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Private Lives
Should famous gays and lesbians who are 'out' in their private
lives but closeted to the general public be brought out in the gay
press? Is the sexual orientation of public people a private matter?
Does coming out harm careers as much as staying in the closet harms
the community as a whole? Are there different rules for reporting theprivate lives of famous gays and lesbians than for famous straights?
A time-honored maxim for lesbians and gays has been that'people will come out when they're ready to, and that it's unthinkable to 'expose' someone who is still closeted. In most situations
this is certainly true.
However, both society in general and the law in particular havedifferent standards for those who choose to become famous. It isvirtually impossible for 'public figures' like movie stars or politicians
to sue for libel when the media open up their private lives. The law
maintains that people give up most of their privacy when they
become famous. Some may disagree with this, but not the millions
who purchase the tablOids, or publications like People, Us, or even on
occasion the New York Times. The common currency of fame seems
to be-who's sleeping with whom, who's getting divorced, who had an
abortion, or who's cheating, on their spouse. Much of magazine publishing is based on the no-holds-barred reporting of the private lives
and loves of the famous, and their heterosexuality is constantly
implied, avowed and affIrmed. Far from complaining about this stateof affairs, the famous seem to love it. The public certainly does. And
the Constitution protects it.
But when it comes to those who are famous and gay a different
standard is applied. Suddenly people begin to say that the love affairsof the famous are "nobody's business,' that sex is a "private matter,«that "privacy is supreme." Often the same people who devour the latest Hollywood tidbit about straight romance or such matters as alcoholism or wife beating grow indignant over the idea that a gay movie
star's love life should be public. Why?
The answer seems to be that it's considered so incredibly damaging to one's career, such a shocking, heinous disgrace, and such anembarrassing, unappetizing subject that we in the press should, if
anything, help famous gays hide their lives.
But consider this: no useful social good is served by the prurient
exposure of every divorce, every infidelity of the famous. Yet an enormous, revolutionary social benefit would result from the public 'coming out' of the thousands of hidden gay role models who exist in theranks of the famous and powerful. And we're speaking not about
those who are truely closeted from their families or friends, but only
those who are out in their private, but not their public, lives.
Gay and lesbian leaders have long acknowledged that thecause of liberation would be vastly enhanced if more of the famousin society were to come out. Until now it's seemed sufficient towait for them to do so of their own accord. Twenty years after
Stonewall the wait is getting a little long. A whole new generationof gay and lesbian youth suffers for the cowardice of famous gays
who, unlike Blacks, latinos and other oppressed groups, have theenfeebling luxury to hide.
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5LETTERS
PomNo
I want to congratulate
you on the August 28 OutWeek article concerning
safer sex practices in gay
pornographic
videos. In
October 1988 the WhitmanWalker Clinic placed an ad
In The Washington Blade and
The Advocate focusing on
the need for safer sex practices In pornographic videos.
To my knowledge, this was
the first advertising of il$ kindever to appear.
The findings of the article that appeared In OutWeek very much reinforce
the need for the step wetook earlier this year. I amvery proud of the forwardthinking ood effective adver-

tislng that is sponsored by
our Education Project, and I
commend you for your commitment to these Issues.
Jim Graham
Ac:inlnlstrator
WhitmarrWalker Clinic
Washington, D.C.

Chicken Hawks?

Bull-OlleyYour magazine arrived
on the scene blasting The

In the article -AIDS Doc
Blasts City on Treatment
Access:Chris Bull writes
about Community Research
Initiative's press conference
at which CRI criticized thelack of experimental treatments in municipal hospitals.
Bull asserts-without
attribution-that-The press
conference
was seen by
many as a response to an

NewYork Native;

OF A ~N~\.- ......... -.
OUT'YWEEK-It's

biased:-No one reads It
anymore." All the little clones
on your magazine who aremembers of ACT UP tried toboycott
The New York
Native. Now, I read on page
14 of your September 24th
issue In the article -Greitzer
Survives Another Gay Chal-

STICK WIT. ME·.Rl\T. Wf"RE ONE

6.

lenge" that -Some involved
with the campaign said thatthe endorsement of Greitzer
by the New York Native andthe Stonewall Democratic.,
Club, both of whom also
endorsed Koch, cost Duanethe votes he needed in theWest Village os well."
Well dahllngs, the chickens cdme home to roost.
David Felstein
Astoria

October 1, 1989

earlier announcement
by
Gay Men's Health Crisis
advocating anonymous HIV
testing for people at risk fordeveloping AIDS."
It would hove been not
only fair but accurate for Bull
to add that many of the participants in the CRI press
conference-specifically,

the Minority Task Force onto the individual. I and my
AIDS, the Hispanic AIDS
co-workers
have always
Forum, and the Black Leadasked callers about how
ership Commission on AIDScapable
they feel they
support GMHC's testing poliwould be to handle a posicy and participatedin thetive test resuit, have inquired
GMHC press conference at
as to resources and insurwhich it wa. announced.
ance coverage and pointed
At that press conferout that funding for free AIr
ence, GMHC's Executive(ADAP) runs out in SeptemDirector Richard Dunne said,
ber. We walk a very fine line
"The existence of effective
between what is best for the
drugs is meaningless without
individual caller and theaccess to them... We call on
inadequaciesof our lousy
the city, state and federal
health care system. Please
governments to work togethdo not paint us as irresponsier to ensure that life-saving
ble idiots.
treatments
and care are
M.S.
available
to all without
Manhattan
regard to ability to pay.·
For years, GMHC has
called on the City to expand
Inquiring Minds
services for an HIV-infected
Congratulations on thepeople. Through the Compublicationof a very finemittee for AIDS Fundlngmagazine. Since runningwhich includes GMHC, CRI, across a copy several weeks
the Minority Task Force onago, I have continued to
AIDS, the Hispanic AIDS
Forum and others-we've.
won increases In the City
AIDS budget for each of the
pa.t three years. CRrs goals
are not incompatible
with
GMHC's at all.
Timothy J. Sweeney
Acting Exec. Director
Gay Men's Health Crisis
Manhattan
Hot·Under·
The-CoIlar·Une
I began reading theissue of Saptember 11, 1989
UpCliimy return home after agrueling tlve hour stint on the
GMHC Hotline.
SandQr Katz's ·Undermining It's Own Credibility"
was, In part, quite Infuriating.
In it, he reports the heresay
study of two unnamed
health professionals
whoclaim that they were told by
GMHC Hotline Counselors to
get tested and not concern
themselves with treatment
information.
Pleasebeadvised that regardless ofwhat GMHC's policy Is on
testing, the Hotline has
always had and will continue to have a policy of leaving the decision to be tested

buy it each week.
I wOLlld like to commenton the article "In Our Own
Hands" in the Sept. 4th issue.
I was recently
in awheelchairdue to an
auto/pedestrian
accident,
so much of what was said isvalid. However, I take exception to Kim's suggested
response to questions of"what happened?"
It made me feel goodwhen someone took thetime and interest to ask. I
had many interesting conversations with these people,
many of whom have also
been in wheelchairs at sometime in their lives, or had relatives or friends who were.
I had many people v.tlo
offered to help me when I
needed it, without my evenhqving to a.k for help. And I
thanked every one of them. Of
course, not everyone will help,

but the vast majority of people
will, espeddly if you ask.
Kim, you complain thatno one wants to be aroundyou. With your attitude, I can
see why! Loosen up and befriendly to those who show
an interest in you. Be joyful
and happy. Being rude will
get you nowhere fast, and it
will surely make people think
twice about helping you
and others in the Mure.
Wayne Coombs
West Hollywood, Calif.

Coast Toast
Congratulations
OutWeek! What a refreshingbreath of creative journal.ism. Thanks especially for the
Gay Record Label article,
since I own Megatone
Records. I read gay papers
from all over the country andI like Out Week the best. You
haven't copycatted every-

This week's nightmare is New Jersey Republican gubernatorial candi·date Jim (01' Fagbasher) Courter. Seems Jim has a problem with allowing gays
and lesbians to become teachers or foster parents. In this regard we guesshe's an improvement over current Governor Kean, who thinks lesbians arewitches. At this rate they probably won't let Charles Nelson Reilly do a lounge
act in Atlantic City.

October 1, 1989

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7

body else's articles, and react? I don't believe thethank God you all have a ·communlty" should. There
sense of humor based In are too many other real
reality.
issuesthe community should
The Mark Harrington
focus on. Gay activism Is
article on Terry Sutton was beginning-to payoff. Thevery moving also. Terrywas parallel track drug testing
my roommate and close decisionby the FDAIs a confriend, so of course I'm very crete resultof It. The20 perInvolvedIn ACTUP/SanFran- cent price reduction for All
cisco's Treatment I$sues by Burroughs Wellcome Is
Committee. Pleasecatch us another. If activism Is goingon the television show West pr.""57th this Fall(CBS).Theyare
doing practically an entire
show on Terry Sutton andwhat he stood for.
Keep up the good workand I'll send In some news
flashesfr()m the WestCoast.
Here's one: last night agroup called ·Stop AIDS"Now Or Else-Opera House
Chapter" disrupted opening
night at the Opera amidst
lots of controversy. I say
Bravo. Some say why therich folk who already givebucks? I say It's not enough to continue to win battles,
to give money alone. If It then they shouldbe real vicwas their epidemic they tories such as these, with
Importantpay-offs.
would pick up the phone
Increasingly, for activand wield their power to put
the pressure on, to get the Ism to be effective, It willfunding 'going, to end this have to bring attention toInequities and Injustices Innightmare.
society, and then win the
Marty Blecman
heartsand mindsof the reaSanFrancisco
sonablestraightmainstream.
ThankGod this Summer
Over Retraction
I'm writing this letter as nonsensehasn't gotten any
a result of your article ·Set- attention outside of certain
tlng the Record Straight on segments of the urban gay
Summer: published In the community. To the wider
Sept.18thissue..
population, it would only
My'first reaction is that reinforce a frivolous gay
thiswhole SUmmernon-issue stereotype. .
Michael R.Violanti
hashad too much attention.
Manhattan
She's a talented female
singerwho found JesusdurIng a difficult time In her
career. Each of us copeswith misfortune differently.
Her way of coping may
have given her some comfort, but being a pubfic personallty. she should have
known (or been told byresponsiPlemanagement) to
keep her mouth shut about
controversialsubjects.
.Well,she didn't, so how
should the gay community

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October 1. 1989

XEROXEDcarrying your speech) did
Gays? AIDS?
you deign to mention theDavid Dinkins
thousands of lesbians andManhattan BoroughPres.
gays who rallied with you in
DearMr.Dinkins:
I am dismayed by your SheridanSquare.
Some of your gay supfailure to acknowledge lesbian and gay votersor men- porterstell me that I shouldtion lesbian/gay concerns, look at your long record of
most particularly the AIDS support for our causes andnot be preoccupied bycrisis,in last night's victory
speech. You cited over a your momentary lapse In
dozen issues,including some the flush of victory. I main(such as support for Soviet tain. however,that it is precisely at such moments Jewry and the status ofwhen we are caught up In
Israel) over which themayor's office has absolute- exdtement and confusion
and the TV cameras are
ly no jurisdiction; yet you
rolling - that our true priorifailed to mention an epidemic that has killed 12,(0)New Yorkersand has Infected an estimated 2OO,(XX) to500,(0) others. Nor did you
speak out against the current wave of anti-gay violence or mention spousal
rightsfor unmarried couples.
While all local televisionstations were carrying yourspeech live, you acknowledged the support of labor
leaders. politicians. campaign workers. friends andfamily. but failed to mention
any of the numerous lesbian/gay volunteers who
worked their tails off for you
and likelydelivered enollgh
ties are revealed.
votes to provide you with
I went last night as
your margin of victory.
Several of us lesbians your supporter to take partin a celebration of victoryand gay men who hadfor a coalition movment inworked on your cqmpaign
and were in attendance at which I felt included; I left
feeling once again excludyour victory celebration
were so distressed by your ed and taken for granted. I
have in the past argued
failure to address our concernsthat we quickly wrote that AIDS activists should
support your campaign, nota sign that said simply:
disrupt it. Until I see clear·GAYS? AIDS?· We thenpushed our way to within a and unequivocal evidence
few feet of the rostrum.held that you take lesbian andthe sign up. and called out . gay voters seriously;until I
hear you talking consisteritto you. You continued toramble on ignoring us. Only Iy in your campaign
after we screamed at you' speeches about the need
and waved our sign in your to fight AIDSwith treatment.
face (and atter all the tele- hospital beds. housing andvision stations had stopped
education; until you once

again earn my trust; I will
withhold my support andadvocate confrontation.
Sincerely,
Aldyn McKean
Manhattan

W1gstock ShockTO ACT UP
I am very upset about
your actions at Wlgstock'89.
It was a rotten shamesome hooligans attacked

ACT UP member calls me afag hater for continuingwith a planned live show,
something Is very wrong
with his tactic and words. Is
It him/ACT UP against me?
I thought ACT UPwas me.
ACT UP has been out
there fighting for my life that Is fighting AIDS which I
have and I assume everyone else either has or fears.
ACT UP has been the mostimportant organization for

MACT held a picnic near
the 72nd Bandsheliin Central Park. On that sameday, the Puerto Rican Folk
Festival was being held at
the Bandshell.
There
were
park
rangers and police officers
In large numbers this day,visibly enforcing the NYC
law prohibiting alcoholic
beverages
In the park.
Police actions Included
extensive searching andt ,. confiscating of many pack- ages carried by patrons.
And In some Instances,
police officers were seen
forcibly taking or emptying
beer cans and cups frompeople's hands.
While we are wellaware of the existence ofthe law, we are also wellaware that this law Is notenforced in a consistentmanner.
For example,

Wigs. A fag bashing at aLOVE-IN? And I would liketo know why the pOlicedidn't Immediately cometo the rescue.
Aren'tpolicemen paid to protect
everybody?
I'm thankful that theattackers were finally arrested and grateful the ACT UP
member was released tothe police but your actions
taken to get volunteers tojoin your urgent crusadewere downrightrude tothose involved with Wigstock. Calling us narcissistic
was cheap.
Wigstock is a show.
What were you in Tompkins
Square Park for? A riot?
At Wigstock there are
Drag Queens galore andphotoses.sions aboundaround every square inchof the park. Yes it is narcissism of the highest order.
Have you every had aphoto opportunity? Sometimes it feels sooo good.
I was there to celebrate in a fantasy of Peace,
Love & Wigs and when an

what needs to be done
today.
PLEASE STOP YOURREBELLIOUS
ACTIONSAGAINST YOUR OWN KIND.
IT'S NOT WORKING. YOU
ARE CREATING A GREATDIVIDE AND WE DON'T
NEEDTHATNOW.
Love from,Tom Rubnitz

Park and Prejudice
New York City Departmentof Parksand Recreation
Manhattan Borough Headquarters
New York City
PoliceDepartment
Commissloner of Community Affairs. To Whom It May Concern:
COOl (Committee of
Outraged
Lesbians) and
MACT (Men of all Colors
Together) are sister andbrother organizations fighting racism, primarily in thelesbian and gay community, and anywhere we mayfind it.
On Sunday afternoon,
August 27th, COOL andmany of our members havebeen to Central Park tohear the New York Philharmonic, and have witnessed
the police officers and park
rangers not enforcing thelaw at all, while people carried In and drank fromopen containers of wineand champagne.
We would like to knowwhat departmental guidelines are used by the NYPD
and the Parks Department
when choosing between
enforcement
and nonenforcement
at different
events in Central Park. In
particular we hope that thedifference
In enforcing
such guidelines
is notdependent upon the racialcompositionof specificcommunities and events.
We would appreciate
your prompt reply, as thisdiscrepancy causes a great
deal of concern among ourmembers. Please respondat the address below.
Waiting on the edge,
Udell Jackson
COOl/MACT
Coorsauery
To the Editor:

The Advocate
We haverecently
added the new publication
Outweek to our current
reading list, which Includes
the Advocate, for information and news affecting thegay community. The Advocate has been one of ourfavoritemagazinesforthree years and we look forward to each new blweeldIy issue. Initially, we thought
there were too many overlapping stories In the two
publications
to juslfy thecost of subscribing to both.
However, this may not be
the case In the future. We
both have a concern overasensitive
political
issue-Coors Beer.
The reason for writing
this letter Is the Advocate's
lack of reporting about theCoors beer controversy, but
Instead now accepting
advertising money from theCoors company. Outweek's
two recent features entitled 'aDebate Rages Over Coors
Boycott·(7/3/89)
andaDon'tDrink
Coors·(7/24/89) are thought-provoklng stories that raise
concern for Informed consumers, particularly within
the gay community.
The
recent full page Inside
cover advertisements In the
Advocate (issues 529,532
and 534) for Coors beer are
offensive and politicallyincorrect given the seriousness of the debate and thegravity of the Issue.
Besides the dollars, why
would
the
Advocatechoose to advertise for the
Coors company considering the ongoing boycott.
controversy, debate andnews over Coors beer? The'
Coors brothers have publicly spoken out that ahomosexuals are an ct>omlnation
In the eyes of God· andthey also donate large sumsof money to anti-gay organizations, thereby indirectlyl

S.. XEROXED 011 , ....

October 1. 1989

71

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9News

AIDS Group Cracks
Drug Monopoly
Pentamidine Available at Huge Price Reduction
by Andrew Miller
NEW YORK - A New York Citybuyer's club for people with AIDS isproviding a way to purchase pentamidine, an important treatment for an
AIDS-related illness, for up to 80 percent less than the drug costs in pharmacies in the United States. The
People With AIDS Health Group has
begun helping people with AIDS and
HIV infection to import pentamidinefrom England, where the retail price ofthe drug is five times less expensive.
The Health Group's move marks
the first time that any organization has
effectively attempted to compete witha company marketing a federallyapproved drug by providing, accesS to
it for less money.
Lyphorned Inc., the dr:ug's exclusive U.S. manufacturer, would notcomment, on the Health Group's activities, but a company spokeswoman
told OutWeek that Lyphomed very
recently prevented, through a court
injunction, a Texas company from distributing an unrefined form of pentamidine to physicians.
"Bringing in the drug violates thepatent exclusivity that Lyphomed
holds,· said Stuart Fischer, a consultant with Geto and de Milly, Inc., apublic relations counsel to Lyphomed.
Derek Hodel, executive directorof the People With AIDS HealthGroup, spoke carefully about his organization's decision. Used to operating, through loopholes and between lines
of fine print in national and international drug laws, he stressed that the
Health Group is "helping people toimport the drug, not selling it.·
While the FDA allows individuals
to import medications from abroad fortheir personal use, it is strictly illegal
to offer unapproved drugs for sale in

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October 1, 1989

this country. Purely for contractual
reasons, another company's versionof pentamidine would still be considered an unapproved drug.
Not Concerned About Legal Action
Although Hodel spoke cautiously
about the program, he said he is notconcerned about legal action from
Lyphomed.
"To the best of ourknowledge, Lyphomed would haveno grounds for suit. We've consulted
with attorneys who feel that individuals have the right to import this lifesaving medication, just as any otherlife-saving medication, regardless ofany artificial licenSing agreement,· hetold OutWeek.
Pentamidine, manufactured anddistributed exclusively by Lyphomed
in the United States, is a treatment forpneumocystis
carinii pneumonia(PCP), the leading cause of deathamong people with AIDS.
In its aerosolized form, pentamidine is also used successfully as aprophylactic both by people who are
HIV positive but have never had PCP,and by people who have had thepneumonia previously.
The prophylactic use of pentamidine was approved by the Food andDrug Administration last spring. Its
use as a direct treatment for PCP had
been approved previously.
One FDA-approved dose of pentamidine, dispensed in Single-dosevials, costs $100 wholesale, and isavailable retail anywhere from $105 at
one New York pharmacy to $300 at
some drug stores across the country.
Including shipping, handling andcustoms charges, the cost for HealthGroup clients is $40 per vial. a savings of at least $65 dollars for American pentamidine customers. Each vial

contains one FDA-approved dose of
the drug. The actual retail price inEngland is just under $30.
. The Health Group is now collecting prescriptions in the U.S., translatingthem into British prescriptions whennecessary. and then buying the drug at
British pharmacies at full retail price.
Rhone-Poulenc, a giant French
pharmaceutical company, manufactures and distributes pentamidine
worldwide, including in Great Britain.
Exclusive License
Because the drug is purchased
retail, however, Rhone-Poulenc wasnever involvedin the process.
Lyphomed has the exclusive license
to market in the United States because
it w~s developed
as an "orphan
drug,· a federal program that essentially grants a monopoly to drug companies
that agree to develop
treatments that do not have a large
potential market.
Lyphomed's exclusive rights tothe injectible form run out in October,1990. The company retains a guaranteed monopoly on aerosolized pentamidine until July, 1996.
Beginning in 1987 by making
unapproved,
non-prescription
substances like dextran sulfate and AL721 available to people with AIDS,
the People With AIDS Health Groupmade headlines last year when it
began prOViding unapproved,prescription drugs like fluconazole for its
clients. This is the first time that the
Health Group will proVide access to adrug that is actually available by prescription in U.S. pharmacies.
Hodel's motives are blatantly economic: he said that the Health Groupis trying to force down the price ofthe medication by providing somebasic American-style competition.
"If Lyphomed has any sense ofdecency or compassion, it will examine its own pricing strategy, and try tobetter suit the needs of its clients:
people with AIDS.·
Hodel said that he hopes themove will have ramifications for otherdrugs as well. "When a drug in theu.s. is priced at five times its price inanother country, you have to wonder
if there aren't other drugs that are also
overpriced or artificially high.·
Despite its approved
status,which facilitates reimbursements for
its cost through private insurers andMedicaid, and its widespread availability, access to pentamidine is further complicatedby issues of
discrimination. Because many who
use pentamidine are HIV-positive andat serious risk for PCP, but have notnecessarily
been diagnosed
with
AIDS, many purchase pentamidine
out of pocket to avoid filing an HIVrelated health insurance claim.
According to Rona Affoumado,
the executive director of the Community Health Project, which treats many
people with AIDS, a majority ofpatients who have insurance choose
not to file claims for aerosolized pentamidine treatments.

through a nebu- ; 0lizer, which con- )0
verts the liquid
pentamidine intotiny droplets thatare then inhaled.
The cost of
pentamidine was %raised to $99.45
per vial in August,1987. Its original
price when the
drug
came
to
market in October, 1983 was$25. There was
one interim priceincrease between
1983 and 1987.
Hodel notedthat the latest priceincreasecorresponded
to increased anticipation in the AIDS
community about
the drug's
approval, and concluded, "Lyphomedispricegouging, and they -,_1have a captive __~:7:':7~-'\,\" '
au d·tence. Because ,) .... I'"~"" \~.''1.
health care is an ---..
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Enormous Demand
So far only three or four customers have taken advantage of thecheaper pentamidine, according to
Hodel, who noted that its availability has not yet been publiCized,
adding, "We've been qUietly piecing
this project together
for several
weeks, and anticipate
that thedemand will be enormous. Accessto information proceeds access totreatment. •Dr. Joseph Sonnabend, a physician with a large AIDS caselpad, who
is also on the board of directors of
the People- With AIDS Health Group,said, "There is a demand for inexpensive pentamidine among people who
don't get Medicaid and don't haveinsurance, as well as among people
who prefet not to file claims for
AIDS-related expenses.·
Pentamidine comes in a powdered form, which is then reconstituted and either injected or admiriistered/out-of-the-pocket
IMPORT ESCORT
Photo: Scott Morgan
expensefor ~o PWAHG's D,rek Hod,1many people 10
the U.S., unlike any other westernadministrations for pentamidine, poscountry except South Africa, this sort ofsibilities of combination therapies andprice gouging directly affects the quality
pediatric population research,· haveof people's healthcare:kept the company's coSts high.
Pentamidine, marketed as Pentam 300, the injectible used to treat
Ethical and Proprietary
PCP, and NebuPent, the preventative
But Melissa Marsden, a spokesusedin aerosolized
form,
iswoman for Lyphomed, Inc., denied
Lyphomed's only "ethical and proprithat the price increase was connected
etary drug" currently on the market,
to the FDA's approval process.
although there are other drug-store"The development of an orphan
type drugs. in development, according
drug was a departure from our reguto Marsden.
lar generic drug business, and theMarsden could not supply informacosts were way beyond the costs thattion on pentamidine's
profitability
the company was accustomed to forbecause Lyphomed does not make pubits other kinds generic hospital·
lic its break-downs on profits or revinjectibles,~ which include multivitaenues for individual product items. 'Y
mins, trace elements and certain kindsof antibiotics.
.
For information
on importing
She added that Lyphomed's
Britishpentamidine, caJJ the l'tKp/8 With
"ongoing
commitment
to AIDSAIDS Health Group at 212-532-0280.
research, including different forms of

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News

Burroughs Cuts AZT Price
20 Percent
Decision Comes Amid Protests
and Nationwide Boycott
by Andrew Miller
NEW YORK - Burroughs Wellcome, the monopoly manufacturer ofAZf, cut the price of the costly AIDS

treatment on Monday, September 18.
The move followed months of pressure from the AIDS and medical communities, a boycott of Burrough's

over-the-counterproducts, and ahuge demonstration at the New York
Stock Exchange that delayed trading
for almost five minutes, and generated national media attention.
AZT, or aZidothymidine, is soldunder the brand name Retrovir, and is
the only federally-approved
AIDS
treatmentthat works directly tocounter the effects of HIV, the virus
associated with AIDS. It has been on
the market since March 1987. It is themost expensive drug ever marketed,previously costing patients $1.50 per
capsule, or over $8,000 per year for astandard regimen.
But Burroughs' move, which will
reduce the price to $1.20 per capsule,or just over $6,000 per year, was met
with little enthusiasm
from AIDS
advocates. And activists promised togo ahead with the planned boycott[see sidebar] of products such as Actifed, Sudafed,
Neosporin,
andEmpirin, all manufactured by Burroughs Wellcome.
The drug giant, headquartered in
Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, and a subsidiary of a larger British
parent company, has defended its
pricing of AZT, attributing its highcost to the multi-million dollar costsof developing the drug. Burroughs
has also cited the possibility that thedevelopmentof other AIDS drugs
might destroy the market for AZT,
creating huge losses on the company's original investment.

Profiteering Charged

AZ. TEED OFF
Activists on Wall Str•• t zap W./lcom.
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Photo: lee Snider/Photo Images

But AIDS activists have charged
that the development costs for AZT,
which were shared by the National
Cancer Institute, a federal agency,

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Photo: Ben Thornberry

GOLDEN POWER
Mar. go-go dancer tllke. lIim lit Burrough.' products

Getting Pissedby Michelangelo Signorile
In San Francisco, activists race through drug stores,
busily stickering boxes of Actifed, Sudafed, Neosporin andPolysporin with stickers that read "Queers Against Profiteers: In Seattle, people with AIDS planned to be out infull force at last weekend's AIDS walk urging the lesbian
and gay community to "boycott Burroughs." Students at
Oberlin College in Oberlin" Ohio are pushing the college
administration to ban all Wellcome products from the college pharmacies and infirmaries. In Orlando shifts of people sit in an office and call.·Burroughs' toll-free number all
day long, haranguing the office of President T.E. Haigler.
And'in Kansas City activist Mark Cheney spent 23
hours in jail, was charged with a Class D felony for propwere no higher than the averagedevelopment costs for all new drugs,
and have criticized Burroughs' refusal
to divulge actual financial data on
costs and profits.
ACf UP has openly accused thecompany of profiteering, using its

erty destruction and, under Missouri law, faces a maximum of one to five years in state prison for allegedly
defacing $700 worth of Burroughs products with stickers
in a local drug store.
Among other actions, a national boycott of Burroughs
Wellcome's over-the-counter products, which include Actifed, Sudafed, Neosporin, Polysporin and Empirin, is proceeding at rapid speed, despite the announcement that
Burroughs has cut the price of AZT by 20 percent.
Originally, a boycott was to be announced andlaunched in a jOint press conference between activist
groups and service and lobbying organizations such as the
Gay Men's Health Crisis, the National Gay and Lesbian
Task Force and Project Inform. But when Burroughs
dropped the price, the groups decided more joint discussions were necessary before deciding on whether to pro-monopoly on AZf, which is permitted by the government to encourage
the developmentof drugs whose
potential markets a're very small, for
an unethically large financial gain.
Mathilde Krim of the American Foundation for AIDS Research has estimat-

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ed that production of one $1.20 capsule of AZT costs Burroughs between
7 and 15 cents.
·Until Burroughs is forthcoming
abut how it arrived at its price for AZf,
it will never be able to satisfy the calls
for greater price reduction,· Jeff Levi,

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Washington lobbyist for the Gay Men's
Health Crisis, told OutWeek.
On August 28, 'JbfJ New York Timesran an editorial entitled "AZf's Inhuman
Cost," decrying the drug's price as "amassive obstacle to wider use."
Lack of Access
Others have pointed to the lackof access that the drug's high pricecontinues to create among the uninsured and the poor. "It will take a
reduction of nearly 50 percent tomake a big enough difference to truly
increase access to the drug," said Martin Delaney, spokesperson for Project

Inform, a San Francisco-based organization which proVides information onaccess to new and experimental AIDS
treatments., "While we appreciate thereduction, we prefer to see it as an
initial offer, rather than a final statement," continued
Delaney, whocharged that Burroughs' ability tomake such a quick price reduction"suggests that they are merely trimming some of the fat from the price."
Kathy Bartlett, a Burroughs Wellcome spokeswoman, cited "new medical data suggesting that AZf might beeffective in a broader patient population" as a factor in the company's"'1decision, but more or less admitted
that the rising wave of protest playeda part as well.
"We are certainly mindful of theneeds of the patients and the desire fora price change in the medical community," another company spokeswoman
told The New York Times.
While AZT remains the only
AIDS drug approved by the Food andDrug Administration, DDI, anotheranti-viral that has shown some efficacy against HIV. It has recently been
approved for distribution under federal program that allows promising,See BURROUGHS on page 55

the prescribed dosing regimen for AZf -a pill every fourhours. And even this regimen results in alternating peaks
and troughs of AZf in the bloodstream.
Some physicians, recognizing the value of a gcxxl night's
by Edwin Bayrd
sleep, often encourage their patients to take two AZf capBALTIMORE-A group of researchers at Johns Hopkins
University School of Medicine may have come up with a sules just before bed and get a full eight hours of sleep. This
treatment regimen that will allow all HIV-infected individ- produces a serious trough, but whatever hanD this drop inuals who are taking AZT to cut their dosage in antiretroviral protection may do to the patient may be counterbalanced by the benefit of a night of uninterrupted sleep.
half-without in any way compromising the antiretroviralEver since AZT was introduced,
action of the drug.
'. researchers have been looking for a way
If this new regimen works as well.~to increase its half-life-and that is prein large numbers of patients as it did
cisely what Dr. David M. Kornhauser
in the tiny pilot trial, it will mean thatand his colleagues seem to have sucvirtually all those now taking AZf canceeded in doing. What Kornhauser andachieve adequate levels of protection
his coworkers did is combine AZT withagainst HIV with half as many pills.
probenecid, a drug that has long beenThis is certainly good news for'used to treat gout. Probenecid is known
the tens of thousands of ARC and
to inhibit the metabolism of drugs like
AIDS patients who are now taking the
AZfj the thinking was that it might dofull dose of AZT. It is even betterthe same for AZf-and thereby increase
news for all HIV-positive individuals
the half-life of the drug. What the Johns
whose T-cell counts have dropped
Photo: Rink Hopkins researchers found out was that
below 500. Once a person develops AZT
a 1500 mg dose of probenecid (500 mg
full-blown AIDS, Medicaid and private
health insurance will generally begin to pick up the cost every eight hours), in combination with AZT, doubled theof Burroughs-Wellcome's magic bullets. Until you get sick, serum half-life of AZT in all of the AIDS and ARC patients
who were put on the combination therapy.
however, you're on your own.
This pilot study was a small one-it enrolled only 12
Price is not the only problem with AZT, however,
the results must therefore be interpreted
and the results of the Johns Hopkins study, which was patients-andreported in a recent issue of The Lance~ show that the with caution. But Dr. Bruce Montgomery's first pilot study
three major drawbacks of AZf- its exorbitant price, its of aerosolized pentamidine enrolled virtually the sameachieved the same unifonnly
toxic side effects, and its extremely short half-life---can be number of patients-andpositive results. The results of this study are encouraging,effectively countered.
AZf is indisputably toxic. Like most drugs, it is con- in large part because all of the subjects responded, and allof them responded in the same way. Moreover, the benesiderably more toxic in profoundly immunocompromised
AIDS patients than in symptom-free pepple with HIV fits achieved with probenecid were attained with noinfection-a finding that encourages those who now rec- apparent side effects. The study's authors caution that the
toxicity of probenecid, given long-term to HIV-infected.ommend AZf as prophylaxis.
And because AZT has an exceptionally short half-life, patients, is not known. But they also observe that patients
its effectiveness as an antiretrovial agent is virtually nil a with gout "have received probenecid for years with mini•mere two hours after it enters the body. This accounts for mal toxic effects."

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News

Disabled Lesbians
Blockade Music Festival

Photo: Jorjet Harper

ACCESS OR EXCESS?

Women blockading the Lesbian Festival

by Jorjet Harper
Four disabled lesbians----one in awheelchair and three in scooters-were threatened with arrest when
they blocked a public road at the First
Annual East Coast Lesbians' Festival inWest Stockbridge, MA [See article
page Sol Along with several ablebodied supporters, they were protesting what they called the lack ofaccessibility for differently-abled lesbians at the festival, held September
1-4 at a hilly 2oo-acre private camp.
The women issued a call for all
festivalgoers to demand their money
back and leave the site, and attempted to turn back lesbians Who were

just arriving.
"You women here are continuing
to create inaccessible culture," said
Mary Francis Platt, one of the disabled
protesters. "Go horne. It's your responsibility to create accessible culture."
The protesters moved aside eachtime a local resident wanted to go
through. The owner of the campcalled the police after he received
complaints from local residents who
had been stopped and questioned at
the roadblock.
Festival organizers, along withthe camp's director, negotiated withthe police, who agreed to give everyone an hour to come to some kind of
settlement.
In the meantime theprotesters were permitted to remain at
the side of the road as long as traffic
was not blocked.
Three of the four disabled
women had not actually purchased
tickets to, or attended the festival, anddispute raged about whether theyshould l?e let in without tickets' or beissued tickets in some kind of
exchange for "educational work."
At a tense roadside "town meeting," as the police waited nearby, theprotesters addressed a crowd of over
100 women. They complained thatthe ramping of camp buildings forwheelchair access was inadequate,
hydraulic lift shuttle trucks were not
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Columbia Death Threats
GoUnsolved
Case Dropped After University Rebuffs Cops
Keith Miller

Dominick Moro, were not returned.

NEW YORK - Earlier this year,
members of the Columbia University
Gay and Lesbian Alliance (CGLA)
filed a complaint with the New York
City Human Rights Commission alleging that Columbia University officials
refused to cooperate with an investigation by the anti-bias unit of thecity's police department. The police
Were looking into anti-gay death
threats received via inter-campus mailby two Columbia College students
last April. But resistance on bothsides of the issue has resulted in thetwo men dropping
the charges,
d~spite a promise of cooperation,
including the excercise of subpoena
power, from the Manhattan District
Attorney's Office.
After CGLA offered a $500
reward, two students came forward
independently and named the same
student as the culprit, according to
CGLA co-chair Thad Grimes-Gruczka.
But CGLA has charged that university
officials refused to release the name ofthe suspect to the police, out of adesire to handle the incident internally.
University officials investigated
the accusations, and determined theinnocence of the man in question, a
student in the College of Engineering,and now consider the matter closed.
CGLA,however, called the university's
decision unsatisfactory, and requested
assistance from the Lambda Legal
Defense and Education Fund, the Gay
and Lesbian Anti-Violence Project andthe Human Rights Commission, which
in turn Involved the New York City
Police Department's
Bias Incident
Investigation Unit.

"Withholding Information""Similar situations

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"No Gratification"

DROPPING THE MAmR
Columbia graduate Richard Schimpf
Photo: Ellen B. Neipris
rape is reported on campus," GrimesGruczka told OutWeek. "They discourage women from reporting it to thepolice. They try to handle it internally, to keep it out of the newspapers,"
he charged.
Columbia's refusal to cooperatewith the police department's investigation led the Anit-Violence Project's
executive director, David Wertheimer,
to charge, "We ate currently under the
impression that the Columbia Administration has' information central to an
investigation. It is possible that they arewithholding information that would
allow the police to make an arrest."
The information being withheld
was the name of the Engineering
School student.
Out Week's calls to the deans of
the colleges
involved
and toColumbia's
director of security,

But before the Manhattan DA's
Office could launch a grand jury
investigation,
the two men who
received the threats, Jeff Ordower andRichard Schimpf, decided not to pursue the case. In a telephone interview.with OutWeek, Schimpf, who graduated in May, said that while he continues to fault Columbia's decision, he
intended to pen a letter to the college
newspaper, the Columbia Spectaror,
forgiving the death threat's author,
and thanking the community of students and faculty who supported both
him and Ordower.
"Jeff and I came to the same conclusion apart from each other,"
Schimpf said. "We were sick of thewhole situtation. We could get no gratification. We were not convinced that
it was good to have the DA's officepress charges. This letter will satisfy us
both. We will communicate directly tothe one individual [who sent the letter]
and we will publicize how little campus security did to help."
Schimpf also expressed some displeasure with the CGLA board, saying
they blew the incident out of proportion in an effort to make a broadpolitical statement which had "verylittle to do with gay issues." He con.eluded, "They went overboard."

Bullet Attached to Note
The mailed death threat, consisting of a message constructed from letters clippedfrom newspapers"ransom note" style, read: "We'regoing to kill all you butt fucking faggots in CGLA." Attached to the note
was a bullet. The incident followedS•• DEATH TMREATS on page 60

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Newly-Created Illinois
mv Crimes Spark Protest
Activists Denounce Governor as 'Closet Case'

FEY AND FAYE?

Photo: RexWockner

Illinois Governor Thompson IJnd FIJY. DunlJwlJY IJt the ChiclJgo Int.mlJtionlJl
Rim hstiVIII

by Rex Wockner
Springfield, Illinois-Governor
James Thompson Sept. 11 signed abill making it a possible crime for an
HIV-positive person to kiss someone
who doesn't know of the individual's
positive status. The governor also
repealed a one-of-a-kind state law
requiring those seeking marriage
licenses to take an HIV antibody test.
In repealing the marriage testing
law, Thompson said, "I believe it is
far better to encourage testing amongpeople who are truly at risk· than to
mandate testing for people who havenever engaged in any activity which
would cause their infection.'
Since the law took effect on Jan. 1,
1988, 250,000 pre-marital HIV tests inIllinois turned up 52 antibody-positive
individuals. Marriage license applications in counties bordering Wisconsin
and Indiana, meanwhile, dropped asmuch as 21 per cent as lovers crossed
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the $20 to $150 lab fees.
While Thompson was applaudedby AIDS, gay, civil rights and publichealth activists for repealing the marriage testing law, he was denounced
for signing a measure making it afelony, punishable by up to sevenyears in prison, to "expose ...the bodyof one person to the bodily fluid of
another person in a manner that could
result in the transmission of HIV."And for the second September ina row, members of ACf UP/Chicago
staged a rowdy march up Halsted
Street in Chicago's gay neighborhoodto Thompson's
mansion Sept. 15,
protesting his signature on legislation
they called dangerous.
Before the evening was over,protesters had called Thompson acloset homosexual and burned thestate flag of Illinois.

No Transmission Required
Last year Thompson signed a bill

allOWing doctors to test for HIV without patients' knowledge. This year it
was a bill that makes it a felony for
persons with HIV antibodies to share
their body fluids with others without
first announcing their HIV status. Violators could spend up to seven years
in prison.
This year's bill, authored by archconservative state Rep. Penny Pullen(R-Park Ridge), does not require thattransmission occur for a crime to becommitted. It does, however, exclude
the antibody-positive
person fromprosecution if the other individual"knew that the infected person was
infected with HIV, knew that theaction could result in infection with
HIV, and consented to the action withthat knowledge."
Pullen has said previously thatgovernment studies back up her position that open-mouth kissing falls
within the law's parameters, eventhough the government has yet torecord an actual instance of HIV
transmission via kissing.
AIDS activists are calling the newlaw "outrageously vague,' and pointout that violation seems contingent-among
other things-ontheprecise epidemiological knowledge ofthe person allegedly put at risk.

Lack of Leadership
Illinois Gay and Lesbian Task
Force legislative chair Tim Drake says
the measure is ·so confuSing that it's
unenforceable." But Drake added that
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Thompson also vetoed measuresrequiring testing of prisoners and persons indicted for sexual assault, andcreated a new crime of "educational .~intimidation" to address harassment ofschool children 'with AIDS or otherchronic diseases.
Although the Governor's signature on the ·criminalization measure
was the impetus for ACf UP's demonstration, protesters
again dwelledheavily on their belief that Thompson
is a hypocrite by virtue of being acloseted gay man who works against
the interests of the gay community .
. When the group arrived at themansion-which
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NEW YORK - The glitterati andfoot captains of New York's Democratic Party gathered on September 21 at
the Sheraton Center, where scores ofhatchets lay buried under the carpet
as the ·Democratic Unity Breakfast"
unfolded Governor Mario Cuomo put
out a call to all present at the ·unusual
gathering" to unite all sectors of theparty apparatus
in "an agitated,wounded city with its nerves frayed"behlnd its mayoral nominee, Manhattan Borough President David Dinkins.

activists and communities fighting
drugs, Dinkins told the gathering that
the Republican party is "wrong to
oppose a bias-related bill that includes
sexual orientation," and reiterated his
commitments to ending apartheid inSouth Africa, his support for "the fundamental right of every woman" to an
abortion and the existence and security of the state of Israel.
On the previous
Tuesdayevening, Dinkins also put in an
appearance at the Parsons School of
Design, where the opening of an art
exhibit focusing on the Names Project
Quilt had been scheduled as a kickoff
party for a new documentary film
about the quilt by Times of Harvey
Milk director Rob Epstein. The movie
will premiere on HBO on October 15.
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For his part, the borough preswas conciliatory In his remarks, particularly towards outgoing Mayor Edward
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mosaic· of New York's population,,noting lesbians and gay men as integral (along with various hyphenatedAmericans, the elderly, the disabled,and others) to the coaltion which will
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In asserting the necessity of thegovernment to act as an agent forchange, the Democratic nominee said
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WASHINGTON- Since states are
addressing the issue of AIDS and HIV
confidentiality with their own laws, afederal law mandating such confidentiality is not needed at this time, aBush Administration official told aHouse subcommittee September 16.
Dr. James Allen, director of the
National AIDS Program of the Public
Health Service, testifying before theSubcommittee
on Health and theEnvironment, reported on a federallycommissioned study of state AIDS
and HIV confidentiality laws.
Citing the recent passage of theAmericans with Disabilities Act, which
protects people with AIDS and also
people who are HIV positive fromcertain types of discrimination, Allensaid, "The [Bush) Administration studied carefully this report of the current status of HIV and AIDS confidentiality
protectionsin the states, and webelieve that now there is not compelling evidence requiring federal legislation
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had laws on their books that in some
way addressed the use and disclosureof AIDS or HIV status. How the confidentiality issue is addressed, however,varies greatly from state to state.
According to Allen, the reportfound that some states provide·schemes of protection" for HIV-related
medical information, while others pr0vide secrecy guarantees specifically for
HIV antibody test results. Many establish policies favoring disclosure, in specifIC circumstances. Few specify whendisclosure is required or allowed, andnone of the state laws provide "total
and absolute" confidentiality.
The survey also found that most~states cover AIDS and HIV infection
allows the District to use its own funds
as part of existing laws protecting the to provide abortions, it is likely to ronconfidentialityof medical records,
tinue to be a battleground in both chamwhile only 12 states have comprehenbers when it comes back fromsive AIDS-specific laws of the books.
ronference committee. --cJifJD'Nelli
Allen's assertions
were challenged by Subcommittee Chair Rep.
Henry Waxman (D-CA), who stated,"The Centers for Disease Control concluded in 1987 that hundreds of thousands of Americans
shouldbecounseled and tested for AIDS, but
fears of breaches of confidentiality
WASHINGTON-Rep. William Danpose a major barrier into getting thesepeople into clinics," Waxman added, I"We must work to make sure that thisbarrier is overcome." - CUff O'Nelli

nemeyer (R-CA) wants President
George Bush to "denounce" a federal
study of suicide containing research by
a San Francisco social worker that links
young gays' and lesbians' suicidal tendencies with alienation from a societylargely unaware of their existence.
The conservative Congressman's
latest homophobic volley charged thatthe inquiry "adds legitimacy to theheretofore crime of chUd molestation.":Gay and lesbian
advocates
denounced
Dannemeyer's
move,

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WASHINGTON-The
Senatepassed the District of Columbia's budget
for fISCal year 1m on Seft. 14, agreeing
by a voice vote to an amendment thatwould change the D.C. lesbian and gay
rights law to exempt religious institutions from its requirements.
Titled the "National Capital Religious Liberty and Academic Freedom
Act," the amendment was attached to
the D.C. ApPropriations Bill by Sens.
William Armstrong (R-CoIo.) and Jesse
Helms (R-N.C.). If passed, it would
directly amend the D.C. code to exempt
religious institutions from its comprehensive gay and lesbian civil rights law.
The issue leading to the amendment arose in 1988 when, after aneight-year legal battle, Catholic-run
Georgetown University was ordered
to grant "equal access· to ·certain tangible benefits" to two gay and lesbianstudent groups. The university has
since agreed to abide by their court
agreement, regardless of the outcomeof the amendment.
Armstrong acknowledged
that
Georgetown would not change its mindon the issue, but added that he waspursuing his amendment to "protect"
the handful of religious education institutions in the area from the D.C. law.
The House version of the bill does
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accusing him of escalating both society's ignorance about suicide and bias
against sexual minorities. "He shows
his true colors as a cold-blooded
bigot who supports the senselessdestruction of young gay and lesbian
lives," charged Urvashi Vaid, newexecutive director of the National Gay
and Lesbian Task Force (NGLTF),
who wrote Bush in response.
Lesbian and Gay young people
who take their own lives account for
30% or more of all U.S. suicides,
accordingto San Francisco psy-

NEW YORK- Monday, September 18 again foundthe waiting room at St Vincents Hospital filled with angry
lesbians and gay men, who demanded a town meeting todiscuss recent reports of verbal and physical homophobic
attacks at the hospital.
last week, a similar demonstration drew over 200
protesters, when members of ACT UP converged on thehospital after their meeting at the lesbian and Gay Community Center across 7th Avenue, The protests weresparked by the hospital's treatment of Darren Britton, who
was brought to the hospital after being assaulted in a gaybashing at the Wigstock festival in Tompkins Square Park
September 4,This time, over 300 picketing demonstrators carrying
signs that read "Homophobia Dispensed Here," surrounded the periphery of the hospital, located at the northernreaches of Greenwich Village, while demonstrators inside

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chotherapist Paul Gibson. His study is
one of only two about gays in the 50paper "Report of the Health andHuman Services (HHS) Secretary's
Task Force on Youth Suicide" released
early this month.
Dannemeyer called on Bush to

trashed the hospital's waiting room, staging die-ins, outlining their bodies on the floor and writing slogans on thewalls all in indelible black magic marker, 'We gay bash,"someone wrote at the entrance. "Discrimination tolerated
here," was scrawled beside the admitting window.
Meanwhile, ACT UP members Neil Broome and Gerri
Wells met with the hospital's vice president for externalaffairs, Mark Ackermann. The demonstration ended whenWells reported, just after midnight, that Ackermann had
agreed to a town meeting.
Barbara Franzese, a hospital spokeswoman, told OutWeek that "this is just part of the hopital's ongoing discussion" with the lesbian and gay community. She added that
there would be "preparation for hospital representation at
a town meeting, if indeed a town meeitng is decided upon."
Ackermann did not return OutWeeKs phone calls,-Jon Nalley

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urged Dr. James Mason, assistant· HHS
secretary, "to decide whether he willside with traditional" mores or NGLTF's,
naming the grass-roots political group.
Vaid said her letter called on thep,."dent to put °mo,., ,eadenoblp
above prejudice and moral posturing,"
implement the report's recommendations at once and schedule a White·
Hou", meeting to d"",,, the ... dyand "broader issues" of bias based on
sexual.orientation. The report "correctIy identified the special vulnerabilityof lesbian and gay youth to suicide,·
she said. "We are outraged that Dannemeyer urged the President to ignore
this tragic situation,·.
The Monday after ,Dannemeyer's
Sept. 7 letter to Bush, NGLTF and fiveother groups convened a briefing forcongressional staff on the report' andthe necessity of giving youths positive
counseling and facts on sexuality.
Staff members of Dannemeyer andconservative Senators William Armstrong CR-CO)and Gordon Humphrey(R-NH) reportedly were there.
In the report, Gibson said "theroot problem of gay youth suicide is asociety that discriminates against andstigmatizes homosexuals while failingto recognize that a substantial number,of its youth has a gay or lesbian orientation.·-John Zeh

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arms around each other, mocking thosein the parade who were displaying
affection. Police directed the men backto the wedding party. -Rex Wockner

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anti-gay slander.
Police back then stood by andwatched it all. That incensed organizers
Ginny Lynns and Stacie Neldaughterand they decided to fight back. One
year later, after months of organizing,
600 angry homosexuals descended on
Dubuque to tum the tables.
This year there was no organizing-just a single photocopied mailing to some newspapers and activists.
But still, a hundred people drove overto this picturesque town where Illinois, Iowa and Wisconsin meet toshow Dubuquers that "for love, forlife, we're not going back."
At a pre-parade rally, Dubuquecity council member Dirk Voetberg
said he defied public opinion andcame to speak because "all humans
deserve a certain amount of respect.
How can we as a society expect
respect when we deny it to oth~rs?"
Voetberg asked.
Dubuquer Kelly Kaufman told raltiers that "there's a lot of closeted people in Dubuque who are glad you'rehere. Of course,' he added, "there's a
lot who probably aren't glad you're
here, but they'll get over it, I guess."
As the parade wound throughdowntown Dubuque, marchers chanted,"Ho, ho, hey, hey, even farmers can begay,' and "Keep your laws off my body,
keep your church out of my crotch."
There was only one incident withtownspeople when three men attending

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Photo: Rex Wocknera wedding reception at a hotel cameout, extended their middle fingers
towards the marchers and then put their

WASHINGTON-A Senate subcommittee has voted to approve $30
million in funds to provide AIDS
treatment drugs to low-income AIDS
patients in 1990 as part of the coming
fiscal year's Labor, Health and Human
Services Appropriation Bill.
The $30 million dollar grant
would extend, for the second year, a
temporary AIDS drug subsidy which isscheduled to run out at the end of the

NEW YORK-Gay South African activist Simon Nkoli spoke to a standingroom-only crowd at the Lesbian and Gay Community Center on Tuesday,
September 19, after accepting a certificate from the office of Manhattan Borough President David Dinkins, proclaiming the day "Simon Nkoli Day."fISCalyear, Sept. 30. The subsidies are
typically used to provide AZT, theonly federally-approved anti-HIV drug,
to low-income AIDS patients not qualifying for state Medicaid programs, but
may also be used for federallyapproved drugs, like aerosolized pentamidine, which treat opportunistic
infections associated with AIDS.
Of the $30 million, $20 million
comes from HHS funds for a refugee
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which was included in President
George Bush's AIDS funding proposals and carried onto the House's version of the AIDS budget.
What makes this year's proposal
unique is that it provides funds for apermanent AIDS drug subsidy program which, at present, does not exist.
The bill will now face the usual
anti-gay amendments from Sen. Jesse
Helms (R-N.C.) and others, when it
goes before the full Senate for avote.
-Cliff O'Neill

Obituaries
Jack Smith, visionary photographer, filmmaker and artist,died September 18 at Beth Israel
Hospital 'in New York from complications due to AIDS. He was
57 years old and lived in New
York.
Althoughhe''''workedinmany mediums, Smith was perhaps best known as a filmmaker, .
creating'such experimental
works as Flaming Creatures andNormal Love in the '60s, A manof many idiosyncracies,
Smith
often refused to allow his films
to be screened unless he was tobe present. At the time of hisdeath he was working on the
Sinbad Epic, based on the legend from the Arabian Nights.
Highly regarded as one of
the country's finest still photographers, Smith is also considered bymany to be the father of performance art. Among those said to
Photo: Ira Cohen
have been influenced by Smith
include Robert Wilson, Charles Ludlum, John Vaccaro and Ronald Tavel in theater,
and Federico Fellini, Ron Rice, Ken Jacobs, Andy Warhol, Ira Cohen and Bill Vehrin film.
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CONI1ROL~oCommentary by Susie Day

lunch boxes? The postage stamp honoring Alison Bechdel? Where Is Barbie's tomboy playmate---the winsome,leather-jacketed dolly with the teeny
tattoos and pert buzz-cut, who comes
owadays,whatwith complete with her own dainty motorwomen's liberation and all, cycle? What about an M1V video of
success is a woman's pre- Holly Near singing The Mountainrogative. Like getting laid. Which is Moving Song? And when do lesbians
probably why there are so many les- get their ow~ cigarette?
bians. But just because lesbiaris don't
Let's not waste valuable time
·put out" according to Western Civi- worrying if lesbian invisibility is fairlization's standards doesn't mean that or not. Social justice is all right, but ·it
they can't experience success in the usually seems to happen to people
workplace through learning how to with a lot of money and power. Thesecut the balls off the competition, just are the people that I~sbians need tolike everybody else. So even if les-.
bians haven't developed a reputation
for being "good sports" at office parties, we still have enormous potential.
It's just that we tend to express ourpotential in marginal ways. For instance, some lesbians work part-timejobs to bankroll volunteering in various rad-Iib social change groups. Others have little business cards printed
up, then go around consulting for various rad-lib social change groups.
Now, there's nothing wrong with
exploring our pote·ntial outside theheterosexual mainstream. Some of mybest friends are self-actualized under- become equal to. And I have a plan:
We all channel our innate lesbianachievers.· They say they're happYi I
believe them. But if women's libera- sex drive into becoming big corporatetion has any meaning at all, it means moguls. After all, what better way isequality. Therein lies our challenge: there of becoming equal to people
we've gotta become equal to Western with money and power than by acCivilization. Because, let's face it: if quiring an equal amount of money
Western CiviliZation doesn't know and power? Simple, no? While otherabout us, we don't exist.
lesbians are facing cultural extinction
Look around. Is there now, or has out of the picket lines, we could bethere ever been, a Miss Lesbian Ameri- confidently striking our first blows for
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upholstered chairs in the boardroomsof major chemical companies.
Picture yourself resplendid inyour new, powder-blue three-piecesuit. A suit that Sandra Day O'Connor
would kill for. Sleek, Double-vested.
So right for a woman. Mmmmmm.
You can't wait tcf step into the thick ofWestern Civilization, to help defend
Democracy from those small-time nobodies who want it for themselves:·Our company thinks it was very
mean of you to tell everyone that our
product gave you stomach cancer, It.is a known fact that you always havebeen a picky eater and are simply trying to blame us. Now that you've lostyour court battle, you should bethankful that you won't have a big
food bill. Not only do you have no
stomach, you've got no money, either.
Now, kiss the whip."If we want social justice for equalpeople, we've got to stick with thewinnersi i.e., get on the Winning
Team. What do you say we begin
right now to develop that Winning
Team spirit? Give up your overalls
and ·start reading Vogue. Feel contempt for lesbians who have no interest in kinky sex. Stop volunteering atbattered women's shelters. Trade inyour cat for an Akida, Doubt that any
lasting societal contributions will bemade by the Michigan Womyn'sMusic Festival. Take the Eastern shuttle to Grenada on vacation. Support
your local police. In short, grow up.
Being a U.S. citizen is our firstimportant step toward total equality,
But even in this Land of the Free,
gals, there are losers: millions andmillions of people who are opt winning. Racial minorities, welfare mothers, union workers. You know--thedropouts, the shut-ins, the lay-offs, It
makes no sense even trying to beequal to them.
There's a lot of petty, jealous
folks out there, fellow women. They
want our money, our power. But wewill just have to tell them, ·Say, listen,sir-or ma'am-I
worked for what I
have. It's thanks to people like methat the world is being made safe
for-uh-people
like me." Sandra
Day O'Connor would be so proud. TNew York Journal

On Being Arrested
by Bob Rafsky

T

'here
e
are many ways to be arrested. Some are brutal andmore than a few, in New
York City and elsewhere, are fatal.
Despite that, getting arrested ischic now. There's a new genre of gay"first arrest" stories - remarkably similar in tone and spirit to an earlier but
still popular genre, the gay comingout story.
The
writers,.,
more often than not,are young, white and '::middle class. They
give the impressionof having met only
friendly police during k",.:'~
elementary school, jmainly in textbooks.
Confrontations withthepoliceteenagers
hadagame-likequality.
But, like the writersof coming out stories,
the writers of first arrest stories sensed
there was something
more, something theworld was keeping them from discovering - until their first arrest.
Having read more than my shareof these stories, and having seen
more than my share of actual arrests,
I always assumed that my own firstarrest, whenever it came;!,wouldn't be
a big '<leal. I was wrong.
One evening recently, on my way
home from work, I stopped at a small
demonstration not far from City Hall.
The target was the city's Human Resources, Administration, where bureaucrats who specialize in delay and denial
are helping homeless people to die.
About 40 ACT UP members were
circling the sidewalk when I arrived,
chanting at a few exiting employees.

"Koch and Grinker you can't hide! We
charge you with genocide!" Familiar
sight; familiar sound. I picked up a big
pasteboard blow-up of an HRA checkwith the words "Sixty Days Late"scrawled across it, and held it in frontof me as I walked around; at least it
was good agitprop: But I was bored.
Shortly before 6 pm, a decision
was made to march down lower
Bro~dway to City Hall. I lingered witha couple of friends and had to run tocatch up with the demo. As I roundedI~lI

the corner onto Broadway, I saw thefamiliar line of blue uniforms on
motor scooters. But then I saw something unfamiliar: the police had succeeded in pressing the small numberof marchers into a single traffic laneby the sidewalk. Only Charles King,
who I recognized, was on the wrong
side of the scooters, bravely walking
backwards down the street while carspassed him within touching distanceon either side.
We were clearly losing. I knew
what I had to do. I raced to take myposition beside Charles, and started
walking backwards with him. A driverfrom New Jersey obligingly slowed toa crawl in front of us, and since noConllllentary
one wanted to pass between him
and the motor scooters, the only
lane of traffic left open was the one
to our immediate left. Charles and I
smiled at each other.
Then I he'ard something shouted
in a deep voice, but I didn't catch it
until it was repeated. "Arrest those
two!" Arrest? The scenario was thateither our people would join us, andwe would have the street, or thecops would tell us to get back on
the sidewalk. They couldn't be serious about arresting us.
But it happened fast, with theforce of inevitability. A policeman
grabbed my suitjacket. My signmelted away; I
never saw it again.
Someone pulled
my arms behindme, and I felt steel
handcuffs
being
put aroundmywrists, then clicked
shut. I heard somefumbling
withkeys, then I wasshoved up against
a wall on the sidewalk, not evensure how I had
gotten there. A',1 Black policeman'sarm, fully extended, was on my sh~ulder, pressing meback against the w~1. My other shoulder was touching Charles', and on hisother shoulder was the extended armof a white policeman.
My friend Maxine appeared
from nowhere. She asked if there
were !lny calls I needed made, and I
yelled out the phone number where
I was supposed to be at 7 pm. "Do
you have someone who can holdyour jacket?" the policeman pressing
me against the wall asked. Maxine
reached for it; he handed it to her,and started pushing me towards a
paddy wagon.
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Political Science

Co-Factors
by Mark HarringtonT

he scientists at the helm of
our nation's AIDS research efforts like to say we are lucky
AIDS appeared when it did, and notearlier. If It had made its lethal advent ten years before, science, ignorant of T cells and retroviruses, would
have been in the dark.
Jon Engbretson has a different
theory. If AIDS had occurred in the
19605 or 1970s, the elite of American
science would have busied itself
treating and preventing the various
opportunistic infections which actually kill people with AIDS. Insteadof spending millions. of dollars to
elucidate the genetic structure ofHIV, we might now have effective
treatments for mycobacterium avium. THEORY CONRRMED
Dr. JOI.ph Sonnal»ndintercellular(MAI), an organism. closely related to tuberculosis (TB),
an,d. for other opportunistic
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affects up to 50 per
cent of PWAs.
Moreover,HIV
itself varies
profoundly. It mutates
so rapidly and hassuch diverse strainsthat different isolates
can be considered
quasi-species.
Some
doctors, like Donald
Kotler of st. Luke's/
Roosevelt Hospital in
Manhattan, think different viral strains
preferentially
infectdifferent human tis- PROVEN FALSE
sues. Some infect the Dr. Rob,rt Gallobrain, others the blood, others thegut. Viral isolates may be susceptible to different antiviral treatments.
Variations in HlV are confirmed
by variations in the course of HIV infection. p24 antigen is a protein from
the
viral
core.
When p24 antigen
appears
in thebloodstream,itshows HIV is active.
But p24 only ap-·
pears in 20 percent
of people
with
AIDS. Dr. Gerald
Friedland of Montefiore Hospital in the
Bronx told the ·Surrogate Markers conference on September 11 that AfricanAmericans have p24
even less often that
other people with
Photo: Jane Rosett HlV. Africans withAIDS also don't
show much p24 activity. Several new
AIDS drug trials are only for people
who are. p24 pqsitive. Thus exclusion.
criteria which ~are medically unreasonable may also discriminate racially. .
HIV may also progress faster orslower depending on whether a per-Photo: NCI Photoson has other infections. Since atleast 1983, Dr. Joseph Sonnabend of
New York's CRI has been suggesting
that
other
Viruses,
like
cytomegalovirus (CMV) or Epstein-Barr
Virus (EBV) may undermine the immune system on their own, speeding
the progression
to AIDS.
Now
Sonnabend's theory has been confirmed by a study publishedbysomeone on the opposite end of thescientific-ideological
spectrum, Dr,
Anthony Fauci. A paper published in ,.
the July, 1989 issue of Journal of Immunology by Fauci ef al. suggeststhat EBV and CMV cause the releaseof cell proteins (monokines) which inturn stimulate HIV replication. Another study cited at the Surrogate
Markers conference
showed that
hemophiliacs who are CMV antibody
positive progress to AIDS faster thanthose who are CMV negative.
This raises old issues once
thought obsolete.
Is HIV necessary and suffiCient?
For years after HIV was discovered,most research insiders propounded
the notion that the new retrovirus was
the single agent required to produce
AIDS. The epidemiological association
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and the philosophical pleasure of satisfying Occam's Razor ("Do not multiply entities unnecessarilyn) made thisnotion scientifically appealing.
After years of painstaking laboratory research, we know a lot about
HlV's genetic nature and biochemical
behavior in the test tube. But basic
questions about how HIV actuallyworks in the body still remain unanswered. We don't know how HIV
leads to destruction of the immune
system. In particular, the memorable
but inaccurate postulate of Dr. Robert
Gallo, "HIV kills like a truck,· hasproven false.
Research has thus returned at last
to take up loose ends abandoned
when HIV was discovered, examining
It you have sex with other men. no matter how infrequentl}<
always use latex condoms.
the possi\?le role of other co-factors in
Because once is all it takes to transmit the AIDS virus.
the progression to AIDS. Dr. Gallo has
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proposed that human herpes virus 6(HHV-6) stimulates HIV. Despite theirother contradiction, Gallo's theories
have one thing in common: they all
involve viruses supposedly discoveredin his own lab.
It is depressing to realize that somuch research has been wasted in
the last five years. Scientists were focusing on fragments of the virus, andpieces of the disease. Research was--..
based on incomplete theories of HIV
and AIDS.
Science is supposed to be basedon skepticism and the testing of competing hypotheses, but AIDS heretics
like Dr. Sonnabend were too often
ridiculed or ignored, only to be vindicated by later studies.
It is becoming clear, at last, thata person's response to HIV infection
depends on three independent vari~.
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SLEEPING BEAUTIES
Mauhew Biadot and Ben flJison

Director Isaac Julien's
Groundbreaking Looking
For Langston Bursts Forthat the New York Film
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wenty-eight-year-old
Englishfilmmaker Isaac Julien is not at
all worried that Looking forLangston, the pioneering Blackgay film that premiers at the
New York Film Festival on October 1, will typecast him as director. "This film comes out of aquest for truth, a very genuine
search for desire, for my own desire, myown. voice," he says. "And that kind ofquest is. more important than expedientquestions of career. It's very important
to be able to articulate one's selfj if one
doesn't, one dies."
Given that kind of commitment, it's
perhaps not surprising that Looking
comes to the festival trailing clouds ofcontroversy and misconception.
It's,alas, an American controversy. The film,
originally commissioned for England's
Channel 4, aired February 28 (introduced by Audre Lorde) to 750,000 people without stirring up more than the
crank calls Julien says are to be expected. It's also been shown at film festivals
in Berlin and Barcelona, where it won
the Don Quixote award.
But in this country, the film wastwice withdrawn from screenings, oncein Washington D.C.'s International Film
Festival this spring, and again at San
Francisco's Gay and Lesbian Film Festival this summer. According to Julien, theexecutor of the late Langston Hughes'
estate objected to the film's depiction of
the Black poet as gay, and refused to
grant American copyright use for two
poems (including the brief and haunting"I loved my friend") already in the film.
So the film Americans get to see is theedited, if not expurgated, version.
The controversy has also fueled the
misconception that Looking is a documentary about Hughes, a key figure in
the Harlem Renaissance of the '20s, andperhaps the dominant Black writer in
America until the advent of James Baldwin, Imiri Baraka and the Black Powerwriters, C;;fthe 1960s. Although the film
includes information about major gay
participants in the Harlem Renaissance(such as Countee Cullen, Harold Jackman and Bruce Nugent,) and includes abeautifully integrated framing section ofHughes himself performing The Balladof the Fortune Teller with a jazz band,the film is subtitled A Meditation and is
not about the historical Langston Hughes. Instead, as Julien saY{i, "it's more
about the looking," his East Enders

accent rounding thevowels and clipping
the ending.
In short, Julien
says, Looking "isabout Black gay
desirej it's an imaginary search for aBlack gay identity."
Not surprising, themain locale is a gay
bar, where looks
inflame and chill,where tangos aredanced and champagne is drunk, andfrom which emanate
various stories andencounters.
The scenes in
the gay nightclub(strategically locatedbeneathachurch)werefilmed in the Victorian Gothic splendor of London's st.
PancrasHotel:
Juliensays
thearchitecture"enhanced
themythic quality" ofthe movie.
"Be_cause one's constructing
a l?lack
and
white
film
slightly old fashioned in its look,"
Julien says, "it obviously ends up withreferences· to other films. Critics wl\1
notice a myriad of influences: luscious,
mysterious lighting reminiscent of Jean
Cocteauj angelic boys and. marshy
wastelands out of Federico Fellinij anurgent sexuality recalling Kenneth
Anger's "underground" gay classicsj thelayering of story within story as in
Pasolini's tales of erotic adventuring.
Whatever inspires an image, the film
always obeys Cocteau's dictum: "Astonish me!"Julien's "hybrid style" is put to theservice of visualizing primarily the works
of a contemporary gay American poet,
D.C.'s Essex Hemphill. Those not familiar with Hemphill's work are in for a realtreat. Julien says that he first encountered Hemphill's poetry at a "for me,
highly charged" reading in London in
1987. Julien saw in the poems "a recordof our experience." One of the reasonsthat the film exists in a timeless fantasy
world - 20s fashions mixed with 80s
poems - is because Julien "wanted toemphasize the historical connection
between Essex [Hemphilll, James Baldwin and Langston Hughes."
Especially in the American version,
where Hemphill's poems replace Hugh,es', the film's mix of performed poetry(longtime Hemphill collabOrator Wayson
Jones contributes music) and visual daring could almost be described as an
M1V visualization of Hemphill's poetry.
Not that this is your second grade
schoolteacher's version of verse. One ofthe poems, for instance, is Le Salon. The
name comes from a now-departed gay
porn palace in D.C.'s urban-renewed
14th Street honky tonk zone. Surely, no
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a porno cubicle as wittily as Hemphill,
and it is difficult to imagine anyone bettering Julien's combinationsof brief
snatches of film, amorous shadows andecstatic faces for recapturing
thisstrangely disembodied
sex act. Then
there are the scenes of two cruisingleathermen embracing in a dark park, ofthe lovers on a narrow bed, and of thetease in the marsh, just to name a few,
all as exquisitely attuned to the possibilities of Black male beauty as, say, thethree lovemaking scenes in Shes Got toHave It.
In a sense, the film is a defense of
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rain taunts on the frustrated arms of thelaw. Julien views bars as "very importantsites of resistance. w There is no intent tocriticize: "those places are very unstable,
they can be taken away much more easily than erected. AIDS has forced different communities to talk to each other we can't be critical of our surviving sitesof pleasure; we can't always be ideologically correct.
Perhaps the most fascinating aspectof Julien's film is the intellectual groundunderneath its physical sinuosity. Julien
describes his second film, Territories, as
an essay. Lookings discontinuous structure is one way in which the filmmakershows an almost Godardian sense offilm as essay. But Julien'S finest intellecW."

tual quality appears in his ability to think
through a problem and arrive at anutterly simple metaphor for his message.
Of particular note is the issue of racism.
Partly, he embeds the issue in the plot.
One of the bar's habitues is a white gay
man, more than a little unpleasant in theway he drinks too much, flashes hismoney too much, plays put down
mindgames with the Black man who ishandsome but not pretty. He is, Julien
admits, "not very, very different from thecharacters in [Andrew Hollinghurst's]
Swimming Pool Library, one example
Julien says, that in England there is a"dialogue beginning around race andsexual identity.
But racism is also the subject ofWHemphill's If his name were Mandingo.
Julien doesn't visualize lhe poem's. action of a white man having sex with aBlack trick, giving him money, and thenignoring him in the daylight. Instead, themovie's white man wanders amongRobert ~applethorpe
images projected
upon sheets blowing in a movie breeze.
"Actually;· Julien says, "I'm anadmirer of Mapplethorpe's photography.
But those photographs are about white
desire for Black men. That is not thesame as my desire. Those pictures areconstructed through white desire; there
is a lot of projection there,· of what
white men think Black men are.
The discomfort a white 'viewer feels
watching some parts of Looking is areminder that this is very nearly'as mucha Black film as it is a gay one. Julien
doesn't regard his stance as that of aBlack Englishman examining Black
American culture. Rather, he sees a"sense of continuity" across the Atlantic,
a "Black Diasporian sense,~ in which ashared sense of exile unites both cultures.
But if Julien sees a single culture,
he acknowledges
two artistic backgrounds. He views his style heavily
based upon a European heritage, as
important for saying "where I'm coming
from: He has a European interest in theway Hughes embodies "issues,· like"what is the role of Black artists versus
modernism - how is their work exclud-ed from the mainstream? How do you
talk about an artist, who mayor may nothave been gaYt pre-Stonewall? What role
does the Black icon play in relationshipto Black politics? Obviously, there is aheavy conservatism that is instilled Inthat position, which makes it difficult to
express anything besides mainstream
heterosexuality,· Julien "deconstructs"that icon, to arrive, imaginatively, at theman within.
Looking for Langston builds a world
out of bits and scraps, tiny dues to ahidden life. That it should prove so
sophisticated, its director so.talented andsure of his technique, promises we wm
have good reason in looking for Isaac
Julien -: for a long time to come.
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Stillfighting
archaic,
BritishruIe ,HongKong's lesbians andgays see acloudedfuture intheimpendingshift ofgovernments
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by Arthur Lazere
The royal crown colony of Hong
Kong, with some 5.7 million residents,
98% ethnic Chinese, has the highest
density of population in the world. The
central areas of the city, on Hong Kong
Island and the Kowloon peninsula, arepacked with high rise buildings, heavy
street traffic, and crowded sidewalks.
Hong Kong's big city intensity is comparable to that of New York, Tokyo, or
Mexico City.
The appalling position of gays andlesbians in this major world metropolisis the result of a unique combination ofhistorical and political factors.
In China, there are no laws against
homosexuality or homosexual acts. Only
with the advent of British colonial rulein the nineteenth century was Hong
Kong saddled with the existing baggageof English law under which homosexualacts were criminal. Although British law
changed in 1967, decriminalizing homosexual acts in private between consenting adults, reform has not reached Hong
Kong where sodomy is still punishable
by a maximum of life imprisonment.
Homosexuals
are also barred fromworking in the Hong Kong civil service.
While an elected urban Council
deals with local administration of someroutine civic functions, the real politicalpower in Hong-Kong is concentrated in
the governor who is appointed by the
Queen, which is to say, by the administration in power half way around theworld in London--currently the blatantly
homophobic government of Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher,
Under an appointed government,
widespread political apathy is understandable. In a recent election for theLegislative Council, slightly more than
one pe~ cent of the population voted.
For many of the council seats there wasonly one candidate, running unopposed.
Hong Kong has been under British
rule since the mid-nineteenth century,
but, after lengthy negotiations between
Thatcher'S government and the People's
Republic of China, it was determinedthat Hong Kong will return to Chinese
sovereignty in 1997. Altho4gh the termsof their agreement guarantee existing
civil liberties and the maintenance of

current economic and legal systems for
50 years, it is widely acknowledged that'the Chinese will be able to do prettymuch what they want to do in Hong
Kong after June 30, 1997.
The recent student uprisings in
China and the brutal response of theChinese government have accentuatedthe uncertainties and heightened thefears for all Hong Kong residents.
Reports from the People's Republic ofChina indicate that the current politicalrepression has already filtered down to
non-political, nonconformist behaviors,such as openly gay activity.
The People's Republic isn't waiting
until 1997 to establish its presence inHong Kong. The Chinese, in remarkably
capitalistic manner, have been buying
local Hong Kong businesses and realestate. The state-owned Bank of China isbuilding what will be, at 70 stories, thetallest office tower in southeast Asia.
Even before completion, this steel andglass, I.M. Pei designed monolith dominates the skyline and is a constantreminder of the impending new order.
The result of the coming change
and the Chinese repression is a palpable
sense of uncertainty about the future.
There have been shifts of capital out of
the territory and -a "brain drain,' an exodus of skilled and educated middle classpeople Y/ho seek a more secure place tosettle their families. There are businesses
offering assistance in relocation andthere is even a magaZine on the newsstandS called The Emigran~ which advises local residents how to go about
moving elsewhere.
With power vested in an appointed
government, accompanied by a focus onescape, rather than on improving conditions locally, there is little motivation in
Hong Kong for social or politicalactivism. Moreover, the police keep
secret files on homosexuals, raid gay
bars, and have been acknowledged toengage in entrapment
and bribery.
Under such conditions, the risk of political activism is high and the surprise is
not that there is so little, but that there isany at all.
The 1980 "death of inspector John
MacLennan of the Hong Kong police
force focused public attention on thesodomy law. Maclennan was accused ofmaking sexual advances on a boy justunder 18 years of age, in 1978, In thatsame summer, the Hong Kong police
department established a Special Investigation Unit (SIU), which deals exclUSively
with homosexuality. (One local lesbianrefers to it as the "Peeping Tom Squad,")Throughan outlandish
series ofevents-which the lesbian and gay rommunity charge was a frame-up---the SIU
came up with further "evidence" ofMclennan's "crimes.· He was scheduled
to be arrested and charged with eight
counts of gross indecency. But before hecould be arrested, he was found dead in
his apartment. Labeled a ·suicide"~enby a specially appointed rommission of
inquiry-Maclennan's
death is believed
by many to have been a murder. Experienced police officers said it was highly
unlikely that frve shots in the chest, under
the specific circumstances, could possibly
have been a suicide, The rommission of
inquiry, which held hearings and produced a voluminous
report orl' theMaclennan case, left doubts in the minds
of many and there were accusations of awhitewash .. Still, the issue moved aheadwhen the government asked its standing
Law Reform Commission to look at possible changes in the law. In 1983, the Law
Reform Commission
recommended
decriminalization of sexUal acts between
consenting adults in private.
For five years the government took
no action at all on the rerommendationsof its own appointed commission. Two
factors have drawn attention back to thesubject in 1988. There is a runnirig debate
in Hong Kong, reported daily in thenewspapers, on what is called the Basic
Law, a code of Laws to be put in place
for the post-1997 period, That debate,
along with the first incursions of AIDS in
Hong Kong, has once again raised theissue of reforming the sodomy law.
In June, 1988, the government
issued a "consultation paper" on thequestion of whether the sodomy law
should be changed. For unstated rcasons, the paper offers three alternatives- .no change, decriminaliZation, or areduction of the maximum penalty fromlife imprisonment to a fine of $5,000(HK) and imprisonment for one year. It
can only be assumed that the latter alternative is an attempt to appease the fundamentalist
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community. The government's years of of whom are active. Some of the mem- two prominent gay leaders in Honginaction and its current sidestepping of bership overlaps with the long Yang Kong willing to be named in the press.
the Law Reform Commission's clear rec- Club, but, in contrast to Long Yang, all Sasha (a pen name) was the first to takeommendation can only be interpreted as the members of the 10% club are Chi- up the cause there a decade ago. As
responses of political expediency andnese.
with all the gay leadership in Hongmoral cowardice.
Chan speaks of ~e difficulty in get-, Kong, he learned the spirit of liberation
The deadline for submission of ting club members to turn out forabroad. He studied at the University ofopinions on the cohsultation paper was monthly meetings. Given the legal and Texas and was among those attending
September 30, the same deadline for societal constraints, many fear that noto- the historic meetings of gay and lesbiancomment on the Basic Law. By lateriety as activists will interfere in theiractivists at the Carter White House.
August, according to a report in thesocial lives. The club had no trouble,
Sasha returned to Hong Kong deterSouth China Morning Post, only about
however, turning out 200 partygoers for mined to advance the cause of lesbians
30 responses had been received, abouta recent event held at a local bar. The and gays through education. He has writhalf in favor of theten two books,
statusquo,
the
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sex in general, no
exclUSively social
less homosexualiin its activities, Itsty, is a taboo subCaucasian
memject within thebers have resisted
Chinese family.
political action by WHllEWASH?
.
Due to economic
the club.
A police d"wing showing M.cl.enn.n's body.t the site of hi' ·suicide. •constraints, young
The only gay group making any
purpose of the party was to encourage
Chinese tend to live at home well into
political effort at all is the Hong Kong letter writing on the proposed reform of adult years. These factors tend to pro10% Club which was founded in 1986 the sodomy law. "They got the mesduce Chinese gays who are conformist,by Alan Li, 28, a native of Hong Kong sage," Chan says with resignation, "but conservative, and closeted. The brightest
who emigrated to Canada as a teenager.
they won't bother to write.·and most educated also tend to move
Now a resident of Toronto, and an
Chan has made appearancesonelsewhere. "There is a brain drain in theactivist there, Li returned to Hong Kong local television discussing the proposed
gay culture, too," he says.
for a nine month visit, during which he law reform. He contrasts his approach
Sasha expresses anger with thewas instrumental in the initial organiza- with earlier efforts by activists he considHong Kong government's AIDS education of the club and acted as its first ers to be more confrontational. "We aim tion campaign which he believes prochair.
at a warm, healthy, positive image," he motes stereotypes, but, considering the
Li was succeeded by Julian Chan, says,"a softer approach, more diplomatlack of gay political clout in the territory,
26 a hair stylist, who now chairs bothie. Maintaining face is very important to
it is encouraging to find that there are
the 10% Club and the Long Yang Club. the Chinese, so it is cleverer not to makegovernment AIDS programs. According
Chan, too, learned his liberated attitudes
demands, but to tell them that we are to the public health information office,overseas, having lived for six months in Chinese, we are their brothers and sis- there have been 13 diagnosed cases of
London where he marched in a gay ters. It works. Chinese are more 'sentiAIDS in Hong Kong, 11 of those now
pride parade. Chan says that the 10% mental than Italians!."dead. The cases are about evenly 'split
Club has a' mailing list of 40, about half
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13 cases, 10 were determined to be sexually transmitted.
The government has established
AIDS clinics with voluntary testing programs accompanied by counseling. Of
nearly 100,000 who have been tested,·
125 have been HIY positive. That small
percentage may be due only to the later
arrival of AIDS in Hong Kong. Given thelong HIY incubation period, it is too
soon to credit the low incidence to thegovernment's education program which
includes teleVision spots, posters, promotion of condom use, and direct outreach to prostitutes.
While AIDS may have inhibited
some, Sasha reports that Cantonese, Vtegays in American immigration law.
Of these two, Ms. X reports that thelesbian scene in Hong Kong is equallydismal to the· gay male's. Although there
is no law against lesbianism, there are
no lesbian bars and few lesbian organizations, The latter are closeted social
clubs where old-fashioned, sexist roleplaying is the norm. The butches swagger and make the decisions, excluding
the femmes from the power structure.
Ms. X is the only lesbian in the fouryear-old local feminist organization,
which is struggling to make even small
inroads in Hong Kong.
Mr. Y, also a writer on gay subjects, issomewhat disdainful of the efforts of the•--.
1()1f'O dub. He believes thatHong Kong needs a politica1ly-oriented club of· moreeducated,
middle-classpeople in order to promote
more effectively the gay
agenda in Hong Kong. He~~~~.~(~fi.Attffi~~~Tt.t. TJti'T~t1~t1i'T~rn!t'J~~~§e1l*)
currently works throughmainstream organizations
ifl his attempts to win support for law reform.
Despite newly won
support from such institutions as the Catholic andAnglican churches in Hong
Kong, none of these leaders
is optimistic about theprospects for.·reform of thesodomy laws. The future
under the People's Republic
is clouded. While there isno law there on the subje<1,laws on "hooliganism" havebeen used against gays.
One expert at the University ,of Hong Kong says that,in China, homosexuality is
consideredan "offense
against socialist morality."
For gay and lesbian
westerners accustomed tomore liberated
ways,
Hong Kong, under the
British now 0r under the
Chinese in the future, isan anomaly, The situation
there puts in perspective
our own
historyofoppression and the freedoms we now take for
granted.
"Sharing thepeach" in China happens
only at great risk.
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main Chinese language spoken in Hong
Kong, is now heard with frequency inthe saunas of Taipei, where there is amore freewheelinggay nightlife. In
Hong Kong there are just two gay bars,
the Dateline on Hong Kong Island andWaltzing Matilda in Kowloon. Both offer
only minimal amenities and a dreary
atmosphere reminiscent of pre-Stonewall
New York gay bars. There is also amixed dance hall, Disco Disco.
Two other activists prefer that theirnames not appear in print, not becauseof feared repercussions in Hong Kong,
but because both have an interest inemigrating to the United States. They are
well aware of the prohibition against••

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Carried in Our Hearts
A Tribute to Pat Parker
by Andetrie Smith

importance with writers like Brecht,
Center commemorated the life andwork of a Black lesbian whose poetry James Baldwin and Zora Neale
many of us carried in our hearts. Pat Hurston.
Her lines speak better than I can.
Parker died of cancer last June, andFrom My hands are big Joan Nestle
oets and singers often taJ<e since then there has been a network
read: "no one believes you when youof tributes to her across the States.
on mythic proportions,
don't show your tears." There is theThis one was beautifully putespecially after they die. It is
incisive
humor
ofLesbiantogether and comprehensive.
The
because they tell us how we feel,
Concentrate, read by David Frechette:
capacity audience learned of Pat
often better than we can tell ourParker the health-care worker as well "Gay folks who don't mind straightselves. And at their best, they broadfolks but wish they weren't so blaen and deepen our insights into our as the poet.
tant.· In a poem about Priscilla Ford, aAs 14 different women and men
own experiences. Such a poet was Pat
got up to recite Ms.
Parker's poetry, andsometimes
theirown, we were also
given biographicalsnatches
which
enabledustoweave together thelife of a woman
who was mother,
worker, politicalanalyst, consciousness-raiser
tostrangersandfriends alike, andsometimes
bardyke-not
above
getting into a drunken brawl. Yet in Pit
Stop, read by Storme
Webber,Parkerdrew a stark, hellish
picture of women
drinking their lives
away: "Let's drink
to ... Let's drink to ...
Let's drink to ...• The
sense of endlessnothingness reminded me of Berthold
Brecht and Kurt
Weill's Alabama
Photo: Ellen B. Neipris
STORME WEBBERSong from the modParker, and it was a fitting tribute to ern opera Mahagonny: NOh show us Black woman who ran over 30 white
her to have poets, most of them gay the way to the next whiskey barj I tell people with her car, she twists politics
and judgment to show us the paradox
you we must die." Parker died young,and lesbian, read her works.
of the court's ruling that it was a sane
The Stations Collective presentaat 44, but the social and political depth
tionat the New York Gay Communityof her poetry may well rank her in thing to do (the court rules she i~

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sane). In Jonestown she takes the old
dictum: "Black folks don't commit suicide," which is in one sense a lie, andcrosses it with the complicity of colonial and racist history. Yes, black folks
do kill themselves, but society pulls
the trigger. Why did they follow Jim
Jones? "because no one had evercared that much about me before."
And in' still other poems, Parker
presents. us with the beauty andtragedy of everyday experience: From

Photo; Ellen B. Neipris
Child's Play: "he took away some of
my child's childness,· and another:"she did not give a damn who knew
her man was a woman."And
Movement in Black's "You can't keep

black back ... You can't keep black
back." Even excerpted like this, thelines speak powerfully like stills froman Eisenstein film.
Music too was appropriate.
Rousing and spiritually sexual innuance .was the Lavender Light Gospel
Choir. And Storme Webber sang Sam
Cooke's classic I was born by theriver ... Other outstanding moments
were Irare Sabasu's reading of her
own Wonderworker, a lesbian love
poem
which
bespoke freshly the
conjuring power oflove, and Craig G.
Harris's Who Will
Take Care of the
Caretakers?
inwhich he begged
men to let womenbe, to let women
have "the space totake care of themselves·
without
condescension.
Feminism from men
is empowering.
Hattie Gosset's
rendition of Parker's
Movement in Black,with Pam Patrick oncongos, was stirring
andoriginal.
Hearing Pat Parker'S
voice, reciting her
own poetry, withslides of the poet,
was
like
going
home to her.
The evening
was studded withthe cor. .!mporarystars of Black gay CHERYL CLARKE
and lesbian poetry:
Donna Allegra, Colin Robinson, Cheryl
Clarke, Pamela Sneed, Donald Woods,
but the surprise was a finale by
African-Canadianpoet and reggae
singer Lillian Allen. She recited herfamiliar One Poem Town, then a poem
about a 13-year-old Jamaican girl's
ostracismfrom the community
because of her pregnancy (a pregnancy from rape) and finally another that
pictured the creation of the 'universeby a goddess-jazz musician. It was fitting that Pat Parker's night should end
with dub poetry in patois, panAfricanizing the evening: with one
poem reminding us of the horrible
stupidities of misogyny and sexism

Photo; Ellen B. Neipris
and another celebrating the cosmic
power of WOMAN.
As Lillian Allen said: ''The revolution [of African people, of wome~J
continues....
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DearBrad:Like so many people I neverthought I'd be writing to you but
something's really been bugging me
and I need your advice. Several years
ago I went home with this guy, I
think he was a newswriter for one of
the television networks, and we had
an all right time and for a little while
there I thought it might really besomething. He had this apartment fullof books and even though I hadn't
been much into reading since school I
thought maybe I'd give it a try again
since it seemed like a big deal to him.
So I borrowed this book, Play It As It
Lays, from him because it soundedkind of neat and I was all set to read
it when my ex-lover called me up outof the blue. He said he was reallysorry about that thing with the bartender at his club but it was all overand maybe we could try again. Well,
I'd never really stopped loving him
and I figured I could give it anothershot and, you know, it was like none

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of the bad stuff had ever happened.
He took me to all sorts of places, like
Connecticut, and bought me this really great leather jacket and I moved
into his townhouse a few months
later and things were really terrificuntil he was convicted for tax evasion
this past spring. After that, everything
sort of went downhill. I had to findsome other place to live and ended
up way out in Queens which wasn't
too cool and while I was unpacking I
found that book I'd borrowed. Since I
had a lot of time on my hands I
decided to actually read the thing. It
got me so depressed I couldn't leave
the apartment
for three nights.
Believe me, with all the other lousy
things going on, I really didn't needsome stupid book to make me feel
more rotten about life than I alreadydid. If you ask me, this Joan Didion
character has some serious problems
but that doesn't mean she has theright to make everybody else miserable, does it? And what kind of per-son would deliberately lend out abook that they knew~ was going to
make somebody want to die? I mean,is that a pretty nasty kind of practicaljoke or what? And this guy writes thenews that we have to watch on television which makes you understand
why that's always such a downer.
This really pisses me off and I'm wondering if there's like some kind oflegal way to stop this guy because I
know if he did it to me he's probably
done it to a whole other bunch ofpeople and I don't think that's right.
-Steamed
Dear Steamed:
It would indeed appear, at a firstglance, that you were the victim of adeeply disturbed individual. I just
can't, however, bring myself to believethat any responsible book-lover would
knowingly expose a novice reader tothe work of Joan Didion. There must
be something more to this. Are you
certain that, in your initial attempt todisplay interest in this man's life, you
didn't, however unconsciously, passyourself off as somebody who wascapable of handling such material?
You know, all too often simple misunderstandings develop between people
because they're simply afraid just to
be themselves. (For instance, if a certain party in my life hadn't made certain representations and warranties
about his feelings for me that were
essentially untrue, then perhaps theChristmas of 1980 wouldn't have. seemed more like Walpurgis Nacht
and the years that followed wouldn't
have been so despairingly bleak. Butthat is, I suppose, another story.) Sad
to say, there is no way to undo thedamage that has been done and if I
were you I'd just try to put this whole
episode behind me and get on withthe more important business of figuring out the most efficient train r9ute
into the city.
...

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By Michelangelo SignorlleL

ast week we spoke of colum-

nist Liz Smith (Daily News)and ~ll those detestable "ladies
who lunch.· How ironic then that in
the very' same week Out Week was
mentioned in W magazine, the glossy
fashion rag published bY'megalomaniacal, fascistic John Fairchild and readby all of those same riCh, lunching
women who scour it for their names
and faces. In W's "In
New York ..." column, it
read: "Pick up ari issueof Out Week, the city's
most With-it new publication spotlighting a mix of. culture,politics
andvicious gossip."Wethought. it a hoot that. thebelly of the beast, so to
speak, would be recommending its readers tobuy us, though it's quite
disturbing how it simply
slipped their minds to mention that
OutWeek is a gay and lesbian publication. But maybe it's better off: I'm getting a kick qut of the thought thatterminally trendy, monied hets are
haVing fashion attacks, running off to
newsstands, picking up, OutWeek andgetting the shock of their: day.
H,owever, I'd like to discuss what
W calls "vicious gossip." This term
conjures up the thought that this column exists simply to be mean-for thesadistic entertainment it may provide
its readers and for the vanity flash it
may provide its writer. I'm not goingto say that these factors are nonexistent-that this column isn't fun to readand that I don't love writing it-but
there truly is a larger mission here.

Gossip columnists reach millions trol for long. Hedda Hopper andLouella Parsons realized their immenseof people. Suzy, Cindy Adams andpower and soon began dishing thePage Six are the three most powerfulslots at the New York Post. They are .companies and the moguls themselves.
equally fascisthe reasons why most people pick up The independent-but
tic-gossip columnist was born.
the Post. Liz Smith carries the Daily
Why did I go into all of this?
News, making. more money for thepaper than any other person on the Because some people think I'm justpublication. She has a megafigure con- playing games here; that this is all
tract. Her column is syndicated to hun- frivolous fluff to help me stroke myego. Others think I go too far; that
dreds of papers around the country.
printing William Norwich's (DailyNews)
When she quotes a dangerous linefrom The New Republic without mak- telephone number and having a gossip
ing a comment, millions of people in phone zap was outlandish and wrong.
Meanwhile, these monster columtowns and cities across the U.S. read it.
nists are oppressing us each day inMore people read gossip columns
half the time theyeach day than read The New York their spaces--andare gay or lesbian themselves! But thatTimes and The Washington Post anddoesn't stop them from deeming u's
Time magazine put together. People
won't always admit it, but you closet invisible, making homophobic remarks
or schmoozing and worshiping thegossip suckers know who you are.
Gossip columnists have a scary, people who are killing us: When
God-like image; a sort of special role William Norwich (Daily News) tells us
in the eyes of the public. They are that Liz Taylor and Malcolm Forbes are
considered by the reader to be all- "dating," millions of people get thewrong impression, though Norwich
powerful and all-knowing.
Frightknows better. When
Liz Smith writes glowing praises of Donald
Trump, millions areconvinced he's wonderful and would find .
it hard to understandthat he's"in bed withthis city government,that he's getting allsorts of tax breaks,
that he's soaking up
city property-while.
the city claims there's
ening, but true. No one: dares to just no housing available for thousandsof people with AIDS who are dying onquestion their sources. Unlike anyone
the streets! How about how Liz andelse on a newspaper, gossip columthe ground thatnists are not required to attribute any- Billy worshiped
Ronnie and Nancy walked on for eight'
thing; it's part of their mystique not to.
fucking years while my friends diedThis "image" was aaually createdby Hollywood back in the 30s and 40s. and the Prez did nothing? How about
It was the movie moguls, presidents of how Liz and Billy now foam at thethe ftIm companies, who "placed" the mouth over George and Barbara,
while millions are infected with HIV,first columnists in their jobs at the
papers (either by actually paying their don't have access to health care anddon't hear a peep out of <?ur leade1P
salaries, or by literally owning thepapers) so as to have them constantly And I'm supposed to just let Liz write
her aSs-kissing bullshit, without saying
write about the films, and therefore
anything? Fuck her! And when Billygenerate publicity. The film companies
helped create and perpetuate the aura Norwich purposely omits facts aboutof the gossip columnist and constantly parties or about a controversy because .
supplied them with dirt on all of the it might deal with gay iSsues, am I sUI>stars. But the moguls didn't retain conSee GOSSIP WATCH on page 61

SOMETHING
HAS TO BE DONE
AND ITHAS TO BE
DONE FAST.

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One recent Sunday night at Mars,
promoter' Chip Duckett had no idea what
he was getting himself into when hedecided to have two lesbian go-go girls inthe basement (recognizing the hundredsof women who come to dance).
late that night, the two go-goers,
Garance Franke-Ruta (who is OutWeek's
lesbian cover girl this week) and Sydney
Pokorny, all hot and sweatyJrom dancing,
decided to strip and cool off·in the showers which- strangely enoug~- happen
to be off the basement dance floor, Two.
other women joined them, and everyone
cheered as the women came out. breath~less and dripping,
As some of the lesbians went to Miss
Perfidia's wacky thitd floor to dry off andlisten to Vma Sumac, someone pulled out
a few magic markers-andsuddenly the
girls were writing their most secretdesires on each other's bodies. The men
watched in awe, but soon they and otherdykes found their shirts being lifted and"Boycott SUdafed" and "Free.AZT" being
scrawled- across their chests (one boy
even had "Dyke Tyke" written across hisface); By the time Mars closed, a dozen
dykes and fags has become walking artwork-andeven a few telephone numbers were scrawled onto places where
I'm sure the wearer could only read themby using a mirror.
Alas, before closing, one of OutWeek's roving shutterbugs, Ben Thornberry, took his own shirt off and caught up
with a few of the topless women who hadgone down to the first floor to work theirbodies.
~Photos by Ben Thornberry
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Film

On the Edge
ment-sponsoredbeer
hall. Drinkers are joinedby younger men callingon them to exchange
their beer consciousness
for awareness. Tension
is building: Africa is notgoing to be only ascenic backdrop; thismovie is about South
Africa.The police are allover; they arrest people.
They pick up playing
children.
Cut. We're witnessing lash marks on
Jonathan'S (Bekhithemba Mpofu) backside. Gordon Ngubene(Winston
Ntshona),
Jonathan'S father, says
somethingmust bedone; Ben du Toit
(Donald Sutherland)tells Gordon to let itgo. As he returns to¥• his family he mumbles,"he must have done
something."
Cut. The Ngubenefamily. Jonathan explains to his father
why the students will
march the follOWing
day. We see the peaceful, hopeful,determined children. The
police create a riot;
Soweto school children are being shot at,
herded,beatenasSouth African police disrupt theirpeaceful protest against second~rateeducation. Everybody breathe: This Is
just the first ten minutes.
The Ngubene's of Soweto; the duToit's of suburban Johannesburg. The
two families we view, visit, become apart of. Gordon Ngubene is Ben duToit's gardenerof fifteen years.
Jonathan, Gordon's son, "is disappeared" during the march. Gord~>nW

IN SEARCH OF "THE DISAPPEARED ...

lake. Mokae and Donald Sutherland in A Dry Whit, S'IIDn

by CJ. Walker

T

wo .boys-one
black, one
whlte-areplaying ball; thoroughly enjoying themselves.
I'm totally Involved; life can be thiseasy, this much fun. But I already know
this is South Africa. These two boys
playing is a threat to apartheid order.
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begins the search for his child. Ben
joins the search. Their methods,
expectations,are paralleled:Benlooking within a system that has
worked for him, supported
himbecause of his whiteness; Gordon
looking within a system that has
worked against him, that denies hishumanity because of his Blackness.
Gordon's
searchends; we see
Jonathan is dead; we see Gordon isdead. Ben du Toit sees this also. He
needs to. know why. I need to know
why he doesn't know, I have to hope
if he can learn others can. The search
begins.
A drama unfolds that is intimately
about South Africa, about apartheid;
it is also about seeing and knowing.
On finding out that Jonathan is dead,Ben accepts what the white colonel
has told him: he tells Gordon to leaveit alone. This is painful, too familiar-believing
middle-class white mentality: teachers, employers, friends.
Reality shaped by the New YorkTimes, Ted Koppel, 6 o'clock news,
elementary school.
A Dry White Season disturbingly
stirs all of my emotions involving
racism/white supremacy here in the
United States; my knowing that thewhite minority rule there is allowedby the white minority rule here-allin the nam~ of people who see but
don't know. I kept flashing back to
the New York Times front-page pictureof a smiling F.W. de Klerk (then actIng president) and his wife, Marike, as
they cast their ballots. Just a normal
head of state and his norm~l wife voting. Normal self-proclaimed
white
supremacist, witness and participant
in the murder of Black South African
children in Sharpsville, Soweto, to thepresent day lock-up of thousands ofchildren/youth/adults In undergrourid
cells, torture chambers.
I .was on the edge looking at theBlacks th.at participated In the oppres·sion of themselves and other Blacks,
self· interest and self· loathing blinding
them to other choices.
I was also on edge, excited by all
the life in the film, all the potential for
life. The film Is a call to live. Work,love, laugh, cry, but still know what's
going on in the world. And thenthere's dignity and freeOom. The

courtroom scene is great, not because
there's a typical Hollywood transformation where bad is proved bad andthe system works. Director Euzhan
Paley ieaves no room for anyone tothink that this farce is going to be
anything but total apartheid injustice.
Brando is wonderful as McKenzie, theanti-apartheid lawyer (cynical to viewers who don't know of the injusticesof the world, realistic to those whodo). The triumph is the power of the·powerless": you can beat the body,but that don't make you own themind.
A Dry White Season was filmed in
Zimbabwe with South African actors,
Zimbabwean extras as well as Sutherland,
Brando, and Susan Sarandon. Thoko
Ntshinga as Emily, Gordon's wife, actswith her being-the expressions ci one
living under the oppression of having totake care not tobetray thoughts or
the ability to hearand understand theconversations ofwhites;movingwith enforced deference in the pursuit of some justice.
Janet Suzman is

not sentimental; the politics present
without bathos, the excesses of brutality present without being gratuitous. She evokes excellence from theactors; Sutherland's is a stellar performance. The freedom is in the children's eyes.
It's a good film, which is gratifying because it continues to demonstrate that meaningful, intelligent films
can also be well made, well acted,
exciting and compelling.
Stanley(Zakes Mokae), who I saw as a kindof archangel, has a wonderful yellow
car with butterfly wings. Stanley sees;
he knows he has Wings, and the film's
end does not betray truth, he does
the right thing.
This movie kept me rivetted fromthe titles to the final credits, and eventhen I didn't quite want to walk outof the theater.
....

::,~ :m~~.~,~~~.;"#

ies the Boer's suC:-- ,'.,,~"
vivalist mentality of ".,<' •• ,~,,,,~~. 'them or us.
Hugh Masekela and Ladysmkb "Black Mambazo
proVide the musical overlay which,integrates
itselfwithout manipulation or foreshadow
but rather parallels
and counterpoints
the film's aClion.
E u z hanPaley, who made
La Rue Cases
Negres(SugarCane Alley), con·tinues wlth thesame concise, tothe point direct- •Ing. The charac-'
ters' interactions....'
are touching but DIRECTOR EUZHAN PALCY

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T

Music

Cleaning out the Closet?
By Victoria Starr

don't knock on the metaphoric door,
or do my best to search for the deftly
o it's finally official: Sandra
hidden key. It's just that, particularly
Bernhard is a lesbian. She
for women in music, the business of"came out," so to speak, tocreating an image and forging a pubMichael Musto in the latest
licidentity
is very tricky business.
issue "f Spin magazine. But
One false move, and you're back ..toas the news hit the Outweek newsbeing a waitress. Feminist rock critic
room even before the interview hit
Terri Sutton, who feels that homophothe newsstands,a dozen or morebia in the music industry is heavily
questions began spin-'weightedagainstning
in my head.
women,
detailedObvious questions likesome of the probwhat significance will ~.
lems in a spring,
this be to the world of
1988
issue
of
art and' entertainment
Puncture Magazine,
and how will it affectin an article simply
Sandra's career.
And
titledWomeninmore ambiguous quesRock. "I believe thattions, like what does it'lesbian'
has a farreallymean
for amore fearfu1.connotacelebrity to ·come out,"tion in our society
and how can Sandra.(than 'gay male') ...
Bernhard get away with
The men who cry
it when others cannot.
'lesbian' (whether it
Although many ofis true or not) seem
us do not like to admit
threatenedby anyit, the impact that pop
womenmusicianscelebrities have on our
who
obviously
culture is painfully clear.
believe in and are
From pop liberal Bruce
depending on themSpringsteen
to hisselves-writing
antithesisin public
songs,
practicing
enemy Ax! Rose, young
their musicianship,
and old rally around theworking with otheraesthetics of sound in
women towards theiran America personified
musical goals. Suchbysupericons.
women convey the
Between the white-facemessage:
we don'tof Michael Jackson andneed men in our
the astute ghetto politics
band, we're not buyof KRS-1, there areing into the myth that
other images to look up
women must support
to, but .few hold suchmen in bands. They
power of persuasion.
IS SHE OR ISN7 SHE?
say, we're doing it
It's the great American Michelle Shocked
for ourselves.·
hero, and call it what you like -role
ture, then there is hope for the rest of
The rampant homophobia thatmodels, immense respect, or even "a us after all. Or is there?
she refers to is most often perpetuatedcrush"hero-worship is a part of
Early on in my mUSiC/journalism by the media. A good case in point ishuman nature. Like the crush I had
career I made one very simple ethical the Austin band Two Nice Girls' listing
od Cher, and even Sonny, when I wasdecision: that I, as an "out" lesbian, in Robert Christigau's monthly record
eight years old, before I learned of was not going to drag anyone out of ,picks for the Village Voice a couple oftheir divorce, at which point my subthe closet. This does not mean that I months back. While giving the band'ss

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urban dreams were shattered. So now
that we've said it, gotten it out in theopen, it's easy to see why every lesbian, in her heart of hearts, wants tobelieve that Tracy Chapman andMichelle Shocked are dykes. It's ~lso
called validation, in the most farreaching sense of the word. For ifthey are dykes, and can still manage
to be so revered in mainstream cul-

nicely into what has
become acceptable styles
of music for women to be
involved in. Which is.§ perhaps to say that while
j they are defying homophobia, we have yet towitness lesbian artists
who" can also break thebarriers of sexism in a
major way (one of the
few bands to have done
so are the British postpunkers the Au Pairs). For
the most part, we see
woman musicians who
are lesbians in their personal lives, but ambiguous in their professional
lives. Women who singabout ·you," rather thanhaving to decide between"he" or ·she." Or women
Two Nice Girlswho,
whether it's true or
preference co~es before THREE FINE DYKES
not, act like they could go
the craft, a pIgeon-hole or,N°
G°rl. .wo Ice I S
either way (and this isthat any good artIst
where Sandra B. fits in). Ambiguity is
lesbian and feminist culture. But
would abhor.
a lot less threatening and, in somethere are images and stereotypes that
Supposing,though, an artist
circles, actually trendy. ,are conjured up around this genre of
makes the decision to be "out."
Finally, does it all really matter? Ifmusic, and many artists find such
Outright hostility is only the mostan artist has ~lent, and a chance tostereotypes to be obstacles. Two Nice
severe of the problems she will face.
make a place for themselves· in the
Girls, while casting themselves
Again using Two Nice Girls as the
pop world, is, it fair to even',hope thatsquarely as les~n-feminists,
also
example, they were lucky enoughthey might choose to be ·out"? It's
(and, of course, talented enough) to want very much to b~ heard as thehard to say. Artists like Michelle
valid rock and roll band that they are.
be signed by the major indie label
Shocked (who, by the
Rough Trade.
It'sway, I have no reason
their first big break,to believe is a lesbian)
you might say. But
and Tracy Chapman
the fact that they(whp
I 'certainly
were the only gay
believeisl)bring a lot
band on a rosterof radically importantmanaged by a pri·ideas to fans of many
marily heterosexual
different persuasions.
staff has offered a
Sh'ouldthey
risk
new and interesting
throwing away such an opportunity to
So with the premise that many
scenario: watching a straight staff tryreach people in the act of ·coming
artists would like to be both "out"ing to figure out how to market thisout"? On the other hand, what does it
new and "difficult" product.- Perhaps
and achieve mainstream commercial
mean when a known lesbian likesuccess, just how do lesbians crossit would have been easier for all
Whitney Houston makes video after
over? It's hard to say, since it's neverinvolved if the band had been signed
slick video depicting heterosexual
really been done. We do see early
to OliVia, or Holly Near's label
love scenes. And even more confussigns of breakthroughs, in artists like
Redwood. But these labels, in somePhranc and kd lang, who, while still ' ing, what does it mean when an icon
ways, come with a built-in trap: thatlike Madonna plays the part of a lesrelying heavily on college and nonthey alre3:dy have the reputation of
bian, simply to stir up more media
commercial radio play, have bothbeing "women's music" labels. Not
attention, knowing full well that in her
experienced
phenomenal
recordthat such recognition is a bad thing;case it will only make the boys andsales. Yet, while not discrediting theirwomen's music has played, and congirls hotter for her records.
...
tinues to playa very important role in work in any way, both artists still fit

new album a favorable
rating, he also managed
to mention the word "lesbian" two or three times
in five short sentences.
That the band is openly
lesbian is to their credit;that being "out" in thiscase includes
using
female pronouns in theirlove songs means that it
could also be forever
theirburden.
And
Christigau's review points
to another problem for
lesbian musicians andwomen musicians
in ~general: by accepting~::rusage of the phrase '<·women musicians" or·lesbian musicians," we 3
engage in the dilemma g:~that gender or sexual -;

~
~
~
~

S

--I believe that -lesbian- has a far

more fearful connotation in our societythan -gay male'" -Terri Sutton

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Music

Womens-Music
Comes Outby Jorjet HarperI

wast raining as the first night's
show got underway,
but that
didn't prevent a sizable number of
lesbians from setting their blankets andlawn chairs in front of the main stage
open-air tent. Emcee Maxine Feldman
set the tone of the gathering: "At last,"
she shouted to the soggy but highspirited audience, "we have a festivalthat has the courage to come out of
the closet and call itself a lesbian festiva!!" A familiar figure at women's
music festivals for many years,
Feldman "came out" with the first

POINTEDLY POUTICAL

recording in what is now the multimillion dollar "women's music industry"when she made Angry Atthis in 1972.
If you ask 20 lesbians to describe
what a "lesbian culture" is, you're likely to get 20 different answers. But
over the last 15 years,' women's music
festivals have established themselves
as annual events in different parts ofthe country; The largest, the Michigan
Womyn's Music Festival, draws anaverage of 7,WJ women to its rugged,
woodsy festival each August.
Through these gatherings, lesbians have built a kind of cultural
matrix (an interesting word in itselO,
and try to put into practice abstract
notions like "creating community","matriarchal focus" and "feminist process." I go to these festivals when I
can--even though some aspects ofthis matrix are as unfathomable to me
as a nuclear magnetic resonancebecause no matter how you feel about
healing crystals, goddess worship,
separatism,
witchcraft,sadomasochism, or "creating community"
to build a Lesbian Nation, there issomething special about being alone
among your own kind.
It's a widely known fact that virtually all the organizers and participants of women's music festivals are
lesbians. Lin Daniels and Miriam
Fougere have now made it explicit byfounding the First Annual East Coast
Lesbians' Festival. A thousand lesbians
gathered to celebrate, attend workshops and concerts and take in thesunshine at a private camp in Western
Massachusetts during the Labor Day
Weekend.
"We believe that to a very large
degree, Womyn's culture is lesbian
culture," they said. "Wethought that it was hightime to call a celebrationof that culture by its
proper name."
As festivals go, thisone was comparatively
luxurious. Yes, it was ata camp, but it was civilized. Gorgeous lake,
nice swimming pool,clay tennis courts. There
were cabins if you didn't
want to camp out (I suredidn't). There were actual buildings you could
go inside, with electricity
andrunning
water.
There were (madre dedios!) flush toilets' andhot showers for everybody. All this, and nothing but lesbians as far as
the eye could see. It wasalmost as good as being, transported baCK to girlscout camp. Better. I
didn't have to make my

Photo:Jorjet Harper bed with hosP.ital corners every mornmg.

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There were a large number ofdeaf women. The festival had 17 interpreters and two of the day stage performances were by deaf women,signed for the hearing. British duo
Ova's sets were signed for the hearing
impaired by actress Janice Cole, who
appeared in the Broadway productionof Children of a Lesser God. It was thefirst time in the history of women's
music-and likely of most any kind ofmusic--that a woman who is herself
deaf signed from the stage.
The musical lineup was excellent
for a small festival and I was amazedthat the organizers were able to put the
talent together with only three months
notice. On opening night the rain
stopped just in time for an energetic set
by the Washington Sisters. Lucie Blue
Trem,blay followed, with songs fromher soon-to-be-released
new album,
Tendresse, and the well-known Jazz
duo Deuce dosed out the evening.
"Why do British women makebetter lovers?" asked emcee OctoberBrowne as women repositioned theirfolding chairs under a clear but cold
sky for Saturday'S
Night Stage.
"Because they keep a stiff upper lip."
Saturday'S music featured Evelyn Dati
and Harpbeat, "technopop witch" Sue
Fink and Toronto-based poet Lillian
Allen. Her breath visible from thecold as she performed, Allen had theaudience up dancing to the reggae
and chanting along with her pointedly
political lyrics. Her band included
super guitar work and outstanding
bass by sister Canadians Elaine Stefand Rachel Melas, with Nydia Matasitting in on percussion, Connie Noweon drums and Evelyn Dati reappearing on keyboards.
Sunday night jane's Aire opened,followed by guitarist/singer
June
Millington, who was part of the firstall-wolT\an mainstream rock' group in
the Sixties, Fanny. "Can you believe
I've been doing this for 25 years?" shemused. "Will you marry me?" shouted
a woman in the audience.
Sapphire, Jewel Gomez andBecky
Birthapaid
tributetorenowned Black lesbian poet .Pat
Parker, who had been scheduled toperform before her untimely deathfrom cancer, reading from Parker's
Movement in Black. The festival was

HOCKIN'ON

Guitarist June Millington
dedicated to Parker's memory.
All was not peace. and harmonyin the Lesbian Nation, however.
Accessibility for disabled lesbians
became an issue when women forming an "informational picket" at thefestival entrance decided to blockade
the festival in an effort to keep morelesbians from entering. The problem
quickly escalated as the women were
threatened with arrest by local police
for blocking a public road [see related
news iteml.
Heated debate about whether
boy babies should be permitted on
the festival site-always a rather sorepoint between some lesbian mothers
and some separatists--also
eruptedafter a particularly nasty incident inwhich someone pinned a number of
inflammatory signs to the cabin of alesbian couple who ·had brought amale infant.
Nevertheless; the overall atmosphere was mellow. Most women
didn't want to deal with controversy
at all, just take off their cloth~s andtake in ·the sunshine and fresh air.
Mother Nature, you know.
So how does a lesbian festival
differ from a women's (or womyn's orwoomoon's)
festival? For starters,
everybody you meet all day long is alesbian-a distinct treat. As for building the Lesbian Nation, that's gonnatake a bit more time. Daniels andFougere have already begun planningfor next year.
'Y

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PerformanceMaya-opic
by John WasserW

hen God (or whomever) created the confession,
he
or
she
.probably had no idea some bravesouls would perform the ritual without
benefit of an ordained priest. Where
else but on a bare stage can a performer impose a visible order to thealienation and despair created by the
ReaganlBush doctrines? During the
1980s, confessional solo artists-David
Cale, Karen Finley and Spalding Grayamong others-emerged and captured
our imagination.
And then there is 'Frank Maya.
Once a musician playing the downtown circuit, Maya is now a self-proclaimed ranter. His rants--a series ofmostly diatribes encompassing a variety of subjects-range
from his nocturnal habits to the blissful first date
who transforms him~lf into a person
you will never want to see again.
("You go home with someone, ..sex iswonderful... where did you learn tokiss like that? ...He's got the best of
everything-records,
a stocked refrigerator ..,three days later his mood'schanged ...the dimmer switch doesn't
work ...the refrigerator's empty except
for some water in a grapefruit juice
bottIe ...Boy, have you been fooledl. ..·)
In his latest show at P,S. 122,
Maya sets the record straight. If you
still believe performance art equals a
one-hour snooze, Maya's acute observations should keep you pleasantly
amused. Like PeeWee Herman traipsing through his playhouse, Maya's sincerity is his spoonful of sugar thatmakes the medicine go you-knowwhere. Openly gay, he makes noattempt to conceal the duplicity of his
fellow performers, especially Barry
Manilow whose latest tour sponsor is
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Marilyn Chambers' picture from its
Ivory Snow boxes.
We each receive our daily dosageof junk mail, but only Frank Maya
pockets idiosyncratic letters from deadpeople. In the Maya-created celestial
heaven, a heavyset Elvis Presley andOrson Welles transform themselves
into Sumo wrestlers,
The Last
Temptatton of Christ is the movie toview C-Christ loves Barbara Hershey")
and Christ's mother fmally puts to rest

HOSTIUTY AND AMUSEMENT
Frank Maya
the false rumors concerningher
immaculate conception. Where else
could you find Lee Harvey Oswald as
a conga player in the Ricky Ricardo
band? (And you thought only The
National Enquirer or The Star procured this information.)
For those familiar with Maya
from past outings at LaMaMa or the
Kitchen, be prepared. Gone are thepainted gold ears and music, although
he tacks on his song Polaroid'sChildren as an unnecessary coda. The
act is a confluence of hostility andamusement with a hint of contumacy.
"Parts of my show demonstrateanger at homophobia,· he says. "It'swhere my hostility comes into play.·
We are at the Penguin Cafe, a stone's
throwaway from Maya's West Village
apartment. Taut and trim, Maya orders
a bowl of soup and explainS further. "Ihate seeing people like Martin Shortperforming gay characters on HBO
specials. It's not within their experience.· Maya grew up on Long Island
in a family where Entemann's pastries
werethedessertof choice,
Permanently crossing the East River in
1979, he formed a band, achieved
some cult recognition and began performing his rants between sets.
"In the original rants, I acted like awild preacher,· he says. Subjects included the Htndenberg Baby, a whimsicalcombination of the Hindenberg disasterand Lindbergh kidnapping,
Angie
Dickinson's Police Woman wardrobe
and Picasso's cat. ·One producer
thought I really met Picasso.·
Maya continues, "I let things affectme. I really don't chOO5ematerial. My
stuff is real. It's not just '1 can't get adate' routines. I lead the audience
down certain paths and then surprisethem with twists.· He pauses for a
moment. "Ranting is very heightened·
Maya is quick to dispel the
notion that his tangential soliloquies
are totally ad-libbed. "I constantly
speak into a tape recorder and carefully script each routine. I really consider myself a writer.·
Publishers
apparently
agree.
David 'Cale has introduced Maya to
Random House and a book contract isimminent. Following in the footstepsof Kathy and Mo and Reno, both HBO
and Showtime have expressed interestin producing an off-Broadway show
starring Maya and subsequently taping
it for the home screen.
Come mid-October, Maya will tour
26 U.S. cities under the aegis of Lincoln
Center, "It's Serious Fun on the road.
I'm travelling to places like Hawaii andOregon, I'm even holding a lecture at
Vas~ar. Meanwhile I'm still working
hard to see nry view of the world· T(Frank Maya will be appearing~t P.S.
122-150First Avenue at NinthStree$-Thurs. through Sun. at 9:30
pm, through October 1.)•

BooksSight Unseen
An Invisible Spectator, A
Biography of Paul Bowles, by
Christopher Sawyer Laucannoby Doug MendiniSome people travel through lifeon the crest of a wave named
fame. Others float on the more
tranquil waters of respect.
While Paul Bowles has had his
moments high atop the foam,
he is the essential floater, theman of letters most respectedby the household names of
popular literature.
The list of Bowles'
acquaintances,friends andassociates reads like a who's
who of twentieth century culture. Bowles, the composer,
knows
so
well
VirgilThomson, Aaron Copland,
Leonard Bernstein; Bowles,
the writer,' knows so well
Gertrude Stein, Tennessee
Williams, Gore Vidal. Thatmany of the men and womenthat pass through Bowles' life
are gay is not merely accidental. It is part of the large enigma that is Bowles.
For the biographer
toattempt to tell the story of suchan enigma is admirable; toachieve the success that Mr.
Sawyer-Laucannohas. isremarkable. After all, Bowles
has lived his life much like
Churchifl's
descriptionofRussia, as a "riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma.·
While artists rightly point to theirart as what really matters, we've
become accustomed to thinking thatthe artist's life itself must somehow
unfold secrets that reverberate in theart. Bowles tells no secrets. Even closefriends, friends for half a century can-not say for certain whether or not
Bowles is gay, whether the strong
relationships
he's had with men
around the world were love relationships. Bowles isn't saying; his friends
don't know. The biographer has his
work cut out for him.
Early on Bowles surrounded hi~self with gay men and women; heeven married Jane Auer, herself anoted writer and lover of some of themost fascinating women. Not eventhis relationship can be defined withcertainty. Was theirs a marriage of
convenience? Or did it deteriorate into
one of inconvenience?
What Sawyer-Laucannopiecestogether, though, is quite a tapestry ofcolorful personalities,
coming andgoing through Bowles' life. How else
would we have ever known that

Cabarefs Sally Bowles was actually
named for the writer by Christopher
Isherwood? How else would we haveever known who Cecil Beaton lived
with? Or that Bowles wrote the incidental music for most of Williams' plays?
It's as if these little items were
the pieces that were missing from alarger puzzle. Standing back it would
seem that all the most vital cultural
leaders of the century were somehow connected, perhaps even sexu-.
ally connected. This book, and byextension Bowles himself, is the link
to so many mysteries, and those
things not so mysterious.
While this aspectofBowles' life fascinates, his work
is still alluring as ever. SawyerLa~canno attempts to connect
many actual events with theirfictional equivalents.
Often
biographers stretch, so in doing
this one can feel muscles snapping. But here, clear connections are made, and those who
are familiar with the Bowles
oeuvre will be further enlightened.
Besides Bowles' himself,
the most important character
here is Tangier, his adopted
home. The steamy streets,
mysterious alleys, seductive
sexuality are all here, just as
they are in Bowles' stories.
One can easily imagine thisworld, teeming, frightening,maddening, finally luxurious.
It is in Tangier that Bowles
remains today, still aloof, so literally removed from the rest of
the world. fIis life, it seems,
has become his art. His important silences provoke his ,audiences, his fans, his admirers.
It's as if he's saying, I'll show
you just enough to be interesting; if
you want more, you'll have to pay
closer attention.
Bowles has left us wanting
more. It isn't easy for a biographer
to capture that essence. SawyerLaucanno has done it. Both havemade the experience very satisfying,no matter how unlikely that is.
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ACTUFED) UP
Mone Foot. Chip Duckett. Diene Cencer end Codie Revioli tre,h We/lcome product. et Mer.
GmtNG PISSED from PIgI 13

ceed with the press conference.
.
As OutWeek went to press, no formal decision had
been made among these groups. However, activist
groups around the country are continuing to escalate theboycott of Burroughs' products, forging ahead with telephone zaps, fax zaps, sUckering campaigns and, In New
York, some Interesting nightclub outreach campaigns.
-20 percent Is nothing!" said Charles Franchino, a
member of ACT UP!New York. ·We'll keep the pressureon until the price comes down much more. We Just sim·ply don't trust Burroughs. The last Ume they dropped theprice [of AZTI they raised the price of Acyclovir." Acyclovir is another anti-viral used by people with AIDS.
Franchino said he mailed thousands of stickers
which read •AIDS Profiteer" to activists in over 30 cities
across the country. The activists then forwarded themthrough an elaborate networking system to lesbian, gay
and AIDS activists in dozens of smaller cities and towns.
People are being urged to enter pharmacies and supermarkets and put the stickers on all Burroughs Wellcome
products.
In addition, activists are urging people to telephone
Burroughs Wellcome president T.E. Haigler at the company headquarters in Triangle Research Park, North Carolina. ·You can call and lodge a formal complaint or

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Photo: Ben Thornberry.
.'.
AIDS profiteer ...' until they hang up,· said ~Ip Duckett,a member of ACT UP and a gay party promoter at the. Manhattan nightclub Mars. "You can also tie up their fax
machine by sending through black paper with white let·tering that says 'AIDS profiteer'-black
paper takes
longer to print and. It also uses up all of their Ink. Or you
can uSe a long sheet of computer paper or connect three
sheets of paper together in the fax machine so that it Just
keeps going around and around. The only way for themto stop it is to take apat:t the machine.·
Duckett, promoter of Mars' regular Sunday night gay
events, put information about the boycott on all 10,000
club invitations he mailed and passed out last week. In
addition, he made regular announcements at the clublast Sunday, explaining why people should boycott all
Burroughs Wellcome over-the-counterproducts. Performers on all four floqrs ripped up boxes of Actifed,
Sudafed and Neosporin before they went on, and signs
explaining the boycott in detail were placed on bathroom walls throughout the club. Boxes of the over-thecounter drugs (mostly donated from people's medicine
cabinets) filled all of the urinals. "Burroughs is pissing
on the gay community,"
Duckett announced to thecrowd. "So we're giving you a chance to piss on Burroughs Wellcome.·
....

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BURROUGHS from page 14

experimental treatments to be more
speedily distributed before receiving
final safety and efficacy approval.
Activists have cited the prospect ofcompetition from DOl's manufacturer,
Bristol-Myers, as well as the availability of successful treatments and prophylactics
for the opportunistic
infections associated with AIDS, asreasons for Burroughs' decision toslash AZf's price at this time.
Congressional Pressure
Burroughs' announcement
alsocame just hours after a meeting
between company officials and Rep.
Henry A. Waxman CD-calif.), chair of
the House Subcommittee on Healthand the EnVironment,
who hasrepeatedly called on the company toreduce AZf's price, claiming that its
cost to produce the drug was now
much smaller. Waxman called theprice reduction "a good first step,· but
added, "I think the company could do
better,· according to the Times.

Waxman also gave the drug
company executives a series of pointed questions about its pricing structure, which he asked them to answer
by September 22. Burroughs is currently formulatinga response,
according to spokespeople.
Others in the AIDS community
have suggested that Burroughs lowered AZT's price fearing that ACf
UP's stock exchange demonstration,
together with the threat of a boycott,would precipitate a dive in the priceof the company's stock, which isactually traded on the London Stock
Exchange.
During the demonstration at the
New York Stock Exchange, whichcoincided with protests in London
and in San Francisco, where the company's main U.S. warehouse is located, five activists gained entrance tothe trading floor and hung a bannerreading "Sell Wellcome" from a balcony. A story about the incident
appeared 6n the front page of theWall Street Journal the follOWingday,

as well as in New York's dailies andpapers across the country. The pershare price of Wellcome PLe did actually fall slightly the day after thedemonstration,accordingto theFinancial Times of London.
In a press release issued on the
day of the announcement, Burroughs
Wellcome president and chief executive officer, T.E. Haigler, Jr., said, "Thecompany has carefully weighed anumber of factors, including our
responsibilities to patients and shareholders, and the very real remaining
uncertainties
in the marketplace.
Although the precise timing and total
num~r of patients remain uncertain,
it now appears the number of patientson Retrovir will be growing considerably over time. We believe the pricedecrease will fa,cilitate the access ofmore HIV infected individuals to
Retrovir. The expected growth inpatient population will reduce somewhat our financial risk.·-

Cliff O'Neill contributed to this article.

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THE NETWORK OF BUSINESSAND PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONSBack·to-School Patty,
to raise funds for the Center's
3rd-floor auditorium; by invitation; 208 W 13 St; 6:3()..9:30pm;$35 advance/$50 door; 62()"7310

CALENDAR
include AIDS prevention in theworkplace, pediatric medicalcare, mental health services, AIDS
education in schools, foster carefor the infected child, AIDS polio
cy in the workplace, legal Issues
in AIDS prevention, ethical issues
in AIDS prevention and treat·ment, risk assessment and risk
reduction counseling, support
groups for care providers, psychiatric aspects of HIV infection,
dealing with death and dying,planning and conducting preand post-test antibody counseling, effective messages for different cultures; info 301/686-3610
CENTER Volunteer Orientation,

to find out about joining the volunteer team that makes the Cen·
ter Nn; 208 W 13 St; 6-7:30 pm;
62()"7310

GAYFRIENDSAND NEIGHBORSOF BROOKLYN present State .. PWA HEALTH GROUP First
Annual Public Forum with
Senator
Velmanette
Mont·gomery, who will update GFN Executive Director Derek Hodelon the status of -the Bias Related and members of the board ofBill and other legislation of inter- directors, to discuss organizationest to the gay/lesbian community; al policy and finances; at theat St John/St. Matthew Communi- Center, 208 W 13 St; 7:30 pm;
ty Center, 415 7th St, Park Slope; free; 532-028Q
8 pm social followed by 9 pm
NEWSCHOOLSOCIALSCIENCES
meeting; 718/789-2513
DEPT. begins Sociology A0738Conflicts of Gay Men and theConstruction of Sexual Identi·
ty, a 12-week course with therapist/counselor
John
Ryan;
readings by Dannecker, Ferro,
Fierstein, Rechy, Shilts, Kleinberg.
DC 37 LESBIANSAND GAYSGet·
Monette, others; 66 W 12 St; 7:45Together and Organf2fng Meet·lng, to discuss lesbian/gay issues 9:30 pm; $255; 741-5690
such as anti-bias legislation,
A DIFFERENT LIGHT BOOK·
dOµlestic partner benefits, homoSTORE presents Roslyn Dane,phobia at the work-place,reading selections from her erotic
improving union services for peo.pIe with AIDS; at the Center, 208 women's collection, The Assis·
tance of Vice; 548 Hudson St
W 13 St; 6:30 pm; 718/836-2511(btwn Charles and Perry); 8 pm;
free (limited seating!); 989-4850

BALTIMORE CITY HEALTH
DEPT. and HEALTH AND EDUCATION COUNCIL, INC. 3rd
Annual Symposluin on AIDS
Prevention, two days of panels
and workshops at the BWI Airport Mariott, West Nursery Road,
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daily, noon to midnight, 212-777-1800

GAYMALES/M ACI1VISTSMeetIng.
Mapplethorpevs.
Congress, the Move to Outlaw
S!M Art, with a panel discussion
and sli~e presentation of some ofthe explicitly gay or S/M imagesby the late photographer; panel
includes Richard Goldstein of theVillage VOice,writer Gary Indiana, Sue Hyde of National Gay &Lesbian Task Force, and others

October 1, 1989

who knew Robert Mapplethorpe;at the Center, 3rd Floor, 208 W 13
St; 8:30 pm; $5; 727-9878
STEPHEN HOLT SHOW presents
Jack O'Brien, flamboyant andcolorful artistic director of San
Diego's Old Globe Theatre; on
Manhattan Cable TV Channel
17D, 9 pm (repeats on MC1Vand
Pa!2gon, Sanuday, 9/30)
EAGLE BAR Movie Night; The
1b'II; 142 11th Ave (at 21 St); 11
pm; 691-8451

FIRS/' EVENING OF ROSHHASHANAH
GAY MEN OF AFRICANDESCENT Other Countries
Writers Workshop: Page Froma Black ChUd's Diary, a performance evening by gay and les·bian poets and novelists from theBlack community; at the Center,
208 W 13 St; 8 pm; $5; 740-8565

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NEW YORK SPORTS AND CUL·
11JRAL ASSOaATION Inaugural
Cocktail Patty, to begin the formal bid to hold the 1994 Gay
Games in New York during the25th Anniversary of Stonewall;
Wall Street area; 6-9 pm; 732-3612
JUDITH'S ROOM BOOKSTORE
presents Mary Korte, Lynn
Lonldler, Janine canan readingfrom She Rises Uie 'he Su.;681 ~hington
St (btwn W 10 &Charles St). 7 pm; free, but seating is limited; 727-7330
CENTER'SNATIONALMUSEUM
OF LESBIANAND GAYHISTORY
presents Marlette Pathy Allen,with a panel talking about crossdressing in contemporary culture,
while Allen's photographic
exhlbltioDl Tra.s/ortrlaHOIIs:
Cross·Dressers
a.d Those
Who Love Tbtlftl is at the Center(through Oct. 31); 208 W 13 St; 7
pm; $2; 62()"7310
IN OUR OWN WRITE presents
Studenti from the Hetrick·Martin Institute reading fromtheir poetry and fiction, at theCenter, 208 W 13 St; 7:30 pm; $3
generaV$2 students; 62()"7310
WNET-1V/13 -The AIDS Quar~
terly,' with Peter Jennings, thethird edition of this series with
updates on research, legislation,
breaking news, minority commu·
nities, AIDS and racism, implications for women; 9-10 pm

STEPHEN HOLT SHOW presents
Jack O'Brien, flamboyant andcolor artistic director of the Old
Globe Theatre, San Diego; on
Manhattan and Pa!2gon Cable 1V
Chanpel 16C; 11:30 am
JUDITH'S ROOM BOOKSTORE
presents Cheryl Clarke, Jewelle
Gomel, Tetrl Jewell, Storme
Webber reading from Serious
Pleasures; 681 Washington St(btwn W 10 & Charles St). 7 pm;
free, but seating is limited; 7277330
PEOPLE'S VOICE CAFE presents
Marcia Taylor,singing of"whirling galaxies and gospel
singers; of trees and flat tires; ofstrong women who lived history;of shy love, bold love; of the bittersweet struggle to be free"; also
appearing is Jay Manklta; 133 W
4 St, ~hington
Square Church
parlor; doors open 7:30 pm,
show at 8 pm sharp; $6 or TOF +$1; info 718/426-2183, club m2528
DIGNITY/BIGAPPLEHonors Sr.
Patrice Murphy, Director of
Supportive Care at St. Vincent's
Hospital; at the Center, 208 W 13
St,. Uturgy at '8 pm, followed bysocial; 818-1309

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f!1ember info 673-2596'
D.T.'S FAT CAT Fat cat Contest,
the culmination of a popular votefor finalists through this week,choosing the Fattest Cat, Sleekest
Cat and Most Adorable Cat basedon photos displayed dally from
3,'-8 pm, finalists and owners willappeartoday; with voting tobegin at 4 pm, judges to beannounced, 281 W 12 St (comer
W ;(th and W 12th Streets); 243~1
SAGE Women's Autumn Danceand Mini Concert,featu~lng
AlJx Dobkin, who wil! be signIng copies of her latest album,'lblI$e Womlm Nt1IJlIrBeen Better,at Red Zone, 440 W 54 St (btwn
9th & 10th Aves), 5-9 pm, $15
advance/$20 door; info 741-2247
CEN1ER STAGE sees Bo6 HoP.

_Ii t;eorze lIN",_ at Madison
Square Garden, 7 pm, $30/$20
seniors and SAGE members, 62~7310
GAY PERFORMANCES COMPANY Staged Readi .. , at the Center, 2~ W 13 St, 7 pm, $3, Info595-1445
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FILM

FESTIVAL
Isaac
Julien's "controversial meditationon the Harlem Renaissance andthe life and art of perhaps its key
figure, poet Langston Hughes", at
Alice Thlly Hall, 9 pm; info 3621911, tix 874-6770

Loolrl"g lor La"gdo",

HAPI'S BACK DOOR CABARET
presents
Lypslnka,cominghome to the Pyramid Club after asuccessful year-long off-Broadway run; plus a special
strip
show by Hostess Hapi Phace;
101 Avenue A (btwn 6th &, 7thAves); 12:30 am show, danc,ing
till 4 am; $5;.42~1590

NEW YORK SPORTS AND CULTURAL ASSOCIATION
Open
Meed .. , to enlist volunteers andmedia in the preparationof
NYSCA's bid to bring the Gay
Games 1994 to New York as partof the Stonewall 25th Anniversarycelebration; at the Center, 208 W
13 St; 7 pm; 732-3612
GAY AND LESBIAN ALLIANCE
AGAINST DEFAMATION Monthly Meet1na at the Ceriter, 208 W
13 St, 8 pm, 966-1700
SCRABBLE-PLAYERS
CLUBGame Night, newcomers should
bring a board; at the Center, 208
W 13 St, 8-11 pm, 57~9369
S'IEPHEN HOLT SHOW presents
Jim True,
who plays hunkyyoungerbrother
Al Joad In
Broac}way's upcoming Gf'aptIS of
Wrath, which opens In April, andIn which Mr. Joad has a briefswimminghole nude scene,
which he discusses tonight, on
Manhattan
Cable TV Channel
17D; 9 pm (repeats on Manhattan
and Paragon Cable, Saturday,
1017)
EAGLE BAR Movie Nights (D ..
ney's)
142 11th Ave (at21 St), 11 pm, 691-8451

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Epitapb_/or'be LlvI"g, by Billy Howard;
1625 Connecticut Ave, NW; 7-9pm; SMU Press 214/52~3666
New YorAr
JUDITII'S ROOM BOOKSTORE
presents Karla Jay reading fromTbe Aftlazo" &. Tbe Page:
NataUe CUgor4 &"'8)' _4
Rnee Vlvln; 681 w.tshington St(btwn W 10 & Charles St); 7 pm;
free, but seating is limited; 7277330

youm ENRICHMENT SERVICES
Alternate Vision Imptov
Washington, IX
NATIONAL ASSOCIATIONOFPEOPLE WITH AIDS Conference,
throughFriday,10/6;
202/429-2856

COLUMBIA GAY AND LESmAN
AWANCE First Friday Dance,with DJ and dancing upstairs,social lounge downstairs, at, Earl
Hall, Columbia U., 116 & B'way,
10 pm - 2 am, 854-3574. Wasbtngton, IX
NAMES PROJECT displays The
AIDS Memorial Qullt, the fmaJ
display Of the quilt In its entirety,
with over 10,000 panels; at the
Ellipse, behind the White House,
unfolding begins at 10 am withreading of the names continuing
through
6 pm, when quilt isrefolded; display will repeat durIng the same hours on Saturday
and Sunday, 415/863-5511

Washington, IX
NAMES PROJECT displays The
AIDS Memorial
QuUt, see Priday, October 6

NATIONAL GAY AND LESBIANTASK FORCE Town Meetlngl
MAIDS a Polltlc:st Transformations of Our Movement,discussing the Impact of AIDS on
the gay & lesbian civil rights,movement;at George Washington University, Ross Hall, Room
101,7:30 pm; 202/332-6483

NAMES PROJECT Cancllellaht
March Aplnst
AIDS from the
Ellipse (6:30 pm) to the Lincoln
Memorial, where a Candlelight
Program will be held at 8 pm
(bring candles); 202/797-3508

TIlE AD nUB presents LIfe 01
tbe Par'y, a play by Theater
Rhinoceros,
to benefit
the
NAMES Project and local AIDS
organizations,at the Kennedy
Center; 8 pm, $75, 301/656-2582
Newr////ISdA.

Workshop, a performance piece created from the improvisations,discussions and writings of the leSbian and gay youths participatingin the YES program; at the Center,
208 W 13 St, 7:30, 620-7310(repeats FRI, SAT,SUN, same time)'~

VIRGINIA GIORDANO presents
CrIs WUUamson a Teresa Tnill
In CX?ncertwith special guest Ferron, at Town Hall, 123 W 43 St,
8 pm: $18 & $20; info 929-1585,
tix 947-5850, Town Hall 840-2824

HOUSINGNOWINational
March for Housina
Now, toend homelessness, fund theation of affordable
housing,
restore funds for federal housing
programs; 10 am; 212/316-0188,
202/347-2405

ere.

NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF
PEOPLEWITII AIDS Sixth
Annual Gala Dinner, to benefit
the Human Rights Campaign
Fund, 8 pm; $150; 202/628-4160
NewYorAr

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Alternate
Workshop,,Vlsr~n'Improvsee Thursday, 10/5

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EAST COAST COCAINE ANONYMOUS Fall Convention
Weekend, through Oct. 8; with tenniS,
swimming, hiking, softball, fellowship,
meetings,
speakers,
banquet Halloween Dance (costume optional), at Holiday Hills
Conference Center, Pawling, NY;$150-$170 (c;iouble occupancyonly), 914/476-8346

S'IEPHEN HOLT SHOW presents
Jim True,
who plays hunkyyoungerbrother
Al Joad In
Broadway's upcoming Grapes of
Wrath, which opens in April, andin which Mr. Joad has a briefswimminghole nude scene,
which he discusses tonight, on
Manhattan and Paragon Cable 1V
Channel 16C; 9 pm

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SAGE
Brunchprogramresu~,
beginning its new
son at CJ Blanda's, at 7th Ave
and 22 St; noon or 2 pm seating;$10; RSVP 741-2247

Alternate
Workshop,

VisionImprovsee Thursday, 10/5

THE ANSWER
IS LOVING
Women Talking Women's Talks
MP.R.I.D,E. (pompous,
rldlcu-'lous, Independent,
dignity,excesslve);the motivator andthe downfall and how we use it
and abuse it; led by Ruth Berman
and Connie Kurtz; Sheepshead
Bay, Brooklyn; 7:4S-10 pm; $8;71a1998-2305

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IDENIlTY HOUSE -It's Map:- a
Women'sDance at the Center,with DJ Gini DeSantis; 2~ W 13
St, 9:30 pm - 1 am; $8; Center
62~7310, ID House 243-8181 .

SAGE Lesbian Couples Group,
formation night; at the Center,
208 W 13 St, 8:30 pm, 741-2247

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PrIvate Eyes 12 W 21 St. 7J:i).
midnight)

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Machine Broadway at 17 St. 254-4005 (at the Underground)
Tracks 531 W 19 St. 627-2333"LoVe

Hatflelcl's 126-10 Queens
718/261-8484

Blvd., Kew Gardens,

QueensWEDNESDAY
Bedrock 121 Woodfield Road, West Hempstead,
Venus Flytrap 6 Bond St (btwn Bway-Lafayette)

Il 516/486-9516
979-6565 (PTProduttions)

WEDNESDAY

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Bedrock 121 Woodfield Road, 'West Hempstead,

Il 516/486-9516

cJub Lafayette 428 Lafayette St. (Scott CUrrie 8t R. Couri Hay)
PrIvate Eyes 12 W. 21 7J:i).roo (Dallas 8t Sanker's Boys After Dark)
RedZone440 W. 54 St 582-2221 (Keoki 8t Sister Dimension)

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802 64 St, Brooklyn

FRIDAY

7181238-8213 (free admission all night)

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10 E 60 St 755-0610 (Iast'Thu. of the month. has SusanneBansch party)"Pyramid

101 Ave A 420-1590 (Queer-Amid)

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802 64 St Brooklyn

718/238-8213(free admission all night)

Bedrock (West Hempstead, LI)
Cheeks 2000 Long Beach Rd. Island Park, Il 51eH31-5700
Octagon

555 W 33 St 947-0400 (Shescape,

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121 Woodfield Rd:, 'West Hempstead

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645-6479)

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14 W. 22 St. 534-9824"Boybar' 15 1/2 St Marks PI. 674-7959
Columbia Dances
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Earl Hall, 116 St 8t B'way 854-3574 (1st Friday ofFUnk, Inc. 428 Lafayette St.
Private Eyes 12 W 21 St. 206- roo (preppies and young profeSSionals)
Spec:tnJm 802 64 St Brooklyn 7181238-8213 (mlf strippers)
Tracks 531 W 19 St. 627-2333

SATURDAY"Boybar(a.k.a"The Lining~)

Bedrock(West Hempstead,LI)

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All Phone numblrs arl area codl 212 unless othelWisl indicated,

The Center 208 W 13 St. 620-7310 (2nd and 4th Saturdays)
PrIvate Eyes 12 W 21 206Sound Fadoryroo (Dallas and Sanker's Boys After Dark)

530 W. 27 St. 643.{)72s (non-alcohol,

House music)

Spec:tnJm 802 64 St Brooklyn 7181238-8213 (guest performer

night)NOTE:
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Needs Men· night)

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Community Directory
To list your non-profit
organization in our community directory, call Tom
Eubanks at 212/685-5277.
A.C.a.c.
AIDS CENTER OF QUEENS COUNlY
SOCIAL SERVICESe£DUCATION-BUDDIES COUN,
SELlNG·SUPPORT GROUPS
Volunteer Opportunities(718) 896-2500(voice)(718) 896-2985(TDD)

Full Range of Legal Services(212) 459,4873

BAR ASSOCIATION FOR HUMAN RIGHTSFree Walk·in Legal Clinic. Tuesday 6,8 pm
Lesbian and Gay Community Center Ground Roor
BODY POSITIVE
If you or your lover has tested HIV+, we offer
support groups, seminars, public forums, reference library, referrals, social activities and up-to'
date national monthly, .,.HE BODY POSITIVE"(S1!i/year).
(212) 633,1782.
2095 Broadway, Suite 306, NYC, NY 10023

ACT UP (AIDS eoalition to Unleash Power)
496A Hudson Street, ~uite G4 NYC 10014(212) 989 -1114
A diverse, non'partisan group of individuals unit,
ed in anger and committed to direct action to end
the AIDS crisis. General meetings Mon. nights
7:30 at the Community Center 208 W.13th.

COMMUNITY HEALTH PROJECT
208 West 13th Street, NYC, New York 10011
For Appointments and Information (212) 675,3559
PROVIDING CARING, SENSITIVE AND LOW COSTHEALTH CARE SERVICES TO THE LESBIAN AND
GAY COMMUNITY

ARCS (AIDS-R.lated Community Services)for Dutchess, Orange, Putnam, Rockland, Sullivan,
Ulster and Westchester counties. AIDS education, client services, crisis intervention, support
groups, case management, buddy and hospital
visitor program.
/ 214 Celtral Pw~Wh~e Plains, NY lOO(1j(914)9!ll.QD)
838 Broadway ,Newburgh, NY 12250 (914) 562'5005
AlDSlin. (914) 993-0607

CONGREGATION BETH SIMCHAT TORAH
NY's Gay and Lesbian Synagogue Services
Friday at 8:30pm
57 Bethune Street
For info. call: (212) 929,9498.
EDGE
For the physically disabled Lesbian and Gay
Community.
. (212) 9119,1921
P.O. Box ll5 Village Station, New York, NY 10014

BAR ASSOCIATION FOR HUMAN RIGHTS
Lawyers Referral
Service for the Lesbian and Gay Community

FRONT RUNNERS
A running club for lesbian and gay athletesof all abilities. Fun Runs of 1-6 miles held every

Sat. et lOam and Weds. at 7pm in Central Parkand every Tues. at 7pm in Prospect Park.
For information: call (212) 724-9700.
THE FUND FOR HUMAN DIGNITY
National Gay and Lesbian Crisis Line"AIDS 800"---I,BOO,SOS,GAYS
Educational Resource Center; Positive Images
Media Center; NY State Arts Program
666 B'way Suite 410 NYC, NY 10012 (212) 529-1600

GLAAD
Gay & Lesbian Aliianci Allllinst Dlfall18tion
80 Varick Street, NYC 10013 (212) 966-1700
GLAAD combats homophobia in the media andelsewhere by promoting visibility of the lesbian
and gay community and organizing grassroots
response to anti-gay bigotry.
GAY MALE SIM ACTIVISTS
Dedicated to safe and responsible SIM since1981. Open meetings w/programs on SIM tech,niques, lifestyle issues, political and social con,cerns. Also special events, speakers bureau,
workshops, demos, affinity groups, newsletter,more. GMSMA -Dept. 0, 496A Hudson Street,
SuitQ 023 ,NYC 10014.
(212) 727,9878.

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212-807-6655
212-645-7470 TOD (For the Hearing Impaired)MON.,FRI. 10:30 a.m. to 9:00 p.m. SAT. 12:00 to 3:00
HEAL (Health Education AIDS Uaison)
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AIDS which do not compromise the immune sys,
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approaches.
Wed 8pm. 208 West 13th Street (212)674-HOPE.

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HETRICK-MARTIN INSTITUTE
for lesbian and gay youth. Counseling, drop,incenter (M-F, 3-6pm), rap groups, Harvey Milk
High School. AIDS and safer sex information,referrals, professional education.
(212) 633-8920(voice)(212) 633,8926 m for deaf
LAMBDA lEGAL DEFENSE AND EDUCATION RIND
Precedent-setting litigation nationwide forlesbians, gay men and people with AIDS. Mem'bership ($35 and up) includes newsletter and invi,
tations to special events. Volunteer night on
Thursdays. Intake calls: 2-4pm Mon thru Fri •(212) 995,8585
THE lESBIAN AND GAY BIG APPlE CORPS
Get your instrument out of the closet and comeplay with us. Symphonic, Marching, Jezz, Dixieland, Rock, Flute Ensembles and Woodwinds.
123 West 44th St. Suite 12L New York, NY 1,0036(212) 869,2922.
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events sponsored by the Center and more than150 community organizations.
LESBIAN AND GAY RIGHTS PROJECT
of the Amlrie.n Civil Uberties Union
KNOW YOUR RIGHTS/WE'RE
EXPANDING THEM
(212) 944-9800, ext. 545
LESBIANS AND GAYS OF RATBUSH
Brooklyn's social organization for both gay men
and lesbians.
P.O. Box 106, Midwood Station
Brooklyn, NY 11230(718) 859-9437
LONG ISlAND ACT-UP
P.O. Box 291, New Hyde Park, NY 11040
Support us for change on long Island.
(516)338-4662 (516) 997-~
Nassau(516) 928-5630 Suffolk
NATIONAL GAY AND LESBIAN TASK FORCE
is the national grassroots political organization
for lesbians and gay men. Membership is$3OIyear. Issue-oriented projects address vio'
lence, sodomy laws, AIDS, gay rights ordinances,families, media, etc. through lobbying, education,organizing and direct action.
NGlTF 1517 U Street NW, Washington, DC 20009.
(202)332-6483.
NORTHERN UGHTS ALTERNATIVES
Improving Quality of life for People withAIDSIHIV.
THE AIDS MASTERY WORKSHOP: Exploring thepossibilities of a powerful and creative 6fe in theface of AIDS. Call Jack Godby (212) 337,8747

TI
GOSSIP WATCH

from pagl 43

posed to jUst let that go?
Some people say I shouldn't haveprinted Norwich's telephone number.
Hell, I don't care if he's getting calls at
three in the morning. I don't care if
he's cowering in the corner of his
apartment. I don't care if it's making
his life miserable. People are dying,
and this idiot is going to a million parties and forgetting what he really is!
Some people have said that it
was unprofessionalof me to giveout Norwich's home number, butthat it would have been okay if it
was his work number. Who eversaid there were rules to a Gossip
Zap? Besides, Norwich works atbome. That is his office.
It's funny, because the people
who are complaining are people whoare in similar positions-gays and lesbians who are sitting pretty and sucking crumbs in the hierarchy of thesocial elite. They say that everything in
the magazine is great except for thiscolumn. I fmd that observation interesting because this magazine is pretty
uniform in tone and politics. It's militant throughout-not
just here. What
they're saying is: uIt's okay to yell and
COURTER from PIIll17

NYC GAY • LESBIAN ANTI-VIOLENCE PROJECT
Counseling, advocacy, and information for survivors of anti'gay and anti,lesbian violence, sexualassault, domestic violence, and other types ofvictimization. All services tree and confidential.
24 hour hotline (212) 807-0197
PEOPLE WITH AIDS COAUTION(212) 532-0290 I Hotline (212) 532-()56B
Monday thru Friday 10am,6pm
Meal programs. support groups. educational andreferral services for F¥lA's and F¥lArc·s.
PEOPLE WITH AIDS HEALTH GROUP
Underground buyer's club importing not'yet'approved medications and nutritional supple,
ments. 31 West 26th Street ·4th Floor (212)532-0280 . .
SAGE: (Senior Action in • Gey Environment)
Social Service Agency providing cire, activities,
and educational services for gay & lesbian seniorcitizens. Also serving over 160 homeboundseniorsand older F¥lA's.
208 West 13th SI.
NYC 10011 (212)741-2247

decided there should be no written
state policy, but that job interviewers
should determine the sexual orientation of job applicants. He did not propose how this information would beobtained.
Courter also said that parents
should be informed if their child is in aclassroom with a lesbian or gay teacher.
Now, after Democrats
andRepublicans alike across the state,including Governor Kean, objected tothe tone of his campaign, Courter hasreportedly backed down, indicatingthat he would not use public office tofurther his own personal opinions
about homosexuality. .

scream and rant and rave and fight foryour rights. But just don't do it in mybackyard; don't ruffle my feathers."
And I say to them and every otherwriter, columnist, artist, designer, etc.,
who's whirling with the oppressors: I
realize you're oppressed just like therest of us (which is why you're hidingin the ftrst place). But don't react to it
by oppressing us. It's much easier for
you to break the chain of homophobia
than it is for me. You are in enormous
positions of power. Use that. And
don't excuse yourselves by telling usthat these rich people donate money. and that you write about AIDS benefits, etc. Yes, money is important, but
this community cannot be bought offi
We need you to voice your opinions.
We need you to attack the monsters
and build up the heroes. This is a crisis! SOMETHING HAS TO BE DONE
AND IT HAS TO BE DONE FAST.
AND YOU ARE IN THE POSITIONSTO DO IT. Be part of the solution
instead of part of the problem. If not,then get the fuck out of our way.
Because we're coming through andnothing is going to stop us. And if thatmeans we have to pull you down,well, then ...have a nice fall.
~
No Courter spokesperson
wasavailable for comment at his Morristown campaign headquarters.
Florio, Courter's opponent, called
the issue of gay rights uinappropriate"
for the gubernatorial race, but he has
avoided addressing the issue directly.
In an assembly election in 1985, several Democratic members of the statehouse lost their seats after their support of anti-discrimination protections
for lesbians
and gay men was
attacked by Republicans.
Some followers of New Jersey
politics have said that voters' homophobia and fear of AIDS cquld still
benefit Courter.
~- filedfrom New YorkULSTER CoUNTY GAY AND LESBIAN AWANCE
Meets first and third Monday of each monthat 7:30 p.m. at the Unitarian Church on Sawkill
Road in Kingston.
For information. call (914) 626,3203.

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HELP WANTED-----~~-GAYCOMMUNITY NEWS JOBOPENING:
Staff
Writlr/Circulation
Co·
Coordinator
Availablein October/November.
Research,investigate
and
write
news/news analysis about Boston and
New England. Share responsibilities withother staff writerfor coordinating weekly
mailingof paperand
processing
subscriptions. QUALIFICATIONS: Strong
writing skills and ability to write several
stories under weekly deadline pressure.
Knowledge of local/national lesbian andgay community and issues helpful.
DEADLINE FOR APPLICATION: Oct. 6,
1989
All GCN positions require commitments tolesbiarv'gay liberation, feminism, and antiracism, an awareness of class issues, anda commitment to collective decisionmaking. Please send resume and coverlatter to:
GCNJob Search Committee
62 Berkeley Street
Boston, MA 02116
GENERAL MANAGER
Telephone Party line Seeks a General
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flyer
distributors.
Responsibilities irclude: staffing, training,marketing & new product development.
Excellent salary with medical, dental and
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866 United Nations Plaza #406
NewYork,NY 10017.
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development.
Salary low 20's plus,
benefits. Women and persons of color
encouraged to apply. Resume and coverlettsr to: ,GLAAD.SOVarick St. #3E. NY,NY10013
before October 6th.
For more information. call (212) 966-1700.
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phones, mainain files and computer
databases and perform other clericaltasks. Salary high teens plus benefits.
Women and people of color encouraged
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GLAAD,SOVarick St #3E. NY.NY 10013
before October 6th.
For more information. call (212) 966-1700
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CHANGElllFairly
handsome, brown hair,green eyes, buzz,cut,
moustache, very thin
beard, slender build.
I'm interested in computers, tennis, workouts, the arts, travel,
politics. A little shy,quiet, I'd like to meetmen 22-40, matureand straight-acting,fairly or very handsome, moustaches/
beards a plus , forsafe sex relationship.
Letter and photo to:
Outweek Box 1104
24 YEAR-OLD GRADSTUDENT
into Shakespeare,music and politics
seeks friend for week,
end bike trips Send
letter and phone to
Outweek Box 1133
A FlNE CATCH
and still not hooked.
Cleancut GWM, 32,
5'10", 145, developed
mi9nd and body, lusty
and lusdul yet warmand caring, masculine
but not closeted,seeks lasting compan,
ions hip. Photo/phone
to Outweek Box 1134
GWM, WASP, 26
180 Ibs., 5'11", BIIBI,
healthy, masculine,
well,built, looking foryoung, muscular (18,28) guys for hot safe,sex (condoms). I liketo be both dominantand submissive. Face,fucking, role'playing.
butt, fucking. Lers get
it onl Also into threesomes, light bondage,
trying new thin9S. No
drugs, no pain. Send
note about yourself:
photo appreciated.
Outweek Box 1135
SUBMISSIVE
HEAL~Y,GWM
170 Ibs., 6'. I want tobe your pussy. Espe,

cially big musc. men.
Age + looks unimpor,tant. PO 1075, Cooper
Station NYC 10276.
WORK MY BOTTOMOVER WITH ME
in long, slow sessions.
He's hot Italian BB,
30's. I'm 30·s. lanky
and hung. If you're
attractive, hung, verbal
and ready.
Sendphoto/phone to P.O.B.
150, Prince Station,
NYC 10012.
NIPPLES .. PECS
GWM,
40,
5'8",
200Ibs.,extremely
oral, loves to suck onnips, pecs. and tits. I
worship
the malechest. Send photo andphone: Box 20446
London Terrace Station, NY, NY 10011.
My hot wet mouth iswaiting for you.
WOODSTOCK
changed my life. I'm
45, 6', 185, professional, warm, intelligent and like blues
and bicycling. rockand reading. movies
and theatre. Looking
for 30ish. bright, lov,ing. attractive man.
P.O. Box 325,0, NYC
10108.
CULTURED GWM,
26, European seeking
GF for friendship andpossible
marriage ..
Both can be mutuallyconvenient. Outweek
Box 1144
BUILD A NEST?
GWM, 43, 5'10", 160
Ibs., generally consid,
ered intelligent andhumorous with wide
range of skills andinterests. reasonably
successful.
lots ofgood friends but currently without the capstone, that special
someone. Seeking apartner interested in

the slow ex- plorations. joys and agonies of building a nest.
Let's start communicating and see where. it leads. Outweek Box
1145
BARK LIKE A DOG
GWM, 34, who barks
like a dogon all fours
and eats from a dog's
dish. Send phone
number, P.O. Box 266
NYC 10002.
FANTASY?
I want 2 B crazy inlove. I'm tall.dark,handsome,
smart,
good gymbody. So
what's the problem?
I'm 52 in an ancient
dry relationship andhave a fetish for very
attractive men with nofacial hair. If you're 2540, into SS sans poppers
andyou'vealways wanted a PIT
Daddy, send photo/phone to Box 3114
Old Chelsea Station.
New York, NY 10011.
MUTUAL BENEFITS
Companionshipsought for physicaland intellectual stimu,
lation by attr W/M, 44.
6'1", cosmopolitan
show, biz executive.
Seek W/M. 23,29(tallerthan 5'8").
clean,shaven. goodbody/mind. Graduate
students, actors. pro,fessionals,offer dinners,
Broadwayshows, theatre. Expect
truth. Sex(safe). Trav,
el possible. Ph/ph.
P.O. Box 8324, New
York, Ny 10150-1918.
STUCK LIKE A PIG
Let this 24 yr old hot
farm boy use his farmtools to work you intoa frenzy so I can hear
you squeal. Send letter witha gooddescription of yourself
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OutWeek Box #_---:;:77 Lexington Avenue, Suite 200
New York NY 10010

would like to be breaded. Outweek Box 1149
NEED A SPANKING?
Attractive guy, 43, 6',
160 Ibs., will put you
across his knee, pull
down your pantsnand
underpants--andspank your bare bottom till you promise to
behave. Am into fantasy .. not pain. Good
with beginners. Box1316 FDR Station,
NYC 10150. Seek trim
guys only.
QUIRKY LESBIAN
GWF, 27, would like tomeet very bright,
funny woman who
possesses
naturalfemininity.
Older
women, please d9n't
be shy. Please send
photo, not because I'm
picky but because I
thoroughly enjoy fotosof folks I don't know.
I'm not being facetious. I'm fascinatedby that which is traditionally consideredboring, i.e. staring at
the ceiling, reading
phone books. calling
pre-recordedmes'sages and dialing
international opera,
tors. Loathed When
Harry Met Sally... Out,
Week Box 1151
GUPPIE
26 year old GWM
attempting to live theyuppie lifestyle. 6'2",
175. blondish hair.
beard and moustache.
Non,smoker. healthy,
in,shape. Considered
to be good- looking,romantic. stable, pro,fessional.
Seeking
GM, 28,40 with similar
qualitiesfor quiet dinners, movies, etc ...
Please send letter
including photo andphone number. Out,
week Box 1152
WANTS
PATRON/CHUM
Ag.ing writer, hairy.
irascible,seeks warmhearted, brainy. nonsmoking amanuensis
and/orpatron/provider/ slut in ex,change for grudging
affection, kinky vanillasex, and glimpses ofimmortality. P.O. Box
1251 Canal St. Station. New York 10013.
PATIENTLY
waiting for a GWM.
35,49, attractive.edu,
cated professional!

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executive,
seriousabout commitment,
introspective but funloving with a good
sense of humor, and
who actually has timein his schedule tomeet new people andpossibly develop a
relationship.
I'm a
GWM. 43, br/haz,
5'10",150, glasses,
gd-Iking, intelligent,
professional, HIV neg,
Midwestern values.
Try not to take myself
too seriously. Write
with ph/ph to Box1858. Madison Square
Station. NYC 10159.
VERY HDSM & MASC
30, 6'. 160, blond,straight,actinglappearing, successful proll,warm and verbal,
Yuppy-type (w/out theattitude) with AII-Amer,ican looks and an irre,
sistible smile. Enjoys
the more rugged
aspects of life-hiking,camping, skiing. gym,
as well as the city.
Seek similar profl,
hdsm
and masc,
together guy for friend,ship and fun and sen,suous times. POB
20489, NYC 10025
NEW TO NYC AREA
GM Puerto Rican, 27,
5'11", 210Ibs.,enjoys
music, quiet evenings
and cuddling. Looking
for friend to show me
NYC. send photo, andphone number to Out;
week Box 1156
GlBIJF IS SOUGHT
by a BIJWM, 27, intelligent, good,looking,successful for a serious relationship. P.O.
Box 1157, Forest Hills.
NY 11375.
EAT, EAT, EAT
and eat some more. I'll
feed
youto
your
hearrs delight. We will
watch your belly andtits grow to perfection.
Has this been yourdream or fantasy, I will
make it happen. I havealot of experience inthis area Answer
today with photo andphone and detailed
letter. You have every,
thing to gain. Serious
replies only. P.O. Box
London Terrace Station 20053, New Yorl<
NY 10011.
SUPERHUNG WM, >35, good looks, average build,looking forguys hung super longor thick for safe fun.
I'm in midtown and amvery discreet. Scott,Box 6559, NYC, NY
10163.
DHB·DECENT HUMAN
BEING
wants to share happy
times and not so happy
ones
with
another
DHB. Not into drugs/
smoking.
I've been
told I'm handsome.
caring. sensitive, sen,
sual
and
hot.
I'm
6·/172/LtBr/LtBr.
33,
trim, smooth. muscularbuild. Prefer
GWM,
20-28, "boyishandcute
andwants
togrow. Enjoy conversa,
tion, museums. beach.
work,outs at gym. Off,
Broadway
plays andsafe hot love-mak,ing.Send detailed letterw/
photo/age/phone:
Box
5432.
Flushing,
NY 11354.
Thismay
be ourctrancefor a great
future together.
REGULAR GUY
GWM. 38, seeks similar for relationship.
Avg
looks/build,
decent.
stable.
shy.

Like theatre, classicalmusic. blonds. Closet
Romantic,
more
turnedon by chest
size than coCk. Honest
letterand photo(amustl)
to P.O. Box3182, Ridgewood. ~Y11386.
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to: OutboundPress,
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496,A Hudson.
New
York, NY 10014.
I'LL TAKE MANHAT·TAN!
Californian,GM, 25.
bllbl. sensual,mous,
tached.
intellectual.
mature,non,attitudi,
nous.
romantic
fordays, self,aware
but
not
self,absorbed
seeks Manhattanite.
25-35,
with similar
qualities for whateverdevelops. Any race orhealth status. No clos,

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LITILE BROTHER
Write homel GW couple 30 (6'. blonde.160)& 34 (6'1-, hairy, 185)
both very handsome,loving,fun, & HIV·
seek
youngerkid
brother
for fun andsensuousnightsathome
andon thetown.Wecan offeremotional support (no$), hot times, affection,& some "home cooking". You are hug,gable,
hot, healthy,
handsome(& togeth'er).
Photo/phone(Don't tell Moml) to:
POB
1955,
NYC
10025.

UNIOUEOPPORTUNITY
How would you like tostrip, kneelbefore me.
and placeyourself
under my direction?
Am looking for someonl! who knows
hisplace (bottom)
andwho is obedient.
Youmust be willing to do
as you'retold. Your
stats are unimportant

to me,yourattitudeisn·t.
If willingtoexplore,
write
to
POBox
292,
NYC
10024.
SERIOUS FUN
w/ GWM, 32. 5'10".
very slim, long brown
hair.
Reasonably
attractive,
reasonably
intelligent, outrageous
sense of humor. Passions include
films,
books, dramatic land,
scapes,spicy food.
lively conversation,
long kisses. Seeking
facsimile of soulmate.
28-40,
ideallyslim.
clean-shavenandsexy (I know irs sub,jective,but we can
explorethe matter.)Ph/phto: Outweek
Box 1172LESBIAN WANTED
Tall, goodlooking.
healthy, straightWM.
35, seeks lesbian or
lesbiancoupleforadventurous
sex. Will
do whatever to please.
Interested?
OutweekBox 1174
BROADWAY BABY
Attractive,
furry, cuddly, GWM.
41,5'9",170Ibs.,
Br/Br,
w/stache,seeks special. affectionate
guy.
3Oish,50ish, for friendship/possible
relation,ship to take in the new
Broadway,
Off B'wayseasons together. Youlove musicals (maybe
even collect original
cast
albums),andenjoy comedy. drama.
cabaret, too. Also likecountry walks. brunch.
music,
film.
etc. If
interested
write
w/phone and photo (ifpossible)o to: P.O. Box
2509. Times Square
Station New York, NY
10108.
PASSIONATE
about great literature,ballet,classicalmusic.
safe sex. theatre. film,
intellectualchat.
GWM, 29. 5'9". 155 #.
BI/grey, seeking thatsincere someone who
can be added to thelist of passions. Letterwithdescriptionofyourself and your reasons for being should
elicita response.
Pleaseincludeaphone number. Photooptional. Outweek Box
1176

GF, 39, SEEKS
mail order bride. Must
becultured, intelligent,
with a good sense ofhumor. No Holly Nearfans. Outweek
Box
1178
MALE/MAIL ART
exchange.
Your hotmale images(drawings, collages.
etc.)
get a fistful from P.O.
Box 447, New YorkNY 10012. Let's havefun. guysl
WOODSIDE

PUSSY

5'T, 210 Ibs., 45 years
old, GM.loves to suckcock and get fuckedwith bags by black andwhite guys 30,60. Not
necessary to be handsome or slim/trim. Bi.
married o.k. I'm HIV
negative/safe.
Write
desires to: P.O. Box4547, L.I. City. NY.
11104.
NIHON
Japaneseboyfriendwanted by GWM,27.
tall.
dark,
slim,
smooth,soft-spoken
individual, long-haired,
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icreative
musicianlearning Japanese.
Aimasho Ka? Outweek Box 1181
GWM,38, RUNNER,
VEGETARIAN
loves art, music, outdoors,travel, HIV(-).
Seeks GBM, 25-35.
healthy, with similarinterests to seek andshare mutual physical,
emotional, and spiritual
growth.
No
drugslbooze/cigarettes. Photo! letter please.
Outweek Box 1182
SINCEREGM
PROFESSIONAL
healthy 20- sought byhandsomeGMKyotoite, 35, 5'11',
160 for monogamous
relationship, any race.
Ph/ph to P.O. Box1502, New York, NY
10185.
LOOK NO FURTHER
GWM, experienced
friend and loverseek,
ing same. I'm easygoing,
sensitive,
romantic, Intelligent
and witty. 44 years
young, 5'7', 142 Ibs.
Beautiful blue eyes,

curlybrown hair,
moustache. rm sensual, sexually versatileand into safer sex.
Interested in perf. arts,
film, !letter gets mine.
Box
2004,
NYC
10009.
HNDSM HUNG GBM
Top, seeks affectionate bottom,preferably
Hispanic or Italian forfriendship. GoodlookIng intelligent, clean
and honest a must,
40-60 years. Photo, if
possible, will return.
Outweek Box 1187
6',165, WM, 31
prof, Mid Eastern good
looks, musc,masc,
teaser, submissive.
like science politics.
nature. Us: smart.
atheist! agnostic, progressive. unpreten,
tious, non,smoker,
vers., affectionate.
You: 29,45, dominant,in good shape, looks.
P.O. Box 41, Eatontown, NJ 07724.
EDUCATORIWRITER
Lesbian professional:
35, 5'3', slimnice looking,immaculate.

Maturerational,
strong, responsible,
yet affectionate, warm,compassionate. Wouldlove to meet a feminine gay professional
female, 27-36, who isalso attractive, very
slim, healthy, graceful,intelligent (a mustl),
responsible, honest,
loving,sensitive,
romantic and sentimental. Outweek Box
1189 qualities to reply.
Honesty is sacred.
Note/phone/photo.
ATT: HAIRY MEN
GWM, 40,5'8', 200,very oral seekshirsute
man to worship fromhead to toe. Send
photo/phone to P.O.
Box 20446 London
Terrace Station NYC,
NY 10011. My tongue
is waiting to taste yourfurry body.
LET'S MAKE LOVEFifyish GWM-6', 175
into classicalmusic.
sensuous sexualityroving fingers andtongue, Intense nipples. Ph#, pis. P.O.
Box 387, Old Chelsea
Station, NY NY 10011.

DONNY
We met driving acrossthe bridgewhen myship came In, youwere disappointed. I
was wrong. Pleasewrite. Jeffrey, POB
3222, NYC 10185
GBM+U.LOVE39, 5'11', 215 seeks
top for relshp.Theatre,
music, arts, NYC,
love, hand holding,kisses, cuddles. No
drugs/smoke. U over
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possible.
PO Box
400073, Brooklyn, NY
11240-0073.
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Me, too. Send hot
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022301, Brooklyn, NY
11202,0049
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GWF,38seeks non-couch potato GWF 30+.1 like: foreign/obscurefilms,
new wave and rockmusic, Monty Python,
The Far Side, foreign
travel, reading, theShore, and gourmet
cooking. I am petite,
feminine, and not religious. If you like:dancing, art museums,
and maybe hot air balloon rides, send me anote with your phone
numberandaphoto.Outweek
Box
1199
OUTGOING GWM,
50,
seeks friend(s) for fun
visits tolocal museums, galleries, theatre,
dance, music, movies,
sports, and weekend
excursions. Pleasant,sincere personality
and inquisitive/adventurous attitude more
Important than height,
weight, build, looks,
hair, color, occupation.
race, sex, brains, religion,politics or age.
Note with interests &phone to Hank. Outweek Box 1200
ROMANCE
GWM, 38, 5'8', 145,
Br Hr, BI eyes,moust.,
looking for romance I
EnjoysBroadway,films, travel, dining
out, quiet times athome. Seeks GWM,
25-45 w/similar interests for friendship andpossible relationship.
Good health, no smokers, drugs, or onenight stands. Let's
inspire each other.
Photo/ltr/
phone #
vital. Ou.tweek Box
1201
INTO SHIT
from big, hairy asses.
NOT intohumiliation,
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big, bit, 28, xtremely
gdlkg. Into all-u-caneat specials. coffee,etc. OutWeek Box
1202.
DEJAVUseems this 33, 5'9',
handsome.
healthy,GJM and you(25-40,smarl/allr)
have stood and talked(about books andplays and movies andmusic) like this before.
The clothes you're
wearingaretheclothes you wore.
(Don't you ever dolaundry?) Was thesmile you're smilingthis sexy then? Let's
get together and meetagain and laugh again
and love again. Let meknow where and Out,
week Box 1203
GAY RFD POET
34, 5'8', 135, HIV+,brown
hair/eyes,
glasses, seeks conversation with gay
men about their lives.
I'd go for a lover or adeeper understandingof gay diversity in mypoetry. Outweek Box
1204
GWM, 34, 5'10", 150
Ills,slim, young-looking,
Br/Gr. I likemovies,
music, theatre anddinner out would liketo meet other GWM
for above for relaxing
evenings and safe fun.
No drugs. Write to AT
with phone/photo. Outweek Box 1205
GWM, 26, 6',170,
brown
hair/eyes,
attractive(I
guess),East Village
part-time activist; .per,former(kindof),
humorous, sarcasticina funny way, somewhat offbeat, not too
serious, very sincere.
undaunted,
nativeNew Yorker, seeking
similar nice guys, 2030, for friendship andwho knows what.
Send leller, phone,
photo (or recent drawing). Outweek Box
1206
LESBIAN,33
tall, slim, creative,
sober,quiet yet spirited. I'm honest andconsiderate. A senseof humor has always
gotten me through dif'fiQJlt times. The ability
to laugh at myself haS
been my salvation. I
love and am moved bybooks, birds, beaches,rubberstamps',mdvies, swimming,
hard work, music, conversation, and sushi.
Outweek Box 1207,..
SHOES AND SOCKS
Hot, handsome gl,ly
with intensefoot feftsh
wants to meet similarmen
formutualscenes. Wall Street
types a plusl Serious
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OutWeek Box 1208
PROUST ADDICT, 27
Into kayaklng, hiking,weightliltlng,delaSoul, Nietzsche andwell-rounded,
nonmoney-oriented people. I'm looking lor
somebody around myage with whom toshare a thousand andone mornings 01 posttussle coffee and talk.
Outweek Box 1209
ROMANTIC TOP
seeks slim bottom, 1839. l'm36, 6', 145, inshape, attr, creative,
political.
P,O. Box
1251, Canal St. Station, NY, NY 10013.
ULSTER COUNTY
Straight-acting, 37year
old, single,white male
~ks GWM lor friendship and sex. Sincere
only. P.O. Box 275,
Highland, NY 12528.
MASSAGE WANTEDGWM, retired gentleman,
135
Ibs.,
57·,slim & trim seeks
regular weekly massage by experienced
male. Daytime. MidManhattan.
Please"write to: Box 6095,
Grand Central Station,
NY, NY 10163-6018.
BE MY HORSEI
If you're well-built andlikebelng straddled,
feel my bare thighs
astride you as I mountyour shoulders, chicken-fight style, riding
the back of your neck,and ride your bareback with you on all
fours. Hot, experienced BWM, 47, 6',
175 Ibs., consideredattractive. Rider, Box176, 70-A Greenwich
Avenue, New York, NY
10011.
CHUBBY VILLAIN
GWM, 39, 5'5·, 200,
cln. shv, hry chst,u/cseeks wI. bit. masc.,
imaginative studs tosweat out our 'hottest,
wildest combat fantasyl No real ·rasslin~,but our match can be
as fun, erotic, and/or·brutal· as U desirel
Costumes, nude, oil,tits, hot talk, ·dirty·
holds, Vo, sa, midtown,
day/night. Ph/ph 2 TJ,
Box 112, executive
Suite, 330 W. 42ndStreet, NYC, 10036.
Ethnic a +.

Box 387, New York,NY 10011,

BLACKMANhairy hole, sweaty pits,
healthy tongue seekssame (over 30) for
mutual·no holds
barred· private Mt.
Morrissessions.
Occupant, P.O. Box263, New York, NY
10003.

INTELLECTUAL
TYPE
Slim, boyish; Intellec,
tual WM, 32,swimmer,
brOWn/greenwith varied interests seeks
brainy, muscular guy
next door, any race,
25-40, for possible
relationship.
Box
1220,
NYC,
NY
10026.

LOOKS & BRAIN
GWM, 30, 170, 6'1·,
goodlooking andintelligent. Baseball, art,
politics, books, pubs,
safe sex. Interested?
P.O.
Box
1005,
Stuyvesant Station,
NY, NY 10009.
PENETRATE THIS
ultra-hot,hairless
PRIMO-BllTT.Me: 29,
Ital-Irish masculine
LA/NY HANDSOME
jock type stud. You:
100% masculine, nonwimp, In-shape, alert
WM w/a PRIMOCOCK & emotional
PENETRATION. Mike
(212) 439-1191 (24hour voice-mail) LET'S
GET BUSY.
GWM ISO BLKGM
Lonely GWM ISO gay
black man forlover andsex buddy on regularbasis.
Photo andphone a must. Be over
25- profeSSionallyemployed and able totravel on vacations,etc. Boxholder, P.O.
Box 4543, Trenton, NJ
08611.

LIKE A VIRGIN..
O.K., Material Girl ismore like itGWM, 19,slim, brunette sexbun,
ny sks hot muscledads. Photo a mustl
847-A
SecondAvenue, Box .285
NYC, 10017. Nicearms a plus-the bigger
the betterI
ASKING FOR THE
MOON
Are you 18-26,5'8·-6',
intell.,hndsm, masc,smooth, vry well del. &hung huge? Do you
want someone
toappreciate your physical attrib as well as
what's inside? I'm apubl auth and cmposr,(mid 30's,
5'10·,
170);hlthy, gd-Ikg, sincere, witty and talented; I'm Ikg for aromantic, monog ,&mutually suppo'rtlve
rltnshp w/ someone
special, If you meet
my criteriapls send
photo and phone toBox 200'61, London
Terrace Station, NYC,
10011. NO DRUGSICOLUM, GRAD STUDENTGWM, 5'W, 160 Ibs.,
br/br, fit asa liddle.
Enjoymarches,demos and dinner.
Seek in-shape GM,
any race for possible
relationship.
Letter/photo/ phone toRB, Box 790, NYC,
NY 101008.
LESBIAN/FEMINIST
I'm vegetarianbutallergic to cats.Love toread, eat out and go to
movies. Live in Woodstock area. Please
send photo and letterto P.O. Box 684,
Bearsville, NY 12409.
GWF-SEEKING TO
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important, polishingthe inner soul. I'm gre,garious, interesting
and aeative. I have 55
acres upstate I wish tostart a business on. I
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Butch little blondeseeks other hot young
top guys into initiations
and other fun group
scenes. Make yourfantasy into reality.
Photo/phone to Box
478, 496 LaGuardia
Place, NYC 10012.
GWF TOGETHER
30 something, smart,easygoing,
Italian/Scorpio, feminist, healthy, happy,
cool/warm/hot,oldfashioned
valuesmixed wI wide streakof bohemianism seeksemot. healthy, softhearted, hot,blooded
woman for life partnershipspicedwithbeaches, brunches,
friends,
media(books/mags/films/eve
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Yes, when I put therose In my hair like theAndalusian girls used
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thought, "Well, as wellit's him as another ....
and then I asked him
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Personals of the week:

guy. Mark, Box 703,
FDR Station, NYC NY
10150.

KRAZY KAT SEZ:
Oi, yoi, yoi, what a unheppy ket I am
these "brickliss' daze!!1 Monogamous hermaphrodite has lost her
Ignatz end iz done cryin' about it, I'mseekin' en attractive, caring gesbian
who can love an unusual girlfriend.
Thrill-seekers, genderists, lust monsters and wierdos need not apply,.. I
get enuff uh thet shit on thuh street.
Send yer resumaze en pix to : P,O.
Box 20801, NYC 10009, Attn: KU.A.

MUSCULARSLAVE
GWM, 37,190# wants
you for his slave.
Friendly Master wants
to dominate you for his
pleasure and possibly
yours. You should bevery muscular. Largeendowment a plus but
notnecessary.
Responses
withexplicit photo and letter, phone # answered
lirst. London Terrace
Station #20276, NYC,
10011.

asked me would I say
yes, my Mountain
Flower ... GWM, 28,
mystical, smart, has
ideals, open heart.
surevoice.
Photo/phone to PO
Box 401157, Brookiyn.
NY 11240.
GWF,30, VERYPRETTYfunny, faithful, complex, moody. mature,sarcastic, selective.
I'm semi,normal, notinto gay scene, dubs.
roles, or men. Searching for a goodlooking,unpretentious, older(30-42) woman withvalues and an off thewall sense of humour,
who isn't dykey, tali, bi,easy. or a funloving
partier.
Redheads,
dark,eyed brunettes,
accents, kids, and big
breasts are a plus.
Recent photo and letter if you're for real,'cause I am. P.O. Box3092, Clifton,
NJ
07012. Manhattan or
Jersey preferred.

ASIAN STUDS
Chubby GWM, babyfaced, 39, 5'5", 200,
clean-shaven, hairychest and belly, brlbr,
utc, seeks wl.blt., masculine GOM, "South
Asians- 4 safe, hot
actionl
Midtown,
daylnight. Ph/ph 2 TJ.
Box 112, Executive
Suite, 330 West 42ndStreet,
NYC,
NY
10036.
CONNECTICUT
GWM.
28, seeksfriends for my occassional business trips to
New York or yours toHartford. 5'8", 135
Ibs., light brown hair,
attractive. Race unim,
portant. Photo appreciated.
P.O. Box31434,
Old State
House Station, Hartford, CT 06103.
TALL TOPMAN·NYC
GWM, 6'2", 195 Ibs.,
40's, hunk, butCh,smooth, sensitive, discreet, easy-going, into
the arts. Sefe sex only.
Seeks caring relation,

ship with bottom. tall.
hunk. "NO" to smok,
ing, drugs, drinking.
"YES" to romance,
sense of humor, funtimes, sincere, good,looking, up attitude,
hot
safe
muscleaction, dancing, the,atre, cinema, travel,
art shows, mutual nurturing, and loving environment. Write: "W".
P.O. Box 325, WallStreet Station, NYC,
10268. Photo a help if
possible. Thanks.
TRUST TRAINING
GWM, 39, 6', 180.
attractive, masculine,
seeks similar profes,
sional to help unwind
in 9 112 Weeks-typegames of control.Discipline, teasing andtrust. Safe, hot, erotic
scenes involving fantasy, bondage, blind,folds, toys, but mainly
my very creative mind
(and yours?). I'm usually dominant, can besubmissive depending
on my partner. Let's
explore and expand

our limits of sensuality:
leller, phone, photo (ifpossible) to: P.O. Box
B20386, Columbus
Circle Station NYC,
NY 10023.
MUSCULARTOPMAN
Sexy BB, 44, 6'1",
200#. 16- arms. 45chest, 32" waist, SIP
beard
and
hair,
healthy, imaginative &sane, prefers long,steamy, intense oral
service from equally
butch guys. Hairy,
short, thick-built Jewish and Itals a special
turn-on, but If you're a
hot bottom & would
love to give great headto this beefy, masculine guy, write me.
Photos exchanged,
returned: C.J .• P.O.
Box 20616, Col. Cir.
Sta. NYC 10023.
INTELLIGENCE
Very Intelligent, very
handsome WIM, 35,
135, 5'8", BrIBI, masculine with no affecta,
tlons. Looking foranother bright, natural

SUBMISSIVE WM,
40, 5'9", 145, dancefs
body, will wearpanties,
nylons, high heels.
etc., for doniant hungmen. Discreet. kinky
dates at your place.
NYC only. Lee, POB
146, Prince St. Sta,tion, NYC 10012.
GWM,27, BANKER,
5'10",
155
Ibs.,
brntgm, friendly, hand,some,intelligent.
healthy, interested infriends andlor relation,
ship with someone
5'11" or over with simi,
lar qualities.For fun
with friends I likerestaurants, movies,
theatre. clubs, beach,travelling overseas,etc. I am fairly career'oriented and serious.but into having fun
whenever possible,
and most of the time
my job doesn't get in
the way of my person,
allife. I would describe
myself as caring, sup,portiveandfun.
Please write and tellme about yourself. PK,PERSONALS CONTINUE ON PAGE 74(212)(

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32,5'5·, 115 Ibs., br. h& e, I am firmly
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set In mjy ways.
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weekdays. Box 2479,
NY, NY 10185.
COCKSUCKER
Hot, horny handsome
GWM, 37, 5'7·, 165
Ibs., brntbrn brd wants
to suck men, 18-40.
Let me wet your dick.
496-A Hudson St. F,
48, NY, NY 10014.
SEEKS FRIENDSWhite male couple,
early 40's, heaithynonsmokers looking to
expand social circles, ,seeks other couples.
Enjoy theatre, restaurants, day trips, homeentertaining. Pleasewrite to: P.O. Box
1836, New York, NY
10185-0014.
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unheppy ket I am
these·brlckliss·dazelll Monogamous
hermaphrodite
haslost her Ignatz end Iz
done cryln' about it.
I'm seekln' en attractive, caring gesbian
who can love an
unusualgirlfriend.
Thrill-seekers,
genderists, lust monsters
and wierdos need not
apply... I get enuff uhthet shit on thuh
street.
Send
yer
resumaze en pix to :P.O. Box 20801, NYC
10009. Attn: K.UA
CATWANTSA DOG
Beautifulboyish
GWM-30/looks
20.
5·7·/120/brn/hzlsleek, sensual, sensuous cat, seeks
extra
handsome
champion pedigree
dog-GWM,
25,35.
Muscles, sideburns,
sexy eyes hidden
behind glasses, andhairy and/or bow legs
a plus. Must haveshots,
no worms.
Send photo / phone/papers to OutWeek
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Bull Terriers, German
Shepherds,
andGreat Danes welcome. No Huskies orPoodle.s, please. Out,
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HIV+
Attractive Med Student, 30 yo, 5'9·, 155,
seeks masc M toshare quality time. I
love the Mets, waiks inthe park, cuddling,cats, quiet eves athome, waiking acrossthe Brooklyn Bridge,
theatre, cooking andgoodbooks.
You
should be content withquality over quantity,
Romantic and support,
ive. Bklyn res. or ItalIan/Latin a plus. T.P.
Box 7047, FOR Station, NYC, 10150. Will
answer all so please
include photo If you
have one. I will reciprocate.
RSvP
I'm a successful,secure,admittedly
shy, GWM, 42, 5'8·,
144, and fit. Born withgood looks, acquired
tenderness,
selfawarenessand aromantic
outlook;
request the responseofattractive
monogamy- oriented
guys for a quality lifeof playfulness
andsensuality.
Will
exchange photos. P.O.
Box 20141,
NYC
10028-9991.
1 T01
relationship desired.
WM, bllbl, 29, 5'4·,
135, good-looking,warm, sensitive, carIng, reall Looking forsomeone special, 2535, who is honest,

energetiC, intelligent,
romantic, etc. to build
meaningful monogamous relationship.
Please send a letterand photo (if possible)
to P.O. Box 7166, FOR
Station,
NYC, ·NY
10150.
GBM,20, NYU
Attractive, earthy student seeks similar
masculine, witty guy
for warmth and speciai
friendship.
Latins,Europeans (French),
Carribeans a big +.
Genuine replies only.
Box
996,
New
Rochelle, NY 10801.
FRIEND/LOVER
GWM, 29, 5'4·, 135,
Bllbl, good-looking.
intelligent,
shy,
healthy-not into bar
scene because I'm
shy-I find it hard meet,ing people. My tastes
are varied-music, film,
theatre, parties, dancing, reading, country
drives, antiques, quiet
evenings. I seek a
long
term
friendship/relationshipw/someone
I cancount on to be there. If
U R 28-36, trim, good,looking, intelligent,masculine, sensitive
andeasy-going,pleaserespondw/photo and phoneand detailed letter toP.O., Box 7166, FOR
Station, New York, NY
10150. Thanks.
GWM,ITAUAN
42, 5'9·, 145 Ibs.,
Br/Br,
moustache,good,looking, masc.,many interests seeks
similar men for friendship & safe sex rela·tionshlp, staches andhairy a +. photo/phone.
Box 831,
Grand Centrai Station,
NYC,10163.
I NEED A MAN
who'l take a chance...
on being open, aware,close, safely Intimate,a friend. Possible r~la·tionshipllove
candevelop w/time,work.
Sure, we ail have pref'
erences; but, life's tooshorno get huna up
on absolutes/attitudes
that are unrealistic. I'ma non,perfect;
noncretin, nice batlom
GWM, 45, 5'7·; 210
who seeks a basically
top similar
male.
Write: P.O. Box '454~,
l.I. City, NY 11104.

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support Coors beer or buy
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We have not noticed anyietters to the editor recently
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FrederickC.5hopfner
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Lettersto the Editor
TheRecord
Hackensack,NJ
I commend your rational and humane respose toCongressman Jim Courter's
call for laws banning gay
men and lesbiansfrom positions as teachers, child care
workers,camp counselorsor
foster parents (editorial,
August 28, 1989). It Is mosttroubling that one of ourpolitical leaders would use
the AIDS epedemic as an
excuse for Inflaming preJudice and bigotry against
gay New Jerseyans. Mr.
Courter's comments are of
special concern
sinceremarkssuch as these may
contribute to bias-related
violence against gays,
which has been Inc;reasing
during the past few years.
It Is unclear why the
AIDS crisis should arousesuch vociferous concern
about gays as child care
workers. As Mr. Courter
should be aware, the over-78

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whelming majority of people
with AIDSand HIVinfectionin New Jerseyare heterosexual. If he is concerned withtransmissionof HIV,there isno evidence that the virus
can be transmitted throughcasual contact in child caresettings. Finally, there is no
reputable evidence thatshows that gay men or
women performing in childcare positions have any
detrimental effect on children or contribute in any
way to their ultimate sexual
orientation. If it were true, as
it clearly is not, that children
need to be ·protected·
from the Influence of gay
men and women, then why
would he allow exceptions
In the "extreme cases· ofmentally retarded chidrenand children with AIDS?In
an effort to retrieve a losing
argument, Mr. Courter manages to demean anothervulnerableminority.
Mr. Courter's spokesman has remarked that his
position would win votes. I
questionwhether abilitiesto
provoke hatred and divisionin exchange for votes are
the talents we reallywant to
see in our political leaders.
The AIDS crisis has
generated
many
formidable problems forthe next Administration,
includingprovidingdesparately
neededhealth care and social services' to the estimated
70,000-105,000
peopleinfected with with HIV andpreventing th'e collapse ofservices in our largest
cities. Meeting this chal~lenge requires committment, compassion and an
ability to mobilize andcoordinate public and private resources. Perhaps it
is true to focus more on
how the state is to solve its
urgent needs rather thonon specious Issues.
Gary L. stein, Esq.
PolicyDirector
CittzensComm~ on ~Manhattan

October 1, 1989

MUSIC FESTIVAL from 1'111115
equipped to handle scooters, and in general the land was
inaccessible because it was too hilly.
•Able-bodied women are not dealing with the fact that
we are lesbians who are being excluded because we can't
be here-the land isn't safe,· said Bonnie Louison, speaking
from her wheelchair.
A number of other disabled lesbians did, however,attend the festival, holding meetings and workshops inwhat was called the Triple-A (All About Accessibility) tent
at the same time the protesters were blocking the roadabove.
At the end of the hour-long meeting it was agreed thatthe protesters would hold a two hour educational session
later that day, After the session, which was more sparsely
attended than the town meeting, the protesters left the festival and did not return.
Festival coordinator Lin Daniels, who was visibly shaken
by the protesters' accusations, said that with only three months
to plan the festival, she had to take the ~Stockbridge site
because everything else was already booked "If we'd had the
choice of a place even moderately more accessible I would
have chosen that 1be fact is we didn't have any choice."
Daniels said she felt there was a breach of trust on thepart of the protesters. "We met with the women who wereplanning the action a couple of weeks before, and they
asSured us that they would have a peaceful infonnation table,
which I thought was important and a great idea. I think thefestivals should be a forum for this kind of discussion. We
spent more time on the issue of accessibility than on any
other. We did our best to make it as accessible as that place
would allow, We wouldn't change the terrain,·Catherine Odette, one of the "All About Accessibility"
workshop leaders, said that telling women to demand theirmoney back and go home was "an inflammatory tactic
which doesn't advance the cause of accessibility," and that
she was personally "committed to seeing that festivals will
become only more accessible in only more ways."
Other differently-abled women at the tent agreed thatthe land was difficult, and in some places impossible, forwomen with mobility limitations, and that there many otherproblems, including getting food to women who could not
get to the dining hall. Information packets at the AAA tent
included handouts of a first draft of a "three-year plan" forimproving accessibility at all women's festivals.
"I think there's been an attempt made' at this festival to atleast begin recognizing broader forms of acceSSibility,· said
Sara Karon, a disabled lesbian in the AM area. "It hasri't beensuccessful, but that's because it takes time, and we're all learning, and my being here was to help people to learn.·(
I'd like people to consider the issue of finding lesbian
space, - said Daniels, who has already rejected the West
Stockbridge site for next year's festival. "It's hard to find any
kind of lesbian- spac;e in this country, but we have all ourhearts and energy behind finding a more accessible ~pacefor next year.';T()utWeek on your newsstandMondayNEW YORK JOURNAL cORtinu.d fro. p.... 21

back, not because my IDs were in
it-I wasn't thinking that far aheadbut because it was somehow part ofme. I shouted to Maxine to give it tome. Now I faced a problem that was~culiarly middle class: When you're
handcuffed, how do you hold yoursuit jacket so it doesn't fall on the
ground and the stuff in your pockets
doesn't come out? I stretched my fingers as far as I could, grasped thejacket under the collar and pressed it
hard against my butt.
Charles and I stumbled into the
paddy wagon and the doors closed It
was very dark. For some reason, I
flashed on Robert Mitchum as thepreacher-like child killer in Night of the
Hunter, and broke into his signature
song, .Leanitt on the Everlasting Arm.
The acoustics in the paddy wagon
were superb. Charles, who has Southern Baptist roots, was appreciative.
Then we were moving. A bumpy
ride. Charles peered out a small aperture in the front and said, "They're
running with us,· I couldn't see orhear a thing. I was focused on notletting my jacket fall off the smallbench on which we were sitting,Charles had his own problem; his
glasses kept sliding down his nose. I
thought of kneeling with my back towards him, then arching so that theback of my hands just reached his
nose and I could push his glasses up.
But what would happen to my jacket?
We stopped. "We're at City Hall,·Charles said. City Hall? The paddy
wagon doors opened and we stepped
out; even though it was evening, thelight of day was all too bright. I
bowed my head instinctively as if I
expected cameras to be aimed at it.
Someone I knew from the mayor's office was standing on the City Hall
steps; he didn't recognize me. Thisconfirmed my sense of having been
made invisible to respectable eyes.
There was a patrol car waiting
for us, and two cops I hadn't seen
before shoved us against it. We werefrisked gently; the cop frisking me
didn't even go into my pockets.
Charles had a small backpack, "Anything in here I could stick myself

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October 1. 1989

with?" the cop frisking Charles asked
him. "I have a penknife,· Charles said.
"No, like a hyperdermic needle,· thecop said, sounding disgusted thatCharles didn't get it or was not pretending not to.
Suddenly I was falling into theback seat of the patrol car, my jacket
trailing behind me. Did the cop push
me? There was something frightening
about realizing that I didn't know.
Handcuffed and clutching my jacket, I
had so little balance that I could hardly feel the difference between stumbling and being pushed. I seemedcompletely helpless. Even ~hough
there was only a single point of constraint on my wrists, it felt as if abreath would knock me over. Charles
fell in next to me.
The two cops who had beenfrisking us got in the front of the car
and slammed the doors. I saw fromhis nameplate the officer in the passenger seat was "Kidney." A dialogue
took place:
COP OurSIDE OF CAR (throughwindow to Kidney): So you got thehomos in there?
KIDNEY: Yeah. You want theirphone numbers?
CHARLES:Don't bother. He's notcute enough.
Kidney didn't like that, so heturned the rear speakers on the carradio to ear-splitting volume, just to
torture us. But it was Jim Morrison, so
we pretended
not to care. "Hey,love,· Jim sang. "Hey, love,· I repeated loudly. "I want you,· Jim sang. "Iwant you,· I repeated, making myvoice as suggestive as possible.
I felt like all I had was bravado,
and it clearly wasn't enough. The
cops, after all, had me. Charles, who's
an arrest veteran, started whispering
to me as we pulled up to a precinct
house, "This is their show now,· hesaid. "Be cool. Don't talk back unless
you want to stay a long time.·
There was one more flicker fromme as we walked into the precinct
and passed a cop sitting at a large
desk. "Hello,· I said, a small lilt in myvoice. The cop scowled. I shut up.
The rest was anticlimax. They gave
us summonses for disorderly cQnduct,oourt date next month. ~ weren't evenfmgerprinted. A short form took a longtime to flIl out, but in the middle of it acop got up and unlocked our handcuffs.
"I'hank you,· I said I meant it
When we got out, Maxine andtwo other friends were waiting for us.
They drove us back towards City Hall.
It was almost seven o'clock; thewhole thing had lasted only an hour.
We saw a bunch of demonstrators heading home and jumped out of
the car. They surrounded Charles andme. We told our little stories; it was
like being a war hero. But I wanted to
be alone and left after a few minutes.
There were small grooves in bothmy hands, just below the wrists. I
thought they would fade away quickly. But they lasted for hours, as if thehandcuffs were designed not just to
restrain me but also to make a markthat would sink into me as deeply as
possible. If that was the case, it
worked. I'm planning to get arrested
again; that hasn't changed. It's justthat I know enough to be afraid. Y
DEATH THREATS fro .. p.... 16

on the heels of a break-in and vandalizing of the CGLA offices in March,
and a bomb threat in April during areading by playwrightand AIDS
activist Larry Kramer. The incidents
are rumored to be related, according
to Grirnes-Gruzca.
In responsive
protest, CGLA
organizeda dining hall kiss-in
and distri\)uted leaflets and 4,000
pink triangles in the span of twodays. Requests
to students
andfaculty members to wear the buttons for one week, in a show ofsolidarity,
were successful,
andpink triangles appeared on lapels
and knapsacks
throughout
Morningside Heights.
.
Grimes~Gruzca,
howevet<,remains dissatisfied. While he admits
the possibility that the accused Engi- I
neering School student is, in fact, ..
innocent, he maintains that the deci-·sion should be made "by the police
and the district attorney's office, a~.r
an investigation.· He added, "I'm nOt
content to have deans and campus
security running around playitig
Nancy Drew.·YOutWeek Crossword
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