Doctor Who Claimed He Got AIDS from Surg Ery Dies

Doctor who claimed he got BULLETIN: Karen finally will AIDS from surg_ery dies see Sharon again

byJEFFEWS course of duty. If that method of transmission AFTER ALMOST FIVE YEARS, Karen Thompson Managing Editor is confirmed, Dennison would be the first and Sharon Kowalski will finally be reunited this Nashville surgeon Harold Dennison died surgeon stricken with the disease as the result weekend, Dare has learned. Monday from complications brought on by his of an operating room accident. Doctors at the Duluth, Minn., Miller-Dwan Clinic battle with AIDS. Current figures list eight doctors - including have agreed to a visit between the two women, at Last week Dennison's family acknowledged four surgeons - who have been d iagnosed Kowalski 's request. Kowalski was moved to thec linic, his condition after weeks of speculation re with AIDS and whose infection mode ftas not under judge's orders, two weeks ago. garding his health. News of Dennison's death been "definitively" documented. Those eight The two wom en have been separated since an came in a brief statement issued by his family physicians have b~n listed in an "undeter automobile accident in 1983 left Kowalski seriously which read: mined risk" category, according to data sup injured. Fol lowing the accident, Kowalski 's father "Dr. Harold Dennison passed away this plied by the CDC. Donald Kowalski was granted guardianship of his morning at Baptist Hospital. .. A memorial fund CDC records also show some 18 cases na daughter and has refused to allow any contact with for medical research is being established." tionwide of other health care workers who Thompson. Chief ofsurgery at Nashville's Baptist Hospi have contracted HIV through occupational Although Donald Kowalski retains guardianship tal, Dennison may have contracted the deadly exposure to the virus, mainly through acciden over his daughter, he may no longer dictate who may disease as the result of being splashed in the tal needlesticks. However, CDC claims that the visit her under the terms of the judge's order. eye with contaminated blood during surgery. possible risk to health care workers is less than Thompson will be the first visitor to the clinic,although Meanwhile, officials with the Tennessee De one percent. Kowalski's parents have also been invited for a later partment of Health and Environment and the John Lamb, an orthopedic surgeon on staff Janet Flanner was a Paris journalist in the 20s. See visit. •-JEFF ELLIS Atlanta-based Centers for Disease Control at Baptist, said in a televised interview Monday The Incidental Tourist, page 6. -PHOTO BERENICE ABBOTT both denied rumors that special botlines had night that the CDC has misled health care been established to gather information about providers about the dangers of possible infec other possible means of transmission. tion. Tennessee counselor charged "That's not true at all. We're conducting Lamb told reporters last weekend that Den business as usual. We do not discuss any indi nison's family chose to go public with the news with rape of 6-year-old patient vidual cases and no such hotline has been set · of the illness in order to focus debate on the by JEFF EllIS urday night which was followed by an investi up," said Bernie Ellis, the state's coordinator controversy surrounding universal testing. Managing Editor gation by Metro Police who in tum consulted for AIDS surveillance. According to a report in Tuesday's Ten A Nashville man who works as a counselor the district attorney's office and obtained the '-' We_do not comment on individual cases," nessean, Dennison's daughter Susan, a surgi at a state-operated residential treatment center warrant. said CDC spokesperson Chuck Fallis. "There is cal nurse who often assisted her father, claims for emotionally disturbed children was A spokesperson for the state Department of 1:10 special hotline. It would be impossible for to remember an incident during which blood charged Monday night with raping a 6-year Mental Health and Retardation Sllid an internal us to set up hotlines for every case we encoun splashed into her father's eye during surgery. old patient. investigation into the charges in currently ter." Although Dennison had apparently suf Walter Frederick Durst was arrested after the under way. The department operates Cumber Baptist Hospital officials are examin!Pg fered from ill health for much of the past year, child's mother and Metro detectives obtained a land House, a facility for younger children, and operating-room records to determine if Denni resulting in the drastic curtailing of his practice, warrant charging the man with aggravated Crockett Academy, a facility for emotionally son did indeed become infected with the he was not diagnosed with AIDS until early rape. troubled teens, at 3411 Belmont Boulevard. human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) in the continued on page 5 The boy's mother filed a complaint last Sat- continued on page 5

New Memphis gay club rr vandalized, windows smashed ··•:-: By STIJART BlVIN Attempts to reach the security company at ~:•• .;;;: ;,;,:;:"'r ;;;;;,.,;,;,t "'t ;;;q"'r ;;;r ;,;;;,.;,;;;,.:;;;,:,:;,;,. :;,;;;;;,;;;,.;,;,,"'<;;;i ""':::::;;;:t;,;,?.,.t ;;;f ""'::==,=;;;.t;,;,'::::"',::::;;;L""',,,,,- Editor press time were unsuccessful. Vandals attacked a Memphis gay club early The vandals apparently were not interested Thursday morning, January 26, destroying in theft. Bullimer said there was no evidence $4000 worth of windows before making a that the club had been entered. getaway. "We think someone came by and just took a Chaps, part of the new Numbers complex at hammer and broke out the windows," he said, 598-600 Marshall in Memphis, opened its adding that he could think of no motive for the doors in December, according to David Bul attack, although he added,"lt might have been limer, general manager of Chaps. The club had the competition." a complete new security system including Bullimer said owner Lamar Jones plans to glass-breakage sensors. replace the now-boarded windows with solid "We're going to send the bill to Rollins [the walls. The walls will be covered with murals company that installed the security system]," outside. Bullimer said. "The glass breakage alarm just "We'd planned to do it all along. Now we'll didn't work. It happened between 7:15 and just do it a little sooner," Bullimer said. "It's 7:45 Thursday morning, and I didn't find out more private now, and no one can look in from about it until that afternoon." the street and see who's here." • 2 f E B R U A R Y 3 - . D, 1 D 8 D

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1 Taylor-~de 1 1 advertismg. 1 from STAFF REPORTS 1 1 AnnTaylor I I Dare Advertising Manager Box 40422, Nashville, TN 3n04 (615) 35205823 1 1 Alabama judges ask HIV-positive I @i1;}f) I prisoners to phone in pleas L ______J TIIREEJEFFERSON COUN1Y, Alabama, judges last month asked prisoners who are HIV positive to wa:ive their right to appear at µteir own court hearings and instead to enter their pleas by telephone instead. Judges Mike McCormick, Jack Montgomery and O.L. "Pete" Johnson said their bailiffs are fearful of contracting AIDS from inmates who might become violent and bite or scratch them in the judges' courtrooms. Charles Collins, a board member of Birmingham AIDS Outreach, said that AIDS experts agree that the chances of contracting the disease from a bite or a scratch are very slim. So far, at least three HIV-infected inrpates have agreed to the request, including John Louis O'Neal, who said his lawyer "told me to do it over the phone because he didn't want to make the judge mad." O'Neal, however, is reportedly taking legal action to prevent the judges from continuing the practice. •

Atlanta lesbian/gay rights ordinance introduced by mayoral candidate FULTON COUNlY COMMISSION Chair Michael Lomax told Atlanta's lesbian/gay newspaper Southern Voice last month that he is on the verge of introducing sweeping legislation that will ban discrimination based on sexual orientation and HIV antibody status. The language contained in a near-final version of the ordinance prohibits discrimination in "employment, housing, public accommodation, public transportation, public services, govern mental services arid health care services offered any place in Fulton County, Georgia." Lomax declined to speculate how his fellow commissioners would vote on the ordinance. Heart to find for Valentine's Day. Members of a citizen's lobbying group in favor of the ordinance, however, feel that a.favorable vote of 5-2 or 6-1 is an almost certainty. Lomax told Southern Voice he had not discussed the matter with the other commissioners, but that he did feel that the ordinance would be given a fair hearing. "THE BOARD HAS BEEN very affirmative about human rights issues and anti-discrimination," he said. "My view is that the hun;ian rights initiative that we are going to undertake here around sexual orientation is not going to be differently viewed than others we have undertaken." Lomax ~arlier announced his intentions to run for mayor of Atlanta in 1989. •

Noted activist/author dies in Philadelphia PHIIADELPHIA ACllVIST/AUfHOR Joseph Fairchild Beam died last month after a brief illness. Beam had, for many years, worked to create a stronger movement of black lesbians and gay men. He was the first editor of Black/Out, a magazine serv ing the black gay and lesbian community,' and for three years served on the board of directors of the Na tional Coalition of Black Lesbians and Gays (NCBLG). In 1985, Beam began work on a collection of writ ings and artwork by black gay men. It was published - 18 months later, under the title In the Life. Although a number of works had already been published by and about black lesbians, Beam's was the first anthol Joseph Beam, activist and author ogy ever to focus on the experiences of black gay men. At the time of his death, Beam was compiling material for his second collection, Brother to Brother. "Joe already had made a great deal of progress on that book, and his parents were highly supportive of what he·was doing. We still expect to publish it," said publisher Sasha Alyson. •

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It's really sad that these lesbians and Editor gay men feel so oppressed by their culture that Greg Fisher, a Nashville editorial assistant they try to change such a basic part of their and member of the board of directors of the identity," Hyde said. . National Gay and Lesbian Task Force "Although they claim to be able to change (NGLTF), appeared yesterday on the Christian people's sexual orientatieh, you have to qual Broadcasting Network's cable talk show ify the word 'changed,'" Fisher said. "When I Straight Talk. was involved, it meant that I had been able to See us for Valentine's Day Fisher, who at one time lead a counseling abstain from having sex with members of the group for the Nashville ex-gay group Arrow, same sex. If you press them on it, though, they flowers and gifts. and Sue Hyde, NGLTFPrivac y Project director, will admit to having temptations, lustful Parle Place appeared on the daily talk show along with thoughts, that kind of language.• 2817 West End Avenue members of the ex-gay movement. The group Other guests on the show were Sy Rogers, Nashville, TN 37203 Arrow is now known as Promise, and operates executive directQr of Exodus, a leading ex-gay (615) 321-5969 out of the Christian Counseling Service on group; Jo Ann Highley, a leader of the ex-gay Woodland Street in Nashville. gro~p Life; and Eli~beth Moberly, author of The ex-gay movement is an evangelical Homosexuality: A New Christian Ethic. Christian movement that claims to "heal" lesbi Fisher said ~at the first question he was ans and gay men of their homosexuality. asked was whether he practiced anal-or oral In a phone interview Wednesday, the two sex. "I told him it~as none of his business, that told Dare from NGLTF's Washington, D.C., he was trying to talk about sexual predisposi Valentine's Tribute to Our Friends offices that their reception was pleasant, al tion rather than sexual orientation. I did say though both criticized the ex-gay movement. that I'd tell about what I did in bed if everyone Saturday, February 11 "They treated us like we were visitors from else on the program would tell what they did,• 9:30p.m. Mars ... I think it's [the ex-gay movement] de- he said. • "Sweethearts ofRalph :S-" Contest ... Dennison dies of AIDS Vote for your favorite couple $3 cover continued from page 1 ies. - < January of this year. He suffered from a re Ironically, Baptist and staff physician Lamb - curring eye problem which led to blindness in are defendants in a half-million doltar lawsuit The woman's choice. his right eye despite a corneal tr;msplant last filed in late December by a Nashville man who year. The eye infection was thought to be claims he was tested by Lamb for HIV-infection Every Tbu,sday Beer Blast 7-10pm $3.00Cover · RALPHS caused by shingles, an ailment common - without his knowledge or consent. Free Draft Beer 515 2nd Ave. S., Nashville (615) 256-9682 I among people with AIDS. The man, referred to only as "John Doe• in The incubation period for AIDS-from initial court· documents, seeks some $500,000 in infection with the HIV virus to punitive damages and an un a diagnosis of full-blown specified amount in compen Heartthrob caffeine. AIDS - is believed to be in the satory damages as a result of neighborhood of five to seven the December, 1987, inci years. dent. The disease is transmitted The man claims that during through HIV-infected blood a visit to the Baptist emer and other body fluids such as gency room, Lamb ordered semen, vaginal secretions and HIV tests without his coll.5Cnt. mother's milk. Primary means When the test ~suits were of transmission are sexual in found to be positive, the man tercourse, needles shared by said Lamb abruptly informed intravenous drug users, from himoftheresultsandfailedto I mother to newborn or con offer counseling. I 1 taminated blood products. Since the incident involv AIDS attacks and weakens the immune sys ing John Doe, Baptist apparently changed its 1 tem and the body falls prey to a host of oppor policy to require the knowledge and consent tunistic diseases. of the patient b~fore such tests can be admini Dennison's death Monday from pneu stered. mocystis pneumonia brought about renewed Abby Rubenfeld, attorney for the plaintiff, pleas for universal seropositivity testing at said last week that attorneys for the hospital Baptist Hospital. Sources there have indicated have yet to respond to the lawsuit. privately that such testing will be the rule at the "But that's not unusual. Lawsuits tend to hospital in April, following a vote by the hos take a long time,• Rubenfeld said. "But I'm very pital's staff physicians. optimistic about the outcome.• If the plan is implemented, all patients at Funeral services for Dennison were held TASTE THE DIFFERENCE J3aptist will routinely have samples of their Wednesday at West End United Methodist blood tested for the presence of HIV ant[bod- Church with burial in Woodlawn Cemetery. • FRESH FROM OUR ROASTER ... counselor charged with rape ill.Alli Ci.lllTIAL, . continued from page 1 occurred, but an examination performed at IMPORTERS AND ROASTERS OF FINE COFFEES Durst has been on staff at Cumberland Baptist Hospital Saturday night confirmed that Park Place on BEAN CENTRAL COFFEE House since 1985, as a psychiatric teacher/ the child had been raped. West End Avenue Available at counselor. He was placed on leave of absence Durst's arrest followed by less than a week Nashville COOK'S NOOK . pending the investigation's conclusion. the arrest of Kevin Ray Howse, a nursing serv Bandywood in Green Hills According to the warrant, the six-year-old ice employee, on charges of sexual assault and COOK'S NOOK boy told investigators that Durst had raped giving cocaine to female teen-age patients at (615) 321-8530 him. Police refused to say when the incident Vanderbilt Child and Adolsescent Hospital. • in Brentwood Place F E B R U A R Y 3 - 9, 1 Q 8 g

There's. nothing like a little -P.D .A. for Valentine's Day. Solita Solam, in 1929. -PHOTO MAN RAY JANET F By SHERRE DRYDEN Book Editor the Incidl Dahling Fifi, PARIS, Janet Flanner and Solita Solano de cided, was where they would write their first I love you. novels. They settled down together at the Hotel Saint-Germaine-des-Pres in the rue Butch Bonaparte, close to the Seine, the buses and the cafes. They stayed 19 years. Janet was the daughter of a prosperous businessman and an Indiana Quaker who, Janet said, "oddly enough, barnstormed one season as Little Eva in a post-Civil War Tom show." Janet's older sister Maria became a Happy Valentine's Day! musician and composer; her younger sister Say it out loud to the one you love Hildegard, a poet. with Public Displays of Affection, In 1912 Janet entered the University of Chi cago, but after two years was asked to leave our special Valentine's love ads (shown above actual size). Green Hall Dormitory for being a "rebellious 2-3/8" x 1-7/16" for eight bucks. influence." She became the "first ever cinema Add two dollars for white on black,and critic" for the Indianapolis Star and made speeches favoring woman suffrage. At the end four dollars for pink or red. of World War I she went to New York where HURRY! All ads must be in our hands by Monday, February 6, she tried "unsuccessfully to learn to be the for publication Friday, February 10. writer I had for twenty-five years already wished to be ... " Larger ads available, of course. One ofJanet's first friends in New York was Phone Ann Taylor journalist Solita Solano. at (615) 352-5823 for more information. Solita was born in New England. Described as "strong-willed, inquisitive and independ ent," Solita spent three years in the Philippines helping survey and build coral roads inst«:;ad of going to college. Back in the U.S., Solita wenttoworkasacub reporter for the Boston Herald-Traveler. She was soon promoted, becoming the first • woman to hold the position of drama editor for published in 1926. Janet used the novel to r------, a major U.S. daily. In 1920 she went to New criticize American sexual puritanism, particu 0 Yes! I want a Public Display of Affection. - York as the drama editor for the Tribune. larly the double standard of conduct for Pick 1 color: 0 Black type on white $8 0 White type on black $10 WHILE IN NEW YORK Janet (with Jane women and women. Elements of Janet's own 0 Black type on pink $12 0 White type on red $12 Grant) founded the Lucy Stone League, an life, and the lives of the women she knew in 0 Black type on red $12 0 Red type on white $12 early feminist organization. She also married Paris, enter the plot. an Indianapolis banker whose name she never Janet, like the other women who went to Pick 1 typeface: 0 Typeface 1: Franklin Gothic 0 Typeface 2: &..d S~ took for her own nor disclosed publicly. By the Paris, had found it necessary to leave home to time Janet and her husband were divorced iq find the freedom she needed to be able to Pick 1 border: 0 Border 1: thin line - -- 0 Border 2: double line ~ 1922, Janet and Solita had toured Greece, express her p~ion, which was lesbian. Her Crete, Turkey and Vienna together, and settled heroine Delia's p~ion is heterosexual, but Pick 1 dingbat: 0 ¥add $1 0 •add$1 0 ... add $1 O,No dingbat in Paris. her escape is the same. As Delia tells a friend Almost immediately after arriving in Paris, who criticizes her: Name______WRITE YOUR MESSAGE ON A Janet and Solita became part of the community "I didn't leave home to have lovers. But I left Address______SEP ARATE SHEET OF PAPER.. of lesbian writers. They became friends with home to be free. And I won't give that up-until No order can be accepted without Sylvia Beach, then in the process of publishing I have to . .. Passion is natural." City ______State __ Zip phone number and signature for James Joyce's Ulysses, and found their way to Although The Cubical City is interesting in --- verification. Phone (Day) Natalie Barney's salon. They were serious its examination of the "new woman" as a (Evening)_======~- Please send check or money order about their work, too. Solita's first novel, The sexual being, it is a minor part ofJanet's contri to: Dare PDA, Box 40422, Signature______Nashville, TN 37204-0422 Uncertain Feast, was published in 1924 and bution. In 1925 she began a 50 year career as her second, The Happy Failure, a year later. chronicler of French and American life in Paris. ~--~------J~ Janet's only novel, The Cubical City, was Janet wrote regularly to her friend Jane V O L -U M E 2, N U M B E R 5

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LANNER • • Nashville Aid to End ~ental Tourist Solita Solano." To be sure,Janet did not write about herself. CARES. AIDS. But throughout the Paris letters runs a subtext Help us help. that must have been as decodable to homosex Won't you care, ual women and men in 1927 as it is today. - too? Harold told Janet, "I don't want to know what you think about what goes on in Paris. I want to know what the French think." But once Nashville Council on Aid to End AIDS Committee (ATEAC) she was done with the death of dowager AIDS Resources, Education and Services Box 40389, Memphis, TN 38174-3089 Duchess de Rohan and the arrest for espionage Box 25107, Nashville, TN 37202 M-F 3:30 pm -11 pm, of Mme. Lydia Stahl ,Janet felt free to talk about Education call (615) 385-AIDS Sat. Sun 7:30 pm - 11 pm the activities of her friends. For information on call (901) 458-AIDS Consequently, New Yorkerreaders learned individual or group counseling Answering service 24 hours of the publicationofDjuna Barnes' latest novel call (615) 385-1510 call (901) 762-8401 and that a woman who "specialized in banned plays" proposed one based on The Well of Loneliness. They met Syvia Beach, Margaret Anderson, Gertrude Stein and Alice Toklas. They knew that Dolly Wilde was known to uanita)s show up at parties dressed as her famous uncle, Oscar. IN A COLUMN about Radclyffe Hall, Janet used the word lesbian, told readers where in VALENTINE'S PAR1Y BENEFIT Paris they could get a copy of The Well of Loneliness and how much the book would Saturday, February 11, 8:00 p.m. cost. She announced Dadaist poet Tristan All proceeds to Nashville CARES Tzara's marriage to "a wealthy Swedish indus trial. Or his daughter, rather." $2 cover A 1930 letter on fancy-dress balls describes one given by Elsa Maxwell and the Honorable Mrs. Reginald Fellowes. Elsa Maxwell went as Monsieur Briand and Stanislas de La Ro chefoucauld as Mademoiselle Marthe Letellier, "the famous beauty." Designer Coco Channel, Grant, who showed the letters to her husband, Janet continues, "did a land-office business 1700 4th Ave S. , Nashville 615/256-9681 publisher Harold Ross. When Ross's new generally, cutting and fitting gowns for young magazine, The New Yorker, started on October men about town who appeared as some of the 10, 1925, one of the features was Janet's "Letter best-known women in Paris." From Paris." In that and over 700 columns that It is impossible to imagine that anyone, even followed Janet covered cultural events and in the 1920's, who was remotely familiar with •Mardi Gras Celebration, February 3 trends in modem literature, fashion, sporting homosexual subcultures would not.at least be proceeds benefit events, nightlife, fascinating trivia, bizarre suspicious about the extent of Janet's knowl crimes and the activities of history-making edge and the frequency with which references Metropolitan Community Church individuals. appeared in her columns. • Fat Tuesday Party, February 7 AT FIRST GIANCE, it may seem that Janet Not only the folks back home read Janet's kept her private life separated from her public column. Her friends in Paris saw them, too, career as a journalist. Shari Benstock, in and for the women Janet wrote about it was Women of the Left Bank comments: frequently the only serious consideration their i _: crrtie £. "That Flanner herself was a lesbian is care work received. ':I as ite fully hidden behind her professional role as a Janet's support strengthened the lesbian . ·.·.. Lounge journalist and beneath a smooth and some community because she was one of them. It Monday-Thursday 4:30 pm -1 am times ironic prose style ...Among her letters validated their work because of her member ... ·'. Friday and Saturday 4:30 pm - 3 am and rnemorabil ia left to the Library of Congress ship, through Harold and The New Yorker, in ; . Sunday Noon - 1 am there is virtually nothing that betrays her sex the mainstream, male world. And it subverted ··· -~ . -.. ·- .. -., . .. . . - 1 ual orientation, for instance, or that reveals that world because Janet made her own loyal 167 / 2 Eighth Avenue North • 615 254-1278 anything about her long-term association with ties clear, at least to those who understood. • • • · F E B R U A R Y 3 - 9, 1 9 8 9

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Virginia Harvey Fierstein's award-winning Broad Into the almost idyllic love affair, comes a Renaissance House, Box292 Pl Village Station, NY, NY 10014 212- way triumph is brought to the screen in a film complication introduced by Ed's fiancee Lau 674-0120. All books discreetly by first'class mail; your name kept that's sure to be a hit with lesbian and gay rel (played by Karen Young in an amusing, strictly confidential. To list a business or organization, or forfurther information, send stamped sett-addressed business-size envelope. audiences and may well prove to be a major down-to-earth and very real performance). Please contad us for prices outside the USA. crossover favorite with straight moviegoers. She invites Arnold and Alan to Ed's farm in Ask us about Gayellow Pages on mailing labels! • But reviewing Torch Song is difficult - it's upstate New York for a weekend filled with . '( not easy to critique one's own life. The film's sidelong glances and one-upsmanship. The .... --~-·... ◄ < \, ~ strongest point is the universality of its story result is much as you would have expected, and rarely, if'ever, will lesbians or gay men see with a fillip of scandal to spice the action. thefilmandnotseethem Throughout the selves. course of the film, the It_is a deeply moving specter of Arnold's and genuinely affecting mother is felt. Convinc portrait of our commu ingly played by Anne nity, using the ever-pres Bancroft (with whom ent themes _of loving, Fierstein starred in coming out and battling Garbo Talks), the society's bigotries to cre mother's role is at first ate a mosaic of pride and perceived as almost cari affirmation. caturish. The mother is at Fierstein's screenplay first easy to write off - definitely pays homage you either think she is to its stagebound prede funny because she's so cessor, but it transcends stereotypical or you hate the play's obvious limita her because she's such a tions by widening the shrew. WAREHQUSE 28 •2529 Franklin Road, Nashville • (615) 385-9689 scope of its view. The But Bancroft goes effect of the trilogy re beyond those easy gen mains intact despite the eralizations to present a ~·······································~···• absence of curtains. Instead, Fierstein artfully richly textured portrait of a mother whose • dictates the film's actions to interpret the evo children didn't turn out as she expected. The .•. lution of his characters, guiding them along in scenes between Arnold and his mother are a natural progression through life. painful, both from your involvement in the Fi~rstein plays Arnold Beckotf, a gay New story and from personal experiences. Yorker whom we first meet in his late 20s and Appearing as Arnold's co-stars at the slightly with whom we share a nine-year odyssey. We seedy drag bar are Ken Page and the late first see Arnold as he is creating the persona of Charles Pierce. Page (who starred in the origi his alter ego, Vir~inia Hamn, a drag queen with nal Broadway production of Ain't Misbe a torch song to sing. havin, is thoroughly likable and plays the best • Arnold's romantic entanglements, or the friend we'd all like to have. Pierce, as Bertha lack thereof, provides the basis for much of his Venation, is bawdy and tawdry, all false eye self-deprecating humor and his unique view of lashes and real talent. When the three men go gay life. shopping for dresses, believe me, you'll love it! Or is Arnold's outlook so unique? How Torch Song Trilogy has been criticized in • many of us can identify with such lines as, "A some circles for the absence of any mention of thing of beauty is a joy till morning"? That, and AIDS and for the presence of a_scene in a gay other such truisms, is what makes Torch Song bar's orgy room. so involving - you can imagine yourself But there was life before AIDS. And orgy thinking, if not saying, the same outrageous rooms are a part of our history, no matter how Don't Miss It. lines as Arnold. personally repelling you find them. Hindsight Into Arnold's life comes bisexual Ed Reece is wonderful, but a clear vision ofa time past is (played with the perfect blend of bravado and much more intriguing. insecurity by Brian Kerwin). Ed's an endear In those earlier times we were much more ing, sexy blond and Arnold's attraction to him innocent, perhaps na·ive, maybe even stupid. The -Second Annual is obvious, but just under the surface you know But we can still' remember those times. • he's a jerk just waiting to happen. And thankfully Harvey Fierstein gives us the T-GALA Out & About Bal I Arnold promptly falls in love, only to be opportunity to examine our lives onscreen, • heartbroken when he encounters the woman saving us the pain of introspection by letting us Tuesday, February 14, 7:30 p.m. Ed is dating and so finally sees the self-destruc live vicariously through Arnold: . tive nature of the relationship . Fierstein the writer is superb, unerring in his The next man in Arnold's life is a young ear for dialogue apd for creating memorable $6 per person model named Alan (charmingly played by the catch phrases. fresh-faced Matthew Broderick). It's easy to Fierstein the actor is wonderful, mugging his at Warehouse 28 see how Arnoldcouldbecomesoenamoredof way through the comedic scenes, tugging at Alan, but Broderick's not so pretty as the your heartstrings during the dramatic ones. 2529 frankHn Road, Nashville screenplay would have you believe. Fierstein's vision of Torch Song Trilogy and Alan's youthful ardor, mingled with a hint of his determination to bring it to the screen in its Advance tickets at Warehouse 28 or phone (615) 333-2215 • na'ivete and just the right amount of cynicism, unadulterated, uncompromised form, pro ·····················~~········~·~·~········ quickly melts Arnold's reserve . and the two vides us with a landmark screen event. • VOLUME 2, NUMBER 5 I

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l@i~_'.t:.'.::±tu12:~,tl~ITIIIIIlll'l'i1'ci':'i'lilf Ii :1,1i:illlllillllliil!"l''Li "''''''I Pity the dying, not the dead Tennessee's Lesbian :uid Gay Newsweekly From the Heart of the American SOlith by CAROLE CUNNINGHAM February 3-9, 1989 Staff Writer Volume 2, Number 5 WORD TIIAT SURGEON Harold Denni rights. But the case of Harold Dennison· proves Publisher & Editor Stuart Bivin son, Jr. died Monday of complications result Using the death of Harold Dennison from with cold precision exactly why universal test ing from~DS is cause for mourning and for re AIDS as an example of why physicians and ing is not the answer for physicians or for M:uiaging Editor flection. The shock waves felt by the Nashville hospitals should institute universal testing of patients who want to minimize their exposure JdfEllia Book Editor community over Dennison's illness have been patients is a shameful use of his death and a to the virus. We may never know the reasop Shern: Dryden exacerbated by the understandable illusion shameful excuse for his dangerous medical why Dennison practiced medicine in a way Staff Writcrs that Dennison's life was furiously stripped practices. Even if he was exposed to the AIDS that endangered his own life and perhaps the Deborah Burks virus in the course of his medical practice, lives of others. And only Lamb knows the Carole Cunningham from him by the AIDS virus in a matter of Joe Marohl weeks. The seeming rapid decline.of Denni Dennison would not have been spared his life reason why he would observe a colleague JaanSturgis son's health in concert with the daily testimo had his patients been tested for AIDS, because taking life-threatening risks without counsel Contributing Writers he refused to take the precautions that would ing his friend about the dangers he was taking. Robin Conover nials by colleagues and friends of his unflag Patrick Hills ging dedication to his patients and profession Knowing who has AIDS and who doesn't does has made the injustice of his suffering seem all not prevent the spread of the virus: changing Advcnising Sales Manager the more inexplicable. And in the face of behaviors, practicing universal precautions in Ann Taylor (615) 352-5823 inexplicable suffering, friends and family insist health care settings does. on finding a culprit. If Harold Dennison's If they want some WE DO NOT DO JUSTICE to the death of The Dare logo was designed by Ruscl Brown. death from AIDS is a "crime," reason tells us a Harold Dennison by doing an injustice to the Text is set in Garamond, with "criminal" must be responsible. one to pity, they will living. If Lamb and others truly care about the Aachen Bold heads and As investigators painstakingly search for living and the preservation of life, they will Helvetica Condensed Llght rutlines. answers about the cause of Dennison's infec not pity the dead, practice the precautions known to save both tion with AIDS, some colleagues of Harold patients and physicians from exposure to the Dare is published weekly by they will pity the Pyramid Light & Power Dennison have already r~ached their own AIDS virus. They will not sacrifice the patient conclusions about the criminal and the crime. dying, and turning rights of privacy and confidentiality on the Patients not screened for HIV positivity are the their pity into action, altar of their personal convenience. culprits, say a number of Dennison's col They will realize that the doom Dr. Harold leagues. they will tend to the Dennison met was not unique, but common YET ACCORDING TO THE ADMISSIONS needs of the ill .. a product of either ignorance, fear, or stubborn of those same colleagues and his own daugh human nature. And if they want someone to Box 40422, Nashville, TN 37204-0422 ter, with whom he practiced medicine, Harold (615) 292-9623 pity, they will not pity the dead, they will pity Dennison treated patients without observing the dying, and turning their pity into action, Subscription rate: $32 per year, $16 for six months. the universal precautions recommended by have saved his life even if he had known a they will tend to the needs of the ill, search for Please phone (615) 352-5823 the Centers for Disease Control, the American patient was HIV-positive. a cure, and protect themselves and us from the for advcnising rates and information. Hospital Association, and scores of profes SADLY, 11:IE ARGUMENT Dennison's col ravages of}gnorance and the cruelty of hate. • Postmaster: send address ch:uiges to: sional medical associations. Harold Dennison league, orthopedic surgeon John Lamb, is Circulation Dcparuncnt practiced medicine in the absence of reason using to support universal testing of patients Dare able precautions, with puzzling disregard for Box 40422 only works if there is u_niversal testing of phy the absolute fatalicy of.AIDS. Dare encourages you to express your opinion In Nashville, TN 37204-0422 sicians-because if Dennison did indeed con this space, and welcomes your letters. Submissions But the tragedy of Harold Dennison's battle tract the AIDS virus during the course of his over 500 words will be considered for the Soapbox Dare and the Dare logo arc trademarks of with AIDS has not ended with his death. The practice (and the evidence is still inconclusive) Pyramid Light & Power space. Names may be withheld on request. Unsigned for its newspaper. life of Dennison - a veritable paradox by means of his refusal to protect himself letters and defamatory material cannot be pub Eritire contents and design wrapped inside an enigma- is now being through universal precautions, his continuing lished. Please write to Box 40422, Nashville, TN Copyright @1988 by Pyramid Llght & Power. used to perpetrate another crime- a crime refusal to practice those precautions after his 37204-0422, and include signature, phone number All rights reserved. and address for verification. Reproduction, either in whole or in part, against reason and a_crime against patient exposure has indeed put his patients at risk. is strictly prohibited without the express written consent of the publisher.

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The opinions of this newspaper IGUESSYOUCOULDSAYthatimadeabig classmates I gave a copy of the paper were broke out in hysterical laughter. are expressed only in editorials. Any views expressed in any advertisement, signed step in my coming-out process this week. Let unaware that Pride Week had taken place. In Chemistry, a friend passed out the paper column, letter, article or cartoon me explain what I mean, but first, I must give Most students did not see this as an update at the beginning of class. The teacher found it are those of the author, anist, speaker or writer, some background details. I am a member of of an event that occurred in the summer. AIi difficult to teach class due to the various jokes and do not necessarily reflect the positions of Dare, Pyramid Light & Power, staff members or advertisers. the Nashville Youth Network, which is a youth they saw were the words '.'.!_esbian and gay." and discussions about my article. What sur empowerment group. Way back in June, dur- · They would then quickly notice my name and prised me the most was that they insulted and ing Lesbian and Gay Pride Week, the Nashville begin reading further, laughing constantly. joked about lesbians and gays with the full Youth Network participated in the march and Next, they would go into shock and stare at me knowledge that I was hearing every word they rally. We also print a paper which is given out for an hour or two. Th is is only one of the many said. I guess ignorant people don't have much to students at mo~t Nashville schools. In this scenarios I witnessed during the day. tact. paper, I wrote an article about the week's MY FAVORITE SCENARIO was in home I am amazed that teen_agers are so troubled festivities. I was daring and used my real name. room when I passed oat the paper to everyone by the fact that I wrote this article. It also upsets Maybe not a good idea, but I did it, anyway. in the room. One girl read it out loud and then me that no one realized that there were many A this point, you might be thinking, "Well, immediatelyglaredatmeandsaid."Nuke'em." other articles about different subjects. Many that was way back in June. Why is he talking She then went to our homeroom teacher assumed that it was a publication by lesbians GAY AND LESBIAN about this now?" Good question. Due to some and showed her the article and expressed her and gays. There is one good thing out of this, PRESS ASSOCIAllON complications - we lost our editor - the paper disgust to the teacher. As I left homeroom, I though. My ad for the teen ~upport group was didn't come out until this week. Dated news, overheard the teacher say in a quiet, surprised in there as well. I hope that I will get some but important for teenagers to read. Most of the voice, "You mean he's gay?" I immediately responses from that _• 11

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This man ••••••• about - what else? - the . The surprise would spend many days • •• we • ♦ • sex life of a San Francisco is that he doesn,t and weeks gazing into a ♦ ♦ writer. The surprise is crystal ball in the corner If you're •• proudly present •• that he doesn't do it very do it very well of the domicile they thinking : The Official •• well. Curzqn has written Curzon has shared. about buying much better stuff than "Domicile?" Spare us. or selling a ; Miss International 1989 ~ this waste of good trees. written much JUST FUP through home, His short story Two and plop a finger down : Sat., Feb. 25, 9:30 p.m. better stuff than choose an 1 Bartenders, a Butcher anywhere. You are guar agent you : $450 in cash and prizes: and Me, published in this waste of anteed to find something can be •• $45 entry fee • Christopher Street awful no matter which comfortable • • magazine's terrific 1980 good trees. page of this dreadful with . . •• Deadline Feb. 22 •• fiction collection Aphro thing you tum to. That is, ♦• •♦ disiac, was a straightfor- if you can make enough LEESTONER:11 ,:.:, ....•,•· •,• -·•' .. ·:.:,:·.' ·. •• • • ward evocation of the sense out of it to form Million Dollar Sales Club -..... impersonal seventies-style big-city bar scene some kind of an opinion. Office (615) 248-6161 everyo'oe moans about missing these days. Bad writing is one thing, but Curzonis made 615 Woodland Street Victor/Victoria's Still , it was direct, simple and effective. In other even more difficult to get to because it is Nashville, TN 37206 111 8TH AVE N, NASHVILLE/ 244-7256 words, the polar opposite of Curzon in Love. riddled with typographical errors - on nearly Pity poor Coward, every page - and Maugham, and the text is printed in Burton. These three heavy black type guys have got to be that looks like doing flips in their someone was trying graves. Not because to stretch a 100- Curzon has used page book to fill up their styles to tell a 232 pages the way .) homosexual story. high-schoolers But because he had write big and the effrontery to double-space to Mark Alan Henry mimic them, and pad out reports to An Im·age Professional then to thank them the required five Personalized Hair Design by name on the pages. dedication page. All the horrible also available: skin & nail care A random sam things about this Monday-Saturday 9 am till pling of what you book aside, it's not should miss: quite a total loss. It 1818 Division Street, Nashville, TN 37203 • (615) 327-3171 (This is what does have some fun A DIVISION OF DANIELS ENTERPRISES, INC. Curzon calls moments, and "grubby realism") Curzon does occa Although he was at s ionally find his ·.·.·.·.·.·.·.·.;.;-;.:-:-:-:-·- tracted to men physically , and liked tbe fact stride with his sharper attempts at dialogue. that these creatures hadpenises, thepenis itself You get the sense that this may ~e that M?; rather disgusted him, Such a state is a cross to retaliatory novel everyone daydreams about :;,_~,,,~rnm-_:•~iltiirtiJ bearfor a homosexual. Curzon was willing to writing: the expose of all those rotten people ackn01flege his neurosis, ifthat's what it was, who've hurt you and are now laid bare for all but it seemed to him that other people just the world to see how nasty they are. It's not that didn't see as well as be did. Otherwise, how the book is vicious, the characters are just flat could they go into raptures over that reddish and one-faceted. pole with unsightly veins up and down it and The story itself is one of those no-story sto a pee-hole in the top? ries: it's hoped that the reader will find the ,...=,,-j.~i!ii~,iii£:i :::::::-=:===::=:;:::;:-: () Or this, alleged to be a la Coward: telling such fun that the lack of a tale will be ...:::- "We can still do that. How about now?" excused. An interesting proposition in the Curzon hooked a finger throughJean-Michel's hands of a better storyteller, it is deadly in belt and pulled him toward the French door. Curzon's. But Jean-Michel would not budge. "Not Still, Curzon ln Love has an eye-catching now. Someone might come in." lavender cover with strange cartoons. It might "Well, tonight then. In bed." Curzon ·swords be fun on the beach come summer - it's not were getting him excited. "Full-bodied man oflen you get a chance to feel intellectually love." He touchedJean-Michel's crotch. superior with sand in your shorts. • (D F E B R U A R Y 3 - 9, 1 9 8 9

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