
won't tell. T
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Booksby Gabri~l RoteUo. Gaysand lesbians have long labored under theories of nature which called us "unnatural,"theories of religion which called us "sinners"
and theories of morality which pronounced us "immoral."Yet these concepts, tied up as they are in a rapidly retreat·ing tide of nonscientificism, could not in themselves haveseriously threatened our eventual I"iberation. The inexorable progress of humankind away from the irrational
and toward the empirical, away from the bigotries of theInquisition and toward the glories of seekers such as
Galileo, might have promised gays a less oppressive
future. As the prejudices of the past were blasted away by
the forces of reason, the unnatural construction called
homophobia should have been an early and easy victim.
Alas, such was not the case.
The reason why is amply illustrated by two recent
books, Being Homosexual
by Richard Isay and The
Psychoanalytic Theory of Male Homosexuality by Kenneth
Lewes. These two psych~nalysts, well meaning supportersof their profession, each in his way offers a fatal indictmentof psychoanalysis. That indictment essentially states that the20th century development of psychoanalysis was in error
when it proclaimed, with the same quasi-scientific certainty it
uses to proclaim anything, that male homosexuality is an illness. It is that proclamation, not that gays are unnatural, sinful or immoral, but that we are "sick," which has done morethan anything ·aside from AIDS to marginalize, oppress anddestroy the lives of lesbians and gays in modern times. The
HippoCratic maxim to "do no harm" has been so massively
violated by psychoanalysts when approaching gays, thateven a gentle army of Isays and Lewes couldn't hope torepair the damage. Yet against all odds, and despite the serious omission of lesbianism and lesbians from their stydies,
they both make a serious attempt.
Isay's anecdotal approach is brief, accessible and to thepoint. He's a psychoanalyst whose practice contains many
gay men who have come to him because of his reputation
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Richard Isay, M.D.

Photo: Anne Hallgays. As such, he feels that one of the primary weaknessesof psychoanalysis has been its focus on gays who were
unhappy being gay, a focus which would inevitably skew
observations and results. To counter such bias he cites briefcase histories of well adjusted homosexuals from his practice, and shows how his often lengthy but sympathetic
analyses have generated positive therapeutic results.
Despite the author'S attempt at serious revisionism, his
non-academic approach is unlikely to gain a hearing fromdogma-bound theorists. lsay goes into little detail about thebases of the theory he attempts to debunk, nor does he build
a coherent theory of his own. A book arguing the case forgay normalcy which mentions the word Oedipal a total of'three times can't expect to be taken very seriously by those
whose very meal tickets are stamped by Oedipus himself on
every conceivable occasion. Yet, the weaknesses of his
approach from a classic psychoanalytic standpoint, recommend this book to lay gays who are curious about both theirmodern oppression and an enlightened analyst's opinion
about the relationship between analysis and homosexuality.
Isay is faScinatingly refreshing, for example, on the disputed existence of bisexuality. His conclusion that manybisexuals are really gays in denial may be music to the earsof some gay Iiberationists. But, he offers solid evidence forthe existence of some truly, equally bisexual men, a result

of great political importance. He is similarly enlightening on
the subject of the fathers of gay men, maintaining that theyoften shun gay sons they perceive as unmasculine,
which
negatively impacts on the ability of those sons to form lasting relationships with men later in life.
Indeed, Isay'$ theory of straight fathers' discomfort
around ·their gay sons provides an interesting explanation
for therapists' traditional observations that gays often havedistant, uncaring
fathers.
His accessible,
sympathetic
approach may be akin to preaching to the choir, but it
can't help but assist those who lives have been damagedby the homophobic
Mengeles of modern psychoanalysis.

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Kenneth Lewes' book differs from Isay's in that its
approachmeets Freud's successors
on the exceedingly
thin ice of their own pseudo-scientificconceits. Jt's a history of the dismal analytic mis-view of homosexuality
from Freud to the present by a scholar attempting objectivity about the phenomenonof homosexuality.
Lewes shows that Freud held at least three ambiguous
and contradictory opinions about gays and their development, and stated flatly on at least one occasion that homosexuality "cannot be classified as an illness." Yet Lewes
clearly shows that the future errors of his discipline can betraced to Freud's opinion that homosexuality
represents· IIdeviation from "natural" heterosexUality, an ,opinion wholly based on social norms and not on empirical evidence.
The history of theory between Freud and Kinsey reads
like a farce, with a hodge-podgeof conf1icting, confusing
and contradictory opinions which trip over themselves like
Keystone Kops. The plot descends from farce to tragedy
only when we arrive at" ~insey's monumental
study, thefirst tmly scientific examination of homosexuality.
Kinsey's
results, still the towering achievementof sexology, flew
directly into the face of psychoanalytic
theory. This setback marked the turning point at which psychoanalysis·
departed from the realm of attempted objectiVity and, as
far as homosexuality
is concerned, descended giddily into
.gibberish. The inability of a supposed science to accommodate demonstrated
fact by ignoring it, disputing it ordenouncing
it, placed that discipline more in the realm ofa cult than a science. Despite the author'S reluctance to gothat far, such is the clear implication of the tale he tells.
Of all the questions Lewes' book raises about psychoanalysis, one of the most disturbing is the failure of analysts to examine how their own prejudicesabout gays·
colored their theories.
Such prejudices
are obvious to·even the casual observer of the field, so the fact that they
were not obvious,or even acknowledged,by analysts
until Kwawer noted them in· 1980 is one of the moreamazing lapses in a field of amaZing lapses.
Even more disturbing is the failure of psychoanalysis
to consider
how the intense social condemnationofhomosexuality
may have deeply affected gays, causingmuch of the gay guilt and pathology noted by the profession. It remains to be seen if the field will ever spend afraction of the time on this question that it spent spinning
fanCiful conceits to prove homosexuality an illness.

Kenneth lewes, Ph.D.

.Photo: John Schultz

Despite the quality and compassion of these books, theyboth contain a strange and significant omission peculiar totheir author'S profession. Both unravel arguments in a strangely self-contained world, with seeming disregard for the knowledge and insights of history, sociology, biology ·and thenumerous disciplines and sub-disciplines that have a bearing
on the subject. While both mention Kinsey, and briefly touchon "classical Greece," and while Lewes openly complains
about psychoanalysts' lack of respect for outside references,the level of discourse on the subjects extemal to psychoanalysis is perfunctory in these books. No mention is made of theconstmctionist-essentialist
debate, Foucault makes only themost fleeting of appearances, and vast bodies of recent histo(ical data on the prevalence·.of homosexuality in non-Westerncultures go unrecognized. It seems that even these thoughtful
writers exist in a selkonsuming
galaxy, content to spin in relative oblivion to the universe of knowledge around them.
The attempt of well-meaning psychoanalysts to correct
the errors and abuses of their field in relation to homosexuality
is sadly overdue. While not the fault of the~ authors, theirefforts can hardly excuse the masSive damage· wrought on gay
men and lesbians by their flawed and rapidly retreating profession. What they seem to be aiming at is a reform of psychoanalysiS .. But like those who thought that Czechs or East
Germans simply wanted a reformed communism ·and areshocked· that they now demand its total abolition, psychoanalysts trying to cre.ate "Freudianism with. a human face" should
not be surprised if gays fmd their efforts simply irrelevant. Afterall, if psychoanalysis has bee:n·so fundamentally wrong on so
fundamental a question, what else is it wrong about? ...

January 7. 1990

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prepared by RickX
with additional information fromThe Gay 8. lesbian Switchboard of
New YorkAN

EVENTSCALENDAR

Send calendar Items to.

1HE GLINES presents the press
opening of Sidney Morris's The
Whld Betreatb My Wings, a new
play about two gay men, a comic
and an activist, and their conflicting passions; at the Courtyard
Playhouse, 39 Grove St (atBleecker); 8 pm; $12; 869-3530(plays thru FEB 4; WED-FRJat 8
pm, SAT at 7 and 9:30 pm, SUNat 7 pm),
STEPHENHOLT SHOW presents

RIck X, Going OUt

Box7?"New York, NY 10108

Items must be received by
Monday to be Included In thefollowing week's Issue:.

COMPANYRESTAURANTHangover Brunch, 365 Third Ave(btwn 26/27 St), 532-5222
MEN OF ALLCOLORSTOGETIiER/NY 7th and Final Night ofKwanzaa: /manl (Faith); callfor location; 7:30 pm; 212/2229794, 212/245-6366
MARC BERKLEY'SKOOL KOMRADSStripper of the Year Contest at Private Eyes, 12 W 21 St;
contest at midnight; $5, 206-7772

ARTISTS SPACE presents Final
Week of Witnesses: Agalxst
Our Vamsbing, the AIDSexhibitthat the NEA almost un-fundedbecause of a "political" catalog;
223 West Broadway(near·
Franklin SO; daily, through Saturday, JAN 6; 11 am - 6 pm; 2263970

CONGREGATION BETH SIMCHAT TORAH Jewish .Educatlon
CQurses;tonight:
Contemporary Jewish Issues:
Alternative Families at 7 pm; at
57 Bethune St; info 929-9498~!f,ir.RiliY~li3J STEPHENHOLT SHOW presents

GAY TEACHERS ASSOCIATION
General Meeting with guest
speaker, George Fesko, of theUnited Federation of Teachers'
Executive Board, and Liaison to
Lesbian & Gay Teachers; at The
Center, 208 W 13 St; 8 pm; Center 620-7310

OUT~WEEK

THE ANSWER IS LOVING
Women Talktng Women's Talk:
MLlmit Setting/Boundaries,·
knowing when to say yes, andwhen to say no without guilt or
loss of love; led by Ruth Berman
and Connie Kurtz; Sheepshead
Bay, Brooklyn; 7:45-10 pm; $8;
718/998-2305

MEN OF ALL COLORSTOGETIiERlNY Educational Forum/CR
Session: Stak Roles and Tigbt
Stepbert Holt's Life Ix tbe 80's,
Buxs;
a discussion on thiswith scenes from Fever oJ provocative film which examines
Unknown Origin, Casting. oJ the media representation of -male
Kevin Christian, Love, Oscar, andsexuality and desire; at The Centhe gay musical, Kareer Suicide,ter, 208 W 13 St; 7:45 pm; 222Manhattan Cable TV, Channel . 9794, 245-6366
17/0; 9 pm (repeats on Manhattan and Paragon Cable, 1/6)
GAY MEN OF AFRICANDESCENTDiscussion: Stressed
EAGLE BAR Movie Night:
Out, dealing with work-related
Scrooged; 142 ·l1th Ave (at 21" stresses such as homophobia,
St); 11 pm; 691-8451
prejudice,
racism,sexism,demanding bosses, office politics,
combative co-workers-, lastminute deadlines; in the Assembly Hall of The Center, 208 W 13
St; 8 pm; 620-7310
GAY WOMEN'S ALTERNATIVE
presents JeweUe Gomez, withTHE GLINES presents Sidney
stories of Jantasy Jiction Jrom theMorris's Tbe Wind Berteatb My
real world (from her new book
Wings, see JAN 3
in progress); at the Universalist
Church, Central Park West at 76 COLUMBIALESBIAN,BISEXUAL,
St; 8 pm; $5 (for women only,
GAY COALITION First Friday
meets every first Thursday)Dance, in Earl Hall, Columbia U.,
116 St & Bway (#1/119 train); 10
THE GLINES presents Sidney
pm - 2 am; photo ID to drink;
Morris's The Wind Bertealb My
854-3574,854-1488 (Editor·s note:
Wings, see JAN 3
the Columbia Gay & Lesbian
Alliance changed its name lastlliE PYRAMIDpresents Dudleymonth)
in his new performance work
Second Sleep, a "homoerotic,
religio-sexual work-in-progress";
101 Avenue A (at 6 St); 9 pm;
info 473-5625 (presented this andevery Thursday in January)

New Year's Day

66

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

GAY AND ~ESBlAN SWITCHBOARD/NY Volunteer Interviews, for those who wish to·work at least two 3-hour shifts
per month; those chosen will be
reqUired to attend an initial training the following day, 1/6; 6:30
pm; 777-1800

January 7, 1990.-,'

Stepbert Holt's life in tbe 80's,

with scenes from Fever oJ
Unknown Origin, Casting oJ
KeVin Christian, Love, Oscar, andthe gay musical, Kareer Suicide,
Manhattan and Paragon Cable,
Channel 16/c; 11:30 am

SAGEFirst Brunch of the 90's,
at Gus· Place, 149 Waverly Place;noon or 2 pm seating; $9.50; rsvp
741-2247
CONGREGATION BETH SIMCHATTORAHWinter Film Festival: Hill 24 Doesn't Answer,

at 57 Bethune St (near West St), 8
pm, $4 (includes free popcorn &soda), 929-9498
THE GLINES presents Sidney
Morris's The Wind Bertealb My
Wixgs, see JAN 3,tiMIAVal
SAGE Sunday Drop-In, in the
SAGE Room at The Center, 208
W 13 St, 1:30 - 4:30 pm; 741-2247
BISEXUALPRIDE Focus Group:
Coming Out. Bi, at The Center,

208 W 13 St, 3 pm, $5, 718/3538245
BISEXUALDOMINANCE& SUBMISSION GROUP Share S/MExperiences and Fantasies "ina positive, non-judgmental atmosphere"; at The Center, 208 W 13
St; 4:45 pm; $5; 718/353-8245
DONT TELL MAMA presents
Don Grasso, singing Ah, Men;
343 W 46 St; 6 pm; $10 cover +2-drink minimum; 757-0788
THE GLINES presents Sidney
Morris's The Wind Bertealb My
Wings, see JAN 3

ACT UP/ATLANTA and ACT
UP/NEW YORKNational Action
to Repeal all Sodomy Laws,
rally and march to the state capitol in Atlanta, Georgia, a state
which allows 20 years in prison
for oral or anal sex (more thanfor armed assault); info 404/8731097,212/989-1114
TIMES SQUARES Free Square
Dancing Class for Lesbians
and Gay Men; at PS 3, 490 Hudson St (btwn Grove & Christo-

pher); 7:30 pm; 873-3962, 7992492 (anotherfree class is on
JAN 22; starting JAN 29 classes
are $5 each and enrollment closes that night)
WNET-TV/13
Stop AIDS, thebest student-produced
videosenteredin last spring's
High
School AIDS Education
Video
Contest are featured;
10-10:30
pm (repeats late-night FRI, JAN
12,12:30 am)
WNET-TV/13
Keith Haring:
Drawing the Line, profiling theartist·s work, world view, andartistic influence; 10:30 - 11 pm(repeats early SUN, JAN 14, 5:30
am)-.:.¥'o('!j:~-,.y~.'..~~,\J.i~~R~

ACT UP/ATLANTA
and ACT
UP/NEW YORK National Action
to Change
the CDC's Definition of AIDS and ARC, legal
picket and civil disobedienceatthe Centers for Disease Control,to "abolish the outmoded
andunscientific definitionsof AIDS
and ARC, revise the epidemiological methods, and provide services and treatment to all people
who need them"; info 404/873-

1097, 2121989"1114
2ND
TUESDAYS
AT. THECENTER presents Pollee Officer
Vanessa
Ferro,
the first New
York Police Department
liaisonto the lesbian and gay community, who will show a police training video, Anti-Gay Vio1etu:e; at
208 W 13 St; 8 pm; $3; Center
620-7310, Ferro 374-5370
CONGREGATIONBETH SIMCHAT TORAH Tuesday
NightVideo Film Festival:
BeforeStonewaU, also a Documentaryon SAGE; 57 Bethune St (Westbeth Complex, up center courtyard ramp); 8 pm; free; 989-9498
WEDNESDAY
JANUARY 10
SAGE Annual
Meetingin thefirst floor Assembly Hall at The
Center, 208 W 13 St, 6-8 pm, 7412247
CONGREGATIONBETH SIMCHAT TORAH Jewish
Education
Courses;tonight:
Mel
Rosen's Workshop/Discussion on

Issues that Confront Us as Lesbianand Gay Jews at 7:30 pm;' at
57 Bethune St; info 929-9498

GAY MEN·S HEALm CRISIS Men
Meeting
Men Workshop,toenhanceself-confidence
andabilitY to negotiate safer sex withpotential partners; at '!he Center,
208 W 13 St; 8-10:30 pm; free; nopreregistration,
807~6655 (TOO645-7470)
THE GLINES presents
SidneyMorris;s The Wind Beneath My
Wings, a new play about two
gay men, a comic and an activist,and their conflicting passions; at
the Courtyard
Playhouse,
39
Grove St (at Bleecker);
8 pm;$12; 869-3530 (plays thru FEB 4;
WED-FRI at 8 pm, SAT at 7 and9:30 pm, SUN at 7 pm)
GAY MALE S/M ACTIVISTS
Meeting: The Distant Caress:
Wbips and Cats, with tips from
whipmasters; at The Center, 3rd
Floor, 208 W 13 St; 8:30 pm(doors open at 8); .$5; 727-9878
EAGLE BAR Movie Night: Three
Fugitives; 142 11th Ave (at 21
St); 11 pm; 691-8451

SAGE Afternoon
at the Brooklyn Publlc Library, Kings Highway Branch, 2115 Ocean Ave at. Kings
Hwy;
1-4 pm;info

note: the artist and director say
you should "feel free to takephotos")mE PYRAMID presents Dudleyin his new performance
work
Second Sleep, a "homoerotic,
religio-sexual work-in-progress";
101 Avenue A (at 6 St); 9 pm;
info 473-5625 (presented this andevery '!hursday in January).

FI///A
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,'.An,.,~·._"I'

CENTER STAGE sees The Merchant of Venice, with Dustin
Hoffman as Shylock; at the 46th
Street Theatre; 8 pm; $70; 6207310
THE GLINES presents
SidneyMorris's The Wind Beneath My
Wings, see JAN 10
INTERNATIONAL mEATER OF
POETRY AND PAIN presents
Annie
Sprinkle:
Post Porn
Modernist,
directed by Emilio
Cubeiro; "the work charts writer/performer
Annie Sprinkle·s
personal
odyssey throughtheworlds of art and ideology, commerce and pornography,
a journey
which
leads
her
to
alternativemodelsof sexual
health and well-being"; this andnext week only; nru & SUN at 8
pm ($12),FRI & SAT at 8 and 11
pm ($14); 255-5793(Editor'S

THE GLINES presents
SidneyMorris's The Wind Beneath My
Wings, see JAN 10.y_,_j"""""""""'= .. ·"'''''''_"''

•.·__

GAY
MEN
OF
AFRICANDESCENT Discussion:
He's·
GoUa Have It!, dealing with the·controversial
topic of "sexual
addiction," with Dr. Arthur Clymer and two recovering"sex
addicts,· who will discuss clinicalfindings and treatments;
in theCharles Angel/Peopleof Color
Room at The Center, 208 W 13
St; 8 pm; 620-7310

INTERNATIONAL mEATER OF
POETRY AND PAIN presents
Annie
Sprinkle:
Post Porn
Modernist, see JAN 11.
BIWAYS NY (of the NY Area
Bisexual Network) Eveningof
Dinner, Fllm and Dancing Till
Dawn; 718/353'8245

J1~E'««d.4tJLt:~_'Jxd'Et~~~1\;~f;":i~~%:4

THE GLINES presents
SidneyMorris's The Wind Beneath My
Wings, see JAN 10

WNET-TV/13
Keith Haring:
Drawing the Line, see JAN 8INTERNATIONAL mEATER OF
POETRY AND PAIN presents
Annie Sprinkle:
Post Porn
Modernist, see JAN 11

KAREN SMITH directs
Eric
Booth's
Metamorphosis:
aslice of black gay Ufe, see JAN
13

WNET-TVi13
JAN 8

see

JAMAICA ARTS CENTER presents
Sweet 1I0ney in the Rock at
Colden <;enter for the Performing
Arts, Queens College, Kissena
Blvd and LI Expressway; 3 pm;$16-$19; 718/793-8080

GAY MEN'S HEALTH CRISIS
Workshop:
Keep It Up!, to·'reaffirm the importance of safer
sex, and feel confident
aboutsaying ·yes, whether you're into
casual sex or serious dating, andno matter what your HIV statusis"; at The Center, 208 W 1.3 St;
noon - 6 pm; register 806-6655,
TOO 645-7470

THE GLINES presents
Sidney.Morris's The Wind Beneath My
Wings, see JAN 10

CENTER KIDS Get-Together
forSingle Parents and their Kids,
1 pm; leave message at The Center, 620-7310, for info}':iJ\j'N

Stop AIDS,

2121741-2247
NATIONAL LESBIAN CONFERENCE Metro Area Information
Meeting, for the Atlanta meeting
APR 24-28; at The Center, 208 W
13 St (1st floor, ASL interpreted);
6:30-8:30 pm~

and a 25-year-old Hispanic wholoves the gcxxi life of sex, disco
and drugs, and who puts theother two through changes; at
The Center, 208 W 13 St; five
performances: today, SUN, MON
and TUES at 8 pm plus an extra
2 pm matinee SUN, JAN 14; $8
advance/$10
door; reservations
and info 893-9852

BORICUA GAY AND LESBIANFORUM Orientation
Night, followed by social gathering withrefreshments; at The Center, 208
W 13 St; 7 pm sharp; $2; 2930833

INTERNATIONAL mEATER OF
POETRY AND PAIN presents
Annie
Sprinkle:
Post Porn
Modernist, see JAN 11.

p~1A,Z'J!~tX~"rit!-1,,$~

MAR77N LU77-IER KING, JR. DAY
CENTER SPORTS
sees
NY
Knlcks vs: Chicago Bulls, basketball game; at Madison Square
Garden, 33rd St & 7th Ave; 1 pm;
members $30/non-members$40;
620-7310

KAREN SMITH directs
Eric
Booth's
Metamorphosis:
aslice of black gay Ufe, an origina~ play about a 60-year-old
black drag queen, a 35-year-old
ex-pimp and rehabilitated addict,

January 7, 1990

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OUTWEEK BEST BETS
MondayBEST BETS for Women's Dancing

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

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

WednesdayThursday*Boybar (has a new wave drag show) 15 1/2 St Marks Place,btwn 2nd & 3rd Aves, 674-7959*Copacabana (last Thu. of the month has Susan Bartsch party) 10
E 60 St, at Fifth Ave, 755-6010*Pyramid (Queer-Amid, with host Ru Paul) 101 Avenue A, btwn
6th & 7th Streets, 420-1590
Spectrum (free admission all night, 2-4-1 drinks) 802 64th Street,
Brooklyn, 718-238-8213

Friday. *Boybar 151/2 St Marks PI., btwn 2nd & 3rd Aves, 674-7959*Carmelitas (Chip Duckett Boy+Boy & Girl+Girl) 150 E 14'St
Columbia Dances (1st Friday of every month, except July) 116th
St & Bway, 854-3574 days
Private Eyes (preppies and young professionals) 12 W 21 St, btwn
5th & 6th Aves, 206-7772
Spectrum (male and female strippers) 802 64th Street, Brooklyn,
718-238-8213
World (mixed gay/straight) 254 E 2 St, 477-8677

Saturday
Barefoot Boogie (smoke & alcohol free) 434 6th Ave (btwn 9/10
Sts); 832-6759*Boybar 151/2 St Marks Place, btwn 2nd & 3rd Aves, 674-7959
The Center Dances (2nd and 4th Saturdays) 208 W 13 St, btwn 7th. & 8th Aves, 620-7310
Private Eyes (Jeffrey Sanker & Dallas's Club Bad) 12 W 21 St,
btwn 5th & 6th Aves, 206-7772
Sound Factory (Acid House, no alcohol, doors open midnight) 530
W 27 St (btwn 10th & 11th Aves). 643-0728
Spectrum (guest performer night) 802 64th St., Bklyn., 718-238-8213
World (mixed gay/straight) 254 E 2 St, 477-8677

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

Every Night
Grand Central (Rockville Centre, LI, closed Mon. & Tues) 210
Merrick Road, Rockville Centre, Ll, 516-536-4800
Monster (West Village) 80 Grove St. at Sheridan Sq., 924-3557
Nimbus (West Village) 22 7th Ave South (at Leroy, 2 blks above W
Houston),691-4826.
OUTTWEEK

Tuesday
Hatfield's 126-10 Queens Blvd., Kew Gardens, 718-261-8484

Wednesday

Better Days 316 W 49 St (8/9 Aves) 245-8925
Private Eyes (Jeffrey Sanker & Dallas's Club Bad) 12 W 21 St,-btwn 5th & 6th Aves, 206-7772
Silver lining (2-4-1 drink) 175 Cherry La., Floral Pk, Ll, 516-354-9641
Spectrum (free admission all night) 802 64th Street, Brooklyn,
718-238-8213

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NOTE: Party events are subject to change. Always call first to
confirm.

January 7, 1990

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

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

FridayBedrock 121 Woodfield Rd, W. Hempstead, Ll; 516-486-9516*Carmelita's (Chip Duckett Boy+Boy & Girl+Girl) 150 E 14 St
Cheeks 2000 Long Beach Road, Island Park, Ll, 516-431-5700
Octagon (Shescape) 555 West 33 Street, btwn 10th & 11th Aves;
947-0400,645-6479
Spectrum 802 64th St. @8th Ave, Bay Ridge, 718-238-8213
Visions 56-01 Queens Blvd, Wdsde, info 718-846-7131, club 718899-9031

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

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

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

BlAZE from page 55

ioned true believer
in men-as-realmen and in the wom'!n-as-whores
who sacrificethemselves
for theboys. Blaze initiallypeaks
Earl'slibido by refusing
him, then she
earns his undying loyalty by restoring his lost potency in their first sexual encounter.
With such a deep
understandingof sexual politics, it's
wonder Shelton isn't making perfume commercials.
To make history conform to his
narrow notions, Shelton simply tosses
Earl out the window and replaces him
with a squinty-eyedPaul Newman,
hair slightly mussed. Those baby-blues
that melted hearts in the 60s and 70s
and burned with countlessindignations (and Oscar nominations)in the80s immediately
vaporize
any hopethat the Earl K. Long in Blaze will
resemblethe actual man. Newman
misbehaves
and rants and raves, but
the method in his madness implies thegovernor was somehow, deep inside,a sane man in complete control of his
government
andhis emotions.·
Newman's entire overwrought
performance is exploded by two minutes ofa radio interview with the rea! Mada

LESBIAN TONGUES from page 60(Although

Pop

Video

is planningawill girthmore of our communities).
Lastly, Lois
Weaver and Peggy Shaw of Split
Britchescomment
that the movement's
focus 6n AIDS has meant
women's
issues are taking a backseat. This highly charged statement
which needed either more c1arification-or
total deletion.
Left hanging
without
furtherdevelopment,
thisone-liner
scrapes
like an inflamed
hangnail serving no purpose
but tooffend or confuse.
Yet, in spite of these shortcomings, Lesbian Tongues is a slip. of lesbian greenery that re-roots us into our
sensuality.
It is a video
that hasearned a niche in our community andour Lesbian Herstory Archives. The
video mirrors Joan Nestle's stated goal
for the archives,"It has given me
back that despised part of myself andis ending a deprivationof the mostsearing kind." T

Lesbian Tongues 2 which

Earl, heard at the tale-end of the closing credits. What a fascinating, terrifying man! How unlike
Newman's
endearing curmudgeon!
Despitethe millions spent on
period costumes and sets, the sociopolitical context is almost nonexistent. In. reality, it was no wonder Earl's wife
(here noticeably absent) and enemies
had him committed to a mental ward
while he was still in office. In the
however, the asylum sequence is justone more in a series of incomprehensible political shenanigans carried out
by the amorphous
opposition
andthwarted,
inevitably, by oh-so-c1ever
Blaze-played
by Lolita DavidoVich, ina performance worthy of any daytime
soap. No doubt true to the mistress'
self-aggrandiZing
autobiography,
themovie attributes Earl's downfall to his
paSSion for his women and his insistence on Black suffrage. Ot's true Earlwanted Blacks to be able to vote-he
figured they'd keep him in office.)
Not a moment is believable. The
movie
turns
a southerngothicMacbeth into a failed reformer, born
too soon, loving too fiercely. The
rough edges that made him a legend
have been sanded smooth. T

mm,

HILLfrom

page 19

In 1989, they helped secure final
FDA approval of ganciclovir, a previously
stymied AIDS-blindness drug; achieved
preliminary approval of a "parallel track"
drug distribution
system,allowing
promisingdrugs to be more widely
accessible to AIDS and HIV patients who
would not otherwise qualify for standard
clinical drug trials; and enlisted the support of the government's
top AIDS
researcher, Dr. Anthony Fauci, among
other victories.
In typical bureaucratic fashion, manyof the innovations remain unresolved andimperfect. And there continue to be confrontations with the federal health agencies
in suburban Maryland-all of which remain
without appointed heads under the administration of President George Bush.
Still, 1989 marked breakthr.oughs incooperation previously thought impossible.
The Summer Art CensQrship Debate
When a small retrospective of photographs by critically acclaimed late gay
photographer Robert Mapplethorpe begana nationwide tour in early 1989, few could
have imagined the flfestorm which would
ensu·e.
Triggered by cries of "pornography" and"blasphemy" from the right and countered bycalls of ·censorship" and "politics" on the left,
the debate led to a daily escalation of the fightin Congress and in the streets.
What started with the cancellation of
the Mapplethorpe display at Washington's
Corcoran Gallery of Art, ended with thediscrediting of the museum by the arts
community, a series of noisy demonstrations and the withdrawal
of a majorbequest and the December resignation of
the gallery's director.
And what began with constituent letters to congressional conservatives about aphotograph of a cross immersed in a jar of
Andres Serrano's urine and selectedhomoerotic and sadomasochistic images in
the Mapplethorpe
tour being partiallyfinanced with federal dollars, led toamendment after amendment--most sponsored by Sen. Jesse Helms (R-NC}-limiting the use of tax dollars by the National
Endowment for the Arts.
Even after the byzantine congressional process resulted in a heavily neutralizedHelms amendment being passed into law,
its "chilling effect" brought about a two
week fracas involving the withdrawal andsubsequent re-approval of an NEA grant
for a New York AIDS art show.
Conservatives are expected to wield
the controversial arts-funding issue again
in 1990, as the November elections
approach, and take it to the House and
Senate floor to again discuss the merits ofurine as an art form.
Helms Tactics Quietly Win
What would a year-end recap .of
gay!lesbian and AIDS news in the year bewithout a nod being given to Sen. Jesse
Helms (R-NC) ·and his anti-gay efforts?
This year, unlike those just past, Helms'
efforts have been less visible (with thenoted exception of the arts issue), but·have been more successful.
A synopsis of the· 1989 efforts of aman deemed by some as "The Prince ofDarkness" underscores this.
In 1989, Helms:• Successfully blocked approval of
additional funds to an AIDS drug distribution play in March;• Blocked approval of a long-term
authoriiation of the same drug funding
See HILL on page 73

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au EEK BAR GUIDEWESTSIDE
Bike Stop West 230 W. 75th St.,874-9014, Neighborhood bar, occasional entertainment.

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

EAST SIDE

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

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

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

Cat's, 730.8th Ave., 221-7559, Oldermen, younger guys

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

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

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

Jason's, 23 W. 73rd St.

Regent East, 204 E. 58th St., 3559465

WEST VILLAGE

Rounds, 303 E. 53rd St., 593-0807,
Friendly guys, checkbook romance.

The Annex ito Cellblock 28), 673
Hudson St. bet. 13th & 14th), 6271140, J/O Cub.

South Dakota, 405 3rd Ave., 6848376

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

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

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

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

METRO AREA INFORMATIONMEETINGFor

NATIONAL LESBIANCONFERENCE
to be held April 24-28, 1991 in Allanta
Thurs., Jan. 11
6:30-8:30 pm
The Center
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Boy Bar, 15 St. Mark's PI., 674-7959,
Dancing / Drag shows.
The Pyramid, 101 Avenue A, 4201590, Dancing / Drag shows.
Tunnel Bar, 116 1st Ave (7th St.),
777-9232 W. Village crowd in the E.
Village.

Cellblock 28, 28 9th Ave, 733-3144,
J/O club.
The Cubbyhole, 438 Hudson (Morton
St), 243-9079, Neighborhood bar forgay women & men.
D.T.'s Fat Cat, 281 W. 12th St., 2439041, Piano bar. Mixed M/F.
Duchess II, 70 Grove St (7th Ave.),242-1408, Women.
J's, 675 Hudson St., 242-9292, J/O
club.
Julius, 159 W. 10th St., 929-9672,
Serving Coors, Coors Lite, & Coors
Draft.
Keller's,384 West St. (at Christopher), 243-1907, Friendly neighborhood crowd.
Kelly's Village West, 46 Bedford St.,929-9322, Piano bar.
.
.
The Locker Room, 400 W. 14th St.
(9th Ave), 459-4299, J/O club.

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

The Cubbyhole

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

at Morton(212) 243-9079

438 Hudson Street

A neighborhood

Nimbus 22, 22 7th Ave. South, 6914826, Dancing, pinball, pool,lounge.
Ninth Circle, 139 W. 10th St., 2439204, Younger crowd.
Ramrod, 185 Christopher St.

bar forboth gay men & women

Say· oodbye to Out in the aos.
It's time for a change.

Sneakers, 392 West St., 242-9830.
Two Potato, 145 Christopher St.,242-9340.

IN
THE
90s

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

Television for a
new decadeof lesbian
and gay life.

CHELSEANews /Interviews/AIDS Updates.LiJat.Every Tuesday at 11pm

Barbary Coast, 64 7th Ave. (14th St.),
675-0385, Friendly, neighborhoodbar.

Manhattan Cable/Paragon Cable
Channel C/16

The Break, 232 8th Ave. (22nd St.),
627-0072.

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Chelsea Transfer, 131 8th Ave. (bet.
16th & 17th), 929-7183, Neighborhood English pub.
Eagle's Nest, 14211th Ave (21st St.),691-8451, Leather / Levi's.
Private Eyes, 12 W. 21st St. (bet. 5th& 6th), 206-7770, Dancing, Video

Club.

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Rawhide, 212 8th Ave., (21st St.),
Leather / Levi's.
Spike, 120 11thAve., 243-9688,
Leather & Uniforms.
Tracks, 19th St. & 11th Ave.,
Dancing.

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Community Directory
A.c.a.c.
AIDS CENTER OF QUEENS COUNTYSOCIAL SERVICES· EDUCATION' BUDDIES COUN·
SElING· SUPPORT GROUPS
Volunteer Opportunities(118) 896·25OO(voice)(718) 896·2985(mD)
ACT UP (AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power)
496A Hudson Street, Suite G4 NYC 10014(212)989 ·1114
A diverse, non· partisan group of individuals united inanger and committed to direct action to end the AIDS
crisis. Gen. meetings Mon. nights 7:30,
at the Community Center 208 W.I3th.
ARCS (AIDS-Related
Community Services)for Dutchess, Orange, Putnam, Rockland, Sullivan.
Ulster and Westchester counties. AIDS education.
client services, crisis intervention, support groups.
case management, buddy and hospital visitor program.

214 Cantel Ptte. Whi1B Plains, NY 1!ml (914)!m-<mi
838 Broadway ,Newburgh,NY 12250(914)562·5005
AIDSline(914)993-0607

BAR ASSOCIATION FOR HUMAN RIGHTS
Lawyers Referral
Service for the lesbian and Gay Community
Full Range of legal Services(2121459·4873

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

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

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

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

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

BIDS (BISEXUAL DOMINANCE &SUBMISSION GROUP)
Share 81M experiences and fantasies with others ina positive, non·judgementalatmosphere.
First Sun·
day of the month, 4:45pm at the Community Center
208W. 13 Street, NYC. This group is part of the New
York Area Bisexual Network.

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

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

EDGE
Education in 8 Oisabled Gay Environment
For the physically disabled lesbian and Gay
Community.
(212)989·1921
P.O. Box :1)5 Village Station, New York. NY 10014

BIPAC (BISEXUAL POlITICALACTION COMMITTEE)
Political action on issues of importance to the Bisex·
ual/lesbian/Gay
community. Monthly meeting/potluck
held 8:00pm on fourth Thursday of the month atmem·
bers homes. Call NYABN for this month·s location.
(718)853·8245
BISEXUAL YOUTH.
Informal social & support group for Bisexual
kids/youth. Monthly meeting/potluck
lunch held
1:00pm on fourth Sunday of the month at members
homes. Call NY ABN for this month·s location. This
group is partofthe
New York Area Bisexual Network.
BLUS·BRONX LESBIANS
UNITED IN SISTERHOOD
Social, political and support networking group for
women and their friends. Regular social events andmeetings on the first and third Fridays of every month.
At The Community Center. 2~ W. 13 Street, from 6:30·
8pm. For more info call lisa at(212) 829·9817.
BODYPOSmVEIf you or your lover has tested HIV+, we offer support
groups, seminars. public forums, reference library,referrals, social activities and up·to·date national
monthly, "THE BODY POSITIVE" (S1!ilyear).
(212)633·1782.
2095 Broadway,
Suite 306, NYC, NY 10023

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

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FEMME SUPPORT GROUP
For lesbians who self identify as Femme. For info andmeeting times call lisa at (212) 829·9817. No men please.
FRONT RUNNERS
A running club for lesbian and gay athletesof all abilities. Fun Runs of 1·6 miles held every Sat at
lOam and Weds. at 7pm in Central Parkand every Tues. at 7pm in Prospect Park.
For infqrmation:
call (212)724·9700.
THE FUND FOR HUMAN DIGNITY
National Gay and lesbian Crisis line
·AIDS 800·· .. 1·800·S0S·GAYS
Educational Resource Center; Positive Images
Media Center; NY State Arts Program
666 B'wey Suite 410 NYC, NY 10012 (212)529·1600

GAY MALE SIM ACTIVISTS
Dedicated to safe and responsible S/M since 198!.
Open meetings w/programs on 81M techniques,
lifestyle issues. political and social concerns. Also
special events. speakers bureau, workshops, demos,
affinity groups, newsletter, more. GMSMA ·Dept O.
496A Hudson Street, Suite 023 ,NYC 10014.
(212)727·9878.
GMAD(GAY MEN OF AFRICAN DESCENT)
80 Varick Street, NYC 10013 a support group of Gay
Men of African Descent dedicated to consciousness·raising and the development of the Lesbian and Gay
Community. GMAD is inclusive of African, African·
American. Caribbean and Hispanic/Latino
men ofcolor. Meetings are held, weekly, on Fridavs. For
more information, call 718·802-0162.
GAY MEN'S HEALTH CRISIS HOTLINEFOR INFORMATION ON SAFER SEX AND HIV·RELAT·ED HEALTH SERVICES, AND FOR INFORMATION ON
ONE·TIME. WALK· IN AIDS COUNSELING SERVICES
212-807·6655
212·645-7470 TOO (For the Hearing Impaired)Mon.·FrL 10:30 a.m. to 9 p.m. Sat 12:00 to 3:00
HEAL (Health Education AIDS Liaison)
Weekly info. and support group for treatments for
AIOS which do not compromise the immune systemfurther, including alternative and holistic approaches.
Wed 8pm. 208 W. 13th St (212)674·HOPE.
HETRICK· MARTIN INSTITUTE
for lesbian and gay youth. Counseling, drop·in cen·ter (M·F, 3·6pm). rap groups, Harvey Milk HighSchool, AIDS and safer sex information,referrals, professional education.
(212) 633·8920(voice)(212)633·8926 TTY for deaf
HISPANIC UNITEO GAYS & LESBIANS
Educational services, political action. counseling andsocial activities in Spanish and English by and for th e
Latino Lesbian and Gay Community.
General meetings 8:00 pm 4th Thursday of every
month at 208 West 13th Street
Call (212)691·4181
or write H.U.GL, P.O. Box 226 Canal Street Station.
New York, NY 10019.

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

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

GLAAD
Gay & Lasbian AUiance Against Defamation
80VarickStreet,
NYC 10013 (2121966·1700
GlAAD combats homophobia in the media and else·
where by promoting visibility of the lesbian and gay
community and organizing grassroots response toanti· gay bigotry.

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

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THE LESBIAN AND GAY BIG APPLE CORPS
Get your instrument out of the closetand come play.
with us. Symphonic, Marching, Jau, Dixieland, Rock,,
Aute Ensem bles and Woodwinds.
123 West 44th St Suite12l
New York, NY 10036(212)869·2922,
LESBIAN & GAY
COMMUNITY SERVICES CENTER
208 West 13th Street New York, NY 10011(212)620-1310
9lm·llpm
everyday:A place for community uglnizing
and networking.
social services, cultural programs, and social events
sponsored by the Center and more than 150 commu·
nity organizations.
LESBIAN AND GAY LABOR NETWORKAn organization of lesbians and Gays who are activein their labor unions working on domestic partnershipbenefits and AIDS issuas. For more information call(212)923-8690,
LESBIAN AND GAY RIGHTS PROJECT
of the Americln
Civil Liberti .. Union
ICNOWYOURRIGHTS/WE'REEXPANDINGTHEM(212)944·9800.
ext 545LESBIANS AND GAYS OF FLATBUSH
Brooklyn·s social organization for both gay men and.
lesbians.
P.O. Box 106, Midwood Station
Brooklyn, NY 11230' (118)859-9431
LONG ISLAND· ACT-UP
P.O. Box 291. New Hyde Park; NY. 11040
Support us for change on long Island.
(516)338-4662 (516)991-5238 Nassau(516)928·5530 Suffolk
MEN OF ALL COLORS TOGETHER NY
A multi· racial group of gay men against racism, Meet·ings every Friday night at 1:45 at the lesbian and Gay
Community Services Center. 208W, 13th Street For
more info. call: (212)245-6366 or·1212) 222-9194.
METROPOUTAN TENNIS GROUP(MTG)
Our 200 mem ber lesbian and gay tannis club includes
players from beginning to tournament level, Monthly
tennis parties, Wintar indoor league, Come play with usl
For information: MTG, POB 2135, New York. NY 10025.
(212) 662-0695.
.
MOCA
Men of Color AiDS Prevention Program.
Provides safer sex and AIDS education information
to gay and bisexual Men of Color; coordinates a network of peer-su pport groups for gay and bisex/Jal
Men of Color in ailS boroughs of New York City.
303 Ninth Ave, New Yor~, Ny 10001
or call (212) 239·1196,
NATIONAL GAY AND LESBIAN TASK FORCE
is the national grassroots political organization for
lesbians and gay men. Membershipis $3O/year.
Issue-oriented
projects address violence. sodomy
laws, AIDS, gay rights ordinances, families, media,
etc, through lobbying, education, organizing anddirect action,
NGlTF 1511 U Street NW, Washington, DC 20009.
(202)332 ·6483.
NEW YORK ADVERTISINGAND COMMUNICATIONSNETWORKNYACN is the community's
largest gay and lesbian
professional group. welcoming all incommunications-·andtheir friends. Monthly meet·
ing$. 3rd Wed 6:30pm atthe Community Center. Mem·bers· newsletter, job hotline, annual directory. Phone(212)511-0380 for more info. Mention OutWeek for
one free newsletter.

NINTH STREET CENTER
Since 1913, a community dedicated to demonstratingthat a homosexual lifestyle is a rational, desirable. choice for individuals dissatisfied with the rewards ofconventional
living. Psychologically- focussed rap
groups, Tues., Sat, 8to 10 pm, peer counselling avail·able. 319 E. 9 Street, New York, NY 10003, for info call(212) 228-5153,
NORTH AMERICAN MANJBOY
LOVE ASSOCIATION (NAMBLA)
Dedicated to sexual freedom and especially interilted
in gay intergenerational
relationships, Monthly Bul·letin and regular chapter meetings on the first Satur·
day of each month. Yearly membership is $20; write
NAMBLA. PO Box 114, Midtown Station, New York,NY 10018 or call (212)801-8518 for information.
NORTHERN LIGHTS ALTERNATIVES
Improving Quality of Ufe for People with AIDSIHIV.
THE AIDS MASTERY WORKSHOP: Exploring the possibilities of a powerful and creative life in the face of
AIDS. Call Jack Godby (212)331-8141
NYC GAY & LESBIANANTI-VIOLENCE PROJECT
Counseling. advocacy. and information for survivorsof anti·gay and anti·lesbian violence, sexual assault,
domestic violence. and other types of victimization.
All services free and confidential.
24 hour holline (212) 807-0197
PEOPLE WITH AIDS COALITION
I Hotline (212) 532·0568
Monday thru Friday 10am·6pm
Meal programs. support groups. educationalalidreferral services for PWA·s and PWArc's.

(212)532-0290

PEOPLE WITH AIDS HEALTH GROUP
Underground buyer's club importing not·yet-approved
medications and nutritional supplements. 31 West 26th
St 4th Aoor (212) 532-0280
PRIDE FOCUS GROUP
Topical discussions on issues of interestlD the commu·
nity in a congenial atmosphere, followed by an informal
dinner at a friendly local restaurant Every Sunday. 3:00
• 4:30pm at the Community Center 208 W. 13 Street.
NYC, Part of the New York Area Bisexual Network.
SAGE: (Senior Action in a Gay Environment)
Social Service Agency. providing care. activities, &educational services for gay & lesbian senior citizens.
Also serves over 160 homebound Seniors & older
rNA's,
208 West 13th St NYC 10011. (212) 741-2247
THE OUTREACH
USING COMMUNAL HEALING (TO'UCH)
Community volunteers providing a weekly buffetsupper
for the Brooklyn AIDS community. TOUCH meets Monday
eves. 5pm to 6:30pm· at downtown Brooklyn Friends
Meeting House (110 Schermerhom St near Boerum
Place). Umited transportation may be arranged, Info: (718)622-2756. TOUCH welcomes contributions offunds, foodand volunteers.
ULSTER COUNTY GAY AND LESBIAN AWANCE
Meets first and third Monday of each monthat 7:30 p.m. at the Unitarian Church on Sawkill Road.
in Kingston.
For information. call (914) 626·3203.
WOMEN·S ALTERNATIVECOMMUNITY CENTER (WACC),
A non-profit. lesbian community center serving.
Queens, Nassau and Suffolk counties. Thurs night
weekly discussion grps. 8:30pm, for other activities
please contact us 8t(516) 483·2050.

program in November;• Helped attach an ineffectual, yet
controversial amendment to Americans
with Disabilities Act citing "homosexuality and bisexuality" alongSide a list of"sexual and drug-relateddisorders"
exempt from the bill's anti-discrimination protections;• Helped add a rider to the D.C:
non-discrimination code exempting religious educational institutions from its gay
and lesbian rights law;
• Blocked the much-awaited Hate
Crimes Statistics Act from floor action,
despite lopsided passage of the bill in
the House;• Effectively banned federal funds
from being used for clean needle distribution proirams and tried (unsuccessfully)
to ban bleach programs as well;• Condemned
approval of a lesbian/gay pride day postmark;• Threatened to undermine efforts torevamp changes in· AIDS immigration laws
which stop AIDS and HIV infected immigrants and visitors at the border;• And was the leader of a small
minority op'posing AIDS anti-discrimination language in the ADA.
Appe·arances, especially in Washington, can he deceiving.
But if the actual scope and impactof Washington events affecting the gay
and AIDS communities often seem nebulous and open to· interpretation,that
confusion can often be .traced back to
how the neV{s items are .han-dled by our
nation's mainstream media.
While indifference
continues· tomasquerade as disinterest in newsrooms
across the country (where sensitivity sooften falls victim to sensationalism), gay"scandals" will almost always receive
more air time· and more column inches
than the legislative and judicial issues
which seriously impact gays.
And the actual scope and impact ofalmost all such stories" whether the news
is good or bad, is almost always more farreaching than the way it is portrayed inour "newspapers of record."
Although gay and lesbian politicoSface an already overloaded agenda in the
new decade, overcoming the alternating
apathy and sensationalismwith which
non-gay news reponers handle the issuesof ou,r ~ommunities seems like as good aplace to stan as any. T

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swap experiences and fantasies. Watchor take part in demonstrations. Talk toexperts/novices. Write for info toJohn Strong,
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New York, NY 10018.
Get details on Meetings and Roster.

FORESKIN LOVERSThe New York City.chapter of theUncircumcised Society of America(NYC-USA) seeks new male members(with or without foreskin) to join its
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We buy, sell, trade and locate artworks.
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