Volume 12 Issue 7

Charges of Union Busting Macy’s Strike Heats Up by Ray O’Loughlin Firestone-Roderick told Sentinel U.S.A. The streets around Macy’s and Em- that “ There are many rumors circulating poriunkCapwell’s San Francisco stores about the issues in the strike and most were quieter this week. A court order are untrue. We are not cutting anyone’s restraining enthusiastic pickets was be­ benefits or anyone’s wages.” Although ing strictly enforced by the police who she could not elaborate on the details, have arrested 13 strikers so far. As the she explained Macy’s position as “ offer­ strike by 3300 members of Department ing another benefit package” for new Store Employees Local 1100 approached workers. its fifth week, longer than most had ex­ That proposal to leave present pected to be away from their jobs, employees at present benefit levels but negotiators were still far from agreeing hire new people under a system of reduc­ on a new 3-year contract. Worse still, ed benefits was denounced by workers following Macy’s offer of a two-tiered on Monday’s picket lines. “ They want to system of wages and benefits, many slice the union in half,” said Gunter Posner, an 11 year veteran stock clerk, AIDS Health Prelect stati (I to r) top row; Tim Sally, John Acevedo, Judy Macks; bottom row: began to fear that the real aim of the James Dllley, Ed Morales, Ernest Andrews, William Vitiello. See story page 3. stores* owners was to undermine and “At the next contract, they’re hoping the eventually get rid of the union. newcomers will overcome us. It’ll lower The lesbian and gay community, our position.” meanwhile, found itself in the middle of Said a single mother who picketed what could be a lengthy labor dispute. whOt carrying her daughter, “Those The Bight tonight Not only do the two Àbres, particularly wiÁbat (the higher) bexiefits won’t be I wiUtBg to Jig^jjáeaU tm e. It’ll o«ate a Macy’s, employ large numbers of gay * by David Lamble people, many of whom have been active divisiveness in the unión that’B make it in the strike, much of the store’s revenue easy to bust.” She said she’ll stay oufun- “ It is quite often stated that changes are is also said to come from gay shoppers. til the demands are met even though she brought about by people who are willing ’‘Macy’s without the gay community is now bringing home only $40 a week in to die for what they believe. It is not peo­ wouldn’t be Macy’s,” said Sup. Harry benefite. Strikers are not eligible for ple who are willing to die for what they Britt. ” We have an excellent chance to welfare or food stamps. believe who cause change, rather it is say to Macy’s that we’ve helped make Business representative Anthony those of us who are willing to live for you rich, now let’s see what you’re going Ouardino of Local 1100 wondered for what we believe until we die! I am an to do for the community.’*^ - the record if Macy’s wasn’t out to break American. I am black and I am gay and The effect of the strUce on sales was the union. “ Why take the most suc­ now I would like to be free!” unclear. Estimates by some sources cessful store in California, whose —Perry Watkins-National/March for claimed as much as a 6 0 ^ drop in Continued on page 2 Lesbian/Gay Rights business. Store officials, however, say that claim is widely exaggerated and Perry Watkins has conie a long way that, in fact, business is near normal. since his pre-induction physical for the Tlie strike began July 7 although the Army in 1967. Watkins leveled with Ar­ union contract had exiriied May 31. Two my doctors, telling them he was gay. days after thé 2000 Macy’s workers “After undergoing a mental examina­ walked out. Emporium Capwell, which tion it was determined that 1 was suitable shares the same union contract, told for military service.” Watkins found 1300 of its employees to not come in to himself drafted into the Army in May, work. Some strikers have since returned 1968. Little did he realize that his sexual to their jobs but union representatives orientation would involve him in a say that solidarity is strong and defect­ military game of Catch 22 that continues ions from the ranks are few. to this day. “ In August of 1968,1 was ex­ At issue in the strike is a wage and pelled fiom Chaplain’s Assistants school benefit package which the union claims because I said I was homosexual. would reduce workers’ annual income However, my request for a discharge for by over $3000. In that offer by Macy’s the same reason was denied! In October management, Sunday, holiday and night of ’6 8 ,1 was attacked by four members pay differentials are eliminated. Many of my unit. I reported this incident and workers say they depend on those dif­ again requested a discharge.” ferentials to survive while working part A three month investigation by Army time shifts that management purposes Criminal Investigation failed to uncover now to reduce further from 4 hours to 3 any reasons homosexual Perry Watkins for sales clerks. Reduced hours also should not remain in the service. Seven reduces sick pay and vacation years later, another Army commander allowances. Macy’s also proposes to cut would view the same case through a glass sales commissions on certain high priced darkly and start the red tape ball rolling to cashier Watkins. But, wait again. “ A items and allow executives to perform Convention march protestors outside Marcello's on Castro Street. See story page 5 staff members’ work, a move that the four member board unanimously decid­ ed that I had done nothing to affect unit union says makes a farce out of job morals, mission accomplishment or job security. Another issue on the table is performance—so, I, therefore, should health benefits. Macy’s wants to up not ¿« discharged from the Army!” employee premiums substantially for In 1981 Watkins found the scales of what Local 1100 has called poorer THE VOICE OF A NEW military justice weighing against him one coverage. A minimal wage increase of more time. Ushering in the more fifty cents spread out over three years conservative Reagan era, the Pentagon was also offered by Management. GENERATION Speaking for Macy’s, Karen Continued on page 8 August 2,1984 August 2,1984 Macy’s Strike Heats Up Health Project Continued from page I employees have worked well and made allies” , Sal Rosselli, president of the money for that store, and trade that for a Alice B. Toklas Lesbian/Gay group of disgruntled employees?” Democratic Club and an organizer for Urges Caution According to Ed Doty, a gay sales Local 250 of the Hospital Workers clerk at Macy’s, “ It’s a classic technique Union, urged lesbians and gays to sup­ by Will Snyder recently in which it was discovered that of union busting. They know they can’t port the strike. “ The labor movement 300 men had an AIDS virus or anti­ has historically supported oppressed The head of a city-funded project bodies in their systems. Yet Morales do it right away but three years or six which focusses on Acquired Immune years down the road, it’s possible. Two groups and that support is increasing for pointed out not all the men got the gay rights. They need us and supporting Deficiency Syndrome issued warnings to disease. “ Why more of them didn’t is a classes of employees will create a cancer gay men about keeping both physical within the union. It’ll be very divisive.” the strike strengthens that relationship.” good question. I think some of this has The Department Store Employees and mental guards up against AIDS to go back to the psychological factors Firestone-Roderick disputed that despite new discoveries which may help claim calling it “ exaggerated and false Union has been particularly supportive involved.” on gay issues. Not only has it endorsed to wipe out the fatal disease. Morales said he felt this aspect of information.” Denying that Macy’s had Dr. Edward Morales, head of the any intention of undermining the union, A.B. 1 the state gay job rights bill, but AIDS study did not mean the disease is also has included specific protections for AIDS Health Project, said he feared the psychosomatic for some people. she said, “ It’s standard in any company movement toward safe-sex practices that new workers are paid less than older gay and lesbian employees in its con­ “ That’s not the case at all,” he said. tracts with Macy’s and Emporium may be curtailed in the San Francisco “ Again, I believe it is more the idea—at workers.” gay community because of the discovery Doty also told Sentinel U.S.A., “ It’s Capwell. The union also allows the Les­ least from a psychological stand­ bian/Gay Labor Alliance to use its of the HTLV-III virus. Healso said con­ point—that when people tend to let their not that we’re asking for anything new. ditions which are not at all physical may Macy’s wants to take away things we’ve facilities on Mission Street. Jim Forels of the S.F. AIDS Foundation accepts the over 910,000 collected by "The Obelisk" guard down and not fight back against from the store's owner, Bob Bradshaw play a part in many people catching depression or anxiety, they become had for a long time.” He said he thought Sup. Harry Britt also encouraged gay AIDS. that if Macy’s was financially pressed, DOtential victims of AIDS. support for the strike, saying, “ The pay “ Most people think this is strictly a Morales said the AIDS Health Project most workers would consider conces­ off for us will come later. We have now physical type of disease,” Morales said, sions to save their jobs. Obelisk Raises Funds For AIDS offers help help for anyone who wishes something to offer the labor move­ “ but that’s not always the case. There to study ways of avoiding the disease. But that’s far from the case. Macy’s ment and they have a great deal to offer are certain psychosocial factors involved California is part of the huge chain own­ At the conclusion of a fundraising ef­ “ We have projects and workshops on us.” He said he hoped to get crucial and Executive Director James Ferels, ex­ which may lead to someone getting wellness, hot and healthy sex and stress ed by R.H. Macy & Co. in New York. union backing in his fight to gain fort at the OBELISK, a Castro Street gift pressed their appreciation: “ We applaud AIDS.” store owned by Bob Bradshaw, it was reduction, among other things. The Though sales Figures for the Union domestic partner benefits from the city. the OBELISK’S efforts as a statement of He went on to explain how people announced that $5,454 has been turned thing that’s so nice about our organiza­ Square store were unavailable, it is said “ We have to be seen as friends of labor how each one of us can become involved handle anxiety could possibly play a part to be one of the most profitable retail over to the S.F. AIDS Foundation to in the AIDS struggle. To win the fight tion is that it is free to anyone who wishes for that to happen,” Britt added. in whether people do or do not get to use the services.” .outlets in the U.S. The parent company assist in continuing and expanding the against AIDS will take a cooperative ef­ Negotiations were scheduled to AIDS. Morales stressed the importance of reporterd a sales increase in 1982 of 12United States, gay aliens can ing that homosexuality is not a physical This is independent housing, with no AIDS, have him/her contact Bill Barks­ back, when they find that others are on Andrews or Marcia Quackenbush at the be denied entry without a medical exami­ or mental disorder,” she said. “ We are medical or other services provided. If a dale, Residence Manager, or Michael their side, they tend to draw strength and Center for Special Problems, 2107 Van nation. not now conducting medical examina­ person is unable to care for himself com­ Fiointino, Program Secretary at the tend to be more resilient.” Ness Ave. (558-4801). Subsequent to Jensen’s request, a tions but only recording information pletely, the Residence Director will work Shanti AIDS Residence Program Office He also pminted to another study done June 8 memorandum from Dr. Laurence that people volunteer.” She claimed it to establish home care services from at 890 Hayes St. 558-8611 S. Farer, acting director of the Centers was a “ legal decision, not a medical for Disease Control’s Division of one” and that “ we had no choice. We Quarantine, directs PHS officers in tried once when we notified (the Depart­ those states to document “self- ment of) Justice that this wasn’t medical­ proclaimed homosexual aliens presented ly related but the law doesn’t give much by the U.S. Immigration and Naturaliza­ latitude.” tion Service.” The medical officer is to Not so, said attorney Leonard Graff, W is h in g ask the individual simply “ Are you a head of National Gay Rights Advocates, Or. Edward Brandi homosexual?” If the person answers who has handled both the Carl Hill case yes, a certificate is issu^ and he/she is and the more recent Richard Longstaff Stated, “ As it stands, only if an alien originally from Britain, recently was subject to immediate deportation. If the case. “ I’m not aware of any provision in makes a spontaneous, unambiguous and denied U.S. citizenship because he is gay answer is no or the individual refuses to the government that allows one agency W eU voluntary statement that he/she is gay and now faces deportation. The sub­ answer, no certificate is issued and, to order another independent agency to should INS intervene. But what’s actual­ presumably, no action can be taken by committee, however, has requested an act.” He pointed out that former ly happening at the border, who administrative report on the bill which the INS. Surgeon General Julius Richmond had knows?” Graff called this latest move will temporarily halt any effort to deport According to INS San Francisco ignored a similar order from the U.S. at­ “ insuppoitable” and said “ it further ex­ Longstaff. Meanwhile, he has moved to HOTEL district director David Ilchert, the key torney general in 1978 when the PHS emplifies how this administration feels San Francisco, which puts his case under word is “ self-proclaimed.” “ If a person first refused to certify homosexual about gay people.” unequivocally and voluntarily an­ the jurisdiction of the liberal 9th U.S. aliens. Circuit Court of Appeals. nounces that they’re a practicing Graff also speculated that this In other efforts at removing the prob­ Bed & Breakfast homosexual, they will be referred to U.S. Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.) documenting of an entrant’s sexual lems gays and lesbians face with U.S. im­ also has introduc^ legislation that PHS for medical certification,” he told orientation would not meet the stipula­ migration, a private bill that would grant would rewrite all exclusionary categories 2 4 3 Vi/est 200 South, Salt Lake City Utah 84101 Sentinel U.S.A. Asked what constituted tion in Judge Aguilar’s ruling that called citizenship to Ijljchard Longstaff was such an announcement, Ilchert said for immigration, removing homosex­ for a “ meaningful medical examina­ heard last week by the House of Repre­ uality from the list. That bill faced its “ they’d have to state ‘I am a homosex­ tion,” sentatives’ Subcommittee on Immigra­ first round of hearings in late June but (801) 5219315 ual.’ ” When asked if wearing a gay As to what a gay or lesbian visitor tion, Refugees and International Law. liberation button or other such sign no conclusive action is expected by Con­ A division of Gay International, Inc. ¿ould expect to find at the border, Graff Longstaff, a Texas businessman gress untill 1985. August 2,1984 August 2,1984 Marcello’s Dispute 4e* Gay Leader From Ferraro Country r - ■' D.J. r - r 4 6 0 9 ^ ¡ ’^Dsb Fridays 4 6 0 9 by David Lamble mous affection for the man.” Negotiations 6 P .M .- ■r While Gov. Cuomo was unwilling to iiu.. .A' 2 A.M. In Ginny Apuzzo lesbians and gay take his gay rights rhetoric out of the men have found their first charismatic, closet for the national television aud­ post-Stonewall national leader. In ience, other convention speakers proud­ December, 1982, Apuzzo assumed the ly saluted lesbians and gay men by name, by the Slice executive directorship of a National Gay these included presidential candidate by Will Snyder According to Freedman, “ Seventeen DAVID’S house Task Force (NGTF) then suffering from Jesse Jackson, Mass, congressman David C. Schuyler, proprietor poor staff morale, a decline in member­ Perhaps the key word to look for in crew members are eligible for the (com­ Barney Frank, and Washington D.C.' the dispute between Marcello’s Pizza ship and an overall loss of direction and Mayor Marion Barry. Apuzzo, herself, pany) benefits at this time. These management and workers is communi­ benefits are available to anyone who has, purpose. was a key player in getting the conven­ cation. HAPPY HOUR Apuzzo quickly restored NGTF’s according to our insurance company, tion to adopt a platform with strong Or lack of it. once vaunted skill for putting the les­ language on lesbian/gay rights including made a six-month commitment to the bian/gay story and agenda out over the And perhaps no one better represents company and has worked a minimum of 5 to 7 P.M., Seven days a week the following passage under the heading: what must be the frustrating side of the national news media. Whether respond­ Dignity For All. 30 hours per week.” word, communication, than Dean Yet, Kevin O’Connor, the union BAR OPEN 11 A.M. to 2 A.M. ing to a threat by blood banks to ban gay 488 Hayes (Between Gough and Octavia) blood donations and thus further Freedman, the new personnel director of organizer for Local No. 2 says “ no one stigmatize the community around the All groups must be protected the eight-year-old fast-food restaurant knows whether they have the benefits or Have You Been Here Yet? ®^3-8829 AIDS health crisis, or a law banning les­ from discrimination based chain. not.” bian and gay teachers from classrooms on race, color, sex, religion, The frustrating thing is that Freedman Score one for Marcello’s manage­ in Oklahoma, or the possibility that les­ national origin, language, has tried to be the communicator. After ment. Is it impossible for any employee, bians and gays might not be specifically age, or sexual orientation. managing Marcello’s Haight Street especially with the allegedly more ac­ included in the 1984 Democratic Nat­ We will support legislation to store, he was installed in late Mar­ cessible Freedman at the head of person­ ional Platform, Apuzzo, at times, in the prohibit discrimination in ch-right when Marcello’s Castro Street nel, to ask whether he or she is eligible first twenty months of her administra­ the workplace based on sex­ employees were in the early stages of for the benefits? tion of NGTF, seemed Ginny on the spot ual orientation. We will union dreams—as personnel director. If both sides really wish to solve this with a well framed position for every assure that sexual orienta­ Freedman is a 29-year old San Francisco labor/management dispute, they should , audience, television camera, or congres­ tion perse does not serve as a State University graduate who is bright, try to communicate the way they picture sional committee. bar to participation in the personable and does not fit into the The Marcello’s Worker of 1984. There Apuzzo’s background as a former military. We will support an rigid, unpenetrable Management seems to be a wide rift here. teacher and her three years in a Catholic enhanced effort to learn the stereotype which is usually—and When asked about the average religious order gave her the style, cause and cure of AIDS, and sometimes accurately—portrayed in a amount of hours worked by a Marcello’s perspective and moral auithority to de­ to provide treatment for peo­ movie such as Norma Rae. employee, Freedman said “ at the Castro mand more of gay men and lesbians than ple with AIDS. And we will store, the average is above 30. Many of ensure that foreign citizens that they merely aspire to be included in Ginny Apuzzo In the early days of picketing, our employees there have second jobs or a redefinition of the American social are not excluded from this Marcello’s workers passed out leaflets have other artistic interests such as contract. In an April 13, 1983 speech at “ / grew up in the Bronx. It's straight forward, it's country on the basis of their which complained about lack of perma­ theater. We don’t think they’re thinking Harvard University, Apuzzo declared, sexual orientation. nent scheduling. Since Freedman assum­ of a career with Marcello’s.” “ Now that we have some sense of our direct you say what you got to say and you make sure ed personnel responsibilities, that has Marcello’s workers start at a working power, we must begin to ask a crucial that's what you're willing to stand by and no bullshit.” And finally, another paragraph in the changed. People know now when they wage of S4 per hour and are, according question, ‘What is it for?’ Will gay pride plank on crime takes the Democratic become gay power become gay smug? Party fully out of the closet on lesbian We must be about the generic issue of which she cut her political teeth and in rights, a progressive thinker.” Meade and gay rights. oppression.^’ which she is capable of playing hard ball looked at me and snarled, -‘We’ll whip Inevitably, Apuzzo has been the target with the big boys. Apuzzo recalled with your ass in this election.’ I said, ‘You of criticism, some of it from lesbians relish a run in with Brooklyn Democratic know Meade, there’s no more free Violent acts of bigotry, ..... fearing she is giving too much attention boss Meade Esposito over his demand fucks! You fuck the gay community, it’s hatred and extremism aimed to the male side of the gay agenda, somé" that her gay Democratic club support the going to cost you! We may not win, but at women, racial, ethnic, and ARLI N • B EAC from lesbians and gay men wishing that a anti-gay majority leader of the New we’re going to run your ass off! ’ I grew religious minorities, and gay HOTEL wider range of voices and viewpoints be York City Council, Tom Cutie. “ The up in the Bronx. It’s straight forward, men and lesbians have .given that blazing spotlight of media at- reason why gays and lesbians in New it’s direct...You say what you got to become an alarmingly com­ ' tention, and some from the ranks of the York City do not have a gay rights bill say...and you make sure that’s what m on p h en o m en o n . A yet is Tom Cutie....When Meade asked you’re willing to stand by and no Democratic Administration non electoral gay movement who fear • THE COMPLETE RESORT • (Home of tIw FABULOUS POOPETTES) me to support Cutie I said, ‘No way, bullshit! They tend to understand that.” will work vigorously to ad­ Apuzzo’s standing and ambitions within • 1 0 F ROOMS, s u it e s , & a p a r t m e n t s . The AWARd-wiNNmq • the national and New York Democratic Meade!’ Meade said, ‘When are you dress, document and end all Writing in the May 15,1984 issue of The * POOP DECK R e s t a u r a n t A CAbARer hosTiNq The ORIGINAL TEA DANCE people going to team how to play ball?’ I such violence. Party, Advocate, Peter Freiberg notes some > SEVEN AhERNOONS EAch w e e L • The Fa m o u s LOWER DECK DISCO fs A T U R iN q • In a February, 1983 interview with this said, ‘Meade, throw us a ball, don’t chinks in Apuzzo’s political armor, • OUR OWN liq lrr show ANd u e k I e r w a t e r w iN d o w s in t o ihe pool • reporter, Apuzzo shared her impressions throw us a brick!’ I told Meade, ‘we’re especially where popular New York This reporter asked Apuzzo whether • N a u t iI u s q a m e r o im n . O lyM pic-siu pool & TRopicAl pool B a r . • of the hard boiled, boss-dominated, going to support his opponent, a man Gov. Mario Cuomo is concerned. machine-style New York City politics on who has come out for gay and lesbian she was at all concerned about a poll, Despite serving in the administration of taken at convention time, by The Nat­ New York Mayor Ed Koch for two years The World Famous Marlin Beach Hotel ional Journal indicating that Mondale 17 South Atlantic Blvd. Ft. Lauderdale, R 33316 (1979-81) Apuzzo, an Italian Democrat delegates tended to be more conservative from Brooklyn, ditched Koch in 1982 to on gay rights and less negative towards support Cuomo, an Italian Democrat In Rorida: 305-467-6551 the Moral Majority, while the Hart and Th« Marcello's store at Haight and Rllmora from Queens, in the New York Elsewhere, toll-free: 800-327-2246 Jackson delegates were more liberal on Democratic primary for governor. lesbian/gay rights and more opposed to are to work. Freedman reinstated to Freedman, usually in line for easy ON Reporter Freiberg asserts that Apuzzo the Moral Majority. I asked, specifical­ workers who were fired in petty actions raises. “ In only two cases I know of (at thought she had Cuomo’s executive ly, if the election of a Walter Mondale by Marcello’s management in the early the Haight Street store) did we reduce or order barring discrimination against Administration, might be a step mud-slinging days. He freely admits deny an increase. One person, who was a gays by the state government in employ­ backwards towards the Jimmy Carter Marcello’s management was not always good worker but had excessive problems ment and provision of services and by era, when many gay activists felt that les­ listening to its workers. with tardiness, was asked to wait for 30 private firms doing business with the bian/gay issues were mostly something One union organizer for Local No. 2 days for the entire 50-cent raise. The per­ state.” to chat about in the White House base­ said Freedman is nothing but a public- son was still granted a 2S-cent raise. In When Cuomo’s on job performance ment. Apuzzo replied, “ I think it would relations front for Brad McFadden, the the majority of cases, our workers get failed to match his campaign promises, definitely represent progress from where 33-year old owner of Marcello’s. One of their raises without controversy,” Apuzzo was surprisingly restrained in we are now. I would point to a spectrum the picketers, however, said that “ had That may be the case, but is it enough? her criticism, despite the governor’s of issues from the environment to the Freedman been the personnel director Marcello’s management claims its SEPTEMBER 15-23 watered down executive order exempting Civil Rights Commission to the Supreme from the beginning, maybe there starting wage is better than many YOUR private contractors,^ his initiai reluctance Court to Central American policy to wouldn’t be half the problems there are restaurants of the fast-food variety in to back AIDS funding and his hands off South Africa, there would definitely be a now.” The City. But is $4, $4.25 or even $4.50 stand op the gay rights bHl in New York. CHANCE difference in a Mondale administration, Certainly from a communications per hour enough to live on in San Fran­ The Advocate’s Freiberg quotes a sadder compared to the current Reagan Ad­ standpoint—worker and manage­ cisco in 1984? i i C - TOBE but wiser Apuzzo saying, “ I will never ment—this probably would be the case. Marcello’s took a positive step in pro­ make the mistake again of not exacting ministration. That does not mean that I A KID expect nothing but a benign response When picketers have marched in front of moting Dean Freedman, who certainly (a commitment) in writing from a can­ the Castro Street store, Freedman has represents modem thinking in regard to FORMAL WEAR 673-0626 didate.” from a Mondale Administration. You AGAIN! say, “ the promise is meaningless, unless been there, too, passing out manage­ listening to employees. But as with any .A Ht.il Achfnturf In an interview with Sentinel U.S.A. ment’s side of the story. He has engaged labor/management dispute, the bottom on July 17, one day after Gov. Cuomo you keep the promise! If you don’t keep KKMKMHKK YOl K CHILI)H(K)I) Sl’MMKKS AT CAMP? Wpll llvy re back’ All o( lh.«e the promise, you’ve lost a friend! You’ve in friendly banter with the picketers on line is still the economic one. wnrtdfrlul fanldsK’s wiH iruf <»iKf ajjain M CAMP NKVKR-NKVKK Ij XNIi. delivered a smashingly popular keynote And whether a person wants to be a CALVIN KLEIN ADOLFO PIERRE CAF^DIN MANY SPKCIAL PVKNTS AKK I'LANNKII. Kittur«mh. Talenl Cmlume Parties. failed, and failure is something that we many occasions. SIGN UP address at the Democratic National Con­ There are two areas in which starving artist who is writing The Great WAITERS MUSICIANS ATTIRE "Therm*'' Nnrhis vention, in which his only mention of simply can’t allow!” PLUS LOTS, LOTS, MORE! 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Some invest­ Most of us are accumulating horror stories about friends, lovers, tricks and Regards and love, and there, once again, was his face is less risky than buying common stock, others who have died—some with terrifying speed, some after torturous lingering Before you can begin the investment when they know there is only a small but the potential return is also much less. ment prospectus will already do this for Tom Savigano chance of earning a large return. You time in a hospital bed pumped full of morphine, riddled with tubes. Death then Each time he tried to tune up his rusty process you have to Figure out how much When it comes time to select your in­ you. You should be cautioned not to risk you are willing to accept. But what is have to decide which type of investor you vestments, more seems better than less. blindly accept these figures. They can becomes a merciful end to an impossible situation. I voice, risk? Usually the word is associated with are. An investment promising a higher rate of serve, however, as a starting point. Feelings get garbled. We are angry. We are afraid. We are in some ways more RESPITE the brand-new trace tube bubbled and The investment you choose should fit united as a community, in other ways more isolated and lonely as individuals. Our squeaked like a teapot. things to be avoided, but not in in­ return frequently appears more desirable Developers have à tendency to say your personality. Blue Chip common things like, “ The market up to date has need to be touched, to be intimate, to be sexual, clashes with pamphlets, Hfter vestments. Risk is really the chance, or than an investment yielding a lower rate probability, that the outcome of an in­ stocks are less risky than non-Blue- done thus and so. We expect things to headlines, and political issues that add enormous agenda to basic human needs. long vigil We had of return. As a result in many cases peo­ vestment will be other than what you ex­ Chip. Blue-Chips are companies such as continue in the same manner.” That is What can we do? among the dense coiling tubes, to giggle. ple select the “ high-flyer” investments General Motors, Prudential, Sears; an improper way to evaluate a project. 1. We can support the agencies and programs assisting AIDS patients with our the leaden machines that force- This earned us his dreaded Barracuda pect it to be. This means the rate of only to be amazed when the investment return could either be higher or lower comapnies that have been around for a Each project must stand on its own time and our money. feed grin. turns out to be a dud. But the reverse can than expected...not just lower. while and have proven their ability and be true—the investment chosen could merits. Each project must stand an em­ 2. We can write, march, demonstrate whenever possible demanding more city, and feed and feed Next he was wafting us, like Just how much risk you want to take is growth over a long period of time. Non earn a large return. Many investors pirical test of its own. state and federal funds for research and medical care to unravel the cause and heavy lungs dandelions, Blue-Chips are publicly traded com­ treat those afflicted with AIDS. his Katherine Hepburn kisses... simply up to you. Some people are will­ thrive on risk and will always opt for a panies that usually are newer and have more risky investment over a less risky 3. We can bicker less and cooperate more as a community faced with a I step from the building ing to accept very limited risk so they in­ In my next article I will discuss vest in things that have relatively low not proven themselves over the long one. “ value” with you. This will give you the pestilence far more important than our petty concerns. Much later, as gangly Peter haul. 4. We can continue to educate ourselves and others about our sexuality, and the leaned down from his height to crush returns such as passbook savings ac­ In evaluating the riskiness of an in­ ability to compare the difference be­ and so For example, if you are considering vestment you need to evaluate its cash­ risks and possibilities involved in its expression. full comes my breath him goodnight, counts. Other investors are willing to ac­ tween the asking price and the true worth investing in a blue-chip common stock. flow. For example, suppose you are in- 5. We can take responsibility. Every decision has a consequence. While sexual snatches of verse came drifting cept very high risks, even sometimes of an investment. expression is a basic, healthy human need, many of us have burst out of closets I breathe in through my mind: with voracious appetites after long years of suppression. We owe it to ourselves to cities choose our path rationally, to meet our needs mindfully, to treat our partners car- the sky “There is a willow love. Jack gets home at noon Saturday. The desire to be sexually exclusive is George is calling on the phone the mo­ the third element of intimacy. Though ingly and carefully, even if the encounter is brief and anonymous. grows askant a brook c . 6. We can be strong. Some here have responded to AIDS with paranoia and like a that dips his leaves in the glassy ment Jack gets home and they talk for a Jack and George met casually and have half hour. Jack goes out of town for withdrawal. They hide and sulk, half believing the sick accusations of Rev. gift stream” sex quickly, the love and intimacy grew Falwell and those who believe that AIDS is God’s punishment to our community. A^llUiUIlL XU.ÍK three days on business. He sends George so fast that almost immediately they Challenge the sulkers and stand up to the Falwells in churches, legislatures, 11 and a song much older, RobMftCromvy a post card, a funny macho card, two let­ wanted to be sexually exclusive. They neighborhood bars and family gatherings. We must courageously combat these GRIT more o f the moment: ters and makes three phone calls. They liked and loved many other men and perverted accusations. cannot not talk and communicate. They women friends, but the itch to be with 7. We can be vulnerable, despite the risk and despite our fear. We can visit the “we were never happier, ” “Love is stronger than death." can’t fake it. It arises naturally. It is an them was gone. Intimacy had invaded sick, feed the hungry with quiche and with caring. The gay/lesbian liberation a British lady told me overwhelming urge. If such behavior their lives and they were succumbing. persists, intimacy can’t be far behind. movement has been characterized by a gentle strength. That strength is needed of the London blitz - Get Intimacy Rolling You really must like that desire for ex­ now more than ever, and it must be expressed compassionately. Then, there is the desire “ to be with.” clusivity. It must feel good to desire to be VI Intimacy is something we passionately intimacy. First is the desire for constant, 8. We can become wise. Dorothy learned a lot during her travels in Oz. So can astonishment! You canH get enough presence with the just with that wonderful other person. REQUIM desire or aggressively avoid. At times we tenacious communication. Second is the other person. You want to be with him we. While we would not choose AIDS as a teacher, leant we must from all that has what happiness can there be To me, those three elements must be want it other times we flee it. It is that drive to be present with the other person all the time. You find yourself doing all present for a couple to want to be happened. when the neighbor behind the it came to him as much as possible. Third is the desire If a cure appeared tomorrow, perhaps many of us would return to old habits special desire to be close to another per­ kinds of things you’d ordinarily avoid together. It is rare that two people want wall, the friend across the Park at dusk son. It has a self-emptying quality. You for exclusive sex. Now don’t get me just to be in the presence of the beloved. and a more casual approach to sexual expression. Even those people who have is gone one night as the fog was blurring the hills those two or three things at the same time wish to empty yourself into another. wrong. Good friendships, pleasant sex Good old Jack had a yawning acquain­ each with the other. Often one person stubbornly clung to their old habits do so now with an awareness of consequences in a holocaust? and jocular companionship are all plea­ that did not exist before. A quick cure is unlikely. Most of us muddle along patch­ You wish to receive the other person tance with the opera. George had season feels it toward another and it is not it bypassed totally— mind, body, soul, spirit—into sant, good things. There even may be a tickets and went to pre-opera lectures ing together a compromise lifestyle. A few opt for celibacy. The majority of gay but beneath the mounting rubble reciprocated. I’ve been in love 50 times. the busy pumps, yourself. level of intimacy in these. But there must besides. Jack reluctantly went along. He It has been reciprocated only three or males mate, date, and trick with care. Call it “ safe sex.” Call it “ common sense.” where the Tubes, the Spam, the songs our valiant wall o f words be these three elements, at least, if you Some call it a cop-out, others say we are maturing as a community. The desire for intimacy is there even in just couldn’t stand being separated from four times. Once the relationship lasted casual sex. You desire to have an are truly intimate. George. Sometimes this is a way to make I know now, a little, 17 years. With some, it may last 11 days. and settled nearly orgasm. When you do (that), self­ Let’s look more deeply at the three. sure George won’t meet someone else or When these three elements are present, a what she meant. unnoticed emptying is there, if only fleetingly. If The desire for constant communication. bring an old lover along to the opera. couple can begin to build a relationship VK your partner has an orgasm, a self-giving Jack meets George on Friday, They talk, That element of fear may be there. before it grows and matures. Yet these bringing him sleep is offered, if only for a moment. tell their life stories—edited mightily, at Nevertheless, Jack truly wants the real three must be there to get intimacy roll­ Ill There are three qualities necessary for first. They eat and drink together. Make physical presence of George. MORALE ing. AN EPIGRAM OF THE IDÎ on the third or fourth day ROMAN POET be began to revive a bit MARTIAL As the convention ended on July 19, “ Happy Days Are Here Again” Charm, w and his eyes came alive above the (Book XII, 34) Penthouse magazine announced it the Gidluping Ghost, the Runner’s Fixx, tubes would soon print sexually explicit photos and the Amtrak Jinx. Julius, we have been friends, of Vanessa Williams, Miss America by week’s end if I recall aright, 1984. Within days, she was forced to NUDES OF THE WEEK: Latest he was all glance and gesture 34 summers. resign. At last September’s Miss unreliable rumor is that deposed M.C. requesting, rejecting O f these, America pageant, Williams’ talent seg­ Bert Parks will get his revenge on the sweet times have mingled with sad ment was her vocal rendition of...“ Hap­ Miss America pageant at last. He’ll ap­ TAPE he motioned one evening but the good by far abound. py Days Are Here Again.” pear as a nude centerfold in a dental (the white coil o f hospital tape As Mondale and Ferraro began runn­ journal. by the bedside) Blowin’ in the Wind The trend may continue: Bobby Riggs Let us make two piles, ing for the presidency and vice- TEAR in Sports Illustrated. They’ll drop the one o f the black stones - there, OMENS? As my previous column in­ use of Wendy’s restaurants’ btirbed presidency on July 21, running came to I tore for him one of the white - here. query about McDonald’s hamburgers: an abrupt end for Jim Fixx. The dean of price of the issue by a dollar to get you to 3 pieces dicated, I believe Mondale and Ferraro buy it. Look at the white, how do have a chance to win in November, “ Where’s the beef?” At one campaign America’s fitness runners died of a heart BEND he drew me down high they tower. stop after another, Mondale used the attack while jogging in Vermont. That, And then: Michael Jackson, in his full close - but look at the series of bad omens that leathers in_a teen magazine, TYPESETTING surrounded their nomination. slogan to poke fun at Gary Hart. by the way, was where the Democrats Bill Mumay I you would bypass On July 18, the “ Where’s the beef?” held their first “ beauty contest” primary and. . . shame—stripped of his sequined taking the tapes he pasted Last year, the Democratic National glove. PHOTOGRAPHERS certain sadnesses, Committee hired an advertising agency candidate averted a first-ballot boycott in March. Mick Hlcka, Ellaan Laa, Stave Savage a crooked H on my forehead certain biting by his Latino delegates with a promise to On July 22, came news that delighted EDITOR known for its hyped-up television pro­ pangs o f the heart, help scuttle the Simpson-Mazzoli im­ many and astounded all. The Gallup OZ AND ENDS: Many Republicans Tom Murray ADVERTISING STAFF mystery! solved motion of consumer goods on late-night, oppose Reagan’s re-appointment of Don Brown, Tim McGuire never make too close a firend migration “ reform” bill. Hours before Poll showed Mondale and Ferraro'edg­ STAFF CONTRIBUTORS painfully call-in ads. A founder of that genre, Anne Gorsuch Burford. It’s a clear-cut o f any man. Samuel J. Popeil--he of Veg-O-Matic the balloting began, James Huberty ing ahead of Republicans Reagan and Randy Allrad, Kan Coupland, PUBLISHER by the yellow pad and pencil: Bush. Four days later, George Gallup case of Ron Reaganism and Rebellion. Charles R. Roberts, Jr. fame-died on July 15, the day before the walked into a border-town McDonald’s Robart Cromay, Bill Huck, You will have less sorrow dropped dead of a heart attack. Coming soon to your local theater: David Lambía, Ron Lowla, M.D., first gavel pounded at the Democratic and opened fire on 40 victims, killing 21 FROWN TO MUCH and you will have less Joy. of them. Almost all the victims were Finally, on July 23, the day Miss Alient II: Simpson-Mazzoli.” Mika Maacloll, Tom McLoughlln, SENTINEL, USA is published bi­ National Convention. Advice to local politician: spend too William Novilla, Ray O’Loughlln weekly by GayFirst. Inc. Latino. America abdicated, a head-on train John Powara, Will Snyder Sacortd-class postage paid at Post IV The convention hoopla was notable crash in New York City killed a Spanish much time keeping your ass covered, and Offica, San Francisco, California. But wait! There’s more! July 15 was diplomat and injured many other you may wind up loring your seat. ART DIRECTOR DA VID, PETER for the near absence of “ Happy Days The entire contents of SENTINEL, also the day Bomber, the rare bald ea^e passengers. The wreck occurred in I thought the national march was Vaughn Frick USA are copyright * 1B84 by GayFirst, Note: poem written circa 98 AD. being trained for the opening cereinonies Are Here Again.” The song, a “what keeps him alive?" The Romans used white stones Democratic favorite since 1932, used to Geraldine Ferraro’s home borough of great. Next time let’s combine it with a COPY READER Inc. and may not be reproduced in of the Los Angeles Olympics, died of fundraising dinner or something. Better any manner, either in whole or in part, we wonder to mark auspicious days and vascular collapse and smog-ihduced lung be heard scores of times at each conven­ Queens. Ira Klainbarg without written permission from the Mondale and Ferraro now have to yet, are you ready for the National black for bad. disease. No sweat. It’s only the national tion. This year, organizers scrapped it in PRODUCTION TEAM editor. All rights reserved. for the very pumps favor of a sappy, unmemorable ditty beat more than Reagan and Bush. They Brunch for Lesbian and Gay Rights? Adam Fowler, Peal Lalfar, 500 Hayes Street. Son Francisco. CA CA102 symbol, right? have to overcome the Curse of the Veg- Wait a minute: with satellite video seem arching Hold on. We’re just beginning. Dur­ that lifted no one’s spirits. “ Happy Bill PamIconI • The Voloe of a New Oeneradon • Savignano Days” echoed only twice in the caverns O-Matic, the Bald Eagle Spell, the hookups in dozens of cities, that really (415)861 8100 ing the campaign for the Democratic “ Where’s the Beef?” Bewitchment, the could work. to stop - 1984 nomination, Fritz Mondale made good of Moscone Center. August 2,1984

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This this kind of a case to even reach the There are plenty of great places to stay SIsspsr Sots It’s going to be a Tropical Weekend also...The Village Inn, Camelot, Fifes, service, arxJ just plain fun. Foam Cut to Order three member board did not find me Supreme Court would be if the govern­ August 10 thru August 13 at the Russian guilty of any homosexual acts. Two ment lost on the appeal court level. “ I Triple R, Fern Grove, The Willows, The Sunday Eucharist «is at 5:30 P.M. , St. Boniface River with both Fifes/Drums and The Woods, Paradise Cove River Village, Church, 133 Golden Gate Ave. (Near Civic Center $299 > .. members of the board reconunended don’t think the Supreme Court will grant Woods holding big tropical parties! Foam Mattresses discharge solely because 1 state that I am a hearing to atfy case that the govern­ The Highlands and up -in /the Bart/Muni Station.) Platform Beds ment wins on the appellate level. Prob­ hills—Wildwood. Camping? Fifts, The Foldlrrg Beds homosexual.” One member of the Army The fun starts at Drums Thursday Interpreted tor the hearing impaired. Please call - $239 board saw things Watkins’ way, as did a ably, that’s not so bad, because if they Woods, Highlands, Willows, River- us tor more information on Scripture study, raps, 1222 Fotoom St. cusHionSon Fionclico. CA 94103 night with the disco opening at 10:00 pm. bend, and Schoolhouse Campground. Federal Judge in Seattle. Judge Barbara take a case, they’ll kill it!” Vaisey retreats, and other social events. 8 6 1 -3 1 8 2 Saturday night, August 11, Alicia . Lots of great restaurants...Little MOW -SAT UP6 $ lh ê 9in Rothstein, ducking the broader constitu­ speculates that a four judge minority on Bridges appears-at Drums while across e Bavaria (Joan Baez chose this a couple tional issues in the case, simply held that the present high court is okay on sexual P.O. Box 5127, $an Francisco, CA 94101-5127 5B4-1714. Watkins should be able to re-enlist freedom cases, but that the five person because he hadn’t lied about his gayness conservative majority is likely un- when he was first drafted 15 years ago. shakeable. Ironic^y, that conservative SAN FRANCISCO'S NEWEST BIKE BAR Judge Rothstein’s opinion was struck majority was formed by the addition of down by the Ninth Circuit Court of Ap­ the first woman to the Supreme Court peals who held that “judges are not bench, Sandra Day O’Connor. The Fitness given the task of running the Army.” Attorney Vaisey says he sees a strong The one bright spot in the appeals court analogy between the cases he’s fighting Experts ruling was the belief of Judge Wiliam now to keep gays in the military and the Norris that, “ our nation has lost a fine cases he battled during the Vietnam soldier, and Sgt. Watkins has suffered a War, to keep young men out of the y x fc manifest injustice... To me, the Army’s clutches of the Selective Service. “ The C en tral S a n F r a n c i a e o C a n t r a l A current bias against homosexuals is no only way you’re going to get the govern­ 220 QoM an OaiBJkifBnuB less repugnant to fundamental constitu­ ment to change its mind is if the social , San FranolseOfCA 0 4 1 0 2 tional principles than was its own long­ cost of enforcing this becomes so expen­ 'O ne Clock from OviC Center. Bsr! & Muni Metro standing prejudice against minority ser­ sive that they’ll quit. That’s the only way vicemen.” the Vietnam War got stopped. There was Get In Shape For Summer! Perry Watkins discovo-ed that the Ar­ not any one case that said the war was my’s case against him rested on two unconstitutional. It just got to be so ex­ A w u i u t points: his admitted homosexuality and pensive to cope with draft resisters, and 25% off TOTAL price of annual Membership. 164 - 8th STREET 552-0280 his refusal to answer the following three it was such a pain in the ass to the govern­ (betw een Mi-sMim and M tnvard) questions about his future conduct ment, that they just finally said, ‘let’s should they let him remain in the service: quit.’ ^ d , until gays, as a rule, oppose Alicia Bridges will appear at Drum's tropical party on Saturday, August 11. in our Adult Men’s Center (AMC) and H A P P Y H O U R :4-7 p.m .air*wcir*drinks2 for I (not beer) Do you intend to engage in homosexual the military, they’re not going to get the creeks, meadows and trees at The of weeks ago,) John’s.Table at Triple R. Women s Health Center (WHC) acts or acts of sodomy in the future? Do anywhere. That has to be done Woods their party will be in full swing Fifes, River Village, Casa Del Rio, also. Linda Hopkins will be at The Village Inn, Blue Heron, Woods Cafe Regular $275 NOW $206.251 To ;7?e the A im ys current bias against Woods for Monday night Cabaret. (under new management), Burdon’s, homosexuals is no less repugnant to funda­ With • weekends packed you might Dos Amigos and Caruso’s. (Adult Men’s Center & Women’s Health Center only) consider coming up during the week. For barbecues try Rusty Nail, The mental constitutional principles than its own There is entertainment Monday Night at Woods, or Molly Brown’s. Two more MEMBERSHIP INCLUDES: The Woods, everynight at River Village, places with good food are American longstanding prejudice against minority ser­ there is C&W dance lessons at Molly Flyer (downtown), or The Last Great Heated Swimming Pool vicemen. Brown’s on Thursdays, dancing at the Hiding Place in Forrestville. Hpiire: AIDS Safe-Sex Guidelines Mine, Mollies and the Rusty Nail and Come on up! There is no fog here and it MhNVFft 6:30 AM.-9;30 P.M. Men’s & Women’s Weight special parties at the Rainbow. lune 1^)S i is always hot until mid-October. SatM0AM.-1(M0P.M. Training Center & more! you have a steady partner with whom legislatively, it has to be done by political Sun U ri» AM.-7riW P.M. you are engaging in homosexual acts or Rooftop Garden activists and in every conceivable way. Mwnbcrshlp Oask Hours: acts of sodomy? If reassigned, especially But, there’s such a significant portion of Mon-FrI lOri» anv/riW pm Sundeck to a restricted area, do you intend to con­ SAFE SEX P()SSIiyA SAFE gays, who are so into the military iden­ tinue engaging in homosexual acts or tification, that I don’t think that’s lAUTO INSIIIË Fitness & Aerobic E R \(:rK i:s SEX FRACl ICES acts of sodomy?” realistic. But, until you do that, you’re Watkins’ game of legal ping-pong not going to get anywhere with the Classes M.iN'-iUi llu u i;"'^ 1 n lu li Kl^'-illl; (Wi 11 with the Army culminated in a government.” YÊÊCA ^U llii.il M .i'H ii ti.li II III \n.i! I im i i 1 uirsf \\ ii li ( i null nil December, 1983 appeals court ruling John Vaisey is encouraged by the Bring this coupon for •m h i.il K |•«'m^ 11 )i \ I denying him the right to re-enlist. ''Hiking ^lll|1 Uitiiri ( liin.i\ plank in the Democratic National Plat­ Summer Special Hill!'. Ill H.u!\ Kiil'l'im; IK iN|iiii 1 s I \u i n.il ( )nl\ Ex-Sgt. Watkins isn’t the only openly form supporting lesbians and gays in the gay soldier on this legal merry-go-round. military, but he warns, “Platform Expires August 1,1984 • I 1 ■ 'H.im ■ lA'/ill/I'iiM N ll i//i M/tlit/iii \/ Army Sgt. Miriam Ben-Shalom fought planks don’t mean anything unless the military on free speech grounds and somebody walks on them. Unless gays won in court, but has so far been refused and lesbians get together and try to bring New Nautilus Center Now Open re-enlistment. “ I was the first person to some life to those planks, they’re just go­ win a constitutional decision against the ing to be documents in writing.” I XSAFE_SEX PRAC:TI( ES Army and it was an interesting decision, Vaisey is impatient with those gay ac­ Klin II’mu because not only did 1 win in terms of a tivists who are waiting for the courts to discharge, but it was the first case that I I'iniu act in this area, “ I think what they’re do­ sort of showed that gays were protected ing is mortgaging things until the Him nl I 1 m l.u I by the Constitution. Three years later, I Twenty-First century....It reminds me of Men, It’s Plain and Simple. 'll.innii 'll \ li'ii have not received my back pay^my rank, the Jews in Warsaw who said, ‘Let’s ''I nu II 1 >1 I niu III ^ll lilti' nor have they re-instated me.” Ben- cooperate with the authorities!’ And We re all at risk tor AIDS Shalom has been battling the Army for they were all gassed!” \n.il I iili ti 1 iiir'-i W It III lilt I ■ null nil Stay healthy by starting your AIDS Prevention Plan now! the past nine years. The case has caused Vaisey feels, in the last analysis, that her to sell her home and other belongings “ legal decisions reflect what the winds of n 1'i Mil \ I'l I 1 'll I - I I lit I !l M ' \ K ¡I ,1 I , - ■ ; 'S ■ ,, ,. and it contributed to her losing custody politics are. And the Supreme Court is I of her teenage daughter. Ben-Shalom always particularly sensitive to political / >/^t> hi s,ii: ! >n ím !■ I//JS ! < •uinhilh m has filed a $50,000 contempt of court change. It’s no accident that the Burger i / h ath 'i / i i v / S,m / rum / n n 'i i/'i ; suit against the Army and is hoping to court, which has been sitting for ten raise enough money to pursue further years has gotten the incredible momen­ COIMIMETT AGENCIES legal remedies with the Seventh Circuit tum that it did in the last year and has 834 VAN NESS”AT OROVE AIDS Hotlines: Court of Appeals in Chicago. Ben- rolled back human rights further Shalom is willing to carry her case all the back—they’ve knocked off cases that ( I I S ) iS()3 ^ \ 11 way to the Supreme Court. were seventy years old! For example; the loll-l ree in X. ('alii'.: sno l t)K \ll)s John Vaisey thinks a Supreme Court exclusionary rule. That didn’t happen FAST PHONE QUOTES case on gays in the military would not be because of any legal battles. That hap­ r l A ' : ( I I S I iS() I (i()( K i VOUNQ ORIVEPS the wisest legal step to take right now, pened because the political climate PROBLEM DRIVING RECOf^S Coll lor an appointment at the AIDS Health Project given the current ideological makeup of allowed them to do it. Politicians make ORBAT MOTORCYCLE .RATES location hear you the court. Vaisey is a Molalle, Oregon policy. What we’re talking about is a MONTHLY PAYMENTS______based attorney specializing in military government policy which represses gays Health Center No 1 Operation Concern Haight Ashbury Free C!;n; law and legal battles on behalf of gay ser- and lesbians.” 0 9 IN WUKDAYS 9 -4 AMD SATURDAYS 9 -1 3 8 5 0 17th Street 1853 f.1arket Street 558 Clayton Street 558-2507 Ó26 7 0 0 0 626-6037 Nine Is A Ten Italian flag that I realized what it was: It looks like Moscone Center! And we’re all seen enough of that lately. Sergio Franchi was converted about 20 years ago from an Italian opera singer Nine p/ays thru August 18 at the to an American saloon singer, a would Orpheum be Julio Iglesias who never quite clicked. He opens Nine by speaking directly to By Warren Stevens the audience as he would in a Vegas Nine might be substituted “ A Man casino. It’s director Tune’s first bit of and His Women.” That may not sound desperate shtick to make the show ap­ like it has a lot to say to our readers, but pear warmer than it is. Franchi wins our the fact that Tommy Tune directed the sympathy, but he isn’t able to hold it show would seem to assure that we won’t through two hours of crying on our be forgotten—or disappointed. shoulders before he resolves his pro­ Exaggerated heterosexual love has a blems. camp appeal for gay audiences, as peo­ Diane M. Hurley as Guido’s wife ple like John Waters and Russ Meyes Luisa, Leigh Berry as his mother and have long known. Nine has its moments Lauren Mitchell as Claudia, the star of with three incredible women, two of his greatest film, do the best they can whom do things with their legs that gay with their soapoperatic roles as the stable men are likely to hurt themselves women in Guido’s life. emulating when they get home. The fun parts fall to Karla Tambur- The trouble is that the show is too full relli (Carla, the mistress), Jacqueline of credible women who, with the pro­ Douguet (La Fleur, the producer) and tagonist whose midlife crisis (“ My Camille Saviola (Saraghina, the whore career is in shambles. So is my life.”) is who readies Guido the facts of life at the set to music, make for a down evening age of nine). E>ouguet gets the show’s that a few bouncy songs and a happy en­ other desperation device, going out in ding can’t rescue. the audience to flirt with the men and Not even Stephen Sondheim can write look for a nongay she can embarrass. It a successful . “ Stephen Sondheim ■ works in summer stock and in Eartha musical” every time. Like his current Kitt’s club act, but I never thought I’d Sunday in the Park with George, Nine, _ see a Broadway musical stoop to that with a book by Arthur Kopit and songs ' level. by Maury Yeston, examines the creative Two lines are worth quoting Guido: process. Italian film director Guido “ My body’s nearing 50 as my mind is Contini (Sergio Franchi) is in a slump. nearing 10” . A Woman: “ We had made After three successivfe flops he Can’t Ip y e^ night befoie. He looked at me come up with an idea for his hew and said, ‘Don’t I khow you?’’ ” film—which is to begin shooting in a few As for Maury Yeston’s songs. I’ve days—except that “ it Ukes place in a heard the cast album a few times but train station.” could only recall two tunes the morning So we spend the evening in a train sta­ after seeing the show—the pastiche Revealing The Composer's Intentions tion—which also becomes a beach, a numbers “ Be Italian” and “ Folies bedroom and several other locations—as was a model of civilized bounce, of "Peter Grimes is about homosexuality. the SF Opera. Furthermore-she moved Bergere.” After equal exposure I could balance among parts and of exquisite he tries to sort through his mistresses, practically sing the entire score of La The subject was taboo in the late 1930s. through her direction beautifully; but memories and fantasies to recapture the phrasing. His Peter Grimes was far from Britten, the composer, felt rejected at because that direction had so little to do Cage aux Folies. a carbon copy of his titanic recording of sparks of creativity and romance, It’s not fair to compare the two, but home. He left England, came to the U.S. with Turandot as Puccini imagined her, I ^m ething about Lawrence Miller’s set the opera. If his live performances had and wrote out of passion. He wrote Cage is a better example of the old school Coven t Garden’s Royal Opera at the Los cared little for the accomplishment. bothered me all evening, but it wasn’t less relish for Britten’s hit tunes, they about anxiety and fear. musical than Nine is of the new school. Angeles Olympic Arts Festival, July Jones has not yet figured out who until the Hnal curtain call when they had a stronger through-line and a leaner “ 1 am convinced that the opera was Turandot is, let alone why Puccini made Nine plays at the Orpheum through 9-21. sense of excitement. The precipice on dropped balloons representing the Aug. 18. written to win compassion for homosex­ her that way. by BUI Buck which Grimes stood was more jagged uality and for all misunderstood and more dangerous. minorities. That does not mean that Plácido Domingo suffered most from -f The Royal Opera from Covent Turandot was, however, not a Grimes should be played as an overt Davis’ thunderous overplaying of the Garden, London, England, visited Los triumph for Davis. The music director is homosexual or that the audience should score. In the few moments the tenor had Angeles’ Dorothy Chandler Pavilion as late in coming to Puccini and he does not search for sexual undertones. But of unaccompanied singing—that is, in part of the Olympic Arts Festival. Judg­ yet understand the nature of the Italian’s understanding the motivation for the his answers to the Emperor in Act 2, ing from the number of San Francisco genius. LA’s hall is considerably larger creative process is important.” How Scene 2—he sounded glorious indeed. It faces I saw at those performances, I than Covent Garden (3,400 : 2,100) and many layers has Vickers cut through in a is true he strained for a few of his top guess that many more than just your cor­ this difference may have accounted for single stroke. How keenly has he seen in­ notes and skipped the B flat near the end respondent chose to check out how this the excesses Davis asked from the or­ to Britten’s heart, and how tellingly did of Act 2, but except for the volume prob­ internationally acclaimed opera com­ chestra. While this miscalculation mar­ he deliver his insight to us. They say lem he sounded good and looked pained. pany compared with our own. red the Grimes, in Turandot it reached these are to be his last performances of Yoko Watanabe as Liu was fine, despite Naturally the Royal Opera wanted to the level of a fundamental musical Grimes, but let us hope not. a quivering vibrato, and she rose to real make a g o ^ impression on their first misconception. Puccini is an emphatic Later in the same interview Vickers heights in the last act, but still she has not American sojourn, but even if you take composer, never more so than in the near described the crux of opera production. the velvet voice one wants for this last that into consideration, these hysteria of his last opei^. Davis ap­ “ Take the Met,” he complained. “ It is and most pathetic of Puccini’s heroines. Englishmen and women still did their proached every climax in Turandot as the greatest operatic powerhouse in the Perhaps the most difficult task facing country proud. At its best, the Royal though it were a question of volume and world. But it doesn’t seem to be involved a modern opera company is putting on Opera showed both a richer dramatic not intensity. Such a solution overtaxed in a pursuit of excellence when it comes Mozart’s Magic Flute, especially to a and a more deeply musical imagination his singers and trivialized a great, if to revealing the intentions of the com­ non-German audience. This Enlighten­ than we are accustomed to seeing. There potentially mawkish, score. poser and librettist. Often as not, it just ment comedy was designed for a small was a thoroughness, a completeness to cranks out entertainment.” theater and a specific audience. Its the Royal Opera’s performances that the The real muse of this visit, the artist The problem is not limited to the Met, drama now often appears to be either Sf Opera has attained in recent years on­ whose sense of purpose inspired all his however. Andrei Serban’s Turandot, hopelessly static or hopelessly episodic. ly in its presentation of Richard Strauss’ colleagues to their best-was not Davis which debuted in Los Angeles, was Its meaning usually is interpreted as too Salome. but the Canadian tenor, Jon Vickers, magnificent, gaudy entertainment. It trivial for serious consideration or too (Before we dive into the actual review, who sang the role of Peter Grimes. That drove the audience wild. They stamped profound for adequate representation. let me make clear upon which perfor­ Vickers is probably the most insightful and screamed and cheered for it. But Its vocal difficulties define the term. mances 1 am basing my opinions. I at­ opera singer since Maria Callas many never did it meet the challenge of reveal­ Covent Garden’s Flute packed neither have known for a long time. That his tended the first and second Peter ing the intentions of the composer and the wallop of its Grimes nor the surface voice is still in splendid shape, better in Grimes, July 11 and 16; the third Turan- his librettists. To those who did not excitement of its Turandot, but it pleas­ fact than it was back in the middle’TOs, dot, July 17; and the second and third know the opera it seemed a miracle of ed because of the charm of its decor, the was the good news of these appearances. stage magic. But because I did know simplicity of its staging, the lightness of Magic Flute, July 14 and 18.) That he has continued to refine his Probably the major reason for the what the libretto said and how the music its conducting and the polish of its characterization of Grimes, to knit felt, it left me cold. Serban, who did have singers. Helen Donat’s Parmina was ex­ depth of Covent Garden’s success is that together the conflicting elements in the this company has a true musician at its the excuse of being a last-month replace­ quisite (Please, can we hear her in San fisherman’s personality, made for a helm. Colin Davis is one of the few great ment, tried to upstage Puccini rather Francisco?), Robert Lloyd’s Sarastro thrilling performance. than celebrate him. was rich and resonant and Stuart Bur­ conductors working today. His principal Vickers, in an interview he gave to the strength is a [rhythmic aliveness) that is Gwyneth Jones in her first Turandot rows’ Tamino revealed a sweet and Los Angeles Times, provided an exam­ the springboard for the textural clarity sang the torturous title role very well. , fluent singer. Only the Queen of the ple of the way he thinks about the music he seeks in music. Davis’ conducting of She apparently has kept on that plateau Night faltered, and even she was not a he performs. “ Let’s be honest,” he said. Mozart’s Magic Flute in Los Angeles we hrärd in last summer’s Walküre for disgrace. • • • • • • 12 August 2,1984 August 2,1984 The Jazzy Netherworld Worlds of Pain and Pleasure redefine her image; the New York Times observed; “ Collins’ deliberate transition something inherently undramatic about compelling dramatic experience. ment does have a degree of tension and frpm folk-pop chanteuse to full fledged a script in which the central character is Albert Finney’s acting in the leading intensity regrettably lacking in the hour art singer...carmot be counted a com­ drunk from the outset and goes in and role doesn’t really help. In spite of the and a half that preceded it. plete success.” I suppose if any out of various stages of liquor-soaked praise that has been heaped upon him, Unlike Finney and Bisset, James consciousness until the conclusion. This for this portrayal, I could not agree more contemporary pop vocalist deserves that •'Under the Volcano” (Directed by John Mason seemed to have an inner by Michael MascioU label it’s Collins, but I prefer to view her type of situatioiF is sometimes used strongly with a colleague who not long gyroscope that kept him on a steady Houston, now playing at the Regency cheaply for laughs, as in the coarse, ago described him as “ fatally overbear­ Jazz singers like Betty Carter, Anita more as a Renaissance woman, thanks to III) course between the pull towards O’Day, Ella, Carmen and Sarah surface her rich, pure soprano—one of the most repellent “ Arthur.” There are comic ing.” Having seen “The Dresser” just underplaying and the push towards moments here as well, but the mood is last April in the same theatre, I had the at local clubs (usually the Great impressive voices in pop music—her "Irezumi” (Directed by Yoichi overstatement. Hearing of his death last American Music Hall) more or less semi­ ability to play piano and guitar and to pervasively somber, and we are obvious­ peculiar feeling as “Volcano” was un­ week at the age of seventy-five, I ex­ annually, but veteran jazz vocalist Takabayashi, Japan, 1982) now playing ly meant to be moved by Geoffrey Fir- folding that the old actor Finney played compose; and her increasingly eclectic at the Clay) perienced vivid recollections of moments Chris Connor hasn’t sung in SF since, I repertoire. min’s anguished last hours and sordid in the earlier film had been briefly re­ from my movie past, scenes from think, the long-gone days of the wonder­ fate. juvenated and had come on screen/stage “Lolita” and “Odd Man Out” and ful old Macambo. So it will be an occa­ That repertoire includes standards (by by William Neville for one final thunderous performance to especially “ A Star Is Bom.” Mason’s sion not to miss when she performs on the likes of Rodgers and Hart and Kurt cap his career. portrayal of an alcoholic actor in this Aug. 11 in the intimate surroundings of Weill), original material, theater songs The film that John Huston has made last-named masterpiece may well be the Kimball’s. (from Sweeney Todd and Cats), folk Finney starts out fortissimo and never screen’s most memorable depiction of from Guy Gallo’s screenplay of Under lets up. His attack on the role is so front- Connor succeeded June Christy in songs and contemporary pop, with a the ineffable sadness of a life wasted by the Volcano, the much-revered 1947 ally assaultive that I could not for a mo­ Stan Kenton’s band in the early ’50’s, heavy dose of Jacques Brel, whose songs novel by Malcolm Lowry, is a curiously addiction. To all his roles he brought an serving up an almost identical soft, she helped popularize stateside. (I mean, ment feel drawn into the character’s suf­ flat, lifeless, uninvolving experience. It is fering. Bombast of this sort may go over exquisite blending of feeling and polish, dusky, emotionally cool vocal. Her when’s the last time anyone sang songs easy to see why over the decades the sensitivity with a burnished sheen. And ballads in particular took the listener in­ by Victor Jara—who was killed by the on the stage, and there are technically his uniquely haunting, velvety voice was book has defied transcription to the admirable touches to Finney’s work here to what one critic called “ the jazz nether­ Chilean military Junta), at the Venetian the perfect vehicle for the expression of screen, and why none of the many adap­ (especially in his propulsive, jerky world of coolness and isolation.” She Room for chrissake?) Many of the his great, underappreciated talent. tations that have been written has ever movements), but the screen reveals an parlayed a mere six-month stint in the songs, including diverse hits like “ Send till now even gone before the cameras. The agonies experienced by the Kenton spotlight into a solo career in the Clowns,” “ Amazing Grace,” almost shocking lack of subtlety and The project was probably waiting for a shading in his playing. The actor has heroine of “ Irezumi” are somewhat which, three decades later, is still active. “My Father” and “Someday Soon”, director as daring, ambitious, and stub­ more rationally and freely entered into Like Christy, she recorded prolifically are culled from her 19 LPs—six of them taken the term “ roaring drunk” to its born as Huston to tackle it. Yet at ultimate, near-literal embodiment. than the sufferings of the chemically ad­ during the ’50s and early ’60s, but, like gold—on Elektra, for whom she’s various points I found myself asking dicted. At the insistence of her older, many jazz and pop singers, suffered recorded for an incredible 23 years. Jacqueline Bisset, who plavs the con­ “Why is Huston even doing this?” sul’s estranged wife, has never been ac­ obsessed lover, she travels once a week when rock took hold in the late ’60s, and On record Collins has always come over a period of two years from Tokyo Max Morath and his quintal In "Pop goas tha Music" at Iho Marinos Montorial Part of the problem is the notoriously cused of overacting. Rather she has virtually all of her 20-odd albums went across as low-key, but in her March ap­ thorny matter, in bringing a work of fic­ to Kyoto to have her entire back marked pearance at the Venetian she was chatty, aged men onstage from the crowd to usually seemed self-contained, im­ out of print (though some have surfaced 6, and the Stanford Theatre, Aug. 8-11. tion to film, of exteriorizing a with an indelible pattern by a master of friendly and funny, and her singing train them as her chorus line—one of pressively- lovely but never quite in the recent crop of Japanese import Morath’s 10 Vanguard . LPs and his character’s inner life. An obvious ap­ tattoing art. The physical torment in­ those embarrassing moments inex­ reachable, sensuous yet ultimately cool popular stage shows The Ragtime Years proach would be the use of fantasy and volved is palliated to some degree by the plicably de rigeur in countless Vegas and reserved. Bisset performs com­ and Living a Ragtime Life have flashback to convey the flow of thought Yoichi Takabayashl's Irezumi' presence during these sessions of a very acts—lo and behold, she orchestrated established him as a connoisseur of petently here, but there is still a clipped, beautiful young male lying supine and feeling within a person's heart and brisk quality to her vocal delivery that in­ the whole thing with charm, exuberance ragtime and vaudeville. beneath her. When the pain appears par­ head. But Gallo and Huston go in the We do not witness his descent into hibits emotional expressiveness. She was and rib-tickling frivolity. Anyone who In Pop! the emphasis is on songs by alcoholic oblivion; he is in hell from the ticularly intense, the artist calls his assist­ can carry off a difficult assignment like opposite direction, towards a literal able to bring more flair and fire to the Irving Berlin, Hoagy Carmichael, Eubie reenactment of the novel’s events. What movie’s first moment, and the narrative ant’s name, cuing him to perform some that has real possibilities. Blake and the Gershwins, as Morath surface in “Rich and Famous” three unseen action to counterbalance it. we have then is the last miserable day in has nowhere to go from there. The film is years back, but she and “Under the samples the golden age of pop A number of questions remain As for other Pops events, reliable the life of a besotted British consul in a combination of “ spectacle” (public Volcano” do warm up flickeringly in the sources tell me that Carole Bayer Sager music. ..probably more successfully t h ^ late-1930’s Mexico, but-with, a heavy drunkenness, the morbidly festive Day unanswered^ especially as regards the Linda Ronstadt/-' who -retums with thirlY minutes, or so. risk of probal^^infection from this and, at the podium, husband Burt portion of the protagonist’s convoluted of the Dead celebrations ongoing It isliere, when Firmin enters the Bacharach (July 26) established a casual, Nelson Riddle’s Orchestra in her now- mental and emotional self-torture con­ throughout) and the pathetic, predict­ bloody enterprise and the feasibility of hideous bar/brothel that presents the engraving a back contorted by waves of comfortable rapport with the audience, familiar “program of American stand­ verted into loud, drunken, rambling able facts of one alcoholic’s case history, final stage of his quest for extinction, sexual pleasure. But the squishing- sang their hits and demonstrated that ard songs” taken from her smash LP monologues. so similar in outline to those of all who that we at last reach recognizable Huston slapping sound caused by the hand and you don’t need a big voice to have an en­ What’s New at the Greek Theatre, Aug. There is another possibly insurmount­ are afflicted with this life-threatening territory. The symbolism and at­ joyable act...I myself can testify to the 26. Picnicking on the lawn of the Con­ disease. These two elements cannot of mosphere may be laid on with a heavy, needle as they repeatedly make contact able barrier to the effective cinematiza- with the skin is hypnotic and deliciously atmosphere on July 28 when trumpeter cord Pavilion on a sunny October after­ tion of this particular book. There is themselves be made to cohere into a unimaginative hand, but this closing seg­ Winston Marsalis performed the Hum­ noon, I was exhilarated to hear a singer obscene. mel Trumpet Concerto and Arban’s for­ like Ronstadt address these songs and do midable Carnival of Venice in a program so without pretensions (if an act featur­ XX of classical warhorses, including \heI8I2 ing a 40-piece orchestra can be called un­ SENSUOUS AND ROMANTICI Overture, complete with explo­ pretentious). But What’s New took off 'ANOTHER COUNTRV is one of the most moving films sions. The program and the sellout and by the time she hit the Orpheum in about homosexuality and society to emerge from the crowd only heightened the festivity pro­ March, the staging dnd costumes were The best defense against commercial cinema... like 'BRIDESHEAD REVISITED' and vided by the customary picnic tables, overdone and inappropriate and her in­ THE GO-BETWEEN,' It succeeds brilliantlyf' picnic suppers and roomful of gently terpretations of standards seemed pret­ — New Xxk Native swaying balloons. Pianist-singer Max ty, well, standard. The material is ster­ AIDS is INFORMATION Morath and his Quintet present Pop! ling, though, and the lush orchestral set­ TIRE AND INSPIRATION! Goes the Afus/c(awful title) or American tings áre welcome, if not exactly inspired An Extraordinary Rlml" Popular Music and how it Got that IVay (Riddle’s Grammy for them notwith­ -Rex Reed, tsl.y Post at the Marines Memorial Theatre, Aug. standing). ... and ACTION Chria^nnor and h«r trio will perform Saturday, August 11, at Kimballs at the corner of FranKlln ana Grove Streets /'★ ★ ★ ★ -AN OASISI LPs). It Has The Beauty O f 'CHARIOTS O F FIRE!'" showed more emotion than ever before. — Michael Heaton. S.F. Examiner Eventually Connor kicked a drinking Her Aug. 12 appearance under summer habit she’d endured for many years. “ 1 stars at the Concord Pavilion, an ap­ • In Son Francisco, new AIDS coses ore being reported guess I really became an alcoholic in the propriately romantic setting, should ’60s when I couldn’t get work,” she said. prove equally rewarding. ot the rote of ot least one new cose EVERY doy. “ I’d just sit home and drink. But since Alas, this summer the Symphony July 7, 1979, 1 haven’t had a drop. I’ve Pops boasted no singers of the stature of • AIDS is ovoidoble. Pleose proctice sofe sex! never felt better or been happier...! Collins—or Cleo Laine, Mel Torme or know that I am singing better.” No 'The Manhattan Transfer, all guests in bluster, that. It’s confirmed by the sheaf previous seasons. They d/rf offer another • Please protect one another. Let's STOP the spreod of of notices she’s received in major evening of Gershwin which, no matter papers—(The N.Y. Times: “Her dark, how fine the soloist, is becoming a AIDS in our community! foggy alto remains one of the most crashing bore. Granted, Gershwin’s evocative voices in all of jazz”)—and, practically the only pop composer that best of all, by two new recordings, classical music buffs allow themselves to I983’s Chris Connor Live on Applause revere (well, Noel Coward a little, too), If you need information or help, and, newer still. Love Being Here with but this is the Pops, for lord’s sake! You on Stash (best known for their What’s wrong with an evening of Harold reissues of risque old jive recordings but Arlen or Coward or, even better, the tru­ coil the now also laudably dedicated to record­ ly indefatigable Cole Porter? ing jazz artists anew.). It’s a first-rate ef­ Her July 21 Pops appearance showed fort alternating sizzling uptempos and that singer Carol Lawrence has the mak­ San Francisco AIDS Foundation: intimate ballads, most of them fully ings of a good act in her—but this wasn’t deserving of the artistry she brings to it. She has a surprisingly likable, unaf­ InSF 863-AIDS * Í , them. fected vocal, but her act, while quite Jady Collins, on the other hand, per­ respectable as Vegas-style acts go, is a forms here often in various venues, most merry-go-round of near-misses—by In N. Calif. 800-FOR-AIDS recently, at the 1982 SF Symphony Pops turns too glitzy, too contrived and too BARGAINMATINEE (where she sounded heavenly) and the OAIIY: clumsy (she fancies herself a dancer but, nv (415)864-6606 RR8THOUR GATEWAY 1:30,3:30,5:30, Venetian Room (where she looked like DAUY 21S JACKSON STNEET as with the meanderings of a dancing 4 2 1 -3 3 S 3 7:30,0:30 hell—thin and wan). Once best knows as Except Sunday bear, you can barely call it dancing). In­ Contemporary pop vocaHst Judy Cotlina wtU appear August 12 at the Conoord PavNIkm a folksinger, Collins has sought to terestingly, when she dragged six middle- a

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