, $1.50 . No.9 August 21 1989 . NEW YORK'S ... ~~~~~ - LESBIAN AND GAY NEWS ~ -- MAGAZINE.;.....;~------THE GAY CANDIDATES - ~i
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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
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~. The first marCI bureaucratic bickering, was onDcIi"'ober 14, 1979, there is a rudimentary con- F,Wenc'~h dom-distribution program on Xeroxed MiT'l~ttan [{?ikersIsland.And that makes New York one of only five ~IKEI~RSRULES cities in the United States HORSE TALE? one of those "perverts: con- In~1S~rticle concernirj.Jwhich has even acknowl- Senator JesseHelms demned, no doubt, to burn conddfl d.lllstribution in tt-/! edged the existence of con- United States Senate eternally in Hellfor hiswicked Sa~ Frmcl,t'isco jail systerr s~nsual sexual activity in the Washington, DC 20510 sexual deviance, Keith e1a!l'i1
8 113 OlYTlhTWEEK i~t21, 1989 mous photo. "He know our locating candidates right Tomchin, Judge Failla. Ms, comprehend. Does your horsey-porsey game too: I away. Tisch, Mr. Watters. Mr. Spec- incompetence know no exclaimed to Leonard, for- In speaking to Mr. tor, Mr. See, Mr. Bloom, Mr. bounds? By next January, getting for a moment that Sweeney, I somehow sur- Pepper, Ms. Grande LeVine, when we are told the new he had passed away many mised that the leading Ms. Weeks, Ms. Peabody. Mr. executive director will at years earlier, candidate for one of the Johnston, Mr. Sweeney, Ms. last. mirabile dictu. be in positions was Jeff Levi. for- Barsin,Mr.SoreL Mr. Grant-: place, there will be no merly the executive director have you all gone out of employees left for him/her of the National Gay and your fucking minds? to direct. Lesbian Task Force and his- In hiring Mr. Levi. you And, judging from this torically one of the most hove chosen one of the gay hideous decision of Mr, outspoken opponents of the community's most reckless Sweeney's,. I can only trem- release of such treatments. I zealots in his condemnation ble over what additional begged Mr. Sweeney, not of the early release of egregious mistakes await us once but twice, as I then experimental drugs! And yet during these coming months fervently begged Ms. Tom- it is the speedier release of of his "acting' executive chin, not three times but just these drugs that you are directorship. four, not to make such an hiring him to effect. Are you But to the more imme- unwise selection. insane? diate problem, that of Mr. Whether or not these Not only was my In hiring Mr. Levi. you Levi. with whom you are at photos are works of art, Sen- advice not followed, but no have done the equivalent this moment bonded in idio- ator Helms, I will leave to one at GMHC had the cour- of hiring Jesse Helms to look cy, I can only conclude by your expert opinion, But cer- tesy to network or consult out for the interests of once again begging you tainly this isnot pornography. with ACT UP, with Project Robert Mappelthorpe. Of (though I should know by It is merely an enjoyable Inform, with AmFAR, with hiring an antisemite to lobby now that begging you is as fanily game, and one that I any of the other community for the interests of the Jews. stupid as you are) to swal- hope will bring many representatives or organiza- Of hiring a pro-lifer to whip low your undeserved pride evenings of enjoyment to tions that have been lead- up votes for those fervently' and return him to retire- you and your lovely wife. ing the fight in this area, and believing in pro-choice. ment. He knows nothing Keep up the fine work, with whom, presumably, In hiring Mr. Levi. you about treatment issues; he and please do give my very your representative would have employed someone has said all the wrong things best to the President. hove to cooperate. whom Dr. Barry Gingell, your about them all too publicly Very TrulyYours, On this very day that much beloved - and in the past, in so doing earn- Mrs.PriscillaPettyjohn Mr. Levi's appointment has missed - Medical Director, ing the obviously unabated been made publicly known, personally considered off- anger of those of us who KRAMERVI. GMHC I have received, at last the-wall and blatantly do; and by the copies of this Board of Directors count, twelve phone calls destructive to progress on letter sent to those enumer- Gay Men's Health Crisis,Inc. from these organizations this issue Barry fought for to ated below may it be and from community lead- his last dying minute. known that not only does Ladies & Gentlemen: ers asking if GMHC has gone In hiring Mr. Levi. you Mr. Levi have no right to On June 26th, I made a out of its collective mind, have made yourself a speak in behalf of the gay written presentation to the When I have confessed that laughing stock. community and enjoys pre- Board, imploring you to I have responsibility for your And you do so at a cious little confidence in it, immediately hire two full- egregious error-in that had time when your own organi- this particular member of time employees to help join I not made my imprecations zation is in a disarray that the gay community thinks with other AIDS advocacy for help to you in the first grows more tragically farci- that Mr. Sweeney and the groups in the fight foremost place, you would have cal with each moment. How Board of Gay Men's Health on our immediate agen- done nothing at all, and Mr, sixteen grown men and Crisis (Joy Tomchin, Presi- da-making the parallel Levi would have continued women can take nine dent) are-one and all of track release of experimen- on in his much-deserved months to find a new exec- you-out of your fucking tal drug treatments that the retirement from public utive director defies com- pea-brained minds, government is now propos- life-my own sanity was also prehension-even if there Larry Kramer ing as fast a reality as called into question. Evi- were no epidemic raging in humanly possible. dently my still-held belief the streets and killing us so MASS APPEAL I was gratified to hear that GMHC can, when swiftly. How sixteen grown Letters to the Editor in short order from your pres- beseeched, occasionally men and women can allow The New YorkTimes ident. Joy Tomchin, that a put a foot in the right place, the organization they are commitment was quickly even in the arena of actual pledged to supervise deteri- Dear Editor, made to do so, and that Tim political fighting, is not orate to the point it now I was disturbed and Sweeney, your former shared by many others on has-wherein staff morale is saddened to discover Eliza- deputy director of policy the front line of this battle. at an all-time low and peo- beth M. Whelan's assault on and now acting executive I would like to ask each ple are resigning left and director, would commence and every one of you-: Ms, right-also is impossible to continued on page 49
August21. 1989 OUTTWEEK 9 News Hoax Alleged in S.F. Anti-Gay Attack MCC Pastor Lynn Griffis Resigns & Leaves City in Emerging Scandal raised suggesting Griffis may have faked a reported first assault on her, and may have been responsible for a rash of death threats against her and other MCCclergy. On Friday, August 4, MCC pastor Jim Mitulski and San Francisco Police Chief Frank Jordan held a hastily scheduled press conference to con- firm that indeed there were conflicts over Griffis' original police statement and physical evidence gathered in the case, and that Griffis' resignation from MCC had been accepted. On July 27 Griffis reported to police that she had been forced at knife-point into an automobile in broad daylight and brutally assaulted by two men whom she described as "skinheads." According to Griffis' report at the time, the two men had threatened to "finish the job next MYSTERY ATTACK Photo: Barbara J. Maggiani time" after cutting her breasts with a MCC Minister Lynn Griffis knife and beating her. "They specifically stated that San by Keith Clark came unwillingly to the attention of Francisco is not our city anymore,· SAN FRANCISCO-Lynn Griffis, the the press again here in early August Griffis said at a press conference here assistant pastor at the Metropolitan as rumors began surfacing that ele- July 30, "and that they would kill us Community Church (MCC) in Sah ments of her reported second assault all one by one; that the govern- Francisco who made national news in were inconsistent with police evi- ment-if you can call it a govern- late July following reports of a kid- dence in the case, ment-is spending too much money napping and second brutal assault, Recent questions have also been on a disease that we brought on our-
- _.' credentials as a student minister. "She would have be fired," Mitulski said.
• 0Griffis reportedly stands by her version of the but told police she wanted investigators to dose their into the two reported assaults. In a telephone inte_ _" from her family's home in Cozad, Nebraska, Gri(fis'1s . reportedly told the San Francisco Sentinel, "The poJice$ay I'm lying. I say, prove it," She reportedly added, "I( thiS gcx:sto court a Jot of people are going to be hurt" JQuriltj ists'from other papers, including the San Francisco 'E.x41iiiit.· er, which sent two reporters to Cozad, were unable to contact GriffIS,either by phone or in person. At lhe~me press conference, MCC Rever~nd Jim -Keltbaark ski~id th~ Griffis "lied in ahig way" about her MCC
10 OUTTWEEK August 21, 1989 selves," On July 12 Griffis had reported a previous anti-gay assault. She said she had been hit in the face with a shovel by an assailant at her home where someone had scrawled "Die With Your Fags" on a wall in her garage. Griffis received eight stitches in her face. The brutality of the two attacks, their apparent anti-gay nature as 'Griff- is detailed them, and an alleged long- distance death threat Griffis said she received while she was in Minneapo- lis recovering after the first attack, caused Police Chief Jordan to give the case top priority status and to call in the FBI. Mayor Art Agnos increased a $S,OOOreward connected with the first reported assault to $10,000 after Griff- is reported the second assault. Out- FACING THE PRESS Photo: Rink Foto raged over the reported second PoliclI Chill' F,ank Jordan, MCC Ministll' Jim Mitulski and CUAVs Mlllinda Pa,as assault, some 2S0-300 angry people marched from the largely gay Castro Applrent Inaccuracies istrative leave over apparent inaccura- to the Haight-Ashbury district where MCC's Mitulski said. Griffis cies in her original report of the Griffis lived in a demonstration called resigned from the church August 3 assault to police. "The church has a lot by ACT UP/SF to protest anti-les- only two hours after the church board of compassion for Lynn," Mitulski said. bian/gay violence here, of directors had placed her on admin- "And whatever the truth is in this situ-
'::":""~:.'::~<:;"':: . .::~"~:,:)::,:\;%1·q(,y~~*:. has l?rought qrif'f'IS'reports in~;:~uestioni Ix>th~ice;'~~; MCC's Mltulskf'have refused' t~'Comment, claiming th~y could not discU~sthe matter while a formal investigation SANFRANCISCO-Communlty reactionS to the Griffis case was still going on because it might "compromise GriffIS' have rang~ from suggestions that the FBI has purposefully due process rights." The. question for some l'S0ple here br<>!;'gh~ ~~!{Us's~ory ~tQ~~?~t~, o!?<;£to discredit he~, ~n. has beco~e: Does hol~~g ;pres.!!.~nfert~i;,~'1 and the aU~ged assaultsF~~i£9t1~lS.m ()f MCC's failure t? pubhcly que~p?n Qot only Gqffts'{verslOn,9f,tl:i¢,;i~econd detect w~~ they now adrntt are senous problems for their assault but alSo whether eIther assault actually tooK place, former assistant pastor, to theories that Griffis' story is without diSclosing any hard evidence, also cOmpromise her being ,publicly disparaged with her own approval as a due process rigllts? "smoke screen" to lure the a~eged assailants"into somehow Police h;lVedeclined to comment altog~dlerlfMitul~k~, revealingthemseIves. . .i". .. ,." ...... ' however, said tpe Augu~t 4.Pf~ con(erencr,whe{<:,{:inJoo3i "I just dorft believe someone theY're bow claiming is a sistencies" in Gf'iffJS' originaJ stOry. abOut the secdrla as,saulf pathological liar and obyiously a seriously mentally were first publicly revealed ·was necessary becau~ the deranged person could get theology degrees from two information [about the '!nconsi~«fucies'Jwas leakirig.out: schools, work under weekly' supervision at the church But gushing rather than leaking might be a better word [MCCl for a rear and a~lf and then fake two serious for how rumors were flowing here reportedly as early as., assaults :;ith~t someone,~w~~re along the way notic., August I-three days before}t:q~ police I'.ress~;sonference ing Sl:lC:i'S' nuts," said T. Da:vid Smith, who described himself ....and two days before Gtlff'is41erself was co~rq.nted by as "just an ordinary faggot living in the Castro," Thus far, police and community leaaers with ..tl:ieincons~t~cies in neither the police, the FBI ....nor the MCChave revealed any her story.' hard evide,nce discrediting Griffis' stories or proving that According to one staff member who did not want to she has lied .' .'? .....• .' be identified, the San Franciscofen~inel wasge.~~g p¥ne Smith,>Hkeothers ~.~;cOmmunityher~,. haVe raised calls as early ~ .•..J~.esday, .t\p~~~l!about .~prg~~~Hv,ritq questions about MCC's rapld'about-face ?n QrUflS'credibil- the Griffis~e"kndthat the.~Htce of the liak~:iy,.as ari'it ity based ,so far on ·physical evidence" and uPersonal infor- unnamed offtcee in the police dbpartment. Sentitiefnews mation- which police, Mitulski and other MCC staff refuse editor Daniel WllIson was unahilable for comment on the to make public. report and police officials declined comment. Wheri*asJeed about the .informatiOOillnd evidence that -K~ltbam-i w -. ih. @"'~m -~;i ·" ..;:!F:/~i:t::@@i%r wt
August 21, 1989 OUTTWEEK 11 ation, we want to know what the truth source, who spoke on condition of extensive interviews of residents in"'1 is. Right now we don't know the truth, anonymity, said that Griffis was "too the area of the alleged assault. but we know it's different from the ashamed to admit that part of the According to police officials, it is stories that were originally reported." assault had also been rape." "extremely unusual" for no one to At the August 4 press conference at San Francisco police are now have seen or heard anything under police headquarters here, Mitulski,Jor- checking Griffis' second account of the circumstances Griffis had outlined dan, Melinda Paras of Community Unit- the incident. "We have some doubts," to them about the alleged attack. ed Against Violence (CUAV),and newly chief Jordan said of Griffis' second In addition, police forensic appointed police commissioner Gwenn statement about the assault. "At this experts said the damage to Griffis' Craig reported on a meeting held the time we have no reason to believe clothing and the wounds to her day before with Griffis.At that meeting [the first assault report] is not valid, breasts didn't match the first account police say they confronted GriffIs with but that will be re-evaluated too," Griffis gave of the assault, and police "inconsistencies" in her story. Jordan also said the FBI will play solirces said they have concluded "When we brought up what we only a small role in the police investi- Giffis' wounds were in fact self-inflict- thought was conflicting evidence and gation. FBI spokespersons here ed. With Griffis' new version of the that clarifIcation needed to be made, declined all comment on the case at assault, however, police say they will her story was changed," said police this time. have to re-examine all the physical chief Jordan. "She has [now] stated No Witnesses evidence in the case. that she has been sexually assaulted." Despite widely distributed fliers Chief Jordan said the department '" . __.oII,t...... Chief Jordan declined to make in Griffis' neighborhood calling for would probably have its re-evaluation ...... any detailed comments about Griffis' witnesses to the second attack, and of the evidence in the case completed ...... , .".'-. new version of the assault while it is the $10,000 reward for information by August 9. .. .. , ~.,.. still under investigation. However, offered by Mayor Agnos in the Impact on Anti-Gay Violence ... ::~ "!> one person who has been involved in alleged mid-day assault on the former Civil rights attorney John Wahl .. ~,. .. this on-going and now confUSing MCC clergywoman, police sources said he was concerned about the assault case said Griffis stands by her said that no witnesses have come impact the doubt being cast on Griff- original version of the assault. The forward. Police have also conducted is' story would have on anti-gay vio- I I I lence in San Francisco. A recent National Gay and Lesbian Task Force survey reported that San Francisco has the highest incidence of anti-les- bian and 'gay violence in the nation. "What worries me about this press conference," Wahl said, "is that peo- ple will now think that they can attack our people because nobody's going to believe the victim." Wahl and other community leaders here announced the formation shortly after the reported second assault on Griffis of the, Gay, Lesbian and Bisexual Institute, which will teach self-defense methods, including the use of firearms. But Chief Jordan said anti-les- bian/gay attacks continue to be a high priority in the police department. "The message has to be loud and clear that hate-related, prejudicial crimes will be prosecuted to the full extent of the law." Jordan also made it clear, howev- er, that if the police report concludes that Griffis made up the second attack, she could herself be prosecuted. MCC's Mitulski, during his Sunday night sermon August 6, told the church congregation that he now suspected ~Keitbaark ccontinued on page 70
12 OUTTWEEK August 21, 1989 After seven years as Chel~ea"s , ..',','openly gay candidate f(jt-the 3i Paid Bereavement Leave which gay teachers are suing the Board for health insurance benefits for City Emp'loyees Established for their lovers. Candidates Line Up by Mark Chesnut "Over time society changes. So While it is not known how many NEW YORK - Mayor Edward Koch must the government which serves it,» of the city's 330,000 municipal issued his 123rd executive order on Koch stated. "Practices or policies that employees will register for the bene- Monday, August 7th, granting paid might have seemed unacceptable to fits, Lambda has collected data from bereavement leave to gay, lesbian and our grandparents or unusual to our seven other cities with similar benefit unmarried heterosexual city employ- parents seem equitable, indeed neces- packages. The survey found that reg- ees when their domestic partners or sary to our generation," he continued istration in those cities ranges their' partners' close family members in his announcement of the order, between .5% and 2% of the city's total die. The move made good a promise which will take effect immediately, workforce, according to Stoddard. made by Koch several weeks ago, All of the Democratic mayoral No Small Victory candidates have expressed support Tom Stoddard, executive director for the executive order. Manhattan of Lambda Legal Defense and Educa- Borough President David Dinkins and tion Fund, called the move "a symbol- City Comptroller Harrison Goldin ic change of massive proportions,· He pointed out that they had already commented that it is "no small victo- instituted similar policies in their own ry" for gay and lesbian relationships offices. to be officially recognized by the gov- Republican mayoral front-runner ernment of the City of New York, Rudolph Giuliani, who originally which is the largest single employer attacked Koch's proposal, indicated in New York City. concern for the financial conse- Stoddard was not completely sat- quences of the order, and said the he isfied, however, with the one-year needs more time to study the issue, waiting period required after registra- Only Ronald Lauder, the trailing tion, or the limited benefits the order Republican candidate for mayor, has ·UNACCEPTABLE TO OUR granted, And many community said he would rescind the executive GRANDPARENTS·? actiVists, while praising the executive order if elected. "I think that Koch's Mayor Edward Koch order, echoed Stoddard's reservations. executive order undermines one of Some expressed disappointment with society's most essential institutions: According to the Mayor's Office, the absence of health insurance and marriage," he told The Daily News. the order will apply to "domestic part- other benefits of major economic con- Madison, Wisconsin and Takoma nerships which have been established sequence from the order. Park, Maryland already recognize between two people, both of whom Koch has said previously that domestic partners for some city bene- are 18 or older, who have lived health insurance benefits are the' fits, as do five California cities: Los together for at least one year," Those domain of the city's unions and the Angeles, San Francisco, Berkeley, employees qualifying must register collective bargaining process, not the West Hollywood and Santa Cruz. with the city's Department of Person- mayor's office. And according to Stod- Berkeley, West Hollywood and Santa nel. Applications are expected to be dard, the possibility of including Cruz are the only three which extend available by the middle of August. health benefits in domestic partner- health care benefits to domestic part- Qualified registrants will be eligible ship packages will depend greatly on ners. In addition, a domestic partner- for four-day leaves if their partners' the outcome of a current court case, ship benefits program is currently parents or children, or their partners Gay Teachers' Associations vs. New before Seattle's city council. ... themselves, die, York City Board of Education, in Keith Clark contributed to this article, 14 OUTTWEEK August 21, 1989 1--\ '''-''-l··_ ...,-·t --+-· .._L.-H' -4 1 ' , 1 "-! -~,-1--- ··i-- i-+-L+_~ ;Tr-'" , - ...... L,..;-...~,_.: . j,---r-""""'.- . I .. J ; 1. i.,~ j .,1. iHOMBRE! iPR,~~TEGETE! SIOAllamaa!: 11848S·8111. TAKE THE GAY TRAIN Photo: Ben Thornberry City AIDSposter in the subway City Condom Ads In Limbo Straight Media Shun II Rubber Up II Campaign by Keith Miller and Andrew Miller ing a "romantic dinner," during which scare them away with publicity," NEW YORK - Two months after the safer sex is discussed, Friedman said. New York City Department of Health The print ads, in both English and launched its newest AIDS prevention Spanish, quickly' appeared on subway Diversity of Formats media campaign, few of the print ads platforms, and in Christopher Street, Sternberg said of the radio spot have appeared anywhere outside of The Native, and Out Week. According featuring Stephen Joseph, "The radio the gay and lesbian media and the to Ann Sternberg of the Medium and spread is good." She added, "Some sta- city-owned ad spaces in subways and Materials Area of the Department of tions are also running 'Romantic Din- buses. And Health Department offi- Health, the print ads have not yet ner: The spot is running on rap, rock cials cannot accurately say when or appeared in any other magazines or and talk stations - across the board. where the radio and television adver- newspapers, but are "scheduled to What we lack in volume of stations we tisements depicting gay men are appear" in such diverse publications make up in diversity of formats." scheduled to appear. as EI Diano, Peridesta, Vocero, Youth Friedman could not provide the The "Rubber Up For' Safety" cam- Connections, The Amsterdam News call letters of a single radio station paign, announced by Health Commis- and The Bronx Press Review. Sternberg currently running either of the ads, sioner Stephen Joseph on June 14, did not know when the ads would be But according to Sternberg, the utilizes print ads with pictures of con- appearing in those publications. "romantic dinner" ad was picked up doms. It also includes two sets of According to Sam Friedman, a by WINS, WFUV, and WVOx. A WINS radio and television ads: one featuring health department spokesperson, official confirmed that the ad had run Joseph urging men who have sex "there are other major magaZines on in the past, but said that it was in fact with other men, "no matter how infre- the burner." Friedman declined to no longer being aired, The official quently," to always use condoms, and mention specific publications. "This is offered no explanation for why it had the other depicting a gay man recall- a touchy issue and we don't want to been pulled. August 21, 1989 OUTTWEEK 15 Never Received Ads Tom Kavanagh, the traffic man- ager at WFUV, said that he had never received the ads from the department of health. He said that the station MAN would have no de facto objections to running such ads, but added, "We might tone it down a bit. We would promote safe sex and condoms, with- out getting into specific relationships." T~ WFlN is the radio station of Fordham University, which is affiliated with the Catholic Church. WVOX, an AM station with a MAN talk-radio format based in New Rochelle, confirmed that it is currently running the "romantic dinner" ad. An informal survey of half.a It you have sex with other men. no matter how infrequentl~ dozen major local radio stations yield- always use latex condoms. Because once is all it takes to transmit the AIOS virus. ed none which were running the ads. So protect yourself ...and your partner. For more information, call: Some were unaware of their exis- AIDS Hotline 718 485-8111. tence, while others said that they had decided not to run them. HOMBRE A HOMBRE Only After 11 PM -No matter how infrequently.- WCBS-TV has agreed to run the television ad with Dr. Joseph, but has Chabrowe, the advertising firm that Nevertheless, Friedman remains not yet done so. According to Martin created the commercials, "It's up to the hopeful. "We don't expect an across- Blair, director of press relations at media to show how committed they the-board acceptance. This is our WCBS, "Dr. Joseph is seen as a are to preventing the AIDSepidemic," continued on pag8 70 respectable spokesperson for the issue - he fits our requirements." I I I The spot will run only after 11 p.m. The ads depicting a gay man has been deemed unacceptable, but Blair Charter Commission would not discuss the criteria by which they were judged. "That would put us in a position Snubs Gays of making sales, and we're talking about donated time," Blair said. Nixes Sexual Orientation for Redistricting Plan "Every wire service in the country wanted to know why we turned by Jim Whelan City Council. The Commission pro- down the "romantic dinner' spot. We NEW YORK-When the district lines poses to enlarge the present 35-mem- don't discuss our policies with any- of the City of New York are redrawn ber City Council to a legislative body one." to create an enlarged City Council, the of 51 seats. This means the district But the decision of WCBS-TV is existence of gay and lesbian neigh- lines throughout the metropolis will not unique among other radio and borhoods may be ignored altogether. be redrawn to create smaller, more television stations, despite efforts by Eric Lane, chief counsel for the accurately representational districts. the health department to promote the Charter Revision Commission, When the revision Commission ads, including sending sales reps out appeared at a meeting called by FAIR- held public hearings on the redistrict- to the various staions. Sternberg told PAC, the gay and lesbian political ing of New York, FAIRPAC lobbied autWeek, "We do everything we can, action committee, to explain how the the commissioners to "keep intact On this campaign we're moving slow- revised proposals will affect the com- neighborhoods and communities with ly and cautiously because it is sensi- munity. established ties of common interest tive material." The Revision Commission is call- and association, whether historical, "This is something that networks ing for the abolition of the current racial, economic, ethnic, religious or and affiliates just don't want to talk Board of Estimate, and the redistribu- based upon sexual orientation." about on the air," said Terry tion of its powers among the borough But in its final proposal the Char- Chabrowe, president of Cappiello and preSidents, the Mayor and an enlarged ter Revision Commission chose not to 16 OUTTWEEK August 21, 1989 add the phrase "based on sexual ori- entation," instead amending that part of the section to read "or other." At the July 27th meeting, which was held at the Community Center on m i i'i a n 0 West 13th Street, Lane stated that the TRATTORIA representation of neighborhoods char- With Two Dinners acterized by the sexual orientation of Courtesy bottle of red wine - Salice Salentina Riserva '82 its residents would be sufficiently pro- •*•* tected as "other." Noting the presence Special Pizza from our WoodbUrriing oven of conservative Catholics on the Com- **** mission, he also said that both he and Your host Sal Acquista commission chair Frederick A.O. •* * * Schwartz firmly believed that section 165 Eighth Avenue, New York, NY 100ll Tel: 212·989·2330 of the proposals would not be approved by the full commission if the I. I words "sexual orientation" were left in. FAIRPAC had identified the Upper West Side, Greenwich Village, Chelsea, Jackson Heights in Queens and Park Slope in Brooklyn as lesbian and gay neighborhoods because the zip codes of these areas frequently show up on the mailing lists of gay and lesbians organizations, Gay & Lesbian Independent Democratic Club urges you to The response among those pre- vote in the Democratic Primary, Sept. 12, for our endorsed sent, especially FAIRPAC members, candidates; was one of frustration. "It just seems as though we came up short," said Our Own Julie Greene, who lobbied the com- mission for the inclusion of the words Tom Duane (City Council, District 3*) "sexual orientation," David Taylor (City Council, District 4*) Mark D'Alessio, another FAIRPAC Frank Clemmons (District Leader*) board member, said using the word "other" instead of "sexual orientation" And harkens back to the notion of "the Mayor; City Council; love that dare not speak its name." David Dinkins Miriam Friedlander, District 2 Nevertheless, Candida Scott Piel, Hilton Clark, District 5 executive Director of FAIRPAC, said Comptroller; Stan Michels, District 6, her organization would support the Elizabeth Holtzman Robert Dryfoos, District 7 revised proposals. "The community Carolyn Maloney, District 8 must realize it's better than it was Manhattan Borough President; before, and if it goes back to square one with a different administration, Ruth Messinger District Leaders; and Rudy Giuliani ends up appointing Doris Corrigan a new Revision Commission, the end Tony Hoffman result could be less that it is now," Peggy Stuart she said, anticipating a Giuliani victo- Phil Reed* ry in the fall's mayoral race. * Openly Gay Candidates The Charter Revision Commission was created just over a year ago to revise the structure of the municipal government. That task has become GLID particularly urgent since last March Manhattan's Feminist and Progressive when the United States Supreme Lesbian and Gay Democratic Club. Court declared the Board of Estimate P.O. Box 7241 unconstitutional for violating the prin- ciple of one person, one vote, FDR Station embodied in the Voting Rights Act. .. New York, NY, 10150 212-475-0271 August21, 1989 OUTTWEEK 17 News supervision in Chicago. ACT UP ACT UP Demands demanded that Kessler call Astra and insist that the drug be more widely available. Kessler said he had already AIDS Drug Release spoken with the company and didn't know why they continued to with- hold the substance. Chicago Demo Hinges On Media Manipulation "But I can tell you why," said one ACf UP member. "Astra is afraid by Rex Wockner not going to storm in with bolt cutters. that if Foscarnet is available then they CHICAGO-Sometimes a guy just "Well, to be perfectly honest won't have any people for their tri- can't get arrested no matter what he about it," replied ACT UP's Fred als." Drugs must be studied extensive- does. Even if he chains himself to the Eggan, "probably when you do." ly and then approved by the U.S. doors of a major big-city hospital. The Chicago Police did finally Food and Drug Administration before Even if channels 5, 7, 9 and 26 are make an appearance. But after a hud- they can be sold. videotaping his every move. dle, the officers left, writing a parking Foscarnet is an experimental If otfrials of <1lbgo's Rush-Prest>yte- ticket on the way. treatment for cytomegalovirus (CMV) rian-St. Luke's Hospital were bothered But ACT UP's immediate goal retinitis, which causes blindness in, PWAs. At present, the only approved CMV retinitis treatment is DHPG-a substance so toxic that most PWAs cannot take it without suspending their use of AZT, which is the only approved substance for fighting HIV itself. (HIV is believed to be the cause of AIDS.) DHPG also suppresses bone marrow, and has caused life-threaten- ing anemia in some PWAs. Although Foscarnet also causes many side effects, it can be taken simultaneously with AZf and, so far, has not created any life-threatening conditions of its own. In recent weeks, several crucial government officials have publicly agreed with AIDS activists on a num- ber of controversial drug release issues. Most significantly, Dr, Anthony WHO DO YOU HAVE TO FUCK TO GET ARRESTED AROUND HERE? Fauci of the National Institutes of ACT UP/ChicBgo protests FOSCBTnetrules Photo: Rex Wockner Allergies and Infectious Diseases in June embraced ACf UP!New York's August 1 when six members of ACf had been accomplished. At 6 pm, idea of "parallel track" drug release, UP/Chicago locked themselves together Chicagoans heard allegations on five wherein substances go through offi- and then to both sides of the hospital channels that the experimental AIDS cial trials and are available to others entrance,they didn't show it. drug Foscarnet is being withheld from who are sick at the same time. But Seventy minutes into the protest, persons with AIDS (PWAs) by its the program has not as yet been put administrators invited the media manufacturer, Astra Pharmaceuticals, into effect with any particular drug, inside for interviews. As reporters fin- Not only did viewers see activists nor has it been generally accepted as ished, one official quipped, "They can chanting and hollering, but they a regular procedure by drug compa- sleep here if they want." ACT UP heard Rush-Presbyterian's Dr. Harold nies or the NIH. wasn't up to a camfrOut and left after Kessler agree that the company Three calls to Astra corporate three hours of chanting, shouting and should release the drug for so-called headquarters in Westboro, Mas- interviews with the press. "compassionate use." sachusetts failed to reach anyone who "When are you going to take oft?" At present, Foscarnet is available could discuss the company's policies, a reporter for WMAQ-TV asked, after only in rigidly constructed clinical tri- and company spokespersons did not it became apparent that police were als, one of which is under Kessler's call back. ... 18 OUTTWEEK August 21, 1989 Dave Taylor: He's out for you. "Twenty years after Stonewall our vision of what is possible for our community has come so far. Lesbians and Gay men make up 15 to 20 percent of the population of New York City. It is an outrage that we still have no openly Lesbian or Gay elected officials in City Hall. We deserve more than zero percent representation." -Dave Taylor, Candidate for City Council. Dave Taylor for City Council. Dave Taylor is an openly gay candidate in the 4th Council District which includes Clinton and the Upper West Side of Manhattan. ------Yes. I want to elect Dave Taylor 10 the Fourth CouncIl Dlstnct. By provldmg the followmg Information, you double your gIft by Hele's my contribution: making it eligible for matching funds of up to $500. J $500 J $250 J $] 00 J $50 J $25 J Other Business/Employer _ J I would like to volunteer for Dave's campaIgn. Business Address _ Name __ Occupatlon/ Job Title _ Address _ "Mdfotb:f C,ty/State/Z,p _ Friends of Dave Tay/or Phone __ 2095 B'war (72nd), #505. NYC ~0023. Tel: 2~2.72H}064 ------News Drag War in Indianapolis by Rex Wockner INDIANAPOLIS-Transsexuals and drag queens here are at war with four local gay bars that recently banned men who wear make-up or dress in women's clothing. Two bars that for- merly catered to female impersonators recently closed, forcing the men to find other places to socialize. In the most recent episode in the escalating conflict, 31-year-old Rober- ta A1yson, a pre-operative transsexual, was charged with fleeing an officer and resisting arrest after she repeated- ly attempted to enter Our Place, Indi- anapolis' most popular gay bar. When the show bars went out of business, Our Place and two other THE LADIES IN QUESTION Photo: New Works News "masculine" -oriented establishments-- Indianapolis drag queens The Varsity and Jimmy's - instituted a reqUirement that a bar patron's I I appearance match his/her driver's license photo. A fourth bar, the Levis- oriented 501 Tavern, later began ban- ACTUp, OK? ning drag queens as well. At a July 16 meeting between bar New AIDS Activist Group Forms in Oklahoma City owners, gay/lesbian organizations, the Indiana Crossdressers Society (IXE), by Andrew Miller homa City native who lived in Los the Indiana State Excise Police, the OKLAHOMA CITY - The world of Angeles until his diagnosis with AIDS Indianapolis Police Department and AIDS activists has approXimately 40 several years ago. the Indiana Civil Liberties Union new members. Claiming that they are "We're just trying to come to (ICLU), Excise officials told bar own- "inspired by ACf UP/NY and GUTS, grips with the issues here. Because ers that the only requirement for the Gay Urban Truth Squad of Dallas, we don't have a lot of cases, people entrance to a bar in Indiana is that the Texas," Oklahoma City's own STAT! feel they don't need to be as militant. customer be at least 21 years old. was oom at that city's gay and lesbian There isn't the sense of urgency that Bar owners reiterated their desire pride parade last June. The name is one lives with every day in L.A. or to exclude crossdressers in order to, as taken from the Latin word for "immedi- New York," Shears said, "But we are one businessman put it, "preserve the ately," which is often heard over hospi- trying to impart that sense of urgency established masculine atmosphere of the tal intercoms when paging doctors and to the rest of the community." bar." Some owners added that cross- nurses to emergency situations. At the top of STAT!'s agenda, dressers drive away regular customers. The group, which meets every according to Shears, is local residents' According to The New Works other week, had planned its first zap lack of access to clinical trials for News, an Indianapolis gay newspaper, to coincide with President George AIDS drugs, and Oklahoma's policy of Gregory McDaniel of Indianapolis Bush's appearance here at the Nation- mandatory name-reporting of people GAYTV interrupted the owners' argu- al Convention of the Fraternal Order infected with HIV, the virus thought ments to say that "what I'm hearing of Police last week, but Bush can- by many to cause AIDS. ~ now is exactly what I heard 20 years celled his appearance to attend to the ago when auempts were being made For more information, write to hostage crisis unfolding in the Middle to keep Blacks out of Riverside Park STAT!, Box 60886, Oklahoma City, East, thwarting the group's plans. and other public places." OK, 73146-0886. Clay Shears, acting spokesperson New Works' publisher Stan Berg for the fledgling group, is an Okla- - filed from New York agreed, reportedly calling the bar 20 OUTTWEEK August 21, 1989 owners' "discrim ination". morally and socially reprehensible. n ICLU gayllesbian task force head Marla Stevens is supporting the cross- dressers in their battle against the bars, and has called Alyson's recent arrest "an act of civil disobedience. n At press time, a final avenue of MEDICALWRrrER/REPORTER legal attack had not been worked out, but the crossdressers are considering Medical writer/reporter with experience in reviewing and ab- filing complaints with the Alcoholic stracting published literature and conference reports on treat- Beverage Commission, Excise officials ment topiCS. Assignments include telephone contact with and the Indiana Human Rights Com- clinical investigators and sponsors of experimental treatment mission. There has also been discus- studies. Basic understanding of laboratory and clinical proce- sion of an lXE picket of the four bars dures, life sciences, and superior writing skills are essential. accused of discrimination. Priority given to individual with working knowledge of HIV In the meantime, three lXE mem- disease and associated opportunistic manifestations. Word bers have had their driver's licenses processing skills are needed, preferably WordPerfect. Famil- reissued with photographs that show iarity with on-line bibliographic systems such as MedLine and' their feminine identities, according to Grateful Med helpful. Salary $28,00-$30,000. IXEspokeswoman Sharon Allen. "The heartbreak of the situation," Allen said, "is that even though many EXPERT PARADOX 3.0 PROGRAMMER of us are heterosexual, politically we Computer programming consultant with extensive experience are aligned with the gay community. in writing Paradox programs which are larger than 50 scripts Our goals are the same-dignity for containing 500 procedures. Must have ability to modify existing all people, We have similar social Paradox 2.0 programs to run more efficiently in Paradox 3.0 problems and there's very little to be and the ability to create sophisticated data output routines -- gained by warfare against one com- including data conversion to other text formats such as Word- munity by the other. n Perfect. Some knowledge of desk-top publishing and on-line Allen said heterosexual transsex- data exchange helpful, but not required. Hourly/daily consult- uals prefer to socialize in gay bars ing rate is negotiable; however, a keen interest in contributing because gay men are less likely than to a project which seeks to accelerate the availability of effec- non-gay men to become violent tive AIDS/HIV treatments is vital. Part-time consultant position "when they grab someone's crotch to begin; possible staff opportunity for the right, "user-friendly" and find out it's not empty." 'Y programming professional. Letter, resume, and salary needs to: STAFF DIRECTOR, AIDS RESEARCH CORRECTmNS BOX 2105, NEW YORK, NY 10116 In laSt week's letter from Jjan Carl Park and Lee Hudson, which discussed the mayor's history vis a vis domestic partnership, the follow- ing sentence was inadvertantly oml- ted: "Ayear prior to the Braschi case, the Mayor lobbied tl.le then Senate MajorityLeader, Warren Anderson, to expand the definition of immediate family to include domestic partners ' in lease succession rights fOrrent sta- bilized apartments," Due to a mechanical error, the byline for the article "100,000 and Gounting ... • in last week's issue was omitted The article was writ- ten by Larry Kramer, OUlWeek regrets these omissions. \ August21, 1989 OUTTWEEK 21 Dykes to Watch Out For NO LURID ( t--to-1-'~o~"~~~~ :1-rA!£S OF a .h ~ CASAtJ()I/\.AIiI \\ I s£DucnON foR~ THIS TIM£? ...-- 7" '3 {f) 1989 ,y AL.I5a~ ~C~OEL'" NOI UIIL£S5 YCfJ LJAI'-lT7b Y£AI-j. WE HAD W£.LL, I CDJI..DA DON£. fiEAR ,t\t5oVr l'4.y ~ ONE ~T£. p,z~ WITHOUT -nt; ANOf(M[S, ",,61in 9'DIr rAS51~fL¥ AND 5£)< ~ BUT SHEOR.DfR£D BE~ KfR Fou>- ouT I Gor'TIiERE.. COLJC.H. r- DOt-l'[ YOU THINK IF SHE ... .so.LIK£, HE. I\EEPS Do£SN'r IIIAIJN A .sE.£ I"£. CAUJNcr "'£. I DUt./No ""V\r It) ---00. v.MAnJOLUl}t)U DO? eN S£COND 1J.j CllJG.Hr, (JlJ..L.j rJG HER. MIGHT NOT BE I1tE I WISEST OPflc:1'!, BUT WI1A T , cA"-Jl Do? 10\~'-rSTAtJD 11i1) .suS""Sl! .-. 1 News Provincetown's gun and the early feelings of support from the side- lines disappeared and were replaced by some- liberal Lie thing more sinister. As I looked at the staring crowd I thought, "We are your nightmare." And as it turned out, we were. Most of the early hos- tility was focused on "the sign." Carried by a member of ACT UP, the sign read "legalize butt-fucking" on one side and "legalize c1it- licking" on the other. Though I personally found it funny in an in-your-face kind of way (at least it was even-handed) I understood why some people found it offensive. It was crude and deliberately confrontation- al. But could it really "set gay and straight relations back 40 years," as was later claimed by Province- START SPREADING THE NEWS Photo: Ben Thornberry town Police Chief James J. Walter Armstrong (I.J and friend make it in New York,New Yorklast month. Meads? The Provincetown by Ron Goldberg screamed "betrayal" to anyone who community struck back during the fol- would listen. What had happened to lowing week. The organizers of the "betray- 1: to lead astray; 2: to their nice, quiet respectful gays? march have been publicly denounced deliver to an enemy of treachery; 3: to Indeed, this year's parade was and vilified and, in the best small fail or desert esp, in time of need; 4: led by 20 dykes on bikes (fhe Mov- town fashion, they are being ostra- a: to reveal unintentionally b: show, ing Violations), followed by a grand cized and isolated from the rest of the indicate c: to disclose in violation of marshall on rollerskates (New York's community. The priest under whose confidence, " own Rollerena) and almost 1,000 auspices the parade was organized - Webster's Ninth New Collegiate Dictionary marchers. People carried signs as well has been "suspended." The chief of as candles, and chants of "Say it police, whose authority was briefly I was in Provincetown recently to and symbolically challenged by the participate in its annual Lesbian and marchers, is threatening to institute a Gay Pride Parade. Past parades con- NEWS COMMENTARY "code of ethics" for all future parades sisted of several hundred lesbians and and events. He has also issued warn- gay men walking quietly down Com- loud-gay and proud" echoed ings about a possible violent backlash mercial Street carrying candles, More through the narrow streets of to the sign and has publicly said, of a vigil than a parade. The Chief of Provincetown. The response along "You want a gay pride parade next Police, the Town Selectmen and no the parade route was loud and enthu- year-go to Boston." Community doubt, most of Provincetown expect- siastic. People cheered and applaud- sponsors are dropping out of other ed this year to be more of the same, ed and joined in the chanting, But as gay-identified events such as an But it wasn't. And when the parade we moved into "straighter" waters a upcoming auction to benefit Province- turned out to be a loud, raucous noticeable change occurred. Someone town PWAs and, of course, there is a march down Commerical Street, they shot one of the marchers with a BB profound concern throughout the August21, 1989 OUTTWEEK 23 TI community over the possible loss of On the other end of this balanc- these limitations upon ourselves. We the tourist dollar. ing act sits the gay establishment, as cannot allow our sense of self-worth This backlash is about more than represented by the Provincetown as individuals and as lesbians and gay just one "vulgar" sign. As in any com- Business Guild, As year-round citizens men to be held hostage to concepts of munity, there is a tacit agreement of Provincetown, they've put a lot of uniform goodness or badness. We between citizens, a code of conduct, time and MONEY into making it a must demand of the straight communi- which helps regulate public behavior. safe and friendly haven for gay peo- ty that which it automatically grants The march was seen as a willful ple. They have worked very hard to itself, the right to be diverse. Even if breach of this agreement. Whether it present a positive picture of lesbians they hate his guts, I have yet to hear of was the sign, the chants, the kiss-ins, and gay men and have secured for any straight person who felt it neces- the passing out of condoms or just themselves a prominent place in the sary to apologize to us because Jesse the sheer number of participants, the larger Provincetown Community. But Helms is a heterosexual. community felt betrayed and taken these women and men have worked By denying the validity of protest advantage of. so hard to impress the established and anger (and joy and pride, god- The townspeople feel that community that they feel they must damit) and dividing the community they've been very good about les- strike out against anyone who does along "us vs, them" lines, these "good bians and gays. They've lived up to not fit into their narrow vision of a gays" unknowingly betray us into the their side of the bargain but now good homosexual. Their credibility in hands of those who would continue things have gone too far. They don't the community depends upon it. to oppress us. have to stand for this. And this Fearing that they will be judged Tellingly, it is "the sign" that con- betrays the liberal lie of Province- by their neighbors because of the tinues to draw the wrath of the Busi- town's "delicate balance" (as one resi- actions of other gays, they then apolo- ness Guild, while it remains silent on dent put it) between communities: it gize for the "excesses" of the commu- the BB gun attack, It is as if the fag- is a balance that exists between nity explaining that there are "good bashings and other incidents of homo- unequal partners, The understanding gays" and "bad gays." It is true that our phobic violence that go on every between the straight and gay commu- enemies often characterize the entire summer are merely "facts of gay life." It nities is based not on true acceptance gay community by seeing only one is part of the "delicate balance" of the but rather mutual convenience. aspect of it, but we must not inflict community. 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When teer David McIntosh, creator of the real estate broker Paula Schultz said Center Garden. David died on June 14, that she didn't want ·you punks ruin- 1989, from complications due to AIDS. ing this for us" she was not talking A horticulturaIist, playwright, and about a sense of gay pride. Province- poet, David approached the Center in town works very hard to maintain a early 1988 with the idea of converting good press image. Simply put, issues our ill-used courtyard into an open A Knoxville Book, was published in of fag-bashlngs and gay protests are garden. The garden he created is now 1977 by Catfish Press. Helld was cited not good for business. Not necessarily the most popular spot in the Center as one of the best plays of 1977-1978 in terms of gay business, (where else for socialiZing, politicking and by the American Critics Association. can we go?) but in terms of straight schmoozing, More recently, David wrote the lyrics family dollars. What is ironic is that When not creating beautiful gar- of Gan, a ten minute opera commis- the overreaction of the community to dens, David spent much of his time sioned by Joseph Papp for inclusion the events of July 23 have propelled writing, He produced eight plays dur- in an evening of short pieces, these very same issues into the press ing his tenure as Writer-in-Residence David was survived by his par- and have tarnished Provincetown's at The Play Group in KnoXville Ten- ents, Mr. and Mrs. John A. McIntosh; image more than any sign or demon- nessee, including: 22 RPM, The Ter- 'his sisters, Judith Bridges and Susan stration possibly could, rific Two, Church, Smoke On The McIntosh; his brother, James McIn- So just who has really betrayed Mountain, Te/JMe A Story, Hel/d. and tosh; relatives, and many loving whom? ... The Piper Man. One book of poetry, friends. ... EROTIC OR WE WORK WITH NOT? G~onCbq~ nY er. QUEENS S82 AMSTERDAM AVE. 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New York City is bounced around from clinic to social the summers used to be foggy and cold a bad place to get sick, Scott moved worker to psychiatrist, never getting The greenhouse effect is changing all that back in with his dim, vaguely com- monitored or treated for his various Summer 1~ in San Francisro is hot and prehending parents in Massachusetts immunological complaints. g10rbus (nd muggy1)--dle kind of weath- and came down with penumocystis, Finally, he came down with MAl er your friends eJtPect you to ropy when I quit my Monday night draWing (mycobacterium avium-intracellulare, you go on vacatbn. Wah all that, it's hard class and joined ACf .up, .Scott sur- a tuberculosis related infection of the to feel a sense of crisis blood and gut, when you walk around. marked by fevers But the newspapers rmde and wasting) and me feel depressingly at had to be hospi- home: the rmyor (Agoo;, talized, Treat- nd Koch) evictinghome- ments for MAl are less people from the Gvic primitive - doc- Center, AIDS caseloads tors usually con- skyrocketing, hospitals trive a mixture of coIIaµ;ing,crack violence four to six anti-TB in the emergency rooms, drugs, some of rminstrearn gays rmd at which aren't ac- AIDS activists for "going tive against MAl, too far." others having un- My first stop was desirable side ef- my friend Scott John- fects of their own. son. I met him in Au- It was only when gust 1987 at the Har- he got this addi- monic Convergence, tional opportunis- Our lives were sup- tic infection, and posed to pivot around survived another that cosmic node, re- hospitalization, member? Mine did. that the S,F. health Scott was going care system was through his last month of fun before vived two bouts of PCP, nauseated able to admit him to a regular AIDS he was conscripted by the war inside from the IV-pentamidine they used outpatient clinic where he has his his body, That fall he was waylaid by to treat it. In retrospect, he says the blood monitored weekly and can ac- sudden, transient flus and neurologi- care he got at Beth Israel Hospital in tually see a doctor, cal f1ickerings. That winter, he col- Boston was the best he's had. Last Then he got CMV (cytomega- lapsed into my arms at the World, and August, his ex-lover, who'd just lovirus) in his eye. Untreated, it can passed out. I held him upright until graduated from law school, drove lead to blindness. They had to drill a he came to. We went outside and sat out to take him back to San hole in his chest to implant the on a stoop on East Second Street talk- Francisco, catheter for his intravenous DHPG ing about what was going on. We It took Scott months to be pro- (ganciclovir), a drug which stops CMV didn't use the A-word. cessed by the staggering AIDS-care in its tracks but which also depresses 26 OUTTWEEK August 21, 1989 New York white blood counts. Scott's were low (7 Charming, Newly Renovated to begin with, He has had to continu- Brownstone Conveniently ally adjust his daily dose of DHPG, Located in Chelsea and go off it sometimes, to keep • All Room.H.ve enough white blood cells to fight off 10 ~oom Inn W•• hlng F.cIIHle. other infections, (This highlights the Plano Bar • Sh.re a••h pressing need to find alternative treat- & Restaurant • con'I~::~:':-.kf ••' ments for CMV. Foscarnet, an experi- • Single S50 • Doubl. S65 • Suite S80 mental medication, is active against ALL TAXES INCLUDED , . 135 Gough Street CMV, and doesn t depress whIte San Francisco, California 94102 • Weekly R.'e. Upon Reque.' counts. But its manufacturer, ftsra Phar- Advance Reservations Suggested! maceutical~, c.laims it doesn't have 415-621-0896 COLONIAL HOUSE enough to gIve it to everyone who can't . INN tolerate DHPG). CHELSEA Scott is my first AIDS hero, He's 22 d St NYC 10011 . .. . 'th th 318 West n "... .. managed to survIve WI e most mea- 212-243-9669 . . gehoseof msuythPPoortfastcruomct:::~_i~u~~~:r IflINMI ..... __._-_._1111_._" "_11_._~-~__;;;_.;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;.~ W r.""I.I"",U~'''''''' \..eLI'- system for people with AIDS is lagging sadly behind the exploding scope of ~ the epidemic, Et MEXICAN This summer was the first time I RESTAURANT got the feeling that he thinks he might 863 fiRST AVENUE NEW VOR, CITV N v survive, He's skeptical about new treat- TELEPHONES 935,3749 '1','2'2 ments but thinks he might be able to tolerate ddl (he can't take AZf because of his fragile white counts and his RAT r. LAM DHPG). TIlE CHANDLER INN has ddoptp.d In case his white counts continue ,1 favorite Eur\'pean tradition, the "Bed ACE Contractor & Craw &. Breakfast" concept. A small hotel All job .... 11••I.". to fall, we called the AIDS trials hotline located in the center of the city. Our c."."" f • Electric." • Sheetrock • of the National Institute of Allergy and 56 newly refurbished. contemporary Ap ...... II·. Loft •• S..... Infectious Diseases (NIAID) to ask rooms are equipped with private bath. 12121221-1522 color TV, and direct dial telephone. about Foscarnet trials, There are five tri- Under the Chandler, visit FRITZ. als going on in the Bay Area, but only one of Boston's most frequented gay one for people who have already taken bdrs. DHPG. The woman on the hotline was Enjuy Buston the INN-expensive way' well-informed and sent out a detailed packet of information about each trial, RATES: $64. SJNCLES, $74 DOUBLE INCLUDES CO/lrl1NENTAL MEAU'AST Then his bloodwork came back, It's better than expected, and Scott can stay on DHPG for now. 26 Chandler at'k.keley, Boston MA 02116 (617) 482-3450 The NIAID AIDS clinical trials hot- line is 1-800-TRIALS-A.Calltoday and ask about any drug you want ... August 21, 1989 OU~WEEK 27 AIDS Treatment News Peptide T the brain biochemistry section at the lope was constantly changing, thus by David Smyth National Institute of Mental Health. the sequence of amino acids in pep- The mechanism of action of the drug tide T could !lot possibly duplicate a is different from most antivirals in that section of the viral envelope eptide T first gained notoriety it does not act directly on HIV or in- (Sodroski and others, 1987), in late 1986 and early 1987 fected cells. Rather it is intended to Two years later, Joseph Sodroski, P when researchers at the block the virus from entering cells M.D., one of the drug's critics, asserts, Karolinska Institute in Stockholm re- (Pert and others, 1986). "There is no scientific basis for con- ported in the Lancet improvements in Eight amino acids which consti- cluding that peptide T will perform lymphocyte counts, psoriasis and neu- tute part of the viral envelope called the (blocking) function. The first work ropsychiatric functions in four patients gp120 are thought by some scientists that said the peptide T region is not who had been given the drug on a to be the key by which HIV gains the region on gp 120 that interacts compassionate basis (Wetterberg and entry through the CD4 receptor. with the receptor was from our lab others, 1987). Since that time the drug Indeed, a common metaphor by (Kowalski and others, 1987) and Larry has undergone further tests in Sweden which the drug's action is explained is Lasky's (Lasky and others, 1987) and the United States with scientists the lock and key. group at Genetech, which pointed reporting some positive results. Pert theorized that if HIV could more to the carboxyl terminus on Although there was considerable enter the CD4 receptor, it must mimic gp120. Subsequently, Hans Wigsell evidence from the earliest laboratory a chemical produced by the body that (Nygren and other, 1988) at the tests that peptide T is nontoxic, the used the same receptor (Pert, 1987). Karolinska Institute has cleaved gp drug has been bogged down for near- She found a sequence of eight amino 120 and they have a fragment that has ly two years in a small phase I toxici- acids in a hormone called vasointesti- cleaved off peptide T-related se- ty trial in the U.S. Indeed, phase II ef- nal peptide (VIP) that duplicated a quences completely and that still ficacy studies have been delayed in section of gp 120 and designed pep- binds to CD4." part because of the drug's lack of tox- tide T as a way of plugging all the The drug's sponsors replied that icity. The questionable logic behind body's CD4 "locks" with artificial Haseltine, Sodroski and others had this policy dictates that phase II stud- "keys." The drug's lack of toxicity is used high concentrations of virus in ies cannot begin until a maximum tol- thought to derive from its similarity to their experiments (Ruff and others, erated dose is discovered in phase I. a chemical produced by the body. 1987), and that no one knew what Researchers had ample warning this But the controversy swirling concentrations were actually present might be the case, because they could around the drug centers on its effica- in the bodies of AIDS patients. not find an LDSOdose (a dose potent cy, not its toxicity. And the fact that Frederick Goodwin, M.D., then enough to kill half the animals to the drug is plodding through a slow- director of NIMH, called a meeting which it is administered) in studies moving toxicity study has done little where the opposing researchers could conducted before human trials began. to help resolve the issue in a timely arrive at a consensus about the drug's An application by the drug's fashion. mechanism of action. However, no sponsors for phase II studies of pep- Six months after Pert and others agreement was reached (Barnes, tide T in the National Institute of asserted in the Lancet that peptide T 1987). Nevertheless the Food and Health's extensive testing system was helped Swedish AIDS patients, Drug Administration, which had a denied in late July, 1989. And Bristol- William Haseltine, Ph.D., of the Dana- representative at the meeting, granted Myers Co. in May, 1989 withdrew Farber Cancer Institute in Boston re- permission to begin testing the drug from a federal license to market and ported that he and several other re- in people, half a year after the appli- manufacture the drug. searchers found peptide T did not cation was filed. Peptide T was discovered by inhibit the virus in test tube experi- At about this time, a researcher at Candace Pert, PhD., who was chief of ments. Furthermore, the viral enve- conti nued on page 66 28 OUTTWEEK August 21. 1989 Ray Navarro Commentary spread chemical abuse has perpetuat- ed the transmission 'of HIY. But here IIOe-colonizing" the AIDS Crisis we must continue to expand our defi- nitions of risk factors such as "chemi- ne of the most important El Comite de Afirmacion Na- cal abuse". In the case of Puerto lessons that AIDS activists cional, which is the primary organizer Rican women, the illegal testing of can learn from pre-existing of the demonstration, is comprised of birth control methods (forced steriliza- socialO movements, such as the Puerto various elements within the Puerto tion) by U.S. drug companies certainly Rican independentistas, is the power Rican community, including lesbians constitutes a form of illicit drug use of coalition building. Seasoned ac- and gay men. In fact, the organization that continues to endanger all women tivists will again demonstrate their of this particular action can be primar- (as well as the fetuses of those who commitment to battling U.S. imperial- ily attributed to the efforts of gay or- are pregnant). ism at a march/rally scheduled to take ganizers within El Comite, according Official endorSing groups of this place on Saturday, AUgust 12. The tar- to Jose Samtini, who is also a member action include the Puerto Rican So- get here is the United Nations, who of the Lesbian and Gay Coalition for cialist Party (PSP), the National libera- will, for the 16th year in a row, be dis- Puerto Rico's Self-determination. The tion Movement (MLN), and the cussing a potential end to Comite de Mujeres Puer- the dependent status of toriquenas (Committee the island nation. The of Puerto Rican Women). platform of the demon- In the shadow of the in- stration organizers is not creasingly international specifically AIDS, but scale of the AIDS epi- part of their agenda for demic, forging links with realistic political self-de- militant and politically termination presupposes sophisticated social battling the social condi- movements, such as the tions under which the Independistas seems epidemic is perpetuated, crucial at this stage of The five main points the struggle. National- that the demonstrators ism, a term too often will bring to the U.N. in- given a negative conno- clude the following: tation, has the power to 1) The transfer of all powers to tricky element in an organizing effort inspire and catalyze whole popula- the peoples of Puerto Rico as recog- such as this seems to be how to effec- tions toward self-affirmation through nized by international law. tively rally broad-based community developing coherent political plat- 2) The release from prison of all support for a public demonstration forms that historically continue to be Puerto Rican prisoners of war and po- while at the same time educating recognized by the international com- litical prisoners and a stop to all acts folks about the deeper social dimen- munity. In the case of this particular of repression against the Independista sions of what seem to be two unrelat- demo, strong leadership promises to movement. Repatriation to Puerto ed issues: AIDS and Puerto Rican na- effectively critique the apologies of Rico of all those individuals who are tional identity. Yet, in fact, the issues U.N. bureaucrats who would other- exiled or forced into hiding, cohere, as activists re-affirm the wise remain unchallenged in their jus- 3) Withdrawal of all U.S. federal lessons of the long-term effects of un- tification of the economic exploitation troops, armed -forces and police from derdevelopment upon populations on and of the Puerto Rican people by the the island of Puerto Rico. a large scale. U.S., as evidenced by the "develop- 4) Only Puerto Ricans living in- Over 60% of the Puerto Rican ment" of AIDS there. As far as les- side or outside the island will decide population live in conditions of ex- bians and gays are concerned, it the fate of Puerto Rico. treme poverty. Puerto Rico, with a rel- would seem that alliances could be 5) Full economic reparations nec- atively small population, has the third acheived here that will advance the essary for the transition from depen- largest number of AIDS cases within self-determination of the Lesbian and dent to independent national status. Latin America. Furthermore, wide- Gay Nation. 'Y August21, 1989 OUTTWEEK 29 so-so uptight. Is say, "Loosen up, Mr. President!" that what you feel, Gay people have a special kind too, Violet?" of loosening up; an act of self-affirma- "R;ght on, Pan,y. tion we call "coming out." So I was • wondering, Mr. President: Why don't flf?Ciiil @ffiI ~;::;~~l:o~~~~~:~ you "come out"? Come out of Central ~ II rr has done to our America. Come out of the Caribbean; 1 world leaders. out of the Eastern Mediterranean. Yes, ,O d©@OO1r~@J1U U Ooooh, look at that while you're at it, why don't you try sunset!" "Heterosex- coming out of the arms race? Commentary by Susie Day ism hurts everyone, Violet. Can I have Believe me, Mr. President, I a hug?" know it won't be easy. People will They're right, Mr. President. Your nudge one another and titter as you An Open Letter to OUr President potential is being stifled in a repres- stroll by. They will whisper that you sive sex-role stereotype of your own are less than a man; that you can't get Dear Mr. President, making. And, although as a unique your "rockets up." Gangs of teenage I am a lesbian. You are one of indiVidual, you are responsible for youths will try to rough you up. Some those "he-men." Yet both of us share creating your own reality, as our of your own FBI men might plant a common humanity, do we not? Both President, you are also responsible for President-sized crotch less panties in of us feel the warmth of the sun, hear creating a great deal of our reality. So your sock drawer for other agents to the singing of birds. Both of us are it is with a certain insistence that I "discover." But try to understand, Mr. living Americans whose culture has popularized Silly Putty, Oliver North, strip mining and teen slasher movies. Given these facts, Mr. President, who's to say what is "nat- ural" or "unnatural"? Can't a lesbian have a few words with her President? Frankly, Mr. Presi- dent, I'm worried. I don't think you've been living up to your full human po- tential. Gay people can tell these things, Mr, Presi- dent. Many's the time a bunch of us gays will be sitting around, acting sen- sitive, when the subject of "Our President" will come up, "Gee," someone will say, "the Chief Executive Officer is probably a kinder, gentler person, deep down, but he seems 30 OUTTWEEK August 21, 1989 President: this is the toll that sex-role stereotyping has taken on the human spirit. Be brave, Mr. President. Be brave and honest. 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It is no accident that the two Not a single one is or ever has been highest officials in the United States openly gay or lesbian. who are openly gay-Congressmen Somehow, although we have built Barney Frank and Gerry Studds--both some political clout, at least enough came out while in office. While both for candidates to court our votes, we men have been reelected since coming haven't managed to elect a single out, it's probable they wouldn't have open lesbian or gay public official. been elected initially as open gays. This year two gay men are run- Although electing "our own" ning for seats on the New York City won't end homophobia or cure AIDS, Council: Tom Duane is challenging it will mean visibility. It will also mean 20-year incumbent Carol Greitzer in access. And it will mean that chummy Cheisea and the Village, and Dave legislative fraternizing and back room Taylor is vying in an eight person race dealmaking will be forced to include to succeed Ruth Messinger in her us. Those things could translate into Upper West Side and Clinton district. tangible results, "Think what a big dif- In 1985, openly gay David ference it would have made for the Rothenberg came close to election to AIDS crisis if David Rothenberg had the City Council. He lost to Greitzer been in there," says Dave Taylor, pon- by a 54-46 margin. "Prior to David dering Rothenberg's loss to Greitzer Rothenberg, expectations were not four years ago. "It would have made a that we would necessarily have gay or huge, huge difference." lesbian council members," observes Openly gay and lesbian candi- Rothenberg's campaign manager, dates walk a tightrope. They are moti- David Fleischer. He thinks vated (at least in part, one hopes) by Rothenberg's near success raised our the quest for lesbian and gay visibility 32 OUTTWEEK August 21. 1989 and empowerment. To have any cred- ibility in our community, they must be strong and vocal advocates for our interest[.. But they must also prove, particularly to non-gay voters but to Os as well, that they are not "single- issue" candidates. Homophobia makes some people consider gays a "special interest" and wonder whether we are capable of rep- I resenting the "general public." A l~'''& straight Upper West Sider I know posed THE CANDID CANDIDATES Photo: Michael Datoli the question like this: "Is he a gay can- didate or a candidate who is gay?" DavlI Taylor and Tom DUMII Candidates must devise ways to be a consciously multi-issue candidate, loud and proud and still avoid being always stressing interconnections. perceived as single-issue candidates, According to Duane's campaign manager, Lisa Parrish, "One of the Tom Duane is particularly sophisticat- TAYLOR: ed at raising issues of importance to lesbians "I would very much like to be and gays in a broader able to go to City Hall to get context. The health care crisis facing all sworn in holding my lover's hand New Yorkers frames his discussion of AIDS for all the city to see:' policy. He speaks of lease succession rights for domestic strategies is to hit really hard on all partners with an explicit recognition the other issues and in fact there are Dave Taylor is a longtime orga- of its importance not only to lesbians people at times who say 'Gee, his lit- nizer, dating back to the war on and gays, but to seniors as well. He erature doesn't say very much about poverty in the south in the sixties, but argues for stiff penalties for bias-relat- his being gay.' And that's largely "running for office has never been my ed crimes against women, against because we think that if anyone on priority and I never really gave it people of color, against lesbians and the street knows anything about Tom much thought." gays. "When you look at each and Duane, they know he's gay." Taylor works as a drug rehabilita- every issue that I represent, it's very Duane is no newcomer to elec- tion counselor and belongs to the tough to break out my being gay from tioneering. He was elected a Hospital Workers Union, District 1199. other people in the community." He is Democratic Party District Leader in He is President of Gay and Lesbian August21, 1989 OUTTWEEK 33 want to look at council much more dramatically in how you make order to obtain representation of effective changes diverse minority communities. in City Hall, you Not only the size of districts but don't make them where their boundaries are drawn by going to com- determine who is likely to be elected, mittee meetings, In a move intended to promote minori- and you don't ty representation in the City Council, make them by the Charter Revision Commission is politicians talking proposing that ''To the extent practica- to politicians- ble, district lines shall keep intact ACTING UP that's all very fine neighborhoods and communities with . . and you do that- established ties of common interest and Dave Tay/or st CIty Hall AIDS protest WIth Joyce Hunter (/.J, b t ' t t . t' h th h' t . I . I d· f' / Ie • U' • I' u you ve go 0 assocla lon, weer ISonca, raCla, Ifector ..° socIa wor. servIces, netflck-Martm. . nstltute, know h ow to economIC,. e th' OIC,re I" Iglous or oth" er. and Sukl Ports, dlfector of the FamIly Hea/th ProJect. musted er lorces an "Oth"er IS. a eup h' emlsm f or I es- Independent Democrats, and is widely power bases and bring them to City bians and gays, but the Charter credited with building it into a viable Hall to put the pressure on to make Revision Commission dare not speak and progressive political organization. those kinds of changes, and that's our name. FAIRPAC has lobbied for Referring to these credentials, his cam- what I'm good at." explicit inclusion of sexual orientation, paign manager, Rachel Breen, to no avail. .Dave says, "He is in an incredibly PARRISH" Taylor observes, unique position to bring" "There are probably together the coalition to real- "The problem with the three areas in this city Iy fight AIDS on a united where we can run front." Taylor was part of the girls is they're all too and win: the Upper successful effort to stop West Side, the Westway, and his face is smartf or th-"IS. Village/Chelsea area familiar around City Hall for and Park Slope." his persistent lobbying for Given the Charter increased funding for AIDS services. His unassuming manner makes Revision Commission's failure to rec- When Taylor describes his vision him appear an unlikely candidate. But ognize our communities as worthy of of the council job, he downplays the then, the race he's in is an unusual keeping together, we need to guard behind-the-scenes access in favor of race, with eight contenders, seven of against our communities being divid- the platform it offers, "If you really them straight. One other candidate, ed in the redistricting process which Ronnie Eldridge, has attracted consid- will follow the 1990 census. erable support among lesbian and gay ~,.N'~~~~.J;:"~ voters. But Taylor remains confident. "I ~f~..'I£.· -.i...,~ see momentum happening. I think we have tremendous support, especially in the activist community." One major obstacle to lesbian and gay electoral empowerment in New York City is the size of districts. Each Council district, for instance, is comprised of more than 200,000 peo- ple, the size of many cities. This size, and the diversity within each district, favors the election of the lowest com- mon denominator and generally dis- , empowers lesbians and gays. I\ The City's Charter Revision Commission is proposing to expand the number of seats on the council from 35 to 51. Tom Duane showed up SIGN OF THE TIMES at a recent public meeting on Charter Revision and spoke compellingly of Tom Duane at demo last month orga- the need to expand the size of the nized by the Reproductive Rights Coalition Photo: Ellen B. Neipris 34 OUTTWEEK August 21, 1989 All of this is not to suggest that says Duane. "Not only do I kiss les- any candidate could win with the les- bians and gay men, but I kiss non-gay bian and gay vote alone. This is one women and I kiss non-gay men," thing that every lesbian and gay can- . The visibility of candidacy can didate, past and present, here and magnify the power of small gestures. elsewhere, seems to agree on. "If you Dave Taylor and his lover marched are running as an open gay or lesbian hand in hand on Gay Pride Day, as and that's your platform, you will not they have for 14 years. But because win," warns Rochester City Councilor they were under a banner proclaiming Tim Mains, the only open gay holding Taylor's candidacy, he says dozens of elected office in New York State. "You people came up to thank them. His really have to have a broad base of vision for January 1, 1990: "I would issues." Coalitions are the name of the very much like to be able to go to game, as they were for our icon City Hall to get sworn in holding my Harvey Milk, who was elected by les- lover's hand for all the city to see." ... bians and gays in coalition with San Francisco labor unions. The flip side of this is that candi- dates cannot assume the full support THREE FOR THE ROAD of the lesbian and gay community. For Duane campaign manager Usa instance, the Stonewall Democratic Club is opposing both Duane and Parrish with volunteers Michael Taylor (and supporting Koch's reelec- Dixon and Preston Marshall tion, it should be noted). Four years playing his thick skin and pragmatism, ago, the New York Native ran weekly notes, "The people who say faggot or attacks on David Rothenberg, things like that are never registered In a twisted blame-the-victim sce- Democrats," More annoying to him nario, California Assembly candidate has been Lynn Samuels, a radio talk Roberta Achtenberg was criticized in a show host on WABC-AM who has San Francisco gay paper, Coming Up!, for repeatedly tried to cast him as a making sexual orientation such a big misogynist, asking "Why do you gay issue. "As if we had control over that," men keep running against a nice, notes her press secretary Debra Chasnoff, straight, decent, liberal woman?" Presumably then a lesbian would be Both Duane and Taylor report more acceptable; what of lesbian can- that overt homophobia has been limit- didates? Tom Duane and Lisa Parrish ed on the campaign trail. Duane, dis- toss around a few ·names. Says Parrish: "The problem with the girls is they're all too smart for this." More than overt homophobia and name-calling, the candidates encounter ignorance. Dave Taylor was working the crowd after a recent candidates forum. "One man said to me, 'Are you married?' I said, 'No, I'm not. I'm gay, and I'd like to introduce you to my life partner, Cliff Landers. We've been together 14 years: He was kind of taken aback, but he said, 'I thank you for being so straightforward about this.... Public displays of affection are an issue for some candidates. Four years ago, David Rothenberg's rule of thumb was no kissing men in public. His campaign manager, David Fleischer, explains it as a matter of personal style. "He didn't kiss much ON THE TAYLOR TRAIL before or after, either." Not so for Taylor campaign manager Rachel Duane or Taylor. "I kiss everybody," Breen August 21, 1989 OUTTWEEK 35 n Vancouver, British Columbia, 1170 Bute Street is a nondescript two story building. Amid a second- floor warren of offices, Mary Brookes sat at a desk one afternoon last ." . Gay Games III March, answering phone calls and occasional- «• ly smoking a cigarette. Although the comput- er and supplies scattered about could have belonged to any start-up business, there were telltale signs that this was different. There was, for instance, a poster featuring beautiful black and white photos of a nude woman, A world map was pinned to another wall. There were wall boards and paint stacked in a corner, awaiting a move to a larger space. And everywhere there were signs of Celebration 90, the official name for Gay Games III. If in March the office was relatively quiet, that's already beginning to change. This June, the organization hired seven full- time staff people to help Brookes with the increasingly complex tasks of finding hous- ing, organizing transportation, and promoting, marketing and coordinating the week-long celebration of gay and lesbian physical and cultural prowess. Come August 4-11, 1990, 1170 Bute Street will be the center of the gay • success of the first event, with almost 3500 ! men and women participating in seventeen sports. A few months later, Waddell died of AIDS. He had, however, alerted the world to the existence of gay athletiCS, not just in the lesbian and gay community, but outside it, particularly in an adulatory posthumous Sports Illustrated profile. Gay Games II was an intensely exciting experience. Everyone who has been able to "come out" describes the subsequent feeling as a release of energy, and so part of the excitement must have come from being out '" and open with thousands of other gays and lesbians, day and night. It was a constant rev- elation of the truth of the popular slogan: We are everywhere. At Gay Games II I met a fire- fighter from Denver, a letter carrier from Columbus Ohio. The winner of one distance race was from a small farming town in Iowa; TESTING THE UMITS Photo: Jim Marks the winner of the women's high jum~ w~s from West Germany. I talked to a Caltfornla Power Lifter Shawn Wardinsky at Gay Games /I grandmother who'd had the time of her life and lesbian universe, as over 10,000 gay and lesbian ath- winning a bowling gold medal. letes, artists, writers, performers and spectators converge on That those thousands were also athletes, their bodies the city, trained to meet physical demands, helped account for the Gay Games III will be both a celebration and a test of intensity. The powerlifting competition, for instance, was all how successfully a major lesbian and gay organization can about the explosive release of energy within the most disci- outlive-alas, literally-its founder. The first Gay Games plined limits. The lifters paced like caged leopards, then were the brainchild of Dr. Tom Waddell, a San Francisco approached the weight bar pawing and breathing deeply, phYSician. The tall, charismatic, deeply committed Waddell like creatures who could smell freedom only inches away. competed in the 1968 Olympic Games decathlon. Out of Portland's Shawn Wardinsky raised the weight to over 300 that experience and his own pounds. Twice she failed to execute sense of self identity grew a the squat lift cleanly. The third time vision of gay people participat- she moved down and back up in ing in a sporting event without one sure motion, and was rewarded the homophobia and emphasis by the three white lights signaling a on "winning" that dominates clean lift, and a gymnasium of men much athletics. and women filling the space with By 1982, Waddell was tour- applause and cries of delight. ing the country promoting what Finally, it was not just the deter- he was then calling the Gay mination, but the sheer sense of Olympic Games, to be held in physical pleasure that filled the week San Francisco in August of that with excitement. The games cele- year. He was also discovering brated the pursuit of excellence, the homophobia of the orga- with the emphasis on pursuit. nized sports world, in the form Waddell's philosophy emphasized of a law suit by the U.S. participation for all, and all felt wel- Olympic Committee to bar come. Maybe that athlete from New Waddell from using the word Zealand did place 40th in the 100 "Olympics" in his competition. meter dash; who would want to be The U.S.O.C. won the law- deprived of the sight of those curly suit, the name was shortened, locks, those muscular tattooed arms, but the Gay Games went on as that skin the color of molten gold? planned, bringing 1300 men The highpoint of the fun was surely and women to San Francisco the physique contest. Actually, the from around the world. Gay contest was held in the morning Games II in 1986, also in San before a few devout observers; the Francisco, nearly tripled the SWEATING IT OUT Photo: Jim Marks evening "contest" was pure show to Womens Triathelon, Gay Games /I 38 OUTTWEEK August 21, 1989 Sports of Gay Games III Basketball Wrestling Water Polo Physique Bowling Powerlifting Swimming Touqh Football Volleyball Billiards Diving Squ~sh Soccer Racquetball Track and Field Badminton' Triathlon Tennis Softball Martial Arts Cycling Golf, .Marathon Pi Eq4estEi~m , introduce the winners to the huge auditorium full of men festival-featuring a performance by 18 massed gay and les- and women clapping and shouting and whistling approval bian bands in Vancouver Symphony Hall, a book fair, a liter- of the smoothly oiled hunks of man and woman flesh on ary festival, 1,000 voice chorus, a theatrical premiere and an stage. Against the backdrop of the AIDS epidemic so rav- evening of women's music comedy and performance-may aging San Francisco, it was a healing balm to be able to cel- actually rival the athletic competition in size. ebrate gays and lesbians as superbly physical people. In a sense, Gay Games III has begun. Registration for This is the legacy that Gay Games III must meet and competitors began over the July 4th weekend in Seattle, and continue, in a different city and country, without a founder remains open until May 31, 1990. Right now, as Brookes on hand to set the guidelines. The organizers are fully con- and the staff in the offices on Bute St. struggle to meet vinced that in numbers alone, Gay Games III will outpace deadlines, ootain grants, finalize competition venues, worry Gay Games II. They've expanded the number of sports to 26 about meeting a $1.25 million budget (and keep a board of (plus a demonstration ice hockey contest). A huge cultural directors happy), it's not, Brookes says, "the most inspiring IN THE SWIM OF THINGS Photo:Jim Marks Men's Triathelon. Gay Games II August 21, 1989 OUTTWEEK 39 Gay Gamesl~fb thing, going through all the drudgery," Celebration '90 has fought one battle, when the president of the University of British Columbia said that he would not allow his facilities to be l'sed for a ·political- event. It's also had the plea- sure of seeing the regents of the University of British Columbia order the UBC president to reverse his stand. It's a good reminder that in 'gay sports, not all victories OCcuron the fields of play. Personally, Brookes says she's learned that it is possi- ble for gay men and women to work together. The English-born Brookes also looks forward to the educa- tional effect Gay Games will have on her adopted home- town. "Even in the total chaos," she says, "it's still fun because you can see the end HIGH KICKING BOYS Photo: Jim Marks result." Y New York Ramblers vs. San Francisco Spikes, Gay Games /I Has anyone ever gon~ t9 Vancouver and returned ing, biking, tennis, superbY,istas (and cruisy hikingtralls)." unravishSd by the city's ~6~r,~~uty? Set on a peninsula, Atthough natives claim 100,000 gay men ancjlesbians ~yis surroun~.py,)y~~~ ringed by spectacul~r~pow~ among Vancouver's 1.f million residents, rts lesbi~ig,~ $~" ,Jed mountalos;:'!11!!nMitlg;: the" Pacific c~rrent.l,tt:1~c1W community seems relatiy.ely small. Centered around+~+oog~!y IjOys mild wiriters.An'a,tliJnaant 'rainfall (natives say it is six. block area along Davie Street from Bute to Granville; the '$"""" dry in the summer) nour~~es an abundant vegetation. In community supports a single, somewhat eccentrit and political spring, it's no rarity to see a hUge rhododendron heavy wqh monthly newspaper, Angles, that averages around 24 pages blossoms on any street comer. Flower shops occupy not and a modest one rolumn personals section. Penny and Doll's only·, every street C()rner.but the middle of the block, too. (1167 Davie), just around the corner from the Gay Cerlter . When invited to dinner, blj!ltfa bouquet for your host. (1170 Bute). is undoubtedly the community's meeting Vancouver isspedaeularly dean and prosperous. High spot-look for its trademark convertible with drag queen man- rise apartment blQcks, ~tb,~k from the street and each nequins above the goor. Angles lists 12 clubs and pubs. ,Expect them to be .~ed to overflowing C}ndtI1en~p1elJ~X! ,;;;,;~;~~~~~~;J.I~=~~~~~~a1i~;~'August On a WeekEi(1djrlMarch, Celebrities (1b22H?-vi~),th8' " lows, 6ke a Corbusiet:v~iQrrOf tl1$ ideal modern city. At the town's largest disco,' had a long line extending down'1h~,bk:x:k ""'~ the per1insula, th6O$,~h9 acta Stanley Park offer~ boat- by 11 p.m. -JlmMarlcs . '::r . <%>t~ 40 OUTTWEEK August 21, 1989 ,', Nrc.W¥OBK'S:~:: ~:; :::, .:. ":-:', :-: .. .. '-:. :-; ',' LBSBIAN\ANID.GAY-.- ,',. .. " .' -:', .': ',' ", ',' " :', ,', .. ',',',':', " ',',' ,', NEWS.Mt\(3AZlrNEc:: '.' .-. ,-, ,', . " ,', ,',. '.' ..- ',' '.' .. '.' ,', . " I SUBSCRIBE NOm J. ',' :.:.:.::;::.:.;.:?:.:..... :::,.-. ::'" _ --~ --- - ...,; .._ --.~------::: )1 Out'YWeek Subscription Department ! • 77 Lexington Avenue. New York, New York 10010 ' YES. Please enter my subscription to OutTWeek. o One year $78 0 Six months $39 o Payment enclosed (check or money order, US funds only) o Please bill my 0 Mastercard 0 Visa Card Number: Exp. _ Signature: _ o Mr. 0 Ms. 1 .Address: 1 1 City / State / Zip: I, 1 o Please do not make my name available for other mailings. 1 Out .....Week is mailed in a plain envelope. 1 Please allow 2 to 3 weeks for delivery of first issue. ow. 1 ------_~ - - _I Just from looking It this photograph. blocks north of Manhattan Valley. which you probably think that this storefront art was recently described in The New York giliery is somewhere east of Avenue B. Times as -an open drug supermarket.- But But guess again. bucko, The East Village it seems that more family-oriented materi- doesn't have I monopoly on this pseudo- als are for sale at this place. religious-artsy-yet-non-gentrifying-not- Gallery owner Yanni Posnakoff could just-for shock-value shit. you know. not b~ reached for comment or explana- The Angel Gallery is located up on tion; he's probably on vacation with every- Amsterdam Avenue. just across from the one's therapist (it is August). But judging Cathedral of St. John the Divine. For those from the clippings he proudly displays on of you who never cross Fourteenth Street. the door. the guy's gotten all the press he that's in Morningside Heights. just a few needs. - Andrew Miller Photography by: n. Litt Who says the Hollywood marketing This is one prison film whose ad cam- machine isn't targeting gay male dollars? paign seems more inspired by Stroke than The ads for right-wing poster boy The Great Escape. In the most telling twist Sylvester Stallone's new film Lock Up (see of all. the film is playing It the Bijou the- review. pg, 52) look like they're pushing I ater-that once hot 'n heavy East Village rough trade phone sex line: I faceless. male sex flick emporium-which has tank-topped muscle-bound torso. wrists been newly mainstreamed. No word yet bound by handcuffs. All that's .missing is on whether old patrons are disappointed the phone number (550-JAIL. maybe?). to find Stallone instead of Stryker. -Karl Soehnlein UT OF o MV HANDS BY BRADLEY BALL Dear Readers: 1969 for They Shoot Horses Don't had to wait until 1984 for her You never know what burning They." -Horace M. first. " -Dawn S. issue will touch the hearts and nerves of people. In a recent column I stated "Well, who died and made you "Diane Keaton, don't forget, was that Jane Fonda should have won the the Academy of Motion Picture Arts being doubly rewarded for Looking 1977 Academy Award for Best Actress and Sciences? Diane Keaton deserved For Mr. Goodbar (also 1977) which for her performance in Julia and you to win just for the tremendous influ- could have been the story of my life would not believe the resulting con- ence she had on contemporary fash- except that I'm a guy and I never got troversy. Here are just a few samples ion. I didn't see any Lillian Hellman stabbed although one of my tricks from the thousands of impassioned Look sweeping the country after Julia. borrowed my copy of Play It As It letters that poured in: BeSides, Jane Fonda already won an Lays and I never saw it or him again." Oscar for her haircut in Klute." -BAB. "Everybody knows that it was -SydneyG. Anne Bancroft who truly deserved "Is Jane Fonda any relation to that Oscar. Never before or since in "Jane Fonda was lucky to have a Bridget Fonda who was so excellent the history of cinema has there been job, let alone an Oscar nomination, in The Shag?" -Troy H. anything comparable to her stunning after her acts of treason in the Anna Karenina ballet sequence in The Vietnam War. And taking Ms. ''The real crime in 1977 was the Turning Point." -Herbert R. Redgrave's behavior at the Academy Academy's failure to acknowledge Awards into account, it would have Liza Minnelli's work in New York, "That whole Oscar race was been better to have given that Best New York-not even a nomination! rigged. How come both Anne Supporting Actress award to Tuesday That show; and not Woody Allen's Bancroft and Shirley MacLaine were Weld. At least she wasn't subsidizing self-absorbed home movie, is what nominated in the Best Actress catego- any terrorists." -lynne R. inspired me to move to Manhattan," ry while the infinitely superior -MartinS. Vanessa Redgrave was reduced to "If Anne Bancroft and Shirley Best Supporting Actress for her co- MacLaine hadn't cancelled out "Marsha Mason had the hardest starring role in Julia?" -Natasba R. each other's votes then Ms. job of anybody nominated that year. MacLaine would have been given Jane Fonda had to playa writer, Anne "You're slightly mistaken: Jane the tribute due her. I mean, Jane Bancroft and Shirley MacLaine had to Fonda should have won the Oscar in already had one Oscar and Shirley play ballerinas and Diane Keaton had to play Diane Keaton, but Marsha Mason had to play an actress. She deserved that Oscar for courage PARTY CHATTER: alone," -Neil S. overheard by an OutWeek staffer at Red Zone last week: NObody but Anne Bancroft could have performed that Anna Karenina "I love your style and your outrageousness. ballet in The Turning Point I gasped As you become more famous don't lose your wit, the first time I saw it and I gasped your edge. Don't sell out." again when she lost the Academy Award!" -Bob F. -name-dropping archaeologist Iris Love, long-time friend And that, as I say, dear readers, is and companion of Gossip Watch-bashed Daily News columnist Liz a random sampling of my mail on this Smith (and, we hear, new chum of Band-Aid heiress Bashia still hotly-debated subject. Me, I stand Johnson) to fiercely-out-of-the-closet Vii/age Voice columnist by my belief that Jane Fonda was Michael Musto, robbed. After all, Julia could have been my life story just as much as it could have been Lillian Hellman's, T 44 OUTTWEEK August 21, 1989 Buckley and of course Barbara and cream cones. Norwich and Liz Smith, George Bush. He goes on to tell us of course, always makes sure to care- about another hot party on the social fully let us know that Malcolm is "dat- agenda. "Malcolm Forbes' 70th looms ing" Elizabeth Taylor. They know all on August 18. Come that dawn, some too well about keeping those skele- 800 guests will trip off to Forbes' tons in check. And yet I find con- temptible the malaise and col- laboration of all of these columnists which leads me to make this personal plea: By Michelangelo Signorlle Dearest columnists, You and yours are dying too, and yet you keep whirling, spinning, flying with the white, rich, homophobic men who keep ust when you thought it was us all down and throw you a safe ... He's Back! No, not few crumbs. You refuse even to Freddy Kruger. We're talking creatively use your space as a aboutJ an even more frightening crea- tool to initiate changej to attack WILLI". ture; the kind who keeps the blades NORWICH the oppressors and celebrate the of the Trumps' buzz-saws spinning - Palais Mendoub in salty Tangier, heroes. Instead you live in a right for your neck. Yes, it's Billy Morocco." This of course is the same world as archaic and false as (Goldberg) Norwich in Nightmare on Malcolm Forbes we spotted on the photos that grace your Park Avenue, Part V. The Daily News Christopher Street resting next to his columns. Get over yourselves! society columnist is back from vaca- motorcycle along with his young, hot, (finger snap). tioning in one of those nauseating, hunky cyclemate, both sucking on ice waspy beach towns to tell us more and more about the ruling class who Things to do after a bitter break up when you oppress us, suffocate us and kill us. But why should Norwich worry? He's still have to run into that fucking sold out to rich kids who take him on their yachts and out to their estates, ex-lover everywhere you gO: Like Saul Steinberg's in Quogue, where wife Gayfryd threw, according • Remember: You rule. You are in control. You are "much better off" this way. to NorWich, the one-million-dollar "Glam" your way through all events: smile a lot, at everyone; when you "party of the decade." According to see him or her, rush up to the person standing or sitting directly next to the James Revson (Newsday), "it was held ex-lover - no matter who it is - give a kiss and say, "I haven't seen you in in a building on the Steinberg's so long. I've been so out-of-touch .• Quogue estate that was built to repli- cate a 17th-Century Flemish home, • Buy a fabulous pair of shoes. Great footwear is the best revenge. The entire structure was then encased in an air-conditioned tent. The house • Sleep with all of those people who wanted to sleep with you throughout the of white stucco walls and wood relationship, but whom you turned down because you were "involved" beams was lit by hundreds of candles, (especially sleep with the ones whom your ex-lover was either jealous of or wall sconces and a brass chandelier as had a crush on). big as a king-sized bed." But before you puke, take note of Liz Smith's • Walk around, loudly humming - and occassionally breaking out into an a (Daily News) comments: "I returned capella rendition of - Jody Watley'S "I'm Looking For a New Love." [from vacation] to spend a smartly chic weekend in Arnold Scaasi's beautiful • In party conversation stress and repeat INCESSANTLY words like, next, Long Island house and hobnob with new, nouvelle, start, begin, commence and the ultimate phrase "forging financial royalty at the Saul Steinberg ahead." Also try to use (ALWAYS with a smile) words like over, finished, birthday party. So within 24 hours, I done, gone, and that wonderful line, "Who needs that shit!" traded my ragged shorts for a Mary McFadden; it was quite a shocking • Remember: You are happy! Tingling! Glowing with exuberance! Free of change." Now puke. I'll wait. anxiety! Don't let anyone know that deep down your stomach juices have Norwich, back only three days, just overflowed and dissolved your liver when she or he (or, worse yet, the couldn't resist already mentioning Pat "new lover") walks into the room. August 21, 1989 OUTTWEEK 45 Social Terrorism Photos by Erich Conrad HARING PAIRING BOA BLOWER Keith Haring and Lisa Coope, at M.K. The Llldy Bunny lind Tom Rubnitz lit Love MlIChine . DIANA VREELAND IN HELL MATT DILLON IN HELL Hof'lI lit &d Zone Hazel in the Times Squa,e men's 100m DON'T EVER CHANGE Derrick at Mars THE NOSE BLOWS Lincoln Plllsg10ve ger:. IIIISlIllIt Red Zone ALL WRAPPED UP Ninja at Love Machine . 46 OUTTWEEK August 21, 1989 THEY CAME FROM PLANET CLAIROL? HOUSE OF HEIMUCH MANEUVER Aliens at Lo". MlIChi". Leslie Va/ez and Da"id at Boy Ba, I'M HAPI. WATCH ME GROW Hapi PhllC. at Py'llmid WHAT WAS IN lltOSE UTTLE SUGAR CUBES? Doug Wah at the Wah Wah Hut August21, 1989 OUTTWEEK ARENT YOU BAD? YOU USE DIAL The inc,ediblelll,'Y Tat Lo". Machine Girlwatching at the Raccoon Lodge -.I , . Photo: T.L. Litt by Mona Feigenbaum recommend it (but if you are hungry, the "cheezy nachos" Because the Upper West Side is a virtual ghost town probably won't kill you). when it comes to girl-appropriate entertainment, my friend The problem with straight bars, though, is that us girls and I have recently taken to frequenting neighborhood are often approached by the opposite sex, Not to worry. straight watering holes. And our favorite is definitely The The boys are very young and laughable here. Be open and Raccoon Lodge on the corner of 83rd and Amsterdam. up front with them. Tell them you are a lesbian and that Some of you readers might be asking yourself: "Why you work at Carvel. They'll never believe you anyway and go there ...that place is just so young and so uncool...?" they might possibly leave you alone. Exactly. If you can't be at a place where the girls are But the girls...well. On a recent visit, there was a junior approachable, why not go to a place where there are girls accountant dressed in a short black skirt and pin-striped you'd only think about in your sluttiest dreams. Kids, wake jacket. My friend and I decided that our fantasy would be to up. The babes at the Raccoon Lodge are there to meet invite her home, tie her up and then just look at her for a young junior analysts from Dean Witter...and they dress the while. Along with a regular contingent of young profession- part. They want to be one of the guys Oots of pool playing al girls, there is usually a small cadre of big~haired girls with and talk about puts and calls), while at the same time blue eyeshadow (think Private Eyes). We also recently spot- charming the dudes with their feminine wiles. Best of all, ted some sisterfire, so I get the feeling that others have they wear short skirts! caught onto the place too (it does have a pool table). We The Raccoon Lodge reminds us of a lesbian bar in Any- usually hang out by the juke box as it provides us with an town U.S.A. If the MBAs weren't hanging out, you could excellent view of all the action and on occasion gives us a swear there's a dyke in a flannel shirt waiting to chalk up, reason to talk to the girls. ("What song are you playing?"; "I The place is decorated a la college bar in that 1980s "we- love that song."; "Wanna slow dance?") made-the-place-look-sleazy" design. The juke box is loaded Next door to the "Lodge" is a lovely cappucino shop, with songs from our childhood, and there are about 10 vari- which is open late and is the perfect before or after spot. eties of beer to choose from, including about five on tap. All along Amsterdam there are all types of straight bars Make sure you order from the female bartender-she alone (including one called Mogambo Bay) that we don't dare is worth the trip. (Don't forget to tip her well!) walk into. Frankly, we've been too busy sliding off the Beers are about $250. There is bar food, but we don't barstools at The Raccoon Lodge. T 48 OUTTWEEK August 21, 1989 XEROXEDcolltinued fro .. page 9 AIDS activists and minorities sexuals, Therefore, protec- SAFER SEX GUIDELINES in the pages of The New tion of the basic civil liberties York Times ("The Offensive of all homosexual persons, 1. USE A,COND9M WHEr-t FUC~.IN..~;~, Tactics of AIDS Ideologues: which would include affir- Avoid oil-based lubricants s.uch,.s'~i Op Ed page, 8/8/89), There mative recognition of same- is much to dissect and sex relationships, should be baby oil, Vaseline, Criscoetc.,astn"'iii expose in her statements. an essential consideration in can cause condoms to break. Instead! but Iwish to focus on one of the long-range preventive ,J'se water-based lubes li..~e KY. Tti~.:r them, because it is such a medicine of AIDS and other older a condom, the less'reliabler:~1A' straightforward example of sexually transmitted dis- l how prejudice of the kind eases.' find candoms whose manuf'Bcture that informs so much of YourTruly, dates are less than.three months ..lol . ""~/ what Ms. Whelan is saying is Lawrence Mass,MoO, - aggravated by ignorance. Co-founder, Gay Men's 2. USEA CONDOM DURING ORAL Stl Ms. Whelan states the Health Crisis following about the Fifth Manhattan If"YQu,doo't,avQid placing theheadr International Conference on your partner's cock in your mouth. AIDS that was held in Mon- HIV-infe'cted cum ar precum can'? treal in June, "The meeting WRONG BEERNOW enter your bloodstream through Cl,It opened with the presenta- Ms. Jean Sidebottom, Pub- tears or lIlcers in yqur mouth. tion of an AIDS manifesto lisher/Editor 1 ¥ . Y demanding 'full legal Sappho' 5 Isle recognition of lesbian and 3. USE DENTAL DAMS DURING ORAl- gay relationships.' While Dear Ms. Sidebottom: VAGI~~.L SEX. HIV is prese.nt in sO. sidestepping the legitimacy There's a beer stain on of this issue, I think such page 7 of your August '89 amounts'in vaginal secretions, urin recognition is not an essen- issue. Your readers need to menstrual blood and infection-relate tial part of an AIDS preven- know that. despite the fact vaginal discharge. tion program. It will serve that you have chosen to only to alienate further accept money from Coors. those who are already the boycott against Coors 4. NEVER SHARE WORKS. Thi's inclu(f squeamish about alterna- continues. needles, syringe·s, droppers, spoons,}}ijii tive sexual life styles,' Coors supports right- cottons or cookers. If you must reus~¥.. Ms, Whelan is very wing, reactionary, racist. works, clean them after each use' wrong. As explained under homophobic and funda- the subheading "Homosexu- mentalist organizations. It's with bleach, or in an emergency witn ality, Civil Uberties and the not "the right beer now: as rubbing alcohol or vodka, by drawin~,'Jtjj Preventive Medicine of the ad states. It's the beer of the solution into the needle three' " AIDS' in the risk-reduction the right. times 'and then drawing clean water' section of Medical Answers While Coors continues About AIDS, the guide I've its cynical campaign, into.the n,eedle three times. been preparing for Gay spreading its blood money Men's Health Crisis since around the lesbian and gay 5. AVOID FISTING, RIMMING/OR . 1983 and that has been rec- community to try to buy our SHARING UNC_EANED SEXTOYS. ommended by Jane Brody silence, some publications in The New York Times, such are holding out, recognition should be an "Whether on tap, in a 6. AVOID ALCOHOL, POPPERSOR essential part of any AIDS can or bottle' -don't buy OTHER DRUGS. Many people are prevention program. As stat- Coors! unabl~ to maintain safer se~ ed in this guide, the ratio- Sincerely, practices after .getting high. nale is simple enough: "The Eva Yaa Asantewaa 't cultural sanctioning of pair bonding among homosexu- 7. DON'T HESITATETO: Fuck with a als can be expected to help MAIL YOUR LEITERS TO condom,have oral sex with a contain risk behaviors among homosexuals in the OutWeek condom.'Play with, but don't share't: same way that cultural 77 Lexington Avenue clean sex toys, vibrators and diidoes'<~F;; New York, NY 10010 sanctioning of pair bonding Enjoy massage, hugging, ( among heterosexuals Please indude your masturbation(alone, with a partner or unquestionably helps to telephone number. contain the identical risk ina group), and role-playing. .:tl~!;~ behaviors among hetero- Remember, sex is good, and gay s~~\;~ is great. Don't avoid sex, just avoid the virus. Learn to eroticize safer· ~~?C,' , and you can, protect others, !emai~l( safe and have fun. Y /" '~1i Film Panned Parenthood legal recognition of family, remains for Ron Howard, the fictionalized televi- far too many gay and lesbian people sion son (Opie) and nostalgic teenag- who actually seek to become parents er (Ritchie), described how he wanted more a bureaucratic and legal night- to portray that seemingly universal mare than the happily inevitable con- experience of parenthood. of course, dition suggested by the title. We are, such an impulse does indeed seem by Peter Bowen as too many courts and politicians universal these days. With the explo- have sought to explain, either "incom- sion of baby films (Baby Boom, Shes petent" or simply less capable parents Having a Baby, For Keeps) and the than our heterosexual peers. And success of family television (thir- while parenthood for gays and les- tysomething, Married with Children), nthe advertisement for Ron bians is often off limits, for many parenting has become in Hollywood Howard's new comedy women (especially women from dis- terms a "hot commodity,? a subject IParenthood, beneath the title enfranchised communities) the contin- whose potential "baby-boom" market and the photo of Steve Martin-dan- ued erosion of reproductive rights and and whose safe patriarchal politics gling the bodies of two kids as if they public funding for abortions makes guarantee truly ideal viewing for the were small farm animals--reads the parenthood less a friendly promise entire family. Since, however, Rudy caption: "It could happen to you." than a judicial threat. Guiliani in New York and Phyllis Besides the fact that "it" probably The film version of Parenthood, Schlafly in San Francisco have recently won't happen to me, even if I wanted however, includes none of these prob- questioned the status of gay and les- "it" to happen, parenthood, like the lems. On a recent Arsenio Hall Show, bian families, we might well wonder AU IN THE FAMILY: RACISM, SEXISM, HOMOPHOBIA The CBst of Parenthood 50 OUTTWEEK August 21. 1989 how a family is constructed, dinner by surprise, his sudden appear- incurred for not fulfilling one's hetero-·1 The family in question, the ance is as much welcomed by Frank as sexual destiny. Buckmans, live in a generic, station- feared by Gil. As Gil warns a startled In the end, Larry is expelled from wagon town, suburbia, where one's life Nathan, "Keep Patty away from him. the home. Helen, the one single moth- revolves around pizza parlors, birthday He'll suck the intelligence right out of er, is re-married and impregnated. parties and vomiting children. Of her." Right behind him, however, tot- And everyone ends up with a new course, not all is fun and little league tIes in Cool (Alex BurraH), his black baby. Parodying the convention in games, for what cements the bonds of son who was left behind by his mother comedy where the featured lovers are familial affection is that quintessential and whom Larry will also abandon by finally assigned to equally impossible (white) middle-<:lass malaise and inse- the end of the film. Besides the implicit and unavoidable marriages, the last curity-the fear in this case that one racism by which the film renders Cool's scene gathers nearly all the characters will finally be unable to withstand the abandonment by his mother (a black in a hospital waiting room to display unending pressures of parenthood. Vegas show girl and former star of their new infants in a rather stunning Even Frank (Jason Robards), the older "Elvis on Ice") as comical, the film's vil- display of their procreative power. We insensitive and irresponsible patriarch ification of Larry, the one character understand in the end that their future of the family, confesses to his eldest who seems uncomfortable within this will not be perfect, but it will be, if son Gil (Steve Martin), now a father drama of patriarchal responsibilities, simply by their reproductive capabili- with worries of his own, that the serves as a reminder of the punishment ties, continued, ... painful anxieties of parenthood never disappear, no matter how old you and your children become. Now his four children, who come to represent in the film different types of parenthood, must suffer on their own, Gil, who had vowed to become the father he never had, feels that his life has turned into the failure he never imagined. While he is denied a partnership at work because he fails to spend his entire life at the office, Gil fears that at the same time his fail- ure to spend enough time with his son, Kevin (Jasen Fisher), is the cause of the boy's high-strung emotional condition. Interestingly, Gil's sister Helen (Dianne Wiest), as the working single mother of a brooding, secretive adolescent and of a spirited young woman who hides her boyfriend under her bed before running off and marrying him, is continually presented as the caring, forgiving mother, and never as a working woman whose identity might be as much determined by her career as by her parenthood. The other sister, Susan (Harley Kozak), is married to Nathan (Rick Moranis), an ambitious nerd who delivers pep talks on SAT scores and prescribes Kafka as light reading to his three year-old daughter, Patty Qvyann Schwan), And finally there is Larry (Tom Hulce), Frank's youngest and favorite son, While Gil figures as the main char- acter, it is Larry, as Gil's alter ego and as a parental prodigal son, whose sud- den appearance and departure seem to DANGUNG FARM ANIMALS? structure the film. Walking into a family Steve Martin balancing the tots August 21, 1989 OUTTWEEK 51 Film Working thl] Chain Gang Lock up. Directed by John Flynn. ping them all. A dinner invitation was signs her letters to him "Miss" Melissa >pistributed by Tri-Star Pictures., the least Reagan could do; Hitler sure- Lowell. ly did the same for Goebbels. Leone's nightmare begins soon Lock Up, the first post-Reagan after he gets a "midnight transfer" to by Karl Soehnlein vehicle for Stallone, begs the question, Gateway, a hellish maximum security "Will our guy Sly be kinder and gen- prison. It turns out the warden-a sin- tler?" The film is a sort of "Mr. Stallone ister Nazi with the Dickensian name Goes to Jail," a Capra-esque fantasy of of Drumgoole (played with ice-blue one man battling a corrupt system. predictability by Donald Sutherland) ne of the least forgettable Stallone plays Frank Leone, who's -has arranged the move to even up a images of the Reagan era is been jailed for "taking care of' some past score. Leone copes in his new a photo of Sylvester Stallone punks who killed an old couple in his environment by using determination seatedo between Ron and Nancy at an neighborhood, punks who weren't and restraint. You can just see the way official White House dinner. Stallone's punished because they were "connect- he restrains himself when the guards position as unofficial minister of pro- . ed to the cops." As the film opens, make "Mama" jokes, or taunt him paganda was sealed. He had, after all, Leone is out on a weekend leave from about Miss Melissa. Nothing motivates done more to promote American right his minimum-security jail cell--dusting Stallone's character like the patriarchal wing ideology on the cultural plane off the family photographs in his dead impulse to protect what's bis. It's ulti- than almost anyone-fighting the father'S auto body shop, playing foot- mately the threats to his girlfriend .1 Russians. the Vietnamese and various ball with the local kids, and snuggling which cause him to break down his Middle-Eastern terrorists-and whip- with his honey-haired girlfriend, who resolve-and lead, in the film's wad- shooting climax, to anoth- er escape attempt. With guards in shiny black boots gleefully tor- turing inmates, the film takes the prison-as-con- centration-camp metaphor seriously: one scene even simulates a gas chamber, as a bikini-clad Stallone almost passes out while being de-loused in a shower. However, the real fascism is to be found in the film's style. Relying heavily on ultra-hetero bonding sequences (like fIXing up a run-down '65 Mustang), and macho- spectacle turf wars (slow motion football games, super-human fist fights), Stallone pursues his pro- FASCIST EXTRAVAGANZA tect-or-destroy agenda, Stallone gets escorted to jail continued on pageli6 52 OUTTWEEK August 21, 1989 Performance Pennywise habitat, but in the world according to Lucy, gentrifi- 'f cation has stolen the area's graceful charm, The artist relates the myriad of changes complete with pointed gestures and a harsh staccato voice. The evening's funniest moment comes when she angrily tells the tale of the former paper bag factory, now transformed into a chic emporium, aptly called If. It is not only Lucy's finely drawn characteristic determination which pro- vides True Stories with its angry punch, but it is to Penny Arcade's detriment that Lucy is so vividly alive; her other roles pale in comparison. In addition, traces of Lucy seemed to Poke their head into other ANGRY PUNCH: characters' business, dis- Penny Arcade tracting the audience, and tation list. It is another step toward diminishing the final outcome. 'true Stories-;-a performan~~. by Penny Arcade's (a,ka, Susana Ventura) Of course Lucy does not live Penny Arcade. Thurs - Sunoay, constant search for her artistic voice. everywbere. A woman named Andrea 9:30p.m" P..§. 122, 150' First Penny Arcade possesses an ample, Whips periodically returns throughout Avenue. Through August 22. 212- fleshy physique which serves her well the evening, A disciple of the leg- 477-5288 and lends a slightly off-center look to endary Tallulah Bankhead, blond- her characters. She is thoroughly maned Whips wears a three-cornered relaxed strolling around the stage, hat and speaks in a low breathy voice changing costumes before our eyes. It's -a sort-of cross between Bette Davis by Jonn Wasser the only constant in an evening devot- and Jackie Kennedy Onassis. Whips is ed to changing morals and the extremi- the revolutionary camp follower incar- ties of life. Penny Arcade harbors an nate comparing homosexuals to romo- unexpressed social anger which seeps sexuals. ("We have nothing to fear tilizing more wigs than the into her characters' lives. from homosexuals. They stay at home. Gabor sisters, Penny Arcade Her most polished eccentric is It is the romosexuals who roam the Uputters around P.S. 122's bare Lucy from Soho, an acerbic elderly city...") According to Whips, the gov- stage and gradually introduces us to lady reminiscent of Estelle Geddy's ernment has gained control of the art her cast of characters. The ninety- pot-shot character on television's The world and women's bodies. The next minute performance piece entitled Golden Girls. Sporting an undistin- thing we'll see is Jesse Helms petition- True Stories is an ode to the dispos- guished-looking gray wig, the seventy- ing to whitewash Michelangelo's sessed, a semi-surreal voyage into the three-year-old Lucy shifts forward in paintings from the Sistine Chapel. lives of people Barbara Bush would her chair and spews forth venom. For Although the first hour is largely hesitate to put on a White House invi- years, Little Italy has been her natural continued on page 68 August 21, 1989 OUTTWEEK 53 Books A Spirited First Visit ing story and when they speak, their The ghouls and chimeras that torment lsiptio.q. of Spirits by voices literally rise up off the page. him are simply the reification of his all Kenan. Grove Press 1989. The fourth voice in this chorus is guilt, his sense of failure, his bewil- ~ge~$16.95, ¥~ Horace's older cousin, the Rev. James derment, his "dark, forbidden Greene, the good" son, who has dreams," his "temptation"--of course. seemed to fulfill all of his family's Horace is gay. wishes and yet remains haunted by Horace's homosexuality is devas- memories and unfulfilled dreams. tatingly internalized. Horace never The story expands and contracts tells anyone in his family what's by Maria Maggenti with each voice though it is the fate "wrong." He tries to, once, and is of the beautiful and bright Horace rebuffed. He retreats instead into sor- cery, necromancy, the hope of a cor- poreal and spiritual transformation orace Cross is a sixteen- that will end his torment and free year-old Black boy who is him. "It was faith, not facts he need- H exquisitely smart, desper- ed; magiC, not math; salvation, not ately tormented and encumbered with science. Belief would save him, not the knowledge that somehow, some only belief but belief in belief. Like way, he is not right for this world. His Daniel, like Isaac, like the woman at ascent into self-discovery and his the well." descent into voluptuous, raging mad- And yet, Horace has had an ness create the drama and wonder of introduction to homosexual ity this first novel, A Visitation of spirits, through his childhood friend Gideon by 26-year-old newcomer Randall that is tender, lusty and confident. Kenan. Gideon's proud sense of himself as a Set in the lush and complicated "queen" serves as a painful counter- sOciety of a small North Carolina point to Horace's debilitating homo- town, A Visitation of Spirits is a sur- phobia. In fact, there are a number of prisingly dense and elaborate debut other Black gay men that show up in novel that is reminiscent of Toni Cade the story who are also notable for Bambara's The Salt Eaters; sophisticat- their dignified self-loving ways, but ed, daring language coupled with a who do not provide the vision of lib- passionate and deeply reverential eration that Horace finds acceptable. view of contemporary Southern Black What is acceptable to the young culture engaged in perpetual struggle. SUBTLE MIND Photo: Kate Simon Horace will seem nightmarish to most This is a bildungsroman, a literary Randall Kenan gay and lesbian readers, but Kenan coming-of-age story that favors inter- that propels the narrative forward. possesses a skillful and subtle mind. nal twilight magic over the individual- Horace's demons are so vivid and so There are no simple politically correct in- social-and-political-context ap- frightening that his long evening of answers in these pages. There is good proach. Kenan's fictional town of transformation (an evening that runs and there is evil and no one really Tim's Creek encompasses one proud the entire book) enters the surreal wins. But one thing missing in all the Black family as they cope with an more than once. Yet, the story regains internal drama is an angry, vengeful ever-expanding universe. Zeke and its footing in the down-to-earth soul. One can only hope that this is Ruth are the oldest surviving mem- prayers of Aunt Ruth, the sleepy rumi- just the beginning of what should be bers of the Cross clan and they watch nations of Zeke, or the rather plain- a long and complex tale from this their extended family with stern but tive memories of cousin James. It young Black author, who speaks in a loving approval. They are part of the doesn't take long for the gay reader voice rarely heard on the American quartet that weave this painful, glow- to know why Horace is so possessed. literary landscape. ... 54 OUT'YWEEK August 21, 1989 Books Last Train to Frisco PERVERTS BY OFFICIAL rooms for their sexual liaisons. Into this early gay paradise stum- ORDER: The Campaign,Against bled one Evin Arnold, an intensely Homosexuals by the Urtited States homophobic naval investigator. He Navy by Lawrence R. Murphy assembled a team of 20 naval "opera- " Harrington Park Press 340 pages tors," who were all "good-looking young men from the ages of 19 to 24." by Gabriel RoteUo Arnold later explained that he couldn't have used more experiencec,i investi- gators because ·once a man passed 30 and lost his good looks [gays] usually nthe Newport, Rhode Island will not.. .bother them." Arnold's naval base in 1919, the US Navy young sailors were ordered to "obtain Idecided to investigate an out- evidence pertaining to cocksuckers break of "cocaine and cocksucking" and rectum receivers" by practicing among naval personnel. Inexper- entrapment. Such was, and in some ienced young naval investigators, cases still is, standard operating proce- many in their teens, were ordered to dure for obtaining evidence against go out to gay cruising areas, get gays. In this case, however, the opera- picked up by "fairies" and allow their tors were ordered to "go the limit," cocks to be "sucked until emission" if and herein lay the crux of what necessary in order to obtain evidence became a huge national scandal. against "vice." The subsequent trials, The first trials convicted and sen- first of the entrapped gays, then of the tenced numerous gays to years in military investigators themselves, prison. The prosecution was unhappy, resulted in the most Widely publicized however, that a prominent Episcopal gay scandal in US history. The affair chaplain, Rev. Samuel Kent, was almost destroyed the career of the acquitted. When he was tried a sec- man in overall charge of the inquiry, ond time, the details of the operators' Assistant Secretary of the Navy techniques became apparent. One Franklin Delano Roosevelt. young operator, for example, said NEWPORT DRAG aUffN circa 7979. This is the remarkable story told under oath, "My instructions were to anti-gay probe, namely FOR. A naval in Perverts By OffiCial Order, be with Mr. Kent as much as possible, trial of Arnold and the other investiga- Lawrence R, Murphy's meticulously and to let him play with my penis and tors was followed by a Senate com- researched account of one of the most to allow it until I had an emission." mittee investigation which primarily significant episodes of gay repression Numerous other instances were targeted Roosevelt, who was now run- in American history. The "perverts" of unveiled in which these young, appar- ning for Vice-President. his title are not the gays of Newport, ently straight sailors, had had their In a sense, the fact that FOR was but the young investigators who were "morals corrupted" by being forced to running for national office worked to the focus of the scandal. 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LOCK UP continued from page 57 manipulating his audience into an outraged frenzy: "Faster, Italian Stallion, Kill, Kill!" He also, in the midst of it all, gives a strong nod to the Catholic ideal of suffering. At one point he even goes through what seems like 40 days and 40 nights of solitary confinement. He is given bread and water and is kept without sleep for days on end. Wearing only white boxer shorts, he's Jesus with pectorals, agoniz- ing in the overexposed light under surveillance camera. No fascist extravaganza would be complete without glorifying the Body, and Lock Up provides excessively. Director John Flynn places his hunky specimen in one position of adoration after another. Stallone lifts, does push-ups, flexes and sometimes just stands there, wet. The images are informed by every homoerotic tradition from Tom of Finland to Calvin Klein Jeans ads, but none of this queer titillation should be taken for anything more than gay-baiting. Like the repressed homophobe he is, Stallone never puts out. Understanding the power of denial, Lock Up doesn't even include a token "watch your ass" line. ALL-MALE MINI THEATER Homosexual interaction among prisoners is eliminated (lower level) completely. The only time even a kiss gets blown at Leone . Mon.-Sat.: 11am-11pm / Sun.: 10am-7pm is from one of the guards; the film's real villains, they get to be the leering fags. Ann Street Even without Rambo's flag-waVing, Lock Up would Adult Entertainment Center indeed make George Bush proud. With its approval of white street justice, its adherence to patriarchal "values," 21 Ann Street (btwn. Broadway & Nassau St.) and a finale which elevates the death penalty to new New York City / (212) 267-9760 heights, this film ought to guarantee Sylvester Stallone Mon.-Fri.: 7am-11pm / Sat.: 10am-11pm another invitation to dinner at the White House. ~ Sun.: 10am-7pm AIDS TREATMENT NEWS continued from page 28 Oncogen, a small Seattle-based company later acquired by Bristol-Myers Co., devised her own in vitro tests of peptide T and found the drug worked against low and moderate viral concentrations, but not against high concentrations (Barnes, 1987). This work helped influence the pharmaceu- tical giant's decision to seek a license for peptide T from NIMH, which has a patent pending on the compound. Douglas Brenneman, M.D., of the Laboratory of Developmental Neurobiology at the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development has asserted in arti- cles in Nature (Brenneman and others, 1988) and Drug Development Research (Brenneman and others, 1988) that gp120 is associated with neuronal cell death and that VIP and peptide T blocked the action of gp120 in the test tube. In an interview, Dr. Sodroski said, "That work is of du· bious significance. It's not clear what neuronal cell death in LARGE SELECTION OF ALL-MALE that system really means .. "The neuronal cells in that sys- VIDEOS / MAGAZINES I SCREENING BOOTHS tem are mouse cells. The problem is that gp120 does not bind to mouse CD4." ~ NOVELTIES I•PERIODICALS• •I TOYS / ETC. VIDEO RENTALS••I MEMBERSHIP• PLANS (The remainder of this article will be reprinted in next TOWNVII)[O MUS. N:. week's Out Week. Ed.) Reprinted by permission from AIDS Treatment News, p.o. Box 411256, San Francisco, C4 94141. 66 OUTTWEEK August 21, 1989 Tl PENNYWISE continued from page 5] LAST TRAIN continued from page 55 written an absorbing, readable Arcade fills the remaining portion with rity in a relatively short time. account of this strange affair, an a ram- From our vantage point the account that is weirdly titillating in its b lin g Newport scandal has importance far depiction of the sexual encounters monologue laden with everything from beyond its military or political ramifi- between straight sailors and gays, and "Jeopardy" takeoffs to her apparent cations. For one thing it "provides the what they thought of these encoun- jealousy of Eric Bogosian's recent suc- first detailed documentary evidence in ters. The one disappointment is his cess. Clad in a black bra and a piece America of a distinctive homosexual mention that some of the investigators of material resembling a spandex gir- community." For another, in casting a were themselves gay, a subject he dle, Penny Arcade speaks directly to spotlight on a major gay trial it illumi- abruptly raises and then drops with- the audience, inviting us into her per- nated society's attitudes about gays, out any explanation. In general, how- sonal insecurity web, her word-of- attitudes that would otherwise have ever, he has done a thorough job of mouth cult, P.S.122's booking policy remained unarticulated. It's interesting, research that must not have been easy and an early comparison to Lenny for example, that the Episcopal given the obscurity of most of the Bruce, It would have been more Church was far more angry about the story's principals. lethal if she had provided herself with ordering of sailors into gay situations The forgotten victims of this for- a context, a character with which to than it was concerned about damning gotten scandal are the gay men of interact. As presented, the monologue gays themselves. "None of the Biblical Newport, who built a rare and brave disturbs and jolts. That may have been references used by contemporary con- ghetto society in a hostile environment the intention but I found my mind servative Christians to condemn gays and were harshly punished for daring wandering incessantly. ever came up in the testimony" of the to be ahead of their time. Their gay The production notes list every- New England clergy. Yet it's also true clubs and associations were disbanded thing from a "Personal Assistant to that condemnation of gays was so after the trials, and Newport ceased to Penny Arcade" to a Musical Director. routine as to be taken for granted, and be a mecca for gays, As one Naval What the show strongly lacks is a nowhere was it ever suggested that investigator testified in a later trial, "I director, someone to structure the there was anything normal about never saw such a clean city" as performance, help the artist enunci- practitioners of "unnatural vice." 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Allnltt't?1 1QaQ widely-known fig- tainly not normal behavior." ure in the commu- Griffis' mother, Adele, said her nity, had been daughter had returned to stay "Withrel- targeted for such atives" in Nebraska but declined to say '. attacks. "The where Griffisis or to comment further. church has been Despite a large stack of case- very public here. folders that CUAV's Melinda Paras She hasn't been pointed at to illustrate the hard very public, so I reality of anti-gay violence that was surprised." many feel is at an epidemic level in Mitulski also San Francisco, Alice B. Toklas Les- said Griffis had left bian and Gay Democratic Club San Francisco fol- preSident Ron Braithwaite voiced lowing her second the larger fear that has come out of "NOTVERYPUBUC. W account of the Lynn Griffis Ifter the first alleged attack, in a televised the Griffis case, MCC service. attack to police "There has been a real increase and her resignation in attacks against gays and lesbians HOAX ALLEGED continued from page 12 from the church and that he had no here," Braithwaite said. "But it looks Griffis had also fabricated the first idea where she was. When asked if as if this [the Griffis casel is going to assault story which left her with facial he had any explanation for Griffis' lessen the interest in gay and lesbian bruises and cuts to her eye, cheek and behavior, Mitulski said, "I can't under- attacks here. That is the really tragic mouth that required eight stitches. stand why this would happen. It's cer- part of this." 'Y Mitulski also said he had reason to I I believe Griffis' injuries in the first attack CONDOM ADS continued from page 16 Davidson, executive director of the Gay may have been self-inflicted, as police fourth multi-media AIDS campaign, and Lesbian Alliance Against Defama- now suspect in the second attack, and and considering our past experience, tion. GLAAD,the Gay Men's Health Cri- that she herself may have been behind we are making great progress. What sis, the Minority Task Force on AIDS, a series of recent telephoned and writ- is seen as controversial this year will and many other community organiza- ten death threats aimed at the MCCpas- be 'what's the big deal' next year," tions were consulted during the plan- tor and Griffis. Friedman said, ning and design of the ad campaign, "I've uncovered things that I can't The health department's previous "Rubber Up For Safety," which discuss publicly," Mitulski said, "that AIDS prevention campaigns were has the backing of Mayor Edward lead me to believe there's a strong pos- aimed at heterosexual women, IV- Koch, cost the city $46,000. There are sibility that Lynn is behind all of this." drug users, and adolescents. The ads three version of the "romantic dinner" Mitulski said the police were for the latter campaign came under spot, two in English and one in Span- "very seriously" re-examining whether attack by AIDS activists, who called ish. One English version uses a Black she was also responsible for the first them moralizing and criticized them actor, and the other a white actor. attack as well as several death threats for promoting abstinence from sex. The text for each is identical: aimed at Mitulski. "While they weren't "Dinner was perfect. Candlelight, ready to certify [that Griffis was ·Perfunctory Responsew music. Later we had coffee by the fire responsible), they felt strongly about "This is a perfunctory response to and talked long into the night. Finally it," Mitulski said. an emergency situation," said Ann we kissed. Then he asked if I enjoyed Mitulski also revealed that the Northrop, an AIDS educator, ACf UP safer sex. I have never felt so good MCC board of directors had offered member and former television pro- about saying yes." It ends with a shot GriffISthe option of voluntary psychi- ducer. "What we need to create is of two wrapped condoms, and a atric hospitalization when she was actual condom instruction. People voice-over narration: "When you have placed on administrative leave but said don't know how to use them, nor will sex with another man, always use a that she had rejected the proposal. they experiment during the actual sex latex condom to prevent transmission act. What we need is the mayor up of the AIDS virus." Not Very Public there giving a demonstration," she The Spanish-language ad follows MCC's Mitulski said Griffis had said. more or less the text of the English worked at the church since last year "The media is clearly fearful of ones, although it does not mention after receiving divinity degrees from being accused of promoting sex and kiSSing, and the final narration says "If Lutheran Northwestern Seminary in homosexuality, and they won't be put you have sex with women or other St. Paul, Minnesota and the Pacific in that position. It's unfortunate that men" whereas the English ads men- School of Religion in Berkeley. they don't have more coverage," Craig tion only sex between men. 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Going Out the Helen Hayes Theatre; 8 Box 790 pm; $45; 620-7310 Ncw York, NY 10108 EAGLE BAR Movie Night: WOMEN ABOUT Canoe MEN OF ALL COLORS Items must be received by Mon- Torch Song Trilogy; 142 the Batsto River, ~; 353- TOGETHER Hot, Horny day to be Included In the fOllow- 11th Ave (at 21 St); 11 pm; 0073, 201/481~40 and Healthyl "Playshop" 691-8451 Ing~'SI5Sue. at Tracks Disco, 531 W 19 ASIANS AND FRIENDS St; 7 pm; info 245-0410 NEW YORK Trip to Wood- r//E.rIA)' stock, NY; through 8-20; "."""'N, ..._._""": _ __ .... _" .., ~., A ._ T////I.rIA...... u" __ "", _,'u. __ .'n __ ",_ ,_,.." •• ~~. 673-2596 SAGE Something Spanish CENTERSTAGEsees Other INTEGRITY!NEW YORK Social, at 57 Bethune St People's Money at the Episcopal service and (near West St), 1-5 pm, Minetta Lane Theatre, program, with John NEW YORK CITY GAY reservations at 741-2247 Greenwich Village; 8 pm; Boswell's video, "1500 MEN'S CHORUS Auditions, $42; 620-7310 Years of Church Blessings in preparation for its 10th for Gay and Lesbian Rela- DIGNITY/QUEENS goes to anniversary season; open- Queens Philharmonic COALITION FOR LESBIAN tionships"; at St. Luke in the ings in tenor, baritone and Concert in Forest Park; AND GAY RIGHTS Forum: Fields, 497 Hudson St (btwn bass sections; 7-10 pm; 691- 7:30 pm; 718/565-2171 Domestic Partnership Christopher and Grove); 7590 Issues, co-sponsored by 7:30 pm; 718/720-3054 THE ANNEX (TO THE the Family Diversity Coali- EAGLE BAR Movie Night: CELLBLOCK) Hot Ash tion; at the Center, 208 W ACf UP Benefit Dance at The Accidental Tourist; Weekend Party, for cigar 13 St; 8 pm; 627-1398 Sound Factory; all pro- 142 11th Ave (at 21 St); 11 smokers and their admirers; ceeds benefit ACf UP, DJ pm; 691-8451 with Jack Corbin, live; 673 Junior Vasquez; 530 W 27 St & (btwn 10th & 11th Ave); 10 Hudson St (btwn 13 14 St); 10 pm; 627-1104 pm - 4 am; $10; 533-8888 fZ7$Zl'!ZZi 'AUGUST'''''2;; BODY POSITIVE Social for FI/IA)' INTEGRITY/NEW YORK HIV+ people and their ".of" _ .... _ __ -'.,. .••. ~ friends; at Middle Collegiate Episcopal service and Church, 50 E 7 St (at 2nd program, with Barbara Ave); for time and info call WOMEN ABOUT camping WOMEN ABOUT Beaching Stanley, Program Coordina- 633-1782 on Fire Island; 353-0073, at Robert Moses State tor of the NYC Office of 201/481~40 Park; 353-0073, 201/481- Gay and Lesbian Health LAMBDA INDEPENDENT 0440 . Concerns, talking about DEMOCRATS Champagne CENTER SPORTS goes to women's health issues; at and Dessert Benefit to Mets vs. L\. Dodgers; 7:35 LAMBDA ASSOCIATES OF St. Luke in the Fields, 497 benefit the campaigns of pm; $13 & $18; 620-7310 for STATEN ISLAND Annual Hudson St (btwn Christo- David Eichenthal (vs. membership Picnic at the Governor's pher and Grove); 7:30 pm; Noach Dear) and Chris Mansion at Historic Snug 718/720-3054 Owens (vs, Enoch Williams) MEN OF ALL COLORS Harbor Cultural Center; in their City Council cam- TOGETHER Educational food, drink, fun and games; I paigns to unseat incumbent Forum on Native Ameri- noon to 7 pm; $20 adults, homophobes; at the home cans: The People of the $12 children 6-12, tots free; OutWeek of Julian Asion, 722-A Land; at the Center, 208 W tix at Oscar Wilde, Different Union St, Park Slope; 7:30 - 13 St; 7:45 pm; 222-9745 Light; info 718/667-6823 10 pm; $15 up; 718/789- Advertising 2513 EIGHTY-EIGHT'S presents Mr. Ruby Rims, female 685.6398 CENTER STAGE sees impersonator; 228 W 10 St; 8 pm; 924-0088 Mandy Patinkln in Con- I I 74 OUTTWEEK August 21, 1989 Best Bets DANCING FOR MEN & WOMEN WOMEN-PREFERRED DANCING MONDAY Private Eyes 12 W 21 St. 212/206-7770 (preppie; male strippers, 2-4-1 NOTE: till midnight) • Party events are subject to change. 'Mars Westside Highway at 13 St. 212/691-6262 (mixed crowd, Monday nights began this summer) MONDAY TUESDAY MK 204 5 Ave at 25 St. 212/n9-1340 (Deb Parker'S women's night) 'Love Machine Broadway at 17 St. 212/254-4005 (at the Underground) TUESDAY The Monster 80 Grove St. at Sheridan Sq. 212/924-3557 Hatfield's 126-10 Queens Blvd., Kew Gardens, Queens 718/261-8484 WEDNESDAY dub Lafayette 428 Lafayette St. 645-6479 (Scott Currie & R. Couri Hay) WEDNESDAY Private Eyes 12 W 21 St 206-7770 (Dallas and Sanker'S CLUB BAD) Bedrock 121 Woodfield Road, West Hempstead, U 516/486-9516 Spectrum 802 64 St. Brooklyn 718/238-8213 (free admission all night) Bedrox 316 W 49 St. 212/410-5887 THURSDAY THURSDAY 'Boybae 151/2 St Marks PI 212/674-7959 (has a new wave drag show) Bedrock 121 Woodfield Road, West Hempstead, U 516/486-9516 'Copacabanal0 E 60 St 212/755-0610 (last Thu. of the month has Club Lafayette 428 Lafayette St. 212/645-6479 (Shescape, Susanne Bartsch party) "Downtown Girls") 'Mars Westside Highway at 13 St. 212/691-6262 (mixed gay/straight; Thursdays gayer than Fri & Sat) FRIDAY Spectrum 802 64 St Brooklyn 718/238-8213 (free admission all night) Bedrock (West Hempstead, U) Tracks 531 W 19 St. 212/627-2333 (last Friday of month) FRIDAY Cheeks 2000 Long Beach Rd. Island Park, U 516-431-5700 'Boybae 15 1/2 St Marks PI. 212/674-7959 Octagon 555 W 33 St 212/947-0400 (Shescape) Columbia Dances Earl Hall, 116 St & B'way (lst Friday of every Visions 56-01 Queens Blvd. Woodside 7181846-7131 month) 'Mars Westside Highway at 13 st. 212/691-6262 (mixed gay/straight) SATURDAY Private Eyes 12 W 21 st. 212/206-7nO (preppies and young profes- Bedrock 121 Woodfield Rd., West Hempstead 516-486-9516 sionals) The Center 208 W 13 St 212/620-7310 (2nd and 4th Saturdays, & Spectrum 802 64 St Brooklyn 718/238-8213 (male and female strip- special events) pers) dub lafayette 428 Lafayette St. 212/645-6479 (Shescape event, "Summer Saturdays") SATURDAY Silver Unlng 175 Cherry Lane, Floral Pk, U 516-354-9641 ( a.k.a 'Boybae 151/2 St Marks PI. 212/674-7959 "The Lining") 'Mars Westside Highway at 13 St. 2121691-6262 (mixed gay/straight) Stan (836 Grand Blvd., Deer Park, L.I. 516/242-3857) Private Eyes 12W 21 St. 206-n70 (Club Chicago for Men, preppies) West 610 610 W 56 St. 212/410-5887 Spectrum 802 64 St Brooklyn 718/238-8213 (guest performer night) SUNDAY SUNDAY Bedrock (West Hempstead, U) 'Mars Westside Highway at 13 St. 212/691-6262 (Chip Duckett's "Mars MHers a: Hers" at Downtown 666 Broadway at nond St 212/979- Needs Men" night) 1500 (every other Sunday only) 'Pyramid 101 Ave A 212/420-1590 (Hapi Phace and Drag + Variety Lads 130 West Pond Rd. (Rt 22) White Plains 914-683-5353 Show) ParadIse 15 Waverly PI 212/6%-5555 (a.k.a. "Club Paradise") Spectrum 802 64 St. 7181238-8213 (show; free admission) EVERY NIGHT EVERY NIGHT CUbby Hole, 438 Hudson Street 212/243-9079 Monster, Spectrum (mixed G&L), Duchess n, Sheridan Square Tracks 531 W. 19th 212/627-2333 (exc. MON) • (TVs welcome) 76 OUTTWEEK August 21, 1989 Sports tremendous success, with 300 men and 164 women fin- ishers. FRNY also participat- ed in the Gay Pride Parade, and sponsored a booth on Christopher Street containing information and a variety of running gear. Benefits Planned Among the planned events coming up on FRNY's calendar are the Asbury Park 10K Classic in New Jersey, to be held on August 12, On the 26th of August, FRNY will hold a benefit run, the theme of which will be "The Heart GEmNGLOOSE Photo: Pat Kuharic and Soul of Front Runners." FRNYmembers limber up for Saturday runs at Webster statue Among the groups which will be helped are ACT UP, Lambda Legal Defense, Team NY, Now NY, and the Gay Front Runners and Lesbian Community Center, Front Runners New York (FRNY), is a lesbian and gay On the 17th of September FRNY will go to organization of distance runners which has been in exis- Philadelphia to take part in the Philadelphia Distance tence for nine years. Not just a New York organization, there Run. In late August the Hispanic Half Marathon will take are a number of Front Runner groups around the country. place, sponsored by the New York Road Runner's Club. The oldest Front Runners organization, in San Francisco, FRNY's Tenth Anniversary Gala Celebration will be will celebrate its 15th anniversary this year. In addition there held this October. This gala event, the place and time of are 26 other cities which participate in Front Runners, in- which are yet to be determined, will feature a banquet cluding Toronto, Sydney, Australia, and Vancouver. and special surprises for members. Lenore Beaky, current president of the New York Anyone interested in further information on Front group, explained that people of all levels of running ex- Runners should contact Lenore Beaky at 212n24-9700. ~ perience are welcome to join. "There is no need for a person wishing to join Front Runners to be a professional runner," she said. "We welcome all levels of experience," Avoidance of injury is essential to any program of running. To help members learn the techniques that keep them safe and limber, FRNY offers classes in running to three levels of student: baSiC, intermediate and advanced. The classes focus on form, speed, endurance, strength, strategy and good setting. Gay Games III Among the events that occupy the coming calendar for FRNY, none is more exciting than Gay Games III, the huge celebration of lesbian and gay athletics slated for next August in Vancouver. FRNY, which expects to field as many as '100 runners, will be preparing for the games in great detail. Preparation will begin in early spring and will focus on starts-off-the-block and handing off batons for the relay races. Another activity of FRNY is the Gay Pride Run, an GEARING UP FOR GAY GAMES III Photo: Pat Kuharic annual event in Central Park. This year's Run was a FRNYPresident Lenore Beaky 78 OUTTWEEK August 21, 1989 Q:confused about partylines? A: ssr/l'l'l' "\ ·ct cs: ~ Cf$ Q) (.-) ~ ~ "'~~ b~b ~d: \t 1. ~ ? qqqq ~"J ~ 1 '1 v(9, ...... )~'" ...... ~ooo ourTWEEK OutWeek Crossword by Phll Greco Edited by Gabriel Rotello 8, Water trenches 9. candidate __ Taylor 10. God of war 11. Get __ Ya-Yd5 Out 12. Indulge in autoeroticism 13. __ Ginsberg 14. Elton's axe 21. 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