, $1.50 . No.9 August 21 1989 . NEW YORK'S ... ~~~~~ - LESBIAN AND GAY NEWS ~ -- MAGAZINE.;.....;~------ THE GAY CANDIDATES - ~i NEWS 10 HEALTH Political Science' (Harrington) 26 AIDS Treatment News (Smyth) 28 . THE ARTS GEARING UP FOR THE GAMES photo: Jim Marks 50 peg. 36. Film Parenthood s•• Film Lockup 52 Feat-ures Performance Penny Arcade 53 Books A Visitation of Spirits 54 Books PeNerts by Official Order 55 DEPARTMENTS Outspoken (Editorial) 4 'Letters 6 Sotomayor 6 Freak of the Week 7 THE CANDID CANDIDATES Xeroxed 9 Sandor Katz TalksTo Dave Taylor and Tom Dykes to Watch Out For (Bechdel) 22 Duane 32 Ray Navarro 29 Out of Control (Day) 30 GAY GAMES III Look Out 42 Out Of My Hands (Ball) 44 Jim Marks Takes A Look At Vancouver A Gossip Watch (Signori/e) 45 Year Before The Action Begins 36 Social Terrorism (Conrad) 46 Community Directory 56 GIRL WATCHING Classifieds 57 AT THE RACCOON LODGE Personals 62 Mona Feigenbaum Searches For Sisterfire Going Out Calendar (X) 74 48 Best Bets (X) 76 Sports (Ham/in) 78 On The Cover: Tom Duane and Dave Taylor Crossword (Greco) 80 photographed by Michael Datoli Hot Shot (Conrad) 82 really revolting. I am LETTERS astounded to see lesbian/ TO THE EDITOR gay papers taking their ads-like this full page spread in the August 1989 PEN PAL act to buy OutWeek every issue of Sappho' 5 /5/e, a No one is rooting more week and urge my friends to metro lesbian paper. Whdh<ron ..... for the success of OutWeek do so. I also explain to news- in a can or bottle Whenever I'm in a than I. New York desperately dealers they would make supermarket, I always flip needs a responsible lesbian many r:nore impulse pur- open a few tops on Coors and gay weekly that Is chase sales if they displayed six-packs, rendering them respected and gives value OutWeek more prominently. unsalable and sending a to our community. Now after all that praise IT'S THE small message to Coors that RJGHTBEER During the early 1980s I have a criticism of Out- NOW! we're not so easily bought. the Native was truly informa- Week. Why do you publish So it's especially disturbing to tive and inspiring with articles only a handful of "Letters to open a gay paper and see by the fearless and inim- the Editor' in each issue? CUT THE COORS Coors' full page propagan- itable Larry Kramer, and Drs. San Francisco's Bay Area I couldn't agree more da, like everything isOK. Lawrence Mass and Dan Reporter had nineteen let- with your cartoon about Wake up, folks. The William, among others. ters in a recent issue. An Coors beer. Despite their Coors boycott isstill on. Unfortunately in recent expanded letters section efforts to brighten up their C.M. Jones years, the Native has can be exciting and fun and image, Coors still provides Manhattan become a divisive and neg- provide a stimulating com- vast amounts of money to ative force with its nasty per- munity forum for differences fundamentalist and conser- UNION SUPPORT sonal attacks on anyone of opinion both serious and vative causes, most of them As a member of a labor who dares disagree with its frivolous. anti-gay. union, a trustee of a Union theories about the causes of Hal Bramson I find their occasional Local and a delegate to a AIDSand the value of AlT. Manhattan efforts to sponsor gay events District Council I wrote to the I consider it a political and advertise in gay media president of the AFL/CIO by Daniel Sotomayer .........~ j .' y ~ • I' ". .' . l., 1"'. II 'I \, 'j'- '.. '. ,',_ - I " AIDI 6 OUTTWEEK August 21, 1989 and asked that the AFL/CIO amount of national interest who may have been insult- ty by attacking the very peo- support the Lesbian and Gay and research into the con- ed by my use of this emo- ple I need and want to work Civil Rights Bill,also known as nection between these two tion-laden word. I have the with. I appreciate OutWeek's the Civil Rights Amendment diseases as there is with HIV utmost respect and admira- willingness to publish my pre- Act of 1989 (HR 655) and (5 and AIDS. However, it has tion for the advancements vious letter, which has made 47). been incredibly frustrating to and accomplishments the me aware of my error in writ- To my surprise the find most gays (even those Black community has made ing it. and, hopefully, AFL/CIO responded that with AIDS) having little inter- in the past decades, and I returned to me a sense of they would indeed support est in investigating causes hope our community will one humility which I prefer to HR655 and 547. and solutions to AIDS other day soon emulate their suc- operate with. As author of I believe that that than those we are spoon-fed cess. the manuscript "Syphilis as makes the AFL/CIO the by our government. Why we As for Mr. Miller describ- AIDS,' and founder of the largest group in the country should trust a government ing me as being volatile and Gay and Lesbian Communi- to support the Lesbian and that has promoted our confrontational. I take those ty Center and Gay and Les- Gay Civil RightsAct, repression from its inception labels to be compliments. bian Community Hotline of Jim Noel is beyond me. While I am We are faced with the most greater Miami. I have invest- San Diego not, as Mr, Miller implied, a devastating attack against ed a lot of love and energy racist. I believe that we are our community since Adolf into our community. Along GUO GLITCH repressed by the same big- Hitler's murderous reign. If the way I have had success I am happy to see a oted mentality which once silence equals death, then I and made mistakes. I have new lesbian and gay maga- repressed Blacks (and still gladly expressmy love for life learned from my past mis- zine serving the New York does): socialized ignorance with my volatility. I do, how- takes, as I hove learned from Community and wish you and hatred. Thus, my use of ever, apologize for directing the mistake I made in writing every success. the word "nigger' was in ref- my confrontational attitude my previous letter to Out- I enjoyed your article on erence to our being where at OutWeek magazine. I Week. New5day by Chris Bull in the the Black community once have, as Mr. Miller said, done Robert Ben Mitchell issue of July 31st. However, was. I apologize to anyone a disservice to our communi- Miami Allen Roskoff, while a mem- ber of Gay and Lesbian Independent Democrats, does not speak publicly for the organization and any views expressed by him are his own, Thank you for this opportunity for clarification. John Magisano, Acting President Gay & Lesbian Inde- pendent Democrats Manhattan VIVE OufWeek Welcome to your new publication. I've been read- ing the Native for a while and I'm happy there's a new paper, I'm the only goy journalist (French-speaking) in Quebec following the whole debate on AIDS. Long life to you and Vive la Liberation Gaie G. Paller Quebec SORRY I WROTE I appreciate Mr. Miller's This week's winner is disco-evangelist Donna (I Can't Apologize For accuracy in describing me What I Never Said) Summer, who now says that (even though we all know as a frustrated writer. I hove what she said) she didn't really say it and she can't apologize for what she been researching syphilis now says she never said, and by the way, praise Jesus, Fine. We can't play and AIDS for two years, and records we never buy. Or dance to songs we never listen to. hove found enough informa- tion to justify the same ~~ MEMORY eyes of the law, considered does outside, the jail system. issue no. 7 your "Best Bets' O~? ~ecent visit to t~ teo be a felony, visitors are Kay Glidden for dancing on page 70 has Oscar Mld~ Memorial Bo~, prohibited from bringing Manhattan the same two listsbut only a Shop Il!)bs~rved an advel' condoms for the inmates. slight change. One list has tisemeJ1ltI\r the 2nd yeQI Bringing condoms becomes OISCO OEBATE dancing for both men and annivelS~ of the Nationq rhe moral equivalent of I am concerned about women and your other list Gay aOdL~sbian March QlI bringing weapons in that it is your page regarding the blatantly states "women ~.(I$gen as aiding and abetting "Best Bets' for dancing spec- preferred' or in other words em inmate in an illegal act. ifying which clubs cater "women only-if you don't Complicating the more toward a male or mind.' situation is something of a female clientele. Disenfranchising your cat-and-dog fight between In issuenO.6 on page 62 male readers perpetuates New York City's Department you quite fairly give equal the problem of sexism. You of Health (DOH) and the space for those designated should present your material Department of Corrections clubs offering male and without such references. ([DOC), both of whom share female dancing, Evidently Richard A. Berglund . ,'. rresponsibility for the distribu- somebody wasn't content Murray Hill "",j£? '1<)'.t(ion program. with this arrangement, In Washl~OO), Not so! 1987.1: So, although it is all but anythl09, ~as the 59con/J $hut down by an unimagina- gay ~~ I~sbian march a,, tlive delivery system and Washlr1Qt~.