VOLUME SEVEN, NO 24--November 24, 1994--December 7, 1994--Issue 168 FREE

Give the People Light and they will find their own way. The Wisconsin Light Researchers May Sixty Percent of Religious Right-Aligned Have Found the Way HIV Turns Candidates Are Victorious in Recent Elections (Washington, D.C.)- Nationwide, Into AIDS 60 percent of candidates aligned with or supported by Religious Right political groups were victori- (Philadelphia, PA)- The discov- ous in November 8th's elections. ery of a protein that may trigger the This, according to a report issued on AIDS virus into developing into the November 11 by People For The disease may lead to new treat- fatal American Way, a nonpartisan . or- ments, researchers said. ganization fighting for progressive a leading AIDS expert warned But causes. against giving false hope to people The percentage of wins gives the HIV-positive. who are Religious Right access to all levels I-IIV-infected people can be of government and increases their healthy and live for years before the power dramatically, the report says. virus begins reproducing and attacks "Religious Right leaders provided immune system. the body's the core support for officials taking University of Pennsylvania sci- seats in Congress, state capitols, now say that they have found entists school boards and other local offices in a gene, unique to HIV a protein around the country," said Arthur J. that appears to tell infected carriers, Kropp, President of People For. to start reproducing the cells when "Now it's payback time as more virus. Their research was published politicians than ever owe their jobs November in the Proceed- in early to the organizing and financial sup- of the National Academy of ings port supplied by Religious Right Sciences. groups," Kropp said. "That support understand a new pathway "We came with a price. Anyone familiar uses," said study chief the virus with the movement knows that its David Weiner, an assistant professor leaders will not be content to be and medicine at Penn. of pathology background music. Their expecta- "We now have an opportunity to tion is that the Right-Wing agenda drugs to inhibit it." design will receive top priority in the next Nava Sarver, one of the chief Dr. two years." in the AIDS division of the scientists People For's state-by-state report Institutes of Health cau- National includes nearly 600 candidates for that the study, while interest- tioned national, state and local offices. very preliminary. Usually, ing, is In Wisconsin, Mark Neumann such as Weiner's that are studies who won election to Congress in the in the laboratory do not conducted 1st District is identified in the report hold up when tested in bodies, she as being "tied to the Christian Coa- said. lition.". He received support from questions need to be asked "Many the ultra-right Eagle Forum. these findings," Sarver to confirm Toby Roth (R-8th District) was "I feel it is not right to give said. featured as a "political friend" in a hope to patients who are desperate Christian Coalition promo video. type of therapy." for any In the State Legislature, the report But Dr. Alfred Saah, an associate lists Scott Walker (R-14th Assembly School of Public professor in the District) and Sheryl Albers (R-50 University, Health at Johns Hopkins Assembly District) as being sup- said, "It's a hopeful sign and I think Gay and ported by and supporting the Chris- and if it pans Book Section--Pictured above is the cover of the new pictoral book "Out In America," which presents a portrait of it's worthy of pursuit tian Coalition. out, it will be quite an advance." Lesbian life in America See the Winter book section beginning on page 6 "The Religious Right's election day victories The study centered on one of nine known reflect several years of hard work on their part HIV genes, "vpr." The gene produces a pro- Governor Proclaims AIDS Awareness Week as at the grassroots," said Kropp. tein, known by the capitalized abbreviation "Their invest- ment in organizing has paid off. Now it's time "Vpr," that apparently must be present before 4 for the rest of us to play the game. In other infected cells can produce new, infected viral November 28-December words, the time for complaining is over. Op- particles that in turn infect other cells., Weiner Day ponents of the Right have to organize and take said. December 1 is World AIDS in the tough job of door-to-door cam- Scientists need to know how the virus mul- (Madison)- Wisconsin's Governor Tommy draw public attention to the AIDS pandemic. part while making the case for an alterna- tiplies before they can design drugs to inhibit Thompson has issued a proclamation declaring Locally, World AIDS Day will provide a paigning vision for America." it, Weiner said. November 28 through December 4, AIDS unique opportunity for groups and organiza- tive as the People For report notes, the Re- Weiner's research team found in laboratory Awareness Week in the state and December 1 tions to sponsor activities. Memorial and But, ligious Right didn't win everything. tests that the stage of infected people's disease as World AIDS Day. memory observances are being conducted in among their defeats were the corresponds with the level of Vpr protein in The theme for the 7th Annual observance of communities throughout the state. Notable -Gay initiatives in Oregon their blood. World AIDS Day is "AIDS and Families: Communities in southwestern Wisconsin will downing of the anti People in the early stages of infection had Protect and Care for the Ones We Love." sponsor lectures, staff information tables and and Idaho. Citizens Alliance has twice low levels of the protein; those with fully de- Dr. Micahel H. Merson, Executive Director distribute red ribbons. An interfaith vigil, "The Oregon of Oregon that veloped AIDS had high levels. of the World Health Organization's Global "Naming Our Family, Healing Our Wounds," tried to convince the people in law," By exposing cells to the protein in the labo- Program on AIDS, stated that "If we all do will be held on the eve of World AIDS Day in discrimination should be enshrined voters have twice said ratory, the researchers turned latent infection our utmost within our families of choice-- Madison, while several local art institutions said Kropp. "Oregon rejected insti- into active infection. whether they are the people who share our will be observing a "Day Without Art." no. This year Idaho voters also Weiner's team also found that it could block home or those who share our planet--we shall For those unable to attend such observances, tutionalized discrimination. "Religious Right leaders and their allies in the production of new virus by exposing the help immeasurably to defeat AIDS in every it is being asked by AIDS activists around the Congress should get the message--confirmed in cells to Vpr antibodies. Weiner said his team family." country that you put one blue light in your every poll--that most Americans are opposed is now trying to develop a vaccine that would More than 189 countries, including the U.S., to discrimination based on sexual orientation," create Vpr antibodies. will observe World AIDS Day as a way to TURN TO AIDS DAY. PAGE 15 Kropp said. New Brain Study Gives Evidence that Post-Election Poll Finds GOP, Democrats Biology Influences Sexual Orientation and Independents Support Equal Rights

(New York)- A study of brains in Gay and McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario. (Washington, D.C.)- An election-night poll Lake, Inc., surveyed a random sample of 800 heterosexual men gives new evidence that bi- She discussed the work before presenting it on of people who voted in the 1994 midterm people who had voted in the midterm election. ology may help determine a person's sexual November 17 in Miami Beach, Florida, at the elections showed that voters who changed the The margin of error is +/- 3.5%. orientation, researchers say. annual meeting of the Society for Neurosci- face of Congress continue to support ending Among the findings: Scientists found an anatomical difference ence. discrimination against Lesbian and Gay 70% of those surveyed said Gay people between the two groups. In Gay men, a com- Studies in 1991 and 1992 reported size dif- Americans. should not face unfair job discrimination, but munication conduit connecting two parts of the ferences elsewhere in the brain that were re- In the first-ever post-election poll that meas- rather have "equal rights in hiring and firing"- brain was thicker on average than in hetero- lated to sexual orientation. ured voter attitudes toward Gay people, ma- -with 77% of Democrats, 71% of Independ- sexual men. "Witelson's study is an important addition to jorities of Republican, Democratic and Inde- ents and 64% of Republicans supporting the The parts of the brain connected by the con- the growing body of evidence indicating a pendent voters supported equal rights for Les- idea; duit are used for understanding spoken lan- biological basis for homosexuality," said Peri bian and Gay people, who face widespread and 57% supported the Employment Non- guage and perceiving objects. Jude Radecic, Executive Director of the Na- legal discrimination with no protection from Discrimination Act that would "extend current The finding suggests that sexual orientation tional Gay and Lesbian Task Force (NGLTF). federal law. civil rights laws in the workplace to cover may be part of a larger package of brain char- "And it shows that homosexuality is a natu- Voters also strongly supported increased ef- Gays and Lesbians" acteristics, so that Gay men as a group may rally occurring and common variation among forts against HIV/AIDS and expressed worry 78% favored "increasing efforts for AIDS have a different pattern of mental skills than humans--a fact that Gay and Lesbian people about a "religious right wing agenda." research, prevention and care"; straight men, said researcher Sandra Witelson. The poll, conducted November 8 and 9 by Witelson is a professor of psychiatry at TURN TO BIOLOGY, PAGE 15 the independent firm of Mellman Lazarus TURN TO EQUAL RIGHTS, PAGE 3 November 24, 1994--December 7, 1994--WISCONSIN LIGHT-2 NATIONAL NEWS BRIEFS Pedro Zamora, Gay AIDS Activist is Angelou Postpones Speech After Phelps Encounter Mourned by Thousands (Emporia, KS)- Poet Maya Angelou postponed a sold-out speech at Emporia State University (Miami)- Pedro Zamora, 22, who spent the on November 14, in reaction to a weekend encounter with anti-Gay extremist, Rev. Fred Phelps last years of his life trying to educate Congress in Topeka. Angelou was visibly shaken by Phelps and fellow picketers near the entrance to the and the public about living as a Gay man with Topeka Performing Arts Center. Phelps and a small group of his family showed up, they said, AIDS, died on Friday, November 11, 1994, in to protest the poet's support for Lesbians and Gay men. He also said he was protesting Ange-. Miami, Florida. In his passing, he was re- lou's reading of poetry at President Clinton's inaugural, calling Angelou a part of the "left-wing membered by thousands. liberal fringe." As of press time, the AIDS Action Council A spokeswoman for Angelou said she was shaken by the virulence of such hate and would need of which Pedro was a member, had received time to process what she'd seen. She will return to Emporia University for the Spring semester. over 10,000 calls offering sympathy and con- Co-Op Settlement dolences. Sends Powerful Signal to Gays At the same time, his life and passing were New York, NY-AP- Harry Kirkpatrick died last year, but a legal settlement allowing him to given coverage by all the major TV networks. posthumously inherit his lover's apartment carries a strong message about the civil rights of In a message issued from the White House Gays, officials said. In the agreement, the late 56-year-old investor, who was Gay, was granted by President and Mrs. Clinton, the President possession of a studio apartment on upscale Sutton Place on Manhattan's East Side. He had said, "In his short life, Pedro educated and shared the home with Martin Weiner, who died in 1989. Since Kirkpatrick died last year, the enlightened our nation. He taught all of us that settlement will benefit his lover, Marc Tosca, who received rights to the apartment. Human AIDS is a disease with a human face and one Rights Commission officials and the Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund said that the that affects every American, indeed -every citi- decision reinforced the city's anti-discrimination law against Lesbians and Gay men. zen of the world. And he taught people living Arthur Weinstein, a lawyer and vice president of the Co-op's Council, said the is drafting an with AIDS how to fight for their rights and article for the council's quarterly publication, advising members of the settlement and recom- live in dignity." mending that they treat Gay life partners in the same way they treat straight married couples. Jay Coburn, AIDS Action Council legisla- Officials to Release Data tive representative and Pedro's long-time on AIDS on Internet friend, said "In his abbreviated lifetime, Pedro Tokyo-AP- Top patent officials from Japan, the U.S. and Europe have agreed to release in- did more for HIV and adolescents than anyone formation on AIDS-related patents on the Internet. The agreement came at an annual meeting of or any organization I know." top patent officials. The officials also agreed to cooperate in implementing a treaty to protect Doug Nelson, executive director of the Mil- intellectual property rights reached last year. waukee AIDS Project (MAP) spoke movingly A Japanese patent official, briefing reporters on condition of anonymity, said the U.S. Patent of having met and of working with Pedro on Office has already begun releasing information on patents for AIDS-treatment products through the AIDS Action Council. the Internet. He said it would probably take six months for AIDS data from Japanese patent "There was something so warm about him," Pedro Zamora files to be translated and released. Nelson said, "something magical that you ships. I needed to don't see often in anyone. He was a know how to say, 'I don't genuinely want to have New AIDS Figures Show Epidemic is Slowing decent, good, intercourse, I just want to be compassionate young man." held. — Atlanta-AP- The AIDS epidemic is growing at a slower pace, though a revised definition of Pedro was sick, but still active in June when One of Pedro's the illness initially caused a huge jump in the number of new cases being reported, federal he filmed the closing episode last wishes was that the fam- of MTV's "Real ily he had health officials have said. The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) said that 105,990 AIDS World." left so long ago in Cuba, could be allowed cases were reported in the U.S. in 1993, more than double the 49,016 reported in 1992. But the "That's where the real tragedy, the real to see him one more time. That wish was expanded definition "dumped into the system" many people who did not truly qualify as new mystery of the disease lies," said Doug Her- granted, but, in a coma, he never even knew cases, said Dr. John Ward, chief of the Atlanta-based CDC's AIDS surveillance branch. The zog, MTV executive vice president of pro- they were there. old definition diagnosed HIV patients with AIDS when they got any of 23 indicator diseases. gramming and production in New York. "He The new definition lists three additional diseases: tuberculosis, recurrent pneumonia and inva- leaves the program a seemingly healthy man. sive cervical cancer. Four short months later, we're saying our The CDC now says there were 61,800 AIDS cases diagnosed last year, up 3% from 60,000 in good-by to him." 1992. In 1992, diagnosed cases were counted separately from reported cases. Pedro learned that he had the HIV virus lealT-P0 "The epidemic continued to grow in 1993, but not at the extent that has been observed in ear- when he was 17. Handsome, trim, dark-eyed lier years," Ward said. and a gifted speaker, he went on lecture tours, Police Arrest telling audiences in high schools and other or- Three Teens in Hate Crime Probe ganizations that he was Gay and had been in- New Orleans-AP- Three teens have been arrested for allegedly harassing and making threat- fected through unprotected sex. BOOT CAMP SALOON ening phone calls to students living on campus at the University of New Orleans, police said. On July 12, Pedro spoke before a Congres- MILWAUKEE'S The phone conversations included threats of violence against persons thought to be Gay, Sgt. sional hearing telling the Congressmen that "If LEATHER I LEVI BAR Barry Fletcher said. The two youths, aged 15 and 16, were booked with making obscene calls. you want to reach me as a young Gay man, "These types of crimes leave permanent scarring on persons within our especially community," Fletcher a young Gay man of color, then you 209 E. National said. "Even those who are not direct targets suffer from these incidents." need to give me information in a language and Milwaukee, WI vocabulary I can understand and relate to. 414-643-6900 Gays and Lesbians Still Don't Feel Safe in Oregon "I needed positive messages about my Portland, OR-AP- Supporters of a failed statewide anti-Gay measure were mostly middle- sexuality. I needed skills to negotiate relation- income people who did not attend college, according to exit poll data. Supporters also tended to be Republicans who felt that Sen. Bob Packwood did nothing wrong in harassing women and to be members of the Religious Right. The exit poll was based on 1,000 interviews. Francis Drake, an openly Gay man, said that while the anti-Gay measure was defeated, "that SAFE AND AFFORDABLE... still doesn't mean there are not going to be kooks such as skinheads who will take it upon them- selves to try and make your life as miserable as theirs is." "I think there will probably be a temporary swell of feeling that we were supported by the electorate," said Kathy Burkey, chair of the Josephine County Human Rights Alliance. "Then the reality will hit. Lon Mabon and the Christians say they will be back. When you live in a community with a 60-40 kind of split, you know the majority of your neighbors have a strong feeling about you. They got to vote on who I am and on my rights as a human being. We don't vote on Black rights. We don't vote on Jewish rights. With Gays and Lesbians, it's different." Shoney's Business Down Since Lesbians Bought It Laurel, MS-AP- Business isn't that great at the Shoney's Restaurant in Laurel since a rumor surfaced that it had been sold to members of the Ovett Lesbian retreat, Camp Sister Spirit, res- taurant officials said. Shoney's manager, Terry Breland, said even though the restaurant has not been sold, there has been a "substantial" drop in customers over the past two months. Residents at Camp Sister Spirit said that not only hadn't they bought the restaurant, they had never eaten there. Johnson & Johnson Accused of Illegally Pushing Home AIDS Test Washington, D.C.-AP- AIDS activists content that Johnson & Johnson is illegally promoting its experimental home test for the HIV virus in an attempt to influence government approval of the kit. Three AIDS organizations are asking the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to post- pone action on Johnson & Johnson's Confide AIDS test pending an investigation of the promo- tions. The move drew furious reaction from a home test proponent. "People are dying now be- cause of these idiotic concerns," said Sean Strub, publisher of the AIDS magazine, POZ. AIDS activists charge Johnson & Johnson with intensive lobbying, touting its Confide test on FOR PEOPLE WITH HIV DISEASE TV, paying doctors to push the kit and funding direct mail campaigns to generate public sup- port. • RENT ASSISTANCE White House Chief of Staff, Leon Panetta, asked about the test at the request of Rep. Newt Gingrich (R-GA), who quoted Johnson & Johnson's paid consultant--former Surgeon General •TRANSITIONAL LIVING UNITS C. Everett Koop--in pushing home tests. Johnson & Johnson have denied any illegal promo- • RESIDENTIAL tions, but would not comment specifically on the charges. But Strub said he personally funded HOUSING some of the direct mail campaigns attributed to Johnson & Johnson, and his company-funded • EMERGENCY HOUSING work was vital to generate public debate about home tests. Paramount • HOUSING REFERRALS Extends Benefits to Domestic Partners • ROOMMATE REFERRALS Los Angeles-AP- Paramount Pictures have said that it will extend medical and dental benefits to same-sex partners of company employees, beginning on January 1, 1995. The decision places Paramount among a growing number of entertainment companies that offer such benefits to Gay WE WORK WITH YOU TO PROVIDE and Lesbian employees. Paramount was acquired this year by Viacom Inc., parent company of SAFE AND AFFORDABLE HOUSING. MTV, Nickelodeon and Showtime networks. Viacom already had a policy offering benefits to same-sex partners. Universal was the first studio to extend health coverage to same-sex partners of employees, followed by Warner Bros., and just two months ago, Sony Pictures which includes Columbia and Tristar. Fox and Disney are expected to follow suit shortly. MILWAUKEE AIDS PROJECT Lawsuit Challenges Legality of Commission P.O. Box 92487 Honolulu-AP- The rules governing the formation of a state commission to decide what--if MILWAUKEE, WI 53202-0487 any--benefits should be extended to same-sex couples has been challenged in court. A Catholic businessman and a Protestant minister have filed a lawsuit claiming the commission violates the (414)273-1991 (800) 359.9272 U.S. Constitution by discriminating against certain religious groups. "We don't believe the suit has merit and it's not going to derail the commission's important work," said Deputy Attorney General Steve Michael, adding, "these religions feel perfectly free to discriminate against oth- ers, but they don't want to feel it themselves." A SERVICE OF THE AIDS RESOURCE CENTER OF' WISCONSIN, INC. November 24, 1994--December 7, 1994--WISCONSIN LIGHT--3 Iowa University Holds National Gay Studies Conference, a First for the Midwest (Iowa City)- Five national Gay study con- shops on Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual studies Body JOIN NOW! ferences have been held at such institutions as are being presented at the Iowa Memorial Harvard, Princeton and Rutgers, but this year, Union. Topics include: Lesbian and Gay art, the sixth gathering at the University of Iowa writing, scholarship and history as well as cur- promises to be different, organizers say. Inspire,c1 rent issues such as sexual harassment and the TD As low as -What we're saying is it's going to be more campus climate for Lesbians, Gays and Bi- diverse. We made a significant effort to di- sexuals. versify it around not only topics, but also in Cultural activities are being held both on and Milwaukee's East Side terms of race and gender. We feel it is the off campus, including a film and video festival a 96 most diverse in terms of topics, the kinds of at the Union. Health Club presenters," Rusty Barcelo, an assistant dean Performance artist Tim Miller, one of four of the Office of the Provost and the Univer- artists who lost financing from the National mil, per week sity's liaison to the conference said. Endowment for the Arts after an outcry from NEW CLASSES! "It's important to underscore that this event Jesse Helms and others of the Far Right, per- NO Initiation Fee is for everyone, not just Gays," said Kevin formed "My Queer Body" at Hancher Audi- • Eat & Train to Manage Fat Kopelson, an assistant Iowa English professor torium on November 17 and delivered the • Cardio Funk who helped organize the event. keynote address. Come in for a The Conference, called "InQueery- Another keynote speaker was Gloria An- • Step Aerobics, and more! InTheory-InDeed," has attracted more than zaldua, a Chicana theorist, activist and author FREE workout! 1,000 participants since it began on November "considered on the cutting edge of Chicana Call for our Winter Brochure 17. It runs through November 20. Feminist Lesbian theory," Barcelo said. "It's a new title. It's an affirmation of the The conference was held at Iowa U because term Queer, a positive affirmation as well as it was one of the first schools in the nation to 2009 E. Kenilworth Place the need to do the theoretical kinds of work have a Gay student organization. It also was 2 blocks south of North Ave. on Prospect 272-8622 that needs to be done in the area of Lesbian- one of the first to offer health insurance for Gay studies," Barcelo said. same-sex couples. Barcelo said the number of Gays and Lesbi- "One of the reasons the East Coast and the ans who populate the Midwest "is as reflective nations, actually, was interested in hosting it at as it is anywhere else." Iowa was because of our rich tradition in the "I don't think we're any more or any less area of Gay and Lesbian rights on campus," than the rest of the country. It's hard to say Barcelo said. "Everyone decided this was a because you don't know who's out," she said. natural place." Some 300 academic papers and 40 work- National Gay Leaders Meet In Dallas to Decide on Strategy in the Republican Era

(Dallas, TX)- Coming from all over the sexuality to workplace organizing. country just two days after national elections Facing the Conference participants was the that changed the face of politics in America, news of a conservative Republican take-over leading Gay, Lesbian and Bisexual activists of the U.S. Congress, something that hasn't gathered in Dallas, November 11-13, to plan happened before in the time of the modern for a future that many of them say portends 'MT! Gay movement. dramatic challenges for the Gay community. Activists feared hostile AIDS and other Happy Thanksgiving More than 1000 people from 47 states, plus measures from the Senate and House and the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, Ber- voiced concern about the prospects of passing muda and Canada arrived in the Lone Star favorable legislation. Still, conferees ex- State for the 7th Annual Creating Change con- pressed optimism that key victories in the last Good Luck To all H.I.T. Bowlers ference, sponsored by the National Gay and elections marked a turn in public opinion on Lesbian Task Force (NGLTF). anti-Gay initiatives. The Conference featured more than 80 "The history of the LesBiGay civil rights Joe, June and Staff workshops, plenaries and caucuses and at- movement is one of many victories and, unfor- tracted a virtual "who's who" of the LesBiGay tunately, many defeats," said Peri Jude community. The Conference included four Radecic, NGLTF's executive director. "The 418 East Wells Street Fight the Right organizing intensives, a People 1994 elections are no exception." of Color organizing institute as well as work- Radecic challenged Conference attendees to Milwaukee 278-9192 shops on a variety of topics ranging from bi- strengthen rural and suburban Gay groups and redouble efforts to end discrimination based on ...... sexual orientation. "Closing the gap between Frontiers the appearance of democracy and the presence of justice will be daunting," she said. Events for December Speaker after speaker echoed the sentiment of conference director Sue Hyde, whose post- Dec. 1--Friday Dining Out--Wild Iris, 1225 election rallying cry became "Don't Agonize, Regent Madison, 7:00 p.m., (608) 251- 7424. Organize." "We've got to stop moaning about Newt and MicA4 CLUB Dec. 3-Architectual Design--Color slides of Bob and the other boys" and get on with the before & after renovation--Discussion held Gay movement, said Glen Maxey, the first by Randy P., Mark N., 4701 Judy Lane, openly Gay elected in the State of Texas. 8:00 p.m. (608) 241-2500. •Lunch 8c Dinner Daily Maxey won by 69% of the vote. Dec. 9-Friday Dining Out--The Argus, 123 Valerie Wagner of the Black Gay and Les- E. Main, Madison, 7:00 p.m., (608) 251- •Sunday Brunch 7424. bian Leadership Forum said a coalition with other groups is essential. Annual Christmas Dinner--Larry K hosts "If the oppressor's foot is on my neck, my •Party Room Available at 725 Gannon Ave., 6:30 p.m. (608) 244- concern is not whether it's 8690. there because I'm Black or because I'm a woman or because I'm •Cocktail Hour Dec. 16-Friday Dining Out--Crown & a Lesbian," she said. "My concern is to re- Cricket, 1904 Parmenter, CABARET ENTERTAINMENT Middleton, 7:00 move the foot from my neck." p.m., (608) 251-7424. MAJOR CREDIT CARDS ACCEPTED Dec. 17-Holiday Flower Show—Olbrich EQUAL RIGHTS Botanical ,• \ Gardens, 9:00 a.m. followed by Continued from Page 1 1. 1:;t.14r;:.:7treet, Milwaukee 414.347.1962 lunch at the Art House Cafe, 2827 Atwood .'z Ave., (608) 241-2500. 40% were more worried about a "religious • . - — • right wing agenda" than a "Gay agenda" •-.. ,,,,,, c, . Dec. 18-Steering Committee Meeting--3 :00 14/ , ,, \ • p.m., Gene I. Host. 1417 Squire Ct., Mid- (21%); \ •;\ dleton, (608) 833-4711. 54% opposed efforts to exclude Dec. 23-Friday Dining Out--Mariner's Inn, "homosexuals from teaching in elementary and 5339 Lighthouse, 7:00 p.m., (608) 251- high schools"; and 7424. 54% opposed "eliminating from public Dec. 24-Christmas Potluck and Tree schools and libraries any books or course ma- Trimming-- make Birdfood ornaments and terials that teach about homosexuality." Turn your LIFEINSURANCE into CASI-1, Garlands Glug to drink. Bring your Gay Ap- A study released prior to the election by the parel, 4701 Judy Lane, 6:30 p.m. (608) 241- respected Times Mirror Center for The People 2500. & The Press reported that the most important Dec. 30-Friday Dining Out—Russian swing voters in the electorate--representing Your NEEDS must be met CO, NOW House, 320 W. Johnson, 7:00 p.m., (608) 20% of registered voters--are "highly tolerant 251-7424. of homosexuality." Your DREAMS must be fulfilled Jan 1—Recovery Day Get Together—Watch Among the general population, Times Mir- football, play cards or whatever. 2:00 p.m., ror said, "We found at least one important Ca, NOW, 1417 Squire Ct., Middleton, (608) 833- change in public tolerance in the last four years--a sharp decline in homophobia." PWA'S 4711. Internationally Sunday A live radio show for the Lesbian and Gay NIGHT community Sunday's from 6-8pm on WTSO. 0107 Call the show at 281-1070 OUT \III tuleatturi

Nears • Talk • Weather • Sparta AM1AMO 1070 Viatica' Settlements Madison's Talk Station Founding Member MIS\ Member NAPWA November 24, 1994--December 7, 1994--WISCONSIN LIGHT--4 have asked individuals like To those in the Gay and Lesbian community who Scott's volunteers should if they were citizens. Just supported my opponent, I understand. Your loyalty that (appearing foreign) implications of such a FROM THE EDITOR'S DESK is admirable and an important part of the political think for a moment about the process. statement. Notestein campaign employed To my close friends and family who were always Another tactic the of information to anyone Some Thoughts on the Death of Pedro willing to listen even at my bitchiest moments, sorry was the apparent cut off candidacy. Although this has not and thank you. supporting Scott's pretty clear that anyone Lesbian Avengers Finally, to Barry, my partner, best friend and the been confirmed, it seems Zamora, ACT UP and the was able to determine was most important person in my life, thanks for being the Notestein campaign supporting Scott's campaign, by perusing such By Terry Boughner that had fed him, that feeds us there and providing stability in my life. I love you. The world documents as campaign finance reports, was re- article on Pedro Zamora the end, eat him. He would I've been asked by many what my political future When we ran an all, would not, in moved from her mailing list. for contributions to his beaten, but unbowed. holds for me. To be perfectly honest, I don't know along with a request go to his grave In pouring over information on Scott, Rep. one young man complained what he did, saying what had to be at this point. I do intend to remain active in the Log health care fund, In doing Notestein discovered that he had in his employment heartily. he shot his arrow into the dark, miasmic Cabin Club, working with the new leaders in the said, history what could be seen as a serious blemish in Why were we doing this, he asked angrily? and, yes, it came down in flames, but oh, Assembly to ensure our rights are protected and sky the eyes of the LesBiGay community. He had from Wisconsin. Money should light. preserved. Pedro was not what a glorious worked as Director of Development at Wisconsin here at home. took courage, great courage, I intend to continue my involvement in Action stay right This, I think, Right to Life. Pedro was famous (hence as I see in the members of Wisconsin, having recently volunteered to serve on And besides, as much courage She tirelessly and relentlessly pointed out this fact sympathy on someone like Nation or the Lesbian Aven- a subcommittee examining ways to ensure the or- rich), why waste ACT UP, Queer during the campaign, knowing it would drive some were so many others, the vast ganization is culturally diverse. that when there gers. pro-choice Gay voters away from Scott's campaign. unknown, who never get Avengers aren't from Wiscon- And I will continue to speak out wherever neces- majority of them The Lesbian What Rep. Notestein did not point out--and it is one day, as I told one of sary and do my part to make the world just a little noticed at all. sin either (although something she knew--is that Scott's most recent job view is short-sighted, but understand- to see a chapter here). But no better place for my Lesbian sisters and Gay broth- The them, I hope was assisting the finance effort for pro-choice Re- Why indeed care about someone who is where they're from, it takes a lot of ers. able. matter publican U.S. Senate candidate Matt Gunderson. from here and who few of us have ever to the most conservative parts of Thanks again for all your help. not guts to go off Scott was clearly able to put his personal opinion met? for what Scott Evertz Idaho and fight, openly and honestly, on abortion aside, and work with governmental af- First of all, Pedro was not rich. You don't Milwaukee is right. fairs staffers at Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin to live very well on MTV's $1,000 a month. But draining Pedro Zamora could have spent his help ensure the LesBiGay community had a real al- that's almost beside the point. in the arms of his lover, taking The Evertz/Notestein health resting TURN TO LETTERS, PAGE 11 What is the case is that throughout history, what pleasure he could from life. He did not. needed symbols to embody what Campaign people have Instead, he choose to speak out, to do what he they is too vast, too wonderful--or too terrible, as could. Give the People Light and TO THE EDITOR: with AIDS, for us to understand. Certainly there are others like him, many find their own way. in the will There is also the fact too that people have others, here in Wisconsin and throughout the Now that the campaign for State Assembly Notestein and Scott always been powerfully drawn to the idea of a world, but unlike most of us, Pedro had the 19th District between Barbara aspects of that cam- beautiful youth of either gender offering them- stage on which to stand and get noticed. He Evertz is over, there are some Gay com- selves up, standing in our place as it were, for could have stayed in the wings or left the paign about which I feel the Lesbian and The were not some high and noble cause. That's been true, theater altogether, but he played his chosen munity has a right to know. These things Scott did at least since Roman times. role out to the end for the good it would do. brought up during the campaign because Wisconsin For many, from the President on down, Pe- Pedro is dead now. His funeral is being held not want the campaign to become a "personal" dro was that. He was the handsome young man as I write. But, I think, he left this world vic- campaign, focusing on behavior rather than issues. who spent his waning strength to tell an AIDS- torious. Now that the campaign is over, I'm fairly confident Light phobic Congress and the world around him The Lesbian Avengers fought the good fight Scott wouldn't mind us telling you the story of the what they did not and do not want to hear. In in Idaho and they too won. real Notestein campaign. many ways, he was a one-man ACT UP, fly- Pedro's fight will continue in memory and Tactics ing in the face of popular opinion to say what by example. After the staff of the State Elections Board certi- needs said--and, hopefully. save some lives. The Lesbian Avengers, ACT UP and Queer fied Scott's nomination papers and recommended his But Pedro took one step more. Nation and the rest, go on to tight another inclusion on the ballot, Democratic caucus staff pe- He went before that Congressional commit- day, in another place. They too shine, not only members, with Rep. Notestein's full knowledge, tee full of glowering white men, and as a man by deeds, but by example. rused those papers to see if they could find enough of color, he told them he was Gay, proudly As one comes closer to one's personal end, signatures that would be invalid, thus getting Scott ex- Gay, quietly, but defiantly Gay; that despite it is to be hoped that they and Pedro can show knocked off the ballot. Having gone through the all the hatred, bigotry and o\ppression that us what should be done if lives are to be ercise of checking addresses, the caucus staffers straight society heaped on him and all of us saved, the right prevail and evil overcome. determined they were still three signatures shy of who are like him, he felt no shame, no guilt. getting Scott kicked off the ballot. They took a closer look at Scott's papers and discovered there signed those papers were three individuals who Executive & Editorial Offices LETTERS whose names appeared to be Middle Eastern. The Democratic caucus staffers felt confident that 1843 N. Palmer necessarily opposed to "family values." In fact, this individuals with such sounding last names were 53212 campaign caused many to pause and consider that Milwaukee, WI An Open Letter From probably not citizens and thus not eligible to sign the rights I seek for me and my partner are no more 372-2773 Scott's papers. The Democrats approached these (414) than what they already have. Scott Evertz individuals, scaring them significantly, and sought While many of you who supported me may be up- LIGHT FAX: (414) 372-1840 sworn affidavits they were indeed not citizens so campaign for State Assem- set that I did not win, I remind you that I was able It's all over now. My they would have the number of invalid signatures and I would to gather nine-to-ten percent more of the vote than Office Hours: bly is now one for the history books needed to get Scott kicked off the ballot. on the my opponent's previous opponents. This means that like to spend a little bit of time reflecting Learning of this racist behavior when he received Monday-Friday-10:00 a.m. -5:30 p.m. Republicans were not turned off by the fact that I campaign. a formal complaint--the Democrats did not approach 24-Hour Recording thank the many people was running openly Gay and that many Gay people In doing so, I must first individuals with last names like Smith or Jones-- campaign. Align- do indeed support a conservative agenda. This is in- who played a role in this historic Scott contacted Rep. Notestein to alert her to what Publisher the first openly Gay Republican deed a victory. ing yourself with the caucus staffers were doing, in essence, in her Jerry Johnson in a fairly liberal district To those volunteers who worked tirelessly-- running for State Assembly name. Her response was not one of shock or out- knew it was an stuffing envelopes and dropping literature--your took courage and endurance. We rage. Rather she asked, "Are you going to use this Executive Editor we work was greatly appreciated. It helped. uphill battle all along and, in many respects, in the campaign?", to which Scott responded no. Terry Boughner, Ph.D. To those who donated money, you know we were victorious. To add insult to injury, at the Elections Board Arts & Entertainment Editor We showed the Greater Milwaukee community couldn't have done it without your financial support. hearing at which Scott was able to get two signa- Gem) showed To those in the Gay and Lesbian community who that one can be Gay and Republican. We tures "rehabilitated" and thus, get included on the not voted for me, in many cases despite my Republican Advertising Manager Milwaukee that conservative and Gay are mu- ballot, a Democratic caucus staffer suggested that tually exclusive. We showed that Gay people are not label, I value your support and your vision. Jerry Johnson 372-2773 Events of the Week AND REPORTERS in Context: COLUMNISTS • Choices J. The Power in Prevention. Maytee Aspuro, Sue Burke, Darren Brzenk. World AIDS Day • December 1,1994 Dr. Richard P. Keeling, chair of Foster, Eugene "Geno" the American College Health Ph.D., Jamakaya, Karen Lamb, Task Force on HIV Ph.D.. Bill Meunier, Carl Szatmarv, • Day Without Art at the • Day Withotit Art at the Association's will present a Madison Art Center will Elvejhem Disease Woodrow Thalberg, Dayna Verstegen. Choices in celebrate artists with AIDS Join the Art History Graduate lecture entitled Context: The Power in Prevention. and focus on the needs and Forum and the UW Union Arts 10 Mound St. concerns of teenagers and Directorate for an enlightening Bolz Auditorium, information contact: Press young adults. 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The Cream City Chorus Looks Forward to the Holidays With Carols and Concerts (Milwaukee)- With its very successful Hal- nursing homes, or this holiday season's main lowe'en bash at the M&M Club behind them, concert, "Ring In, Ring Out," at the PAC, the Wisconsin Cream City Chorus looks for- you'll have several chances to see--and hear-- ward to the holiday season and some of the the Chorus out and about. group's favorite annual performances. "Out and about" was exactly where much of Whether it's the campy November 26th per- Milwaukee's LesBiGay community was on formance at the Holiday Invitational Tourna- October 29th, when they filled the M&M Club ment (HIT) banquet, the City of Milwaukee for a very fun and successful fundraiser/bash. Tree Lighting, caroling at local bars and Between the raffles, costume contest and show, everyone had a great time. Local Artists Receive But there are more good times in store. Don't forget to mark your calendars for De- cember 11, 3:00 p.m. at the PAC's Vogel Hall Regional Grant for the Wisconsin Cream City Chorus' holiday "Ring In, Ring Out." As always, the (Milwaukee)- Jen Benka and Jane Kramer, concert, season's repertoire will include- a little some- members of the local performance group thing for everyone with numbers ranging from Stand-up Comedy-- The Gay Comedy Jam "Freedom Train," came to Milwaukee on November 13. MOOK, have been named as one of the recipi- sacred to silly, celebrating the season and its Kevin Maye (left) and Scott Kennedy entertained at the Club Comedy. ents of the 1994 Diverse Visions Regional In- many holidays. terdisciplinary Grants Program of Intermedia afterwards, the fun and music continue. Arts/Minnesota. They will receive $2,000 for And for Join the Fest City Singers for their 7:30 show, It's Love at First Bite Nationwide their multi-media performance piece, Blue- "The Secret of Christmas," at the South Shore stockings. It promises to be a great evening, `Interview With The Vampire' Bluestockings, which explores and examines Pavilion. with a sing-along portion for kids of all ages. Interview With The Vam- that it wasn't only great market- the U.S. women's suffrage movement and its (Los Angeles)- Others say What better way to end a day of holiday mu- Santa Clause took in a com- to see parallels to contemporary issues such as sex- pire and The ing which brought people in Vampire. sic? at the November 12-13 box It was power of Tom Cruise and Brad ism and homophobia, was initially presented bined $56 million the star Tickets for the Cream City Chorus' con- biggest Fall weekend in as part of Theatre X's women's series in Oc- office, making it the Pitt plus word of mouth. Aside from a few cert, "Ring In, Ring Out," are $8 in ad- tober. Benka and Kramer are planning on tak- Hollywood history. minor critics, the public loves it. vance, $10 at the door. Tickets are available Rice's best- ing the production on tour in March for The screen adaptation of Anne The Top 5 movies at U.S. and Canadian through Chorus members, at the PAC box "Women's History Month." selling vampire book took in $36.4 million, theaters during the November 12-13 weekend, office or by contacting the Chorus' office at the highest- For more information on Bluestockings, or the fifth-best opening weekend and as compiled by Exhibitor Relations are: (414) 344-WCCC. 1. With to book the show for production, please call grossing non-Summer debut ever. Interview The Vampire, Warner The Santa Jane Kramer at (414) 227-3468. In second place, Tim Allen's Bros., $36.4 million, 2,604 locations, $13,975 Clause was Walt Disney Pictures' biggest-ever per location. live-action opener with $19.3 million. The la- 2. The Santa Clause, Disney, $19.3 mil- bel's previous record holder was Honey, I lion, 2,183 locations, $8,851 per location. Shrunk the Kids with a $14.3 million open- 3. Stargate, MGM, $8.1 million, 2,033 lo- ing. cations, $3,988 per location. - "It was great marketing on both these pic- 4. Pulp Fiction, Miramax, $4.1 million, tures. With this lead we should finish the year 1,404 locations, $3,988 per location. ahead of last year's record," John Krier of 5. Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, Tristar, Exhibitor Relations Co., Inc., which tracks $3.7 million, 2,177 locations, $1,709 per lo- box office performance, said. That record was cation. $5.2 billion in receipts.

Wisconsin Cream City Az- Chorus, Ltd. Shop Talk—Brian O'Halloran (left) and Jeff Anderson star in Kevin Smith's film "Clerks," which opens on November 23 at Milwaukee's Oriental Theatre. Presents 23, 1993, and has played in repertory with Their Annual 'Angels' to Close its Millennium. Perestroika will have played Holiday Concert 241 performances (including 26 previews) at Gates Sooner than the closing. As reported in the September 15-29 issue was Expected of Light, Angels opened in Chicago on Sep- tember 25 and will run for five more months (New York)- With the box office register- at the 500 seat Royal George Theater on the ing no new strength from "final weeks" ads, city's near North Side. Angels in America will be closing its gates on December 4--six weeks earlier than had been previously announced--bringing to an end the Brad Pitt Likes Tom Broadway run of one of the most acclaimed plays of recent years and the most expensive Cruise--Honest He non-musical production in the history of the ,71 Great White Way. Does The announcement didn't surprise anyone paying close attention to the show's receipts, (New York)- The homoerotic on-screen which had fallen in recent weeks to the chemistry between Brad Pitt and Tom Cruise $150,000 mark--$40,000 shy of its break- in Interview With The Vampire has been no- even. ticed by many and commented on by more "We couldn't sustain the loss," said Paul than a few. That electricity, if that's what it is, Libin, producing director of Jujamcyn Thea- has drifted ghost-like to their off-camera rela- ters, which co-produced the play at its Walter tionship, says director Neil Jordan. Sunday, December 11, 1994 • 3:00 PM Kerr Theater. "Tom's character loves control and loves The run will end up deep in the red, inflicting pain on Brad's character," Jordan Milwaukee Performing Arts Center • Vogel Hall though a national tour and other productions said. "Brad's character can't quite deal with may eventually provide a payoff for the pro- the situation. In many ways they related to Tickets: $8.00 in advance ducers. each other (off screen) the way their characters $10.00 at the door After repaying the overcall, the play has did." so far returned 65%--$1.4 million--of its Pitt agrees, even though he says he doesn't available through chorus original $2.2 million capitalization, and may hold anything against Cruise personally. members 344-WCCC get to 70%, according to Libin. "I like the guy, I honestly like him a lot," and the The first part, Millennium Approaches, Pitt told a reporter. "But at a point I started Performing Arts opened May 4, 1993, and will have played 397 resenting him. In retrospect, I realize that it Center Box Office 273-7206 performances (including 21 previews) at the was completely because of who our characters closing. were. I realize that it was my problem, not Part two, Perestroika, opened November his." November 24. 1994--December 7, 1994--WISCONSIN LIGHT--6 The Light 00t IIEVIEYS • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • •

For Those Long Winter Nights, Here's the Very Latest in Gay and Lesbian Fiction

Gay Fiction ple title in most Lesbian fiction collections. This late Autumn finds a surprisingly wide After a long absence, Donnelly returns this range of new Gay fiction from which to Fall with The Love Songs of Phoenix Bay And Other Nineteenth -Century Lesbian choose, ranging from cross-generational epics (St. Martin's Press, HC $21.95). This com- like Paul Russell's Sea of Tranquillity, Alan pelling novel features the love affair between Hollinghurst's dark and mesmerizing erotic Phoenix and the sister of her best friend, Stories by American Women Writers thriller, The Folding Star, to Eric Shaw Ronnie, a Gay man fighting AIDS. Quinn's "Uncle Mame" of the `90s, Say Un- A change of pace for Lesbian fiction is a cle. Truly, this Fall, there is something for new name to the scene, Lorrie Sprecher. In everyone. her first novel, Sister Safety Pin (Firebrand, Perhaps the most eagerly awaited Gay fic- Pb $9.95), Sprecher has created a marvelously tion title this Fall is from Alan Hollinghurst, outrageous punk Lesbian novel that captures best known for Swimming Pool Library. In the in-your-face attitude of the 1980's punk The Folding Star (Knopf, HC $24.00), Hol- scene. From macrobiotics to food coloring, linghurst again focuses on sexual obsession, as self-affirmation to activism, brown to blue Edward Manners, 33, and disaffected, finds hair, Sprecher's heroine, Melody, zeros in on himself impossibly drawn to a beautiful young an outlaw identity that she can call her own. male student to whom he is teaching the Eng- Also new in paperback are: Denise Ohip's lish language. lusty Western, End of the Empire (St. Mar- Melancholy and loneliness are also charac- tin's Press, Pb $8.95); Margaret Reynold's teristics of Joseph Olshan's mesmerizing mammoth collection, The Penguin Book of Nightswimmer (Simon & Schuster, HC Lesbian Short Stories (Penguin, Pb $13.95); $20.00). Olshan's protagonist, Will Kaplan, Randye Lordon's Brotherly Love (St. Mar- had fallen deeply and permanently in love with tin's Press, Pb $9.95); and Michelle Cliff's Sean Paris. Then, one night, Sean disappeared eloquent and ambitious Free Enterprise during a night swim in the Pacific. Now, two (Plume, Pb $9.95). years later, Will must confront Sean's ghost-- Of Gay and Lesbian Appeal and his own. A positive trend in Gay and Lesbian publish- In Mark Merlis' American Studies ing has been the increased numbers of titles of (Houghton Mifflin, HC $21.95), the lives of equal interest to both genders. Of special note Gay men before Stonewall are explored. Fol- in this regard is Sister and Brother: Lesbians lowing a beating at the hands of a hustler, and Gay Men Write About Their Lives To- Reeve finds himself reflecting on the curious gether, edited by Joan Nestle and the late John mix of richness and emptiness in the wake of Preston (Harper San Francisco, HC $22.00). the suicide of his teacher and friend, Tom Following a format that Preston used success- Slater. fully in Hometowns and A Member of the In a surprisingly bittersweet and compas- Family, Sister and Brother features noted sionate examination of the failed American Gay and Lesbian writers exploring the bonds dream is Paul Russell's Sea of Tranquillity that hold these two diverse communities to- (Dutton, HC $21.95). All-American hero as- gether. A highly recommended title. tronaut, Allen Cloud, must confront a less than Equally recommended is one from Michael picture-perfect life, including Gay son Jona- Goff and the Out Magazine staff is Out in than. America (Viking Studio, HC $34.95). Subti- Despite appearances to the contrary, some of tled, "A Portrait of Gay and Lesbian Life," Edited and with an Introduction by this Fall's new Gay fiction is actually humor- Out in America takes an impressive cross- ous and lighthearted. A perfect case in point is section of the Gay community and shows it at Christian McLauglin's hot new novel, Glam- work and at play, at home and on the job. It is ourpuss (Dutton, HC $19.95). This Gay farce the perfect book for anyone's coffee table. features the soap opera-like life of Gay soap Not surprising in a year that featured the star Alex Young. Filled with outrageous situa- 25th Anniversary of the Stonewall Riots, is the tions, romance, unrequited love and a nice arrival of several outstanding picture books dash of eroticism, Glamourpuss is a must celebrating Gay and Lesbian Pride. Mabel Maney's 'The Case of the Good-For- read. In Long Road to Freedom (St. Martin's Eric Shaw Quinn's Say Uncle (Dutton, HC Press, HC $40.00), editor Mark Thompson Nothing Girlfriend' is the Best One Yet $20.95) is an "Uncle Mame" for the 1990's. has documented the post-Stonewall years with As in the Patrick Dennis original, Quinn's out- pictures and articles culled from the Advocate. rageous, irresponsible hero, Michael Reily, In The Case of the Good-For-Nothing Girl the spirits of the bubbly and resourceful Nurse Uncommon Heroes (Fletcher Press, Pb finds himself the guardian of a very straight- $25.00), Friend Aimless, even the indefatigable Cherry finds editor Philip Sherman has sought out laced nephew. Mabel Maney this case exhausting and perhaps even un- those Gay and Lesbian individuals who have Another delightful, lighthearted read is made Cleis, $9.95 healthy. "Thinking can be very wearisome," a lasting contribution to both the Gay Grant Michael's latest Stan Kraychik mystery, community she says, adding, "Several times a day, for as as well as to society at large. By Felice Newman Mask for Diva (St. Martin's Press, Nancy long as you can, try to think of nothing at all. a HC Andrews has created a moving and Nancy Clue and Cherry Aimless return for It works wonders!" $20.95). Here, Stan seeks out a murderer in loving portrait of Gay and Lesbian America in the midst of an opera opening. Family (Harper more hair-mussing Gay adventure and their As with Maney's first novel, in The Case of San Francisco, Pb $25.00). In addition In Gay toughest and best case yet in Mabel Maney's the Good-For-Nothing Girlfriend, she de- to these new Gay fiction releases, Pride: Photographs from Stonewall there are a couple of to Today, second full-length girl sleuth parody, The lights us with a tongue-in-cheek hilarity that's notable paperback re- Fred and Timothy McDarrah have leases, including produced an impressive Case of the Good-For-Nothing Girlfriend. simultaneously fun, nostalgic and completely The Penguin Book of Gay chronicle of the vari- Short Stories ous stages Like Maney's wildly popular and best- contemporary. Maney flawlessly, in my opin- (Penguin, Pb $13.95), Men on in Gay liberation in the past 25 Men 5, edited by years. selling The Case of the Not-So-Nice Nurse, ion, lampoons the torpid style of children's David Bergman (Plume, Pb $11.95) and Dead on As per usual, this hilarious new Nancy Clue mystery is for books and Lesbian mysteries where nothing Your Feet by Grant there are new coffee table everyone Michaels (St. Martin's books featuring who knew all along that Nancy and happens at all without at least three changes of Press, Pb $8.95) artistic images of male nudes. Lesbian Fiction Foremost her chums had secrets of their own...Lesbian clothing and a good hot meal. among this special category is Rod secrets. Finally, after many announcements, & Bob by Tom Bianchi (St. To put it another way, Maney skewers fol- Martin's Press, The story begins in San Francisco lowed again and again by postponements, HC $60.00). where the white-bread suburban 1950s girl, Lesbian ro- Jean merry entourage has just Stewart's most eagerly awaited continuation Rod and Bob Jackson-Paris have foiled the deliciously mance fiction, coming out stories and detective of turned their wicked Father Helms and solved the dark her wildly popular Isis series, Warriors of relationship into a national spectacle. • If you novels. Her style is a wonderfully funny mystery of the disappearing nuns. But their par- Isis (Rising Tide Press, Pb $10.99) has at last want a beautifully photographed book made up ody of the original Nancy Drew and Cherry celebrations are cut short by news of the arrest arrived. In Warriors of Isis, Stewart again entirely of pictures of the two of them naked Ames stories. of the Clues' wonderful, most faithful, hard- weaves a rich tapestry of an all-woman, 21st in various settings, this is the book for you. Maney's affection for detective novels working housekeeper, Hannah Gruel, who has has Century society. On a slightly smaller scale is Embracing been brewing since she was young. "Because been accused of murdering Nancy's father, the Likewise, the many fans of Rita Mae Men by Klaus Gerhart (Pohlmann Press, Pb so little was communicated about Gay famous attorney Carson Clue. and Brown's Mrs. Murphy mystery series will be $30.00). Although perhaps not as widely Lesbian lives when I was a kid, I was With the faithful Hannah's trial looming in con- glad to see the release of Murder at Mon- known as the Jackson-Paris duo, stantly forced to play the sleuth." Gerhart's the background, the girls rush off to the Clues' ticello (Bantam, HC $19.95). In her third col- romantic images of the male nude have been Her graduate thesis on girl detective charac- historic homestead, River Depths, Illinois, to laboration with Sneaky Pie Brown, Rita Mae's gracing greeting cards for some of the leading ters and her long-time appreciation for the search for evidence that poor, long-suffering feline heroine, Mrs. Murphy seeks the solution Gay companies for quite some time. genre have given her a very strong background Hannah didn't do it after all. to a 200-year-old murder. Two books of particular interest to for her own fiction as well as an Lesbian But America's shining highways prove to be unerring Two popular Naiad writers have brought readers fashion sense. out this Autumn include Boze Hadleigh's an obstacle course, filled with devious jewel new novels this Fall. In Triple Exposure gossipy and fascinating Hollywood Lesbians "Never mix stripes with plaids," she says. thieves, flat tires and sexy female mechanics. (Naiad, Pb $9.95), Jackie Calhoun again ex- (Barricade Books, HC $21.95), which features Maney is living testimony to the fact that a Naturally, the girls are never too hurried for plores love and family issues set, as before, exposes of such girl can do anything using only her personalities as Barbara Stan- exciting social events, nutritious meals or wits and against a small Wisconsin town. wyck, the contents of her purse. Agnes Moorehead and filmmaker proper accessorizing. When it comes to the Following the success of Car Pool and Pa- Dorothy Arzner. really important things in life, dear old Han- Watch for Our Next Book perback Romance, Karin Kallmaker has cre- Also of special note is Renate Stendhal's en- nah can wait. ated a touching love story set during a moun- grossing Gertrude Stein: In Words and Pic- The gang's real challenges begin in River Section March 2 tain snow storm over a Thanksgiving weekend tures (Algonquin Books, Pb $19.95). With Depths, where small town adversaries and ro- in Painted Moon (Naiad, Pb $9.95). Also over 360 photographs, Stendhal captures the mantic troubles from Naiad, is the third conspire to thwart all plans of To Advertise, call entry in their success- essence of Stein through her own words and in ful short story quick exoneration--or sensual bliss. series of anthologies, The Mys- pictures, taken with some of the 20th Cen- Though no amount of misfortune can deflate (414) 372-2773 terious Naiad (Naiad, Pb $14.95). tury's most notable figures. Nisa Donnelly's Bar Stories has been a sta- November 24, 1994—December 7, 1994—WISCONSIN LIGHT-7 plebes, the dwellers of the Subura, the area in the risk. the valleys between the seven hills. These are He shows us too that homosexuality was as A L the hangers-on, the beggars, the slaves and the much a part of everyday life as were sleeping impoverished free citizens who then and later and eating. After all, was it not said of Great made up the vast majority of Rome's popula- Caesar that he was "the husband of half the tion. women in Rome and the wife of all the men?" What was life like on the cobbled streets of Whatever might be said of Caesar or Cicero, Rome? Saylor shows us, not with dry descrip- who, according to one ancient author, "dotted tion, but by weaving the data into the action. on young men with flaming thighs," Saylor's By this means we see both the insulae Gordianus is emphatically heterosexual-- (apartment buildings) as well as the imposing although he does have a penchant for adopting villas and the residences on the Palatine. street boys and male slaves. Saylor handles oHiyuiliNu Saylor tells us about the baths and how they these relationships with beauty and delicacy. worked. He takes us to sea, into the belly of a Saylor is a prolific writer. Besides his Ro- trireme and makes us feel what it was like to man detective novels, he writes science fiction be a galley slave. He shows us the lines of na- and some of the best Gay work around under ked slaves trudging along the Empire's fabled the nom de plume of Aaron Travis, which roads. should.be familiar to many readers. Sex is not the dominant theme here, but it is It really is surprising to me that a writer of always present, smoldering under the surface such hot fiction as Beast of Burden, can also like lava waiting to erupt. SayloF makes it turn out such sophisticated works as he has in plain that, despite the death penalty for its the Sub Rosa Series. violation, many Vestal Virgins willingly took `Two Teenagers In Twenty' is a Must Read for Adults as Well as Gay Teens Two Teenagers In Twenty tormented, not only by her classmates, but by Ann Heron her parents as well. Alyson, $9.95 She wrote, "Coming out didn't feel like a By Yuri Keegstra good move. In fact, it felt like the worst thing I could In Two Teenagers In Twenty, as she did have done." She finally twelve years ago, Ann Heron collects writings found some Gay friends, but it wasn't enough. She by Queer youth. She combines these new sto- ended up being hospital- ized for six months 16 CDs How to Break Up With ries with selections from her earlier book, One and, after her release, Teenager In Ten. committed suicide. In between In those twelve years, not much has these stories are teens who are Every Gay Man Should Orin A PSYCHO KILLER out and proud, changed, as the new entries show. While some teens who are closeted and waiting to get away of the teens found resources, many have not; before they come out, and teens who are just and even those who do find support, often plain terrified of coming --ever. ReadingBetween the Lines: PORK IS A VERB: have to go through hell to get it. out This book is a The first essay, by Rachel Corbett of Madi- wonderful read for teenagers who think they are THE PERSONAL ADS A Gay Lexicon son, is a wonderful example of a caring alone and need reassurance that there mother who loves her daughter for who she is. are tens of thousands of Queer youth across Unfortunately, there is no place for Rachel to the country. Unfortunately, many of them go to meet other Gays and Lesbians. probably won't have access to it. 10 Things Not to Say Possibly more important HIGH HAIR, LOW MORALS, She writes, "I am angry, because I find it is for every Queer adult hard to meet other Gays my age. But in a year to read this book. It reminds us of the WhenTelling loneliness and fear and Other and a half, I will be in college and there will we rushed to leave behind us when be more people to meet." we entered adult life. We can't let YOUR MOTHER current and future Queer generations Rules of Thumb Michael in Georgia didn't have as easy a experi- ence the hatred and time of it. He was emotionally tortured by pain that we went through and still is so classmates and eventually ended up in a mental that prevalent today. Two hospital for four months after he tried to kill Teenagers In Twenty is definitely a himself. While his mother "is cool with it," call to action. We have to find ways to protect his father refuses to acknowledge him and his and nurture young Gays and Lesbians. We `Mask for a Diva' is a Pleasant Mix of stepfather remains unconvinced. "It will have to find ways to save their lives. A good change," the stepfather says. way to start is to read this book. Murder, Mix-ups and General Mayhem And there's Elizabeth of Kansas, who was

Mask for a Diva When an accidental death begins to look less Grant Michaels and less accidental to Stan, he begins to ask St. Martin's Press, $20.95 questions. When another, even more ghastly AfterWords death occurs, the entire festival is threatened. By Glenn Bishop Stan finds himself enlisted with his sometime Grant Michaels has been gaining increasing cohort, but more often nemesis, Lt. Branco, a numbers of friends with each new Stan Kray- man with a surprising knowledge of and love chik mystery and none should be disappointed for the opera. Seasons Greetings with his latest, Mask for a Diva. Although Michaels writes an engaging and For the uninitiated, Stan Kraychik is a sharp- capable mystery, the real joy of his books Stop in at AfterWords this holiday season tongued, Gay, Boston hairdresser who gave up comes in the portrayal of Stan's on-again-off- on a successful career in psychology to again romances and the fascinating sexual ten- to find everything to make "shrink 'em at the sink." In his debut appear- sion that Michaels has developed between Stan your ance in A Body to Dye For, Stan turned de- and the macho, super straight-acting Lt. Yuletide gay! tective to clear his name when he was impli- Branco. From Gay and Lesbian themed Christmas cards, cated in the killing of a vacationing National In addition, Michaels has increasingly placed Park ranger. special attention on atmospheric detail. In wrap, tree decorations Bolstered by his loyal friend and boss at Dead on Your Feet, for example, Michaels and much, much more, you'll find it at AfterWords! Snips Salon, Nicole, and his ever irrepressible featured a delightful expose of the world of cat, Sugar Baby, Stan has been solving mur- professional ballet. The Espresso Bar is a great place to escape the ders ever since, invariably tangling with the The treacherous, melodramatically over- hectic holiday season hunky Lieutenant Vito Branco. heated world of opera is convincingly and en- In Mask for a Diva, Stan finds himself en- tertainingly portrayed in his latest book. for a quiet coffee or Cappucino! gaged for the Summer in Abigail-by-the-Sea as In the ever emerging world of Gay myster- the assistant to the Wig Master for the inaugu- ies, Grant Michaels' Stan Kraychik series is ral season of the New England Summer Opera refreshing, a pleasant mix of murder, mix-ups Festival. and mayhem. That the one-liners cloud the air Lonely for his absent lover, Rafik, and never to a far greater degree than do bullets is more This Christmas AfterWords provides: one to mind his own business when others are than off-set by Michaels' engaging, quirky around, Stan finds himself as a house guest of casts of suspects and plot twists. The book is 15% off AfterWords' "Best of '94" Titles the Opera Festival's patroness, Daphne Dav- perfect for those long nights ahead. enport, and smack dab in the middle of things Mask for a Diva comes highly recom- Free Gift Wrapping as Verde's Un Ballo in Maschera lurches its mended. way toward opening night. Special Orders Welcome Steven Saylor's Novels of Ancient Rome are UPS Shipping Reminiscent of Mary Renault Gift Certificates plus the best selection of Gay and Lesbian Roman Blood fringes of the lordly and prominent set and re- Arms of Nemesis port on their doings, both good and evil. Books, Calendars and Gift ideas! Catalina's Riddle What sets the "Sub Rosa Series" apart from David Saylor Renault as well, is the fact that there are de- Maridian, $9.95 tective novels. Like my other favorites of the genre, they not only present and solve a knotty Review by Tom Shaw mystery, but they give us glimpses into an- Hours There are three books published to date in other world and time. Steven Saylor's "Roma Sub Rosa" series: As Agatha Christy introduced us to the Brit- Monday - Thursday 11am - 10pm Roman Blood, Arms of Nemesis, and ish aristocracy and Tony Hillerman took us Catalina's Riddle. All make absorbing read- into the world of the modern Navajo, Saylor's Friday & Saturday 11am - 11pm ing. All are somewhat reminiscent of one of books give us entree into the lives of noble my favorite authors, Mary Renault. Romans as they were in the last days of the Sunday 12 - 6 Like Renault, Saylor's--a.k.a. Aaron Travis- Republic. Then, all was upheaval as a new -historical fiction is set in ancient times, deals social order with new values was about to with epic events and addresses humanity's ba- burst upon the scene. AfterWords Bookstore & Espresso Bar sic instincts. The protagonist of all three novels is Gor- Unlike Renault (generally), Saylor's main dianus, "The Finder." His work brings him 2710 N. Murray Ave. characters are not the movers and shakers of into contact with Sulla, Cicero, Crassus, Cae- their times. His characters are the little people, sar and other giants of that time. Milwaukee, WI 53211 (414) 963-9089 the ones uniquely positioned to operate on the But besides the patricians, we also meet the November 24, 1994--December 7, 1994--WISCONSIN LIGHT--8 Reading Plays is One of the Great Joys of Life Where the Production is Always Perfect Michelangelo's Models In the meantime, all the older artists after Robert Patrick hot young Tondo, who posed for Michelan- Marvel, $12.95 gelo's statue of "David," but who has stepped pedestal to become a whore. Bread Alone off his meaning Robert Patrick Patrick calls the play a "fantasia," themes. A Marvel, $12.95 a dramatic invention on historical the playwright's By Thomas P. Heyl fantasia it might be, but it's genius to carry me back to Renaissance Rome. Reading plays is one of the great joys of life. plot is full of surprises, which I will leave No hassling for tickets, no quarrels about The But I will tell you the road of true where to eat, no parking problems, and the up to you. bumpy and rewarding--and true love fi- production you imagine is always perfect. love is a very famous ceiling. Let me suggest Michelangelo's Models. nally hits Bread Alone This is a big, romantic play of the kind that is second, recently published play, is usually called "tragicomedy." One minute it's Patrick's Alone and takes place 486 years later. a stinging bitch-fest of jealous artists dishing Bread is a tiny trailer home in a "redneck each other's lives and work. The next, it's a The setting mining town" in Montana called highly serious conflict of philosophical inter- uranium Foot. The trailer belongs to Daryl, ests, or a melodramatic love scene. Some- Mammoth -something grade school teacher who times, it's a riotous mix of all three. a thirty an unhappy love affair in New The play is set in Rome in 1508. Michelan- has left behind "carry culture" to disadvantaged kids gelo is bored and restless. He's come back to York to colored syrups on a snowcone." the Eternal City despite a grudge against Pope "like pouring Daryl's survival pod comes passionate Julius II. They don't like each other, but the Into who ultimately tells Daryl, Pope knows Michelangelo is the greatest young poet Gary, be in love and there's no one else sculptor and painter that Italy has to offer and "I want to me to be in love with." wants him to build him a suitable tomb that here for Gary gets up the courage to say will outshine anything of which Hadrian ever But before and Daryl go through an evening of dreamed. that, he conversation about art, cooking, travel and The surly, conceited Gay artisragrees to do accidents in the uranium mines. However, un- it, not only for the money (which he needs every line, the two men's longing for one badly), but for the fame which he hopes his der pulses and throbs. work will bring. another of the play lies in the way the There is no doubt about it. Michelangelo is a The comedy approaching the subject that's really pain, but underneath all that vanity, the play- two keep minds. Finally, Gary takes charge wright, Robert Patrick, conveys the artist's on their conversational devices he's learned loneliness and longing for his native Florence and, with closely to his clever teacher, turns and for his patron, Lorenzo the Magnificent. by listening and wins what he has really be after But Michelangelo is not alone. There are a the tables time. It wasn't bread alone. lot of others who miss the Midici prince as all the paper-bound scripts are published by a well; transplanted Florentines like Leonardo These in Dallas called Dialogus Press, Da Vinci, Sandro Botticelli and others, all feel firm here like it will become the major lost, all feel depressed by their separation which looks for Gay-themed and Gay plays. They from their prince. source have a catalogue of nearly one hundred It is the young artists living in Rome, the already `Friendship Chronicles' Emphasizes the well-known authors like Patrick and rising generation, who have little knowledge titles by new ones. of Lorenzo and could care less. These are many brand There's an explosion of Gay and Lesbian Importance of Gay/Straight Communication young men like Raphaelo, Prince Tomasso de playwrights in this country right now. Many of Cavalieri, a hustler and model named Tondo Friendship Chronicles as a challenge to understanding rather than a are put on in places as obscure as and a displaced peasant beauty called Ignudo the plays barrier that cannot be crossed. Mammoth Foot where there is no Gay theatre Chris Hassett and Tom Owen-Towle (Italian for "nude"). It is they who try and The book, illustrated by Jim Bess and Dan at all. Bald Eagle Mountain Press, $12.95 shake the older generation out of the past. Lund, possesses a strong "everyday" appeal Dialogus is making a valuable contribution Michelangelo's Models is a multiple love By Martin Dowe and promises to attract a wide audience-- to making available to all of us some of the story: Ignudo loves Michelangelo; Michelan- Letters a women and men, Gay and straight. fruits of this remarkable spate of creativity. Friendship Chronicles: Between gelo loves Tomasso; Tomasso loves the well- timely and Dialogus will be happy to send you their Gay and a Straight Man offers a preserved beauty who posed for Botticelli's as experi- catalogue or any of their plays by calling them evocative look at male friendship "The Birth of Venus," Simonetta. Raphaelo Hassett at 1-800-686-9484. enced by singer and songwriter Chris Your Anne Rice loves her too. and his friend and minister Tom Owen-Towle. Start The book follows the men's twelve-year a friendship as well as earlier aspects of their Collection With W. SCHWARTZ lives through a series of letters. The book is HARRY both personal and universal in its exploration Story to be Savored of friendship, sex, love, life, death, art and BOOKSHOPS music. Lives of the Mayfair Witches Milwaukee's Very Own Since 1927 There's a certain refreshing atmosphere to Taltos: Rice the book. Perhaps this is because in an increas- Anne Knopf, $25.00 ingly impersonal, macho and violent culture, friendship between men is no longer a luxury, By Carol Deegan but a necessity. Fostering male friendships re- If you've never read a novel by Anne Rice quires all the creativity and integrity two men and Interview With The Vampire has caught OF THE YEAR can muster. is a SOLDIER your fancy, Lives of the Mayfair Witches The two authors have strengthened their good place to start. friendship through shared activities like music, Although this hefty, 467 page novel is a Me Story of a Gay A\milerican ?aitrtiot discussion groups and running. In fact, as is continuation of Rice's series is about witches noted in the introduction, the book grew out of and the supernatural (The Witching Hour, letters that were intended to document their Lasher), the story stands on its own; a highly by Jose Zuniga weekly running conversations. readable, engrossing tale that will keep readers Just as important to their friendship has been new and old turning the pages well into the their willingness to share their individual pas- night. This riveting, and intensely sions: Chris's singing, for instance, and But don't rush. Rice's story should be sa- Owen-Towle's involvement in a variety of vored, slowly. account of a social causes--feminism, racial justice and re- The cast of characters includes Ashlar, an candid, first-hand ligious tolerance. ancient [altos (the result of crossbreeding of There is what I would call a healthy tension SOLDIER two witches who possess an extra chromo- distinguished soldier's coming throughout the book between the differing sex- some); a 13-year-old witch named Mona and OF TIE YEAR ual orientations of the two. But that one is Gay several members of a secret order called the out humanizes one of our JOS[ /UNICA and the other straight is seen by the two men Talamasca. Taltos uses various locales--including New nation's fiercest debates. From York, New Orleans, London and Scotland-- and various characters, including two witches, Rowan Mayfair and Michael Curry; a gypsy the front lines of a heated named Yuri, who is part of the Talamasca; and Samuel, a dwarf. political and social controver- YES Rice packs a lot into the novel, switching the narration back and forth among the various sy,Jose Zuniga has written one of characters. But each chapter is self-contained, which makes the story manageable. The Story of a Gay American Patriot Central to the story is the birth of Mona's of the year's most powerful daughter, Morrigan, a [altos. Morrigan is what AIME DESIRE Granny Mayfair calls "a walking ba.!•y," books. springing full-grown from her mother's womb. 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Tom Shaw is the author of one of the hot- but with the way we had to work on the farm, test new books of Gay male autobiographical I had muscles. In fact, all'of them (the charac- fiction to come along in a long time. Titled ters in the book) were well-muscled, real "That Day At The Quarry," we ran a review hunks. of it in the last book review section of the pa- When we played cowboys and Indians back per. Shortly afterward, Shaw, a Wisconsin then and you were caught, you were stripped native, agreed to meet with us and discuss his went to jail naked. book. WL: Did you know you were Gay when all Wisconsin Light: You've got what looks that happened; when they put you in bond- like a best-seller on your hands. When did age and through your paces? you start to write it? TS: No. It was many years--I mean, in those Tom Shaw: I started writing this book days, you had to think you were 100% hetero- (That Day At The Quarry) last Summer sexual, so no, I didn't think I was Gay. De- (1993) and it took me about two months. spite all that happened, all we did, we never WL: What are you trying to say in the thought of ourselves as Gay. book? WL: What's your second book about? TS: There are three themes I've tried to ex- TS: The one I'm trying to sell is about a pair plore. One is understanding that initial point of neighboring families who make a bet, the where your clothes are being taken off and loser of which become the slaves of the other. you're standing there naked under their gaze. It's another S&M story. Then, when somebody reaches out and touches WL: Have you ever written for you for the first time. It really shakes you up. "Drummer" or any of the others like it? Lesbians & Gay Men Write About Their Lives Together The second thing is to explore the point in TS: That Day was written for Bound and your captivity when you realize that it's going Gagged, since it's based on readers' contribu- to he terrible and it's not going to stop. That's tions. I thought the editor would simply pick devastating. I really wanted to capture that on out the sections he liked and publish them. I paper. took a trip to New York and went down to the The third thing is why, when-all these terri- office and introduced myself. About ten days ble things are happening to you, why are you later, I got a letter from Bob Wingate, the getting an erection. editor, telling me that the story was It's terribly hard to describe that moment of "wonderful" and he was going to devote an sensual abandonment, that point of sacrifice, entire issue of the magazine to it. that moment of yielding. A couple of days later, he called me up and WL: Describe a little of the creative proc- said, "You know, this is so good, I'm going to ess. make a book out of it." He sent a contract and TS: There really is no creative process here an advance, so that's how I got a book. because this is a reminiscence. These are I wasn't trying to write a porn novel. I was things that actually happened. I just sat down simply pouring out something that had hap- one day and decided I wanted to put this story pened to me a long time ago and something I'd on paper and did so. And it just flowed right done a lot of thinking about. out. I've written fiction also. Fiction you have WL: Are you thinking about becoming a to work at. This--there was no work. The full-time writer? story was there and it just came out. It proba- TS: I would certainly like to be a full-time bly took longer to edit it than it did to write it writer. I'm about a half-time writer now. I in the first place. don't work five days a week anymore. I'm In a way, how it happened is a kind of about ready, yeah. strange story. My father was sick and to give I've started a story now that isn't about my mother a night out, I would sit with him. S&M. I'm tired of S&M. It has no S&M in it, He was asleep most of the time, so one night I but I think it's a good story. pulled out a legal pad and began to jot down WL: Does it have a Gay theme? things about initiation. That's how it hap- TS: Yes, definitely. It's my life as I wished pened. I had lived it. When I graduated from high `Public Sex,' Pat Califia's New Book, Is a WL: Have you ever been back to where school, I went to New York City and lived "That Day" was laid? there for five years. The new book is about Romp Through Alternative Sex TS: Two years ago, but I just couldn't. Eve- what I wished had happened to me. Public Sex rything's changed so much. Besides, I wasn't WL: I used to go up to New York when I were Pat Califia paying too much attention to where we was in grad school, places like the Ramrod going that day. I had other things on my mind. and the Mineshaft, wonderful places. Cleis, $12.95 mind, she sees sexuality where we didn't think WL: Do you ever see any of the characters think those places were around it mattered and provides a wealth of informa- TS: I don't By Lisa Frank who you wrote about in "That Day"? in my time. I missed all of that. You know seem- Pat Califia has been "fuming and fussing" tion for concerned people addressing TS: Not for 35 or 40 years, since a few what I often reflect on? You and I, those out about censorship and the right of everyone to ingly non-sexual issues. years after we all graduated from high school. age, lived through the last period in history regulations she ob- have whatever sex they so desire for nearly Writing of the Internet The school itself has ceased to exist long ago. when sex wouldn't kill you. serves, "The U.S. government has used the two decades. She is, by all accounts, the most WL: I wonder if they remember...?" WL: Who are your favorite Gay writers? pretext of looking for kiddy porn to institute a lucid, the most intelligent, of all the so-called TS: They have to remember. It was a pretty Who do you enjoy reading. wide-ranging campaign of on-line surveillance "sex radicals"--and the most plain-spoken and big day for all of us. It was easily the most TS: Certainly one of them is Larry Town- and entrapment. And Great Britain has pro- the most controversial as well. exciting thing that ever happened to any of us. send's One Little Leather Boy that I picked posed to prevent all Internet newsgroups in the Whether she's writing about Lesbian rela- The next day we were all still bubbling about up off a rack. I had no idea what it was all category from being transmitted into that tionships, S&M and leather sex, eroticizing "alt" it, and even though we never did anything like about. Other than that, John Barton, obvi- latex and safer sex, role-playing and gender country. it again, we had a lot of sex. We went at it ously. Right now, I'm reading David Saylor's. "These groups include discussions of kinky bending, sex with youth, prostitution or sex in like bunnies. We were very excited about (a.k.a. Aaron Travis) Roman series. I love sex, but they also include medical information, public. Califia's essays set the standard for the having discovered cocksucking. Mary Renault's Fire From Heaven and The roll fandom, sci-fi readers, and a most provocative and eminently reasonable rock 'n good looking kid back then, heavy, King Must Die. conversations." I was a discussion of sex going. bunch of other interesting of 12 books, most no- Her book, Public Sex, is no exception to the Califia is the author (the collection which some In Silence' is a Book Margarethe rule. tably Macho Sluts `Serving the feminist agenda). She is Public Sex collects the very best of her say put porn on her MA in counseling work, essays she's written over the years as currently completing Cammermeyer Never Wanted to Write at the University of San Francisco. well as new work addressing the recent devel- psychology Public Sex, Dorothy Allison, life-long opments in sexual culture. Providing both a Of By James Burke zle" of her identity. of Bastard Out of Caro- chronicle of the sex radical movement in this activist and author On April 28, 1989, Col. Margarethe Cam- In 1965, she married fellow soldier Harvey "Here you go--a decade of Pat country as well as the definitive positions of lina says, mermeyer said four words--"I am a Lesbian"-- Hawken, whom she had met during a tour of journalism. Next time you hear America's most consistent and trenchant sex- Califia's that changed her life. duty in Germany. She writes that they had nonsense about sex radicals, ual critic, Public Sex is a must read for any- someone talking The disclosure would eventually cause what appeared to be a perfect marriage, but as them to this book." one interested in sexual practices, feminism, refer Cammermeyer to be discharged from the Cammermeyer's success in the military grew, censorship or simply the art of the political es- military after an acclaimed nursing career, de- Hawken became resentful. The tensions be- say. spite numerous awards and promotions. It also tween them grew apace until Cammermeyer Califia is, of course, a pro-sex feminist, but launched what Cammermeyer would call "the knew that something had to break--either she, her engagement with sexual culture in the most important mission" of her life: fighting or her marriage. U.S., Canada and Great Britain--and its recip- the military ban on Gays and Lesbians and "On my way home...to our perfect home, I rocal relationships with economics, foreign eventually winning reinstatement last June. veered my car toward a telephone pole, think- policy. family structure and even aesthetics-- But Cammermeyer--nurse, Lesbian, mother- ing: I could hit this pole and end .the pain. carries her analysis way beyond the superfi- -can add another accomplishment to her al- With a mental jolt, I jerked the car off the cialities of "do-me feminism" and the politics ready lengthy list. She's now an author as shoulder and back onto the road again." of Queer liberation. well. She divorced Hawken in 1980 and moved to In her introduction, Califia writes,. "By Her new book, Serving In Silence, is an en- San Francisco where she worked as a VA of a battle Cammermeyer VA nurses, she 'radical sex.' I do not simply mean sex which CONSTANT READER gaging account nurse. From a field of 34.000 differs from the 'norm' of heterosexual, va- never expected to face, told in a book she was picked as the organization's Nurse of the LTD. nilla. male-dominant intercourse. People BOOKSHOP never wanted to write. Co-authored with Year in 1985. whose erotic practices are different do tend to Whidbey Island writer Chris Fisher, the book In 1988, she moved to Seattle to work as acquire an outsider's critical perspective on USED - OUT-OF-PRINT - RARE will undoubtedly further the rise to national Chief Nurse for the Washington State National marriage, the family, heterosexuality, gender HARDCOVER BOOKS prominence that Cammermeyer attained in her Guard. A year later, she writes, she applied roles and vanilla sex. BOUGHT & SOLD tight. Plans are being made for an NBC-TV for an upgraded security clearance. It was then "But being a sex radical means being defiant BOOK SEARCH movie to air early in 1995, starring Glenn that she came out as a Lesbian. as well as different. It means being aware that Close and produced by Barbra Streisand. "I did not realize that...I would lose my ca- there is something unsatisfying and dishonest PROSrICT Serving In Silence tells more than a story of reer in a country that espoused equality for about the way sex is talked about (or hidden) discrimination in the military. Granted, it is a all," she writes. "And I didn't know that by in daily life. It also means questioning the way H ours- moving account of a girl from Norway, born being forced to speak out, first privately, then our society assigns privilege based on adher- Daily 9-7 in 1942 under Nazi occupation, who developed publicly, I would find the most important ence to moral codes. Sunday 11-5 a strong belief in American opportunity and mission of my life." "If you believe that inequities can only be realized, upon coming out, just how selective Cammermeyer is currently serving while the addressed through extreme social change, then that opportunity can be. decision to reinstate her is under appeal. you qualify as a sex radical, even if you prefer But it is also the story of a woman who got The book is an extraordinary account of a to get off in a missionary position and still be- 1627 E. Irving Place married out of a sense of duty, raised a family, valiant woman fighting a battle against all lieve there are only two genders." Milwaukee, WI 53202 went through a painful divorce, and only later odds--and winning, not only her tight, but her- with Diane. a woman who pro- Since the broad consequences of sexual re- 414-291-0452 tell in love self as well. pression in general are never far from Califia's vided "the last, connecting piece to the puz- November 24, 1994--December 7, 1994--WISCONSIN LIGHT--10 picks up on potential, that we as mammals are capable of A lot of Renee Vivian's poetry Nin-certainly a Bi- any kind of feeling. that kind of image. Anais What I try to do in the early sections of sexual--picks up on it too. were some works Chloe Plus Olivia is include literature by FK: Obviously, there women who would have called themselves ro- you debated. to Chloe Plus mantic friends, but who would not have known LF: The original manuscript high. I had a lot of the word Lesbian. The sensibility I'm tracing Olivia was about four feet of and, I guess, every- in the book is this terrific passion. material I had to get rid about twice. And I have another fairly early section called thing had to be thought someone has 30 minutes "A Man Trapped in a Woman's Body: The FK: Okay, say there one story you'd Literature of Sexual Inversion." I begin with a and sees your book. Is couple of pieces by 17th and 18th Century recommend? want everyone to be women who also probably wouldn't have LF: I think I would Lowell's poetry and the called themselves Lesbians, but they wore buzzing about Amy THE reason for that is because she got a bad rap. men's clothes, sometimes they passed for men. an irresponsible book by "Patterns", a poem GREGG ARAKI That's another aspect of the Lesbian sensibil- She's best known for mourning the loss of ity. about a straight woman FK: Are you tickled by the idea of the her male lover. she was a Les- "carnivorous flower?" Only later on did I discover discovered the most in- LF: I love it! I have in Chloe Plus Olivia bian, and after that, I really spe- what I think is the first Lesbian vampire fic- credible, beautiful, erotic, I mean Lowell tion, Sheridan Le Fanu's Camilla (1871-72). cifically sexual love poems that Amy was It was a very influential image that a lot of wrote especially to the woman that she beauti- Lesbians picked up on in their own literature, with for the last 12 years of her life, a These for example, Clemence Dane's novel Regi- ful actress by the name of Ada Russell. LIVING ment of Women. Dane was a Lesbian whose are the poems that--I always read at least one real name was Winifred Ashton. She presents of them in my presentations in bookstores and this horrific Lesbian character who just wants I can see the women in my audience just to suck the blood of young women and destroy drooling over them. them. Jean Swallow Brings Out New Anthology on Lesbian Long-Term Recovery

The Next Step END Jean Swallow, ed. Alyson, $9.95 By Cynthia Maystrip A long awaited sequel to the groundbreaking Sober Dykes and Our Friends, and the only full original anthology to examine long-term recovery from the screenplay any perspective, Jean Swallow's new book, also included TOTALLY F***ED UP The Next Step: Lesbians in Long-Term Re- with foreword by dennis cooper covery--Out From Under Volume 2, gathers a harvest of new information from the Lesbian community; it is full of fine writing, heart- breaking stories and raw cdurage. The follow- ing excerpt is from the new volume. Lillian Faderman: A Storyteller in Her Own "Each year, my recovery means more to me; it has been a lens through which I can make Right, Brings Out New Book sense of my life, my self and the world; I be- lieve it to be not only endless, but a gift, a Lillian Faderman, author of "Odd Girls poor, innocent girl, but it's really sort of play tremendous gift. It marks me and it makes me and Twilight Hours" among other books, has and pleasure for her. and it delivers me from evil; it is a gift I have just published through Viking Press, an 800- She's as much a participant in the whole been given, and one which has been shared thing as the older with me, like a cup of cool mountain water page anthology of Lesbian literature since the woman is, and it seems to Jean Swallow 17th Century called "Chloe Plus Olivia." me, that there is something of a charm there of passed at this table where we sit together, She has been a professor of English at repossessing images that heterosexual men making community when we share the bread `desperately needed publication." California State University at Fresno since used for their own titillation in the past. of our stories, the tea of our tears, the cup of Lesbian Contradictions called it "a very 1967, where she now also teaches Lesbian Obviously, Califia's story is not for every- our joy. important book for anyone connected with the Studies. She has been in a relationship with one, but what I wanted to do in including it in "If you want to know where we've been for curse of addiction...These stories are intimate the same woman for many years. She is also Chloe Plus Olivia is number one: to show the last ten years, take a look: we went away and deeply personal--and so honest that they one of the most important intellectual figures something of contemporary, in-your-face and came back whole. These are our stories." can turn you inside out...It's a book of mira- in contemporary literature. writing and number two: show how that sort Swallow is a writer and editor currently liv- cles too, and a book of magic--the magic of Lillian Faderman: I started publishing in of writing frequently took those historical in- ing in Seattle. In addition to editing the two recovery." 1969, and the first things I did were multi- stances of pornography and twisted them so Out From Under volumes, she is the author Currently, Swallow is finishing a book of ethnic college textbooks. Then in the mid-'70s, that it's no longer men writing for other het- of a novel, Leave a Light on for Me, praised photojournalism (with photographer Geoff I started getting brave enough to think about erosexual men. by Susanna Sturgis in the Women's Review of Manasse) called "Making Love Visible: The doing Lesbian Studies. I was encouraged by FK: Have you come across any contempo- Books as "one of the most satisfying Lesbian Families of Gay Men and Lesbians, scheduled what was happening in various places around rary Lesbian literature or writing of a Les- novels I have ever read." for publication in the Fall of 1995. She is also the country like the Lesbian and Gay Caucus bian sensibility that turns out was not writ- Her poems, narratives and journalism have working on a second draft of her novels in the and the Modern Language Association. So, I ten by a Lesbian? been widely published, both in this country trilogy The Millionaires of Time. began with Emily Dickinson. I really wanted LF: Yes, not contemporary, but certainly in and abroad. The Next Step comes highly recommended to explain her letters written to Sue Gilbert, the 1950s. There were a number of pulp nov- When the first Out From Under was pub- and well it should. It is a must-read for anyone which were really passionate love letters. els published under women's names, many of lished, Off Our Backs recognized it as a needing to understand recovery. We don't have, extant anyway, anything that them sort of confessionals, supposedly autobi- we know for sure she wrote to the Reverend ographies, there were certainly written by Charles Wadsworth, who's usually explained men. BEST SELLERS OF THE MONTH as her elusive lover and the reason for her be- FK: And something always happened to coming a recluse. But we have dozens of let- the woman. LESBIAN FICTION ters to Sue Gilbert, and to other women, that LF: Always (laughs). Most of these stories are clearly love letters, and in fact, I have a had to end with the woman in torture. 1. Total Zone by Martina Navratilova and Liz Nickles Villard HC $21.00 number of them in Chloe Plus Olivia. FK: What do you see as the future for 2. Divine Victim by Mary Wings Plume Pb $9.95 I was going to write a book on Dickenson, Lesbian literature? 3. Triple Exposure by Jackie Calhoun Naiad Pb $9.95 but I really thought I wanted to place her ro- LF: I worry! I worry for the written word 4. The Dea of Light by Jenifer Levin Plume Pb $10.95 mantic friendship with Gilbert in some kind of (long pause). I think even very bright, very 5. I'll be Leaving You Always by Sandra Scoppettone Ballantine Pb $4.99 historical context, so I kept going further and literate people, that is, literate in terms of their 6. A Rage of Maidens by Lauren Douglas Naid Pb $9.95 further back in history. That became the book abilities with the language, are much too often 7. Trouble in Transylvania by Barbara Wilson Seal Press Pb $10.95 that was finally published in 1981, Surpassing now not interested in the written word. 8. Danger! Cross Currents by Sharon Gilligan Rising Tide Pb $9.99 the Love of Men. I think films will be "it" in the 21st Century 9. The Dyke and the Dybbuk by Ellen Galford Seal Press Pb $10.95 Frederick Kahler: In Chloe Plus Olivia and that being the case, we have to get more 10. We Came all the Way from Cuba So You Could Dress Like This? by Achy Obejas. there's a story written by Pat Califia called good Lesbian films out there. The number is Cleis Pb $10.95 "The Finishing School" from Califia's book, woefully small--I think the closest to "it" was Macho Sluts, about the sexual, ritually sado- actually by a man--but he's good--I really like GAY FICTION masochistic relationship between a John Sayles' mother and Lianna (1983). Wonderful film, 1. Glamourpuss by Christian McLaughlin daughter. You don't hear often about Lesbian really attractive characters. Dutton HC $19.95 2. Men On Men 5 edited by David Bergman Plume Pb $11.95 incest; it's more known that Gay men have FK: In Chloe Plus Olivia you say you were 3. Taltos by Anne Rice Knopf HC $25.00 fantasies of father and son together. I think it's seeking examples of a Lesbian sensibility. 4. Mask for a Diva by Grant Michaels St. Martin's HC $20.95 called "Swiss Love." But in and editorial in the New York News- 5. Invisible Life by E. Lynn Harris Anchor Pb LF: I don't think Califia can be read or does day criticizing the Gay gene $9.95 theory, you 6. B-Boy Blues by James E. Hardy she mean to be read on a literal level. This is write, "Why must Alyson Pb $9.95 Gays and Lesbians have 7. Interview With The Vampire by Anne Rice pornography. She's appealing to fantasy. What an 'excuse' for our sexuality?" Ballantine Pb $6.99 8. Blue Heaven by Joe Keenan Penguin Pb $10.00 I love about this story--and it's easily the most LF: What I'm saying is that we're just like 9. Nightswimmer by Joseph Olshan Simon & Schuster HC $20.00 controversial story in the book--is that Califia everyone else. That's why I like the historical 10. Closet Case by Robert Rodi Plume Pb $10.95 takes so much of these staples of male pornog- work I've done on romantic friendship. I that raphy. It's always fascinated me that hetero- that what that work shows is that everyone is Lesbian and Gay Non-Fiction sexual male pornography has so much Lesbian- capable of what we would call Lesbians expe- ism in it, but it's Lesbianism for male delecta- riences. And society recognized it. Not the 1. The Unofficial Gay Manual by Kevin Diallo & Jack Jrumholtz....Doubleday Pb $12.50 tion. She takes so many of these staples of genital potential, not in a specifically sexual 2. What the Bible Really Says About Homosexuality by Daniel A. Helminiak male pornography from the 17th, 18th and potential, but society seemed to recognize, the Alamo Square Pb $9.95 19th Centuries and she sort of turns it around emotional and sensual potentials. 3. One Teacher in 10 by Kevin Jennings Alyson Pb $9.95 to Lesbian delectation by making just enough I look to a future when everyone will just be 4. The Word Is Out by Chris Glaser Harper/Collins Pb $12.00 changes. able to fall in love with another person for 5. Bob & Rod by Tom Bianchi St. Martin's HC $60.00 I'm thinking of some soft-core by Denis whatever reasons they have and it won't nec- 6. Public Sex by Pat Califia Cleis Pb $12.95 Diderot, from his novel The Nun, in which essarily be dependent on gender. 7. Mapplethorpe: Assault With a Deadly Camera by Jack Fritscher the nasty Mother Superior takes advantage of In the eras before we became ghettoized, Hastings HC $24.95 this poor, innocent girl and victimizers her. everyone was capable of homosexual feelings 8. Edith Ann: My Life So Far (as told to Jane Wagner) Hyperion HC $15.95 Califia uses the same kind of material, but she and, along with it, heterosexual feelings, and 9. Postively Gay edited by Betty Berzon Celestial Arts Pb $11.95 makes it clear there that the girl is not this that seems to me to be truest of mammalian 10. A Place At The Table by Bruce Bawer Simon & Schuster Ph $12.00 November 24, 1994—December 7, 1994—WISCONSIN LIGHT-11 A U T H O R I N P I E C F, S `Sex With Strangers' is Sex Without Emotions and Emotions Without Sex •././ Sex With Strangers , however, when he moves to New York City Geoffrey Rees ' # • • and falls in love--and lust--with Stuart, a , A A Maridian, $12.95 painter. Stuart is extremely mercurial and the By Yuri Keegstra relationship is hardly the fabric from which tr songs are made. i A: 4 A 5 Sex With Strangers, Geoffrey Rees' first book, seeks to portray love and sex in these While their relationship unravels, Thomas uncertain and turbulent times. The book opens has a surprise run-in with Michael and his with the narrator, Thomas Hobart, boarding a new lover, Lucas, at New York City's Gay train headed for Chicago, where he is to start Pride Parade. As Thomas, Stuart, Michael college. On board, he meets a conductor and Lucas uneasily interact in the last chap- named Dennis, who invites Thomas to stop ters, a secret is revealed. Thomas prepares and see him on his Thursday night layovers. himself to leave Stuart. Their assignation continues religiously for the The subject of sex without emotions and next year, once a week they meet and have emotions without sex is intriguing and could sex in a downtown hotel. No relationship easily be the basis for a mind provoking flowers, however, and the only contact the novel. Sex With Strangers, however, is not two have is their weekly tryst. that book. The characters invoke no emotions- In the meantime, Thomas falls in with a -negative or positive. They are leaves stuck on motley, rag-tag group made up of Michael, a a bank of the flowing river of life. mysterious figure who obviously wants Tho- If they took more interest in their ineptness mas, yet refuses his chances for seduction; or realized how self-absorbed they are, there Jane, a self-described Lesbian, who neverthe- could at least be pity or disgust. Instead, when less, sleeps with men; Mark, an acid-head, Thomas periodically looses control over his who must be baby-sat when his trips go bad; emotions and breaks into hysterical sobs, it and assorted other, less fleshed-out person- can only be met with disbelief. ages. It is Thomas, Michael and Jane who One of my biggest complaints is how Rees make up the trio which dominates the first constructs characters and then doesn't fill half of the book. them out. Even the people in life I've known Michael is hot for Thomas and expresses it who resemble these characters have more than in coy double entendres and sly comments, two sides; none of the people in this book do. yet never makes any serious attempts to go His prose is often over-drawn and too past friendship. highly and obviously symbolic. Thomas' first Thomas, although having sex with Dennis major encounter with Jane and Michael is a and self-identified as Gay, is drawn to Jane, prime example: while Jane clearly wants Thomas to be with "...I tore into the sandwich. The hot sauce, Michael. which had looked so innocuous streaming An unhappy triangle you say? Well, yes, from the red squirt bottles full of the stuff, but not because of the sexual tension. Thomas exploded in my mouth. I had had no idea what hides his sexual antics with Dennis from Mi- to expect and was not prepared for this chael and Jane, although the three become scorching sacrament." tight friends. Their discussions revolve around Sex With Strangers wasn't a horrible read, sex and love and they come up with a motto just an uninspiring one. I often read at night "Love without lust, lust without love." It is a and I had a hard time keeping my eyes open motto which they not only practice, it is one to finish a el- apter. When I did get to the end, of which they are incredibly proud. it was all I could do not to shrug my shoul- Thomas' practice of their motto is tested, ders. A MRS. MURPII Gay Hetrick-Martin Publishes 'You Are Not Alone' `Images In The Dark' is a Book of Wit, (New York, NY)- You Are Not Alone is a directory of more than 200 organizations nation- wide (and in Canada) serving LesBiGay youth. It is published by the Hetrick-Martin Institute. Cinema History and Pure Entertainment the nation's largest social service agency for Gay youth and their families. You Are Not Alone is a handy reference for adults as well as Gay youth and is available for $15 by writing to: who Images In The Dark there are those like Wolfgang Petersen Hetrick-Martin Institute, 2 Astor Place, 3rd Floor, New York, NY 10003. positive Gay-themed Raymond Murray have gone from early, Consequence) to major Hollywood TLA Publications, $19.95 films (The releases (Shattered, In the Line of Fire). in- By Glenn Bishop Other sections in Images In The Dark are divided into Queer, Although the list of books that have focused clude film listings that and Transgender respec- on Gay and Lesbian films, that is, the newly Lesbian, Gay, camp is numerous and tively. Books exploding "Queer Cinema," general reader will growing, non match the scope, the wit, the Of greater interest to the Stars/Gay Icons. comprehensiveness and the pure entertainment be a section on Favorite are Gay or Raymond Murray's eagerly awaited These are actors and actresses who value of have been Dark. Anyone with an interest Lesbian themselves or whose films for Images In The the community. in Gay and Lesbian film, ranging from the particularly embraced by course, Judy, Bette, mere passing interest in renting an occasional Under Gay Icons are, of video, to the extreme of academic study, will Madonna and Marilyn. and film listings find much contained in these pages. Also included are short bios the as Ramon The history of books on Queer cinema has for such Gay and Lesbian actors been characterized as one being as spotty in its Novarro, Sal Mineo, Rupert Everett and Rock nature as the Gay films themselves. There Hudson. have been occasional gems, particularly Vito Perhaps not too surprisingly, with the ex- entire Russo's classic and definitive Celluloid ception of current Lesbian personalities Closet, but nothing much in between. Amanda Bearse and Sandra Bernhard, few Recent years have seen the release of a num- Lesbians are included. For those with special ber of books with a deliberate, limited focus. interest in Lesbian actresses, turn to Boze community. Boze Hadleigh's delightful Lavender Screen Hadleigh's recently released Hollywood Les- tackles only big budget Hollyv, lod films put bians which includes profiles of Barbara out since the 1950s. Stanwyck, Agnes Moorehead and Nancy Kulp, Steve Stewart's recently revised Gay Holly- among others. wood Film and Video Guide has thoughtfully Images In The Dark features over 3,000 30% off New York Times added Lesbian film listings that were missing reviews of films, shorts and TV programs of from the early edition. But now comes Mur- particular note; more than 200 biographies; Bestsellers and monthly ray. hundreds of photos and detailed indexes. staff selected titles, and Murray has divided Images In The Dark With the inclusion of such films as Three- into several distinct sections. In the first sec- some, Philadelphia, For A Lost Soldier and 10% off most other tion, he focuses on Gay and Gay-friendly di- TV's exceptional drama Prime Suspect 3, rectors and independent filmmakers. Those Murray has insured that his book is amazingly hardcovers Hours included in this category range from Dorothy up-to-date. At well over 500 pages, there is Arzner, an openly Lesbian director during truly something for everyone here, from the .E.spresso bar Hollywood's "old boys club" era of the 1940s serious film scholar to those looking for juicy, Moo-Sat 9.10, and controversial Rainer Werner Fassbinder to gossip tidbits. It is a perfect book to read and such prolific if lesser known people like Rosa to share. Special orders welcome Sunday. 11 - 7 Von Praunheim and Lizzie Bordon. Most highly recommended! It is fascinating to follow an individual Free parking filmmaker's work and career. For example, Magazine for Gay and Bisexual Disabled Revived Extensive gay and (San Francisco)- Able-Together, a quarterly newsletter serving Gay and Bisexual disabled lesbian studies and men and those who care about them since 1986 has been revived and reorganized by a group of former subscribers and is now being published out of San Francisco: publication months are literature sections October, January. April and July. Able-Together's most recent issue included personal ads to- gether with an expanded editorial section promoting the needs and interests of this insufficiently recognized minority. The magazine costs $30 per year, reduced to $15 for those on low in- comes. Personal ads are run at no cost. To subscribe, send a check to: Able-Together, P.O. Box 460053, San Francisco, CA 94146. Harvest Moon Seeking Submissions (Waukesha, WI)- Harvest Moon: A Wisconsin Outdoor Anthology, Vol. 2, is currently in non-fiction that captures the experience of Bolters preparation and seeking submissions, fiction and Wisconsin's outdoors. The publishers, Lost River Press, prefer works of 2,000 to 5,000 words. 3416 university ave., madison, wi Previously published works will pay $50 to $225 and unpublished works will receive an ad- vance of $100 against royalties of $30 to $80 per 1,000 copies sold. Manuscripts should be ph. (608) 232-2600 double-spaced and sent to: East Twin Ventures, 1234 Hickory Drive, Waukesha, WI 53186. Deadline is December 31, 1994. November 24, 1994—December 7, 1994—WISCONSIN LIGHT-12 `Amerasia Journal' Brings Together Creative STEVEN UNDERHILL Works on Asian Pacific Lesbians and Gays

By David Chan ents a study of Lesbian daughters and Gay The emergence of Asian and Pacific Ameri- sons based on interviews with their first and can Gay. Lesbian and Bisexual individuals and second generation parents--Korean, Chinese, groups is documented in this first collection of Japanese, Filipino and Vietnamese. writings that brings together critical essays and Most books on the topic of parents of Gay creative literature in Amerasia Journal pub- and Lesbian children report mainly on white lished by the University of California-Los An- middle class families; Hom finds that parents geles' Asian American Studies Center. Eight- report their own observations of Gay and een articles, essays and creative works are Lesbian behavior in their Asian home coun- highlighted in this special double issue edited tries prior to immigration. by Russell C. Leong and subtitled Took Took Thongthiraj, a UCLA women's "Dimensions of Desire." studies major graduate, continues the discus- "Dimensions of Desire" seeks to forge link- sion of homosexuality in the Asian diaspora in ages between questions and issues of sexual her article "Toward a Struggle Against In- and racial identity among Asian and Pacific visibility: Love Between Women in Thailand." Americans. "Dimensions" refers to a range She states that while "Lesbian-like relation- and variation of sexual practice or sexual de- ships and lifestyles exist in Thailand, yet many sire, including celibacy. Western (often male) analysts of Thai sexual- Contrary to popular belief that homosexual- ity and homosexuality have focused solely on ity originated in the West and that it only af-. the Gay male subculture of Thailand. Unwill- fects assimilated Asians and Pacific Islanders ingness to uncover information on same-sex in the U.S., the articles in fact reveal that ho- relationships between Thai women on the part mosexuality has existed in Asian countries-- of such analysis, reinforces the multiple in- China, Japan, Vietnam, Thailand and the visibility of these women--as women." Philippines--and in the indigenous Pacific Is- Infusing sexuality and sexual formation with lands even prior to the colonization and/or modern , technology, U.C.-Irvine instructor immigration of their peoples. Daniel C. Tsang investigates the "sexual un- 'Prof. Dan Y. Takagi, who teaches sociology derground" of cyberspace--i Gay bulletin at UC-Santa Cruz, in her article "Maiden board system utilized by thousands of mainly Voyage: Excursion into Sexuality and Identity Asian males in Los Angeles and Orange Politics in Asian America," states that: Counties. Tsang sees computer bulletin boards "We are relatively uninformed about Asian as a vehicle for crossing class, gender, gen- American subcultures organized around erational and ethnic lines and as challenges to sexuality. There are Asian American Gay and prevailing notions of Asian males as asexual. Lesbian social organizations, Gay bars that are "Dimensions of Desire" is available at $10 known for Asian clientele, conferences that an issue from area bookstores or by sending a have focused on Asian American Lesbian and check made out to U.C. Regents and sent to: Gay experiences and electronic bulletin boards Amerasia Journal, 3230 Campbell Hall, Asian catering primarily to Gay Asians, their friends American Studies Center, UCLA, Los Ange- 1995 and their lovers." les, CA 90024-1546. Be sure to include $2 for state. funding sources: LAMM and the Cream City Because Asian Americans have often been postage and handling. This is a calendar which I highly recom- Foundation. analyzed within a family context, Alice Y. Amerasia Journal is available by subscrip- mend. Not only is it beautifully done, it does The calendars are available at the LAMM Horn of the Claremont Graduate School pres- tion at $24 a year. our community credit in the story that it tells. offices, at AfterWords and Just Us in Milwau- I can only wish that something of the same kee. The End of the Year Brings a Carnival Feast thing would be done for Gay men in this area In Madison, you can buy one at A Room Of of the state. One's Own. of Calendars, One for Every Taste The series from which this calendar is The calendars are also available by mail. For drawn, is comprised of over 50 black and mail order information, or questions about the By Terry Boughner Calendars and Denim, published by the same white prints which have been exhibited in sev- project, contact the project coordinator, There are many reasons why I like the end company, are extremely attractive. While eral local locations and is currently being fea- Carolyn at (414) 454-0515. of the year, but one of them, not the least on Cosmo's men are all in living color, the ones tured at Just Us. All of these calendars and many more are my list, is the crop of new calendars that ap- in Denim in black and white--with the excep- These calendars are a limited edition and sell available at AfterWords bookstore and at other pear about now. Before I actually choose one, tion of their skin tight, faded jeans, which are for $13.00. The proceeds benefit the project's fine stores throughout Wisconsin. it gives me a few hours 'of afternoon pleasure in blue. to go through them all. These both are good, nice to give as gifts in- Patricia Nell Warren's 'Front Runner', Has The bookstores have dozens of them, every- asmuch as they would suit almost every taste. thing from Grandma Moses to nature scenes. Two particularly, however, I liked. One was Led to Founding of Scores of Groups These are okay, I guess. Some of them really Men... put out by Rundu Productions and the are quite nice, but I'm looking for something other was the Steven Underhill Calendar New York-AP- Patricia Nell Warren's The that will more than just nice. I want a carnival published by Soho Productions. Ultimately, it was a great round of applause- Front Runner, not only helped thousands of -just of sensuality for the eyes. Both of these calendars feature men of color, like that for her character, Harlan Brown, young Gays come to terms with their sexual- in his first meeting -with the Front Runners, ity, it also launched an athletic movement. which occurs at the climax of Harlan's Race. Since the late 1970's, some 75 "Front Run- If the second novel leads to the founding of ners" groups of Lesbian and Gay amateur run- any group, it might be the Gay Panthers. Sev- ners have sprung up around the country. eral characters in the book, despondent over Warren had nothing to do with the founding the assassination of Harlan's lover, Billy Sive, of the groups and avoided them for years, out flirt with forming a mythical terrorist group of shyness and a reluctance to be labeled, said modeled on the Black Panthers. Tyler St. Mark, her business partner. Warren says the idea was not hers. But she had an emotional meeting with them "Before I ever wrote this book, I heard 'Gay at Gay Games IV in June, just after the sequel, Panthers' talked about and theorized about," Harlan's Race, was published. she said. "She just simply walked over casually, and But no such group exists, and Warren noted, it wasn't until she raised her arms (for a pho- "I point out in the book that, of all the major tographic pose) that people noticed her," said movements, the Gay movement alone has not St. Mark, who was present at the event in had its share of violent activists." Central Park. "It was a ripple effect. It was She said she did not know why. like a wave." B-Boy Blues: A Fiercely Funny Black- On-Black Love Story B-Boy Blues James E. Hardy Alyson, $9.95 By Charles Harmon Mitchell Crawford's fantasy has always been to have a B-boy. B-boys stand on street cor- Calendar Time—A photo from the "Lesbian Couples of Southeast Wisconsin" calendar ners daring anyone to invade their territory, For the Men African Americans, Hispanics and Pacific Is- dress to thrill, move to a rhythm all their own The new calendars from Colt Studios cer- landers. Now admittedly, I have a "thing" for and, loud and boisterous, "speak to be heard, tainly provide that if you like beefcake. men whose looks smolder like a sunset in the not so much to be understood." There's one staring Steve Kelso that Carl at Fall. There's a special, ethereal beauty to Now, you don't think of any tough Black AfterWords tells me he can hardly keep in them, like a rose window just at dawn. street boy as being Gay, don't often read about stock. If you like muscled, hairy chested men, But it is also good to see, I think, that very different segments of the African Ameri- Kelso should be for you. It sells at $12.50 publishers glorifying the male physique are can community in contact with one another Another one from Colt that should catch including others beside the blonde, blue-eyed and, if you're white, don't often encounter some eyes, is the Colt Leather calendar. Here types. Black narrators who honestly tell how they James Earl Hardy the men sport the best in leather gear to show The Underhill calendar sells for $12.95, feel about whites. versity workshops. off their finely oiled physiques. This also sells while Men... goes for $11.99. You do here. B-Boy Blues is the first Gay novel grounded at $12.50 For the Women Mitchell is young, African American, edu- in the Afrocentric experience and the first A little more explicit than Colt's Leather There are fewer calendars especially for cated and Gay. He works on a magazine, lives novel to look at B-boy culture, which is an calendar, is The Wild Ones from Renegade women than those that appeal primarily to in a nice Manhattan apartment and runs around important component of the image and ideol- Studios. Here you find leather attire as well, men, but there is one I want to bring to your with a group of men like himself. ogy of many Gay and Bisexual men of African but the theme is dominance vs submission. It attention. He has flings with two other B-boys, then descent. sells for $15. That is one called Lesbian Couples of meets Raheim, the man of his dreams in this The book touches on issues of masculinity, The Tom of Finland calendar is certainly Southeast Wisconsin. first-rate love story. sexuality, homophobia and self-love in the worth a look. The Tom of Finland Company This black and white wall calendar features Supporting characters--Raheim's son and Black community. It gives contemporary fic- as assembled some of the world famous artist's photographs and printed stories of Lesbian re- Mitchell's family and work friends--add to the tion one of its very first authentic African finest and most erotic work for this calendar. lationships from the Milwaukee area and ex- plot and the realism as Hardy reveals must American Gay romances. It ells for $9.50. hibits, in my opinion, the strength and diver- about what happens when two cultures meet This feels like a masterpiece of both African Cosmopolitan Men put out by Landmark sity of Lesbian relationships in this part of the and more about diversity than you get in di- American and Gay literatures. November 24, 1994--December 7, 1994--WISCONSIN LIGHT--13 V - WISCONSIN LIGHT PERSONALS

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(Call Thru) Box# 3143 23 good-looking, trim, 1-900-344-6020ext hairy, open-minded. Willing to get Shawn, 19, BM, fun-loving, ISO dominant, masculine, 24 hrs/day, 7 days touch tone required must be IS 1-900-976-1155, ext 22 into anything that makes you feel good. Box# 2957 muscular, intimate tops. (Call Thru) Box# 7280 24 hrs/day. 7 days, touch tone GWM, Cory, 18, romantic, looking for fun. (Call Thru) Peter, ISO bottoms for party, enjoys movies, heavy metal to dance music, for required. must be $1.95/min good times. I'm very sexy and 18 Mega900 Wilm DE Box# 2313 sensual (Call Thru) Box# 2347 dating, poss. serious rd., no game players or sex-only callers. Box# 7205 Shaun, 27, GWM, 5'9, 160, very muscular, 43" chest, 31" Mike, 28, 5'11, 200, handsome, ISO handsome man for ing, clubs, etc. (Call Thru) Box# 8936 waist, attractive, short dark hair, clean shaven, ISO WM fun. Box# 4679 Willy, you can call me Bill, 25, ISO another guy 19-28, any 28 or younger. (Call Thru) Box# 5435 race for hot fun. (Call Thru) Box# 9549 David, nice, very hairy, 5'9, I am looking for a honest, Spanish guy, 148, ISO males 20 +. Box# 6226 loyal, respectable relationship with the right man. Box# Lee, extremely fun and exactly what you want. Box# Jeff, 19, blonde hair, green eyes, ISO guy to hang out with. 2700 1752 Chris, bi-BM, very straight-looking/acting, enjoys skiing, (Call Thru) Box# 8161 movies, travel. ISO someone with similar interests who is Michael, 32, GWM, ISO guy for relationship, no games. Brad, ISO top M. (Call Thru) Box# 9818 straight-acting and looking as well. Box# 1778 Charles, ISO good stable relationship and friendship, any (Call Thru) Box# 8812 race, age, and color. What's on the inside is important to Gene, 5'11, 210, chubby teddy bear, smooth legs, love GWM, bottom, 53, 250, masculine, clean, discreet, ISO me. (Call Thru) Box# 3443 Joe, GWM, 41, 6'1, 185, nice body, well-hung, like 69, hot lace, ISO mature top man, 50 or over, for long-term top guy, beard and mustache a plus, attr., 35-50, any race, oral sex. Box# 8561 relationship. Box# 7877 no bums/fems/alcoholics. Bi's welcome also. (Call Thru) GBM, light complexion, 5'8 1/2, 155, 30, boy next door Box# 6450 type, ISO GM's. My name is Quinton, you can call me Q. Mark, short, stocky, Hispanic bottom boy, ISO hot mid- GWM, 41, (look younger), ISO guy, 19-30 for good hot (Call Thru)Box# 1762 western top boy. (Call Thru) Box# 2146 times. (Call Thru) Box# 8955 Dave, very attr., 30, prof., 6'4, 190, bm. hr., blue eyes, affectionate, down to earth, enjoys photography, sci-fi, Danny, 32, 5'10, 155, long blonde hair, green eyes, clean Joe, BM, 29, ISO other BM, I like the outdoors and I am Michael, GWM, ISO another GM. Box# 6562 shave, mother says I'm too cute to be gay, enjoys sports, down to earth. 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