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,Pressing for Visib·.uring the protracted debate over Andy Rooney's suspension from 60 Minutes, many people expressed the opinion that Rooney was unfairly censored, According to thisthinking, Rooney should be free to utilize the airwaves
to express·his antigay perspectives because that's part of
the healthy give and take of journalism.
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Unfortunately,
for lesbians and gays in contemporary
American journalism, it's all give and no take. While homophobes
are free to express their opinions throughout the journalistic spectrum, gays and lesbians are not.
There is not now, nor has there ever been, an openly gay or
lesbian person writing a regular column of political opinion in any
newspaper or . magazine in America. There is not .now, nor has
there ever been, an openly gay or lesbian television-news commentator, reporter or talk-show host. There is absolutely no placein the. mainstreaqJ. press where the public can, on a regular basis,hear the arguments for gay and lesbian equality and civil rights.
It's not Rooney who suffered unfair censorship, it's gays and les.bians. And not for 60 or 90 days, but always.
When' people tire of Rooney's offensive aritigay bigotry on
CBS, they should be able to switch to that savvy lesbian commentator on NBC. But no such commentator exists, and from the lookof things, her arrival on the airwaves or the op-ed pages is not
imminent. Such an absense is yet another example of how far
gays and lesbians' are from achieving even the kind of token
acceptance in society that people of color and women gained ageneration ago,.
It was a major advance for Blacks, Asians, Latinos and wpmen
when they achieved mandatory representation in the press., Such
. token representation did not and could not erase journalism's per,vasive sexism and racism, but it certainly helped. For all its easily
lampoonabfe
qualities, the "Shana, you blithering idiot ... ""approach to commentary at least institutionalized a feminist perspective in the mass-market news, a perspective' that has contin. ued to mature. The same can be said for the growing number ofBlack, Asian and Latino pundits who regularly write" comment on
and interpret the news. Until a person of color or a woman runs
CBS or 1be New York Times, the presence of such comm!!ntatorsand the growing' number of rank-and-file female and ,minority
members of the press corps is the next best thing, And such a
growing army of the formerly dispossesed virtually guarantees that
someday, hopefully soon, a person of color and a woman will run
CBS or the Times."'. .
, Not so with gays, Although the Gay and Lesbian Alliance
Against Defamation raises this subject often in meetings withmedia representatives, our community has yet to elevate full-timepress representation to the level of a major political demand, Until
such a demand is placed near the top of our agenda and made at
the top of our lungs, any momentary victory over the likes ofAndy Rooney will probably last 60 minutes at best.' ~
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•We're Are-Islanded Upl
In regard to the recent
ACT UPdemonsfratlon at the
National Institutes of Health
In Washington and the dismal attendance downgraded to "over 500* by The New
York Times, I have come up
with a modest proposal forthe gay community here In
New York, Sure, we're all sickof hearing about the AIDS
crisis, so why not plan one
final ACT UP action to compel the National InstlMes of
Health to move Its fadilHes toFire Island? Think of It. This
way no one In the dty would
redlly have to bother too
much to stand up for theirrights or go out of their way
to make their existence
known. All It would then takeIs a quick and painless breakfrom sunning, cruising or dishIng to dash over to theoffices of Anthony Fauci,
possibly relocated next tothe Island Gym, to makesome noise about a hopeful,new drug. Everyone could
be back to the shore In Hme
to start dinner before evening cocktails. All future
demonstrations
could beheld as theme parties toInsure a really great turnout,
maybe
requestingthat
attendees dress up as theirfavorite experimental drugor dead lover. Good cleanfun, and for a cause, too,
I know that It would takevast sums of money toaccomplish this goal, but becreative, guys. Let's simply
hold yet another closing
party for the Saint at the Centers for Disease Control, askIng everYone to donate themoney they were going tospend on recreational drugs,
We could raise a ton of cash
and have the best turnout at
a demonsfratlon yet. And all
the yelling the boys do overthe latest Donna Summer
song will scare the pants off

28, 1989, Issue of OuMgek Is you to think before you lI'lZIp"SCenes from a l..esbIa"I Love that fly you call your brain,
Ufe: not "Secrets of a Les- then I can only conclude
bian Love life: In that essay that all of us who write or(and perhaps others) you
attempt "bodily changes"
claim to have noticed a are Indeed on the right track"contempt against guys."
with OU' efforts.
Indeed, Monsieur, you areYour paranoia regarding
correct. I have had a conKathryn Otter's assessment
tempt for "guys" ever sinceof theclaustrophobic
the term was so promiscuousoppressiveness of the malely used In Junior high school.
gaze left me truly breathless.
"Guys," as a moniker for male How lucky you are Monsieur
human beings, Implies, from
Brown to have never wresthe moment of utterance, a Hed with the brutal effects ofkind of flaccid Intellectual
misogyny on your sense ofand moral
c0nselfl May I ask If you thought
Jured up by the following
anything before you wrote"guys" of recent United States the following: "more a tone
history: Bull Connor, Ronaldof rebellion verging on maleReagan, Edwin Meese, Lee phobia than a natural lesAtwater, Sean· Penn andb1anlstlcdesire?"
other cultural and social
Shall I first correct youractivistsfor white, heterosexlst, grammar and etymology or
paIrlarchal hegemony.
simply rip right through to
If It Is, to you, "needless to your~rofcosrraflon?
soy" that none of you "guys"
It Is obvious from the total
will "act any differently
lack of political conscloustowards (us) girls" no matterness In your correspondence
how much we do to train
that you live In a world free

the feds, who will realize that
we really do mean businessand may then finally take ournumbers seriously.
See you at high tea.
Craig Holmes
Manhattan
Girl Speaks Out
I believe It Is standardpractice for a writer whose
work has been Impugned by
faceless pinheads to be givena chance to respond. Somehow or other In the earnest
missionof OutWee/(s edltor1al
offices, the possibility of an
Immediate response to a certain Monsieur PIerre Brown of
Manhattan was lost. May thisletter serve as a response to
the Monsieur's crltIcIsrns.
May I firstpoint out to you,sir,that the correct title of myessay In the (no, 10) August

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from racism and sexism,
though you seem to concede that homophobiaIsmaybe a bit of a problem.
You oh-so-attrulstlcally swoon
that 'we hove to look out foreach other: although It Is
obvious that straight men
are more part of your community than lesbians. You
also seem to reflect that partof the gay 'guy" communitythat wishes that lesbians
would just get back to the
kitchen where they belong
so that you can blast theSmiths Into your headphones
and melt your grey matter In
the belief that you are hearIng profundities worth quotIng later In life.
In conclusion, let me say
how pleased I am to have 1)
not earned your respect, 2)
caused you to feel personally attacked regarding Issuesof sexism, which only reveals
your complete
lack ofundemanding on the Issues,3) Inspired you to distort language In a lame effort at
pOlitical potency and 4)
made you hopping mad. I
will make sure to send you
an advance copy of mywork-ln-progress tentatively
tlt1ed: 'Balls for Brains: A Girl
Speaks Out about Guys:
Marla M.aggentl,
auf Week contributing writer
Manhattan

day .... Tom Stoddard's all
wet.Act~.
Joe and Ken
Manhattan

OutNuke"Smashing the Closet?"
Let's nuke the closetl Keepup the good work. We buy

up, why do they have toMichele OeRanleau (formertable there? We're going toly managing editor of The
ship merchandise all the way
Sentinel, San Frandsco) andout to California to sell T-shIrts OutWeek, New York:at this conference, a conferAccording to OutWeek,
ence we probably shouldn't
you are vafousIy described as
be attending?
"lesbian, straight or bisexual,"
OufWeek once criticized
01of which Is besides the point.
God's Love We Deliver for
By getting schools superaccept1ng contributions from Intendent Ramon Contlnes
the Coors brothers. Thissitua- flred-or In fear of being lettion Is olmost Identical. Cer- go-you hove managed totainly, getting
food toget yourself dismissed fromhomebound PWAs Is just as your job at The Sentinel, Does
vital, If not more so. But we
It really matter that you did
can't just overlook where 1hat or did not clear It with yourmoney Is coming from--or, as publisher first? Both of you,In this case, the U.S.Immigra- for no good reason-just ation policy, foreign nationals
simple statement from Conand the other AIDS service
tlnes-have caused no end
organizations around theof trouble for 1) yourself, 2)
world who are boycotting.
publisher Chalker and 3)
ACT UPINY will be the only Contlnes, Well, what would
ACT UPattending this confer- you naive journaHsts (?)
ence. Hunejrecisof other AIDS expect the Supt. of Schoolsorganizations are Joining the to comment, huh? You haveboycott, Including GMHC.
convicted
Contlnes sans
Two countries that I'm aware
benefit of trial. And I say,of (Canada and France)
Phooey. Double phooey.
hove decided not to partld'Outing:a new '90s
pate. We're like scabs at a word (like "wilding") mainly
strike, putting our needs over has loads of value In ruining
others'. Ifstruly a disgrace.
a career or life, When you
I realize that you might
tatfle on a seemingly straight
not feel the same about this person, flm be sure he Is an
Issueas I do; however, I hopeout-and-out homophobe,that you will at least give a Nothing else will simply do.
forum to It, as many people
Francis Marshare dissatisfied with the way
Manhattan
the vote turned out.
P.S.For goshsakes, Michele,
Thanks for letting me
get that disgusting smirk off
bend your earl
YOIJ face (photo In OutWeeI<)
David Lopez
If you ever expect to be hired
Manhattan
again as a reporter, editor or
edHorlalwhot-not
Convicted? Of What?
All the Women March
While we were happy to
see OutWeek's article last
week about the (lesbian Herstory) Archives being a grandmarshal of this year's PrideDay parade, the story was
misleading.
The entire
Archives contingent, not justthe four women named In thearticle, will be grand marshals.
Polly Thlstlethwalte
Manhattan

Anfl·Newyorcenfrlc Eccentric
Please have your officemanager replace that out-

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June 13, 1990

,of-date wall map you use toestablish and maintain geographic balance.
New York City and the
Hudson River are no longer
the western boundary of the
U.S.People now live west of
the Mlss!s~lppl. There areeven people west of theRockies.In fact, people even
live on the Pacific Coast.
Some significant number of
los Angelenos are due full
personhood due to their
Nelson Sullivan
prior status as prisoners of
New YorkCity.
I I ,,; .."National pUblications
cany·nat1onal news. Publications canylng only parochialregional news remain largely
regional. I have previously
paid prices -higher west of
the Rockies· and even"higher west of the MIssissippl.. But what the fuck Is"higher outside of N.Y.C:
doing on a nat10nalweekly?
Am enjoying your giving
the reactionary Advocate arun for Its money. Enjoy thetone of your coverage.
Have all transvestites,
transsexuals, drag queens,bikers, sadists, leather people and prostitutes previously
In NYC (and everywhereelse) died, or you folks justhave myopia? For censored
gay news I can read the Los
Angeles Times as well as theaforementioned Advocate.
Peter Stephen NIcholas
LosAngeles, Calif.
P.S.Where the hell are
Issues(no.) 47 and (no.) 48?

and Atlanta, and It's so niceto see all 'a' our friends up
there with yall doln' so goodfor themselves.
,
Thanks so much for agreat magazine
DeAundra Peek
Palmetto, Ga.
Keep Up the Out
My name Is Madrid St.
Angelo. I am a native New. Yorker presently residing (asof the past eight months) In-"

Denver, Colorado, I am an
active member of ACT
UP/DenVer.
I am writing to say Bravol
to your expose on "outing·(no.46, May 16). The pros
and cons of 04tln9 werecovered excellently In youreditorial. Earlier this year,
when ACT UP/Denver wasapproached by ACT UP/
New York to support "outIng: I wrote a brief piece In
our Denver gay paper,

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Never Got PaId a Cent
What a wonderful magazine y'alJ have up there I It
was so nice to be mentioned
by Liz and Sydney In your(no. 45) May 16, Issue, butthey forgot to mention that
all 'a' them artists like Mr.
Larry Tee, Ru Paul, Lahoma- and them Pop Tartswas shot
direct on live video by Mr.
Nelson Sullivan, who y'allknow has done gone on to
somewhereselse.
We love New York City
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Quest. After reading youreditorial on outing, I wasable to gain a dearer understanding of what outing Is
really all about. In particular,
I praise highly the pieces
written by Gabriel Rotello,
Victoria A. Brownworth andSteve Beery. How sad It Is
that here we are, nearly In
the year 2000, and we arestili arguing amongst ourselves as to how and why
the world should accept us
as gay men and women, I'm
not thoroughly convincedthat outing the closeted Is
the most positive way ofbringing about our acceptance; however, these desperate
times call for
desperate measures. Outing
the apathetic gays In highly
respected positions seems
like a rightful tactic.
Keep up the top-notchcoverage I. Madrid St. Angelo
Denver, Colo.

Working with Bush
During the 1988 presidential election, many gay leaders urged our community tovote for the Democrat, Massachusetts Govemor Michael
Dukakls. They warned that avote for George Bush was avote for Ronald Reagan,
They said that Bush would
contlnue the Reagan years
of Indifference to the needsof gay Americans.
They were wrong.
George Bush has been
more sensitive to the rights
and needs of gay men andlesbiansIn hisfirst year in offlce
than was Ronald Reagan In
his total eight years. A surveyof gay Republicans conducted by the New York-based
group Republicans for IndMdual Freedoms, found that 93
percent of Its members
believed that Bush would ultimately be beft!3l' on our Issues
than was his predecessor.
As a gay Republican who

our
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Bush's AIDS ·report card,- displayed by AIDS activists inWashington, D.C., on World AIDS Day 1989
Photo: Patsy Lynch

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would be unnecessary. But In
the real world, many havereal fears of losing family,
Income and position.
H,rbCohen
ManhQttonthat could back1Ire. The editor of a San Francisco gay
newspaper oYfed the school
chancellor who had not supported a gay education bill
she liked. She wanted to hurt
him, 8Q she announced he Is
gay-apporently
the wOrttthing she colJd think Of. She
used outing 01 0 gay-bOlh·
Ing technique, and It did notwork. T". threat of outing
may be eff.ctlve to g.t
famoUi or Inftuentlal people
to help UI or to Itop "urttngu., but It I. pejorative and.. If-hating and ulually will
not work.
Coming out Ind.ptnd.ntly and btlng out.d art
two dlff.r.nt thing" Many
art n.lth.r .motlonally nor
ftnanclally IlCUrt .noug" tobe out. Thoae of UI who are
already out should not be 10
zealoUi that we think only of
the greater good and not of
Individual harm. In the bestof all possible wo~ds, outing

voted for George Bush, I'Ube and Is not viewed os a conthe 11m to admit that he has servative ~t.
George Bush, In my vtew,
o long wa.{ to go. But he Is
off to 0 good stort. Even my 180 mon of decency ond
most liberal DemOcraticcomposslon ond he Is edufriends will odmlt (privately) cable on our IHutS. He hasthat BuIh Is not the ~ght-wlng Ihown a wllllngn", to listenkook that they thought he and to leom obout our eonWOI. Let me give a few
cernl. Some gay Clctlvl,t.
example. of why the term Nn him In ef1Igy ond shout~eagan-BUlh II not correct:
obletnltl81
ot him. Why
Bush eupportl the InciUlion don't we give him the bene01 people with AIDS In the fit of the doubt ond work
major clvll-rlghtl leg Illation, wtth him? Pema", he will do
the Amerteana with DllClbllltI" theeame with UI.
Act. BuIh'. AIDS Commllllon
Nom. Wfthlw'ri
dOlI not have the moral~dtWhIt. P/c1I"" N. Y.
ologlcClI toni thClt wa. thlhallmark of Rlagan'l comOuting at lathing
million. ~ felli, hilltaff met,
On. thing II certain
In the W"lte Hou .. , with about outing: It I. n.v.r
openly gay Republican lead- going to provld. a roleera. BUlh Ilgned the Hate model1or anyone becauaelt
C~m.. law, which dealt wtth, " clearly a 10rm of gay-baahamong other thlngl, gay·
Ing. Thletechnique hos bean
bashing. BUlh appointed Dr. uaed against goy men andAntonio Novello to be Sur· lasblanl forever. Its 1.118 bygeon General; she has some our own people 18a new
expe~ence In the AIDS IHut ond dangerous gimmick

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I've. seen many, many
lose their families, I've had
young people crushed andthe gossip about last weekdestroyed by their own comend's party. They pass on
sexual Informationvery
Ing out-letalone, being
pushed out py others.
quickly. Booze or drugs,
Someone once said,
whatever, allows them to do-Children can be crueV
what they want and theyoften feel they are safe with Well,so can young adults. So
their peers, Not so, I've seen can we oldsters.I say, let theIt (comingout) nearly
kids decide. If they want todestroy some students. It Is come out, fine. If not, just let
not really a matter of outing, them alone.
I say: Let's love them,but gossip; It amounts to the
Let's guide them, Let's care.
same thing, I guess,I just do not feel outing Is But let us let them, allow
safe for those at such a them, to make the choices,
young age, When a student
Richard Leamlng
SFA Theatersays he/she Is afraid Mom
and Dad will find out, I tellBoston Unlverslfy
them I do not feel there Is as .
yet any reason to, lay It on
Hex on Rex
them; walt a while, be sure,
Our disenchantment withfind out what your life Is Rex Wockne(s -reporting·about. Why give them a
has reached another apex.
problem they are not readyAs members of ACT UP/
to handle? True, It would be
Chicago, we feel it Is incumtheir problem, but just walt abent upon us to respqnd tobit. Right or wrong, this Is his absurd coverage of thewhat I tell them.
national AIDS actions in

Chicago April 20-23. Ourcomments are intended tobe read as part of a moregeneral critique of his workthat has been building
steadily over the pastmonths In various sectors of
the lesbian and gay communl1y.In short, his coverage ofthe atorementioned eventsis indicative of his persistenttendency to delegitimate
and minimize the politics ofrace, gender and class inour communi1y.
Once again, hiscynicism,arrogance and downrightobliviousness have prevented Rex from registering thesignificance of some historic
events: the first nationai AIDS
action in the Midwest, thefirst conference of people ofcolor and AIDS activism, acritical moment· in the forging of links between localorganizations
andthenational
AIDS (activist)
movement, a new level ofsolidarity between activist
groups of women, people ofcolor and people with
Immune-systemdisorders.
Instead of focusing onthese things, Rex undercuts
them by suggesting that wewere protesting -alleged discrimination· by health-insurance companies. Look Rex:
We weren't protesting the-alleged· nature of discrimination. We were protesting
discrimination. If you have aproblem with the status of-discrimination· as a category to mobilize aroundpolitically, then we suggest
you reexamine your commitments. Do you realizethat by
putting the word -crisis· inquotation marks, you Imply
that the whole AIDS phenomenon Is a sham Invented
by some agitators, that pe0ple aren't dying and losing
loved ones, that our pain
and rage IsInvalid? Tothoseof us who are willing to takeI~

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Chicago. April 23. 1990
Photo: Patsy Lynch
to the streets, AIDS represents a genuine crisis, however much you may find It
shrilland overblown that we
use that rhetoric.
•
But there's more: Anyone
who read your non sequitur-another crescendo wasreached several moments
earlier" statement mUsthave
Inferred that you had privileged the wrong crescendol
Only the most conventional
and unproblematlzed sensibilities could account foryour denigrationof thewomen's action of blocking
the street with -old mattresses" In favor of the moremacho balcony maneuverof four men-withnames,
Why aren't any womennamed? For example, you
could have easily gotten thenames of Lulu Belliveau andAndrea Stanley, the two San
Francisco women pictured
with the article,
Finally, we contend thatyou reduced the vigil at
Cook County Hospltal-andby Implication the entire
demonstration-to the Irrelevant acting out of a bunch

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of -'60s activists: You write, homosexuality, as I am a
-The air was thick with thereporter for gay/lesbianpolitical philosophy that In newspapers.
order to be free, all oppres2) The people of colors~ed peoples must unite
conference was covered byagainst the straight, white,
another Chicago-based
male establishment:This reporter, The article hascomment Is totally SUbJec- appeared In Chicago's Outtive, and; you can't getlines and Is available for synaway with passing It off as dication.
reporting. But you make your3) I have no first handbias clear In the next parainformation on HIV-related
graph, when you suggest
discrimination by the Insurthat It Is somehow unfair toance companies ACT UP
white gay men that a focus picketed,Theword
Is put on women and people"alleged" Is standard usageof color once In awhile. This In news reporting wheneverIs absolutely unacceptable,
unconfirmed allegations are
Given your relatively ode- published.
QJate coverage of even1s per4) The word "crisis" wastaining to gays and IesbIcnsin put in quotes because it was
Eastern Europe, we suggest . a word used by ACT UP
that you (be) sent there on leaders-a quote. Also, thepermanent assignment
phrase I wrote was "healthACT UP/Chicago care crisis"not "AIDScrisis." I
never Implied or stated that
Rex Wockner replies:
the AIDS epidemic Is not a"crisis,"1)It Is neither my duty nor
my intention as a news writer
5) There would never beto minimize or maximize ACT room In a news story for the
UP's "politics of race, gennames of 25 people-andder and class." If anything
that's at least how many
were ever to be maximized, blocked the streets with old
It would be the politiCS of
mattresses.

June 13, 1990

6)
Yes,
I
observed
thetakeover of the
Cook
CountyBuilding as more
dramatic than theblocklng"oftheClark-RandolphIntersection. ACT
UP/Chicago has
blockedthat
Intersection
before, but It has
never
beforecommandeered
the Cook County
Building. I was not
the only reporterto see this eventas the day's climax,
7) I stand bymystatementthat the air at thevigil outside Cook
County Hospital
was thick with thepolitical philosophy that In order
to be free, all oppressedpeoples must unite against
the straight, white, maleestablishment. I listenedcarefully to the first 15
speeches and noted theaudience reaction.
8) I noticed that coverage of the demo In Boston's
Gay Community News was
written by ACT UP/Chicago
member Debbie Gould,
That'sone way to get exactly what you want In thenewspaper. The article, Incidentally, did not mention
the takeover of the Cook
County Building.
9) Budapest Is lovely In
June, Unfortunately, I must
go to dreary Stockholm tocover the ILGAconference.

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The Honorable Ralph Marino
Senate Majority Leader
New YorkState Senate
Albany, New York 12247
Dear Senator Marino:
Yesterday I received acopy of your press release,'Senate Republicans Propose Comprehensive AntlBias and Gang Assault Bill:
along with your cover letter
dated May 16.
While I would not argue
about how this bill deals withassault crimes and gangassaults In particular, to also
call It a 'Comprehenslve
Anti-Bias' bill Is an Insult toeveryone who has worked
so hard at trying to get the
New York State Senate topass an effective anti-violence bill.
For years, the Republican
majority In the State Senate
has refused to vote out ofconference
any anti-bias
legislation that Included thewords sexual orientation, This
year, the proposed legislation S4600A, sponsored by
Senator Roy Goodman, hasbeen stalled, This bill would
protect all New Yorkers,
Including lesbians and gay
men, who are becoming themost frequent victims ot blasrelated Incidents, In the first
tour months of this year, the
New York City Gay and Lesbian Anti-Violence Project
has recorded an Increase of
128 percent In bias-related
Incidents over the similar
period last year.
Supporters ot S4600A
Include the Anti-Defamation
League, the Staten Island
Human Rights Coalition, theBrooklyn Residents Against
Bias-Related Violence, theBar Association tor Human
Rights, the New York StateBlack Women's Political
Action Forum, Lambda Legal

Defense and Education
Fund, Disabled In Action ot
Metropolitan New York, Long
Island Human Rights Project,
as well as many of the leading politicians and district
attorneys In our state.
While S8766 only requiresthat judges consider as a tactor at sentencing whether anassault was bias-motivated,
S4600A actually mandates
that a person conviG,ted ofbiOHelated violence or Intimidation will serve a consecuflve sentence tor this offense.
It Is not lett to the judge's discretion. S4600Aalso allows fora conviction tor blas-related
violence
or Intimidation
regardless ot whether or not aconviction
hasbeen
obtainedfor any othercharge. And S4600A requires
all law enforcement agencies
to report annually the number
ot Investigations undertaken,
not just the convictions.

In the past you have stated your support for antl-bias
legislation, In your capacity
as Senate Majority leader,
New Yorkers look for you tolead the Senate Republicans
to honestly address the Issues
ot bias crimes, not to put up
smokescreens,
How many more Yuset
Hawkins, James Zappalortls
and Michael Griffiths have to
die betore the Senate
Republicans finally act?
HowardKa1z
8/as Legislation Project
Coordinator
New YorkCity Gay and Lesbian Anti-Violence Project
The Invisibility of Brewster PlaceMs, Oprah Winfrey
The Oprah Winfrey Show
P.O,Box 909715
Chicago, IL 60690
Dear Ms.Winfrey,
Rrst ot all, I'd like to congratulate you on all your successes, You're a talented
and ballsy woman, anddeserve all you receive.
I watched the special,
The Women of Brewster
Place. I also read the book,
I've now been reading about

the new series,Oprah, where
Is the lesbian couple?
I'm a cable TVproducer In
New York, I understand business and sponsor considerations. I am also an out dyke.
Isn't there some way to Incorporate
thosebeautltul
women back Into the themeot your shOW?Must they disappear? How Invisible do wehave to be?
It's bad enough that gay
people, and gay women In
particular, are not written Into
more scripts, etc" to begin
with, Where we are present,
do you have to wrtte usout?
If anyone has the power,
end the '<I:l\IVIf, to maintah theIntegrity ot the storylhe, It'syou.
. By all means, go tor themoney, But don't forget that
Brewster Place Is a powerfulstory because of al/ of Its elements, At least ten percent
ot Black women are gay,probably more, Their inclusion In the original book, andTV special, lent credibility,
style and romance,
Thanks tor listening, Bestot luck.
Judith Oppenheimer
Manhattan

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Transvestite murdered, two men beaten
by John Voelcker••

Nesselroth said the uniformed
and Benjamin Dickerson, 30, of Atlanta, .
NEW YORK-The
epidemic of were walking west on Waverly Place sailor came up to him, asking further
questions "How come you said that?
gay-bashing that has swept New York near MacDougal Street, when the group
Why would you say that?" and theCity this spring continued last week, taunted them.
incident escalated whenwith the murder of aother members of the grouptranvestite in the Bronx
shoved, hit and then jumped
and the beating of two
the two men.
gay men in Greenwich
Dickerson was hit in
Vtllage.
the
head
with
what
As
reportedin
Nesselroth believes was a
Newsday, Fabian Thomas,
bottle in a plastic bag, and28, was shot once in the
Nesselroth· himself wasback on Wednesday, May
pushed to the ground,
30, in the Bronx One Autospraining his wrist andshop on 150th Street andscraping the skin on both
Cortlandt Avenue. He diedhis hands.
at the scene. At the time
Two Transit Authority
he was shot, Thomas waspolicemen responded to thesaid to have been wearing
men's calls for help andfaded jeans, womens'
sandals, a blue blouse,chased after the attackers,
and a long braided wig.
who quickly scattered. One
TA officer hailed a cab toThomas'relatives
get to the other side ofand friends told reporters
Washington Square Park,
that he was occasionallywhere three of the allegedharassed because of his
attackers,
includingthehomosexuality
andsailor, were apprehended.
flamboyant
wardrobe;
Nesselroth and Dickerson
Thomas was said to haveidentified the three as theircalled himself "Aru ba
assailants, and, after filing a
Woman."
complaint at a TA patrol
Police arrested Lewis
station in the Canal Street
Cedres, 19, of 3125 Park
subway station, they were
Ave. in the Bronx, andtaken
toBeekmancharged him with secondDowntown
Hospital for
degree murder ..The killing.
treatment.
had not been classified as
The
three
men
a bias crime at press time, 'but police said they were FIGHTING INVISIBIUTY
Photo: Andrew Lichtenstein arrested-Thomas Holtorf (theone in the sailor unifonn), 19,
still investigating.
Steve Nesselrothof 523 Naughton Ave., Staten
Early in the morning"Just as we walked past them,"
Island;, Nelson Padea, 18, of 1010 E,
of Friday, May 25, two gay men wereattacked and heaten by a gang of four Nesselroth told OutWeek, "they said,
Tremont Ave. Bronx; and Luis Suarez, 17,or five men, one of them reputedly a 'Oh, another couple of fags,' and I said, of 33 Bank St, in Manhattan-were
U.S, Navy sailor in uniform. Steve 'Yeah, that's right,' without evencharged with third-degree assaul~,Nesselroth, 33, an East Village resident, thinking about it."harassment and aggravated harassment.

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Padea and Suarez also face charges ofpossessing stolen property from other,
non-gay-related incidents. AU werereleased on bail. They will appear incourt on June 26. The incident has been
designated an anti-gaybias crime.

Nesselroth, an employee of the
New York City DepartmentofCorrections, said that he decided to go
public as a gay-bashing survivor
because such crimes "aren't being
publicized enough.

"I know of four or five recent

bashings," he told OutWeek, "and they
seem to be increasing, even before
the summer season. 1 just think thesekinds of crimes need to be made,more visible." T

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,
by Nina Reyes·city and stipulated that the city did not
to pay for it."admit
violation of the law, whatever
The women were arrested in
NEW YORK-Twenty-nine women,
the implication of the settlement.
March of 1989 at ACf UP's second
who were allegedly illegally stripAnother issue that has troubled
anniversary demonstration at City Hall.
searched last year after being arrested
S9me recipients was that some womenfor civil disobedience at an ACf UP News of the strip searches, which were
who were strip-searched claimed theirperformed by female prison matrons,demonstration have each received an
made the front page of The New York legal counsel did not advise them that
$8,000 settlement from the city. Debate
Times the next day, and set off a the monetary settlement had beenover what the 'individual recipients
accepted.
whirlwind of media controversy in theshould do with the money, however,Sources said that these women felt
has div:ided~hegroup!
according to· city's daily papers and on televisionstrongly that the group should holdseveral sourCeS..
talk shows.
out for implementation of the policy
A number of the recipients have
The women were arrested onminor charges
which did not . changes that they had understoodalso expressed: outrage that the citywere a part of their settlement offer,parted with nearly a quarter of anecessarily provide the basis for theand that they were unhappy with themilliondollars
while claiming
reasonable cause required before
attorneys' decision to accept thebudgetary'restriqions
make funding
lawfully subjecting someone undermonetary settlement. Lawyers for the
additional AIDS services impossible.. .. arrest to a strip search.
group
were not available
for"It's just such waste, such utter
The city's settlement payment was
accompanied by a statement from thewaste," said Ann Otto, who picked upcomment.'"
her check from the city on May 3l.
"We had wanted a lot of things
aside from money,"' stated Rachel
Lurie, one of the women who received
the city's settlement payment. "The
only thing the city was willing to do
was a monetary settlement and issue astatement. "Lurie also explained that some of
the women felt very strongly that themoney received from the city should
be given to projects fighting for therights of prisoners, against AIDS andfor other issues important to thelesbian and gay community. While
operations for the CPD Office of
by Rex Woekner
many of the women are in fact
Professional Standards, said one of the
CHICAGO-At least two of the
donating either a portion or the total
complaints alleged excessive force and
AIDS demonstrators who said theyamount of the settlement, others havewill be investigated by OPS.
were beaten or harassed by Chicago
chosen to use the money in other
The other complaint, Benefico
police officers and Cook County
ways.
Lurie added that, although the suit sheriffs deputies during the April 23 said, "involves non-excessive-force
allegations and is under investigation
national AIDS demonstrationin. did not bJ:ing· about the proceduralby the [CPD]Internal Mairs ,Division."
downtown Chicago's Loop have filedchanges that the plaintiffs had asked
At a press conference the day after
formal complaints with the Chicago
for, "unofficially, the word has gone
the demo, ACf UP members charged
Police Department.
out that it's not OK for the guards topolice and sheriff's officers withstrip-search, because the city will have
Leonard Benefico, coordinator of

Hospital admits women
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repeated acts ,of gratuitous violence
during the arrests of the 129 protesters
who committed civil disobedience.
Demonstrators
said they were
kicked, punched, banged into walls,
jumped on, dragged, charged withhorses, cut, scratched, bruised andlocked in a sealed paddy wagon with
its heater on in 87-degree weather.
Out Week has been unable todetermine if any complaints have been
filed with the Cook County Sheriffs
Department, but sheriffs spokesman
Bill Currie has previously stated that"the door is open" to anyone "whofeels they were poorly treated,"
In other demonstration
news,
Cook County Hospital admitted theftrst woman to its AIDS ward April 24.
Unfair treatment of women with AIDS
was one of the primary focuses of theweekend's protests,
Hospital offtcials denied that the
ACT UP demonstration brought about
the change, but ACf UP's Carol Hayse
said, "It's quite obvious to us that it
was the result of our efforts.
"People always want to deny theefftcacy of radical action," Hayse said,"Those kind of people will want totake credit for doing it and steal thethunder of the movement." ...

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and staff positions at the Department
of Social Services Division of AIDS
Services, which provides support
services for people with AIDS.
However, Rona SolQmon fromthe Center for HIV Education andServices in Staten Island said tile
department has no presence in herborough.
"It's a five-borough city with
[DAS] offices in four boroughs," shesaid, questioning whether any of the
new case-management units would
be placed in Staten Island.
According to other Committeeby Duncan Osborne

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NEW YORK - Mayor David
Dinkins released his version of thecity budget on May 24, and city
council budget hearings are slated to
begin this week. But despite overall
increases in AIDS spending levels, a
substantial
disparity
remains
between the amount the mayor's
budget proposes for AIDS-related
services, and the amount people on
the front lines of the AIDS epidemic
say thdr organizations must have tokeep pace with New York City's
FY 1990·91
spiralling AIDS caseload.
. Last December, the Committee
proposes ...less 'hanfor AIDS Funding, a coalition .of 27
one 'hird 01 wha'
organizations
based In the AIDS
'hecommunity says
community, proposed that New York
City increase AIDS spending by $156 . it needs merely tomillion in the com.ing fiscal year.·stay alloat.
Recognizing that such funding was-------------------------unlikely,
the coalition issued amemo last February outlining aforAIDS Funding
members,"survival budget" with proposed
welcome budget Items include theaddition of two full-time and two
increases
in AIDS spendingof
part-timecommunity-outreachroughly $30 million.
workers at the Department of Health,However, according to Dinkins'
who would
distribute educational
Press Secretary Albert Scardino, the,mayor's budget for flscal year 1990- materials to gay and bisexual men ofcolor.
91 proposes only $9.1 million In
But proposed cuts in programs
AIDS-spending Increases, a figure
in public schools, and the flat
less than one third of what thefundingof .community
AIDS
community said it needs merely toorganizations without providing astay afloat another year.
safety net for inflation alarmed CAP
In a press briefing at the Gayreps across the board.
Men's Health Crisis on May 30,
Some CAF members expressed
pessimism was mixed with guarded
concern over funding levels forpraise for speciflc line items in the
housing for people with AIDS,
budget.
.
Members of the Committee on
pediatric AIDS cases, and programs
AIDS Funding lauded the call for the
run by the city's beleaguered
addition of 224 case-management
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And Ron Johnson, the executive
director of the Minority Task Forceon AIDS, said that the six-monthfunding figures for some AIDS
service organizations,would bespread over 12 months, effectively
cutting in half the municipal funding
for affected groups. Johnson'S own
organization would be affected by
Dinkins' flat-funding proposal.
"Mayor Dinkins had plans forthis budget," Jennifer Kimball, amayoralspokeswoman,
told
Out Week. "[But] with the deficit, it isall-arounddisappointing
to themayor. Given that we have a deficitof nearly two billion dollars, thenine-mill ion-dollar
increaseinspending
for AIDS speaks very
loudly." She noted that the proposed
overall increase in AIDS spending isseco,rid only to proposed increases
for funding drug-treatment programs.
After two weeks of city council
hearings, at which everyone, fromcity-agency
heads to concerned
private citizens are expectedtotestify, the mayor and representatives
from the council will begin budget
negotiations.
The Council must
approve a budget by July 1.
Dinkins will ask the City Council
to approve tax hikes in order to meet
the budget shortfall, but electionconscious council members may very
well bridle at the suggestion.
CAF is expected to begin an
intensive lobbying campaign aimed
at convincing city council members
to hold the line on budget cuts andgain increases wherever possible.
Representativesof all 27 member
organizations plan to testify before
the Council during the upcoming
budget hearings. T

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WASHINGTON-The secretary ofClub De Legayes, a gay and lesbianorganizationin Accra, Ghana, has
written to the National Gay andLesbian Task Force seeking contact
with the rest of the gay world.
"We found your address in theworld almanac, and we have decided
to write to you because we feel you
will be of great help to us," wrote Enos
Jeffreys .
"Our activities are quite secretive
since it has not been legalized here in
Ghana. We have been for quite a longtime looking for someone to help us
get into
contactwith similarorganizations and also get listed in thegay and lesbian publications in theU.S."
The group requested copies ofgay newspapers
and offered towelcome gay and lesbian tourists whowish to visit Ghana.
Club De Legayes is the second
clandestine gay group in this West
African nation to make itself known.
About a year ago, 14 people in the cityof Nkawkaw formed a secret gay
group and sent our a plea for moral
support and money for printing.
Ghana, with a population of 14
million, is the world's leading growerof cacao beans. Most of its citizens arevery poor, and only one in four canread and write.
Accordingto the SpartacusInternational Gay Guide, there is nolaw prohibiting homosexuality and nolegal age of consent. This contradicts
Jeffrey's letter.
Spartacus states that "there isnothing unusual in Ghana about
people just fulfilling their sexualdesires, including gay ones, without
taboos.
Nevertheless,"the book
continues, "foreign tourists sometimes
end up somewhat confused when they
use their accustomed
methods ofsexual approach, discovering that, in asexually open culture, there arecompletely different, complicated rules

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of conduct."
The book lists several "mixed
gay and straight" hotels, theaters,nightclubs,
restaurants
and bars,and 11 separate
public cruisingareas
for gay men, including
beaches, universities and the central
post office.
.

Club De Legayes' address is: Enos
Jeffreys, Club De Legayes, Bubuiashie,
Atico, P.O. Box 3879, Accra, Ghana.
Phone: 011-233-21-224112.
The group in Nkawkaw can bereached c/o Festus Owusu Sekyere,
P.O. Box 282, Nkawkaw-ElR, Ghana.
-flledfrom Chicago,•
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by Rex Wockner
LONDON-The British Broadcasting
Corporation Monitoring Service, anintelligence-gathering wing of England's
state-owned radio and Tv, has confinned
sketchy reports from January that the
government of Iran executes men andwomen found guilty of having
homosexual sex.
Monitoring shortwave broadcastsof the Voice of the Islamic Republicof Iran at 10:30 (Greenwich Mean
Time) on May 18, the BBC recorded
a second "Friday prayers" sermon
delivered at Tehran University by
Ayatollah Musavi-Ardebili, one of thecountry's
leading politicians
andspiritual leaders.
"For homosexuals,
men orwomen, Islam has prescribedthemost severe
punishments,"
theAyatollah said. "After it has been
proved on the basis of Shari'ah, theyshould seize him [or her], theyshould keep him standing,theyshould split him in two with asword, they should either cut off hisneck or they should split him fromthe head.
"He will fall down," the Ayatollah
continued. "After he is dead, theybring logs, make a fire and place thecorpse on the logs, set fire to it andburn it. Or it should be taken to the
top of a mountain and thrown down,
Then the parts of the corpse should
be gathered together and burned. Or
they should dig a hole, make a firein the hole and throw him alive into
the fire. We do not have suchpunishments for other offenses,"There cannot be the slightest
degree of mercy or compassion
towardthose
who
observeinadequate Islamic dress or towardprohibitions," the Ayatollah went on.
"There should not be the slightest
degreeof mercy toward
thesecriminals."
At that point, according to theBBC, the crowd listening to MusaviArdebili's speech erupted in shoutsof "God is great.""We have to try and establish an
anti-vice culture in our society," theAyatollah explained. ''We must makecertain that those unlawful acts areshunned by the people. The people
should learn to see evil, to a degree
that even the perpetrator of a vice
should tremble with a tormented
conscience after having committed
that vice under the compulsion ofphysical desire,"•

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Musavi-Ardebili then relayed "atradition cited in Malek Bin Attiyeh,"
in which a man approachedtheImam Ali and stated,"I havecommitted a homosexual act.""Islam has laid down a choiceof three punishments with respect
to such acts: decapitation,
being
thrown off a mountain or being
burnedalive; these are yourchoices,· the holy leader replied.
"'Ali, tell me, which is theharshest?' the man asked.
"'The third one,' Ali replied.
"'In that case, I will take that
one,' the man said.
"That is what culture is; that is
the anti-vice
culture,·MusaviArdebili told his audience.
News of an official extermination
campaign
againstIranianhomosexuals
was first published
January 22 by syndicatedU.S.
newspaper columnist Jack Artderson,
who said the crackdown began on
New Year's Day, following meetings
between Iranian Chief Justice Morteza
Moghtadai and lower officials,
Moghtadai reportedly told theofficials
that"thereligious
punishment for the despicable actof homosexuality is death for bothparties," and detailed five execution
options: "being beheaded
by asword, being stoned to death, being
thrown down from a height such as
a mountain or tall building, dying .
under
the rubbleof a wall
demolished on their head, or being
burned alive.".
.
\
Anderson's column was basedon shortwave
broadcasts
andsources inside Iran, he said.
At that time, the U.S.
State•
Department deputy public affairs
advisorfor Near Eastern
and
South
Asian
affairs,George
Malleck, said: "If it was on theradio, it's probably true. Those
people have committed so manygrievous offenses against common
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SEAlTLE-Gay men in long-term
relationships stay with their partners,
on average, two years longer thanlesbians. They also have sex more
frequently than lesbian couples but
enjoy it less.
These are some of the findingsthat the publishers of a newsletter for
lesbian and gay couples announced
after recently tabulating the results of
1,749 responses to a survey they
conducted to gauge behavior andattitudes among same-sex couples, The
publishers, Stevie Bryant and Demian,
say their survey results, aside fromproviding interesting insights, will be
useful to social-service organizations,
government agencies and employersthat may be facing issues of
employment, taxes, insurance, credit
and housing as they relate to same-sex
couples. Most (95 percent) respondents
were white.
Of 1,266 couples
represented in 1,749 surveys returned,
706 were lesbian and 560 were gay
men. The average age of respondents
was 35,
According to the survey, men stay
together, on average, 6.9 years, women
4.9 years, Even so, more than 100
couples reported being together morethan 15 years.
The definition of "relationship"
was determined by each respondent,
said Demian, who with 10-year partner
Bryant conducted the survey for their
Seattle-based newsletter, Partners. "A
few respondents defined themselves as
trios or some permutations of that,"
Demian said, "We did not say anything
on the survey forms about what
constitutes
a couple or familyarrangement." .
Even what constitutes "monogamy"(or, as the survey authors put it, "sexualexclusivity")
was left up to the
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0'percent said they were sexually
exclusive, while 63 percent of men
said they had no sex outside theirrelationship. Nevertheless, 7 percent of
women and 26 percent of men

reported being "monogamous withagreed exceptions." These exceptions
include being apart from one anotherand agreement on the number of times
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by Janis AstorSANTAFE, N.M,-Amidst the swirlof controversy created by proponentsof outing, who advocate shining lights
into the closets of gay and lesbian
public figures, a self-dubbed grassroots organization devoted to gently
encouraging people to become openly
gay at their own pace has appointed
its new executive director,
Lynn Shepodd has taken over thehelm at National Coming Out Day(NCOD). The group's purpose, said
Shepodd, is to inspire "everybody totake their next step" in the coming out
process.
The organization's official coming
out day, October 11, is alreadycelebrated in 18 states, and Shepodd,
who will make $44,000 annually,
hopes to reach the remaining 32
shortly,
While acknowledging that outing
is a "delicious temptation," Shepodd

stressed that it "circumvents and cuts
short the individual process that aperson needs to go through in order tocome out in a more natural way."
She recalled an incident from her
own closeted days, when a straightperson tried to out her in front of a rap
group, "I just was not ready" .and thethought,
the feeling of having
somebody literally dragging me out-it
was so invasive."
Adding that outing may not be thebest way to establish role models forthe community, Shepodd stated: "Ifthat woman had outed me ... I'm notsure I would have been the role modelthat I feel like I am today. I needed togo through some amount of time,
experiences and life before it felt
necessary for me [to come out]."
While Shepodd claims that mostof the gay women and men she knows
disagree with outing, she believes that
outing poses no threat to the efforts ofher organization.
"Like any two
philosophies, the two C3.I1 coexist, side
by side," she said.
Shepodd's typical day consists ofdeveloping a national mailing-list, as
well as talking on the phone toindividuals and organizations aboutbecoming sponsors or major donors to
the organization. The group's T-shirts,
emblazoned with a logo by the lategay artist Keith Haring, are a frequentsight at gay and lesbian pride marches,
National Coming Out Day isfunded by both individual andcorporate sponsors, one of which isthe embattled National Gay Rights
Advocates (NGRA). Recent staff andboard upheavals at the West Coast law
firm have recently dragged its
reputation across the pages of the gay
and lesbian press.
Jean
O'Leary,
the former
executive director of NGRAwho wasat the center of the controversy
there,
spearheaded
efforts
topromotesupportfor National
Coming Out Day in 1988, O'Leary,
who through NGRAprovided
theinitial financial support to insure

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According to O'Leary, "Lynnworks on the program, shapes itfrom day to day, determines how it's
going to look arid gets otµer•
organizations to sponsor it. She's incharge of keepjng it all together andpushing it forward."
Last year, National Coming Out
Day inspired TV talk-show host
Oprah Winfrey to devote an entir~-program to the experience of coming
out as a gay man or lesbian.
Shepodd
and Pilo Bueno,
NCOD's .coordinator, are the group's
only paid staffers. Bueno receives$26,000 annually.
Shepodd, 40, lives with herlover Honey Ward, who along withRob
Eichberg
runs"The
Experience," a travelling workshop
for gay men and lesbians designed"to improve the quality~ of life."
Previously,
Shepodd
was anadministrative
assistant
to David,
Roberti,_ the Democratic presideQt
pro tern of the California state
Senate. From his district office in
Los Angeles, she acted as a liaison
to Roberti's
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of the female by distracting some of the"Mating balls· occur outside the~eDder- hibernation
dens of every female snake, - competition onto themselves.
In human terms, it would be akin towhere between ten and one hundred
ist SDaKeS
a straight man dressing as a desirable
males wait for her to emerge and thenwoman to distract other courters from asurround her each hoping to be theflaunt theirwoman that he himself desired.
single male to win her heart The males
So far, the she-male garter snakes'
flick their tongues and rub their chinsploy has been quite successful in mating
along her back until she makes her choice.
Ufestyleballs that contain both a she-male and a
But Manitoba researchers Robert
CHICAGO-One
percent of male
Canadian red-sided garter snakes emit aratio of chemicals that cause other malesnakes to try to mate with them,according to Disco~rmagazine.
Scientists first stumbled upon thephenomenon in Manitoba in 1983, when
they found that 33 of 200 garter snake"mating balls· had no females in them.

Mason and David Crews report that intheir research; they found that 17 percent
of mating balls contain no female but.
rather a male with skin ipsids that foolother males into pursuing him.
In the oddest twist, however, theshe-males apparently do not desire sex
with the males, but rather hope toincrease their odds of winning the heart

female. The she-male's odds of winningthe female are double that of any given
male in the same ball.
According to Mason and Crews, theactual mechanism she-males use to lure
males to themselves is their failure to
produce squalene, a male pheromone (asubstance that causes members of thesame animal species
to respondphysiologicallyor behaviorally)that
repels other males.
Mason and Crews tested their
theories by enticing male laboratory
snakes to attempt to mate with, and thensuddenly lose interest in, paper towels
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comQinations.

Swiss policecaught withgay sex lists
BERNE, Switz.-Police here in the
Swiss capital admitted April 25 that they
have been keeping detailed records ongays and prostitutes.
,
The admission followed an anonymous letter to Berner Zettung, a daily
newspaper, and came just three days
before the provincial elections.
Gay men were broken down into a
number of subgroups, including "sadist,·"masochist," "fetishist," "effeminate" and"hustler. • Some prostitutes
werecategorized under "big tits.""'They wanted to know all our cruising
places, the bars we meet in, whether wehave an animal at home I guess they'reconcerned about sodomy-the
car yore
drive, with whom we live and if we donude or porn photography," said Berne gay
activist David Haerry.
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were believed to be on the lists.
Haerry said that it remains unclear
why the information was collected. The
captain of the Bernese police has so far
refused comment.
"There has always been a climate oftolerance between gays and cops inBerne, with outdoor cruising tolerated in
the gardens of the national parliament,"
Haerry said. "The gays kept on wanking
when cops visited the tea-rooms looking
for drug addicts."
It is not the first time Swiss police
have been caught with secret lists. last fall,
following a drug-money
laundering
scandal, lists turned up detailing visits toEastem Europe by Swiss dtizens as well as
affi1iationswith Marxist or fascist groups.
One list even reportedly
included,dtizens who drink beer in the evening,
while another listed every book any
employee of a foreign embassy had
checked out of the national library.
Haerry said the illegal lists of gays andprostitutes will be immediately destroyed
now that they have been exposed.
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ahead
NEW YORK-A new support groupfor Irish lesbians and gay men is meeting on
the first Saturday of every moAth to tackle
such issues as inunigration and isolation.
.The Irish Lesbian and Gay Organization stirred up a fair amount ofattentionby advertisingin a local
newspaper, Tbe Irish Voice, It held its
first meeting at the Gay and LesbianCommunity Center in April.
"It's a forum for people who don't
feel 100 percent comfortable
being
here," says Paul O'Dwyer, a spokesman
for the group. Although ILGO also
welcomes Irish-Americans,O'Dwyeradmits, "That is not exclusively, but
predominantly Irish-about
five out of
35 are Irish-American:
The rampant homophobia
thatpervades the immigration system is one
of ILGO's major concerns. O'Dwyer
explains that immigrants are forced to lie
about their sexuality when applying forvisas because "homosexuality is grounds
for exclusion," And, O'Dwyer believes,

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O~WEEKmandatory mv testing of immigrants is
yet another form of harassment theymust face.
Helping to combat feelingsof isolation
is high on ILGO's list of priorities, To
O'Dwyer, the problem is two-fold. "You're
isolated in the Irish community because
youlfe gay, and you're isolated from thegay <;9mmunitybecause you're a foreigner,"he says. He hopes that more people will
discoVer ILGO and realize that they do nothave to feel alienated from society.
"There is a togetherness
andcamaraderie that orie will have withpeople from one's own country. ... We
want people to know that we're here,'
O'Dw,yer states. Noting that outreach into
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For more informationon theorganization, call Paul at (718) 499-1479
or Ann at (718) 462-1527.

-Janis Astor

Foster-carestruggle
continues,
in Bay StateBOSTON-Only weeks after officials
announced a reversal of Massachusett's
antigay foster-carepolicy, Representative
Steven Pierce, a Republican gubernatorial

candidate,introduced
a budgetamendment that would declare lesbian
and gay male sexuality a psychologicalobstacle to the well-being of a child. The
House of Representatives passed theamendment by a two-tCK>nemargin.
·Steve Pierce is trying to do what
Bush did with the Willy Horton case,"
said David laFontaine, a member· of the
Coalition for Lesbian and Gay Civil
Rights, Pointing to the Republican Party's
recent challenge to all the Democratic
contenders
to oppose gay foster
parenting, LaFontaine said that he thinks
the Republicans
will make gay
issues particularly foster care and thepotentialreferendum
on the newstatewide gay-rights law-one of the top
three items on the agenda of the
gubernatorial race.

"I think it raises the awful,specrre of
bigotry,' stated Marjorie Clapprood, a
Democratic representative who vocally
opposed the amendment when it cameup on the House floor May 17.
Clapprood added, "None of us should
hold ourselves in some elevated andexalted position when it comes to judging
someone else's ability to love and nurture.'
The homophobic amendment was
attached to an appropriations bill that is1991 budget.
part of the state's
Currently, the bill has passed throughthe House and will go to the Senate,
where pro-gay legislators
hope toremove the antigay amendment.
According to gay activists, thecontentious debate over the amendment
was particularly
problematicfor
supportersof the lesbian and gay
community because the amendment's
language echoed language written into
the state's gay-rights law last year. "Theywere essentially given an OK to vote onamendments like this one,' LaFontainecommented, pointing out that the otheramendments added to the gay-rights billover the objections of its proponents
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Mitchell
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York
State's
Officeof
AIDS
Discrimination Issues about two and ahalf years ago, most of the cases heinvestigated were complaints against
employers and landlords. Now, as its
recently named director, he oversees
an office that handles
a growingnumber of complaints
against thehealth-care system.
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department within the state's Division of
Human Rights. Besides Netburn, theagency has three employees. Its yearlybudget is $125,000, most of which goes
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office $100,000 annually to hire three
more full-time employees.
Netburn's office investigates AlDSrelated discrimination complaints in
employment, housing, access to public
accommodations and health facilities,
and specific violations of the state's
human rights law. Many complaints
filed with his office are resolved
informally, he said, but 350 formal
complaints have been handled since
the office opened in 1983. And, while
theeariycases were employment
disputes, the number of health-carecases, such as complaints of dentists
refusing to treat AIDS patients, aremultiplying. For example, Netburn said,
in 1986, five percent of the cases
handled by the office were health-carerelated. In 1987, the figure rose to 15
percent, in 1988 to 30 percent, and in
1989 to 39 percent. Among the issues
Netburn plans to address are: thespeed
at which complaints
areresolved; outreach to the communities
affected by AIDS, including gays,
people of color, and women; and theagency's visibility, which will beheightenedby hiring a publicinformation
officer
to produce
instructional videos and brochures.
Right now, Netburn's
officeisovershadowedby the city agency,
which, with a staff of more than 20,
handles AIDS discrimination complaints
within the five boroughs.
Netburn said that he would like to
see a time when people with AIDS could
talk about their medical condition
without fearing retribution.
"It may sound funny,· Netbum said,"but ideally I'd like to be out of a job.
That would be the ultimate goal.·
The Office of AIDS Discrimination
Issues of the New York State Division of
Human Rights is located at 55 West 125
St. The phone number is (212) 87~.
-Paul Rykoff Coleman,

NEW YORK-Two
more gaycommunity-based organizations have joined
the boycott of the Sixth International
Conference on AIDS,adding their names tothe list of over 50 national and internationalgroups that are refusing to attend theconference as long as the United States
continues to restrict entry of people withAIDSand ffiV infection.
Whitman-Walker Clinic, Washington,
D.C.'s latgest provider of community-based
AIDS services, released a statement last
week calling the decision to join theboycott' a "difficult" one, but affinning theorganization's commitment to upholding
the human rights of all people with ffiV
infection. "We feel certain that we canobtain the information presented at theconference through other sources," pointed
out John Schappi, president of WhitmanWalker's board of directors.
New York's Community Healthproject, a gay and lesbian clinic with a large
primary-care clinic for people with AIDS
and ffiV infection, also dedded last week

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to join the boycott of the Sixth International
Conference on AIDS. "The clinic has a
responsibility,
both as a health-careprovider and as one of the country's largest
gay and lesbian organizations, to stand up
for the rights of people with ffiV aroundthe world. If we endorse discrimination
against them, then we also endorse
discrimination against us," declared Rona
Affoumado, executive director of the clinic.
The Immigration
and Naturalization Service policy, which has
sparked worldwide protest, excludes
people with AIDS or HIV infection
from entry into this country. Recently,
the restriction was revised to allow tenday visas to be distributed to visitors
who were coming to the U,S. forconferencesthat the Secretaryofsend two gay AIDS
researchers andadvocates to the San
Francisco AIDS
Conference and othermeetings in the area.
We're writing an English
and Spanish summary of
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by L..azaroHernandez
I am a gay Caucasian Latino manof colorfrom
Cuba. Believe me,
I've . never before
described myself inall those terms at .
once. But, lately,
I've been feelingpre~µre to explore
such combinations.
Everyone loves
a label. To be politically correct-andfashionable-keeping
up with thelatest trends in labels is a must. But
One must be cautious to avoid
offending someone by employing the, slightest misnomer.
The issue of using the term
"Latino" instead of "Hispanic," among
many other topics, was recently
discussed at a forum sponsored by
Men of All Colors Together/NY(Thanks to David Housel and Marcos
Rodriguez for a wonderful program.)
Was a conclusion reached? Are we,the~ gay and lesbian
Latino/a
community, alerting the general gayand)esbian community to read ourlips or else? I don't think so.
The primary problem is that weare attempting to name somethingthat we haven't defmed and possibly
can't define. Are we lab<;linga cultural,
linguistic, racial, or geographicalgroup, or a combination thereof? Is
this Latino/Hispanic group peculiar to
the United States (of America, as
opposed to the United States of
Mexico, or of Brazil)" or to theAmericas, or to the world? Whom are
we tal~ing ..,about? Are we searchingfor an inclusive term for an indefinitegroup?

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need gay men and lesbians have tosuch asfind terms that describe themselves.
Aymara, Dutch, Quechua, French,
Although I realize the importance
Guarani,English,Nahuatl,
playedbylanguage
andPortuguese, Tupi are spoken in thecohesivenessin any struggle forcountries south of the U.S. But even
if the debate is limited to the U.S., visibility, I grow weary of arguing
about semantics. I would rather
the language diversity is still great;
spend
my energies
fighting
and Spanish is not spoken by all thehomophobia,
sexism and racism.
people who identify themselves as(To tell the truth, I was dreading
Hispanicor Latino. And evenwriting this piece because I knew I
Spanish imposes
linguistic
limitations•
neveraddress
all thebecause of the gender specificity of could
possibilities
for discussion
andits words. You-singularly-are
either a "Latino" Or a "Latina." In the
because I'm tired of looking up
every word that comes out· of, myplural form" we are all "Latinos"(where are the women?). Maybe one
mouth!)How can I claim to be a
day the language will evolve and wewill be "Latines," or "Latinis."
Caucasian person of color? By
Personally,
I feel that bothcurrent popular definition, Latinos"Hispanic"and"Latino"areare people of color. But racially I
problematic as labels. They havemay be Caucasian. I researchedbeen associated, historically, withthese words in Webster's Ninth New
Collegiate Dictionary. Caucasian isEuropean ancestry, traditions anddefined as: "1: of or relating to thelanguages. Where, then, are Native
Americans of the countries south of Caucasus or its inhabitants." (Strikethe u.s. left in this debate? And all one for me!) And: "2: of or relating
the Blacks that are descendants of to the white race as defined by law
the people enslaved after they were
specif. as composed of persons ofbrought over from Africa during theEuropean, No. African or Southwestcolonization of the Americas? And all Asian ancestry." (Bingo!) It seems
the other racial, linguistic, cultural
I'm Caucasian because my ancestry
and ethnic groups that are part of lies somewhere within those three
our countries (whichever ones wegeographical areas.
decide to include in our definition)?
But, how can I label myself
I'm sorry to say that I have noanything at all when the definitions
solution to offer. But I encourage
are so vague? According to the U.S.
everyone to stop and think before
government, I'm Hispanic, but youlabeling or generalizing. I do not
can also be a black Hispanic, a whitetake it as a personal affront if called
Hispanic, a yellow, red' or brown"Hispanic" or "Latino," although I Hispanic, or, indeed, any shade intend to favor "Cuban" or "Latin
between. Labels are a bit repressive
American"; I will warn you, however,and tend to gloss over the richness
that some Latinos do resent being • and variety of the group being
called "Hispanics" because of the ; defined, even as they serve as aconnection they perceive between
rallying point for cohesiveness andthat term and the conquering culture
visibility.
and language, and/or because the
Furtherproblems
arise inword is sometimes associated withinstances when literal translations do
the right wing.
not take into account that the words
A recent Out Week editorial,
may have different meanings in"What's in a Name?,", discusses the
Spanish and English. For example, in,,Spanisb, b1spanlco is defined as: "1:
2: pertaining
to theSpaniard.
peoples of Spanish origin", while, inEnglish, "Hispanic" means: "of or
relating to the people, speech or
culture of Spain, Spain and Portugal
or Latin America." These subtle
differences could prevent effective
communica~ion between two people
who hold disparate ideas on themeaning of a term.
The importance of defining the
terms
we
use
is obviously
overlookedby many of us. In
addition to these definitions I havecopi'ed from the dictionaries,
wemust acknowledge
other popularmeanings which may not be part ofthe official lexicon but which the
populace has come to associate withcertain tenns.
While I'm complaining, let me
say that I got offended when, after
telling someone that I was Cuban,
she said, "But you are not like them,
you are like us [white].' Recently, ata gay and lesbian dance, a woman,
upon hearing I was Cuban, said, "Butyou don't look Cuban.' What in theworld is a Cuban supposed to lopk
like? Maybe I should send cultUrally
recognizable messages to proclaim
my Cuban-ness. What if I playedsome conga drums and sang "Babalu
A'·ye ...
But even more infuriating is
the reaction
I get when I tellpeople I'm a Marielito.
(Yes, I
arrived by boat in May 1980. I'mcelebrating my tenth anniversary in
the U.S. this month. Cards andflowers may be sent to me c/o
OutWeek). Last month, I engaged
in a conversation with a stranger•••
SlttlOg
next
to
me
10
a
restaurant-a
Puerto Rican man
who was in Cuba three years ago
working
for a social-service
organization.
After finding out I
was a Marielito,
he exclaimed,"You are the first successfu
I,Marielito I've ever met!"
Sadly enough, the worse partof comments like this one is notthat they are degrading but thatthey are intended as compliments.
Ju~t the sort of adulation a gay
Caucasian Latino man of color from
Cuba needs .....

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by Jaffe CohenTwomonths ago 1 perfonned onc"Comic Strip Live,"makiilg me, with thepossible exceptionof Alan Sues from
Laugh In, the first
openly gay comedianon national television.
During the past few
~,
I
weeks
I've met I
several people who have led me tobelieve that both gays and straights havea greatneedfor openly
gayperformers. Last weekend, for instance,
after a performance of "Funny Gay
Males," 1 was approached
by agorgeous young man with thick, wavy
blond hair and a pink polo shirt.
"I saw you on lV," he drawled.
"Oh, really?" 1 asked, trying hard
not to stare at his well-developed chest.
"Where are you from?""Alabama.""People saw me in Alabama?!""And, you know, we've never seen
any real homer-sexuals on lV except
on docker-mentaries. And you weremuch funnier than tbe Life and Timesof HarveyMtl~ ""Gee. Thanks.".
"I work in an office and the next
clay all the straight secretaries weretalking about you. They really liked
you,".
"They did?""Gawd. You all up North think that
down South we're just a big bunch ofmorons. Just like any place else, we've
got people who believe in the Bible
and then we've got people who use alittle common sense."
Meeting' this guy reinforced
something I've long suspected. Despite
idiots like Jesse Helms and Cardinal
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O'Connor, the number of people in thiscountry who are using common sense
still outnumbers the people who don't.
What made meeting this guy soremarkable, other than my being able
to speak with my heart stuck in mysinu.ses, was that the secretarial pool
had hardly batted their eyelashes whenpresented
with an openly
gayperformer.
Times have changed. Perhaps the
AIDS epidemic has shoved the gay andlesbian community into the faces ofordinary Americans in such a way that,when the plague flOally subsides, we'll
all be sitting nonchalantly in their laps
like we'd been there all along. Only 50

imitation of my "Sissy in Gym Qass"routine.
"You were funny, man. You werereal funny.".
The dynamics of this exchange
were quite interesting. Twenty years
ago, I'd often been mimicked bystraight guys, but the homage hadn't
been so obvious. What made thisencounter completely different fromthe usual straight-man-ridiculing-gayman situation was that he was actually
imitating me doing an imitation ofmyself. He was doing my act.
Now some people could accuse
meofappropriating
cultural
stereotypes and putting on a kind of,years ago there wasn't a single Blackman playing maJor-league ball, andonly 20 years ago the idea of women'ssports figures getting big money andmedia attention would have beenunthinkable. My ·guess is that within
five years there'll be tons of openly gay
entertainers because, from what I've
seen, there's already a hug~'segment of
the population sophisticated enough toappreciate us.
One of my greatest joys has comefrom being appreciated by people whoback in high school would have beatthe crap out of me if they had known
what 1 was to become. The day after
my appearance on Fox television 1
went to the movies and the big, burly
man ripping my ticket tapped me on
the shoulder,"Hey man. 1 seen you last night onlV."
Oh no, 1 automatically thought tomyself. He knows he's talking to a fag.
"You were doing this, 1 seen you:At this point he did a limp-wristed

gay minstrel show. Maybe 1 shouldn't
have reinforced the ancient stigma thatgay men are useless at sports. Thenagain, as a comic I'm tryir).gto be true
to myself, and it just so happened that 1
was a one-man athletic disaster area.
There are probably plenty of gay men
who can play baseball, but 1 wasn't
one of them. The ftrst time they asked
me to cover right field, 1 went out andbought linoleum, .
1 do, however, swim regularly at auniversity gym, and the other day while
stark naked in the shower a handsome
man called out my name, which doesn't
happen nearly as often as 1 would like.
The caller was one of the lifeguards atthe pool who was rushing through thelocker room on his way to work. 1 hada crush on this guy for years;"Hey you.""Me?" There was nobody else in
the shower.
"Where have 1 seen you?""1...1.. .swim here."
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one may:ipave sex each month outside
the relatiQnship. Demian said that thegreatest aiversity between men andwomen couples was with sexual
agreement.
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"We asked not only about theirsexual agreements, but whether they
kept the-'m," Demian said. "Men had
more s~x and enjoyed it less than
women:~'We found that the greater
couples rated their sex, the more
highly they rated their relationship in
addition to sex time."
The large percentage of men andwomen reporting sexual exclusivity
counters the notion, that gay men andlesbians are unable to sustain longtenn relationships, "We found that wasabsolute
garbage,"
Demian said.
"That's fake. That's one of the biggest,lies revealed by our sulVey."
To ensure honest answers, nonames were requested and couples
were asked to fill out their forms outof each other's presence. Nevertheless,
Demian said, many forms werereturned
with
two
sets
of
handwriting, indicating a breach ofanonymity.
The
completeresultsareavailablein thenewsletter's
May/June issue. The survey forms
appeared in the gay press and were
distribu~ed
throughgay service
organi~~tionsin 1988. Responses.came fr<n.n48
states, Puerto
Rico and..".
Washington, DC, No couples from
Mississippi or North Dakota replied,
Demian said.
Lastl March, in a separate sUlVeyof 96 gay and lesbian couples,
Demian and Bryant reported that all
but four couples said they would fillout the "unmarried partners" bubble
on their 1990 census form.
"Of course, this small survey
cannot accurately predict how all
American couples will respond," Bryant
said. "However, we have reason tobelieve that the respondents are fairly
typical of couples nationwide.""I know. You do, like, that funnyside stroke."''Well I...""No. No. I got it! You do comedy,
right? You were on television, right? Let
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good!"

Then he bounded up beside me
and began pumping my arm. If I .
weren't so flaggergasted, I might easily
have been aroused.
"Good work, man. How'd you dothat? How'd you get yourself on 1V?"
"1... 1... "At this point he must have noticed

that I was blushing and staring
demurely at the floor tiles because his
next words were calculated to correct
any misconception
his enthusiasm
might have engendered.
"You know, I'm not gay...""1---1 didn't dream that you were.""But tell me when you're gonna be
on 1V again. Everybody here at the
pool's gonna watch you.""1banks ... ""Catch you later. Try not todrown,"
Then he let go of my hand, highfived me and left the room. As soon as
he was gone I turned up the cold
water and steam rose from the top of
my head like a hot skillet in a sink.
So I'm learning a couple oflessons. The toughest one is that justbecause a guy thinks I'm funny, doesn'tmean he's available. On a muchhappier note, I've also learned that justbecause I'm gay, doesn't mean I'mgoing to be despised. That was justsome useless information I learned inhigh school along with the bicameral
legislatureand the Pythagorean
theorem. Maybe we all need to update
our thinking.
At the expense of sounding like
Haley Mills, I really do feel like mostfolks would rather be our friends thanour enemies. I almost feel like, for the
past five years, straight people havebeen learning that we're here, and now
they're looking for reasons to like us.
Perhaps we could all be a little more
open to the larger world in which welive. Prejudice is a two way street. If
we want the majority to accept us, weneed to accept them, as strange as theymight seem. T

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•Kenneth Lithgow
1941-1990
Kenneth Lithgow, an artist, died at
Roosevelt Hospital on April 29, ofcomplications related to AIDS, He was 49
years old.

Kenneth
Lithgow,
whose
recentexhibition at New York's Kendall Gallery
drew quite an unusual response."
A private memorial service will beheld at the Lithgow Studio on June 1.
. Works on display at the time of his deathwill remain up until that date.

Richard L. Bowne

A native of Detroit, Michigan,
Lithgow held a fine arts degree inpainting from Wayne State University andalso studied at the Art Students League in
New York City, He had been a resident
artist both at the MacDowell Colony andat the Wurlitzer Foundation in Taos, New
Mexico, In 1968, he was awarded thePrix de Rome, a highly coveted prize
which carries with it a cash endowment
and a year's residency at the American
Academy in Rome.
After returning to the United States,
Lithgow settled in the Chelsea section ofManhattan where he was to live andmaintain a studio for the rest of his life.
He produced
hundreds
of works,
including ink drawings, watercolors andpaintings, and moved easily from one
medium to another, expressing himself
with skill in each area and exploring awide range of subjects. In 1984, moved
by a friend's death from AIDS, Lithgow
took his sketch pad into a local gay bar
where, night after night, he recorded thefaces of the men around him, Returning
to the studio, he turned the sketches into
ink drawings, and some of them became
the basis of a series of paintings onwhich he focused almost exclusively forthe next five years and on which he wasstill at work at the time of his own
succumbing
to the disease,The
paintings, all large-format acrylics on
canvas, bear titles like All the Fine Young
Men, We Thought We'd Dance Foreverand The Fall. The last was based on thesuicide of a friend who jumped from awindow after he learned he had AIDS,In
the November 1987 issue of Horizon
magazine, David Kaufman called thepaintings "gruesomely impressive ...
stunning," And, Thomas Ryan wrote in
his December 1988 article about Lithgow
in Spin magazine: "Few are committed
enough to make AIDS a central theme intheir oeuvre. One exception is painter

On Saturday, May 19, a brilliantly
clear spring morning, my friend RichardLouis Bowne died in the home he hadcreated with the late Robin McCarty
Kemppainen, who had himself passed
only seven months before.
Richard was an actor, working
primarily in regional theaters around'the country. Handsome, with blondhair, and standing
six-feet-fourinches,
he usually
playedtheleadingman, but he loved to
disguise
his good looks to playcharact<::r parts; ,he was equally
adept in both roles'. His best-known'role, which his friends always teased
him about, was Prince Charming in
Snow White and the Se'!,.enDwarfs at
Radio City Music Hall, and thesubsequent national tour.
He met Robin McCarty in 1983.
They moved
in together
shortly after
meeting,
beginning awonderful,
lifelong companionship.
When Robin'
became ill in
1987, Richard
gave up his
opportunities
to work as anactor to takecare of him. He took impeccable care ofRobin, through many bouts of various
opportunistic infections, until Robin diedin October of 1989. Ric.hard himself
became ill in February,
If Richard's role in life had to besummed up in one word, the word
would be "caretaker," He took care ofRobin and he took care of his friends,
often going far out of his way to beof help. It is ironic that at the end. of
his life, this caretaker was placed inneed of such caretaking himself, a
position he never seemed reconciled
with. His friends, however, wereequal to the task and saw to it that hehad everything he needed for comfort
and support.
His passing was peaceful, with nopain and no struggle, into a clear sky
that was even bluer than his eyes, He
will be missed.
-Michael Cone

Rasheem Parker
1981-1990
Rasheem Parker (Grant) was born in~ew York City on Jan. 1, 1981, anqjdied
of AIDS-related complications on March
31, 1990.
"Rah-Rah", or "Me. Parker," i'§ his
foster family
calledhim,
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who especially liked to read books andwatch the children's programs on -Channel 13, Even though "Rah-Rah" had aspeech problem and soine difficulty
walking, he took an active part in hislarge, loving family.
He is survived by his foster motherRenell Grant; his foster father Earl Bell;his brothers, Damien, Allen and Phillip;
and his six Sisters, Yvonne, Sadia,
Chirnell, Anelia, Keisha, Toy, and l1alda.
His four nephews, Marquise, Raymond,,
Saynone and Jason, and his nIece
Kioney all miss him daily and pray;that
he is at rest.
Mrs. Grant wants to thank, herfriends and co-workers for their help
and support
as well as theirprofessionalism. His family is gratefulfor the few brief years that "Rah-Rah"was with them to bring joy into theirlife, as only a child can, and they blessall of those who are actively working
to end the AIDS crisis.
Contributions
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Under a microscope, this sort of discharge reveals discarded healthy epithelial cells (from the cervix and the vaginal
walls), a few red or white blood cells, a
lot of lactobacilli (good bacteria), somemonilia (yeast) :!Od other mixed bacteria.
It is very acidic, measuring about 4.5 on
pH paper. (Seven is considered neutral;
1-6 is acid; 8-14 is alkaline). pH paper
can be purchased at drugstores and canbe read easily. Simply wrap a small piecearound your finger, dip it inside yourvagina for a moment, take it out andcompare it to the numbers on the color

ood pussy does not all taste'alike, but it always tastes good.
Of course, in the era of safer sex, we
may lament never again tasting awoman's vagina. We'll each have to
make ,our own informed, personal decisions on that question. For me, at least,
the erotic imagery persists: blood-berry
juice, the sme!l of freshly cut grass.
A healthy vagina is a function ef ahealthy body. It is a warm, moist, soft
place which cyclically self-cleanses bydischarging secretions and menstrual
Most women have had
blood. The outer layer is blessed withprotective hair; the mucous memthe occasional vaginalbrane linings of the inner labia enfold
the glans of the clitoris, the urethral
infection. A checkup
opening and glands that supply extra
can be a helpful starting
fluids when excitement mounts.
The vagina itself surrounds thepoint, and regular pap
cervix, the "neck" part of the uterusthat you can feel as a firm lumpsmears, STD tests andwith your fingers or see with a plastic vaginal speculum. The forward
gynecological exams
part of the vagina (the top or anterior wa~l)is the sensitive, exquisitely
are a part of maintaining
pleasurable
area that borders thegeneral well-being.
urethhl and the clitoris .. At the botthe vagina is the muscular
tom ~fperineum, which separates it from thechart provided with the tape. A pH readanus abd rectum.
ing of 6 or higher usually suggests an imThe vagina is always a home for abalance in vaginal conditions.
Most women have had the occasionalvariety of microorganisms, or germs. The
vaginal infection, A checkUp can be a helpecology of these genns is the precursorof vaginal odors and secretions. The
ful starting point, and regular pap smears,
SID tests and gynecological exams are ausual pattern of vaginal discharge varies
part of maintaining general well-being. Still,
during the menstrual cycle in color,the overall management of health is always
amount and consistency. It is driest justa day-to-day personal endeavor that reafter the period, moist and stretchy during ovulation, thicker" and more viscous
quiries infonnation about prevention andpremenstrually; and then, of course, istreatment of common problems.
the blood. Women who no longer menBut sometimes we experience the bane
struate~ due to chemical, surgical or natuof a recwrent, chronic, never-ending vaginiral mehopause, do. not have these cyclic
tis, or inflammation of the vagina. When thisoccurs, a thorough investigation of lifestyle,chan8~s and often complain of constantvaginal dryness.
as well as a complete medical evaluation,
The appearance of normal vaginal
should be undertaken. Something seemingly unrelated and potentially serious may besecretions is white, cream- or slightly yelthe underlying cause, and some imbalances
Ibw-colored; a thin milky or hand-Iotiontextured discharge in varying amounts,
may only be properly treated once an accualong with some clear mucous,
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The vagina resists disease much as
the rest of the body does. Other infections, poor diet, lack of sleep or exercise
and added stress can all cause vaginal
imbalances and susceptibility to infection. In addition, sexual activity (especially the raw and rough kind); commercial products including tampons, vaginal
sprays and chemical douches; pantyhose,nylon panties, tight jeans and wet
swimwear can also cause problems.
Women who are anemic are more prone
to chronic infections of all kinds. Certain
medications create vaginal imbalances,
especially or;ll antibiotics, which, by
wiping out friendly bacteria, are asure way to' develop a yeast infection.
Keeping germs in their places of residence is also important,becausegerms from the rectum can cause infection in the vagina, pelvic organs
and bladder, and normal vaginal
germs can infect the urinary tract
causing urethritis or cystitis. So it isimportant after a bowel movement towipe separately and away from thevagina. It is also a good idea to keep
nails short and clean,
The most common dietary triggerof vaginitis is too much sugar or
sweets. Dairy products are mucousproducing and can increase vaginal
discharges, also. Inadequate fluid intake
can make the vagina too dty. It is possible to acidify the body by diet; drinking
unsweetened cranberry juice is often recommended for urinary infections but canalso be a part of treating a vaginal condition. The vagina needs to "breathe," sogoing without underwear whenever possible, and especially in bed, is helpful.
Nutritional supplements that may help
maintain vaginal health include vitamins
A, C and E, iron and acidophilus (which
replenishes lactobacilli).
A change in vaginal discharge isoften accompanied by irritation, itching,redness, sores or swollen glands. Organisms that may be causing these symptoms include yeast (monilia), trichomoniasis, gardnerella, cornebacterium, mycloplasma, chlamydia, gonorrhea, herpes,
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who feel so guilty about their sexual histories that they avoid the test, and they
live in dread that one day they'll fall ill.
I've also met gay men who get tested
every month, even though they haven't
had sex for years and don't intend on
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What I'm trying to tell you is that wegay men have invested a lot of emotions
in a simple blood test. Many gay men,probably even your lover Jim, believe

ty of a problem and then do somethingsensible about it.
As Jim's lover, you are the key to getting him out of his psychological paralysis.
You can do that if you are supportive of hisfears. He'll respond to that support because
he trusts you. But, first let me tell you thewrong way to do it. The wrong way is totell Jim that he should do it for your sake.
"If you love me, you'll get your ass to thedoctor and get tested" is not supportive andisn't likely to work. (The reason is thatyou're ttying to manipulate through guilt.)
Another way to fail is to say, "I want tohave sex with you, but I'm afraid because
you haven't been tested." This approach
will result in Jim's feeling punished and resentful, probably leading to his digging hisheels in about testing.
"Supportive" means telling Jim that
he needs to be tested for his own sake,so he can plan his life sensibly. You
should continue to have s~ but safe sex(no swallowing cum), and insist on it. He
knows why, You can offer to go with him
to the doctor to be tested and to be there
when the results are given to him. If Jim
has a close friend he can talk to, encourage him to do so. Most of all, get him totalk about it, because talking helps toshare the fears, and that mobilizes a per-that a positive HIV-status is a death sentence. It's too hard to handle emotionallyfor some men-unless they have a good
support-network
around them-likealover. Do you hear that? Like a lover,which means you.
What you've said to me is that you
had enough psychological strength to betested. Right now Jim feels psychologicallyweak. That doesn't mean that he's afraidthat he's HIV-positive. It means that he's
afraid of AIDS, It also means that he feels
flooded with anxiety over the AIDS crisisand his feeling that his life is no longer in
his control. It may sound strange, but he's
afraid because he's afraid, That leads to akind of psychological paralysis in which aperson refuses to look at the objective reali-

son's strength. When Jim feels stronger
psychologically, he'll get tested because
he knows it's the most sensible thing todo these days.
You know what to do about fucking, A condom must be used. In fact, it
may be a good idea to use condoms
even if both of you are HIV-negative.
This is still a new relationship, and one
or the other of you may "wander" into athird man's bed, You may think I'm
being too cautious, but I noticed thatyour letter didn't say anything definite
about monogamy,
Readers may want to respond to
this issue as well. If so, write me c/o
OutWeek, and I'll publish some of the
responses .....

A gay and lesbian advice column
by Dr. Charles Silverstein
Dear Dr. Silverstein,

I'm 24 years old and I have a lover
who's 23. We met about a year ago at a
disco and had sex that night at his house.
It wasn't safe sex because I swallowed his
cum and he swallowed mine. Neither oneof us had had much sex before we met.
Both of us had little mini-affairs with othermen we met in bars or in school. This is
the first time either one of us has fallen inlove, and we want to make it last forever.
fun (my lover) moved into my apartmenta few months ago, and it's been a good
relationship. For a while we were practicing safe sex, but then one thing led to another, and we started swallowing eachother's cum again. Also, I want to haveanal intercourse with him-something
we've never done.
I decided to get HIV-tested a few
weeks ago. I came out HIV-negative, which
made me vay happy. Then I asked Jim to
get tested. I figured that)f , he's also HIVnegative, we can do anything we want inbed. We don't have to have safe sex anymore. But he didn't want to get tested. He
said that it wasn't necessary because hedidn't think he had had enough sex before
he met me to get the virus, and that if I'm
HIV-negative, he must be. Now I'm upset. I
don't mow why he won't do this for me.
I'm starting to get afraid that maybe he's
been tested already and he's HIV-positive,
Now I'm turning off to him sexually. How
do Ihandle this?
Tested in Tacoma
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The first thing you should do is geta grip on your fantasies and fears. Don't
start making up reasons why Jim doesn't
want to get tested. That will lead to real
trouble, because' you seem to feel hurt
by his refusal. There are still lots of gay
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he 1960s were a good time for cancer research. New discoveries aboutmolecull\r biology and the role of DNA incell growth provided new avenues foranti-cancer therapy. Since cancers are uncontrolled growth of aberrant cells, one
obvious route of attack was to interrupt
cell growth by interrupting new DNA
chains of dividing cells. This led Jerome
Horwitz, a Detroit cancer-researcher, toapply for funding from the National Cancer Institute (NC!) to synthesize a class of
DNA chain terminators-<iecoy molecules
which would trick the cell into incorporating them into DNA and would thenstop the DNA's growth.
DNA is composed of four chemicalbases, linked in pairs along a sugar-phosphate chain. The four DNA nucleosidebases are adenine, cytosine, guanine andthymine. Because' Horwitz's new drugs
were modified forms of these bases, they
are called "nucleosideanalogues."
Among the drugs discovered in Horwitz's
lab were azidothymidine (AZT), dideoxycytidine (ddC), dideoxyadenosine (ddA)
and didehydrodideoxythymidine(d4T).
Early tests showed they were too toxic
for use against cancer, and they weres~elved until the early 19S0s.
In trials of new cancer drugs, scientists search first for the "maximum tolerated dose" (MTD). The toxicity of many
cancerdrugs
is linked
to their
efficacy-theycannot distinguish between cancerous cells and normal ones
and they often kill all dividing cells, Sodrugs are given in high, toxic I
doses for short, intense burstsof therapy, often in cycles ofcombination therapy. This approach killed some patientsand cured others of cancer.
But it doesn't make sense for
AIDS, where people will be .
taking treatments chronicallyfor the rest of their lives. Yet,because these drugs weresynthe~ized as cancer drugs
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NCI, their Phase I trials sought the maximum tolerated dose ..
This resulted in a dangerously highinitial dose of AIr. In the Phase I AIr
study, people were given two grams perday (2000 mg). In the Phase II study
which led to FDA approval, the dose wasdown to 1500 mg/day, and in practicemany people took 1200 mg/day (200 mg
every four hours).
These doses were recommended on
the basis of phannacokinetic studies whichshowed that the plasma half-life-the timeit took for half of the dose to leave theblood----9fAZf was about four hours.
But AZf' and its relatives aren't activein the blood, They're active inside cells,
where they are metabolized into active
forms and incorporated into the DNA
copy that mv makes of itself before integrating its genetic code inside the hostcell DNA. These active forms are triphosphates--they have a chain of three phosphates. So, the active form of AZT is
AZT-triphosphate (AZT-TP). The active
form of ddl is ddA-TP (dideoxyadenoSine-triphosphate). And the researchers
in the f1l'ststudies of these drugs did not
bother to measure the intracellular halflives of these active triphosphate formsof the anti-lllV drugs.
So, the dose of AZT used for the last
three years was much too high, Too toxic
for cancer(!) and intolerable to 50 percent of people with AIDS who developed anemia, neutropenia, nausea andother unpleasantside effects-1200
mg/day was nonetheless considered a"tolerable" dose.
Then, last July, preliminary results of

AIDS Clinical Trial Group (ACTG) protocol 002 were· released, comparing 1200
mg/day of AZT to 600 mg/day. Bothdoses were equally active against HN, as
measured by T4-cell increases and decreases in p24 antigen levels, yet thelower dose was far less toxic. it took
nine months before these data were submitted to the FDA, and 500 mg/day became the new approved dose (after anabsurd 30-day "loading period" of 1200
mg/day~nunnecessary measure taken
because the FDA was following the design of ACTG 002 literally).
On May 16, in response to ACT UP's
Critique of the AC'TG, the National Institute of Allergies and Infectious Diseases(NIAID), which oversees the ACTG, released a lengthy press release touting its
research accomplishments. Among the
page-long list of discoveries related to
AIr was the follOwing:[The ACTG] demonstrated
that ateven lower doses of AZT (300 mg/day),
p24 antigen decreases and CD4 cellcounts increase.!
Questioned about this at the Positive
Action forum at the Fashion Institute ofTechnology on May 24, NIAID Director
Anthony S. Fauci said, "I don't know exactly which study that's from-I'll
getback to you: It was from ACTG 010, a
study led by Ann Collier at the Universityof Washington, Seattle, comparing AZT
alone at various doses to the combination of AZT and acyclovir. Each arm of
the study had 12 participants, and improvements on AZT were seen at the 300
mg/day dose (100 mg every eight hours)with less toxicity than higher doses.
These results were announced by Dr. Collier at theNovember 1989 ACTG meeting-but they have not been
written up and published in a
medical journal, nor have they
been circulated among AIDS
doctors in a "Note to Physicians," which NIAlD sometimes
sends after it makes a significant discovery, Why not? Only'd - ::J;::
one reason comes to mm
the lack of interest Burroughs- ;::!
Wellcome, AZTs maker, has in ~suffering a further erosion of its if

AZT profits by reducing the dose to thelowest effective concentmtivn.
So far, with AZT, less seems to bebetter. This "negative dose response
curve" is different from that seen withmost other drugs, and implies either that
1) AZT is wholly ineffective or 2) AZT'sactivity is incompletely understood, andthis should tell us something about HIV
which we do not yet understand.
ddl doses, too, were initially basedon measurements of its serum half-life,
which is 12 hours. This permitted the ddI
trials to be designed with only twicedaily dosing. Now there is evidence thatthe doses used in the Phase II ddI trials
may be too high as well. Although ddI is
far more tolerable than AZT to most pe0ple, the rare side effects especially p0tentially fatal pancreatitis-aresevereenough that all efforts should be made to
fmd the lowest effective dose of ddl.
In the Phase I NCI study publishedlast summer,2 the effectiveness of lowerdose ddI was masked, because the people who were given the lowest doses of
ddl had the lowest T4-cell levels at thestart of the trial-and were the least likely
to show significant increases. Now, Tbe
New England journal of Medicine has
published results of two AcrG Phase I
studies of ddI.3 In the first of these studies, led by John Lambert of the Universityof Rochester and Fred Valentine of NYU,
the administration of ddl was associatedwith statistically significant decreases inserum level of p24 antigen and increases
in the numbers of CD4 cells at 2, 6, 10
and 20 weeks. Tbese changes were seenat all dose levels studied."4
TIle eight dose levels ranged from 56
mg twice daily to 2.3 grams twice daily.
Peripheral neuropathy was only seen in
the higher dose ranges. No pancreatitis
was seen at under 250 mglday.5
The doses used in the Phase II ddI
studies range from 167 mg twice daily forpeople weighing less than 50 kg to 375
twice daily for those weighing more than
60 kg. In the treatment IND for people
intolerant to AZT, the dose is 375 mg
twice daily. Some people I know, however, are dividing their packets and taking half the recommended dose. Now
there is good scientific reason for doing ..
so. In an editorial accompanying the two
AcrG studies, Fauci notes:
Insights into the design of dosage regimens for future Phase ll/III studies of ddI
can be gained by viewing these two studies together. ... Perhaps low doses of ddI
given twice daily will ultimately result insustained responses with minimal toxicity.6
Now, it is up to Bristol-Myers Squibb

and the AcrG principal investigators todevelop a dose de-escalation componentof the ongoing ddI studies. So far, BristolMyers has shown a refreshing ability to
avoid the mistakes made by BurroughsWellcome with AZT. Let us hope they continue to do so, by finding the lowest effective dose as quickly as possible. T
INlAID, "ACfG Highlights Selected Research
Accomplishments," May 1990, p. 3.
2Yarchoan R et aI., "In Vivo Activity Against
HIV and Favorable Toxicity ProfIle of 2', 3'Dideoxyinosine." Science 245, July 28, 1989,
pp. 412-415.

L u x u r yCoolBuildings... Hot• Very3r.ambert JS et aI., "2', 3'-Dideoxyinosine (delI)in Patients with the Acquired Immuno-deticiency Syndrome or AIDS-Related Complex: A
Phase I Trial"; Cooley TP et aI., "Once-Daily
Administration of 2', 3'-Dideoxyinosine (delI)in Patients with the Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome or AIDS-Related Complex: Results of a Phase I Trial." In The New England
Journal of Medicine 322:19, May 10, 1990, pp.
. 1333-1339 and 1339-1344.
4Lambert, op. cit., p. 1333.
5Doses in the study were expressed as mglkg;
I have adapted these based on an average
weight per participant of 70 kg.
6Fauci AS, "ddI-A Good Start, but Still Phase
1." NEJM322:19, May 10,1990, pp. 1386-1387.

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Answer: They are all holidays considered
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being supported by mainstream cultural
institutions.
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How did it happen? Well, last year
GLAAD approached the management of
the Empire State Building. We, requested
that the building be illuminated in pinkor lavender to commemorate
the 20th
anniversaIY of the Stonewall riots, whichmark the birth of the modern lesbian andgay liberation movement.
They turned down our request, stating that their policy is to have special
lighting on the Empire State Building for
major national holidays, religious holidays and events of "singular importance."
This year GLAAD wrote again. We
pointed out that the commemoration ofStonewall and Gay and Lesbian Pride Day
are certainly events of singular frnportance to our community. We also explained that New York City's 700,OOO-plus
lesbians and gays are an important partof the city's "mosaic," as Mayor Dinkins
has fondly tenned it. I'm happy to reportthat our argµmeq,ts persuaded them .
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we see it lit with our colors in June. Suchvisible recognition of the gay and lesbiancommunity Can be empowering for all of
us. Second, it is a reminder to the non-gay
and lesbian 'community that we ~,that
we are numerous and that we are proud.
But this visibility 'can't serve its second purpose unless the rest of the country knows wby the Empire State Buil~ing
is lavender on that particular June weekend. That's where you come in. It's time
to start a blitz of phone calls and lettersto all media outlets in your city.
Tell them that that you want major
coverage of ~bian and Gay History andPride Month. Tell them you want otherpeople to know'this is the flfst time theEmpire State Building has been lit inhonor of our community. Tell them thatI
we are a substantial part of the"general population" , and "our"month deserves thes~e kind of coverage as Black History Month and
Women's History
Month, for example. Tell them thatit's high time we
get the same dignity, visibility and respect as other minorities.
First, write orcall the Empire State
Building's ,management and let themknow what the illumination means toyou. Write to: Donald B. Kaplan, Senior Vice President,
General Manager,
Empire State Building, New York, NY
10118. Or call him
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Next, write or call your local media,
and encourage them to do extensive coverage of the June gay and lesbian pride
observances in your area. We are providing you with the appropriate names andaddresses in New York City to get you
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condoloma, E. Coli and streptococcus.
Since some of these germs can cause serious problems if untreated (gonorrhea,
chlamydia and occasional mycolplasma
can cause pelvic inflammatory disease), a
medical diagnosis may be a very important fIrst step if sexual exposure is likely,
or your symptoms include any fever,pelvic pain, bleeding, sores, swollen
glands or painful urination.
The most common vaginal infections
are caused by an overabundanceofyeast, trichomonas or gardnerella (thiswas previously called haemophilus andis the same as non-specific, or bacterial,vaginitis). These can all be distinguishedunder a doctor's microscope but also canoften be identified by the odor and colorof the discharge. Yeast is sweet-smelling,
thick, curdy or watery-anditches likecrazy. Trichomonas is greenish, frothy,
itchy and irritating. It smells fishy. Gardnerella is runny, grey or yellow andsmells rotten. With a vaginal speculum,some pH paper and a little training, most
women can tell if they have a vaginitis
and apply home remedies successfully.
Oral or local medications are also usefulat times, or if preferred.
Yeast infections respond well to applications of active-culture, unflavoredyogurt, which can be placed in the vagina with an applicator or through an open
speculum. This puts live lactobacilli(good germs) back into the vagina and isalso very soothing. To prevent recurrences, acidophilus capsules (also containing lactobacilli) can be placed in thevagina three days each month. These
must be from active, live cultures andcan.be found at health-food stores.
Trichomonas responds well to garlicsuppositories (that's right-a peeled garlic dove right in the vagina) overnightfor one to three weeks. Descented garliccapsules can be purchased and used forthis purpose, also. Bacterial infections
like gardnerella respond well to herbal
douches. My favorite recipe is leaves ofgoldenseal, comfrey and myrhh. Steep a
handful of each in a quart of boiled
water, cool, strain and douche. Or put
goldenseal powder (two teaspoons) intoa sitz bath and soak in it. Camomile or
comfrey tea bags, steeped and cooled toa nice warm temperature are soothingfor external irritations and itching. Vaseline is a useful soother, too. For a dry
vagina, massaging the perineum with vitamin E oil or calendula cream daily canhelp a lot.
Women can transmit many of thesegerms to each other during sex. Some-

To participate in the War of thetimes recurrent infections will require
treating your lover(s), even if she (or he)
Reyes
Roses, call1-800-67~538.-Nina
is not having any symptoms. The safest
sex routines are not always sufficient tokeep these ordinary, hardy germs frompassing back and forth, and a mutual
consultation with a sensitive health-care,provider can sometimes help. Unfortunately, the best sex often leaves your .
cunt sore. A day or two of sex-charged
waiting is often all it takes to regain that
fresh, sweet, lovely feeling inside. T
BOSTON-Alyson Publications, theBoston-based gay and lesbian publisher,
OUT TAICESfrom pege 41
has committed to a new anthology of
Latino lesbian and gay writing. The
funding legislation currently pending
collection's editor will be thejhighlybefore
Congress,
includingtheacclaimed mystery writer Michaei Nava, aComprehensive
AIDS Resources
winner of two Lambda Literary Awards
Emergency
Act andtheAIDS
and editor of a previous collection of gay
Prevention Act of 1990. The letter also
mysteries for Alyson, Finale.
asked Bush to work for reform ofNava is looking for short stories
discriminatory
immigration policies,
from lesbian and gay Latinos, a groupwhich exclude people with AIDS andwhose work Alyson desc;fbes as "long
HIV infection
from entry into theoverlookedin the gay community.'
country.
Interested writers or anyone with queries"'War of the Roses' has been
about the project shoula write directly tothe editor: Michael, Nava, 7985 Santa
Monica Blvd., #109365, West Hollywood,
CA 90046. All formal submissions must
be received by' no later than SeptemberI, 1990, and should be accompanied bya self-addressed, stamped envelope.
-Sarah Pettit
established so that everyone whether
affected or infected-can
maintaintheiranonymity,'
said Michael
Merdian, executive director of NAPWA.
The second phase of the campaign
calls for people who oppose the Immigration and Naturalization Service's
restrictions on travel for people withAIDS and HIV infection
to don a
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and on to Central America, Jimmy
Somerville is sitting in a caf~in
London's East End. He's telling me
about an action that took place at theAustralian Embassy here. Protesting
Australia's immigration restrictions
against people with HIV, Somerville wasone of a handful of people arrested. It
was the first time ACf UP/London mademany of the national papers, and thehope of another pop-star arrest drew thepress to subsequent actions-until theyrealized ACf UP/London has a limited
roster ,of stars.
"Sometimes people are only interested because I'm there, but, that's why
I've atways ~n prepared to be arrested," he says.
There have been complaints about
Somerville wiggling about in an ACf UP
T-shirt on the British music TV-show
Top of the Pops. Is it all just disco
activism, here today at}d,i9n~,tomorr",-,row; like any other LOndon fashion? ,~"JimmY's absolutely unique at the
moment in Britain because he's consistently prepared to put himself on theline for ACf UP and for lesbian andgay rights," says Mike Christie, whorecently organized a national tour in
England for Somerville called "TheACf UP Revue." It went to five cities
outside Londc;>oand raised badly needed funds
for ACf UP. It also subverted,
the usual pop~tour 'paraphernalia; allthe· merchandisingpromoted
ACT
UP-not Jimmy Somervilleand thetour program talked about the experimental AIDS drug ddI, women and
AIDS and a PWA-benefits
scandalwhich is rocking , England.
The tour is"even more unusual
when one looks at the apolitical andcommercialized drift of gay culture in
London right now. The "E" in "England"
stands for "Extasy" these days, so strongis the climate of hedonism. Precious little has been done by the gay and lesbian community since Section 28, a law
prohibiting "the promotion of homosexuality," was introduced in 1988.
"You wonder, how much worse
does it have to get," Somerville says.
"But the Thatcher years have really
drummed it into ,us that you look after
number one. There is a complacency
about accepting that discrimination
against lesbians and gays is a fact of life
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twas 1984 when a young, gifted, rebellious Jimmy
Somerville surged onto the British music scene as lead singer
of Bronski Beat. The band had formed a year before, when
Somerville wrote a song called "Screaming" for the Gay and Lesbian Youth Video Project in London, Framed Youtb: Revenge oftbe TeenagePeroertswas eventually shown twice on TV. Bronski
Beat went on to perform several times that September in "The
Pink," an arts festival funded by the Greater London Council in
1983. They were signed almost immediately by London Records
and had major dance hits the following year with "Smalltown
Boy" and ''Why?""The record companies in the U.K. are sympathetic," hesays. "They respect me as a gay man who knows what he wants,
and they knew what they were getting right from the start. They
can sell queers who sing pop songs. MCA never knew how topromote the records in the U.S. Success on the same scale in the
U.S. is something I'll never be able to achieve because of thehomophobia of the music industry."
After Bronski Beat split up in late '85, Somerville teamed up
with classically trained musician Richard Coles to form the Communards, They made two albums, including the songs "You Are
My World," "Don't Leave Me This Way" and "There's More toLove than Boy Meets Girl."
Read My Lips is Somerville's fIrStsolo LP,recendy released in
the U.S. on Polygram Records. The album is split between strongly
political statements like the title track "Read My Lips," "You NeverThought This Could Happen To You" and a remake of Sylvester's"You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real)" (the currently released dance
single), and some very personal songs that came out of the
breakup of an important relationship he was in last year.
"They're still relevant because I'm still really in love with theguy," he says. "I feel strange that I've exposed myself so much,
but I'm lucky that I could do that. For other people, it's important to hear that our relationships are just as tormented-justasecstatic~
anyone else's,"'Mighty Real,' on the other hand, is about slapping people
in the face and saying, 'Fuck Off!' Our sexuality is still there andwon't disappear because of AIDS. We're still bere."A ten-minute performance of "Mighty Real" formed the climax to "The ACf UP Revue," with a guest appearance by dancer
Pascal Brannan, whose performance piece, "Milk Milk lemonade," an attack on Jesse Helms and a tribute to Sylvester, caused
a stir in London last year. The video of "Mighty Real" features
Somerville dressed in a spacesuit intercut with footage of
Sylvester, Harvey Milk and scenes of San Francisco,lways trying to balance his professional and personal life,
Somerville is now heading for a long stay in San Francisco,looking for a taste of "the gay ghetto," as he calls it. The
trip, he admits, is a bid to regain his privacy and expand his horizons beyong the constricting limits of London. "I can't bear living in London any longer. 1 know everyone else wants to cometo London, but to me it's never been home."
Although London isn't a violent city compared with New
York, it's aggressive in a way that Somerville finds increasingly
difficult to handle. He turned up for this interview with his armin a sling after a fight in a gay club, and has been attacked in thestreet many times, as the scars on his face testify.
"I do think the response to me is more violent in London
than in other cities," he says, "and it's an integral part of ourlives in this city, Some gay people can't deal with me except

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through intense dislike it's very British to dislike other people's
success.
"I had an experience where I was in a cab, and it was stopped,tat the traffic lights," Somerville recalls, "and the face of this tattooed skinhead appeared at the window-the most frightening,
completely terrorizing man I've ever seen, who decided he wanted to slit my throat, and he was trying to smash the windows.
"Another time, I was approached by two boys in thestreet-one said he really liked my music, and his mate said,'You're that fucking queer,' and socked me in the mouth. It sums
up the schizophrenic response of the public, but they hate me
for being queer."
Somerville is unusual in comparison with other London pop
stars in that he's still often seen in London's gay dubs and is still
accessible to many of the people who buy his records. His
down-t~attitude toward his role as a gay pop-star surprises many people who don't know him. His irrepressible camp wit
and his forthright opinions "my big gob"-have made him justas much an entertainer as a role model. But behind the endearing and vulnerable facade is a scorching tongue and a shrewd
political brain. "We do live in an authoritarian system eventhough most British people would never admit that," he says.
"They think they're living in the home of democracy, but wedon't even have a constitution or a bill of rights. The British people have never progressed from a wartime mentality in which
we don't question what the government does-it's assumed thateverything is for the benefit of the general population, even if a
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espite having cult success, Jimmy Somerville has neverbeen a chart-topping artist in the U.S. In Britain, however,
he's enjoyed major hits since 1984, when Bronski Beatreleased "Smalltown Boy," a tale of coming out and fmding thegay community.
"One of the worst things for me in coming out was the feeling of worthlessness at the age of 14 or 15," he explains, "I had
no sense of worth because I was queer. I was in a bar on Saturday-this boy came up and said to me, 'You saved my life'~nd
that's why I do what I do. It's a really strong thing for someone
to say to you, but he explained that he was sO suicidal when hewas coming out, he would listen to songs I've written and it
helped him.
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"People say that help-lines and counseling are important toyoung people coming out, but isn't having access to gay culture
equally important? That's what you're going to do with the restof your life, and people need a culture they can relate to, use
and add to.
"It would defmitely change gay culture, probably for the better, if there were suddenly lots of lesbian and gay ftlm stars andpop starS who came out. Gay culture is so intricate and diverse,though, and a lot of it comes from our oppression, so it's hard
to imagine what might change."
As for artists like the Pet Shop Boys (whom Somerville "outed" last year ininterview in London), he says: "They are consciously using their gay background and gay culture for career
purposes, and they're not putting anything into gay culture
except disco music. I think we need a bit more encouragement
than disco records, and that's all they give. I think they're intelligent enough, especially Neil Tennant, to be able to give a lot
more, voicing opinions 'and ideas which would influence young
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-for over t . ;y years, author james purdy has,

written novels about gay life which haveastounded critics and colleagues alike. but still, he••is, perhaps, one of our most underrated writers.
"It's 200 years old, an old house-for
America," says James Purdy, as he leads
me up the narrow wooden staircase to hisapartment in a rambling red-brick building in Brooklyn Heights,
I'd wondered what sort of place
would be home to Purdy, the author of somany strange, shocking and weirdly
funny tales. Would the creator of Malcolm and Eustace Chisolm and the Worksand In a Shallow Grave dwell in dark
"chambers" (to use a Purdyism) clutteredwith lots of odd bric-a-brac from his fiction-giant stuffed eagles, fearsome torture devices, and portraits of seraphic yetwild young men?
This was all, of course, idle fancy.
Purdy's actual abode recalled the title ofhis most disturbin.g book-Narrow
Rooms-except thai he inhabits only one
room, of the kind the British call a "bedsit." The author's home is minimally furnished with a bed, a few chairs, a writingtable on which sits his small portabletypewriter, file cabinets, and bookcases.
The bookcases are filled mainly withcopies of his own works, which seems fitting for an author who claims to readalmost no contemporary fiction and is so
immersed in his writing that he has"almost given up the world." There arealso, however, volumes of Genet, Cervantes, Balzac, Moliere and the intriguingly titled How a Fly Walks Upside Down
and Othf!r Interesting Facts. "One of myresearch books," he says.
But for occasional travels in the United States and abroad, James Purdy has
lived and worked in this spartan studiofor me past 30 years, creating his poems,
plays, short stories, 'and novels: a body, ofwork of idiosyncratic, often astonishingbrilliance. Nearing 70, the wispy-haired
soft-spoken writer appears frail, but age
has not diminished his creative powers.
The past few years have been, in fact,
highly productive ones for him.
He recently completed two plays,
Enduring Zeal and Ruthanna Elder, thelatter based on an incident in Narrow

Rooms. Last winter, Theater for the New
City presented two of his one-act plays
under the title Till the Eagle Hollers. Bothplays dealt with complex love-hate relations between black and white women,
and both featured terrific performances
by Obie-winning actress Sheila Dabney.
Last fall, the San Francisco-based City
Lights Books published the American edition of his Garments the Living Wear, asurreal satire of New York City in the ageof AIDS. The novel first came out in
Britain, where Purdy made his literary
debut in 1957 with the publication of 63:
Dream Palace. He is currently at work on
a new novel, Tbe Vorago.
Though the Ohio-Q.orn Purdy is aquintessentially American writer-poet
Marianne Moore hailed him as "a masterof the American vernacular" -he has long
had a multinational European following.
His books have been translated into
French, Italian, German and Spanish, aswell as Catalan and Finnish. In March,
Purdy traveled to the Netherlands for the
Dutch publication of his complete collected poetry. He was interviewed on Dutch
television-"They tell me the show wasseen by at least one million people"-andhis appearances
at bookstores haveattracted hundreds of his admirers.
Purdy is delighted by his transatlantic
popularity but hesitates to explain it: "Ireally don't know why they're so crazy
about the work."
Back home his admirers have included such luminaries as Edward Albee, Tennessee Williams, Susan Sontag, George
Steiner, Dorothy Parker and James Bald-bygeorgedeStefano
photo: michael wakefield

win. To Gore Vidal, he is "an authentic
American genius." Edward Swift, authorof Splendora and '/be Christopher Park
Regulars, recently told the Advocate thatin America "we have only the black writers and James Purdy."
But Purdy'S work has met with outraged condemnation as well as extravagant praise. The explicit gay sexuality andthe sometimes extreme sexual violence
depicted in his novels has turned off
more than a few squeamish, middlebrow,heterosexist critics. Perhaps even worse
for a .writer than being savaged, though,is being ignored, which has too often
been Purdy's undeserved fate.
"He is one of the best writers wehave," observed critic Jerome Charyn,"yet where are the honors that should be
attached to his work? The Pulitzer Prize
hasn't come to James Purdy."
Garments the Living Wear got a fullpage rave review from novelist Bertha
Harris in The New York Times Book
Review, but it was ignored by mostmedia, including "alternative" papers,such as the Village Voice, as well as thegay press-thelatter an inexplicablelapse given the book's focus on AIDS andgay male relationships.
Purdy says Garments was, in fact,
turned down by ten publishers before
being picked up by City Lights.
"I was told it was subversive," he says.
"Of what?" I inquire.
"Of shit, I guess," he laughs, meaning
most of the fiction published today andacclaimed by the media's purveyors of"bookchat," to borrow Gore Vidal's dismissive tenn for American literary journalism.
The AIDS epidemic has engendered
its own literature-plays,
novels, shortstories, poems, memoirs-but
there isnothing in this new genre quite like Garments the Living Wear. For one thing,although the illness Purdy portrays isclearly AIDS, it is never called by thatname' , rather , it is known as "the Plague"or "the Pest.""I've heard lots of gay people callI

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it the plague," Purdy says. "I justgot it from them," Although "thePest" has a biblical ring (andPurdy, who was raised a Calvinist and has been called a "Christian existentialist,"
is inclined toreligious allegory), he insists his
use of the term implies
nodivine retribution. "The Pest" is,however,a metaphoric
sickness; one of the book's main
charactersregards
it as "theapotheosis"ofAmericancapitalism's depredations.
Garments is indeed subversive
in its total rejection of the social
realism we have come to expect of"AIDS literature." The novel's setting is a New York where ambulances
screech like "the furies of Aeschylus," anoverwrought gay actor sees Jesus Christ
while riding the subway, and a hypocritical evangelist bursts into flames while
addressing his followers.
When gay AIDS activist Des Cantrell isstricken by "the Pest," hope for a CUre isoffered by Edward Hennings, a nonagenarian pseudo-Bolshevik
billionaire who
attacks the illness with bizarre treatments helearned in Cuba. He is assisted by his "wife"
Estrellita, a Cuban drag queen with muscles who beguiles everyone she encounters, male and female. Hennings is also
the benefactor of Jared Wakeman, an
impoverished gay "thespian" and Des'lover, and of Peg Sawbridge, a dotty
limousine liberal who lives in a 30-room
Gramercy Park apartment with her iIItempered
daughter
Cleo and hunkymanservant Ramon.
For all its surrealism and droll comedy,
Garments is no less an acid-etched portraitof contemporary
urban America. The
book's New York, besieged by poverty,
homelessness and "the Plague," is underthe misrule of Koch and Reagan, "these two
spokesmen for the real-estate and nuclear
empires." Purdy's targets also include evangelism, homophobia and the rich with theirpretensions to social concern,
Although Purdy is gay, and homosexuality has figured in his work since
63: Dream Palace, he does not consider himself a "gay writer." "I don't thinkthat label covers my work," he says.
"It's too conservative. 1 think when you
have real talent, you're liable to write
about anything that inspires you. There
are great books that 1 su ppose you
could call gay, 'like the Satyricon or

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praise.
Leaves of Grass, but the canvas is so
broad in both."
The fact·that many of Purdy's stories,
plays and novels portray heterosexualattachments
confounds
attempts
topigeonhole him as a gay writer. But, in theworks where homosexuality is central, thesocial terrain is almost a different universe
from the middle-class, mainly white world
depicted by David Leavitt, Edmund Whiteand Andrew Holleran. Purdy's gay characters are often without money or aspirations to bourgeois status. They are Depression-era indigents, homeless interracial
lovers squatting in abandoned buildings
on New York's Lower East Side, roughhewn West Virginia mountaineers. They
struggle to love one another in an America
whose dog-eat-dog economy and homophobic traditions conspire against them.
Stephen Adams, author of a booklength study of Purdy's fiction, has notedthat Purdy's "tragic view of life would notendear him to the freedom fighters of thegay movement."Indeed, Purdy hascaught hell for his purportedly negative
depictions of gay male relationships. The
criticisms are usually directed at two novels that are among his greatest books:
Eustace Chisholm and the Works (1967)
and Narrow Rooms (1978).
Set in the Depression-ravaged Chicago
of the late 19305, Eustace Chisholm is, says
Purdy, "about a young man who could notface the fact that he loved another man."Daniel Haws, a macho Anny veteran, is horrified to discover his love for Amos Ratcliffe,a penniless scholar. He reenlists in the military to escape this unwanted love only torealize that his life is meaningless without
Ratcliffe, To expiate his sin of rejecting
Amos, he submits to hideous physical abuse

and ultimately murder at the hands of
Qlptain Stadger, a self-hating closeted
homosexual.
If Chisholm is harrowing stuff,
Narrow Rooms is nightmare material. When I tell Purdy that I had bad
dreams after reading the book, helaughs uproariously. But he lets onthat the book was tough going for
him, too. Inspired by actual incidents he'd heard about while living
in West Vlfginia, "the story just horrified me, " he says. "It was very hardfor me to write it. I went to stay at afriend's house in Berkeley, California, and somehow I finished it."
The novel details the erotic entanglements of four young men living ina remote mountain village during the 1970s.
Thwarted passion between the two principal characters, Sidney De lakes and Roy
Sturtevant, triggers vengeance-seeking andviolence that culminate in a ghastly, sado-

masochistic crucifixion.
lbrough these horrific scenes of sexual mayhem, Sidney and Roy, Daniel andStadger are, says Purdy, "acting out thefact that they can't love, as well as theirrefusal to accept sexual love as beautiful."
In Purdy's fictive universe, self-hatred andrepressed desire inevitably have tragic,
appalling consequences.
Purdy waxes indignant
over thecharge that Eustace Chisholm and Narrow Rooms are excessively bloody. "The
violence in my books is not much whencompared to, say, Shakespeare," he says.
"A play like Macbeth just drips with gore."
He dismisses those members of "thegay literary establishment"
who have
attacked the novels as devotees of "moonglow, rainbows and rectal anesthetics.".
Purdy, however, is a partisan of gay
liberation. He has given readings at A Different Light bookstore in New York and _the Lesbian and Gay Community Center,of which he is a member.
So, who is the James Purdy reader?
"You know, one of my publishers once
told me that my audience was hard to
define, it's so heterogeneous," he says. "Ihave a large audience in America, butmany of them are poor. The middle classreads John Updike and Joyce Carol Oates,
but my readers are often the unemployed, drifters and iIIegals not necessarily aliens. They're actors and composers, too. Many of them are gay, but
not all. Actually, I think they're all strays.
They're underground, like I am."~•'\' I,•

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have been, out in the popular, that is
to say, lesbian and gay sense of theherever I go theseword, which is a damn good thing,days which isn't, if I because if I weren't, I'd have more tohave any choice in the fear around this place than just being
matter, too terribly far afield, six city ruthlessly bullied about deadlines).
blocks being perfectly adequate provid- Do not, by the by, light up a cigaretteed they're the right six blocks in the while attempting this ruse, as this willright city-people always ask me the defeat the purpose entirely. Take itsame questions, to wit: What's yourfrom my bitter experience (I mean
excuse this time? how old are you really? specifically my bitter experience ofand what exactly is Dining 0utP.
this past Tuesday, not my bitter expeThe first question is by far therience of Christmas of 1980, nor mytrickiest, phrased as it is in il conbitter experience of Ash Wednesday
frontational tone and demanding as it 1986, nor my bitter experience ofdoes a carefully measured response.
Oct. 21, 1989).
As a rule, I find that a vague referRegarding the question about myence to my medication delivered in a age---« question which, by its impertivoice laden with implication will suf- nence, speaks volumes about thefice. This, I should mention, nointerrogator and generally signals thelonger seems to work with my editor, abrupt end of what otherwise might
Simon Legree Signorile (as he's
have been a pleasant evening-I was
known by the steno pool). Now,
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L IF EI'DR A G-G-e:])no matter what the circumstance, witha claim to be 18 years old. That reply
just comes automatically now, eventhough it's occasionally landed me introuble ever since the drinking age
was raised again to 21.
But, relevant to the purpose ofthis column and its relation to
OutWeek (and thus, by extension, tothe entire gay and lesbian Gemetnschaj/), it is only the last question referenced-above
i.e. What exactly is
Dtntng OutP.-which need occupy
our attention for the time being.
Dtntng Out! appears, no doubt,
prima facie to be a restaurant feature
but it is, in fact, more-so
much
more. After all, any hack with a sharp
pencil and a four-star rating system
can give you mere impressions of thecote/ette en paptliote; you can evenpurchase entire magazines devoted tothe topic. While I can appreciate apotential need for this service, or, if
not a need, a desire (how often we
carelessly confuse one with theother!), this passive, reactive style ofwriting is not my style. No, Dining
Out! chooses instead to adopt anaggressive, proactive approach, withan eye, as always, on the particularneeds of our Gemetnschaft. To thisend, I have always entered into a dining experience as an obviously gay
man, accompanied by other proudly
open citizens of the Queer Volk, withthe result that Dtntng Out: is as muchan exercise in visibility as a discussionof cuisine and ambience. The event
is, as you have noticed, further
enriched by the sometimes trenchant,sometimes surprising but always
invaluable observations of my companion of the moment.
What exactly is Dtntng OutP.
Why, Dintng Out! is nothing less thana metaphor for our struggle for liberation in the world at large.
Next Week: Stdewalk Cafes: Do
they work In New yom? ....

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Stever\ Meisel at Tt"ibeca

Bea"lty ''& the Beast.
Lir\da 6var\9ilista at Naomi Cambells'
birthday party

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Liz and Sydney:
five lesbian
the wacky and glamorous Perfidia joinsmovies we would like to see:tall blond bartendress Robi at La Palace.
1) Lusty Librarian. A specialist in
Finally, super lounge DJ Andy AnderRenaissance manuscripts by day, after
sen has picked up his Helen Reddy
hours our favorite New York Publicrecords and moved to Roxy. Andy deeLibrary-Ann
drags attractive
youngjays in the VIP room, and unfortunately
women to the basement stacks, lets her . his genius cannot be enjoyed by all. I
hair down and has her way with them.. suggest that you throw yourself at the
They don't complain.
feet of the VIP gatekeeper. Her name is2) Truck Drivin' Momma. A beautiful
Pamela Toczek. Yell 'Pamela!' and tellfemme Countess has aher it is a life-threaten)
sex change, buys an 18ing situation-you
simwheeler and, under theply must hear My
new identity,
drives
Sharonabythecross-country,
picking
Knack, or you will die!
Liz: At Roxy lastup young fernale hitchhikers
andleaving
Saturday night, word
was spreadingthatbehind a trail of broken
hearts.
Baroness Sherry Von
3) Beach Blanket
Korber-Bernstein
had
Bingo. Lesbians takeremarked that she wasover Fire Island, rename
quite fond of gay men
it "Long Island Lesbos,"but
lesbians
wereand create both a matrianother matter entirely.
archal culture centered
Baroness Sherry is aon the Sun Goddess
mature woman whoand new and unusual
has been touted as "theuses for tanning butter.
world's oldest club4) Vampire Lust.
kid," and often appears
Dominatrix
Katrina ,IF YOU'VE SEEN ONE JAIMIE...
in tastefully appointed
takes a new apprentice Ja;m;e and Ja;m;e Photo: Liz and Sydney skirt suits with matchingand promises eternal bliss; like The hats. Sydney and I couldn't let this go, so
Hunger but nastier.
we enlisted our friends, Amy "I'll-do-any5) Gretta Gropes Manhattan. It's thething-once" DiPasquale and go-go girlyear of the boob, and no woman is safe from
"Ultra" VlOlet walker, to have a kiss-in only
inches from the Baroness. She shrieked andthe seductive grasp of a beguiling woman.
Sydney: It seems that more people
hid her face in her hands. A few moments
are engaging in the relentless pursuit of funlater, I asked her exactly what her problem
these days. In fact, some people have told was. She replied: "I don't know why it is that I
me that night life is almost as bizarre as it don~like you ....There really is no reasoo why, I
was in 1986, which, I have been told, was just don't....But [photographer]John Simone
also a banner year. Since I wasn't aroundthinks highly of you girls."
for 1986, I don't really know, but I can tellSydney:In some sort of bitter
you that, after a winter of malaise, more
irony, Mollyhouse at Roxy opened the. clubs are open, and decisions about where
Nunnery for lesbians in the very room
to go are becoming more difficult. Along where the "Sheny Incident" took place.
,
OutWeelts music editor Victoria Starr,
with more clubs comes another problem:
People just are not where you think they
fresh from last week's Monika Treutare supposed to be--Club Roulette has
party at Mars, displayed a dazzingly•
begun! Sister Dimension-thatfierceeclectic range as she spun everything
to the Cure, with
Southern drag queen DJ-left Roxy for La from Sylvester
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where in the middle. The Nunnery is billed
as "a lesbian alternative-music chamber"where genres with the highly appealing
Clockwork Orange-like labels "industrial,""gothic" and "techno-pop" are played. In
reality, it is the skybox-like VIP room (onSundays, the only VIPs are lesbians), where
you are just as likely to hear "Girls Just
Wanna Have Fun" as you are Nitzer Ebb.
in
Hostesses Jill Reiter and Jan
frock and habit for opening night, are young
women to whom Debbie Harry was a teen
idol and who obviously grew up worshipping Nina Hagen. Their goal: to create aspace for women who like to hop, skip andjump on the dance floor and don't feel comfortable in the bump-and-grind disco culture.
If you do like disco, ROXYhas also added g0go girls on the main floor.
Liz: Many a time you'll be standing andwatching a dance floor, when youll be struckby the sight of two men in leather, maybe

sequined shorts, motoocyde caps, having thebest time of all. They're always together andalways dancing. They're ''the Jaimies," or ''theleathermen." I first IretJaimie andJaimie out
one Sunday night, and we s:ruck up a conversation because of our similar dress. Don~letthem 1001. you, though---the Jaimiesare nothing
but fiiendly. A recent Saturday, the taller Jaimie
was spotted wearing a double-breasted el.ectricblue suit, which atufed quite a stir. The besuited one rematked, "Youdon't have as much fill
dressed like this." My thought exactly.
Sydney: Ron Dobrin, the controversial
manager of the Pyramid, has left that club.
The new Pyramid has a fresh coat of paint,
and features three gay and/or lesbiannights :Jenny's Girl Bar, the Gay Cabaretwith Mona Foot and a new My ComrruliYSisternight called Channel 69 (or gay TV).
Liz and Sydney: Though we admire
the journalistic integrity of the supermarket
tabloid the Globe (which describes itself as"fun ...f:asanating. . ...f:acto a1") , we must correct
one inaccuracy from last week's issue. The
Globe wrote that we had recently impliedthat both Whitney Houston and Taylor Dayne are lesbians. The truth, if it
must be known, is that Taylor-muchto'our dismay-is
definitely not a sister.
As for Whitney .......

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in Texas, awarding $60,000 in back pay
to a man who alleged that his employer
fired him because of his AIDS diagnosis.
Legal experts think that the case was thefirst AIDS discriminationcase to go
before a jury in the state, and activists
are elated that the jury returned a verdictin favor of the plaintiff.
"First, it's a jury stating that AIDS
discrimination
will not be tolerated,"
Richard Levy, the plaintiffs lead attorney,
said after the verdict was returned. "That's apowerful message. Hopefully, it can beused as a tool in the effort to educate
people about how all people need to beafforded dignity and equality on the job."
The plaintiff, Ronald Gardner, filed acomplaint against Rainbow Lodge, Inc., in
May 1988, alleging that he was fired fromhis job as a waiter in violation of a Texas
law that prohibits disaimination based on
handicap. Gardner also claimed that his
employer had fired him to deprive him of
his insurance benefits and had failed to
inform him of his rights to continue his
insurance benefits upon termination as
required under the COBRA Act of 1985.
While the jury rejected Gardner's
claim that he had been fired to deprive
him of his insurance
benefits,
U.S.
District Court Judge John Singleton later
found that Gardner
had not been
informedof his COBRA rights andawarded Gardner $10,500. -Nina Reyes

yvets
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WASHINGTON-A
panel of gay
veterans, speaking on the concerns ofVietnam-War-era soldiers, testified before
a House subcommittee May 16, calling,for increased
funding for AIDS carethrough the Department
of Veterans'
Affairs, and a removal of an antigay
military discharge policy.
The gay panel, one of several
Vietnam veterans' groups testifying thatday, presented their stories before theOversight and Investigation Subcommitteeof the House Committee on Veterans'
Affairs. The subcommittee is chaired by
Rep. Lane Evans (D-ilL), a cosponsor of
the federal gay and lesbian rights bilL

The veterans testified during a twoday conference
on the concernsofVietnam veterans,
in which the gay
veterans' groups participated.
The testimony by the gay veteransmarks only the fourth time that openly
gay people
have testified
beforeCongress in Washington on gay issues .
not related to AIDS.
AIDS panelist I10nka F. Thomas,
HN / AIDS coordinator for the Department
of Veterans' Affairs (OVA) Medical Centerin Boston, pointed oUt that, since theonset of the epidemic,
the OVA has
treated over 8,000 cases of AIDS. She
further noted that, in 1989, nearly ten
percent of all AIDS patients received theircare through'the OVA. -Cliff O'Neill

WASHINGTON-The Louisiana State
House on a 95-5 vote May 14 passed abill ordering that controversial recordings
deemed to promote certain activities be
stickered with a state-imposed parental
warning labeL
The legislation, sponsored by State
Rep. Ted Halik (D), would mandate allrecords, tapes and compact discs sold inLouisiana be stickered with the warninglabels if they are found to "advocate or
encourage" any of the follOwing: "rape,incest, bestiality, sadomasochism,
anyform of sexual conduct in a violent
context, prostitution, homicide, unlawful
ritualistic acts, suicide, the commission ofa crime upon the person or property of
another because of his sex, race, color,religion or national origin, the use of any
controlled
dangerous
substance[prohibited by state law] or the unlawfuluse of alcohoL"
Similar bills in 21 other states wererecently dropped
by their sponsors.
Although most of the abandoned bills
contained
provisions
calling for the
stickering of records deemed to promote"sodomy," the Louisiana bill is silent in thatarea. While the bill addresses lyrics which
are deemed to promote bias-related
violence, it does not address antigay lyrics.

Aside from the Louisiana
bill,
the only other state proposal to get'this far was a similar
act whichpassed the Pennsylvania
House lastyear. It was later withdrawn
by itssponsor while it was awaiting state
Senate action.
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The Louisianabill, whichisexpected to see state Senate action inlate June, came as a surprise to therecordindustry,
which
recently
unveiled
a broadproposalfor auniform parental- warning sticker tobe 'placedvoluntarilyoncontroversial
recordings.
The voluntary
stickeringagreement was credited with the defeat orwithdrawalof similar
mandatory
stickeringbills in .the 21 states,
although many seemed already headedfor defeat by the time the industry
sticker was announced.
Conservative
state lawmakers,
including Halik and Missouri State Rep.
Jean Dixon (R), the chief architect of the
myriad state bills, however, expresseddisappointment with the industry sticker,
complaining that it was voluntary andthat the decision whether or not tostickerwould.
be madewithout
governmental input.
Also,
most
of thenation's
independent record labels which include
those that record most of the nations's
openlygay and lesbianrecordingartists have, not signed onto the voluntary
stickering agreement. As these companies
are also the ones which release the mostcontroversial of the recordings targeted byconservatives, lawmakers are pointing at
the recalcitrant labels as justification forcontinuing their fight.
Louisiana's
Halik told Billboard
magazine that he is "going after" theindependent labels for not signing onto
the agreement, adding, "Those labels are
the ones with all the trash lyrics, so we'regoing to force them into the [agreement]
or else they won't be selling their records
in Louisiana."
The bill both orders the stickering ofrecordings
and prohibits the sale ofunstickered controversial product. Under
the measure, first time offenders record
retailerscaught selling unstickered
product---could be fined between $1,000
and $2,000 and/or spend up to one yearin jaiL Repeat offenders could be fined
between $2,000 and $5,000 and face up
to three-year jail terms. ---Cliff O'Neill

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line up early for Coming Out, the closing-night fIlrit June 17,
and spare me the litany of politically correct topics the movie
completely Ignores. (A partial list would Include AIDS, racism,empowennent and women's Issues.) As a first effort from East
Germany-acountry just now going through Its own sort of"coming out"--Heiner Carow's film has a sharp emotional power
without giving In to its own melodramatic impulses.
This Is an old-fashioned, white, middle-class coming out
story. Philipp (Mathias Preihof), an introverted young schoolteacher, drifts almost accidentally into a maniage-track relationship witha woman co-worker, allowing her desire to make up for his own
passivity. When a contentedly gay school chum shows up,
Philipp's recollection of their adolescent encounter causes a rushof confusion and longing. PhUlpp soon finds himself a gay costume party, making eyes at 18-year-<>ld Mattias (Dirk Rummer,
who will be present with Carow at both festival screenings).
The plot, whUe at times predictable, is not entirely mechanical.
Carow and screenwriter wolfram Witt have a vaguely "new Getman"narrative sensibility, and the development Is slightly fragmented, witha few unresolved ambiguities that add weight to the storyteiling.
Coming O!lt has moments of surprising emotional clarity. Por
this white, 'middle-class, gay male reviewer, the movie recaptured
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as well as the intolerable anguish later, when the affair has been
completely bungled The cast Is terrific, wonderfully at ease in theirroles, and the director equally at ease with gay men who touch,Prench-klss, get naked, make love and dream of the perfect lover.
Philipp's ongoing indecision will grow tiresome for gay viewers, although the Insecurity of the person coming out Is for once
balanced by a number of appealing characters comfortable with
their gay identity, Including the vulnerable Mattias, who once
attempted suicide but Is now out even to his family.
PUmed in part In an East Berlin gay bar, Coming Out portrays
a gay male G.D.R not dissimilar to pre-Stonewall America-underground, apolitical and full of personal alienation. The film pauses
for obligatory, didactic speeches clearly aimed at straight audiences, but they're well spoken and even moving, as in the case of
the aging Communist who recalls Nazi persecution. As the old man
speaks, Carow provides a person-by-person mosaic of the gay
bar's patrons, gathered together but individually isolated. Despite alevel of official tolerance for homosexuality, coping with their is0lation was the best gay men could hope for in the pre-thaw G.D.R-Broce Steele

Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt"Common Threads: Stories/rom the Quilt seems at first to tella fairly familiar story. A series of black-and-white photo montages
chronicles the lives of different individuals from happy-chUdhood

snapshots to vibrant adulthood to those all-too-familiar pictures ofthe bedridden and diminished bodies of people with AIDS. A
voice-over tells us that these individuals have followed 'different
roads to the same fate.' But soon it becomes obvious that this'fate' involves something grander and more monumental than thecemetery which too many, documentaries have turned the quilt
into. Through the interlocking stories of various individuals who
have died from AIDS and the contemporaneous testaments of
those who stood by them, Common Threads pieces together a history of the people affected and united by the AIDS crisis. Morethan simply an AIDS elegy, the video documents the constructionof a community, a community composed not only of those whohave died but also of those who continue to live and fight against
government indifference and public fear."-Peter Bowen in OutWeek (no. 17, Oct. 15, 1989)

Comrades in Arms and Flames of Passion

One of the strongest contributors to the growing pool of gay
documentaries is British filmmaker Stuart Marshall. Marshall's
DeSire, a look at sexuality in Germany up to the fall of Hitler,
opened last year's New Festival and proved him to be a thoroughand thoughtful documentarian.
This year, he returns with
Comrades in Anns, an account of six lesbians and gay men who
served in the British armed forces in World War IT,which reveals
that he also has a romantic, nostalgic side.
Comrades weaves together personal stories with newsreel
footage, but since no footage exists to illustrate the "dangerous
liaisons" and affalrs-of-the-heart recounted by these veterans,
Marshall creates some. Short black-and-white scenes set to period
music provide a romantic backdrop to tales which otherwise exist
only in memories.
Marshall has assembled an appealing cast of characters: theupper-crust soldier with the stiff upper lip, the female impersonator who entertained the troops and the nurse who speaks of rendezvousing with her lover during leaves. Though discretion was
crucial at all times, surprisingly few experiences of direct homophobia are recounted by any of the interviewees.
The film is infused with a strong sense of patriotism and duty.
One man describes being raised a pacifist but explains that thepersecution of Jews under Hitler compelled him to enlist. There's asense of the destruction wrought by the war, and, in one
sequence, Marshall follows a veteran to a shrine on the River Kwai
which memorializes Allied forces killed fighting the Japanese,
although the Idea of war is never questioned. One can only imagine that the personal stories of gay Vietnam Veterans would
undoubtedly reflect the political issues which tore apart the nation.
But that's another film .... Comrades in Arms remains a warm,
charming work, one that should enliven and enlighten audiences.
Being screened with Marshall's film is Flames of PasSion, apremiere from Richard Kwientniowski, whose earlier shorts,
Alfalfa and Tbe Bal/ad of Reading Gaol revealed him to be asmart, pointed and poetic filmmaker. This latest film is a dreamlike guppie love story that lacks the punch of his previous work
but instead offers a romantic vision of queer love. It makes a suitable companion to Commdes in Arms.
-Karl Soehnlein•

Crocodiles in Amsterdam

The two female protagonistsof Annette
Apon's
Crocodtles in Amsterdam are introduced via their dreams,
which immediately establish their characters. Gino is a romantic, live-for-the-moment
type, looking for love in all thewrong places; Nina, an activist, revolutionary type, dreams indrawings of well-guarded buildings blowing up. Apon does
not hesitate to reinforce her characters' differences with abrunettelblonde
opposition as well as a (somewhat muted)
butch/femme one. Such self-conscious play with conventions
is, more often than not, a foreshadowing of some transgressive challenging of them (outside of Hollywood, at least). If
this was intended in Crocodiles, it falls far short-of that, andmuch else besides.
Gino and Nina meet "through blue"; that is, they share a passion for the same shade of blue, which each is following in theform of a child's coat when they bump into each other. Two of
the best, and most promising, scenes follow this initial encounter,with each woman explaining how they met. These scenes happen
so quickly, the effect of which is to take us out of the film's present-tense narrative and into some future mm in a way that bothfo~llyand thematically disrupts, allowing us to begin writing
the story ourselves.
Unfortunately, the promise of such scenes is never realized.
The film has an attractive, slick look to it, with lots of quick cuts
to keep the pace fast. It keeps us involved until we realize that its
interest depends mostly on its technique. Once the film slips into
the truly meaningless (the scene in which Nina and Gino try tosell a painting, for example), it begins to bore.
Yolanda Entius and Joan Nederlof are vel)' good as Nina andGino, but there is only so much they can do with these roles. At best,
the scenes between them are sexually charged; we spend much of
the film anticipating what often seems the inevitable first kiss. By thetime we realize it isn't at all inevitable and in fact isn't going to happen, we don't much care anyway.
-Monica Dorenkamp

Looking for Langston and Trojans
One of the most satisfying double bills of the festival is theteaming of Isaac Julien's Looking for Langston with the premiereof Constantine Giannaris' Trojans. Each of these films evokes
dec~ased gay poets to reflect on the role of the queer artist in
history. Julien caIls his film a meditation on Black gay artistic
identity, with Langston Hughes and the Harlem Renaissance as
its point of departure. Those who didn't catch Looking forLangston when it played last faIl should do so now; it's one of
the most visuaIly satisfying and intellectuaIly stimulating gay
films made to date.
Trojans is more biographical, following the 19th-century gay
poet Constantine Cavafy from his birth in Greece through his life
in Alexandria, Egypt (though not in strict chronological order). As
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problem of documenting the past without the benefit of archival
material by creating his own evocative imagery. Giannaris takes aless literal tact than Marshall's detailed recreations by illustrating
Cavafy's poetry with contemporary images of beautiful boys in a~variety of erotic tableaux, along with shots of Alexandria's empty
streets and windswept shore, Trojans has the look and feel of theSuper-8 work of Derek Jarman stark, grainy, slow-motion visuals. Giannaris illustrates Cavafy's poetry with a seductive range ofimagery designed to identify its gayness (which the poet sometimes approached explicitly but was more often guarded about).
Cavafy's appeal-a
gay artist living outside his native culture to Giannaris is obvious: Giannaris was born in Greece andmoved to England to live. Cavafy was a cultural outsider in every
sense of the word--ethnically, sexually and economically (he lived
in poverty after his merchant family lost its fortune). Voice-overs
about the poet's personal life, sexual politics and artistic concerns
are Intermingled with his lush, historical poetry. This makes for an
involved soundtrack that arranges a complete portrait of the artist
without the detachment of traditional biography. In reinterpreting
Cavafy's voice for contemporary audiences, Gianarrls reveals his
own eloquent vision to the world,-Karl Soehnlein

Night Out (with Beyond Gravityand Elevation)
A film like Night Out Is difficult to respond to in any otherway than personally. It's the story of a gay couple, Steve andTony, whose relationship is put to the test after Tony is bashed at
a cruisey public toilet. Tony tries to hide the incident ifum Steve(even though he winds up in the hospital) because he doesn't
want him to know he was "cheating" on him. Australian director
Lawrence Johnston uses gay-bashing to explore other issues: public sex, monogamy, communication within relationships. The fihn
is well-shot, well-acted and precisely paced, but that may not beenough for this subject matter. To portray antigay violence especially as brutally as is done here is to invite strong reactions:
Viewers will undoubtedly respond based on their own experiences with the issue, leaving the mm's overall merit behind.
Night Out is bound to stir up heated debate, much like theone about Longtime Companion recently seen in the pages of thismagazine: Does a film about issues facing the gay community
Oike AIDS or gay-bashing) have to respond to the social context
which creates such problems? Or can it simply tell a story andleave the social concerns to post-film discussions? It's a delicate
balance, for, while gay mmmakers should not be forced to produce oniy "correct" portrayals of gays, being an artist does notdiminish a gay man or lesbian's responsibility to address the politiC,alreality of gay oppression (if anything, it heightens it),Night Out uses social issues to illustrate personal problems; I had
hoped that a domestic crisis would be the springboard for dealing withthe 1arger social problem After all, it's easier to talk about relationshiptroubles than hate aimes. Antigay violence is an issue that cannot betaken casually. By employing a bashing primarily to flesh out affairs of
the heart, Night Out comes perilously close to doing just thatNight Out is being screened with two other fihns from Down
Under: Beyon4 Gravity, an offbeat New Zea1and love story (not available for p'review), and Elevation, a delightful short by Aussie Stephen-Karl Soehnlein
Cummins that celebrates cruising and sex.

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No Need to Repent
Ann Alter's short documentary No Need to Repent, a portraitof United Church of Christ ordained ffiinlster Jan Griesinger, isunfortunately predictable. Made only last year, the film has a very
dated feel to it, harking back to the women-loving-women essentialism of feminism's first wave. This is a problem with the film
because it means there is nothing surprising in It, nothing thatmost of us don't already know. The responses to Griesinger'S
coming out are predictable enough, as is her own realization(while listening to women's music) that she's a lesbian.
What should be of centra1 interest in this film is the potenIial
conflict between Griesinger's positions as a minister and as a lesbian,yet this is hardly explored at all, perhaps because there doesn't seemto be any real conflict Griesinger talks about leaving behind "traditional" Christianity, by which we can assume she means what has
been, for women, an incredIbly oppressive patriarchal Christianity, but
she never really explains just how that is done. Instead, a freedom
and openness on the church's part is implied but never explained.
Interestingly, Griesinger explains her desire to stay in the
church as a desire to be in a position in which one can be politically
active. Griesinger entered the church only after her already-activist
life broke up her marriage; her move from a rejection of traditional
and patriarchal structures of life to participation in one of thestrongest of patriarchal institutions is by no means self-explanatory.
Perhaps the United Church of Christ is more progressive than most.
But if you don't already know that, this film won't tell you.
Griesinger is apparently a well-known and respected progressive minister. The parts of her life that this fihn does reveal are
impressive; she is one of many unsung heroines of our time whose
everyday lives make those of the people around them that muchbetter. We can only wish that Alter had shown us more of her, andperhaps had at least introduced, with no claims to answer, some of
the complicated questions a life like Griesinger's raises. As it Is, we
get little more than a washed-out biography that leaves us guessing
until the very end. During the film, Griesinger rarely mentions herlover; at the very end, after the credits have run, a cryptic note
appears, explaining that, although Griesinger's lover supports thefIlm, she decided not to be Interviewed or to appear. Why not? TIle
absence of an explanation here is frustrating.
The film is no more engaging visually than it is in otherways; attempts to liven things up don't really work. Jeanne
Donado's "The Ballad of Jan Griesinger" helps a bit, if only
because Donado's voice is a good one. There is one very weird
scene which is speeded up for no apparent reason and accompanied by an unrelated voice-over.
-Monica Dorenkamp

Nocturne
Nocturne may be the best of the lesbian premieres in thisyear's festival. Directed by British filmmaker Joy Chamberlain(Domestic BUss), the film wastes none of its 58 minutes in creating
a complicated, unlikely, incredibly fun scenario that leaves us feeling remarkably satisfied.
The film is about a middle-aged woman, Marguerite (Lisa

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Eichorn), who returns to her childhood home after her mQther has
died Sitting at the piano (the "nocturne" of the title is Chopin's),
she remembers her childhood piano teacher and governess, Miss
Carpenter. Through a series of flashbacks, the difficult andambiguous relations between Marguerite, her mother (Maureen
O'Brien) and Miss Carpenter are revealed. Miss ,Carpenter is, for'the young Marguerite, a refreshing alternative to her too-somber,well-mannered mother, and the two of them form a kind of bondof which her mother appears incapable.
The action of the flashbacks is brilliantly echoed by that ofthe present day. Between Marguerite's memories, two hitchhiking
dykes come running out of the rain and into the house, just as
Miss Carpenter and the young Marguerite had done moments earlier, establishing a connection that the middle-aged Marguerite will
exploit in the rest of the flim. Replacing their wet clothes with"costumes" of Miss Carpenter and the young Marguerite, she
begins a fantasy reconstruction of her childhood. In this impromptu drama, Marguerite assigns herself the role of her mother.
What makes Nocturne most extraordinary is Lisa Eichorn. As
the repressed Marguerite, Eichorn brilliantly fuses the somber
movements and manners of Marguerite's mother with the potentially explosive sexual desire that is initially (re)awakened by thenocturne and then realized by the arrival of the very unrepressed
dykes. Although she doesn't have many lines, Eichorn dominates
the fllm with Marguerite's intensely conflicted character and brings
a sexiness to the role that is not necessarily inherent in it. As
director, Chamberlain is, of course, responsible for much of thewell-paced and measured atmosphere of Nocturne, as is the writer, Tash Fairbanks. Together with Eichorn 'and a very impressive
supporting cast (most notably, Maureen O'Brien as Marguerite'smother), they've made a beautifully sensual and sexy film. TIlis-Monica
Dorenkamp
one is a must-see.

Nocturne
Not to be confused with JoY Chamberlain's lusty lesbian taleof the same name, Mark Townsend Harris' Nocturne is a quiet,
emotional drama about the search for love in the gay urban jun-and her pa rents in Oranges Are Not the Only Fruitgle, It's a boy-meets-boy, boy-loses-boy, boy-loses-his-mind story,
with an incisive look at casual sex that will make audiences eithersquirm in frustration or nod in recognition.
Martin, a pianist in his mid-20s, has just moved to New Yorkand is trying to orient himself both to an impersonal city and tohis budding queer sexuality. When he meets Gino, who seems topossess the right combination of beauty, body and brains (not tomention a cool leather jacket that just fascinates Martin), he falls
harc!. Their one night together is both agonizingly long and hopelessly romantic, but, to Martin, it's full of promises. When it turns
out that Gino wanted merely a quick tryst, Martin falls apart.
Martin is an awkward hero. There's a humorless, prudish side tohim, and his slide into obsession after being dumped seems extreme.
Gino, the sexua1 libertine, is portrayed as a creep. In an age of gay
men putting themselves back together after a decade's dealing with
AIDS, Nocturne may come across as "sex-negative." 1his is not, however, a film about casting moral judgment but about how promises are
made and trust betrayed for the sake of sexual conquest, with director
Harris making a case for emotional responsibility.
Nocturne is part of a growing gay "cinema of intimacy": talented flim artists who play with narrative formulas to explore personal dramas. Harris has created several jarring, imaginative
sequences to convey heightened emotional states, His sex scene isa fractured, silent romp that captures both the physicality whichturns Gino on and the emotional connection which Martin is looking for. A brief dream-sequence is equal parts Jarman-esque beauty and Lynchian horror. Harris is a talented filmmaker and an
excellent writer, and Nocturne, at times disturbing and oftendelightful, is full of surprises.
-Karl soehnlein

Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
Oranges, adapted by Jeanette Winterson from her own novelof the same name, is a semiautobiographical account of her youth
spent in Lancashire, England, with evangelical parents. Originally athree-part series made for British television, the flim is a refreshingly strong narrative which-just when you fear it will end-doesn·t.
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by Otis Stuart
omethlng for Everyone is the stuff of which partisans
are made: a box-office bomb that became a cult icon
and that, 20-years-old this summer, is as potent andperplexing as ever. A contemporary black comedy set
against the Ruritanian shadows of fallen nobility-that mad girlLudwig'S Neuschwanstein
Castle always lurks in the background-Harold
Prince's debut as a movie director followed thetale of a gender-bending drifter (Michael York) and a reclusive
countess awash in epigrammatic nostalgia (Angela Lansbury). En
route to becoming lord of Lansbury's lost manor, York seduces
everyone in sight while also employing more conventional spedalities such as blackmail and murder. Time-honored demons arerife and include, in big close-up, members of the same sex andmembers of different generations wet-kissing in a scathingly casual manner. York's long-suffering lover in the film's central male
couple takes his sexual ambidexterity in stride: "You can sleep
with anyone, can't you?" Lansbury, York's senior partner (andlover's mom), is, at best, miffed by the complexity: "Children are
so prudish about their mothers."
When Sometblngfor Everyone was released in the summer of
1970, it did virtually nothing for anyone but a fledgling gay community. Penelope Gilliat dismissed it in the New Yorker as "a sortof broken Hans Anderser1 story, mixed up with Mldnlgbt Cow~
and a lot of lederhosen," and Vmcent Canby added the obligatory
homophobic punctuation in 1be New York 1fmes: "summer camp."
The most directly disastrous results were on the careers of Princeand Lansbury. The director's Broadway musicals to date hadgrossed in excess of $12 million. Three were current hits 7.orba,
Cabaret and Fiddler on tbe Roof After 41 films, Lansbury hadtaken four years off to return to the theater, pick up Tonys for
Mame and Dear World and become the resident doyenne of themusical stage. Prince's bid for screen status and Lansbury's firststep toWard capping her movie career with Marne, Somethlngfor
Everyane helped sink both ships and is today a taunting glance at
the cinematic careers both might have had, or, in Prince's caseanyway, passed on to others.
Prince's Broadway staging of Cabaret helped earn Bob Fosse
an Oscar for directing the film version; the angry troughs of lightin the Kit Kat Club, those audience-hating mirrors and the leering
emcee are all from Prince. In addition to the shared Teutonic
totems-blonds,
Nazis, Bavarian music-andthe similarities,between York's characters in the two films, Something forEveryane even includes a scene of York alone in a room floodlit
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"DElETABLE. GUITE DB.EC1'ABLE.· -Angela

l.JJnsburyand Michael Yolk

with liza Minnelli in Cabaret. We also get our only lingering lookat Lansbury in the full glamour of her Mame period, costumed to
the nines by F10renz Klotz, glittering through garden parties, broken memories and close encounters of the most private kind, disarming all comers: "Let's not talk about the Nazis. They wereboring when they were allover the place, strutting around, inviting themselves to dinner.'Enter the boys in the band, drawn by Sometbingfor Everyaru!ssure-fire coml:>o--a handsome hero on our team and a dragon lady
spewing bon mots. Despite the commercia1 failure and loathsome"The-butler-did-it-to-everyone" advertising campaign, Prince won
the directorial debut award at the 1971 San Francisco Flim Festival,
and S<JmethlngforEveryone went on to find a faithful audience on
the art-theater circuit, usually in tandem with Travels with My Auntor, aptly enough, The Boys In tbe Band. And appropriately
enough for a fUm with as troubled a history even the title
changed at least three times in preproduction-its
popularity
proved problematic for a gay audience as well. Produced in thefull bloom of Affierican film's evil-fag phase, when homosexuality
was equated with the dark side of the force, Sometblng for
Eve1}one traffics in the mysteries of gay sex for an unschooled audience. Vito Russo, who knows such things, describes it in The
Celluloid CIaget as "a good example of the way in which a gay audience is lured into supporting a negative image of itself in responseto an attractively homoerotic, but ultimately destructive, sensibility."
Twenty years have done something to mitigate that danger,
distancing the film from the political naivete of its immediate context and tightening the focus on its more lasting and most lethal
quality: the total subversion of all sexual roles-with a flourish. No
one is ever completely on top, least of all heterosexual hegemony.
The film hasn't one viable heterosexual male, as Lanshury, head
held high, observes in her most quoted line: "There are no men
anymore. Only facsimile,' York never once touches a woman withtenderness. It's always rough trade, and his steamiest tryst with theheiress he's aiming toward a marriage of fmancial convenience~lansbury wears black through the first half of the film, when the(not with himself, but with his lover) involves two commands:"Say 'I love you'" and (more slowly) "Now, say 'I'm a little rich girl countess is still a willing function of bygone days. The aggression
is only at bay: "You don't find eagles adapting. They just sit in
who's crazy about footmen,'" Cut to ecstasy.
Traditional partnering is as impotent as the myriad varia- their cages and glare. Good day, Herr Schoenfeld. I'm sure you
tions on homosexuality that populate the periphery of the film. are eager to scurry back to the city and adapt." Her moment of
The local color is emphatically lavender-a timid pastor pas- revelation is one of the great arias and climaxes, with a toast to
sionate about butterflies who sports full clerical drag even to reality. Awake, she switches to white and puts on the pants,ride his motorscooter, a wizened butler With a father-fIXation getting back her castle and snaring her mate. The moment of consummation is all logiC: "Well, we seem to be here, don't we?" Par
repressed to the point of National Socialism, a couturier hotter
for the male mythology course, she is fInally undone by her own
on skirts than his clients. The Sapphic suggestions are handledego. For all the froth, Lansbury is also chilling, synopsizing theas subtly as Lansbury's greeting to her prospective daughter-inlaw,-"Delectable. Quite delectable."-andas vigorously as her continued appeal of Prince's icy, acerbic little film. The film's ubiquitous evil is those old Cabaret mirrors at work again, but "we areattendant masseuse (the great Greek star Despo), a squat block
the monsters" has never been funnier. We even get to dress up .....
of butchdom who mounts staircases with her fIsts clenchedand breaks boards over her knee.
Circa 1990, the largely sympathetic
portrait of York's lover Helmut has settled into the same kind of comfortablecliche, the homo who has to take all that
shit. Helmut cannot discuss his sexuality
without negatives or even in complete
sentences: "I'm not..I didn't want you tothink ...it isn't ..." He accepts all adjust'F>:~i::~;;;:::;;7
ments to keep his man, gratefully. The
oblivion to which contemporary events
have consigned such passivity has anarresting, Somethingfor Evel)\?1w-ish parallel to the career of the actor portraying
Helmut The film introduced 22-year-old
Anthony Corlan (the only performer inthe film, by the way, described by Canbyas "beautiful"). After subsequent effortson the order of Vampire Circus andTaste the Blood of Dracula, Corlan disappeared from the screen to be reborn in
the '80s, a leading man, as Anthony
Higgins in 1be Draugbtman's Contract,
Young Sherlock Holmes and Quartet.
True to form, the truly subversive
aspect of Somethingfor Everyone is also its
most alluring. Lansbury's performance ishomo heaven from 500 paces; virtually
every major review made at least one
comparison to Bette Davis. ArtifIcialitytranscendent-"Everyone
fInds the dolphins most amusing" segues every social
hypocrisy into a singing smile it is also aphysical feast. Beginning with the only realGarbo shoulders north of Charles Ludlam's
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Theater••that they are not doing the writing
anymore: They are merely transcribing
what the characters say to them. It iswith an increasingly impatient air thatthe imagination (perhaps it is simply
the character Bathsheba) halts midsentence to make corrections
asGreenspan's writer stops and backMichael PaUer
tracks, changing words and phrases.
"Who is this man, and why does hehe daily life of writers is notkeep interrupting me?" she seems tovery interesting-that
is, ifask, and we begin to wonder how
they are actually writing. They
many of what we hear are the writer's
sit at their desks and write, orwords and how many the character's.
doodle, or stare into space. Or
At these moments, the play achieves
get up and walk away. There may bethat rare state where one cannot tellplenty of drama, as writers bend their
the difference between acting, writing
material this way or that, or as theand directing (Greenspan, who mayor
intractable material bends them into all
may not know more than anyone else
kinds of knots. But it's an internal
about what goes on inside his head,drama, not the sort of thing that's very
also directs).
actable, or even presentable, by conAct 1 ends with a memorable
ventional means.
image: The writer has gone to shower
2 Samuel 11, Etc., is not, howoff the semen he's ejaculated at theever, ,a conventional play. (It's curiclimax of his porn story, and theous that plays using the absolute
A SHOWER A DAY HElPS KEEP...
minimum number of stage conven- Ron Bagden 8S the writer Photo: Adrienne Urbanski imagination, deserted by her writer, isleft singing wistfully to herselftions are called "conventional," while
imagining herself in the shower, too.
those that employ many, or unusual ones, are termed
Act 2 has the writer showering alone in his shower.
"unconventional.") David Greenspan's idea is to dramatize
Surrounded by the soap bubbles and foam of William
the collaboration, or battle, between writer and imagination
Kennon's inventive set, he speaks a long stream-of-conby bringing both ,of them onstage.
sciousness monologue, cutting across several stories without
In act 1, Greenspan takes a thoroughly intellectual
obvious form or purpose. These fragments
each having
idea and makes it flesh. The writer (Ron Bagden) is trying
something to do with various relationships not unlike David
to write his own version of the David and Bathsheba story
and Bathesheba's---may be conversations the writer has had(found in the Old Testament, 2 Samuel 11) but is conor intends to have, or they may be bits of written or unwritfounded by homoerotic thoughts. The remarkably patient
ten stories. The audience is left to build the framework for
imagination (Mary Shultz) speaks the porn as convincingly
these disjointed voices, a bit of construction work usuallyas she renders the tale of David forcing his fat, aging,drunk body on the young Bathseba. Shultz makes for a attended to by the writer's imagination-in this case, off-duty.
Even less happens in act 2 than in act 1, the intent being,
particularly insouciant imagination, sitting on the living
perhaps, to show that, without an engaged imagination, strings
room couch in a red terry robe, smoking cigarettes andof words are only incomplete clues, not a story. This act will
speaking the writer's words.
not be to everyone's taste. Audiences may not care to perform
Although Shultz tells it well and gets a number ofwhat they consider to be the writer's work; most people preferlaughs for her efforts, the porn pales beside the writer's
the blanks to be filled in before the lights go down (hence, ourhighly charged biblical epic. Bathsheba is a fully formed,
identifiably human character who quickly excites our sym- slow acceptance of Beckett and Pinter-illld Joyce, who seems
to be another of Greenspan's influences).
pathies. The characters in the porn story are merely names
There is no right or wrong interpretation of Greenspan's
attached to performing bodies, which also may excite
plaY-illld some audiences don't like that kind of uncertain'us or, after a few minutes of minutely described grindingty, either. He succeeds at making an intellectual point about
and heaving, may not.
See SAMUEL on pege 12
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•Theater•

THE THREE GRACES-Maureen Angelos, 8abs Davy, Dominique Dibbell.

•by Maria Maggenti
he's burning with madness and desire, won't
drink anything but gin on a boiling day, loves you
one minute, decapitates you the next. Lighting
cigarette after cigarette in a vain attempt to keep
her hands from flying off her arms and into someone's
panties, she is Connie, a peculiar and compelling creature
whose madness and passion create the vortex into which
Voyage to Lesbos sucks its willing audience. A trailer park, afamily of eccentric lesbians and an unseen but ominous
analyst named Dr. Robert Taylor crowd the landscape of
this original, biting and somewhat bumpy production now
at WOW Cafe. Created in collaboration by the "Five Lesbian
Brothers,» who are also the cast, Voyage to Lesbos is a
deceptively simple and witty commentary on lesbian sexualdesire as it is disrupted by homophobic psychoanalysis,
numbing heat and the many lies that so often accompany
attempts at intimacy and commitment.

Connie (Dominique Dibbell), looking like an Audrey
Hepburn that only five lesbian brothers could imagine(Breakfast at Leshko's?), sashays pelvis-first from analyst's
couch to lesbian love-nest, wreaking havoc in both places.
Evelyn, a surly and self-righteous "artist"; Estelle, who sleeps
all day and plays solitaire all night; Bonnie, a purported
straight girl with Sapphic leanings; and Janet, a gas station
attendant and amateur ornithologist, are at the center of thissmall, sweltering universe blithely referred to as "Lesbos
County." The play develops as each of them moves in or out
of Connie's line of fIre, while she tries to deny her dyke desire
and reform herself according to the heterosexual model of Dr.
Robert Taylor. There is no real plot to speak of-we aren't at
the edge of our seats wondering if Connie will indeed "tumstraight." Instead, the cast swims through the kind of incestuous sexual labyrinth so often parodied in lesbian camp. While
Connie daintily deconstruCt5her dreams for Dr. Robert Taylor,the rest of the cast spins and skips around their past, present
and future involvements with each other, wondering when
Connie will stop popping pills, running away and then running home again, hopefully, into their arms.
_Though Dominique Dibbell's shaky and gamine
Connie almost steals the lights off everyone else in the cast,each character has a well-defmed quirkiness that propels
the script forward almost to the brink of lesbian sexualchaos. This teetering sexual and emotional tension is. thehighlight of the production-irrespectiveof some rather
clunky scene changes that sounded as though they resulted
in bruised knees by the end of the show. Will Estelle everchange out of her nightgown and see daylight? Will Bonnie
marry Brad, even though she loves to kiss and play withthe girls? Will Janet be able to fIll up her customer's cars
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Music

Joey Arias
refuses toconform.by Zecca

Not since the days of Steppenwolf had
a musician worn a skirt on television
as if it were no big deal.
Since then, Joey has managed tostay ahead of his audiences with amazing constancy. Always shocking, always
innovative, always original, he still getsthem to gasp each time he walks ontoa stage. Whether as a mermaid, theblack-corsetted dominatrix Justine, or
the Devil incarnate in red satin andtwo-foot-tall human-hair horns, Joey's
characters are always visually stunningand emotionally jolting.
"Sometimes I wanJ.
to shock people, ".,..
just shock .,',,...,.,
th em, "..,......'...
helikes
to say.
"But I
love gointhat stepfurther."."

Almost imme-,-

hen I first came to
New York in the 70s,
the gay community
was still splashing in the
sunlight of its newly won
liberation, and we loved kicking theworld- in the teeth with our differentness. Gays were the' spearhead of theavant-garde, as well as the definers of
the cultural and stylistic trends which
would affect the rest of the country a
few years down the line. We egged eachother on to new discoveries by flaunting
our own personal innovations withpride; after_all, you can't explore someplace new if you are embarrassed to be
the first one there. Whether in fashion or
the arts, lifestyles or sex-toys, we were
pioneers who delighted in turning onothers to our good fortune. We were
implacable innovators because we had
shared the fight for the right to be•umque.
Lucky for us, one artist who wasfighting for us then is still fighting for
us now. The first time I heard of Joey
Arias w:l!>the day after he and Klaus
Nomi sang backup for David Bowie
on Saturday Night Live. "They wore
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diately, you findyourself sympathizing with thecharacter, feeling theconnection between
this creature Joey hasraised and some darkplace in your soul. What
could have been a string ofsongs from a bizarrely dressedsinger has suddenly become
theater, a positive theater which
proudly announces that it's OK to
be the way you are.
Carolina-born Joey grew up in
L.A., "living out scenes from movies
and porno magazines," he recalls,"doing Cleopatra in the living roomand having all the neighborhood kids
layout with palm branches."
He continues:"Everyone has
woman and man in them. I just bounced
it all out. When I walked onto the set of"Big Top Pee-wee" [years later), even thecircus performers thought I was a real
hermaphrodite. "Playing female roles was fine
before puberty but began to cause
Photo booth: Little Ricky's

problems in high school. When hetried to dress "straight" in a plaid shirt
and conservative slacks, he looked likea "suburban woman going to a picnic."
Joey muses about his teen years:"I was pretty much an outcast. In
school people were afraid of me.
They wouldn't let me do groups ororganizations, they wouldn't let me
into any of their clubs. So I figured I
might as well just be looking outrageous, and wear wild costumes,
because it suits me best.
"For the last six months of school,
I was walking theater ... semi-drag, little
granny sweaters, tweezed eyebrowsand high heels. People were losing it.
It was a Catholic boys' high school."
The audacity it took to simply behimself eventually touched even his
most vicious detractors: "In the end,
they all admired me for my guts. I
had become the toughest guy in theschool." And by then, his life as asinger had already begun.
"I was singing in choir in
grade school, then high school
bands and garage bands. Then
we got signed to Capitol.~Records...that was 'Pearly.'
We had two records andfive issues of teen magazines. After that, they
saw us live and they
fired us!" The band
had been signed,on the strengthof their demos.
Then he received an offer from Gary
Austin to become a member ofAustin's improvisational
theatergroup, the Groundling Theater (theL.A. launch pad for, among others,
Lorraine
Newmanand Pee-wee
Herman). As a musician, he presented
them with "Joey and the Jo-ettes," inwhich he and three women backup
singers created instant songs for a live
audience. "We'd get a line from theaudience, ask for a situation and turnit into a song." He fmally got his breakwith a part in Brian de Palma's Carrie,
but he carried on so much on the set
that they deleted his part right out
from under him.

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THE DEVIL MADE ME DO IT
Joey Arias gets the last gasp
Disgusted with L.A., Joey andfriend Kim Hastrieter, now co-editor ofPaper, drove to New York just in time
for the Bicentennialcelebrations.
Friends he had made in L.A., like
Divine, helped him get settled and landa job as house stylist for the explodingly successful Fiorucci's. Encouraged by
the great Antonio Lopez, Joey, cameback from a visit to the London punkscene with pink hair and no eyebrows.
In quick succession, he succumbed topressure from people on the street, redyed his hair black and then made thefinal, irrevocable decision to dye it pink

car chase which only ended
when he pulled up in front of apolice station.
If he can't change the wholeworld, Joey Arias is definitely
affecting the world he can reach ..
His recent tours, sometimes as amale character, sometimes as afemale character, have beensmash hits, even in the Midwest
Mixed audiences of both gays andstraights get shocked, then mesmerized and fmally fall in lovewith his characters, all of whom
proclaim in their own way that it's"all right to be the way you are.""When I did Justine [hisS&M/Kabuki dominatrix], I had
people walking up to me andsticking nails through their ears.
When a promoter in Seattle advertised 'See Joey Arias channel thesPirit of Billie Holiday through his
voice,' I laid it on real thick andsyrupy. I looked at the audience,and 300 people were sitting with
their eyes closed."
In France, a fan returned ajacket Joey thought had beenstolen. He had taken it to a psychic to "feel," and the woman
had promptly told him Joey wasfrom the 21st century. The manpinned Joey up against the wallof the theater and demanded toknow where he was really from.
Ultimately, of course, Joey
Arias is a singer, and it is the
exceptional intimacy of his voicethat lets us relate to his charactersso easily. Lately, his frightening
Photo: Mr. Osm(§ ability to imitate Billie Holiday has
tempered his previously powerhouse baritone. Like two of his
again, dedicating himself to being him- idols, Holiday and David Bowie, he
self-ilo matter what.
rarely sings two notes in a row without"I always thought I was pretty nor- changing his voice. "I used to go to a lot
mal," Joey states, "but I'd been yelledof concerts," explains Joey, "and try toat, screamed at, tossed -rocks at and imitate the sounds of the instruments, trychased. Even in high school, just going to break up my voice into four different
out, people pulled me over and said octaves at once and sing harmonics."
they wanted to beat the shit out of me
His latest album, Jazzo LOzo, is a
all the time, just because I was differ- perfect example. Reminiscent of Sade,ent. If they knew that I was gay, it but with a bite, it's a floating, smoky
didn't matter. It was because I was dif- album of middle-weight funk and balferent." Once, in Vancouver, dressed as lads, beautifully co-produced by Joeythe Devil character he made famous in and Martine. It is such a hit in Japanthe rum Mondo New York,Joey enduredthat Tower Records will start carrying it
a 45-minute French Connectton-style
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Books
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by Ja1nes Conr.,.d-'•when the emphasis is reversed, the transaction of emotion
completed: ''What's possible is possible: enough/that change
is: that one thing changes everything."
The following poem, "Nights of 1964-1966: The Old
Reliable," is just as sUccessful in matching its form to its content. The rhyme scheme is literally a couplet within a couplet,a kind of inner intimacy mirroring Hacker's description of agroup of mends living in New York in the '60s. In this poem
the rhymes add humor and color to an already interestinggroup of individuals. But it's a setup: The poem jumps aheadin time-throughthe Yietnam War, the Civil Rights
Movement-and ends in the midst of the AIDSepidemic.

nce you read Marilyn Hacker, you will never mistake a poem of hers for anyone else's. Her sixth
book of poems, Going Back to the River, extends
her very distinctive voice, broadens it and makes
it stronger as the poems accumulate. "Yoice," apoetic cliche, is appropriate to use in describing Hacker's
style: As a storyteller she is humorous, exact, political and,Soon, some of us bussed south U/tthSNCC and CORE.
most importantly, a formalist.
Soon, some of us got busted dealtng drugs.
An overview of the forms in Going Back to the River is
Thefile clerks took exams and forged ahead.
breathtaking: sestina, villanelle, pantoum, blank verse, couThe decorators' kitchens blazed pemmmon.
plets, rhymed quatrains and free verse. But for women writThe secretary started kissing women,ers, the question of form is a more complex one. Certain
andso did I, and my three friends are dead.
writers, like Adrienne Rich and Anne Sexton, purposely gaveup their formal origins in an attempt to "free up" women's
It's as if a door has slammed in your face, which is exactconsciousness, to invent their own ways of expressing their ly what AIDS has been like in people's lives, an unexpected,
own ideas. Wasn't meter itself invented by white men and sudden, ending which, appropriately, ends this poem.
used to define the terms by which women were always
If the poems in the
excluded? Does a female poet play by the rules to join
third section, "Market Day,"the canon or resist the rules in hopes of destroying it?
set mainly in Europe, don't
For Hacker, there is no such thing as no such thing.
seem as good, it's not all
With rhyme and meter she transforms her world into a
Hacker's fault. As American
blueprint of the world, a precise and calculated design
readers, it's easier for us towhich, on the page, has the appearance of measurement.
love the poems of the '60s or
She is a mathematician, an architect, and though suchthe "Country Western" sestltechnical expertise appears to overintellectualize her
nas set in Memphis. Hacker's
results, her subjects actually remain in the familiar realm
work depends upon anof nature, love, friends and family.
overabundance of detail, andThe collection opens with a long poem, "Twothe more familiar ones are
Cities," more of an introduction to the "form" of theobviously more appealing.
book than a very evocative poem. It is set in France andBut, I would also contend
New York. The section that follows the poem is set inthat America is more powerAmerica, and the third in France. The best poems are in
ful in Hacker's hands than"Letter From Goose Creek," the American section of theEurope is. She spends half ofbook where form and content complement each other in
her time now in France, but Hacker commuting on the Long
remarkable ways. The title poem of this section is a crown of Island Expressway or watching Julie read Willa Cather in thesonnets, a work of formal acrobatics where the last line of the cove embodies a simplicity and warmth which many writers
first sonnet, "What changes nothing changes everything,"
can only study and force.
returns to end each of the sonnets, creating the mood of a
And what is the river? A source. What she is goingballad. The subject of the poem is change. The narrator leaves back to. Formally (even Hacker's extended metaphors manone relationship with the help of a friend, who, in the pro- age to take on form), the river is a body separating her two
cess, becomes her new lover. It's a beautiful poem, so full of homes: Paris and New York. More importantly, the river isthe details of the natural world, New York and the traveling an ongoing process, something with a beginning and an
between the two that the strictness of the sonnet form seems end, but without these linear restraints. This is a middle
to be there to keep the poem from overflowing. The repeatedbook in a satisfyingly consistent career, and yet Hacker herline is changed throughout, usually to "change nothing," just self seems to be feeling the accumulation of her years, ofas one lover is replaced by another, up to the poem's end her poems.
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'Books•••,

wide range of bike information:
the philosophy of repair, motorcy- t
cle tools, basic engine mechanics I
and customizing. The high-quality
photos and graphics are of toughlooking dyke bikers, tools andbymotorcycle parts. There's evensome poetry by Batya Sunwandra.
his past fall, I decidedtoAccording to author Jill Taylor
buy and learn to ride a (who has been riding and repairing her Honda "Shadow" for five
motorcycle. Spring has arrived,
arlCiI now possess an "old lady" years), she and the Clothespin.
12-year-old 550 Suzuki and a brandFever gang had a hidden agenda
when it came to the content: "The I!
new, hot-shit, baby-butch, dyke-biker
lover who has been riding, racing andmain barrier that women face
repairing motorcycles for about a dozen
when it comes to repairs is a confidence
years. Over the winter she found me my problem. Our handbook, which is tohelp women overcome their fears, offers
motorcycle, taught me to ride and now
supervises my repairs on it-a "beast" I inspiration, motivation and basic infornamed Grace.
mation. I know how boring a repair
But, this cruise into the world of manual can be and how the authors
assume a high level of reader expertise.
dykes and bikes has cost me my butch
credentials. During our combined repair So, with our handbook's photos, poetry
sessions, in which my partner adeptly
and general information, which are little
performs brain surgery on her '"cow"treats, I did some wooing and seducing.
(Kawasaki) while I have conniptions
They are a way to get women into therepair section."over a hangnail on Grace, I deteriorate
But, like a novice biker, A Dyke's
into nelliness. I end up plopped on the
ground beside Grace, fighting back tears Bike Repair Handbook has some limitaand a tantrum. The only vestige oftions. My partner and I agree that thecoolsville that I maintain are my chaps
handbook's title is misleading. Because it
and my Ray Ban sunglasses. 'contains a great deal of non-repair
So, when I heard about A Dyke's data on insurance, safety and motorBike Repatr Handbook, the timing wascycle history-the handbook leans more
perfect. (Also, my high-tech festie-going toward being a basic introductorylover was about to glide away on a motorcycle handbook than a repair
2,OOO-mile solo motorcycle
trip tomanual. And, although I love the nonrepair photos and enjoyed some of the
Georgia-and leave me puttering about
town with no one to nag about Grace's non-repair sections, they dilute theplethora of aches and pains). The handbook's usefulness as a repair manual.
book was to be my surrogate teacher.
Cutting back on both would have given
more space for pertinent repair facts and
The night before my partner abanvisuals. More technical photos, in thedonedexcuse me left me, I tagged
around after her and, while packing her
written section on two-stroke engines,
saddlebags, she let me pick her brains
for example, would have helped to simabout the handbook.
plify some very complex concepts.
Produced by Clothespin Fever, a
The order of the text, accompanylesbian-feminist press, A Dyke's Bikeing photos and graphics is also discomRepair Handbook, which was in thebobulated. In "Time to Get Ready,"
works for three years, is a 136-page
Taylor instructs you to layout various
snappy-looking black-and-silver spiraltools, but doesn't describe the tools'
bound handbook that touches on a usage until the following chapter. There

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is a similar problem with the order ofthe photos. Early in the handbook, sheshows a can of compressed air but
doesn't mention its use for two morechapters. This scattering of informationand photos leads to a lot of page-flipping and befuddlement.
My partner observed that the handbook does not always keep the novice
in mind when giving information. When
Taylor explains how to remove screws,
she comments, "It's a good idea toremove the one closest to you and easiest to get at," but she does not mention
that, in the case of battery removal, a set
order must be maintained, or you risk
shorting it out. She also deletes useful
information about removing spark plugs
as well as important details in the section on how to pick up a bike.
But, despite some bumpy sections,
my partner and I concur that Jill Taylor
and the Clothespin Fever staff havecreated a hot-looking, lesbian-friendly
motorcycle handbook that is a lonecheerleader for the lesbian biker who
ventures into the world of motorcycle
mechanics. It contains a hefty dose ofsolid informationand helpful tips.
Taylor is to be congratulated for successfully shouldering the arduous taskof converting extremely complex ideas
and three-dimensional
machines into
the written lesbian word. (Her use ofimages, such as a pencil sharpener anda pressure
cooker,to explain
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RIVER from page 70

Go to the river, take what it offers JUU.
When you were young, it guarded and promised you

crankshaft mechanics and combustion was exceptionally
clear). That the handbook-in
and of itse1f-is lesbian-targeted smashes one more barrier to our visibility.
Personally, I plan on having the handbook around thenext time I pounce Grace's bones. As soon as my partner
walks in the door from her 4,OOO-mile motorcycle trip, I
won't even give her a chance to drop her saddlebags
before I start prattling about all the new stuff I learned
from the handbook. God love her, she'll listen patiently
and genuinely congratulate me. And, she'll probably be
relieved to know that the novice in her life now has A
Dyke's Bike Repair Handbook to consult .....

that you would follow other rivers
oceans awayfrom a Iand/ocJW cbfJdhood.
•

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life's not forever, love isprecarious.
Wherever I live, let me rome home to you
asyou are, I as I am, where you
meet me and walk with me to the river.

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BIKES from page 71

The river is fmally a literal place of love and strength, thatwhich Hacker truly draws her power from beyond her technical accomplishments and foreign environments.
The last poem in the book, "Against Silence," an elegy for
ARIAS from page 69
her mother-in-law,.
Hacker's other purpose, andperhaps a purpose of all women writers: to make up for lost in July as an import. His slowed-down ballad version of "A
Hard Day's Night" is so personal that it's almost a confestime and fill in literary history with women, by women. This
sion. As he puts it: "I'm not the type of person who can justalso serves as a response to any question of Hacker's fonnalget up and sing a song. I have to think of who would be
ism Of course she can use meter and myrne, she can use anysinging that song." Fortunately for us, Joey has never beenthing she damn well pleases. It's people, especially women,
afraid to explore any of the "who"s he has encountered .....
she must reinvent for the page, and ultimately, for Hacker, there
is no such thing as no such ,thing. "I am at a loss," Hacker
RlM FESTfrom page 63..admits, Concluding the book by saying goodbye to her mother. in-law, a woman, like a river, from whom she had always
Tracing Jess' life from the age of 7 to 18, Oranges portrays
drawn strength, "I am at a loss/for words to name what my conflicts that may and may not be close to home for many of us.
The oppressive, patriarchal structure of the church in the film mayloss of you is/what it will be, or even what it was." ....
I
I not be what most of uS grew up with, but the sort of narrowmindedness that it personifies is no stranger to our lives. A further
SAMUEL from page 66
complication is added by the church's role in Jess' life; raised
completely within it, she has clearly benefited from the good it
the necessity of imagination for creative work by nearlybanishing it from the stage (she is, perhaps, waiting patienthas to offer. With the local pastor playing such a large part inJess'ly, smoking cigarettes in the living room): Indeed, he makes
mother's life, and with a father who literaIlydoesn't talk, the instiit almost too well. We or, at least, I-occasionallylongedtution of the church ahnost completely displaces the traditional
for imagination to burst into the bathroom and exert some familial one for Jess.
rutWess control over the shower of coruscating words.
Jess comes to realize this most strongly when she acts on her
Whatever he does or doesn't give us, Greenspan cer- feelings for her best friend. In a great scene that successfullycomtainly draws fine performances from Bagden and Shultz, bines all their schoolgirl awkwardness with the evident physicaldesire they have for one another, Jess and her friend Melanie kiss
whose acting is at a level higher than one is used to seeing
for the first time and discover there's more to life than Jesus. Just as
in most New York theaters. 2 Samuel 11, Etc., its elements
taken together, is a modest virtuoso work. ....
we're thinking they've really been saved, Jess' mother, sensing somef------------------------j"urmaturaIpassion" between the girls, searches her daughter's room
VOYAGE from pege 67
for evidence (she finds shockingly!-D.H. Lawrence on her shelO.
without also wanting to fill up her customers? When will The exorcism that follows to get the devil out of Jess is an
Evelyn stop being the angry young woman? These ques- extreme and frightening instance of the kind of abuse lesbians andtions, in addition to the omnipresent question of Connie's
gays are subjected to. The scene is made all the more startling by
fidelity to herself as a pussy-loving woman, layer eachthe repressed but evident relish the pastor takes in it.
moment of the play. The answers peek out from each
Such awakenings only anger Jess. As she tells one of thescene, only hinting at complete resolution; this is the kind . townswomen who comes out to her, "You've got to fight." Sheof madness that goes on for a lifetime.
does, and we root for her all the way, longing for the sort of
Voyage to Lesbos pokes nasty, explicit fun at all those happy-ever-after ending that must be possible even in such dismal
things about the lesbian nation that make us the strange
conditions. And we're not disappointed.
-and slightly miraculous animals that we are. When Bonnie
Overall, the film never loses its audience's attention. Some oftries to "help" Connie to turn straight by encouraging her the church scenes threaten to get tedious but always stop short ofto "think about dick," the two of them engage in a mutual doing so. As Jess' Lord-lovingmother who wants her adopted daughj.o. session that is not only deliriously wicked and funny ter to be a missionary,Geraldine McEwanis excrudatingly real with
but also incredibly smart about the details of contemporary
her distinctive,husky voice and a primness even Miss Jean Brodie
lesbian sexual politics. Surrounded by a set that is alter- would be hard-pressed to match. In many ways the film is as muchnately shabby and sleek, and populated by an intelligent,
her StOl)'as it isJess', and even she has changed considerably by theend. "Tuneschap.ge, but God never does" is a favoriteline of her andintrepid cast, Voyage to Lesbos is a trip worth taking. ....
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•changed and it reveals what has changed-to the benefit of lesbians
and gays--as weD as what hasn't. Despite these sometimes depressing reminders, the film is one of the most consistently entertaining
and well made I have seen.
-Monica Dorenkamp

Paris Is Burning
Parts Is Burning is that rare ftnd: a documentary that combines drama, sociology, culture and history into a powerful, passionate and entertaining package. Director Jennie Livingston
explores the world of the Harlem House balls and looks at how ayounger generation of gay Black men have transformed theiroppressive reality into an intricate world of glamour and fantasy.
For those who think Madonna invented vogueing, a little"'~.
background info is in order. A House is an extended famlly of gay
Black men, including transvestites and transsexuals, gathered
together under a name often inspired by fashion (e.g. House ofSaint Laurent). House members compete at balls in vogueing
duels as well as an endless array of categories, each about achieving "reainess"-<iressing and posing as something else: a fashion
model, a banJy boy, a schoolgirl, an executive. The transformationmust be accurate enough for someone on the street to believe it
and is thus, in some ways, about looking like anything but aqueer boy. But more than that, it's about being gay, Black, maleand-not insignificantly-poor(as one Housemother says, "These
kids don't have two of nothing"), and about fmding a way tobring glamour and prestige to an otherwise difficult life.
Director livingston foregoes the use of a narrator, 'letting theparticipants speak for themselves. And can these girls speak! Morethan finger-snapping Miss Things, her interviewees are alternately
profound, poignant and full of pride. A street-smart wisdom accompanies older members, such as ball-legend Dorian Corey andHousemother Pepper Leibeija, that commands respect. Livingston
fleshes out not just the cultural facts of the ball scene and its attitudes but, more significantly, the struggle for survival at its roots.
Parts Is Burning is, ultimately, less an analysis of the scene it
documents than a celebration of it. It takes a group of poor Blackmen and, accords them a heroic status and, in one tragic case,martyrdom. Despite all the poses that are struck, no one claims to
be anything but what they really are gay men. I'll take a Paulina
Porizkova wanna-be over an established, upscale closet case anyday. As one ball spectator tells the illmmaker, going to a ballmakes him "feel l00-percent right being gay." Parts Is Burning
reveals a humbling strength of survival that could teach lessons to
the more privileged among us.
--Karl Soehnlein,Pink Ulysses
From the Netherlands comes Pink Ulysses, an overlong nonnarrative film that juxtaposes stilted, colorful, low-budget stagingsof scenes from the Odyssey with minimalistic black-and-whitefootage, mostly of one drab young man posing, prancing, masturbating and looking pensive for the camera. For good measure,"writer" and director Eric de Kuyper also tosses in a lot of foundfootage, opera arias and other bits and pieces of uncertain origin or
significance. Don't wony about the dialogue much of it isn't subtitled so, unless you speak Dutch and Italian (I think), it's just morenoise.
Press reIeases mention Cocteau, the "female" point of view inthe ~segments and· the "male" point of view in the impressionistic black-and-white stuff, but the film is all of a piece_whenever
the flotsam threatens to form meaning (a meditation connecting
unfulfilled fantasy with eroticized myth?) the movie veers off in someother inexplicable direction. Progression is apparently unthinkable.
EVentually, it ends with the inevitable shot of the camem Itself seen ina minor. Self-indulgence, meet self-reflexivity. Ho-hum'teDon't be fooled by the titular allusion to Pink Naa wealth of minors and musclemen, this is not a sensuaI paean to themademature man akin to the adolescent-worship of the anonymously,
cult classic. 11lis is a hynm to the director's powers of obfuscation (notto be confused with ambiguity). I'm sure de Kuyper mew exactly~
he was doing-fulfilling a vision, and all that Maybe next time
he'll let us in on it.
-Broce Steele

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Where the Sun Beats Down

If Joaquim Pinto's Where the Sun Beats Down is any indication, it never rains in Portugal. From start to finish, this mm bakes
under the harsh g1are of Iberian sunlight, and the heat seems tohave gone to everyone's head. In this curiously oblique tale, 18year-<>IdNuno returns home to the famlly sheep farm run by his
sister Laura and her much older husband, Artur. The house simmers with tension-muchof it sexual in nature--between brotherand sister, husband and wife, father and son and just about everyone and Alberto, the !ili'ed hand, providing the mm with a lot of
mileage from the prospect of someone falling passionately into
bed with someone else. More than anything else, however, Where
the Sun Beats Doum is about how that never happens.
Most frustrating for queer male viewers, no doubt, will be
the presence of Nuno, as sexy a chico as one is likely to find.
There are endless shots of him walking (his lovely little behind isgiven ample attention by the filmmaker) as well as skinny-dippingand showering. His relationship with Alberto, a brooding' stoic,
contains enough Sexual setups to fill the average porn film, but
without the delivery. It amounts to little more than one long tease.
(My lesbian companion at the press screening finally leaned overto me to ask, "When are we going to get to the sex scene?")
Where the Sun Beats Doum begs the question of what constitutes-gay cinema. Does it include films with homoerotic content,even if that content is never identified as such? Does it include portrayals of repressed sexuality, even if the film avoids the question of
what's behind that repression? Perhaps. But this film seems to stretch
even those limits.' The arid Portugese landscape is clearly ametaphor for suffocating cultural attitudes, but a country's strong
taboos against sexual expression hardly justify a film's not breaking
them. Watching a houseful of tongue-tied people swoon overunspoken passions may make a fascinating cultural study for some,
but for this reviewer it was akin to being left out in the sun for too
long without any water.
-Karl Soehnlcin'"

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FRONT RUNNERS NY June 23 9th
Annual Gay Prida Run in Central Park,
800 runners expected to participate,many trophies plus raffle; start and finish at 90 St 8. 5th Ave; 9:30 am start;
entry fee $7 thru June 11, $8 thru June
22. $10 on race day; numbers picked up
from Int'I Running Center, 9 E 89 St. Friday, June 22, noon - 7:30 pm, and on
race day, Saturday, June 23, 7:30-9 am;
info 724-9700, or from Front Runners,
Box 363-D, NYC 10014

ADVANCEHERITAGE OF PRIDE Saturday, June 23
HERITAGE OF PRIDE Sales & Infonnalion Table is at the corner of Hudson &Christopher Streets, every SAT and
SUN, noon - 9 pm (weather penn itting)(thru JUNE 24)
NEW YORK CITY GAY MEN'S CHORUS
June 15 Concert and Dance: TOBSfing theTenth or Son of -ren Cents a Dance-;with 40's big band music by Hot Lavenderand Manhattan Rhythm Kings, a Glenn
Miller style band; featuring the Chorus ina "USO" show, guests including Julie
Kumilz; "taxi dancers"; in the Sheraton
Centre Hotel's Imperial ~allroom, 53 St &7th Ave; 7 pm dancing & cashbar, 8 pm
shoW; $15-$45 ($75 for ringside tables);info 691-75911;1icket CentraI27~200
STONEWALL CHORALE June 16 Gala
10th Anniversary
Pride Concert, Bill
Pflugradt, Music Director; featuring
Ca rl Orff's Carmina Burana; at Town
Hall, 123 W 43 St; 8 pm; $12-$18; afterJune 1, tix from Town Hall, 840-2824;
after June 9, from 1icketron (399-4444)
or 1icketron Charge (947-5850); also
from Different light or Oscar Wildebookstores; info'721-2924 (checks to
Stonewall Chorale, Box 920, NYC 10011)
THE CENTER June 18 7th Annual Garden Party, with honorary co-chairs
Kate Clinton 8. Reno; with over 100 lesbian/gay organizations
presenting
information
at tables; over 1500 in
attendance; cash bar, Center program;silent auction from 6:30-9:30 pm; dinnerfrom 7-8:30 pm; entertainment
from
8:30-10 pm, including selected songs by
the LaVender Ught Gospel Choir; 2118W
13 St, outdoors;
6:30-11 pm; $35
advance/$45
door, (sponsor
tofounder:$I00 to $1200); 620-7310

Rally: -Our Voices-, in Union SquarePark (N,R,4,s,6,L trains); with MCs Ka1e
Clinton and Everett Quinton; special
greeting from Ove Carlsen and Ivan
Larsen, one of the first gay married
couples in Denmark; speeches by
Urvashi Vaid (National Gay and lesbian
Task Force); Joseph C. Steffan, gay exNaval Academy Midshipman; Paula
Ettelbrick (Lambda Legal Defense &Education Fund); Craig Lucas, author,and Norman Ren~ director, of Longtime Companio", Joan Nestle (lesbian
Herstory Archives); husband-anlj-wife
performers Ruby Dee and Ouie Davis,
five lottery-selected
members of thecommunity; entertainment
by Betty,
Batucada Belles, Funny Gay Males,
vocalist Cathy Curtis, comedian Sara
Cytron, Lavender Light Gospel Choir,
Toshi Reagon & her band, Lesbian 8.
Gay Big Apple Corps marching band; 26 pm; 691-1n4 (Editor's note: WBAI-FM,
99.5, will play Saturday's Rally highlights on Sunday, JUNE 24, 9 am - noon)
HERITAGE OF PRIDE Sunday, June 24//larch down Fifth Avenue, starts 12:30
pm; line-up at Columbus Circle & lower
60s off Central Park West; 691-1774
HERITAGE OF PRIDE Sunday, June 24
Dance 4: Pride Dance on the Pier, atWest Side Hwy & Christopher S1; 4-10 pm,
Fireworks at 10:30 pm; $10 advance (atHOP table, weekends, Hudson/Christopher)!$12 on the pier; 691-1n4
GAY GAMES III In Vancouver, August 411, 1990 offers a Free Info/Accommodations Brochure: 800,1II28-1109

LIVELY ARTSNATIONAL GAY AND LESBIAN TASK•-FORCE June 21 Gala Gay Pride Celebration/Party
with Mayor David N.
Dinkins and Urvashi Vaid, Exec. Dir.,
NGLTF; benefiting NGLTF's Policy Institute (contributions tax-deductible);atArsenal Gallery & Roof Garden, 5th Ave
at 64 St; 6-9 pm; $35-$100. (space limited); rsvp/info 529-3619(Also see the daily listingsshow(ing}s of one or two days.)

OUTTWEEKLE PASSE AU PRESENT Lynn Bianchi
and Robert Bianchi, black 8. whitephotographs,
featuringstudies ofnudes; 69 Spring S1; TUES-SAT. 1-6 pm;
247-0304 (thru JUNE 9)

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HOME FOR CONTEMPORARY THEATRE
AND ART presents 2 Samue/ff. Etc.,
written and directed by David Greenspan,
involving such topics as gender confusion, homosexuality, masturbatory fantasy, censorship,
self-observation,
pornography, the creative process, and ashower; 44 Walker St (two blocks below
Calla I); $12.50-$15;WED-SUN at 7:~ pm;
431-7434(thru JUNE 10)
PS 122 presents Eileen Myles' //Iodem
AI( about women and men, censorship,

and the impact of feminism on the contemporary art world; with choreography by Ellen Fisher, sets by Tom Berry;featuring Tom Carey, John McDanal,
Claire Moed, Nancy Swartz, Carol
McDowell, Anne d'Adesky, Theresa
Haney, Laura Flanders, Jennifer Monson, Jennifer Lacey, David L Wright,
percussion by Barbara Barg and S.
Faybelle Mah-Hee; 150 1st Ave (at 9 St);
THU-SUN at 9:30 pm; $10 or TDF + $5;
4n-5288 (thru JUNE 10)
THEATER FACTORY presents Kelly
Masterson's Against the Rising SBII a"poignant, humorous· play about twoolder women, two younger women, andthe period of transition both couples
face in a New England cottage by thesea; at Pelican Studio, 750 8th Ave(near 47 St); $8 or $3 + TDF; THU-SAT at
8 pm, SUN at 3 & 7 pm; reserve tix at
718/857-0398 (thru JUNE 10)ARTISTS FOR AMNESTY Benefit Art
Exhibition and Sale to raise funds forAmnesty International, the liberal organization that has yet to complain about
sanctioned mistreatment of gays andlesbians throughout the world; artists
represented include Keith Haring; atthe BlumHelman Gallery, 80 Greene St.
and the Germans van Eck Gallery, 420
West Broadway; info 807-8400, 580-3743(JUNE 6 thru JUNE 16)
APPLE CORPS THEATER presents Don
Rifkin's A Peffect Diamond, with Josh
Mostel, about baseball, including a gay
player; 336 W 20 St; $18; TUE-FRI at 8pm, SAT at 3 & 8 pm, SUN at 3 pm; 9293064 (thru JUNE 171

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THEATER OFF PARK presents Robin
Swados' A Quiet End, starring Lonny
Price, with Jordon Mott, Philip Coccioletti, Paul Milikin, Rob Gomes; directedby Tony lJiordano, about four Manhattan men with AIDS who have lost theirjobs and families; 224 Waverly Place(btwn Perry/II St, west of 7th Ave); $20$23.50; MON-FRI at 8 pm, SAT at 7 & 10pm, dark SUN; 279-4200 (thru JUNE 171
THEATER 22 presents Seth S. Goldman's Evenings With The Leviathan,based on Moby Dick, "an action-filledadventure on a 19th-century whaling
vessel...a meditation on the nature ofsocial responsibility"; 54 W 22 St (off6th Ave); $10; THU-SUN at 8 pm; 5751376 (thru JUNE 171
THE NEW FESTIVAL 1990 (NY INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL OF LESBIAN AND
GAY FILM) Opening Party May 31 andClosing Party June 17, with a June 7
Center Benefit featuring Vito Russo's
Images from the Eighties; Biograph
Cinema, 225 W 57 St; box office opens
noon for each day's screenings; $7 generalj$6 students and seniors 60+; five
weekday passes (for films M-F, noon 5pm) for $25; five general passes (anytime except Benefits) for $30; for specific films and events, see the GOING
OUT daily listings or call recorded listings, 966-1722; for catalog and festival
info, 966-5656 (thru JUNE 17)
EIGHTYEIGHTS presen1SJim Pallone, 228
W 10St (btwn HudsonJBleeckerl, Wednesdays at 10'.30pm, 924-1D18 (thru JUNE 20)
VILlAGE PLAYWRIGHTS PRODUCTIONS
presents 0 Sappho, 0 Wilde, "a hilarious tour of lesbian and gay life: directed by Bill Cosgriff, musical direction by
Joe Maisano; featuring sketches by
Marc Castle, AI Luongo, Claire Olivia
Moed, Karen Mullen, Carol Polcovar;
performed by lisa Goodman, Raven Hall,John Kudan, JoAnna Rush, Joe Spencer
White; at the Duplex, 61 Christopher (NEcorner 7th Ave/Christopher);
every
Thursday in June at 8 pm; $8 + 2-d rinkmin.; rsvp 255-5438 (thru JUN E 28)
THE CENTER NATIONAL MUSEUM OFLESBIAN & GAY HISTORY Cartoon
Show, showcasing the work of 40 car- 'toonists who deal with the lesbian andgay experience; with work by Jennifer
Camper, Howard Cruse, Mark Johnson,
Burton Clarke, Jerry Mills, OutWeeKs
Bechdel; 208 W 13 St; daily, 4 ~ pm; 6207310 (thru JUNE 30)
PENINE HART GALLERY Survey of lesbian and Gay Artists, in recognition oflesbian and Gay History Month; withwork by Nancy Brody, Steve DeFrank,
Lousie FIShman,Lola Rash, Ester Hernandez, Keith Haring, Peter Hristoff, Peter
Hujar, Zoe Leonard, Robert Mapplethorpe,
Donald Moffett, Ann Wilson; 568 Broadway, 1st Roor; 334-3522(thru JUNE 30)
HERITAGE OF PRIDE, MARANATHA,GLADIS, RIVERSIDE SOCIAL JUSTICE,MINISTRY Photo Exhibit: Essence III
hmily. ,.iClures III Pride, a look at last
year's Pride events by Gail S. Goodman;
Riverside Church, Riverside Drive at 120
St (#1/#9 to 116/Bway);
call for
dayS/times; HOP 691-1774 (thru JULY 4)
PROVINCETOWN'S GIFFORD HOUSE
HOTEL presents Kerry Ashton's The
Wilde Spirit, a one-man play withmusic based on the life and works ofOscar Wilde; 9-11 Carver Street,
Provincetown, MA; $10; WED-SAT at 7
pm (also on JULY 2 & 3, and SEPT 2; 7pm); 508/487-6400 (thru SEPT 15)

HERITAGE OF PRIDE General membership meeting, at the Center, 208 W 13
St, 8 pm, 691-1774 (also JUNE 11, 19)

Series' The LlISt Song at 1 pm; Boy's
Lives (Boys/Life, DH,.G Mon Amour,
Fellr of Disc/osute, ,.lIttItions, ViVli Eul;
M8IIt Bradley Hamson, ,.ieklesime" at
LAVENDER LIGHT GOSPEL CHOIR 30- 3 pm; Women Direct Series' OIMII at 6
Minute Perfonnance Sets at Delta 88 pm; Marlon Riggs' Tongues Untied andSoulfood Restaurant 332 8th Ave at 26 S1; Prati~ha ~a.r.D.'a(s Resh & ""per at 8
9'.30 & 10:30 pm; $10, dinner reservations pm; 'Jijli:ks Iii. rile Snow ("ervolll) at 10924-3499;info 212/222-9794,711!{624-1196 pm; for info see LIVELYARTSCOLLEEN GRECO GALLERY Recaption
for Impotfllnt issues and workS by Keith
Haring, sales proceeds go to TOUCH,
Rockland County AIDS organization; inNyack, NY; 3-6 pm; by appt only, 91413584336 (showing continues thru JUNE 16)

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live game shows, Gay Jeopardy (a testof gay trivia) at 12:30'am, ancj Strip-oRama (where contestants take it off) at 1:X1
am; 101AvenueA(btwnlV7 Slst$5; 4:D-l!m
EAGLE BAR Movie Night Cookiff, 142
11th Ave (at 21 St); 11 pm; 691-8451

THURSDAY, JUNE 7 .

THE NEW FESTIVAL presents the AIDS _,Series' US premiere of Another Life at 1
THE NEW FESTIVAL presents the wor1d
pm; Gay Asia Series' Nick Deocalilpo's
premiere of Comrlldes in Anns and the
Oliver and Children of the Regime at 3
at 1
US premiere of Rames ofpm; Mandy Merck's British Gay/Lesbianpm; AIDS Series' A DfIIIth in the FMRily
TV Show, Out On Tuesdlly /11, moderated
THE NEW DUPLEX presents Funny Gay and Clm:hing Rte at 3 pm; the NY Preby Jim Fouratt, at 6 pm; a Center Benefit
Males,
Jaffe
Cohen,
Dannymiere of the 1989 Academy Award win- GRADUATE FEMINIST ARTIST'S COL- screaling of Vrto Russo', Imllf18S FIDI/J
MCWilliams, Bob Smith; 61 Christopher
ning Common 11ItrNIdsat6:15 pm; Women LECTIVEOF HUNTER COLLEGE,WOMEN , tire Eighties, dedicated to Bill Sherwvod
S1; FRI and SAT at 10 pm; $10 + 2-drink
Direct Series' Desert HetUfs at 8 pm; Part- MAKE MOVIES, EI AL present A Week at 8 pm ($15 advance sale); Partingmin.; reservations 255-5438 (open run)ing Glances Series' I.IIw of Desite at 10:05 of Videos and Films By Women, ton igITt Glances Series' TIIKiZullI Klo (T1IKi thepm; for info see UVELYARTSGloria Ribe's From Here, From This Side, Toilet)at 10pm; for info see LIVELYARTSPRODUCERS' CLUB presents Ed CachiTracey Moffatt's Nice Colored Girls, Shu
anes's Everybody Knows Your Nllme, MID-MANHATTAN UBRARY Writers on Lea Cheang's Color Schemes, Julie
BRENT NICHOLSON; EARLE sets out on
starring Joe Pichette; a play about AIDS, Writing Series, to honor Gay & Lesbian Dash's Illusions, Laleen Jayamanne's A his Riinbow Run for the End of AIDS, aa fat gay man, and his support group;
Pride; with Becky Birtha, For Nights
Song Of Cey/orr,at Voomees Gallery, 1st 1000-mile run from San Francisco to358 W 44 S1;$10; THU-SUN at 8 pm, also Like This One: Stories of Loving
Floor, Hunter College Art Dept, 450 W 41 Val\c,ouver, arriving August 4 for the
SAT at 2 pm; extra show Wednesday,
Women and Cheryl Clarke, Humid
St (near Port Authority, btwn Dyer St/1Oth opening of Gay Games III; pledges
June 13,8 pm; 279-4200 (open run),.itch: NII"lItive "oetry, reading and Ave); 6:30-9:30 pm (films/videos shown
per/mile to 212/533-4913, 415/861-1453
discussing their work; 455 Fifth Ave (at consecutively); free; info from Kate or
RAPP ARTS THEATER presents pre40 St), 6th Floor Conference Room; 6 Trish,695-2154
T!iE NAMES PROJECT Quilt on Display
viewing Thomas M. Disch's black COlll- pm; free, but limited seating
at Atlantic CitY Convention Hall, NJ;
edy one-act, The Cllrdinlll Detoxes,
INTERNATIONAL CENTER OF PHOTOG- thru JUNE9
starring George McGrath; "a chilling
GRADUATE FEMINIST ARTIST'S COL- RAPHY New Picturemakers
Lecturelook inside the hierarchy of the modern LECTIVE OF HUNTER COLLEGE, Series: Gran Fury, Activism, a slide pre- GAY MEN'S HEALTH CRISIS Workshop
Catholic Church exploring such issues WOMEN MAKE MOVIES, ET. AL. pre- sentation
with moderator
Marvinon Community Health Models for Gay
as AIDS, abortion, ties to organizedsent A Week of Videos and Films By Heiferman; 1130 5th Ave at 94 St; 6:30 Men of Color: cross cultural techniques
crime, and homosexuality"; also Disch's Women, tonight Mona Hatoum's Meapm; $7; 860-1776
in outreach, education, and counseling-hair-raisingcurtain-raiser,
The sure of Distance, Pratibha Parmar'sfor Latino gay and other men who have
Auditioa; official opening is MAY 31; Emergence, Leslie Thornton's There INTEG RAL YOGA INSTITUTE Positive
sex with men; with Sylvia Muniz (AIDS
THU & FRI at 8 pm, SAT at 8 & 10 pm; Was an Unseen Cloud Moving, Ayoka Approaches Toward Healing Seminar:
Initiative Dept., Harlem Hospital) and
SUN at 5 pm; $10; 529-5921 (open run)Chenzira's Hairpiece: A Film for Nappy- Trllnscending Fellf, for those whose
James Paul Lopez (People of Color PreHeaded People, Attiat EI-Abnoudi's
lives have been affected by HIV or life- vention Programs, GMHC); at GMHC,
Longtime Compllnion, a feature film fol- Permissible Dreams; at Voorhees
threatening illness in themselves or a 129 W 20 St, 3rd floor classroom; 4-6
lowing the. lives of eight gay men in Gallery, 1st Floor, Hunter College Art loved one; 227 W 13 St; 7:30-9 pm; $5; pm; 807-6664 (A different workshop is
New York during the AIDS crisis;
Dept, 450 W 41 St (near Port Authority,929-0586 (Editor's note: Hatha Yoga offered every Thursday in June.)
Carnegie Hall Cinema, 7th Ave at 57 St, btwn Dyer St/1Oth Ave); 6:30-9:30 pm classes are offered Saturdays.);.
265-2520; Chelsea Cinema, 23 St btwn
(films/videos shown consecutively);
CENTER NATIONAL MUSEUM OF LES7th/8th Aves, 691-4744; Angelika Film free; info from Kate or Trish, 695-2154
CONGREGATIONBETH SIMCHAT'BIAN & GAY HISTORY Opening RecepCenter, Houston & Mercer Sts, 995-2000
TORAH'S EDUCATION COMMIITEEtion for "teiudice lind ,.ride: 11Ie NYC
GAY MEN'S HEALTH CRISIS HIV Healthpresents Christie,Balka
and Andy
GIlY & Lesbian Community, World Wllr
Seminars: Benefits InfonDlltion and Rose, editors of Twice Blessed, the11- "tesem, first presented at City Hall's
Legllllssues,
tonight and every 1st first collection of writings by and about Tweed Gallery in 1988, a show of 80
THE NEW FESTIVAL presents the world
Tuesday; 129 W 20 St, Benefits on the lesbian and gay Jews who are mainphotographs portraying NYC's gay/lespremiere of Joy Chamberlain's Noc- 3rd Floor, Legalon Lower Level C; 7 pm; taining ties to the Jewish tradition; 57 bian history, pre- and post-Stonewall;
turne at 1 pm; the US premiere of ,.ink free; 807-6655, TOO 645-7470
Bethune St, in the Westbeth Artist
atthe Center, 208 W 13 St; 6-8 pm; 620Ulyesses at 3 pm; the world premiere of
Housing Complex, up the center court7310 (Thereafter MON-FRI, 9 am - 5 pm,
Crocodiles in Amsterdllm at 6 pm; Gay CENTER STAGE sees August Wilson's
yard ramp; 8 pm; free; 929-9488
unless pre-empted by other activities.
Asia Series' With Belluty & Sorrow at 8 11Ie,.illno Lesson, with Charles S. DutCall first) (thru JULY 31)
Pl'[l; Ron Peck's Empire Stllte at 10:15 ton; 8 pm; $46; info/rsvp 620-7310
GAY AND LESBIAN-AWANCE AGAINST
pm; for info see UVELY ARTSDEFAMATION (GlAAD)- Forumn; Cen- PENINE HART GALLERYReception for A
CHERYL BOYCE TAYLOR presents a sorship as Gay Bashing, with a panel of Survey of Lesbilln lind GIlY Artists, in
AUBURN THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY
PoetJy Perfonnance and Dance, about artists and writers. At The Center, 208 W recognition of Lesbia n and Gay History
One-Week Course: Sexulllity lind the the struggles and triumphs of a young
13th St, 8pm, 966-1700
Month; with work by Nancy Brody,
Church,with Beverly Harrison and James Caribbean girl who migrates to the U.S.
Steve DeFrank, Lousie Fishman, Lola
Nelson; 3041 B'way at 120S1;662-4315
and deals with racism and sexism; with A DIFFERENT UG,HT Reading Series:
FlaSh, Ester Hernandez, Keith Haring,artwork by Nina Carole; followed by a Eric Swanson: 11Ie Greenhouse Effect, Peter Hristoff, Peter Hujar, Zoe Leonard,
SAGEOngoing Therapy Group: Adult Sur- Women's Dance; at the Bond Street
Robert Mapplethorpe, Donald Moffett,her long-awaited memoir; 548 Hudson,
vivors of Sexual Abuse, led by Barbara
Cafe, 6 Bond St (off B'way); 8 pm; $5; (btwn Char1eS/Perry); 8 pm; free but lim- Ann Wilson; 568 Broadway, 1st Floor; 6Clark and Joyce Meyers, limited registra- info 718/596-4389 (Editor's note: Bond ited seating; 989-4850
8 pm; 334-3522 (thereafterthru JUNE 30)
tion; atthe Center, 208W 13 Sf; 741-2247
Street Cafe has a women's dance every
Tuesday.)
AN ANONYMOUS? PRODUCTION GO GRADUATE FEMINIST ARTIST'S COLCOMMIITEE ON LESBIAN AND GAYLECTIVE OF HUNTER COLLEGE,FISHI With performances
by DANISSUES IN MENTAL HEALTH Monthly
WOMEN MAKE MOVIES, ET. AL preCENOISE and Gay Nation. OJ Craig
Meeting, with co-chairs Harold Kooden
Spencer. Rapp, 220 E 4th St, bet A&B. sent A Week of Videos and Films By
and Susan Frankel, covering the history
10th Anniversary of Men of All Colors
Women, tonight: Marsha Wallner's
Doors open at 9pm.lnfo: 212-460-5082
of the committee,
its services andTogetherINY
Deep Dish 1V Public Access Spigots
goals, future elections; 93 Worth St,
MY COMRADf/SISTER MAGAZINE pre- for Bigots or Channels for Change,
Room 407; 9:30 am (open to members)
THE NEW FESTIVAL presents Gay Asia sents Chllnnel 69 at the Pyramid, with
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sent A W~k of Video. aid FilII. By 208 W 13 St. 3rd Floor; 10 am (sharp)- 6
pm; free; register 807-6655, TOO 645- STRONG AND CDURAGEDUS PRDDUCWomal,tonight
Alexandra Juharz's
TIDNS presents a staged reading of
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Darren Jollnson'. T.'ent, directed by
and Tefln Mothers, Ellen Spiro's DiAna's .
Hair Ego: AIDS Info Up Front, Tami Gold SAGE First AII.ual Gala ,. Street Fair Darren Pitts; about three black, gay
performing artists, their loves and relaand Lyn Goldfarb's Prescription for with clothing, crafts, ethnic foods,
tionships; buffet reception follows; atChange, Lori Hiris's With a Vengeance: houehold items; featuring the CourtThe Fight for Reproductive Freedom; at yard Cafe, a white elephant sale" con- the Center, 208 W 13 St; 8 pm; $10; rsvp
718/485-3069 (6-8 pm only) (a second
to benefit
Voorhees Gallery, 1st Floor, Hunter Col- tinuous entertainment;
reading takes place tomorrow)lege Art Dept., 450 W 41 St (near Port SAGFs programs/services for seniors
and the home-bound elderly; 13th
Authority, btwn Dyer St/1Dth Ave); 6:»
Streat between 1th/Greenwich Aves (in HISPANIC UNITED GAYS & LESBIANS,
9:30 pm (filmS/videos shown consecuJUDITlI'S RDDM BDDKSTDRE presents tively); free; info from Kate or Trish, front of the Center, 208 W 13 St); 10 am - LAS BUENAS AMIGAS, BDRICUA GAY
Jeri HIIderIy, MtIti: A Lalli." 1It1mMt:. 695-2154 (Editor's note: Alixand.ra ' 6 pm; free; 741-2247 (for info orto make & LESBIAN FDRUM Latino/a Predonations); rain date Sunday, JUNE 10 . Parade Dance; at the Center, 208 W 13
. Ac,., Comi__ 681 Washington St (at Juharz will be present to speal),
St; 9 pm - 1 am; $5; Center 620-7310 ,Charles St); 7 pm; free, but limited seat.oPEN CIRCLE Gatherlill o. the FuU ARI fRIDKIS, CSW Worksllop for Gay
ing; 7'lJ-T.r1IJ (wheelchair accessible)
tile GocVdea; at the Me.: G., Sonl/Stralght F.th.rs, -to SANDCASTLE LDUNGE presents Vince
MOOII,tIDCal ....
Center, 208 W 13 S1; exactly 7-7:30 pm provide Ii supportive group setting for Capri In Concert, 86 Mills Ave, SouthINTEGRITY/NY Euchari.t of Pe.tecost
Beach, Staten Island; 7111{447-!E365(ElfItOr's
with Celebrant, Rev. Karen C. Murphey; (come early to be on time); $Z donation gay men to Come together to better
understand and talk about their unre- naIB: This is Staten Island's only gay club.)Preacher, Brother Robert Sevensky, DHC; (info from DC, Box 4538, Sunnyside,NYsolved feelings about their fathers"; on
Program: Health and/or AIDS Issues; at 11104)
Central Park West; 111'.30am - 3:30 pm
Episcopal Church of St. Luke in the fields,
487 Hudson St (at Christopher); 7:30 pm TlIE ANSWER IS LDVING WoaI8II Talk- (bring lunch); $40 (reduced fee availPuerto Rican Day Paradeable); n4-7205
Inll Women'. Tllk: The Gree.-Eyed(info from Box 5202, NYC 101115-0043)
MonItOr; -Jealousy, Envy and all that
CENTERSTAGEsees VhD Ruuo'.I'atII., jazz . .of whom, of what, why? Self AIDS CENTER .oF QUEENS CDUNTY TlIE NEW FESTIVAL presents San Franat
cisco award winner The Nee" ~Youtll Group; topics
G",m:.: .""".,. "'lie a, a program of esteem, not enough.-, led by Ruth eay/BIILes.ian
clips from significant films dealing with Berman and Connie Kurtz; Sheepshead include sexuality, making friends, com- noon; You'd Nevar Guess (lesbian docugay/lesbian l()Ves and rIVes; dedicated to Bay, Brooklyn; 7:45-10 pm; $8; 7181998- ing out, family issues, AIDS/HIV, safe 111811Wies~ Outin Subutllia. A MrlrMIII
sex; in Queens; 11 am - 1 pm; free (and My p/eIDtm and Ufelime Commhmllnt at
Patting Glances director, BiH SheIwood, 2.305 .
2:15,pm; The War WJdow at 4:10pm; AIDS
confidential); 71W896-2500
prepared for The New Festival's Parting
Series' AnoIher Uffl at 6:30 pm; Women
Glances Series; Biogreph Cinemjl, 22S W GAY MEN .oF AFRICAN DESCENT Dlsfi1 S1; 8 pm; $15; 620-7310 (for New Festi- cusslcin: G., .....
nd/or God: The DDWNTDWN CDMMUNITY TELEVI- Direct Series' She 1ttJst Be Seei., JIJIngs
at 8:30 pm; AIDS Series' AIDS Activist'G'",., .,.,."...", the problems of nego- SIDN CENTER Panel Di.cus.ion:
valinfo, see uvaYARTS)SlIorts: The World Is Sick (Sic), Stifftiating one's sexuality and one's reli- S, •• k Out for Prog,. .. with Videol,
SIHIeIs. I'rfde. and Voices From lie Front
gion, with brothers and sisters of the screening of videos and brainstonning
A DIFFERENT UGHT luis CIItH:III""Terrypm;for info see UVELYARTS
MlIII'IWIIIldngtouraf""'1IIge;989-II9l
cloth scheduled to participate; at the on how community groups can use TV at 111'.30
Center, 208 W 13 St. 1st Floor; 8 pm; 620- more effectively; with representativesof ACT UP, Brooklyn AIDS Task Force, DlFF'RENT SPOKES Gay Pride Ride to
GAY WDMEN'S ALTERNATIVE's pre- 7310
NY Union of Homeless, Skylight, Educa- Jones Beacll, cycling about 50 miles
sentation of pIJofo 10um.1l1t, Betty.
,
round trip, spending the day lit Field #6;
1.1... , has been canceled due to illness. EVA RDSAHN and, RITA CORD.oVA pre- tional Video Center; DCTV, 87 u.fayette
St (2 blocks south of Canal);, 11 am - 4 Neil, 212/533-1079(GWA's programs resume In the fall)
sent a FonIIII: U.S. polltlc./PrllDn.",' .nd fiI. Le.III.Ir/G., Community, dis- pm; 966-4510 (open to all)HISPANIC UNITED GAYS & LESBIANS
Art ' cussing why our community needs to
CHIP DUCKm presentS HCIIIIOBI'CIIIc
GRADUATE FEMINIST ARnST'S CDL- (and blher groups, see JUNE 9) join todays
It IhIIckl, tonight featuring the work of support the over 100 political prisoners
LECTIVE .oF HUNTER CDLLEGE, Puiito Rican Day PaI8de, 691-4181
Art PCllitlve, multi-media works on sex In U.S. prisons; with Ms. Cordova,,
WDMEN MAKE MDVIES, ET. AL preand sexual politics; plus dancing/partyNational Committee to Free Puerto•
ing with OJ John Suliga; 6 Hubert St (off Rican Prisoners of War, and Ms. sent A Week of Videos and Film. By LESBIAN ARAB NE1WDRK Fonnlng, tobuild a cultural support group for selfWomen, tonight: Mona Smith's HonHudson, 5 blocks below. Canal); from 10 Rosahn, a -former
grand jury
defined Arab lesbians; women of allpm; $111I$7 with invite; 925-2442 'resister/political prisoner"; a video on ored By the Moon, Caroline Sheldon's
77 Rooms or What Do Lesbians Do In faiths welcome; at the Center, 208 W 13
the Resistence Conspiracy Case defenSt (info: LAN, Box 1161,Peter Stuyvesantdants awaiting trial in Washington, DC, Bed?, Heramedia Collective's Just
will be shown; at the Center, 208 W 13 Because of Who We Are, and Women Station, 432• E 14 St. NYC 10009)
Uke Us or Resh and Papers (depending
THE NEW F~STIVAL presents Gay Asia S1; 8 pm; $2; Info 316-9381
on availability); at Voorhees Gallery, 1st WDMEN ABDUT Fire Island Sunken
Series' US premiere of I Am A
at
Floor, Hunter College Art Dept., 450 W Forest. Cllerry Grove Trip; -stroll along
noon; Th.t War Widow at 2:10; AIDS
41 St (near Port Authority, btwn Dyer the beach and enjoy the Grove-; Ellie
Series' Harvey FIerstein', 71dy'Endin,.
St/IDth Ave); 6:»9:30 pm (films/Videos 212/362-5173 (till 10 pmt
and Tell'Bnce McNally'. And,.~"""".. THE NEW FESTIVAL presents U.d.r
R.,IIIr: Cultural Identities Program at shown consecutively); free; info fromer at 4 pm; Parting Glances Series'
DDBBS FERRYCHURCH celebrates les'p."lng GI.nces at 6:30 pm; J.sfl .. ~ noon, followed by a Pa.el: Under Kate or Trish, 695-2154
bian and Gay People: A MoIv Ught C0nFilm and C.n't You T.k •• Joke plus Ii.p.'r, moderated by Jewelle, Gomez.horts at 8:30 pm; San Francisco award (free admission) at 2 pm; AIDS Series' GAYS & LESBIANS IN BRODKHAVEN gregation hosting a special worshipwinner Th.
Expo.'" at 10:30 pm; Slifer Sex Shorts at 5 pm; the US pre- H.w.llan Night Pot Luck Dinner and service with Rev.Joe Gilmore; South Presmiere of Eric de KuyPer" Pink Ulysses . Dance, where you ·bring your favorite .byterian Church, 343 ,Broadway (at Clinfor info,see UVELY ARTSat 7 pm; the world premiere and .oNLY dish and enjoy the enchantment of a ton), Dobbs Ferry, NY;10am; 9141693-0473
WDMEN ABDUT Catskill Home Week- SCREENING of p.rI. I. Burning at 9 pm; Tropical Paradise"; at .old South Haven
Church, BrOOkhaven, U; 7:30 'pm; $5 STRDNG AND COURAGEDUS PRODUCend, thru JUNE 10; deck, boating, hik- the NY and US premieres of B.yond
a ,staged readinll of(benefits DSHC Restoration Fund); info TlDNSpresents
ing, your own meals; $30/person + Gravity and Mght Out, plus fIlii/dOllS,
Darren Jollnson's T.'ent, about three
from Mike & Jeff, 516/289-8374
at 10:45pm; for info ~e UVELYARTS
transportation;
Sandy 718/263-3517
black, gay 'performing artists, their(rsvp by JUNE 11,
loves and relationships; at the Center,
DIXDN PLACE presents Reno, ·recently
WDMEN ABDUT Beacll Day, Robert
I've been feeling very fifties·; 37 East 208 W 13 S1; 2 pm; $5; rsvp 718/485-3069
CENTER,SPcORTSsees Mats VI. Pirates; Moses or Jones; Judith 201/433-1974
1st St (btwn lst/2nd Aves); two shows, (6-8 pm only)$14 Center membersJ$19 non-members;
WOMEN ABDUT Hook Mountain Hike, 8 & 9:30 pm; $6 or TDF; info 673-6752 (no- 620-7310
reservations, arrive early) (Editor's sin- NEW YORK BANKERS GROUP Walking
Nyack, NY;Ana 71811'1!Hf147
cere
apologies,
to Reno and Tour of Greenwich Village, 2-4 pm, $15
GRADUATE FEMINIST ARTIST'S CDL(member info, 718/852-2125, NYBG, Box
LECTIVE .oF HUNTER CDLLEGE, GAY MEN'S HEALTH CRISIS Keep It Romanovsky & Phillips for listing their867, NYC 10274)
WDMEN MAKE MOVIES, ET. AL pre- U,I Safer Sex Workshop; at the Center, June 1 concert under May 31.)
ROdriguez and Jorge Silva's Love,
Women and Flowe;s, Julie Harrisonand Marilyn Rousso's Positive Images:
Portraits of Women With Disabilities, atVoorhees Gallery, 1st Floor, Hunter College Art Dept, 450 W 41 St (near Port
Authority, btwn Dyer St/1Dth Ave); 6:3().
9:30 pm (films/videos shown consecutively); free; info from Kate or Trish,
695-2154 (Editor's note: Martha Wallner
will be present to speak.),•

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JUDITH'S ROOM BOOKSTORE presents
Judith Plaskow, Standing Again at
Sinal: Jllda/,m from a Femlnl,t "er,ptlCt/Q; 681 Washington St (at Charles
St); 3 pm; free, but limited seating; 7277330 (wheelchair accessible)
LAVENDER UGHT GOSPEL CHOIR Perfonnlnce of Selected Song. It Unity
Church, Plul Robe.on Thelter;
54
Greene Ave, 2nd Floor, Brooklyn(A,C,URR to Lafayette Ave, walk to Green
Ave/Fulton St, 2 blocks to 54 Greene); 4
pm; info 212/222-9794, 7191624-1196
PYRAMID presents Loren Lomb ..... ; 101
Avenue A (btwn 6{7 Sts); $5; 420-1590

STU1Z presents Kenny Da.h, plus male
strippers; 202 Westchester Ave, White
Plains, NY; 914/761-3100

MONDAY, JUNE 11

THE NEW FESTIVAL presents TllIets in
the Snaw {l'el'llflla} at 1 pm; the US premiere of Womeo Like U, Ind Split
Stitches at 3 pm; Mandy Merck's lritish
GayJLesbiln TV shaw, Out On Tuelday
moderated by Jim Fouratt, at 6 pm;
the NY premiere of Dry Ki_ Only plus
No No Nookly TV at 8 pm; Gay Asia
Series' NY premiere of Anguilhed l.oIIfI
at 10 pm; for info see UVELY ARTSn.

HERITAGE OF PRIDE General member.hlp meeting, at the Center, 208 W 13
St, 8 pm, 691-1774
LAVENDER LIGHT GOSPEL CHOIR 30Minute Perfonnance Sets It Delta 88
SouIfood Restaurant; 332 8th Ave at 26 St;
9'.30 & 111'.30pm; $10, dinner reservations
924-3499; info 212/l22-9794, 7191624-1196

TUESDAY, JUNE 12

THE NEW FESTIVAL presents AIDS
Series and Gay Asia Series' Rille slDUP
and .",. Homosexual, at 1 pm; Mandy
Merck'. lritish GavlLesbian TV show,
Out On Tue,day 13. moderated by Jim
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GCN (Gay Cable Network, Lou Maletta, 32 Union Square
East, Suite 1217; 477-4220)
GMHC (Gay Men's Health Crisis, Jean Carlomusto, 129 W 20
St, NYC 10011; 807-7517)
RI PROD (Robin Byrd Productions, Box3!i, NYC 10021;!JB8.2973)
WAIC-TV (7 Uncoln Square, NYC 10023; 456-7777)
WBAI-FM (505 8th Ave, 19th FI, NYC 10018; 279-0707)
weal-TV (524 W 57 St, NYC 10019; 975-4321)
WNIC-TV (30 Rockefeller Plaza, NYC 10112; 664-4444)
WNET-TV (356 W 58 St, NYC 10019; 560-3000)•cm

and (ugh) Sam Kinison, live from the 69th Infantry Battalion Annory in Manhattan, with perfonnances from 'David Bowie, the Rolling Stones, Bad English, Eric Clapton, Melissa Etheridge, Dave Stewart; presenters
include Ed Begley, Jr., Patty Smyth, Buster Poindexter,
many others; CH 7 (1:30)
11:00 PM TNT DT8am Lover(I986): another dream research, experiment flick, Kristy McNichol, whose name wasrecently bleeped out on Gers/do, makes this unsettling
spookiness work (2:10)
Midnight RB PROD Th, Robin Byrd Show. male and female
strippers; Manhattan and Paragon Cable, CH J/'l3 (1:00)

MONDAY, JUNE 4

1:00 PM WBAI-FM This Way Out the international gay andlesbian news magazine; 99.5 FM (:30)
1:30 PM WBAI-FM An Aft9moon Outing. (the new name forBf6alcing th, SiI,nc,), Larry Gutenburg with an audio calendar of Gay/lesbian Pride Month activities; 99.5 FM (:30)
4:30 PM HBO Just a R,gular Kid: An AIDS Story. another innocent victim, this time a transfused high school student (:45)
9:30 PM GMHC Living With AIDS: health and politics; Manhattan Cable, CH J/'13 (:30)
10:00 PM WABC- TV Prim, TIme: Judd Rose reports live on
how Thai children are victimized by the local sex industry; CH 7 (1 :00)
10:30 PM GCN Prid, & Progres!>. news, health, sports; Manhattan Cable, CH J/'l3 (:30) (For Paragon, see SATURDAY)
11:00 PM GCN Th, Right Stuff: media, entertainment,
advice; Manhattan Cable, CH J/'13 (:30) (For Paragon,
see SATURDAY)
11:30 PM RB PROD M,n For M,n: Robin Byrd presents gay
male porno stars; Manhattan Cable, CH J/'13 (:30)
11:30 PM GMHC Living With AIDS: health and politics;
Paragon Cable, CH J/'13 (:30) .

1:00 PM CNN Sonya Life in LA: David Dinkins and Phil
Donahue (1 :00)
1:00 PM WBAI-FM Th, History of Gay Radio, Part I: Larry
Gutenburg plays archival tapes from 21 years of gay
radio onWBAI; 99.5 FM (:30)
9:00 PM TNN Music City N,ws Country Award!>. live entertainment by Barbara Mandrell, Jimmy Dean, Reba
McEntire, Statler Brothers, Randy Travis, Ricky Van
Shelton, Clint Black, Garth Brooks, others (2:00)
9:00 PM WNET-TV Stalin, Part II: in the decade leading up
to WWII, his labor camps, mass purge trials, and massive man-made famine killed millions; CH 13 (1:00)
10:t111PM GCN B, My Gu,st Sybil Bruncheon with a panel
game show; Manhattan Cable, CH J/'13 (:30) 11:30 PM Tomorrows TV Tonight entertainment; Manhattan
and Paragon Cable, CH 0/17 (1:00)
Midnight CCTV Th, Closet Case Show. repeat of May 28
show with 9-stop Sunday Club Map, Jack Lofton at The
Break, Phillip Roth's BoyS/lif, j.o. party, Klosat Klips,
Mars strippers; Manhattan Cable, CH C!16 (:30)
12:30 AM TNN Music City N,ws Country Awards, see 9 PM
1:00 AM Gay No gay male porno cOps;Paragon Cable, CH JIZi (~4:00AM WNET-TV Stalin, Part II, see 9 PM

TUESDAY. JUNE 5
9:00AM WABC-TV 'legis & Kathi, L,e: SNJ:s Nora Dunn
(Andrew Dice Clay protestor); CH 7 (1:00)
9:30 AM WWOR-TV Everyday. lawsuits involving sexuallytransmitted diseases; CH 9 (:30)
1:00 PM WBAI-FM Th, History of Gay Radio, Part II: Larry
Gutenburg plays archival tapes from 21 years of gay
radio on WBAI; 99.5 FM (:30)
2:30 PM WBAl-FM Lesbian and Glly Health Issues for the '~a preview of the July 12 Nat'l/3rd 1m'1 Lesbia,yGay HealthConference and 8th Nat'l AIDS Forum in WaShington, DC;
produced/hoSlBd by Deborah Feller; 99.5 FM (1:00)
4:00 PM WCBS-TV Gflraldo: politcally and socially powerful
women (repeat); CH 2 (1:00)
8:00 PM WNYN-TV (Fox) R,al Life: Albert Brooks' endearing spoof about his family's attempt to make a "typical
American family" documentary; CH 5 (2:00)
10:t111PM WNET-TV Living the Last Day!>.a 1989 documentary about a WS Angeles AIDS hospice, and thecourage of now-deceased co-founder Chris Brownlie;
more "gay· programming from the station that promises
two days of non-AIDS gay/lesbian programs on June 22& '13; CH 13 (1:00)
11:00 PM GBS Out in the 90's: community news, discussion,interviews; tonight a live call-in Roundtable Discussion
with VIVian Shapiro, Larry Kramer, others;
Manhattan/Paragon Cable, CH C!16 (1:00)
11:30 PM A&E Improv Tonight Greg Louganis hosts (:30)

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 6
5:00AM WNET-TV Living the Last Days, see TUESDAY, 10
PM
9:30 AM WBAI-FM Ghosts in th, Machine: women in pop,with Victoria Starr; 99.5 FM (2:30)
4:00 PM WCBS-TV Gflraldo: the love lives of celebrities,(repeat); CH 2 (1:00)
9:30 PM WABC- TV International Rock Award!>. Gary Busey

THURSDAY, JUNE 7

FRIDAY, JUNE 8
7:00 AM WABC-TV Good Morning America: First Lady Barbara Bush's first major public appearance since newsof her supportive letter to Parents & Friends of Lesbians
and Gays (PFLAG) has reached the horrified right; CH 7
(2:00)
2:30 PM WBAI-FM Rompiendo el Sil,ncio: todos losviernes, Gonzalo Aburto con temas y noticias para lacomunidad latina gay y lesbiana; 99.5 FM (:15)
7:30 PM The Gay Dating Gam, Show; Manhattan Cable, CH

J/'13 (:30)

8:00 PM Ufetime S,cond SeNe (1986): TV movie stars
Vanessa Redgrave astranssexualtannis
pro Renee
Richards; Manhattan Cable, CH l!i{B (2:00)
11:00 PM Gay W. male porno clips; Manhattan Cable, CH

J/'13 (:30).

1:00 AM RB PROD Robin Byrd Show. male and female strippers; Manhattan and Paragon Cable, CH J/'13 (1:00)

SATURDAY, JUNE 9
6:30 PM GCN Pride & Progres!>. news, hea Ith, sports;
Paragon Cable, CH J/'13 (:30) (For Manhattan Cable, see
THURSDAY)
7:00 PM GCN The Right Stuff. media, entertainment, advice;
Manhattan Cable, CH J/23 (:30) (For Manhattan Cable,
see THURSDAY)
11:00 PM RB PROO The Early Byrd. Robin Byrd presents
male/female strippers; Manhattan Cable, CH J/23 (1:00)

SUNDAY. JUNE 10
6:30 PM WBAI-FrJ The Gay Show. Larry Gutenburg and
Bob Storme host an expanded version for Gay/LesbianPride Month; John Glines, Tony Award winner, discusses his new play, Manhattan M'IT; Butch Peaston, Kurt
Wolfe, Rick X disucss non-commercial public accesscable; 99.5 FM (2:00)
11:30 PM GCN Men & Film!>.male erotica; Manhattan
Cable, CH J/'13 (:30)

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MondayPrivate Eyes (jQjarc Berkley's Kool Komradsw/ Razor Sharp & strippers;
preppies and guppies) 12 W 21 St, club 206-7772

Tuesday*Love MachinelLarry Tee & Lahoma Van Zandt, young & exotic crowd)
860 Bway, at 17 St; 254-4005

Wednesday"Better Days (primarilY gay men of color) 316 W 49 St (8/9 Aves); 245-8925
Private Eyes (Jeffrey Sanker & Dallas's Club Bad; many preppies andguppies) 12 W 21 St, btwn 5th/6th Aves; 206-7772*Pyramid (Les Simpson's My Sister/Comrade party, starts June 6) 101
Avenue A, btwn 6{7 Streets; 420-1590
Silver Uning (2-4-1 drinks, also open Tues-Sun, women SAT) 175 CherryLa., Floral Pk, LI; 516/354-9641
Stutz (2-4-1drinks, also open daily)2D2Westchester Ave,While Plains;9W761-3100

Thursday''*Boybar (BoyBar 1Jeauties new wave drag show) 15 1/2 St Marks Place,btwn 2nd/3rd Aves; 674-7959_*Cop~cabana (last Thu. ofthemonth Susanne Bartsch party, next is May
31; iffy door) 10 E 60 St, at Fifth Ave; 755-6010
Excalibur ($1 drinks, also open Tues-Sun, women WED) corner 10th/Jefferson behind football stadium, Hoboken, NJ; 201-795-1161
Grand Central (2-4-1 drinks, also open Wed-Sun) 210 Merrick Road,
Rockville Centre, Ll; 51WS36-4800
Hatfield's (2-4-1 drinks/female impersonators; also open nightly, women
on TUE & FRI) 126-10 Queens Blvd, Kew Gardens, Queens; 718/261-8484*Mars (mixed TVs/gay/straight; DJ Patrick's Wonderland, on small3rd
Floor) Westside Highway and 13th St; 691-6262*Quickl (Chip Duckett Thursdays) 6 Hubert St (on Hudson, 5 blocks
below Canal); 925-2442

Friday*BoyBar (st'udents & local East Village crowd) 15 1/2 St Marks PI., btwn
2nd/3rd Aves; 674-7959
Columbia Dances (1st Friday of every month, including summer, next isJune 1) 116th St & Bway; 854-3574 days
419419 N. Highway, Southampton, LI; 516/283-5001*La Palace de Beaute (Larry Tee & Lahoma; straight, gay, TVs, tourists,club kids), 34 E 18 St, off 5th Ave; 228-8009
Octagon (primarily gay men of color) 555 W 33 St; 947-0400
Private Eyes (YMVA Night, many preppies and guppies) 12 W 21 St, btwn
5th/6th Aves; 206-7772*Quickl (Scott Currie/Panty Girdles; TVs, straights, gays) 6 Hubert St (onHudson, 5 blocks below Canal); 925-2442
Reds (-drink free 10 pm - 1 am-; also open THU; women SAT) 6096 Jericho Tpke, Commack, LI; 516/543-4740

Saturday
Barefoot Boogie 1smoke & alcohol free) 434 8th Ave (btwn 9/10 Sts); 832-6759*BoyBar 151/2 St Marks Place, btwn 2nd/3rd Aves; 674-7959
Columbia Dances (3rd Saturdays, Same But Different Dance, June 16)
116 & B'way, 10 pm - 3 am; info 629-1989
419419 N. Highway, Southampton, LI; 516/283-5001
Girth and Mirth Club at the Center (3rd Saturdays, heavy men & theiradmirers) 208 W 13 St; 620-7310*La Palace de Beaute (Larry Tee & Lahoma, mixed straight/gay, started
5/12) 34 E 18 St; 228-8009*Mars (Keoki's Drop Lounge, floor varies; small eclectic crowd: TVs,
Asians, hi-tech music fans) 13 St & West Side Hwy; 691-6262
Octagon (monthly Jason & Joel party, Hi-NRG hunks; next is June 16,
midnight-9 am, $20) 555 W 33 St; 947-0400
Private Eyes (Jeffrey Sanker & Dallas's Club Bad; many preppies & guppies) 12 W 21 St, btwn 5th/6th Aves; 206-7772*Roxy(mixed gay/straight/TVs/club kids; door can be mobbed after 12)
515 W 18 St (btwn 10/11 Aves); 645-5156
Scull Facby (mixed gay/straight.Acid House,no alc0hoi,opens 11pm) 531W 11 St(btwn l00V11thAves~643.0n8
1\wnIy/lWanly(FTMs Evening of Dance,cateringtothe SairtcrtMd, 10pm, $10; started May26) ZlW Zl Sf;727-8141

Sunday*BeUer Days (primarily gay men of color) 316 W 49 St (8/9 Aves); 245-8925
The Building (Club Bad's The Men's Room, 10 pm; $12; probably prep-

La Palace (Michael Fesco's Power Tea, 4 pm - midnight; $6; hi-NRG gym
hunks; started May 20) 34 E 18 St; 228-8009*La Palace de Beaute (Hunk Club: drag queens, go-go guys, gay kids;
midnight - 4 am) 34 E 18 St; 228-8009,,*Mars (Chip Duckett's Mars Needs Men; 5 floors, go~go boys, performers, and a roof) Westsrde Highway and 13th St; 691-6262*Pyramid (Junior's Tea Dance 6-10 pm, Mona Foot's Gay Cabaret at midnight) 101 Avenue A, btwn 6n Streets; 420-1590*Roxy (Molly House Sundays at Roxy; mixed gay crowd; club kids, guys,
hunks, men) 515 W 18 St (btwn 10/11 Aves); 645-5156
Twenty/Twenty (FTM's Hi-NRG Tea, catering to Saint crowd, 5 pm - 2
am, $6; started May 27) 20 W 20 St; 727-8841'

Every Night (or almost)Magic Touch (ethnic mix: Anglo/Latin/Asian) 73-13 37th Rd, Jackson
Heights, Queens; 718/429-8605
Monster (West Village) 80 Grove St at Sheridl!n Sq.; 924-3557
Spectrum (closed Man & Tue, WED free, THU free & 2-4-1 dri'nks, FRI
mlf strippers, SAT guest stars, SUN live shaIN & free 9-10 pm; Coorsserved) 80264th St@8th Ave, Bay Ridge, Bklyn; 718/238-8213*Zest (was Club 43; to be gay on special nights; June 6 opening; call forinfo) 108 W 43 St; 354-7348,,

DANCING OUT for Women
Tuesday,-

Bond Street Care (women's dance, 8 pm) 6 Bond St (off B'way); 979-6565
Hatfield's 126-10 Queens Blvd., Kew Gardens; 718/261-8484
Grand Central (women's night, also open Wed-Sun) 210 Merrick Road,
Rockville Centre, LI; 516/536-4800
Usmar Lounge (Ste"a's Love Shack,all music) 411stAvenue at 2nd St; m-9477

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

ThursdayBedrock 121 Woodfield Rd, W. Hempstead, LI; 5.16/486-9516 .
Pyramid (Jenny's Girl Bar, 8 pm - 2 am) 101Avenue A (btwn 6{1 Sts); $5;'
415-3538.
Red Zone (Angelica Terry's And Then There Was Woman, VIP Room)
440 W 54 St; info 473-1935, club 582-2222

FridayBedrock 1~1 Woodfield Rd, W. Hempstead, LI; 516/486-9516.
Chapel at Limelight (Shescape party, opens 10 pm; Coors served)
49 W 20 St at 6th Ave; 645-6479
Hatfield's 126-10 Queens Blvd., Kew Gardens; 718/261-8484
Millennium (Ladies' Night) 1770 NY Ave (Rte 110), Huntington, LI;
516/351-1402
Visions 56-01 Queens Blvd, Woodside; info 718/846-7131, club
718/899-9031

Saturday'Bedrock 121 Woodfield Rd, W. Hempstead, LI; 516/486-9516
Chapel at Limelight (Shescape party, opens 9 pm; Coors served) 49
W 20 St at 6th Ave; 645-6479
Mike Todd Room (Her Planet, alternate Saturdays here start June 2)
123 E 13 St; club (Palladium) 473-7171
Reds ~women's partY, buffet, burlesque show) 6096 Jericho Tpke, Commack, LI; 516/543-4740
Silver Uning 175 Cherry Lane, Floral Park, LI; 516/354-9641
Starz 836 Grand Boulevard, Deer Park, LI; 516/242-3857

SundayBedrock 121 Ql./oodfield Rd, W. Hempstead, LI; 516/486-9516
Cave Canem (Sandwich Sister Sundays) 24 1st Ave at 1st St; 529-9665
Roxy (Jill and Jan's The Nunnery. alternative music) 515 W 18 St (btwn
10/11 Aves); 645-5156

Every Night (or almost)
Cubby Hole (tiny dance floor) 438 Hudson St@ Morton St; 243-9079
Duchess" (small dance floor; Coors served) Sheridan Sq. & 7th Ave
South; 242-1408
Spectrum (closed Man & Tues; good gay/lesbian mix, see Every Night,
above, for details) 802 64th St, Bklyn.; 718/238-8213
June

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79AIDS CENTER OF QUEENS COUNTYSOCIAL SERVICES. EDUCATION· BUDDIESCOONSEUNG , • SUPPORT GROUPS
Volunteer Opportunities(7181 88&-2!iOO1voicel 1718188&-2985ITDDIBISEXUAL YOurtl
Informalaocial & support group for Bisexual
kids/youth. Monthly meetingfpotluck lunch held
1:OOpmon fourth Sunday of the month at members
homes. Call NY ABN for this month's location. This
group is part of the New York Area Bisexual Network.

ACI' UP IAlDS CoaIiti.n til Unl_h Po_rI
498A Hudson Street, Suite G4 NYC 10014
12121988-1114
A diverse, non-pertisan group of individuals united inInger and committed to direct action to end the AIDS
criais. Gen. meetings Mon. nights 7:30,
at the Community Center 208 W.l3th.

BLUS-BRONX WBIANS
UNrrED IN SISTERHOOD
Social, political and support networking group for
women and their friends. Regular social events andmeetings on the first and third Fridays of every month.
At The Community Center, 208 W. 13 Street, from 8:3G8pm. For more info call Usa at 12121829-9817.

A.c.o.c.

AIDS RESOURCE CENTER IARCI
Supportive housing for homeleaa PWAs IBa~ey Houseand apartmentsl. Non-judgementsl pastoral care for
PWAs and loved ones. Volunteer opportunities.
1212148H270, 24 West 30th Street, NYC 10001
ALOEc:fAPLN-NY(Asian lesbians of the East Coaat/
Asian p,acific Lesbian Network-New YorklWa are a political, social and supportive network of
Asian Pacific lesbians. Planning meetings on the 1st
Sunday and social events on the last Friday of eachmonth. Call 12121517-5588 for more information.
"

ARCS (AlD5-Ralatwd Community Samcesl
for Dutche88, Orange, Putnam, Rockland, Sullivan,
Ulster and WNtchester counties. AIDS education,client aervice., crisis intervention, support groups,
ca .. management, buddy and hospital visitor progrem.
214Cen1ra1M.Whi1B PIaiIa. NYlcm1l914)9I&CD
838 Broect.vay ,Newburgh, NY 1225019141!i&2-!miAlDSlin. 1114)-...07
ATR (AIDS TREATMENT REGISTRY,INC.I• Publishe. a bi-monthly Directory of clinical triala ofexperimentel AIDS/HIV treatments in NYINJ, and has
aducational materialr/seminars
for trial participants.
ATR also advocate. for improvements in the trial r;vatem. P.O. Box 30234, NY,NY 1011-0102.12121288-4196.
Publications free/donation requested.
BAR ASSOClAnON FOR HUMAN RIGHTS
Lawyers Referral
Sarvice for the Lesbian and Gay Community
Full Range of Legal Services 12121459-4873
BAR ASSOClAnON FOR HUMAN RIGHTSFree Walk-in Legal Clinic. Tuesday &-8 pm
L.sbian & Gay Community Centro Ground Roor
BIDS IBISEXUAL DOMINANCE &SUBMISSION GROUPI
Share SIM experiences and fantasies with others ina positive, non-judgementel atmosphere. First Sunday of the month, 4:45pm at the Community Center
208 W. 13 Street, NYC . This group is part of the New
York Are. Bisexual Network.
BISEXUAL PRIDE DISCUSSION GROUP
Topical discuaaiona on issues of interest to the community in I congenial atmosphere, followed by an
informal dinnar at a friendly local restaursnt Every
Sunday, 3:00- 4:30pm at the Community Center 208 W.
13 Street, NYC. Pa rt of the New Yorlt Area Bisexual
Network.

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BIWAYS NEW YORKMonthly socialevente for the Bi.exual communityand frienda. Call NYABN for deteils of upcoming
8vents.11181353-8245••

BIPAC ,IBISEXUAL POUTICAL, AmON COMMmEEI
Politicalaotion on iaaues of importance to the BilexuaVLesbia,yGay community. Monthly meetingfpolluck
held 8:00pm on fourth Thursday of the month at membars homes. Call NYABN for this month 'a location.
17181353-8245

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BODYPOSmvE
If you oryour lover has tested HIV+, we offer support

groups, seminars, public forums, referencelibrery,referrals, social activities and up-to-date national
monthly, 'THE BODY POSmVF 1$2!i(yaarl.
12121721-1348.
208 W. 13th St, NYC, NY 10011
BROOKLYN'S WBIAN AND GAY POUTICAL CLUBlAMBDA INDEPENDENT DEMOCRATS
LI.O. endorses and works for candidates in local,
state and national elections, lobbies for legislation,and conducts community outreach through street
fairs and meetings on special topics. Join us.
338 Ninth St, Suite 135
Brooklyn, NY 11215
11181965-8482
CIRClE OF MORE UGHr
Spiritual support and sharing in a gay/lesbian affirmative group. West-Parle Presbyterian Church
185 West 88th Street
Wed: worship service 8:30 pm, program 7:30.
Marsha 12121304-a73
Charlie 12121891-7118.
COMMUNITY HEALTHPROJECI'
208 West 13th Street, NYC, New York 10011
For Appointments and Information
12121875-3559 (TIY/Voicel
PROVIDING CARING, SENSITIVE AND LOW COSTHEALTHCARE SERVICES TO THE LESBIAN AND GAYCOMMUNITYCOMMUNnY RESEARCH INrrlATIVE
PWAs, PWARCs & their physicians taking the initiative to seek promising intervention egainst AIDS in a
resp. manner. For more info or to volunteer pleasecall 12121481-1 050.
CONGREGAnON BETH SIMCHAT TORAH
NY's Gay and Lesbian Synagogue Services
Friday at 8:30pm fi7 Bethune Street
For info. call: 12121929-9498.
CONGREGATION B'NA1 JESHURUN
Monthly Spritual Gatherings and free catered festive
luncheons for 1// People With AIDS,their lovers andfamilies. Program includes music and discusaion led
by our Rabbis. Call 12121787-7800
DIGNnYlBlG APPLE
A community of Lesbian and Gay Catholics. Activities
include Uturgies and socials every Sat, 8:00 pm, at
the Center, 208 W. 13 Street, NYC.
Call 12121818-1309.
DIGNITY NEW YORK
lesbian and gay Catholics and friends
AIDS Minis1Jy,Spiritual Dewiopmenl
The Cathedrsl Project
Worship SeMCes& Social-Sun. ms. 7~
John'aEpiscopal Church 218West 11th,Street 0Waverly-675-2179
EDGE
Education in I Di.. blad Gay Environment
For th~ physically disabled Lesbian and Gay
Community.
1212198&-1921
P.O. Box 305 Village Station, New York, NY 10014

FEMME SUPPORT GROUP
For lesbians who 881fidentify as Femme. For info andmeeting times call Lisa at 12121829-9817. No man please.
,RlONT BUNNERS
A running club for lesbian and gay athletesof all abilities. Fun Runs of 1-8 m~es held every Sat at
lOam and Weds. at 7pm in Central Parkand every Tues. at 7pm in Prospect Park.
For information: call 12121724-9700.
THE RIND FOR HUMAN DIGNnY
National Gay and Lesbian Crisis Line'AIDS BOO"---l-BOO-SOS-GAYS
Educational Resource Center; Positive Images
Media Center; NY Stete Arta Program
6fl8 &'way Suila 410 NYC, NY10012 12121529-11D1
THE GAY AFRICAN AMERICANSOFWESTCHESTERO'he G.A.A.I
is a community based support group formed in
Westchester County. Various activities are planned
for the coming months.
Please call 914-37&-0727 for more info.
GLAAB

Gay. Lesbian Alliance Against D....... ti.n
8OVarickStreet, NYC 1001312121988-1700
GLAAD combats homophobia in the media and els&where by promoting visibility of the lesbian and gay
community and organizing grassroots response toanti-gay bigotry.
Do you have 30 minutes a month
to fight homophobia 1
Join the GlAAD PhoneTreel
Call 12121-988-1700 for informalion.
GUB
Gay and Lesbian Independent Broadcasters invites
you to tune into OUTLOOKS on WBAI-NY, 99.5 FM
every other Sunday, 7:3G-8:3Opm and join us every
other Tuesday at 7:30pm to become a member ofGLIB. No experience needed.
50S Eighth Avenue, 19thlIoor.12121749-D405.
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GAY. U:SBIAN HEALTHCONCERNS
An office of the NYC Dept of Health, provides linkages betwn NYC Health & Human Svcs, and the Lesbian & Gay community, focusing in ALL healthconcerns; resource information for health services
consumers and providers. 125 Worth Street, Box 87,
New York, NY 10013. For info call 12121566-4995.
GAY & WBIAN PSYCHOTHERAPY
Sliding scale fees • Insurance accepted.
Institute for Human Identity. (2121799-9432
GAY MALE SIM ACI'MSTS
Dedicated to safe and responsible SIM since 1981.
Open meetings w/programs on SIM techniques,
lifeatyte issues, political and social concerns. Also
special events, speakers bureau, workshopa, demos,
affinity groups, newsletter, more. GMSMA -Dept 0,
498A Hudson Street, Suite D23 ,NYC 10014.
12121727-9878.
GMADIGAY MEN OF AFRICAN DESCENTI
80 Va rick Street, NYC 10013 a support group of Gay
Men of African Descent dedicated to consciousnessraising and the development of the Lesbian and Gay
Community. GMAD is inclusive of African, AfricanAmerican, Caribbean and Hispanic/l..atino men ofcolor. Meetings are held, weekly, on Fridays. For
more information, call 718-802-0182.
GAY MEN'S HEALTHCRISIS HOruNE
FOR INFORMATION ON SAFER SEX AND HIV-RELATED HEALTHSERVICES, AND FOR INFORMATION ON
ONE-TIME, WALK-IN AIDS COUNSELING SERVICES
212-807-8&&5
212 .... 7470 TDD IFor the Haaring Impairedl
Mon.-Fri. 10:30 a.m. to 9 p.m. Sat 12:00 to 3:00

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GIRTH & MIRTH CWB 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", monthly
Fat Apple Review, bi-monthly FAR. penpals. For more
information call Ernie at 914-699-7735 or write:
GaM/NY, Dept 0, P.O. Box 10, Pelham, NY 10803.
HEAL (H.. 1th Education AIDS Liaison)
Weekly info. and support group for treatments for
AIDS which do not compromise the immune systemfurther, including alternative and holistic approaches.
Wed 8pm. 208 W. 13th St (2121674-HOPE.
HERITAGEOF PRIDE. INC.
Organizers of New York's Lesbian and Gay Prideeven1s: the March, the Rally and the Dance on thePier. Call (212) 891-1n4 for meeting schedule or more
information. 208 West 13th Street. NY,NY 10011.
HETRICK-MARTIN INSTITUTE
for lesbien and gay youth. Counseling, drop-in center(M-F, 3-8pm), rap groups, HaIVey Milk HighSchool, AIDS and safer sex information,referrals, professional education.
(212) 833-892OIvoice)(212)833-8928 TIY for deaf
HISPANIC UNITED GAYS & LESBIANS
Educational services, political action, counseling andsocial activities in Spanish and English by and for theLetino Lesbian and Gay Community.
General meetings 8:00 pm 4th Thursday of every
month at 208 West 13th Street Call (212)891-4181
or write H.U.G.L, P.O. Box 226 Canal Street Station,
New York, NY 10019.
IDENTITY HOUSE
Now in our 20th year, we provide
paer counseling, therapy referrals and groups
for the lesbian, gay and bisexual community.
Call us at (212)243-8181. Visit us at 544 8th Ave.,
between 14th-15th Streets, Manhattan.
lAMBDA LEGALDEfENSE
AND EDUCATIONRIND
Precedent-setting litigation nationwide forlesbians, gay men and people with AIDS. Membership ($35 and up) inc. newsletter and invitations to
special events. Volunteer night on Thursdays. Intake
calls: 2-4pm Mon thru Fri (212)995-8585
LAVA(LESBIANS ABOUT VISUAL ART!
Call for slides for Lesbian Artists' Exhibition, Gay &Lesbian Community Centar, NYC. For more information, send SASE to : Miriam Fougere, 118 Fort Greene
Place, Brooklyn, NY 11217.
THE LESBIAN AND GAYBIG APPLE CORPS
Get your instrument out of the closet and come playwith us. Symphonic, Marching, Jazz, Dixieland, Rock,Rute Ensembles and Woodwinds.
123 West 44th St Suite 12L New York, NY 10038(212) 889-2922.
LESBIAN 8. GAY
COMMUNITY SERVICES CENTER
208 West 13th Street New York, NY 10011(212) 621).7310 9al11-11pm everyday.
A place for community organizing and networking,social services, cultural programs, and social events
sponsored by the Center and more than 150 community organizations.
,'LESBIAN AND GAYLABOR NElWORKAn organization of Lesbians and Gays who are activein their labor unions working on domestic partnershipbenefits and AIDS issues. For more information call(212)923-8690.
LESBIAN AND GAYRIGHTS PROJECT
of the American Civil Liberti •• Union
ICNOWYOURRlGIfTS/WE'RE EXPAMlING THEM
(212) 944-9800, ext. 545

LESBIANS AND GAYS OF RATBUSH
Brooklyn's social organization for both gay men andlesbians. P.O. Box 106, Midwood Station
Brooklyn, NY 11230 -(718) 859-9437
LESBIAN HERSTORYARCHIVES
P.O. Box 1258
New York, New York 10116
217/874-7232
Since 1974, the Archives has inspired, shaped andreflected Lesbian lives everywhere. Call to arrange avisit or to volunteer for Thursday worknights.
LONG ISLAND ACT-UP
P.O. Box 291, New Hyde Park, NY 11040
Support us for change on Long Island.
(516)338-4882(518)997-5238 Nassau(516) 928-5530 Suffolk
MEN OF All. COLORSTOGETHERNY
A multi-racial group of gay men against racism. Meetings every Friday night at 7:45 at the Lesbian and Gay
Community Services Center, 206 W. 13th Street For
more info. call: (212) 245-6368 or (212) 222-9794.
MmOPOUTAN TENNIS GROUP(MTG)
Our 200 member lesbian and gaytannis c,lub includes
players from beginning to toumament level. Monthly
tennis partias. Winter indoor league. Come play with usl
For information: MTG, Suite K63,498-A Hudson St, New
York, NY 10025. (718) 852-8582.
MOCA (Men of Color AIDS Prevention Prollrem.)
Provides safer sex and AIDS education information'
to gay and bisexual Men of Color; coordinates a network of peer-support groups for gay end bisexual
Men of Color in all 5 boroughs of Ne)V York City.
303 Ninth Ave, New York, Ny 10001
or call (212) 239-1798.
NATIONAL GAYAND LESBIAN TASK FORCE
is the national grassroots political organization for
lesbians and gay men. Membership is $3IVyear.
Issue-oriented projects address violence, sodomy
laws, AIDS, gay rights ordinances, families, media,
etc. through lobbying, education, organizing anddirect action.
NGLTF 1517 U Street NW, Washington, DC 20009.
(202)332-6483.
NEW YORKADVERnSING
AND COMMUNICATIONS NElWORKNYACNis the community·s largest gay and lesbian
professional group, welcoming all in communication&-and their friends. Monthly meetings, 3rd Wed
8:30pm at the Community Center. Members' newsletter, job hodine, annual directory. Phone (212) 5170380 for more info. Mention OutWeek for one free
newsletter.

•, NOIITf!ERN UGHTS ALTERNATIVES ,Imp~oving (luality of Life for People with AIDS/HI'y•.
THE AIDS MASTERY WORKSHOP: Exploring the possibilities of a powerful and creative life in the face of
AIDS. Call (212) 255-8554
NYC GAY8.LESBIANANTI-VIOLENCE PROJECT
Counseling, advocacy, and information for survivorsof aim-gay and anti-lesbian violence, sexuala88ault.
domestic violerice, and other types of Victimization.
All services free and confidential.
24 hour hodine(212) 807-0197
PEOPLE WITH AIDS COAUTION(212) 532-0291V1-800-828-3~HotIine(212) 532-0568
Monday thru Friday 10am-6pm
Meal programs, support groups, educ,ational andreferral services for PWA's and PWArc's,'
PEOPLE WITH AIDS HEALTHGR"UP
Underground buyer's club importing not-yet-approved 'medications and nutritional supplementB.
31 West 28th St 4th RoOr
(212) 532-0280
SAGE: (Senior Action in a Gay Environment)
Social Service Agency. providing care, activities, &educational services for gay & lesbian senior citizens.
Also selVes DIIOr180homebound seniors,& older PWA's.
208 West 13th St NYC 10011,(212) 741-22§7
SETHIAN GAYS, LESBW4~ AND BISEXU~ ,.
For all of us interested in reaching out to each otherwith exuberance to spontaneously explore and, 'expand upon the SetfVJane Roberts ·philosophy" as
it relates to our liv88,
personally, sexually and politically.
Call AI (212) 979-5104.
THE OUTREACH
USING COMMUNAL HEAUNG (TOUCH)'
Conmunityvolunteers providing a weekly buffet supper
for the Brooklyn AIDS community. TOUCHmee1BMonday
eves. 5pm to 6:30pm- at downtown Brooklyn Friehds
Meeting House (110 Schermerhorn St near Boerum
Place). Limited transjxlrtatiori may be arranged. Info:(718)822-2758.TOUCHwelcomes contributions offunds, foodand volunteers.
ULSTER COUNTY GAYAND LESBIAN AllIANCE
Meets first and third Monday of each monthat 7:30 p.m. atthe Unitarian Church on Sawkill Road
in Kingston.
For information, call (914) 626-3203,

N.V.WOMEN'S SOFTBAll. GUILDFor experienced, serious Softball Players, Coaches
and Managers. We play mod/fast pitch weekends in
Manhattan and (lueens. Try-outs begin Feb. 11 thru
April· or until filled. (212) 255-1379 Janet

UPPER MANHATTAN TASK FORCE ON AIDS
Education, HoUine, Supportive Case Management,
and Volunteer Recruitment and Referral.
212-870-3352,
NINTH STREET CENTER
Since 1973, a community dedicated to demonstratingthat a homosexual lifestyle is a rational, desirable
choice for individuals dissatisfied with the rewards ofconventional living. Psychologically - focussed rap
groups, Tues., Sat, 8 to 10 pm. peer counselling available. 319 E. 9 Street, New York, NY 10003, for info call(212) 228-5153.

WHAMI (WDllllln'. Health Action Mobilization)
A non-partisan coalition committed (0 demanding,securing and defending absolute reproductive freedom and quality health care for all women. We
meet every Wed. at 6:30 pm at theVillage Independent Democrats,
224 West Fourth Street (off Sheridan,Sq.). We are
not affiliated with ,VID.
(212) 713-5966.
Mailing address: WHAMI, P.O. Box 733, NYC 10009

NORTH AMERICAN MAN/BOY
LOVEASSOCIATION (NAMBLA)
Dedicated to sexual freedom and especiallyintereted in gay intergenerational
relationships.
Monthly Bulletin and regular chapter meetings
on the first Saturday of each month. Yearly membership is $20; write NAMBLA. PO Box 174, Midtown Station, New York, NY 10018 or call (212)807-8578 for information.

WOMEffS ALTERNATIVECOMMUNITY CENTER (WACC),
A non-profit, Lesbian community center serving(lueens, Nassau and Suffolk counties. Thurs night
weekly discussion grps. 8:30pm, for other activities
please contact us at(516) 483-2050.
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CHELSEA

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

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

Barbary Coast, 64 7th Ave. (14th Stl, 675-0385

Dugout, 185 Christopher St., 242-9113 (fonnerly
the Ramrodl

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

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

Eighty Eights, 228 W lOSt., 924-0088

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

La Escuelita, 607 8th Ave (bet 38&391, 502-4905

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The Works, 428 Columbus
799-7365

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

The Locker Room, 400 W. 14th St. (9th Avel,459-4299- Temporarily Closed

Rawhide, 212 8th Ave., (21st St.!. unlisted.
Spike, 120 11th Ave., 243-9688

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

WEST VILLAGE,,, The Annex (to Cellblock 281,673 Hudson St. (bet.
13th & 14t~!. - 627-1140- Temporarily. Closed'

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

Gents, 360 W 42 St. (9th Ave). 967-0659

Ave (at 81 stl,

EASTSIDE

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

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

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

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

Sneakers, 392 West St., 242-9830.

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

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

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

Ty's, 114 Christopher,741-9641.

NY Confidentia I. 306 E 49 St., 308-8390

Cellblock 28, 28 9th Ave, 733-3144-hopes
re-open June 3

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

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

The Cubbyhole,
243-9079

SO,

WESTSIDE

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

438 Hudson(MortonCandle Bar, 309 Amsterdam Ave., 874-9155

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

South Dakota, 405 3rd Ave., 684-8376
Star Sapphire, 400 E. 59th St., 688-4710
The Townhouse, 236 E. 58th St., 754-4649•

Twenty-Nine Palms, 129 Lexington Ave., 6868299

EAST VILLAGE"LThe Bar, 68 2nd Ave. (at 4th St.l, 674-9714
Boy Bar, 15 St. Mark's PI., 674-7959,•

The Pyramid, 101 Avenue A, 420-1590,

Tunnel Bar, 116 1st Ave (7th St.l, 777-9232•','.-

BROOKLYN (718)After Five Plus, 5 Front St., 852-0139

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Spectrum, 802 64th St. (at 8th Ave). 745-9611
Sweet Sensations, 6322 20th St., 435-2580

QUEENS (718)..

Breadstix, 113-24 Queens Blvd., Forest Hills,
236-0300••

Hatfield's, 126-10 Queens Blvd., Kew Gardens,
261-8484
Hideaway, 87-36 Parsons Blvd., Jamaica, 657-4585
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Love Boat, 77-02 Broadway, Elmhurst, 429-8670

Magic Touch, 73-13 37th Rd, Jackson Hgts,
429-8605•

STATEN ISLAND
Sandcastle,86•

The Cubbyhole

Mills Ave., (718) 447-9365

WESTCHESTER (914)Playroom, 590 Nepperhan Ave., Yonkers,
965-6900

438 Hudson Street
at Morton.
.(212) 243-9079

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

A neighborhood bar for

LONG ISLAND•,

both gay men & women

NASSAU (516)

Bedrock, 121 Woodfield Rd., West Hempstead,
486-9516
Blanche, 47-2 Boundary Ave., Farmingdale,694-6906Grand Central. 210 Merrick Rd, Rockville Centre,
536-4800
Millennium, 1770 NY Ave, Huntington, 351-1402,•

Pal Joey's, 2457 Jerusalem Ave., North Bellmore,
785-9301

It's a poweriul tool. And

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

LONG ISLAND"•

SUFFOLK (516)419, 419 North Highway (Rt. 27), Southampton,
283-5001

one that should be
excercised judiciously.
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Bunkhouse, 192 N. Main St. Sayville, 567-2865
Cherry's, Bayview Walk, Cherry Grove, FI, 5976820..

Starz, 836 Grand Boulevard, Deer Park, 242-3857
Thunders, 894 W. Jericho Tpke., Smithtown,864-1410

NEW JERSEY (201)Charlie's West, 536 Main St., E. Orange, 678-5002
Feather's, 77 Kinderkamack Rd., River Edge,
342-6410
Friendly's Bar, 6310 Park Ave., West New York,854-9895.

lesbian and gay"

Ice Palace, Cherry Grove Beach Club, FI. 5976600

Club 608,608 Sunrise Hwy., W. Babylon., 661-9580,:'.

So please, patronize

Club Swamp Disco/Annex Restaurant, Montauk
Hwy, Wainscott, 537-3332'

Kiss, 161 Farmardie Dr., lake Ronkonkoma, 467-9273
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Excalibur, 10th & Jefferson, Hoboken, NJ,
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Nite lite, 509 22nd St., Union City, 863-9515 .

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Outweek Box 2522

VERY CUTE GWF
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Outweek Box 2520
ONCE UPON A
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SEX KITTENFROM HELL
searching for mytigress. Young,strong, wicked
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Outweek Box 2336
LET'S HAVEFRIENDLYSEXIII
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Put your feet up.
Have a beer. I'mlooking for a big,
relaxed, blk., latin
or Italian guy forsummer fun. I'm a
music junki~ alltype&-who lives,
for movies, books,
travel, biking, andgreasy food. 5'10",
165, GBM, nice tolook at, sort ofsloppy. PO
Box 2064;
Styvesant Sta.,
NYC 10009.
SEEKING LOVER
Middle aged
handsome malewith high position
seeks goodlooking male lover
which is willing andable to travel at myexpense. Mustlove partying andnight life. Send
letter and photograph to: Richard
McClain 2707
North Loop West
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BUDDY AND
LOVER WANTEDGWM, 28, 5'10"
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shvn verso easy
going, sense ofhumor. Enjoy
beach, movies,
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I'm looking forfriend and lover. I
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Smoking, LT drugs
OK. PH/PH andletter. Mike P.O. Box 585, NYC
10268. '•BLACKS/LATINS!
WHITES
GWM, 39, 5'7",
165, a bit overwt,
has a lot to offer:intelligence,character,spirituality, goodass & head. You:
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HOT BOnOM
Wm, 53, tall, slim,
good-shape HIV+
healthy sEleks SS
topmen n,eeding
service. Any agelrace okay if into
buttplay, tits, orpunishment, foto.
Upper West
Sid&-P .0. Box
272 NY, NY
10024-0272.
MUTUALLY
BINDING
Me: 31, 5'7",170#
brlbr avg Ikng into
rope/gags/(breath
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You 25-35
adventurous
imaginative intotying &lor beingtied. No drugs/
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AGGRESSIVETOP SEEKS
counterpart GWM,
50, 5'7", SPhair,husky seeks man
30/55: to share mywarmth, my joy, 'my sorrow. Pick up
your pen be mytomorrow. No
drugs/gameplayers. Be
sincere. Note andphoto please.
Outweek Box 2665
I AM YOUR BOY!
SLAVEBoyish 29 yr old
WM will serve as
your slave
prisoner. I am
made to pose, lickyour feet, bebeaten and fucked(safe) by oldermen (only) 43+. I
look good. Your

looks unimportant.
Reply w/phone no.
P.O. Box 6259,
Grand Central
Station, NYC
10163.
GYPSY
Night of May 16th,
Mezzanine Row N,
Seat 6. You were
there with yourmother. We
wanted to talkduring intermission, but didn't.
'Drop me a note.
Box 6537, Grand
Central Station,
NYC 10163-6022.
GM, 34, SEEKS
GMORGF
interested in goingto plays andclassical concerts
once or twice aweek. Please sendnote describing.
interests to:
Outweek Box 2662

youthful, 5'6",
138lbs., blk hr, breyes, mase,hndsm, bus-prof,
grad-studt,
serious, fun-loving,childlike at times,
spiritual, active In
I&g com; liketalking/sharing
emotions, personal
growth, music,
movies, dinners,
gym, yoga, nature,
dr wrld culture,long sessions ofhot, creative, invigorating,cathartic, affectionate, safe sex.
Exploring sex &love frontiers.
Send pix.
Outweek Box 2660

MY NAME IS, STEVE.
I am in prison for
selling drugs.
I made a mistake
thatwill take 7
years to correct. I
COMPANERO ' , would like to write
GWM, Ital., 39,. to gay men andwomen. I am 28,
seekshndsm
br. hairlblue eyes,
Hispanic man who
6'1" 195 Ibs. I am
wants to sharea sincere andintimacy,25-40; .
, sensitive personwith sim interests
who needs friends
and some disim
ones; In therapy or ,now. If you wou,ld
like to, please writein some form ofme at:
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& 9 community/
eduoated a +; for
COULD IT BE
companionship &I
YOU?
or oommitted,
Seeking a gre~t
relationship. Preferguy; funny yet'nonsmoker. I'm,

sincere, romantic
and adventurous,
attractive but not
too handsome.
Knows Mr. Right is,out there, just can't
find him. Could it
be me?GWM 33
bllbl 6'2" 200 Ib
nsmking profl. likes
candlelight,
firelight, light ofyour smile. Take achance. PH/PH.
Outweek Box 2649
BIG UNCUT
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that you can't get
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Outweek Box 2655
YOUTHFUL &OPENMINDED??
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5'11" 190 BlondBlue husky & cute,
young looking!
acting, sincere,
down to earth very
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movies quiet evesat home & esp._
cuddling & being
together. Veryrelationshiporiented & not into
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2224, NY, NY
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chest, cln.shv., ufc
seeks well-bUilt,
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fantasies wIth a
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arts involved sks
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Box 402--5UNY,
Purchase, NY
10577-1400. Lefs
harmonicallyconverge, boyl
13 BUTTON
NAVY BLUES
If the look and feelof the above turnyou on, maybe weshould get
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I can get off on 'almost anythingwool-from socks
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6' and medium
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budding bottomseeks studs to 24
yrs old in need of
total service. I'm
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Nassau area. Call
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seeks similar or
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times/loud times,
Twin Peaks,
politics, Virginia
Woolf & The
Sugarcubes. If you
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Outweek Box 2581
GWM, 53, 6'2",
195 LBS,wants to meetwhite and Hispanic
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older a condom, the less reliable, sofind condoms whose manufacturers'
dates are less than three months old.

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can enter your bloodstream throughcuts, tears or ulcers in your mouth.

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ORAL·VAGINAL SEX. HIV is present
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includes needles, syringes, droppers,
spoons, cottons or cookers. If you mustreuse works, clean them after each
use with bleach, or in an emergency
with rubbing alcohol or vodka, bydrawing the solution into the needle
three times and then drawing clean 'water into the' needle three times.

5. AVOID RSnNG, RIMMING, OR
SHARING UNCLEANED SEX TOYS.
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masculine,
muscular, straightacting/looking.
Would like to meetother masculine,
athletic men in the
Albany area toshow me around.
Am one-of-a-kind.
Plloto/phone amust to POB 2532
Albany, NY 122200532.
READY ANDWILLING
WM. 46, 6ft, 190,
HIV+. healthy,
horny, visit NYC
often. Sks wellhung SS Topmen
to pal around withand service as you
like. Age/race/etc
unimportant if
hunglhomy/
dominant. Can
travel or entertain.
PO Box 847
Provincetown, MA
02657.
ETHNIC CHASERS
Chubby GWM,
babyfaced 39,
5'5",200. Cln. shv.
hry. chst. utc offers
SAFE sweaty
times 2 well-built,
mase. chasers,
Midtown, day/night. TJ. Box 112,
EXEC. SUITE, 330
w. 42nd, NYC NY
10036-6902. BB,
Ethnic (Asians &Middle-Easterns
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Factory ...gym, nodrugs!
alcohol...career,goals, prr PH.D
student ...very
attractive, fun,easy-going, nobullshit: GM, So.
Americ, 31, 5'7",
140. Sks similar
28-38 WM for fun,friendship, and?
Box 6097, FDR
STA, NYC 10150.
No loners, snobs,
or closet cases I
ASSPLAYHOTTOPGWM 45 170LBS
HIV Neg ill great
shape you GWM
25-45 into safe
assplayFF
enemas getting
fuckedwith
condoms must be
unir.hibited virility
preferred no fats orfems . Photo notnecessary but
apprec. Reply AF
GPO Box 7652
NYC 10116.
CHUNKY HARD
AND CUTE
GWM, 28, BL, 6',
225, receding hair,
bit of a gut, masc,
preppy but funky,
silly, passion fortheatre, film,
looking for GWM,
secure, 26-36,
healthy, masc,quirky sense ofhumor. No
Ballerinas or
Momma's Boys.
Send ph/ph to
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YOUNG DADWANTS SON
Handsome healthy
Daddy 30's BIM
wants willing son
SS onlyl No phonesex. You must be
over 21 single andstable. Write nowl
PH/PH All ser. rep.
ans. P. O. Box314, New York, NY
10009.
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GWMSEEKSBOYFRIEND
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except I want aboyfriend-a
sweet, wonderful,
sexy, handsome
GWM 28-38, wlbreyes, gd body,smooth chest, whowants to snuggle
with a wise &wonderful, creative& stylish, polit
ically correct,
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emotional, andintellectual needs.
I need someexcitement, life is
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Write/photo/phonegets mine.
Outweek Box 2528
HOT & ROWDY
ACTIVISTNew Yori<er, 30,
looking for men of
all colors who likehot sweaty gay
sex.! like hot men
who like to shower
after a roll on themat. No clean
queens, please.
Write with photo/phone.
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29Y.O.
(looks 25) GWM,
br. hair, blue eyes,
5'.,., 150 Ibs.,
smooth body, good
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Seeks a pal to playwith. Should beyoung (25-35),
bright, independent, confident, and ,very playful. Send
photo/phone # withletter.
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Handsome, fit
GWM,41, HIV
neg. I'm fun,bright, passionate, accomplished. Seeki ng
similar guy for thelong run. Phone (photo appreciated) to Box
20141, NYC,10028-9991.
DOM. MAN (2560)SOUGHT ,Submissive,
manly GWM, 59,seeks in-shap e,
dominant man(25-60) for SIS.
No drug s, pot,
boozers, hustlers.
Easy apt. car

parking here. Write
to Box LSA, 147
W. 42 S t., #603,
NYC 10036. I lovemen wearing
uniforms, businesssuits, and jeans.
OVER 6'2"?
OVER20O#?
Sexy GWM seeks
big brawny guys
with big imagination. Gym body
NOT necessary.
Coc ksize
unimportant.
Prefer handsome,hai ry, versatileltal. All others send
foto • Me: Attr, 36,
5'11", 190, brlhz,
hot. PON 2520
Times Sq. Sta.
NYC 10108.
4 SKIN LOVER·QUEENSGWM 6' 1751bs
yng 46 seeks ufc
Latino or Euro-'pean 18-40. Also

vry hdsm, mase,+wks out? Thencall Ray, btwn
8pm-12mid, at
212-675-7352 tomeet (no phone j/0), for exciting
locker room
scenes, explosive
action, and more.

like Arab or S.Asi
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>1 am cut restoring, my 4skin. Write
P.O. Box 647,
Maspeth, NY 1
1378 or call 718424-1 064. No JO
calls.
GLORY HOLESERVICEHot, horsehung, nononsense
cocksucker. Goes
down for otherhorse dick dudes.
Experienced,
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assured. Age,race, unimportant.
Cock size IS.
Serious. DUKE.
(212) 691-3601.
SWEATY HORNY
JOCKS
Do you want yourbig feet (size 11+)serviced by a hot
WM, 33, 6'1", 185,

CHILL, DUDE.
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Have a beer. I'mlooking for a big,
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or Italian guy forsummer fun. I'm a
music junkie-all
types who lives
for movies, books,
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Box 2064,
Styvesarit Sta.,
NYC 10009.
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#900, Houston TX
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topmen needing
service. Any agelrace okay If Intobuttplay, tits, orpunishment, foto.
Upper West
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272 NY, NY
10024-0272.
MUTUALLY
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Boyish 29 yr old
WM will serve as
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look good. Your
looks unimportant.
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P.O. Box 6259,
Grand Central
Station, NYC
10163.
COULD ITBE
YOU?
Seeking a great
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