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Queer Planet. 18
Rim Shots 20 ARTS
Notes From Home •••.•••. 22 FILM: Poison
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DEPARTMENTS BOOKS: High Risk
Outspoken 4 Anne-christine d'Adesky on the
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Stonewall Riots 5 BOOKS: Rescuing the Bible
Blurt Out 6 From Fundamentalism
James Waller examines the out-
Sotomayor 8 ing of St. PauL 60
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Tuning In 73 POETRY: Rights and Permis-
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Staging It .
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'it Four years and many deaths ago, a diverse group of N,ew Yode- UI11NGI, DAlE PECK
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00nIIM, Monk:a Dorenlulp, Dawn Fatal. DavId FeInberg, Jim FotnIt.
around issues that cut to'the heart of the evolving definition of AIDS BeaIrIx GallI, [Link]:IaI Golf...... Gomez. Jon Greenberg. Noelle ttanrnn,
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women and people of color.
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workable add creati~e solutions in an atmosphere of tolerance and COPY CHIEF WALTER ARMSTRONG
compromise. But they have become conflated with race, sex, class GRAPHIC ARllll1 YVETIEROBINSON
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CAMERA TECHNICIAN SALVADOR MENDEZ. JR
difficult and, for some, undesirable.
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Congratulations, OutWeek Cynthia Carson sexual-racial dynamics that sent upgraded facilities was
and Signori Ie. "Why 'By C. Carr' Brooklyn form the basis of Madonna's made at the expense of paying
Must Stop" [no. 91, March 27] popular success. I have yet to writers, succumbing to the
is the reply that the Village LUXURIOUS OFFICES? receive any comment (even a common business practice of
Voice has needed for some time I sent a draft of a critical rejection slip) from OutWeek on shafting the base workers,
now. Ifs thrilling to see Signo- assessment of Madonna-the- the submission. knowing that they'll write just
, rile take on those antiquated media-figure from the perspec- I find many of Signorile's for the opportunity to publish. I
columnists with a wit, charm tive of a gay person of color to OutWeek articles illuminating'; question this order of priorities
and style that they could never Michelangelo Signa rile, Out- and I am the first to appreciate and wonder if the slick sur-
muster. But the $64 question is, roundings are necessary to
Do they consistently attack Out- impress potential advertisers. I
Week for its tactics or because srONEWAtt /liors BY ANDREA NATAlIE have written to OutWeek before
it's not their paper? Keep it up! about the compromises adver-
I'A SEE, STELL?
Christian Perez Irj I/APPENIN6 .tising forces.
Brooklyn
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surely approaching near-genius. 1--': note that though he's "correcr
His handling of the Village as usual, it would be reassuring
Voice was masterful, with all the to hear him direct some of these
precision of a brain surgeon. accusations with equal vigor at
Once again he hit a raw his equally deserving OutWeek.
nerve that was bound to make Rnally, on OutWeek's wh~
.them squirm. But the attack was washed editorial policies: It is dis-
long overdue and well-de- turbing to consider how negative .
served. When will these people referencesto persons of color, as
wake up and see that the world regardS the homophobic and
is changing? misogynistic lyrics and attitudes
It is quite sad that they , of rap groups-made more than
have to go through their mid- once in "Gossip Watch," again
life crisis in public (and ,I know correctly are with the marked
about this because I just suc- absence of any contrasting posi-
cessfully got through my own). tive referencesto non-whites. The
But it's painful and costly for all missing voices of persons of
of us to have to endure it too. color in OutWeek is a blatantfault
Richard Furst especiallyfor a publication which
Manhattan initially presented itself as a pro-
Week's features editor. A week a good catty dig, but I detected gressive gay newsmagazine.
KNEE BONE . or so later, a gossipy piece by an inherent tone of elitism in his Nevertheless, carryon
CONNECTED TO THE his buddy, Michael Musto, remark about the off-beat art OutWeek; you are (unfortunate-
CLOSET BONE ... appeared, smoothing over many dives C. Carr usually covers for ly) the best we have at the
Maybe Liz Smith's girl- of the areas of Madonna-the- the Voice. Too bad we can't all moment.
friend, the archaeologist Iris pop-idol's questionable tactics, be seen posing like him, rub- JackWatefS
Love, should begin an excava- which I had also broached. bing elbows in the back pages Manhattan
tion over at the Village Voice. While Musto's article disclosed of Interview magazine. I sup-
There certainly seem to be a lot various personal details which pose the dead noise of Out- MlchllangBlo SlgnorllB re-
of fossils over there. did not so much inform as Week's luxurious office spaces sponds: Your letter reveals
Thanks for the illuminating entice the sale of records and have finally gotten to him. It some good points, some mis·
expose on C. Carr and the rest videos, my purpose was to was disappointing to consider taken beliefs and some rather
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sour grapes. of her own means. Instead I was is another, major one. The major
Musto's Madonna piece disturbed to see your portrayal division between lesbians and gay
was commissioned by the edi- of a rich dyke as a parody of men today is class, not ideology.
tor in chief, not myself, at least women. Lers face it, she looks As for the "surprisingly rich
a month before your article more like a drag queen than a political consciousness" Mag~
arrived at OutWeek. I was out dyke. (Don't misunderstand genti finds in rich lesbians, is it
of town for some time and me some of my best friends possible that that's due to the
actually never saw your piece are drag queens.) How many fact that she found her interview
until after Musto's was in prine women interviewed in the article subjects through progressive
just recently. (His article, by the would put together a clown out-· foundations? Lesbians who con-
by, certainly did question Her fit like this doll has on? Since tribute to radical causes tend to
Highness' tactics and motives). there are so few visible lesbians, be rather progressive. Extending
The "luxurious" offices you with or without wealth, why pro- this to wealthy dykes as a group
speak of are located in an old ject this image? What would the seems just a tad too charitable
factory loft on West 25th Street cover be for a story entitled (pardon the phrase) to me.
that has no walls, little heat (and "Rich Drag Queens?" Being uncritical about ,people
no hot water) and an array of Miss Tina with money is probably'a fun
wires, ducts and tubes hanging Manhattan pastime, but OutWeeKs readers
overhead. Uke almost everyone •
would be better served by.a
else at the magaiine, the editors Paul Leone "sponds for Eva slightly less rosy portrayal. After
work not on desks but on fold- Leonard: We know who you are. reading Maggenti's article, I'm
ing tables, located more or less Cover model Eva Leonard is a waiting for the OutWeek cover
on top of each other. We're lucky woman and is currently on stories on "Whites: A Damn Nice
to get a lightbulb when a lamp world tour and· cannot be Bunch" and "Men: Mainstay of
bums out. reached for comment All further the Gay and Lesbian Communi-
My statement about C. inquiries concerning Eva ty." Last time I looked, class was
Carr spending most of her time Leonard's clothes and/or gender still a basis for oppression, not
"nodding out in the sooty cor- should be forwarded to me, Paul just an avenue through which
ner of some dark performance Leone, Eva Leonard's manager. you could occasionally'find
space on the Lower East Side" some nice women willing to
said more about her, and what Sorry, Maria Maggenti, you bankroll the revolution.
she doesn't do beyond her have it all wrong about dykes and All my love to Anne Ruben-
assigned beat, than about that economics. Th,e unmoneyed les- stein and Madame X, down-
scene, its location and what it is bian isn't a myth, and finding a wardly mobile and proud.
al/ about. I would hope so, half-dozen rich dykes to profile in Eat the rich. '
since I myself live in some OutWeek won't make her one. , Donna Minkowitz
sooty comer of the Lower East Women as a group make only Manhattan
Side, directly around the comer, two-thirds of 'the money men
Mr. WatelJ, from your perfor- make, but lesbians tend to be Maria Maggenti responds:
mance space, which I've come even poorer than other women Yours was exactly the kind of
to on several occasions_ becausewe don't have access to sma/I-minded, cliche-ridden and
Though I think OutWeek, . men's salaries. Didn't anyone stereotype-loving response I had
now more than before, does ever tell you marriage was funda- anticipated when I set out to
show "positive references to mentally an economic institu- write my story on lesbians· with
non-whites, " we can certainly tion? Do you think lesbians have money. In the introduction t() my
do much more. I encourage you magically escaped the economic piece, I addressed the appalling
to propose pieces to the new position all other US women discrepancies in income between
features editor, Victoria Starr, share, perhaps via secret injec- working men and women. I did
who is eager for submissions. tions of money from the Mother noe like yourself, fabricate ec0-
Goddess? When Barbara Ehren- nomic facts to serve a particular
RICH DYKE REDUX reich coined the phrase "the fem- political agenda. Where haveyou
When I first heard that this inization of poverty," she wasn't ever read studies on "Lesbian
week's cov~r story, was "Rich referring to lipstick and mascara. Wage-EamelJ in Comparison' to
'Dykes" [no. 91, March 27] the Why do you think lesbians Ma/8 Wage-Eamers?" And whetS
images that came to my mind have so fewer bars, neighbor- do you get off telling me that
were very different from your hoods, businesses, resorts, pom marriage is an economic institu-
cover photo. I visualized a mags and videos than gay men? tion, as if I didn't already know
sophisticated, elegant, well- Differences in how we're social- that? You claim that the reason
dressed woman. Perhaps a suc- ized to d~ with sexuality is one we don't "have" all the stuff fag-
cessful entrepreneur, a woman reason, but economic differences gots have is that we have less
money. My research (research, that dykes are generally poor. We While this clealty shows that gay . many factors that contribute to
Donna,' not political wishful- are not Overlooked Opinions in men earn somewhat more than lesbian economic success. Lefs
thinking) revealed that it isn't just Chicago, the only reputable com- dykes, it also clealty shows that leave aside for the moment ;the,
because we putatively eam less pany that accurately surveys the dyke households earn more than obvious (to me) fact that dykes
than men (still an unproven queer community, did a major average Ameticans. It certainly are simply smarter than mo,"".
poin~ in my mind) but because economic poll of lesbians and explodes the PC myth that dykeS . people and look at data even the;~
dykes are often closeted about .gays last year. They found that are universally poor• average straight man would have
the fact that they do have money while the national median income That myth is extrapolated to agree with: 1) Dykes often
and are, as women, less weI/- of all American households is from the fact that women earn realize from adolescence that
socialized to deal with the macho around $30,000, the national less than men, and that dykes, we're unlikely to get married;,
particularities of economic median income of lesbian house- as women, must therefore be and thus begin planning careel'$
power. Indeed, I mentioned all holds is $41,000 and that of gay poorer than practically anybody at an earty age; 2) dykes tend, as
those "nameless" dykes who male households is $44,000. else. But that theory is offset by a generality, to be more se1f-suf~
.won't lift a finger for anything
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for what we do and do not have,
Donna, instead of twirling
around in a tired old dance of fin-
.ger-pointing and retrograde
political analyses.
My article was about rich
dykes talking for themselves and
about themselves. If you don't
like these women, categorically,
.because they have money, then
you have a little work to do on
your notions of sisterhood. Oh,
and Donna, valorizing poverty in
a city that is crumbling with des-
perate, hungry people is sick to • Call Toll-Free fora [Link] No Out-of-Pocket
the point of being obscene, in Expense wi:th:a:::M[Link]~:Ni~Hjg~I::::lnY§i:[Link]
my mind, If you would prefer a Ce rtifi ed $.d'tg eo ns, Inte:rrn~1$.:::@n~1t:[Link]..e nt ero log ists.
world where everyone is "down- • We succe ~sfd'll'·:::::::tf':at:all..[Link]::~m::~taBil§:::f::bimo rrholds
wardly mobile and proud" as · rt Y.
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you can have your goddamned Plans::'r:·:::·:<·:·····u ...:r .:::;. :iF :f
.revolution. I myself am sick of
eating spaghetti every night for
dinner and fending off creditors
until my anns are black and blue.
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ficient than straight women; 3) ism. Many dyke activists seem to allowed to feel good about that- year to build an endowment for
dykes tend, also as a generality, have so much invested in the idea both by the patriarchy and, ironi- the future of the gay and lesbian
to be more aggressive and less that we all must be poor that they cally, by the lesbiarchy. community. So far, Stonewall
passive than straight women and ignore any evidence to the con- Anna Boyajain has given away over $200,000
thus are· more likely to succeed traIy. That, alas, is why so many New Haven, Conn. to individual funds to support
at school and in the male-domi- . of us who have become secure PS. This moderately rich dyke the gay charities of their choice.
nated workplace than straight
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women; 4) most dyke house- bian movement altogether, where genti's writing. effective gift possible for them-
holds consist of at least two we are made to feel suspect, iso- selves and for the recipient. .
working, income-producing lated and unsafe. And maybe the I read with great interest To contact Stonewall, call
members,' who often stay fact that we don't participate in Maria Maggenti's article "The Tom Keane at (212) 593-4600, or
together in a stable economic activism very often (except by World of Rich Dykes" and was write to him at StoneWallCommu-
unit longerthan straights or gay writing checks) conbibutes to the happy to have been a resource nity Foundation, 825 Third Ave.,
men; 5) while many dykes have idea that we don't exist. for her in her research efforts. I Suite 3315, New York, NY 10022.
kids,fewer of us do than straight None of this negates the am glad to see that this subject Vivian Shapiro
women, leaving us more time to very real fact that all women, gay is being addressed. Women Manhattan
earn money and more dispos- and straight, are economically with the resources to take a
able money to invest than fami- cheated by this society. We all leading philanthropic role in our MORE LAMB SLAM
lies with children. get paid less across the board, community are much needed by I think an important sub-
Of course these factors, of and we all need to fight that our many organizatio~s. text has been present in the
which the professional women in injustice together. But dykes, as I just wanted to add anoth- Silence of the Lambs furor and
my circle of dyke lawyers and a group, have significantly nar- er foundation to the resource it needs to be outed (although it
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doctors and educators are well rowed that gap, eam more than directory that you published was mentioned semi-explicitly
aware, fly in the face of that brand· the average American and, due with the article. I ain an officer by one woman in Guy Trebay's
of aggressively seH-pitying lesbo to the factors Ii~edabove, have of the board of directors of the hysterical column on Outpost in
rhetoric which dominates so triumphed over adversity. Stonewall Community Founda- the Voice).
much activism ·and gay joumal- It's too bad, we aren't tion, which was established last It seems clear that Jodie
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change his sex, which is,why he

is killing women. This has noth- .
ing to do with misogyny. In fact,
Don"I forget to check under your bed this week in his own twisted way, Gumb !

as strong, intelligent and capable for the "Reverend" I Donald Wildmon. This finds being a woman more I
(of outsmarting, outgunning slippery moralist heads the American Family desirable than being a man. But
men). Men need to recognize I' ·on, a ha . "ng right-wing cult the closest he can get is wearing I
that ~IIw0'!1en eel that all men .t located in Tupelo Miss. and bides his time their skin, since the sex-change
are VIolent, Irrational and danger-
ous to them and that we are Not
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watch-clogglng our "values. HIS most recent
-" "_ clinics rejected his' applications I
due to his criminal past.
. each one of us personally 'per- I
idle fixe is Todd Haynes' (our cover boy) Poison, In both works, Gumb had a I
haps, but as a gender.' which he thinks is violent and pornographic. gay lov~r whom he, killed. The
I'd guess Jodie Foster feels I
Well, Wildmon, we like social critique and gay affair, the only one,he ever I
this way herself for reasons too sodomy, and while it may make you sweat, it's had, was his first attempt to
obvious to belabor. The heat I
worth noting that the nuclear family is one of change himself in this' story of' I
.Jodie Foster is taking personally the most violent, institutions in our twisted metaltJorphosis; the attempt
is unjustified and cruel. She is I
culture. Nothing like wife-battery, incest and failed.. Now obviol!sly, :ifsome- I
not a run-of-the-mill celebrity, chilcklbuse to boost our morals, ell, Don? one has a gay affair, it does not
she has a history of being unwit- L mean they are gaY'. As 'a gay .J
tingly associated with psychotic - - - - - - - - _ man, I had a straight affair at
male violence, both from Martin one pOint in my IHe;that did not
Scorcese and John Hinckley. Fur- against outing in a mundane, fac- guys. Your posters attack Merv make me straight. Michelangelo
thelTTlore,isn't it time to discuss tual sort of mod.e:the more, the and Jodie for being gay, not for Signori Ie's failure to understand
a women's perspective on out- better. Outing as punishment is a not being out 'We're here, we're this point makes his rallying of
ing? Particularty on the outing of tricky concept as Mr. Signorile gueer" is not political until you the gay and lesbian community
women? Mr. Signorile is disin- has often acknowledged. Nor do add "get used to it") against the film reprehensible.
genuous to use the "they-have- I think Ms. Foster's career will Getting back to SOL, I Neither the film (nor the
enough-money-in-the-bank-to- actually be hurt if the public don't mean to imply that the novel) ever comes right out and
never-work-again" argument know's she's a lesbian. (Confi- movie is unObjectionable, but says Jame Gumb is straight; the
about a performer's fears con- dential to the brilliantly named Demme is the culprit and shol!ld writers of both works must have
cerning outing. He knows well Outpost guys: You got your inter- be our target He made the vil- assumed most people would
that performers do it for the nalized homophobia mixed up in lain a cross-dressing, gay-psy- have the sense to realize Gumb ..
attention, not the money. How your anger about closeted high- Chopath stereotype. At last was sexually confused, not gay. I
much money would it take for profile gays and produced what count, how many movies had he saw the movie with two other gay
him to give up his public voice looked like a viciously homopho- made with a gay hero? Zero. Did men and none of us were offend-
or, for that matter, forswear ALL bic set of posters. You have to the villain "happen" to look ed. I do think this point could
CAPS for life? Not that I'm tell people what side you're on, black and mention once that he havebeenmadea little Clearer.
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. But I think a lot of the Dressed to J(j/~is not them; the now, all of this hubbub will be of Warhol.
:debate about Gumb's stereotyp- problQm is there are not enough forgotten or regarded as igno- Scott E. Hummel
:ically gay characteristics (the positive gay characters to bal- rance. Positive gay characters Manhattan
'nipple ring, the poodle Pre- ance against the negativeones. in film and novels, like Masur's,
cious, cross-dressing, etc.) has You never hear heterosex- won't be forgotten. Why? Be- Michelangelo Signorile re-
"done more to emphasize these uals complaining about, say, a cause it's the good things in life sponds: Oh, dear Jesus, how
as gay traits than the film ever womanizing male character in you remember. . many times willI say the same
did. Most intelligent, straight a movie. Now, stereotypically, As a final note, I think things over and over again? I
'moviegoers would probably not straight men are womanizers, OutWeek should think twice have, time after time, called for
m~e this connection, or, if they right? Why don't they tum out _about running ads for the positive images of queel'9-6f1(/
did, they would have written it in droves to protest Andrew movie The Doors. Andy War- have never, ever called for cen-
off as stereotyping and not Dice Clay et an
Because there hol, as portrayed by Crispin sorship of negative ones. I just
reflective of reality. The film are also movies showing men Glover, comes off as a mincing, ask that critics point them out
'makes it clear that these are as sensitive, respectful people. swishing art-fag. Read: stereo- and understand that much of
things associated with Gumb That's what Signorile, type. It's almost as if Oliver America is not as educated and
and not all gays. I don't believe should be rallying for: movies Stone, in the process of bash- perceptive as yourself and your
Thomas Harris ever intended about gay cops, gay politicians, ing New York in general, told friends, directly due to the crap
for Gumb to be a gay prototype, gay astronauts, gay soldiers, Glover to tum Warhol into a that Hollywood continually
nor does director Jonathan etc. That's what we need: Saturday Night Uve skit along serves up. As for The Doors
Demme present him as such. movies about the positive side the lines of SNL's Harvey Fier- issue, I leave that to queer
But just for the sake of of gay life, movies where their stein parody. If Signorile wants reviewers to take on. I, as a
argument, lefs suppose Jame sexual orientation is incidental. something to be justifiably media and gossip columnist,
Gumb is as gay as a daisy in The 1V movie When the Bough angry about, then he should go came in on The Silence of the
May, a clicM coming true. The Breaks, where Richard Masur see the movie (if he hasn't Lambs debacle because it had
real problem then with charac- played a detective who just hap- already) and hound ~one and fast become a media debate
ters like Jame Gumb (or similar pened to be gay, is an excellent Glover about the film's slander- involving GLAAo, mainstream
characters in Psycho or example. Twenty years from ous and fictionalized portrayal newspapers, supermarket tab-

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loids and a silent closeted star. very complex situation surround-
ing HAF. We are particularly trou-
HINCKLEY bled by the fact that, by failing to orrections
AND FOSTER prevent a group of opportunists • Due to an editing error, a confusing bit of misinformation
I'm writing to express out- from orchestrating this folly, ACT was inserted into Joe E. Jeffreys' piece on Charles Busch
rage at Eric M. Pollard's letter UP threatens to create a rift (issue no ..93, April 10), In Busch's new play, Red Scare; itis
concerning John Hinckley and between itself and gay Latinos at a Mr. Busch, and not one of his characters, who has penned a -
Jodie Foster [no. 92, Apr. 3]. time when cooperation, not canni- scene about a character who is blacklisted.
His smug violation of a fonner balism, is most essential in order • Due to an editing error in the news section of the
client's confidentiality in a letter to defeatthe AIDS epidemic. same issue, the name of the gay man who successfully
to a national magazine (and ACT UP has sometimes won the right to adopt a child in Florida was misspelled.
OutWee/(s bland decision to go attempted, but has more often It is Ed Seebol. '
ahead and print it) is offensive than not failed, to adjust its politi- • And in the analysis of current court challenges to phone-
enough. I'm sure he was taught cal analysis in or'derto accommo- sex ~tions around the country, an editing error led to
in his. clinical psychology pro- date the reality, experiences and the misrepresentation of the research done for an ~Week
gram to respect the rights of the accumulated wisdom of people of article on the same subject last year. While that article
mentally ill. color. Even if it wields a Latino found that the absence of phone-sex advertising would'
. I was also angered by Mr. Qlucus, ACT UP remains, institu- have dire financial implications for most of the country's
Pollard's self-serving decision tionally, a creature ensouled with lesbian and gay publications, it never concluded that many·
to tell Hinckley about Jodie Fos- a white spirit which identifies would "simply go out of business," as last week's article
ter's alleged sexuality. The fur- opponents and chooses tactics erroneously reported,
nishing of this information according to the lessons of the •

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Hinckley's current hatred of the The war against HAF bears elo- every board and in every agen- keep us silent in the present
actress ("She'll lie, she'll eat. quent witness to the accuracy of cy. We hope that ACT UP will circumstances. ACT UP .is hol-.
you for breakfast"), certainly a our perception. In its campaign, not subject other AIDS organiza- lering empty rhetoric an~
dangerous thing to do if Hinck- ACT UP has been loyal to the tions to the blackmail which will doing nothing constructive fQr
ley is ever released on parole. American myth which asserts inevitably result from such self- the Latinato community. We
. In addition, by reporting that in this country we are all agg,-,ndizing confusion. deserve better than that.
Jodie Foster's alleged sexuality equally positioned, all equally Our criticism of ACT UP Latino Gay Men of New York
.
on the basis of attendance at capable of effecting change and, should not be interpreted as a "

one Yalesbian meeting, Mr. Pol- most ominously, all equally blind support for HAF,or anyone SOUL OF· ":>
lard. succumbs to the worst responsible when change is not else, which arises from shared DISCRETION ~.
temptations of outing. He does forthcoming. Thus, in ACT UP's ethnicity. Even within its con- In spite of the fact thatlam
this in ignorance of bisexuality, rhetoric, HAFis transfigured from straints, we believe that HAF can a loyal subscriber, each and
in ignorance of the possibility of an institution battling the crisis, do more and better than it has every issue of OutWeek that I
change 'in sexuality over time however imperfectly, into a cause until now. We will offer HAF our receive offends me greatly.
, and in ignorance of the right of of the crisis. ACT UP should com- ideas, but we will also offer HAF Nowhere on your subscription
a lesbian or bisexual to come prehend that HAFcame into being the necessary cooperation. to mailing envelopes does the back
out to their family and friends because the Latino/a community carry them out because we address say "OutWee~ the les-
before they are outed to every was being overlooked by white understand that activism requires bian and Gay Newsmagazine." I
American, especially potentially AIDS organ.- izations. We wonder, not only a will to denounce and can only imagin~ the damage
violent Americans like Hinckley. With what does ACT UP plan to to yeti but also a commitment to that a consistent, recurring, "self-
Hiro Yoshikawa substitute HAF? Or does ACT UP create and to transfonn. We have loathing" message like a "dis-
Manhattan think that pontificating and no reason to believe that our creet back address" can cauSe.
repeating tired slogans will save a overtures will be spumed. .Sid Wagner
HAF AGAIN single Latino's or Latina's life? We would also like to Los Angeles
We, members of Latino Gay Furthennore, for all its pro- clarify that, notwithstanding "

Men of New York, would like to fessed concem for the Latino/a "Ourdisagreement with ACT UP,
express our profound displeasure community, the fact is that ACT we will not incur the irrespon- All letters to the edi-
at ACT UP for its behavior toward UP had no quarrel with HAF until sibility of denying its past and tor must include ca
the Hispanic AIDS Forum, or HAF. after HAF had its quarrel with present accomplishments. We name, address arid
We, members of the ethnic group those members of ACT UP who also realize that there is signif- daytime phone, al-
in this city with perhaps the high- were once employed by HAF. It icant dissension within ACT UP though names may
est incidence of HIV- be withheld at the
would seem that ACT UP has on the subject of HAF. But the
author's request. Out-
infection-some of us actually confused the community with fact that ACT UP has done a lot U7eek reserves the
infected and in treat-ment~rge itself, the struggle to provide of good or that some members right to edit letters
ACT UP to stop a campaign that more and better services to the of ACT UP disagree on the for clarity and space
has sought to address in the most ill, with the struggle to get for manner in which their peers consideratioQs.. <

cavalier and infantile manner the .itself effective representation in have been behaving cannot
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by Duncan Osbome spread of HIV infection in a population Joseph, is a fonner nemesis of many AIDS
NEW YORK-Ten needle-exchange already devastated by AIDS. .. activists who has apparently found some
advocates, arrested more than a year ago State legislators, including New York common ground with them on this issue.
on misdemeanor charges of needle p0s- State's ftrSt openly gay elected official, And the judge in the case, Laura
session, will go to court April 8, where will attend a press conference on the Drager, will not be an unfamiliar face for
attorneys will present a necessity defense courthouse steps the ~ day of the trial many in the courtroom, either.
that will highlight New York City's to announce bills they have introduced The defense will concede that their
response to the HIV epidemic among N- in Albany which would decriminalize' clients did in fact possess the needleS but
drug users, claiming that clean needle needle possession. that their actions were necesSaiy'and jus-
distribution is necessary as a public One of the defense's star witnesses, tified to prevent IV-drug users from
health measure to stem the further fonner· CommisSioner of Health Stephen acquiring HIV through needle-sharing.
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To win their case on a necessity defense,
attorneys must prove that the danger to
N-drug users is immediate and that ille-
gal needle possession is less onerous
than the damage needle-advocates
sought to prevent.
"One of the things it is important to
us to show is that as a public health mat-
ter, needle exchange is necessary," said
Jill Hams, one of two attorneys for the 10
defendants who were arrested on March

12 OUTWEEK Aprfl1'7. 1_1

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6, 1990, as they attempted to distribute For Starters, former New York City but connnunity' opposition forced Joseph
clean needles to IV drug users on Man- commissioner of health, Dr. Stephen to scale back the distribution and run it
hattan's Lower East Side. Joseph, will testify for the defense. .out of the health department's administra-
The defense team will present wit- Joseph'S tenure at the Department of tive offices in Lower Manhattan.
nesses, including public health officials, Health was marked by a stonny relation- Although the program managed to
drug-treatment professionals and fonner ship with AIDS activists that included two serve only a few hundred users, Joseph
and ClI1TeIltIV-drug users, who attorneys sit-ins by activists in his office. contended that the program was a suc-
say will paint a picture of inunediate peri1 Though activists have slammed the cess. Blood tests run on returned "diity"
to IV-drug users who share "dirty" nee- current Commissioner of Health, Dr. needles indicated users were cleaning
dles. The defendants say this strategy will Woodrow Myers and, in some instances, needles and not sharing them. And
prove their assertion that possessing nee- waxc::d nostalgic for Joseph's more Joseph claimed that the program was a
dles with the intent to distribute to pre- hands-on style, the mention of Joseph's "bridge to treatment,· speeding users'
vent the spread of AIDS is not a crime, name as a defense witness at a recent entry into treatment programs.
"We are saying the danger is immi- ACf UP general meeting drew hisses NevertheleSs, Mayor David Dinkins,
nent. The next time a drug user puts a from the crowd. who opposed the program, along with a
needle in his or her ann, there is a high Joseph instituted the only officially majority of the state's African-American
probability that if it is a shared needle, itsanctioned clean-needle-exchange pro- political leaders, shut it down soon after
is an HIV-infected needle,· said Mike gram in New York state during his time at he took office.
Spiegel, the second attorney on the the of Health, That program, In another twist of fate, Judge Laura
dexfense team. "You have to offer evi- begun in November of 1988, was slated to Drager, who presided over the tria1 of 11
dence that the violation was a lesser evil operate out of four sites around the city, ••• NEEDLE on page a6
than the imminent injury.· ,
The Manhattan DA's office, which is
prosecuting the case, declined to com- CALIFORNIA LAWYER: ,
ment, but defense attorney Harris specu-
lated that Assistant District Attorney
CLEAN NEEDLES A NECESSITY
Michael Solomon will suggest that the SAN FRANCISC'o--A judge in spread of AIDS.
defendants were merely demonstrating nearby San Mateo County is allowing "This is not simply a m!ltter of peo- ,
against the needle law and not attempt- attorneys to use a necessity defense to pie possessing hypodermic syringes,"
ing to save lives. The necessity-defense demonstrate the reasons why their Anacabe told OutWeek. "The evidence
statute states that the defendants' actions clients exchanged dirty needles for was pretty compelling that San Mateo
cannot be only an expression of dis- clean ones with IV-drug users. County is at this point in time on the
agreement with the. particul3r law. According t.o a report in the San brink of a potentially serious problem in
Assessments of the number of New Francisco Sentinel, two AIDS outreach terms of HIV infection among injection-
York City's estimated 250,000 IV-drug workers were arrested last September drug users."
users infected with HIVrun as high as 60 outside a methadone treatment center The necessity defense suggests a
percent, and, according to New York while exchanging needles. crime can be committed to prevent a
City health department figures, IV-drug Joey Tranchina, California direc- greater harm from happening. .
users constitute 42 percent of'the tota1 tor of the National AIDS Brigade, and Anacabe says that the laws regard-
cases of AIDS reported to date, Camille Anacabe, a staffer at Preven- ing the possession and distribution, of .
Defendants include ACf UP mem- tion Point, which also works with IV- needles in California were not written
bers Gregg Bordowitz, Cynthia Cochran, drug users, were allegedly distribut- with the AIDS epidemic in mind.
Richard Elovich, Debbie Levine, Kathy ing the clean needles to prevent the -Lowell B. DenneyIII
Otter, Monica Pearl and Dan Williams.
The ACf UP members were joined by I~ ---------------------
Jon Parker and Velma Campbell, mem- . I .';
hers of the Boston-based National AIDS
Brigade, which attempts to distribute
clean needles nationwide. One other
defendant, Phil Flores, who is homeless,
could not be reached by press time. The
needle-possession charge is a misde-
meanor and carries a maximuni of six
months jail time.
When arrested, the defendants were
also distributing bleach, condoms and
safer-sex infonnation and needle-dean-
ing kits and instructions.
The tria1 will feature more than one
ironic twist.
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by Avril McDonald ~hichopened in New York last Friday. like to soak myself in Qorox," Dickelman
• nd Andrew Miller Directed by gay filmmaker Todd Haynes, reportedly declared
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with wire reports by Cliff O'Neill, John the $250,000 movie, based in part on the Meanwhile, Ralph Reed, the leader
Zeh and Rex Wockner novels of the late gay writer Jean Gen~, of erstwhile presidential candidate Rev.
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depicts, among other things, forced sex Pat Robertson's Christian Coalition, com-
John Frohnmayer, the embattled between men in prison. pared the NEA's funding for Poison to
Chair of the National Endowment for the giving federal funds to Playboy magazine
¥ts, or NEA; trying to steer a course and called for Frohnmayer's resignation
through the quagmire of national fund- and the abolition of the NEA. Representa-
ing for the arts, has once again ended up tives from a dozeq other conselVative
in troubled waters, under attack from all .It has been, predictably, cleaied by groups who attended a special April· 1
sides for hemg unable to make the NEA the Rev. Dooald Wddnxm and his Tupelo, screening of the film at the NEA are back-
all things to all people, .Miss.--bas¢ American Family Association ing Reed's demands. And the screaming
Curr~ntly, Frohnmayer is under as . , and described as "in<redi- right-wing tabloid of the nation's capital,
attack from the religious right for his bly dangerOus" by Dee Dickelman of Fam- the Washtngton TImes, called Haynes "the
organization's $25,000 post-production ily Issues in Government and the Child Fellini of fellatio" in a recent editorial.
grant to the award-Winning film Poison, Protection Program. "It's so repulsive, I'd
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ACT UP PROTESTS ON ITS 4TH ANNIVERSARY

which activists say will cut per-case AIDS spending
by 31 percent and will reduce Medicaid expenditures
by $875 million.
"AIDS services in New York are already drasti-
cally under-staffed and -funded," commented Mike
Frisch, a member of ACT UP. "Now Cuomo has pro-
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posed to cut back these services. These cuts will kill."
Steve Villano, a spokesperson for Cuomo,
responded that the governor made increasing AIDS
spending, even with the constraints imposed on the
state budget by the deficit, a priority, and stated that
the amount allocated to AIDS in the budget has actu-
ally gone up. 'We believe that it comes to a 25 per-
cent increase," Villano said.
'·'5· . 'We agree with ACT UP that it is not enough,"
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Villano added. "When you have an illness that is rav-
aging the population, of course irs not enough."
And there was a great deal of grumbling among
the protesters about the lackluster quality of the
anniversary demonstration, which paled in comparison to the
NEW YORK-Near!y 300 loud, angry members of ACT UP size of those in previous years.
celebrated the AIDS a¢ivist organization's fourth anniversary The action; which consisted of a moving picket and a flash of
last week with a demonstration outside the city headquarters of guerrilla theater, took place during the April 2 morning rush-hour
Gov. Mario Cuomo. outside the state executive's local offices in the Wond Trade Center.
The action was called to protest Cuomo's proposed budget, -Nina Reyes
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AI D'Amato tearing up the catalogue
from the Mapplethorpe exhibit on the
floor of the Senate not two years ago.

Prorient, Obscene;
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before the senators, noting that NFA fun-
ders had been fully aware c:i PoIsorts c0n-
tent when they made the grant, citing its
grand jury prize at the prestigious Sun-
dance Film Festival earlier this year and
addlng: "Taken as a whole, the film iIlus-
[Link] the destructive effect c:i violence. It ~
neither prurient nor obscene.·
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But reports from a long-sought
ANnDOTE-NEA$ John Frohnmayer (top) and Poison$ Todd Haynes March 6 meeting between Frohnmayer
The Legacy of unidentified senior White House official and lobbyists from the National Gay and
Mapplethorpe's Bullwhip recently told the Los Angeles 7fmes.
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But despite the right's attempt to doesn't keep his nose clean ...there may such subject matters are OK by him,
create a replay of last year's controversy be a . for the White House to During that meeting, Frohnmayer report-
over what the NEA does with its money make another edly said that he would n« attempt to be
and whether the federal government But Congress itself seems reluctant a "decency czar" in judging, :u;ts grants. .
should give it anymore, a backlash to further fan the flames of the fracas. He also promised to include les-
against the reactionary, censorious According to the Village VOice, even bians and gay men on the revi~ panels
debate that played itself out on the floors though Wlldmon's crew has been flood- that must establish the congressionally
of both houses of Congress may find ing the House and Senate with inflamma- mandated "decency standard,· which
Wlldmon and his colleagues spitting into tory letters, when Frohnmayer appeared requires that the NEA chair insure that
the proverbial wind. before a Senate appropriations cotmIlitkie . "artistic excellence and artiStic merit are
Sparked by an NEA-funded exhibi- on March 29, none of the senators asked s •• NEEDLE 0 ... P_ •• 23
tion of the photographs of the late gay
photographer Robert Mapplethorpe in a .
gallery near the Capitol, pressure from
the right resulted in the "defunding" of
four perfonnance artists, three of whom
are gay and all of whom deal with sexu-
al themes in their work. An anti-obsceni-
ty proviso was also attached to all NEA
grants, which accepting artists are asked
to sign. But then Congress voted over-
whelmingly in favor of funding the arts
agency for several more years.
Frohrunayer has also reportedly been
chastised by the White House for continu-
ing to embroil the NEA in controversy.
"He's not our favorite agency head," an

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hended after a passing police cruiser was
them up Second Avenue, he said
At the comer of East 7th Street; one
flagged down and an eyewitness pointed of the men, later identified as Freddie
·Gttt ihe alleged assailants, who had slipped Fields, 25, of 1978 Morris Ave. in the
Bronx, allegedly kicked him in the head,
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each night just south of St. Mark's Place. while the other, Scott Walker, 23, of 3495
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NEW YORK - A man on his way tographer who often free-lances for this attention to his friend, according to the
home from an East Village bar, was magazine, was walking home with a police report.
allegedly kicked, punched and bloodied friend from the Bar, at Second Avenue Fields allegedly continued to kick
last week by one of two men who fol- and East 4th Street, at about 2:30 am on Bytsura in the face, even as he attempted
lowed him and a friend, shouting anti- Thursday, March 28, when two men to call 911 from a pay phone. Bytsilra
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ALBANY-A domestic partnership INVITED TO
bill, which would allow unmarried •
domestic partners to be treated equally
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with married couples for the purpose of SOME. ..
receiving certain fringe benefits, has been •

intnxiuced by Assemblywoman Deborah

Glick and Sen. Franz Leichter.
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The bill would create a legal status
for domestic partnerships and prohibit
disaimination against them, in the public
or private sector, with respect to receiv-
ing benefits such as health insurance,
hospital visitation rights, bereavement
leave and the purchase or renting of
accommodations.
The bill is an attempt to have public
policy catch up with the reality of pe0-
ple'S lives, said Glick at a press confer-
ence after the bill's intnxiuction.
"Legal marriage is not an option
for hundreds of thousands of New
Yorkers who live together, including
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whom, it is estimated, have Iife- ROBERT PATRICK
mates," continued New York's first les-- . GALA BENEFIT DANIEL CURZON •
bian lawmaker. "Lack of legal status OPENING VICTOR BUMBALO
for domestic partnerships means that FRIDAY APRil 5 ROBERT CHESLEY
many of these people are being dis- CARL MORSE
criminated against." WED THU FRI 8pril Bil WRIGHT
Under the proposed legislation, SAT? & 10pm
SUN3& ?pm directed by
domestic partners will be eligible to reg- •
RICH RUBIN
ister at the county clerk's office after six
months of living together. Both members
sign an affidavit attesting to their agree-- CALL HIT - TIX SET DESIGN
ment to be responsible for each other's (212) 564 - 8038 JAMIE lEO
welfare and to the fact that they share a COSTUME DESIGN

residence. Neither partner may be mar- THEATER AT 224 WAVERLY GREGORY MELENDREZ
ried at the time they file a domestic part- (Just Off 7th Ave. South PRESENTED BY LIGHTING DESIGN
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I SWITZERLAND: The hopelessly anal Swiss secret police have 1 CRUCIAL FOR
1 900,000 index cards on the activities of gays. Jehovah's Witnesses and 1
1 other persons considered uagainst the army and state." This is quite illegal, 1 GAYS
1 and a parliamentary commission established to investigate the scandal is 1 _
I. not amused. The police have defended their activities by arguing that gays, 1 NEW YORK-In its required
I who were listed in the category uperverted disposition," are ublackmailable" 1 comments on Mayor David Dinkins
I and therefore a usecurity risk." During the course of the investigation, three 1 preliminary budget made last week,
1 branches of the secret police have been dissolved, according to the German 1 the City Council flexed its recently
1 gay magazine Magnus. 1 developed budgetary muscles granted
I I under the city's new charter. Although
t MEXICO: Maybe AIDS isn't a gay disease, but the International Les- 1 a number of proposals put forward by
1 bian and Gay Association, or IL~A, [Link] the dates of its 13th annual 1 the City Council would have a dra-
1 conference in Guadalajara,Mexico, to avoid conflict with the VII Internation- 1 matic and sure-felt impact on city
1 aI Conference on AIDS in Florence, Italy. Organizers are urging delegates to 1 AIDS and drug-treatment programs,
I get their registration forms and fees in pronto for the June 3O-July 6 gather- lone proposal made by the chair of
1 ing. Write to: ILGA 13th Annual Conference, Ana Isabel Lopez Garcia. clo 1 the City Council's Finance Committee
1 Patricia Tr~jillo Avila, PO Box 1-2497, Administracion de Correos #1, CP 1 on a national radio news program is
I 44100 Guadalajara,Jalisco. Mexico. Registration, lodging and food is $350 1 now being termed an error.
1 for the week. 1 On a recent program on Nation-
1 1 al Public Radio, Brooklyn council-
1 .. P':'ERTO .RICO: Fi':lt it was A~T UP.!,"d now the ~ueer press has 1 man Herbert Bennan suggested that
1 arrived In the [Link] Heat ISpublished monthly In the San Juan 1 the mandate of the city's Human
1 suburb of San~urce:The ~agazine is featu,res-orientedand about one-third en 1 Rights Commission is d~plicated by
1 e~panol. To subscnbe, write to: 106 de Diego Ave., Box 78, Santurce, Puerto 1 state and federal agencies and that
1 RICO00907. '. 1 eliminating the commission would
1 . 1 assist in closing the city's budget gap
1 ,CZECHOSLOV~K~A: When th!s. reporter drove from Vienna to I now put at $2.5 billion for this fiscal
1 [Link], Czecho~lovakla, In 1989, Bratlsl~va was the gra~est, drab~est, 1 year and estimated at $3 billion for
1 ugliest, deadest city he had ever set foot In. A~d. the tedlO~~ly serious I the coming fiscal year,
1 Czech border guards were slow, stem and agomzlngly [Link], I "He misspoke himself," Peg
I that was then, an~ this is. now. More tha~ 400 ~omos~xuals sta~ed the 1 Breen, spokesperson for the City
1 largest gay event In the history of Slovakia (Bratislava IS the capital) on I Council, later commented. "He must
1 Feb. 16. Billed as uCarnival," the day featured dancing,. raffles and other I have meant reductions--or was refer-
I merrymaking. It was sponsored by Ganymedes, Bratislava's only gay 1 ring to another agency. In the view of
1 rights group. 1 the City Council, the Human Rights
I Earlier in the day, gay groups from across Czechoslovakia-united 1 Commission is exempt from elimina-
1 under the banner Union of Homosexual Citizens Organizations (SOHO)-held I· tion, but not from cuts."
I' a national mini-conference. ILGA Co-Secretary GeneralJohn Clark addressed 1 According to Breen, the cuts in
I· t~e [Link] was electrifying," he said later by ~hon~ fro~ his home in 1 . the commission's budget suggested by
1 Vienna. One year ago there was absolutely nothing In thiS part of the 1 the City Council approximate those
I world not an iota of any gay and lesbian aura." (You tell it like it was, I made by the mayor, although the
I honey.) Under,SOHO'[Link],.Cz~choslovakia~as. become one of onlr a I ~ouncil does recommend consolidat-
I handful of nations actively consldenng the legalization of gay and lesbian I mg the commission's nine field offices.
1 marriage, which. to date, is only permitted in Denmark. 1 The Human Rights Commission's
I 1 spokesperson, Lonnie Soury, told Out-
1 1 Week, "We feel very strongly that our
INEWS FROM AROUND THE WORLD 1 effortsarenot~u~licatedelsewhere."
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rent, openly gay commissioner, Dennis II I ~...e PAD I 5 STAR DIVE CENTER
deLeon. And it has become particular- ,
ly important to the gay and lesbian I
community, which is not protected I FREE INTRa LESSON I ,
from discrimination by any state or I
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Department of Mental Health entirely.
In the view of the council, that depart- 95-58 Queens Blvd. Conveniently located by MASS TRANSIT-emly
ment "serves basically as a pass I Queens, NY 30 minutes from Manhattan
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A REUNION OF OLD FRIENDS ... A HOMECOMING OF THE HEART.

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Mental Health providers. n
The Department of Mental Health
is headed by Dr. Billy Jones, who is
also gay. The City Council proposal A SPECIAL SOLO CONCERT Join Cris for an evening of
funfilled reminiscing, honoring
would vest the functions of Jones' CELEBRATING the 15th year of this remarkable
agency in the Department of Health album. The celebration will
for a savings of $5 million. "THE CHANGER AND THE continue after the concert with a
Though the proposals do not CHANGED" Midnight Cruise around
enter into great detail, the City Coun- Manhattan. You'll enjoy dance
15TH ANNIVERSARY music, delightful food and drinks.
cil would also remove all AIDS ser-
Reserve your seats now. Special
vices from the Human Resources
Carnegie Hall Circle of Friends plus Midnight
Administration and place those ser- Cruise, $135. Orchestra/Boxes,
vices in the Department of Health. Saturday, -May 18, 1991 $40. Dress Circle, $35. Balcony,
And the city's Health and Hospitals 8:00 pm $.25. Cruise, $75lwith purchase
of concert ticket. I Send SASE and
Corporation would become responsi- check payable to Olivia Records
ble for all drug-treatment programs in to 4400 Market St., Oakland, CA,
order to improve coordination of poli- 94608. Mail orders must be
cy, planning and service delivery. received no later than May 8,
The Dinkins administration will 1991. Or call 800-631-6277 for
prompt service on credit card
now consider the council's recommen- R E COR -D 5 orders. Hotel and air packages
dations and submit its proposed exec- Tilt' Voice ;11 Cd~bration of Wom,." are available.
utive budget by April 25.
-Duncan Osborne CAn XOO-6.H -6l77 A80LT OI.I\IA·S JltY '91 8.\II:\.\1.\S W(),\1E\'S tRlISE
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SEX SHOP GUlL1Y Patrick Deveney, the executor of, and OISIDGH •

heir to, the Pleasure Olest owner's estate.

OF SBIAS The Commission on Human Rights
said that Doe was fired after Deveney
COURT UPHOlDS
NEW YORK-A former employee
of the Pleasure Chest, a sex-novelties
made comments on his appearance and
its potential impact on sales. The court
D PENALlY
shop in the West Village, successfully awarded Doe more than $25,000 in dam-
sued his erstwhile employer, claiming ages and ordered that he be offered the IN GAY-BASH
that he was illegally fired on the basis of right of first refusal to any open manage-
perceived AIDS-related disability, the rial or sales position in the store. IER
city's human rights commission "It's a great vi~ry for me and the
announced last week. . CXlIDIUlity that has SIood behind In! in th5 SPRINGFIELD, Ill.-The Illinois
The decision, handed down by the fight for people with AIDS or those per- Supreme Court 00 March 28 upheld the
New York State Supreme Court, found ceived to have AIDS," Doe said after the death-penalty conviction of a murderer
that "Jo1m Doe" suffered . .. '00 dedskn "I went 1hroogh hell, but I loved who killed because he hated gays.
when he was fired for his "funereal" my job, and fd go back to work 1olmrroW." Richard Nitt, of downstate Qubon-
appearance. Doe's termination came Deveney declined'to retum repeated dale, murdered 23-year-old Michael
shortly after the owner of the Pleasure phone calls fromOutWrek Miley in 1988 when Miley went to Nitz's
Olest died of AIDS, and was ordered by -NtnaReyes trailer to complain about Nitz's frequent

CITIES OF • t • morning priVately speculating to friends on the merits of the

Good news from around mayor's massive desk as a seduction site for any of a num-
the country has been cas- ber of handsome young City Hall bureaucrats," according to
cading in to Rim Shots Randy Shilts' The Mayor of Castro Street.)
Central. In •
• Pittsburgh, activists ALMA MATER WAS A LESBIAN: When gay
recently crushed a right- artist Rob Clarke's male nudes were covered over by muse-
wing attempt to repeal a um curators at Rutgers University's Mason Gross
municipal gay rights ordi- School of the Arts' annual show of students' work for the
nance adopted last year by benefit of a large group of schoolchildren who had come to
documenting over 5,000' see the exhibit, Clarke's peers got pissed. They reportedly
by ANDR~ MILLER invalid signatures on the returned later that week, handed the curator a statement on
with reporting by Allen While petition ... More than 45 homophobia and proceeded to drape their own artwork in
Minneapolis couples protest.. .Citing a philosophical opposition to the establish-
registered their domestic partnerships with City Hall on the ment of alumni subgroups, the director of alumni affairs at
first day of spring, taking advantageof an ordinace passed by Dartmouth reportedly denied that university's gay and
the City Council in January.... A lawsuit was filed in Indl· lesbian alumni group official recognition, even though
anapolls by Lambda Legal Defense Fund under a state the school already recognizes alumni groups for Blacks,
insurance regulation that prohibits discrimination based on Native Americans and lawyers ... The vice president for
sexual orientation, on behalf of a gay male employee of the student affairs at the University of Notre Dame
local opera company, who was denied group health insur- reportedly ordered the editor of the school's newspaper
ance... A Columbus, Ohio, appellate court ruled that the to censor an ad placed by Notre Dame's unofficial lesbian
state's domestic violence law must be interpreted to cover and gay group, announcing the formation of a gay and
lesbian and gay domestic partners, concluding that the lesbian alumni association, or face expulsion from free
statute should "provide protection to persons'who are offices at the student union. The Observer's editor blasted
cohabiting, regardless of their sex ... " Gle.n Maxey, the the order in an editorial, and, citing the paper's support,
executive director of the Lesbian and Gay Rights Lobby of the gay group decided to pull the ad. (For more info on the
Texas, relinquished his lobbying activities in order to take new group, write to: Box 194, Notre Dame, IN 46556, or
his seat in Austin as the state's first openly gay mem- call Mike Miller at (219) 237-0788 ... A gay SanlFrancisco
ber of the House of Representatives ... And on his way out couple, both of whom died of AIDS, set up a $200,000
of town, San Francisco Mayor Art Agnos designated scholarship fund for gay and lesbian students at Stan-
Supervisor Roberta Achtenberg "Acting Mayor," making ford, UC/Berkeley and San Francisco
her, however briefly, the first lesbian mayor of a major city. Stat .... Lesblan and gay alumni of Kent Stat. will
Achtenberg spent the day holding receptions, issuing be celebrating the 20th anniversary of the Kent Gay and
proclamation and soaking up the much-deserved attention. Lesbian Foundation, which in the '70s used to be the Kent .
(The first gay Acting Mayor was Harvey Milk, tapped by Gay Liberation Front, as part of the group's annual confer-
then-Mayor George Moscone, who "spent the rest of the ence, April 12-14. (For more info, call (216)-672-2068).
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harassment of gays. Nitz beat Miley with
a baseball bat then put Miley in the trunk
of a car, drove him to a wooded area,
shot him in the head, cut off his head
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and then disposed of the head
Nitz's wife Rita assisted in the mur- •
der and is serving a life sentepce without
~ty of parole. .
Among the key issues decided by
the Supreme Court was the question of
.whether Nitz's self-professed hatred of
gays could be introduced as evidence of
his motive for killing a gay man.
The court concurred with the state's •

contention that bias against a group

could be shown to be a motive for vio-
lence against a member of that group.
Testimony in the case established
that Nitz regularly harassed gays and
once spoke of his gay-bashing activities •

in a 1V interview,
State Attorney General Roland Bur- CELEBRATE OUR 25TH ANNIVERSARY
ris praised the Supreme Court's ruling,
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SAN FRANCISCO-Cleve Jones, (212) 989-0313
who established a name for himself as
the creator of the Names Project Quilt,
has declared his candidacy for the 16th
Assembly District seat in California
Jones' political career began with an
internship for San Francisco Supervisor
Harvey Milk, and, since Milk's slaying,
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fewer than 3,500 requests have poured fight in court for years with Kowalski's
in so far. family simply for the right to see her
"We're astonished at the response," lover, at this point, Thompson is the only
said DGA Credit Union President Dan person who has med for . 'p of
Wallace. "We had 500 information pack- Kowalski.
ets ready, and they were gone in three "It's just been delay after delay after
days [after the news stories broke]." delay," remarked the National Gay and
"It's a wonderful position to be in," Lesbian Task Force's Families Project
added DGA's William Waybourn, the Director Ivy Young. "I don't see how
man who thought up the idea of a gay they could not already have detennined
credit union. that Sharon would certainly be best
"We knew that gay men and taken care of by her life partner, by CIt
women are entitled to be in control of . Karen Thompson." !-
their own flIlancial institutions, and it District Court Judge Robert Camp- !
looks like we're going to have a very bell, who is presiding over the case, ~
succesmd one." declined to comment on the hearings. ~
The credit union is receiving 150 However, Campbell did disclose that he t:
CLEVE JONES requests per day for the gay "~~H"~. will release a decision within the next
Applications have come from nearly couple of weeks.
Jones has coordinated the annual candle- every state, Puerto Rico and Canada. On March 22, when the additional
light march to honor Milk and Mayor DGA's MasterCard is an ordinary day of hearings was conducted at the
George Moscone, credit card with the added advantages of request of medical personnel from
Supervisor Hany Britt is also consid- no annual fee and a relatively low 14- Leisure Hill Nursing Home, where
ering entering the race but reportedly percent interest rate. It reads "Dallas Gay Kowalski's family had her placed follow-
would not run against Jones or John Bur- Alliance Credit Union" across the top, in ing her disabling accident in late 1983,
ton, the current assemblyman, who may large pwple letters. the Leisure Hill staff members reportedly
announce his intention to step down at The card is available to anyone any- spoke only about the quality of care that
.the end of his tenn, according to pub- where, contingent on one's credit histo- Kowalski received when she was a resi-
lished reports. ry. The one-time costs are $30 to join dent at that facility.
. The 16th District encompasses the DGA and $10 to join the credit union. Uurently, Kowalski is living at Tre-
city and county of San Francisco. One must also make a minimum $25 villa of Robbinsdale, a nursing home
Jones, who is HIV-positive, told deposit in a credit-union account DGA located north of Minneapolis, but Thomp-
. OutWeek that this particular district has couple memberships are $45. . son hopes ultimately to bring Kowalski
. been dramatically affected by the IllY For membership information, write home to live in the entirely accessible
epiQemic. He feels that the California to: [Link] Gay Alliance Credit Union, PO house in St. Cloud that Thompson has
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paign," Jones says, "because the steps
taken by the California Legislature will
have a profound national impact." . ._--
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ly appeared in the Bay Area Reporter and
the San Francisco Sentinel.
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DULUI1i, Minn.-A District Court
.GAY ,Drr judge here unexpectedly reopened the
Sharon Kowalski guardianship hearings,
allowing staff members from the facility
where Kowalski resided until two years
ago to add their testimony to the four
full days of hearings conducted last fall.
The hearings, which will decide
whether or not Karen Thompson,
Kowalski's lover, will be awarded
DAllAS-The Dallas Gay Alliance guardianship of the disabled lesbian,
Oedit Union is drowning in applications were concluded in December. Despite
for the world's first gay credit card No the fact that Thompson was forced to
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,by Nina Reye$ Her two paid staff members, Angel
NEW YORK-Tucked in the corner Martinez, a paralegal, and Mercedes
of a nondescript building, on the corner Quilan, an administrative assistant, are a
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of a deaepit block, in the western cor- god-send, but what McGovern really
ner of the East Village, Terry McGovern, needs most is a partner. "We need
lesbian lawyO-, sits, madly scribbling out another lawyer in here because we
grant applications, assessing motions and should be filing suits," she explains. "It's
'counter-threatening bureaucratic func- just amazing to me how many systemic
tionaries who have failed to serve her issues need to be attacked."
clients. If she had a partner or five to As of this writing, McGovern is triply
,help her out, she might have more time over- loaded: Both Martinez and Quilan,
to fix the hinges of the law in which she members of the city- wide legal services
works. Instead, with each client, as she union, are on strike against Legal Service
encounters yet another dosed door, she of New YOlk in an attempt to gain salary
has to break it down. parity with Legal Aid, And while McGov-
: It is arduous, repetitive work, on ern fully supports her employees' action
, behalf of poor people with HIV and AIDS, and regrets having to cross the picket 4c
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'and it is a legal fiefdom that precious few line to continue serving her clients, the ~
other lawyers have deigned to enter, strike also means that 70 clients from ~
"In ten seconds, I'm like this other MFY projects, who had previously l:
expert," McGovern says, speaking about been handled by union-member case- 'CD
the ~ she has developed in the managers, have just been plopped in her :
last year, with characteristic self-mockery lap. j
and not a little bit of puzzlement, Aside from the primary work of ~
Although legal services for PWAs were helping people with IDV-infection and ~
Quickly established through little money maneuver through a paper-
aganizationS and myriad advocacy law work-driven system of assistance pro-
firms, McGovern's practice, MFY Legal POWER TO THE PEOPLE grams, the project hopes to force the
Services IDV Project, is one of only a Terry McGovern law to acknowledge the existence and
handful of services in the country exclu- the needs of poor people who are IDV-
sively for impoverished people with HIV. positive. As it is currently constructed,
MFY Legal Services is the sole sur- raising enough money to bring another the bureaucracy routinely rejects people
~iving arm of Mobilization for Youth, a attorney into her office. . in desperate need of lifesaving assis-
progressive social-services agency that The HIV Project came into being last tance simply on technicalities: A good
·was 'established in the '60s. MFY, spring, after McGovern, who was then deal of McGovern's time, and most of
which funds a number of legal-service working in a branch of MFY's housing Martinez's work, is devoted to providing
projects including McGovern's, current- project, began seeing more and more of the advocacy required to ensure that her
ly exists under the umbrella of Legal her clients coming with HIV-re!ated c0m- 200 clients receive the fmancial assis-
services of New York. plications and discovered that the needs of tance and health care that the federal,
McGovern herself is lively, refresh- these individuals were not being met by state and local social services are sup-
ingly open and completely free of the traditional legal resources. MFY gave her a posed to supply.
~nd of hard cyncism that is rampant two-month salary grant to establish the One tool that McGovern has-at her
ainons. people who wOlk professionally project, and McGovern has pulled the rest disposal to achieve that goal is the law
with the society's most disenfranchised of the effort together by cajoling money itself. And last fall, McGovern entered
individuals. She avoids burnout, she out of foundations, putting together a into a Significant skirmish in her cam-
says, un-self-consciously revealing her ghost staff of volunteers and working 90- paign to force the system to respond to
workaholic core, by concentrating on hour weeks without any respite. the needs of poor people with HIV-re!at-
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the federal government.
That class-action suit, naming
Department of Health and Human Ser-
vices Secretary Louis Sullivan, seeks to
change the defmition of AIDS used by
the Social Security Administration to
encompass infections that occur in, and
effectively disable, HIV-positive women.
As it is currently defined by the
Centers for Disease Control a standard
that is used by most federal, state and
city agencies AIDS does not include
most of the diseases that commonly l1nbtodw:to't:J Dffn:
afflict women with HIV. And many men Tanning
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that the current definition, and the agen- 9 am-Midnight Monday-Friday·
ciesthat use that definition, discriminate
, 10 am-10 pm Saturday·Sunday
against her clients.
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with the issue."
. 'But while the opportunity to do
innovative legal wolk on behalf of poor America's Largest
peaple· is part of what initially brought Gay/[Link]
McGovern to poverty law, the suit against
the federal government has quickly Computer
become an insatiable time-gobbler . Information
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cent of my time," McGovern admits.
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1hen, watching her statement being duly -
recorded, she sighs. "Actually, you
should probably make that 75 percent of
my time."
, And what does she do with the
r6naining 25 percent, nearly 23 hours, of,
lief working week? "I write grants," she
Says. "That's the other part of my time."
. . The driving force--the bigger pic-
. d McGovern's lonely fight for
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that not every effort she undertakes on
behalf of a single individual is simply
3nother stop-gap.
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strongly throughout McGovern's own
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hile • the that's only half the problem. While the But the queer movement, at least as it is
United lesbian and gay movement is predomi- perceived, has gradually adopted 'a petit-
States, was actively nantly white, it is aImost entirely middle bourgeois sensibility. ~
[Link] in the class, and there lies the basis of the dilem- That perception is not without i
war:
. raging. . .". .. in Iraq,
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it; was nOf,stµpns- are disproportionately
, under-represented some of the primary gay "victories" won ~
irig to. see ,only a among this country's middle class. in the last few months and start from e
feW, dark faces at
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the many antiwar queers understand this as not simply a partners ordinance in San Francisco was ~
teach-ins
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sprang up in response here in San Francis- understand instead how the queer recently, Queer Nation/SF joined this
co..' Despite all the rhetoric. that the US- movement has come to represent • part of city's three gay supervisors in their cur-
sponsore<;l intervention was yet another the problem. Yes, queers of color have rem attempt to make San Francisco an
racist war, fought by people of color lagged behind in this movement, still try- official refuge for queers.
a~ people of rolor, to enrich the a>r- ing to fulfill-unsolved issues of the Black . These two incidents are not only
porate white ruling class, Afiican Americans movement But more importantly, in the excellent symbols but real movement
seemed. . nct . to take as active an interest in
, toward further weakening the heterosex-
the· [Link] one might have expected. 'ist dk;Iatorship. But while they drew upon
,' It was not surprising becau~ the much of the eneIgy of !pe queer move-
qd~movement is facing the very'same Gore
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Vidal was right: ment and the lesbian and gay rommuni-
9ilemma. Queers of color are generally ty, they failed to draw in the large num-
$IQall in number at San Francisco's Slaves do hold a bers of darker queers, the way Queer
Queer N;ation and ACf UP meetings. Nation's recent forum on racism did
And while there's much talk about being morbid fascination for The privilege to many and divorce is
inclusive, and people of color are persis- an important achievement for a group
tently asked to participate, many still their masters. that wants it but can't get it. But from
have not taken up the cause. another perspective, lesbians and gays
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doq't noti(!ethis lack of participation and emulate the bourgeois rituals of the rulers.
don't care. Others do care a great deal difference between a petit-bourgeois Gore Vidal was right: Slaves do hold· a
and have gone out of their way to agenda and all-inclusive Mrevolution" lies morbid fuscination for their masters.
eQcourage queers of color to be more the basis for the schism between whites The privilege to many and divorce
active. What each group has in common and people of color in the lesbian and is not something the queer movement
is a Wrong ,notion of the "queer revolu- gay liberation movement. should be asking for. For one, maniage
qon,":The Ia~er group, with all its sincer- People of ~ormust rontinue to deal is a class credential that many queerS of
ity, belieVes that people of rolor are kind with ~es of poverty---into whk:h 1l105t color aren't even in the running fol' 50
of shy and, staggering under the weight of us are born-Md prison-into which it is not at all inclusive. And it is part of a
of centuries of racism. But the. more
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many of us are sent Our position in sod- class system that, by necessity, demo-
te~ciously they recruit, the reasoning ety often restricts our participation in, and nizes people of color. So even if by
~, the more likely we are to open up inhibits enjoyment of, any "leisure time." some divine act of equalization all pe0-
and join. I am not arguing th;u the civil rights ple of color in the US were suddenly
; Well, Afiican Americans do still suffer movement or the Black nationalist move-
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fipm the legacy of racism and, if some of ment are fights for leisure. The System, tastes and needs that define it, the Sys-
Q.I,Irrulers have their way, will continue to which is the problem, is not ended by tem would still need to exploit our Third
sUffer for centuries to come. But for an creating more (B1a~gOblins, But having World brothers and sisters,
e'ffe:ctive, inclusive queer movement, leisure time at . g within, and aass divisions do exist in the United
embracing, that dynamic-tends to shape States, and we still logically define our-
j' :LowellB,Denny III covers San strategies and aspirations, unless that very selves through these interests, Class
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ne of Dis- with a remarkable resemblance to Anjel- to his mind, in getting a group of 40 mis-
, O . neyland's ica Huston. fits, drag queens, go-go boys and dykes
newest features is It reads, in other words, like a fanta- to .get on a bus to Los Angeles and
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the 3-D film Cap- sy of a Queer Nation visibility demo, and spread the fabulous word was that,·lor
r iain Eo, shown in the gay subtext is at times overwhehning: queers, every day of our life is a:x~ib,W-
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Viewers wear lavender 3-D glasses; the ity c4':monstration. And Ggreg, a.:swelt!'!,
t se~ next to Space Captain Eo logo is pearly pink and bald five-feet-eight-inches (five~lc;v~n
I Mountain . in the
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shaped like a Pride triangle; Michael in mirrored' platfollIlS), is adept at 9I'~t-
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i• rowland. Captain Diana Ross; and we are .even spared a After alternately go-going, sleeping,
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music . faux-heterosexual love interest. It making out or making over, the sm9ky
I vid¢o starring Michael Jackson in the remains, to my mind, the best available and lively bus pulled up at the Cor,al
! titl~ role. The plot: Eo and his ragtag
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analogy for the Lav'ender Tortoise Sands Hotel, an LA institution, of gay
; cre~ of freak puppets, .\.
white male cruising,' its
f the( well-intentioned inner courtyard featuring a
'tro~blemakers of what- swimming pool, ,sauna
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,are ~ part of, are trying mentary pom-video.s" for
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r faulty ~quipment, an . demo. Exceedingly rlou.d
(evil ,queen with a and lively after\th~:p-
: woman's torso and a hour hus ride and occupy-
'high-tech spider's body, ing. well over two-tl}irds
. of
~an army of thorny the hotel,
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Obscure
,.rogues and two beast- Tour dominated, apd. the
:men with whips. The boys ran. for their rQQ~
'aesthetic is somewhere as queen-screams ~oed
between Star Wars and from the pool an~U~~
:Xanadu, with Eo look- 1m, the Ilight!s d
•ing and acting like the cruising disrupted. ,,:i -
child Luke Skywalker This y;as to: be~,a ~
,and Mahogany might continual theme . for. . ","" the ::E
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t The production is people ran for cov<4;fVld ~
.,about fighting against we just kept laughing., if
,the repreSsion of love, MAWS BESTFRIEND-Ggreg meets Pluto. The next morning
·about dancing instead of began with' a trip ,to Hol-
killing and spreading love and under- Obscure Tour #1, which brought me 'to
c
. lywood Boulevard, beginning with Fred-
standing., Eo fires off bolts of rainbow- that dizzying place in Anaheim, Calif. erick's of Hollywood and the Bra. m~-
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.colored'energy, and at their touch the The Obscure Tour excursion to Los um at the back, featuring the. bras .of
·soldiers are transformed from fascist Angeles and Anaheim was the pet pro- famous female' and male customers; . ,

;thugs to Vegas dancers. The captain ject of Ggreg (three "gos) Taylor, notori- June Lockhart, Judy Garland, CybilJ
Wins the day, of course, and the world ous drag impresario, last year's candi- Shephard, Cyd Charisse, Tony, Curtis
,is ,overcome with color and joy, the spi- date-to-beat for emperor of San Francisco and Milton Berle. Cher trumped with ·an
.der-queen becoming a matronly figure and girI-about-town. Ggreg has long had autographed bra, and the best advertis-
a fascination with both Disneyland and ing ,slogan ever for a bra must be:
. l(e.\"{llitle/" Clwe is {I UTile/" {llitl
the Disney mythos, not to mention Amer- "Came in, looking like a Chevy; .left,
{let idsl (idll:": ill S{III F/"{//Icisco,
ican kitsch-culture in general. The point, looking like a Cadillac.·
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A police car, alerted somehow to kill James Bond. Ggreg of course contin- It was the day Disney lost. "
our presence, lay in wait as we left. The ued his exploration of Star Trek drag. Disneyland is one of the places
officer confronted us on the sidewalk We left to meet the bus, with only where heterosexuals go to pretend that·
and asked if we were a demonstration. one hostile comment from a truckful of their lives are truly interesting. This may
He looked confused as several group teenage boys who looked like a crew of sound a bit unfair, but it would be purer-
members assured him that we were sim- future sisters: "Faggot." After 12 queens ent if the place were interesting or imagi-
ply on vacation. (He had assumed we had gone by waving at them, it took native instead of a large-scale masturba-
would be protesting The Silence of the them five minutes to get even that out tory affirmation of the Eurocentric
lAmbs.) We left, vindicated by our assur- proving our suspicion that assimilation colonialist mind. The employees look
ance of bourgeois intentions, and we equals slow-on-the-uptake. We conclud- like they are between shoots for the J.
stepped lightly past tattoo parlors, wig ed our warm-up for Disney with a drag- Crew catalogue. It is hard enough hav-
shops and convenience. stores, leaving strafe of Queer Nation/LA meeting, ing these people run into you on the
"FAG" and "DYKE" stickers on the stars where we collected comrades for the street and realize that you are living a
of the closeted and famous. Disney excursion. s __ DISNEV 0 ... paa_ 815

We went on to the Max Factor

Museum, where we were entertained
by the director's oral history of Factor's
contribution to the glamour industry, I u X u r y apartments
the organized codification of gender
and inventions like the Beauty
Calibrator, circa 1933: a hideous cage
for the head fitted with screws much
like those in a tree-stand that were
adjusted to mark exactly how much
your face fell short of the ideal mea-
surements set by the Industry.
The crew slowly slinked off to
examine the four makeup rooms and
the wig room. Ggreg's protest was that
there was no room colored to accom-
modate the makeup needs of the bald,
to which the director responded with an
enthusiasm that marked much of the
reaction we were to receive every-
where: polite disgust.
After lunch, the Rodeo Collection,
Rodeo Drive's approximation of a mall: • •
We entered, a rush of neon stickers, d I s t ( t I v e d e (
neon or black hair, neon or black
clothes, combat boots, platfonns, pumps •
and Converse. All of the normals lined •

up along the railing and gripped it tighdy

as we said hello, shouted over sales and 21 renovated apartment buildings .
asked where the Pay-Less oudet and the
Walgreen's Drugstore were. featuring hardwood floors, security, fireplaces .
Contrary to our original suspicions
that people just drove slowly on Rodeo and most importantly...space.
Drive, we learned that cars were, in fact,
slowing down to check us out. Struck by the best of south beach.
a bond between the mannequins and
some of the club kids along on the tour,
the photographers could not stop. The •

uncontested stars were the Popstitutes,

who had obviously read Mirabella's
recent assertion that color was back in
VINTAGE
and were working combinations impossi-
ble to reproduce with hallucinogens; Eric,
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As the Parade Passes By regarding his refusal to speak before wrong. He compared it to forcing the
Assembly- Lambda Independent Democrats, or LID. organizers of the Martin Luther King Day
;woman Deborah Golden's gay representative on the City parade to open their ranks to David
Glick and activist Planning Commission, Ed Rogowsky, Duke, the fonner Ku Klux Klan leader,
MichaeI Callen will should intercede with Golden' since the and his followers, and asked if skinheads
.be the Grand Mar- UD leadership is getting very hot under with banners should then be allowed to
shals of this year's the collars. One has to do more than march in the Lesbian and Gay Pride
"[Lesbian
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and· . Gay just complain about one's padrone, parade. Of course, self-hating, homopho-
j Pride march. Glick Rogowsky. If Golden is that unrespon- bic Koch's analogies are moot In the first
lis-~ur 'city'S first sive, then Rogowsky should call for place, he misses the fact that the gays
land only openly his replacement. and lesbians marching in the St Patrick's
llesbian (or gay) Day parade were not there to bash the
ielected
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official, and Callen is a founder of Governor's Choice Irish but to celebrate the lesbian and ~y
'the People With AIDS Coalition and a for-
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Lance Ringel, the governor's liai- contribution to Irish rolture.
imer member of the gay singing group the son to the lesbian and gay community, It must be noted that Koch did not
;flirtations. Both have distinguished them- was appointed upon the recommenda- march with the lesbians and gays in the
"selves inour community, and both are a tion of Virginia Apuzzo. One hopes parade. Koch marched with the Holy
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, of pride. The parade committee that the governor reaches out to other Name Society of the Police Department.
Imade a wise decision. Congratulations! segments of the community for advice Amazingly, the organizers of the parade
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has introduced a domestic in making the next appointment. absolutely detest gays and yet they
!~erShip bill into our state Assembly, love Ed. Go figure.
ll!$ well as two important bills that would U. Governor's Choice Many elected officials and politicos
help control the spread of AIDS. One Lt. Gov. Stan Lundine's political did march with us during the parade.
would require hotels, motels and inns to people are setting up county advisory They include Manhattan Borough Presi-
s~H condoms, and the other would committees and seeking out representa- dent Ruth Messinger (who steadfastly
deCriminalae
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the sale and {XlSSe5Sionof tive gay politicos who "can make a dif- refused to take a position on a boycott if
Rypoqermic
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introduced
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into the state Senate by
ference." These committees are usually
nothing more than a way for an elected
gays were excluded), City Comptroller
Elizabeth Holtzman, Manhattan Demo-
Br90klyn Sen. Veimanette Montgomery. official to make a few party activists feel cratic County Leader and Assemblyman
WQrd has it that Glick is already well important, in hopes that they will return Herman "Denny" Farrell, Queens Assem-
liked by her [Link]. the favor in a future campaign. blyman Alan Hevesi, Manhattan Assem-
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Hello, • Must Be Going bid for lieutenant governor. in 1986 Oliver KoppeIl, labor leader Bill Nuchow,
We regret the news that Stephen caused a fair amount of controversy in Consumer Affairs Commissioner Mark
aeck is stepping down as executive direc- the gay and lesbian community because Green, openly Irish, gay City Council
tor of the Gay and Lesbian Alliance of his poor record on our concerns. hopeful Tom Duane and City Council-
Against Defamation, or GLAAD. It seems Lundine's record has not improved. woman Miriam Friedlander. The glacial
that things just didn't work out for him Though he promised us that he would City Councilwoman Carol Greitzer was
there. It's difficult to determine if this was pay attention to our community, he has nowhere to be seen. And City Council
. because Beck's vision for the organiza- not. Lundinehad some gay-handlers President Andrew Stein, who publicly
tion's future differed from that of the c0- back when the controversy arose, and supported the boycott, chose not to join
chairs or because the chemistry just they haven't followed through or pro- us in the march.
wasn't right. This is, however, an amiable duced for our community. As Lundine
departure, and GLAAD will continue to looks ahead for an eventual run for gov- Hack or Flack
perform its vita1 tasks. Beck is articulate, ernor, our community will continue to On March 13, over 70 people
progressive, sincere and hard-working. wait for him to show an iota of support packed into one of the smaller rooms at
This columnist wishes him well and is for our many concerns. the Lesbian and Gay o:>mmunity Services
certain· that Beck will continue contribut- Center for a Gay and Lesbian Indepen-
ing to our movement -. Am a Heterosexual- dent Democrats, or GUD, forum on
In the March 22 New York Post, Ed "I police brutality. Rachel Levine moderated
Hot Under the Collar am a heterosexual" Koch said that p~ the program which included video
There is no word yet from Brooklyn suring the st. Patrick's Day parade orga- footage of the Feb. 11 ACf UP demo at
Borough President Howard Golden nizers to include gays and lesbians was which cops charged non-violent
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Bill Dobbs, Ruth Harlow, Joyce Hunter,
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age hack." Park snapped back that if he Sean P. McCarthy'
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Park then launched into an impassioned
recitation on the three press conferences
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CERTIFIED NOT
allow George Segal's sculpture "Gay lib-
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employee Katherine Herzog sued the city
for anti-lesbian bias. Stern's response and
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by Risl Denenberg

My hands are I .~.. I sphere of sexual identification with ran- up well; zucchini fall apart rapidly under
tied together secure- dom notions, shapes, textures, odors, stress; bananas just make a mess. Many a
ly with a belt and lie scenes and objects. As adults, we have girl has been caught with objects lost
upon the pillow little choice over what turns us on other inside her vagina.
above my bead. My than to accept or reject. The transition to grown-up sex toys
ankles are bound Some portion of our sexual excite- is not always easy. Prohibitions, inhibi-
by leather restraints ment relies on visual cues. Many of us tions and internalized repression are
which pull my legs -, ",-.'
consistently "see" a scene in our mind close at hand. And as lesbians, we police
open as wide as during sex, and this visual area of the ourselves: We don't need dicks; penetra-
they can go and are r·'·'· ,.·0 .,.,.,.,.,.,;
brain often must be stimulated in order tion is politically incorrect; porn is bad.
tied to the bed posts. A piUow is under my to get excited or to achieve orgasm. It is But let's start easy. Most women
ass. I watch the woman place my thick somewhat of a breakthrough when we who want sexual pleasure to be part of
lavender dtldo into the leather harness can bring this needed "fantasy" into our their lives feel OK about vibrators. After
and fasten the straps tofit. Sbe is powerful real lovemaking by using words, cos- many years of talking with women about
asSbe ties a silk scarf over 179' bead and tumes or toys with our lover, instead of sex, I believe that the use of the vibrator
across my eyes. Tbere is a kmg, unsettling being with our partner on one plane is more likely than almost anything else
pause as she puts a tape into the player, and having separate sexual fantasies in to transport woman from non-<>rgasmic
and a sultry woman's voice begins to our heads. to orgasmic experience. And of course,
moan. Suddenly she is fucking me, and I Sexual fantasies often involve com- once learned, orgasms become a way of
amwfld. mon, recurrent themes, including: being life. For many women, orgasms vary in
escribing the world of sex toys for tied up (not in control or responsible for intensity due to a number of variables,
D lesbians reveals diverse paradigms the acts of ~; being forced to have sex
of sexual enjoyment. My first memorable (again, not being the one responsible or
erotic experience was in a public swim- in charge); being spanked (which may
ming pool, plac!ng my girlish mons resolve issues of guilt or allow one to feel
directly against the rush of water spray- like a bad girl who loves sex); rescuing
ing into the pool. I was hanging over the and rewarding a stranger with acts of
edge of the pool, chubby in my one- sex. Such themes often become integrat-
piece swimsuit, resting my head on fold- ed into our sexual selves before puberty.
ed anns, talking junk to my 8-year-<>ld In fact, so much has already shaped
best friend, who was, I presumed, the definition of our sexual imperatives
unaware of the intense pleasure focused before we become adults that it is logical
on both my clit and her grin. that certain sex props may be useful and
Soon I learned to lean up against desirable in our seXual experiences, be
the washing machine during the spin they casual or within committed relation-
.cycle, a trick I still perfonn without dis- ships. We should not feel guilty about
play of emotion at the laundromat, while our sexual themes and fantasies, nor
quietly enjoying the bodies of women should we feel obligated to extinguish
intimately immersed in the dirty under- them. Acknowledging and acting on
wear of their own fantasies. I love the themes that arise from our own early
idea of public sex because of the collec- experiences in concert with a lover can
tive gestalt in which we must engage to be a powerful and healing experience.
accept our own private pleasures.
My own sexual odyssey is strewn Intile
with fantasy, porn, talk and sex toys. Sexual exploration, including the
Many factors, including repression, use of objects, is an early habit, refmed
exploitation and abuse; clash with "nor- over years of practice. In the beginning,
mal" and "natural" diffuse , infantile sexu- there were crayons. Later, fruits and veg-
ality. Each of us enters into a private etables entered the scene: Carrots hold
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including penetration. many women: heels, stockings, garter

belts, crotchless panties, leather panties,
Some of UsUkeit silky, revealing underthings are all excit-
Penetration: Some like it; some ing to wear and display for your lover.
don't. The feel of a woman's Ixxly riding They're great for creating mood and
along or behind you during the excite- scene to complement your fantasies.
ment of being fucked is clearly a differ-
ent experience from having her fingers Toy-Shopping
doing the fucking. A dildo can be used In the city, Eve's Garden (119 57th
for self-service, held by a lover or worn St., Suite 420), is the only shop exclusive-
in a ·harness fitted to keep it strapped ly for women and features a wide variety
securely to the wearer's pelvis. There are of products. This store also has a good
even double harnesses which allow a selection of self-help books, a few videos
dildo to fit in both vaginas. (there simply aren't enough of these
Above all, a dildo allows the woman available) and other made-for-women
wearing it to fully experience the plea- products. It's a fun place to shop and lis-
sure of fucking her lover, and the woman ten to women debate the quality of the
getting fucked to fully experience the dildos or argue about who is going to
excitement of being fucked by a woman. wear what. It's a little pricey, but worth it
It is not difficult to create adequate Other sex shops abound on 42nd
stimulation to the wearer's clitoris to Street, and there are some in the Village
bring her to orgasm while she is fucking.
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Oike the Pleasure Chest on 7th Avenue
Regardless of whether or not they have South, near Peny Street). These shops
ever fucked men, many lesbians learn to are all very male-oriented but may be
enjoy stimulation to orgasm from the more convenient and affordable.
inside by a variety of techniques, includ-
ing fingering, listing and fucking with dil- Safer Sex
dos. Some women prefer and thoroughly Lesbians, like our straight and bi sis-
enjoy outside stimulation and climax. ters, have to traverse dangerous ground
(Buy these women vibrators for their to claim a healthy sex:ual expression. An
birthdays.) impOrtant issue is emotional comfort, first
Dildos 'come in different shapes, with ourselves and then with our lovers.
lengths, widths, sizes, colors and· repre- None of the enjoyment of sex: or benefits
. sentations. Some are quite phallic; others of using sex toys can be fully experi-
are shaped like fingers, wands, even dol- enced without lots of communication,
phins. Some are designed specifically to caring and boundary-setting. None of us
fit in the ass. They vary in cost and quali- should engage in any sexual play with
ty. At minimum, a dildo should be made which she feels uncomfortable, and since
out of good material, with a wide base we routinely overstep that rule as
that is held or fitted into a harness, and women, we should attempt to express
which will prevent the dildo from any discomfort to our partner when it
becoming lost within the vagina or rec- arises. We can clarify what we want and
tum. It makes sense to purchase your what we will allow by talking about it.
own dildo. You know best what will fit, Safety is a health issue as well. SIM
what will feel good. Shopping with a activities can be quite safe but can also
lover can be fun, too. pose the risk of hurting the participants.
It can be fun to shop for, and exper- It's not difficult to learn what is mutually
iment with, other playthings also. Tit enjoyable without anyone getting hurt.
clamps, or nipple clamps, fasten on and Transmission of germs (including herpes,
can be adjusted to create varying degrees warts, yeast infections, trichomonas,
of sensation. Unfortunately, most of these chlamdyia and HIV) is also an important
clamps are designed with men's nipples concern. It's best to have your own sex:
in mind and tend to be too small for toys and not share them. But, if desired,
women who have been pregnant or its OK to· cover a dildo with a condom
nursed babies. for someone else; it's a must to cover it
Use of sex toys requires a certain •
when going from vagina to ass.
familiarity with the different lube prod- Dildos and ass plugs should be
ucts, which also vary in cost and quality. washed with soap and water or a mild
Restraints, paddles and costumes can bleach solution after use and dried care-
also be I?art of our sex play. In fact, fully before puttin~ them away. This will
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Directors jennie Livingston and Todd endy me and Christine [Vachon, producer on
Pots-on] were just signed to CAA [Creative
Haynes are all the rage this season. They both Artists Agency). (He laughs.) A guy who'was
took home top honors from the Sundance and an advocate of my work-Martin Scorcese's
agent-apparendy made an announcement .
Berlin film festivals, he in the dramatic that we had signed with him. .,

category, she in documentary. Her film, Paris Is

Jennie Livingston: But aren't you happy
Burning, smashed the Film Forum's box-office to know that? ' ,
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record one week and then topped its own TH: Well, no. I was not happy to know that I..' .

achievement the next. His film, Poison, raised a because I hadn't made any kind of decision about any ..
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national ruckus last week-even before its
JL: Maybe you should,
opening when the American Family
Association's pater, Donald Wildmon, attacked TH: It just shows this weird, competitive we-have-
this-new-thing mentality on the West Coast that kind of
. the National Endowment for the Arts for freaks me out. My instinct is to run. ,

funding a project he deemed "pornographic. " JL: The thing about Los Angele&--QOd I grew up
And every journal from the New Yorker to there, so I love the city itself-is that the director who
makes five times as much money is five times as good.
Entertainment Weekly to The New York Times is And that is the reigning mentality, so that does make
spilling ink over the wild, seemingly boundless New York the right place for directors who really have
something to say.
success befalling the two young filmmakers.
TH: I think much of the time it's this hype thing
Taking an afternoon out of their mad that looks beyond what films are actually saying or
schedules to meet, Haynes and Livingston actually doing. But I also don't see this simple division
between marginal, low-budget, thinking fllms and stu-
discussed the blessings and curses of their present dio, high-budget, banal fllms. That's imaginary. More
often than not, independent films take fewer risks
'" good fortune, the challenge of making and because they're in a less secure position than main-
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uninteresting aspects of c;:ommercialfllmmaking just so
~ learned on the road to celluloid celebrity. Arts they'll get sold, just so the person can get to a position
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where they then can make creative decisions.
if editor Sarah Pettit was there to get it all down.
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JL: If you work at the lowest level of film production, the next ftlm where I can take care of the incredibly won-
there's nothing romantic about hiring someone and saying, derful people I want to work with again.
"Would you mind working for one-third what you usually
work for?" There's nothing romantic about essentially know- JL: There's no romance. That's something you loose
ing you have to exploit people to make your illm. very quickly. (She laughs.)
I don't want to get rich or be a big big-cheese, but I
would like to be able to pay people what they are worth. T8: I think we both felt in Berlin incredibly excited and
I've worked as a production assistant on Hollywood illms, thrilled to recognize [that] some of the most important illms
and I know that things run smoother when you actually that were present, especially in the Forum [the section of the
have the money to get what you need to get. I have all free Berlin Fest Parts Is Burning and Poison were in), were gay
production assistants, you've probably had some too ... illms. And I also felt that [you] and I had some weird experi-
ences with the gay scene in Berlin as we recognized how
T8: Tons. incredibly misogynistic the gay male world is, and how split
the gay and lesbians are in Berlin even in 1991. It really felt
JL: You tell yourself, "I'm giving them the opportunity like New York,maybe the US, was way ahead. Not that it's a
to learn about ftlm production," but what you're really race, but I had lived in Berlin in 1983 when it was in its
doing is having labor for free. Ultimately, you don't want to complete heyday, and I had felt a bit embarrassed about the
aim for that. You want to work in such a way that you're baggage of American associations. At that time, I felt the
an employer. intellectual pulse was a European one. I didn't feel that this
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time. I felt like the work that was coming out of the States,
T8: The total other extreme is the way Hollywood and the political and social awareness and self-awareness,
works. It's such a waste. I mean military spending and Hol- was more sophisticated.
lywood are probably the most wasteful industries in this •

country. But I share [your) goal to use whatever success Pot- JL: Well, also we have things to fight against in America
son has generated to get to a more reasonable budget for that they don't. I don't know enough about it to say that •

there's decent health care. I know there's better health care

in Europe. That's one thing right there. Obviously, our gov-
ernment has been so nasty and repressive for so long. And
all of the jingoism about this war-whether or not we
should have been in the war-is unbelievable. So we as
, artists have to react.
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liberation I've felt since we overcame the Vietnam syn-
drome. (1bey laugh.) I feel incredibly liberated as an artist,
as a gay person. ,

JL: Thank god for that, thank god for that. But, as an
artist, I can only represent what I perceive. I guess I feel
more of a burden in terms of being female, in terms of there
not being very many female illmmaking role-models that I
have. I just read in 1be Times that 5 percent of all people
directing Hollywood features are women. Five percent! Most
of the illmmakers that I admired, that I looked at-like John
Waters, like [Stanley] Kubrick, [AndreUTarkovski, [Werner)
Herzog, when I first watched illm--are not women, they're
not representing women's viewpoints. I feel much more
responsibility toward that viewpoint. My first film is about a
gay male thing, and I can't say I'll never make a illm about
lesbians. I must say I do feel too close to my life to make a
illm about my life. If you look at most illmmakers' work,
they very rarely make illms about illmmakers in relationships
like theirs, living in places like where they do.

T8: Or when they do, it's-s-

JL: It's so bad. And I would hate to think that people

would hold either you or me to any particular subject matter.
It irks me when people say to Gus Van Sant, "Why wasn't
MIGHTY REAL Kids on the street in Paris Is Burning Dntgstore Cowboy about gay people?" Gus Van Sant is a fine
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going to make films about. And he does the gay community - some political structure.
a credit by making the films he makes and being open about I mean, look at Fassbinder's career-he did make a cou-
his sexuality. The more the gay community tries to pin other ple of films which had gay characters, but mostly the genius
gay people to do what it wants them to do, the more indi- of his vision is that he had something to say about straight:
vidual gay artists will feel they have to flee from the gay society that straight society had never seen before--becauSe
community. And I don't think it behooves the gay communi- a gay person sees straight society differently.
ty to do that. Artists are not agitprop. We're not political
leaders, necessarily-we're artists. The political climate will TH: I think what's really cool about Fassbinder is that
influence us if we're politically minded, but I never said, he was as hard on his gay characters as he was on his
when I decided to make a film, that I was making an organ- straight characters. He saw everybody as subject to the same
izing piece. People are going to use it to organize, and I kinds of oppressive situations, living in society. It makes me
think people will use [your] film as sort of a way to think think that what's got to change is this simple idea that
about issues of sexuality and AIDSand the way deviants are homosexuality and heterosexuality are content-related rather

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ftlm they go away on vacation, and when.
they come back, everything is OK
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of them, who used to oppress them, real-
izes there's too much to be gained from
them. The neighbors need the help, the
landlord needs the money, the kids need
the old woman to babysit. Better to
accept them for the purposes of getting
from them what they can get. So, it's ulti-
mately this evil sort of statement about
the capitalist society. You know, it doesn't / •
matter what you do if you fit into the corl-
sumerist loop.
[A ftlm like Sirk's Imitation of Lifcl is
really appealing to me because he takes
the fonn of the melodrama, which is a '
very common fum fonn-it takes 90 min-
utes or so to go from the beginning to the
end-and yet Sirk-and Fassbinder-are
BARRING NOTHING A ,moment from the prison segment in Poison taking these forms and showing you sto-
ries you do not expect to fit into the melo-
drama. And that's what's so appeal-
thap. fonn-related as weIl. In a sense, heterosexuality, as I ing-that you don't necessarily need to break everything
see it, is a form, like narrative. If you play with form and down about a ftlm and then rework it.
break fonn up, behind every rule that defmes it as hetero- And I think that's what we're doing in Paris Is Burning.
sexual, there's the breaking of that rule, which you can It's not radical at all. It's a very conventional documentary in
defme as homosexual. Some of the most interesting "homo- some ways. Paris Is Burning is giving you defmitions. It's
sexual" ftlms might not even be made by gay people. Some saying, "A House is a group of Black people who come
of Hitchcock's ftlms are so complex and perverse and amaz~ together to be nice to each other because the world isn't
ing. Douglas Sirk, Billy Wiider-who knows what their sexu- nice." When you think of House, automatically that word
ality was, but it doesn't' even matter: The ftlm itself is a testa- brings up those images of Mom and apple pie, and so it's
ment to how certain rules and conventions are dealt with. taking those words and images and the act of defming and
Whereas ftlms like Longtime Companion, An Early sort of turning it on its head. And, in a way, Poison is taking
Frost rums which stick to narrative fonn so completely-I these very commmon forms that we have, that we have
think are really heterosexual. these set reactions to, and mucking them up a bit. Saying,
"What if a horrible person is someone you see on your street
JL: I think a perfect gay ftlm-and it is by a gay comer all the time?" It's taking forms that you're used to and
man-is [Fassbinder'sl AIt, Fear Eats the SouL Some people doing something else to them.
will say "It's not a love story, this Black Moroccan worker
and this old, ex-Nazi, white woman, so why didn't he just TH: What's also amazing about Paris Is Burning is that
make a ftlm about gay people, since it's clearly a film about it's a critique of heterosexuality and the heterosexual world
a gay situation?" But that's the beauty of it. It's not shocking through the eyes and gestures of this gay subcUlture. I think
to think that two men would live together, two women, but the worst reading of this ftlm is when you look at these sub-
it's shocking, even to gay people, I think, to see a young jects and you pity them. The guys at the end say, "I just
man and an old woman, particularly a woman who used to _ want to be a spoiled white girl," and you say, "Isn't that sad
be married to a prO-Hider guy. That's going to cause even that they want that?" rather than saying, "These are the val-
gay people who think they're so politically on to question, ues that are forced down everybody'S throat, and this is a
"Why does it shock me that these two people have just . way to look at them in such an incredibly critical way;
slept together?" through this incredibly beautiful and disturbing and vulnera-
ble voice."
TH: Your defenses are down. You don't expect to be •

moved by these incredibly tender scenes between the two of JL: Yes, I hate it. The English reviews said, "Isn't it
them: That scene I actuaIly totally rip it off in pathetic that these people want to be a member of another
Poison--[when my characters are] sitting together in the lun- class?" WeIl, it is pathetic in England because it's so
cheonette, having lunch, and people just stare at them. Com- impossible to transcend that structure. But in America,
pletely frozen, just staring at this couple, pointing, accusing. although there is a class structure, you can become another
It's just heartbreaking. class as long as you have the money. It's not pathetic, it's •

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JL: (She goes to drawer, shuffles

through it.) The details that people are
using to construct these social classes at
the Balls made me think of this lJean]
Genet quote: "I was surprised by so rig-
orous an edifice whose details were unit-
ed against me. Nothing in the world is
irrelevant-the stars on a general's sleeve,
the stock market quotations, the style of
the judiciary, the wheat exchange, the
flower beds, nothing. This order had a
meaning: my exile." That's why these
details matter to the Ball people-perfect
lead-in to Poison!

TH: I used that quote in this film I

did called Assassins about [the French
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" . pqet] Rimbaud. That's so funny! Part of the
motivation for doing the film in three sto-
ries, all of which are about deviance, was
to begin by contrasting points of view and
EXPERIMENTATION-Dr. Graves (Larry Maxwell) and Nancy Olson (Susan perspectives that these three genres carry
Norman) do lab work in Poison. with them, The documentary and the hor-
ror genre for me are the voice of the cul-
ture speaking-both of those stories begin
very much with a project to define
something everyone is doing. deviance and put it in a safe place, or answer it, like a docu-
mentary will answer an enigma. Those perspectives are defi-
TH: It's not pathetic that real white girls want to be nitely contrasted to the prison story, which is more literally
spoiled white girls and don't happen to articulate it in from the Genet universe and the perspective of the person
that way? ·who is shut out as opposed to the dominant societal view.
But, by the end, I think each genre begins to break out of its
JL: And that litany of things that Venus [Extravaganza] conventions and find a closer alliance to the other. In a way,
and Octavia [Saint Laurent] want, I mean, I can't speak for the stories of the various kinds of suffering the characters
you, and I can't speak for the readership of the magazine, undergo become more of a global problem and maybe force
but I want most of those things. I would like to have money. you to think about the conditions under which these people
I would not mind having a nice house. I would not mind liv- live and suffer.
ing with my lover and having a child. Those are very com- •
mon values. What they're saying is pretty common to most . JL: I was just sitting here getting chills because I think
people. I don't want a career in modeling, but I do want a it's so effective the way they do break down. [In the horror
career in something else, and I do want it to be successful. fIlm] when finally [the lead] accuses those people, the hyp-
So, it's not pathetic, it's about all of us in the deepest sense. ocrites, it's sort of the moment you always want in real hor-
It's about the pressure of culture on all of us to be a perfect ror fIlms-you want King Kong to go ...
rich man or a perfect beautiful woman.
TH: "What did they tum me into?"
TH: I think [those viewers] want to see the disenfrachised
as victims and people who are white or who have access to JL: And that's very satisfying. But for me the real
cultural benefits as the privileged or the oppressors a very epiphany of Poison comes at the very end when the mother
simple sort of dichotomy. I think to look at those people as says, "My little boy." It's about love--the saving power of
pathetic becomes a real, genuine, liberal, kind of sick instinct [Link] I don't expect to feel what I feel. That's what's very
that tries to have sympathy or empathy for people. What I surprising to_me about Poison as a movie. I'm not sur-
think is so interesting is the way that greed undoes the prised-you're a very intelligent person--that you could make
authenticity of the white original. The attempt to be "real" is a this critique of genres or the world and edit them in a very
mirror ~ge of everyone who is white trying desperately to skillful way, or that people can act well, or that on a very low
be a kreal white person.' It still takes play-acting, it's still a budget you could recreate a prison. What's surprising is, fit-
total falSity. It's still this idea of what a white person is sup- ting all of these very disparate parts together, for me it's a
posed to be, or what a Wall-Streeter is supposed to look like, very, very emotionally affecting movie. That's very difficult. At
or what an Ivy-Leaguer is supposed to look like. We play the very end, this documentary story, which is, in many ways,
those games just as passionately. early on, the weakest story, [has] this transcendent thing there.
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Ultimately, it's just this mystery. TH: It was very difficult. I worked with Jim Lyons, he
acted in the film. He's a professional editor, he's also a close
TH: That's interesting because I'worned that in using three friend. (He laughs.) I felt the need for somebody who had a .
characters it's impossible to identify with any particular charac- little more distance from the film but was also someone I
ter in the way that a typical narrative sets up. Since Poison has really trusted. There's this nervousness about all your ideas
three characters competing for the central position in the film, U when you take them apart. .
wornedJ that that hope of a catharsis that you want as a dra-
matic filmmaker would be hard to achieve. If it does, and when JL: Did the structure change very much?
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it does, for people, it's interesting because it's not linked to any
one character. If it gets you, maybe it does on this larger level. TH: Yeah. In fact, the end isn't the end of the script. It
ended with Graves [from the horror segmentJ in the hospital.
JL: I wanted you to address the issue of editing. I I had a tilted shot from a car. What about Paris Is Burning?
assume that the flOal form you found was not exactly desig- Was it mostly a process of paring it down?
nated by the script. Paris Is Burning, being a documen-
tary-{Jonathan Oppenheim and 1J, having cut it down from JL: It's just painful, obviously, to leave things out that were
70 hours of footage, really created the structure. What was addressed in the material but can't be addressed in an effective
that process like for you? film There's nothing I hate more than a documentary that goes
on too long, where the director leaves in all of his favorite scenes
and where half an hour ago I wanted to be out
POSE Octavia Saint Laurent models in Paris Is Burning. of the theater. I want it to be dramatic in the
sense that people were moved-they got out just
as it was time to get out. In the course of making
that sort of structure, there were strays left along
the side of the road
As a way of coming to some sort of struc-
ture, I made ''theme roles" like gay families, gay
fun-you know, how gay people have more fun
than straight people, (1bey laugh.) Really! It's
people saying, "Straight people never have
fun-they just live these boring lives." Then
there was this reel on religion, with Venus say-
ing, "I think gay people go to hell, but on the
other hand, God loves you, he must be able to
save you." She was an intense Catholic-ltalian
and Puerto Rican. So, there were all these reels,
and from them we beat it down to this three-
hour movie, and from that we did the real
machete-hacking to make it work. That was an
extremely painful process--! loved all that stuff
about gay people having more fun. Jonathan
and I were always fighting. I was saying, "Get
the political material in," and he was saying,
"Make people like the characters." In the end, I
think we arrived at a wonderful maniage of that
Then, of course, [we faced] all these dilem-
mas about whether or not to talk about AIDS. U
have been asked], "Why doesn't your film talk
about AIDS when it's this community under
seige?" There were people like Pepper [Labeijal
saying ,all of these really politically astute things ,
about AIDS, party-line sorts of things, but I was
like, "My film isn't about that." There are other
films which do that far more effectively, and of
course none of the people I had been focusing
on did have AIDS, but my feeling was, ultimate-
ly, ,anti-gay violence is a much more salient real-
ity for the people in the film Venus was mur-
dered. When AIDS is cured and gone, there will
still be anti-gay violence, drag queens will still .
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His first play, 1be Sum of [.6, opened Off-Broadway last fall to mostly rave reviews,
repeating the success of its previous two runs in Los Angeles and Williamstown, Mass.
For this openly gay Australian playwright, it's been nothing short of a dream come true.
After years of writing and directing film and television in the US and Great Britain (his
credits include A Toum called Alice and Breaker Morant), he turned to a highly autobio-
graphical work for the stage and hit ~y dirt.
The Sum of Us is a simple drama simple to a fault, according to some
aitics-which explores the relationship between Jeff, a gay Aussie in his early 20s and his oh-so-accept-
ing dad, with a minimum of external conflict. Dad is the kind of guy who stays up late chatting with his
son's tricks, sometimes• scaring them off because he's "too weIl-adjusted." But by the play's end, this har-
monious dynamic shows its weak spots a bit, when Dad finds himself hiding Jeffs sexuality from his new
girlfriend and is forced to look closer at his seemingly limitless tolerance.
For Stevens, the play is about grand themes: love, loneliness and family duty. For some gay viewers,
however-including the OutWeek reviewer-4he attention to these larger themes is at the expense of a
more challenging look at queer identity, I spoke recently over the phone with Stevens at home in Los
Angeles and began our interview by asking him to address these concerns.

What is your response to tbe kind of critICismtbat you received In OutWeek and elsewbere?
David Stevens: There' is a small but very strong core of gay . y more militant gay
men-who don't like the play. This has been true since it was first done in Los Angeles. In a sense, I
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expected it. One of the points of the play is that it isn't trying to preach to the converted. Nor is it trying
to reach a sense of angst about being gay. One of my intentions was to write a piece in which there is no
confrontation, an ideal world if you, like, and then just see what happens ....For me, in the play, sexuality
itself was never an issue.· O:>nsequentiy, for people who are fighting the battles for sexuality, they are
bound to resist or resent that aspect of the play.

When I saw the play, the audience was probably 80 percent gay men. And I thougbt it was curious
that very early on, thefatber introduces the son by "explaining" tbat he's gay in a way that to me, as a gay
man, wasn f an explanation that I needed. I wonderwbat your sense was of who your audience would be.
DS: I don't know that I ever set out to write it with an audience in mind. Virtually everything rve
done has been written for money, but this play came out of the blue. I had some time on my hands and
just wanted to write what was in my head. I don't think I ever thought it would be produced, certainly
not in America. If I had been writing it for America, it is possible I would have changed things, because
obviously the Manhattan experience is different from the Melbourne experience. You are much more in
the forefront of the battles here. The thing that's very pleasing to me is that it does seem to be speaking
to a 1arge number of people. That it speaks to gay men and women I take as a compliment because they
find something there that is reassuring. For the Slrnight people in the audience, what rm \TYingto say is,
"Look, it's not a problem, it shouldn't be a problem." A number of people have said that the relationship
• between Jeff and Dad is not possible it is possible and is based on many r ' . of this kind that I
know. Some fathers are not volcanos exploding at their son's sexuality; they take the trouble to find out
about it I guess I explained somewhat more than if I had thought the play was going to be presented to

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a gay audience in Manhattan. That was "militant"-come to the work with expec- dear to me. One is Jeff's early speech
never my intention. tations that you have a responstl7llity to about waking up when he was six or
address? seven and seeing his grandmother and .
What I found Interesting in the sec- DS: Yes, I think that's true, because her [female] lover in bed together and
ond act was when the father has to con- usually the gay cause is seen from that thinking it was the most natural thing
, in
front his own homophobia and sense of perspective. In the world of my play, I'm the world, and that actually happened to
shame when he brings his girljriend into trying to see the world from both ends of me. And to hear an actor do it, no mat-
the bouse. Were you making a statement things, not just from one. So if there are ter how well, it's a very curious feeling
that .fighting homophobia, whether you're limitations as to how much I espouse the of what is it, d~ja vu? In my mind, I
straight or gay, is an endless battle for gay cause, it is because I'm trying to be keep going back to that moment when I
each person? even-handed, I guess. was six or seven and saw that image,
DS: I'm not sure I'd quite desaibe it which is a seminal image in my life. I
like that It is a battle just coming to tenns Is the fact that the play is as success- think if I didn't know before, or wasn't
with your own homosexuality, but then ful as it is a surprise to you? conscious of it at the time, that is the
coming to terms with how you live your os: Oh yes, a wonderful surprise. moment when I understood what love
life under those conditions is another And it's the stuff of dreams. When you is. It's actually quite painful, and I put
thing. OK, so you come out. What next:? write a play in your little house in Mel- up a barrier that doesn't let it penetrate
Is it all a bed of roses in all your rela- into my heart.
tionships with people just because
you are out? And the simple answer is . Is this a new reaction for you
no. It may not be as traumatic as the because you've never written any-
process of coming out is for so many thing so personal before?
people, but life isn't going to become OS: I never discussed my
magically wonderful just because you gram's relationship with her girl-.
come out You still have to fight the friend all her life. It's discussed only
battles of life. with great pain with my mother,
whose mother she was, and in a
Is it ever possible for people to sense, there's a feeling that you're
completely erase that from your POint trespassing on private family skele-
of view? When the father is put to the tons. At the time, I think they are of
test In the play, he doesn't quite come some moment to other people, so I
out with shining colors. think it is incumbent on me to
OS: I guess what distresseS me share them. It is the duty of those
about a number of the gay militants who have been there before to
is that coming out and homophilia show that the path is safe.
become the only objective. One of
the points that has to be made here [Link] still find that you're try-
is that this is a first play at a time in ing to figure out what the play
life when people don't usuaIly write "means"?
first plays. A great deal of it is autobi- DS: Oh god, yes. People often
ographical, so these are the problems SUM KIND OFWONDERFUIr-Playwright David Stevens ask me what the play is about, and I
as they seem to me as I live my life. I can ramble on at length. I can tell you
never came out of the closet because I bourne, you dream of what might hap- what the plot is and what I think it's
was never in the closet; I moved from pen to it. But there's never been an Aus- about, but you can present me with an
the Middle West to England when I was tralian play successful in New York.-...It absolutely other case and I can say,
about 16 years old, having led a very happened by a series of accidents. "Well, yes, you maybe right."
open and active sex life from puberty When I came into New York for the
on. When I got to England, I found that rehearsals, even though we had had two . Are you at the point where you're
there were suddenly all these people successful runs in· other places, I tired of talking aroutThe Sum of Us and
trying to force me into a closet that I thought, Well, you're coming into the want to move on to other things?
didn't want to go into. Being-I hate the jungle, all you carl do is just relax and OS: I kind of want to put it a little
word, but there you go "out" at that enjoy the experience. bit behind me, but not completely. It
time raised an enormous amount of sort of has nothing to do with me any-
problems which still exist. What does it feel like when you sit more it's still a child that I love very
through ityouTSelf! dearly, but it has a life of its own. It
But since you are gay and the play OS: It's tough, because it's from has to be allowed to live that life now.
has gay subject matter, don't you think your heart. There are things in the play And yes, I want to move on. I'm still
peo~espectally those you describe as which are intensely personal and very trying to write that second play . ...,
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"A good trainer motivates you to get Julie Rosenberg, a trainer who
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zine and its editor, Ed WATCHING.
Kosner, must be com- Oops, there's that
mendeq for fmally doing nasty word again, No, not
the kind of queer-bash- "asshole"-"queer," Yes, an
ing story (focusing on anti-"queer" movement...,...,.
the Julio Rivera murder formed by "gays" and "les-
case) that they~nd the bians"-is the newest bit
rest of the media- of backlash in what some
should have penned long are describing as a, "gener-
ago. Even the writer himself, crime- of great importance and interest to ation gap" which, though widening for
sleuth Eric Pooley, acknowledges as me] to light," writes Seagal. "Skit Idea: the past few years, is suddenly becom-
much in his rather excellent story: For many of those who have seen my ing more ugly-and more public-by
"Rivera's murder became the gay Ben- fIims, I've had a history of violence in the minute.
sonhurst, but few outside the homo- or around bars and pool tables. It If you thought that recent hysteri-
sexual community even noticed." would be interesting for me come [sic] cal attacks made by gay writers at a
(Well, it wasn't as if we weren't into a bar to meet a friend or date, certain Neanderthal leftist weeldy
screaming at you lamebrains to get and the others in the bar all run for (directed at several gay activists; Out-
with the program.) cover as I enter and hide the pool Week and mo{J were indicative of this
It seems that gay-bashing stories, prevalent and paternalistic onslaught,
perhaps with the parade and all, are you had only to be at the Community
more in vogue-a grotesque but, Center last week for "Do You Like to
nonetheless, true observation, and typ-
[Link] Be Called 'Queer'?" At this [Link]
ical of how the media responds. How- forum, sponsored by GL ; ::::.,.::
ever, one writer who isn't noted in any Coalition for Lesbian and Gay~g ""tS,
of the pieces is John Voelcker, who the Log Cabin Club and the Stonewall
did a seminal piece on the psychology Democratic Club, the name-calling,
of gay-bashing (in OutWeek last July) we're told,: reached a deafening
and which provided a base for all the t crescendo, and participantS were, by
others. (But I guess we should be _the end, lucky to get out of the Com-
happy enough with coverage forget munity Center with limbs still attached.
about getting credit.)
Carrying on, it is only fitting that,
generation "You are the enemy!" screamed
some of the anti-"queer" types to
while on the topic of lamebrains and members of Queer Nation.
the grotesque, we turn our attention to "You people are dinosaurs!" the
the supposed actor Steven Seagal. You Queer Nationals yelled back. "YQu're
•
know him: He's one of those freaks of white assimilationists!"
Hollywood, the kind of media mishap Now, just for clarification: When
that now seems ·to occur more often . we refer to this as a "generational"
than two-headed cows in Chernobyl. equipment and other potential thing, we don't qecessarily mean ~age."
Sea~ starred in that memorable mar- weapons. In addition, you could have We're talking about ideologies and what
tial-arts nightmare, Marked for Death, reps from the tabloid magazines in some have called a "pre-AIDS"mentali-
and recently served up the equally the bar. This could bring an interest- ty vs. a "life-during-wartime" frame of
mind-numbing Hard to Kill ing conflict in the bar, and I could mind. While, for the most part, this
Last week, he wrote a letter to find another weapon out of some- debacle probably does divide along age
Saturday Night Live producer Lome thing no one would have ever Hnes, there are, nonetheless, many
Michaels. Seagal is set to host SNL in thought possible. (I could also say to older people with the "wartime" mind-
the next few weeks, and he had a few a friend, 'Do -you know the fat homo set, and lots of younger people who
skit ideas that he wanted Michaels to prick that did the article on me?' Her somehow have a "pre-AIDS"mentality.
-mull over. Of course, Seagal-and response, 'Yeah, he ran off with my And the division is not clear-cut
Michaels for that matter-probably husband.') I hope we can come up regarding issues either. Outing, for
didn't think that some queer media with something good." example, is by no means universally
insider might intercept the fax, pop a Perhaps, Mr, Seaga1,you are Hard accepted among the younger
copy of the letter into an envelope to Kill. But certainly, after the entire activists~nd neither is "queer" for
and send it to moi. lesbian and gay nation gets wind of that matter. What does differentiate the
qEven though they are sore sub- this, you will also be Marked for generations is not necessarily their
jects and often controversial, I believe Death. BE VERY AFRAID, ASSHOLE. positions regarding controversial tactics
'that SOl. of black, sardonic • •• but rather the way they react to
humour [sic] would be the best
.way to bring subjects [that are
lee In e I III I rI e ~e ta~tiCS.~at others are using
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Those with a "wartime" mentality
realize that we're in a critical situation
here and accept the fact that every pos-
sible means must be tried. For the
most part, they respect everyone else's
efforts, even if they don't particularly
agree ("I don't believe in outing, but if
Buy Playboy.
that's what you're going to do, that's
up to you. It makes me uncomfortable, Lave '''[Link].
but I've got my own work to do and I
respect your judgment anyway. "). dyke friend told me to look at the ran a Larry Kramer piece pointing
The "pre-AIDS" types, on the I May Playboy for "something good out that someone dies of AIDS every
other hand, don't seem to see or on gay-bashing." I also picked up the 12 minutes, and Newsweek wrote that
don't want to see-the urgency of our anorectic premiere issue of Genre, a rape occurs every six minutes. They
current mess, think the entire gay subtitled "Your Guide, to Gay complain that the media doesn't "cele-
movement has lost its mind, cannot Life/Style" (take out the slash, and it's brate the positive side of sex with the
believe that activists are trying all of the scariest word in the language). same rhetorical device ....Someone has
these "destructive" actions whether at In searching out the gay-bashing fun [sex] every .00003 minutes-the
ACf UP, Queer Nation, Out Week or article, I came across a Playboy map of vast majority without disease, violence
wherever~d feel that these crazed "states with most AIDS cases" ("Do you or death," True-perhaps.
terrorists, if left unchecked, will live in hostile territory?" the banner But if you play the odds, consult
destroy the entire movement and thus mused. "Take a look.") and a weird your Playboymap, ignore the "hype," and
must be interfered with immediately editorial accusing the media. of being hope for the best, it's still not enough.
("~lllhlg
.
" . must stop! Invading the sex-negative. Their proof: The Times Sure, the media needs to face the fact that
church must stop! Calling all of us people have sex and like it, but they
'queer' must stop!") also need to know the other stats.
Of course, there are extremes on il Ie Playboys deal is sexual freedom,
both sides which illustrate just how far
apart the two groups have and will
continue to--become.
Qunpion Read is a member of the
Stonewall Democratic Oub and has had
several run-ins with OutWeek regarding
our use of the word "queer." On the
night of the Community Center deoore,
he gave out a two-page statement.
"No wonder there is a movement
in the streets of extreme rage!" he
exclaims. "No wonder individuals
preaching a gospel of hatred and intol-
erance against entire classes of people
are finding supporters within the com-
munity. As the center of gravity of gay
activism moved from the aging clones
of the West Village, the style of gay
activism came to be set by the East VIl-
lage, a style influenced by punk rage,
anarchism and contempt for middle-
class culture ....Many thousands of mid-
dle-class gays find the word 'queer'
ugly and unacceptable to their identi-
ty....The contemptuous, self-righteous
refusal of queers to acknowledge the
truth about real differences in the
homosexual community is a form of
oppression ....It must stop now ....Fash-
ion is fun, especially for the young. I
really see the switch to 'queer' as a

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April "7 ... _ .. OUTWEEK 5"1

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•
'.
,a·nd their "gay-bashing" article. by Copy this article, and give it to They blame the "nominal Iris
Voice columnist Nat Hentoff is' bril- eVerYone-fax it to your friends in the Catholics" Jimmy Breslin and Pet,
liant-worth buying the magazine, media, hand it out at church, show it Hamill for what Cardinal O'Connor
because Hentoff gets the whole story, to your family, send it to the VOice, wrote in his Catholic paper a few
:• An example: "It is the conventional and ask why we haven't see such a weeks ago, "This Lent, Catholic-bash-
wisdom that the most vicious hate- definitive treatment in tbetrnewspaper. ing has been the in thing." Newsweek
Crimes are racist, but the mounting evi- It took a. straight writer like Nat glossed over the hellish conduct at the
dence indicates that violence against Hentoff and straight editors at a maga- . parade, Tbe McLaugblin Group
gays is more ferocious than any other zine like Playboy to do the job (including Patrick Buchanan.) for the
form of bigotxy." right-for a change. most part agreed that the media does
Hentoff takes on the media, say-
ing: "What passes for documentaries
• • • bash Catholics, and US News gave a
whole page to John Leo's piece, "The
Newsweek's cover story, "Violence
about bigotxy on national television do Goes Mainstream," had nothing to say Gay Tide of Catholic-Bashing. "
not directly address many viewers' about gay-bashing, but alleged :AIDS None of these people knows what
most cherished prejudices ....A prime- doctor Robert Noble wrote a hysteri~ he or she is talking about. Leo writes of
time program, however, that would "My Tum";COlumn ending with: "There "the intense campaign by gays against
begin to reveal the extent and horror is no safe sex. Condoms aren't going to the Roman Catholic church." Where are
of unleashed homophobia might make a dent in the sexual epidemics the fact-checkers? Besides ACT UP
awaken more of the populace to the that we are facing. If the condom demos to protest Cardinal O'Connor's
savagery that explodes when homo- breaks, you may die." Safer sex may not (not the church's) forays across
phobia is no longer limited to taunts be an exact science, but it clearly makes church/state lines, there is no "cam-
and other verbal onslaughts." more than "a dent" We can't eliminate paign," not even a position paper or offi-
He recounts some horror stories, all risk, particularly in the time of AIDS, cial position. They complain that the
quotes all the figures, explains that our and the reality is that people will still press doesn't cover gay attacks on
civil rights are only legally protected in have sex as we should. Kids need Catholicism, but if this is true, how do
two states and reveals that "73 percent of more than condoms-they need infor- any of them even know about it?I didn't
the victims of anti-gay violence never said mation. You've heard it before, and see Pat Buchanan at the cathedral,
a word to the police. One primary reason we'll have to say it again. Leo goes on to say that "savage
More· egregiously, Newsweeli s
·
is fear of being a vicilm for the second
,
time a victim of the police." And he media section picked up on the latest
mockery of Christianity is now a con-
ventional part of the public gay ·cul-
quotes the ·Ioving lyrics of our friends at story to "spin, spin, spin" (as award- ture." As it should be, I say, in light of
Guns 'n' Roses, Heavy D and Audio winning Outweek journalist Nina the savage mockery of gays and les-
.Two whish drive home the ~udice.
• •
Reyes calls it): "Catholic-bashing." bians that has ever been a convention-
al part of straight culture.
Sure, Catholics have faced hatred in
America, and most of it was long ago.
There aren't roaming bands of fags and
,.
• • • dykes beating Catholics with baseball
bats, only all-Americangrass..roots politics.
Where is the article on the inten-
... •
Human Rights Campaign Fund's blow-in Advocate brochure sified Catholic tide of gay-bashing?
And which came first, anyway?
features photos of Jesse Helms, Phyllis Schlafley, Pat Robertson "Catholic-bashing" is self-defense,
They just don't like it when people
bash back. As my media buddy,
. and Sen. William Armstrong and this copy: "Do Politicians Michelangelo Signorile, wrote in his
NY Post rebuttal to Patrick Buchanan:
,. Win And Our Friends Die Because of Our Silence?" The answer Just consider the Spanish inquisition.
•
(As of press time, we still don't know
if Jerry Nachman was serious about
is "Damn s~raight," and it's nice to see the rhetoric of the vanguard printing it.)
In that paper, Buchanan continued
trickle down...And in the Advocate's story of a Hollywood gay mur- the "Catholic-bashing" binge with a sec-
,
ond piece on the parade, asking why a
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study of the mainstream media showed
,. . d~r, there's a photo of the victim with Rex Reed. I wonder how he that "on most controversies involving
•• Catholic teachings, the church came out
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feels about that appearing with a notorious homosexual. -M.G. on the losing side of the issue debate."
Hili. Patrick, it's because the Catholic church
is wrong and evermore irreleVant....

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rlando remembers that evening in 1984 the amount of hair-control exercised. It is not uncom-
when he won the World C:µampionship mon, Orlando says, to drain an entire can of hairspray
for a gravity-defying do. "The hairdresser wants the
in Las Vegas, The site was the Coliseum.
hairstyle to look perfect," he says. "They looks like wigs
When the judge announced his name, Orlando sometimes, that's how perfect they are." After a show,
jumped up, squealed and ran to the stage. Cam- when Orlando goes out on the town, he hastily rear-
ranges his Ken-doU coiff.
era flashes exploded as Orlando hoisted the
Since his face and his hair are his fortune, Orlan-
grand trophy, ann in ann with his hairdresser, do protects his investment. He uses superior shampoos
Orlando Padilla, 36, is·a world-class hair and hair vitamins. The blowdryer is used sparingly.
Keeping a fit body is also essential to high scores. "If
model.
you want to be a good hair model, you should have all
"Anybody can be a hair model if they have the right the best qualities: the hair, the look ....You don't want to
hair, ,the right color, and they go on a runwa,y and have beautiful clothes and have a big belly."
model," says Orlando, his luminous dark eyes flashing. The biggest shock in all this pageantry, however, is
While pursuing a degree in hair and makeup in Puerto the dearth of queers. Orlando's mentor is straight; so are
Rico, he was invited to appear in hairstyling competi- other stylists. He explains that these people are more bar-
tions. Insiders call them "hair .shows." Orlando had ber stylists than salon hairdressers. Moreover, most mod-
already acquired stature on the international hair-show els are straight and married. Orlando picks out the occa-
scene when he returned to the United States (he was. sional queers through eye contact but is much too busy to
born here) in 1984. Two years earlier, he landed a pursue them. Besides, do Olympic athletes sleep together
bronze medal ,in the international competition in Swe- the night before they compete for the gold medal? Orlan-
den, for his lush salt-and-pepper hair. do has no discomfort over being the sole (known) gay
Each hair -model has her or his own Pygmalion with a person at hair shows. "They like me the way I am,
teasing comb. The model is, in the best sense, a raw piece because I'm, very friendly and funny, sometimes making
of clay that awaits sculpting. The ideal hairstyle may take jokes," he said. Besides, sexuality is not the criterion for
a year of practice. Nothing is haphazard. Hairdressers are success. "They just want my body and my head."
given specific guidelines. Creations are judged for color, The hair-show glamour has limits; only the hair-
length, tapering and texture. Any aberrations in length or dresser gets her or his name carved onto the winning
style are disqualified. Hair extensions are trophy. Orlando has all show-expenses
tantamount to steroids at a Mr. Universe paid, and the chance to globe-hop. He
cattle-call. remains faithful to his stylist, having
Hair models compete in three cate- turned down several offers to work
gories: Classic, Artistic Gala and Com- with others, Beyond the realm of the
mercial. Men and women are judged sep- hairstylist world, Orlando and his con-
[Link] hairstyle may compete in temporaries are mere mortals on the
several categories. Models sashay down streets of America, But he knows his
the runway, where smiles at the audi- importance in the hairdo universe.
ence yield big points. Subtle movements "1be model is 85 percent of the com-
are favored; an abrupt tum of the head petition," he says. "A lot of hairdressers
can disturb the line of the hair. Contes- don't know what they're doing some
tants must sit in a chair as 15 to 20 times, and they don't practice hard enough
judges surround them, one by one, and to win a big prize. If you get a good
run their fingers through the person's H I model and the hairdresser doesn't know
hair. This seems an unseemly task, given ,. I III er what he's doing, they lose everything."T

54 ou I _VEEK April" 7. ute ..

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ollywood, that great tinseled abyss of though she mentions Ms. Hawn's ass more than her hair.
the American dream. Whether you Uz: 1 think she's "on the team," despite numerous men-
• tions of her many attractive, poot-adolescent boyfriends .
love to hate it or hate to love it, Sydney: My second-favorite part was when she sali-
around Oscar time you just can't escape it, Like a vated over Corey Raim. If we believe what she says, then
bad date from years past, it just won't leave you it wasn't for lack of opportunity. Anything with a nervous'
system had the hots for her.
alone, Everywhere you turn, self-proclaimed Uz: A legend in her own mind.
"psychics"fill the ainvaves hawking their Oscar· Sydney: These are drugs. This is the book your brain ,
•
predictions to anyone who will listen. To say that writes on drugs. Any questions?
Uz: Oh, the glamour of Hollywood. This hefty tome
. life imitates art would not be a lie, you think, as will probably keep more people out of Los Angeles than
you overhear a clubbie practicing her acceptance Sandra Bernhard. ."
. ,

speech in front of a .bathroom min-or, Finally, Sydney: Limelight is writing a screenplay of its own.
Uz: lhat's a really weak transition. But go ahead.
you realize that club .life is just the videotaped Sydney: lhat item they planted in Newsdayabout two
community-access version of the silver screen, columnists spilling a drink on Grace Jones' bra and trying
whether they go home with a golden Oscar or a to run it through. the wash before she noticed ...
Uz: i don't think she's been to Limelight since they
golden boy. "reopened. "
SYDNEY: You'll never eat lunch in this town again. Sydney: They had a press dinner for, among others,
LIZ: Why? Did everyone get acting jobs at the same the Wall Street Journal arid had to hire clubbies to fill the .
tim·e.? room, Then they gave out a mushroom punch to make
Sydney: No. It's just an idle threat. sure the "filler" would misbehave, i.e., be press-worthy.
Uz: Gee, thanks. You know, Julia Phillips has actual- Uz: Well, when they make Limelight: the Movie, I'm
ly lost restaurant tables over her book.' sure that's one story that won't make the cut, and the peo-
Sydney: 1 didn't think that most maitre d's took bad ple who came up with that idea should be cut.
writing seriously enough not to seat people. Sydney: For someone whose first featured role ended
Uz: You're telling me. Bret Easton Ellis will never eat up on the cutting-room floor, Kevin Costner did pretty
anything but Stouffer's Lean Cuisine until hell freezes over. well at the Oscars.
Sydney: What do Julia [Link] and Mr. Ellis have in Uzl Quite. ..
common? . Sydney: Maybe there is hope for this world after all.
Uz: They both have egos the size of a Wasn't it a big victory for multi-cultural-
CedI B. DeMille production. They're both ism an African-American actress with
pencil-necked geeks. They're both self- dreads, an actress who doesn't look like a
loathing homosexuals. 1 don't know. "traditional" starlet and an epic film about
Sydney: Well, yes. But 1 was thinking Native Americans all won.
more along the lines of sexist, racist, homo- Uz: Yeah, and then there was the tri- .
phobic idiots than pencil-necked geeks. umph of pop cu!tura!ism-Madonna's '
Uz: Yeah, but at least Ms. Phillips has homage to Marilyn Monroe.
,
a humorous bone in her body. Sydney: "Talk to me, Norman
Sydney: I was more fascinated by her Schwarzkopf, tell me all about it!"
obsession with Goldie Hawn's butt. I love Liz: Well, at least she didn't try t(h
the fact that every reviewer quotes her as play brain-dead and say, "I didn't even
saying that Goldie has "stringy hair," even S__ LIZ &. SYDNEY on p_._ sa

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POISON. Directed and written by Todd Haynes. Produced by Christine Vachon. A Zeitgeist film release.
Angelika Film Center. NE corner of Houston and Mercer. (212) 995-2000.
by Peter Bowen morality. Not unlike the fake biogra- humiliation when they were adoles-
In 1989, Todd Haynes' Superstar, phy of the now-outlawed Superstar, cents together at the Baton reforma-
his profoundly fabulous story of Karen Polson internalizes its criminality by tory. Alternately viscerally disturbing
Carpenter's life and death, featuring an playing havoc with the laws of narra- and lyrically erotic, the segment, like
all-talking, sometimes-mobile cast of tive and genre., Braiding together Broom's torment, moves back and
disfigured Barbie dolls, won critical three seemingly separate stories with forth between violence and beauty
praise and corporate ire. First, Mattell what at first feels like the editing until these separate effects become
threatened to shut it down for marring logic of a late-night channel-switcher, not only inseparable but-for all
the good name and plastic face of their the film ultimately takes on a seam- practical purposes-the same. Nei-
celebrated doll. Then Richard Carpen- less editing rhythm, uniting its dis- ther an obvious parody nor a tradi-
ter, before dehumanizing his sister's parate elements in its shared conspir- tional narrative, the "Homo" seg-
[Link] for the sanitized TV-movie acies. Largely and loosely inspired by ment even '1fter a rape, a killing
version (particularly by sentimentaliz- the writings of Jean Genet, the film and a sudden shower of rose petals
ing her struggles with her sexuality, recounts fransgression, finally, not as and spit-feels slightly static and
her eating disotders, her suicide), suc- a crime but as a miracle. Indeed, stilted next to the other two sections.
cessfully sought a cease-and-desist even the film's parodies inhabit their Yet if it seems to go nowhere, this
. order against the film. Hollywood originals-the Current may be because it has already
While perhaps less scandal-rid- Affair shocking expose, the '50s sci-fi escaped the worlds the other sec-
den, Haynes' new film, POison, thriller-with such a straight face that, tions are struggling to reject.
proves no less transgressive. Winner by the end, there remains only the The miracle of abjection that so
of the Grand Jury Prize at the Sun- transformative fiction of sincerity. fully saturates "Homo" becomes in the
dance Film Festival, this interwoven At the heart of each section, other two sections, "Hero" and "Hor-
trilogy of crime, science and patri- steering the different plots on paral- ror," a point of conclusion. Dressed
cide has already touched a critical lei courses, is Genet's poetics of up in documentary drag, "Hero"
nerve, The predictably homophobic rejection. "In submitting to prison marches out various interviews by
New York Times, for example, felt life, I could reject the world that had schoolmates, teachers and neighbors
the need to describe (erroneously) rejected me," explains the voiceover to piece together ~e story of Richard
a scene of spectators fleeing the of the Genet-like character, .John Beacon. For, according to his sublime-
Sundance screening in disgust. But Broom (Scott Renderer), in the sec- Iy suburban mother, Felicia Beacon
transgression is not simply the tion aptly titled "Homo." Broom, (Edith Meeks), Richard shot his father
film's modus operandi-it is its now imprisoned as an adult at and then flew out of the bedroom
very subject. Fontenal prison, is torment- window never to be seen
The film's toxicity resides, how- ed alternately by his desire again. Begun as an absurd
ever, not in the shameless shock for the hunky inmate, Jack Oedipal joke, the mother's
value of a film like Pink Flamingos, Bolton (James Lyons), and story, bolstered by the
but rather in its relentless resistance by his sentimentally techni- truth machinery of TV
to filmic convention or conventional color memories of Bolton's journalism, finally sounds

56 OUTWEEK April 17. 1_1

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utterly credible. Where else does a The result is, of course, disaster. His beautiful cinematography of Maryse
boy-the perfect homo-child, tor- face begins to mutate, festering with Alberti and to the work's multi-tex-
mented and taunted, beaten up and running sores and molting flesh. tured walls of music and sound
perhaps sexually abused-belong but Contaminated, the doctor turns into effects. Yet within Genet's paradoxical
as, to quote his mother, the "gift from a sex maniac, lethally infecting oth- aesthetic economy, such beauty-to
God" return to heaven? ers, including the one person he has paraphrase Sartre-allows us simply
Inverting the black-and-white learned to love and trust, Nancy to eat shit and like it. It is fmally in
sci-fi genre, in which the scientist Olson. Bordering dangerously on an this championing of transgression that
must kill the monster his science unsafe allegory of the AIDS crisis, the entire film becomes significantly
has created, "Horror" transforms its the "Horror" section rescues itself by homosexual. Working off of Genet's

LAUGHlBlIS THE BEST REVENG~Melissa Brown and Joe Dietl in Poison

scientist into a monster and then revealing the public's hate and dis- equation of homosexuality with crimi-
makes the monster the hero. Dis- gust as more monstrous than the nality, each section locates in its
tracted by the charms of an adoring lesions that disfigure the doctor's degradation, monstrosity and torment
colleague, Nancy Olson (perfectly face. the power to escape and rewrite a
played by Susan Norman), the Poison, as the title suggests, is world that has already rejected
absent-minded Dr. Graves (Larry not always easy to swallow. Yet by us-and, to judge by the recently
Maxwell) aCcidentally swallows the its own homeopathic recipe, it is turned [Link] of the order of the
cup of human sex-drive that he has finally its own antidote. Much praise Ancient Hibernians, continues to
laboriously attempted to contain. is due to the deftly versatile, often- reject us. 'Y
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by Amy Scholder and Ira Silverberg. Dutton. $19.95 cI., $8.95pb. 299 pp. me. I fell into shame like a suicide
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by Anne-christine d'Adesky talking about the mental distance one son, "Private Ri1uals" )
;:
•• There are a number of reasons why takes from the bOdy on drugs, during Stylewise, I notice that some writ-
,•

,:: High Risk: An Anthology of Forbidden sex, during pain. What makes so much ers seem to favor piling on verbs to
..
::
Writings is an important read. Starting of the work in High Risk good is the describe the activity taking place in
,,.
:~
with statistics and epidemiology (as all close, dispassionate attention, the clinical and outside of their bodies, while oth-
good reports in the US do nowadays), love, attached to the body as it fucks or ers use descriptive adjectives such as
the collection contains classifying shits or receives pain through a protec- "sullen" and "languorous" to connote
)oosely-13 male writers, 13 female and tive wall of blank or released emotion. the slower, fluid rhythm of a surreal
one lesbian transsexual. There are a The fonn here is closer to reportage than inner reality. Often, the choice of
number of Black and Hispanic writers, literature; it's urgent and subjective, fic- words is precise and satisfyingly per-
both gay and straight. All of them have tion verite (a tenn first coined by jour- fect. Consider Mary Gaitskill's paean to
either engaged in a:>C-defmed high-risk nalist Laura l'1anders to indicate those pre-teen sexuality, "Action, Illinois," in
sexual activities or ingested body fluids times when your reality exceeds your which hardly innocent games of child-
at one time or another in their lives that fantasy but you have to pretend to make hood are referred to as "little social
would be called dangerous, if not sus- it up because nobody will believe it's massacres." Her attention to detail is
pect and in bad taste, by some. true); no matter the voice or device of keen: "They weren't big boys they
High Risk is dedicated to Gregory character, the bottom-line perspective is were small, with sinewy, racing-dog
Kolovakos, a gay writer and translator nearly always first-person: bodies-but their strength came out of
who died of AIDS. Several authors are I spent a lot of time searching out the their huge bawling mouths and their
IDV-~itive; one is dead of drugs and world of pornography. It wasn't the· human indifference to pain,"
AIDS. Of the living, I can't imagine any only literary country to which I jour- Most of the collection is urban;
who don't think about death and the neyed, but it was· always my favorite. Gaitskill's suburban mall-life is an
d ecay 0f· Amencan culture regu Iar1y- Oohn Preston, "How Dare You Even
Think s ch Things?" ) exception. There's no escaping that
like flossing, which causes a little bleed- u these are American writers too; the
ing each time. Nor do any appear here in the dark I miss the fine lines
repentant about sex or desire or pain; beneath Dion's eyes running like rivers S __ ...ISK 0 ... pag_ aa
their emotions are far more complex,
layered with hidden meanings like • •
dreams, which many of them allude to
as a central metaphor for all forbidden
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activity. Yet ov~rall, what strikes me

the most about this collection is the
A Talk With Editors Amy Scholder
simplicity of the voice, in many cases,
a straightforward honesty that smacks
and Ira Silverberg
of truth and needs no embellishment
to make it powerful, moving and by Sarah Pettit Ira Silverberg: But if you're looking
deeply human. [find that [ kap coming back to ;our at mainstream values, there are bonds
The lines I loved most were the introduction in High Risk because It's the between all of those areas because
ones I could not deny, like these from clue to the whole. I'm tnterestsd in how )VU they're falling outside of what the domi-
Pat Califta's poem "Heroin": perce;ve the 11Ctkm of . in 1T!Ia- nant culture wants to reinforce as the
the drug lays down along my bloodslream lion to the fy and as an overar- aesthetics of the culture.
like a strange animal ching amcept ..7mngressfon can m«.ln a lot Amy Sdlolder: I think our project
it takes. over my heart of things, and, [think, the danger would be was, first, a .literary one, so what was
and makes it beat uncomfortably fast In the amorphous, the undescribed, the more immediate in our considerations
it looks out through my eyes lat-doesn't-fit. And [ would be
IJ were the links literarilythat these sorts of
seeking its own future. Interested to know haw that umks in teTms writings have and picking out ones that
Or this one from Essex Hemphill's of hierarchies of oppression. How de you we thought were exceptional. We're not
"Heavy Breathing": "I know I don't live take drug addictkm, SM and ethnicUy and publishing pornography-it's a literary
here anymore/but 1 remain in this manage tofind a com- collection, and we were
body/to witness." mon thread between interested in that sort of
The body and its addictions has those things, when, In , aesthetic project first. The
become a 2Oth-century (OK, postmod- 91me sense, there's ewry- second question then
ern) genre by now, so it's not surprising thing not In common becomes: What are the
to find writers as different as these two arnong;t them? . ranges of these kinds of

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they have in common? •

We're not suggesting that

there isn't a hierarchy and
that in the world these
thin~aren't extremely dif-
ferent The sort of honesty
of expression, [and whatl
we described in the intro-
duction, are literarily very
essential values for the
work and are relatively
meaningless for communi-
ties at Jarge in the world.
IS: It was a very
direct response to areas
that we both saw that no
one was writing about or
~ painting about original-
~ Iy we were hoping to
~ include art in this book.
j3 We looked at a lot of
~ those areas like SIM, like
drug use, like prostitu- TRANSGRESSIONSESSION-Amy Scholder and Ira Silverberg
tion, like those things
that became very taboo very recently So how do you define banal? give pause to people who are already
as American morals have allegedly IS: Lifestyle. within a process of resistance.
been rising. A lot of this was tied in to AS: I also feel there's a certain IS: Amy and I kept referring back
a literary response to AIDS. People honesty and thoroughness that I tried to 1be Olympia Reader, which was not
weren't willing to take risks with their to select for High Risk that I don't see a model because it was a very exclu-
writing because they were afraid of too often. What we were looking for sive book but, I think, lives on in
being deemed "politically incorrect," was challenging fiction. Challenging to avant-garde culture as a very important
writing about certain things which, if what? Challenging not just to dominant document of its time in terms of bring-
actually acted out, might be high risk. culture but actually to the individual. I ing together a group of challenging,
It was very much a statement of saying think certain writers really dig deep, inventive writers who hadn't been
there's an aesthetic that's there, that's there's a sense of exposure, of... given a lot of exposure. 1be Olympia
always been there that we don't want IS: Risk? Reader probably took years to get into
to see' die because of a political AS: Thank you. the number of hands it eventually got .
response. A lot of writers react very into, and I hope that High Risk will
sensitively to what's going on in the In that way, I wonder: If your edi- have a more long-tenn effect on pe0-
world around them and are really wor- torial decisions were translated into a ple rather than an immediate one. I
ried about getting their work out. politic, would it be a queer politic, in care that the work of the writers con-
the sense of an expanded gay, lesbian, tinues to get out there, and that maybe
Do you feel that the book is a com- bisexual, deviant politic? the book can tum people on to a lot of
munity response to any sort of estab- IS: I think there's a politic involved different writers as they explore their
lished tradition of gay wrltin~I real- in editing this kind of anthology. Ifs very own aesthetic and their own values.
tze that not all of the contributors are much about saying that we do not accept AS: By putting together so many dif-
gay but specifically in terms of gay the proliferation of a literature that we ferent writers in terms of the fonns that
writing? Dennis Cooper made the point are not interested in; and the "we" is defi- they write in, their audience and their
in his talk {at the OutWrlte Conference] nitely queer-not gay and lesbian subject matter, I am interested in showing
that he feels that we've all fallen very "queer" -but "queer" in terms of those of . the connections between all of our inter-
easily for mainstream acceptability, us who support a deviant aesthetic. If it's ests and all of our values. I think that
and that Is something we should be political to support work that falls outside sometimes, as gay men and lesbians, we
wary of Is this a response to that? of the mainstream, then yes. accept certain things within our own
IS: Absolutely. The proliferation of community but then don't accept what
banal literature is something that Amy and I want to talk about the issue of someone else in the straight community
I will not aa:cept in our roles as arl>iters of your audience. In some ways, the chal- might hflve to deal with as someone who
...~..t""':'.. .' . :. ., 'b]
taste in the culture world. (1bey laugh.) I lenge of the book would be for It to is "~;J'*~.;iflljgb::J$It··contriutor
don't want to publish banal fiction, I don't have a very broad audience, to shock Bob Flanagan, who is a total outsider as
want to work with banal writers. ' people who are way out there and to a heterosexual masochist: For a lesbian
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audience to think about reading and

being interested in and appreciating his
expression takes some work. But this
book also has Pat OiIifIa, Dorothy Alli- RESCUING THE BmLE FROM FUNDAMENTALISM by John E.
son and writers who I think are very
important to the lesbian community, so Spong. Harper San Francisco. $16.95 d. 267 pp.
they might pick it up, and they might
read Bob~swork and realize that there's by James Waller Spong's gesture (in The New York
this kind of aesthetic, there's this hon- As a matter of political principle, Times, which has not let the story die),
esty, this shared sensibility that is worth it's essential that we keep repeating my response was a sarcastic "Gee,
looking at until we're hoarse the unadorned fact thanks a lot." There aren't too many of
that history is crowded with famous us, probably, who want Saint Paul on
7b1s Is a landmark anthology in people who were gay and lesbian and our list. But, then, we also don't want
that, aside from one of the Christopher that gay m~n and lesbians whether Roy Cohn or J. Edgar Hoover, do we?
Street readers, I think, it's the first recognized as such or not-have Come to think of it, I don't even want
anthology to have lesbians in the same always performed some of world cul- Liz Smith on our list. Still, without
covers as gay men, as well as bisexu- ture's most significant work. And it's being quite sure that our list is politi-
als and straights. That's a real step- also essential that we name them. cally roomy enough to accommodate
ping-o/f point. Did you have a sense But how do we decide who belongs the bad guys, I think that it's worth-
of that history, or Is that incidental to . on our list of famous homosexuals? It while to examine the case Spong
the larger project? seems logical enough to include a person makes for Saint Paul's being gay.
IS: It's incidental. The writers are if she or he is alive or died just recently or Now, there's good reason to be
good writers, and I don't think it mat- had a life that was well documented or wary of gifts borne by this particular
ters what their sexuality is. produced work whose content is evident- Anglican bishop. Jack Spong is the cleric
AS: Actually, I think we made ly gay or lesbian. But what about some- who, with a great deal of fanfare,
oUr final decision about the first 20 one who died nearly 2,000 years ago, for ordained the Rev. Robert Williams to the
[stories] and afterward looked and whom we have only a rather sketchy Episcopal priesthood in December
said, "OK, how many men, how biography, and whose denunciation of 1989--«n event that was, depending on
many women? How many gays, how homosexuals has been a mainstay of your point of view, either the first time
many straights?" Western Civilization's homophobia? In an open, actively homosexual person
other words, what should we make of had been elevated to the Episcopal
So you didn't set out with a "we're- information, revealed just weeks ago, that priesthood as such or the first time such
going-to-bave-thls-ktnd-<Jf-balance"? Saint Paul was a Nancy girl? That's right: a thing had been done with quite so
AS: No. the same Saint Paul who wrote in Romans much fanfare. In any case, the love-feast
IS: It just worked out that way. 2:29-31 that girls who like girls and boys between Spong and Williams ended
AS: Frankly, it suprised me that who like boys are "filled with all manner with both suffering a dose of spiritual
we had so many ~traight people. of wickedness, evil, covetousness, malice. indigestion. At a conference in January
IS: That's true. It's about 50 per- Full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, malig- 1990, a reporter heard Williams say
cent straight. nity, they are gos5ips, slanderers, haters of some nasty things about Mother Theresa
AS: But that was not part of the God, insolent, haughty, boastful, inventors (for which Williams later apologized)
criterion we used when we were look- of evil, disobedient to parents, foolish, and some sensible things about the
ing at the pieces. It was based on two faithless, heartless, ruthless." virtues of non-monogamy (for which he
things: the literary value and a kind of Why was Saint Paul so mean? did not apologize), and reported them.
balance we wanted to achieve. We Well, Jack Spong, bishop of the Episco- The story was picked up by the national
didn't only take the best literari1y,point- pal Diocese of Newark, has suggested media, Spong enjoined Williams to shut
blank, we did want to have a certain an answer. Marshalling all the received up, Williams refused, and the flap result-
kind of representation that we could wisdom of pop psychology, Spong has ed in Williams' dismissal from the lead-
achieve while having the excellence. detected the object of bigotry hiding in ership of a gay ministry in Hoboken and
IS: But the representation had the psyche of the bigot: Saint Paul was in his fleeting notoriety on the talk-show
more to do with content then it did gay and hated himself for it. In his circuit (Phil Donahue didn't like him
with ethnicity or sexuality. If there book, Rescuing the Bible From Funda- very much).
were 15 fist-fucking pieces in this mentalism, the good bishop outs the Spong, on the other hand, is the
book, it wouldn't be as interesting as apostle, presenting him as a gift to kind of defender of gay rights whom
it is now. So we looked for the best. those lesbians and gay men who have, Donahue does like (he's been a fre-
over the years, given quent guest): For one
Does that mean you have a prob- him so many "spiritual thing, he's straight.
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To
lem with the sort of process that sets gifts that arise out of be fair, Spong's liber-
out in advance to decide its quotas? the very being of their alism is a far cry from
IS: I do. unique life experience." Donahue's sickening
AS: Personally, I don't.'" On fIrst reading of variety, and even his
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enemies admit that the bishop has cus, Paul sprang up and started preach- But how do we
shown himself willing to court contro- I
ing the gospel; he did not go out and
versy and even endanger his standing try to get laid some "gift."
in the Anglican hierarchy by calling the In addition to being homophobic,
church to honest, active commitment to Spong's argument is, in one important decide who belongs
,
human rights and Christian inclusive- respect, plain stupid---QIld, I think, vies •

ness. In Rescutng the Bible, he dares with the idea of sin that is central to a
grapple •with a theological tar baby of
incredible stickiness; the problem of
Christian understanding of life. Time
and again in his letters, Paul complains
on our list of famous
how modern Christians can take the of his inability-as a natural man,
Bible seriously without succumbing to enveloped in sin and as yet unre-
the inane beliefs of biblical literalists. deemed by Christ-to control the homosexuals?
It's telling that Spong's claims about actions of his body. His mind, he says,
Saint Paul's sexuality are the only aspect wants to do one thing-the good •
of this interesting book that have received thing-but his members, subject to
any attention in the general media. sin's devices, invariably disobey. It seems logical
Through much of the book, Spong is sim- The word "member" (the Greek
ply providing a SUlVey of academic bibli- word used by Paul is me/os) is given, by
cal scholarship, and his overview is lucid Spong, a very definitive interpretation.
and succinct. I'd recommend Spong's According to him, when Paul says
enough to include ,a
chapters on the Hebrew Scriptures and "member," he is referring in a veiled way •
the Gospels to anyone interested in learn-
-
to his sexual organ, since sexua1 arousal
ing a little biblical history. is the only sort of activity engaged in by person if she 'or he is
. I can't say the same for the chapter any of the body's members that is not
dealing with the letters of Paul. The subject to voluntary control. This inter..:
argument Spong advances to support his pretation leads Spong to conclude that
hypothesis that Paul was a "self-loathing the root of Paul's self-hatred is sexual in still alive or died just
gay male" has been criticized elsewhere nature, a deduction pivotal to Spong's
for its homophobia. Homophobic it is, case, and the quicksand on which the
and not only in Spong's seeming equa- rest of the argutrient is built
tion of male homosexuality with fear Fortunately for· us list-makers, recently or had a life
and loathing of women. ('There's some- Spong's interpretation seems to defy an
thing disingenuous, though, about those intelligent reading of Paul's Idlers. FII'Stof
gay critics of Spong who defame him for all, Paul often uses the word me/os (again
suggesting that gay men are, in perpetu- translated as "member") in quite a differ-
that was well
ity, misogynistic; certainly the point is ent context when he speaks of Chris-
that gay men have--among males no tians as "members" of the body of Ouist.
monopoly on misogyny.) Spong's argu- If Spong's interpretation is applied here, documented or pro-
ment is much more subtly~nd pro- the picture of Ouist's body that it conjures
foundly-homophobic than this. up is quite uncanny. More important,
What Spong says is, in essence, however, is the way in which Spong's
that Paul~ Jew who despised himself argument undennines--end reduces the duced work whose
because of his homosexual feelings meaning of sin in Paul's writin~.
and who was unable, despite the As much as I may dislike Paul~r
strictest adherence to Jewish law, to rather, the way in which his words
squelch or transform his loathsome have been, and are still, used by the
content is evidently
desires found forgiveness, acceptance church as instruments of oppres-
and love in Christ. The point that sion-I must admit that there have
Spong seems to miss is breathtakingly
obvious: Even if Spong's guess about
been few deeper -thinkers about gay or lesbian. But·
human nature and how it sometimes
Paul's sexuality is a reasonable one, seems inhabited by evil: I tell my hand
Paul's cOnversion to Christianity did not not to strike my loved one, but it
make him more accepting of homosex- strikes; I tell my mouth to say the kind what about someone
uality (note the previous quotation words, but it stays shut; and OK, I tell
from Romans). All it did was let Paul my dick not to get hard when I know
know that his basic moral hideousness that my lust is wrong, and sometimes
was something that God, in his unfath- it doesn't listen. My willingness to .who died nearly
omable love, might choose to over- despise my body doesn't go nearly so
look. After recovering from his blinding far as Paul's utter desecration of the
vision of Christ on the road to Damas-
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The Dilemma of the Contemporary Girl
by Kurt B. Reighley
Many pop aficionados view the
history of the classic American girl
group as a Cinderella story 6f young-
sters swept up from the ghetto into a
magical world of bouffant hairdos and
designer gowns. Since the '50s, these
groups of three or more young women
we could all identify with have sung
tales of young love in vocal harmony
with gut-wrenching honesty. But from
the earliest hits of the Chantels and the
Bobbettes, through the glamorous reign
of the Supremes, right up to today's top-
selling artists Expose and Seduction,
female vocal groups have been regard-
ed by journalists and fans alike as the
puppets of male producers and song-
writers. The pop marketplace of the
'90s, redefined by a crop of female
artists as diverse as Madonna, Sinead
O'Connor and Rosanne Cash, offers the
girl groups a new chance to break out
of 30-year-old stereotypes and assume a
greater role in selecting,their own sound
and image. Will modern girl groups
control their own careers any mQre than
their predecessors,· or are these talented
performers destined to remain several
steps behind other artists in reflecting
the attitudes of modern audiences?
In her detailed history, Will You StIll
Love Me Tomon-ow-Girl Groups From
the '50s On (Vll'ago Press Ltd., London,
1989), British journalist Charlotte Greig
proposes the stereotype of the girl group
as "an entirely passive group of 'young
women who are called in by a male pr0-
ducer to make real his musical fantasies,
and who have no part to' play in the
whole business beyond donating their
services as so many sets of vocal
chords." Just as Belly Gordy shaped the
career of the Supremes, and Phil Spec-
tor's name remains iITevocably linked
with the Ronnettes, male producers
stand behind every major girl group
today. latin sweethearts the Cover Girls
were originally the brainchild of Fever
Records' Andy "Panda"
Tripoli in 1987. That same
year, Steve Peck and Ted
Currier of Platinum Vibe
productions began their
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Sweet Sensation. Last year, after working been a crucial component of the girl- lead vocalist for the Cover Girls. Since
with several female dance groups group legacy. Unfortunately, the none of the members of the 1985 incar-
(including the Cover Girls on their Capi- increased role of video in promoting nation of Expose are part of the current
tol release We Can't Go Wrong), ace new artists further charges that many lineup (formed in 1987), the trio rere-
producers Robert Clivilles and David producers value looks over talent and, corded all the vocals on "Point of No
Cole (a.k.a. C & C Music Factory) decid- thanks to modem technology, the face Return" for release on Exposure, hoping
ed to enter the girl-group arena and on the stage or the screen doesn't need . to avoid similar entanglements. Ann
formed Seduction, a "highly gifted, musi- to belong to the voice on the record. insists that Expose has "always sung live
cally and ethnically diverse female trio" Both Ronnie Spector and former vocals, even as a track act" (singing over
carefully designed with an eye toward Supreme Mary Wilson write of singer prerecorded backing tapes) and that the
the shortcomings of earlier girl groups. substitution in their autobiographies, and only true outcome of playing bait-and-
But Expose, the trio created in 1985 by many critics insist that the practice con- switch with the performers is that "the
songwriter/producer Lewis A. Martinee tinues to this day. divilles and Cole orig- audience is really cheated."
to record his dance classic "Point of No inally claimed that only singer April Har- Ironically, the visual side of the girl
Return,~ continue to outshine them all. ris sang on the hit "You're My One and group has become the area where per-
Just a few moments with Ann Cur- Only True Love," billed as the first formers usually display the most control.
less, the "most outspoken" member of Seduction single, but a lawsuit by The credits for Nothing Matters Without
Expose, quickly dispels a handful of girl- uncredited Black Box vocalist Martha Love read "Seduction's design, image and
group prejudices. Curless majored in Wash, who recorded an earlier version style by Maripol...in collaboration with
music merchandising at the University of of the song for the team, challenges the David Cole and Robert Clivilles," but
Miami, a background that provides her validity of that claim. In a classic case of working closely with their choreogra-
with an edge against a classic weakness "Flo today, Cindy tomorrow," Sinoa pher, the girls created dancing and p0s-
in girl-group politics-business dealings. Loren replaced ldalis Leon on the Seduc- ing that made the video for "Two to
Like so many of the young stars of the tion roster shortly after the release of Make It Right" just as memorable as the '
'60s, the sudden initial success of their debut album Nothing Matters With- tune's singsong hook. Stylist Andrea
Expose's multi-platinum debut Exposure out Love. Likewise, Evelyn Escalera Smith's association with Sweet Sensation
took Ann and fellow members Jeanette recently replaced Angel Sabater as the goes back to their earliest days, and, as
Jurado and Gioia by surprise, But when
it came time to begin work on the fol-
low up, 1989's What You Don't Know,
Curless says that they realized that it was
"our images on stage, our voices on
vinyl, and we wanted more control."
Getting a greater degree of creative con-
trol away from producer Martinee "was D"'=Jo II
a fight," but Expose felt compelled to CITV: Nezv York
exert more influence over the sound
and image associated with their name, CLUB:Jackie 6q
and Curless considers the singers' overall
role on the second album "an enormous
C:Opa, t;he Building,
leap" from their debut. .1Jt:rore, Nell's
Curless sees another major difference
between the girl groups of yesterday and
today. The Supremes and the Chantels
began as groups of young mends deter-
1. "I've Got thet Feeling" by Ru Paul
mined to break into big-time show busi-
ness. While their male producers over- 2. "It's a Shame" by Monle Love
shadowed them in later years, their own
3. "Party Time" by Pal .Joey
ambition and talent were responsible for
shaping their early achievements. Modem 4. "Hypnosis" by Psychotropic
female vocal trios are often "products of
5. "Energy Flash" by Beltram
an ideal conceptualized by a producer."
As a result, Curless fears that many of the 6. "Tonight" by Ba_ment Boys
beautiful young women involved in these
7. "Good Beat" by Deee-Lite
projects come across as "superficial enti-
ties that don't necessarily have the talent 8. "I'll Be Your Friend" by Robert Owens
to back up the look."
9. "Hold Me" by Velvet
From the tight slacks and hip boots
of the Shangri-Las to the futuristic cos- 10. "Scandal" by Ultra Nate
tumes of Labelle, "the Look" has always •

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LIBRARY LIBERATION ... The looking for writing and illustrations by women
Gay and Lesbian Task Force of the· American involved in protests against the war in the
Library Association has selected the winners of Gulf. Send your stuff to 584 Castro St., Suite
its annual book award In existence since 1972, 263, San Francisco, CA 94114 by Apri115.
the task force's announcements are currently WE WERE ALL WRONG ABOUT
the only rival to the Lambda Book Reports MICHELANGELO ... No, not that
yearly [Link] for their importance to the gay Michelangelo, but rather the one who was
and lesbian writing community. Topping the involved in such ephemera! creations as the
fiction category for 1990 is Minnie Bruce Pratt's Sistine Ceiling and the sculpture David. Queers at
most recent collection of poems, Crime Against Nature, home when CNN aired their two-parter, .smson of G1anls, ·say that
Nonfiction accolades went to the fa of Homosexuality, they learned about all of tha;e bits of art history but apparently also
a two-volume resource book edited by Wayne Dynes. Runners-up gleaned new info about the artist's . the program
to Bruce Pratt were Michael Cunningham's Home at the End of the paints Midlelangelo as a happy hetero. CNN has no plans to rerun
World, Matthew Stadler's Landscape: Memory, John Gilgun's GIanIs for three to five m~, but it may be worth it to tune in
.Music I Never Dreamed OJ, Paula Martinac's Out of Time and then. 11lao>e bees just love a bit of revisionist history.
Dclvid Leavitt's A Place I've Never Been. Dynes was trailed by Allan I THINK I LOVE YOU ... Partridge Family pre-
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Berube's Coming Out Under Fire, Cal Gough and Ellen adolescent Danny has grown into adult -size Danny Bonaduce,
Greenblatt's Gay and Lesbian Library <Service, Mary Ann recently arrested for battering a transvestite, according to l&
Humphrey's My Country, My Right to Sen:e, Bret Hinsch's Passi0n5 Today. Bonaduce apparently picked the Native American man up
of the CUI Sleeve, Bonnie Zimmennan's tbe Safe Sea of Women, while cruising his neighborhood, offered him a $20 spot for a
Stuart Tunmons' 1be Trouble with Harry Hay and Janice Rench's blow job and only became violent when he "wish[es]to do a little
Understanding Sexual Identity. The task force will 'Present its bit more." The unidentified victim sustained injuries including a
awards on July 1 at the AlA annual Conference in Atlanta, Ga: broken nose. Bonaduce was arrested after being discovered
THE FRONT LINES ... Lesbian Contradiction is naked in a closet at home. ~plled by Sarah Pettit

the girls have matured, their look has for them have grown to offer a wider has long been the curse of the girl
grown from teeny-bopper miniskirts to scope of emotions than in the past. In group, and male producers have
the sophisticated furs and swept-up creating material for .girl groups, both remained in the spotlight years after
hairstyles on the cover of their Love male and female songwriters alike must many young players in the girl-group
Child album. Expose collaborates with reflect the attitudes of an audience com. drama faded into poverty, obscurity and
the directors when conceptualizing and prised mainly of teenage girls. Many worse. Rumors that Michelle Visage of
filming new videos. But "the control that current hits show little change in subject Seduction, who sang and rapped nearly
we have most," 'insists Curless, "is [when matter from their '60s countE'11i half the vocals on Nothing Matters
we are] touring," when they handle cos- four of Seduction's charting singles, Without Love, had "quit the group"
tume, set and lighting design, right down especially the ballad "Could This Be circulated for months, while C & C's
to the hiring of personnel. In the future, Love," were classic examples of "girl- publicity crew claimed that the group
they plan to increase their role in song meets-boy" pop formulas, But while was "dormant" but not "broken up." In
selection and vocal arrangement. nothing has been recorded to surpass the March "Rock and Roll Quarterly" of
. Once they enter the studio, even the the independence of Lesley Gore's 1964 the Village VOice, producer Robert
most assertive groups exercise control classic "You Don't Own Me," girl groups Clivilles insisted that the members of
only "up to a point." All three members of today aren't afraid to speak up for Seduction lack the necessary "determi-
Expose write music, yet none of their themselves in sOng. Tracks like Seduc- nation and discipline." Meanwhile,
compositions are currently slated for tion's "One Mistake" and Expose's Expose has stopped working on songs
inclusion on their forthcoming summer "Stop, Listen, Look and Think" warn written by Lewis A. Martinee and recog-
release. In an interview for Entertainment men to think twice before crossing that· nizes that they "need new materials and
Week{y last September, Robert Clivilles line, displaying sentiments more fitting new producers" to grow. Breaking
complained that the public overlooked for adult women than impassioned. away from a producer's established hit-
many of Seduction's talents, including teenagers. Even Sweet Sensation, fol- making formula may seem a bold
writing. However, none of the singers lowing their producers' decision to move, especially considering the shad-
received writing credit for any of the ten record a Supremes' cover, selected owy existence to the lineups of the
songs on their debut album. Curless "Love Child" over more obvious choices Shangri-Las and the Marvelettes on the
rema,ins undaunted by the situation and because they were impressed by the revival circuit, but, as with any artist,
continues to write and promote "original lyrics and felt the song would speak to the longevity and continued success of
material that caters to my needs." their adolescent female listeners. a girl group depends on its ability to
While the singers still don't write Growing up in the public eye, evolve, however subtly, both as a unit
the group's material, the songs selected both as young women and performers, and as individuals.T
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by Michael Paller New York, and Bumbalo's Show, Ches happened. "The evening seems to 'have
Almost any playwright will tell you ley's Somebody's Little Boy, Daniel Cur-' taken on a shape that makes sense,
that you've got to be crazy to write plays. zon's S and M, Carl Morse's Annuncia- although I can't explain it. It's not simply
Yet every year, new plays are churned out tion and Fairy Puck-In, Patrick's 1be Way 12 disjointed plays. It clearly moves from
by the hundreds. Alma;( any director will we War and Rubin's own 1bat AI Pacino beginning to end."
complain that you've got to be either a Look will have their world premieres. For those bemoaning New York gay
masochist or a sadist to work in the the- "What's appealing about the theater as an arena bereft of good writ-
ater. Meanwhile, New York is overrun evening," Rubin offers, "is that it veers so ing, Homosexual Acts will be somet:hiQg
with unemployed people claiming to be completely from serious plays to come- of a revelation. Each piece will not suit
directors. And aImost any producer in the dy, and that so many subjects are every playgoer, of course, but the quality
theater will say that you've got to have touched on." of all the writing is high and unusually
rocks in your head to
stage plays in New
York. There are fewer
plays being produced
these days, which sug-
,
gests that there may be
fewer rocks around, ,
too. Still, there are
enough eX them to fill the
heads eX producers who
dream about making
money in the theater.
Talk about gay theater,
and the situation is even
aazier-or, depending
on how you look at it,
m:.re cJerressing.
Enter Rich Rubin.
"I was sick of not -:.:-:.
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seeing my life repre-

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35-year-old director
said recently. "And I
was sick of reading
interviews where an
.t: actor says in the first
~ paragraph, 'Yes, I'm
~ playing the role of a
~ gay man, and, by the
way, have I mentioned .
my wife and two kids?'" ACTING OI1T~Director Rich Rubin
To any person -
merely imprudent enough to work in Acts is indeed varied in thought-provoking.
the theater, the solution might be to its styles, voices and subject matter, but , In 1be Way We War, Robert Patrick,
produce a play by a gay writer and cast every piece is concerned with some who has never been afraid to take on
it with gay actors. Rubin, apparendy lit- aspect of sexuality and the implications of current issues, debates whether or not
de concerned about perceptions of his being a same-sexer. The pl:[Link] consider gay men and lesbians ought to enlist in
sanity, responded more dramatically, the social and political implications, the the military of a nation which has always
producing and directing 12 one-act rewards and penalties, of being gay in proven singularly unwilling to fight for
plays by seven gay playwrights, includ- America. It was not them. His Ludwig
ing Victor Bumbalo, Robert Chesley and Rubin's explicit in- and Wagneris a bit
Robert Patrick. Under the tide Homosex- tention to make the of revisionist histo-
ual Acts, the results can now be seen at evening a thematic ry, a meeting be-
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All but two of the plays are new to says, is what has King Ludwig of

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former employee. It is an example of a I san
genre Patrick has perfected, which cOm-
bines high moral purpose (here, the • •
sketching in of gay history) with the Issions
lowest theatrical gags in the book.
Robert Chesley's Somebody's Little by Essex Hemphill
Boy is a portrait of loneliness, in which a
gay man examines the detritus of yet Sometimes I hold and trousers,
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another one-night stand. In two plays, my warm seed voting, praymg,
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divinity and divines are on the mind of up to my mouth paymg rent,
Daniel Curzon-S and M explores the very close pissing in public,
transformation of pain and suffering into to my parched lips cussing cabs,
an expression of sublimity, while Celebrl- and whisper fussing with utilities.
.ties in Hell features Pope John Paul II and "I'm sony,"
Eddie Murphy consigned to the same before I tum my hand , What I learn
smaIl afterlife room with no exit-and over the toilet as age advances,
One Man's optnion is a graphic portrayal and listen to the seed relentless pillager,
of a serial basher. Rubin's 7bat AI Pactno splash into the water. is that we shrink
Look is an encounter between a gay man inside our shirts
and a mugger. I rinse what remains and trousers,
Carl Morse is a poet and playwright down the drain, or we spread
whose plays tend to be no-nonsense, dry my hands. beyond the seams.
rough-edged denunciations of homo- They return The hair we cherished
phobia, but he has provided Homo- to their tasks disappears.
[Link] with two pieces which as if nothing
demonstrate less familiar facets of his out of place Sometimes I hold
talent. In Annunciation, a pregnant has occurred. my warm seed
word-processor is visited by a mysteri- up to my mouth
ous worker from personnel with a vital I go on being, and kiss it.
message. Fairy Fuck-In, or A Gall to the wearing my shirts
States, is a Whitmanesque exhortation to
red-blooded Americans in all comers of Essex Hemphtllts the editor of
the land to produce more fairies. The Brother to Brother: New Writings
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first is whimsical and touching; the sec- by Black Gay Men.T ~
ond resounds with infectious, bouyant
energy. Every [Link] couple in America
ought to see it and then valiantly tional family roles, can be imprisoned. leaves one cl important work
answer the call. Among Patrick's points is that we know by a playwright whose reputation has
One reason Rubin has chosen plays others by the roles we identify them not caught up with his enormous gift.
with verifiable content is his feeling that, with-be it father or faggot. The play To select the plays for Homosexual
these days, gay theater in New York is also tells us that attempts to regulate Acts, Rubin turned first to writers he
often without it: "Gay plays often seem human desire, don't eliminate it but admires: "In most instances, I started
to be either beefcake or just unbeliev- merely warp it and drive it underground, with playwrights I knew. I wanted a mix
able. Or they're produced by straig}\t and those who, by ties of desire, ought of serious plays and comedies, and had
people trying to profit off a market they to be allies become enemies, separated an idea of topics I hoped would be
think they can snag. I hope there really by fear, or commerce. tbe Family Bar is touched On. But I didn't have a specific
is an audience interested in intelligent, one of Patrick's most provocative plays. set of criteria to determine what the
provocative plays written and produced The evening ends with a major new plays would be or what subjects to
by gay people. This show has its sex play by Victor Bumbalo, author of Adam cover. Rather, I let a lot of plays come to
appeal, but it's not just an excuse to and the Experts. Entitled Show, it follows me by a number of playwrights."
parade beefcake across the stage." the journey to self-lmowledge of a priest One can't help noticing, however,
One of the evening's most engross- incarcerated in what his superiors call a that there are no plays by women in
ing pieces is Robert Patrick's tbe Family "rest home." The play lashes out at big- Homosexual Act5, and that only one, Bil
Bar. In a vein very different from either otry and makes a strong political state- Wright's MotberFatberLoverMan, is by a
of his other• two pieces on the bill, 7be ment But like all of the author's plays, Black writer. Rubin posted a notice in A
Family Bar takes place in·an unspecified anger is leavened with humanity, humor, Different Light bookstore soliciting plays.
time when anyone caught playing a and Bumbalo's vast capacity for under- It brought in, he says, one play by a
stereotypical member of a nuclear fami- standing. Show contains a universe of ___ HC»IWIIC»SEx: ... .AL
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RISK And I know there's a perception that gay blocking [the physical moves actors make]
Contlnu_d 'from p_g_ sa
men shouldn't direct women's plays. I've is the key." One might expect that han-
references to popular culture come thought lorig and hard about this, and I dling the egos not of one but of six writers
fast and easy. I notice the difference in don't feel great about it. I hope that I can might also be a problem, but Rubin insists
style and political tone of the poems establish the connections with lesbian that it is not. "No one has been difficult to
by Hattie Gossett and Wanda Cole- playwrights that I don't have." deal with," he says. "I have six writers to
man, both heterosexual Black women. On the subject of racial diversity, he hold my hand, to build my ego." .
There's a broader social context at explains: "I saw Bil Wright's play at Rubin is also planning a kind of
work, and the struggle to write the LaMama and loved it Doing his play is miniseries on Monday and Tuesday
truth includes the history of Black not the result of a desperate attempt to nights at the Theater at 224 Waverly Pl.,
struggle to deconstruct white lan- find a play by a Black writer. Here, too, I when Homase:xual Acts doesn't play. He
guage, reclaim the oral traditions. I put wish I had stronger connections with has invited Carl Morse to do a staged
Coleman's poem, "Black Madonna," Black playwrights. I hope that I will. I reading of his Discharges and Admis-
next to Kathy Acker's prose story, "A don't pretend that the evening is some- sions on April 29-30 and May 6-7, and,
Young Girl,· and enjoy the juxtaposi- thing it's not. It's not representative of Rubin says, other writers might take part
tion.
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Both writers are drawn to the gay and lesbian community. It's rep- as well. "I'm talking to a major lesbian
extremes of Christian iconography, resentative of what I see as my experi- writer whom I can't name. I'm hoping
crucifixes and virgins and biblical ence, which is trying to exist as a gay she'll participate."
plagues, as a locus for female experi- man in the world at this moment." What does Rubin hope that people will
ence. At some point, race departs from A native of St. Louis, Rubin does t1ke away with them after seeing lbmosex-
gender, but exactly where? not come to this gay theater marathon [Link] "I think a lot cf people are asking
That same question arises when the unprepared. From 1976 through 1984 he themselves these days, What does it mean
context is gay and male, such as Michael worked in Seattle, producing and direct- to be f!j1.'f? How different is our view cf the
Lassell's "Dreams of Bondage": . ing such gay plays as Passing By by Mar- world from other people's? I hope people
My dreams are Renaissance ~ tin Sherman (author of Bent), Noel will say to themselves not only that they
. of the flagellation of Quist - Gregg and Drew Thomas' As Time Goes like being queer but also, 'There's more
that hide a sa .c secret By and Robert Patrick's Cheep 7beatrics, to being queer than I thought,'" ...
in the textured flesh of ttianguIar canpositioo. a collection of some of Patrick's one- Performances of Homosexual Acts
Obviously, there's a coounon thread acts; and at the First Gay and Lesbian will ron at 7beater at 224 Waverry PI.
uniting these three writers to the Marquis Theater Festival there, he directed Cur- through May 26. Call (212) 564-8038 for
de Sade, but it would be something quite zon's One Man ~ Opinion. reservations.
different for a female writer to say, as Las- In New York, he has directed a por-
sell has: "My dreams are the bound feet/of tion C"aslice," as he describes it) of Carl PAUL
C~ ....
tlnu_c:I 'Wrc»1'T'I p_g __ e"'l
a Chinese concubine/who sings at night" Morse's performance oratorio Impolite to
As a literary event, High Risk is a My Butchers at LaMama and the 25th- flesh, but I certainly resonate with Paul's
mixed bag: some really great work, the anniversary production of Patrick's 7be conviction that the brokeness of my life
rest' good but uneven. One disappoint- Haunted Host. Most recently, he directed has much to do with this discord
•
ment is William Burroughs' "Just Say No poet/perfonnet' Mark Ameen in his one- between my mind and all my members.
to Drug Hysteria," where the tone is man performance, tbe Seven Pillars of Curiously, if I accept the bishop's
preachy and assumes a reading audience Wu:ca-dick in Washington, DC, and San "gift" of'Saint Paul, the depth and richness
far' more stupid and naive than we are. Francisco, a piece, Rubin says, "which is of Paul's thought are stolen from me. The
Burroughs deserves his place as a pio- too good not to be done in New York." moral insight of the apostle's most famous
neer outlaw queer writer, but not for this Rubin has not only taken on the sentence, "For I do not do the good I
piece. As reportage, as a social testament task of directing each of these pieces; he want, but the evil I do not want is what I
to sexual desire in a violent culture, as a is producing the evening, as well: "This is do" (Romans 7:19), is diminished to a dis-
book selling in mainstream bookshops not a project other producers would take pute between Paul and his peter. (Note
where people who continue to wear yel- on. I discovered that the only way to see the weird sexism inherent in Spong's
low ribbons will see it, High Risk is defi- it done was to produce it myself. So I run attempt-GS I read it-to divest this sen-
nitely charting the waters.'" around all day-but I'mI not in rehearsal tence of its moral power.)
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ten minutes before I forget all that and Spong's further aIgll1llell1-that identi-
HOMOSEXUAL remember why I'm doing all this." fying Paul's sexual problem as homasexual-
Contlr ....I_c::I 1'ro"" page SS Nevertheless, Rubin discovered that ity solves the riddle cf his self-hatred better
doing 12 small plays is more difficult than than any other possible . eed
woman-Hillary Sloin's Lust and doing a single long one. "Rehearsing one not be pursued. Paul certainly had a prob-
PUy-but not until a month after he had heavy piece is tough enough, but I've lem with himself-mtd with sex, and with
selected his dozen. "By that point," he found myself having to work on two or women-but its psychological origin
says, "doing her play-which is very three of them back-to-back. I also have to must, mercifully, remaitl obscure. Thank
good-would have looked like alter styles from piece to piece: One will God the argument's SO weak. I can still
tokenism. I didn't want to invite lesbians require a careful beat-by-beat .. appreciat:e--and hate--Paul, but we don't
to 12 plays, with only one by a woman. of characters' rootivationj in another, the have to put him on our list of forebears.'"
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and The Way We War; Daniel Curzon's and Su at 3:30 and 7 pm. R888rvations:
S&M. Ce/6britiH In Hell and One Man!! And now .or somethlna completely dlfferenL THEPYRAMIDpra- (212) 627-2961. Through April 28.
OpinlolT,Carl Morse's Annunciation and lentl Michael T.'I Hew York Hlthll. Promilina altemallve
Fairy Fuck-In, or A Call to the States; mUllc and -a mix of everythlna. DJI Bad Talle and Erlich. bPS 122 presents Rlchlrd Elovlch',
Robert Chesley's Somebody" Little Michael [Link] be perlormfna. fl. 101 Ave. A. April 8. 10 pm. 'IImNn, f/" FrIImDUll", " QUllr.
Boy; Victor Bumbalo's Show; Bil (212) 47H184. Written and perlormed by Elovlch.
Wrlghrs Mother Father Lover Man; and Directed by Ilamar Kubo". Tho solo ~
Rich Rubin's That AI Pac/no Look. $20. play is a 10vII story about activiem and
We-fr at 8 pm, Sa at 7 and 10 pm, Su death in the age 01 AIDS. It tells the
at 3 and 7 pm. lIcksIB: (212) 564-8038. story 01 felix the Kat, a human cannon-
Through May 26. ball shot out 01 Queens and Gurdie
Benjamin, a stand-Up spritzer who theo-
THE NEW YORK OPEN CENlER preeenta rizee about everything: outlaw queer-
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tion in The •Munsters and The Addams Hamilton, Judith Hanlin, Arnie
Family, heroin, Jewish law and the Kolodn.r. 519 W. 23rd st Tu-Th at 8 pm
r Panopticon. $10 or $5 plus TOF.150 Rrst and Su at 7:30 pm-$22. Fr and Sa at 8
I Ave. Th-Su at 9:30 pm. Reservations: How could we nol plug Ihls? LAVENDER HEIGHTS Speaker pm and Su al3 pm-$26. Reservations:
I (212) 477-5288. Apilll-28. Series presenls Gabriel Rolello, edllor In chief of OutW"k (212) 206-0523.
magazine (yes, Ihe one you're reading). $7. The Cornerstone
TIlE DUPLEX prese$ Ca', B"lIn, star- Cenler. 178 BenneH Ave., one block west of Broadway al1891h [Link] HERSTORYARCHIVESand
ring Sybil Brunchlon, Bob Gutowsld, Jay Street. April 9. 8 pm. (212) 304-2471. THE CENTER present K.. pln' On:
Ro •• r., Thom .. [Link] and Jellrey Imagll 01 Alrlcan-Amerlcan Lllblln •.
Wallach. The Duplex. 59 Christopher St QUEERNATION gollhem all In one room, so go lalk 10 Ihem. Opening Feb. 28. Wheelchair acceesible.
Fr at 10 pm. Reservations: (212) 255- Yes, .ll's a Community Forum, Ihe second of lis kind, bringing The Center. 208 W. 13th st Hours: daily,
5438. Through April 30. logelher MarJorie Hili, Sandra Lowe, Deborah Glick, Richard 4-6 pm. For more info, contact the
Burns, Robert ConSidine, Frank de Leon and Leslie MaJor. Archives at (212) 874-7232.
6UPSTAIRS AT THE DUPLEX presents Topics Include: discussing Ihe problems Ihal keep us apart as a
Wicked Truh Producllons' [Link]. communlly, Including racism, sexism, classlsm, able Ism and 55 GROVE STREET presents Cam
Itorl", Join them for "more tales of ageism; working on building ~ lruly Inclusive community; and Brainard and Bob [Link]' •. Brlt:ldat:•..
shattered, splintered, spit-upon love." addressing Issues Ihal affecl us all, Including health care, StII"O, perfonners who both appeared in
Written and performed by Marian domesllc partnership leglslallon, hale crimes leglslallon and Parting Glances, their original comedy
[Link], Scott King and Juon .elecllng openly lesbian and gay officeholders. 52 Duane SI., material includes two jocks who learn they
Kordelo •. Directed by Simon Fill. $7 81hfloor. April 1O.7 pm. can vog ue, reti red Solid Gold Dancers,
cover12 drink minimum. 59 Christopher Amish rappers who put the "men back in
st Mo at 8 pm. Reservations: (212) 255- Ouchl Do Ihal agalnl GAYMALE SIM ACTIVISTSpresenl On Pins Mennonite," an early Simon & Garfunkel,
5438. April 15 through May 6. and Needles: Playing With Piercing. This discussion of Ihe and the Rocky Mountain Butt Boys who
. lechnlques and mlndsel for safe and sallstylng piercing play open at a gay rodeo in West Hollywood;
6ART IN GENERAL presents Oul Loud: fealures masler plercer Jim Ward from GaunUel In San videos serve as transitions between live
Artl ... Engulled Agalnll War, a collabo- Francisco. $4 members!$8 non-members. The Cenler. 208 W. routines. $8 plus a 2-drink miniumum. 55
rative multi-media installation which 131h St. April 10. 8 pm. (212) 727-9878. Grove Sl, west of Seventh Avenue. Fr at 8
assembles contributed works from artislll pm. (212) 366-5438.
and writers in opposition to the Gulf For Ihose of us wllhout TVs, CHANNEL89 presenls Rick X's The
War.· Other artists's works are also fea- Closet-Case Show. The two special eplsolfes, previewed lonlgbl CHERRY LANE THEATREpresents David
tured in the show. 79 Walker st. (212) al11 pm, are "HOW10 Seduce a Preppie" and ·Paul and Jeff Slavenl' Th. Sum of U" by the writsr of
219-0473. April 13 through May 11. Just Say No 10 Drunk Driving." Afterwards, II's regular Channel Breaker Morant starring Nail Mallin and
i' 89 fun and, al1 am, Lady Bunn~does her New Wave show. $3 Robert lansing, direc1edby KINIn Dowling,
EIGHTY EIGHTS presenlll Rohn Seyllell, before mldnlghl!$5Iifter. The ramld. 101 Ave.· A. April 10. about a father who tries to help with his
a .singer currently appearing in Les Doors open al1 0 pm. (212) 473- 184. '. son's gay relationships while he looks for a
Miserable" in a cabaret engagement to new wife. $27.50-$37.50. 38 Commerce st
benefit Broadway Cares and Equity Rghlll SIIII no TV? SEXUAL ORGASM PRODUCTIONSpresenls Seize Tu-fr at 8 pm, Sa at 7 and 10 pm, Su at 3
AIDS. $15. 228 W. 10th St. Su at 10:30 Control of the Tal Mahal, a new video by Brenda and Glennda. and 7:30 pm. (212) 564-8038.
pm. Reservations: (212) 924-0088. Premiere party and screening. Hoi boys, drag queens and music
by OJ Miss Ifnderslood. $3. The Chameleon. 505 E. 81h St., MEN WITH WIGS, INC., presents 11'11
THE GLINES present Evan Brldensllne .. between avenues A and B. April 11. 10 pm. •
Min'. World: Lad!e. Sing Ihe BlulI, a
HI,h-""'n, .Qualf.~a comedy in which fun-filled, gender-bender fantasy, from
"David loves Greg,.Greg loves Sally, Sally This Is your lasl cha~ce ...THE NATIONAL LESBIAN CONFER- the Cotton to Motown. Men, with wigs,
lovee Bruce and Bruce loves David." ENCEpresenls Info Sharing. This Is Ihe lasllnfosharlng 10 be examine incandescent images of the
Directed by Lillie Ironl. Starring John held before Ihe .conference, which Is April 24-28. Wheelchair blues' queens and their descendants.
Clrhlrt III, Suzanne Cryer, Dane Hall accessible. ASL Inlerpreled on previous request, The Cenler •. $10. The Producers Club. 358 W. 44th
and Malk Leydarl. $15. 39 Grove St, at 208 W. 131hSI. April 11. 8 pm. Info: (71,) 230-3532. St, 2nd floor, suite 7. Fridays at 11 pm.
Bleecker. We-Fr at 8 pm, Sa at 6 and 9 (212) 971-9021.
pm and Su al7 pm. Reesrvations: (212) ·Conlributors was a woman" (OK, so U's a bad Joke). JUDITH'S
869-.3530. April 3 through June 9. ROOM presenls Conlrlbulors, reading from Ihe book, [Link], MONDAY, APRIL 8
• AIDS and A~/vlslm. 881 Washlnglon SI. April 11. 7 pm. (212)
THE CASTILLO CULTURAL CENTER re- 727-7330. UNITY '94 Club Fund-Ral .. rs Commll-
presente Jamll Chapman'l Our Youn, tee Meeting. Unity '94 is the theme of
Black M.n A" O,ln, and Nobod, Geol'lle Washlnglon slepl here.;.and If he only knew whal was the 1994 Gay Games IV. The Dugout.
'"m, to Caff, a look at some of those
men whoe lives and deaths ars reflected
going on now: THE GAY ACTIVIST ALLIANCE IN MORRIS
COUNTY presenls Unlled '91, a stalewlde conference for les-
Chrislopher Street al Weehawken Street
6:30 pm. Info: Wolfgang [Link] at (212)
in drug-abuse, crime, police-brutality, . blans and gay men. The Iheme of Ihe conference Is ·Flghllng 989-4605.
alcoholism, poverty and AIDS statistics. Our Ballles Away and ·al Home." The fealured speakers are
$20. 500 Greenwich St, suite 201. Th-Sa Miriam Ben-Shalom, nallonal chairperson for Gay, leSbian and MEN OF ALL COLORS TOGETHER
at 8 pm and Su al 3 pm. Reservations: Bisexual Veterans of America; and members of Ihe Campaign 10 Membership CommlH .. Mlltlng. 7:30
(212) 941-5800. April 5 through Aug. 31. End Dlscrlmlnallon, Including Assemblyman D. Bennel Mazur, pm. Call Chris at (212) 601-0806 for
sponsor of anll-dlscrlmlnallon bill A-8M, and CEO co-chair location.
6UBU REPERTORY THEATER presents John N. Glsh, Jr. There will be 40 workshops held Ihroughoul
Copl's Bralfll Rna/•. Directed by Andre Ihe day on a variety of loplcs, and Ihe evening will close wllh a GAY ACTIVIST ALLIANCE IN MORRIS
Ernolt•. Translated by Michael feingold. concert by Suede..!a JaZZ/popvocalist. Conferencellckels are COUNTYpresents Womyn .. Netwolk and
Starring Robert Clrrlcart, [Link] $20 In advance/t25 at Ihe door. Concert IIckels are $10 In Men's Rap Group at 7:30 pm, before their
. Hlrrlnglon, Jlck Koenig, Keith advance/$15 allhe door. Morrlslown Unitarian Fellowship • General Meeting at 8:30 pm. Tonighl'.
[Link], David Pursley and Mlrgo Normandy Helghls Road. Morristown, NJ. For Individual evenl topic: "Drugs, Trials and Treabnent· Wrth
Sklnn.r. The play "may just be the first limes, calilhe GAAMCHlllpllne al (201) 285-1595. April 13. a epeakIlrfrom the New Jersey CommWlity
farce written about AIDS, a farce which Research Initiative. Morristown Unitarian
mixee pathos and wit, tenderness and A dlfferenl kind of beauly conlesl (for a dlfferenl kind of Fellowship. 21 Normandy Heights Rd.
cruelty: $20/$15 for studsnts and beaUIT): MISS SALEEN PRODUCTIONS presenls Ihe fourth Morristown, NJ. Info: GAAMC Gay
senior •. 15 W. 28th St. Tu-Sa at 8 pm, annua Miss New York CHy Pageanl for female Impersonalors. Helpline: (201) 285-1595.
Sa and Su al3 pm. Reservations: (212) The show Is a benefit for Ihe People Wllh AIDS Coalilion.
679-7562. Starring, Jesse Volt, Miss NYC, 1990; Vanessa Diamond, Miss ACT UP General Maetlng: Cooper Union.
NYC 1989; Electra St. Jill, Miss NYC 1988; and wllh special Fourth Avenue at 7th Street. 7:30 pm.
THE WPA THEATRE presents R.d 'eaff guests. Bella and Empress Razor Sharp, along wllh a bevy of Info: (212) 564-AlDS.
on Bun,.t, a hew play by and starring talenled and beautiful conlestanls. Miss Saleen will belhe mi.
Chlrl .. Busch, creator of Vampire lress of ceremonies. $20 In advanceJ$25 allhe door. LImelight. UBU·REPERTORY THEATER presents
Lesbians of Sodom and Psycho Beach Sixth Avenue al 20lh Sireei. April 13. Doors open al 7 pm; Copl'l BrandRnal., the last work of the
Party. Directed by Kennelh Elliott. showllme Is al 8. Tlckellnfo: (212) 532-0290. French-Argentinian playwright, who
Starrring Ralph Buckley, Roy Cockrum, wrote the play from his hospital bed.
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1987. The play is described as "a farce BISEXUAL WOMEN'S SUPPORT GROUP speaking on "The Invention of NATIONAL ORGANIZATION I'OF
that triumphs over disease and despair." [Link] and Workshop. Tonight's Heterosexuality" In celebration of Worid WOMEN-LESBIAN RIGHTS TASK FORCE
This evening's performance Is a benefit topic: "Coming Out" Women only. $3. Week. Refreshments served. Rutgers Glnsl'll Mlltlng. Tod's. 2 Georges Rd.
for AmFAR, which will receive one-half of The Center. 208 W. 13th St 6:30-8 pm. Law School. 15 Washington St., room New Brunswick, NJ. 7:30 pm. Please
the proceeds. $350. 15 W. 28th St 8 pm. (212) 459-4784. 113. Newark. NJ. 4 pm. RSVP at (609) 393-0156. Tod's: (201)
Reservations: (212) 679-7540. 545-8990. .,
SLOPE ACTIVITIES FOR LESBIANS pre- THE NATIONAL LESBIAN CONFERENCE
STEVE MCGRAWS presents David sents Pool Night. Featuring free pool, presents InfoSharlng. This Is the last LOST PEER SUPPORT SERVICES pre-
Dl'lke'l Th, NI,,,, uny Kramer KIII,t! ping pong, billiards, air hockey and shoot- Infosharing to be held before the confer- sente an Open Hou'l for lesbiane, gaS'-
M,. The performance Is scheduled for an Ing hoops at Brownstone Billiard. Seventh ence, which Is April 24-28. Wheelchair men, bisexual men and women and their
Off-Broadway opening in the summer of Ave. at Aatbush. Afterwards,. rslax at the accessible. ASL Interpreted on previous friends who ars Interested in finding out
1991. The play, directed by MaryrolB Roolt at 9 pm. Seventh Avenue at 8th request The Center. 208 W. 13th St 6 more about their services. LPSS is a new
Wood, usss poetry and performance to Street. The evening begins at 7 pm. pm. Info: (718) 230-3532. program to provide counseling arid sup-
explore i88ues raised by AIDS activism. Please call 24 hours In advance to con- port to the lesbian, gay and bisexual
Tonlghfs showing Is a benefit for Equity finn all SAL activities: (718) 965-7578. THE COMPTROLLEROFTHE CITY OFNEW community of Greater Westchester. The
Flghte AIOS. $10. 158 W. 72nd St 10:30 YORK presente a Small Bu.'n ... Forum Loft. 255 Grove St. White Plains, NY.
pm. Reservations: (212) 595-7400. QUEER NATION presente a Community lor the L •• blan and GlY CC!mmunlly. 7:30 pm. Info: Lorraine Martire at (91"4)
Forum. This forum, the second of Its Comptroller Elizabeth Holtzman will be the 241-9553. . •
CELLBLOCK '28 presente the NIW Yorl! kind, brings together Marjorie Hili, hOlt Co-tponeore include Aaaemblywoman
Strap and Paddle Anoclallon Party. Sandl'l Lowe, Dlborah Glick, Richard Deborah Glick, the Lesbian and Gay FRONTRUNNERSINEW YORK present a
"For all of you who like to bend over and Buma, Roblrt Considine, Fra. dl Leon Community Services Center and the Greater Benaflt at Private Eyes for ths Gay Pride
take it like a man." Cellblock 28. 28 Ninth and Lillie Major. Topics Include: dis- Gotham Bueinese Council. Ths Center. 208 Race. There'll be a raffle (tickete Bold at
Ave., between 13th and 14th streets. cU88ing the problems that ksep us apart W. 13th St 6:30-8:30 pm. Info: Tom Duane the benefit), live OJ and cash bar. The
Doors open 8 pm. (212) 733-3144. as a community, including racism, sex- . at (212) 669-3089. club will be Frontrunners' exclusivlily
Ism, cla88lsm, ablelsm and ageism; from &-10 pm; thersafter, they'll-share:lf
THE PYRAMID presents MIChael T.'I working on building a truly Inclusive JUDITH'S ROOM presente Conlrlbulo ... , with regular patrone. $10. 12 W. 21st St
NIW Yorl! Nlghtl. Promising alternative· community; and addre88lng iesues that reading from the book, Women, AIDS
music and "a mix of everything." OJs Bad affect us all, Including health care, and Activisim. 681 Washington St 7 pm. BODY POSITIVE friday Night Social, for
Taste and Eritch. $1. 101 Ave. A. 10 pm. domestic partnership legislation, hate (212) 727-7330. all HIV-positlve Individuals and their
(212) 473-7184. crimes legislation and electing openly friends. Fre. Middle Collegiate Church. 50
lesbian- and gay officeholders. 52 Duane SLOPE ACTIVITIES FOR LESBIANS pre- . E. 7th St., off Second Ave. 8-10 pm.
TUESDAY, APRIL 9 St, 6th floor. 7 pm. sents Woody AllIn Night. Come see a (212) 721-1346.
couple of vldeos·ln Park Slope. 7 pm.
LONG ISLAND GAY MEN'S GROUP pre- A DIFFERENT LIGHT presents Paul Please call 24 hours in advance to con- SATURDAY, APRIL 13
88nts a GUilt Splaklr. For· complete Raae", readIng from his book, The Salt finn all SAL activities: (718) 965-7578.
details on this bl-monthly discussion Point 548 Hudson St 8 pm. Info: (212) THE GAY ACTIVIST ALLIANCE IN MOR-
group, contact UGMG at (516) 694-2407. 989-4850. ORGANIZATION FOR GAY AWARENESS RIS COUNTY presents Unltld '91, a
presente a Hoioeaull Memorial Service. statewide conference for lesbians and
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GAY MEN'S HEALTH CRISIS presente a THE LESBIAN AND GAY TEACHERS The evenl ng begl ns with a march to the gay men. The theme of the confersnce Is
HI.,th Slmlnar: InlUl'lncl InfonnaDon. ASSOCIATION [Link] Milling. The First Presbyterian and Trinity Church. The "Rghting Our Battles Away and at Home."
129 W. 201h St., third floor. 7 pm. For Center. 208 W. 13th St 8 pm. Info: (718) service is at 8 pm, and featurs David The featured speakers are Mlrlain Ben·
more Infonnation, call the GMHC holline 258-4102 or (718) 626-4699. Beaty, OGA's president, as a speaker, and Shalom, national chairperson for Gay,
at (212) 807-6655. TOO (212) 645-7470 Julie Lee, a lesbian activist and Holocaust Lesbian and Bisexual Veterans of
for the hearing Impaired. GAY MALE SIM ACTIVISTS present On survivor, as a candle lighter. Meet In AmerIca; and members of the Campaign
Pin. and Needl .. : Playing With Grove Park, on the north side of South to End Discrimination, incl-uding
THE NI NTH STREET CENTER presents [Link]. This dlscu88lon of the tech- Orange Avenue, east of SHU. 7 pm. Info: Assemblyman D. Blnnel Mazur, sponsor
QUllr QUllllonl, Queer [Link],
series of rap groups whose focus Is
a niques and mindset for safe and satisfy-
Ing piercing play features master plercer
(201) 743-5322. ..
of anti-discrimination bill A-634, and CEO
co-chair John N. GI.h, Jr. There will be
definIng homosexuality for the 1990s. Jim Ward from Gauntlet in San GAY MEN OF THE BRONX present 40 workshops held throughout the day
Tonlghfs facilitator: Rich Kamencik. 319 Francisco. $4 memberel$6 non-mem- RolIsrlkating. Featuring a live OJ. $3 on a variety of topics, and the evening
E. 9th St., basement. 8-10 pm. (212) bers. The Center. 208 W. 13th St 8 pm. entry plus $1 for skate rental. 8 pm to will close with a concert by Su.d., a
228-5153. (212) 727-9878. midnight For complete details, contact jazz/pop vocalist Conference ticksts are
Jimmy at (212) 365-6239. $20 in advancel$25 at the door. Concert
LAVENDER HEIGHTS Speaker Series pre- GAY MEN'S HEALTH CRISIS presents tickets are $10 In advance/$15 atthe
eente Gabrlll Rotello, editor in chief of Men Mlltlng Men. No registration SEXUAL ORGASM PRODUCTIONS pre- door. Morristown Unitarian Fellowship:
OutW/I8k magazine (yes, the one you're
reading). $7. The Cornerstone Center.
required. The Center. 208 W. 13th st.
&-10:30 pm. (212) 807-6664.
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sente "Iz, Control th. T'J M.h." a
new video by [Link] and [Link].
Normand Heighte Road. Morristown, N.J.
For individual event times, call the
178 Bennett Ave., one block west of Premiers party and screening. Hot boys, GAAMC Helpline at (201) 285-1595.
Broadway at 189th Street. 8 pm. (212) THE EAGLE presents MOYIe Night: Wilt! drag queens and music by OJ Mi88
304-2471. • t Heart. "Winner of the 1990 Cannes Understood. $3. The Chameleon. 505 E. INTEGRAL YOGA INSTITUE presents
RIm Festival for Best Picture, this film Is 6th St, between avenues A and B. 10 pm. Hatha Yoga Cia ••. Hatha Yoga refers to
LESBIANS AND GAY MEN OF NEW a bizarre, seductive and rowdy retelling of the physical postures, deep relaxation
BRUNSWICK present New Jersey Thtl Wizard of Oz." The Eagle. 142 FRIDAY, APRIL 12 and breathing practices which revitalize
Lesbian and Gay Coaltlon President Dr. Eleventh Ave., at 21st Street. 11 pm. and strengthen the body and calmtlte
LIon GIllman. Gellman will shars "some (212) 691-8451. MEN OF ALL COLORS TOGETHER pre- mind. This class is especially for those
of the excillng advances which have been sent a Y·MACTColllclou.n ••• ·Ral.,ng who are HIV-positive. IYI. 227 W. ~3th
made In our state wIth lesbian and gay CHANNEL 69 presents Rick X'. Th, S".'on at 6 pm. Tonighfs topic: "Our St 12-1:30 pm. (212) 929-0586.
rights." Friends Meeting House. 109 C/o"t·C." .h,l.,. The two special Reflections on Parsnllng." Then, at 8, it's
Nichol Ave. New Brunswick, NJ. 8 pm. episodes, previewed tonight at 11 pm, a MACT c-R Slnlon. The topic: "Cock SLOPE ACTIVITIES FOR LESBIANS pre;.
(908) 247-0515. ars "How to Seduce a Preppie" and "Paul Size and Penis Power: Bigger Isn't eentB Hack..... Hla .... and Hoopa at 2 pm.
and Jeff Just Say No to Drunk Driving." Necesearily Better." The Center. 208 W. Join SAL for goof Indoor sporte at a brand
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 10 Afterwards, Ifs regular Channsl 69 fun 13th St Info: (212) 222-9794. new place in Chelsea. Games Incl ude bat·
and, at 1 am, Lady Blnny does her New ting cages, computerized and minIature
BRONX LESBIANS UNITED IN SISTER- Wave show. $3 before mldnlghtl$5 after. SLOPE ACTIVITIES FOR LESBIANS prs- golf, basketball, ping pong and Orbltron.
HOOD Glnll'll [Link]. Tonlghfs topic: The Pyramid. 101 Ave. A. Doors open at sente Manhattan Night. Rrst, at 7:30 pm, Then, at 7:30, it's 40·Plu. PoDuck and I
"Self-Awareness and the Coming-Out 10 pm. (212) 473-7184. it's Under-3D Dining Out. SAL says, Game Night, SAL's monthly get-together !
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Process. " Thers will be an Invited speaker "Make friends at the Cowgirl Hall of for fun; food and games. Rnally, at 8, Join
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from Identity House to join In this discU8- THURSDAY, APRIL 11 Fame." Afterwards, maybe a movie, or SAL for Club Night, Part Two, as·they
slon. Refreshmente served. One Fordham clubbing. Then, at 8 pm, it's Club Night, spread the word In Manhattan and
Plaza, suite 800. Bronx. 6:30-8 pm. Info: RUTGERS LAW SCHOOL LESBIAN AND Part One. Just what It sounds like. Please Brooklyn for next week's big party. Please
Miriam at (212) 409-2692 in Spanish, GAY STUDENT CAUCUS and GALA OF call 24 hours In advance to confirm all call 24 houra in advance to confinn all SAL
and Usa at (212) 829-9817 in English. RUTGERS present Jonalhan Ned Katz, SAL activities: (718) 965-7578. activities: (718) 965-7578.

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PROVINCETOWN POSITIVE MA COAU- NATIONAL LESBIAN CONFERENCE pre- Fourth Avenue at 7th Street 7:30 pm. Twentysomething I. a social group for
liON pressnts Ilnglll Tlal for PWAs, 8ent. Antl·Racllt, Antl-Opprullon Info: (212) 564-AIDS. . lesbians and gay men in thelr20s and
PWARCs, HIV-positive men and women Training. NLF organizers urgee all atten- early 308. $3. The ~ntsr. 208 W. 13th St.
and their friends. A chance to meet and "
dees to participate. Wheelchair accessi- IN OUR OWN WRITE Wrltlr'l WOlbhop Info: Scott Hummell at (212) 242-4881.
mingle in a eafe atmosphere of fun. St ble. ASL interpreted. Childcare available for lesbian and gay writsrs. Workshops
Mary of the Harbor in the East End. upon prior request $3-$6 room fee. The are held on thefiret and third Mondays 01 WEDNESDAY, APRIL 17
3:30-6:30. Center. 208 W. 13th St. 1-5 pm. Info: the month. Please bring work. The
Carol at (212) 655-8205. Center. 208 W. 13th St 8-10 pm. (212) GAY MEN OF THE BRONX Glneral
DIXON PLACE preeents Reno, workshop- 620-7310. Mlltlng and Orientation. Hostos
ping brand-new material. Reno Is a well- JUDITH'S ROOM presents their Second Community College. Grand Concourse,
known comedian who has "shocked audi- Anniversary Celebration. 681 Washing- SOUTHERNERS presents a Potluck, Building A, room 227. 7-9 pm. Info:
ence." everywhere, from PS 122 to ton St 2-6 pm. (212) 727-7330. Cook-Off and [Link] Ihow. Diners will Jimmy at (212) 365-6239, Charles at
uptown comedy cl ubs. $6 or TOF. 37 E. select prize winners for the best food (212) 378-34397 (Spanish) or Ed at
ht St., between First and Second LATINO GAY MEN OF NEW YORK discu88 items in several categories. To maintain a (212) 792-8078.
avenues. 8 pm. (212) 673-6752. The Need to Crelte Fr .. andlecure balanced meal, Southemers suggests the
Iplclilor Latino Gay Men. For Latino following divisions of menu byevery- CONGREGATIONBETH SIMCAAT TORAH
THE NINTH STREET CENTER presents gay men only. 169 Bond St., #2. one's last name: A-E bring vegetables or presents a Jewllh Womln'l ROlh
QUllr QUltionl, Queer Anlwerl, a Brooklyn. 2 pm. (212) 932-3133. salads;·F-J bring potatoes, starches or Chod8lh/New Moon Cellbratlon. Con-
series of rap groups whose focus Is defin- breads; K-{) bring deserts; and P-Z bring gregation Beth Simchat Torah is New
Ing [Link] for the 1990s. MEN OFALL COLORSTOGETHERBoard 01 entrees. Iced tea and soda provided. York's lesbian and gay synagogue. 57
Tonight's facilitator. Bob Rnk. 319 E. 9th Dll"I!1toll Melling. The ~ntsr. 208 W. 13th Entertainment by Sourtherners members Bethune St 7:30 pm. (212) 929-9498.
St, basement 8-10 pm. (212) 228-5153. St. 2~:30 pm. l!lIo: James at (212) 995- to be featured. $8 nonmembere1$5 mem-
8063 or aJris at (212) 601-0806. bers. The Center. 208 W. 13th St. 8 pm. SLOPE ACTIVITIES FOR LESBIANS pre-
MISS SALEEN PRODUCTIONS presents Info: (212) 674-8073. sents Pool Night. Featuring free pool,
the fourth annual Mill New York City MOSAICBOOKS presents Two New ping pong, billiards, air hockey and shoot-
Pagllnt for female impersonators. The Bookl, featuring Eileen Myles reading TUESDAY, APRIL 16 ing hoops at Brownstone Billiard. Seventh
show Is a benefit for the People With from Not Me, and Deborah Rebollar . Ave. at Aatbush. Afterwards, relax at the
AIDS Coalition. Starring, JIIII von, Mise .. Pintonelli reading from Ego Monkey. 167 BRONX AIDS EDUCATORS NETWORK Roolt at 9 pm. Seventh Avenue at 8th
NYC, 1990; Vln_1 Diamond, Mi88 NYC Avenue B at 10th Street. 4 pm. (212) Glneral Mlltlng. Lincoln Hospital. Street. The evening begins at 7 pm.
1989; Electra It. Jill, Miss NYC 1988; 475-8623. Conference room 3. 234 E. 149th st. Please call 24 hours in advance to con-
and with special guests Belli and Bronx. 9:30-11 :30 am. Info: Janet finn all SAL activities: (718) 965-7578.
Empre. Rizor lharp, along with a bevy LESBIAN AND GAY FOLKS SUPPORTING Goldberg at (212) 293-2658 or Rosaline
of talented and beautiful [Link]. POLITICAL PRISONERS presents Morales at (212) 295-5605. A DIFFERENT LIGHT presents Eve
MI. IIllIn will be the mistress of cere- Lublanl and Gay MIn: II POlitical SedgwiCk, reading from her book, The
monies. $20 In advancel$25 at the door. Actlvllm a Crime Punllhabll by Death? PROFESSIONALS IN FILM AND VIDEO Epistemology of the Closet 548 Hudson
Limsllght. Sixth Avsnus at 20th Street. Dlscu88lon of the case of Muml Abu present a Backltagl Tour 01 Radio City St 8 pm. Info: (212) 989-4850.
Doors open at 7 pm; .howtlme I. at 8. Jamal, a Philadelphia Black activist-jour- MUllc Hall. $7 members and gueslBl$10
TIcket Info: (212) 532-0290. nall.t facing imminent execution, and its non-members. Sixth Avenue at 50th GAY MEN'S HEALTH CRISIS presents
relevance to the lesbian and gay rights Street 6 pm. Reservations: (212) 245- Eroticizing lallr III. No registration
AMOS ENOGALLERYpresents Hllmll LIN. and AIDS movements. Speaker. Dhoruba 1182.
''In, by Michael Biello and Dan Martin.
This speciall "gallery version" will feature
bin Wahad, a fonner Black Panther jailed
required. Ths Center. 208 W. 13th St.
8-10: 30 pm. (212) 807-6664.
19 years In an FBI frameup. Videos JUDITH'S ROOM presents Marilyn
original music, performance vignette., about both [Link] will be featured. $5. Nellon-Wanllk, reading with Sophie CELLBLOCK 28 presents the Imoke Imi
masks and props and slides of erotic col- Charas. 605 E. 9th St, between avenues Cabot Black, winner 01the 1990 Judith'. stroke, a party sponsored by Hot Ash. 28
lages. $5 suggested donation. 594 B and C. Info: (212) 243-0202. Room Emerging Talent Competition. 681 Ninth Ave., between 13th and 14th
Broadway. 8 pm. Info: (212) 226-5342. Washington St 7 pm. (212) 727~7330. streets. Doors open 8 pm. (212) 733-
PEOPLEWITH AIDS COALITION presents 3144.
WEBO PERFORMANCE GALLERY pre- a lunday Evening Wsakly Social for gay GAY MEN'S HEALTH CRISIS presents a
8ents Killer Ipoken Word Icsnl: rant- men and lesbians who are HIV-positive or Hsalth Seminar: Benelltl Inlormatlon ORGANIZATION FOR GAY AWARENESS
Ing, Improv, motion and instant poetry have AIDS, and their friends. MAC Living and Nutrltlona! IIIU8l. 129 W. 20th St., presents Queer Nation. Representatives
'hosted by Mlnhew Courtney. With KIn room. 6:30-9:30 pm. (212) 532-0568. third and sixth floors. 7 pm. For more from ON will speak about their "dedica-
Dimaggio, DaYld Hubennan, Mr. Impall, information, call the GMHC hotline at tion to fighting homophobia, homoha-
IIndra Koponen and Mike Tyler. $4. 317 CUCINA DELLA FONTANA presents John (212) 807-6655. TOO (212) 645-7470 for tred, quesr invisibility and all oppressions
E. Houston., east of Avenue B. 9 pm. Chllm'l AchlllfU, in a benefit pefonnance the hearing impaired. any queer may face." St. George's
. for the New York City [Link] and Gay Church. The corner of Ridgewood and
THE WOMEN'S CAUCUS OF ACT Anti-Violence, Project The two-act drama • THE COALITION FOR LESBIAN AND GAY Woodland roads. Maplewood, NJ. 8:30
UP/CENTRAL JERSEY and MORE THAN is described as "inspired by mythology RIGHTS General Meeting. The Center. pm. (201) 743-5322.
YOU CAN COUNT present a Party lor but especially relevant these days." It will 208 W. 13th St 8 pm. (212) 627-1398.
Women to bsnefit the women'. caucue. be read and infonnally staged by a caet of THE KITCHEN preeents Dlamanda Galli'
No alcohol. Live OJ. $[Link]. 51 professional perfonners. $8 cover/2-drink THE NINTH STREET CENTER present. in excerpts from Plague Maaa (1984 to
[Link] Ave. New Brunewick, NJ. 10 minimum. 368 Bleecker St. 8 pm. QUllr QUlltionl, Queer Anlwlrl, a the End of Epidemic). Selections include
pm. Info and directions: (908) 247-9404. Reservations: (212) 242-0636. .eries of rap groups whose focus is "There Are No More TIckets to ths
defining homosexuality for the 1990s. Funeral.' $15 nonmembers/$10 mem-
SUNDAY, APRIL 14 MONDAY, APRIL 15 Tonight's topic: "TIred of the Bars and bers. 512 W. 19th St. 8:30 pm.
Street Cruising." 319 E. 9th St., base- Reservations: (212) 255-5743. [See al80
. SLOPE ACTIVITIES FOR LESBIANS pre- LESBIANS WORKING IN AIDS PROJECT ment 8-10 pm. (212) 228-5153. April 19, 21 and 23]
8snt8 a Blk,Worklhop and Picnic in presents a lupport and Advocacy Group
Central Park. ASAL Gal will bring tool. for lesbians working in AI OS ag~ncies. WOMEN ENTREPENUERS IN BUSINESS THE EAGLE presents Movll Night:
and patchss to help you get your bike GMHC. 129 W. 20th St 6-8 pm. and INNOVATIVE WOMEN present An AruhnDphDblll: "A young doctor (Jeff
rsady lor spring and summer. Meet at Evening With Judy Dlugacz, entrepeneur Daniel.) and his family move into a
818t Street and Cenral Park West with GAY ACTIVIST ALLIANCE IN MORRIS and founder of Olivia Records, the oldest sleepy little community nsstled In the
food to share. For info on this event only, COUNTY presents Womyn'l Network and and most visible lesbian-owned and - California hills overlooking the Pacific
call (718)788-9346. Thsn, at 1 pm, SAL Mln'l Rap Group at 7:30 pm, before operatsd business. Dlugacz will be dis- Ocean. But what this typical family
vieite the Botlnicil Glrdenl or the their General Meeting at 8:30 pm. cussing her newest company, Olivia doesn't realize is that they aren't the only
Brooklyn Art MUllum. It's your choice of Tonight's topic: "Coming Out Horrors Cruises, the first cruise company for les- newcomers to the neighborhood ..... The
Indoor or outdoor fun in Brooklyn. Then, and Thrill •. " GAAMC members will dis- bian •. $5: The Center. 208 W. 13th St Eagle. 142 Eleventh Ave., at 21st Street
at 3 pm, SAt: presents a Brown-Bag close some of their better and wor.e 8:15 pm. Info: (718) 237-2399 or (212) 11 pm. (212) 691-8451.
linch. A "zip: get-together. If you live in moments. 21 Normandy Heights Rd. 580-9624. •
zip code 11238 (or even if you don't), Morristown, NJ. Info: GAAMC Gay
Join SAL in Prospect Heights. Please call
24 hours In advance to confirm all SAL .
Helpline: (201) 285-1595. TWENTYSOMETHING Iteerlng Commit-
tee Meeting. Nominations for cifficers
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actlvltie.: (718) 965-7578. ACT UP Genlral Meeting. Cooper Union. clo88. Election and installation of officers. If IT Iffl
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Tuning In: A TV/Radio Guide for OutWeek Readers

Information must be received by Monday to be included in the following week's issue. Send items to
OutWeekListings,159W. 25thSt, NY,NY 10001. Compiled by Dale Peck.
ME (Arts & Em, 555 Fifth Ave, 10th A, NYC 10017;661-45001 of Damon and Pythias in 400 BC. Oh, those Greeksl ., ' .••
eCTV (Rick X. Box 790, NYC 101081 1:00 PM WBAI-FM This Way Out; the international gayllesbian news maga-
GIS (Gay Broadcasting System, Butch Peaston, 1787th Ave, Ste. A-3, NYC 10011; zine; 99.5 FM (:301
243-15701. .. 12:30 PM MAX A Chorus line The screen adaptation of Douglas Bennett's
GCN (Gay Cable Network, Lou Maletta,32 Union Square East, Suite 1217;477- Broadway musical, starring Michael Douglas.
42201 . 1:30 PM WBAI-FM Ail Afternoon Outing: local news and infonnation about
GUI (Gay and Le,sblan Inde~~ndent Broadcasters. (2121473-1689.) the gay and lesbian community with lany Gutanburg; 99.5 FM (:301 .
GMHC (Gay Mens Health CriSIS,Jean Car1omusto,129W20 St, NYC 10011;807- 8:00PM BRV South Bank ShowA profile of producer Cameron
7517) (Robin Byrd Prod., Box 305, NYC l00zl; 9118-29731
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WAle-TV (77 W63 St, NYC 10023;456-77771 cences from Andrew Uo;yd [Link] and Stephen Son~helm.
WBAI-FM (505 8th Ave, 19th A, NYC 10018;279-07071 8:30 PM M 8:30 PM WNBC- TV Different World WhOOPI Goldberg plays a
WCI8-TV(51 W52St St, NYC 10019:975-4321) professor whose student reveals that she has AIDS. CH 4.
WNIe-TV (30 Rockefeller Plaze, NYC 10112;664-44441 10:00 PM GCN Be Our Guest entertainment for and aboutthelesbiarVgllY ..
WNET-TV (356 W 58 St, NYC 10019;560-3000) community; Manhattan Cable, CH D/17 (:301 .' ,, '
WNYW-TV (Fox, 1211AV/AM, NYC 10036;556-24001 10:30 PM GMHC living ~tth AIDS: health and polrocs; Manhattan Cable, CH
WPIX·TV(22O E42 ST, NYC 10017;949-1100) VfJ5 (:301 .'
11:00 PM GCN Gay [Link].: news and entertainment from around the COUII-
try; Manhattan Cable, CH VfJ5 (1:001 -, .. , ;\';
MONDAY, APRIL 8 Midnight GCN Men in Film$. male erotica,interviews with adult filmsters; v
6:00 AM WIND· TV Broadcast New YoricScheduled topic: using acupunc- Manhattan Cable, CH VfJ5 (:301 ., :/
turetotreatdrug addicts. CH 11. 12:30 AM RB PROD Men For MelT. Robin Byrd presen1S gay male porn~
1:30 PM WUSB 90.1 FM The Word Is OutMarc Gunning hosts a weeldy les- stars; Manhattan Cable, CH Vl35 (:301 '
bian, gay and bisexual variety show.
2:00 PM WUSB 90.1 FM Lavender Wimmin News, songs and music pro- FRIDAY, APRIL 12
duced by women for women. 7:00 AM WCBS- TV This Morning Scheduled: Broadway's anti-Asian play,
2:30 PM WUSB 90.1 FM This Way Out More queer news, Miss Saigon. CH 2.
8:30 PM Manhattan Cable The Brenda and Glennda Show·Kiss-ln in the 1a:.i AM TBS GiantBizabeth Taylor, Rock Hudson and James Dean
Queen City.· Dykes and fags suck face at Buffalo's City Hall. CH 17 ,, ,
together. Poor Uz-always caught in the middle. ,
9:00 PM GBS Outin the 00's: community news, discussion, interviews. BQ 1:00 PM WFOX- TV All in the Family·Archie knows a homosexual when he
Cable, CH 56 (1:001 sees one, right? Wrong: Don't [Link], CH 5, ,,
9:00 PM GCN Gay USA CH C/16 (:301 2:30 PM WBAI-FM Rompiendo el Silencio: todos los viernes, Gonzalo >,',

1•.30 PM TNN Crook and Cha,seScheduled: Jodie Foster. Meryl Streep and Aburto con temas Y noticias para la comunidad latina gay y lesbiana;
Carrie Fisher. 99.5 FM (:151 ,

11:30 PM Tomorrow/Tonight live: entertainment; Manhattan and Paragon 7:00 PM WBAI-FM AIDS In Focus, Michael Alcalay, produc 1:00 AM RB ,e.
Cable, CH D/17 (1:001 PROD The Robin Byrd Show. male a~d female strippers; Manhattan
Midnight CCTV The Closet Case Show. KlOSel KlipS; Manhattan /Paragon Cable, CH VfJ5 (1:001 '
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Cable, CH C/16 (:301

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TUESDAY, APRIL 9 12:25 AM Glen or Glenda? Or is that Glennda? Or Brenda and Glennda?, -i"[

10:00 AM WABC- TV Sally Jessy Raphael Schgeduled guests from Orlando, Starring Bela lugosi. CH 21. .
Ra.: Male exotic dancers. 12:30 AM WNBC- TV David Lsttennan Sandra. Bernhard is 1I1escheduled ,~
Noon WFOX- TV Three $ Company From TV Guide: ·Spyin;g Jack with a girl guest CH 4. ,
and convinced he's straight, Furley evicts him: Just a little homophobia 8:30 AM WBAI-FM Any Saturdaywith David Rothenberg; live call-in; 99.5
in action, folks. CH 5. FM (2:001 ,
8:00 PM HBO First Love, Fatal Love From TV Guidfl. "The true story of Kim 7:00 PM GCN Gay [Link]: news and entertainment from around the COI!!itJy,
Frey, a college woman who contracted the AIDS virus. Frey introduces Bo, Unity, ArN Cable, CH 56 (1:001(For Manhattan Cable, S88 THURSDAy)
the drama: 11:00 PM Gayntmale porn; Manhattan Cable"CH VfJ5 ."; ,
10:00 PM RB PROD The Robin Byrd Show. male and female strippers; 1:30 AM RB PROD The Robin Byrd Show. male & female strippers; " I

Manhattan Cable, CH VfJ5 (1:001 Manhattan Cable, CH VfJ5 11:001, I

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11:00 PM WIND-TV Cheers "Sam's regulars are reluct8ntto hang out at a
bar that's promising 10 become a gay hangout.· it looks like Cheers is SUNDAY, APRIL 14 .. , ;.:,
updating Three's Company. CH 11. 7'.30 PM WBAI-FM The Gay Show Alternates with Outlooks. 99.5FM (1:001, •
11:00 PM GBS Out in the 00's: news, infonnation and interviews; 10:30 PM RB PROD Men For Merr. Robin Byrd presen1S gay male porno " . ""
Manhattan/Paragon Cable, CH C/16 (1:001 stars; Manhattan Cable, CH Vl35 (:301 " , Ii

11:00 PM GBS Way Out! Mark Chesnut and Michelle VanVoorhies host, ',;,
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 10 Rich Volo is the producer. CH C/16 (:301 " .. ,
7:00 AM MAX Hush...Hush, Sweet Charlotte Batie D avis and Olivia de ,'
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Haviland do their thing.
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9:00 AM WIND-TV Best Talk Scheduled: New York City's housing crisis. CH Hey, Tuning In readers: Patric Walker, in TV Guide, . If'
advises Virgos: 'You certainly seem to be in the thick of it. , ,-
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variety of issues, including sex, drugs and their future plans. CH 5. week's planetary aspects signify that at least you know for, '"
Midnight RB PROD The Robin Byrd Show. male and female strippers, live certain where your affections lie and what action must be .
call-in show; Manhattan Cable, CH VfJ5 taken over a joint financial a"angement' But don't you wish I., ,'.. ,
you'd lobbied for domestic partnership legislation last·yeat;
THURSDAY, APRIL 11 instead of going to Mars? Not much TV to watch this week, so
12:35 AM TNT Damon and Pythias A movie about the legendary friendship go do some activism. -Ed. II j,
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Monday Meat on Friday (Xtlusive [Link] at 1:3Cr
Privata Eyes (Marc Berkley's Kool Komrads; am. OJ Nobody's Pussy. '$[Link]~amid. 101(
strippers; downtown crowd, students, pro" c Avenue A. (212) 473-7184. ' •• "
fessionals.2-4-1 drinks till midnight .$7) 12 • Millennium (Ladies Night.) 1770'New·Y9rk .
W 21 St (212) 'JJ.'J6-nn , i
Ave. (Rome 110) Huntington; LI. (516)'351-
1402. , . ';'(
Tuesday , bParallel ([Link]- Palsgrove IV,' Scott Guttie
.Clit Club (Drink specials till midnight Lesbian " and Chau!lcy present [Link]!~ng "'
e,ro,tic videos and slides. $3 before mid- Matthew Kasten's beauties and,Bold'Soal "
nightJ$5 after.) Pyramid. 101 Avenue A. (212) [Link] Johnny Dynell. $12.) 229 W.28th" '
·473-7184. St (212)563-9292. .
• *Club Edelweiss (TVs, TSs, gays, bi's, sin- Private Eyes (YMVA Night. AttractS students
gles, couples; Tuesdays are especially for -andprofessionals.) 12 W. 21St St (212l206-
lesbians, but everyone is welcome.) 167 W. 7772. ,
29th St (212) 868-6989. Stingray's (New club, new sound system. Free
Send Information, .before 10 pm. $7 after.) 641 W, 51st St,'(212)
Danciteria (Coining soon: Chip Duckett's gay
corrections, and complaints . 664-8668 • .,'
Tuesdays. Keep your eyes on this space for •

opening.) 29 E. 29th St to OutWeek Listings, 159 W • Visions 56-01 Queens B~Ii,d, Woodside,
• Grand Central (Women's night tonight Mixed 25 St, NY, NY 10001. You Qlieens. Info: (718) ~71~1; Club: (718) 899-
:We~"Su.) 210 Merrick Rd. Rockville Centre, may also fax the listings 9031. "
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LI. (516) 536-4800. editor at (212) 337-1220.
Jack Officer's Club (Cruising, Br:uising, Drinking Saturday",.
and Carousing. Audio, Video and Manual The Bank ( Controversy. OJ Patrick Butts. Drag
Jtn[newinfo] +[women]
., Manipulation by OJ Craig. $3) 505 E. 6th St, queens, drinking, dancing' and 'scandal.
betWeen avenues A and B. *[attracts TVs] $15/$10/$7.) 225 E. Houston St., at Essex
• Roxy (John Blair's ·Muscle on Wheels." Gay Street (212) 505-5033. .
rollerskating. Doors open at 8 pm. Varied Barefoot Boogie (A party for adults :and kids.
, t. ... "I,

cover.) 515 W 18 St (212) 645-5156. 2nd and 4th Saturdays of the month. Smoke-
,
and alcohol-free. April131~themed "Island
Wednesday Night· 8:30 pm to 12;30 am ..$!i/kids free.) 434 .
*Channel 69 (Drag Extravaganza, with Linda Sixth Ave., 4th floor! betWeen Ninth and
Simpson. Go-go stars, OJ Dany Johnson. 505-5033. Tenth avenlles. (212) 857~5152.
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Sexy, upbeat, East Village fag and dyke Blacglame -(Celebrating gay men and women of Center (2nd & 4th Sat. 9 pm tol am, $8. OJ Peter
crowd. $5.) Pyramid. 101 Avenue A. (212) color. Bi-montly.) Pyramid. 101 Ave. A. (212) , Arden.) 208 W. 13th St (212) 620-7310.
473-7184. 473-7184. ' • Center (·Women & Frien~.s" Every first
The Building (Dallas' The Boys' Room. House *Copacabana (Susanne Bartsch. uist Th of the Saturday. Next is April 6•.DJ Gini DeSantis. 9 .
music, downtown crowd, g07g0 boys and a month. Iffy door) 10 E. 60th St., at Fifth [Link] 1 am.) 208 W 13 St (212) 620-7210.
60-foot ceiling. $10/$7 witli invite.) 51 W. Avenue. (212) 755-6010. • Clit .Club ([Link]
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and
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26th St (212) 576-1890. Excalibur ($1 drinks.) Located at the corner of weekeh~ [Link],) Jbe~yramiil>101·AVe.'A.
• Excalibur (Ladies Night $1 \:Irinks.) Located , 10th Street andJefferson behind football (212)406-1114.
, at th'e corner of 10th Street andJefferson stadium. Hoboken, NJ. (201) 795-1161. Club West End (Michael Fesco'sSaturdays;
behindf'(fotball stadium. Hoboken, NJ. (201) Hatfiald's (2-4-1 drinks, female impersonators.) midnight - 9 am) 547 W. 21st St
795-1161. 126-10 Queens Blvd. Kew Gardens, Queens. Columbia Dances (Third Saturday dances with
,*Limelight (Disco 2000, with Michael Alig and (718) 261-8484. OJ Karin Ward. 10 P!ll to 3 am.. #5.) Columbia
Larry Tee, Do!,rS'open at 10 pm. $10.) Sixth M,ore Men (Tony, Keith and Dominic present OJ University Earl' Hall, 116th' [Link] it
Avenue at 20th Street (212) 807-7850. Tommy Richardson, go-go boys, videos, bil- Broadway.'(21-2) 629-1989. ', .
-4-Limelight (Queer U. DJs Andy Anderson and liards. $101$7 with invite.) 239 Eleventh Ave. 419419 N. Highway, Southampton, LI. (516) 283-
Keoki, $5/$10) Sixth Avenue at 20th Street (212) 5788-3283. 5001.
(212) 807"7850. Stingray's (New club, new sound system, Love Zane (dancing & perfonners) 70 Beach Sf, .J(
everything else is a surprise. No cover Staten Island. (718) 442-5692. .
. .
• Cadillac Bar (Gini DeSantis presents Pure
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Party Production Dances for Women. Free tonight) 641 W. 51st St (212) 664-8668. .Girl Saturdays (Shescape presents Satu'(day
r

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buffet from 6~8 pm. Renee Cooke, bar- Nights for Women. With go-go girls and a
tender. $5.) 16 W. 22nd St., between Fifth Friday guest OJ. $8 before 10:301$10after.) 2Of?,O. 20
and Sixth avenues. ABC (Chip Duckett presents OJ Merritt and, W. 20th St., between Fifth and Sixth
• Private Eyes (Shescape Afterwork Party from dancing in the ballroom and balcony. Dinah avenues. (212) 645-6479. .
, 5-10 pm. 2-4-1 drinks before 7. $5 before 7 in the upstairs lounge. -$10/$7 W. invite.) 17 Me .. (OJ Aldo Hernondez, every Saturday; go-
pm/$7 after.) 12 W. 21st St Shescape: (212) Irving Place ot 15th Street go boys, videos; opens 10 pm; $5) 432 W 14
645-6479, Private Eyes: (212) 2rJ!r7772. The Bank (Alternative Music Night, hosted by St ,
Private Eyes (YMVA Night Students, profes- Lee Chappell,David Leigh and Michael T. OJ bParaliel (John Blair and The Athletic Complex
sional and women. Door often 'benefits a Rolph Duncan. Mixed crowd. $101$7.) 225 E. present New York's hottest,go·go boys, OJ
gay/lesbian organization. $1.) 12 W. 21st St Houston St; at Essex Street (212) 505-5033 Tommy Richardson. $15.) 229 W. 28th St .
(212) 2rJ!r 7772. • Clit Club (Jocelyn & Julie present Clit Club (212) 563-9292.
Silver Lining (2-4-1 drinks.) 175 Cherry Lane. West With go-go gir1s and lesbo videos. $1 -4-Roxy (Locomotion. Gay boys, men; straight
Roral Park, LI. (516) 354-9641. drinks between 8 and 9 pm. Doors open at 8 women, some lesbians.) 515 W~ 18th St,
Stutz (2-4-1 drinks.) 202 Westchester Ave. pm. $5) 432 W 14th St (212) 406-1114. between Tenth and Eleventh aven!les,(212)
White Plains, NY. (914) 761-3100. Columbia Dances (Rrst Friday dances. 10 pm to 645-5156.
2 am.) Columbia University Earl Hall. 116th .Silver Lining 175 Cherry Lane. Roral Park. U,
Thursday Streetst Broadway. Da~me phone: (212) (516) 354-9641.
The Bink (Upstairs it's Sperm Bank for Fags, 854-3574. Sound FaCtory (Mixed crowd but mostly gay.
with hostess Hapi Phace, DJsCraig • Hatfield's (Women's night.) 126-10 Queens Serious House music offered. No alcohol.
Spencer and Victor Anonymous? Down- Blvd. Kew Gardens, Queens. (718) 261-8484. Doors open at 11 pm.) 530 W. 27th St.,
stairs, Egg Bank for Dykes features guest Mea Culpa (For men, with dancing, video and between Tenth and Eleventh avenues. (212)
DJs and hot and sleazy Gir1 Action. $101$7) live entertainment. $7/$10.) 47 W. 20th St. 643-0728.
225 E. Houston St., at Essex Street (212) (212) 807-7840. Stingray'S (Brand new club, brand new sound

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system, everything\else is a surprise, $8.)
641 W.51stSt.(212)~
) World (Christina Vista and Junior Vazquez
present an after-hours party. Doors open at •

midnight) 254 E. 2nd St.. at Avenue C.

~nday
) Building (Dallas' The Men's Room. Stu-
dents, professionals. Go·go boys and 60-
foot ceilings,) 51 W. 28th St (212) 57&.1890. Chelsea The Hangout (J's) 879 Hudson St.,242·9272
IZy Nanny', (Sunday evening Tea Dance. Barbary Coast, 64 Seventh Ave. (14th St) 875-0385 Julius, 159 W. 10th St.,929-9872
Free before 9 pm!$5 after.) 21 Seventh Ave, The Break, 232 Eighth Ave, (22nd St) 827-0072 Keller's, 384 Wast SVChristopher, 243-1907
South. (212) 366-6312. . Kelly's Village Wast. 48 Bedford St., 929-9322
Cellblock 28, 28 Ninth Ave., 733-3144 (M-W)
UCII (DJs Crajg and Victor spin industrial,
Chelsea Transfer, 131 Eighth Ave. (bet 18th and Marie's Crisis. 59 Grove St., 243-9323
house, bass, soul and twirly disco.
Downstairs, the Lesbian Luv Lounge with OJ 17th) 929-7183 The Monster, 80 Grove St.(Seventh Ave.) 924-3558
Lori E, Seid and guest DJs, $5.),Pyramid, 101 Eagle's Nast, 142 Seventh Ave. (21st St) 691-6451 New Jimmy's 53 Christopher St., 483-0950
Avenue A. (212) 473-7184. Privete Eyes, 12 W. 21st St (bet Fifth and Sixth Ninth Circle, 139W. 10th St, 243-9204
11y', (OJ Moaning Usa spins the records for avanues)206-7770 Sneakers, 392 West St., 242-91131
dancing dykes. Doors open at 8 pm, $3.) 46
Rawhide, 212 8ghth Ave., 121stSt.), unrlstad Two Potato, 145 Christopher St, 242-9340
Bedford St. (212) 929-9322.
Inlter (Sunday Tea Dance at 4 pm; dancing Spike, 120 Seventh Ave.,243-_ Ty's, 114 Christopher St.,.741-9641
also on other nights from 10 pm) 80 Grove St The Vault. 28 Ninth Ave" 733-3144(F. 7-11 pm. . Uncle Charlie's, 58 Greenwich Ave., 58787
at Sheridan Sq.; 924-3557. women) 255-6758
rel1lllel (Michael Fesco presents Sunday Tea Trilleca
Dance. Open bar 5-7 pm. Complimentary West Village Altar, 161 W. Broadway. 571-72n.
hors d' at 7. Go-go bOys. $6.) 229 W. 28th St. Badlands, Christopher and WeSt streets, 741-9238
(212) 563-9292. Boots 8& Saddle, 78 Christopher St., 929-!1684 West Side
Silfe Sundey, (Kool Komrads' party at the Crazy Nanny's 21 Seventh Ave. S.,366-6312 Candle Bar,319 Amarstardam Ave., 874-9155
. Cadillac Bar; go-go boys, $2 shots, $5 beer (women) Cats, 730 Eighth Ave" 221-7559
bias from !HI pm.) 15 W. 21st St. (212) 645-
7220. D.T.'s Fat Cat 281 W. 12th St,243-!Kl41 Don't Tell Mama,343 W. 48th St,757-0788
.SOB, (Leticia Montalvo presents The Lu~t Pandora's Box, 70 Grove St. (Seventh Ave,) 242- Gents, 360 W, 42nd St., (Ninth Ave.)987-0659
House. First Sunday of the month only. 1408 (women) Sally's Hideaway, 264 W. 43rd St.,221-9152
Grand opening April 7, with OJ Marlow. $5.) Dugout, 185 Christopher St., 242-9113
204 Varick St., at Houston. (212) 243-4940. Eighty-Eights, 228 W. 10th St.,924-OIBI coritlnu.d [Link] p ....
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Every Night (or almost)
• Bedrock (Lesbian club, closed Mo and Tu.)
121 Woodfield Rd. West Hempstead,lI. (516)
486-9516-
1\oCIub Edelwei .. (Tuesdays are for lesbians,
but it·s open to all Tu-Su.) 167 W ..29th St.
(212) 861H989. .
41. (Opens 6 pm.) 419 N. Highway (Rte 27).
Southampton, LI. (516) 283-5001.
Gl1Ind Central 210 Merrick Rd. Rockville Centre,
4th SIZZLING WEEK!
1I. (516) 536-4800.
Meglc Touch (Anglo/Latin/Asian) 73-13 37th Rd.
Jackson Heights, Queens. (718) 429-8605. .
MOllIter 80 Grove St., at Sheridan Square. (212)
924-3557 . • • •
• Pendora', Box (formerly the Duchess)
Sheridan Square 8& 7th Avenue. (212) 242-
1408.
TIle Pyramid (Look under daily listings for indi- - PRODUCED" DIIICftD ., IENNIE LMNGSTON
vidual parties and themes. Also check Going IDITORJONATHAN OPPENHEIM CINDlATCiG_ PAUL GilSON CC).[Link] SWIMAR
Out for special events.) 101 Ave, A. (212)
473-7184. "A BEAUTIFUL PIECE OF 'DOCUMENTARY FILMMAKING
Spectrum. (Look under daily listings for individ- - LIVELY,INTELLIGENT, EXPLORATORY."
ualparties and themes. Coors seIVed.) 802 - _ ... ne. Rderty, THINIW
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84th St., at Eighth avenue. Bay Ridge,
Brooldyn. (718) 238-8213 • "SPIRITED, AN EYE OPENER!" - Pet•• " ..... , /IOU'NGS1ONf
• Tod', (Night club and restaurant, Mostly
women, but men are OK.) 2 Georges Rd, "GLORIOUS. ELECTRIC. MY FAVORITE MOVIE ... IN
New Brunswick, NJ. (201) 545-8990. MANY MOONS. SWln, ENTERTAINING & TANTALIIING."
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B:i1g/Jr:(s,320 E. [Link], 688-8534 . Hideaway, B7-3!i Pa~Qns Blvd., Jamaica,657-4885
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G.H. Club, 353 E. 53rd St.,223-9752 Magic Touch, 73-13 37th Rd., Jackson Heights, Club Swamp, Disco/Annex Restaurant, Montauk
Johnny's Pub, 123 E. 41th St.,355-8714 429-8605 Hwy, Wainscott, 537-3332.
NY Confidential, 306 E. 49th St.,308-8390 ' Ice Palace, Cherry Grove Beach Club, Fire Island,
Rounds, 303 E. 53rd St.,593-08!I7 .
Staten Island 597-6600
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Slluthllakaota, 4053rd Ave., (29th St) 684-8376 Kiss, 161 Farmardie Dr., Lake Rpnkonkoma, 467-9273
· - Sand castle, 86 Mills Ave., 447-9365
Star Sapphire, 400 E. 59th St.,688-4710 Club 6111, 6111 Sunrise Highway, W. Babylon,
The ToWnhouse, 236 E. 58th St, 754-4649 Westches~er 661-9580
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Twenty-Nine Palms,.129 Laxington Ave., 686-8299 Carea code 914) Millennium, 1770 New York Ave., Huntingdon,
Playroom,590 Nepperhan Ave" Yonkers, 965-6900 351-1402
least Village Stutz, 202 Westchester Ave., White Plains, Starz,836 Grand Blvd., Deer Park. 242-3857
The Bar, 68 2nd Ave., (4th St.) 674-9714 761-3100 Thunders, 894 Jericho Turnpike, Smithtown, 864-1410
Cave Canem ..(Fr and Sa dinners, Su brunches) 24
First Ave" 529-9665 (women) Long Island Nassau New Jersey
Pyramid, 101 Ave, A, 420-1590 Carea code 516) Carea code 201)
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Tunnel Bar, 116 1st Ave., (7th St) 777-9xrJ. Bedrock. 121 Woodfield Rd., West Hempstead, Charlie's West, 536 Main St' E. Orange, 678-5002
486-9516 (women)· Feather's, 77 Kinderkamack Rd., River Edge,
Brooklyn Blanche, 47-2 Boundary Ave., Farmingdale, 694- 342-6410 •
Carea code 718) 691M; Friendly's Bar, 6310 Park Ave., West New York,
After Five Plus, 5 Front St, 852-0139 Grand Central, 210 Merrick Rd., Rockville Centre, 854-9895
Spectrum, 80264th St, (Eighth Ave.), 745-9611 536-4800 Excalibur, 10th and Jefferson, Hoboken, 795-1023
Sweet Sensations, 6322 20th St' 435-2580 Pal Joey's, 2457 Jerusalem Ave., North Bellmore, Nite Lite, 509 22nd St' Union City,863-9515
" II - 785-9301 , , Vibrations, 165 Cedar Lane, Teaneck, 836-5518
Queens Silver Uning, 175 Cherry Lane, New Hyde Park.
Yacht Club, 366 Berksire Valley Rd., Jefferson,
Carea code 718) 354-9641
697-9780
Breadstix; 1,13-24 Queens Blvd., Forest Hills, Station House Pub,
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Come Dance and Party at Camp Friendship in Park Slope! Over 600 titles
339 8th St. (bet. 5th 8< 6th Aves.)
Trains: R to 9th St.; F to 4th Ave. or 7th Ave. from $19·29.95
Manhattan carpooling available for return home , ....
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• d.j. Karin Ward • games galore
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$10/$6·8 in adv. More info: (718) 965-7578
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A.C.Q.C. AIDS CENTER OF 212.f74-5084, or writa til: P.O. Box BISEXUAL YOU1H ·CO_UNIIY Friday each month, 7pm, at The
QUEENS COUNTY SOCIAL SER· 0828, NY,NY10183«123. Infonnalsocial lit support group RESEARCH 1IIl1A11VE Center, 208 W. 13111St, Wast of
VICES EDUCATION - BUDDIES- for Bisexual kidf/youth. Monthly CRI testa experimental drugs and 7th Ave. Contribution: $8. Bring a
COUNSBJNG - SUPPOR GROUPS All (MJSTIIEJIrMENT maeting/potluck lunch held treatments for AIDS and HIV main courae for 4 peopla (or pay a
VIIIunIMr~(718)89&- [Link] 1:00pm on fourth Sunday of the related iIInas88a. Monthly treat- $5 food charge.) For infonnation
2500(voice) (718)89&-2985(TDD) Publishes a quarterly Directory of month at mambers homes. Call ment and l88IIarch group for HIV+ call: 212-919-7541 or212-28&-3238
clinical trials of experimental NYABN for this month" location. individuals. Treatment and
ACI'''\AIDS
c..Iilion III AIDSIHIV trsatments in NY/NJ, This group is part of the New York r_arch newsletter, forums and , GLAAD-Gay lit a..bi8llAlr_
UnlAlh PuMrt and Ph~adelphia, and has educa- Area Bisaxual Network. public seminara. Call Alice Spesra Againlt [Link]
488A Hudson Street, Suite G4 tional materialr/seninara for trial or Ken Fomall ro at (212)481-1050 80 Varick Street, NYC 10013 (212)
NYC 10014 (212) 584-2437 A participants. ATR also advocates BWS-BRONXlESBIMs for info and maning list 96&-1700 GLAAD combats homo-
diverse, non-partisan group of for improvements in the trial sys- UNIIED IN SIS1EIIIIOOD phobia in the media and else-
individuals united in anger and tem. 259 W. 30th St, 9th fl. NYC, 'Social, political and support CONGREGATION BEIH where by promoting visibility of
committed to direct action to 10001. (212)288-4198. Publications networking group for lesbians SM:HATTORAH the lesbian and gay community
end the AIDS crisis. Gen. meet- free/doniition raqueated. in the Bronx. Regular meatings NY's Gay and Lesbian Synagogue and organizing grassroots
ings Mon. nights 7:30, in The 3rd Fri at 208 W. 13 Strest, from Services Friday at 8:30pm 57 response to anti-gay bigotry. Do
Great Hall, ·Cooper Union, on BAR ASSOCIAnON fOR 8:30-8pm. and the 2nd Wed at Bethune Street For info. calt (212) you have 30 minutes a month to
Cooper Square between Astor IIIMAN lIGHTS One Fordham Plaza, Sta.800, 929-9498. fight homophobia?Join the
and St. Marks Place's. Lawyers Referral Service for Bx. Call Usa at (212829-9817 or GlAAD PhoneTraelCaIl (212~988-
the Lesbian and Gay Community Miriem 217/409-2692 (Spanish). CONCliEGAnON 1700for infonna1ion.
AIDS RESOURCE CENTER (ARC) Full Range [Link] Servic81 B'NAI JESllUIIUN
Supportive housing for home- (212) 459-4873 Free Walk-in BODY POSRIVE Monthly Spritual Gatherings and GLB
lesl PWAs (Bailey House and Legal Clinic. Tuelday 8-8 pm. If you or your lover hIS tasted free catered feativeluncheons for Gay and Lesbian Independent
apartments). Non-judgemental Lesbian lit Gay Community HIV+, we offer support groupe, . en People WI1h AIDS, their lovera Broadcasters invites you to tune
pastoral care for PWAs and Centro Ground Roor seminars, public forums, refer- and families. Program includes into OunOOKS on WBAI-NY, 99.S
loved ones, Volunteer opportu- encelibrlry, raferrall, socii I music and discussion led by our FM every other Sunday, 7:30- '
nities. (212)481-1270, 24 West BIDS (BISEXUALDOMNANCE& activities and up-to-date Rabbis: Call (212)7If1-7fIIl 8:30pm and join us every Tuasday
30th St, NYC 10001 SUBIIISSION GIIOUPI national monthly, "THE BODY at 7:30pm til 9:00pm to become a
Share S/M experienc81 and POSITIVF ($2!i{year). (212)721- DIGMTY member of GLIB. No experience
AlDEf/APlN-NY fantssias with others in a posi- 1348. 2095 Broadway, Suite 308, BIG APPLE needed. 505 Eighth Avenue, NY,
([Link] [Link]. of the E.. t tive, non-judgemental atmo- NY,I0023 A conwnunity of Lasbian and Gay NY 10018 Attn: Outlooks or call
Coalt/Alian Pacific Lelbian sphere. First Sunday of the Catholics. Activilias include Utur- (212)473-1889. Ask for GUB.
Network-New York) We are a month, 4:45pm at the Commu- BROOIILYN'SWIllIAN AND GAY gies and socials every Sat, 8:00
political, social and supportive nity Center 208 W. 13 Street, POIJTICAL CUJB lAIIIIDA pm, at the Center, 208 W. 13
/
GAYlit WIllIAN HEAIJH
network of Asian Pacific les- NYC. This group is part of the IIDB'BIDENT DEMOCRATS Street,. [Link] (212181&-1309. CONCERNS
bians. Planning meetings on the New York Area Bisexual Net- Ll.D. endors .. and works for An office of the NYC Dept. of
1st Sunday and social events wor1<. candidat .. in local, state and DIGNItY NEW YORK Health, providas linkages betwn
on tha last Friday of each national elections, lobbiaa for leg- Leabian and gay Catholics and NYC Health lit Human Svcs, and
month. Call (212)517-5598 for BISEXUAL INFORMAnON lit islation, and conduCIII ccmnll1ity friends AIDS Ministry, Spiritual the Lesbian lit Gay community,
more infonnation. COUNSEUNGS~~IN~ outraach through met faira and Development The Cathedral Pro- focusing in All health concerns;
A professionaly staffed, non- meetings on spacial tllpics. Join ject Worahip Servicas lit Social- resource information for health
AIIBICAN GAYI profit organization for bisexu- us. 338 Ninth St., Suite 135 Brook- [Link] ... 7:3lpm-St John's Epi&- services consumers and
WIIIAN A1IIEISIS als, their familias and partners, lyn, NY11215 (718)985-8482 copel Church 218Weat 11th S1raat providera. 125 Worth Street, Box
AGA. Inc/701 7th Avenue, Suite facing problems of a psycho- 'OW~2179 .'
87, New York, NY 10013. For info
WI/New York, New York 10038 logical or medical kind. We also CIIa.E OfMOHE UGIIT· call (212)!iII8-49IE.
A non-profit. educational organi- work with those in doubt about Spiritual support and lIlaring ina BJGE Educa1ion ina Di_1ad
zation dedicated to preserving their sexuality. Confidentiality is gay/l8Ibian affirmative group. Gay EnvinInmanl GAYMALE SJM ACTMSTS
separation between state and protected by law. For infonna- West-Park Prasbyterian Church Fort1!e physically disabled Les- Dedicated til safa end rasponsi-
church and upholding the civil tion phone: (212)498-9500 185 West 98th Street Wed: wor- bian and Gay Convnurity. [Link] ble SlM since 1981. Open meet-
rights of Lesbian and Gay Athe- ahip [Link] 8:30 pm, program 305 Village Station, New York, NY ings w/programs on S/M tech-
ists. Meetings the firsts Sunday BISElCIJAl. PRIJE 7:30. Maraha (2121 304-4373 Char- 10014 niques,lifestyle issuas, political
Ccmnunity Cen1IIr, 1 til 3 [Link] Dial DISCUSSION GROUP lie (212)891-7118. and social concerns. Also special
a Gay Atheillti (718)889-1737, 24 Topical diacusaiona on isauas of RlGNT RUNNBIS events, speakers buraau, work-
hours. interest to the community in a ~IEAIJII A IIIlning clubforlesbisn and gay shops, demos, affinity groups,
congenial atmosphere, fol- PROJECr athletes of all abilities. Fun Runs newsletllr, mora; GMSMA - Dept.
ARCS (Al1IS-IIabad lowed by an infonnal dinner at 208 West 13111Street, NYC, New of 1·8 miles hald every Sat at O,496A Hudson Street, Suite 023
ConmIIity Sani_) a friendly local restaurant. York 10011 For Appointments lOam and Weds. at7pmin Cantral ,NYC 10014.(212)72HI118.
for Dutchess, Orange, Putnam, Every Sunday, 3:00- 4:30pm at and Infonnation (212)875-3558 Park and every Tues. at 7pm in
Rockland, Sullivan, Ulster and the Community Canter 208 W. 13 (llYNoice)I'ROVIDING CARING, Prospect Park. For information: GMAD (GAYMEN OFARIICAN
W .. tch .. ter counties. AIDS Street, NYC. Part of the New SENSITIVE AND_LOW COST call (212)724-9700. DESCENT)
aducation, client services, crisis York Area Bisexual Networ1<. HEALTH CARE SERVICES TO 80 Varick Street, NYC 10013 Ii sup-
intervention, support groups, THE LESBIAN AND GAY COM- .THE GAY AFRICAN port group of Gay Men Of African
case management, buddy and BIWAYS NEWYORK MUNIlY. AMERICANS OF Descent dedicated til consciou&-
hospital visitor program. 214 Monthly social avents for the WESTCHESTER(Tha [Link].) nas&-raising and the development
Central Ave., White Plains, NY Bisexual community and friends. COMMUNIIY IEAIJII is a community based support of the Lesbian and Gay Commu-
10808 (914)99:H808 838 Broad- Call NYABNfor detsa. of upcom- [Link]'s HfAIJIIrRIIMA- group formed in Westchester nity. GMAD is inclusive of African,
way, Newburgh, NY 12250 (914) ing events. (212)459-4784 TIONIN RIll TEENS County. Various activities are African-American, Can"bbean and
582-5005 AIDSline (814)113- Do you have queation. about planned for the coming months. Hispanic/Latino men of color.
CIIII7 BI'AC (BISEXUAl. POUIICAI. your health? Your Body? Com- .Call 914-37&0727 for mora info. Meetings ara held, weeklY, on fri-
ACnON COMMIT1IE) ing 0 ut? Safer Sex? Feel like days. For infonnation, call 719-
ASIANS lit fIIIENDS. NEWYORK Political action on illu88 of you have no one to talk to? Not GAYrAnt81'S RIIIUM 802-(1182.
A not-for-profit organization importance til the Bisexual /I.M- any morel Now you can call the A aupport organization for gay
which promotes friendshipe with bian/Gay community. Monthly HOTI-lINE.212-255-1517The father's, their lovera, and othera in GAYMEN'S HEAIIH
Alian/Pacific Islander, Asian- meetinw potluck held 8:00pm on Teen HOTT-UNE for Healthl Call child-nurturing situations. CIUSIS HonJNE
American, and non-Alian gay fourth Thuraday of the month at Monday to Thursday, 7pm to Monthly meetings include a FOR INFORMATION ON SAFER
men through aocial, cultural, edu- membera hornas. Call NYABN for 9pln. At other times, leave a poduck supper, support groups on SEXAND HIV-RElATED HEALTH
cational, and service activities this month's location. ((212)45&- m8l88ge and we'll call you varied specialized tIIpics, speak- SERVICES, AND FOR INFORMA-
and programs. Call our HotUne: 4784 backl ers, and [Link]: lat TION ON ONE-TIME, WALK-IN
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AIDS COUNSELING SERVICES I
·'211-1117'-& 21Z-445-747D TOO IDENIITY rc. nership benefits and AIDSissues. tion: MTG, Suite K83, 498-A
For more information call Hudson St., New York, NY NOII'IHBlN LIGHTS
\f!Ir ........ ring Impel") Mon.- New York's non-profit lesbian
AIJBIfWMS
Fri. 10:30 [Link] 8 pm. lWOto 31Q and gay psychotherapy center. (212)923-8890. 10025. (718)852-8582.
.'~------ Ucensad psychologists, psychi- Improving Quality of ute for Peo-
atrists, and clinical social wor1t- lESBIAN AM) GAY MOCA (Man of Color AIDS ple with AIDS/HIV. THE AIDS
GII1H & MII1H MASTERYWORKSHOP:Exploring
CUll OFNEWYORK ers. Sliding scale fees. Insur- RIGHTS PR!)JECT PNwntion Plllllnun.)
ance accepted. Individual, of the Americ.n Civil [Link] •• Providesaafer sex and AIDS the posailxlitiea of a powarfuiand
Social club for heavy, chubby craativelifa in the face of AIDS.
gay men a their admirers. couple, and family therapy. Vari- Union KNOW YOUR RIGHTS/ education information to gay
Monthly soc'ials et the ·Center", ety of Men's and women's WE'RE EXPANDING ntEM (212) and bisexual Men of Color; CaU(212)~
weekly bar nights Thursdays at groups forming continuously. 118 944-9800, ext. 545 coordinatas a networlt of peer-
,tha ·Chelsea Transfer", monthly W. 72nd Street 212-789-9432 support groups for gay and NYC GAY .. LESBIAN
.[Link] Review, bi-monthly LESBIANS AM) GAYS bisexual Men of Color in all 5 ANn-VlOl£NCE PROJECf
[Link]. For more infor- ifIEGRnY}NY OFRAlBUSH boroughs of New York City 303 Counseling, advocacy, and infor-
..matiGn ·call Ernie at 814-899-7735 lesbian and Gay Episcopalians Brooklyn's social organization Ninth Ave, New York, NY mation for survivors of anti-gay
or write: GaM/NY, Dept 0, P.O. and friends. Eucharist and pro- for both gay men and les- l000lor call (212)23&-1798. and anti-lesbian violence, sexual
Box 10;Pelham, NY1080l. gram every Thursday, 7:30pm. St bians. P.O. Box 108, Midwood assault, domestic violence, and
Luke's Church, Hudson and Station Brooklyn, NY 11230 • NRlONALGAY AM) LESBIAN other types of victimization. All
, HEAl. Chriatopher Sta. INFO: P.O. Bcix (718) 859-9437 TASKRJRCE servicea free and confidential.24
(1INIIh fdUClllian AIDS UIIi_) 5202, NYNY10185(718)~ is the national grassroots politi- hourhotline (212) 807-0197
Weekly info. and supporfgroup lESBIAN HBlSfORY ARCIIVa! cal organization for leabians and
IM,llDA P.O. Box 1258 New York, New gay men. Membership is OF
,for treatments for AIDS which
,do not compromise the immune ~DEHNSE York 10118212/874-7232Since $:Wyaar. Issue-orientad projects LESBIAN AND GAYS
system further, including alter- AND IDUCIIJION RI,. 1974, the Archives has inspired, address violence, sodomy laws, Let P/FLAG help you and your
'native and holistic approaches. Precedent-setting litigation shaped and reflected lesbian AIDS, gay rights ordinances, family deal with the upheaval of
Wed 8pm. 208 W. 13th St. nationwide for lesbians, gay lives everywhere. Call to famlliea, media, atc. through lob- your coming out. Our meetings
(212)674-HOPE. men and people with AIDS. arrange a visit or to volunteer bying, education, organizing and ara free: monthly on the 4th Sun-
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- Membership ($40 and up) inc. forThuraday woritnigh1B. direct action. NGLTF 1517 U day, at 3:00 pm, in Duane Church,
, IEllTAGE [Link]' newsletter and invitations to --------IL Street NW, Washington, DC 201 Wast 13th. Info? call Jeanne,
Organizers of New York's Les- special events. Volunteer night RUNE 20009. (202)332-8U!. 212..c83-0629
bian' and Gay Pride events: the on Thursdays. Intake calls: 2- Tho [Link] .... bi.n .nd Gay
March, the Rally and the Dance 4pm Mon thru Fri (212) 995-8!i85. Toll-tn. Sorvice NBNYORKADVERTISING AND PEOIUWIDI AIDS
on the Pier. Call (212)891-1774 ,....... FE. NElWORK COAUJlON
for meeting schedule or more LAVA-(lBIIIANS ABOUT --------IL NYACN is the community's (212) 532-029O{1-8OD-828-3280{
information. 208 West 13th VISUAL ARI1 LONG ISlAND ACI'-tI' largest gay and lesbian profes- Hotline (212) 532-0588Monday
Street, NUIY 10011. Call for slidea for [Link] Artists' Meets Tuesdays at 8pm at 181 sional group/welcoming all in thru Friday lDam-6prn Meal pro-
Exhibition, Gay a lesbian COin-' Post Iwa. in Westbury, [Link] communications-and their grams, support groups, educa-
IN munity Center, NYC. For more us for change on Long Island. friends·. Monthly meetings, 3rd tional and referral services for
information, send SASE to : Mailing address: PO Box 514, Wed 8:30pm at the Community PW"'s and PWArc's.
lNSIIME Center. Members' newsletter,
for I,asbian and gay youth. Coun- Miriam Fougera, 118 Fort Greene Wealbury, NY11m 518-33B-4882.
s'ling, drop-in center (M-F, 3- Place, Brooklyn, NY11217. job hotline, annual directory. PEOIUWIDI AIDS
8'pm), rap groups, Harvey Milk LSM Phone (212) 517-0380 for more HEAIJH GROUP
High School, AIDS and safer ~ANDGAY is a support and information info. Mention OutWeek for one Underground buyar's club import-
sex information, referrals, pro- [Link]'ORS group for lesbians and bisexual free newsletter. ing not-yet-approved madications
. fessional education. (212) 833- Meet with other lesbians and women intaraatBd in fantasy, role- and nutritional supplements. 31
,882!!(voice) (212) 833-8828 m gays who worlt in adult educa- playing. bindage, discipline, SIM, [Link] West 28th St 4th Roor (212) 532-
for deaf. tion as teachers, administrators, fatiahea, altemaIB gender indanti- Support and discuaaion group for 0280
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counselors, tutors, etc., to dis- ties, costumes and 10forth. Mem- lesbians who self identify as
HISPANIC UNfIB) cuss issuea such as coming out bership is available only to Femme and are primarily PNCPANTHBI PATRII.
GAYS & lESBIANS to staff and students, materials wOlilen 18ysars and older. Aclual attracted to butch women: For Community street patrol in East
Educationalse·rvice.; political and curriculum, ~orkshop and experience is not required but membership information call Usa and Weat Village dedicated to
action, ,counseling and social [Link]. We genuine interest and an open (212)829-9817. deterring violent crime against
activitias in Spanish and English meet the first Friday of every' mind are. For information please gays and lesbians. For info and
by and for the Latino Lasbian and month at 8:00 pm at the lesbian write: P.O. Box 993, Murray Hill N.'! WOIE'lS [Link] [Link] time for West VIllage,
Gay [Link] meatings and gay Community Center 208 Station, New York,NY10158 ,For experienced, serious Soft- call 212-475-4383. for East Vii·
8:00 pm,4th Thursday of every West 13th Straet. Call Bryna ball Players, Coaches and Man- lage Patrol info, call 212·248-
monIh at,.2111West 13t1iStreet CaU Diamond at (212) 932-7902 MARANA1HA: agers. We play mod/fast pitch 8588.70 A Greenwich Ave., Box
.,' 107, NYC10011
201'8-7824 orwri18 [Link], P.O. (days) for information . IIIVERSIDERS RlR weekends in Manhattan and
Box 228 Canal Street S1ation,New LESBlAN/GAY CONCERNS Queens. Try-outs begin Feb. 11
York,NYl001a ntE lESBIAN AM) GAY Monthly program meeting on thru April- or until filled. (212) PROFESSIONAlSIN fUNI/IDEO
"- --------- BIG APPl£ CORPS second Sunday for gay/lesbian 255-1379 Janet 338 Canal Street, 8th Roor, NYC
IIENmY HOUSE Get your instrument out of the Christians and friends. Educa- 10013212-645-3351
Now in our 20th year, we provide closet and come play with us. tional, political, and social NINTH SlIEEI' CENTBI
. peer c,ounseling, therapy refer- Symphonic, Marching, Jazz, activities scheduled, 12:30 p.m. Since 1973, a community dedi- OI&RNIOlON
rala and groups for the lesbian, Dixieland, Rock, Rute Ensem- Riverside Church, 490 River- cated to demonstrating that a Queer Nation is a multi-cultural
,gay and bisexual community. bles and Woodwinds. 123 West side Drive, Sunday worship homosexual lifestyle is a ratio- diract action group dedicated ID
Call us at (212) 243-8181. Visit us 44th St Suite 12L New York, NY 10:45 a.m .. For info.,call (212) nal, deairable choice for individ- fighting homophobia, queer
at 544 8th Ave., between 14th- l0038(212)889-29Zt 222-5900 (ext. 290) uals dissatisfied with the invisibility, and all forms of
j5th Streets, Manhattan. rewards of conventional living. oppression that any queers
lESBIAN & GAY , lIEN OF AI1COLORS Psychologically - focussed rap might face. Anyone can suggest
ImIINAnONALGAY & COIIMHTY TOGEIHBINY groups, Tues., Sat, 8 to 10 pm. an action and should come to
lESBIAN HUMAN RIGHI'S SERVICES CENIBl A multi-rscial group of gay men peer counselling avanable. 319 E. meetings preparad to organize
COIIMSSION 208 West 13th Street New Yorlt, againat racism. Meetings every 9 Street, New York,NY10003,for and implement it aN, Box 1524,
work. to focus the spotlight of NY 10011 (212) 820-7310 9am- Friday night at 7:45 at the Lesbian info call (2121228-5153. Cooper Stetion, New York, NY
··world opinion on, the oppres- 11pm everyday. A place for and Gay Community Services 10003. Call 212-483-7208 for
"ion of gays and leabisns community organizing and net- Center,208 W. 13th Street. For NORrH AMERICAN MANIIIOY meeting info.
throughout the world. Currendy working, social services, cul- mora info. call: (212) 2~ or LOVE ASSOClAnON (NAMBlA)
organizing an Inti symposium tural programs, and social (212)222-9794. Dedicated to sexual freedom SAGE: -{Soniar Action in
:cin Gay and .Lesbian i88ues to events sponsored by the Center and eapecially interested in gay • Gay EmiI1lllllllllll
be held in Moscow and Lenin- , and more than 150 community METROPOUTAN TENNIS intergenerational relationships. Social Service Agency. provid-
grad in July 1981, in additon to organizations. GROUP(MTG) Monthly Bulletin and regular ing care, activities, a educs-
·many other exciting projects. Our 200 member lesbian and chapter meetings on the first tional servicea for gay & lasbian
·,For more info write IGLHRC, lESBIAN AND GAY gay tennis club includes play- Saturday of each month. Yearly senior citizens. Alao servea oyer
2978 Folsom Steet, SF CA 94110, lABOR NElWOIII ers from beginning to tourna- membership .ia $20; write NAM- 180 homebound seniors a older
or call (415)847-l1453. An organization of Leabial18 and ment level. Monthly tennill par- BLA. PO Box 174, Midtown Sta- PWA's .208 West 13th St NYC
Gays who ara active in their labor tin. Winter indoor league. tion, New York, NY 10018 or call 10011, (212)741-2247
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lBBlANSAMI BISEXUALS oc:»nt'l"Iuect 'frC»rrI pag_ 5"1
continued 'frolT1l pag_ 25
For all of us interaatad in reaching out to each other in ship from the Daily News guild and
exuberance to Ipontaneoully explore and expand
upon the Setl1fJane Roberta ·Philosoph.,- al it realllli generational. fashion thing. Yet the marks the Georgetown University gay
to our lives, personally, sexually and politicslly. Call AI whalebone corset (fashionable in its and lesbian student organization's strug-
(212) 97&-5104 .
day). impaired respiration and diges- gle for recognition from the university as
SUNDANCE OUTDOOR tion and was ultimately abandoned as . a formative legal and political trial.
ADVENTURE soam a health hazard." The recent brouhaha over the St.
A non-profit club offering Outdoor activitiel for &Very
H"on including hiking, biking, skiing, water activiti .. OK. Now. compare this to Btm- Patrick's Day parade was also an example
and other outdoor activities for the Gay/lesbian com- box. a queer fanzine hurled out from of how the iSsue of breaking down bani-
munity. For infonnation or complimentary Newsletter
call (212) 598-4728. Toronto (one of· whose publishers. ers seems to lurk around every comer in
Johnny Noxzema. describes outing as her life. A lesbian with working-class Irish
TASK RlRCEANNOUNCEMENr "glorious") and causing a commotion
The legal Action Center locallld at 153 Waverly Place, roots. she shocked her family when -she
NY,NY 10014, hal begun two new programs. All their everywhere. especially with its cur- took a cold-water flat in the city that was
8ervices are free. The HIV/AIDSLegal Service Project rent. fourth issue which has a lot to
provides free legal Mrvices to people with HIV/AiDS. precisely the sort of tenement her Irish-
Their scope of service is wide, encompassing child say: "Fact: All victims of gay-bashing American parents and grandparents
care and custody, discrimination, hou, housing, healthy DESERVE what they get. All victims of scrimped and saved for years to leave
health planning, confidentiality and employment. The queer-bashing are unfortunate cases·of
HIV/AIDSAgency Training and Assistance Project pro- behind McGovern has not often encoun-
vides IIIchnical assistance to public and privalll agen- mistaken identity." The publishers of tered opportunities to wrestle with who
ciel about legal and policy issues on HIV/AIDS and of this radical rag indict a "generation
drug abuH. They provide training, individual con8ullll- she is as a lesbian with her family and
tions, and model policy guidelines, among other items. If of misogynist capitalist swine clones who she is as an Irish Catholic with her
you have any further queations, please contact Ms. and half-baked numbskull. granola community. "It's always been very painful
Catherine O'Neil at (212)243-1313. Th. [Link] '" feminists over 30." all of whom are
Nun •• in AIDS C.r. (ANAC) just received Chapter for me to try to reconcile those two
Charter for the local Grealllr New York Chaplllr. They "directly responsible for segregated thing5." she says wistfully.
have monthly meetings with speakers and networicing bars. sexism. racism. classism. sepa-
opportunities. Their next meeting is scheduled for Jan- The events leading up to the St.
uary 9, 1991, 8-8 pm. at th. AIDS Institute, 5 Penn Plaza, ratism. mass complecency and a com- Patrick's Day parade offered McGovern
4th floor, NY,[Link] you have any further que8tions, plex network of selfish. over-educat-
please contact Janet Vaccariello at (2121340-8724 a unique opportunity to engage in that
ed. self-appointed rich people tussle. She desaibes the controversy as
TIlE OUTREACHUSING COMRINALHEAUNG (rOUat) overseeing a vast fake-democratic leS- acutely personal, noting that the hate-
Community volunlllers providing a weekly buffet IUp- bian and gay multi-national bureau-
per for the Brooklyn AIDS community. TOUCH meeta filled faces of the people who lined the
Monday evel. 5pm to 8:30pm- at downtown Brooklyn cracy that dictates how we think. parade route looked uncannily like her
Friends Meeting House (110 Schennerhom St. near c1fess. act and fuck."
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Boerum Place). limited transportation may be extended family members. And she
arranged. Info: (718)622-2756. TOUCHwelcomes con- Their most grabbing feature is the vividly recounts the thrill of recognition
tributions of funds, food and volunteers. "ining list. a.k.a. People We'd Like to she experienced in talking candidly with
ULSTER COIfiIY GAY AND LESBIAN AWANCE Bash Over the Head With a Lead other Irish queers. "It was very painful.
Meelll first and third Monday of each month at 7:30 pm Pipe." which includes the entire staff because I'll never forget those faces." she
at the Unitarian Church on Sawkiff Road in Kinglton. of the Advocate (with all of their
For Infonnation, call 91W28-3203 explains. "But it was really liberating.
names actually listed.) autWeek is list- because once you give up on that, you
UNnv" ed in a separate box called: "Walking can start all over."
NEEDS YOU to become a part of itl Organizers for Gay
Gamel IV. to be held in New York in 1994. Olympic- on Thin Ice." That is just the sort of opportunity
style 8pOrts and cultural event is largest in world. Btmboxs perhaps not-so-tongue- to face reality squarely. with even <>dds.
Thama is INCLUSION,everyone is needed. SUPPORT in-cheek goal for their queer revolu-
THE GAMES by volunteering, joining or making a dona· that McGovern attempts to provide for
tion. Call 212-732-3812 or write UNflY '94, PO Box 202, tion? "To exclusively concentrate on her clients. by easing their way through
NY, NY10038. the absolute destruction of lesbian the system with her legal degree and the
WHAMI...w.n.n'.1IHIIh Actian And MoIIiliZlltion. and gay culture ....We will not tolerate accesS that that affords. In fact. McGov-
A direct action group commitad to demanding, Hcur- any form of lesbian and gay philoso-
ing and defending absolute reproductive freedom and ern says. that she can force the system to
quality health care for all women. We meet every Wed. phy. We will not tolerate their obse- validate the problems her clients experi-
at 6:30pm at 105, E 22nd Street, 4th floor. 212-713- lete thought-processes ....We will not ence at all is one of the most rewarding
!i886Mailing address: WHAMI, PO Box 733, NYC10009 tolerate their voluntary assimilation aspects of her job. "It's really wonderful
WOMENS ALTEIINATIVE COMIIIJN nv CIMBI IWACC) into heterosexual culture .... We will t~ see the clients feel empowered by
A non'profit, Lelbian community center serving not tolerate their trivialization of
Queens, Nassau and Suffolk Counties. Thurs. night that." she remarks.
weekly dilcussion groupl. 8:30 pm, for other activities racism. We will not· tolerate their Alternatively. the sense of helpless-
please contact ua at 51&-483-2050. . warped. shallow. twisted concept of ness she feels when she can't mike the
WRES'lUNG RIB GAYS ILESBIANS
feminism .... Furthermore. if we see system work fast enough to keep her
Watch the men of the knights wrestling club inaction lesbians and gays being assaulted on clients from dying with IDV-related com-
every Sunday at 7:30 PM at the [Link] club the streets. we will not intervene-e-
allo conduct training classes on allllmalll Saturdays plications causes her immense frustra-
afternoon (lIt 8t 3rd [Link] men 2nd 8t 4th Sat- we will join in ....Effective immediate- tion. "1 find it completely heartbreaking."
urdaya for women) for morelnfonnation pleale call: ly. Bimbox is at war against lesbians she discloses. "1 find [I. am] completely
71&-839-5141
and gays." unable to deal with the fact that my 23-
1 think we're in for a fascinating year-old clients are dying."
decade. folks." __ ,. McGOVERN 10 ... P_." ••
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TRAIN NOTES Within the framework of an inclu-

oontlnu.d fire>", pag_ 47 Contlnu_d 'fron-. pag_ 28
sive queer revolution, the movement
colleges with phys-ed departritents and movements do happen; they've hap- must begin to repoiiticize its strategies to
organizations like the International pened in history, but they are not inclu- include people of color. And that means
. sive. By definition, they are exclusive. It .confronting its cIass<onscious sensibility
Dance Exercise Association, or IDEA,
is unfortunate that the most vocal propo- that has only been sensitive to the needs
certify trainers.
nents of the queer movement have of the middle class.
FISter is convinced that government
allowed their class privilege to shape Until these actions are taken, many
certification isn't too far away. queers of color will continue to see no
their goals, all but ignoring t!te common
"Within the field, it's a free-for-all,· ground they might otherwise share with relation between their own lives and the
he explained. "Anybody can do any- queers of color. goals of the queer movement. In the
thing. But it's all going to be regulated Does the queer movement want to meantime, the only success the move-
because the government is watching be inclusive or simply to have broad ment will see will be in a dass context far
how fast the field is expanding.· support for its Class-oriented agenda? from the grasp of many queers of color.'"
FISter feels that there will be certain
benefits to regulation, both for trainers
and their clients.
"Certification will ally trainers with
the health-care industty, which is natu-
ral,~he said. "We take as much care of Or. Charles Franchino
the body as massagists and physical ther-
apists, and that would be recognized. 30 Fifth Avenue
And for clients, once we're licensed,
people could use insurance money to
New York, New York 10011
pay for us." 212.673.4331·
A final thing you should look for in
a POtential trainer is compatability. Union
Sguarir Gym's Harding put it this way: "If
yo\! d9n't get along well with your train-
office hours by appointment
er, it's not going to work. A certain cama-
raderie
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'.
part of the motivation.·
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everyone who offers the service is qual-
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mendations and references, and don't
be shy about asking lots of questions. goal is getting people
Anyone who's truly qualified will be
, . 'well through balance
glad to ~er them. ...
, ing the body's nervous
1rainers who assisted in preparing system and through
ihis article, and who are available for
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, ..
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plays Marilyn upon return ~om her grave,
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awards were a bit more reflective of Native American <:;roup
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from Spartacus decided to go dancing
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NEEDLE epidemic among IV-drug users.· McGOVERN.

oontlnu_d 'fre>.-npage "13 oontlnu_d t'rom pag_ 79
George Qatk, the project
ACf UP members who held a sit-in at for an unsanctioned needle distribution In the midst of the carnage that the
Joseph's office, will preside over the program in San Francisco, Prevention AIDS epidemic has wrought, McGovern's
needle-exchange trial as well. Those Point, told OutWa!k, "In this country we dedication to legal action against the
defendants were convicted of trespass- don't offer the kinds of services that would many-headed bureaucratic monsters that
ing after unsuccessfully employing a allow IV-drug ~ to stay HIV-free." AIDS has revealed is tremendously inspir-
necessity defense. And Joseph was a Prevention Point is considered by ing. But without continuous funding infu-
witness at that trial as well. needle advocates to be the largest nee- sions, her ability to do her job will contin-
While the trial proceeds, state legis- dle program, official or otherwise, in the ue to be hindered "It's so fucking hard to
lators will be moving fOlWard with legis- United States. Clark estimates' that Pre- get funding that I don't think it will be a
lation that will de-aiminalize needle pos- vention Point distributes 7,600 needles $2 million project in two years," she
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sesslon. each week at four separate sites around remarks, offering, with wry amusement,
"My concern is for the growing prob- San Francisco. another po6Sibility: "I think there are a lot:
lem of AIDS among minorities and, partic- By contrast, ACf UP/NY's needle- of that need to start to look
ularly, among women and children," said exchange group continues to distribute at the problems of the people I deal with."
Demoaatic state Sen. Velmanette Mont- an estimated 2,000 needles each week to While nearly half of McGovern's
gomery, who represents the Brooklyn an IV-drug user population that is signifi-
conununities of Bedford-Stuyvesant, Fort cantly larger than San Francisco's.
Greene, Prospect Heights, Clinton Hill ACf UP/NY's project is just over one
and parts,of Park Slope. year old, having begun just after the
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The bill's co-sponsors include Man- Joseph program was closed by Mayor
hattan Demoaat David Paterson, Bronx Dinkins. Advocates complain the the
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Democrat Joseph Galiber, Bronx Demo- health department offered nothing to : :.-

crat Efrain Gonzalez, Brooklyn Demo- replace the needle-exchange program, and
crat Martin Markowitz and' Queens even health department officials concede
Demoaat Alton Waldon. that services for IV-drug users are suffering
Montgomery, who is Black, will also in New York City.
be called as a witness for the defense "It would certainly be disingenuous
and will testify that given that needle to say that we are going to be able to
possession without a prescription is ille- provide the kind of meaningful treatment
.. gal in New York state, the defendants on demand that the city needs," said
had no choice but to violate the law to Peggy Hamburg, the health department's
prevent the spread of HIV. deputy commissioner for family health
services. -"But we are, for the first time,
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rah Glick, the lead sponsor for the now supporting drug-treatment pro- ~

Assembly version of the bill, made a grams." Hambwg neverthe1es. asserts that
commitment to pursue . 'on drug treatment is a high priority at the clients have been queer, and even
of needles during her campaign. health department. though McGovern herself is a centra1 fig-
"New York is one of 11 states that According to Hambwg, the Depart- ure in that cadre of lesbian lawyers who
requires a prescription for possession of ment of Health will spend $6 million this have made rooting out institutional preju-
needles," Glick, who represents much of fiscal year to treat pregnant women and dice their life's work, gay and lesbian
Lower Manhattan, told OutWeek. "Con- adolescents. The health department will conununity-based organizations have not
sidering the AIDS crisis, it is a lifesaving also monitor treatment slots to make link- been particularly forthcoming with sus-
measure to make it possible to obtain ages between users seeking treatment taining funds for the HIV Project.
clean needles." Co-sponsors in the and treatment providers. "I'm still at the level where rm c0n-
Assembly are Queens Democrat Barbara The new leadership on needle vincing people that this is a worthy thing,"
Clark and Manhattan Democrat exchange developing in Albany, and she says of her efforts to raise money,
Geraldine Daniels. the high-proftle trial of needle advo- lamenting that deeply rooted societal prej-
Currently only fIVe states have offi- cates beginning here, may again spark udices agaimt the poor make piquing her
cially sanctioned needle-exchange pro- discusSion of a municipally sanctioned potential donors' interest infinitely harder.
grams, according to Rod Sorge, program. Considering that McGovern, ~ho
spokesperson for the needle-exchange And the health department's Ken- graduated five years ago from George-
defendants. These are Washington, Ore- neth Ong, deputy commissioner for town's law school, came into her area of
gon,. Connecticut, Hawaii and Col- disease intelVention, offers what may the law to fight poverty, it is either a bit-
orado. The extent of unsanctioned nee- be a ray of hope for activists, saying, ter irony or a cruel metaphor that the
dle-exchange programs, by their very "As a scientist, I would like to think project itself is so constantly and desper-
nature, is harder to ascertain. Advocates that health policy is determined by ately in need of money. And, as McGov-
suggest that their number is growing as what we find in fact and what our ern might point out herself, it's also typi-
government fails to address the HIV data shows."T cal of the system. ...
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5'10"145Ibs., 30 yrs. ing and safe sex.
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INSIDER after the beating." complied, revealing a bikini top and a
Cc»ntl.,[Link] *rc:.rrI pag_ 3-.
"Oaimed '? "Says'? If he had doubts, back-shirt tattoo. . ..
opponent the preferred rating for the why didn't Rist call St VlOcent'Sto verify Once inside the compound, jackets
general election. Stem will face some Hennelly's hospital stay? But the real were removed; outfits came out; and:' ,
tough questions at the GIlD meeting. If kicker is the quote Rist ends the article where people had not opted for glamour,, .
he doesn't come up with some good with: "'ACf UP has done a lot of wild there were message T~shirts in abun-
answers, GUD will consider joining a things in their day,' said one police offi- dance, from "Queer Nation~ to "Nobody
boycott and asking all future candidates cer as he pulled his overcoat tighter Knows I'm HIV-Positive." Que~rs ahd
not to appear before CU and not to against the rain and cold 'But bringing queens blO5SOmedthroughout the differ-
request their homophobic stamp of us all here like this is the aueIest'" So ent theme-parks. Mothers rushed their
approval. The meeting should prove we should sympathize with the poor children to the side; men wrapped their
interesting. Come and join GIlD on April police officers, who, it should be noted, arms around the necks of the women
10 at the Center. were brought there by the police depart- they were with. ,
ment, not by ACf UP, and who collected But there were no fights and no vio-
Police Brutality a ton of overtime for which we paid? I lent confrontations. Snappy verbal
On the subject of police brutality: think
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not. exchanges occurred in a few -indden~,
One of my activist friends called me on usually around matters of c1othirig,. btit.
March 15, furious about that day's News- Bella Abzug Speaks there were no goon squads and 'rio
day article on ACf UP's anti-police bru- The Vtllage Independent Democrats gangs. At. one point, two boys\piSsed'by:
tality demo held in Queens the night will be having their annual dinner on Fri- . with'shaved heads and jickets that:~d
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before. My friend, Who had been at the day, May 17, at the Tavem on the Green. "Killing Is Our Business, Busine$5 'Is .
demo, said that there was certainly a lot The Human Rights Award will be p~ Good"arQund a logo of a ~ , pierced
for a good writer to report on, like the sented to openly gay New York City 'by a knife, but they paid no attention,
fact that the police, having followed the Human Rights Commissioner Dennis ,
entirely engaged QY each other. ~~
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ACf UP bus all the way frOm the Com. deleon, the Humanitarian Awards to children stared helplessly as the queer
munity Center, flagged it over on the labor leader Jan Pierce and lawyer Peter parade [Link] by. The oply clues to Dis-
highway and told the bus driver ¢at he Johnson Sr. and the Public Service Award neyland's homophobia were subµ'~·~d .'
would be ticketed if he tried to take the to Commissioner of the City fe<Iuired digging to un~6ver. Ggreg, in
bus on to the demo site. Talk about a of Probation Catherine Abate. Bella making conversation
, with a,monorail
police state! Abzug will be the keynote speaker. driver, discovered that all Qf Disriey's
So the activists, totaling about 45 Among those already signed up as spon- security management had b~n- qtlled
(not 25 as reported in Newsday), disem- sors and patrons are Andy Humm, Debo- out for the day. Eric, servjng it up ·to the
barked the bus (still pulled over on the rah Glick, Ethan Geto, Jim Owles, Artie straights in fishnets ~d pumps, discov-
highway) and marched through the cold Strickler, John Magisano, Laura Morrison, ered from a friend who '..worked".l •.
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there
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'rain into the Flushing neighborhood Bob Bailey, Tlffi Gay, Tom Duane, Rank that there were chairs in· front of the .',

where the NYPD's Chief of t Oenunons and Alfred Borello. For further bandstand for cthe first time in years, as' a
Robert J. Johnston lives. But did they get . , or to become a sponsor, call deterrent against any attempts· at ~-
very far? WeII, no, since there were nearly (212) 741-3265.T sex: dancing. . '
300 .(a figure Newsday got right) police It was, in fact, exactly as we had
officers there to meet them. Those offi- DISNEY assured the cop outside. Frederick'$~of
Cc:»ntlnLl_c:I f'rc:»~ pag_ 29
cers successfully did everything within, Hollywood the day before. Th~.waS no
and some things beyond, their legal life they have to pay money to fantasize demonstration: This was simply the way
power to keep the demonstrators from about, but their frustration with us that we live and play. Looking our be~t,
getting anywhere near Johnston's home. day was compounded because we were laughing, holding and kissing each dl;her,
Now this demo was all about police enjoying ourselves. giggling at bad-hair moments aqd~n
brutality, right? Those activists were out We boarded the monorail in gIamour- violations. There were only our bodies,
there in the rain because police bash free disguises, many [Link] pins that our outfits, our fun with each other and,
Blacks, Latinos, Asians and gays (among read "Proud to Be an Ameriam." Still, the the stickers on everyone's clothing, de<tal
others).--and get away with it. In fact group was met by 12 security men and versions of Eo's rainbow bolts.
one of the comrades of these demonstra- women in suits at the ticket booth, after an Everywhere we went, we were the
tors, Christopher Hennelly, is at home agent on a red Honda scooter spotted us happiest of the crowd that day in the
suffering permanent neurological and in the parking lot. "Would you look at heart of the Happiest Place on Earth, ,
psychological damage because of exces this," Dave Ford said, turning to the dis- winning 3$ we went an<;l even ea,ting
sive force at the hands of the police. Yet guised queers in the line. "We can't even their bad food. As Kate, our Storybook
Newsday reporter Curtis Rist suggests hide it when we try." Everyone made it Tour boat captain, told us as she: recov-
that ACf UP and Hennelly made it all through the door without a hitch, and it ered from a joke about whales and deep
up. Rist writes: "Hennelly, 28, claimed wasn't until later that we heard from a throats, "You guys are in the ruhning for .
that he was brutally beaten during an group of Santa Cruz dykes who had come my best l?oatever." We were trying . . "
to
ACf UP protest outside the Manhattan to meet up with us that a woman in theii save them and go home at the saQle .
North station house Feb. 11. Hennelly group had been asked to check her T-shirt time. We were the frea,k puppets, and
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says he was hospitalized for six days that read "Nobody Knows fm Gay." She Disney, the spider-queen. T···'
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