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Wednesday, March 27 ..•••.•.~•l and April 3 Jerry HAllidAY, Lolli, VOLUME 22, NUMBER 3 MARCH 22-28, 1996 Joan &. Bette 13 THEATRE Hidden: A Gender at Frontera in Austin Reviewed by Bruce Williams 16 VIEWPOINT Morrison Case Shows Need for HIV Testing in Boxing by Bruce Williams 25 HISTORY The Day A Dallas Mayor Visited DGPC by Don Baker 30 FRESH BEATS Kristine W:s New Single, Mones Next #1, Kelee's Remixes by Jimmy Smith 37 CURRENT EVENTS 49 BACKSTAGE Frankly. 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The opening-night show March 15 was a full house - and the audience included the REVIEWED BY BRUCE WILLIAMS author, who was seeing her work for the first time as a viewer instead of as a Austin Produrtion ot Kat, 8ornst,in's participant. HIOO£N: A G£NO£A "I was asked to write a play about trans- sexuals; they knew I was one," Bornstein Mtlds Humor, Insight Into said in a post-show Q&A with the cast and Tbought-Prouoking Look At Oitttrtntts, production team. "I wanted to shake things up. I wanted the actual experience of the Samtn,ss And On,n,ss play to blur, to crash into itself and crash the audience .... 1 was just amazed, grati- fied by tonight's performance; it just blew me away." The play centers around vignettes and monologues describing the lives of Her- culine (Paula Rester), in the mid-19th cen- tury, and of Herman (julienne hannah goins), in our day. Herculine was a real-life French person, desiqnated a girl at birth in t'samazing to think that a playas well- 1838 and redesignated male at age 22 for Iwritten, thought-provoking and down- being a hermaphrodite, born with ambigu- $1.00 right enjoyable as Hidden: A Gender has ous genitalia. Herculine become Abel; over languished on theatre catalogue shelves a century later, Herman becomes Kate, for nearly seven years, unused and unap- undergoing genital conversion surgery to WELLJ)RJINKS preciated. So the issue of intersexuals and let out the true person Herman/Kate be- transsexuals and gender blur makes some lieves him/herself to be. $1.51 people uncomfortable; that's what good art What could be a tragic, technical tale is should be about, challenging the borders lightened with humor and irony by L.C. Lo: and the preconceived notions. And in a "Doc" Grinder (Missy Thomas), the emcee time of movies like Priscilla and To Wong of the stories, who offers up a seductive Foo, Hidden: A Gender is a tale whose elixir called Gender Defender to enlighten time has definitely come. and relieve others of the confusions Her- The play was written and first produced culine and Herman must face. "Don't cross in 1989 by Kate Bornstein, a male-to- the line," Grinder warns us, saying we'll female postoperative transsexual lesbian then become victims of Gender Blur. But writer, performer and activist. It toured for a then the show goes on to teach us why about a year, then quietly faded onto the maybe that wouldn't be such a bad thing, if back shelves while Bornstein went on to the prejudices and preconceived notions other efforts, like her book Gender Outlaw: can just be conquered or put aside. On Men, Women and the Rest of Us. Thomas and Ehren Christian play nu- It was Austin's Jules Odendahl who de- merous supporting characters here, with cided a year ago to resurrect and direct the Thomas also constantly switching back to play locally, in partial fulfillment of a master the Grinder persona. Christian has one of of fine arts in directing degree at the Uni- the show's slickest and funniest mono- versity of Texas-Austin. Odendahl assem- logues as a strict teacher lecturing on pro- bled a stellar cast of four talented and nouns and genders, a piece worthy of the brave actors, they put things together in level of Abbott & Costello's "Who's On just four weeks and last Friday gave the First" routine: "I has no gender, and neither PAGE 12 TWT MARCH 22 - MARCH 281996 one whose life touches yours gets the infection. Morrison is the third world-class athlete in recent years to announce he's been found to be HIV-positive. Basketball player Earvin "Magic" Johnson of the Los Angeles Lakers and Olympic diving gold medalist Greg Louganis preceded Morrison into this unwanted spotlight, and each has become a vociferous spokesman on the issue, helping to spread much-needed education and awareness about HIV and AIDS. BY BRUCE WILLIAMS Professional boxing is a sport that would highly benefit from mandatory testing of its participants for HIV. Bloody fights are fairly common, as an unintentional sudden hit- :y ting of heads might at any time cut one or both boxers. The exchange of blood in the heat of action through such cuts is highly possible - and that's one of the very few ways the HIV virus can be transmitted from person to person. A slim chance. A never-proven possibili- ty. A hypothetical thing. But these are peo- ple's lives we're dealing with, and giving participants as much safety as possible is one of the things organizers try to provide :oxers in boxing.