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In 1981 the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) were faced with a dilemma: How could they diagnose the new disease sweeping the gay community without knowing its biological cause? The solution was to list a number of opportunistic infections that were known to be symptomatic of that disease and the!1to say, if a person had one or more of those infections, that person had the disease. This system was logical in 1981. It is murderous today. It must be abolished. It is common.1y accepted that, co-factors aside, the primary causitive agent of the disease we now call AIDS is the virus called HIV. AIDS is now known to be merely a late stage of HIV infection. It is now also known that damage from HIV infection often starts years before symptoms of full-blown AIDS appear. Many of the millions of HIV-infected people worldwide present a complex and frightening array of medical problems that can cause serious illness, disability and death without ever manifesting symptoms that satisfy the CDC's outmoded definition of AIDS.In New York City, for example, a full 35 percent of those hospitalized with HIV-related infections don't fit the CDC's definition. Whose purpose is served by arbitrarily dividing those ill with HIV Disease into two groups? The fact is that there is no such division in nature. There is no such division in reality. There is no such division except in the minds of those who wish to strangle us in bureaucracy, who wish to cloud the real issues, who wish to divide our community, who wish to deny insurance benefits and housing, who wish to evade governmental responsibility, who wish to under- count the true scope of the epidemic, who wish to avoid panicking the straight, white population, who wish us dead. The arbitrary division of HIV Disease into AIDS and non-AIDS, (or pre-AIDS or ARC) is a sham, a lie, and a disgrace. It's time we demanded its abolition. Recent advances in the treatment of early HlV-infection with drugs that can prevent serious, life-threatening complications make it imperative that the CDC's genocidal definitions be abolished. People are being denied access to potentially life-saVingdrugs because they don't yet -have AIDS,· and they are similarly denied Medicaid, insurance coverage, hOUSingand a whole spectrum of services and therapies based on an outmoded, illogical, increasingly arbitrary standard. Women and IV-drug users are particularly disadvantaged because many gynecological conditions peculiar to women and conditions like endocarditis peculiar to drug users are outside the CDC's definitions. There is r:t0 such thing as AIDS.There is no such thing as ARC. There is only HIV Disease, a disease of the immune system brought on by HIV infection, a condition of dire consequences at any stage or in any form. There is today no greater manifestation, either conscious or sub- conscious, of the direct genOcidal intentions of our government against us than the perpetuation of the CDC's definitions of AIDS.Our beleaguered community should take a clear, cold look at this deadly nonsense, reach a concensus and then act up and fight back. Byabol- ishing the definition we can help take back control of our lives. 'Y

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6 September 18, 1989 ....···~* I....l'i~"'- articles from the pen of Larry until the last person who GMHC, there is a reference Mass to John Lauritsen. Even wishes to create a panel has to the 1988 ACT UP demon- when we disagreed, they done so. It is very important stration at the FDA. In their provoked us into challenging to us that your readers in the publicity material at th~ Mo~- 1::,. not only the status quo but lesbian and gay community treal conference and In artl-.1 our very own thinking; even know that the Quilt will be cles in the gay and .'. when we loathed the gutter here for the duration. I would mainstream press,ACT UP/NY";,. level headlines engineered be very grateful if in your continues to take sole credit to exploit an AIDS-terrorized next issue,you could correct for the FDAaction. In fact, ACT NOW, a public to build circulation. the misconception that may q Rather than crediting have been created. Thank coalition of activist groups the Native for its mosquito- you very much. across the country, coordi- most of the local ground- like persistence you have Dan Sauro nated the FDA action. Par- work, including organizing chosen to swat its publisher... Dir.of Media Relations ticipants of an ACT NOW on-site support, securing Too bad ...or Is it, in the The Names Project conference in July of '88 laid meeting spaces and com- words of the late Charles Foundation the groundwork for the munity housing, preparing Ludlum, merely a matter of San Francisco action and the ongoing the CD handbook, and tak- • ...when Queens Collide'" coordination was carried out ing care of other logistical OutWeek Is certainly Irs a lie, It's a Sham... . by ACT NOW in Washington. details. Many of the key welcomed and most need- It is ironic that a few Much of the planning organizers have never ed in our community. May it pages after Larry Kramer tells work was done on national attended an ACT UP/NY be committed to presenting of GMHC's reWritingof recent conference calls, which, meeting and the over 1,(XX1 the whole spectrum of poli- history Ossueno. 11), there is though long and frustrating, participants came from cities tics and diversity that Is our evidence of ACT UP/NY's allowed for continual input and towns across the country lesbian and gay community. own revision of the AIDS from activists from Florida to including Chicago, Kansas, Jim Fouratt activist movement. Inthe arti- California. A small group of Houston, Atlanta, Miami, LA Manhattan cle on Jeff Levi's move to activists in Washington did Portland and New York.

Small Victory At A Different Light Bookstore I told a man who was buying the Native, ·That's passe. Everybody is buying OutWeek: and handed him a copy which he also bought. Another small victory for responsible journalism. Hal Bramson Manhattan

Alive and Quilt I was very surprised to open the September 4 issue of OutWeek and discover the article titled "Quilt Calls it Quits." The headline is mis- leading and I fear potentially damaging to the NAMES Project and confusing for those in the lesbian and gay community who participate In the Project. While I under- This week's nightmare is homophobic artist Mark Kostabi, not because he stand the need for editing told Vanity Fai, that AIDS is "For the better because homosexual men are not due to space restrictions, the actively participating in the perpetuation of human life" or because he told headline leaves a false Pag, Six that "the art world is dominated by gays and that's why there's so impression, and as we know,. much bad art," No, dear friends, it's because thousands of viewers went into many people never read toxic shock when he stripped all th, way on Robin Byrd's cable show. Jf you past the headline. .. The NAMESProject does missed it. just be grateful for little things. hove a commitment to con- tinuing the Quilt until the last person has died of AIDS, and

September 18, 1989 OUT-.WEEK 7 ACT UP/NY patlclpated with a female prostitute. wins a few more converts to Think for a moment In the planning and promo- what would happen? There the practice of safer sex. It about powerful. creative tion of the action. provided would be howls from gay would be worth publishing. demonstrations. The thou- substantial funding. and leaders about a betrayal of Burton Clarke sands of people at New brought several hundred public trust and calls for his Manhattan York's City Hall who partici- participants to the action. resignation. Remarkably. the pated In a legal picket were Their contributions to the gay leadership of this coun- Return of the Native? powerful. The twenty IndMd- action were substantial. but try has been silent about Bar- On seeing your maga- uals from ACT UP/Atlanta their claim as the organizers ney Frank. zine on the newsstand for who spent a hot summer of the action Is a repeated As a gay Republican I the first time. my first thought afternoon at Circle K conve- Insult to the hundreds of ask one simple question. Is was: Thank godl Maybe now nience stores taking turns other activists who organized there a double standard for there will be real alternative blocking gas pumps In and participated In one of gay Democrats? to the Native's pseudo-sci- protest of the company's the most effective displays Fred Olssen entific ramblings about the ·lifestyles' Insurance policy yet of our rage at govern- Manhattan latest AIDS ·Case of the were also powerful. When a ment neglect. Week." Imagine my disap- demonstration Is planned The AIDS activist move- Photo Finish pointment on seeing the at!- such that arrest Is its only ment Is alive ood well across ·Fright. Cameras. cle ·An Alternative Treatment measure of success. what If the country and the FDA Action!" (OutWeek. August Reading List· In your Aug. the cops choose not to demonstration illustrates the 28. 1989). an article that 28th issue. When there are make the arrests? Power Is strength of our collective chronicled the depiction of real proven treatments avail- relinquished. It is no longer In action. safer sex (or the lack of it) in able. it is irresponsible to con- our control. Scott Sooders gay porn films since the tinue to publicize quack And what about the Washington. D.C. inception of the AIDS epi- therapies and causations press? Certainly AIDSactivists demic. made most interest- theories. Although they may have been successful In G.O.Plque ing reading. Gay pom actor be harmless themselves. by mooipljamg them. We have The recent revelations Butch Taylor is quoted In persuading people to reject accomplished this by being that Congressman Barney John Umlaut's article os say- those treatments that are creative. and oftentimes by Frank hired a hustler present Ing • ...you·d be amazed truly effective. serious harm being forceful. It Is certainly an Interesting dilemma for who's died: That. I think. is can ensue. Important that we use the Amerlca's gay leadership. preCisely the point. We I hope this is not a por- press to catapult our Issues The gay Massachusetts would indeed be horribly tent of articles to come. into the spotlight. However. Democrat admitted that It amazed. Edward Taussig playing to the press is the was a mistake for him to hire Occasionally. one may Brooklyn . surestway to keep that from a male hooker and Invite come across an obituary happening. When we him to stay In his Washington here or there of a well- Arrest Development depend on the unenlight- known porn star who has For me. the real mes- ened media to make a point died-Casey Donovan. J.R. sage in RexWockner's article for us. we have given up the King. Eric Stryker and. most on the Foscarnet demo ability to do just that for our- recently. Johnny Dawes. are (issue9). staged by members selves. cases In point-but of ACT UP/Chicago. was not lost October I went to undoubtedly many more in the politics of the pharma- the FDA to be arrested. At have passed away than ceutical industry and their the end of an emotional we're even remotely aware refusal to release promising day. I realized that being of. I think an effective com- drugs. but rather In the polI- willing to risk arrest In order panion piece to Umlaut's tics 9f how AIDS activists to seize control was enough. " articie would be to publish choose the framework for In April. I was arrested In the photos of those gay their demonstrations. Columbia. S.C.• while pro- pom actors who have died Two Important Issues testing Issuesof mandatory during the course of the epi- come to mind. Should the testing and quarantine In demic. similar to what culmination of AIDS activists' that state. In the meantime. Newsweek did In August demonstrations a/ways be I have participated In • 1987.Their August loth Issue arrest (or attel'1l>ts at such)? countless other demonstra- apartment where the hustler. gave us a year's photo- And. should such ·actlons' tion. some Involving cMI cis- as It turns out. -tumed tricks.' graphic toll of all those who always play to the press? It Is obedience. others not. The Bamey Frank had been died from AIDS related caus- Interesting to note. that while common thread? In every an articulate spokesman for es. from August 12. 1986 the Issuesto which activists case we were In control. We the rights of gay citizens. through July 31. 1987. The demand solutions Involve retained the power. However. his stature and emotional Impact of those retaining power and control The power Is ours. but Integrity have been des- headshots was devastating. of our own lives. the demon- only when we retain It. Be troyed by this incident. A similar piece on gay porn strations are often structured smart. be creative-ACT UPI If a straight Republican stars would have a sobering such that power and control linda Meredith Congressman were caught effect on all of us. but if It are relinquished. Washington. D.C.

8 OUT~WEEK September 18. 1989 eratlonal sex Is despised In even to mention that open- XEROXED our culture but has been an ly gay city council candi- accepted feature of some dates. Tom Duane and cultures.) David Taylor. are running Henahan's Is a sleazy extremely credible races nme. Square. of its creator, Ideally In time piece of work. no matter against incumbent Carol Max Frankel, Editor achieving anonymity of the how couched In the coy Greltzer (in a district which The New York Times sort achieved by the language of academia it Is Includes Greenwich Village Dea Mr. Frankel: authors of the 'Iliad' or the served to your readers. and Chelsea) and for the Donal Henahan's "The Egyptian 'Book of the Sincerely. Clinton/Upper West Side Dark Side of Schubert· Is an Dead. ,. Apart from the silli- Campion Read. M.D. seat being vacated by Ruth illuminating example of how ness of attributing to works Messinger, respectively. The New York Times accepts of art consciousness and Still No nmes for Gays I am pleased that the and perpetuates cultural volition, his is a profoundly Mr. John Darnton Times has done articles on homophobia and the perse- dehumanizing philosophy of Metropolitan Editor other minority groups' cution of goy people In the art. Henahan seems The New York Times attempts to gain representa- United States that issues ashamed that the gods Dear Mr. Darnton. tion on the City Council. from it. Who decided that require a human conduit for I am writing to convey especially focusing on how the defamatory theories of their gifts. Does he mean to you what I believe is a charter revision may effect Maynard Solomon should that art should be anony- growing sense of frustration the possibility of electing be distributed to the mass mous, to remove the stain of over the exclusion of les- more Black, Hispanic and audience of the New York having been created by a bian/gay candidates. Issues Asian candidates. Aloo Rnd- Times Sunday edition? human being? Or is his and more generally the er's report on the Charter Solomon, as published In the piece a prophecy that the community·s "electoral pres- Revision hearing at which Spring 1989 19th Century world will enter some bizarre ence· in your coverage of representatives of minority Music, in an article entitled new dark age that will the upcoming municipal groups testified on the "Franz Schubert and the destroy our civilization's elections. As one of the three impact the redrawing of Peacocks of Benvenuto near-infinite capacity for representatives of my com- electoral districtswould have Cellini: making "one of his information storage and dis- munity who met with Abe on their representation on typically imaginative laps: semination. in the process Rosenthal. Sidney Grusen the City Council, made no on the basis of possibly ripping apart art from knowl- and others at the Times to mention of the gay and les- coded letters to Schubert edge of its authors? Will the discussour concerns regard- bian community's efforts in (not from him) suggests Mona Usa and the Pieta be ing cover.age. I had confi- this regard. Indeed. FAIRPAC. "Some Disturbing Things anonymous in this new dark dence. then. that what we the p~litical action commit- About Schubert· (NY Times age. as well? had to say would receive tee of the gay and lesbian headline Sunday, August 27, The U.S.Supreme Court serious consideration; I retain community • testified that 00 1989,page 38). ruled in 1986 that gays can that confidence. enlarged council with small- On the basis of this be imprisoned for consensu- Aside from reporting er districts would facilitate conjecture Henahan states, al intimacy In the privacy of Mayor Koch's executive our c~rrmunity's representa- -Schubert may have their own bedrooms In Its order granting bereavement tion on the council. Mr. Find- become a child molester, or Hardwick decision. Gay leave to unmarried couples er's follow-up article. In the less elegant police people in the U.S. today (heterosexual and homosexu- Recasting City Council to argot of our time, a chicken have no constitutional right al). the Timeshas paid virtual- Make Room for More Minori- hawk.· Solomon follows up to privacy or consensual inti- ly no attention to the ty Voices. on August 6. again this charge by accusing macy. That the New York goy/lesbian electorate. Even blatantly ignored the Issueof Schubert of seeking his own Times would devote so on the bereavement leave gay and lesbian representa- physical extinction, merely many column inches to matter. the Times. alone. tion, despite the fact that because he -acquired a Schubert's homosexuality ignored the dramatic meet- the Gay and Lesbian fatal disease. This is a dis- and gossip from his peers in ing. last month. between Alliance Against Defamation turbing example of the today's intolerant political Rudolph Giuliani and over 50 pointed out in a letter to Mr. -blame the victim· mentali- environment Is analogous to lesbian and gay leaders at Finder our Interest and ty one sometimes hears a Nazi musicologist in 1935 which we discusseda variety Involvement Inthe process. today In reference to AIDS. going on about the fact of issuesof Importance to our Other papers, I have Referring to Schubert's mas- that Mendelssohn was a community and during which found. now routinely listcan- terpieces, Henahan con- Jew. and worse. possibly a Giuliani affirmed his opposi- didate's attitudes on cludes, "Someday, if the militant Zionist or cabalist on tion to bereavement leave gay/lesbian rights when world lasts long enough, the basis of conjectural for Qay survivors. All other summarizing their political they will be anonymous.· coded letters to him. (I papers recogn~ed the impor- views. This does not appear That Is a preposterous make no negative judge- tance of this meeting and to be the case with the statement that comple- ment of Zionism or the gave it extensivecoverage. Times. New. York Newsday ments the absurdity in his cabalah. The analogy isthat Alone among New York and the Daily News have opening paragraph, "Gen- both are despised and City's daily papers. the done feature stories on the uine art seeks to shed itself defended. just as cross-gen- Times has, to date, failed importance of the gay elec-

September 18, 1989 OUT~WEEK 9 torate (as well as other TIme and Time Again onset of AIDS CI"IdIts related tic agents such as AIr are minority communities) In the Dear Mr. Petrelis: infections. Inadequate. Your recent mayoral election. Newsday. Thank you for your I am pleased that our announcement of a $7.75 on February 28, stated that response to our July 10 campaign has reached so million Initiative to expand the goy community Is -a Medcne story. -Drugs from the many people. GMHC's Hot- specialized HIV primary care highly politicized group. UndergrOllld." We appreciate line experienced a 30 per- treatment programs is a believed to hove a high rate the opporfI.riIy to aclctessyw cent increase in calls in the step in the right direction of voter participation. CI"IdIt thoug,tfU aitidsm. ten days after our press which we applaud. may vote as a bloc this We recognize that there announcement. I under- But much more can year.' No comparable fea- Is no easy way to reconcile stand that the City Health and should be done. We ture story has appeared In the conflicting pressures Department Healthline also estimate that between the Times. Involved In researching and has seen a surge in tele- 100.000 and 150.000 New I know I am not the first developing effective AIDS phone calls and referrals to York City residents who are to raise these concerns. If the drugs. On the one hand. the alternative test sites. At HIV antibody positive are Times treatment of the gay AIDSpatients are faced with least one radio station has potential cancidates for AIr and lesbian electorate Is the frightening specter of agreed to broadcast our and/or PCP prophylaxis. premised on a perception death. made all the more public service announce- Most cannot afford to pay that gays are a marginal agonizing by the unbearably ments for several weeks. for these expensive drugs group, rather than a -real" slow process by which new We understand from and have Inadequate or no minority group. It would be drugs come to market. Cer- your August 25th pressrelease private Insurance. Increas- honest of you to admit this. If tainly, these patients have that $276,000 is being set ingly Medicaid and other not. I hope that between valid concerns that must aside by the city for a multi- city, state and federal pro- now and election day the urgently be addressed. Still. media public information grams will be called upon to gay and lesbian community time Is essential to ade- campaign to begin after bear the burden. receives coverage corrmen- quately test the very drugs Labor Day. It iscritical that this We agree with you that surate with the Impact It has that hold the most promise. canpoign be irrplemented n the federal government on the political life of this city. The question of the larger conjunction with a rapid must assume its rightful role Sincerely. public good cannot be expansion of AIDSassessment In the HIV epidemic. Our Virginia M. Apuzzo ignored. and we believe It is centers. Equaly mportoot. the Washington lobbyist, AIDS important to remind readers campaign should utilize indi- Action. Is working hard to Present Tense that the FDA's current easing viduals who hove recognition ensure special funding to Editor of some rules could have and credibility n the corrmJ- cover the extraordinary Time Magazine much wider ramifications. As nitiesyou are trying to reach. expense of AIDS-related Tothe editor, we noted. -the haphazard With the CDC's guide- drugs. Along with our col- Your unequivocal rejec- use of experimental drugs lines of PCP prophylaxis and leagues around the country. tion of current underground may help some AIDS the announcements from we are pressuring Burroughs efforts for testing promising patients in the short run, but the National Institutes of Wellcome, the manufactur- anti-AIDS drugs Is not borne It will slow down the quest to Health on the effectiveness er of AIr. to make drastic our with any conclusive evi- discover the best ways to of AZT In early ARC and price reductions. We will be dence (Time, Medicine, July treat the many people who asymptomatic HIV infection, very active again in Albany 10). Whether people with will contract the disease in we hove entered a new era this fall to ensure that the AIDS are enrolled In govern- the Mure: In the HIV epidemic. No governor's budget contains ment-sponsored drug trials, Sincerely, longer is a diagnosis of AIDS adequate AIDSfuncing. or engaging In the -haphaz- Elizabeth L Wilson a death sentence. Finally, we are pleased ard use of experimental Time Magazine Individuals with HIV that the city and state are drugs' doesn't infection no longer have to committed to providing AIr motter-they're stili dying. Dunne Deal sit by helplessly for the first and other AIDS-related Yes,there will be -mCl"lY Hon. Edward I. Koch symptoms of ARC or AIDS. drugs to New Yorkers who people who will contract the City Hall GMHC Is expanding its cannot afford to purchase disease in the future," but Dear Mayor Koch: informational and educa- them. regardless of whether that doesn't mean those Since your letter and tional programs for people the federal government presently bottling AIDSillness- our last meeting, GMHC has with HIV Infection. We see renews the special appropri- es should be denied the right embarked on a widely publi- our role as one of an infor- ation that expires In Septem- to self-medl,cate with drugs cized campaign to encour- mational resource for medi- . ber. Notwithstanding that of their choosing. It's called age New Yorkersto consider cal. legal and insurance commitment, we will do self-empowerment because getting an HIV antibody test Issues. We also refer callers everything possible to people with AIDSare fighting and, If positive, to have and our clients to communi- ensure that the federal gov- for their lives. additional medical testing ty resources. At present, ser- ernment assumes Its rightful Sincerely. and monitoring. The evi- vices for individuals who are share of these costs. Michael Petrelis dence Is overwhelming that seropositive and who wish to Very truly yours, ACT UP/NY drugs such as AZT and have immune function test- Richard DJnne aerosolized pentamidine ing and, If appropriate, Executive Director can prevent or delay the access to chemotherapeu- Gay Men's Health Crisis

10 O~WEEK September 18, 1989 After seven years as Chelsea's D~mqc< . op~nly gay candidate for the 3fd' Q'ouneil Chelsea, Gramercy, Rose Hill, Waterside, Kips Bay, < -, • VOTS IN THE DEMO¢RATIC PRIMARY, TUESDA: , :;;:)~) BOTTLE THISI Photo: n. litt Polic, subdu, bottl,-throwing skinhead during march to Tompkin~ Square Gay Bashing·Mars Wigstock Festival Hundreds Protest Attack In Tompkins Square by Gabriel Rotello The attackers were eventually also engaged in a sit-in demonstration at NEW YORK-Four gay men were. arrested and charged with assault. Avenue A and 6th Street for over an attacked and two of them seriously By first arresting the gay hour. During one of the marches a injured by assailants wielding lacrosse bystander and not the assailants, the further incident occured when, sticks and yelling anti-gay epithets police apparently precipitated an according to witnesses, a skinhead during the Wigstock festival at Tomp- extended demonstration by up to 300 bystander screamed anti-gay epithets kins Square on Labor Day, police and angry lesbians and gays attending the at the marchers and threw a bottle eyewitnesses reported. A fifth gay Wigstock event, an annual outdoor into the crowd, striking a protestor. man who attempted to intercede was drag show that attracts thousands. The protestor was uninjured and the arrested by police and charged with The demonstrators, spontaneously skinhead was arrested. obstructing governmental administra- and without organizea leadership, tion when, according to eyewitnesses, surrounded police in the park, Love-In Upstaged? he "tapped" a policeman in an marched to a precinct station, defaced According to eyewitnesses, the attempt to point out the assailants. a police car with lipstick and then police acted at first with disregard and

12 OUTTWEEK September 18. 1989 contempt for the gay-bash victims, several of whom were in drag, but became noticeably more attentive when confronted by hundreds of angry demonstrators. The alleged attackers have now been charged with serious assault and weapons- possession charges which carry a maximum penalty of seven years in prison. However, some spectators at Wigstock were outraged that a major demonstration marred the famous East Village "love-in.· They charged activists, particularly members of ACf UP, with deliberately plotting to "upstage" the festival. Activists have countered that those organizing Wig- stock were insensitive to the violent drama unfolding in· the park, and that the festival should have been halted until the controversy was resolved. In a related development, one of the injured men has charged that personnel at st. Vincent's Hospital, where he was taken, magnified his ordeal by subjecting him to verbal abuse in the emergency room. St. Vincent's officals are investigating the charge. Through interviews with the victims, eyewitnesses, the police and the District Attorney's office, Out Week has

DON'T FUCK WITH ME. FELLAS! Photo: Ben Thornberry Prot,st,rs dismantl, barricades during Av,nue A sit-in.

September 18. 1989 OU~WEEK ., 13 ECCE HOMO Photo: Ben Thornberry . Police display handcuffed Mark Carson in attempt to calm Tompkins Square crowd. been able· to piece together the fol- III lowing account: The incident began in the north- east section ot the park at approximately 6 pm when the four gay men, Karl Soehnlein, Darren Britton, and Alan Klein, who were dressed in drag, and Stephen Rupp, a friend from Boston, noticed that several men I were harassing them. The men, some II~I of whom carried large wooden I lacrosse sticks, were mimicking exag- gerated effeminate gestures and laughing. Then, according to Soehn- lein, who is a regular Out Week film critic, one of the men, Jose Suarez, 22, of 361 East 10th Street, "brushed" Soehnlein on the nose with his 'lacrosse stick. At that point the gay men verbally prQtested and were met by increased anti-gay ab~. Accord- ing to Klein, who is Soehnlein's lover, the men yelled, "You fucking faggots, get out of our parle"

14 OUTTWEEK September 18, 1989 snCK'EMUP Alleged gay bashers Suarez (L), Hasam, and friends immediately after the attack. Men Attacked, Police Respond Dozens of people witnessed the attack assailants to the officers, who did not Without warning, the youths but no one attempted to intervene· take any action and instead began to attacked with their lacrosse sticks. until Ru Paul, a well-known drag physically and verbally harrass some Soehnlein was struck in the face, entertainer, began to scream for the of the 'drag queens in the group. allegedly by Suarez, who knocked police. . him down and split open his lip. A crowd formed as the injured Gay Man Arrested First Soehnlein was then reportedly set men lay on the ground, screaming that At this point Mark Carson, a gay upon by Kenny Hasam, 19, of 368 they had been attacked and pointing man who had happened on the scene East 10th Street, who punched him out their assailants, who remained on after the attack, attempted to alert repeatedly in the face while he lay the scene, laughing and joking. Eventu- Officer Thomas Kidd to the presence on .the ground. At the same time ally two policemen on mctofScooters of the assailants. Kidd turned on Car- Suarez allegedly used his stick to arrived and were met by a crowd son, chased him down, arrested him strike Britton several times in the which had swelled to about SO people. and handcuffed him in full view of back, fracturing his shoulder blade. Many in the crowd pointed out the the crowd. Witnesses say that this event greatly enraged the crowd. Two other officers arrived on the scene and, according to witnesses, attemped to shoo away Suarez and Hasam, the alleged bashers, telling them to leave before they got into trouble. However, the crowd surrounded the police and the assailants, refusing to allow them to pass, and finally the police arrested Suarez and Hasam and brought them to a park structure where they were already holding Carson. Carson reports that although he was handcuffed, Suarez and Hasam were not. A lawyer, Tom Hickey, arrived, but it was not until a police inspector appeared that Suarez and Hasam were handcuffed. Several witnesses made their way to the stage, a ·few hundred feet away, where the Wigstock perfor- mances were in progress. They attempted to stop the show to announce that doctors, lawyers and See WIGSTOCK on page 31

September 18. 1989 OUTTWEEK 15 News Can NYC's Anti-Bias Laws Actually Protect Lesbians and Gay Men? Katherine Herzog vs. The Parks Department

by Rachel Lurie calls "the Siberia of the parks world." nents. In Februray 1988, the HRC NEW YORK-Gay bashing is all too Since her transfer, she has received no found "probable cause" for Herzog's common in New York City's parks, merit increases, promotions or bonus- charges of retaliation starting from the but..when ~arks Department officials es, despite recommendations for them time Herzog initially wrote the letter are accused of doing the bashing by a by her supervisor. to Gunn, and that "the retaliation con- lesbian employee determined to go tinues to the present." through city channels to stop it, jus- Seeing a Lesbian Around tice can prove as elusive as finding a The claim charges that Gunn tol- Flowers from Gunn erated, and laughed at, a joke about a Throughout the controversy, gay man with AIDS, and was over- Gunn has maintained that Herzog was NEWS FOCUS heard complaining about a neighbor- transferred and denied promotions hood "turning SWishy· while imitating and raises because of poor work per- gang of thugs the morning after a bat- a "stereotypical gay male.· Herzog formance. But the findings of the wielding frenzy. claims that Gunn was uncomfortable HRC show that Herzog "was highly Over five years have passed around her, and made her day-to-day regarded by her supervisors· before since Katherine Herzog, a Parks work life unbearable. "The bottom the complaint and in that time Department employee since 1983, first line is, there was a real uptight received a 14 per cent merit increase, filed a complaint about the anti-gay straight woman who was freaked out a promotion and even a lavish bou- atmosphere in her office. This week, by seeing a lesbian around." Herzog quet of flowers from Gunn with a a hearing opened, not on the still says that Gunn told her, "It's my note saying: "thanks for all the help unresolved original complaint, but on hang-up [her lesbianisml, but I'd like and the great job you've done in the charges of retaliation against Herzog you to work somewhere else.· past year.-1ove, Barbara." for filing the original accusation. Herzog originally filed her com- Shortly after delivering the flow- In 1984, Herzog, then an execu- . plaint under Executive Order 4, the ers, Gunn first pressured Herzog to tive secretary, wrote a letter to her legislation issued by Koch in the leave, accusing her of coming on to boss, then Deputy Commissioner on opening days of his mayoral tenure In her, and telling her, ·Your lifestyle Budget and Management Barbara 1978, which extended anti-discrimina- makes me uncomfortable,' according Gunn, objecting to anti-gay jokes and tion measures for city employees to to Herzog. When Herzog made It what she saw as a hostile atmosphere include "sexual orientation or affec- clear that she was staying put, the towards gays In her office. But Her- tional preference." retaliations began with Herzog's trans- zog's letter to her boss was met with "I was brought in ceremoniously fers first to the basement and then out an explosive backlash: when Gunn as the first E04 case," Herzog said, to Brooklyn, which added three hours told Herzog to start pounding the adding that the HRC promised swift to her communtlng time. Parks Com- pavement for another job, Herzog movement on her complaint since the missioner Henry Stern entered the headed Instead to the Commission on agency, widely criticized for its long case when he denied Herzog a pro-

Human Rights to see about filing a delays, had "no backlog of E04 cases. H motion and pay Increase recommend· formal complaint. A few months later, But Instead of moving quickly, ed by her supervisor, Brooklyn Herzog formalized the complaint, and the case got Increasingly more com· Borough Commissioner Julius Spiegel. Within weeks she found herself plex and received less legal attention. Both Stern and Gunn deferred moved to a desk In the basement, Herzog added five addendums to her any comment on the case to the City's assigned Sisyphean tasks and then original complaint, adding Parks Com· Corporation Counsel attornles. Tom chastised for not completing them, missioner Henry Stern and Parks Roberts, a Corporation Counsel attor· and finally shipped off to the Depart. employee Anthony Canceillerl as ney on the case, explained that there ment's Prospect Park office, what she respondents In retaliation compo· Is nothing final In the probable cause

18 O~WEEK September 18, 1989 ~ decision. "It shows that there is suffi- Herzog's attorney Mary Dorman. "It ceeeding has been pending for more cient evidence that there may have was a joke. They claimed that 'inter- than four years. Such a delay trivial- been a Violation, the hearing is to agency privilege' should override Her- izes the complainant's interest in vin- make a finding.' He likened the prob- zog's right as complainant." Herzog dicating anti-bias norms ....Delays of able cause finding to an indictment. and her attorney only fou.nd out this nature in resolving complaints about it when it was inadvertently will not be tolerated by the Commis- Mystery Memo mentioned during a deposition for the sion in the future." But Herzog's victory in the retali- retaliation hearing. Tom Crane, senior ation charge was brief. On the same Corporation Counsel attorney on the Polluted, Hostile Atmosphere? day that the commission issued its case, did not return numerous phone The memo outlined the results of decision requiring either a settlement calls from Out Week. Roberts, Crane's the investigations, into both the origi- or a hearing with the corporation assistant, was not yet working on the nal discrimination claim and the retali- counsel representing the respondents, case when the memo was released, ation claims. While it found "probable another memo was released which and declined to comment on it. cause" for the retaliation, it was less discussed the investigation of the Katherine Franke, a staff attorney definitive regarding the discrimination original discrimination charges. at the HRC, called the suppression a charge. While the investigation found This memo, dated February 19, "political decision," that it is the job of some "corroboration ...that the Depart- 1988, was delivered to the Mayor, the corporation counsel "to protect ment was a place in which remarks, with copies to the corporation coun- the Mayor and have as little as possi- gestures and jokes hostile to homo- sel, the HRC, and respondents Stern, ble get out about what was going on sexuals were regularly expressed,' it Gunn and Cancellieri. But Herzog, in Gunn's office." did not "uncover the degree of anti- who had already waited over four In May of this year, 15 months gay behavior that must be found in years for the HRC to presents its find- after the document was written, the order to support the accusation that a ings to the mayor (its main charge in HRC drafted a strongly worded deci- polluted, hostile atmosphere existed E04 cases), was not allowed to see it. sion releasing the memo to Herzog. in the Department.' Herzog and her "Everyone got it but us,' said The Commission noted "this pro- See HERZOG on page 72

EWSIVE JUSTICE Photo: IL. Litt Katherine Herzog

. September 18, 1989 OUTTWEEK 17 News

for obtaining greater access." Drug Giant Defends However, Burroughs Wellcome public relations spokesperson Thack Brown called the meeting "productive,· and insisted that the company had not AZT's Price ruled out the possibility of a price reduction. "'That's not a decision which has been made,· Brown stated "At this Advocates auestion Ethics, Access point, the company is looking at all of the options that are available to it to by Cliff O'Neill After a three-hour meeting, AIDS determine what is the most appropriate WASHINGTON-Without expressly activists were left largely disappointed ruling out the possibility of a future at what they viewed as the company's price reduction, the Burroughs Well- reluctance to reduce the price of the come Corp. balked at demands that it drug for which Burroughs holds an lower the price of its costly anti-AIDS exclusive patent. Currently, AZT can drug, AZT, during a recent meeting cost up to $8,000 a year. with representatives from four AIDS activist organizations. MA Few Steps Backwards" Responding to a two-page joint "Unfortunately, we got really letter from 16 lesbian/gay and AIDS nothing out of them,· stated David organizations, representatives from the Barr, staff attorney for the Lambda drug company met Sept. 5 with staffers Legal Defense and Education Fund. from the Lambda Legal Defense and Gay Men's Health Crisis lobbyist Education Fund, ACf UPINY, the AIDS Jeff Levi said, "We were hoping they Action Council and Gay Men's Health would share with us some indication of Crisis at the company's Raleigh head- what factors go into determining the quarters. Joe Whitehead, executive price, and some indication that the vice president of corporate affairs, and price would ultimately go down. They Dr. David Barry, vice preSident in did neither. They even went a few steps charge of research, represented the backwards, suggesting they weren't COSTUEST DRUG IN HISTORY interests of the drug company. sure price reduction was a mechanism AZT capsules Photo: Rink Foto

and most effective thing it can do given the changing circumstances.·

No Other Drugs Burroughs Wellcome has defended its high pricing of the drug as a but- tress against future losses when other anti-HIV drugs are made available. But three years after AZf was approved by the Food and Drug Administration, no other anti-HIV drugs have been approved, and the price has not come down substantially. AIDS activists and advocates have also suggested that the company's price for the drug is artificially inflat- ed. The U.S. government did much of the research on the drug, cutting the company's research costs consider- ably. Burroughs Wellcome has cate- gorically and repeatedly refused to explain its pricing mechanism for the See An on page 72

18 OUTTWEEK September 18. 1989 There's no substitute for the real thing- Elect a Gay Activist to City Hall.

I II As President of San Francisco's Board of Supervisors, I've come to see first-hand the importance of having Lesbians and Gays in office representing our community. No matter how committed others are to Lesbian and Gay rights, - there's no substitute for the real thing. I urge all of you to vote for Dave Taylor for City Council in the Democratic Primary Tuesday, September 12." HARRY BRITT Openly Gay President of San Francisco's Board of Supervisors

DAVE TAYLOR FOR CITY COUNCIL Dave Taylor is an openly gay candidate in the 4th Council District, which includes Clinton and the Upper West Side of Manhattan.

For more information or to get involved, drop by our office, 2095 Broadway (72ndJ, #505, NYC 10023, or call 212-721-0064. News AZT, Condoms, and the Polymerase Chain Reaction Robert Gallo's Annual Lab Meeting

by Ann Giudici Fettner are their side effects, and for how ease Control and Abbott Labs also BETIiESDA, M~The invitation-only long will they work." showed that a number of the women, get-together held by Robert Gallo's Many of the coming trials will be when evaluated with the new PRC National Cancer Institute (NCO labora- based on AZT in smaller or alternating (polymerase chain reaction) test, tory each AUgust is a preview of the doses to moderate its toxicity and to showed that over four years, six of 13 science that will dominate AIDS lessen the probability of the develop- who were consistently antibody nega- research and treatment during the ment of drug-resistant isolates of HIV. tive are positive for HIV genetic mate- Mark Wainberg of Montreal's McGill rial, but not the whole virus. University described AZT-resistant Abbott's research director, Jean- NEWS FOCUS strains of HIV as being responsive to Pierre Allain, one of the study's other anti-virals such ddi and ddc. The authors, concluded that HIV may fre- coming year. Protected from the free- latter caused concern at last year's lab quently be transmitted from hemophil- for-all atmosphere that now accompa- meeting because of severe peripheral iacs as a "silent" i.nfection with no nies the international conferences, 150 neuropathy, a side effect that Broder signs of illness. Allain questioned researchers from many different insti- says now can be minimized, and pos- whether or not, in the absence of the tutions exchanged the results of their sibly circumvented, with lowerdoses whole virus, the women qualify as basic and clinical research last month. or built-in rest periods. being HIV positive. These results may The many tricks of human immunode- Other reports of particular interest: mean developing "a new set of stan- ficiency virus (HIV) are becoming well • The effectiveness of condom dardized criteria for what constitutes a enough understood to translate into use in preventing HIV transmission positive PCR test,· Allain declared. the aggressive combination therapies was underscored by studies of wives • In New York City in 1982, less that were discussed over the six days of hemophiliacs: 81 percent inconsis- that 30 percent of gay men with AIDS of the mini-conference. tently using condoms became infect- survived 18 months after diagnosis. Samuel Broder, recently named ed, while eight regular c~ndom users But between 1986 and 1987 nearly 63 head of NCI, who described current (since 1979) remained virus-free. But percent survived longer than one and AIDS therapy progress as "the func- a joint study by the Centers for Dis- a half years, according to Broder. This tional eqUivalent of an open flame improvement appears to correlate torch, not an incandescent light. You with the introduction of An and with can use an open flame torch for illu- earlier diagnosis and preventive thera- mination to lead you out of the py with aerosolized pentamadine wilderness, but you can also get against PCP and better management burned very easily.· Broder told QYl: of herpes infections. ~ that there is no drug on the • The toxic effects of AZT, as drawing board that does not cause well as the resistance of some patients Significant side effects. But he added to the drug, are being circumvented that he is confident that these side- by its early use in asymptomatic effects can be managed successfully. patients, at the lower doses possible Explaining that ·we have almost when An is used with a variety of 1,000 drugs in the test tube to see other substances. Combined with the what they will do against the AIDS powerful antibiotic gentamicin, the virus,· Broder pointed to earlier fears soluable CD4, with alpha interferon that An would be too toxic to use. and a host of other drugs (including ·The whole point,· he insisted, "is various growth factors) An and its that we will come up with drugs cousin ddI, were shown to potentiate against the virus; the question is how one another'S effectiveness while long a' person can take them, what BY INVITATION ONLY diminishing negative effects. Robert Gallo Photo: NCI Photo

20 OUTTWEEK September 18. 1989 • High-dose ddI is going into KEV \N EST Phase II clinical trials since preliminary patient studies have shown improved overall well-being, weight gain, restored immune response to antigenic challenge and falling levels of p24 (that part of HIV indicating Rediscover A Man's Resort active infection) after six weeks on ddi, with patients experiencing few major side effects (the bone marrow suppression often caused by AZT does not occur in patients treated with ddI). The rationale for early treatment was reinforced by an as much as 50 percent increase in numbers of T-4 cells in patients starting HOUSE ddl therapy with a count of 200 or , I' more T-4 cells. ._l~.L\_. • The nucleoside analogs (ddi, . .. . ddc, etc.) have been shown to effec- . . tively interrupt the activity of the hep- ,. .~. atitis virus in Peking ducks (the natural animal disease is a model for human hepatitis B), the leading cause E.,. .,.. " :If '''its ClI,IIt, filii PIlI,By"', SalII8,JaClIlli, , car, worldwide of liver cancer and cirrho- sis, (chronic carriers are estimated at 1129 FLEMING ST., KEY WEST, FL 33040 (305)294-6284 between 200-300 million), and a serious problem for many infected with (800) 526-3559 HIV. The effects of these drugs on II II dually-infected HIV patients is being studied now. • Judah Folkman of Harvard Uni- New York versity presented evidence that the ·spindle- cells of Kaposi's sarcoma are vascular smooth muscle cells which, because of dysregulated immune messages, are allowed to grow in an unrestrained fashion. Recent findings by NCl's Shuji Naka- mura of an abnormal form of fibrob- last growth factor, suggest that the spindle cells themselves may be creat- Charming. Newly Renovated ing the abnormal blood vessel devel- Brownstone Conveniently opment characteristic of KS. Folkman Located in Chelsea opined that ·we may be able to help 10 Room Inn KS- with the new information. Piano Bar • All Room. H.". W•• hlng F.cllltl•• As the barometer of current & Restaurant . Sh.,. a.th progress in AIDS, the Gallo meeting • Contln.nul Br•• kf•• t was inadvertently summed-up in the 135 Gough Street Included punch line of a scientist's joke, which San Francisco, California 94102 • Single $50 • Double $65 • Suite SID concerned a molecular biologist who ALL TAXES INCLUDED spent the four years of his marriage 415-621-0896 • W.ekly R.t •• Upon Request ·sitting on the side of the bed telling Advance Reservations Suggested/ his wife how great sex was going to be. - In the same spirit, after years of COLONIAL HOUSE promises, basic research is beginning iNN to payoff in increasingly sensible CHELSEA approaches to treating AIDS-related 318 West 22nd St.. N.V.C. 10011 illnesses. T 212-243-9669

September 18. 1989 OUTTWEEK 21 News Did she or didn't she? Setting the Record Straight on Sununer

by Rex Wockner and Andrew Miller Did former disco diva and icon of gay men Donna Summer really tell gay fans during and after her concerts ~hat AIDS was God's punishment of their lifestyle, that God created Adam and Eve, not Adam and Steve, that God hates homosexuals? NEWS FOCUS

The gay press rediscovered the Summer controversy this summer as gay clubs faced the decision of buck- ing a six-year-old boycott to play cuts from her new comeback album, Another Place and Time, recorded for Atlantic Records. But some activists are complaining about what they call a disturbing trend appearing in recent news stories. The trouble, they say, is that those statements continue to be attributed to Summer without proof, attributed quotes, or a definitive tran- script of an audio or video recording of the incidents. Summer became a huge musical success story in the late 70s, during the height of disco music's popularity. ) Her outrageous attitudes and down- and-dirty lyrics celebrating sexuality were enormously popular among gay men, who initiated her rise to musical superstardom with their support of concerts and recordings. Summer performed at the anniversary party of New York City's Studio 54 when it was a predominantly gay club. When the original stories of Sum- THAT TIME IT WASNT FOR REAL mer's anti-gay remarks surfaced in 1983, Donna Summer a gay community boycott of her

22 OUTTWEEK September 18, 1989 records, which extended to a ban on the playing of her old albums at gay clubs, nearly ended her career, which had hovered for years at the top of the charts.

Dedicated to God For her part, Summer, a born- again Christian who dedicated her new album to God, says she never said "those horrible things .. In a July interview with The Advocate, a national gay and lesbian bi-weekly magazine, Summer stated flatly, "I did not make that statement. I never said, 'If you are gay, God hates you,'" In a second interview several weeks later with Hot Wax Music Report writer Jeffrey Wilson, Summer NeT I V E again denied saying "anything about God giving gay people AIDS. You can't imagine the pain that has caused me, especially because of where I started,· Summer said. So who is right? Are gay writers guilty of repeating rumor and innuen- do, or does Donna Summer have a selective memory, particularly when it comes to record sales? Chicago artist Michael Kutza was willing to go on record. "I was at one of her last concerts at the Holiday Star Theater in Merrill- .. ville, Indiana, in the fall of '83,· Kutza told OutWeek, referring to a concert in suburban Chicago. .COME TO THE BEACH THIS SUMMER. .. (/) "She was terrific, and at the end of the show said, 'If any of you want ...STAY ALL YEAR t- to talk to me afterward, I want to tell you about my life.' About 500 people FULLY RENOVATED APARTMENTS ... Z stayed and she came out in her little tux and without her wigs and started ... IN THE ART DECO DISTRICT Ll.J talking about finding Jesus .. According to Kutza, a gay man PERFECT FULL TIME RESIDENCES ... near the stage screamed, "I love you, ~ Donna,· and Summer asked him if he ...OR THE BEST IN AFFORDABLE SECOND HOMES. was gay. When he said yes, Kutza t- said that Summer told him, ·'1 can help you change your ways. AIDS is O::': your punishment and you must 1520 Euclid Avenue change your ways.' She said this on stage to 500 people,· Kutza said. Miami Beach, « The Chicago artist's recollections a.. of the Indiana concert were backed up FL 33139 by Chicago architect Dan Earles. Ear- les and Kutza do not know each other. « ·She came out and gave a little VINTAGE speech' that was totally inappropriate, PROPERTIES I (305) 534-1424 Sa, DONNA SUMMER on pag 30

September 18, 1989 OU~WEEK 23 Out Takes

According to the ACLD's Les- cuted," said ACLUstaff attorney Bill Looking for bian and Gay Rights Project, the dis- Rubenstein. "Although the Marines gruntled ex-boyfriend of Baum's like to say that 'a Marine is a Marine a few good lover reported the two women to 24 hours a day,' only lesbian and the military in 1986. Although a full gay male Marines are held to such a investigation followed, no action standard." - Andrew Miller heteros was taken by the Marines until 1988, when the military began what NEW YORK - The American the ACLUdescribes as a "witchhunt" Civil Liberties Union has accused for lesbians on the Parris Island the military of violating the U.S. base. Baum and three others were Just say Constitution by selectively prosecut- court-martialed, and several dozen ing lesbians and gay men for women were administratively dis- Nancy II sodomy. The ACLU made its con- charged in connection with the tentions in an amicus curiae brief investigation into alleged lesbian filed with the Navy-Marine Corps activities at the base. DENVER - Opponents of a Court of Military Review on behalf The ACLU maintains that het- two-year-old Colorado law banning of Corporal Barbara Baum, one of· erosexual soldiers are not prosecut- anonymous HIV testing claim that several lesbians convicted of ed for private, consensual sexual so many people are using false sodomy following a 1988 investiga- activities which take place off-base names when taking the test that the tion at the Marine Corps' Parris and off-duty, although the military's law has become a mockery and Island base in South Carolina. Baum sodomy statute aplies to both same- must be changed. was sentenced to one year in sex and heterosexual sex acts. Reverend Julian Rush, director prison, and served more than six "Had Corporal Baum been of the Colorado AIDS Project, is months in jail before being released. engaging in sodomy with a man, seeking the support of the Denver She is appealing the conviction. she would never have been prose- Board of Health and Hospitals in

Dykes to Watch Out For

24 OUTTWEEK September 18, 1989 amending the law during the next 0 session of the state legislature, m i i'i a tt claiming that many people are TRATTORIA afraid to take the test. "Let's quit With Two Dinners playing games," he told the board. Courtesy bottle of red wine - Salice Salentina Riserva '82 "Those people may be exposing ** ** others to the HIV, or foregoing Special Pizza from our Woodburning oven medical care altogether." The board •* * * Your host Sal Acquista has been a major influence in the * ...... * past on public health legislation. 165 Eighth Avenue, New York, N.Y. l001l Tel: 212·989·2330 In an odd compromise at ------.-----~-----~ anonymity, the legislation deliberately does not require identification for HIV test-seekers, although it does require everyone being tested to give a name. As a result, people taking the test often give fake names, the most popular being former first lady Nancy Reagan and MEXICAN Thomas Vernon, the director of Col- orado's state health department. RESTAURANT Rush had no hard statistics for First Avenue between 49th & 50th Streets his August 28 presentation to the 883 FIRST AVENUE, NEW YORK CITY, N.V. Health and Hospitals Board. But TELEPHONES: 935-3749 • 421-1212 Doug Wollard, a city health officer who also volunteers with the Col- orado AIDS Project, said that "probably nine out of ten people" undergoing testing at public clinics in Denver use someone else's name. -Keith Clark WE WORK WITH QUEENS and Brooklyn, Manhattan, and even Bostonl Bolder in WE DON'Ttake listings over the telephone, give out "pre-printed" lists, or distribute outdated information.

Colorado WE DO use computer. to pre-screen your listings for you, update listings dally, personally meet each and every applicant, and give referrals to both people seek- Ing shared housing and people with housing to share. BOULDER - County health officials here launched a six-week II you've been disappointed in other gay referral agencies, give us a call or stop by. AIDS awareness and testing pro- We think you'll be pleased. gram August 23 aimed at groups who are· at high risk, particularly gay men and IV-drug users. Anne GuHfoile, director of the adult health program which over- THEROOMMATE sees the county's AIDS program ~~ said health officials were initiating The Nation', Largeat Referral Network the campaign because of recent developments in the use of AZT in 24 Hour Infol (2t 2) It sa I helping to stave off the onset of OUt.hI ... ,. 11001 , NEW YORK 182 W. selh 81.' New York, NY 100111 G.Im!I 318 NlWbury 8t .• BOlton, MA 021 II AIDS-relatedsymptoms among peo- UOOtWNE 14811a..con St.· Brookline, MA 02148 CANISIRQ' 82 JFK St.' Clmbrldg., MA 02131 ple infected with HIV, She also said ceceot changes in policy by AIDS

September 18, 1989 OU~WEEK 25 Out Takes

organizations which are now urging move sponsored by fundamentalists, people to take the HIV antibody YeS on S including Phyllis Schlafly. The ordi- test were an added factor in the nance would permit unmarried het- county's campaign to encourage SAN FRANCISCO - Because erosexual and homosexual couples more people to be tested. Californians regularly have dozens to register their relationships with the "So many people can have the of propositions to wade through county clerk. City employees would virus and not know it," Guilfoile each election day, state and city offi- thereby become eligible for various said. She added that the county cials have taken to giving them but limited benefits already available offers HIV testing without charge, numbers and letters (respectively) to to spouses. and that it does not check IDs, make reference easier. And through -Kdth ClarkandAndrewMJDer allowing people to be tested a fortuitous stroke of assonance and pseudonymously. A mandatory alliteration, San Francisco's proposi- name reporting law in Colorado tion to keep that city's domestic makes anonymous HIV-testing ille- partners law on the books wound gal, and all positive test results are up with the letter S, to the delight of Oh Diy God automatically reported to state supporters, who immediately health officials. launched the "YeS on S campaign." CHICAGO - Plans by several The Boulder county health Led by local Democratic political California Lutheran churches to department is one of a handful activist Carole Migden, a campaign ordain sexually active homosexuals around the country, including New benefit bash on August 28 raised to head a new lesbian and gay min- York City's, that offers a needle- some $30,000 for the cause. istry project were expected to cause exchange program for IV-drug However, Rep. Barney Frank "a major conflict" at the week-long users. Since the program started (D-MA), one of two openly gay Chicago convention of the 5.3-mil- here in May, 22 people have members of the House of Represen- lion member Evangelical Lutheran enrolled. - Keith Clark tatives, who had been scheduled to Church in America (ELCA) in late appear at the kick- August. off party, was a no- But to the surprise of the 1,042 show. Frank's own delegates, the blow-up never "domestic partner- occurred, and the ELCA's interim ship" arrangement guildelines opposing ordination of with a male sex non-celibate gays were referred to worker whom he committee without decision. hired as a personal The Reverend Jim Lokken, a assistant and who spokesperson for the pro-gay Cali- ran a prostitution fornia congregations, has promised service out of the that his church, St. Francis Lutheran Congressman's Church in San Francisco, will ordain Wash., D.C. home, 26-year-old Jeff Johnson this fall recently made nat- "with or without the blessing of the ional headlines. bishop." Migden, tongue Northern California synod Bish- flfmly in cheek, said op Lyle Miller has responded that of Frank's absence, "congregations do not declare who "I guess Frank is or is not eligible, [and] Mr. John- decided to stay son is not an authorized candidate home and take care for ordination." of his own affairs, Although convention delegates so to speak." bypassed the gay ordination deci- The San Fran- sion this year, the confict will cisco law, passed undoubtedly re-emerge when John- unarumously by the son starts his job. Board of Supervi- During an unofficial forum on sors and signed by lesbian and gay issues at the con- Mayor Art Agnos, vention, Johnson was quoted by the has been derailed Lutheran press office as saying that by a referendum since ELCA does ordain celibate CAROLE MIG DEN Photo: Rink

26 OUrYWEEK September 18, 1989 I I ,.;

gays, the real issue "is about our relationships, and whether or not the church will say that those relationships can be healthy, and that we can bless and celebrate them in our midst, even among our clergy. Another gay and lesbian presence at the convention was Lutherans Concerned, an international organIzation of gay Luther- ans. The group staffed a literature table and confronted convention- goers with pro-gay banners, badges, posters and slogans. - Rex Wockner

Violence survivors• sought

NEW YORK - Claire Goodman produced the video tape, commis- sioned by New York City, that is currently used by the police department in its sensitivity training about bias crimes that involve gay men and lesbians. Now, with the help of a grant from the Paul Robeson Foundation, Goodman and co-producer Anjie Rosga are making a filin about "the different ways anti-gay violence is used as a method of social control, and enforces homophobia in different cultures." Rosga, the principal researcher on the new project, said she is NEWYORK- Nearlv 100ACTUPers picketed for an hour in front of the Human searching for survivors of "interrela- Resources Administration (HRAIbuilding on Church Street on Tuesdav, Sept. 5, to tionship battering, family violence, protest what the AIDS activist group called ·that agency's bungling of service. suicide, . attacks by peers and intended for homeless people with AIDS: The activists were joined bVmembers of acquaintances, as well as strangers, Anger Into Direct Action, composed entirelv of'homeless or fonnerlv homeless plO- either personally or through a lover, pie with HIV-related illnesses, who are all clients of or rejected applicants to the family member, or close friend," city's AIDSCase Management Unit.which is administered by the HRA. and guarantees the confidentiality of In a press statement, ACTUP described the Unit as ·understaffed, chronically underfunded, with a backlog of some 365 cases; and unable to serve the popula- any inquiries. tion for whom it was established to advocate. Because white men are most Two me:'!,Bob Rafskv and Charles King, were arrested fOr obstructing traffic likely to report violence against when demonstrators decided to march to City Hall. After the arrests, demonstrators· them, the filmmakers said they are brieflv blocked traffic on Broadwav. The protest dispersed after a riot squad was especia,lly interested in reaching out sent in to remove the demonstrators from the park next to CityHall. to people of color and women. - T.L.Litt and Andrew Millef Photo:IL Litt

September 18. 1989 OUTTWEEK 27 Out Takes

Those interested can write to Rosgood Productions, Box 994, Stuyvesant Station, New York, NY 10009. - Andrew Miller

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DUBLIN - Lesbian and gay activists in Dublin, Ireland are call- I ing for international help in forCing I i their federal government to imple- " I ment a December 1988 European Court of Human Rights decision GLEN'S KIERAN ROSE (LI WITH FELLOW ACTIVIST CATHAL O'CIARRAGAIN overturning the the country's Photo: Rex Wockner sodomy law. servative," explained Rose, "but at agents to the physician, identified The Court itself has no legisla- the same time we are an anti- only as Dr. John Doe, for examina- tive power to demand acceptance imperialist nation with a tradition tions, despite testimony from epi- of its rulings, but the nations who of justice. We are a country of demiologiSts citing U.S. Centers for are signatories to the European contradictions." Disease Control health-worker guide- Convention on Human Rights ordi- [To assist the Equality Network's lines that labelled the risk of HIV narily modify their laws in accord fight, write Prime Minister Charles transmission from doctor to patient with its decisions voluntarily. Haughey, T.D., Government Build- "Vanishingly small." To date, however, the Irish Par- ings, Upper Merrion Street, Dublin 2. Legge's ruling overturned a prelimi- liament has not introduced the nec- Send xeroxes to Gay and Lesbian nary injunction, issued by him in l$S8, essary legislation, and activists with Equality Network, c/o GSD, Commu- which ordered the FBI to resume send- Dublin's newly-formed Gays and nity Services Project, 13 Christ ing agents to the physician. Lesbians Equality Network believe Church Place, Dublin 2.) The FBI has refused to say how pressure from international activists - Rex Wockner it learned of Doe's diagnosis, and the will speed up the process. phYSician's attorneys are charging Activists are particularly hoping that the agency threatened to dis- for letters to Prime Minister Charles close the information to other gov- Haughey from Irish immigrants in ernmental agenCies. Britain, the U.S., Canada and Aus- MD+HIV - Because the doctor was not tralla - demanding that gay sex be directly employed by the govern- legalized and that anti-discrimina- FBI? ment, Dr. Dow lacked technical tion protections be enacted. ground for his suit, according to "A lot of lesbians and gays have Legge, who wrote that the FBI acted left here to escape oppression and SAN FRANCISCO - In what "in the exercise of their legitimate we'd like them to organize and su p- civil libertarians called an unfortu- governmental responsibilities," and port our struggle," said the Equality nate precedent for the way confi- that the agency "had a duty to be Network's Kiernan Rose. "A victory dential medical information is concerned for (its agents') health." for lesbians and gays anywhere is a handled, U.S. District Court Judge Legge ruled that Doe's right to priva- Victory everywhere." Charles Legge dismissed a lawsuit cy had not been violated by the FBI's Rose and others say that gov- by a San Francisco doctor who investigation. ernmental foot-dragging on the charged that the FBI had cancelled Under California law, disclosure legislation is understandable when its agents' appointment with him of specific medical infonnation about placed in the context of the con- last year because he had been diag- people with AIDS is forbidden. flicting values that make up Irish nosed with Kaposi's Sarcoma (KS), Spokespersons for the FBI society. "There's truth to the an AIDS-related cancer. declined to comment of the ruling. stereotype that Ireland is very con- The FBI stopped sending -Keith Clark

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SEATTLE - A former schoolteacher was sentenced CLASSIFIEDS September 1 to a six-month prison term and two-year psychiatric treatment program after pleading THI _IDICV10V' guilty to charges that he raped and THIAT_ICA1CO. sexually molested one of his students after being diagnosed with AIDS. In handing down the decision JBIG~ against 20-year-old David Adl- hoch, Superior Court Judge Charles Johnson emphasized that ~Ea.I· he was limited by a special sen- I I tencing law for sex offenders that by Charles Ludlam '~ stresses psychiatric treatment CAU HITTIX (212) 564-8038 rather than jail time. With credit CHAlLES LUDLAM THEATIE for time already served, Adlhoch One Sheridan Sq_•• -691-2271 could be released from jail in 30 .-- -- __ -- .-._-_ Pol days or less. , . ;,,~....• ·Ii Ii The teen-age boy involved, • now sixteen, begged the judge to • give Adlhoch the severest sentence ~-viting! possible. "I really don't want any- • body else to go through this," the • • OUTTWEEK boy, whose identity was not • • revealed because of his age, told • • the court. "If you let him go, he'll • • IS do the same thing again. He'll do it • • more cleverly. You won't catch • • NOW him, maybe." • • Adlhoch pleaded guilty to sin- • You are inn-vited to experience our style of • gle counts of third-degree statutory small-hotel hospitality. Where strangers • ON rape and third-degree child • become friends and friends become closer. • molestation for sexual contacts he Ask us for the Boston inn-sider rate of: had with the youth shortly before • • NEWSSTANDS and after his fifteenth birthday last • • spring. He resigned from the • $69 $79 • EVERY Northwest School, where he had • SINGLE DOUBLE • taught dance and math since 1985, • • when confronted with the charges. • Includes continental breakfast. Single or • The filing of charges against double occupancy. Add 9.7% tax. Subject to MONDAY • availability. Advance reservations suggested. • Adlhoch hit the private school par- • For reservations, call 1-800-842-3450 • ticularly hard because the stu- • • dents, parents and faculty had • rallied arou nd him after he was CHANDLER INN diagnosed with AIDS late in 1987. Inn Town Bed & Breakfast -Keith Clark (617) 482-3450 . T· 0 . I September 18. 1989 OUTTWEEK 29 DONNA SUMMER froID page 23 Ufe before AIDS about how she'd been saved by God "Since the very beginning of my career But others in the community, for and how homosexuality is a sin,· Ear- I have had tremendous support and whom Summer's music represents les told OutWeek. "She was real friendship from the gay community. It happier times, are not willing to let derogatory. I walked out before she is a source of great concern to me that go of Summer at all. "All those was done talking and haven't listened anything I may have said has cast me albums came out before AIDS, or to her music since. I can't understand as homophobic. All I can ask for is before AIDS was thought about. Now, why gay bars are playing it." understanding, as I believe my true people want to dance to her because feelings have been misrepresented· it reminds them of that time before Adantic City But by mid-1989, Summer's com- AIDS,· said Marc Berkley, a club A third concert-goer who says munications with the gay community entrepreneur who used to promote Summer made homophobic remarks had grown more defensive and insistent the exclusive and immensely popular in 1983 is New York City freelance "I did not say God is punishing gay New York dance club The Saint. writer Jim Feldman, whom the Vi/lage gays with aids [sic), I did not sit with "For the over-25 crowd, the music, Voice assigned to review Summer's ill intention in judgment over your especially old music, is all we have left. just-released album She Works Hard lives," she wrote to ACf UP on July Our friends have died, the clone look for the Money, and her concert in I 26, in response to a demonstration at went out, but whenever we hear an Atlantic City. I Red Zone, a club in Hell's Kitchen old song, we can say, 'Oh I remember "At one point she was making which held a promotion party for dancing at Flamingo or Twelve West or some comments about boy/girl cou- Summer's new album. "I haven't the Saint,'· Berkley said, referring to ples or something, and some gay man stopped talking to my friends who are gay dance clubs popular in the late 70s raised his hand," Feldman said. "She gay, nor have I ever chosen my and early '80s. "It reminds them of said, 'Oh not you. After all, God made friends by their sexual preferences. what life was like before AIDS.· Adam and Eve, not Adam and Steve,' A hush fell over the concert for a -Never turned away· -Up-synch to Donna· moment, and then she said, 'Oh, but I "We have too many good memo- Berkley also cites Summers enor- love you anyway,''' Feldman's report ries together to live in this state of mous popularity, and the affinity that on the concert, including Summer's unforgivenness,· Summer continued. many gay men found with her music. remarks, appeared in the Voice's July "I never denied you or turned away,' "Because she sang about sex, and gay 5, 1983 edition. Feldman wrote, "I but in fact you turned from me. If I men love sex, Donna was the ulti- suppose her born-again status is have caused you pain, forgive me. It mate disco diva, the ultimate idol. responsible for her sanctimony, but was never my intention to reject you'l Every queen, no matter how butch, her mean-spirited homophobia was but to extend myself in love. I know used to lip-synch to Donna Summer particularly inappropriate because that some of you really need me now! in the bathroom mirror. without us, Donna Summer wouldn't because you've written and told me "People also weren't willing to be playing anything in Atlantic City so. Can't we just forgive each other believe that she stabbed us in the but the slots." for this past confusion?" back by saying such things, just like Also in the crowd at the Atlantic Summer then quoted extensively many who idolized Rock Hudson City concert was Tom Danna, editor I from the section of the New Testa- couldn't believe that he was gay,· of the Long Island gay newspaper ment book Corinthians that is fre- continued Berkley, concluding, "Polit- Parlee, who said he also remembers quently read at weddings. ically correct music is ultimately very Summer's comment. Danna and Feld- For a community used to hateful difficult to have.· man were not at the concert together. remarks, boycotts, and the endless. Berkley also down played the "Yes, I remember the 'Adam and I striving for political rectitude, the importance of the boycott on her career,

Eve, not Adam and Steve' thing,· II release of Summer's latest album has attributing her decline to changing tastes Danna said. "She said it right there on unleashed a wave of emotions rang- in music and to her own bad choices in stage during the concert.· ing from ambivalence to anger, all record companies and producers. According to Feldman, Summer related to her former status in the There are clearly other factors more or less admitted making the community, and the good associations besides the truth-value of Summers

anti-gay remarks in a written "retrac- i many gay men have with her voice. remarks affecting the Donna Summer tion" issued in 1985 following objec- During Boston's Gay and Lesbian decisions of lesbians and gay men. tions to her partiCipation in a New Pride Week celebration this summer, But it is unlikely that the whole com- York City AIDS benefit. The "retrac- activists disrupted an outdoor party munity will make its decision in uni- tion" later appeared in the Advocate. I hosted by The Gay Rights Grass Roots son. Some will choose to forgive and Fund when the DJ played a song forget, confident of Summer's future ·Support and Friendship· from Summer's new album. A brief support, while others will continue to "It's very difficult for me to scuffle broke out after protesters call for a boycott of her work, adding believe this terrible misunderstanding shouted "shame,· and attempted to lying to gay bashing on their Donna continues," Summer said at that time. , remove the record from the turntable. ~mmer.l~ ~ I

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W1GSTOCKfrom pag.15 Street in an apparent attempt to out- before a grand jury. The case is being large numbers of people were needed maneuver the crowd. The crowd then handled by the department's Bias to help free Carson, who was being marched to the intersection of Avenue Incident Investigation Unit. Although held by police in the park structure. A and 7 Street and began a sit-in rpany people present have expressed Many complaints have been made demonstration. During a second anger at the actions of the first four about the unwillingness of Wigstock march back to the 5th Precinct build- police officers on the scene who organizers to allow people access to ing the crowd was verbally abused by arrested a gay man before the alleged the microphones to make these a skinhead on First Avenue, who assailants, no one has yet filed formal announcements (see sidebar), but the allegedly threw a bottle, striking complaint charges against the police. announcements were eventually Adam Smith,-a_marcher. The crowd David Wertheimer of the Gay and les- made. surrounded the skinhead, who was bian Anti-Violence Project told Out- arrested and handcuffed by the police. Week that if it were determined that Sit-In At Precinct The protestors then returned without "there was a failure on the part of the A large crowd then surrounded incident to the Avenue A intersection. police to provide protection to the the structure where Carson was being Police estimate the crowd at this Wigstock celebrants, that would be held, and some climbed atop a police point to have grown to 300, while inexcusable.» But, he continued, car. The police removed Carson to the many witnesses claim it was 500 or many gays and lesbians "think that 9th Precinct on East 5th street, and the more. Fifty police officers in riot gear reporting complaints is a waste of injured Darren Britton was taken by were deployed around the scene. The time as long as the Civilian Complaint ambulance to St. Vincent's hospital protest ended at approximately 9:30 Review Board is under the control of where he was further harassed by hos- pm when Carson, who had been the Police Department.» pital personnel (see sidebar). Soehn- charged with obstructing governmen- lein refused treatment at the scene. tal administration, was released and Those who witnessed possible mis- A large crowd gathered at the 9th escorted by police back to the behavior on the part of the police cat! Precinct building to demand the demonstration. call the Anti-Violence Project at 212- release of Carson, but he had been Additional charges against the 807-0197 to register complaints and moved to the 7th Precinct on Pitt two alleged bashers are pending have their information documented.

September 18, 1989 OUTTWEEK 31 Political Science

D.B.: (Coughs) Well, you know, I Interview with a don't know what the exact cost will be, but there's no question mUlti-drug therapy is expensive. I suspect the regimens we'll end up with will be some- Corporate Vampire what Significantly less expensive than the leukemia regimens and somewhat significantly more expensive than the by Mark Harrington I met with Burroughs Virologist regimens for tuberculosis. David Barry. He said a number of re- vealing things about his attitude to Sexist? lass diamonds and can- people with AIDS, corporate profits, D.B.: What we are hoping to do tilevered concrete trapezoids coming treatment trends, women is take women who have reasonably G stick up amidst the hilly with HIV, Africans and Burroughs- advanced disease, and treat them for woods of North Carolina. The build- Wellcome itself. their U1nesswith AZI', and take care ing looks like a set out of 2001: A of them. They will be counseled to Space Odyssey. There is a large re- Heartless? have an abortion, first of all. Many of flecting pool which could by dyed D.B.: We will have multi~rug reg- them refuse. Unfortunately, many of blood red in a demonstration. This is imens. The patients will all be receiv- them are the most Qisenfranchised of the building that AIDS built-the U.S. ing aerosolized pentamidine, possibly the population, it's often because headquarters of Burroughs-Wellcome fluconazole, acyclovir, suppressive they're Hispanic in background, Co., the giant multinational pharma- doses of pyrimethamine, leucovorin, Catholic in religion and so on. So we ceutical company which five crucial so you're going to have four or five have a lot (laughs) of ethical, religious AIDS drugs: AZT (for HIV), acyclovir drugs for the Ois and two, three or questions. (for herpes), pyrimethamine (for toxo- maybe four drugs for antiviraIs. plasmosis), Septra (for PCP) and leu- Racist? covorin (to protect the bone marrow Peter S.: And for $100,000 a year D.B.: Eventually we may do simi- from toxic drugs). you'll be able to keep 'em alive for lar studies in Africa, but we really eth- In January 1989, Peter Staley and the rest of their lives. ically can't do them in Africa until we obtain a lot of clinical data here, because they are very sensitive to the ·,YOUI Money"ol YOUI Life concept that we not use Africans as guinea pigs.

, If anyone has won the war 01) AIDS so far, it's Burroug~-Well;~m.ei!~e [Translation: We carU use Africans as 'pharmaceutical giant profits from six factors which PIPP up AZ'T's artifi~ja~IY guinea pigs until w~ve used some bighRrj~: ,1{ American mothers of color as guinea 1) The seven-year Orphan Drug monopoly, which runs out in 1992; pigs first.) 2)The 17-year use patent, which e,xpiresin 2005; 3) The 70 percent tax writeoff 'Onall An research expensesj D.B.: The worst thing in the world we could do in Africa is give 4)1he multi-million Federal i'pv~trpent in AZI"sdevelopment (inveqt$~' with National Cancer lnstitute funds in 1964, discovered to have anti-H1V'~c- away a bunch of AZT, OK? They can't t~vityat the Ncr in 1985, apd test<1din t~ousapds of people.cpy th~~a~ . afford five cents' worth of choloro- Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases);' w"" .... quine to treat or prevent malaria, OK? r What price do you think we'd have to ( 5) The $45 million subSidy for AZT Jar people who aren't eligible charge for AZT to make it available in Medicare, Medi9tid 9r priVate insurance, .~•.subSidy whichexpfres'\'io:\~pt:, ber; .. y. Africa? Zero. That's the price. In Africa, price is a moot point. It's unaf- 6) The unnecessarily high dose (1500 mglday), w.hich so toxic v.fas ti!tlr fordable at any price' including zero. the people with AID couldn't tolerate An-and now it tums out 500 mgldfiy ~ •.just as effec.~ve and much less t<;>xic..N<, [Translation: _W~llnever give it away . The cos~ of AZf are thus Paid by>anyone wh~ pays over there except if we can profit else- premiums or health care costs. ~e profits are privatized in the gr~~x h~~' where from research done there.) of BUIToughs-Wellcome. .. "'. . ,;;> " , .-MarkH,!i;inttJ!": <::::tf# :;4Mi ~r:':~t@1:}:; s.. CORPORATEVAMPIRE, Pili. 3S

32 OUTTWEEK September 18, 1989 DEMONSTRATE against the murderously high cost of AlT. -TIle rnost experlsive cirug EVER. BE THERE. New YorkStock Exchange Broad and Wall Streets Thursday, September 11th 12 Noon

ACT UP, ·HHi·A Hudsoll St rPt't, Suitt' G4, NYC 10014 (212) !J8!J·I1l4 Positive Alternatives Needles that Heal: AIDS and Chinese Medicine by Bob Lederer

an a 5,OOO-year-old medical by newly developed ultraviolet pho- ability to withstand infection ...is en- system help treat a "brand tography.) By stimulating these surface hanced by endorphins' effects." new" disease syndrome like points with acupuncture needles, heat As to Chinese herbs, Sommers C AIDS/HIV? You bet. Tradi- or massage, energy blockages can be notes, "A variety of immunomociulatory tiona I Chinese Medicine (TCM), removed, allowing a gradual and gen- !immune system stimulating) effects whose best known component is tie rebuilding of the body's innate have resulted after using herbs, indud- acupuncture, is increasingly being healing ability. Herbs, diet, and exer- ing improved T-cell function .... Re- used by people with AIDS, ARC and cise provide nutrition and oxygen to search has demonstrated that certain HIV+ worldwide. Some employ it as a restore proper functioning of particular herbs have specific anti-viral activity [in- complementary therapy with various organs and organ systems. cluding against HIV]and further work is pharmaceutical drugs; others use it Medical literature has increasingly being done to more fully understand alone or strictly with I the mechanism of their nutritional and other actions." holistic approaches. What have been the Preliminary research is real world results with beginning to show pas- PWAs and HIV+ people? itive results. TCM clinics in New Many Western doc- York, Boston, Chicago, tors believe that TCM is San Francisco and Los an unscientific form of Angeles have amassed folk healing with only considerable experience a placebo effect, or at using acupuncture best, limited usefulness and/or· herbs. Unfortu- in alleviating acute nately, their shoestring pain. But a brief look ,/' budgets and the medical at the growing Iitera- . establishment's hostility ture on this complex to researching non-West- medical system - . . ern treatments have pre- which includes vented systematic studies acupuncture, herbs, heat therapy, demonstrated acupuncture's effective- of the results. Clinical trials of herbs massage, exercise and diet, among ness in such actions as reducing fever are underway in three U.S. cities to others - shows a highly scientific ap- and increasing production of such im- gather more data on the effectiveness proach meticulously developed and mune system parts as T- and B-cells. of specially designed immune-enhanc- refined through thousands of years of Acupuncture has also been shown to ing herbal formulas. (Chinese herbs clinical experience. release endorphins, brain chemicals are usually administered in formulas Limited space allows only an which alleviate pain, induce restful- combining several, rather than just overSimplified explanation: TCM is ness and produce the well-known one at a time.) based on the principle that all human "runner's high.· According to a study Neverthel~, preliminary studies . disease (literally dis-ease) is caused by by Elizabeth Sommers, a Boston and large quantities of anecdotal evi- an imbalance in the body's energy acupuncturist and public health ex- dence-which contrary to Western flow, which moves along invisible pert, "a broad variety of pharmacolog- medical myth, have proven valuable in' pathways called meridians connecting ical effects on immunity have been at- suggesting AIDS research directionr- each organ to the others and to surface tributed to acupuncture, and current hlive led to some tentative conclusions. points on the skin. Cfhe existence of research suggests that the endorphins According to Michael O. Smith, M.D., meridians has recently been conftrmed playa critical role. Overall, the body's Director of the Lincoln Hospital

34 OUTTWEEK September 18, 1989 Acupuncture Clinic in the Bronx (with a CORPORATE VAMPIRE from page 32 seven-year track record in AIDS!HIV Egotist? with three other activists and barri- treatment), "lTCM) frequendy provide(s) D.B.: We're egotistical enough to caded themselves inside a Burroughs relief of symptoms and oonditions ass0- think we can do it better than anyone office. The corporate SWAT team ciated with AIDS and chronic infectious else. We're the experts in drug regula- broke down the wall to get them out disease. Most patients report a reduction and getting drugs through. We before the TV cameras arrived. tion in fatigue, abnormal sweating, diar- have to show the FDA how to get The AZT market has multiplied rhea, and acute dermal [skin] reactions drugs through rapidly. with the announcement that low-dose after four to frve treatments. Some pa- AZT delays progression to AIDS in tients have had a 15- to 20-pound Profiteer? people with early ARC or no symp- weight gain and are able to return to D.B.: All of our drugs make a toms. The federal subsidy will expire long hours of work. Those taking profit. But I can't tell which is more on September 30. chemotherapy often report a decrease profitable. On August 30, 16 AIDS groups in such side effects as fatigue, nausea called upon Burroughs to lower its and weakness.· And Sommers adds, [Trans/ation: We're making money price. The company convened a ·Chinese medical treatments general- hand over fISt on AZT, but we're also September 5 meeting with ACf UP, Iy...improve certain aspects of their making a killing on acyclovir.) AIDS Action Council, GMHC and overall blood counts and chemistries.... Lambda Legal Defense. The corporate Neurological conditions can respond fa- CaUous? line was unchanged since January. vorably to acupuncture stimulation .... As we were leaving the building, Even repeated bouts of pneumocystis the VP for corporate communications You CanDo pneumonia can sometimes be managed took my arm and said, "Just think, in Boycott Burroug~s' over-the- more effectively, with shorter periods of a few years we'll all look back on this counter products Neosporin, Sudafed hospitalization resulting and decreased, and ...• and Actifed. And go to the demonstra- severity of the illness.· And while far I snapped back, "Not all of us tion at the New York Stock Exchange from all people with AlDS/HN experi- will be around to look back.· at noon on Thursday, September 14 at ence these benefits-those with ad- In April, Peter Staley went back Broad and Wall Streets. 'Y vanced AIDS seem to have the least physical improvements-the great majority report enhanced calmness and a sense of well-being, helping provide the clarity to make other key life-pre- serving decisions. TCM is not a panacea for AIDS!HIV and none of its practition- ers promote it as such. But with or without drugs, it has helped many MILDRED KLINGMAN people. What is needed now is the WILLIAM B. DeBONIS D.D.S. political will to thoroughly study it Quality, Personal Dentistry PSYCHOTHERAPIST and make it more affordable and ac- Suite 704 NY STATE LICENSED cessibl~particularly in public hospi- 200 West 57th Street EXPERIENCED WlfH New York, New York 10019 LESBIAN & GAY CONCERNS tals serving the poor. To those topics I (212) 333-2650 (212)362-7664 79th & BROADWAY will return in future columns, as well Office Hours by ApPOintmentOnl as a discussion of acupuncture's pow- ,. I' _i_I _U_. =_25_1_ erful, proven ability to detox people from addictions to heroin, cocaine, crack, alcohol and nicotine. Two New York City acupuncture Dr. Charles Franchino clinics particularly geared to low income people (and with physicians on 30 Fifth Avenue staff) are located at: Lincoln Hospital, New York, New York 10011 349 E. 140th St., South Bronx, (212) 924-7744 x252 (Tues. only). Both 212.673.4331 "I have a sliding scale and accept Medi- caid. ,For medical references on any points· in this article, contact the author c/o OutW.k. ... office hours by appointment

September 18. 1989 our..-WEEK 35 appropriate. Just be yourself. ~ If sagging morale is a problem, o you may want to take a public opinion poll before your election. I did. Like the mainstream pollsters, I inter- viewed a group of pre-selected people, and asked them questions de- cONTROL Signed to elicit certain pre-determined ~ responses. Everyone in my therapy ~ group said I was a shoo-in. Once you feel sure of victory, it o is time to hold your election. Here is what you do: Find a place where you can be alone with your thoughts. If a Commentary by Susie Day You've got to know things as mayor. voting booth is unavailable, a crowd- You've got to wear nice suitsj speak ed subway car will do. When you are By the time you read this I will with assurancej affect heterosexuali- ready, spin around three times, flap have written it. Also, the Democratic ty .... Susie Day knows nothingj she your arms like a chicken, then, while and Republican primaries will have has none of these attributes. Why, if trying to touch the tip of your nose selected opposing candidates to run she can be mayor, I can be mayor." with your tongue, say, "Now I am the for mayor of New York mayor." That's it. You've won! City. So, by the time you Show emotion. Accept. read this, you, as a lesbian Next morning, have a little or gay person, may be ticker tape parade for yourself thinking, "Electoral poli- all around your apartment. My, tics. They frighten me. that was fun. Now, sit down at Even if David Dinkins your breakfast table and pick wins, this city will stay the up the newspaper. Read that richest, meanest city west the city of New York has proof the Atlantic. Bigotry, vided only 62 beds for an esti- greed, brutality, corrup- mated 5,000 homeless city resi- tion"-and here, you dents with AIDS. Slam your begin to sob openly- paper down on the table and "What's in it for me? say, "Not while I'm mayor!" Be Maybe I should just sell commanding. After all, just my futon and move on who does Ed Koch think he is? back to Allentown. Uhh- Now put on your mayor uhh-uhh ..." suit and call the other self-elect- Oh, for pity's sake, lesbian or gay Exactly. You can be mayor. We ed New York City mayors together for person, cheer up. Electoral politics can all be mayors, together. In fact, a conference. This will have to be a don't have to be so glum and compet- anyone who is even a little psychical- mighty big conference. There should itive. The FBI has been tampering ly battered from this city's growing be all kinds of people there, of all col- with your reality again. The truth is, racism, homophobia, woman-hating ors, sizes, sexes, shapes, ages, astro- the mayoral election has already been and all-around attitude problem has a logical Signs. The ideal Stevie Wonder held. I, Susie Day, have been elected right-yea, a duty to be mayor. concert. mayor of New York City. Do not Of course, you can't become OK. We're at the conference. worry, lesbian or gay one; as mayor, I mayor until you get elected. Living in Keynote speakers are David Dink- pledge to do everything in my power the 80s, after all, means working ins and Ruth Messinger. Childcare to eliminate homelessness, white within the system for social change. is prOVided by Tom Duane and supremacy, gay oppression. The patri- So first, you need a campaign. Calling Dave Taylor. Things are looking archy will not take place-not while for strict new anti-crime measures is a up. Oh, don't think we all like 1m Mayor. sure-fire campaign strategy. Why not each other right away. This is New At this point, you are probably propose an upstate work camp for York, please remember. Feelings thinking,"That stupid Susie Day is not brutal cops? And don't forget to make emerge. Then factions. For awhile, .the mayor. She is a miserable cipher up little buttons and pamphlets for it looks like all the mayors hate all ., who thinks she has an amusing idea yourself. Slogans such as "I Like the other mayors' guts. Research

I for a column-remind me to laugh. Dyke," and "Queen for Mayor" are See OUT OF CONTllOL on page 78

36 O~WEEK September 18, 1989 rn Ronnie Eldridge's long and unwavering commitment to liberal values, her very sophisticated understanding of politics, her first-rate analytical intelligence-these qualities am p~oud of my 20- housing, primary care clinics, "I make her a great asset for year hlstory of day treatment centers and case support for full those of us who want to management staff. equality for lesbians and gay continue the fight for humane, "I will sponsor domestic men. As Special Assistant to progressive government. She partnership legislation to Mayor Lindsay, I served as the and a City Council seat will go provide unmarried partners, first City Hall liaison to the exceedingly well together. including lesbian and gay lesbian and gay community; couples, the spousal privileges secured the first Executive and benefits granted married U.S. Rep. Barney Frank Order protecting the rights of " couples. I'll increase funding lesbian and gay city workers; for the human rights helped draft the first lesbian and gay civil rights commission so that complaints of dis- legislation; coordinated the efforts of the City'S crimination can be aggressively investigated. Police Department and the Mayor's office to This will help ensure that Local Law 2 is arrange the first gay pride marches; and properly enforced. brought together the NYPD and members of "I am a longtime friend of the lesbian and the gay community to work to end police gay community. I will continue to be a vocal harassment in the wake of the Stonewall advocate and spokesperson for lesbians and gay rebellion. men. I look forward to working with you and "As Director of the New York State representing you in the City Council from the Division for Women from 1983 to 1985, I West Side's 4th District." fought for lesbians and gay men, people with AIDS and lesbian and gay adolescents. I also actively served on the Governor's Task Force on Lesbian and Gay issues. "As a member of the Women and AIDS Resource Network (WARN), I know too well the desperate shortage of AIDS prevention and health services. As Council Member, I will lead the fight for greatly intensified AIDS education and outreach to women, drug abusers, adolescents, and gay and bisexual men. I will also fight for expanded services for persons with HIV / AIDS, including scattered site Ronnie Eldridge FOR CITY COUNCIL Lesbian Marriages Tying the Knot (Noose?) Sarah Pettit on the Current Phenomenon

In a climactic scene from last years film Fatal Attraction, Glenn Close approaches the window of Michael Dou- glas' serene, suburban home. Peering through the pane, she is witness to a moment of conjugal bliss and familial unity: crouched on the carpet before the hearth, husband and wife sit in rapture as their daughter receives a birthday bunny. Averting her eyes in a blaze of mortifica- tion, Ms. Close leans into the low-lying shrubbery and has a good chunder. While this film might not command our attention for any other compelling reasons, the above-mentioned celluloid moment is, indeed, jarring. It collects in a rather succinct and frozen instant the many ambivalences or resistances -that .happy, heterosexual unions can elicit. On one side of the pane rests the ideal, the archetype, with all of its codes, com- promises and rewards. On the other, horror, refusal and fear tremble and wretch in disgust. Marriage, family, monogamy, the warm bosom of domesticity-they're bound to land some of us in the living room, some of us in the bushes and some of us perched on the sill in indecision. So, what of lesbian marriage? Is it an entirely different set of questions, another kettle of fish so-to-speak, or do we inevitably confront a similar constel- lation of issues? To answer these riddles and more, I turned to the ever-eager and able members of the sisterhood. They prOVided answers and insights, while also exposing this issue to be the com- plicated merging of opinion that it is. Lesbians have been packing up and shacking up as long as I can remember. In the last several years, however, there seems to have been a profound subter- ranean shift. In 1987, I was invited to my first lesbian wedding. It was held in a middle-sized Eastern town with a progressive gay community. On a sunny Saturday afternoon we gathered in the proud mothers backyard. Her daughter, a restaurateur in her thirties, was to wed 38 OUTTWEEK September 18, 1989 a woman of a similar age, a professor their bridesmaids was a woman who had before, it is the vital and sustaining sup- and the mother of a young son. Having been the lover of one of the port of the community of friends which never attended any such ceremony, I betrothed-after a number of years of most matters to the marriage. Amy corµ- had few expectations, but found myself monogamy, they had agreed to a period mented, "Friends are validating. They moved by its simplicity and honesty. of non-monogamy prior to the wedding. help to reinforce a commitment. ft When The assembled friends and family As with the two couples cited earlier, it comes to the marriage she imagines "a looked on as a rabbinical student aided their stated commitment is to now joined romantic image. We're all up on a with the exchange of vows. Several in an exclusive, closed relationship. mountaintop. We've hiked up and we're guests were encouraged to add words Speaking recently with two friends feeling on top: and thoughts, much in the form of an who have become engaged after a year Does one turn at this point and open meeting. Afterwards, a large party and a half together, I sought to unearth wretch into the shrubbery? One can, but with food and dancing was held at the some of the intricacies of these arrange- that is to view things too narrowly. These restaurant. Little over a year later, I ments. They cited a similar array of con- gals are not wrapped up in some pert, heard the couple had split up. One cerns and expectations as the other Stepfordian happee homemaking bonan- woman retained the ; za. They are saucy, house, the son contin- M· .1./ h irreverent and like ued to visit with his arrlage, ,ami y, monogamy, t e to show a lot of "second- mom, the b f d · ·t midrift. As Amy rest dissolved. warm osom 0 omestici y - added, "I'm no More recently, th ' b d tid f· crunchy-chewy. Of two young urban pro- ey re oun 0 an some 0 us In course, we expect fessional acquain- th /.. f . th diffkulties. It's hard tances tied the knot. e IVlng room, some 0 us In e to plan past the Their marriage, how- b h d f h d next day, but I ever, entailed no pub- US es an some 0 us perc e on believe in ritual, in lic ceremony. There the sill in indecision· ceremony. I think was an exchange of • gay ceremony pass- rings, a commitment es and surpasses to monogamy, and a shared down pay- lesbian newlyweds. Amy and Ivonne what straights do, because it must of ment on a co-op. After a year's time, this found each other after some searching. necessity be spiritual. It says, I love you union too dissolved into adieu. As with In their relationship is, undoubtedly, with aU my heart.ft the other marriage, there was not a great something rare and unique which com- And spiritual it must continue to be deal of legal or financial settlement nec- pels them to look more closely at long- until the legal landscape of this country essaryj having never been ·officially· range commitment and devotion. They changes to include gay marriage (don't sanctioned as a couple, there was no want to make a statement, to engage in hold your breath). At the present time aU transaction reqUired to unbind them. some sort of ritual, which will identify of these marriages, these ceremonies, The loosing of ties seemed, rather, to their bond as serious and exclusive. As are no more than the construction of the occur more profoundly on the private in the other cases, exclusivity implies parties involved. They are rituals and and personal side. monogamy and entails the sharing of an vows based on agreements between two What marks both of these lesbian apartment and the splitting of financial women, which carry no legal weight. As marriages is the rapidity with which they burdens. can be seen, they vary in their degree of were embarked upon. In the last year, I What is interesting and complex success. But this, on the other hand, have encountered several couples who about their arrangement, and their antic- may be their virtue. Without the chains have married or become engaged, but ipated wedding, is the degree to which of the legal dimensions, they do perhaps they have done so after a longer it turns out from itself and its exclusivity more realistically allow for the forming acquaintance. This past spring, two were to engage their friends and community. and dissolving of bonds as they occur. married just prior to their university grad- Shortly after exchanging rings (which, These commitments are· sustained as uation. In a campus, college.-funded incidentally, they wear on the right long as they work and seem not to get social club, they stood in similar black rather than the left hand), they held a bogged down in the impropriety of gowns and exchanged vows. Among party for their closest friends. Here, as admitting they can fail. ~ September18, 1989 OUTTWEEK 39 Lesbian Marriages

arrle• by Ashley McNeely

If you can believe it, my lover got down on her knees, presented me with a ring and asked me to marry her. Actually, I gave her one too. And actually, she did not ask me if I would "marry" her, but if I "would love her forever." The question was rhetorical. She wasn't ner- vous, wondering whether I would answer yes or no, because we both knew the long future of our relationship. But she did ask me, and I her, in the spirit of ritual and ceremony, in which abstract concepts such as "eternal love" are made concrete through human actions. To place a ring on her finger, and to have her place a ring on mine, was to believe in our commitment, and tell the world to believe in it too. It's not easy for two gay people to create a lasting relationship in a homophobic world. Although we both see this relationship as permanent, are we "married"? Very little around us endorses our love. No one is saying, "congratulations! Good luck to you!" Even when I showed my mother my new rings, she looked at them as if they were some kind of joke. Who do we think we are anyway, playing at marriage like it's our prerogative? This kind of response, more familiar to me by now than any kind of jubilation, has made me more and more certain that the statement my lover and I make to the world is both personally and politically crucial. Although we may borrow some of the marriage terminolo- gy, we do not embrace the traditional definitions of the wolds we use. Or, rather, we cannot, because we do not fit into the narrow scope of their meanings. Marriage, in accordance with the law, must be between a man and a woman. The institution of marriage is predicated on the production of children with shared genes. As infuriating as this heterosexist notion of marriage is, I find it to be strangely beneficial. It helps me to define what I do not want to be, that is, part of the traditional 40 OUT~WEEK September 18. 1989 uals in which each step is Increasingly validated. I certainly don't consider my relationship more likely to succeed than that of another couple who chooses not to wear rings or have a ceremony. I know that I have to go through the rituals that will encourage us to work through the hard times. With so much against us in the world, at least we will have made vows that I can hold on to. This is what will make the difference for us, not laws. We are now in the process of planning a wedding, which will really be a big anniversary party with some vows thrown social in, even though we exchanged the rings two years ago. But con - did our spontaneous, private exchange that night constitute a struct of wedding? Yes, because we made promises then that we plan marriage, to keep. But also no, because it was not public, nor particular- laden with ly spiritual, both of which we want our wedding party to be. power dynamics, Weddings represent the coming together of two people in the inequalities and public eye, just as much as they are a private union. The com- sexual roles. From bined good will of the congregated family and friends pro- this I have learned vides the groundwork from which the couple can build. We what I do want to behave already started to build a life together, we have put a lot happy, in love, secure, of energy into each other and now we feel we deserve to cele- fmancially independent and a brate this fact. parent. How and when I do But by having an actual wedding we place ourselves in a this is another question alto- theoretical dilemma: we want our relationship to be recog- gether, but one thing is for sure: nized as serious, yet by doing so are we potentially perpetuat- in order to achieve these ends I ing the assumption that married relationships are the only need a permanent partner to help valid relationships? How do we get around this? The ceremony me. And a permanent, loving, sexual will include only very few people, and the emphasis will be relationship between two people in this on the party. We will write our own vows. We will both wear world is called, despite my semantic diffi- pants. Our parents won't pay for the festivities. We don't culties with the term, a marriage. So, call me intend to go on a honeymoon, nor do we expect gifts. We married. won't publicize the event excessively beforehand or mark it as Lesbians have few positive role models a major turning point in our history together. right now in the Certainly a wedding will pursuit of happy mar- not change the basic tenents of riages. If we are paving What I know our mar- our relationship - honesty, the way for future les- riage will do, on a equality, compassion and bians, than I am glad. Our monogamy. The long-term choice to marry will probably personal level, is prospect of the latter, the core not gain us the benefits avail- allow us to differen- of a traditional marriage, is not able to heterosexuals-- insur- threatening to us. The tumult of ance advantages, tax breaks, tiate this relationship affairs is exhausting and unful- reduced family fares, social sanc- filling when compared with the tions--in our lifetimes. I hope from previous ones greater (though sometimes more that our neighbors, co-workers terrifying) intimacy of a commit- and families will become enlightened as a result of knowing ted relationship. In addition to the fact that I rarely, if ever, us, but I can't count on this. What I know our marriage will see another woman I'm attracted to, I wouldn't want to risk do, on a personal level, is allow us to differentiate this rela- losing my lover's trust. For her, sexual expression is the ulti- tionship from previous ones in our lives in terms of commit- mate confidence, and a potential affair, the ultimate betrayal. ment, trust and love through the promise of monogamy. And I respect this in her just as she respects certain needs of it will provide a secure base from which to face an extremely mine. This is why our relationship works, and why I already hostile world. consider myself married. The wedding itself is just frivolity, if Although gay rights laws such as San Francisco's and "New you look at it this way. York's domestic partnership initiative would provide the first The conflicts presented here between the positive aspects step in public recognition of gay relationships, this kind of law of marriage and the dangers of assimila~ion define one of the might also create rifts in the gay community. As it stands, major challenges in my life right now. Our desire for a roman- we're all .out in the cold, so we're all fighting for acceptance tic celebration cannot be separated from the political implica- and respect from more or less lhe same vantage point. But tions of our actions. But this struggle, within the gay stipulations '.~ch as length of the relationship and proof of community and against the patriarchal construct, helps us all economic interdependence could create a hierarchy like that to move toward a world where diversity is celebrated rather of the dating-engagement-marriage progression for heterosex- than feared. ... September 18. 1989 OUTTWEEK 41 Lesbian Marriages First of all, marriage is embedded within heterosexuality, property relations, dependence, monogamy and traditional parenthood, all of which affect women in a particularly debilitating way. People Just Sav'No! should really read Gayle Rubin's seminal essay called The Traffrc in Women (title stolen from Emma Goldman). Now grant- room, breathy, frantic, a dyke: "This is ed, this was written more than a decade by Catherine Saalfield for anyone, for all of you, even for just ago, but I fear a refresher course is in one, is it...Iike...it is OK for a P.C. person order. As Rubin looks at the intersection I've been away all weekend in the to ...Iike ...be married, to ...like ...want a between the work of anthropologist woods with my lover, mid-summer. It's house in the woods with 2.8 kids? I Claude Levi-Strauss and Sigmund Freud, really hot, sweltering and clearly another wanna ask you is it fucked up, is that it? she goes about investigating "how does a difficult Sunday night transition for all of You tell me what's goin' on. Ok?" Good female become oppressed as a woman?" us: me, the woman I just spend this inti- questions. Yeah, they cross my mind She finds marriage and gender, boldly mate relaxing time with and her other now and then, but I'm still convinced organized around the exchange of women lover. We are trying to work out what it that validation-for "the qest that I've (in the marriage system) to be at the root means to us to do things differently, to got"-can be achieved by other means of sexual oppression. Although over the try a difference which makes sense in than marriage. years, the details have evolved into insidi- our separate lives. And it is a commit- Why do lesbians in the late 80s ous rumblings of compulsory monogamy, ment. We are forced to do it without want to get married to each other? Is this her basic analysis still rings true. knee-jerk responses to social condition- the only road to acceptance? Community Legal wedding ceremonies, and the ing. In other words, it's never good support? Parental recognition? What are resulting "marriage," resonate with " ..~.-.~ enough to cull examples from Holly- unobstructed ties to the state. Nineteenth wood dictates, pull punches from inap- century bourgeois trends made marriage propriate sexual hierarchies, or relax not only a convenience but a necessity. into the patterns of Mdesirable but insen- Heterosexuality and the traditional sitive Casanova,· Mreliable but nagging nuclear family is now all about property, Wife,· Mfunbut unimportant Affair." Our all about economic and political arrange- sheer exhaustion, four-capsule ments: the shared income, the shared headaches, impromptu tantrums and so apartment, "charters to rights of domicile much anxiety reflect our lack of role- and land use,· as it were. What already models and an overwhelming dearth of should be a relic of heterosexuality is support. Even Mcomrades· in other strug- fast emerging as contested ground for gles casually and destructively play us queers and it bothers me. But it's about off each other with no regard for the social validation, community support time and love put into our work. and cultural benefits, and we just want a Indeed, sometimes I feel like Sisyphus piece of that pie, right? pushing another damn rock up the hill. Sure, and the premise of state This afternoon, our car ran out of acknowledgement masks as emotional gas before we even left the farmhouse legitimization for both women and men. for the city. So, we're a couple of hours ,~ Despite various sexual orientations, we're late back into town, again. She's preoc- they getting from the promise of exclu- all on an ambiguous quest for social vali- cupied with her tardiness and explana- sivity (with or without legal recognition)? dation. Why do many young lesbians and tions when we say goodbye in front of What meaning does it have when it's not gay men wait to come out to their par- my house. Transitions are no one's forte, legal? And how does it affect (or more ents (or whomever) until they are in a and I'm wretched into those all-too- accurately, disaffect) the rest of us? stable, long-term, monogamous relation- familiar tailspins over quickly rearranged Besides, didn't feminists in the 70s ship? Why do they feel so unjustified for puzzle pieces. Nonetheless, in the already attack the institution of marriage having open or shore (overnight) rela- scheme of things, this is where and (its traditional sexual, politi~l and eco- tionships? Why do we try to prove to the when I step out. She's got a night ahead nomic prerequisites) in their commit- bigger-than-Iife mandates of society that of her with someone she hasn't seen in ment to end sexual oppression? I know we are no different, that we can be just a while, and undoubtedly more work to there are more than the three of us chal- like everyone else? Especially for women do. I've got loftmates but no one is lenging the prescriptions and idealism of (and some previously-straight-and-mar- home right now. The first phone "The Cosby Show" and MFamilyTies." ried-now-Iesbian-women may recognize machine message blares into a quiet Has the conservative backlash of the their struggle in this one), why do we Reagan era and the crisis of AIDS panic so, crunching ourselves up to fit Photos: IL. Litt doomed alternative possibilities? into traditionally oppressive structures? 42 OUfYWEEK September 18, 1989 Dykes who are older than I am and mandates are inextricable within such would be better off apart. Trust, stability went through the experience of compul- legally sanctioned unions. and legitimization don't seem to emerge SA)ryheterosexuality, the expected mar- ••• • from these formalized unions. It's hell to riage, and the necessary divorce, have At most of the weddings I have get it together in the first place, and then much wisdom about uphill battles attended (aside from my mothers) rings usually more painful doing the paper against socialization. One can't deny that were not exchanged, green cards··were. work to get out of it. Emma Goldman women-who are SA)easily dismissed as (Incidentally, in Australia gay and lesbian said, "Marriage is the antithesis of love, "useless" by this culture-have a need relationships are recognized without the and will necessarily destroy it." I not (consequently, a desire) to be accepted, marriage drama for immigration purpos- only believe her, but I know that the to escape disrespect and violence. The es!) Even without green card or visa emotional stress of a break up doesn't role set out for women is a cultural transactions, weddings Oike funerals) are adhere to any barometer of the state or a business, big business. church recognition. People fly in from all over So, lesbians going on with pragmat- the place. Videos are ic rationalizations for how they will do made. Lots of money is this differently doesn't satisfy me. Mar- spent, usually as much as riage isn't just a word, but rather a possible. And afterwards whole system of values. We all witness the bank accounts are how the family unit gets targeted for merged, the mortgages are consumer items. Pick a TV advertise- shared, and so on. I ment, any advertisement. For example, haven't been to a lesbian you'll see parenthood, the nuclear fami- wedding ...yet. Sometime ly, the "happy homemaker" and her in November I'll make a home improvement ideas, and kids with pilgrimage to San Francis- innocuous and irrelevant presents a la imperative of "femininity": subordina-· co for the marriage of a close high- Fisher Price. And women are the ones tion, passivity, sacrifice. Who wants to school buddy. We came out at the same ~ocially positioned to administer the be left alone, grow old alone, be called time, different colleges and she's chosen family's consumption. What kind of a ugly, aggressive, difficult, selfish, unlov- a stable, long term thing, a committed, world are we trying to reinforce? able? And, even if you haven't been monogamous relationship with a woman OK, SA)I went to the "Children in straight or legally married, anyone can about ten years older. The ceremony will Our Lives" conference in Boston a few identify with the fantasy: touching satin probably be made .up of close friends, a years ago. Lots of yuppied dykes with and imagining your wedding dress (bil- smattering of family members. They their perfect children, plenty of toys, lOWing, very long tail), the ceremony . already have their two rings. We've had swimming iessons at two years old, ten- with loads of flowers (even in your it out over this one before (and now nis at three, the ideal kiddo. One ple- hair), the spotlight on you, oh SA)much we're doing it on the pages of OutWeek). nary talk, though, vehemently punctured attention, the climactic kiss, the Happiest • • •• the atmosphere. Angele Bowen, a grand- Day of Your Life. The fantasy of marriage is one mother, a Black woman, stood up and These psycho-social pressures make thing, the reality is another. And roman- said if she had it to do again that she us start bad relationships (of all gender tic ideals fall short even for straight wouldn't have any kids. She said she combinations), make us stay in bad rela- folks. They are up against the same couldn't stand seeing lesbians SA)eagerly tionships, make us settle for (almost) morals and traditions as the rest of us: participating in consumer culture, anything. Is this compulSA)rycoupledom women are only valid when connested couldn't stand the nuclear family units ._- iii - ... or compulsory heterosexuality? Perhaps to a man, or when seeking ,. S I've got two arguments on my hands a "mate.' (In a similar vein, here. One could be about heterosexuali- the Center for Disease Con- ty (as a detrimental prerequisite for, and trol keeps HIV epidemiolot- prescription of, marriage) and the other gical records on women might be about monogamy (as not only only when they are associ- the imperative for marriage, but a repres- ated with a man, or when sive model for everyone). Nevertheless, they are mothers.) But mar- I'm not sure they're that different. Any riage doesn't work to allow argument against marriage is an attack straight women any more against the institution of monogamy. So independence, self-determi- my focus here is marriage because it's nation, or confidence than more concrete and it influences every they are allowed otherwise. In fact, it riddled with awkward and exclusive comer of the cultural terrain very clearly. limits those things even further. The notions of privacy, purity and property. Marriage, which forces direct ties to the wedding ring isn't a viable promise or She suggested we explode this value state in tenns of inheritance, property co- guarantee. Monogamy is no more ram- system and make our homes reflect the ownership. and legal contracts, alSA)cre- pant in marriages than outside of them. diversity of the world around us by ates gender relations (i.e. the sexual The divorce rate is soaring. And there acknowledging extended families includ- division of labor). The sexual-economic are plenty of still-married couples who See JUST SAY NO on pag8 78 September 18. 1989 OUT~WEEK 43 In the Face of Increasing Censorship, the Lesbian and Gay Experimental Film Festival Forges Ahead

BALLAD OF READING GAOL BY RICHARD KWlENTNIOWSKI

by Karl Soehnlein "has something to do with my life and man's lover was also an experimental "Welcome to 65 films that will never the filmmaker's life. What I do and what filmmaker facing problems with getting be funded by the National Endowment I film are the same thing." her work seen. for the Arts." And if there's one thread that holds Experimental filmmakers often This in-your-face-jesse Helms greet- the festival's diverse offerings together, moan about an unresponsive public, but ing opens next week's Lesbian and Gay it's the creation of gay visions by gays Schulman blames the language of film Experimental Film Festival. The seven and for gays (see accompanying article). theory for its problems. She rails against day event blatantly challenges recent "There's an audience out there that's what she calls the "benign intellectual- federal attempts to brand gays and les- hungry for images," Hubbard maintains. ism" which characterizes much cinema- bians ·obscene," and proudly presents "It's just a question of reaching them." speak. "If you say, 'My film is about work that is "experim.ental"-a term The success of the festiVal-two years of gender investigation of the female gaze which makes some people shudder, but sold-out houses-indicates that they're in media,' well, that doesn't mean any- which the festival's organizers take great doing something right. thing. But if you say, 'I broke up with pains to demystify. Hubbard and Schulman created the my girlfriend and it's changed the way I "I'm interested in documenting festival together over three years ago. see women's bodies'-which could be emotions," explains filmmaker Jim Hub- Both saw a need for venues to showcase exactly the same thing--."it's a more hon- bard who is co-organizing the event non-narrative gay film, but there were est statement and it lets people in." Hub- with author Sarah Schulman. Both speak also personal issues at stake; Hubbard's bard and Schulman pay special attention about the festival without the academic ex-lover, filmmaker Roger Jacoby, had to explaining films through program detachment usually heard at these died of AIDS, leaVing behind a large notes. In addition, when a film is partic- events. For Hubbard film is vital when it body of rarely-screened work. Schul- ularly "difficult," an effort is made to 44 OU~WEEK September 18, 1989 inform the audience beforehand. They've learned all of this from mis- takes, as Schulman freely admits. Hub- bard's own filmmaking is a perfect example. Shooting mostly in super 8 and without sound, and then hand-pro- cessing each role of film, he creates poetic documents which are far from conventional. Last year, during a screening of one of his films audiences got restless and hostile. Schulman faults their own presentation of the work as the problem. "If the lights go down and the film comes up and it's hand processed and silent, people start getting aggressive, and uncomfortable, and they start talking to the film. But if you start it out by saying, 'Now you're going to see a hand-processed film. This means that the filmmaker developed it himself so that he could use the color to express certain emotions he couldn't express if it was developed in a lab. And it's silent because of this, and it's this for this reason ... then they know what they're watching and they can build a relationship with it and they like it." Doesn't all that explanation insult an audience? Schulman thinks exactly the opposite: that audiences have been taken for granted for years by elite film theories. "The language of criticism is ridiculous, and all the rhetoric around it is totally meaningless. It obscures feelings and it tells people 'This work is not for you. on She and Hubbard take up the challenge of creating an audience that is a diverse community, not a select group of the avant-garde in-the-know. "I have a strong sense of obligation to the gay community,» Schulman states. Hubbard agrees. "We try to create a safe place for· gays and lesbians to come and see films, and we try really hard to give people a context in which to see the work.» The festival is the product of their dual commitments. Working for six: or more months each year with no support staff, Hubbard and Schulman seek out and screen hundreds of hours of film in preparation for the event. They each take a minuscule amount of money for it-last year's labors worked out to about a dollar an hour. Similarly, the festival's $8,000 budget is tiny for an event of its size. Fund- ing for the festival is primarily from the New York State Council on the Arts, which actually raised its contribution from last year, no small fact in this age of oppression (Kitty Carlisle Hart, chair HOME AVENUE BY JENNIFER MONTGOMERY September 18. 1989 OUTTWEEK 45 the NEAhas never been a crisis. There are several films by people strong supporter of gay with AIDS (both living and dead), and projeas. Schulman elabo- many of the films simply point to the rates, "Right now the NEA way AIDS has transformed the meaning is a completely censoring of nearly every gay and lesbian image. A organization. It does not case in point is Artie Bressan's Gay USA, fund lesbian culture ... which depicts the strong political Robert Mapplethorpe was response to Anita Bryant's gay-pashing representative of what crusade in 1977. The film is, in Hub- kind of gay people get bard's words, "thrilling to watch, but funded: white gay men filled with naive enthusiasm and expec- who have an arts audi- tation that things are going to be so ence, who are situated in much better.· As the festival's opening the upper class.· The night show, Gay USA sets a tone of both ironic truth is that artists celebration and introspection. are fighting to maintain a Both Hubbard and Schulman are standard that is already committed to bringing lesbians and gay unacceptable. men together through the festival. For Because of this, the most part, films by men and women Schulman sees the Helms are integrated on each program. As a amendment having a lesbian, Schulman has specific reasons minimal effect on indi- for this curatorial decision: men, for the FEmVAL CO-ORGANIZER JIM HUBBARD vidual artists. The real most part, don't come to see women's power of this pending films. It does go both ways, though, as of the council, has even sent word that legislation will be seen at the level of ·she explains, "This year we have an she will show up for one of this year's exhibition. This very festival theoretically incredible film about rape Qennifer screenings). Schulmll,n and Hubbard poses a threat to its host, the anthology Montgomery's Home Avenue) which is have never applied to the National Film Archives, which is dependent upon really important for men to see, and we Endowment for the Arts (NEA), an act of federal grants for part of its income. have a really great film about jack-off self-censorship that speaks to the state Despite increasing government cen- clubs (Philip Roth's BoysILije), which is of federal arts funding even before the sorship of art, the festival has continued great for women to see, too .... This inte- recent MapplethorpelSerrano hubbub. to grow and in the process the effect of grated programming mirrors Schulman's The threat of the Helms Amendment the AIDS crisis on filmmakers' work has observation that "the whole gay commu- passing-which would ban federal increased. The first year of the festival nity is going co-ed. There's a lot more money for, among other things, "homo- contained only one film about AlDSj last personal relationships between men and erotic· and "sadomasochistic· art, and year there were a handful. This year, as womenj there are more political rela- penalize organizations which sponsor Schulman and Hubbard agree, the entire tionships. When the day is over, the such work-has obscured the fact that festival seems to be influenced by the boys go with the boys and the girls go with the girls and everything's fine. But it's really a more mixed community.' Despite the personal satisfaction for both Hubbard and Schulman, the burn- out level is high. They will soon be joined by a third organizer, a solution to the problem of too much responsibility for two people to handle. Both were considering the possibility of backing off from the festival next year, but the NEA situation has changed that. "We have an obligation to keep going,· Hubbard sums up. And we-a community under seige-have an obligation to show up and support gay and lesbian artistic endeavors, now more than ever. ... The Third New York Lesbian and Gay Experimental Film Ff!stival open Monday September 18and runs through Sunday, September 24, at Anthology .Film Archives, 32-34 Second Ave. (on FILMMAKER JACK WATERS, FESllVAL CO-ORGANIZER SARAH SCHULMAN AND FILM- Second St.). Tickets $5. Festival Pass $40. MAKER PETER CRAMER . Photo:ll. litt Info: 212/865-1.499. 46 OUTTWEEK September 18. 1989 DREAM & DESIRE BY TOM CHOMONT

September18. 1989 OUTTWEEK 47 LOOKOUT

Photo: IL. litt MWhois Mark?" you asked, as 300 people blocked traffic on Avenue A, chanting, MWewant Mark'" Mild-mannered Mark Carson, 35, was arrested while trying to prevent a gay bashing at Wigstock (see news story page 12). He's OutWeek's bachelor of the week and so much more: his sideburns were featured in 7 Days, he hosts the fabulous and the trendy in his East Village apartment (of course), and to top it off, he's an AIDS activistas well as an actor and writer. Says tall, dark and handsome Mark of his whirlwind week: Ml'mstill looking forward to next year's Wigstock'- -John Umlaut

48 ourTWEEK September 18, 1989 LUUKUUT

AN ESTIMATEl' 18perce.nt of the 130,000male sheep in the UnitedS~~it's reported, have no interest whatsoever, in female'$heep ..

While we understand and feel not a bit sheepish about condoning the behavior of 18 per cent of our woolly friends. as reported in a recent Sunday edition of the San Francisco Examiller/Chronicle. we do have a few questions:

1.ls there a connection between the wool from these sheep and Calvin Klein's winter collection?

2. What of female sheep with no interest in males,' Are there in fact. none. or (as we suspect) is the oppression of ewes and the invisiblity of lesbians in the sheep community merely being perpetuated by Examiner/Chronicle reporters?

3. Are these sheep accepted into their flocks as equal. productive members of sheep society. or are they ostracized by older. fundamentalist sheep with dyed-in-the-wool ideas about mating? . - Andrew Miller

September 18, 1989 OUT~WEEK 49 UT OF ·N J!J.'1 ..lI.J oMY HANDS BY BRADLEY BAtt

Dear Brad: hear any more of his eternal griping. (who's always been jealous over the Like so many people I never Then Evan said I was taking my own fact that Dwayne beat him out for a thought I'd be writing to you but my hunger and frustration out on Randy, spot in the national company of friends and I are having a kind of since it's a well-known fact I can't tol- They're Playing Our Song) asked problem and need an objective opin- erate him for more than a few minutes Dwayne if he had any brilliant solu- ion. You see, several weeks ago this at a time, but that his was not an ideal tions since he obviously had such an terrible storm closed down all the moment to pick a fight. So I said astute grasp of the immediate problem roads around here. We couldn't get maybe everybody might be interested and Dwayne pointed out that there out to buy groceries and all we had in in knowing that I'd seen Randy sneak was more than enough meat on Randy the house was a bag of Doritos, two an extra lifeSaver when he thought to feed an emerging nation. We had to cans of caffeine-free Diet Coke and nobody was looking. Randy, of course, agree on that and after a quick vote (3- half a roll of chocolate lifeSavers that became very defensive but I inquired 1) we ate Randy. Well, wouldn't you had been buried under the sofa cush- that if there were five Life Savers to know, the very next day they ~eared ions since God knows when. Needless begin with and four of us and we ate the roads and we were able to drive to Say, even with scrupulous rationing, only one apiece then would some- into town! Now we're feeling sort of such limited supplies didn't last body, namely Randy, care to explain guilty about Randy even though there long-actu?-lly no more than a few what became of the fifth one? Randy was no way of knowing at the time. hours. By the second day of this we got all red in the face and said maybe Do you think we did the wrong thing? were all naturally feeling rather peck- I was just accusing him in order to -Scott ish and I'm afraid everybody's tempers divert suspicion from myself and how were somewhat fragile. Well, Randy did we know there hadn't been an Dear Scott: (who, I might add, is Evan's friend, entire roll in the first place? Then We are all of us capable of saying not mine) started whining about the Dwayne, ever the little peacemaker, or doing certain things in the heat of situation and saying that he never said he couldn't believe we were argu- certain moments that we might later should have left Manhattan - not like ing about a fucking LifeSaver and I regret (the Christmas of 1980 immedi- he hadn't been whining about any- asked him if he'd prefer we go back to ately leaps to my mind but that is, I thing and everything from the minute arguing about Sunday in the Park suppose, another story). Notwith- he arrived. I told Randy as calmly as with George. Dwayne said we needed standing our community's long and was possible that we were all in the to focus on the more immediate prob- cherished tradition of devouring one same predicament and didn't need to lem which was getting food. So Evan another in the spirit of conciliation, I must say that you all showed remarkably poor judgement in resorting to majority vote for the sake of expedi- ence. The fact that there was one person-you didn't say who-who disagreed with the proposal as stated indicates that the interest of an involved party were arbitrarily disre. garded. It is for this very reason that groups should always endeavour to arrive at consensus in any decision- making process. I well understand that some people tend to find consensus tedious and time-consuming at first, but with experience we all come to realize that it is the only truly acceptable means by which to reach eqUitable solutions. And aren't equitable solutions what everybody wants? Think about it next time. ~

50 OUT'YWEEK September 18, 1989 TI ter at a party Billy omits the entire Or YOURS, for that matter, Billy. But sequence in his reporting of the occa- I suppose you might not know what sion in his column. I, for one, have a shithead you've been. So perhaps had enough of this sleaze bucket who we should tell you. ducks from any sort of controversy I propose a Gossip Zap. After and puts his head in the sand at a reading this column call Billy Norwich moment's notice. He praises these and tell him that you've had it with his assholes, gives them publicity and self-hatred and homophobia, you've glorifies them while they carry on in had it with his hiding, you've had· it their murderous fashion. In Avenue with his negligence, you've had it with magazine Norwich says, "I see myself his worshiping and glorifying the very By Michelangelo Slgnorlle as a moving community bulletin people who are killing and oppressing board upon which people insist on us. Leave him a sweet little message. posting notices.· Not MY community! Dial-A-Shithead: 212-570-2249. ...

erhaps William Norwich (Daily News) has been studying at the Jesse Helms SchoolP of Censorship? Or maybe he GOSSIP ZAP! physically doesn't see or hear certain things? Or maybe he suffers from DILLYI temoporary amnesia? Or maybe he's ZAPI just a stupid, self-hating, homophobic asshole? By golly, I think that's it! It was Norwich, you see, who wrote a glowing column about photographer Patrick McMullan's birthday ~:: 212·570·2249 ::~~~: dinner party at MK (days after the party took place) and somehow forgot ZAPI DILLYI to mention the highlight of the dreary evening: When moi shoved a tub of DILLYI butter in artist Mark Kostabi's face. ZAPI Even if he didn't see it himself, didn't Call DILLYI he read about it on Page Six (New ZAPI York Post) the next day? I guess not. But it's funny how he remembered to boldface every do-nothing and ZAPI BILLY . BlLLYI nobody-pretending-to-be-sombody ZAPI DILLYI who attended the affair. And funny how he remembered to write about McMullan's baby, the photographer's ZAP! N0 RWI CH BILLYI all-new, little stamp of heterosexuality. And funny how Norwich remembered ZAPI . . DILLYI to give everyone a plug for his or her next project. Then, I suppose, the occurrence of a political act - and the only excitement of an otherwise ZAP! BILLYI slumberous evening - just simply ZAPI212 •. 570 • 2249 DILLYI slipped his mind. Por quite obvious reasons we'd DILLYI think Norwich, of all people, would ZAPI call out a homophobe when he sees one. But, you see,. our dear, little Billy boy was still mentioning Kostabi's name long after the artist made his anti-gay remarks.· And then, suddenly. when Kostabi is pounced GOSSIP ZAP! upon by a protestor with a tub of but-

. September 18, .1989 OUTTWEEK 51 Social Terrorism Photos by Brich Conrad

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MUMMY. MAKE IT GO AWAY Dixill III Wigslock COUNTRY COUPLE 52 OUTTWEEK September 18. 1989 Glllindllllnd Michlllli of Kinky GBrlinky III Cowgirl HIIII of Fllmll CHIC TO CHEEK? BY THE TIME WE GOT TO WIG STO CK, WE HAD HAlf A MILLION HAIRS Derek Meen 8nd Chip Duckett 8t Wigstock D8gmar On8ssis blisses out

~~.':':'~~' UPSYNKA AND DEVOTED FAN John Epperson 8t Cowgirl H811of F8me BOO BOO PI 000 K8thy 8t Love M8chine

LIP SERVICE Floozy blonde 8t Wigstock GOOD MORNING MRS CALLAHAN Prep8ring 8 Wigstock doo

GOOD REEFER, MAN George W8yne loving it up 8t Wigstock. September 18. 1989 OUTTWEEK 53 Once upon.time ...• "",Uy, the doy bef",e Wi8"""k, I needed. wig;. feot akin to finding a Christmas Tree on Christmas Eve. Where, oh, where was I to find a hairpiece on the eve of the BIG HAIRFESTI "Try the guy selling junk on the street at St. Mark's and Third,· a friend shouted as he raced down Avenue A clutching his new black fall. "I think there's one left." But there wasn't. So, I wouldn't get a wig. Big deal. I stumbled along and happened upon a man who sells tie-dyed clothes on the fenced-in front steps of his' tiny basement apartment next to Theatre 80 on St. Mark's Place. "Gee, they're all so beautiful," I oozed, my eyes sparkling. "But it would be just super if you had wigs, sir." "Just one moment, young man,· he replied as he scurried into his humble home. I was suddenly uplifted. "You shall go to the ball!" exclaimed my friend, Ben, as jumped in jubilation. The handsome older man came back with a box full of wigs in every conceivable color - aqua, orange, emerald, lavender, ruby! And for only eight dollars each (friends were paying up to 20 bucks at Woolworth's on 14th Street). I bought a gorgeous powder blue piece. The man threw in a kerchief of magical pink chiffon! (I couldn't help but wonder that perchance Prince Charming would dance with me in Tompkins Square Park. I would then have to run off before the stroke of twelve, but of course I'd lose my wig. He'd then go from tenement to tenement the next day to see whose head the wig fit on.) The next morning, the day of Wigstock, four of my friends needed wigs. I took them all over to my Fairy Godfather of Wigstock. But he wasn't there and neither were the tie-dyed clothes, My friends crept down the stairway and rapped on the the huge gate-encased glass doors of his basement abode. A moment later he appeared, handing them colorful, frothy wigs through the iron gates. We skipped off to the wig ball, all aglow. Thousands were already in the midst the annual end-of-the-summer-blast which had us reveling in liberation, freedom of

by Michelangelo Signorile

54 OUTTWEEK September 18. 1989 I bought a gorgeous powder blue p,ece.• The man

.. Photo: Ben Thornberry threw expression, cross-dressing, love, peace and all that stuff. We joined in. I can remember dancing, and singing and touching so many wigs. Everyone had partaken • of magical fairy elixir. Queens took to the stage one after another, some simply Ina embracing the fun of drag, others realizing full well that theirs was a form of entertainment that was, beyond a doubt, a powerful political act. The park seemed as if it were ours as we joined hands and hairpieces in celebration, of a what was so far a magical and uplifting day free from all the horrors, the hatred, the bullshit that we kerchief encounter every day. And suddenly everything changed. The coaches turned back into pumpkins. The horses back into mice. And someone lost his glass slipper - and his beads and wig and hat. Actually it was two people. The clock struck midnight in the form of an announcement: "Two queens have been beaten up." of And the bullshit was pouring in again; so abundant is it that it can't be dammed off even for a day. From there it was massive confusion. Crowds. Screams. Cries. Cops. People doing the wrong thing, the right thing, anything, nothing. We were back to the magical streets, chanting, waving fists. And all of the wigs were off the heads, shoved into bags until Steve Spinella ordered tham back on as hundreds sat in the middle of Avenue A: ·We're here to celebrate wigs and cross-dressing! Put your wigs back on!" But still, in all the hysteria and madness, as skinheads tossed bottles and the pink like, I I~ my wig somewhere. No Prince Charming has buzzed my door holding it. And I have this feeling that even if I went back to the Wig Fairy Godfather's, some yuppie would answer the door holding a cordless phone and telling me that I'm crazy and that no Fairy lives there. T chiffon!

September 18, 1989 our'WEEK 55 Film

the police force by a psychiatrist who labeled him too crazy (or perhaps not Relentlessly So crazy enough)-decides to reactivate the police's interest in him. After by Peter Bowen criminal, and the police--in order to searching the phone directory for vic- maintain order-must act as criminals. tims with names similar to his own, Relentless. Directed by William In one such clumsy pas de deux, police Buck murders them by forcibly assist- Lustig. Written by Jack T.D. act as gay men in order to entrap them ing them in killing themselves. In one Robinson. Produced by Howard in public bathrooms. Some gay men case, for example, Buck surprises a Smith. Presented by Cinetel Films. respond by dressing up their fan- handsome young man by his show- Released by New Line Cinema. tasies or partners in police uniforms. er-making a suggestive gender twist The policing of desire and the desir- on the traditional female shower vic- ability of the police suggests to what tim-and then forces the unfortunate extent each group must know-per- boy to stab himself with his own haps too intimately-the modus kitchen knife. hile politics makes strange operandi of the other. This is not to Just in case the murder/suicide . bedfellows, police stories say that I-or any other gay/lesbian theme isn't clear, Buck signs his mur- Wmake even stranger bed- person-might want to "know" the ders by leaving behind the phone fellows of co~pecially undercover police, let alone join their ranks, but directory page with a challenge to the cops-and criminals. In police stories, rather to note that "queer" and crimi- police scrawled on it. As planned, the as well as in our own policed reality, nal sensation which the very presence police track Buck down, first as cops and criminals find each other not of the police seems to inspire within potential victim, and then as probable only looking over each others' shoul- me. It is then a profound historical suspect. Thus his suicide killings pro- ders, and following each others' foot- irony that the order which the police voke the police finally to kill him. steps, but more often than not invading so relentlessly enforce is matched Like his father, who had been gunned each others' spaces to such a degree only by a criminal order which such down by criminals, Buck becomes a that almost any policed space becomes policing by necessity creates. criminal precisely in order to be In this light, gunned down by the police. And William Lustig's Re- even more appropriate to this crimi- lentless might have nal economy-where police and been a clever commen- criminals are almost interchange- tary on the relationship able-Buck is gunned down by a between the police policeman, Sam Dietz (Leo Rossi), and their discontents. who must step outside the law in Following the tagline- order to enforce it. "Killers aren't born. Rather than provoking a twisted They're made. "-it is examination of the pathology of the the police, or more police/criminal mind, Relentless unfor- precisely an abusive tunately settles into a rather bland police father, which police buddy story. Here the New made the specific killer Yorker cop (recently transferred and of this film. Raised- newly promoted, detective Dietz) and as we are shown by a his older, mellower L.A. partner, Bill series of misty-eyed Malloy (Sam Rossi) exchange nasty flashbacks - by a glances and tired NY vs LA cliches brutal and disci- before they finally make up plinarian policeman, and-while not kissing-make a date Buck Taylor Oudd for a baseball game. That is, of course, Nelson) mobilizes his before homewrecker Buck shoots childhood of disci- down Malloy and then goes after pi ine to engineer what Dietz's happy family. When Buck's must be the most com- targets change from the anonymous plex suicide in film his- public to the personal world of friends tory. At the film's start, and families, Dietz takes up his role as Buck-who was re- a public guardian with a personal -KILLERS ARENT BORN," fused admittance into See RELENnESSLY SO on page 78 Judd Nelson

56 OUTTWEEK September 18. 1989 Music

radio-this toxic artless waste of vinyl and we are again set up as a community de-personalized and defined in Wicked Warts sex-negative Iconography. A Sam Kinnison joke to soothe the sexual tensions of a falling-from-power class of gay-bashers and women-haters. It's a sick twist on blackface: Hets POSing as homos. The truth to how this record came about is a real lesson in homo hatred. The two brothers (and I don't give a fuck about their own sexual confusion .... Roy Cohn and J. Edgar Hoover were obsessed with dick too), friends of the cow-turd shaped Cosley, the head of Homestead Records, knew of his fascination with dick size and his loathing of homos and his fear of rap from his writings in fanzines and the Village Voice. So they made a home recording song-demo about fags and Blacks and sent it as a present to Gerard: an aural study of men in their twenties stuck in a confused adolescent mind set of the fear-of-difference. by Jim Fouratt It's a hateful misrepresentation of Cosley took it seriously. He must gay & lesbian lifestyle clothed in have thought it just the perfect retort folksy home-recording drag by two to the Jimmie Somervilles, the Boy icture this: You're flipping self-identified het white brothers from Georges and all those ACf UP-type- through the used record Milwaukee (...they could be Guns 'n self-affirming-Iesbian-&-gay-safe-sex- racks at Sounds on St. Roses wannabes strutting in their positive beauties. Cosley insisted over Mark's Place and come spandex and lipstick at the Cat Club the brother-s' weak objections on uponP some clearly queer cover art. or the Ice-T/Niggers With Attitude pressing their demo onto vinyl. After, You freak. There it is, big as life: A (NWA) set disowning lesbians and of course, exorcising the racist material PINK TRIANGLE pinned on the best gays of Color and upping the Macho (white male het-identified liberal rock little boy in the world, a tow-haired ante among Black youth already critics would have certainly objected). eight-year-old Wally Cleaver clone. under identity siege). What was left became The Frogs LP, a The LP's entitled It's Only Right and "Funny," you say .... Some gay totally unsympathetic, cruel affirmation NaturaL You flip it over and see writ- writers have even-suggested it is a ral- of Helms-think to sure up the homo- ten inside of an inverted pink triangle lying call for gay supremacy, or found phobia of grown-up "boys." a listing of song titles including: it's homophobia PUNK in humor. Don't waste your precious green "Homos," "Dykes are We," and "Been Wrong. on this creepy crap. Better yet, go out a Month Since I Had a Man.· You, of This is a dangerous record in and buy Williams S. Burroughs' Wild course, buy it and run home to get year 10 of the AIDS crisis. While the Boy. Billy-boy fantasizes a war plan some "culture.» rock music industry has yet to mount for gay avenging angel gangs hell , But what you bought is a sick a major rock AIDS benefit, a leading bent on het-bashing the likes of The joke; as deadly as a virus and as alternative record label has chosen to Frogs and Gerard Cosley. vicious as bat swap. What you get are crap on the besieged gay community Never Again....lt is only right and 14, short, stupid, adolescent songs with The Frogs. While Michael Callen, natural. ... that portray gay men as sex-crazed, Charlie Murphy, David Lasley, the drug-addicted, masochistic child Flirtations and Blackberri, all openly FYI: Gerard eosley molesters; gay men totally uncon- gay musicians, are either label-less or c/o Homestead Records cerned with either their oWn health or relegated to self-distributed ghetto Dutch East India Trading the health of others ...and women as albums, Homestead Records promotes P.O. Box BOO cock-hungry competitive faux fags. in the press-and on college Rockville Centre, NY 11571-0800

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across Italy and France. By the end Throughout the novel is a strain of the novel he is busy making of melancholy in Barbino which plans for his assault on England. In prevents us from writing him off as Milan, he is a sex worker, spends a heartless monster. Barbino, you most of his days in bathhouses and see, was one time in love. But public lavatories indulging in his Giacomino-a member of a promi- bYJohn Wing favorite activities; anonymous sex nent Italian family-is afraid to be and squashing the mosquitoes that seen in public with such a notori- collect near the steam pipes. ous "fmnocchio," and Barbino must eminar on Youth is a dis- Barbino has a veritable genius for content himself with furtive encoun- turbing lesson in the chOOSing the wrong men. He is ters at night "when there were no S vagaries of love and deceit, fond of a seedy voluptuary who witnesses." Inevitably, Giacomino with a young Italian narrator as drugs him unconscious before sex; opts for a hetero life and gives beautiful as he is corrupt. Published and another who likes to beat him Barbino the ax. It becomes the trau- in Italy in 1984 and now translated and lock him in a cabinet. In Paris, matic event of Batbino's life. "To be into English, Aldo Busi's first able to see Giacomino again," novel is a sensuous experience, Barbino writes years later, "now at once seductive and cruel. that he is going to university, Busi's language is oddly rumina- how elegant and good looking tive for a novel ftlled ·with unsa- and triumphant he will be, if vory characters; his sentences only I could do something 'to have a· Proustian refinement have my revenge for my reviled whic~ almost dazzle the reader adolescent love." Love and into enjoying the reckl<;ss hero, hatred are inextricably mixed in Barbino. Like a hardened Don Barbino. He gets his revenge, Juan, Barbino plays with the but it does nothing to lessen his affections and illusions of the pain. older men and women who are The richest part of the novel taken in by his youthful charms. describes Barbino's childhood in Yet his desperate disregard for a poor Italian village, the son of their feelings masks a pathologi- a ne'er-do-well father and a cal self-hatred. Hurting these mother who seems to do nothing deluded people becomes his ..but scream; his older brothers pastime. "When I think I love like to invent ways to tortur~ someone I at once begin to hate him, one time dropping a snake· him and to find in him a thou- down his shirt which bites ·him sand defects and incompatibili- dozens of times. In his late teens, ties," he observes all too clearly. Barbino quits home for Paris, The strange thing though-and sleeping on park benches, hook- this is without a doubt Busi's . ing for money, going for days greatest achievement-is that no PROUSTIAN REFINEMENT without food. He is involved matter how cynically Barbino is Aldo Busi Photo: Fausto Giacone briefly with the student rebellion portrayed, he somehow wins the in Paris of May, 1968, but is reader's sympathy, though poly to he becomes obsessed with a priest annoyed with the pUritanical attilude mock ·us for our romantic naivete. It who forces him to sneak into his of the revolutionaries with regard to is as if the reader, too, becomes house through the servants' gay sex. No one ever measures up another one of his heartbroken vic- entrance. One man whom Barbino to Barbino's expectations ("My tims. It is perhaps the flrst case of thinks will make the perfect sugar lovers are always more mediocre literary cuckoldry. daddy turns out to be a penniless than me .....). His life dramatically The record of Barbino's crook and even steals Barbino's unproves when he gets taken up by unpleasantness is long, stretching meager savings. S .. RECKLESS on pall.n

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Hagen goes on to dissect this defini- Taking Responsibility tion, focusing on the word "oppressive,· and attempts to re-. foundations of many women's lives. Internalized oppression occurs 12-Step and the language of recovery when the subordinate takes in the are influencing lesbians in a big way. beliefsof the dominator. The dominant But clearly it has spread beyond phys- group defines meaning, morality and ical addictions. Now 12-step is being value, permeating society with images, used as a way to "recover" from emo- institutions, structures, laws and cus- tionally destructive patterns as well as toms wbich re-enforcethesedeftnilions. physical ones. Both are referred to, in- In this way we come up with espite the recent flood of gay house, as "addictions." such social distortions as gay people self-help books in the chain While clearly AA is the only sys- being "narrow" while heterosexuals D stores, the tradition of gay tem that works for millions of people are "universal" or lesbians live in "a and lesbian underground publishing who want to stop drinking, only time ghetto" while straight women live in flourishes. While some forms of queer will tell if applying that program to "the world." Hagen posits that "co- writing have recently been permitted relationship issues like "co-dependen- dependency" is a more acceptable and commodification, some will never cy" will have the same effect. benign term than "internalized oppres- been seen in B. Dalton's window. Kay Hagen, a writer from Georgia, sion" even though they share many of Whether it's poetry chapbooks in edi- has published a pamphlet in Samizdat the same definitions. For example, a tions of fifty, My Comrade for the form under the series heading Fugative woman who defers her needs to the drag-set or xeroxed political pam- Information. Her piece articulates a needs of men, defines herself in rela- phlets, gay and lesbian writing clear and informative critique of the 12- tion to others, sees herself as a victim, remains primarily a grassroots event. step movement and its impact on the denies her own feelings, is "a woman It would be hard to be alive today lesbian community. Hagen, a self- perfectly socialized into a male- and not know that 12-step programs defined Adult Child of Alcoholics, supremacist society." Such a woman have widespread appeal within the gay spent five years in an ACA program knows that defying these behavioral community. Since virtually every that she says "affected me almost as limitations means being punished in a homosexual has been told at some profoundly as my personal awakening wide range of.·ways from physical time in his or her life that he or she is to feminism" fifteen years ago. abuse to being ignored or shut down. bad, the average gay man or lesbian However, she viewed her feminism Calling this condition "co-dependency" has learned well the craft of self- and ACA experience as distinct from is a de-politicizing use of the language. destruction. In recent years more and each other until the term "co-depen- Co-dependence is no accident. more communal effort has been made dence" was introduced into the canon. Nor is it a disease, nor an individual to identify and stop abusive behavior, The phrase was coined initially to character disorder....When we do not particularly alcoholism and drug abuse. represent men and women who were recognize the relationship co-depen- These programs have become so involved with lovers or family mem- dency has to the dominant culture popular among women that the recent bers addicted to alcohol or narcotics. we riskfalling prey to another aspect Michigan Women's Music Festival, an It has since taken on a broader defini- of our training in which we accept annual gathering of 6,000 lesbians, tion as behavior that supports another personal responsibility ...in a culture of dominance, (where) the oppressed offered extensive 12-step meetings in person's more obviously destructive is always atfault. the follOWingcategories: patterns. Hagen zeros in on the defini- Alcoholics· Anonymous (AA), tion proposed by Robert Subby, a The book Co-D€pendent No More Adult Children of Alcoholics (ACA), family-systems therapist well-known . by Marie Beattie is now finishing up Survivors of Incest Abuse (SIA), Smok- in the co-dependence field. He two years on the best sellers' list. ers Anonymous (SA), Narcotics describes it as: Critical literature on the subject has Anonymous (NA), Overeaters Anony- An emotional, psychological only begun to appear. Hagen's slim mous (OA), AI-ANON, Debtors and behavioral condition that devel- leaflet is a strong foundation for a Anonymous (DA), Sex and Love ops as a result of an individual's pro- much larger discussion that will Addicts Anonymous (StAA), Co- longed exposure to and practice of a ineVitably surface wherever gay peo- Dependents Anonymous (CODA) and set of oppressive rules which prevent ple fight only their personal "disease" Generic 12-step meetings six times a an open expression offeeling. and not the culture's as well. T

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Photo/phone sincere someone who Beautiful blue eyes, (taller than 5'8·), age build, looking for (Don't tell Moml) to: can be added to the curly brown hair, clean-shaven, good guys hung super long POB 1955, NYC list of passions. Letter moustache. I'm sensu- body/mind. Graduate or thick for safe fun. 10025. with description of al, sexually versatile students, actors, pro- I'm in midtown and am yourself and your rea- and into safer sex. fessionals-oiler din- very discreet. Scott, UNIQUE sons for being should Interested in perf. arts, ners, Broadway Box 6559, NYC, NY OPPURTUNITY elicit a response. film. Photo/letter gets shows, theatre. Expect 10163. How would you like to Please include a mine. Box 2004, NYC truth. Sex (safe).Travel strip, kneel before me, phone number. Photo 10009. possible. Ph/ph, P.O. DHB-DECENT and place yourself optional. 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GWM, 43, br/haz, S'T, 155#, 44c.,33w., attractive, very slim, healthy, graceful, Good-looking white 5'10", 150, glasses, 16a.,hndsm, hlthy & intelligent (a mustl), responsible, hon- top, 33, big cut tool & BRIGHT, BLUE-EYED gd-Iklng, Intelligent, built like a brick seeks bottom, 29, smooth Healthy, affectionate professional, HIV neg, BB buddies for sis, tit- est, loving, sensitive, romantic and wild ass. Looking for GM, 47, 5'10 1/2", Midwestern values. play and body wor- sentimental. No bi's. P.S. Please be 2IDr more guys for hot 160, anxious to meet Try not to take myself ship. Ph/ph to Box 99.9% of these qualities to reply. Hon- sex in various combi- other trim GM Interest- too seriously. Write 1165, Chelsea Station, nations. Short on ed in committed rela- with ph/ph to Box 10011. esty is sacred. Notel phonel photo. words, long on action. tionship. Enjoy music, 1858, Madison Square OutWeek Box 1189. State your preference books, performing Station, NYC 10159. BODYBUILDER and lets get It on. arts. Prefer serious 5'10", 195, 42, Photo, phone a must. men with a sense of VERYHDSM 49c.,33w.,17a., seeks Tom, Box 950, NY, NY humor. Balding, o.k. &MASC other muscle studs 10021. Send letter, phone and 30, 6', 160, blond, built like me or better LITTLE BROTHER photo (if possible). stralght-actingl for hot muscle action. Write homel GW couple 30 (6', blonde, CULTURED TRADE QJtweek Box 1100 appearing, successful Photo appreciated. I love to be tied up proll, warm and ver- Rick, 496A Hudson 160) & 34 (6'1", hairy, 185) both very with operas and EVERY INCH A MAN bal, Yuppy-type (w/out #H24, NYC 10014. handsome, loving, fun, & HIV- seek whipped into a Broad- with extra inch where the attitude) with AII- younger kid brother for fun and sensu- way play, or even it counts... plus hunky, American looks and GWM, ITAUAN, 25 lashed Into a good hairy chest, magic an Irresistible smile. Good-looking, nice ous nights at home and on the town. movie. 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'YI HERZOG from page n ney Tom Roberts said that neither ~The difficulty we have with this attorney are appealing the "no proba- agency has power over the other and is that nobody really has any hard ble cause" discrimination finding. that the arrangement is "necesary the numbers about how many people This week's hearing comes a year way the system's set up." have HIV infection," stated Brown. and a half after the memo initially But this unholy trinity has left "Those are certainly interesting num- called for such action, and, not sur- Herzog with the feeling that justice is bers, but I don't know that anybody prisingly, Herzog is having a hard time impossible to obtain. "As long as has got anything really solid that they getting witnesses to testify on her Koch is in power, I doubt I'll ever get could base all that on." behalf. "It's like Watergate," Herzog a fair shake," Herzog said, noting that The activists contended that said. "People are afraid it will jeopar- all the HRC commissioners as well as given the preliminary numbers, the dize their jobs to testify." Dorman, the two main respondents, Gunn and company could make financial projec- Herzog's attorney, explained that the Parks Commissioner Stern, are all tions and act accordingly. nature of the case makes her reluctant Koch appointees. She is convinced "I think everyone knows that to subpoena witnesses on Herzog's that the whole process is designed to these are soft numbers," added Levi, behalf. "It is a hostile atmosphere and cover up any discrimination in city "but they give you a range from you can't tell people that they won't agencies, rather than do away with it. which they can do a worst-case sce- be retaliated against," she said. As far as the HRC goes, Herzog is nario and then determine their price frustrated, discouraged and not with- from that." Conflicts of Interest out an edge of cynicism. ''They n~ver Burroughs' Brown stated that, by Since this is the first E04 case to intended to do anything with the the end of September, the company come this far in the legal process, claim," she said, pointing out that even will evaluate the numbers of people procedures aren't established and cor- after the HRC delivered its findings to seeking HIV antibody tests and early poration counsel could "throw a Koch with lengthy recommendations, treatment to reevaluate AZT pricing, wrench" into the works at any time nothing happened. "The HRC does although he made no promises about based on the procedural ambiguity, things as slowly as possible to stop a definite timetable. according to Herzog and her lawyer. people from making waves," she said. Yet the procedural questions are only Meanwhile, Herzog, who is Cost and Dosage one aspect of a larger problem. Her- $32,000 in the hole for legal fees, Burroughs Wellcome representa- zog points to larger forces and con- doggedly continues to try to establish tives also argued that since recent flicts both within the case and the city real meaning for the city'S legislation studies indicate that AZf can be equal- agency structure. agaipst discrimination against gays ly effective at half the normal dosage Barbara Gunn has moved on to and lesbians. If she wins, she will level, the total cost of therapy has bigger things, now heading up the receive back pay for the promotions already been reduced substantially. Mayor's Office of Operations, which and pay increases denied her, but her Calling that an "incredibly absurd oversees budgeting and management legal fees are not reimbursable argument" against price reduction, of all city agencies, including the regardless of the outcome. "All my Levi added, "$30 million from the fed- Human Rights Commission. Gunn money is tied up in this," she said, " I eral government could help twice as said that there is no conflict in her can't give this up. I decided to stay many people." mind regarding her position with the and fight and that's what's driving Currently, activists are lobbying office of operations and being the them crazy." ... the Senate for an extension of a stop- chief respondent to Herzog's case. "In gap funding program intended to pro- one way it's been a positive thing," The hearing, going on this week vide treatment drugs to low-income she told OutWeek. "I have first-hand at 52 Duane Street, 6th Floor, is open AIDS patients nationwide who are not knowledge of the staff needs they to the public. eligible for state Medicaid programs. [HRC]have." The program in most states is expect- Further thickening the quagmire ed to run out at the end of September. are the connections between the two AZTfrom page 18 Both Burroughs Wellcome and "opposing parties," the corporation drug. In light of recent findings that the activists left open the possibility counsel and the HRC. The corpora- AZT may be used effectively by as of a future meeting, although the tion counsel represents city agencies, many as 650,000 HIV infected activists were cynical that they would including the Human Rights Commis- Americans, activists also suggested be interested in making the trip to sion, in any outside dispute. In effect, that the company's market is now Raleigh without assurances that the the same legal team must act as pros- greatly expanded and that a price company was ready to make a price ecution and defense, undermining the reduction would make the drug more reduction. traditionally adversarial relationship widely available to these people. "It really comes down to a lower- necessary for a proper trial. ing of the price," said Barr. "There are HRC attorney Franke said there is "Interesting Numbers" other issues we can discuss with Bur- a "manifest conflict" in this arrange- The company, however, contest- roughs Wellcome, but not until the ment. But Corporation Counsel attor- ed those numbers. price comes down." ...

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If we to fawn over him, and are tearful play into their schemes, we encourage when he abruptly ditches them to OUT OF CONTROL from page16 the same ideological principles which head over to England. into past fiscal misconduct is un-· govern our oppression, our invisibility, There is at flfSt glance a fright- dertaken. Character assassinations and the violence against us as les- ening quality to someone like are planned and discussed. No bians. You tell mom that you're just Barbino who has become so worldly one attends Carol Greitzer's work- like her, that you're married, that she at such a young age .. But as Aldo shop on littering. doesn't have to accept lesbians or les- Busi demonstrates, Barbino conceals As usual, it is the opposition that bianism, but if she can jUst see herself great passion, sensitivity and ideal- unifies the disorder. Ted Koppel in your pseudo-heterosexual, familial ism. Moreover,· Barbino is able to see phones and says he is coming to our scenario, everything will be all right. himself with a clarity and ingenuous- conference. Ted Koppel from Night- That leaves the rest of us lesbians to ness that few wouldn't envy. "I have line. Oh my god. He wants to inter- be seen as difficult, unacceptable, dis- never for an instant wished to be. ease-spreading, sex-crazed, pathologi- view us for one of those comic-relief- anyone other than myself," Barbino cal, unstable, adolescent, unfocused, from-global-disaster segments. says, coming as close to a personal unsuccessful, slutty perverts. Instead Microphones are stationed. Cameras revelation as he ever makes. And of the same old, predictable "valida- thanks to AIdo Busi, while one must are focused. The conference, for once tions" on their terms, we should use acknowledge that it would be disas- is stilled. We lick our lips. our gender socialization as the basis trous to know an individual like "So all you folks think you are for critique and challenge. Barbino in real life, it has been a mayors of New York City," chortles One last point on the "inside-out marvelous reading experience to Ted Koppel, in his comfortable, mas- approach" for people who want the have encountered such a torment- culine way. benefits heteros enjoy when they tie ed-and tormenting-youth. ~ The' hall echoes as thousands of the knot. It is a fact that thousands of outcast voices respond in unison: queers got "married" at the mass wed- RELENTLESSLYSO continued from page 56 "That's right, Ted." ding in October, 1987, Washington, vengeance. For Dietz, the personal "Oh, come on, you people. You D.C. and others are doing it in indi- and professional finally blur together had your chance at the polls." vidualized, private settings with alter- when he (wearing the police jacket of "No we didn't, Ted." native rituals and personal input on Buck's father) kills Buck in his own "Look. Fun's fun, but there is the vows. So, what about health living room and receives gratitude, only one mayor of New York City. It's insurance and other "benefits" of not only from the viewing public and in the City Charter." being married? The state certainly his own family, but from Buck him- "We changed the City Charter, makes provisions for people who fol- self. Personally addressed to Dietz, Ted." low their rules. But, remember, les- Buck's last telephone directory mes- Ted Koppel seems hurt and bian marriage is not in any way sage reads "Thank you." angry. He steps out of character. sanctioned or legally legitimized by the state. You say, "There's domestic While this film might frighten "Why, you people aren't comic re- partnership now in some parts of some viewers into keeping their Iief-you're-you're rude. Racial mi- Wisconsin, Maryland, and California. phone numbers and addresses unlist- norities, homosexuals, welfare eases, ed, I find it frightening for slightly dif- That must be a radical thing, I mean, immigrants, ecology nuts: Grow up! ferent reasons. It is not simply that Ronald Lauder's against it." Koch's Our democratic electoral system will the film masks police violence as fam- admirable (but miserably late, slimy continue to prOVide jobs, justice, free- ily protection, or that the film imag- and politically motivated) support for dom and dignity for everyone, just as ines the police as a family- hich bereavement leave aside, the health parents not only law and order, but it has for generations." insurance stuff is a: basic problem of crime itself-but moreover that this "Not while we're mayor, Ted!" the economic system in this country. police family maintains order by Ted Koppel goes away mad,' and For example, if we had socialized imagining not only criminals, but the we don't get to be on Nightline. medicine, everyone would be guaran- police themselves, to be everywhere. And all of us mayors are left teed health care, in which case tile How perfectly logical then that the to reflect on the awesome respon- "benefits· rationalization becomes police surveillance unit-which hopes sibilities that Iie before us. Be- mute. God forbid I would have to be to entrap Buck-jokingly describes cause, by the time you read this, monogamous to be treated in a hospi- him at one point as "a government none of us will have been elected tal. Our system was built to be disman- official waiting for a homosexual ren- mayor. Yet. ~ tled; we can always get around it. ~

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