PIlRANC CONFESSIONS:An Interview WIth The
Lesbian Folksinging Phenomenon

HShanghaied I" he groaned.

c»'""My head-!"..... c.Rs

Chip Duckett presents MARS NEEDSMEN/Sunday Nights at Mars/Dancing/ Go-Go Boys / Drag Queens / Live Bands 7 OJ's Michael Connolly,
Larry Tee, Perfidia & John Suliga/West Side Highway and 13th Street

9PM~4AM

,THEART$ ,Film (Breaking In)
Music (Melissa Etheridge)

COP
QUAKE:
Complete
San
Francisco
Coverage,
page 12.

Political Science (Harrington)
Positive Alternatives (Lederer)
AIDS Treatnx:nt News Games)

Art (Plauto)

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56

Books (Sure of You)
Books (Bedrooms Haw Winm)

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60

On the cover: Phranc, photographed by
Maria Perez. makeup by Ronald Rivera

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DEPARTMENTS
Outspoken (Editorial)
letters
Sotomayor
Stonewall Rias (Natalie)
XeroxedNightmare of the Week
Dykes To Watch Out For (BechdeD
Herstory (Archives Collective)
Out Of Control (Day)Lookout
Out Of My Hands (Ball)
Gossip Watch (Signorile)
Social Terrorism (Conrad)Best Bets (X)Going Out Calendar (X)Community Directory
Bar Guide
Classifteds
Personals
HQtshot (Conrad)
Crossword (Greco)

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Victoria Starr Chats With The lesbian First Lady Of Folk

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46

Adam Block Interviews Armistead Maupin As He Launches Sure Of You, The Last In His Tales Of The City
Series
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50
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76

BEVERLY HILLS,
photo by Bill Bytsura

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Sydney Pokorny Confirms The Vicious Rumor: "j Am A lesbo Drag Hag"

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Vote 'No' on the.Ne~ City Charter
An integral aspect of the charter reform before the votersthis fall is to guarantee representation to the diverse groups

which comprise New York. This will be done primarily by
redrawing electoral districts to reflect the social realities ofneighborhoods. Under the proposed new charter the city will
anempt to create districts which keep intact a neighborhood's
natural cohesiveness, based on "historical, racial, economic,
ethnic and religious" considerations. The city will be obligatedto create districts keeping these criteria in mind: that obligation
is wrinen into the new charter. What is not written into thecharter is the obligation to keep sexual orientation in mind.
The charter commission rejected our community's appeal to doso, and we should reject their charter in return.
-, One of the lasting shames of New York's lesbian and gay
community has been our continued inability to elect openly
gay candidates to the City Council. Despite the enormous sizeand potential power of our community, we have failed where~ny smaller cities have already succeeded. But it's not entirely our fault. Our electoral districts are larger than most countries' parliamentary districts, and often cross and divide
established gay neighborhoods. The only permanent solution
is to redraw district lines to create lesbian and gay districts.
When FAIRPAC testified to this effect before the Charter
Revision Commission, they were politely told that if sexual
orientation were included in the final draft it would probably
never win approval. FAIRPAC'sclout with the commission
was not bolstered when only 12 people showed up at a community forum to discuss the issue. So after the long list oflegiti!nate groups with protected status, the new charter lists
the word "other" which refers to us. Now, apparently, we are
not only the love, but also the constituency, that dare notspeak its name .
. This is wrong on two counts. One, there is no guaranteethat this little deal will be respected when the time to redistrict
comes along. There is no recourse for us if those charged withredrawing district lines simply choose to ignore us, which they
may well do. And two, it is unendurably insulting for homosexuals in New York City to be considered an unmentionablegroup 20 years after Stonewall. Until we demand equal treatment with other legitimate minorities we will never recieve it,
and we won't deserve it.
Gays and lesbians do tend to live in certain neighborhoods, and our vote i$ noted, though rarely acknowledged,
by pollsters and politicans. We .can send a strong and simple
message to those who think we're too apathetic orpreoccupied to care about this nasty insult by voting 'no' on the newcharter. We must learn to demand what we deserve: a seat at
the table .•4

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LETTERS
QOutrage
I was angered by Mark
Harrington's
slanted anddangerous views on unofficial AIDS drug trials, and on
Compound Q in particular,
as expressed in 'Compound
Q & A' (Political Science,
October 8).
Harrington, who sounds
more like an FDA bureaucrat
than an advocate for the
HIV-infected, is fixated forsome reason on denouncing
both Compound Q and therecently completed unofficial Q trial. He feels no compunction about ascribing tothis drug a daunting list ofhealth problems identified
during the trial (problems
which mayor may not be

drug-related, which did notappearuniformly
acrosspatients, and many of whichwere transient) while virtuallyignoring the impressive arrayof Q's potential benefits.
These benefits, publishedby the pincipal investigatorsof one arm of the trial,
include dramatic increases
in whitebloodcountsamong all patients, sharp
decreases in both percentagesofHIV-infected
macrophages and p24 antigen
levels(notslightchanges
as Harrlngotn
wrongly states), marked
reductions in size of enlarged
lymph nodes, improved
appetites, increased energy
levels, weight gains andslight Increases In T4 cellcounts. Since Compound Q
is thought to work by killing
only AIDS-infected cells, it isvery encouraging
to seeincreases of any magnitudein T4 cells during this very
short study. In other words,
assumIng CompoundQ
does kill off a significant segment of one's T4cell population,
immunesystemreconstitution is greater than
before-and-after
T4 cellcounts would imply.
Harrington extends his
poorly substantiatedcriticisms to unofficial drug trials
in general. He explores new
dimensions in over-caution,
outlining a laundry list of reasons future unofficial trials
may not be a good idea.
While good patient care, theability to collect useable
data, and well-represented
patient groups are all impor-tant, these are controllable
factors. Harrington seems tofeel the recent Q trial fell
short in these areas, yet hedoes not follow through by
Justifying his intimations. He
insidio~y salutes the braveryof all those Involved in thetrial, foiling to acknowledge
that Information and accessto drugs, not hollow praise
and platitudes, ae the keys
to closing this nightmarish
chapter of history.
.
Thanks to this unofficial
trial, we have begun to build
a body of valuable knowledge on Compound Q that
did not exist a few months
ago. Thisvalue will soon dissipate, however, unless we
rapidly develop
a morecomplete understanding of
the drug's real benefits anddangers. Over the last several years, AIDS drugs like
CompoundQ that weredU~ll~'NKOF IT T~ISWAY., roL BRING IN MORf.

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either discovered or developed outside the laboratories from inadequate clinicaltesting (Peptide T may be
the best example). In orderto ensure that Compound Q
not share this fate, we must
demandanswers to themany questions that still surround this drug. We shouldeven b~ pr9pQred to move
forwardwith additional"underground"
testingshould our government not
respond quickly and comprehensively to our needs.
Admit it or not. AIDS is stilla fatal disease. The ardor
with which we seek goodtreatments should remain
undiminshed as the epidemic expands. And we shouldbe patently intolerant of theviews of individuals like Mark
Harrington who seem bent
on logjamming progress.
David Roche
Manhattan

the many Challenges presented by AIDS.
I was pleased to see thispiece in OutWeek, considering it might confuse andanger some readers, and risk
the call for a boycott.
It was quite exciting to
see the recent response to"science by press release" asin the recent Times hype,"AlJ proven to be helpful for
healthy seropositives." Manyof the complaints
camefrom M.D.'s and scientists
themselves.
I'd like to suggest that hiswhole hype has been nothing more, science by press
release, and should elicit thesame ongry response.
I agree wholeheartedly:
science(AIDS research)needs more unorthodox
zeal.
Get off the pot Mark ...
the dissident water isfine.
Michael Ellner
Manhattan

Hail Heretics
I wonder If any of Mark
Harrington's readers found it
odd that In spite of the obvious thinking that went Into
his piece"Co-factors"(10/1/89), Mark did notquestlon If HIV actually had any
role at all In AIDS.
Perhaps HIV Is nothing
more than an opportunistic
Infection In and of itself..Certalnly much of what he says
points to this possibility.
Even when making thepoint "Science Is supposed
to be based on skepticism
and the testing of completIng hypotheses,'
he only
mentions so called "AIDS
Heretics' who reduce HIV toa co-factor role. What if helooked Into what other'scien-tists like Dr. Duesberg halle tosay about HIV, as the solecause or even as a co-factor?
The idea has been fixed.in our minds, HIV causes AIDS
and that's all there i~to. it.
We need now more thanever to keep our minds open
and insist our 'scientists dothe same in trying to meetMark Harrington replies:"There is no way in the world
there is ever going to be'unify' in any population aslarge a$ ours. It's a waste ofbreath even wishing for It. It's
totally unrealistic. There are
too many constituencies,
which Is as It should be. "-Larry Kramer, NY Native,
July 4, 1988.

Where the Girls Aren't
In her review of the Lesbian and Gay Video Festival,
Catherine Saalfleld says "I'msorry there aren't more 'lesbian' tapes-ones made by
and for lesbians-In this festival. I'm sorry the rest of thetapes leave me feeling likeboys are getting the one
over us again.' She also says,"Why am I almost done withthis review before I find a girltape hidden in so muchglory?" etc.
After viewing many of thefilms in "The New Festival"
earlier this year, I. too, wasleft wondering where all the"girls' stuff" was. The answer
isthat the film/Video businessis very much a male-dominated industry. There is acomparatively small numberof women in the business ingeneral, whether gay or
straight. professional or independent. How many women
directors can you name,compared to the number ofmen in the director's chair?
How many women cinematographers
can you
name? (There is only one in
the American SoCiety of Cinematographers:
BrianneMurphy),Women need to be
encouraged
to becomefilmmakers/Videomakers.
It
has to be done if we want toproduceentertainment
which satisfies our needs/
wants/desires/hopes.
We
cannot expect someone
else to do It for. usl I am surprised that In this city there Is
no noticeable
women's
fllm/Vldeo
organization.
Where are the ads and/or
listings that mention such anorganization?
I work a nine to' five Job,
but the rest of my time I am
working on a documentary.
In the process of doing this, I
om encouraging women to
take an active Interest In
film. I wish more women
would do the same. Then wemight have some more
women's
films/videos
toshow at these festivals.
BeckySoto
Jersey City
Lube Rubes?
Firstthings first. I think yourmagazine is fabulous, I loveit. Even though I realize thatsome members of the community have problems withit, some people are never
happy. God knows we all
have problems. Which is why
I am writing to you. I have aproblem, which is to sa{ that
it isn't really my problem, it issimply a problem that I
would like to mention to yourreadership. Your readership
being, from my observation,
a diverse group of very
groovy fags and dykes. It is
more specificallyto thegroovy fags that I would liketo address my problem. As
you see the problem has to
do with, God forbid, sex.
I am what you might calla safe sex slut. Just becausethat nasty disease Is causing
us all a great deal of disease doesn't mean that aboy should stay at home.
What it means, at least tome, is that I should go out
and have a good time. I
should just be safe and sane
about it, right?

K·Y~ngJellY
My problem Is that I sleep
with or have sex with a lot ofboys who live In the East Village and are pretty groovy
and smart and have good
Jobs, at least If what they tellme Is true, and I do for themost part believe them. On
occasion I will have a sensual encounter with one ofthese boys and I have something very upsetting. t~ tellyou.
.
.
There we will be, themusic playing softly In the
background,
cockt;Jils
having ·been long abandoned by this point, a candie flickering in the corner,
my beautiful East Village boy
is ravishing me with ... well,what ever, you get the idea,
so what happens next? We
are about to share eachother, the condom is on,
anticipation
surging, andthen he pulls out a bottle of

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lubricant, but much to myshock and chagrin, and thisis a nasty reality, that lubricant isn't water soluble. As amatter of fact, as a safe sex
slut I have taken a survey
and usually it's Vaseline
Intensive Care or some similar product. I scream, ruining
the moment altogether, theboy looks at me like somecast off casta diva and asks
what's wrong?
I proclaim: "It's not watersoluble!!!"They have no idea what
I'm talking about. As you
can well imagine our collective parade has been rainedon. Now I have up until thispoint tried to take a lighthearted approach
to myproblem, but after this verysame incident has occurred
to me on more times than I

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would like to recount I feelthe urge to warn your readers of this other plague that is
tearing through our comunity: ignorance. I find it almost
impossible to believe thatafter, what? Nine years? ofthe worst plague that thisworld has been in many ayear that so many young
beautifuland seemingly
intelligent boys are being so
stupid. It makes you wonder
just exactly how deep is ourculturally
taughtselfloathing. Are we killing ourselves because we havesuch low self-esteem? I really
hope not. So go to your local
pharmacyand pick upsome water soluble lube
today!
LoveyaSSS~Manhattan

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Ditch Dinkins
Curiousis how
I'ddescribe the gay community's virtually unanimous support of David Dinkins. Firstthet:community vilified Ed Koch.
Despite what the noiseboxes
bellow, Ed Koch is not anenemy of gay people.
William Dannemeyer
andJesse Helms are examples ofenemies of gay people. Now the community
has completely written off
RudolphGiuliani,althoughGiulianiwould bring independent. reform minded
government to New
York City.
I'm the board
chair of FAIRPAC. A
solid majority of ourboard and our executive director support
Dinkins. Our politicalcoordinator said tome, "Giuliani
isn't
going to give us anything." Well, what do
gay people want? I
know what I want. I
want a state-widebiased crime bill. I
submit Giuliani is a far
better candidate topersuade the homophobes in the Republican controlled State
Senate, which weneed, to make thatbill law. Giuliani is on
record, and to me
personally, to go to
Albany and get thatbill passed. He is also
educable and openminded to the de-mands we have.
Dinkins,in my judgement.
would be an unenergetic
and vacillating mayor. He
has already carved thickslices of pork, and demonstrated a weakness for themunicipal unions.
The gay community, myfriends, cannot afford towrite off the only othermajor political party wehave in this country.
Anthony C. Salerno
Manhattan
P.S.Lastyear I enthusiastically voted for Dukakis.
HetHexSince when did Larisa,
Dianne Brill and Tish andSnooky become lesbians?
When did Richard Butler
become a fag?
Don't you get it? Wehave to look at those same
tired heterosexuals in every
same, tired heterosexual
publicationon the newsstand. I thought OutWeek
was about us dykes andfags. I think Social Terrorism
should only be filled with us'cause, hell, none of those
tired het publications wants
to overdose on us right now
if you know what I mean. I
have been going to clubs
for years and I have to saythat I like seeing fresh faces
and I like seeing gay faces

in a gay magazine. Get ridof the hets! They can get
their photo in any otherplace from Details to Vanity
Fair. And if Erich Conrad
wants to keep taking photosof them, then he should go
work at those publications.
Germaine Modrowski
Manhattan
Chill and Enjoy

It seems every time I pickup a gay rag these days,
there is some to do about
the subject of "you fill in thegender" lyrics in currently
popular women's music.
Women's music. Perhaps
I should say mainstream
music. That's what we'retalking about isn't it? Genuinely gifted dykes who've
managed to wink their way
onto the top SO pop andcountry charts?
Ladies, let's be Phranc.
We all love k.d., Tracy, Melissa and the Indigo Girls.
Many of us knew and loved
them long before
theyachieved their current mainstream popularity.
But I know some people
who didn't. My very straight
little brothers, for instance ...who, if they hadn't rummaged through my tapecase in search of some lost
Grateful Dead, would probably never have become
the hugely appreciativeif
innocently
ignorant fanstheyare.
I went to see Melissa in
Chicago last week. I didn't
go with my girlfriend or any
girlfriends. I went with one of
my little brothers. And you
should have seen him dancing in the aisle!
Which brings me to mypoint. All this bickeringabout
whetherthesewomen should come out issilly. It's like asking a bewildered junior varsity basketball star to come out at a
pep rally.
Let's just chill and enjoy
the music, shall we?
Mary
Chlcago,ILTimes...
The Editors

The New YorkTimes
229 W. 43rd St.
New York,NY 10036
Tothe Editors:
Regarding Wednesday,
October 11th's front page
story, "With Bay Area Series,
Sun Rises: we were taken
aback by the remark that
San Francisco Mayor Art
Agnos "resents any stereotype of his city as little morethan a home for homosexuals and aging hippies:
Can you imagine, on thefront page of The New YorkTimesany of the following:"little more than a homefor Blacksand aging hippies?""little more than a home
for Jews and aging hippies?""little more than a home

for ltaliCl'lSand aging hippies?"
Yet gays are subject tothis kind of outrageousstatement, and it seemingly
goes without notice.
More careful scrutiny,
however, reveals that thisremarkwasdirectly
preceded and followed bydirect quotes by Mayor
Agnos, but the remark itself
was not in quotation marks.
That is, the writer recounts
Agnos' feelings, without
quoting him. This shouldn't
be surprising; Mayor Agnos is
too astute a politician, andthe San Francisco gay community too strong politically,for him to have made thiskind of statement for publi- ,cation.
So the question is, who is
this Jane Gross, and why is

she permitted to publish her
own insensitive inferences
regarding a public official's
position? And why do youreditors allow this kind of irresponsible reporting-on yourfront page?
Michael Violanti .
Richard Sax
Manhattan...AndTimes

New YorkTimesWashington Bureau
16271.street NW
Washington, DC 2C006
Dear Mr. Philip Hilt:
Concerning
your September 29th article in The
New York Times pertaining to
the early release of ddl fromthe FDA I want to register mydisappointment
with yourgeneric phrase "strenuous
efforts of advocates for people with AIDS."You are accurate that those efforts wereindeed strenuous but you failto give any recognition

The U.S. Civil Rights Commissions' Clarence Pendleton .had a heart attack and died three
weeks after a single ACT UP demonstration against him. And his replacement, William Barclay
Allen, resigned just days after OutWeek made him Nightmare of the Week. But AIDS activists'
persistent attention to NYC Health Commissioner Joseph has had considerably less effect
He responded to a nearly year-long hounding by testifying before the judge who eventually convicted 11 of the activists for criminal trespass.
All the while trying to implement mandatory name reporting and contact tracing for HIV
positives, over the loud and persistent objections of virtually every AIDS organization in the city.
And although, with any luck at all, he'll be out on his tight, macho ass in another threemonths, he continues to parade his right-wing ideas through the halls of 125 Worth St
Take a cue from W.B.A.-Resign before it's too late, Steve. Remember Clarence Pendleton.

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whatsoever to whom theseadvocates are. In fact ACT
UP-the AIDS Coalition to
Unleash Power-was largely
responsible for pressuring the
FDA to accept the conceptof parallel track under the
auspices of ACT UP's Treatment and Data committee.
Specifically Mark Harrington,
Jim Eigo, Iris Long, Larry
Kramer, Peter Staley and too
many other committee members to mention in this letter
were the architects and driving force of implementing thepaallel track concept. Markand Jim in particular held
numerous meetings in Washington with Drs. Anthony
Fauci and Ellen Cooper(among other FDA representatives) and frequently testified before the LaSagna
committee. Indeed, it was
ACT UPthat pressured BristolMyers to release ddl on acompassionate use basis in

the first place by numerous
1,500 activists in front of themeetings between that corNew York Stock Exchange
poration's executives andwhich resulted in Burroughsthe above named individuals Wellcome lowering the priceas well as a threat of aof AlT by 20 percent? Everydemonstration in front of Brys- . other New York newspaper
tol-Meyers New York headreported it-because
it wasquarters. You could not be
a newsworthy event!
writing today's article on ddl if
ACT UP is making a differit wasn't for the tremendous
ence in the AIDS crisis
efforts of ACT UP.
through its dedication and
I am stunned that The
persistence.
The Times'
Times can avoid providing
unspoken policy of "blacking
these facts to their readerout" ACT UP's many accomship. I am extremely disapplishments
and politicalpointedin your newsimpact simply lowers yourpaper-the paper of record,
paper's stature in my eyes asfor deliberately
censoringwell as your readership's andthis information from yourprofessional peers'
readers. And this is not theThomas Shultz
first time this has occuredQueens
it's apparently The Times' unspoken policy not to give...and Times Again
any recognition to ACT UP Letters Editor
and its many accomplishThe New York Times
ments. Where was The Times 229 W. 43rd St.
concerning
the ACT UP New York, NY 10036
demonstration
inVOlving
Tothe Editor:

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In its Oct. 13 news story,"Bishops Shift Earlier Stanceon AIDS: The Times reported that a committeeofRoman Catholic
Bishops
had reaffirmed the belief
that AIDS is not a direct punishment from God and had
noted that Jesus neverlinked misfortune
in thislife "with either sin or
divine anger.'
It was reported as wellthat the committee
hadmaintainedthat while ahomosexual inclination is
not sinful, homosexualacts are.
As a gay member of a
Christian church, I must
respectfully point out that
Jesus also nevercondemned
thephysical
expression
oflove
betweenpersons of thesame sex.
Ronald Najman
BrooklynPleasures...by the book.
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News

S.F. Quake Spares
the Castro
Lesbian/Gay Community Shaken But Safe
by Lazaro Hernandez
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SAN FRANCISCO-In the aftermath of last Tuesday's earthquake, thegay and lesbian community of the
Bay Area is still shaken up, but has
managed to pull through the catastrophe with a spirit of cooperation.
Earthquake-related
damage in
San Francisco's gay and lesbian neighborhoods was minor compared toareas such as the Marina and downtown Oakland where dozens ofdeaths occurred when a freeway collapsed. There were scattered reportsof looting on some in some of thecity's poorer areas.
"There was a tremendous amountof camaraderie in our community,·
said Gerard Koskovich, a free-lance
journalist who lives in Duboce Triangle, seven blocks from market Street,
which intersects Castro Street. "Thereappear to be no injuries or fatalities in
the area. You can still see broken
windows, but it is all minor. The
majority of the severe damage took
place at the waterfront.
"But we could definitely feel it. I
was at home when it happened. The
furniture was falling over and windows were falling out into the streets.
Basically the place was a shambles.
We had no power until three in themorning, and there are still areas withno power.
"The most remarkable thing was
to see the whole community pulling
together,"
he said. "People weredirecting traffic, listening to radios,sharing stories and generally having agood time."
Koskovich said that a few bars
had remained open and were serving
drinks by candlelight.
Ken Woodard, an art director
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Police Violence & Arrests
by Lazaro Hernandez
SAN
FRANCISCO-A
demonstrationthat turned
into a violent confrontation
between protesters and police
officers on October 6 is being
dubbed the Stonewall Riot of
San Francisco.
The demonstration ended
with mass arrests, injured
prQfesters and accusations ofexcessive police force. The
rally and march coordinatedby ACT UP were part of anational day of protest against ,the lack of a coordinated'$;~'national policy on AIDS and a f!
plea for more funds to fight
AIDS.
Several hundred demonstrators gathered Friday afternoon outside the federalbuilding where there weresome speeches and street the- ~ater before the rally moved to
City Hall, and then to the U.S.
Mint.
The
group
then
marched to the Castro area
where they were planning a
sit-in at the intersectionofmarket and Castro Streets.
"The custom is for thepolice to open a single lane •on the street, to hold backtraffic, and let the march proceed," said one march participant. "But instead the police
said we could not get off the
sidewalk. They arrested an
individual for stepping on thestreet."first arrest
That individual turned
out to be Bill Haskell, ACT
UP's police liaison. He told WHITE NIGHT REVISITED
the Bay Area Reporter that he Cops club demonstrators in the Castro
was charged with blocking the street
prevent the other half of the groupand resisting arrest when he wentfrom going,"
a protester
told
into the street to identify himself to
OutWeek "It was a constant provocathe police.
tion from the police. Buuhe marchers"At stop lights the police would
remained orderly. The police had dirt

Photo: Marc Geller
bikes, paddy wagons, etc. It was ahuge show of force."
According to Arawn Eibhlyn,
another protester, from the moment
See DEMO on page 15

October 29, 1989

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QUAKE fro.. page 14

who lives in Haight-Ashbury, just northwest of the Castro,
said many residents sat on their porches drinking beer andplaying guitars.
~ .'-. __Chris Hilkene, a' law clerk who lives in the Castro at
14th Street and Noe, was in her kitchen when the quake
started.
uThe things shook a whole lot,· she said. "Doors flew
open, pots and pans started coming out and the jars fromthe spice rack started breaking open. The foundation of our:·Victorian house shifted a little bit. Then everybody poured
into the streets.
"Little shops were open and people started buying bOttled water, batteries and a lot of alcohol,· she said. "Since
the lights were out, people started to gather in the streets,
Sitting on their front porches and strangers started talking toeach other. That was amazing because people don't usually
sit in their porches and talk to strangers. But with the powerout, talking was the oniy way to find out news.' .

"'Whenis it going to stop?Brian Ingelsby, a graduate student in clinical psychology at San Francisco State University, also lives in the Castroarea and was home when the earthquake struck.
"I was watching the World Series and things started
moving,· he said. "As it got more intense I said to myself, oh
my God, when is it going to stop. I was worried about the,people at Candlestick Park. It could have beeO\~uch a
tragedy if the stadium had not withstood the earthquake.
Everything was down immediately so we did not know
exactly what had happened.
°1 got on the phone immediately to a friend in Seattle
JUST UKE NYC

6th Street. South 01Market. post-quake

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Photo: Marc Gellerand said, tell me what has happened.
DEMO from page 13
People knew this was bad, but not the march stepped off the plaza at thefederal buHding, the police moved
how bad."Ingelsby said the people he has against the crowd in force and madetalked to in the Castro area praise the it clear that they would have to obey
traffic laws. "Those were unprececooperation with which everybody
m~t the tragedy. He said one hard- dented actions on the part of theware store stayed open until everyone police; both the large number oflining up outside was helped. "People police officers and the strong stancewere.. quite accommodati~g. My si1!t~r tq<:,y~~ook on not allowing us towas on the San Mateo Bridge when it march on the street."happened. Ther~ was no way for her
to get home, so she stayed with some
·Struggle for the streetpeople she met there. My roommate
Chris Hilkene, who was also partstayed with someone in Berkeley.
of the protest, said that when they got
People were very friendly. We all had to Castro and Market the poli'ce
a shared experience.·
would not allow the protesters to go
into the street. "So it became the·Shaking like Jell-O·
struggle for the street," she said. "We
The quake was centered near just said, you can't treat us like that in
Hollister, 75 miles southeast of San the Castro. But the cops pushed backFrancisco and ten miles north of Santa anyone who stepped off the sidewalk.
Cruz. Scott Bravmann, a graduate stu- Once the police retreated, we moved
dent in History of Consciousness at into the street, but the police returned
the University of California at Santa and started beating on people."At this time the group of demonCruz, recalls the precise moment, 5:04
p.m. (8:04 p.m. Eastern Time), when strators had grown to about 600 people and it moved to the intersection
his house started shaking.
"I waS sitting in my room reading of Castro and 17th Streets, an eyewitand I said· to myself, we are' having an ness told OutWeek. "People linked
earthquake. My windows were shak- arms in the streets and waited peaceing like jeflo and I said, this is a BIG fully to be arrested. The police tried
earthquake. I stood under the door- to reopen the streets. They gave anannouncement that the street was toframe, but wheb' I saw my computer
be cleared. But there was no way tosliding off the desk and my bookcase
move back at that point. Basically wefalling over, I ran out the door."
Bravrnann said that in Santa Cruz had no place to go. People started
10 or 15 Victorian houses-(ell off their saying 'cops out of the Castro, this isfoundations. "The downtown exists no our neighborhood,'"
Eibhlyn said that protesters
more. Only a couple of buildings fell
spray-painted silhouettes and slogans
down completely, but the ceilings
appear to have crumbled in most on the street, such as "Black People
places. The Blue Lagoon, a gay and Die Faster" and "Profits-Death,"lesbian bar, has been closed since the which were painted over by thepolice on the following Sunday.
earthquake.
·We are still feeling aftershocks,"
Cops use clubs
Bravmann added. "So far we have had
Gerard Koskovich remembers theabout 150 of them. The last one lasted
exact moment the violence started.
about four minutes."
Although many in San Francisco "One of the motorcycles was tipped
over, with no one on it, and an officer
reported no loss of phone service,friends, relatives and ex-lovers on lifted his baton and clubbed someone
in the shoulder. Othe~ officers then
. the east 'coast became frantic when
. they couid not g~t calls through, due I
to the tremendous volume of incoming calls ....
-Rex
Wockner and Andrew
Miller contributed to this report, which
wasfiledfrom New York.

~'
tried to club people. I watched thepolice beat a man on a news box andon the ground.
"The police put six square blocks
in house arrest for an hour. People
were not allowed to come out of.
shops, bars or their houses. Ultimately
the police left. The whole time I saw
no aggressive
action against thepolice."Accordingto the Bay Area
Reporter, 45 to 50 people were arrested and at least ten demonstrators andbystanders
reported having been
injured. Their report also quoted
Capt. Richard Cairns, the event's tactical commander, saying the police hadrushed the crowd when demonstrators attacked two officers by grabbiQg
them and trying to knock them off
their motorcycles. Police Chief Frank
Jordan said that four police officers
were injured and that the police
department commenced an investigation of the event.
Investigation convened
Koskovich said that both the
Mayor's office and the Board ofSupervisors
are investigatingtheincidents and the Community United
Against Violence is compiling reports
of police violenceagainst theprotesters.
Eibhlyn said that there are many
theories as to why the police acted inthis unprecedented manner. One ofthem is that the police were trying todrive a wedge between ACT UP and
the lesbian and gay community andhad planned these actions in advance.
Hilkene and Eiblhlyn cited the factthat prior to the march the police had
visited shops in the Castro and asked
them to close that night.
,"I'm seeing it as the StonewaJI for
the new generation," said Koskovich.
"They haven't seen this kind of
behavior in their neighborhood, thiswas oppression in front of their faces.
This may have been the event of thelate 80s with such meaning." ...
-filed from New YorkI

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News

Touted Drug Give-Away
Does Not Exist
Pentamidine Maker Recants Statements on
Distribution Programby Cliff O'Neill and Andrew Miller

director of the Health Group, told
OutWeek that Lyphomed has been
speaking about beginning such a distribution program for months. "Thefact that they haven't worked out thedetails indicates that they werern't
serious about it in the first place,"
Hodel said, deducing that thecompany used its statement tocounter his own organization's
announcement of the availabilityof less expensive pentamidine.
"Perhaps the fact that it
appeared on the front page of theTimes will force Lyphomed to taketheir own program a little more
seriously. We'll be watching,·
Hodel said.
Lyphomedhas been the
direct target of harsh criticism
from AIDS activists nationwide,
who have charged the Rosemont,
Illinois-based company with pricegouging, citing a 300 percent
increase in the price of pentamidine over a two year period.
Initially, a vial of pentamidine, enough for a single dose,sold for $25 when the drug wasa~peared, the company admitted VERY IMPORT PERSON
Photo: Scott Morgan first approved in 1984. In 1985,
thiS week that. such a program PWAHG's Derek Hodel
does not yet eXIst.
the company raised the price to
The company's original statements
insurance] coverage with pentamidine$39.45, then to $54.79 per vial inappeared to portray intentions to give for prophylaxis therapy."
1986, to $69.95 in April of 1987, andaway aerosolized pentamidine, a preMirroring remarks made shortly
finally to its current cost of $99.54 inventative treatment for pneumocystis
after the drug's final Food and Drug
August of 1988.
carinii pneumonia, or PCP, which is Administration
approval, Marsden
The cost of a vial of pentamidine
the leading cause of death among peothrough the People With AIDS Healthstated that the company is still workple with AIDS and HIV infection. In an ing with community-based researchGroup is $40, including shipping,
injectible form, pentamidine is also
handling and customs charges.
groups in several major cities to coorused to treat PCP infection.
Lyphomed has defended its pricdinate the give-away program, but
However,anothercompanyrefused to state how many people
ing in the past, citing the costs ofspokesperson, contacted by OutWeek
would qualify, or when it would beresearch and development of penOctober 13, called the announcement
implemented.
tamidine and other AIDS treatments.
"premature." "We haven't worked out
But Derek Hodel, executive
The company has a history of defen-

NEW YORK-On
October 12,
Cynthia Yost, a marketing director at
Lyphomed, the American manufacturer of pentamidine, told The New YorkTimes that the company had decided
to give the life-saVing AIDS drug
away to indigent
patients
because it is "a socially responsible company and is committed
to being part of the solution,
making this drug available to the.
patients who need it."
Lyphomed's announcement
followed on the heels of a
September 25 decision by the
People With AIDS Health Group,a New York City buyers' club, tohelp individuals import pentamidine from overseas at a savingsof up to 80 percent of the costof the drug in U.S. pharmacies.
Pentamidine marketed in London is manufacturedby theFrench pharmaceutical company
Rhone-Poulenc.
But despite the front page
story in wpich Yost's comment

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the. details on it yet," stated Melissa
Marsden. "It really is premature at thistime to give any information on the
program. All we've indicated is that
we intend to establish a program tosupply indigents without. [healthsive reactions to pressure from AIDS
advocates, and in the recent Times
story hinted that such protests could
affect the future development of other
AIDS drugs.
·We are being pilloried," Brian
Tambi, a Lyphomed senior vice president, told the Times. "We are being
crucified. "The company has steadfastly
refused to make public documents ordata that would justify or explain theirpricing mechanism for the drug.
Undaunted, AIDS advocates areworking on a group letter from a
coaltion of lesbian, gay and AIDS(;)rganizations demanding
a pricereduction from Lyphomed. Similar
coalition-based tactics, together with ademonstration at the New York Stock
Exchange and the threat of a nationwide boycott of the company's overthe-counterproducts
forcedBurroughs Wellcome to reduce theprice of the costly anti-HIV drug AZT
by 20 percent last month.
Meanwhile, Hodel, who reported
that interest in importing pentamidine
through his organization "has been
accelerating as word spreads aroundthe country," told OutWeek that "If
Lyphomed's indigent patient program
were to take off, the Health Groupwould have no business in the pentamidine business. And we'd be glad
to take a break."For more information on importing British pentamidine, call the People With AIDS Health Group at
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News

GMHC Selects New

Executive Director
by Andrew Miller
NEW YORK - jeffrey Braff,chairperson of the Canadian AIDS
Society, was named the new executive director of the Gay Men's Health
Crisis (GMHC) on Tuesday, October
17. The decision, made by GMHC's
board of directors at a meeting on
Monday night, brings a nearly yearlong search to an end, and fills the
position resigned by Richard Dunnelast March.
Braff, who will begin work on
November 20, has chaired the Canadian AIDS Society, an Ottawa-based
coalition of that country's 40 community-based AIDS organizations, since1988.. Braff has also served on Canada's Expert Advisory Committee on
HIV Therapies, which helps the federal government set policy on AIDS
treatments, and has been involved insecuring access to experimental drugs
for people with HIV infection.
GMHC spokesperson
GeoffreyKnox told Out Week that the 40-year
old-Braff was chosen because he"combined passion and commitment
with extensive management experience, an overall grasp of the issues
and an understanding of how GMHC
operates."
Knox added that Braff, a native
New Yorker with dual U.S./Canadiancitizenship, is familiar with New York
City politics, and assisted in the organization of the Fifth International
Conference on AIDS in Montreal lastjune.
Braff, who holds a B.A. from
McGill University and an M.B.A. fromthe University of Ottawa, has worked
for Bell Canada for 18 years in a variety of executive positions, supervising
as many as 500 employees and budgets of up to $35 million, according to
GMHC, which has a staff of 125, a
volunteer force of 1,600 and a $12
million annual budget.

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In a press statement issued by
GMHC, Braff said, ''The new position
will allow me to use my non-profit
skills and my business skill. Helping
people realize their full potential is by
far the most valuable experience I
take from my corporate years. Combining this with the anger and passion
I feel as an AIDS activist is a great
opportunity. "Knox said that Braff's positions
were in line with GMHC's current
policies, including its opposition to
City Health Commissioner Stephen
joseph's renewed efforts to institutename reporting and contact tracingfor HIV positives, which Knox calleda "waste of time and energy," addingthat calling for physicians lists will
create more fear, and will not help
the people we need to help."
Braff's lover, Stephen Manning, is

TAKING OVER
JeHreySrsH

Photo: Gary Greenberg

the executive director of the AIDS
Committee of Toronto.
Knox would not disclose w~o' ,.
else was being considered for the
position, or confirm the job's annual
salary, which is reportedly between$90,000 and $100,000.
Deputy Executive Director for
Policy Timothy Sweeney will continue
serving as acting executive director,
until November 20, as he has since
September, according to Knox. T

Disabled Lesbians
Demand More
Accessibility
by Rex Wockner
BOSTON-An
unprecedented
and aggressive three-year plan for"accessibility" at "lesbian, gay, feminist and leftie events" has been published in "working draft" form by the
Boston-based journal Dykes, Disabilities & Stu.ffIDDS1.
Although the plan deals withsuch
commonproblems
aswheelchair accessibility, sign language
interpretation, braille translation andmuiti-Iingualism,
DDS
entereduncharted territory in lashing out at
gay/lesbian insensitivity to persons
with "environmental illnesses· and to"women of all sizes.""Beginning immediately,· plan
drafters wrote, "events should be
advertised as scent-free and 'sniffers'
posted at the entrance to ensure that
all who enter are in compliance. Anyone who is wearing scents should beturned away at the door." The planalso calls for air purifiers to "be placed
throughout meeting/event spaces."
A second overlooked disability,
according to DDS, is that of women who
are too large to fit in standard seating.
"Larged sized women," the plansaid, "should not have to choose
between not attending an event or
being bruised by the seating. Couches
and armlesschairswith wide
seats ...are acceptable alternatives."
Another disability issue brought
to light by the plan is the dilemma of
women who tire easily and require
rest breaks.
"Women who must take breaks
are excluded from full participationand their input is lost," drafters said.
"We would propose that all decision
making occur in the morning. This
would ensure that decisions are notmade by a small group of womenremaining ...after those who need torest or eat have left."
Finally, the plan demands thatfood and drink be available at all
times, including "sugar-free drinks for
women who are diabetic or otherwise
sugar-intolerant. Signs can be posted,"
the drafters said, "indicating that thepresence of sugar-free drinks is not
an endorsement of the diet industry,
but is a form of accessibility."
The draft was prepared by Sara
Karon and Catherine Oddette, whostated that "once this plan is distributed to the world and publicized, we
will no longer tolerate ignorance ofwhat access means."
The plan precededby twomonths a blow-up at the Labor Day
First Annual East Coast Lesbians' Festival in West Stockbridge,
Massachusetts.
At that event, four disabled lesbians and several able-bodied sympathizers blockaded the festival entrance
and attempted to send festival-goers
home. The protesters complained thatthe ramping of camp buildings forwheelchair access was inadequate,that hydraulic lift shuttle trucks were
not equipped to handle scooters andthat the festival site was, in general,
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Upstate Gay Candidates
Look Towards November
Mains, St. John Run in City Council Races
by Jon Nalley
New York City's openly gay candidates for City Council, Tom Duaneand Dave Taylor, failed to make itpast the Democratic Primary to theNovember general election (although
Duane remains on the ballot on the
Liberal line).

,-

RUNNING ON THE LEFT

Albany's Keith St. John
But their upstate counterparts
have fared much better. Keith St. Johnsqueaked by an incumbent, going onto the general election as the Democratic candidate for the Albany City
'Council's 2nd Ward, while
incumbent Rochester City
CouncilmemberTim
Mains will seek reelection
in an at-large race for one of fiveavailable seats. A third openly gay
candidate, John Noble, is running forcouncilman
in the 3rd Ward of
Greece,a suburb
northeastof
Rochester.
The candidacies of St. John and
Mains demonstrate that the lesbian
and gay community has come of age
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it has the clout, expertise and funding
to get elected, according to Libby
Post, co-chair ex-officio of the New
York State Lesbian and Gay Lobby.
Post told Out Week that she was optimistic about both campaigns.
St. John's primary victory against
incumbent Arthur Scott was one skirmish in an ongoing battle by Albany's
progressive community against theentrenched Democratic machine. Running as part of a coalition called Citizen's Action of the Captial District(CACD)-and
winning by threevotes---this Cornell Law School graduate and Legal Aid lawyer's victory is
believed to be the first ever by an
openly gay African-American.
CACD is an umbrella: organiza-.
tion of lesbians and gays, women,
Blacks, environmentalists and other"progressives·· seeking to wrest control of Albany politics from the
Albany County Democratic Organization. The lesbian and gay community
is widely perceived to be the coalition's leader.
A watershed in this battle was
the ugly March 1988 defeat of a proposed municipal gay rights ordinance.
In spite of widespread support of thebill by unions, church grQUps and thecity's Council of Neighborhood Associations, the Albany County Democratic Organization is credited withengineering its defeat by twisting thepolitical arms of council members(called aldermen in Albany) behindthe scenes.
St. John, who in the general election will again face Scott, running thistime as a Conservative, as well as

Republican candidate Marty Kerins,
pledges to be in the forefront of getting such legislation through the city
council. Scott, despite assurances of
support to Albany'S lesbian and gay
leadership, abstained when the bill
was brought to a vote.
Currently in negotiations withRUNNING IN THE RED

Rochester's Tim Mains
Albany's Democratic organization for
funding, St. John said he hoped any
actions on his behalf would speak
louder than previous words. "I'll givethem a chance," he told Out Week.
The party machine, henoted, was grudgingly
responding
tothechangingmoodofAlbany voters, fearing opposition
slates at the ward and county levels.
Grassroots campaign work in various Albany neighborhoods, together
with the influx of younger people"not tied to the regular organization
or loyalty to the party," was a factor
in the Democratic 'primary having ahigher turnout than last year's presidential primary, according to St. John.

In contrast
to the Albany
Democratic machine's cold-shoulder,
Tim Mains Is running with the "blessIng and support" of the Monroe County Democratic Committee, Much more
problematic, the Incumbent Rochester
councllmember told Out WeeR, is his
campaign's financial situation,
Running in the red after a strong
primary challenge, Mains said that his
campaign lacks a ready reserve which
could be needed to fight back "ifsomeone throws stones at the lastminute." Mains said he foresees thepossibility of homophobic
forcesunleashing a ·scurrilous· blitz during
the week before the election, as they
did during his first race in 1985.
Funding problems resulted fromthe failure of the lesbian and gay community to become excited by the raceof its incumbent, whom many assume
will win easily. Mains also said that hehad avoided fundraising in New York
City to avoid siphoning resources
needed by Duane and Taylor.
Also of concern to the candidate
is the margin of his primary victory.
Mains' vote total trailed far behindthose of the two top vote-getters,
Nancy Padilla (the Council's first latina candidate, and a two-term memberof the Rochester School Board),
incumbent Jerry Curran. Being a distant third "probably reflects somecovert homophobia,· Mains conceded, and is pushing him to enlarge
turnout
in supportive
areas ofRochester. Mains has had problems inmaking inroads with that city's whiteethnic voters, particularly the Italianand Polish communities, and he has
never done well with Rochester'sBlack voters.
Five Democrats and five Republicans will vie for five available seats in
Rochester's at-large council races.
In the Rochester
suburb of
Greece, Democratic Comminee chair
John Noble is facing an uphill battle
in his race for Council in that city's
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OK to begay in MA?

the atmosphere
was tense
asprotestors entered the hotel and loudly began chanting and singing. Obviously
agitated
and frightened
conference-goers were herded into an
adjoining dining room.
BOSTON-The
Massachusetts
Sheldon later labeled the protest
State Senate voted in favor of a bill"guerilla
warfare"and
otherthat would make it unlawful to discomplained of being "held hostage."
criminate on the basis of sexual orienOne man attempting to locate thetation on Wednesday, October 11,
restroom inadvertently wandered outjoining the state's House of Represenside into the mass of protestors while
tatives, which passed the same billa Sheldon supporter furiously shouted
earlier this year.
···-,·"Shut that fucking door."
The 23-13 vote marked the first
Flustered and angry, Sheldon
time in the 17 years of debate on thelater blasted activists at a news conlesbian and, gay civil rights bill thatference. He told reporters that a "stink
both the House and the Senate have 1··
bomb" he blamed on "homosexuals·
passed it in the same year. The bill~
had caused thousands of dollars in
now awaits Signature by Governor
WILUAM BARCLAY ALLEN
dam'age and that he had been
Michael Dukakis; who is expected to
informed his group would no longer
sign it.
be welcome at the hotel for futute
If signed into law, Massachusetts
events.
and Wisconsin will be the only U.S.
Later, Sheldon said there was nostates to grant explicit civil rights toactual "stink bomb," and that a foullesbians and gay men.
smelling liquid had been used to disThe Senate also voted down arupt the conference.
host of riders which would have
ANAHEIM, CA-Over
100 gay
But hotel security
manager
weakened the bill, including one
and lesbian activists from throughout
Michael Thayer said he had no idea
seeking to allow the firing of school
the state turned out in Anaheim on
how- Sheldon arrived at his damage
teachers who "promote homosexualiOct. 7 to protest a "symposium" onestimate and that to his knowledge,ty,· and another describing the hethomosexuality sponsored by the Calithe hotel management
has not
erosexual family unit as the basis for fornia Coalition for Traditional Values,
banned the Sheldon group from the
Massachusetts public policy.
a right-wing political lobby headed byhotel in the future.
But the bill's provisions do not the Rev. Louis Sheldon.
Among topics during the two-day
extend to the areas of religious affiliaThe two-day conference at theconference were "reparative therapy
tion, foster care parenting and domesPan Pacific Hotel near Disneyland
for the homosexual" and a lecture intic partnershiprights, because ofincluded a much publicized appearearlier amendments
which also
ance by William Allen, chairman of . which the fight for gay rights waslikened to arguments in favor of slavpassed the House. While the legisla- the U.S. Civil Rights Commission.
ery during the 19th century.
tion would not prohibit gay people
Allen delivered a talk entitled "Blacks?
That lecture, delivered by Brian
from becoming foster parents, it Animals? Homosexuals? What is a
Kennedy, of the Claremont Institutewould allow agencies to refuse gay Minority?"
for the study of Statesmanship andAllen's fellow commissioners
applicants based on their sexual oriPolitical Philosophy, concluded withcondemned his appearance at theentation.
an emotional call to ban gays from allforum by a 6-1 vote and deemed the
Although gay and lesbian lobbyteachingpositions,
elementary
ists have decided to push for ratifica- title of his speech "thoughtless, disthrough university levels.
gusting and peedlessly inflammatory."tion of the bill as it is, theseAnti-gay Congressman William
He has since resigned his position onamendments have led others in theDanneymeyer (R-CA) author of thethe Commission.
community to lend only half-hearted
recently published book, Shadow on
supportto the legislation,
andAlthough 40 demonstrators were
the Land: Homosexuality in America,
issued citations for trespassing, thedescribe it as a "partial victory."
warned that "unless the leaders ofprotest drew praise from both the- Andrew Miller
this country ...are willing to stand up
Anaheim Police Department and theand affirm heterosexuality as the basis
Pan Pacific Hotel management, which
dropped all charges.
of our society, the homosexuals willwin."
Inside the conference, however,
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New YorkJft ntl1li"We should understand the ferocity of the movement with which weare dealing,· Dannemeyer said. "Theroad to Selma did not lead to the rightto sodomy'Less strident were the various
proponents of "reparative therapy.·
Joe Dallas told his audience that heonly works with clients who genuinely desire to change and that lesbians
and gays must be viewed with compassion.
Sally Gerhart, a veteran San Francisco lesbian activist who attended
the conference as an observer, afterward deemed the conference "anti. gay." But she added that a few of thefundamentalists present did demonstrate "a very deep attempt at compassion-paternalisticcompassion.·
This, Gerhart added, was better
than the unadulterated
hatred andfear that many lesbians and gays
expected.
Whatever spontaneousinteraction there was at the conference
between lesbians, gays and fundamentalists apparently was not a product of planning' on Sheldon's part.
Many lesbians and gays reported
being unable to obtain tickets for the
conference
and being questioned
about their sexuality, and political andreligious beliefs when they attempted
to register.
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ee's marital status and sexual orientation. But "[The statue] is meaninglessif Jerri Lynn and Lorri are denied
employee benefits afforded to heterosexual couples," said NGRA staff
attorney Cynthia Goldstein. "Equal
access to family benefits is central toequal treatment."
NGRA is expanding its efforts tosecure equal rights for lesbian andgay families including family partnership legislation and equal access tobusiness
accommodations
andemployee benefits. "This case reveals
the limits of our rights as lesbian andgay Americans when we have protections on papers, only to have themignored in practice," said NGRA Executive Director Jean O'leary. "Lesbian
and gay families will be respected
only when we demand equal treatment in every arena."-Keith Miller

Use it orlose it, II
NEW YORK - Lambda Legal
Defenseand
Education
Fundannounced today that it has successfully persuaded a Chicago-based company to include sexual orientation in
its anti-discrimination policy in bothits Wisconsin and Chicago offices, insettlement of a complaint filed by aformer gay employee under the Wisconsin Fair Employment Act. In addition to the policy change
inemployment practices, the company,. Bradner Smith, a paper retailer, hasalso agreed to a $15,000 financial settlement.
The case is believed to be thefirst in the country in which a Wisconsin law, the only statewide law inthe country prohibiting discrimination
based on sexual orientation, was used
to affect an employer based in another state.
The former employee,
Keith
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GERRI WELLS AT RECENT ST. VINCENTS' SIT-IN
work with a gay man. laBrecque had
worked for the company for two
years as a customer representative in
its Chicago office when, after receiving excellent performance evaluations,
he was promoted
andtransferred to the Brookfield, Wisconsin office in June, 1986, according to
Lambda.
There, LaBrecque charged that
his co-workers
and supervisor"became uncooperative and· thwarted
his activities" when they learned that
he was gay.
After a meeting with the company's president and vice-president,
LaBrecque was demoted and transferred back to the Chicago office, lessthan eight weeks after his promotion.
Accordingto Lambda Legal
Director
Paula Ettelbrick,"wewouldn't have settled unless Bradner
Smith had made a company-wide policy," citing Lambda's commitment to"litigation that affects the greatest segments of our community-not
justone individual." She added, "Our goalis always getting a change in policy,
not just resolving the individual case."
In a press statement issued byLambda, laBrecque said, " Laws don't
mean anything unless lesbians andgay men know about these protections and use them to their fullest
effect. It is heartening to know thal

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our community has the ability to instigate that accountability."-Andrew

Miller

SODletiDles
doctors do
Dlake housecalls
NEW YORK-At what is being
billed as "St. Vincents Makes a House
Call to the Gay and Lesbian Community Center," community members will
have a chance to confront the entire
executive body of the Greenwich Village Hospital on Wednesday, October
25, at 7:30 pm.
The meeting was organized by
Gerri Wells of ACT UP as part ofongoing negotiations with the hospital following repeated incidenns ofanti-gay harrassment and violence
involving hospital employees and gay
and lesbian patients and their lovers
and friends.
Wells reported that much of thehospital's administration was expected
to attend, witli the exception of hospital President Sister Mary Sweeney.

Out Takes"We're very disappointed about that. I
think she's afraid of gay people,·
Wells said.
The meeting will be facilitated by
ACT UP's Amy Bauer, and Philip
Gautreau, an openly gay man who isthe program administrator at St. Vincents' AIDS Center.
Wells urged "anybody who feels
they've been mistreated" by the hospital, or involved in any of the incidents themselves or the subsequent
protests, to attend.
The Community Center is locatedat 208 West 13th Street in Manhattan.
- Andrew Miller

Angry
Pacific
SYDNEY-8,OOO people lined themain street through one of Sydney's
gay neighborhOods on the afternoon
of October 2, in a counter-mobilization to protest a "Cleansing March of
Witness· by right-wing
Christiangroups. The march was led by Reverend Fred Nile, a Bible-thumping
moral crusader who has used his
position in the state legislature toattack the annual Sydney Gay andLesbian Bible Mardi Gras, which lastyear drew a record crowd of over
150,000 people.
The counter-mobilization was thelargest political rally by gay and lesbian organizations ever seen in thiscountry. The "cleansing" marchers,
many of whom had been bused infrom country areas to boost theirnu'mbers, were outnumbered four toone.
Gay and lesbian community leaders condemned the march, saying it
was as offensive as a rally by neoNazis would be in a predominantly
Jewish neighborhood. They called it adeliberate provocation, and would
lead to increased street violenceagainst lesbians and gay men.
As the march turned onto Oxford
Street, at the center of Sydney's gay
community, it was greeted by goodnatured jeers, until onlookers saw theplacards saying "What's so gay about
AIDS,· and "AIDS is God's punishment for homosexuality."
Many of those who packed thesidewalks had lost friends and lovers
in the epidemic. Some were themselves fighting their own battle withthe disease.
The marchers ran a gauntlet ofangry fist-shaking boos and hisses as
they made their way up the street tothe square at the top of the hill.
There, as Nile began his address tothe milling crowd, a photographer
from a gay newspaper jumped onto
the stage and grabbed the microphone, shouting "Gay love is best,·
until he was bodily carried away byseven state police.
Mardi Gras President
CathPhillips later described the day as aresounding victory for lesbians andgay men. There were six arrests
reported, all for minor offenses.
-Terrence Bell

Discrilllination =$60~OOOSAN FRANCISCO-National Gay
Rights Advocates (NGRA) has won asettlementin the amountof$62,746.38
againstCalifornia's
Raytheon Company for AIDS discrimination after the company refused toallow John Chadbourne, a quality
control analyst, to return to work after
learning he had AIDS in 1983.
NGRA's precedent-setting victory
against Raytheon began in 1987 witha unanimous decision by the California Fair Employment and Housing
Commission establishing AIDS as ahandicap. The California Superior
Court upheld the Commission's decision in 1988, and in July of this year
the California
Court of Appeals
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required to pay all back attorney's
fees; and to establish an "AIDS in the
Workplace" training program for its
employees.
·People with AIDS can now feel
more secure about their jobs,· sand
NGRA's Legal Director Leonard Graff.
"Employers who discriminate risk
paying large cash awards, even if theemployee dies.· Mr. Chadbourne diedof AIDS-related complications in 1985.
National Gay Rights Advocates
and the Employment Law Center of
San Francisco were co-counsel on thecase and Peter Laura from the Law
Firm of Leroy S. Walker in Los Angeles was the trial lawyer.
-KeIth Miller

Allen
Ginsberg
wants you
NEW YORK-The Committee for
Lesbian and Gay Studies (CLAGS) of
The City University of New York willhold its first fund raising event on Friday, November 17, 1989 from 6:00
p.m. to 8:00 p.m. at CUNY's Graduate
Center to celebrate the publication of
Hidden From History. Reclaiming the
Gay and Lesbian Past, a historicalanthology edited by Martin Bauml
Duberman,Martha Vicinus andGeorge Chauncey, Jr.
Hosts for the evening are Allen
Ginsberg and Gloria Steinem andserving as committee members will be
the Hon. Bella Abzug, Judy Collins,
Jules Feiffer, Edmund White, Susan
Brownmiller
and Larry Kramer,
among others.
Called a "milestone in gay andlesbian studies,· Hidden From History
moves in time from the ancient world
to the present day, drawing from various national histories to reveal a complex,
diverseandpreviously
unavailable lesbian and gay historic
record.
The Committee for Lesbian and

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Gay St~dies was formed three years
ago to establi~h the first universityaffiliated research center in this country for scholarships
relating tolesbians and gays. They are in theprocess of becoming formally incorporated at The Graduate Center of
The City University of New York.
Tickets for the ClAGS fund raiser
are $30 in advance, $40 at the door, at
The Reception Hall, The Graduate
Center, City University of New York,33 West 42nd Street.
-KelthMiller

Have HIV,will travel
NEW YORK-Two guidebooks
containing AIDS-related information
have recently been published and are
now available for purchase. The first,
Visiting the USA: A Legal Guide for
Persons with HIV is available from
National
Gay Rights Advocates(NGRA)i Learning' AIDS has been
published by the American Foundation for AIDS Research (AMFAR).

Responding
to the expected
influx of HIV"positive foreign visitors
to neXt year's International AIDS Conference in San Francisco, NGRA has
produced the nation's first legal guidefor foreign nationals with HIV whowish to visit the United States. The

book is designed to guide a foreign
visitor through the confuSing maze of
U.S. immigration requirements andcontains copies of relevant forms,
laws, cases and strategic pointers.
Current United States Immigration andNaturalization Service policy allows
foreign nationals with HIV to visit the
U.S. for 30 days to attend conferences, visit relatives, conduct professional business or seek medical
treatment. The original law banningimmigration or travel was sponsoredby Senator Jesse Helms. "Present policy is both cruel and medicallycounter-productive,·
said attorney
Benjamin Schatz, Director" of NGRA's
AIDS Civil Rights Project. "Erecting
barriers at our borders does not stop
the spread of AIDS-it only stops theflow of information which is critical tocombatting the epidemic.
More
than
1,700
books,
brochures, pamphlets, audio tapes,
video tapes, files and instructional
programs are listed in Learning AIDS,
making it the only qualitatively evaluated compendium of AIDS!HIV educational
resources
available.
A
reference tool for educators, service
providers, corporate program managers, policy makers and other individuals interested in or affected by
the AIDS/HIV epidemic, Learning
AIDS is the book's second edition andcontains nearly twice as many listings
as the first edition, published lastyear.
"Learning AIDS will help people
live with AIDS, not die with AIDS,·
noted Reverend John H. Vaughn,
M.D., executive director, East Harlem
Interfaith,
New York, one of thereview panelists. "[Itl will serve as alife or death guide for people wanting
to know more about what is available
to them in the way of AIDS educational resources."
Learning AIDS is available for$24.95 and may be ordered from theexclusive distributor, RR Bowker bycalling toll-free 1-800-521-8110.
A Legal Guide for Persons with
HIV is available for $10 plus postage
from NGRA, 540 Castro Street, San
Francisco, CA 94114. More informa-tion may be obtained on the publication by calling (415) 863-3624.
-Keith Miller

It can bappen.'.anywhere
NEW YORK-Four men yelling"faggot· attacked and beat a pedestrian on the Upper East side early on
Sunday, October 15, leaving him witha broken jaw.
According to police, John Falcon,
33, was walking south on Second
Avenue near East 90th Street between
3 and 4 a.m. when. he was 'attacked
by the four men, who allegedly beathim with their fists.
.Falcon was treated at Doctor's
Hospital emergency room, and transferred to Bellevue Hospital the nextmorning, where he was reported insatisfactory condition.
Captain Maurice Collins of the
New York City Police Bias Crimes
Unit said no arrests had yet been
made, and that the police were trying
to locate witnesses, but have no "substantial" leads as yet.
While the unit does not track
such incidents by precinct, Collins
said the 19th Precnct, where theattack took place, "is not one of thehighest ones· for gay-related bias
crimes.
Reached by OutWeek at Bellevue
Hosptal, Falcon waid he was notinterested in talking to reporters, andrefused to discuss the incident further.
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General Richard Thornburgh made it
clear that the Bush Administration isprepared to stand up to attempts tolimit cov.erage for AIDS patients undera far-reaching disabilities anti-discrimination bill.
Testifying before the full House
Judiciary Committee, Thofnburgh outlined the administration's strong supportof theAmericans
With
Disabilities
Act, a mammoth billwhich would extend to people withdisabilities-including
people withAIDS and HIV infection-the protections of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
On October 12, Dannemeyer
expressed his intent to introduce anamendment to the bill that would
allow the AIDS anti-discrimination
protections
to stand, but would
exclude from coverage "all people
with communicablediseases whohave. received that disease throughintentional conduct.""Clearly, I would like to coverhemophiliacs and people who got
this [disease] through blood transfusions and innocent babies," statedDannemeyer, "and I don't want tocover homosexuals and drug addicts."
When Dannemeyer asked Thornburgh for the Bush Administration's
position on this, Thornburgh responded, "The administration's position isthat there should be AIDS non-discrimination protections without relevance to such other factors."
The bill would bar discriminationon the basis of disabilities in the areasof employment, public accommodations and telecommunication systems.
Such discrimination in housing wasbanned by the Fair Housing Act of1988.
After intense negotiations with
the White House and ranking Senate
conservatives throughout the summer,
a compromise version of the original
bill was passed by the U.S. Senate in
September. Passage of the bill by theHouse is expected by the end of theyear.
-Cliff O'Neill

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Movin' on up
NEW YORK-Adrian Mayer, President of Senior Action in a Gay Environment(SAGE) announcedon
October 10, 1989 that the organization's Associate Director for Services,
Arlene Kochman, has been named
Acting Executive
Director.
The
appointment was made following theresignation of the former Executive
Director, Barbara Emmerth, earlier thesame week. Emmerth's decision to

ARLENE KOCHMAN
resign was reached by mutual agreement with the Board of Directors.
Ms. Kochman, a SAGE staff
member for over four years, has a
Masters of Social Work, is a Certified
Social Worker in the State of New
York, and is currently working on a
Doctorate of Social Work at Fordham
University. "We know that Arlene will
be as effective and dynamic in her
new position as she has been eversince joining SAGE,"noted Mr. Mayer,
adding that. the SAGE Board has no
immediate plans to initiate an executive search.
Founded in 1977, SAGE is a

sqcial service agency providing carefor older gay men, lesbians andseniors with AIDS. SAGE also provides education and advocacy aroundthe issues of gay aging on a national
and international level, mobilizing
their staff and a corps of 300 volunteers to assist nearly 1,000 individuals
each month.
-Keith Miller

Out voted
MADISON-Th~
Fifth Annual
Conference of Gay and Lesbian Officials will be held November 17-19,
1989 in Madison, Wisconsin, and will
focus on the mutual concerns andexperiences of lesbian and gay elected and appointed officials, candidates, potential candidates, campaign
workers and their life partners.
"Forward" is the theme of theconference, and also doubles as themotto of the state of Wisconsin.
Madison, the state capital, boasts
seven openly gay or lesbian elected
officials, comprising ten percent of
the Madison City Council and ten
percent of the Dane County Boardof Supervisors. Wisconsin is also the
only state in the nation to prohibit
by statute discrimination in employment, housing and public accommodations
on the basis of sexual
orientation.
In addition to the meetings andworkshops to be held in and around
Madison (including "Building Moral
Coalitions' for Human Rights: Outflanking the Fundamentalists") there
will be opportunities for participants
to speak informally with their counterparts from other areas. For more
information, call Richard Wagner,.(608) 257-5370 or Tammy Baldwin,(608) 258-9298..
-Keith Miller

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~Obituaries
Michael J. Smith

A national memorial service isbeing planned for November 18, 1989
at 3 pm at the San Francisco Unitarian
Church, Franklin and Geary Streets,

San Francisco, CA. For more information, call John Teamer (415) 863-0925,
or Thorn Bean (415) 641-5706. ~-Keith Miller

Robert I. McQueen, Former Editorof The Advocate, Oead at 47

Photo: Rink
January 11, 1945-September 20,1989
ATLANTA-Michael
J. Smith,accomplishedmusician, composer,
teacher, publisher,
editor, public
speaker and founder of the 26 national chapters of Black and White Men
Together (BWMT) , died September
20, 1989 in Atlanta, Georgia after a
two and a half year battle with AIDS.
He was 44.
Smith,
remembered
as aformidable advocate for progressive
causes and interracial understanding,was born in Glendale, California 'and
had been a resident of San Francisco
for twenty years before his recent
move to Atlanta. Just before his death,he travelled the country lecturing on
the merits of alternate therapies andtreatments for AIDS.
Smith studied music with Earl Kim
and Leon Kirchner at Harvard University while a Woodrow Wilson Fellow.
He taught English in the public school
system and later became a successful
realtor and investor. He also published
The Quarterly, a magazine for men
interested in interracial experience andedited Black Men White Men, ananthology of interracial essays, poems,
articles and short stories.
"Mike was always honest, considerate and loyal to his friends," said Thorn
Bean, a member of the local steeringcommittee of San Francisco's chapter of
BWMf. "He will be missed by thousandsof men who he inspired and encouraged to celebrate their differences."l

Robert I. McQueen, former editor of The Advocate, died Oct. 8,
1989, at his home in Los Angeles.
McQueen, who was chairman of
the board of Liberation Publications
Inc., which publishes The Advocate,
Advocate Men and other magazines
for gay men and lesbians, died in his
sleep of complications from AIDS.
He wa,s 47.
McQueen was born in Price,
Utah. He graduated from the University of Utah in 1967. In 1969 heearned a graduate degree in journalism. His first job was with the Salt
Lake Tribune.
In November 1975, David B.
Goodstein, then publisher of The
Advocate, hired McQueen as editor.

In 1984 McQueen was named editor inchief, the post he held until his retirement in July 1988.
During his tenure as editor, The
Advocategrew from a local Los
Angeles paper to a magazine withan international distribution. A fervent supporterof gay rights,
McQueen was equally committed tothe belief that sex is something tobe celebrated, not something to beashamed of.
McQueen is survived by Rafael
Llanes, his lover of five years, by his
mother and father, and by his threebrothers.
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Blighty's Bleak Blitz
We can go for a walk where it'squiet and dry
and we can talk about precious

thingslike love and law and poverty
these are the things that klll me.
- The Smiths, 'The Quee" Is Dead-by Mark Harrington·Ev~n animals don't get
fucked up the bum,» said
the English policewoman.
Displaying an ignorance of thenatural world shocking in a nation still sentimentally devoted
to animal husbandry, the bobby
uttered these words as shehelped haul away three intrepid
London ACI' UPers who were
blocking traffic on Whitehall.
The demo was called to protest
the inadequacy of social welfare
funds for people with AIDS,
who can't afford nutritional supplements they need.
So near and yet so far
away, the United Kingdom is anation of 60 million people five
hours across the Atlantic. There
are an estimated 10,000 HIV-infected Britons. just 2,670 casesof AIDS have been reported.
Health care is a right in Britain,
not just a chant as it is in the
USA - but this right is underattack by the Conservative government of Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher.
The ACI' UP/London demo was
the first taste of American-style civil
disobedience for most participants.
The only recent action remotely similar (and far more spectacular -to themedia) occurred during the Parliamentary debate over Clause 28, thevicious Thatcherite restriction on local

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funding for any enterprise which"promotes" homosexuality. A groupof lesbians descended upon ropes
into the House of Lords as this feudal
relic took its final vote. Others invaded the BBC studio during the nightly
news broadcast.
Hierarchical and obsessed withsecrets, Rritain has no Constitution,no Bill of Rights, a retreating commitment to civil liberties and no historyof civil disobedience.
All AIDS research is conducted under a veil ofsecrecy. Details of AIDS clinical trials
are shrouded under the terms of the
Official Secrets Act. This means thatanyone who divulges details of a pro-

tocol could be charged with a crime
almost as grave as treason.
In any case, there is only one
AIDS-related clinical trial underway in
Britain. Named after the airplane, theConcorde I trial is testing AZT in
1,000 British people infected with HIV
but without symptoms, and 1,000

French as weIl. The trial is placebo
controlled. In spite of the recent suspension of American trial 019 in people with under 500 T4 cells, theBritish-French trial is proceeding fullspeed ahead. As recently as last October, the trial prohibited the use ofaerosolized pentamidine -for PCP prophylaxis.
Currently the big controversy in
the gay community here is about awitch hunt spearheaded
by a gayjournalist named Duncan Campbell.
Writing for the left-wing weekly New
Statesman and Society, Campbell
charged that a spokesman forPositiveIy Healthy, a holistic group advocating alternative treatments for
AIDS, was killing people byrecommendingthat they nottake AZT, and that they notsign up for the Concorde trial.
It is hard to understandhow refusing to sign up for aplacebo-controlled
trial with
only a 50 percent chance ofgetting AZf could be harmful,when many clinics in the U.K.
already prescribe
AZT forasymptomatiC' HIV positive individuals. The controversy has
succeededin confUSing thevery real treatment issues surrounding AZT. Debates between advocates of chemotherapeuticandalternative
treatments cannot be conducted in the context of journalism
which uncritically ratifies thetyranny of the medical establishment. In any case, the onesided debate has diverted attention
from the British
government's wholesale failure to undertake any significant treatment research.
British AIDS activists are trying toestablish community-based research.
This project is impeded by the lack ofany equivalent to community doctors
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Clinical Trials:
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by Bob Le(lererImyn last column (9124/89), I
discussed the refusal of the
drug-oriented medical establishment to research holistic AIDS treatments. I also referred in passing toscientific criticisms by some holistic
health practitioners of the standard
clinical trial procedure for "proving"
effectiveness of treatments. This week
I want to further explore that critique.
The controlled
clinical trial is supposedly
the only"valid" method forstudying new treatments.
This
approach,howeverflawed in theory andunevenly applied inpractice, has been the basis for government approval of many pharmaceutical drugs. The model calls for the
medical investigator to recruit a groupof volunteers with the "same disease,"
excluding only people whose cha~acteristics might make them react vastlydifferently (example in AIDS: children
under a certain age, because their immune systems are immature). They
are divided into an experimentalgroup, which receives a fixed dose of
the new treatment over a fixed time
period, and a control group, which receives either a placebo (sugar pill) or
the previously established treatment.
To reduce bias in reporting, the procedure is supposed to be double blind,meaning that neither the patients nor
the doctors are aware of who is inwhich group. After the fixed time, results are compared (in terms of test results, disease symptoms, and/or death
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treatment shows significant, favorable
differences in these indicators (according to certain statistical standards), it isconsidered effective.
Each aspect of this model has
been challenged by practitioners andresearchers of holistic medical disciplines, such as Traditional Chinese
Medicine, homeopathy(a system
using micro-doses of substances thatat large doses would induce disease
to heal it), and naturopathy (a system
involving natural treatments such as
herbs and diet changes). These chal-lenges reflect basic philosophical differences between Western, drug-oriented medicine (sometimes called
allopoathy) and holistic medicine.
"Same Disease" for All?
First, say the holistics, by insisting that the patient group be homogeneous-ail
havingthesamedisease--the model denies the realitythat illness manifests differently ineach individual. (And even mainstream critics note that trial underenrollment sometimes leads to further
broadening of categories.) In HIV-related illness, some trials combine people in two or more recognizedstages-HIV-positive
asymptomatic,
symptomatic,
ARC or AIDS. AIDS
alone covers over 30 clinical conditions or opportunistic
infections.
Thus, for example, to throw together
people who have, or had, pneumo-

cystis carinii pneumonia (PCP), Kaposi's sarcoma (KS) and serious
weight loss is to compare apples andoranges. But even for those with thesame opportunistic infection or condition, there are always differences in
how it manifests (which specificsymptoms), how severe it is and what
other organ systems it affects.
Allopathic medicine assigns people to fixed disease categories, and assumes identical treatments (if effective)
will help most, perhaps aU, in a particular category. By contrast, holistic
healing systems are based on the principleofbiochemical
indiViduality-thateach person has
hereditary, environmental, social, nutritional and psychological differences
which affect the specific form of their.
disease; these differences will also influence which treatment works for that
person. For instance,
on a given treatment,poor Black people
facing unemployment, bad diet, highstress and depression
will probably showless improvement than middle-classwhites lacking those problems. Trials
don't take this into account.
This leads to the second critique:that the clinical trials' fixed dose does
not allow dose variation to accommodate individual differences. The mostclear-cut example is mega-vitamintherapy: Dr. Robert Cathcart of Los
Altos, Cal., who has used massive
doses of vitamin C with people whohave had one or more PCP episodes,
reports that identical dosages have affected individuals in very different
ways (including the tolerance level
after which diarrhea results); conversely, some people have had similar improvements on very different dosages.
Even in allopathic theory one canfind the "Arndt-Schulz Law" which,according to medical historian Harris
Coulter, says that "different dosage
levels of medicines yield qualitatively
different physiological effects. Yet
II~Coulter says that since this law is incompatible with the "law of mass action"
underlying
drug-oriented
medicine since the 19305, "it is overwhelmingly ignored in allopathic
pharmacologic texts"-and, he could
have added, in clinical trials.
Third is the question of fixed
time. Here, the critique is two-fold: 1)
Most trials are too short to allow thefull development of either major improvements(in the case of somegradually-acting holistic medicines) or
longterm ineffectiveness and side effects (problems more common withdrugs). 2) Diseases go through subtle
shifts of symptoms, especially after
treatment begins. With immune-boosters in particular, once the infectionfighting capacity "kicks in," different
symptoms may appear as the bodyheals itself. Holistic practitioners say
this often requires individualizedchanges in choice and dosage of
medicine over time. The trial model
denies the flexibility built into, for instance, homeopathic
and Chinese
medical practice, in which frequentexaminations produce fine-tuning ofprescribed medicine.
This leads to the critique of the
double blind concept, specifically the"blind" denying the practitioner
knowledge -of who is receiving the
new treatment and who is on placebo
or comparative treatment. Hi~torian
Coulter notes that a homeopath "cannot prescribe accurately when he does
not know if the patient's changed
symptom picture is the result of his
previous prescription or of some otherfactor." The same holds true for practitioners of Chinese medicine or nutritional supplementation.

clinical trials. But on their own, manufacturers or practitioners of holistic
treatments
have run small trials
among people with HIV/AIDS of Chinese herbal formulas, plant extracts(such as aloe vera [carrisynl and shiitake mUshrooms [Ientinan or LEMJ),
and a few vitamins and minerals.
Several are showing preliminary positive results. Further studies are un- derway, including a comprehensive
Seattle, Washington trial of a varietyof holistic treatments; more on thatin a future column.

In the meantime, what is neededis the systematic collection-understrict community control-of data on
alternative treatments already being
used by people with HIV-related conditions, and the impact (as best as
can be determined) on their health. A
version of this approach is now underway in a research project of the
San Francisco County Community
Consortium (although it is not an
AIDS community-led organization).
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Document Do'sand Don't's
by The Archives
CollectiveL

ost and Found: Notes fromtheLesbian
Herstory
Archives'
Since not all of-you have foundyour way to us, we plan to use
this column to bring a piece of
the Archives to you on a monthly
basis. In so doing, we hope to inspire you to preserve the documents from your own life as wellas encourage increased lesbianparticipation in our special activities and regular maintenance ofthe collection.
This first column contains a
short list of suggested Do's andDon'ts to aid you in preserving
your own letters and other paper
documents. (Photographs
andother artifacts will be discussed
in a future article). Taking thesesteps will· help ensure that yourpapers stay in good condition
so that you may continue toe~joy the memories evoked byyour personal archives. Then"
when you are ready to deposit
your "Special Collection" in our
Archives, or another archive, future
generations of lesbians will be able
to enjoy the benefitsof yourpreservation efforts. Paying attention to these small details will ~akea surprising difference in the lengthof time a document will survive.
DO:• Unfold all papers and documents. Creases tear easily as paper ages.

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• Remove staples and metal paperclips. Plastic clips do not damage thedocument, but metal will rust and eat
through paper after only a few years. .
• Always date your own letters
as well as letters you receive, flyers
for events and other important papers. Pencil in the date. and anyother pertinent information in brackets in the upper right hand corner ofthe first page. If a friend's signatureomits her last name (after all, she
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that to the penciled info in brackets.
In 20 years, you may not remember

which of. the four friends named"Terry" you knew at that time sent
you that wonderful hand-made birthday card.
• Organize your letters and otherdocuments under the broadest categories fi~st.When therel are more than
20 documents in your folder, break it
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break "Friends" down into "Friends:
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• Do not use regular staples; they'
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• Do not use scotchtape. It pulls
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• Do not keep anything that isalready mildewed or moldy. Make
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If theoriginal is really important,
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Keep allmildewed
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• Do not store paper inyour basement or near heat orwater.
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Commentary by Susie DayI

then United States, where heterosexuality is part and parcelof our moral fiber, it is %w"
amazing that anyone is able togrow up sexually strange, letalone downright queer. And yet
we do. Is it choice? Is it genetics?
Or does the answer lie in our
early psycho-sexual adaptation
to childhood trauma-i.e.,
did
our parents do it to us?
Yes. They did. I have here acertified clinical study of a typi"
cal lower middle-class, midAmerican family. I wrote it myself, basing' it on some of thecareful empirical data that I collected during my childhood. I
presented these findings, withthe aid of an overhead projector,
to a panel of experts at the latest
conference of the American Psychiatric Association. NObody liked it.

****
Meet the Thugbuster
family:Daddy, Mommy and their son Roderick. The Thugbusters
are normal,
wholesome Caucasians. They respect
God, the Flag, tough-on-crime laws
and plenty of good, hard work. They
will be the first to die in the Revolution.
But for right now, Daddy andMommy Thugbuster just want their
son to grow up normal and wholesome. That is why they have selflessly
devoted their lives to giving him vital,
sex-role conditioning. Just today, forinstance, Daddy is in the backyard,

teaching Roderick how to play baseball. What normal, wholesome fun!
See Daddy throw the ball to Roderick. See Roderick swing his little batvery hard! Darn. Roderick has missed

likes to work out his issues at home.
Roderick hates Daddy.
Now see Daddy winding up forthe pitch. Daddy looks so profeSSional. He stands on one foot, his throwing arm poised behind his head, justlike Joe Dimaggio! You can hardly notice his beer belly from this angle. If
Daddy could only realize that he, too,
is oppressed by the System! Too latej
Daddy has just pitched the ball. See
Roderick's little knuckles whiten as hegrips his bat. "Whoosh-sh!" goes Roderick's bat in the open air.
Hear Daddy yell, "You're OUT,
son-OUT,
OUT, OUT!!! What went'~wrong? Cancha cut it, boy? That
was an easy one, ya big sissy~"
See Roderick march over tothe pitcher's mound and bring his
little bat down bard on Daddy's
shins. Hear Daddy roar in pain.
See him stumble and then fall
down. Daddy is getting in touchwith more of his issues.
See Daddy get up and head(? toward
Roderick. See Roderick
run. Run, Roderick, run! Slide
home! Oh oh-too late for Roderick. See Daddy bend Roderickover his knee and "wear out"
Roderick's backside. Hear Roderick scream like there is no tomorrow.
Oh, look! Here come theneighbors.
See them gather
around the backyard fence and stare. '"Hurry up," they call to one another,"Roderick's gettin' a childhood trauma!" The Thugbusters' neigpbors arenormal, wholesome people. They liketo keep up with all the ~ajor mental
health events of their community.
"Hooo-wee. I ain't seen a trauma likethis since the spring of '68 when Old
Man Gilroy locked his wife and kids
in the basement for a week." "Trauma, hell," snaps Mrs. Gilroy, "Thatwas a complexr-a deep-seated, psychological complex. Just like the one
Roderick here's gettin'."
Mrs. Gilroy is right. Daddy is
passing on a very important complex,~-~

the balJ again. Roderick has justturned six, but already he knows not
to cry when Daddy plays baseballwith him.
"Better watch it, 01' man," booms
Daddy. "One more strike and you're
OUT! OUT! OUT! OUT!!! Come on,
son-throwthe ba-a-a-l/! Whatsa
matta, kid! Ya throw like a girl!"
Daddy loves playing baseballwith Roderick. Baseball helps Daddy
to "unwind" from his demanding job
at the plant. It also allows Daddy totake his mind off the fact that the promotion he had wanted for so longwent to a Black woman. Daddy has
deep psychological issues. Normal,
wholesome ones, of course. Daddy

See SUSIE DAY on plUI 37

October 29. 1989

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35

AIDS Treatment News

Bronchitis Drug May Slow AIDSNAC Inhibits HIV in Lab Tests
by John S.JamesS

tanford
University
researchersreported
lastweek that a drug widelyused in Europe to treat bronchitis inhibits HIV in laboratory tests. They
are developing plans for clinical trials of the drug, called nacety1cysteine(NAC). No
human results for AIDS/HIV
have been published,
but
AIDS Treatment News haslearned that at least ten people are using NAC for this purpose, at least one of them foralmost a year.
In laboratory experiments,
NAC increased the level of thechemical glutathione in HIVinfected blood cells. Glutathione is necessary for life,
as it is needed for energy generation and other cell func··
tions. It also protects cells
against oxidizing agents.
NAC is also believed tocounter some effects of exces··sive levels of tumor necrosis
factor (TN F), which often
occur in AIDS. TNF is believedto increase the production ofHIV, to cause wasting syndrome in some cases, and tocause productionof moreTNF. (Paradoxically, other researchers
are testing TNF as part of a combination treatment for KS).
A Stanford University press release stressed that NAC is not a curefor AIDS, but that laboratory results
suggest that it might be a useful treatment. "Our studies show we canblock the TNF activation of HIV withincreased thiol levels in models of
HIV-infected cells. We propose that36

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October 29. 1989

by administering NAC we can augment thiol levels, and neutralize TNF
activity and production which willslow or stop the virus from going into
an active stage."it. NAC appears to work (if it does) notby killing the virus directly, but rather
by correcting biochemical imbalances
which occur in the course of the illness, and which then cause other problems, including further viral growth.

Comment
AIDS drugs are usually classified
either as antivirals or as immune modulators. NAC appears to be an antivi-

Human Experience with HIV
We interviewed one person who
is using NAC, and several others familiar with the drug or with thelaboratory results suggesting its
possible use as an HIV treatment. This is what we learned:• At least ten people have
tried NAC, and no side effects
have been reported.
• Those most likely to benefit seem to be persons withcachexia (wasting syndrome).
Early reports are that these patients feel better quite quickly,
and then regain weight.
• Two persons with KS areusing the drug. Both are said tobe doing well, but we do nothave detailed information.
• There are also reports ofimprovement in T-helper cells
and p24 antigen levels. However, we do not have any de.tailed information at this time.
• Almost everyone who
has started the drug is continuing on it, as they believe it ishelping.

ral, but it may be better to consider it
an example of a third class of potential treatments--those which intervenein the pathogenesis of AIDS.
Pathogenesis has been defined as"the origin and development of a disease." In AIDS research, a remarkable
ignorance of pathogenesis has been
widely tolerated, probably because ofan unbalanced research focus on HIV
and the search for a magic bullet to kill

NAC for oral use is available inmost of the world, but not in the
United States. It usually requires aprescription, but it might be sold overthe counter in some countries; we
could not find out by press time.
In the U.S., NAC is available only
in a liquid form intended for aerosol,
not oral use. The liquid can be diluted
and given orally-andis FDA-approved for such use, for treatment of

Availability

pounCAL SCIENCEfrom page 30
poisoning caused by overdose of accysteine (NAC)."in the U.K. Everyone receives healthetaminophen, the painkiller in Tylenol
Persons planning to start taking
care through the National Health Serand some other over-the-counter
NAC should get blood work done
vice. There are virtually no openly
medicines. But is would be difficult tofirst-including T-cell counts and p24
gay doctors. Pharmaceutical compause this liquid as an HIV treatment.
antigen level-andalso record theirnies are reluctant to conduct treatThis formulation was not made forweight, so that later they can tellment research in a country with suchoral use, and often causes vomiting;whether or not these measures ima "small" market for AIDS-related
many patients have trouble keeping it proved after treatment. Asymptomatictherapies. Approval in the U.K. will
down. As an HIV treatment, the drug
patients, in p~rticular, will have no
not lead to approval by the U.S. Food
would have to be taken three or fourother way to judge whether the drug
& Drug Administration. On the brighttimes a day indefinitely.
is working for them.
side, the non-toxic antifungal drug
Most people so far who have
Fluconazole and the anti-CMV drug
tried this drug for HIV have used a
Disclaimer
DHPG (ganciclovir) have been availbrand named Fluimucil, which isThis article is not intended as inable in the U.K. for years.
available in Italy, Switzerland, Gerstruction for using NAC. It may omit
Nonetheless,. it is depressing tomany, The Netherlands and Spain,
necessary information; for example, we
realize how countries all around theand perhaps elsewhere. One person
have not yet seen the European prodworld are relying on the U.S. research
who has used it told us that Fluimucil
uct literature or instructions for physiestabiishment to come up with newcomes in two forms; an effervescentcians, nor have we talked to U.S.
AIDS treatments.
The Medical Retablet containing 600 mg, and a packphysicians whose patients have used
et of powder with 200 mg. Boththe drug. Information for HIV-positive s~arch Council (MRC) is the British
equivalent to the U.S. National Instiforms need to be dissolved in a glass
persons and their physicians on how totutes of Health. The AIDS researchof water or fruit juice (not milk or hot
use NAC still needs to be prepared. T
program of the MRC is focused excludrinks) before being taken. NAC
should not be heated above body
Reprinted by permission of AIDS sively on vaccine research. This manifests a fundamental overestimation oftemperature. The drug will not keep
Treatment News, P. O. Box 411256,
after it has been dissolved, so it has tothe scientific possibility of developing
San Francisco, CA 94141.
be mixed shortly before use, not I
I a vaccine and a cruel lack of concern
for those already infected with HIV.
stored and taken later. Most people
SUSIE DAY from page 35
have taken 600 mg (one tablet) threefather to son. It is called the "Oedipus
The real agenda underlying MRC's retimes a day, or 400 mg four times acomplex." If everything goes as nasearch agenda was revealed in theday, using the packets of powder. We
comments of Professor ].W. Almond,ture planned, Roderick should now
have heard that the drug is i~expenwant to murder his father and marry
who declared that treatment research
sive in Europe.
his mother. Scenes like this are theposed a "moral dilemma" because
There is much concern that inessence of wholesome
normalcy.
keeping HIV-infected people ajive
the U.S., where NAC for oral use is
They have occurred ever since thelonger would extend the period durnot available, people will use chemifirst straight people climbed down
ing which they could infect others.
cals not intended for human confrom the trees to start Western CiviProfessor Almond is not alone.
sumption, resulting in unknown risks.
lization.
An editorial in Nature magazine (31
Whew! Daddy is finally Jinished.
To prevent this from happening,
August 1989) expresses anxiety about:some way o~ obtaining the pharmaSee him stomp into the house to getceutica~r-o'ducts(through buyers'
himself a beer. See Mommy appear"the bizarre possibility that, byclubs or otherwise) will need to beon the scene with a pan of fudge. The
prolonging the period of ,n,orset up.
malcy of the infected,' generalneighbors applaud a little, then drift
There is also concern that people
away.
use of AZT might increase thewho try this drug may stop taking
But wait! Western Civilization is.potential for spreading infection.".
other treatments. NAC is not a substiin trouble. For, although Rodericktute for any other drug. There are nowants to murder his father, he does
known harmful interactions
withnot want to marry his mother. She is
As long as such views can beother drugs commonly used in treatnot masculine enough for his 'taste.
publicly expressed or privately held,ing AIDS; however one medical referRoderick has just decided to marry his
U.S. AIDS activists have a global reence warns that ·some antibiotics incousin, Warren. He has developed asponsibility to make American AIDS
cluding amphotericin,
ampicillin"Warren complex." Now see Roderick. research truly responsive to the needs
sodium, erythromycin lactobionateof the HIV-infected. T
dust himself off and limp down theand some tetracyclines
are either
block to the nearest -pay phone,This column is based on talks
physically incompatible with or may
where he will dial the Gay Hotline.
with and articles by Simon Watney.
be inactivated on mixture with acetylThe End. T

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Sf?/ ~

Vi :1':+

OIKSlnqers,
mazonsan . ·er
la a es
An Interview with Phranc
by Victoria Starr
Photos by Maria Perez

·She's L.A.'s most infamous folksinger/swimteacher," readthe music listings of a recent issue of L.A. Weekly. It was asimple, silly tag, which cleared away the haze, and helped me
truly understand this water culture. We're talking surf, dude,and this is Santa Monica's homegirl, Phranc.
She's a folksinger, all right, but who isn't these days?
Phranc, on the other hand, is a model dyke, as any avid fan
will tell you. She is an amazon (albeit petite), a Jewish lesbian, a Iifelover and one 0' the girls. She loves Martina, herparakeet, toys and double-decker beds. She gets riled by liars,
swastikas ·and people who park in handicapped parking
spaces. She thinks a lot about the color of her skin. And she
knows that the local "dumb hairdresser" is "really one smart
cookie.· In short, she's all-American in a way that doesn't
make you cringe.

* * * * *We were hanging in the Fig Tree Cafe, the gentle strainsof street guitars wafting in the Venice Beach breeze. It was
Phranc's fourth interview of the day, a fact bellied by herbeach towel attire, but I was reminded that this was work,
nonetheless. Yet rather than feeling Phranc's work was her life,
I got a very clear impression that Phranc's life was her work.
How else could she have come this far: an ·increasingly successful second album, tours with bands ranging from The
Dead Kennedys to The Smiths, and a contract with Chris
Blackwell's Island Records, a cutting edge label where Phranc
is "really loved just the way I am."
"Before I got this deal, it happened to me often that people would say to me, 'Well, we're interested in you, but wedon't quite know how to market you.' And I'd say 'Well, I
don't see the problem. You seem to be able to market every
other woman with a guitar. What I do isn't that different' ...It's
not up to the record label to come out for me, because I dothat myself. I just say 'Go out and work my record like it's agreat record. Don't worry about what you're gonna say about
me because I'll handle all that myself. Just deliver the music.'"And they're like, 'Oh, okay!' But you have to sit downwith people and actually say this to them, because their minds
automatically go into the most narrow mode they. can go in,like [affects a slight valley girl accent), 'Oh god, like how, uh,like this project is so weird, and the haircut, and she says she's
a lesbian, and oh, how are we going to get this record on the
air?' The fact is, the record and the music are just fine on theirown. But I've always really wanted to put out a really greatsong, and then take a picture of some blond bimbo and paste
it on the cover and market it, and you know it would gostraight to the top. In other words, you can rock, but don'trock the boat.
II

Androgeny's the ticket, at /east it seems to be
Just don't wear a flat top, and mention sexuality
and girl, you'll go far
you'll get a record contract, you'll be a starcome on follow
it's as easy as C, F, G
'Cuz now everybody wants to be a folksinger.

me,"Folksinger," from I Enjoy Being a Girl
Island Records* * * * *We wandered down the boardwalk to go shopping, readyto explore the secret behind Phranc's image: L.A.'s beststocked vintage clothing store (I seem to remember it havingsome sort of animal name ... Aardvark or something?). Stopping
here and there to say hello to rastas, rollerskaters, beachdwellers and other cute dykes, it felt good knowing that thiswas not just a celebrity in action. Phranc was as much a fIXture of the waterfront as even the hardest core of the sun andsurf worshippers. After all, she was down here playing her
gee-tar and dreaming of Patti Smith long before she ever had apaying audience.
It's different when she's on the road, though, and 1
couldn't help but imagine riotous reactions from raucous Midwestern types who don't like seeing anything but their own
image on stage. We chatted about the difference between
punks ("wild, but usually intelligent"} and skinheads, while
she recalled her recent tour with The Pogues, a band whose
audience is "mostly male, young, drunk and rowdy. Boys
night out, ya know.
"I never know when I get on stage what it's going to be
like. So we're down in New Orleans, in the middle ofnowhere, and the audience is completely white. And· I'mthinking, 'Okay, if the shit is going to hit the fan, it's gonna hit
tonight.' So I go on stage, do a song,come out as a lesbian, and they totallycheer, and I think, 'Okay, over that
hurdle.'"Every place we went I kept
thinking, 'Well, I don't know about
tonight.' But everything was great, allthrough the South, up to Chicago,
Ohio, and it was great."
She pauses, lowers her voice andbegins pacing her words.
"Then we crossed over into
Toronto. And I get on stage, and that. t1ihi?4t+
audience ... I have never run into sucha hostile, homophobic .audience, justfull of complete hatred, in a long, longtime. They called me 'You fucking faggot. Dyke. Queer. Cunt.
Fuck you. You suck. Faggot. Cunt.' 30 minutes straight, nonstop abuse. And it wasn't just two or three of them, either. It
was entire chunks of the audience."
Did she continue playing?
"Yeah, because if you walk off the stage, they win. What 1
did was, I took out a few of the more quiet, vulnerable songs,
because this was not a listening audience. And instead of playing
45 minutes, I played for 30 minutes. I ended with the song about
the polar bears [that ate the Brooklyn kid), and then I stopped
And I looked at the audience, and I talked to them. And 1 said
[her voice is calm, but firm), 'Now, I've been called every namein the book tonight. So let's talk a little about tolerance andacceptance in the world. Don't you think people should be able
to grow up and be whoever they are? Do you want somebody
to tell you who you can and cannot be? I'm gonna dedicate thisnext song to you, 'cuz you're the audience who needs to he~this.' And I did "Take off Your Swastika," the most passionate,burning version I think I've ever done in my life.
"The thing that really hurt me was that there were womenyelling those things to me also. But in the end, I felt like 1
II

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It doesn't matter how you wear your hairor what kind of underwear you wear 'the world would be a pretty boring placeIf everyone were the same

boringthe world would be a pretty boring placeIf everyone were the same"Individuality"from I Enjoy Being 6 Girlwon, and it was good, because that's what consciousness raising is, ya know. You don't do a lot playing the real easy gigs.
It's great to play for people who love you, like on thewomen's music circuit. But I feel that my job is to go out into
the big world. Ya never know who you might reach out
there."Take Off your swastika, it's making me angry
Take off jl9ur swastika, it really nauseates me
You say "Phranc it's just a symbol, it's just an emblem
it's a righteous decoration"
Well it means a little more to me"Take Off Your Swastika,"from I Enjoy Being a Girl, Island Records* * * * *For Phranc the artist, just like Phranc the woman, beingout was never a question. Honesty is the key to her art.
'1'here are so many negative images of lesbians and gaysin the media, in song lyrics and in the world today, that I feel
we need all the positive images we can get. I happen to feel
good about who I am, and I feel strongly about saying so.
When I was growing up there were very few examples of 'out'
lesbians in my life. The two who were out there were Alix
Dobkin and Jill Johnson, and that was it for me. The reason I
wear combat boots today is because when I was 16 I used tocarry a copy of lesbian Nation under my arm to high school,
and Jill Johnson had combat boots and I wanted to be just likeher. And when I finally found a pair of boots my size (boys 51/2) well, now they're my trademark.
"I don't like to think of myself as a role model. I just feelstrongly about being a good example. I feel that I have a

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responsibility-if I'm gonna be out there as a lesbian, talking
about PQlitics and my point of view, then I feel I .have a
responsibility to be as articulate as I can be, to be as honest as
I can be and to be as good an example as was set for me ... I
speak only for myself, but just the same, people watch what I
do. If I set bad examples, then I can't help but reflect on thecommullity that raised me, can I?"
While Phranc is shy about recognizing herself as a rolemodel, she admits her impact on her listeners. "I get lettersfrom young gays and lesbians, and young heterosexuals fromall over the world, who say I've made a difference for them.
Those women who were out there for me gave me hope, andif I can pass on a little bit of that hope .... Besides, Phranc isn't
one to deny that we all have our heroes. On the subject ofMartina, she says, "Yeah, I met her once. I didn't wash myhand for a few days."Oh, give me a pair of pectorals like Diana Nyan
I wanna swim eighty-nine miles
give me a set of deltoids like Tracy Hawkins
I Wanna be strong like those Amazons
I wanna learn to dribble like Annie Myers
I wanna learn to shoot like Cheryl Miller
I wanted to play for the Dallas Diamonds
And live with Martina, like Nancy Lieberman"Amazons,"from Folksinger,
Rhino Records
Phranc will be appearing in New York at The Bottom Line,
15 West 4th Street in Manhattan on November 6. For ticket info
call· 212-228-6300.

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Armistead Maupin
Gets Radical

Tel IeII:
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by Adam Block
I'll never forget the first time I saw
novelist Armistead Maupin. He wasstanding onstage at a gay leather bar in
Sail Francisco, auctioning off one of Leo
Ford's used jock-straps. It was an Easterweekend benefit to defeat a California
Initiative aimed at banning gay teachers
from public schools. Maupin's look thatafternoon was distin.ctive, if not distinguished. He was decked, head-ta-toe, ina Bunny Rabbit costume.
The year was 1978, and Maupin's
serialized fiction, Tales of the City, hadbeen featured in the San Francisco
Chronicle for two years. He was a local
celebrity, whose own story remained a
bit of a mystery.
A decade earlier, Maupin was thegolden-boy of a noted North Carolinianclan: a protege of Jesse Helms', campusconservative
at Chapel Hill, andunapologetic enlistee for Vietnam. The
war didn't transform Maupin. He had all
the makings of a tortured prig when hemigrated to San Francisco seven years
later. It was that city of loonies, libertinesand proud perverts that seduced him
away from a life of sputtering hypocrisy.
Maupin was one more expatriot-cocksucker (who had grown up convincedthat he was a tainted pariah) that the city
casually embraced, and disarmed.
In 1977, Maupin returned the favor
when his urban-serial began running in
the Chronicle. The morning paper hadcommissioned a light, if acerbic, social
satire--but Maupin gradually introduced
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diversity and tolerance he had found in
his adopted home. The city'S "sexual
minorities· became full-fleshed breakfast-companions of readers around theBay. More than once, his editors
blanched, and bellowed-but
Maupininsists he was, ·simply trying to include
the people I knew into this version of
the world."
Maupin came out to his family inthe course of writing the column. Still,
he recalls the note his father sent after
receiving a copy of the first year's work
polished into a novel: "Read your book.
Tomorrow, your mother and I will bemoving to Zanzibar. Love, Daddy.·"When I told my mother I was gay, •.
Maupin smiles, "she said, 'It's alrightwith me dear. I only hope it won't interfere with your career.' And I told her,
'Mother, it is my career!'· he chortles. A
career that has led him to auction soiled
jockstraps; to rhapsodize gleefully about"religious experiences· he had in bathhouses, on National Public Radio; and to
chastise c1oset-cases from Hollywood to
Washington D.C.
Over the last decade, Tales hasgrown into a published series of six novels, and Maupin has been increasingly
appreciated for his work, his wit and his
candor. That recognition threatens toballoon: with Caedmon Records promising to release abridged audio-dramatizations of all six books-beginning
next
spring-while Working Title Films (whoproduced My Beautiful Laundrette) arenegotiating to shoot six two-hour filmsof the serial (in San Francisco, with an
American cast) for television broadcast
in both the U.K. and U.S., Maupin justmay emerge, in the gay 90s, as the artist
credited with making homosexuality
comprehensible to the masses.
This f~1Isaw the publication of Sureof You [see review and exerpt page 58)
which, Maupin vows, concludes his
opus. It is the first of the books not tohave been previously serialized, andranks as his most accomplished work to
date. The cuddly title is borrowed from
Winnie the Pooh, but the book is dedicated to British actor and gay activist,
Ian McKellen, and finds Maupin's deftand dependable mix of playfulness andpoignance cut with a bracing dose ofpolitical impatience and angry wit.
"I wanted to capture the new gay
activism that has come with AIDS,·
Maupin admits, "and I felt it was time I
had my characters speak out as strongly
as I have-both in interviews and in my
private life:
In the cozy penthouse apartmentthat he shares with his lover, Terry
Anderson, the 45-year-old author talked
about his career, the issues he has grappled with in his own life-and the waysthat both have become entwined.
AM: On the tour for Significant
Others, my last novel, I did the Todayshow, Maupin drawls warmly, "andbroke the cardinal rule: Talk only about
your book. I got off on the subject of
famous closeted homosexuals [he grins).
Afterwards my publisher looked at me
like I'd farted.
Q: How did the subject come up?
AM: Jane Pauley leapt right into it,saying, "You have been described as agay humorist: That got us going on thesubject of homosexuality, the closet, etc.

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impact AIDS has had on the gay community? I said, "Well, Jane, for one
thing-especially
here
in New
York-gay folk are running off and finding wives in an effort to cover up theirhomosexuality.
She said, "People who are famousfor being gay?" And I said, "No. People
who are famous--and also gay." So shesaid, "Oh! People that you would know
and I wouldn't know." And I said, "No.
People who you know too, Jane."During the break she asked me
who specifically I had in mind. And I
told her.
Then she whispered, "Oh, isn't hejust terrible," after having played completely dumb on the air.
To me that epitomizes the way the
subject of homosexuality
is deathwi~in
New York particularly. The idea
that's conveyed is that we're all too
sophisticated to talk about this. 'Of course

Q: And that is a message that you
have been championing both in yourbooks and on platforms for years nowAM: Criss-crossing the country [helaughs) giving my standard "Coming
Out" speech, telling the assembled what
I firmly believe, "If yOO're still in thecloset: you're not running from the
problem-you're part of it!"
Q: I believe you gave that at an
event in Washington D.C. where Barney
Frank was in prominent attendance,
while be was still in the closet.
AM: I did. He and his party surrounded the stage and greeted that linewith stoney silence. I hadn't a clue as towhat was going on. But that is precisely
why I try to make that speech wherever
I go. Because inevitably-when I'm in aroom full of people who have come tosee me-a large number may admire
what I've had to say, but have convinced themselves that they couldn't livethat way themselves.

friends in the world.
Q: Back in 1981, you reclaimed agay hero when you wrote Rock Hudson
into the serial without giving him aname. I believe Rock was absolutely
boggled. I remember you telling me thata mutual friend had mentioned yourname to him at the time, and reported
back that Rock had snarled, "That man
is certifiable!" After he' announced his
diagnosis though, Rock asked that you
participate in his autobiography.
AM: Yes, I think that Rock was
finally very courageous, but he had lived
as a captive of this notion: that everyone
has something to hide, everyone hassomething
to be ashamedof andtherefore, every one is safe.
That's why no one in Hollywood
came to his defense when he announced
his diagnosis; those movie-stars were
slamming their closet doors all overtown. Three days later they finally got
their shit together and came up with

it exists darling, but do you have to bringit up? We're all grown-ups. We can deal
with this on our own.' Of course, whatthat means is: you'd better damn wellhave a woman on your arm when you
show up at a public gathering."
I'm sorry, but I think that duplicity
is the greatest crime of all in the midstof an epidemic-because
it perpetuates
the very thing that has created our problems: the idea that homosexuality is adirty little secret.
The great joy to me-when
I firstcame out-was
discovering that homosexuality was not this dark, terrifying,evil world that I'd imagined. Once I
learned how to do it," he laughs," I discovered lots of generous, kind-hearted,
supportive people-onboth sides of thesexual fence. I can honestly say that I've
never lost a friend who mattered to me
because of my homosexuality.

You know, people always talkabout "naming names" in a negative
sense: bringing out some reactionary villains. But what I've been talking about isthe fact that gay people have been systematically denied our heroes by thisself-inflicted code of silence. And that's
what bothers me most about the closet:that we're not able to brag about thegood that we've done in the world,
because we're not able to talk about
who we are.
Q: Still there are arguments for andagainst exposing either.
AM: Yes, and I think that it's important that you see the whole spectrum.
Quite frankly: I'm for both.
Q: With that attitude, don't you findthat there are gay people who will avoid
you?
AM: Absolutely scared to death ofme and, consequently, I have the bestsome official line about "how tragiC itwas." But, the first thing they thought ofwas, "Oh my god! His cover is blown,
and mine is going to be too!"
Q: That idea is central to Sure of
You the widespreadconviction thatmainstream success may be purchased
only at the price of discretion: that, if
you're going to be famous, you can't be
open about your sexuality,; and thatpeople will go to astonishing lengths tojustify that dishonesty.
AM: Yes. Even Jane Pauley, in thatinterview, looked at me sort of horrified
when I suggested that gay people ought
to be out of the closet.
She said, "Do you think that solidarity is so important; at the cost of success?"
And I said, "I think that's a rather
yuppie way to look at it, Jane.
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one success; and you, in your career, aretrying to achieve mainstream successwithout restraintAM: Exactly. And it may not be possible to be as loud-mouthed as I am. I
don't really care. I like at least having a
shot at it.
Q: Part of the price you pay forbeing out, being labeled a gay novelist,
can be finding your books exiled to thegay/lesbian studies shelfAM: Those labels do bother me:"gay novel,n "Black novel,n "women's
novein-theyalways sound like some
sort of medicine, that you've got to take.
And that's the great, sad thing about culture today. We're all entrenched in ourlittle cubby-holes, our little special-interest groups.
I spent weeks trying to decide
whether or not to see Do the Right
Thing, because somewhere in the backof my head I was wondering: is thisreally going to be interesting to me if it's

(not just a cardboard cut-out in this context) but some reader's soul-mate and it
was heartwarming to find I'd succeeded.
Q: Do you think that your father'S
attitudes have changed significantly inthe course of reading your books?
AM: No. I don't. I wish I could saythat they had.
I think that my homosexuality is
still an embarrassment to him. He wishes that I would shut up about it. He
keeps insisting that "Jesse [HelmsJ
doesn't really mean that-aboutgayfolks,n which is simply his way of staying out of the fray.
When I think about the changes
in me that have occurred over the last
15 to 20 years it really is pretty overwhelming: that I moved from being
this Young Republican asshole, to thisperson that I am today [he chuckles],a gay writer asshole,
I guess [helaughsJ.
And in a way, I can see why it is

my lover, we've been dealing with his
anti-body status: checking his T-cellcounts. And we do that while we'replanning our vacations, or preparing
dinner, or going to the movies.
lAnd so far, the AIDS literature that
I've seen has dealt only with the cataclysmic aspects. I haven't seen anythingthat portrayed the way two men stop on
the street to casually yammer about thelastest drug at the buyers club, and thengo on their way, as if they'd been talking· about the weathec __That fascinates me. AIDS isn't a single moment. It's a journey.
Q: You've been described before as
the "Pollyanna" of this culture. Tales has
the luminous, mischevious quality ofescapist literature, yet it counsels its
readers to confront their dilemmas-not
to flee or conceal them.
AM: I was reading an Advocateinterview with Joe Keenan, who wrote avery funny novel called Blue Heaven,just ghetto blacks? Which is preposterous, but, there you have it.
And I know there are a lot of readers who don't think they could pOSSibly
be interested in following the experiences of gay characters. That's why mybiggest thrill, in London, was at receiving a rave review from the stodgy old
Sunday Telegraph. I read half of it
wondering, "why on earth do they loveit?" I mean, they supported Clause 28;
they're very traditional, stuffy, evenhomophobic.
Halfway through, I read, "Thisreviewer could not help but feelextreme sympathy for poor old Booter
as he was kidnapped by militant lesbians and held hostage." And I thought,"Great! He had a character he could. identify with!" It had been a real challenge to make Booter-who was essentially my father-sympathetic
enoughsuch a dilemma for him: because it's notas though I was the rebellious,. liberalkid. I spouted his line, every-step-of-theway, well into college. So, 1m the one
who has proved inconsistent. I mean, he
has beenQ: A rock?AM: [with a sputtering
laughJ-been
a consistent bigot from the
beginning! I'm the one who can't makeup my mind [he laughsJ.
Q: What was the haidest part of thislast book to write?
AM: [long pauseJ The scenes dealing with AIDS, because I was tremendously concerned·that I not be
trivializing the issue, but I also wanted
to show the ways in which AIDS
becomes utterly matter-of-fact in ourlives, especially here in San Francisco.
We have been living with it for six
or seven years. As long as I've known

and the interviewer asked how he could
write about a gay man in the 80s without mentioning AIDS? Keenan said,"Because I'm writing escapist literature,and it strikes me as foolish to include
the very thing we're all trying to escapefrom.".
That made me loo\<_at what I do,
and realize that I'm-not writing escapist
literature at all. I'm hying to show
how-dealta certain' hand-you
cancope with it.
And the message that comes across,
I hope, is that love and affection andgenerosity do have some sort of value.
They're not trivial at all. They are very
hard things to pull off. They're very
unstylish in novels today [he laughsJ,
and, I don't give a shit. They can remainthat way until the day I die.
I know that I'm gonna keep writing
this way; it's really all I have to offer.•

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LOOKOlT,!

On the cover of December's Musclemag International, the popular competitive bodybuilder Bob
Paris poses with a very surprised-looking Ms. Olympia, Cory Everson, as the headline bolts out: A WILDNEWYOUl And indeed it is. Inside the pages of the fitness and physique rag, we learn ali about Bob's
wedding-to-model extraordinaire- Rod Jackson.
Reports -official wedding photographer" Art Zeller: "The couple looked splendid in their white
tuxedo jackets, with salmon bow ties and sashes. Leis had been flown in freshly from Hawaii for all
members of the wedding party-a
touch that n<;lt only looked wonderful, but smelled great aswell ...After the ceremony and formal photos, everyone drove in a caravan of cars to the reception at
Shanghai Red's, a restaurant in the Marina with great food, charming decor, and iarge picture windows
looking out at a parade of sailboats on this perfect clay in July.·
And they bulked up happily ever after...
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What rePels a legend most? Bette Davis lived the teeterl~g TInseltown life, duklng It out with the toughest of movlc moguls and thc bl«crest of box-offlce rivals. And according to The Star, sexual decision-making
was most harrowing. In this week's Issue of the suburban hairdresser's Bible, a tribute to Ms. Davis offers a
provocatlvc, but dubious moral Judgement; Saying yes to an Impotent billionaire Is far more virtuous than succumbing to thc charms of a lipstick lesbian with a can of Bon Ami •.
~ay
Blotcher

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BALL

thought I'd be writing to you but I
Dear ~ea4ers: .
a lot of things would, Very late last night I received a neverthqught-happen that are happening now. For'c'omrnunicationfrom my editor
instance, I never thought I could love
informing me that due to a sudden'
another person again after Rick leftchange in policy (that was in no way
me for that cantor but then I met
connected to any previous 'conflicts
Elliott .at the opening night party for
betw.een ,this column and OutWeek
Barnum and we've been deliriously
management) my deadline was being
happy with each other ever since.
,
pushed up. The new deadline just
About a month ago we had somehappens to coincide with a vitallyfriends over for dinner and everythingimportant presentation
I have forwas going pleasantly enough until
quit~ some time been scheduled tothis kid that Jim had brought along,'ma'ke on the Roosevelt-Litvinov
mentioned
something
Agreements of 1933 and the ramifica- uninvited,
about Vanessa Redgrave, in Playing.tions of inadequate, advice on subsefor Time. Well, that started this big
quent Soviet-American
relations.
argument that went all over the place.
Because of the extraordinary time
To give you an idea, at one point
constraints 'now imposed I have been
unable to submit a new column this· Elliott said. he'd leave the country if
Ronald, Reagan ever became presi~wee\{, and must by necessity reissue adent, and at some other point Jim said.previous-puQlish,ed col limn. I apolothat. book Faggots had set gay liberagize for this, ask' for your understandtion back about 20 years and so on
ing and assure you that my regular
until everybody was mad at everycolumn will resume next week.
body else. I didn't think much about
Bradley
it at the time. I mean, after all, thissort of thing happens every now and
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everybody was still speaking to eachother at Nanny Rose (though I
noticed that Jim was conspicuously
unescorted).
But yesterday, two days after theelection, Elliott came home andannounced that he'd sold his interestin the card store and had madearrangements to move to Toronto! At
first I couldn't believe what I washearing and thought maybe he wasmaking some kind of joke. Once I
realized he was indeed serious, I tried
to reason with him by reminding himthat Reagan was so old he'd probably
die in office but he said that would
be even worse because then we'd be
stuck with George Bush. His mind isreally made up about this and nothing
I can say or do will sway him. He
wants me to move away with him but
I don't think I can live in a place
where they make you put vinegar on
your french fries. On the other hand,
I do love Elliott and can't bear thethought of living without him. Could
you help me out here?
-Torn
Dear Torn:I thought about your letter thisafternoon while I was out buying
Christmas presents for that special
person in my life and I tried to imagine what I would do if I were in yoursituation. There really is, I believe, nogreater and more wonderful experience in this world than loving somebody who loves you in return. As
long as you have that you have everything you could possibly need and it
shouldn't matter where you live just
so you remain together. I advise you
to follow your heart and avoid any
possible regrets you might feel otherwise. Besides, the Reagan election
was just a knee-jerk reaction to thehostage crisis. In four more years a
Democrat will be back in the WhiteHouse and you and Elliot can return
to a kinder, gentler nation ...

Friday, Oct. 18[ 1989
Hew York DailY Hews
page 40.
FASCIST HOMOPHOBIC
COLUMNIST WILLIAM F.
BUCKLEY:

By Michelangelo

And forevery 1,000 paragraphs you readabout those suffering from AIDS,
you are unlikely to find a single
paragraph the burden of· which
is: Why in the name of God did
this dope addict or this sex-driven ..gay take such chances as he.'nowsutTers the-'consequences of?

Friday, October 18, '1989
Hew York Dally H,ews
page 42.
SELF-HATINGSOCIETY
COLUMNIST WILLIAMNORWICH:r

Slgnorne

For strapless-clad· Pat Buckley, themission' was getting to meet Billy
Crystal in person. Filmland's leading
publicist. Peggy Siegal. scored the introduction, by bringing tall Mrs. Buckley over to Crystal's table. As he didn't
bother rising: she towered over him.
which I suppose is what you get fortrying to meet stars. Anyway. thescene prompted Glorious Foods' Sean
Driscoll to wonder' "Whafs the name.. ...
of this movie, 'Harry Meets Pat)

Monday, Sept. 25, 1989: New York Dally News page 36:

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agalflst breast tan('C'r. '\1I's. Hrinkrr ~Ctid Marilyn()uayle would attend the Dallas lunC'he-on n('xtmonth.
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ill th(' ('oming months to hC'lp raisr awarenC'ss
i,lbout this criti('al health issuC',
Among the guC'sts at the RucklC'y's dinnt'r WC'ft' 'Rob~rt and Blaint' Trump. C.uolynt
Ro('hm. Estt"f'Laud.r, John Galliher. Rob.,1 WooU.y. Dr, Bill
Cahan

and GraC'f" ~irabella.

John

Funt.

Da,,'id andlIiJtie Mahonf'Y. and Nan and Tommy Kempntr.

go\'C'rnol'~hip of Nt'w York in III(' nt,~t. ~CI dUllbl.
th(' cf)J1SCna1iH' !\Ir, Hu('klC'y is amon)! tlWnt,
Galbreath nnw hI.'OJusc'hamµ<lJ.!Ilf' t'llIpil't,\11.lt·',HC'nnC'ssy U.S.A****

Ye~, 'tunk.
111('Ih'W Inl('rllutifllwl..,'111 HilI'
Show hi,ls ('001" to tUWIl~;,Iti:-:f~ill).! ridl ,\" '.\YOfkC'rs insatiubl('i,l1>PC'tit(' for ('ul1lllwdl'!', ;IIHI
otht'r thing~, with t'xpC'l1!-ivt, pro\·('IlOJIJ('C'!'.Tht·I'(·
wc.s a string of soir('cs al\t'r friday nighr~.prl'\ i('\\which bcl1cntcd The Society of \h-moriuhSlo<..lll·
Kettering('an('er ecnte-r, Amot1J("thos(' IWc;lin:':were furniturrdf"HIC'r Garri('kSlt'phen!\on. who",'dinnC'r wus held at Lt' Cirquc>. und intC'rior d"o"i,e.n,('l' Prtt'r
Marino. who ga\'e his do OAt ~'ortim('I"~,":\1)' rliC'nts arC',)'t thosC' nOll\'C'au !'it ht.' pt.'opl(,
worth ritly million dollars," ]>("tl'l' :\la1'il1o "HI~'Silltil(' ('urren1 ltG, ":\Iy c-liC'nls writt.· {llt'd\!' for lilh
million dollars.".
Jusllllurt'of how thr olhn hall'thil1!;to:, .\(HI .,t·....

Hut. really, the wholC' tinlt' :'loIn;, BuC'klC'y WO:JS
thinking about HurriC'ant' Hllgo and what it bouC'd
ThC' pali)' roll o\'er thC' \\'(~'ks.·lld c.bl' inl'iut,h-,J II
her ('ollnc('tiC'ut country hO\ls(', '" just ran't bear todf) ror Gm'C'rnor !'Iario CUUntO at til(' E'I ..1I1:1m"tolllost' .mother tree to a storm," she said~ "You know,
homC' of I't.'allor :\lIan 1\-1,Schnridt'r
Old \\"."'1.
I r(>mcmber my rather saying in a hurritam'.
'1 bUr)' Cardt'n's .,lnuual ('harity ballt:Jizal:wthhop{' I lose thC' house fCJlhC'rthan the' tr{'('s, 1 tallTa)'lur's "Pas!\ion for ~tcn" party FridCiY nighl III
alwavs r('build the house: ..
Wa~hington, Whil(\ she was in tht' fllp-ital :'\liss 1'a.\This is how the oth('r half thinks, ThC' Buckl('yslor !wid shC' would dint- with h('r IOrOl{'I' hu"bwl(lrC'trt'aled immediatt.'ly
al\C'r Friday ni~hfs pr('·S<'lIutor John W~rntr, and his thn'(' ('hildn'n,\'i('w or tht' Intf'rnational
Antiques Show to lh('irrountr)' housC', Their dinnC'r guC'sts Saturday night
wcrt:' Oleant to include
fornwrambassador to
FnlOc'C' Evan Galbreathana his wirC', Roolsit',SO )'OU know. there is a biJ,!push bn'wing amol1~('C"rtain Hl'publicans to Jll'l (; .. Ibl'('clth to rU!l fol' thC'****

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iSocial Terrorism

T,,.t.('_.....;.

LlZAIN LOVE
Mlnnel/J and friend at the RoxyBEUY BurrON BLUES
Tallulah Bang .t Pyramid

DARLING, MY HANDS ARE FULL
Kat atM.K.

COFFEE,TEA OR ME
Rosie Roadhouse at the Pyramid

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COCK LOBSTER ANYONE?
The C-53s on 11th AYe

BLINDING DATE
Hudson and M~rm at R&R Fag Bar

SKIN FliCK?
Gult8rlst Ricky B at th~ RoxyA VISION OF JOSEPH, MARY
Car/os on Av~ A

I'M BIG, IT'S THE PICTURES THAT GOT SMALL
Doug/as DcMlII~ at Candy/and

RASPBERRIES I .
,~~ro/ Channing at th~ Pyramid

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Confessions' of a
All my life I have never wanted to
be anything but a girl, well, except fora few moments on a Friday night at. Octagon when I pleaded with God tomagically turn me Into a boy. The
problem Is that by girl I mearf a ·realgirl" who believes that It Is meaningful
to talk about hair, clothes, accessories, etc. It Is not easy to be a lesbian and stili find gJrlfrlends who also
believe Coco Chanel Is a serious rolemodel, do not think It Is a capitaloffense to spend an hour In theshower and understand that you hate
Jodie Foster for the simple reason that
she wore such an awful dress to the
Academy Awards.
I truly belleve'that If Patricia Field
were really smart she would sponsor aseminar on ·Overcomlng Glamourphoblc Attitudes In the Lesbian Community." It Is a cruel act of God that thedrag queen Tabool can perform The
History of the Platform Shoe, while
many women I know are only Interested In building a platform bed. I've
read the arguments about glamourand fashion making women Into victims and I'm Intimately acquainted
with the fashion-associated plagues:
anorexia, bulimia, overly tight corsets,
consumption and so on. If I were agood lesbian I would suppress myfrivolity and give up worshipping
Brigitte Bardot, but part of the fun ofbeing a dyke Is being a bad girl.
I have a confession to make: I ama dyke addicted to drag queens. I canremember when I first became awareof my problem. Actually, It wasn't thatlong ago. It all started last year, I saw
Polyester for the first time and I washooked. I sat there enchanted by, ofall people, Divine. My jaw dropped at
the sound of her raspy voice, she wasso wonderfully seductive.
Then I wondered If I was the only
lesbo on the block who felt this way
about drag. I decided to do a little survey to see If other lesbians were similarly addicted. I asked four dykes andPhoto: Bill Bytsura found that one was repulsed and

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'!Ltsbo Drag Hag
by Sydney Pokorny
thought drag Is mIsogynIst, the otherthree were bIg fans. In fact, each one !
has a favorite and Is kind of a groupIe.
What do some lesbIans find so appealIng?Why do we watch so Intently?
It should be obvIous that dragglamour strays from domInant cultural
constructions. However, when Newsday funs an artIcle on Wlgstock anddIscusses the uses of wIgs In thIs season's fashIon lines, we mIss the most
obvIous subversion-thequeens are
chIcks, but they have dlcks. Rather
than replicatIng fashIon and entertaInment Industry Images, they mock all
theIr sources. Drag queens are theultimate scavengers. They rIfle throughthe trash of pop culture and adopt
specIfic roles to compose theIr acts.
.FemInInIty becomes a mask to beworn and we laugh (and marvel) at
the'masquerade of femIninIty once
removed. Drag also trashes masculinIty, makIng mIncemeat of machIsmo.
. Drag Is one of those "postmod- 'ern" thlngsj It sImultaneously builds
and destroys. A drag queen Is th~
ultimate emcee. She Is the Julie
McCoy of our cruIse Into Fantasyland.
The role that she creates leads us ona perverted magIcal mystery tour
through the land of gender construction and desire. A good queen Is larger than life and reduces everyone else
to one of the little people. We all justsIt, stare and coo, "I love you. You're
sooo wonderful."
While she Is on
stage IIpsynchlng, we are asked tobelieve that she Is actually a marvelous starlet. The spectacular pleasure of a sIx-foot woman sIngIng asong we long forgot Is fed by thesecret belief that she Is a real woman,
yet our fantasy Is destroyed by theknowledge that It Is all pure artIfice.
And here Is the final gender fuck: It Is
the'artlflce that Is addIctive. MyattractIon Is based In the knowledge that I
am watchIng a man playIng at beIng awoman. However, the true object of
my desire Is the final product, the artIfIcial hybrid, a gIrl who Is also a boy.
LA HOMAVAN ZANT

Photo: Bobby Miller
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Film

Partners in Crime
by Peter BowenThe title of Bill Forsyth's newfilm, Breaking In, has several meanings. On the one
hand, as a story that depicts theapprenticeship of a young hooligan,
Mike (Casey Siemaszko), to an older,establishedburglar, Ernie (Burt
Reynolds), "breaking in" suggests thehard knocks and the opening doors.

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'of a new profession. On the other
hand, the profession, the fine art ofburglary, is, of course, all about
breaking in. In fact, the film starts as
the two main characters,
unannounced to each other, break in to
the same suburban home for completely different reasons. Ernie-who
breaks in through the tight-lipped
locks of the front door-intends
torob the joint. Clumsily climbing inthrough the upstairs window, Mike
just wants to grab a bite to eat, watch
a little television and short-sheet thebeds upstairs. As the film progresses,
Ernie disciplines the prankster impulses of Mike, so that their "breaking in"can yield profits which the younger
man oddly seems never to have considered. But there is another meaningof "breaking in," which is subtly
established only when the film clearly

refuses it as a possibility.
A third of the way into the film,
Ernie suggests that Mike spend thenight. Feeling skittish about whatsuch invitation might imply, Mike
refuses until Ernie relieves his anxiety
by confessing that he isn't "queer."
Relieved and finally able to relax,
Mike admits that "it's a long way backto town." Finding the film immensely
funny, I suddenly felt sad that it had
to go out of its way to establish theheterosexuality of the main characters. At the same time, I realized that"breaking in" connotes-if
only bydenial-its opposite, "coming out." In
order to "break in" to, not only thefilm market, but also the imaginationof the "viewing public," Breaking In
needed to establish an innocent relationship between this hardened crimiSee PARTNERS on page 62

MusicShe Drives Us Crazy
by Rachel PepperInthe short period of time since she's risen to fame,
singer-songwriter Melissa Etheridge has become a starwith an almost cult-like devotion from lesbians.
Etheridge's self-titled first album, released in May 1988, hassold more than 800,000 copies in the U.S. alone. Her concerts sell out wherever she goes, her songs get air play on
progressive rock stations, and her music sells better than
Holly Near's at some women's bookstores. No small feat for
any woman rocker in the male-dominated music world, even
if Etheridge is considered one of the brightest stars of the
post-Tracy Chapman set. And with the release of her new
album, Brave and Crazy, every self-respecting rock-loving
dyke should not only know this performer's name and haveher albums, but have tickets for at LEASTone show on her
current tour.
Biased? Definitely, but I'm far from being the only
woman who thinks Etheridge is the most exciting womanly
force in rock today. Nor am I the only one who has noticed
that her songs seem tempered by a distinctly lesbian sensibility. In fact, most every dyke I know is just plain hot for
Etheridge and her music. What increasingly makes thiswoman our community's musical fantasy is not just the very
noticeable lack of male pronouns in Etheridge's verses, or
the rumors we've all heard about her trom our lover's bestfriend. No, our admiration is more for what needs no speculation: her passionate, driving lyrics, her husky, gravelly
voice, her controlled wildness on stage and the incredible
way she makes her listeners feel. As proof, I offer the factthat over the past year nothing· got women out on the dance
floor in my favorite girl bar faster than Like the Way / Do,
Etheridge's scorching song of scorned love from her debut
album.
Surprisingly, then, while driving passion seems to be
the path to fame that Etheridge has ridden, she has recently
told interviewers that many people found the passion of her
first album to be too much. In fact, she says she has toned
down the intensity to make her second album "prettier."
Indeed, her trademark jangly 12-string is now, at times,
almost delicate, most noticeably on the cut You Used to Love
to Dance, a song whose wistful lyrics and melody evoke theworking class passions of such Springsteen albums as
Nebraska and The River.
Yet there's no question in my mind that You can Sleep
While / Drive is the album's most romantic and "pretty"

DRIVING PASSION
Melissa Etheridge
song. With a quiet longing in her voice, Etheridge portray's a late night car ride with her lover, driving together
across the country:
Come on baby let s get out of this town
/ got a full tank .ofgas with the top rolled down
There s a chill in my bones .
/ don't want to be left alone
So baby you can sleep while / drive ...
You know j ve seen it before'
This mist that covers your ¥sYou've been looking for somethingThat s not in your life .
My intentions are true
Won't you take me with you
And baby you can sleep whi/e./ drive
If Brave and Crazy seems I1)ore introspective thanher debut album, it may be because of the fact that someof the biµerness is gone from her new lyrics. But the primary focus of Etheridge's music continues to be relation-s.. ETHERIDGE on page 62
October 29, 1989

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Art

F

MBECOMING MALERachelle Garnier. Plauto

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eaturing 26 C-print portraits
which range in size from 30"
x 40" to 120" X 210",
Brazilian photographer Plauto's installation at La Galleria confronts themorass of issues gender identity
evokes. The subjects, captured asthey imagine themselves as a member
6f the opposite sex, have either portrayed well known personalities andhistoricalfeatures such as Elvis
Presley, Yoko Ono and Napoleon or
opted for more every day men andwomen.
Reminiscent of 50s technicolor,
Plauto's work comes off with strong
contrast. Further he manages warm,
inviting shadows and dark comers in his
photos. These and other technical qualities allow the viewer to more closely
reevaluate their own presentation of self
and gain insight into the meaning of
appearance and dr~Plauto's
primary
goal with RM/ RW,, Attesting to the photographer's
attempt to combine art and technology to create distorted and disturbing
images, are his very subjects. Indeed,
the winter 1989 portrait of Rick
Whitaker, who's mother for him best
represents the male/female dichotomy, is a cold slap to the senses. "Iwant to put all of my body into mymother's breasts. I want to sleep withmy mother in her bed. I want to have
my mother so no one else can haveher." Either be's a one person PR firm
for the "dinosaured" psychoanalytic
school or there's quite an unresolved
Oedipus complex here.
From this disturbing manifestation of incestuous desire, the huntermost certainly gets captured by thegame in Bruce Volpone's summer
1987 portrait as Grace Jones. Volpone,"always captured by" the inimitabledisco diva, repays her in abundanceby capturing Jones' moods, moves

and very persona. Plauto's subjects gofrom dignity and quiet defiance toenergetic flamboyance. Important are
the short statements/descriptions
bythese people, such as Mark Conner
whose "efforts to run away lead only
to floating illusions:
Yet-inPlauto's photographic
panorama of emotions and expression--the female to male representations are more compellingandpowerful in their intensity. Cutting
right to the core of the matter is the
sheer fact of the element of camp-all
but nonexistent in Plauto's portraits ofwomen as it is for the men. Granted,
the camp in the portraits of men-aswomen is quite muted. In the attempt
to lessen this, Plauto has given his
work a more universal quality.
A photographer, however, cannot
totally erase millenia-long constructionof gender and power dynamics. Thevery power of women-as-men
inPlauto's work comes from.this relationship to power and privilege. Simply,
the very act of a woman dressing as aman, "becoming male," and taking on
the male persona is an assertion or
taking of power in a society built on afoundation of male privilege. Such"taking of power" contrasts sharply
with the debasement of power andprivilege represented by camp-no
matter how muted the form.
Of particular strength and intensity
are the portraits of Priscilla, Rachelle
Garnier and Antonia E. Cimino.
Priscilla, when asked who she would
be if pictured as a man, responded "Myfather." So convincing, Garnier would
have no problem presenting herself asa male denizen of Avenue B. "Feelinglike a little boy," and distressed
because "sir indicates maturity,"
Antonia, like the other two, captures anintenSe, yet introspective power.
Interestingly, the very ability ofmen to carry off the female image iscolored by sexist images and objectification. Unless a man can be "beautiful" as a woman, the drag is simply not
perceived as successful (or put in therealm of "scag drag/gender fuck"). Partof Plauto's lifelong work-to
reflect"the need for soci~ty to reexamine
what
is maleandwhat
isfemale"-RM/ RW must be seen interms of these intrinsic gender.
dichotomies of power and privilege ....

MARK CONNOR
PlautoOctober 29, 1989

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BooksThe Tales End
by Rachel Laurie"What do you know about theworld? You live in San Francisco."-Closet case Russell Rand, a famous
dress designer who got himself a wife
and a straight persona to accompany
him on' his rise to fame, hurls thisbarb at Michael Tolliver, who has noroom or time for another gay man's
shame.
.

A

rmistead
Maupin's viewof the world, centered in
San Francisco, has been a
joyful and penetrating
reality meter since he first started
sharing his Tales of the City characterswith us in 1976. Over 15 years, he hascreated an' intimate world made up of
the outcast immigrants from middle
America who sought a home in thiscity which had an edge, a group ofpeople who chose each other as family. He brought us into their lives one
hair-raising piece at a time, documenting their love, mishaps and griefthrough implausible plots and realtime, using small pieces of pop (andanti-pop) history which do make up
our lives.
Now, in Sure of You, the sixthand final book in the magnificent
series, Maupin closes an era and, pushes us right up to the edge of the,90s; from here we'll have to go italone.
The series, first appearing as aserial in San Francisco papers, opened
in 1976, when Mary Ann Singleton
arrivedin the Bay Area fromCleveland, wide-eyedand deter-

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PENETRATING REAUTY,Armistead Maupin 'mined, and never looked back. It
closes with perhaps too much emphasis on her, now headed off on a quest
for fame as a syndicated talk show
host in New York. San Francisco
becomes
like Cleveland
to hernow-she'll wince at thoughts of her
earlier self and deny ever having
belonged there.
She doesn't belong there anymore because her warmth has wornout. Now callous, manipulative andself-centered, it's hard to imagine caring about her at all if you hadn't been
privy to her life and loved ones forthe past 15 years through the earlier
books. Now she's willing to dump it
all, including her husband Brian,
who's content in a simpler life anddoesn't serve her social climbing
goals, and their adopted daughter.
She can walk away from the people
who have loved her because she
thinks she doesn't
need roots.
Maupin is 'masterful in how he shifts
narrative voice and brings us insideeach character's head. With Mary
Ann, it isn't long before we realize,
there's nol too far to go.

Photo: David Perry
But it wasn't straight white Mary
Ann that gave Tales of the City it's cultstatus. It was Maupin's portrayal of
San Francisco gay life. From the baths
to a gay rodeo, we join Michael on
his searches for great sex and true
love (neither the same thing nor
mutually exclusive). Now Michael andThack Sweeny are happily married,
having, gotten together in Significant
Others (1987) where Maupin turned
on some pleasantly memorable safe
sex heat. Gay life has come a longway from the Castro Carnival ofyesteryear; here men schmooze inbars about their T-cell counts and
AZT dosage and head home early,
Michael's beeping pillbox one of the
pop symbols defining a time.
Michael's lover Jon died of AIDS
between books, in 1982, one of thefirst to fall in the epidemic. By the
1987 Significant Others, the backdrop
is constant funerals and memorial services. Now, in Sure of You, the backdrop is survival, coupled with asimmering rage. Thack fumes over thepeople who lie about who they areeven in their obituaries and talks

TI
about going to an ACf UP meeting.
But Michael is weary; Thack is there
to remind him of his right to be
enraged ("I don't understand why
you're mad all the time" Michael tells
Thack. "I don't understandwhy
you're not," is the reply.) An era takes
on a new face, and Maupin misses
none of it.

Maupin uses dialogue andcultural observation toplace us in time andspirit. Dukakis lost ("America wasalready fucked"); Lucy died (Michaellaid a box of chocolates.
at theimpromptu
memorial,"for· myfavorite episode"); Polly, the young
swinging
dyke who has taken
Michael's place at their old haunt, 28
Barbary Lane, describes Madonna
and Sandra Bernhard's appearanceon The David Letterman Show (''The
real question is: what the fuck does
Madonna see in Sandra Bernhard? If
I were Madonna, I'd be going for theserious stuff, Jamie Lee Curtis at thevery least"). To read the older books
takes us on similar trips to earlier
times: the social relics of Pet Rocksand Betamaxes; or to places, like ahilariousand biting trip to a
"Wimmin's" music festival (which,actually, is not yet dated), or theBohemian Grove, the legendary fraternity for the elite, where the likesof George Bush and AI Haig meet toplot corporate and global takeovers.
If anything makes these people unreal, it is in the consistency of theircleverness; no one can be so witty
all the time.
Actually, for me, there's notenough lesbian presence in this wrapup book. Dede and D'orethea, thelovers who escaped Jonestown (andthat "wimmin's" music festival), arerunning the hottest new restaurant in
the gentrifying Tenderloin and makeonly cameo appearances;
Mona
Ramsey resurfaces from her rural
England digs long enough to realize
she's missing out, unsure why her
new friend would go upstairs to pickup a box of Saran Wrap on their way
to a lesbian orgy. Polly, a matter-offact lesbian ("I don't call myself adyke. I am one. I didn't have to takea coutse in it, you know"), is obviously bringing in a new era but notallowed to run with it.
I wouldn't even be complaining
if I knew that I could count on more
to come. But this is it for Maupin andhis Tales; I Can re-read the old books,
but I can't move forward with theseold friends. But I can be thankful thatthese stories are here, documenting
lovingly and hilariously a world andan era which has left us with threads
we continue weaving. Maupin isunabashedly schmaltzy, so I can be
happy in sharing the small joys andpains of these people'S lives, seeingreflected in print that my chosen family means something also. Yes, peoplechange and eras end, a trite observation on inevitibility to soften theblow. Now we have lap top computers and cordless telephones, lesbian
sex videos, j.o. parties and buyers
clubs, but we've also come full circle
because, except for Mary Ann, thesepeople still have eachother. And tiedye is back in style....

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BooksLust on Long Islandby Sarah Schulman

L

ike his previous novel, Shy(Crossing Press),
Kevin Killian's new
book Bedrooms
Have
Windows is a memoir of. suburban boyhood, urban
queerness and wide-open
reception to the details ofmodern life.

However, he is ::1lsopart of anevolving literary movement that has
yet to be named, which includes people like Eileen Myles here in New
York and Gail Scott in Montreal. This
trend consists of gay and lesbian writers who are informed' by the last 30
years of the avant-garde but show
feelings~ don't think they're better thanother people and put words together

Let's
rent
Peter
Framptonan.d dip his
body in latex.

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HGod has a bone to P"ick withyou. This home room was.a:warm
box of wet dark in the britire -coldsunny world, it kept toitselfII

Hit was as taboo as
anything in Levi-Strauss"

His 'suburbs are notbanal. Instead they writhewith secret messages andperverse aesthetics, a 70s
update on camp objectification.

60"God, said our teacher,aFranciscan friar in a black robe andsandals ...

Even his intellectual
snob jokes ar.e'.actually
funny and don't elicit that
glib. kind of unnatural
laughter, that straight men
make' at lectures on semiotics.

1 grewupinSmithtown ... a place soboring they gave it a boring name.

Killian is smart andsuch a good, clear writerthat I get terrified when heuses Rosanna Arquette as a
metaphor. Are all the newintellectuals going to referto the old intellectuals andmovie stars only? If you
don't know what Pia
Zadora looks like you
won't get all the referencesin this book, but that's not
too important because thestrength in his writing is the breadth of
his ability to reveal and the way hepays attention-charmingly.
Kevin
Killian is the gentleman sleaze novelist.

can coin the phrase of what to callthem?

in a way that everyone can understand" even while using unusual
rhythms and word orders. It's like akinder, gentler avant-gar4e. But who

The
hero
of all
Killian's writing is named
Kevin Killian, which reallywor~s, for the most part, inmaking 'youbelieve in thedepth of feeling behind thewords, but he only manages to Qelin~te two othercharacters; Carey, 14-yearold Kevin's middle-aged
lover and George, his sex
partner and friend in arms.
The others swirl around ina sea of gossip and we
don't end up feeling muchfor them at all.
Bedrooms
Have
Windows is a publicationof Amethyst Press, a newsmall press devoted to
publishing gay men's quality fiction and poetry.
Amethyst's
editor, Stan
Leventhal is the fiction editor of Torso magazine and is also publishing work by such writers as Patrick
Moone, Mark Ameen, Dennis Cooper
and Bo Huston. Y

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nal and his softer protegee.
As the inverse reflection of thepolice buddy film, Breaking In makes
painfully clear that it will not be
about that Victorian practice of inversion. Instead the film narrates the tender-but never too tender- story of
two men who come together by
never coming out. Ernie and Mike
cement their "professional" relationship by jointly dating one night "pro_fessional women." Although the naive
Mike is disappointed when he finds
out that Ernie has bought him love,the experienced Ernie reassures himthat in any case 'Mike as "one way or
another" bought love before. Indeed,
the market economy that would transform burglary into a profession turns
desire itself into ',the heterosexual
commodity which the closeness of the
I:Ilen would almost imply could be
had for free.
But while same-sex desire could
be had for free, it is only made precious by the necessity to turn awayfrom the obvious in order to pay forthe obligatory heterosexual union.
While the film romances the criminal
world, it also makes romance criminal. But even·as Mike eventually falls
into jail because he falls in love withhis favorite sex-worker, Carrie (Shelia
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splits up with his mentor to try a job
too overtly his new found wealth, theon his own, he finds not only has hecharacters in the film are ultimately
burnt all the bills by cracking themore interested in their same sex
business partners than they are in safe a little too explosively, but thatparttheir heterosexualliaisons.
As he misses his friend/businessner. And when Mike is finally
Delphine(Lorraine
Toussaint),caught, both partners look out for
Carrie's own business associate,
the other: Mike refuses to nameremarks when she catches Ernie havnamesj Ernie pays off people inside
ing free sex with Carrie at her apartthe jail to insure Mike's comfort. But
ment, "Nothing wrong with a little
with such love attached, not only tohomework." And Carrie finally breaks
one's work, but also to one's workoff her clumsy affair with Mike whening partner, it's sad that such loveshe claims that he is standing in the
can never be actually named, or
way of her career.
rather must be named criminal by
Written by John Sayles (Liana,
characters who obviously feel that
Eight Men Out) and directed by thecrime could otherwise pay. 'Y
Scottishdirector,'
Bill Forsyth(Gregorys Girl, Local Hero), the film I
I
works at certain levels by combining
ETHERIDGE from page 55
Sayles' local American realism withships, and there's still plenty of pasForsyth's rather quirky sense ofsion, driving energy and lust, from thehumor. In looking for marks, forvery sexual Skin Deep to the album's
example, Ernie locates the cash-richhits No Souvenirs and The Angels.
safe of a local Moonie-Iike church in
And the fact that Etheridge isn't about
the neighborhood. Distraught about
to give up her status as a true rocker
robbing a church, Ernie 'just reduces
any time soon.
everything down to business, claimI'd like to think that there are
ing-asif to agree with the recent
enough rock-loving lesbians alone tocourt decision against Jim Bakkeraccount for Etheridge's rise to fame.
that burglars are not the only crimiRealistieally, however, I know thatnals around. What is, however, sadthis just isn't true. I'd just like there toabout this otherwise very funny film
be a little recognition for our hard
is how it finds it necessary to doearned gay dollars buying all thosebusin~ss by making the suggestion
concert tickets, CDs, LPs and casof homosexuality a joke. When Mike
settes. Because, despite her genderneutral lyrics and use of the words"the person" and "they" to describe
her lover in a Spin interview, we allknow who she's talking to and about.
Can't EVERYONE read between
THOSE lines?
Still, the same Spin interviewer
did tickle me when she wrote that at
a recent NYC concert,
women
watched Etheridge perform with"round reverential eyes" and sangalong "with every word." Too bad shelinks this to the fact that Etheridge
manages to "convert" all the guys in
the crowd who've been dragged thereby their girlfriends. Because I know
I'll be most happy as long as I cancontinue to swap Etheridge stories
with my pals, sit surrounded by othermoony-eyed dykes at her concerts,
sing along with her every word andnot have to bring along a conversionready boyfriend. 'Y

BEST BETS
(for finding other gays and lesbians to dance with)

WOMEN

MEN&WOMENTUESDAYMONDAY
UmeUght 6th Ave & 2q St 807-7850 (Marc Berkley's Salvation)
Private Eyes 12 W 21 St. 206-7770 (preppie; male strippers, 2-4-1 till
midnight)

TUESDAY
Better Days 316 W. 49 245-8925·Love Machine Broadway at 17 St. 254-4005 (at the Underground)
World 254 E. 2nd 477-8677 (Rock & Roll Fagbar)

WEDNESDAY
Better Days 316 W. 49 245-8925
Private Eyes 12 W. 21 206-7770(Dallas & Sanker's Boys After Dark)
Spectrum 802 64 St. Brooklyn 718/238-8213 (free admission all night)

THURSDAY·Boybar 151/2 St Marks PI 674-7959(has a new wave drag show)·Copacabana 10 E 60 St 755-0610 (last Thu. of the month has Susanne
Bartsch party)·Pyramld 101 Ave A 420-1590 (Queer-Amid)
Spectrum 802 64 St Brooklyn 718/238-8213 (free admission all night)

FRIDAY
Basement 14 W. 22 St. 534-9824·Boybar 15 1/2 St Marks PI. 674-7959
Columbia Dances Earl Hall, 116 St & B'way 854-3574 (1st Friday of
every month)Private Eyes 12 W 21 St. 206-7770 (preppies and young professionals)
Spectrum 802 64 St Brooklyn 718/238-8213 (m/f strippers)

Hatflcld's 126-10 Queens Blvd., Kew Gardens, Queens
718/261-8484

WEDNESDAY
Bedrock 121 Woodfield Road, West Hempstead, U 516/486-9516
Twenty/Twenty 20 W 20 St, 5-10 pm (ShesCipe, 645-6479)

THURSDAY
Bedrock 121 Woodfield Road, West Hempstead, U 516/486-9516

FRIDAY
Bedrock (West Hempstead, LJ)
Checks 2000 Long Beach Rd. Island Park, U 516-431-5700
Octagon 555 W 33 St 947-0400 (Shescape, 645-6479)
Tracks 531 W 19 St. 627-2333 (last Friday of month)
Visions 56-01 Queens Blvd. Woodside 718/846-7131

SATURDAY
Bedrock 121 Woodfield Rd., West Hempstead 516-486-9516
Silver Unlng 175 Cherry Lane, Floral Pk, U 516/354-9641 (a.k.a"The Lining")
Stan 836 Grand Blvd., Deer Park, L.!. 516/242-3857
Twenty/Twenty 20 W 20 St, 5-10 pm (Shescape, 645-6479)

SUNDAY
Bedrock (West Hempstead, U)

SATURDAY·Boybar 151/2 St Marks PI. 674-7959
The Center 208 W 13 St. 620-7310(2nd and 4th Saturdays)
Private EyeS 12 W 21 206-7770 (Dallas and Sanker's Boys After Dark)
Sound Factory 530 W. 27 St. 643-0728(non-alcohol, House music)
Spectrum 802 64 St Brooklyn 718/238-8213 (guest performer night)

SUNDAY·Mars Westside Highway at 13 St. 691-6262 (Chip Duckett's "Mars
Needs Men" night)·Pyramld 101 Ave A 420-1590 (I-IapiPhace and Drag + Variety Show)
Spectrum 80264 St. 718/238-8213 (show; free admission from 9-10)

EVERY NIGHT
Monster 80 Grove St. at Sheridan Square 924-3557
Nimbus 22 22 7th Avenue South 691-4826
Tracks 531 W 19 St. 627-2333

EVERY NIGHT
cave canem 24 1st Ave, at 1st St (Sarx!wichSisterSunqay, 529-9(65)Cubby Hole, 438 Hudson Street 243-9079
Duchess n, Sheridan Square 242-1408

NOTE:
All Phone numbers are area code 212unless otherwise indicated.
Party events are subject to change.
• (TVswelcome)Send corrections/additions to:
Rick XBox 798.NY,NY101Q8~
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WOMEN ABOUT Qlt~ff D.ae
for SUrprise Lake Hike In l\(J,201/481-0440
BAD OBJECT CHOICF5 and
ANTHOLOGY FILM ARCHlVPS
present Gay/Lelblan
FUmlVldeo Screenlnas; Marlon
Riggs' Tongu&f Untua, PratJbha
Parmar's Memory PkJuNs, Marik
Boudreau's StwV FtIlUVl, Marilyn
Burgess' A Woman in My
Platoon; '2-,4 2nd Ave (enter on
2nd St); 7 pm; 925-2111, 505-5181
CEN'IER Panel DllcuslloOJ MAlI
You Need to Know About Wills
and Estates- with Emily Roaenthai and David Langer; 208 W l'
St; 6-8 pm; 620-7310

LAMBDALEGAL DEFENSE &:EDUCATION FUND Beneflt with
Armistead Maupin, who will
read from Sureo/You, his new
novel; at Donnell Library, 11 E 5'
St; 6 pm, cocktails follow at the
Plaza; $100 and up includes autographed copy of the book, rsvp
995-8585
RAPP ARTS CENTER presents the
opening of Bert-Hur, a new
play by Thomas M. Disch adapted from Lew Wallace's novel,with John J. Harmon as Ben-Hurand George McGrath as Lew Wallace; 220 E 4 St (btwn Aves AlB);
8 pm; $15; tix at 279-4200, info529-5921 (TlJES-SAT at 8 pm,
SUN at, pm)

GAY ACllVlST ALllANCE IN
MORRIS COUN1Y presents Lynn
Lavner, SOIlg stylist; at the Unitarian Pe1lowahlp,'21 Normandy
Heights Rd, Morristown, NJ; 8:30
pm; $7.50; RSVP 201/285-1595

IDEN'I11Y HOUSE Women's
Conferences Wom .. Lovi"gWo", .. , three weeks of 23 workshops exploring sexuality, identity, relationships and coming out,
eiuis Nov. 11; today: Financial
Piannlnll with Connie Court; 7-9pm; 544 6th Ave (btwn 14/15 St);
S15 per workshop/S,5 forthree/$7 per workshop from the
4th one on; 24,-glgl

GAY FRIENDS a: NEGHBORSBROOKLYN Pot Luck Dinner,
4157th St (btwn 6th/7th Aves),
Park Slope; 8:'0 pm; 718/7884022

CONGREGATION BE1H SIMCHAT TORAH Jewish Education
Courses; tonight: Hebrew language Reading Class at 7:'0,
Principles of Kasn4lb at 7:30, Bib-

WNET-1V/13Arl 01,,,.Wes'.".,. World- TIM Higb R .. aIsstltlce, focusing on the works ofd'a Vinci, Michelangelo, Raphael;
9-10 pm (repeats 10129)
LAVENDERUGHT GOSPELCHOIR Concert at Delta 88
Restaurant; 332 8th Ave at 26 St;
9:30 pm; $10 includes dinner;
924-3499

lical Women: Anal,tbe Wamor&
Asbera the Motber at 8 pm,; at 57

Bethune St; info 929-9498
WNET-1V/13 Uve from Uncoln
Center, NYC Opera's Don Gtova""', Herbert von Karajan conducts as Samuel Ramey plays
Mozart's famous, misguided heterosexual, Don Juan, 8-11:30 pm(simulcast on WNCN-FM)
CEN'IER STAGE sees ThrYeP.".",. Opera, with Sting, Maureen McGovern, and Ethyl Eichelberger, 8 pm, $65,620-7310

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FOOTSTEPS TIlEAlRE COMPANY opens Dig Volky Spike!, aBritish comedy "about six members of a London women's volleyball team who find friendShip
and the courage to overcome
obstacles both on and off thecourt"; at the RAPP Arts Center,
220 E 4 St; 8 pm; $15; reservations 529-6160 (WED-SAT at 8
pm/SUN at 7 pm, through 11/12,$7 previews 10123 &: 10124)
ASIANSAND FRIENDS NEWYORK Members Meet Members
at Star Sapphire, 59 St &: 1st Ave;
6-8 pm; membership info 6732596
GAY MALES/M ACTIVISTSMeetIng: Fetishes, with small groups
discussing leather, uniforms, rubber, boots, more; at the Center,,rd Floor, 208 W 13 St; 8:30 pm;$5; 727-9878
STEPHEN HOLT SHOW interviews Brenda Bergman, underground cult diva (Women BebindBars); Manhattan Cable Channel
D/17,9 pm (repeats 10128 on
Paragon)
EAGLE BAR Movie Night.
Beacbes; 142 11th Ave (at 21 St),11 pm; 691-8451
WNET-1V/1' Robert Llpsytewith 100 NYC Voters andDavid Dinkins, on TDB ElBlJBntb
Hour, 11 pm (recorded live at
9:'0 pm)

JUDlTII'S ROOM BOOKSTORE
presentS Valerie Miner readingfrom Trespasst"g _d O,ber
Stories; 681 Washington St (btwn
W 10 &: Charles St); 7 pm; free,but seating is limited; 727-7330
IN OUR OWN WRITE presents
Maureen Brady, GilJBMe YourGood Ear, The Question She Put
to Herself, and FoUy, reading fromher new fiction; at the Center,
208 W l' St; 7:30 pm; $,; 6207310
TIlE LESBIAN,GAY &: BISEXUALCOMMUNI1Y OF TIlE NEWSCHOOL presents Queer Minds,
A Lecture Ser/esllmagmmg
Leshla" Conmtu"ity: His'ory,
C01fsclouSfless _d Leshla"
Pulp Novels, with Jane Miller, inRoom 'OS, at the Graduate Faculty of the New School for Social
Research, 65 Fifth Ave; 8 pm; info
71&'956-6999
TIlE REAllY INCREDIBLYBROKE REPERTORY COMPANY
salutes Halloween with a production of I S~ep Witb ,,,. Ugh'.
Or! and The Curse 0l,beMedusa'. Box, at the WOW
Cafe, 59 E 4 St, 8 pm, 460-8067(also 10127, 10128)
TIlE COPACABANApresents
SUsanne Bartsch's Last Thu ....
day ofthe Month Party, seeBest Btltsfor Dancing

FI/IA
tl'

NATIONALEPISCOPAL AIDSCOALITION Our Church Has
AIDS National Conference; atthe Hyatt Regency Hotel, Cincinnati, Ohio, through Oct. 28;
214/343-6936
DlSlRICf COMMITIEE 37
Gay/LCsblan Issues Committee
Meeting, 6-8 pm, 71814'9-717'. IDEmTIY HOUSE Women's
Conf_: Women Loving Women ,today: Friendship In Our LIfe,
Pilrt I with Alice M. Tuohey (PaIt
II on 11/4), 7-8:30 pm, see 1(1125~-:"7f··

SAGF/SHERlDAN SQUARETOURS Weekend In Washington, through Sunday, 10129; withmotor coach tour of the city,
National Zoo, Capitol Building,two dinners, free time to explore;$269 per person; member info
741-'2247
IN OUR OWN WRITE Creative
WritIng Workshop, led by Maureen Brady (see Oct. 26); at theCenter, ~08 W l' St; 3-6 pm; $10,
register 7.181'84-2234
IDENTIlY HOUSE Women's
Conference: Wom .. Lovi"g
Wom .. ; tc;>day:Lesbian Identity

j.

I
Formation,
Part I 'with Beverley.
Goff (part·n 011-11/2); 7-9 pm;
also Coming Out as Lesbians
with Carolyn Pope and Betty
McGuinness; 7-8:30 pm; see
10/25
WOMEN'S AL'IERNATIVE COMMUNI1Y CEN1ER Hera Productions' Womyn's Coffee House,featuring singer, Judy Fjell; at
675 Woodfield Rd, West Hempstead, NY; 8 pm; $10; 516/4832050

MEN OF All COLORS TOGElHER EthnIc Potluck Feast, where
each person brings a dish toshare with four people; at theCenter, 208 W 13 St; 8 pm; confirm your contribution at 2456366
1HE REAllY INCREDIBLYBROKE REPERTORY COMPANY,
see 10/26

I
Bethune St; 1-5 pm; $8 membetV$10 nonmembers; $2 disoount with advance purchase,741-2247, 208 W 13 St
CONGREGATION B'NAI jESHURUN Shabbat SpIritual Gathering for people with AIDS andtheir loved ones; luncheon,music, conversation, study, worship service; 257 W 88 St; 2 pm;
free; 787-7fIXJ (also 11/18, 12/16).PEOPLE WITII AIDS COAIlTION
SIngles' Tea, for PWAs, PWArcS,
HIV+s; 222 W 11 ST, 3-5:30 pm;
532-0568
MARANA1HA: RIVERSIDERS FOR
GAY/LESBIAN CONCERNS Halloween Potluck and Costume
Party, in Brooklyn Heights, 7:30
pm, info 212/866-4043 .

1HEA'ffiE IN UMBO presents
the 1786th performanceof

Vampire Lesbiatls of Sodom,
WNET-lV/13 PremIere Production of Paper Mill Playhouse's
Showboat, Jerome Kern and
Oscar Hammerstein n's classic; 9
pm - midnightASIANS AND FRIENDS NEWYORK staff an InformatIon
Table at Star SapphIre,
59 St &
1st Ave, 11 pm - 1 am; member
info 673-2596

U'
STEPHEN HOLT SHOW interviews Brenda Bergman, underground cult diva (Women
Behind Bars); Manhattan andParagon Cable, Channel 16/c,
11:30 am
IDEN11lY HOUSE Women's
Conference:
Women Lovi"gWomert, today: LesbIan SexualIty with Lynne Roberts; 11:30 am- 1;30 pm; also Love in the MIddle Ages with Roslyn Pulitzer; 67:30 p~; see 10/25
GAY MEN'S REALm CRISIS
Workshop: Keep It Up!, to"reaffirm the importance of safer
sex, and feel confident aboutsaying yes, whether you're into
casual sex or serious dating, andno matter what your HIV statusis·; at the Center, 208 W 13 St;
noon - 6 pm; register 806-6655,
TDD 645-7470
SAGE ¥Maskqueeradc"
Halloween Social, with oontests
and prizes for the best mask; inthe Westbeth Complex, 57

making it the longest-running
non-musical in Off-Broadway
history(Vanities ended at 1785),
1HE REAllY INCREDIBLYBROKE REPERTORY COMPANY,
see 10126
DIGNITI/SUfFOLK, CERF-PAC,GAYMEN & LESBIANS IN
BROOKHAVEN All-Hallows Eve
Fundralslng
Party, celebrating
the 200th anniversary of the guillotine; with beer, soda, punch,door prizes, buffet, DJ, lights,
and graves by John & Bob; at St
Cuthberts Church in Selden, Long
Island; 8 pm - 12:30 am; $15
advance/S20 door (limited seating); info 516/399-3048
ASIANS AND FRIENDS NEWYORK Art Show and Halloween Party, with art by members and entertainment by Billy
Yip-Ching, Madame Butterfried,
Miguel Braganza, others; at theCenter, 208 W 13' St, 3rd Floor; 8pm; reduced admission with costume; member info 673-2596
WOMEN'S ALTERNATIVE COMMUNITI CENlER Halloween
Party; at 675 Woodfield Rd, West
Hempstead, NY; 8:30 pm;
5161483-2050
GAY FRIENDS & NEIGHBORSBROOKLYN Spoolc-O-Rama
Halloween
Costume Dance,with D], cash bar, beer, wine,
soda, prizes for best costumes; at
339 8th St (just off 6th Ave, take
F train to 7th Ave stop), Park
Slope, Bklyn; 8:30 pm - 12:30'T.

I
am; $6; 71817~256
CENTER DANCE COMMITIEE
and GAY MALE S/M AC1lVISTS
co-sponsor a Halloween
Lrather-4-Lace
Ball, With DJ
Karin W&n:I; at the Center, 208 W
13 St; 9 pm - 1 am; $8 generaV$6
members, seniors, students; 6207310
COLOMBIA PEP BOYS PRODUCTIONS Gay/Lesblan Halloween
Dance, $200 prize for best c0stume; Columbia University's Earl
Hall, 116 St & B'way (#1/119
train); 10 pm - 2 am; $5 with costume or student ID; 629-1989(Note: not aflliated with theColumbia Gay and Lesbian
Alliance First Friday dances)
1HE SAINI' AT LARGE invites
you to A Haunting, "the dome isgone, the stars are gone, but themagic lives on," 3t 105 Second
Ave (the space that was The
Saint); music by Terry Sherman,
lights by Richard Sabala; costumes and/or masks REQUIRED;$35 advance (TicketMaster until
10/27)/$40 door (cash only); info674-8541, TicketMaster 307-7171

NY BANKERS GROUP throws
CENfER KIDS a Halloween
Party, with games and activities
for all children and their lesbian/gay parents; in Park Slope,
Brooklyn, 1 pm; $5 per
adult/kids free; leave message at
the Center for info, 620-7310

also includes wQrld premiere ofHoward Rosner's kaddish; at theStephen WISe F~e Synag~e,
30 W 68 St; 3 pm; $10 suggested;
841-9663
WNET-1V/13 Arl of'N Wes'_ Worid- The Htgh .Rerttlls-.,s_ce, fOCUsing on the works of
cia Vinci, Michelangelo,
4-5 pmRaphael;LAVENDER UGHT GOSPELCHOIR Benefit Concert at St.
dement's Church, 432 W 46 St, 7
pm; 222-9794,7181624-1196
LAVENDER HEIGHTS Halloween Dance, with costumeoonteS:, "ghostly surprises:" live
DJ, soft drinks; at the Cornerstone Center, 178 Bennett Ave(189 St), Manhattan; 8 pm - midnight; info, Barbara Ray 567-4033
HAPI'S BACKDOOR CABARET
presents Carla Sdmer in a tribute to Gypsy Rose Lee; at the
Pyramid, 101 AvenUe A (btwn
6th & 7th Aves); midnight and 1
am show, dancing till 4 am; $5;

420-1590

HALLOWEEN
GREENWICH VILLAGE HALLOWEEN PARADE gather 6 pm
on West Street bet.Christopher&West Houston, move at 7 pm
down WesiHouston to 6th Ave,up 6th Ave to 14 St, turns east on
14 St to Union Sq., ends by 10
pm; info 226-4676,914/758-5519

IDEN1TIY HOUSE Women's
Conference:
Women Loving
Womert, today: Lesbian Friendships with Jane Post and Joan
Pozonski; 11:30 am - 1;30 pm;
also' ComIng Out with Lynne'
Roberts; 11:30 am - 1:30 pm; see
10125

MARS Pat Field presents Haunted House of FIeld with performances by Asia Love, Dog Love,
Jah Easy and Sister Codle Ravioli;$10 at door; 13 St. at West Side
Highway; 691-6262.

MONTEVERDI TRIO &SALOMONE TRIO present a
Joint Recital: Pastyme with
Good Comparrye, to benefit
Momentum: AIDS Outreach Program, a nutritional and counseling program for PWAs; "'The
Salomorie ~rio, a female ensemble, and The Monteverdi Trio, amale ensemble, coliaborate topresent an afternoon of vocal
trios and sextets which spanfrom the late middle ages to the20th century ...wodes by Monteverdi, Rossi, Henry VIII, Morley, Weelkes, Foster, Bartok,
Ellington, Porter and Sondheim";

0U1WEEK MAGAzINE, 550TOOL, MARS and CHIP DUCKETf present Trick or Treat
1989, featUring an OutDoor
Halloween carnival (whose
proceeds go to ACf UP) with
Moonwalks, games of chanceand skili, fortune-telling. kissing
booth, cotton candy, more;indoors promises ·outrageously
undressed go-go boys, dade andcruisy basement fun, cheap
drinks (beer $2.50, liquor $3.50),
dancing all night,· DJ John Suliga;,at Rapp Arts Center, 220 E 4
St; 9 pm; $5 with invite/slightly
more without

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For the physically disabled Lesbian and Gay
Community.
(212)989-1921
P.O.Box 305 Village Station, New York. NY
10014

HISPANIC UNITED GAYS& LESBIANS
Educational services, political action, counselingand social activities in Spanish and English by
and for the Latino Lesbian and Gay COmmunity.
General meetings 8:00 p.m. 4th Thursday of
every month at 208West 13th Street
Call (212) 691-4181
or write H.U.G.L, P.O.Box 226 Canal Street
Station, New York.·NY 10019.

A.C.Q.C.
AIDS CENTEROFQUEENS COUNTYSOCIAL SERVICES· EDUCATION· BUDDIESCOUNSELING· SUPPORTGROUPS
Volunteer Opportunities(718) 896-25OO(voice) (718)896-2985(TDD)

FRONTRUNNERS
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.

ACT UP (AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power)
496A Hudson Street, Suite G4 NYC 10014(212) 989 -1114
A diverse, non-partisan group of individuals
united in anger an~ committed to direct action
to end the AIDS crisis. Gen. meetings Mon.
nights 7:30, the Community Center 208W.13th.

THE FUND FORHUMAN DIGNITY
National Gay and Lesbian Crisis Une'AIDS 800'---1-800-S0S-GAYS
Educational Resource Center; Positive Images
Media Center; NY State Arts Program
666 B'way Suite 410NYC,NY10012 (212)529-1600

lAMBDA LEGAl DEFENSEAND EDUCATIONFUND
Precedent-setting litigation nationwide forlesbians, gay men and people with AIDS.
Membership ($35 and up) includes newsletterand invitations to special events. Volunteer
night on Thursdays. Intake calls: 2-4pm Mon
thru Fri(212)995-8585

THE GAYAFRICAN AMERICANSOFWESTCHESTER(TbeGA.A.)
is a community based support group formed in
Westchester County. Various activities areplanned for the coming months.
Please call 914-376-0727for more info.

TlfE LESBIAN AND GAY BIG APPlE CORPS, Get your instrument out of the closet and come·play with us. Symphonic, Marching, Jazz. Dixieland, Rock, Aute Ensembles and Woodwinds.
123West 44th St Suite 12L New York. NY
10036 (212)869-2922.

GLAAD
Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation
80 Varick Street. NYC 10013 (212) 966-1700
GLAAD combats homophobia in the media andelsewhere by promoting visibility of the lesbian'and gay community and organizing grassroots
response to anti-gay bigotry.

LESBIAN & GAY
COMMUNITY SERVICESCENTER
208West 13th Street New York, NY lOOn
(212) 620-7310
9am-llpm everyday.
A place for community organizing and networking, social services, cultural programs,
and social events sponsored by the Center andmore than 150community organizations, .

ARCS (AIDS-Related Community Services)for Dutchess, Orange, Putnam, Rockland, Sullivan, Ulster and Westchester counties. AIDS
education,clientservices,
crisis intervention,
support groups, case management, buddy andhospital visitor program.
214Central Pwe. Wlile P\ails, NY1!mi (914)!maD)
gj8 Broadway ,Newburgh; NY 12250(914)562-5005
AIDSline (914)993-0607
BAR ASSOCIATION FORHUMAN RIGHTS. Lawyers Referral
Service for the Lesbian and Gay Community
Full Range of Legal Services (212) 459-4873
BAR ASSOCIATION FORHUMAN RIGHTSFree Walk-in Legal·Clinic. Tuesday 6-8 pm
Lesbian & Gay Commu,nity Centro Ground Aoor
BODY'POSITIVE
If you or your lover has tested HIV+, we offer
support groups, seminars, public forums, reference library, referrals, social activities andup-to-date national monthly, "THE BODY POSITIVE" (SlS/year).
(212) 633-1782.
2095 Broadway, Suite 306, NYC, NY 10023
CIRCLEOFMORE UGHT
Spiritual support and sharing in a gay/lesbian
affirmative group.
West-Park Presbytarian Church
165West 86th Street
Wed: worship service 6:30 p.m., program 7:30.
Marsha (212)~:4373
Charlie (212)691-7118.
COMMUNITY HEALTH PROJECT
208West 13th Street, NYC, New York 10011
For Appointments and Information (212) 6753559 PROVIDING CARING, SENSITIVE AND
LOW COST'HEALTH CARESERVICESTO THE
LESBIAN AND GAY COMMUNITYCONGREGATIONBETH SIMCHATTORAH
NY's Gay and Lesbian Synagogue Services
Friday at 8:30pm
57 Bethune Street
For info: call: (212) 929-9498.

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GAY MALE S/M ACTIVISTS \Dedicated to safe and responsible S/M since.
1981. Open meetings w/programs on S/M techniques, lifestyle issues, political and social
concerns. Also special events, speakers
bureau, workshops, demos, affinity groups,
newsletter, more. GMSMA -Dept 0, 496A Hudson Street. Suite 023 ,NYC 10014.
(212) 727-9878.
GAY MEN'S HEALTIf CRISIS HOTUNEFORINFORMATION ON SAFERSEX AND HIVRELATEDHEALTH SERVICES,AND FORINFORMATION ON ONE-TIME, WALK-IN AIDSCOUNSELINGSERVICES
212-807-6655
212-645-7470TDD (For the Hearing Impaired)Mon.-Fri. 10:30a.m. to 9 p.m. Sat 12:00to 3:00
HEAL (Health Education AIDS Uaison)
Weekly info. and support group for treatments
for AIDS which do not compromise theimmune system further, including alternativeand holistic approaches.
Wed 8pm. 208W. 13th St (212)674-HOPE.
HETRICK-MARTIN INSTITUTE
for lesbian and gay youth. Counseling, drop-in
center (M-F,. 3-6pm). rap groups, Harvey Milk
High School, AIDS and safer sex information,referrals, professional education.
(212) 633-8920(voice)(212) 633-8926 ny for deaf.

LESBIAN AND GAY RIGHTS PROJECT
of the American Civil Uberties Ualoa
KNOW YOURRIGHTS/\NE'RE EXPANDING'TIfEM'(212)944-9800, ext 545
LESBIANS AND GAYS OF RATBUSH
Brooklyn's social organizatiori for both gay
men and lesbians.
P.O.Box 100, Midwood Station
Brooklyn, NY 11230(718) 859-9437
LONG ISLAND ACT-UP
P.O.Box 291, New Hyde Park. NY 11040
Support us for change on Long Island.
(516)338-4662(516)997-5238 Nassau(516) 928-5530 Suffolk
NATIONAL GAYAND 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. through lobbying,education, organizing and direct action.
. NGLTF 1517U Street NW, Washington, DC
20009. (202)332-6483.-

A Benefit for ATRNORTHERN UGHTS ALTERNATIVES
Improving Quality of Life for People with
AIDS/HIV.
THE AIDS MASTERY WORKSHOP: Exploring
the possibilities of a powerful and creative lifein the face of AIDS. Call Jack Godby(212) 337-8747
NYC GAY & LESBIAN
ANn-VIOLENCE PROJECT
Counse6ng, advocacy, and information for survivors of anti-gay and anti-lesbian violence,
sexual assault, domestic violence, and othertypes of victimization. All services free andconfidential.
24 hour hotline (212) 807-0197
PEOPLEWITH AIDS COAUTION(212) 532-0290 / Hotline (212) 532-0568
Monday thru Friday 10am-6pm
Meal programs, support groups, educationaland referral 'Services for PWA's and PWArc's.
PEOPLEWITH AIDS HEALnt GROUP
Underground buyer's club importing not-yetapproved medications and nutritional supplements. 31West 26th St 4th Roor (212)532-0280
SAGE: (Senior Action in a Gay Environment)
Social Service Agency providing care, activities, and educational services for gay & lesbian senior citizens. Also serving over 160
homebound seniors and older PWA's . 208
West 13th St NYC 10011 (212) 741-2247
ULSTERCOUNTY GAY AND LESBIANAWANCE
Meets first and third Monday of each monthat 7:30 p.m. at the Unitarian Church on Sawkill. Road in Kingston.
For information, call (914)626-3203.

[till'COMMUNITYHEALTHPROJECT,.

b, Larry Kramer

A READING
directed b,: Michael Engler(currently directing -Mastergate- on Broadwa,)

Brad Davis,
D. W.Moffet & Robert Dorfman
ALONG wrFH Colleen Dewhurst,
Charles Busch, & Other Leading

With Original Cast. Members:

Actors of Stage and Filmto be followed by a Champagne Reception
Npvember 13th, 7:30 pm.
at the Public Theater"$ 25 Open Seating, $ 50 Reserved Seats,$100 VIP Seats with autographed mo~ento
For information and tickets call
ATR (212) 268-4196

ONE NIGHT ONLY. LIMITED SEATING.
All proceeds to benefit the AIDS Treatment Registry, Inc.
Tickets are tax deductible to the maximum extent permitted by law.

208 West 13th Street
New York, N.Y. 10011

212/675.3559"ATRextends its gratitude to Joseph Papp and the NY Shakespeare
Festival for generously donating the space for this event.

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OUlWEEK BAR GUIDEWEST SIDE,"',Bike Stop West:i30 W. 75th St.
. '874-9014. 'candle Bar.. ~09 Amiterdam Avenue.
.874-9155,''Cat's: 730 8th Ave.
221-7559
Don't Tell Mama
343 West 46th St.
757-0788. Piano Bar,Jason's.' 23 W. 73rd St.
874~8091
Sally's Hideaway
264 W. 43rd St.
221"9152,Town and Country.9th Ave at 46th St.
307-1503

Trpc, : .246 W. 48th St.
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428 Columbus Ave (at 81st). ,799-7365
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~,'650-1944
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.; G.H. Club·," ~·53·E.53rd St.
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Johnny's Pub
123 E. 47th St.
355-8714

Badlands·
Christopher & West St.
741-9236

Regent East
204 E. 58th St.
355-9465

Boots & Saddle
76 Christopher Street
929-9684

Rounds303 E. 53rd St.
593-0807

Cellblock 28
28 9th Ave
733-3144j/oSouth Dakota
405 3rd Ave.
684-8376
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400 E. 59th St.
688-4710
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68 2nd Ave. (at 4th St.)674-9714
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674-7959
Dancing / Drag
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101 Avenue A
420-1590
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116 1st Ave (7th St.)
m-9232
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673 Hudson St.
(bet. 13th & 14th)
627-1140
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The Cubbyhole
438 Hudson (Morton St)
243-9079
A Neighborhood bar for gay
women & men .
D.T.'s Fat Cat
281 W. 12th St.
243-9041
Piano Bar. Mixed M!FDuchess II
70 Grove St (7th Ave.). 242~1408
Women
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675 Hudson St.
242-9292
j/oJulius159 W. 10th St.
929-9672
Serving Coors, Coors Lite, &Coors Draft. .
Kellers
384 West St. (at Christopher)243-1907
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929-9322
Piano Bar

The Locker Room
400 W. 14th St. (9th Ave)459-4299
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59 Grove St. (7th Ave)
243-9323
Piano Bar
The Monster
80 Grove St. (7th Ave.)924-3558
Piano Bar / Dancing
Nimbus 22
22 7th Ave. South
691-4826
Danching, pinball, pool,loungeNinth Circle
139 W. 10th St.
243-9204
Ramrod185 Christopher St.
Sneakers
392 West St.
242-9830
Two Potato
145 Christopher St.
242-9340
Ty's
114 Christopher St.
741-9641
Uncle Charlie's
56 Greenwich Ave.
255-8787
Video Bar

CHELSEAThe Cubbyhole
Barbary Coast
64 7th Ave. (14th St.)
675-0385

438 Hudson Street
at Morton(212) 243-9079

The Break
232 8th Ave. (22nd St.)
627-0072
Chelsea Transfer
131 8th Ave. (bet. 16th &17th)929-7183
Eagle's Nest
142 11th Ave (21st St.)691-8451
Leather / Levi's
Private Eyes
12 W. 21st St. (bet. 5th & 6th)
206-7770
Dancing, Video ClubA neighborhood bar forboth gay men & women...

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Non-Profit lesbian/Gay
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29,5'10",130#, beard,
moust, glasses, imaginative, intelligent, fairly
hairy, passionate, &monog.
Seeking:
physically & emotionally HEALTHY companion, 28-42, educated, hot, out, open &genuine, for socializing based on potential
for
MUCH
more.
Photo, etc. to: PO Box
1330, Murray Hili Station, NYC, 101560605.
DWNTWNHIPSTER
Hdsm GBM, 28, 6',
155, w/Bachelor pad
stalking Cool kat for
fun, adventr & psychodellic SS (Subtle
kink at) I DIG:Hdsm
GWM 25-35, 6' chilled
w/vers.
cucumber,buns & accessories(suit & tie or jeans-lon 1 or 2) You Dig:you, design. ideas,
cusine, parties, mucho
SS & of course ME!
This shy-extrovert
awaits your proposalof seduction (w/foto &phone for mine)No
Drugs, or smoke. Outweek Box 1502
AITN ALL HOMEBOYS
Do you playa little Bball and chil to rap
music? Are you a real
man who gets theurge for some hot man
to man action? If so
and you are Black or
Latin male 18-30 this29 yr old Homeboy
wants to check youout. I'm Masc, discreet, and always
ready - write POB
20983, Midtown Stn,
NYC 10129.

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LOVE LIFE
35 GWM 5'6", 160,
Br/Br, balding, moustache, HIV+ and ok
about it. seeks man
together, caring forfun, loving relationships
basedonrespect. I've been thru
the 70's & 80's withgreat pleasure had to'adjust to new realities
no regrets only expectations for the 90's,

LIFETO SHARE
sharing life and experiences is what it's allabout, isnt it? Amcommitted, m'onogamy-oriented GWM,
6', lean, attr, clean
shvn, prof, intelligent,
non-smoker, runnerand young 47 years
old. Seeking compatible GWM to sharemovies,theater,music, quiet eves/

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LOOKN4 BUDDY
GWM, 28, 165, cln
shavn, hairy bod, darkhair & looks, straightacting, in search of abuddy & who is similar

TEAM CAPTAIN
Hot WM, 33, 6'1",
1851bs, vy handsm,
masc, and wrks out.
Seeks tall/big guy,
who was or wishes hewere a TEAM CAPTAIN, to act out
sweaty locker room
frat hazing, feet, andmore explosive action.
Call Tom btwn 8pm12mid, to meet in NYC(no phone jlo) at 212675-7352.
1.0VE IS
Being close 2 eachother, a moon lit
beach, being snowedin, Mon Night Ft Ball,hot sex, passllove,sharing & caring.Me,GM, 27, 6 ft. & 210, U:
GM, 24-44, Tall, Dark,
we both-Prof, and MN
based on 1st date. We
want 2 get to knoweach other and havelasting relationships.
Lets travel new roads
to enrich our love 4
each other. love isalso roses on Sunday/dinner
4 2, aromantic hideaway,
finding that special
love & celebratingeach day together.
Outweek Box 1514

write w/photo & phone
to Outweek Box 1504
M - F THREESOMEBi Male/St Female
seeks adventurous
male to fulfil a fantasy,
condoms a must, write
Outweek Box 1505
HAIRYSEEKSSMOOTH
GWM, 38,5'10", 168,
Dark hair hairy, very
hot, passionate, warm,
honest. wants blond/redhead, 18-35, clean
shaven smooth bottom, serious only formore than one nite,write box 1536, NY.C
10276. PH/PH must.

times, fun and more.
Send lener/phone# to:
Outweek Box 1507
LOOKINGFORMR.
RIGHT
I'm 27, WM, 6', 160lbs,
attrac, clean, cut, gym
bod, into theater,
movies, books, travel& good times. If your30-40, attrac, phys fit,
moustache a +, send
Ph/Ph.& lets makelireworks. Send lette~
to: Outweek Box 1508
AMBIDEXTROUS
Somewhere out there
must be a handsome
man under 40 whosebody is in as good
shape as his mind I'm
33, 5T, 135. good

OutWeek Box #__-=77 Lexington Avenue, Suite 200
New York NY 10010

76

body, smart, beautiful
face and ready forsomeone who can
carryon a conversation while he lucks me
blind. Outweek Box
1509

in appearanceforhorse-play:
playfulwrestling, massage,
showers, land? I love
body contact-hugging,kissing--& if the chemistry clicks---someone
to hold tight all thru thenightl U got NY accent= ++! Thanks, talk to U
soon, please respondw/reply.
phone&
photo (if poss.) Outweek Box 1510
WHITEMALE
30, 5'10", 1551bs,
handsome,cleanshaven, well-built. Italian. Cultured,butstreetwise, with military. background.
Hoop, science. pubs.
and a sincere willingness to explore various avenues of companionship. Interested? PO Box 429, Red
Hook Station, New
Yrok,l1231-ooo7.
NEWAGE PROF.
BiWM. 5'10", 160lbs,
35, aublgry. very goodlooking, warm, creative, great sense ofhumor, straight acting,deep thinking, healthy,
non-smoking/drugs,
seeks same to 39,
photo/phone, write bx
7590, NYC, 10150.

GENTLEMANPREFER
BLOND
latin Male, 27, 5'9",150lbs, professional,
healthy, athletic, gym
body, aggressive but
loving, seeks attractive
affectionate , slenderand sexy guy (blondea +) 17-31 for a longterm monogamouslove affair, send letter/photo/phone#.
Outweek Box 1515
SM YEARNING... GF
25 submissive, intelligent, attractive seeks
experienced, chivalrous, dominant butch.
Treat yourself to thecharms of a loving, ,.
fiesty yet decidely submissive femme. Outweek Box 1516
THERE'SA PERFECT
MATCHFORMEl
She just has to be"found." I'm responsible, sensitive, intelligent, honest. fun, andsober. I prefer aggressive women. It's hardfor me to make thefirst moves, but only inthe beginning.
If
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e.st, a feeling of compatibility write, MA,
Box 980, New York,NY 10014.
ALL YOU NIGHT
WORKERS
Have the morning offsleep late afternoon,
seek same for companionship and 'possible.relationship. Single
lesbian, 40, responsible and like to havefun. A little shy ok.
Write AJ, Box 980,
New York, NY 10014.
ONE NICE GIRLLOOKINGFOR
ANOTHER GF, 35,
Bright, Funny, Creative
Writer-Type,
Feminist. Partial tointelligent charmers
andindependant
thinkers
who canmake me laugh. Outweek Box 1519
IAMWHATIAM
Short, dark, and winsome lesbian 27 seek
way above averagebrmined woman (youknow who you are) I
wanna croon to you
from my fire escape.
I'm tone deaf but loveis blind. Honest to
goodnes.s kook wants
to watch your freezer(or mine) defrost. Self
portrait or foto if you
please, but not necessary.
PS
Israeli
women particularly
welcome. Attention:
this lesbian is not a
sportsenthusiast.
Please pardon me if
ad seems (is) disjointed. OulWeek Box 1520
DAMSEL IN DISTRESS
30 SEEKS GF to rescue her for quality
relationship and one
who can appreciate
her lady. Have many
interests, love cats
and old movies. Cat
loverspreferred.
OulWeek Box 1521

OulWeek Box 1522
ATTRACTIVE
ANDROGENOUS
professional playful
Woman of Color, 30
seeks
sensuous
attractive affectionate
generous fun loving
GF ints: art, Music,
dancing, being healthyand safe, imaginative
fantasy play. Do you
fantasize
about a
woman
you
can
respect, pamper andplease? In between
relationships? Visit the
NY area on occassion? Intrigued by lingeris, leather, uniforms, phone sex.
Then get out YOllr pen
and let your fantasy be
your guide. All races,
areas and agel! over
23 are welcome as aredeaf women (I amhearing.) Write Fantasia Box 1 ?34 Edgemere NY 11691.
AFRICAN AMERICANMANSEEK
ORIENTALCOUNTERPART I am
28, 6' 1851bs, open,
iptelligent, l!;n~funloving, lers e~lore ~II of
life's pleasur'!s together. I enjoy the arts.,
dancing, as well as
quiet moments withlaughter. OulWeek Box
1524
"
~MMY
beautiful, intelligent
woman Who answers
to the name Qf Charlie
wanted by goodlooking
butch'
whoanswers to the n,a,meof Cinge. Reply at
homeI

HANDS OF FATE
. ·Mineare small, powerlUI, gentle, w/big laughlines, callouses frm
tennis & weights, sensitive tips. Yrs arestrong, large enoughto hide mine in, w/
int,lIigent knllckles,
playful thumbs & a
TAKE A RISK?
gIip that you know
TRY ME Attractive
Black-Latina, athletic,
how to use. Yours are
the kind 01 hands thatsensitive,(herpes)looking for friends or
gl!t marked by thel,mdy tim,!s & mightmore to take in New
tenderly
leaveYork life with, dancing,newsprint
on yourtheater, jogging, workboyfriend's cheek. I'm
ing out, reading, are
GWJM 27, 5/8, 138·
some of my likes.
athletic, great butt,
Drugs, cigarettes andbrain & sense ofalcohol are outl Blue
collar workers a plus, . humor. I like smart,solidly built, brawny
any race, sorry mustmen any race 25-35
be thin, expect honwho've Ii welcoming
esty, since it is my way
lap a warm laugh & anof life, ages 25-35.

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active mind if that's
you lers shake on itl(ph/ph, letter to Outweek Box 1526
CHEST WORSHIP
W/M, 30; 5'1.~;;'l,'60,
seeks husky big eliested gut who would
crave 'me working hiswhole chest for long
periods of time, relationship possible, also
. into erotic talk, safe
sex only, no drugs.
OulWeek Box 1527
LATIN LAWYER
34, 5'5",140lbs,attractive, energetic,
and friendly seeks
attractive intelligent
and versitile adult 25 x
45 for long term mutually satisfying romancepleasesend
letter/photoandphone. OulWeek Box
1528
DANCE WITH ME
GWM,
attractive,
Br/Br, 33yrs, 5'6",
1431bs, hairy, musc
chest, warm, profl,
sense of humor, looking for relationshipwith attr masc man of
integrity and warmth,under 35. A relationship of exploration,
fun, and closeness
which joins us together while making us
each more ourselvesirs that special chemistryl'm looking for.
Incl phone, photo
helpful, not essential.
Write Outweek Box
1529
NICE BRIGHT MAN
seeks same GWM 28,
6' Br/Br, 180, consideredhandsome,straight acting, andwant you to be tool
Don't like bars/but liketo drink! looking forbright handsome guy if
you're him write, photo& phone pis. OulWeek
Box 1530
RIPE AND READY
Marr/Bi/gays: getting
enough/any? me, neither! Qualitymanseeks same (25-50)
for frndshp & ss. I'm
masc, hlthy, in-shape,
bright, affect, caring,older, lers meatl M-Th
NYC,
HamptonWkends .. Bx 871 Sag
Harbor, NY 11963.
MILITARY MAN
Ex GI Bi Musc handsome needs Bi Musc
smooth very aggres-sive guys under 35;
fantasy, boots, animals, spit, marines,
groups, cops, Backs.
write Adam PO Box
781 Niag Falls Ont
L2E 658 Canada Kickmy butt
PLEASE USE ME
WM pussy 38 6' 210
expo in mild bId cbtt
crossdressing vIa etc
seeks to be tied up
used as a pussy andtreated as a slut by
dominant people. PO
Box 199 NYC 10028.
THOU SWELL
GBM writer, healthy
HIV+, 36yrs, 170lbs,
5'9", seeks top withintellect,with Old
World probity with
New World scope, Box
250150 CUPO, NY NY
10025.
OK RASSLIN FANS
chubby GWM 39 5'5",200, cln shvn, hairy
chst & belly, utc, seeks
well-built, imaginative
studs to sweat out ourwildest, wrestli"g fantasies(no "real"
wrestling) in my mid-'
town apt. Day/Night
costumes, nude, oil,tits, hot talk, "dirty"
holds, ss,j/o, photo,challenge to TJ, Box
112 Executive Suite
330 W. 43 Street NYc,
10036. Poss travel toWestern Mass, BB a+.
GBMWANTEDGWM, 38, 5'10",1651bs,quiet seriupos,
intelligent type,seeks
GRM 25-40 pref, skinny to are. Build,
PH/PH to RS POB
2056 New york, Ny
10108.

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REAL THING
sought by ~WM, 35.
5'8", 1551bs,versatile,
w/10er,1goforsmoothisn thin or mascular guys near myheight & age or sho
rter or younger. I Iike
good safe fun & smoe
playful kink & movies,
fiction, plays, etc. Do
write w/photo & phoneno, but know that I
wanta lover, notanother· "buddy" or
one-highter. OUlWeek
Box 1537
NO VEGETARIANSGWM grad student 24,
5'7", 160lbs, recently
moved from LA, cute,bright, enjoys goodrestaurants, wine, oldmovies, and sit coms,
staying up late. Seeks
sincere guy, 21-33
with similar interests tolaugh with & sharemeaningful relationship. Photo/Phone
appreciated. Hispanic
a plus, but certainly
not a must. Send letterto OulWeek Box 1538
FUN AND GAMESGWM, 52 nice looks,
5'10", 1451bs,versatile
enjoy poeple, converstaion, politics, travel,
movies, human pansk,
hot times, can bekinky, possible relationship, new adventures, PO Box 173
Ansonia
Stn NYC
10023.
LATIN LOVER
GWM, 36, 2351bs,
seeks short or average height LatinoMexican-DominicanPuerto-Rican
wholikes a tall guy with a
big butt fro sex fun
and intimacy. I dos,peak Spanish. Outweek Box 1540
OPPORTUNITY
Emotional and financial support for very
attractive or boyishlycute WM 18-30 withtight smooth body who
is clean cut and dean
shaven. Intelligent,
good humor, greatsmile a plus, Defined
body hung big andvery handsome, 5'10",
150lbs, light brown
hair, 8t", cut. I am a
fun companion, a loyal
friend and so are you.
I am above average
and expect you to be.
Hope you like to be
spoiled. Letter andphoto. Outweek Box
1541
MASSAGE ME AND
YOU
strong cute, athletic,
professional,
intobooks, travel, cycling,
friends. Am 29, 6',1581bs, Br/BI tan,cleancut.
Need astrong warm fun dean
guy under 35, basic fit,
not flashy PO:box
1316, NYC 10009.
GWM SEEKS GOM
40s, 6'2", beard, professional,
seeks
Asian-American GM,
30+ for serious relationship. POB 20089
NYC 10017.

~RIDGEPlAYER? ~.I/
Average' Bridge player
38, looking.,~o join or.
start gay qndlle club ,for fun times, no sour
apples pis phone. tei
PCB .953 ACS NY NY
10011 'prefer Manhattan MY· place or
yoursno age limits. Allraces ok.

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CUDDILY BEAR
heavy, 38yrs, WM,
5'11",
HIV, leftisV
atheist, AM warm caring nice and romantic
with a sense of humor
seek nice guy withsimilar qualities 18-50,
interests include: rockmusic, sun, bridge,
long walks, ail races
OK. photo/phone topob 953 ocs, NY NY
10011.
HEART OF GOLD
real nice, good looks,
can be an' absorbing
lover, GWM 42,5'9"
1521bs, would love tomeet an attractive
man with lots of heart
who'd be so nice tocome home to someday. PH/PH Box 746
NY 11364.
MUSCULAR DADDY
6', 1851bs,BB Trai(1er,non-smoker, legal fieldseeks young iock boi- ._tom, massage, train,
BB/BR,
SwedishAmerican, Box 1706,
2109 Bway, NYC
10023 A great guyl
LIFE INTHE SLOW.
LANE
can be wonderful if
you are looking forsomeone to share (notmerge) your life with,and are a goodnatured, stable nonsmoker, then consider
this attractive craleive,easygoing
GWM,
43,6'1", 180lbs, who
survives on arts, outdoors, gardening, andthe reflective life, Writeand tell me about
yourself, (if you have adark moustache, tellme everything.) Outweek Box 1548
HOPELESS ROMANTICIN NEED OF A MAN
21, tall, in-shape, fun,down-to-earth, different is agressive,
mase, dominant, built
gentleman.
Likes

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who Isn't dykey, tall, bi,easy, or a funlovlng
partier.
Redheads,
dark-eyed brunettes,
accents, kids, and big
breasts are a 'plus.
Recent photo and letter if you're for real,'cause I am. P.O. Box
3092,
Clifton,NJ
07012. Manhattan or
Jersey preferred.

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country, punk, theSmiths, cuddling, datIng, dancing,nosmoke, drugs, poppers. NYC pic 175 5th
Avenue "2589, New
York, NY 10010.
GWM,5'8-,
13SIbs, 40 (looks
younger), profl exrunner,consideredhndsm, Iks music,
movies, walks (trying
to learn to like racewalking), sks 30iSh to40ish non-smoker, forfriendship, safe fun or
more photo apprec.
OJtweek Box lSSO

HOT HOTHOT
All the time I 30's, 5'9",
HOlbs, very musc &masc, shaved balls,
looking for In-shape
hot young masc men
forwild
times.
Photo/Phone to PO
Box 264 RCS NYC
10101.
MARRIAGEMATERIAL
Attractive
36yr old
prof. male of Italianorigin, 5'7·, lS0lbs,
seeks masclgentle M
under 40 to explore an

enduring romance/
relationship.
I lovefilm, cyding, pasta andintimate glances. If
you're bright, attractive, with a vision toshare...and looking for
an intmimate and spirited rapport, please
respond. Include tel ",photo appreciated.
OJtweek Box 1552
LOOKINGFORYOU
GWM, Jewish, 40's,
5'7·, 19SIbs, easy
going, fun loving, prof
guy looking for Masculine man to share
good
times
with
photo/phone PO Box
315 Jackson Hts NY
11372.
GWF TOGETHER
30 something, smart,easygoing,
Italian/Scorpio,
feminist,
healthy,
happy,
cool/warm/hot,oldfashioned
valuesmixed w/ wide streakof bohemianism seeksemot. healthy, softhearted, hot-blooded
woman for life partnershipspicedwithbeac;hes, brunches,

friends,
media(booksImagstfilmsleve
n t.v.!), all performing
arts ( I'm a prof. stage
manager). changes,
choices,
hystericallaughter, wild sex,
etc.--I.e.,
the right
stuffl The real thing:trust, lust, love I Write
OutWeek Box 1241

asked me would I say
yes my Mountain
Flower ... GWM, 28,
mystical, smart, has
ideals, open heart,sure voice. Photo/phone to PO Box
401157, Brooklyn, NY
11240.

FARTSNIFFER
GWM, 1901bs, 37,
looking for GM, 25-40,
for sex and possible
relationship.
Heshould like to smell
farts and enjoy ass
play and safe sex.
Reply with photoanswered first LTS
20276 New york, NY
10011.

BI WHITE MALE
Good-looking,verywell-built, muscular,
straight-acting/appearIng guy, 36, 6', 170
Ibs.
Professional,
healthy and discreet
seeks similar professional well-built masculine guy for friendship and safe goodtimes. Can be free
weekdays. Box 2479,
NY, NY 10185.

FLOWER OF THE
MOUNTAIN
Yes when I put therose in my 'hair like theAndalusian girls used
to or shall I wear a red
yes and how he kissed
me under the Moorish
Wall and I thought wellas well him as anotherand then I asked him
with my eyes to ask
again and then he

GWF, 30, VERY. PRETTY
funny, faithful,' complex, moody, mature,sarcastic, selective.
I'm semi-normal, notinto gay scene, clubs,
roills, or men. Searching for a goodlooking,unpretentious, older(30-42) woman withvalues and an off Itle
wall sense of humour,SUBMISSIVE WM,
4O,S'9",14S,dance(s
body,
will
wear
panties, nylons, highheels, etc., for doniant
hung men. Discreet,
kinky dates at yourplace, NYC only. Lee,POB 146, Prince St.
Station, NYC 10012.
GWM, 27, BANKER,
5'10·,
ISS
Ibs.,
brnlgm, friendly, handsome,intelligent,
healthy, interested infriends and/or relationship with someone
5'11· or over with similar qualities.For fun
with friends I likerestaurants, movies,
theatre, clubs, beach,travelling overseas,etc. I am fairly careeroriented and serious
but into having fun
whenever possible,
and most of the time
my job doesn't get in
the way of my personallife. I would describe
myself as caring, supportiveandfun.
Please write and tellme about yourself. PK,
Box
1622,
NYC
10025.
INTIMACY
Always need to beworking on it. At 32,
5'5·, 115 Ibs., br. h &e, I am firmly established in my appear-

ance, yet not set in
mjy ways. Interml,ttent
ACT-UPer, wholikes tosing and when on my
own watches latenight & Sunday morning t.v., seeks guy who
also enjoys the artsand politics. Want tomeet, go out, and-only
if we're both into ithave sex. Greatercommitment desirable,
but not with anyone
and only with sometime. Reply to P.O.
Box 20079, NYC,
10009.
PEACH OF A GUY
Looking for someone
intelligent, affectionate, loyal, employed,adorable, fuckable?
This GWM, 32, 5'11·,
155#,
brown/bluew/stache, HIV. (safesex only), likes keeping his man happy,
horny, satisfied, andcoming back for more.
I! you're a tall GWM,
33-44, serious, who
can envision shacking
up with another guy
for a coupleof
decades, send me aletter. OutWeek Box
1333
COCKSUCKER
Hot, horny handsome
GWM, 37, 5'7·, 165
Ibs., brnlbm brd wants
to suck men, 18-40.
Let me wet your dick.
496-A Hudson St. F48, NY, NY 10014.
SEEKS FRIENDSWhite male couple,
early 40's, healthy
non-smokers looking

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restaurants, day trips,
home entertaining.
Please write to: P.O.
Box 1636, New York,NY 10185-0014.
KRAZY KAT SEZ:
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these"brickliss"dazelll Monogamous
hermaphrodite
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done cry in' about it.
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genderists, lust monsters
and wierdos need not
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seeks masc M toshare quality time. I
love the Mets, walks inthe park. cuddling,cats, quiet eves athome. walking acrossthe Bfooklyn Bridge,
theatre, cookin9 andgoodbooks.
You
should be content withquality over quantity,
Romantic and supportive. Bklyn res. or Italian/Latin a plus. T.P.
Box 7047, FOR Station, NYC, 10150. Will
answer all so please
include photo if you
have one. I will reciprocate.

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RSVP
successful.
admittedly

shy, GWM, 42,' 5'8",
144, and fit. Born withgood looks, acquired
tenderness,
selfawarenessand aromantic
outlook;
request the responseof attractive monogamy-oriented guys
for a quality life of
playfulness and sensuality. Will exchange
photos.
P.O. Box
20141, NYC 100289991.
1 T01
relationship desired.
WM, bl/bl, 29, 5'4",
135, good-looking,warm, sensitive, caring, reall Looking forsomeone special, 2535, who is honest,
energetic, intelligent,
romantic, etc. to build
meaningful monogamous relationship.
Please send a letterand photo (if possible)
to P.O.Box 7166, FDR
Station,
NYC, NY
10150.
GBM,20, NYU
Attractive, earthy student seeks similar
masculine, witty guy
for warmth and special
friendship.
Latins,Europeans (French),
Carribeans a big +.
Genuine replies only.
Box
996,
New
Rochelle, NY 10801.
FRIEND/LOVER
GWM, 29, 5'4", 135,
Bllbl, good-looking,intelligent,
shy,
healthy-not into bar
scene because I'm
shy-I find it hard meeting people. My tastes
are varied-music, film,
theatre, parties, dancing, reading. country
drives, antiques, quiet
evenings. I seek along term friendship/
relationship w/someone I can count on to
be there. If U R 28-36,
trim, gOOd-looking,intelligent, masculine,
sensitive and easygoing, please respondw/photo and phoneand detailed letter to
P.O. Box 7166, FOR
Station, New York, NY
10150. Thanks.

INEED A MAN
who'll take a chance...
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candevelop w/time-work.
Sure, we all have preferences; but, life's too
short to get hung up
on absoluteS/attitudes
that are unrealistic. rm
a non-perfect,
noncretin, nice bottom
GWM, 45, 5'7", 210
who seeks a basically
top similar
male.
Write: P.O. Box 4547,
L.I. City. NY 11104.
PEACH OF A GUY
looking for someone
intelligent, affectionate, loyal, employed,adorable, fuckable?
This GWM, 32, 5'11,
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man happy, horny, satisfied, and comingback for more. If
you're a tall GWM, 3344, serious, who canenvision shacking up
with another guy for acouple of decades.
Send me a letter. Outweek Box 1268 'HANDSOME GWM,
246', 150, br/br, swimmer's build. Do you
like dancing and Ova. rak; the Met and theMets; moonlight&stagellghts; working
out & Sleeping In? Are
your taltes eclectic? If
you are tired of bar.
and looking lor new
Irlends or more, writewith photo and phone
to: Outweek Box 1270
PART 1 OF3
GWF, 22, seeks mat..
lor lell and belt Irlend(alao roomie), GWM,
24: Both Taurul (andstubborn), ·out" alnce
early teenl, long time
Irlends. Frequently
lazy,
lometlm ..
bitChy,and always lots
01 lun.loqklng especially lor other pairs
like us, but singles
okay. No bi's, bores, or·confused·. Must bepolitically aware if notactive. Photos a mustl
We may already know
youl (Phones optional).
Allrepliesanswered. See part 2
and 3. Outweek Box
1271
PART TWO OF
THREE
GWF, 22, 5'6", dark
hair/eyes, butch/lem
depending on attire

and situation. Hatesports, eat red meatand smoke, but don't
do drugs; quiet except
when complaining but
Iriendly, compassionate and cute.Needs:
Outgoing GF, 5'2"-5'6";
21-35, who can laughand cry with me, likes
music and·dancing.
Must be modern and
N.Y. oriented. See
also parts one andthree. OutWeek Box
1271.
PART3OF3
GWM, 24, 5'7", blueeyed, bleach blonde
closet Romantic withan unequalled senseof humor. Very popularand used to being thecenter of attention butvery giving and caring.
Happy with flowers
and a phone call.
Needs: Strong, silent
type, long dark hair,
5'4"-5'10", 18-25 (3O?).
Must have patience,pretty eyes, and asteady job. See also
parts one and two.
OutWeek Box 1271.
GWM 36,5'10",150
LBS.,
handsome,
green
eyes,
moustacheseeks attractive, inshape
guys
Into
music, movies andhanging out lor Irlendship and/or relatlon.shlp.
NYC/AREABKlYN PREFERRED.
Ph/Ph please. David,
P.O. Box 30221, NYC,
NY 10011.
BARE BUTT SPANK
by amall guy, 5'5·, 115" 32. Bend over theback 01my couch. Rollaround on my carpet.
Straddle acro .. myknee. Beg lor .more.
Now tell me why you
need It. Box 20079,
NYC 10009. E. Village.
LONDON ENGLAND
Handsome Irishman
Just returned fromvacation in New York
City. Would like verymuch to keep in touchwith some friendly
New Yorkers interested in long distancecorrespondence. Who
knows
what
may
developl An uncomplicated, fun friendship is
all I ask. Write withphoto to: Joe Kelly,
Flat 24, Grosvenor
Court, 75 Christchurch
Avenue, London England, NW.6. 7NXSEEK LIFEMATE
WM, 31, attr, 155, br.
hr., hazel eyes, seekshusky, bulky, possessive guy for old-fashioned romantic 1 to 1
sex only. I crave
humping and erotic
talk, my interests
include photog., video,
sci-fi films and t.v.
(avid trekker). DCH,
P.O. Box 1401 Cooper
Station,NY,NY10276.
HOT ITAL BB BTM
Just learning to take itand I love to give it.
How about you? Helpme teach him how
much he can take.
We're mid-30·s-hot. If
you're hung, attr and
under
40,
send
photo/phone to P.O.
Box 150, Prince'Street
Station, NYC 10012.
FUN/BRIGHT/PASSIONATE,
GWM, 42, handsome
and fit looking to meetsimilar attractive guys
who understand that
tenderness and laughter are the keys to loveand sex. You are playful and stable for thelong run. Phlph to P.O.
Box 20141,
NYC,
10028-9991.
HISPANIC GWM
Goodlooklng 22, 5'5",135 Ibs,lean, youthful,carefree,mature.
Healthy outlook on life.
love to dance, bike,skate, tOUCh, learn.
Am artist, masculine,
non-amoker. Looking
lor lor others with similar Intereats and more.
Outweek Box 1288
VINTAGE 11148
Handsome GWM, hlthprof, 5'8·, 150', BVbr,native NY aka mate togive quality loving
when I'm home from ahard day at the hospital. I love Aretha,
Bach, theatre and film.
I do have wonderfulfriends and famity butlacka husband.
Whars life without caring for someone special and letting themcare for you? Left politics and sense ofhumor
essential ...
Please send photo (ifpossible),phone.
WriteOutweek
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from downtown arts to
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postscript
output(phone with photo)desired; Macintosh
support (different interests) welcomed; copy
protected (no moustached clones), Joystick required, Outweek Box 1298

NATURAL BODIES
WM, 27 y.o., 6', 170
lb .. slim build, ruddy
complexion. pleasantface, very long redhair. Long time celibate interested in dating. Prefer WM, darkhair (balding fine),paunchy or chunkybuild. Good attitude
and easy-going. Kindly
direct replies to: Outweek Box 1300

LOOKING FORWARD
to Romantic nights infront of fire, candlelight. dinners and special
friendships GWM, 32,
6'2",200, blue/blonde

TEN GlBIWM'S SEEK
like, trim. masculine,
health-conscious,
greagrious for monthly
meetings
midtown.hotel suite. Send note·
Ham

FALL ROMANCE
GWM,
32,
6'3",
hndsm, prof and athl
swimmer's build seeks
similar GWM, cleancut
for fall Romance, funand exploration olthe
physical and spiritual.
Hot times are waiting,so send your ph/ph
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10150,HANDSOME AND
HUSKY
Latin. 31 years old,
5'9", perf. artist,mat..
educ'd, HIV+, healthy,
sensual. U R: mat.,masc" hung top w/
varied interests into
big guys for fun androm. Serious + loving
men 30-45 a plus.
Phone and photoplease OutWeek Box
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SHOW YOUR ASS
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master for evaluation,
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pro or am. Send
photo,
PO
Box
022301, Brooklyn. NY
11202.
LOVE GLADIATORS
Got a wrestling/combat fantasy? Chubby
GWM, 39, 5"5', 200,brlbr. cln shv, hry chst,
u/c, seeks masc., w/bit studs 2 sweat out
our hot-test darkest
scenes inmy midtown

apt. Day/nite. No "real"
rasslin'but
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GWM, 29, 185 attractive, healthy, nonprmiscuous.
I likemoviestheater,
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GAY ACTIVISTPWA, 6', 155#, brwn
brd. trim defined build.
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bl eyes seeks a man+6' + beefy, HIV+, whoshares qualities ofrough enough for safe
sleeze, touch enoughto fight on the front

lines for ourselves andour people men ofsuch soul only need
send letter + photo to
get same form thiseuqal opportunity kindof guy. Outweek Box
1315
NICE GUY WANTED
GWM. 5'9" 47 1S0lbs
Br/Br average looks,
enjoys, arts, theatre,
nature plants and flowers looking for friendship/relationship P.O.
Box 1248 Union, NJ
07083-9998
SUBMISSIVE WM
40, 5'9", 145, Dancer's
body,
will
wear
panties, nylons, highheels, etc. for maschung men. Discreet,
kinky dates at yourplace, NYC only. Lee,POB 146, Prince St
Station, NYC 10012.

BRIGHT INTENSE
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