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March on Hollywood
Ever since Vito Russo deconstructed Hollywood homophobia in his seminal 1981 book, The Celluloid Closet, lesbians andgays have slowly come to recognize the enormous culpability offilllll?in fostering anti-gay attitudes. Unfortunately, awareness ofthe damage imparted by queer-bashing movies has never beenhigh in our community.
African Americans long ago dealt with a similar filmic bias
by organizing protests and boycotts and loudly demanding
change. They were often led by Black actors, whose anger was
sharply focused from having been forced to portray the very
stereotypes which so grossly offended th~ir people.
Perhaps because, unlike Blacks, lesbian and gay actors are
not limited to playing lesbian and gay roles, there has beenmuch less leadership in our community to fight Tinseltown's
phobic depictions. And within our political leadership, there
often seems to be a feeling that the focus of liberation lies onlyin the White House or the State House, never on the film set.
That's a serious mistake. Whatever the cause of our relative
apathy, the depressingly constant stream of negative film depictions has lately turned into a torrent. It's next to impossible tofind well-adjusted gay characters anywhere in Hollywood's
vision, where we're seemingly all mass murderers and psychotics, criminals and suicides. Such depictions have as much
impact on society as any law or Supreme Court decision.
Ironically, a large number of those responsible for this sonystate are queer producers, directors, screenwriters, agents andactors who willingly participate in projects that trash their own
community. A larg~r number are cynical or homophobic straights
who foster this drek. And, as Russo used to tirelessly point out,
the largest number are the millions of lesbians and gays nationwide who willingly troop to such films, pay their money anddon't make a peep.
A call has now been made in these pages for a national
march on Hollywood, to put the film industry on notice that
we're no longer going to take this travesty lying down. It hasreceived a favorable reception in California, where demos are
already rocking the set of a new, grossly anti-lesbian film, andthe actual planning of such a national march has begun. OutWeek strongly supports such organizing.
, In a Twilight Zone-like reaction, some gay journalists, particularly at the sadly ossified Village Voice, have accused us of censorship, even "Stalinism," in protesting Hollywood homophobia.
Thankfully, such self-denigrating dimwittedness is being ignoredby progressive lesbians and gays, who will continue fighting andorganizing undeterred by the regressive rationalizations of timewarped Voice hippies and closet-cases.
The bottom line is this: Hollywood homophobes indeed
have a .First Amendment right to make their drek. And queers
have a First Amendment right to call it that and to march, picket
and boycott to bring it to an end.
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LlZA WITH A WHAT?
Remember Dusty Springfield?
She's the British female,
singer who first brought us "I
Only Want to Be With You" (no,12 in 1964). More recently shesang a duet with the Pet Shop
Boys called "What Have I Doneto Deserve This?" which reached
no. 1 in 1987. In her biography
Dusty, by Lucy O'Brien (1989
Sedgewick and Jackson Publishing) Dusty Springfield, the goddess of '60s mod culture cameout as a bisexual. She also spokeout on the hypocricy in themusic industry and in Hollywoodin this way:
"I'm in a business where atleast 50 percent of the businessis gay. There is [also] a verystrong anti-gay feeling in Hollywood which is extraordinary in
an industry which is 75 percent
gay. Because the industry heads
are very anti-gay, it's very toughfor most gay people and difficult
to speak out, but there are a few
brave people, and there's agrowing number of enraged people, straight and gay, who are
not going to take it anymore."With an attitude like that, is
it any wonder that those Pet
Shop Boy darks quickly dropped
collaborating with Dusty andinstead now work with Liza Minnelli? A woman who doesn't
want to discuss outing, the gay
men in her life, or take any public position on anything that may
anger or alienate any of her fans["Liza With a Q," no. 98, May15]? Not to mention that she
seems to enjoy hanging out withright-wing Republicans and sang"Hey, Old Friend" to Ronald Reagan at his birthday party?
I agree with Dusty Springfield that Hollywood is 75 percent queer, and I think that the"Queer Curse" issue and the"Why Won't the Pet Shop BoysCome Out" issue [no. 97, May 8]
are closely linked in that both arecases of entertainers not wanting
to be perceived as queer. Cleatly,
in all industry 75 percent queer,
the "real-life" queers are terrified
that the public will find out.
Entertainment-industry people

Pet Shop Boys are the Liberaces
of tOday-blatantly
obviousqueers who refuse to say so outof fear of losing the devotional
love of their fans.
Sorry Mathew Davis....You
can keep on staring at your large
glamorous posters of this talented
and caring woman, but as far as
I'm concemed, if she really loved

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don't care though if other entertainment industry people know
they are queer because they all
watch out for, beard for and protect each other.
"Why don't the Pet Shop
Boys come out?" Why should
they come out? After all, don't
their careers mean more thanthe AIDS crisis? Aren't waves ofapplause more important thanmountains of dead bodies? The

NATALIE.us as much as you claim, shewouldn't sing "Hey, Old Friend" toRonald Reagan. She'd scream,''You're a fucking murderer!!!"Let's see her become, as
Dusty says, one of the "enraged
people, straight and gay, whoaren't going to take it anymore."
Let her really start "stepping out" for us.
Let's see her have the guts
to take a public position thatmight anger or alienate some ofher fans. Until then, I'd urge people to pick up a copy of Dusty
Springfield's greatest hits thenext time they go to the record
store and pass up the likes ofcloset cases like the Pet Shop
Boys and safe, non-alienating
Liza. Dusty's music is a lot more
fun anyway.
TonyArena
Manhattan"Liza with a a"? Liza with a
C is more like it-"e" as in collaborator! It's a shame that
Mathew Davis did not ask Liza
why she sang at Ronald Reagan's birthday party.
If you must put celebrities
on the cover, how about k. d.
lang or Sinead O'Conner.
Liza, please! You think theentertainment industry has donea great job responding to AIDS.
The film industry has been horrendous, Liz Taylor raises money
for safe, mainstream, unchallenging AmFAR. Only Susan
Sarandon has the guts to support PWAC and ACT UP. Whoelse is consistently involved?
The homophobic American rockand pop music industry has
done almost nothing (Red Hot
and Blue originated in Britain).
Only the theater world joins thefight daily with Broadway Cares
and Equity Fights AIDS.
Out Week, give us featurestories about the women who
are making a difference.
Tony Davis
Nanette Kazaoka
The straight media usually
gives Liza what she deserves:attention. And lot's of us queers
really dig her too. Still, I'm all forabandoning oneself to worshipat the feet of deserving Diva's,
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but this Liza-fest made me sick.
press deal with them. There are
Liza, when asked how she plenty of interesting queers far
identifies with a female impermore deserving of the publicity
sonator in one of her routines,
OutWeek offers.
talks about the universality of
Morris Ratnerloneliness (rather than, say, talkCambridge, Mass,ing about the mutability of genLOOKING FOR A
der or the oppressiveness ofroles, etc.). And she says OutSTRAIGHT DATE?
I was perusing your perWeek is necessary because"anything that makes people
sonals, and there are some real
understand that theY'le not by freaks, A few twisted readers arethemselves is important."
actually searching out "straightMy fi rst gripe: Liza makes it acting, straight-appearing,"sounds like we all lead these
These guys must be into sometragic, lonely lives, and that Out- heavy scenes, looking for someWeek is there to make us feel a one who:
little less shitty.
1, beats his wife.
Liza, baby, if this rag func- 2. gets drunk and acts macho
tions as a 12-step program, ifs a (makes farting noises with his
program to help us get over het- armpit).
era-privileging myths like "gays are 3. shows no emotion.
tragic, lonely figures," OutWeek 4, doesn't use condoms,
does act as one of many forums
5. drives a car he can't afford,
through which a national queer 6. won't pay child-support.
community is being constructed.
7. shops at Chess King.
And it is also a product of that 8. wears "Sans-a-Belt" slacks
community, a reflection of our and acid wash.
strength and our love of the differ- 9. buys suits of artificial fibers
ences you regard as a liability.
because they wash up so well.
More importantly, OutWeek 1 O. thinks digital watches arereflects and usually performs
cool.
our rejection of silence, which
11. cums in your mouth.
leads me to my second gripe:
12, abandons his family,
13. uses words like ''la-Ta.''
Being queer is about being
proud. It's about being visible.
14. likes Kevin Costner.
15. doesn't cut his nose hair.
And OutWeek is a precious
vehicle through which we pro- 16. has no concept of foreplay,
17. doesn't care if you cum.
mote our queer identities.
If Liza "refuses to take a 18, [calls] Craftsman is his
public position on anything that favorite tool.
may anger or alienate any of her 19. can't dance.
20. parts his hair in the middle.
fans" (read: she won't affirm
queers), then we should not be 21. often high-fives buddies atpublicly promoting Liza. OK, sports bars.
22. doesn't look good in wigs,
Lypsinka is one of her "favorite
people" (read: some of my best 23. thinks Calvin Klein ads areabout "being all you can be."friends are...),
24. collects shot glasses and
But I want to know why
Liza's in our queer rag. How road signs.
does Liza see herself and her 25. is generally clueless.
We revel in the diversity ofcareer in relation to the lesbian
and gay community? What are our community. But, keep thisher queer inspirations? Is she shit away from me.
Name Withheld
straight-identified? Is she queer?
Manhattan
BaSically, "Liza with a A" wasLiza with a "z-z-z-z."
HISTORY IS BOrrE
I'm tired of reading about
Jonn Wasser's critique ofthe Lizas and the Madonnas, etc.
Julian Clary's Ballroom act is
Let the Advocate or the straightmuch appreciated. I wholly agreewith his view that the overpriced
performance would go over better in a small boite. However, I
am receiving the magazine bymai/ either on Wednesdays or
Fridays, so the calendar is more
historical than practical.
Allen Windsor
Manhattan
TV TRUTH
It was good to' readMichelangelo Signori/e's call toaddress Hollywood homophobia[no. 96, May 15], and Sarah Pettit's "Blurt Out" [no. 98, May 15]
on The New York Times piece
about the ABC film Our Sons.
The New York Times spokeof the fear of TV dealing with gay
themes, in this case Our Sons,
The ABC executive said homosexuality is one of the largest
taboos on Madison Avenue .
Why such major denial? It is as
if Madison Avenue sees increased visibility
and plays"let's pretend,"
The exec goes on to say
how the movie plays it safe andpicks up where one characteris sick, and there are "no intimate scenes between themen." Why not? There is intimacy betweenmen (andwomen). It takes the message .
and purpose of the film andsurrounds it with lies. Anothermessage is created- thereis•no intimacy between men-but
disease-yes,there is disease
between men. They'll show
what's safe (for them), neverwhat men and women who arequeer live day to day. And if
one [member] of the male couple is sick, even more reason
to show intimacy. That is what
people do. That is what humanbeings who walk around onplanet Earth and breathe air, .
eat and shit do. They are intimate with each other. That ....
includes affection and sex.
What is it that creates Hollywood-Madison
Avenue types
that have no balls?
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Joe 9aputo
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ON TOPYour article on "A Queer
Night in New York" [no, 95, April24] was great. I had a lot of fun
and didn't even get exhausted.
Could you do more on thejerk-off clubs? Where, how,
when? "Personality" of each?
Your magazine is great! It's
informative (rights, AI OS) and"on top" of the scene,
Rick
Manhattan
EXCLUSION
IN THE NIGHT
I loved your feature, "ANight in the Life of Queer New
York." I read through it briskly,
nodded in recognitionas
Michelangelo made time with
Henry, formed vivid mental pictures of J's as described bythose who ended up there,
swelled with prurient envy as theforay into the Sex Room at Mea
Culpa was detailed, It could havebeen a night in my queer life.
But I am very ashamed at
my reaction, and, upon further
consideration,
I'm a miteshocked at you. There was quite
an imbalance in reporting, someof which represents, I believe, agross oversight on your part,and which might offend andexclude some important elements of our gay culture.
~ the former life-partner ofsomeone who lost his life to
AIDS, I remember our "queer
nights" together. The despair hefelt that he could not participate insuch activities. His deeper despairthat he was denying me theopportunity to participate as well,knowing I really wanted to, but
knowing I wouldn't leave himalone, We had to learn different
ways to entertain ourselves on Friday nights. Some of this entertainment was rather mundane byanyone's standards. But supposing an article such as yours had
detailed some of the ways peoplein our position made it through a
Friday night-while Friday night
was making its way through therest o't the gay wor1d? Whether it
was 'something positive de-scribed-role
models, pe,r- I remember being desperate forhaps?--or something quite nega- behavior models. I would havetive someone to share our pain ,grabbed onto this article andlived out every one of those realwith?--it would have been good.
This extends to physical or life fantasies, Perhaps putting
mental challenges of all kinds. myself into a position of almost
How do these individuals feel certain failure trying to emulate
when reading that gay life seems behavior completely in'appropriate to my own personality.
only worthwhile, only exciting,This feature is also bizarrely
when it's peopled by the able?
ageist-there are people at the
And someone just coming
out-what example does that set young end and the older end offor them? When I first came out, the age spectrum in our commu-

nity who struggle to be heard,
who want to prove to the rest ofsociety, and to themselves, thatgay life is worth living, is fulfilling in ways other than sexual
release, For the very young, theywant the validation of living gay
outside the bedroom; for theolder, they may no longer value
this behavior (if they ever did)and may resent its being presented as the standard.
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bian Conference [no. 97, May 8].
Over three years spent to plan
another academic jerk-off session
full of meaningless, endlessrhetoric about racism and sexism-haven't we had enough? Our
brothers are dying of AIDS! My
people are dying and this "overwhelmingly white, middle-class,feminist crowd" just screams"Racistl" and "Sexist!" at everyone
powerless. Heaven forbid they
attack the pOliticians who may
appoint them to some bullshit job.
I'm sick of these ugly, fat
academic dykes and their pseudo-hippy, wimp-fag-clone friends
telling me to get a respectablejob-like a bank teller perhaps?
They have ruined our movement.
Honey, if you throwaway yourshoes, you can't cry that you areoppressed for having none.
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by Gabriel Rotello,uting is a disaster-the signifier, that is, not thepolitical action it signifies.
Coinedbysomeonewhothoughtthat thepractice was deeply
immoral, the word
has a negative connotation that sounds
both frightening and mean. And that, ofcourse, was just the point.
The term "outing" derives from theidea of dragging someone out of thecloset and conveys the image of a person
being forced from a safe place into a dangerous one. Given the subtle power ofwords, every time we use the term "outing," we accept and convey that image.
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can attest. It did offer relative safety inthe era before Stonewall, when it was
wiser to hide one's homosexuality fromthe world, and it was in that dark era thatthe metaphor of the closet was invented.
Today, however, I've met not a single out person who says that life wassafer when they were in. Indeed, if wewere to abandon the metaphor of thecloset and invent a new one, it's likelythat those who are hiding their sexual
orientation would be termed "out"---QSin"out in the cold." Those who are publicly
lesbian or gay would be described ashaving "come in," meaning into thesafety of a healthy self-image and a burgeoning community.
Yet the image lingers of the safe
closet out of which one ventures at one's
own peril. From that mildewed

THEGREATEOUAUZER?-Malcom Forbes: in or out?

metaphor, "staying in" and "coming out" 1lpersist as well. It's hardly sruprising that a ~hostile straight person was allowed to ~coin a term that defined and distorted an ~CDessentially gay debate. We were sitting ~ducks for the word "outing."
Q;
So let's toss the term and take a fresh -5.look at the phenomenon, What we have ~called "outing" is a primarily journalistic t5.
.cmovement to treat homosexuahty as "equal to heterosexuality in the media. On
a larger scale, that's the goal of the entire
gay liberation movement: to raise homosexuality to an equivalence with heterosexuality in all spheres of life. The press
doesn't hide heterosexuaiity or treat it as a
private and unbroachable secret, so why
should homosexuality be so treated?
In 1990, many of us in the gay
media announced that henceforth wewould simply treat homosexuality andheterosexuality as equals, We were not ,going to wait for a perfect, absolutely
safe, utopian future to arrive before
equalizing the two: We were going to do
it now,That's what outing really is: equalizing homosexuality and heterosexuaiity inthe media. And that's why I'm abandoning the word "outing" for good, with 1ts
antiquated, slanted, pejorative imagery,and adopting the word "equalizing"
instead. The imagery of "outing" is inaccurate, and I want to be clear about what
it is. we're espousing. I also want those
who oppose the practice to be perfectly
clear about what it is they're opposirig.
Equalizers like me begin with theassumption that the media has perpetrated a damaging double standard by ')omitting homosexuality from the roster of i8
th6se human facts and foibles subject to .§the scrutiny of celebrity journalism.
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Celebrity journalism in America is based ~on the concept that public figures surren- if
der their right to "journalistic privacy"l,when they agree to become famous,
Such people, in effect, make a pact withsociety: They accept fame, fortune andinfluence and, in return, accept that theirprivate lives may now ~be exposed in a
way they cannot control.
The courts have repeatedly upheld
this concept, ruling that a very different
standard of libel applies to public figures
than to ordinary folks. And the public, by
elevating the unauthorized biography, thegossip column and the 1V tabloid to thehottest commodities in journalism, hasissued an overwhelming endorsement.
So we are bombarded
with thedivorces, separations, traumas, infidelities, substances abuses, illnesses andgeneral trials and tribulations of thefamous. From Nancy Reagan to Mamie
Eisenhower to Mary Todd Lincoln, we've
learned pretty much all of it, whether ornot. such revelations were devastating,damaging or just plain embarrassing to
the people involved.
- The big exception to this journalisticfr€e-for-all has been homosexuality.
There has been a tacit agreement thatcelebrity queerness is unfit to print, andthat lesbian or gay public figures cancount on the media to cooperate in maintaining their secrets. While many gays
would like to think that this is done by asympathetic, media eager to avoid damaging the lives or careers of famous gays,
such has never been the case. The media
is rarely so concerned with the damage it
caUses celebrities and frequently reports
facts about famous people which cause
serious hann: Just ask Nancy Reagan, For
that matter, ask the small-town policebeat reporter who makes sure that every
chump in Podunk arrested on a morals
charge gets his name in the paper, apractice that has damaged more people
than an army of outers. Yet I've neverheard any pundit complain about that,
althoughin many countries
such'reportage is illegal and libelous.
Damage isn't the reason we've covered up queer. Most editors and publishers are simply homophobic, uncomfortable with- the subject and feel that theirreaders will object.
As a result of this double standard,homosexuality has been C2St as the only
unmentionable in a world of candor, giving it an inevitable patina as the worst
possible human vice. Indeed, what otherconclusion should the public draw whencelebrity alcoholism, child abuse andadultery are openly discussed, but
queerness is feIVently hushed up?
In reaction, many of us in the lesbian and gay media have called for an
end to this double standard, insistingthat since public figures long ago tradedtheir privacy for fame and routinely suffer embarrassing, even damaging, revelations in the press, it is hypocritical anddamaging to exempt only homosexuality
from that process.
Despite persistent jabs from detractors, I do not feel that equalization will
instantly result in a golden age, an end

Homosexuality has beencast as the only unmentionable in a world of candor, giving it an inevitablepatina as the worst
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to homophobia, a thousand points ofrole-model light or even an immediatevisible difference in our lives. But such
benefits will never become possible until
the ban on homosexual candor is ended.
If the goal of gay liberation is toraise homosexuality to a moral equivalence with heterosexuality, then equalization is liberation, It's practicing what 'we preach: treating our sexual orientation as a normal part of life:
All journalism operates on guidelines, however, and equalizing should be
no exception, Number one: Because theprivacy of the non-famous is usuallyrespected by the press, there is no dou-

ble standard in maintaining that private .
lesbians and gays have a right to stay
private. They certainly do. Those who
oppose us based on fears that every private homosexual is now at imminent
risk of exposure by fellow queers ,arebeing paranoid. Equalizing is only concerned with public figures, people whohave accepted the benefits and should
accept the liabilities of fame.
The second guideline is to confine
equalizing to those celebrities who are
already out in their private lives, a category which includes most gay public
figures indeed, that's usually how weknow they're gay. Since such people
have already dealt with coming out,
they're unlikely to face any particularpsychic damage by extending
therealm of those in the know. But targeting deeply closeted gays who aren't
even out among their close friends orfamily would be cruel, possibly devastating--and would hardly advance anyone's agenda,
Thirdly, we should avoid disclosing
the sexuality of those whose careers
would likely be destroyed. Staunch outing opponents raise this objection in
every case, but they're vastly overreacting.
(I once considereddoing a story on
major celebrities who had come out or
been outed, and whose careers had subsequently been destroyed. I had to abandon the idea when I couldn't find a smgie
example, except for one right-wing, antigay, anti-moice Republican hypoaite.)
We live in a society in which hundreds of thousands of people are out,
yet very few lose their jobs because ofit. Nonetheless, there are occasional
cases among everyday people, And
there are entire professions
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Commentary

The ~olor0
by Jay Blotcher

passion between her, a Jewish girl of
Lithuanian descent, and a pitcher for theBaltimore Orioles. His name was Arnie
Porotocarrero. He was tall, lanky andNicaraguan. For an adopted boy of
unknown origin, I suddenly faced a
provocative pedigree.
A person of color in America faces
daily oppression. As a child, growing up
in Randolph, Mass., I faced thesame quintessential
American experience. I•

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to the schoolyard monitor to inform herthat I had just called him a nigger. Our
principal, Mr, Dodero, provided me withmy first lesson in human tolerance. As
Kevin and I stood in front of his desk, I
felt a mixture of anger at Kevin, havingsquealed, and a sharp fear that I had said
the worst thing imaginable, Dodero
pointed out that my skin was far fromwhite; how did that make me different
from Kevin? He pointed to his own freckled hands. What did it matter what color
they were? I was instructed to tell Kevinthat I was sorry, and I was grateful for theopportunity
for absolution.
Kevinresponded with a tone of genuine hwnility, "I accept 'your apology."
uBy age 18, I took my first halting
steps out of the closet. I haunted myhometown bar, the tacky Randolph
Cou9try dub, and traveled into Boston
for ~me provincial preppie decadence.
In 1981, I lived for a short time in
London. My pasty-faced host country
was still grousing over their sinking
empire and blamed the Pakistanis that
had taken over much of their commerce. A shade darker than most, I was
the target of vituperative mutterings by
old biddies in grocery stores and on thestreets. The identity crisis had occasional light moments, too. One day,walking down Westbourne Grove, I
heard a voice behind me, yelling"Abdul, AbduU" A young man in a turban ran the entire block to catch up tome. His words spilled out breathlessly.
"Don't you remember me? I'm Ali. We
met in Teheran."
I trekked across Europe via themuseum-and-bar circuit. My proficiency
with French and Spanish allowed me
greater access to other countries and pe0ples. But my swarthy looks opened me
to another phase of European custom:
white racism. In Paris, I was standing on
the Metr<;>platform near a group of 'Iranians. A pair of gendarmes swooped
down on the group, swept me alongwith them and demanded my passport.
When they saw that I was American, I
was released. On the border between
France and Spain, a chum and I werepassing through customs. I was snatchedout of line, my passport fingered by acustoms official. I stood to the side for 15
minutes, my only company a small,frightened man of Arab origin. Incensed
at the treatment, I offered my friend a
photo op: He shot me standing between
the French and Spanish flags, my middle

finger outstretched at both.
On the gay bar circuit, however, I
realized that my wild card ethnic status
was not a matter of exclusion. It was a
fetish factor. In bars and clubs acrossEurope, fancying myself Goodwill
Ambassador of the United States, thestory was the same. Some shady man
would approach me and coo, Are you
Italian?
Greek?
Latin?
Iranian?
Lebanese?-and had already imagined acertain stereotyped bedroom scenario,
depending on my response.
As I came to know my natural

The dilemma can bephrased as a riddle: Whenis a person of color not a person of color? ,mother Valerie, I realized she, too, hadbeen the target of racism. In the late '60s,
she had manied Walter Bishop, Jr., a successful jazz pianist who had januned withCharlie Parker. Walter was Black. Valerie
had grown up in music circles her latefather, Hany Paul, was a publicist for the
Newport Jazz Festival-and most of her
friends were Black. She worked for,awhile for Ike and Tina Tumer, introducing Tina to Buddhism, But outside of thetolerant, cool music circles, she wastaunted for her marriage to a Black man.
The recent growing pains of Queer
Nation brought back the color-andoppression issue for me. Week after
week, people of color stood before thefloor to bemoan our color inequity. I,

myself, was berated for allowing theVillage Voice to shoot our group for thecover and feature only one person ofcolor. I seethed over that one. Of the 17
people who posed, one man was obviously Black. But there were three Latino•
men present as well, whether or not thatwas immediately apparent. And as longas' we were playing the token game, did
I count as a half-person of color? The
debate raged for a while, until a cooler,head pointed out that we should not bepillorying the Voice cover; it was merelya reflection of our own woefully inadequate membership.
The dilemma can be phrased as ariddle: When is a person of color not a
person of color? When you have presumed they are white? When they passyour skin-color test? When there are no
telltale signs of everyday oppression? As
someone caught between two camps,
and having savored the treatment ofboth,
I am pigeonholeddaily.
Presumptions irk when they shortchange
so brazenly, My skin color seems at odds
with my origins, but prejudice crosses
class lines. Talk to any well-dressedBlack man who can't hail a cab in thiscity. I am alternately oppressor andoppressed, but why celebrate one or theother? As activists comparing color
oppressions, we have created a dubious
parlor game.
Such distinctions may be politically
expedient, but they don't always graft
accurately on to the real experiences ofpeople's lives, leading some of us to aperpetual search for a pronoun somewhere between us and them. T

Jay Blotcher recently co-jounded
Public Impact, a media consultingfornm
for progressive groups, He writes the''FieldTripping" columnforOutWeek.

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denced by a recent New York Observerpoll, where respondents are characterized by their increasing but limited tolerance towards queers.
Only 28 percent of 502 people

NEW YORK-We've come a longway, but how far we've yet to go is evi-polled by the weekly New York newspaper believe that homosexuality
is"nonna!." The rest consider it, variously,a "disease," "genetic" or "psychologicaldisorder" or an "abomination."by ELLEN
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before, the two women had discovered, to their amazement, that some men use the secluded spot to sunbathe in
the buff. "If they're doing it, we can do it too," exclaimed
Rhonda, "but she won't let me take my clothes off." Aw,
come on, Lerine.

Two in five respondents,
if
confronted
with a teenage son ordaughter's
homosexuality,
would
respond by sending them to see a
doctor or counselor.
One in fivewould call in a priest or other religious leader, Just over half believethat they would eventually comeround and respond with love rather
than resort to punishment.
It may also be comforting to learn
that although many New Yorkers feel
uncomfortable around us, they are bighearted enough to oppose discrimination
against us because of our sexua1 orientation. As one woman quoted in 'theObseroer put it: "Just because they're gay
or lesbian doesn't mean they're monsters
or that they're terrible people .... You
could like someone and not like their
being gay or lesbian.", Such open-mindedness does not,unfortunately, extend to allowing us to•marry or adopt children. By 55 percent
to 31 percent, pollsters said that marriages between gay men or lesbians
should not be legally recognized, and,by 50 percent to 35 percent, they
thought that queers should not beallowed to adopt children. "That'sagainst God," one participant commented. Exactly what kind of discrimination the majority of those polled areallegedly opposed to remains unclear.
Attitudes on gay-bashing, one of themost immediate threats to gay people's
existence, were not garnered.
In addition, 52 percent of respondeqts thought that Mayor David
Dinkins did the right thing by helping
the Irish Lesbian and Gay Organization
march in the St. Patrick's Day paradeand by marching with it. Among
Blacks, that statistic jumped to 66 percent. Only 22 percent do not think thatgays and lesbians should be allowed toteach their children.
Finally, we are everywhere, andNew York is getting the message.
Although 40 percent of pollsters did nothazard to guess what percentage of thecity's po-pulation is gay, of those thatdid, 33 percent reckon that we make upover 30 percent of the population. Eighteen percent think that we are between
20 percent and 29 percent, and 27 percent figure that we are between 10 percent and 19 percent.
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OUTWEEK'IS•'DYKES GATHER,TOSORTOUTLESBIANCONFABNEW YORK-Nearly 200 lesbians
gathered here last week for a follow up to
the National Lesbian Conference, provingthat the passions which erupted in late
April'S national confab in Atlanta are stillrunning high among this region's lesbians.
The event,entitled"Forging
Partnerships: A Lesbian Conference for
Cooperative Strategies," was designed tocontinue discussion on issues posed at
the NLC. Panels on visibility, power anddiversity, each of which featured articulate speakers representing a diversity ofviewpoints, provided the structural andthematic focus of the May 11 assembly.
"A lot of people saw [inclusivity discussions at the NLC] as being stuck inprocess instead of as an extreme commitment to helping educate each other,"argued Jennie Merovick, a Connecticutbased activist and professor, giving oneof several overviews on the NLC. "Wehave to remember this is the work-thisis the work for our community."
Other attendees,
differing with
Merovick, expressed frustration with thelack of cohesiveness and disorganizationthat many participants felt characterized
the NLC. Still other women said that they
were disappointed that no clear national
lesbian agenda had emerged from
Atlanta, or that the various agenda items
that were discussed did not remain asclear in participants' minds as the laborious proces5-{)rientation did.
"I feel like our community is always
at the brink of something," stated Kathy
Acey, of the national lesbian foundation
Astraea, drawing laughter when she disclosed that she refers to the NLC as "thebest of times, the worst of times."
But while a number of high-powered lesbians delivered compelling andinspirationaltalks
at"Forging
Partnerships," including New York mayoral liaison Dr. Marjorie Hill, state
Assemblywoman
Deborah Glick andNative-American activist Leota Lone Dog,
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. Defining empowerment as perhaps the, single most-important concept to grasp, alead that later speakers reinforced in their, presentations, Mess~ger added, "If you
have a problem with that, get over it."
The one-day event, sponsoredjointly by the New York City Lesbian and
Gay Community Setvices Center and the
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"An AIDS diagnosis is not a useful,indicator of disability,» reasoned Karen
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noting that researchers and scientists
have not sufficiently studied how HIV
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Testimony at the hearing, whichwas. organized by Michael Rosano, a special assistant to the Council president,
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As the CDC definition is used bymany federal, state and loCal agendes to'determine eligibility for benefits and services, the suit alleges that thousands' of
women who are severely disabled by
HIV are unable to access programs
designed to assist people with AIDS.
"As far as I am concerned, if theywould not have died without the destruc-tien of their immune system, then they
had AIDS," McGovern stated at the hearing. "It is arbitrary and capridous to give
one class of individuals benefits immediately and deny the other class, whichhappens to be women, people of color,
fonner or current IV-drug users."
At the May 2 hearing at City Hall,
one speaker also broached the topic of

woman-to-woman transmission of HIV, an, issue that has been virtually ignored both ,by the research and epidemiological'establishments and by the public,"From 1974 to 1987, I lived with awoman who was my lover. She neverused drugs,' began Brenda Goodman, an
HIV-positive fonner IV-drug user, "She's
passed away now ....When we met, I wasan addict who shot drugs, and she nevershot any drugs, at all, and I wonder, Did
anyone ever study to see if women canpass this infection to one another? If not,why not?"

1-Nina. Reyes

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NOT AS DEEPI,
AS WAS FEAREDACT UP DEMANDS SOCIALIZED MEDICINEWASHINGTON-Over 100 AIDS activists from ACT UP groups along theEastern Seaboard gathered in Washington on May 13 to protest the lack of affordable health insurance. Demonstrators gathered outside a health insurance building
and proceeded to Lafayette Park outside the White House,
The demonstration is the first of three scheduled for this year as part of abroad plan to push for national health insurance. ACT UP members are working
with labor organizers from the AFL-CIO and other unions to create a massive public
national march on Washington for free health care in the spring of 1992.
Meanwhile, labor unions have called for their local chapters to organize directaction protests against health insurance companies on June 6.
-Carrie Wofford

18 OUTWEEKMay 29, "199"1

NEW YORK-Advocates for pepple
with AIDS expressed qualified praise forMayor David Dinkins' proposed budget forthe coming fIScal year. But they say thatthe dty continues to be shortsighted indealing with a growing AIDS caseload"AIDS was treated relatively well,'said David Hansell, deputy executive
director for policy at GMHC. "Some ofthe draconian cuts that were being discussed were not proposed.'
Serious cuts in AIDS services wererumored to be planned by the Dinkins
administration, which must close a $3.5
billion gap in the $28.7 billion budget for
the fiscal year starting on July 1.
But according to administration
sources, the budget for fiscal year 1992
shows an increase in funding for AIDS
services, even before adding the $32.7
million in Ryan White funds New York
City is slated to receive.
Despite the claimed increase, many,
conununity-based AIDS-service providers
will receive no increase in the dollar valueof their contracts with dty agendes. For
conununity groups, this "flat-funding," withno adjustment for inflation, functions as acut
"It doesn't speak to our prograrrunatic
costs,' said Ron Johnson, executive director of the Minority Task Force on AIDS.
"Above and beyond our personnel, we-- _are hurting in our programmatic costs.'
According to Johnson, his agency's
contracts with the Department of Healthand the Human Resources Administration
have been "flat-funded" for the past two

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THE MAN FROM million smackers for AmFAR to date.
'UNCLE: Is the personal
political inside the Beltway? BACK AT THE RANCH: Lambda Independent
Democrats is expecting Mayor David Dinkins to stop by the
Let's hope so. Harris
Wofford, the new senator Montauk Club in Park Slope to pick up an award "for thefrom Pennsylvania, has two moral courage he exhibited by marching in the 1991 St.
high-profile gay relatives: Patrick's Day parade with the Irish Lesbian and Gay
his brother Jack, a member Organization." ...After five long years in the planning, theCenter for Lesbian and Gay Studies at the Graduate Center ofof the board of directors
and treasurer of Gay and the City University of New York is at last funded and up andLesbian Advocates and running with official recognition from the school's board bf
Defenders, New England's , trustees. "Our mandate is to encourage scholarship on theby ANDREW MILLER
lives of lesbians and gays," said historian and CUNY professor
Boston-based gay rights
with reporting by Cliff O'Neill
law finn; and Jack's daugh- M!lrtin Duberman, a major'force behind the center's estaband Nina Reyes
ter Carrie, our own national lishment, the first of its kind in the nation, ...And Paulettecorrespondent, who also sits on the board of the Human Rights , Goodman, president of the Federation of Parents and Friends,of Lesbians and Gays-andeverybody's
favorite
Campaign Fund.
the annual meeting of the American
Earlier in his career, Harris Wofford was a leading advisor mom-addressedto President John F. Kennedy and a member of Martin Luther Psychiatric Association in New Orleans last week, where the
Association of Gay and Lesbian Psychiatrists presented her
King's civil rights entourage.
Will this translate into support for our issues? "We with an award. "P-FLAG's tireless stance proclaiming theirassume he'll be as good on civil rights issues now as he was trust in their children's future is a boon to the mental health ofin the '60s," said a source familiar with Wofford's record (no, , a.lliesbians and gay men," commented Dr. Peggy Hanleythe gay group's president.
it ~asn't Carrie or Jack). But supporters are already worried Hackenbruck,,about the liberal Democrat's chances of being elected in a
fairly conservative state.
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Wofford was tapped by Gov. William Casey to fill the
AiSeat of the late Republican Sen. John Heinz until a special
election can be held in November. Heinz was killed in a plane
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(Confidential to Harris: If you sign on to the federallesbian and gay rights bill now, you can still beat some of yourcloset-case colleagues to it.)
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at the Ziegfield and dancing 'til dawn at Shelter: The New York
City benefit premiere of Truth or Dare netted in excess of$100,000 for the American Foundation for AIDS Research.
And Madonna and Mathilde have reason to smile not only
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case10ad have increased.
The administration has also proposed closing the health department's
District Health Center in Chelsea to save
$1.8 million. That closing would eliminate an anonymous AIDS testing andcounseling clinic and a sexually transmitted disease clinic.
A second OOH cut would save $1.3
million by reducing case investigations
and patient treatments in that agency's
sexually transmitted disease program.
AIDS activists say that these programs are often the first contact for
many people in need of AIDS educa20 OUTWEEK May 29, 1991

tion, and that cutting prevention leads
to an increased caseload.
But advocates are most concernedwith proposed cuts at the city's Healthand Hospitals Corporation. Johnson
described the ID-ICcuts as "dismal neWs
bordering on disaster."
While HHC proposes to add 60
long-term AIDS beds at two city hospitals, the agency will save $41.4 million byeliminating outpatient phannacies, dental
clinics and walk-in clinics. ID-ICwill save
$31.5 million by reducing nursing coverage and other hospital services in thecity's already overburdened municipal
hospitals.

"In the long run, these cuts arecounterproductive,"
Johnson
told
OutWeek "Those denied care will go to
emergency rooms or delay treatment andanive sicker. These primary care cuts will
be devastating."
The budget now moves to theCity Council for six days of pearings
beginning
May 21. Last year theCouncil opted not to exercise itsexranded budgetary powers granted
under the city's new charter, but
Council Speaker Peter Vallone hasstrongly
opposedsome of the
Dinkins proposals indicating that the.council may use its budgeting powers

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The old definition, activists claim,
resulted in a six-month delay in tagging
the Julio Rivera killing "bias-motivated"
and a ten-month delay in fmding bias as
motivation in an assault on two lesbiansat the Purity Diner in Park Slope.
But some police higher-ups insist
that the change in the defmition is only aclarification of existing policy.
''These revisions to the department's
written material will clarify the department's policy and practice regarding theclassification of bias incidents," wrote
Jeremy Travis, the Police Department's
deputy commissioner for legal matters,
in a letter to Matt Foreman, executive
director of the New York City Gay andLesbian Anti-Violence Project.
''We're extremely pleased that, after
years of effort, the Police Department isfinally going to change its defmition ofa bias crime to reflect reality," Foreman
told OutWeek.
-Dunaln Osborne

ORTHAMPTONISEXUAL FLAPCONTINUESNORlHAMPTON, Mass.-It's pride
seasonagain,and the Western.Massachusetts
lesbian enclave of'Northampton kicked off the season on
May 4 with another year of controversy
over whether to include bisexuals in the
Lesbian and Gay Pride march.
One hundred feet behind the official banner ("Lesbian and Gay Pride ofNorthampton 1991") came a second official-looking banner which read "Lesbian,
Gay and Bisexual Pride of Northampton
1991," according to those who attended
the march.
With signs scattered throughout thecrowd, bisexual activists showed a strong
presence in their continued effort to gain
official recognition at the festival. "I wasamazed at how many of the banners
included the word 'bisexual,'" remarked
Boston bisexual activist Robyn Ochs. "In
the past three years there was a small bi
contjogent I had marched with. This year
there were inclusive banners allover."The controversy comes in the wakeof a decision in 1990 to reverse the 1989
Pride Committee decision to include"bisexual" in the official title. The rever22 OUTWEEK Mav 29, 1991

sal was spearheaded by many lesbianfeminists in the area and brought bisexual protesters and their friends from
Boston and surrounding areas last year.
This year, the committee kept "lesbian and gay," but the hostilities
increased between lesbian feminists who
have created a lesbian haven in
Northhampton and bisexuals, many ofthem students at U Massi Amherst,
where, as on many college campuses,
bisexuality is embraced. Ochs found thehostility at a "real intensity that's neverbeen reached before."
Queer Nation sold T-shirts with
"Diversity Is Our Strength," rold bisexuals
carried signs proclaiming "Bi-bi, separatists Don't reign on my parade," "Amarch bi any other name is divisive" and"If I'm your enemy, who's your frjend?"
Meanwhile, rally speaker and lesbian
feminist Sarah Dreher chastised: "Those
people who want to weaken the lesbiancommunity have found the perfect
way ....They have found an issue....SOme ofus feel it takes a lot more than sexual
oppression to be a community ....They
would erase our politics, our identity...randl
reduce all our issues to sexual ones."
In a telephone interview she added,"The bisexual issue is being used bypeople who want to undermine the lesbian community."
Some people in the audience
shouted "bi-phobic" at Dreher, and a subsequent speaker, Elisa Campbell (thechair of the town's board of selectmen),shared her experiences coming out asbisexual.
"A sizeable majority of the community has come to support inclusive politics," charged Ochs. "But the minority,
who are mostly lesbians-and some separatists-are
more scared,
more
entrenched.
The battle lines havebecome drawn more clearly....I don't see
an easy way out of this."-Carrie wofford/Wasbingtan

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SAN FRANCISCO-In an 11-to-O
vote, this city's Board of Supervisors
passed a landmark plan that would provide health insurance to unmarried city

employees.
The vote comes six months after
residents passed Proposition K, a domestic partners ordinance that allows unmarried spouses in both gay and straight
relationships to register with the city.
The enactment of this health careplan makes San Francisco the largest cityin the US to offer such coverage, joining
Seattle, West Hollywood and others.
The plan comes two years after arecommendation by Mayor Art Agnos'
Task Force for Family Policy to provide such coverage. The Task Force
was chaired by lesbian Supervisor
Roberta Achtenberg.
It was only three months ago thatthe city's Health Service System, whichadministers the health policies of city
employees, endorsed the Task Force's
plan after months of heated debate.
Sustained criticism came from representatives of the retired city workers,
who've frequently expressed concernthat the new plan doesn't allow for additional staff and will affect premiums.
Reportedly, some 2,000 municipal
employees, split evenly between gay
and straight, are expected to use thesebenefits for their domestic partners.
Under this new health care plan,
only those non-married spouses who are
registered domestic partners can buy
into the coverage that had previously
been available only to married spouses.
The city pays only for its employees, nottheir dependents.
All of San Francisco's municipal
health care insurance providers havereportedly agreed to honor the new policy, which will take effect inJuly,
A similar benefits package waspassed by the Board of Supervisors during Dianne Fienstein's tenure as mayor,
but she vetoed it.
Agnos has put his full support
behind this and wrote that "the adoptionof this plan will end years of discrimination faced by lesbian and gay families."-LoweU B. Denny III

FALLeUT FROMLAPDFIASCOLEADS TO OUTINGATTEMPTLOS ANGELES-The fallout fromthe brouhaha surrounding Daryl Gates

took an unusual turn when gay activists
attempted to out a local City Councilman
who supports the embattled police chief.
Queer Nation members c:illed for City
Councilman Joel Wachs to come out of thecloset and support gay rights instead ofstanding behind a police chief who is considered an anti-gay bigot by many.
"Joel Wachs must stop supporting
Daryl Gates and other queer-bashingcops," said that gay activist and attorney
Mic~ Wheatley.
Activist Thomas Coleman-who is amember of the same law firm as
Whefltley-began
by sending Wachs a
letter which opened with the words" As
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On April 30, Wheatley and Colemanclaimed that Wachs is gay during a local
radio talk show. And Queer Nation
demonstrators paraded on City Hall steps
with shocking pink fluorescent posters
that called Wachs a "queer and present
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queer political group leaders. LGCMShasalso dealt with cases involving domesticpartner disputes, landlord-tenant mattersand alleged harassment between straightand gay neighbors. It is the first serviceof its kind in the country.
According to Dr, Susan Rogers, who
volunteers as a mediator, the group provides an alternative to a standard judicial-system court hearing. "We've beenSocialized to believe that when you havea conflict, you go to an attorney," shesaid. With mediation, those involved in
the dispute sit down with a trained
mediator and work toward a mutuallyagreeable settlement
Larry Chanen, secretary for the
LGCMS board, told OutWeek that the service has been pleased with the response
it has received in the past four months.
"We are getting more andmore calls from people
MHECiTSneeding mediation, and,DOWNTOWN,
that's heartening," he said.
Chanen said thatsensitivity to gay and lesbian concerns has made
LGCMS a success.
"What we provide is ,a sensitive, safe place,"agreed bo~rd member
Roslyn Quarto, "You canget beyond the issue ofbeing gay or lesbian andget on to the dispute andthe problems. Mediationis trying to help parties toreach their own agree-

NEW YORK-When a gay couple
recently broke up, the most intense
end-of-relationshipaltercation wasn't
about who would keep the furniture or, the apartment.
Both wanted custody of...the dog.
Another gay man, whose semen
was used to artificially inseminate a les~pianfriend, wanted more involvement in~parenting after the baby was born .
~ ,But instead of seeking the services
pf an attorney, the two couples got a,heutral mediator to intervene. Like many
'If
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Gay Community Mediation Service, or
LGCMS, they didn't have to face an ugly
court battIe or pay more than $25.
Since January, LGCMS has been
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So it's a chance to be heard"
After someone calls the mediation
service's office at the Lesbian and Gay
Community Center, a screener contacts
all the parties involved and decides
whether or not mediation might behelpful. After making every effort tohelp people solve disputes on theirown, a mediation session is arranged. .
The sessions take about two hours, andusually end in a mutual agreement
between those in dispute. The fee isnever more than $25, and nobody isturned away because of the inability to
pay. If a case doesn't qualify for mediation, Quarto said, people are referred toalternate resources.
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While
some
mediatorsarelawyers, LGCMS has recruited teachers,
therapists,
health-care
workers,
activists and others from different discip1ines. As Chanen explained, "We do
not act as lawyers.""In contrast to the courts--or evenan arbitration where you're asking a third
party to make the decision for you-the.
role of the mediator is not to decide theissue," he added.
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Quarto said that LGCMS training ~sessions for mediators initially focus on ~general techniques
and practices.
isMonthly training sessions, required for all '~mediators, now focus on specific issues, ~-such as AIDS-related disputes.
Dr. Rogers, who has taught conflict
resolution at several universities, said that
she is specifically concerned about problems existing among' organizations in the,New York gay and lesbian community.
LGCMS has serviced gay and lesbianorganizations experiencing unproductive
conflict, where mediators find that the
major problems involve clashes of personality and leaders feeling unappreciated and overworked.
"Mediation is good not only for individuals it's also good for the organizations that are so much the base of the gay
and lesbian community," Quarto added.
The need for a mediation service
was mentioned last year at a dinner
for the Bar Association for Human
Rights and at the Lavender Law
Conference.
A working group wasformed, and, by last fall, the first 25
volunteer mediators were trained by
Canadiangay activist
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Rockhill. Among the original organizers were Roz Richter, formerly an
executive director at Lambda, and now
a New York City criminal court judge.
The service received most of its initial financial support from Lambda, theBar Association for Human Rights andthe Lesbian and Gay Community Center.
LGeMS will receive most of its future
funding from foundations, Quarto said.
Although mediation is becoming
quite popular throughout the country, it
is relatively unknown outside the legal
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and lesbian community who aren't
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prior to cases' going to trial, so it's
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Since LGCMSbegan, Chanen said,gay and lesbian leaders in San Francisco
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"We hope to be a model for gay
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It was an opportune time for lobbying,since the gay rights bill passed theAssembly's Governmental Operations
Committee on April 24 and passed theheavily Democratic Codes Committee on
May 14. It now goes before the full
Assembly. Though the Assembly previously defeated the bill in 1971, 1975 and1983, victory is within reach this year,
Ipon't"hold your breath, however, waitihg
forpassage "In the Republican SenI/". ,.ate. Because of the inclusion of sexual
tri~ntation, Republicans still refuse to~ote
for an anti-bias bill which wouldi·ncrease penalties for those guilty of~te-motivated violence.
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The vote on the gay rights bill in the@ovemmentaI Operations Committee was
7 to 2 with one supporter absent. The
sutprise was a yes vote by Nassau County
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__ n._'o~"ested in being helpful to our community.
Cuomo reminded us that he recently
introduced a gay rights bill into the legislature and has said that if Connecticut
can do it, so should New York. Cuomo
says that he is committed to lobbying
religious leaders, some of our staunchestand most powerful opponents. Cuomo
also says that he has reaffirmed his commitment to seCuring passage of the antibias bill, and he anguished over his
inability to influence Republican Senate
Majority Leader Ralph Marino, And
Cuomo, saying that he is committed to

Cuomo has reaffirmed
his commitment

ACT UP's zaps against him for thegovernor to focus on our concerns,
Whatever its cause, this commitment isgood to have from an articulate governor who has proven he can lead a
crusade for an issue he feels strongly
about. Unfortunately, these promises
were long in coming, but there is aseason for everything.
One can only hope that the governor's renewed commitment to our community compels him to attend this year's
Gay Pride march: His presence, beside
our mayor, who marches annually,
would be a powerful statement to all
New Yorkers. Our parade is as important
to us as the St. Patrick's Day parade is to
the Irish or the Israeli Day Parade is to
the Jews. Cuomo's presence should be amatter of course.
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Ralph Marino. 'It's a New world, Carol
The City Planning Commission has
sent its recommendations
to the City
Council siding with Beth Israel's quest to
open an AIDS hospice in a building it
owns right across the street from the haspital-<lespite the protests of a numberof preservationists who are vehemently .
against the hospice. The supposed issue
is landmarking: The building in question
was once occupied by Anton Dvorak,the composer of the New World Symphony. Word has it that the confusedCouncilwoman Carol Greitzer is among
those against the site no sutprise.
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helping us with the AIDS crisis, promised
us greater access to his office andwants to strengthen his relationshipwith our community.
All these promises are encouraging, Perhaps it took Connecticut toopen the governor's eyes to the factthat our state lags behind when it
comes to the needs of lesbians andgay men. Perhaps it took the St.
Patrick's Day parade for the governor
to be reminded that our community
really is under siege. Perhaps it took

On May 6, Page Six of the New Yom
Post ran an item titled "Sexual Politics"
about a potential City Council candidate
who is deciding whether or not to run as
an open lesbian. The item ends: "Butwhen asked if she has gone public about
her gay life she replied circuitously: 'I'm
considering running. At the time I decide" 'clear about what my intenI'll betions are.'" Can you believe that response?
Of course, you read the same story here
first several weeks ago. Notice also thatthat wethe Post didn't mention
scooped 'em. Don't the folks at Page
Six read OutWeek? ...

to the anti-bias billand expressed anguishover his inability to
influence S~mate
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Promises From the Governor
As part of Lobby Day, Pride Agenda
Executive Director Dick Dadey organizeda meeting between community leaders
and the governor. Cuomo, his council,
liz Moore, and his deputy director of theState Consumer Protection Board, Virginia Apuzzo, met for just over an hourwith Dadey, Assemblywoman Deborah
Glick, GMHC Director of Public Policy
David Hensel, Lambda Legal Defense
Legal Di~ector Paula -Ettlebrick, Albany
Aldel'man Keith St. John, the Anti-Violence Project's Executive Director Matt
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half year or so,

A ago, ACT UP!

New York proposed aplan of action to develop, within an 18month period, better-! treatments for five of
3 the most common~ Oppoourusoc infections,or Ols, that affect peo- I ...
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ple with AIDS. Since much of the scienIific kn0wledge and experimental agents needed to complete this task already existed, a sense of tugeney
and a commitrrent on the part of government,
ipdJstty and community-based groups to seeing
this happen was all that was necessaI)',Occasional updates to the "Countdown
is Months" plan have been issued as research'and treatments evolve. What follows is what's~p with Mycobacterium au/urn complex, or
MAC, a systemic bacterial infection related totuberculosis that affects many PWAs, There is
no FDA-approved therapy; currently, treatment•
usually consists of a cocktail of three to fiveanti-tuberculosis, and anti-leprosy drugs,

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Rifabutin
Rifabutin was made available on a compassionate-use program to approximately 3,400
people with life-threatening mycobacteria1 diseases, most of whom had MAC,between October 1983 and May 1989. Then the CDC, which
was distnbuting the drug, and the FDA bothdecided that the program was growing too
1arge in the absence of any finn data supporting the drug's efficacy and that clinical trials
showing efficacy were needed Adria, the makers of Rifabutin, then waited two years to begin
the trial, during which the drug became completely inaccessible for MACtreatment
The long-awaited trial of rifabutin for thetreatment of MAC fmally opened to enrollment
in Febru;UY. It is a blinded study comparing
rifabutin to a placebo in 200 people with
MAC. A protocol amendment to allow people
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The trials are continuing to enroll; an interim analysis is projected by late ~If the trials "break positive" (show a positive resulO atthat time, a full-fledged expanded-access program for MACtreatment will be considered Currently, Adria will release rifabutin on a case-bycase basis to people who are not responding tomarketed antimycobacterial drugs like rifampin,
ethanbutol, clofazimine and ciprofloxacin.
According to Adria's Dr, Beverly Wynne, "Wewill not refuse to provide rifabutinto anyone,
who is in need of alternative therapy.",

The FDA won't allow
drugs of European
manufacture to be
distributed in the US.
Clarithromycin
More than 300 people with AIDS haveimported c1arithromycin from Europe to treat
their MAC infections since the drug became
available for import into the US last July. A sma11
French study showed that the drug could
reduce bacteria in the blood of PWAs, and asmall German study indicated that the drug
could rechJce some symptoms when administered at a dose of 2 g per day.
The phase-()ne study at the National
Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Md, foundthat the concurrent administration of clarithromycin and AZf rechJced the blood levels
of AZf by up to 50 percent Because of this,the FDA has put the clinical trial on hold until
more information, presumably from thephase-two treatment study, is available on theinteraction. It is possible that c1arithromycin
affects the absotption of other drugs as well
Meanwhile, an increasing number of
PWAs are beginning to take 250 mg to 500 mg
per day of c1arithromycin as a prophylactic

measure-25O mg per day has been characterized as "a dose which is not hannful and probably quite helpful" by Drs, Jenkins and Jacobs
in an April 1991 article on OI prophy1axis in
Project Inform Perspectives. A few doctors on
both coasts are recommending
it for all
patients with fewer than 50 T-<:ells, some incombination with clofazimine. At this point, allprophylactic doses are speculative.
The phase-two study is rapidly enrollingin three cities and examines 1,000 mg, 2,000
mg and 3,000 mg per day doses as a single
agent A compassionate-use program is being
designed for people who are ineligible for theclinical trial and will randomize people toeither 1,000 mg or 2,000 mg per day. Search
Alliance, a Los Angeles community-based
research group monitoring people taking
imported c1arithromycin, provided informationthat 1,000 mg per day may be effective. People are taking a variety of doses, often
because they cannot afford the 2,000 mg
dose, which can cost up to $24 per day,Recently, another obstacle to clarithromycin access has arisen in the form of
FDA quality-<:ontrolsafeguards-Abbott needs
to gear up production of the drug, which may
take until mid-:June, and the FDA won't allow
drugs of European manufacture to be distributed in the US, even though clarithromycin wasrecently approved for the treatment of MAGin
France. AIDS activists will see about that

Azithromycin
A phase-()ne study in San Francisco isproviding some encouraging early results thatthe drug can rechJce the amount of bacteria in
the Jo>lood.Ptizer has submitted a set of protocol outlines to the FDA for azithromycin.
These protocols will examine 600 mg vs,-1,200 mg, as well as 600 mg in combination
with available agents, and provide open-label
azithromycin to people who experience"unacceptable tOxidly" from available agentsor who are failing on themInterestingly, because Pfizer made the
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1991, at St. Vincenfs Hospital in New York. James
Schuyler was born in 1923 and has long been recognized as "one of the most original poets in America," as Howard Moss has written, He is the authorof several books of poetry, including Freely Espousing (1960), The CrystalLithium (1972), Hymn toLife (1974), The Morning of the Poem (1980),
which won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1981, andA Few Days (1985). In addition, he wrote two novels, Alfred and Guinevere (1958) and Whafs for
Dinner, and was the co-author, with John Ashbery,of a third: A Nest of Ninnies (1976). Mr. Schuyler
also published a mixed collection of poetry andprose entitled The Home Book (1977). Selected
Poems was published in 1988 by Farrar, Straus andGiroux. He was the recipient of numerous awards
and grants and became a fellow of the Academy ofAm8rican Poets in 1983,
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I met James Schuyler in the summer of 1979.
My brother, Steve, was substituting for Eileen
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walked to the tim COrridor, turned right to number
25 and knocked. The door was opened by a middleaged gentleman in a short-sleeved burgundy shirt,brown corduroy trousers and a pair of those roughout brown-leather shoes with the clay-coloredsoles; black hair, worn short and neaUy combed. I
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and leftThat was almost 12 years ago, and, during
those 12 years I've talked to Jim, either in person or
on the phone, almost every day. What do I do withthat place in my life where Jim was? What or who
do we put there?
James Schuyler was a great poet; he was recognized by not a few of his contemporaries
asbeing a great one. And as happens with great poets, 'or great anythings, there gathered around him agroup of younger poets, now in their 30's and 40's,
who loved his work but, more importanUy, loved
him-the man James Schuyler who lived at the
Hotel Chelsea, Room 625, who loved Ruth Draper,
Glenn Gould, Mildred Baily, who read the diaries of
18th-century English priests, 19th-century ,New
York lawyers and 2Oth-century English novelists. I
came late to that fold of student friends and beganwriting poems later than most of my contemporaries but number myself among them-and
weare Jim's children, a legacy beyond even his poems.
And then there are the painters whose work heknew and loved: Fairfield, Darragh, Alex, Ann, Jane,
Duncan; and those who were neither painters nor
writers, just his friends-people who loved him andwhom he loved.
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Yesterday morning, I remembered the feelingof his hand on my arm when we'd go down thefront stairs at Chelsea Central; the serious look on
his face as he watched a movie; his chucklinglaugh, his less frequently heard, but quite distinct,
loud raucous laugh; his way of enunciating the

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friend Billy Vinson: The punch line was "I order you,back to your ship." Who's going to live in that space,Ill us where James SChuyler lived? I don't know.
Someone wrote that faith is not having all theanswers-faithis living with the questions. Jim
lived with his questions-with grace, with humor
and with truth. He told the truth, which is themost---and all--we can ask of an artist
I came to James Schuyler as his employee,
moved on to become his love-object for a time, fora time abused our friendship, and, when I tried tochange all that, he let me. He let me change, and hechanged; and then we really became friends. He
was my best friend. It seems to have taken his
death for me to see that, but irs true.
James SChuyler was a Christian, an Episcopalian by denomination; he came to this church,
wprshipped there, found a home there, Christians
talk about the crucifixion and the resurrection ofJ8sus, and we see th9m as historical events. But we~Iso see them as events that happen outside of.• .0"•
time--every day in every way. Jim SChuyler went
through many crucifixions and resurrections during
his Ii(e;as we all do-some large, some small.
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moment to the next; that, just as the crucifixion andresurrection hllPpen now, so eternal life is
now-from one breath to the next. Past is past, andetemity is tireless~temity is the ever-present now.
So we celebrate the life of James SChuyler, but not
the life that ended for us on April 12, 1991. We celebrate his continuing life. Because James Schuyler
lives, at the very least, in his worl< and in the heartof his friends, and, at the very most, he is here, inthe eternal now, alive, Changed, free, speaking tous, praying for us.
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STEVEN JONES
Steven Jones, a prominent New Yorl< costume designer and a member of United Scenic
Artists, Local 829, died on Sunday, April 28, at
Cabrini Medical Center in New Yorl< City. He was 29
years old. The cause of death was HIV-related complications.
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Steven was the son of Audria Jones and thelate William E. Jones of HolmeS,
Pa. In 1980, after,
graduating from Cardinal O'Hara High School, in
Marple-Newtown, Pa., Steven continued on to New
York University and in 1984 received a BFA indesign from lisch SChool of the Arts.
In May 1982, atthe Designer's Exhibition held"

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Design, producer Harvey Brosten first caught sightof Steven's design prowess, Consequently, he wascontracted to design costumes for Sta.rblast a touring children's musical. On Easter in 1984, Sf1lrblast
played at the White House. During Steven's continued association with BHB and Mainstage Productions, he created the original costumes for How
SWeet It Was; Your Fabulous Fifties Show, a touring
musiCal revue; Olympus on My Mind, a 1986 OffBroadway hit musical; and Romance Romance, the1988 Tony-nominated Barry Harman-Keith Herrmann Broadway musiCal. Some of his other accomplishments include Cincinnati's Playhouse in thePari<productions of Long Day's Joumey Into Nightand The Seagull, Music Theatre of Wichita's Oklahoma; and an independent film titled Marionettes,
Incorporated.
Most recently, Steven had been working as
assistant designer to Arthur Boccia on the Red, Blueand Gold units of Ringling Brothers, Bamum andBailey Circus and Walt Disney's World on Ice.
Through Steven's accomplished Illustrations
and costume designs we witness the evidence of arich and fantastic inner life. His heroic figures andthe costumes that graced their bodies were products of a great and wonderous imagination.
Steven possessed technical abilities thatbrought him employment in many costume shops
around New Yorl<City. He worl<ed with latex castingand other costume SCUlpture and painting for allcompanies of Starlight Express, at Parsons-Mears
Ltd.; jewelry for My One and Only, at Michael-Jon
Costumes, Inc.; and mask-making and assorted
crafts worl< for the New Yorl<Shakespeare Festival.
As a friend, Steven treated us equally with aunique brand of kindness and gentle character.'
Whether we were working together, sharing a mealor meeting for a beer at the local bar, he graced ourtimes with warmth and acceptance. Stevenapproached life and friends alike with a quiet anddisarmIng humor that cooled our fires and invitedus to friendship. His commitment to experiencing
life in ways that truly made him tick is an inspiration•
to us all. We believe that Steven simply let go of"shoulds" and conventions that were not joyful andvital. In so doing, Steven went boldly where notmany men have gone before in having lived a rich
Inl1\!rlife and sharing it so generously with us all.
He Is survived by his mother, Audria Jones, ofHolmes, Pa.; his sister, Theresa Leon of Philadelphia, Pa.; his brother, Edward Jones of Detroit,
Mich.; four nieces and two nephews, Memorial services will be held on Sunday, May 19, at 6:30 pm-at
NYU's Tisch School of the Arts, Department of
Design, located at 721 Broadway, 3rd floor. In lieu
of flowers, the Jones family has requested that
donations be sent in Steven's name to GMHC,-Nlchael DavIes, Joseph A. Onorato, Glen
Santiago and CraIg Sloane

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any kind ("Mommy, youhave to feed the pigeons
all of them!"). I also loved
animals (my dream was tolive on a wildlife preserve).
So, if I weren't gay, I'd probably be an
animal rights activist. And couldn't you
just see the columns I'd write:"OSCAR DE LA RENTA, YOU
DEMENTED, GREEDY PIECE OF SHIT.
IF I FIND ANOTIiER MINK SKINNEDFOR YOUR COATS, I'LL SQUEEZEYOUR GUTS OUT WITH MY BAREHANDS, SO HElP ME, sr. FRANOS OF
ASSISI!"
Then I'd probably go on some mad
ausade, urging all of the minks who were
posing as beaver and skunk to fess up
about what they rea11ywere, and I'd probably report the truth about the chinchillapretending to be rabbits and then, Oh, thank God I'm gay.
,':: ': Although I suppose that C.Carr at'the Vtllage Voice would rather that I
weren't. In fact, right now she probably
wishes that I were a mink so that Oscarde la Renta would skin me alive ~nd,.throw my carcass on some smug nch
person's back.
As you know if you scrupulously-follow these absurd public squabbles, C,
and I just don't get along. And I fear, mydear readers, that the relationship is only
getting worse.
Here's where we're at: Recently, I
agreed to do yet another talk show on
outing (snore). Now, mind you, last year
I'd babbled on about this issue on every
show from Larry King and Sonia Live to
GeraIdo and 48 HOUTS. By December, I'dpretty much put a moratorium on debating this topic. As far as I'm concerned,
there's nothing left to discuss: I reportabout the queer lives of famous people
if you don't like it,when I see fit~d,tough shit. (But obviously, a lot of you
do like it very much.)
last month, however, because of the
OUI'post "Absolutely Queer" posters, thedebate surfaced again. And, this time, got
itse1f all tangled up in the predictable andpandering pages of the Village Voice. I.. :(and for provoking Michael Musto to fina1Iy just print the danmed posters of Jodie
and Merv) and for further enhancing myand others' reputation as enfanJs terribles.
In light of the resurfaced debate, I
decided to do the talk show Heart of the
Matter-one of those vapid and vastly
unwatched
early Sunday morningones soley to meet scheduled guest
Cindy am. I thought that perhaps we
could nonna1ize relations.
I did so want the show to be civilized. And it did go on without any sort ofhostility for about ten minutes. Then
Cindy told our host, Doug Johnson, that
one of the reasons she is against outing is',ayatollahthat "visibility is not going to end homophobia," implying, I presume, that everyone stay in the closet She qualified thisstatement by saying that "visibility ofBlacks has not ended racism." So what isher belief? That it isn't important forBlacks-or gays-to be in films and on
television? That such presence does notbing to combat prejudice?
I sat there in disbelief, stunned andhorrified by what I was hearing. How
could a woman, whose feminist views I've
always respected, defend the closet in asuch a way? How could a person who is
so progressive on certain issues, who
years ago championed Karen Finley's profound work, be so backward on queer
issues? (The answer, I suppose, is that we
can't all specialize in everything, and thatbeing at the forefront of one "ism" doesn'tmean that any of us is on the cutting edgeof any or all others.) Anyway, I couldn't•

Gary Indiana, .Guy Tr~bay a~dc.earr for keepmg the ISSuealive" ',"help myself and curtly cut inat that point saying that she.','.'..', .',.,'.' 'h', . ,,",',', '", '"had a "warped mentality."dh'll
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After the show, for the
sheer entertainment of the
1V crew, C. and I got into abigger scrap, in which I, in
my usual madness, proclaimed her "a piece of shit" because
she'd called me so many horrible names
in her anti-outing article and didn't recognize that, whatever people may think ofme, I'm still an activist trying to get stuff
done and doing it in the best way I know
how. She countered that I was the "ayatol\ah" because I am "passing judgment on
people," At that point, I left the studio.
Since then, I've been thinking more
and more about it and realize that Cindy
Carr alone is' not a piece of shit-theentire Village Voice is.
Outing is but one issue generated
within the pages of OutWeek This magazine has been involved in dozens ofimportant issues and controversies thathave brewed within the lesbian and gay
community, from the hiring of the healthcommissioner to the hypocrisy of Covenant House, from lesbians portrayed as
ice-p~ck mu:derer:s in films .to the gaybashmg epidemiC explodmg on ourstreets. Regardless of your opinion of"Gossip Watch," you have to admit that
OutWeek has been vital to this community, covering the stories that no one else .
will and getting those stories, eventually,
into the mainstream press,
And if this sounds like we're tooting
our own hom, then so be it. The truth isthat nobody else does-certainly not theVillage Voice. No, so protective of theirown little fiefdoms at the Voice andthreatened by any new political bloOd,
they, rather than cultivate and encouragea small, struggling, important queer publication-and focus on the positive, significant work we've done
have instead
elected to bash us over and over again
about one single issue with which they
seem to have an irrational obsession. And
they've pigeon-holed us into being the"outing magazine," not even recognizing..,that there is a vast diversity of oPmfon on
the subject right here among the staff.
Even the bozo who chaired the•
Voice's Obie Awards last 'ay III~ e an e 0 I nor I e

R~ W~e~n,~ent off iOto anann-outmg diatribe onstage andrefused to even refer to OutWeek byname (he called it "a gay publication").
That is, in essence, the reactionary
and reductive way that the Voice has
recently treated this whol~ outing thang. In
fact, if not for Michael Musto's decision towrite about it in his gossip colunm, there
would be no pro-outing point of viewexpressed in the pages of the Voice. And,
from what I was told by someone very
high up at the Voice, the rigid editors andcolumnists there are so infuriated by outingthat they'd never even allow a balanced
piece, showing all sides, to be written. So
much for the free exchange of ideas.
(Maybe Nat Hentoff should write them up.)'In their attempts to squash us,
they've also reduced the huge spectrumof what one might call "disclosure" to one
simple word and act. Cindy Carr and Guy
Trebay say that they're anti-outing. But
what does that mean? Would they say thatit's wrong to ask a celebrity if he or she islesbian or gay? What about exposing
hypocrisy? What about gay people inCongress who vote anti-gay? What aboutpublicists who make up fake, heterosexual relationships regarding their celebrity<:lients, even though we know the dientsare gay? Do we reveal these lies? And
what about doseted lesbian and gay gossip columnists who willfully print falsehoods about gay celebrities to portraythem as straight? Does C.Carr back thiskind of journalism? And how does shejustify the fact that she, a proud lesbian
feminist who fights for the rights of thedowntrodden, is, on this issue, fighting forthe rights of millionaires to make more
millions by lying to us all?
How can Carr make blanket statements about "outing," a complex politicalact, when it is dear that there are so many
levels to it? And how does Carr plan tomake it stop ("Outing must stop," shefumed in the Voices pages), if she hasn't
defined what it is she's talking about? And 'even if she does have a dear picture ofwhat she wants to stop, how will she go
about doing it?By silencing us? By trying tointenupt something that's been in motion
for some time now? By halting progress
and the work of committed activists? Byasking journalists to go back to archaic
principles? By demanding that a whole
new generation of gays, who proudly wear
T-shirtS with the word "Queer" across theirchests; police all public discussion of memSEe GOSSIP

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Jt.;renon Television:Snapbout In Living Color's "Men on
Television" sketch: Hated it. AI: first,
the thing was funny, in spite of how dosely the writers walked a homophobic line.
Well, that line was crossed last week.
When Blayne said that women like
Roseanne Barr are why he made the"switch" in the first place, the Queer
Nation cringed. It was allover, though,when a sandbag fell on his head, immediately transfonning a beautiful queen into anightmare het-as if all we need is a swift
blow to the head for our silly ways to end.
These writers are from hell and haveno conception of what they parody. Consultations with even one West Hollywood
twinkie would have kept their fictional
reviewers from panning-of all shows--Golden Girls, Designing Women, andI

Roseanne.

'• ••A big hello to Larry Waites, MD,
MPH. As question-and-answer

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man for•'IS
the Advocate's "AIDSline" column, here
is a good one for you: If AIDS is a "manageable chronic illness" as you say inyour column, why do people keep dyin~
From your bio, we see that your San
Francisco office cares for more than 1,200
HIV-positive
patients.
When thesepatients die, is it because you didn't"manage" their treatment correctly? No.
They die because we are not there yet
Many doctors have warned about the
disturbing trend among their colleagues:
premature optimism about mv, It's not
suIprising, but it is irresponsible. We are
all sick and tired of the crisis, but offering
misleading information in a national magazine is completely out of lirle.' In thiscase, Waites was addressing a question
from someone who very dearly says that
he doesn't know much about HIV.
Undoubtedly, theAdvocate is the prirnaly
source of AIDS infonnation for many.
While Waites is correct that there are
more options for treating mv than there
were six months ago, we are far from the"managing" stage. And from all the "iono\"r"'!', .,AIDS IS NOT A CHRONIC MANAGEABLE ILLNESS

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perception. Downplaying the seriousness
lets people off the hook. At this point,
inertia looks pretty attractive.
People are not dying because theirailments have been mis-managed. Theydie because promising therapies aren't
available or haven't been approved
because of the FDA's inadequacies andlack of resources. They die because
Congress hasn't allocated funding to<::overhealth care for all Americans. Theydiebecause researchers waste our time•with poorly conducted clinical trials
which don't meet basic standards of valuable research or health care.
A good example is the rompound Q
trial (1989) in whim our Pollyanna columnist, !any Waite, was widely criticized forrushing to release overly optimistic conduSions based on inconclusive data.
The point here , is not to discredit
those who are working hard in the fightagainst AIDS, but rather to caution that,,., ..\. .'too much optimism, too early, works
against us. And that goes for drug trials aswell as it goes for educating people about
AIDS. At this point, more people are sickand more people are dying than everbefore. That is far from "manageable."• • • you know.

It all comes around,More than six months ago The New
York Times incited fear with a bunch ofarticles on the frightening rising tide of"political correctness" on campuses. Since
then, every other media outlet fell all overthemselves to hit on this hot topic with acatchy name. But a Times editorial last
week slammed those who have taken thecriticisms too far, This is required reading
for anyone angered by the knee-jerk tendency to write off the progressive agenda
as fascist controls on free speech.
The editorial took George Bush totask for his anti-PC speech at the Unversity of Michigan, where he "endorsed awide, hysterical attitude toward 'politicalcorrectness' ,..,He exaggerated one dan-

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•The Basic Instincts stink heated up with the San Francisco press
going crazy. In New York, the Times did a great job, and the Daily

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Kevin Ses-sQms (in Vanity Fair) asked Dolly Parton about the Sapphic
rumors linking her with best friend and personal assistant, Robin,
I mean, Judy Ogle. Dolly denied the rumors, saying that she's
drawn to the "macho type" man for her lovers. But if she were
IQvers with Judy: "I would not be ashamed of it, I'd just say there's
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ger and underestimated another. The realsources of intolerance on campuses areaggressive racism, sexism and homophobia." Yes, they said the word.
In the end, the Times says that forBush (and all those others) "to dismiss
increasing alarm about racism and otherintolerance as 'political correctness' is sloganeering, And it obscures the real danger: the rising tide of hate." Enough said.
This is not a debate over free speech. It's
about the responsibilities we have in amodem society. Bashing PC-ness on the
grounds of free speech is a last-ditch
effort by all those old guys who know
they can't win by arguing about the substance of politically correct ideas, Substance? What a funny idea.

• • •The first issue of the new Blueboy ison the stands with little porn, an attempt
at substance and a high price ($5.95).
Blueboy? What a funny idea, Not many
months ago, the new editor Greg
Phillips said that he was turning it into
the gay Vanity Fair. He started all over,importing real writers and real politics.
But, according to David Drake, afree-lance writer and editor there, thestraight owners at Leemar Publishing
took one look at the ftrst issue and asked,"Where's the dick?"
Phillips and Drake had to trash theirsecond issue, which was ready for the
printer. Drake's stories on poet Essex
Hemphill,
queer art's boy-wonder
Adam Rolston and the New York Gay ,and Lesbian Film Festival went out thewindow-in their place, 40 more pagesof beefcake. The only Drake pieceremaining was on the new Anti-Violence Campaign in New York.
Editor Phillips downplayed the problems, saying that the cut articles would , beused in later issues. He now says that heis excited about turning Blueboy into the"gay Playboy ...a very classy, adult book."
Of course gay men like nudes.
There is no denying it. But Drake saysthat he feels that the straight owners were
way out of line. They basically said to put
the pictorials back in "because that is all
gay men want," according to Drake. It's
that straight tendency to think of gar men, ,simply as sex-crazed air-heads.
The latest word is that Phillips will
give the owners their gay Playbo{' andthen hit them up to start the magazpe hewanted to do in the first place. Who
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East Side chrome-and-frond bar in the shadow of the
QueensboroughBridge. Unlike the bistros at 53rd and Third,
whose boy-escort commerce keeps business humming, Bogart's
never
had such allure. Its success over the past dozen years came,from pub piano sing-alongs and boozy camaraderie. But the clientele had faded steadily. A couple of weeks ago, Leona Helmsleybought back the lease. When word spread that the place wasgasping its last, the faithful returned. My friend Scarlet, a man largeof torso and wit, surveys the room and mutters, "That's just likefamilies they only get together for wakes."
Tonight, we are the aforementioned Scarlet (Kevin), Caress(Gregg), Sable (Bob), Sue-Ellen (Harold) and myself, Adelaide, We
were the ladies who sipped. When I moved to New York in 1982,
aspiring to 9-t0-5 fame, Bogart's was our watering hole. For howson end" we'd sharpen our tongues on passersby with a bitchinessnot seen since Tallulah sashayed through these parts. We sang
alo'og to dusty Broadway scores and silently prayed that wewouldn't become lonely, old queens. I was the first to break away,
trading my suit for downtown activist garb: regulation black jeans
and a T-shirt. From then on, our reunions were infrequent--nottllat it affected my romantic life. Here, ban mots are more likely
than sexua1 intrigue. My sole conquest was a man who resembled
Nicholas Cage, a resemblance severely aippled by natural light.
It is 6 pm on the fmaI night. The sole hint of festivity are ballOOnbouquets hovering above the bar. Kevin, the twinkie bar-keep,
greets regulars wjth a handshake and snidely announces, "Lastnight,· as if it were some joke. Phil came down here from West
Point to meet mends. He turns thoughtful, picking at a bowl of stale
popcorn and recaIIs the lover he met here ten years ago. They broke
up after a while, but Phil hasn't been back since. For JXl5terity, howwill he remember Bogart's? "It was a bar with too many suits."
People start pouring in. The scene plays like
Sondheim's Follies. Old employees hold court.
Roger, a waiter, coat-check, bartender and cook
for the past six years, predicted the demise. An
anemic economy forced many to leave the city.
Many more have died from AIDS. "Everythingchanged in the last year or two," Roger says.
"1here was a chance for the owner to get out
after 13 years, so he did it. There are no hard feelings,· He sips a beer and grows subdued "I'mkind of stunned in a way. It's hard to say good, bye to some people. I'm not good at that, so I
tend to shy away. I don't want to start aying. It's
like the end of an era." Max, a bartender for five
years, 'greets me warmIy as if I'd never left. He
hoists a Dewar's and water, proclaiming: "Longlive the legend I had a wonderful time here."
Matthew, a short, dark, very hot man inablue-green gabardine, stands with a knot of fellow architects who've
been regulars since 1980, He recalls his "young and crazy days,"when last call meant sliding in at 2:30 am, snatching up a looker andluring him under the Queensborough Bridge for a hasty tryst Dan, abanker from Boston who resembles )FK, recalls the spring night in1983 when he dropped in. Sitting at the bar was a famous clothing
designer. Dan said jauntily, "Hello, Mr. Klein, I just wanted to tell you
I'm putting some money into your pocket--l'm wearing your underwear." The designer liked his line and chatted with Dan about his
current beau, a towheaded porn star named Leo Ford. Ed, a guy in apolo shirt and sunglasses, has no time for soggy memories. He
points a shaky fInger at the golden planter in the comer and vows to
steal it tonight. Joe is a short Iatino man dressed like a lounge lizard,
mascara circling his dark eyes and fIngers adorned in diamonds andturquoise. Does he want to take any souvenirs? He shoots me a lookof deep hurt: "I'd take the people if I could"
A'man flits through the room, sporting a, pinstriped gangster
suit a la Guys and Dolls. He resembles a fussed-over Frank Uingella but regulars call him Marilyn Michael, because every Halloween
he does The Seven- Y&:lrItch thing. Michael admits never fInding
love among the regulars, but he made good bar friends, But
Michael feels lost now. "I'm going to miss a lot of them, because I
won't know where to fInd them."
Soon, sentimentality gives way to wishful thinking. The
rumor starts to ftIter through the room that Bogart's has beenbought and will reopen soon. But the owner knows nothing of it.
Sporting a thin, well-groomed beard and wearing a suit, he saysthat he feels "delighted" and runs off. At 7:45 pm, buckets of Kentucky Fried Chicken materialize, and patrons exercise great caution not to stain the pinstripe. A short dandy waving a red neckerchief flounces by, yelling, "Besos, besos for everybody." At 9 pm,
the call goes up: Next half-hour is open bar. The faithful dutifu1ly
drown their sorrows.
Michael, a boyish WASP in a white 1>010
shirt and baseball cap, sits down to assay "TheTrolley Song" and segues into that time-honored
Broadway cliche, "Memories." Rebecca, the resident songstress for the past three years, belts out''I Get a Kick Out of You." She later admits that
she thought that this night would not come sosoon: "I was just hoping the good times would
last a little longer." She offers "Over the Rainbow" to a roar of recognition.
Afterward, Rebecca fIelds desperate kissesof gratitude and reassures the morose that "they'll
all fInd another bar. She's also hustling her business card, asking if anyone knows of a pianobar in need of a piano woman. She watches theroom of people fonn a sentimental hudclle andsighs, "We're looking for a home." ...

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around, and you suddenly find your phoneringing at all hours, with people inviting
you to this paTty or that dinner for someone
you had no idea existed and are nowsuJr
posed to muster up publicist-inspired enthusiam for and break bread with while sitting
at an enormous medieval table next to pe0ple you have dtssed recently. While gazing
glassily around the table, you notice howeerily reminiscent this is of the Last Supperand hope, with what little self-esteem you
have left, that this isn't yours. Or else youfind yourself at one of many over-hyped
events that has succeeded in producing a
crowd too large for the venue only to bepushed, pulled and shouted at by police,
promoters and patrons alike.

Sydney: Yes, Mother Superior. But I am
afraid to ever eat buffet food or drink from acleaning bucket again. At Michael Alig's
birthday party, I just sat in a chair, afraid.
Liz: Well, at Marc Berldey's3 birthday, I
actually wanted to drink. I just couldn't get abeer at the "open" bar.
Sydney: I think people were trying to
induce gender dysphoria by giving Marc T- i!ishirts that read "Dyke" and "Nobody knows ~I'm a lesbian." I want to go out and get him a gpair of Birkenstocks and drawstring pants to ffi
really finish him off.
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Liz: Gender dysphoria was in overdrive at Highway4 when Seduction
can(LEFT TO RIGHT) BEAURAGARD
celled their show in person and Tony,HOOOMERY. ROBIN BYRD
Keith and Dominic
dressed in drag and
AND ZOIfRA lAMBBlTJ~T.... B..IG1fI'
went on instead.
Sydney:That was the only perfor, SYDNEY: Do you know who this dinner is for?
mance of "It Takes Two" so fierce, even the two members of
LIZ: Zohra Lampert.
Seduction that showed were laughing.
Sydney: Wait, I thought this was Beauragard HoustonLiz: Speaking of not showing up, Love. Spit. Love5 seemedMontgomery's!
birthday dinner. Who the hell is Zohra?
to lose their lesbian contingent a little close to opening, don't
Liz: It is, but they are honoring Zohra's contribution to the
you think?
image of legumes, or something. I can't believe you don't know
Sydney: I consider it in good fonn to go on every press
who she is, Let's ScareJessica to Death? The many guest appearshow from Joan Rivers to News 9 and then claim that you areance on Kojak? The Goya-Bean lady?
being exploited when the people start lining up,
Sydney: Look, I'm not the only one here who doesn't
Liz: Lucky break there were lesbians on line willing to fill inknow who she is. Nobody but you and Beauragard are clued in
at a moment's notice.
to this woman's obviously monumental stardom.
Sydney: Yeah, maybe I'm naive, but even though Pat
Liz: Who is that annoying woman over there who keeps
Field cancelled, I admire her for coming out as a lesbian andtrying to take people's food?
standing up to all the criticism and hostility that was thrown atSydney: Oh, you mean abrasive performance-artist Penny
the two gay couples. Say what you will about all the publicity
Arcade? When the busboy asked if anyone needed a new placethat Kelly and Ronnie Cutrone whipped up, they forced
setting, George Wayne requested another napkin to "shove
people to confront issues of sexual freedom and homophobia.
down this woman's throat." And I thought he was being kind,
Liz: Well, Madonna
may not have come out at her
Liz: It's nice to feel protected. But tell me, is it my imaginamovie premiere, but she certainly stood up to some criticism
tion, or does it seem that everyone in clubs
about the fUm.
has a birthday in a one-month period?
Sydney: Ray Kerrison is a pig. Madonna
Sydney: Is it really their birthday, ot areis bigger than Jesus Christ. I think he should
people just running out of party ideas?
be locked in a room and forced to watch her
Uz: Well, if you're looking for innovavideos until he repents for his sins.
tion, fake birthdays wouldn't seem to be on
Liz: I feel a bolt of lightning with my namethe top of the list.
on it somewhere.
Sydney: Unless it's Robert Twin's2
Sydney: The fUm kind of brings a wholebirthday, and it gives you an excuse to dole
new meaning to "come together over me,"out two large buckets of "magic" punch, I
doesn't it? I didn't think she would show up at
the post-party, but I saw her carrying a giantknow that you didn't have any, but I tried
metal ,bowl of popcorn around Shelter. I
some and spent the rest of the night with myknow that all you want to do is get in bed
head in the toilet.
Liz: Sort of gives you a whole new perwith her, right?
spective on people when you're lying on
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TRUTH OR DARE. Directed by
A1ekKeshishian. Produced by Jay
Roewe and Tim Clawson. Miramax.
by MayerRus
Nobody went to W1Jos That Girl? tosee the story of a buoyant, little moppet
who overcomes adversity to bag the richguy with a heart of gold. Nobody went toShanghai Surprise to see what the videocassette package describes as a "wild rik~shaw [sid race adventure with every concubine, karate-killer and crime boss intown in hot pursuit" Certainly, no sane
person went to Dick Tracy to see the wizened carcass of the once-attractive Warren
Beatty try to breathe life into a flat comicbook character. Truth or Dare is themovie we've wanted all along.
Truth or Dare, the wildly entertaining fUm that documents the Madonna
demimonde during the Blond Ambition
tour, operates on the same basic principle as Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous:
It promises us an intimate portrait of therarely exposed
private aspects ofcelebrity life. But instead of having, say,Connie Stevens take us on a whirlwind
cuisine tour of Budapest, Troth or Daregives us two hours of concentrated
Madonna, the most exciting perfonner(and personality) working today, the
DOUBLE DARE-Madonna returns the objectifying gaze of the spectator.

apotheosis of glamor and power.
To represent the dissonance between
the Madonna commodity-the mythic onstage, on-ocreen perfonner-and the supposed realities of Madonna's life offstage, director Alek Keshishian juxtaposes color footage of the sinning siren's
concert performances with grittier blackand-white footage of behind-the-scenes
goings-on, Since Madonna is the concert, and the concert is Madonna, an
exploration of life "behind the scenes"amounts to an exploration of the forces
behind Madonna. The ostensible goal ofthis project is thus to bridge the gap
between Madonna's
incarnation as post..
modern Uberfrau and Madonna's offstage appearance
as a bossy, gumchewing, bleached blond-to
providesome clues as to how the latter manages to pull off the extraordinary, Batgirl-like transformation ~to the former,
Take, for example, the Madonna
we know from Express Yourself, her
grandest, most inaccessible and-judging from the number of times she has
worked it-most satisfying incarnation.
Not only is Express Yourself the firstnumber in both her Blond Ambition
concert and in Truth or Dare, but the
song's video is arguably her greatest
achievement in that medium. She has
held on to that image longer than any
other in her mature, post-open YourHeart
years. In the stunningly filmed"
Express Yourself sequence in Truth orDare, Madonna appears dressed in a
golden bustier over a pair of men's suitpants, wired up like a robot, striking
epic, Valkyrian poses. She defiantly
asserts her dominance, lifting us to ahigher ground with one hand and striking us down with the other. It is
Madonna at her most powerful andcomplex, madly, effortlessly cross-referencing her own work and that of otherartists she has appropriated.
In a later black-and-white sequence,
we visit Madonna in her dressing room
as she prepares for a performance, herfierce mask only partially applied andher I Dream of Jeannie ponytail/powerplug already inserted in her head but
not yet turned on. She is halfheartedly
bitching about the noise coming fromthe dressing room of her backup
singers and talking about the mother of
one of her dancers, who is waiting outside for an audience with the greatlady. When Madonna finally emerges,.

the mother affectionately puts her arm
around the singer and proclaims, "Sheis so tiny and cute," Madonna smiles
and poses obligingly for a snapshot. It
is a particularly human moment; shereally is tiny and cute.
If Truth or Dare purports to iIIu-,
minate the process by which Madonna
gets from point A to point Z, it fails to
do so convincingly. The two Madonnas are portrayed graphically and brilliantly, but at best we are given only
veiled clues as to the origin of her~ransfonnative powers. If anything, themonumentally jarring contrast between
the two would lead us to believe thatthey are, ultimately, irreconcilable.
The question,
then, is, Why did
Madonna make this movie, and what
does it mean in the greater narrativeof her career?
Truth or Dare started out as astraightforward concert film meant todocument and repackage the Blond
Ambition tour for even wider consumption, The singer's -late decision to
include more personal, off-stage footage
repr~nts a significant turning point inher career. For the past decade, Madonna has gone from Big to Bigger to thepoint where she now virtually defines
Bigness. So, like the scientific theory
that claims the universe will reach a critical point of expansion and start to fallin on itself, it would seem that Madonna
has decided to get smaller, to lookinward, to become more accessible.
Madonna has already physicallytransformed and thoroughly commodified her body. The image of her physical self has been photographed, packaged and sold a billion times over. With
Truth or Dare she has started to sell thesubstance underneath-tocommodify
her inner self. Having given us the
package, we may now open it up andsee what's inside. But Madonna haslong ago served notice that all is not forsale in the great buyer's market of her
professionaVpersonai life. In the openYour Heart video of 1987, Madonna,
portrayed herself sealed in a room, performing for a host of spectators including a lecherous old man, a fresh-offthe-farm straight boy, areporter scribbling notes,
two gay men, a lesbianand others. At the end of
the video, she trades in her
vixenish, protO-Express

Yourself bustier for a modest suit andproceeds to dance off with a youngboy, leaving the porn-shop proprietor to chase after them, Her mes- 'sage seems to be that she reserves acertain portion of life for herself,that the acquisitive gaze of the spectator may be omnipresent but is not
all-consuming.
Likewise, Truth or Dare stops
short of turning the Madonna package
upside down and shaking its contents
onto the floor for the world to see.

The movie•

may gIve us
a tour ofMadonna's life,
but Madonna
herself serves
as itshighly subjective,

tour guide.
The movie may give us a tour ofMadonna's life, but Madonna herself
serves as its highly subjective tour,
guide. What Truth or Dare does, offer
is an enticing but sketchy series ofcase studies manifesting the issues andpositions Madonna has more andmore come to represent, holding' out
the promise that broader treatments
are still to come in some as
yet undefined, potentially
profitable vehicle.
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massive queer visibility than almost any'other performer, and, to be certain,
Tntth or Dare has its fair share of titillating moments that will make most lesbians and gay men in the audiencesqueal with delight. Watching one man
stick his tongue down another man's
throat may not be earth-shattering formost of us, but it's nice to have theexperience validated on the big screenby the most powerful entertainer in theworld, even if she is uying to exploit thescene in the hope that some freakish,inbred minister will try to have themovie expelled from Bumfuck, Alabama. Truth or Danis treatment of queer
issues, however, is not wholly unproblematic, Inexplicably, the one supposedly straight, decidedly homophobic
dancer in Madonna's troupe is given far
more time than any of the other supporting players, which, perhaps, might
be justified as a comment on the intrusion of homophobia even in the sanctified confmes of Madonna's garden. But
the mm is edited in such a way that twoof the big bonus
scenesforqueers--Sandra Bernhard's appearance
and footage of the gay dancers attending the Pride Day parade in New
York-areintercut with the homophobe's offensively misguided musings,
As an introduction to a shot depicting
the parade's powerful moment ofsilence, for example, we get the homophobe's tired protestations
that hisqueer colleagues desire him and are out, to get him. Un'fortunately, this framework presents the queer issues as a foil
to the seemingly more pressing examination of the one dancer's attitudes,
effectively robbing the queer scenes ofsome of their impact,
But, quibbles aside, Tntth or Daredelivers entertainment of mammoth proportions. It's a queen's-eye view (Madonna's or Keshishian's, take your pick) oflife at the very tip-top of popular culture.
The movie may not provide answers tosome fundamental questions about the
woman who writes the songs that makethe whole world swing, but watching hercolonize a Chanel boutique in Europe
and tum it into a private playground forherself and her entourage, to take but
one example, will have Madonna devotees, floating in a pool of vicarious ecstasy for a long time to come. T

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kiss. Audience reaction? Noisy--but favorn the weeks when everyone
ab~noisy. Too bad 1hey weren't the preview
was talking about Madonna's
audience, whose alleged negative reaction
two-parter with the Advocate
was the excuse Edwards needed to cut theor the last episode of Dallas
sex scene between Barkin and Lorraine(how well are we really survivBracco's dyke character, Sheila Faxton.
ing sans J,R.?) some fags and dykes,
more in-the-know, were talking about me Warner Brothers' press release describes
and my new column (and welcome to it). Faxton as an "elusive cosmetic mogul.'
Lesbianism is one of those things that
Scanning the big and small screens, I'll
some people don't quite get, I guess.
bring you the best in gay and lesbianLess attractive was other Switch co(mis)representation.
star Jimmy getting-too-big-for-LA-Law
New York magazine recently queriedon its cover, "Are we bored with the stars?" Smits, on Arse-nio. When asked if heag reed with Barkinand yawns came up
that"there's somelike thunder. Let's faceby 1nonica
male and female in
it: They were only
dorenka1np
each of us,' Smits
asking so they could
got nervous
andhave Madonna on the
cover. Of course, there's really no way to made some limp-wristed gestures. Thus
safely distanced from queers, hedeclare this a Madonna-free column fromanswered yes, and the audience applaudthe start-as
tempting as that may
be because I never get' sick of her. Even ed. Arse loved it all, of course.
Elusive women all over have beenso, her brilliant and relentless self-promotalking for weeks about the most elusive
tion shouldn't be allowed to overshadow
others equally worthy of our lustful gazes. woman on TV, C.J. Lamb of LA Law. Afterweeks in court, a brief working jaunt to theMadonna is fabulous, but if heterosexual
men should be slapped around a bit (as Carribean with Zoe and piles of reruns, C.J.
she said in the Advocate interview), what finally found time for a date with Abby. Disappointing as far as dates go (after theabout heterosexual women like herself?
She doesn't really think of herself on that highlight of looking at photos of the nuns~;,
who raised her, C.J. told Abby that she·,;ever-growing bisexual continuum, which
didn't think that she Abby was readymost dykes I know won't go near, does
for this), the scene was satisfying for othershe? Those childhood Sapphic skirmishes
reasons. After all those rumors that it was
just don't cut it with me. Until.there's somewell-publicized, adult, dyke action (XXX), all a tease, that C.J. was going to go
straight, if not remain celibate, her bisexushe'll always only be my favorite fag-hag.
Of course, she risked losing all our ality seems as secure as anyone's sexuality
affections when she showed up for the ever gets. Let's just hope that, having
established this, the producers won't get
LA premiere of Truth or Dare looking
scared and next give her a boyfriend,more like Elvira than anyone but Elvira
And how does Amanda Donohoe,
should. Even so, k.d. lang (a.k.a. "thewho plays C.J., feel about the whole thing?
female version of Sean [Penn]"!) was
There she was on Channel 4's 11 o'clock
almost giddy as she told Personalities
news, in her tank top and baseball cap,
cameras (bonus points for those who
noticed that her date for the evening was looking like she may have just left the latest
Melissa Etheridge) what she thought of lesbian town meeting. She explained: "I'm
the girl: "[Madonna's] the pinnacle of going to do this, because I have 100 muchwhat the industry is about I'm proud of respect for those friends of mine, people I _care about, who are gay, that I thought,
her.' Good girl, MadonnaWell, I can deal with this. If they'll let me if
In a move that would make Ellen
8ar1<in(not to mention kd.) proud, JoBelh they have 1hecourage to do this---fuen who
Williams recently brought to The Tonight am I to back off it" And so she becomesShow a Switch dip in which she and Barkin my' favorite elusive woman of the moment

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by Michael S. Smith,

Tbe first time I met Essex Hempbill,tribute to the latt; Joseph Beam, yourfriend and the -man who conceived ofbe was performing his poetry at a nightclub in DC. I fell in love. So I sent him
some of my poetry for critical analysis,
He responded, thinking I was a sensitiVestraight man. I burned my evasive poems
and confronted my desire.
Michael Smith: Let me read you
this poem:
I loved my friend.
He went away from me.
There's nothing more to say.
The poem ends,
Soft as it began,I loved my friend.
You end the introduction to Brotherto Brother with a reference to the Poem
for F.S. by Langston Hughes. Is this aBrother to Brothet!
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Hemphill: When I wrote the'introduction, the line "I loved my friend"came to me it fell into the rhythm ofwhat I was seeing, which was brothers,
uncles, cousins or even fathers gatheredin this circle, sharing these stories, telling
us about the friend that they loved. I am
thinking of the friend that we all have
had, as well as my personal friendshipwith Joseph,
MS: Is this poem
symbolic of a coming
out? Poem for F.S. iswrapped up in silence
becausethis is the
poem
most
often

offered as the "incriminating" proof of
Hughes' homosexuality. Yet, in this context, you transformed the poem fromevidence of repressed desire to a soft
beginning a long-in-<x>ming affirmation.
"I loved my friend" is a romantjc andvery adolescent statement. ..
Ell: Because of the idea of reminiscing and where the telling of the love mightlead us. For some, it will be through adolescence. For others, it will be through theearly years of their manhood. In any event,
what I was trying to communicate is that it
does not matter if the mend is your brother,
your lover, your uncle or your father. What
I see is all these men sitting down talking some of them have loved a man
more deeply than a gay man has loved
another man in a sexual context. Maybe
the friends have been buddies for 40 years.
So I gues> what goes on in the allusion tothat poem is not totally homoerotic; insofar
as I hope that a straight man picking up
Brother to Brother is able to hear that heand the friend that he loved are also being
called to this circle.
MS: So really it's a Black-man thing.
EH: At least that's how I am coming to it.
.'
MS: Then why an anthology
committed exclusively to Black gay
male writing?
Ell: We--ruunely, gay African Americans need to be asserting what ourexperience is. Brother to Brother affirnJs
what is largely an invisible experience,
which, even within the gay and lesbiancommunity, is represented according to
the needs of white gays and lesbians-as
opposed to Black gay men being able tosay: "This is who I am. This is how I
name myself. These are the things I feel, I
believe, Ithink. This is my inspiration."
MS: In the introduction to the anthology, you talk about "coming home"-notnecessarily to our particular families, but
returning to our communities at-large as a"visible" part of our community. Why
does the Black community need "visible"
Black gay men and women?
Ell: Oh! With the talents and skills
that we have, we have so much to give.
For instance, I look at many of the people
we celebrate from the Harlem Renaissance:
Though you might not
be able to say that they
were homosexual-gay
or lesbian in the same
way that we use thosewords today--they were
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sexually progressive people.
MS: But how does knowing who slept
with who benefit the Blackcommunity?
Ell: In my own coming of age, if I
had known about Langston Hughes, itwould have had an impact. I would havebattled less with my desire as I tried to fit
it into the heterosexual mode. I needed arole model in the same way we as Black
people argue that we need more rolemodels for young Black people. I add
that some of these young people are gay
and lesbian-theyneed to know thatwhat they are feeling is not new andunexplored territory. Young Black gay
people need to know they can make rooitive lives out of the kind of desire thatthey have. Young people need to know
~causeeverything
in this society says,"As a homosexua1, you
should be a fail•ure, heartbroken, despairing, suiddal ..."
MS: Tragic.
Ell: Right. The classic homosexual.
MS: The underlying assumption isthat you, are putting a Black homosexua1
and a Black heterosexual on the samelevel.. as being potentially productive mem/:x:!rs. of the African-Americancommunity.
/trEll: Yes, but I am also talking froma personal space where I've had to go
through a lot to begin to see the stagesof consciousness, the stages of loving
myself and of learning me. Then,through me, I learned how to love, 'anotherman, because at the end of thef
it is love that we are all after.
, MS: In the introduction to Brother toBrother, you talk about wanting to
remove the "veils."What are these "veils'?
Ell: A "veil" is the idea that you're
obscuring and hiding.
MS: What are we hiding from?
ElI: We are hiding from ourselves.
We are hiding from our potentiality as
human being;. You hide the fact that you
desire to kiss another man, And this ultimately disables you, if you can neverface yourself within that issue. We've
operated so long under heterosexual
predetenninations of what happiness will
be. To "remove the veil" means not toconsider heterosexual happiness as an
option, if it is not your desire. Yes, eventhough you risk not having some material things or even have diminishedres~ct in the eyes of your community.
MS: But how do we gain respectfrom our community when acting on ourdesire is, the way to lose that respect?
Ell: Like when some people say, "I

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don't want to hear nothing a faggot has
to say." Well, I counter that they are
wrong. They probably need to hear
everything I have to say and things I
have yet to say. They need to be waiting
to hear them
MS: It sounds to me that as Blackgay men we need the same thing thatthe Black community needs, which ismore love and respect for who we are.
Ell: Exactly. This is why I can't see

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divorcing myself from the Black community, We have always been in the community, and we are going to always bein the community. What I'm asking isthat there now be an acknowledgementof what our contributions have been andwhat they continue to be and what they
will likely always be.
MS: The African-American community has so many problems. Why shouldsee ESSEX on page 62

ers

BROTHER TO BROTHER: NEW WRITINGS BY BLACK GAY MEN
edited by Essex Hemphill. Alyson. $8.95 pb. 275 pp.

by Jim Marks
On a recent PBS program, Sweet
Honey in the Rock founder BerniceJohnson Reagon defended her music's
political content: "We Black people had
to get so much business done in thatarena [culture] because that was an arena
where we had control." Reagon addedthat she didn't make a distinction
between being a perfonner, an historianand a dvil rights activist: "They are allpart of the same work."
Brother to Brother, the recently published anthology of Black gay male writings, shares Reagon's view of the business of African-Americanculture, and not
simply because both the late Joseph
Beam, who originated this book, and his
friend Essex Hemphill, who brought the
project to fruition, have drawn heavily
on the lessons of Black feminists like
Reagon and Black lesbian feminists like
Barbara Smith.More importantly, Reagon'svision of the unity of Black culture reverberates within Black gay life.
Indeed, for more than half a decade,a primary issue for Black gays has been
their separation from African-American
culture a theme Joseph Beam articulated in In the Life (1986), his pioneeringcollection of Black gay men's writings,
with the lament "I cannot go home as
who I am, and that hurts me deeply."
The writings in Brother to Brother begin
with Beam's statement and test it, challenge it, look for strategies to solve its dilemma.
While only an occasional
focus, facing whiteracism daily is the background roar in whose

constant presence African-Americanslive.
The book's four sections focus on
family, sexuality, AIDSand cultural identity. But Brother to Brother isn't a philosophical tract, Just as Reagon combines
many roles in her one work, Brother toBrother combines short stories and poetrywith diary entries, open letters and a fullscale bibliography of Black gay writing.
One of the anthology'S funniest and' ,busiest pieces is Guy Mark Foster's "TheBook of Luke." On the surface, it is a
simple tale of adolescent lust in a lockerroom shower. The simplicity is deceptive. Foster's narrator must deal withdamaging assaults on his self-esteem.
During a fight between his parents, thenarrator hears his mother mention him:" '"Have mercy! Eyes, teeth, those rubber
tires for lips, that child is your mirror
image. But let me tell you something. I
swear his life will not be a carbon copyof yours, you nigger." Add homophobia,
and the gay child's struggle for wholeness takes on heroic yet Hercul(~andimensions. The urge for unity remains
strong. Even the AIDS crisis inspires avision of human unity in Melvin Dixon's"Aunt Ida Pieces a Quilt" and forces adying man's lover and his mother to "discuss some serious business" in AssotoSaint's "Hooked for Life."
Brother to Brother's concluding
essays recapitulate the book's presentationof both the forces that separate Black gar- .
men from their community and the solutions
they have devised to
end their alienation. No
one captures the O.l1Tent
dilemma better than

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filmmaker Marlon Riggs. "Black faggotty is
all the rage. Black gay men are not," Riggs
writes, as he demonstrates how "the partirular appropriation of the snap by Hollywood's Black Pack deflates the gesture
into rank caricature. Instead of a symbolof communal expression,
the snap
becomes part of a simplistically reductive
Negro faggot identity." Riggs, whose film
Ethnic Notions took deadly aim at the way
in which white America's caricatures ofBlack men were devices of oppression,sees in Black America's caricatures "disturbing parallels" to "America's mostentrenched racist constructions around
African-American identity. Behind theSambo and the SNAP!Queen lies a social
psyche in tonnent."
Riggs answer---Qfld that of the book
as a whole is not to silently accept thestereotypes, As BlaCk gay men and lesbians have forged a rulture, the pressing
need for reconciliation with the AmcanAmerican community has seemed a question of priorities. Ron Simmon's interview
with Riggs elicits a wonderful response:"As some would phrase it, What are wefirst-Black or gay? I tty to invalidate theargument. The way to break loose of theschizophrenia in trying to define identity
is to realize that you are many things
within one person. Don't tty to arrange ahierarchy of things that are virtuous inyour character and say: 'This is more
important than that.'" As Hemphill statedelsewhere, the challenge is to comehome "with all your identities."
Riggs' rejection of the fonnulation"Black or gay" doesn't signal that the"mainstream" gay community can takefor granted the support of Black gay men
and lesbians. Essex Hemphill'S introduction paints a gloomy portrait: "WhenBlack gay men approached the gay community to participate in the struggle for
acceptance and to forge bonds of brotherhood ..., we discovered that the beautiful rhetoric was empty," It is precisely
this refection that inspires Hemphill'S
sense that the true ally of Black gay men
is to be found in the shared experienceof Amcan-American rulture,
So, while Brother to Brother preaches the message that honesty and openness is healing, it also sounds a wake-up
call: Racism is, if anything, a more poisonous evil than homophobia. Muchbusiness remains to be done before "Gay,straight, Black, white-samestruggle,same fight" is more than a slogan. T•
Ivas 0•••IS Inc Ion

THE MAY CONCERT, New York City Gay Men's Chorus Chamber Choir,
St. Peter's Episcopal Church, May 4. HYDROGEN JUKEBOX by AI,en
Ginsberg and Philip Glass, BAM Opera, May 7. THE NORMA by Peter
Wing Healy and Linda Dowdell, Mesopotamian Opera, RAPP Arts Theater,
April 21. BENITA VALENTE and TATIANA TROYANOS, 92nd Street Y,
April 24. SEIGFRIED, Act 3, Scene 3, by Richard Wagner, Brooklyn
Philharmonic Orchestra, Brooklyn Academy of Music, April 26.
by Bruce-Michael Gelbert
The New York City Gay Men's Cho-rus ushered in the month of May with an
uplifting concert by its Chamber Choir.

A COCKSUCKER.AN IGNORANTGIRL-Allen Ginsberg inspires Hydrogen Jukebox,••, Included were premieresof works written bychoir members
andmusic of favorite gay
composers.
Dean X.
Johnson led the IS-voicecomplement with pianist
Woody Regan assisting. A guest guitarist
and a beloved drag diva also put inappearances.
The choristers began with a bouncy
assessment of their experience making
music in conductor Johnson's new andpulsating, synthesizer-accompanied"Singing Songs." Introduced as well was
Choir baritone Tony Shenton's "What theWorld Is, We Are," with words from great
gay poet Walt Whitman's leaves of Grt1S5,
reflecting the fervent contemplation of apair of lovers who are at one with nature.
Shenton's setting called for reciting, lyricalsinging and low-pitched rumbling, while
granting the interpreters some choices
abOut rhythm, tempo and pitch. 'The singers delivered a d~\cet
account of French gay composer Francis
Poulenc's lush a cappella prayers of St.
Francisof Assisi. They proffered lively..
renditions of a folk-like choral dance
frOm gay Englishman Benjamin Britten's
opera Gloriana, about Queen ElizabethI, and took a light-hearted look at cleverrogues in our own Aaron Copland's
amµtgement of "The Dodger." Joined by
PhiJip Koch, en travesti as Philene WanneUe of La Gran Scena opera~ visionin black and hot pink-they limned adelicately flowing serenade by gay forebear Franz Schubert. Wannelle's otherofferings, sung in a clear, lyric mezzosoprano, were a seductive "Sequedil/e,"
from Carmen, and brilliantly bravura
fmale from Rossini's La Cenerentola,
Nimble-fmgered guitarist Ana Maria
Rosado accompanied polished and persuasive Choir soloists in chorister Edgar
CoI6n-Hernfuldez's version of Angel Mislan's "rn y yo," a fotmal, turn-of-the-centurydance from Puerto Rico. She followed this with a Paraguayan waltz.
Selections from a mass by Renaissancecomposer William Byrd shqwed off
singers' ethereal head-voices, while ahushed aqd affecting "Eulogy" by Scott
Warrender honored the memories of lateChoirmembers.
.
,
In a cheerful "Gay Nineties" medley,
the men combined "Bill Bailey" with acampy "Tararaboomdeay"
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drowns them in an amplified drone.
Visuals include projectionsofancient statuary, looming skyscrapers andprinted circuitry, with the most memorable images being a gas mask-like faceof the idol Moloch and shrinking, smoking American flags. Costumes begin with
fatigues, giving way to a police unifonn,
glitzy cheerleading garb and so on. An
eery glow, playing on the perfonners latein the work, suggests radioactivity, The
fine sextet of singers James Butler,
Richard Fracker, Suzan Hanson, MaryAnn Hart, Daryl Henriksen and Lynnen
Yakes-had several scenes of affection,some of it same-sex pairings.
Martin Goldray directed the musicians-three electronic keyboard players,
two percussioni&s and a snrophone player(Lenny Pickett) whose instrument wailed
vividly as the second half of Jukelxxx began.

"Maple Leaf Rag," A tender "Flower of Beauty,"
by John dements, wasthe encore.

• ••The latest presentation by BAM Opera, at
Brooklyn Academy of Music, was the New
York premiere of Hydrogen Jukebox. The
text is by Allen Ginsberg, whose poetry
contained gay references more than adecade before Stonewall, set to music by
Philip Glass, with production design by
Jerome Sirlin and staging by Ann Carlson.
Ginsberg's poems lament and protest
destruction and privation, war and thebomb, greed and dehumanization, drug
abuse and government hypocrisy, personal loss and pollution. Moments of repose
offer hope for peace and interludes ofaffection and sensuality. The poet invokes
resonant names ranging from Adolf Hitler
to Mahatma Gandhi, Emily Bronte toNancy Reagan, Buddha to Geotge Bush,and styles himself a "cocksucker ...lacklove
and manIess" and "an ignorant girl." But
the music, meandering and lulling, andsometimes sweet-notably iJ.l the hymnlike fmale does little to• enhance theformidable words and, indeed, often•••
Two seasons ago, amid hilarity, hysteria and drag for both sexes, the producers of Jane Heir abandoned Charlotte
Bronte's high-Romantic heroine to theclutches of Manhattan's trendy moneyand-arty set. In gear again, the demented
Mesopotamian Opera company recently·
pitted BeIIini's Norma, priestess of the•

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you about the teaming up of Miller Beer andone of rap's most notprious homophobes, Big
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department, we thought that we'd report thatthey never got back to us.
Fortunately, the company continues to finditself surrounded. The latest word is that Miller
was in the process of negotiating a major sponsorship deal for this summer's New Music Seminar when the Helms
shit hit the fan. Someone had the foresight to sta1l the d~usual, queers are everywhere (you'd think they'd have figured thisout by now). Now, with the Seminar approaching, the brewery is
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be without SIring<; attached. Uke maybe a queer act on the bill?
READlNG .. .come into Giovanni's Room, drown in 1be WeB of
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libraly project is up and running. \blunteer t!rre (call Brian Phillips at
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Mariana
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EXPOSE YOURSELF. ••lf you can't tellfrom all the hot pants and traffic to the piers, it'snearly summer. When thing<; get too hot, find acool, datk seat in the Biograph Theater for the third annual New
York International Festival of Lesbian and Gay Film. According to
Susan Horowitz, the Festival director, this years theme is "Decent
Exposure." The 17-day program includes gillions of fabulous queer
films and videos and a special series on "Growing Up Lesbian"and an overview of latin-American gay film, "Las Cosas Del Querer." New York audiences will get their first look at Monica Treut's
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Mother Goddess and defender of the forest, against wanton polluters of the planet who plan a Mars-bound flight after
tainting Earth. The Norma, campy andeclectic entertainment with a serious
message, was written, choreographedand directed by Peter Wing Healey.
Composer Linda Dowdell, a stiffing andcontemporary voice, contributed a scorethat reflects Baroque and Romantic influences, with sides of Broadway flash andearly rock. Bits of Bellini's Norma, Verdi's
Aida and symphonies of Dvorak andTchaikovsky made appearances alongwith a riotous revelation ensemble.
Healey evoked spirits of Charles
Ludlam and Ethyl Eichelberger in an
evening of extravagant delivery, movement and makeup as Norma (Rochelle
Mancini) lamented the devastation ofnature and made other pronouncements,of portent in a bright and formidable
soprano that surely equals Bellini's original. King Paul (Paul Batsel), her macho
nemesis and former spouse, was thekind of villain one loves to hiss. Wren
Arthur, an intense performer, andRichard vayda, an ardent divo, were theirchildren, Came and Polyestrius, pretentious and confused. As Paul's too-pliant
robot wife, Simulacra, Janet Norquist
applied full-bodied mezzo-soprano tone
to a tango-meets- Twilight Zone solo anda florid air about spaceship malfunction.
Janet Panetta doubled (tripled?) as a mys-tical goddess and frenzied Slavic cleaning
woman-cum-perfonnanceartist. Moremoments of grandeur came from Healey
himself, Michael McQuary ("doing"
Katharine Hepburn) and hunky Gene
Reddick and the rest of the corps, whowere responsible for steps ranging fromritual dance to cha-cha,
Richard Gordon led the accomplished complement. Susan Ruddie created colorful robes, bizarre designer fineryand garb a fa Fredericks of Hollywood.
Maria Manhattan designed a bright "California forest" backdrop and cut-out trees
and noxious, threatening cloud.
Watch for a revival of The Norma in
October.

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Discerning diva fanciers tUrned out
in full force soon after as soprano Benita
Valente and mezzo-soprano
Tatiana
Troyanos, singers of rare commitment,
teamed up for a scintillating joint recitalassisted by pianist Warren Jones.
Opening with Mozart, the women
blended splendidly in an effervescentduet from Cosi Fan Tutte, proving
endearing and expressive as sisters confiding their preferences in types oflovers. In selections fromLe Nozze

di Figaro,

Valente's Susanna faithfully seconded Troyanos'
Countess' rhapsodies in
the letter duet andbreathlessly rescued her (as the pageboy) from the wrath of the mistress' jeal-'ous spouse. Troyanos proffered a passionate address to a young lady love in"An Chloe," and Valente replied with
"Das Veilchen," singing with feeling of
the violet smitten with a shepherdess anda merry" Un moto di gioia," an alternative

Figaro aria.
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In a virtuoso rendition of Mahler's
haunting RUckert Songs, the mezzo dr~w
on an array of tone, from light andlimpid to lush and plangent, to convey
both the gentlest of loves and plumb the
profoundest depths of despair. Valente
relinquished, for her part, Brahms' lusty
Gypsy Songs, and a playful Brahms duetbrought Troyanos' eager serenade to the
duo's portrayals of rivalrous sisters. (Wewon't raise an eyebrow at the sisters'
admission that "we...sleep in one bed.")Delving into perfumed French repertory, the artists gave ecstatic accounts ofFaure's exquisite love duet" PuisqU'ict-bas'toute arne' and the florid "Tamnte/kf andwaxed spiritual in a saccharine setting (byGounod) to the reverent words by Racine.
Troyanos offered a voluptous souvenir ofEuropean imperialism in the Near East in"AdieuxdeBizet'sl'hostesse arabe" she's
exotic and forlorn, he's
white, handsome andcallous and a sizzling"Seguedille," from his••carmen. Valente's lyrical "Mandoline," byFaure, and the pair's dulcet "Barr:ariJlle,"
from Offenbach's Les Contes d'Ho./fman,
completed the program.
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Brooklyn Academy of Music in the finaleof Wagner's Seigfried were the penetrating voices of Linda Keirn, locally familiar
as Turandot, and Richard Versalle, an

American active in Europe.

Lending a huge, silvery soprano tolines of Briinnhilde,Wagner's heroic Amazon, Kelm, with aband~, pealed forth withresounding high notes and brought warmthand sensitivity to reflective moments.
Singing his part in a SlIYJQth, pinging tenor,
Versallewas Seigfried,the instinctivelysexist
Aryan protagonist. (Seigfried awakens
Briinnhilde from a long sleep of enchant-

ment. He has never seen a woman but
claims her as his property.)
The Brooklyn Philharmonic Orchestra, under Lukas Foss, offered worthy
support, parting company with thesingers just once, late in the scene, Foss'
own Fanfare for Orchestra, juxtaposing
jolting, clipped sounds and lyrical "Pastoral" Symphony (Number Six), by
Beethoven, rounded out the evening ....

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by James Schuyler (1923-1991)
Coming from the delia block away today I
saw the UN building
shine and in all themonths and years I've
lived in this apartment
I took so you and I
would have a place tomeet I never noticed
that it was in my view.

Now, without saying
why, you've let me go.
You don't return mycalls, who used to callme almost every evening
when I lived in the country. "Hasn't, he told you
why?" "No, and I doubt heever will." Goodbye. It's
mysterious and frustrating.

I remember very well
the morning I walked inand found you in bed
with X. He dressed
and left. You dressed
too. I said, "Stayfive minutes." You
did. You said, "That's
the way it is." It
was not much of a surprise.

How I wish you would comeback! I could tell
you how, when I lived
on East 49th, firstwith Frank and then with John,
we had a lovely view of
the UN building and the
Beekman Towers. They were
not my lovers, though.
You were. You said so.

Then X got on speed
and ripped off anantique chest and an
air conditioner, etc.
After he was gone andyou had changed theSegal lock, I asked
you on the phone, "Can't
you be content withyour wife and me?" "I'm
not built that way,"
you said. No surprise.

james Schuyler's books include Selected Poems, A Few Days
and The Morning of the Poem, which won the 1981
Pulitzer Prize for poetry. "This Dark Apartment" is reprinted•
with permission from Selected
Poems, Farrar Straus Giroux,
1988. A eulogy for Schuyler appears on page 30 ....

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we be concerned with issues surrounding transgressive sexuality?
Ell: I don't see our problems being
able to be dealt with without confronting
the issues of sexual identity. What about
the young Black girls and boys who go
out here and sell their bodies to whomever without consideration for any risk at all
as long as they get crack? So we attack
the problem. We get this brother or thissister off crack into rehab, into school,
into a job, whatever, and everything will
be fine. I disagree. You are only treating
one aspect of the situation. What about
these kids' experiences with sexuality? A
kid might be heterosexual, but he gave
up some butt or some dick-whatever it
took to get what he wanted. You can't tellme that those experiences have been
purely physical and therefore passing.
There has been an impact on his or her
consciousness. No one can tell me that
we don't need to talk about sexuality.
MS: This is the same dilemma with'AIDS?
EH: Exactly. The problem I havewith how the Black community
approaches AIDS is that now the Blackcorrnnunity will pump up the heterosexual woman who did not know that she
ha9 a bisexual lover, or the innocent
infant. What about these gay Black menthat have died-50me of them in the middle of fighting ~or the Black corrnnunity
on all fronts including the battle against
AIDS. And if for no other reason but forthe prevelance of AIDS in the Black community, all of us need to be more realisticand honest about sexuality even when
we resist. Yes, men are going to fuckmen, and women are going to fuck
women, and men and women are going
to fuck each other-then they are goingto look stiII for other ways tp fuck.
MS: What would you consider to bea strong Black gay man?
EH: I'd say defmitely someone whodoes not disconnect from their corrnnunity, first and foremost. That's why I'm
always Black, and then I'm gay. Though
I do not consider it to be a heirarchy.
MS: It sounds like one to me.
EH: Well, I am trying to maintainthe primacy of my negritude without
denying my individual sexuality. I do notwant to take the position of a hierarchy[andl dismiss, in a dangerous way, how
critically important it is for us to be very
62 OUTWEEK May 29,1_1

conscious of what it means for us to be
Black people in this country or even inthis world, If it's got to be called a hierar, chy, then I'll hesitantly accept.
MS: Put it in the image of a pyramid.
Ell: The top of the pyramid is myBlackness, and my Blackness permeates
all of the pyramid
MS: Correct me if I am wrong:
Understanding the context, or at least
where you are coming from, sheds somelight on the complexities of Brother to
Brotber.
EH: Yes, to the extent that I am theeditor-but the most significant space toinvestigate is the context from which thecontributors are coming. I just orchestrate
the larger vision.
MS: At times, the anthology seems
as much a social aitique as it is a seed ofa growing Black gay identity.
Ell: Oh yeah. I think that is a very
cool one. Even though the initial seeds
were sown in In the Life, there are moreof them in Brother to Brother. Yet Brotherto Brother is not volume two of In the Life.
Insomuch as In the Life is a aitique of thelarger gay and lesbian community, it isn't
enough to continue to say white gays andlesbians are racist-that's a given. Brotherto Brother not only critiques that structure
but also confronts home.
MS: In the flfSt pages of Brother toBrother, it says the project was managed
flI'Stby Mrs. Beam, Joseph Beam's mother.
What was her contribution to the book?
EH: She managed the financial endof the project. But more importantly, sheand Mr. Beam gave spiritually: Their love
for their son permeated everything. Theirlove helped me to see that this project
was more than putting a book together,
it was about learning to love a friend indeath. This is the last thing that I could
possibly do for Joe.
MS: Would you say that Mrs. Beam's
love is like yours?
Ell: She's the mother; there is something of a given about her love. [But!
Mrs. Beam also has a natural concern for
Joe's legacy.
MS: His legacy?
Ell: Yes, his legacy. Joe asks a ve'Y
important question at the end of theanthology in the essay "Making Ourselves From Scratch." He asks, "Whatlegacies will we leave?" It is a very
important question-not only in the context of AIDS but in the context of ourlives. What are we going to leave for ournephews, our cousins, OUf_ sons, the men
and the women to follow in tbis lifli If
we are going to leave them in the sameplace to start from-that
we started
from--then our work hasn't been done,
and we've missed some important beat.
They should be able to build on the
ground that we have broken. Our work
isn't just for this present moment of
empowerment, it is for the others coming behind us who need to know all of
the range and all of the possibility of tbis
life. They need to know that it does need
to be a life disconnected from primarythings like family and community
because, this life is a part of the greater
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made about releasing clarithromycin, less has
been written about the drug, and fewer pe0ple have received infonnation about it Drugs
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adding to the demand.

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three years after it was first proposed. Enrollment is off to a very slow start While theirresearch questions are still important, once
again reality is light years ahead of research;
the advent of newer, less toxic MAC treatments
makes it unlikely that this 120-person trial will
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per day. San Frnncisco's Conununity Consortium, or CC, is conducting a trial of clofazimine(SO mg per day) as MAC prophylaxis. However, they do not have the funding to analyze thedata from the study or to conduct an interim
analysis in July. Relying on donated efforts
may make the analysis take months longer-..
than it should It's possible that data exists tosay whether this is an effective prophylaxis ornot, but, because the money doesn't, we haveno way of knowing. The American Foundation for AIDS Research has twice rejected proposa1s from the CC for biostatistica1 support.
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such an outcome is certain. It would be
cruel and unkind to target celebrities insuch occupations, even in the name ofliberation, and it hardly advances ourgoals to penalize our sisters and brothers by getting them fired.
Guideline number four applies toall journalism: Know your facts. The
sloppy activist outings of straight people
may be sensational, but they give theopposition
ammunition to blast theentire process, and they're simply lies.
Finally, I do not believe-andhere
is where the word genuinely does
apply-in outing politicians or others toforce them to toe the line on lesbian andgay issues. The threat by a gay lobbyist
to out a closet-ca.se member of Congressunless he voted in favor of an AIDS
funding bill smacks, to me, of usinghomosexuality as a form of blackmail. I
might reconsider if the target were Jesse
Helms, but I hope we can live without. . .' our oppressors.
Iffiltating
Although arguments against thisprocess have been pursued relentlessly,
opponents don't discuss the alternative,
especially for us in the media.
Equalizing is almost entirely amedia phenomenon.
And because
equalizing is, in essence, telling the truth,
the alternative is to lie. Those who call
us immoral for speaking truthfully aboutcelebrity homosexuality imply that it's
moral for journalists to lie, at least when
the issue is being queer.
Imagine parallel situatio!1.S--{lpolitician masquerading
as a WASP who's
actually Italian or Jewish, a male celebrity
who's actually a woman in disguise.
There are few who'd advise reportersthat they have a moral obligation to assist
in maintaining such deceptions.
Yet assisting in deception is exactly
what anti-outers insist we do. They saythat journalists have a moral obligation
not only to cover up the truth, but toassist the deceiver in their deception as
well. And that if we don't, we're fascists
or radicals.
That is the position of the Village
Voice, tbe New Yom Times, and most lesbian and gay organizations in the UnitedStates. They tell us that-because queers
are apparently not ready to be treatedwith equality-that journalists, even gay
journalists, have a moral obligation to lie.
I didn't go into journalism to lie, And
the lesbian and gay movement has told
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me over and over that homosexuality is
not the dirtiest little secret in the world
But r also didn't go into journalism
to deliberately hurt people. And I didn't
enter the movement to derail it. So I follow my guidelines, and urge others in the
media, including the mainstream media,
to follow them as well. And I draw a distinction between outing, which homophobes have been doing for centuries todestroy lesbians and gays and which I'magainst, and equalizing, which is a powerful, positive, defining end in itself.
And I pray that others, particularly
the leaders of our movement even colleagues at my own magazine--<:an grasp
this distinction too. If they can't, I'mafraid it'll be business as usual in homohating American journalism, the single
most powerful institution in society. And
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me." Aides have also declined to discuss
whether or not Wachs is gay.
Citing his regard for due process,Wachs has steadfastly refused to join theranks of angry Angelenos who are calling for Gates' immediate ouster, "If, in
our temptation to dispense frontier justice, we tamper with the time-honored
safeguards of our civil service system,
then we will undermine the integrity of'city government," wrote Wachs in an
April 10 Los Angeles Times opinion piece.
Critics charge that Gates' backward
attitudes toward people of color and gays
contributed to the March 3 videotaped
assault of Rodney King by Los Angeles
Police Department officers.
The outcry that followed has led toanoutpouringofbrutality
allegations-including
anti-gay hatecrimes involving the LAPD itself.
Although it has caused nationwide
outrage, to gays the King beating is partof a long and dismal LAPD record. The
climate of anti-gay remarks and discrimination is so great that it eventually led toan anti-discrimination lawsuit by Mitch
Grobeson, a former LAPD member. The 'all-star officer claims that he was drivenout of the force by such anti-gay harassment that it actually endangered his life
on at least one occasion.
For Wheatley and Coleman, Wachs'
refusal to use his power on the City
Council in that GlSe, 'coupled with his willingness to back Gates, was what pushedthem to tum on a progressive ally.

The attorneys claim that what they
really want to do is make politicians like
Wachs responsible to fellow-gays.
"We are call,ing him to account toour community," said Wheatley,
But not everyone in the gay and lesbian community agrees. "The outing only
clouded an issue that was simple," said
David Smith of the Los Angeles Gay andLesbian Community Services Center. "TheLAPD has been brutal in its treatment ofgays and lesbians, from the top on down,
while Wachs has been a staunch supporter of the gay and lesbian community,"
Many gays also are fearful that outing will become a weapon used against
private citizens as well as public figures.
Amidst the furor, Wachs took a trip
to Europe with a dozen members of thebuilding industry to study affordable
housing. Activ:ist Wheatley questioned
the timing of the trip and wondered if
Wachs wasn't "escaping the heat.""I hope he does some soul-searching while he's gone," said Wheatley.
Aide Nelson responded that the trip
was planned six months ago.
Mayor Tom Bradley and otherprominent officials have called for Gates'
resignation and taken steps to suspend
him. Gates took his battle to the courts,
which upheld his right to remain on the
job at least temporarily.
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REV. LOULEARNS JUST
WHAT'S IN
A NAME,WASHINGTON-Rev. Louis Sheldon
won't be able to operate his anti-gay
Traditional Values Coalition here if a veteran activist prevails.
'
Frank Kameny has kept Sheldon
from incorporating in the nation's capitalby establishing his own operation withthe same name. The innovative movekeeps California-based
Traditional
Values Coalition from doing businesshere, unless it changes its name or winsa lawsuit.
"I've given them notice to close up ,shop in Washington,"
Kameny said.
''They're operating illegally."
TVC has worked to oppose gay
rights laws in cities across the UnitedStates, has held trainings to convert gays
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WORSHIP•and The Way We War. Daniel Curzon's
S&M, Ce/ebriti8B in Hell and One Man'sOpiniotr; Carl Morse's Annunciation and
Fairy Fuck-/n, or A Call to the States;
Robert Chesley's Somebody's Little
ShoW; BII
Boy; Victor Bumbalo'l
Wrighfs Mother Father Lover Man; andRich Rubin's That AI Pacino Look.,$20.
WH=r at 8 pm, Sa at 7 and 10 pm, Su
at 3 and 7 pm. "Tickets:(212) 564·8038.
Through May 26.

ADVANCE LlSTlfiGS
HERITAGE OF PRI DE presents a
Community LOttlry, offering randomly
selected members of ths community
the opportunity to speak for three min·utes at the 1991 Lesbian and Gay Rally
at Union Square Park on June 29. Entry
forms are available throughout thecommunity and In various publications.
Submit them to HOP, c/o The Center,
208 W. 13th St, New York, NY 10011.
For more Info, call (212) 691-1n4.

LIVELY ARTS
Also ses the daily listings for showingsof one or two days.
STICKY MIKE'S FROG BAR presents
Da,ld Simpalico as Vinny "Mr, Lucky"
Rocco in Cara/cad. of 'ears. This
"psyconeurotic extravaganza" confronts
homophobia, prejudice, violence, paranoia and musical comedy. $8 plus a
two·drlnk minimum. 6·8-10 Great
Jones St., at Lafayette St. Thursday,
except May 15, at 9 pm. Reservations:(212) 581-6032. Through May 23.

GD.pllld lIy Dill PIck'

Send announcements and listings to: 159 W.
25th St_,7th floor, New York, NY 10001. Next
deadline: Monday, May 20, for issue #101,
available in New York on Monday, May 27.

Ora, NI,ht at the Whll. Hou,,: A Lor.
Blo,.,. Directed by Lucinda R. Zoe. WithGAY MEN'S HEALTH CRISIS presents
Padro Mong. Rafull' NIICb. d. Ronda.
Directed by Eduardo Machado.
P~oduced by IIka Tanya Paya andOulll.rmo
L Vasquez. The play isaliout the birthday party for a character
named Eladio, and contains "vital AIDS
Information"
as well. Free. Intar II
Theatre, 508 W. 53rd St Fr and Sa at 8
pm. Reservations: (212) 807·7517.
Through May 25.
CUNNINGHAM STUDIO presents
William Douglll
and Dancerl in
Camd In nllb, a series of five dances
exploring physicality and sexuality.
Danced by Brenda Danllll, William
Doughlas, JOII Nuas and Dlnlz
Ottay. Scores by MIlII Green, Mary
Killey, Jonathan lIl1on, John Olwald
and Norman Sal ant. $10. 55 Bethune
St. Th-Sa. Reservations: (212) 674·
4392. May 23-25.
MCGREGOR'S presents fb. Full Moon
SbOll, an evening of comedy starringThl Allin Camlc, Jo Andrn, Mimi
01011 and lbe Sodomne WaniOIl. $10
plus a two-ilrlnk minimum. 15 St Marks
PI. Th-Sa at 9 pm .. Reservations: (212)674-1851. May 23-25.
THEATRE-AT-224·WAVERL Y-PLACE
presents Homoll1lUai Aetl, a series of
12 short plays, Including sevsn world
premieres and three New York pre·mleres. They are: Robert Patrick's
Ludwig and Wagner, The Family Bar

EIGHTY·EIGHTS presents Sara ZaM,
performing Both Sides of Bernstein.
$10. 228 W. 10th st. Thursdays at 8
pm. Reservations: (212) 924·0088.
Through May 30.
MIDTOWN PAYSON GALERIES presents an Exhibition 01 Pantlngl by
Hugh SI18ra, 745 Fifth Ave., at 57th
Street. Tu-Sa from lOam to 5:30 pm.
Info: (212) 758-1900. Through May 31.
THE WESSEL O'CONNOR GALLERY
presents Lowell Nubltt's Tb. Mal.
Nude: drawings and paintings 19631991. Also showing: Alan Bonlcattl's
Ima,o:
new photographs.
530
Broadway. Tu-5a from lOam to 6 pm.
Info: (212) 219-9524. Through June 1,

THE WOW CAFEpresents Lynn Hay.. 'Oabrlilli Hamilton, BellY Crenlhaw,
Nancy Swartz, Lynn Hay'll; KarIna
Rahall, LIla Llrner, Karin Campblll
and Barba,. ROllnthal. Orag Night is
set at a gay cabaret club called theWhits House, "where lesbian drag performers
take on the roles ofijollywood's leading men of ths 194Os."~$8.59 E. 4th St Th, Fr and Sa at 8 pm.
R888rvations: (212) 460-8067. ThroughMay 25.

•-'The leds've been trying to take money away Irom progrealve
lit venuel any which way they can. Now they're pleldlng "ilcal crisis.- Polltlcallennons aside, PS 122 needs bucks, so go
on over to the Gallery for, their Commission a Portrait lundraiser. Artists Include Nln Goldin, Klkl Smith, John Ahearn,
Rlgoberto Torres, Ken Chu, Bill Rice, Timothy Greenfield
Sanderl, Josel Astor, Ken Tlsa, Frank Franca, Jules Allen,
DlrreIE"'I,
Tlbbool, Hope Sandrow, Bill Costa Richard
Brlntzenh,ope, Alen McWeeney and Sandra Bloodworth.
Discerning queers Ihould recognize a lew ollheir peers In that
list; call to lind out which day they'll be worting. 150 First Ave.,at 9th Street. Reception: May 23 at 6 pm. Gallery hours: Th-Su
from 12-6 pm. Inlo: (212) 228-4249. May 23 Ihrough June 2.
Notlhatl have any Idea why anyone would want to loin the mllnary, but II you're Interested, DARTMOUTHGALA Is presenting
Pink Triangles In the Pentagon, a panel discussion with David
GraaeHI, Annapolis cadet; James Holobaugh, ROTC scholar;
Sheri TllboH, Marine Corps lI.rgeant; and William Rubensteinof the ACLU Lublin
and Gay Rlghls Project. Admission
Includes buffel, cash bar, video screenllig and panel. Businessdrell, please. 18th 1I00r banquet room. Yalli Club. 50
Vanderblll Ave., at 44th Street. May 20. 5:30-8:30 pm. Inlo:(718) 858-7190.
My lecret networt 01spiel tells me that these are a blast. My
Idvice: Read Dorothy Allison's -A Lesbian Appetite,· In Trash,and loin SOUTHERNERSlor their May Potluck rn the Garden. To
mllntlln I ballnced meal, Southerners suggests Ihe following
dlvilloni 01menu by everyone's last name: A-E bring entrees;F-J bring vegetabls or salads; K-D bring polaloes, starches orbreads; P-Z bring deselts or appellzers. lcad tea and soda provided. Entertainment by Sourtherners members 10 be'lealured.
$8 nonmembers/$5 members. The Center. 208 W. 131h St. May
20. 8 pm. Inlo: (212) 674-8073.
,'
Queer Nation'S two most ellecllve actions, to my mind, havebeen Ihe WNET boycott and the first Take Back Ihe Nlghl. Well,
It's time to mlrch again: THE BANK prelenls a Drag Show.bPS
122 GALLERY presents
Commlllion a Portrait, a fund-raiser.
Artists include Nan Goldin, Klkl Smith,
John Ahearn, Rlgoberto Torrel, Ken
Chu, Bill Rice, Timothy Gr18nfleld
Sandell, JOllf Altor, Ken Tlla, Frank,Franca, Juln Allen, Darrel EIIII,
Tabbool, Hopa Sandrow, Bill COlta
r
Richard Brlnlzenhope, Alan McWeenay and Sandra Bloodworth. 150 First
Ave., at 9th Street. Reception: May 23
at 6 pm. Gallery hours: Th-Su Irom
12-6 pm. Inlo: (212) 228·4249. May 23
through June 2.
PS 122 presents Lila Kron'l Fat:lng
a performance comparing the "unconventionality~ol her
lamily in Lansing, Mich. (her lather, aJewish survivor of Nazi Germany, andher mother, a selHaught' community
organizier and part·time junk dealer)with her own life as a New York. downtown lesbian performer." Directed byKale Siallord. Written by Clalra Moed.
$10 or TOF. 150 First Ave. Th-Su at
9:30 pm. Through June 2.

Lit,', Probl.m"

TEN TEN PLAYERS presents CDwardy
Cumrd, a collection of songs, readings
and scenes Irom Noel Coward plays.
Featured performers are Judith Jarosz,
Anna Gartian, Kannalh Garner,
Jeanette Landll and Richard Brei'
Miller, $121$10 for students and ,seniorcitizens. Theatre Ten Ten. 1010 Park
Ave. May 10, II, 17, 18, 23-25 and30-June 1 at 8 pm; and Su at 3 pm.
Reservations: (212) 879·7669. May 10
through June 2.
494 GALLERYpresents Shari Diamond ..
Family of Friend.. a photographic instal·lation responding to AIDS and what it is
to be gay. Therewill also be a group exhi·
bition by the 15 women artistll who makeup the gallery's collective. 494 Broadway.
Th-Su from 12-6 pm. Reception; May 7
from H:30 pm. Info: (212) 925-9841.
May 9 through June 2.

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THE ACTOR'S PLAYHOUSE presents "Robert Patrick's The Haunted Halt andPout POIltlve, Directed by Eric Concklln.
Starring Harvey Fierstein and Jason
Workman (The Haunted Host only). The
Haunted Host, written and set in 1964,
tells the story of a "Greenwich Village
playwright haunted by the ghost of his
young protege when the dead man's dou·
ble walks into his life." Pout Positiveshows "a Greenwich Village playwright in
the final hour of his life." $27.50 and$32.50. 100 Seventh Ave. S, We and Th
at 8 pm, Fr at 8 and 11 pm, Sa at 7 and10 pm and Su at 3:30 and 7:30 pm.
Reservations: (212) 691·6226 or (212)564·8038. Through June 2.
bRAINBOW
AND STARS presents
Maureen McGovern in a salute to Cole
Porter. $35. 30 Rockefeller Plaza. 65th floor.
Tu-Sa at 9 and 11:15 pm. Reservations:(212) 632·5000, Through June 8.
THE GLINES present Evan Bridenstine's
Hlgh·Strong Qualtet, a comedy in which"David loves Greg, Greg loves Sally, Sally
loves Bruce and Bruce loves David."
Directed by Leslie Irons. Starring John
Carhart"',Suzanne Cryer, Dane Halland Mark Leydorl, $15. 39 Grove Sl, at
Bleecker. We-Fr at 8 pm, Sa at 6 and 9
pm and Su at 7 pm. Reservations: (212)869,3530. Through June 9.
THEATER NADA presents An Evening
With Shelly Mars. $8. 167 Ludlow Sl Sa
at 10 pm, Reservations: (212) 420·1466.
l]1rough June 28.
,

EVE'S GARDEN presents Prlnny Alavi's
Celebrating Women, a photography
exhibition. Alavi will be presenting her
poster, "Her" Erection at the reception.
119 W. 57th St, suite 420. Mo-Sa from
12:-6:30 pm. Reception: May 7 from5:30-8 pm. Info: (212) 757·8651.
Through June 30.

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THE:CARNEGIE HALL MUSEUM presents
its Inaugural Exhibition, featuring memo
orbilia of gay Russian comlloser Peter
IIylch Tchalkovsky. Included in the exhi·
bition are pages from Tchaikovsky'sorigi·
nal manuscripts, some of his diaries andletters, and letters to him. 881 Seventh
Ave" at 57th Street 11 am to 4 pm. Info:(212) 903'9750. Through June 30.
06 THE CENTER presents New York In
June, a history of the lesbian and gay
pride march. The show includes banners,
placards, flyers, posters, costumes, orga·
nizational recrods, various other docu·
mente and memorabilia, 208 W. 13th St
Info: (212) 620·7310. May 23 throughJuly 19.

THE CASTILLO CULTURAL CENTER reo
presents James Chapman's Our Young
Biack Men Are Dying and Nobody
S88m. to Care, a look at some of thosemen whose lives and deaths are reflected
in drug·abuse, crime, police·brutality,
alcoholism, poverty and AIDS statistics.
$20, 500 Greenwich St, suite 201, Th-sa
at 8 pm and Su at 3 pm. Reservations:(212) 941·5l!00. Through Aug. 31.
BLUE ANGEL THEATER presents,'Pag.ant, New York's nightly, audience./ participation, musical beauty contest.
$50 includes show and dinner. $30 for&&

OUTWEEK.....

12Q,"fExtravaganza, hosted by Brenda Sexual and Glennda Orgasm of
The Brenda and GIBnnda Show. The party benefits the Take
Back the Night Action on June 22. Starring Miss Understood,
Eshter'and Lester, Danny Torr, Hedda Lettuce, James Adlesictas The Lady In Red). Sets by Jamie Leo. OJ Victor. Go-goboyz and glrlz." $5-$10 sliding fee. 225 E. Houston St., at
Essex Street. May 21. 10 pm. (212) 505-5033.
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Because homosexuality precedes high school diplomas: THE
EDUCATIONCOALITION ON LESBIAN AND GAY YOUTH presents
Invisibility, Violence or Education: What Do You Want From the
Public Schools? This community forum features Amina Abdur
Rahman, deputy chancellor 0 the New York City Board of
Education. Dr. Marjorie Hill of the mayor's Office for Lesbianand Gay Concerns will also be on hand. Tlipl" Include: Inclusion 01 lesbian and gay culture and history In the curricula,anti-lesbian and -gay bias within the school, parental Involvement 01 lesbian and gay paren~s and speclesl needs and programs lor lesbian and gay youth. The Center. 208 W, 13th St.
May 22. 7 pm. Info: (212) 788-2706.
I'd be lying if I didn't admit I was just a IiHle partial to his work:
A DIFFERENT LIGHT presents Dennis Cooper, reading Irom
Frisk. 548 Hudson St. May 22. 8 pm. Inlo: (212) 989-4850.
Contribute a coupl'a bucks to an organization that's producing
the next generation 01 queer writers, IN OUR OWN WRITE presents a Reading wHh Julie Blackwomon, Joan Nestle, Michelle
Parkerson and Jewelle Gomez. $3 donation. The Center. 208 W.
13th St. May 23.7:30 pm. (212) 620-7310.
A IIHle of everything, and it's all for a good cause: DIXON PLACE
presents a Benefit lor the Minority Task Force on AIDS. Nicky
Para Iso hosts an evening 01 reading and performance with
Jessica Hagedorn, Richard Elovich, Oan Froot, Robbie McCauley
and Eileen Myles. $8 suggested donation. 37 E. 1st St., between
First and Second avenues. May 26 8 pm. (212) 673-6752.

show only on Tu- Th/$32.50 for show
only on Fr-Su, 323 W. 44th St. Tu-fr at
8:30 pm, Sa at 7:30 and 10:30 pm andSu at 3:30 and 7:30 pm. Reservations:(212) 262·3333.
THE WPA THEATRE presents Red Scareon Sun.. t, a new play by and starring
Charlas BUSCh, creator of Vampire
Lesbians of Sodom and Psycho Beach
Party. Directed by Kannath Elliott.
Starrring Ralph Buckley, Roy Cockrum,
Andy Halliday, JUlie Halston, Mark
Hamlllon,
JudithHanun,
Arnie
Kolodner. 519 W. 23rd St Tu-Th at 8 pm
and Su at 7:30 pm-$22. Fr and Sa at 8pm and Su at 3 pm-$26. Reservations:(212) 206·0523.
CHERRY LANE THEATRE presents David
Stavens' The Sum of U•. Starring Robart
Lansing and Nell Malfln. Directed by
Kavln Dowling. By the writer of Breaker, Morant, this play is about a father who
tries to help with his son's gay relation·
ships while looking for a new wife. 38
Commerce St $27.50-$32.50. Tu-fr at 8pm, Sa at at 7 and 10 pm, Su at 3 and7:30 pm. (212) 989-2020.
THE FRIENDS OF ALICE AUSTEN HOUSE
present Alice Austan: The Larky Llle,
From her bio, Alice Austen sounds likethe Gertrude Stein of Statsn Island. Visit
her house, now a museum, and see pic·tures that she took of upper middle class 'men and women. 2 Hylan Blvd. Staten
Island, Th-Su. 12-5 pm, Info: (718) 8164506. Through December.

MONDAY, MAY 20
DARTMOUTH GALA presents Pink
Triangles In the Pentagon, a panel dis·cussion with David Grassettl, Aimapolis
cadet; James Holobaugh, ROTC scholar,
Sheri Talbott, Marine Corps seargeant;and Wlllla~ Ruben,teln of the ACLU
Lesbian and Gay Rights Project.
Admission includes buffet, cash bar, video
screening and panel. Business dress,
please. 18th floor banquet room, Yale
Club. 50 Vanderbilt Ave" at 44th Street.
5:30-8:30 pm. Info: (718) 858·7190.
LAMBDA LEGAL DEFENSEAND EDUCA·
TlON FUND presents their Lambda
Liberty Awards, a benefit for Lambda.
Mathilde Krlm, co-founder of AmFAR,
presents awards to Democrat Rep.
Barney Fra nk of Massach usetts andRichard Dennis of the Chicago Resource
Center. Cocktail reception.
$150.
Municapl Arts Society. Villard Houses.
Madison Avenue at 51st Streets. 6-8 pm.
Info: Margaret Brown at (212) 370-5804.
AIDS CENTEROF QUEENS COUNTY pre·sents Client Orlentallon Meeong. ACQC.
97·45 Queens BlVd., suite 1220, Rego
Park, NY.6:3O-a:30 pm, Info: (718) 896·
2500.
MEN OF ALL COLORS TOGETHER
HIV/AiDS Concerns Committee Meellng.
169 Manhattan Ave., 14B, at 108th St. 7 ,pm. Info: (212) 932·3138.
WOMEN'S ALTERNATIVE COMMUNITY,CENTER , presents
FriendlyEars
Ol,cuulon and Support Group. WACC.
West Hempstead, NY. 7:30 pm. For complets details: (516) 483·2050.
GAY ACTIVIST ALLIANCE IN MORRISCOUNTYpresents Womyn's Natwork andMen's Rap Group at 7:30 pm, before
their General Meellng at 8:30 pm.
Tonight's discussion topic is 'Coming
Out to the State Police.· Guests Trooper
Jeff Torno and Sergeant Joe Klrshhofer
talk about what the troopers are learningfrom the Awareness Training Program
they're enrolled in, 21 Normandy Heights
Rd. Morristown, NJ. Info:' GAAMC Gay
Helpline: (201) 285-1595.
ACT UP General Meellng. Minetta Lane
Theater. 18 Minetta Ln., between Sixth
Aveneue and MacDougal Street, one
block south of West 3rd Street 7:30 pm,
Info: (212) 564·A10S,
SOUTHERNERSpresents May Polluck In
the Garden. To maintain a balanced meal,Southerners suggests the following divi·
sions of menu b everyone's last name:A-E bring entrees; H, vegetables or salads; K-O, potatoes, starches or breads;
and P-Z bring desserts or appetizers.
Iced tea and soda provided. Entertainment by Sourtherners members to befeatu red, $8 nonmembersl$5 members.
The Center. 208 W. 13th St. 8 pm, Info:(212) 674·8073.
IN OUR OWN WRITE Writer's Workshop
for lesbian and gay writers. Workshops
are held on the first and third Mondays ofthe month. Please bring work. The
Center. 208 W, 13th st. 8-10 pm. (212)620·7310.
PRIVATE EYES presents Lypslnka In"Anything G08l," a very short musicalfilm by Bob Frame. The screening benefits God's Love We Deliver, Open bar.
$20.12 W. 21st Sl 9 pm.

TUESDAY, MAY 21
BRONX AIDS EDUCATORS NETWORK
General Meellng. Lincoln Hospital.
Conference room 3. 234 E. 149th st.
Bronx. 9:30-11:30
am, Info: Janet
Goldberg at (212) 293·2658 or Rosaline
Morales at (212) 295-5605.
PROFESSIONALS IN FILM AND VIDEO
presents a Sneak Preview of the New ~Festival. $5 members/S7 nonmembers.
The Dugout 185 Christopher St, at Uttfe
Weehawken Street Networking begins at
6:30 pm, programis at 7:30.
Reservations: (212) 245-1182.
GAY MEN'S HEALTH CRISIS presents a
Health Seminar: Nutrilionallllull
andBenellls Information. 129 W. 20th St.,sixth and third floors. 7 pm. For more
information, calJ the GMHC Hotline at(212) 807·6655. TOO (212) 645-7470 for
the hearing impaired.
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MEN OF ALL COLORS TOGETHER pre·sents Newsletter Ediling. 225 W. 34th
St., /1500. 8 pm. Call before going:(212) 736·5295.
TWENTYSOMETHING presents a Rap
Group, discussing"ReligionandHomosexuality: The Center. 208 W. 13th

St 8 pm. Info: Perry Roth at (212) 242·
3038.
THE COALITION FOR LESBIAN AND GAYRIGHTS General Meeting. The Center.
208 W. 13th St8 pm. (212) 627·1398.
JUDITH'S ROOM presents a Poetry
Raiding, featuring the judges of the1990 Judith'e Room Emerging TalentCompetition.
Seating is limited,
Wheelchair accessible. 681 Washington
St 7 pm. Info: (212) 727-7330,
ACT UP'S WOMEN AIDS ACTIVISTS
Ganeral Meeting. Thie is a networking
and support group for women in ACT UP.
Tonighfs meeting includes a discussion of
women's visibility' and racism in ACT UP.
For women only. The Center. 208 W. 13th
St 7 pm. Info: Julia at (718) 237·4478.
CELLBLOCK 28 presents a Uniform
Party. 28 Ninth Ave., downstairs,
between 13th and 14th streets. Doors
open 8 pm. Info: (212) 733·3144,
THE EAGLE presents Out In th, '90.
Night. A portion of the bar proceeds will
benefit GBS and Out in the '90s. The
Eagle. 142 Eleventh Ave" at 21st Street
10 pm, Info: (212) 691·8451.
THE 'BANK preeents a Drag Show
Extravaganza, hosted by Branda Sexualand Glennda Orgasm of TIre Brenda andGlennda Show. The party benefits theTake Back the Night Action on June 22.
Starring Mill Understood, Eshter andLuter, Danny Torr, Hedda Lettuce,
James Adleslc (as The Lady in Red).
Sets by JamIe Lao, OJ Victor. Go·go"boyz and girlz." $5-$10 sliding fee. 225
E, Houston St., at Essex Street. 10 pm.
(212) 505-5033.

WEDNESDAY, MAY 22,

BISEXUAL WOMEN'S SUPORT GROUP
Ganeral Maatlng, Discussion and plan·ning for a trip to the Bi Fsst in Boston on
June 7 and 8, and a,party for women in
New York on June 15. The Center. 208 W.
13th St. 6:30-8 pm. Info: (212) 459·4784.
THE EDUCATIONCOALITIONON LESBIANAND GAY YOUTH presents Invisibility,
Violence or Education: What Do You
Want From the Public Schools? This
community forum features Amlna Abdur
Rahman, deputy chancellor of the New
York City Board of Education. Dr. Marjorie
Hili of the mayor's Office for Lssbian and
Gay Concems will also be on hand, Topiceinclude: inclusion of lesbian and gay cui·ture and history In the curricula, anti·les·blan and -gay bias within the school,
parental involvement of lesbian and gay
parents and epecical needs and programs
for lesbian and gay youth. The Centsr. 208
W. 13th St 7 pm. Info: (212) 788·2706.
INTEGRAL YOGA INSTITUTE presente
PATH Seminars:
The Body·Mlnd
Connection. Tonight's topic: "Relation·
ships as a Path for Healing.' Seminarleader. Peter Hendrickson, PhD, psychol·oglst. $7 per clase (scholarships avail·able). IYI. 227 W, 13th St. 7:30-9 pm.
(212) 929-0586,
GAY AND LESBIAN ALLIANCE IN MOR·

RIS COUNTY Executive Committee
Maetlng. At Ellen's. 7:30 pm. For com·plets details, call the GAAMC helpline at(201) 285-1595.
GAY MALE SIM ACTIVISTS present
Ravenga of tha SIM Quiz Show, Join
GMSMA at their 200th meeting. $4 membersl$6 nonmembers. The Center. 208 W.
13th St 8 pm. Info: (212) 727-9878.
A DIFFERENT LIGHT presents Dannls
Cooper, reading from Frisk. 548 Hudson
St 8 pm. Info: (212) 989-4850.
SLOPE ACTIVITIES FOR LESBIANS presents Pool Night. Featuring free pool,ping pong, billiards, air hockey andshooting hoops at Brownstone Billiard.
Seventh Ave. at Flatbush. Afterwards,
relax at the Roost Seventh Avenue at 8thStreet. The evening begins at 8 pm.
Please call 24 hours in advance to con·finn ail SAL activities: (718) 965-7578.
HERITAGEOF PRIDE presents a Manhall
Outreach Social. If you're interested involunteering to marshall or otherwise
help out HOP on Gay Pride weeker:td,thismeeting Is for you. Free refreshments,
and a elide show of past Gay Prideparades. The Center, 208 W. 13th SI. 8
pm. Info: (212) 691·1774.
CHANNEL 69 presents The Lint Ball,
your cheap alternative to the Love Ball.
Special performance by Fllyod. Also,pose topless for the club photographer
and receive a free Polaroid. $5. The
Pyramid. 101 Ave. A, Doors open at 10
pm. Info: (212) 42(}-1590,
THE EAGLE presents Movie Night:
Sibling Rivalry. starring Kirstie Alley. The
Eagle. 142 Eleventh Ave., at 21st Street
11 pm, (212) 691·8451.

THURSDAY, MAY 23
JUDITH'S ROOM presents Judgas of the1990 JU,dith's Room Emerging TalentCompetion doing poetry readings,
Seating is limited. Wheelchair accessible.
681 Washington St. 7 pm. Info: (212)727·7330.
IN OUR OWN WRITE presents a
Reading. With Julie BlackWomon, Joan
NeaUe, Michelle Parkenon and Jewella
Gomez. $3 donation. The Center. 208 W.
13th St 7:30 pm. (212) 620·7310.
QUEER NATION Wllkly Meeting, The
Center. 208 W. 13th SI. 7:30 pm. Info:(212) 9788-8720.
WOMEN'S ALTERNATIVE COMMUNITYCENTER presents Alternative Community Discullion Group. Tonighfs Topic:"Women Against Racism." WACC. West
Hempstead, NY. 8 pm. For complete
details: (516) 483·2050.

FRIDAY, MAY 24
MEN OF ALL COLORS TOGETHER pre·sents Y-MACT 3D-and-Under Caucus
consciousness-raising session at 6 pm.
Then, at 8 pm, it's a MACT Conscious·
neil-Raising S.. slon, discussing "WhoDo You Sleep With?-Sex-Positive
Activism In Interracial and Intraracial

Experiences." The Center. 208 W. 13th St
Info: (212) 222-9794.
WOMEN ABOUT presents Explore theChild Within. 7-9 pm. For complete
details and to join Women About, call ,(212) 642·5257.
THE LESBIAN AND GAY PEOPLE OF
COLOR COMMlillE pressnts Everybody
Dance Now, a joint fund-raising dance
party presented by 25 New York lesbian
and gay people of color organizations,$&-$10 sliding scale. The Umelight Sixth
Avenue at 20th Street 7:30-10:30 pm.
SLOPE ACTIVITIES FOR LESBIANS pre·sents Poker Party at Pat', Place. Callearly so they can plan properly., (718)965-7578.
DIXON PLACEpresents David Cale, per·forming new selections including ·Your
Ambivalence" and "Bigfool." $6 or TOE
37 E. 1st St, between First and Second
avenues. 8 pm. (212) 673-6752.
SHOCK OF THE FUNNY presents Sarah
Schulman's Failure and Joel Marks'
Anoth8f Country and Sugar and C"am.
Failure is about "competitivism"
ina
romantic relationship. Another Country is
about a woman's coming to terms withher brother's being gay and HIV·positive.
In Sygar and Cream, an anarchist's idealism is challenged by a man with no pants,$8. SI. Marks Studio. 94 SI. Marks PI.
10:30 pm. Reservations: (212) 722·2275.
COOPER SQUARE THEATER presents
Bondag" a cabaret act 50 E. 7th St 11
pm. Reservations: (212) 228-0811. [SeeMay 25]

SATURDAY, MAY 25
WOMEN ABOUT presentS Easy Rva Mile
Hike at Mianus River Gorge. For com·plete details and to join -Women About,cail (212) 642·5257.
GAY MEN OFTHE BRONX presents Night
Trip to Atlantic City. For complete details,
contact Jimmy at (212) 365·6239.
MEN OF ALL COLORS TOGETHER pre·sents a Blannlal Bicycle Tour de
Brooklyn, Bicyclists depart from theUpper West Side of Manhattan at 10 am.
For complete detiais, contact Bill at (212)UN4-7936 or Tony at (212) 662-1397.
INTEGRAL YOGA INSTITUTE presents
Hatha Yoga Clall. Hatha Yoga refers to
the physical postures, deep relaxation
and breathing practices which revitalize
and strengthen the body and calm themind. This class is especially for those
who are HIV·positive. IYI. 227 W. 1,3th
St 12-1:30 pm. (212) 929·0586.
SLOPE ACTIVIES FOR LESBIANS goes
Bowling In Brooklyn at 2 pm. Advanced
and beginning bowlers welcome. Dinner
afterwards. Then at 8 pm, it's a Femme
Appreciation Night Pary. Best femme
takes home a prize. Also, bring your mostunusual earrings for a special contesl.
Please call 24 hours in advance for all
SAL activities: (718) 965·7578.
SHESCAPE presents a Benefit Dance

Party for the Human Rights Campaign
Fund. Large dance floor, outside patio
and bar. 2-4·1 drinks from 6-7 pm. $10.
Diamond UI's. 44 Three Mile Harbor Rd.
East Hampton, NY. Doors open 6-11 pm.
Info: (212) 645·6479.

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SURVIVORS OFTHE NATIONALLESBIANCONFERENCE present a Fund·Ralaar
Danee Party. Featuring OJ Gini de Santis.
Wheelhcair accessible. Cash bar. Lightbuffet Advance tickets on sale at Oscar
Wilde Memorial Bookshop and A Different
Light. $8/$101$7. Columbia University
School of Internationai and Public Affairs.
118th Street between Amsterdam Avenueand Morningside Drive, 8 pm to 1 am.
Info: (212) 409·1131.
WEBO PERFORMANCE GALLERY pre·sents KIller Spoken Word Scane 15, withTom Burnatt, Jared Hendrickson, Mr.
Impala, Eve Packer and Susan Shenn.n.
Hosted by Matthaw Courtnay. $5. 317 E.
Houston St, at Attorney Street. 9:30 pm.
COOPER SQUARE THEATER presents
Bondage, a cabaret act 50 E. 7th St 11
pm, Reservations: (212) 228·0811. [SeeMay 24]SUNDAY, MAY 26
WOMEN ABOUT presents Bike To Rlis
Park, For complete details and to join
Women About call (212) 642·5257.
MEN OF ALL COLORS TOGETHER preeents a Beach Outing 10 Rlis Park. Meetat the upstairs platfonn of the IRT #1, 2,
3, 14th Street station at 10 am, or meetat Ratbush Avenue at the end of the 2, 5line at 11 am. For complete details, con·tact L1dellat (212) 222·9794.
SLOPE ACTIVITIES FOR LESBIANS presents a 30·Plus Picnic at 2 pm for lesbians over 30. At Eleanor's Hill, Then, at 5pm, it's a Zip Polluck In Bay Ridge, at a
SAL Gal's pad in Bay Ridge. Bring foodand fun things to do. Pleasecall 24 hours
in advance for all SAL activities: (718)965-7578.
BISEXUAL PRIDE DISCUSSION ANDSUPPORT GROUP General Meeting.
Today's topic: "Bi·phobia in Others and in
Ourselves.' The Center. 208 W. 13th SI.
3-4:30 pm.
MOSAICBOOKS presents Jewelle
Gomez, reading from her book, TIre Gilda
Stories. 167 Ave. B., at 10th SI. 4 pm.
Info: (212) 475-8623.
THE PWA COALITION presents a Sunday
Night Social for lesbian and gay HIV·posl·
tive persons, PWAs and their friends. Meet
and mingle in a relaxed atmosphere withmusic and rsfreshemts. The Uving Room.
222 W. 11th Sl, west of Seventh Avenue.
6:~:30pm. Info: (212) 532·0568.
DIXON PLACE presents a Benefit for the
Minority Task Force on AIDS. Nicky
Paralso hosts an evening of reading andperformance with Je .. lca Hagedor",Richard Elovlch, Dan Froot, Robbie
McCauley and Eileen Myles. $8 suggested donation. 37 E, 1st SI., between
First and Second avenues. 8 pm. (212)673·6752.

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SHESCAPE presents
a Memorial
Weekend Party for women, featuring a
midnight performance of a La Cage aux
Folies show. $10/$8.Cafe Society. 915
Broadway, at 21st Street 9 pm to 4 am.
Info: (212) 645·6479.

MONDAY, MAY 27
SOUTHERNERS presents a Memorial
Day Field Trip to Jones Beach, lOam.
Call for complete details: (212) 674·8073,
MEN OF ALL COLORS TOGETHER pre·sents a Polluck Picnic In the Ramble.
Central Park 2 pm. Info: (212) 222·9794.
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WOMEN'S ALTERNATIVE COMMUNITYCENTER presents
Friendly
Earl
Discuilion and Support Group. WACC.
West Hempstead, NY. 7:30 pm. For com·plete details: (516) 483·2050,
GAY ACTIVIST ALLIANCE IN MORRISCOUNTY presents Womyn's Network andMen'l Rap Group at 7:30 pm, before
their General Meellng at 8:30 pm.
Tonight's meeting is a Memorial Day
Social. Eat, relax and chat with frineds,
and discuss the changing attitudes
toward gay men and leebians in the mili·tary. 21 Normandy
Heights Rd,
Morristown,
NJ. Info: GAAMC Gay
Helpline: (201) 285·1595.
ACT UP General Meeting. Minetta Lane
Theater. 18 Minetta Ln., between Sixth
Aveneue and MacDougal Street, one
block south of West 3rd Street. 7:30 pm.
Info: (212) 564·AIDS.
SLOPE ACTIVITIES FOR LESBIANS presents a Memorial Day Mailing Night.
Make June's newletter happen.Please call
24 hours in advance for all SAL activities:(718) 965-7578.
CELLBLOCK 28,presents a New York
Strap and Paddle Assoclallon Party. 28
Ninth Ave., downstairs, between 13th and14th streets. Doors open 8 pm, Info:(212) 73&:3144.

TUESDAY, MAY 28
WOMEN'S ALTERNATIVE COMMUNITYCENTER presents Lesmol, a support
group for lesbian parents, co-parents andInterested
women.
WACC. West
Hempstead, NY. For complete details:(516) 483·2050.

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GAY MEN OF THE BRONX present Gay
Mal. SIM Acllvlstl. The evening will
include a guest speaker and a questionand-answer period. 1 Fordham Plaza,
suite 800. For complete details, contact
Charles at (212) 378-3497,

a reception for alumni of southernschools.$8 membersl$10 nonmembers.
Miles Parker's apartment. 233 W. 83rd
St, at Broadway. 7:30 pm. RSVP to (212)674-8073,
THE COALITION FOR LESBIAN AND GAYRIGHTS General Meellng. The Center.
208 W. 13th St8 pm. (212) 627·1398.
HERITAGE
OF PRI DE General
Membership Meellng. All interested per·sons invited. The Center. 208 W. 13th St
8 pm. Info: (212) 691-1774.

THE EAGLE presents Movie Night Chlld'lPlay 2. The Eagle. 142 Eleventh Ave., at
21st Street 11 pm. (212) 691-84~1.

WEDNESDAY, MAY 29

JUDITH'S ROOM presents Irene Zahava
and Contributors,
reading from My
Mother's Daughters, an anthology.
Seating is limited. Wheelchair accessible,
681 Washington SI. 7 pm. Info: (212)727-7330.

THE ANTI-VIOLENCE PROJECT presentsa Community Forum on the Bias Bill.
Panelists include: Dr. Marjorie Hili of themayor's Office of Lesbian and Gay
Concerns,
Mllyoung
Cho of theCommittee A9ainst Anti-Asian Violence,
Dick Dadey of the Empire State Pride
Agenda and Howle Katz of AVP.
Moderated by Andy Humm, member of
the New York City Human Rights
Commiesion. Topics include: an explana·tion and history of the Bias Bill, a list of
the the groups involved in the effort topass it, presentations by those organiza·
tions and a discussion of new ideas andstrategies, including those suggested by
the audience. The Center. 208 W, 13th St
7:30-10 pm. Info: (212) 807·6761.
OPEN CIRCLE presents Focul onHennel, a presentation of "myth, magick
and humor" by Rich Wandel, historian,archivist, witch and elder of Kathexis
Coven. $5 donation, The Center, 208 W.
13th StlHl:30 pm.
SLOPE ACTIVITIES FOR LESBIANS pre·sents Pool Night. Featuring free pool,ping pong, billiards, air hockey andshooting hoops at Brownstone Billiard.
Seventh Ave. at Flatbush. Afterwards,
relax at the RODlt Seventh Avenue at 8thStreet. The evening begins at 8 pm.
Please call 24 hours in advance to con·firm all SAL activities: (718) 965-7578.
A DIFFERENT LIGHT presents Martin
Duberman, reading from his book,
Cures: A Gay Man's Odyssey. 548
Hudson St8 pm. Info: (212) 989-4850.
CELLBLOCK 28 presents a Hot Alh Party.
28 Ninth Ave., downstairs, between 13thand 14th streets. Doors open 8 pm. Info:(212) 733·3144.

GAY MEN'S HEALTH CRISIS presents a
Health Seminar: Medical Treatments.
129 W., 20th St., third floor. 7 pm, For
more information, call the GMHC hOlline 'at (212) 807·6655. WD (212) 645·7470
for the hearing impaired.
SOUTHERNERS presents School's Dull,

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PRIVATE EYES presents Lypslnka in
Anything G08l, a very short musical film
directed by Bob Frame. Lypsinka will beon hand for the world premiere, which isa benefit for God's Love We Deliver. 12
W. 21st St9-11 pm,

THE EAGLE presents Out In the '901
Night, A portion of the bar proceeds will
benefit GBS and Out in the '90s. The
Eagle. 142 Eleventh Ave., at 21st Street
10 pm, Info: (212) 691·8451.

BODY POSITIVE presents Perlonal
Rnancel and HIV, a monthly orientation
forum. Topics include: immediate stsps
you can take to protect your financial
future; getting and keeping life, medical
and disability insurance; selling life insur·
ance policies for cash; and keeping controlof your life through good planning. SI.
Vincenfs Hospital. Cronin 8uilding, Tenthfloor auditorium. 170 W. 12th St8-1 0 pm.
Info: (212) 721-1619 or (212) 697-2580.

MEN OF ALL COLORS TOGETHER Sex·
POlllive Caucus. This is their premiere
meeting. 169 Manhattan Ave., #4B, at108th Street 7 pm. Info: (212) 932·3128.

presents RIV. David Norgard, speaking
about Oasis, the ministry and outreach to
the lesbian and gay community by the
Episcopal Church of the Newark Diocese.
St. George's Church. The corner ofRidgewoodand Woodland
roads.
Maplewood, N.J. 8:30 pm. (201) 743·5322,

THURSDAY, MAY 30

QUEER NATION Weekly Meellng. The
Center. 208 W. 13th ~1.7:30 pm, Info:(212) 9788-8720.
A DIFFERENT LIGHT presents Ken
Simon, reading from his book, Pizza
Face, 548 Hudson st. 8 pm. Info: (212)989·4850.
WOMEN'S ALTERNATIVE COMMUNITYCENTER
presents
Alternative
Community Discussion Group. Tonighfs
Topic: "Safe Sex for Lesbians." WACC.
West Hempstead, NY. 8 pm, For complete
details: (516) 483·2050.
THE DUPLEX presents Rick Burd's For
Straight People Only and Thei., Gay,
Lesbian and Bisexual Friends Who Have
Considered the Universe. A stand-up
comedy routine using line graphs, piecharts, sketches and a rose about a gay
man's journey
throughstraight
America.Christopher Street at Seventh
Avenue. 10 pm, Reservations: (212) 255-

5438.

FRIDAY, MAY 31
SLOPE ACTIVITIES FOR LESBIANS pre·sents Under 30 Potluck and Game Night
Bring food, games and caesettes, Pleasecall 24 hours in advance to confirm all, SAL activities: (718) 965-7578.

dinner and dancing. Meet at the Casa
Udo. 8-11 am. (201) -743·5322,
GAY MEN'S HEALTH CRISIS presents
Sex, Dating and Intimacy. Their flyer
says,," Join us for a daY of exploration ina fun, sex·positi·ia environment and dis·cover ways men are loving men in thisage of AI DS." For gay and bisexual men
only. Free, but registration is required.
129 W. 20th St lOam to 6 pm (Iatecom·
ers not admitted), Info: (212) 807-6655
or WD (212) 645·7470.
INTEGRAL YOGA INSTITUTE presents
Hatha Yoga Class. Hatha Yoga refers to
the physical postures, deep relaxation
and breathing practices which revitalize
and strengthen the body and calm themind, This class is especially for those
who are HIV·positive. IYI. 227 W, 13th
St 12-1:30 pm. (212) 929-0586.
THE CONNECTICUTWOMEN'S CHORUSIANOTHER OCTAVE present a Benem
Concert for the Triangle Community
Center. $10 donation.
Southport
Congregational Church. 524 Pequot Ave.
Southport, CT. 8 pm, Info: (203) 8450668.

SUNDAY, JUNE 2
WOMEN ABOUT presents Learn Swedish
Musage. For complete details and tojoin Women About, call (212) 642·5257.
AMERICAN GAY AND LESBIAN ATHE·ISTS Monthly Meeting. AGLA is a non·profit, educational organization dedicated'
to preserving separation between stateand church and upholding the civil rightsof lesbian and gay atheists. The Center.
208 W. 13th St 1-3 pm. Info: Dial-A-Gay
Atheist at (718) 899-1737.
BISEXUAL PRIDE DISCUSSION ANDSUPPORT GROUP General Meeting,
Today's topic: "Bisexuals in the Gay andLesbian Community.· The Center, 208 W.
13th St 3-4:30 pm.
MOSAICBOOKS presents Darryl Holmes
reading from his book, Wings Will Not Be
Broken and Vlkl Aklwuml reading fromher book, Blood Secrets and Crystal
Believers. 167 Ave. B" at 1Oth SI. 4 pm,
Info: (212) 475·8623.
BISEXUAL DOMINANCE AND SUBMIS,
SION GROUP General Meeting, The
Center. 208 W. 13th St 4:45-0 pm.

MEN OF ALL COLORS TOGETHER pre·sents an Op.n House and June/July
Newslener Malllng.The Center, 208 W.
13th St 7:45 pm, Info: (212) 222·9794.

GAY MEN OF THE BRONX presents
Picnic at Pelham Bay Park. Hi pm. For
complete detail: Charles at (21) 3783497.

LIVE AXE presents Dark Star Crew, am uIti·gende rIo rientation/race/lJu Itu ralgroup of young artists, giving a poetry
reading. Wings Theater. 154 Christopher
St 11 pm. (212) 627·2960.

THE PWA COALITION presents a Sunday
Night Social for lesbian and gay HIV·
positive persons, PWAs and their friends.
Meet and mingle in a relaxed atmospherewith music and refreshemts. The Living
Room. 222 W. 11th St, west of Seventfi-·
Avenue. 6:30-9:30 pm. Info: (212) 532·
0568.

SATURDAY, JUNE 1
ORGANIZATION FOR GAY AWARENESS
presents Philadelphia Freedom. OGA
joins the New Jersey Lesbian and Gay
Coalition to travel to Philadelphia for thatcity's Gay Pride Celebration. Meet for
brunch first; after the parade, there'll be

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this one last week. C'mon, Phil, you're tripping up. CH 4.
ME (Arts and Entertainment 555 Rfth Ave., 10th floor., NYC 10017. (21216614:00 PM WIND-TV Hunter LA police chief Daryl Gates plays himself, in
45001 CCTY (Rick X. P.O. Box 790, NYC 101081 GBS (Gay Broadcasting
an episode about 'violence in certain neighborhoods.' Now we know'
System. Butch Peaston. 178Seventh Ave., suite A-3, NYC 10011.(2121243-15701
why he hasn't done anything about police bias-violence: He's been
GCN (Gay Cable Network. Lou Maletta. 32 Union Square East. suite 1217.(2121busy pursuing his acting career. And here we'd just thought he was a471-42201 GLIB (Gay and Lesbian Independent Broadcasters. (2121473-16891
racist, sexist, homopobic bastard. CH 9,
GMHC (Gay Men's Health Crisis. Jean Carlomusto. 129W. 20th St, NYC 10011.
(2121807-7517) RB PROD (Robin Byrd Productions. P.O.Box 305, NYC 10021. 5:30 PM HBO Victor/Victoria If a straight man plays in love with a man
who's really a woman, does that make him a gay man? Or does that
W. 63rd St, NYC 10023(2121456-7ml WBAI(2121988-29731 WABe-TV
FM (505 Eighth Ave., 19th floor, NYC 10018(2121279·0707) WCBS-TV (51 W.
make Julie Andrews a lesbian?
52nd St., NYC 10019,(2121975·4321) WNBC-TV (30 Rockefeller Plaza, NYC 1:30 PM WIND-TV Hogan FamilyThe series 'addresses the issue of con10112,(2121664.44441 WNET-TV (356 W. 58th St, NYC 10019.(2121560-30001
doms for teenagers when David prepares for a romantic trysts and to
WNYW-TV (Fox. 1211 AV/AM, NYC 10036.(2121556-24001 WPIX-TV (220 E.
prepare him for manhood.' So what's the issue? CH 11.
42nd St, NYC 10017.(2121949-11001
Midnight RB PROD The Robin Byrd Show. male and female strippers, live
call-in show; Manhattan Cable, CH V/35m

MONDAY, MAY 20

8:30 AM MAX Who's That Girl? In this, the Age de Madonna, it's good toremember that she has made some really bad career moves in her
time.
1:30 PM WUSB 90.1 FM The Word Is Out Marc Gunning hosts a weekly
lesbian, gay and bisexual variety show,
2:00 PM WUSB 90,1 FM Lavender Wimmin News, songs and music produced by women for women.
2:30 PM WUSB 90.1 FM This Way Out More queer news.
8:30 PM Manhattan Cable The Brenda and Glennda ShowCH 17
9:00 PM LlF The Return of theSix-Mil/ion Oollar Man and the Bionic
Woman I know, it's not queer, and it's probably not even 'camp; but
but for a lesson in what '70s TV was all about and why it doesn't
work in the '!K)s-this is all you need.
9:00 PM GBS Out in the 90's: community news, discussion, intelViews.
BO Cable, CH 56 (1:001
9:00 PM GCN Gay USA Paragon Cable. CH C/16 (:30l
11:30 PM WIND-TV Arsenio Hall Scheduled guest Diana Ross. With
these two girts, there should be a dis every minute. CH 9.
11:30 PM TomorrowfTonight Uve: entertainment; Manhattan and Paragon
Cable, CH 0/17 (1:001
Midnight CCTV The Closet Case Show. Kloset Klips; Manhattan /Paragon
Cable, CH C/16 (:301

TUESDAY, MAY 21
9:00 AM WCBS- TV Geraldo Scheduled: The Chippendales and thePenthouse Pets, An excercise in queer sublimation. CH 2,
8:30 PM WCBS- TV Fatal Attraction Glenn Close and Michael Douglas
show you all the bad things that heterosexuality makes people do. CH 2.
10:00 PM RB PROD The Robin Byrd Show. male and female strippers;
Manhattan Cable, CH V/35 (1:001
11:00 PM GBS Out in the 90's: news, infonnation and intelViews;
Manhattan/Paragon Cable, CH C/16 (1:001
Midnight WNET- TV AIDS in Africa A documentary 'combining a sense of
exploration and investigation with penetrating insights and highdrama.' CH 13.
12:55 AM WNET- TV The Right to Fight Everyday Ufe With AIDS A
documentary about people with AIDS who 'refuse to be victims.'
Included: a visit witha PWA in San Francisco who is involved in AIDS
education. CH 13.

WEDNESDAY, MAY 22,,

8:00 AM SHO A Chorus Une 'Hi, my name's, um, John, and I'm a homosexual.' 'Hi, Johnl' A second support group meeting is available at 6
pm on Wednesday.
8:30AM MAX Campus ManA movie, if you can believe it, about the making of a male pin-up calender. If International Male models could talk,these are some of the dumb things they'd say.
9:00 AM WCBS- TV Geraldo Scheduled topic: unconventional sexual situations. With demonstrations, I should hope. CH 2.
9:30 AM WBAI99.5 FM Ghosts in the Machine This radio show is hosted
by OutWeek Features Editor Victoria Starr. 2.5 hours.
4:00 PM WNBC- TV PhitDonahue All the talk-show hostess twinkies did

THURSDAY, MAY 23
1:00 PM WBAI-FM This Way Out, the international gay and lesbian news
magazine; 99.5 FM (:301
1:30 PM WBAI-FM An Afternoon Outing. Local news about the gay andlesbian community with Larry Gutenburg, 99.5 FM (:301
10:00 PM GCN Be Our Guest entertainment for and about the lesbian/gay
community; Manhattan Cable, CH 0/17 (:301
10:30 PM GMHC Uving With AIDS Health and politics. Manhattan Cable,
CH V/35 (:301
11:00 PM GCN Gay U.SA.: news and entertainment from around the__country; Manhattan Cable, CH V/35 (1:001
Midnight GCN Men in Films: male erotica, intelViews with adult filmstars;
Manhattan Cable, CH V/35 (:301
12:30 AM RB PROD Men For Men: Robin Byrd presents gay male pornostars; Manhattan Cable, CH V/35 (:301

FRIDAY, MAY 24
2:30 PM WBAI-FM Rompiendo el Silencio Todos los viernes, Gonzalo
Aburto con temas y noticias para la comunidad latina gay y lesbiana.
99.5 FM (:151
4:00 PM LlF Bionic Showdown: The Six-Million Dollar Man and theBionic Woman OK, this is pushing it, I know, but if you missed thebionic reunion on Monday, then here's your chance to catch one ofthe original episodes.
1:00 PM WBAI 99.5 FM AIDS In Focus, Michael Alcalay, producer.
1:00 AM RB PROD The Robin Byrd Show. male and female strippers;
Manhattan Cable, CH V/35 (1:001
1:10 AM WNET- TV Human Sex Duo 11 Choreographed by Edouard Lock,this dance perfonnance features the troupe La La La Human Steps.
One segment is described as'a stylish work for four male dancers.'
We'v love stylish menl CH 13.

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8:30 AM WBAI-FM Any Saturday with David Rothenberg; live call-in; 99.5
FM (2:001'
7:00 PM GCN Gay USA News and entertainment from around the country. BO, Unity, ACV Cable, CH 56 (1:001
11:00 PM Gay TVMale porn; Manhattan Cable, CH V/35
_1:00AM RB PROD The Robin Byrd Show Male and female strippers.
Paragon Cable, CH C/16 (1:001
1:30 AM RB PROD The Robin Byrd Show Male and female strippers.
Manhattan Cable, CH V!35 (1:001

SUNDAY, MAY 26
1:30 PM WBAI-FM Out/ooks, Alternates with The Gay Show. 99,5 FM.
10:30 PM RB PROD Men For Men: Robin Byrd presents gay male pornostars; Manhattan Cable, CH V/35 (:301
11:00 PM GBS Way Outl Mark Chesnut and Michelle VanVoorhies hostRich Volo is the producer. CH C/16 (:301
12:40 AM WNET- TV Creative Edge: The Strange Case of Yukio Mishima A
documentary about the decidedly queer-and queer-Japanesewriter almost as famous for his suicide as for his writings, CH 13.

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MondayLimelight (Gregg C.'s Heaven. Live performances. DJs Sister Dimension, Seth K alJd
Bill Coleman. Go·go angels and a live
acoustic band. 10 pm.) Sixth Avenue at 20thStreet (212) 807-7840.
Privete Eyes (Marc Berkley's Kool Komrads.
Strippers, downtown crowd, students, professionals. 2-4-1 drinks till midnight .$7) 12
W 21 St (212) 206-7772.
Pyramid (Michael T. presents New York Nights.
Alternative music with OJ Bad Taste. $1)
Pyramid. 101 Ave. A. (212) 420-1590.

Tuesday+ Clit Club (Drink specials till midnight Lesbianerotic videos and slides, Go-go girls Doors
open at 8 pm. $3 before 11/$5 after.)Pyramid. 101 Avenue A. (212)420-1590.
+ *Club Edelweiss (TVs, TSs, gays, bi's, singles, couples; Tuesdays are especially for
lesbians, but everyone is welcome.) 167 W.
29th St (212) 868·6989.
Danceteria (Chip Duckett's Gay Tuesdays.
Doors open at 10 pm. ) 29 E. 29th St. Info:(212) 353-8775.
+ Grand Central (Women's night.) 210 Merrick
Rd. Rockville Centre, LI. (516) 536-4800.
Roxy (John Blair's 'Muscle on Wheels.' Gayrollerskating. Doors open at 8 pm. Varied
cover,) 515 W 18 St (212) 645-5156.
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Wednesday*Channel69(Drag Extravaganza, with Linda
Simpson. Go·go stars, OJ Dany Johnson.
Sexy, upbeat, East Village fag and dyke crowd.
$5.) Pyramid. 101Ave. A. (212)420-1590.
The Boys Room (Hosted by Dallas. Cheap Thrillspresents House music, downtown crowd,
go-go boys.Three floors. 60·foot ceiling.
$7/$5.) 51 W. 26th St (212) 576·1890.
The Bunkhouse (Club Trash, a night of WDREalternative
music, with Freddie and OJ
Kamakazie. May 8: guest hostess Cherry
Vanilla.) Montauk Highway. Sayville. (516)567-BUNK.
.
+ Excalibur (Ladies Night. $1 drinks.) 10thStreet andJefferson behind football stadium. Hoboken, NJ. (201) 795-1161.
*Limelight (Disco 2000, with Michael Alig andLarry Tee. Doors open at 10 pm. $10.) Sixth
Avenue at 20th Street (212)807-7.850.
*Limelight (Queer U. DJs Andy Anderson andKeoki. $5/$10) Sixth Avenue at 20th Street(212) 807-7850,+ Cadillec Bar (Gini DeSantis presents Pure
Party Production Dances for Women. Freebuffet from 6-8 pm. Renee Cooke, bartender. $5.) 16 W, 22nd St., between Fifthand Sixth avenues.
+Privete Eyes (Shescape Afterwork Party from
5-10 pm; 2-4-1 drinks b,fore 7. $5 before 7
pm/$7 after.) 12 W. 21stSt Shes cape: (212)645-6479. Private Eyes: (212) 206-7772.
Privete Eyes (YMVA Night. Students, professional and women. $7.) 12 W. 21st St (212)206-7772.
Silver Lining (2-4-1 drinks.) 175 Cherry Ln. Aoral
Park, LI. (516) 354-9641.
Stutz'(2-4-1 drinks,) 202 Westchester Ave.
White Plains, NY. (914) 761·3100.

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tb[newinfo]+[women]*[attracts TVs]ess Hapi Phace, OJ Craig Spencer. For
dykes, it's Egg Bank in the Jodie Foster
Lounge. Guest DJs, sleazy girl action. $10/$7)
225 E. Houston St, at Essex. (212) 505-5033.
*CopBcabana (Susanne Bartsch. Last Th of themonth. Iffy door) 10 E, 60th St., at Fifth
Avenue. (212) 755-6010.
Danceteria (Coming May 2. Shescape presents
Every Thursday for Girls, Guest DJs. Doors
open 6-11 pm. $5 before 7/$7 after.) 29 E.
29th St (212) 645-6479.
Excalibur ($1 drinks.) Located at the corner of
10th Street andJefferson behind footballstadium. Hoboken, NJ, (201)195-1161.
+ Pyramid (Alternating Thursday parties: Moe
Gonzalez' Fuego, with reggaie, house andand hot women, or Deetour Productions; EatYour Heart Out. with live perfomrancesby
women for their women. Doors open 9 pm.
$5.) 101 Ave. A. (212) 420-1590.
Hatfield's (2-4-1 drinks, female impersonators.)
126·10 Queens Blvd. Kew Gardens, Queens.
(718) 261-8484.
More Men (Tony, Keith and Dominic present OJ
Tommy Richardson, go·go boys, videos, bil·
liards. $101$7 with invite.) 239 Eleventh Ave.
(212) 518-3283.
The Pump Room (Dallas presents go-go boys, alight show and a large dance floor. $12/$8,)
515 W. 18th St (212)645-5156.
Stingray's(New club, new sound system,
everything else is a surprise. No covertonight) 641 W. 51st St (212)664·8668.

Friday,ABC (Chip Duckett presents OJ Merritt anddancing in the ballroom and balcony. $101$7
w. invite.) 17 Irving Place at 15th Street.
The Bank (Nightmare on Wax: Alternative music
hosted by Lee Chappell and Michael T. OJ
Ralph Duncan. Mixed crowd. $10/$7.) 225 E.
Houston St, at Essex. (212) 505·5033.
+ Clit Club (Jocelyn & Julie present Clit ClubWest With go·go girls and lesbo videos. $1
drinks between 8 and 9 pm. Doors open at 8pm. $5) 432 W 14th St (212) 406-1114.
Columbia Dances (First Friday dances. 10 pm to

2 am,) Columbia University Earl Hall, 116th
Street at Broaaway. Daytime phone: (212)854-3574.
+ Hatfield's (Women's night.) 126-10 Queens
Blvd. Kew Gardens, Queens. (718) 261-8484.
HEAD Dance (Xclusive performances at 1:30
am. OJ Nobody's Pussy, $5.) Pyramid, 101
Avenue A. (212)420-1590.
*Loony Bin (Hosted by Page and Don. OJ
Patrick Butts. 'Deviant' crowd. $5.) Pyramid.
101Ave. A. (212) 420-1590.
Mea Culpa (For men, with dancing, video andlive entertainment. $7/$10.) 47 W. 20th St.
(212) 807-7840.
+Millennium (Ladies Night) 1770 New York Ave.
(Route 110)Huntington, LI. (516)351-1402.
Parallel (Uncoln Palsgrove IV, Scott Currie andChauncy present Satyricon.
Featuring
Matthew Kasten's beauties. OJ Johnny
Dynell. $12.) 229 W. 28th St (212) 563·9292.
Privete Eyes (YMVA Night. for students and professionals.) 12 W, 21st St (212) 206-7772.
Stingray's (Free before 10 pm. $7 after.) 641 W.
51st St (212) 664-8668.
+ Visions 56-01 Queens Blvd" Woodside,
Queens. Club: (718) 899-9031.

Saturday
The Bank ( Controversy. OJ Patrick Butts. Dragqueens, drinking and dancing. $15/$10/$7.)
225 E. Houston St, at Essex. (212) 505-5033.
Barefoot Boogie (For adults, kids on 2nd and 4th
Saturdays. Smoke- and alcohol-free. May 13
is 'Oldies Night' 8:30 pm to 12:30 am. $5/kids
free.) 434 Sixth Ave., 4th floor, between
Ninth and Tenth avenues, (212) 857-5152.
Center (2nd and 4th Sa, 9 pm to 1 am, $8. OJ
Karin Ward.) 208 W. 13th St (212) 620·7310.
+ Center (Women & Friends. First Sa. OJ Karin
Ward. 9 pm to 1 am.) 208W 13 St (212)620-7210.
Clit Club (Erotic lesbian videos, slides and gogo girls.Doors open at 10 pm.) The Pyramid.
101Ave. A. (212) 420-1590.
Club West End (Michael Fesco's Saturdays.
12-9 am) 547 W. 21st St
Columbia Dances (Third Saturday dances withOJ Karin Ward. 10 pm to 3 am. $5.) Columbia
University
Earl Hall. 116th Street at
Broadway. (212) 629-1989.
419419N. Highway,Southampton, U. (516)283-5001.
Love Zone (dancing & performers) 70 Beach St
Staten Island. (718)442·5692.
+Girl Saturdays (Shescape presents SaturdayNights for Women.With go-go girls and aguest OJ. $8 before 10:30/$10 after.) 20/20~2O
W. 20th St., between Fifth and Sixth
avenues. (212)645-6479,
Meat (OJ Aldo Hernandez. Go-go boys, videos
and a slide show. $5/$7,) 432 W 14 St
Parallel (John Blair and The Athletic Complex
present New York's hottest go-go boys. OJ
Tommy Richardson. $15.) 229 W. 28th St.
(212) 563-9292.
*Roxy (Locomotion. Gay men, straight women,some lesbians.) 515 W. 18th St., between
Tenth and Eleventh avenues. (212) 645-5156. __+Silver Lining 175 Cherry Ln. Floral Park, l(,(516) 354-9641.
Sound Factory (Mixed crowd but mostly gay.
Serious House music. No alcohol. Doors
open at 11 pm.) 530 W. 27th St" between
Tenth and Eleventh avenues. (212) 643-0728.
Stingray's ($8.) 641 W. 51st St (212) 664-8668.
The World (Christina Vista and Junior Vazquez•

present an after-hours party. Doors open at
midnight) 254 E. 2nd St, at Avenue C,

SundayThe Men's Room (Dallas presnts muscle men
and boys. Go-go boys, thre>e floors and 60foot ceilings.) 51 W. 26th St (212) 576-1890.
+Clit Club (Jocelyn and Julie's Tea Dance. $1
drinks from 6-7 pm. Go-go girls and free finger food. OJ Lisa Legendary. 6 pm to 12 am,$5.) 432 W. 14th St (212) 406-1114.
+ Crezy Nanny's (Sunday evening Tea Dance.
Free before 9 pm/$5 after.) 21 Seventh Ave.
South. (212) 366-6312.
*RJCKI (DJs Craig and Victor. Industrial, house,
bass, soul and disco. Downstairs, the Lesbian Luv Lounge, OJ Lori E. Seid and guests,$5.) Pyramid. 101 Avenue A. (212) 420-1590.
The Highway (Presented by Tony, Keith andDominic of More Men. $7/$10.) 113 Jane St(212) 924-JANE.
+ Kelly's (OJ Moaning Lisa spins the records
for dancing dykes. Doors open at 8 pm, $3.)
46 Bedford St (212) 929-9322.
Monster (Sunday Tea Dance at 4 pm.) 80 Grove
St at Sheridan Square. (212) 924-3557,
Parallel (Michael Fesco presents Sunday Tea
Dance. Open bar 5-7 pm. Free hors d's at 7.
Go-go boys. $6.) 229W. 28th St (212) 563-9292.
+ SOBs (Leticia Montalvo presents The Lust
House. First Sunday of the month, beginning
June 1. OJ Marlow. $5.) 204 Varick St., at
Houston, (212) 243-4940.

Every Night (or almost)+ Bedrock (Lesbian club, closed Mo and Tu.)
121 Woodfield Rd. West Hempstead, L1.(516)486-9516.
*Club Edelweiss (Tuesdays are for lesbians,
but it's open to all Tu-Su.) 167 W. 29th St(212) 868·6989.
419419 N. Highway (Rte 27). Southampton, L1.
(516) 283-5001.
Grand Central 210 Merrick Rd. Rockville Centre,
L1.(516) 536-4800.
Magic Touch (Anglo/Latin/Asian) 73-13 37th Rd.
Jackson Heights, Queens. (718) 429-8605,
Monster 80 Grove St, at Sheridan Square. (212)924-3557.
+ Pandora's
Box Sheridan Square & 7th
Avenue. (212) 242-1408.
The Pyramid (Look under daily listings for individual parties and themes. Also check Going
Out for special events.) 101 Ave, A. (212)420-1590.
Spectrum (Look under daily listings for individual parties and themes. Coors served.) 802
64th St., at Eighth avenue. Bay Ridge,
Brooklyn. (718) 238·8213.
+ Tod's (Night club and restaurant.
Mostlywomen, but men are OK.) 2 Georges Rd.
New Brunswick, NJ. (201) 545-8990.

Things change pretty
fast in the New Yorkclub scene. We recommend calling before you
hop on the subway tomake sure that a party
is still in existence.

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Eighty·Eights, 228W, 10th St, 924·0088
The Hangout (J's) 679 Hudson St,242·9272
Julius, 159W. 10th St,929·9672
Keller's,384 West St/Christopher, 243·1907
Kelly's Village West. 46 Bedford St, 929-9322
Marie's Crisis, 59 Grove St, 243·9323
The Monster, 80 Grove St (Seventh Ave.) 924·3558
New Jimmy's 53 Christopher St, 463·0950
Ninth Circle, 139W. 10th St, 243·9204
Reeds, 8 Christopher St, 675·7333
Sneakers, 392 West St, 242·9830
Two Potato, 145 Christopher St., 242·9340
Ty's, 114 Christopher St, 741·9641
Uncle Charlie's, 56 Greenwich Ave., 255-8787

Chelsea
Barbary Coast, 64 Seventh Ave. (14th St) 675·0385
The Break, 232 Eighth Ave. (22nd St) 627-1J072
Cellblock 28, 28 Ninth Ave., 733-3144(M-W)
Chelsea Transfer, 131 Eighth Ave. (bet 16th and17th) 929-7183
Eagle's Nest, 142 Eleventh Ave. (21st St) 691·8451
Lavender and Lace, at the Vault, 28 Ninth Ave.,
255·6758 (Fr, 7-11 pm andSu, 3-8 pm, women)
Private Eyes, 12W, 21st St (bet Fifth and Sixth
avenues) 206·7770
Rawhide, 212 Eighth Ave., (21st St.), unlisted
Spike, 120 Eleventh Ave., 243·9688

West Village

Tribeca

Badlands, Christopher and West streets, 741·9236
Boots & Saddle, 76 Christopher St., 929-9684
The Comeback Bar, 507 West St, at Jane, 242·2432
Crazy Nanny's 21 Seventh Ave. S., 366·6312(women)D.T:s Fat Cat 281 W. 12th St,243-9041
Pandora's Box, 70 Grove St (Seventh Ave.) 2421408(women)
Dugout, 185 Christopher St, 242·9113

Altar, 161W. Broadway. 571·7272.
G·spot, 50 Warren St., 219·2588 (Fr and Sa, women)West Side
Candle Bar,309 Amersterdam Ave., 874·9155
Cat's, 730 Eighth Ave., 221·7559
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Bogart's,320 E. 59th St, 688·8534
Brandy's Piano Bar, 235 E. 84th St, 650·1944
G.H. Club, 353 E. 53rd St,223·9752
Johnny's Pub, 123 E, 47th St,355-8714
NY Confidential, 306 E. 49th St,308·8390
Rounds, 303 E. 53rd St, 593·0807
South Dakaota, 405 3rd Ave., (29th St) 684·8376
Star Sapphire, 400 E. 59th St,688·4710
The Townhouse, 236 E. 58th St, 754·4649
Twenty·Nine Palms, 129 Lexington Ave., 686·8299

Staten Island(area code 718)
Sand castle, 86 Mills Ave" 447-9365

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Playroom, 590 Nepperhan Ave., Yonkers, 965·6900
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Pyramid, 101 Ave. A,42D-1590
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Bedrock, 121 Woodfield Rd., West Hempstead,
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CONGREGAnON BETHSIMCHATTORAH
NY's Gay and Le.sbian Synagogue Services Friday at 8:30pm
fiT Bethune Street For info. call:(2121929-9498.
CONGREGAnONB'NAI JESHURUN
Monthly Spiritual Gatherings andfree catered fastiveluncheons for
sl1 People With AIDS, their lovei&
and families. Program includ~smusic and discussion led by ourRa bbis. CaU12121787·7800
DIGNITY-BIG APPi.E
A community of Lesbian and Gay
Catholics. Activitias include Litur·gios and socials evory Sat, 8:00
pm, ,at the Center, 208 W. 13
Street, NYC.Call1212181&-1309.
DIGNITY NEW YORK
Lesbian and gay Catholics andfriends AIDS Ministry, Spiritual
Development The Cathedral Project Worship Services & SocialSun. Eves. 7:3Opm-St John's Epi&copal Church 218 West 11th Street
qI Waverl~7~2179
DROP-IN COME OUTRAP GROUPS
FDr Lasbians and Bi18xual
Women. Fridays starting April
5th 8:30-8:30 p.m. For Gay andBisexual Men. Saturdays starting April 6th 11:30 a.m.-l:30 pm*$5.00 Donation Rap GrDup fDr
Lesbian and Bi-Sexual Woman
over 40 1st $ 3rd Saturday 8-8
p,m. *$5.00 Donation Rap Groupfor L.. bian and Bi-Sexual
WDman Every Saturday 2:305:00 p.m. *$5:00 Donation Rap
GrDup for gay and Bi-Sexual
Men Every Sunday 2:30 • 5:00
p,m. *$5:00 Donation

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EDGE EDUCATION IN A DISABLED GAY ENVIRONMENT
For the physically disabled Les·bian and Gay Community. P.O.
Box 305 Village Station, New
York, NY 10014,

THE AFTH NEW YORK LESBIANAND GAY EXPERIMENTAL
ALM FESTIVAL
will be held at Anthology Film in
September1991. Submissions
will be accepted until June 30.
Please send your 16 or Super· 8
prints or video transfer lonly film
will be show at the festival) withreturn postage to Jim Hubbar,
503 Broadway,
Rm 503, New
York, NY 10012 Early applica·
tions and premieres
will begiven priority. For further info
please call (2121925-5883.
FRONT RUNNERS
A running club for lesbian andgay athletes of all abilities, Fun
Runs of 1-6 miles held every Sat
at lOam and Weds. at 7pm inCentral Park and every Tues. at
7pm in Prospect Parle For infor·
mation: call 12121724-9700,
GAY AFRICAN AMERICANS OF
WESTCHESTER(THE G.A.A.I
is a community based support
group formed in Westchester
County. Various activities areplanned for the coming months,
Call 914-37H727 for more info.
GAY FATHER'S FORUM
A support organization for gay
father's, their lovers, and others
in child·nurturingsituations.
Monthly meetings
include a
potluck supper, support groups
on varied specialized
topics,speakers, and socializing,Meet·
ings: 1st Friday each month, 7pm,
at The Center, 208 W. 13th St.,
West of 7th Ave. Contribution: $8.
Bring a main course for 4 people•(or pay a $5 food charge,l For
information call: 212·979-7541 or
212·288-3236
GLAAD-GAY & LESBIANAWANCE AGAINST DEFAMATION
80 Yarick Street, NYC 10013 12121
966-1700 GlAAD combats homo·phobia in the me die and else·
where by promoting visibility of
the lesbian and gay communityand organizing
grassroots
response to anti-gay bigotry. Do
you have 30 minutes a month tofight homophobia?Join the GLMD
PhoneTreelCali (212)-966-1700 for
information.
GUS-GAY AND LESBIANINDEPENDENT BROADCASTERS
Gay and Lesbian Independent.8roadcasters'invites
you to tune
into OUTLOOKS on WBAI-NY, 99.5
FM every other Sunday, 7:30·
8:30pm and join us everyTuesday
at 7:30pm to 9pm to become amember of GLIB. No experienceneeded, 505 Eighth Avenue, NY,
NY 10018 Attn: Outlooks or call
Mack,Allen, (2121473-1689.
GAY & LESBIANHEALTH CONCERNS
An office of the NYC Dept. of

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Health, provides linkages betwn
NYC Health & Human Svcs, andthe Lesbian & Gay community,
focusing in ALL health concerns;
resource information for healthservices
consumers
andproviders. 125 Worth Street, Box
67, New York, NY 10013, For info
call 12121566-~
GAY MALE SIM ACTMSTS
Dedicated to safe and responsible
S/M since 1981. Open meetings
w/programs on S/M techniques,
lifestyle issues, political and social
concerns. Also special events,
spea kers bu rea u, workshops,
demos, affinity groups, newsletter,more. GMSMA - Dept. 0, 496A
Hudson Street, Suite 023 ,NYC
l0014~2121727·9B7Il
GMAD (GAY MEN
OF AFRICAN DESCENT)
80 Varick Street, NYC 10013 a
support group of Gay Men of
African Descent dedicated toconsciousness-raisingand thedevelopment of the Lesbian and
Gay Community. GMAD is inclu·
sive of African, African-Ameri·can, Caribbean and Hispanicl
Latino men of color. Meetings
are held, weekly, on Fridays. For
information, call 718-80H1162.
GAY MEN'S HEAIl"HCRISIS HOTUNEFOR INFORMATION ON SAFERSEX AND HIV·RELATED HEALTHSERVICES, AND FOR INFORMA·
TION ON ONE·TIME, WALK·IN
AIDS COUNSELING SERVICES
212-807-&655 212-645-7470 TOO(For the Hearing Impairedl Mon.·
Ffi. 111:30am. to 9 pm, l2:IDto 3:00
GAY STAMP COU£CTION
One of the collections on exhibit
will be Alternate Lifestyles outof the Closet. This is the only
gay!lesbian stamp collection ofits kind, It has won 9 gold
awards so far. For informationon GLHSC, send a SASE to:
GLHSC, P.O, Box 230940, Hart·
ford, CT 06103-0940
GIRTH & MIRTHCLUB OF NEW YORK
Social club for heavy, chubby
gay men & their admirers.
Monthly socials at the 'Center',weekly bar nights Thursdays at
the 'Chelsea Transfer", monthly
Fat Apple Review, bi-mor. 'v
FAR. pen pals. For more informa·tion call Ernie at 914-699-7735 or
write: G&M/NY, Dept 0, P,O. Box
10, Pelham, NY 10803.

for meeting schedule or more
information,
208 West 13thStreet, NY,NY 10011.
INSTITUTE FOR LESBIAN ANDGAVYOUTH.
Counseling. drop-in center (M-F, 36pml, rap groups, Harvey Milk
High School, AIDS and safer sex
information, referrals, professional
education. i~121833-8920 Ivoicel
121211m-8926 TTY for deaf.
HISPANIC UNITED GAYS & LESBIANS
Educational services, politicalaction, counseling and social
activities in Spanish and English by
and for the Latino Lesbian and Gay
CormlUnity. Generel meetings 8:00
pm 4th Thursday of every month at
206 West 13th Stroet Call 201-6537824 or write H,U,G.L, P.O, Box 22Il
Canal Street Station, New York, NY
10019.
IDENTITY HOUSE
Now in our 20th year, we provide
peer counseling, therapy referrals and groups for the lesbian,gay and bisexual community.
Call us at 12121243-8181. Visit us
at 544 6th Ave" between 14th·
15th Streets, Manhattan.
INTERNATIONAL GAY &LESBIAN HUMAN RIGHTSCOMMISSION
works to focus the spotlight ofworld opinion on the oppressionof gays and lesbians throughout
the world. Currently organizing
an Inti symposium on Gay andLesbian issues to be held in
Moscow and Lenin·grad in.July
1991, in addition to many -otherexciting proje~ts. For more info
write IGLHRC, 2978 Folsom
Street, SF CA 94110, or call(415)647·0453.
INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN

DENTTTY INC.
New York's non-profit lesbian
and gay psychotherapy
center.
Licensed psychologists, psychia·
trists, and clinical social workers,
Sliding scale fees. Insurance
accepted. Individual, couple, andfamily therapy. Variety of Men's
and women's grcu~~ forming
continuously, 118 W. 72nd Street
212·799-9432
INTEGRITY/NY
Lesbian and Gay Episcopalians
and friends. Eucharist and pro·gram every Thur;,iay, 7:30pm. St
Luke's Church, Hudson andChristopher Sts.INFO: P,O. Box5202, NY NY10185 17181~,

HEAL - (Health Education
AIDS LiailOnl
Weekly info. and support groupfor treatments for AIDS which do
not compromise
the immune
system further, including alterna·
tive and holistic approaches.
Wed 8pm. 208 W. 13th St. 12121
674-HOPE.
HERITAGE OF PRIDE. INC,
Organizers of New York's Les·bian and Gay Pride events: theMarch, the Rally and the Danceon the Pier. Call 12121691-1774

OUTWEEK May 29,1991.

KLGHKOREAN LESBIANAND GAY ORGANIZATIONIIs a group of lesbian and gay
Koreans who are committed tosupporting each other, creating
positive visibility and con·
fronting anti·lesbian
and gay
bias within the Korean community. For more information call
Gene (212)4n·6558
LATINO GAY MEN OF NEWYORK(LGM! NYI
Is dedicated to consciousness-raising, education, support andempowerment
for Latino gay
men. We are inclusive of Latino
gay men of all nationalities, col·ors and ages. We meet weekly
and publish a monthly calenderof events. For more information
call 17181834·8785 or write to
P.O. Box 7108 Grand Central
Station N.Y., N.Y. 10163,
lAMBDA L£GALDER:NSE
AND mUCATION RJND
Precedent-setting
litigation
nationwide
for lesbians, gay
men and people with AIDS.
Membership
1$40 and upl inc.
newsletterand invitations to
special events. Volunteer nighton Thursdays.
Intake calls: 2·
4pm Mon thru Fri 12121995-8585.
LAVA
LESBIANS ABOUT
VISUAL ART
Call for slides for Lesbian Artists'
Exhibition, Gay & Lesbian Com·munity Center, NYC, For more
information,
send SASE to :Miriam Fougere, 118 Fort Greene
Place, Brooklyn, NY 11217.
LESBIAN AND GAY
ADULT EDUCATORS
Meet with other lesbians andgays who work in adult educa·tion as tea chers, administrators,
counselors, tutors, etc., to discuss issues such as coming out
to staff and students, materials
and curriculum, workshop andconference
participation.
We
meet the first Friday of every
month at 8:00 pm at the lesbian
and gay Community Center 208
West 13th Street Call Bryna Dia·
mond at 12121932·7902 (daysl for
information
THE LESBIAN AND GAY
BIG APPI.£ CORPS
Get your instrument out of thecloset and come play with us.
Symphonic, Marching, Jau, Dix·
ieland, Rock, Flute Ensembles
and Woodwinds. 123 West 44th
St Suite 12L New York, NY 10036
12121869-2922.
LESBIAN & GAY COMMUNITYSERVICES CENTER
208 West 13th Street New York,NY 1001112121620·7310
9am·
llpm everyday.
A place forcommunity organizing and net·
working, social services, cui·tural programs,
and social
events sponsored by the Centerand more than 150. community
organizations,LESBIAN AND GAY
LABOR NETWORKAn organization of Lesbians andGays who are active in theirlabor
unionsworkingondomestic partnership benefits
and AIDS issues. For more
information call 12121923-8690.
LESBIAN AND GAYRIGHTS PROJECT,
of the American Civil Liberties
Union KNOW YOUR RIGHTS!
WE'RE EXPANDING THEM 12121
944-9800, ext 545

LESBIAN & GAY TEACHERS
ASSOCIATION-- NYC
The LGTA has been in existence
since 1'974. We promote theneeds and rights of Gay/Lesbian
educators,
students and par·ents. We re currently in active
negotiations with the Board of
Education concerning the multicultural curriculum, sensitivity
training of guidance councilors,social workers, and teachersand many other issues. We also
have a friendly working relationship with the U,F.T. For more
information call (7181828-4699·
17181598-1884-

LESBIANS AND GAYSOFRATBUSH
Brooklyn's social organization
for both gay men al1d lesbians.
P,O. Box 106, Midwood Stetion
Brklyn, NY 11230, (7181859-9437
LESBIAN HERSTORY ARCHIVES
P,O. Box 1258 New York, NewYork 10116212/874·7232Since
1974, the Archives has inspired,shaped and reflected Lesbian
lives everywhere.
Call toarrange a visit or to volunteer
for Thursday worknights,
UFELlNE
THE NATIONAL LESBIAN ANDGAYTOll-FREE SERVICE
1-8OO-UFE 66
LOST PEER SUPPORTSERVICES (LPSSI
Lost Peer Support Services, a
new program to provide counsel·
ing and support to the lesbian,gay and bisexual community ofGreater Westchester, is planningits. first volunteer treining. Thoseinterested
in becoming groupfacilitators and peer counselors
should call the Lost switchboard
at.(9141 948-4922 for further
details. Experience and begin·ning volunteers welcomed,
LONG ISLAND ACT-UP
Meets Tuesdays at8pm at 181 Post
Ave. in Westbury, NY, Support us
for change on Long Island. Mailingaddress: PO Box 514, Westbury, NY
11590. 51&-336-4662.

LSM
is a support and information groupfor lesbians and bisexual womeninterested in fantasy, role'playing,
bondage, discipline, S/M, fetishes,
alternate gender identities, cos·
tumes and so forth. Membershipis available only to women 18
years and older. Actual experi·ence is not required but genuine
intsrest and an open mind are. For
information please write: P.O, Box993, Murray Hm Station, New York,NY10156
MARANATHA: RIVERSIDERS -.. FOR LESBIAN/GAY CONCERNSMonthly program meeting on
second Sunday for gay!lesbian
Christians and friends, Educa·
tional, political, and social activi·
ties scheduled, 12:30 p.m. Riverside Church, 490 Riverside Drive,
Sunday worship 10:45 a.moo For
info"call 12121222·5900 lext 2901

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MEN OF ALL COLORSTOGEnlBlNY
A multi-racial group of gay men
against racism. Meetings every
Friday night at 7:45 at the Les·bian and Gay Community Services Center,208 W. 13th Street
For more info. call: 12121245·
6386 or 12121222·9794.
METROPOUTAN TENNIS
GROUptMTG)
Our 200 member lesbian andgay tennis club includes play·ers from beginning to tourna·
ment level. Monthly tennis
parties. Winter indoor leagu&,
Come play with usl For infor·
mation: MTG, Suite K63, 496·A
Hudson St., New York, NY
10025. (7181852·8562.
MOCA (MEN OF COLORAIDSPREVENTION PROGRAM.)
Provides safer sex and AIDS
education information to gay
and bisexual Men of Color;
coordinatesa network ofpeer-support groups for gay
and bisexual Men of Color inall 5 boroughs of New York
City 303 Ninth Ave, New York,NY 10001or call (212)239-1796.
NATIONALGAYANDLESBIAN TASK FORCE
is the national grassroots polit·
ical organization for lesbians
and gay men. Membership is$30/year,lssue·oriented
pro·
jects
add ressviolence,
sodomy laws, AIDS, gay riglits
ordinances, faf.lilies, media,
etc. through lobbying, education, organizing and direct
action, NGLTF 1517 U Street
NW, Washington, DC 20009,(202)332·6483,
NEW YORKADVERTISINGAND COMMUNICATIONSNE1WORKNYACN is the community's
largest gay and lesbian pro·fessional group, welcoming all
in communication&-andtheirfriends. Monthly meetings, 3rd
Wed 6:30pm at the Community
Center. Members' newsletter,job hotline, annual directory.
Phone 12121517·0380 for more
info. Mention OutWeek for
one free newsletter.
N,Y,FEMMESSupport and discussion groupfor lesbians who self identify as
Femme and are primarily
attracted to butch women, For
membership information callUsa (2121829-9817,-

N.Y.WOMEN'S SOFTBALLGUILDFor experienced, serious Soft·ball Players, Coaches andManagers. We play mod/fast
pitch weekends in Manhattan
and Queens, Try·outs begin
Feb. 11 thru April- or until
filled. 12121255-1379 JanetNORTH AMERICAN
MAN/BOY LOVEASSOCIATION (NAMBLAI
Dedicated to sexual freedom

and especially interested in
gay intergenerational
relationships. Monthly Bulletin
and regular chapter meetings
on the first Saturday of each-month. Yearly membership is$20; write NAMBLA. PO Box
174, Midtown Station, New
York, NY 10018 or call 12121
807·8578 for information,

crime against gays and les·bians. For info and meetingtime for West Village, call
212·475-4383. for East Village
Patrol info, call 212-248-6566.
70 A Greenwich Ave., Box107, NYC 10011

NORTHERN UGHTSAlJERNATIVES
Improving Quality of Life for
People with AIDS/HIV. THE
AIDS MASTERY WORKSHOP:
Exploring the possibilities of apowerful and creative life in theface of AIDS. Call(2121255-8554

10013212~3351

NYC GAY" LESBIANANTI-VlOLENCEPROJECT
Counseling, advocacy, andinformation for survivors ofanti-gay and anti-lesbian violence, sexual assault, domestic
violence, and other types ofvictimization. All services freeand confidential.24 hour hotline 1212180HI197
PARENTSlfRIENDS OFLESBIAN AND GAYS
Let P/FLAG help you and yourfam~y deal with the upheaval ofyour coming out Our meetings
are free: monthly on the 4th
Sunday, at 3:00 pm, in Duane
Church,201 West 13th. Info? callJeanne,212~
PEER COUNSWNG FORSURVIVORS OF BIAS ASSAULT,DOMESTIC VIOLENCEANDSEXUALASSAULTThe New York City Gay andLesbian Anti-Violance Project (AVPI is offering freepeer counseling for lesbians
and gay men who are survivors of bias assault, domestic violenceand sexualassault, Trained volunteer
peer counselors will be avail·able from & to 8 PM every
Wedne.day and Thursday at
the AVP offices, 208 West
13th Street. AVP offers freecounseling,
advocacy andinformation and referrals tosurvivors of bias assault,
domestic violence and sexualassault Call (2121801-0\97 formore information.
PEOPLEWITHAIDS COAUTlON
12121532-029!Vl·80D-828-328!V
Hotline 12121532·0568Monday
thru Friday lOam-6pm Meal programs, support groups, educa·
tional and referral services for
PWA's and FWArc's.
PEOPLEWITH AIDS
HEAlllI GROUP
Undergroundbuyer's club
importing not·yet·a pproved
medications and nutritional sui>"plements,31 West 28th St 4thRoor 12121532.{I28Q
PINK PANTHER PATROL
Community street patrol in
East and West Village dedicated to deterring violent

PROFESSIONALS INALMIVIDEO
336 Canal Street, 8th Roar, NYC

QUEER NATION
Queer Nation is a multi·cultural direct action group dedi·
cated to fighting homophobia,
queer invisibility, and all formsof oppression that any queers
might face, Anyone can suggest an action and shouldcome to meetings prepared toorganize and implement it ON, '208 W, 13th St., New York, NY
10011. Call 212-978·8720 for
meeting info,
SAGE:(SENIOR ACTION
IN A GAYENVIRONMENT)Social Service Agency. pro·viding care, activities, & edu·
cational services for gay &lesbian senior citizens. Also
sarves over 160 homeboundseniors & older PWA's .208
West 13th St NYC 10011, 12121
741-2247
SETHIAN GAYS,LESBIANSAN) BISEXUALSFor all of US interested in reach·ing out to each other in exuberance to spontaneously explore
and expand upon the Seth/Jane
Roberts 'Philosophy'
as it
relates to our lives, personally,sexually and politically. Call AI
12121725-1289,x287
SUNDANCE OUTDOORADVENTURESOCIID
A non·proflt club offering Out·door activities for every sea·
son including hiking, biking,skiing, water activities andother outdoor activities for the
Gay/Lesbian community. For
information or complimentary
Newsletter call 12121598-4726.
TASKFORCE
ANNOUNCEMENTS
Women's HIVSupport Group at
349 East 149th Street Room,609,
on Thursdays 11:00 - 12:30,This
is an on going closed group 'for
women who are HIV infected.
2.3 individual consolations are
required before admittanceinto group. No fee. For further
information call Donna, Berschof Planned Parenthood!HUB at(212)585-5001
TASK FORCE
ANNOUNCEMENT
The legal Action Center
located at 153 Waverly Place,
NY, N)' 10014, has begun two
new programs. All their ser·vices are free. The HIV/AIDS
Legal Service Project provides
free legal services to people
with HIV/AIDS. Their scope ofservice is wide, encompassing

child care and custody, discrimination, ,housing, healthy
health planning, confidentiality
andemployment.
The
HIV/AIDSAgency Training andAssistance Project provides
technical assistance to public
and private agencies about
legal and policy issues on
HIV/AIDS and drug abuse.
They provide training, individ·
ual consultations, and model
policy guidelines, among otheritems. If you have any further
questions, please contact Ms.
Catherine 0' Neil at 12121243·
1313. The AllociationofNurses in AIDS Care (ANACI
has monthly meetings withspeakers
and networking
opportunities. For meeting info,
please contact Janet Vac·
cariello at (212)340-8724
THE OUTREACHUSING COMMUNAL HEAUNG {TOUCHI
Community volunteers provid·
ing a weekly buffet supper for
the Brooklyn AIDS commu·
nity. TOUCH·meets Monday
eves. 5pm to 6:30pm· at down·, town Brooklyn Friends Meet·ing House (110 Schermerhorn
St. near Boerum Placel. Lim·
ited transportation
may bearranged. Info: (7181622·2756.
TOUCH welcomes contribu·
tions of funds, food and volun·teers.

ted to demanding, securing anddefending absolute reproduc·tive freedom and quality healthcare for all women. We meet
every Wed. at 6:30pm at 105, E
22nd Street, 4th floor. 212-7135966Mailing address: WHAM I,
PO Box 733, NYC10009'
WOMENS ALTERNATIVECOMMUN CENTER(WACC)
A non'profit, Lesbian commu·
nity center serving Queens,
Nassau and Suffolk Counties.
Thurs. night weekly discus·
sion groups. 8:30 pm, for otheractivities please contact us at
518-483-2050.
ATTENTIONWOMEN SOFTBALLPLAYERS
There is a Manhattan softballleague looking for players;
especially experienced pitch·ers.lf interested please callMary at 17181377·7279 Hopeto hearfrom you soon.
WRESTUNG FOR GAYS
& LESBIANS
Watch the men of the knights
wrestling club inaction every
Sunday at 7:30 PM at the GAY
CENTER,The club also con·duct training classes on alter·nate Saturdays afternoon (lst
& 3rd Saturdays for men 2nd& 4th Saturdays for womenl
for more information please
call: 718-639·5141

ULSTERCOUNTY GAYANDLESBIAN AWANCE
Meets first and third Monday
of ea ch month at 7:30 pm at
the Unitarian
Church on
Sawkill Road in Kingston. For
Information, call 914·628-3203
UNITY 94
NEEDS YOU to become a partof itl Organizers
for Gay
Games IV, to be held in New
York in 1994. Olympic·stylesports and cultural event islargest in world. Theme is
INCLUSION,everyone
isneeded.
SUPPORTTHE
GAMES by volunteering, join·
ing or making a donation. Call
212·732·3612 or write UNITY'94, PO Box 202, NY,NY 10038.
. VISUALARTS PROJECT
In Honor of Artistic Vision
Effected by A.I.D.S.
The Visual Arts Projects isinterested in documenting andcollecting art work Islidesl by
those people who have AIDS
or Arc. It is the Project's inten·tion to not just focus on AIDS
but on someone' work andartistic vision. We are inter·
ested in receiving responses
from those people in the following disciplines'painting,drawing, sculpturing, illustra·tion, architecture and environ·mental design, interior design
and graphic design. Should
be interested please call Eric
Strauss at 17181855-8491",

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bers of their own conununity?
And does she know how huge thisthing is that she's talking about stopping?
Does she understand that it means, say,keeping Kevin Sessums from asking
Dolly Parton if she's a lesbian for a coverstory in VaniO'FairCDolly said no, by theby, but made some great remarks aboutqueers)? lbat it means stopping all thenewspapers
across the country from
reporting that Merv Griffm is gay and isbeing sued by an ex-lover? lbat it means
telling Madonna not to talk about her
brother's homosexuality? That it means
shutting up people who may be conversing about closeted celebrities at parties allover town? That it means stopping publications like People magazine and networks like CNN, which have lately been
more open to reporting about closeted
individuals? That it means ending something that's going on within her own
publication in Michael Musto's column?
That it means stopping ME?
c.c:arr is a conunitted, talented andimmensely intelligent person who should
not be wasting her time on a crusade thatis pointless and, ultimately, futile. TIme
marches
on, Cindy, and thingschange--andnot exactly as you may
have planned. Sometimes people comeup with bold, new ideas which are worth
a shot but which may not fit so neatly
into your idea of "politically correct." Andyou should accept that.
Otherwise, you'll be remembered
not.for the work you've done until now,
but rather for a Ray Kerrison-like rigiditythat impeded progress, defamed conunitted people who were fighting for theirliberation and stifled the normalization ofreportage on homosexuality.
CPS.I also know about how you tried
to kill a story on Queer Nation for Art
Fornm because you think that that groupis some sort of threat. Now, really, c., lookat yourself and what you are doing.)
And I ask all of you other writers(and there are many of you for whom I
have enormous respect) at the If)ice who
believe in the free exchange of ideas andwho encourage people to fight oppression in the ways that they see fit: DON'T
BE SILENT. STAND UP TO THESE
ODDS. WE DON'T HAVE 1HE TIME TO
WAIT FOR 1HEM TO FlAKE OFF liKE
DEAD SKIN.
Which is what will ultimately happen to them anyway ....
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Uz: Right. And you don't, Did you
hear that Queerdonna was not allowed
into the party?
Sydney: Don't they know what acult figure he is becoming because ofDanceteria? People were chanting his
name before he came on-stage at the
opening-night party.
Uz: I hear he even has backers for adoclUllentary called "Queerdonna- Truthor Queer." Stop the madness ......

NOTES:
1. Night-life icon and author of the recently
released Pouf Pieces,
2. Infamous club kid koown for his colorful
outfits, purple hair and identically dressed "twin,"Tim.
3. Longstanding gay promoter and Umelight's liaison to the gay and lesbian community,
4. Hip, hot and happe~g
new Sundaynight gay party brought to you by the More Mencrew, Tony, Keith and Dominic.
5, Artist Ronnie and publicist wife Kelly
Cutrone's performance insta1Iation of live nudes(one lesbian, one gay and one heterosexual
couple) who demonstrated acts of love in frontof an American flag while a soundtrack of lovesongs from the '50s through the '90s played in
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ACCOUNTINGBUDDY DIKMAN, CPA
Year-Round 'Tax Planning and Preparation
Personal Financial Planning
212-856-3000

AINoUICEMENTS
DOCUMENTARY SEEKSINTERVIEW SUBJECTS
18-22yrs old lesbian & gay people
needed for positive documentary portrait of lesbian and gay life aimed atteen audience. Subjects to be
explored: coming out, parents, religion, harassment, AIDS. If interested
call (212) 678-7016•

Take Charge Of Your Love Life.

The Introduction Service for Professionally-Oriented

Gay MenServing the Tri-State Area Since 1985

Call for a free brochure Mon.-Fri. 7 pm-11 pm
In NY, NJ & CT (212) 580-9595
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Ministry to
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AIDS.
Call Tony or Bill at the
Church of St. Francis,•

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Personal
Gay
Dating Service(Not Comp'uterized)

21 2-695-1500

METAMORPHOSIS.

Healing the Spirit

Call Nowl- A Workshop for Men ---1-800-688-7445

Explore the concepts and models
tbat have affected your Ilfe andshape them to empower yourself.

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Through music, movement, trance,
verbal/nonverbal communication,

Mon. thru Fri. 10-10· Sat. 10-4

learn to take yourself to ecstasy.
Introduction: May 31,7-10
Workshop:June 7-8-9
Information: (212)753-1238

COME OUT OF THE
CELLULOID CLOSETI
Join the NY Internat'l Festival of lesbian & Gay Film volunteer corps Vo'is
needed for projects now and during
screenings, 6{7 - 6/23 (212)966·5656,

TERRY (JAPANESE)
Formerly of 57th and 2nd Avenue andHotel Sutton. Please contact Bill in Ft
lauderdale. BiII-1402 E las Olgas
Blvd, #810 Ft lauderdale FI,33301

APARTMENT
CUANING

SIGN UP FOR SIGN-lANGUAGE
Come join our new semester. Day andevening classes available. N.Y.
School of American Sign Language.
For more information call 679-SIGN

WORD IS OUT
for the best apartment cleaningCall...WORD OFMOUTH APARTMENT
CLEANERSrelia ble/responsible/
efficient Tel,212-645-9197

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6 room 2 bath duplex porch &modern kitchen $750 + UtiL
Available June 1. Share Okayl
Leave Message 718-727-1007

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$25.95 Visa/MC, check, mo, Worlwide
Health Products, 5525 Canyon Crest
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Order 1-800-288-9230, Free catalog ofother unique products upon request

CAREER COUNSEUNG
Find the right work for you I
Experienced Executive Counselor
offers action-oriented consultation.
Justin Hecht. MBA(212) 242-2424

NO FEE- BKLN HEIGHTS
Gorgeous 1bdrm w/loft, huge ElK, 2
wbfp's, brick bathroom, giant porch, wd
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JERSEY CITY SPACIOUS
4 bdrm, yard OW, WID. Tons of closet
space hdwd firs, high ceilings, close
NYC transport, pets OK, very comfortable-available
May 1st $1280ph (201) 434-5309

ATTORNEYSANTHONY SANTONI
Attorney at Law, Real Estate; COOP/Condo Closing- Bankruptcy; Incorporations; Wills. 37 E. 28th Street. Suite
700, NYC (212)447-0636
ACCIDENTS & MALPRACTICE
Bankruptcy $199* Wills $75*
Name Change $75* Closing $199*
Incorporate $50* Immigration,Criminal $199* Free consultation
A, Robert Holman III, Attorney at Law*from + costs 24 hrs (516)746-1116
1551 Kellum Pl., Mineola, NY AMEXCLUBSLAVENDER & LACE
·A private club for women and theirladies or the adventurous lesbian.
Meets at the Vault 28, 9th Ave bet
13th -14th St NYC Downstairs Fri
7pm-11 pm and Sun 3pm-8pm
For info 212-255-6758. 24 hrs.

COMPUTERSThe Male Stop
A computer BBS.
Use your modem.
(212)721-4180 Free!

CONTRACTORSARTHUR LOVEJOY
LICENSED ELECTRICALContractor'
repairs and New Instaliations.Commercial and ResidentiaLCourteous, Professional ServiceAvailable Eves. andWeekends.(718) 782-4735

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HELP WANTED

M.'"
Counseling

DJ'S FOR DANCE 5
Heritage of Pride announces asearch for community OJ's to perform
at Dance 5 on the pier Gay & LesbianPride Day, Sunday June 30, 1991.
For information, contact
Mark Johnson (212)953-9002

212-989-6006

DENTISTS
IMPROVE YOUR SMILE
Bonding, Bleaching and Porcelain
lamates, Call for details.
Eric Mehler, DDS
LJ7 First Avenue #407
New York, NY 10003(212) 473-9002

FASHIONART DIRECTOR
OutWeek, the Lesbian and Gay News
Magazine, seeks full time art director
to oversee all design aspects of 116
page publication, Must have extensive cover design and magazine
experience. Quark, Illustrator andother design programs also necessary. Send resume and letter to Mr. ,Rotello, OutWeek, 159 W. 25 St, NYC
10001, or Fax (212) 337-1220.

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groovy, fierce, faabulous
cool hand painted jeans painted by
La originale

CIRCULATION AND
SUBSCRIPTIONS MANAGER
Outweek, the National Lesbian and
Gay Weekly Magazine seeks Circu- -I .
lation and Subscriptions Manager tocreate new promotions and oversee
current distribution. Broad knowledge of direct mail solicitiation witha minimum of two years subscription/marketing experience required.
Send resumes together with letter
covering salary history and requirements and why you want to join Outweek. To: Offices of the Publisher,
Outweek Publishing, 159 West
25thStreet, 7th FI, NY,NY 10001
Equal Opportunity Employer

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718-625-0272

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whatever you want,whenever you wantand still- keep yournatural shape?
Call Ross Jacobs(212) 929-0661

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INSTRUCTIONMENS MASSAGE GROUP
Get a massage and learn to give one
tool Every Sunday 7pm-10pm,$20.
Bring a towel. Call Terry Weisser 4639152

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Thefinest service available at the most reasonable rate•

NO job too small
Prompt and professional
Storage available
Last minute Jobs
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Phones answered personally
212-929-5067

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local & long Distance • Modern Equipment • 7 Day Service
licensed Piano Movers • Experienced Courteous Personal
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TIRED OF HOMOPHOBIC MOVERS?
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Professional and reliable. Serving
the Gay Community 15years.
Sensitive, fun people who get the job
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DOT 10166. Insured. Reasonable
storage rates. Pianos, Art Antiques,
Moving Supplies, Mention Outweek
for Special Discount Free Estimates,
426 E. 91, Call 289-1511.

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In/Out (212) 586-6149•(212) 725-1220

INSURANCE-l\'! BERNARD GRANVILLE 9. Broker CARING- Focus On Gay and lesbian
couples - immediate coverage forlil
auto, homeowners, and rentals - comt.
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Gary 212-228-2243. Serious onlyl

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PUBlICIIIONSUVING A GOOD UFE WITH AIDS
Based on over 7 years of living.Send$9.95 to 1M, Publications P,O. Box
310743, Tampa, FL 33680 Allow 4-6
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Rental Offc Apt 2G, Open
Sat/Sun 12-5
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463-9797 #794-2233
Harrison Properties

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212-603-9094
west Village

CONTEMP COUNTRY HOME

HIV POS,lllVE(212) 746-3921

Gay Issues

IlltlSIITISupportive individual & couple therapy by institute-trained licensed
psychotherapist Help with relationships, gay identity, dealing with yourfamily, and living in the age of AIDS.
Sliding fees, NY and NJ offices:(2121769-8796 or (201) 567"2445.
ARI FRIDKIS; C.S.W.

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COMPASSIONATE, CARING
THERAPIST

THE GAY ROOMMATESERVICE
Serving the Gay & LesbianCommunity Since 1976,'::'·1

IHllIPlGROUPS CURRENTLY FORMING:-Women's Coming - Out Group- Men's 'Exploring Sexual Identity'
Group- Bereavement Group- Gay Male Couples' Group
Institute for Human Identity(212179S-9432

David Lindsey Griffin,
C.S.W., C.A.C.
Gay Affirmative Therapy
FEES BASED ON THE ABILITY TO PAY
Member. NY Slate Federation of Alcoholiem Counselors, Inc. 'Member. NY Slate Society of ClinicalSocial Work Peychoti1erapiete, Inc.

Gay & Lesbian
Indivldual/Couples•• Stress ,andAnxiety• Alcoholism & Drug Abuse• Sexual Compulsion• ACOAand CODAIssue:;• Coming Out
Uceneed By Appt OnlyOffices in
Manhattan, WoodetocklKingeton

212/582-1881 914/688-5068

GAY AND LESBIAN CONCERNS
Depression, Fears, A.A. Issues, Care
Partners Anxieties. I can help.
Licensed for In,surance C.S.w.
Therapist. Upper West Side
212-362-7664

24-HOUR CRISIS UNE
Professional help is just aphone call away NOWI
Depression • Anxiety· AIDS-related
mental/emotional problems· Other
psychological problems.
1-800-444-9999
THE OPEN OUEST INSTITUTE
In our community since 1978'--.

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Competent & Compassionate
Psychotherapist
Stewart,

A supportive, gentle approach
to transformation, Hypnotherapy helps you tap your deepest
inner resources to modify negative habits, enhance self-esteem,
deal with problems andlive successfully,

M. Crane. ACSW

Individual,Couple,

Group,Thcrapy* FEAR OF INTIMACY.
* AIDS ANXIETY,* DEPRESSION* ACOA ISSUES* COMING OUT
New Men's Therapy Croup Forming
Exp~ri9nced * licensed

Offices:Greenwich Village 212{645·0646
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Union Sq. Office / Free Consult
Certified / 20 yrs experience.

New)f)rk
1~c;ychotherapy
Group
A REFERRAL NETWORK OF
LICENSED AND EXPERIENCED
PROFESSIONALS IN
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For Help With:• Anxiety.
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Locations Throughout N,YC. Area,
Moderate Fees Based On A
Sliding Scale,673-0884

sliding scale fee
insurance accepted,

TERRI CRAMER, CSW
Empowering therapy by expert
enced licensed psychotEerapist for:• Work conflicts• Self esteem• Depression• ' Recovery form addictions• Lesbian! gay identity issues• Problems of relationshIp
Eating Issues and Dream Groupcurrently forming.

Ins. Accepted. Reasonable Fee ..
West Village location
Call (718)438-2590\'IAVEl,Individual,Couple/Group Therapy

212-691-2312

Groups forming: male
couples, men's, andwomen's
118 W. 72nd Street(212) 799-9432

C.S.W., C.A.C.

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Lesbian/Gay Psychotherapy Center-I~

MICHAEL
A. PANTALEO,·Exper/enced ·Licensed·Insurance Reimbursable·Che/sea' Office•,+ Psychotherapy Groups Wkly
Individual and Couples Therapy, (212) 570-9047

SUPP.ORTIVE GAYTHERApIST-Alcoholism-Substance Abuse-Self·Esteem-Anxiety-Depression-ACOA issues-Co·dependency-Anonymous Sex-Health (HIV)GAY MEN'S WORKSHOPS• Assertiveness Training •• Self - Esteem Improvement·Monthly /4 sessions Low Fee

DR. BURT AARON SIEGEL

toward transformation

Dona Dandrilli,
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ATHLETlC MASSAGE
by young good looking blond at yourresidence or my studio. Call Alex,
212/969-8836

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rub ends W\th relief by
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$50 IN/OUT $75
Dancers/Students $40

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20 yr old college athlete clean cut &attractive, well endowed 5'6' 1551bs.
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212-287-5438

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MIDWESTERN BOY
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available for bodywork. Very friendly.
Call for in/out appts.lOam-4am anyday. Also available with Chris.
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Robert 212-929-4019,

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CHINA PATTERN AT
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GF,35, 5'6",135,
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13939
TALL ATIRACT1VE
GBM
Looking to meet
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10150-1915
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1715 Bloomfield,
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IN11MACYGWM 33 5'5-122
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14525 ,
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body I want you' I

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- sex not a object
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New York, NY 10163
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sensitive and mature
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20, NYC, NY 10012
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Photo & Phone # to
Outweek Box #4230
GHM 23 YO 5'1' ,135LBS
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to you like no one
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#4341
GWM
'l15'11-150 BR,/BR
People say I'm handsome I am seeking afellow ardent male, aman who likes togive and receive
sexual and emotional bliss, who wants
to savor existence
on many levels, a
man not put off by
the unconventional,
who enjoys relatingwith intimacy andkindness. Let's takelong walks in thepark and then explore each other infront of an open fireph/ph, Send to
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When Sheldon came here 13
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"The name was still up for grabs,
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TVC attorney Lauren Homer told
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law. Kameny said that he has not filed
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wet kisses, reading.
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warm, funny,strong, liberal rea, sonably butch,
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HOT JUICY
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Wanted by twohorny HIV neg whitemales age 50 inSanta Rosa Calif. ona regular stel!dy
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HOT MUSCULAR,
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Looking for weekend lover 5'T, dark
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and so do you.
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tight body,fine face,
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respond. Outweek
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I WANTABOYFRIEND
Handsome, built
writer, 31, seeksfriend for fun andromance. I'm 6'1',
160, dk bl, stache,goatee; like books,
plays, and Steve
Reeves movies; anhuman but capableof greatness, funny,moody but worth
the hassle. Hope
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affectionate,
thought-provoking,Outweek BoX#4113
ITAUANORLATIN GUY
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straight - acting, fun& horny seeks goodlooking lating or
Italian boy to explore NYC & eachother. Your Photoand Phone gets
mine, CIAO / Adios.
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LEAN SEXYSANE CUTE!
160 Ibs Indiana bred,
not white brea d in
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OutWeek Box 3970
LETTERWRITERSI am a fellow assoc.
with the HRCF,I
need people, to .
write letters and / ormake phone calls toour senators concerning Gay & Lesbian issues, Aids issues and suchplease call or write,
let's make a differ-encel\l call or write
Mike (718) 321-2589
P.O.Box 70-1175
East Elmhurst. NY
11370
MARRIED
BUT(T)
31,6',155 seeks
weekday AM / noon
trystw / uncut top in
Chelsea / w. Village
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body available for 3
ways call Steve 9898597
MONOGAMY,ANYONE?
GWM, early 4Os,
successful professional, 5'9', br/bl,
moustache, hairy,
healthy, 160 Ibs. witha good sense ofhumor. Enjoys
movies, theater,
good music, dining
out. reading, travel,
good conversation. Seeks GWM,-

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sliin nonsmokerwith a good senseof humor, a sane but
passionate attitude
towards sex. andwho is also seekinga serious relationship. Write to: P.O,
Box 99, NYC, NY
10028
NASTY TOP
Really good looking
bottom seeks reallynasty top to explore
all the different
ways you can dominate me over makeme serve you. I
wantto be knocked
outto my senses by
how erotic you canmake being tied up
and make to serve.
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looking for somebody else kinda likethat Box 74"ll, New
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explosive action, intense friendship,
and/or caring, longterm relationship.

NJSINGLE
GWM, 36, 5'11", 175
has Christmas wish
to behalf of a couple.
Seeking intell, romantic, sincere, attract, GWM to sharemusic, films,books,
cuddling, hugs, kisses, love, life. A furrychest to snuggle
against would benice. if honesty, car•fng, monogamy arein your vocabulary,PERSON TOPERSON
Manto Man. I
smoke, drink, do
drugs; eat meat,
make love. If you
like the same, call
let's talk or something. The more 'pleasure. The more
gain. 725-1289 x282

QUEER MALE, 23,
l1GHTBOD
seeks other compatible guys forurban frolic. I'myoung, mature, needto laugh. Ready forsome dates andsome sweaty dancing. Good kisser amust Send a letterand photo to me.
Get my attention.
Outweek Box 3621
S.I. GBM WANlEDSt George WM, 39,
looks 39, in sha pe(but not body beautiful) wants BM forfriendly, regular sexual meetings(friends not lovers).
Not looking for any
special "type" orage. Send letter.
Outweek Box 3680
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Unpretentiously
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SCIENCE, SCI-FI
GYM, film, big questions.Bright, downto-earth, midwestern GWM,31,
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attractive unpretentious guy of similarbuild and age, intosome of the above
for friendship, dating and ...1Send to
Outweek Box #3790
SHAVED HEAD
Pretty blue eyes, 6',vegetarian, 33, thin,sincere; wants longterm cheap taw dry
deeply meaningful
affair w/some downhome Hip nonstraight-acting milOwith a voyeuristic
appreciation ofsleaze. A man creatively diverse,
bright & witty, sensual & direct, having a strong senseof self, a good grip
& great eyes. A
laughing dancing
sentimental bitch
goddess sap. someone clearly queerly
fabulous. Write with
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NY, NY 10023
SOUD
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SPIRITED
AMBI110US
JAPANESE MAN
Into Music, Art Lit,

Film & conversation
seeks stlldent of Nihongo Interested in
exchange of language lessons also
desires romance. I
enjoy dancing I'm
6'1"150 Ibs 28 yrs
old. Broad mind
with a fair fluency inEnglish. Seeking
sincere relationship,
Photo & Phone appreciated. Returned
upon request Send
to Outweek Box 4187
TABOO
Tall masculine
GBM,34, 190 Ibs,
seeks masculine
Gay/Bi Black or
Hispanic male. He
must be a matureminded stable individual (35-45 yrsold) who enjoys
good music, art.
movies, and interesting conversation. If you are a romantic and sensitive guy who's funloving and witty
then drop me a line.
No drugs, drunks,
drop outs photos
get quick reply. To
Outweek Box #4362

TALL ATTRACTIVE
GBM
6'5", 225lbs, 30 yrs.
Seeks &'Style con. scious 25-35 black
male of similar build
who interests include: Movie, theater, arts, books. For
companionship or
possible relation- _ship. Must have agood sense ofhumor. Photo /Phone get prompt
response. To Outweek Box 3971
THE WRITER'S UFE
A GWM Poet/ Artist
Became a masseur
to free up mornings I ....
but lost evenings;
charged a book's
expense on Visa to
Get it published andhopes for pay-off by
age 40. Now 36,5'8",
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looking for someone
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wi1tt. Mysterious
eyes and an unforgettable smile aredefinite requirements -also a senseof who you are, fun,adventure, witty,
able to laugh, inshape body, romantic, spontaneous,sta. acting, nodrugs, NS, I'm
5'10"145Ibs., 30 yrs.
old and wantto datesomeone who will
be both a best friend
and a lover. Send
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Handsome, masculine 40, 6'1190,
bn!blue, clean
shaven, muscular,hung All American
wi1tt successful
business career andwholesome values
seeks single prof.
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movies theater
photo., cooking bicycling nature. Seeking other rare find
who is good looking,masc., very healthconscious, intell.,well-builtw / musc.,
arms & peds, senseof humor, enjoys thearts, mature, honest,
affectionate, noncig. smoker. Let's exchange letter andphoto, Outweek
Box 3623

YOUNG
AND ETHNIC
5'9", 1501bs,20yrs
young GBM, wholooks Latino, College
educated, in searchof a GBM or Latino
man for a friendshipor relationship interests should include
house music, clubbing, movies kissing
and safe sex. Include photo,
I will respond.
Outweek Box #4333

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Outweek Box #3687
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