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Larry Kramer "secondrated" AIDS Treatment Resources in his recent article in
OutWeek [no. 69, Oct. 24].
While we appreciate Larry's
charisma and leadership in the
war against AIDS, as well as
his significant contributions to
ATR, we wish he would get
our facts correct.
1. Larry cites concerns
about the money we spend
on salaries and whether our
existence is justified since
he believes we provide only
one service-publicationofour Directory.
From a financial perspective, we are predominantly avolunteer organization, which
differentiates us sharply frommany other AIDS organizations. We are a grass-roots,
community-based organization
which grew out of ACT UP and
we maintain our activist roots.
Most of our board members
and employees play Significant
roles in ACT UP and other
AIDS, arts and gay and lesbianactivist organizations.
Since we are a service
organization dedicated toserving people, it's very reasonable (and very common)that a significant part of ourbudget is spent on salaries.
We're not making cars; we're
providing information that has
to be gathered, processed,
published and disseminated.
That requires people. Additionally, every hour of paid
staff time is matched by atleast one hour of unpaid volunteer time.
2. Why should the community go elsewhere for information when our "exceptional
product" is so good? The
AIDS Institute of New YorkState funds our education andoutreach on clinical trials for
affected communities, since
we are the experts; the American Federation for AIDS
Research maintains a closeworking relationship with
ATR, since we have thestrongest ties with New Yorkand New Jersey's principal
investigators and gather themost current information on
new trials.

fulfill its original goalsinformation and education on
the full range of treatments for
AIDS and the related opportunistic infections and cancers. ATR's Directory of AIDS
Clinical Trials was our first priority and was moved fromdraft to full production inrecord time. Our educationalguides and brochures inEnglish, Spanish and Creolecame soon after. We are now•

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People with AIDS and
HIV illness come to us
because we can tell themwhere to get treatments in,and outside of, clinical trials
and how to protect theifinterests and safeguard theirrights. Any health careprovider or educator will tell
you our work is first-rate.
3. ATR is expanding to

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developing a companion volume to the Directory. This
new periodical will deal withall the treatment options in
use or being tested for opportunistic infection, as well as
answering important questions about each 01. 4. We have been doing
outreach to all communites
affected by HIV to promoteawareness of, and actual
access to, clinical trials andother treatment options. We
regularly give seminars to awide range of groups in New
York and New Jerey; if Larry
could only attend one of thesemoving sessions and see how
desperate people are for the
information we bring, he might
have a different opinion of how
successful ATR is. We areplanning videos and cassettepresentations on clinical trials
and alternative treatments'
mechanisms in three languages for those PWAs who
might not be able to read our
publications.
5. In light of the many
barriers to treatments andclinical trials for disenfranchi sed cOmmunities, we areworking closely with community-based physicians, AIDS
service providers and others
to assist those communities inremoving those barriers andto aid them in determing theirown treatment agenda for
AIDS and HIV illness.
All of these activitieswhich go far beyond production of one "exceptional product"-require funding, which
we have struggled to raise during the two years of our existence. Hence, it is myopic at
best [for] Larry to suggest that
the ATR be absorbed by GMHC
(which has supported us on.several occasions, including
underwrit'ing our printing,postage and handling costs
this past June and July). Our
goals and direction, althoughallied, are quite distinct.
It was also thoughUessof
Larry to undermine the activites
and scope of our work at ATR.
Moreover, the work involved in
producing our "exceptional"
Directory is inseparable from

Dr. Blharl continues to work
the rigorous and consistenteffort we are making to analyze, with CAl as well. And so do
criticize and Improve the pre- many other very talented andsent clinical trials system. ATA dedicated individuals who
regular1ytestifies before feder- have neither the time nor theal, state and. local committees; . desire to make arrogant proadvocating for better trial
nouncements about other's
design and for greater access efforts to contribute to thisto treatment for women, chil- struggle. In addition, to sugdren, the poor, IVDUs, prison- gest that GMHC and ACT UP
ers, people with hemophilia and are the only two organizapeople of color who continue to tions that should not close
face institutional biases and shop overlooks a sinble
other obstacles to adequate number of organizations providing essential services tohealth care.
As we stress in our publi- women and people of color.
cations, anyone entering a trial Let us not forget that 63 permust be fully informed before cent of those with an AIDS
they do. May we suggest that diagnosis are people of color
Mr. Kramer be fully informed in NYC and that women makeup 14 percent. Does GMHC or
before putting us on trial?
When he says, "Fighting is the ACT UP serve these people?
only way to stay alive," we No, they do not. Organiza-hope Larry means fighting side tions in Black, Latino, Nativeby side, not amongst ourselves. American and Asian commuBoard and siBff nities are doing very hard,
dedicated work with little or
AIOS Tff18tm8l1tResources
Manhattan no funding to back them.
Should they close shop?
Larry Kramer's article on GMHC and ACT UP are cer"second-rate" AIDS organiza- tainly not responding to theirtions [no. 69, Oct. 24] was a cries for help; Let us make it
clear that we are not attacking
destructive attack on thousands of individuals who con- GMHC or ACT UP. Many of us
tinue to struggle to put an end belong to these organizato the AIDS crisis. No, there tions .. However, the services·
are no easy answers. There is offered by these twoorganinot a cure for AIDS, nor is zations do not currently
there a manual to read which address the needs of thewill tell us exactly how to go majority of HIV-infected perabout finding one. Many of us sons. CAl is committed towork toward that goal on a addressing these issues.
It is easy to criticize. It
daily basis. As members of the,,<&staff of a cO'mmunlty-based
takes an enormous amount of
AIDS organization, we deal strength and energy to try andwith the day-to-day problems make things work better. We
of conducting research and accept help and support wherproviding' information and ever' it comes from. It Is a very
counseling to thousands of humbling and frustrating expepeople with HIV Infection who rience to watch people die,have access to far fewer
despite trying to save them.
. resources th~n Larry Kramer.
CAl is in a difficult transiWe get little recognition and tion period. Yet our work consupport for what we do~ We tinues, and we are optimistic.
don't sell books, nor do we We know just how difficult theappear on TV.
,
process is. It does not get
Mark Harrington, who easier but continues
toLarry praises so highly, is an demand more of us. We, ouractive member of CAL So is friends and families are dying
Dr. Sonnabend. Fortunately,
too. It seems to be popular insome circles to criticize executive directors and boards of
AIDS organizations. Sometimes outside criticism isaccurate and helpful. Often,
however, the staff who runs
these organizations take thebrunt of the criticisms.
We, and many other hundreds of thousands of people,
do not consider failure apossible option. We are open towhatever Larry Kramer or anyone else has to offer CAL
Destructive criticism just hurts
us all.
The staff of CRI
Manhattan
La"¥ Kramer, in his recent
OutWeek article [no. 69, Oct.
24], "Second-Aated to Death,"
has done a serious disservice
to CAl, community-based AIDS
trials and to the community of
PWAs by distorting the realityof CAl's history and ignoring
the realities of AIDS research~
He says that "CAl [under myleadership] has tripped, stumbled, blustered and lied to all ofus," he refers to my "ineptitude" and "incompetence" andsays that the CAl board and I"have almost killed off one ofour most precious and promising resources."
He also suggests that
ACT UP's Treatment and Data
Committee was responsiblefor indUCing the CAl board to
ask for my resignation.
Since Larry gives no
details to support theseclaims, I assume they're basedon a number of recently articulated T&D complaints. I would
like to list some of the key
complaints and present information to OutWeBKs readers
to assist in your evaluation ofthese very damaging claims.
One overall T&D complaint is that CAl was in muchbetter shape a year ago and has
seriously deteriorated since.
In fact, CAl near1y foldedin the fall of 1989 when staff
members were disruptive,
unprofessional and in constant,-rebelliousconflict with the board.
There was no communication
between the research staff,
who considered themselvesautonomous, and the rest of
the organization. Last winter,
CRI had less than 40 patients
In trials most In the lentinan
trial, which was winding down.
By ~arch '90, there were lessthan two dozen patients in CRI
trials and fewer than 5 percentof the patients were people ofcolor. Last winter, no trials
were in negotiation or development, the staff chaos precluding the time and effort on mypart to reach out to pharmaceutical companies and establish relationships that could
sponsor commitments.
Our research supervisory
staff had a combined total offewer than four years of clinical trial experience, all of thatat CRI, with little or no exposure to the standards of goodclinical practices (the basic
principles and policies underlying clinical research). We
had a distant relationship with
the FDA and almost none withthe pharmaceutical industry.
Now less than a year
later, our active patient load
has reached 100, we areaccruing four patients per
week in the rifabutin trial, andonce the Metenkephalin(MEK) trial enrolls its first
patient on Oct. 24, it will be
accruing five to eight patients
per week. Thirty percent ofour patients are people ofcolor, and we are developing
trials addressed to the particular HIV-related problems ofwomen that should significantly increase our female
enrollment. Assuming accrualin only these two trials, CRI's
active patient load will reach150 by the end of Decemberand 200 by spring. (Note:
Typical ACTG sites have an
average active patient load of
90-100). We have recruitedan excellent staff. The research supervisory staff has a
combined
experienceinsupervising clinical trials in
corporate and academic settings of nearly 20 years. The
study coordinators have been
so well trained in good clinical practices that Adria Pharmaceuticals has asked us totrain study coordinators fromten other community-basedsites that are beginningrifabutin trial participation.
We have changed trial
budgeting practices to avoid theover-spending that occurred intrials that were negotiatedbefore I started as executive
director/medical director andhave increased total overheadcharges from an average of 15
percent to 40 percent of total
costs (and in the case of therifabutin trial, more than 55 percent of total costs). Trial income
has increased from 15 percent
of our budget in 1989 to thecurrent level of approximately
50 percent. At this rate, andwith the initiation of even only

half of the trials for which sponsors have made commitmentsin the next several months, trial
income should provide as muchas 75 percent of CRI revenues
by theend of 1991.
Our relationship with thepharmaceutical industry haschanged dramatically. In 1989,
it was distant, and the industry was understandably reluctant to make major commitments to CRI. In contrast, inthe last three months, we have

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companies (Burroughs-Wellcome, Pfizer and Mereiux) to
do major trials and, in thecase of the latter two, to serve
the lead site and multicenter
trial principal investigator. We
have also been asked to serveas the identified lead site for
FDA-IND applications for five
trials (MEK, WOB enzyme,
CUlljlan Sulfate, etiocholanalone
and an AZT/ddl dimer study).
We are the only site for the
MEK trial and will be the onlysite for the Curdlan Sulfate,etiocholanalone and AZT/ddl
dimer phase-one trials. The
point is not whether all ofthese trials come to fruition(our experience has shownthat only two-thirds which are
in negotiation do so), butrather that CRI has become aresearch center that has developed a reputation for reliability, integrity, rapid accrual andhigh standards of good clinicalpractice and for having a goodworking relationship with the
FDA, such that many sponsors
are now seeking us out.
Our relationship to the
FDA has changed from one
involving a mutually wary distance to one that is close andmutually respectful. In negotiations for the MEK trial, forexample, the FDA specificallyasked TNI, the sponsor, toinclude my signature on theircorrespondence with the FDA
in order to allow the FDA tocall me directly so that I could
serve to facilitate communications between the company
and the FDA. This is quite
unusual. The FDA has done
the same informally for the
CRI lentinan trial at times
when the dialogue between
the sponsoring company andthe FDA has been contentious.
Finally, in a third instance, asponsor (Mereiux) has asked
us to serve in such a facilitating role to attempt to·improvetheir difficult relationship with
the FDA. The FDA has also
contacted me to let me knowthat they "are very interested
in working with CRI" andwould like to encourage us tofile INDs for our nonsponsored trials.
Five studies are expected
to begin in the next five to six
months (MEK on Oct. 24,
VaxSyn in December, 566C80PCP prophylaxis in February,
fluconazole prophylaxis forfungal Ols in February or
March and Imuthiol in Marchor April). Unlike the case with
MEK last spring, when I madethe error of accepting theword of the small new sponsoring company that there
would be no major FDA problems, the SynVax and 566C80
trials already have FDA

approval, and the Pfizer fluconazole trial should have little
difficulty given the fact thatthe drug is already licensed.
In light of these significant
accomplishments in the lastnine months, I was appalled at
the gross inaccuracy of many of
the T&D charges. I will give
three or four examples for readers not familiar with thesecharges. The claim was made,for example, that two AmFAR
reviewers, including Dr. David
Byar of the National Cancer
Institute, offered to help me withthe doxycycline protocol before
its ArnFAR grant review in July.
This was particularly outrageous. It impugns Dr. Byar's
reputation by suggesting that hewould do something so unethical as to give CRt a competitive
advantageby secretly helping us
before a grant review processthat he was part of. If he haddone so, both he and I would
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and the AmFAR grant review
process would have been fraudulent. In fact, no such offer was
made, and if it had been, I would
have refused it, since accepting
such an offer might have lead toa major scandal, tainting, both
AmFARandCRI.
,The T&D charge that I
shduld not be pursuing further
lentinan studies, since it has
been shown that the drug has
no value, reflects a serious lackof understanding of clinicalresearch. The CRI lentinan trial
was a 12-week safetyltoxicity
study. As many readers know,
no AIDS-related drug has been
, shown to have efficacy in 12
weeks. Only long-term studies,
invoMng clinical end points, cananswer such a question. The
study, not surprisingly, did notdemonstrate efficacy. It did,
however, show a trend toward
an increase in this and somecurious changes in p24 antigen
levels, which the FDA medical
officer monitoring the trial called"interesting and worth pursuing." These findings, the drug's
lack of toxicity and, more importantly, its well-doc~mented efficacy as an immune modulator
in cancertreatment clearly makefurther studies worthwhile.
The claim was also madethat CRI has become too close
to the pharmaceutical industry
and FDA and thereby is not
focusing on the nonpharmaceutical-company-sponsored
trials that the PWA community
needs. This charge completely
misses the point. In fact, only
by doing company-sponsoredand -funded trials under FDA~
INDs can CRI demonstrat~ itsability to do clinical researchwith equal or greater excellenceas the ACTG's. That level of
excellence, which CRI has
begun to demonstrate, combined with our ability to accrue
patients five times as rapidly asother ACTG sites, will put CRI
in a position to do any trial wewant to, with or without asponsor. In addition, we have

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major areas that ACT UP has
criticized NIAID for over1ooki.ng.
These and similarly unfounded charges by T&D were• clearly the basis f(lr Larry'S'
claims in the Oct. ,24 article. I
inViteany OutWeek readerto 'c8Il
me at CRI to arrange to see thespecific documentation to sppport all. of the statements I've
made above.
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In fact, although'l'm notclear if there' was a relationshipbetween the T&D charges andthe CRI board's request for me
to step down as, executive, director, as-a former CRI board
member I respect the board's
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I feel that CRI has accommor?lng (advocatl,!g for the legal !,gh~splished a great dea(in the lastof blas-attack survn~,o~s);
at ,the office In
year and, more importantly, isthe afternoon (preSiding over the com~
now in a position to add signifimunity's most underappreciated staff);'cantly to the pace of clinical triand at-an ACT UP meeting, or a Queer ~i' als, to national AIDS research
Nation meeting, or a Community Board
priorities, and to help bring us
meeting, or a meeting with the mayor's
effective treatments soon~r. We
office, or the precinct captain (,dependneed ~he,c?mmunity',s moral
ing on what clayit is), in the evening.
and financial sup~ort, ~,nd I
And he's not afraid to tell it iike ith~pe that ~ny's article Will not
is-even when it means stepping on ' discourage it.
Because of my personal
toes••With the cur~nt epld~mlc •of a,!'ltldisappointment at being asked~ay vlol,.nce sweeping the City, hl~ grisly
to resign, at Larry's public
Job can t, be easy. We couldn't be In betvituperative attack on me andter hands. Go, girl.
at the false accusations byphCl)to:T.L. Litt/OutWeek
T~D, I gave passing co.nsider,ation to completely leaVing CRI~-..
and AIDS ·research. However; I
already done three trials with- addition, we have, wijh industry cannot do so. AIDS is not justout company sponsors (of spoll,sorship, finished one 01 ACT UP's problem-it's everylipids, DHEA and St. Johns
prophylaxis trial (aerosolized
one's problem_ I feel that if I
Wort, with funding from People pentamidine), are, currently
don't stand up now for CRI, for
Together Against AIDS and the doing another (rifabutin for Larry, for T&D and ,for thil!
Foundation for Integrativ'eMAl) and have pharmaceutical community, tIlen when I need
Research) and have been pur- company commitments for two it, there may be no one tosuing funds for a study of the more (566C80 and fluconastand up for me.
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own organizations.
It isOct. 24].
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much easier to call for closing them down than it is to
Larry calls upon us inhi,s article to stop relying
wort<on improving them. But
on incompetent and uncarwithout them, the HIV epiing government doctors to
demic would be worse, andsave our lives but later
not more visible.
suggests that readers stop
Ml!rk Aurigemma
donating to HIV/AIDS orBrooklyn
ganizations,concludingthat if these organizations
An open letter to Larry
Kramer: 'closed, ~bodies would pile
up so high in doorways,
What's with you? How
emergency rooms, in docdare you say we're mediocre?
tor's offices, it would be
I'm not talking about the usual
so ... visible that Geo-rge
media stars; I'm talkil1gabout
Bush would be forc,ed to
middle-management, nurses,
do something."
educators,clerical staff, volunYou should know, Larry,teers -and other unnamedthat what the government
activists..Yo.uknow, Lany-us
would do would much more"little people" in AIDS.
Why· is it, anyway,
closely resemble concentra- tion camps than health care. ' , white guys working in AIDS
It is precisely because most , . are the only ones ~tlo ever.
,receive your public (thoughbackhanded) compliments?
Why is it the people you
bad-mouth most and want
fired from AIDS organizations are women and lesbians? Could it really bethat a whole decade ofactivism hasn't taught youthat all oppressions exist
side' by side? cDon't you
know being a white-guy
supremacist isn't cool anymore not since AIDS, notsince you came down fromtbat big-shot white-guy
place in society? .
You still have a lot of
power. The community listens to you, and you s'till
are a white guy. But you're
down here with us now. So,
how about you stop kicking
and elbowing the rest ofus? We're all stretched andtired ;md pissed like you. If
truth· really matters to you,then look around and takein some other peoples'
truths. There are other people, Larry..
You and' your friends,.
seem pretty new at thi.s
oppression thing, so takeadvice from someone who's
been down as long as whiteguys been up: Don't step on
the other poor slobs in line_
You won't get any farther
ahead because here at thebottom.we've made a humanchain so long and so~ancientthat no one even remembers
where the front is anymore.
Down here, Larry, we all
move together, one nanometer at a time.
Those people you want
to seefired, along with all theothers, you don't even know
about, are my role models.
They give me hope, and they
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can we, Larry?
Lesbian X
One of thousands
working in AIDS
Larry Kramer responds: One
could hardly have expecteddifferent defenses from CRI,ATR and Dr. Bihari_ I should
point out that I was amazedby the sheer number of
employees of CRI and
AmFAR who called to thankme for exposing the very
organizations they work for.
I was particularly amazedthat so many AmFARites
were so happy someone had
finally outed Dr. Mathilde
Krim for her cowardice. The
CRI staff letter addresses
none of the points I raised
about the incompetence ofDr. Bihari, Ron English andthe CRI board. It fails to notethat the Treatment and Data
Committee of ACT UP presented reams of suggestions
on how to better the mess inwhich CRI is mired. CR!'s
problem is not my "destructive criticism but BihariEnglish-the board's inability
to even find their assholes
with their fingers.
I am not questioning theloyalty of volunteers or
staff. anywhere. I know how
committed and devoted thisperson-power can be. It was
the complete lifeblood of
GMHC before they bureaucratized and job-de scriptioned the place almost to
death_But volunteers are notexempt from the responsibility of speaking out when they
see their place of work
becoming second-rate orgoing down the tubes. And
CRI's staff knows that this ishappening, and their silence
makes them complicitous_
Dr. Bihari's defense of
himself is filled with somany misconceptions andtwisted distortions that torespond to it would take a
week_He obviously has notIIread T&D's letter, whichcontains
none of thecharges;'e enumerates but
a whole host of others. The
progress that he is taking
credit for is either nonexistent (this list of potential trials is trotted out regularly;
everyone is tired of hearing
about them; none of them isconfirmed; few of them everactually happen-which is
the main reason why some-one else must be immediately located to make themreality) or occurred only
because of outside pressure(his taking credit forincreased female enrollment
is particularly galling; itcame about only after
intense pressure from ACT
UP's Women'sActions Committee; CRI still has justabout the worst female
enrollment of any existingtrials around). I wish Dr.
Bihari would leave AIDS
research. He certainly mustleave CRI, and he certainly
must not be allowed tf)
remain connected to any of
its trials. His sacrificial offer
makes me puke.
I've had several conversations with those who aretrying to make a go of ATR,
including their new board
chair, Stephen Machon, who

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O'Conno"s cathedral). The trial begins on
IWednesday, Oct. 31, and will continue I
through the remainderof the week.
I Needed are hundreds of supporters each I
day to pack the courtroom, located at
100 Centre St., Room BT·6 on the 5th I
Ifloor,9:30·5:00. 8 am: Come dressed in
I costume for pre·trial demonstration.
I(Deadline for listing of activities is the I
IWednesday prior to newsstand appearance.
• Call Darla at (212) 337.1200.)~__ .J
called me (in contrast to
CRI's Ron English, who has
not retumed any of my ha/fdozen phone calls over the
past months). Steve believes
there's enough energy tokeep ATR going. So I'll backoff. I WOrty, however, about
the long list of ATR's problems which John Birmingham brought to ACT UP's
attention and also about thisduplication of efforts: BothATR and AmFAR put out
quite extensive treatment
directories. Why must somuch time, efforl and money
be spent on putting out two
directories? It's madness.
To Mark Aurigemma: I
was merely musing whatmight happenif there werenoorganizations fighting AIDS; I
then wrote "the best way I
know to get out of this se/fdefeating frame of mind...."To reply to Lesbian X'sparanoia (how sick I am of. people who don't have the. guts to sign their real names
when they rip into you): I failto find in my article any
undue. concentration on
decapitafi(lg women and lesbians. There are plenty ofwhite men I kick in the ass.
And have kicked. You obviously weren't around when I
went after Richard Dunne

and Jeff Levy. The only lesbian I believe I go after here
. is Joy Tomchin, an inadequate human being. I go outof my way to single out for
praise a lesbian, Urvashi
Vaid. No, I think I've beenquite equitable in my housecleaning. I do get so tired ofletters and arlicles like these.
WE ARE All FUCKING
OPPRESSED.Nobody owns
the patent or the copyright.
I'd like to clarify my criticism of GMHC's Treatment
Issues and its medical director, Dr. Gabriel Torres, which
has been misunderstood. Dr.
Torres is a fine, committed,
compassionate doctor. However, he was hired to replace
the late Dr. Barry Gingell,both at GMHC and as an
advocate at the NIH, where
he held a valuable seat on acommittee. Barry was a warrior, a great hero, a crusader
who wouldn't shut up. He
used his voice everywhere
and was consf1lntlyfront andcenter in the media, I've yet
to hear Dr. Torres' voiceraised so anyone can hear it.
He is not only inaudible, he isinvisible.
(Perhaps it's
because he is HIV-negative.
It's becoming increasingly
clear that there's much lessurgency among the HIV-neg-

ative leaders of our organizations.) Similarly, Barry edited
and wrote Treatment Issues
as a political tool, a hot sheet
mailed to tens of thousandswith not only medical information but anger, fingerpointing, indignation, blameand concrete suggestions foractions its readers could f1lke.
It made readers think. And
urged them to action. No
more. A valuable means ofreachinga huge audiencehas
literally been thrown away. I
understand this is mostly thefault of one Maggie Reinfeld(sorry Lesbian X), the director of education, who sees toit that nothing GMHC publishes has any guts to it.
Reinfeld is going to be
Nathalie Weeks' right hand.
Nathalie Weeksis the dreadful new deputy executive
director of program management (Is that the mostmouthful of a title you ever
heard? Talkabout bureaucratization and job-descriptioned to death!) whom 11m
Sweeneymade the fatal mistake of hiring. Maggie andNathalie are going to makeone torrid team of losers.
lim Sweeney,I have wamed
you, with all OutWeek's readers as witnesses.
Finally, I'd like torespond to two points in
DerekHodel'sattack on me inlast week's issue. (I understand Rodger McFarlane is
responding in greater lengthand depth.) First, ACT UP
does not achieve its resultswith an "off-with-their-heads"
mentality. ACT Up, always
and at every juncture, at
every action, with every criticism, against every enemy,presents a complete list ofsuggestions on how to rightthe wrong being protested.
Derek then asks, "Since
when did Larry Kramer last
run an office effiCiently?"Well, Derek, becauseyou area wet-behind-the-ears kindof fella, /'11 tell you. The lasttime I ran an office efficiently was the last time GMHC
was run efficiently. I ran it,with Paul Popham, for the
first two years of its life. We
built it from scratch into amighty weapon. We gave it,with our treasurer, Joe
Paschek, fiscal responsibility. We drew to it hundredsof volunteers. at a time when
no gay organization ever had
hundreds of volunteers. We
sent out the message to theland, and the land responded. The feeling of love, commitment, devotion was
everywhere and intoxicating
and susf1lined.And we madethat fucking place run andwork and be inspirational ina way it never has been
since. And don't you or anybody else ever fucking forget it. The creation of GMHC
was historic, and I don't
need any pipsqueak parvenu
arriviste telling me that I
don't know how to run anorganization when Paul andI created the best goddamned gay organization
this community had everseen up to that time, perhaps has ever had. •And before that, you little ungrateful twerp, I was
assisf1lnt to the president of
two major public corporations. Not one, but two. Rrst
Columbia Pictures Corporation. Then United Artists
Corporation. You do not get
to be assisf1lnt to the president of public corporations(at age 26) without someknowledge of finance, personnel, public relations, how
to manage staff, hqw tosolve problems, smarts. I
oversaw the work of entire
deparlments. I was responsible for the spending of millions of dollars. I hired andfired. At the time I worked
for them, these two film
,companies wereat the top of
the field. I then went out on
my own as a film producer.
On Women in Love (a film•

Corrections•

Because of a proofreading error in last week's issue, aparagraph in "AIDS This Week" incorrectly reported aparticular dosage of AZT. As was clear from thecontext, 600 mg of AZT is as effective as, and lesstoxic than, 1,500 mg.
Because of a production error in the same issue, thefmal column of text in "Gossip Watch" was difficult tofmd. It is the last column on page 53,•

Republican Illinois Rep. Lynn Martin is running against
incumbent Democratic Sen. Paul Simon this November
in a bid for his Senate seat. Because of an editing
error, the article entitled "HIV Testing, Rape Survivors
and the Law" in issue no. 70 stated that they arerunning for governor.

that won four Oscar nominaright behind me. Thanx fortions), I had over 100 people
blasting Marsha Warfield. I
working for me for upwards
happened to be flippingof two years of heartbreakthrough the morally bankrupt
ingly arduous work. They
selection of morning proworked their asses off. Andgrams waiting to tape ato this day, I still run into
movie, when I caught Marsha
men and women who were
Warfield's face looking puzon my crew and who say it
zledly into the camera asking
was one of the finest workif gay people were mentally ill.
ing experiences of their
Couldn't get to theentire creative lives. And
phone fast enough. Then I
they were doing it for me,
sat down and wrote a reallybecause Ken Russell was ascathing letter. And VOILA!
son of a bitch whom everysomeone tells me you nailed
body hated.
them for the same show.
So don't tell me anyFor a lot of gays-andbody-that
I don't know
particularly bisexuals-who
when an organization is sechave reservations about
ond-rate, or an employee isactivity in ACT UP or related
doing shitty work, or a board
organizations, I have foundshould resign because they
this to be a terrific way toare useless. Don't give me
blow off steam and to do
any shit that I'm singling out
something productive. If I
one sex or color. Incompesee something that offends
tence is incompetence. And
me, I sit down and immedibecause of it, there are vicately compile my own mestims. We are capable ofsage. For some reason, peoreaching the moon, and so
ple-even seemingly omifar, we are not getting ournous TV people-programselves out of the toilet.
ers and ad agencies really
And if you want toget burned up by one nasty
read more about why, get ' but concise letter. And
ahold of my book Report
although I may not always
From the Holocaust.
see results, I do get responses-some of which I frame
STICK TO THE
and hang in my bathroom.
WHIPPED CREAM
Warfield ought to stick
Just when I think I'm
to the whipped cream or get
one step ahead, there you are a new job. Opting for the lat-ter, I offered the suggestion
in my letter that she reappear
on the new Bradys as Alice's
new "assistant." Warfieldwould live behind the
kitchen, and Alice would"retire" to that attic Greg andMarcia fought over some 20
years ago.
But where would they
put Warfield's "square"?
Thanx again.
Loren Lombard
Manhattan
WHERE WAS
OUTWEEK?
Late in the summer of
1989, while I was still living
in Outer Mongolia (well,actually central New Jersey),
I happened to be in the city
one Saturday, trying toremind myself that there
were still queers in theworld. While wandering
through A Different Light, I
noticed a gaily colored magazine on the shelf next to the
Advocate. What could thisbe, I asked myself, a newversion of the Native, perhaps? Minus the derangedravings of Charles Ortleb?
Imagine my surprise to findthat OutWeek was not an
Advocate clone or an "entertainment" throwaway, but a
provocative, fresh, exciting,daring, challenging and new,
new, NEWapproach to queer
journalism.
In a little over a year,
OutWeek has, by and large,
fulfilled the promise of those
ear1iestissues. It has become
our com munity bulletinboard, our own "newspaperof record." Is there anyone inqueer New York who doesn't 'turn to· Mike Signori Ie's colulT!nevery week with a senseof anticipation, wondering
who will be deservedly skewered this time? Maybe some
SELF-LOATHINGFUCKHEADS!! I I'm sure that I'm
not the only person whose
political point of view has
been changed by OutWeeKs

fearless challenge to theassimilationist order.
However (you knew
there had to be one, didn'tyou?), I do have one issue toraise with you. Namely,
where was the coverage of
the Julio Rivera/Gracie Mansion action on Oct. 4? On
that night, at least 100
queers caught the cops and
Do-Nothing David completely
by surprise,marching,
singing and taunting themayor for failing to recognize
Rivera's murder as a bias
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Brooklyn
TAKE BACK PHILLYYour cover story on
bashing emphasizes thenecessity of the urgency for
an organized response to
the increasing violence
attacking our community.
Recently in Philadelphia,
over 500 marchers participated in a Take Back theNight rally. Unfortunately
whistles are not enough toprotect us from armed
attackers, who included
unprovoked police officers
among the bas hers thatnight. (Actually whistles' canbe dangerous if stuffed down
a victim's throat.) While ourorganization
does notadvocate carrying arms at
this time, it certainly must
support our need to bear or
own them.
David Gurst
Public Relations
Coordinator
QueerNation/Phila.

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NEW YORK-Still stinging from thedefeat of gay-inclusive anti-bias legislation in the Republican-controlled·state
Senate, and sensing a threat to reproductive rights from that same body, lesbian
and gay lobbyists are making good on athreat to help the Democratic party unseat the state Senate's Republican majority.
"It is clear that to get gay and lesbian
legislation passed in the state Senate thisyear, we need to elect Democrats," said
Lisa Parrish; the acting executive director·ofEmpir~ State Pride Agenda, the
new statewide political··action committee
fomied in a recent merger by New York
City's FAIRPACand the New York State
Lesbian and Gay Lobby in Albany. The
bias bill, sponsored by Governor Mario
Cuomo, has passed twice in the overwhelmingly Democratic state AsSembly.
The bill, defeated 25-29 in the
Senate last year, would stiffen penalties
for people convicted of bias-related'crimes, including anti-gay and anti-lesbian attacks. Roy Goodman, the bill's
Republican sponsor who represents the•Upper East Side bf Manhattan, was the
only member of his party voting in favor of the bill.· All Democrats but one. v<;>tedaffirmatively; three Republicans. did not vote,
According to Parrish, her organization is set to distribute in excess of$20,000 to m~)fe than two dozen stateraces. In addition to 14 Senate races,
Pride will donate to Assembly and judicial contests as well. The group has targeted Democratic candidates whom theythe

STRAIGHT SlATE-Pro-Gay Candidates (clockwise from upper left) Sherrye Henry,Maxine Postal, Steven Levy and Harriett Cornell
Outweekfile photos,•believe most likely to win their races foramounts of up to $2,()()(),"This is the best chance we have
had in years. We need four seats, and1 think w~ have a good chance ofgetting them," Parrish continued, adding, "If we do, it will be because of our ,work in coalition with reproductive
rights groups."
I Pride selected candidates based on
their support of reproductive rights andon issues of impoJtance to the lesbian
and gay community, including theirsupport for Cuomo's bias bill.
Libby Post, a Pride CO<hair, stated,"I think it's a possibility, if the Democrats take the Senate, [that] the bias bill
will be passed in the first week of thesession." Currently, in the 61-seat chamber the Republicans hold a 32-26 seatmajority. The prevailing wisdom in Albany has the DemoCrats picking up twoof the'threevacant seats and needing an
additional four seats to cement a majority. Two Democratic incumbents, Art
Gray of the Lone Hudson Valley andMonroe County's Ralph Quattrociocchi,
the only Democratic nay vote on thebias bill, face especially tough races, according to some observers.
A past factor in Senate races has
beeri the extent of Gov. Mario Cuomo's
willingness to stump for his Democraticcolleagues. Although Cuomo has statedhis' desire to have Democratic hands on
all the buttons in Alba,ny, he has been .
faUlted for his failure to act on that desirein the past,
Pride's Post gave Cuomo mixed reviews. "1he govemor is doing work, but
he could probably do more," she said,
Another gay pundit was less kind andsaw Cuomo as doing little more than appearing at the occasional fund-raiser. For
a gubernatorial contest with no significant opposition, Cuomo is reported tohave amassed a war cllest of $6 million,
none of which will be shared with
Democratic Sehate candidates.
, Of the four Senate races targetedby Pride, three are in Long Island's Suffolk County, where IQCailegislators anda fonner radio talk-show host are squaring off against three longtime Republican incumbents.
Maxine Postal, a two-term Democratic Suffolk County legislator, is looking
to unseat nine-term incumbent Owen
Johnson in the 4th Senatorial District.
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Fund, has grown astronomicallytoral dividend to the years of activism inin both political influence and financial
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might' in the last few years, lending assisBot wbile electoral action remains a top pri,tance to the candidacies of some openly gay
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PrITSBURGH-Actions taken in the. last year to boost public awareneSs ofgay-related bias attacks have included
the passage of a gay-inclusive federal
hattXrimes bill. But even when anti-gay
murderers are identified and prosecuted,
lax investigation on the part of the oiminal justice system and convictions on reduced charges, followed by lenient sentences are sti1l de rlgueur.
In a closely watched case bere, forinstance, just two weeks ago, a july, after
deliberating for less. than five hours, returned a verdict of involuntary manslaughter against a young man who, withan accomplice who received six to ten
yearS for his part in the murder, ruthlessly beat a gay man to death.
According to Cry Out!, a local organization of gay activists, just a few hours
after the decision came down and wasreported on the nightly news, fiveyoung men viciously attacked a gay
man and his brOther several blockS fromthe courthouse.
•"The verdict in the case is completely
void of any deterrent for future attacks on
lesbians and gays, In fact, the verdict
actively promotes the epidemic of violence against gays and lesbians," remarked Bill Hileman, a member c:l Qy Out!
The case arose out of an incident
that occurred in September of last year,
when the two convicted assailants, Mark
Glusic and John Smouse, lured David
Piergalski into their van, which wasparked in a gay cruising area, The two. men then attacked and severely beat
Piergalski, inflicting multiple wounds to
his anns, breaking his nose and one of
his cheek bones and strangling him, According to the investigation~ Piergalski
bled so profusely from the wounds thata pool of blood three feet in diameter
stained the scene of the c;dme.
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claimed that Piergalski had been alive andtalking when they left the scene, and thatthe force they used on him was sufficient
only to get Piergalski out of their vehicle.
Glusic, who will be sentenced in
December, is currently free on bond, andobservers say that although the single
charge on which he was convicted-involuntary manslaughter-carries a maximum penalty of five years in jail, since hehas no prior convictions, he will probably receive six months to a year of prisontime. Smouse received his sentence of six
to ten years, ,which will be served in aminimum security prison, in August.
Elected officials, too, have beenslow to react to the rising rates of gaybashing, leading activists to charge thatpublic institutions, such as the police
department and the executive offices,'are complicitin the commission of antigay assaults.
In New York, Mayor David Dinkins
only last week posted a reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the person or persons responsible
for last summer's murder of a gay man,
Julio Rivera, in Queens, Calling Rivera's
murder "a despicable act, n Mayor David
Dinkins, who has endured scorching aiticism from anti-violence activists over his
perceived failure to act swiftly in response
to Rivera's murder and other anti-gay
attacks, announced the $10,000 bounty.
,Dinkins' critics quickly pointed out,
however, that the announcement came
just two days before a citywide anti-violence demonstration was scheduled totake place. And sources in the mayor's
office said that such a reward was usually
an indication that the police had reached
an impasse in their investigation.
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Taking just over
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disco in Seattle.
The eight-woman, four-man jury
took less than 15 hours to reject the"boys-just-having-some-fun" arguments
which defense attorneys used. .
Instead" the jury sided with theprosecution, fmding that Stephen Edwin
Nelson and Robert John Winslow hadplanned to blow up Neighbours Discoin Seattle, and had knowingly made abomb, earned ftreanns and crossed statelines with plans to commit that aime.
Although the third defendant,
Procter James Baker, didn't actually gowith the others to Seattle, he was convicted of conspiracy and possession of abomb, parts of which 'Yere found in his
Idaho residence.
With homespun talk that played
down the implications of the defendants'
actions, the defense attorneys tried hard
to convince the jury that the trio weremerely overgrown adolescent males
playing at "comic-book stuff.""Is this conspiracy planning or isthis merely violent, locker-room, macho
fantasy talk?" asked Gar Hackney, attorney for Nelson.
. But the "good-ole-boy" references
and football analogies fell on deaf ears
with a jury made up mostly of women.
The attorney for Baker attempted to, convince the jurors that they, too, could
be charged with conspiracy if the catalogs in their houses, contents of their
garages or conversations were moni" tored by FBI agents.
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likely to be about cooking utensils anddecorating ideas than hunting and survivalist gear.
Douglas VanderBoegh, attorney for
Wrnslow, tried to cast doubt on the FBI
informant, pushing his overzealous and"By these standards, mycigarette lighter is an
incendiary device."-Defense

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untrustworthy behavior,
But the jury apparently felt that for
all of the encouragement the infonnant
gave the defendants, ex-wrestler Rico
Valentino had acted within the vague
limits defined by undercover work.
With the defendants found guilty on
all counts, VanderBoegh's strategy also
backftred. His dosing statement tried to
get the defendants off the hook by showing that even more elaborate plans
weren't implemented.
"When things were supposed tostart happening, where were the 15
Aryan warriors with uzis?" VanderBoegh asked.
Defense attorneys also argued that
the FBI stepped in too soon. Had the FBI
waited, the defendants would have gonehome like the good little boys they were.
But with one practice explosion in
the woods, a chalk talk to work out

details and the makings of a partiallyassembled bomb found in the Seattle
motel room where the supremacists
were staying, the jury didn't buy thefan~theory.
For them, the prosecution's rapidfire delineation of the events which culminated in the May 12 arrest worked.
US Attorney Ronald Howen successfully argued that you didn't actually
have to explode a bomb to have a conspiracy. All you need is an agreement
between two or more people, membership in the group and an overt act.
"In a conspiracy, you don't have tocommit the actual aime. The only thingthat matters is that you intended to commit the crime,' said Howen.
Howen also carefully set the scene
for the conflagration that would havefollowed had the FBI not stepped inwhen it did.
"What would have happened ifthey'd gone through with it? Premeditated, first-degree murder!" Howen thundered. "Would you have been arguingthat it was only talk then? Murder andmaiming is not fantasy talk."
Although the defense objected,
Howen thrust his point home to thelargely female jury when he argued:"What is your life worth? What is yourchild's life worth? At what stage would
you have stopped this case?"
The defendants could get 15 to
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by Janis.. Astor••

NEW YORK-For decades, thousands and thousands of poor and working-class Puerto Ricans have immigrated
to New York neighborhoods
like theSouth Bronx and El Barrio, driven by
their hopes and dreams of building a
new life in "the land of opportunity."
1:he massive imµligration has forgeddeep cultural' links between two places
where travel is restricted not by politics
but by economics.
Today, many native Puerto Ricans
are still fleeing their island, a US posses-

sion without federal representation, in
search of that same untapped promise.
But fur Puerto Ricans.
afflicted with AIDS
and other related illnesses, the journey
to New York can bea desperate and someti~es final a~tempt, not at starting a new life but atsurviving the old one.
According to the lateSt HN/ AIDS
surveillance report issued tliis month by
the Centers for Disease Control, Puerto
Rico has the second-highest per capita

AIDS rate in the country. The CDC statistics show that 51.4 of every-100,000 Puerto Rican residents
had been diagnosed
with the disease between October 1989
and September 1990.
Only in the District of Columbia, where
the rate is 110.2 per 100,000, is the situation worse. In New York state, the rate is45.3 per 100,000.
Additionally, CDC figures indicatethat the island's capital, San Juan, has the
fourth-highest annual new diagnosis rate•of AIDS cases-69.3
per 100,000 residents in all the nation's metropolitan
areas with a population of 500,000 or
more. By comparison, the rate in San
Francisco is 129.3 per 100,000; in New
York City, it is 80.3; in Fort Lauderdale, it
is 71.9; and in Miami, it is 61.8.
Further research reveals that in
New York City, HN continues"to strike
Puerto Ricans in greater proportions
than other ethnic or racial groups.
Juan Mendez, a member of ACT
UP/New York who grew up in Puerto
Rico, says that the island's government
had "no specific agenda on AIDS it
wasn't even talked about in daily life orin the media.» Noting that the obtainment of relief funds has always been avolatile issue with voters, Mendez allegesthat while Puerto Rico's governor, Rafael
Hernandez Co16n, lobbied Washington
for food stamps and unemployment
compensation, he "totally ignored the
AIDS crisis.» Particularly maddening toactivists is that while the government
practices contact tracing for HN infection, it has few resources to care forthose who are actually ill.
, A bigger irony is that Puerto Rico is'a second home to Lyphomed, one of thecountry's biggest manufacturer of AIDS
drugs, whiCh has a production facility located in the island's city of Canavanas.
But, according to activists, none of thismedication is readily available or affordable to Puerto Rican residents.
An employee in the order services
department of Lyphomed's Rosemont,
Ill., headquarters claimed that Pentam
and Nebupent, drugs used to treat andprotect against AIDS-related pneumonia,
are "distributed to hospitals or doctors"
throughout
Puerto Rico. But ACT
UPlNY's Carlos Cordero, who visited numerous Puerto Rican hospices, said thatmany AIDS patients there had aboolutely
no idea that this medication existed.
Meanwhile, HN-infected Puerto Ricans are being treated with Tylenol and
Pepto Bismol, and according to Cordero,
they look "like skeletons, all of them-it
was horrible." In one hospice, 15 of 17
PWAs Cordero saw were so severely
stricken with a preventable, AIDS-related
fungus that they could barely eat.
To Dr. Jaime Rivera Dueno, directorof the AIDS Institute in San Juan, a private, nonprofit group contracted by the,municipality to provide health care to
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made available to them. 'The budget assignment for AIDS is very, very limited,"
Rivera said.
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The total AIDS budget in Puerto Rico, which has a population of 2.5 million, is a mere $6 million. San Juan, a cityof 500,000 people, sees $3.2 million ofthat figure. Rivera estimates that there are
8,000 to 9,000 reported AIDS cases on
the island. Not including people with
ARC or asymptomatic HIV infection, thatworks out to spending a little over $650
per person with AIDS annually.
Complicating matters further is that
San Juan is the only city on the island
where PWAs can realistically go for treatment. "Most patients do not have real access to the services" that do exist Rivera
added. Although two weeks ago new
dinics focusing on AIDS recently began
forming elsewhere on the island, Rivera
said, "My main worry is that 1 don't believe it's enough." According to him,these places still need to be staffed andorganized in order for people to obtaineffective treatment.
Finally, a poorly planned Medicaid
budget makes it nearly impossible formost PWAs to access any of the island's· $63 million in federal .Medicaid funds.
Rivera asserts: "Those monies are reallycommitted in, and allocated for, othertypes of services. We need to reevaluate our priorities here in Puerto Rico.
Obviously, you have to define yourpublic policy of how you are using
your resources. Money should be takenout of other services and allocated to
AIDS programs,"
Dr. Johnny Rullan, a CDC-fundedepidemiologist who directs the Central
Office for AIDS at the health department in Puerto Rico and also oversees
all of the department's dealings withother communicable diseases, was not
immediately available for comment.
One health department official who
deals with AIDS, speaking privately,
said: "I cannot deny that AIDS is a very,
very serious situ,ation. Our problem isthat we do not have enough funds, notonly for AIDS but for everything. And· AIDS is such an expensive disease. But·the state is not providing. It is. not that
we are spending too much on something else. Here in Puerto Rico, weneed money for everything."
Nevertheless, a specific office for
AIDS did not even. exist until April of thisyear. And while millions of federal AIDS,•,

here, a group of local activists, with theencouragement and support of ACf UP
members from the States, organized
themselves into ACf UP/Puerto Rico thispast year and staged demonstrations
throughout the island during the monthof August. Touching the rawest nerve on
this largely Catholic island was a protest
mass outside the San Juan Cathedral, thedistribution of condoms inside the cathe-dral and the posting of fliers that called
Cardinal Martinez an AIDS criminal.
In many of these demos, gay Puerto
Ricans and New Yorkers were joined bydollars are funnelled to the island, including funds that pay for about 200 people's
AZJ", little of it goes to the health department to be spent directly on health care.
A $2 million federal grant for housing
people with AIDS was recently approved
but has not yet been received, according
to a health department spokesperson.
Dr. Gaspar Encarnacion, a physician
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think it would be able to take care ofthese patients," he told autWeek. Whathe fmds particularly disturbing is the attitudes of dentists and surgeons who.
refuse to treat PWAs.
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Compounding the problem of AIDSin Puerto Rico are the doctrinaire attitudes of the Catholic church, which opposes the distribution of any infonnation
on safer sex that does not fall within its
own strict moral code. Puerto Rico's Cardinal Luis Aponte Martinez is well knownin activist circles for his theory that it ismore sinful to wear a condom than tohave AIDS.
Provoked by the horrendous conditions surrounding the AIDS epidemicstraight family members and friends. Activists also went to shooting galleries to
instruct drug users on how to clean needles with bleach as an AIDS prevention.
Indeed, according to front-liners, most of
Puerto Rico's AIDS cases are among IVdrug users. And Dr. Rivera Dueno said
that he is seeing an increase in the number of babies born with AIDS. Activists
even distributed condoms and safer-sex
infonnation at a local university.
The month-long actions marked thelongest runniilg series of demonstrationsin the history of ACf UP and made Puerto Rico the first latin American country tohave an ACf UP chapter.
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fears that declaring the island a disasterarea would result in a sharp decline intourism. But GormUez notes optimistically, "If we keep making trouble they [thegovernment] will shift direction.»
ACT UP, which meets every Monday night at the Tropicana Lounge, a
popular San Juan gay bar, is in the process of collecting data and preparing thenecessary papetWork so that it can keep
the public properly infonned. On Oct. 3,
it held a memorial cruise on the Bay of
San Juan. The boat stopped at the mouthof the bay so passengers could drop
flowers into the water in memory of
loved ones lost to AIDS.
The group also conducted a silent
mourning outside of a church in an
upper-class neighborhood, Oct, 4, during which activists dressed as skeletons. In other efforts to raise funds, theactivists are holding tea dances one
Sunday a month and asking people todonate clothes, which will be sold toraise money.
Although membership has reachedmore than 150, Charles Perez, a memberof ACT UP/PH, admits that only between
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-Avril McDonald

RIGHTS FOR THE
HIV.;.POSI?
NEW YORK-Many city hospitals
and clinics are refusing to perfonn abortions on HN-positive women, in violation of city, state and federal antidiscrimination laws, according to flle City
Commission on Human Rights.
A study publishedlast week
showed that 42 percent of hospitals,
abortion clinics and private doctors surveyed by the Commission last Marchrefused to provide abortion services to
HIV-positive women or, in one case,grossly overcharged for the service,
Their rationale was that their facilities were not equipped to carry out
the necessary sterilization procedures,that they were unfami.Iiar with unifonn
infection-control procedures and that
their employees were unwilling towork with such patients.
Presenting the report, the city's
human rights commissioner, Dennis
deLeon, said that universal infectioncontrol precautions should be routinely followed whenever blood or body
fluids may be present, which suggeststhat many health care providers either
do not understand the need for themor choose not to follow them.
DeLeon recommended that a comprehensive campaign be undertaken to ed. ucate health care providers on the nature. of ffiV infection, its modes of transmission
and the need to utilize universal precautions when treating all patients. Reproductive care providers must also be made tounderstand ·theirlegal requirements to pr0vide ~cesto ffiV-poWve women.
As a last resort, such providers will
be prosecuted by the Commission's Law
Enforcement Bureau to the full extent

SAN FRANCISCO-Followingapublic viewing of a General Motors
video that included an anti-gay remark,the Board of Supervisors is considering
severing the city's fmanciaI relationshipwith the car giant, and promoting a boycott of all GM products.

The action, which reportedly has
widespread support here, was begun after a GM customer, in an internal promotional video for the Chevrolet Heartbeat, shown in Detroit, referred to thevehicle of one of GM's Japanese competitors as "that little faggot truck."
The controversy over the video
sparked national news coverage, leading
the Board of Supervisors, spearheaded
by Supervisor Richard Hongisto, to examine the city's financial relationshipwith GM in light of a city anti-disaimination ordinance that includes protections

No Rave for Dave,NEW YORK~When Mayor David
Dinkins came to speakat the Human Rights
Campaign Fund's annual Big Apple
fund raiser, he was greeted by leaflettersfrom aueer Nation and a steady stream of
tuxedoed dinner"guest hecklers. Many inthe community are unhappy with the mayor's response to the spiralling gay-bashingepidemiChere.
"I'm sorry that the mayor wasn't better prepared to handle their concems, andI felt bad that it went on so long," HRCF
chief Tim McFeeley said of the protest.
"Sometimes we just can't avoid larger issues in the community at our parties. It
made people uncomfortable, but it didbring up some important issues."
Dinkins, pictured here, departed
shortly after his speech. Despite the disruption, the fete grossed nearly $175,000,
slightly less than organizers anticipated.
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FACADE: The Lesbian and Gay Community Services Center is getting a muchneeded
face lift.
Constructed in 1844
as Public School 16,
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pressed brick andsandstone will be restored with the help of a $100,000
grant from New York state, matched dollar for dollar by the
Rita and Stanley H. Kaplan Foundation. Although it will be
obscured for scaffolding for about three months, staffers
said that the building is open for business as usual. And
they're still taking contributions ....

DISNEYLAND: Men danced with men and womenwith women at the California home of Mickey and Min~
nie Mouse on Sept. 15. Celebrating the tenth anniversary of his ejection from the theme park's Tomorrowland Terrace for dancing with his boyfriend, Andrew
Exler gathered 27 of his friends to celebrate his successful 1984 lawsuit which reversed Disneyland's policy barring same-sex dancing.
SHACKING UP: Stanford University will extend to gay
and straight unmarried couples the same benefits it
currently affords married students.
SHAPING UP: Fed up ~th allowing ROTC to discriminate against lesbians and gay men on its nondlscrlmlnating campus, MIT's faculty has begun a five-year
campaign to change the Defense Department's mind
about gays. And in a unanimous resolution, the professors voted to recommend tossing the military off
campus if they don't shape up.

CARDINAL
KNOWLEDGE:
The St. Patrick's Six
won't be seeing Cardinal John O'Connor on the witness stand. The presiding.judge quashed a subpoena
that would have dragged his eminence into court as a
hostile witness, mass media in tow. While the judge
ruled that O'Connor's testimony wouldn't be relevantin the trial of AIDS and abortion rights activists accused of disrupting a Cathedral mass last December,insiders opined that his honor was trying to avoid turning his courtroom into a media circus.

ROCKY MOUNTAIN HIGH: Denver's city council voted 8-4 for a gay-inclusive civil rights law. Since themayor has promised to sign it, advocates have turned
their attention to the governor, hoping for a stateWide
executive order banning job discrimination.
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KOCHAJ, NIE ZABIJAJ: For the uninitiated, that's
Polish for MDoLove, Don't Kill," currently number eightand climbing on Poland's pop music charts. Recorded
by Balkan Electrique, a popular rock band led by
openly gay singer Slawek Starosta, the ditty is a gay
love song with a melodious safer-sex message, according to Outlines News Service.

CHURCH CHAT: Smarting from a lockout at the University of Massachusetts, ACT UP/Boston, wifh thehelp of the ACLU; is taking the school to court. When
officials got wind of the group's plans fora demo
against the anti-gay, anti-abortion Cardinal Bernard•
Law, they locked the doors to the classroom the group
had reserved, Also involved in the First Amendment••

for lesbians and gay men.
In a letter dated Oct. IS, the Supervisors warned GM that "as part ofGM's financial relationship with the•city, your corporation agrees not toengage in discriminatory practices
against lesbians and gay men. Natu. rally, we are outraged that GM's
. Chevrolet division has chosen to violate its agreement with San Francisco
and to, subfect lesbian and gay people to the hqrrors of prejudice andinjustice:" A spokesperson
fromChevrolet did not return a reporter's
phone call. On Oct. 16, a spokesperson told the San Francisco Examimer,"We sincerely apologize to anyone
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who was offended and will take every
precaution to ensure that nothing likethis ever happens again.""This video didn't just happen,"remarked TJ Anthony, an openly gay
aide to Supervisor Hongisto, pointing
out that the interView was culled from
more than 500 hours of tape, reviewed
by the promotional division of Chevrolet, and released as part of a coordinated effort to 'up sales. "That means
there was a consensus of bigotry
among the GM promotional people,"
Anthony concluded.
Currently, according to Anthony,the city is awaiting a response fromGM to a letter signed by all of the city

supervisors, and a report on GM fromthe Human Rights Commission. Anthony said that part of his negotiations
with GM include a request that the international corporation donate a sum
equal to the amount of money spenton the video to a gay and lesbian community-based organization that fights
violence and discrimination.
An editorial in the San Francisco
Examiner urged citizens to go even farther in their actions against the company: "Boycott [GM'sl big, macho trucks,
Japanese trucks work better anyway,
and you don't have to wipe the slime off
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.important contribution to the advancement of queer politics will be throughhis daily contact with his fellow workers,
as there is little scope for advocacy in his
professional capacity. He will be mainly
adjudicating on landlord-tenant issues.
. His background in housing law,
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appointment by Milton Williams, chief
administrative judge of the Civil Court.
After graduating from Brandeis University in Boston, he attended New YorkLaw School, from which he received his
law . degree. During his law school years,
he did an internship in the White Houseduring the Carter administration.
Admitted to the bar in 1982, hepractieed as a housing court attorney
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-Avril McDonald

AFRICA'S FIRSTGAY PRIDEPE
JOHANNESBURG-The
Africancontinent saw its first gay pride parade
on Oct. 13 when about 800 gays andlesbians marched through the Hillbrow
and Braamsontein neighborhoods ofJohannesburg, South Africa.
The ground-breaking
event wasorganized by the Gay and Lesbian Organizationof Witwatersrand,
theSoweto-based group founded by key
anti-apartheid and gay activist Tseko,

Simon Nkoli,
Seventy percent of the marchers
were white and 30 percent were people of color, Nkoli said.
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"It was' quite a nice mix. We· werepleased with the response from whiteorganizations. Only the Gay ChristianCommunity didn't want to participate,"
Nkoli said in a telephone interview.
The festivities began with a rally
at the Institute for Race Relations,where Nkoli and activist Donne Rundle read a gay and lesbian manifesto
and messages of support from 45
overseas gay organizations.
A picnie followed in Peter Roors
Park, where activists planted a city-donated tree in memory of those who
have' died of AIDS.
South Africans plan to do it again
next year, on Oct, 12.

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violence, nearly 200 lesbians and gay men rallied outside City
Hall, the cou'rts and Police Department headquarters in downtown Manhattan on Oct. 25, in an effort to call attention to therising rates of gay-related bias crimes.
The violence has become so terrorizing that even openly gay Human Rights Commissioner Dennis deLeon recounted that the fear of
attack has forced him to stay inside at night. Recently, he told the

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crowd, he and his lover realized that they were afraid to go outside
their home becausea gang of kids was hanging out on the comer.
"I've been bashed twice," another speaker told the demonstrators. "When will [Mayor David Dinkins] realize it's his job tofight for a state bias bill, not someone else's?"
Other speakers included Manhattan Borough President Ruth
Messinger, and Ma~orie Hill, the mayor's gay community liaison.
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NEW YORK-Needle-exchange
programs are an inappropriate way to
reduce human immunodeficiency virus
infection among IV-drug users, according
to Dr. Woodrow A. Myers, New York City's
health commissioner.
"I am not convinced that these programs are effective," he said during a lecture
on Oct. 17, "I don't believe ,that the researchis conclusive or that we are in an era where
it can be translated into practical use."
The first objective of the city's healthdepartment is to emphasize that drugs areunhealthy, he said, adding that if one "can't
or won't listen
to advice, then we will broach.
.
the issue of safe needle use."
Myers strayed from his scheduled talkon care and treatment of people with AIDS
and instead addressed urgent public healthissues in New York City. His talk, sponsoredby the Public Health Research Institute,••

focused on recent trends in HIV infection in
New York. Myers noted that more IV-drugusers are developing HIV infection than gay
men, with African Americans and Latinos
most hard hit. With the increasing incidence of AIDS in newborns, the healthdepartment is launching a $2 million program to reduce HIV infection in pregnant
IV-drug users, he said.
One reason for this increase is the IVdrug-using community's failure to reproduce the preventive model developed by thegay community, Myers said. During a follow-up question and answer session, audience members pointed out that despite
Myers' own refusal to implement needle
exchange in New York, such programs inother US cities and overseas not only stem
HIV infection in IV-drug users but also act
as a bridge to drug treatment.
-Avril McDonald

by Duncan Osborne
NEW YORK-People
with AIDS
who no longer respond to conventional
antiviral treatment are having trouble
getting an experimental
drug themanufacturer says is available to them,
AIDS activists charge.
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The drug, ddC, is currently being
tested in clinical trials. Its manufacturer,
Hoffman-J.a Roche, recently announced
that it was offering the agent to people
with AIDS who no longer respond to, or
could not tolerate, AZf, under guidelines for expanded access. With thisprogram, those who do not qualify forentry into a clinical trial may take thedrug under the supervision of their
physician, who is supposed to provide
clinical data to the drug company.
"Hoffman-La Roche still has not. made it easy for physiciansandpatients to obtain ddC," said DavidGold of ACf UP/NY.
The problem lies in getting theapproval of Institutional Review Boards,
committcescomposed of physicians, religious leaders and local communitymem•
bers who safeguard the welfare ofpatients. enrolled in a drug protocol by
en-suring ·that the protocol is medicallyand ethically sound. Typically, IRBs areaffiliated with a hospital, Activists say that
Roche should obtain a blanket IRB froma government branch, such as the FDAor National Institutes of Health, to avoid
having each physician ftll out cumbersome paperwork for a local IRB approval
for each patient seeking the drug.
Activists want Rocheto sign opto,
the same expanded-accesS protocol thatallowed Bristol-Myers Squibb, the firstcompany to offer expanded access, todispense a rdated drug,ddI, to. over ..
·12,400 people with AIDS inthe past year. .'"'
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MORRISTOWN, NJ-An experimental therapy based on exposing
treated blood taken out of people with
AIDS-related complex to ultraviolet
light and then returning it is yielding
promising results, those working withthe procedure say.
The procedure, extracorporeal
photopheresis, was developed about
30 years ago. The FDA has approved
its use for a malignant skin cancer,
cutaneous T-cell lymphoma, and it isbeing applied to autoimmune diseases.
For the fIrst time, it is being tested inpeople with ARC, a stage of mv infection before the development of opportunistic infections that defines fu11blown AIDS.
In August, results of a small pilot
study of five people with ARC were
publishedin Annals of Interna.l
Medicine. Before treatment, the fIve
volunteers had typical signs of ARC,
namely, lymphadenopathy (enlarged
lymph nodes), fever, night sweats,
weight loss and decline in T4 cells (amarker of failing immunity), The volunteers fIrst ingested 8-methoxypsoralen, or psoralen, which comes from aweed that grows on the Nile River.
After two hours, a pint of psoralen-containing blood was taken from each volunteer, Red and white cells were separated, and the red cells were returned;
the white cells were exposed to longwave ultraviolet-A light and returned.
The ultraviolet light activates the previously donnant psoralen for a fraction of
a second, enough time to do its work.
The procedure is believed to inactivate
HIV by cross-linking the virus' DNA,bolstering the immune system.
The study'S investigators, led by
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its end, receiving the procedure twice amonth. One discontinued treatment
after fIve months but continued to beevaluated. All fIve returned for followup evaluation for 15 months.
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Ethridge, Last year, itIi was the Indigo~ Girls. The year
cS before, it was Tracy~ Chapman,Every-l year, It.,s Ma donna .
t-'.9 For a decade, it was~: Lily Tomlin. For
three decades, it was Katharine (Kate toher devotees) Hepburn. And for long,
long after her death, it will be Garbo.
No, we're not talking Blackglama
ads here-we'retalking lesbian sex
symbols. Who decides the lust objectof 15,million lesbians in the US?In part
it's style, in part it's looks, in part it'sthat the symbol is rarely actually lesbian-and
if she is, she certainly
would never tell anyone.

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quick review of Sweet Dreams could
enlighten many) as she appears on Johnny Carson in total butch drag-not evenan earring to femme it up, If it weren't
for the voice, we'd think it was the reincarnation of Johnny Ray, not Patsy dine.
Then there's Ms. Chapman, who isrunning neck-in-neck for the Whitney"Did-somebody-use-that-word-again?"
Houston award. Tracy Chapman, who

who still lived together after theypassed the age of 40 were known tobe i,n what is tenned a "Boston marriage." That means that even in Boston,
two women can be lesbians together athome if they deny it in public. Apparently, it still works well for the Misses
Tomlin and Wagner.
And there was that movie Desert
Hearts. That sparked quite a few flints

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straight as an arrow or suffering severe
bruises to the head from hitting the coathooks back in the closet. And yet these
are the women who make lesbians
nationwide dampen their Calvins andtwist their toes inside their Doc Marten's.
Why?
Why did lesbians stop stomping forMichelle Shocked when she came out
last year? Why do they continue toswoon over k.d. lang, the butchest item
this side of Charles Bronson, who has
yet to even hint at an alternative sexuality? But let's look at these girls. Shocked
said the "L" word, got hell for not saying
it sooner, said some not-so-srruµt things
about outing, and now, when she
appears on David Letterman, and heasks about the men in her life, she talks
about her father, the roadie.
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where there are about two nonlesbianperfonners---QIld both are fonner loversof Holly Near. .
And what about Madonna? Did shereally believe that straight women goof
on the public by playing queer with
their girlfriends? Even Garbo never triedthat line on for size.
Then there's Lily Tomlin and her"writing partner," Jane Wagner. Just
before the turn of the century, womenwith Patrice Charboneau, who did agood femmed-up k.d. lang for the big
screen. But after she became a lesbian
sex symbol, she began to whine that she
had been pregnant when ftIming andhadn't gotten a decent role since. Meanwhile, fellow leading lesbo in the film,
Helen Shaver, who never denied that it
was the best love scene she ever played,
now has her Qwn network 1V series.
Then there's Desert Hearts director,
Donna Deitch, who declines to divulge
her sexuality under any circumstances
but states that she made the movie toplease herself, that it was a film she had,always wanted to see. Someone forgot
to tell her that only lesbians and straightmen like to see films like that.
Those are some of our symbols in
the '90s. In the 70s, they ~ere people
like Cris Williamson and Teresa Trull,
who used to pretend that singing all yoursongs about the love of women doesn't
necessarily mean that you're a lesbian.
There is, of course, the exceptionthat proves the rule-Holly
Nearwhose tell-<>nly--a-little-bitautobiography
puts her in bed with more men than
women by about 20 to 1. Nonetheless,
Near continues to declare herself , as alesbian and isn't afraid who knows it.
For Near, the personal is political, andshe believes in identifying with theoppressed.
But more straights are
impressed with that than are lesbians,
who would rather pursue the unattair.
able pseudodykes and closet cases.
What makes a lesbian sex symbol?
She looks like a dyke, walks like a dyke,
acts like a dyke, sings or speaks like adyke but denies to everyone who asks
her that she is dyke. This is what makes
the American lesbian swoon: a, butcb
haircut, tight jeans, fuck-me boots and a
deep voice. There are, of course, a few
exceptions to this rule of attire Whitney Houston, Kelly McGillis, Jodie Foster. They all have deep voices but often
wear skirts.
Then there is the delightful Brooke
Shields who, as her dyke-o-meter began
to register below where it should on the
sex-symbol scale, decided to dress like a
man for the mags. (I mean, doesn't
every top model do this? Isn't Q1ristie
Brinkley just ready to tape on the mustache and play Billy Joel II?)
Of course, Shields is a little like hergood friend Michael Jackson-they
aren't actually queer. They aren't actually
real. Besides, Jackson spends much of
his time pretending to be his sister,
Latoya (has anyone ever seen them inthe same place at the same time?), anddoesn't have time for anything but pets.
The serious side to all of this is thatmany of these women are queers, but
only a handful are willing to acknowledge it. And half of those retract the declaration later, a Ii Bernhardt and Madonna, claiming that they were only kidding.
As a community, we need to ask
ourselves why we are so willing to pay
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Why is there such a dearth ofreal, live declared lesbians for oursex symbols?· Why are lesbians
unwilling
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openly lesbian singers or to readbooks by openly lesbian writers but
can't wait to queue up for an autographed book- by Lily Tomlin or Fran
Lebowitz (or Liz Smith, if she everputs all her innuendo into a book) or
for tickets to the latest closet case indyke drag?
This is a mutual partnership in
self-loathing,
and we should bequestioning
our as-yet-unquestioned participation.
As long as lesbians accept the pin-up version of
fake dykes (everyone
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women while actual lesbians are falling
all over themselves with press releases
saying that it isn't true? (When heterosexual Theresa Russell appeared on
Johnny Carson after the release ofBlack Widow, Jay Leno asked her what
was most mem-orable about working
with Debra Wmger, Her answer: "She'sa great kisser,")
Twenty-plus
years
after
Stonewall, we should be demandingthat these women declare themselves
or stop taking our money. What weshouldn't be doing is denying ourown reality and letting these women
deny thi$ reality publicly in ournames. In doing so, we tell the worldthat we are only as real as a hairstyleand a particular cut of jeans. And
Brooke Shields has shown us thismonth, dressed as a man on the
cover of Paper, that there's more tothat than meets the eye,""
Victoria A. Brownworth covers
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Postal, a pro-choice candidate, supported Local Law 5, Suffolk County's
lesbian and gay civil rights ordinance.
Postal also introduced a resolution in
the county le~lature which called on
Albany to pass Cuomo's bias bill. Johnson, an abortion opponent,
went
thumbs down on the bias bill, though
he is viewed as strong on environmental issues. FAIRPACgave Postal $1,000
in September, prior to her Democratic
primary bid,
Steven Levy, currently serving histhird term in the Suffolk County legislature, is seeking the Senate seat of 18year incumbent Caesar Trunzo. Levy, apro.choice, Local Law 5 supporter, hasreceived funds from FAIRPACin previous races. Trunzo, an anti-choice candidate who voted against the bias bill, is
one of two Republican
senators
deemed vulnerable by gay lobbyists. A
Trunzo spokesperson
disputed thatcharacterization but described Levy's
bid in the 3rd Senatorial District as a"strong challenge."
Sherrye Henry, a former WOR radio talk-show host, is looking to retire
Kenneth LaVelle, who has served 14
years in the state Senate. The pro-choice
Henry is also an unabashed supporterof the bias bill and a gay rights proponent. Henry received $1,000 from FAIRPAC to aid her bid in the 1st Senatorial
District prior to September's Democratic
primary race,
The fourth Senate race targeted by
Pride is for the Rockland County Senate seat left vacant by the death of Republican Eugene Levy. Pride will contribute to the pro-choice Harriett Cornell, a seven-year Rockland County
legislator and bias-bill supporter, Cornell, who has extensive experience inRockland County politics, is squaring
off against the Rockland County state
assemblyman, Joseph Holland, in the
38th Senatorial District. Unlike his Republican colleagues in the Senate, Holland has deep roots in Rockland County politics and has twice voted in support of the bias bill during his single
term in the state Assembly.
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regarding justabout everything
she does. Now she•

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more to say.

••t seems that Susie Bright has always been summed up!>y US"words some of them not very nice, She ismostly associated with one: SEX.SIM sex, to be specific. She is co-founder and editor of On Our Backs, thepremiere lesbian sex magazine in the country, andshe's authored several books on lesbian erotica, including thejust-published Sex World, Of course, there are several other
US"words that elucidate who Susie Bright is, as separate fromhef alter-ego, Susie Sexpert (the name she goes by in her column in OOl!). She is smart, savvy, strong, sometimes sweet,
seductive a,nd salacious, She is also surprisingly serious a, word rarel,y:,assoclated with the sort of nonstop rendering of. sexual mytfios that Bright is a leading proponent of, Yet her
reputatlons-the
bad one she has with anti-porn feminists
and the good one she has with lesbians who view her work
as expanslve-rest solely on that one US" word.
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In interviews, Bright has spoken on the whole gamut ofadult experience from pansexuality to motherhood to thedos and don'ts of lesbian sex to AIDSto SIM controversies to_••

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leftist politics to John Lennon to strip shows to the state of
the union-whether that union is the US, the gay and lesbiancommunity or two bodies in bed.
There are only a handful of lesbians in America who
continually spark controversy; Bright is one of them. But her
ideas aren't so much new as they are iconoclastic, and hermeans of telling the tale outrageous, There is no denyingthat the woman has broken ground for lesbian sexuality,
making the world a safer place for purveyors such as Joann
Loulan to carry the messages Into mass-market appeal,
In many ways, Bright remains' an enigma, Even withreams of interviews to peruse, one is still left wondering who
Susie Bright is, and how she got to be Susie Sexpert, Did shejust wake up one morning and decide she wanted to becomea lesbian sex goddess and spread the gospel of sex toys,
strange positions and dental dams?
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It began, as so many of ~ese things do, In Callfor-!

nla, where she grew up, Bright was only eight, she says, iE
when she discovered masturbation, but i
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the height of gay liberation, feminism and the Vietnam War,"she says that social activism flltered down from the activities
at UCLA into her high school, and events such as Wounded
Knee and the farm-workers boycott politicized her.
"I wanted to be a revolutionary," she says of those
years. She brought a lesbian discussion panel to the school
as a countenneasure to a school-sponsored "girl's week" that
focused on the limitations of being a "girl": "We had
women's week where we discussed sexuality, birth control
and lesbianism." The school tried to ban the lesbians and theunderground newspaper that Bright worked on; the paper
was seized, but the panel did appear, and Bright developed
a crush on one of the out lesbians at her school, whom shetenned a "most courageous dreamboat."
After high school, she moved to Detroit to "be in the heartof industrial America." Her time there, she says, was a "hugestep backward in terms of sexual consciousness," and eventually
she. moved back to California to attend college. "lbat's where I
fell into the lesbian movement," she recalls. "I was at Cal State,Long Branch and UC/Santa Cruz. There was a really radical Ies, biaI1women's studies department, and it really set me thinking."
The period that followed was one of conflicts between.
feminism and sexuality, lesbian consciousness and desire .
Bright had begun to discover the anti-porn, anti-sex nature of
the academic setting but was also drawn to the women's andlesbian comm\lnities because "they had so much to offer. I
remained ambivalent but seduced by it. I was frightened bybar life it was fighting the Briggs Initiative that got me out of
the college madhouse and into the gay community, I moved to
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It was this experimentation that led to Bright's fascination with the sexual mavericks within the lesbian community
in San Francisco: "I saw that ideas I had in my head could bein my body, too." She became involved with Samois, a lesbian S/M group in San Francisco, "which at one time was thelargest lesbian organization in America.· They gave •her anhonorary lavender tit-clamp. The rest, as they say, is history.

Did your involvement. with Samots lead to the foundingof On Our Backs?
Susie Bright: It's not that simple, ·but yes. Actually, it was
being single that really was a catalyst for me and for sexual
experimentation. Lesbians had come to vieW the whole leather
scene as a niale disease-Samois had a very different perspective. It was exciting and different It was about sexual minorities,
At first, I worned, "Am I sticking up for something that's reallyternble, or what?" because of this rift, this split in the lesbiancommunity over 'leather. It was devastating to see that split. And
I'd been preaching all this stuff, and I hadn't actually tried it.

But then you did?
Then I did. And after that I got a job at Good Vibrations[a sex shop in SF] and discussed sex history with customers.
Then I found that orgasms were the main issue forwomen coming at all was a big deal for women. It wasaround then that I discovered sex toys and started masturbating with them. I've always learned by reading, by being abookwonn, and there was no women's erotica beyond Ana'isNin. Samois' Coming to Power was a first. And it was just as
bad for straight women as for gay. I was writing a lot of
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women who had ideas and sophistication that I didn't !have]about the erotica issue, and they wanted to start a magazine,
I had a lot of skills they didn't have, with publishing and running a newspaper and editing. Samois, at this time, was justfalling apart, and Debi Sundahl had been editing for Samois.
So you two put the magazine together?
With Nan Kinney. We all started quitting our jobs. Debi
was a stripper, Nan worked for the utilities company, and I
was at Good Vibrations.

DOB has been such a success, Did it all come together
with no conflict?
No, no. People think we have orgies all day, but we arereally thinking and working on how to make this service
work and grow.
•How would you rate the importance ofDOB today?
It's very- important-it's in a class by itself, OOB reaches·
women of every- age, class, race, This is the heartland ofpolitical work here. This isn't just about feminism and theelite--4is is about women and what they feel about themselves and their sexuality and the range and diversity of thatsexµality. It's hard to describe how amazing it is, but we get
so many letters that are positive. There's always been somuch positive response from readers._•._
But not such posittve response from the feminist antt~ porn community?
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It's like it was with Samois. There were no choices for Ies~ bians who wanted to be sexual. Samois wasn't all S/M dykes,
f but when women want to be openly sexual and discuss their"There are so many' Amazon pronhets·' 1:'

sexuality and experience, they are forc~ to tum
to SIM groups because they are addressing sexua1ityand no one else is. OOB is perceived as thismonolithic evil empire by some. Women would
come up to me when I was selling the magazine
at festivals and say, "Is that that SIM magazine?"and I'd say no, that's that S-E-X magazine, SIM isthe black-leather hening for talking about lesbiansexuality. OOB and the writing I do is like a sexual caIIing-it's addressing desire, it's sincere, Lesbians have to recognize that they don't have to give up sex tobe "pure," to achieve. All these Margaret Meads out there, subverting their sexuality for the greater good-there
really isanother approach. I think OOBhelps addr,ess that approach,to mother's milk. /' m infatuated with,the sexual feelings that it gives me. "Bright is still amazed by the extent of the anger directed at her and OOB because of their diverse approach to lesbiansexuality. And though she believes that "we've won that war,"
she also notes that the magazine is still banned from many
women's bookstores, which are frequently the only places
women can gain access to mormation about their sexuality.
"I feel sorry for the whole against-sadomasochism group,"
Bright explains. "Andrea Dworkin's right she call't get her
work published in the US anymore the mess cuts both ways.
But this is that black-leather hening again. The debate madesome lesbians more 'real' than others. An anti-S/M attitude
made you more politically correct, and others who were
exploring their sexuality were somehow less lesbian."•

Do you still see these attitudes on your tour with Susie
Sexpert's Lesbian Sex World?
'Yes, unfortunately.
It's still strong in small college
towns. I call these women the "Prime-of-Miss-Jean-Brodie"
girls. The attacks on me and OOB are just weird and nuts.
It'sJike identifying Satan as the cause of all evil. Somepeople say OOB causes lesbian-battering-Iikelesbian sex
play will go wrong and women will get brutalized byeach other. Sexual desires need to be understood. That's
what
we're doing,,,

Has the climate changed for S/M and alternative sex
practices?
Yes and no. There's a mainstreaming of SIM symbols in.
fashions and romance. I like it-it's a sign of power, of influencing the culture'. Lesbian sexuality-all sexuality-is getting
talked about. That's good.
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have be(fn incredibly
accepting, They knowthat we're gay, andthey're happy that we're doing ourbusiness here," says Larry Brassell,
who, with his lover Stewart Gerber,owns and runs Auntie Em's Fanns, alesbian and gay bed and breakfast
nestled smack in the middle of a
blueberry
forestand an apple: orchard, located in an isolated landcalled Shandelee.
Two years ago, Brassell (a fonner
clothing
designerand restaurant
manager)and Gerber (who still
maintains his dentistry practice inManhattan)bought the
20.,room,renovated boardinghouse and one-time
farmhouse in the heart of New York's
Catskill Mountains, refurbished it, filled
it with antiques and "junk-tiques" fromaroundthe area and createdacomfortable, safe space for queers to
unwind and enjoy the country.
Here, the city-ravaged, the protestweary, the overworked and the anxietyridden play with the goats (Willie, Billie
and Ira Levine), frolic about nearby
Shandelee Lake, hike amid the peaks
and creeks of Catskill State Park, crosscountry ski or, just a drive away, partakeof hot-air ballooning, 'white-water rafting,snowmobiling and downhill skiing.
An 'astounding cook, Brassell fixes
a hearty, fresh, country breakfast forguests each morning (which is includedin the $75.0b-per-couple-per-nightroom rate). As for other dining, visitors
are aware that this is real seclusion: The
nearest town where groceries areavailable is Livingston Manor, a drive
away. Lanza's, an excellent Italian placedown the road, is the only restaurant·within walking distance. But seclusion,· after all, is what Auntie Em's is all. about. "I used to think that gays weregoing backwards if they segregated· themselves," says Brassell. "But now I
realize it's nice to have a place to go
where you can hold hands with yourlover over breakfast while wearing
your pajamas."
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moving. There were no streetlights orthing and thiS one thing only: panic. From
traffic lights or porch lights, just thewhere I sit or sat-I'd have said as much forsame enveloping darkness to which I'dthe train, only it did ftnally stop running, withby now become accustomed.
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out any perceptible abatement in the panic. (I"In the future," Johann said at last,wonder if she and I might have experience dif"please try to follow instructions more
ferent trains, which is more than'likely, butclosely. There are not that many, but the..
lately I think not.) I'm not sure when or
few there are are most important."
if-we crossed the border, but the train arrived"Sorry all to hell," I muttered underat some station sometime in the night, I supmy breath while I looked in vain for any
pose. It was, after all, just as dark when I carsign of·life in the city. A curtain flutteredried my suitcase, my hatbox, my all-too-wellat one of the houses we passed, and inread copy of Johnny Panic onto the emptythat moment, I caught a quick glimpse
platform as it had been when I commencedof some elegantly dressed people sittingI
this peculiar odyssey. (And when was that? A
down at a long Queen Anne table to afew hours ago? Last night? Last month? You
fine meal of standing rib roast with wax ,.
probably see by now that for me, it has all become one sin- beans and small, braised onions.
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gle unbroken stretch of blackness, one vast absence of light.)"We'll be arriving at the hot~l shortly," Johann informed
Almost as sOon as I stepped off, the train hastily pulled me, "A reservation has been made for you under a nameout of the station without taking on any new passengers--and,other than your own."of course, no passengers had been waiting to board~dI"And which name is that?" I asked.
stood quite alone and watched the lighted windows streak"The specific name does not signify. Far too muchpast, and for one crazy moment, I thought th~t, I spotted .importance is attached to names. Besides, they will be.somebody waving from the, djning car. That mayor may not expecting you."have been a trick of the light, the speed, the panie, but at
At that moment, the cab pulled into the driveway of anany rate, the train was off to its next western destination.
enormous luxury hotel which was blindingly illuminated by
I suppose,scores of floodlights, A valet promptly opened the car door
Having no idea wh~re I'd been deposited, I looked for a and extracted my belongings. As I got out, I noticed that
porter or somebody or anybody from whom to get direc- Johann was holding back.
tions, but up lµld down the dimly lit platform, there was not"Aren't you staying here as well?" I asked.
another living soul to. be seen except for a beckoning figure"No, I must catch the next train back east. You'll be wellin the shadows at the far end. As I approached, I wonderedtaken care of from here on out."
if perhaps this might in fact be the mysterious Julian who'd"AndJulian? When will I be seeing him?
summoned me in the first place, but when I got close I saw
Bdore he could answer, the taxi sped off into thethat it was, instead, my friend Johann, who had delivered
gloom, I looked around, and the valet had already carried
Julian's request, who had provided me with the hatbox; whomy things into the building. The desk clerk addressed me as, had seen me off in Manhattan with some cryptic instructions, "Mr. Julian's friend" and instructed the bellhop to take me to
The disappearance and reappearance and transformation of the Bitter suite.
friends and acquaintances was becoming rather common"I guess you really were expecting me," I remarked, butplace 'at this point, and physical laws were apparently being she said nothing more,honored more in the breach than in the observance. So
OQce I was installed, '1 decided to phone home andJohann, who'd been there at the ,outset, was, of course, wait- check my messages, but the operator informed me that, ing at the terminus to take me to the solitary cab that idled at no outgoing calls were permitted until morning. Room
the taxi stand.
service was closed for the night, and the pay-per-view
No instructions were given to the driver, who could not channel was showing Mame. Rather than flip throughbe seen beyond the partition, and nothing much was said Johnny Panic one more time, I looked for a Gideon
as we hellded off into the night. Johann asked where the Bible in the night-table drawer and, to my delight,
candy box was. t confessed that I'd eaten the fudge almost found a copy of L'Etranger instead. So I curled up with
before I'd left Grand Central Station and had left the box on M, Camus (something I've always dream'ed of doing)
the train. Johann sighed. We continued to ride in silence
and waited for daylight, It was, of course, to be a very
down dark, deserted streets. Wherever it was we were,long wait. ...

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doesn't vote.
SYDNEY:Well, that's stupid, nobody will vote now ...

Rock and Roll Fag Bar reopened at the "new" World lastweek. The World was closed less than a week later due tobuilding violations,SYDNEY:There was no air, "Hi! This is a coffm, and it's
airtight." So everyone was dazed, and that god-awful music, was on. What was that? Aerosmith?
LIZ: AO'DC.
SYDNEY: So I wanted to look out from the balcony,
and you said, "I'm not going up there."
LIZ:Well, I was scared. 1bat thing has never been sturdy.
SYDNEY:There were million,s of people up there. Twomore isn't going to make a big difference. If it was going tofall, it would have fallen before.
LIZ: That's not true, That gap I fell into [between thefloor and the wallllast year is still there, and it's grown ...
SYDNEY:So you were measuring the gap, and then weleft. No, wait. Chi Chi Valenti! walked by, and you weregoing, "Hey, Chi Chi..."
LIZ: Was not.
SYDNEY:You were too,
LIZ: Dean (Johnsonl read Chi Chi's poem while wewere leaving.
SYDNEY:Well, seeing it was ...
LIZ: ..,the third time we heard it that week, I think wewere allowed to leave,.
SYDNEY: It's getting a lot of exposure, making therounds of downtown and all. It's as fresh as Fag Bar. Take
Back the Night by Chi Chi Valenti, now at a club near you!
LIZ: Special performance by Johnny Dynell and the
Dynells no, wait, they're the Dynellettes.2
SYDNEY: "Take back the night fromgay-baShers and gay supremacists alike ..."
LIZ: I was a bit offended by that bit.
SYDNEY: That's
all we canremember, but there's more: "Take back. the night from corporate America ...from
yuppies and theives ....", LIZ: It's an epic poem being passed, .. down from generation to generation to. generation, It's the epic of night life...
SYDNEY: .About the trials and.tribulationsof night. life in this city.
," LIZ: "Take back the night, you little
ones ..."
SYDNEY: "Children, take back the,night." The words of the "wise."

Out of Control was a party at 6 Bond St. that hadplanned to happen weekly.
SYDNEY:Out of Control was ...
LIZ: Out of control.
SYDNEY: You have to admit the funniest part waswhen the promoter3 said, "OK, I want everybody to leave",and Michael [Mustol said, "Oh, my God, I just got drink
tickets," and Doris Klostner4, who came out of nowhere,
goes, "I'll take one!" and runs to the bar. If the world weregoing to end, and she knew the atom bomb was coming inten minutes, she would say, "Wait, I'm going to get a drink."
LIZ: I liked the fact that everyone then just stoodaround to see if the promoter was going to be bounced
down the stairs by the, owner. 'SYDNEY: And couldn't
figure out what to dowith themselves.
LIZ: Some of these people forget they have homes to
go to. You have to force them there and make them lie
down without strobe lights or house music and just say,
"Stop being fabulous: Get some sleep."

Palladium has made a stab at attracting a gay crowdby holding a British house music party on Fridays, andDance Patrol ("It'sfun to be our late") on Saturdays. •LIZ: Here's a club that's trying to get a gay audienceand ends up inviting SNAP! to perform? You might as wellhave a Guns 'n' 'Roses festival. That "E is for Everybody"5caused me a great deal of psychic pain. It did nothing to
improve my relations with the heterosexual world, either,
This was one of the few clubs in New York where people
who do go out a lot felt threatened.
SYDNEY:'The smell coming from those girls...What isthat? Love's Baby Soft?And the hair... .
LIZ: Well, you can say the samething about those "guys," too. It's a very
heavily cologned crowd.
SYDNEY: ..,even Heather Locklear,even Farrah Fawcett don't have big hairanymore.
LIZ:It's a different world out there.
SYDNEY: Thank you for thatenlightening remark .... Saturday? We
were there long enough for France Joli to
go on, and we left.
LIZ: The club was packed on their"gay night," and there were no gay
people there. No, that's a lie I saw two.

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UZ: He was probably scared.
SYDNEY:We went back for Panty Girdles.7
UZ: Panty Girdles works.
SYDNEY: The Mike Todd Room scares me-it'ssocavelike,
UZ: Well, no, it feels like a bomb shelter, actually.
SYDNEY:Any impression of Eden?8
LIZ: None. They had ended it before anyone real'y
got there. Not that I blame them: Somebody might
have punched out the people working the ropes ifthey hadn't.
SYDN.EY: There was
Danny the Wonder Pony9and that thing on stilts.
What was that? "Hello,
welcome to the carnival."
UZ: Think of who was
hosting it.
SYDNEY: Oh, yes.
Mykull Tronn.10 You canalways count on him towear a shredded shirt. Do
they come that way, or
do you make them?

La Palace De Beaute
was closed last week due
to violations
incurred
when
it
was
the
Underground.
UZ: Palace is closed.
SYDNEY: No comment. At least Love Machinell ismoving to the Building,
LIZ: Everybody say, "Groovy Love Machine Building
Th·mg..."
SYDNEY:What are they going to do? They don't have astage there. Maybe it'll work now.
UZ: They had the nastiest people there.
SYDNEY:They were all white.
UZ: They were all straight.
SYDNEY: You needed name tags to tell them apart.
Bye-bye Palace.
Dave's Bike Stop West is a bar nestled on the upper West
Side. Sydney forced this duo there last weekend on a search
for low-key fun whtle she wore psychede/tc tights an outfit
that Lizfelt stifled any attempt at having a low-key night.
UZ: You forced me to get in the cab and go up there.
SYDNEY: I love it. It's the only place you can feel likeyou're not in New York without leaviµg it. There's no'pressure to be anything?
UZ: Like alive and breathing?
SYDNEY:You can't say that. It's ageist.
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UZ: Well, I didn't mean they were old and dead.
SYDNEY: I'm trying to convince you that you liked thisplace. You're not being convinced.
UZ: It's a very. neighborhood gay male bar. They walk

down the block, they go to the bar, and they go home
Every once in a while a new person walks in,they all fightover him, somebody gets him, and you never ~e the two ofthem again. That's the bar.·
SYDNEY:I beat you at sex trivia on the video machine.
That's why you didn't like it.
LIZ: They were easy questions. I just blew them'because it was Stuffy, and I wasn't paying attention.
SYDNEY:I love that place, It's nostalgic.
UZ: I love nostalgia too. I'm just old enough to enjoy it
in its full bloom,,

Sydney opens the kitchen cabinet. She is struck by dietsoda bottle caps.
SYDNEY: Why are we
keeping these goddamn
Super Bowl Caps?
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us to win a trip to theSuper 'Bowl. I want us tobe the first two lesbians to
win an all-expense-paid
trip to the Super Bowl. It'sa small wish.
SYDNEY:Lesbians don't
win trips to the Super Bowl.
They don't get their pictures
on . bottfes of diet soda.
Besides, I don't want my
pictUre on a bottle, people
will think I ran away fromhome. As a matter of fact, I don't want my picture on anythingthat goes in the fridge.
UZ: I bet there's a lesbian and gay contingent to theSuper Bowl every year. We could hook up with them. 'SYDNEY:Where is it this year?
LIZ: It's in the Superdome ...it's there every year so
people like me know where to fmd it.
SYDNEY:It is not. It moves. I don't want to go to theSuper Bowl. Who wants to sit around with beer bellied men
who use Right Guard? Besides, if the Giants aren't playing, I
don't want to go ....
1. Night-life personality and now poet, married to deejay
Johnny Dynell.
2. Dynell'sbackup dancers for his singingact.
3. A young man with pink hair who, offended by a soundsYstemfailure,grabbeda microphoneand ended the party veryearly.
4. Editorof FADmagazjne.
5. lhe Fridaynight "mixed"event.
6. Gay promoter of Dance Patrol, does parties at PrivateEyes
for gay men (mostly).
' 7. Fridaynights,MikeTodd Room.,
8. lhe Friday "VIP" party on the upstairsfloor.
9. Man wearing saddle, who walks on all fours and lets
women ride him.
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11. Former1\Jesday-nightevents at La Palace.

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PHANTOM CENTER by Ferron (Chameleon Records). Tour Dates: Los
Angeles, Nov. 1, Roxy. Boston, Nov. 3, Opera House. New York, Nov. 4, Bottom Line~Philadelphia, Dec. 1, University Museum Hall.

By Noella Hanrahan
Ferron is a visionary and amodern-day prophet, a folk musician
whose lyrics take the intensity ofarchetypal blues and move it into the'90s. Phantom Center is another chapter
deep into the story of a woman's searchfor strength and solace, where personal
revelations
reclaim deeply buried
truths. Ferron's music is the antidote to
1V, that hypnotic power which saps
the strengthof a generation's
resistance. Hers is a fight with thesuffocating weight of submission, andwith the narcotic power of popular
culture's wishful thinking, OutWeek had
the opportunity to interview Ferron at
the Red Inn in her hometown,
Provincetown,Mass.
Born in Toronto and raised in theworking-class, semirural suburb of Richmond, in Vancouver, Be, Ferron was theoldest of seven children. Hard times
offered her a life with little respite,
Picking up her mother's guitar and,purchasing her own at the age of 14were acts of healing, Hundreds of songs
later, ~l in the process of finding a reason to live, Ferron, at 15, left school and•went to work, A steady stream of jobs
demanding capitulation followed.
. "I kept on trying to choose to be. nOrmal,· Ferron explains, "I never chose[to be an artist), but then finally someone else helped
me choose it, by say,_ . lng, 'You do this well-you don't do theother [things)' so well.' [Next] there iscommitting with a vengeance, with afierce love and passion, and I would say

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kno'W [hoW'to
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I put a gun to
my head andthat I havepulled thetrigger_ Then I
live the W'ay I'Would if I W'ere
already dead."that is when my life started to make myheart pound. I have this fiiend-6he justdied in a car accident, this year-but
years ago she said to me, 'When I don't
know [how to go onJ, I pretend that I~ut a gun to my head
and that I have pulled
the trigger. Then I live
the way I would if I
were already dead.' I
have had that sentence

in my head since I was about 21."
In 1977, Ferron released a self-titled
two-track album, followed in 1978 byanother two-track album called Perron
Backed Up. Both were homespun
recordings. When Gayle Scott appearedin the picture, becoming both manager
and guardian angel, Ferron raised thelevel that she was reaching for, and released the critically acclaimed Testimony
in 1980 (Redwood Records), Shadows on
a Dime (1984), which earned four stars
from Rolling Stone and landed in many
critics' top-ten album lists of the year,
finally cemented her following.
Ferron's· voice and vocal cadence
are tough and vulnerable, while at thesame time holding the sweetness andintimacy of a whisper. She commentson her unique vocal style: "It must be
body therapy. There must be a way that I
was exploring or healing through the
body. 'Misty Mountain,' for instance,
and the way that song came out...I was
so barren and so pleading. It was like,
Give me a sign, or I am out of here.»
After the release of Shadows on a
Dime, Ferron was confronted with acrippling writers' block. Tours became
more infrequent as her confidence faltered. In order to sustain herself, sheplayed occasional, uneven shows. But
walking on-stage for expansive audiences became increasingly difficult.
What happened when she bottomed out
is a matter of speculation. She does notrefer directly to the desolation of thatexperience, but Phantom Center, her
first major-label release, is clearly a statement of reemergence, proving her ability to come through the fire.
"It took five years to have that
range of emotions," Ferron says. "Thealbum Phantom Center was the exploration of what I could remember, what I
could not forget, what I want and what[I] can't have. We are looking for a way
to act right in a wrong world, What I am
working with is those of uS who arereally trapped by our mindset, trappedby fears and thoughts that other people
gave to us. I have been working with
my own [fears] for years, I want to reachyoung women and young men toencourage
them torealize their clrearns, toreach my peer groupand say, we are still, here, We are still working, even though the,'60s are gene, and the '70s lulled us tosleep, and the '80s robbed us blind. We
have used our intuition. We have seen
our psychic power at work. We haveseen what hands can do, We have seen
what tender, loving care can do. We
have seen it. You can watch it. It happens. You can have more faith, I wantto say, 'Just keep going, just keep on
going. '- At one point, I think I tripped
and was down for a while. I got backup, and I have had to catch up, I am
catching up right now."
Talking about the here and now,
Ferron discussed some fears she had in
making this album. "I have a responsibility. I don't want people who havebeen waiting a long time to put a record
on-as has happened to m~dsay,'My god, she doesn't sound like herself
anymore.' It is so terrifying, that ftrst
time that you drop the needle, I want tobe moved along to where the person isnow, but I don't want them to denywhat w~ had together. It is like visiting
an old friend. What if they havechanged completely?"
So, what is the song "Stand Up(Love in the Comers)" about?
"Standing up is just like joining in,really, standing up with like-minded pe0ple, whatever your situation is," Ferron
explains~ "Politically, to stand for yourself, to take up the space that you deserve, Sometimes, we are not even taking
up the space that is ours, I am this big,and if I don't like something, I can go
stand in the middle of the road. I can use
all the space that is already mine to showthat I exist, that I am worth sOmething,but it takes a while to get that kind of
courage and that kind of conviction. I criticize myself for that in ['StandUp'l.
And how does a person fmd thatcourage? How has being a lesbian
made her stronger and, alternately,
more vulnerable?
"My vulnerability comes from otherpeople's perceptions," she admits. "If avery straight person wants to start talking to me about my gayness, I am vulnerable to their perceptions, to theirfears. You don't want to be slowed
down getting on to the fucking fteld. If
someone tries to make somethingimportant to you and tries to slow you,"ME. I'M TRAPPED INSIDE MY BRAIII.- -Ferron on life's hard knocks.

down from what it is that is really
important, [then] when you staIt to getolder, you say, 'I am not going to takethe time to ftght about this.' That person .
can have the time and the space, eternity, I don't care, to figure out what .theyneed to ftgure out. I am an out lesbian, I"
do my work, I don't lie, I work with myown fears. But if it is too slow, they
have to do it alone. I have to do otherthings. I walk on the stage, and I am anhonest gay person. Once I was young,and I needed to see someone like mecome up 6n a stage,"Year~ ago, in my ftrst year with
Gayle Scott [1978l, she said, 'If you can'ttell the truth, when you have nothing tolose, what are you going to say when
you have everything to lose?' Little sentences like that keep me going. When I
had nothing to lose I told the truth, andit· made me free, it helped me in my §choice for freedom. And that is another§thing that Gayle said, 'You think thatc:you are born free? Freedom is just some- jthing that you go after, and once you Boget it, you hold on to itreaIly tight and if
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136 E. 13th St. Through Nov. 11.
by Michael Paller•• •don't trust fiction. They like their fiction to appear as much like "life" aspossible. Foreigners such as Samuel'Beckett, not sharing this prejudice,have thought nothing of writing playsthat make great departures from theappearances of life. Americans consider
these plays "difficult" and hard tounderstand. To makematters worse, academics, intoning
solemnly, proclaim
these plays "great"and that about fin-

The problem with the way wethink about symbols and "stylization"in the theater is that we almost always
get it backward. Critics and academics
have divided styles of theater into two
categories: "realism" and everythingelse, which we refer to, in shorthand,'as "stylization" or "nonrealism." "Real.Ism" is dependable; what YOll see iswhat you get. "Nonrealism" is tricky,,elitist and, at heart, deceitful, full of#J1idden meanings. Americans don't care
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ishes any chance that a Beckett playhas of finding a large audience. 'But wait. The purpose of a theatrical symbol is not to make something "deep," "difficult" or hard tounderstand, but to render it immediate
and concrete: in fact, to make it ("it"may be an idea, an emotion, a situation) more "real" to us than "realism"
can. Symbols and conventions (suchas the agreement that one minute on
the stage can stand for one year orten) cut through the surface of life to
get at its underlying truths.
Samuel Beckett is deep and serious.
However, when people are persuaded
to see their first Beckett play, they areusually swprlsed to discover that he is,amazingly enough, very funny, that hemoves them and that they can actually
understand what he has to say.
Happy Days, now playing at esc,
is very funny and very moving
indeed-and happens to contain one
of Beckett's most famous symbols.
Winnie, a woman about 50, is firstseen buried up to her waist in amound of earth. Later, all but her neckand hatted head have disappeared.
She prattles to herself while her husband, Willie (not buried, but capable
only of crawling), attends assiduously
to meaningless details: brushing teeth
and hair, applying lipstick, reminiscing, ..
reciting rote prayers, reading bottle
labels. The mound is all the quotidiantrivialities that comprise her life. She isbeing buried in them, knows that she
is being buried and occasionallyprotests against it. She wants to live
but does not know how, It's difficult toimagine a symbol more earthbound, ora play more firmly rooted in reality,
Charlotte Rae, who has played
everything from Mammy Yokum toMrs. Peachum to television sitcom,
brings an earthiness to Winnie that is
as appropriate as it is at first surprising. Bearing an uncanny resemblance
to Bert Lahr, she goes about her business with a relish out of all proportion
to the tasks she isperfonning. The joythat spreads acrossher face when she
discovers that thebristleson herr 7... BBO

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muster. Her bliss is equally seraphic
when Willie talks to her: "Oh, you aregoing to talk to me today, this is going
to be a happy day!" The tiniest
things-and they are' the same things
that have happened day after day afterday-give her a pleasure so entire, so
sensual, that it's almost vulgar. The
thought of Winnie with full use of herarms and legs is frightening.
There are times in the first act,
however, when one wonders if thisabsolutely endless cheeriness (herspeech is usually very fast, with one
idea barely differentiated from another) can sustain the weight of Beckett's
terrible comic vision, At the end, however, after she has struggled to keep
her chin above the rising earth and hassung her personal anthem-7be Merry
Widow Waltz-we leave the theater
haunted by her dignity and heartbreak,, which exist alongside a laughter that
refuses to be intimidated.
This isSamuel Beckett's theater, and it is not
hard to fathom, because it is sohuman, and humane.
For his part, Bill Moor is a suit. ably irascible, indifferent and helplessWillie. It is for his love that Winnie
lives; she needs to know that there iseven the possibility that he is somewhere around the mound, listening,
Carey Perl off has directed with
her usual attention to detail, except
for a couple of odd things, Winnie issituated in her mound so that she
cannot turn and see Willie, although
she speaks as though she can. It's
hard to believe her when she claims
to be seeing him. Scenic designer
Donald Eastman's mound is earthy
enough, but though Perl off says inher notes that "we have chosen to
design the mound exactly as Beckett
specified it in his notebooks"-black
burnt grass and peasoup
greensky"-there
is no sky. There is only
the theater's black back wall, whichworks against Beckett's desire for an
unbroken plain and sky.
That mound, and the woman
buried in it, give us a more potent anddirect access to the emotional reality ofmany of our lives than any box-set living room can do. This, in fact, may be
the real reason that we don't trust"nonrealism," It's too real. T,

NAYlAND BLAKE, IRANSPORT 14 (SWNG)- (1990)• •erllze,,LOW. Petersburg Gallery. 130 Prince St. (212) 966-4099. Until Nov.
3. MIND OVER MATTER: CONCEPT AND OBJECT. The
Whitney Museum. 945 Madison Ave. (212) 570-3676. Until Jan. 6;

by John Donahue
Something of a sensation on theWest Coast, or at least in San Francisco,
Nayland Blake makes his New York
debut this month with shows at thePetersburg Gallery and the Whitney
Museum. A prolific artist, Blake's oneman show at Petersburg, entitled Low,
contains 26 works including sculpture,
video, photography, painting and fabricpieces. Taken together, the two shows
display the ambitious reach of thisvisionary fetishist.
Throughout the four rooms of thePetersburg gallery are metal tables, cages,
restraints and rubber Head coverings.
While many works are "mixed
med'ia," velvet and steel arearguably Blake's most sympathetic materials. As "Dual
Restraint" makes dear (a straightjacket built for two), Blake

explores the overlap between pleasureand pain"Work Station #6 (envy)" is a nanow
steel table with a role of paper partialIy
unrolled for the patient to sit during
examination, Stowed on the lower shelf
are canisters and rolled canvas, A chalkboard hangs off the top of a pole connected to one end of the work station,
Walking across the table is a turtle, its
head poised on the lookout, "Transport #4 (slung)" is an aluminum cart outfitted with black straps, amirror and other devices, As with thework-station pieces, where it isn't clear
what work is being pelformed, here it's
unknown what is being transported. A lot of the work, oddly,
is suggestive of sex in a con•centratlon
camp.
The sculpture has a factoryfresh quality that chills the blood

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but is, somehow, devoid of any threat.
The hardware gleams (some store prices
are still visible). The restraints havenever been used, The spotless pieces aresafe to admire as beautiful objects.
At first blush, Blake's wOlk seems to
be entering Mapplethorpe territory,
However, where Mapplethorpe offered
his underworld to the viewer, Blake's
devices remain aloo£, threatening, his
signals coded. Instinctively, the viewer
retreats. Yet as fetish objects, the work iscompelling, and in pieces like "Puppet"-two-headed, the second head thatof a swan-it's petVerse and beautiful.
Some pieces seem a little too easy,
as with "Hysterical ffiTangements #1-4,"
which consist of gothic steel pedestal
tables supporting glass-domed tableauxof birds, plastic flowers and fabric.
At the Whitney, the debt to Beuys
is unmistakable. Blake uses rolled fabric, rotting objects in vitrines. "Infect"
exhibits a bundle of white candles tied
together with black ribbon inside a vitrine. "Device for Passion" consists of asea sponge soaking inside a glass jar
of v'inegar, a wooden-handled
ladle.alongside. A soiled rag hangs off themetal stand.
Blake's work revolves around the. body, lik~ hospital support systems, but.the body is .absent. His sterilized tnstru. ments, similar to the gynecologkal tools
created in the rom Dead Ringers, wait invelvet beds. It's up to our imaginations
to begin the operation-or not.
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conjunction with the exhibition. Keep an
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Divianna
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Saturday's "Bat out of Helms" pre-Halloween party passed
you by. Don't worry, you haven't missed your last chance
to join Get Smart, the ad hoc artists group, on their wild
pranks. They meet every Wednesday at 7 pm at 64 E. 4th
St. Or call their hotline at (212) 732-1201--after 7 pm.

Ashley Bickerton is also in the
Whitney show, and in some ways thetwo artists cover the same aesthetic
ground. The sculptures Bickerton constructs, sort of yuppie sports-<:ar attachments, come inscribed with his girlfriend's name, Susie. You ~uld almost
say that Blake's work is the homo
rebuke to Bickerton, except queers don't
hold the patent on leather collars....

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by Patrick Mool8
The Kitchen, the experimental art
venue on. the far west side of Chelsea,
has kicked off its 1990-91 season with aseries of readings curated by literary agent
Ira Silverberg. While the primary focus of
the series is to examine a number ofsmall presses that embrace experimental
material, a welcome side effect is theamount of erotic, especially homoerotic,
literature which is presented. The Kitchen
has been at the center of the NEA crisis
and is widely being considered a test case as toinstitutional commitment
to extreme material in theface of possible funding
cuts. From the look ofthese readings, at least,--<compiled by Sarah Pettit
there will continue to be a tradition ofsex and danger both on the streets andin the performance spaces between
Tenth and Eleventh avenues.
The series opened on Oct 18 withan evening of readings by authors ass0ciated with Between C and D, therespected literary journal for a generation of authors who sharpened their
pencils on the streets of the East Village. Such notables as Catherine Texierand David Wojnarowicz were featured.
On Nov. 5, Barney Rosset and Jay
Parini will introduce their new poetry
series, tbe North Star Line. The following week, Nov. 12, will focus on Four
Wall Eight Windows authors such as
Oswald Rivera, Michael Brodsky and
Tom Grimes.
Completing the fall series is themost interesting evening planned, highlighting the publication of Farm Boys,a jouma! of homoerotic writing including work from Dennis Cooper, David
Sedaris, Richard House, Ken Siman,
Hudson and Richard Hawkins .
Curator Ira Silverberg says thataside from the series presenting newwork, "it's also about the Kitchen being
an important institution which has thecredibility to present the challenge ofsmall presses. Smallpresses are the futureof publishing because
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Still Cwoss-Dwessing and Cawwot Cwazy
by Gabriel Gomez
Ruth Westhetmer: "/ would say to
Bugs Bunny, let'S have a talk. TeO me
what's the matter with you. What's
happening in your life? Don't you need
any romantic involvement? / know alittle about him, and / don't rememberthat he'S ever had a girlfriend."
Bugs Bunny: "1berapy-schmerapy! Why don't she just mind her own
mind."-"How I would improve Bugs'
love life" by Dr. Ruth' Westheimer in

Bugs Bunny: He's 50, Folks

Bugs' riposte to this analysis of his
libido seems to have caught him off
form, It is hardly a rejoinder worthy of
his infamous wit. Yet. it is easy to see
why he could be just a trifle testy withhis sex life becoIping the sudden•
purview of that troublesople
sclencee•
psychotherapy.
"If I were Sigml,md
Freud, J would say his carrot is a phallic
symbol," says
Dr. Ruth. This
intellectual
cross-dressing
affirms what
all the world

has already known for a generation:
Bugs Bunny is America's most lovablecross-dressing, carrot-toting, man-kissing, cartoon character ever. In this, his50th year, isn't it time that we all recognize just what it is that makes him
so endearing to adults and children
alike? Bugs has never feared behavior,though it may often be interpreted in a
frankly sexual manner.
His irreverence for, andfreedom from,the stereotypes
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of gender and sexuality are the liberating source of much ofhis humor,
From the beginning, Tex Avery's
creation operated against the backdropof his intimate relationship with Elmer
Fudd. It is in the early classic A Wild
Hare that Elmer rust affectiorultely con- 'fuses Bugs with "Heddy Lemarr andOwivia De Haviwin," only to have Bugs
responci--Qs he so often does with afull, wet kiss on the mouth. }{is next
feature ends with a kiss, but to an Indian brave, a man so smitten that he paddles upstream for the pleasure. Bugs
doesn't stop there. In later films, hekisses a store manager, a cowboy, acountry boy and, needles t9 say, Elmer,
again and again. Like the ever-present
carrot, the kiss was an early trademarkof Bugs Bunny, However, unlike thecarrot or his recurrent query, "What'sup, Doc?" the kiss fades in the '50s. A. kiss is, after all, so unambiguous,
There is a danger in equating
screen roles with those who portraythem. Does Bugs cross-dress for his
own pleasure? What is his sexual inclination? Bugs has infrequently expressed interest in female rabbits on-screen,
and these instances are rare or compli. ,catedby. thefact that, in two such,-~.,,-.' -....
k·tcf,~:cases'!,fthe.femaIesare;actuanyrobots.
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. " .,:' ,'~ ~- ~'~,_;, . ,(What 'Could be infclre;d frooi sUch por'~ya1s
is perhaps best left unsaid.) It
Diust, however, be recognized that kissing can be banned from public view, as.happened in Chicago with the Gran
Fury p:>ster "Kissing Doesq't Kill: Greedand Indiffererice Do,". and that positivehomoerotic imagery, even with animals,
must be seen as the daring action it is.
Bugs has' done what few males dare to
do. The homophobic environment of
the past and the present politicize thissimple act of affection.
More startling proof of Bugs'
predilections for male relations lies in
his love-hate relationshipwith the.
scripts he inhabi~ides
are where
the trµlyacerbic Bugs manifests himself.
In Wbat:SCookin~ Doc?, his cry for peer
approval is direct and from the heart.
. Bugs hijacks the Oscar ceremony to catalogue his mmic achievements. Nonplussed, the audience rejects the appeal.
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Like any true' diva-tbinkof ~ugsas
Brunhilda in What's opera, Doc?-heturns a sour situation around. 'Bugs
takes the brunt of public scorn,' in thiscase thrown vegetables, and creates a~.-'.

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0+'",~-"'.':,-~, ,new, daring role for himself, that of Car'men Miranda. After receiving a Bunny
Oscar, he promises to take the statue "tobed with me every night," to which the
Bunny Oscar replies, hands on hips, "Do
you'mean'it?~.And, of course, he does.
In 1be Big Snooze, Elmer Fudd
finds himself in drag and the attractionof Hollywood wolves--a1l at the direc-

Bugs doesn'tstop there.
In later filInS,
he kisses a
store Inanager,a co-w-boy,•a country boy
and, needlessto say, Ellner,,"'

again and,.'•again.
tion of Bugs. This is not the conventional romance of Mickey and Minnie
Mouse, but f!lther portrays a different
lifestyle. After Bugs marries Elmer in ibe
Rabbit of SevtJle, his aside to the audience belies his true feelings aboutromance. "Next," says Bugs. By his second marriage attempt, this time to
Yosemite Sam in 1953, a more philosophical rabbit is revealed when his tailcomes between him and his groom.
Cries Bugs: "Boo-hoo, always a bridesmaid." Indeed, never a bride.
"You start making a family 1ll3Il outof him, he's not Bugs Bunny anymore,"says Frits Freling, a co-aeator, Undoubtedly, the number of male acquaintances
would be hard to.catalogue. What is clear
is Bugs' predilection for men, often
revealed in the end In Little Red RidIng
Rabbit, the innocent girl of the Red Riding
Hood legend is put in place of the Big
Bad Wolf. This switch is the result of a
new friendship, signaled by Bugs ann-in-

arm with the wolf in Granny's nightgown.
And more than 'onCe, Bugs goes tothe board for these male friends. Who
can forget Bugs in Bunny Hugged,
where he served as a mascot fortbat
attractive, if ineffectual, wrestler, Ravishing Rick? After the litter arrives bearing
Rick, a serving dish is uncovered toreveal Hollywood's most promiscuous
bunny. Under his' breath, a resigned
Bugs sighs, "It's a living." When Bugs'"bread and butter" melts in the face of
the Crusher, Bugs springs to his defence
and defeats him in a display of verbal
virtuosity and outright violence, despitea body weak in virile capabilities.
Such a wealmess, as Dr, Ruth also
noticed, extends to a lack of genitalia or,
perhaps more correctly, their invisibility.
(Rabbit fanciers know the difficulty indiscerning the sex of a bunny.) Only
adding to Bugs' current fame, now as arole model for safer sex and its requisite
downplay of genital fixation, this natural
obscurity also permits Bugs to· kisswhom he will, dress as he pleases andengage in blatant violence in fron~ ofchildren everywhere.
Unlike Robert
Mapplethorpe, no one questions Bugs'
abuses of Elmer when he kicks his
behind. No one fears the homoeroticism
of two kissing males so long as one fustasks, "What's up, Doc?" And the. recent,
NEA restrictions against funds for homoerotic, sadomasochistic or obscene work
concerning. children is somehow notapplicable to Bugs Bunny. He certainly
doesn't need a grant. As long as Ted
Turner keeps broadcasting, Bugs Bupny
and friends are sure to reach millions ofkids without controversy.
Sadly, this may be the way Bugs willserve as a role model for the '90s. Wtth
explicit sexuality under attack by. fundamentalists and US senators, veiled references may be the only outlet for suchpassions. It would be unfair to blame
Bugs for this sad tum of events. Think ofBugs as that daring wit who pirouettes inpublic, does drag impressions of thefamous and the mundane but, mostimportantly, favors men with his kisses
freely. And we all know that's safe.'"••

Bugs Bunny recently celebrated his
50th birthday on Broadway, where afull orchestra was brought in as accompaniment. Gabriel Gomez lives a quieter
life In Chicago, doing research on his
PhD concerning Images of sexuality andminorities in film and video.

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by Melinda Goodman•

This is an open poem
for the lesbian community
with its tired-ass softball leagues
that want only "serious" players
and its pretentious poetry readings
with abstract verse about the moon going down into vaginal
flora ...
boring confessional "pieces" aboutfirst times with that counselor atCamp Minn-ee-ha-ha
This is an open poem
for the lesbian community
destroyed by their fathers until they've become just like themequally unable to be close to a single other being
let alone a woman
though you don't find out
till she's got you by your own raped ovaries
and she's sailing down the blockwith another politically righteousemotional time bombused-to-be friend of yours
trailing your fallopian tubes behind themlike pink velvet ribbons from the fistof a lesbian pride wedding bouquet•

Trhis'i& ~ open poem
to the lesbian community
in hopes that we will one daystop lying to each otherlearn to be out
not only for ourselvesthat the real work
is being able to go the distancethat loving a woman•
can sometimes
meanknowing when not to fuck herthat what is truly eroticis the power we each have•to stopthis
pain inflictedharder than any dickbecause it comes from the ones
who knew us
and loved us
and could stick it to us
best.
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Melinda Goodman teaches poetry at Hunter Collegeand is an
editor of(.onditions magaztne. She is the autbor of a book of

poems, Miadle Sister,....

This is an open poem
to the lesbian community
with its folding chair resourcesto h~lp in your recovery fromalcoholism, sex, drugs, food, smoking,starving, vomiting, gambling, and love
but nothing for recovery from IT
as it drags itself like a sick dog
nipples scraping the broken glass and phlegmof "alternative" facsimilesof the same old heterosexual
betrayals and empty promises
the same old bleeding
you were always so good at
the same old dishes hitting
the same old love-stained
walls•
This· is an open poem
to the lesbian community with its bitterness like a poisoned
thumb,,
who never cuts its nails no matter
how many nights it scores
who never calls when you've stopped being funnyand your skin's turned to oatmeal•
from allergic reactions to antidepressants and all your friends
are confusing you with other lesbiansof the same race and ethnic origin

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Talking about sexuality is obviously important toBright. She has published one previous book, Herotica, and themost recent, with which she is touring nationally, is Sex World.
Herotica n is due out next year. Sex World is a compendium ofcolumns taken from the last six years of OOB. The, subjects
range from safer sex to a Las Vegas pom convention to lesbianerotic writing to explanations of sex toys. Even though thecolumns focus on sex, they all have an edge of humor and anedge of.the "personal as political."
It is an attitude that Bright takes in her role as editor of OOB andin the OIher work she does, which includes touring with the book,previewing her smash hit, lesbian video/slide shows that played tosellout audiences at the SF Lesbian and Gay Ftlm Festival, perfotming
cameos in film and video (as Susie Sexpert in Monika Treut's Vitgin
Machine and as John Lennon in a video, Gmpefruft, by a woman
filmmaker iQ California) and being a new mother of a baby girl,,Aretha. The personaI as political gets raised again and again with
Bright, both in her San Francisco neighborl100d and on the road
"People ask me amazing questions,· Bright says. "Everyone
wants to know how I had IllYbaby, for example. One woman cameup to me and said, 'Did you inseminate, or did you party?' I thoughtthat was they best way of asking, the most interesting."
How she became pregnant is only one aspect of anotherissue that Bright gets asked about constantly: the way lesbians havesex. Not surprisingly, Bright has a great deal to say on the subjectof lesbians and sex and who lesbian sex partners are.
"I got pregnant the usual way,· Bright says, "by having sex
with a man. But that is so shocking to so many women. First,
there's this perception that you're following a heterosexual
paradigm in having a baby. I got pregnant because I wanted tohave a baby very much. What bothers me about these questio
the one about lesbians having sex with men--isthat I don't get asked questions about having sex with lesbians,
When I slept exclusively with lesbians, no one asked me about mysex life. There's this idea that sleeping with men makes you lesslesbian, less able to be woman-identified. No one asks gay men if
they sleep with women. lt's assumed that gay men are gay, andsleeping with women wouldn't make a difference. But there's this. idea that if lesbians sleep with men, they'll be converted or something, stop being lesbians. I identify as a lesbian, I identify as abisexual. My first sexual experience was with a man and awornan--l just went from not even kissing to everything. I thinkbisexuality is a really queer movement now because of groups like
Queer Nation--being bisexual is as queer as a three-dollar bill. I'm
frustrated by these stereotypes of women. My definition of 'lesbian'is a woman who wants to get inside of women's bodies. It's a privilege. I have this huge sense of pride about it. It's what womenknow that men will never know. It's intimacy and enexgy. I can't
lose• that feeling from fucking men-who would want to?"

There are the nonnal feelings you have first-in thinking about achild, I was terrified. I thought I might die [in childbirtbl, that it
would hurt. I was worried about my mothering capabilities.
There's a natural fear of parenting, that you won't be good at it.
Then you start to feel bad about yourself. I had this brief period offeeling shiny because everything felt different. You are into prO:tecting your body, you're not into feeling desirable. I had begun
to shut down sexually. Then I knew I had to rally. I reached for
my Magic Wand. I couldn't let feelings of irritability get to me.

Was'it the physic.a1changer-getttng big--tbat bothered;.ou, or
was it !iOmethingelse?In one of ;.our columns in OOB, ;.ou are pictured naked, exceptfor a cowgirl hat and boots, seriously pregnantOn the freeway.
On the freeway. Tbe outtake from the column is: "Don't
fear the big belly. " Was the big belly the problem?

People are resistant to sexual change, but the changes [inpregnancy] are so~.
Everytl1µ1g moves, gets bigger, more tender, different. It took me a while to understand how to haveorgasms again. How to be touched. How to move. I was surprised about how much I had to say [in the columns] about sex. I
was unconunonly hungry for sex. The sexual power [of pregnancy and nursing) and hunger is there-it's just a question of having
the knowledge and confidence to pursue it.
So was childbirth horrible? Was it Gone With the Wmd?
Well, it's not like a playful romp in bed. What's amazing is thestamina you have. It's very sexual, but different At eight months, youfeel like you're always going to be like that Then you are in clilldbirthitself, and there's pain, but there's the satisfaction of what youll get

You wrote about all the things women can do ro decrease
the pain of childbirth, Are you going to write similar columns
about nursing and the eroticization of that?
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Well, there are all these women who say that nursing is very
erotic with their babies. And there is this special bond you havethat is wonderful when you nurse your baby. But I think it's different from erotic feeling. It actually is a bond that means you don't
need the erotic, it keeps you from feeling that.

So what is erotic about it, or is that just the Ameri,:an preoccupation with bre.asts?

What breast milk does to your breasts is well, you canshoot it everywhere. I feel such female virility when my breasts
are filled with milk. It's the fountain of youth. It gives my baby
everything. Milk leaks during arousal-it's this overt presentationof your feelings. Ask someOne what it's like to have their mouth
filled with milk. Or I think about what it's like to come with mymilk on my lover's body. There are so many Amazon properties tomother's milk. I'm threatening to make a video-lactating lezzies inaction. I'm infatuated with the sexual feelings that it gives me. So I•
would say that nursing is not anything like as erotic as playing with. What about having a child? Does that alter your sexual life or . my milk with an adult, with a partn~. I know I sound like a manidoes it make, it better? We get the message in this society that there ac from the u Leche League.

-an?, sexual women and then there are mothers, but your columns
inOOB during Your pregnancy certainly put the lie ro that idea.
I've gotten so much response to those columns. I talked toeverybody about being pregnant and having sex. There's just nothing written about it. All these women shared their stories with me.

What about sex? Is there sex after mC?therbood?You certainly imply that there is.
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IstSLOAN&SARAH-she's-a-real-dykeCYTRON
Stand-Up Comedy and Characters
Nov. 7 & 14 at the Duplex, 61
Christopher; 8 pm
$9 + 2-drlnk min., 255-5438"funny. stwp...Cytron can act and she
can write with ClUciaJ tough-mindedness and ugency....

-Village VoiceLIVELY ARTS
Also see the dally listings for show(lng)sof one or two days.
A (-) signifies a n_ listing
JEWISH MUSEUM presenlB a Photography Exhibit: A Day In the Warsaw
Ghetto, 'disturbing pictures taken by aGerman soldier, some seen for the first.time in America, which speak about one
holocaust with eerie parallels to a more
recent, and local, one; 5th Ave at 92 St;$4.50 (seniors/students$2.50); SUN,
11 am - 6 pm; MON, WED &THU, noon
- 5 pm; TUE, noon - 8 pm (free after 5);
860-1888 (thru NOV 1)

daily, noon to midnight,
212-777-1800

CALENDAR-COLUMBIA
UNIVERSITYOSCARHAMMERSTEIN II CENTER FOR THEATRE STUDIES presents Cary Wong's..3 .....For Society, three one-act plays,
Three for Society, about a party where
strangers try to connect; Shards of Johnny, about remembering a murdered gay
friend; and Pleasure Victim, about 'blackmail and outing In an already tainted
atmosphere of betrayal between twolovers"; Horace Mann Theatre, 120 St &B'way; $51$3 students; THU-SAT at 7:30
pm; 678-3490 (NOV 1 thru NOV 3)
WESSEL O'CONNOR GALLERY pre.enlB Joe Ziolkowski's Dluturna/: blw
photos of male nudes and Adam Rolston's Sell Homosexuality,
a roomInstallation ·utlllzing both readymade
products and handmade objects'; 580
B'way (below Houston); TUE-SAT, lOam
- 8 pm; 219-9524 (thru NOV 3)
THE BALLROOM presents Eartha Kltt;
253 W 28 St; $15 + 2-drink minimum($25 ringside); TUE-FRI at 9 pm, SAT at
9 & 11:15 pm; 244-3005 (thru NOV 4)-MIRANDA THEATRE COMPANY presents Adam Bock's Percy Stripped
Down, a "contemporary gay love, story
based on the Pluto-Persephone myth,
except that this time Pluto vies with
Venus for the heart of an innocent lad';with (·appearing courtesy AEA) ·Brent
Erdy, Peggy Flood, ·Valentlna Frattl,
Jason Jaworksl,
Marth MacCallum,·Matthew Mutrle, Kalth Prlml; directed
by Diego Tabarda, lighting by Stephen
Quandt, costUmes by Rodney Munoz;
Sargent Theatre, 314 W 54 St; $10 genera11$5seniors & students; TUE-SAT at 8pm, SUN at 3 pm; 721-6101 (thru NOV

4)
Bad Neighbors: the Lower East Side Soap
Opera, directed by Michael Yawney,

DIXON PLACE presentswith Sarah Baldwin, Tom Bondi, Jodi
Shaw, Craig Sloane, Philip Suracl,
Elizabeth Tuccillo;with neighbors
Including "a yuppie, a performance artistof indeterminate gender, a pyromaniac
and a group of a cappella singers"; by adifferent writer each week, every Friday
starting OCT 5; OCT 5: Episode #1 by
Madeleine Olnek, OCT 12: #2 by Deb
Margolin, OCT 19: #3 by David Chelsea,
OCT 26: #4 by Heather Woodbury, NOV
2: #5 by Christopher Renstrom, NOV 9:#6 by Gerog Osterman; 37 E 1st St (btwn
1stl2nd Aves); $6; FRI at 8 & 9:15 pm; norsvp (thru NOV 9)-LA MAMA E.T.C. presents
Penny
Arcade (a.k.a. Susan Ventura) in Invi-

tation to the Beginning of Ihe End of
the World; "a psychedelic nightmare,with a cast of 20, in which she tips her
hat to (director) John Vaccaro·; musicby Vito Ricci, choreogoraphy by Lee
Raines; 74A E 4 St; $10-$12; THU-SAT
at 10 pm; 475-n10 (thru NOV 17)-SCHOOL OF VISUAL ARTS presents
End/Angered:
Matthew
Bank'sEndangered, photographS, paintings,
silkscreens consisting of ·images that
confront and possibly shock the viewer
into questioning preconceived notions ofsexuality, complacency with societal
prejudices, and his or her own sexuality";, other images include ·same-sex
couples, life studies, and sexual actsthat are accompanied with words orphrases"; SVA Student Galleries, 214 E
21 St, 7th Floor; MON- THU from 9 am 8 pm, FRI & SAT from 9 am - 5 pm; 6797350 x264 (thru NOV 19)-BILL REPICCI, M.D. MINICHIELLO &P.A.P.A, extend Terry Sweeney as
Nancy Reagan In It's Stili My Turn;
100 7th Ave South (Sheridan Sq), $18;
WED-FRI at 8:30 pm, SAT at 8:30 & 10
pm, SUN at 6 pm; lix 564-8038, theater
691-6226 (thru NOV 25)
THE QUEENS MUSEUM presenlB Keith
Haring: Future Primeval, subway graffiti
sketches, works on paper, paintings,
sculptures and objects; Flushing Meadows-Corona Park (#7 train to Shea Stadium); TUE-FRI from 10 am - 5 pm; SAT &SUN from noon - 5:30 pm; taped info
718/592-555, office 7181592-2405 (thruNOV 25)
THE GLINES presents John Glines'
Men of Manhattan, directed by Charles
Catanese, "a celebration of the delightful
diversity of gay life in NYC here and now"with seven actors playing 25 charactersin a series of vignettes invoMng an actorwaiter, phone sex users, guppie lawyers,
gym hunks, a stripper-hustler, many others; with David Baird, John Carhart,
Steve Llebhauser, Cy Orfleld, T.L. Reilly, Richard Skipper, Scott Zimmerman;at the Courtyard Playhouse, 39 Grove St;$20 ($10 with valid gym card except
SAT at 9 pm; Wednesday shows

include a posl-performancehour with complimenlarysocialdrink);

WED-FRI at 8 pm, SAT at 6 & 9 pm,
SUN at 7 pm; 869-3530 (thru NOV
25)

RuPaul' and Mona Foot, and Joel Von
Ornstelnar,
directed by Jon Michael
Johnson; 50 E 7 St (east of 2nd Ave);$10 general/$8 in drag; FRIDAYS at 11
pm-Ish; 228-0811 (thru DEC 21)
CHARLES LUDLAM THEATRE presents Lu61am's Camille, starring andQuinton,withdirected by Everett
Cheryl Reeves, Kan Scullin, Georg
Osterman, Eureka, Bobb Reed, Jim
Lamb,
Carl
Claybourne,
H,M.
Kououkas,
Jean-Claude
Vasseux,
Steven Pell, 1 Sheridan Square; $25;
TUE-FRI at 8 pm, SAT &SUN at 7 pm;
691-2271-CHERRY LANE THEATRE presents
David Steve!)s' The Sum of Us, by thewriter of Breaker Morant, starring Tony
Goldwynand
Richard Venture, directed by Kevin Dowling, about a father
who tries to help with his son's gay relationships while he looks for a new wife;
38 Commerce St; $27.50-$32,50; TUEFRI at 8 pm, SAT at at 7 & 10 pm, SUNat 3 & 7:30 pm; 989-2020.
LUCILLE LORTEL THEATER presents

Fa/setto/and, a William FlnnJames Lapina musical, the third in Finn's Marvin
Trilogy, an examination of the Impact of
AIDS on a gay male couple, a lesbian
couple, a heterosexual couple, and achild; 121 Christopher St; $27.50-$35;
TUE8-FRI at 8 pm, SAT at 7 & 10 pm,
SUN at 3 pm; 924-8782
PERRY STREET THEATRE presents
Christopher
Wldney's Big, F.at andUgly with a Mouslache, abQut two gay
men who try to adopt an "at risk" baby,
and all the hurdles they face; with Evan
O'Maara, David Beach, Jane Gabbart,
Alison Martin, Gordon Stanley, Brian
Howe; 31 Perry St; $10; WED- SAT at 8pm, SUN at 3 pm; tix 869-3530, box
office 691-2509
RAPP THEATRE COMPANY revives
The Cardinal
Thomas M. Disch's
Detoxes, "a chilling look inside thehierarchyof the modern Catholic
Church exploring such issues as AIDS,
abortion, ties to organized crime andhomosexuality"; directed by R. Jeffrey
Cohen, starring George McGrath as
the Cardinal; 220 E 4 St; $10 (TDK ok);
FRI &SAT at 10 &11:30 pm, SUN at 2
pm (RT- 40 min.); 529-6160 (The the-NATIONAL MUSEUM OF LESBIANAND GAY HISTORY presents Where
Ace the Women, a group show, in various media, of women artists who deal,
in their work, with the concept of therole of women in our society; curaled by
Cheryl Gross; with work by Ms. Gross,Sherry Lane, Angela Muriel, Ana Ferrer, Laura Schalr, Pamela Ryan, Lisa
Jaco~son, China Marks, Amy Kool,
Marin Henkels, Aida Pavlovich, Diane
Henderson, Sandra Desando; at theCenter, 208 W 13 St; 4-6 pm dally, callfor other availability; 620-7310 (thruNOV 30)PRODUCTIONS revives 0
Sappho, 0 Wllde/, a comedy revue ofthe gay '90s; with music by Raven
Hall, directed by Bill Cosgriff, musicaldirection by Joel Maisano; feat\lring

COOPER SQUARE 'I'HEATER presents
My PelJames Dean Jay Byrd's
Homo, "a late-night inter-galactic dragcomedy that questions the accepted
definitions of what is normar; starring

Lisa Goodman,
Raven Hall, John
Kudan,
JoAnnaRushand Joeby
SpencerWhite, with sketches
Claire Olivia Moed, Karen Mullen,
Carol Polcovar, Marc Castle and AI
Luongo; at Rose's Turn, 55 Grove St;

ater's landlord, Cardinal O'Connor, is
not thrilled with this production andmay force a wrap. -RX)
VILLAGE•.
•$10 cover + 2-drink minimum; every
Saturday at 8 pm; 366-5438•$3; 620-7310•

MONDAY, OCT. 29
ACT UP/NY Weekly Monday Meeting
toni9ht at Elsner Lubin Auditorium,
WaShington
SquareSouthatlaGuardia Place, 7:30 pm; ACT UP
564-2437 (new phone numbe!},

PINK PANTHER PATROUWEST VILLAGE General Meeting from 7-8 pm,
New Mem~er Orientation from 8-9 pm;
at the Center, 208 W 13 St; 475-4363
A DIFFERENT LIGHT BOOKSTORE
presents Fall 1990 Reading Series:
Jack Anderson,
Field TrIp on the
Rapid TransIt; 548 Hudson St (btwn
CharieslPerry Sts); 8 pm; free (but limited seating, arrive earlyl); 989-4850

PINK PANTHER PATROl/EAST VilLAGE General Meeting at Cooper
Square Theater, 50 E 7 St; 7 pm; 5295204
CENTER STAGE sees Buddy: The
Buddy Holly Story, starring Paul Hlpp;at the Schubert Theatre, 8 pm, $65;
620-7310

ence: Women Loving Women, tonight
Mary Rose Dallal, Partnered on the
Joumey: Our Search for the Beloved,
concurrent with Susan Harris, Coming
Out to Oneself; 7-9 pm; see OCT 31
JUDITH'S ROOM BOOKSTORE presents Irena Klepflsz et. al., Jewish
Women's Call for Peace: A HandboolcforJewishWomenontheIsraelVPalestin/an Conflict; 681 Washington St (at Charles); 7 pm; free &WC
accessible, but seating is limited; 7277330

SLOPE ACTIVITIES FOR LESBIANS
COALITION FOR LESBIAN & GAY
Halloween Costume Party, costumes a
RIGHTS, REPUBLICANS FOR INDIVIDmust for admittance, bring snacks/drinks,
UAL FREEDOMS, STONEWALL DEMOat
The ClUbhouse, Park Slope, Bklyn; 8
CRATIC CLUB present a Public Debate
INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN IDENTITY
pm; SAL info/rsvp 7181965-7578
with the Candldates'with Bill Green (R)presents a Workshop
for Mental
and Fran ~elter (D-L), 15 Cong. District
MONK MAGAZINE Public Reading
Health Clinicians:
The Sexually
THE FULL MOON presents The Official
with Mike and Jim (The Monks) and(East Side Mnhtn); Bill Koeppel (R) and Abused Woman: Transference/Coun_
1990 Witches and Pagan Halloween
Ted Weiss (D-L), 17 Cong. District (Wast
Dolly Lama (The Cat), relating theirtertransference Implications In TreatCelebration, sponsored by Esoterlca,
adventures while publishing the "world's
Side Mnhtn); Roy Goodman (R-L) andment; led by Lynne Stevens, CSW; at Craft of the Wise, Spelibound,SalamanLack Lester (D), 26 Senate District (East
only mobile magazine"; at the Knitting
the Canter, 208 W 13 St; 8-10 pm; $15; der, The Magickal Childe and the Pagan
Side); Deborah Glick (D-L) and ElizaFactory, 47 E Houston St; 7 pm; $5;
rsvp 799-9432
Community;
specialappearanceby465-3231 (Monk Is a shaJp little travel
beth Ivory Green (R), 61 Assembly DisIsaac
Bonewlts
andFriends,
Archdruld
trict (Village, lower Mnhtn); Alan Bllnken
magazine with a gay sensibility. -RX)
NINTH STREET CENTER Rap Group:of America's largest Nee-Pagan organi(D-L) and John Ravitz (R), 66 Assembly"Queer Questions, Queer Answers" with zation, singing songs from his album, Be
District (Silk Stocking, Upper East Side);
the focus on defining homosexuality for Pagan One» Again; with a Semhaln Rit- SOUTHERNERS Dinner at Two Boots,at the Center, 208 W 13 St; 7:30 pm; $2;
Italian and Cajun food, entrees from $5the '90s; tonight's facilitator is Nickual and Celebration to honor ancient
620-7310
Clrablsl; 319 E 9 St, basement; 8-10 anceslors; at Wetlands Preserve, ,161 $10; limited to ten people; 37 Ave A(btwn
2/3 Sts); 7 pm; rsvp now withpm; 228-5153
Hudson (3 blocks below Can!ll); 9 pm;
SLOPE ACTIVITIES FOR LESBIANSDavid Gilbert, 674-8073$13;966-4225
Scary Story Night, to swap ghost, UFO
THE CHELSEA TRANSFER
Body,
and grisly murder stories; Park Slope,
QUEER NATION Meeting at the CanPositive Night for HIV+s and their
BETTER DAYS presentsa HalBklyn; 8 pm; SAL info/rsvp 718/965-7578
ter, 208 W 13 St, 7:30 pm, 463-7208
friends; 131 8th Ave (16/17 Sts); allloween Celebration with Liz Torres(alternate Thursdays: NOV 15, 29;
night; bar 929-7183, Body Positive
In Concert;
316 W 49 St (8Ih/9th
DEC 13, 27)
SOUTHERNERS TwO-Stepping Party;
721-1346 (Editor's note: Body Positive Aves);
10 pm; $17 door/$12
at the Center, 3rd Floor, 208' W 13 St; 8will meet at The Chelsea Transfer
advance; tlx/info 246-8976
8:45 pm dance lessons; 8:45-10:45 pm tonight and every Tuesday.)A DIFFERENT LIGHT BOOKSTORE
dancing; $5; David Gilbert, 674-8073
presents Fall 1990 Reading Series:
DISCO 2000 presents A Halloween
Paula Martlnac, Out of Time; 648
SpeCial:AngeleBowie's
Wedding,
GAY ACTIVIST ALLIANCE IN MORRIS
Hudson St (btwn Charles/Perry Sts);,withpromoters
Lahoma,Larry
Tee,
COUNTY, NJ Halloween Party; at Mor- SHESCAPE Special Halloween Party
8 pm; free (but limited seating, arrive
Scott Currie, and Michael Allg; 6th earlyl); 989-4850
ristown Unitarian Fellowship, 21 Norat Private Eyes: Halloween Is a Drag,mandy Heights Rd, Morristown NJ; 8:30 with two costume contests for 1) the Ave al20 St; 807-7850
pm; 201/285-1595
GAYMEN&LESBIANSIN
Hottest Woman in Drag, and 2) BestROXY Official Party of the Village Hal- BROOKHAVEN Women's Group DisCostume; 2-4-1 drinks from 5-7 pm;
loween Parade: Day of the Dead:
MARC BERKLEY'S KOOl KOMRADS
cussion:Commentaryon "I Hate
costume contests at 9 pm; 12 W 21 St;
Cyberspace, Year One, a "futuristic and Straights"; Old South Haven Churchpresents a Benefit:
Day-Glo Pink
open 5-10 pm; $5 before 7 pm/$7
off-the-wallplanetarybirthdaycelebraPanthers 60s Love Fest at Private(S.
Country/Beaverdam
Rds),
thereafter;
645-6479(This
istion"; Including a haunted house In' the BrOOkhaven, LI; 8 pm; 5161751-2901
Eyes, with go-go boys & girls and stripSHESCAPE's Wednesday Afterwork
upstairs
lounge,many
performance
pers; prize for the attire most repre(meets 1st & 3rd Thursdays)
Party.)
artists; $500 prize for best futuristic cossentativeof the 60s; 12 W 21 St;•
tume' (no real Ml8pons please); 515 W GAY WOMEN'S ALTERNATIVE
doors open 10 pm, $7 general/$5 with A DIFFERENT LIGHT BOOKSTORE
pre18 St (at 10th Ave); opens 9 pm; $15 sents Clare Coss, CSW psychotheraInvite; 206-7772 (Pink Pantherl\, thepresents a Bookslgnlng
with David
generall$10 with invite; 645-5156
gay and lesbian patrol, get half thepist and playwright,
on Love andSkal, Hollywood Gothic; 548 Hudsonnight's door.)
Lesbian Relationships: Bringing Out
St (btwn Charles & Perry Sts); 5-6
EAGLE BAR Halloween
Party (nothe Best In Each Other, for womenpm; 989-4850
movie tonight), $100 first prize for
only; at the Universalist Church, Cenbest costume, 2nd prize 5th of cham- tral Park West and 76 St; 8 pm (doors
VILLAGE HALLOWEEN PARADE lines
pagne, masculine costumes only,
Patient Workshop: Living With HIV
open 7:45); $5 (Includes refreshments);
up along 6th Ave below Houston St, 6
please; 142 11th Ave (at 21 St); judging
Infection: Early Initiation of Antiviral595-8410 (GWA meets the first Thurspm; goes up 6th Ave to 14 St, tums right at 12:30 am; 691-8451. Therapy; moderated by Ronald J.
dayof every month, Oct. - June)at 14 St and goes to Union Square West,
Grossman,
MD; with Alexander'
turns left on USW to disassemble at 15, PALLADIUM
presents
Suzanne
McMeeklng, MD and Jeff Silverstein,
NATURALHISTORY
GROUP
16, 17 Sts; press info, 529-0520
Bartsch's Halloween Party, details
PA, plus a panelist with HIVinfection;
Slide/ Audio Presentation:italianunavailable at presstlme; 126 E 14 St;
topics include HIV as a chronic manageImmigrant ReligIous Feasts; al the
Girls' Night Out, -rvrrGlTS, others wel- 473-7171
able disease, how the virus works, testCanter, 208 W 13 St; 8 pm; $2; 620-7310
come"; at the Canter, 208 W 13 St; 6-10
in'g issues, medical intervention, living
pm; SASE to Box 369, Brooklyn, NY PYRAMID presents Linda Simpson'swith HIV, medical monitoring, new dlreo- 11235
WOMEN'S ALTERNATIVES COMMUNI,
Channel 69: Halloween Special, with TY CENTER Weekly Discussion
tions in research; at the Penta Hotel,
andEndive and Michael T, plus a cosPenntop Ballroom, 7th .Ave at 33 St;
SocialGroup
for
Lesbians,
tonight's
JULIA RESTAURANT Halloween Mastumecontestforthesexiastcostume,6:30-9:30 pm; info from the NY Worktopic: Coming Out Letters; 675 Woodquerade Party with open bar and buf- the scariest queen, more; disco dancshop Coordinator, 800/521-,1177 (call 9field Rd, West Hempstead, LI; 8:30 pm;
fet, prize for the best costume; 226 W
5)ing and go-go stars; 101 Avenue A $3 more ifl1essif; 5161483-2050
79 St; 7-11 pm; $30; rsvp 787-1511(btwn 617 Ste); show at 1 am; $5; 4201590
SLOPE ACTIVITIES FOR LESBIANS
IDENTITY HOUSE Women's Confer.Fleld'Trlp to Lesbian Orientation at the,ence: Women Loving Women, the seo'Canter (below); SAL Info/rsvp 718/965AIDS CENTER QUEENS COUNTY and
ond of three weeks of 34 workShops
7578
exploring sexuality, Identity, rela1ionshlps NYC DISTRICTING COMMISSIQN holds NYS DEPT. OF HEALTH HIV Strategy
Session; with breakfast, introduction by'andcomingout;
tonight:Lina Public Hearing on how to draw new Gary Maffei, Exec. Dlr, of ACOG; welCENTER Lesbian Orientation, an intreHyman/Beth London, Coming Out as a lines for 51 City Council districts by June
- ductlon to New York's.lesbilm community,
Continuing Process, concurrent with B.J. 3, 1991; at Intermediate School 131, 46 come by Queens Boroug!) Pres, Clalra
featuring Dr. Mar)orle HIli, Director,
Shulman; statements by NYC Council
Whiting, Clothing: Identity or Disguise;
Forsythe St, Manhattan; 5:30 sign-In,
Mayor's Office for the Lesbian & Gay
Pres. Andrew Stein and Dr. Nicholas
544 6th Ave (btwn 14/15 Sts); 7-8:30 pm; hearing from 6-10 pm (NYCDC, 11 Park
Community; socializing, entertainment,
Rango,
Director, NYSDOH AIDS Insti$15 per workshop, 3 for $40, 4 for $49, Place, #1616, NYC 10007)
1~9raturefrom many groups; 208 W 13 St
tute;speal<eraInclude Dr. J. Emilio car.
$9 each thereafter; 10 for $80; 243-8181(WC accessible, ASL interpreted); 7 pm;
rlllo, NYC Health & Hospitals Corp.;
IDENTITY HOUSE Women's ConferJeffrey
Carplas,NYC
Human

WNESDAY, OCT. 31

TUESDAY, OCT. 30

FRIDAY, NOV. 2

THURSDAY, NOV. 1

R•• oulcea Admin.; Bruce G.ntt. NYC
Division of Subst.nce Us. S.rvlces;
Dr. Billy E. Jon.s. NYC M.ntal HealthCommlsslon.r; roundtables on h.althcar. d.llv.ry.
social s.rvlc.s •• ubstanc. us •• m.ntal h.alth; 97-45
Qu.. n. Blvd. Rego Park; 8 am - 2 pm;,,,•• ; rsvp n.ceaeary at 718/898-2500
LEARNING ALLIANCE Workshop:
Deciding Whether to P,rent or Not.
with par1IcIpation by Center KId. members wayne Stelnm.n and SUean Hendricks. 8:30-9 pm; Info 226-7171
AIDS CENTER QUEENS COUNTY
Eroticizing Safer Sax Workshop; for
NON-GAY men and women; 97-45
Qu.ens Blvd. R.go Park; 7-8:30 pm;
fr•• ; rsvp nece8sary at 7181898-2500
GAY FATHERS Monthly Me.tlng; at
the Center. 208 W 13 St; 7 pm; C.nter
820-7310; m.mb.r Info. 979-7541,
288-3236
GAY MEN OF AFRICAN DESCENT•••• Thom.s Jon.s In his A Black
Man's Journey. a on.-man comic
odyssey of a ·Afro-Guys· Joumey 88 h.
travels through the rites of pa•• ag.; at
INTAR II. 508 W 53 St (near 10th Ave);
7 pm; $10 (Includes wine & ch•••• with
the CII8t after the show); m.mber Info.
7181802-0162
IDENTITY HOUSE Women'. Conference:
Women Lo~lng
Women.
~ tonight: J.nlce Roth, You and Her
Parents Her end Your ParenllJ. 7-8:30
pm;
concurrent
with
Lynn
Pre.ton/Ellen
Shumsky. GokwwaGod Only Knows What We Are to
Each Other; 7-9 pm; .e. OCT 31
OPEN CIRCLE gathers to ,Celebrete
the God/de •• on the Full Moon. at
the Center, bring p.rcusslon Instrum.nts; 208 W 13 St; 7-7:30 pm (begins
promptly; arrlv •• arly); $2 (OC, Box4538, Sunnyside. NY 11104)
SAGE Women's 50+ Rep Group:
Compulsions
and Obsessions; at
the C.nt.r.
208 W 13 St; 7:30 pm;
741-2247
THE ANSWER IS LOVING Wom.n
T.lklng Women's Talk: Wrong/Right.
·Our Invnim.nt
in b.lng right, f.ar ofasking qu •• tlons, of how w. areviewed. having all the answers, admitting to. to what? The ability to change";
1964 E 35 St. BkIyn; 7:45-10 pm; $10;
Ruth Berman & Connl. Kurtz. 718.'9982305
WOMEN'S ALTERNATIVES COMMUNITY CENTER Dlscus.lon
andSocial Group for Single Lesbians;
675 Woodfield Rd. W.st Hemp.tead.
LI; 8:30 pm; $3 more 11I1.. s If;
516/483-2050
COLUMBIA LESBIAN. BISEXUAL. GAY
COALITION First Friday Dance. In EaI1
H.II. Columbl. U•• 118 St & B'way. (#1/#9 train); 10 pm - 2 am; photo ID todnnk;854-3S74.854-1488

SATURDAY, NOV. 3
CENTER KIDS Seminar: Learning
How to Adopt. In the East VlII.g •• 11
am· 2 pm. 82().7310
IDENTITY HOUSE Women'.

Conler-ence: Women Loving Wom.n. today:
Jo.n Katz/J.ne
Po.t, Playing the
Corporate Game. concurrent with
Lynne Robert •• Coming Out; 11:30
am - 1 pm; s.. OCT 31
SAGE BRUNCH BUNCH dines atMoon.truck
Re.taurant.
r•• erved
tabl.s In the back. r.strooms sam.
level; SW comer. 23 StI9th Ave; noon or
2 pm .eatlng; $9 for drink and entree
plus coffeeItea; rsvp 741-2247
CENTER KIDS Single Parents Support Group Get-Together.
at theC.nter. 208 W 13, In the aft.rnoon,820-7310
PROJECT CONNECT Mind Salad:Workshop with Comedy Performer
Doug
Motel.
·fourhours
d•• lgned-uslng humor-to transformyour r.latlonshlp with f.ar"; at the Center. 208 W 13 St; 1-5 pm; $25 (som.
8cholar8hlp8 avallabl.);r8vp with
Yvette Burton, 620-7310
A DIFFERENT LIGHT BOOKSTORE
presents a Bookslgnlng
with SU.le
Bright. Susie Sexpert'iJ L.sb/en Sex
St (btwn
World; 548 Hud80n
Chali.slP.rry Sis); 4-5 pm; 989-4850
IDENTITY HOUSE Women's Confer~
ence:
Women Loving
Women.
tonight: Susan Gelr. Homophobia
and Its Eff.cts on Relationships. 67:30 pm; concurrent with Arleen Bandler/Madelelne
Price,
LesbianRelationships-Boundaries and MergIng (Part I). 5:30-7:30 pm; see OCT
31
GAY MALE SIM ACTIVISTS Dungeon
Demo. 8-10 pm. 727-9878
ASIANS AND FRIENDSINY Theatre
Night: Gonza the Lsncer. 18th-century Japanese tragedy about mistaken
Infidelity; at the Public Theater. 425
Lafayette St; 8 pm; AFNY 874-5064
CENTER'S MEMBERSHIP COMMITTEE presents On Edge/ An Evening 01
Performence. featuring Jessie Allen,
Diary of a Prada tor. end Andrew
Mellen. My Life as Kim Novak. a·series of monologues exploring subjects ranging from gender definition andethics to fame and fishnets"; 208 W 13
St; 8 pm; $12 advance (at the Center,
M-F, 10am-1Opm);$15 at the door; 6207310
NINTH STREET CENTER Rap Group:"Queer Questions. Queer Answers" withthe focus on defining homosexuality for
the '90s; tonight's facilitator Is David
Tesdell; 319 E 9 St, basement; 8-10
pm; 228-5153
MARC BERKLEY'S DANCE PATROL
and NY IN '94 present a Parade ofAthletes, a salute to the athlete. thatparticipated In Gay Games III. and a
Benefit Fundralser for Gay GamesIV, athletes .hould brln,ll their medal.,uniforms optional; house and dl.comusic with DJ Michael Wlleon; showsby Alisha and Sharon R.dd (In theNem. of Lov.); Mlcha.1 Todd Room.
with fr.. acce.. to main floor of Pall.dlum; .nt.r at 123 E 13 St; 9 pm - 6
am; $5 for athl.t •• with Vancouver 10.
$15 from 9-11 pm. $20 after 11 pm ($5discount with Invlt.); Info 732-3812,

Palladium 473-7171

i'"".very 1st Tua.dar. 129 W 20 St, Bene-SUNDAY, NOV. 4

fits on the 3rd Floor. Legal on Lower
L.v.1 C; 7 pm; fr •• ; 807-8655. TDD
645-7470

IDENTITY HOUSE Women's Conference: Women Loving Women. today:
Nancy Bled.rman. Sexuality end Our
Body Image. Qancurrent with Lynne
Roberts, 1MbIen Sexuality; 11:30 am 1 pm; see OCT 31
CENTER KIDS Single Parents Group;at the Center. 208 W 13 St; 1-4 pm; 82().
7310
SAGE Sunday Drop-ln. "refreehments.
relaxation and good c:ompany...all welcome"; at the Cent.r. In the SAG E
Room. 208 W 13 Stj 2-5 pm; 741-2247
BISEXUAL PRIDE Discussion Group:
Int8l'flllllzad BI-phobltr, at the Center.
208 W 13 St; 3-4:30 pm; 459-4784
JUDITH'S ROOM BOOKSTORE pr.sents Carole Emshwlller. Carmen Dog& Verging on the PertInent; and Sybil
Claiborne. Loo.a Connections; 681
Washington St (at Chartes)i 3 pm; free
&WC accesslbl•• but seating Is limited;727-7330
PARENTS & FRIENDS OF LESBIANS
AND GAYS 10th Annual Dinner withhonorees Fernando Ferrer and Fred
Goldhaber; Roosevelt Hot.l. 5 pm;$50/person,;Julia:
718/426-3249(.venings).WOMEN'S ALTERNATIVES COMMUNITY CENTER Special Event: Drag
Ball to b.neflt
WACC. at Grand
C.ntral. ·com. as you·r. not"; 210
Merrick Rd. Rockvlll. C.ntr •• LI; 7-11pm; WACC 516/483-2050.
club
516/536-4800-

MONDAY, NOV. 5
NY PUBLIC LIBRARY Fall Reading
Serle.: tonight with AI Carmine •• In
Circ/es, Joan. Prom.nade; NY Public
library, 42 St .ntrance. Cel•• te Bartos
Forum; 6 pm; tix 930-0671
SAGE Men and Women's 40+ Together Rap Group; at the Center. 208 W 13
St; 7 pm; 741-2247 (m•• ts .v.ry 1st
Monday),SOUTHERNER!3 New Jersey Party Is
canceled; David Gllb.rt. 2121674-8073
GAY ACnVIST AlliANCE IN MORRISCOUNTY, NJ Weekly Meeting. tonightwith Bishop John Shelby Spong.
Episcopal BI.hop of the Dloce •• ofNewark, author of Living In Sin; atMorrl.town Unitarian Fellowship. 21
Norn>"ndy H.lghts Rd, Morrl.town
NJ; 8:30 pm; $3 memb.rs/$4 nonn,ember.; 2011285-1595"TUESDAY, NOV. 6
Election Day
WOMEN
ENTREPRENEURS
IN
BUSINESS Discussion Circle: Seltlng
Bus/ne .. GoalS; with n.tworklng and"the eualn_ Clinic"; at the Center. 208
W 13 St; 8:30-8 pm; $5; Info 718/4996984 (Editor's note: WEB meats tonight
and .very first Tueeday.)GAY MEN'S HEALTH CRISIS HIV
Health S.mln.rs:
Benefits Inform.·
tlon .nd Leg.1 Issue •• tonight .nd•

MOSAICBOOKS, Fall Re.dlng
Serle.: Open Reading for One .and
All; 187 Av. B at 10 Stj 7 pmj 4758823
FRIENDS OF DEBORAH GUCK Celebrate Election NIght 'go as the candldate for NYS A... mbly bec:om.s thefirst open leeblan or gay parson alectedto the stat. legislature; the party willh.lp Glick start h.r A... mbly car .. r
debt-fre.; with oocktaIl buffet and cuhbar; at Blu. Willow Cafe. 644 BWaY (atBleecker); 8 pm - midnight; $50-$1000;
727-1948
NEW SCHOOL American Muslcal11leatre Tuesdays with creators 01 Mu8l"
cals with Andrew Velez. tonight'.
gu•• ts: John Kander and Fred Ebb:
Ca!larst. New Yom. New Yom. Zorbe;
66 W 12 St; 8-9:30 pm; $15; 741-5690
WOMEN'S ALTERNATIVES COMMUNITY CENTER Discussion Group for
lesbians In Health Care; 675 Woodfield Rd. W.st Hemp.t.ad. LI; 8 pm;$3 more HIIe.. If; 516/483-2050
THE CHELSEA TRANSFER Body
Positive Night for HIV+s and theirfrl.nds; 131 8th Av. (16/17 Sts); allnight; bar 929-7183. Body Posltlv.
721-1346 (Edltor's not.: Body Po.ltlv.
will m.et at Th. Ch.ls.a
Transf.r
tonight and .v.ry Tuesday.),.,

LADY BUNNY opens Oh Boyl: Tuasday Partie. for Men at Pyramldj freedraft Budw.I •• r from 10 pm to midnight; show at 1 am; 101 Ave A, (btwn
617 SlB); doors open 10 pm; $10 gen.raV$6 with Invite; 420-1590,
WEDNESDAY. NOV. 7
IDENTITY HOUSE Women's Conference: Wom.n Loving Women. thethird of thr .. w•• ks of 34 workshops
exploring sexuality. identity. relationships
and coming. out; tonight:
Marge
Miller/Clancy. Healthy Bodies. c:onourrent with Betty McGulnnesalC.rolyn
Popa. ComIng Out as LasbIantr, 544 6th
Ave (btwn 14115 Sts); 7-8:30 pm; $15
per workshop. 3 for $40. 4 for $48. $9each thereafter; 10 for $80; 243-8181
CENTER STAGE ....
A Little Night
Music at NYC Opera at Uncoln Centsr.
8 pm. $55; 82().7310
A DIFFERENT LIGHT BOOKSTORE
pres.nts F.II 1990 Reading Serl .. :George Stambollan and contrIbutore.
Men on Men; 548 Hud.on St (btwn
Char1esIPerrySts); 8 pm; free (but limited seating, arrive .arlyl); 989-4850
DIXON PLACE pr.. ents • Poetry/Flc"
tlon Series. tonight with Es.ex
Hemphill and Sapphire; 37 E 1st St(btwn 111t12nd
Avea); 8 pm (ooms eaI1y);$4.98; no rsvp. Info 873-8752
DUPLEX pres.nts Judlth .. h.· Just·.
femlnlat-Sloan and Ser.h-.h.'r.. l·
dyke-Cytron
In Two Woman, Two
W.dneadaya,
Two Cook/a..
.nevening of ltand-up comedy .nd charac1srs; 61 Chl1atopher St (NE oomer .t

Nov_no_r

7, teeo OUTW•• K

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In Ave); 8 pm; $9 + 2-drink minimum;
25$-5438 (also next Wed., NOV 14).

,

GAY & LESBIAN ALLIANCE AGAINSTDEFAMATION Monthly Meeting and
Forum: International
OpprellSlon of
Gay. & Lesblanll', at the Center, 208 W.13 St; 8 pm; 966-1700•

JUDSON MEMORIAL CHURCH Centennial Forums: CenllOrshlp and the Art.:
The Shifting Sand. of Public Policy
wlth'lra Glasser, Executive Director,
ACLU; 55 Washington Square South; 8
pm; free; 477-0351 (Mr. Glasser replaces
Tom Wicker, originally soheduled.)
SOUTHERNERS
Game Night: Scrabble, Bridge, Hearts, Monopoly, bring your'favorite board and card games; In theCenter's Women's Coffee House, 208 W
13 St; 8 pm; $2; David Gilbert, 674-8073
EAGLE BAR Movie Night:

Cry Baby,.\VIth Johnny Depp; 142 11th Ave (at 2181); 11 pm; 691-8451,

Tuning In: A TV/Radio Guide for OutWeek Readers
Information must be received by Monday to be included in the fol/owing,week's issue. Send' items to Rick X, Tuning In, Box 790, NY, NY 10108.
AIrE (Am &. Ern, 555 Frfth Ave, 10th R, NYC 10017;661--45001
CCTY (Rick X. Box 79(1, NYC 101081.
GSS (Gay Broadcasting Systam. Butch Peaaton, 178 7th Ave,
Ste. A-3, NYC 10011;243-15701'
GCN (Gay Cable Netwot1c, Lou Maletta, 32 Union Square East,
Suite 1217;477-42201
GMHC (Gay Men's Health Crisis, Jean Cariomusto, 129W20 St,
NYC 10011; 807-7517)
RB PROD (Robin Byrd Prod~ Box:ui, NYC 10021;\1118-29731
WABC-TVmW63St,
NYC 10023;4$-7777)
WBAl-FM (!i15 8th Ave, 19th R, NYC 10018; 279-07071
WCSS-TV (51 W 52 St St, NYC 10019;975-43211
WNBC-TV 130 Rockefeller PiaU!, NYC 10112;664-44441
WNET-TV (356 W 58 St, NYC 10019;~I
WNYW-TV·(Fox, 1211AV/AM, NYC 10036;556-24001

M 0 N DAY OCTO BER 29

male porno stars;Manhattan

9:IIOPM GBS butintneWS: community news, discussion,interviews; (tape of last TueSday's MClV/Paragon shawl
BO Cable, CH 56 (1:0111
11:31 PM TomOm1W/Tonight Livel: entertainment; Manhattan
and Paragon Cable, CH 0/17 (1:0111
11:31 PM WNET-TV GraatPetfofllllncu;"Balllnchl_ln
America' offers 'Serenade'.and Western Symphony";
introduced by Pacar Maldns; CH 13 (1:0111
midnight CClV The C/osat Case Show. Davey GaIfaft, of Gaffon Records, gives Tom Smith an 'audition'for a newmusic video; Manhattan /Paragon Cable, CH Cl16 (:301-, 1:00 AM RB PROD Men for MetT. Rollin BynI presents gay
male porno stars; Manhattan Cable, CH V~ (:30130
TUESD '"'AVJ, OCTO'BER'.

8:00 PM WNYW-TV (Foxl Town M,eting: 'Save Our City"
invites viewers to call in and talk to Mayor David
Dinkins and Police Chief Lee Brown about violent
crime; CH 5 (2:001
10:00 PM RB PROD The Robin BrnI Show. male and famale
strippers; Manhattan Cable,l:H V/35 (1:001
11:00 PM GBS Out in the 90's: news,information andinterviews; with live call-in; Manhattan/Paragon
Cable, CH CII6 (1:001 .
11:31 PM WNET-TV Seasons of Life; 'Childhood and Adolescence' examines the 'challenges facing youngsters ages
6to 20, including school, friends, sexuality"; CH 13 (1:0111

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 31,

7:00 AM WABC-lV Good Moming Amarictr. an AIDS series,
with Mic .... el Callen; The Rilflllion, pelfonn; CH 7 (2:001

9:30 AM WBAI-FM Ghosts in tne Machinll. women in pop,•

• •with Victoria Stan; 99.5 FM (2:301
8:110 PM WCBS-lV 48 Hours: "Panic, Fears &. Phobias'tells
about agoraphobia, a dread of pubfic places; pecufiar
obsessions like constant hand-washing; common fears
like the dread of blood; CH 2 (1:001
8:110 PM WNET-lV Don Giovannt Mozart's "blend of satire, 'falltBsy and tragedy" in Zallirelli', production about Don
Juan, an obsessed heterosexulIl; simulcast on WOXR-FM.
(96.31;CH 13 (3:101(repeats NOV 2, 11:30AM, UHF211
8:110 PM WNYW-lV (Fox) Rosemary's Baby(1968I: can you
think of a better movie for tonight?; CH 5 (2:001
midnight RB PROD The Robin Byrd Show. male and female
strippers, live call-in shoW; Manhattan Cable, CH V/35
12:05 AM TBS Carri, (19761: Brian De Palma matches ayoung John Travolta and Sissy Spacek, with gym
teacher Bettj Buckley, and fanatical Pip ... Laurie as
the religious mama, in thisthenno/telekinetic
epic (2:001

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 1
8:30 AM Naked Eye Cinemtr. Peter Cramer: Betw,en tne
Lin,s: Corrective Measures, Haiku Series, Black andWhite Study. Manhattan Cable, CH Cl16
1:110PM WBAI-FM This Way Out; the international gay!lesbian news magazine; 99.5 FM (:301
1:31 PM WBAI:FM An Aftemoon Outing. local news andinformation about the gay/leSbian community with lany
GUl8nburg; 99.5 FM (:301
2:m PM WBAI-FMAIDS: Paths to Self-Empowerment, treatment and health issues with Bali Lederer, 995 FM (:1:0111

PM Showtima Enemy Among Us. a teenager and~milyface community hysteria aftar he learns he contracted
AIDS from a blood transfusion (1:0111.. PM WCB8-lV Gerak/a. crime in New York C'rty. taped on_the NYC subway; CH 2 (1:0111
7SI PM WCBS-lV EntsltBinmant Tonight CII8I; CH 2 (:301.. PM The Gay Dating Game Showwith TCIBIIIIJ Sealianda.IIaIu va ZUdI; Manhattan Cable, CH ('J16 (:301
10:30 PM GMHC Living With AIDS: health and politics;
Manhattan Cable, CH V/35 (:301
11:110 PM GCN Gay U.S.A: news and entertainment from.around the country; Manhattan Cable, CH V/35 (1:0111.. idnigllt GCN Men in FiII'M. male erotica, interviews with. adult filmstars; Manhattan Cbale, CH V/35 (:301
12:30 PM RB PROD Men For Men: Robi. BynI presents gay. ..

Cable, CH V/35 (:301

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 2
10:lI0 PM Sally Jessy Raphael a competition for female
impersonators' CH 7 (1:001
2:31 PM WBAI-FM Rompiendo el Silencio: todos losviernes, 6oazalo MII10 con temas y noticles para lacomunidad latina gayy lesbiana; 99.5 FM (:151
7:110 PM WBAI·FM AIDS In Focul, .......
AIcaIay, prodcuero politicl/culture of the AIDS pandemic; 99.5 FM (:151
I:l1O PM ME Tunnel Undartne Walt footage form 1982shows efforta by West Beriln students to build a tunnel
under the Berlin Wall, an effort which led to freedom forsoma Intrepid escapees (2:001.. PM WNBC-TV auantum Leap: Sam (Scoa B...... I isMiss Sugar Belle in a beauty pageant; C~ 4 f1:OO! •9:110 PM WNET-lV Hamlet K8vialOl_ conslderssulclde,
IIlJrder, incest and many other nasty things; CH 13 (3:001
10:00PM WCBS-lV Dallas: the 14th season openerfindsJ.R.
still imprisoned in a sanatarium cell; CH 2 (1:0111
BaINt Waw1I Interviews WonaId
10:00 PM WABC-lV ~Weagan, former Pwesident of the gw8at U.S.; CH 7 (1:0111
1:00 AM RB PROD The Robin Byrd Show. male and famale
strippers; Manhattan Cable, CH Vl35 (1:0111
2:11OAM WPIX-lV Rabbit Test(I978I: Joan Rlvel'$wrote
this vehicle for a pregnant Billy Crystal; CH " (2;001

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 3,•

8:38 AM WBAI-FM

Any Saturday with David Rotbe ••barg; live call-in; 99.5 FM (2:001
6:. PM WNET- TV What Makes Us Tick? a study ofAmerican and Japanese babies that suggests a
stronger genetic influence in determining
personality than was previously thought; CH 13 (:301
7:110 PM GCN Gay U.S.A: news and entertainment fromaround the country; Ba. Unity, ACV Cable, CH 5& (1:001(For Manhattan Cable, see THURSDAY)
11:00 PM Gay 1Y.male pom; Manhattan Cable, CH V/35
midnight Naked Eye Cinema: Jack WIllers aad leslie Lowe:
Wie Alles Anfang (how it an began): Noctumes and Family JBWfIIs; Manhattan Cable, CH 0/17
1:31 AM RB PROD The Robin Byrd Show. male &. female
strippers; Manhattan Cable, CH V/35 (1:0111 .
2l4O AM WNET-TV Don Glovanni(see OCT 31, 8 PMI (3:101

SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 4
1O::1IAM MyCraftShowwithMalkHesldn:alTlJSicvideostarring a rme-up of Barbie Dolls; tips on dressing in drag; Manhatla~aragon

Cable, CH 0/17 (::III

7:!1 PM WBAI-FM 0uIL001at Usa \'IIinas asks Susie Bright(ed., On Our Bac,", all about lesbian sex; also, the femma lesbian idemity; ah8matas with The Gay Show. 99.5 FM (1:001- PM A&.E In Search oftha Dream 1.iberty'; Mavar David N.
DIn.... andSpib las give insights into the 'dangerous staI8
of race rellllions: in NYC (1:001(repeats at 1AMI
10:30 PM RB PROD Men For MelT. Rollin BynI presents gay
male porno stars; Manhattan Cable, CH V/35 (:301mXl PM WNET-lV Ham',r(sII NOV 2,9 PMI (3:001 '11:00 PM GBS Way Outf. entertainment with Mart CbeInutand Michelle VanVoodlles; Rich Volo, producer, 254-7685;
Manhattan Cable, CH Cl16 (;301
1:00 AM ME In Search of tire Draam 1.iberty' Sll 9 PM (1:0111

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Monday'.

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,Private Eyes (~arc Berkley's Kool Komrads; strippers; downtown
crowd, students, professionals; $7112 W21 St, club 200-7772

Tuesday.*Club
Edelweiss (IVs, TSs, gays, bi's, singles, couples"; TUES especially for lesbians; but open to all TUE-SUN nightl167 W 29; 868-6989• Grand Central (women's night is TUES, also open Wed-Sunl210 Merrick Road, Rockville Centre, U; 516/536-4800*Private Eyes (Marshall Simon's Dragin' Bar, $7112 W 21 St, btwn
5th/6th Aves; 206-7774
Roxy (Men on Wheels, gay roller skating; starts 8 pml515 W 18 St; ~5156

Wednesday>*Better Days (primariTygay men of colorl316 W 49 St (8/9 Avesl; 245-8925
The Building (Dallas' The Boys' Room, House music, downtown crowd, gogo boys and a 6O-foot ceiling; $1(V$7 with invitel51 W 26 St; 576-1890• Excalibur (Ladies Night, $1 drinksl corner 10th/Jefferson behind football stadium, Hoboken, NJ; 201-795-1161'*Umelight(Disco ~lWwith Michael Alig, larry Tee & Lahoma;10 pm,$10; Coors served) 6th Ave at 20 St; club 807-7850• Private Eyes (Shescape Afterwork Party, 5-10 pm; $5 before 7 pm/$7
after; 2-4-1 drinks before 7112 W 21 St; info 645-6479, club 206-1.772
Private Eyes (YMVA Night; students, professionals, women; $7; ciosed
for private party October 31112 W21 St, btwn 5thI6th Aves; 206-7772
1iPyramid (linda's Channel 69 party, OJ & live lesbiaiVgay shows; East
Village crowd; $51101 Avenue A, btwn 617 Streets; 420.1590
Silver Uning (2-4-1 drinks, also open Tues-Sun, women SATI175 CherryLa., FloralPk, LI; 516/354-9641,
Stutz (2-4-1 drinks, also open dailyl202 Westchester Ave, White Plains;
914{761-3100

Thursday.

'11'Copacabana (last Thu. of the month Susanne Bartsch party, next isNovember 29; iffy doorll 0 E 60 St; at Fifth Ave; 755-6010
Excalibur ($1 drinks, also open Tues-Sun, women WEDI corner 10th/Jefferson behind football stadium, Hoboken, NJ;201-795-1-161
Hadield's (2-4-1 drinks, female impersonators; also open nightly, women.on TUE & mil 126-10 Queens Blvd, Kew Gardens, Queens; 7181261-8484• Handle Bar (Nancy and Treva's Her Plane~ $81232 E 9 St; 255-7875*"oxy (Disco Interruptus, DJs Patrick Butts & Sister Dimension andperformance artists in entertainment breaks; $101515 W 18; 645-5156>

Friday,.

.

ABC (Chip tfuckett's ABC Fridays, OJ Merritt; ballroom, balcony, billiards, .
boogying; $101$7 w. invite; opens Nov. 16117 Irving Place at 15 St
Betbtr Days (Michael Patterson's Fridays, catering to' multi-racial crowd,
serious House/Club dancing, OJ Paradisel316 W49; 246-8976• Clit Club IJocelyn & Julie, Every Friday Party; go-go girls, lesbo videos;
opens 8 pm; $51432 W 14 St; 400-1114
Columbia Dances (1st Friday of every month, E~rl~Hall, 10 pm -2 am; next
is November 21 116th St & Bway; 854-3574 days
• Hadield's (women's nights are TIJE & FR11126-10 Queens Blvd" Kew
Gardens, Queens; 7.18/261-8484(Ladiss'Night.! 1770 NY Ave (Rte 1101, Huntington, U;• Miliennium
516/35l-1402
OctagOn (Patrick's Friday Night Jam Session, primarily gay men of color;
free muchies; opens,ll pml555 W 33 St; 947-0400"Private Eyes (YMVA Night; students, professionals, menl12 W 21 St,
btwn 5th!6th Aves; 206-7772.
.Top of the Gate (Downtown Girls' Girlgateatthe Village 'Gate, guest
DJs, $61160 Bleecker St (corner ofThompsonl; 475-5120• Visions (women's partyl56-01 Queens Blvd, Woodside, Queens; info
718/846-7131, club 718/899-9031

Saturday,,Barefoot Boogie f2nd & 4th SAT; adultl;Jkids, smoke & alcohol free; 8:ll pm 12::Jl am, $4; next is Nov 1014346thAve (btwn WloStsl, 4th Floor; 832-6759
Center (2nd & 4th SAT. 9 pm - 1 am, $8; next is Nov 101208 W 13 81; 620-7310• Center (Women & Friends, 1st SAT; 9 pm - 1 am, $8; next is Novem- .
ber 51208 W 13 St; 620-7210
Columbia Dances (SamE BuT DifferenT, 3rd SAT, next is Nov 17; OJ
Karin Ward, 10 pm - 3 am; $51 Earl Hall, 116 St/B'way; 629-1989
419419 N, Highway, Southampton, U; 516/283-5001
wve Zone (dancing & performersl70 Beach St, Staten Island; 7181442-5692
Meat (OJ Aldo Hernandez, everySaturday; go-go boys, videos; opens 10
pm; $51432 W 14 St; 353-3866
Octagon (Jason's monthly Saturday Dances, OJ Michael Fierman; next
are Nov 10, Dec 8; $151555 W33 St; 947-0400
Mike Todd Room (Marc Berkley's Dance Patrol, catering to gays & lesbians; 11 pm - 6 am, 2 am shoW; $2(V$15 w. invitell23 E 13 St; 473-7171.Private Eyes (Shescape Saturday Night Parties for Women, opens 9pm; $8 before 10/$10 afterl12 W 21 St; info 645-6479, club 206-m2*Roxy (Locomotion; gay boys, guys, men; non-gay women, somelesbians; mix depends , on partyl515 W 18 St (btwn 10/11 Avesl; 645-5156• Silver URing (women's 'Sat1175 Cherry Lane, Roral Park, U; 5161354-9641
Sound Factory (mostly gay; serious House/Club dancing, no alcohol,
opens 11 pml530 W 27 St (1Oth/11th Avesl; 643-0728

Sunday..

*Better Dayslprimarily gay men of colorl316 W 49 St (8/9 Aves); 245-8925
The Building (Dallas' The Men's Room, students, professionals, men;go-go boys & 50-ft. ceilingl51 W 26 St; 576-1890. *Cafe Society (Electra St. Jill's Society Sunda.ys Tea Dance, Hi NRG OJ
Chuck Davis, Society Dancers; 5 pm-??; $101 B'wayat 21 St; 529-8282
Monster (Sunday Tea Dance at 4 pm; dancing also on other nights from
1,0pml80 Grove St at Sheridan Sq.; 924-3557,• Rex (Jenny's Girl Bar, OJ dancing, 6 pri1~ midnight; $51579 6th Ave(16/17 Stsl; 741-0080' .... , ..
Roxy (A Groovy Kind of Lovel515 W 18St; 645-5156
2O}ZO (Michael Fesco's Tea Dance, opens 5 pm; $6; free Mimosas & BMs
from 5-7, buffet at 7:30120 W 20 St; 727-8841

Every Night (or almost).

'• Bedrock (lesbian club, closed MON & TUEI121 Woodfield Rd, W,
Hempstead, U; 516/486-9516*Club Edelweiss (IVs, TSs, gays, bi's, singles, couples all welcome";
TUEfor lesbians, but open to ali TUE-SUN nightl167 W 29; 868~6989.
• Duchess II (small dance floorl Sheridan Square & 7th Ave; 242-14OB
419 (nightly Gay House Party, opens 6 pml419 N. Highway (Rte 271,
Southampton, U; 516/283-5001'
Grand Central (closed Mon, 2-4-1 drinks Thursdayl210 Merrick Road,,
Rockville Centre, U; 516/536-4800
Magic Touch (ethnic mix: Anglo/LatiiVAsianI73-13
37th Rd, Jackson
Heights, Queens; 718/429-8605·
Monster (West Villagel80 Grove St at Sheridan $q,; 924-3557
Spectrum (good mix of gay men & lesbians; closed Mon- Tue, WED free,
THU free & 2-4-1 drinks, FRI male/female strippers, SAT recordingstars, SUN variety show & free admission 9-10 pm; Coors served)~'

NOTES:.6[new listing]*[aUracts TVs].

Editor's tips for to"rists:.[women]''Clubs generally open anO pm, close at4 am, unless otherwise noted.
Admissions range from $5 to $20. Invites offer discounts, and are some,times required. It's wise ,to call ahead to confirm flat a party is still happening.SolTle clubs, especially Copacabana, but also Limelight,
Roxy, and others, sometimes let people in randomlY or selectively,
instead of having a simple line at the door. Discrimination on the 'basis of race, age, gender and orientation is illega/, Selectivity ,based on attire, attractivenessand "attitude" may be, too, following a California case that bans door selectivity. Clubs that serve
Coors or Millerwill be noted but not excluded from these listings.
Send information, corrections, &'complaints
to Rick X, Box 790, NYC
10108. You may also fax Rick X at 212/337-1220.
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AlDS CENTER OFOUEENSCOUNTYSOCIAL SERVICESEDUCATIONeBUDDIESoCOUN- 'S8JNGeSUPPORT GROUPS
VollIIIIHr Oppo,biniti ..
(718) 88&'25OO(voice) (718) 8882985(TDD) ,ACT UP (AIDS Coalition
Unlaash Powe,ltil

SIJaet. SIi1B G4 NYC

48lIA Hu...,10014/2121989 -1114
A divel'88, non-partisan group of
ildMdll8ls IIitad iIanger and CQlr
millBd to direct action to end lIIe
AIDS crias. Gill\. meetings Mon.
rights~,iIThe Great Hall. Cooper
Ulion, on Cooper Sql!8re betwaen
Astor and St Maries Place's.
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AIDS RESOURCE CENTER(ARC) ,
Supportive housing for homelessF'WAil (Bdey House and apartments). Non-judgam8nta1 pastoral
cere for PWAil and kMId ones. VollI1III8r opporIIriIiaa./2121481-127O, ,24 Wast:nh St, NYC llD11
ALOEClAPlN-NY(Asian L.. bian. '" the Ea.t
Cout'Alien Pacific .............
MIk-New York) We are a parltical, social lind supportive networkof Asian Pacific lesbians. Plaming
meetings on lIIe let Sunday andsocial avanlB on the last Friday ofesch month, CaR (212) 517-!i!i98for
more information.
ARCS (AlDs.:Related,Curl,nullity Services)for Dutche88, Orange, Putnam,
Rocklan'd, Sullivan, Ulster andWestch'ester
clluntias.
AIDS
education, client services, criSIS Interventlon,support
groups,case management,
buddy andhospital visitor program.
214 Central /Iw., Wlita Plails, NY
1181l(9141~,
838 Broadway, Newburgh, NY
12250(914)ii62-lbIi
AlDSlill8 (814) Il3-O&07
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ASIANS &RlENDS- N~YORK
A not-for-profit
organization.
which ,promOllls friendshipa with
Asian/PacificIslander, Asian. American, and non-Asian gay
men throu,gh soc[al, culturel, educational, and service activities
and programs, Can our Hotline:
212-874-5084, or write to: p.o; Box. : 88211, NY, NY 10183-8023.
", ATR (AIDS TREATMENTRESOURCES, INC.I
PubiahaS a ti rnot'id1lyDirec1nry 01, 'clinical trials ,of experirmlntal
AlDSIlfIV Ir'INWn8n1B in NY/NJ, andhas educational matenallt/seminars for trial pa~cipants. AlR also
adwcetas for improwmen1Bin lIIe
Ilial sys1IIm. P.O~Box 311Z34, NY, NY
101Hll02. (212) 2fl8.4196. Publications freeldonetion requ~.

BAR ASSOCIATION FOR
HUMAN RIGHTS!.Swyers Referral Servic.e for !heLesbian and Gay i::ommll1ity fuR
Range on.gsl SeMces (212) &4873 Free Walk-in Legal Clinic.
Tuesday 8-8 pmLesbian & Gay
Commll1ityCentr. Groll1d Roor
BIDS (BISEXUAL DOMINANCE& SUBMISSION GROUP)
Share 111M ,experiences ~nd fan- .
taaias 'IIi1h oIhera in a positivu, nonjudgemental atmosphere. Firet
Sunday of !he month, 4:45pm et 1heComrnII1ityCen1IIr2Ol W. 13S1ra8I,
NYC • This group is pelt Ii1he New
YorkAraa Bisexlial N81iNork.
BlSEXUALlMURrMIION&COIIUBIVG SERVICE. INC.
A professionaly 8IBffed. non-profit
organization for bisexuals, !heir
families and parlners, facing problems of a psychological or medicalkind. We also work with those in
doubt about 1iIeir' selWality. C0nfidentiality is pllllllctad by law. For
infonnetion phone: (212) 4!i9-4784
BISEXUAL PRIDEDISCUSSION GROUP
Topical discussions on issues ofin1Brast to 1he CO""IIUrity in a congenial atmosphere, followed by aninfonnal dinner at a friendly local
resteurant Every Sunday, 3:QO.,
4:30pm at lIIe Community Cen1Br
2IiI W. 13' Straet, NYC. Palt of the
Naw YorkAraa Bisexual Na1work.
BIWAYS NEW YORKMonthly social evants for the
Bisexual community and friends.
Call NYABN for deta~s of upcoming events. (212) 4!i9-4784•

BIPAC (BISEXUAL POUTICALACIlON COMMmEE)
PoIitieel aClion on issues Iiimporlance to !he BisexllaVlelltiarVGay
cormui!y. MdlyIl1ll8li1g'poll
held 81JOpm on fourth Thursday of
1he month et mallbars homaa. Can
NYABNfor1lismcri1h~1oceticn.
((2121&4784
BISEXUAL YOImI
Infonnal social & support groupfor Bisexual kidlt/youth. Monthly
meeting/potluck
lunch held
1:00pm on fourth Sunday of !hemonth at members homes. Call
NYABN for this month's location.
This group is part of the, NewYork Area Bisexual Networlt.

BODY POSITIVE
If you or your lover has tested
HIV+, we offer support groups,
seminars, public forums, rafal'8l1ce
library, referrals, social activities
and up-to-dalll national rnontI)ly,
1lIE BODY POSIllVE" (S2!Vyaar~(212)721-1346.
21115BroictNay. SIi1B:DI, NY, 111123,BROOIllYN'S LESBIAN AND
GAY POUJICAL CLUBUUWBDAINDEPENDENTDEMOCRATS
un. andoraas II1d v.aIas for cencidIIIas illocaI, 8IaIB II1d nricI18I_
tions, lobbies for legisletion, andccnb:Is camuiycUi'8achlfmVl
8Iraatfais II1d rneei-gs CIlspecialtlpica. Jcir1 us. 3311 N"mth St, SLi1II1:!i~NVI1215(718)98S-8482
ClRCU: OF MORE UGIIT
Spiritual support and sharing in agayllesbian affinnative group.
Wast-Park Presbylilrian Church 116
Wast881h Street Wed: \WIlihip service 831 pm. program 7:3l Mensha(21.2) 3I4-CJ73 Chalie (212)1191-7118.
COMING OUTTO PARENTS?
Lat us help 'tW and VDII' famiy deal
'IIi1h 1Iis upheaval PAmITS ANDAIIENDS OF lESBIANS AND GAYS
nl88lll1D'1llt(CIl tha ., ~3111
pm, in Duane Church, 201 W. 13th
SInIII. We cal Jell, ", (212)4SW1129
COMMUNITY HEALTH
PROJECT
DlWest 13lh Street , NYC, New.
York 10011 For Appointments andInformation(212) 675-3559(TTYNoice)PROVlDlNG CARING,SENSITIVE AND LOW COSTHEALTH CARE SERVICES TO THE
lESBIAN AND GAY COMPwlJNIlYCOMMUNITYRESEARCH INIT1ATIVECRI tests experimental drugs and1rea1mentB for AIDS and HIVreliIIBd
illn88S8s. Monthly treatment andresearch gl1lUpfor HIV+inciIIiduais.
Traatmant and research news/_
forums, and public seminar'S. Call
Alice Spears or Ken Fomataro at(212)481-1(6)forilfo and maiilg ist
CONGREGATION B~
SIMCHATTORAH
NYs Gay and Lesbian Synagogue
Services Friday at 8:30pm 57
Bethune Street For info. call: (212)929--9496.

BWS""RONX LESBIANS'
UNItED IN SISTERHOOD
Social, political and support netWOIIcilg gl1lUpfor you lIan and thair
frianda. Ragular social avan1S andmeetings on the first and third Frideytl Iiewry month. At The ComII1IIity CenIa~201 W. 13 Street, fromII::»8pm. For more info call lisa at(212)82Sfj817.

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CONGREGATIONB'NAI
JESHURUN
Monthly Spritual Gatherings andfree call1rad festive luncheons for
a/l People With AIDS, their lovers
and families. Program includes
music and discussion led by our
RabbiS. Call (212) 787-7600

DIGNITY
BIG APPLE
A community of Lesbian and
Gay Catholics. Activities include
Liturgies and socials every Sat,
8:00 pm, at !he Center, 201 W. 13
Street, NYC.Call(212) 818-1309.
DIGNITY NEW YORK
I.esI:im II1d IF( Calhcics and friends
AIDS MiiaIry. SpiIiualIllMilopna1t
The Caf1edrel Prqact WonIIip Services & Social-Stn ElIas. ~John's Episcopal Church 218 Wast
11111Sraet OllYawJlof675-2179
EDGE Educ:aliDII in a Dinbled
Gay Emironmairt
For 1I1ephysically OlS8b1ed LestianandGayCalwn~
P.O. Box:m Vilage StetiCll, New
York,NY 10014
FRONT RUNNERS
A rumilg club for /asbian and gay
athIatas of allaliitias. FIll RII18 d 16 mles held I!N8lV Sat et lOam andWads. at 7pm iICantral Park and_ry Tues. et 7pm in Pl1I8p8ct Park.
For i1formetiOlt eel (212)724-9100.
THE FUND FOR HUMANDIGNITY
National Gay and Lesbian Crisis
Line 'AlDS 800'-l-8(JO.SOS-GAYS
Educational Resource Center;
Positive Imagl!S Media Can1Br, NY
Slalll Al1s Prog'ram 866 B'w8y SIita
410M'C,NY10012 (212)529-111D
THE GAY AFRICAN AMERICANSOFWESTCHESTER(The
G.A.A.)
is a community ,based support
group fonnad iIWastchestar CoLn¥ Various actM1ias are plamed for1he cOlili I!I months. Plasse cell 914:rJ&.Umfor more i1fo.
GAY FAmER'S FORUM
A support organization for gay
father's, their lovers, and others in
ch~d.flurturing situations. Monthly meetings include a potluck supper, support groups on varied
specialized topics, speskers, andsocializing.Meetings:
let Friday
each month, 7pm, at The Center,
208 W. 13111St, Wast of 7th Ave.
Contribution: $6. Bring a main
couI'88 for 4 people (or pay a $5
food charge.) For infonna1ion can:
212-97&-7541 or 212-28$-3236
GlAAD
Gay" t.bian Alii_
ApinltDanllion
80 Varick Straet. NYC 10013(212)968-1700 GLAAD combats homophobia in 1he lllIKia and elsewhereby promoting visibility Ii1he lesbian
and gay Clllwnll1ity and organizing
grassroots response to anti-gay
bigotry. Do you have 30 minutas amonth 111 fi!lrt homophobia?Join the
GLAAD Phone TreelCall (212HI681700for infonnetilll.

GUB
Gay and Lesbian Independent
Broadcasters invites you to tune
into OunOOKS on WlW-NY, 995
FM every other Sunday, 7:30'~
and join us wary T4esday
at 7:00pm to 9:00pm to become amamber of GUB. No experienceneeded.5I!i Ei!t11h Avenue, NY, NY
10018 Attn: Outlooks or cell (212)245-6366- ask for GUB.
•GAY .. LESBIAN HEALm
CONCERNS
An office of tile NYC Dept of
Health, provides linkeges betwn
NYC Health & Human Svcs, and!he Lesbian & Gay community,
focusing in ALL health concerns; resource information for
health services consumers andproviders. 125 Worth Street,Box 67, New York, NY 10013. For
info call (212) 566-4995.
GAY MALE 81M ACTMSTS
Dedicated to safe and responsible S/M since 1981. Open meetings w/programson 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, Suilll 023 ,NYC
10014.(212) 727-9ff18.

GMAD (GAY MEN OFAFRICANIIESCIM)80 Varick Straet, NYC 10013 a stip-

port group of Gay Men of African
Descent dedicated to consciousnes&-raising and the davalopmentof the Lesbian and GayConwnIl1ity.
GMAD is inclusive of African,
African-American, Canbbasn and
Hispanic/Latino
men of color.
Meetings are held, weekly, on fridays. For more infonnatiCll,
can 718-812-0162.
GAY MEN'S HEALm CRISISHOTUNE'FOR IMURMA1lON ON SAR:R SEX
AND HIV-RElATED HEAlTH SERVICES, AND FOR It-.RlRMAlION ON
ONE-TItvE, WAU<-IN AIDS COUNSEUNGSBMCB

212-80Hi655212~7470

TDD(Forthe Hearing .,..urad)Mon.-Fri. 10:30 a.m. to 9 pm.

12:mto3:00

GIRm& MIRmCWB OF NEW YORK
Social club for heavy, chubby
gay men & their admirers.
Monthly socials at the 'Center", weekly bar nights Thursdays at the 'Chelsea Transfer',
mon!hly Fat Apple Review. bimon!hly F.A.R. panpals.
For more informetion
call
Ernie at 914-699- n35 or write:
G&M/NY, Dept 0, P.O. Box 10,
Pelham, NY 10803 .

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(1IM1th Education AIDS u.-)Weekly info. and support groupfor 1nIatman1II for AIDS which do
not compromise 1ha immllle ..
111mfurther. including altsmativeand hoIillic approaches.
Wed 8pm.
208 W. 13th St(212)874-HOPE.
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HERrrAGE OF PRIDE, INC.
Organizera IiNew York's Lesbianand Gay Pride -*= the March,
the Rally and the Dlnce on the
Piar. Can (212) 891-1774 for maating schedule or 11lOIII infonnllion.
ZIII Wast 13th S1reet, NY. NY 10011.

HETRICK-MARTIN
1NST1TUTE
for leabian and gay youth. Counseling, drop-in cenlllr (M-F, 38pm), rap groups, Harvey Milk
High School, AIDS and safer sax
informa1ion, raferrals, profasaional education.
(212) 833-8920(voice) (212) 833-8928 TIY for deaf...

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IISPANIC UNITEDGAYS a WBIANS
Educational services, politicalaction, counseling and social
ac1iviliaa in Spanish end EngIi8h by
and fOr the Latino Lesbian and Gay
Coril"~
Ganaral maatings 8:00
pm 4th Thuraday Ii_ry month at
ZIII Wast 13th SIraat.
CaR 2lIHI53-1B24 or writa H.U.G.L..
P.O. IIaK 228 Canal StnIat Station,
NewYotlI,NY 10019.
IDENTnY HOUSE
Now in our 20th yaar, we provide
peer counseling, therapy referrals and groups for the leabian,gay and bisexual community.
Call us at (212) 243-8181. Visit us
at 544 6th Ave., between 14th15th Streets, Manhattan,
INSmvrE FOR HUMAN
IDENTITY
Sliding scale fees. Insurance
eccepllld. Gay & Leabian Paychotherapy(212)7~9432
INTEGRnY/NY
Lesbian and Gay Episcopalians
and friends. Euchariat and program every Thursday, 7:30pm,
St Luke's Church, Hudson andChristopher Sta.INFO: P.O. Box5202. NY NY 10185(718) 720-3054
lAMBDA
IJ:GAL DEFENSEAND EDUCAnoN RIND
Precadant-satling litigation nationwide for leabians, gay men andpeople with AIDS. Membership($40 and up) inc. newsletter andinvitations to spacial8V8l1lll. VoIII'IIller right on Thuradays.
lnIBke caDs: 2-4pm Mon thru Fri(212) 9IIIHI9!5. .
lAVA(WBIANS ABOUT
VISUAL AlIT)
Call for slidea for Lesbian Artista'
Exhibition, Gay & lesbian Community Center, NYC. For moreinfonnation, send SASE to : Miriam Fougere, 118 Fort Greene
Place, Brooklyn, NY 11217.

tHEWBIAN
AND GAYBIG APPLE CORPS
Get your instrument out of thecloset and come play with us.
~phonic,
Marching. Jazz, Dixieland, Rock, RUlli Ensemblea
and Woodwinds. 123 West 44th
St. Suite 12l New York, NY
10038 (212) 889-2922.

METROPOUTAN TENNISGROUPCMTGI
Our 200 I118mber lesbian and gay
IIImis club includea playars frombeginning to tournament level.
Monthly IIInnis partiea. Winterindoor league. Come play withusl For infonnation: MTG, Suite.K83, 496-A Hudson St.. New yotll,
NY 10025. (718) 852-8582.

WBlANaGAY
COMMUNnYSERVICES CENTER
208 Wast 13th Street New York.
NY 10011 (212) 82(1.7310 8am11pm _ryday. A place for community
organizing
andnetworking. IOcial servicea, cultural prograllll, and social iMIrIIII
sponsored by the Center andmore than 1!11COiil"lIJIity organ~zations.

MOCA (Men of Color AIDS
Prwvention ProgrMLl
Provides lafer 8ex and AIDS
education infonnation to gay andbisexual Men of Color; coordinates a R8twoik of pear-support
groupe for gay and bisexual Men
flCo"-': in all 5 borougha of New
Y_ ~Ninth Ava, New YotlI,
NY lOOO1orcaH (212)239-1798.

WBIANAND GAY lABOR
NETWORKAn organization of Lesbians andGays WlO ara activll intheir labor
wUIISwodcing 111dail8llliC partnerslip banaIiIs and AIDS issues. For
more infonnaIim caI(21$lHm,
WBIAN ANO GAY RIGHTSPROJECTof the American Civil Uberti ..
Union KNOW YOUR RIGHTSI
WE'RE EXPANDING 11EM (212)944-9800, ext 545
WBIANS AND GAYS OFRATBUSH
Brooklyn's social organization forboth gay men and leabians. P.O.
Box 108, Midwood Station.
Brooklyn, NY 11230· (718) 85&9437

WBIM HERSTORY
ARCHIVES
P.O. IIaK 12!11New Yolk, New. YOlk
10118212/874-7232Since 1974, theArchiws has inspired, shaped andrefle.cted lesbian lives everywhara. CaD to arrange a IIisit or tov~untll8rfor Thuradaywortcni!#ttB.
LONG ISlAND ACT-UP
M88IB Tue&days at 8prn at 181 Post
Ave. in Westbury, NY. Support usforchange on long Island. Mailingaddraas: PO 1IQx514,Westbury, NY
11m 51&-33&-4882.
LSM
is a ~1IIIi iiomIIfm ~fIIr
IasI:in; rn:t 1... _ VAIS Ii1araR-

ed in~~Ii1daga.citc:i(i1a, ~ iIiihes, aIanaIa gandar
indantities, cOSlumes and 10 forth.
Mambeillhip is ava~abla only towoman 18 yeara and older, Actual
scpaiBIIl8 is net IIIIPad IU garO-oa
i1anIItllllill1open nm8ID.foriiof.
I11IIioo Pease wE: !!lib" MJ..
rr(1I Slalicr\New'lllk,NY101!BMEN
OF ALL COLORSTOGETHER NY
A multi-racial group of gay men
againat racism. Meetings every
Friday i1i~st 7:45 at the Lesbianand Gay COiil"unity Services Canter,208 W. 13th Street For mora
info. call: (212) 24&8388 or (212)222-9194.

NAnONAL GAY AND WBIANTASKFORCE
is 1I1enational gl'UllllO\B politicalorganization for lesbians and gay
men. Membership is $3O/year.
lsaue-orienllld projeclB addi'118s'JioJance, sodomv laws, AlOS, gay
rights oninanclll, families, mecia,
ete. through lobbying. education,organizing and direct action.
NGLTF 1517 U SIreet MN, Washington, DC mill. (202)3.U-6l83.

NORTHERN UGHTS,SUMJANCE
OUTDOOR ADVENIUIIEALTERNATIVES

ImproVing Quality of Life for People with AIDS/HIV. THE AIDSMASTERY WORKSHOP: Exploring the possibiitiaa of a powarfui
and creative life in the face of
AIDS. Call (212) 255-8!i!i4
NYC GAY a WBIAN
ANJI-VlOu:NCE PRoJECT
Counseling. 'advocacy, and info,..
mation for survivors of anti-gay
and anti-lealian 'Jiolence, _I
a~ult. domaatic violence, andother types of victimization. Allaarvicaa free and confidantial24
hour ho1Iine (212) 807-0197
PEOPu: WItH AIDS
COALmON(212)532~16118 (212)1hru friday l08m-8pm Meal programs,
support groups, educllion!!1 andreferral servicea for PWA's and
PWArc'&•'PEOPlf WITH AIDS .

~GIIOuP.

Undel!P'ound buyar's club inponng
not..,..appl'lMld madicationa andnutritional supplam,ente. ,31 Wast
311hSt 4thRoor (212)m«l8I,,

MWYOIIICADVBrI1SI4GNII

SOCIEJY
A non-prOfit club offering Outdoor activiliea for every _IOn
including hiking, biking, Kiings
walllr activiti .. and other outdoor activitiea for the ely/l»olian convnunity. For informationor complimentary
NewII,ttercal (212)!i118-4728.

THE OUTREACHUSING
COMMUNAL HEAUNG(TOUCH)

Communityvolwrtaara pnMding.
weekly buffet supper for thl
BRlIik¥I AIDS canm~TOUCH
meets Monday evi •• 5pm to
8:30pm- at downtown Brooldyn
Friends Meeting HOUle (110
Schennerhorn St near BOINIm
Plae8~Lmted tIlnapoi1ltion may
be arranged. Info: (718) 822-2758.
TOUCH wulCOITI88 contributions offinis, food and voImtaars.
ULSTER COUNTY GAY ANDWBIAN AI.UANCE
Maelll first.and third Monday ofeach month at 7:30 pm at the Un~lillian Church on Sawkil Road in
Kingston. For Infonnation, can814-828-3203

PINK PANTHERPATROL,NEIMRK
CmmriIr atreat patrol in ~ andWHAMI
NYACN is 1hiI COiililll1ity'S largest . West Wage di!dicatad todelrming
WOIIII!II" Heal1l1 Action And
gay 8lllllesIian prciaa8iOi1al group,
viGJant crime againat 91"1'1 and fe&MDbilization.
welcoming all in communicabian .. ~Vill4ige weekly meat- .
A direct action group committiona and 1hair mends. Monthly
ings at TIJI!8. .r..,rings st Co I1I11I11ity
meetings, 3rd Wed 8:30pm st theCenter. Cal for: lima and Info: 212- ,ad to demanding, .ecuring anddefending absolulII reproducCommunity Center. Members'
47543B3. ,For East Vlige patrol info.
tive freedom and quality healthnewsletter, job hotline, annual
call 212-24&-8588. 135 Wast 29thcare for ill women. We meet
diructory. Phone (212)517.a11 for
SIraat. NYCllD!1
every Wed. at 8:3bt- 'II at 105, E
more info. Mention OutWeak for22nd Street, 4th flo ,r.212-713one fIoa ilIlWIIfaUBt
PROFESSIONALS IN
5988Mailing aIJdra ... : WHAMI,
Flir.wlD~
PO Box 733, NYC I.
'
N.Y.FE_ES
338 Canal Stra8t,' 8th RllOr,-NYC
Support and discussion group for: .. l0013t12~
WOMEN$ ALTERNATIVE
lesbians who self identifY 'as
COMMUN ITY CENTER (WACC)~
and ara primarily auract8d(lUEERNAnON
A non-pr:ofit, Lesbian communito butch women. for rnembei8hip
The lesbian and Gay directty center, serving QueeRl, N....
information caB lisa (212)821H1I17. action groupdadicatedto fi'ghtaau and Suffolk Countias,
ing homop~obia and Gay andThuri. night weekly diacuaaion
N.Y.WOIBtS.SOFIBAlLGlIID . leabi.an. invisibility. Anyone cangrou'p •• 8:30 pm, for otherFor experienced, serious Softball
suggest an acti~n and sliould
activities plea" conlllct u. at
Playars, Coaches and Managers.
come'to meptingl prepared to518-483,2050.
We play mod/fast pitch weekorganize and implement it QN,
ends in Manhattan and Queens.
Box ,1524, ~perSlIItion, New
Try-oUIB begin Feb. 11 thru Apn1York, ~Y 10003 .. Call 212-483or IA'IIiI filled. (212) 2!i5-1379Janat
7Z111for meeting info.
NINIII S1I&I' CENIBI'
SAGE:
Since 1973. a Cll11munity dedicat(s.nior ActiDn in I Gay
ed to demonstrating that a homoEmiiI'Cllllllllll) .
sexual lifestyle is a rational,
Social Servica Agency. provicing
desirable choice for individualscare, activities, & educational
dissatisfied with the rewards ofsarvicea·for gay & Ias~ian seniorconvantionalliving. PaychoJo9ca11y
citizens; Also serves over 180- focussed rap g/O!JPS.Tues., Set., 8
homebound
seniors & older
to 10 pm. paer counselling availPWA'• .208 West 13th St NYC
able. 318 E 8 S1raat, New Yolk, NY
10011,(212) 741-2247
10m. forinfo cal (21l)22&51!R-"•

NORTH AMERICAN IWIiaOY. LOVE ASSOCIATION (NAMIII.AI• Dedicated to 88XU81 freedom andeap8cially interated( in gay intergenerational ralaticrilips. M0nthly Bulletin and regular chapter
meetings on the first Saturday ofeach month. Yearly membenship is$20; write NAMBlA PO IIaK 174,
Midtown Station, New York. NY
10018 or call (212) 807-8578 forinfonnation.

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SETIUN GAYI,WBIANS ArtIIIISDUMS

For all of U8 interestedinreaching out to each other in
exuberance
to spontaneously, expJore and expand upon
the Seth/Jane
Roberts'Phi.
,loaOjlhy" 88 it raaltes to ourlives, personally,sexually
and politically. Call AI (212)979-5104

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CHELSEA. Duchess II, 70 Grove St (7th Ave,), 242-1408 (Women)

Don't Tell Mama, 343 W. 46th St., 757~0788

Barbary Coast, 64 7th Ave. (14ili St.), 675-0385

Dugout, 185 Christopher St., 242-9113 (formerly, ilieRamrod),

Gents, 360 W 42 St. (9th Ave), 967-0659
Sally's Hideaway, 264 W. 43 St.,221-9152

The Break, 232 8th Ave. (22nd St.). 627-0072.

Eighty Eights, 228 W lOSt., 924-0088

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

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

The Hangout (J's). 675 Hudson St., 242-9292

Eagle's Nest, 14211th Ave (21st St.), 691-8451

Julius, 159 W. 10th St., 92g.9672

Private Eyes, 12 W. 21st St. (bet. 5th & 6th),

Keller's, 384 West St. (at Christopher). 243-1907 'Trix, 246 W. 48 St. (B'way/8th Ave), 664-8331
The Works,206-roO

Kelly's Village West, 46 Bedford St., 92g.9322•

428 Columbus

Ave (at 81 st),79g.7365

EASTSIDE

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

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

Spike, 120 11th Ave., 243-9688

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

Bogart's, 320 E. 59th St., 688-8534

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New Jimmy's, 53 Christopher, 463-0950

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

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

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

Sneakers, 392 West St., 242-9830.

Johnny's Pub, 123 E. 47th St., 355-8714 .

Badlands, Christopher & West St., 741-9236
Boots & Saddle, 76 Christopher St., 929-9684

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

NY Confidential, 306 E 49 St., 308-8390

Cellblock 28" 28 ~th Ave, 733-3144 (j.o. club,
open on a limited basis, call for info) .

Ty's, 114 Christopher,741-9641.

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

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

South Dakota, 405 3rd Ave (at 29 St)., 684-8376

Cubbyhole,
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Star Sapphire, 400 E. 59th St., 688-4710

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Crazy Nanny's, 21 7th Avenue South, 366-6312(Women).

Candle Bar, 309 Amsterdam Ave., 874-9155

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

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

The Townhouse, 236 E. 58thSt., 754-4649
Twenty-Nine Palms, 129 lexington Ave., 686-8299

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Playroom, 590 Nepperhan Ave., Yonkers, 965-6900

Stutz. 202 Westchester Ave, White Plains, 761-3100"

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Bedrock, 121 Woodfield Rd., West Hempstead,
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Station House Pub, 3547 Merrick Rd, Seaford,
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VOTE FOR ACTION ON ISSUES THAT MATTER TO YOUI

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GALIGUY FRIDAY
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A non-profit organization teaching selfdefense and martial arts for 16 years
Classes and workshops throughout the NYC area
• 5-Week Self-Defense Course for Women• Karate and Tai Chi Chuan Classes for Women• Self,Defense Workshops for Lesbians and Gay Men• Children's Self Defense Classes• Workshops in the Community and the Workplace,

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Based on over 7 years of living.
Send $9.95 to T.M. Publications
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Experienced therapists
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Moderate fee. Licensed * Reimbursable
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PRIMARY
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Ga~ Men's Health Crisis is the largest community based organization dedicated to
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and their loved ones; to educate the public; and to advocate for fair and effective AIDS
policies. Our services are provided free of charge to 3,OOOmen, women and children
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Our agency is commftt.ed to staft development, support and growth, and provides acompetitive salarY/benefits package. Please send, resume, along with salary requirements, to: Donna,Dul;l, Director, Human Resources, Gay Men's Health Crisis, Inc.,
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very sensual, fluid, deep tissue
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such as T4 cells, virologic markers suchas antibody and p24 antigen tests andclinical assessment either im-proved or
stayed the same. No volunteer developed
toxic reactions.
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Results of this phase-one study,
designed to measure toxicity in a small
number of patients, prompted theresearchers to test the procedure in aphase-two study of 20 people with
ARC. This study is underway at Morristown Memorial. A hospital spokesperson said that all 20 were "doing well."
Data from the phase-two study may besubmitted to the FDA early in 1991.
Therakos, a Pennsylvania-based subsidiary of Johnson & Johnson and the
manufacturer of the machine, is funding the phase-two study. It was not
involved during phase-one.
As the initial phase-one study usedno controls, was not blind and had
only a handful of volunteers, defmitive
statements regarding the procedure's
apparent success cannot be made. In
fact, an editorial accompanying Bisaccia's paper, written by an editor at
Annals, questioned the lack of theseelements. The editor, Dr. Elias Abrutyn,
explained that the journal chose toprint the paper because it might
prompt other investigators to further
research the procedure,Twere receiving the drug. "We intend to
make this drug accessible, and we arecommitted to the expanded access program," he said.
Currently, 200 people with AIDS
receive ddC under expanded access,and 750 more are being enrolled. Roche
must apply for the national IRB status
but has yet to do so, according toOestreicher and sources at the FDA
and NIAID.
ACf UP chapters from across thecountry have sought expanded accessfor ddC since the beginning of the year,
Originally, Roche said that it had limited the number of expanded-access
enrolees to 200, a policy it has since
retracted. There is now no cap.
Activists say that ddC will be lessexpensive than AZT or ddI with lesssevere adverse side effects. Oestreicher
said that Roche understands and shares
the activists' sense of urgency, but it is
too early in development to makedeftnitive statements on ddC's cost, side
effects and efficacy.
Roche has set up ddC coordinating center for physicians seeking toenroll patients in the expanded accessprogram. It can be reached at: 1-800DDC-21llV (but omit the last V).Ta

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, inserted into the virus during replicaton,
slowing down the process. AZT is the
only drug approved by the US Food andDrug Administration that specifically targets the human immunodeficiency virus.
In the ddI protocol, the Clinical
Review Subcommittee at the National
Institutes of Allergy and Infectious Diseases became a "national" IRB, and the
IDA, which approves drugs, waived the
local IRB requirement. While BristolMyers distributes ddI at no cost to therecipient, the cost to the company isseveral million dollars, a Bristol-Myers
spokesperson said.
ACf UP's Gold said that Roche isusing the local IRB requirement to limit
distribution of ddC .and avoid the costsof expanded access.
Roche's Dr. Paul Oestreicher told
Outweek that the company was awareof a few complaints, but most people
seeking ddC under expanded access+
There is no cure for HIV. But there are treatment
options. The AIOSIHIV Treatment Directory,
published by the American FOllndation for AIDS
Research (AmFAR). is a guide to the lull range ofapproved and experimental treatmenn. A one-year
subscriplion to the Directory (4 issues) is only
$30.00, Tosubscribe, or to make a contribution,
send your check to AmFAR,

I'\.. American Foundation for AIDS Research -6\(lt 1515 Broadway, New York, NY 10036
People wifh HIV disease who cannot ofiord a paid subscription may
obtain a complimentary copy by calling the Notional AIDS
Inlo,mation Clearinghouse at 1'800·458·5231.

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And Rivera Dueno added, "W~
need a strong, preventive, education
program," one that he hopes will reflect
the combined efforts of government,
church, civic and school officials. Stressing a problematic machismo cultural
pattern, which causes many men to disdain condoms, Rivera continued, "We
have to ,talk about condoms straightforward-no other type of message will getthere." He also believes education must
begin with teenagers and possibly evenyounger people,
Rivera's AIDS-Institute has received
about $1 million in private grants for research and AIDS-prevention education.
But given the current funding situation,
there is little money for health care, letalone other preventive programs. In themeantime, those who can afford it often
come to New York, sometimes hooking
up with distant relations in search ofhealth care and treatments. Ironically, ina city whose own health care system isin an alarming state of decay, what isavailable here ,is often superior to whatmost Puerto Ricans can find at home.
"A number of patients who haveaccess to family in the States,..go there
for treatment," said Rivera. "By the same
token," he added, "many patients returnin the final stages [of the disease] toPuerto Rico-to die at home is like acultural pattern."T,•

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the Collective for living Cinema from Nov. 1-:3. AII-Girl Action
Yes, I think sustaining seXual energy is a way to deal with is .a short history ~flesb~ erotica. Some of the films "clipped",•
the stress, (of being a new mother). Mothers aren't supposed to are Sweet Dreams, Tberes6 and Isabelle
Lianna and Aerobisex.
be sexual, and there's this image of the poor, exhausted, newGirls. Bright doesn't simply focus on the Hollywood images of 'mother being poked by her husband, but it's not like that. Just lesbianismor heterosexual
pornographic
images of, like with all our Sexuality, we , can take charge of it.
leSbians---6he explores such lesbian' filmmakers as Honey Lee
Cottrell and the queen of lesbian independent filmmaking, BarHow does gaining control of our sexuality impact withbara Hammer. The ,commentary ranges, from "'70s soft-focus
AIDS, censorship and issues such as outing?
sexploitation and early feminist Sapphistry to Hollywood fanWell,
all
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Lestasies and contemporary women-made erotic videos."•bians keep seeing th~esaspeople who have to give up sex
The second program is How to Read a Dirty Movie; into be good and pure and tru~kingfor the greater good :They which Bright "chooses exampleS of gay and straight, romaritic 'are also kind of ~ug about AIDS and sex. They view it as some- and didactic, porn to explor~ong
other thiri.gS-hew porn..
thing othei people get. Lesbians look at AIDS as a male disease the makes men out of boys and how Hollywood habits have infilway straight people see it as, a gay disease.· Lesbians, like most trated porn stories to make them more palatable for women."
women, think they have to give up sex to get respect [from the The clips shown with. this program include HoW to Enlarge Your .
sOOety).And lesbians see theInselves as being dean and imperv!- , Penis and Smoker, as well as, a triple-X re~eof the film noil'.,
ous to kxually transmitted diseases. But this is part of the larger classic Kiss Me Deadly.
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picture about lesbians generally being more in the d05et than gay
men. As long as lesbians are in the doset,we won't knOw hoW we
And whqt al?out tJ:iefuture?, ,Are there any other irons in theare affected by such things, We woh't know about AIDS and les- fire?
•Jbians., We can bIaIDe the CDC and the Nn:I and the govemm,ent for
Well, there are. I want to get a broader focus at OOB: When
not paying attention to us, but we have to be out ther~ in the first we first started the magazine, I didn't wain any seashell pictures orplace to be seen. And the really odd juxtaposition in all this is that waves lapping the sand-that pbvioussortof lesbian sexual,_
lesbians ~ in the foref'r9Qtof AIp~woik and~.
imagery. NQW,
feel~,· spare me your tired. dungeons, your\whips-3nd-chains cliches. NoW rin pra~_
reaJ:ly f9!' seashell
So you think that being out is important?
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pictures. I want to keep expanding
the stories' and'Absolutely. I have mixed feelipgs about outing-who doesn't? graphics-that's really important.
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But I think that there's this fear of the "L" word that is terrible, justterrible. I'd rather people spoke for themselves, but if outing makes, Arul new books, other than Herotica II?
,people speak for themselves, then ultimately it's positive.
I'm still interested in these ide;lS about pregnancy and sex,
uality. I can't say if a book will come out of it, but I certainly
Does sexism figure in how many lesbians are out?
collected a lot of stories that were pretty amazing, And of
Defmitely, It's the reason why more women aren't out of course, rm busy with Aretha, too.
the, closet. But we have to take the risks, we have, to blow the,shackles off of pretending to be straight. The issue in outing
And other films? You were so wonderful in Virgin Machine,,should be se:lWai deviance, not being
gay. Most people are sexYou spent all your time touting dildoes by the pier,~O,ual deviants, If everyone who didn't fit the heterosexual
You know, everyone thinks that I w~ just beir).g myself
paradigm was outed, then that 'Would be almost everybody.
in that ftlm, like rm always playing with dildos and always,
When it comes to, being out, it's important that people realize
trying to get people into porn movie theaters. But that wasthat there are risks that come With integrity. But integrity is bet- really hard for me. Atidithose people, the people you seE!outter to have.
,side the theater-theyweren't actors. They were ju~ people,
on the street. So they' didn't know what was going on. ,But
Have yqu taken risks in all this openness about seXualitythat was acting, not just how I am in my living room ..
and about your own personal sexutlilife?
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Have you had other film offers since?
cruel things in all the fights over S/M and OOB and even my'-rm ready, but Hollywood hasn't ~Ied me yet. My star just .
baby. But oy-erwhelmingly, people are supportive.· And I think hasn't been born yet, I guess.
,'you can gain that support from people. Overall, I have gotten
compassion and admiration from people.,
Do you have a final comment for the audience-something,.
JlQU want all lesbians to hear?
What about your tour, and your film and video Projects?
Well, I guess I want all fesbil!.ns to· hear one thing, and I'Well the tour right now is on the East' Coast, with Cleis want everybody'else to hear th~same thing, which is that I[PressJ.---and they've been wonderful. And the presentalions havethink we have to start integrating· our sexual lives with the
been arranged by Frameline in SF. I'll be showing How to Read a rest of our lives; We have to be opeil ahd out and not-let cen- ,Dirty Movie and All-Girl Action, which w:~r~_bo~.h~ts.. a,~gte. film,_.,~!:Ship a~d repr~ionc stand in-the way-of living the way, we'festivarhei"e.
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Richard, P.O box
POB 400073,
to share qual. reI.
weight I was likebullshit with a series
4642; East Lansing,
Bklyn, NY 11240Must bee outgoing,
you, now I want to
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BEARSI33, very handCountry Club Dr,
toned so I'm ablee
key to financial
6'1", 215 Ibs., 45 yr.
some blue eyed
Union, NJ 07083.
to be a model andsecurity. Am gay, 49,
old enema bear will
patrician 6'1" 185
my sexual life could
clean out your butt
6'1 1/2", 220., bm/seeks superiorGBM
be wild but Frenchwith warm soapy
brn, average looks,,
specimen top
Inexp., 22, 5'7",
are too romantiC.
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1551bs,avg.
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enema bag.
employed businessknow who you
more. Call (212)714- 25, slim or medium
owner. Am kind,Yeah...stand thereare) to interview
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understanding,for perm, position,.
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honest, sincere, andlet's have intense
discreet
times
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BEEFY
BOY
and I'll rub it
value a true; sex;then a laugh,w friendship. Snd
26 years old 170lbs,
slow'n'easy. Haser, relationship. Lost mythen get a house
photo/ph to J. Scott, ,POBox 421791, San
Very good looking
lover in an autQ
.in the country.
217 E 86th, Suite
Dark hair & eyes
accident a faw
Francisco, CA
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94142-1791
years back so, so- running, tenms,
Photo will be'muscular I don't go
although alone, notskiing, reading .
to the bars & I work . returned.
HIV-, FURRY
lonely, just looking
and arts. Write w/
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at
home.
I'm
for someone to
PANDA
photo and phone.
looking for
QUALITY MAN
Hairy, bearded, 6'4" share a home,
Outweek Box
SEEKS SAME
muscular Latin men
200 Ibs, blue-eyed
3550
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GWM ,50 wants little
chicken 18/19 withx-big, uncut cockfor live-in lover.
Send your nudephoto for reply. W.
Whita 1905 Wilson
I2A Chicago, IL
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7, 1990busine .. , and ME.
No fems, fats, ,druggies, street
runners, cultured orcollege types. I'd· .'rather you be a highschool drop out
then an egghead,someone who
appreciates achance at love andsecurity. If thissounds like you,rush me e letter end
photo to let meknow you exist If
we decide to get
together, 1'1/takecare of yourrelocation. Chuck.
6539 Heather Court,
Harrisburg, Penna.
17112'
SEEKS MASSIVECALVES
Seek GWM withmassive calves.
Age and body type
unimportant POB
2874, Southampton,
NY 11968.
,

NICE GUY WANTEDGWM 48 5'9", 155
Ibs, brlbr, average
looks, enjoys arts,
theatre, nature
friendship/
relationship. POB
1248, Union, NJ•
07083-9998
TAKE A CHANCEON...
Are you hungry formore than one nightof desire? Greatl
Very handsome
GWM 25 5,10" 150
Ibs seeks baautiful
in shape male 18-33
any race OK for
something real.
Photo & phone
Outweek Box 3510
HEY LlnLE
BROTHER
Tall blond 6'3" 190,
35, goodlooking andgood shape seeks
little brother 18-35
for fun safa times,
massages, biker's
tights, ect Fulfill tbe
fantasy and playwith iny sculptilred
tool and two whitemounds of snow.
Your photo (ifpossible) and note\,,gets mine. Rich P.O.
Box 938 Rock
Center Sta. NY
10185-0009
THREE OR FOUR
W/M 46 8'1' 180 br/
br showbiz exec
will invite W/M gdlk
23-29 to threesome
with gdlk W/M 27 6'
150 blond - have funwith two exciting
men or bring afriend to threesome
with me orfoursome - safe sex
fantasies grellt
intellectual+physicalstimulation ba
educated goodbody/mind enjoy, drinks good food ,all expenses paid.
No drugs no, hustlers. Write PH/
Ph POB 8324 NY
10150-1918
PROPOSITION
WM,48 6ft 180lbs
offers total Safe
Sex service to very
well hung Topmen
in exchange forocc. wknd
accomodation in
NYC. Will reciprocate on Cape Cod.
Reply to POB 847
Provincetown, MA
02657,

HOT JUICY MOUTH
Wanted by twohorny HIV neg
white males age 50
in Santa Rosa Calif.
on a regular steadybasis. Keep our
juices drained.
Write Doug andGeorge Box 282
Fulton, CA 95439Coma soonl
WANT TOPI
BlfW/M mid 40's,
180# bus man,athletic. Looking for
top to teach me B/
0, slave mstr, lea.,
dildos, etc. Must be
discreet P.O. Box
1535, Levittown, PA
19058.
HOT COllEGE GUY
wants GWM under
25 for safe fun.
Xplicit letter &phone to BW P.O.
Box 368, Bkyln, NY

11229.All answered, those withphoto first.

reading, arts. WriteDavid, POB 291,
NYC 10011.

SLIM TEEN
WANTED
18-19, slim, any
race OK by nice
GWM, 50 5'7" 150
Ibs, trim beard,
glasses, looks like afriendly teacher.
Mail current photoand detailed letterto P.O. Box 22181
San Francisco, CA
94122. Uve-in
house-boy position
possible for rightdeserving boy.

WANT A SEXBUDDY IN NEW
ORLEANS?
Adventurous
bottom eager totake on top man,any age (18+)/race.
I'm WM 43, 5'10",
175#, like all kinds
safe sex & toys & S/
M. Call 504-5228324 till 2AM or
write POB 71n5,
Naw Orleans, LA
70172

NY, great tightbody, fine face,
mind, humor. Senda picture and 3
reasons why I
should respond.
Outweek Box 3493
GWM, 32, STABLE,
6', 225#,
beard, HIV-, skssimilar man withinterest in 1 on 1
reI., cookung,music, biking & safe
good times. Dave,
P.O. Box 1465,
RanchoCucamonga, CA
91729

GWM, 44 175# 5'11"
looking for Queensthat are tops andlike to dominate.
Between 18"30. I'm
inot anything when
its sex - Latins Assian a plus. Also
J/O letters. Please
send photo andphone I. All
answered. Box 598
Orangeburg NY
10962

BEARDED DADDYThis silVer haired,43,6',280#, HIV-,
GWM wants tosettle down with a
special manfriend.
I'm looking for a
GWM, 25-45 years
old, nonsmoker,
emotionally andfinancially stable,
curious about life's
deeper meaning,and more top thanbottom but
I'M A VERY LONELYI'M A GWM, VERY, versatile. I find
GWM
LONELY
small built, furry,
27 yrs,old, 6'2", 150
I have about 6
Northern MediterIbs, br hair, gr eyes,months before I go
ranean or Jewish
I'm an artist, myup for parole, mymen with BEAUTIparents disowned
mother died 3
FUL equipment,
me. when theymomths ago, so
especiallyfound out I was gay
now I have no one
attractive but like
about 4 months ago. on the outside towother "types too.
I will know in Jan.
hepl me with aLet's have a fun,91' when I get out
place to live. I'd likeof prison, but I'd like to hear from anyone sharing, caring,honest, adult, man
to hear from
who will write me,"everyone who's
I'm 25 yrs. old, 5'10", to man relationship.
Write: Michael, 199
care to write me,
150#, blk hr., and .
Harrier Avenue,and hopefully wewant to hear fromVallejo, CA 94590can become
all you out there.
3709
friends, so please
You willnot be
write me and give. disappointed I Tom
MY NAME IS
me a chance, you
Chadwick #84279,
JEWELS GILL
will not regret
P.O. Box 128 #6-C"The reason I am
having me for a
11 KY Statewriting this letter isfriand. Ronnie E.
Penitentiary,that I have no
Meadows, #29027,
Eddyville KY 42038f~iends or family ...1
POB 128 #6-C-l0, KY 0128
just need someone
State Penitentiary
Eddyville KY 42038, to write me that I
I HAVE GREAT
can talk to and be
0128
TASTE...
friends with. I'm 27
and so do you.
yrs.old, 5'7", 1651bs,
SENSE OF HUMOR
That's )Vhy we'll geta black male. I have
GWM, 5'10", 160lbs., along. Our firsta 7 year sentencedate, you'll say how
brn/blue, 36, sks
for cashingmuch you'd like tointelligent,
checks ...hope to ..getkiss me...and ofculturally qware
out in Dec. of 91...ifcourse, we'll kiss,
GBM w/sense ofanyone cares to
etc. I'm a 23 y.o.
. humor. I likewrite ..." Jewels Gill
dancing, exercise,queer, just back in
GAY AND INTERRACIAL
GJM, 40, 5'10",
1551bs,cute, blueeyes and wise
desires masculine
Bi or Gay black man
sensitive andmature to explore
who we are. Foto/phone if possible to
P_O.Box 20, NYC,
NY 10012,

W,

96050 Box 128 6-C-9
Kentucky State
Penitentiary
Eddyville KY 420380128

explosive action
and poss relat
Write: RF, POBox
304, Viii Sta, NY NY•
10014

SHAVE MISTER?
Shaving expert who
plans shaving
parties & small 2-3
guy scenes wants
to hear from men
intr. in body shavesto get local groups
going. Send pers.
profile : Ed J. Box
1219 Southampton,
MA 18966-1219

ITALIAN JOCK
STUD
Handsome, 28,
clean shaven, 5'10",
165. Healthy,
muscular top needs
hungry cockslave
body worshipper toservice me after
workouts. Ph/Ph:
Box 1549, Murray
Hill Station NY, NY
10156-0607. Apply
nowl

VISITING FT. LAUDt
Goodlooking man 55
into beach, movies,
sex, making love,
theatre, etc. Call
305-583-6612
between l1AMlPM and lIPMlAMBLOWJOB CENTRAL NJ
COCKSUCKER .
Will suck and deepthroat your healthy,
clean, 6" + cock aslong as you like.
Hungry W/Mcocksucker eager
to please all. No
reciprocation. Just
suck. 422 Rt. 206,
Box 701, Sommerville, NJ 08876
DOMINANT MAN(25-60) SOUGHT
Submissive, manly
GWM seeks inshape, dominantman (25-60) for sis.
No drugs, pot,
boozers, hustlers.
Easy car parking
here, Box LSA 1328
BWay 11054 NYC
10001
HOT STUD
seeks cute Fr./A
guys. Box 25,
Bellflower, CA
90706.
RELIABLE MAN HOT
Dependable
dates ....
Hot, WM, 34, 6'1",
hdsm, wks out, andmasc, seeks vy tall/broad guy for
regular-reliable

NEED A SPANKING?
Atr. yng. W/male 25
yo, Very Sexy + hot
Would love to play
spank your naughty
ass until it's nice &red. I love all
fantasies. Let's
play I Bobby P.O.
Box 707, Jerico, U,,NY 11753
MIDDLE EASTERNCRISIS
Faggot with a wild
sense of humor, on
the guest list at
EVERYclub in NYC,
seeks hot Arabboys with little
grasp of English, .
but lots to grasp
onto, uncut a plus.
Photo, photo,
photo ....and phone.
Outweek Box 3463,
ONE GOOD HAND
Deserves another. ,Forming a small
group of guys, ages
30-50, to meat atplace in Manhattan
on a regular b,asis
for massaga & J/O
only. This GWM '40's , 5'9", 160,
moustache, gym
body looking fordiscreet, sensual,
good-humored, likeminded friends.
Send Ph/Ph
Outweek Box 3453
AQUARIUS 'We were made foreach otherl I am
GWM, 33, HIV-, bfI
bl, 6'2", hairy, beefy

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Gemini who willcompliment yourlife on all levels.
You are, 25-40,
funny, talkativeand ready to live
fulJ-tilt wltaw
explanations andno appologias.
Photo~phone to :Times Sqr Stat,
P.O. Box 2352;
NYC 10108.
Gemini and Leo
welcome to write.

stroke & findle guys
any age.' Briefs
down, bottoms upl, Rick POB 45
Caldwell, NJ 07006

Box 581, NYC 10274.
FANTASY RUB
Gdlk Asian, 33, 13~,
5'6", smooth body,
healthy; into actingout fantasies (Dad!
son, jock/coach,jockey shorts, silk
socks, stripper, etc.)
which lead intosome hot erotic
body massage andfinish it off with along pleasurable i/osession (no gr/fr). If
you are in shape ,and healthy (HIV-)
21-40 and ready foroccaisional
meetings write withph/photo to DC, Box1271, Wall St
Station, NY NY
10268-1271

must POB 20268;
London Terrane,
NYC NY 10011.

friends. I'm into':'spiritual beings;
and turned off by
cig smoking anddrugs. Hope tomeet quality guys
for sincere
friendship &possible ,dating.
Reply to BOX 'HOLDER, P.O. Box4056, NYC 10185,

seeks compatible
peer w/greet sense, Of humor, solid
values & good looks.
for friendship, anaffair, or much more. Pissend Itr & phone # (a photo would beappreciated andreturned onrequest) to: POB
7560, NY, NY 101636030. Outweek Box
3396

WM, 38, 6', 180, L
ISlANDCANADIAN GWM
average-looking,33, 5'9", 160 Ibs. attr.
affectionate andma.c, fit, hlthy, blue
faithful gay activist.
eyes, drk bind hr,
anti-nuke register,
brd , hary chest.
spiritual worker for
legs, erms, sks, attr,
justice seeks GM
masc, fit, hlthy men,
25-45 yrs. for, any race or age for
BODYBUILDER.romantic friendshipfrndshp, pnpls,
5'10", 195
and .loving
contact Write :49"C,33'W, lTA, 43, , partnership for
Occupant, POB
seeks other muscle
peace and'LOOKING FOR YOU
46612, Sfn. G,
studs, over 35, who
happiness. Letterl
Let's get serious.
Vancouver, B.C.,
SUCCUlANT -RIM
have a similar build
photo to Outweek
GWM 41, 5'T, 195
Canada VGR 4G8'
FEAST Ior better one. Rick, , Box 3415
Ibs, successful,
Me: Puckered
496A Hudson St
secure, sweet guy
SAN DIEGO ORGY
rosebud; honeyed#H-24, NYC, NY
looking for a special
FF
BOTTOMS
You're 3O-Sometongue, healthy
10014
Big, bearded,
man to start athing & remember. Frenchman, 49,
bearish, bi, HIV-, FFrelationship. Send
greet group sex. Or
5'11", 195#, brlbl,
SEND ME SELF
top about to lose his photo, phone
you've fantasized &G/P, RFAIP. ADDRESSED'
Marine-reservist
number to PO Box
want to actl
, (Asian, smooth
STAMPED
31, Jacksonbottom to active
VERY SPECIAL
Condoms req'd.
a+) Ur. ph # (ifenvelope I will send
duty in Arabia.
Outgoing, HIV-,
Heights, NYC 11372.
Describe yourself" &poss.) to A.D.,
you free gift Rev '
Seeks young, trim
handsome,
fantasies. J.K. P.O.
POB 442, NYC
RomoloGirardio-.D.
HIV- bottoms, butch
intelligent law
CHUBBY, BABYBox 3502 San Diego, student in prestig10156-0442
P,O. Box 716 SI, NY
to fem, for sensual
FACED GWM
CA 92163
10306 USA
wknds in theious law school
38, 5'5", 200, brlbr,
GBM SEEKS
Hamptons. No
cln. shv, hairy chest
despite being in a "SAFE 3-WAY
GWM SOULMATE
FOOT SERVICE
S&M. Novices ok.
wheelchair. Invites& gut, u/c, seeks
ACTIONGBM, 43 (looks
WANTED
Outweek Box 3413
masculine, wellspir1tual, athletic,
Two 'clean-cut guys,30), Ivy-educ,Slow-strip this U/Cbuilt chaser any
sensitive, monoga20's & 30's, seek hot mous guy with highprof, HIV+ (butItalianrace (GOM a +) 4
HOT SUBMISSIVE
bottom for safe fun,very healthy), 5'9"
guy, 44, 5-6, 150, BR
BOTTOMsafe, sweaty,
self-esteem and big
In NYC twicw a(165 swimmer's
hr/eyes/stache.
41, 5'10", 150, needs
imaginative fun.
heart to share love
week. Your tell &body), total
I love getting mytake charge daddy
and happiness. If
Midtown- day/nite.
photo get ours. P.O. .your life is together,bottom, sks
faet sucked as I do
for dominance w/o
PhotO/description Box 172, White
masc., dominant,a slow J/O and cun
pain, bid, etc. Take
to TJ, Box 112,
let's meet Pic & phPlains, NY 10605.
HIV+ (or -)inall over my chest
this bitch. PIP Box
preferred. Thanks.
Executive Suite, 330
shape GWM 30Safe, hot sCl!ne for
Holder, P_O.Box
PO Box 4607,
West 42nd St NY,
NOW
AUDITIONING
50. You are a total ,2 masc. guys. Write
Berkeley CA 94704
5091, Hazlet, NJ
NY 10036. Fantas
for co-star in longtop, monogam, &w/phone #. P.O. Box 07730.
y Wrestlers a +.
running relationlike quiet eves at1705 NYC 10010. Do
NYC - QUEENS
ship. Seek blondhome, esp.
itl
LONELY IN NEW
GWM 6'2",46
THE IMPOSSIBLE
athletic type, early
cuddling & beingDREAM
170, Ibs sks Latino,
JERSEY
30's, w/sense of
together. I am
SADISTIC SICIUAN
Very goodlooking
Skinny yet cute
Asian, E. Euro U/Chumor. Some nudity
NOTfem & NOTMASTER
GWM, 6', 165 Ibs.,
a+ 18-35 No S&M
queer boy seeks
required. Please 'into bars & one39, 5'9", 190, beer
healthy, friendly,
amazingly handNo J/O calls Callsend photo andnighters. Am very
belly, seeks chunky718-424-1064 orvery inexperienced,
some Colt type stud
resume to POB 3182 write P.O. Box 647
rltnshp-oriented.
dog, pig, into heavy& lonely, seeks slim
to ravage andRidgewood, NY
I'm real if you art
sm torture cbt 'GWM 18-30. Write - worship.
Into
Maspeth, NY 11378•
11386
too & willing towhippings, pain,
for my photo. Don,statuesque study
work at th~ rightk,nk, raunch ws sct
and in depth
P.O. Box 8316,
THE REAL THINGREAR ASSETS
rltnshp, pis take atotal humiliation
Saddlebrook, NJ,
tongue inspection
Very handsome
Handsome, yng
chance & RSVP
degradation for,.of impressive
07662.
Black weightlifter
GWM, 5'9", 150, has
w/phone &' Itr to:piece of shit thatmusculatur!l. Let
2151bs. 18 inch arms
best
assetstothe
DRW,Box 8385,
wants to be treatedme paint the '32
waist great abs
rear. I need a
Red Bank, NJ
like shit Photolandscape of your
WARM, FUN,
seeks same 6'1"
rugged stud topman
117701phone to POB 1141,
body. Photo.
INTERESTING
hung banker Write, any race who wants
Jck Hgts Ons, NY
Superhung & masc.
Outweek Box 3377
MCJ 14 Crystal
to make love to a
FEELS SO GOODI
11372.
GRK-ITAL Man,
Gade, St Thomas,, hot maIe bitch. I will
Old fashioned,
young 42, 6', 155#,
VirginIslands
00830
MDaddy enema" .• pleasure a blue .
MUSCUlAR
swimmer's build,
assplay & more. I , collar man/officer/
Hdsm prof Asian,whose interests
JUST MOVED TO
mafioso/ex-con,cater to shy guys
20s, 5'6", 140, sks
include music,
NYC•
even if you play
& beginners. I'm
hdsm hlthy Wm/
tenms,
nature,
GWM, 30 yrs. old.
rough.
Fantasies
forgentle & love toLatino 22-45 for safe politics, architeclooking for newmen. No yuppies.
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6. Part 'of a krona
9. Wager•.

•o/WaysideInn, Longfellow
13. Onassis, et al.
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14. Rend
15. Council site
16. Standing
17, Leisure
18. Playwright's orgy?
'21. Abet's partner
22. Literary initials
23. Wee. 26. Ascend
28. Computer abbr;
31. Chum, 3~, Meadows. 34. Greek mountain36, San Francis<;:ofountain treat?
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20. Courtroom motions
23. Reaches
24. Chagall, and others
25. Part of TAE
26. Poker ploy
27. Man or Wight
28. Amulet29.]abs
30. Employ
33. Actor ]annings
35. Friend's pronoun
36. Hurry
37. Make into law
38. Rolling Stone Richards
44. Frontier
46. Instructed
47, Inert gas
48. Similar (to)49. Corset part
50. Possess
51. Aphrodite'S son
52. Dobbin's dinner
53. Congeal
54. ein, zwei, __·55. Fire- or tag- follower
56, Redolence
57. Profits

48, Onetime
49, Actor's building material?
58, Poi source
59. Spanish surrealist
60, Slope
61. The Bard's river
62. Harrow's rival
63. Slave
64. Affirmative response
65. Q-U connection
66. Stadium features

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1. Holy Roman Emperor
2. Autos
3. A Waugh
4. Russian river
5. Stellar
6. Certain exam
7. Peel
8. Sandy ridges
9. Grizzly, e.g.
10. Bridge position
11. Playing card
13. Parched
14. Oolong and herbal
19. Salesman Loman

Nov .....r7.1990

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