Feminism & the Politics of Sex
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Sentinel Sports Editor Duke Joyce gives you a front-row, reserved box look at the opening ceremonies and first round championship play with our special coverage that begins on page 10. A rt ...................... 23 Film 24 FEMINISM & FullFrame 28 Pop 22 R ock.....................26 THE POLITICS OF SEX Rock Previews 27 Second Glance 25 In three articles Contributing Editor Camille Roy examines Theatre................. 21 current controversies surrounding sex and feminism 17-20 Week at a Glance .29 Sunday, September 6 1987 Seven Pm CLVB D V s mTH haring room < s , ‘V I (. l \ l C,Y teanie Tracy M USIC Ralph Zepeda u c h t i n g Jimmy Hord t i c k e t s Eight DolJars B ASS 'He a d l i n e s TI,E KECORp 1«)U) 2 San Francisco Sentinel • September 4, 1987 man Bill Filante (R-Marin), the state Department of Health Services would be State May Test and instructed to begin reviewing applica tions by drug firms in California to allow the testing of experimental AIDS License AIDS Drugs drugs. Drugs that prove effective would eventually be licensed for sale in the by Charles Linebarger state. Said Van de Kamp, “AB 1952 will make California the first state in the na Impatient with the pace of federal efforts to test and license tion to test and license experimental AIDS drugs independently of the feder new AIDS drugs, a bipartisan coalition of California al Food and Drug Administration." legislators held a news conference in Sacramento on Monday, Van de Kamp went on to say that the calling for the state to begin its own program of testing and Department of Health Services will report back to the legislature on July I, licensing experimental AIDS drugs. 1988, on the progress of its drug testing “There will be two places where this tht political spectrum, from liberal program. bill will echo like a thunderbolt." said Democrats to conservative Republi Van de Kamp said the bill would be Attorney General John Van de Kamp, cans, including Senator John Doolittle seen by the federal medical establish the chief sponsor of the bill, “ In the cor (R-Citrus Heights) whose own AIDS ment as an “extraordinary state in ridors of the federal medical bureau package went down to defeat in the tervention on what is normally federal cracy and in the hearts of AIDS victims Assembly Health Committee last turf, and they will be right," said the at everywhere." month. torney general. “ In the face of an ex Van de Kamp was surrounded at the Under the bill, which was introduced traordinary medical emergency, busi- news conference by legislators ranging on Van de Kamp’s behalf by Assembly Contlnued on page 12 every two to four weeks. Another team Therapy Update at San Francisco General is conducting a separate preventive study, expected to enroll up to 400 patients. Meanwhile Aerosol Pentamidine physicians, especially in New York and San Francisco, are already prescribing by John S. James the preventive treatment for their pa tients. Last week physicians at San Francisco General Hospital and For preventive use, many different the University of California San Francisco Medical Center doses are being tried — 30 mg, 45,60, published the first article on aerosol pentamidine inhalation 90, even 150, at different schedules varying from once a week to once every JtUo Biafra meets the press tad vows to continue his fight against censorship therapy to appear in a medical journal {Lancet, August 29, four weeks. The Sentinel asked Dr. al his SOMA news conference Monday. 1987). The Sentinel interviewed A. Bruce Montgomery, M .D., Montgomery, an expert in inhalation a principal investigator in this study, in order to answer some therapy, to help resolve the confusion about doses common among patients Biaf ra Blasts widespread questions about this anti-pneumocystis treatment and physicians. He made the following which is already well known in the community. points; • Most importantly, doses cannot be Censorship Pneumocystis usually infects only the was successful; of the other two, one compared across different nebulizers by Tom AUeman air sacs of the lungs. Physicians have died and one was switched to other (the machines which make the aerosol long injected pentamidine as a standard pneumocystis treatments and recov mist). The size of the droplets produced Incendiary leader of the now-defunct Dead Kennedys — and pneumocystis treatment, but when ad- • ered. Except for coughing, no one had is more important in determining the ef ministered this way the drug causes | any side effects attributed to the treat fective dose than the amount of pen ad-hoc leader of rock’s counterinsurgency against right-wing severe side effects and often must be I ment. tamidine in the nebulizer. censorship in high places — Jello Biafra came in from the discontinued. Scientists found that very j In addition to the 15 patients in the • Most nebulizers in common use do not storm this Monday to describe its ravages to assembled I ittle of the injected pentamidine went to study, three others were also given the make a fine enough spray. Most make the lungs where it was useful; most went aerosol because they could not tolerate droplets about five microns in diameter. newspeople and to give warning that, far from being spent, elsewhere in the body where it did no I other pneumocystis treatments. All However, animal studies in San Fran that tempest has just moved on toward victims less feisty and good and could be harmful. But when three recovered. cisco have shown that pentamidine is made into a fine mist and inhaled, j Aerosol pentamidine also reduced the three times as effective if the droplets are articulate than San Francisco’s favorite punk patriot. almost all of the medicine went to the j average length of hospital stay to eight reduced to less than two microns. Most With four associates from the Dead in Judge Susan IsacofTs court with lungs and stayed there, greatly reducing days, from two to three weeks for com of the large droplets are deposited in the Kennedys. Biafra had been charged in outright agreement, a wide enough the side effects. parable patients treated with standard airways of the lung rather than the air LA, in June 1986, with violation of a berth of tolerance was afforded so that The Lancet article reports the results ! therapies. sacs, where the pheumocystis organism state penal code section that prohibits on Thursday afternoon, August 27, of treating 15 patients who had already j lives. And large doses with the wrong the distribution of harmful materials to Biafra's jury announced a deadlock — developed mild to moderate pneumo- j Use for Prevention droplet size could cause severe coughing minors, a misdemeanor that carries seven for dismissal and five for convic cystis. Aerosolized pentamidine in large | The Lancet article does not discuss or possibly asthma-type reactions, a possible fine of $2,000 and a max tion. Over LA City Attorney Michael doses was the sole treatment for 21 days. preventive use of aerosol pentamidine because the form of pentamidine cur- imum sentence of one year in jail. The Gaurino’s petition for a rehearing. Judge In 13 of the 15 patients the treatment j —which uses much smaller doses, given Continued on page 10 focus of the charge was a poster, en Isacoff dismissed all charges against closed in the band’s 1985Frankenehrist Biafra and his remaining co-defendant, album. The poster was designed by Michael Bonanno. renowned German artist H.R. Gigcr — The decision, though a clear victory “Even though our charges were dropped, / have been punished for a year and a half now.” — Biafra whose set design for the fAm Alien won for first-amendment watchdogs, was a him an Academy Award in 1980 — and bittersweet one for Biafra. “Even though depicts a lockstep menage of erect our charges were dropped," Biafra penises penetrating vaginas; a single, said, "I have in fact been punished for a ironic condom is in evidence, glowing year and a half now. I’ve had constant if on its member above the muted, gun- not total disruption of my time; I don’t metal blue “ Penis Landscape.’’ have a band anymore. It may take years “ I think the poster drove home many to pick up the pieces. of the main points the album was trying “ It’s a royal pain to me to have to to make,” Biafra told reporters take every bit of visual and recorded art gathered in the South of Market offices work I intend to make to a lawyer, to of his record company, Alternative Ten - have him go over it with a fine-toothed tacles. “The American experience is comb first. I know of no other recording right now a vicious circle of greed, a artist who has everything screened by consumer culture that we all find lawyers before it goes out. ourselves caught up in. So here we are as “ This is why artists have to continue people, preoccupied with screwing each to fight this harassment, because any other, in more ways than one. What time people have to think twice about Cheerleaders for the SF Band Foundation kick up their heeb during last Sunday’s softball game between the Band better way to portray that than the what they’re going to say with a record Foundation and the SF Gay Mens Chorus. The Gay Men’s Chorus woa the game that raised funds for the two ugliest way possible?” or a news article or a painting or a film, organizations. While these sentiments were not met that in itself is censorship.” ■ o San Francisco Sentinel • September 4, 1987 3 I porting.