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Can woman-to-woman sex transmit HIV?
That question is one of the great unanswered mysteries of
the AIDS epidemic. Some scoff at the very idea. Others insist
that lesbian sexual transmission is already documented, atleast anecdotally. Yet many lesbians who are well-educatedabout AIDS report that they don't believe the anecdotal evidence, and do not practice safer sex.
The factor fiction of woman-to-woman transmission
could be easily determined. Yet it has never been tested in a
reliable cohort study. The lack of such a study is an enormous indictment of the governmental AIDS establishment. It
demonstrates exactly whose priorities prevail in this crisis. It
exposes criminal negligence on the part of the government,
the medical'
establishment and society at large.: It gives..
poignant and possibly deadly meaning, to the phrase 'lesbian,
invisjbility.'
Yet this need not be the case. Our own community
could create· a cohort study that would answer the questionof lesbian sexual transmission once and for all.
, Experts in cohort studies estimate that a fully-funded, fullystaffed study capableo£ determining the, facts about woman-towoman transmissionwoµJd
cost about $300,000. A study
utilizing mostly volunteers, with perhaps only one full-time
cbordinator, could cost as little as $50,000. Such a volunteer
study would be considet;ed scientificallyvalid as long as its protocol
were written by a leading epidemiologist and a scientific,advisory committee were convened to review the protocol andresults.
It's truly unconscionable that such a study has neverbeen carried out by the government. But we've learned
from the AIDS crisis that waiting around for the government
to act costs lives. And anyone who has confronted government scientists or bureaucrats on this issue is aware that nosuch study is likely to originate from them anytime soon.
So it's up to us .
•There are two things a community-based cohort study
could determine. One is that woman-to-womantransmission,
isnonexistent or extraordinarily rare, in which case the cloud
hanging over the sexual lives of lesbians could be lifted once
and for all. The second is that woman-to-woman transmission
ind~ed exists, in which case women who have been too
skeptical to practice safer sex can be given the vital information that might save their lives.
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Important, Informative andwell-balanced
articles by
Wockner. He Is one of ourmost Important gay reporters. But OutWeek, already aleader In the gay pless on lesbian reporting, should be
publishing lots more on lesbian Issues and Wockner
should not be writing any of It.
Steve Quester
Manhattan,

Pepper Pep Talk
As a contributor
andfriend I had to get my two•'absence of lesbians fromleadership position In Arcl
Gay was scarcely mentioned.
Most recently,
Wockner opened
Gin liZZV
his article on a
The Experts who have
Chicagolesbian(temporarlly, for the Iovejhate
agenda meeting
Bum Steerof any god or demon) pre(no, 41, Apr. 11) withDo I smell ,a rat? In Rick sumed to have "a..JIhoOIY" In"Dancing
Out For place of Bradley Ball havearguments, taken ,X's
Women" guide, we are toldout of context,
really left me tlin<ing: "s0meabout the sex prac- that on Frlday nights we cantimes I hove a hard time frytices of white, mid- offend a Girl & Girl party at Ing: They'relnsutterable,
dle-class womenthe Michael Todd Room.
It Is Intellectually outraand past door poliWe didn't think to checkgeous and emotional sterile
the guy's dancing guide of to proclaim capital puniShcies of a lesbianbar, rather than the course, we went and, Indeed, ment (see Issue no, 42, Out
cen1ra11ssues of the we wish we had checkedof my Hands, paragraphmeeting. Obvfously, the rest of the page as theseven) for those of us who
hIs Intent was toparty Is clearly Boy & Boy.
wash down antidepressantsrldlcule,'
We think this Isn:'IlsIeadlng, with our gin drinks,
In perusing 14 of We have no problem with
These so-called Experts
OutWeek's
41 Chip Duckett's trying to pro- must be scientists, Why else
Issues, I found many cur.s lesbian business. How- would they act like dictators?

cents In about your coverstory on the modem lesbian.
First of all, liked It lots, Second, next time ask me towrite something for a similar
Issue,'Thlrd-MORE (cover)stories on DYKESIII (Subtle
encouragement?)
Rachel Pepper
Rex Watch
Rex Wockner clearly has
a problem with lesbians. Rrst,
he made the Incredibly
stupid, Ignorant and Insensitive move of charging
Mountain Moving (a Chicago. women-only
coffeehouse) with Illegal practices
In three pages of ChIcago
Outlines
bec;ausetheyrefused to admit him (no. 31,
Jan. 28). Then he wrote a
piece on the election ofGrazlella 8ertozzo as natloool
secretary of Italy's Arcl Gay(no. 39, Mar. 28) In which
seven of Its 11 paragraphs
were devoted to' the division
between lesbian separatists
and "gaye- women in Italy.
Discussion of the role of gay
male sexism In the previous

ever,.let's-. be clear about
what this party Is, we lesbians
have fun enough places tocall our own In New YorkCHy
without being mlsguded Intoa club that Is dearly a nightfor our gay brothers,
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wI1h taking powerful tranquilIzers and Eskallth lithium (theBestl).Compulsive masturbation to the most -gifted" and-wicked" pornography follows-andthen what else
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Get these -Experts" backwhere they belong and con
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and a fine distinctionthat Is probably meanIngful only to Episcopalians; but I don't
think your originalreporting of the ordination was Inaccurate.
As you know, theEplscopollan ordination
ceremony provides aforum for those whowant to protest the sultabllty of the person baIng ordained, Since
there are chapters ofvaIIous reac110nary conservative organizations
all over the country,
there Is not a diocese In
the United States, where the ordination ofa truly openly lesbian orgay priest would not
draw protesters-ff theyknew It was taking
Photo: T.L Utt place, In fact, as myabout one passing
reference James
Waller made on
page 45, which
seems to suggest
OutWeek
wasd.Jped by the doc&son press release, I
don't thH< you were,I assume Waller was
led to believe youwere by KIm Byhcm,
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Fine Distinctions
I want to thank you forwhat I feel was excellent coverage of my story In Issue42(Apr, 18). I think It was ser$tlve,
thorough, honest and posIHve.
The contrast between yourtreatment of the SlbJect andthat of The Advocate Is
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•ordination mwed, the gener- conscience-you
did not
you are beginning to conwhether- to send the tastefulal press considers the ordina- report false Information.
template Mother's Day with card or overpriced bouquettion of a non-celbate lesbian Again. I thank you for your that old sense of vague Inde- will rage once again.
or gay man newsworthy, and I work-not only In this Issue, clsIon. What's the duHful gay
To all you tormented SOUs
believe they, too, would be
but In all of them.
son or daughter to send?
In the ttYoes of Mother's Day
there at any ordlnatfon of a
Robert Williams
For some of you, May 13 madness, let me suggest the
1esbICJ'l or gay man who was
Hoboken,NJ
will be a melancholy day to solution to, your dilemmareally out,,
remember a woman who
the PERFECTGIFTI Why not
The problem Is that Kim
For The Mom Wholives on In the warmth ofgive a suitably substantial
Byhan has acIfHas Everything
your love. For others It will be donation Oet'ssay $50, equivferent de1lnltlon of what conUnless you are an Ingrate a bitter time to recall thealent to sending a dozensHMes being openly gay, His of a child (like me) who
parents who rejected themroses long distance) I~ yourpress release claimed 60 habitually forgets to honor
for being gay. Formost of us, mother's name to P-FLAG,
openly gay priests,but didn't
the woman who raised you, the eternal debate over
Parents and Friends of lesproduce 60 names. I stili do'
not know of any gay man orI~lesbian who entered Into theordination ceremony out on
every level (with the bishop,
the various committees andthe laypeople of the parish),
except Ellen Barrett andme--and although she neversaid so, EDen'sbishop believed,
she was celibate, so the dio•cese legitimately dalmed myordnaflon was the fist ttme a
non-cellbate lesbian or gay
prtest had been ordained wHh
the full knowledge of everyone concerned at every levelof the process, The usual procedl.J'e In the diocese where
the blmp Is sympathe1lc but
not courageous Is for the Iesblan'or gay candidate tocome out to the bishop and a
You can capitalize on what could become a great
few other key players, but to-exercise dlscretton" with thegrowth industry in the 1990's and 'make a socially,
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responsible investment at the same time.
don't can that being out,
I also think KIm's estimate
And your dollars can work to create a cleanerof the number of openly-gay
environment and a healthier quality of life.
Episcopal priests (who cameout after being ordained) Is far
Forfree information, call us at 212-269-0110
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determining, what constiMes
being open. Having been In
this movement for over ten,
Please send me a prospectus and more complete information about:
years, I have met most of the:
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Member Securities Investor Protection Corporation
Member National Association of Securities Dealers:
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Iesbioo organizations gulily of gay and lesbian rights, The
P-FlAG
standards and logic that any
discrimination and bigotry?
P-RAG Is a naIIond orgallBox27fJJ5What If someone claimed the other minority group canzotlon with chapters In almost
Washington, D,C, 20038
expect to be held to, to have
National Organization forevery state whose Pl6pOse 1s
And let your Mom know
the right to choose I1s leaderto help parents cope andthat you did: It'll make her Women was sexist If It didn't
accept their child's QOYI'less, prOUd.
hire a male as It's director? Or ship from among Its own
members, Isn't acceptable
And while P-FLAG counsels
Drew SIegel
what If the NAACP wouldn't
ood Sl4)pOrts the farIes who
Sacramento, CA hire a white or an Asian for when It comes to gays andlesbians. To be gay or lesbianae sHllstruggling to come to 'their director? There wouldn't
terms with 1heIrctilcfs ortentaStraight Thinking?
be any concern about dls- Isn't something that would beconsidered a viable quall1lcaflon, It also serves as a rdlylng
910Ud the Fund for HlITlCII'l crtmInation. Minority COI'TVTlU'lipoint for mothers and fathers
Dlgnlly have hired a heteroties need to be lead by mem- lion for any job, even heading
a gay organization. It seems
who actively work In our
sexual? As one writer to Outbars of 1heIrown conslt1uency.
to be something that we wantl:>ehalf,Cou1t1essparents are
Week magazine said, "AnyBlacks need to lead Black
rtsklng ridicule and worse to one opposed to Robert ' organizations, women should to overlook.
One's gayness Is denlgratJoin speaker's bureaus, staff
Brading's hiring (as executive
lead women's organizations
hotllnes, march beside us In drector) because he's straight and gays and lesbians need , ed and devalued. Isn't theexperience of IMng as a gay
O\S PrIde paades, tesHfy In O\S
Is gulty of precisely what gay to provide their own leaderbehalf before Congressional
actMsIs au over the wortd are ship. TIis seems to be so obv\- or lesbian worth something
comrrmees and tend our sick fighting- namely dlscrlmlna- ous you wonder why we have ' when applying for a position
brothers at their bedsides.
tlon and persecution based
to even ~ It. What's the rea- as executive director of ahomosexual organization?
P-FLAG parents are there
on sexual orientation.· Annson something so obvious
Isn't It the most Importantfor us 365 days a year. This WIlson,the chair of the board,needs to be said? 1he reason
May 13, let's show our love
0CCUSEld staff and voil..nteers
some, Including members of experience that can be!;>roughtto this position?
and affection for our mothwho objected to the appoIntthe board at FHD,are so qtJck
For too long we have put
ers by suppartlng this bravement of "bigOtry CI'ld reverse to Jump on the antk:llscrlmlnogay and lesbian people on'
and loyal army of parents In.• Are they right? tlon/lncluslveness bondwagon
a lower level on the hierarthe battle for gay and les- Are those of us wnoare
Is simple: Internalized homobian 'civil rights, Send youropposed to the hiring of het- phobia. There Is cleqrly a dou- chy of the oppressed. We
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hear civil rights leader.s sayIng "you can't compare
being a homosexual withbeing Black"? To the board
of FHD, our need for rolemodels and leadership that
understands the gay and lesbian experience comes atterthe need to be fair to heterosexuals. Uke other people
who have suffered from
oppression, gay men andlesbians have been systematically stripped of our history(how many times were
famous gays and lesbian
pOinted out In your history
classes?), stripped of oursense of community andfinally stripped of our own
leadership, We have little
enough to call our own, It
seems absurd to give away
this position of gay and lesbian leadership and visibility
to someone who Isn't amember of our community(or a community that supports FHD, or am I mistaken
In assuming the majority of
FHD's operating funds andvolunteer staff come fromthe gay and lesbians who It
Is supposed to serve?).
This action by the boardof the Fund for Human Dignity Is undlgnlfled. Oppressive.
, Homophobic. It reminds meof all the excuses we hear,
Insults thrown In our faces,
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promote homosexuality, or
the arguments
againstIncluding gays and lesbians
In state anti-discrimination
laws because we will not
promote homosexual life
styles or make homosexuals
a favored class, or the everrecurring theme that antlbias laws, which now Include
eVfljry other minority on theface of the earth, shouldn't
Include gays and lesbians
because we aren't flt to beconsldared a real minority, 'It's about time we weretaken seriously, but first we
have to take ourselves seriously. A HETEROSEXUAL
MALE(OR. fEMALE) IS TOTAllY
UNACCEPTABLE
AS THElEADER OF ANY NATIONAL GAY
AND lESBIAN ORGANIZATION, Period. Only someone
who can say, "I'm gay andproud to be gay" will do,
Rev. James Roche
Brooklyn
Tikkun THf
Your report on the AIDS
panel at the Tlkkun conference In los Angeles (no.36,
Mar.4) was Inaccurate andterribly misleading,Access to persons withAIDSwas given. I desalbed In
my opening remarksour cornmltment to having a Jewish
P'NAon the panel, our failure
to find someone healthy
enough or available to speak
and our intention to limit the
speakers' remarksso that half
the panel session could be'May2,1990

devoted to dialogue withthose who came--a commitment we kept.
There was an openly lesbian Jewish speaker on thepanel, contrary to yourreport-the former director of
mental health at the Gay andlesbian Community Services
Center of los Angeles-who
spoke
about
parallels
between gay/lesbian andJewish Issuesof oppression,and a non-Jewish gay man,
who summarized the paperon emerging gay spirituality
he gave at the annual conference of the American
Academy of Religions,
And my purpose on thepanel was completely distorted. As one Involved withthe organized Jewish communHy's efforts to respond to
AIDS-as a member of theReform Jewish movement's
national AIDS committee
and the los Angeles Jewish
community's Nechama project-l limited -my remarks tocommenting art the actionand Inactlon-of organized
Jewry. My primary point wasnever reported: that Jews
who do not perceive themoral challenge of the epidemic must answer thequestion post-Holocaust
Jews pose to the rest of the•world--how could you sit Idly
by as an oppressed people
suffered In your midst?
David Schulman
LosAngeles, CA,•

Vlva •..Poohl.
. VIVA LA GENERALISSIMO
I await the
SIGNORILEIIII
glory that will befall us all
once hiscampaign to smash
the doset Is complete.
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I must also chastise yournews
editor for failing to,cover the release of the"New
Yorker's Billof Rlgh1sfor,
HIV Antibody Testing," This
document has caused sucha stir In the NYC Deportment
of Health that they requested a meeting with the 40
communHy-based organizations which developed It,
WHEREWAS OUTWEEK WITH
THESTORY??? Or does the
only thing that matters Is
when a member of the eliteclique Is not allowed into apressconference?1

Rodger PeffyJohn
Brooklyn
Outthought, Because a person Is born
gay, they do not, by definition, owe anything to otherpeople who were also borngay. They do not owe them
their time, their allegiance,
their goodwill, their altruism
or their honesty on the sll1lpie basis of their common
sexuality and- oppression,and If at any given point a
person does dedde to lend
another person or another 'group of people thesethings, It Is as an act of free
will and conscious choice,not a matter of predetermined social or biologicalobligation.
Ufe' at heart is an Individual experience, and within
one's Individual life, one has
the right, and should havethe liberty, to lead one's life
as one sees fit. Also, often,
the Individual people on
whose behalf one Isallegedly altruistically working either
do not want the thought-tobe-altrulstlc help, or, In moreunsavory Instances, do not'merit It.
These facts affect theIssue and phenomenon ofouting, Ironically, In two
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an Individual person has aright to privacy and, byextension, the right to determine, who, how, when andwhy he wants to reveal or
discuss anything with regard
to his private life, The only
exception to this Is when fhe
person Is In the public eye, or
In elected public life, whereIn his prlvate life might havea bearing on his public
actions, Stili, the Individual
has hisright to his private life,
and that right cannot bedenied, However, the world
being the way It Is, and people and journalism being fhe
way they are, fhat does notnecessarily mean that theperson's rlght has to be, bydeflnltlon, honored.
This Is not merely asemantlcal argument, The
press has long adopted
arbl,
trary standards with regard
to the discussion of the prlvate lives of public Individuals,
fromCOllectively
choosing to, Ignore thepotentially illuminating sexual
behavior of presidents while
In office,. to refraining fromcomment on the sexual preferences of people In the
public eye as a matter ofperceived conscience or of
personal distaste, As a member organization of the press,
Outweek, for Instance, has
the right to determine whatkind of journalistic voice It
wants to have, and theoptions range from theEstablishment to the Tabloid
to the Radical, In this day
and age, fhose fhree voices
easily tend to blur, and fhls Is
not necessarily a bad thing.
It Is as a result of such bl urring fhat a notion
like outing•
can even occur.
OutWeek Is flrst and fore- 'most an Institution of thepress, over and above Its
claim to a standing as avoice of a gay collective orcommunity, As such, Outweek has the right to write
whatever It wants, to write
about .whomever It wants towrite about, But It Is when apublcatlon claims to be thevoice of a communHy or collective fhat It begins
to lose,some of those rights, as apolicy such as outing casts.the publication In a totalltarlan role of presuming to dictate fhe best Interestsof thegroup .of people It proclaims
to be Its constituency, In my

opinion, OutWeek Is not thevoice of a or fhe gay community; It Is simply a maga- 'zlne, and fhat Is a liberating ,fact, As simply a magazine,
OutWeek can consclonably
exercise Its freedom to do
anything It likes,
If OutWeek truly believes
the closet Is an oichalc andobsolete Institution, then It
should simply do away with It
as It goes about Itsdally business In print, denoting people as goy where appropriate, but not In a language
and rt:letorlc of titillation andgosslp-shock, Give Malcolm
Forbes an obituary, Review
Whitney Houston's album,
Report on David Geffen's
new mansion In Beverly Hills,
B4t please- spare us theleers and the titters and thetaunts, They are as borlng as
Sandra Bernhard's "Do I
have my big toe In the wateror don't I· approach to the
Slbject of pU:lIc sexud Iden1I-

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To be publicly accused of-aarghl gaspl~lnga SHOGUN-FAGI A THORNQUEER! A DR. KlL-MARYI.
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Kiner. makes a girl wish that she hadn't short-circuited that towering
infemo after all. (Although sources tell us that • he fell from that flay edIheard to scream: -I'm not flamlng...I'm not flemlngl-)
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tv, Both approaches,
keep the Institution of
the closet firm, revela- .
110nlIIuslol\'iaside,.
Outing In Its present
form Is not really anavenue for providing
young gay people withrole models, as public
people who have chosen to lead their lives In ,"such a manner that out- ,'"Ing could even be consldered for them are notreally, by my definition,
attractive role models,The fact that they are'Information to a young
gay public; the fact thatthey would not volur'ltarlIy share their Identities
with their public, howev- .
er, takes them a few,.
steps down on the role 'model ladder. Reveal
what you will about theirlives, but In a quiet,
reportoriaL yes, evenAP-style manner, and let

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of Mike Lew's book,Victims No Longer (no,42, Apr. 18) a book I
spentmany nights
crying myself to sleep
with during the last year,
However, a few things
Davis says In passing
demand comment, He,opened his review statIng how 'certainly lessthan enthusiastic' hewas when asked toreview this excellent'self-help' book aboutmale survivors of Incest
abuse, and later writes
that the audience forthis book Is 'probably
not large.' It seems tome that Davis lJ"lwltflngIy eXhibits the prevalent
attitudes of discomfort,
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avoidance of the AIDS crisis nately vast audience for
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Is the response of the art
Lew's book, even If only a
Hollywood, CA the AIDScrisis were so bad in world Itself, Many principals
fraction of that number sufP,S.Just an addendum re: the art ',Norld,certainly we'd
In New York's fields of art,
fered the devastating abuse
Gabriel Rotello's cover story have read more about It In theater, music, etc. havethat 'Lew writes about,on Covenant House (no.39.
1he New Yorker:
spoken out ardently about
I also find Davis' InferMar. 28). I loved the article,
The New Yorker ,does ' the dangers resultant of AIDS ence that recovery for gay
especially Its documentary
Imply that It covers the
censorship. As yet, whenmale survivors Is Inherently
tone, and I hope that you
metropolitan arts In somequestioned about The New
more difficult
than forwill continue to focus an
straight men to be groundway. How mar'ly Issueshas It . Yorker's policy bf skirting
equal amount of energy on ,published since, say, Fallless and beside the point
AIDS,that censorship Is quletthe sordidness and evil that
1985?And how many edltoIy dismissedas unimportant,and not at all what Lew wasdoes take place amongrials In those Issues has It
Will that continue to begetting after In his statement
gays, as well as the positive
directed
towards airing
the final word or Isthis a cenon homophobia, Childhood
things, Young gays need noturgent questions and consorshlp that merits the attensexual abuse can be a vlrtuonly role m9dels; they need , cems about AIDS on behalftlon of a wider public forum?, al catastrophe In a person's
warnings against some ofof artists,Indeed on behalf ofStanely Bu/bach, Ph.D, history (as It was In mine),
the people others would
Manhattan
often denied, forgotten andeverybody? Does that IImltlabel as their own kind.
ed attention begin to reflectcrippling In long-term conseaccurately the Impact ofBlind Spot?
quence, no matter what the
Whose Yorker?
AIDSon the arts, or the gravlWith all the endless dlaperson's sexual orientation,
A great many people In ty of government policies
logue about the North Amerl- The straight male survivors
this country are familiar withthus far?
'can Man Boy-Shopping Club
I've met have suffered no
the art world only Insofar as It
less pain, shame, shattered
The most unsettling
In OutWeek recently, It was
Is represe.nted In The New
aspect of The New Yorker's
refreshing to see Christopher self-esteem, Isolation, des..
"they may, The fact thatmany prominent people
are gay Is the oldest,.news In the book andshould be reported as'"such, even If It has never,been reported as such'f,
before.

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pair and dysfunction thanmoney In her 1980book, The came from organized lesthe gay male survivors I Best Kept Secret-Sexual
bians, who publicly andknow. Recovery resources
Abuse of Children, where
unequivocally refused tofor all men have been
she writes, "In this homopho- support or be aSSOCiatedalmost nonexistent until very bic world, pederasts are with the principles set forthrecently.
Incarcerated
more thanby NAMBLA. In March 1979,
In fact, with all the abu- men who behave similarly members of Lesbian Feminist'
sive, Incestuous and man/with girls. But while I have
Uberatlon of New YorkIssued
boy fantasies present In gay sympathy for vfctlms of preju- a pressrelease which stated:
literature and porno, there
dice, attempfs to normalize 'The so-called Man/Boy
seems to be a message out objectionable behavior In Lovers are attempting tothere that this stuff Is "hot"one group because It mirrors legitimize sex between chiland not frightening In Impli- objectionable behavior In a dren and a~ulfs by confuscation, and If you have q more privileged group puzzle Ing the real needs of gay
problem with It, that's
me. If the gay male commu- youth with a call to repeal all
because you suffer from
nHycould place a priority on age of consent lows" FemlInternalized homophobia,
protecting children rather
nlsfs easily recognize this as
Thisgay world mind-tuck can than defensively protecting
the latest attempt to makemake It more difficult for their right to sexual preferpalatablethesexualmany survivors, who may
ence, they might not go exploitation of children,'" Allwonder what's wrong with along with defending the
I can say Is,thank Higher
them for being so distressed 'civil rights' of boy-lovers.
flower for clear-thinking lesby something in their backWhen NAMBLA...asked for bian feminists.
ground that others thoughtsupport In 1979, many gay
I hope that OutWeek
lessly consider acceptablemen objected, but no group does a solid article aboutor arousing. Which brings us that I know of came out with the growing awarenessback to NAMBLAand 115 cur- a strong public statement,
about child sexual abuserent "political prisoner."
The greatest spilt In the gay an,d Its Impact among gay
Florence Rush Is on thecommunity over this Issue men and lesbians, The ,same,traditions that generate
homophobia and other varieties of oppression also manIfest themselves as the
epidemic
abuse
andexploitation of children. I
wonder how many otherwise
politically sharp people hovea big blind spot about thisImmensely' Important andrelevant Issue.
Larry Auerbach
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NEW YORK - Although the city's new
Distticting Commission will have a direct andsure-felt impact on the gay and lesbian
cxmununity's ability 10 seat one of its own on
the city council, none of the mayor's
appointments
to the city's Districting
Commission are openly gay.
On April 16, Mayor David Dinkins
annoonaxI his seval appoin1menls 10 the bodythat is mandated by the new City CharteraOOpced in November 10 redmw the lines of the
dly's <n.JndI. disIrids aOO increase the si2J! of the•axmciI fitm 3510 51.
, Although the new charter specifies thatthe redistricting mUst insure representation formany of the city's ethnic minorities, theneighborhoods where gay men and lesbians
live enjoy no such protections. For that reasoo,
poliOOll. obse.tvers in the coqununity .fclt it all'the mere importmt fur gays to have a voice inthe process that will make over the politicalfilce of the city.
John Magisano, president of Gay andLesbian Independent Democrats, a politicalclub which backed Dinkins, cited theappointments
as an indication that the, roncems of the gay and lesbian ronununity
are not taken seriously by the Dinkins

interviewed for the jobs.

OutWeek was able·to reach five ofDinkins' seven appointees. Four of the fivestated that Ih<:y had funned no opinions as 10
what factors 10 consider in creating New YOlk's
distrtids: Eve1yn Qmningham, a
new COI.Ulcil
Republican communications consultant fromFerrera, an attorney andManhattan;
registered Independent from Queens; Ken
Chin, 'a real estate lawyer and registered
Independent from the Bronx; and Sybil Miller,a registered Liberal and executive director ofmena

by Andrew Miller
NEW YORK-Disturbed by ever-louder
grumblings in thegay and lesbiancommunity about
the mayor's office,a group of gay men
and lesbians who
workedon therecent campaign of
Mayor
David
Dinkins has senthimaletter"reiterating
what
A MESSAGE FROM
he's promised and
WITHIN Photo:IL litt asking him ,to comeMayor David Dinkins
through," according
to one member ofmayor was, unable to find appropriate
candidates in the gay and lesbian conununity."
The council and the majority and, in!nority leaders made their eight appointments

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commitment to appoint an openly gay or
lesbian person 10 the commission," he said
However, Magisano added 'that the move
did not close the door on the'ronununity's
ability 10 influence the commission, noIing thatgays might be hired for commission staff]ennifer Kimball, a s
for theDinkins administration, told OutWeek that"because of the ronstraints placed upon Mayor
Dinkins by the city COI.Ulcil's
appointments, theFamily Consultation Service of Eastchester inthe Bronx.
The fifth, David ~,a Democrat andassociate director of the International ladies
Gannent Workers Union, said that ethnicity
and sexual preference should not be factors in
redrawing rounciI disIrkts.
Dinkins' other two appointments are
Esmerelda Simmons, a Democrat who direds
the Center for Law and Social Justice atMedgar Evers College; and Luther Blake, a
Liberal who owns a research and ronsu1ting
finn, and who assisted the Charter Revision
Commission, in drawing sample council
districts. They could not be reached forcomment by press time.
The panel must finish its worl<: by June7, 1991, in time for the municipal primaIy
electionS that September ....

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•severnI weeks ago, choosing a iatEe number ofregistered Democrats and few women as
commissioners.
As a result, only two of
Dinkins' seven appointees cou1d be registered
Democrats, and he reportedly made it his
persona1 priority 10 appoint women. According
10 insiders, at least two gay men were, in fact,

the ad hoc rommittee involved.
And while not abandoning
their
support for the new mayor, the group,
which includes two people who held staff
positions with the campaign, is questioning
the amount of input and access the gay
community actually has to a mayor who
has, in fact, appointed gay men and lesbians
to important positions in his administration.
"People are very displeased," said
Allen Roskoff, a member of Gay andLesbian Independent Democrats, one of the,city's gay Democratic
clubs which
supported Dinkins.
Although meetings with Deputy Mayor
Bill Lynch have been set up twice, each has
been cancelled at the last minute, reportedly

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departure, the responsibility for it wasremoved from het office.
NEW YORK-Lee Hudson, theOutWeek spoke to two candidates
liaison to the gay community forfor the director position. Mary Nealon,
former Mayor Edward Koch who later a board member of the Gay andbecame the first director of the Mayor's Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation,
Office, for the, Lesbian and Gay
said she was interviewed on Februa,ryCommunity, spent a final day in her
15. Howard Katz, a board member ofoffice near city hall on March 16.
the Human Rights Campaign FundWith the changeover from thewho was active in Tom Duane's city
Koch to the Dinkins administration, the council campaign last year, said hereplacement of Hudson, who had beeninterviewed for the job more than fiveat her post for six years, was notweeks ago.
unexpected.
But
while
his
Both had audiences with Marsha
administration has spent
Smith, chief of staff fortwo months screening
DeputyMayor Bill
candidatesfortheLynch,and Victor
directorship of the office
Quintana, the mayor's
created by Koch, Mayor
Director' of Constituent
David Dinkins has yet toServices, whose officeappoint someone to the
now oversees the gay• •position.
liaison's.
The status of theNeither has heard
office itself provokedfrom the mayor's office.
••some negative
reactIOn
Nealon said she hasin the community when
writtentwice,but
Dinkins downgraded its
received no response.
clout in a reshuffling of
Jennifer Kimball, abureaucratic structure atmayoral spokeswoman,city hall shortly after
told Out Week that the
taking office.
selection process is
Hudson has called GONE BUT NOT REPlACED
coming to a close andthe appointment of her Lee Hudson
Photo:lL. Uttthe appointment should
replacement "overdue,"be announced within
adding that with the position unfilled, two weeks.
the lesbian and gay community's,
Insiders
report thatothercandidates being considered in<;ludeinput at city hall has been reduced,
and that some important programs
Angela Christofides, a human rights
sponsoredby that office are
specialist with the city's Commission
floundering.
on Human kights,and Marjorie Hill,
As an example, Hudson cited thewho was active' in the Dinkins
sexual preference component of thecampaign.
multi-cultural curriculum taught in
Hudson is now working for the
New York City public schools,
state as the director of media anddesigned to fight prejudice at theprinted materials for the Office ofgrade-school level. Hudson's officeRent Administration. Her first project
fought hard' to insure that the Board
will be the creation of a 'tenant'sof Education
includesexualrights handbook.
orientation when it defined the scope
She was given notice ,byof the, curriculum.
.
Quintana the morning after the mayor"The project is dead," Hudson
appeared at the Gay and LesbianCommunity Center last February. T
told Out Week, noting that since her

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minutes before it opened and chained
While David BaiT, an attorney forthemselves to an observation balcony.
NEW YORK - In a decision that
the Lambda Legal Defense andI surprised legal experts
and defendants
Seconds before the sounding of the
Education Fund, a gay rights law firm,i alike, New' York County Civil Court,
opening bell, they began screaming
said that Braun's decision would not, Judge Richard Braun dropped theand setting off foghorns. It was the first give protesters carte blanche in future, charges against the seven ACT UP
time in the history of the stock
actions, he added that the rare decision
members who briefly held up tradingexchange that its opening was delayed
set a precedent that would nonethelessat the New York Stock Exchange lastby.protesters.
,
be important in future trials.
year. The seven were arrested during a
Two accompli~es on the floor of"It's a significant decision forprotest . of' - ,pharmaceuticalgiant
the exchange took photographs thatthose of us who are working on civil, Burroughs 'Wellcome's high pricing of
were quickly smuggled out of thedisobedience cases. It's clear language
AZT, the only government-approved
building
and appearedon thethat UaWyerslcan cite in future court
anti-AIDS drug.
Associated Press newswires just two
actions," Barr told OutWeek. ...
Reading from hand-written notes,
hours after the action.
Braun granted a motion for dismissal
in the interests of justice March 29,
calling the defendants "heroes" andsaid that they had acted as society's"social conscience" when they delayed" ,the, opening of the exchange. He,,referred to the price of AZT as '"excessive" aild "exorbitant."
Each of the seven had been
chargedwith criminal
trespass,,•
criminal
posess ion of a forged
instrument and criminal impersonation,•
all misdemeanors.
by Rex Wockner
new ten-day J:::o,nference visa which
At times quoting from the 3O-page
WASHINGTON-In
a movedoesn't require lflV disclosure would
argument presented by the defendants'
rejected by AIDS activists as out-ofnecessarily raise sl1spicion about his or
laywer, the judge cited
determining
touch ,with
reality,
the Bush
her HIV status among consµlar
factors the peaceful character of the
Administration April 13 announced theofficials.
action, the subsequent
positive
availability of a new travel visa that
"I ,wouldn't be interested in thispublicity, and the admissionofa'allows
HIV-positive
foreigners
tonewyisa at all," said Ron Jerrell,,attend' certain conferencesin ,theBurroughs Well come representative
secretary of the National Association ofthat the protest had an effect on the
United States without receiving an
Peoplewith AIDS. "In certain
company's determination to lower the, countries, you don't even want your"mY waiver" from the government.
price of the drug 20 percent, two days
According to a press release fromname associated with AIDS. In someafter the ,proteSt. 'the Departmentof Justice, "theseplaces you're jailed if they find out'"It's' a decision that most judges
special ten-day visas...will be provided
you're lflV-positive ....
don't
take, for fear of public
withOl,lt requiring
individuals
to, One of the main objections to theretribution,"
Lori
Cohen,
theidentify whether
they are HIVstandard U.S. immigration policy, ,defendants' laywer, told Out Week. "It positive.... Persons wishing to avail
which requires lflV-positives coming
was one, of the most astonishing,themselves of this visa should contact
to the U.S. on business to receive a 30moments of my career.,"
their nearest U.S. consulate office
day waiver of the ban on lflV-positive
In September of last year, five
abroad, or the Department of State."
foreigners,
is that it requires themen dressed in suits and ties and
AIDS activists quickly noted,
disclosure of mY status, and exposes
armed with fake identification badges
however, that someone who walks
people to possible discrimination inquietly walked
into the stock exchange
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state
Assemblyman William Passanante will
not seek re-election this year has
raised the serious possibility that a gay
candidate may be elected to the seat.
Even before Passanante, a liberal
Democrat, announced his decision, an
openly gay man and an out lesbian
had made public their intention to vie
to represent the downtown Manhattan
assembly district in Albany.
Deborah Glick, 39, and Robert
Rygor, 36, have both announced theirintentions to become the Democratic
party's candidate for the state assemblyseat in District 61, and observers
expect even more people to jump into
the race now that Passanante,apopular, pro-gay lawmaker who was'considered unbeatable, has dropped
out. There have never been openly
gay state-level elected officials in New
York. Glick and Rygor will bothofficially announce their candidacy
sometime in May.
Glick, currently
the deputy
director for general services in the
New York City Department of Housing
Preservation and Development, is aformer president of Gay and Lesbian
Independent Democrats, the politicalclub which is backing her candidacy.
She has garnered an impressive arrayof endorsements,
includfng Upper
West Side City Councilwoman Ronnie
Eldridge, Brooklyn Congressman Major
Owens, Harlem State Senator David
Pattersop, long-time gay politicos
Virginia Apuzzo, David Rothenberg,
Tom Duane, Margaret Chin and Vivian
Shapiro, as well as Hazel Dukes,
president of the National Association
for the Advancementof Colored
People.
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PROVINCETOWN, Mass.-A gay
high-school teacher here has lost his
job because of his sexual orientationand the perception that he has AIDS,
according to papers filed with the stateagency that investigates allegations of
discrimination. The complaint, filed on
April 11, is one of the first cases
brought under the new Massachusetts
law that prohibits discrimination on thebasis of sexual orientation.
The teacher, Philip Buckley, asecond-year
veteranoftheProvincetown school system, alleged in
his complaint that his teaching contract
was not reviewed
becauseofProvincetown High School Principal
Paul Grueter's and SuperintendentRoqert Barbarisi's acquiescence tohomophobia.
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Barbarisi contacted Buckley's physician
to inquire about Buckley's "diagnosis"
after Buckley called in sick andprovided notes from his doctor
substantiating that he needed time offfrom work. Although Barbarisi was toldthat Buckley did not have AIDS when
Buckley returned to school, he wastold that his students thought he wasout sick because he was "dying of
AIDS."
While professing surprise that theProvincetown school system would
discriminate so openly against a gay
man, some lesbian and gay activists,,
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challenges of the 90's
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includesany"description
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MEMPHIS, Tenn.- The Memphis
representation"of the forbidden
City Council on April 11 banned young
activitiesj it could be used to banpeople from a wide variety of live
performances
deemed "harmful tominors," including those which include
displaysordescriptionsof"homosexuality,"
with one of thestrictest ordinances
governing live
concerts and plays in the nation.
The ordinance would also ban
minors from live plays or concerts
by Rex Wockner
As right-wing forces throughout
which include displays of "excess
America escalate their campaign to ban
violence, nudity, sado-masochistic
abuse, sexual conduct,or sexual
gay material-beit
excitement." Promoters, performers,
Robert Mapplethorpe,
photosin Honcho
producers
and directors
could becharged under the law for allowing
magazine or sex byminors to view such shows: Also, , phone-reports from Britain and Canada
suggest that Americans, at least for theparents and legal guardians of children
attending such concerts would be held
liable.
The law has been supported by
Memphis Mayor Richard Hackett, andonlookers expect him to sign it into
law on April 17.
And despite lengthy definitions of,such nebulous
terms as "sexual
excitement"and "sado-masochistic
abuse," it is still unclear what exactly iscovered by the bill.
For example,
under the law,"sexual conduct" is delimited as "actsof masturbation, homosexuality, sexualintercourse, or physical contact with aperson's clothed or unclothed genitals,
public area, buttocks, or the breast."
Also, "nudity" is defined as "the, showing of the human male or female
genitals, public area, or buttocks withless than full opaque covering or theshowing of the female breast with the
top of the nipple, or the depiction ofcovered male genitals in discernibly
turgid state."
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moment, still enjoy some of the world's
least-restrictive pornography laws.
For example, Canadian Customs
recently warned Boston's
Gay Guide to theNortheast that depictionsof "excessive ejaculationon the hwnan mce," cannot be exported
to Canada.
Intrigued, reporters for Tbe
Guide dug deeper and finallylearned from customs spok~oman
Linda MUiphy that the issue is not somuch the amoUnt of ejaculate but
rather "words or pictorial matter that
depict ejaculation on the eye, in thenose or in the ears."
Canadian Customs in generalbans all depictions of "sex withviolence, child sex, incest, bestiality,
necrophilia, hate propaganda, anal
penetration" and, of course, "other."In Great Britain, meanwhile,
gay sex videos are expressly
forbidden and, for all intents andpurposes, photographs of erect
penises have been banned.
Michael- Mason, editor of
London's Capital Gay, had a run-in
first-handwith Her Majesty's
Customs and Excise upon returnfrom Amsterdam a few months ago.
Officers confISCateda Falcon Studios
erotic video, recorded his name,and told him if he were caught
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Court recognized in 1969 in the
exhibition of photographs by Robert
WASHINGTON-The
Supremelandmark case of Stanley v, Georgia. Mapplethorpe by, noting that museum
Court ruled 6-3 that an Ohio statute
Writing for the Court, Justice Byron patrons could be prosecuted under thewhich makes it a crime to possess or White (author of the infamous
statute, and commenting that the law
view nude depictions of minors is Hardwick decision of 1986, upholding
could be used to discriminate against
constitutional, but ordered a new triaI
Georgia's an it-gay sodomy law)gay men, he wrote:
for Clyde Osborne, who was convicted asserted that Stanley only invalidated"The danger of discriminatory
after police found four photographs of 'statutes
which were 'aimed at
enforcement
assumes particulara teenage boy in sexually suggestive
promotingthe morality of theimportance in the context of theposes in Osborne's
apartment.
consumer. Under the First Amendment, instant case, which involves child
Dissenting from the April 18 decision, the state may not normally dictate the , pornography with male homosexual
Justice Wdliam J. Brennan, Jr. argued, content of what people decide to read overtones." His opinion continued,
among other things, that the Ohio law or view in the privacy of their homes.
"Sadly, evidence indicates that the'lends
itselfto discriminatory
In this case, White wrote, Ohio's
overwhelming majority of arrests for
enforcement against gay men. Justices purpose was to protect children from violations of 'lewdness' laws involve
John Paul Stevens and Thurgood
exploitation by pornographers. He said male homosexuals.
Such uneven,
Marshalljoined Brennan's dissent.
that Ohio "hopes to destroy a market application of the law is the natural
Osborne argued that the Ohio law for the exploitative use of children,"consequence of a statute which, as
violated his constitutional right ofJustice Brennan penned a ripping judicially construed measures theprivacy
to possessand view
dissent. Obliquely invoking the current criminality of conduct by community,
pornography in his home, a right thecontroversy in Cincinnati over the,

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one point in the ensuing brouhaha, youwere quoted in the Indianapolis Newssaying, "I could care less about theowners of bookstores, bathhouses andmovie houses who are worried about
the potential of. their losing business."
What was your motivation for discussing
closing gay bars and bookstores, andhow do you feel about that now?
'A. The motivation at the time was
the reduction of those ~viors,that
wefelt were contributing to the epidemic.

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December 30, 1987, you wrote an oped. piece in which you called AIDS
activists ":..the sexually unconstrained
who demand compassion
and play
upon guilt to induce tolerance for theirlifestyles." Is that what you think gay
people are doing with the AIDS crisis?
A. The purpose of that paragraph
was to try to be somewhat satirical and'illustrate how we in this society havecome to view a disease. No, it doesn't
represent how- I feel on people who are
gay at all.
Q: In the previous , paragraph you
wrote that AIDS is "forcing our society
to confront our most difficult anddivisive issues, our sexual behavior,drug abuse and, increasingly, the issueof who pays the high cost for the
behavior of others." Can you explain
what you mean by that?
A. The behavioral decisions ofmany people contribute ~irectly tohealth care costs. Many examples: theguy who comes into the intensive careunit who didn't wear his motorcycle
helmet while he was on his bike, whothen becomes, in essence, a medical
ward of the state for a decision he madeto exercise one freedom. Same kind of asituation for the guy or gal who smokes
two packs a day for their entire life.
They make a decision that ends up
costing all of us in the 'long run; that
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engage in behavior that causes the
spread of ~aldiseases cost society.
Q. Here you're refening specificallyto AIDS and how AIDS is known to betransmitted.
A. Wearing a condom, we believe,
has an effect on the spread of the virus.
People who choose not to do that, and who ultimately come down withserious infectionS from the virus costsociety in tenns of what we pay forcare.
Q. You made it clear in the same
article that you were aware that many
conserVatives blame gays and gay
sexual behavior for the spread of
AIDS, and it seems as though you areendorsing the idea that the behaviorof gay people is responsible, for, thespread of AIDS.
,
A. You are correct that the,
majority of the people coming downwith the disease today are people....
whoacquired
it whentheeducational message was not wellknown. This particular
article wasn't,
designed to address th.e history of thei--epidemic. I believe that this societyr should WlY the cost of the care forthose people who make thosebehavioral decisions whether they,---have made them with or without fullknowledge from the public healthsystem. I. dori't believe we should
DOCTOR, DOCTOR, GIMME THE N~Sabandon them in any way. I believe Dr. Woodrow Myers
Photo:T.l. Llttthat they deserve the compassion and, The places that we are talking about
the care that this society has to offer., were known to facilitate those behaviors
But I think it is important that we try to
through investigations that had been
influence decision-making such that we
conducted outside of my department,
reduce those kinds of unnecessary costs
and there was confirmation that thoseof Care that changing a behavior cankinds of behaviorS could contribute tohave.
the spread of the disease. The facts are
Q. On November
5, 1985 inthat the Marion County Heal~hIndiana, WISH-lV news reported that
Department did indeed inspect about
you had held a meeting with Marion
two business that advertised themselves
County prosecutor Stephen Goldsmith
as health clubs that had rooms within
and members of the Marion County
them where anonymous sexual activity
Board of Health to discuss legal
occurred. It resulted in having themmethods of closing gay bars, gay healthchange the doors to make the doors so
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that they weren't private ~nclosures
anymore; I know that at least one
owner ~ided to place literafure in thehealth club and I know that one point
in time condoms were also madeavailable. To 'my knowledge,nobusinesses were shut down. You asked
me how I feel about that issue today. It's
my feeling that wherever we candiscourage high risk behaviors weshould be doing it. That's our job, as
public health officials. We should bedoing it in the least onerous ways
possible that can also be successful.
And if we can take advantage ofplaces where those materials would bewell received, then we ought to do
that.
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would not be very
controversial
here. We closed ourbathhouses here many years ago. I thinkmost people thought it was a good idea
A. I never had a concern about
bars, per se. The way we framed thiswas businesses where high risk activitY
took place. In some cases there werereports of those kinds of activities taking
place in rooms off of bars and adultbookstores where there were holes
drilled to facilitate that activity.
Q. Not businesses where gays
simply congregate?
A. Absolutely not.
Q. Would you say that you are notwilling to use isolation to stop the
spread of AIDS?
A. Let me go on the record withrespect to the "Q" word. Quarantine is
not an effective strategy for reducing the
spread of the virus in this city, inIndianapolis or in any city I'm aware of.
What is the most effective strategy? As oftoday, it's education for prevention.
Now we have to be very careful when
we talk abouUssues like detention andisolation. That Is, I believe, an individual
kind of concern, not a population
concern. If someone is acting in a waythat disrupts society or hurts otherpeople, we have laws that protect that
person from himself and from others.
Frequently
thosebeh~viorsaremotivated by psychiatric illness. And in
those cases we have a system in place
to act on the behalf of those individuals.
, On occasion, those behaviors are
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boycott organizers, the Washington
country for the now-'NEW YORK-The
Washington, D.C.
group's decision to launch theinfamous"Helmschapter of ACf UP last week announced its
boycott has drawn support fromamendment,"
which
intention to spearhead a boycott of Marlboro
ACT UP chaptersnationwide.
,.
prohibits the National
cigarettes to protest the financial support
Members of ACf UP/New York on",«~;:;,\.~". .' 'Endowment for the Arts_. ..
Monday voted overwhelmingly to' ".',' '.'I,"~
from funding works
given by Marlboro's owner, Philip Morris
Companies, Inc., to the election campaigns
support the boycott and telephone-l
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whose
content
isof Republican Senator Jesse Helms of North
zap actions.;.......
deemedobsceneorCarolina. Helms is up for reelection this year.
ACf UP /NY will hold its own.,.'
homoerotic. Helms wasThis Thursday, April 26, members ofdemonstrationin front of Philip,instrumental in fueling
ACT UP/DC plan toconservative opposition
Morris' 42nd Street",. ,@t:>
converge on the Philip
headquarters at noon
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to federal support of aMorris lobbying office, inL.
retrospective exlubition
on Thursday. ACT
UP /NY has also called for a boycott
Photo: Patsy Lynch of photographs by theWdshington for a press conference at whichlate Robert Mapplethey plan to present their demands to theof Virginia Slims cigarettes another YOU UGHT UP MY UFE
thorpe. Helms' efforts
Philip Morris brand The ~ew York Sen. Jesse Helms on TV
company and officially kick off' the boycott.
A national telephone "zap" of Philip Morris'caused Washington's Corcoran Gallery togroup is encouraging New Yorkers to taketoll-free "Smokers' Advocate Hotline" is alsopart in the telephone zap by calling Philip
cancel the show last sununer, and continue•
planned rorthat day. 'to feed the right-wing hysteria that has
Manis' Manhattan headquarters.
,Philip
Morris, Companies,
Inc., aAccording to Petrelis, information., hegreeted the exlubit's opening in Cincinnati.
conglomerate that also owns such nationallyobtainedfrom the Federal
Election
Andrew White, a spokesperson
for•known brands as Kraft foods and Miller beer, ' Commission
shows that Philip Morris'
Philip Morris Companies, Inc., read OutWrek
has since 1977 been the single largest
contributed a total of $21,100 to Helms'
a statement released by the company~ an
corporate contributor 'to Helms' political
campaigns since 1977-including$2,000effort to fend off the boycott threat. "Acampaigns, and tops the list of corporate
between January 1 and March 30 of thisboycott of our product of.our product seems
donors to the Jesse Helms Citizenshipyear. A report canied recently in the Raleighcompletely
inappropriate
given the•Center, a library/museum that will honor
News and Obserwr and reproduced in The
circumstances," the statement said. "Sen.
Helms'congressional
career. It is slated forHelms, like everyone else in the United
New Yarn TImes credited Philip MorriS withconstruction
near , Helms' hometown, ofStates, is free to express his views as hemaking more than $200,000 in contributiOns
Monroe, North Carolina.
to the Helms museum.
chooses. And while some might disagree
As OutWaWwent to press, ACf UPIDC
with him, no one should be allowed to deny
The amount of money a corporation is
had received a commitment from Guy L.
his rigqt to express himself freely."
permitted to contributeto an election
Smith, vice president for corporate affairs for
The freedom-of-speechtenor of thecampaign is strictly regulated by law, and thePhilip Morris, that he would meet withcompany's statement is in line with its
donations made by Philip Manis and other
IJI.(!Illbers of the group to discuss the boycottbusinesses to the Helms Center have been
campaign to identify the rights of cigaretteplan. The meeting was to take place at noon
widely criticized because Helms is a sitting , smokers with personal freedoms guaranteed•
on Friday, April 20.
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member of Congress.
The Washington group was to present
Like many corporations, Philip Morris
White also pointed out that Philip
its demands to Smith: that Philip Morris
plays both sides of the political fence in its
Morris has been a major contnbutor to AIDS
cease its contributions
to Helms, that it
donationstoelection
campaigns,
research and service organizations. Since
reno~ce its, past ~PPort of the Senator' and1987, White said, the parent company and its
contributing to both liberal and conservativethat company representatives meet with ACf
affiliates have given or pledged $570,000 to,
candidates. The contradictions inherent in
UP to discuss the corporation's responstbility
this tactic are deepened in the case of Philipgroups fighting the war against AIDS,,
to the lesbian/~y and AIDS cpmmunities:
Morris, however, since the company is a,
including the American Foundation for AIDS
Organizers say, the boycott will go fotward
recognized
leaderamong
corporate"
Research, the AIDS Resource Center ofunless all three demands are met
contributors to the arts.
WISCOnsinand the National AIDS Network.
, According
to Michael Petre lis, aWhite was unable
to provide
anyHelms has come under heavy fire thismember of ACT UP/DC and one of theinformation
concerningwhether Philipyear from artists and arts groups around the',News Focus

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that are not solely or specifically involved infighting the AIDS crisis.
"And in tenns of the arts," White said,"we even published photographs by Robert
Mapplethorpe in one issue of Philip Morris

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Petrelis did not think that ACT UP's callto boycott Marlboros
might be misunderstood by some as an anti-smoking
campaign, but he did admit that recent
controversies
surrounding
attempts byanother tobacco conglomerate, IYR-Nabisco,
to target Blacks and working-class women as
markets for new cigarette brands, had
helped ACT UP IDC to decide. which of. Philip Morris' many well-known products
should serve as the boycott's focus.
"When many people think of North
Carolina, they think of two things-jesse
Hehns and tobacco," Petrelis said "We wantto educate people that Marlboro's profits go
toward politicians who want to annihilate
us."
Petrelis denied that ACT UPIDe haddrawn any connection between gay malesmokers and the Marlboro brand in deciding
which Philip Morris product to zero in on,
but Victor Mendolia, a member of ACTUPINY who is helping to organize thatchapter's action, said that his group's
enthusiasm for the Marlboro boycott andits addition of ViIginia Slims to the boycott
list-w:as
promptedin part by manymembers' impression that these two brands
are specifically targeted at gay men andlesbians. 'Asked whether Phillip Morris wasaware of the Marlboro brand's popularity
among gay men who smoke, White told
OutWecl! that Marlboro, which is the largestselling ci~tte
in the world, is the leading
brand in "all sectors."
Not all potential supportersof theboycott, however, are convinced that its
meaning will be clear, Mandy Carter, whoheads North Carolina Senate Vote '90, aRaleigh-based political action committee
working to defeat Hehns' reelection bid, said
that her organization has not yet decided
whether to give the boycott its support, inpart because of fears that some North
Carolina voters might construe the boycott as
an anti-tobacco gesture.
She emphasized, however, that tobaccocompanies do have optionS when deciding'which North Carolina politicians to support.
Carter said that at least one of the•
Democratic candidates who will compete in

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immunologist at the Raymond-Poincare
de Garches Hospital in Paris disagreed.
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"There are no measurable side
effects from poppers," Leibowitch said.
"Butyl nitrite is simply too volatile tohave any lasting effect.
The poppers debate is amarginal one. As to links
between poppers andKaposi's sarcoma, there is no foundation
to the theory."In the U.S.,, the alleged link between
poppers and KS also remains unproven.
Scientists have :ugued both that there isand is not a possible connection, but inrecent years the theory that poppers
augment development of KS has fallenfrom favor.

Poppers were originally sold insmall ampules that popped whencracked open, giving the drug its name.
In the 70s, butyl nitrite became available
in the little brown bottles now sold in
gay bars and storesworldwide.
Thevariouschemicals
usedinpoppers
including new formulations
available in the United States--provide
the user with a brief rush that some say
intensifies the pleasure of an oIg3SlIl.
Poppers were also popular indiscotheques iri the 70s and early 80s,
and are still a.. Common sight on dance
floors in European and Canadian gay
clubs. T

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by Rex Wockner and Michael Mason

PARIS Without any warning, theFrench Health Ministry banned poppers
March 28, eliciting an outay from somesegments of the gay community who
wished they had had a hand in the 'decision:
Under the edict, anyone selling or
giving away either amyl nitrite or butyl
by Duncan Osborne
nitrite can be fined about $900.
"The least they could have done
ALBANY, N.Y.-The state healthwas warn us, consult us," said Michel,department has added ten drugs to the
manager of Paris' famous IEM gay sex
list of prescription medications provided
shop.
free of charge to people with AIDS or, "In the end it was a vicious way of
HN-related illness under its AIDS Druggoing about things. No explanation, no
Assistance Program (ADAP).
justification. ,The excuse that they are
Lanny Cross, ADAP's programprotecting health is a feeble one," Michel director, told OutWeek that as of Marchsaid.
14th, ADAP now covers dapsone,,
IEM estimates that 15 percent of its sulfodoxine/pyrimethamine(Fansidar)
profits come from poppers sales.
and trimethoprim. These drugs are used
As was the case when the U.S.
to combat PCP. Additionally, ADAP willbanned traditional formulations, ofpay for the antivirals acyclovir (Zovirax)
poppers in Feb. 1989, French authorities
and ganciclovir (Cytovene) as well as
are split on whether amyl and butyl
the antifungals clotrimazole (Myce1ex),
nitrites are in fact h2.nnfu1 to users.
fluconazole (Diflucan), ketoconazole
Claude Le'jeune,presidentof, (Nizoral), acidulin and nystatin.
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France's Gay Medical association, told
Prior to March 14th ADAP covered
Gat Pied: "Any poisonous substance, be
only AZT, leucovorin, pentamidine
it tobacco, alcohol or poppers, in any(Pentam300,
Nebupent),
dosage, is a factor affecting the immune
trimethoprim/sulfamethoxazole (Bactrim,
system. It's a biological fact; however tiny
Septra) and alpha interferon.
the dose, the system will be depressed."
ADAP was implemented
in,Jacques
Leibowitch,an
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covering
the high cost of the
Burroughs Wellcome drug AZf. Since
June of 1989 the scope of the program
has been broadened to cover the costof other FDA approved drugs used totreat or prevent AIDS and HN-related
illnesses.
To date, ADAP has provided freedrugs to approximately 4,200 people.
Of these, the majority had no medical
or prescription
drug insurance
coverage, while others had only partial
coverage. A third group received drugs
through ADAP while waiting to obtain
insurance coverage under Medicaid.
New York state residency
isrequired to participate in ADAP, but
U.S. citizenship is not a requirement .
ADAP has additional medical and'financial criteria. Those interested in
ADAP can call a toll-free hotline,
I-BOO-542-2437, for an applicationand irifonnation, or write to ADAP at:
P.O. Box 2052, Empire Station, Albany,
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Keith St. John, Openly Gay ,Albany Common Co unci/person
Barbara Smith. Co-Founder.
Kitchen Table: \M)men of Color Press
Tim Mains. Openly Gay
Rochester City Counci/person
Tom Stoddard. Executive Director,
Lambda Legal Defense and Education FundTim Sweeny. Director of Public Policy.
Gay Men's Health Crisis
Libby Post. former co-chair,
New York State Lesbian and Gay Lobby
Robert Bray, NGLTF
Lance Ringel. Director. NYS
Office of Lesbian & Gay Concerns
Tim McFeeney. Human Rights Campaign Fund
Lesbian and Gay Big Apple Corps
Stonewall Chorale

Sunday, April 29• 10:30 AM: Assemble at
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coordinatednationwide effort is under way to raise
sufficient funds to purchase a pennanent
home in New York City for the Lesbian
HerstolY Archives. Lesbians committed
to preserving the ephemera of lesbian
culture and history will hold houseparties, dancers, and concerts andsporting events in the week of May 2-9,
with all proceeds going' to the Archives'
building fund. The week marks thebirthday of Archives co-founder andlong-timelesbianactivist
Mabel
Hampton, who died of cancer last year.
When it was founded 16 years ago,
the Archives comprised the personal
papers and artifact of the founders. Since
then, the collection has grown to include
more than 200 special collections, 10,000
books, 13,000 periodicals, and 12,000
photographs, oral histories, films andassorted memorabilia.
'"The only thing we think isimportant is accessibility," said Deb Edel,co-coordinator of the week of special
events. She explained that the decision
to move the Archives from author andArchives co-founder Joan Nestle's Upper
West Side apartment,
where thecollection has been housed since its
inception, was necessitated both by thecurrent lack of space and by the fact thatan increased number of visitors has
meant that some lesbians have been
unable to view the collection. last year,
more than 4,000' women searching for
lesbian histolY visited and called theArchives.
Although 'the volunteers who staff, and oversee the Archives would ideallylike to raise one million dollars, they areconvinced, that even with a fraction ofthat amount, they will be able to lactate
and purchase an exhibition space for thecollection.
'"1he Archives has always depended
on grass-roots support for its survival,"
Edel stated, "and this week of fundthe "indeCent" exchanges. And if phonesex companies were forced to begin
billing their customers, the expense
would likely force them into bankruptcy.
After the Public Service Commission
decision was released, a group ofphone-sex companies in New York rued
suit in Federal court on the grounds thatthe new law violates
the First
Amendment. That suit is scheduled to beheard on April 30.
Suits rued in Feder:µ courts across
In Califomia, a federal district court
thecountry
havedelayedjudge has said that she is poised to issue
implementation of a new law, scheduled
an injunction that would bar the Federal
to take effect on March 21, that seeks to
Communications
Commission from
impose strict regulations on telephone
implementing the law. Declaring thatsex ljnes. The delays give the first-roundphone sex is constitutionally protectedvictolY to phone-sex companies, andspeech, Judge Fern Smith stated that
inject hope into the companies' battle
unless the FCC regulations, which areagainst: the federal government and local
expected to be issued later this month,phone companies.
manage to "cure the constitutional
The contested law, which was
infumities" of the law, she will grant thesponsored by anti-gay conservative
request of three West Coast phone-sex
Senator Jesse Helms (R-NC), wascompanies and block the law.
attached to an appropriations bill passed
In a separate case, Judge Smith,by Congress last fall. It targets phon~
who was appointed by fonner President
companies, or "information providers,"
Ronald Reagan, may not put sexually
by prohibiting "obscene" tele:phone
explicit commercial messages into amessages and by barring "indecent"separate exchange, whiCh would requirecommunications
for commercial
advance subscription, until the Publicpu~
for people under -the age of 18.
Utilities Commission holds a htWing to
Adults who wish to have access to thedetermine exactly whieh messages
phone-sex lines would also have toshould be placed in that exchange.
subscribe in writing to the companies'
And Federal District Court judge inservices, a reversal of existing policies
Texas, in response to a suit rued by two
which requires people who wish to
area phone-sex companies, has orderedprohibit access to particular exchanges
the regional telephone company to delay
to request the block from the phone
putting the new law into affect until thecompany. The legislation's language was ' suit is resolved, because the phone-sex
crafted to circumvent constitutional
companies may well succeed in theirproblems posed by an earlier Helmssuit.
sponsored law, which the Supreme
The law contains provisions for
Court struck ,down last summer' on thefines up to $10,000 and/or up to two
grounds that it was unconstitutionally
years in jail for a first offense vicilationof
broad ..
the ban on "obscene" communications.
Last month, the New York StateFor a violation of the law's ban on
Public Service Commission issued a"indecent" communications, defendants
regulatolY decision favorable to the
could face prison terms of up to six
phone-sex companies when it deniedmonths and/or a fine of up to $50,000.
New York Telephone's proposal both to
Officers of the company could ,beblock access to "indecent" phoneprosecuted for criminal penalties, which
services automatically, and to cease
usually involve prison time, while theirbilling for phone-sex companies. The
corporations would be held liable forregulation would have put customers incivil penalties, which usually involve athe position of submitting a written
fUle.
request if they wished to have access to-Nina Reyes
raising is continuing that tradition." For
more information on Lesbian HerstolY
Archives Week, call 212/874-7232.
-Nina Reyes

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about something. People want to hurtother people. And there are laws toprotect those people and the people
they intend to hurt. I don't intend on
introducing any new laws. To my, knowledge, the laws in the city andstate of New York are currently
satisfactory for dealing, with thoseisolated, rare occurrences. Given thenumber of people who have been
exposed to the virus in this city, it isinevitable that on occasion some ofthose people are going to be HIVpositive, whether or not they know it,
whether or not the authorities know it,
given the prevalence of th~ disease inthis city. I don't think that one's !HIVlstatus ought to be used as a detennining
factor as to whether or not those laws
ought to be followed or not.
Q. Why did you support
communicable disease law in Indiana?
A. Because I think that's a goodlaw. The communicable disease control
law in Indiana was the result of an
intensive review of a series of laws that
had been written, many in the 1940s,
that made no sense in the 198Os.They
needed to be rewritten. Do you have a
copy of the rules?
Q. Yes, and it has the word
"quarantine" in it and it says "seerestriction activities."or even individual notions of what is
distasteful behavior." Brennan' quoted
from Pryor v. Municipal Court, aleading California, Supreme Court
case on discriminatory enforcement
or'solicitation laws against gay men.
"The 'lewd exhibition' standard
furnishes a convenient tool for harshand discriminatory enforcement bylocal prosecuting officials, against
particular groups deemed to merit theirdispleasure," Brennan argued.
According to the Court's opinion,
19 states have laws forbidding private•'-. ..,;.

possession
and use of sexual
depictions of minors (who may be
as old as 18 years and still becovered by the-. law). New York is
not among them, although production and distributionof suchmaterial is a criminal offense in
New York.
Osborne will receive a new trial
due, to concern that the trial judge
did not correctly charge the jury
regarding the proof necessary for aconviction under the law as narrowlyinterpreted by the Ohio Supreme
Court. 'Y-flled from New Yom•',',,-•--ro;-=

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MARlBORO from page 25
the state's May 8 primary has declared
publicly that he will be a strong fighter fur
the tobacco industry. Senate Vote '90 is notaffiliated with any particular candidate.
Although Carter does not disapprove of
the boycott, she said that people outside
North Carolina can help defeat Helms inmany way~ that would be more effective
than switching cigarette brands - by sending
a check to her organization, for example, or
by making sure that Hehns is inundated withletters :md telephone calls every. time heintroduces reactionary legislation.
But ACT UP's Petrelis thinks theboycott provides a concrete way fur many
people across the country to declare theiropposition to Hehns. "We want people toknow who the real 'Marlboro Man' is," said
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"If there's a stonewall against thesethings, the group is going to want to go
public. But nobody has said 'no' to anything
yet," Humm told OutWt?k,Nevertheless, several members of theinformal committee said they wereconcemed that Dinkins might believe thatwhile maintaining an adversarial relationshipwith ACT UP, he still enjoys the support ofmost of the gay community.
"It's ridicuous to say that ACf UP has
problems with the mayor and everythingelse is hunky.ooty," Roskoff said
"Am I thrilled with what's going on?
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Added Cagan, "I still think that it was
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May 11.

"There is some real concem about a lotof issues. We don't !mow whether the mayor
is aware of them, or if he's insensitive. And
we're the ones' that sold , David to thecommunity," explained another one of thepoliticos involved in the behind-the-scenes
maneuver, designed to._head 'off further".
altercations.
Shortly after Dinkins' inauguration, hechose Dr. Woodrow Myers to ,be the ety's
new health commissioner over the loudobjections of many in the gay and AIDS ,communities. He has also scaled down the
power of the office of the gay, and lesbianliaison, to which he has yet to appoint a
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Dinkins' reneging on a campaign promise toprovide medically appropriate, housing forhomeless
peoplewith AIDS, anddisappointed with his sluggish response to
the recent murder of a gay man on Staten
IslandMembers of the group of letter-signers
include such notable gay political figures as
long-time activists Andy Humm and Jim
Owies, and Democratic Party fixtures Phil
Reed, Scott Klein and Leslie Cagan, who was
Dinkins' general election campaign cocoordinator.' But those contacted were, reluctant to discuss either the letter or the

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Billboard magazine reports that
tbe law was inspiredby a recent
Memphis concert by heavy metal band
Motley Crue during which drummer
Tommy Lee "mooned" the audience.
The Tennessee American Civil LiJ5erties
Union is currently
researchingthepossibility of filing a legal challenge to
the Memphis ordinance.
"We believe
theordinance
blatantly
violatestheFirst
Amendment,"stated Hedy Weinberg,
director of the Tennessee ACLU. "Ourmajor
concern
is
that
this
ordinance ... takes responsibility
awayfrom parents and hands it over togovernment'to
determine what minors
qm listen to and what concerts minors
can attend. This usurpation of parental
responsibility
certainly
puts
government in a role it should not bein."Anticipating a court challenge, theordinance contains a clause upholding
the rest of the legislation should any partof the bill be found unconstitutional.
He noted with irony that were he in
his heyday today, a concert by Memphis..hero Elvis Presley could arguably becovered by the bill's broad provisions.
Acts of "homosexuality"
are not
defined under the law, and it'is notclear if minors would be banned fromlive sex shows, concerts
or plays,,

where two people of the same sex
might kiss, or whether the law covers
women's music festivals featuring gay
positive songs or themes.
•"This ordinance,
has a chilling
effect on all perfonners and all concert
promoters," added Weinberg, "because
the ordinance is very vague and we
don't know whether or not a lesbianfolksinger's lyrics might be consideredharmful to minors under the Memphis
City Ordinance." ...
BRIT from page 20 'smuggling.
'Mason said the video was deemed
either "obscene" or "indecent," and that
it is no use appealing the decision.
, "To prove something indecent, allthey need to do is go to the magistrate
and wave it at him and say, 'Is thissomething you'd ~round at a dinnerparty at home and not be embby it?'" Mason explained.
British citizens returning from cities
such
as San Francisco,
Berlin,Copenhagen
and Amsterdam
areroutinely searched by Her Majesty's
CustomS.
Erotica produced
inside Britain,
meanwhile,
faces only slightly lessstringent standards. A British magazine
afoul of censors mustthat wishes topossess "a tendency
to deprl\ve or
corrupt," as set forth by the 30-year-old
Obscene Publications Act.
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Police only began enforcing the act
with a heavy hand in the past five or six
years, and that's when magazine
distributors notified publishers to cease
depicting erect penises-or
even two
nude men together, erect or not.
In addition to the "deprave" and"corrupt" standardsof the Obscene
Publications Act, British publishers arealso at risk under "Common Law"
statutes such as "conspiracy to corrupt
public morals," a category dating back to
the Offenses Against the Person Act of1861.
,
Common law actually prevents
Capital Gay from publishing personalads wherein one man actually says qewants to have sex with another .
"If we put two men together for the
purpose of sex, it is un1awful-unlawful
to procure an act of gross indecency
between two men," editor Mason said.
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consenting men or women above age 21
do it in private. Sex acts involving threeor more people are forbidden.
This reporter quizzed Mason: "Whatif I submitted an ad to Capital Gay
saying, 'I'm 21 and I.want to have sex in
my bedroom with one other man who
wants to have sex with me.' What would
you do?"Mason, familiar with the illogicalnuancesof the law, responded
immediately: "We would return yourcheck and your advertisement. Now, if
you had said, 'Mustached, !hrk hair,living in southwest London, would liketo meet same, preferably 'hairy, forrelationship,' you might get away with it,
however."
Fortunately, Jesse Helms has yet tolook outside the u.s. for inspiration in
his campaign against everything gay. But
when he does, he is going to findoverwhelming sympathy amongst ourEnglish-speaking neighbors for damping
down on our right to read and view
what we want.
The only solid weapon Americans
possess is the Bill of Rights (theguarantor of freedom of speech and thepress), something many Eu,ropeans envy.
But this esteemed document rnay very
well emerge tattered from current
brouhahas in 'Cincinnati, Memphis andNew 'York, and the inevitable battles
that lie ahead •...,VISA from page 16

their home countries. HIV-positive
tourists are still not allowed to enter thecountry.
Ultimately,
AIDS activists arelooking for ffiV to be removed from thelist of diseases that must be stopped at
the u.s. bOrder. They point to the fact'that ffiV is not a "contagious" disease
that can be spread through casual
contact. And they note that t~e U.S.
already has more AIDS cases than any, other nation.
Jerrell
did salute•the Bush
administration for creating the new tenday visa, saying that the administration
seems to be doing as much as it can to
diffuse the boycott of the Sixth
International Conference on AIDS in San
Francisco, which is set for June 20-24.
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imn:i.igration considerations. Jerrell said
seven months by saying Congress has tohe hopes Congress will follow thechange the law and then whenadministration lead.
Congress did introduce the change, theA bill to do just this was introduced
April 4 by Rep. J. Roy Rowland (D~.). administration ducked for two weeks
and than came out with the ten-<lay
It has yet to see any action.
policy. If you track the politics of that,Tom Sheridan, spokesman for the
you see that the administration
AIDS Action Council, was less generous
covereditself.
Administration
with the administration
than' Jerrel,
endorsementof the Rowland billcharging that the new visa plan iswould guarantee
passage in one"politics over policy.
week. Instead, they're 'reviewing it,'""The administration will not get
he said.
away with ducking on its responsibility,-filed from Chicago ...,and its role in detennining public health'issues,"
Sheridan
said.
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people with high T-cell levels and bad inpeople with low ones? How do you reconcile those findings?"
Anthony Fauci: I think that acid-labile alpha interferon is an abnonnal fOImof alpha interferon that really doesn't
have the same effect as the kind of alphainterferon that we've been infusing. It's
almost as though it's two different drugs.
trials which led to interferon's licensing as
It's very confusing, because that's been ina treatment for a) hairy cell leukemia, b)
Kaposi's sarcoma (KS), c) condylomata
the literature and in the paper a lot. It really is different. It's different. It isn't theacuminata (venereal warts)-were the resame. There are some similarities, obvisult of random chance, rather thanously, because it's the same type of thecausality?
species of an agent, but there are someInterferon is a cytokine. It was disdifferences. Whether or not it's doingcovered when virology and inununology
hann or good, we don't know, because
were in their infancy. Cytokines (cell-rethere's so many other things going on.
leased messenger proteins) are part of
One thing we absolutely do know, forthe complex grammar of the interactive
sure, is that alpha interferon in individuinunune system. A surplus or deficit ofals who have 400 or 300 T-cells, unone in the body does not necessarily lend
equivocally induces remissions, partia1 oritself to correction by flooding the bodycomplete, in Kaposi's sarcoma in 30 to 40
with the miSsing qtokine or with an antagonist to an ovdactive one. Yet this ispercent of individuals. Several separate
exactly the approach taken by those who
studies have shown that. It also has a
set out to test interferon against viral invery potent antiretroviral effect, the interfections and.qmcers:
feron that has been infused, very potent.
One of the difficulties with that study
AIDS is itself'characteriied,asJoseph Sonnabend and co-workers, noted
which was corroborated by a study inas fur, back as 1981, by the presence ofEurope, is that the doses, that we used in
an unusual acid-labife
that early study were 35 ,million units a, fOIm of interferonin the blood.'.~.
ofday, which is a lot of interferon, and real. PWAs,-. and those at risk.
Normal}y, interferon is secreted inly causes individuals to feel terribl~ whentiny amounts, at the ,site of infection, andthey're on it, very very severe flu-likedoes not circulate in·J:heblood.
In
AIDS,
symptoms and a lot of other specifict!"(.
•interferon builds up in the blood, yet (obproblems.
What we've done now isviously) fails~o contrRI viral activity.
gone back and started with much lower
Perhaps interferOn might work earlidoses, and we're doing studies now wither in infection, before the inunune system
A.tr vs. alpha interferon vs. both in early
is destroyed, and yet, because IllY hides
patients who have high T4 cells, because
in infected cells, the interferon system isin the original study people seemed to
not activated. This nn,ght explain why indo better who had higher T4 cells thanterferon treatment works better in thoseindividuals who were way down thewith higher T-cell counts.
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pike. One of the difficulties of that is that
Last October, when Anthony S.
it may be that once you get down to
Fauci, who directs the laboratory of 1m.:. such a low level, trying to use an immunoregulation at the National Institutemunomodulator of any sort, or even anof Allergy and I~fectious Diseases
antiretroviral, it's almost as though the(NIAID)-in addition'to his other roles ashorse is out of the bam, that you have to
Director of NIAID and AIDS Coordinatorreconstitute the inunune system
for the entire NatiorulI Institutes of Health
Jim Fouratt (ACf UP): Before you(NIH)-met with ACf UP's Treatment +go on, could you be more specific abdut
Data Committee in New York, there waswhat the differences are? You said therea spirited exchange about interferon andare differences, and then you went on .
AIDS. I asked:
But I didn't hear what the differences"How do you think alpha interferon
were between the two.
works in people with higher T-cell levels?
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think tt's important to keep an open mind,of course but at the same time not tolose hold on the body of knowledge we dohave about interferon-as well as what
we know of the immune system. There's
no reason why oral interferon should
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evidence that contradicts their own
I fiercely-held views.
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In the 32' years since its discovery,
interferon has been hailed as: 1) the curefor all viral infections; 2) the cure forsome, or all, of the 200 or more known
human cancers; 3) the cause (or a cofactor) of AIDS; 4) the cure (or a useful,treatment) for AIDS.
Interferon has always been a drug insearch of a disease. Among those who
cut their teeth on interferon research in
the 1960s and 1970s were' many of thepotentates of today's AIDS world-Martin
S. Hirsch and Thomas C. Merigan, of the
AIDS Clinical Trials Group (ACTG);
Mathilde Krim, Ph.D., of AmFAR, andJoseph SOnnabend of CRI!New York.
Statistically, there is a one in 20
chance that a traditional controlled clinical trial will yield a result that could havebeen obtained l?y chance. Given thenumber of trials of the various interferons(natural and recombinant, alpha, beta
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Brent Nicholson Earle, the man who ran 10,000miles around this country in 1987
to awaken Middle America to the AIDS epidemic, will run again
this summer.
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7 - Oakland / Berkeley CA
13- Russian River CA
16 - Sacramento CA
23 - San Francisco for Aids Conference
24 - Gay Pride Day in San Francisco

JULY
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5 - Grants Pass OR
14 - Eugene OR
18 - Salem OR
21 - Portland OR
25 - Olympia WA'
26 - Tacoma WA
27 - Seattle WA

The Rainbow run for the end of AIDS is a 1,000 mile fun fromSan Francisco to Vancouver. Brent begins June 7 and arrives in,
Vancouver on August 4 to attend The Gay Games.
Brent will dedicate the Rainbow Run to two leaders of.the gay
and lesbian community: Dr. Tom Waddell, founder of The Gay
Games, and artist and activist Keith Haring-both cut down by
AIDS.
Carrying a Rainbow Flag-tlie
symbol of the gay & lesbiancommunity-Brent
will make appearances, at fundraisers inmajor cities alo~gthe route, raising money and awareness for
local AIDS groups.
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Joseph Sonnabend (CRl):' I'm notaware that there are any biological differences between acid-labile interferon andconventional interferon. Acid-labile interferon is neutralized by antibodies to conventional interferon. There's been a recent report that, as you know, in lupus[see belowl, a similar acid-labile interferon appears, and there's quite some con-

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think that's going to end up being an imPortant p<)tential combination ... Alpha interferon clearly works, as we wrote in
the spring of 1989, by preventing thebudding and secretion of a virus that's already formed.
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More recently, from Jan
Vtlcek's lab, there's been a demonstrationthat the acid-lability may be conferredthat the molecule is the same but thatthe acid-lability may be due to anotherprotein that sticks to it. If that's the casewith lupus, my guess is that there's noreason to think it's different in AIDS. As'
fur as I know, the biological properties of
acid-labile interferon are identical tothose of...
Anthony Fauci: Yeah, well?
Dr. Bernard Biharl (CRI): Thesame kind of biological assay is used for,measuring ...
Rebecca Pringle·Smith (ACf UP):You have tremendously diverse properties biologically, I mean, without wanting
to get into the scientific minutiae here,
Dr. Fauci, there's a lot of room for interpretation. It's certainly by no means confinned that we know exact;1y all aboutalpha interferon.
Anthony Fauci: Right. AbsOlutely.
I didn't want to give the impression that
we know we know a lot more about
the studies of alpha interferon itself thanabout acid-labile alpha interferon. There
are similarities and differences. You haveto do a very very clear-cut side-by-side
comparison of in vitro effects, whichhave been done, but haven't been donein an organized way. There are suggestive differences. One of the things that's" imp<)rtant, though, is that in the alpha in-

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were they? Did they die?
Anthony Fauci: No, no, no. We
had a couple people who developed a, serious parenchymal disease like a cardiomyopathy type syndrome with somecongestive failure and anhythmias, which
was totally reversible when we stopped
the drug.;But
the real symptom is that,they just can't stand 35 million units.
You feel like, you have the worst flu in, the world 6nIy it doesn't go away, and it
just wears people out. On the five million dose we went back and we did adose escalation study and a combination
study witq AZT, where we gave low
doses of AZf, 50 to 100 milligrams q 4,
together with escalating doses of interferon: 5 million, 10 pilllion, 15. Most pe0ple could tolerate very well a combination of five tei 10 million units of alphainterferon together with 100 mg q 4 of
AZf. We did it as a Phase I study, to see
if there were any unexpected synergistic;:
toxicities. And there weren't. In fact, it
allowed us to use lesser doses of each,
which decreased the toxic side effects ofeach of those, which are on different
organ systems. ''*****Since that meeting, several newpieces of information have emerged
about the relationship between interferonand AIDS.

What are the differences between the interferon found in the,

blood of PWAs and "natural" or reinterferon?
At the CRI Symposium on Interferon, held here on March 31, 1990, Y.K.
Yip of the Public Health Research I'nstitute in New York presented his study of
acid-labile interferon in the blood of pe0ple with lupus, an autoimmune disease .
•Lupus and AIDS are the only known
diseases in. which this abnonnal fonn ofinterferon is found Yip found that theinterferonfrom people with lupus
weighed the same as "standard" interferon (18-20 kilodaltons), that is was identical in electrical charge (acidic) and thatboth were from the alpha species.
'In other experiments,
Yip andcoworkers found that the acid-lability oflupus-associated endogenous (native) interferon alpha is due to another factor attached to the interferon-not
to theinterferon itself. The interferon seems tofonn into a hl,lge (200 kilodalton) complex with other factors; unfortunately,said Yip, "we have no ideas what thesefactors are,."What are the uses of interferon

as a treatment for Kaposi's sarcoma(KS)?
Later that day, Ron Mitsuyasu fromthe AIDS Center at UClA discussed alphainterferon as a KS treatment. 1hree typesof alpha interferon have been tested inpeople with KS--two recombinant (Roferon and Intron-A, made by H~ffmanLaRoche and Schering-Plough, respectively) and one ~atural Oymphoblastoid-derived
from immortalized human cancer cells Wellferon, made by
BUlTOughs-Welicome).
The first two have been approvedby the IDA as treatments for KS, at unpleasantly high doses of 35 million
units/day. As Fauci mentioned above,these doses often are intolerable.
Mitsuyasu pointed out that there
have been no randomized, double-blinded studies comparing high to low doses
of interferon.
One fallacy which has infected AIDS
research from the cancer model of thelast 20,years is the search for the "maximum tolerated dose." As our experience
with AZf has shown, in AIDS the maxi,
mum tolerated dose is sometimes far
higher than the minimum effective dose,a more reasonable goal.
,Mitsuyasu combined data from threestudies of Inlron-A; of 103 gay men withKS, at various T-cell levels, the overall response rate (partial or complete KStumor remission) was 29, percent. Signifi-

cantly, two men on long term: low dooeinterferon therapy had a complete response. Forty-five percent of those on
higher doses had a complete. or partial
response.
Alpha interferon has also been combined with AZf at several doses in two
studies by Susan Krown at Memorial
Sloan-Kettering and Margaret FiscW in
Miami. It is not known whether the
combination works in an anti-KS or antiIllY fashion. The overall response rate
was 46 percent (out of 1:7 subjects); fourout of four at 9 million units of interferonand 1,200 mg/day of AZf had a partial orcomplete response.
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How about inteT:feron as an anti,

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The only consistent finding from thepreviously described studies of interferonin treating KS is that people respond better to interferon when their immune systems are still partially intact.
The higher the T-cell level, the betterthe chance of responding to interferon.
The only drawback is that when
one is healthy, with high T-cell levels,
some people would be unwilling to takea drug which makes them feel flu-like all
the time.
Thus, lower doses will have to be
used if interferon is ever to be used inasymptomatic people.
At the CRI conference, H. Cliffordlane of NlAID presented results from adose-de-escalation study of alpha interferon in seropositive asymptomatics.
Thirty-four people with over 400 Tcells, no symptoms but IllY-positive cultures, were randomized to receive either
35 million units/day of alpha intetferon
or intravenous placebo.
Doses werelowered to what people could tolerate.
The average "tolerable" dose was about
17 million units a day.
When preliminary results were announced last summer in Montreal, theysounded impressive: Zero of 17 people
on interferon developed opportunistic infections (Ols), while five placebo takers
developed Ols.
Yet, as Lane discussed at the CRI
conference, a closer look at the study
raises more questions than it answers.
The formal study lasted for 12
weeks. Six of the 17 assigned interferon, dropped out before then, due to side effects. One placebo • receiver developed
PCP on the tenth week of the study.
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tie at a time and try substitutes ofhigher quality. Reward yourself withfood that keeps you feeling "rewardable. "What this all adds up to is a
modified Macrobiotic diet which contains some high quality animal foodand a sense of humor. Hard line
Macros suffer from what I call "Grainof stores where' the staples can befound.
Healthy Chelsea, 248 W. 23rd St.,between Seventh and Eighth Avenue,
ith so much talk about691-0286.
food being a healer, it's
Brownies, 91 Fifth Avenue, 242important to remember
2199.
that food must be beautiful and taste,
Food Liberation, 1349 Lexington,good. Granted, the AIDS crisis has
between 89th and 90 St., 348-2286.
placed new emphasis on
Good Health,1133
what we put in our bodies,
Broadway, 645-5655.
but, should we let the ~' ",Integral Yoga, 229 W;
threat of illness rob us of I
13th St., 243-2642.
style? The challenge' is to
Commodities Natural
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Foods, 117 Hudson, 334to bright, imaginative cook8330.
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mal proteins. Try soy prodGood Earth, 1334 First
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Organic Market, 'f293) Make your use of
Seventh Avenue, between
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23rd and 24th• St., 645-8730.
or rare. (They are mucousMany of these storesforming and infection-foshave shelf after shelf of vitering.)
tamins. Let me say a word, 4) Eat a green you
about vitamins. They arehaven't had before (musPILLS! And the body ~btard or carrot tops, coilard
sorbs nutrition more readigreens or kale, chard orly from what it identifies aswatercress).
"food" (the vitamin intact in5) Add whole grains tothe setting it came from ).
A SALAD MADE OF aUINOA, THEANCIENT INCAN GRAIN
your diet, not only brown
Large doses of imprecisely
rice but millet, quinoa, couscous etc.
Damage," whereby too much thinkprescribed vitamins can create imbal6 ) Make friends with someone
ing about what you eat turns your'ances and cravings. Give the right
who has been eating well longer thandinner to gray matter. It might be adose at the right time to the right peryou. Seek invitations to whole foods
good investment to get into a naturalson. Read more about this in Fooddinners.
foods cooking class or buy an easyand Healing by Annemarie Colbin, a7) Avoid refined, processed or
to-follow whole woods cookbook
real "must" for those who want ,tochemicalized foods. Trade the sugar forsuch as The Book of Whole Meals bymeet the new century in strong bodmaple syrup, ripe fruit, sweet vegetaAnnemarie Colbin or The Naturalies. Tbles and juices.
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8) Choose healthy drinks like herb
available at most healthfood stores.
Frank Arcuri is head chef at theteas, bancha twig tea or unfiltered andMaking the changeover to healthNatural Gourmet cookery School infresh-squeezed juices.
supportive cooking and eating will
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A. Let me explain what that means.
Every one of those diseases is set up by
category, and I think that if you go
through all the disease:s-s, Q. In many cases it says"quarantine" and then it says "none."
And then with IllY it says "quarantine"
it says "see restriction activities."
A. Right. Infected persons shall not
engage in sexual activities involving theexchange of body fluids. I would assume
you would agree that's a good thing todo.
Q. Well I would agree that's a goodthing to do, but when you put in theform of a law, there's always a penalty
for noncompliance with the rule. The
enforcementin Indiana clearly isdepriving people of their liberty ifthey're deemed not to be complying
with this. And that is quarantine.
A. No, that's not quarantine. You
quarantine a place, you quarantine aphysical structure.
Q. I beg to differ. The dictionary
defines quarantine as "enforced isolation
or restriction of free movement imposed
to prevent a contagious disease fromspreading or any enforced isolation."
A. And your question isQ. Wasn't that quarantine, what you
were doing in Indiana?
A•. I don't consider it to bequarantine, and again, quarantine is notan effective strategy for the reductiOn of
the spread of HIV. I don't think the[Indiana] rule says that either.
Q. What is the purpose of debatingover the word that we use, when we allknow we're talking about removing
people from society?
A. I don't want to do that in New
York City, and I don't think that waswhat we did in Indiana. I'm notdebating that.
Q. Did you not deprive people inthe state of Indiana of their liberty basedon the fact that they were perceived to
be spreading HIV?
A. No, that's not why they weredeprived of their liberty .. In the twocases people constantly refer to, one
was an individual who was diagnosed
as a psycho-frenetic, and his behavior
was inconsistent with nonnal placement
in society. He, along with many otherpeople who have ~t same diagnosis,
were placed in a mental facility. And the-other case was a young man who had
been acting out, he was not in thisparticular case diagnosed as psychotic,
and he placed under the care of his
parents. If indeed we wanted toquarantine him, we would have been
worried about the disease being spreadto those who had activity with him rightthere in the facility or the house. No one
placed any restriction of movement inand out of the house. The court said
that that young man had to stay under
the care of his parents, which hesubsequendy fled from and moved toanother city. Those are, the two
examples, and I don't think tha~ they
support the notion that quarantine
occurred in Indiana.
Q. Were you aware that gay people
were, for many decades in this century,
routinely deprived of their liberty
without due process, meaning trial by
jury based on the idea that to be gay is
to have psychosis and that mental
hospitals were filled with gay people?
A. I'm very aware of not just that,
but the struggles, of Blacks and Latinos
who have a very long history of havirig
been enslaved in this country, andtoday, continue to be ,deprived of fullaccess to educationaland medical,
opportunities as well. This country has ahistory of discriminating
against a
number of people.
Q. Absolutely. But I'm asking you if
you're aware of the history of gay
people as it refers to' things like [mental
hospitalization. You say that someone
was deprived their freedom in Indiana
based on the idea that they had a
psychosis that 'Yas causing them tospread IllY.
A. I didn't say a psychosis that wascausing them to spread IllY: There werea number of factors in that case that led
the judge to make hiS decision. It was
our job in the health department tobring in the evidence that we had inthat case. If you're asking me if I'maware that people have a great deal ofsensitivity because of the history of[discrimination in] this country, you
betcha I'm aware of that. I'm acutely
aware of that. And I don't want to do
anything to further the anxiety of people
who continue to have those concerns
regarding discrimination.
Q. When you talk about partner
notification, you've been advocating
more aggressive notification. What

exactly does that mean?
A. It is a means of making certainthat we take advantage of every
opportunity we can to help someone toface the issue of talking to and helping
their partner with respect to the virus. It
means that when that person has arelationship already with a private
physician, that we in the healthdepartment encourage that private
physician to bring that issue up, to besensitive with his or her patient when theytalk about the issue, and to do the kind ofcounseling that would facilitate the partnerto come into that office or his or her own
practitioner's office for testing andcounseling. When those patients come to
us at the health depattment, it means the'same thing, that we provide anenvironmeilt where people feel they canindeed discuss those, very complicatedand very sensitive issues with us; that they
have a trusting enough relationship withus so they will allow us to participate in
the process of notifyinga partner that they
may have been exposed
Q. Does partner notification refer
only to the current sexual partners ofpeople that test HIV-positive, as
opposed to past partners?
of cuiTent
A. What's the definition,or past? Is 'past' a week ago or a year
ago? I think, it has to be individualized.
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If someone had a partner ten years ago
and haven't had any partner since, it
probably doesn't make cost effective
sense to go looking for that person, as it
does for the person they had arelatio~hip with last week.
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Q. But if a person has had fivepartners in the past five years, is It
conceivable that partner notification
would involve letting all five of thosepeople know that they inight be positive?
A. Given the length of the
incubation period of the virus, five years
isn't an unreasonable look back.
Q. I'm just trying to get to thedifference
betweenwhat partner
notification is and what contact tracing is.
Aside from a semantic difference.
A. Contact tracing in my mind
smacks of maintaining a secrc;t list
somewhere in the agency. We don't
want to do that, because I am sensitive
to the kind of issues that you brought
up. One of the reasons I've chosen to,
use the term 'partner notification' forthis agency is because I do respect•that. ~,,

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hen I was a child, I
wasfascinatedbywords. I grew up in
Boston, where the winters were serious
and one of the few
consistently available activities wasreading.
I wastaught to read by
my grandmoth~r,
who instilled in me
the habit of keeping
a dictionary close athand, so that I could always know them~ning of words as I read them. Although it is 35 years later and I cansummon the dictionary electronically as
I write on my computer, I still keep a
dictionary on my desk and derive
tremendous pleasure from its use.
For example, I waslooking up the word o~moron, because I rightly
suspected that the title ofthis column is an oxymoron. The word comesfrom two Greek roots, ~s,meaning sharp and moron
meaning dull, and refers toa figure of speech in which
two words of opposite
meaning are used together
for heightened effect. Lib:eration, according to thesame dictionary, is the action of setting
free (associated with the right brain),while logic is the art of reasoning(associated with the left brain).
Right above oxymoron in the dictionary was ~gen,that element in nature
which is essential to both breathing andfire. Being an Aries, a fire sign, I personally resonate to those primal functions.
Like breathing, throwing off the burdenof oppression is a pasSionate activity thatis vital to my existence. Ironically, liberation was just above libido, certainly asource of passion, in the particular dic-tionary I was using. The word logic
comes from the Greek logos, meaning
word. It should be apparent that I havebeen obsessed with words and how they
are used for a long time. I frequently saythat I should have been born back in theancient times when there were full-timejobs available for philosophers, because
I like to contemplate issues and thoroughly consider their implications.
Gertrude Stein is apocryphally quoted as saying, "A rose is a rose is a rose."
Shakespeare's version is "A rose by anyother name would smell as sweet." Little
children deflect insults with the chant,"Sticks and stones may break my bones,
but names will never hurt me." Theseaphorisms share the sensibility that myessence is unaffected by what I am
called. In many ways, that is true.
At the same time, I am affected by
how others perceive me. Most white
people would flinch today, at the word
nigger used conversationally to refer toa Black person. But there was a 'time,

ing compelled to deny us that essential
element of the human experience.
Many of us have learned to survive
those wounds by oppressing others.
We all begin as children, mostly powerless to control the oppression of theadults around us on whom we are dependent for our basic needs. As lesbians and gay men we experience thedaily invalidation of a heterosexist andhomophobic culture. Yet our communityis still infected with attitudes which
oppress people of color, Jews, thosewith disabilities, women, elders, etc.
Some of us have learned not to use oppressive tenns when speaking to eachother, but the intent of that language
still thrives iriside us in ways that areoften unconscious.
The process of learning new values
that are focused on respecting our differences and building a community where
everyone can participate fully can be
broken down into simple steps that I
hope to expand on in future editions of
this column. This series
will hopefully provoke
your best thinking ahd encourage you to honestly
examine how you participate in the process of oppression. The very firststep is a willingness to listen without becoming defensive to the experiencesof those we have oppressed.
As you go about
your daily activities, notice when it is difficult for you to let
another person speak without interrupting them, and what about that person is different from you. Pay attention
to the, times when you feel unable tospeak honestly about your feelings. It is
not Simply a homework exercise, butrather an important contradiction to themessages we have internalized about
ourselves. It is a way to create the safety and space for the dialogue necessary
to heal our wounds and transform ouroppressive patterns. And that would be
fertile soil for any rose! T

Most white people would flinch today
at the word nigger used conversationally to refer to a Black person. But there
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less than 30 years ago, when major segments of the population thought it anappropriate appellation. It has always
felt like a thick blanket thrown over myhead, suffocating me, or a solid punch
to my solar plexus. It is hard to maintain the focused self-esteem necessary
to freedom while gasping figuratively
for breath.
So the words are important. The
logic of liberation is that everyone deserves to live free. The reality of ourexperiences is that all of us have endured ,hurts around other people feel-,May2,1990
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During up to three years of followup, four more placebo takers and no interferon takers developed PCP.
The problems with this study are
manifold:
1) interferon's side effects are so dis, tinctive that there was no "double blinding" after the fIrSt dose.
2) Was there a tendency to provide
better follow-up to those assigned interferon?
3) Why did someone who entered
the study with 432 T-cells develop PCP
only ten weeks later?
4) Of the 17 assigned interferon,
only 11 finished the 12 weeks of the II
study, and only three contjnued taking
interferon in the follow-up period; how
could the protection of all 17 from OIs
for three years be attributed to 12 weeks
or less of interferon in 14 of the 17?
In response to questions, Lane conceded that it was inadvisable to read too
much into data from such a small study.
In the meantime, NIAID is doing a
study comparing interferon with or without AZT to AZT alone in people withover 500 T<ells.
At Beth Israel, Donna Mildvan isdoing a dose-esca1ation study comparing
AZT at 100, 200, 400 and 600 mg/day
with or without alpha interferon at 2, 4, 6
or 8 million units/day, versus interferonalone, for 12 weeks. All subjects musthav~ over 200 T<ells and be positive for
p24 antigens. (Only 20 percent of PWAs
are p24 positive, delaying recruitment forthis interesting study.)

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Recent reports in Kenya Times ''The
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Review (4,90), Biotechnology Newswatch(4.2.90), Tbe New York Times (4.4.90) andthe New York Native (4.16.90) have reported that the use of tiny doses of oral
alpha interferon (two units/kg/day' =about 140 units for an adult man) caused
AIDS to go into remission in 99 of 101
subjects treated for eight weeks, in Kenya.
T<ells were reported to rise as high as
2,400!
This led to the N{ltive headlining "A
CURE?" for a disease it now claims
doesn't exist. Think about it~ real curefor an imaginary disease, or an imaginary
cure for a real disease?
I called Joseph Sonnabend to ask
for his opinion of the Kenyan study, The
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ing that some brothers were uncomfortable about the idea of taking
showers and sleeping in the same
house with him.
'
The brothers at Acacia seem tomiss the hypocrisy of eschewing
racism on the one hand, while being
openly homophobic on the other.
Brathwaite is quoted in the Windy City
Times, Chicago's gay newspaper, assaying: "I didn't join that fraternity forthe sex. I just wanted to meet people. I
guess I was just a little diverse forthem."A recent issue of Time magazine
had a major article about the problems of intolerance in fraternities andmont, Burlington, VT, 05405, (802)656-7920.
And if you would like to tell thebrothers at Acacia that they're not ourkind of Greeks, write to Acacia House,
404 College Street, Burlington, VT,
05401, (802) 863-7920.
by Henry Yeager
Here's an item that evidently
doesn't. apply to the University of Ver•
mond. According to the New Yorko you remember when Andy
Daily News, high school seniors andRooney was suspended fromtheir parents have to be careful in
60 Minutes after anti-gay andchoosing colleges because of the veryanti-Black comments wereserious dangers present on some camattributed to him? It seemed that thepuses like the prevalence of homoheavy public outcry began only after
sexuality.
the alleged racist remarks were madeThe Daily News recently ,ran a colpublic. Many of us
umn by Thomas Sowellconcluded from thisheadlined "Beware ofthat the American
the Halls of Poisoned
public ,is probably
Ivy." Sowell warned
more openly homoparents and their colphobic than racist.
lege-bound kids that
Another recent casethey need to be carefulpoints to the samein deciding just whichconclusion.
school to attend beThe University
cause there are, as he. "some very senof Vermont chapter
put It,of the Acacia fraterous dangers at many
nity recently pledged
colleges, . including
its first prospective
some with prestigious
Black member, annames and high acal8-year-old freshman from St. Croix.
sororities that mentioned racial anddemic rankings." He then went on forIndeed; not only did Acacia break its
ethnic discrimination, but not homohalf a column discussing the problem
color line by pledging Winston Brathphobia (altqough Time has docuof violent crime at various colleges.
waite, they also promised that as soon
mented it in the past). The article re- Sowell continued "crime is not theas he was initiated he would be madeported that, in general,college
only important feature of campus life
an officer~ But, as reported in theauthorities are' forcing them to cleanthat the college brochures won't tellBoston Globe and Newsweek, whileup their acts. If you would like to you about. The prevalence of drugs,
awaiting initiation,
Brathwaite figured
suggest that the University of Vermont drunkenness, and homosexuality will,
it was as good a time as any to telldo the same with Acacia, write to thealso be of interest to some people." In
Acacia that, he was gay: Two days
president: Dr. John Hennessey, Office other words, according to Sowell andlater
the fraternity rejected.'.
. . him, claim- of the President, University of Ver- the Daily News, homosexuality is insome way the equivalent of violent
crime, drugs and drunkenness.
Not so long ago, many colleges
felt the same way about Blacks, Jews
and women (and reflected their bigotry
in admissions quotas) that Sowell feels
about gays and lesbians. You can point
this out to Michael Pakenham, Editorial
Page Editor, Daily News, 220 East 42ndStreet, New York, NY, 10017, (212), 210-1530. T

While awaiting initiation, Brathwaite figured
it was as good a time as any to tell the Aca- ,cia fraternity that he was gay. Two days later
the fraternity rejected him, clai~rigthat
some brothers were uncomfortable about theidea of taking showers and sleeping in thesame house with him.

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researchers in Kenya-backed
by aJapanese biotechnology company andseveral Texas outfits including one called
Amarillo Cell Culture used natural alphainterferon cultured from human cells
treated with Sendai virus and, injected
into the side of hamsters; they mixed theinterferon with maltose wafers and told
subjects to let it dissolve in the mouthover two to three minutes.
The theory, apparently, is that whileinterferon might be broken down in thestomach, it could possibly be absorbed
directly through the mouth. Sonnabendsaid "it's conceivable that there are receptors for interferon in the pharynx, or thatit's absorbed sublingually." Nonetheless,he is skeptiall about the Kenyan ·claims:"We bave tbese incredible reports outof Kenya. If they are substantiated, UK! wiDbave to write another cbapter in the bookon immunology. Even. if tbere are irzteiferon receptors in tbe moutb, so wbat? Interferon sticks on a receptor and triggers asystemic {body-wide} response? I don't believe it. This is the most conjectural and offthe-wall propostil. The only thing is tbat it's
notz-taxic and can be sorted out rapidly. "If a patient of Sonnabend's asked fororal interferon,'7'd give it to bim. The reason is tbat
it's rzontoxic: it's not going to bun bim. I

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don't see wby I should witbbold rzontaxic
in.tenJentions if people want tbem, I can't
see on wbat grounds I sbould discouragesomearte. "In Biotechnology New;watcb, a trade
newsletter, Dr. Joseph Hassett of Mt. Sinai
Mediall Center in New York, said:"Koecb [tbe researcber wbo conducted tbe Kenyan study} is self-aggrandizing
and self-promoting in bis presentation,but one sbouldn't bold it against bim,"
Hassett asked Koech if KEMRONcleared
up Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia, "beclaimed, yes it did, but be was evasive,and never really answered wben I asked
bim if it cleared up Kaposi's sarcoma. Yet
Koecb claims all AIDS symptoms disappeared after eigbt weeks. ,;J,
Hassett intends to conduct a 'placebo-controlled study in New York to attempt to replicate Koech's finding. It
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belt tourists who have stopped to ask
You're ready to hunt down your ghosts us directions.
and drive them out. You're ready for a
All of which has led to the mistakshrink.
en impression that psychotherapy is a
What took you so long?
thorougWy familiar and unintimidating
Psychotherapy~
mostly serious
subject in this, one of the world's great
subject, no doubt-has
also inspired
psychiatric cities. Not so. Psychotheramore than its share of wisecracks and py, and particularly the process of findcliches. How could it not, being a ing a psychotherapist,
remain anubiquitous entry on any comedian's
enigma to many who approach them.
joke roster, a frequent fixture of And for lesbians and gays, who have at
Woody Allen films and a favorite, if times found mostly enemies practicing
poorly-understood, symbol of the New under the imprimatur of those fancy
York sensibility in the minds of so mental health diplomas, the process
many who just don't grasp our full can be all the more daunting.
complexity?
Still, our community, like the rest
Of course, New Yorkers aren't the of society, has not been easily
only ones to jam the waiting rooms of , spooked. "There's been a growing conpsychotherapists
in the last few
sciousness of the relevance of therapy,"
decades. Therapy isn't just a big city says Henry Weimhof, executive director
phenomenon anymore. But New York- of the Institute for Human Identity, theers (and those who fall within ourgay community's non-profit mental
gravitational pull) are the ones whohealth clinic. "In the early days, a lot of
perfected the art of slipping therapy
people saw therapy as basically homointo casual conversation-!ike we were phobic. But there's a growing awaremerely noting the possibility of rain, ness that it need not be. It can be gay

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affirming." Evidence ofservice for therapists,
the increasing willingno therapist reviews
ness of lesbians andpublishedin newspagays to seek therapy
pers and magazines.
can be found in the
Moreover, anyone caninstitute's annual ten
hang out a shingle
percent
growth inand declare himself orclients during theherself a therapist
1980s, a development
without a day's worth
due at least in part toof formal training.
the emotional devastaCase in point: Onetion caused by AIDS.
woman
who had
The good news if
recently started therayou are contemplating•
py became curious
psychotherapy is thatabout her, therapist's
finding a competent,
frequent use ?f thenon-homophobic shrink
ater expressions. She
is a great deal easiersoon learned that her
than it once was. Long
"therapist" was in fact
gone are the times
an actress who saw
when homosexuality
patients to supplewas widely considered,ment her income.
in and of itself, a menIn this uncertain
tal pathology to beenvironment, profes"treated." Still, the tersionals say that one
rain is not yet free ofof the best ways tolandmines.
The inget names of two or
tensely personal nature
threeprospectiveof the client-shrink
therapists
is from
relationship, an abundance of mediocre therapists and out- trusted friends who are in therapy
and-out quacks and the nearly complete (though remember that many shrinks 'absence of hard and fast rules to follow won't see lovers or very close friends ofin seeking help mean that the therapist current patients).
The first decision you'll have tosearch will always be difficult. And formake is whether to consider only candigays and lesbians, as for all otherdates who you know are gay. This isminorities, the process poses uniquechallenges. Despite the American Psy- primarily a personal decision, and therachiatric Assocation's 1973 vote (by no pists are divided on the question. "Allmeans unanimous) to strike homosexu- things being equal, I think that gay peoality from its list of psychiatric disorders, ple should have a gay therapist," says
Manhattan psychologist, author andsubtle and less often, overt-homophobia can still be found lurking in the Out Week columnist Charles Silverstein.
dusty comers of some therapists' offices. "Gay therapists really have the facts"Even today a gay man or'lesbian can about gay life and what the problems of
get into therapy over something that has gay life are." Others disagree, amongnothing to do with sexual orientation, ' them Robert Kertzner, assistant clinicalprofessor of psychiatry at Columbia. "Iand find out that the therapist doesn't
don't believe it's required that the therabelieve you can be well-adjusted,
because you're gay or lesbian," says pist be gay," he says. "There are someMichael Shemoff, co-director of Chelsea straight therapists who are really gr~at at
Psychotherapy Associates, a group social working with gay clients. And being gay
does not confer automatic expertise orwork practice.
All of which means' that as a gay skill on a therapist, although it is u~ually
man or lesbian, you will have to work very helpful." Patti Geier, a clinical coorextra hard, ask more pointed questions dinator of the Institute for Human Identiand maintain a more vigilant stance than ty, solves the disagreement this way: "If
it matters to the client whether tbe theramost other people seeking therapy.
pist is gay or straight, then it matters."
When you start, the primary problem
The debate may be purely academic
you'll face is the utter subjectivity of the~~~<m'.0(%i~~<t-:t.W-t&im
pro~ess of choosing a shrink. There is, in the case of those therapists, included )::r;--::.'>i::;;)??;:;:'()W{}W\?tTWjK{ltill~UiN~~",?»:~~;.'i:r;".i;;<:;-::':;'-":-<-':":{'.:;.;:":~';-:::::::'~-:;;i:::::

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who are unwilling todiscuss their own sexuality, even if asked
directly. "One should
be prepared for anevasive answer," says
Marny Hall, a therapist
in Oakland, California.
"I don't think that's
necessarily
bad,because the therapist's
job is not to intrude incertain ways in theclient's desires, projections and so forth."
Some therapists fearthat disclosing
any
personal information
prevents patients fromdeveloping their own
ideas about the therapist's personal
life
which can be discussed and used to
get 'at unconscious
material. Others feelthat the importance ofa patient's knowing
the therapist's orientation outweighs otherconcerns, though most
who hold this view
will want to discuss
your concerns about
their sexuality before answering thequestion.
You may also want to consider
whether it's important to you that thetherapist share your gender, and/or ethnicity; "There's been a fair amount of'literature that says that good therapists
are able to work with a lot of different, types of people," says Marjorie Hill, aBlack lesbian therapist in Brooklyn.
"But initially, some people feel more
comfortable with people who are like
them, so people who have never, been
in a therapy situation before mightwant to try to frnd someone who has as
many things in common with them as
possible." You should not, however,
mistakenly conClude that a therapist of
the same ethnicity or gender is going totherefore have, an instant understandingof the past that has shaped YUti "I h,:v
some clients who assumed that ai> aBlack therapist, 1 wouldn't have to ask
them' a ,lot of questions," says Beverly
Greene of Brooklyn. 'Just because you

are of the same race,
the way you understand the experienceof racism, for example, is not going to be
the same as everyoneelse." However, Ernesto De La Vega, a
Latin American journalist
and former
mental health careadministrator,
offersthis general rule topeopleof color:"Whomever one goesto, regardless of his or
her race and ethnicity,
has to have a comprehensive understandingof the racial, social,political,
economic
and cultural facets ofthe client's life." De La
Vega points out that
aspects of some Latin,
Americancultures,like a strong emphasison the family andmarriage, may lead illinformed North American clinicianstomisinterpret the concerns of Latino or
Latina patients.
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Any prospective
therapist-gay, straightor undetermined-should
be scrupulously questioned
about his or her
knowledge of the gay community andattitudes toward gays and lesbians,"According to Freud, gay men havetheir own Oedipus Complex," quips
Bob Smith, a member of the Funny Gay
Males comedy troupe. "They want tokill their fathers and go shopping with
their mothers." That's a frne theory for alaugh in a cabaret, but if your psychotherapist holds half-baked theories
about the origins or nature of homosexuality, is uncomfortable dealing withthe depth and breadth of your sexuality, or simply can't grasp the gay experience, you're finished before you've
begun. And if your inclination is to
assume that gay or lesbian [therapists]
can have the same kinds of issues as
straight
therapists,"
says Beverly
Greene, "If you're seeing someone
who's unresolved about his or her own
sexuality; they're not in a position to
help others with it." The problem, of

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about her therapist's use of theater expressions.
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course, is how to tellwhether a therapist is
fully in touch with hisor her true feelings.
You may want to ask
the shrink whether heor she has undergone
therapy and had achance to engage inrigorous introspection. But direct q.uestions, though important, are likely to elicit canned responses.
You should also try to
draw some conclu•
sions from subtle
clues like posturalshifts at key moments
or a seeming unwillingness to go into
issues related to yourromantic life in detail.
Unfortunately,suchclues may only surface once therapy isunderway.
In addition to asking questions about
the therapist's experienceintreating
patients with problems
like yours, you should
also pay attention to
your feelings as you
layout your reasonsfor coming. Ask yourself if you actually
like the therapist, if you feel that as time
progresses you will grow to trust him or
her. Pay attention to the questions they
ask you ap.d consider whether the therapist is connecting to your feelings. "Thekey aspect is empathy," says Michael
Shernoff. "The process of psychotherapy
is at times going to make you very
uncomfortable. You have to believe that,the therapist isn't enjoying causing you
pain, isn't being sadistic or vicious, butis gently, skillfully helping you explore
old wounds or new hurts.".
Keep in mind that no therapy decision is fmal. Clients occasionally discover after some time that they've made a
mistake and want to try another therapist. In that case, you should discusswith your therapist, as honestly as you
can, why you want to discontinue working with him or her. Most shrinks will
want to discuss the possibility that yourdissatisfaction' is the result of troubling-but ultimately helpful-feelings

that are being stirred
up by the therapist. If
so, take such considerations seriously. "We've
spent a lifetime covering over awful feelings
that have hurt us,"explains Silverstein.
"Then, if you've got atherapist who's goodand who's helping you
uncover them, thosefeelings come back. It
hurts. You may wantto run away." Silverstein suggests discussing your feelings
with a close friend
who can offer an,
opinion as to whether
your ,objections arelegitimate, or merely aruse to get yourself
our of an uncomfortable situation. The
more specific your, concerns are, Silverstein argues, the more
likely it is that you 're
not merely bugging,
out.
But if you fmallydecide to move on,
don't be bullied into
staying. "If the patientwants to try anothertherapist, that's what the patient should
do," says Silverstein. "Remember. this is
not slavery. It's not an indentured contract. If the experience is not helpful. thepatient shouldn'~ stay."
In fact. a good rule to follow is
don't settle for anything less than thekind of treatment you want. Psychotherapy in the 1990s can be an
opportunity for gays and lesbians tolook at their lives and discover new
options, in a more hospitable and nurturing environment
than has everbefore been possible. "I don't get anybody who comes in to see me anymore
and says. ''I'm gay and I don't want tobe ...• says one Manhattan therapist.
"That's a direct result of 20 years of thegay liberation movement. I'm getting an
increasing number of gay men who arechoosing to 'be fathers. It·s a very exciting time to be a therapist within thecommunity at this time. because theopportunities that we are creating forourselves are just endless," ...

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holds half baked
theories about
the origins or
nature ofhomosexuality,
you're finished
before you '.ve
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•,EVERYfHlNGTIIAT GOES on around Tim Mill~r will probably
in some way end up in his work. Just as his early pieces, Some
Golden States and Buddy Systems, responded to the influences
which surrounded him during his early tenure as co-founder of
New York performance space P.S. 122, he cleverly meshedmovement, sound and autobiography. Miller now involves a
broader cultural spectrum of artists to play a part in his latest
venture in Los Angeles. Highways is the performance space
and workshop he opened last May with Linda Frye-Burnham.
The internationally acclaimed Miller was noticed by his partner
when she was publisher of High Performance magazine. Since
then, when Miller returned to California in 1987, the two
have,launched a media savvy campaign to put performance arts on
the Los Angeles map. With an ambitious schedule of 250
nights of readings, performance, music, plays and activism peryear, they are bringing a variety of otherwise disparate groups
together in a productive and' positive way. "He's got a lot ofcharisma that way," says Burnham.
In an industrial cul-de-sac in his beachside Latino neighborhood of Santa Monica, Miller arrives on a scooter for our
meeting. He looks a little wan, probably because of the 60 to
70 hour weeks that Highways has a habit of requiring of him.
"Are you hungry?" he asks, shaking my hand and waving
me into his office, "because if I don't eat something, I'm gonna
drop." And he does, into a hard-backed chair to listen to theanswering machine blather messages, genial greetings and'reservations, Several individuals call regarding ACf UP activities, with which Highways is very active.
'
In the main performance space, a team. of set designers
are hammering away, erecting backdrops for the opening of
The Hittite's Prometheus On A Black Landscape, a play which
superimposes mythology over the "wilding" incident in Central
Park. CheCking their progress, he inspects his watch, gauging
the shrinking time between appointments, and we dash off toa neighborhood Thai restaurant so he can refuel.
Tim noshes spring rolls while dish after flaming dishordered by nearby tables interrupts our conversation. His mind
is elsewhere. Caught somewhere between the demands of his"baby" performance space, the upcoming civil disobedienceand the need to observe himself and situations from an objective/subjective perspective, he uses the opportunity to talkabout the demands of his second performance space, his
involvements with ACf UP and preparations for a tour of theNortheast this spring with, Stretch Marks, his latest performancepiece which he debuted here last August. At times I think hehas another body, hovering nearby, taking notes on the proceedings: the reporter eager to plumb the depths of his subject:
the artist rapping his manifesto one more time.
"Used to be that artists tried to meet the day-to-day obligations of a day and were lucky to spend a little time in the studio working," he says between entrees, "But it's gotten to apoint where political art is not only unavoidable, but a responsibility." Combining those two has been a high priority at Highways, "Of course there will always be those who disagree,
because they want to believe their art is divorced from politics
or identity." 'Fortunately for Highways, Los Angeles Cultural Affairs
Department director AI Nodal seems to agree. Though unavailable

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louder: The department recently
awarded Millerwith an artist's grant
for gay-themed
performances'
throughout the city. The department's arts agenda is by fat ope ofthe most pace-setting and liberal in
the country, led with works by, andabout, people dealing with AIDS
and the homeless.
Miller's role' as a producer
may demonstrate his point a bit
more clearly. Part of Highway's
ten-week-Iong arts festival Sex,
God and Politics, includes Curtis
York, a protege of performance
artist Rachel Rosenthal. York;spiece, United States of Christ, refers
to his millennial period as "thedark ages." York, dressed as ascary man of the cloth, pontificateson this era's religious heavy-handedness, the Vatican's influence on
the political process and the further blurring of the line between
church and state.
Tackling the Reagans' bizarre
political
processes
is Terry
Sweeney, the first openly-gay performer to appear on network television. The fortner Saturday Night
Live player has been performing
It's Still My Turn: An Unauthorized Collection of Nancy Reagan's Private Poetry to raves. His
acidic satire on the former first lady's
self-serving memoirs amusingly questions the Reagans' oddball protocol policies andtheir misuse of power. Surprised..
by the unusually good word-of-mouththat has repeatedly extended his performance in this notoriously conservative
city, he recently quipped, "Sometimes I
see so much blue hair in the audience I
think I must be playing Miami."
But Miller's, curatorial involvements
are not strictly political. Highways
recently installed their first artist-in-residence, Hugo Sanchez, a Mexican artist
who initiated an arts workshop at' a local
high school. The children's portable
murals, masks and musical instruments
were used in a family-oriented artists
Mardi Gras. ,Perhaps as a result of the variety ofartists, the most important leap in Miller's
own work is that he is aware of what he,calls "parallel realities," typified by hisexperiences living in· New York. Noticing'the colonizing of the East Village byboho artists who seemed completely

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Orleans-bound train as a dominant 19th/20th centUry metaphor,
Miller sees things from his window and seat car easily dismi$sed
by a generation of jet-propelled
global villagers. The trip is punctuated by lively encounters withhis past, his Gennan tutor Fraulein
Rodriquez and macabre visions
that tum his train of thought into
one headed for Dachau andAuschwitz.

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Back at Highways, people are'arriving for several meetings. In aformer garage, one group of volunteers cut out foam core likenesses for two demonstrations.
The artists look weary but alert,
and are having a hard time
remembering
which art work
belongs to which demonstration.
"No," Tim explains, "Frida Kahlo
is for Artists on Trial, and those are
the public enemies." He points toa cutout of Los Angeles Archbish. op, Roger Mahoney and Roxani
Gillespie, California's controversial
insurance commissioner. A collective "Ohhh," passes through theroom, and work resumes. Satis•
fied, Tim shepherds a waiting
ignorant to the indigenous culture exist- group of writers to an adjacent cooferIng around them, he remarks that, "It's ence room.
amazing to me that the only place in
The group is assembling a script for
New York that wasn't segregated was the the "Art Criminal Chain Gang," a six-mile
subway."demonstration march from L.A. County
And while Los Angeles is hardly the Museum along Wilshire Boulevard. The
most integrated place in the country, he group's plan is to culminate in a tribunal
feels confident he's doing his part. Part of on the Federal Building's steps, when thehis ongoing social commentary can be group will then "arrest" the building.
seen in Stretch Marks, a collection of sto- When I catch up with the Artist's Chainries culled from a train trip' he took in Gang as they march from the Music Cen1987 that confronts death, cultivates his ter to the Federal Building, about 30
new understanding of "alternative space" people dressed in mock prison stripes
and examines his Southern California,stab the air with placards with theadolescence, All his cultural analysis was images of Anne Frank, James Baldwin,
underscored by a series of traumatizing Robert Mapplethorpe, Frida Kahlo, Garevents that occurred simultaneously in cia Lorca and several other persecuted
1987. The death of his close friend Eliza- artists. They are met and cheered on bybeth Marek, a performer and peace
about 200. The air is shrill with theactivist killed in the Lockerbie, Scotland sound of their police whistles until police,
airplane crash, the gay-bashing of his cordon off the area, don rubber gloves
lover, writer Douglas Sadownick and per- and visors and arrest 27 protesters.
haps most poignantly, his performance at
The next day, the Los Angeles Times
the tent village that sprung up during'theruns a photo in the Metro Section. La
week-long ACf UP vigil outside USC's , Opinion, the leading local Spanish-lanCounty Hospital to demand an AIDSunit. guage daily, gives the incident a full write-_

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I ask
what
happened
after their arrests.
"Well, we knew
what to expect. It
was very 60s. They
held us a couple
hours and let us go.
lt was the cutest
demonstration.
"
Laughing, I ask him
if he means activists
are getting younger.
He agrees, adding,"I thoughtof apiece I'd like to doabout the experience. I'll call it CD.
Buddies or C.D.
Weekend; it'd be agreat scenario for aporn movie." Twoweeks later, Timwill have performed a draft of CD. Weekend at Different Light bookstore's Sunday
writer's series.

•"mass" market can't
possibly be aware it
desperately needs,
and offering a look
into his own alternative space, his mind.
If there are some
who would say that
Miller is a sleepwalker, there· are also
those who will say asleepwalker should
never be waked. If
that's the case, let
him dream on ....

Tim's greatest contribution is providing safe haven to experiment, giving artists
a laooratory to produce works that a

Tim Miller will
Stretchperform
Marks April 26-28
at American Playwright Theater in
Washington D.C.'s
Art Against AIDS
Festival, New' York's
P.S. 122's Veselka Performance Festival
May 3-6, May 10-13 and at the Walker
Art Center in Minneapolis, June 22-23.

Miller with Unda Burnham at Artist's Chain Gang, a six-mile demonstration march in l.A .
May 2,1990

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before I left town (on what I repeat
Before getting on with the busi- got wind of it-by the sculpture in
was simply my annual and contractuness at hand (which is, of course, run- the lobby of the Out Week building,ally-provided vacation) I had indeed
Iling a column for your benefit) much, not 30 seconds after I passed throughentered into a long series of discusit seems, needs to be said. I am not, the revolving door and waved hellosions with management about possias those who know me can and will to Geneen at Security.
bly diversifying the scope of thisreadily afftrm, inclined to place much
My laughter, however, became
colurnn. Much as I have derived
stock in offtce gossip. Setting aside
increasingly forced with each new
immeasurable satisfaction from giving
the fact that I have long regarded gos- hearing during the seemingly endadvice, I was feeling an understandsip as merely one more means by less elevator ride to the 49th floor, atable restlessness at the confines of thewhich a person or group ,of persons
the coffee wagon, in the Xerox room,
forum and expressed a desire to apply
seeks to regulate the behavior of oth- around the candy machine and by
my skills to other areas of equally vitalers, it is, simply, not my jurisdiction
the time a total stranger turned
relevance
to the community.
and I would never dream of poacharound in his seat at the Barrymore
Management, I'm quite happy toing. Nevertheless,ever since my Theater that night and murmured,report, was more than delighted at thereturn from the fabled casinos of "Tough preak, old guy," I barely manproposition and, if my notes are to be
Manitoba (where, by the by, the cur- aged a grim smile. Offtce gossip, it
trusted, used the phrase carte blancbe
rent rate of exchange now makes· for would appear, has spread far beyond(which means "white card," according
a truly thrilling while at the same time the oak-lined walls of this publication.
to my new friend; Jean-Claude).
truly harmless high stakes gameBy now I have been treated to cQm- Whatever you may have heard to thethere just migbt be something to this plete reconstructions of conference
contrary, at no time 'was anything said
Free Trade Agreement after all). I calls that never took place an:dabout my imminent 30th birthday andhave been confronted with a startling memos that never existed. The entire
certainly no remark was ever made toarray of rumors, each more fantastic 'story exudes such deplorable ageism
the effect that I might be losing touchthan the other and all turning on the and cynicism as well as an utter conwith the young people in particu~rbizarre notion that Out Week maga- .tempt for the readers that I shudder toand reality in general. The engagezine, in some desperate gambit to contemplate the sort of person frorn'ment of another advice .columnist, of
attract a specific demographic sector, whose warped imagination this ugli- . which I was kept fully apprised, isis handing my advice column over to ness could possibly emanate and I am
simply one phase of this process anda younger, more attractive writer. Far- determined to set the record straightbespeaks in no way of any sinisterfetched nonsense? I wholeheartedly
once and for all.
motives on anyone's part. I assure
agree. In fact, it's so implausible that
The fact of the matter is that longyou, if they want to get rid of me
they'll have to assassinate me.
Now that we've cleared up thisthorougWy unpleasant matter, I lookforward, as I'm sure you do, to theexciting new adventures this column
is about to undertake. Fascinating
guests are lining up already. For
example, I just got off the phone witha brilliant 19-year-old former runway
model who has aspirations of reporting on homophobia in the media.
Needless to say, for those of you who
may be somewhat disconcerted at theprospect of change (as who of us is
not from time to time?), I promise that
this enterprise will remain as accessible as ever.
-Bradley A. Ball
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I think Elizabeth Taylor owes us anapology. No, not for being Malcolm
Forbes' beard (although I'd love to hear
her address that hotbed of hypocrisy
some day), but for her I-swear-I-don'thave-AIDS-and-I'm-not-paranoid-andplease-believe-me
media circus lastweek.
Unlike other columnists who merely attacked the New York Post and otherpapers for asking Liz Taylor if she has
AIDS and then printing her denials, I
think the real responsibility for the front
page headlines lies with La Liz herself.
She should have simply responded tothe inquiring reporters with, "What doesit matter whether I have AIDS or not?". " How does it look when an advocate forpeople with AIDS a woman who is trying to dispel myths and break the horrific stigma associated with having thedisease sends out a statement of hysterical denial complete with her negative
test results? Can you then blame the Past
for feeding into it?
Meanwhile, there's the Daily News.
I'd love to spit in editor James Willse's
face. I certainly can't wait until this pieceof human filth and slime is out of a job.
(I pray every day for that strike by union
workers which will put him under.) The
moron wouldn't print that Forbes wasgay after ,he'd died, citing all of the same
flimsy reasons that every other editor
and columnist in town gave: It's aninfringement of privacy; it's stepping on
someone's grave; it's "sensational." Butthen last week, two days after Greta
Garbo passed away, the front page of
the Daily News blared: GARBO'S LASTDARK DAYS; BOOZE, BUTTS, HAZYNIGHTS FOR RECLUSIVE FILM GODDESS. (By the by, he somehow forgot tomention Garbo's lesbian affairs). Unlike
Forbes, Garbo asked the media to leave
her alone. All •we ever said was that-me for whatever I'm obviously planning
Forbes was gay. But I suppose "boozing" isn't as "private," horrible and dis- . to run for" Stoddard of Lambda Legal
Defense, both of whom were on thegusting as that.
do it that way andshow, refused !~Eat shit, Willse!
seem to have felt ~t they had to split
That said, we go on to the debacleon, the Cera/do show. It was reported .this whole thing into "Good Gay vs. Bad
Gay." Rivera, of course, helped this hat>"last week in Newsday that, after a taping
pen and liked it; it makes good televiof the show recently, as I was walking
sion.
Uncle Tom, so eager to alignoff the stage, I got into a fistfight with anaudience member who told me, "You're himself with the audience and withgonna die of AIDS!" The item in Rivera (these, of course, are respectablepeoplenot like that kook Signorile),
Newsday had me directly blaming
Geraldo Rivera for the event. This is not even said at one point, "Well, Geraldo,
as one lawyer to another ..." (Quite honentirely true and I'd like to clear it up.
estly, I don't know what Stoddard thinks
First off, I gave Newsday the wrong
it does for himself and the law profesquote. I made a mistake. During theshow, Rivera had asked all those in the sion to remind America that Rivera is alawyer too, but that's another story.)
audience who disagreed with me aboutFrankly, the audience hated me andmy philosophy of naming the names of
loved Uncles Tom and Jim. Now, here isa group of people (the audience) who .' .
have been told all of their lives that theyshould hate and despise homosexuals.
And, inside of 40 minutes, a talk-show
host and a group of people on a stage
are trying to tell them that they should
not hate and despise queers. Well, that's
pretty difficult. But, if you provide themwith "good gays" and then "bad gays," it .
affords them an easy out. They can
excuse the good gays for being freaks,
public figures who are gay to raise theirand they can direct all of their hatredhands. Almost everyone's hands went
up. He then jokingly said to me: ''You'd against the bad gays,.Then you have the host ask everybetter go out the back door." I told
Newsday that he'd said, "You better not one who disagrees with the bad gay toraise their hands. Now you're making it
go home alone."
Still, the implication of both state- part of the democratic process. Whatments is the same and I was trying to tell could be more politically correct?
Newsday that, though I do not blame Everyone raises their hands. Presto! It's
unanimous! Lynch the bastard!
Rivera or think that he did anything
Then have the host add some posiintentional, one has to be extra-speciallytive reinforcement by telling the bad gay:sensitive about what one says when
dealing with people who are the targets "You'd better go out the back door."of mass irrational hatred and who are Translation: "It's obviously been decided
that you are bad and therefore you, notthe victims of violence and verbal abuse
the others, are now a legitmate target forevery day.
You see, here I was on a stage with people to act out their homophobia withverbal abuse and/or violence."-some supporters and some detractors.
Then the bad gay walks off the
On most of these shows I've tried not to
let the audience see gay people fighting. stage and someone in the audience says,
I've tried not to actua11ydebate the 'issue "You're going to die of AIDS!"
That was it. I went into the audiand simply used the media's time to talkence and hit him.
about the closet in general and about
And tbat is another debate: Shouldsociety's homophobia. That's the beautyof all· the attention suddenly thrust on we use violence? Well...no. I mean, I'm
opposed to violence on principle. But
the community-we
can use it for oursometimes something goes off in yourown purposes and to advance ourhead and you think: Man, i am so fuckmovement. But reactionary Jim Revson(NewsdayJ and blathering Tom "vote for ing sick of this shit! T,

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received by OUtiveek and the complaints wehave heard about the various door polides ofsome of the clubs around town, we have decided to provide you with a handy clip-and-save,highly subjective guide to NYC fun after dark.
Monday-TWO choices
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movies, it is kind of like a transplanted Wah
Wah Hut. The psychedelic decor and dragqueen go-go dancers are easily enjoyed froma sofa-bringing new life to the term "couch
potato." Occasionally Larry Levan djs on themain floor, but the crowd is mixed and predominantly straight. The door policy is selective, though not a "scene" and the wait short.
Copa-The last Thursday ofthe month is Copa night.
.
Hosted by platform shoe,"queen Susanne Bartsch,
the club is filled with glitz,
glitter and disco madness.
This all sounds great if you

place to hang out (known for its out-of-town
crowd Saturdays).
Her Planet: The last Saturday of the monthat Mars (for women). Due to its space limitation(it only has two floors), it is very crowded. A
separate entrance is used for the party, and theonly policy seems based on gender (boys: bringlots of girls). Admission in $10.00 without invitation,
Center.
Sunday (International Gay Night Out):
Thesday-liz: ~Liz-Hattles: Only a few weeks old, it reminds
IS
manJaro-Tuesday
me of a young Pyramid (remember Straight to"Tracks Night" (named
Hell night?) Held at Chase Manhattan Bar andfor the gay club it used,_ ._Grill, this is promising to be a scene unto itself.
to be), which starts at
The night we went, Sister Dimension was
midnight and closes at 6
can get in-the door at the
kooky, happy-go-lucky sort of woman, singing
am. There is no door
Copa is truly a nightmare, Shirley Bassey, not something you see every
policy and it's a $5
where only the truly bizarre
day. No door policy, $5.00 cover, clleap drinks:
cover. Well worth stayand those with foreign
a must at /east once.
ing out extra'late for.
accents (affected or otherCave Canem: Girls go to get wet (in awise)are served flfSt. Often
Sydney: Dj Larrypool). Sandra Bernhard shows up here every•
Tee,lovelydrag",!"",,,
the doors close to prevent
once in a while, This is where club girls play on
queen/hostess Lahoma
overcrowding, so arriving
their nights off. Almost wholly women, No door
Van Zandt and leggy
before 11:30 may help you
policy (excepting gender/see Her'Planet), $5.00"Queen of Manhattan",chancesof getting in.
cover.
Ru Paul bring you Love
Wednesday's best bet
Friday: Sydney-Panty
Sydney: Chip Duckett's Mars N~ds
Machine at the Undergroun<i--music, dance
Girdles: We already told you this night is fun,Men-Drag, disco and dance on four floors andand the most hideously bizarre performers thisThe crowd is unbelievably diverse gay, lesa roof. All gay people are equa11ywelcome,and,bian, transsexual, Black, Latin, Asian, andside of Yoko Ono, All are welcomed equally on
admitted on a ftrst-<:ome,first-served basis.
young one person found it hard to believe I
a first corne, first served basis,
Sandra "I'm a lesbian, I'm not a lesbian"liz: I think that this is a
had already graduated from high school. A Bernhard's new fihn, Without You I'm Nothing
Wednesdaygreat night to stay home, and rest before theselective door scene may require a wait but
is set to premiere May 2nd as a benefit foreventually everyone gets in.
weekend. But if you're driven out the door by
ArnFAR.After appearing and then disappearing
some unnamed desire, (or one yet unfulfilled),
liz: MICHAELTODD ROOM AT PAIlADI- at last Sunday's My ComradeiSfster! benefit at
UM: Formerly held at Carmelita's (now closed
your best bet is probably a bar.
Wetlands, Sandra believes that this benefit
Thursday-Liz:
Boy Bar-for the dragdue to safety [as in the lack of itD, Boy + shows her support of the gay and lesbian comshows, the drinks and the company. You don't
Boy/Girl + Girl is now held here, Girls corne
munity. The premiere is to be followed by ahave to conunit yourself to staying out all night
very early (we were there at 11:00 last time, anddinner and a party with a North African themeat that moment it was predominantly women;
long here. No door policy, except that it is gay,at Eric Goode's Time Cafe. We are told to$5.
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they tend to leave early, too)-there is no door
eipect "G.G.s serving in roles usually reserved
Quick!-Hot sweaty boys (and more girls. policy (except being gay), and it's a $5.00 cover. for men and vice versa." I think this means weeach week-all
asking for Toni Senecal).
(Note: See "Letters" section for a different pershould expect dyke and gay drag, but call for
Thursday night's promoter Chip Duckett says
spective.)
reservations and clarificationS,
his official
door policy is "all gay men afld gay
Saturday: Sydney: ROXY-This is the door,
liz: In addition, the premiere of Longtime
women are welcome. Others are admitted atscene to end all door scenes. You've read about
Companion, a fIlm about AIDS, will be held as
the discretion of the doorperson(s)." It's neveri~ it's fun, so the best advice is to get there early a benefit for the Hetrick-Martin Institute on May
boring but sometimes messy. After 3 am, look(around 11:30) and avoid the rush.
3rd. The Institute, while housing Harvey Milkout for food fights.
Sound Factory: Thank God for Sound Fac- fUgh Schoo~ has a number of other free protory! If there is a wait, you stand in line and are
Sydney: The undiscovered gem of thisgrams for gay and lesbian youth. The screening
year is Chauncy and .Patrick's Variety Theadmitted on a ftrst-<:ome,first-served basis, I just
will be followed by a party at Quick! For inforatre orithe third floor of Mars. Showing thewish it were cheaper.
mation call the Institute, Remember, you wereof .l:ite-60s and early-70s sexploitation
liz: BoyB:lf-flo show tonight, but a fme,best
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by Peter Bowenn 1975, Pier Paolo Pasolini
picked up a 17-year-old boy.
Later that day, his trick turnedsour when the boy turned on theadvances" on the poor youth. The left
wing implied that his murder wasnothing less than a carefully orchestrated assaSsination by reactionary forcesthat found his radical politics andhomosexuality too disturbing to be leftalive. In the end, the unfmished controversy simply died away. His work,on the other hand, as demonstrated by
the major retrospective being hosted
by MOMA this month, lives on. Not
only is his entire corpus resurrected,
but it is revived with beautifully
restored prints and with new Subtitles

censored the films and arrested the
director. At that time, the films' blasphemy and direct political commentary, along with their graphic
depictions of sex and violence, were
too controversial for the Italian public.
What remains .of this controversy,
however, is less the directness bywhich ,Pasolini addressed these issues
as the complicated, and often confusing, ways in which he, wove together
his eclectic Marxism with religious
allusions, or imagined sexuality as aperverse and metaphysical mystery.

•.SHINING A LIGHT ON ENIGMATIC SUBJECTS
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famous director/poet,
bludgeoning
him to· death, and then running him
over with his own Alfa Romeo. Rightwing Italian newspapers subtly acquitted the boy with the shocking news
.that Pasolini had made "homosexual

provided by the eloquent Italian trans- .
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Weaver.
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His own controversy then: to be
simultaneously blunt and enigmatic.
Of Sa/o, or tbe 120 days of Sodom(975), perhaps his most scandal-ridden and complicated fUm,which inaugurates a cinema of cruelty where~

beautiful young boys and girls arerounded up to be sodomized, tortured
and then executed, Pasolini comments:"Sa/a is a...medieval mystery play, aholy performance-andthus enigmatic. And so it must not be understood.
It would be terrible if it was understood."
When Pasolini wanted
to, he could be all too wellunderStood. Beginning his
artistic career at 19 as a
poet,
Pasolinisoon
emerged, according
toAlberto Moravia, as the"greatest Italian poet of the .
second half of the 20th
century." Whether waxing
elegantly on the impoverished beauty of the proletariat, or focusing his gazeon the specific beauty ofsome scruffy Italian boy,
Pasolini quickly made ".
waves by speaking out
against the hypocrisies ofpost-fascist Italy. His 1958
poem, To a Pope, written
on the occasion of Pope
Pius XII's death, scandalously
attackedthechurch's failure to address
the pressing problems ofpoverty and homelessness.
And when he translated his
critique
to
film
in

against its own too-painful historicalcontext. In The Gospel According toMatthew (1964), early Christian teaching turns against its inheritance toattack the oppressive modern collusionof church and state. And the power ofsex, or rather the power of imagining
sexual possibilities, informs Pasolini's

erwise ordinary, family. The son,
Pietro, with whom the stranger sharesa room, sudden1y falls in love withhim and the stranger' without ceremony climbs into his bed. When thestranger disappears, each character fills
their loss with madness (catatonic traces,
nymphomania, hysterical breakdowns).
What was subtly
allegorical in Teorema,turns brutal in films like
Sa/O (975) and Pig Pen
09(9). A film about thepleasures and perils ofappetite, Pig Pen is actually two films interwoven
together: one, a dusty,
film of can... nearly-silent.
nibalism set in someunspecified
historic
desert; the other, aquirky corporate drama
between two German
industrialists. In the business half, the capitalistS
hide their individual
secretS (one has a Nazi
past, the other a son
who fucks pigs) by a;business merger. The
son, on the other hand,. is fmally eaten alive by
the pigs he loves.
Hard to pin down,sometimes hard to swallow or even watch,
Accattone(1961), a
Pasolini's films neverthescathing account of the limless form a moving testi••
ited possibilities available'mony to a piercing,Mamma
to a ruffian,political
vision thatRoma 09(2), a prostitute's
relentlessly,strains to seetale, or La Ricotta 09(2), a'beyond itself. At theirparody of religion andworst, they rehearse thefood, the state was quick totiredvisualcliches
get the point and had him(empty sweeping shots,arrested in 1962 for insultexcruciating close ups)ing the church.
.of European art films. At
their best, however,What was clearly polit- ALMMAKER PIER PAOLO PASOUNI•
they transform the cruical in Pasolini's earli~r
Hitwould be terrible if it were understood".films became more complicial terms of our identity
cated and ambitious in his later work. retelling of TbeArabian Nigbts (1974).
(sexual desire, political economy, reliEither directly or by allegory, Pasolini
In his most powerful and poetic
gion inheritance)
into questiOns,
imagined much of his later work films, Pasolini transforms these reli- - , which, impossible to avoid asking, arethrough the lens of the crucial western gious and mythical stories into hauntequally impossible to compose. Whilenarrativesof Greek myths and ing questions and bitter political sqtires.
Pasoliiti was' publicly even politiChristianity. In Oedipus Rex (1967), the In Teorema 09(8), adapted from his
cally- out, sex in his films creates
central story of Freudian psychoanalysis own novel, a magnificent stranger
only a mystery; which, as he would
becomes a tale of 'sexual desire taking (Terrence Stamp) mysteriously transsay, "would be terrible if it wasrecourse in amnesia as a defense
understood." Tforms the loves of an affluent, but oth•-

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They're all tbe same, aI/ tbe sluts andtbesalnts
Cber Cbez Ie Femme Dr. BuzZ3rd'sOriginal Savannah Bandhe Beloved, Happiness(Atlantic) The U.K.-based
duo of Jon Marsh and Steve
Waddington have successfully

delivered a debut sporting a potpourriof sounds that tastefully mock elements of alternative, pop, house andDOR (dance-oriented rock) musics.
Having surfaced intermittently overthe last few years on u.K. indie labels(most notably with the brilliant
Forever Dancin[j), Happiness marks
the act's major label debut and firstfull-length album. Produced with
Martyn Phillips and Paul Staveley
O'Duffy, the wait proves well worth it.
The leadoff single and video, He//o, isa rock-n-funk "saints and sinners" rollcall of sorts that sets the album up
nicely. Once inside the world of The
Beloved, the listener is taken on an
uplifting and inspired trip higWighted
by the house/pop of Your Love Takes

Me Higber, the Blue Nile-ish Don't
You Worry, the brilliant undergroundclub staple Tbe Sun Rising and thesoul-inflected
Wake Up Soon. The
Beloved present themselves as lessself-conscious
brethrento theDepeche Mode or New Order-types,
willing to give it with a bit of sugar or
spice. A notable debut that's as easily
listenable as it is danceable.

The Sundays, reading, writing
and aritbmettc (DGC/Geffen)
They've been likened to theCocteau Twins, The Smiths, The
Sugarcubes etc, etc. Not bad company
to be linked to; but The Sundays is verymuch its own outfit. VocaI&lsongwriter
Harriet Wheeler, songwriter/guitarist'.
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Patch and bassist Paul Brindley comprise the U.K.-based foursOme. With
reading, writing and arltbmettc, as thetitle suggests, simplicity is the key.
Harriet's occasionally incomprehensible
voice weaves through the intricate andinfectious pop melodies like a calmbreeze, while the tight instrumental unit
supplies stellar support. Each of the ten
mini-narratives smile with a distinctive
personality and languish in their own
poetic innocence. All of the selections
on reading, writing and aritbmetic
shine. Ushered in by the unassuming
yet stirring single Here's W'b~ 1be Story
Ends, be sure and check out Can't Be
Sure, I Won, A Certain Someone andpersonal fave You'n? Not tbe Only One I
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Performance•••byR. Sugden

tanding alone on stage withchocolate "shit" smeared
over her nearly naked
body, among the set pieces of an oldbed, a rocking chair, a Formica
kitchen table filled with cakes andcandies, Karen Finley is calling forth
all the horror that is life. She is ashaman for the everyday pain of
abuse and torture that leaves somany sick, neurotic, scared .

In her new work presented at the
Kitchen, We Keep Our Victims Ready,Finley has tried to make explicit the
implicit message of all her previous
performances: intimate violence is anexpression of the violence inherent inour political system. The equation
goes something like this: an apathetic
culture that not only allows but promotes poverty and sickness in the lessfortunate is a culture that fosters rape,abuse and torture.
Karen Finley has spent most of
her time as a performance artist
invoking spirits of the suffering. As
these demons tear through her, she
screams, chants with the voice andcadence of a pentecostal speaking intongues. She is the alcoholic woman
who has decided she is to incarnate a"living hell." She is the dick-brain
male so smug he brags of having

fucked "dog pussy." The stuff of allthat woefully hurts, she is the body ofthe victim.
What Finley makes clear is thatpower resides with the straight malein a sexist society and this violent
abuse of that power is manifest not
only in the societal mistreatment ofothers through a class system, butalso through gender and sexual orien·
tation. Her characters are brave intheir honesty, and sometimes fightback. But the strongest example ofthis revolt is Finley herself.
As a result of the repressive
forces in a sexist society, women's
bodies are treated as commodities forthe male. Fiil1ey, as a victim, refuses
to be cowed by this and it is precisely
such resistance that sends the powersthat, '>e into a retaliatory frenzy over
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Books••.'•by Sarah Schulman•

Dear Homocore,. My name is Bryan, I'm 16from
Indiana and in a band called
Radiation Sickness. I have a problem .
Me and the members of my band aregay but have an agreement not to get
involved to avoid emotional problems
within tbe band. I am really close to thedrummer Mike but now I want to be
more tban friends.
Or one punk girl named Jill thehen I was a little dyketteback in the days when
there still was a women's
movement, 99 percent of ,gay and lesbian writing was underground and radical simply by existing. Now that someof us are allowed to publish in the corporate world, distinctions are getting witch writing in with the idea to orgadrawn between what kind of gay lan- nize Skate Back 1be Night, a skateboard
guage is acceptable enough for Walden anti-rape event. Homocore number
Books and what kind is going to stay three includes corrncs, fiction, a review :underground. Not surprisingly, angry of Diamanda Galas' Litanies of Satan
language, revolutionary politics, stigma- and great classifieds. They also protized sex and anything in drag do not duced a special volume Homocore Bad
make it through the chain store doors. Poetry Issue #5 V2 ($2) which is quite
As a result the new queer generation
simply indescribable. .
has begun publishing their worqs in
The other extreme of the spectrum
G-dyzines, cheap xeroxed handout pub- is Faggot, a publication of Queer Riot
lications that are popping up all around
Press (2336 Market St #133, San
the country. Modeled on Punk fanzines Francisco, CA 94114; $1). Faggot is one ,in lay-out and tone, Gayzines are sheet of paper folded into quarters feaamong the few unpackaged, uncenturing sober sketches of the humansored published expressions of gay life body accompaniedby poetic pleas
now available.
against gay assimilation.
'
Some like Bitcb (the newsprint
From the northern states we get
women in heavy metal and punk zine), Holy Tit Clamps (P.O. Box 3054,
My OJmrade and Pansy Beat (the East Minneapolis, MN 55403). Issue number
Village versions), and Otber Countries four includes poetry, comics, letters(glossy published by Black gay men) from prisoners,
an impressionistic
are available at gay bookstores in New review of a B-52s concert and a series
York. Here is a brief look at some zines of lovely simple pencil sketches offrom out of state if you're interested
naked men by Andy Baird with subtle·
please mail order, but no checks (tQis is poetic descriptions of their lives. Earlier
the underground, remember?).
issues 'include a report on the Radical .
One of the most established is Faeries Convestion and a drag shopHomocore (c/o World Pmyer Systems, ping spree at Saks.
P.O. Box 77731, San Francisco, CA,If you're really interested, here's a '94107; $1). Their motto is "Fuck Sexual resource list of other zines, most costing
Conformity." Issue number five fea- less than OutWeek
tures an editorial "Drugs are OK" andthe most amazing letters to the editor My Eye (8 South Oldfield Part, Bathcolumn I have ever seen. Here's a BA2 3PY, England; $1)
sample:.
Article on the lack of understanding

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A PAGE FROM HOLY TIT CLAMPS
Andy Baird's pencil drawing
hetero men have of women's genitals; ,Interview with a man who hates separatists. Piece on the history of garlic.
Mind Theatre (409 Parkside .Drive,
Apt. 3, Toronto, Ontario M6R2Z7
Canada;$2) .
Cyber-punk story with hot cute guys
and homoerotic thenies,
GenderExpressipl1s(Box 2434',
Woburn, MA 01888; $5.95)
Articles on femininity, drag, gender andstatus.
Specially of interest to transsexuals,
including information on hassles frommedical fascists, medical procedures,
resource guide and friendship ads.
Rock Against Sexism (464 Harrison
Ave, Boston, MA 02118;$1) Special
Anti-Censorship issue; Interview with
Billy Bragg; Women in Heavy Metal.
Coming On (Box 6705 Stn A, Toronto
Ontario M5W 1X5 Canada; $3) Queer .
Anarchist Network; Gay, punk, vegetarian, faerie and rude.
Taste of latex (Box 4601222 Dept HC,,San Francisco, CA 94146-0122; $1)"Female edited and published" mag formen and women of all sexualiti~s;
Direct revolt against the dull, unreal
and unsatisfying sexually oriented magazines on the market. 'Radioactive (Box 1108, Kenosha, WI
53141; 50 cents)
S&M letter to Gloria. 's•• BAVZon pog.65

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Books••••.by Kerry Friedf1lm script, Great Moments in Avtatlon.
Kerry Fried: Is it true that Oranges
Are Not the Only Frnlt is the result of a job
Interview? That the publisher of Pandora
Press was so taken by your account of
your life that she suggested that you write
it as a novel-which
you then did In six
weeks?
Jeanette Wintcrson: Yes, that's true.
There was more work to be done after

eanette Wlnterson was In New
York recently for the publication of her novel Sexing the
Cheny, most of which is set In London In
the late 17th century, though some mayor
may not take place in "thethoughtful universe, the inner
imaginative
life where wekeep our secrets." Winterson
won Britain's
WhitbreadAward for best first fiction In
1985 for the semi-autobiographical Oranges Are Not the
Only Fruit. She was 25.
Oranges is the first-person
account
of a young girl.(whom Wlnterson dares toname Jeanette) brought up by
an evangelicalfamily (themother fanaticallyso) inLancashire. Raised for successIn the pulpit, the heroine discovers that the world doesn't
always run along simple
church-stipulatedlines; thattelling the truth is not neces-.
sarily the right thing to do;
and that her personal salvation is not the sort that pleases church or society. The
people she loves, "quite byaccident," are the wrong sort:"Right sort of people in every
respect
exceptthis one;romantic love for another·
woman was a sin."
In America, Winterson
followed Oranges with Tbe
Passion (she has withdrawn asecond novel, Boating for
Beginners,
as "not good,enough"), the fantastic tale ofHenri, Napoleon Bonaparte's
chicken server, and Villanelle,
DAMES AND BOATS AND PLANESa Venetian gondolier's daughAuthor Jeanette Winterson
ter who has webbed feet(previouslyanall-malethat, but certainly the main body of theattribute), works as a croupier, picks pockbook was written In that time. It was writets, cross-dresses and literally loses herten, I suppose, in a frenzy of optimism. I
heart to a beautiful woman.
really needed to know whetPer or' not I
I had the opportunity to ask Jeanette
could do it and I couldn't hang around.
Wmterson about all three novels as well as
KF: Had you done any writing
the television version of Oranges and her
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JW: Oh, yes, I'd written many sermons, but that's all. I don't think you cancount the work you do at university. And
I've kept a very detailed, closely written
diary since I was 15. That'll go In the skip
before I die.
KF: I don't know. You'll have people
searching through it every day in thatcase.

JW: I'll get rid of it! I don't believe In
archival material. It's always
struck me as very strange
that-notso much with diaries
but with first drafts and things
like that-the stuff that a writer
thought not fit to publish, otherpeople think fit to spend theirwhole lives pouring over.
.
KF: How did your family
react to the publicationof abook In which, as you wrote,"The devil had attacked me at
my weakest point: my inability
to realize the limitations of myown sex"?
JW: Not well. Not so muchbecause of any portrayal ofthemselves that they found In it,
but because they felt that it wasa betrayal against God, and God
is the most importan~ thing intheir lives. And I understood that.
And I think one of the strengthsof Oranges is its compassion.
towards the other people. It's notjust a herolne-<>rientatedbook. It'smuch wider than that. I know
why they feel the way they do,
and although I think it's deeply
unsound, it's not a mystery to me.
KF: Although the church islampooned
and provincial
expectations-trying
to makeoneself as ordinary as possible are found wanting, you're
sympathetic to the individuals
and surprisingly so to the overpowering mother.
JW: I hope so. If novelists
are in any sense supposed to
explain things about other pe0ple, other possibilities, they must firstunderstand those people and those possibilities. If you're always antagonistic, if
you're always hurt or bitter-andthatstory could
have been
hurt andbitter-then
you're going to have a very
narrow viewpoint, which is then again

I,middle classes somehow have the utter
going to have a very restricted audience.
monopoly on these things that they've
And I like to think of my audience as thenever experienced.
whole world.
.
KF: Did you like writing the script?
KF: The three-part BBC adaptation is}W: No, I hated it! Only towards thedue to be broadcast here in the late fall.
end, when I suddenly got a sense of triYou wrote the script.
JW: That's how it was offered to umph and excitement did I feel it had
been worth it. I think television is a ruthme-that I should be there and do theless medium. It doesn't offer you the subwhole thing. I'm very close to that booktleties of prose. But, I must admit, either
and I'm sure that I wouldn't have let anyI'm a masochist or I got something out of
one else do it, for many reasons, not justit, because I'm doing another screenplay,
the most obvious one-that people thinkso we'll see. It's called Great Moments init's autobiographical.
Aviation. The title comes because I'm
KF: How autobiographical is it?
JW: Now, if I were to tell you, you leaming to fly. I've ,been obsessed withwould be the ftrst person in ftve years, so flying for about a year. I don't know how
I'm not going' to! The truth is that I can't . these things lodge in the head. But it
seemed such a 20th century metaphor,really remember any more. And the othersuch a modem Image, and yet it's rooted
truth is that, in many ways', Sexing thein very ancient ideas, of wings andCherry and Tbe Passton are just as autobiweightlessness and angels, so it's perfectographical, but the mter is. denser and thelens has been screwed on at a different angle. So it's not as obvious
to say exactly what I did. What I
did and what I felt and who I am
runs through all of these books
very vividiy-and it's certainly truethat I was brought
up byPentecostal evangelists and taught
to preach the word, at which I wasvery successful and effective, andheal the sick and perform othermiracles. Quite where that energy
comes from I don't know. And if•
within each human being, there isfor me. Essentially it's about a Blacksuch a source of creative energy that one
woman who leaves the Caribbean in the
can rejumble the molecules of a diseased
50s. She believes that she'II be able tolimb, then it's a great pity we're not using
come to Britain and train as a pilot, which
it arid that the only way we can tap it is is so far-fetched that you don't know
through divine hysteria.
whether to laugh or cry. In the course of
KF: Are you pleased with the TV the journey and in her interaction withversion?
other people, she r€alizes that this will not
JW: Yes, I am. It's very strong. And be the case, but the circumstances cannot
in Britain it certainly did a lot of good. At be larger than her spirit. So, it's anotherleast it challenged the three most cherpiece of optimism,.
ished things that the British public hold
KF: Are you writing another novel?
dear-the sanctity of the family, the norJW: No, I'm having a space, I want tomality of heterosexuality and the idea of get out of that little goldfish bowl that isthe church being about love and not
literary London. There's a lot of breastabout power. It was such good television
beating, saying there is no Mafta. Rubbish.
that people sat there meekly in their sit- ' And in Britain, literature is still overting rooms week after week and took this whelmingly a middle-class and leisurebattering. And all the reviews were
pursuit. So you get a certain uniformity of
extremely positive. It was a landslide.
vision, which is very depressing. Breaking
Though I'm sorry to say that the only two
people's reading habits is like trying .toplaces in England where it was in any
teach your grandma to ski.
way reviled or castigated were two very
KF: Would you say that your work isright-on left-wing rags. There's nothing
different from most books being publike bashing your own. If you bash yourlished?
own, it proves that you're really right-on.
JW: Yes it is. I've never wanted to be
I was very cross. Tbe Daily Telegraph in a token woman, but I am one and I'm
raptures and New Statesman and SOCiety often used as one. So I spend a lot-of mysaying, "Crap, crap, crap. It's not Northem
energy ftghting against the labels and theenough; it's not lesbian enough, it's notstereotypes that people want to put on
working-class enuugh." As though theme. It seems that the more you do, themore you put in your books, the more

you refuse to have your vision confined~
the more other people will come along
and try and do it for you,
KF: But when you were introduced
at the Columbia reading, you were cited
as a unique writer with an idiosyncratic
viewpoint. Is your viewpoint that idiosyncratic?
JW: Yes, I think it is, because of therather odd combination of circumstancesthat have produced me. I think the working-c1ass thing is very important because it
really' does matter and it does cause. you
to look at life quite differently. It's no accident that all the characters in my books
are outsiders, exiles in some way. They're
not the· privileged and the established.
They're people for whom life will always
be a challenge at best, and probably a
struggle. They make no assumptions
about the world. And, too, I had a very
intense Bible upbringing,
where
there were really no other books,
but, rather, in a 19th century way, I
know this particular book inside out.
There isn't often that intensity, coupled with that sort of deprivation.
And then suddenly ftnding yourself
exposed to Oxford and all thatmeans and then incorporating that
infonnation. I don't think it's possible
ever to really explain how the imagination works or what triggers it, but
in a most elementary way I can look•at these three things and say that,taken together, they're not the usual route,
KF: Methuen published your second
novel, Boating for Beginners, but yourthird, Tbe Passion, is the real taking off,particularly in terms of narration and setting.
JW: Having recognized that Boating
for Beginners
was not the way
fotward-for me-I fired my agent, broke
my contract and thought, well, if I'm notgood enough, I'm not going to do this,because I don't want to' add any morewasted words to the pile of wasted words
already suffocating people. So I took ten
months or so where I didn't write anything and I accepted that I might not write
again. And then I suppose at the end ofthat period I realized that certain things
had been buzzing around in my brain. I
wanted to write about love and I wanted
to write about people's need to findheroes to worship, which seems to go so
far back in our culture and our identity.
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And I also wanted to look at what happens to young men in militaristic societies,
I've been engaged in a lot of debates
about 'men and whether or not they are all
violent and wretched and how much ofthis is conditioning. So, how can you write
about this without being didactic and.
polemic? And in a way which is an explo- ",It's a plea for the imagination. I want people to live
up to themselves and not
to be bowed down by,this
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ration rather than a set of answers"
because I'm not sure whether I have anyanswers. I tend just to have more ques~
tions. And the Napoleonic period has
always fascinated me. So, it was an experiment. I just set off.
KF: What about the' two motifs: "I'mtelling you stories. Trust me"; and "Youplay, you win, you play, you lose"?
JW: They had a reference to what I
was doing at that time. It was for me anenormously risky business, especi;llly if I
was going to use it as my raft to launch
myself again Into the literary world. And,
too, it was about love. I've never beenable to understand why, though I've often
found it In myself, that people,
no matter•
how badly they're hurt, will just keep comIng back and trying again, Particularly In
the realm of the heart. And it doesn't reallyseem to matter, winning and losing doesn't
matter. It's really the movement that matters. I think being static damages people
probably more than anything else, andjourneys, however tumultuous, however
badly planned, are always preferable toletting the spirit atrophy. And also, I'dbeen having a very difficult love affair at
the time, which I decided I would write
out, which is the story of Villanelle and thewoman who has no name. As I've said toyou before, there are things in the books
that are autobiographical and that's certainly it. It's just rather better disguised.
KF: You link the two kinds of heart•
lessness, military men who have no heart,and Villanelle who loses her heart andsomehow has to get it back, military heroism as opposed to personal bravery.
JW: Yes, I wanted to look at theways In which men and women express
their strength and their courage and theirneed to hero-worship. With women it's
often in a very personal sphere, heterosexual or otherwise, "Tbe man tbey love."
And with men, it's often something In the.
world, something outside themselves. I
think most men are homoerotic. I thinkthey're really keen on other men and it's
all right as long as they're distant rolemodels.
•KF: In the advance reviews here for
Sexing tbe Cberry and in several British
ones, critics have carped about a certain"strident feminist text" which vitiates thebook.. They seem to have confused the
Dog-Woman with the author.
JW: I think men have a real problem
reading books which are not by othermen, because the literary tradition has
been so overwhelmingly male for centuries. There's a' particular style it's comfortable, it's authority, it's what we know.
.And since women have been writing very
specifically out of their own voice, theirown experience, it's a challenge to that.
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It's perfectly all right, and It has been
down the centuries, for women to be routinely maimed, maligned, abused, murdered, dumped, neglected, forgotten.
That's normal life. If you poke at all atmen, then you're anti-men. I stlll get theseridiculous little sniping shots from men
who can't read properly.
KF: No one really discussed the factthat you have these very sympathetic maleprotagonists.
JW: No. And another real misreadingof Sexing tbe Cberry which amuses meenormously is that endlessly people saythat the 11 princesses
murder theirunwanted husbands. In fact, only four ofthem do---and one of those four is asked
to do so by her husband. That's not manhating. I should think that's pretty straightodds. So if ever there was an illustratioJ;lof
one of the book's themes that people
make things up, this is It.
KF: At your reading you asserted thatwhat you had to say about time In Sextng
tbe Cbeny was really the center of thebook.
JW: I'm very struck by the way peo-

I sti II get theserid icui 0 us Iitt- Ie
sniping shots frommen who can't
read properly...
pie deal with the tWo different kinds oftime they find In theidives. It's so easy tobe slavish to the outer rhythm and forgetthat something very different is going on
inside. It's a plea for the imagination. I
want people to live up to themselves andnot to be bowed down by this toy townthat we've built, because that's all it Is.
And I think the spirit, which for me is theimagination, is far more' triumphant thanany of this stuff. It all begins In the mind,
doesn't It? These huge buildings, everything that anyone has achieved, everything that people have done, that they
can say is solid, this is my money, it all
begins as an idea somewhere. So it seems
to me that the immaterial reality is in
every sense the basis of the material reality, and not the other way around.
KF: But in Sexing tbe Cberry though
Jordan can free himself from the constraints of gender, literally voyage; ormake fantastic journeys that mayor may
not exist, he never seems to get what hewants.

JW: No. I think that's because I wan~
ed to take, a little further than I had In!be Passion, the Idea of looking for somebody else In order to complete yourself. II).
Sexing tbe Cberry, I wanted perhaps toshow how impossible it is to have a meanIngful relationship with anybody else until
you've started to have one with yourself.
And that's why there is confusion as towhether Fortunata actually exists orwhether she's a figment of Jordan's imagination. The Dog-Woman, although sheknows that she is hideous, huge and ugly,
and perhaps not fit for love, she also recognizes that In many ways that problem
belongs to the other person-who
can't
see through the facade.
KF: But what about when she sees
the young boy she was In love with walking with a be;lutiful woman?
JW: That pain Is always present. I
think no matter how clear-eyed you are,you will not be free from everyday pain. It
affects all of us. But it's whether or not
you can move through that pain to something positive.
'
KF: Do you really believe that you
can do that through imagination?
JW: Yes, I do. It may be a strange
reworking of something that mattered verymuch to me when I was little and something which I now know to be utterly
wrong, which is if you have nothing andyou are nothing, you can get somewhere
through education. That'll be your way
out. Very much a working-class dream. I
know that's not true. But for me, what I do
believe to be true is that the power "f themind, the possibilities of free thinking,which most people /lever experiencethroughout their lives, really do make anenormous difference. Perhaps It's utter Idealism, but It's certainly worked In my life.
KF: What do you think you'll do after
Great Moments In Avlatlori!

JW: I never know what's beyond.
One of the odd things about this job iswhat you're looking for is always just dlsappearing, through a door noticed In thewall or over the hill. You never quite catch
It. I think everything I've done, although
I'm pleased with It, is a different kind of
failure, because there'S always the bookthat wasn't written. language is more powerful, more elusive, has more to say than
any writer has ever really been able tocatch. That's another one of the journeys
that keep you going. I think where I go
next is as much a mystery to me probably
as it is to you. I know there's somethingout there because I can feel it brewing, but
I don't know what It is, which makes me
feel both nervous and excited-ratherIn
the way that I did, but without the depression, before I wrote !be Passion....

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women's rights, abortion and homosexuality.
.
Finley is possessed to strip off
her clothes and use her body as anin'strument of self-empowerment.
And, as language is all that the victim
has left to express non-self-destructive
anger, Finley stomps around the stage
using the vulgar language of hernightmarish oppressors.
Feeling in control of her bodyallows Finley to invoke gallows
humor. After a rant on how she isnothing as a woman without "bigtits," she pauses to drop two large
mounds of Jello into the cups ofcorset and stomp around, her gelatinous breasts bouncing. Then sheshows us something else "funny," thecheeks of her ass.
This reappropriation of the body
is a powerful attraction in Finley's
performance. The audience gets off
on her virtuoso display of power andanger. She often prefers to perform inclubs where her battle is intensified
by an audience who eggs her on withyells like teenagers at a rock concert.
But this spectacle (and Finley's own
attempts to expand her work withdisco remixes of her monologues) canleave her in a precarious position, not
as a shaman but as an entertainer.
Finley's most important achievement, though, is one of catharsis.
Most of the people coming to see'Finley perform know this on somelevel, so the presentation of this aspersuasive information-hey, let's dosomething about this is not the pur-·pose. The performances are meditations on the mundane horrors that,out of self-preservation, we push into
the back of our minds.
Ending with Tbe Black Sbeep
poem she used in her previous work,
Tbe Tbeory of Total Blame, sheanchors Victims with redemptive
hope. Echoing the haunting desires of
the 60s, she wants her audience of"black sheep folk" to "be aFOund others like ourselves-ISo it doesn't hurt·
so much," Equally as raw as the pain
she voices is her unrefined hope ofuniversal love. "I feel you pain. I
want to relieve you of your suffering.!Oh, I wish I cou1.drelieve you ofyour death." ...

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Lana's World (p.O. Box 3633, Eugene,
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Teen Punks in Heat (P.O. Box 37,
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in the district, a victory in the primaryelection has historically guaranteed avictory in the gel1eral election thefollowing November. .
Rygor's self-managed campaign
has spent about $10,000 so far, and thecandidate is currently fundraisingto
overcome his campaign's nearly empty
coffers. Glick, in contraSt, says she has
accumulated
a small war chest,reporting $30,000 in contributions so.
far. She plans to ~nnounce theappointment of her campaign manager
next month.
The overwhelmingly Democratic
assembly district 61 has a large lesbian
and gay population, and includes
Greenwich. Village, Battery Park City,
SoHo, NoHo,'Tribeca, Little Italy, partsof Chinatown and the, East Village
west of First Avenue. Both candidates
are long-time residents of the West
Vtllage....

SEAT from page 18!--.:....~-------------tl

New York State Department of
Taxationand, Finance,
Rygor
resigned his position in February tocampaign for an office that he has
run for twice before: in 1978, when
he received 21 percent of the vote,and in an abortive attempt ten years
later. He has reportedly
beenendorsed by former city Comptroller
Harrison J. Goldin, who made an
unsuccessful bid for mayor last year.
Rygor is being backed by the littleknown,
25-member
Frontier
Democratic Club, formed in 1988.
Although Passanante consideredhimself a friend to the gay
community,
bothcandidates
attributed their bids for his seat inpart to what they called his lack ofleadership on gay issues in recent
years. Both Rygor and Glick arestaunchly s.upportive of abortion
rights, and said they were anxious toaddress an anti-bias bill inclusive ofgay men and lesbians that the statehouse has wrangled over fQr years.
It is currently stalled in a Republicancontrolled senate committee.
Accordingto Passanante's
office, the assemblyman will notannounce his own endorsement in
the race until just before theSeptember 11 primary election.
Because Democratic
registeredvoters outnumber Republicans 2-to-1

indicated a widely held belief that I was
gay despite the fact that I had never
told her I am gay, and have neverpublicized my sexuaI orientation.". A staff attorney with Gay andLesbian Advocates and Defenders,which is handling Buckley's case,.
declined to comment on strategy forthe case, which is currently before theMassachusetts Commission Against
Discrimination. Due to staff shortages,
caused by the current fiscal crisis in
Massachusetts, complaints filed withMCAD on average take more than ayear to reach a hearing, according to
Judith Kelley Wright, executive
assistant
to
the
MCAD
commissioners.
At the same time, Wright stressed
that
MeAD seeks
settlement, throughout
theprocess.
of"investigating
the complaint, andnoted that the complainant's l~wyer
may at any time seek to remove thecase from MCAD to take it before astate court.
Although MCAD is unable todetermine precisely the number ofcomplaints that have been filed
under the state's gay and lesbiananti-discrimination statute, at least
one other. complaint filed under thelaw has been publicly recorded.'"-filed from Boston•

AXED from page 19

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ONGOING~DVANCETOWER PRESS Pride Guide fOdeadline
was April 20 for calendar of June
events listings; 966-7722 (these basic
listings are provided free)
NYS LESBIAN AND GAY LOBBY April 29
March on Albany For Your Rights todemand the passage of the bills-related
crime bill, a civil rights bill, increased
funding for AIDS, domestic partnershiplegislation; bus (tix $15 RT) leave from 13
St &. 7th Ave at 6:30 am; info 212/9661700 (GlAAD), 212/807-6761 (NYC GM
Anti-Violence Project) (tix on sale NOW)GAY &. 'LESBIAN ALLIANCE AGAINSTDEFAMATION April 29 First Annual
GLAAD Media Awards, "recognizing
the best and worst in print and broadcast"; cocktails, dinner, speakers; at
the Tower Suite, lime &. Life Bldg; 6:30
pm; $125-$500; 966-1100 (rsvp deadline
was APRI L 16)
CYCLE FOR LIFE 6-Day Ride from Ann
Arbor to NYC takes off May I, afundraiser for NYC's PWA Coalition andother groups; to ride or sponsor riders,call Gary 313/994-4285
GAY MEN'S HEALTH CRISIS May 20
AIDS Walk New Yort, over 12,000 havealreadv signed up for the IO-kilometer
fundraising walkathon, starting andending at Lincoln Center, B'waV &. 65 St;
sign-in 9 am, opening ceremonv 9:30
am, walk begins 10 am; sponsors andwalkers call 807-6310.
THE CENTER June 18 Ganten Party is
now accepting sponsors ($100-$1000)
and advertisments
for the Journal($I5Q-$8000);Paul Hepworth, 620-~10liVELY ARTSBROADWAY CARES sees Phantom of
the Opera, a benefit for the AIDS
resource network for PWAs; $155 forprime seats ($100 goes to BC), all per.formances from APRIL 20 to APRIL 28;·info/tix 974-7500••,

HETRICK MARTIN INSTITUTE May 3nI
Movie Baneflt Longtime C-plIIJlon, aSamuel Goldwyn release about "asmall circle of friends and how theirworld changed with a 1981 New York
limes article noted the outbreak of arare cancer in the gaV community'"; atthe Ziegfeld Theatre, 54 St btwn 6th/7th
Aves; 8 pm; $50 (limited); followed by areception with the cast. at Quickl, forbenefactors ($125); 633-8920 (rsvp
NOW).AMERICAN THEATER OF ACTORS preGraduation
sents Mary Vasillades'
Party, difected by Laura Kleemari,examining a mother-daughter relationship with the backdrop of homophobia;
314 W 54 St; $7; APRIL 25-28 at 8 pm;

RIDICULOUS THEATRICAL COMPANY
revives &hades ludlam's Dar Ring Gatt
Far6lonjet: a masterwork, which won
an Obie in 1977,a "magnum opus in thespirit of Wagner's Ring Cycle, but in far
less time"; directed bV Everett Quintonwith a new score by Mark Bennet andcostumes by Susan Young; 1 Sheridan
Square; $25; TUE-FRI at 8, SAT-SUN at
7; tix 691-2271, theater 564-8038, info989-6524(thru MAY 20)

NEW MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY
ART 13th Anniversary Celebration, Dinner Dance, Art Auction; 583 Bwav (atPrince); Aleya Saad, 219-1222
HERITAGE OF PRIDE General Membership Meeting, to gat involved in making
the Pride Rallv (6/23) and Pride March(&124) a success; refreshments served;
at the Center, 208 W 13 St; 8 pm; 691ln4 (other meetings are MAY 21, JUNE
4 &. II, and Tuesday, JUNE 19)
THE PYRAMID presents Hapi Phace's
Film Fest: Norris J. Chumley's film of
Edgar Oliver's TIle Ghost of Broole/yo,
starring Hapi Phace; 101 Avenue A,
btwn 6{7 Streets; 420-1590

581-3044
PLAYLAB NEW YORK THEATER presents Joe Orton's Loot, about murder,
money, sex and sacrilege; 17 E 31 St;
THU &. FRI at 8 pm, SAT at 3 &. 8 pm,
SUN at 7 pm; n9-3392 (thru APRIL 29)
RED LIGHT DISTRICT presents the first
NYC ntYival of Martin Shermall's Bent,"set in 1934 Berlin, a brutallv honest
look at the Nazi persecution of homosexuals"; at UBU Repertory Theater, 15
W 28 St; $8; performances daily, except
Monday, at 8 pm; 279-4200 (thru APRIL
29)
TOP presents The First Time, about
what the title says, including the gav
experience; book and lyrics by Dan
Clancy, music by Lynn Portas; 224
Waverly Place; $10; for days/times call
246-58n (thru APRIL 29)
BAD NEIGHBORS brings back The
Monk, a "Gothic tragedy" with "a dashof East Village high camp: about amonk "batrayed by his own sexual perversity, adding rape, incest and matricide to his resume ...ultimately led to his
death by Satan disguised as the Pope";
at the Cooper Square Theatre, 50 E 7 St
(near 2nd Ave); 7 performances: APRIL
25,27, 28, 29, MAY 3, 4, 5; 8 pm; $10;
reservations/info 989-0788 (thru MAY 5)

THE CENTER NATIONAL MUSEUM OFLESBIAN &. GAY HISTORY Cartoon
Show, showcasing the work of 40 cartoonists who deal with the lesbian andgay experience; with work by Jennifer
Camper, Howard Cruse, Mark Johnson,
Burton Clarke, Jerry Mills, OutWeeKs
Bechdel; 208 W 13 St; daily, 4-6 pm; 6207310 (thru MAY 25)
PAUL ROBESON THEATRE presents
George Joshua's Across the Pond,"homosexuality, seduction, &. blackmailin the Vietnam War"; 40 Greene Ave,
Brooklyn (C train to Lafayette); $15 generall$10 seniors; FRI &. SAT at 8 pm, SUN
at3 pm; tix 71111783-9794 (thru MAY 27)
CIRCLEIN THE SQUARE presents Elizabeth PlIge's Spar. Parts, about two
women who want to have a babv
together but first need to find a ·sparepart" in order to do it; 159 Bleecker St;$22-$28; TUE-FRI at 8 pm, SAT at 7 &. 10
pm, SUN at 3 &. 7 pm; tix 254-6330, info
645-n44 (open run)
THE NEW DUPLEX presents Funny Gay
Males,
Jaffe
Cohen,Danny
McWilliams, Bob Smith; 61 Christopl1er
St; FRI and SAT at 10 pm; $10 + 2-drink
min.; reservations 25~5438 (open run)

MONDAY, APR. 23

REGINALD T. JACKSON directs Byron
Jobas' Solo, a multi-media work combining music, movement, prose and BOROUGH PRESIDENT RUTH MESSINGER and MANHATTAN
D.A.
slides "that explores the inner thoughtsof a black man as he matures into man- . ROBERT MORGENTHAU sponsor a
Crime Victims Inlomation
Fair, withhood"; with Mr. Johns, Willie James
information and counseling for all vicCopeland,
Youngblood
Emanuel,Richard Johnson; Erne Martin Studio tims of violence or abuse; press conferTheater, 311 W 43 St; $10; FRI at 8 pm, ence at II am; at Lincoln Square
Center, 250 W 65 St
SAT at 7:30 and 9:30 pm, SUN at 4 pm; Neighborhood
Ibtwn West End/Amsterdam}; 10:30am tix 279-4200 (thru MAY 6)
4:30 pm; info 553-9082
THE GLINES presents How Many

OUT~EEK . May 2,1990•

TClllJonvwl, a gav romantic comedy bVDavid Mauriello, about a young street
hustler and a straight-laced banker; at
the Courtyard Plavhouse, 39 Grove St(at Bleecker St); $15; 869-3530; WEDFRI at 8 pm, SAT at 6 &. 9 pm; SUN at 7
pm (thru MAY 13)

TUESDAY, APR. 24
NATIONAL LESBIAN CONFERENCE in
Atlanta, thru APR. 28
THE NEW SCHOOL 6-Week American
MusiclIl Theatre Course, taught by
publisher Andrew Velez; tonight, week
2: record and show producer Bell
Bagley; 66 W 12 SI; 6-7:30 pm; $15 ($60
for all six classes); New School 7415600, Mr. Velez (days) 929-0169
CENTER Orientation to gay/lesbian lifein NYC, with 40 represerftatives fromorganizations, literature from 400 more;presentations, socia lizing, entertainment; 208 W 13 St; 7 pm; $3; 620-7310
GAY MEN'S HEALTH CRISIS HIV Heailll
Seminar: MediclIl Treatments; 129W 20
St. 3rd Floor; 7 pm; free; 807-6655, TOO
645-7470 (this and every 4th TUES)LESBIAN AND GAY LABOR NETWORKForum: NYC Unions' Response to AIDS,
with speakers from Actors Equity and the(now defunct) NYC Labor/AIDS Coalition;
lit the Center, 208W 13 St; 7 pm; 923-8690(LGLN, Box 1159,NYC 10009)
LAVENDER HEIGHTS Lecture Series:
Richard Plant, expe't :'" the Third Reich
and Nazi persecution of gays, author of
The Pink Triangle: The Nazi War on
Homosexuals; at Cornerstone Center,
178 Bennett Ave (one block west ofB'wav, take A Train to 190 St); 8 pm; $7;John Mugge 603-4665 (davs), 304-2471(eves) (The series culminates with an
appearance by Vito Russo on 5117.)
CENTERSTAGEsees Spare Pa"" Elizabeth Page's humorous look at a "newfamily" composed of two mom's, a biological father, and some extended relatives;atCircle-in-the-SquareDowntown, 159 Bleecker St; 8 pm; $35;
620-7310
DON'T TEU MAMA presents Hello My
N_e i. Clin"'" LIIu" end I Went toSe"e tile World, a musical comedy

characterization
by -a guy who grewup gaYoo.and Catholicoo.AMEN"; 343 W
46 St; 10 pm; $7 + 2-drink min.; reservations 757-0788 (also MAY I)

WEDNESDAY, APR. 25
ASIANS AND FRIENDS NY Members
Meet Members at Kom Tang Soot Bul
House, a Korean dinner and drinks inan exclusively reserved room; 32 W 32
St (btwn B'way/5th Ave); 6-9 pm; info924-1287, restaurant 947-8482
CENTER Volunteer Placement Night, inwhich "you can find out how to join thevolunteer team that makes the Centerrun. Choose from a host of committe!!sor find an independent project"; 208 W
13 St; 6-7:30 pm; 620-7310 (Editor: thesomewhat curious are welcome, alongwith the already committed)
DIFF'RENT SPOKES Planning Meetingfor Summer Rides, 7:30 pm, 533-1079
BODY POSITIVE Seminar: I'er.onal
Finance. and HIV Disease, with four
financial planners; Pen Auditorium, 170
W 12 St (6th/7th Aves); 8 pm; contribution; 697-2580

Tuning In: A TV/Radio Guide for OutWeek Readers
Information must be received by Monday to be included in the. following
week's issue. Send items to Rick X, Tuning In, Box 790, NY, NY 10108.
ME (Arts & Enterta'inment, s5s Fifth Ave, 10th FI, NYC 10017;
for the gay/lesbian community in New York; 99.5 FM
661-4500)(:30)
cm (Rick X, Box 790, NYC 10108)
4:00
PM A&E Sweet As You Are: 1987 British TV movie
GBS (Gay Broadcasting System, Butch Peaston, 1787th
about a teacher (Uam Nelson) who has an affair with
Ave, Ste. A-3, NYC 10011; 243-1570)
an HIV+ student (1:30) (Editor. The TV Guide didn't menGCN (Gay Cable Networlc, Lou Maletta, 32 Union Squaretion the gender of the student, but A&E advises viewer
East, Suite 1217; 4n-4220)
discretion.)
GMHC (Gay Men's Health Crisis, Jean Carlomusto, 129 W 20
St, NYC 10011; 807-7517)
9:00 PM WABC-TV Twin Peaks; CH 7 (1:00) (Editor. Kylelll)
HBO (Home Box Office Prods., 1100 Ave/Ams, NYC 10036;
512-1Il00)
9:30 PM GMHC Living WithAIO~healthand politics; ManRB PROD (Robin Byrd Productions, Box 305, NYC 10021; 988hattan Cable, CH J/23 (:30)
2973)
.
.
10:00 PM WABC- TV Peter Jennings Reporting -From the
WAlC-TV (7 Uncoln Square, NYC 10023; 456-nm,
Killing Fields": modern-day genocide in Cambodia, and
WBAI-FM (505 8th Ave, 19th FI, NYC 10018; 279-0707)
American politics (1:00); followed by the news at 11:00., WCBB-TV (524 W 57 St, NYC 10019; 975-4321)
PM,
then a 9O-minute panel follow-up at 11:30 PM; CH 7
WNET-TV (356W58 St, NYC 10019; 566-3000)(3:110)•MONDAY, APR. 23
10:00 PM WCBS- TV How to Flirt Date and Meet Your Mate:singles scene's dating services, video dating, singles
clubs; with Carol Martin, Jill Rappaport, Mary Murphy;
CH 2 (1:00)
10:00 PM GCN Be My Guest homoerotic art at Quickl;
Bette Davis estate auction; Manhattan Cable, CH J/23(:30)

11:30 PM WNET-TV Largo Oesolato,'(Czech President)
Vaclav Havel's grim satire on self-censorship under atotalitarian chill; with F. Murray Abraham, Sally Kirkland,
Amy Wright, George Martin; CH 13 (1:30).

,

10:30 PM GCN Prid(i & Progress: news, health, sports;
Manhattan Cable, CH J/23 (:30)
11:00 PM GCN The Right Stuff. media, entertainment,
advice; Manhattan Cable, CH J/23 (:30)
11:30 PM RB PROD Men For Men: Robin Byrd presents gay
male porno stars; Manhattan Cable, CH J/23 (:30)
11:30 PM GMHC Living With AIDS: health and politics;
Paragon Cable, CH J/23 (:30)
1:35 AM TBS The Fall of the Roman Empire: 1964 beefy his, torical epic with Stephen Boyd and Sophia Loren, set in
AD 180; another catastrophe we homos are blamed for(3:15),,A DIFFERENT LIGHT Reading Series:
Janice Eidus. YIfDLoIlf1S Geraldine andBrace Benderson; I'retending to Sey
No; 548 Hudson (btwn Charles/Perry); 8
pm; free but limited seating; 989-4850•

GAY MALE S/M ACTIVISTS Interrogation Sce_, with I A. Feldwebel, editorof OungeonMaster,
explaining how
police and military extract information,
excruciatingly but safely; at the Center,
208 W 13 St; 8 pm (program at 8:30); $3
members/$5 non-members; 727-9878(Editor. Master Feldwebel does an actual dungeon demo at Zone OK, APRIL 28)
EAGLE BAR Movie Night: Howling V:
ne RebittlJ; 142 11th Ave (at 21 St); 11
pm; 691-8451
PYRAMID Tennessee"s House Nation,
featuring"fiercedancers,
funkytransvestites"
and tonight's special
guest, Ethyl Eichelberger; 101 Ave A (at6 St); 420-1590

THURSDAY, APR. 26,

WHO HEALS? 4-Day Program for discoveri.g the II.a/.r within, with Niro
Marlcoff and Amitabh; at 440 Lafayette

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11:30 PM Tomorrow's TV Tonight entertainment; Manhattan
and Paragon Cable, CH 0/17 (1:00)
Midnight CCTV The Closet Case Show: Danny selects his
underwear for a Roxy party; Jeff gets drunk and showers; briefed boys submit to Duckett's Quickl discipline;
Manhattan Cable, CH C/16 (:30)
1:00 AM Gay Tv. gay male porno clips; Paragon Cable, CH
J/23 (:30)

TUESDAY! APR. 24
10:00 AM WABC- TV Sally Jessy Raphael. the Holocaust; CH
7 (1:00)
11:00 PM GBS Out in the 90's: community news, discussion,interviews, live call-ins; Manhattan/Paragon Cable, CH
C/16 (1:00)

11:30 PM WNET-TV The Wannsee Conference: Heydrich,
Eichmann and Germany's best military minds sit down
to schnapps and settle the Jewish problem on a 1942
afternoon; CH 13 (1:30)

WEDNESDAY! APR. 25

FRIDAY! APR. 27
2:30 PM WBAI-FM Rompiendo el Silencio: todos losviernes, Gonzalo Aliurto con temas y noticias para lacomunidad latina gay y lesbiana; 99.5 FM (:15)
4:00 PM WCBS-TV Geraldo: ·overly aggressive women";
CH 2 (1:00)
7:30 PM The Gay Dating Game Show, Manhattan Cable, CH
J/23 (:30)
11:00 PM Gay Tv. male porno clips; Manhattan Cable, CH
J/23 (:30)
1:00 AM RB PROD Robin Byrd Show. male and female strippers; Manhattan and Paragon Cable, CH J/23 (1:00)

2:00 AM USA Hollywood Shuffle: Robert Townsend's satire
about steretypes on film (2:00) (Editor. USA censors
itself; beware cuts.)

SATURDAY, APR. 28
11:00 PM RB PROD The Early Byrd: Robin Byrd presents··male/female strippers; Manhattan Cable, CH J/23 (1:00)

9:30 AM WBAI-FM Ghosts in the Machine: women in pop,with Victoria Starr; 99.5 FM (2:30)

SUNDAY, APR. 29

9:00 PM WNBC-TV 25th Annual Academy qf Country MusicAwards; CH 4 (2:l1li+)

7:30 PM WBAI-FM The Gay Show: Larry Gutenburg and
Bob Storme with news and discussion; tonight the crisis and celebration of being gay; 99.5 FM (1:00) (On. every other Sunday, alternating with OutLooks)

Midnight RB PROD The Robin Byrd Show. male and female
strippers; Manhattan and Paragon Cable, CH J/23 (1:00)

THURSDAY, APR. 26
10:00 AM WABC- TV Sally Jessy Raphael. sexual dissatisfaction; CH 7 (1:00)
1:30 PM WBAI-FM This Way Out international gay/lesbian
weekly radio magazine; 99.5 FM (:30)
2:00 PM WBAI-FM Breaking the Silence: news magazine

10:00 PM A&E Reno's Cabaret Reunion II: Marsha
Malame!'s AIDS benefit which.still owes the gay groupat Columbia ~OO; with Peter Allen, Sally Kellerman,
Barbara Cook, Lesley Gore, others; broadcast in stero(1:00)•

11:30 PM GCN Men &Rlms: male erotica; Manhattan
Cable, CH J/'l3 (:30)
2:00 AM A&E Reno's Cabaret Reunion II, see 10:00 PM

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St; tonight from 7-9 pm; FRI-SUN from 9
am - 6 pm; $250; info 460-8074
ARTISTS SPACE Annual Benefit Party.
M
Mdinner & dancing Caribbean-style ;music by ARChive of Contemporary
Music, Napa Valley wines, Mdress as
you wish"; 575 Broadway at Prince St(enter at 142 Mercer); drinks, buffet dinner & dancing, 7 pm to ram, $200;
drinks & dancing only, 10 pm - 1 am,$40; 226-3970 (Editor: Artists Spacebrought us Witnesses: Against Our
Vanishing,the courageous AIDS exhibition with the noteworthy catalog.)
JUDITH'S ROOM BOOKSTORE presents
Susanna Sturgis, ed., Memories &Visions: Women~ Fantl/sy & Science
Fiction, reading with Hattie Gossett,
Barbara Krasnoff, and others; 681
Washington St (at Charles St); 7 pm;
free, but limited seating; 727-7330(wheelchair accessible) .
M
IN OUR OWN WRITE MPOetsfor Life ,readings by contributors to this anthology of writings about AIDS; at the Center, 208 W 13 St; 7:30 pm; $3; 620-7310

IN EXILE IN NY New group forming
tonight, Mto work here to make theSouth, America's most viciously homophobic region, a more tolerable placeM
for gay people to live ;atthe Center, 208
W 13St; 7:30 pm; David Gilbert, 674-8073
SAGE Women's 50+ Rap Group:
Butch/Femme: Choice or 1, at the Center, 208 W 13 St; 7:30 pm; membershipinfo, 741-2247
THE ANSWER IS LOVINGWamen Talking
Women's Talle Contradic:toly Consciousness; MConflict/confusion/focus/
centered/in alignment with our belief system.
Do I want Blacks to have their Civil Rights
and not to live in my neighborhood? Do I
believe in Women's Equality as long as
men pay the bills? Your answers affect usMall. Led by Ruth Berman and Connie
Kurtz; Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn; 7:45-10
pm; $8; 71W998-23!!iA DIFFERENT LIGHT Reading Series:
Mark Zubro, WIly Isn't Becley Twitchell
Dead?, new mystery by the author of
Simple Suburban Murder, 548 Hudson(btwn Charles/Perry); 8 pm; free but limited seating; 989-4850

807-6655, TOO 645-7470 (open to all,male/female, gay/non-gay)
GAY MEN'S HEALTH CRISIS Eroticizing
Safer Sex Workshop, to Mhelp makesafer sex erotic, creative and satisfyingM; at AIDS Center of Queens County,
97-45 Queens Blvd, 12th Floor; Rego Park
(G,Rto 63rd Drive); 1-3:30 pm; free; preregistration necessary, 718/896-2500,
TOO7UV896-2985(hearing impaired)
CONGREGATION B'NAI JESHURUNAIDS OUTREACH PROGRAM Festive
Luncheon and Spiritual Gathering for
PWAs, HIV+'s, and their loved ones,
with discussion, song, music, prayer
and food; 257 W 88 St; 2 pm; free; rsvp
787-7600
GAY MALE S/M ACTIVISTS Dungeon
Demo with T. A. Feldwebel (see APRIL
25) demonstrating interrogation techniques plus flogging, tying, shaving,waxing, and more; at Zone OK (aka
Paddles, aka The Garage), 540 W 21 St;
6-10 pm; $3 membersJ$5 non-members;
727-9878

GAY MEN OFAFRICAN DESCENT,GAY&LESBIAN INDEPENDENT DEMOCRATS,LESBIAN & GAYSTUDENTSAT HUNTERNEW DUPLEX Community Research
COLLEGESalute to Black Gay Political.
Initiative Benefit: Songs in Blume,
Leadership, with MC Hon. Philip Reed,remembering the composer/lyricist,
Bobby Blume, who died six years ago; District Leader, 65th Assembly District;remar1<sby State Senator David Patterwith Michael Callen, Peggy Gordon,
Michael McAssey, Amy Ryder; 61. son, NYC Councilperson Virginia Fields,
GMAD Director EI Gates; award to
COLLECTIVE FOR UVING CINEMA pre- Christopher St (NE corner of Christosents Marlon Riggs' Tongues Untied, phernth Ave); 8 pm; $15 + 2-drink mini- Albany Aldeman Keith St. John fAmeriEthnic Notions, and Affinnations, his mum; rsvp 675-5782 (also SAT, 4/28, at 8 ca's first 9penly gay Black elected official) presel)ted by Kenneth Reeves, Vicemost recent video, making its New York pm; SUN, 4/~, at 5 pm)
Mayor of Cambridge,
MA; special
premiere; at Anthology Filill Archives,•
32-34 2nd Ave (enter on 2nd St); 9 pm; COLLECTIVEFOR UVING CINEMA pre- guests NYC Human Rights Commissionsents'Marlon Riggs' Tongues Untied, er Dennis De Leon and Mental Health417-2714 (also tomorrow, same time)
Ethnic Notions. and Affinnations, 9 pm, Commissioner Dr. Billy Jones; poetry by
Craig G. Harris and Storme Weber;see APRIL 26
CHIP DUCKETT presents Homoerotic
music, entertainment, wine bar, refreshArt at Quickl, tonight featuring the multimedia work of Lawrence Weiss; plus LBGC Columbia Dance at Barnard for ments; at Roosevelt House, 47 E 65 St (atdancing/partying with DJs John Suliga men and women, a benefit for Lesbian Park Ave); 7:30-10 pm; $25-$100; tix
and Dinah; 6 Hubert St (off Hudson, 5 & Gay Media Productions; with OJ, 718/852-0957, info 217/222-9880
blocks below Canal); from 10 pm; $10/$7 lights, beer/soda; in the Mcintosh Center, Barnard Campus (across the street ASIANS AND FRIENDS NY see KitIIl'O:
with invite; 925-2442. from Columbia,I1/#9 to 116St & B'way); In Concen, the Japanese synthesist;•
Radio City Music Hall, 6th Ave at 50 St;
9 pm - 3 am; $5; info 7181336-1573
8 pm; rsvp ASAP, Jerry 718/497-5277
NANCY GALLAGHER opens Doll Bar at (eves), or 212/674-5064(AFNY machine)
the Chapel (of Limelight), 49 W 20 St at
6th Ave (garden entrance); 9 pm; $6; NEW DUPLEX Community Research
Arbor Day
Initiative Benefit: Songs in Blume, 8
club 807-7850
pm, see APRIL 27
IDENTITY HOUSE Women's Discussion
Group: Coming Out Bisexually, for lesCENTER4th Saturday Dance, 208 W 13
bian and bi-sexual women; 544 Sixth
St, 9 pm - 1 am, $8 general/S6 members,
Ave (14/15 Sts); 6:30-8:30 pm; $7; 243students, seniors; 620-7310
8181 (Editor. meets every week with a
GAY ACTIVIST ALLIANCE IN MORRIS
differenttopic) ,COUNTY NJ Conference: United '90: RON DELSENERpresents De Butthole
COMMITTEE FOR LESBIAN & GAY '11IeDecade Begins, focusing on heal- Surfers with Gregory's Funhouse and
STUDIES AT CUNY presents Kinla Jay: ing, personal empowerment, .coalition- , Cop Shoot Cop; at the Lyric, 213 W 42
A Lesbian-Feminist Tour of Paris, 1900- building, continuing our momentum of St; 9 pm; $16 advance;tix 947-5850, info249-8870
1986,focusing on Gertrude Stein, Alice victories; 201/285-1595
Toklas, Natalie Barney, Romaine
LARRY TEE and LAHOMA open La
GAY MEN'S HEALTH CRISIS Workshop:
Brooks, cultural salons, WON I feminist
resistance, post-WON II women's move- Deciding to Take the HIV Antibody Test. Palace de Beaate, at the Underground,ment; with narration, 300 slides and covering medical, psychological, and dancing every Friday, Saturday andsocial advantages/disadvantagesof Sunday; transvestites admitted free;music; CUNY Grad. Center Auditorium,
33 W 42 St; 7:30 pm; $5 (more if); info testing; also, dealing with results, main- 254-4005 (Editor: Love Machine also
continues on Tuesdays. 8eautfJ is protaining safer sex, telling and dealing
Prof. James Saslow, 633-2673.from.
with others; at the Center, 208 W 13 St, no-unced biu-TAY by the promoters,.. SOUTHERN LESBIANS AND GAY MEN 3rd Floor; 1-4:30 pm; free·; register at boh-TAY by the French.)
HERITAGE OF PRIDE Independent Marshal Outreach 11 for commmunity volunteers interested in working at theJune 23 Rally and/or June 24 March;
free refreshments; at the Center, 208 W
13St; 8 pm; 691-1n4

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SPECTRUM presents Bettiaa, singing
Destiny; and Merci Mercy, singing If
There's 8 Ch8nce; 802 64th Street,
Brooklyn (N Train to 8th Ave stop, Bay
Ridge); 718/238-8213,

SUNDAY, APR. 29
NYS LESBIAN AND GAY LOBBY Marcil
on Albany For Your Rights to dema nd
the passage of the bias-related crime
bill, a civil rights bill, increased funding
for AIDS, domestic partnership legislation; bus (tix $15 RT) leave from 13 St &7th Ave at 6:30 am; info 212/966-1700(GLAAD), 212/807-6761 (NYC G&L AntiViolence Project)
DlFF'RENT SPOKES City Island, bikeride from Manhattan and back, about
30 miles total; 923-1433
JUDITH'S ROOM BOOKSTOREpresents
Mary Wings, She C.e in a Rub; 681
Washington St (at Charles St); 3 pm;
free, but limited seating; 727-7330(wheelchair accessible)
DIGNITY/QUEENS Interfaith Healing
Service, for PWAs, PWARCs, HIV+S,
families, frjends, care providers;refreshments follow; at the Unitarian
Universalist Church of Flushing, 149 St& Ash Ave; 5 pm; 7191565-2171
HERITAGE OF PRIDE and NY IN '94
Joint eenelit Tea Dance at CIIewy's, ~W 20 St; 5 pm - ??;$10; info 691-1774
NEW DUPLEX Community Research
Initiative Benefit Son,s in Blume, 5pm, see APRIL 27
GAY & LESBIAN ALLll'NCE AGAINSTDEFAMATION First lnnual GLAADMedia Awards, Mrecognizing the bestM
and worst in print and broadcast ;cocktails, dinner, speakers; at the
Tower Suite, lime & Life bldg; 6:30 pm;$125-$500;966-1700
DIXON PLACE presents Washboard
Jungle Jug Band, a benefit for Gay &Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation;
oldtime, ragtime, calypso, more; 37 E
1st St (btwn lst/2nd Aves); 8 pm; $8 at
the door; 673-6752,989-0788
PYRAMID presents William Jasmine
AllspiceM Love, author of Nose Job(She Had to Model}; 101 Avenue A(btwn 6/7 Sts); time TBA; club 420-1!jg),press 475-3538(days)
M

ROXY opens David Leigb's ga,
Sundays, with the inauguration of thelarger, renovated interior; 515 W 18 St(btwn 10th/11th Aves); 645-5156

MONDAY, APR. 30
CENTER STAGE sees Aspects of LtwI,
by Andrew Uoyd Weber; 8 pm; $70; 6207310

•~onday,Private Eyes (Marc Berkley's Kool Komrads; male strippers) 12 W 21 Sf,club 206-7772*Pyramid (Hapi Phace's Film Feststarted 4/16) 101 Avenue A, btwn
6thnth Streets; 420-1590

Tuesday*Love Mac6ine at Underground, 860 Bway, near 17th St; 254-4005

Every Night (or almost)Wednesday

Monster (West Village) 80 Grove St at Sheridan Sq.; 924-3557
Spectrum (closed Mon & Tue, WED free, THU free & 2-4-1 drinks, FRI
mlf strippers, SAT guest star show, SUN live show & free 9-10 pm)
80264th St@8th Ave, Bay Ridge, Bklyn; 718/238-8213*Better Days (primarily gay men of color) 316 W 49 St (8/9 Aves); 245-8925
Private Eyes (Jeffrey Sanker & Dallas's Club Bacll12 W 21 St, btwn
5th/6th Aves; 206-7772*Pyramid (Tennesse'sHouse Nation) 101·AvenueA, btwn 6th/7th Streets;420-1590
Silver Uning (2-4-1 drinks, also open Tues-Sun, women SAT) 175 CherryLa., Floral Pk, LI; 516/354-9641
Stutz (2-4-1 drinks, also open daily) 202 Westchester Ave, White Plains;
914/761-3100

Thursday*Boybar (has a new wave drag show) 15 1/2 St Marks Place, btwn
2nd/3rd Aves; 674-7959*Copacabana (last Thu. ofthe month Susanne Bartsch party) 10 E 60 St,
at Fifth Ave; 755-6010
Excalibur ($1 drinks, also open Tues-Sun, women WED) corner 10th/Jefferson behind football stadium, Hoboken, NJ; 201-795-1161'
Grand Central (2-4-1 drinks, also open Wed-Sun) 210 Merrick Road,
Rockville Centre, LI; 516/536-4800
Hatfield's (2-4-1 drinks, female impersonators; also open nightly, women on
TUE & FRI) 126-10 Queens Blvd, Kew Gardens, Queens; 718/261-8484*Mars (mixed straight/gay; Patrick & Chauncey party, 3rd Floor) Westside Highway and 13th St; 691-6262*Quickl (Chip Duckett Thursdays) 6 Hobert St (on Hudson, 5 blocks
below Canal); 925-2442

Friday'•near 17th St; 254-4005*Mars (Chip Duckett's Mars Needs Men) Westside Highway and 13th
St; 691-6262*Pyramid (Hapi Phace's Backdoor Cabaret) 101 Avenue A, btwn 6/7
Streets; 420-1590*Roxy (David Leigh party, starts 4/29) 515W 18St (btwn 10/11Aves); 645-5156*Boybar 151/2 St Marks Pl., btwn 2nd/3rd Aves; 674-7959
Columbia Dances (1st Friday of every month) 116th St & Bway; 854-3574days*La Palace de Beaue Larry Tee at Underground (starts 5/4), 860 Bway,
near 17th St; 254-4005*Mike Todd Room (Chip Duckett's Boy+Boyand Girl+GirfJ 123 E 13 St;
club (Palladium) 473-7171.
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Private Eyes (preppies and young professionals) 12 W 21 St, btwn 5th/6th
Aves; 206-7772*Quickl (mixed gay/straight/lVs; Scott Currie/PaITtyGirdles) 6 Hubert St(on Hudson, 5 blocks below Canal); 925-2442

Saturday
Barefoot Boogie (smoke & alcohol free) 434 6th Ave (btwn 9/10 Sis); 832-6759*Boybar 151/2 St Marks Place, btwn 2nd/3rd Aves; 674-7959
The Center Dances (2nd and 4th Saturdays) 208 W 13 St, btwn 7th/8th
Aves; 620-7310
Columbia Dances (3rd Saturdays, Same But Different Dance, throughJune 16) 116 & B'way, 10 pm - 3 am; info 629-1989
Girth and Mirth Club aUhe Center (3rd Saturdays, heavy men & theiradmirers) 208 W 13 St; 620-73JO*La Palace de Beaue Larry Tee at Underground (starts 4/28), 860 Bway,
near 17th St; 254-4005
Private Eyes (Jeffrey Sanker & Dallas's Club Bacll12 W 21 St, btwn
5th/6th Aves; 206-7772*Roxy (mixed gay/straight/TVs/club kids) 515W 18St (btwn 10/11Aves);645-5156
Sound Factory (mixed gay/straight, Acid House, no alcohol) 530 W 27 St·(btwn 10th/11th Aves); ~43-0728

Sunday.

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*Better-Days (primarily gay men of color) 316 W 49 St (8/9 Aves); 245-8925*La Palace de Beaue Larry Tee at Underground (starts 4/29), 860 Bway,·,,

DANCING OUT for Women

Tuesday.

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Hatfield's 1~6-10 Queens Blvd., Kew Gardens; 718/261-8484
Grand Central (women's night, also open Wed-Son) 210 Merrick Road,
Rockville Centre, LI; 516/536-4800

Wednesday.Bedrock 121 Woodfield Rd, W. Hempstead, LI; 516/486-9516
Excalibur (Ladies Night, $1 drinks) corner 10th/Jefferson behind football. stadium, Hoboken, NJ; 201-795-1161

ThursdayBedrock 121Woodfield Rd, W. Hempstead, LI;516/486-9516
Big Hunt Club (Her Planet, 8 pm - 2 am; began 3/29) 804 Washington Sf,.. 4 blocks below 14 St; info 727-7616

Friday.

"Bedrock 121 Woodfield Rd, W. Hempstead, LI; 516/486-9516
Chapel (Nancy Gallagher's 001/ Bar starts 4/27) 49 W 20 Sf, garden
entrance; club 807-7850
Cheeks 2000 Long Beach Road, Island Park, LI; 516/431-5700
Hatfield's 126-10 Queens Blvd., Kew Gardens; 718/261-8484
Visions 56-01 Queens Blvd, Woodside; info 718/846-7131 , club 718/899-9031

Saturday.

Bedrock 121Woodfield Rd, W. Hempstead, LI; 516/486-9516
The Center (Women & Friends 1st Saturdays, Feb. thru May) 208 W 13
St; 620-7310
Mars (last Saturdays, Her Planet; 4/28 this month) 13 St & West Side
Hwy, 691-6262.
Reds (women's party, buffet, burlesque show) 6096 Jericho Tpke, Commack, LI; 516/543-4740
Silver Uning 175 Cherry Lane, Floral Park, LI; 516/354-9641
Starz 836 Grand Boulevard, Deer Park, LI; 516/242-3857

SundayBedrock 1~1 Woodfield Rd, W. Hempstead, LI; 516/486-9516
Cave Canem (Sandwich Sister Sundays) 24 1st Ave at 1st St; 529-9665

Every Night (or almost).

Cubby flole (tiny !fance floor) 438 Hudson St@ Morton St; 243-9079
Duchess" Sheridan Sq. & 7th Ave South; 242-1408
Spectrum (closed Mon & Tues; good gay/lesbian mix, see Every Night,
above, for details) 802 64th St, Bklyn.; 718/238-8213.

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Editor's notes:• The NYC club scene is volatile.• Call first to confirm parties.
• All phone numbers are 212 unless otherwise noted.
•• A (*) denotes a club that attracts TVs. Some clubs, such as Copacabana, Roxy, Underground, Quickl and Mars (especially on mixed
straight/gay nights) employ selective door -god/desses: Arriving .
early (by 11 pm) is often helpful,'• For some community dances/parties, check the daily GOING OUT listings.
• Send additions, corrections and dish to Rick X, Box 790, NYC 10108.

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AIDS CENTER OF• QUEENS COUNTYSOCIAL SERVICES. EDUCATION· BUDDIESCOUNSELING. SUPPORT GROUPS. Volunteer Opportunities(118) 89&-25OO(voice) (718) 898-2985(TDD)•ACT UP (AIDS Coalition CDUnl ... h Powa'"
496A Hudson Street, Suite G4 NYC 10014(212)989 -1114
A diverse, non-partisan group of individuals united inanger and committed to direct action to end the AIDS
crisis. Gen. meetings Mon. nights 7:30,
at the Community Center 208 W.13th:
ALOEc:fAPLN-NY(Asian Lesbians of the East CoasV
Asian Pacific Le~bian Network-New York)We are a political, social and supportive network of
Asian Pacific lesbians. Planning meetings on the 1st
Sunday and social events on the last Friday of eachmonth. Call (212)517-5598 for more information.
ARCS (AIDS-R.lated Community Service.)for Dutchess, Orange, Putnam, Rockland, Sullivan,
Ulster and Westchaster counties. AIDS education,client services, crisis int8rvention, support groups,
case management. buddy and hospital visitor program.
214CanlralAla. VIIIitB Plails, NY llm1(914) ~838 Broadway ,Newburgh, NY 12250(914)002-5fDi
AlDSline (914) 9!D-0607,..

ATR (AIDS TREATMENT REGISTRY,INC.)
Publishes a bi-monthly Directory of clinical trials of
experimental AIDS/HIV treabnents in NY/NJ, and has
educational materials/seminars for trial participants.
ATR also advocates for improvements in the trial system. P.O. Box 30234, NY, NY 1011-0102. (212) 268-4196.
Publications free/donation requested.

BISEXUAL YOUTH
Info",!al social" support group for Bisexual
kids/youth. Monthly meeting/potluck lunch held
1:OOpmon fourth Sunday of the month at members
homes. Call NY ABN for this month's location. This
group is part of the New York Area Bisexual Network.
BWS-BRONX LESBIANS
UNITED IN SISTERHOOD
Social, political and support networking group for
women and their friends. Regular social events andmeetings on the first and third Fridays of every month.
At The Community Center, 208 W. 13 Street, from 6:3G8pm. For more info call Usa at (212) 829-9817.
BODY POSITIVE
If yoil oryour lover has tested HIV+, we offer support
groups, seminars, public forums, reference library,referrals, social activities and up-to-date national
monthly, "THE BODY POSITIVE' ($2!i1year).
(212) nl-I346 •.
208W. 13th St, NYC, NY 10011
CIRCLE OF MORE UGHT
Spiritual support and sharing in a gay/lesbian affirmative group. West-Park Presbyterian Church
165West 86th Street
Wed: worship service 6:30 pm, program 7:30.
Marsha (212)304-4373 Charlie (212)891-7118.
COMMUNITY HEALTH PROJECT
208 West 13th Street, NYC, New York 10011
For Appoinbnents and Information(212) 67&-3559 (TTYNoice~
PROVIDING CARING, SENSITIVE AND'LOW COSTHEALTH CARE SERVICES TO THE LESBIAN AND GAYCOMMUNITY,

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BAR ASSOCIATIO.N FOR HUMAN RIGHTS.Lawyers Referral.
Service for the Lesbian and Gay Community. Full Range of Legal Services (212) 459-4873

COMMUNITY RESEARCH INITIATIVE
PWAs, PWARCs " their physicians taking the initiative to seek promising intervention against AIDS in a
resp. manner. For more info or to volunteer pleasecall (212)481-1050.

BAR ASSOCIATION FOR HUMAN RIGHTSFree Walk-in Legal Clinic. Tuesday 6-8 pm
Lesbian" Gay Community Centro Ground Roor
BIDS (BISEXQAL DOMINANCE"SUBMISSION GROUP)
Share SIM experiences and fantasies with others ina positive, non-judgemental abnosphere. First Sunday of the month, 4:45pm at the Community Center
208 W. 13 Street, NYC. This group is part of the New'York Area Bisexual Network.
BISEXUAL PRIDE DISCUSSION GROUP
Topical discussions on issues of interest to the community in a congenial abnosphere, followed by an informal
dinner at a friendly local restaurant Ewry Sunday, 3:00
- 4:30pm at the Community Center 208 W. 13 Street,
NYC. Part.ofthe New York Area Bisexual Network.

CONGREGATION BETH SIMCHATTORAH
NY's Gay and Lesbian Synagogue Services
Friday at 6:30pm
fi1 Bethune Street
For info. call: (212) 929-9498.
DIGNITY /BIG APPLE
A community of Lesbian and Gay Catholics. Activities
include Uturgies and socials every Sat, 8:00 pm, at
the Center, 208 W. 13 Street, NYC.
Call (212) 818-1309.
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DIGNITY NEW YORK
lesbian and gay Catholics and friends
AIDS Ministry, Spiritual Development
The Cathedral Project
Worship Services" Social-Sun. Eves. 7:3Opm-SI.
John's Episcopal Church 218 West 11th Street@
Waverly-67&-2179

BIWAYS NEW YORKMonthly social events for the Bisexual community'and friends. Call NYABN for details of upcoming
events. (718) 353-8245•

BIPAC (BISEXUAL POUTICALACTION COMMITTEE)
Political action on issues of importance to the 3isexuaVlesbian/Gaycommunity.
Monthly meeting/potluck
held 8:00pm on fourth Thursday of the month at members homes. Call NYABN for this month's location.
(718)353-8245

EDGE
Education in a Disabled Ga, Environment
For the physically disabled Lesbian and Gay
Community.
(212)989-1921
P,O.Box 305 Village Station, New York, NY 10014
FEMME SUPPORT GROUP.
For lesbians who self identify as Femme. For info andmeeting times call Usa at (212)829-9617.No men please.

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FRONT RUNNERS
A running club for lesbian and gay athletesof all abilities. Fun Runs of 1-6 miles held every Sat at
lOam and Weds. at 7pm in Central Parkand every Tues. at 7pm in Prospect Park.
For information: call (212)724-9700.
THE RIND FOR HUMAN DIGNITY
National Gay and Lesbian Crisis Une'AIDS 800"-I-600-S0S-GAYS
Educational Resource Center; Positive Images
Media Center; NY State Arts Program
666B'way Sui1B410NYC,NY 10012 (212)529-1101
THE GAY AfRICAN AMERICANSOFWESTCHESrER(The G.A.A.)
is a community based support group formed in
Westchester County. Various actiVities are planned
for the coming months.
Please call 914-376-0727 for more info.

GlAAD
Ga, & Lesbian Alliance Agailllt D.tamation
80 Varick Street, NYC 10013 (212)966-1700
GLAAD combats homophobia in the media and els8where by promoting visibility of thel88bian and gay
community and organizing grassroots resporrseCD
anti-gay bigotry.
Do you have 30 minutes a month
to fight homophobia?
Join the GlAAD PhoneTreel
Call (212)-966-1700 for information.
GUB
Gay and Lesbian Independent Broadcasters invites
you to tune into OUnOOKS on WBAI-NY, 99.5 FM
every other Sunday, 7:3G-8:30pm and join us every
other Tuesday at 7:30pm to become a member ofGLIB. No experience needed.
505 Eighth Avenue, 19th floor. (212) 7~•
GAY & LESBIAN. HEALTH CONCERNS
An office of the NYC Dept of Health, provides linkages betwn NYC Health & Human Svcs, and the Lesbian" Gay community, focusing in ALL healthconcerns; resource information for health services
consumers and providers. 125 Worth Street, Box 67,
New York, NY 10013. For info call (212)568-4995.
GAY" LESBIAN PSYCHOTHERAPY
Sliding scale fees -Insurance accepted.
Institute for Human Identity.
(212) 799-9432.GAY MALE SIM ACTMSTS
Dedicated to safe and responsible S/M since 1981.
Open meetings w/programs on SIM techniques,
lifestyle issues, political and social concerns. Also
special events, speakers bureau, workshops, demos,
affinity groups, newsletter, more. GMSMA -Dept 0,496A Hudson Street, Suite 023 ,NYC 10014.
(212) 727-9878.
GMAD(GAY MEN OFAfRICAN DESCENT)
80 Va rick Street, NYC 10013 a support group of Gay
Men of African Descent dedicated to consciousnessraising and the development of the lesbian and Gay
Community. GMAD is inclusive of African, AfricanAmerican, Caribbean and Hispanic/latino men ofcolor. Meetings ani held, weekly, on Fridays. For
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ONE-TIME, WALK-IN AIDS COUNSELiNG SERVICES
212-807-6&55
212..... 7470 TDD (For the Hearing npairad)Mon.-Fri. 10:30 a.m. to 9 p.m. Sat 12:00 to 3:00
GIRTH It MIRTH CWB OF NEW YORK
Social club for heavy, chubby gay men & their admirelll. Monthly socials at the ·Center', weekly bar
nights Thursdays at the "Chelsea Transfer', monthly
Fat Apple Review, bi-monthly FAR. pen pals. For more
information call Ernie at 914-899-7735 or write:
G&M/NY, Depl 0, P.O.Box 10, Pelham, NY 10803.
HEAL (Health Education AIDS LiailOn),weekly info. and support group for treatments for
AIDS which do not compromise the immune systemfurther, including alternative and holistic approaches.
Wed 8pm•. 208 W. 13th Sl (212)674-HOPE.
HErRICK-MARTIN INSTITUTE
for lesbian and gay youth. Counseling, drop-in center (M-F, ~6pm), rap groups, Harvey Milk Hig~
School, AIDS and safer sex information,referrals, professional education.
(212) 833-892O(voice)(212)833-8926 T1Y for deaf
HISPANIC UNITED GAYS It LESBIANS
Educational services, political action, counseling andsocial activities in Spanish and English by and for theLatino Lasbian and Gay Community.
General meetings 8:00 pm 4th Thursday of every
month at 208 West 13th Streel
Call (212)891-4181
or write H.U.G.L, P.O.Box 226 Canal Street Station,
New York, NY 10019.
LAMBDA LEGAl. DEFENSEAND EDUCATION RIND
Precedent-setting litigation nationwide forlesbians, gay men and people with AIDS. Membership ($35 and up) inc. newsletter and invitations to
special avents. Volunteer night on Thursdays. Intake
calls: 2-4pm Mon thru Fri (212)995-8585
LAVA (LESBIANS ABOUT VISUAL AlIT)
Call for slides for lesbian Artists' Exhibition, Gay &lesbian Community Center, NYC. For more information, send SASE tli :Miriam Fougere
118 Fort Greene PlaceBrooklyn, NY 11217.
THE LESBIAN AND GAY BIG APPLE CORPS
Get your instrument out of the closet and come playwith us. Symphonic, Marching, Jazz, Dixieland, Rock,
Aute Ensembles and Woodwinds.
123West 44th Sl Suite 12l New York, NY 10036(212)869-2922.
LESBIAN It GAY
COMMUNITY SERVICES CENTER
208 West 13th Street New York, NY 10011(212)620-7310
9am-llpm everyday.
A place for community organizing and networking,social services, cultural programs, and social events
sponsored by the Center and more than 150 community organizations.
LESBIAN AND GAY lABOR NETWORKAn organization of lesbianSilnd Gays who are activein their labor unions working on domestic partnershipbenefits and AIDS issues. For more information call(212)923-8890.
LESBIAN AND GAY RIGHTS PROJECT
of the American Civillibertie.
Union
IINOWYOUR RIGHTS/WE'RE EXPAMlIIIGTHEM(212)944-9800, ext. 545.

LESBIANS AND GAYS OF RATBUSH
Brooklyn's social organization for both gay men andlesbians. P.O.Box 108, Midwood Station
Brooklyn, NY 11230. (718)859-9437

NORTHERN UGHTS ALTERNAnVES
Improving Quality of life for People with AlDS/HIV.
THE AIDS MASTERY WORKSHOP: Exploring the possibilities of a powerful and creative life in the face of
AIDS. Call (2121255-8554

LESBIAN HERSTORY ARCHIVES
P.O.Box 12~ "New York, New York 10116,
212/874-7232
Since 1974, the Archives has inspired, shapad andreflected lesbian lives everywhere. Call to arrange avisit or to volunteer for Thursday worknights.

NY~Y
It LESBIAN
ANJI-VlOUNCE PROJECT
Counseling, advocacy, and information for SUrviVOIllof anti-gay and anti-lesbian violence, sexual assault,
domestic violence, and other types of vic1imization.
All services free and confidential.
24 hour hotline (2121807-0197

LONG ISLAND ACT-UP
P.O.Box 291, New Hyde Park, NY 11040
Support us for change on long Island.
(516)338-4862 (516)997-5238 Nassau(516)928-5530 Suffolk

PEOPLE WITH AIDS COAUTION .
(212) 532-!l29WI-800-828-328/WHotline (2121532-11588
Monday thru Friday 10am-6pm
Meal programs, support groups, educational andreferrel services for PWA's and PWArc's.

MEN OF ALL COLORSTOGETHER NY
A multi-racial group of gay men against racism. Meetings every Friday night at 7:45 at !lui lesbian and Gay
Community Services Center, 208 W. 13th Streel For
more info. call: (212)245-6366 or (212)222-9794.

PEOPLE WITH AIDS HEALTH GROUP
Underground buyer's club importing not-yet-approved
medications and nutritional supplements. 31 West 26th
St 4th Roor (212)532-D2\1O
SAGE: (Senior Action in a Gay Environment)
Social Service Agency. providing care, activities, &educational. services for gay & lesbian senior citizens.
Also serves over 160homebound seniOIll & older PWA's.
208 West 13th St NYC 10011, (212)741-2247

MmOPOUTAN TENNIS GROUP(MTG)
Our 200 member/esbian and gay tennis club includes
players from beginning to tournament level. Monthly
tennis parties. Winter indoor league. Come play with usl
For information: MfG, Suite K63,498-A Hudson St, New
York, NY 10025. (718)852-8562.

SETHIAN GAYS, LESBIANS AND BISEXUALSFor all of us interested in reaching out to each othl!rwith exuberance to spontaneously explore andexpand upon the Seth/Jane Roberts "philosophy" as
it relates to our lives, pelllonally, sexually and politically. Call AI (2121979-5104.
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MOCA (Men of Color AIDS Pravention ProDram.1
Provides safer sex and AIDS education information
to gay and bisexual Man of Color; coordinates a network of peer-support groups for gay and bisexual
Men of Color in all 5 boroughs of New York City.
303 Ninth Ave, New York, Ny 10001
or call (212123$-1796.

THE OUTREACH
USING COMMUNAL HEAUNG (TOUCH)
Conmunityvolunteelll providing a wuek/y buffet supper
for the Brooklyn AIDS community. TOUCHmeets Monday. eves. 5pm to 6:30pm- at downtown Brooklyn Friends
Meeting House (110Schenner\1om St neer Boorum
Place). United transportstion may be arranged. Info: (718)622-2756.TOUCHwulcomes coritributions. of funds, foodand volunteers.

NATIONAL GAY AND LESBIAN TASK FORCE
is the national grassroots political organization for
lesbians and gay men. Membership is $3OIyear. ,Issue-oriented projects address violence, sodomy
laws, AIDS, gay rights ordinances, families, media,
etc. thr~gh lobbying, education, organizing anddirect action.
NGlTF 1517 U Street NW, Washington, DC 20009.
(202)332-8483.

UlSTER COUNTY GAY AND LESBIAN ALLIANCE
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)628-3203.

NEW YORK ADVERTISINGAND COMMUNICATIONS NETWORKNYACN is the community's largest gay and lesbian
professional group, welcoming all incommunications--and their friends. Monthly meetings, 3rd Wed 6:30pm at the Community Center. Me.mbers' newsletter, job hotline, annual directory. Phone(2121517-0380 for more info. Mention OutWeek for
one free newsletter.

UPPER MANHATTAN TASK FORCEON AIDS
Education, Hotline, Supportive Case Management,
and Volunteer Recruitment and Referral.
212-870-3352,

WHAMI (Women'. Health Action Mobilization)
A non-partisan coalition committed to demanding,securing and defending absolute reproductive freedom and quality health care for all women. We meet
every Wed. at 6:30 pm at the Village Independent
Democrats, 224 West Fourth Street (off Sheridan Sq.).
We are not affiliated with VID. (212)713-5966. Mailingaddress: WHAMI, P.O.Box 733, NYC 10009

N.Y. WOMEN'S SOFTBALL GUILDFor experienced,. serious Softball Players, Coaches
and Managelll. We play mod/fast pitch weekends in
Manhattan and Queens. Try-outs begin Feb. 11 thru
April- or until filled. (212)255-1379 Janel-

NINTH STREET CENTER
Since 1973, a community dedicated to demonstratingthat a homosexual lifestyle is a rational, desirable
choice for individuals dissatisfied with the rewards ofconventional living. Psychologically - focussed rap
groups, Tues., Sal, 8 to 10 pm. peer counselling available. 319 E. 9 Street, New York, NY 10003,for info call(212)228-5153.
NORTH AMERICAN MAN/aOY
LOVE ASSOCIATION (NAMBLA)
Dedicated to sexual freedom and especially intereted
in gay intergenerational relationships. Monthly Bulletin and regular chapter meetings on th-efirst Saturday ofoach month. Yearly membership is $20; write
NAMBLA. PO Box 174, Midtown Station, New York,I
NY 10018 or call (212)807-8578 for information,,

WOMEN'S ALTERNATIVECOMMUNITY CENTER (WACC),
A non-profit, lesbian community center serving
Queens, Nassau and Suffolk counties. Thulll night
weekly discussion grps. 8:30pm, for other activities
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Barbary Coast, 64 7th Ave. (14th St.), 675-0385
The Break, 232 Bth Ave. (22nd St.), 627-0072.

Duchess II, 70 GroveSt (7th Ave.).242-1408

Sally's Hideaway, 264 W. 43 St., 221-9152

J's, 675 Hudson St., 242-9292

Town & Country, 9th Ave at 46th St., 307-1503•

Julius, 159 W. 10th St., 929-9672

Trix, 246 W. 48 St. (bet. Bdwy & 8th Ave), 664-8331

Keller's, 384 West St. (at Christopher). 243-1907

The Works, 428 Columbus
799-7365•

Chelsea Transfer, 131 8th Ave. (bet. 16th & 17th),
929-7183

Kelly's Village West, 46 Bedford St., 929-9322

Ave (at Bl st),•The Locker Room, 400 W. 14th St. (9th Ave),459-4299

Eagle's Nest, 142 11th Ave (21st St.),691-8451
Private Eyes, 12 W. 21 st St. (bet. 5th & 6th),
206-7770

Marie's Crisis, 59 Grove St. (7th Ave), 243-9323

Rawhide, 212 8th Ave., (21 st St.). unlisted.

The Monster, 80 Grove St. (7th Ave.), 924-3558

Spike, 120 11th Ave., 243-9688

Ninth Circle, 139 W. 10th St., 243-9204

South Dakota, 405 3rd Ave., 684-8376
Star Sapphire, 400 E. 59th St., 6BB-4710

Uncle Charlie's, 56 Greenwich Ave., 255-8787•

The Townhouse, 236 E..5Bth St., 754-4649

WESTSIDE

Cellblock 28, 28 9th Ave, 733-3144
438 Hudson

Rounds, 303 E. 53rd St., 593-0B07

Tv's, 114 Christopher,741-9641.

Boots & Saddle, 76 Christopher St., 929-9684

The Cubbyhole,
243-9079

Regent East, 204 E. 5Bth St., 355-9465

Two Potato, 145 Christopher St., 242-9340.

Badlands, Christopher & West St., 741-9236

Brandy's Piano Bar, 235 E. 84th St., 650-1944

Johnny's Pub, 123 E. 47th St., 355-B714

Sneakers, 392 West St., 242-9830.

The Annex (to Cellblock 28). 673 Hudson St. (bet.
13th & 14th), 627-1140

Bogart's, 320 E. 59th St., 6BB-B534

G.H. Club, 353 E. 53rd St., 223-9752

Ramrod, 185 Christopher St., unlist.ed.

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Twenty-Nine Palms, 129 Lexinton Ave., 6B6-B299(MortonCandle Bar, 309 Amsterdam Ave., 874-9155

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D.T.'s Fat Cat, 281 W. 12th St., 243-9041

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

EAST VILLAGE

Don't Tell Mama, 343 W. 46th St., 757-078B

The Bar, 6B 2nd Ave. (at 4th St.), 674-9714.

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QUEENS (718)Breadstix, 113-24 Queens Blvd., Forest Hills,
236-0300•

Hatfield's, 126-10 Queens Blvd., Kew Gardens,
261-8484
Hideaway, 87-36 Parsons Blvd., Jamaica, 65V-4585,• , •I

Love Boat, 77-02 BroC,ldway,Elmhurst, 429-8670
Magic Touch, 73-13 37th Rd, Jackson Hgts,
429-B605

STATEN ISLAND,,

Sandcastle, 86 Mills Ave., (718)447-9365

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The Cubbyhole.
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Stutz, 202 Westchester Ave, White Plains,761-3100LONGISlAND

NASSAU (516)

Bedrock, 121 Woodfield Rd., West Hempstead,
486-9516

A neighborhood bar forboth gay men l$l women,

Blanche, 47-2 Boundary Ave., Farmingdale,694-6906
Cheeks, 2000 long Beach Rd, Islal)d Park,431-5700

A Cozy Cafe
Featuring Homemade, Natural Food

Grand Central, 210 Merrick Rd, Rockville Centre,
536-4800
Pal Joey's, 2457 Jerusalem Ave., North Bellmore,785-5031

Fresh Baked Desserts
Coffees and Cappucinos

Silver lining, 175 Cherry lane, New Hyde Park,354-9641

LONGISlAND

97 ST. MARKS PL., N.V.C.
, (212) 874·9302,
LIVE MUSIC TUES & THURS NIGHTSSUFFOLK(516)

Bunkhouse, 192 N. Main St. Sayville, 567-9834

The FreShest of,
Vegetables, Fish, Pasta, ••Herbs, and Spices•

Club Swamp, Sizes, 8 E. Main St., Bay Shore,665-5175•

21 W. 17th St.
NYC 10011(212)645-2160

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• Kiss, 161 Farmardie Dr., lake Ronkonkoma,
467-9273- ) lIiatro(

lunch Mon.-Fri.
dinner Mon.-Sat.

Mr.'s, 608 Sunrise Hwy., W. Babylon., 661-9580,Theater Dimer

Starz, 836 Grand Boulevard, Deer Park, 242-3857•

Div1er1Cocktai1s

Thunders, 894 W. Jericho Tpke., Smithtown,
864-1410

NEW JERSEY (201)•Charlie's West,678-5002

536 Main St., E. Orange,

The Den, 12-16 Hiram St, New Brunswick,545-7329

CUisineLive ,
765 8th Avenue
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342-6410,•. Friendly's Bar, 6310 Park Ave., West New York,854-9895
le Mannequin, 67 Orchard Sf., Elizabeth,353-9694
The Station, 308 Watchung Ave., Plainfield,
755-4000
Excalibur,
10th & Jefferson, Hoboken, NJ,,
795-1023.

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June 20-24 San Francisco. Issues
unique to Bi's such as AIDS, formation
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addressing lifestyle/relationships, S/M,
spirituality, bipolitics, -bistory-, etc. Call
415-775-1990 for info.

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APARTMENT SHAREBOOKKEEPINGDIPLOMATIC ROOMMATE
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nights or travels, or does not spend
much time at home. Non-smoker.
$4OO/mo. negotiable Vann (212)255-4053

Specializes in small businesses. Systems personalized to meet your needs.
Tax time. Anytime.
Free consultation(718)359-1594

EAST VILLAGE
Roomate needed to share 1000 S.F.
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Men's S&M Play Parties $12 w/ad
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April 12, 6:00-10:00, Mon. May 7,7:00. 1:00, Sat. May 19, 6:00-10:00
Paddles, 540 W.21 (212)799-8275

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to make reservations·forthe new members party. (212) 777-4208.

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BODY CONSTRUCTIONTEAM WINI. 212-713-5092
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MEN'S GROUP
Ongoing group dealing withproblems related to positive
self-esteem and male intimacy
Ucensed psychotherapist
Call for consultation.
,(212) 941-9830

GROUP MASSAGE
MEN'S MASSAGE GROUP,
Gettogether with a group of men to
give and receive massages. Taught by
Terry Weisser, Ucensed Masseur andteacher at the Swedish Institute. Sundays, 7-10pm, $20.00,
call (212) 463-9152.

HELP WANTEDDIRECTOR OF STREET OUtREACH
for program providing basic services,
AIDS education and referrals to homeless gay and lesbian adolescents.
Requirements include five years experience working with youth, preferably ..
with some experience with homeless or'street populations, administrativ&experience, excellent speaking and writing
skills, MSW or equivaleiltsend
resumes to: Deputy Director, HMI 401
West St. NY, NY 10014.
OUTGOING SOCIAL PEOPLf
needed to distribute flyers advertisingphone sex lines with gay bars. Must be
friendlyand personable: Fun work. flexible
hours. Call Mr.Goldstein at 935-3440

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HELP WANTEDMOVERS, liCENSEDHElP WANTEDEXECUTIVE EDrrOR
20-30 hrs/wk OUT/LOOK National Lesbian and Gay Quarterly. Mag expo nece!,sary. Aquisition ed development andmss editing. Send resume and letter to
OUT/LOOKjob 2940 16th St., Suite 319,
San Fran, CA 94103 by May 7.
No phone calls.

BOOKKEEPER Ftc
Small growing home furnishings & fashion design business seeks f/c nonsmoking bkpr. w/manual & computer expo
exc. phone skills, billing, NP. NR, typing, payroll etc. Send resume & salaryhistory to Jeffrey Aronoff Inc. 16 West23rd St 3rd Fl., NY NY 10010. .

HOUSEBOY-PINES
Summer house in Fire Island Pines looking for responsible, organized person toclean, cook and maintain house in
exchange for roonViloard, additionalsalary negotiable. Send resume and additional information to Outweek Box 2467

LESBIAN & GAY COMMUNllY CENTERADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT EVENING fee collections, office reception &phone, data entry, word processing,volunteer supervision. Fr, 2-11pm, M-F.
BA, computer experience, excellent
interpersonal skills required. High teens
to low 20's + benefits. Women & peopleof color encouraged to apply. Resumes
to Robert Woodworth, Lesbian & Gay
Community Services Center, 208 W.l3th
St., NY, NY 10011.
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RECEPTIONISTJFILE CLERKBusy private practice; must type withcomputer knowledge; full-time w/benefits after 90 days; good personality tohandle pressure, call Frank after 1pm
M-F. 212-787-7820.

FEMALE MODELS--

wanted for body painting exhibit atMars. Only-thli extraordinary needapply. Call 212-475-6079.

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approach. Also Yoga, Self-Defense,
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Come watch a classl
For more information, call: 982-4739

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professional. Beginners welcome.
Convenient West End Avenue location.
Reasonable rates.
(212)799-3747.
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SAGE: Senior Action in a Gay Environment, Inc. a non-profit organization,is seeking an individual who will havefull-time financial responsibility for thissocial service agency caring for gay
and lesbian 'seniors
in th~ NY
metropolitan area. This person musthave three years or more work experience in fund-raising strategies, publicrillations activities and preparation of.
gr.llnt proposals for foundations andgQvernmental agencies. This person
must have previous experienceinfinancial management and. budget
preparation for business and/or nonprofit organizations, SAGE, Inc. is anequal opportunity employer.
Please direct all inquiries and resumes
to: Chair, Search Committee, SAGE,
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Very quiet secure midtown office spacefor subletto CSW or like Sat. and/or
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Call business hours 307-7669.

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handsome, 50, 5'9",
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THREE-PIECEKINKGWM, young 40, 6',
185, brown hair,
moustache, masculine, nice-looking ,
conservative seeks
professional, masculine guy, 28-42 forhot, safe fun or possible relationship, Into theater, music,
travel, the usual. I
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caring, sensitive,
strong and .imaginative. A touch of kink(bondage,
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HOT BOTTOM/
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build GWM 34 6'2"
GWM, 38, 5'10"
1901bs. hot bottom
165LBS, BLOND
wants hot top for
HAIR
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ing/ENM etc. Reallyshaven, good build. like big guys my age
Seeks same on LI or older or hung, or
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lationship. Enjoys
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swimming, opera,
and tits. Box 1602,
walking, theater. Call Old Chelsea Stn,after 7:30p.m. 718- NYC 10011.
454-2354.
BLOW JOBESSAY-? GWM'SINSTITUTE
The. Blow Job Insti26 AND 23
What would you do tute of New York City
with 2 virile, attrac- seeks EXTRA-FAT
tive, naked men?
cocks. if you're tired
Similar, hung, GWM of running all overor couple gets all town trying to find athey want. Essay,
good blow job, call
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details. No hassle,
no romance: just a
SEEKING ASS
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PLAY BUDDY
is not a city agency).
WM, 5'11", 49,
Leave your No. and190#,
healthy
I'll call you right back.
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Spanish,White(smooth a +), an~hot. Send phone#and photo (If youcan) to Alan, POB
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RENT GAY VIDEOS!. ONLY $9.95 EACH! *ANY ROMANTICS
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