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MonicaDorenkamp
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MUSIC: Sissy Man Blues
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LIP SERVICE: Kissy, kissy... 52
ART: Jose Villarrubia
Jim Marks profiles

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ART: Images From the Front
BOOKS: Epistemology of the
Closet,BOOKS: The Arena of
Masculinity
RiChard Fumosa gels spotty .. 56

POETRY:,Ties
Terry WoJverlon:

Outspoken~
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LeHers ..••...••...........•••.
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Stonewall Riots .•• '.; •...•... 6
Blurt Out- •.~••...... ~~••..•.••. 6
Sotomayor
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Dykes to Watch Out For ••.. 8
Stonewall Riots
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Nightmare of the Week •.• 11_
Insider Trading.,'.30
Milestones .~.. ~•••••••••••• 34
Look Out.:
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Diary of a Mad Queen •.•• 46 ,Gossip Watch ••.•••......•• 47
Going. Out. ••••••.•••••..•.•• 61
Tuning In .~........ , ~......... 64
Dancing Out. .... : ...... ; ... 65
Community Directory ..•.• 66
Bar Guide
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Classifieds
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Personals, ••.•. ,'••..... :••.. 77
Crossword~\
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Max Camtch on knowing and
Eve Sedgwick.
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The Battle of the ~pidemic
The Centers ·for Disease

Control's

evolving

ing for those who would

plan tobe idled while awaiting

test

results. Deaths caµsed by shortages of health care would

require mandatory HN testing of health c~re workers is•
probably the most' serious bureaucratic threat to the civil•rights of people with HN disease since the epidemic began.

skyrocket.
Legally, such a policy would underinine the d~il rights

If enacted, ,it promises to .erode the legal standards whichof all people with infectious conditions. Currently, the law\ protect all people with infectious diseases from discrimina-

protects such people from discrimination unless they pose a.'tlon'aIl9 t9 devastate.,' health ca,e in urban, areas, deny. care.
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unsuStainable costs, insure additional discrimination

againstcant. Allowing HN-positive

health care workers to suffer

gay$ :and people of color and push society down the slip, ,.~, ,'.' p~ry ~lope' to AIDS apartheid. 'discrimination on the basis of an infinitesimally small nutn-.

caves' in to irrational fears based on questionable, .',.• ', 'Eversinc~..

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ber of possible transmissions

den",fist 'may have passed the virus on to a patient, the system.
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destroys the crucial concept

undermiries this pJ;inciple. It
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risk of patient-to-doctor

this may seem logical, it is ih reality the same.' .,' : " type' of capitulatiqn

to irrationalitythat once'Who barred Ryan White from sch~l.

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risk of doctor-to-patient, millions of encounters•

As a result, doctors will now rightly demand' that if they
are to be tested," all patients· must be tested too. After all, theshould be forcibly' prevent-,'edftom",dentists

inspired.

thoughsmall, isonce all patients are tested, why stop there?,What

If there were a /transmission,transmission,

known to be far greater than the other way around. And
food-handlers,.

then theschoolteachers,

about

airline stewards,. anyone'

whose job brings him or her into contact with the public?

between, HIV~positive doctors andSuch wholesaleinvasions of COflfldentiality, once the stuff

their patientS would have yielded far more than one "pos-of doomsday scenarists, will follow naturally if the medical

sible" case by now. This is not to say such transmissions

profession itself abandons

have never occurred,

tory testing and discrimination based on HN status.

on,ly that they are sp rare as to bestatistically invisible.

Gays, lesbians and people of color successfully defend".

Some argue that even rare cases are devastating to their
victims and should be"avoided

ed the civil rights of PWAs throughout the '80s by making
common cause with members of the Establishment who

if possible. But not if such

avoidance, techniques, while protecting the few, harm themany, which is clearly,the case here. Mandatory testing is a\rationality and embraces manda-

fearedthat they-the"mainstream"-might

eventually

become infected. These Establishment policymakers joined'

cure far more devastating than the disease.

forces with us to preserve PWAs' civil rights our of fear that

Such testing might at best prevent a handful of HN

they themselves might someday become victims of anti-AIDS

transmissions each year, but it would doom hundreds ofthousands to early or preventable death by driving most

oppressions. Their current clamor for mandatory testing is the .,(signal that their fears have faded. We're now on our own.

doctorS out of the business of treating AIDS. Rare indeed

The AIDS activist movement, which recently seemed toare health care workers who would risk tainting or destroying their careers by working with HN-positive patients,. lack direction, has now met its greatest policy challenge inpatients already scand~lously un9~rserved by the health. care profeSSion. Urban areas with high rates of HIV disease,,.

protections fought for throughyears of skirmishes
and vic.
,a devastating exodus of doctors and nurses,, tories and to deal a massive blow to the health, welfare andfatally"inadequate
care for the poor and<iisad,.
And an already-impoverishedsystem would be

legal rights of people with HIV, disease. AIDS lobbyists; lesbian and gay legal professionals and cOInmunity service-would witness,re~ultinginvantaged.

a decade of great challenge. The impending CDC guidelines
threaten to rapidly unravel the entire agenda of rights .andfurther burdened
continuously

4 OUTWEEKby the costs of testing, and retesting, andre-retesting health care workers, and by pay-

, providers have already recognized this threat for what it is:the battle of the epidemic.

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DaVId Feinberg; An,. Giudici Fettner, Ayofeml Folayan, Jim Fouratt,'Noslle'~,, Ernest Hardy, Mark Harrington; Bo Huston, ·Joe E. JsIfr8ys, LanY Kramer,
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I thorQughlyenjoyed "In anything ot~er than a deni- , .'Living Color: toms, coons,
grating or homophobip reac- "mammies, faggots and bucks" tion under the inoffensive[No. 78, Dec. 26] by Essex genre of "comedy."
H~mphill. The interviews
In the Dominican comse"rved to show the complex munity, we have many exam. issues in watching potentially pies of comedy shows which
derogatory images of Black, have used the' effeminate
gay men by members of the homosexual routine as a tool
African-American community
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years, yet in all that time, this"Men on Film" is' not the . staple in Latin comedy in andfirst to have used this image, of itself has not engendered a,as comedy' in television or .' framework in. which. the com: films (forexampl.e: TheRe:''' mtinity Vlould know ordeal' ." "vengeo!
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The assassination of Jesse
Helms by gay and lesbian people would be a vanity act ofsomeone seeking useless andprobably unattainable martyrdom. It would help neither
friend nor enemy.The letter distributed at Vito Russo's memorial service and signed "Three
Anonymous Queers" was written a la Larry Kramer but did
not have the guts of Kramer.
Kramer would not ask someone
to get a gun for him or to hide
him from the law. Larry knowsthat Jesse Helms and his ilk arelike weeds easily replaceable.
Larry knows we should not
make martyrs of homophobes.
We are having a hardenough time getting through
AIDS and bashing and antidomestic partner action andpro-life defenders without
having our entire community
condemned
for a murder.
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Hatred of Helms and O'Connor
and Dannemeyer and Wildmon does not make murder oreven the violence recommended by Michelangelo Signorile,

acceptable. These are not thevoices of our community.
Herbert I. Cohen, MD
Manhattan

actsl" Excuse me?1 Did thisqueen just get off the boat?
Where havelhese people been
for the last few decades? Afterall, we are, and have always
TWO SNAPS OUT!
been, the most discrimi(lated
Being an 'avid reader of, [against] group in societyl We
and subscriber to, OutWeek, I have been forced into a world
recently decided to conduct a of lies and masked identities I
little survey among our fellow And this fag doesn't want to"choir members" here in West get involved I Well, I'm
Hollywood.
appalledl I'm gay, I'm queerWhen visiting local queer but first of all, I'm a humannewsstands I would ask the being. And for that reason
cashier if they were sellingalone, I deserve
the samemany issues of OutWeek l!1ag- equality as the next human,azine. I would then pursue my being. So to summarize myconversation with "Do you read opiniQn (and like assholes,
OutWeeKl" Most replied, "Isn't everyone has one): two snapsthat the magazine that outs , up on the outing an~ thankeveryone?" My reply was usu- you, OutWeek, for pissing me
ally that OutWeek encourages off into a WQrldof true identity I
Jimmy Wilmore
all people to be honest withsociety about their sexuality,
West Hollywood, CA
and the, only "outing" I recall
was Malcolm, who was dead at
WIT,.ER 13?
the time. This comment usually
Bob Harris asks, "Whyled to a somewhat hostile13?" ["Letters," no. 78, Dec.
response of "For that reason 26]. He asserts that "[Thirteen
alone, I have no desire to be is] among the top five pro-gay
involved in such inhumanand -lesbian TV programers in~•t~e country." That is preciseParks refused to move to thely the problem. Wh.en you
back of the bus, there wereare starving,
the crumbs
those who couldn't underdropped from the table look stand why she had to makelike a feast.
such a fuss. Fortunately for
For several reasons, 13 African Americans, she didn't[is] the logical candidate for Iisten, an,d a 'boycott was
this effort. As a viewer-suporganized. If Mr. Harris isported station, 13 is particular- content to sit at the back ofly vulnerable. Thirteen receives the "media bus" gratefully
government funds. As taxpay- singing praises for the bones
ers, lesbians and gays have a that 13 may toss his way,/right to expect inclusive cover- that's his business. Personalage of our issues. Finally, 13, ly, I applaud and support theas a not-for-profit public sta- I coalition of groups challengtion, is mandated to provideing, 13. After years of virtually
media access to undeserved
fruitless dialog, it's about timeminority communities. With we raised the stakes!
only one-tenth of one percent
Charles Montalbano, of total progran;J hours devoted
Manhattan. to lesbian and gay 'issues, 13
has clearly failed to fulfill its ' HISTORY AIN'T FUNK
obligation to our communfty.
I thought your coverage
The fact that other stations are of the initiation of a gay rights
as bad or worse does not let section in the Smithsonian
13 off the hook.
was annoyingly flippant ["Rim
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will join "bloody clothes" and"will go into storage" clearly
implied this event was of noreal importance. This wascatty "journalism" at its worst.
Charles Wagner
San Francisco•

When our peOplego out for
good-and God knows we don't
have enough of thein--why is itthat there is always a sour prick
like you that tries to tum th~cheers into boos?,
Wake up and smell the coffee. This was a real-life dramathat happened in the lesbian andgay movement. Why did you
make it into a third-class review
of a low-budget skin flick?
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Norman Gomez.
Santa Fe, NM•

I noticed in "Rim Shots"that you mentioned something
involving the Smithsonian and,queers. I read it three times. At
first it sounded like your own private joke to New Yorkers. Then it'
What are you' trying tosounded like a nasty backhand
to the establishment-Then it juSt say about the Smithsonian
souJided nasty. Not sure' what and historyl Is this good news
you had in mind, but the bottom or is this bad news?'.
line is that you made 9ur history
Really, I couldn't figure it
into a piece of shit. What's witt1 out. Are you for it or against it?
you--do you create shit just to
Maybe you are ~rying to
get letters because you like let- be too sophisticated. Who did
ters? Any kind of letters?
what to whom, and how?
Jerry Gil/ogly
Where is the story?,
Executive Director\
Diane JNord .
San Diego Remembers
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If OutWeek contained an reasons for alcoholism are pribetter used for research and ad for candy, would you chide marily psychological ones andnot propaganda.
it for its insensitivity toward ' should be dealt with as• such,
These ads promote the gays with diabetes? Would an unless you would prefer a
subtle notion that AIDS can be 'auto ad cause you to pause return to prohibition.
.The ;ad irrquestionisa chronic
manageabledisease, because 50,000 people per.
,a. line now being pushed by our year are killed in auto acci- from a company that consisgovernment to justify less fund- dents, and some of them are tently puts' forth one of the'UNMANAGEABLE
ing and less concern for: those undoubtedly gay? God forbid classiest 'product presenta, A series of full-page ads' living with this nightmare.
'you should ever cut yOurself tions. No reference to drinkplaced in most major riewspa- .
Let me remind you tliat preparing'dinner-you'li
be ing as a method of social
pers and magazines around one person dies every [eight] after the, cutlery ads next, acceptance has ever been verthe country (including Outminutes from this chronic
should they ever appear in bally or visually containedWeek) show a distraught per- manageable disease.
OutWeek.
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within an ad for Absolut. The
son saying: "I found out I wasRobert LaChanceFirst, your inference that product is simply shown in an
HIV-positive. I thought it wasHollywood, Ra. alcoholism is predominately a often witty way.
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allover:" The bottom oftheadAbsolut deserves credit
gay disorder (otherwise you,
reads, "Well, I'm here and still
ABSOLUT CHEER
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going strong."
I must respond to ACon- gay magazine for your chas- as an economic
power, someThis ad .says, get tested! cemed Queer ["letters," No. tisement), is sickening. Sec- thing that we as a group must,get treatment, take control', 77, Dec. 19].
ondly, perhaps you shouldg,etall of corporate America toand you will have nothing to
Having an alcoholic father, realize that this was an a1:l do if we are to gain true power
worry about. 'I can understandand empathize placed in a magazine aimed at in other areas. We should
The ad-sponsoredin with your concern. over the adults-adults
capable of applaud Absolut for that recoglarge part by the Burroughs
alcoholism within the gay com- making their own decisions,
nition, as well as using an ad
Wellcome Co. seems a terri- munity. Your logic is a bit awk- not children being wooed by [in mainstream publications]ble waste of money. Funds wardly skewed,however.
Spudz McKenzie. Finally, the that 'celebrates the creative
LOVE THAT JAMESI was so delighted withthe opening scenario of James
St. James' new column. Yes,honey, many of us ~n identifyl
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who died of AIDS as well.
Last, I would like to knowhow you can at once condemn
OutWeek for refusing sexually
explicit ads with little or no
conscience in thjl lack of safersex mentality and then accuse
them of choosing money overthe healtll and welfare of theirreaders?
The tone of your letter
would indicate to me that perhaps you are right. Perhaps
there is, a little self-hating
going on here.
. Not on OutWeeKs side,, though. Grow up. ,P.S. I'll sign my name.
Michael Elek
Manhattan\

member, who desires more
freedom and deviates from AA•
norms or dogma is doomed tosickness and death. Those
attitudes remind me ven ,strongly of my fundamentalist
Christian upbringing.
I am happy to report that I
am doing well three years after
leaving AA. I have also met
other people who tried AA,
decided it was not for them,and are sober and happy with-of this disease are buried in,and supported by, the structures of our society.
, I also left ,AA because the
Big Book was treated like a
Bible, the 12 Steps like the tencommandments, and my various AA spon~ors acted likehigh priests. More than anything, I was alienated by aprevailing attitude among AA
members that they area chosen people, and that any
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ACLU INVISIBLE
I would like to informyour readers of another shining example of institutionalized invisibility, this time coming from our supporters at
ACLU. I recently received amembership solicitation which
not Qnce even mentioned agay or lesbian issue or legal
battle. .We all knowI that the
ACLU does much good workon our behalf, but could not,or would not, make mentionof it in this mailing, which was
geared to the "general popu,lace." We obviously have avery long way to go.'.
Erik Marzano
Brooklyn\p~inciples might be serving
some lives but betraying others, was too subtle. I havebeen sober now for over five
years. I initially began.,with M
but dropped out over three
years ago. It was too frustrating for me to be involved in an
organization that remains
trapped in a single issue. Alcohollsm is only a symptom of adisease much greater than any
individual or group. The roots

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CAUSES
As'a gay inan and an exmember of AA, I want to comment on Duncan Osborne's
article about gay AA ["Facing, Our Addictions," no. 77, Dec.
19]. First of all, I wonder if
serious gay AA devotees will
write with concern that thearticle went-too far concerning
any criticism of 'AA. Personally, I would like to state myown feeling that Osborne was
not critical enough.
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ster has promised us reviand/or inaccurate regarding
sions in the next edition ,of thehomosexuality and the gay andthesaurus. GLAAD will continlesbian community.
ue to monitor'Merriam-WebReference works suchas these are very important.
ster andllJake sure it keeps
its promise.
These are references that gay
adolescents often look to firstr Meniam-Webster is by nowhen trying to figure outwho
means the only source of
they are. Imagine the shock ahomophQbic reference works.
young gaY,ma;n just beginFor example, anyone who has
ning to explore his sexual
version 4.0 of Microsoft Word,. will seethe following synonyms
identity would feel seeing
himself being definedby Mer"for "gay" in its. thesaurus:.
,"effeminate," "effete," "sissy,"
friam-Webster as"a.sissy or a
wimp. Imagine how a young"unmanly" and ''wimpy.'' Anothlesbian would \feel being told
er thesaurus pµblished by Harper &' Row has "lesbianism"
by Harper & Row that she is
an impure being. The offend~eing syn~nymous with both
"vice" and "impurity." Fortu- .' ing reference works in our
nately,GlAAD was ablE!to confiles are ,also those thatvince Microsoft to include a dif- , straight people often refer to.when trying to understandferent thesaurus in its mostrecent version of Word. How- , homosexuality. It is, critically
ever; still in our files are copies
important that they be accu~,
of entries from several en(,)'clorate and not homophobic. "The, Visibility
Actionpedias and other reference\ out it. These people seem tocontinually be neglected andignored in research and writing about AA. I do thank. AA
for getting m,e on my feet, butthey now move me in other"deviant" directions.
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nm Slonaker
Boyertown, Pa.
REFERENCE THIS
In his letter ,in issue no.
71 [Dec. 19]; John Kaufman
was obviously very offen~ed
by f\t1erri~m-Webster's computer dictionary/thesaurus ..
Choice Words is not the only
Merriam·Webster product to, list offensive and homophobIC synonyms. !n fact, backin August 1989, GlAAD,
fhrough its Naming Name,Sradio program and the GLAAD
Bulletin, urged people to write
the ccimpa~y to protest-similar entries in, Webster's
Co/Je,
giate 7ihesaurus. In response<")

Committee of GLAAD/NY is
actively working on this ref~erence-works project as well 'as other projects, such as
one to have gay people
included in school textbooks.
Projects such as theserequire a lot of time, laborand money to complete. We
hope that people like John
Kaufman will contribute their,time" labor and/or money tohelp VAC reach its goals.
Please contact GLAAD at'(212) 966~1700 if you would
like to help, or if you come, across any other offensive or
inaccurate reference works.
Eric Tsuchida
Chair
Visibility Action Committee, GlAAD/NY,•NUKING ANANTHILL
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was illegible in some copies. Rink, we'~e really, really, really sorry and yOl~know we love you. ' ,./• BeqlUse of a ,production error, the credits were.reversed on the two photos of Canadian activists on
page 14 inissue-78: €harles Fowler shot Kyle Rae'and Chris l'hibbs,
anl:FBrettStewart
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to an editing
error, theresearch credit for SaraJ,.
Si~ons, our in'defatiguable intern, was omitted fromthe special report on lesbians and AIDS in is~ue
79/80.
,• The jump page for the article on the sentencing of
two lesbians involved in the resistance conspiracy,trial on page' 18 of 'issue no;· 78 was misstated. The
rest of the story is on page 71. But part of a sentence
got
lost, too.' The paragraph. before the jump shouldµave read; "'I'm surprised he gave the maximum. He
is known asa fair':minded judge," Taifa said, addingthat Greene had ordered the C0urt tQ pay for the Nati.nal Center for Institutions and Alternatives to evaluate
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Waller's devastating review ofThis Every Night. Considering
how few gay books are pU.b- \.,lished in the first place, and the 0fact that this one Was pub- •.
lished by a small press, his~ vituperative remarks are tantamount to nuking an anthill.
Paul Hallasy
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We want to thank both
Out Week and the Advocate
magazines for printing stories
last summer about our successful camp~ign to have
Teachers College permit sames.excouples to a~ply for marfled-student housmg,. Because

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fucking mother.
Some of my best gay,
friends still think it's Sandr,aBernhard's own, business
whether she comes out pu~ficly or not. They say, "It's her
personal life, she doesn't haveto tell everyone what she doesin bed. " Who the fuckcares
what she does in bed? But I. say if gays are responsible forgetting yciu in an. influential
pOSition, you owe it .to young
gay men and, womel'! to givethem a role ,mOdeland the self
" respect they need tQ nurture. 'So who reallyis keeping,.
me down? Who enjoys the.benefits of being able to party
at the.Roxy on gay nights, buy
OutWeek magazine openly on
the newsstand and masturbate
to GeN's "Men in FiI!l1"('~use
they're afrflid to rent a porno
video) but can't get off theirass, to protest at St. Pat's orwrite David Dinkins a letter
about how he's,fioked out on
us? Who can't even findthe.
love within themselv,esto',
share who they really are with
their family and friends? .
Pleas tell me who, is really ,keeping me down and,when isit going to end?
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family dorm, colleges and universities across the country.'
that are considering a similar
This week's creepy cauchemar is that old .ri.,change have called ourangle head, Arsenio Hall. One would thinkschOOl'sResid.ence~alls o~ice
that_ his recent on·film scrap 1II!ith Queer
to ask for copies of Its revised
N.tion/LA might give him pause. But no,' ithousing re.gulatio~s. This notseems Arsenio plans to keep on trucking
only benefits lesbian and gay
down that highway to hell. Last week hestudents at ot~~r schools but
combined his two favorite flavors, homomakes our position at Teac,hers .' pho"ia and misogyny, in a comment seemCollegethat much stronger.
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ingly. directed at th-: QN deba~le. Arse~i~'1,We ,are upset that the . promised (most facetiously) to address crltlnOI1~gllYmedia did not publish
cisms about the oHensivene,ss of his humor
the.press release we sent themby henceforth engaging a'f issues of social
or write thei'r own articles.
import., How does he pJan to do. so? From
However" we are glad that the. now on,' all women reporters. will be. admitstory .y.0u printed has had suchted to his, dressing room after the show.
a posItive effect.
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Yuck, yuck, yuck. All th~ better to tell your
SALES PITCH ..
James Morga~
locker-room stories about Bo .lackson andLoved Jay Blotcher's
Co-Chair.lim Palmer, Arsenio.
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Bruce Ballard
Photo: T.L Utt •. piece on the subtext of perfume sales tal~. I hope he's a
Former Chair
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Lesbians, Bisexuals and Gays'at Teachers College lover with~ut fear of vioget in, he informe,d me it was He's greatfun!
I, Darrell Perry
Manhattan
lence. I cannot loo.k the man gay night. ,Iguess he thought I
I love in, the eye and say, "I was straight.",
WHO?
do." I can't even file a fuck. 'That's a compliment?" I
All letters to the edi-'
How much longer will I ing joint tax return.
saia. And this person is part of.
tor must 'include a, have tob~ put down? How'
Recently,'a friend of mine the gay movement?
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name, address anc;llong do f hav,e to wait to be Vacationing here from London,
Who exactly is holding
daytime phone, algranted the basic rights
who is active in the gay move- us back here? Is it really thethough names may
given to heterosexuals. freely ment there, went out to Better 'great, white, straight man, or
be' withheld a.t theby our government. I used to Days alone. When he arrived is. it our own brothers andauthor'S request. Out. believe this was afree cOtln- home earlier that morning he sisters. I know too many peotVeek reserves
thetry when I was younger, and said to me: "Oh, !'"had such a pie who come, out to ACT .UP
right to edi.t let1ters .
now I've come to truly know good time. The doorman gave demonstrations, wearpmk
for clarity and space
I am not free. I am not free to ' me a nice compliment." "Oh?" triangles .when in New York,considerations.
hold hands in public with my I said. "Yes. When I tried to but cal1'tsee~ to find the
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NEW YORK-Two men convicted 'of viciously murdering a gay' man on
Staten Island received tengthy prison
sentences last week, bringing to a, dosethe case 1jurrounding what observers'
believe was the city's first officially classified· bias-related inurderof a gay man. '. Sentencing
followed
the two men's,
unexpected confessions in early Decem-,ber, just prior to the beginning of thetriaL Federal case law dictates that defen<iants who plead guilty, arid consequentIi forfeit going to trial,' receive' reduced'sentences, so the two mUrderers, Michael
Taylor, 21, arid PPilip Sarlo, 27, will serveslightly less thaninaximum time of 25-tolife for their heinous murder of James
Zappalorti.
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Anti-violence activists who closely
followed the case expressed satisfaction
with the.sentences.
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'jimmy's,horrible
murd~r was the
beginning'of the worst year of anti;-gay.
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and anti-lesbian violence in the city's history," remarked 'Matt
Foreman, director.,of the New york City .Gay and Lesbiarl
Anti-Violence Project, which spearheaded the effort to bring Zappalorti's killers
to justice.
Still troubled by what he called thecity's l~thargic respopse to the crime, andstill angry- about the tidal wave of anti'gay violence that plagued lesbians and. gay men throughout 'last year, Foreman
added, "Unfortunately, the city missed
the opportunity this tragedy presented to, . stem this violeoce."·,
The only bias-motivated murders in
the city last year were perpetrated"

against gay men, accdrding
to Fm:eman.
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almost from the beginning, as immensepressure was brought to bear before
Mayor David Dinkins posted a reward
for'information leading to the ~andconviction of Zappalorti's killers. )arrested shortly
Although Taylor
after murdering 44-year-old James Zap- .
palorti, an emotionally disabled Vietnam
veteran who µved with Taylor's parents
irl a remote comer of Staten Island, his
accomplice, Sarlo, fled the state: He waslater apprehended with the assistance ofan- individual'who was' apParently luredby the promise ofa reward.
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moved to murder Zappalorti simply
because the victim was "queer," received ,a sentence of 23 years to life.
"It was senseless, it was brutal, andwe have every reason to believe it was
indefensible," said Assistant District Attor- 'ney John Loughrey, the prosecutor, in his-remarks prior to sentencing.
Sarlo, on the other hand, wasconvicted
only of second-degree
murder, and, according to several
reports, has vigorously denied thathis part in the murder was motivatedby anti-gay bias. He was sentenced to,18 years to life, and acknowledged
remorse when given the opportunity
to speak before sentencing. Taylor,however, declined to speak, prompt, ing Peggy Marlowe, Zappalorti's sister,,
to comment, "It just breaks my heartthat Taylor is not even sorry. It was
just so unfair what they did."/
Both defendants will serve at least, the .minimum n:umber of yead. in- priSon,,~th good behavior time credit-·
ed only to the maximum sentence, !heprosecutor explained.
"They both got what they deserved," 'commented Loughrey. "I could never say
it's satisfying, but you just try to seethat they're punished under the law.", The two men killed Zappalorti near. ly a ye;u-'ago, in late Januaty 1990,: after
following
to a shack overlooking the
Arthur Kill that he had built as a retreat
from his nearby home. Evidence sQ.owedthat the two men had initially planned torob Zappalorti, but that Taylor's extreme
hatred of homosexuality motivated him
to pull a hunting knife out and stab Zappalorti at least three times.
"I stabbed him to 'kill him," thejudge recalled that Taylor said in his
taped confession, noting that in his morethan 40 years on the bench, he ,;hadnever before Witnessed the details ofa,
mlU'der.recounted so matter-of-factlY~flPd
without emotion.
A fourth stab wound revealed in the
autopsy was not attributed to either
defendant, although Sarlo reportedly,
bragged about inflicting the woundwhile incarcerated at Rikers Island.
The mUrder of Zappalorti was .notthe first time Taylor and Sarlo dabbled in
gay-bashing, nor will it be the first timethat they have served hard time. Four
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NEW YORK-When Gay Men's
Health Crisis announced the resigna'tion of its former executive director
last summer, speculation
swept
through the gay and AIDS communities that Jeffrey Braff had been fired
from the job he had begun just eightmonths before.
NOW, a letter obtainedfby' Ou,t~week magazine indicates that, rather
than departing for "personal and fam- 'ily reasons" as he claimed at the time,
Braff was forced to resign.
And in the angry letter, Bra(fmakes explosive charges about the•circumstances surrounding his dismissal, including allegations that his
activ-ist politics, gregarious sexualdemeanor and involv,ement in theI~ather community figu.red into theboard's decision to• oust him. The
letter dated Sept. 24, 1990, was ,sentby Braff to the agency's 19 board
members, and accuses some of themof "an assassination of my professional career."
It is widely believed that the tennsof a financial settlement agreed to by.both Braff and the board prevent
either side from speaking about thecircumstances surrounding Braff's
departUre. Both Joy Tomchin, the preSident of GMHC's board of directors,
and Geoffrey Knox, the agency's chief.spokesperson, declined to commenton the contents of the letter.
Even at the time of his dismissal,
word of his w~ngles with the board
leaked out. One fonner board member
told OutWeek last" August, "GMHC
needed someone managing the business, and Jeff was not living up, to staff
and volunteer eXpectations."
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But beyond discussions of an
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styles" Braff's letter accuses some on
the board of homophobia and political•conservatism.
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ACT UP than I would of GMHC," hewrote, calling the alleged cot,nment "aslur that cheapened the critically
imp.ortant role carried out by ourbrothers and sisters in ACT UP;"I Braff continued: "I am proud of
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ease. Before GMHC a-ttempts to
expand its multicultural horizons, lit]
first need[s] to learn to welcome sexualand of my sexuality in
dIfference. Fiscal conservatism at
GMHCmakes sense; attitudinal intranthe leather community.
sigence about being gay...dOes not."One member of GMHC's board,This offended ..
John Bartolomeo, said that the letter
he had received from Braff "was filledsome of you.
with a lot of his perceptions of what~wasgoing on, which mayor may not
Too bad."have conformed to reality."
Other board members expressed
dismay and even anger thilt the topic
had again come up. "To me, it's a sub, ject that has been closed," said Randy
Wojcak, another board member."It'That would be best for GMHCand for
doesn't need to be brought out again.
Jeff Braff."•'.

Reached for comment at his
home in Toronto, Braff said, "I sent a
letter the board, and I am profoundly
disappointed that I have not received
a reply to that letter," but he ,declined
to comment further. Braff began at •GMHC on Nov. 20, 1989. His resignation was effective Aug. 3, 1990.,
In his letter, Braff also charges afaction on the board with mishandling the process through which theyassessed his performance.
"[A]n evaluation that was supposed to be used as a tool for
improvement was instead used asa .club to beat me int0 resigningbecause I wasn't meeting yourobjectives-objectives
that wereneither given to me nor 'negotiatedwith me," he wrote.
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HJstory Repeats Itself, Sort Of,,•,~e an activist. But just what kind
NEW YORK - Since GMHC'sof activist is hard to tease out,"
invention in Larry Kramer's living
added McFarlane, who maintains
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flicts between activists and advomembers. "You can't wear a blue;'I.
cates, and between the openly gay
suit and not offend the bureauand the less than openly gay, havecrats and be aggressively gay.
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cies and politics.
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it is by any definition an assimi-.
director was..not surprised that sim-. ,lationist organization."',,'
ilar issues should arise again with
While he was very critical of,Jeffrey Braff.
the way the board handled Braff's
The AIDS service organizadismissal, he sees the incident as
tion's first executive director, thepart of a growth process. "Mostlate' Paul Popham, was in the closet
not-for-profits have trouble bridgin his professional life.
r·t
ing the gap from the vision to-ther ,"All the original fights were/ ..
mission. You have to chew up a/!
about Paul Popham being in the
few directors until you figure out
closet,"explained
Rodgerwhat you're gOing to be. And you
McFarlane, who served in GMHC's
don't just bounce in from Canada .
, top post from 1983 until 1985 and\ and land at the front of a moveserved on its board prior to that.
ment up to speed.""He wouldn't go on national TV in ..
.'The former ED believeslthat
the.scrutiny of GMHC is ultimately
1982 and 19~3, so it fell to me or to RODGER MCFARLANE
Larry Kramer. And then [the board]
OK. "It's healthier than any otherwould trash us for what we said."
AIDS organization in the country. It's a critical mo~el and laboSexual behavior W!iS a particularly sticky topic. "There ratory. If we don't get it right here, it's not going to work anywere fights about what you say and bow you say it," added where else. That's why it merits such close examination."
Still, six direCtors in nine years is a high rate of attrition.
McFarlane, who now presides over Broadway Cares, a phi"People !Ire world-claStS athletes longer than ·that,"
lanthropic AIDS foundation based in the theater industry.
'"There were many specific board conflicts over his McFarlane quipped.
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discuss the letter at all or did not
return phone calls. But speaking
privately, one member' of the board
spoke affably of Braff and denied
that either Braff's demeanor or his
politics had a,nything to do with his
depgrture from GMHC:"Those were two qualities that the
majority of the board liked in Jeff very
much-qualities that we hoped to flIld
when we searched for a new ED. Jeff
was very well liked by staff and by
volunteers, and he had a way with'people. I found him to be very charming," the board member told OutWeek.
Another source at GMHC, whospoke on condition Qf anonymity, wasless kind; "I didn't hear him being criticized for being an activist. And I don't
think his hanging out in leather bars
had anything to do with it. The organization was basically leaderless, and theboard was too involved in day-t01ay
operations, and that led to d~y.",; ,A .former executive with.Bell'Can-a:da'for18· years, Braff;'a :New"'y~rk
native who holds dual US/Canadiancitizenship, also chaired the Canadian
AIDS Society, an Ottawa-based coalition of that' country's 40 communitybased AIDS organizations, f(om 1988
until he began at GMHC.
His brief tenure at GMHC wasperhaps inost distlnguis6ed by theactivist tenor he quickly brought to anagency that many perceived to bemired in bureaucracy: He frequently
attended ACT UP meetings, andstrongly defended' the ACT UP-led(protest at St. Patrick's Cathedral in
December of 1989; when most othercommuriity leaders either denounced itor said nothing.
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Braff, with his booming voice anda bearish frame well over six feet, cuts
a lively and iritposing figure and had areputation for being well liked by
GMHC staffers and volunteers. He
often appeared at the office 'in bluejeans and a flannel shirt, the sameattire he could be found wearing while•, relaxing with friends and acquain•
tances at various gay bars in Chelsea.and the West Village.',
He has applied for a job at thehelm of the ,Gay Games, which will be. held here in 1994.
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Sweeney, who served previously as
GMHC's deputy director. The, ~gency
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NEW YORK-Richard Dunne, avolunteer, board member andformer executive director of the
Gay Men's Health Crisis died of
AI DS-relatedcausesin. Providence,·RI on Saturday, Dec.
20, 1990. He was 46 years old.
Dunne; who started at theagency as a volunteer in client
services in January 1983 andserved as a board member'
until his staff appointment,"
oversaw the growth of GMHC
as it became the world's
largest com'inunity-based AIDS
"organization.
In a press statement, Joy
Tomchin~ president, of the boardof dir,ectors ,at GMHC, stated:"During a period of incredible
growth and t~e accompanying
growipQ pairt~,.·Richard Dunne)
provi~ed the 'o.rganization withstability and direction, whichtranslated into quality services to people with AIDS. He left us with a strongorganization that will exist as long as the e'pidem!c continues. What we dotoday, and intfle future, is possible because Richard gave so much of himself
to GMHC.".
During Dunne's tenure, GMHC expanded its programs and services,reflected in the growth of its staff form 17 to 125, the volunteer corps form .
500 to 1,800" and the budget from $800,000 to $12 million. When Dunne'
originally joined the staff, the agency had served 2,500 people with AIDS;.by
the time he left in September 19a9, it had serVed 8,000.
' .'Dunne was su~eded as executive director by Jeffrey Braff. The announcement of his death surprised many in the gay and AIDS communities.
"He kept the. state of his health private, and that was how he wished it,"acknowledge a GMHC spokesperson.
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A complete obituary will appear in next week's issue of OutWeek.
-A.M.

'"first in the fight against AIDS" fills
six floors of the .seven-story building
it occupies on West 20th Street in
Chelsea and receritly rented more
space af another building a block
away. It acts as advocate, service
provider and social outlet
for, over.
3,000 clients with AIDS and HIV
infection.
~.. continues,/ But even as Ittoexpand, it is struggling to keep' pacefinancially with the increased demandfor its services that,New York City's
staggering casel6ad generates.
"GMHC does good work," Braff

told Out Week. ".Nnd it could domuch better work." Indeed, Braff's
letter concludes with a plea forchange in the way GMHC handles its
internal affairs.
. "[C]onsiderthe dangers that a: selfelected, self-governing apd self-perpetuating board of a community-l;>asedorganization poses to the community
which it purports to serve," he' suggested at the end of his letter. "And
don't
let the fISCalconservatism of the,agency be the all-too-convenientexcuse for avoiding the imperative of
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former'US
Supreme 'Court Justice,
Lewis Powell admitted that
he may have. erred when
he cast the swing vote in
the crucial gay rights caseof Bowers v. Hardwick.
Many.gay men and lesbians were shocked' andangry., Bµt among those
who work in the arena ofcivil liberties law and g~yrights advocacy, Powell's, cormilents, while provocative, did not surprise. '.
The federal court System was incorporated topreserve the tights of theindividual, to offer the"common man" or, presu,!D. ably, woman a day incourt-an opportunity forjustice not offered by otherlegal or legislative alternatives. The federal courtsappeals courts and the US
SupremeCourt---:-havebeen the place where
Americans have tried theirmost important civilliberties cases.
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Reagan and Bush administrations.
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us. We are nothing tothem. We don't ,exist."Those comments,
by Karen Strauss, associate director 'of the
San Francisco-based,
National Center for
Lesbian Rights,' areechoed by others working for gay rights. .
The , historyofthose changes begin
with the Reagan adminI
istration.
When, he was.
first" camp'aigning forthe presidency, Ronald ~Reagan'noted that he ~0.~
intended to "reshape";:2
the courts in a more
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conservative image, and .~reshape them he did. Of ~,the 466 federal judges QU~5IN
who have been apTIES
po!Pted by Reagan andhis successor, President
Bush, 86 percent are,,
white men of a Repub,
lican, conservatiye ba~, I
ground. Only 9 percent
are women, 3 percent,
Hispanic and 2 percent
African American. Thereis not a single openly
gay or'lesbian judge on
the federal courts.
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The shift in the
Noted one lesbian rights advocate:demographics of the courts is dramatic.
"These people ate not representative
During the Carter administration, Only 64
of us. They don't want to hear us.
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percent'were African American and 6.2
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Reagan-Bush appointn:!.ents is to cut
minorities 'and women by more than, half. And there were more federal judge'ships appointed during the Reagan.administration than during any other
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Reagan's choices for the US Supreme
Court,comparatively youthful, ~gth!J.tthos~ positions will remain filled,•
pa>sibly for decades.
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Bill Rubenstein, directorof the•, Lesbian and Gay Rights Project of the 'National Headquarters of the American
Civil Liberties Union; said that these
appointments have had a chilling effect,<;)ngay rights cases in the federal courts ..
~lt's simply a death knell for civil rights,~
he said. "One thinks: twice about bring.: '1.
ing these cases to court-particularly,',
gay and lesbian cases
because die'courts are so unreceptive. And this willaffect gay and lesbian rights cases and
AIDS cases fundamentally. It will nieanthat we will have to work through state/~coutts to achieve the same goals.»_ ' But Rubenstein noted that statelevel courts "have been traditionally,I 'oppos~<! 1,0 t/;lat sort of case. And, .
bringing these cases to trial through'the state courts means not raising fed- ,eral issues. It certainly makes i~ difficult to test constitutional issues wnen
those' issues remain the domain of the. federal courtS.»A case in point is the recent lawsuit
filed by Craig Dean and Patrick Gill,
who are. suing Washington, DC, forrefusing them a marriage li~. Dean,an attorney, decided to handle the ,case,l1iInself, in part because gay and lesbiancivil rights lawyers are reluctanno risk
an unfavorable {uling in the federal '.
coutts' current climate.
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At present; more than two-thirdS of
the federal judiciary has been appointed
by Reagan and Bush. More than half of'those appointees are under the age of55, with some only in their forties. And
Bush has continued the Reagan trend 'toward, younger, steadfastly conservative
judges. The difference between the
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says that his suspicions are supportedby the fact that themurder is being reported in. the press in "avery dirtY and cruelway, focusing on [Lukeshev's] gay lifestyle.n•
Lukeshev was' also,
writing a book of inside infonnation about
the democratic movement-information
which authorities did
not want to see published, Kalinin says.
Kalinin and Lukeshev
were friends and Kalinin sometimes
teased,Lukeshev in the pagesof Tema, RµS$ia'sonly,
gay paper, which..,~
Kalinin pUblishes.
~~-=t!Q"This murder has.... .",..,.
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people scared, n said.,""'. Oi"all~ reii
Julie Dorf, co-chair of:--...
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Gay and Lesbian
REO SCARE---."Roman Kalinin
Human Rights Com,.
mission, which works\
closely, with Moscow activists. "It's themeat. The liberal, Moscdw City Council
secpnd murder of a democratic leader,, is backing MGLU in the action, accordand [activists]believe it is the KGB. The
ing to Dorf.
murders, together with the rise inWork is also progressing,onpower of the KGB in the past month,'
MGLl,J'splans for an AIDS center andhave had their effect. n
Kalinin is arranging a live satellite' 1V
Moscow activists are fighting back.
hookup between San Francisco andKalinin says that MGLUand its newspa:Moscow to discuss domestic-partnerper, Tema, will me a libel suit against
ship la~s. Plans are also on track forgovernment media outlets inclutIing
this summer's first-ever Gay Prfde
Pravda and the Soviet Telegraph AgenParades, mm festivals and conferences
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in Moscow and Leningrad, which will___ MOSCO"" on pag_ ao
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MOSCOW-Ten key gay activists
who. were interro.gated by police here
o.n Dec. i7 say that the autho.rities areo.n a hunting expeditio.n fo.r some legal
snafu tQ use against the city's o.nly
gay o.rganizatio.n.
The ,police· questio.ning took place
was brutala feW weeks after an a~ivist,
lymurdered in his apartment nere.
One o.fthe activists.who. was interro.gated, Mo.s<:o.wGay and LesbianUnion fo.under Ro.man Kalinin, says thatthe police required the group to. sho.w
its fmancial reco.rds. "They're lo.o.kingfor some reason to. bring a trial against
us, n he said. "But we're clean. There's
nothing they can get us o.n. We passed
the first attack. n
No.nethel~, MGLUhas handed .its
fuiances 'over to' "a gay businessman, nKalinin said.
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in late December, urging that they limit
their son's political activities. Kalinin has
had minimal contact with his patents
since he 'came out of the closet, due totheir nega~ve ,reaction. In December,
Kalinin toured the US
to publicize the,gay and lesbian movement in the USSR
Meanwhile, ,mystery continues to /surround the late November murder ofgay activist Alexander Lukeshev, who
was the editor of New Life, a key newspaper of the Soviet democratic movement: Lukeshev's boPy was fomid bum-.
irig on a stack of books in his apirtment.
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that Lukeshev was murdered by a jealous 16-year-old, lover: who, authoritiess,ay, is in custody. Kalinin doesn't
believe this. He theorized that the KGB
murdered Lukeshev as a warning to thedemocratic and gay movements. He
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Cl:UCAGO-To the surprise of lesbian and gay, cam~igneJ'S, the Chicago
hate crimes ordinance passed the City
Council here on Pee. 19 by a vote of

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cers and'cast a vote to ipcrease penalties
for such crimes.
Chkago is believed ~o ,be the first'
city or state to pass' a gay~inclusive hatecrltUes law by a unahimous vo~e.
"I hope that this prdiilance serves tounderscore the message that the violationof human righ.ts and crimes based onhatred will not be tolerated," ~aid Mayor
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Lesbia~ 'and Gay People of Color Kwanzaa Celebration, the Community
Center vfas alive with the sounds,sig,hts and smells of celebration:
Pictured here is the Right Reverend Cicely P. Broderick y Guerra, who:
jOined hundreds of ce,lebrants for Ujima, or the commemoration of collective
work and responsibility.
Candles are lit each nighf of the weeklong festival,that emptlasizes seven different principles of comm"unalism.
Also on hand was.mayoral liaison ~arjorie Hill: whogav~ avery ~er~Jsonal ,account of the history of th~/holiday, an Afncan-Amencan holiday
b&sed,on a compilation of African traditions.
' , The week of ceremonies was ,sponsored, by Gay Men of African
Descent, African-American Wimmin united for Societal Change. Men of All.,
C.Qlo.rs Together, Bronx Lesbians United in Sisterhood, Asian PacificIslanders~ the Boricua G~y and, Lesbian Forum an'd the Other Countries writ- 7
ers collective.
.'-Andrew Miller and T.L. Lilt,,

coordinatedby Action Network for
Lesbian and Gay Issues a small activist
hit-squad that focuses on major projects
one at a time and tolerates no diStractions. The key members are Jon-Henri
Damski, Laurie Dittman, Rick Garcia and
Arthur Johnston. The group lef:ithe final-push that won Chicago a gay rights law
in 1988.
,The new hate-crimes law increases
penalties for virtually all hate-motivatedcrimes based on, age, ancestry, color, disability, gender, handicap, health-related~ndition, national origin, ,race, religion
or sexua1-orientation.
I~ also instructs the' city Commission
on Human'Relations to help victims deal
with appropriate agencies and police anddevelop programs to reduce the incidence of hate crimes.
First-time hate-crime violators will
. face up to an extra $1,000 fme and an
extra one year in prison.
. illinois passed a similar hate-crimes
law this past fall, but activists felt a citylaw ~ necessary JJecause, as Garcia put
it, "Folks know how to call City HalL"In addition, unlike the staterlaw, theChicago law includes gender among its
cafegories. Women's advocates and others were angry that state lawmakers
seemingly overlooked gender-based
hate-aimes.
Meanwhile, some concern has
emerged nationally about the legality ofhate-crimes laws.
A local judge recently declared'
Michigan's hate-crimes' law unconStitutional, saying it violateEIthe, First Amendment right to free speech:,
Supporters of the laws counter thatthe statutes do not hinge on what a person says or believes, but rather the "motivation" for a crime.
Given the fineness of this line,
Robert Bray, spokesperson
for theNatiorial Gay and Lesbian Task Force,adm).tted, "We may hav!,! to tighten up'and recraft these hate-crimes laws in
response to this freedom~of-speech
controversy.,"-Rex Wockner

22 OUTWEEK "~nuary1&, 1991,

BROOKLYNGESAYSNO...
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ANNOUNCES THE REI.ocAnON-•NEW YORK-Acting Surrogate Vmcent Pizzuto of Brooklyn has dismissed
an attempt by'"a surviving gay life-partner to claim a spousal share against
the estate of his' deceased partner.
Ruling in Estate of Willtam Thomas
Cooper published in the New Yom Law
Journal on Dec. 28, Pizzuto rejected
the argument that refuSal to allow a gay,partner to elect against an estate violated EquaI Protection requirements or the
Court of Appeals' 1989 Braschi decision. Under New York estates law, asurviving spouse has a right to claim up
to one-third of t?e estate, regardless of
any will left by the decedent.
·Pizzuto went behind the estates
law claim to rule that exclusion of gaysfrom the ability to marry in New York is
constitutional.
Citing old cases fromother jurisdictions. Pizzuto held that thestate's interest in promoting heterosexual marriage as a stable environment for
procreation and raising children justified
the state's refusal to make marriage.
available to lesbians and gay men.
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a spousal share was a compounded
Equal Protection viQlation because of..
the underlying exclusion from marriage:
Pizzuto also rejected Chin's argumentthat as a family member under Braschi heshould be entitled to elect a share.
The Braschi decision rcrcognizedgay partners as family members for purposes of a regulation governing evictions
form rent -controlled apartments.
Pizzuto commented, "There.is agreat distinction between being part of afamily entitled to the protection of rentcontrol laws b~cause of public policy
and legislative intent and in being a surviving spouse of a decedent."
He also said that it would be inappropriate "judicial legislation" for him toextend the right to a spousal share,
beyond the relationships recognized by
the Legislature.
New York attorney Bradley B. Davis
represented Chin.

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Gay & Lesbian Atheist neWsletter has called for a mail zap ofour good friends at the Advocate. Don Sanders, thenewsletter'S editor, was offended by the magazine's Dec. 4
issue, which offered a look at gay and lesbian involvement
in organized religion, complete with a cover photo of alesbian minister with "a tiara of barbed wire encircling her
bleeding forehead.""Is the only time a woman is fit to ,grace the cover of the 'national gayllesbian newsmagazine' when she is' por- ~traying a martyr for Jesus?" the article asks.The New York
City chapter of AGLA reportedly celebrated the winter solstice a little late, .with a cold buffet at the Community
Center on Sunday, Jan. 6.
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have been promoted to the
newly created positions ofassistant executive director byRobert Brown, the organization's new chief. They are Terry
Beirn, formerly the AIDS
research foundation's program
officer, and Jay Theodore, theagency's grants officer. And former policymaker David Corkery,a longtime fixture at AmFAR,
has been replaced by Anne
Harrison~Clark, a colleague of RANDY KLOSE
Brown's from the March ofDimes, where he' was a corporate vice-president and she
was his director of public affairs.
Meanwhile, longtime gay activist and fund-raiser Randy
Klose, became co-chair of the board of the Human Rights .
Campaign Fund after an election at a board meeting>in
Philadelphia late last year. In a press statement, Klose said
that as a person with AIDS, he has taken a particular interestin HRCPs work on AIDS' research and education legislationin his three-and-6ne-half years as a board member.

•insured emplQyee benefits plan so that it-SONAIDS- will prQvide emplQyees with AIDS thesame cQver~ge it Qffers toemplQyees.BENEFITS
with other illriesses.
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grQUPS are ha'iling an important insur- ' , neet at Lincoln fQrseven years.
. ance-related decisiQn in Indiana, where
After getting sick with AIDS,. the state Civil Rights CQmmissiQn has
WesthQven reportedly submitted disability claims but was tQld that his cQmpany
ruled against a cQmpany whQse insurhad amended its insurance plan to. curance plan placed severe liinits Qn AIDStail benefits fQr peQple with AIDS while
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peQple with Qther illnesses. The LincQln
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maintaining a $l-milliQn limit fQr mQst
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befQre ¢.e ICRC, charging that the dis:crepancy in benefits was clearly in violatiQn Qf the state's civil rights law,which prohibits discriminatiQn 00sed, Qn
handiCap.
ICRC hearing Qfficer Paul De Prez
agreed. He Qrdered Lincoln to. remove all
discriminatQry exclusions Qr caps Qn
AIDS Qr HIV illness and rejected thecQmpany's claim that the discriminatiQn
was financially justified, calling it an"exaggeration. »\Evan Wolfson of the Lambda ~ga1
Defense and Education Fund, whohelped defend Westhoven, called the ruling a "welcome first victory."
According to Wolfson, the case, demonstrates that strong anti-discrimination laws can be an important tool infighting off a growing number of insurance companies who are "scrambling tofind ways to avoid paying for lifesaving
treatment,fOr people with HIV."The company has not yet decided
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leader Nelson
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The move followed heavy lobbying from Cape Town's Organization ofLesbian and Gay Activists.

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"At the same time, we are mindfulof-the fact that there is a long struggle
ahead to change people's attitudes andto win over other parties who will be
involved in the negotiating process fora new South African Constitution."
The relevant passage of the draft
document reads, "Discrimination on 'thegrounds of gender, single P¥enthood, ,legitimacy of birth or sexual orientation
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WASHINGTON-AIDS seIVice andactivist groups, trying to jump-start theapproval process of two pro~ing AIDS
treatments, are demanding a meetingwith the, Food and Drug Administration
and'two drug companies to get the medications approved by the end of 1991.
, The drugs, delI and ddC, are under I
study in clinical trials. The medications
are potential alternatives to AZf, to datethe only IDA-approved, therapy for fighting HlV. '","Drugs like delI and ddC offer the
only realistic hope of further suppressionof HIv infection," said Dr, Peter Hawley,
medical director of the Whitman-Walker
Oinic in' WashingtOn, DC. "Our patientsknow these newer
drugs are probably,
not cures and that not all the research isdone to detennine iheir long-tenn com- plications, but many would be understandably happy to have a chance athaving a 'long-term' complication.",
The problem With the drugs' current,experimental
status, he and otheradvocates said, is that
only the sickest•
people can participate in the ava~ble, drug studies, leaving most who' could
benefit' from the therapies outside of
their reach. Those who do receive thedrugs, they add, go'on to incur expenses
in traveiing to the site of'the Studies to•
receIvetreatment
The solution, 'they all agree, is forthe 'c;Iru~to be grahted IDA approval.
This, they note, would make the drugsmor~ widely available and would allow
insurance programs to cover,their cost
For the past 18 months, AIDS
activists have beetil pressuring ,the IDA to. broaden and ,speed clinical trials of thetwo medications so that HN patients'Who cannot tolerate AZf, or (or whom
the drug has' ceased to be effective, canreceive the medications.
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"Those who are desperate for alter--natives to AZf must be provided hopeand a guarantee that those working on
alternatives have the same sense ofurgency as they do in their struggle tostay alive,' said qaniel Bross, executive
director of the AIDSAction Counell.
Physicians investigating the drugs
claim to have been able to keep in checkthe therapies' chief side effects-limb

numbneSs in the case of both drugs andan inflammation of the pancreas in theaise of delI. One activist, Dr. Gene Zaglinof San Francisco's Project Inforum, suggested that there is now more safety data
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Three-million women worldwide are infected with the human immunodefien'cy virus, according to the World Health Organization~
The US National Institutes of Health held its first Women and AIDS
Conference on Dec. 13-14 in Washington, DC. Participants occasionallydisrupted the proceedings to accuse 'government officials of i9110ring
the problem (above). According to the Centers for Disease Control, in ,1990 AIDS among women increased 31 percent, compared with ?2 percent for men.
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and the press, while a similar -study inQuebec me~with less uproar.
At a recent conference, University ofToron~ researcher Randell Coates presented preliminary results of a study inwhich blood samples from most of thebabies born in Ontario over a one-year
period were tested for mY antibodies.
Though such "baseline seroprevalence"studies have been _conducted in manystates 1IDdin Europe, they are relatively
new in Canada. The Ontario study
detected 21 mY-positive mothers fromamong more than 67;OCYJ newborns, indicating a relatively moderate infection rateof 3.1 per 10,000. 'Rena Arshinoff, cdates' study coordinator, explairted ~t women of chi1dbe:¢ng age were selected as researchsubjects to track the spread of q,eterosexual HIV, infection. Ethical guidelines,
which ordinarily forbid testing people
without infonned consent, do permit HIV
testing on blood taken for other puqx>seS'.
if the samples are anonymous. All
Ontario newborns undergo, blood tests
for c~in treatable disorders,. and it wasthese samples which Coates' team used.\
Arshinoff cautions that while thepresence of mY antibodies in a baby
implies that the mother is infected, thesame 'may not be true for the baby. "In
the early stages of life, the mother's antibodies;cross the placenta but are usuallyshed" by the ,baby's first birthday, Arshinoff says. Some 30 percent to 50 percentof HlV-positive newborns will remain so
after one year.
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Though the study was well publicized at its initiation in 1989, the results
were greeted with indignation by commentators, who demanded that the HlVpositive mothers be informed of theirresults. Evelyn Gigantes, the Ontario Minister of Health who had held office only
a few weeks when the results werereleased, told the local press: "I'd bebloody mad if it were me. It's not goodthat mothers may have given the HIV

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virus and not know and not be told."
Arshinoff feels the objections stem
(MinistIy officials now say that the ~•ter will pot comment further until she ' from a lack of understanding of the
seroconversion process of newborns.
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Alan Berkman still lies chained to his bed'm sitting with Linda in a small, stuffy
years, served two.
in: the hpspital across the street, hisroom with glass walls, through which
That:s ironic. Irony is our friend. It
parole denied.
the guards keep a constant watch. Linda
allows us to see that the reality we take
Now the women have been senand I have discussed the Dally Newsfor granted is not realistic. To tell thistenced; Marilyn was just sent to Marianna
strike and municipal layoffs. Now we'~story, then, I will need a lot of irooy. AOdprison in F1orida. Soon the others will be
exchanging cute lesbo sex stories. Linda's
I still won't ~ able to tell it.
been reading On Our"that
All this weekend, I have been say- . moved to various maximum-security P,ris:ons in remote partS of the country, where
she likes it but figures that she can't
ing go¢bye. I am in the Washington,
they'll be regularly monitored, shackled,
decide for sure until she's looked at a lot
DC, Jail, and I have' been saying
goodbye,• more pictures. I tell her. that once, myto some prisoners. Maybe you've heard " strip-searched, censored, sometimes' beat,en up, maybe just_put into isolation units
frienµ in Minneapolis was using' herof the "terrorists," four women and two. c'"vibra,tor, when a manfor years at a time. All
this so that wholefrom the eledri.c'comsome, law-abiding
pany lmocked on thefolk likeus will fordoor and ...
•get, if we everlmew,
Linda Evans hasthat they existed.,
just been given two
I had nevercon-::urrent five-year
sentences for pleadentereda prisoning guilty to conspirabefore I came here
.cy in,a series of' polititwo, years ago to/ interview the women',calbombings.
In•in the case for an artiprison since 1985, she
cle on political prisalready had a 35-year .
oners. I had neversentence for using
met any revolutionar'false names to puries, either. Tear downchase legal handguns
this society? Build awith which she'd
new one? Devoteplanned to defend
your life to that? Oh,
herself form the Ku. please., God forbid, in"Klux K!an. Compare
Linda ,
such a world as this;and c01Jtrast:.
was arrested, in the
you shouldcareabout anything toosaI)1e districtof RESIST. D~N'TDESIST-TOp, ~eftto nght Laura WhItehorn, Linda Evan~, TimBlunk; bottom,
Marilyn Buck, Alan"Serkman and Susan Rosenberg-the Resi.stance Conspiracy Six
much.
Louisiana where an•"Why don't they just play the game?"
Imperial W1Z3rd ofth~ KKK was tried for'men, who were accused of bombing thepeople. ask. "Say they're sorry, sayattempting' to set up a drug ring on a . capitol in protest of the 1983 us invasion,
they've changed? They don't have to
BlaclcCarlb~aI} island with a boatldad'of Grenada. Unlike the invasion, themean it.·"of ilI(!'gal 'grenades, rocket-launchers,
explosion 'caused no deaths or injuries.
There;s a good chance that Lauramachine gµns: He was sentenced to ten
Nor ·did the other protest bombings ofWhitehorn could have walked out of her
which the group was afso accused. I2st:
September, lesbians Linda Evans and . sentencing and onto the street, if she h,ad 'Susie. l)aYi w.hose cOlumn "Out ~done that Held' for years withQut baiI,'
Laura Whitehorn, along with Marilyn
Control" lJas .appeared in OutWeekl1
Buck, pled guilty, so that charges could~e was the only one of the defendants
since the magazine's inceptum, has cov, be dropped against their three co-defe.nwho wasn't already serving a'sentence.
ered the Resistance Conspiracy' TriiJlfor
dants, one of whom has cancer andInstead, she chose to starid up in court
the progressive press for twoyears.
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told him how, when Panther leader Fred
Hampton was murdered -in 1968 by
Chicago police, she had dedicated herlife to fighting the "cynical, corrupt thingthat calls itself US democracy."
1sit with Laura now in a fluorescent,ly lit cubicle, and she points !:>uta kid in.me adjacent booth who looks no morethan 15. It's obvious that he doesn't
understanda word that his publicdefender is saying. Did the kid do it?
Does it matter? Like more and more
African-American men, he will probably
spend years of his life in prison. "He. hasn't even lived yet," says Laura.
Laura, ,,-hg composes rap Songs for .'people's birthdays. Laura, who adores
women and draws me flowers and funnycartoons in her letters, who worries more
about Alan than ~nybody\ The judge
called her a danger to the communityand gave her th~,, maximum sentenceof.
20 years. Compare and contrast: Thesame judge sentenced John Poindexter,
the former defense secretary implicatedin the deaths of thousands of Central
Americans through his role in the lranContra affair, to six months.
"1 feel sony for them, but they are
where they a,re because of their whiteguili:." I've heard variations 'of thisfrom,certain progressive New York grown-ups, with respectable jobs. They were out of
touch with the movement, had the wrong
historical 'analysis! Ridiculous, in thesetimes, to call yourself a revolutionary." ,1 am not a revolutiOnary, but Susan
Rosenberg and 1 are both Librans our,special point of socio-political unity. We. sit making plans to build a Libran
Defense Front and call e.aclr other'Toots.'" Susan is sick of being asked
how she survived the Lexington High .
Security Unit, where the government
cbnducted sensory deprivation experiments on her and two other women for;µmosttwo years. But she has served
only five of her 58-year. sentence forweapons possession and coulcl--like,. anypolitical prisoner in this country,:---[rildherself in Lexington conditions again.
1 wonder perversely what John
Poindexter would have said if he knewthat Susan was raped by a prison doctor.
Mllybe that she was asking' for it: a white
woman committed to Black, liberation, a.".
Jew
commItted
toPalestinianthat under your dress?,You're not gonnabomb the caPfJo~ are you? Gee, no; officer. I'm going to write about bombing it.

independence. Once, when we , weretalking about some invasion or other that
the US had carried qut in the name of
democracy, 1 remarked, "The madness ofthe ~Othcentury is irony."''The madness of the 20th century,". Susan answered, "is g~ocide.",
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man's backing of lesbian :lod gay rights
dates back to her congressional sponsorship of the gay and lesbian rights billand her early support of the City Council ordinance.
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As,Abrams looks to move on, atleast two officials are eyeing his present,'post. <;me is Assembly member Ol~ver
Koppel from the Riverdale section qf theBronx. Koppel is a longtime sponsor of
our bills 'in Albany and has ,an .impeccable record on out rights.' He seems tohav~ the backing of his Assembly col-'leagues. Then there lis Ken Gribbitz, theeral Robert Abrams
is d~finitely rµrihing " ,"for the'us Senate in, I . .~i'..
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the Abrams apparatus. ;rhe attOI'ne'ygeneral has abandoned
previous
planSior .running for governor. .
,Abrams has been an outspoken sup. porter of gay andlesbian.
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. rights. sihce heentered politics in me '60s and is a realcJass act. Abrams' mentor and alter ,ego is
openly gay, pubiic-relations guru' Ethan,,Any Pfoposal ~,Geto., Geto:s}nvolvement as a gay activist
is a long and groud one,'beginnirig with \to do away with thethe Gay ActiviSt:Alliance and, iri'cluding
seeing the city's gay rights ordInance, Humlin, Rights
through from introduction to passage.
Countless meetings, and strategy, sessions
Commission.
have be~n held iri.Geto's Bome and.,
office over the years, and he's been a fre- .
is rUlicuJous andquent behind~the-scenes negotiator for
our, causes. Geto is one of our communiunacceptable.
ty's unsung herOes, and• Abrams has heeD
well served by the association.
Also considering a run for Alfonse•D'Arnato's Senate seat is Congress memdistrict attorney from RockIand County.
ber Robert Mrazek from Great Neck,
Gribbitz's 'pOliticalapparatus was modestwho has already set up an exploratory
ly helpful this past yeat to Sean Strob, acommittee. Other names mentioned
gay man who ran unsuccessfully forinclude Comptroller
Liz Holtzman"
Congress member Charles Schumer (Mr. 'Congress in Gribbitz's district. The attorney general post is a significant one forModerat~) ~d former Congress member
our community,' arid it's important -that'Geraldine Fettaro.
wealways have a friend there. , We'll
Abrams is th_e only candidate who.
keep our eyes on this one.
has successfully ron statewide. Although-The rumors cannot be true: Any
Holtzman has shoWn a strong statewide ,base, sne:hasn't faced voters outside qf ' proposal to do away with the city's
Human Rights Commissjon is ridiculous
the city in ten years. This past year,
and unacceptable. Because its implica.Abrams wo~ reelectio~ by the largest
tions are so devastating, I cannot believe
majority of .any' New York statewide
that the proposal is even under conSidercandidate. It should be noted, how!!Ver,
ation. After all, David Dinkins camthat Holtzman: won ovelWhelmingly inpaigned on a promise to enhance theher bid for comptroller, and she enjoys
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Andy Humm to its roster of 15 cotnmis!
sioners. Humm's presence on the Commission will serve us well., He is a visible
activist With strong community roots. As 'the tenns' for the KOch-appointed commissioners end, I anticipate that progressive lesbian and gay representation on
the Commission will grow. We- elected
Dinkins because we wanted change, andputting,Humm on the Commission is a,move in that direction. The HRC will not
be axed. Dinkins cannot let us down.
Speaking of. Dinkins,
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new chief of staff.
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with progressive gay activists for many
, years and served asfleld coordinator in
the Dinkins mayoral campaign. A product of Brooklyn's progressive Black community, Flateau has labored for goodcauses like Jesse JaclGonand Assembly.
members AI Vann, Rodger Green and, Oarence NOrinan. E1ateau has been quite .
helpful in many a good cause, and we
can look fOlWard to his continuing workwith our commUnity and for many of ourissues. Flateau is taking a leave' from a 'of the succ6sful public
stint as ~eraffairs firm,. DFC.
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projected "gay" City Council seat on theWest Side of Manhattan. But now thatstate Senator Fred Ohrenstein will begoing Ion trial in February, the youngest
Abzug is shifting her sites to his state
Senate seat and keeping
all her, options open.,
Arthur Strickler, longtime gay activist·and chair 6f Community Board Two, isalso looking afwhat orte can only hope
will be a winnable gay district, comprising both the Vt1lageand Chelsea. This, ofcourse, is the same seat that Tom Duane /has his, pretty gay eyes on.
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n~i~nt l:J.erl?al,w:isdom, combined
garlic' to treat cryptococcal 'meningitis, with modern Chinesescientific.
-•kI)ow-howand African-Americanand viral encephalitis. In crypto cases'rclearch skill and dedication, may soon
where the antibiotic amphoteriCin B isyield a new, effec-tive AIDS treatment:
ineffective or too to)!;ic, garlic extract."
intravaneous garlic extract.
has been used to' complete the tr.eat, The humble garlic plant has been
ment successfufIy.'And'
used as a medicinal herb by numerous, forseveralyears;
intra..
cl!lt\lres .for centuries. It has proved
venous garlic has-been'
helpful in preventing and treating suchadministered to 'people .
illnesses as colds, flu, anemia, hypertenwith systemk,~!((\lngal. ,sion and several cancers. Laboratory'infections, includ$g"Canstudies have shown this bulb to possess
dtda ~nd immune -suppression (similar to AIDS)~rong anti-fungal, anti-bacterial, anti-viraland immune-sthnulating qualities.
from bone ll13rfow trans" 'Many holistic health practitioners
plants. In the latter, case,have thus, considered garlic useful ingarlic has effectively pretreating 4IDS ...Since early in the epidemvented or~ treated the, ic, hun.-dteds of }>WAs~nd people, withpneumonias
reSUltingfrom CMV, infec\i!':>ns.
ijIV have experimented,'with nutritionalana;h~rbalprograms
inCluding garlic;'
Across the board, toxicity
has been thinimalor
rangh'lg
ftoin
three
to
eigh~raw
cloves". .,.)
nonexistent,. (Much of ,thed;lily (cgokip.g destroys it1!medi~inalvalue).,;OtP,ers take capsules, tablets oraforementioned data,and',. ..., ,.
liqui,(rex:t:ra~ available in-health food
more, was _presented by, ~or~::s&enu brands;;re fu~yfree'ofthe.Chinese uniyerilfy
re>:".,'-searchers'to.
the' First
odor apd side effects (gas and indiges,
World Congress:oh the~bn)whicJ:!-,some find probletn;ltic inraw
Health Significance of Garlic, in WashfQrrt).--..:.y~tthey retain tl;teir' potency,
according to lab tests.' Much anecdotal
ington, DC, on Aug. 2S:-30, 1990, sPonsored by the US Agriculture Department
evidence tells of PWAs staying free ofand other organizations).
opportunistic infections and simple illnesses (colds and flus) and of eliminating
parasites, candida an<Yother infections'
Progress Toward Clinical Trials
after
they
bccur;,.
Since 1987, a leading Chinese garlic.~ The\e has bet:r: minimal US'research~rt,Dr. Lp Pao Pei, has corresponded
on garlic for AIDS. But growing evidence \ with a te:µn of African-American scienfrom China shows-garlic's effectiveness in "tists-Taraq
Abdullah, MD (chief retieating non-AIDS cases of cryptococcal
searcher, Akbar Res,earchFoundation,•meningitis (crypto), cytomegalovirus
Paxton, Fla.); Dahlia Kirkpatrick, MD,¥ection. (CMV) and candida (thrush)(oncologist-immunologist, Tulane University Medical Center, New Orleans);- three of the mQst widespread opportunistic infeciion~ inAIDS. ",and James Quter MD (head of nutrition,
China offers both, a loqg history of
Tulane University Medical Center). These
herbal ,medicine and a post-revolution
researchers then did a preliJ:ninatf threepush for mO<:iernscientific techniquesmonth study using aged garlic tablets toto research ~nd deVelop plant extracts.
treat AIDS;"lor whith"the National 'Insti-

A'tutes of Health, or Nlli, tut;ned down arequested small-businessloan. The
results: The seven PWAswho completed
the study (three others dropped out) all
received at least some benefits. Amongthem were increased T-4 cell coun,ts,

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ratios, heigptened natural killer cell activity and immune modulating effects. This'data was presented in a poster at theFifth International AIDS Conference inMontreal in 1989.
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to attend a garlic conference and meetwith Dr. Lu, who had'recently developed
a purified extract for intravenous use.
(After AmFAR r:ejected Dr. Abdullah's
grant request, he was) forced to fmancethe trip himself.) Based on the promising
Chinrse experieilceand their own preliminaty study, the African-American scientists developed a protocol for a 12month clinical trial of intravenous garlic
extracts in HIV-positive people. Believingthat they would find no backing here in,.January 1&, 1991

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At that point, three African-American
activist health workers in New York aty
FIRE ISLAND PINES
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Rentals/SoleS·them aid in fighting for a garlic clinicalFinanCing
trial in this country. Rasheeda Abdul
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and health educator; Cliff Goodman,
Outreach Director ofJiEAL (Health Edu- /cation AIDS ..
alternative treatment clearinghouse); and Sheila George, .
a physician and acupuncturist at Hilman
Health Center in Manhattan, jointly
formed ,African Americans for Natural
Therapies in AIDS (AANTA) to makeavailable this and other alternative treatments to communities of color.

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Project Gains Momentum
On Aug. 17, 1990, HEAL and
AANTA sponsored a public forum inHarlem featuring Dr. Carter of Tulane
speaking about the garlic treatment. Morethan 200 people attended, including
physicians, nutritionists,
PWAs andactivists, and Dr. Carter's presentation
was well received. Dr. George of AANfA _agreed to be the principal investigator of
any New York clinical trial to belaunched. Since then, the project has
gained momentum.
''f!1e Pharmacology Department of
Xavier University (a predominantly Black
schdoI in New Orleans) has started animal toxicology tests on the purified garlic
extracts. The scientists have applied to
the Institutional Review Board, or IRB, bf
the Great Uikes Medical Group in Chicago for approval of the protocoL They
have submitted the protocol to the Scientific AdvisorY Committee of the Community Research Initiative/New York as afirst step toward presentation, to its IRB.
last week, at public hearings on alternative AIDS treatments held by the NIH,
AANrA testified that the federal AIDS "Clinical Trials Group should sponsor
studies using this protocol, particularly incommunities of 'color. The Alternativeand Holistic Treatment Committee of
ACf UP/NY is working with AANTAto
further develop the protocol and help
bring any necessary pressure to bear sothat tria1s begin.
The evidence supporting garlic's
potential usefulness in fighting AIDS is'strong. With the development
of
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he was coopted and was making false , gramer for Pfizer. During this time, he
traveled frequently to the West Indies
You could always tell it like it is,
statistic~. He was contributing to theand also spent time in Italy. Brianand now that I need
and am comdeaths of gays and African Americans,',
returned to Seattle in 1985 and ran theand ,women and children. Stephen
pelled to remember you, I feel totally
VSOP men's clothing boutique forinadequate to the task. How ,to put into
Jose'ph did have blood on' his hands,
three years before moving ,briefly tosome sort of form I what you were and. and he still does; as does Woody'
are to so many: ..especially singe you
Mye~, The agenda has not stopped.
""'Puerto Rico.
were .so active in New York and thenBrian's first terrifying bout of PCP
I went to see you perform,
I, . Chicago. Also, what would, Y9u have
Ortez, many tjmes at the Center. You
brought him back to Seattle. OVer theIlast 18 months, he worked in real
wanted at this time? In tliis place? For
were a fine a<;tor; the play I remem'I estate and developed a national repu- ,you? For ACT UP? For African Ameriber best was about the triple opprespans? For people with AIDS? tatlon as ,an AIDS activist. Brian wassion and ,invisibility ,of gay, Btack
people .with AIDS,.
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never alone during the final week of
We m~t on the roof garden of
Bailey House for the opening of thehis illness. He died on early Sunday
And so in the gay, white environresidence-contrary
to your game,morning, Nov. 25, 1990, of complicament of ACT UP, you created thewe had not met at Sneakers having
tions related to AIDS. Brian was 30
Major:ity Action Committee, a place for, seen one another across that small,years old.
Black people to work and create an
demanding group called ACT UP.
We loved Brian, for his courage.
agenda to cO,,!,front AIDS, racism,
You always stood in the back, and soOver the past year and a half, he conhomophobia and invisibility both within
did I. We instantly became friends,
the gay community and without. Ortez,
fronted many fears-fears
of being'
especially since You were carrying a
we are still working on it, but it may
unloved, fears of losing pnysicaltake a lifetime and more.
'copy of Plagues and Peoples (abeauty, fears of dying and of not.
rather obScure book about the theory
We also talked about alternative'being able tOliv9 into old age. Brian
that history really moves according toturned inward and began a Search fortreatments for AIDS and discussed·
the spread, or control, of disease).
, creating clinics: self-empowermenta spiritual center, and he turned out,
Over coffee, we talked about AIDS as . you 'knew what it meant for both PWAs ' , ward and became a fearless fighter.
germ warfare and the' genocide ofand communities' of'color. You went
He liv'ec;:l through his fears andback to Chicago to realize that hope.
gay people and the ensuing.genocide
became an inspirational force. Weof African Americans. In those days,
Ortez, you were an activist. You
loved Brian for his personal triumph.
we h"aa rio trouble caUi-ng murderinspired. You created and confronted.
Bris,n briefly worked with thewhat It was, and how Washington
You empowered yourself and others.
Northwest AIDS Foundation, but as•was killing us aiL
You understood the.issues of genohis sense of urgency grew increas\
And so began a regylar Monday-ingly compelling, he turned his ener.cide and worked ona solution. You
organized and demonstrated. You
gies to the 'Governor's Task Force onnight-after-ACT
UP dinner meetingwere never afraid to take risks. You
AIDS and was elected vice president
and discussion of th~ latest treat,of the Ct:licken Soup Brigade just twoments sort of a private affinity group, ' ACTed UP.
weeks" before he died. ACT ,UP/SeatI regret never making y~u that
before you fired up and began to galtle, howeve,r, more than any other-goin' to meetin'" hat we so often dis~vanize into action against the nonreplace, became home to his rage andcussed, so I can only create it here forsponse from the NAACP on the issue
political genius.
'Jof AIDS. You were the first to address
you in words. We love and shall misshead-on the Black community in New
you. There is no other like you, nor
Brian was at the center of many ashall there ever be.
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powerful movement and many a con, York and the problem of AIDS in theirtroversy. Almost single-(red-bloody)ACT UPI Fight Backl Fight AIDSI
lives ...and how we all must fight the.
Stephen Machon
handedly, Brian engineered ACT UP's
oppression of the government. AIDS
succesSful campaign to diffuse oppOsiwas, and is; a means to control
tion to the/AIDS Housing of WashingBRIAN MATHEW DAY,. unwanted and unruly parts of the P9Pton Hospice. As an African-American
Brian was born and raised inulation: Plagues and Peoples you
man who "himself had experienced
Seattle, Wash. At 17, he mO.ved tounderstood the meaning: FQr the firstserious pOlice harassment in Seattle,
New York City, where he 'lived for ten- time in history, • a pJague was created
and as a man committed to reducing
years. After receiving a deg~ee fromto reduce a people's strength. Arid so
the risk of HIV transmission for all pe0the Fashion Institute of Technology,
you went after the health commis"
Brian wQrked in the fashion industry,ple, Brian spearheaded ACT UP's
sioner of New York, Stephen Joseph,and as a free-lance computer proopposition to the Drug Traffic Loiteringand confronted him with the truth that
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the majority of the gay community,
Brian wrote: "If we aren't serious aboutfighting racism, we will find ourselvesin a changing epidemic, increasingly
marginalized, isolated and limited toesoteric and inconsequential issues."
Brian was honest about his frustration and his sense of urgency. He
noted that "those who've dealt with me
know how difficult I can become.
ButI
let me tell you this: It Is because of thatthat I have friends:" Brian had friends
who loved him deeply and dearly, whoturned to him as a confidante andmade him family. We loved him
because we could call him up with a
far-out Idea and ,have him center us.
He was great company for an evening, of barbecue and videos or an afternoon of knock-down Political wrestling.
. While he was impatient withhypocrisy, Brian was incredibly forgiv, ing. He was the most patient of teachers. With his depth pf vision, he would
see things quickly and clearly but
would allow others to see for themselves. His sense of humor was cutting and insightful, but almost always
gentle. He was incredibly openminded and would accept people on
their own terms. Brian loved theeccentric and the unusual. One of hislast obsessions was his driving desire
to buy a pot-bellied pig for its companionship...and later for its ribs.
, One of the most powerful images, of Brian is of him in San Francisco during the Sixth International Conference•
on AIDS. All week
he had been,
scheming up what was to become theinfamous diversion of the I"Unity"
March through Nordstroms. At 3 am,on the night before the action, after
four hours of painting an enormous
canvas banner, Brian suddenly'
stopped and said, "You know, when I
die of AIDS, those motherfuckers aregonna know that I didn't go silently."
Brian spoke often of what theworld "legacy" meant to him as an,
African-American man ahd as a gay
man. He left each of us whom hetouched during his lifetime with a partof that legacy , a gift and a responsibility-to continue his work in his name.
Donations in Brian's name may
be made to ACT UP/Seattle.
-Kate Bolland, Nima Eshghl,
Katie Beck, Greg Renwick

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contingent upon the noble acts of persons who have no priorrecotd of courage, let alone activism. A fantasy akin to Nancy
Reagan leading a progressive feminist caucus.
.To excaVclte the history of tlle "Sandra Phenomenon," a history barely 10 years old, is to understand why these forms of
hopefulness are futile and why we, reasOnably in search ofheroines, should be wary of investing our trust in phantoms
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in 1983 with Martin Scorcese's The King of Comedy. It was an
odd yet excellent bit of filmmaking, with a quirky appeal that
more in the way of cult status than mass popularity.
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f"arise. I see the rahtasy of quick remedies deeply woven iOto theissue of outing, where the future visibility of this community is•,based on a\strange, outsideriike personality. Any lesbian·watching this film may have foun~
I certainly did---a ready identification with this rangy, demanding character; not that lesbians 'have an inherent predisposition to see themselves in the more
freakish elements of this heires5lkidnapper but that Sandra created an unexpected and other sort of hero~"lµ1ti-heroine,"
in a fashion, as we are often anti-heroines in our own society.
, 1985's film Follow That Bird is !mown by but a scant few,
though Sandra's frequent and outrageous visits to David letterman's lat~night show would soon make her a regular for irregular reasons. Sandra initiated the now often-seen talk-show, tactic of calling her interviewer onto the carpet for anything andnothing. (A tactic, I might add, l<;sssuccessfully assayed byMadonna on The Arsenio Hall Show-but more on her later.)
Sandra could be counted on to lambast every prevailing norm
Or dominant institution, fast becoming a on~woman walking,talking danger zone. Gussied up in baute couture, she was consistently less uµ;cale when it came to manners or decorum ', SUlprisingly, all of this rocking the boat profited the actress,
and she SOQnfound herself "inside" -just barely-;}ot yet a
powerful mega-star but a performer who had managed to sticka couple toes in the big door to Hollywood. This was, of course,
the beginning of the end.
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The next chapter in the "Sandra Phenomenon" was all thehoopla and the innuendo and, inevitably, the ugly nay-saying
we have by now rome to expect. 1988 witnessed the opening
Without You I'm Nothing, a showof Sandra's off-Broadway hi~that distilled alI of the ,zanic::r asPects of the actress's humor andfused them into a relentless drill of monologues, songs andbarbs----many of which directly assailed and mocked her zealousand captive audience. One of the most notable elements of the ,Without You I'm Nothing show was her shaIDeless series ofpaeans to female performers. In monologues, whose subtexts
could only be described as dykey, Sandra went off on Stevie
Nicks, Jody Watley and Madonna. The pattern continued; Sandra
has fixated on Mary Tyler Moe>fe, TaYlor Dayne and rocking sis- .
ters Anne and Nancy Wilson of the group Heart. Here is afemale artist clearly; drawn to other women for inWiration andsustenance, and here is an art form deeply indebted to the wolkof its female peers for its own creativity.
Small surprise, then, that in the summer of WJtboutYou I'm
Nothtng, Sandra would put on the most unprecedented and I
breathtaking display of chutzpah she had yet dared. Appearing
for the umpteenth time on David Letterman's show, she broUght
along her buddy Madonna and proceeded to shock the socks
off the passive American Viewing public, as well as her perennially cold-blooded host. It was the interview of the season, with
Sandra and Madonna in twin outfits, matching grins and sisterly
spirits. By the evening's enc!. every pundit in the counlIy was
replaying that bit of tape to discover if these women reallymeant what they said-if they had truly alluded to a lesbianaffair, and if so, what could be done about it?
As usual, Sandra upped the ante just as it seemed she had
run out of chips---and the color of this chip was decidedly
lavender. A wild yet disbeli~gcheer escaped from lesbiansevel)'Where, and, for a few days, as the press scrambled to interpret the signs, dykes gloated at being in on the joke.
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Sadly, it was less a case of being in on the joke than being, the butt of it. As the press persisted in forcing the issue, Sandra
and Madonna lost their senses of humor. What had once been
good fun seemed now to pique the performers, their responses
to questions about the Letterman shOw growing terser and considerably less funny. At a time when one wished for the earlydays of savage Sandra, she seemed uncharacteristically obtuse.
One wonders what harm there could have been in a simple "Yes, Madonna and I have slept together. It was great" Or, if
such were the case, "No, we're not lovers, but I sleep withwomen, and I think they rock." Or, if it were true, "No, we're
not lovers, and neither one of us identifies as lesbian, but lesbians are fabulous. As a matter of fact, we're planning on donating our time to such-and-such lesbian cause just to show tht;
community that it was all in good faith. " Well, perhaps we've
returned again to the matter of unreasonable expectations.
Sandra would push the boundaries one last time in May
1989, when she and Madonna appeared at the Brooklyn AcadeIlly of Music. Hosting an evening to raise money for everyone's

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appeared on-stage with Madonna, dressed yet again in a complementary outfit, to sing a d\jetof "I've Got You, Babe." veeiing back toward the danger zoner
. they both seemed to want to eschew, the duo sang one another a lOving anthem. Many lesbians-myself included-wereby
now growing wary of these little trips to the edge, these flirtations with our lives. It did not help that Sandra would follow
up the BAM show with some less-than-savory interviews, themost memorable of which has to be that with Michael Musto in
Spin magazine.
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the ftlm v.ersion of WithoutYou I'm Nothing. The by-now unsettling form of the actress's public persona seemed in need of,clarification, and what better inquiring mind to explore it withthan the Village :Votaf s very own walking bullshit -detector?
Sadly; for those of us watching this long, torrid history, the interview would do more to make our heads spin (no pun intended)
than anything Sandra ha1 managed to date. ,.
Musto's talk with the actress is a veritable psyc!?ologicalproftle-from-hell-and
not the sort one imagiiles even she
intended. Itcontajns initial moments of what might be calledwavering clarity as Sandra responds to columnist Liz Smith'snotorious squelching of the Letterman show poop. "It must dis- 'ami her [Liz Smith] that somebody [such as myself] is willing to
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hand and taking away with the other. She alludes to her sexUality, a code word that pricks up all of our ears, and then qualifies
it as "ambiguous." She begins to suggest something---heavenknows what-about Liz Smith and then adds, "which doesn'tmean anything." Oddly, it is questionable whether this l~clause refers to Sandra's own assertion about herself not meaning anything, or whether she's nervous at having gone too far
on Smith. This is, however, only the beginning.
- The remainder of the interview has Sandra admitting tohaving used a male eX-assistant as a beard, to being annoyed byher latest girlfriend (for her "sexual ambiguity" no less!), to wanting to smack her girlfriend with a dildo if she., doesn't first "get aBlack man, take his dick and hit her over the head with it," to 'suggesting plans for bedding such a Black man, to finally blurting out: "Yech, I'm so sick of women. 1 hate women. Womenare bitches. They're horrible. They're great to be mends with,they're horrible to be involved with." Musto retorts, "I wouldn't
even be friends with them," and there you have it An interview .
Nt;>w,Sandra would probably dismiss such a slant on the .
Spin piece as humorless. As she would state scarcely a year laterin.a People proftle that is the spiritual countetpart to Musto~svoyage, "If people aren't smart enough to know what 1do interms of the irony about my relationship with Madonna, I don't,think I need to spell it out" Irony seems to be a big operator for
Sandra. One only wishes that she had any idea at all of what theword conveys. Irony assumes a point of origin, a moment that is•then worked against for effect, forcontrast, for meaning. Perhaps Sandra has that point in mind. It is difficult to discern, however, what it
could possibly be.
It is interesting to examine Sandra's most recent piece ofwork,>thefilm version·of WithoutYou !'mNothlng, for its discernible shifts in emphasis. While ,much of the stage show's
drive and bile remain intact, Sandra's
clear shift toward a focus on issues ofrace and away from those of ambiguous sexuality (her lead character has
one here, or, should I say, she
engages iIi heterosexual acts) is significant While the film still contains,Sandra's nods at queer subculture, the, ap~ceof\a Black woman as thestar's silent doppelganger,
as well as,
the fixing of the narrative line arounda Black supper club, reorient the central engine of WithautYou rmNothIng. While I by no means question thevalidity of highlighting issues of raceand racism (though one may question .
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seemed, at long last, to be firmly
drawing out the protest she voiced
after the Letterman show: "I'm anadventurous person, and I like interacting with a lot of people. I think it'sboring to be stuck in one genre. I'm
not a lesbian, and I'm sick of being
called one. I'm not, and I want to set
the record straight" Although Sandra
now claims to have been misquoted, it
seems more likely that she had finallyplayed a' conclusive and telling hand.
And the chips for this one were decidedly not lavender.
If what Sandra is saying, andwhat she has been saying all along, isthat she prefers to remain "above" anarrowness of definition, faVOring thepansexuality put forth by groups suchas Deee-Lite and her friend Madonna,
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should naturally make room for such self-definition. And it
has, even if Sandra has on more than one occasion called,this publication "fascist." What is more complicated, how. ever, is the way in which sexualities of all varieties arerespected, particularly insofar as a "broadening" of possibilities resists foreclosing on sexualities still in,struggle ~orfreedom. Madonna and Deee'-Lite manage, admittedly with
var~ed I>uccess,to recognize all the rainbow without smearing its hues.
.'~ Adrienne Rich suggests in her brilliant apd classic
essay, "Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence,"
lesbianism-, is not simply a reactiori against misogyny
and,.
oppression. It is, rather, an existence in and of itself, with anautonomy and validity that demaqds respect. We, as lesbians
who continue to live and identify
ourselves as lesbians, are,
not misguided souls duped out of a grander and more
expansive set of realities. If"Sandra is to play with theboundaries of our existence for,her work and for her own
private gain, then she had better be pretty
damn clear,
wher,eof she speaks. ,Lesbianism is not an essentialism that_blocks out the world; it is quite persistently a way of life formany women very 'Qluchin the world, often in truly painful
and violent ways.
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including Sandra" have become enamored of free-ranging,fluid sexualities in a time when open-mindedness is at apremium l,l.nd-bigotry at an all-time high. I do not, ofcourse, speak of those individuals
who, for whatever rea•son, identify themselves as bisexual without doing so at theexpense of gays and lesbians or for the purposes of obfuscating their qµeerdom. These people have clearly always
operated within an awareness of, and lack of tolerance for,su~h bigotries. I am addressing the historically contingent
reality of an entire population--most of whom reside in theworlds of entertainment, public office and cotpdrate
pow~r~who seem'to have gone under'just as the tide hasrisen. For those people to speak of our struggles and realities,'
as if they were a crude throwback to a time of little enlightenment is patently facetious, just as it iI> absurd for Sandra topretend that sexual categories are meaningleSsly mutable. The'
historical reality of present-day America is that thousands ofgay meo have died of AIDS and continue to die as anti-gay
and -lesbian violence spirals upward. But, in a less overt way,
our culture '~ robbed without attribution, day in and day out,
because of the irresistible truths it,can teach America about
itself. We are a community/ies relentlessly attacked yet
resplendently ingenious in our survival.
Several years ago, when less-hardened in mind andspirit, I attended Sandra's off-Broadway show. With me I,,took a pair of black underwear which had my phone number penned in the crotch. As she appeared on-stage for her
finale, I tossed the panties stageward. She balked momen. tarily-who wouldn't?-and then picked up the underwear
and rubbed it between her legs. Not too long afterward,
those very'same panties made a reprise in a Rolling Stonearticle aoout the actress. The writer observed that they hungfrom Sandra's dressing room mirror, a small sign of a performer'S growing popularity, yet within the confines· of that
article their context, and th.eir history had been erased-theywere suddenly genderlel)S, without an attendant sexuality. A
preposterous boast? EmbarraSSing perhaps, but all too
indicative of what occurs to our acts, acts which seem totome out of a faceless darkness but are, in fact, the deliberate steps of a people living ii:l a light Hollywood has yet toshine on itself...

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Many schools wOlild have liked toa knight for services to the country,
sometimes because' of political favors,
have given him a position, she said, bilt
sometimes because people ate preemi~
survive the negotiations that will lead
recent Vatican ruling "would have madenentin the arts." ..
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country would become one of the most would probably step in and Prevent him "To the distress of gay activists,
progressive in the world for gays 4ild from teaching.".
knighthood .was simultaneously bestowed upon Maflchester c;hiefConstalesbians, said OLGA co-founder Dr. ..
,Patrick Roche, president of the'ble James Anderton, who, has been
Ivan Toms.
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national' gay and lesbian group ofquoted in the press as saying,
Eleven South African
gay and les- Catholics, Dignity, applauded Rev. Cur"Homo,,bian organizations endorsed OLGA's :.ran for "his ministry t9 gays and lesbians", sexuals are swirling, in a' cesspit of their
proposals to theANC. OLGA's clout'has
and for ser-vingas "anouts'poken critic of / own'making."
increased in recent months follOWingits the Catholic church."
Pow~ called it "really, reaI1y, really
acceptance as a full member of theSince Curran was suspended inweird" that McKellan was chosen for tµe
United Democratic Front, South Africa's... 1987, the theologian ,has held religion,honor, "given all that they're doing to our'community." In'recent weeks, British
leading anti-apartheid organization with chairs on a checkerboard-:-at the Uni600 affiliated bodies and more thanversity of California at Los Angeles, Cor~judges and parliamentadaris,have,
one-million members.
, nell and, this year, Auburn.
embarked upon a series of anti-gay
actions, including:.-Rex Woc1mer/Chicago
Charging that the Alabama universi, • A judge, effectively' . .
allty's academic freedom, autonomy androle as 'a majOr institution of higher learnsadomasochistic 'sex, even among, coning "are.at stake," he left after it withdrew
sentl,!:lgadults in their own homes, ~dan offer of tenure. Auburn 'is alreadyiI)g ~5 gay men to prison for uP/to fourunder censure by the American Associa.and-one-half y~rs each after 8,eotland
WASI-llNGTON...,..controversialRev. tion of University Professors over anotherYard confiscated homemade:: SIM sex
Charles E. Curran, booted out of Catholic, tenure, dispute.
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University here by the Vatican for teachCurran vowed not to fight more
• The new Criffiinal Justice Bill, curing acceptance' of homosexuality andlegal battles after he lost an eight-day , rently working its way through Parliaother "sins," has landed a job at Southern
Superiors Court trial here nearly two.
ment, .will punish men caught qaving
Methodist University in Dallas.
, years ago, when Judge Frederick Weissex- in public lavatories 'and Similar
He'll become a tenured professor of burg ruled CD could bar him from teach}" places with penaltiC$ equal. to thOse for"human values," a permanently ening theology after the Vatican ruling, He
rape. A total of 2,780 men from Erigland'dowed chair at SMU, founded and still had taught at America's only Vaticanand Wales werearrested '-.,in 1989 under.
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partiall.y endowedby the/ United
the relevant
statutes~~'jnde~ency,chartered school since 1965,
methodist Church.
"Rev. Curran should be applauded .• between men," "solicitation' by mario'.
The new job "fits in very-well with for redefinirig how people configure theirand "procuring others to commit a
my own academic agenda in Christian conscience," said Dignity's Roche.
;homosexual act."
ethics and my attempt to keep the tradi, • New foster-parenting 'guidelines-JobnZebtion of Catholic moral theology a livingfrom the Department of Health" state
tradition," Curran said.
'that "the chosen way of life ,of some".
In August 1985, the Vatican's Conadults [means], they wo~d 'Pot, be~bie•
gregation for the Docfrine
to provide a suitable environment for,, of the Faithdeclared him "neither suitable nor eligi-'
the care and nurture ofa child. Equal ' .
ble" to teach Catholic th~logy.
_rights and gay rights have no place in
At odds were his liberal teachings, .fostering services."'on moral theology and his insistence on·
LO~DON-Famed
Shakesp~arean
In response, ILGA has called. an
the right to dissent from the church's . actor Ian McKellan, who is openly gay,.international day of anti-British action for
positions on masturbation, abortion, pre- was knighted on New Year's Eve by'Feb. 14, Valentine's Day.
maritalintercourse,
divorceand
Britain's Queen Elizabe~ II. 'Powers urged gay a~ivists worldhomosexuality.'
Britishgay
andfesbian,activists
wide
to "bum the British flag in front of.
,"We're very pleased that he has - were shocked at the news, coming as
the ,British embassy or sOme other culturfmally found a, tenured position," said
it did in the midst of a rapidly deterioally appropriate action."
Monika Hellwig, Uindegger professor of rating atmosphere for the gay moveDelegates,
to ILG~'s European,
theology at Georgetown University. "We ment here.
Regional, Conference in I>enmark on'are, of course, disappointed' that it
McKellan was apparently chosen forDec. 28-31 "scrubbed the British flag,
wasn't possible for any Catholic school
the h~nor by fonner Prime Minister Marclean of the sins of the British gover;nto hire him."
garet Thatcher before she left Qffice. He
ment" in the Copenhagen Town Square.
She is past president of the Catholic is Britain's first openly gay knight. InterMcKellan is currently- on a' world
Theological Society of American, which
national Lesbian and Gay Association cotour, perfonning Shakespeare's Kt.ngLeqr
and Richardm.',
four years ago iSsued a spirit~ defense
secretary general Lisa Power explainedof Rev. Curran.
knighthood as follows: "They make you-Rex Woc1mer/Cbicago
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the cupboard above mr refrigerator and drift into a peacefulsleep and dream that I'm Kathy Lee Gifford. ,Now there's a,\ happy girl. If I were Kathy Lee, I think, my life would be complete. I could hold a tune, hang with Regis, have sex with Frank
Gifford every night and still, be a successful talk-show hostess.
And I'm sure Kathy..Lee never'; has to use silver electrical tape,on her crotch to hide thoseembarrasc;ing bulges.
Sometimes I sit in my cupboard and make believe thatI'm mamedto Alex Trebec, and,we hold court, <:>nthe Jeapordy
set. We're sort of like a '90s ver7
sion of Marily~ Monroe
and,Arthur Miller. I lend the show
an air of elegance, and ,he intr0"
duces me to the wonderfulworld of 17th-century literature,,famous phras<7s and WhiteHouse trivia.
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Now, I know that ~y life may
seem exdting to some, but it's
not all cocktails and sequins.
In fact, most days are filled- with a creepy RoseanneBarr-like horror.
.My fantasies, though, 'are::E..
just that. Many dreams should
just never' come true. I learned
this frrsthand last week, when I
was presented with the opportunity to live outalongtime dream.
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I 'was at Pantygirdles to jµdge the Miss Panty girdle contest. I
had had a bit too' much to drink, probably, and was telling,someone that my biggest
fantasy in life was to do a 9-inch line...
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of Special K off of a lO-inch dick. What a surprise to fmd he had. both! I happily indulged myself with shameless gusto. .
But like the old Hayes code in Hollywood, where no
crime goes unpunished, I, t90, was made to pay for my exces, sive heha viol'. . .
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.January" 8, un,,,takingit, the world burst into a brilliant but complex series of goo,
metric patterns so elaborate that no mere mortal could even begin
to comprehend their true significance.
Only God and I understood-andHe and I walked
hand-in-hand exploring their intricacies. 'This lasted about
seven or eight years, as far as I could fell, during which time .I
heard people crying, listened to some policeman talk about
me and felt someone taking
off my clothes.
I came to in the hospitaJ.
"What fresh Hell is this?" I
mumbled to myself as I
ripped' out an N and fell outof bed. There was blood
spurting everywhere. I waschased by a squad of goons
with restraining belts as I
stumbled, half-naked, into'
the hallway, flowers fallingfrom my hair and elf ears still
attached. I was quite a sightfor the other patients, rm
sure. I was aided in my daring daylight escape by atouching
groupof exboyfriends, ex-roommatesand one confused little boy I
was supposedly
still on adate with.
"This would never happen to Kathy Lee Gifford," I. muttered sourly as I was
scraped off the floor and put
into a cab. "You can be sureof that."Naturally,mortified.
by this experience. I tell you
this story only to warn you: Special Kis the,devil's candy. There,
but for the grace of God, I could have spent the rest of my daysin an institution.
I'm not proud of my drug use. I don't glamorize what I do.
In fact, i think that it's sort of sad and pathetic that I spun so far
out of control. But as Oscar Wtlde once said, ''Vice and virtue areto the artist materials for an art." If that's the case, watch out
world, you've got a budding genius on your hands.
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ineteen-ninety
which consistedof twoended, and I'm still '.
pages of solid body.p>PY,
screaming at the samewith no headlines or pullshitheads and still getting~
quotes. It wils IiJmply acalled the same honible
series of-I¢tters, from gay men natignwide, including, Stephen
names. OK, many of the freaks, have scampered to clean up
Miller (and it was clear from the layout that Esquire did nottheir acts, but a lot of these creepy me ones, whom,want to ,draw any a~tion to tbeSetwo pllges); One" of the let- .
I've attacked afl,d the ones yvho've' attacked me-contiriue toters was my "rebuttal,· choppecl'up, changed and with none of
be up to no good. Meanwhile, I've lOst some friends, gained amy, final edits made.
banned from ceitain restaurants.
slew of enemies and beerl.
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HQw is it that what was'sµpposed to beThis is my life in New York.
ran article was now a, letter, 1hrown ,1p.with
But I ,guess I kiJ::ldof like it that way,'lots of other letters? And were all, of these,
especially since I continue to live these,ridic\flous sagas that suc:k me up. For
people getting, paid $500 to write theii letters?
instance, the conclusiOn to a months-longHardly. :Eisenbe~g had' just tried to, I',.
, debacle between myself and that juvenile
quickly shut me up. , .
,But It() one at Esquire equId answer .
journal, Fsqfl,lre, ended with their publicaany qµe$tic?ns' sinGe, Elsenberg'~.
by·thention of January's 1990 roundup, the. "I;>ubi- .
,"long 'gOne,(and,at first, no--one even , knew
ous Achievel:nentAwards." Sit down: This,of the fact U1atI was to be paid). I decided 'is a lengthy tale of deception and plain,
old stupidity.
to writcta iletterto the new,~",editor'in chief..
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I handle, as you may remember. In addition•
You 'see, by November, several conto dealing with him here, I'd' had a long,cemed individuals from inside the magazine
talk ,with Esquire's then editor in chief, Lee
had alerted me to the fact that an offensive headline was to be
EIsenberg, a bumbling idiot of a man. (After being attacked by'feminists regarding E$qulre's Neanderthal, anti-woman slant,
used in the then-upComing "Dubious Achievements Awards"
in his own coffin by
Eisenberg had probably put the final
issue. The item was. about, Andrew Dice Oay and ~ having. aied on .'!be A.'1sento HtilJ.SIx>w, and the headline walto ~d,lettlOg Hamill vomit up hiS anti-Say hatred all over the pages"Whatis he, sOffie .kind of jag?" The ridiculous rationalization .
of the magaiine and causing even more aities to write about,
Esquire's bigotry and bi~. Only days later, Eisenberg wasfor using ~ phrase was that it was one that Dice ClaYiilad
used himself in his routine, and so they were just using' his,kicked upstairs; as they say, shipped over to England to headown words againSt him. Cute,' huh?
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After I vigorously protested to a clearly shaken Eisenberg ,.
for this shit was the articles edit()l'; David Hershey,· a man 1'd _that Simply printing reactive letters from angry readers' would
been warned about in ·the past and one who
beep Iageled
not be enough to perllaps heal the damage that Hamill had
a homophobe by some. Obviously, he feels that Oltting.:edge
done, he suggested that :a rebuttal be written, andit was.
qe do the ,agreed that I would do it. (Eisenberg did say that he had got-., , humor at the expense of gays" is fine, but " would.,.
ten a lengthy piece from GLAAD's Stephen Miller that hesame with other minorities, such as Blacks or Jews?, His assiswould like to print-but he led me to believe that this was .'tant became all flustered when I called and when I asked ifthey'd print "What is this guy, some kind, of a nigger?" even if
not going to be a glorified "Letters" section, which I'd said
was not ac,ceptable, but rather that these pieces would be'tho~were indeed Dice qay's own words. He th~ assured me ,treated ..as articles).
that "fag" was not bemg used.
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After writing the rebuttal, ,which we decided would be
would raise holy hell in this community. And I also told him
1000 words, I settled with Eisenberg on a price of $500
~t none of tQis would play right, especially in light of the fact
(though he expressed "confusion" over my asking for money,
thinking, I suppose, that I'd write 1000-word piece for noth:.that he'd just been hl:bught into tty; to tUrn that. imbeCilic rag
into a magazine ~.
I explained that it would. also ,be qu~ing, while Hamill and others get paid tons of money to proembarrassmg if I were to reveal how I was treated by Eisen- .
duce their dreek). The article was edited by Eisenwg's assisberg regarding my "rebuttal" and let the fact be !mown that I
tant, Jill Wheadon, who went over what Were to be the "fipaI
edits" with me on the telephone.
was being'paid $500 to write a "letter to the editor," while oth..:.
Several months later, the,ers weren't. McDonnell seemed
to take all of this seriously. He .
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To move the process along, AIDS
activiStson ,Dec. 19-1D staged a series Of
two, along with two other men, picked.press conferences and demonstrations incities across the country to call attention
up a gay man at a Staten Island cruisingarea. After brutally ~ting him with ato the issue. illY patients and their loved
tire iron, the men stuffed their vi~
intoones have also delivered postcards to thethe trunk of a car and discussed whether
IDA with their heartfelt pleas for speedy
or not they should torCh the vehicle toaction on the two drugs.
, render the victim unidentifiable and to
The Human Rights Campaign Fundhas also se~t an unspecified number ofobscure the evidence of their crime.
Both men were convicted in thatpre-approved constituent messages tocase, although they were charged only
selected members of Congress asking
with robbery.
them (0 press the IDA for action on
Despite the lack of a hate crimes
the drug.
,statute in New York that would allow
A' coalition of AIDS service andprosecutors to seek enhanced sentenCes
activist groups has also crafted a consenfor perpetratorsof bias-motivatedsus statement detailirig the facts aroundcrimes, Staten Island Supreme Court
the drugs' approval and their demands
Judge Norman Felig, who heard th~
on the FDA
case, acknowledged that Taylor's irra"This is the right moment. These aretiona1 hatred of gay men and lesbians
the right drugs~ This is the appropriate
persuaded him to give Taylor a nlore
political' environment," the state,ment
severe sentence.
- concludes. "We ask now that .you join.
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"Maybe that should be corrected," . together with the affected
community,,
Felig said of the state Legislature's failure - the research establishment and the twoto enact a gay-inclusi~e bias bill...,respected firms to get the job done.".
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What is holding up the approval
The anonymous nature of the study
process, the advocates suggesr;is a miswas necessary ,to test such a large numunderstanding between the IDA and
ber of samples. "This is a study of a popBristol-Myers Squibb, the pharmaceuticalulation, not of individuals," Arshinoff, company that manufactures ddI. 'says. "Individuals can go to their doctor""If there is nothing
else,
there
is
a
if they are concerned about infection.
/communication problem here," said Jeff
She adds that there has been "amicable
Levi of the AIDS Action Council. Levi
discussion back and forth" between her
added ~at the only way to break thegroup and the Ministry of He3Ith about
impasse may be to "lock them all in a
the tests and the controversy.
room together" until all parties under,Meanwhile, the more alarming
stano each other's needs so that theresults of a vay similar study of neWborn
FDA's fmal approval process may begin.
seroprevaIence in the province of QueBased on their conversations
withbec met with a muted public response.
,
Bristol-Myers staffers, the AIDS activists
Some 42 of more \than 68,000, blood samsuggested that the chief sticking point ,isples were' HN-positive, suggesting anthat the drug company has not yet suboverall infection rate in Quebec of 6.1, mitted its New Drug Application for ddI
per 10,000. Incidence was much higher
to the IDA, fearing that if they go foron the island of Montreal i~lf.
, ward with the data they have now; theThe Montreal General Hospital
drug would be rejected. Not wanting to ' study benefited from a methodolOgicalbe rebu~ed only' to have to come backadvantage over its Ontario counterpart insix months later for approval, they said,
that postal codes (like US zip codes), ,the drug company would rather coll~
were available as part of the data. Match. more exacting 'data before going forward .ing infection rates with locations in Mon•.with their application.
, treal showed a high incidence of HN
A spokesp~rson for Bristol~Myers
infection in lo.w-income areas, with"infecdid not return a reporter's
phone call. Antion rates as high as 46.4 per 10,000.
•- IDA spokesperson confirmed that they
1hough such a distribution is familhad not yet received New Drug Applica- ' iar in urban areas in the US, Catherinetio~ for either drug.
Hankins, author of the st\,Idy, does not•~.

see a perfect parallel, blaming the incidence in part on a prevalence of IVdrug use and the ,basic phYSiologicaleffects of poverty. Hankins also draws
an analogy with, family violence, wherea woman trapped in a violent home life
"might fmd it difficult to leave a situation where there is a risk of illY infection, in a position where she can't evenbring the subject up.".. NOtingthat the Quebec government
has received her study well and intends
to use it to plan 5elVices for women with
AIDS, Hankins looks forward to further
research into ~e impact of a woman's
illY status on her reproductive choices.
Her study quoted data suggesting thatbeing illY-positive is not a major factor
in reproductive decision-making, andHankins warns against jumping to conclusions. "We can't take a whit~ middleclass perspective and say, 'I wouldn't
dream of having a child if I were illYpositive!'" she says. "At least, that's what
white middle-class men think women's
perspective should be."Hankin's study appeared in the
Dec. 15, 1990, Canadian Medical ~ctationJoumal .•GARLIC
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come for both NIH and communitybased research programs nationwide toinitiate clinical tri~ls on IV-garlic for
AIDS. The African-American doctors•
who have developed this should be recognized as princiPal investigators. Once
this data is collected, the AIDS community may have a crucial weapon in bothprevention and treatment of the opportunistic iilfections that give AIDS its lifethreatening nature .•African Americans for Natural
Therapies in AIDS can provtde copies ofthe protocol and reference materials.
AANTA encourages any researchers or
actitJis1.sinterest,edin discussing this protocol or anyone wanting information
on current treatments-to contact themby writing to HEAL, PO Box 1103, New
York, NY 10113, or by calltng (212)6~46B.''

For/. further reading: Leon
Chitow\and Simon Martin, A Worlo Without
AIDS; The Controversial Holistic HealthPlan, Thorsons Publishers, 1988, pp.
235-36.

Thanks to OtjJ Goodman of AANTA
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THE SHELTERING SKY,' Directedby Bernardo Bertolucci, Written by,Mark Peploe and Bertolucci, Produced by Jeremy Thomas, Warner Bros.

, By Monica Dorenkamp?nly wishes it signaled the film's end, as
There is a promising moment at the· such deaths often do.
beginning of The Sheltering Sky when Kit
I As their young travel companion,
Moresby (Debra WlIlger) opens her suitTunner, Campbell Scott (of Longtime
case to get a hat, prominently revealing a
Companion) moves through the film
copy of Djuna Barnes' lesbian classic, . with the sincerity it misguidedlyNightwood. This book-and everything
demands. He is the well-intentioned,
its presence potentially forebodes are,overly confident, naive foil who comhowever, quickly forgotten in 'the next
plains about the weather,, about th~ food"insufferably dull two and a half hQurs. .
about' the bugs he is a stereotypicalThe story, which is based on the
tourist, after all, while they are travelers,loosely autobiographical Paul'Bowles
as they remind us early on. 'But the Bowles are stereotypical,' ofnovel of the ~\:ifle,foU9WSan American couple through Northern ,Africa. All course, despite a couple of throwaway ,the truly (asCinating details 'about BOwles "Political" lines ("Someday the, Arabs are
and his ·Wtte,Wrlter Jan~tthey weregoing to kick the French out, of .thisboth gay, for 'example-Qre not much in country") that seem to want to position
eviden~e here. Bowles himself briefly
them as "good, non-imperialistic Ameriappears as "narrator," a role'atnounting tocans. But with Bertolucci behiqd thethree short yoiceovers that suggest thatcamera, pothing could sustain this effect.
he may, be~at least partially responsible
Since graduating from the David Leanfor the inanity of the film. Sitting in a cafe
school of filmmaking, Bertolucci has
like a grand queen, though, Bowles . moved toward a greater depend~ce on
seems remarkably removed from thethose "breathtakingly beautiful" snots thatcharacters and remarkably superfluous toare a dime a dozen.in mOvies'today. But
the filIll-another promising touch thatgorgeOus shots o£ "untouched," "exotic"
fails miserably.
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nature just wOn't carry a film-they will
As .the traveling Moresbys, Kit andeven put you to sleep.
Port, De~ Winger andfJohn Malkovich
If something does keep you awake
do their btst with what they: have to' in this ftlm, it may well be your anger.
work with, but as that isn't much, neither
With his Western eye, Bertolucci alterfares Vjery well. Winger's usually sexynately exoticiZes and vilifies ,the Arab'. voice is reduCed to ,a whine as 'Kit des"other" with an absence of self-con. 'perately tries to understand her egocensciousness woithy of our media's covtric, existential bofe of a husband. Undererage of Jhe Pe~
Gulf. In
,B,e~nardo
B~rtoluc'd's
direction,'thisfilm, Arab culture
Malkovich u:-.fortunately emphasizes the
becomes the site of sexual
existential to the point of embarrassment
possibility as well as sexual
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danger for the Moresbys,. ,whose own $eX life is interbecause It follows a long illness, one
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rupted by Port's incessant philosophizing (ho-hum). And until Port's death,Arabs ~e little more than backgroundscenery. Kit and Port wander throughtown after town, , speaking to no one
save to get them to cany their suitcases.. And where the occasional French is usuallysubtitled, Arabic never is,
keeping it, and the people
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Belgassim does not attack Kit (though hisdesire to do so is in his eyes), while herloosening up (getting ready for thatalways-imminent sexual awakening) isfigured in the surrendering of her Western sunglasses and hat to a couple ofArab girls who squeal with delight toreceive them. Arriving at his village, BeIgassim dresses Kit as a man and virtually,holds her prisoner, visiting her 'daily for aroll in the hay. Some sexual awakening.
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rooftop prison, it is to wander down to

the marketplace where only minutes
pas'> before her safety is clearly in question. The sudden skip in the 'narrative at
this point, though it comes very late, issomewhat reminiscent of those poiUts in
E.M. Forster novels where somethingvague but of great significance occurs'(the fihn did in fact remind me quite a
bit of David Lean's adaptation of A Passage to /ndta).Here
Judging from thecrazed, mute Kit, sitting on her hospital
bed with elaborately painted feet-it
appears to haye been a rape (as in
Forster), and it.is with relief that we aresupposed to acknowledge the arrival ofthat white knight of imperialistic cinema,
the American embassy representative.
And we do, though not for her rescue ofour heroine from this dangerous land,
but because she signaIs the end of the
fihn (fina1Iy!).

If'the representation of-Arab culture
is not enough to offend in this film, therepresentation of the only gay character
will. On their travels, Kit and Port meet
an offensive British woman, Mrs. Lyle,
traveling with her overweight, pimply,
alcoholic and clearly homosexual son.
The Lyles ~em to be used in the film
for two reasons: to, show how much
more obnoxious and imperialistic the
British are and' (specifically, the, son) tofurther heterosexualize the Moresbys,
especially Port. In other words, they
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African-American gay people havealways had enough reasons to sing theblues, yet recordings of jazz and blues
songs with homosexual themes are hotcommonly available to the public. Sissy
Man Blues attempts to document a vital
part of Black social history, telling \hestory of a marginalized subculture within a marginalized group of people. The
vast majority of these! tunes are vintage
recordings from the '20s and \'30s,
when jazz was hot and the blues were
low-down and acoustic.
These songs were not heard on theradio, because radio was routinely censored, but not Simply because music on
gay and erotic
themes was contrary to ',the era's constricting moral climate.
, There were few, if any, radio stations
that regularly programed Black music
until the '40s, and haphazard distribution of "race~ records aimed' at Blacks
made 78s scarce for those fortunate
enough to own a phonograp,h. So live
performances at juke joints and tent
shows were the only way much of theBlack community heard this music. In
the segregated, rough-and-tumble atmosphere of most barrelhouses, jazz and. blues songs were free from strict moral
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STACKING THE DECK ... The results ofPremiere'sannual "readers'poll" ar'e
probably decided on the responses of a few
thousandreaders-far
fewer than buy
Out Week every week. So here's a suggestion:'Within the next few days, visit a newsstandand get yourself a copy of Premiere or, atleast a copy' of the pre-paid "readers' poll"
postcard inserted near the front of theJanuary 1991 i'ssue. (Only actual cards· pulled from themagazine will be counted) Fill it in, with gay-positive
movie titles and performers. Premiere needs to Ireceive thecard by Jan. 11..
Consider a "Best Movie" vote for Longtime Companion,
despite its focus on dying gay white males rather than onliving, Idving and fighting lesbians and gays of all colors.
It's the highest-profUe gay-positive fUm of the year, and if. several hundred people voted for it, it might stand a/chance. of beating out that magical-disappearing-Iesbian flick, Ghost.
If you really· couldn't stand Co'mpanion, maybe you liked
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to be honest.
As for this compilation:"'-it's a mar:velous idea that isn't followed throughin production. For starters, the compact
disc's eighth track, Speckled Red's"Dirty Dozens,", is 'missing, and an
unidentified
song occupies a spot
between'the last two cuts. The soundquality on many of the tracks is below
Jass's normally excellent reproduction_of vintage jazz. What's.' als<,>tjustratingis that only a third of the songs deal
with gay issues. JassSupplements thegay tunes with straight muSic on sexual
themes. The mixture fails because the
disc's interest resides in its! gay
theme so much so that th~ straighttunes end up seeming like .leftovers'from the company's many sexually oriented compilations. The mixture canalso be confusing:, It's hard to tellwhich tunes are, gay and which arestraight amid the cacophony of recorded pops and crackles. Chris Albertson,'Bessie Smith's biographer, helped to'. research and compile the disc and "pennedthe, liner
notes, which ramble, 'and do not tell us allthat much about the
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52 OUTWEEK.January ~e,~_~.,Film"; point out forgqtten characters like
Elizabeth McGovern's lesbian turn in The
Ha,ndmatd's Tale in the "Best Supporting"categories; pick an out lesbian or gay
man for "Best Director." Cover up theVolkswagen logo on the ballot 'with asmall lambda or pink-triangle sticker, and
let Premiere know we're here.
BUTTON IT... Vanilia Ice, possibly America's lamest
rapper, is more than just a storyteller. He's a spinelesshomophobe
as well, as was exhibited during a December,.
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performance at the Mayan, a Los Angeles disco. According
to Dennis Hunt, who reviewed the show for the LA Times,
Mister Vanilla (any relation to you-know-who?) "proved
tasteless and insensitive,' attacking a heckler with a barrageof vicious profanity that included frequent use of aderogatory term for gays, inspiring bdos from the crowd."
Several OutWeek readers have deemed it time_to zap thisflavor of the month. Call QPM Management and ask for
Lynn Fallows at,(214) 985-9452. T' '~piJed by Bruce C Steele, Viaorla Starrand accompanied by the great boogie
pianist Meade Lux Lewis are the important material here. Hannah has anurbane sound, a smooth, hign tenor
that must have served him well invaudeville stage shows. Hannah's"Freakish Man Blues," probably autobiographical, tells a story of a failed relationship with a woman, and I;1is sensethat his "strange feeling" for other men"will be here to stay." The 1931 recording of "The Boy in the Boat" is, despite
its title! a song about lesbianism. It's
more a stage than a blueS song, and its
lyrics show the work of a witty social
observer. Uncle Sam decides to give lesbians a "chance,", by sending doughboys "all to France." He "sent 'em overther!,!, the Germans to hunt," and "leftthe women at home to try out all their
new stunts.". No less important is Ma Rainey's"Prove It on Me Blues," a challenge toher audience to find proof of her lesbianism. In the song, she sings that she"went out last night with a c'rowd offriends, I it must've been
women, 'cause I _don't
like no men." Here it
seems doubtful that thismaterial is autobiographical, ~ince Rainey
was not only married

but also liked to tour the country withthe young men who comprised her jug
band. "Prove It on Me," recorded for
Paramount \in 1928, reveals her preference for jug band accompaniment, ataste that links her to the early folk origins of the blues. Her voice is lusty andgruff, and she uses it with such authoritythat each word seems like a command.
Two different versions of "Sissy
Man Blues," the disc'~ title track,,
begin and end the disc. The first version, sung by Connie Mclean's
Rhythm Boys, sounds similar to the
Josh White version at the end; thesong's guitar riffs are ~orrowed fromthe Delta bluesman Robert Johnson. It
is not a song about gays, but its lastline, "if you can't send me no,woman,send me some sissy man," touches on,
the gay theme. The different versions
suggest that "Sissy Man" may havebeeri a repertory song-unpopularsongs were rarely recorded or, for thatmatter, performed by different entertai~ers. Does this mean that Blackaudiences at tent shows and rural
jukes considered homosexuality CIa
simple fact of life," as Albertson
states? This compilation doesn't provide the answer, but the era's otherBlack gay voices, lost in an archive,
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JOSE VILLARRUBIA. WesSf;!1
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(212)\219-9524. Through Jan. 12.'By Jim Marks.

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In Jose Villarrubia's photograph,"Roman," which opens the current
showing of his work at the Wessel
O'Connor Gallery, a haughty youngman, clad in a gold lame G-string andgold laurel wreath, stands, before golden
drapery parted to show a cloud-ftlled
blue sky. It's an image both funny andsexy, yet so perfectly rendered that itgoes beyond funniness and sexiness into
~ the realm of art.
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"Roman," part of what Villarrubia§. calls his "kitsch" series, marks an impor~ tant development in the wolk of a phol§ tographer who has, in little more thano
~ t:l;J.reeyears, already produced a signifi{ cant body of photography. Born in~ Madrid, which he still loves for its "fabu~ lous night life the best in Europe," theif 29-year-old Vtllarrubia"has for ten years,
lived in Baltimore and considers h4nself WINGS OF DESIRE-The photographer poses for a change',.' ,
a "very American" photographer. He
places his carefully composed pho,tographs in the tradition of George Plattsex as commodity, as advertising strate~ a non-contemporary setting. Even here,"
Lynes and Robert Mapplethorpe andgy,the body impersonal.
there is' spmething serious in his
Equally serious, "Danse Macabre"
speaks, a little disdainfully, of the "snapapproach to the often-silly '40s ,arid '50s
shot" photographs of Bruce Weber and , shows a gilded youth dancing with a gilt
beefcake photography that inspired
skeleton in front of a sheet of gold foil.
the obvious theatricality of Stephen
him. "I'm not making fun of it,~ he says,
Arnold. Not for Villarrubia, the art that·· The baroque light flooding the scene,"I like it because it's funny. It's a tribute.
doesn't hide art.
along with the glimpse of blue sky,I have to study very hard [to create
these' images)."'emphasizes the traditional, even hoary,Villarrubia says that he turned to
aspects 'of the picture's memento morikitsch because "I wanted to do some, Vtllarrubia didn't set out to ,recreate
thing, fun, but at the same time, sometheme, but the skeletal hip' bones locked
any particular picture form Bruce of LAagainst the naked youth's groin dramatize
or that Athletic Model Guild. "None ofthing that was very well done. A lot of
my work' is very serious sad, almost.
an AIDS-generated, rontemporary obSeS- those images is so famous that it would
Because it is so concerned with the idea
sion with the Romantic yoking of sex
have had iconographic value. What is
important about them is their style·and .
behind it, or a serious concept, it
and death. So, too,' Vtllarrubia'svel)' sexy
becomes dramatic also." Take, fortheir ideas. I wanted to do work basedseries of boy and men angels draws on a
instance, Vtllarrubia's 1989 photo "Sex."' theme that go_es back to Caravaggio'son those images, but with a rontempo,
Although shot in Madrid in his fashionstreet urchins
madesaints,'Whilethelackrary eye and a fine art approach to•
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brother'S studio, thethem, to try to make theof context beyond the studioimage is Marlboro-man,jeans-clad'
backdrops suggests a purity quite
images very ,beautiful."Villarrubia's homage to
American. Smoking a post-coital
outside day-tO<iayexistence.
these '40s and '50s photos iscigarette, blond hair slicked back, body
Villarrubia's "kitsch" series,
inspired in part by their hiswhich he began this year, also
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the male 'nude during the'50s, which was such a
repressive' era." The text inthe "physical culture" magazines was, he says, "very\provocative.
The articles would talkabout the 'beauty of youth' and the'splendor of rnanljIood.'" The text was
JUSt like the pictures, which nevershowed anything but suggested a 10t"
, , Therepressiveness of the~ra,,.
, Vularrubia thinks, contributed
to thephoto's artistry. "I think a lot ot: theartistic elerpent in the photographs wasa 'side effect of the repression. Because
they were forced to suggest more thandescribe, whether they wanted to or
not, .they became artistic. They had todeal With fantasy, they couldh!t, deal
with reality,. so they deal with all these
homoerotic fantasies:' Roman slaves,\jocks, cowboys and In'dians,
sailors stereotypical symbols
of manhood that were sexuallyloaded or that lcan be used as
an excuse for a lot of nudity."
A key element in constructing
hiskitschphotographs
indeed, all, his photographs is Villarrubia's use of color.
Most of the original,, physique
photog.
raphy was in black and white. Just as
physique photographers turned to the
traditions of Hollywood glamour photography, Villarrubia took his color
from '50s movies: "technicolor~right "colors, highly saturated, with pink,smooth, colored skin and flat liglit
without strong shadows. It's all very
artificial. I want it all to fit together
like it couldn't
go any other way; but•
nothing, nothing abopt the images iscasual.
Everything
was
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tightly choreographed." ,The fonnality of Villarrubia's photography, its careful composition andlighting, goes hand-in-hand with his traditionalism, a historical awareness hardly linUted to kitsch. In addition to his'medievalish"Danse Macabre" andRenaissance-derived angels,' there aredelicate works in the Wessel O'Connor
exhibit that show a familiarity -with thesubtle, mytholOgically inspired compositions of Platt Lynes. It's not surprisingthat he also explores traditional heterosexual notions of male and female in
hyper-romantic couplings. In having his 'say about the heteroerotic, Villarrubia
takes a path Robert Mapplethorpe
walked, although without the subversiveness of Mapplethorpe, who liked
a Black man with a white
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woman or creating tawdry softcore
pornography for the heterosex slicks.
Villarrubia is also incorporating
Mappl{!thoipe's sexual frankness into his
own aesthetic. Not on the walls of his
current exhibition is one of his moststartling pictures. The climax of a show
held in Baltlrllore,this fall was a diptych
entitled "Red and BI~ck," a work that,like Mapplethorpe's most bold photos," insists that repression isn't a requirement
for achieving art. The ruddy, mushroomhe;tded, fully erect penis in: the "red"half of the diptych challenges theparameters of "suitable" subject matterfor photography no less than the half
flaccid one in Mapplethorpe's "Man"inthe Polyester Suit." Coupled, with theequally aroused, rubber-fetishist "Black"half of the diptych, this work clearly signals Villarrubia's intention to incorporate ,the most primal urges into his worshipat the altar of beauty.
What binds Villarrubia's diverseI
styles, uniting his borrowings and inspirations, is a continual effort to wring the
maximum visual wallop from any
image. 1.n this, he is a hot-blooded,Spaniard, not an e~ponent of Mapplethorpe's studied Manhattan cool.
"I was reading Susan Sontag's'Notes on Camp,'" Villarrubia said in
defining his attraction to the campy
Athletic Model Guild photos, "andshe was talking about how the markof kitsch and camp is the love of artifice, of excessive theatricality. I canidentify with that." T,,

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Community SelViees Center, I stopped at
FITs galleries to see Images of Man, theAmlani show that documents 15 years of
his fashion photography ads. The show's
title may suggest something democratic,with its echo of Edward Steichen's Family of Man. Instead, the exhibit conspires
to overwhelm the viewer with 1000girig,
both for clothes he or she cannot afford
and for the men who wear them. The~all text explains that ,each year's campaign ushered in a new set of models;the photos are organ~ized ,in "seasonal"
groups spring-summer or fall-winter of
each. passing year. The show is beautiful'ly mounted and lit, the photos glow, arid
the walls that hold no pictures are backlit The setting is like a sealed spaceshipcruising, safely above the planet,
I went from Images of Man to theCenter's Images From the Front: Photography Chal(engirz'g AIDS. This made a7•which PWAs must daily fight, it also, suggestS that the fron~ ~ ,right h~e in our'and even , in our' mirrOrs.
one of the Center's threadbare meeting . , laundromats,••
rooms. \ You may have to wait until a/ Y. Nagasaki contributes a kiss, Tomgroup clears out before having a chance
McGovern a triptych about living withto view it. Here, 15 photographers', broad
AIDS and John
Lesnick's "Men;lOry of a-,range of black-and-white 'pictures illus-,
DeaqLover"has, been printed from a
trate the extent of the battlefront Unfornegative that looks as if, it has :been,tunately, AIDS photography needs' no
scratched, stepped on and mutilated.
embellis_hment
or explanation,
theI
Some of th,e photography is familiar,
unadorned truth speaks strongest, and. especially to readers of this magazine:
Demonstration
photos have become .
these documentary photographS
are the,familiar t@the paint'of cliche.
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Images is a scrappy show that conStudies" are powerful examples, witheach work a closeup of men's faces
fronts AIDS
with art in an unconventional,,
hooked up with rubber tubes. The porspace. It uses the lll€taphor of war' as an'traits are small and cropped close to theorganiZing principle QIld was put' together :face, each bead of sweat visible.
wi~h zel,'o,doUars. The receht Army 0/'
The most startling work was Bryan.
Lovers'show. at PS 122 was another such
Wmtermite's ''Hey There, Purple Face," inexhibition.App~priate
to \:heir tattered
which
California license, is enlarged
and marginal, spaces, and :unfiltered bycommercialism, these 'shows deliver a
shOwing the owner's face'disfigured with,lesions: Il\ustrating the mundane level atpotent blend of mourning and activism. T
brutal double feature.

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University of California Press. $24.95 cI. 258.pp•'''''',<.

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Knowing is all.

-Estee Lauder
Fptstemology of the Closet comes ina very pretty package.
Its marbled
mauve jacket and compact typography
frame an elegantblack-and-white pbotograph of an Edwardian dandy, poisedon the threshold of a brilliantly lit doorwaY-illl idealized image of Sedgwick's
reader, about to be engulfed by thewhite-hot light of her prose. Laudatory
back-ad quotes from Wayne Koestenbaum and Douglas Crimp and thecachet of an academic
publisher's
imprint on
the spine confirm ouralready ineluctable senseof what is about to beexperienced-the
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But don't jµdge a book by its cover.
Eve Sedgwick would have US knQw-if
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scholarship to go beyond the notion that
our knowledge of "homoseXuality" isSimply the result of an increasingly more'
full and mont accurate' understanding ofsame-sex relations, the essence of which 'has been constantthroughout history. It
has become clear how'unhelpful
it is, forexample, to look. backI.
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as well as in the present.
behaviors that differ from ours only insohave enormous practical and theoretical
Of course, for all her insistence. fur as they weren't properly recognized asvalue, more attention should be paid toupon not knowing, Sedgwick knows asuch. Rescuing medieval monks and charthe gaps and contradictionS within andgreat deal, and she is a.ble to communiacters out of Dickens from self-ignorance
between them, in order to "render lesscate what she knows in a very sexy
and repression, after all, has less to say , destructively presumable 'homosexualiway. The exuberance and playfulness
about the unchanging nature of homoty as we know it today ....
of her writing is intoxicating, and while
sexuality than it does about the desire forTo this tentative end, Sedgwick
I it often fails to be clear, it rarely fails tosecure self-knowledge iq the present.
offers a book in which the work ofchann. Sentences suffering from wild
Yet even as we recognize the prO:
unknOwing can begin-a book that, in
syntax \and fancy diction abound andfound differences in same~sex relations
her own words, "not only has, but conclash, rather than mingle, with thethrou,ghout history and across cultures,
stitutes, 'an extended introduction." Thebody-chemistryof her ideas. But,
there is, Sedgwick feels, a lingering ten- ' conceptually oriented introduction and\!nlike the strained, ugly, convoluted
dency to ground our exploration ofchapter 1 constitute a full· third of thelanguage of other high-priced literarysuch differ~nces on something called
book's length and will be, for all their
theorists, Sedgwick's is unabashedly"homosexuality as we, know it today."content with its extravagance. Ultimate- .
sophistication, of greater interest to a
While recognizing fully the vital imporgeneral' audience , than the extended
ly" the heady pro~eof Epistemology
tance legal, psychological, social, intelreading of Melville, Wilde, Nietzsche,
oj the Closets pretty package is conlectual-thata llnified, consensually
Henry JameS and Proust that make up
fIrmed, not by the arrogant assault ofdefined "homosexuality" has for people
season's new atoniized intellectual
the later chapters. However, these chap- , the,who live, love, pay taxes and go to , ters necessarily continue the exploration
scent, but by a sm~rtly nuanced
court in a violently heterosexist society, , of the definitional crisis that is Sedgapproach to gay studies that outlasts its
sedgWick wants us to jump back and' -wick's reason for writing and are, furown perfumery and will surely prove atake a look at what it is we thiDk thatthennore, brilliant examples of what aperennial favorite ...
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we know about contemporary homoand heterosexual definition.;,
In fact, in the introduction to Fpfste/
mology of the Closet, SedgwiCk insists that"a point of the book is not to know....Inparticular, the book aims to resist in
THE ARENA OF MASCULINITY: SPORTS, HOMOSEXUA~ITY
every way 'it
the deadening pretended knowingriess by which the chisel of.AND THE MEANING OF SEX by Brian Pronger. St, Martin's Press.
modem homolheterosexual definitional$22,95-cl. 320 pp.
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crisis tends, in publiS discourse, to be,hanunered most fatally h~me.~ The fatal,
ities and near fatalities of this crisis are
everywhere around us. They result, to a
by Richard Fumosa.great extent, from the .paranbia and willBrian Pronger's
The Arena of
ful ignorance of inititutions whose busiMasculinity is an ambitious and readness it is to militate against a more comable-thoughnever lurid-attempt
toplex, less constrained understanding of
get a handle on' the relationship
human sexual relations. These institubetween athletics and gay men in Westtions include the USJuSticet,
ern culture. A researcher at the School
the Supreme Court, the medical commuof Physical and Health Education at thenity and the woµld-be cultural dictatorUniversity of Toronto, Pronger uses conships of reactionaries like William Bentemporary gender theory 'to illustrate his
nett l$d Allan Bloom.
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But they also include the moresound treatise on the interaction•\
humaneiy motivated, gay affirmative
between , male orthodox heterosexual~, institution of contemporary gay andculture and paradoxical homosexual. § anti-h_om~phobk
theory! .which,culture. The author clearly wants to
N through the competitionof various _ blow the cover on this last bastion of"straightness," making homosexuality as.... models (historicalltranshistorical,...,•
visible in institutional athletics as it has
minoritizing/\loivelSalizing, gender-tran. - 1: .sitive/gender-intransitiv'e), tends toward
become in the clergy, the military andflS the establishment of a'single, superventhe police forc~. 'Colorful interviews·~"'. ,.
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GRIPPING SUBJEcr-Unive~ity of Toronto's"truth" of human sexuality may neverBrian Pranger

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some homophobic) and straight athwork, one lesbian stated that if she
letes, Pro and amateur, in and out of thehadn't, "she was afraid she'd never see
locker room, illustrate
Pronger'sanother lesbian again." Though he'points including his desire to get away
acknowledges tfiat world's lesbian' denial,from the' media obsession with pro athhe leaves the subject of women in sports
letes and explore the roles sports play into another author.
everyday life. 1he author, once non-athBy exposing and exploring theletic himself, reveals th~ ways sportsestrangement of many. young gays fromshy, gym class-traumatized queers can,the culturally defined macho-heteroreteach themselves to take c6ntrpl oftheir lives and find a vital, reaffinning , , sports image, Pronger wants to get at theroot of this coach- and peer-pressured
existence within spo~.
,world where being straight, sexist andIn his preface, Pronger (what's in a
name?) argues that straight women and . homophobic is venerated. For most gays,
potential pleasure turns· to painj as one
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thatj I really think 1 undervalued mYself
because of that and never really felt comfortable being a gentle person, which 1
feel is the best way to categorize the Way
I was then. "-I,
Growing 'up, gay men often avoid
team ~ports, gravitating to more individualistic sports like diving, swimming,
gymnastics, track and figure-skating.
Since Stonewall, bar- andnon-bar-sponson!d softball, volleyball and othergroup-participation sports have provided
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1he anticipation would heighten our passion.
I was turned on by what I felt
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my willingness to surrender.
She talked about the kinds of ties she WQul,duseeSoft, cotton,
I don't want to hurt your baby skin.")

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Until no amount of tension could make them hold.
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beginning a serious dialog on a subever. As one softballer states: "Thereguys" while you continue to let your ediject that is usually dealt with either inare whole teams that can't stand eachtors step all over us.
', strokebook or in sensationalist, selfother's teams. I was taken aback in,
WElL, rM Nar GOING 10 TAKE IT
loathing fashion ...
softball, how much gay people can
ANY MORE-NONE OF US ARE. NOT
mirror their straight counterparts."
FROM YOU AND NOT FROM ,ANYPronger attributes this aggression to
BODY. IF IT MEANS 1HAT lHINGS WIll
GOSSIP
the sensibility of de-emphasis, the old
GET UGLY, GROTESQUE AND OOWNp_g.
4'7.. rc.
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"I'm gay and just as masculine ~ a
RIGIIT FRIGHI'ENING, 1HEN SO BE IT.
straight guy." H~ points out the clear
And if you don't believe that, well,called me to tell me that a lot of what I~nger of this ,kind, of homophobia,
said was "good advice" and "intelligent" then, ,you just try me, FUCKFACE.
which discourages all gays from parand that he wan~us to be "good guys."
Meanwhile, my dear readers, perticipation in 5p9rts.
He then chatted with me for a little while. haps you, as concerned citizens, should
The .allure and inherent dangers
You know, "good guy" small talk.
call Mr. McDonnell at (212) 459-7550. Tellof exposure in the locker room, theAnd I was resigned-if he kept his him what you think about !!squire's bigfetishization of the jock strap and theword-totreat McDonnell right, like a otry and give this obviously spineless,shower room and, of course, the eroti"good guy." .
'small and weak man; some of yourcization of the coach are explored
So the "Dubious Achievement
advice on how he can take charge of his
through fa.sdnlmng, sometimes heatedAwards" issue hit the stands, and how . out-of-control staff...
anecdotes, probably the most enterdoes the headline now read? It says,
taining and vital parts of the book. A"What is this guy, some kind of a PUSSY?"
provocative selection of straight and
Qropically, this was on the same page
gay media images through histOlysupwith Esquire's comments about 199O"s.JOURNAL,
ports Pronger's thesis that everyone is"Smanny Sexists").'p _ g..
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,exposed, and responds, to culturally
Well, at least they took out the word
you to picture Washington looking likedetermined aspects of masculinity,"fag," right? I mean, I'm supposed to bewhat this government is about to do tofrom the bronze Apollos of antiquity to
happy about that, right? I should then be
We're notdowntown
Bagdad.
musclemagaZines
andtheadvertisequiet
now,
right?
,
impressed
by
your
First
Amendment
ments for Falcon Videos.
,rights, little girl. Go on home...
Pronger sees the masculine
musARE THESE PEOPLE ASSHOLES?!
,
It's late now, and I have to go.
clemania of the 70s and '80s as a new
DO THEY THINK THE "ISMS" ARE
Alan
has another temperature of 105
form of drag' (something most of us
INTERQiANGEABLE?!' I just don't get it.
and may not .last the 'night. I don't
queers already knew, though , it is disDoes McDonnell think that we willknow where any of my friends will becussed in-depth here). "Muscles, espeaccept such sexist crap and Irt it go simsegt,
or when. I don't know how. cially the pectorals," he observes,
ply because he agreed not to use athey'llbe treated when they get there.
have replaced the sweater and swish
homophobic term?
But
I'llvisit when I get the money.
as predominant gay signs. The paraWell, hear this: McDonnell you're no I
They'llcall,collect. We'll write. They'redox is now being played with greater,"gOQd guy." YOU'RE A PIECE,OF SlllT!
not the only political prisoners, they'll
perhaps double, irony.' Rather thanFit:st you let the December issue of
have me remember. Already in thisundermining masculinity by effemi!!squire run with Michelle
pfeiffer on the.
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bye, then,in the orthodox sense, undel:mine
is homophobic,! too: The connotation ,of
I
told
you
I can't write this.
their seeming, masculinity., by the uses
"pussy" in this case is "fag.") Why don't
1,here's not enough irony here; nothing.of masculine signs like mWc1es (d~uyou,/ as editor in chief, just stand up toto compare and contrast. I'll be--hIe irony)." The politics behind theHershey and tell him that !!squire must act
aCcused of--'-Qccused ofexclusive maSculinity of the 70s andresponsibly and treat women and gays
How many loved ones do you, '80s are crashit:lg into the '90's
the same way it does other groups whenhave?
How rpany have you lost? Whatembrace of femininity and inclusion; , it comes to this so-called cutting-edge
is the worth of a human life? Unimag- 'in other words, pearls and brawn are
humor Q mean, what are you, some kindinable ...
now de rlgueur. .'.
of...). Otherwise, FIRE1HE BASTARD!
The issues of class and race in, I am sick to death of the bile that is
the sPorts world are, however, htadespewed from that rag. Every monthquately addresSed, and the author's
there's more garbage, more insensitive
paean to the Gay Garnes sadly exposand irresponsible dreck, more hateful andes "so~e blind, spots (such as handihurtful babble that ultftnately bears down
capped issues) that ACT UP/NY ison my life! And,then, when I try to dealciJrrently addressing in discussions ofwith you people and right some of thethe games propos~d for New York.
wrongs, I get treatment such as EisenBut thanks must be given to Pronger ' berg's handling of my "rebuttai," followed
and St. Martin's for their efforts inby your verbal promise to be "good
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Friday evenings at 8 pm, Saturdays at,
fee based on income, from $5 toABright6and9pm,
Sundaysat7pm.
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presents$115. Call for class schedule, to register and for free child care. BWMA. Room Called Day, written by Tony vaHons: (212) 869-3530. Through .sents Ludlam's C.mllle, starring and- directed by Everell Qulnlon, with
421 Rfth Ave. Parl< Slope, Brooklyn. Kushner and directed by Michael March 3. 'Grief. A play about Germany In the. Cheryl Reeves,Ken Scullln,Georg(718) 788-1775.
,'30s and America in the '90s, A ROYAL COURT PRODUCTIONS pre-' 'OSlennan, Euraka, Bobb Reed, Jim
Bright Room CalledDay has this note sents Lips, a revue in gender Illusion. Lamb, Carl Claybourne,'
H.M.
LlVELYARTS,
Also see the daily listings for show- from lesbian performer Reno: "So $10. Producers Club Theater. 358 W. Kououkas, Jean~Claude Vasseux,
nQw I'm acting like an actress with all 44th St., suite 7. Fridays at 11 pm. Sleven Pell, 1 Sheridan SquarQ;$25;
ings of one or two days.
these serious actors
in a heavy play." Info: (212) 689-5789.
TUE-FRI at 8 pin, SAT &SUN
a~7 pm;A (.to) signifies a new listing,'I
According the play's flyer, "The only,
691-2271'•.., . 'people sleeping soundly are the guys SHUNKAN PRODUCTIUONS and
THE WESSELO'CONNOR GALLERY.
,CHERRY LANE THEATRE presents
presents Vlnlage Physique Phcr- giving the rest of. us bad dreams." LESLIE IRONS present Michael.
,Iographs,
1949-1969 by Bruce of $25. The New Yorl<Shakespeare HlS- Hansen's W.'v. Got Tod.yl The David Slevens' me Bum of liB, by the. Los Angeles. Bruce, described by the tival. 42& Lafayette SI. Tu-Su at 8 music and lyricS for this new musical w{iter of BmakerMoran~ starring Tonygallery as "the master of physique pm. Sa-8u at 3 pm. Box office: (212) were written by Michael Hansen in the Goldwyn and Rlchard'Venture, directlast six months of his life, before he ed by Kevin Dowling, about a father
photography," was, according to 598-7150. Through Jan. 13.
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died' of AIDS. Sidney Morris, a play- who tries to help with his son's gay
Dennis Cooper, an Influen "on-everyone from Robert Mapplethorpe, Herb CENTERMUSEUM OF LESBIAN AND wright, was given the tape a year later relationships while he looks for a new
Ritts and Bruce Weber to Cindy Sher- GAY ",ISTORY AND ARCHIVES opens and,collaborating with musical dllllc- wife: 38 Commerce St; $27.50-$32.50;
tor, Sean Hartley, compleled the TUE-FRIat 8 pm, SATat at 7 & 10 pm,
man and Laurie Simmons." Paired Images From th. Front: Photog,.with BruCewill be New Clbachromes pby Challenglni AIDB, various worl<s musical. John wall directs; Ron Gold- SUN.at 3 & 7:30 pm; 989-2020
which all incorporate photography In Ing and Chris Fields are the co-stars.
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by Jose Vlllarrubla, a Madrid-born
photographer who "reveals his bicul- some way, juried by artists, photogra- Morris will donate his royalties to the' LUCIL~E LORTEL THEATER presents
phers, activists; work by Morgan
People With AIDS Coalition. All seats .Falsello/and, the William Rnn/James
tural background in his surrealistic
imagery which combines death witht Gwenwald, Ma:rk Johnson, Tracey $15. New Wings Theatre. 154 C~risto- Lapine musical. The third in Finn's
Roberl' pher Stat Washington Street. Thurs- Marvin Trilogy, Fals6tto/and ex~mhe American fascinatin of erotica and L1I1, Roberl Mignoll,the Impact of
AIDS on a gay
glamour." Gallery hours: Tu-8, lOam Vazquez: The Center. 208 W. 13 St. daysand' Fridays i'at 8:30 pm.. Ines
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7 pm. Reservations: (212) 627-2961.
erosexual couple and a c.hild. 121
Broadway. (212) 219-9524. Dec. 14
Christopher St. $27.50-$35. Tu-F' at
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THE VORTEX THEATER COMPANY The HISlory Pornography, a multi- Brainard and Bob Koherr's BrltldBte
mdedia performance work that cI Stutco, performers who bothpresents -Robert Coles' Silence,
COMPANYrevivesappeared in Parting Glances, tMlr ,RAPP THEATRE
Equals Inconvenience, an absurdist explores the pornographic~phe,'original comedy material Includes tWo Thomas M. Disch's The Cardln.1
comedy. "The play deals with violence nomenon in Western civilization.
D.toxes, "a chilling look inside theagainst homosexuals and indifference Media include music, movement, text jocks ,who I~arn they can vogue,
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AIDS; abortion. ttes to organized ,6-8 pm. Info: Chris (212) 0806)'''.,
crime anCl homosexua"ty~;'dlrect~(Eng"Sh)orRobert (212) 882-3404.
., by R.,JI~'~oh.n. starrlflgCleorgi, M.981Ings~~,.2.ndali'd 4th Tue~ys;
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p'resents Manhatlan Field Trips.
Arst. It's Lesbian
Hestory Archives,
Night.
as the'SAL Gals "c.heck out the
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0506.
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dyke ,literature. photos and artifacts. n,
Later. go see the WOW Cafe's
AsiANS AND FRIENDS NEW YORK Thmu,h tile'WIlli•• the opening of anpresent Members Mltl Members: ,all-woman play about "a woman too
Tel.ny JlJllnese Restaurant. Social- long aloe In her apartment." WOW'eet.,.:' Wo",_n' ~"flJ.r';'.nee Izing starts In'a prlvate,dlnlng room at reservations: (212) 4~0-8067. ~AL
SAGE,presentS:Men.nd Womelf4D- ArlI".IBp~'k0111. The vJdeofeatures 6 pm. followed by dinner at 7:30. The- Info and confirmation: (718) 965,;
plus 'Tilaelher~ This rap'group meets. Dlamanda.Galas. Holly Hughes. Rob-" drinks are on you; dinner is $~O per 7578.
the first'Monday of every month. 7 ble McCauley and Rachel Rosenthal. j)er5on.
62 Gteen. Tatany restaurant.
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pm. Also: Adult ,Survivors of Seualand 'also Includes dozens of other wlch Ave. (212) 675-6195. Call SAGE presents S.aerclze at 11 am.
Abuse. a therapy group for women. 7 women performance artists. $6. PS Andrew Ng of AFNY for reservatons: Explorlna Ne. Yorte Museum of the,pm. All events happen at the Center. 122.. 150 Rr.st Ave.• at 9th Street. 7 (212) 674-5638.
'City of N~. York at 2:30 pm. Men
208W.13th St.lrifo: (212) 741-2247:
and 9 pm. SWS: (212) 260-2431. PS
Couple's Group at 6:,30 pm. and,,.
122: (212) 477-5288.
.
SLOPE ACTIVITIESFOR LESBIANS Men's 40-plus Rap Group at 8 pm.
,
TUESDAY,J~N. 8 ,.
presents Crell,lY8 Women's Support All events happen at the Center. '208
. ,". "'. PINK PANTHERSGeneral Meillnl. A Group. For "networkingahd sharing W. 13th SUnfo: (212) 741-2247.
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BRONX AI.DSCOMMUNITY SERVICE special meeting of the East and West your art"-for professional and nonpROJECT presents Wome,n'i Pe.er ,Village p~trols.New,m~mbers
are professional artists. wdters and THE GIRTH AND MIRTH CLUB
Educallon Tralilina I. (lne Fordh!lm {urged to attend. neAlexandermusicians. Call to confirm: (718) Newslener Siumna .nd M.lllnl. The
Plaza. suite. BOO.The Bronx. 10 am to Room. The Center. 208 W. 13th St•.8
336-1573. Also tonight: Pool Nlaht. Center. 208 W. 13th St.
,
12 pm. (212) 295-5605.
' pm.
Featuring free pool.ping pong. bilI
liards. air hoCkeyand shooti~g hoops FRIDAY,JAN. 11
BRONX AIDS TASK FORCE pre~ents ASIANS AND FRIENDS NEW YORK at Brownstone BIlliard. Seventh
Ave. \,
the Bronx AIDS Educllors Network. "present
AFNY
Executive
BilardMeelatf1atbush.
8pm.
AfterwarcJs,
socialSAGE presents Men's 50-plus R.p., .
Goals: to provide a supportive piace Ina. Open to AFNY members only. izing at The Roost. Seventh Ave. at Group at 6 pm. Women's 40,plus
for people to network and discuss Space Is limited. so call for meeting 8th St. Call to confirm: (718) 965- R.p Group at 7 pm. Womeri's 50strategies)
an,d n!leds. Conference detailS and ,to reserve a place. (212) 7578:
plus Rap Group at 7:30 pm and,Room .5. L1nc!)ln Hospital. 234 East 674-5064.
Women Couple's Group at 8:30 pm.
1~9th St. The,Br.on::. $:30-11 am.
GAY CIRCLES presents Orlenlallon.
All events happen at the Center. 208
Contact: ,Janet
741-2247.
, Goldberg at (212) LESBIANS AND GAY MEN OF NEW the first meeting in an eight week W. 13th St. Info: (212),293-2658. or Rosaline Morales at' BRUNSWICK presents
People series that brings men together to- experlenes and opinions in a SLOPE ACTIVITIES FOR LESBIANS(212) 295~5605.
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Aa.lnst DomestiC Violence. Friends share,
Meeting House. 109 Nichol Ave. New nonthreatening atmosphere. Topics presents .DIning Out: Kar-posslbly
SAGE presents: SlaeRIZ8 at 11 am. Brunswlck.NJ. 8 pm. (908) 247- Include: growing up gay. comlngout, ~'the best Chines In the Slope.,n 6:30
Sl!ae Plus. a rap group for men wlio 0515.
sexuality. AIDS. homophobia. lolie pm. 428 5th Ave.• between 8th aildare OV8'r50 ani:! HIV-positlve. at 6
and relationships. loss and change, 9th streets. Afterwards: G.me Nlaht
pm. the Annual Meellna at 6 pm. and A( DIFF.ERENT LIGHT presents' gay heritage and community. The trivial Pursuit. Fun and facts in Park
the Bo.rd of DlreCiorsMeellna at 8 Michael Carson, reading from his Center. 208 W. 13th St. 8 pm. Call Slope. 8:00 pm. Call for location andpm. All \eveJ1l:shappen at the Center. book Brothers In Arms. 54& Hudson John'for info: (212) 598-9680.
to confirm: (718) 965-7578.
.
208 W. 13th St. Info: (212) 74H247.
St. 8 pm. Info: (212) 989-4850.
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GlAAD General Mtt,llng. featuring a MEN OF ALL COLORS TOGETHER
presents E.st Vlllaae Nlaht: Dlnlna WEDNESDAY,JAN. 9
discussion on the topiC. "Fighting
presents Educ.llonal Forum andOut. 6 pm. Call for restaurant andHomophobia Through Education."
Pinel Discussion: Provldlna C.....
other details. Later. Join the SAL Gals SAGE presents Men's 50-plus Rap G~sts include mayoral liaison Mar- Emoll!!n.1 .nd Otherwise. 10 .n HIV~at p,S 122 to see Maria Beatty's Group at 5:30 pm. Volunt .. r Orlen- Jorie Hill. Ronald Marker of the Les- Infecled or AIDS-DI.gnosed PerSphln)(es Without Secrets; [See PS 1I110nat 6 pm and Slae Plus" at 7 bian and Gay Teacher's Association son." The Center. 208 W. 13th St.
122's listing.] SAL: (718) 965-7578.
pm. All events, happen at the Cen~r. and Andy Humm of the Hetrick-Mar- 7:45 pm. Info: (212) 222-9794.
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,..,.~. -.-.:.,;208Y1\ 13th Sl Info: (212) 741-2247. tin Institute.
The Center. 208 W. 13th GAY MEN OF THE BRONX presents '..
,.; WOMEN ENTREPRENEURSIN BUSiDinner .1 Pine Reslaurant. 1913
St. 8 pm. (212) 966-1700.
Th. AIDS AND ADOLESCENTSNETWORKNESS Dl,scusslCin Circle:
Bronxdale Ave. RSVP by Jan. 9. Call
)Enlreprso.ur'.' Psrson,lIty; with OF ~EW YORK presents Child Sexual GAY MALE SIM ACTIVISTS Meeting Ron for info: (212) 579-8746.
,networking aJ1d"the Busine~s Clinic"; Abu... nd HIV Prevention. YWCA of .nd Discussion: , G". ,"d Butt
, at ,the Center, 208 W '13 -St;6:30-8
New York. 610 'lexington Av& at 53rd Plu,s; at the Center.
208 W 13 St. GAY MEN OF,AFRICANDESCENTpreI,,
pm; $5; Info 718/499-6984 (Editor's St. 3 pm to 5 pm. (212) 925-6675.
3rd Floor; socializing at 8 pm; pro- sents My Man Done Oone Me•
note: WEB meets tonight and every
Wrongl or m.ybe Oust maybe) I didgram at 8:30 pm; $4 members/$6
fi rst TUE!sday.),
my m.n wrong. Addressing the quesMEN-OF ALL COLORS TOGETHER nonmembers; 727-9878",~.

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presents Lt."'n .nd GIIy People ofColor Steerlnl Commmtt Mellina.
Last year's meeting' brought together
dozens of organizationsof gay men,
and lesblan.s of color to plan thel r
contribution to the L~sblanland Gay
Pride Parade: Join now to, help plan
this year's. Dr., Marjorie Hili's office.
&2 Chambers St.. room 209. 6-10
p,m. Call B'ert for Info; (212) 505-

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SLOPE ACTIVITIES FOR LESBIANS Broome St., at Wooster. 5-8 pm.
"The,Artful Comunicator"; learn how
Inf(j/Reservations: (212) 427-3575 .
presents Brunch Iii Park Slope. 1:30
author and actMst Larry. Kramer .
.pm. Call for restaurant and' othermakes people listen, even when they
SLOPE ACTIVITIES FOR LESBIANS
details. That evening, It's Arls andCrafts Night. Bring your arts and, presents "0" Night Potluck/Discus- , don't wan~t6 hear; at the Center, 31d,
slon Night. SAL says: Bring foOd an Roor Network ROOI)1,208 W 13 St;
crafts supplies to the clubhouse.
BACADOWNTOWNpresents We Fol6:30-9:30 pm (socializing before a);beverages, preferably those wh9Se
low the ore,m, a performance series Nonartists welco,me-thls is simply$5 members/$8 nOl1inembers (firstnames begin with a "d." Eating folfeaturing
poetry and music, and dedi- , for fun. 7:30 pm. Call to confirm:,
lowed by dating diScussion night. 7:30 drink free): 517-0380(718) 965-7578.
cated, to the memory of Dr. Martin
pm. Call to confirm: (718)'965-7578.
Luther King, Jr. Curated by WIlliam.
,
A DIFFERENTLIGHT presents Bruce
FRANKLIN FURNACEpresents W,IPope L. Featurll)g work by: Jaye
Nussbaum, reading from his book
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by
ThomasChunn.!
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MONDAY,JAN.
14
Austin-Williams,
HiliGreen,
Elan,a,Good Int,ntions. 548 Hudson St. 8
perfOrmance is a series of monoGreenfield, Marty Pottenger, Dominic,
BRONXAIDS TASK FORCEP.lannlng pm. Info: (212) 989-4850.
logues descri~lng Churm's experiTaylor. $8 or TOF.111 Willoughby Sl
Meeting. TopU:: setting task force
Brooklyn. Info and reservations: (718) ences living In a New York City
single-room-occupancy hotel. Judgoals
and obJectivesfor
1991. Guest EAGLE BAR Movl~f11lght: Bird .on ,S96-2222. [see Jan. 12]'.~.
,WI", with Mel G'lbsoli and Goldie
speakers: Janet Goldb,rg oftheson, Memorial Chure.h. 55 WashingSouth Bro,nx N!llg.hbOrhood AID$ , Hawn; 142 11th Ave (at 21 St); 11
ton Square South. , 8:30 pm. Info:
SATURDAY,JAN. 12
pm;.691-8451 '\',Project and Eileen Grigg of the(-212)925-4671 ..
,Bronx. Borough President's Office., 'SAGE presents Support For You, a'SATURDAY,
JAN. 17 ,'BACA DOWNTOwN presents W, Bronx AIDS CSP. One Fordham
bereavement group for men and,;Follow th, ore,m, a performance, 'Plaza, suite 800,. The Bronx. 2-4:30. women dealing with loss. Meets
NEW YORK ADVERTISING AND
pm. (212) 295-5605.
every Saturday morning. The Center. series featuring poetry and music,
COMMUNICATIONS NETWORK"preand dedicated tq the memory of Dr.. ",298 W. 13th St. 11 al)1. Info: (212)sents a Career Workshop With Kate
Martin Luther King, Jr. Curated' by THE LIMELIGHT presents Get Out
741-2247.
Wendtetoll. Wendleton is the dlrec::William Pope L, Featuring work by: and ,Give, "the par:ty with a cause."
John Cyril Brooks, Daniele Reddick"It's the basic disc~ scene, includirfg, tor o~ the New. School's Sunday
SLOPE ACTIVITIES FOR LESBIANS,,
Career'Centilr
and the author of Th,
OJ Dinah in the,chaPflI,:but
all door
presents Brunch: Oasis at 1:30 pm. ,Paul Skin, Lamont B. Steptoe, Mball,.
"
UmoJ~. $8 or TOF. 111 Willoughby
proceeds will go to a list of lesbian, , Rve O'Clock Club Guide to ChangIng
Then, joing them for a Lesbian RelaSt. Brooklyn. Info and reservations:gay and AIDS organizations, ranging , Jobs. $35 for inembers/$45 nontionships Workshop: Boundaries
members. The Center. 208 W. 13th
fr,om ACT UP to SAGE a.nd everyand Merging ,(part 1), led by Arleen (718) 596-2222. [See Jan. 11]
St. 10 am to 1 pm. Info/registration:
thing in between. Happy hour (2-4-1
Bandler and Madeleine Price at Iden(212) 517-0380.'. 'drinks) from 5 pm to 12 am. Doors
tity ,House. $10. 5:30 pm. 544 Sixth SUNDAY,JAN. 13
open at 5 pm. The Limelight.'20th
Ave., between 14th and 15th streets.
.
GOTHAMVOLLEYBALL LEAGUEpreMEN OF ALL COLORS TOGETHER Street at Sixth Avenue. (212) 807Back in Park Slope, it's Considering
4850. I'I
sents Tryouts for Competitive Divi,.,otherhood, a six-week workshop I MACT/NY Board of Directors Meetsion (highest levei of play) andfor resbians. Come alone or with a Ing. The Center. 208 W. 13th St.
Intermediate A (third '~ve}). $75 for a, partner. 1 pm. Info: (118) 499,-9330. 2:30-7:30 pm. Info: James at (212)
ACT UP/NY Weekly Meeting. Cooper
13-week session. 351 W. 18th St.,I)nion.
East
7thStreet'at
Third
Rnally, .First TImers
Night
Party,
for
995-8063
or
Chris
at
(212)
601-0a06,
7th floor gyms. 7:3O,pm..Info: (212)Avenue. 7:30 pm. Info: (212)564nervous newcomers and maternal666-4327 or 836-9219.''2437.
types, among others. For all events, AMERICAN GAY AND LESBIAN,.,..
,, call to confirm first: (718) 965-7578.
ATHEISTSpresent their first-Sunday"
FRIDAY,JAN. 18.
AIDS AND ADOLESCE'NT$ NETof-each-month monthly meeting.
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AGLA is "dedicated to upholding the WORK OF'NEWVORK presents SubADVANCED HEALTH SOLUTIONS
THE ANSWER IS LOVING Women
Rrst Amendment principle of separa- stalice Abuse Committee. 121 Sixth
HeaHh Seminar for the HIV-Posltive
tion between chureh and state." $2. Ave. 6th floor. (1 or A train to Cana) Talking Women's Talk: 8th Yearand the Worried Well, "learn selfStreet) 3 pm to 5 pm. Info: Michele Anniversary pariy, with dinner,at theCenter. 208
hypnosis, mental imaging and how The Coffeehouse,.
dancing, singing, laughing andto visualize recovery to promote a W. 13th SI. 1-3 pm. AGLA also oper- >Fontaine. (212) 691-2900.
"inaybe a few tears to validate ourates a 24-hour Dial-A-Gay Atheist
healthier immune system and sup,,accomplishments"; 1964 E 35 St,
TUESDAY,JAN. 15
commentary line. (718) 899-1739.
port greater health and well-being";
Bklyn; 7:30 pm; $15; Ruth Berman &853 B'waY, SUite 1511; 10 am'NY PUBLIC LIBRARY Fall Reading
Connie,KlJrtz, 718/998-2305 (Note:LESBIAN FEMINIST LIBERATION
noon; $60 (insurance rei!1lbursable,
non-alcohol ,party)
Series: nlomas M. Disch, The Carpresents Successful Aging for Lesadvance registration gets a disdin;cl Detoxes, The GenOCides,
Campbians: Planning for Your Future.
count); 677-,8734,877:'8017.
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FIRST UNITARIAN CHURCH IN
Concentration. NY Public Library.
Featuring Chri~ Almvig, co-founder
BROOKLYN presents a screening ofof SAGE. $4. The Center. 208 W. 42nd Street eritrance. Celeste Bartos
YOUNG MEN OF ALL COLORSForum: 6 pm. lJx: (212) 93(}.0571.· , Dry Kines Only. "This hilarious new
13th, St. 3 pm. Info: (212) 627-1398.
TOGETHER presents Y-MACT 30•
video explores the lesbian subtext of
and-Under Cau~us Restructuring,classical Hollywood films." Rrst seen
BRONX AIDS TASK FORCE Monthly
PRINCETON GAY AND LESBIAN
Meeting. 169 MC!nhattan Ave., #4B
Meeting. Bronx AIDS CSP.One Ford~ at the 1990 Lesbian and Gay Internaat West 108th Street. 6 pm. Call
ALUMNI presents Supper on thetional Rim Festival. 50 Monroe Place
Bayou, an evening of jatnbalaya, red- ham Plaza, suite 800. Bronx. Info:David for info: (212) 932-3138.
at Pierrepont,
one block northofThelma CrawfOrd. (212) 295-5605.
bean casserole,
Louisiana salads,.
,,Montague. Brooklyn. R to Court
MEN OF COLOR AIDS PREV~NTlON ambrosia prepared by caterer Steven,
Street; 2, 3, 4 and 5 to Borough Hall.
WEDNESDAY,JAN 16
presents Hot, Horny and HealthConnell. Open bar. For all gay andPlayshop. Keller's Bar. 384 West St, lesbian Ivy League and Seven Sisters.
GAY FATHERSFORUMTheater Party
NEW YORK ADVERTISING AND
graduates. Ticket prices start at $20
at Christopher Street.. Call Eric for
to F,/8IIItol,nd,
the William
COMMUNICATIONSNETWORKfor students, $45 for alumni. 482
info: (212) 566-4995.
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tion: Why Is it so difficult to hold on.to a man? Featuring brief skits andreal life experiences. The Center. 208
W. 13th St. 8 pm. Info: 620-7310.

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on a gay male couple, a lesbian couheterosexual
couple, andple,child; at the Lucille Lortel Theater,
121 'Christopher St; 8 pm; member
info from 979-7541, 288-3236.

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CENTER STAGE - presents
David
Bradshaw and Cosmo Buono. The
pianists will present the New Yorkpremiere of Debussy's Sacred andProfane Dances and Ravel's transcription of Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun, the American
premiere 0.1 Johan Kvandal's' Duo
Concertante, Opus 41, and otherworks. $22. Alice Tully Hall. Lincoln,
Center. Broadway at 66th Street.
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, !tal PM UF The Rape of Richard Beck It was on a few
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policeman reacts when he becomes-a victim of sexualassault'"
fNO PM WABC-TV Equal Justice From what I've, heard, 'there's no reason to ,expect any justice in their segment on a woman tJying to charge ~e man who "infected her'with AIDS" witli murder. Even the, Wall Street
Joumalthought it sensationalist. CH 7 ', THURSDAY,.JANUARY 10

1:00 PM WBAI-FM This Way Out; the inte.mational
gay/lesbian news magazine; 99.5 FM (:30)
1,:30PM WBAI-FM An AftBmoon Outing: local news andinformation aboutthe gay and lesbian community withlarry GutIriIurg; 99.5 FM (:3)) .
•4GJ PM WCBS-TV OpfBh Wintreylrs erotophobia on OPfB/t
MONDAY, .JANUARY 7'Mothers warn teens about sex' is the S8cheduledtopic.
1l1:3liAM HBO A Choros Une: The Movie Irs not as good as. Maybe someone should call in and tell teens about safer
seeing it live, butit's still good. Cable gives you several
sex, and homo sex, and kii$ of sex. CH.3 Repeated at7 pm
chances to catch Michael Bennett's greatest musical. Irs
on CH 55' IN
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repeate4 Friday at noon on HBO and Wednesday at6 pm.. PM The GIlY Osting Game Showwith Tllnmr SeeIi and
BROOKHAVEN Men's Group Dlson The Movie Channel.
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Lli 6 Rm; 51677511:31tPM WUSB 90.1 FM The Word Is Out Marc Gunning hosts
1.... PM WABC-TV Primetime Live Hypocricy meets homo'2901 (meets 3rd Sundays)a Weekly lesbian, gay and bisexual variety show featuringphobia here: The 'sweeping allegations' against lI~nois,music, rieWs, editorials,
comedy and guest interviews.
minister LR. Davis are that he 'coerce[dl more than 20'
MONDAY, JAN. 21
z.I PM WUSB 90.1 FM Lavender Wimmin News, songs andyoung men and a 13-year-old boy into having sex with'music produced by women ,for women.
him'l guess Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker and Jimmy
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ACT UP/NY Weekly Meellng. Co~p. 4GJ PM SHO Kids-1VAccording to 1VGuide, 'the crew's
1.... PM GCN Be'OurGuest elllBrtainmenttor and about the
er l!nion. East 7th Street at Third,
investigation of AIDS separates the facts from the faars: "lesbian/gay community; Manhattan Cable, CH 0/17 (:30)
Avenue. 7:30 pm. Info: (212) 5645:GO PM HBO The Truth About Alex The truth is, Alex is gay, 10:30 PM GMHC Living With AIDS: health and politics;
2437.
'butthemovie focuses more on his friend's (Scott Baio)
Manhattan Cable" CH VI35 (:30)
reaction. Expect an After School Special mentality here: 11:00 PM GCN Gay U.S.A.: news and entertainment/rom
It's OK to be gay,but don't expect to see two boys kiss.
~: around the country; Manhattan Cable, CH V/35 (1:00) ,TUESDAY, JAN. 22
8:30 PM Manhattan Cable The Brenda and Glennda Show
Midnight GCN Mfln in RIms:. male erotica, interviews with\•Brenda and Glennda visit Niagara Falls. CH 0/17
adult filmstars; Manhattan Cable, CH V/35 (:30)
NY PUBLIC LIBRARY F:all Reading
9:00 PM GBS Out in the 90's. community news, discussion,
12:30 AM RB PROD M.en For Men: Robin BynI presents gay
Series: tonightwith Samuel {I:, interviews. BO Cable, CH 56 (1:00).'
male porno stars; ManhattanCa.ble, CH VI35 (:30)
Delany, Triton, Stars in My Pocket
11:30....., TomolTOw/TonightLivef.entertainmentManhattan.
FRIDAY, .JANUARY 11
Like Grains of Sand,
The Fall ot
and Paragon Cable, CH 0/17 (1:00)
2:30 PM WBAI-FM Rompiendo el Silencio: todos los,
Midnight CCTV The t;loset Case ShOll(. Kloset K~ps; Manhatviernes, Gonzalo AIIurtocon temas y noticias para la
Towers; NY Pu.blic'L1brary,
42 St
tail /pa~agon Cable, CH C/16 (:30) ,,.
comunidad latina gay y lesbiana; 99.5 FM '(:15), entrall~e, Celeste Bartos Forum; 6"
TUESDAY, .JANU4RY 8!,
7:00PM WBAI-FM AIDS In Focus, Michael A1cid.."producpm; tix 930-0571
9:m AM Alexander. The Other Side'of Dawn. Irs a 1977TVer; politicS/culture of the AIDS pandemic; 99.5 FM (:)5)
moviewitl) Leigh J. McCloskey as a teenagertrying to" 1:00 AM RB PROD The Robin BynI,S~ow. male andfernale
LESBIANS AND GAy'MEN OF NEW. strippers; ~anhattan Cable, CH V/35 (1:00),
escape his'sordid past' as a male prostitute. As ifthat's not
BRUNSWICK
presents
Attorney.
enough,Eve Plumb (of Jan Brady fame) also stars. CH61
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Deborah Guston: "What Gays and
1:111PM HBO Goddess of Love Is there a 'Y,';Pat? As in Vanna
8:30 AM WBAI-FM Any Saturday With DavidWhite, starring as Venus in this made-tor-TV movia set in. Rothenberg; live ca II-in; 99.5 FM (2:00)
Lesbians Should Know About themodem-day Los Angeles.
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Law." Friends Meeting House. 109
1.... PM RB PROD The Robin BynIShow. male and female
around the country; BO, Unity, Acv Cable, CH 56 (1:00)
Nic,hol
Ave. New Brunswick, NJ. 8,. strippers; Manhattan Cable, CH V/35 (1:00) ,(For Manhattan, Cable, see THURSDAY)
pm. (908) 247-0515.
11:00 PM GBS Out in the 90S: news, information and
1UIO PM Gay 71tmale porn; Manh&ttan Cable, CH V/35
interviews; Manhattan/P!lragon
Cable, CH C/16 /1:00)
1:00 AM RB PROD The Robin BynI Show. male Iifemale,'WEDNESDAY,.JANUARY 9
strippers;,Paragon Cable, CH Cll&. (1:110)
Midnight ,RB PROD The Robin BynI Show. male and female,
1:30 AM RB PROD The Robin BYn/ Show. male Iifemale
strippers, live call-in show; Manhattan Cable, CH V/35
strippers; Manhattan Cable, Cft V/35 (1:00)
12:40 AM HBO Black Widow, starring Debra Winger and
SUNDAY, .JANUARY 13
Thereas Russell. As usual, TVGuide whitewashes the
7:31PM WBAI-FM OutLo~withhostAlnlioHcwelwithfour
lesbian entrepreneurs discussing howto bathe boss inyuur
lesbian action right out of this movie.Lesbians at Out./\
Week rec,ite lines and Arts Editor Sa rah Pettit ca lied it
O\IIIIl.business;alternates with The GayShow, 99.5 FM /1:00)'the unsung leizie film of all time." Ignore Theresa Rus1l1:3liPM RB PROD Men For Men: Robin Byrd presents gay. sell's husbands. Repeated on Thursday at noon andmale porno stars; Manhattan Cable, CH VfJ5 (:3)),
11:15 pm on The Movie Channel.
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11:00PM GBS Way Outf, entertainment for and about the las4:00 PM WCBS-TV Geral?o Scheduled topIC: .homosexu~ 1bian/gay community; Rich Volo, producer, 254-7685; Manity. Uh-huh. If you can t get off work to be In the studIO
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and Give ~arty: All proceeds go to les~ian
a?d gay and A~DS orgamzations. DJ Dinah Inthe. chapel. 5pm to midnJg,ht.$5 donatiOn suggested) 47 W. 20th St., at.Sixth Ave. (212) 807-7850.
Pr~
Eyes (Marc Berkley'~ Kool Komrads;strippers; downtown
crowd, students, profeSSionals; fl) 12 W 21 St, club 200-m2
Temple (BillieKlub's new party. A different theme every week.) 101
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add a second night of hot lesbian action in
Cenler(2nd
4th SAT, 9 pm -1 am, $8; n,ext is Dec 8) 208W 13 St; 620-73;0
the EastVilla~e. $5.) 101 Avenue A ., .
"'+Center(Women&Friends, lstSAT; 9 pm _ 1 am, $8; next is Decem".
+*~lub'EdeIwe~ss("TVs, TSs, gays, bl s, slngle~,couples,; T~ESespeber 1) 208 W 13 St; 620-7210.
clally for lesbians; b~ op.en t~ aIlTUE·SUN mght) 167 W 29, 868-6989
I Club West End (Michael Fesco's Saturdays; midnight -9 am) 547 W 21 St+ Gr.nd Centr.' (women s mght ISTUES, also open Wed-SlIn) 210 MerColumbi. D.nces (SamE BuT DifferenT, 3rd SAT, next is Ja.n. 19; DJ.• rick·~oad~ Rocky~lIe c.entre, U; 51~4800,,.
Karin Ward, 10 pm _ $am; $5) Earl Hall, 116 StlB.'way; ~2~1!!89 ~Kilunanl.ra (Acc~rdlng to ~one other than La Dolce Musto, Tracks Tue,sControveny (Hosted by Patrick Suns and the people who bring youdays here are tres gay. ) 531 W.
St. 627-2333.
' DisCb Interruptu~. ~.99) 101 Ave.rue A
IRoxy (Men on Wheels, gay roller skating; starts 8 pm) 515 W 18 St; 645-5156
419419 N. Highway, Southampton, U; 5161283-5001
Wednesday,'c<wveZone (dancing & perforlpers) 70 Beach St, State~lsland;7181~2-5692
I Me .. (DJ Aldo Hernandez, every Saturday; go-go boys, videos; opens*BetI8r D.~ (priman1Y gay men of color) 316 W 49 St (819 Aves!; 245-8925. '10 pm; $5) 432 W 14"St;'353-3866*Chanhel69 (Linda Simpson's back; with Dany Johnson and live lesbian. and gay'shows. EastYillage crowd. $5.) 101 Avenue A+Priv ... Eyes (Sh,esc~pe ,Saturday Nighi Parties for Women, op.ens 9
IThe Building (Dallas' The Boys'Room, House music, downtown crowd;
pm;,$8 before 10/$10 after) 12 W 21;St; info 645-6479, club206:m~*Roxj (Locomotion; gay;boys, guys, men; non-gay women, some lesgo-go boys and a 6O-foot ceiling; $10/$7 with inVite) 51 W 26 St; 576-1890+ Excalibur (Ladies'Nig~ $1 drinks) corner 10th/Jefferson behind footbi'ans;
depends on.par;ty) 515 W 18,St-(btwn 10/11 Aves); 645~5156
ball stadium, Hoboken, NJ; 201-795-. 116f , ,,'+ SilVer Uning (women's Sat) 175 Cheny Lane,'Roral P~rk, U; 5161354-9641*Ume'ight (Disco 2tNX1with Michael Alig and larry Tee;10 pm, $10;
Sound F.ctory (mostly gay; serious House/Club dancing, no alcohol,
Coors no longer selVed/) 6th Ave at 2OSt; club 807-7850
opens 11 pm) 530 W 27 S~(10th/11th Aves); 643-0728"
Stingray's (Brand new club, tirand new'sound system, everything else is+ Privlfe Eyes (Shescape AftelWork Party, 5-10 pm; $5 before 7 pril/$7
after; 2-4-1 drinks before 7) 12 W 21 St; info 645-6479" club 206-m2"
a surprise. ~.) 641 W. ~lstst. (212) 664-8668.,.
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Privlfe Eyes (YMVA Night; stu~ents, prof Is, woinen; performers; fl;'TIllyCily (Featumg cheap dnnks, cheap women and cheap thnUs. $5) !II2nd St.
door often benefits a gay/lesbian organization) 12 W 21 St; 206-l772,
Silver Uning (2-4-1 drinks, alsq oPlin rues-Sun, wornen SAT) 175 Cherry
Sunday".
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lane, Floral Pic, 1I; 516/354-9641*Belter D.Ys lmostly gay men of color, DJ John Hall) 316 W 49 St; 245-8925
Stutz (2-4-1 drinks, also open daily) 202 Westchester Ave, White Plains;, nlle Building (Dallas' The Men's Room, Students, professionals, men;
914{761-3100,
go-go boys & 50-ft. ceiling) 51 W 26 St; 576-1890\,
ThlJrsdayI*Cafe Society (Society Sundays Tea Danc!!, Hi NRG OJs, Society
Cheap (It's a new party, promising "cheap drinks and cheap queers." No'c., •
Dancers; 5 pm- 11; $10) B'way at 21 St; 529-8282
cover.) 101 Avenue A
FUCKI (DJs Craig and Victor, "caged go-go ,animals" and "ruff music for.
'A-Copacab.n. (last Thu. ofthe month Susanne Bartsch ,party, next is
ruff dykes and fags." ~.99) 101 Avenue A':.November 29; iffy door) 10 E 60 St, at Fifth Ave; 755-6010,l.+Mars (Lahoma's Home for RunaV(clyBoyS, OJ LanyTee, emeel! Ru-Paul.1Vs
Excalibur ($1 drinks, also .open Tues-Sun, women WEol corner 10th/Jef, and womenwelcoine.$1G'$51111ithil;lVite.) 131h'St. attha WestSide HiglM'ay
ferson behind football stadium, Hoboken, NJ'; 201-795-1161
Monster (Sunday Tea Dance at 4,pm; dancing also on other njghts from
Hettie'd's (2·4-1 drinks, female impersonators; als6 operi nightly, women
1~ pm) 80 Grove $t at Sheridan Sq.; 924-3557 ' .'on TUE,& FRI) 126-10 Queens Blvd, Kew Gardens, Queens; 71111261-8484
20/20 (Michael Fes~o's Tea D.ance, opens 4 pm; $6; free Mimosas & BMs*Roxy (Disco Interruptus, DJs Patrick ButtS & Siste.r Dimension andfrom 4-6, buffet at 7:30) 20W 20 St;,7~1-8841/ performance artists in entertainment breaks; $10) 515 W 18; 645-5156
E'!ery Night (Or almost) .
bStingray's (Brand new club, brand new sound system, everything else
+ Bedrock (lesbian club, closed MON & TUE) 121 Woodfield Rd, W.
is a sUrprise. No cover tonight.) 641 W. 51st St. (212) 664-8668. Hempstead, 1I; 5161486-9516' "I·
Frid '. .
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Edelweiss ("TVs, TSs, gays"bi's, singles, couples all welcoine";
IABC(C~~uCkett'S
ABC Fridays, DJ Merritt; ballroom; balcony, billiards,
TUE_for lesbians, but qpen to all TU~-SUN night) 167 W29; 868-&1189,, . boogying; $lll'$7w. invite; opened Nov. 16),17 Irving Place at 15 St+ Duchess II (small danc,e floor!. Sheridan Square & 7th Ava; 242-1408
Belter Days (Michael Patterson's. Fridays, catering to multi-racial crbwd,
419 (nightly Gay House Party, opens,6 pm) 419 N. Highway (Rte 27),
serious House/Club dancing, DJ Robert Owens) 316,W49; 246-8976..'"
Southampton, 1I; 5161283-5001\ 'i' "+CiiI a.. (Jocelyn8iJuUe, EllflryFriday Party,"
girls, lesbo videos; opens~.
,Gr.nd Centr., (closed"Mon, 2+rilrinks
Th~rsday) 210 MerrickRoad,.{"ilnd,9pm;$514'!J. W 1481;~ 1114 ",pni;bilQaras &$1 drinlcSb~erl8
Rockville Centre, 1I; 516/536-4800 '.
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M.gic Touch (ethnic miX: Angloilatin/Asian)73-13 37thRd, Jackson. is January 4) 116th St & Bway; 854-3574 days
Heights, Queens; rl81429"8605.
+ H.melers (women's nights are TUE &FRI) 126- io l4Ieens Blv~~ Kew
Monster (West Village) I!O Grove St at Sheridan Sq.; 924'-3557.. ,Gardens, Q~eens; 718126,1;8484 'SpeCtrum (good mix of gay.men & lesbians; closed Mon- Tue, WED free,IMe .. on Friday (The West Side sensation adds a second, East Village
NOTES: ' ,6fnew info)*1.ttracta1VI]+iwani.nl I [men],night. OJ Nobod,v's Pussy. $5.) 101 Avenue A,*"ike Todd Room (Sister Dimension's Panty Girdlesi 123 E 13 St; 473-7171 Send infonnation, corrections, and complaints to OutWeek Listings, 159 W 25 Sf, NY,NY
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Priv... Eyes (YMVA Night; students, professionals, men) 12 W 21 St,
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Stingray's (Brand,new club, brand new sound system, everything else is,a $urprise. Free, 7-10 pm. fl after.) 641 W. 51st St. (21'2) 664-8668+V"lIiolll (women's party) 56-01 Queens Blvd, Woodside, Queens; info •7111/846-7131 club 7181899:-9031&':'t1l

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genial atrriQSPhere 'followed by.an
AlIENUS of lESBIANS AND GAYS' and Gay~
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nmlt(CIl1lla 4f1 ~~Ii;;P.O: BOx ~\lilage SbdiaI;N/IW I,n!!8 .w/prOgram8 ci~'S/M.
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EYary Sunday, 3:00pm:,n,Puana Church,2lI1 W. 13111:' York,NY 111114"tac.h.mqu.es,hfe~)yla IIIUe,,".,soclallMli1!Ji,QII ~ last Friday til ,4:30Pm Jltltui Community'Canter
SIraat lifo c8I Jaw ... , (212)4Il3-0l29,:;-:'•.
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'. NawYOrkArea BisexuarNatwoik.'
COMMUNITY HEALTH .:;;'
A nnmg dub for leabianand gay . bureau, wOfklhops,
deil1os,_; ""'".,_".
PROJECT'"-,', athIelBStilallabiltilJs,fIIlRu1soflaffinity groups, new8letter,
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lc . . Mi:!othly:spc,iat" aVllnts for t/1e ' ·Yolk 11111~'FiirAppOintments apd < '. Weds. at 7pm n ~I
Park alii! ,HudsOil Streat, SUite D~tNYC'~;"';;VtJ':'o,\Jiir Q\Ilche-.; ,~rpnga, P.utnli!",~i"ual. cOiJ!l1l~hitvind.f,iend~:
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. 111114.(2121727-9878.
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Wa~tc~este~ 1:lIuntla.8. AID~~ 'ing al/8nIB. (2121459-4784,' S~NSITIVE 'AND LOW 'COST ,. DESCEN'O.
• ~ucation, ch"",'seMcn,,cn'"".''HEA1JlI CARE sERVICES TOlllE
80 Variek Street, NYC10013 a 1!UPais intarv.l)tion;:I~pport groups; ,DIPAC (BiSEXUAL 1'OUJIcA('i£sQ1AN,AND GAYIXlMr.iJNfl:y.,THE,GAYAfRICAN "ICANS
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18 !I j:ommu~lty basad support
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214 Central It!'e.W1itB,PlaIlS, NY.larica
101I1e BiseX1I8'VLesbia~ay,PROJEtr:.lIWTtf
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nO,N UNE ~RlEE8S"~~~nOl;'"acfM!i8S al8 pIa','iBd for,
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836 Broadway, Naw~u,rgh, NY, • hilld t\oopm on fDllrtll'Thui1iday of.
DQYIluhiva qIilialiOilS'ibout~ur.
1he toIl.I!I·~~can914African-American, Canbbaan and1~(!I41562.!mi.
,. .!he mo.iIh at mambers homas. Call, ha~~7 your Body? COI)lingOirt?
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,ASIANS.~N~Y~RK.' ..'~youcan.caH1I1aHOlT-UNE,',;4 ~uppo~ ~r~~n!~8~c," for g~ycal 711HO'HI182.
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Th8T88iiHOTT-UNEforHeahhl''child-n~rtunJ1g -!tU8tion8. Mon1h,. !ym\lilllllgs In~lu'da:a P!"luc~s~p-,
GAY ME~ S HEALTH CRISIS ,Aslan!Pa~lfic ,Islandef,. ASlao- . fo~ B~exuallcidrlyol!lh- Mon1hly ';' ean Monday,? J!1uiSday, 7pinto
Amencan,.and.l1on-~8Ian.gay
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lunch hald
9pmAtothartill188"lasw'a 1118&-.
par, ~upport ~roup~ on vanad . •HOTUNE""':' tbroug~ I!OCI~.culb,ira~,~~u., . 1:OOpm oil foui1h Sunday-of 1I1a "sagslii1d we'D qal you backl, iape~la.r~\lfI topI~,:sp!,ak,e~,. and .,RlR ItEOItMOON ON SAAR SEX ~•c~tional, and'lervlc8ac~VI~a~.. mon1l1,lit,mambai'$.homas.
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AND HIV-RELATEDHEALTHSERand programs. Cal! our HoiLine.
NYABNfor1hi8mon1h'llocation.
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VICES,ANDRlflIMUINATIONON
212-374-50114,orwrita,to: P.O. Box .This group is part of 1I1eNaw
RESEARCH INmATIYE', . 201.~ 1:Jt!l·~ Wast. til 7th kI~. ONE-ll~ "YAIJ(-IN AlPS COON8828, NY,NY 100~.·"YorkArea Bisexual Network.'
CRI tes1Bexperili1e.nte1 drugs and&f'~tnbution: $8. Bnng a "PalO
SBJNGSElMCES,
1r'a8bnenIs for AIDs and HIVIlllCiIiId ,COUI88,for 4 peopla (or pay a $5
212-107.-&Z12...s-7470
TDD,•.. iII!1aS88S.MonthlY tr8atmant and . ' fooiI charge.1 For i[1formation call:(For'" ~"II""I'ATR.IAlDSTREATMENT
BWS-8RONX WBIA/IIS
I8sUI'chgrilupfur,HIV-ii
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212~!!19-7541or212-288-3236
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meetings.on1l1afirstand
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80 Varick Street, NYC 10013' (2121 Social club for haavy, chubby
naris.for trial pal1icipalilB. A1R also
adwca1llS for improvamantB in 1I1a days of IMIry montIi. AtTha Com988-17111GlAAD comballl homogay man & thair admirars.
CONGREGAnON BETH
mll'ityce..~ ~ W.13 Street, from"trial ayatem. P.O: Box 30234, NY,NY
phobiain 1he macia and elslMihel8Monthly 80cials at tha ·Cen.SIMCHAT
II:3HIpn. For iI1OI8 info can lisa at- 1011-0102. (2121,2118-41. PublicaI!vptomotingvillibllilyoflhelesbiantar",
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homebound 8eniors ,& older- focussed rap groups, Tues.. ~ 8
MA' •. 2IBWest 13th,St NYC
to 10 pm. peer coul18e1ling &van•able. 319 [ 9 Street, New YoII!. NY , l!Qll, (212)741-2247
i1IanI8tand IIIopan ni1d 818. Fcirifor.
1m. for info cal (212172&51!i3.
mRoc1 p..wia: PD.8otlll\ Mar•,SETHIAN GAYS,,
IlIV18S1atm,New'lblk,NY101!B(212)9IIHI51!5.
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NOm! AMERICAN MAN/BOY
WaJANs AND BISEXUAlSLOVE ASSOClATI~N (NAMBLA)MEN
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OFAll COLORS.. ,.. ~'Dedicated to 88XU81 beedom: andrea ching out to each other in(LESBIANS ABOUT
HEAL"'"O·.~
IIIIp8CiaIIy i1I8I8IBd iI gay ~VISUAl; ART)
exuberanc!J to' .pontlneoul•
IH-hh Education AIDS UIliIOll). . TO.GE1H~~r·~'lt
8I8IicnaI relriOlllliips. MontHy BIIA multi-racl8l group~~gay"men
Call for slides for Lesbian Artists'
Iy explore and 8xpal)d upon
Weeldy info. and support grouplatin and regular·chapter meetings
against racism. Meetings every
Exhibition, Gay & Lesbian Comfor 1reatmen1ll for AIDS which do
the Seth/Jane Roberts ·PhiQ1 the fiillt SaUday Iieach maid\.
Friday night at '7:45 st 1;I1eLesbian
munity Center, NYC. For more
not compromise the immune syslosophy· as it realtes ~o ourYearlymembership
is
$20;
write
and GI!Y Comnunity SaMc,_ Caninfonnation, send SASE to : Miritem further, including altemative
lives, personally,
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and politically. Call AI (212)tion, New York, NY 10018 or call
info. call: (212)245-8366 or (212)Place, Brooklyn, NY 11217.
,, Wed 8pm.
208 W. 13th. St.
979-5104'(2121807;8578 for iiifdnnatioo.
222-9194.
(212)674-IIOP[,
THE LESBIANSUNDANCE
NOm!ERN UGHTSANDGAY ,,HERITAGE OF PRIDE; INC.
OUIUOO~ ADVENIUIIEMETR::g~:':NNIS
BIG APPLE CORPS ..
ALTERNATIVES
Organizers of New YoJ1(s Lesbian, SOCIBY
Improving Quality of life for PeoOu~200 member lesbian and gay
Get'your instrument out of theand Gay Pride lMI/lIB:'the March,
A non-profit club offering Outple
with
AIDS/H,IV.
THE
AIDS
tennisclub
includesplayallS
frOll)
closet and come play with us.
the Rally and the Dance. on thedoor activities.for every 888son
MASlERY WORK~HOP: Explortoumament'lavei.
Pier. Can (212)891-1774 for meat- . Symphonic, Marching. Jazz, Dix- ' beginningincl~ding
hiking"biking, - skiing,,.
, ing the possibnities of a Jio:mrful
ieland, Rock, Rute Ense:ri'bles , Monthly tennis parties. Wintering schedule
more infonnation.
, water activities and other out(
andcreative
life
in
the
face
of
il)'door
league.
Come
play
with
and
Woodwinds.
123
Wast
44th
2IBWest 13IhStreet, NY. NY10011.
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door Ictivitiea for the Gay/Le&AlQS. Call (212)256-8554 'usl For infonnation: MTG, Suite
St. Suite 12l New York; NY
bian community. For infonnation
K83, -'A Hudson St., New Yor1c,.
10038 (212188&-2922.
HETliICK-MARTlN
or complimel)ta ry Newsletter
NYC GAY 8. LESBIANNY nI02!. (7.18)852-8582.
1NS1T1UTE
caa(212)~ANTI-V10LENCE PROJECTLESBIAN 8. GAY'
,for lesbian and gay youth. Coun, Counseling. advocacy, and inforCOMMUNITY
MOCA (Men of Color AIDS
seling, dr.op-in center (M-F, 3THE OUTREACH", mation.for survivolS ,of anti-gay ,SERVICES CENTER
P~on
Program.)8pm), rap groups, HaIVey Milk
USING
and anti-lesbian violence, sexual
208 West 13th StreetjNew York,' . Provides sa1er sex and AIDSHigh School, AIDS and safer sex
COMMUNAL IiEAUNG
assault, domestic violeoce, andNY 10011 (212)820-7310 9ameducation inforJna1ion to gay andinfonnation, referrals, profession\TOUCH)
other types of victimization, All
l1pn1 everyday. A plaCe for com-·bisexual Men' of Color; coordial education.
(212)833-8920
CommUnity voIlI1taBra,prcI!Iidinga"
services free and confidential.24
munityorganizingl
lind
nat8s a networ1c of peer-support(voice)(2121~T1Yfordeaf,'
hour
hotIine (212)807-0197'.'
weekly buffet'8UPJie.r for-,the ';>networking. social.saMces, cuI-,
groups for gay and bisexual Men '•BrooId.,;1 AfDS~TOUCH :
tural programs, and ~I
8VIIIIIB.of CoIodn ailS boroughs of New .
"IOSPANICUNITEDPEOPLEWITH AIDS
meets Monday eV8S. 5pm tosponsored by the Centennd
Yolk City303'NinthAva, New York,GAYS 8. LESBIANS
COAUTlON
8:30pm- at downtown Brooklyn
more than l!i)'cocrmunity organiNYl000lor caD (212)23&-1798.
Educational services, political•(212) 532.Q291)'I.an.828-32SVHotFriends Meeting House (110
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6ne
NATIONAL GAY AND LESBIAN
Schennemorn St near Boerum
aclivi1ies in Spanish lind English by, (212)532-m!BMQnday thru Friday
lIJam-6pm
Mealprograms,I
TASKFORCELESBIAN AND GAY LABCiR
Placa~'Unitad transportation may
and for the Latino Lesbian and Gay
supportgroups,educational
and
is
the
national
grassroolll
political
NETWORKbe arranged: Info: (7181822-27!iII.
Cormu1ity. General meetings 8:00
referralseMcea
for
MA's
and
.
organization
for
Iesbial18
and
gay
An
organizationofLesbians
andpm 4th Thursday of !Nery month st
TOUCH walcomes cllnlributicl)s of ',men. Membership, is $3OtY8,ar.
PWArc's.
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2IBWest 13th Street
fmds, food and voIllitael&
Issue-oriented projects 'address
CaR 2D1-e63-7824 or write H.U.Gl.,
llioosWOlkilg Q1 dctl~llpar1n8rPEOPLE WITH AIDS
violence; sodomy laws, AIDS, gay
slip benalits and AIDS issues. For
P.O. Box 228 Canal Stteat Station,
ULSTER COUNTY GAY AND ,HEALTHrjghts ordirances, families, media,
mrnoilfonnatio'l caI(21~New York,NY 10019.
. ·LESBIAN~,'.' GROUP"
V!1derground buyer's club, inpcring
etc. tl)rough Iobbying"education,
Meets first and third MOnd~y of ,iiot..."n-apprOll8d'mecflCations;anddirect action.
LESBIAN AND GAY RIGHTS ' , organizing-and,IDENTITY, HOUSE,
each !I1OfiIh at 7;30 pm at.th8 ~inutritional supplements. 31 West, NGLlF 1517 U SIJaet Nw, Waer
J>IjOJECT
Now in our 20th voar, we provide 'lllrian ChurCh on Saw!cilIRoad in.
ington,DC2IXXIIL
1202)332~
2lI1h
St
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Roor
12!21532-O211loftheAmerican
Civil
Uberti"peer counseling, therapy refer,KIngston. For InfOf!l1~tion, call••""
Union KNOW YOUR RIGHTSI,,,
rals and groups for the lesbian,
91·_....... ..,
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NlWYOIIKADVBITISINGAMl
WE'RE EXPANDING TIEM i~121
gay and bisexual community.
,rEWORK~sIr8Gt patrol in East and '944-9IIlO, ext 545
Cali us at (212)243-8181. Visit'us
WHAMI",.NYACNis the "'COiNT,"mnunity'slargestWest \lage dedicated 111 deturiing
W!llMn', H.. lth ActionAriil·,
at 544 8th Ave., between '14thgay anc;t lesbian professional group,
violent crime agailst gays and j'"
LESBWlS AND GAYS OFMoIIilization.'"" " '15th StreBlS, Manhattan.
',bilills.
West\IiIlagp
weBkly~w.elcoining."
incommimica. ~1BUSH• A direct -.clion g(OUP commi!- .
tiona and thair friends. Monthly
Brooklyn's social organization for
ingSatJ\I8lI.8II8Ilngs st Ca'"I!lIIity
ed to demanding; securing and" INsmuTE FOR HUMAN
Center.
Can
for
tima
and
Info:
212meetinga,
3rdWed
8:30pm
at
the
both
gay
men
and
lesbians:
P.O.
,
defending absolutereproducIDENTITY INC.
,Community
Center.
Members'475-4383.
For
EastVilage
patrol
info,
Box
108,
Midwood
Stationtive
freedom and' quality, health
New York's non-profit lesbian!lew~letter, job hotline, annual
cal212-24H1i16.
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Brooklyn, NY 11230· (718)_
care for all women. We ,meetand gay paychotherapy center.
dirac1Dry. Phone (212)517-«300 for
9437
every,,wed: at 8:30pm at 105, E
licensed psychologists,
psyPROFESSIONALS IN
more info. Mention Outweekfor
22nd Street, 4th floor. 212-713chiatrists, and clinical social
one fnle i1BW8IatlBr.
RlAWIDEOLESB~ HERSTORY
5988Mailing address: WHAMI,
workers. Sliding scale fees. _ARCHIVES
338 Canal Street, 8th Roor, NYC
PO Box733, NYC 10009
Insurance accepted. Individual,N.Y.
FEMMES.
10013212-645-3351
P.O.
Box
12SBNew
York,
New
Yor1c
couple, and family therapy.
Supportanddiscussion
group
for
10118217/874-7232Since
1974,
the
WQM9IS ALTERNATIVE
Variety of Men's and women's
lesbians who self identify as
Archivas has inspired, shapad and, QUEERNATION ,~COMMUN ITY CENTER (WACC)
groups forming continuously.
Fenme and aill primarily aUractad
reflected Lesbian lives everyThe Lesbian and Gay direct
A non-profit, Lesbia!! communi118 W. nnd Street
to butch women. For membershjp
where. Call to arrange a visit or toty center seMng Queens, Nas-' .
,ctioQ group dedicated to fight212-7.9432
infonnation caD lisa (21~)1I29-9B17. ing homophobia and Gay and
voIUn1BarforThulllday~.
sau and 'Suffolk Countiaa.
Lesbian invisibility. Anyone can '. Thurs. night weekly discussion
INTEGRITYJNY
N.
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WOr.t:N'S
SOFTBAlLcaJ)
LONG ISLAND
ACf-UP
groups. 8:30 pm, fjir. othersuggest an action,and should
lesbian and Gay Episcopalians..
,
MallIS Tuesdays st 8pm st 181 Post , For experienced, seriO!J8 SOftballactivities jl!easecontectu, It '
and friends. EU,charist ,~nd pro.:come to meetings prepared to~layalS,
COachesand.
ManagelS.
hie.
in
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NY.
Supportusfor
51&-483-2050.
gram every lhursday, 7:30pm.
organize ~nd impleinent it QN,
We play mod/fast pitch weekchange on Long Island. Mailing
St Luke's Church, Hudson ,and'ends in Manhattan and Queens. . Box.1524, Cooper Statio,n, New
addnlss: PQ Box 514, WJsIburv. NY
Christopher Sts.INFO: P.O. Box
York, NY 10003. Call 212-483Try-outs begin,Feb. 11 thru April11m 51&a-4882.
5202, NY NYI 0185
7208 for nieeting'info.
or until filled. (212)256-1379 Janet(718) no-3054"-------0-:--,
LSM
SAGE:
NI\I1H S11IEET CENIBI
is a &UppDrt and itorrrriJl ~bLAMBDA(Senior Action in e Gay
Since 1973, a community dedicatIasIiins
and
Ii
BIGIRI YoU,D, ~LEGAL DEFENSE
Emi,OII",nt)
ed to demonstrating 1hat a homoedn~~lmaga.deAND EDUCATION RJND
Social SeMce Agency. providing
sexual lifestyle is a r,tional,alb,$M,
faEhas,aIDnaBgenderPrecedent-seUing litigsticin nationcare, activities, & educational •desirable' choice for individuals
indentities, costumes and &0 forth.
wide for lesbians, gay men andservices for gay & lesbian saniordissatisfied W,ith the rewards of,days at the 'Chelsea Transfer",monthly Fat Apple Review, bimonthly FA.ft. penpals.
For more information
call
Ernie at 914-699-7735 or write:
G&M/NY, Dept 0, P.O. Box 10,
Pelham, NY 10803.
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Dugout, 185 Christopher St., 242-9113 lformerly
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The Break, 232 8th -Ave.122nd St.), 627-0072.

Eighty Eights,:22B'1I!! 10 S~., 924-0088
Chelsea Transfer, 131 8th Ave, Ibet 16th & 17.th), .
The 'Hangout IJ's), 675 Hudson St.. 242-9292, 929-7183

Town & Countly, 9th Ave at 46th St.;307-1503

Eagle's Nest, 14211th Ave 121st St.), 691-8451

Juliu's, 15~ W. 10th St., 929-9672

Trix, 246 W. 48 St.IB'way/8th Ave), 664-8331

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Ninth Circle, 139 W. 10th St., 243-~04

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

Rounds, 303 E. 53rd St., 593-0807

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Thunders, 894 W. Jericho Tpke.; Smithtown,864-141 0
NEW JERSEY (201),Charlie's West, 536 Main St., E. Orange, 678-5002 I,
Feather's,77 Kinderkamack Rd., River Edge,
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Yacht Club, 366 Berkshire Valley Rd., Jefferson,697-9780".nu.ry'l8,,'19g'l

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FEDERALized the use o.f co.ntraceptio.n, making
it a matter o.f privacy. "That case statedit was legal and co.nstitutio.nal to. havedemo.graphics
o.f the federal co.urts
no.n-procre~tivesex. The Co.uit essenunder Carter, when all the appo.intees,
tially gave straight peo.ple the right to.'were o.f a mo.derate 'o.r liberal po.liticalhave gay sex. But then the Court turns
ideolo.gy, is clear.
And the effects are no.toaro.und in Hardwick and denies that
restricte<i to. gay men and lesbians.
"We have to. understand that this""" same right to. gays and threatens eachaffects all mino.rities, and o.urpo.sitio.n , term to. take tho.se same privacy rights
away fro.m women."in the co.urts ,is centrally linked to.
Rubenstein, who. handles many o.ftheirs,» said Strauss.
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That linkage has been carefully
fo.rged by. the Reagan-Bush agenda,
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no.tes o.ne aide fo.r Atto.rney General
Dick Tho.rnburgh. Murray Dickman,."
who. screens all judicial appointees
fo.r Tho.rnburgh, terms the agenda fair
but lasting: ~"We have made a dramatiG difference [in the Co.urts].» He,no.ted that the effects are lasting,
because they influence legal issues
fo.r decades fo. co.me.
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there is a definite agenda fo.r theadministratio.n-that
all candidates .areresearched fo.r a basic co.nservative
jU,dicial philo.so.phy. Mo.st impo.rtant,no.ted Dickman, is a belief in judi\=ial. restraint, o.r ,the legal philo.so.phy thatthe, Co.urts are no.t the arena to. effect
So.cial change.
But Wo.lfso.n" Strauss and Rubenstein all stress that the federal Co.urts
were established with just that idea inmind. Strauss no.tes that this is why thestyle o.f the Reagan-Bush appointmen1s\
is so. important. "It's a subtle message,
but a straightforward one," she added
Strauss alSo. believes that it is fundamental fo.r gay men ,and lesbians to. _reco.gnize their co.nnectio.n to. o.tl,ler
mino.rities', "The,• 'we' here is a vastpo.o.l o.f no.n-white, no.n-male, no.ristraight peo.ple. But Vl"eall are havingo.ur rights er~ed by this new system,
and if we do.n't wo.rk to.gether against, that system, rio. single gro.upo.f us is
the ACLU's' gay and AIDS cases, added:
go.ing t9 be unchanged by that power,»"The pro.blem is that the Reagan
she to.ld OUtWeek·
appointees have no. background in civil•
Rubenstein anci Wo.lfson agree thatliberties laws, ,and the Bush appointees,'the ne2essity fo.r co.alitio.n-building has
Co.me fro.m similar backgro.unds. These,never been mo.re o.bvio.us. Rubenstein
are true political appointments. But if,; cited a series o.fcases which relate to gay"
these gu'ys can't interpret the Co.nsti_rights
but which are actually predicatedtutio.n, it presents 'a real pro.blem to.
o.n other civillihCrties violatit>ns as exampeo.ple who. are turning to. the Co.urts, 'pl~ o.fthe co.nne¢on .
fo.rjust that reason.», : He also noted a pattern o.f co.ntra,,But with mo.re thari 90 percent o.f
dictio.ns and used as an example the .
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test, the scenario. can o.nly get wo.rse.
The appointments to. the circuit Co.urts
are the mo.st dangero.us, because rulings made by tho.se co.urts are mo.st
likely to. become lasting legal doctrinesand co.nstitutional interpretations. In the
Washingto.n, DC, circuitco.urt-the
mo.st powerful in the natio.n--eight o.f
the 12 judges are Reagan-Bushappointees; all are white men.
The Reagan-Bush legacy is no.t
hard to. track. Amo.ng the cases inwhich the community was clo.bbered
were the San Fran .
rulingtnat allo.wed the military to. denysecurity clearannce to.'qualified gay
men; a LOuisiana case allo.~ing an
emplo.yee to. be fired fo.r ~fusing to.
take an mv test; pecisions refusing to.
fo.rce the Army to. reinstate lesbian
Sgt. Miriam Ben-Shalo.m, who. waso.usted fo.r her sexual orientation; and, the 'most celebrated o.f alf, Bowers v.
Hardwick, the 1986 Supreme Court
ruling upho.lding state laws that aiminalize, gay sex. Aeco.rding to. o.neco.nservative Washingto.n po.licy
gro.up, Reagan-Bush appo.intees
have managed to. overturn mo.rethan three-quarters o.f the important
civil rigqts decisio.ns o.f thj lastquarter-century.
Wo.lfso.n said that o.ne o.f the
wo.rst pro.blems regarding the courts
is that they were needed to. "catchgays up legally to. where we aresocially. Gays have won the battle forsocial change and social acceptance, that will enable us to. win what wewant. 'But the law is far behind where -H
we are in terms o.f social acceptance. ~And that's ~hy we need thefed~~/courts. And that's why these appoint- i5
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, Strauss believes that there is ~the added f~cto.r: o.f lack o.f repre- sentatio.n. "Ho.w can the ,bench reflecto.ur interests as gay men and lesbianso.r as o.ther mino.rities when we aren't
up ther~? The bench has no. lesbians,no. women, no. gays, rio. non-whites- it
difference
who.'s visible.
makes
Visibility equals respect, and we do.n't
get that from the bench."
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That would make a Sanders candidacy
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AIDS iSsues, but by voting Republican
be attended by a delegation of 100
on so many other social issues and supAmerican gays anql lesbians under the ;porting so many anti-gay Republicans
suspices of IGLHR(:.
and their agendas, he ends up shortIn Leningrad, meanwhile, authori- ,changing oµr community and hurting us
ties have dropI!>ed sodomy charges
in the process. Green votes with his
against Olga Zhuk, founder of the'party o~ so many budgetaly issues that
Tchaikovsky Foundation for the Culturthe noble AIDS initiatives he votes forare undone by his sUpportof Republican . al, Initiatives and Defense of Sexual,budgetary objectives which hamper
Minorities, the 'city's only gay group.
funcling for AIDS research and services
During a December meeting with.the Leningrad City Council, Zhuk, whoand dampen the quality of life of people
with AIDS.
is a lesbian, was inaccurately charged
with violation of Russian Penal COde
Green likes to tout himself as a leadArticle 121.1, which outlaws anal sex
er within his party on gay and lesbianand AIDS issues, but given the complabetween men. Lesbian sex is not illegal
in the USSR
cency he's reportedly
shownin
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Tchaikovsky Foundation, after having
alone Repuolican ideology. It should also
encouraging discussions with individbe noted that Gi-een voted ~gainstraising
ual councilors. Instead, she was met
the minimum wage and often tows theby the city attorney and the public
Republican line on foreign policy. A "libprosecutor,
who charged her witheral" Republican is usually still worse
male sodomy and with "gatheringthan a moderate Democrat, and progresgroups of criminals."
sive gays should not be fooled by Green.
Zhuk says that she was lat,er
Overall, he is far from a progressive
harassed by KGB agents, ,who stole
member of Congress and does, in fact
her keys and burgled her apartment,-J
Irepresent~he party of greed. No
making off ,with Tchaikovsky Foundaprogressive gay person could coqcFivtion documents. This also happened toably consider supporting him. ', Kalinin and MGLU in,Moscow last fall.
• East Side Assembly member
At press time, the telephones at,
Steven Sanders is reportedly gearing up
the Soviet embassy in Washington
tol take on Green. ,Sanders has been awere busy or went unanswered, as
Sponsor and vocal wppo(ter of our civil
has been the case for months.
rights bill in Albany and is perhaps one
Moscow directory assistance also didof Albany's \Jest-liked Assembly mem:.·
not answer.
hers. He is good-natured, congenial and,Soviet activists request telecommitted to our issues. Sanders would
grams to the Moscow and Leningrad
make a superb member of Congress.
city councils denouncing Lukeshev'sHis one shortfall is in his choice ofmurder and the harassment of gay
endorsements. He plays it safe and suporganizations.
'ports those entrenched in his party.
Gay Massachusetts Democrat, Rep.
Sanders endorsed, the egregious Carol,Greitzer, against gay activist Tom Duane
Bamey Frank, has already wired Sovjet
authorities his complaints, writing, "I
and refused to endorse Deborah Glickam deeply,disturbed
to learn of thein this year's Assembly race. Sanders ismurder of Alexander Lukeshev, the. also, a longtime booster and friend t9'
arrest of Olga Zhuk and the harassdeath-penalty advocate Andrew Stein,ment and, detainment of Roman Kalinand despite his own record of commitment to civil rights, Sanders backed thein. jI strongly condemn the systematic'ever-racially-polarizing
Ed Koch forharassment of gay men and lesbians,mayor in 1989. Sanders is still young
and I urge you to demonstrate humaniand can improve his endorsementtarian concern by helping to stop the.,record by supporting some true progres
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